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  <row Id="1" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2776" CreationDate="2011-11-30T19:15:54.070" Score="32" ViewCount="8718" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some comedians / actors are given creative freedom to improvise at times when producing a new film. Is there any evidence that Vince Vaughn or Owen Wilson improvised in any scenes, diverging from the script in the film &amp;quot;Wedding Crashers&amp;quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11" LastEditorUserId="94442" LastEditDate="2022-02-12T21:59:39.633" LastActivityDate="2022-02-12T21:59:39.633" Title="To what extent were the actors in Wedding Crashers improvising?" Tags="|wedding-crashers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-30T19:37:10.510" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0396269/trivia&quot;&gt;trivia on IMDb&lt;/a&gt;, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn improvised the &quot;Lock it up!&quot; banter. As I understand it, that also means the other scenes did not - or only slightly - diverge from the script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastActivityDate="2011-11-30T19:37:10.510" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="814" CreationDate="2011-11-30T19:41:14.960" Score="29" ViewCount="1970" Body="&lt;p&gt;In his Star Wars Episode 1 &lt;a href=&quot;https://redlettermedia.com/mr-plinketts-star-wars-episode-1-the-phantom-menace-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;review/analysis&lt;/a&gt;, Mike Stoklasa used a certain challenge as a device to illustrate how poorly thought out the characters were: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Describe the following characters without mentioning what they look like, what kind of costume they wore, or what their profession or role in the movie was. Describe them like you would to people who've never seen Star Wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then listed Han Solo, Qui-Gon Jin, C3PO and Queen Amidala, each followed by descriptions (or attempts at them) by various people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a correct way of assessing characters in a film, at least in a one with three arcs structure and clear protagonist and antagonist? Are there some important aspects of characters that it doesn't cover?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2019-05-15T02:23:45.307" LastActivityDate="2019-05-15T02:23:45.307" Title="Evaluating characters by means of description" Tags="|analysis|star-wars|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="120" CreationDate="2011-11-30T19:42:45.470" Score="59" ViewCount="4271" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a big fan of the Pink Panther movies (the ones with Peter Sellers, not new ones with Steve Martin).  But after watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0352520/&quot;&gt;The Life and Death of Peter Sellers&lt;/a&gt;, I'm left with the impression that the original &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057413/&quot;&gt;The Pink Panther&lt;/a&gt; was intended to be a serious film, but Peter Sellers essentially tried to sabotage the production out of spite, turning it into a comedy, and subsequently turning it into the classic hit it became.  The sequels all have much more of a comedy feel, which would be consistent with this sequence of events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how accurate was the portrayal of these events in &lt;strong&gt;The Life and Death of Peter Sellers&lt;/strong&gt;?  Can I read more about the dynamics that took place during the creation of the original movie and the sequel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2013-08-17T20:17:23.187" LastActivityDate="2020-11-18T17:05:17.490" Title="Was the original &quot;Pink Panther&quot; movie intended to be a comedy?" Tags="|comedy|the-pink-panther|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21" CreationDate="2011-11-30T19:44:55.593" Score="16" ViewCount="8476" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, adult Jack (Sean Penn) wanders through a wasteland, goes through a doorway and ends up on a beach. There he shares the screen with his father (Brad Pitt) and Mrs. O’Brien (Jessica Chastain) concedes her son (presumably R.L.) to the higher power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What does the ending mean?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-06T12:05:01.613" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T20:02:04.800" Title="What does the ending of The Tree of Life mean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|ending|the-tree-of-life|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4" CreationDate="2011-11-30T19:51:44.350" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I saw documentaries with &lt;strong&gt;Blake Edwards&lt;/strong&gt; and he knows lot about comedy and visual gags. I'm sure he knew he was doing a comedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Spanish documentary &lt;strong&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278824/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Y usted ... ¿de que se ríe?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; contains an interview with Blake Edwards about comedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2019-05-15T02:29:51.317" LastActivityDate="2019-05-15T02:29:51.317" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-30T19:53:23.387" Score="21" ViewCount="31048" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frank Costello the mob boss, one of the main antagonists in The Departed, is revealed to be a protected FBI informant. Assuming that this is indeed the case, does Costello's ties with the Massachusetts State Police (through Colin, the mole) mean that the FBI was somehow aware that the Police were covertly infiltrated? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, does this imply that the FBI had motivation/did in fact impede the Police investigation into Costello?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T19:57:59.727" LastActivityDate="2017-07-28T16:38:07.113" Title="Did the FBI know about the mole in the police department and did they interfere with the investigation?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-departed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="81" CreationDate="2011-11-30T20:03:48.037" Score="49" ViewCount="3329" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the things that I have always found striking about &lt;em&gt;2001 A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt; is the almost mechanical acting of the human characters, especially the radio operator. I'm pretty sure it's a conscious choice on part of Kubrick, but what is it supposed to symbolize?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T10:00:27.103" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T10:00:27.103" Title="Why the stoic acting style in 2001 Space Odyssey?" Tags="|analysis|stanley-kubrick|2001-a-space-odyssey|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="68" CreationDate="2011-11-30T20:04:43.757" Score="41" ViewCount="11488" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everybody knows that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001190/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;David Prowse&lt;/a&gt; played Darth Vader in the old Star Wars episodes. He was a weightlifting champion and a bodybuilder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody know who and why actually chose him to play this important role?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rcy9u.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;image of David Prowse as Darth Vader&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-13T22:08:44.060" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T00:35:59.873" Title="Why was Prowse chosen to play Darth Vader?" Tags="|star-wars|casting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-30T20:08:23.267" Score="106" ViewCount="126427" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ending of the film &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shutter Island&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is purposely ambiguous, with two different interpretations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Teddy was crazy, and the whole movie was part of a role-play therapy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a conspiracy to convince Teddy that he's crazy so that he doesn't expose the unethical and illegal things that are going on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any definitive evidence to support either theory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="63980" LastEditDate="2019-03-03T17:54:14.440" LastActivityDate="2024-02-23T16:32:22.883" Title="Is there any definitive evidence that Teddy was or was not crazy?" Tags="|analysis|shutter-island|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-30T20:18:20.833" Score="15" ViewCount="37415" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of the movie 'Tree of Life', Mrs. O'Brien (Jessica Chastain) receives a telegram (or was it a regular piece of mail?) notifying her that her son has died. According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tree_of_Life_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; this happens in the mid 1960's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any suggestion of how her son R.L. (Laramie Eppler) has died? Does Terrence Malick intend to keep this ambiguous? Can we even be certain that it was R.L. who died?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2018-07-24T19:46:42.047" LastActivityDate="2018-07-24T19:46:42.047" Title="How does the son (R.L.) die?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-tree-of-life|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-11-30T20:25:26.517" Score="14" ViewCount="898" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we are all fascinated (or abhorred) by the inclusion of a few CGI dinosaurs in Terrence Malick's 'Tree of Life'. Personally, I enjoyed the dinosaurs thoroughly, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did the predatory dinosaur (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tree_of_Life_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; says Ornithomimus) let the wounded Parasaurolophus live? Wikipedia says the Ornithomimus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...places its foot on the Parasaurolophus' neck, preparing for the kill, but then reconsiders after watching it struggle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, Wikipedia suggests the dinosaur committed an act of mercy. But can we be sure that the predatory dinosaur didn't let the injured dinosaur live for some other reason, perhaps because the injured dinosaur was sick? Could the 'mercy' in fact have been an act of self-preservation? Something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2018-07-24T19:47:08.813" LastActivityDate="2018-07-24T19:47:08.813" Title="Why does the dinosaur let the wounded dinosaur live?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|the-tree-of-life|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47" CreationDate="2011-11-30T20:31:01.883" Score="20" ViewCount="1397" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Sucker Punch, while Baby Doll dances, the movie cuts over to scenes of her and the other girls in a different world.  Is this world supposed to be Baby Doll's imagination?  If not, what is it suppose to represent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T15:30:40.697" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T17:45:16.310" Title="What was the alternative world in Sucker Punch?" Tags="|analysis|sucker-punch|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12" CreationDate="2011-11-30T20:33:28.097" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know who chose him, probably a combination of the casting director and Lucas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David Prowse was tall and imposing and the movie sets that the character appears in were shot in the UK, and he is English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He did a series of short road-safety 'adverts' in the UK in the 70's - he was the &quot;Green Cross Code Man&quot; - where he had to wear a super-hero costume, stand tall, make obvious body-movements and gestures to teach kids to cross the road.  Perhaps this role, whilst not 'serious acting' as some people would see it, showed Lucas that he had the skills to carry out the role of the expressionless Vader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yzS8em.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yzS8em.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Green Cross Code Man&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your 'important role' point, it was clear from the outset that they always planned to dub another voice onto the character. David Prowse has a regional west-country accent, more in keeping with a farmer than a galactic overlord.  What they needed from him was someone with that physical presence, with some acting experience, and who would not be too expensive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2016-11-28T19:23:57.923" LastActivityDate="2016-11-28T19:23:57.923" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49" CreationDate="2011-11-30T20:34:16.463" Score="24" ViewCount="3954" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120907/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;eXistenZ&lt;/a&gt;, which stars Jude Law, shares the concept of layered realities with the movie &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inception&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Was the movie &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt; influenced by Existenz's concept at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T09:58:03.583" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T09:58:03.583" Title="Did Existenz influence Inception?" Tags="|inception|existenz|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1112" CreationDate="2011-11-30T20:46:07.060" Score="21" ViewCount="851" Body="&lt;p&gt;Melancholia is a realistic &quot;what-if&quot; science fiction, set in roughly the time we live in. The whole plot is centered around the concept of a planet approaching Earth. Being what it is, why would they choose to ignore the effects of gravity as the planet approaches?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moon is a relatively small satellite and is quite far from the Earth, but still it makes a noticeable difference to the tide. Now, think of a big planet approaching...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you stop for a second and really consider the effect it would have on Earth's gravity. It would probably have freed up a whole lot of Earth's mass on the side that it was approaching, such that the surface of our planet and much more beneath would have been ejected from the atmosphere and drawn to the approaching planet. Or, in the very least, gravity would have greatly decreased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how come they didn't even explore a grand finale where the characters are ejected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found it terribly unrealistic. Was it a choice of saving on special effects? Didn't the people involved in production even consider the physics of it? Are there interviews done with them surrounding this issue? Or, is it a non-issue as far as entertainment is concerned (i.e. it's not relevant in this movie/genre)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="57" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-08-17T21:46:20.223" LastActivityDate="2019-02-27T17:50:11.917" Title="What weighs toward the decision to ignore the gravity change?" Tags="|effects|melancholia|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6" CreationDate="2011-11-30T20:47:21.737" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The meaning, as far as I can tell, is that we are connected to our family even in death or at the end of the world. We have to take a leap, perhaps through &quot;the doorway,&quot; to get over our doubts about the afterlife. The doorway is the transition from earthly skepticism of the permanence of the soul to an end where we are all -- consciously or unconsciously -- tied together to those with whom we shared life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6" LastActivityDate="2011-11-30T20:47:21.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="645" CreationDate="2011-11-30T20:56:07.777" Score="21" ViewCount="788" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched a lot of Iranian movies and I love them but they are similar in style (realistic long shots and slow cuts) and content (e.g. struggle of the society reflecting in children or seemingly mundane events). I doubt if all Iranians solely love this kind of movies. Japan, Korea, China, India, and Thailand have their commercial films besides independent art films going around in film festival circuit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a commercial movie industry in Iran making action or comedy films?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-07-25T15:08:57.217" LastActivityDate="2018-07-25T15:08:57.217" Title="Are there any &quot;Hollywood-style&quot; movies made in Iran?" Tags="|iranian-cinema|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20" CreationDate="2011-11-30T21:08:43.197" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In similar fashion, we have no explanation of the motive of the Kirsten Dunst's character to crash her own wedding too. We have also seen the slow-motioned flying objects in the prologue already so I do not think Lars von Trier tried to save financially on special effects budget.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think he tried to focus more on the emotional effect. The sight of the protagonists being swallowed by the approaching blue moon was heartbreaking. Anyway, I guess they being helpless in the air would have achieved the same effect but it was wholly the director's aesthetic choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="47" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-02-27T17:50:11.917" LastActivityDate="2019-02-27T17:50:11.917" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="25" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16" CreationDate="2011-11-30T21:36:34.420" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's all in her head. It is her way of coping with the insanity of the real world situation she is in. The events that take place in her alternate reality echo the events taking place in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2011-12-01T01:28:28.097" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T01:28:28.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="577" CreationDate="2011-11-30T22:15:51.903" Score="26" ViewCount="31734" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, Hannibal escapes and leaves Clarice behind. However, the book ends with Hannibal drugging Clarice and the two of them running off together. Why was the ending changed for the film? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; on the film version, the director &quot;didn't buy&quot; that Clarice would run off with Hannibal. However, from what I remember, it's unclear whether she willingly accompanies him or not (as I said, Hannibal drugged her). The only other explanation I can come up with is that the novel ending is off-putting, but so is the whole story. Are there any interviews or other information out there that explains the change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-10T11:29:39.413" LastActivityDate="2017-03-28T23:01:05.237" Title="Why is the ending to the film adaptation of &quot;Hannibal&quot; completely different from the novel?" Tags="|ending|book-adaptation|hannibal|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27" PostTypeId="7" CreationDate="2011-11-30T22:25:33.217" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV - Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt; is for Movie &amp;amp; TV enthusiasts and experts alike!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question generally covers &amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Analysis of content or theme of all forms of Movies/TV&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Identifying a Movie or TV series (see below for details)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about a Movie/TV show's production.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The works of a director / an actor / a writer related to Movies/TV &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movies also includes &lt;strong&gt;Made-For-TV movies&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Direct-to-DVD&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;Mini-Series&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please note that the following subjects are considered &lt;em&gt;off-topic&lt;/em&gt; here:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Distribution&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Movie/TV purchasing/viewing locations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The operation of playing a movie whether it be digital or physical format.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unimportant trivia that does not add to the understanding or appreciation of the title.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TV news and current affairs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A title's release date or rumors about a specific title or series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Opinions about or recommendations for a movie or TV show &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spoilers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that &lt;strong&gt;spoilers are allowed here and may be out in the open.&lt;/strong&gt;  Read at your own risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The use of spoiler markup should be kept to a minimum, or not used at all if it is clear what Movie or TV Show is being discussed in the question.  Use common sense and apply spoiler markup to cover only aspects of your post that you would think might be unexpected, such as references to other movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spoiler tags will be deleted from questions as nearly every question reveals details about a movie or TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we encourage you to be aware of spoilers in our questions, we make every effort to remove spoilers from &lt;strong&gt;Question Titles&lt;/strong&gt; which is one part of the site that does not have mark-up capabilities and is out in the open.  Also, please refer to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.movies.stackexchange.com/questions/538/you-can-select-tags-to-ignore&quot;&gt;meta post&lt;/a&gt; on how to keep specific tags from your view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Identify-This-X Questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Identification questions are currently on-topic for this site.  Please try to give as much detail as possible:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where you watched the movie or TV show&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you watched the movie or TV show&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any idea of how old it was&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whether it was animated or not&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any distinctive detail&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/8035/which-movie-is-this-no-actor-names-nor-character-names&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; to get a feel of what we expect from a well rounded Identify-This-* question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Identify-This questions are of limited use to other users of the site, and are asking people to spend some time identifying the Movie or TV show, so it is the responsibility of the person asking the question to try to answer clarifications within a reasonable amount of time, certainly within a day or so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Identify-This questions may be deleted if it is considered that they are unanswerable and the person asking is not answering clarification comments.   Questions from unregistered users unanswered &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.movies.stackexchange.com/questions/380/should-we-close-older-identify-questions&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;after 2 weeks&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; are liable to be deleted. Questions lacking in research, i.e. if a question is easily answered from an Actor's name on IMDB or Wikipedia will be closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T19:11:01.223" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T19:11:01.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31" CreationDate="2011-11-30T22:38:30.910" Score="19" ViewCount="804" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the movies I know so far from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594503/&quot;&gt;Miyazaki&lt;/a&gt; all have interaction between people and the natural environment as one of their themes. Did he make any movies without this subject?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T18:14:25.013" LastActivityDate="2017-11-03T05:02:01.057" Title="Did Hayao Miyazaki make any movie without an environmental theme?" Tags="|hayao-miyazaki|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="635" CreationDate="2011-11-30T22:46:10.377" Score="28" ViewCount="3971" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shortly after World War II the Americans did &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Commander_of_the_Allied_Powers#Media_censorship&quot;&gt;observe and censor&lt;/a&gt; the newly made movies in Japan. Did Kurosawa make that many Shakespeare-adaptations in that time, because it was easier to get them accepted? Or was he simply a Shakespeare-fan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="109" LastEditDate="2012-06-21T11:49:25.683" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:04:04.707" Title="Did Kurosawa make so many Shakespeare-adaptations to avoid censorship?" Tags="|book-adaptation|akira-kurosawa|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34" CreationDate="2011-11-30T22:55:56.753" Score="14" ViewCount="53875" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1226681/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pontypool&lt;/a&gt;, the people have a disease that is transferred by hearing the mumbling of an infected person and thinking about it. Where did the disease come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the plot the possibility of a terrorist attack is mentioned because of the friction between French-speaking and English-speaking Canadians. What is the bigger picture behind this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-17T20:29:30.650" LastActivityDate="2019-02-27T20:00:13.880" Title="Where did the speaking-disease come from?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pontypool|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28" CreationDate="2011-11-30T22:58:27.687" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't recall &lt;em&gt;Kiki's Delivery Service&lt;/em&gt; having much of an environmental theme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to Miyazaki the movie touches on the gulf that exists between independence and reliance in Japanese teenage girls. Going far beyond coming of age themes, the work deals with the nature of creativity and talent, and the central difficulty every person faces in becoming themselves, whether through luck, hard work or confidence: the inner film explores the same questions as the later Whisper of the Heart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2011-11-30T22:58:27.687" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11" CreationDate="2011-11-30T23:10:42.157" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my perspective, it's partly to contrast HAL's childlike behavior and to also show human evolution from apes to logical beings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2011-11-30T23:10:42.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30" CreationDate="2011-11-30T23:25:54.240" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without thinking too detailed into it, there is no real origin other than communication itself. The spreading of a message, that is the communication and or miscommunication of information can lead to different results. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; In Pontypool, the communication of a message lead to spreading where as the miscommunication (changing the meaning) lead to the cure.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA; The key thing being understanding of English words&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A guess could be Montreal, where English-speaking Canadians and French-speaking Canadians reside and how hard it is to interact. Another bigger picture thinking of this could be the willingness to understand or force oneself not to understand what another is saying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another idea could be that understanding of a message may not be spontaneous and may plant itself as idea in the minds who listen, without their awareness, e.g. in the case of subliminal messages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; For example, how long it took some of the characters to realize they were infected&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastActivityDate="2011-11-30T23:25:54.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="371" CreationDate="2011-11-30T23:27:02.960" Score="28" ViewCount="7771" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lots of people reject both Matrix sequels, but do they have a good solid reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I watched all three with the same level of wonder and interest.  I listened carefully and pieced together the fictional universe as details emerged.  Everything seems to fit; There's nothing I can put my finger on that is contradictory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please make answers specific and detailed&lt;/strong&gt;; leave generalized, &lt;em&gt;&quot;sequels just suck, 'cause...&quot;&lt;/em&gt; answers for the forthcoming, &lt;em&gt;&quot;Why do all sequels suck?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10" LastEditorUserId="28" LastEditDate="2011-12-10T22:36:51.690" LastActivityDate="2011-12-21T04:48:50.013" Title="Are there specific plot inconsistencies in The Matrix Trilogy?" Tags="|the-matrix|sequels|plot-explanation|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35" CreationDate="2011-11-30T23:44:13.297" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, let's think about this, why are only humans used for the harvesting power?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where are all the organisms? You know the ones that don't need the sun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Morpheus: A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines. We don't know who struck first - us, or them. But we know it was us that scorched the sky. At the time they were dependent on solar power and it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could say that all organisms became extinct? But that's stretching it. The machines &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; have been smart enough to take some organisms with them and mass produce. Just based on logistics, you would be able to save on computing power to run the simulation. &lt;em&gt;Seriously, the amount of 3D rendering that goes on in the Matrix must be a lot&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next part, everyone is all on the ship training Neo to be the one and all that so after Cypher talks to Neo and gives him the drink on the ship how in the world did he boot into the Matrix for dinner with Mr.Smith?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it someone else? No, because Cypher was on shift that night to monitor code on the Matrix. So let's say he managed to get in. Who got him out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many more holes, I will have to watch it again to remember. Notice, this is all based on the first movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastActivityDate="2011-11-30T23:44:13.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35" CreationDate="2011-11-30T23:45:03.903" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The biggest one that springs to mind is the fact that he is 'all powerful' within the matrix by the end of the first film, and actually stops it from running. Then in the next film he's just quite good at fighting, but not really omnipotent like in the first film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="75" LastActivityDate="2011-11-30T23:45:03.903" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="167" CreationDate="2011-11-30T23:49:20.703" Score="16" ViewCount="890" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the American cut of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Metropolis&lt;/a&gt; the mentioning of Hel is completely removed from the movie. But it pretty much explains Dr. Rotwangs actions. Why was such an important story-element taken away?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-03T01:14:00.817" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T01:14:00.817" Title="Why did Hel get cut from the American version of Metropolis?" Tags="|alternate-version|metropolis|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42" CreationDate="2011-12-01T00:27:08.640" Score="15" ViewCount="491" Body="&lt;p&gt;As described on IMDB site, the Akira remake: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Set in New-Manhattan a city rebuilt with Japanese money, the story focuses on two biker friends. Further plot is not known at this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My issue is not with non-Asian actors (but I kid you not if Robert Patterson takes one of the roles for this movie I will be disappointed in Hollywood, &lt;sub&gt;Even though I already am&lt;/sub&gt;), my issue is with the reason why Akira worked. It worked (for me) because I liked the Tokyo setting &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post war experiences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post atomic bomb experiences&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Overpopulation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Daily economic struggle&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These items can be seen in a few old anime movies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it is being moved to New York of which if anything that this will be relatable to would be &lt;em&gt;9/11&lt;/em&gt; or an alternate reality where the crime rate reaches uncontrollable levels like in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_New_York&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Escape from New York&lt;/a&gt;. The dystopia for New York just doesn't really seem to fit the bill. Which by all means is not a problem, so why not change the name from &lt;em&gt;Akira&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen in the past how Hollywood takes &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1098327/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;something&lt;/a&gt; and turns it into nothing, but that's okay, the goal is to make money. I just want to know why and how are they going to spin Akira, a movie that dictates anime direction for all anime of the past decade to a location where dubbed movies are favored over subtitles. Even taking into account that North America is English speaking, it still does not explain the need to change location. The point was to show the culture within Tokyo and how crappy it can be for the characters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So could someone please tell me how will this work for a place like New York?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T11:58:05.357" LastActivityDate="2023-11-19T15:37:08.447" Title="Why did they change the location of Akira in the remake?" Tags="|remake|akira|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-01T00:35:21.743" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/M3UXr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Matrix&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Matrix (1999)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film depicts a future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality created by sentient machines to pacify and subdue the human population, while their bodies' heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. Upon learning this, computer programmer &quot;Neo&quot; is drawn into a rebellion against the machines, involving other people who have been freed from the &quot;dream world&quot; and into reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2011-12-01T06:21:24.053" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T06:21:24.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-01T00:35:21.743" Score="0" Body="A science-fiction action film around a computer hacker that learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers." OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2011-12-01T06:21:30.263" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T06:21:30.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39" CreationDate="2011-12-01T00:42:19.250" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The usual answer Hollywood offers when they do this sort of thing is that they want the audience to connect to the story. Since they are probably aiming for the largest possible audience (more money!) they will go for (what they perceive to be) the lowest common denominator. Thus Americanizing the story, to almost beyond recognition. They believe that (to most Americans) New York is far more familiar than Tokyo as a possible dystopic city. The differences between the two cities is perceived by Hollywood to be beyond the common movie goer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T00:42:19.250" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-01T00:48:31.703" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psionic psychopath that only two kids and a group of psionics can stop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2011-12-01T01:28:54.147" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T01:28:54.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-01T00:48:31.703" Score="0" Body="a Japanese animated science fiction film" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2011-12-01T01:28:51.760" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T01:28:51.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-01T02:04:05.840" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do recall the first Pink Panther movie being less slapstick in its approach, a more subtle performance from the cast - but I would find it hard to believe that they set out to make a serious movie and ended up with a comedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No matter how big the star, I simply don't believe they would let someone completely revise the genre of a movie like that.  Peter Sellers was almost exclusively known as a comedic actor, in both Radio and Movies, it was very much the exception when he played serious parts.  His write up on IMDB starts &quot;Often credited as the greatest comedian of all time&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no evidence, but I just don't find it credible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T02:04:05.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16" CreationDate="2011-12-01T02:43:58.490" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is actually two questions. Muad'Dib is correct that the fantasy world (the brothel) is her way of coping with the real world (the asylum). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Baby Doll (I assume you mean her; Blondie was a supporting character) dances in the fantasy world, which transports the audience to a &lt;em&gt;third&lt;/em&gt; level, the one with the fighting and fantastical elements. I believe this to be some sort of manifestation of her dance, as if her dancing would provide such imagery to the person observing her. When the train heist mission is botched, so is Baby Doll's dance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's all reads a &lt;em&gt;bit&lt;/em&gt; like Inception, only not as intelligently done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="8" LastEditDate="2011-12-01T22:18:30.880" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T22:18:30.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50" CreationDate="2011-12-01T02:59:30.270" Score="56" ViewCount="22732" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_%28film%29#Production&quot;&gt;According to Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, the main theme of The Dark Knight is escalation, such that each event lead to an escalation that results from the choices Batman and James Gordon make. A separate source said that if one were to start from the beginning the movie can be seen as sequence of small games with the first being the robbery scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The robbery scene being compared to that of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_game&quot;&gt;Pirate Game&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that the primary theme is actually Game Theory? Since the actual escalation didn't occur until the end with the prisoner's dilemma and Harvey kidnapping Gordon's family? &lt;strong&gt;What is the &lt;em&gt;main&lt;/em&gt; theme of The Dark Knight?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T14:00:39.580" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T14:00:39.580" Title="What is the main theme of The Dark Knight?" Tags="|analysis|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18" CreationDate="2011-12-01T03:36:14.717" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Mnementh points out, it's probably impossible to say with certainty until he joins the site, but it seems as though he hasn't explicitly made mention of it yet. He has said that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The whole concept of avatars and living life as someone else, there's a relationship to what we're doing, but I think when I first started trying to make this film happen it was very much pulled from that era of movies where you had 'The Matrix,' you had 'Dark City,' you had 'The Thirteenth Floor' and, to a certain extent, you had 'Memento' too. They were based in the principles that the world around you might not be real.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/04/entertainment/la-ca-inception4-2010apr04/3&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt; was 1999; &lt;em&gt;Dark City&lt;/em&gt; 1998; &lt;em&gt;Thirteenth Floor&lt;/em&gt; 1999; &lt;em&gt;Memento&lt;/em&gt; 2000, so &lt;em&gt;eXistenZ&lt;/em&gt; (1999) falls neatly in that &quot;era of movies&quot; he talks about. It's conceivable that it was an influence along with the ones he mentioned, but him not explicitly bringing it up leads me to believe it was not, or at least not a major one. He hadn't seen &lt;em&gt;Last Year at Marienbad&lt;/em&gt; (1961) to which &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt; also drew a lot of comparison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to think that the dream/reality layers idea is not that original or uncommon and that there are plenty of previous works that build on it without necessarily being an influence on those which follow. For instance the Scrooge McDuck comic people said Inception ripped off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All speculation of course :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T03:36:14.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="50" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48" CreationDate="2011-12-01T04:00:21.143" Score="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Dark Knight, in my view, is an epic description of the Joker's character. There is no other theme to the movie. Just as 'Batman Begins' was centered mainly around the characterization of the Batman. I observed a similarity and a difference between the Joker and the other mob bosses/bad guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The similarity is that, both the bad guys and Joker have anti-social ideas. The difference lies in what level of sophistication the players employ. The other guys want to kill Batman and prey on the fearful. Joker is different. He just wants to kill everyone else. He also wants to prove that everyone is inherently un-altruistic / sadistic. That is why he conducts the experiment on the ferry with the prisoners and the convicts. This is classic prisoners' dilemma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also succeeds in employing Harvey Dent, the supposed hope of Gotham City, the only DA brave enough to prosecute Gotham's criminals, and turn him against Gotham. These are a battery of experiments that he performs - just for the thrill of finding out what happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="91" LastEditorUserId="571" LastEditDate="2014-01-05T16:53:58.677" LastActivityDate="2014-01-05T16:53:58.677" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="51" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20033" CreationDate="2011-12-01T04:08:45.143" Score="14" ViewCount="94174" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie &lt;em&gt;Blue Valentine&lt;/em&gt; (2010) as Dean walked away from the home and sending their daughter back to Cindy mean that they separate (divorce or something)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or does it mean anything else as you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2022-08-20T06:24:49.223" LastActivityDate="2022-08-20T06:24:49.223" Title="Outcome of relationship at the end of 'Blue Valentine'" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|blue-valentine|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="54" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="135" CreationDate="2011-12-01T04:42:48.880" Score="43" ViewCount="2217" Body="&lt;p&gt;The recently released Blu-ray edition of Star Wars has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movieweb.com/news/star-wars-the-complete-saga-blu-ray-changes-revealed&quot;&gt;a few changes&lt;/a&gt; made personally by George Lucas. The most striking is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27RVJJfny4I&quot;&gt;Darth Vader's &quot;No!&quot; in episode VI&lt;/a&gt;. Why were these changes made, and do such changes affect viewers' understanding of the plot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user96" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T12:11:20.797" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T12:11:20.797" Title="What changes were made to the Star Wars Blu-ray and what effect did they have on the plot?" Tags="|star-wars|plot-explanation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="55" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2989" CreationDate="2011-12-01T04:59:06.717" Score="25" ViewCount="6874" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Captain Miller says to &quot;gear up&quot; after releasing the hostage, one of the subordinates refuses. What I am trying to understand is what the movie was trying to portray in that minute or so when Captain Miller didn't say a word. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene shows him as gearing up, is it supposed to be showing Captain Miller's trust in his subordinate to follow orders or is he generally in shock at the current situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the small speech at the end where he says he is a school teacher and does not care who Ryan is, I am thinking the fact that camera does not spend much focus on him that this is how it was to be portrayed; those few minutes of silence were meant to show he didn't care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this the correct thought process for the scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2019-02-27T21:01:06.457" LastActivityDate="2019-02-27T21:01:06.457" Title="Captain Miller's thought process in Private Ryan &quot;School Teacher&quot; scene?" Tags="|plot-explanation|saving-private-ryan|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="56" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18" CreationDate="2011-12-01T07:33:07.493" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The concept of layered realities does seem very similar. Take for example the following scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the scene below, the viewers of the movie already think they are within the game (1 layer deep) and are going to boot into a next layer. This can be seen as similar to when Cobb and others were in the van about to jump again. So in both cases, the viewer needs to keep track of where reality in the movie starts and where the new layer of reality begins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/idpgK.png&quot; alt=&quot;Micropod&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;Images are used for the critique of Existenz&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here we have the first possible jump and once the viewers reach the end they begin to question whether this was indeed the first pod entry. This is similar to questioning whether Cobb was already a layer deep before booting in on the airplane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/a4Ete.png&quot; alt=&quot;First possible jump?&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;Images are used for the critique of Existenz&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is where it gets tricky, let's call this the jump into limbo. In Existenz, only one character actually uses the pod. So did that character go one more layer deep or did both characters jump back up a layer? This can be compared to the snow mountains layer to the jump to Fischer's layer and finally to limbo. No one is sure that Cobb did indeed escape limbo for the whole show. That is, Cobb could have been in limbo for the entire show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IHokg.png&quot; alt=&quot;Was this a jump in or out?&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;Images are used for the critique of Existenz&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next feature that can be compared is the idea of a kick, where in Existenz it is shown as a pause of game whereas in Inception the user supposed thrown up a level/layer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final item is that of the user/gamer imparting their own images/thoughts into the game. That weird gun that was used in the opening is shown in the later layers. So this most likely means that the game uses the thoughts of a person to advance the dynamic play. Thus it shows the same psychotic effect as in Inception because the player will need some sort of &quot;totem&quot; to hold on to what they believe to be reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the idea of layering (questioning the present reality) predates both of these films such that both of these movies could have gotten influence from earlier books/scripts/movies. Though the similarity between films is quite remarkable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T07:33:07.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="58" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13" CreationDate="2011-12-01T08:05:57.217" Score="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;He is crazy, for sure. No doubt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Teddy Daniels: You know, this place makes me wonder.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Chuck Aule: Yeah, what's that, boss?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Teddy Daniels: Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [gets up and walks off]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Chuck Aule: Teddy?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Teddy, or more realistically, Andrew, is aware of what was going on when he was on the steps with Chuck. The guards were there even. On those steps, when he said that, that was his way of saying I know but I want to pretend anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The evidence for the other side isn't that strong based on Andrew's reaction to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Government conspiracy (even I was hoping it was a huge plot but it was becoming more impossible as neared the end of the movie)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drugs and cigarettes shouldn't necessarily make you hallucinate more. Since he was in a hospital for the criminally insane, drugs should be suppressing hallucinations and erratic behaviour not causing them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Noyce saying his real name and then beating him up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-02-10T19:03:08.887" LastActivityDate="2012-02-10T19:03:08.887" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="59" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="132" CreationDate="2011-12-01T09:13:59.203" Score="39" ViewCount="1587" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched many movies such as &lt;em&gt;Sixth Sense&lt;/em&gt;, where there is a major twist that if known prior to watching the movie can potentially spoil the enjoyment of viewing. I tend not to watch this type of movies again, or certainly no more than once, and wondered if this is a common reaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence that would suggest that comparatively, this type of films, whilst they may do well at cinema, have relatively poor post-cinema sales (I am thinking of the ratio between box-office and DVD/BluRay sales). So, for any budding directors, is this the type of movie to shy away from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-04T15:45:39.270" LastActivityDate="2013-06-04T15:45:39.270" Title="Is there any evidence of &quot;Big Twist&quot; movies having poor post-cinema sales?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="60" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-01T09:20:33.740" Score="85" ViewCount="7760" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Pulp Fiction, there is a briefcase which has contents that are kept very secret. What item is most likely to be in the briefcase? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qaqOS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;John Travolta looking in a glowing briefcase&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-07-24T19:59:18.113" LastActivityDate="2023-01-23T14:42:49.363" Title="What has the greatest chance of being in Marcellus Wallace's briefcase?" Tags="|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="61" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="207" CreationDate="2011-12-01T09:21:31.937" Score="106" ViewCount="8670" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although Marty is only in 1955 for one week, he plays a pivotal role in getting his parents together. He even briefly dates his mother. So, considering he plays such a pivotal role, does it make sense that his parents never mention that he looks so similar to their old friend?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it not mentioned to simply cover up a plot hole, or is it likely that the producers simply overlooked this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-11T13:30:53.573" LastActivityDate="2017-09-06T15:41:40.900" Title="Why don't Marty's parents ever mention how similar he looks to the Marty of 1955?" Tags="|analysis|back-to-the-future|time-travel|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="62" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="60" CreationDate="2011-12-01T09:34:40.823" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, people try and make tenuous Links between &lt;em&gt;Reservoir Dogs&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By that, I mean people try and see if they hold up as sequels, whether continuity-wise they can work. A logical opinion is to say that the diamonds that are stolen in &lt;em&gt;Reservoir Dogs&lt;/em&gt; are what are in the brief case in &lt;em&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Harvey Keitel and Quentin Tarantino act as two different people in both films. So, this still doesn't hold true. I heard a theory that it was Wallace's soul that was in the case. Evidence for losing his soul is the injury on the back of his neck. However, that seems far fetched. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-02-27T21:01:11.327" LastActivityDate="2019-02-27T21:01:11.327" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="63" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="64" CreationDate="2011-12-01T09:35:47.237" Score="115" ViewCount="309905" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266697/&quot;&gt;Kill Bill Vol.1&lt;/a&gt;, whenever someone mentions the bride by her name&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Beatrix Kiddo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her name is censored with a beep. Is this explained somewhere in the movie? Or is it just a signature that Tarantino leaves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2021-04-29T22:25:45.297" LastActivityDate="2021-04-29T22:25:45.297" Title="Why is the bride's name bleeped in Kill Bill Vol 1?" Tags="|analysis|quentin-tarantino|film-techniques|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="64" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="63" CreationDate="2011-12-01T09:46:08.353" Score="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well for the first film and for most of the second, the Bride is on a revenge mission where she is hunting her victims. Her identity would have to be a secret to make sure she doesn't get followed or caught. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be Tarantino's way of breaking the 4th wall and including us in the element of mystery and disguise that the Bride has to undertake to remain anonymous. Also, this could mean we are meant to detached emotionally from her as a character until her name is finally revealed as Beatrix Kiddo by Elle Driver. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is when we see the character as fully vulnerable and when she opens up her emotions. So Tarantino thought of this as the opportune moment to unveil all secrets of this character. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or perhaps it was just Tarantino being weird and awesome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="112" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2014-05-23T17:16:20.840" LastActivityDate="2014-05-23T17:16:20.840" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="66" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="60" CreationDate="2011-12-01T09:58:26.533" Score="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000812/&quot;&gt;Roger Avary&lt;/a&gt;, the co-writer of Pulp Fiction says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Originally the briefcase contained diamonds.  But that just seemed too&#xA;  boring and predictable.  So it was decided that the contents of the&#xA;  briefcase were never to be seen.  This way each audience member would&#xA;  fill in the blank with their own ultimate contents.  All you were&#xA;  supposed to know was that it was &quot;so beautiful.&quot;  No prop master can&#xA;  come up with something better than each individual's imagination.  At&#xA;  least that was the original idea.  Then somebody had the bright idea&#xA;  (which I think was a mistake) of putting an orange lightbulb in there.&#xA;  Suddenly what could have been anything became anything supernatural. &#xA;  Didn't need to push the effect.  People would have debated it for&#xA;  years anyway, and it would have been much more subtle.  I can't&#xA;  believe I'm actually talking about being subtle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;from Roger Ebert's &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0836228944&quot;&gt;Questions for the Movie Answer Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36" LastEditorUserId="36" LastEditDate="2011-12-01T10:19:35.157" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T10:19:35.157" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="67" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="61" CreationDate="2011-12-01T10:16:30.697" Score="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if they would notice, they would never accept it as a truth, because it is much against a normal understanding of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be probably like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Ever notice how much Marty looks like that one guy I nearly fell in love with?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Yeah, funny that&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And thats it :). &#xA;They could never imagine/reason, that Marty did time travel. So it is not even a possibility and therefore would not seem to be strange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T10:16:30.697" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="68" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12" CreationDate="2011-12-01T10:17:37.013" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 1971, Stanley Kubrick cast him as &lt;em&gt;Julian, the bodyguard of Mr. Alexander&lt;/em&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Clockwork Orange&lt;/a&gt;. And when such a great director casts you, it is a big thing. So for Star Wars, he did not even have an audition, George Lucas wanted him to have a role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vaneI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;David Prowse as Julian carrying Malcom McDowell&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;David Prowse as Julian carrying Malcom McDowell in a Clockwork Orange&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/d/davidprows247136.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;David Prowse says:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about&#xA;  my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I&#xA;  did even though no one knew what the film was about!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also said that George Lucas gave him a choice whether he wants to play Chewbacca or Darth Vader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-09T00:35:59.873" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T00:35:59.873" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="73" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-01T11:48:42.050" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A worldwide pop culture phenomenon, &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; has spawned a media franchise including books, television series, video games, and comic books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film series is composed of an &lt;a href=&quot;https://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Original_trilogy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;original trilogy&lt;/a&gt; released from 1977 to 1893, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Prequel_trilogy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;prequel trilogy&lt;/a&gt; released from 1999 to 2005, and an ongoing &lt;a href=&quot;https://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sequel_trilogy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sequel trilogy&lt;/a&gt; of which the first instalment, &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;, was released in 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use this tag when asking questions about &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;. If you're asking about a particular movie, also tag the question with the tag for that movie (for example &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/a-new-hope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-new-hope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-new-hope&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-empire-strikes-back&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-empire-strikes-back&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-empire-strikes-back&lt;/a&gt; etc)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Franchise Tags:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saga films&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-phantom-menace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-phantom-menace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-phantom-menace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/attack-of-the-clones&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;attack-of-the-clones&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;attack-of-the-clones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/revenge-of-the-sith&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;revenge-of-the-sith&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;revenge-of-the-sith&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/a-new-hope&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;a-new-hope&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;a-new-hope&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-empire-strikes-back&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-empire-strikes-back&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-empire-strikes-back&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/return-of-the-jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;return-of-the-jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;return-of-the-jedi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-force-awakens&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-force-awakens&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-force-awakens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-clone-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-clone-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-clone-wars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-last-jedi&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-last-jedi&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-last-jedi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-rise-of-skywalker&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-rise-of-skywalker&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-rise-of-skywalker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anthology films:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/rogue-one&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;rogue-one&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rogue-one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/solo-a-star-wars-story&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;solo-a-star-wars-story&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;solo-a-star-wars-story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Animated series:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-clone-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-clone-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-clone-wars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-wars-rebels&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-wars-rebels&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-wars-rebels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-clone-wars&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-clone-wars&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-clone-wars&lt;/a&gt; refers to both the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Clone_Wars_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;animated film&lt;/a&gt; and its &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Clone_Wars_(2008_TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;continuing TV series&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Live Action series:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-mandalorian&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-mandalorian&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-mandalorian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; franchise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_canon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; canon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2020-01-03T12:59:53.917" LastActivityDate="2020-01-03T12:59:53.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="74" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-01T11:48:42.050" Score="0" Body="An epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. Use this tag when asking questions about Star Wars. If you're asking about a particular movie, also tag the question with the tag for that movie (for example [a-new-hope] or [the-empire-strikes-back] etc)" OwnerUserId="43" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T14:08:50.917" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T14:08:50.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="76" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35" CreationDate="2011-12-01T11:58:08.527" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, the greatest inconsistency is the Neo with superpowers at the end of the second movie in the 'real world'. It's a cheap trick that breaks the matrix own rules with the universe showed in the first movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T11:58:08.527" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="78" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="80" CreationDate="2011-12-01T12:06:32.640" Score="13" ViewCount="13031" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vertigo&lt;/a&gt; recently and I noticed that there were some really striking similarities between Vertigo and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandramuki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chandramukhi&lt;/a&gt;/ &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichithrathazhu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Manichitrathazhu&lt;/a&gt; /&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhool_Bhulaiyaa&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bhool Bhulaiyaa&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it true that the makers really copied Vertigo, or was it really original?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-12-06T11:24:55.037" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T00:33:35.537" Title="Is Chandhramukhi / Manichitrathazhu / Bhool Bhulaiyaa a partial copy of Vertigo?" Tags="|reference|vertigo|manichitrathazhu|chandramukhi|bhool-bhulaiyaa|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="80" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="78" CreationDate="2011-12-01T12:29:09.570" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichithrathazhu&quot;&gt;Manichitrathazhu&lt;/a&gt; story is influenced from a tragedy that happened in Alummoottil Tharavadu, a famous central Travancore family, in the 19th century. Here heroine suffers from personality disorder and some strange things happen, solves problem with exorcism and psychiatry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where as in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Vertigo&lt;/a&gt;, a retired police detective suffering from acrophobia who is hired as a private investigator to follow the wife of an acquaintance to uncover the mystery of her peculiar behavior. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_and_the_Dead_%28novel%29&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; novel is written by Boileau-Narcejac. Hero suffers from acrophobia. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There might be few scenes borrowed from Vertigo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88" LastEditorUserId="88" LastEditDate="2011-12-01T15:00:01.530" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T15:00:01.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="81" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11" CreationDate="2011-12-01T13:41:31.673" Score="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched all of Stanley Kubrick's movies. He wants you to know that he's in control of the pace of the movie. You'll be fed each line when he's ready to feed it to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of Kubrick's movies tend to have a lot of white space, empty space where no one is doing or saying anything; they are merely existing. Listen to the non-human pace of Nicole Kidman's character (in Eyes Wide Shut). You are hanging on every word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kubrick creates tension through his use of pace. The actors aren't being stoic. They are moving and speaking at a real life pace, not the pace of normal movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastEditorUserId="44" LastEditDate="2011-12-12T00:40:50.470" LastActivityDate="2011-12-12T00:40:50.470" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="82" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="60" CreationDate="2011-12-01T14:23:28.783" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I heard the theory that @JosephLynn mentioned about it being Wallace's soul - and relating it to the injury on the back of his neck.  The theory only has slim backing - the glow, the band-aid, the combination of the briefcase (666) and the 'miracle' that happens as Vince and Jules come to take the soul back, perhaps rescuing it from the devil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously the quote from Avery saying that they didn't have a fixed idea of what it was kind of trumps that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T14:23:28.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="83" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="634" CreationDate="2011-12-01T14:46:04.350" Score="20" ViewCount="9641" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2011 film &quot;Bridesmaids,&quot; Melissa McCarthy plays Megan, the no-nonsense, carpal tunnel afflicted sister of the groom and one of the titular bridesmaids. All of her character's scenes are noticeably packed with more jokes per minute, as her character goes into seemingly infinite layers of ridiculous detail about her beliefs and backstory. It seems that this could have been written into the script, but knowing that McCarthy is an incredibly skilled improviser and sketch comedian, I have to wonder if some or all of her dialogue was made up on the spot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how much of the character of Megan was improvised by McCarthy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="126" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-06-21T12:13:28.153" LastActivityDate="2012-06-21T12:13:28.153" Title="How much of Melissa McCarthy's role in &quot;Bridesmaids&quot; was improvised?" Tags="|production|bridesmaids|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="84" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="87" CreationDate="2011-12-01T15:04:39.367" Score="22" ViewCount="2189" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Muppets&quot; has been celebrated by hardcore Muppets fans for bringing back long forgotten characters in a big way (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Uncle_Deadly&quot;&gt;Uncle Deadly&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Scooter&quot;&gt;Scooter&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;a href=&quot;http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Skeeter&quot;&gt;Skeeter&lt;/a&gt;, on the other hand, was left out again. Skeeter is Scooter's twin sister and has, so far, only appeared in animated form in &lt;a href=&quot;http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Muppet_Babies&quot;&gt;Muppet Babies&lt;/a&gt;. Since that show was on the air for 8 seasons, and another decade after that in syndication, one would think that Skeeter's popularity would eventually guarantee her a spot in a real Muppet movie. That has still yet to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why wasn't Skeeter in &quot;The Muppets&quot;? Since she was created for the cartoon, &lt;strong&gt;are the rights to her character owned by some other company?&lt;/strong&gt; And if that's the case, how could Disney not afford to buy the rights back? They're Disney.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="126" LastEditorUserId="126" LastEditDate="2011-12-01T18:51:17.843" LastActivityDate="2017-05-29T11:42:15.920" Title="Have rights disputes kept Skeeter out of the Muppet movies, including &quot;The Muppets&quot;?" Tags="|muppets|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="86" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="91" CreationDate="2011-12-01T15:25:47.600" Score="30" ViewCount="649" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1204342/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;on IMDB&lt;/a&gt; that many of the puppeteers who starred in The Muppets (2011) have been working with those characters for decades. Most, if not all, were involved in the original Muppet Show from the 70s and 80s, and even in earlier appearances by The Muppets. It seems like most of the Muppets in the recent movie were played by the puppeteers who 'originated' their roles, of course with the notable exception being Kermit the Frog and anyone Jim Henson created. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what other Muppets were performed in the 2011 movie by someone other than the originator of the role? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2013-11-04T00:13:52.540" LastActivityDate="2013-11-04T00:13:52.540" Title="What Muppets were not played by their original puppeteers?" Tags="|muppets|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="87" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="84" CreationDate="2011-12-01T15:34:12.447" Score="20" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since that show was on the air for 8 seasons, and another decade after that in syndication, one would think that Skeeter's popularity would guarantee her a spot in a real Muppet movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the number of people aware of the Muppet Show (1976) and the older Muppet Movies foreshadow those that know about Muppet Babies (1984). Since in Muppet Babies most of the characters were the babies (except for the occasional parent figure), the gender roles were unbalanced. Thus the addition of Skeeter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though this is not to say that this is the reason why Skeeter was left out. There were other Muppet movies before &quot;the Muppets&quot; where Skeeter was not previously included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Muppet Movie (Uncle Deadly, Scooter)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Muppets from Space (Uncle Deadly, Scooter)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Muppets Go Hollywood&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Muppet Treasure Island (Uncle Deadly, Scooter)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Muppets Take Manhattan  (Uncle Deadly, Scooter)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (Scooter)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could be missing some, the full listing including 1 hour long tv specials could be found on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppets#Filmography&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Muppets Wiki page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am just going with why Skeeter was included in the Muppet Babies but not the other way. So you will have to ask why Skeeter was not included in any movies from 1984 onwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to the rights, I think it is logical to believe that Disney owns the rights to all characters. Not taking up rights just for Skeeter does not make any sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I decided to do some digging on the forums, and I stumbled on to a thread that asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.muppetcentral.com/forum/threads/the-brand-new-ask-jim-lewis-thread.32836/page-9#post-640356&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Muppet writer Jim Lewis about placing Skeeter into family&lt;/a&gt; in 2008,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No. Why? Not really sure, to be honest. It could work, but I still see&#xA;  her as a Muppet Baby, a balance for Scooter (His Bookishness to her&#xA;  tom boy-ishness). I guess if she could be developed into something&#xA;  more, a force in her own right as an adult, it might work. But I'm not&#xA;  convinced. Plus, I'm lazy which is why I'm going to stop thinking on&#xA;  this too much before my head starts to hurt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in a separate &lt;a href=&quot;http://muppetbalcony.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ask Jim session&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ahh, Skeeter. I wasn't there for the creation of the &quot;Muppet Babies&quot;&#xA;  animated series, but I suspect she was added to the show so there'd be&#xA;  another (dare I say, more balanced than Baby Piggy) female character&#xA;  on a show aimed at kids. We threw around various bizarre scenarios&#xA;  about what happened to Skeeter after &quot;Muppet Babies,&quot; but none of&#xA;  these were ever confirmed. Frankly, I suggest contacting the Federal&#xA;  Witness Protection Program for more info. Let us know what you find&#xA;  out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-10T17:45:15.603" LastActivityDate="2013-05-10T17:45:15.603" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="88" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="566" CreationDate="2011-12-01T15:44:37.210" Score="28" ViewCount="32681" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Star Wars Episode One, the bounty hunter &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starwars.com/explore/encyclopedia/characters/aurrasing/&quot;&gt;Aurra Sing&lt;/a&gt; can be seen for a few seconds watching the pod race on Tatooine. She never reappears again in this episode or any other episodes, though later she appears in the Clone Wars cartoon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J4YrW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Aurra Sing in Episode One&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know &lt;strong&gt;why she was in the movie&lt;/strong&gt;? Was there any particular reason for her (and not someone else from the Expanded Universe) appearing in the movie watching that race (other than selling some more merchandising stuff)? Or were there some other scenes that featured her but were cut out later?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T15:39:55.903" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T15:39:55.903" Title="What's the purpose of Aurra Sing appearing in Star Wars Episode One?" Tags="|character|star-wars|the-phantom-menace|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="90" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-01T16:00:27.077" Score="56" ViewCount="35596" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Harry Potter book series, &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Peeves&quot;&gt;Peeves&lt;/a&gt; is a poltergeist that roams the hallways causing trouble. He never really adds anything essential to the plot line, but his scenes are amusing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously they had to cut out a lot of details to make the movies, but why did they choose to cut out an entire character? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they had to do that, why did they choose Peeves over other non-essential characters (e.g. Nearly Headless Nick)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2016-11-21T12:21:49.703" LastActivityDate="2017-04-27T15:50:44.913" Title="Why wasn't the poltergeist Peeves in the Harry Potter movies?" Tags="|character|harry-potter|book-adaptation|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="91" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="86" CreationDate="2011-12-01T16:01:24.890" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steve Whitmire&lt;/strong&gt; has been performing as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kermit since 1990 (following Jim Henson)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beaker since 1992 (following Richard Hunt)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Statler since 2002 (following Jerry Nelson)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rizzo the Rat (original performer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link Hogthrob (since 2011; following Jim Henson)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Newsman (since 2011; following Jim Henson)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eric Jacobson&lt;/strong&gt; has been performing as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Miss Piggy since 2001 (following Frank Oz)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fozzie Bear since 2002 (following Frank Oz)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sam the Eagle since 2005 (following Frank Oz)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marvin Suggs since 2011 (following Frank Oz)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Animal since 2002 (following Frank Oz)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dave Goelz&lt;/strong&gt; has been performing as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gonzo (original performer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dr. Bunsen Honeydew (original performer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Zoot (original performer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beauregard (original performer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Waldorf since 1992 (following Jim Henson)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bill Barretta&lt;/strong&gt; has been performing as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Swedish Chef since 1996 (following Jim Henson)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rowlf the dog since 1996 (following Jim Henson)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dr. Teeth since 2005 (following Jim Henson)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pepe the King Prawn (original performer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bobo the Bear (original performer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mahna Mahna since 2011 (following Jim Henson)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David Rudman&lt;/strong&gt; has been performing as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scooter since 2008 (following Richard Hunt)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Janice since 2008 (following Richard Hunt)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wayne since 2011 (following Richard Hunt)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Matt Vogel&lt;/strong&gt; has been performing as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Floyd Pepper since 2008 (following Jerry Nelson)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Camilla the Chicken since 2008 (following Jerry Nelson)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sweetums since 2009 (following John Henson)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lew Zealand since 2008 (following Jerry Nelson) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Uncle Deadly since 2011 (following Jerry Nelson)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Crazy Harry since 2008 (following Jerry Nelson)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only Muppets to be performed by their original puppeteer in 2011's &quot;The Muppets&quot; are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rizzo the Rat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gonzo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bunsen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Zoot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beauregard&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pepe&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many characters were dusted off for 2011's &quot;The Muppets,&quot; thus meaning that this film marks their first appearance with a new puppeteer. These Muppets are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Link Hogthrob&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Newsman&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mahna Mahna&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wayne&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Uncle Deadly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this exhaustive info came from &lt;a href=&quot;http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/The_Muppets_%282011%29&quot;&gt;the Muppets Wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="126" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T16:01:24.890" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="93" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-01T16:03:35.183" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions regarding the relationship of a story going from book format to movie format.  This includes questions about the adaptation, discrepant details, plot changes, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_adaptation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Film adaption&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T09:45:24.743" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T09:45:24.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="94" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-01T16:03:35.183" Score="0" Body="Questions regarding the relationship of a story going from book format to movie format." OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-05-15T15:53:08.037" LastActivityDate="2013-05-15T15:53:08.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="95" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="90" CreationDate="2011-12-01T16:16:58.113" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I recall Peeves had almost no influence on the main story arc of the series, so he was rather easy to cut out of the story.  Also I believe he shows up less frequently as the series continues, so he's not missed as much in the later parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nearly Headless Nick (NHN), although not tied very close to the story, is tied in a few key parts of Harry's character development, so he was kept in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2011-12-01T16:27:05.457" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T16:27:05.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="98" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="351" CreationDate="2011-12-01T17:23:35.297" Score="17" ViewCount="28769" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1740707/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trolljegeren&lt;/a&gt; (Trollhunter) they include &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jBuNMHzqmI&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;some footage with the Norwegian prime minister&lt;/a&gt; talking about trolls. Is that new text that is dubbed over the scene, or did he really say that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-11T00:04:20.487" LastActivityDate="2015-01-11T00:04:20.487" Title="Was the interview with the Norwegian prime minister real?" Tags="|trolljegeren|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="99" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="105" CreationDate="2011-12-01T18:02:37.213" Score="25" ViewCount="4174" Body="&lt;p&gt;The recent movie &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a performance capture animated movie. What is a &quot;performance capture&quot; movie and what is the need for this technology when the same effects could be visualized using normal animation (think movies like Ice Age)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T09:49:02.823" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T09:49:02.823" Title="What is a &quot;performance capture&quot; animation movie?" Tags="|film-techniques|animation|adventures-of-tintin|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="90" CreationDate="2011-12-01T18:10:48.007" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned by DForck42, Peeves is not a central character in Harry Potter movies. On top of that, in the story Peeves is shown to be doing a lot of destruction (think flying objects, utensils). The film makers would not have wanted to spend precious dollars on doing SFX for a character who has no effect on the story and is very hard to recreate faithfully on the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-04-28T13:47:59.020" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T13:47:59.020" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="101" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="640" CreationDate="2011-12-01T18:13:10.933" Score="11" ViewCount="359" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my childhood I liked the Fantomas-movies from the 60s (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058089/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059168/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060400/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;) with Louis de Funès as inspector Juve. I can see they are remakes of much older Fantomas-movies from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0002844/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1913&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027607/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1932&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143246/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1947&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I liked in the movies of the 60s the massive use of funny or interesting gadgets, like the third hand or a gun in a peg leg and the extensive use of technological advancement, like submarines and helicopters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I never saw the original movies, was this included in them already or new in the remakes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T14:28:34.877" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T14:28:34.877" Title="Did the original Fantomas movies also include a lot of gadgets like the movies from the 60s?" Tags="|remake|fantomas|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="99" CreationDate="2011-12-01T18:17:29.770" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think performance capture is used to make animation that is more naturalistic through capturing movement from actors.  This has been used with great effect where animation has to interact with live action - such as Gollum in the LoTR movies or King Kong (both using Andy Serkis as the actor), where a 'simply' animated character can be unconvincing.  In this case it is an attempt to get around the 'uncanny valley' problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a fully animated movie - I guess it is just an attempt to create a different look and feel, alongside tradional hand-drawn animation or CGI, it is neither better or preferred - just different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-01T18:25:01.827" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T18:25:01.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="103" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-01T18:29:53.760" Score="0" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Awards:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nominated for 7 Oscars&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was awarded the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (Tarantino &amp;amp; Avary)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was awarded Palme d'Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Links:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Starring:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;John Travolta&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Samuel L. Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Uma Thurman&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Harvey Keitel&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tim Roth&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Amanda Plummer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maria de Medeiros&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ving Rhames&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eric Stoltz&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rosanna Arquette&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Christopher Walken&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bruce Willis&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-10T14:52:56.427" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T14:52:56.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="104" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-01T18:29:53.760" Score="0" Body="American cult film directed by Quentin Tarantino in 1994, featuring stars such as John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and Bruce Willis." OwnerUserId="36" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-10T14:52:56.427" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T14:52:56.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="99" CreationDate="2011-12-01T18:38:42.507" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Performance capture&lt;/strong&gt; generally refers to the practice of capturing very subtle movements from real actors and using those in animation.  Movies like Ice Age are fine without performance capture because the characters aren't realistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem you run into when trying to make realistic human animations is that the human brain is wired to detect very subtle cues in facial patterns and if an animator makes even minor errors, we tend to be uncomfortable with the animation, associating the problem with a physical defect, illness or death.  That phenomenon is usually called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;the uncanny valley&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QxrQnJCXKo&quot;&gt;Steve Perlman explains how one version of the technology was improved to bridge the uncanny valley in this excellent video.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing you can theoretically do with this performance capture technology is record a broad array of facial expressions with a famous actor, and continue featuring that performance in new movies long after their ultimate demise.  That seems even a little creepier to me than bad animation, but to each his own I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately though, the reason for the technology &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; to capture an actor's well honed &quot;art&quot; as opposed to something an animator can realistically replicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32" LastEditorUserId="36" LastEditDate="2011-12-01T19:59:56.087" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T19:59:56.087" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="106" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-01T19:15:31.367" Score="49" ViewCount="8715" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never understood the movie Donnie Darko. In order not to keep the question vague, what happens in the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2018-07-24T19:53:10.643" LastActivityDate="2020-11-27T15:23:37.543" Title="Ending of Donnie Darko" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|donnie-darko|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35" CreationDate="2011-12-01T19:19:46.077" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I was very much convinced with the first part and even the second part for that matter where the version of matrix gets upgrading. In fact the Viral concept of Agent Smith could not have been depicted more appropriately. But hell broke loose in the third part. I personally prefer they never took it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neo being blind and having a vision in the live world is totally out of context and can be called as &quot;nuts&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T19:19:46.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="106" CreationDate="2011-12-01T19:20:16.040" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically what happens is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Donnie ends up sending the jet engine back, and in the new timeline (yay time travel!) he stays in bed, gets killed, and prevents most of the events from happening near the end of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Darko&quot;&gt;Wiki link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-02-04T19:27:11.333" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T19:27:11.333" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="106" CreationDate="2011-12-01T19:20:48.943" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie shows an alternate timeline that diverts from the real timeline. Donnie Darko should have died in the beginning, but he avoided it, because he was lured out by Frank. The movie is about Donnie Darko learning about the theorie of alternative timelines. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the end the diverted timeline starts to collapse and the world is destroyed, as Frank said. Then we get back at the splitting point into the real timeline, where Donnie dies. Ah yes, and Donnie Darko sends the mysterious jet engine (nobody know where it's from) from the diverted timeline to the splitting point. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-02-04T19:27:19.587" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T19:27:19.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="110" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-01T20:24:40.333" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ohsem.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Hollywood&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Referred to as the center of the U.S. film industry. Used to classify films based on the fame and identity of this area for movie stars and productions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2011-12-01T22:00:50.410" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T22:00:50.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="111" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-01T20:24:40.333" Score="0" Body="a district of Los Angeles, California, a metonym for American cinema" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2011-12-01T22:00:53.110" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T22:00:53.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="112" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-01T20:29:28.350" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Breaking down a film to understand the underlying concepts and character portrayals and the deeper meanings behind them. This includes objects, events, and character emotions that at first might not seem apparent to the audience but are inferred from the primary work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T05:31:01.930" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T05:31:01.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="113" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-01T20:29:28.350" Score="0" Body="Understanding the underlying concepts and themes behind the film/TV-show and its different interpretations. Not to be used for direct plot discussions." OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T05:31:01.930" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T05:31:01.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="114" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-01T20:31:55.417" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spoilers are introduced as a red flag to the section of the audience that has not yet seen the film and would not like the description to spoil their chance to watch the movie without prior knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2011-12-01T22:01:49.770" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T22:01:49.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="115" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-01T20:31:55.417" Score="0" Body="a summary that reveals part of the plot in the movie." OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2011-12-01T22:01:54.853" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T22:01:54.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="118" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-01T21:05:54.127" Score="23" ViewCount="2388" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question-title is my question, but some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/combined&quot;&gt;Seven samurai&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054047/combined&quot;&gt;The Magnificent Seven&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110631/combined&quot;&gt;Nightwatch&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119791/combined&quot;&gt;Nightwatch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0152930/combined&quot;&gt;Taxi&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316732/combined&quot;&gt;New York Taxi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0178868/combined&quot;&gt;The Ring&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&amp;amp;q=ring&quot;&gt;The Ring&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125659/combined&quot;&gt;Open Your Eyes&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259711/combined&quot;&gt;Vanilla Sky&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to discuss the quality of the remake, that differs. But I want to know, why must it always be remade?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T14:18:31.950" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T08:31:32.573" Title="Why are there a lot of Hollywood-remakes of successful non-US-movies?" Tags="|remake|american-cinema|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-01T21:16:23.600" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nndb.com/people/905/000022839/&quot;&gt;NNDB&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Edwards' most famous work, The Pink Panther, was released in 1963, with Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau. The part had originally been cast with Peter Ustinov, but that actor reneged at the last minute, and Sellers stepped in, with his suggestion that the character be &quot;bumbling&quot;, which, of course, changed not just the character, but the nature of film comedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dvdjournal.com/reviews/p/pinkpanthercollection.shtml&quot;&gt;Review by Clarenc Beaks&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Pink Panther (1963) began life as a star-studded caper comedy intended to be anchored by David Niven as the debonair jewel thief Sir Charles Lytton, aka &quot;The Phantom,&quot; a man audacious enough to carry on an affair with the wife of his tireless, if thoroughly inept, pursuer, Inspector Jacques Clouseau. And had Peter Ustinov, originally cast as Clouseau (and, coincidentally, batman to the higher-ranking Niven in World War II), not backed out of the production, following Ava Gardner's lead (who had been cast as Clouseau's philandering spouse), it's entirely possible that there would have been no Pink Panther franchise (though a great thespian, Ustinov was hardly anyone's idea of an explosive comedic talent). But when Peter Sellers came on board as the incompetent inspector, the picture was suddenly given a raucously funny performer who easily could run away with the proceedings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems it was intended to be a comedy from the beginning, but quite a different style of comedy than what it became once Sellers got involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2011-12-02T05:11:26.377" LastActivityDate="2011-12-02T05:11:26.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="121" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="735" CreationDate="2011-12-01T21:17:20.450" Score="20" ViewCount="1016" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't find a screencap of this character just yet, as the movie was released only very recently. But every now and then in scenes set backstage at the Muppet Theatre, there's a sheep chowing down on some non-food items, either in the background of the shot or at the very end of the scene. It's just a little (ADORABLE) sight gag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the sheep a character from past Muppet films or TV shows? Does it have a name? As far as I can tell, it isn't one of the sheep listed &lt;a href=&quot;http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Sheep#The_Muppet_Show_and_Related_Productions&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. So who is our little sheep friend?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Found a screencap. I'm not sure which iteration of the Muppets this screencap is from, but it sure ain't the 2011 movie. The sheep in question is blurrily visible on the second level in the background, just above and a bit to the left of Kermit's head. It appears to be gnawing on a cowhide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d73dF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;sheepie&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8" LastEditorUserId="6234" LastEditDate="2014-12-29T22:06:18.427" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T22:06:18.427" Title="What's the name of the sheep who's eating stuff backstage?" Tags="|muppets|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2011-12-01T21:22:21.393" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several of the non-US movies you named are in foreign languages. Although foreign films are often available with English subtitles or voice overs, I'd guess that many people prefer to watch movies where the original dialogue is in their native language. Additionally, the style of foreign movies is different than their Hollywood remakes. I haven't seen the originals of any of your examples, but I do know that the American &quot;The Office&quot; tv show has a very different style of humor from the original British &quot;The Office&quot;, for example (I realize that's a sitcom and not a film, but I think it's the same idea).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T21:22:21.393" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="123" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="128" CreationDate="2011-12-01T21:40:43.497" Score="27" ViewCount="3169" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a movie about a toy factory. From what I remember, it was about competing sides making toys - one side made violent war toys and the others made nice friendly ones. The makers of the war toys had some evil intention behind them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other details:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Live action &amp;amp; color&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Probably 10-25 years old&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Saw it on TV&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There was a golf cart driving around the factory&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The war toys shot exploding missiles and bullets&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There was a giant bouncing ball&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-30T02:50:32.967" LastActivityDate="2017-11-23T09:13:15.090" Title="Movie about a toy factory and war toys?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:30:18.973" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="124" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-01T22:04:54.710" Score="85" ViewCount="17340" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;The Prisoner of Azkaban&lt;/em&gt;,&#xA;Harry and Hermione travel back in time to save Sirius (and as it turns out, Buckbeak) and escape the Dementors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is a legitimate option for saving people, why don't they ever use it again? If they can use it to save Sirius in The Prisoner of Azkaban, why can't they use it to save him when he dies in The Order of the Phoenix? For that matter, why can't they go back to the beginning and kill Tom Riddle before he becomes Voldemort?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing I can think of is that in &lt;em&gt;The Prisoner of Azkaban&lt;/em&gt;, maybe they use the Time Turner before Sirius is given to the Dementors, and so they're not actually saving him from something that already happened; they're altering a series of events that they know will lead up to him being handed over to the Dementors. Is that how time travel works in Harry Potter land? That is, you can't alter something as definitive as death (or a Dementor's kiss), but you can alter other events that have occurred and consequently prevent a death that you know will occur?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-11-21T12:22:45.917" LastActivityDate="2021-06-23T17:10:47.797" Title="Why does Harry only make use of time travel in The Prisoner of Azkaban?" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|time-travel|the-prisoner-of-azkaban|" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2011-12-01T22:14:45.723" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least part of the reason has to be that the Hollywood folks want a big opening weekend splash.  If an excellent non-US movie has been out for awhile, chances are many of the US people who would want to see the movie have already seen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wondered the same thing about ABC remaking &lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2010/12/abc-to-adapt-canadian-series-being-erica.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Being Erica&lt;/a&gt;, a Canadian series into a US version, given that our cultures really aren't different enough to have to rewrite the script to get broad US appeal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The writer of the above article has this theory:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...ABC likely believed that the original &quot;Being Erica&quot; had already been too widely seen here, particularly among target young female viewers, to simply import on ABC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of a compelling reason to disagree with that assessment.  A remake will often get viewers of the original wanting to see the remake and viewers of more mainstream US cinema.  Whether it's worth the expense of an entirely new production is likely debatable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T22:14:45.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="123" CreationDate="2011-12-01T22:43:45.900" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds a bit like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Soldiers&quot;&gt;Small Soldiers&lt;/a&gt;. There it was a toy factory mistakenly (or intentionally?) building hitec military chips into their toys (action figures) and these then get into the environment of a normal US town. There are two parties: a group of soldiers (evil) and a group of peaceful fantasy creatures (good) and they fight against each other with the humans getting into crossfire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T22:43:45.900" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="60" CreationDate="2011-12-01T22:44:46.907" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always assumed (despite Avary's explanation) that it was a clever movie reference to the McGuffins in two previous movies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most recent being the great &lt;em&gt;Repo Man&lt;/em&gt; (Dir Alex Cox, 1984) where a briefcase purported to contain alien remains and which glows mysteriously is a key thread. This, in turn, may have some relationship with the case of radioactive material in the great noir thriller &lt;em&gt;Kiss Me Deadly&lt;/em&gt; (Dir Robert Aldrich, 1955).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are going to include references to other movies (a known Tarantino trait) those are two awesome movies to reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2011-12-01T22:44:46.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="123" CreationDate="2011-12-01T22:50:48.940" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the movie you are looking for is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105629/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Toys (1992)&lt;/a&gt; starring Robin Williams&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When a military general inherits a &lt;strong&gt;toy making company and begins making war toys&lt;/strong&gt;, his employees band together to stop him before he ruins the name of Zevo Toys forever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The below image is a golf cart driving around the factory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QHxAT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Golfcart&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-11-23T09:13:15.090" LastActivityDate="2017-11-23T09:13:15.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2011-12-01T22:59:46.647" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;After thinking about it and reading the other answers (thank you Lauren and mootinator) I came up with a possible explanation. I don't know if it is correct though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be - as often - about money. It makes not much sense for European/Indian/Chinese filmmakers to produce a remake of a Hollywood-movie (at least directly after the original), as everyone already knows the original movie. Hollywood has excellent distribution-channels and reach most of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a completely different situation for non-US-filmmakers. Even in Europe it is hard for foreign European movies to make it to the cinemas. And even if they run in the cinemas, they do only with few copies and without big advertisement. I didn't know about 'Open your eyes' before I heard about 'Vanilla Sky'. I wouldn't know about '[rec]', if I wouldn't go to festivals. That are Spanish movies, and I'm German, so even European movies have a hard time to distribute in other European countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there is a possibility to make money for producers in Hollywood. As they have access to good distribution-channels and have some advertisement-budget they can reach a new big audience and can make money. And it is not very risky, the original movie already showed that it can be successful at the audience it reaches. So, if it is possible to make money, someone will do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would explain the relative high number of Hollywood-remakes of foreign movies. And it would mean, that they are actually a good thing, because they bring good ideas to more people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T09:32:36.243" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T09:32:36.243" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="130" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="133" CreationDate="2011-12-01T23:19:33.463" Score="159" ViewCount="18785" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't Bruce Willis's character realize he is dead? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, the plot takes place several months after he is killed. Shouldn't there have been some clues during that time? They do imply that he thinks his wife isn't speaking to him because she's angry, but is it really possible that she was the only person he expected to interact with? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, it seems that all the other ghosts in the movie know they're dead. So perhaps another question would be do all ghosts in The Sixth Sense go through a &quot;transition period&quot; where they don't realize they're dead? At what point to they become aware of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T09:47:32.213" LastActivityDate="2019-04-15T08:08:25.803" Title="Why isn't Bruce Willis's character in the Sixth Sense self-aware?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-sixth-sense|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="124" CreationDate="2011-12-02T00:28:04.037" Score="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I remember about the books and the films, Hermione only gets given the Time Turner device in her third year at Hogwarts. She was given it, with the permission of the Ministry of Magic, so that she could attend two sets of lessons at once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Time-Turner&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt;, you can see that she stated that the pressure of using it to do twice as much work became too stressful, so she returned the device to the ministry. In the following year, all the devices were destroyed during the battle at the ministry, so it was not possible to use the device again. I am therefore guessing that the art of creating such a device was lost in the years since they were first made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-08-23T20:03:11.877" LastActivityDate="2012-08-23T20:03:11.877" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="59" CreationDate="2011-12-02T01:21:04.967" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;A properly executed plot twist often causes opposite reactions of what you've just described. People want to watch the movie again because the ending was so unexpected that they need to review the whole thing to get all the puzzle pieces together. &quot;Fight Club&quot; is a great example, in my opinion. There's a lot of dialogue (especially the lines from Helena Bonham Carter) that doesn't make any sense if you don't know the ending. You will enjoy and understand Fight Club much better after a second view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many ingredients that define the quality and longevity of a movie. Directors should not be afraid to use a plot twist, but relying only on this trick - especially if it is predictable - may ruin the whole experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-02T12:38:00.990" LastActivityDate="2013-05-02T12:38:00.990" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="130" CreationDate="2011-12-02T02:50:34.353" Score="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;This line from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167404/quotes&quot;&gt;Cole&lt;/a&gt; I think summed it up best, &quot;They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're dead.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, except for the girl trying to save her sister, I don't know if you could definitively say any of the other ghosts knew they were ghosts. I think the &quot;They only see what they want to see&quot; bit is the key here. In a way the ghosts are making their own reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2011-12-04T21:28:06.983" LastActivityDate="2011-12-04T21:28:06.983" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10" CreationDate="2011-12-02T04:30:06.617" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, which would make sense why Costello set up the Chinese gang with the fake microchips at the border. Since Costello should be constantly informing the FBI of the proceedings, they would have already known the deal has gone bad. Also the fact that there is a surveillance camera blind spot so huge that both gangs could comfortably talk says a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the scene where they introduce the top heads of Costello's group, Agent Frank Lazio looks very unreliable for someone who is showing cooperation. A few months later (or wherever in the story line Billy leaves jail), we have Ellerby introducing Dignam. Dignam throws an insult to Lazio (who comes in late, notice how the movie is showing us the small role he plays) and Lazio doesn't even defend against.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the fake microchip bust, I don't think we see the FBI again. Whether or not this was a big hit for the FBI? Who knows. But for whatever reason, I am sure they were aware of what Costello was doing and thus didn't even have to tail him like the Massachusetts State Police did near the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the Massachusetts State Police, Costello was the local big shark to be caught. To the FBI he was a playing card to capture everything around him, so I do think that the FBI had a part to play in impeding in the investigation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Something to think about&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the microchip bust, supposedly the Patriot Act was in order. Does this mean that the FBI already knew Colin was the mole in the department? Or had the recording not start yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Costello is about to die, Colin asks him repeatedly if he was known to the FBI to which Costello replied&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I never gave up anybody who wasn’t goin’ down anyway&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2017-07-28T16:38:07.113" LastActivityDate="2017-07-28T16:38:07.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="54" CreationDate="2011-12-02T05:38:20.997" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to just sum this up as the jumbled effect. Lucas basically wants as much action going on in his movies as humanly possible. Adding attention to items that we already know are there. This can be seen more vividly in Star Wars 1-3 where he adds more characters and objects to the set. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of inference is lost because of this. Instead of asking oneself why an object is on the screen just offset from center, we have the object in plain view center focus, distracting from what is important, establishing the plot and following through with that plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ewoks blinking  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adding more rocks to where R2 was hiding&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Items like these distract the viewer from what is actually going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most controversial change with Darth Vader, changes the emotion and environment of the scene completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nooooooooooooo! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To who? himself? the emperor? the dark side? to his son dying? Too many questions it was better left mute and let the background music take care of adding in the emotion as well the turning point to that scene, making that scene appear longer than it really is. Now that &quot;no&quot; extends across this entire section, the turning point is now a sharp inflection leading the viewer wanting the scene to be over as quickly as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2011-12-02T17:38:51.037" LastActivityDate="2011-12-02T17:38:51.037" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="55" CreationDate="2011-12-02T05:50:10.883" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I am going with the process that Captain Miller was just thinking a lot, mainly about getting home to his wife and back to his monotonous (but interesting to him) job as a school teacher. Because of this he was not quick to respond to his sub-ordinate actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasoning I am using to support this is the ending scene where he faces the tank. Logically he knew he stood no chance he stepped in harm's way. This was a decision to finish the mission of keeping Private Ryan alive with the hopes he can either one day go home or fail knowing he doesn't have to carry burden of home sickness anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastActivityDate="2011-12-02T05:50:10.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="137" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="152" CreationDate="2011-12-02T06:51:59.793" Score="28" ViewCount="3381" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/&quot;&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/a&gt;, replicant detection occurs via the subject's ability/inability to show advanced emotion. But early in the movie Deckard starts off as emotionless as the replicants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do the differences between Deckard and the replicants (specifically Roy and Rachel) progress throughout the movie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-13T18:48:23.640" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T18:48:23.640" Title="How do the differences between the replicants and Deckard evolve in Blade Runner?" Tags="|analysis|character|blade-runner|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="138" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28374" CreationDate="2011-12-02T07:21:39.357" Score="19" ViewCount="4848" Body="&lt;p&gt;As shown in the movie Persephone was the wife of The Merovingian, who himself was an obsolete program who denied being deleted. My question is, does anybody know anything about the origins of Persephone? There seems to be no specific information that indicates who she previously was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139" LastEditorUserId="29139" LastEditDate="2018-11-29T04:22:33.587" LastActivityDate="2018-11-29T04:22:33.587" Title="What were the origins of Persephone in The Matrix: Reloaded?" Tags="|the-matrix|the-matrix-reloaded|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="139" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-02T07:29:45.080" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 American science fiction film and the second installment in The Matrix trilogy, written and directed by the Wachowskis. It premiered on May 7, 2003, in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, and went on general release by Warner Bros. in North American theaters on May 15, 2003, and around the world during the latter half of that month. It was also screened out of competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.[3] The video game Enter the Matrix, which was released on May 15, and a collection of nine animated shorts, The Animatrix, which was released on June 3, supported and expanded the storyline of the movie. The Matrix Revolutions, which completes the story, was released six months after Reloaded, in November 2003.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139" LastEditorUserId="139" LastEditDate="2011-12-02T16:23:42.673" LastActivityDate="2011-12-02T16:23:42.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="140" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-02T07:29:45.080" Score="0" Body="The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 American science fiction film and the second installment in The Matrix trilogy, written and directed by the Wachowskis. It premiered on May 7, 2003, in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, and went on general release by Warner Bros." OwnerUserId="139" LastEditorUserId="139" LastEditDate="2011-12-02T16:23:45.823" LastActivityDate="2011-12-02T16:23:45.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="124" CreationDate="2011-12-02T08:19:18.567" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can not recall exactly where or when but I vividly remember that Dumbledore once told Harry that playing with time can be a very dangerous act and it can trap the time abuser in something like a Time Loop (for whatever it is!).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in my own opinion time traveling is one those matters that if not dealt with correctly and thoroughly can become one of those weak points of the story and obviously it is a weak point in the Harry Potter series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139" LastActivityDate="2011-12-02T08:19:18.567" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="142" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-02T09:07:45.860" Score="28" ViewCount="43934" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's what happens at the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Collateral (2004)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The taxi driver manages to defeat a highly skilled hitman. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it mere luck?  Should we accept this as a screw-up on the part of the movie makers, or is there something I'm missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T15:35:15.550" LastActivityDate="2021-11-26T20:17:55.993" Title="How credible is the ending of Collateral?" Tags="|plot-explanation|realism|collateral|" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="143" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="148" CreationDate="2011-12-02T09:14:39.973" Score="12" ViewCount="3689" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;The Social Network&quot; - which class is Mark sitting in when he falls asleep? He then wakes up and answers the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it might be Computer Architecture. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-18T13:14:44.287" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T13:14:44.287" Title="Which class is Mark sitting in when he falls asleep?" Tags="|the-social-network|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="144" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="151" CreationDate="2011-12-02T09:21:27.927" Score="59" ViewCount="6605" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most recent installments of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_%28film_series%29&quot;&gt;James Bond&lt;/a&gt; (ones featuring Daniel Craig) have fewer gadgets but more raw action (like the chase sequences in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace). Is it because of plot related changes to the MI:6 or have the movies been altered to suit the audiences?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user96" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T22:21:20.973" LastActivityDate="2019-12-21T12:26:04.987" Title="Why is James Bond less tech savvy in the Daniel Craig movies?" Tags="|james-bond|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="138" CreationDate="2011-12-02T11:04:47.573" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Persephone's origin is not mentioned in the movie. But she mentions about silver bullets, thus suggesting that Merovingian has a werewolf background. The DVD Behind the scenes mentions that she is a vampire that seeks after emotions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She admires the love that Trinity and Neo hold for each other. She also mentions about the love that she had once enjoyed, which suggests that Merv was a better spouse before he is lost in his hunger and greed for power and lust. Hence she appears to be no more bothered about the matrix as well as Merv.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-06-08T12:56:03.353" LastActivityDate="2017-06-08T12:56:03.353" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="137" CreationDate="2011-12-02T13:15:42.603" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that has to do the book, the movie adapts. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep?&quot;&gt;Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?&lt;/a&gt; all people are a bit like zombies, they only want to go away from earth or follow a strange religion like Deckards wife does. In a scene in the book, another Blade Runner suspects Deckard to be a replicant and makes a test with him. I think, Philip K. Dick wanted to show, that the difference between humans and machines isn't that big, as we think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie Ridley Scott seems to make a little different point. For me the movie said, that androids are able to the same emotions and empathy as humans, if they develop it (so states the theory, that humanity is developed). Deckard makes like Rachel and Roy the progress to humanity, although they take different directions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastActivityDate="2011-12-02T13:15:42.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="143" CreationDate="2011-12-02T13:55:53.617" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if I am remembering a different scene, as it has been a while since I watched the movie, but I thought it was an Operating Systems lecture (CS 161. Operating Systems). I searched for Operating Systems lecture and The Social Network, and came across &lt;a href=&quot;http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/10/in-defense-of-mark-zuckerberg.html&quot;&gt;a blog by the lecturer who was portrayed in the film&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The question: Suppose we’re given a computer with a 16-bit virtual address and a page size of 256 bytes.The system uses one-level page tables, that start at address 0x0400. Maybe you want to have DMA on your 16-bit system, who knows? The first few pages are reserved for hardware flags, etc. Assume page table entries have eight status bits. The eight status bits would be?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA; Mark's reply: 1 valid bit, 1 modify bit, 1 reference bit and 5 permission bits&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds like the right scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2011-12-02T23:05:24.043" LastActivityDate="2011-12-02T23:05:24.043" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="124" CreationDate="2011-12-02T14:09:41.090" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to repeat the excellent plot oriented answers - but its my opinion that JKR probably realized that freely available and controllable time travel can critically damage your ability to make a problem that cannot be simply resolved by the protagonist.  Magic itself has that problem too - but at least she can put limits on the magic and the fact that other characters in the story have magic too which cancels out some of the power that gives Harry &amp;amp; co.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is exactly why (most) of the stories that include time travel that I can think of involve plot points to make it unpredictable or uncontrollable or simply hard to do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Back to the Future (1.21 gigawatts of power required to operate the Flux Capacitor)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dr. Who (the Tardis navigation is broken and hard to control, and for one whole period was grounded entirely)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Trek (time travel always happens through some accident or external issue - though magically they always get to return ok)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Time Tunnel (I seem to recall that there is an accident with it)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Time Machine (he passes out when using it and ends up going too far)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2021-06-23T17:10:47.797" LastActivityDate="2021-06-23T17:10:47.797" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2011-12-02T14:18:49.120" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new movies starring Daniel Craig were intended as a reboot of the series.  As part of that reboot it seems that they have moved away from having so many gadgets and are focusing more on the character's own abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2011-12-02T14:18:49.120" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2011-12-02T14:26:54.487" Score="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it had any plot driven change.  The Bond franchise was feeling threatened by newer spy movies (such as the Bourne series) which have more action, (slightly) more plausible plots (compared to ray-gun satellites etc), and have less comedic elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A reboot with a new younger actor and a deliberate step away from some of the conventions of the franchise (gadgets &amp;amp; moneypenny for example) were their answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They tried to take  it this direction before - a Licence to Kill was a deliberate attempt with a drug-smuggling and revenge plot-line, but wasn't well done.  They then decided to switch back to more 'classic' Bond approaches with Brosnan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="118" LastEditDate="2011-12-05T16:38:08.960" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T16:38:08.960" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="137" CreationDate="2011-12-02T14:35:48.170" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, the movie is quite ambiguous about whether Deckard is actually a human or a replicant, Ridley Scott &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/15-10/ff_bladerunner?currentPage=all&quot;&gt;takes him as a replicant&lt;/a&gt;, while Harrison Ford believes he is human. Even though Deckard shows more and more emotions as the movie goes on, the same is true about the other replicants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ambiguity is IMHO, indeed an important part of the point of the movie (and the original novel) – what is the difference between humans and machines. And (a persistent theme in P.K.Dick’s works) how can you be sure &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; are, in fact, a human, not a machine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themes_in_Blade_Runner#Deckard:_human_or_replicant.3F&quot;&gt;Deckard: human or replicant?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T16:55:46.713" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T16:55:46.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="137" CreationDate="2011-12-02T14:45:53.327" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The novel is less subtle about posing the question about who is an android or not.  In the novel Deckard goes to retire an android who makes a phone call for help before being killed.  The police who show up are from a 'shadow' police department who are nearly all androids themselves living under cover.  Deckard escapes with a blade-runner who works with this fake police department who didn't realize he was working with androids and perhaps was even 'retiring' humans.  Deckard and the second blade runner debate who is an android and who is human, and who should take the 'test'.  Adding to confusion, they both have different tests they use.  The novel had already introduced Rachel, the android who believed she was Tyrrel's niece, to lay the ground for androids who do not know they are not human. In addition, throughout the book there is a major plot thread about his electric sheep and whether he lacked empathy by not purchasing a real pet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie does not include many of the plot elements from the novel, but it more subtly introduces the question about whether Decker is an android or not.  It leaves the viewer with many more open questions and is as a result an excellent but different story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2011-12-02T14:45:53.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="154" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-02T15:33:23.447" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A movie based primarily on an earlier work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remake&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Remake&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:11:07.853" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:11:07.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="155" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-02T15:33:23.447" Score="0" Body="A movie based primarily on an earlier work." OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:11:07.853" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:11:07.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="142" CreationDate="2011-12-02T16:10:57.780" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't call it screw-up but really luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I myself especially liked this and found it somehow realistic. Luck is something often regarded unrealistic because we await movies to happen in a predictable way (a taxi driver not having a chance against a trained hitman). But indeed luck is something completely realistic and happening in real life, just not that predictable or probable. So why not just let Max be lucky, Vincent is just a human, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact Vincent was not defeated in a tactical gunfight where he might play his strengths, but in a more or less surprising situation. It is indeed a bit strange that Max doesn't get a small wound (can't remember in detail, maybe he got) but in this particular situation (the end scene with both standing opposed each other behind the train doors) there wasn't much Vincent could do better with his years of training and experience than count on his luck, like Max.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2011-12-02T20:20:16.180" LastActivityDate="2011-12-02T20:20:16.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="158" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="313" CreationDate="2011-12-02T16:46:16.647" Score="35" ViewCount="10849" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is something I have always found odd about the soundtrack of John Carpenter's 1982 version of &quot;The Thing&quot;. It has a very atmospheric and fitting, subtle synthesizer soundtrack, which is indeed very Carpenter-like. But in fact the soundtrack for this movie wasn't made by John Carpenter himself (although he often does it), but by Ennio Morricone, another famous soundtrack composer, but one who I personally wouldn't bring into relation with such a soundtrack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why did such a famous soundtrack composer like Morricone make a soundtrack so atypical for him but in fact more typical for Carpenter, who indeed often makes the soundtracks for his movies himself? Is there some interesting back-story behind this oddity or was it just the usual business?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="19585" LastEditDate="2015-04-08T23:40:06.830" LastActivityDate="2017-07-05T13:13:41.290" Title="Why did Ennio Morricone write the soundtrack of &quot;The Thing&quot; (1982) instead of John Carpenter?" Tags="|soundtrack|the-thing|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="162" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-02T19:14:40.770" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Harry Potter film series is a British–American feature film series based on the Harry Potter novels by author J. K. Rowling. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series is distributed by Warner Bros. and consists of eight fantasy films beginning with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Philosopher%27s_Stone_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone&lt;/a&gt; (2001) and culminating with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows_%E2%80%93_Part_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2&lt;/a&gt; (2011).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is about a particular entry in the Harry Potter series, please also include a tag for the movie you're asking about (for example &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-philosophers-stone&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'the-philosophers-stone'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-philosophers-stone&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-philosophers-stone&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'the-philosophers-stone'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-philosophers-stone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-chamber-of-secrets&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'the-chamber-of-secrets'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-chamber-of-secrets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-prisoner-of-azkaban&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'the-prisoner-of-azkaban'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-prisoner-of-azkaban&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-goblet-of-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'the-goblet-of-fire'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-goblet-of-fire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-order-of-the-phoenix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'the-order-of-the-phoenix'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-order-of-the-phoenix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-half-blood-prince&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'the-half-blood-prince'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-half-blood-prince&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-deathly-hallows-1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'the-deathly-hallows-1'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-deathly-hallows-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-deathly-hallows-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'the-deathly-hallows-2'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-deathly-hallows-2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the Harry Potter franchise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T18:55:48.673" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T18:55:48.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="163" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-02T19:14:40.770" Score="0" Body="A British–American feature film series based on the Harry Potter novels by author J. K. Rowling. &#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;If your question is about a particular entry in the Harry Potter series, please also include a tag for the movie you're asking about (for example the-philosophers-stone)." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T17:46:10.050" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T17:46:10.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="164" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-02T19:15:50.410" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Identification of movies or TV shows is no longer supported on this site. For further information please see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4087/we-are-discontinuing-support-for-identification-questions&quot;&gt;related meta post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still want your film identified? Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4129/49&quot;&gt;this question and its answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-05-25T20:08:57.233" LastActivityDate="2019-05-25T20:08:57.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="165" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-02T19:15:50.410" Score="0" Body="NO LONGER ON TOPIC.  DO NOT USE. IDENTIFICATION QUESTIONS WILL BE CLOSED AS THEY ARE NO LONGER SUPPORTED.&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;Process of giving details about a movie so that the community can identify it." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-18T21:59:00.750" LastActivityDate="2018-01-18T21:59:00.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38" CreationDate="2011-12-02T20:30:08.107" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did a little bit of online research on this, and it would appear that the American distributors considered the movie too long, complicated and controversial and employed the playwright Channing Pollock to make a new version.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The American release was considerably shorter than the original (at 115 minutes it was about 25% shorter than the original) and massively changed the plot - to the point where some scenes became almost incomprehensible.  According to one reference I found Hel was dropped because her name was too close to Hell - unbelievable really. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pollock's version was released in the USA and the UK.  Other adaptations of around that length or some even shorter (91 minutes) were released in the USA and Germany.  The 91 minute version was the most commonly available from world-war-2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found a description about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fipresci.org/undercurrent/issue_0609/pena_metropolis.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;restoration of the movie&lt;/a&gt; which contains some detail about the different versions.  A documentary of the restoration can be found on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B0040QYROK&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DVD and Blu-Ray&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This research has made me want to see the restored version, as I saw a version around 1992 with live piano accompaniment - and I now have no idea how butchered the version I saw was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T19:34:42.783" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T19:34:42.783" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="168" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-02T20:38:38.417" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-02T20:38:38.417" LastActivityDate="2011-12-02T20:38:38.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="169" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-02T20:38:38.417" Score="0" Body="A movie set in the invasion of Normandy directed by Stephen Spielberg.  It was regarded as setting a new standard for realism in staging battle scenes, especially in its opening scene on Omaha beach." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-03T02:47:34.967" LastActivityDate="2011-12-03T02:47:34.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="170" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-02T20:45:38.373" Score="20" ViewCount="112643" Body="&lt;p&gt;After winning an Oscar for her performance as Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs, Jodie Foster decided not to reprise the role in the sequel. When asked about it in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.totalfilm.com/features/the-total-film-interview-jodie-foster&quot;&gt;interview with Total Film&lt;/a&gt;, she said&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The official reason I didn’t do Hannibal is I was doing another movie,&#xA;  Flora Plum... So I get to say, in a nice, dignified way, that I wasn’t&#xA;  available when that movie was being shot... I saw Hannibal. I won’t&#xA;  comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously this implies that she didn't like something about the movie. But what was it exactly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T18:11:48.317" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T08:16:25.937" Title="Why did Jodie Foster decide not to reprise the role of Clarice in Hannibal?" Tags="|hannibal|the-silence-of-the-lambs|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="171" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1300" CreationDate="2011-12-02T20:52:40.723" Score="12" ViewCount="11140" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120889/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What Dreams May Come&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, Robin Williams' character Chris Nielsen travels through Hell.  They show some of the nine circles of Hell as depicted in Dante's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inferno&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud and Treachery), but I don't believe they show all of them.  Which circles are shown, and at what points in the movie do we see each?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1548" LastEditDate="2015-11-21T02:06:55.857" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T02:06:55.857" Title="Which circles of Hell are shown in What Dreams May Come?" Tags="|analysis|what-dreams-may-come|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="803" CreationDate="2011-12-02T21:33:54.420" Score="12" ViewCount="2707" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Harvey&lt;/a&gt; from 1950 in the ending it is made clear that Harvey actually exists and is a Pooka, some sort of fairy from the celtic mythology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently he has chosen Elwood P. Dowd as some sort of medium to make people aware of him and contact them in bars every evening. But what is his actual intention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And has the death of Elwoods mother anything to do with the whole story? If I recall correctly, Elwoods sister said that Harvey appeared after their mother died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T13:56:53.247" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T13:56:53.247" Title="What is Harvey's purpose?" Tags="|analysis|harvey|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="173" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-02T21:35:07.490" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-02T21:35:07.490" LastActivityDate="2011-12-02T21:35:07.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="174" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-02T21:35:07.490" Score="0" Body="The selection and combining of shots into a sequence, and eventually to a completed movie.  " OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-03T02:47:22.050" LastActivityDate="2011-12-03T02:47:22.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="170" CreationDate="2011-12-02T22:51:18.170" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it doesn't imply she didn't like something because that is not correctly what she said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The official reason I didn't do Hannibal is I was doing another movie,&#xA;  Flora Plum [a long-cherished project that has yet to be shot]. So I&#xA;  get to say, in a nice, dignified way, that I wasn't available when&#xA;  that movie was being shot. But Clarice meant so much to Jonathan and&#xA;  I, she really did, and I know it sounds kind of strange to say but&#xA;  there was no way that either of us could really trample on her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is only a second question asked to her about whether she watched Hannibal she said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[whispers] I saw Hannibal. I won’t comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is obviously her being respectful of the movie and leaving her comments about what she thought the direction of the movie should have gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's been so much weird blood about the film. I wanted them to make their movie. I paid $7.50 to see it and you know, go with God. None of us [Foster, LAMBS director Jonathan Demme and writer Ted Tally) really commented on their parade, and no matter how much De Laurentiis commented on my parade, I wasn't going to start talking about him in the press.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mania.com/foster-finally-talks-hannibal-controversy_article_32748.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only guess anyone can take, is how Clarice developed in Hannibal as compared to Silence of the Lambs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did she not take the role? It is just as the quote you gave said, she was previously occupied with her own movie. When she says dignified, I think she is talking about the fact that she is proud of her project Flora Plum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T08:16:25.937" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T08:16:25.937" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="176" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="210" CreationDate="2011-12-02T23:33:13.797" Score="10" ViewCount="3883" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the opening scene we have Mark and Erica talking about knowledge of people in China, SAT and Mark's infatuation with getting into the Finals Club. How is this scene humorous? Someone told me they laughed but I cannot see the humor except for the awkwardness from Mark. But this humor I have incorporated into Mark as awkwardness that Jesse (the actor) is trying to portray as Mark. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in this re-do of the scene by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bI0aZKcxxY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Devin Rice and Lauren Hamrick&lt;/a&gt;, I don't see any humor at all. What I do see is the realistic layout of how a break-up occurs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the scene intended to be humorous? What elements/explanation shows how this could work? (subtleties in the script, surrounding atmosphere, camera positions or music)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-14T21:32:06.893" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T21:32:06.893" Title="Is the opening break-up scene in The Social Network intended to be humorous?" Tags="|analysis|the-social-network|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="177" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="178" CreationDate="2011-12-02T23:51:00.090" Score="9" ViewCount="1817" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the characters excluding Cobb and his wife, do not have very developed roles. The roles are actually shallow and it is at times hard to see the motivation behind characters to do what they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, to me, Arthur holds clutch for a few scenes in the movie but he has no back story to back up this motivation. Say for instance, Arthur was the brother of Cobb, instantly the audience can see his motivation. But despite of all of this, the movie is still good, viewers are still drawn in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what fills the void that we do not see left by underdeveloped characters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastActivityDate="2017-09-11T21:51:35.727" Title="What fills the void left by the lack of character development in Inception?" Tags="|analysis|inception|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="177" CreationDate="2011-12-03T00:09:54.090" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure I agree that the characters are any less developed that many broadly similar movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arthur is his partner - it is a professional business arrangement, he is being well paid to do this job.  Eames is also being paid, and decides in the first dream level that it is not worth the risk - so clearly he is only motivated by the money.  Yusuf is being paid twice to keep quiet about the dangers of the compounds he has made.  Ariadne is being paid, is also fascinated by her new powers as an architect and has started to develop concerns for Cobb and his sanity.  Saito is motivated by the power and money it will make his corporation.  Robert Fischer as 'the mark' has the most complete back-story outside of Cobb and Mal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this any different than other caper movies - Oceans Eleven, the Italian Job?  Inception is very polished and has a ton of subtext thrown in, but substantially the characters have no more or less backstory than other movies about professional criminals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion we are drawn in by a movie with very high standards of production, it looks great - the acting is good, the story is well paced and well explained despite its complexity, and we are drawn into the idea of double guessing whether Cobb is still in a dream or not at the end, and we don't quite know enough even at the end.  Best big budget Hollywood movie in some time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-16T14:46:12.930" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T14:46:12.930" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="142" CreationDate="2011-12-03T00:52:13.290" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's underestimation by Vincent really. Throughout the movie he continued to use Max as the cab driver on the assumption that there is nothing Max would try to do to injure Vincent. For example after shooting in the club incident, Vincent retained control by shooting the FBI agent and telling Max to get back in the car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lead up to Vincent's death shows him anxious to finish his last hit as well as maybe a little exhausted from the long night and trying to get on the back of the train. Also there was a short blackout right before Max and Vincent starting shooting at the door. It isn't clear whether the bullet that hit Max did indeed come from the window portion or metal portion of the door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all these factors included and allowing the audience to believe in a little luck, I think we can accept the scene as fair reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastActivityDate="2011-12-03T00:52:13.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="61" CreationDate="2011-12-03T01:31:49.253" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember that cat your parents took in for one week when you were a child?  Isn't it strange that it looks exactly like the kitten you've been raising down to the last stripe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't remember what that cat looked like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember my childhood best friend's face very well and I knew him for years.  Had I met him and known him for only a week I doubt I would even remember the details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't a plot hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="92" LastEditorUserId="92" LastEditDate="2015-07-14T15:56:42.557" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T15:56:42.557" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="181" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-03T14:36:46.047" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A series of movies based on the fictional British spy created by writer Ian Flemming in 1953.  This tag should be used when referring to Bond as a character or items that occur in the overall universe Ex: M, Moneypenny, gadgets, etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Use this tag when asking questions specifically about the franchise or characters within the franchise. If you're asking about a particular entry within the franchise, also include the appropriate tags (ie: &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/spectre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spectre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spectre&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Film tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/dr-no&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dr-no&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dr-no&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/from-russia-with-love&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;from-russia-with-love&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;from-russia-with-love&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/goldfinger&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;goldfinger&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;goldfinger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/thunderball&quot; 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rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;die-another-day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/casino-royale&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;casino-royale&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;casino-royale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/quantum-of-solace&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;quantum-of-solace&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;quantum-of-solace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/skyfall&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;skyfall&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;skyfall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/spectre&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;spectre&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;spectre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/no-time-to-die&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;no-time-to-die&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;no-time-to-die&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(literary_character)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for James Bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia list of James Bond movies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2020-03-30T21:18:48.460" LastActivityDate="2020-03-30T21:18:48.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="182" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-03T14:36:46.047" Score="0" Body="A British series of spy films based on the character of James Bond &quot;007&quot;, created by Ian Fleming. Use this tag when asking questions specifically about the franchise or characters within the franchise. If you're asking about a particular entry within the franchise, also include the appropriate tags (ie: skyfall, spectre, etc)" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T23:40:19.073" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T23:40:19.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="184" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-03T16:11:27.053" Score="0" Body="1999 movie written and directed by M. Night Shyamelan and starring Bruce Willis this movie is most famous for the plot twist revealed at the end of the story" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-04T07:16:19.940" LastActivityDate="2011-12-04T07:16:19.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="185" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-03T16:17:57.660" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-03T16:17:57.660" LastActivityDate="2011-12-03T16:17:57.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="186" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-03T16:17:57.660" Score="0" Body="Quentin Tarantino is most well known as an American movie director and screenwriter, with a distinctive style of dialog writing and non-linear storylines, his movie Pulp Fiction won the 1994 Palme d'Or award." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-04T07:16:21.623" LastActivityDate="2011-12-04T07:16:21.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="187" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-03T16:24:30.767" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Back to the Future&lt;/em&gt; (Part one of three) is a 1985 American adventure, comedy, sci-fi film, directed by Robert Zemeckis, and written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and more. It premiered in the USA on July 3, 1985.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full IMDb Storyline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the Eighties, is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean &quot;time machine&quot; invented by a slightly mad scientist. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time, Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be meet and fall in love - so he can get back to the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41249" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T06:45:11.257" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T06:45:11.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="188" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-03T16:24:30.767" Score="0" Body="Directed in 1985 by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd, the first of a trilogy of comedy adventure movies involving time-travel to different periods of a fictional Californian town." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-04T07:16:03.683" LastActivityDate="2011-12-04T07:16:03.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="189" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-03T16:27:18.950" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-03T16:27:18.950" LastActivityDate="2011-12-03T16:27:18.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="190" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-03T16:27:18.950" Score="0" Body="William Shakespeare (1564 to 1616) is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.  His plays have been adapted into movies since the beginning of the medium and his plots have influenced innumerable others." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-04T07:16:18.207" LastActivityDate="2011-12-04T07:16:18.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="191" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-03T16:29:36.417" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-03T16:29:36.417" LastActivityDate="2011-12-03T16:29:36.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="192" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-03T16:29:36.417" Score="0" Body="A 1927 German expressionist and science fiction movie directed by Fritz Lang, this was the most expensive silent movie ever made." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-04T07:16:13.947" LastActivityDate="2011-12-04T07:16:13.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="193" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-03T16:34:34.923" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-03T16:34:34.923" LastActivityDate="2011-12-03T16:34:34.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="194" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-03T16:34:34.923" Score="0" Body="Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980) was a British comedian and actor, appearing on both radio and movies.  He is most famous for his multi-role appearances in Dr Strangelove, and the Pink-Panther series." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-04T07:16:16.537" LastActivityDate="2011-12-04T07:16:16.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="195" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-03T16:37:11.513" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-03T16:37:11.513" LastActivityDate="2011-12-03T16:37:11.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="196" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-03T16:37:11.513" Score="0" Body="A 1982 science-fiction movie directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford.  Loosely based on Philip K. Dick novel 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-04T07:16:05.820" LastActivityDate="2011-12-04T07:16:05.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="197" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-03T16:40:27.373" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-03T16:40:27.373" LastActivityDate="2011-12-03T16:40:27.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="198" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-03T16:40:27.373" Score="0" Body="Used as a term to describe the entire income of a movie before any costs, it is often used to describe the financial success of of a movie or actor." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-04T07:16:08.300" LastActivityDate="2011-12-04T07:16:08.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="199" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-03T16:44:00.093" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;DVD is a digital optical disc storage format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than compact discs while having the same dimensions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When first invented in 1995, DVD was an initialism for the unofficial term &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;digital videodisk&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within the next few years, certain members of the DVD Forum proposed the backronym &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;digital versatile disc&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to express that DVD goes beyond video. However, according to Jim Taylor, a prominent industry figure, the forum never universally accepted this name and a 1999 report decreed that DVD was &quot;simply three letters&quot; and stood for &quot;nothing&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today, usage varies and there is no universal agreement. Digital versatile disc has gained wide acceptance and is used by the official DVD charter. However, others such as Toshiba (who maintain the DVD Forum Web site) still use the original digital video disc, while Jim Taylor’s FAQ still maintains that DVD has never officially stood for anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5941" LastEditorUserId="5941" LastEditDate="2013-09-03T05:02:31.687" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T05:02:31.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="200" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-03T16:44:00.093" Score="0" Body="Digital Versatile Disk, a digital storage format used, among other purposes, for distributing and collecting movies." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-04T07:16:10.313" LastActivityDate="2011-12-04T07:16:10.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="61" CreationDate="2011-12-03T17:12:10.057" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It doesn't matter&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His parents never mention the similarity in the movie because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Before the 1955 part of the  movie, it would be somewhat of a spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After the 1955 part of the movie, it might have worked, but it would have been &quot;cute dialog of convenience&quot; and not really realistic there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, if you accept the underlying premise of &lt;em&gt;Back to the Future&lt;/em&gt; which is that if key events stay more or less the same, the future will be unchanged, then you have to accept that whether his parents saw the similarity or not is irrelevant.  This is &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; news.  You can either choose to believe they never noticed a similarity, or you can choose to believe that at some point in Marty's alternate youth, his parents showed him a picture of this guy he bears an uncanny resemblance to, and none of them including alternate past Marty had any idea it actually &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; him yet, and then they went about the rest of their lives normally.  Whether either theory is correct is irrelevant, because according to the rules of the BTTF universe, it doesn't actually change anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-11-18T09:39:15.963" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T09:39:15.963" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="61" CreationDate="2011-12-03T19:52:04.807" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose the parents did notice the similarity. What would the chances be that they noticed exactly in the '85 time frames the movie shows? Nil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2011-12-03T19:52:04.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="203" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="204" CreationDate="2011-12-03T21:18:11.310" Score="19" ViewCount="17285" Body="&lt;p&gt;I try to remember a movie I saw long time ago on TV. It must be at the beginning of the 90s, possibly the end of the 80s. The movie might be older though. It was something about a scientist researching and experimenting with ants. I think the ants got intelligent, but I'm not sure about this. If I recall it right, in the end the ants took over the world, or only the lab. Sorry, that's all a little bit cloudy. My memory is not the best about this, that's why I need your help to get the name of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T17:39:42.500" LastActivityDate="2016-09-12T14:04:03.667" Title="What is the name of this movie with (intelligent?) ants?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:30:22.120" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="203" CreationDate="2011-12-03T22:08:59.707" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a number of science fiction movies involving ants, and based on your memory, it might be a challenge to determine if it was truly a made-for-tv-movie...or just a very old movie that happened to be broadcast one night on the tube. Nevertheless, the closest matches to your description are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070531/&quot;&gt;Phase IV&lt;/a&gt; (1974)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076214/&quot;&gt;It Happened at Lakewood Manor / Panic at Lakewood Manor / Ants&lt;/a&gt; (1977) - This one was specifically made for TV.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/&quot;&gt;Them!&lt;/a&gt; (1955) - You'd know if it was this--it was black and white.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2011-12-03T22:08:59.707" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="205" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="211" CreationDate="2011-12-04T03:35:12.027" Score="33" ViewCount="2049" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe someone who read the homonymous book that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099810/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hunt for Red October&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is based on can answer this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The officers of the Red October (except for the doctor) simulated a reactor failure and leak of radiation to force the crew to abandon the ship. But, considering it was a nuclear submarine, there should be a lot of dosimeters (radiation sensors) available to detect that there was no radiation leak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how did they simulate the leak?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="151" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-13T20:40:35.577" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T16:23:20.807" Title="How was the nuclear reactor failure simulated?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hunt-for-red-october|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="61" CreationDate="2011-12-04T04:46:55.107" Score="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a definitive answer to one part of this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it likely that the producers simply overlooked this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. It was intentionally removed from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/back_to_the_future_original_draft.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the original draft&lt;/a&gt;. (Obviously this version is fairly different)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the original ending of the script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;INSERT – CLIPPING A story with the headline, “Police Quell Near Riot At School Dance,” along with a photo of the dance that shows Marty on stage!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;GEORGE stares at the photo, then shakes his head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;GEORGE Nah. Couldn’t be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2011-12-04T05:04:45.947" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="176" CreationDate="2011-12-04T10:37:35.373" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having inside-depth knowledge nor references, I do not think the opening scene is intended to be humorous. To my opinion, the opening sequence serves foremost as an introduction to Mark's character and his intelligence, but at secondary level as a preview to the audience to what is be expected, namely the rapid pace of conversation and mind-switching. It is saying: &quot;Pay attention!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people label parts of it as being humorous, but that is just individual taste. This scene's calling up of different emotions is evidence of Aaron Sorkin's superb writing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="251" LastEditDate="2011-12-13T18:03:29.667" LastActivityDate="2011-12-13T18:03:29.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="205" CreationDate="2011-12-04T15:20:47.010" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short, it isn't simulated. It is a real but small leak, and in addition they exaggerate its size by tampering with the wearable dose-badges that the crew wear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book, someone makes a small radiation leak by drilling a small hole through a thread of a connector in some part of the cooling system.  There is only enough pressure to leak when the reactor is fully powered up to run the engines. The radiation detectors near the reactor have also been disabled so that the leak isn't revealed immediately while they are still close to the USSR.  Its left unsaid, but you are meant to presume this has been done by the Chief Engineer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, another member of the conspiracy tampered with the radiation badges (by exposing them to an X-Ray machine in the doctor's surgery).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few days into the plot the doctor (who is not part of the conspiracy) routinely collects the badges and photographically develops them - and discovers that they show that a leak has occurred.  This is part of the plan to unsettle the crew, and provide an excuse for unexpected behavior from the captain.  There really is a leak, but the conspirers have made it appear bigger than it really is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially the conspiring officers send some middle ranking engineers to find the leak with a hand-held detector, and they cannot because the reactor is powered down and the steam from the cooling system isn't under enough pressure to leak - so the non-conspirators do not know whether there is a leak or not, perhaps the dose badges are faulty or someone has deliberately exposed the badges to radiation. So they power up the reactor and continue the journey to Cuba.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is only later in the plot that the small leak has been running long enough to trigger a detector further forward in the submarine.  At this point the Chief Engineer joins in the search for the leak and 'discovers' how the leak was made and fixes it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By this time the crew is very unsettled by the leak even though the levels of radiation are low. So the leak has performed its purpose by the time it is fixed, promotes rumors of sabotage, and sets the scene for them using the reactor as an excuse to do whatever is needed later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it was important to the conspirators to have this take a few days to work through, as this kept the crew busy and worried, but that it was eventually found and fixed.  An uncontrolled leak would have given the conspirators only few possible plausible courses of action, and at this stage they do not know how events will work out.  So they manage to engineer a situation where they can use the reactor as an excuse if necessary, but only if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The book is quite long and includes all this detail - a lot of this is left out of the movie obviously, but the principle of the plot is still the same - the officers engineer a deliberate leak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T16:23:20.807" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T16:23:20.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="214" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="639" CreationDate="2011-12-05T00:09:57.687" Score="9" ViewCount="2066" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying to remember the name of a movie where there is a group of soldiers from the reserve (or health backup? but there is indeed a doctor/paramedic guy in the group). They go out in rotation (I think for up 60 days). The only scene I do remember is that they are out of ammo on one side of a hill (small sandy slope). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other side are the enemies who are either talking around a pickup truck or trying to fix it. The enemies hear a noise from the hill and decide to inspect it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reserve soldiers notice this and since they out of ammo, the big group of them (I think they are up 7 soldiers) decide to pull their combat knives and attack the enemies the moment they come over the hill. So for next few minutes we have multiple 1 on 1 battles with combat knives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I place the intensity of the scene just below that of American GI versus the German soldier in saving Private Ryan. Except the Americans actually win this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Location? Maybe Iraq war but don't put too much concentration on this or I may lead you off track.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Timeline? The movie most likely came out after 2000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2011-12-05T03:36:59.247" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T18:40:13.663" Title="Movie about army reserve soldiers on rotation and they are stranded with combat knives" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:33:19.890" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="51" CreationDate="2011-12-05T02:34:17.847" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, their relationship never worked out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="166" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T02:34:17.847" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="217" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="259" CreationDate="2011-12-05T06:13:43.650" Score="6" ViewCount="719" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin%3a_Spirits_of_the_Past&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Origin: Spirits of the Past&lt;/a&gt;, Toola at the beginning receives a (what can only be called) a phonecall which she doesn't end up answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From memory, Shunack claims he didn't make the call, but did he really make the call or is this Gonzo's attempt at saying their are possible others, or could it have been the forest itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2018-07-24T19:55:27.400" LastActivityDate="2018-07-25T14:05:19.287" Title="Origin: Spirits of the Past - Any ideas on who makes the 'phone call'" Tags="|plot-explanation|origin-spirits-of-past|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="218" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="241" CreationDate="2011-12-05T08:04:30.790" Score="13" ViewCount="6921" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the start Erica tells Mark&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;But you’re going to go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won’t be true. It’ll be because you’re an asshole.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end Marilyn tells Mark&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You’re not an asshole, Mark. You’re just trying so hard to be.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Mark waits on the reply from Erica and continuously refreshes the page, does this indicate that he believes that he can discount Erica's insult to him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2018-07-24T19:55:06.930" LastActivityDate="2018-07-24T19:55:06.930" Title="Ending of Social Network" Tags="|analysis|ending|the-social-network|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="308" CreationDate="2011-12-05T08:07:19.087" Score="5" ViewCount="447" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mark stays near the back of his Operating Systems class. He receives a note in class that is passed to him from the front. He then storms out and answers the professor's question accurately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Rt2_9d7Jg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Youtube clip of the scene&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/-3Rt2_9d7Jg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do these actions funnel into the narrative of his Asperger's and introvert outcast nature as someone who's a total jerk with no social chemistry?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-02T22:36:09.703" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T22:36:09.703" Title="Mark's development of character in Operating Systems" Tags="|character|the-social-network|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="220" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="221" CreationDate="2011-12-05T08:27:10.513" Score="11" ViewCount="655" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Reservoir Dogs, Mr. Orange (Freddy) switches guns between the bar scene and the killing of the woman in her car, indicating his loss of sense of self once he understands the consequences of his actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this switch the first sign of his character heading down a path that cannot be undone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-06-21T12:12:34.783" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T17:53:20.723" Title="Was Mr. Orange switching guns between scenes the first indication of a character shift?" Tags="|plot-explanation|reservoir-dogs|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="220" CreationDate="2011-12-05T09:21:19.627" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen Reservoir Dogs a lot of times, and I recently read a book that dissected most of Tarantino's movies, but it's never come to my attention that he even switched guns. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing Tarantino's work I'd say that it's entirely possible this is in fact a hint, or even a metaphor. Then again, this was his first full-feature movie and it might just as well be a continuity error. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I can't even find it among IMDB's 'goofs' for Reservoir Dogs. I might have to re-watch the movie to see the difference in guns. To be continued.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Reservoir_Dogs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This page offers some insight in the guns used in Reservoir Dogs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T17:53:20.723" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T17:53:20.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="222" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="238" CreationDate="2011-12-05T09:47:43.783" Score="50" ViewCount="48008" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Kill Bill, why does the colour keep shifting from standard colour to black and white? Is it to keep the gross levels down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user96" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-30T02:46:50.080" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T05:43:01.613" Title="Kill Bill colour changes to Black and White" Tags="|film-techniques|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="226" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="243" CreationDate="2011-12-05T10:27:48.023" Score="44" ViewCount="3136" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the ending of &lt;em&gt;The Shining&lt;/em&gt;, the camera slowly zooms into a photo and closes into a person who resembles Jack Nicholson (or is it him?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this scene depict? How does it relate to the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user96" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2018-07-24T19:54:05.977" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T08:43:57.373" Title="What does the scene during the ending represent?" Tags="|analysis|ending|the-shining|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="222" CreationDate="2011-12-05T10:29:15.200" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I don't think it got anything to do with &quot;gross level&quot; - maybe the blood is not red, but body parts still fly around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My own common sense tells me the goal of this technique is to put more focus on those scenes, draw the viewer attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way those scenes are also much more &quot;artistic&quot; and give the movie whole new layer.. many times those things make the difference between &quot;just another movie&quot; and a cult movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Couldn't find any official explanation, so I stick with the above two reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T10:29:15.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="228" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="234" CreationDate="2011-12-05T10:42:55.660" Score="12" ViewCount="2670" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie adaptation of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245844/&quot;&gt;The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)&lt;/a&gt;, Edmond Dantès lands at Elba, kills some British soldiers and knowingly accepts a letter from Napoleon Bonaparte. Whereas in the book he doesn't accept the letter directly from Napoleon and has no reason to believe it has anything to do with Napoleon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me having this scene at Elba was unnecessary (in more ways than one), it makes it hard to believe that he was just naive and does the meaning of his betrayal by Mondego and Danglars. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To put it in a more modern context, had a terrorist leader passed him a letter which was said to contain a letter to family but actually contained plans for an attack, then Mondego and Danglars would be considered heroes and Edmond's quest for revenge would not be justified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, can Edmond Dantès really be considered innocent of treason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2018-07-24T19:53:45.820" LastActivityDate="2018-07-25T20:12:36.490" Title="Was Edmond Dantès Actually a Traitor?" Tags="|character|the-count-of-monte-cristo|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="229" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="253" CreationDate="2011-12-05T11:21:22.940" Score="13" ViewCount="2665" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Hindi movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rab_Ne_Bana_Di_Jodi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'Taani' (Anushka Sharma) can not identify the 'Suri' (Sharukh Khan)&#xA;  until 'Suri' reveals the truth himself, This is kind of unbelievable&#xA;  and impractical as both 'Taani' &amp;amp; 'Suri' live in same house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think the fact that not being able to identify 'Suri' by 'Taani'&#xA;is giving any message to viewers or it is just a simple Bollywood story &#xA;and we should not try to understand it deeply, because there are so many other things in the same movie which may seem unbelievable or unrealistic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T21:19:48.497" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T21:19:48.497" Title="Unrealistic story in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi" Tags="|plot-explanation|rab-ne-bana-di-jodi|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="230" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-05T14:38:13.513" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-05T14:38:13.513" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T14:38:13.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="231" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-05T14:38:13.513" Score="0" Body="2010 movie directed by David Fincher and starring Jesse Eisenberg which charts the litigation surrounding the birth of Facebook" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-05T14:58:08.150" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T14:58:08.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="232" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-05T14:41:58.513" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of the dramatic structure of a movie, under Freytag's analysis of drama could include the falling action and resolution acts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T09:03:49.230" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T09:03:49.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="233" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-05T14:41:58.513" Score="0" Body="The concluding/final part of a movie/tv show." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T09:03:49.230" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T09:03:49.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="228" CreationDate="2011-12-05T14:44:50.787" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched the movie you have said. Yes, Edmond does accept the letter, but considering the time-frame (its not a modern movie in a modern society), I think Edmond cannot be considered a traitor. In those time, treason, bravery, etc. were highly valued.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the movie itself, adding that letter-taking part creates more tension among the viewers and questions the character of Edmond Dantes. So I think its necessary and Edmond cannot be wholly considered a traitor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T14:44:50.787" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="235" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-05T14:46:43.433" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-05T14:46:43.433" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T14:46:43.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="236" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-05T14:46:43.433" Score="0" Body="A group of comedians formed in 1969 working first on television before turning to movies. They are most famous for 1979's, at the time controversial, 'Life of Brian'.  Members of the group have gone on to write, direct or star-in many subsequent movies." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-05T14:58:06.700" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T14:58:06.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="237" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="422" CreationDate="2011-12-05T14:52:39.927" Score="25" ViewCount="3381" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched Christopher Nolan's Memento more than once and I still can't get the real thing that happened. Yes I get that the movie is shown backwards, but it really confuses me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that Leonard Shelby has amnesia which makes him unable to keep new memories. What is the key detail in Mr. Shelby that I should be looking for to understand the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqW9fnkhqrs&quot;&gt;ending scene&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-10T12:58:09.017" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T12:58:09.017" Title="What detail should I be looking for in Leonard in Memento to determine the plot?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|memento|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="222" CreationDate="2011-12-05T15:50:49.140" Score="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kill Bill is basically a &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/19469447&quot;&gt;homage to dozens of films&lt;/a&gt; from the past, which were generally shown in black &amp;amp; white on television to cut down on the gore. The same happened to Kill Bill to be able to achieve an R rating and be released in theatres.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266697/trivia&quot;&gt;trivia section&lt;/a&gt; confirms this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The black and white photography is ultimately an homage to '70s and '80s US television airings of kung fu movies. Black and white (as well as black and red), were used to conceal the shedding of blood from television censors. Originally, no black and white photographic effects were going to be used (and in the Japanese version none are), but the MPAA demanded measures be taken to tone the scene down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T15:50:49.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="240" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="355" CreationDate="2011-12-05T16:27:18.577" Score="10" ViewCount="1655" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Simpsons episode, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinner%27s_Sense_of_Snow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Skinner's Sense of Snow&lt;/a&gt; there is an imaginary film called, &quot;The Christmas That Almost Wasn't, But Then Was&quot;. The movie was set in Santa's workshop, and featured Christmas hobgoblins and Little Bo Peep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vzQ4l.png&quot; alt=&quot;black and white cartoon with three kids in identical clothes&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a parody of a real movie? I saw there was a film called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Christmas_That_Almost_Wasn%27t&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Christmas that Almost Wasn't&lt;/a&gt;, although the plot seemed entirely different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:13:52.340" LastActivityDate="2017-03-16T16:13:52.340" Title="Is the movie in Skinner's Sense of Snow based off a real film?" Tags="|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="218" CreationDate="2011-12-05T17:16:17.093" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you mean if Mark with all his current might, money and status suspects to be able to turn Erica around on that point, then I think no, he does not believe that. He knows she is far too honest. However, I do think that he sincerely believes Erica still being capable of becoming friends with him, whether she changed her opinion or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I must admit the ending has a nice touch and it indeed raises this very question to the audience. But I am pretty sure this is just a nice side effect of Marilyn's comment because the film makers had to add a &lt;em&gt;Mark is nice&lt;/em&gt;-element as requested by the real Zuckerberg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="148" LastEditDate="2011-12-05T21:50:43.640" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T21:50:43.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="242" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="531" CreationDate="2011-12-05T19:03:10.373" Score="60" ViewCount="68299" Body="&lt;p&gt;I partially understand Jules' ending monologue at the end of &lt;em&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/em&gt;, although the full meaning doesn't click for me. What is he trying to say in simple terms?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jules: Well there's this passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. &quot;The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.&quot; I been sayin' that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never gave much thought what it meant. I just thought it was some cold-blooded shit to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass. I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. See now I'm thinkin', maybe it means you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9 Milimeter here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could mean you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. Now I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be a shepherd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2018-11-05T15:12:00.170" LastActivityDate="2018-11-05T15:12:00.170" Title="Explanation of Jules' ending monologue" Tags="|plot-explanation|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="226" CreationDate="2011-12-05T19:35:09.217" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per director &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/interview.ts.html&quot;&gt;Stanley Kubrick&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The ballroom photograph at the very end suggests the reincarnation of Jack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does it relate to the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sort of echoes the &quot;You’ve always been the caretaker.&quot; line earlier in the film, which suggests something along the lines that his soul is perpetually stuck at/destined to end up at that hotel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2011-12-05T19:41:39.013" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T19:41:39.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="242" CreationDate="2011-12-05T20:26:29.553" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are three explanations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See now I'm thinkin', maybe it means you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9 Milimeter here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The kid is led astray, Jules is on right path and his gun (and the idea of being killed) is the item preventing him from going off his path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or it could mean you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The kid didn't do anything wrong and it Jules' boss and to an extent the system of drugs and money that is evil and selfish. But why would Jules be in the room in first place if the kid didn't do anything wrong. Jules wants that. Jules want to lead everyone to path of righteousness. He doesn't necessarily want to kill him. But it is his job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes the most sense. Jules is the oppressive power of his boss and the kid without the firepower or money is the weak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, Jules instead of killing him on the spot remarks at the significance of choice within the valley of darkness (the world) to be the shepherd, the righteous or the evil man. And in some cases, the evil man comes out on top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastActivityDate="2011-12-05T20:26:29.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="245" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-05T22:01:29.310" Score="5" ViewCount="868" Body="&lt;p&gt;The teaser on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7dKpHC0zJ4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt; as well as on &lt;a href=&quot;http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/thegirlwiththedragontattoo/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Apple Trailers&lt;/a&gt; shows many short scenes quickly. It especially repeats a drive along a long snow covered road towards a white house. Seeing that the original &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Girl with the Dragon Tattoo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Män som hatar kvinnor) came out in 2009 and the book in 2005&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The teaser (based on Apple's site) was posted on 6/02/11.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The official trailer came about three months after on 09/22/11.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The movie releases on 12/21/11.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the unique selling point for this teaser within those three months before the trailer was released? That is, how is Columbia Pictures using these elements in the teaser to get in proper recognition in the marketplace of its genre?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T10:09:12.690" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T10:09:12.690" Title="What is the unique selling point in the The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Official Teaser?" Tags="|millennium-trilogy|trailers|the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="246" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="247" CreationDate="2011-12-05T22:57:06.110" Score="39" ViewCount="8296" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club_%28film%29&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fight Club&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1999), the narrator (often referred to as &quot;Jack&quot;) struggles to keep up with and understand his alter-ego's actions and motives. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one scene, he loses his head and pounds the daylights out of a blond-headed man who had recently received Tyler's praise. Tyler reacts somewhere between disgust and surprise at this behavior, asking him &quot;Where'd you go psycho boy?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly after this, Jack stops being aware of his alter-ego at all, perceived by him as Tyler leaving. What is the significance of this scene? Is Jack jealous over the praise the other man received? Is there another explanation? Does Jack secretly want to be Tyler?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user35" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T14:57:03.653" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T14:57:03.653" Title="What is the significance of the narrator's fight and Tyler Durden's subsequent actions?" Tags="|fight-club|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="246" CreationDate="2011-12-06T00:27:08.413" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears to me that the narrator is becoming jealous of Tyler's relationship with others in Project Mayhem, and that this results in his explosive burst of anger in the fight.  He also expresses some desire to break something beautiful - he perceives both Tyler and the blond to be more attractive than himself.  However, I am not entirely sure I can link the fight with the events following where Tyler appears to go on lots of trips.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is easier to link this with the fact that he perceives that his own importance is being increasingly diminished.  He founded Fight Club with Tyler, but Project Mayhem is much more Tyler's idea and the group looks more to Tyler.  So his jealousy towards the blond haired guy is secondary in my mind to his desire to me more involved in the leadership of Project Mayhem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tyler is increasingly becoming everything that the narrator is not - charismatic, attractive, uninhibited, powerful .... and the narrator is becoming increasingly bitter and jealous about this.  It is almost like as Tyler becomes more the opposite of the narrator the less the two are able to perceive each other, and one inhabits the other half of the day from each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T00:27:08.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="248" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="251" CreationDate="2011-12-06T00:28:26.350" Score="19" ViewCount="1978" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code&quot;&gt;Source Code&lt;/a&gt; (2011), At the beginning of the movie, Capt. Stevens looks in the train bathroom mirror and sees Sean Fentress, a teacher, who's identity he has been assigned within the Source Code. However, to himself, he still appears to be Capt. Coulter Stevens, due to his physical mind projecting himself into his Source Code consciousness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his last &quot;mission&quot; into the Source Code, Capt. Stevens successfully established an alternate timeline. There is a brief scene at the end, showing him and Christina in front of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Gate&quot;&gt;Cloud Gate&lt;/a&gt;. As the camera pans away, the viewer can see that Capt. Steven's reflection shows that of Sean Fentress, as it did in the train. However, in the final scene, Capt. Goodwin is shown looking at Stevens' mutilated body, indicating that Stevens still exists as an Air Force officer in the alternate timeline. If Stevens truly created an alternate history in which he is Sean Fentress, why are his appearance and reflection still at odds? He is no longer &quot;plugged in&quot;, and in a real sense no longer has any connection to the Stevens in the new timeline (who is back in the facility). At that point, Stevens' consciousness is back at the lab in his body. Fentress is not Stevens-in-Fentress, he's just Fentress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user35" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-05-21T00:00:18.143" LastActivityDate="2012-05-21T00:00:18.143" Title="Why doesn't the reflection match the man?" Tags="|plot-explanation|source-code|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="249" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1933" CreationDate="2011-12-06T00:28:51.207" Score="5" ViewCount="380" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Cowboy Bebop, after the battle on the monorail, Spike is thrown off and almost dies. When he revives he says that Vincent and him have similar souls and that he must confront him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this so? What qualities do Vincent and Spike share for him to say such a statement?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-04T15:59:27.593" LastActivityDate="2013-06-04T15:59:27.593" Title="Why are Vincent's and Spike's souls similar?" Tags="|cowboy-bebop|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="250" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="254" CreationDate="2011-12-06T00:58:53.523" Score="8" ViewCount="380" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone recognize this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is set around 50s/60s in I'm guessing New York. There are a few kids that caught a police officer with two young prostitutes (I believe it was on the roof of some building) so they blackmail him. They would commit small crimes (e.g. steal) and the police officer would overlook those crimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is all I saw from the movie, I would like to see the whole thing but can't find the name anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorUserId="11" LastEditDate="2011-12-06T16:39:44.343" LastActivityDate="2012-11-08T09:53:17.097" Title="What is this 60's movie about small &quot;mafia&quot;?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:33:23.067" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="248" CreationDate="2011-12-06T01:15:42.653" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR&lt;/strong&gt; Stevens's consciousness is transferred to Fentress's body. For the sake of story telling consistency, the audience always sees Stevens's face, but we see the reflection of Fentress to show us this is how he appears to the people in the flashbacks/alternate timelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key piece to understanding the movie is that Source Code works differently than intended.  This is fully explained at the very end in the email that Stevens sends to Goodwin:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you're reading this email then Source Code works even better than you and Dr. Rutledge imagined. You thought you were creating 8 minutes of a past event, but you're not. You've created a whole new world. Goodwin, if I'm right, somewhere at the Source Code facility, you have a Capt. Colter Stevens waiting to send on a mission. Promise me you'll help him. And when you do, do me a favor. Tell him everything is going to be okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So every time Stevens &quot;flashes back&quot;, his consciousness is really just jumping into another reality, and landing in Fentress's body.  In all but the final case, when Fentress dies, Stevens's consciousness returns to Stevens's body in the original time line. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before or after Stevens's body is taken off life support is irrelevant to Stevens's identity in the alternate time lines.  His body being taken off life support only means that when Fentress dies, Stevens's consciousness will have nowhere to &quot;return&quot;; so Stevens's consciousness would effectively die then, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2011-12-06T06:44:29.233" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T06:44:29.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="248" CreationDate="2011-12-06T01:22:45.767" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's say we are going with the assumption that the alternative timeline does exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time Captain Stevens jumps into the &quot;Source Code&quot; (or in this case the alternate timeline), he jumps in as Sean Fentress. To anyone else in this timeline, he is Sean Fentress. To the audience he is Stevens acting as Sean Fentress. The audience is seeing the scene through Captain Stevens' perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last mission timeline is as follows (where A is the first timeline, B is the generated)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;A.Fentress -----------------------------------------|&#xA;A.Stevens  ------(1)-------(2)---------(5)          |&#xA;A.Vera     ----------------------------(4)----------|&#xA;____________________________________________________|&#xA;____________________________________________________|&#xA;B.Fentress ------(1)-------(2)---(3)---(6)----------|&#xA;B.Stevens  -------------------------------------(1')|&#xA;B.Vera     --------------------------------(7)------|&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) Stevens becomes Fentress in B timeline&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(2) Stevens disarms the bomb in B timeline&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(3) Stevens sends the email in B timline&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(4) Vera unplugs Steven in A timeline&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(5) Stevens is dead in A timeline&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(6) Stevens kiss Christina in B timeline&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(7) Vera receives the email in B timeline  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reflection we are seeing is no different from the first time we saw the reflection. Stevens has jumped into Sean's character/body/mind. For the whole they showed us to him as Captain Miller. Thus if there is any discontinuity it would have to be at 4,5,6. In this scene we &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have seen Sean Fentress displayed but we still ending up seeing Stevens (even after he was unplugged).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T01:22:45.767" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="229" CreationDate="2011-12-06T03:08:30.897" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you put it, its just a &quot;simple Bollywood story&quot;. You should not read too much into it. Many of the film sequences (particularly the lavish song sets) also defy logic, but that's just what a typical Shahrukh Khan movie looks like. Personally I think that its just sad that script is the last thing in the minds of Hindi movie makers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="89" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T03:08:30.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="250" CreationDate="2011-12-06T03:28:35.393" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a long time since I saw it, but it sounds a bit like the beginning part of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087843/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Once Upon a Time in America&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. But it's set a bit earlier (20s/30s) and I'm really unsure and should rather recheck the scene you mentioned but this was the first image coming to my mind when reading your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-11-08T09:53:17.097" LastActivityDate="2012-11-08T09:53:17.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="255" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-06T04:50:21.193" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;1999 movie directed by David Fincher based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, starring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham-Carter, about two men creating an underground fight club.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Links&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Poster&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/13ANr.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/13ANr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Fight Club&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34492" LastEditorUserId="34492" LastEditDate="2017-01-24T17:33:09.590" LastActivityDate="2017-01-24T17:33:09.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="256" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-06T04:50:21.193" Score="0" Body="1999 movie directed by David Fincher based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, starring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham-Carter" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-06T07:16:29.507" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T07:16:29.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="257" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-06T04:54:57.563" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-06T04:54:57.563" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T04:54:57.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="258" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-06T04:54:57.563" Score="0" Body="British film director most well known in the suspense and psychological thriller genre, he was a prolific film maker over six decades and pioneered many techniques." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-06T07:16:31.973" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T07:16:31.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="217" CreationDate="2011-12-06T06:38:38.367" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shunack did indeed make the call. Somehow he was able to detect that her Raban was active (possibly when she used it to open that door to escape the water). Notice that Shunack knows before Minka makes it aware to the soldiers of Toola's presence in the restaurant/bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Toola talks to Agito's father she wanders off (on her way to the forest?) and is &lt;em&gt;somehow&lt;/em&gt; encountered by Shunack. Seeing that he had more than one Raban, I can only guess that he made previous attempts to open E.S.T.O.C. with the Rabans found on the dead bodies in the cryogenic pods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2011-12-06T22:22:10.123" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T22:22:10.123" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="260" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="311" CreationDate="2011-12-06T09:11:42.710" Score="29" ViewCount="5266" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does &lt;em&gt;Elm&lt;/em&gt; depict in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street&quot;&gt;A Nightmare on Elm Street&lt;/a&gt;? Does &lt;em&gt;Elm tree&lt;/em&gt; represent something bad in the horror context?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-03-26T18:19:30.490" LastActivityDate="2019-03-26T18:19:30.490" Title="Why is it 'Elm' in 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'?" Tags="|a-nightmare-on-elm-street|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="261" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="262" CreationDate="2011-12-06T09:15:02.627" Score="35" ViewCount="52104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched &lt;em&gt;Se7en&lt;/em&gt; and followed Gluttony, Greed, Sloth and Lust. But I couldn't place the events of the other sins: Envy, Wrath and Pride.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; And also is the scene in which the head of a woman (detective's wife?) is brought, connected to any of these scenes in some way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please provide some light on these. I am really confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorUserId="105" LastEditDate="2011-12-06T15:28:26.980" LastActivityDate="2021-09-28T02:32:23.637" Title="What happened to the last of the sins in Se7en?" Tags="|analysis|plot-explanation|se7en|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="261" CreationDate="2011-12-06T09:22:11.157" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Envy is killing the wife of the policeman. As mentioned on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Doe claims to represent the sin of &quot;Envy&quot;; he was jealous of Mills' normal life, and killed Tracy after failing to &quot;play husband&quot; with her...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wrath is the policeman killing the murderer. I can't remember pride, I should re-watch it to spot it but the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; page states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some time later, they investigate the death of a young model whose&#xA;  face had been mutilated. Having chosen to kill herself rather than&#xA;  live with a disfigured face, she is the victim of &quot;Pride&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of the movie was that the killer used the detective to complete the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T08:02:26.230" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T08:02:26.230" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="260" CreationDate="2011-12-06T09:24:55.680" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always seen it as just a very generic suburban name. There's a complete difference in tone and setting between (for example) A Nightmare on 5th Ave, A Nightmare in the Bronx, and a nightmare in peaceful suburbia. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my knowledge there's nothing deeper to it, and my guess is that it just helps set the tone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T09:24:55.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="260" CreationDate="2011-12-06T10:58:36.433" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street#Development&quot;&gt;wiki page&lt;/a&gt; says that maybe a 1968 student film project made by students of Craven's at Clarkson University inspired the movies. The student film parodied contemporary horror movies, and was filmed along Elm Street in Potsdam, New York.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if it's true or not, maybe it was just for the tone, like Stephan Muller said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T10:58:36.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="269" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-06T13:59:04.057" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-06T13:59:04.057" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T13:59:04.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="270" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-06T13:59:04.057" Score="0" Body="A sub-genre of thriller, heavily focused on characters and the mind.  May overlap with the mystery or horror genre." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-06T16:39:53.283" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T16:39:53.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="271" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-06T14:03:12.463" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A broad genre of fiction and movies exploring imaginary but non-supernatural ideas such as future settings, the impact of a technology, space flight and alien worlds and creatures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be used on questions pertaining to the genre of science-fiction in general, not for questions about individual movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Science fiction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2018-01-03T17:11:38.060" LastActivityDate="2018-01-03T17:11:38.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="272" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-06T14:03:12.463" Score="0" Body="A broad genre of fiction and movies exploring imaginary but non-supernatural ideas. To be used on questions pertaining to the genre of science-fiction in general, not for questions about individual movies." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2018-01-03T17:11:38.060" LastActivityDate="2018-01-03T17:11:38.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="273" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-06T14:07:44.160" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-06T14:07:44.160" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T14:07:44.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="274" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-06T14:07:44.160" Score="0" Body="1990 thriller directed by John McTiernan and starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin.  Based on the novel by Tom Clancy, a Russian nuclear armed submarine commander disobeys orders and charts a course for the coast of the USA." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-06T16:39:51.223" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T16:39:51.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="275" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-06T14:56:40.983" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-06T14:56:40.983" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T14:56:40.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="276" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-06T14:56:40.983" Score="0" Body="Informal term for the Indian movie industry, based in Mumbai and formerly known as Bombay." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-06T16:39:48.930" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T16:39:48.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="278" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1004" CreationDate="2011-12-06T18:55:49.473" Score="14" ViewCount="882" Body="&lt;p&gt;Around 0.02.24 (hh.mm.ss) into this movie there's a close-up of the picture just drawn by Gail Beechum (daughter visiting her father Frank on death row. It's just your bog-standard green field, fence on the horizon, and a blue sky with a sun and four birds. It's clearly signed &quot;GAIL&quot; in childish scrawl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've seen the same picture earlier in the visit, at 0.48.12, before Gail has coloured in the field. She'd dropped her green crayon in the parking lot, and the movie uses this to show how solicitous the prison staff are (they go and find the crayon during the visit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Immediately after that first sight of the picture, we cut to Evert (Clint) interviewing a witness in a cafe, where the cafe wall has a mural of much the same picture (not signed, so far as I can see, but not apparently a child's work). I can understand this as just a fairly meaningless &quot;linking device&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later Evert searches the apartment of Michelle (his journalist colleague who died in a car accident at the start of the movie). At 1.29.09, Michelle's friend produces a very similar picture (again, crayon-drawn green field and blue sky, but this one has a couple of &quot;stick people&quot; and no sun or birds). This second picture is clearly signed &quot;GAIL&quot; in the same hand, probably with the same actual crayon as the first, but the friend says it's something Michelle herself drew when she was a child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within the context of the story, I suppose it's feasible Michelle might have visited Beechum before she died, at a time when his daughter was also there. But it would stretch credulity to suppose Gail gave an earlier picture to some journalist in such circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What possible rationale could be involved here? Is it just a complete lapse by whoever was responsible for continuity? I just don't see how several people working on the film could fail to notice, but I can't figure out why it would be done deliberately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170" LastEditorUserId="170" LastEditDate="2012-09-11T02:18:13.317" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T02:18:13.317" Title="Kid's pictures in Clint Eastwood's True Crime (1999)" Tags="|analysis|film-techniques|clint-eastwood|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="279" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-06T19:21:00.990" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comedy&lt;/strong&gt; is a genre of film that uses &lt;em&gt;humor&lt;/em&gt; as a driving force. The &lt;em&gt;aim&lt;/em&gt; of a comedy film is to &lt;em&gt;illicit laughter&lt;/em&gt; from the audience through entertaining &lt;em&gt;stories and characters&lt;/em&gt;. Although a comedy film may take on some serious material, most have a happy ending. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comedy film has the tendency to become a hybrid &lt;strong&gt;sub-genre&lt;/strong&gt; because humor can be incorporated into many other genres, listed below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anarchic Comedy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a sub-genre of comedy that uses stream-of-consciousness humor. The humor in these films tends to be nonsensical with exaggerated characters and situations. Anarchic film often uses slapstick tendencies, yet is considered to be less psychically violent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Examples&lt;/em&gt;: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, Animal House.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Action-Comedy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this sub-genre combines action with humor. Action-Comedy relies on the characters to bring out the humor, while the action scenes tend to be less intense than in the traditional action movie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Examples&lt;/em&gt;: Beverly Hills Cop, Rush Hour, Hot Fuzz.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Black-Comedy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a sub-genre of both Comedy and Satire. These films often explore concepts and topics that are considered taboo. Black Comedy takes topics and situations that are commonly held as serious and explores them in a comical way. Because of this approach, Black Comedies often cause the audience to laugh and feel uncomfortable simultaneously.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Examples&lt;/em&gt;: Fargo, Harold and Maude, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Horror-Comedy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Combines comedy with traditional horror movie themes and characters. Because of the subject matter, Horror-Comedy films can cross over into the Black Comedy sub-genre. Horror-Comedy films aim to scare the audience, but also provide comical outlets that let the audience laugh at their fear.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Examples&lt;/em&gt;: Beetlejuice, Zombieland, Shaun of the Dead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dramedy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a genre that has a dramatic tone, yet has important elements of comedy. In Dramedys, the amount of drama and comedy are almost equally balanced. This balance provides comedic relief for the audience, while still addressing serious issues.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Examples&lt;/em&gt;: Little Miss Sunshine, The Royal Tenenbaums, Lost in Translation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Parody/Spoof&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a sub-genre of Comedy film that bases itself in reality. These films impersonate, ridicule, or scoff at serious situations and people. These films rely heavily on satire and can be used as a means of social or political commentary. Parody/Spoof films can also take the form in a fake documentary called a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockumentary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mockumentary&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Examples&lt;/em&gt;: Life of Brian, Naked Gun, Scary Movie.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Romantic-Comedy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a genre that attempts to catch the viewer’s heart with the combination of love and humor. This sub-genre is light-hearted and usually places the two protagonists in humorous situation. Romantic-Comedy film revolves around a romantic ideal, such as true love. In the end, the ideal triumphs over the situation or obstacle, thus creating a happy ending.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Examples&lt;/em&gt;: Roman Holiday, When Harry Met Sally, Knocked Up.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Slapstick&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a sub-genre of film that incorporates physical comedy into the story. Slapstick uses visual action, such as harmless violence and horseplay, to depict humor. Slapstick film often relies on comedic timing and a controlled psychical performance of a single actor or actress.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Examples&lt;/em&gt;: Caddyshack, Safety Last!, Tommy Boy. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;References&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thescriptlab.com/screenplay/genre/comedy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://thescriptlab.com/screenplay/genre/comedy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-01T06:31:58.533" LastActivityDate="2016-12-01T06:31:58.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="280" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-06T19:21:00.990" Score="0" Body="A genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="1674" LastEditDate="2012-11-11T13:56:11.280" LastActivityDate="2012-11-11T13:56:11.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="281" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-06T19:22:48.137" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-06T19:22:48.137" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T19:22:48.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="282" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-06T19:22:48.137" Score="0" Body="A sequence of events that make up a story" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-06T21:59:50.417" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T21:59:50.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="283" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-06T19:27:43.280" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-06T19:27:43.280" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T19:27:43.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="284" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-06T19:27:43.280" Score="0" Body="1928-1999.  American movie producer, director and writer, who made several influential movies including Dr Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and The Shining. " OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-06T21:59:55.783" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T21:59:55.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="286" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="289" CreationDate="2011-12-06T21:53:52.297" Score="22" ViewCount="5386" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the novel, Tim is the older sibling, computer wiz, and dinosaur enthusiast. In the movie, their ages and personalities are swapped (mostly) so that Lex is the older sibling and the computer wiz (while Tim remains the one who knows everything about dinosaurs). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/trivia?tab=tr&amp;amp;item=tr0754825&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After Joseph Mazzello was turned down for a role in Steven Spielberg's&#xA;  Hook for being too young, Spielberg told Mazzello that he was still&#xA;  impressed with his audition and would try to cast him in a future&#xA;  project. Mazzello was then cast as Tim in this movie. His casting led&#xA;  Spielberg to reverse the ages of the children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that the only reason? If so, it seems weird that Spielberg would turn Joseph Mazzello down &quot;for being too young&quot; for one film, but didn't care that he was too young, and actually changed the ages of the characters to cast him for another film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26" LastActivityDate="2017-05-14T18:10:30.920" Title="Why are Lex's and Tim's ages switched in the film adaptation of Jurassic Park?" Tags="|book-adaptation|jurassic-park|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="287" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-06T22:05:19.977" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-06T22:05:19.977" LastActivityDate="2011-12-06T22:05:19.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="288" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-06T22:05:19.977" Score="0" Body="The Shining (1980) is a horror movie directed by Stanley Kubrick, and adapted from the Stephen King novel of the same name; it also refers to the special abilities certain characters in the storyline possess." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T12:47:50.800" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T12:47:50.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="286" CreationDate="2011-12-07T00:53:45.487" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joseph was going for the role of Rufio. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002364/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dante&lt;/a&gt; eventually took the role around the age of 16. This will put Joseph at 7 or 8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the role Rufio has to play in Hook, leadership of the Lost Boys, it's a fair call. He just was too young. Dante played Rufio well especially in the fight scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing that the casting for Jurassic Park would have happened much later than Hook, I don't think there is much in the reverse he could have did. He basically told Joseph to wait for the next project he had lined up for him. That was Jurassic Park. Just sounds like a simple promise Spielberg wanted to keep because he liked the potential of Joseph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time (Hook) he wasn't so sure about it. The second time he decided to give it a go. Seeing that Lex would have to be around 7 or 8, the switching also allowed for Spielberg to bring in the idea of the crush on Dr.Grant&lt;sup&gt;1,2&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes it is the only reason (as well as the crush on Dr.Grant), no it doesn't seem weird.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1: The Making of Jurassic Park (Duncan and Shay)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;2: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(film)#Production&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(film)#Production&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2011-12-07T00:53:45.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="290" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="293" CreationDate="2011-12-07T02:02:58.800" Score="105" ViewCount="66782" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Coen brothers' movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fargo&lt;/em&gt; (1996)&lt;/a&gt;, the detective Marge Gunderson gets called by and meets an old schoolmate, Mike Yanagita. He tells her that he is widowed and tries to make a move on her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later she finds out that he lied about being married and that he actually is a failed existence, a man who lives with his parents and has psychological problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The character of Mike Yanagita seems to be a side plot and does not add to the main plot of Fargo, the kidnapping and the consequent crimes, in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why did the Coen brothers put this character in? Is the subplot just there to give a better picture of one of the main characters, Marge? Is it supposed to explain the moral of the movie, which I think was &quot;money does not bring you happiness&quot;? Or does this character have any significance to the movie, that I am missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2019-03-15T03:04:32.587" LastActivityDate="2021-06-20T08:38:28.323" Title="What significance does Mike Yanagita have in Fargo?" Tags="|character|analysis|fargo|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="291" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="304" CreationDate="2011-12-07T04:52:02.003" Score="13" ViewCount="10563" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1253864/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Immortals&lt;/a&gt;, Zeus and the other Gods descend from Mount Olympus to battle the Titans. Seeing that the following facts should be known about the Gods&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Zeus: God of the Sky, Thunder and Lightning &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Poseidon: God of the seas&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Heracles (demi-god? need confirmation on this)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Athena: Goddess of warfare  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Apollo: God of healing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it possible for the Gods to die so quickly? Without placing the emphasis on mythology and on the script alone, it is at least known that Poseidon has the power of the sea right? Even in the ending scene where Phaedra's son foresees Theseus and the Gods in battle with the Titans, we see only one on one battles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="109" LastEditDate="2012-06-21T11:43:21.963" LastActivityDate="2012-06-21T11:43:21.963" Title="Regarding the immortality of the gods in Immortals (2011)?" Tags="|plot-explanation|immortals|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="292" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="297" CreationDate="2011-12-07T05:25:59.977" Score="2" ViewCount="1844" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0431308/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;P.S. I Love You&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Daniel has shown when he can be blunt, but this is not really balanced with any fondness in his character. The chemistry between Holly and Daniel seems non-existent. What did LaGravenese want to portray with this bluntness towards Holly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-24T10:58:13.647" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T10:58:13.647" Title="What role does Daniel's syndrome play in P.S. I Love You?" Tags="|plot-explanation|p-s-i-love-you|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="290" CreationDate="2011-12-07T05:52:09.227" Score="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Mike Yaganita&quot; subplot is discussed on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crackingyarns.com.au/2011/01/26/the-secret-to-subplots-half-revealed/&quot;&gt;Subplot Screenwriting Tips&lt;/a&gt; page, and a blog commenter writes: (Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kathleenaryan.com/&quot;&gt;Kathleen A. Ryan&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every time my husband and I watch FARGO (we own the DVD, &amp;amp; are huge&#xA;  Coen bros. fans), we have the same conversation about the purpose of&#xA;  the subplot you mention. My guess, however, is this: Marge is&#xA;  presented as an intelligent cop; however, she can be very trusting and&#xA;  slightly naive about the nature of people. She bought Mike’s story,&#xA;  and was shocked after learning Mike lied (and so convincingly). This,&#xA;  in turn, propels her to return to Jerry (because maybe he lied,&#xA;  too…and the evidence does point to that business). Without this scene,&#xA;  what would have prompted Marge to reinterview Jerry? Her instincts are&#xA;  confirmed when he “flees the interview.” (I’m a retired cop, and I&#xA;  love that scene).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was further clarified by blog commenter &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crackingyarns.com.au/2011/01/26/the-secret-to-subplots-half-revealed/#comment-536&quot;&gt;Joshua Christopher Mills&lt;/a&gt; who wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Great article, by the way. I wouldn’t fault anyone on missing the&#xA;  point of the Mike Yanagita subplot (I know I didn’t get it for a long&#xA;  time), so I think the observation we need to take away from Fargo is,&#xA;  perhaps, clarity. Even though the subplot does have a specific, solid,&#xA;  necessary purpose, it ends up confusing a lot of viewers because it&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;appears&lt;/em&gt; unnecessary. The last thing you want to do is lose the audience–luckily the scenes with Mike Yanagita are funny and&#xA;  well-written, a definite testament to the Coen’s skill–but most&#xA;  writers aren’t the Coen brothers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, a spot-on analysis. In short, the character/subplot exists to demonstrate to the viewer that she's too trusting of people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastEditorUserId="100" LastEditDate="2011-12-07T06:00:04.860" LastActivityDate="2011-12-07T06:00:04.860" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="228" CreationDate="2011-12-07T08:40:34.537" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edmond Dantes landed at Elba, gave a letter to Captain Marshall as per the instruction given to him by Captain Leclere on his death bed. He also took another letter to an unknown person in Marseilles from Captain Marshall. His action was more based on his desire to fulfill a dying man's wish. If the Captain was not dying, Edmond wouldn't have had to take the letter.&#xA;In the book, it is said that Napolean entered Captain Marshall's house when Dantes was there and spoke to him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also it cannot be denied that Edmond Dantes was totally naive about the consequences of his action if it was known to the King's people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I have not watched the movie, but had recently read the book, an edition published by Wordsworth Classics. So my thoughts are sorely based on the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="97" LastEditorUserId="97" LastEditDate="2011-12-08T11:33:18.890" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T11:33:18.890" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="295" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-07T09:08:46.590" Score="22" ViewCount="5363" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_(1995_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Se7en&lt;/a&gt; an amazingly good movie, but among its weaknesses is the Envy killing. I found the justification for it very unconvincing, as if forced into the story, just so we can have the (iconic) something-in-box scene. I am no psychologist, but John Doe doesn't strike me as a guy who would get jealous, especially for something so petty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something I'm missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastEditorUserId="105" LastEditDate="2018-07-01T22:17:32.100" LastActivityDate="2022-04-21T02:17:07.660" Title="The credibility of the Envy killing in Se7en" Tags="|plot-explanation|se7en|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="295" CreationDate="2011-12-07T10:06:03.793" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is another weakness. After all the well-planned murders to prove his point, he involves for the last two people, who recently moved in the city: Mills and his wife. Doe couldn't possibly have known about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have two theories explaining this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First: Doe got under pressure after the police caught his trace. He had to switch plans, so the last killings were planned under pressure and not perfect.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Second theory: He always planned the wrath involving the policeman going after him. He planned that after the first murders some detective will catch his trace. But to enrage him, he needed to hurt him really bad. So he planned to use the wife of whatever detective it will be. To match the scheme it had to be the Envy-murder, but as it had to be improvised. So it lacks the perfection he tries to achieve.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2020-09-30T16:23:06.750" LastActivityDate="2020-09-30T16:23:06.750" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="292" CreationDate="2011-12-07T11:39:25.200" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, that they could only, you know, be friends, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We'll be really weird friends, joined by self-pity, bitterness and&#xA;  vomit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="99" LastActivityDate="2011-12-07T11:39:25.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="300" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-07T16:26:39.080" Score="47" ViewCount="5408" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first Iron Man film (2008), Tony Stark is betrayed by someone close to him and it takes him (a demonstrable genius) several months to realize it. Why does he not realize as soon as he gets back that the conditions of his imprisonment were unusual (to say the least)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Spoilers below:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, Obidiah Stane is the worst name for a villain that we are supposed to initially trust, but that is from the comics so it's understandable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, he remembers being videotaped for the kidnapper's demand video but when he gets back the video is not mentioned by anyone close to him (like Pepper, Rhody or Happy) nor is it mentioned in any news program or on youtube or anything, which for someone as famous as Tony Stark, one would think it would be around for him to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thirdly, why doesn't he put together earlier that neither Pepper nor Happy had time to tell Obidiah about the miniature Arc reactor in his chest? Obidiah asks when he firsts arrives in LA and has been driven to Stark Industries to give the press conference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, why didn't &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; at Stark Industries give Tony the heads up that Obidiah was trying to force him out of the Board of SI? Doesn't he interact with anyone else at the company he is the head of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2019-01-05T18:45:22.397" Title="In Iron Man, why is Tony Stark fooled for so long?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="300" CreationDate="2011-12-07T19:55:46.103" Score="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mostly the answer can relate to simple plot device, while one point strikes at me that you make.  You mention him talking to people in his company, but to me, it is vividly displayed that Tony Stark is essentially a playboy asshole, and not many people would be friendly to him.  Maybe a take-over was known, but not to the extent of trying to kidnap him in the middle of the desert during a demonstration was company-wide knowledge.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, just being a mechanical genius doesn't mean he is a people genius.  In his logical brain, thinking &lt;em&gt;villain&lt;/em&gt; was actually against him the whole time would not cross his mind because he regards &lt;em&gt;villain&lt;/em&gt; as a personal and family friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2011-12-07T19:55:46.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="303" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="309" CreationDate="2011-12-07T19:59:30.527" Score="8" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Source Code, during one of his &quot;flashbacks,&quot; Stevens experiences the world appear to disintegrate, and &quot;digitize.&quot;  While watching the movie, you get the impression this is the result of a flaw/bug/glitch/whatever in the Source Code program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But by the end of the movie we learn that the &quot;flashbacks&quot; were reality in an alternate timeline/universe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so it could not have been a simple glitch in the recreation of the flashback.  What explains this disintegration/digitization effect he experienced?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T08:13:37.947" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T08:13:37.947" Title="What explains the digitization effect experienced by Stevens in one of his &quot;flashbacks&quot;?" Tags="|source-code|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="291" CreationDate="2011-12-07T20:02:43.930" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that the Gods portrayed here are more 'mortal' than what we are used to thinking of.  The battle that was alluded to in the beginning of the movie sounded like the God/Titan battle was more evenly matched than the 'canon' Greek mythology.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I consider this movie more an adaptation of Greek mythology than what is accepted based on the anonymity of the Titans.  The Titans themselves seem to be all the same, no distinction between any of them.  After all, where is Chronus, Atlus, Gaia, etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, the reason that the 'immortal' Gods are so easily killed is because of that even matching of the Titans strength + numbers against the Gods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2011-12-07T20:10:23.163" LastActivityDate="2011-12-07T20:10:23.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="219" CreationDate="2011-12-07T20:10:16.020" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the key point of that scene is to demonstrate that Mark's knowledge vis-à-vis computers and programming was leaps and bounds ahead of his peers. (Mark did, in fact, start programming at a relatively young age, and excelled in science and math in school.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="178" LastActivityDate="2011-12-07T20:10:16.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="245" CreationDate="2011-12-07T20:16:57.327" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's possible they are relying a lot on the name of the series, as it did have a nice bit of word of mouth, as well as just trying to show something different as is the tone of the movie.  Having watched the Swedish ones myself without reading the books, just knowing this movie is going to be made + the cast has already sold me.  Which is another point to bring up; Daniel Craig is becoming a movie-selling actor due to his great performances in not-so acclaimed movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2011-12-07T20:16:57.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="219" CreationDate="2011-12-07T20:46:09.457" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, these particular actions give more insight in his character. But it is only character development in the perspective of the audience. Those actions do not seem to be part of his own character development: after this class, I think he still is who he was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2011-12-07T20:46:09.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="303" CreationDate="2011-12-07T20:47:45.450" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though I don't perfectly remember the scene, you might explain it not as a glitch in the alternate universe in itself, but in the connection of Stevens to this universe, which is still only established by (faulty) technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2011-12-07T20:47:45.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="310" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="349" CreationDate="2011-12-07T21:16:03.773" Score="18" ViewCount="3040" Body="&lt;p&gt;We all know that many of the 1980's movies were famous for their montages with cheesy music going on in the background and random clips of the main characters doing things (cleaning up, playing games, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the &lt;strong&gt;first&lt;/strong&gt; 1980's movie to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202" LastEditorUserId="6234" LastEditDate="2014-12-29T22:08:57.700" LastActivityDate="2016-06-12T17:01:06.447" Title="What 1980's movie was the first to have an official montage?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="260" CreationDate="2011-12-07T21:24:21.027" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Elm Street is one of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nlc.org/build-skills-networks/resources/cities-101/most-common-u-s--street-names&quot;&gt;most common street names in the United States&lt;/a&gt;. If you exclude numbers (because numbers in a title are strongly connoted to having several in a series, whether it's streets or movies), the most common names are Park, Main, Oak, Pine, Maple, Cedar, Elm. So “Elm Street” has a “generic street” feel to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Oak+Street%2CPine+Street%2CMaple+Street%2CCedar+Street%2CElm+Street&amp;amp;year_start=1800&amp;amp;year_end=2000&amp;amp;corpus=4&amp;amp;smoothing=3&quot;&gt;In fiction&lt;/a&gt;, Elm and Pine have traditionally dominated over the other tree names that are more popular in real life. Park is even above, but the word “park” has connotations (of nature, empty spaces, that kind of stuff) that “elm” doesn't have. This points towards Elm or Pine as a generic street name for a movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="185" LastActivityDate="2011-12-07T21:24:21.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="312" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="755" CreationDate="2011-12-07T21:31:56.243" Score="31" ViewCount="26699" Body="&lt;p&gt;The destruction of the Weasley house added no plot element and it was not in the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Weasley home was basically supposed to be the safest place for Harry (aside from Hogwarts). Why did the film writers decide it was okay to destroy it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-11-21T12:24:13.850" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T12:24:13.850" Title="Significance of Weasley house destruction in Half-Blood Prince" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|the-half-blood-prince|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="158" CreationDate="2011-12-07T21:38:08.120" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Carpenter found he was way too busy with filming The Thing (mostly due to the location shoot but also the post-production) and passed the duties off to someone else. He also stated that he really wanted to work with Morricone as he was a big fan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why the soundtrack sounded much like his own, Morricone said he wanted to make it feel like it was a John Carpenter film. Carpenter went as far as to tell Morricone &quot;not to do so many notes&quot; and make it &quot;simpler and spookier&quot;. After putting together some selections for Carpenter, he picked one that mostly resembled his own compositions and that became the basis for the main theme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.soundtrack.net/features/article/?id=12&quot;&gt;http://www.soundtrack.net/features/article/?id=12&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Famous Monsters of Filmland #185&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reocities.com/j_nada/carp/thintriv.html&quot;&gt;http://www.reocities.com/j_nada/carp/thintriv.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;YouTube interviews with Morricone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="184" LastActivityDate="2011-12-07T21:38:08.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="315" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-07T21:49:07.477" Score="23" ViewCount="4303" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the first live-action movie to feature a talking animal, and did the film predate the first live-action televised appearance of a talking animal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2011-12-22T02:41:59.230" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T16:52:59.620" Title="What was the first live-action movie to feature a talking animal?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="315" CreationDate="2011-12-08T00:13:43.767" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_the_Talking_Mule&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Francis the Talking Mule&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on film in 1950:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zvj_Eunx3Ko?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This pre-dates &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Ed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mister Ed's&lt;/a&gt; TV debut by a decade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notes:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;1.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_%281939_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Wizard of Oz&lt;/a&gt; featured a talking lion in 1939, but that was obviously an actor in a costume so I assume we're not going to count it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2.  You might be able to find an earlier film with a talking parrot if you know any very early pirate movies.  Probably also not what you meant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T08:37:36.913" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T08:37:36.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="323" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-08T00:21:57.297" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Directed by David Fincher, Seven (stylized as SE7EN) is a 1995 American neo-noir crime thriller film starring Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, John C. McGinley, R. Lee Ermey, and Kevin Spacey. This movie tells the story of David Mills (Pitt), a detective who partners with the retiring William Somerset (Freeman) to track down a serial killer (Spacey) who uses the seven deadly sins as a motif in his murders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag can be used with &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/character&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/analysis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;analysis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;analysis&lt;/a&gt; etc. as required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Links&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_(1995_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114369/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2018-01-29T12:01:26.540" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T12:01:26.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="324" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-08T00:21:57.297" Score="0" Body="A thriller from 1995 about a killer using the seven sins as a motive." OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="66" LastEditDate="2011-12-08T04:37:41.663" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T04:37:41.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="325" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-08T00:28:31.203" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-08T00:28:31.203" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T00:28:31.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="326" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-08T00:28:31.203" Score="0" Body="Well known japanese director of anime. Founder of Studio Ghibli." OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="66" LastEditDate="2011-12-08T04:37:36.903" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T04:37:36.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="335" CreationDate="2011-12-08T00:48:01.877" Score="27" ViewCount="6874" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shutter Island is a really fascinating, thought-through movie, but one thing never made sense to me when rewatching it, knowing the twist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did they manage to get everyone to play along?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the guards, orderlies and doctors it seems believable, but what motivation would the patients have to pretend that Teddy is a U.S. Marshall?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course there are a lot of signs that something is wrong, like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the guards being very cautious around him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the patients greeting him or talking behind his back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the note &quot;run&quot; etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But apart from George Noyce nobody seems to really tell him whats going on. How would they get mentally ill (!) patients to take place in a rather convincing play about an escaped woman, and how did they manage to make a delusional woman pretend she was Rachel Solando?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-07T22:02:09.843" LastActivityDate="2012-11-07T22:02:09.843" Title="How did they get everyone to play along?" Tags="|plot-explanation|shutter-island|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="328" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-08T01:07:18.513" Score="26" ViewCount="149871" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early in the film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Donnie Darko&lt;/a&gt; wakes up after a night of sleepwalking with the numbers 28:06:42:12 written on his arm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WDtJT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;28:06:42:12&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that within the film the numbers refer to Frank telling Donnie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;28 days... 6 hours... 42 minutes... 12 seconds. That... is when the world... will end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were these numbers just made up at random by writer/director &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kelly_%28director%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Richard Kelly&lt;/a&gt;, or do they have some hidden meaning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-03T13:27:11.227" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T13:27:11.227" Title="Is there any (real-world) significance to the numbers 28:06:42:12?" Tags="|donnie-darko|richard-kelly|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28" CreationDate="2011-12-08T02:14:12.600" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe Porco Rosso had no environmental agenda, although, how he paints the Mediterranean makes me want to go back there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="210" LastEditorUserId="66" LastEditDate="2011-12-09T17:45:43.677" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T17:45:43.677" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="327" CreationDate="2011-12-08T04:18:38.137" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does Teddy really get mentally ill? According your post, I think your answer will be YES. And I believe so many people will say NO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Teddy is really ill, movie you see could showed from teddy's view, teddy's aspect. He's illness and believed he is a normal U.S marshall and can not distinguish even all the other people acting with some minor flaws. All you saw in the movie is a reflection of Teddy's internal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Teddy is not ill, hmm.....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="129" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T04:18:38.137" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="328" CreationDate="2011-12-08T04:21:07.583" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;Taken from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/trivia?tab=tr&amp;amp;item=tr0797375&quot;&gt;IMDB trivia entry&lt;/a&gt; for Donnie Darko:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The movie takes place in 1988. Frank tells Donnie the world will end&#xA;  in 28 days, 06 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds. If you add these&#xA;  numbers, the sum is 88. When Samantha asks when she can have kids,&#xA;  Donnie says: &quot;Not until 8th grade.&quot; Donnie mentions to his therapist&#xA;  that his dog Callie died when he was eight. (He is later seen holding&#xA;  a stuffed toy dog in her office.) Donnie jokes about the Back to the&#xA;  Future DeLorean which had a speed of 88 MPH. According to the&#xA;  television reporter, the fire at Jim Cunningham's house was&#xA;  extinguished &quot;sometime after 8:00 last night.&quot; The red-eye flight that&#xA;  almost crashes is Flight 2806 which boards at Gate 42 at 12 AM. The&#xA;  climax of Donnie Darko occurs one week before the 1988 US presidential&#xA;  election, when George Bush won on November 8, 1988 11/08/88. The movie&#xA;  was shot (for a budget of less than US$5 million) in 28 days. There&#xA;  are 28 scenes in the director's cut of this film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/trivia?tab=tr&amp;amp;item=tr1452510&quot;&gt;Alternately&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Frank says the world will end in &quot;28 days 6 hours 42 minutes 12&#xA;  seconds.&quot; That figure is not random: it comes from adding or&#xA;  subtracting 1 from each part of the figure 27d 7h 43m 11s, which is&#xA;  the precise length of one lunar month (by one of the less-used&#xA;  definitions - sidereal instead of the usual synodic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take away from it what you will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T04:21:07.583" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="333" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="337" CreationDate="2011-12-08T05:47:06.143" Score="82" ViewCount="9306" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Back to the Future&lt;/em&gt;, Marty goes back to 1955 and devises a plan for his father George McFly to win over Lorraine in order to ensure Marty's survival.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plan involved Marty pretending to sexually assault Lorraine then George would step in and stop him. Biff meddles with Marty's plan, by kicking Marty out of the car and then he tries to rape Lorraine. George expects to find Marty in the car and finds Biff and musters the courage to stop Biff and protect Lorraine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Near the end of the movie when Marty travels back to 1985 we see that Biff is outside of Marty's house waxing George's car. Why would George employ Biff to do this job? I can't imagine Lorraine would be too happy with the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="219" LastEditorUserId="60982" LastEditDate="2021-06-13T04:06:32.860" LastActivityDate="2021-06-13T04:06:32.860" Title="Why does George Mcfly employ Biff to wax his car after he had previously tried to rape his wife?" Tags="|plot-explanation|back-to-the-future|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="334" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="339" CreationDate="2011-12-08T08:07:35.607" Score="60" ViewCount="36143" Body="&lt;p&gt;Primer is one crazy movie, as far as the complicated plot goes. Has anyone figured out the ACTUAL sequence of events?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="222" LastEditorUserId="56" LastEditDate="2011-12-08T11:53:37.670" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T15:41:21.800" Title="Can someone explain the sequence of events in 'Primer'?" Tags="|plot-explanation|primer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="327" CreationDate="2011-12-08T08:21:31.283" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, not all the patients 'played' the game (For example, George Noyce). A special meeting was arranged where only a few of the patients were allowed to be questioned by Teddy and 'Chuck'. Having said that, its also possible that not all the patients knew he was also a patient. (Since he might have been kept in the 'Dangerous' ward, away from others) Maybe that woman knew, and that's why she was able to suggest 'Run'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as Rachel Solando goes, we never come to know if she is really a patient, or a very good actor taking part in this experimental treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="222" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T08:21:31.283" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="334" CreationDate="2011-12-08T09:25:28.337" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freeweb.hu/neuwanstein/primer_timeline.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here you go&lt;/a&gt;. A picture depicting the 9 different timelines of the movie :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FwEK0.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FwEK0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;PRIMER&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124" LastEditorUserId="202" LastEditDate="2011-12-09T00:13:55.243" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T00:13:55.243" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="333" CreationDate="2011-12-08T09:32:51.053" Score="74" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen any director commentary, so I can't speak with full authority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't think they thought that hard about it.  I think it is put in there for dramatic effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The antagonist was defeated, and now instead of the big man on campus, he practically begs from George McFly for work.  It is a triumph of the little guy over his oppressor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is full of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DavidVersusGoliath&quot;&gt;David vs Goliath moments&lt;/a&gt;, and that's when you know the underdog ultimately won.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user223" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T09:32:51.053" CommentCount="13" CommunityOwnedDate="2020-02-26T22:01:31.493" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="338" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="341" CreationDate="2011-12-08T11:10:14.980" Score="17" ViewCount="7464" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the context of casting for a movie, what is a chemistry test and how is it performed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2018-07-24T19:57:28.823" LastActivityDate="2018-07-24T19:57:28.823" Title="What is a chemistry test?" Tags="|casting|film-industry|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="334" CreationDate="2011-12-08T11:36:11.397" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Primer is a very complex movie and hard-to-impossible to understand in the first watching. This is due to the fact that we only see a small part of the actual happenings in the story, and the scenes are &lt;strong&gt;not in a chronologically correct order&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is hard to spot, as the scenes seem to fit after each other, but sometimes they are reruns of a scene that is &lt;em&gt;replayed&lt;/em&gt; by time travelling older versions of the characters, thus resulting in strange behaviour or dialogues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing to look out for is the &lt;strong&gt;earpiece&lt;/strong&gt; Aaron is wearing in some of the scenes. The Aaron from the future has recorded all earlier conversations, travelled back in time, replaced his earlier self and tries to recreate the dialogues this way, sometimes failing (e.g. in the basketball scene, where he misses the throw). So every time you see an earpiece, you know that this scene is not in chronological order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would recommend reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/Gendler.pdf&quot;&gt;this very good essay&lt;/a&gt;, studying the timeline posted in OddCore's answer, and then rewatching the movie once or twice. It helped me understand the movie to a point where I can more or less tell what is going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="233" LastEditDate="2011-12-08T15:13:52.320" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T15:13:52.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="338" CreationDate="2011-12-08T13:15:59.347" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It test how two actors can relate to each other. Generally the male and female lead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a good article about the same &lt;a href=&quot;http://myfilmproject09.blogspot.com/2011/08/chemistry-test.html&quot;&gt;The Chemistry Test&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Apparently the producers and studios want to be absolutely sure that the lead actors have chemistry, otherwise known as attraction,  compatibility, comfort and any other vague quality that might translate to the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user96" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T13:15:59.347" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="342" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="346" CreationDate="2011-12-08T14:28:21.263" Score="19" ViewCount="2123" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mathew Patel, Lucas Lee, Todd Ingram, Roxie Richter, and (obviously) Gideon Graves were all fleshed out rather decently by having their own epic fight scene as well as back-story from Romona in the movie.  However, the Twins seemed to be a thrown in scene with a lot of special effects and nothing else really memorable other than shiny lights and a few giant monsters.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ytWUQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;holographic ape vs a holographic two-headed eastern dragon&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know the reason why the creation of their characters went this way instead of seeing an epic 2v1 fight of a pissed-off Pilgrim vs 2 Japanese twins?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:15:06.937" LastActivityDate="2017-03-16T16:15:06.937" Title="Why were the Katayanagi Twins not as fleshed out as the other Exes in Scott Pilgrim?" Tags="|plot-explanation|book-adaptation|scott-pilgrim-vs.-the-world|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="344" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-08T14:39:49.473" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-08T14:39:49.473" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T14:39:49.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="345" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-08T14:39:49.473" Score="0" Body="Donnie Darko is a movie directed by Richard Kelly about a teenager struggling with being an outcast, sleep disorders, hallucinations, pedophiles and being in therapy. Or is he? Stars Jake Gyllenhaal." OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T18:15:27.780" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T18:15:27.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="342" CreationDate="2011-12-08T15:04:44.320" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scottpilgrim.wikia.com/wiki/Kyle_%26_Ken_Katayanagi#In_vs._the_World&quot;&gt;Off the wiki&lt;/a&gt; it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unlike the book, where they are devious, plan extensively, and speak at great length; the movie shows them as silent attackers in one scene only. This is due to multiple factors. The length of the movie was one, finding gorgeous Japanese identical twins who spoke English was another; The Saitos couldn't speak English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reiterate: &lt;strong&gt;The actors could &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; speak English&lt;/strong&gt;! Hence they did not have a speaking part in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T15:04:44.320" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="347" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-08T15:16:17.403" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-08T15:16:17.403" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T15:16:17.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="348" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-08T15:16:17.403" Score="0" Body="Refers to a movie that has had remakes but is the original version of the movie." OwnerUserId="202" LastEditorUserId="202" LastEditDate="2011-12-08T20:21:03.543" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T20:21:03.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="310" CreationDate="2011-12-08T19:50:44.530" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you'd be hard pressed to find any evidence of a &lt;em&gt;cliche 80s montage&lt;/em&gt; earlier than the one from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP3MFBzMH2o&quot;&gt;Rocky&lt;/a&gt; in 1976.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously the idea of a montage wasn't new, nor even the idea of a &lt;em&gt;training montage&lt;/em&gt;, but Rocky did combine those two elements with cheesy inspirational synth music, and that precise style was imitated in underdog action films ad nauseum through the 80s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T19:50:44.530" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="98" CreationDate="2011-12-08T20:45:15.373" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a Norwegian citizen I can confirm that this clip is real and that all the text was from the actual press footage. Our prime minister was talking about some power lines that caused a &lt;strong&gt;big&lt;/strong&gt; debate here in Norway.  The producers of the movie saw this press footage and thought it would go perfect with the movie, so they asked our prime minister if they could use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The man on the right was not part of the real footage, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="245" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-20T23:07:42.423" LastActivityDate="2013-08-20T23:07:42.423" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="353" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="357" CreationDate="2011-12-08T22:05:12.090" Score="35" ViewCount="95464" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never watched a classic western, so I'm looking to give the genre a try. &lt;em&gt;The Good, the Bad and the Ugly&lt;/em&gt; seems to be the most popular (and rated #4 on IMDB's top 250) so I thought I'd watch that first. But it's also part of a supposed trilogy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Fistful of Dollars (1964)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For a Few Dollars More (1965)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe there is no specific plot that connects them, only the &quot;Man With No Name&quot; character. Also of consideration is that according to Wikipedia they have a different chronological order (GBU is set before the other two).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Do each of the films work as standalone movies? Is there an &quot;optimal&quot; order in which to view them?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-13T11:39:53.283" LastActivityDate="2016-10-24T14:24:53.967" Title="Does it matter in which order I watch the &quot;Man With No Name&quot; trilogy?" Tags="|the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly|a-fistful-of-dollars|for-a-few-dollars-more|suggested-order|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="312" CreationDate="2011-12-08T22:07:05.987" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417741/faq&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; FAQ page for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a new scene created for the movie, the Burrow is attacked by Bellatrix Lestrange and Fenrir Greyback during the Christmas break from Hogwarts. The scene was added in because the film's middle act would otherwise have had no action, and it would also show that there are no safe places anymore. The scene also helps develop Harry and Ginny's relationship a bit more because, during the scene, Harry runs after Bellatrix and Ginny rushes to help him. Also, Lupin and Tonks are featured in this scene, which establishes that they are a couple. Finally, the scene ends in a rather melancholic note given that the Burrow holds practically everything the Weasleys ever worked for, and since they were already quite impoverished, it adds to the darker tone of the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="244" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T08:36:59.473" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T08:36:59.473" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="240" CreationDate="2011-12-08T22:33:37.800" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to mainstay Simpsons fansite, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/CABF06.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Simpsons Archive&lt;/a&gt;, the film bears similarities to Laurel and Hardy's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024852/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;March of the Wooden Soldiers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film that Skinner shows the class is&#xA;     similar to the Laurel and Hardy film, the March of the Wooden Soldiers.&#xA;     Based on the tale Babes in Toyland, the film features the duo as Stanley&#xA;     Dumb and Ollie Dee, two residents of Mother Goose Land.  There, they help&#xA;     Tom-Tom, the Pipers son and Little Bo Peep to fall in love while, with the&#xA;     help of giant wooden soldiers, saving the town from Barnaby, the Crooked&#xA;     Man, and the Bogie Men, man-beast creatures that the hobgoblins in the&#xA;     school film resemble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastEditorUserId="118" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T10:42:10.863" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T10:42:10.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="333" CreationDate="2011-12-08T22:43:10.980" Score="39" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's not clear that Biff was trying to &lt;em&gt;rape&lt;/em&gt; Loraine.  Although he was clearly taking liberties he should not have.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;McFly subdued Biff in the fight at the dance.  After that, Biff learned to take his place behind McFly.  The car-waxing scene was really just to prove this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;30 years had passed.  The new, wiser McFly was undoubtedly able to forgive Biff--especially with Biff in his new subordinate role.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2012-10-19T20:52:24.887" LastActivityDate="2012-10-19T20:52:24.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="353" CreationDate="2011-12-08T22:49:03.270" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each of the films works as a stand-alone movie, so there's no real reason to view them in any particular order.  I watched them all separately when I was growing up, and it wasn't until years later that I even found out that &lt;em&gt;The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly&lt;/em&gt; was connected to the other two movies by more than having the same actor/director pair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollars_Trilogy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dollars Trilogy&lt;/a&gt; Wikipedia article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it was not Leone's intention, the three movies came to be considered a trilogy following the exploits of the same &amp;quot;Man with No Name&amp;quot; (Eastwood, wearing the same clothes and acting with the same mannerisms).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;Man with No Name&amp;quot; concept was invented by the American distributor, looking for a strong angle to sell the movies as a trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2011-12-08T22:49:03.270" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="203" CreationDate="2011-12-08T22:49:56.047" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may already have your answer, but your description reminded me of the scene in The Simpsons episode &lt;em&gt;Deep Space Homer&lt;/em&gt; when Homer accidentally smashes the ant farm on board the rocket and causes panic back on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I checked &lt;a href=&quot;http://snpp.com/episodes/1F13.html&quot;&gt;The Simpsons Archive&lt;/a&gt;, which notes two films in its references section: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075989/&quot;&gt;Empire of the Ants&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067197/&quot;&gt;Hellstrom Chronicles&lt;/a&gt;. Perhaps one of those is the film you're trying to remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastEditorUserId="118" LastEditDate="2011-12-09T13:07:43.317" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T13:07:43.317" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="360" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="376" CreationDate="2011-12-09T00:52:06.330" Score="24" ViewCount="7510" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Dexter goes to acquire his drugs for the tranquilizers he uses the name Patrick Bateman. Anyone aware of this name will know this person to be the protagonist in American Psycho. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing that Dexter follows Harry's Code, and Dexter does not generally solicit sex, did Michael Cuesta (or James Manos, Jr. whoever introduced it) want to  hint at anything about this? What would it have for him to use such a violent out of control character as Dexter's fake name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="202" LastEditDate="2011-12-16T18:04:30.530" LastActivityDate="2017-07-02T03:26:43.827" Title="What is the symbolism of using American Psycho protagonist's name in Dexter?" Tags="|dexter|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28" CreationDate="2011-12-09T01:44:05.930" Score="10" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_of_Cagliostro&quot;&gt;The Castle of Cagliostro&lt;/a&gt; (Co-writer and director)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_Returns&quot;&gt;The Cat Returns&lt;/a&gt; (Project concept, co-producer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_of_the_Heart_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Whisper of the Heart&lt;/a&gt; (Screenwriter, storyboards, executive producer, sequence director)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda!_Go,_Panda!&quot;&gt;Panda! Go, Panda!&lt;/a&gt; (Concept, screenplay, storyboards, scene design, key animation)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other movies that I would argue do not have an environmental theme as the main subject:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl%27s_Moving_Castle_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Howl's Moving Castle&lt;/a&gt; (Writer, director) - Deals with love, war&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbor_Totoro&quot;&gt;My Neighbor Totoro&lt;/a&gt; (Writer, director) - Mainly about family, mystical themes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirited_Away&quot;&gt;Spirited Away&lt;/a&gt; (Writer, director) - Coming of age story, greed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastEditorUserId="255" LastEditDate="2011-12-09T02:17:50.970" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T02:17:50.970" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="362" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="378" CreationDate="2011-12-09T02:07:31.973" Score="9" ViewCount="2787" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a relatively brief scene in Conspiracy Theory where the main character (Jerry/Mel Gibson) runs into a theater. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of shots where you can plainly see what is being played on the screen. What movie is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-10T17:54:00.467" LastActivityDate="2016-11-29T05:16:41.500" Title="What movie is playing in the theater in Conspiracy Theory?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|conspiracy-theory|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:33:29.313" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="363" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="375" CreationDate="2011-12-09T02:22:40.177" Score="18" ViewCount="1036" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414993/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Fountain (2006)&lt;/a&gt; there are three separate but related stories told in parallel--Imperial Spain, present day, and .. um, space bubble. Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz play the leading lad and lady in each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we consider space bubble &quot;Tom&quot; to be one and the same with present-day &quot;Tommy&quot; after some years have passed? Or is it more symbolic just as Imperial Spain &quot;Tomas&quot; was an envisioning of Izzy's novel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask because it is possible that the doctor/researcher Tommy, who towards the end declares that &quot;Death is a disease&quot;, actually manages to find the cure. He could then become immortal and eventually take Izzy's tree in the space bubble to Xibalba. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The linking of these two story threads explains Tom's visions of Izzy amongst other things. However I also feel it betrays the message I got from the film--namely that we cannot win against death--and that at the end Tommy accepted Izzy's passing and stopped his search for a cure for death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="55668" LastEditDate="2019-01-17T21:49:18.950" LastActivityDate="2019-01-17T21:49:18.950" Title="What is the relationship between the three intertwined stories of The Fountain?" Tags="|analysis|the-fountain|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="203" CreationDate="2011-12-09T02:30:40.403" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another title which might match what you are looking for is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1062161/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hive (2008)&lt;/a&gt;. In this movie, intelligent ants take over an island and kill its inhabitants. An extermination squad is called in, only to discover that the ants are controlled by an extraterrestrial intelligence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="256" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T02:30:40.403" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="365" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="386" CreationDate="2011-12-09T04:18:10.960" Score="98" ViewCount="32362" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that David Lynch's movies are all very deep and hard to grasp and that probably there is no simple answer to this question, as there are different ways to interpret the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still I would like to know, what is the main story behind Mulholland Drive and what is the most common interpretation of what it is about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched it several times and read the 10 clues that Lynch gave to unlock the riddle, but I still don't think I understand the movie. Is it all a dream? A metaphor? Whats with the character switch? Does the appearance of the strange old couple has something to do with sexual abuse? What about the monster in the alley?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What the hell is going on in Mulholland Drive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="8863" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T14:56:18.267" LastActivityDate="2018-05-31T21:25:23.317" Title="What is going on in Mulholland Drive?" Tags="|plot-explanation|david-lynch|mulholland-drive|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="365" CreationDate="2011-12-09T05:35:16.900" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lynch is usually more open to interpretation than most writers/directors and this movie is no exception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its not clear that there can ever be a 'completely true' interpretation of Mulholland Drive, but the most commonly discussed idea that is relatively easy to state is that Betty is Diane's dream of a better life.  Putting it in the context of a dream explains away much of the strangeness of some of the plot.  There can be several other postulations - alternate realities, the Wikipedia entry suggests a Mobius strip of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually like to understand movies, but Mulholland Drive is more to be experienced than explained.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T05:35:16.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="300" CreationDate="2011-12-09T07:53:27.460" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Putting aside plot device for a minute, realize also that a lot of his reaction had to do with shell-shock (no pun intended) at what happened to him. One minute he's drinking scotch in the back of &quot;the fun car&quot;, the next minute he's got multiple holes in his chest and is whisked away to some remote place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for not knowing who betrayed him, keep in mind also that the more powerful you become, the more enemies you get. There could have been any of a number of people who would stand to benefit from setting him up (how about the head of Stane International, for example?), and thinking of the person who represented if not a father-figure then at least an older brother figure as the person who turned you in is not necessarily the first person he would think of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T07:53:27.460" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="368" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="372" CreationDate="2011-12-09T09:56:26.357" Score="10" ViewCount="2991" Body="&lt;p&gt;What really is the message behind the movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Wild_Things_Are_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Where The Wild Things Are&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen the movie year ago, and still couldn't figure it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="262" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-07T21:53:55.870" LastActivityDate="2013-11-07T02:27:19.603" Title="What is the message behind Where the Wild Things Are?" Tags="|analysis|where-the-wild-things-are|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="369" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="389" CreationDate="2011-12-09T10:39:19.603" Score="19" ViewCount="26998" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before starting of the movie &quot;Apocalypto&quot; it shows the quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. - Will Durant&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it related to the movie itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-04T15:48:43.870" LastActivityDate="2016-11-08T03:42:47.183" Title="How is the opening quote from movie Apocalypto related to the movie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|apocalypto|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="365" CreationDate="2011-12-09T10:58:18.003" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;What iandotkelly says about Lynch and openness to interpretation in his movies is universally true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to add another interpretation, that I heard. In the second part of the movie Naomi Watts plays a different character. That explanation somewhat reduced my level of confusion about the movie, if you can see both characters as completely separated. But I also like iandotkelly's interpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T10:58:18.003" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35" CreationDate="2011-12-09T10:58:59.943" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that I think about it, I think the biggest inconsistency - besides Neo suddenly gaining power in 'the real world' at the end of the second film - is the travel that Neo takes to get to The Architect in the second film, and The Architect's implication that this Neo is the 7th (or perhaps more - it's been a while since I saw the film) version to meet him. There are a few problems with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The free will of other people in each incarnation. Does this mean that in each incarnation, there was an incarnation of Cypher that betrayed his teammates?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The fact that each incarnation was Keanu Reeves. It would have made more sense to have 7 different people representing Neo on the screen, seeing as how Keanu Reeves couldn't possibly have been born the same way each time (in theory, if the machines had a copy of his DNA, I suppose this could be true, but this seems like a stretch even for the world of The Matrix)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The path that got Neo to The Architect. Neo interacts with a number of 'old' programs, programs that supposedly have been around during each incarnation of The Matrix. None of them seems to have learned anything from their interaction with Neo, and Agent Smith is radically changed in this incarnation. If each incarnation led a similar path to The Architect (with the only major difference being Neo's reaction to the nature of The Matrix and his choice of saving Trinity or restarting the whole process), then Agent Smith should have been somehow been able to retain his power from one incarnation to another (after all, it's implied in Matrix Reloaded that he's no longer part of The Matrix, but is outside of it). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorUserId="409" LastEditDate="2011-12-21T04:48:50.013" LastActivityDate="2011-12-21T04:48:50.013" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="368" CreationDate="2011-12-09T11:31:35.720" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't let your emotions get the best of you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each wild thing represented a (bad) part of the kid. He had to give it up to be with his family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T11:31:35.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="374" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="381" CreationDate="2011-12-09T12:57:40.580" Score="20" ViewCount="2160" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081834/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Das Boot&lt;/a&gt; the crew tries to dive through the sea near Gibraltar, although they know that's very risky. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do they do that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What they try to achieve in the Mediterranean Sea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T14:01:49.500" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T14:01:49.500" Title="Why does U96 sail through the sea near Gibraltar?" Tags="|plot-explanation|das-boot|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="363" CreationDate="2011-12-09T13:10:29.807" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that could be reading too much into it and drawing conclusions that are not there.  However, that is not to say that isn't the director's intentions as the whole movie is one big symbolic piece.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way it plays out to me is that the movie is suppose to represent these 2 lovers intertwined in destiny and almost cursed to play out the same role of loving man and dying woman for eternity, no matter the time period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T13:10:29.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="360" CreationDate="2011-12-09T13:16:18.117" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is just a simple thing thrown in from the director/writer to try to draw a comparison of Dexter to Bateman.  Both are killers but when thought about, Bateman is more vain and reckless than Dexter, the chainsaw scene is my reference here.  Whereas Dexter is quiet, methodical, and adheres to a strict code whenever he can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a relative sense, one can almost say Dexter is the kinder killer as he actually begins to care about the people around him and defend them where Bateman is truly just a psycho, and would probably end up on Dexter's table, had he ever gotten word of him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T13:16:18.117" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="362" CreationDate="2011-12-09T13:53:34.210" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118883/trivia&quot;&gt;IMDB's trivia section&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eeggs.com/items/8356.html&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; the movie showed is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089457/combined&quot;&gt;Ladyhawke&lt;/a&gt;. I can't remember personally and don't own the DVD, so I cannot check this statements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T13:53:34.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="379" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-09T14:18:38.920" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-09T14:18:38.920" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T14:18:38.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="380" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-09T14:18:38.920" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-09T14:18:38.920" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T14:18:38.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="374" CreationDate="2011-12-09T15:28:53.427" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Medditeranian sea was very much a region under control of the allies from 1941 onwards with the Italian Navy suffering big losses and the allies controlling Gibraltar as the 'gate'.  The Germans sent 62 U-Boats into the Mediterranean despite the risks in order to limit the overwhelming control that the allies had there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However it was a very risky arena for the U-Boats, calmer water, allied air-cover with radar, and they had to get past Gibraltar.  No U-Boats ever made it back from the Mediterranean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was not a universally popular policy in the German military, Donitz (Commander of the submarine fleet before being elevated to Grand Admiral) considered it wasteful of resources as each U-Boat sent into the Med was no longer ever available in the Atlantic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-09T20:19:26.550" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T20:19:26.550" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="382" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="383" CreationDate="2011-12-09T15:45:50.177" Score="24" ViewCount="3295" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Darko&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Donnie Darko&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is timed in the 80s (to be precise 1988), but the movie was released 2001. I can see no significance, to put it in the past. Yes, there was the presidential election, but that is only background for the plot in Donnie Darko. The same plot would have been possible to place in 2001.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2021-11-25T05:13:56.443" LastActivityDate="2021-11-25T05:13:56.443" Title="Why is Donnie Darko set in the 80s?" Tags="|analysis|donnie-darko|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="382" CreationDate="2011-12-09T16:14:42.293" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this was done as a way for Kelly to show a more simplistic time rather than a time with all the technological advances being made.  Also, there is a theory I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/331/130&quot;&gt; &lt;strong&gt;here, in fact&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt; about the way the number 88 is a theme in the movie which would explain a lot about using this time period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T16:14:42.293" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="384" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-09T16:26:51.733" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-09T16:26:51.733" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T16:26:51.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="385" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-09T16:26:51.733" Score="0" Body="The directorial debut of Quentin Tarrantino, this 1992 movie explores the aftermath of a botched armed robbery" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-09T17:46:55.110" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T17:46:55.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="365" CreationDate="2011-12-09T16:31:25.640" Score="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;When movies.stackexchange.com was announced, the very first thing I thought of was &quot;how long after launch before someone asks for an analysis of 'Mulholland Drive'?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, here is the very abridged version of what's going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The viewer knows a couple of key points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rita gets into a car accident and suffers amnesia.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She meets Diane who is trying to become a Hollywood actress.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mysterious things start to happen and Diane is interested in helping Rita explore/solve those mysteries.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As is typical in Lynch fashion, things begin to become unclear quickly, and there is a definitive point in the movie where things switch around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When the box is opened, the perspective changes. Although the viewer&#xA;  may not realize it, he is now in the real world, the waking world of&#xA;  Diane/Betty. The entire first part of the film, up to the opening of the&#xA;  box, has been in Diane/Betty's dream. Betty has ultimately come into contact&#xA;  with all of the various people (in real life) that she has seen in her&#xA;  dream, and (as is typical with our dreams) faces / events are&#xA;  re-arranged, mixed up, and re-associated to form bizarre stories.&#xA;  &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  The opening of the box symbolizes Diane/Betty waking up.&#xA;  &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;  The order of events are re-arranged so that we, the viewer, are able to&#xA;  piece together the puzzle (ie. Betty coming into contact with a person&#xA;  in real-life...who then becomes a face --but an entirely different&#xA;  person with different motives--in her dream).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A much more thorough analysis can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/2001/10/24/mulholland_drive_analysis/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2018-05-31T21:25:23.317" LastActivityDate="2018-05-31T21:25:23.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="387" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-09T16:45:20.003" Score="30" ViewCount="14605" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Primer there is a secondary character named Thomas Granger that the two main characters Aaron and Abe come in contact with. Apparently he is the father of Abe's girlfriend Rachel and  is head of some sort of company. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is being mentioned as a potential money source for the project and although they decide not to talk to him, later on they find that they are being followed by what is obviously a second Granger from the future in a very bad condition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What hints are given about what role Granger plays in the whole story and what did most likely happen to him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially the fact that he ends up in a coma (if I recall correctly) makes me wonder, because the side effects of time travel only seem to become noticable after a long time in the box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-29T22:05:00.793" LastActivityDate="2020-12-13T07:33:50.203" Title="What happened to Thomas Granger?" Tags="|plot-explanation|time-travel|primer|" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="387" CreationDate="2011-12-09T17:09:46.633" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always thought from watching Primer (3 times in one evening) that the problem that the users of the time-machine experience is not from duration in the box, but the number of times they have used it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since by the rules of the time-machine mean that you can't go forwards at all, and can only go back as far as the box existed, then the box acts like a photocopier for people - it makes more and more copies of users in the time after it was first invented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have always considered the symptoms of the use of the box to be a result of the number of times people are using the machine, not the duration.  It is like repeatedly photocopying a picture, the quality degrades over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it is not explicitly stated, it seems that at some point Thomas Granger uses a box, and the version of him in a coma is an n-th generation copy too far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T17:09:46.633" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="369" CreationDate="2011-12-09T17:23:28.130" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I believe that this is attributed to many of the great civilizations decaying from within that contributed to the eventual fall of said civilization.  There is a lot of evidence that the Maya empire was near the brink of collapse before the Spanish came (due to famine, overpopulation in specific cities, fighting among social classes, etc.).  You can see many of these factors throughout the movie, not to mention the actual &quot;harvesting&quot; of people used for sacrifices that many &quot;Spiritual Leaders&quot; thought could help out these situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="269" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T17:23:28.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35" CreationDate="2011-12-09T18:03:36.300" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well I think this trilogy suffers from many problems that stem from the fact that it was never &quot;planned&quot; to be a trilogy.  Like many other movies (Back to the Future, Pirates of the Caribbean etc.), the first movie was written as a standalone story without any purposely created plot holes for future explanation.  What this means is that additional story telling based on the first movie will have to be then &quot;made up&quot; on the spot and tacked on to the original story.  While there aren't any severe inconsistencies, many viewers can tell that many sequel story elements might not necessarily fit with the tonality of the the original.  This in itself could &quot;turn off&quot; many fans to the sequels of these films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This of course isn't specific to just movie though.  The same can be found in TV shows, comics and books as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="269" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T18:03:36.300" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="394" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-09T21:04:07.707" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-09T21:04:07.707" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T21:04:07.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="395" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-09T21:04:07.707" Score="0" Body="A subsequent movie that continues the story of an earlier movie" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-09T21:22:55.423" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T21:22:55.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="396" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-09T21:07:21.897" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-09T21:07:21.897" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T21:07:21.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="397" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-09T21:07:21.897" Score="0" Body="2004 cult science-fiction movie about the implications of inventing a time-machine. This movie had a budget of $7,000 and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T02:51:08.593" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T02:51:08.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="398" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-09T21:11:00.127" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-09T21:11:00.127" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T21:11:00.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="399" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-09T21:11:00.127" Score="0" Body="A movie in two parts released in 2003 and 2004, Kill Bill is a revenge story written and Directed by Quentin Tarrantino, heavily influenced by martial arts and spaghetti western movies." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-09T21:22:49.527" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T21:22:49.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="400" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-09T21:13:19.843" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-09T21:13:19.843" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T21:13:19.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="401" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-09T21:13:19.843" Score="0" Body="The protagonist of Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti westerns, played by Clint Eastwood" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-09T21:22:51.633" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T21:22:51.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="402" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-09T21:15:37.407" Score="24" ViewCount="18536" Body="&lt;p&gt;My contention (once I got past my teenage years) was that the Wheel of Pain, in the original &lt;em&gt;Conan the Barbarian&lt;/em&gt; (1982) movie, was supposed to be allegorical—a symbol of Conan's difficult upbringing as a slave. Most people, however, seem to view it as literal—that he had to push this wheel around for ~10 years, presumably as a grain mill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some kind of source, either in the movie or outside of the movie, that could explain this more definitively? Answers claiming &amp;quot;it's totally such-and-such&amp;quot; without supporting evidence are okay (though more than one answer of the same kind should be avoided in lieu of voting up a pre-existing one), and no answer without some kind of support will be marked as accepted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="270" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-03-16T03:04:22.290" LastActivityDate="2024-03-17T14:08:10.327" Title="Was the Wheel of Pain actual or allegorical?" Tags="|analysis|conan-the-barbarian|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="403" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-09T21:31:58.457" Score="23" ViewCount="4616" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5PGSh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;cloverfield1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, I'm talking about the scene at the &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; end, where the camera is on the happy couple in the ferris wheel.  The first time I watched it, my friend pointed out the faint streak that hits the water as the camera pans across the ocean.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second time I watched it on a different disc, and I was going to show the other people that streak...but no matter how I looked and slowed down the viewing, I couldn't find it.  Is there a known version difference, or...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="270" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T15:31:16.973" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T15:31:16.973" Title="Are there different endings to Cloverfield?" Tags="|ending|cloverfield|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="404" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-09T22:00:59.297" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-09T22:00:59.297" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T22:00:59.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="405" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-09T22:00:59.297" Score="0" Body="Psychological Thriller released in 2000 based on the book of the same name, a controversial satire of Wall Street Yuppie culture, it stars Christian Bale." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-12T22:04:26.857" LastActivityDate="2011-12-12T22:04:26.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="406" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-09T22:07:56.540" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-09T22:07:56.540" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T22:07:56.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="407" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-09T22:07:56.540" Score="0" Body="Psychological Thriller written and directed by Christopher Nolan, it tells the story of a man with short term memory issues seeking revenge, and is shown mostly in scenes replayed in reverse order from the end of story." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-12T22:04:31.007" LastActivityDate="2011-12-12T22:04:31.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="408" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-09T22:19:34.720" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-09T22:19:34.720" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T22:19:34.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="409" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-09T22:19:34.720" Score="0" Body="2001 surrealist film-noir written and directed by David Lynch.  It is often credited as Lynch's best work since the 80's and won him a Best Director Academy Award nomination." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-12T22:04:32.410" LastActivityDate="2011-12-12T22:04:32.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="295" CreationDate="2011-12-09T23:51:21.547" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure how an isolated, mentally challenged, psychotic can't envy the life of a simple man?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often geniuses become insane and often wish they were more simple.  The saying &quot;ignorrance is bliss&quot; definitely came from somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what would be wrong with John Doe envying the life of a simple family man?  I thought it was brilliant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="274" LastActivityDate="2011-12-09T23:51:21.547" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="403" CreationDate="2011-12-10T03:40:11.180" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just popped in the DVD.  I can verify that on the Canadian DVD release there are two alternative endings, with or without commentary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched them when I got the movie a few years ago, but I cannot recall them.  But, they are there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7" LastActivityDate="2011-12-10T03:40:11.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="403" CreationDate="2011-12-10T04:21:11.980" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloverfield#Home_media_release&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (source is Paramount pictures themselves):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The DVD includes two alternative endings, which vary only slightly. The first alternative ending shows Rob and Beth exiting the Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue station instead of on the Ferris wheel and features different sirens in the background as Rob talks to the camera. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the Second:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the second alternative ending, just after the final explosion, Beth can be heard screaming &quot;Rob!&quot;, followed by a very brief clip of an unknown person looking at the camera (in the commentary, Matt Reeves said that it was one of the crew members) and brushing rubble off the lens. The film then ends with the original final clip of Rob and Beth on their Coney Island date recording themselves on the ferris wheel as the camera tape runs out, with two differences: there is no timestamp in the lower left-hand corner of the screen, and there is an additional beeping tone indicating the end of the tape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, yes, 2 alternate endings exist, but they do not make many changes to the overall plot, just to the perception of this supposed sequel they're making.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-04-02T18:37:26.500" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T18:37:26.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="419" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="446" CreationDate="2011-12-10T04:46:33.963" Score="27" ViewCount="13960" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have never been to a showing of the movie, nor have I even seen it.  I have heard that it is quite the experience.  People dress up, yell things at certain parts of the movie, and even throw toast?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is why is this done?  Is there a reason or significance for the actions during a viewing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-08T08:29:45.480" LastActivityDate="2016-06-09T01:50:49.053" Title="What happens in a Rocky Horror Picture Show showing and why?" Tags="|the-rocky-horror-picture-show|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="437" CreationDate="2011-12-10T05:56:32.850" Score="13" ViewCount="1490" Body="&lt;p&gt;This should be easy for someone to remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was possibly made in 2009-2010, set in an isolated seaside town in New York.&#xA;The wife thinks her husband is cheating on her but he's really taking acting classes and ashamed to admit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought the husband was De Niro, but I can't recognize the movie name in his filmography. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The parents thought the daughter was at college but she was stripping. The teenage son had a fetish for fat women. The wife went to cheat on her husband because she thought he was cheating on her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="277" LastEditorUserId="277" LastEditDate="2016-09-05T02:19:24.017" LastActivityDate="2016-09-05T02:19:24.017" Title="What is this recent movie about family secrets?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:33:32.443" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="237" CreationDate="2011-12-10T10:03:55.860" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need keys. We need to help Teddy to find his keys! :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joke aside, you should give  attention to what Teddy says directly before the linked video.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Teddy: &quot;So you lie to yourself to be happy.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Teddy: &quot;Yeah I guess I can only make you remember the things you want to be true. Like Jimmy down there.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leonard: &quot;He's not the right guy.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Teddy: &quot;He was to you. You got your revenge. Enjoy it while you still remember.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and sometimes later (that's in the linked video) Leonard is thinking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Do I lie to myself to be happy? In your case, Teddy, yes I will.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as he is writing down Teddy's license plate to form a new clue tattoo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also take notice of the memory of his wife in the scene where he is driving to the tattoo parlor--especially note the chest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On his chest is tattoed &quot;I've done it.&quot; while is wife is alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what do we make out of all this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Everyone is using Leonard - including himself. He fudges his informations to stay on a constant path of Revenge. That is the thing that makes him happy. Probably it's because he killed his wife with an overdose of insulin, a story he attributed to Sammy Jenkins. He can't stand that, he needs to see &quot;Johnny G.&quot; as the guilty for the death of his wife, although she survived the assault and rape (as his memory in the car-drive-scene shows).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="1548" LastEditDate="2014-05-18T04:48:55.717" LastActivityDate="2014-05-18T04:48:55.717" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="424" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-10T10:47:25.910" Score="9" ViewCount="7322" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310775/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance&lt;/a&gt;, Park Dong-jin get's killed by the group of communists, that Yeong-mi is member of. But earlier in the movie it is explained, that Yeong-mi is the only member of this group. So why do they show up in the end? Was it simply a mistake of the inspector, who earlier stated they wouldn't exist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="66" LastEditDate="2015-06-14T13:45:40.517" LastActivityDate="2015-06-14T13:45:40.517" Title="How can the ending of &quot;Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance&quot; be explained?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|sympathy-for-mr-vengeance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="425" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-10T10:58:06.813" Score="10" ViewCount="564" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430651/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Survive Style 5+&lt;/em&gt; (2004)&lt;/a&gt;, Aman's wife comes back as a revengeful ghost every time he kills her. But when she is killed the second time by the hitman, she doesn't come back. What is the difference, and does it play any part in the plot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="42655" LastEditDate="2017-08-20T19:22:36.690" LastActivityDate="2017-08-20T19:22:36.690" Title="Why doesn't Aman's wife come back the last time?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|survive-style-5+|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="426" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="431" CreationDate="2011-12-10T11:50:53.900" Score="15" ViewCount="1580" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056119/combined&quot;&gt;La jetée&lt;/a&gt; has already the story of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/combined&quot;&gt;12 Monkeys&lt;/a&gt;, including also key-settings like the airport and the mall. But there is one big difference in 12 Monkeys to the older movie: Terry Gilliams included Jeffrey Goines, who plays an important role in his movie. Why did he include Jeffrey?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-10T14:33:41.510" LastActivityDate="2011-12-10T15:11:07.827" Title="Why did Terry Gilliam include Jeffrey as a character in Twelve Monkeys?" Tags="|analysis|remake|la-jetee|12-monkeys|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="428" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="460" CreationDate="2011-12-10T13:56:56.420" Score="12" ViewCount="2315" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056119/combined&quot;&gt;La jetée&lt;/a&gt; is composed from photographs with a voice telling the story. What is the reason he used photographs instead of normal animated pictures? Was his budget too constrained? Or was it some artistic reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2011-12-11T23:30:47.143" LastActivityDate="2018-12-13T20:29:49.993" Title="Why did director Chris Marker use photographs in La jetée?" Tags="|la-jetee|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="429" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-10T14:01:54.133" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Plot Explanation questions are questions that seek to either understand or help clarify different aspects of a story's plots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be specific about the concrete point you don't understand. Broad questions, such as &lt;em&gt;&quot;Explain the movie to me&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, will end up being closed.  Clearly state the portion of the show's plot that does not make sense to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2015-08-28T17:34:07.533" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T17:34:07.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="430" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-10T14:01:54.133" Score="0" Body="Seeking to understand a story plot better, or to clear up confusion about certain aspects or plot points. Please also use the specific tag for the movie or TV series, if it exists." OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2020-12-18T23:03:00.900" LastActivityDate="2020-12-18T23:03:00.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="426" CreationDate="2011-12-10T15:11:07.827" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interestingly Gilliam did not write the screenplay for 12 Monkeys, it is a rare example of a Gilliam movie that he did not start but was brought on-board after the rights had been picked up by the studio and a screenplay had been written by David and Janet Peoples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, La jetée is 28 minutes long. I imagine that the writers could not sustain the story for 90+ minutes with just the main characters of the Narrator and The Woman, so introduced the both the disease as the cause of the 'end of the world' rather than a nuclear war, and Jeffrey as a character for Cole to interact with and start to obsess about stopping him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also imagine that when they came to rewrite the story, that a plot of a disease being deliberately released by eco-terrorists plays into the fears of people in the 90's more than people in the 60's when the original was made with a nuclear war story. This alternative back-story also makes it plausible for Cole to attempt to stop the apocalypse from happening as a driver for a lot of the action.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really 12 Monkeys is not a remake of La jetée, as it says in the credits, it was inspired by the original.  In La jetée the narrator is also sent into the future where he brings back technology to help his broken society and is not killed by present-day cops at the Airport.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2011-12-10T15:11:07.827" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="432" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="464" CreationDate="2011-12-10T16:11:52.083" Score="6" ViewCount="472" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1439572/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Perfect Sense&lt;/a&gt; a strange disease robs the people of their senses, one after the other. Just before a sense is going away the people have a strong emotion. They are coupled as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;smell: sadness&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;taste: hunger/appetite&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hearing: aggression/anger&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;vision: love&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the connection between taste and hunger, but what about the others? Any explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-24T12:14:59.910" LastActivityDate="2015-09-13T00:52:42.380" Title="Is there an explanation for which emotions and senses are connected?" Tags="|analysis|perfect-sense|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="419" CreationDate="2011-12-10T16:18:00.450" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;A showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show is different from everything else you have seen. If you are open minded and if you love cinema, you should watch it as soon as you have a chance. You don't need to know anything about the movie (you really shouldn't in my opinion, that's part of the magic), just don't watch it at home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie was a box office failure in the U.S. in 1975. The producer, Lou Adler, decided to move it to the midnight movie circuit in 1976 to try to get some of the investment back. That was when the cult began.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;At first, the movie was a success among the transvestite community and science fiction fans, but then it got out to the general public and became a national sensation. It is hard to explain why it happened, but the snowball effect is easy to understand: you are watching a movie with a crowd of people dressed up exactly like the characters, who know every single line in the script and each time there is a more questionable quote they shout back at the screen with a witty comment or a sexual joke. So it can happen pretty much anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I probably didn't answer your questions, but the fact is there isn't an straight answer to the why, what or how. You will understand everything after you go out and watch a night session of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit just to add a few things about the movie itself. This is a musical/comedy. It's a tribute to classical science fiction movies and, at the same time, it carries a strong message about liberty and about exploring the limits of one's sexuality. It has a brilliant soundtrack and a simple (almost naive) humor. Whether live or at home this is not a movie that everyone will enjoy. Not everyone enjoys musicals, not everyone will laugh (specially if you are watching it alone) and the sexual content may be a little too much for some people. Nevertheless, it is a unique live experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="137" LastEditorUserId="137" LastEditDate="2011-12-10T23:01:40.703" LastActivityDate="2011-12-10T23:01:40.703" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="237" CreationDate="2011-12-10T20:20:17.370" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leonard is Sammy Jenkis - or is he?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much like the end of Inception - we never see the top stop spinning - so is Cobb still dreaming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="274" LastActivityDate="2011-12-10T20:20:17.370" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="435" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-10T22:43:14.057" Score="24" ViewCount="13814" Body="&lt;p&gt;Miller's crossing pays a lot of attention to Gabriel Byrne's hat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it symbolize anything in the movie or have any significance to the plot or is this a bit of a red herring?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="274" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-02-12T22:21:58.163" LastActivityDate="2019-10-14T18:59:50.500" Title="What is the significance of the hat in Miller's crossing?" Tags="|analysis|millers-crossing|" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="436" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="970" CreationDate="2011-12-11T02:37:25.097" Score="21" ViewCount="1176" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember (99% sure) an interview with Spielberg (in a documentary of Kubrick's lifework), where he states that many critics falsely supposed that Spielberg was responsible for the first part (showing the life of the artificial child within its &quot;family&quot;) of the movie, while the second part and end of the movie would rather match Kubrick's typical movie style. But, in fact it was the other way around, Spielberg said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware the whole movie was based on Kubrick's script and concepts initally, but I would really like to know as a Kubrick fan, what parts of the final movie were elaborated by Kubrick's/Spielberg's views/style and why so many critics were wrong. Is the first part kind of untypical for Kubrick movie style?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="217" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T15:06:37.850" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T09:35:40.220" Title="Is the first part of &quot;A.I. Artificial Intelligence&quot; based on Kubrick's or Spielberg's concepts/style?" Tags="|stanley-kubrick|steven-spielberg|ai-artificial-intelligence|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="420" CreationDate="2011-12-11T09:03:39.730" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie you are looking for is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1174730/&quot;&gt;City Island (2009)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The main actor is a corrections officer in the day and actor in private&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The daughter is supposed to be in college but she works as a stripper&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main actor reminds you of De Niro but you were thinking of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000412/&quot;&gt;Andy Garcia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastActivityDate="2011-12-11T09:03:39.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="438" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="458" CreationDate="2011-12-11T13:45:29.323" Score="19" ViewCount="2030" Body="&lt;p&gt;I once saw a movie about a man who pays the fare of a woman on a bus. From there he falls in love with the girl. They then become friends, and indulge in many acts of sexual fetish in their relationship. The man eventually becomes tired of the relationship (because he wants to become famous), and asks the woman to break their relationship. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, she says that she is ready to devote her entire life to him. He then decides to trick her, and they get on a plane. But before flying off, the man gets off the plane, leaving the girl inside, to get rid of her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But she comes back (when he has an accident and is hospitalized), and tries to take revenge by pulling him out of the hospital bed. His backbone breaks and he becomes paralyzed for his entire life. She then starts her relationship with other men, letting him see her and suffer. And at the end, the man kills both her and him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="288" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-02T06:24:21.040" LastActivityDate="2016-06-26T20:20:14.593" Title="Man pays woman's fare on a bus and falls in love" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:33:35.570" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="441" CreationDate="2011-12-11T20:16:30.057" Score="32" ViewCount="54991" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Shutter Island, there is a scene where a lady during interrogation asks for a glass of water. However, when she drinks the water, there is no glass at all. A moment later, the glass reappears. I also noticed, on the table, there are &quot;water prints&quot; (I'm not sure how they are called in English) of the glass. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/acZqbz5egfU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder, what is the meaning of this &quot;no-glass scene&quot;, and what is the meaning of &quot;water prints&quot; (in the video above, you can see them at 0:07) on the table?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="290" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-25T19:07:41.850" LastActivityDate="2016-12-25T19:14:15.577" Title="Shutter Island - missing glass scene" Tags="|plot-explanation|shutter-island|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="440" CreationDate="2011-12-11T21:32:12.640" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what else to tell you, the highest voted comment on YouTube explained it very well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Teddy has a fear of water based on the incident that happened in the past that he is trying to suppress. Water and fire are the important themes throughout the movie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rain  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hurricane  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beach Cave  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cigarettes  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the YouTube user correctly mentions, the audience is seeing the absence of water through the eyes of Teddy. In order to maintain control of what he believes to be true, he must cancel out any occurrence of water. Otherwise, it will resurface what really happened to the children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are three angles&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One facing across the table showing the &lt;em&gt;marshal&lt;/em&gt;, the woman and Teddy  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One facing the woman, notice we see her right side, based on the seating setup, this is exactly where Teddy is sitting. The water comes from the marshal and she leans to the left to get it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The side from the woman when she finishes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The circle (water print) left could honestly just be seen as residual from the previous trials of the scene. If you notice the cut from when she drops back the camera angle across the table the ordering of the papers are not the same. Also, there is no pen in sight before the cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-25T19:12:08.850" LastActivityDate="2016-12-25T19:12:08.850" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="442" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-11T22:44:49.187" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-11T22:44:49.187" LastActivityDate="2011-12-11T22:44:49.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="443" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-11T22:44:49.187" Score="0" Body="A promotional advertisement for a future movie, which often appear months before the movie is released." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-12T22:04:39.290" LastActivityDate="2011-12-12T22:04:39.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="444" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-11T22:47:19.510" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-11T22:47:19.510" LastActivityDate="2011-12-11T22:47:19.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="445" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-11T22:47:19.510" Score="0" Body="1995 science-fiction movie directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Bruce Willis, the story was inspired by the 1962 movie La jetée" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-12T22:04:25.110" LastActivityDate="2011-12-12T22:04:25.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="419" CreationDate="2011-12-12T00:26:21.027" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;As detailed in the documentary &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457414/&quot;&gt;Midnight Movies: From the Margins to the Mainstream&lt;/a&gt;,&quot; The audience participation phenomenon grew out of the &quot;midnight movie&quot;/&quot;cult&quot; experience in the 1970s; people who identified strongly with the themes and characters came back to the show again and again. It began with a type of cosplay (dressing up as characters), then callbacks (interacting with the dialogue) and then shadowcasting (acting out the movie beneath the screen, often with interpretations). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Props were an offshoot of callbacks -- the first included the use of water pistols and newspaper to simulate a couple caught in the rain, and the sparking of lighters when the line &quot;There's a light…&quot; is sung. Some props have fallen out of fashion due to theatre restrictions. The throwing of toast is an example -- cleaning up bread crumbs is more difficult than sweeping up rice -- and few theaters allow open flames anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="192" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-02-15T01:17:04.183" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T01:17:04.183" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="453" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1356" CreationDate="2011-12-12T20:52:55.697" Score="8" ViewCount="2044" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have vague memories of a TV movie from the late nineties about a sentient Christmas decoration.  It was called something like &quot;the Littlest Christmas Ball.&quot;  In terms of plot, I have nothing, but I think it took place largely on a Christmas tree and there might have been an angel ornament.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="307" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T12:06:58.550" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T09:42:19.237" Title="What is this animated christmas TV Movie about a sentient ornament?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|animation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2017-12-13T06:57:56.463" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="454" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="508" CreationDate="2011-12-12T20:57:33.817" Score="12" ViewCount="1440" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suddenly remembered seeing a movie on T.V. when I was a kid. I have no idea what the story was about, but I remember the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;was animated in a very distinct non-Disney style (unlike anything else either, I recall shakily drawn characters)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;main villain was a rat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a major scene took place around toys, maybe in a toy store&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it was kind of Christmas/holiday themed or maybe just took place in the winter season.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember that it was very strange, but I really liked it. I will know it if I see a picture of it for sure. I have looked through &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_mice_and_rats&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia's list of fictional rodents page&lt;/a&gt; but couldn't find what I was looking for there either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone can help, and further more, knows if it's available on DVD that would be great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T09:43:55.697" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T09:45:33.933" Title="Christmassy movie about a rat in a toy store" Tags="|identify-this-movie|animation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:33:38.703" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="454" CreationDate="2011-12-13T02:00:51.950" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091149/&quot;&gt;The Great Mouse Detective&lt;/a&gt; (1986). The villain was a rat (the appropriately named Professor Ratigan), the mystery concerned a kidnapped toymaker, and although it was in fact produced by Disney, it was during a period when the house style was quite different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="192" LastActivityDate="2011-12-13T02:00:51.950" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="438" CreationDate="2011-12-13T02:12:58.020" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title of the movie is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104779/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bitter Moon&lt;/a&gt;, which came out in 1992 in the UK and 1994 in the US. It was directed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000591/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Roman Polanski&lt;/a&gt; and stars &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000424/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hugh Grant&lt;/a&gt; as Nigel.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="309" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T09:40:27.183" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T09:40:27.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="459" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="463" CreationDate="2011-12-13T03:46:00.727" Score="24" ViewCount="167506" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a couple of questions about the ending of the horribly disturbing &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364569/&quot;&gt;Oldboy (2003)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does the antagonist &quot;Puppet Master&quot; kill himself in the elevator? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was he so consumed by revenge that he had nothing left after he carried out his purpose? The realization that after all he had done to exact revenge, it didn't ease the pain of his first (and most likely only) love dying? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can kind of understand those but it seems a bit single-minded of him and/or simple, maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, did the final hypnosis work on the protagonist? Or does he still know that she is his daughter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-08-26T11:50:05.083" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T19:37:44.003" Title="Explanation of the ending of &quot;Oldboy&quot;" Tags="|analysis|ending|oldboy|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="428" CreationDate="2011-12-13T04:01:47.437" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is an experimental film. Chris Marker did it that way due to artistic reasons. In the 60's french directors were pushing the boundaries of film as an art, breaking rules to experiment with filmmaking (check Godard's &quot;À bout de souffle&quot; as another example, using non classic montage).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="311" LastActivityDate="2011-12-13T04:01:47.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="176" CreationDate="2011-12-13T09:12:49.327" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do think the scene is intended to be humorous. Not &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; humorous - its real purpose is to give us a brilliantly succinct introduction into Mark, his personality and the factors that motivate him throughout the rest of the film - but it's definitely funny for two main reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are just some flat-out funny lines, like when Erica tells Mark &quot;[I can't talk any more] because it is exhausting! Dating you is like dating a StairMaster!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We're amused by people who are rude without realising it. Look at comedies like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawlty_Towers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fawlty Towers&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_%28UK_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Office&lt;/a&gt;: almost all of the humour comes from a character who is breathtakingly rude to other people yet seems oblivious to the offence they're causing. In the opening scene of The Social Network, Mark plays that role: he does nothing but insult Erika (they're only there because she &quot;slept with the doorman&quot;; she doesn't need to study because she's at a less important university) or ignore her (&quot;I wasn't talking about China anymore, I was talking about me&quot;) and then seems flabbergasted when she tells him their relationship is over. The humour comes from watching him dig his own grave, especially when he ignores all the warning signs (Erica's horrified reactions) and just keeps digging.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not suggesting that Mark Zuckerberg is written as a comedy character: he isn't. But Sorkin is a hugely witty writer and there are plenty of funny scenes in the film without it being a comedy. (The chicken cruelty episode always makes me laugh out loud!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="314" LastActivityDate="2011-12-13T09:12:49.327" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2011-12-13T09:37:15.873" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Following the pattern that is oh so common in Asian mediums (manga, anime and movies), yes, the puppetmaster only wanted revenge. And after he had his revenge, he could die in peace. Revenge was the only thing he was after. That is why he could kill himself, but why he actually did it was to find peace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I know it sounds single minded of him as you said, but that is the nature of most protagonists of (mainly) Japanese stories in the popular mediums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the final hypnosis, without being certain, I'd say it didn't work. However it's been a while since I watched the film, so I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T19:30:54.710" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T19:30:54.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2011-12-13T09:37:31.213" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;To the first question: He realized he killed his sister (and lover). He had imagined that she did kill herself, after the bad mouth from the others (including Oh Dae-su, that's why the revenge). But in the process, he (I can't remember his name) is reminded that he couldn't stand the rumors, so he killed her. As this falls into place in his mind, he kills himself out of guilt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the second question, I didn't get that Oh was hypnotized again at the end, to forget that about Mi-do. I thought he cut out the tongue so that the antagonist would not tell Mi-do. If that's so with hypnosis again (I don't own the DVD, can't check), I think it should be open to interpretation for the viewer what Oh knows at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T19:28:11.903" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T19:28:11.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="432" CreationDate="2011-12-13T10:05:35.697" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the movie yet, so any answer I guess would be just that - a guess. But here is my hypothesis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Smell - sadness: Smells can trigger a lot of memories. Perhaps you smell bread baking, and you're taken back to when you were a kid and you and your mom went to the bakery every week to get a fresh loaf of bread. As weird as it sounds, when I get a whiff of mothballs, I think about my grandmother's apartment, because the smell was distinct and she used them in her drawers where she kept her clothing. Not being able to smell anymore would rob you of those memories, which I can imagine would lead to great sadness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hearing - aggression/anger: This actually makes sense when you think about it. Nine times out of ten, you're pissed at someone because of something someone else told you about them. One good example is how most people find out their partner is cheating - they hear about it from someone else (or they overhear a conversation they shouldn't be hearing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vision - love: Again, this also makes sense. We tend to fall in love with our eyes. You can describe a woman like Angelina Jolie in a 1,000 words, but it will not have the same impact on you until you actually see a picture of her. There's also a reason why the expression is &quot;beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:31:29.193" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:31:29.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="465" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-13T11:09:11.217" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_loop&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;time loop or temporal loop&lt;/a&gt; is a common plot device in which time runs normally for a set period but keeps skipping back for a number of times. A well-known movie featuring a time loop is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Groundhog Day&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="297" LastEditorUserId="297" LastEditDate="2011-12-14T00:29:12.043" LastActivityDate="2011-12-14T00:29:12.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="466" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-13T11:09:11.217" Score="0" Body="A time loop or temporal loop is a common plot device in which time runs normally for a set period but keeps skipping back for a number of times." OwnerUserId="297" LastEditorUserId="297" LastEditDate="2011-12-14T00:29:16.380" LastActivityDate="2011-12-14T00:29:16.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2011-12-13T11:13:26.623" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;Love the other answers already given but one extra contributory factor may be that, and you may not remember this, there was a huge backlash against 'Die Another Day's over-use of frankly bullshit technology and the makers commented at the time that they knew they'd gone too far. In particular the invisible car was just laughed at when I saw it theatrically, as was the huge laser that could destroy land targets but seemed to only warm up the plane gradually, plus the ice-hotel, the VR headset and a number of other items that not only didn't add anything but actually made the film laughable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastEditorUserId="296" LastEditDate="2015-02-11T16:25:07.193" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T16:25:07.193" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="419" CreationDate="2011-12-13T11:54:00.867" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a link here &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rockyhorror.com/participation/proplist.php&quot;&gt;that goes over all the props&lt;/a&gt; used during a Rocky Horror Picture Show showing. The toast, for example, is thrown when one of the characters proposes a toast (these guys are nothing if not literal).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want, try watching the movie at home. It's an okay movie with a HUGE amount of camp in it. However, if you go to a midnight showing with a bunch of people who act out some parts of the scenes, it becomes something more akin to a 4-D showing (so to speak). I went to a midnight showing once a LONG time ago, and they usually have 'virgins' (people who have never seen the movie before) come in front before the showing, and have some of the women try and give their best fake orgasm. Like I said, a LOT of camp...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2011-12-13T11:54:00.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="475" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="487" CreationDate="2011-12-13T16:54:17.293" Score="77" ViewCount="11912" Body="&lt;p&gt;If level 0 is the reality, the characters in the van are at level 1. The van drops off the edge of the bridge and goes into freefall. At level 2, in the hotel, they experience the freefall as well. But then, at level 3, at the fortress, (and for that matter, in limbo) there is no freefall. Why is it so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="270" LastEditorUserId="60982" LastEditDate="2019-02-26T07:19:45.120" LastActivityDate="2022-05-23T19:39:41.067" Title="Why aren't the characters floating two levels down?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="476" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-13T16:54:19.367" Score="7" ViewCount="327" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alphaville is one of my favorite movies. The plot, characters, and narration have always seemed very unique to me. I am wondering what influenced them, particularly the idea of a galactic capital city where a philosophizing computer resides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="320" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:25:06.560" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T12:25:06.560" Title="What influenced the story and setting of Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville?" Tags="|alphaville|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="176" CreationDate="2011-12-13T16:56:21.283" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The opening scene in any movie is meant to be the before, and the closing scene is the after. So you see the progression the character takes, the arc if you will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The opening scene of &quot;The Social Network&quot; is meant to introduce you to your protagonist. It's meant to show you a) he's smart, b) he's kind of a jerk, and c) he's motivated to do something big.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do yourself a favor and actually read it - it's 10 pages long which is unheard of in screenwriting. Any writer who turned a script in like that, not named Aaron Sorkin, would've gotten laughed out of the room. Even though it's amazing writing, it's just not done like that.  10 Pages of two people talking is a play, not a movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is it meant to be funny? Sure. Is it meant to make you kinda dislike your hero, sure. Is it meant to make you feel sorry for him because he has no idea how to properly talk to a pretty girl? Absolutely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how does the movie end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mark is now a billionaire, master of his own universe, yet still wonders about that girl. This doesn't show a complete character change as most films typically do. Again, it's Sorkin. He can do whatever he wants. He's the exception to the rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="274" LastEditorUserId="148" LastEditDate="2011-12-15T04:15:34.063" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T04:15:34.063" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="475" CreationDate="2011-12-13T17:40:05.927" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Best explanation is the time mechanic.  Because time and other physics means for so little that deep, it could be that they are just deep enough that they do not feel it.  Briefly going over the scenes of the movie, they appear to be strapped down in order to not cause this free-fall effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A more simpler explanation is that it is just an oversight on Nolan's part. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2011-12-13T17:40:05.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="481" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-13T18:19:22.883" Score="19" ViewCount="274258" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Rosemary was impregnatated by &quot;Satan,&quot; many of the occult leaders that knew about this were obsessed with providing her &quot;Tannis Root.&quot;  What was the significance behind this &quot;Tannis Root?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="269" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T14:00:56.130" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T15:33:32.340" Title="What is the significance of &quot;Tannis Root&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|rosemarys-baby|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="475" CreationDate="2011-12-13T19:42:22.530" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The freefall was to wake them up from the next level (so they would feel it!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is how I see the &quot;falling&quot; happen:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Level 1: Van falling&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Felt at Level 2  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Level 3 feels &lt;strong&gt;nothing&lt;/strong&gt; -- can get stuck.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How is this remedied?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Freefall on level 2 which will bring them back from level 3.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ok Back from level 3 up to level 2 with freefall &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Back up to level 1 with van freefall&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Back up to level 0 with main freefall&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202" LastActivityDate="2011-12-13T19:42:22.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="475" CreationDate="2011-12-14T03:08:41.047" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is slightly odd, because other senses appear to be able to penetrate more than one layer, although they are severely attenuated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, when they are in Level 2 - someone says &quot;did you feel that, was that turbulence on the plane&quot; (which is Level 0), to which Eames says &quot;no, too close, Yusuf's driving probably&quot;.  He doesn't say - &quot;of course not, you wouldn't feel anything down here, must be Yusuf's driving&quot;.  Then there is the Edith Piaf song used to synchronize the kick.  That is played by Yusuf into Arthur's ears in Level 1, yet is heard (faintly) in Level 3.  Then there is the 'second kick' that they experience when the van hits the water, this is felt in Level 3 - showing that something should be felt of the free-fall even at that layer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If senses are attenuated with each layer it would be more realistic to think that somewhat less than free-fall would be experienced in Level 2, and some effect would be experienced in Level 3.  There is too much discrepancy between the total free-fall experienced by Arthur, and the apparent normality of skiing down a mountain that the team experience in Level 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still doesn't spoil my enjoyment of it though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2011-12-14T03:08:41.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="488" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="489" CreationDate="2011-12-14T05:45:50.033" Score="42" ViewCount="13228" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane&quot;&gt;Citizen Kane&lt;/a&gt;, what is the significance of rosebud? Or is its insignificance a significance? Or has the director achieved what might sound similar to John Travolta's &lt;a href=&quot;http://jimmyauw.com/2006/07/26/misdirection-sean-misdirection/&quot;&gt;misdirection&lt;/a&gt; in the movie Swordfish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user96" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-02T22:38:09.877" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T19:23:52.143" Title="What is rosebud?" Tags="|plot-explanation|citizen-kane|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="488" CreationDate="2011-12-14T06:28:15.677" Score="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;From Mr. Welles himself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The most basic of all ideas was that of a search for the true significance of the man’s apparently meaningless dying words. Kane was raised without a family. He was snatched from his mother’s arms in early childhood. His parents were a bank. From the point of view of the psychologist, my character had never made what is known as “transference” from his mother. Hence his failure with his wives. In making this clear during the course of the picture, it was my attempt to lead the thoughts of my audience closer and closer to the solution of the enigma of his dying words. These were “Rosebud.” The device of the picture calls for a newspaperman (who didn’t know Kane) to interview people who knew him very well. None had ever heard of “Rosebud.” Actually, as it turns out, “Rosebud” is the trade name of a cheap little sled on which Kane was playing on the day he was taken away from his home and his mother. In his subconscious it represented the simplicity, the comfort, above all the lack of responsibility in his home, and also it stood for his mother’s love which Kane never lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wellesnet.com/?p=187&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt; (the rest of the article is an interesting read in itself)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-06-04T15:14:43.330" LastActivityDate="2012-06-04T15:14:43.330" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="492" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="493" CreationDate="2011-12-14T08:29:43.793" Score="6" ViewCount="1139" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a category for films like 'Shutter Island' where the story is turned upside down at the end of the movie, and then you have a &quot;WTF&quot; feeling?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="53" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-07T10:31:32.097" LastActivityDate="2018-08-01T15:30:06.020" Title="How would you categorise Shutter Island?" Tags="|shutter-island|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="492" CreationDate="2011-12-14T09:04:37.233" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd classify them as films with a &lt;strong&gt;twist ending&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Shutter Island&lt;/em&gt; in particular to have what's called an &quot;unreliable narrator&quot;. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot_twist&quot;&gt;this wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; for more classifications of plot twists with a few examples of each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I won't compile a list here--Google should be able to--but keep in mind that watching a movie with the knowledge that a plot twist is coming might diminish the experience for you :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-12-14T09:04:37.233" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="497" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-14T11:23:47.453" Score="14" ViewCount="1647" Body="&lt;p&gt;The protagonist, Philip Hoffman, is directing the play 'Death of a Salesman' with a twist. He is casting young actors as the characters of Willy and his wife. From my understanding, he is doing this to portray how young people are facing the same dilemmas of rejection and probably failure much earlier in today's life. Is there some other reason the director/writer of the movie Charlie Kaufman has used this play in this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="222" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T18:16:53.583" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T18:16:53.583" Title="In 'Synecdoche, New York' , what is the significance of choosing the play 'Death of a Salesman'?" Tags="|analysis|synecdoche-new-york|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="501" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="503" CreationDate="2011-12-14T20:47:26.747" Score="16" ViewCount="11733" Body="&lt;p&gt;I heard from someone Chinese that she was surprised that anyone in the US was interested in Hero (the 2002 film) at all, since it relied so heavily on Chinese stories...stories that Chinese people would know well, but Americans (and presumably people of many other nationalities) would not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this true?  If so, what is the story (or stories) that the movie is based on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="270" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T17:46:18.603" LastActivityDate="2017-03-21T23:28:52.517" Title="What legends or stories is Hero (2002) based on?" Tags="|plot-explanation|hero|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="501" CreationDate="2011-12-14T21:29:29.607" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The story has a historical background. It is set in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warring_States_Period&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a time&lt;/a&gt; when China was split into many smaller states fighting against each other and the king of &lt;em&gt;Qin&lt;/em&gt; trying to conquer the other realms, which he later (not in the movie) accomplished and founded the first Chinese dynasty, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Dynasty&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Qin&lt;/em&gt; dynasty&lt;/a&gt;, with himself as the first emperor of China.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it is more or less based on an important era in Chinese history, which I guess every Chinese learns in their history lessons. But to which extent the king of &lt;em&gt;Qin&lt;/em&gt; (the only historically existing person from the movie, I guess) and the specific events are depicted accurately, I cannot tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact there was also a historical person, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jing_Ke&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jing Ke&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, who tried to assassinate the king of &lt;em&gt;Qin&lt;/em&gt; and I think he might have been the model for &lt;em&gt;Jet Li&lt;/em&gt;'s character, the assassin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some years before &lt;em&gt;Hero&lt;/em&gt; there has been another movie set in this background, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162866/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Emperor and the assassin&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which actually features the above mentioned assassination attempt by &lt;em&gt;Jing Ke&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why this movie (&lt;em&gt;Hero&lt;/em&gt;) was also interested by many &quot;foreigners&quot; (and I guess was quite successful all over the world)? Well, it is still a good movie, with a distinct visual style and an interesting story, no matter if you know on what it is based or not (though it can make it even more interesting if you do).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-07T14:37:37.590" LastActivityDate="2013-06-07T14:37:37.590" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="505" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="507" CreationDate="2011-12-15T00:14:48.903" Score="16" ViewCount="4851" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched &lt;em&gt;The Untouchables&lt;/em&gt; and found it to be a great movie, but one scene just seemed strange to me, and did not fit in with the overall atmosphere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Ness is covering the main entrance of the train station to catch the bookmaker, he notices a woman that is trying to get her bags and child up the stairs. The scene goes on for quite some time, and he finally leaves his post to help the lady. Just then the thugs come in and it all ends up in a firefight, where he accidentally lets the the baby buggy roll down the stairs just to save it in the last second while killing several men on his way down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what,s the deal with this scene? I really don't like it because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was overly long. (6 minutes of waiting until the bookmaker shows up)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It had a very strange atmosphere that did not fit into the situation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was totally unreasonable for Ness to leave his post, especially after it was made sure how important it was for him to get this guy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The whole shooting and saving scene was just ridiculous, cliché and way over the top.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the purpose of it? Why did de Palma put it in? Just to add some dramatic effect to the scene? Or is there some major character development going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-30T18:49:43.630" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T18:49:43.630" Title="Why the annoying woman with the kid in the train station?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-untouchables|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="505" CreationDate="2011-12-15T00:58:51.007" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why add it to the scene?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to demonstrate the &quot;bystander effect&quot; of both the people within the station and Eliot.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an excellent plot device to raise the tension and suspense&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T00:58:51.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="505" CreationDate="2011-12-15T01:08:03.813" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, for me this scene is actually the best of the movie. I think it is really intense and exciting and especially the long waiting time builds much tension. So much for the subjective part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like said, the long waiting time is especially to build up tension, so you know what is going on, learn to know the different people walking this nighty station. And with each clock-tick you start to both fear and await more of what's to happen. Now especially the woman with the baby helped again to build up tension, because well, we all love babies, don't we? At least we don't want to see them get into a gun-fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand it showed both Eliot Ness's kindness, when helping the woman, which may also have been a bit of impatience for her to leave the scene. Of course he doesn't just help her and leave his post because he's so nice and loves babies. He just knows that it won't do her and her baby any good to be still around when the bad guys arrive, because they won't let the book-keeper go with him freely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think it also helps to show his single-mindedness/purposefulness on getting the bad guys, when he let's loose the baby carriage and actually pushes the woman away as she wants to grasp the carriage and cries for help, just to get a good shot. This could somehow relate to the church scene earlier, when Malone asks him how far he would go to get Capone. This question is actually a general theme  of the whole movie, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And well, a bit of cliché and over-dramatization doesn't hurt, especially in this scene, I think, considering the many Western motives seen in the rest of the movie. By the way there is a nice parody of this scene in &lt;em&gt;The Naked Gun 33 1/3&lt;/em&gt;, which especially spoofs the extreme dramatization and suspense of this scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I found out that this scene is actually an homage to the famous &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lk75ycHH3w&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Odessa steps scene&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Sergei Eisenstein&lt;/em&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battleship_Potemkin&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Battleship Potemkin&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which I myself haven't seen yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2011-12-16T00:11:59.833" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T00:11:59.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="454" CreationDate="2011-12-15T03:31:14.013" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076416/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Mouse and His Child&lt;/a&gt; is the one you're thinking of, I believe. I found it on YouTube. It ran on HBO in the early eighties I think. I watched it several times as a kid. I loved it but at the same time found it to be a little disturbing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076416/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Mouse and His Child&lt;/a&gt; on IMDB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_and_His_Child_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Mouse and His Child&lt;/a&gt; on Wikipedia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="338" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T09:45:33.933" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T09:45:33.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="509" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="608" CreationDate="2011-12-15T09:18:16.003" Score="31" ViewCount="90691" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1187064/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Triangle&lt;/a&gt;, at the start when Jess arrives at the boat for the &quot;first&quot; time, is this the start of the continuation of the ending scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's known that the cruise ship and any surroundings after leaving it is in a time loop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though Jess remembers the ship and tells Greg, she makes no indication that she is in the time loop. So yes, the movie was meant to confuse the user. But seeing that, according to the number of dead Sallys on board, the time loop occurs more than 20 times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the first time she entered the loop, the storm sent her into an alternate reality with the never-ending time loop? Is this what the movie was showing? I noticed there is a deadly Jess that was not really in the foreground that got shot in the head, and stabs Sally and Downey in one of the rooms. I cannot really place where she falls into the picture seeing that one of the previous Jess instances killed that Jess instead of letting her jump overboard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is there a separate timeline/reality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-30T18:09:01.980" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T18:44:38.260" Title="Is the time loop on the cruise ship a second timeline in Triangle?" Tags="|plot-explanation|time-travel|triangle|" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="514" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-15T09:47:53.367" Score="28" ViewCount="3927" Body="&lt;p&gt;Elsa is a very detailed character for the role she plays. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She is secretly a Nazi&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is constantly around Indiana&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gets violent with Indiana but kisses him  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Indiana finds her with book again Elsa proclaims his love to him  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dies after trying to take the cup yet the others survive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure I would write off Elsa as a simple extra character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would one describe Elsa, what themes were Steven Spielberg and George Lucas trying to portray in her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-12T19:01:14.773" LastActivityDate="2014-08-10T23:09:22.803" Title="How to describe Elsa Schneider in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade?" Tags="|analysis|character|indiana-jones|indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="515" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1362" CreationDate="2011-12-15T10:06:11.613" Score="24" ViewCount="16403" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something just occurred to me, for the life of me, I cannot remember the Driver's name. I am sure this guy does not have a name for the whole movie. Someone had to call out to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have heard him being referred to as &quot;kid&quot;, &quot;guy&quot; and &quot;neighbour&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did he have a name? And if not what was the purpose of having him without a name? How was Nicolas Winding Refn able to accomplish this trick?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-06-22T16:25:30.427" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T06:48:03.480" Title="Why does the Driver not have a name?" Tags="|analysis|drive|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="516" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="520" CreationDate="2011-12-15T10:26:14.910" Score="10" ViewCount="1606" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the long scene for the rescue of Lindsey and the fact that the movie continues even after the mission was a failure, Ethan could have just gone back home. The first plot that we are aware of has come to its end. Instead Ethan takes it upon  himself to make this personal. The rescue is now more than a device to keep the show going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ethan must be a senior agent by now, so he must know of other deaths that happened in the agency. Also Lindsey was the only person he recommended for field duty. At the end, Ethan gives his wife a short intro to shooting a gun, which could be seen as how he trained Lindsey for field duty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this indicate that the relationship was more than platonic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T12:40:03.157" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T21:05:30.983" Title="Is Ethan's and Lindsey's relationship seen as platonic?" Tags="|analysis|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-3|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="517" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-15T10:53:33.993" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-15T10:53:33.993" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T10:53:33.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="518" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-15T10:53:33.993" Score="0" Body="The third addition in the Mission Impossible Film Series" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2011-12-15T19:13:13.300" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T19:13:13.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="515" CreationDate="2011-12-15T13:37:07.690" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;He did not have a name and a lot of reviewers and critics are comparing him to The Man With No Name as a tough, near dialogue-less man who only has his goal in mind.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as how the director achieved this, it seems to me just clever writing not too different to how it was pulled off in Fight Club.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T13:37:07.690" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="516" CreationDate="2011-12-15T14:07:06.973" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might indicate that, reading into everything he has done for her.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think the whole relationship is meant to show her as his 'IMF Child' if you will.  He trained her, and respected her enough to recommend her.  While, in context, this could be taken as romantic.  I think it was so much more than that for him which is why he went on this giant vengeance spree for her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2011-12-15T14:07:06.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="514" CreationDate="2011-12-15T14:24:49.820" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Elsa is essentially a female Belloq (the main antagonist from Raiders of the Lost Ark):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both have some genuine feeling for someone from the other sex, but neither lets it get in their way of working for the Nazis.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both have genuine interest in archeology&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finally, both get done in by their ultimate grab for power, trying to possess a relic which could grant them power over their masters, but instead kills them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-16T03:11:51.717" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T03:11:51.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="522" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-15T17:54:17.777" Score="9" ViewCount="334" Body="&lt;p&gt;I loved this movie when it came out when I was a kid, and always considered its to be factual information that I share when referring to L. Frank Baum's life.  While I understand that some of it must be fictional, I can't really find any resources to tell what exactly has been made up or fabricated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="269" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-05-15T15:53:50.350" LastActivityDate="2013-05-15T15:53:50.350" Title="Does the movie &quot;The Dreamer of Oz&quot; contain any factual events?" Tags="|the-dreamer-of-oz|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="524" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-15T19:23:39.707" Score="41" ViewCount="13786" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I saw The Truman Show at the cinema, it was edited more heavily to make it look like a documentary about how the show was made, by whom and the actors in it, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some things were mentioned about Truman's best friend, Marlon, being an alcoholic in real-life and yet still having to advertise beer (via product placements) and have a &quot;brewski&quot; with Truman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Truman's wife is questioned about her part and is asked if she is &quot;compensated for any sex-acts&quot; with Truman.  She throws a hissy-fit and tells them to turn off the cameras, shouting that she was promised there wouldn't be any questions like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These things and a few other, small bits, are not in the DVD print - although some are in the deleted scenes section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much as I like the film in the form I have and as much as it loses nothing of the story to cut those scenes, I have always felt that the version I saw originally had a much darker tone because of them and was a better version of the film.  I really would love to see it in that form again.  Does anyone know of an alternative cut, directors cut or theatrical print?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, does anyone know why the film would have been altered in this way between theatrical release and DVD print?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="350" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-01-01T13:21:30.977" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:11:24.563" Title="Is there an alternative cut of The Truman Show?" Tags="|editing|alternate-version|the-truman-show|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="525" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="528" CreationDate="2011-12-15T21:51:23.447" Score="14" ViewCount="11739" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie it was not obvious to me what Alex's ultimate fate was.  In particular, I wasn't clear whether he lived or died from his injury.  It seemed like he might live, as he was still moving a bit, but everyone around him seemed completely unconcerned with getting him medical attention.  I even considered the possibility that he was dead at the time of the ending, and we were just seeing him move, but the people in movie were just seeing him as dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it made clear at some point?  Is it purposely ambiguous?  Or was I just missing the obvious?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="270" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-07T10:25:30.387" LastActivityDate="2022-07-05T00:41:48.583" Title="What happens to Alex at the end of Shallow Grave?" Tags="|analysis|shallow-grave|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="527" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="934" CreationDate="2011-12-16T02:34:13.177" Score="29" ViewCount="28696" Body="&lt;p&gt;The paranoia and uncertainty in John Carpenter's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/&quot;&gt;The Thing (1982)&lt;/a&gt; is so well constructed that there is still no consensus on who gets infected, or even when some people do. The thing I really like about it is that the creators may not have actually had a definitive answer in mind themselves, but we should be able to interpret the most likely sequence of events using in-world and real-world logic. The FAQs at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.outpost31.com/movie/faq.html&quot;&gt;this fansite&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/faq&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; do a great job of presenting some theories and explanations. The thing is, the question-answer format makes it a bit hard to follow the events as the movie unfolds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any timelines available (or could they be made) that chart the different theories of the infection spreading through the crew? For when I inevitably watch the film again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T08:24:36.927" LastActivityDate="2018-11-20T17:07:41.023" Title="Infection timelines of John Carpenter's The Thing" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-thing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="525" CreationDate="2011-12-16T03:32:19.767" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is interesting, as I &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; assumed that Alex was dead, or even thought that this was ambiguous. Only reading this question made me realize the discussion around this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes it is surprising that the photographer was taking pictures of him whilst he lies there injured, but (following a quick check on youtube) he is clearly moving his head and facial expressions whilst this is going on - and smiling at the thought of the bag full of fake money that Juliet has taken after hammering the knife into him with her shoe.  Yes he has lost a lot of blood, but to my mind it is looking like they are awaiting paramedics to arrive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the Director is not &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; authoritative when it comes to interpreting a movie - but certainly the director's opinion about the intention of a scene or shot is important to consider - and Danny Boyle has been clear that he intended Alex to survive the movie (Commentary on Special Edition DVD).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2011-12-16T04:56:47.663" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T04:56:47.663" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="524" CreationDate="2011-12-16T04:41:22.670" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll admit I'd never seen it in cinema, so I was unaware of some of these bits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason I could see to cut those bits would possibly to alter the censor ratings, it's a well known fact that sometimes films (and tv series) when rated get given one thing for cinema/broadcast but when they are put onto a media format sometimes the show/films wants to try and get a lower bar of entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good example is with 'Bruno', there was a part with a swinging 'gentlemans part' and in most countries (e.g. Uk/Australia) where this gave the film an automatic 18 rating.  To combat this the film had 3 seconds removed so that the rating was then changed to 12 or 15.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As another example, Red Dwarf famously had an episode that spoke about virginity and was given (at the time) a higher classification (15 I think it was), when it came to releasing the original VHS of the show, the standards had changed so that the episode would instead have been a 12, but the rules were that a show could not be reclassified unless there had been some changes to it.  In light of this, there was a 10 second clip added after the credits of starbug being stuck on the ice planet.  This was enough for the show to be reclassified and given the newer lower rating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T04:41:22.670" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="530" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-16T13:50:42.460" Score="34" ViewCount="45742" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/&quot;&gt;Contagion&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000383/&quot;&gt;Jennifer Ehle's&lt;/a&gt; character is shown giving herself an injection. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This got me wondering - are the injections they perform on-screen real? Do needles actually penetrate the skin and flesh of the actors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not (and it does seem unlikely), what techniques are commonly used to fake it? Do they have trick syringes, fake skin, CG?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T08:25:27.663" LastActivityDate="2020-03-22T19:52:12.167" Title="How are injections given without injuring actors?" Tags="|props|stunts|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="242" CreationDate="2011-12-16T14:07:14.887" Score="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has already an accepted answer, but I feel the need to answer anyway, because I have a very different point of view.  I'll use the same breakdown that phwd uses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;See now I'm thinkin', maybe it means you're the evil man. And I'm the&#xA;  righteous man. And Mr. 9 Milimeter here, he's the shepherd protecting&#xA;  my righteous ass in the valley of darkness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The simplistic and egotistical version.  Ringo is trying to harm him, and can be classified as simply bad.  Jules is free to do whatever he wants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or it could mean you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and&#xA;  it's the world that's evil and selfish.  Now, I'd like that.  But that shit ain't the truth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assume that Ringo is a good man, and is forced to his path out of pure desperation in an unjust world.  Jules can protect and guide him, as he knows much of the world.  As Jules said, he would like that.  Jules would like to believe that he is a good person, and could help others with his new-found spirituality.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men.  But I'm trying.  I'm &#xA;  trying real hard to be the shepard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jules recognizes that Ringo isn't a truly bad person at the core: he doesn't want to hurt people (as mentioned in Ringo's speech), he loves his girlfriend, etc.  He is weak, and takes the easy way out by robbing people, but doesn't want to actually hurt people. But that's not the life that Jules has led.  He hasn't tried to avoid hurting people...he has killed many people and thought nothing of it.  Jules has come to realize that he has led the truly evil life.  But he wants to change.  He knows it won't be as easy as just saying it.  (&quot;Now, I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth.&quot;)  He has to live it.  And he starts by showing compassion, restraint, and mercy by not only letting Ringo live, but by letting him keep the money...giving him a lesson not of strength, but of generosity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="270" LastEditorUserId="16465" LastEditDate="2016-09-28T15:21:46.860" LastActivityDate="2016-09-28T15:21:46.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="530" CreationDate="2011-12-16T15:52:48.690" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I do not have any official sources, I do not see them getting any actual syringes for a movie.  It is fake as with most whether they do it with CGI (which seems a bit over the top when you have) trick syringes, or I've seen before where they just imply the shot with a cut-away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T15:52:48.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="475" CreationDate="2011-12-16T16:08:46.217" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think because when the van drives off the bridge in level 1, that is the 'kick' for the hotel level. When JGL activates the kick in the elevator, they feel it in the snow level. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="332" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T16:08:46.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="509" CreationDate="2011-12-16T18:37:31.407" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not the way I remember it. The way I see it Jess is in a kind of purgatory, as the end of the movie shows her as an abusive mother. She's trapped in the time loop, but seems to be gradually changing things. Perhaps when she has righted all her wrongs she can be free?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2011-12-16T18:37:31.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="541" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="542" CreationDate="2011-12-16T20:32:28.147" Score="18" ViewCount="28372" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1067106/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Christmas Carol&lt;/a&gt; staring Jim Carrey, the Ghost of Christmas Present &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=christmas-carol-a-2009&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;mentions&lt;/a&gt; that he has a lot of brothers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ghost of Christmas Present:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;[You] Have never walked forth with my elder brothers?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scrooge:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I don't think that I have. You have many brothers?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ghost of Christmas Present:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;More than 1,800.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did he mean by this, who are his brothers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-01-05T15:01:44.810" Title="What are the Ghost of Christmas Present's Brothers?" Tags="|plot-explanation|a-christmas-carol-2009|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="541" CreationDate="2011-12-16T21:35:10.610" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that this goes back to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stormfax.com/3dickens.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;original Dickens story&lt;/a&gt; when the Ghost says that he has more than 1800 brothers - i.e. each Ghost of Christmas &lt;em&gt;Present&lt;/em&gt; comes to Earth for a single day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Have never walked forth with &lt;strong&gt;the younger members of my family;&#xA;  meaning (for I am very young) my elder brothers born in these later&#xA;  years?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; pursued the Phantom.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;I don't think I have,&quot; said Scrooge. &quot;I am afraid I have not. Have&#xA;  you had many brothers, Spirit?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;More than eighteen hundred,&quot; said the Ghost.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;A tremendous family to provide for,&quot; muttered Scrooge.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Ghost of Christmas Present rose.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the idea is that a new Ghost is 'created' every Christmas, so at that in 1843 he has 1842 brothers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-25T20:02:46.647" LastActivityDate="2015-12-25T20:02:46.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="543" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-16T21:54:29.207" Score="13" ViewCount="2557" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from the regular plot, that in order to save his son he must overcome battles and so forth, what other purpose does his son have? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is based on the fact that his son's name is Dia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krio_language&quot;&gt;Krio&lt;/a&gt;, Dia means expensive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dia -&gt; expensive&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Diamond -&gt; expensive    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a hidden meaning that is trying to emerge here? Or is this just a simple coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-07T22:34:13.207" LastActivityDate="2012-11-07T22:34:13.207" Title="What's the purpose of Solomon's son Dia in Blood Diamond?" Tags="|analysis|blood-diamond|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="544" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-17T01:16:19.813" Score="17" ViewCount="1425" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animatrix&quot;&gt;The Animatrix&lt;/a&gt;, specifically the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animatrix#Beyond&quot;&gt;Beyond&lt;/a&gt; section after the girl and the kids are quarantined, they return to the spot that had the glitch. I understand why she dropped the can (to see whether it will float), but what was the fixation with the blood?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-15T14:34:17.080" LastActivityDate="2015-10-16T19:23:49.683" Title="What does the girl cutting her hand in Animatrix: Beyond symbolize?" Tags="|analysis|the-animatrix|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="545" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-17T03:33:21.760" Score="43" ViewCount="5555" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a movie geek's film to watch and to enjoy.  But when I reached the end, I had no idea what to take from it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the ideas are amazing, the visuals, and the lines (&lt;em&gt;I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that&lt;/em&gt;) are brilliant.  But why is it considered such a great film, while at the same time having no defined meaning or interpretation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_2001%3a_A_Space_Odyssey&quot;&gt;discussed on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, Kubrick stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and&#xA;  allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication&#xA;  that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I&#xA;  don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer&#xA;  will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Clarke:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I still stand by this remark, which does not mean one can't enjoy the&#xA;  movie completely the first time around. What I meant was, of course,&#xA;  that because we were dealing with the mystery of the universe, and&#xA;  with powers and forces greater than man's comprehension, then by&#xA;  definition they could not be totally understandable. Yet there is at&#xA;  least one logical structure—and sometimes more than one—behind&#xA;  everything that happens on the screen in &quot;2001&quot;, and the ending does&#xA;  not consist of random enigmas, some simpleminded critics to the&#xA;  contrary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Freeman Dyson urged:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;After seeing Space Odyssey, I read Arthur Clarke's book. I found the&#xA;  book gripping and intellectually satisfying, full of the tension and&#xA;  clarity which the movie lacks. All the parts of the movie that are&#xA;  vague and unintelligible, especially the beginning and the end, become&#xA;  clear and convincing in the book. So I recommend to my middle-aged&#xA;  friends who find the movie bewildering that they should read the book;&#xA;  their teenage kids don't need to.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is it a case of just having to read the book to 'get it'? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="366" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-28T00:29:13.193" LastActivityDate="2017-11-17T16:38:41.597" Title="Why does 2001: A Space Odyssey not provide an explanation of its ending? Are we supposed to read the book?" Tags="|analysis|reception|2001-a-space-odyssey|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="546" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="568" CreationDate="2011-12-17T04:21:15.623" Score="7" ViewCount="14609" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've heard many rumors of the infamous movie mistake - the white van, visible in the background of one of the battle scenes in Braveheart.  However I've never spotted it.  Does anyone have a time code or key identifying moment and quadrant of screen to look for the van?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="366" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T13:59:14.560" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T17:29:28.040" Title="In which scene is the White Van in Braveheart?" Tags="|braveheart|production-mistakes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="551" CreationDate="2011-12-17T11:08:19.313" Score="16" ViewCount="23292" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched 10,000BC and have understood the story. But I am curious as to whether the Persian-like Pyramid-building civilization has any link to a real civilization that have existed during those times?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And can they be really that advanced as to have the technology to create those large buildings when at the same time, the main character's tribe is living in the wild?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T15:31:55.943" LastActivityDate="2018-09-17T01:45:38.797" Title="In 10000 BC, is the Persian-like civilization connected to any real history?" Tags="|historical-accuracy|10000-bc|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="548" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="560" CreationDate="2011-12-17T11:11:53.907" Score="7" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched Devil and got the gist of the story. But am confused about the old woman (Satan?) who was in the lift. Is she really &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; Satan or just the haunting past memory of the other characters in the lift?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And also who killed who exactly? (During the flash-back of the car accident)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-14T21:35:49.013" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T21:35:49.013" Title="Was it the character's inner devil that came up in Devil?" Tags="|plot-explanation|devil|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="545" CreationDate="2011-12-17T11:19:36.493" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like your second paragraph and your quote of Kubrick's own statement kind of answer the question already: there is explanation nor meaning for the movie. That is intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You just may or must make up your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2011-12-17T11:19:36.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="543" CreationDate="2011-12-17T11:25:37.747" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well found question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, and just from thoughts that rose at reading your translation, I suppose that name is saying that children - the movie shows enough children's abuse and misemployment - are just as or even more expensive then diamonds. 'Expensive' of course in the sense of &lt;em&gt;precious&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="148" LastEditDate="2011-12-17T12:38:30.660" LastActivityDate="2011-12-17T12:38:30.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="547" CreationDate="2011-12-17T16:11:55.540" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;This pyramid building civilization has many similarities to both the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ancient Egyptian&lt;/a&gt; civilization and also to the civilizations of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mesopotamia&lt;/a&gt; (which you probably mean with &lt;em&gt;Persian-like&lt;/em&gt;). From those two, the latter is/are actually a bit older and marks the beginning of city building. But nevertheless &lt;strong&gt;such large buildings as the Egyptian &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pyramids&lt;/a&gt; or the Mesopotamian &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ziggurats&lt;/a&gt; didn't emerge before about 3,000 BC&lt;/strong&gt; (neither did they in other parts of the world, like America) and in the time of the movie people were still wandering around in small tribes, much more like D'leh's tribe and all those he encounters on his way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think &lt;strong&gt;this civilization is rather made-up&lt;/strong&gt; by Roland Emmerich, though surely influenced by the ancient Egyptian civilization (that already influenced his &lt;em&gt;Stargate&lt;/em&gt;) and maybe a bit of the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations. But in this time it is an utter anachronism. Emmerich somehow used the fact that the records of this time are rather scarce as a possibility to be a bit creative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is actually hinted in the movie that &lt;strong&gt;this civilization is connected to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Atlantis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (which we all know was a civilization that was way ahead of time ;-)), when it says that The Almighty and his followers come from a realm sunken into the seas and later when you shortly see a map that has a large island next to Africa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in fact it has a strong link to a civilization that is rumoured (not by serious scientists however) to have existed in that time, but &lt;strong&gt;not to a real proven civilization &lt;em&gt;at that time&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, though strongly influenced by later existing civilizations. D'leh's tribe and all the other rather primitive tribes are a more accurate depiction of the civilizations at this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, &lt;strong&gt;the ending of the movie can be seen as a more or less accurate allusion to the development of civilizations during that time&lt;/strong&gt;: When the tribe D'leh met during his adventure gives him a bunch of seeds to thank him, D'leh's tribe starts planting crops instead of (or in addition to) hunting. And &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;it was indeed around 10,000 BC&lt;/a&gt; (though varying by region) when &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-gatherer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;nomadism&lt;/a&gt; was replaced by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;agriculture&lt;/a&gt;, which of course formed the prerequisites for permanent settlement (and thus modern civilizations).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conjunction with the harder and harder gathering of food and the tribe's starving depicted at the beginning of the movie this provides a &lt;strong&gt;general look at the overall civilizational development&lt;/strong&gt; and its reasons during this time period and gives the movie a somehow historically accurate main theme, with D'leh's particular adventure being just an anachronistic interlude for the sake of entertainment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-01-15T17:29:20.227" LastActivityDate="2017-01-15T17:29:20.227" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="553" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-17T17:20:39.313" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2011-12-17T17:20:39.313" LastActivityDate="2011-12-17T17:20:39.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="554" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-17T17:20:39.313" Score="0" Body="Iranian refers to the Middle east country Iran, that has been always at loggerheads with west particularly US. It is an Islamic State and a dominant country in Middle east." OwnerUserId="372" LastEditorUserId="372" LastEditDate="2011-12-20T20:28:15.830" LastActivityDate="2011-12-20T20:28:15.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="545" CreationDate="2011-12-17T17:23:01.777" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Book ending explanation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the book, the moon was a portal which lead to a series of more portals. A giant intergalactic highway. The space ship, lacking fuel, ended up colliding with a star, presumably killing Dave. He then wakes up in the white room, as seen in the movie, and becomes a &quot;star-child&quot;. The reader now understands that the obelisks were placed by supreme &quot;aliens,&quot; the same who were behind the white room and the portals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is faithful to the book, although it intentionally lacks narration explaining what's going on. Unlike the book, the movie is an allegory to a number of things, and shouldn't be interpreted as being simply an adaptation of the book, but much more. It's an artistic approach to a scientific novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2011-12-17T17:23:01.777" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="559" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="561" CreationDate="2011-12-17T23:27:28.923" Score="24" ViewCount="10930" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1991 movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102510/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear&lt;/a&gt;, there is a joke I don't get. It's in the scene after Frank Drebin finds out Jane Spencer is going out with one Quentin Hapsburg. He gets depressed and heads to the &quot;Blue Note&quot; jazz bar. There are four pictures on the wall:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first is a street with the city behind on fire (I presume this is the San Francisco earthquake) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The second is the Hindenburg&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The third is the Titanic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The fourth is some guy who looks like &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yBg3A.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DA Jack McCoy from Law &amp;amp; Order&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is the fourth guy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="376" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-05-26T22:00:05.853" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T00:19:57.657" Title="Who is the guy in the Picture in Naked Gun 2 1/2 &quot;Blue Note&quot; jazz bar scene?" Tags="|naked-gun-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="548" CreationDate="2011-12-17T23:42:08.660" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a simple as the Old Woman is &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; devil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as who killed who:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a last, desperate plea for forgiveness, Tony, using a radio, confesses to a hit and run five years earlier: while drunkenly reaching for beer in his car, he smashed into another car and killed a woman (unknown to Tony that the woman was Jesse Bowden, Detective Bowden's wife) and her child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony killed the Detective's wife and child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2011-12-17T23:42:08.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="559" CreationDate="2011-12-17T23:53:04.590" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dukakis#Election_defeat&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Michael Stanley Dukakis.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was a US presidential nominee in 1988.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the link above as well as the comment below, it details that he lost terribly to George H. W. Bush (The first President Bush) in that election. Seeing that the previous pictures, show disasters in which it was assumed the object in the disaster would succeed, the movie shows Dukakis as someone who experienced a great defeat though he went into election assuming otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CUTe3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Dukakis&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="235" LastEditDate="2011-12-19T16:45:10.973" LastActivityDate="2011-12-19T16:45:10.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="333" CreationDate="2011-12-18T00:10:44.967" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're talking about a movie filmed in 1985 set in the year 1955. People's attitudes towards consent were different back then. For example, no one, at least not at the time, would say John Travolta was trying to rape Olivia Newton-John in Grease.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="376" LastActivityDate="2011-12-18T00:10:44.967" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="563" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-18T00:55:43.207" Score="18" ViewCount="14134" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the building where Gabriel and Constantine spoke, he expressed his dismay that he has not repaid his debt to God to which Gabriel replies,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You are going to die young because you smoked 30 cigarettes a day since you were 15... and you're going to go to hell because of the life you took.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is Gabriel referring to? The only instance I could think of is Gabriel referring to Constantine himself when he was talking to the doctor&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You saved me before, you can do it again, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2011-12-18T01:40:48.923" LastActivityDate="2023-02-16T12:07:18.733" Title="Who is Gabriel referring to when it told Constantine he took a life?" Tags="|plot-explanation|constantine|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="563" CreationDate="2011-12-18T01:37:55.277" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;strong&gt;the reason for Constantine's first visit to hell was his suicide&lt;/strong&gt; as a teenager, I'm pretty sure Gabriel is really just referring to Constantine himself, meaning that he took his own life (which for Christians is indeed a reason to go to hell).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is even more evident in his dialogue with &lt;em&gt;Angela&lt;/em&gt; at the diner:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;John:&lt;/em&gt; You think you're crazy long enough, you find a way out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Angela:&lt;/em&gt; You tried to kill yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;John:&lt;/em&gt; I didn't try anything. Officially, &lt;strong&gt;I was dead for two minutes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;John:&lt;/em&gt; I don't get them all, but I've been hoping to get enough to ensure my...retirement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Angela:&lt;/em&gt; I don't understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;John:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;I'm a suicide, Angela. When I die, the rules say I've got just one place to go.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Angela:&lt;/em&gt; You're trying to buy your way into heaven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Never does he mention any other reason for which he might go to hell, at least not killing anyone else. Since the above conversation with &lt;em&gt;Angela&lt;/em&gt; happens &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; his conversation with &lt;em&gt;Gabriel&lt;/em&gt; and for him there isn't any ambiguity about the reason for going to hell, it can only be &lt;strong&gt;Constantine's own life&lt;/strong&gt; that &lt;em&gt;Gabriel&lt;/em&gt; is talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="9382" LastEditDate="2023-02-16T12:07:18.733" LastActivityDate="2023-02-16T12:07:18.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="88" CreationDate="2011-12-18T14:32:17.997" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, there were no intended extra scenes for Aurra Sing. She was based on a sketch by the concept artist Doug Chiang who was designing female bounty hunters at the time, and was popular enough with GL to get one of his 'stamps' on the artwork and a live appearance. She turned out to be enigmatic enough to become a fan favorite, and prompted a slew of back story which also resulted in her appearance in the new Clone Wars series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So many of these 'blink and you miss 'em' characters appear in the Star Wars saga - often elevated to more prominence due to fan demand (look at Hammerhead in the cantina, or Bossk from Vader's bounty hunter team). For me, it's part of the appeal of the saga - a glimpse at a much larger galaxy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2011-12-30T17:27:28.133" LastActivityDate="2011-12-30T17:27:28.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="546" CreationDate="2011-12-18T14:45:45.253" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a bit different to Seanland's answer, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviemistakes.com/film207/page1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt; gives a couple of instances (both on the first page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Visible crew/equipment: At the funeral of William Wallace's wife, Murron, a white van can be seen. He bends down to kiss her and as he stands back up, if you look over his left shoulder through the trees you can see the van going past. It's very quick, small, and blurred, but it's there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not during a battle scene like you asked, but (apparently) it is van and not a car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Revealing: When Wallace walks up to the man who killed Murron and faces him. Look at the man behind Wallace and the man. You can actually see a car passing behind his head in the distance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have any timecodes or video links to check the accuracy of these things (or the site in general) but you should be able to find the scenes from the descriptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="83" LastEditDate="2011-12-19T01:20:34.360" LastActivityDate="2011-12-19T01:20:34.360" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="546" CreationDate="2011-12-18T14:47:42.627" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene is the second &quot;goof&quot; of this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQx7BFo9fvA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt; video:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/OQx7BFo9fvA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T17:29:28.040" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T17:29:28.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="530" CreationDate="2011-12-18T15:00:44.643" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember talking at some stage to a makeup artist from a film set. They had spring-loaded syringes where the actual needle would retract into the body of the syringe. This way they get a realistic pucker effect where the needle presses against the skin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="383" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-31T20:18:27.827" LastActivityDate="2016-12-31T20:18:27.827" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="572" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13419" CreationDate="2011-12-18T21:11:33.247" Score="41" ViewCount="21598" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dr. Daniel Jackson is &lt;em&gt;Stargate&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...seven points to outline a course to a position...to find a destination within any three dimensional space, you need six points to determine the exact location...but to chart a course, you need a point of origin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do you need 6? Shouldn't 3 suffice? Was this purely a plot device or the biggest blunder in the history of Hollywood? (I am leaving out the third possibility, that I am missing something entirely)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="376" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2016-11-06T18:47:42.657" LastActivityDate="2021-05-15T09:05:16.800" Title="Why do you need 6 points to define a location in 3 dimensional space?" Tags="|stargate|stargate-1994|" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="573" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="575" CreationDate="2011-12-18T21:22:37.923" Score="33" ViewCount="4257" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Stargate, they have been trying to activate the Stargate for the last 2 years but could never get the right sequence. After Dr. Daniel Jackson figures out the seventh symbol, they try to activate it. When they get past the sixth symbol, Catherine Langford says to him &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;this is as far as we have ever been able to get&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are only like 30 symbols on there. How come after two years someone didn't say &quot;hey guys, we already know the first six symbols, why not just loop through all 30 symbols until we find the seventh symbol&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="376" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-06T18:47:31.807" LastActivityDate="2023-11-19T16:51:41.547" Title="Why didn't they use a brute force method to activate the Stargate?" Tags="|plot-explanation|stargate|stargate-1994|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="573" CreationDate="2011-12-18T22:31:35.843" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has been asked previously on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Stargate_%28movie%29&quot;&gt;Stargate wiki site&lt;/a&gt;. The answer given was that there are actually 9 chevrons, so they may not have known 7 was the home symbol. So, given that there were 39 symbols, this would have made 40,000 dialling attempts...possible, but not so likely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this argument is flawed. The eighth and ninth symbols were not introduced until much later in the SG1 series to overcome limitations of the 7 address system. The dialing computer itself only had 7 areas for the symbols, so clearly only working with the 7 address system. So I can only conclude that it was overlooked in the original film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2011-12-24T11:05:29.067" LastActivityDate="2011-12-24T11:05:29.067" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="572" CreationDate="2011-12-18T22:43:19.600" Score="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;His logic is quite simple really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The x axis has a start and end point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The y axis has a start and end point that intercepts somewhere along the x axis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The z axis also has a start and end point, that intercepts along the y axis and x axis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes 6 points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that makes no sense, this picture may explain it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bQ80i.png&quot; alt=&quot;cube with a point on each face that forms lines that intersect in the center of the cube&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify this further, if you have a known axis (i.e. the centre of the universe), then you could indeed use a three dimensional axis by using (x, y, z). This would give you the distance from the center of the universe on each axis. This is impractical however, because of the level of precision needed in something as massive as space would require a huge number for each axis...this would be impossible for a symbolic representation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If however you use objects as reference points, then you need far less precision, as you can use intersection to give you the precision, as shown in the diagram.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="73" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:16:30.980" LastActivityDate="2017-03-16T16:16:30.980" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26" CreationDate="2011-12-18T22:57:50.223" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I remember it from the book's ending, Hannibal kept Clarice more-or-less continually drugged and they live happily ever after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference is covered in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aboutfilm.com/movies/h/hannibal.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;AboutFilm's&lt;/a&gt; note on the ending, in 12 paragraphs and a synopsis of the book's ending. An extract:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly, I haven't read it, but the&#xA;novel's ending sounds just awful to me.&#xA;And yet, it still sounds better than the&#xA;movie's ending. At least the novel's&#xA;ending explores the psyche of both&#xA;characters. At least Starling asserts some power, as preposterous as her&#xA;therapeutic techniques may sound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could it be they just didn't have the time to give the book's ending the full treatment it deserved to be fully explored? Hannibal escaping into the sunset is certainly easier and quicker than working through and resolving their psychological problems as mentioned in the synopsis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It concludes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, Hannibal is Starling's self-&#xA;appointed protector and is the same&#xA;person from beginning to end. But he's&#xA;not the same person he was in The&#xA;Silence of the Lambs, nor is he the same&#xA;person Harris portrays in his novel, in which Hannibal is not so much trying to&#xA;protect Starling as he is trying to get her&#xA;in his clutches. In the novel, as ludicrous&#xA;as it may sound, we have a&#xA;transformation and a resolution. That's&#xA;something we have a right to expect at the end of a trilogy. However, in the&#xA;movie, Hannibal just flies off into the&#xA;sunset. He is still an enigma. We're just&#xA;set up for another sequel, and perhaps&#xA;another. Don't look now, but Hannibal IX: The Resurrection is just around the corner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A posting by Lectermate on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://hannibalstudiolo.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=503&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hannibal Lecter Studiolo&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an interview, Ridley Scott said about the end of the book that it was too fast, that it should have been another book before we saw Hannibal and Clarice together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scott thinks that Hannibal is in love with Clarice but she rather feels some kind of respect for him, that's why he decided to do another end for his film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To which Clariz replied:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is what he said in the interview, but in real life, there was a big ado, between TH [Thomas Harris, author], Dino/Martha [De Laurentiis/Schumacher, producers] and [director Ridley] Scott, whereupon TH didn't want to agree to the modified ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After they were locked for 5 days engaged in the argument. TH gave in, not without a feeling of disappointment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What it odd here, is that the book was written with the foreknowledge that it will turn into a movie. When it was finished up and up until the production of the movie began it seemed clear that the book ending would prevail. Dino and Martha had approved it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It always seemed as if they modified the ending to the movie with the idea of a sequel. Scott definitely had a sequel in mind. One wonders if he actually READ the book or just an abridgment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no substantiation that might lead even remotely to believe that TH wrote the ending of the book to satisfy any fans. That would be soooooooo unlike TH...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T10:56:10.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="509" CreationDate="2011-12-19T01:24:54.337" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only thing possible to break out from the same-things-happening time loop is the &quot;knowledge&quot; of the previous loop, so that she can change them. I think she loses it all while she falls asleep on the boat, waking up with champagne and all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All time bending movies have their inconsistencies somewhere. They're good for entertainment purpose only, and Triangle is one of my favorites.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="166" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-30T18:18:41.193" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T18:18:41.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="573" CreationDate="2011-12-19T02:03:30.650" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a &quot;canon&quot; answer, but there are often consequences to entering the wrong password too many times.  Websites often disable your account.  More severely, some &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/99f1/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;encryption systems&lt;/a&gt; make the data permanently unreadable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who knows how severe the consequences would be for a device like the Stargate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="388" LastActivityDate="2011-12-19T02:03:30.650" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="582" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="583" CreationDate="2011-12-19T04:54:29.603" Score="20" ViewCount="2687" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Kill Bill&quot;, in the duel between O-Ren and the Bride, there is this small water mill (not sure how else to describe it) that is shown to be a part of the scene. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like it is a homage to something - probably some Japanese movie, but I never saw a mention of it anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a homage to some scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="390" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-10T17:57:15.887" LastActivityDate="2014-02-11T12:53:59.663" Title="Is the water mill when O-Ren and the Bride fight a homage to some movie scene?" Tags="|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="582" CreationDate="2011-12-19T05:03:49.793" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is possibly a homage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is extremely similar to the end of the opening &quot;You brought 2 horses too many&quot; shootout scene in &quot;Once upon a time in the West&quot; - right after the shootout, we see this turning, squeaking windmill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've managed to find a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juwwCTBZOCQ&amp;amp;feature=player_detailpage#t=146s&quot;&gt;YouTube example&lt;/a&gt;. The relevant portion is between the 2:25 and 2:45 marks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please note that this is merely a possibility and purely my speculation, since I wasn't able to find that specific piece in any of the listings of homages, including those that list a couple of the ones from &quot;Once upon a time in the West&quot;.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="8" LastEditDate="2011-12-22T02:42:18.293" LastActivityDate="2011-12-22T02:42:18.293" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="572" CreationDate="2011-12-19T05:44:11.887" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any random &lt;em&gt;point&lt;/em&gt; (a location) in space can be defined by a coordinate in any number of coordinate systems. The stargate system uses its own coordinate system based on 39 constellations (for a Milky Way stargate), symbolized by chevrons on the stargate. But whether these chevrons symbolize constellations, or even if there exist dimensions in that specific coordinate system, is not relevant to answer your question. Fact is, that there are 39 points in space known by the stargate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accept that a stargate can only establish a wormhole, or travel path, if it knows an origin and a destination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the simplest definition of such a path would be just 2 points: the origin and the destination. But how many stargates are there? And how many symbols are on a stargate again? Clearly, two points to define the path isn't going to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somehow the destination point has to be constructed out of the 39 points known to the stargate. For instance, take two points which form the ends of a 'line' and the stargate calculates its middle which would translate to the destination point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question then rises: is that enough precision? A &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;combination&lt;/a&gt; of 2 out of 39 results in only 741 possibilities. So 2 points are too few to give enough resolution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One step further: take 3 points to define the destination point. The stargate system would calculate the triangle center from those 3 points to get the destination. Well, 3 out of 39 leaves us with 9,139 possibilities: again not enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no evidence of the Milky Way having more than 9,139 stargates (or even more than 741), but note that the destination point does not point to a stargate, but to &lt;strong&gt;a random point in space&lt;/strong&gt; (a stargate could be anywhere). The stargate system just picks the stargate closest to that destination point. (But that is explained in the series later, not in the original movie.) Clearly, space has more than 9,139 &lt;em&gt;locations&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4 points result in 82,251 possible locations, 5 points in 575,757, and finally 6 points result in 3,262,623 possibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And (apparently, but also kind of obviously) a Milky Way divided in &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; 3 million sections guarantees a possible unique location of a nearby stargate. So, only with six defining points there are enough possibilities to define enough destination points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2017-01-03T20:30:24.800" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T20:30:24.800" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="585" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="586" CreationDate="2011-12-19T06:15:51.117" Score="6" ViewCount="3165" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Destination_5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Final Destination 5&lt;/a&gt;, the last 2 survivors happens to be on the plane that crashed in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Destination&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;first movie&lt;/a&gt;. It also shows all the killing scenes from previous movies after the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it mean that this one is the last movie in the series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="166" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T09:47:16.347" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T17:11:54.373" Title="Is Final Destination 5 the last final destination movie?" Tags="|movie-franchise|final-destination|final-destination-5|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2013-06-25T08:41:42.963" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="585" CreationDate="2011-12-19T09:07:59.707" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. As long as a franchise remains profitable, there will continue being some way of continuing the series. In FD, there is no physical antagonist chasing you (E.G. Freddy, Jason, Michael Meyers, Alien, Predator... you get the idea), and after the second film, there has been virtually no clear connection between the characters of the first two films and the rest (other than the ending to FD5). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, even when a franchise has more than run its course (think of how many Friday The 13th films there were with the 'original' Jason), there is currently the fashionable idea of 'rebooting' a series. They did it with Halloween, they'll likely do it with FD in another 5-10 years time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2011-12-19T09:07:59.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="573" CreationDate="2011-12-19T09:15:19.930" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's think about it this way - they had a device for 2 years that they had to spend some time figuring out how to get it to work at all, and then spending time trying to figure out the right combination. For all they knew, it would have taken just 5 symbols to get the thing working. By the time Jackson got around to them, they may have only recently stumbled on the correct 6th symbol, and then would have to spend time analyzing their data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2011-12-19T09:15:19.930" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="588" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-19T12:32:37.810" Score="20" ViewCount="1833" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've often wondered about this apparent inconsistency. I'm assuming it's a case of Deux ex Hollywood, but could there be a specific explanation for the fact that Transformers in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Michael Bay movies&lt;/a&gt; appear to accrue battle damage while in &quot;robot&quot; mode, that is not visible while in &quot;vehicle&quot; mode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware, for example, that Bay's interpretation of Transformers meant they operated at a very low (molecular?) level, which is how their disguises are so good, even from the inside, so maybe the explanation, if indeed there is one, lies along those lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="198" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T15:27:13.837" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T15:27:13.837" Title="Shiny and new in &quot;vehicle mode&quot;, yet battle-damage re-appears in &quot;robot&quot; mode" Tags="|character|transformers|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="588" CreationDate="2011-12-19T14:46:58.270" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes as you said,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;...they operated at a very low (molecular?) level...&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this could be the explanation. They would have recreated themselves damage-free somehow. But if this is the case, I don't know why they just don't do away with those damages when fighting as well..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think its just a plot inconsistency. If the transformers are that advanced as to recreate themselves as a vehicle at a &lt;i&gt;molecular&lt;/i&gt; level, they should also be able not to sustain any damage when fighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastActivityDate="2011-12-19T14:46:58.270" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="590" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="592" CreationDate="2011-12-19T17:02:07.280" Score="21" ViewCount="1429" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows&lt;/em&gt;, Moriarty uses a deadly disease on Irene Adler which caused near-instant death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What was this disease?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And why didn't Moriarty use it on Watson and his wife during the murder&#xA;attempt?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that the last question can be chalked up to just a plot device, but I don't know if I missed a reason why he never used it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="100979" LastEditDate="2023-11-19T17:03:26.767" LastActivityDate="2023-11-19T17:03:26.767" Title="What was the disease Moriarty used?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock-holmes-a-game-of-shadows|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="591" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="595" CreationDate="2011-12-19T17:59:40.667" Score="19" ViewCount="5841" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2007 movie There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, the main character -- Daniel Plainview -- puts a bullet into his &quot;brother's&quot; head when he discovers that the man isn't really his brother, but an impostor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The killing was certainly unjustified. The man had stolen nothing and professed to be Plainview's friend. In fact, the man had saved Plainview's life when Plainview's kid set the house ablaze. Plainview should have just told him to get lost.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the point of killing the man?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-07-23T16:03:32.633" LastActivityDate="2017-06-06T04:03:20.817" Title="In, &quot;There Will Be Blood&quot;, what was the motivation to kill" Tags="|analysis|there-will-be-blood|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="590" CreationDate="2011-12-19T18:04:22.613" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;He stated, to Sherlock, that it was a strain of tuberculosis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moriarty:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The strain proves too much for her, and she suddenly falls ill...with tragic consequences. &lt;strong&gt;A rare form of tuberculosis.&lt;/strong&gt; She succumbed in a matter of seconds.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can determine, he killed off the girl rather directly because she was a major loose end in his plans.  He sent the “assassins” to kill the Watsons to A) Distract Sherlock, and B) To state that they weren't safe, no matter what.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="100979" LastEditDate="2023-11-19T17:02:56.337" LastActivityDate="2023-11-19T17:02:56.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="593" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17994" CreationDate="2011-12-19T18:37:09.927" Score="38" ViewCount="1320" Body="&lt;p&gt;If things aren't thrown in my face during a 3D movie, I feel somewhat disappointed. I also appreciate the use of 3D to enhance a wide-angle shot, a humorous close-up, give a subtle sense of depth, and so on. Other times, I wonder why the movie is in 3D at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a phrase used when &lt;em&gt;rating&lt;/em&gt; the 3D-specific cinematography of a 3D movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="168" LastEditDate="2014-03-14T10:38:29.800" LastActivityDate="2014-03-14T10:38:29.800" Title="Is there a rating of the 3D-ness of a 3D movie?" Tags="|film-techniques|effects|cinematography|3d|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="591" CreationDate="2011-12-19T20:06:35.723" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Plainview was a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; vindictive person. In his mind he felt extremely betrayed. He had put what little familial love he still had (after he banished his son) on his &quot;brother&quot;. So when the brother turned out to be an impostor, Plainview felt his trust (something he doesn't give lightly) had been breached, and his violent nature took over. Notice how he brought back his son afterward, as he was the only family he had left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2011-12-24T14:06:05.397" LastActivityDate="2011-12-24T14:06:05.397" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="588" CreationDate="2011-12-19T20:10:06.777" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Transformers and logic don't really go hand in hand, Bay's version being one of the worst culprits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if I were to give it a guess I would say that they maintained the shiny exteriors as part of their disguise. Bumblebee quickly changes from a beatup (but classic!) Camaro into a brand new modern one in a matter of seconds. When they are in robot mode they don't need to put up the facade, so I guess they conserve energy by not sprucing themselves up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T09:54:19.240" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T09:54:19.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="545" CreationDate="2011-12-19T20:26:42.587" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me the brilliance of &lt;em&gt;2001&lt;/em&gt; lies in that it's a perfect storm of brilliant individual parts. It has jaw-dropping cinematography and SFX (that holds its own even in this CGI rich era), an iconic soundtrack, amazing writing (HAL remains one of the most chilling adversaries in movie history), and an intentionally ambiguous ending. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you finish watching &lt;em&gt;2001&lt;/em&gt; you are left with more questions that answers. Now, if you read up on anything related to the greater cosmos around us you'll get the same feeling of delicious bewilderment. That is part of the message of &lt;em&gt;2001&lt;/em&gt; (the book or the movie); mankind as a tiny insignificant speck trying to find its place in a vast universe it can't begin to fully comprehend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to read the book (although I do recommend that you do) to enjoy the movie on its own merits, as there isn't any truly &quot;canonical&quot; explanation to the events of the movie. You're &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to feel lost at the end. Which, in my opinion, the movie does better than the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="8" LastEditDate="2011-12-23T18:30:03.427" LastActivityDate="2011-12-23T18:30:03.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2744" CreationDate="2011-12-19T23:51:09.193" Score="11" ViewCount="38742" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;em&gt;Raging Bull&lt;/em&gt; closes with a Biblical quote from the Gospel of John. What is the meaning of the quote, and how does it relate to the plot of the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;So, for the second time, [the Pharisees]&#xA;summoned the man who had been blind and said:&#xA;&#xA;'Speak the truth before God.&#xA;We know this fellow is a sinner.'&#xA;&#xA;'Whether or not he is a sinner, I do not know.'&#xA;the man replied.&#xA;&#xA;'All I know is this:&#xA;once I was blind and now I can see.'&#xA;&#xA;        John IX. 24-26&#xA;        the New English Bible&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="398" LastEditorUserId="398" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T17:34:48.737" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T14:58:48.420" Title="Meaning of the biblical quote at the end of Raging Bull?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|raging-bull|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="588" CreationDate="2011-12-20T00:07:57.407" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, I'd say the obvious reason during filmmaking is that it's product placement for the latest generation of cars they want to show off.  If they're damaged with battle scars, it wouldn't be very effective ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another flaw, however, is why not just transform into a battle robot that's slightly less beaten up than their current selves? Energy conservation, I guess, but if that makes you slightly less likely to lose an arm, surely that's a good thing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="366" LastActivityDate="2011-12-20T00:07:57.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="497" CreationDate="2011-12-20T02:16:42.390" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My interpretation of Hoffman's character Caden is that he is struggling with the purpose and apparent futility of life and is trying to understand it, to capture the essence of life in a single piece of art. His attempts become bloated and spiral out of control because he is trying to explain the unexplainable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems to me he is tackling the same problem with his interpretation of &lt;em&gt;Death of a Salesman&lt;/em&gt;. I think it is less of a statement on today's society being harder for younger people than it used to, and more about the universality of struggle. Caden views everybody, young and old, as rocketing towards death and insists they should find meaning in their lives before they die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also a few parallels between &lt;em&gt;Salesman&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Synecdoche&lt;/em&gt;, mainly in their leading characters. I think Willy and Caden are both a little deluded; they are not as good at what they do as they want to believe. As both approach the end of their lives they worry that they haven't made much of an impact. Willy is so heavily invested in his job that he is broken when he is fired, and similarly Caden so obsessively pursues the meaning of life in his play that he doesn't end up creating anything meaningful. However, the similarities between the two works don't run much deeper than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2011-12-20T02:16:42.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="588" CreationDate="2011-12-20T12:50:35.543" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just stumbled across this, and thought about it in relation to computers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here the primary objective is not to preserve energy, but rather to preserve time for processing instructions.&#xA;You know this from any computer you use. If you run several programs in parallel, the processing time gets shared between them, and they all run at a slower rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could easily be the same with the transformers. They have to use processing power, to remain in the vehicle-state, because they constantly have to &quot;execute the look_as_car() method&quot; or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As robots they look like themselves, and therefore they have all 100% of the processing power, to use for moving, jumping, dodging, whatevering around the place... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="406" LastActivityDate="2011-12-20T12:50:35.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="604" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="620" CreationDate="2011-12-20T13:50:38.177" Score="205" ViewCount="56980" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some movies feature child characters put in violent situations. This can range from crude language to extreme horror (e.g. torture, gore, etc.). As an example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094862/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Child's Play&lt;/a&gt; and its sequel has plenty of those scenes. It looks like a paradox that children can be actors in movies that are definitely &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; for children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do the directors usually try and avoid exposing the very young actors to the violence of such scenes, e.g. by clever dubbing and editing? Are there laws that require them to do so, just like there are ratings that prevent children from seeing some movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2019-05-21T01:17:16.740" LastActivityDate="2024-04-02T23:19:26.197" Title="To what extent are child actors exposed to the violent aspects of the movie they perform in?" Tags="|horror|content-rating|acting|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="604" CreationDate="2011-12-20T14:43:57.273" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm almost certain it comes down to parent permission and what they are comfortable allowing the child to see when working with the directors.  Some are naturally more lenient than others while I'm sure some are only allowed on set to film their scenes and they never get to see what they filmed after post-production because of it being too graphic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(The rest of this is speculative, take it with a grain of salt)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as specific laws, I know there must be some laws that prohibit a parent from explicitly &lt;strong&gt;forcing&lt;/strong&gt; your child from watching disturbing content.  Viewing alone or under parent supervision is not against any law that I can think of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2011-12-20T14:43:57.273" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="544" CreationDate="2011-12-20T15:34:38.413" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a couple ways to interpret this scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The straightforward approach is to just assume she was cutting her hand with the can to see if maybe the 'power' they thought they had had to do with the can or with themselves, meaning maybe only organic matter (bodies, blood, etc) will work, but the blood still dripped to the ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other more psychological approach is her realization that the place has no more 'magic' to it and the cutting is possibly an extreme way to feel something after having this area's special properties taken away from her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, it could just be dramatic effect and nothing more, though the stories of the Matrix have never been known to use imagery for something so basic, I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2011-12-20T15:34:38.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="599" CreationDate="2011-12-20T15:58:25.357" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Straight from another site added in here for completeness...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This quote was a reference to Martin Scorsese's film professor, Haig Manoogian, to whom the film was dedicated. The man died just before the film was released. Scorsese credits Manoogian with helping him &quot;to see&quot;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="407" LastActivityDate="2011-12-20T15:58:25.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="509" CreationDate="2011-12-20T17:35:33.783" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; shows us the never-ending loop in which Jess is stuck seemingly forever. What &lt;em&gt;actually happened&lt;/em&gt; that left her in this loop is never shown. Only subtle hints are given throughout the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no starting point to the loop. That just seems so to the viewer. I would say that the instant she has the car crash with her son was the starting point. In fact, it's possible that she was an abusive mother who actually killed her son in a mad fit of rage. When she arrives to the dock for the first time, she says that her son is at 'School' as she is unable to come to terms with what she has done. The whole movie revolves around the 'never ending hell' she goes through because of her guilt. She keeps thinking that she can do something to 'save' her son. I believe that the cab driver also has a role to play. There was something suggestive in the way he says stuff like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm just a taxi driver.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So, I will keep the meter running? You promise you will come back,&#xA;  right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe he 'represents' the devil, waiting for her to accept the truth and be free from the loop of constant suffering?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She kills the 'original evil mom Jess'. This also represents her inability to accept the truth. She later tells her son how things will be better from now on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another point to take into consideration is the fact that initially it seems as if the time loop is restricted to the Ship. But the scene where she discovers the dead birds in the pit, shows that she realizes that it's her whole life, for that particular day,and not just the Ship. She can't just run away from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time on Jess's watch exactly matches the time on the Ship. This is not the case for anyone else. Another indication that the whole time loop is just about her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Jess that stabs Sally and Downey can definitely exist. The events will happen as they 'should' unless Jess does something different. Everyone else will act the same way. The scene where she confronts 'the new Jess' with the gun but is unable to shoot, this new Jess runs away and is shown &lt;em&gt;killing&lt;/em&gt; the 'Masked Jess'. The movie never shows what happens to her. Maybe she is the one who ends up stabbing Sally and Downey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to summarize my answer, in my opinion,the movie starts out with an impression of being a strange sci-fi/time-loop movie (which it kind of is), but the part where she returns to shore and thereafter indicates something more which is going on, apart from the time loop on the Ship. That's my view. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Check out the story of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sisyphus&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="222" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-30T18:16:53.077" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T18:16:53.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="609" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="636" CreationDate="2011-12-20T17:39:39.753" Score="34" ViewCount="14198" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever someone thinks about silent cinema the image of the laughing villain, twirling his mustache, and tying the hapless blonde beauty to the railroad, pops up in our collective memory. But in which movie (or movies) did that particular image first appear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-10-07T21:50:10.433" LastActivityDate="2018-10-07T21:50:10.433" Title="Origin of the Mustache Twirling Villain" Tags="|first-appearance|silent-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="609" CreationDate="2011-12-20T19:56:24.150" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;This made me think of an 1913 movie that Mack Sennett made called &lt;strong&gt;Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life&lt;/strong&gt;. If I recall correctly, this film featured not only a mustachioed villain, but a woman tied to the train tracks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly the earliest version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2011-12-20T19:56:24.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="604" CreationDate="2011-12-20T20:31:16.523" Score="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;The editing, filming techniques, and set attitude can seriously change the perception of what is actually going on.  In various horror movie &quot;behind the scenes&quot; (last I can think of is Sam Raimi commentary on Evil Dead), it seems like casts for horror flicks are very upbeat and everybody is having fun.  With many horror films it's only once the scenes are cut, music is injected and packaged that it finally becomes scary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is true, then any child exposed to certain situations could perceive what's going on as a &quot;game.&quot;  A great example could be a scenario from &quot;Child's Play.&quot;  A director can say, &quot;Hey, I'm going to throw you this doll, let's see if you can catch him.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I can't speak for all parents, but some would definitely be on set to make sure that the child in question isn't overly exposed to &quot;uncomfortable elements.&quot;  However I can't speak for Linda Blair on &quot;The Exorcist.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="269" LastActivityDate="2011-12-20T20:31:16.523" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="612" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2580" CreationDate="2011-12-20T20:31:23.693" Score="25" ViewCount="28350" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie John Keating is accused of making Neil come up against his father and outing his own dreams (&quot;Carpe diem!&quot;) which ultimately leads to him committing suicide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was Keating really to blame for all of this?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While he made the students find their own voice and go against the status quo, wasn't Neil already 'fighting' the system at the start of the year when his father told him to quit the yearbook? Wasn't his father as much to blame, because he crushed his dreams so fervently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="189" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2017-01-05T18:14:37.670" LastActivityDate="2018-11-16T07:24:09.680" Title="Is John Keating to blame for Neil's suicide?" Tags="|analysis|dead-poets-society|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="612" CreationDate="2011-12-20T20:41:50.653" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;That was the whole point of his side story is that his repressive father forced him into that position.  By being too restrictive and essentially dictating his son's life, by basically humiliating him and crushing his dream of being an actor, Neil decided that if he couldn't have his dream, he shouldn't have his life either.  This is a bit of a foil to the rest of the boys' reaction to his death as they started to gang on each other, minus a select few, in order to get Keating blamed for the whole incident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2011-12-21T07:19:03.170" LastActivityDate="2011-12-21T07:19:03.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="604" CreationDate="2011-12-21T00:58:45.893" Score="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;A fun example from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;The Shining&quot;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because Danny Lloyd was so young, and since it was his first acting job, Stanley Kubrick was highly protective of the child. During the shooting of the movie, Lloyd was under the impression that the film he was making was a drama, not a horror movie. In fact, when Wendy carries Danny away while shouting at Jack in the Colorado Lounge, she is actually carrying a life-size dummy, so Lloyd would not have to be in the scene. He only realized the truth several years later, when he was shown a heavily edited version of the film. He did not see the uncut version of the film until he was seventeen, eleven years after he had made it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="366" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2019-05-21T01:17:38.317" LastActivityDate="2019-05-21T01:17:38.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="615" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-21T06:38:40.970" Score="11" ViewCount="1950" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recall watching a South Bank Show documentary on Alan Parker in 1990, and was astonished that, while they discussed his entire repertoire, &lt;em&gt;Angel Heart&lt;/em&gt;, which he directed, was skipped over entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I am well aware that the final cut of the film was tinkered with by the studio, I can find no online evidence that would explain why Parker would not talk about the film, or why it was omitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have a lead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="34317" LastEditDate="2017-06-14T14:50:00.447" LastActivityDate="2017-06-14T14:50:00.447" Title="Why did Alan Parker disown Angel Heart (1987)?" Tags="|angel-heart|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="604" CreationDate="2011-12-21T14:40:12.527" Score="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have worked with children on horror films/thrillers and, having found no official guidelines from SAG other than payment policies such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sagaftra.org/membership-benefits/young-performers/coogan-law&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Coogan's Law&lt;/a&gt;, I have usually employed a number of tactics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, I'll go over the scene and storyboard very carefully with the child's parents/guardians (although this isn't always constructive as many parents will let their child do anything to get them on screen ;)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The simplest way I have found is to show the child the effects in play; we look at the props, the make-up, we play with the other actors, and I always use a sweet, edible blood and call it 'juice'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes our shooting ratio doubles as we end up having to cut more often when the kids or other actors start giggling during a particularly gruesome effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The previous answers, regarding angles, solo shots and clever editing are spot on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2019-05-21T01:14:56.327" LastActivityDate="2019-05-21T01:14:56.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="593" CreationDate="2011-12-21T18:58:56.830" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The term would be depth (or rather, the illusion of depth), although I haven't seen any actual ratings of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Films that really seem to pop are generally filmed in 3D and then enhanced post-production when adding in special effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2011-12-21T18:58:56.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3" CreationDate="2011-12-21T20:08:10.983" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this way of analyzing a character tells you the whole story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you describe a character without mentioning their appearance and occupation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be important to mention a character's occupation in order to demonstrate how the character relates to that occupation. &quot;She is forced by circumstance to be a bounty hunter, as it's the only job she's qualified for, but as a pacifist and a rebel sympathizer she constantly experiences internal conflict.&quot; This begins to describe a complex and interesting character in a way that someone who has never seen &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; would understand, but it still mentioned the (imaginary) character's occupation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think it's unfair to discount wardrobe as part of what makes a character interesting. Clothing and style are a large part of any person's identity, and movie characters are no different. Perhaps more so since a director and a costume designer choose wardrobe very carefully while considering what a character's clothing conveys about their personality and their circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were to simply say &quot;You know Princess Leia, she's the one with the cinnamon bun hair,&quot; just to get my non-Star-Wars-watching friend to realize who I was talking about, then that would be a shallow and uninteresting description - but to me that doesn't mean that the character is shallow and uninteresting. Mentioning the character's clothing and occupation in order to describe them appropriately shouldn't disqualify them from being an interesting or complex character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;em&gt;n.b.: I have not seen the review you are referring to, so I'm not sure if this answer addresses your question completely. But this is my opinion on whether or not that's a &quot;correct&quot; way to analyze a character. And let's also keep in mind that I don't believe that there is only one &quot;correct&quot; way.&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8" LastActivityDate="2011-12-21T20:08:10.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="625" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="627" CreationDate="2011-12-22T00:12:34.353" Score="51" ViewCount="128054" Body="&lt;p&gt;I may have lost count, but the last time I checked there were 4 different cuts of Blade Runner. The original cinema release (with the voice over and the spliced from another movie ending) followed by three different versions cut by Ridley Scott.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what are the key differences between those versions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-10-05T14:13:51.173" LastActivityDate="2017-10-16T08:40:29.640" Title="What are the differences between the alternative versions of Blade Runner?" Tags="|alternate-version|blade-runner|comparison|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="625" CreationDate="2011-12-22T01:18:58.490" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Other than the well known ones, ie. removal of voice over, removal of 'happy ending', inclusion of unicorn from &lt;em&gt;Legend&lt;/em&gt;, mapping of Joanna Cassidy's face onto Zhora etc etc, there are a TON of changes that have been made from edit to edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you'll find all your answers &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versions_of_Blade_Runner&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2011-12-22T01:18:58.490" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="625" CreationDate="2011-12-22T01:20:52.230" Score="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versions_of_Blade_Runner&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Wikipedia site&lt;/a&gt; is of help. To sum up the most important things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;1982 Original workprint (failed in audience tests, not released):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no voice over&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no happy ending&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no unicorn dream&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;1982 US theatrical release:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;voice overs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;happy ending (Deckard and Rachel drive through the countryside)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no unicorn dream&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;1982 International release:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;more violence in certain scenes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;1992 Director's Cut (not done by Scott, but approved by him):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no voice overs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no happy ending (Deckard and Rachel just leave Deckard's flat)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;unicorn dream (suggesting that Deckard could be a replicant)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2007 Final Cut (Scott's final version):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;same content as Director's Cut. Plus new scene Deckard at piano and outside club.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;many technical improvements&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-09T21:24:48.793" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T21:24:48.793" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="631" CreationDate="2011-12-22T15:30:37.253" Score="13" ViewCount="2426" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end of Illusionist, when the boy gives the bundle of files to Inspector Uhl, he starts getting flashbacks of the duchess and what Eisenheim actually did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are those flashbacks really what happened or is he getting crazy because of the confusing nature of the plot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if those flashbacks are not true, then does that mean the duchess really died?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T10:27:57.407" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T10:27:57.407" Title="Was Inspector Uhl actually crazy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-illusionist|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="630" CreationDate="2011-12-22T15:50:12.597" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are really what happened, they are presented in this manner to show that the inspector is putting the pieces together.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a twist ending that Sophie's death was faked to frame Leopold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2011-12-22T15:50:12.597" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="630" CreationDate="2011-12-22T15:52:55.237" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illusionist_%282006_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Uhl leaves the Imperial Palace, a boy runs up to hand him a folio explaining one of Eisenheim's magic tricks. Uhl demands to know where the child obtained the folio; the child reveals that Eisenheim had given it to him. Uhl then reaches down into his pocket, to discover that he has been pick-pocketed by a disguised Eisenheim, while distracted by the boy, and gives chase following him to the train station. As the train leaves, a montage shows Uhl putting the pieces together in his mind and discovering how Eisenheim faked Sophie's death and framed Leopold for the murder. Eisenheim is then seen walking up to a house in the country where Sophie is waiting for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-03-11T16:14:22.263" LastActivityDate="2012-03-11T16:14:22.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="633" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="637" CreationDate="2011-12-22T17:46:43.390" Score="40" ViewCount="10225" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can anyone identify a (possibly French) film where the cultural taboos about going to the toilet and eating (not at the same time!) are reversed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember seeing a scene with someone knocking on a door to an eating room, finding that someone was already in there eating their dinner, and being embarrassed, as if it was actually a toilet (restroom). They were quite happy going to the toilet together however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that ring any bells?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may actually be a TV programme, rather than a film, so I hope that's still acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="435" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T23:27:52.433" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T23:27:52.433" Title="What is the name of the movie in which eating and toilet taboos are reversed" Tags="|identify-this-movie|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:33:41.843" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="83" CreationDate="2011-12-22T18:33:10.340" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;GQ &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201108/melissa-mccarthy-gq-august-2011-bridesmaids&quot;&gt;did an interview&lt;/a&gt; with McCarthy, Ben Falcone (who played the air marshal and who is McCarthy's IRL husband), director Paul Feig, and much of the rest of the cast. It's worth a read (and a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gq.com/images/entertainment/2011/08/melissa-mccarthy/melissa-mccarthy_300x430.jpg&quot;&gt;amazing photo&lt;/a&gt; that comes along with it), but here are the bits that are relevant to your question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paul Feig:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During the Brazilian-restaurant scene, Helen's talking about this big house she has and that people can stay with her if they want. Melissa goes on this whole run of how she needs to do that because there's a squirrel infestation at her house, and a squirrel had burrowed into her vagina and was living in her vagina. I could never get it into the movie, but it made me laugh so hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feig again: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The scene [in which Megan, stricken with diarrhea, screams,] &quot;Look away!&quot; [from atop the bathroom sink] was in the script, but there was this whole thing she improvised where she's suddenly screaming at the dress-shop owner, &quot;Give me your fucking jacket!&quot; She wanted to wipe her ass with the woman's jacket.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ben Falcone:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From the skeleton of the script, the plane ride became wildly improvised. Melissa's talking about putting a Nano up my butt, or up her butt—the Nano was going up someone's butt. I ruined millions of takes by laughing. In the scene outside the bathroom, she had to say, &quot;Let's go to the restroom—and not rest,&quot; and after that she was free to improv. She had such good ones that I ruined. Like she said, &quot;Do you like this leg? I got another one just like it. I can put them both over my head and comb my goddamn hair.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it sounds like McCarthy was given quite a bit of free rein to improvise - which was, in my opinion, an extraordinarily good decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(There's also some evidence of improvisation in the movie's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEABN3AFoZg&quot;&gt;gag reel&lt;/a&gt;, from McCarthy and from much of the rest of the cast.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8" LastEditorUserId="8" LastEditDate="2011-12-22T19:31:32.497" LastActivityDate="2011-12-22T19:31:32.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29" CreationDate="2011-12-22T19:23:17.530" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://reocities.com/Area51/hollow/2405/tob.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;One critic's opinion&lt;/a&gt; is that Kurosawa was indeed influenced by censorship, both Japanese and American, during World War II, but that was not the only reason that he produced a lot of foreign adaptations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Perhaps the most significant factor in his stylistic development as a director was WWII. At the time that Kurosawa was developing his own distinctive style the censors had great power. During the war it was the Japanese who dictated content, and after it the Occupying American's [sic] had censorial control. However, his love of foreign literature and film predated this era.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like the opposite of your question might be true. Kurosawa attempted to release a film in 1943 based on a judo novel by a Japanese author, and &lt;em&gt;Japanese&lt;/em&gt; censors deemed the film too Western in style or content. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa#Wartime_films_and_marriage_&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Shooting of &lt;em&gt;Sanshiro Sugata&lt;/em&gt; began on location in Yokohama in December 1942. Production proceeded smoothly, but getting the completed film past the censors was an entirely different matter. The censorship considered the work too &quot;British-American&quot; (an accusation tantamount, at that time, to a charge of treason), and it was only through the intervention of director Yasujiro Ozu, who championed the film, that Sanshiro Sugata was finally accepted for release on March 25, 1943. (Kurosawa had just turned 33.) The movie became both a critical and commercial success. Nevertheless, the censorship office would later decide to cut out some 18 minutes of footage, much of which is now considered lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8" LastEditorUserId="8" LastEditDate="2012-05-18T15:58:06.017" LastActivityDate="2012-05-18T15:58:06.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="609" CreationDate="2011-12-22T19:53:46.350" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;The link in Neil Baker's &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/610/386&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; to Luke McKernan's &lt;a href=&quot;http://bioscopic.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/tied-to-the-tracks/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Tied to the tracks&quot;&lt;/a&gt; article also gives a very detailed history of a woman being tied to the tracks, occasionally by the evil villain twirling his moustache. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And all those who do know silent films know that such scenes were hackneyed even before films were invented, and the few films that did show them did so as parody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luke traces it back to an  1867 staged melodrama by Augustin Daly called &lt;em&gt;Under the Gaslight&lt;/em&gt;, where a woman saves a man from the tracks in the nick of time. Later plays copied this, and at some point it switched to a man saving a woman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In early film, such stage melodrama was out-of-date -- &quot;so no more twirling of moustaches if you wanted your villain to be taken seriously&quot; -- and instead film capitalised on recreating realism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However films such as 1905's &lt;em&gt;The Train Wreckers&lt;/em&gt; and 1911's &lt;em&gt;The Attempt on the Special&lt;/em&gt; played it straight, where an unconscious woman is left on the tracks. But she was left there by a gang rather than the moustachioed villain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film that established the parodic idea, and which is often used to illustrate it, is Keystone’s &lt;em&gt;Barney Oldfield’s Race for a Life&lt;/em&gt; (1913), featuring real-life motor racer Barney Oldfield, Ford Sterling as the moustachioed villain and Mabel Normand as the victim. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The black moustache-twirling villain, often enshrouded in black and with a top hat, and the heroine in distress are two of the six stock characters of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodrama#Victorian_stage_melodrama&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Victorian stage melodrama&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Victorian stage melodrama featured, six stock characters: the hero, the villain, the heroine, an aged parent, a sidekick and a servant of the aged parent engaged in a sensational plot featuring themes of love and murder. Often the good but not very clever hero is duped by a scheming villain, who has eyes on the damsel in distress until fate intervenes at the end to ensure the triumph of good over evil. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2011-12-22T19:53:46.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="633" CreationDate="2011-12-22T19:54:58.953" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;Luis Buñuel's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071487/plotsummary&quot;&gt;Le fantôme de la liberté&lt;/a&gt; (The Phantom of Liberty) (1974):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of Luis Bunuel's most free-form and purely Surrealist films,&#xA;  consisting of a series of only vaguely related episodes - most&#xA;  famously, the dinner party scene where people sit on lavatories round&#xA;  a dinner table on, occasionally retiring to a little room to eat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene you are looking for is available on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6boxoksi3U&quot;&gt;Youtube&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-08-24T05:38:07.283" LastActivityDate="2013-08-24T05:38:07.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="214" CreationDate="2011-12-22T22:04:16.090" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many similarities with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425743/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;American Soldiers&lt;/a&gt;. See trailer below &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/9NRKiOBAaZI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="297" LastEditorUserId="297" LastEditDate="2016-02-29T18:40:13.663" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T18:40:13.663" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="101" CreationDate="2011-12-22T23:11:15.530" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, there are some gadgets in the 1913 Fantomas. From my own memory, they play not a leading part of the story, but they can be found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXjcnlBPolI&quot;&gt;youtube you may find a sequence&lt;/a&gt;, approx at minute 8 you can see a third arm. At the start, you have a sequence with the actors and there changing look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 1913 films are available on DVD. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seanax.com/2010/09/20/fantomas-cinemas-first-supervillain/&quot;&gt;http://www.seanax.com/2010/09/20/fantomas-cinemas-first-supervillain/&lt;/a&gt; describes the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Each films is filled with wild plots and demented side schemes and features exotic gimmicks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There you can also find a link to amazon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/ed_precedenti/edizione2000/edizione2000_frameset.html&quot;&gt;Giornate 2000&lt;/a&gt; includes also a description of the films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132" LastActivityDate="2011-12-22T23:11:15.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="641" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13030" CreationDate="2011-12-23T03:34:10.250" Score="20" ViewCount="149784" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Colin Firth character, Jamie, meets Aurelia the Portuguese housekeeper when he is writing his novel by himself at a lake house in France. You know they're in France because the French-speaking caretaker mentions that Aurelia speaks neither English, Jamie's language, nor French - assumed to be the native language of where they are. So, France. I believe the road signs we see during the scenes when Jamie is driving Aurelia home are in French, so they corroborate this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, Jamie decides he's going to run off and propose to Aurelia, so he flies to the airport in Marseille on Christmas Eve. There are signs clearly marking the airport as the Marseille airport when he lands and gets in a taxi. But when Jamie arrives at Aurelia's house, he finds her entire Portuguese family living there. As her father leads her to the restaurant where Aurelia works, everyone they meet along the way is (or at least speaks) Portuguese. The proprietor of the restaurant is (or speaks) Portuguese, as is (or does) everyone in the restaurant. It sure seems like he's ended up in her native Portugal, but all other signs have so far pointed to France. So, where are they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T14:35:52.563" LastActivityDate="2013-12-01T19:29:42.223" Title="Are they in France or Portugal at the end of Love Actually?" Tags="|plot-explanation|love-actually|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="641" CreationDate="2011-12-23T10:36:40.003" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been awhile since I saw the film, so I might be wrong, but I'm assuming they're in France. The main reason I'm guessing this is because Jamie doesn't have Aurelia's address - all he knows is where she used to work for him, in the house in France.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for her and most of the people he encounters speaking only Portuegse, it is possible that A) some of the people (at least in the restaurant) do speak French, but seeing as how they're at a Portugese restaurant, they would revert to their native language; and B) it's also possible that some of these people (such as Aurelia) genuinely don't speak French, but manage to get by with the help of their community. I live in Holland, and although I learned and can speak fluent Dutch, I keep hearing how many people speak only English (granted, Holland has a lot more English speakers than France does, but still). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2011-12-23T10:36:40.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="643" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="644" CreationDate="2011-12-23T15:42:27.840" Score="14" ViewCount="1375" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a soft spot for 1979's &lt;em&gt;The Black Hole&lt;/em&gt; and, in particular, John Barry's beautiful score for it. It appears that this film, plus &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Motion Picture&lt;/em&gt; (in the same year) were the last films to feature a short overture at the beginning - were there any other films after these two that featured overtures? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T14:32:37.863" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T10:30:29.137" Title="Was Disney's The Black Hole the last film to feature an overture?" Tags="|soundtrack|the-black-hole|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="643" CreationDate="2011-12-23T15:52:00.770" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1605783/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Midnight in Paris&lt;/a&gt; (2011) had an overture, if I remember correctly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia has a nice &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_overtures#After_1970&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;list&lt;/a&gt; of films containing overtures, including a post-1970 section. I can't imagine that it's completely exhaustive, so I'm sure that there are films with overtures missing from the list. But the short answer to your question is no - &lt;em&gt;The Black Hole&lt;/em&gt; was not the last film to feature an overture. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T10:30:29.137" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T10:30:29.137" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23" CreationDate="2011-12-23T22:14:31.160" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are in doubt if all Iranians solely love this kind of movies - you are right. From talks with Iranians some years ago, I know they like Hollywood films and the films were available via DVD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia offers more information about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Iran#Commercial_cinema_in_Iran&quot;&gt;Commercial cinema in Iran&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132" LastActivityDate="2011-12-23T22:14:31.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="646" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="650" CreationDate="2011-12-23T23:31:39.030" Score="21" ViewCount="15261" Body="&lt;p&gt;Samuel Jackson's (Mace Windu's) purple lightsaber was supposedly at his behest because that's his favorite color.  Are there other conspicuously-purple items that Jackson's characters have had?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastActivityDate="2016-05-06T21:19:21.650" Title="What purple items have Samuel Jackson's characters had?" Tags="|props|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="647" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6898" CreationDate="2011-12-23T23:58:15.273" Score="22" ViewCount="15920" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;L.A. Confidential&lt;/em&gt;, Ed Exley is in a (supposedly) sound-proof interview room, giving a statement to two detectives. He is observed by a group of others, including the chief of police and the DA, who sit outside the room behind a one-way mirror. They supposedly cannot be seen or heard by Exley (a scene from inside the interview room shows only Exley's reflection on his side of the one-way mirror window).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Exley finishes his statement and the two detectives leave the room, the police chief and DA confer and we get the following dialogue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DA: Who's to say what happened? Maybe &lt;em&gt;[spoiler]&lt;/em&gt; died a hero?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Exley smirks]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Police chief: You wanna tell me what you're smiling about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exley: A hero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Detective 1 (outside interview room): How did he know what we were talking about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Detective 2 (outside interview room): He couldn't have heard us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Police chief: And?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exley: In this situation, you'll need more than one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you watch the film carefully, it goes to great lengths to show us that Exley cannot hear the DA's line of dialogue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We clearly hear the door to the interview room close as the two detectives leave, well before the DA's &amp;quot;hero&amp;quot; line. A subsequent shot from inside the room confirms that the door is closed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the shot of the DA and the police chief having their &amp;quot;hero&amp;quot; conversation, the intercom button they need to press to be heard inside the interview room is in clear view in the foreground, and is not being pressed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The police chief's first line (&amp;quot;You wanna tell me...&amp;quot;) is heard from within the interview room, but we clearly hear the intercom engaging before it and disengaging afterwards. For his &amp;quot;And?&amp;quot; line we're outside the interview room and actually see him press the intercom button. (By implication, if the intercom is not used they can't be heard.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And of course, the two detectives comment on it explicitly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've watched L.A. Confidential many times and this scene has always puzzled me. Does Exley really know what's been said, and if so how? Or is it coincidence or a lucky guess? If so, why is it included: just to indicate Exley's sharp instincts, or for some other reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if there's a reference elsewhere in the film that I'm missing, or whether perhaps it's a sequence from the book that has transferred clumsily in the adaptation. (I haven't read the book.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="314" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2019-05-21T20:21:09.173" Title="How does Ed Exley hear what's said outside the interview room?" Tags="|plot-explanation|la-confidential|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="203" CreationDate="2011-12-24T00:27:58.423" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;An 'ant'-themed movie from the 90's I remember when &quot;killer-ant invasion&quot; was in the news is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122603/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Legion of Fire: Killer Ants! (1998)&lt;/a&gt;.  They aren't overly intelligent, but the characters are constantly surprised by their &quot;tenacity&quot;, &quot;determination&quot;, and &quot;cleverness&quot; (wax on the anthropomorphism).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastActivityDate="2011-12-24T00:27:58.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="142" CreationDate="2011-12-24T00:42:12.597" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The final shootout has Vincent doing his highly practiced and refined &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique_Drill&quot;&gt;Mozambique Drill&lt;/a&gt; (a favorite of Mann, clearly underscored by holes in the train car doors) while Max is shaking and shooting like mad, with his bullets ricocheting through the glass by chance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vincent's training may have taken over as it is wont to do and drove him to do the wrong thing in that very niche situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastActivityDate="2011-12-24T00:42:12.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="646" CreationDate="2011-12-24T01:12:17.310" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000168/bio&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;his characters often feature the color purple&quot;, including the following: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mitch Hennessy wore a purple-violet gem ring in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116908/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Long Kiss Goodnight&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1996)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Glass wore purple clothing in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217869/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unbreakable&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2000)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jackson chose to have Doyle Gipson wear a purple hat in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264472/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Changing Lanes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2002)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mace Windu, upon request by Jackson to George Lucas, wielded a purple light saber in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121765/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2002) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121766/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2005)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lazarus, Jackson's character in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462200/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Black Snake Moan&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2006), plays a purple Gibson guitar.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Neville Flynn at one point was carrying around a &lt;a href=&quot;http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2006/08/11/d463d4e3-a642-11e2-a3f0-029118418759/thumbnail/620x350/ccdfcf275b3be38027a0ff2613772ef5/image1886146x.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blue and purple snake&lt;/a&gt; in Snakes on a Plane (2006).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36" LastEditorUserId="21021" LastEditDate="2016-05-06T21:19:21.650" LastActivityDate="2016-05-06T21:19:21.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="647" CreationDate="2011-12-24T01:47:45.533" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I don't have proof for this and haven't thought as much about it as you did. I always just took it as a lucky guess and a nice fitting scene, even if not perfectly realistic. You're right in that he couldn't hear it, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exley surely knows that the DA/police/government don't want to tell the truth to the people, regarding the involvement of pretty important policemen into criminal affairs. So he's pretty sure that they are about to come up with some strange alibi story about Cpt. Smith dying as a hero or something similar. But well, his perfect timed reaction was really just luck, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why it was included? Well, of course Exley is aware of the dark corners of the police and the politics, but I don't think it is exactly to show his sharp instincts, though it may be. I wouldn't wonder that much about such a small gimmick scene and just take it as part knowledge/instincts and part luck. Maybe it could also partly demonsrate his ambition to become a big thing in the LA police when his first reaction is to try and gain some personal advantage out of this story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-04-09T00:35:39.673" LastActivityDate="2012-04-09T00:35:39.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="657" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1326" CreationDate="2011-12-24T22:38:59.683" Score="16" ViewCount="4409" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, let me emphasize that this is not about the highly subjective question whether or not Tom Cruise should play Jack Reacher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lee Child's novel &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.leechild.com/oneshot.php&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;One Shot&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is being turned into a movie. Tom Cruise plays the main character, Jack Reacher. However, people knowing Reacher – a 6'5&quot; giant – will understand why this has been (and is) a matter of fierce debate. But Lee Child &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2011/1012/Lee-Child-on-Jack-Reacher-Tom-Cruise-and-The-Affair/%28page%29/2&quot;&gt;approves of it&lt;/a&gt;, and, frankly, it's none of our business. So, case closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What I'm curious about, though, is whether there have been other serious candidates to play Jack Reacher and why they opted out or were found less suitable than Cruise.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can read the facts, but this kind of background is interesting but hard to find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="297" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-05-15T15:53:33.723" LastActivityDate="2016-10-17T10:11:27.630" Title="Have there been other candidates to play Jack Reacher?" Tags="|casting|jack-reacher|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="661" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2168" CreationDate="2011-12-26T17:28:52.407" Score="8" ViewCount="466" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently re-watched &lt;em&gt;Tarzan and his Mate&lt;/em&gt; (1934), and the surprisingly violent content in it reminded me of a couple of fragmented images that I would like to track down from other Tarzan films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first is of a tank disguised as a dinosaur/dragon, and used by the white antagonists to terrify the 'natives' (and which also terrified my young self).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second is of explorers who fall foul of the locals and are tied to trees that have been forcibly bent into 'X' shapes - and which are then unbound, thus springing back to upright and neatly tearing the victims in half. Very gruesome, I agree, and a powerful image that has stayed with me for many decades.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no other recollections from either film, sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are these elements from Johnny Weismuller &lt;em&gt;Tarzan&lt;/em&gt; films (or even Ron Ely's TV show), and if so, can you identify the films?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2011-12-26T17:52:15.283" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T14:17:58.090" Title="Identify these plot elements from Tarzan movies" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:33:52.000" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="661" CreationDate="2011-12-26T21:57:51.093" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the first scene about this tank diguised as a dragon sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055928/&quot;&gt;Dr. No&lt;/a&gt;, the very first James Bond movie, where the evil guys used a tank made up like a dragon to scare the locals away from their doings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2011-12-26T21:57:51.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="664" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="666" CreationDate="2011-12-27T01:28:45.837" Score="12" ViewCount="524" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what I remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A boy, living on a farm or so, tells someone, could've been the postman, about his idea, his big idea for society and the world. It's about being good, sharing or something similar altruistic. And the postman answers what a great idea it is and silently takes it with him. In fact he starts, by accident to spread &quot;the idea&quot; and then the idea gains momentum, like a big wave washing around the globe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, one day, the boy has already given up on it, has forgotten about the idea or so. But in the end of the film, the idea comes back to him, when someone presents exactly his idea to him, doing good, sharing or similar. The boy's idea has come full circle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone identify this plot. Can anyone name this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="453" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-05T11:01:26.900" LastActivityDate="2013-06-05T11:01:26.900" Title="A film about a boy and his big idea for society?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:33:55.117" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="664" CreationDate="2011-12-27T02:33:34.273" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The plot sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0223897/&quot;&gt;Pay It Forward&lt;/a&gt; but I don't recall a farm scene.  Do you have any additional info?  Year?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastActivityDate="2011-12-27T02:33:34.273" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="667" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="671" CreationDate="2011-12-27T08:14:03.997" Score="24" ViewCount="1893" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know what each &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpaa.org/ratings/what-each-rating-means&quot;&gt;rating&lt;/a&gt; means, but how does the MPAA decide what rating to give a movie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T11:50:46.570" Title="How does the MPAA decide what rating to give a movie?" Tags="|content-rating|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="667" CreationDate="2011-12-27T12:42:24.633" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nobody outside the MPAA really knows for sure. There are some general rules that filmmakers follow, depending on what kind of rating they want to go for. A movie can change from PG to PG-13 if it uses a swear word like 'fuck' more than once; some scenes of violence have to be toned down to get a rating of NC-17 (which is considered the rating of death for filmmakers, as almost no major movie theater chain will run an NC-17 movie and video stores like Blockbuster refuse to shelve such movies) down to an R rating (or sometimes referred to as a 'hard R' rating).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America_film_rating_system#Rating_process&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; on ratings gives a general outline of how ratings are given. &lt;a href=&quot;http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Roger Ebert&lt;/a&gt; gave a &lt;a href=&quot;http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031116/ANSWERMAN/311160302&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;stinging criticism&lt;/a&gt; about how the MPAA goes about giving its rating system (it makes you think that not much has changed since the days of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hays Office&lt;/a&gt; - with a nice gag against the Hays Office in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Kitties&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1942 cartoon&lt;/a&gt;), and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117960864?refCatId=13&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article from 2007&lt;/a&gt; shows that while the studios recognize films as a 'Hard R', it takes a LONG time for the MPAA to come around and make a new rating reflecting this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-12-20T11:40:58.313" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T11:40:58.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="667" CreationDate="2011-12-27T13:38:04.920" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpaa.org/ratings&quot;&gt;MPAA&lt;/a&gt; is made up of a group of people that are not connected to the movie industry, overseen by &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/08/business/la-fi-ct-facetime8-2010apr08&quot;&gt;Joan Graves&lt;/a&gt;, that make their decisions based on a predetermined 'list' of acceptable and unacceptable behaviors/language.(This &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America_film_rating_system&quot;&gt;wiki-link to the guidelines&lt;/a&gt; touches upon the list of acceptable content)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpaa.org/ratings/ratings-history&quot;&gt;MPAA website&lt;/a&gt;, these ratings are in place to 'safeguard artistic freedom', but critics of the rating system argue that the decisions are made with morality in mind rather than artistry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I strongly recommend finding a copy of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493459/&quot;&gt;This Film Is Not Yet Rated&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, a disturbingly funny documentary that thoroughly digs into the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2011-12-27T13:38:04.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="675" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-27T20:19:30.473" Score="15" ViewCount="28487" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it ever implied anywhere exactly what happened to Doc Hudson between the events of Cars and Cars 2? At I've point one of the characters says something like &quot;doc would've been proud of you&quot;. I assume the reason for the character's exclusion is because Paul Newman didn't get signed up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="198" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T18:11:41.283" LastActivityDate="2023-11-19T17:05:21.303" Title="Where did Doc Hudson go?" Tags="|cars|cars-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="675" CreationDate="2011-12-27T23:48:54.657" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000056/&quot;&gt;Paul Newman&lt;/a&gt; died in September 2008 and, although the pre-production on &lt;em&gt;Cars 2&lt;/em&gt; was already in full swing, he was either too ill or already passed on before it came time to do the voice acting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene you mention in your question is a touching homage to the legend that was Newman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it would have been nice if &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137506/&quot;&gt;George Carlin&lt;/a&gt; (Fillmore) (and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0710020/&quot;&gt;Joe Ranft&lt;/a&gt; (Red) for that matter) had been acknowledged in the same way instead of being replaced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2011-12-27T23:48:54.657" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="667" CreationDate="2011-12-28T08:45:58.407" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know it's a different system, but there was a fascinating interview with the head of the BBFC (the British equivalent of the MPAA) on BBC radio last week. The complete programme is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017x345&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;available to download as a podcast&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He explains that they have certain rules of thumb (e.g. no more than 4 uses of the F-word in a 12A - roughly equivalent to PG-13), but that these are only guidelines and can be broken (most recently in the case of &lt;em&gt;The King's Speech&lt;/em&gt; which was rated 12A despite lots of uses of the F-word in the speech therapy scenes). He also explains why the BBFC initially rejected Human Centipede 2, saying the were unable to pass it even with cuts, but subsequently reconsidered it after the distributor made cuts and resubmitted the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So generally (in Britain at least) it comes down to a mixture of fairly strong (but not rigid) guidelines and subjective judgment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="314" LastEditorUserId="314" LastEditDate="2016-12-20T11:50:46.570" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T11:50:46.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="678" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="679" CreationDate="2011-12-28T15:13:13.773" Score="40" ViewCount="206336" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ending of the film perplexed me a bit. The main hero says, quote, &quot;I was cured alright&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While that could be interpreted as honest and truthful, the final scene (the fantasized orgy) makes me think, he might have been sarcastic with that last remark, and maybe he pretended to be cured to get out of the therapy program. Is there any (other) significance to that fantasy? Was Alex honest when he said he was cured?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T13:57:51.790" LastActivityDate="2015-11-06T03:56:42.373" Title="Explanation of the ending of A Clockwork Orange" Tags="|plot-explanation|a-clockwork-orange|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="678" CreationDate="2011-12-28T16:10:18.680" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing you have to understand is that the book this movie was based on had a missing last chapter in American books. In the American books, the last chapter mirrored the last part of the film. In the UK version, the last chapter shows that Alex was 'cured' as much as possible, in that he ultimately gave up on violence of his own free will. See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, as it stands, the 'cure' is that Alex was able to think for himself again, society be damned. The implication of the ending of the movie is that the politicians were willing to let Alex be his old self again, as long as it made them (temporarily) look good (not to mention that they used Alex's conditioning and subsequent rehabilitation to settle a score against the writer who drove Alex insane). So yes, he was being sarcastic, in that he was cured, all right - he was back to the same guy he was before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2011-12-28T16:10:18.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="680" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="683" CreationDate="2011-12-29T00:11:03.120" Score="55" ViewCount="6021" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a difference between a shaken and stirred vodka martini? Maybe some scientific explanation? (while not overtly sci-fi, there are a lot of sci-fi elements in Bond movies)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also make some sense if the the olive was added before the shaken/stirring as &lt;em&gt;really hard&lt;/em&gt; shaking could manage to squeeze out the essence/oils from the oil and mix it with the alcohol, but from what I have heard, you don't do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUUq5mRCimo&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, as a reminder of the legacy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-01-24T21:11:01.130" LastActivityDate="2014-08-17T02:10:35.137" Title="Why does James Bond keep demanding a vodka martini that is shaken but not stirred?" Tags="|james-bond|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="678" CreationDate="2011-12-29T00:36:19.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What Barry says could be correct, but I doubt Mr Kubrick would show anything that goes against proven science. The conditioning shown in this movie is also known as Pavlovian conditioning. In short, Pavlovian conditioning says that once your mind is conditioned to perform certain activities in the presence of certain stimuli (external or otherwise), it will continue to do so involuntarily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/pavlov/readmore.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Pavlov dog experiment&lt;/a&gt; for more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this movie, the example would be the scene when Alex throws while indulging in violence after the conditioning is complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think, that when Alex says 'I was cured alright', he means that even though he is &lt;em&gt;willing&lt;/em&gt; to continue his violent lifestyle (&lt;em&gt;read&lt;/em&gt; conscious remains uncured) he cannot do to so because his body betrays him (&lt;em&gt;read&lt;/em&gt; subconsciously cured (from society's perspective of preventing violence).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my tuppence worth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T12:23:08.837" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T12:23:08.837" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="682" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="684" CreationDate="2011-12-29T00:50:06.380" Score="18" ViewCount="1255" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw &lt;code&gt;The Adventures of Tintin&lt;/code&gt; and I could see that Captain Haddock's character has a very thick Scottish accent. I don't recollect any reference made in the original series by Hergé about Captain Haddock's Scottish heritage. Is there a particular reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: I had to tag this question as something, since &lt;code&gt;accents&lt;/code&gt;/&lt;code&gt;tintin&lt;/code&gt; weren't in the existing tag list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T17:25:56.610" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T17:25:56.610" Title="Is Captain Haddock Scottish?" Tags="|character|adventures-of-tintin|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="680" CreationDate="2011-12-29T01:02:20.677" Score="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several reasons why Bond would order his drink 'shaken, not stirred'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, he might prefer a colder drink, as shaking a martini will certainly result in a colder beverage. However, this causes the drink to lose its clarity due to the tiny ice chips and is often frowned upon by 'connoisseurs' who claim this 'bruises' the gin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, it is recorded that Ian Fleming was a fan of of shaken martinis - particularly ones made by Gilberto Preti, a bartender in Dukes Hotel, London.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are looking for a scientific reason, then it is claimed that a shaken martini results in a drink with marginally more antioxidants in it - which must make it a bit healthier :)&#xA;There are a few more reasons cited in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2010/December/ShakenNotStirred.asp&quot;&gt;this interesting article from the Royal Society of Chemistry&lt;/a&gt;, including the breakdown of the oils found in cheaper vodkas from Bond's era.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2011-12-29T01:02:20.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="682" CreationDate="2011-12-29T01:16:57.390" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears to be a stylistic decision on the part of Andy Serkis and Steven Spielberg, and is in keeping with Hollywood's fascination for Scottish accents (see the Vikings in &lt;em&gt;How to Train Your Dragon&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Shrek&lt;/em&gt;, the lack of a Welsh Smurf).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naturally, fans are up in arms about this, especially those who think he should have an English accent (specifically Cornish), but this is also wrong as Herge wrote him as a Belgian, like his young friend, Tintin. Haddock is thought to be descended from the Chevalier François de Hadoque , a French sea captain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2011-12-29T01:16:57.390" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="686" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="688" CreationDate="2011-12-29T07:33:45.320" Score="22" ViewCount="2660" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any proof that the James Bond movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_to_Kill&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Licence to Kill&lt;/a&gt; was actually going to be titled &quot;Licence Revoked&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes, then was it because it was believed that the audience, at that time, was too stupid and would have wondered why James Bond would not be allowed to drive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T22:30:08.797" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T22:30:08.797" Title="Was &quot;Licence to Kill&quot; originally titled &quot;Licence Revoked&quot;?" Tags="|james-bond|title|licence-to-kill|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="687" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-29T08:59:38.613" Score="14" ViewCount="1285" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are scenes shown in the movie &lt;code&gt;Pi&lt;/code&gt; which have ants and goo in the protagonist's apartment which also houses his computer &lt;code&gt;Euclid&lt;/code&gt;. Is there any significance of these ants/goo? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really lame pun makes me think it could denote &lt;em&gt;bugs&lt;/em&gt; in a computer program but from what I hear about New York City's cleanliness, it could denote the commonly found dirt. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what the real significance of these is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T14:00:27.987" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T14:00:27.987" Title="Ants and goo in Euclid?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pi|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="686" CreationDate="2011-12-29T10:26:58.090" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is true. When the movie was test screened in US, it had the name &quot;Licence Revoked&quot; but after the test screening the audience associated it too strongly with driving. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources: &lt;a href=&quot;http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Licence_to_Kill&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/aug/21/1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some have speculated that the change might have had something to do with Greg Beeman's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_to_Drive&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;License to Drive&lt;/a&gt;, but this was released over a year earlier, so it's highly unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user96" LastEditorDisplayName="user96" LastEditDate="2012-11-19T09:33:53.430" LastActivityDate="2012-11-19T09:33:53.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="687" CreationDate="2011-12-29T14:58:55.797" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the ideas you cite, there's also the notion of going &quot;buggy&quot; — that is, mad — as the messiness of organic life interferes with the functioning of computers and pure math.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="192" LastActivityDate="2011-12-29T14:58:55.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="680" CreationDate="2011-12-29T16:14:38.190" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%282008_season%29#Martinis%3a_Shaken_vs._Stirred&quot;&gt;a MythBusters episode&lt;/a&gt; testing if there is a perceptible difference, resulting in an affirmation that there &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a difference. And the Wikipedia article on “Shaken, not stirred” &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaken,_not_stirred#Why_shaken.2C_not_stirred.3F&quot;&gt;contains a whole section&lt;/a&gt; explaining a lot, including a claim that Fleming liked his martinis shaken, not stirred because Fleming thought that stirring a drink diminished its flavour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109" LastActivityDate="2011-12-29T16:14:38.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2011-12-29T17:39:19.457" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though I have no evidence, I assumed the son died in some military-related incident because it was delivered by telegram which is a seemingly cold, sterile and impersonal fashion to deliver such news. I just assumed the implication was this was a death related to military activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="474" LastActivityDate="2011-12-29T17:39:19.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="693" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-29T18:51:52.897" Score="8" ViewCount="3560" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Hellraiser(1987)&lt;/em&gt; ,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why are Frank's last words &quot;Jesus wept&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there any other religious significance?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does this come up in any other Hellraiser movies?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="183" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2017-04-06T07:51:52.727" LastActivityDate="2017-04-06T12:56:45.037" Title="What is the significance of Jesus/Christianity?" Tags="|plot-explanation|hellraiser|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="694" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="695" CreationDate="2011-12-29T19:00:18.577" Score="20" ViewCount="2873" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the significance of the veil in the Harry Potter series? What does it mean?  Why is it never explained?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="183" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-21T13:25:05.233" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T13:25:05.233" Title="What is the significance of the veil in the Harry Potter series?" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="694" CreationDate="2011-12-29T19:56:52.477" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;When asked, JK Rowling responded saying: &lt;em&gt;It's been there as long as the Ministry itself&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Veil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Veil page on the Harry Potter Wikia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Veil is the barrier between the land of the living and the land of the dead. One cannot travel freely between the two worlds, as it is a one-way trip. Inexperienced wizards know nothing about it, but the much more experienced wizards may have heard about it, and the Unspeakables who work in the Department of Mysteries have likely studied it closely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BTtpL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Siruius Black falling through the veil&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T13:20:05.467" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T13:20:05.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="696" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="754" CreationDate="2011-12-29T20:27:16.597" Score="8" ViewCount="660" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently saw the movie Synecdoche New York. Among other things that intrigued me, the name of the protagonist, Caden Cotard is very interesting. &#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard_delusion&quot;&gt;the Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Cotard delusion or Cotard's syndrome or Walking Corpse Syndrome is&#xA;  a rare neuropsychiatric disorder in which people hold a delusional&#xA;  belief that they are dead (either figuratively or literally), do not&#xA;  exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs. In&#xA;  rare instances, it can include delusions of immortality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it looks like Caden seems to be suffering from this aptly-named disease.&#xA;Is there any proof to back my speculation? Or am I just obsessing over the details?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastActivityDate="2012-01-03T01:34:47.003" Title="Character naming in Synecdoche New York" Tags="|character|synecdoche-new-york|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="697" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="700" CreationDate="2011-12-29T20:58:41.133" Score="8" ViewCount="2577" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a striking similarity in the ambiance in the Alaska sex scene and the one in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Was this intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2kSRh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Snow white&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T14:35:50.703" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T14:35:50.703" Title="Is there a hidden meaning in the Alaska sex scene?" Tags="|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="698" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="702" CreationDate="2011-12-29T21:26:39.590" Score="21" ViewCount="2852" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anselm Hüttenbrenner was a composer who studied with Salieri and it has been noted in &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0226711250&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and quoting him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of Mozart, he always spoke with the most extraordinary respect. He,&#xA;the incomparable one, came often to Salieri with the words: Dear Papa,&#xA;give me some old scores from the Court Library. I would like to look&#xA;through them with you. In so doing he often missed his lunch. One day&#xA;I asked Salieri to show me where Mozart died, whereupon he led me to&#xA;the Rauhensteingasse and pointed it out. It is marked, if I remember&#xA;right, with a painting of the Virgin. Salieri visited him on the day&#xA;before his death, and was one of the few who accompanied the corpse&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source of this quote:&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Anselm Hüttenbrenner, &amp;quot;Kleiner Beytrag zu Salieri's Biographie,&amp;quot; AmZ 27 (1825):&#xA;cols. 796-99; quoted in Rudolph Angermüller, Antonio Salieri: Sein Leben und seine&#xA;weltlichen Werke unter besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner „großen“ Opern. 3 vols.&#xA;Munich, 1971-74; 3:6&lt;/em&gt;; English translation in Thayer, Salieri, 177-78.*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a specific reason why Salieri is projected as a character who despised Mozart?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-03-10T17:26:24.577" Title="Why is the Salieri-Mozart relationship projected falsely in the movie Amadeus?" Tags="|plot-explanation|soundtrack|amadeus|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="435" CreationDate="2011-12-29T22:46:21.177" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The hat is a tangible representation of Byrne's dilemma. The point to be noted is that his dilemma has so much prominence that it &lt;em&gt;deserves&lt;/em&gt; a character of its own. There are many scenes in the movie when the hat disappears at moments of clarity and magically reappears on the stairs, exactly at the birth of some new confusion. &lt;br /&gt;Choosing a hat was also a very wise decision as it is something very personal to a character, to the extent that it could define a person, just like the confusion in his head. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Just my tuppence worth&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastActivityDate="2011-12-29T22:46:21.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="697" CreationDate="2011-12-29T22:47:59.270" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the animals appear to be from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs whereas the action of the animals interacting with clothing comes from Sleeping Beauty. Some animated shows give reference to Disney movies, for example in Shrek with Fiona singing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was very much intentional mostly likely as light-hearted humor. The scene is to point out the inspiration to Disney while at the same time at the last moment to give an exception to the norm (Homer and Marge Simpson in bed while the animals watch in horror).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastActivityDate="2011-12-29T22:47:59.270" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29" CreationDate="2011-12-29T23:07:06.940" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would not call &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; adaptions of Shakespeare (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throne_of_Blood&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Throne of Blood&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ran&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt;. And he made &lt;em&gt;Ran&lt;/em&gt; partly because &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_%28film%29#Background&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Hidetora is me&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="206" LastActivityDate="2011-12-29T23:07:06.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="698" CreationDate="2011-12-29T23:33:41.817" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is an adaptation of Peter Shaffer's play of the same name, which suffers from the same criticism of historical accuracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't find any references to hand, but I imagine that Shaffer was using the historical setting to stage a story of artistic genius and professional rivalry that makes such a good story, and that accuracy was somewhat secondary.  It is true that Salieri and Mozart were professional rivals, and that Mozart fairly obviously was the more successful - but it is also clear that their rivalry did not descend into hatred nor that Salieri had any part in Mozart's death, despite rumors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a positive front the movie makes it very clear that Salieri admires and respects Mozart's abilities, and you could argue that the movie is less about professional rivalry, than about Salieri's argument with God about his somewhat less stellar skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2011-12-29T23:33:41.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="706" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-30T08:32:44.980" Score="6" ViewCount="1360" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1663680/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Encounter&lt;/a&gt; (a movie I can't really recommend, due to the low quality acting and predictable story), Officer Deville is found guarding a road that has been closed due to poor weather conditions, forcing three vehicles to turn back to the Last Chance Diner, where the story unfolds between the occupants of the vehicles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the film, Deville comes to the diner and informs everyone that the road has been re-opened, and that it's perfectly safe.  The cafe owner, Jesus, says Deville is lying, but one of the diner customers chooses to trust Deville, leading to his predictable demise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is:  Why was Deville guarding the road in the first place?  If he wants to deceive and harm the travelers, as is clearly the case, why was satan, posing as an officer, guarding the road?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's quite possible this was simply another oversight, but the movie is clearly an attempt at allegory.  Was there something more meaningful going on here, that I didn't catch?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T14:00:44.867" LastActivityDate="2017-02-09T14:17:24.200" Title="Why was Officer Deville guarding the road during the opening?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-encounter|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="707" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="710" CreationDate="2011-12-30T15:20:29.177" Score="15" ViewCount="1334" Body="&lt;p&gt;I re-watched Woody Allen's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1605783/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Midnight in Paris&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; last night. I noticed that during a lot of dialogue scenes with only two or three people, there will often only be one of the characters in the shot. It gave me the impression that those characters' lines were shot separately and then edited back into the scene, but I'm not sure that that's actually the reason why they are shot this way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example off the top of my head is the scene in Gertrude Stein's salon when we first meet Adriana, the Marion Cotillard character. She is standing in the doorway of the salon while everyone critiques Picasso's portrait of her. During her lines, she is the only person in the frame, and if I recall correctly she doesn't have any off camera lines, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can almost see it in &lt;a href=&quot;http://movieclips.com/n3ALF-midnight-in-paris-movie-exceptionally-lovely/&quot;&gt;this video&lt;/a&gt; but it stops too soon. (I will keep looking for a more demonstrative clip.) The rest of Adriana's shots in that scene are framed exactly like that first shot of her, close in on her, with no other people in the shot and no movement from the camera. It gives me the impression that she isn't really a part of the rest of the scene, like we're cutting to somewhere else when we're looking at her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a choice, or were there simply scenes that had to be re-shot later and so they ended up a little funky? I'm not a big Woody Allen buff - is this something that he does frequently? If so, what is the purpose of shooting specific bits of dialogue like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/30397719&quot;&gt;another clip&lt;/a&gt; that sort of demonstrates this. It's when Gil first meets Salvador Dalí in the restaurant. I'm not sure this is the same cut that's in the film - I don't remember that long of a shot on Dalí when we first meet him and sit down at the table. But regardless of that issue, once we get into the scene, Gil's two lines (&quot;Rhinoceros?&quot; and &quot;complex situation&quot;) are shot in the same isolated way as Adriana's first scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-07-23T16:08:24.067" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T16:08:24.067" Title="What's with the &quot;one-sided&quot; dialogue scenes in Midnight in Paris?" Tags="|analysis|midnight-in-paris|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="708" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="709" CreationDate="2011-12-30T16:29:20.170" Score="31" ViewCount="148176" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Based on the character of 'The Bride' created by Q and U&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that appears at the end of the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-09-10T20:14:47.860" LastActivityDate="2015-01-29T21:37:29.440" Title="Kill Bill ending Q &amp; U. What does that mean?" Tags="|credits|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="708" CreationDate="2011-12-30T16:41:38.090" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266697/trivia&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMDB:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The closing title card, &quot;Based on the character of 'The Bride' created by Q and U&quot;, refers to the first initials of Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2011-12-30T16:41:38.090" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="707" CreationDate="2011-12-30T16:52:33.053" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is usual for filmmakers to shoot extensive &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_coverage&quot;&gt;coverage&lt;/a&gt; of a scene in order to facilitate the editing process. This approach maybe a considered a little old-fashioned in this age of guerrilla-style hand-held shakey-cam, but I think we can consider Woody Allen a student of the old-school, especially in light of his reverence for Bergman and Fellini.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a filmmaker myself, I will often shoot a scene in multiple takes, including mid to long shots to establish the geography, a series of two shots where both actors are in frame, over-the-shoulder shots and finally solo 'talking head' shots. This not only gives me more latitude in the editing room, but also allows me to choose the best delivery of the lines and subsequently I can edit around any lip-sync issues or choose appropriate responses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, Allen may have chosen to depict the characters in solitude to heighten either their mental states or their position in society. A character framed within the frame (say, by a door frame) is often oppressed or under pressure, a character isolated in the frame is often alone or is indicative of an inner monologue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2011-12-30T19:07:22.847" LastActivityDate="2011-12-30T19:07:22.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="711" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="746" CreationDate="2011-12-30T17:18:41.437" Score="5" ViewCount="8810" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the bar Cal and Jacob meet for the first time in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1570728/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Crazy, Stupid, Love&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/a&gt; Cal asks Jacob why he is helping him (Cal), to which Jacob replies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maybe you remind me of someone&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is Jacob referring to? Is it his father?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-24T20:40:46.280" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T13:36:46.473" Title="Who did Cal Weaver remind Jacob of in Crazy Stupid Love?" Tags="|crazy-stupid-love|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="712" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1736" CreationDate="2011-12-30T17:32:37.423" Score="12" ViewCount="4097" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1570728/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Crazy, Stupid, Love&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; seems to be shot primarily in California. But still Ryan Gosling has this weird accent. What would you call this accent? Is there a specific reason for this accent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T17:42:19.813" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T17:42:19.813" Title="What would Jacob Palmer's (Ryan Gosling's) accent in Crazy Stupid Love be classified as?" Tags="|dialogue|character|crazy-stupid-love|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="713" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2011-12-30T19:02:31.113" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accents can link a character to his/her land of upbringing or his/her place of birth. In a lot of movies the plot is filmed in regions involving characters that do not belong to that region. In such cases, it is generally the accent that helps the viewer conclude the nativity of the character, for a better understanding of the character and/or the movie's plot.&lt;br /&gt; This tag serves the aforementioned purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="356" LastEditDate="2011-12-30T19:06:40.737" LastActivityDate="2011-12-30T19:06:40.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="714" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2011-12-30T19:02:31.113" Score="0" Body="This tag encompasses the accents portrayed by characters in movies." OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="356" LastEditDate="2011-12-30T19:06:46.853" LastActivityDate="2011-12-30T19:06:46.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="718" CreationDate="2011-12-30T19:37:25.610" Score="34" ViewCount="9200" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always wondered how the X-Men got their name. Is it because of Prof. &lt;strong&gt;X&lt;/strong&gt;aviers' starting letter? or maybe because they are &lt;strong&gt;x&lt;/strong&gt;tremely cool ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts and/or proofs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T16:55:00.133" LastActivityDate="2017-08-01T23:44:28.647" Title="Are X-Men called so because Professor Xavier's name?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="717" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="725" CreationDate="2011-12-30T20:24:47.557" Score="23" ViewCount="4672" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is shown that the bags of money are in fact bags full of some paper. How did the Oceans gang manage to achieve this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2011-12-30T21:06:28.913" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T10:47:37.933" Title="How did they fill the bags with paper in Ocean's Eleven?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oceans-eleven|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="716" CreationDate="2011-12-30T20:58:57.590" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;As stated on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.com/universe/X-Men&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marvel Comics webpage for X-Men&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Xavier spent months recruiting his early students (code-named Cyclops, Iceman, Angel, Beast and Marvel Girl), dubbing them &quot;X-Men&quot; because each possessed an &quot;extra&quot; ability normal humans lacked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T16:51:51.557" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T16:51:51.557" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="719" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-30T22:09:14.363" Score="21" ViewCount="5527" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's as if he was preparing to have amnesia. Also, how did the 'surgeon' manage to find it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastActivityDate="2024-02-11T06:37:46.797" Title="Why did Jason Bourne put a laser with his bank account number in his body" Tags="|the-bourne-identity|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="720" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="724" CreationDate="2011-12-30T22:13:44.440" Score="25" ViewCount="15954" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't remember a hint on the movie how Jason Bourne found the home of &lt;a href=&quot;http://bourne.wikia.com/wiki/Jarda&quot;&gt;Jarda&lt;/a&gt;, the only other living Treadstone assassin. Is it mentioned somewhere or are we just supposed to assume that Bourne simply used his amazing resourcefulness to find him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastEditorUserId="356" LastEditDate="2011-12-31T09:47:51.977" LastActivityDate="2020-05-09T11:06:10.390" Title="How did Jason Bourne know the location of the only other living Treadstone assassin?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-bourne-supremacy|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="721" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2011-12-30T22:19:53.603" Score="16" ViewCount="1405" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jason Bourne is almost superhuman in terms of mental/physical skill, yet he manages to be shot in the back twice by a supposedly not-as-well-trained dictator. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a guy who noticed that Bourne spared his life, so it doesn't make much sense that he proceeded to shoot him, or that he even managed such a feat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some explanation that I missed, or is it a shortcut/oversight by the writers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastEditorUserId="46925" LastEditDate="2017-06-03T14:04:43.727" LastActivityDate="2018-01-17T11:40:48.530" Title="The credibility of Bourne being shot in the back" Tags="|the-bourne-identity|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="719" CreationDate="2011-12-30T22:27:57.887" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;In his line of work it's a lot more likely that he was planning on &lt;em&gt;dying&lt;/em&gt; rather than having amnesia someday.  The implant was probably intended for his employer's benefit, not his own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 'surgeon' found the device when he pressed on the scar and noticed that there was something under the skin.  It was a small device, but it would have to be big enough to feel if it contained a working laser and battery.  Remember, Bourne had two bullet holes in him at the time, so it stands to reason that he'd get a thorough examination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-12-30T22:27:57.887" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="721" CreationDate="2011-12-31T00:43:46.270" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's a shortcut or oversight.  Bourne's skills are depicted as superhuman, but even he can't dodge or outrun bullets fired at point blank range.  If all had gone according to plan he would have killed the dictator and walked out.  Once Bourne made the decision not to kill his target he was in an entirely different situation.  Instead of &lt;em&gt;walking&lt;/em&gt; away from a dead body, he was &lt;em&gt;running&lt;/em&gt; away from someone who was armed, scared, angry, and alert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-12-31T00:43:46.270" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="720" CreationDate="2011-12-31T00:56:31.390" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't notice that this was glossed over the first time I watched it, but I see two possible explanations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;The Bourne Identity&lt;/em&gt;, Jason Bourne briefly had access to some information about Treadstone when he infiltrates a safehouse.  He could have found the information there and kept it.  (This is a &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; explanation, but I'm not crazy about it.  If this is what the writers had in mind I think they would have alluded to it.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bourne was regaining some of his memories already by the end of the first film, so it's possible that if he and Jarda had ever worked closely together in the past he just knew where Jarda lived and remembered it.  I think this is the more plausible explanation, and it is hinted at in the dialogue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jarda:&lt;/strong&gt; Word in the ether was you'd lost your memory.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jason Bourne:&lt;/strong&gt; You still should have moved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to indicate that Jarda was counting on Bourne's memory loss to keep him safe.  This is probably a bigger plot hole than Bourne suddenly remembering where Jarda lived.  I'd think that a trained assassin would make himself disappear once all of his colleagues started turning up dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2017-02-15T17:13:08.893" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T17:13:08.893" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="717" CreationDate="2011-12-31T02:41:02.593" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240772/trivia?tab=gf#plot_hole&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The DVD commentary admits that there was no way in which all the flyers that were carried out of the casino and driven to the airport could have been in the vault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-11T10:47:37.933" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T10:47:37.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="726" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="727" CreationDate="2011-12-31T08:23:13.863" Score="66" ViewCount="11388" Body="&lt;p&gt;What kind of company is Initech in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/&quot;&gt;Office Space&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few important things we know about Initech that the movie plot hinged on.  Are there any real-life companies that actually fit this criteria?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Initech hires computer programmers that &quot;update bank software for the 2000 switch&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Initech has access to &quot;the credit union software&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Initech has access to &quot;the credit union mainframe&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Initech's accounting department notices when the money goes missing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Initech has a &quot;Corporate Accounts Payable&quot; department (although &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Office-Space.html&quot;&gt;at least one transcriber disagrees with me&lt;/a&gt; and thinks it's &quot;Corporate Councils Payroll&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Initech has a &quot;Logistics&quot; department&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Initech has engineers who lack people skills sufficient to interface directly with their customers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Items 1,2,7 make Initech sound like a software development house that contracts with financial institutions.  Item 3 additionally makes Initech sound like a company that contracts with financial institutions for server and software maintenance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Item 4 makes Initech sound like the actual financial institution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Item 5 sounds more like a consulting firm, as I think &quot;accounts payable&quot; is more likely simply called &quot;loans&quot;; but an actual banker could probably clear this up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Item 6 could probably be either a bank or a consulting firm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would think maybe Initech is simply a subsidiary of a large financial corporation, that does in-house IT consulting and programming for the parent company.  But item 7 doesn't fit with this theory, as then there wouldn't be any real &quot;customers&quot; (in a traditional sense).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... &lt;em&gt;What kind of company &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; Initech?&lt;/em&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-07-23T16:01:26.340" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T08:31:35.457" Title="What kind of company is Initech?" Tags="|analysis|office-space|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="726" CreationDate="2011-12-31T15:40:43.873" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Initech is ostensibly a software company, but I don't think it could really exist.  I'll take your points one at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Initech hires computer programmers that &quot;update bank software for the 2000 switch&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would fit either a bank/credit union, or a software consulting company.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Initech has access to &quot;the credit union software&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, this would fit both.  Programmers at a consulting company absolutely need access to the source code in order to make changes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Initech has access to &quot;the credit union mainframe&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Access to the mainframe pretty much eliminates &quot;consulting company.&quot;  I happen to work as a programmer at a bank through a consulting company.  There's no way any bank or credit union is going to give access to a consultant to run unchecked code on any system where it could cause harm.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Initech's accounting department notices when the money goes missing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also eliminates &quot;software consulting company&quot; from consideration.  A consulting company has their own accounting department that would track expenses and income for their own activities, not those of their customers.  The bank or credit union would notice the money goes missing, not Initech.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Initech has a &quot;Corporate Accounts Payable&quot; department (although at least one transcriber disagrees with me and thinks it's &quot;Corporate Councils Payroll&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't offer much information.  &quot;Accounts Payable&quot; is a common accounting term that any company would use.  Any kind of loan or purchase on credit would be recorded under accounts payable.  A banker would refer to it as a loan, but an accountant (or accounting software) might still call it by the more generic term.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Initech has a &quot;Logistics&quot; department&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could go either way.  A bank would have a logistics department, but so might a consulting company that worked for a bank.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Initech has engineers who lack people skills sufficient to interface directly with their customers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any company with an IT department has those.  In programming, a &quot;customer&quot; might be anyone who uses our software.  They can be internal or external to the company.  In my department we call the quants and bank officers who use our software to make investment decisions our customers.  Other departments write software for actual bank customers (people with checking or savings accounts).  Many of us don't talk directly with our customers.  Instead we communicate through a project manager or other intermediary.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given all of this, I think your guess of &quot;subsidiary of a large financial corporation&quot; isn't far off.  I think #4 would still eliminate a subsidiary company though.  It's unlikely that the same subsidiary would handle both software development and accounting for the parent company.  So in summary, Initech appears to be some kind of amalgam of a bank and a software consulting company that doesn't exist in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2011-12-31T15:40:43.873" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="726" CreationDate="2011-12-31T17:11:15.720" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought of Initech as a financial transaction intermediary that did custom implementations on either end of the connections they were facilitating.  This could be, for example, Credit Union to Credit Card company or Credit Union to Check Clearinghouse, etc...  Not 100% sure as I've never developed software that close to financial transaction processing, but it seems feasible to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastActivityDate="2011-12-31T17:11:15.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="726" CreationDate="2011-12-31T21:26:23.347" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;For several years I worked for a consulting company developing software for what's called a &quot;correspondent bank&quot; - i.e., an intermediary that processes transactions on behalf of other banks. Customer banks are called &quot;respondent banks&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible that Initech did something similar. I could make the following observations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our customer (the correspondent or 'host' bank) would balance transaction totals to ensure that everything added up correctly.  We as the consulting company did not have access to production data and did not perform this task.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We generally did not work directly with software from RBs (our customer's customers), but we did work directly with other systems in-house with our customer, some of which were commercial off-the-shelf products; for example, message queueing and/or GL accounting or core processing systems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="488" LastActivityDate="2011-12-31T21:26:23.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="726" CreationDate="2012-01-01T00:40:40.410" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used to work at a software company that created products to run mid to high-end credit unions.  (Taking care of pretty much all software needs.)  It was also rumored to serve as the inspiration for Office Space, though I would imagine this is a rumor at many companies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Initech hires computer programmers that &amp;quot;update bank software for the 2000 switch&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure some adjustments were made and tests were performed, just like they were everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Initech has access to &amp;quot;the credit union software&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The company I worked for had complete control of the code running on client systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Initech has access to &amp;quot;the credit union mainframe&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our clients would allow us to log on to their mainframe systems.  Some clients would restrict what we could see, but most just let us see everything.  At the time I worked there, many to most clients would keep a modem line available at all times that we could use to log in.  Everything was logged, so if you changed something you would probably get caught, but you could do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Initech's accounting department notices when the money goes missing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The company I worked at wouldn't have had any reports like that, but the credit unions would generally do a nightly balancing and if something was off, we would CERTAINLY hear about it, usually even before business opening. (So the needed transactions could be reversed/fixed/etc).  Having Initech notice probably makes the plot easier to follow, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Initech has a &amp;quot;Corporate Accounts Payable&amp;quot; department (although at least one transcriber disagrees with me and thinks it's &amp;quot;Corporate Councils Payroll&amp;quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No idea here.  I suspect this was required by the plot once you had Initech being the one that notices the money is missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Initech has a &amp;quot;Logistics&amp;quot; department.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most any company can have one of these. The place I worked certainly had people working on logistics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Initech has engineers who lack people skills sufficient to interface directly with their customers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We did not work directly with customers, but this was less because of a lack of people skills and more because engineer time cost more than customer service time and most issues could be resolved without programmers getting involved.  Often on-call situations resulted in programmers interacting directly with customers, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="493" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T08:31:35.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="732" CreationDate="2012-01-01T05:09:03.723" Score="82" ViewCount="47943" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although Robin seems to have an pivotal role in ruining earlier Batman movies, he's still an integral part of the Batman series. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Is there a reason why Robin does not appear in Batman Begins/The Dark Knight/Dark Knight Rises?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T06:48:08.827" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T06:48:08.827" Title="Why is there no Robin in the Nolan-directed Batman movies?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|the-dark-knight|batman-begins|christopher-nolan|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="731" CreationDate="2012-01-01T07:24:52.363" Score="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a matter of the director having a specific vision of how his Batman stories will become. In the first two films, Christopher Nolan wanted to bring Batman back to his roots, explore how Bruce Wayne became Batman, and how Batman became the legend he is (in the 1989 Batman film, when Vicki Vale asks Bruce why bats, he replies &quot;They're great survivors&quot;; in Batman Forever, we get a VERY brief glimpse of bats on Bruce's mind. That's all the motivation we get). Batman Begins was very much an origin story, showing also the training Bruce took to become Batman. The Dark Knight follows soon after that story, as the ending of Batman Begins sets up The Joker to enter the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is, I tried looking up the reason, and I can't yet find any quotes online from Christopher Nolan (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/did-christopher-nolan-ever-say-robin-wouldnt-be-in-the-bat-franchise-looks-like-no-he-didnt/&quot;&gt;this article here&lt;/a&gt; for an expanded story on this). The next film, The Dark Knight Rises, supposedly takes place 8 years after The Dark Knight. It also features Bane, a character who became notorious for eventually &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman%3a_Knightfall&quot;&gt;breaking Batman's back&lt;/a&gt;. It's entirely conceivable that Nolan will include Robin in this film as his protege who can help him fight Bane. Nobody outside the film set really knows. Me, I'm looking forward to finding out in 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-01-10T14:37:59.937" LastActivityDate="2012-01-10T14:37:59.937" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="733" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="734" CreationDate="2012-01-01T11:35:52.003" Score="6" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does John Cusack's character mean when he says &quot;Nicholas himself wouldn't have as much eggs as you&quot; in the movie &quot;Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="469" LastEditorUserId="48930" LastEditDate="2017-05-11T18:58:52.003" LastActivityDate="2017-05-11T18:58:52.003" Title="What does the dialogue in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil mean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|clint-eastwood|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="733" CreationDate="2012-01-01T17:07:17.267" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's a reference to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faberg%C3%A9_egg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tsar Nicholas II and his Fabergé Eggs&lt;/a&gt;.  But I do not have a definitive source for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastActivityDate="2012-01-01T17:07:17.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="121" CreationDate="2012-01-01T18:37:06.457" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sheep doesn't seem to have a name but the screencap shows Roger Moore who was a guest on episode 5.24 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_524%3a_Roger_Moore&quot;&gt;The Muppet Show&lt;/a&gt; in 1980, so it's not new to the recent film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also from &lt;a href=&quot;http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Sheep&quot;&gt;Muppet Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An assortment of sheep, including rams&#xA;   and lambs, were featured on The&#xA;   Muppet Show. The first one debuted in &#xA;  the U.K. Spot &quot;Is This the Old Sow&quot; on&#xA;   episode 415 of The Muppet Show, while&#xA;   more sheep made their appearances on episode 417, during the song &quot;Rama&#xA;   Lama Ding Dong.&quot; During the Muppet&#xA;   News Flash for episode 418 a &quot;killer&#xA;   lamb&quot; that had escaped from the zoo &#xA;  attacked the Newsman, and another &#xA;  falls on him (following Mary) in a Disney Xtreme Digital short. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2012-01-01T18:37:06.457" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="736" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="737" CreationDate="2012-01-01T23:35:46.620" Score="20" ViewCount="2774" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Furlong&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Edward Furlong&lt;/a&gt; was 14 years old when &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Terminator 2: Judgement Day&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was released in 1991. And it is R-Rated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was Edward allowed to watch this movie with a bunch of his under-age friends? Or do they make an exception for the actor? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually this applies to all other R-Rated movies with child stars in them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-06T15:10:01.860" LastActivityDate="2016-08-06T15:10:01.860" Title="Was Edward Furlong allowed to watch &quot;Terminator 2: Judgement Day&quot; when it was released?" Tags="|content-rating|terminator-series|terminator-2-judgment-day|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="736" CreationDate="2012-01-02T01:00:03.207" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America_film_rating_system&quot;&gt;Motion Picture Association of America's&lt;/a&gt; (MPAA) film-rating system is voluntary and not enforced by law.  Still, most theaters in the United States enforce the ratings and don't let children under 17 into R-rated films without a parent or legal guardian.  So it's really up to a child actor's parents whether or not they're allowed to see an R-rated movie that they appear in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One notable rumor (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.grouchoreviews.com/interviews/229&quot;&gt;confirmed in an interview&lt;/a&gt;) where a child actor was not allowed to see an R-rated movie in which they appeared was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Hussey&quot;&gt;Olivia Hussey&lt;/a&gt; who appeared in the 1968 production of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet_%281968_film%29&quot;&gt;Romeo and Juliet&lt;/a&gt; at the age of 16.  The film got an R-rating for nudity.  It's ironic that Hussey would not have been allowed to see the film in U.S. theaters because she was the one who appeared nude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2012-01-02T01:07:43.927" LastActivityDate="2012-01-02T01:07:43.927" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="739" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="740" CreationDate="2012-01-02T03:42:03.580" Score="21" ViewCount="2369" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron%3a_Legacy&quot;&gt;Tron : Legacy&lt;/a&gt;, When Quorra initially rescues Sam she tells him that Rinzler and co. can't follow them off the grid. But then when Quorra and the Fylnns go back into grid city, CLU and his cronies show up at Flynn's house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like Quorra meant that they couldn't go off the grid via land vehicles, so assuming that is the case, how did CLU suddenly know where Flynn was hiding out? Why didn't he just go there many cycles ago with a small army and get Flynn's disc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-12-11T12:58:33.770" LastActivityDate="2019-03-18T16:18:37.047" Title="Why Doesn't CLU Visit Flynn Earlier?" Tags="|plot-explanation|tron-legacy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="739" CreationDate="2012-01-02T05:56:06.663" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;CLU discovers Flynn's hideout by tracing the signature left behind by Sam when he takes his father's retro-lightcycle into the 'city'. The elder Flynn actually berates his son for this mistake when he catches up with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why CLU didn't try to get him many cycles ago, the limitations of their vehicles, plus the 'hidden entrance' of Flynn's hideout (recall the scene when Quorra seemingly drives through a rock face) must have kept CLU at bay all this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-01-02T05:56:06.663" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="747" CreationDate="2012-01-02T17:13:36.930" Score="20" ViewCount="1007" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Holmes, Watson and the Gypsies go to the arms factory, Holmes leaves Watson a note asking him to meet him at the big tower. Holmes gets captured by Moriarty and his henchmen. Watson runs into some trouble with the sniper guy and blows up the tower, dropping it on the structure where Moriarty is holding Holmes captive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of that was planned, we find out in the end. Holmes needed to get very close to Moriarty in order to swipe his little red notebook and replace it with a fake one. But Holmes sounded genuinely surprised and annoyed when, during the aftermath of the altercation, he says to Watson something like &quot;you didn't so much find me as drop a tower on me!&quot;. But, if he had meant simply for Watson to rescue him from Moriarty, he wouldn't have directed Watson toward the tower and instead would have summoned him to the torture chamber.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or did Holmes mean for Watson to run into trouble with the sniper and blow up the building with the mortar the whole time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was intentional and what was not part of the plan during the conflict at the arms factory? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-04-05T13:28:08.750" LastActivityDate="2012-04-05T13:28:08.750" Title="What was Holmes's original plan?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock-holmes-a-game-of-shadows|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="711" CreationDate="2012-01-02T17:50:51.567" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I imagine that Jacob is referring to some aspect of himself. It could either be his 'past self' - i.e. Jacob before he learned to be a stylish womanizer, perhaps - or it could be the nice and sentimental part of him that still exists in his character. (We know that some part of him like that exists because he falls in love with Cal's daughter.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine it is some combination of the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8" LastActivityDate="2012-01-02T17:50:51.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="745" CreationDate="2012-01-02T18:26:21.257" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, remember that it's Sherlock Holmes, so we're supposed to accept on faith that everything Sherlock imagines will go exactly according to plan.  Remember the end?  He jumps off a cliff just because he imagines himself losing the fight with Moriarty.  So in that context, it's reasonable to guess that maybe Holmes knew exactly what would happen and was just messing with Watson, as he often does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another explanation may be that he hoped Watson would be able to see him from on top of the tower.  Remember, a big part of Holmes' plan revolved around his interpretation of the pictures they found, one of which was the view staring out through the torture chamber ceiling at the lighthouse.  The ceiling of the chamber was glass, meaning anyone from the lighthouse would be able to see in as well.  He probably hoped that the tower provided the best means for Watson to see where Holmes was without being in danger - after all, the only other way would be to go into Moriarty's lair himself.  From the tower, then, there are several things Watson could have done - for instance, he could have sniped Moriarty and friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also a common trend in Hollywood for movies to make sheer luck look like part of some grand plan - &quot;The Dark Knight&quot; is the best example I can think of.  So that's probably actually what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastActivityDate="2012-01-02T18:26:21.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="750" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1058" CreationDate="2012-01-02T20:53:58.427" Score="16" ViewCount="6429" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059749/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Spy Who Came In From The Cold&lt;/a&gt; is one of my all time favorite movies, and I've seen it half a dozen times by now, but there's one part that always seemed a little sketchy.  At the end of the movie, Leamas is let out of his cell by Mundt and provided with a car.  Mundt also lets Leamas' lover, Nan, escape with him.  Mundt knows, however, that Leamas is going to tell Nan everything, which is why he has the boy shoot her as she and Leamas are climbing over the wall.  When Leamas sees that Nan has been shot, he decides that he doesn't want to go on living without her, climbs back to the East German side, and gets shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was Nan released in the first place, however?  Leamas seems to believe, in his final monologue, that it was part of a deal, and that Mundt believed that he wouldn't leave without her, a belief that is justified in the last minute of the film.  But it seems to me that Leamas would be more likely to accept life as a Nan-less spy if she was ditched in East Germany than if she was shot by a fellow British agent.  Furthermore, a more convincing argument for his return could have been made by Mundt at the gate than the one Smiley and the boy attempt to make in the last lines of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would also have been better for Mundt to keep Nan in East Germany, because it makes the escape less suspicious.  The Soviets will easily believe that Fiedler's co-conspirators helped Leamas escape, because Leamas was working for them and they owed it to him, and the official explanation is that Leamas and Fiedler were working together to incriminate Mundt, so it makes sense that Fiedler's friends would help him escape.  What makes less sense, however, is Fiedler's friends helping Nan escape - they owe nothing to her, and Nan was the girl who unraveled their entire plot.  They have no motive for saving her other than that Leamas wants them to, and that motive is non-consequential enough that the story Mundt will provide would make sense without letting Nan go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why was Nan let go? Is there another reason I'm missing, or am I mixing up a motive somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T18:24:40.367" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T13:33:04.693" Title="Why let Leamas and Nan escape?" Tags="|plot-explanation|spy-who-came-in-from-cold|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="545" CreationDate="2012-01-02T20:58:39.573" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was actually originally supposed to be a voice-over in the ending, and for unknown reasons it was cut.  The original script can be viewed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/2001-A-Space-Odyssey.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  Hopefully that helps you align the meaning of the visuals with the narrative in the book and in your mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastActivityDate="2012-01-02T20:58:39.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="752" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1191" CreationDate="2012-01-02T21:47:12.833" Score="13" ViewCount="796" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched &quot;Exit Through The Gift Shop&quot; and thought it was absolutely excellent.  After the movie was over, my friend told me that a lot of people think that Bansky invented the character of Mr. Brainwash.  Apparently there is a lot of supporting evidence for this claim, and a lot of counter-evidence; however, I have been unable to find a complete resource, merely patchwork commentary and criticism in a variety of locations.  Can anyone summarize all the arguments and claims for each side of the debate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2012-06-27T12:43:33.033" LastActivityDate="2012-06-27T12:43:33.033" Title="What evidence is there for each side of the debate over the authenticity of &quot;Exit Through The Gift Shop&quot;?" Tags="|character|exit-through-the-gift-shop|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="696" CreationDate="2012-01-03T01:34:47.003" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think what you're saying is right. Caden is so obsessed with the inevitability of death that he sees it everywhere. He complains of being unwell since the start of the film but actually outlives most of the other characters. He sees others decaying as well, most notably in the progressively worse skin lesions on his psychiatrist's foot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another occurrence of Cotard's syndrome is when Adele tells young Olive that she doesn't have blood. Caden vocally disagrees with this, presumably not wanting his child to deny her mortality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found another link to the real Cotard through &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383028/faq&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the IMDB FAQ&lt;/a&gt;, which states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hazel's books also have symbolic resonance - Swann's Way is the first volume of In Search of Lost Time, an epic novel by Marcel Proust in which the author explores and interprets the events of his own life. A character in it is named Dr Cottard, who is based on Dr Jules Cotard, a French neurologist who described the Cotard delusion, a patient's delusional belief that they are dead, do not exist or do not have bodily organs. The main character of Synecdoche, New York is also named Cotard, and perhaps he believes that humans have the delusional belief that they are alive and that they exist!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2012-01-03T01:34:47.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="312" CreationDate="2012-01-03T02:06:40.390" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are quite a few instances in the Harry Potter movie series of loyalty to the books being sacrificed to make more audience-and-money-grabbing action scenes.  That's pretty much the entire plot of the last one.  And remember the first trial in the fourth movie?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastActivityDate="2012-01-03T02:06:40.390" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="756" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="757" CreationDate="2012-01-03T02:45:40.163" Score="20" ViewCount="73566" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's go over exactly what happens in this scene again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Karen brings something to Jimmy and Jimmy asks how Henry's doing.  He gives kind of a flippant response to her answer, then looks down and is silent for a little bit.  They have a quick conversation, he gives Karen a couple thousand dollars to put in her pocket, kisses her, and then offers her some dresses.  She says she'll take them so he directs her to a store on a corner, kisses her, and says he'll see her later.  He stands outside the place where they were, watching her walk down and directing her instead of coming with her.  At one point he looks behind him quickly.  Karen sees two guys lifting boxes behind a gate, then they pause and look at her.  She stares for about thirty seconds and turns around and runs back to her car to drive away.  Jimmy sounds upset and frustrated and says &quot;no, no no no, it's in there!  Right in there!  Oh come on!&quot;  And then looks mad and stalks around after she drives off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So was Jimmy going to have Karen killed by the two men behind the gate, or was Karen just super-paranoid?  If so, what motive does he have, and if not, how can this scene be explained?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-08T18:38:19.093" LastActivityDate="2013-06-08T18:38:19.093" Title="Did Karen almost die in Goodfellas?" Tags="|analysis|goodfellas|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="756" CreationDate="2012-01-03T03:19:04.357" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene is explained especially early - at the Lufthansa heist, where everyone was flaunting their cash after the crime. Jimmy is super paranoid, and will sever ties with anyone who can finger him. He killed or had killed everyone associated with that crime, including, famously, the wives. The surest settlement to anything dangerous to him is to have the loose ends killed. Henry, and by extension Karen, knew too much about Jimmy and were clearly a threat in his mind. She was certainly going to be killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2012-01-03T03:19:04.357" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="758" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="759" CreationDate="2012-01-03T04:31:19.413" Score="12" ViewCount="1034" Body="&lt;p&gt;Out of curiosity, is the street cartoonist/caricature artist who draws our protagonist at the start of &lt;em&gt;The Adventures of Tintin (2011)&lt;/em&gt; a &quot;cameo&quot; by creator Hergé?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T00:31:16.990" Title="Is that Hergé at the start of The Adventures of Tintin?" Tags="|adventures-of-tintin|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="758" CreationDate="2012-01-03T06:53:26.663" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes it is actually Hergé in the flea market, he has also appeared in various Tintin comic books as a cameo appearance. &lt;a href=&quot;http://tintin.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Herg%C3%A9_cameo_appearances&quot;&gt;Here's a list of his appearances&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user96" LastActivityDate="2012-01-03T06:53:26.663" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="764" CreationDate="2012-01-03T10:36:51.783" Score="27" ViewCount="23803" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the making of &lt;em&gt;Episodes IV&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;V&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;VI&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;, was it immediately decided to make the three prequels, or was it due to some other factors (e.g., financial)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user96" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2024-03-24T10:11:25.650" LastActivityDate="2024-03-25T00:02:49.440" Title="Were the three Star Wars prequels intended?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="761" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="763" CreationDate="2012-01-03T12:19:48.517" Score="54" ViewCount="12600" Body="&lt;p&gt;Were &lt;strong&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/strong&gt; based on any particular comic(s) or were they completely created from scratch?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="509" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-28T10:22:07.513" LastActivityDate="2016-10-14T14:16:34.723" Title="Is Batman Begins based on any Batman comic or was it entirely written from scratch?" Tags="|the-dark-knight|batman-begins|comic-adaptation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="762" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-03T12:19:59.280" Score="28" ViewCount="4125" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a conversation with a UK film professional, I was told that in order to simplify technical stuff associated with projection, all modern films are projected slightly sped up at 25fps - although they were filmed at 24fps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't believe this, as I haven't experienced overly video-like motion in cinema exhibitions so much. 25fps would produce TV or video like flicker / judder / motion, as far as I am informed (&lt;a href=&quot;http://film.goeszen.com/save-the-film-flicker.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;compare&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two explanations are possible:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No video-motion because cinemas project 3:2 pulldowns at 25fps.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or the 24fps-camera-induced-shutter-flicker is preserved even at 25fps.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somewhere else I've &lt;a href=&quot;http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/278443-HDTV-makes-DVD-movie-look-less-like-a-movie?p=1675089&amp;amp;viewfull=1#post1675089&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;read&lt;/a&gt; that cinemas really do alter frame rate, but in a good way. Stepping up in multiples of 24, 48fps, 72fps, preserving original flicker/shutter-gaps but double-exposing frames to produce a steadier stream of light on the audience's eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any projectionists here that can confirm 25fps frame-rates in projection?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Coda: Legend has it, same is true for TV, films presented sped up  - although I see 3:2 pulldowns all the time... no video-motion in films on TV, evar!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="453" LastEditorUserId="453" LastEditDate="2016-05-24T13:45:55.970" LastActivityDate="2016-05-24T14:53:45.467" Title="Do contemporary cinemas really project at 25fps?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="761" CreationDate="2012-01-03T13:04:12.500" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/strong&gt; is a combination of stories from the Batman mythos, as well as an original story. According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Begins#Development&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, the starting point for Batman Begins was a story called &quot;&lt;em&gt;The Man Who Falls&lt;/em&gt;&quot;; Jim Gordon was based on the character from the story &quot;Batman: Year One&quot;. Neither of these stories featured Ra's Al Ghul, who is a significantly different character than the one featured in the comic (both Ra's are leaders of a large group of assassins, and both have a large respect for Batman, but the Ra's in the comics is depicted as being hundreds of years old, regenerating himself in a pool of liquid called &quot;The Lazarus Pit&quot;. It remains to be seen if the Ra's in the movie makes a similar comeback or not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film &lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/strong&gt; uses elements from the story &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman%3a_The_Long_Halloween&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Long Halloween&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, though again the story is mainly an original story. It was also related that Heath Ledger, who played The Joker, locked himself in his hotel room for weeks to try and get to the core of the character of The Joker, even writing a journal of The Joker's 'thoughts'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorUserId="260" LastEditDate="2012-01-03T15:05:21.880" LastActivityDate="2012-01-03T15:05:21.880" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="760" CreationDate="2012-01-03T13:50:45.970" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;George Lucas had the basic outlines for the prequels written, including many characters and settings, even as &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt; was wrapping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, he lost his enthusiasm to continue the series in 1987 following a financially damaging divorce, and turned his attention to other endeavors - the culmination of which would be THX sound, Pixar, advancements in video gaming and pushing the cinematic boundaries through ILM. Eventually though, the Star Wars saga began to gain momentum again due to the comics produced by Dark Horse and the novels written by Timothy Zahn, and when he saw the results of his company's CGI effects in films such as &lt;em&gt;Terminator 2&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Jurassic Park&lt;/em&gt;, he realized the technology was available for him to realize his original vision. Also, Lucas could see that the fan-base was growing, rather than dwindling, and as an independent company, Lucasfilm needed to generate its own income in order to finance other projects, and a new &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; film (and associated merchandising) would certainly fill the coffers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He began writing the script for Episode 1 in 1994 (putting a long-gestating project, &lt;em&gt;Red Tails&lt;/em&gt;, on hold) and made the focus of the saga the story of Anakin Skywalker which encompassed the classic theme of the rise, fall and redemption of a hero. It is noteworthy that many of the character names and settings from the prequels can be found in the very earliest drafts of the original Star Wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-01-03T13:50:45.970" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="766" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="792" CreationDate="2012-01-03T17:47:28.440" Score="25" ViewCount="28524" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the Marines are waking up you get this dialogue between Hudson and Apone:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hudson:&lt;/em&gt; Man, this floor is freezing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Apone:&lt;/em&gt; What do you want me to do, fetch your slippers for you? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hudson:&lt;/em&gt; Gee, would you sir? I'd like that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;em&gt;Apone&lt;/em&gt; pulls down the skin under his left eye with middle finger] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Apone:&lt;/em&gt; Look into my eye. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does the &quot;Look into my eye&quot; mean/suggest??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:21:58.670" LastActivityDate="2013-07-13T02:45:04.427" Title="What does the quote from Sgt. Apone in Aliens &quot;Look into my eye&quot; mean?" Tags="|analysis|aliens|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="766" CreationDate="2012-01-03T17:58:04.663" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not the dialogue; it's the gesture. Apone is &quot;flipping the bird&quot; to Hudson -- an extended middle finger is an offensive gesture in the U.S. -- and using the line to call attention to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="192" LastActivityDate="2012-01-03T17:58:04.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="762" CreationDate="2012-01-03T21:38:53.893" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of those interesting questions which gets more complex (and harder to answer) the more you learn about it.  Unfortunately I cannot answer definitively how theater projectors work.  I'll explain why I don't think that question can be answered.  And I'm going to reference &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.100fps.com/&quot;&gt;100fps.com&lt;/a&gt; a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, I don't think the question can be answered now, because projector hardware is kinda stuck.  Look at how few screens in your area converted to 3D in the past few years.  Yes, most theaters likely have 1 or 2 screens capable of 3D, but the expense of converting them all just isn't supportable.  Because of costs like this, most theaters are using projection methods which are likely very out of date; so even if newer/better projection methods exist, it's likely you're still seeing older methods.  But this question likely couldn't be answered in the past, because of different video standards.  American cinema companies developed one set of film standards, while european companies developed another.  This carries into broadcast encoding technologies for TV, and pretty much every corner of video.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One great bit of discussion can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  It looks at the question of how the human eye perceives video images, and some of the trade-offs necessary to make movies look fluid.  Note in particular this observation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The fact is that the human eye perceives the typical cinema film&#xA;  motion as being fluid at about 18fps, because of its blurring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes the main page at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.100fps.com/&quot;&gt;100fps.com&lt;/a&gt; more relevant to the question of how cinema can get away with such low frame rates, as the main page is focused on interlacing (and image de-interlacing).  Cinema blurs the images in each frame (by combining time slices) it gives the illusion of smoothness to motion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As near as I can tell, most theaters in the US run at 24 frames per second, with 2 or 3 exposures per frame.  The higher exposure rate prevents the eye from seeing the black shutter.  The interlaced frames make the image look smooth.  By comparison, most theaters in Europe show 25 frames per second, still with 2 or 3 exposures per frame.  This low frame rate (by modern video game standards) works because the images are not crisply rendered computer images.  So motion blur works to make it look better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some further reading:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntsc&quot;&gt;NTSC on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL&quot;&gt;PAL on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_projector#Shutter&quot;&gt;Projectors:Shutter on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_fusion_threshold&quot;&gt;Flicker Fusion Threshold&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="411" LastActivityDate="2012-01-03T21:38:53.893" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="771" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-04T03:13:51.793" Score="12" ViewCount="1132" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &lt;em&gt;A scandal in Belgravia&lt;/em&gt; (Sherlock season 2 episode 1), when Dr. Watson is blogging and his blog text is shown to the viewers overlaid on the wall of 221B, Baker St., why is the text that comes atop the Bull's Head &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;erased&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="69" LastEditDate="2012-01-19T17:10:28.097" LastActivityDate="2015-07-18T13:25:19.433" Title="Why is the blog text removed over Bull's head in Sherlock : A scandal in Belgravia?" Tags="|analysis|sherlock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="772" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="774" CreationDate="2012-01-04T03:15:30.357" Score="18" ViewCount="1649" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title of the 1st episode on Season 2 of &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;, the TV-series is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A scandal in Belgravia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. What is Belgravia?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-01-02T17:28:22.040" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T15:33:46.183" Title="What is Belgravia in 'a Scandal in Belgravia'?" Tags="|analysis|title|sherlock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="772" CreationDate="2012-01-04T03:56:18.687" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I presume it's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgravia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;district in London&lt;/a&gt; but I have not seen the episode, so I may not be correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastActivityDate="2012-01-04T03:56:18.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="772" CreationDate="2012-01-04T05:25:52.560" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a very exclusive part of London, part of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Borough_of_Kensington_and_Chelsea&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea&lt;/a&gt;. It is named after &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgrave_Square&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Belgrave Square&lt;/a&gt;, which today includes many international embassies to the UK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was used as an alternative UK based location for the original Arthur Conan Doyle story which was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Scandal in Bohemia&lt;/a&gt;.  Belgravia was probably chosen because of the alliteration with the word 'Bohemia' and the reputation of the area as being a location of rich and powerful people, who Irene Adler (as a professional and very expensive dominatrix) might find clients.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2017-01-03T15:33:46.183" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T15:33:46.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="775" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="788" CreationDate="2012-01-04T06:37:04.190" Score="27" ViewCount="44346" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Heaven_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kingdom of Heaven&lt;/a&gt;, after Balin surrenders control of Jerusalem to Saladin, he asks the question, &amp;quot;What is Jerusalem worth?&amp;quot; Is there any deeper meaning to the reply?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320661/quotes?qt=qt0324972&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;As per the IMDB quotes page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Balian of Ibelin: What is Jerusalem worth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saladin: Nothing. [walks away]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saladin: Everything!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="518" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2022-10-05T08:06:48.050" Title="What is Jerusalem worth?" Tags="|plot-explanation|kingdom-of-heaven|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="778" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="779" CreationDate="2012-01-04T11:51:00.733" Score="25" ViewCount="8406" Body="&lt;p&gt;What could be the major factor that convinced the casting directors of The Dark Knight to decide that Heath Ledger will play The Joker's role?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="509" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-10T12:57:49.967" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T12:57:49.967" Title="What is the major reason for casting Heath Ledger as The Joker?" Tags="|casting|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="778" CreationDate="2012-01-04T12:05:57.690" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/trivia?tab=tr&amp;amp;item=tr0755884&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMDB:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Despite endless speculation on which actor had been chosen to portray&#xA;  The Joker, &lt;strong&gt;Heath Ledger&lt;/strong&gt; had always been &lt;strong&gt;Christopher Nolan&lt;/strong&gt;'s&#xA;  one and only choice for the role. When asked the reason for this&#xA;  unexpected casting, Nolan simply replied, &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Because he's fearless.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  He later said&#xA;  that the two had met up to discuss it before there was even a script&#xA;  for the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="520" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-01-05T22:59:30.647" LastActivityDate="2012-01-05T22:59:30.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="780" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-04T12:33:37.070" Score="21" ViewCount="2981" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_%28film%29&quot;&gt;first Superman film&lt;/a&gt;, there's a scene at the end of the film where Lex Luthor has Miss Teschmacher hanging from a rope, where he then drops her to the lions (in my memory, it was crocodiles, but after checking the Wikipedia article, I found out it was lions). Superman then swoops in and saves Miss Teschmacher, remarking to her &quot;By the way, Miss Teschmacher, your mother sends her love.&quot; (it was that line that really stuck with me). I remember the scene when I saw the film, but then when it came out on video and first DVDs, the scene was missing. It was only later that the scene was restored to the film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just wondering if anyone can find out why that one scene was cut from the movie when it was put out on video? It's only about 1 extra minute of film, but it also resolves a few plot points: Lex trying to take revenge on Miss Teschmacher for her allowing Superman to escape; Superman confronting Lex before dropping him off at prison (without the scene, we don't see how Superman found Lex again); and a little reference to Lex's claims that one of the nuclear weapons he launched was headed for Hackensack, New Jersey (where Miss Teschmacher's mother lives). Yes, it's a campy bit (Luthor is playing the piano before he drops Miss Teschmacher), but it resolves quite a few plot points, and is no campier than Lex ripping his toupee off in the next scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone can provide some links with any information, I would really appreciate it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T17:40:49.997" LastActivityDate="2017-01-29T07:48:07.547" Title="Why was one of the last scenes from the original Superman film cut?" Tags="|superman|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="782" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-04T13:28:39.217" Score="6" ViewCount="1638" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Casino Royale, James Bond is seen in a car driving along in Nassau. When first arriving, he leaves from a helipad near Atlantis Resort, Paradise Island. While driving, he is seen driving along from the west side of Nassau.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FtCwF.png&quot; alt=&quot;Atlantis Resort&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b2fEz.png&quot; alt=&quot;GPS to Ocean Club&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or did he get this car from an associate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="3394" LastEditDate="2012-12-11T04:27:23.600" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T18:23:55.653" Title="Where did James Bond pick up his rental car in Bahamas for Casino Royale?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|casino-royale|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-01-07T16:30:54.727" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="783" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-04T14:33:18.940" Score="20" ViewCount="9677" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some sections within the movie where &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dukakis&quot;&gt;Michael Dukakis&lt;/a&gt; comes into view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The television &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The argument between Eddie and Elizabeth  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the purpose of Dukakis and politics within Donnie Darko?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="19762" LastEditDate="2016-06-09T17:08:53.013" LastActivityDate="2018-10-04T23:50:15.547" Title="What is the significance of Dukakis in Donnie Darko?" Tags="|analysis|donnie-darko|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="716" CreationDate="2012-01-04T14:43:58.010" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scoping it within the limits of the X-Men movies, specifically &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270798/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;X-Men: First Class&lt;/a&gt; we have the following on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270798/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the movie's IMDB Quotes page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Raven Darkholme: We have to call him, Havok. That's his name now. And we were thinking...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [points to Charles]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Raven Darkholme: ...you should be Professor X...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [points to Erik]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Raven Darkholme: ...and you should be Magneto.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Erik Lehnsherr: Exceptional.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then later on with MacTaggert;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dr. Moira MacTaggert: You know, one day the government is going to realize that how lucky they were to have Professor X on their side.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Professor Charles Xavier: I suppose I am a real professor, aren't I? Next thing you know, I'll be going bald. We're still on the government side, Moira. We're still G-Men. Just without the &quot;G&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Dr. Moira MacTaggert: No. You're your own team now. It's better. You're X-Men.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Professor Charles Xavier: Yes, I like the sound of that.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So within the scope of the movie, Professor Charles got the idea from MacTaggert and she got the idea from Raven. Though this is not correct within the comics, this is how it is played out within the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T16:53:20.503" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T16:53:20.503" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="783" CreationDate="2012-01-04T16:47:32.187" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The appearance of the election seems to be just a representation of the times and possibly a direct parallel to the feelings of Donnie himself.  An election represents uncertainty and balance shifts whereas Donnie's life seems to mirror that setting of an uncertain youth.  Battling with bipolar disorder having his balance shifted a lot of the time combined with his new 'realization' that the world is going to end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simpler explanation that goes back to it being just a showing of the time era is the Father's obsession with Dukakis being shown that he is just a republican father and sarcastic person, the second also noted by his obvious sense of humor while the kids are fighting at the dinner table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-01-05T12:55:04.553" LastActivityDate="2012-01-05T12:55:04.553" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="775" CreationDate="2012-01-04T18:17:08.867" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;To put things (very) simply; the whole bloody war was over the city or Jerusalem. Many lives were taken, from both sides, in an effort to possess it. In his moment of despair, Balian wonders if this city is worth all those losses, and shares his bewilderment with Saladin. Saladin at first replies &quot;Nothing&quot;. Echoing this earlier exchange with Balian:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Balian of Ibelin&lt;/strong&gt;: Before I lose it, I will burn it to the ground. Your holy places - ours. Every last thing in Jerusalem that drives men&#xA;  mad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saladin&lt;/strong&gt;: I wonder if it would not be better if you did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The city, as a geographic location, as cold stone, is almost worthless. The rational, secular view. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then he goes back and smiles and says &quot;Everything!&quot; as there is deeper, more spiritual, value to city. Not only religious, but nationalistic as well. This is the emotional, spiritual view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This dichotomy is the prevailing conflict that fuels the unrest in the region that continues to this day. I have always noted that among the more moderate people involved in the middle east conflict that there is always this struggle in their mind. Is this piece of land worth all the anguish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-01-04T18:17:08.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="716" CreationDate="2012-01-04T19:32:56.470" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, the mutant gene that they posses is called the &quot;X-Gene&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T16:53:31.527" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T16:53:31.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="790" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="948" CreationDate="2012-01-04T20:32:40.093" Score="25" ViewCount="15727" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mycroft Holmes, gives a cigarette to Sherlock and says &lt;em&gt;&quot;Merry Christmas&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Then in the following scene, Dr. Watson asks Mycroft if he gave the cigarette to Sherlock. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, it seems to me that the cigarette has some significance. Although it might also seem like &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; was just suffering from the &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; loss of Irene Adler, and his brother just thought the nicotine patches weren't good enough to help him relax.&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="6245" LastEditDate="2013-11-14T11:19:45.400" LastActivityDate="2016-07-30T17:02:54.553" Title="What is the significance of the cigarette in 'Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia'?" Tags="|plot-explanation|props|sherlock|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="790" CreationDate="2012-01-04T20:41:19.833" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I presumed that it was just Mycroft and John Watson's way of telling whether Sherlock was badly affected by the news of her death.  I think in the original A.C.D. stories, Sherlock Holmes does seem to have a tendency to fall into what we would now call depression and even that he has tendencies towards manic-depression.  In the original stories he is also a user of drugs including opiates (which were not illegal at the time) when depressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought that (modern) Sherlock does not routinely smoke, therefore if he accepts the cigarette then he is going to be bad.  I don't think it was just a way of helping him relax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-01-04T21:07:04.663" LastActivityDate="2012-01-04T21:07:04.663" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="766" CreationDate="2012-01-04T22:04:49.870" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's actually his right eye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The common belief is that Apone is flipping Hudson &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bird&quot;&gt;the bird&lt;/a&gt; (showing his middle finger). A gesture which means &quot;f--- you&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It isn't obvious because Apone is also holding his cigar between the middle and forefinger of the same hand. This somewhat obscures the gesture. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's probably safe to assume that this is a well understood gesture in the military (at least in the fictional Aliens world), and in fact the gesture itself most likely isn't even necessary as anyone would understand the implication of just the words &quot;look into my eye&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="514" LastActivityDate="2012-01-04T22:04:49.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="762" CreationDate="2012-01-05T00:30:51.260" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;TV presentation of movies &lt;em&gt;in Europe&lt;/em&gt; will always run at 25fps to synchronise with the TV framerate (anything else would require expensive conversion or incur terrible flicker as the slightly different frame rates interfere with each other). The difference is barely noticeable (but the movie will play with a 4% shorter run time and, for a non digital soundtrack, a 4% higher pitch for sound). In the USA where TV is 30fps more complex solutions are required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no good reason for a projector in a movie theatre to do this: movies are shot at 24 Hz and shown at 24 Hz, so why would they? However digital projectors have no physical limitation on the framerate they use and it would be easy to project at different rates if there was a good reason to do so. But you wouldn't see big benefits unless the rates were &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; faster and many of these benefits would only appear if there was &lt;em&gt;more data to project&lt;/em&gt; (it isn't entirely obvious that projecting the same frame &lt;em&gt;twice&lt;/em&gt; leads to observable gains, for example, and TV sets that do this from 25 or 30fps signals also cause new and sometimes annoying artefacts on the perceived image). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some modern movie directors (I believe Peter Jackson and James Cameron are pioneering the idea) are using digital shooting at 48 fps which will look a lot better than current movies if projected at 48 fps. And, note, their choice of 48 fps not 50 fps is dictated by compatibility with the current standard of 24 fps. Presumably, none of this will matter when everything is digital, but compatibility with the existing standard will make showing old movies originally shot at 24 fps less of a problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="134" LastEditDate="2016-05-24T14:53:45.467" LastActivityDate="2016-05-24T14:53:45.467" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="760" CreationDate="2012-01-05T04:43:17.973" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Episode IV&lt;/em&gt; was not in opening of the original release of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; (1977), it was added for the re-release a few years later. This is one of those we will never know type questions. Lucas has made many claims and who knows what the real story is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He broke movie making rules when he made this movie, got kicked out of the directors guild if I understand it right. Changed the world from a lot of unhappy ending movies to the heroes win at the end with a happy ending.  My guess is he was probably happy to have had at least had this project at all. If it failed who cares if there were other stories, if it succeeded then use the money and success to make more movies. From star wars to Jedi, the little furry animals were supposed to be Wookiees, but that would make Chewbacca an also-ran not a special character, and other reasons the story was changed. How much time was there from Star Wars to Jedi and from Jedi to episode 1? The better question might be how many hundreds of versions of these stories were there before settling in on the 6 we have?  There  were supposed to be 9, three prequels and three sequels after this set, where are the other three, why waste time messing up Star Wars every so many years and just finish the series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with a prequel or set of them in this case, especially with a cult classic like star wars, you have to get all the facts right, you have to create Darth Vader, the Empire, Luke and Leia and so on. Episode III is 100% checklist, nothing else, kids born, check, kids distributed, check, create Vader, check, Empire in place, check, etc etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom line the Episode IV tag was not part of the original, it was added after the original was a huge success, big enough to have a re-release (this was before VCRs and cable TV with movie channels), we will never know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="526" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-03-25T00:02:49.440" LastActivityDate="2024-03-25T00:02:49.440" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="783" CreationDate="2012-01-05T11:45:02.420" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember from viewing with audio-commentary, that Kelly said in the first appearance of such a scene, that he didn't want to take any side. So I think he included it to narrow down the timeframe. There are many other indicators that show, that the movie takes place in the 80s. It seems normal, that in a time of an upcoming presidential election the candidates will be discussed (and will be shown in TV sometimes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastActivityDate="2012-01-05T11:45:02.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="543" CreationDate="2012-01-06T00:52:33.463" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would speculate that it Dia's primary purpose is to develop Solomon's character further and to highlight the differences between Solomon and Archer.  Solomon is a foil of Archer, and his son Dia helps to highlight that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Archer is primarily driven by money and profit, having been a mercenary and now a smuggler; Solomon is motivated by his family which is setup by the initial scenes when they are talking about school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could even be taken a step further to say that the story of Solomon trying to find and rescue his family is a foil to the main plot of the film which is all about the diamond trade in Africa and how it is tearing the country apart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50" LastActivityDate="2012-01-06T00:52:33.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="172" CreationDate="2012-01-06T01:08:22.477" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did some research and I don't think any particular reason is supposed to be taken away.  Elwood's mother's death probably just made Elwood more acceptable as a medium since he started getting out more and was lonely enough to accept Harvey, although he was an ideal medium in the first place, which is why Harvey chose him to begin with.  Harvey's intention, however, is unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastActivityDate="2012-01-06T01:08:22.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="804" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-06T04:22:07.847" Score="10" ViewCount="514" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not have actors' names for the movie for which I am searching. I think it was done in the late 1990's or early 2000's. In the first scene a truck on a country/road in a Latin American country comes to a border checkpoint. The border agent takes a picture of one of the passengers, who unbeknownst to him is a revolutionary leader.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, the border agent works for this country's police force and is hunting for this revolutionary. The agent has a daughter who takes dance lessons from the revolutionary leader's girlfriend. The agent falls in love with her not knowing her ties to the man he is hunting. Eventually the revolutionary is tacked down through his trash by a medicine he is using for a skin condition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="95" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-02-02T20:16:15.960" LastActivityDate="2017-02-02T20:16:15.960" Title="Late 90's/early 00's movie about a revolutionary leader and an agent hunting him" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:34:01.373" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="804" CreationDate="2012-01-06T06:21:30.227" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118926/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Dancer Upstairs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Storyline from IMDb, added after comment from TylerShads&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The story of Detective Agustin Rejas, a man clinging to the hope of an impossible love in an impossible world. Tracking Ezequiel, a delusional anarchist who incites the downtrodden masses to join in his brutal revolution against the fascist government in their unnamed Latin American country, Rejas finds solace in his sense of self-respect and the joy that his daughter and wife bring him. Then he meets Yolanda--his daughter's soulfully beautiful ballet teacher--a woman who sparks his long-forgotten passions and represents all that is good and all that is corrupt in their troubled country. But she, who appears to be a shelter from the storm, may in actuality be the storm's eye. Ultimately, as the revolution intensifies and the net closes around hunter and hunted alike, the dancer's truth will prove as elusive as the revolutionary's cause and the detective's peace&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Wikipedia &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dancer_Upstairs_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; for the movie, has the historical basis for the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The story is inspired by the Maoist insurgency in Peru known as the Shining Path. Its leader Abimael Guzmán, who was known by the nom de guerre President Gonzalo, was captured in an apartment above a ballet studio in the capital Lima in 1992. The ballet teacher Yolanda was based on Maritza Garrido Lecca, the woman in whose apartment Guzmán was found. Bardem's character was inspired by Benedicto Jimenez and General Antonio Ketin Vidal, the leading figures responsible for Guzmán's capture&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastEditorUserId="313" LastEditDate="2012-01-22T15:44:24.387" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T15:44:24.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="806" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="837" CreationDate="2012-01-06T09:22:54.247" Score="26" ViewCount="43596" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Ocean's Eleven, during the vault robbery, Terry Benedict is shown a recording of a copy of his vault with the robbery in progress. The way I understand the time line, when this was happening Ocean, Yen and Linus were in fact in the vault. They could wear masks or something if they didn't want Benedict to recognize them. Why did they bother with the fake vault and the recording at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="532" LastEditorUserId="1353" LastEditDate="2012-07-23T02:17:25.963" LastActivityDate="2018-10-20T11:39:56.627" Title="Why couldn't Ocean's team show Benedict the live feed? Why was the recording needed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oceans-eleven|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="778" CreationDate="2012-01-06T10:37:23.483" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From this &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.ign.com/articles/839/839933p2.html&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; of Nolan at IGN, I am sure that Nolan himself wanted to cast Heath Ledger as Joker. He says that he wanted to work with Heath on past projects, but could not. He and Heath shared a character portrayal of Joker and that's how he was cast in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastActivityDate="2012-01-06T10:37:23.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="852" CreationDate="2012-01-06T12:40:14.747" Score="8" ViewCount="918" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Avatar, Neytiri refers to &quot;Ninat&quot; as being the best singer, this sounds awfully similar to Ninet Tayeb, the first person to win on Israel's version of American Idol. (Supposingly, the &quot;best singer&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that they are related?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="533" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T15:40:30.147" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T15:40:30.147" Title="In Avatar, does Ninat refer to Ninet Tayeb, Israeli singer?" Tags="|plot-explanation|avatar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="806" CreationDate="2012-01-06T16:40:40.257" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because only two of them actually broke into the vault, but to really threaten Terry, they need him to believe that they all broke into the vault and can do a lot of damage. And of course they need to fake a footage of SWAT attack later...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="534" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-01-27T20:36:49.437" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T20:36:49.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="522" CreationDate="2012-01-06T17:50:46.317" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you refer to Trivia section on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099464/trivia?tab=gf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; link for this movie, you'll get to know of some factual errors in the movie. This may not be a complete list of factual errors, but at least gives you something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastActivityDate="2012-01-06T17:50:46.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="849" CreationDate="2012-01-06T18:07:57.753" Score="20" ViewCount="1442" Body="&lt;p&gt;This technique is used in several movie trailers to give a feeling of stress, anxiety or urgency. It is also used in several movies (mostly thrillers, action or horror movies), sometimes even before the opening credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A typical example would be a sequence showing a terrorized woman running in a forest to escape a killer. The sequence would alternate the following close-ups separated by quick fade ins/outs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The woman's feet running and sometimes tripping&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The killer's feet walking at a quick pace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The woman quickly looking behind her to estimate her chances of escaping the killer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The killer holding a big knife covered in blood&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the first occurence of this technique?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastActivityDate="2012-01-10T22:31:58.517" Title="What is the first occurence of a sequence of short shots of the same length separated by fade ins/outs?" Tags="|film-techniques|editing|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3" CreationDate="2012-01-06T22:58:17.700" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to defend this approach to some degree. As presented in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://redlettermedia.com/mr-plinketts-star-wars-episode-1-the-phantom-menace-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;(NSFW) review&lt;/a&gt; the idea seems kind of superficial, the interviewees can come up with a few descriptive adjectives for the characters from the original series and struggle to do so for the characters from the prequels. So what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will suggest taking a slightly deeper approach: &lt;strong&gt;try to describe the character's personality and thought process as if you were doing a little pop psychoanalysis.&lt;/strong&gt; Your goal is to describe the character so that a viewer seeing the film for the first time would be able to fit description to character &lt;em&gt;without you having told them anything about the role in the move&lt;/em&gt;: no visuals, no plot elements, no job, no back story---just what kind of person they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I think this has some value is wrapped up in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;theory of the mind&lt;/a&gt;: if you are able to attribute a thought process to the character as you would a person you were interacting with in real life then the movie portrayed a &lt;em&gt;person&lt;/em&gt; in your mind. Failure isn't however a simple indication that the character is not well developed: the character may be hiding his or her intent and thinking as part of the plot. For instance, I find Vader's inner life pretty opaque: his actions betray little more than duty and anger. Likewise Leia's character in the original is pretty simple, she doesn't really come into her own until &lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the ones I did for the characters from the original series (it's pretty hard to stick to the restrictions on avoiding role-related data, try doing your friends too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;XXXX is a more or less nice guy with a pragmatic streak when it comes to dealing with life's little difficulties. He's convinced himself that he has a hard heart and a black and white view of the world, but his actions betray a sentimentality underneath.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;XXXX is a prissy worrywart with an inferiority complex insufficiently compensated for by a degree of contrarianism; he's also bit of a coward and has only one skill worth anything. This makes it hard for him to secure his place in life which feeds back into his anxiety.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither of these will let the audience predict the behavior of the characters in the movies ahead of time, but nothing you could write in a few lines would. The question is &lt;em&gt;&quot;Having heard these description, could a first time viewer correctly match the descriptions to the characters?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="454" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2019-05-15T02:22:51.323" LastActivityDate="2019-05-15T02:22:51.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15" CreationDate="2012-01-07T20:29:01.513" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;To my understanding, this scene is a comment on the opening line and one of the central themes of the film: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A man's heart has heard two ways through life:  The way of nature and&#xA;  the way of grace.  You have to choose which one you'll follow.  Grace&#xA;  doesn't try to please itself.  It accepts being&#xA;  slighted...forgotten...disliked... It accepts insults and injuries. &#xA;  Nature only wants to please itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We would assume--and have been shown until this point in the evolution story--that nature is the only mechanism at work in the non-human world.  But then we see a dinosaur, that symbol of lustful hunger and violence, performing an act of mercy.  Malick is pointing to a turning point in evolutionary development.  &quot;Here is grace, this is where God is born.  Not in the heart of man but long long before that.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if that's the case, then perhaps looking for grace in the &quot;purely human qualities&quot; is wrong.  Perhaps the more profound contact with the &quot;way of grace&quot; is through some sort of atavistic rejection of rationality, beauty, truth or whatever else you perceive to be human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a pretty rich moment and I think you could probably find a lot more that it's hinting at but it's pretty clear that it's meant to be read as one of a series of meditations on grace vs nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="538" LastActivityDate="2012-01-07T20:29:01.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29" CreationDate="2012-01-07T20:41:40.743" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kurosawa began his career during the Showa war and during that time he, like all other Japanese filmmakers, was confined to making &quot;policy pictures&quot; that supported the militarist agenda.  This necessitated a large amount of censorship.  But there was no Shakespeare there and nor were there any films that would later be hailed as &quot;masterpieces&quot; or the likes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the surrender, Japanese film was censored under SCAP (1945-1952).  Criticism of the American occupiers was forbidden and films like Drunken Angel and Stray Dog walked a thin line in their harsh portrayals of life under occupation.  Indeed, it's likely that the fetid pond in Drunken Angel--ever present, overpowering and destroying the physical health of the neighborhood's inhabitants--is meant to be understood as criticism of the occupation and its deleterious effects on the Japanese soul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During this time, Kurosawa made the following films:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sanshiro Sugata Part II (1945) &#xA;The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945) &#xA;No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) &#xA;One Wonderful Sunday (1947) &#xA;Drunken Angel (1948) &#xA;The Quiet Duel (1949) &#xA;Stray Dog (1949)&#xA;Scandal (1950) &#xA;Rashomon (1950) &#xA;The Idiot (1951)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was an extremely fruitful time and the relationships (ie, Mifune) and themes that he established during SCAP proved the basis for the rest of his career.  But no Shakespeare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His two proper Shakespeare adaptations, Throne of Blood (1957) (Macbeth) and Ran (1985) (King Lear) as well as The Bad Sleep Well (1960) (inspired by Hamlet) were made long after the end of that period, when Japan had an independent democratic government with no censorship to speak of.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="538" LastEditorUserId="538" LastEditDate="2012-01-07T20:49:27.593" LastActivityDate="2012-01-07T20:49:27.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="771" CreationDate="2012-01-07T21:32:35.683" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really don't think there's any significance to that.&#xA;It's just a video effects choice. When done this way, the blog text seems to be a part of the wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="539" LastEditorUserId="9877" LastEditDate="2014-06-01T23:46:11.500" LastActivityDate="2014-06-01T23:46:11.500" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="819" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="825" CreationDate="2012-01-08T04:57:07.090" Score="27" ViewCount="1191" Body="&lt;p&gt;Upon re-watching Charlie Chaplin's classic film, &lt;em&gt;Modern Times&lt;/em&gt; (1936), I was struck by the similarities between the conclusions of the shipyard scenes in both Chaplin's film and the first &lt;em&gt;Sherlock Holmes&lt;/em&gt; movie  - namely a lingering shot of a half-built ship sinking in the river;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XdWBf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;*Modern Times*&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iePVh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;*Sherlock Holmes*&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know if there is any documented evidence of Ritchie paying homage to his fellow British director.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T14:44:06.050" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T10:53:16.427" Title="Did Guy Ritchie pay homage to Charlie Chaplin in the first Sherlock Holmes movie?" Tags="|sherlock-holmes-2009|modern-times|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="63" CreationDate="2012-01-08T15:11:57.227" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;An explanation based on secrecy from other characters isn't self-consistent or internally consistent. She is hunting people who know who she is and beeping the name for the audience doesn't stop the characters knowing who she is (the name isn't beeped for the &lt;em&gt;characters&lt;/em&gt; but for the &lt;em&gt;audience&lt;/em&gt;). And the people she is hunting know they are being hunted by her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Careful attention to what characters say to her before her name is revealed to the audience, however, suggests a different explanation. Several times she is referred to as &quot;kiddo&quot; by other characters, especially Bill, which the audience will interpret as a term of endearment if they don't know her &lt;em&gt;name&lt;/em&gt; is Kiddo. They can then reinterpret the earlier scenes when the real name is revealed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This subtle misdirection seems a plausible motivation for Tarantino.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2012-01-08T15:11:57.227" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="731" CreationDate="2012-01-08T18:02:00.033" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Christian Bale said that he wouldn't want to be Batman in this franchise if there was a Robin and Christopher Nolan obliged. Nolan said that he wouldn't fit the dark tone of the movies. Also Dick Grayson is very young when he becomes Robin, about 10 or 12. So that's another reason for not having him in the films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="545" LastActivityDate="2012-01-08T18:02:00.033" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="819" CreationDate="2012-01-08T20:48:58.530" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would actually place my money on Robert Downey Jr. having more to do with it, since he won an Oscar nomination for playing Charlie Chaplin in 1992, and therefore surely has seen &lt;em&gt;Modern Times&lt;/em&gt; several times.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastActivityDate="2012-01-08T20:48:58.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="826" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="834" CreationDate="2012-01-08T21:06:08.390" Score="20" ViewCount="3887" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, when Leonidas knows he is going to die, he tells Dilios to go back and tell everybody what happened. He also takes some sort of braid or string out of the back of his hair and tells Dilios to give it to Queen Gorgo, which Dilios does. Queen Gorgo then puts it around her son's neck as a necklace.  Does anyone who knows something about ancient Spartan culture to know what the significance of this item was?  Also, why was Leonidas wearing it as a braid, while his son wears it as a necklace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-28T18:55:16.693" LastActivityDate="2023-11-19T17:19:12.253" Title="What was the significance of the necklace?" Tags="|plot-explanation|300|historical-accuracy|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="827" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="829" CreationDate="2012-01-08T21:07:30.143" Score="189" ViewCount="125304" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always wondered what caused the Time Loop experienced by Phil Connors in Groundhog Day, as well as what ended it, but I don't recall it being discussed in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the cause for the time loop featured in Groundhog Day, and why did it end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="536" LastEditorUserId="536" LastEditDate="2012-11-10T14:02:49.713" LastActivityDate="2021-12-22T13:21:03.197" Title="What caused and ended the time loop in Groundhog Day?" Tags="|plot-explanation|time-travel|groundhog-day|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="827" CreationDate="2012-01-08T21:41:02.577" Score="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe a formal answer was ever provided in the movie, but it seemed to require Phil to finally diverge from a path of pure selfishness and embrace the ideals of love and respect for other human beings. He started the movie disrespecting the cameraman Larry (Chris Elliott) and the producer Rita (Andi MacDowell) by blowing off the ceremony by being late, providing poor commentary, and acting generally boorish to everybody including town officials, the landlady, and former acquaintances like Ned. He needed to see his disrespect of them through many incarnations of the day and change his attitude. Only when his attitude was proved to be changed by his love of Rita, was he able to escape the time loop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-01-08T21:46:50.307" LastActivityDate="2012-01-08T21:46:50.307" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="827" CreationDate="2012-01-08T22:23:52.280" Score="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20110624063754/http://creativejamie.com/2011/02/05/groundhog-day-movie-review/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this review&lt;/a&gt; answering such questions in the movie itself would have &amp;quot;ruined&amp;quot; it. The original script contained an explanation of the start of the time loop - a voodoo spell - but that was considered a poor idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I wonder if there is a conclusive answer to your question. It was deliberately left out by Harold Ramis. We are left speculating about it (maybe even encouraged to do so) and I think that is one of the reasons why this movie has had so much impact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="297" LastEditorUserId="297" LastEditDate="2021-12-22T13:21:03.197" LastActivityDate="2021-12-22T13:21:03.197" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="830" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7964" CreationDate="2012-01-08T22:28:16.690" Score="18" ViewCount="868" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Capricorn One&lt;/em&gt;, the NASA mission control center maintains fluent communication with the spacecraft crew, which is especially obvious in the scene where the astronauts talk with their wives, even though the spacecraft was so far this would be impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would consider this just another logical glitch in the movie (which is full of them, IMHO), but the fact the signal from the spacecraft takes 21 minutes to reach Earth is &lt;em&gt;repeatedly&lt;/em&gt; stressed in the movie just prior to these scenes. So I wonder, did I miss something? Is there any explanation, or is it really just an error?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109" LastEditorUserId="100979" LastEditDate="2023-12-10T12:42:04.170" LastActivityDate="2023-12-10T12:42:04.170" Title="How is it possible to have a fluent conversation with the crew of the Capricorn One?" Tags="|plot-explanation|capricorn-one|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="827" CreationDate="2012-01-09T00:47:22.487" Score="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a very very hidden big irony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He started the movie as a jerk and egotist, with everything in his mind being about him and not caring about others. At least, on a minor, 1-person scale. We are led to believe that this perception of things being about him are wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, as we find out after the movie ends (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/828/235&quot;&gt;wbogacz&lt;/a&gt;'s excellent answer), the whole &lt;strong&gt;universe&lt;/strong&gt; was frozen in thousands of days of a loop, &lt;strong&gt;all for the express purpose of providing a lesson to Phil that his initial worldview is wrong&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except, in the end, it &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; all about Phil. The only mistake in the beginning that he made was the scale - &lt;strong&gt;the whole UNIVERSE is about him,&lt;/strong&gt; not just an individual personal bubble of things around him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T00:47:22.487" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="826" CreationDate="2012-01-09T02:15:43.537" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it is ancient culture or not, but that necklace was given to him by his wife right before his departure for the hot gates.  I believe the reason he gives it back is as a way to tell his wife he is gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T02:15:43.537" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="835" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="838" CreationDate="2012-01-09T03:41:14.743" Score="22" ViewCount="4417" Body="&lt;p&gt;During Blake's (Alec Baldwin) motivational speech to the salesmen, he explains the acronym AIDA - Attention, Interest, Decision, Action. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to 'decision', he asks &quot;Decision. Have you made your decision for Christ?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A friend believes it is simply a misdelivered line and should have been &quot;Have you made you decision, for Christ's sake?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it was intentionally written that way to reinforce Blake's authority/cockiness by imposing &lt;em&gt;even&lt;/em&gt; his religious beliefs on the salesmen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="549" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T14:00:08.113" LastActivityDate="2023-12-10T11:53:53.627" Title="Why does Blake ask the salesmen if they have &quot;Made your decision for Christ&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|glengarry-glen-ross|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="826" CreationDate="2012-01-09T04:03:57.283" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to attribute it to the most powerful force in the universe -- Plot.  It's a way to represent communication between Leonidas and Gorgo as well as a mechanism to 'pass the baton' to his son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I shall further speculate that it was worn as a braid rather than a necklace so as not to interfere with visual of a ripped and oily Gerard Butler jumping and slashing all about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it would be awesome if it were some sort of manifestation of a Spartan ritual, the movie (even more so than the graphic novel) is so far afield from actual Spartan history, it's a surprise they still called them Spartans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastActivityDate="2012-01-09T04:03:57.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="806" CreationDate="2012-01-09T14:48:28.223" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few reasons why they would want to show Terry a video of being robbed, instead of showing him the live feed (or essentially feeding him a video of an empty vault):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They had to have a way of getting out of the vault in a plausible way. The fact that they managed to get in is one thing - but they also needed to walk out with a LOT of money. They couldn't go back the way Danny and Linus came, because they would have to go via the elevator shaft (which was rigged with sensors) and then via the hallways to get out the door (which have a ton of other cameras they didn't have access to). The only way they could do that was to have a situation where a SWAT team was called in; nobody was about to take a head count of how many SWAT members went in and how many went out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They didn't want to show Danny being part of the group robbing the vault, because they wanted to allow for plausible deniability for him (remember, Terry still thought he was being beat up by Bruiser - though how he [or the two guards outside the door] could believe he was still getting a beating even during the blackout is a MAJOR plot hole). Thus, they didn't want to risk having Terry see Danny's face on the video (all Terry knew was that Danny had 'something to do' with the robbery - that could just as easily have just been in the planning).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, as to why they didn't wear masks in the video - that was essentially a big &quot;fuck you&quot; to Terry. It was like &quot;We don't care if you see our faces or not. We're MASTER thieves, and we don't go about robbing you wearing a bunch of masks&quot; (unless it's needed to get away in a SWAT uniform lol).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-18T14:47:07.497" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T14:47:07.497" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="835" CreationDate="2012-01-10T01:23:29.370" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe he was delivering a paraphrased &quot;Come to Jesus moment&quot;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_come_to_Jesus_moment_mean&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;It is defined as&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...the &quot;concept&quot; of the moment at which you decide to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, but it has a secular meaning. A &quot;come to Jesus moment&quot; refers to a dawning, epiphany or agreement following a disagreement. It refers to when the light blub comes on and you understand something or make a critical decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The decision they were making was to sell the hardest they could, leaving mediocrity behind. Also, they were clearly fighting for their continued existence within the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-19T18:34:00.777" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T18:34:00.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="839" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="841" CreationDate="2012-01-10T05:59:46.257" Score="23" ViewCount="8523" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Sherlock: The hound of Baskervilles, Sherlock describes his feelings about not being able to distance himself from his latest &lt;em&gt;felt feeling&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;fear&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and he says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The grit on the lens, fly in the ointment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To which, Dr Watson replies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yeah, all right, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spock&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, just.. take it easy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only Spock I have ever known is this man:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r2vS9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;the Vulcan Spock from Star Trek: the original series, as portrayed by Leonard Nemoy&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Why is he being referenced here? Is Watson talking about this Spock?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T16:18:46.487" LastActivityDate="2017-03-16T16:18:46.487" Title="Why does Watson call Sherlock, 'Spock'?" Tags="|analysis|sherlock|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="839" CreationDate="2012-01-10T06:37:13.277" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, he is.  Recall that the TV Series is supposed to be modernized.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Wikipedia:  &quot;Sherlock is a British television series that presents a contemporary update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it is contemporary, it is in a day in age in which Spock is very well known, so the comment makes perfect sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastActivityDate="2012-01-10T06:37:13.277" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="839" CreationDate="2012-01-10T06:41:13.863" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, he's certainly referencing Mr. Spock - everyone's favorite Vulcan science officer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Star Trek TV show (and on film) Spock constantly struggled with his emotions due to his mixed blood, and sometimes had a hard time suppressing them. Watson is likening Sherlock's own 'emotional struggle' (albeit brief) to this classic character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-01-10T06:41:13.863" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="246" CreationDate="2012-01-10T06:41:50.493" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jack is jealous.  I just went back and watched it, and the scene preceding that is the bathroom scene.  After they all run out, Tyler pats Angel Face on the back and smiles at him, and the narrator says &quot;I am Jack's burning sense of rejection&quot; or something along those lines.  So he beats Angel Face up out of jealousy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastActivityDate="2012-01-10T06:41:50.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="843" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="846" CreationDate="2012-01-10T09:47:00.230" Score="10" ViewCount="1998" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Dead Alive&quot;&gt;Dead Alive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; influenced by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092991/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Evil Dead&quot;&gt;Evil Dead&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see that Dead Alive have a lot of the ideas of Evil Dead such as exaggerated blood bath, monster puppets and stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Evil Dead the pioneer of this type of funny horror or was there another major movie released before it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user315" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-05T11:25:32.587" LastActivityDate="2013-07-30T08:25:31.773" Title="Are the movies Dead Alive and Evil Dead related?" Tags="|analysis|evil-dead|dead-alive|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="844" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4466" CreationDate="2012-01-10T11:16:37.550" Score="10" ViewCount="2115" Body="&lt;p&gt;What did Penelope (Rachel Weisz) say to the police chief in The Brothers Bloom after she was caught in the castle in Prague so that he let her go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or was this ever explained in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="430" LastEditDate="2012-10-03T13:43:16.800" LastActivityDate="2023-11-26T11:10:57.870" Title="What did Penelope say to the police chief in The Brothers Bloom?" Tags="|plot-explanation|brothers-bloom|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="845" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="972" CreationDate="2012-01-10T12:43:58.113" Score="10" ViewCount="35438" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1993 movies &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106489/&quot;&gt;A Bronx Tale&lt;/a&gt; what happens to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0012645/&quot;&gt;Calogero&lt;/a&gt;'s mom &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0044854/&quot;&gt;Rosina&lt;/a&gt;. She sort of just dissappears after Calogero turns 17 but you see the dad (Deniro) quite a bit. Does she die? Divorce?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="376" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T13:51:52.077" LastActivityDate="2022-09-29T08:21:36.047" Title="What happens to the mom in A Bronx Tale" Tags="|plot-explanation|a-bronx-tale|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="843" CreationDate="2012-01-10T14:25:19.483" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I amended the question slightly to reflect the fact that Evil Dead was made 11 years before Brain Dead ('Dead Alive' in the US)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One might argue that Sam Raimi's 1981 classic, &lt;em&gt;The Evil Dead&lt;/em&gt;, is indeed a pioneer in its own right as it paved the way for a multitude of amateur filmmakers to pick up their camcorders and create their own, ultra-gory, 'cabin-in-the-woods' movies. This resulted in many new filmmakers emerging from the carnage, Peter Jackson among them, whose equally gory &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092610/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bad Taste&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was to be the first in a trio of over-the-top films (including &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097858/?ref_=sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Meet the Feebles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dead Alive&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, Raimi himself was influenced by the films he watched while researching his target audience, low-budget foreign and domestic gore-fests that maintained a fast pace and were drenched in blood.&#xA;Films such as H.G. Lewis' &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Feast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blood Feast&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Lucio Fulci's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080057/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Zombie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and even Romero's first two zombie classics, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Night of the Living Dead&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_of_the_Dead&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dawn of the Dead&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &#xA;There are other influences in Raimi's breakthrough film, especially from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Argento&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dario Argento&lt;/a&gt;, whose distinctive camera moves may have had an impression on Raimi, and we shouldn't forget the contribution of the films of Ray Harryhausen and The Three Stooges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Evil Dead is by no means the first 'funny' horror movie, as the two genres had gone hand in hand for many years beforehand, most notably in the output from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Corman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Roger Corman&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, it looks like Joss Whedon is about to reinvent the genre all over again with his 2012 release, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259521/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Cabin in the Woods&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-07-30T08:25:31.773" LastActivityDate="2013-07-30T08:25:31.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="843" CreationDate="2012-01-10T14:33:58.260" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Peter Jackson has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s1529210.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;stated in an interview&lt;/a&gt; that he absolutely was influenced by people like George Romero and Sam Raimi:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DAVID STRATTON: Were you influenced by people like George Romero and Sam Raimi?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PETER JACKSON: Yep, yep, completely, completely. I mean, 'Braindead' is nothing more than a zombie fan just going crazy wanting to make a zombie movie, you know, I'm, a lot the stuff that I do and continue to do, really, is based on just being a fan of certain things. Stephen Sinclair who co-wrote the script, he'd devised the story of 'Braindead' as a stage play. Stephen was very focussed on wanting to satirise New Zealand society. And he loved the idea of the dark events that are happening behind the drawn curtains. In every house when the curtains are drawn, there's a story going on and you never get to hear... You get the public side of things, the happy, smiling, social activities. But really, you know, you peel that layer away and what darkness dwells in the suburbs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sam Raimi, on the other hand, was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Raimi&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;likely influenced&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Corman&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Roger Corman&lt;/a&gt;, as well as George Romero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="188" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-01-10T14:33:58.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="848" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-10T22:01:43.307" Score="39" ViewCount="7261" Body="&lt;p&gt;In another question that used to be on this site, I noticed that J. J. Abrams inserts the number 47 into several of his movies. I'm curious about it... Why is the number 47 significant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="311" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-06-06T12:15:51.410" LastActivityDate="2017-04-12T11:47:48.673" Title="Why does J. J. Abrams like to insert the number 47 into his movies?" Tags="|jj-abrams|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="813" CreationDate="2012-01-10T22:31:58.517" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Movie Outline's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movieoutline.com/articles/a-glossary-of-screenwriting-terms-and-filmmaking-definitions.html&quot;&gt;Glossary Of Screenwriting Terms &amp;amp;&#xA;Filmmaking Definitions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;FLASH CUT:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  An extremely brief shot, sometimes as&#xA;  short as one frame, which is nearly&#xA;  subliminal in effect. Also a series of&#xA;  short staccato shots that create a&#xA;  rhythmic effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Splice Trailer #2: More &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/splice-trailer-2-more-flash-cuts-more-creature-glimpses/&quot;&gt;Flash Cuts&lt;/a&gt;, More&#xA;  Creature Glimpses&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The trailer is full of&#xA;  horror-film sound effects and &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-12-16/news/ct-met-drew-peterson-movie-20111216_1_tragic-wives-joseph-hosey-sergeant-drew-peterson&quot;&gt;flash cuts&lt;/a&gt; to seemingly violent images as a woman looks terrified by a&#xA;  garage door going up and down, before&#xA;  Lowe's Peterson is shown on the other&#xA;  side and utters his sole line: &quot;I'm untouchable, bitch.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Writer / Director Rob Zombie&#xA;  s hines brilliance throughout this film,&#xA;  punctuated with horribly bad &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/GHI/House_Corpses.html&quot;&gt;flash cuts&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;  as if the entire movie was one long&#xA;  d rawn-out MTV video. ... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first occurence maybe in Lawrence of Arabia (1962):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All art is subjective, but the edit that&#xA;  occurs in this scene after Jackson Bentley&#xA;  (Arthur Kennedy) fires off his flash&#xA;  powder when photographing T.E.&#xA;  Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is my favorite&#xA;  &quot;edit&quot; in movie history. Perhaps it's the snap from solemn to a loud crash of&#xA;  horse hooves. Or it could be because it's&#xA;  one of the first &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?gl=US&amp;amp;hl=en-GB&amp;amp;client=mv-google&amp;amp;v=DQ-ZHNvSrOw&amp;amp;fulldescription=1&quot;&gt;&quot;flash cuts&quot;&lt;/a&gt; in movie&#xA;  history, but it still gives me goosebumps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2012-01-10T22:31:58.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="808" CreationDate="2012-01-11T04:28:32.680" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest, my initial answer would have been 'no', but one of the songs on the credits was done by Leona Lewis (who won the 3rd series of X-factor in the UK) so it could be a possible head nod&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Disclaimer, I hate the Xfactor and try to avoid it where possible...)   :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="141" LastActivityDate="2012-01-11T04:28:32.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="855" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="857" CreationDate="2012-01-11T11:52:44.687" Score="32" ViewCount="6477" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Memento, a non-linear narrative structure was adopted. What effect does this peculiar narrative structure have on the movie watchers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="571" LastActivityDate="2016-11-20T20:58:07.043" Title="Why was non-linear narrative structure used in Memento?" Tags="|memento|christopher-nolan|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="855" CreationDate="2012-01-11T13:16:03.140" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure, this is just a guess:&#xA;The director might have decided to use this narrative structure in order to confuse the watcher. The main character suffers from a strange type of amnesia, that is why he can't remember the past. We, as watchers, are confronted with the same problem: we see the present, but have no idea of what events lead to this.&#xA;I think the point is to increase our empathy with the character.&#xA;What is more, he hides his true intentions(the surprise in the ending).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="418" LastActivityDate="2012-01-11T13:16:03.140" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="855" CreationDate="2012-01-11T13:20:25.077" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;The effect of the order of sequences in the film is meant to display Leonard's inability to remember, showing what seems to be a mixed series of events out of order.  It is also performed this way because it is a way for the viewer to sympathize and get involved with the story, trying to figure out what is going on as much as the main character is.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is only when Leonard realizes the truth about Teddy does the movie's B&amp;amp;W and Color scenes (Essentially, the 2 different timelines) converge which is also when the viewer returns to what was the beginning and share in Leonard's realization&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-01-11T13:20:25.077" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="859" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="861" CreationDate="2012-01-11T17:42:22.873" Score="25" ViewCount="149562" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;Fight Club&lt;/em&gt;, the narrator disables a bomb that Tyler had set up in a van in the basement, and then he and Tyler get into a fight.  The fight ends with the narrator being thrown down some stairs and Tyler stalking off somewhere.  When they next appear, they are in a room near the top of a skyscraper.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Tyler get the narrator to this room?  Was it in the same building, and if so, was Tyler then expecting the narrator to disable the bomb?  If it wasn't in the same building, how did Tyler have time to get the narrator there, since he says earlier that all the bombs are set to go off in fifteen minutes (at the beginning of the bomb disabling scene), the next scene opens with him saying &quot;three minutes&quot;, and the fight/bomb disabling scene lasts about five minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2017-12-15T09:56:30.107" LastActivityDate="2017-12-15T09:56:30.107" Title="Explanation of the events at the end of Fight Club?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|fight-club|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="790" CreationDate="2012-01-11T18:19:33.993" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't be certain this is the right answer, but some of episode 2 makes it look like Sherlock's serious addiction is cigarettes not something a little more risque. So cigarettes are the modern stand-in for his need for cocaine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Letting him have one is an admission that he has had to deal with something serious (like the loss of Adler).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2012-01-11T18:19:33.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="859" CreationDate="2012-01-11T18:25:45.873" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to assume you did not get the twist of the movie and will do my best to explain what happens:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole twist of the movie (and an excellent reason to watch it multiple times) is that The Narrator (nameless, some assume his name is Jack) actually has a split personality disorder.  Tyler Durden does not exist and is just a figment of his split personality.  It is explained when The Narrator sleeps, Tyler is awake.  Any scene that involves either Tyler or The Narrator doing something, it is the same person doing it as he is both Tyler and The Narrator.  What people actually see is The Narrator, whether it be Tyler's personality or not.  Any scene involving the both of them is revealed to be The Narrator talking to himself or imagining themselves talking to one another.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that bit of background out of the way, lets assume the fight with the van towards the end is just another one of their internal struggles.  The two personalities fight over control of The Narrator's body and it seems that Tyler has won by throwing The Narrator down the steps, incapacitating The Narrator's personality, leaving Tyler in charge of the body.  Therefore, when The Narrator regains 'consciousness' (so to speak), he realizes Tyler took them to the top of the skyscraper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope that cleared it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In regards to the time, well, it is a very rare occurrence that 5 minutes is actually 5 real minutes.  But the point that I haven't covered, that I realized, is the location that they're in.  They are in a building, facing the one that was going to be blown up, for a better view.  It is assumed that when The Narrator personality is 'knocked out', Tyler reset the charges and escaped to the top floor of the other building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-04-20T20:39:38.960" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T20:39:38.960" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="862" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="863" CreationDate="2012-01-11T18:38:04.367" Score="107" ViewCount="14818" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Fight Club &lt;s&gt;&quot;Jack&quot;&lt;/s&gt; (the narrator) and Tyler Durden pick a fight behind the bar and through that fight they manage to attract people to first join the fight and then after founding Fight Club, to join the club.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; As we proceed through the film we realize that Jack and Tyler are actually one person.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The catch here is that, how did he manage to get those people start fighting?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; I mean by beating himself up he looks more like a lunatic than a badass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139" LastEditorUserId="139" LastEditDate="2016-11-09T13:55:09.670" LastActivityDate="2020-05-11T14:01:32.333" Title="How did &quot;Jack&quot; (the narrator) manage to attract people to join Fight Club?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fight-club|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="862" CreationDate="2012-01-11T19:08:50.967" Score="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was the argument more than the fighting that attracted them.  Remember Tyler's philosophy is &quot;self-improvement is like masturbation, but self-destruction is good&quot; or something like that.  If he was beating himself up, and then told other people that philosophy, it's easy to see how a club dedicated to self-destruction and the Tyler Durden philosophy came together. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastActivityDate="2012-01-11T19:08:50.967" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="864" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="908" CreationDate="2012-01-11T19:11:58.977" Score="18" ViewCount="2775" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film The Social Network in the opening scene while discussing which club Mark should aim to join there's a line from Mark saying &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Phoenix is the most diverse. The Fly&#xA;  Club, Roosevelt punched the Porc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this mean?  I understand that being punched BY the Porc is getting an invite to an audition, so what does it mean here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T17:58:51.967" Title="What does 'Roosevelt punched the Porc' mean?" Tags="|the-social-network|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="865" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="866" CreationDate="2012-01-11T19:55:16.390" Score="20" ViewCount="1266" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the beginning of the &amp;quot;I find your lack of faith disturbing&amp;quot; scene in &amp;quot;A New Hope&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rebellion will continue to get support in the Imperial Senate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us.  I have just received word that the emperor has dissolved the council permanently.  The last remnants of the old Republic have been swept away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a twenty-odd year difference between the films right?  How did the Senate stick around so long, and;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it had any power, why didn't it use it to prevent, you know, the murder of millions of innocent people and the construction of something called a &amp;quot;Death Star&amp;quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it didn't have any power, why did it have to be dissolved at all, and why take twenty years to do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-10-12T02:07:24.037" Title="Why did the Senate stick around?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="865" CreationDate="2012-01-11T20:21:34.620" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the movies alone (from your comment about not wanting to include other Star Wars works)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are not given a great deal to go on apart from the fact that the Galactic Republic seems to have its power vested in a Senate of officials from planets in the Republic and special interest groups like the Trade Federation.  This Senate then elected a Chancellor who is the leader of the Republic and Head of Government.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems likely that given the vast size of the Republic, that this form of government has existed for a long time and therefore the mechanisms and institutions of governing the Republic are used to reporting to the Chancellor and Senate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems it might just have taken 20 years of slow change from the Senate/Chancellor system to direct rule of the Emperor via the Regional Governors mentioned in 'A New Hope'.  One can surmise from the 'last remnants' comment, that this was a final step and perhaps the Senate had very little power at this stage.   Why did the Emperor do it this way? Perhaps he surmised that a more dramatic change would be harder to manage and more risky than slow inevitable takeover.  Palpatine seems to work mostly by deceit and corruption rather than outright aggression. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-01-11T20:21:34.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="867" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="868" CreationDate="2012-01-11T05:25:26.207" Score="33" ViewCount="20945" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2011 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moriarty and Irene Adler have an brief conversation in a restaurant. After the exchange, she passes out before exiting. Later in the film, Moriarty converses with Sherlock Holmes and tells him that Irene contracted &quot;a deadly form of tuberculosis&quot; and presents him with a bloodied handkerchief, seemingly as proof to the claim that she is dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Holmes accepts the information with little doubt and then the subject is dropped entirely for the rest of the movie. My question is: why would Sherlock Holmes take his enemy at his word? Why wouldn't he investigate these claims to make sure Moriarty wasn't bluffing? Considering his relationship with Irene Adler, I thought more time would have been spent developing this plot element. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="577" OwnerDisplayName="spugsley" LastEditorUserId="51336" LastEditDate="2020-03-10T10:16:48.730" LastActivityDate="2020-09-02T17:58:39.337" Title="Why didn't Sherlock Holmes investigate the events surrounding Irene Adler?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock-holmes-a-game-of-shadows|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="867" CreationDate="2012-01-11T09:26:26.513" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simplest answer is probably best. Holmes had already taken the measure of Moriarty and knew him to be cold-blooded, methodical, and ruthlessly efficient. Having traced his operations for a number of months, as well as the methods Professor Moriarty was willing to engage (the bomb in the crowded auction hall for instance, the assassination outside said auction hall) he knew that Moriarty would not have hesitated to have Ms. Adler removed from play, treating her as little more than a chess piece in his game to draw Holmes into the open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Holmes was neither a sentimental man, nor a foolish one, and Professor Moriarty hoped to used Ms. Adler's demise as a means of putting Holmes off-balance. Do not mistake the stoicism displayed by Holmes as a sign of not caring. He cared deeply for Ms. Adler. But with Moriarty making the stakes as high as they were, Holmes could not allow his feelings to be clouded by emotion. Holmes had tried to warn Ms. Adler several times of the threat of Moriarty, and being a capable adventurer, she was certain she could handle herself. Likely, against any other threat, she would have been able to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Holmes did not follow the lead, because there was no need to. Professor Moriarty did not bluff and was perfectly willing to kill anyone that stood between him and his goal. If her death upset Holmes, so much the better. Icing, nothing more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="580" OwnerDisplayName="Thaddeus Howze" LastActivityDate="2012-01-11T17:18:50.937" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="869" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="870" CreationDate="2011-11-27T05:06:24.723" Score="54" ViewCount="15123" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988045/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (2009), Lord Blackwood attempts to kill a young woman during some sort of dark ritual and is thwarted just in time by Holmes and Watson. Blackwood himself was not going to do it, instead he put her in some sort of &quot;spell&quot;, causing the girl to attempt to stab herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r1bMm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;woman in a white dress laying on a slab with a black hooded figure standing at the head of the slab&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the &quot;supernatural powers&quot; of Lord Blackwood were revealed as nothing more than &quot;conjuring tricks&quot;, why did the girl try to stab herself at the direction of Blackwood?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="252" OwnerDisplayName="Paperjam" LastEditorUserId="63980" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2019-03-03T17:53:15.610" LastActivityDate="2019-03-03T17:53:15.610" Title="Why did the girl try to kill herself in the 2009 Sherlock Holmes film?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock-holmes-2009|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="869" CreationDate="2011-11-27T13:58:08.990" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never saw a definitive explanation, but there are three theories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hypnotism (a person with Blackwood's personality and charisma is likely to be a good hypnotist). This is somewhat confirmed by the script (after Holmes stops Blackwood):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The girl has &lt;strong&gt;snapped out of her trance&lt;/strong&gt;, and is backing away from them as best she can&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Somewhat related to the first possibility, please note that the cult members frequently allow the cult leader to exercise nearly total control, up to suicide (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#Deaths_in_Jonestown&quot;&gt;Jim Jones&lt;/a&gt; for one of the more dramatic examples, that gave name to the &quot;drinking cool-aid&quot; expression). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, while extremely rare in actuality, sacrifice has happened on the more extreme end of BDSM circles and is an unexpectedly popular thing for many in BDSM as a fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;victim&quot; was an actress who was supposed to act like she was about to kill herself, considering that Blackwood pretty much arranged for his own arrest.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" OwnerDisplayName="DVK" LastEditorUserId="571" LastEditDate="2012-09-15T11:28:26.450" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T11:28:26.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="871" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1190" CreationDate="2012-01-11T22:06:40.133" Score="59" ViewCount="77223" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/&quot;&gt;12 Monkeys&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, the doctor spreading the virus gets on a plane and sits next to a woman we know (or can assume) is from the future. She tells the doctor that she's &quot;in insurance.&quot;  What does she mean by this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is she there to make sure he's stopped once and for all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="579" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-05T11:06:27.847" LastActivityDate="2013-06-05T11:06:27.847" Title="What does the woman from the future mean when she says she's &quot;in insurance&quot;?" Tags="|time-travel|12-monkeys|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="872" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="875" CreationDate="2012-01-11T23:05:00.533" Score="15" ViewCount="4890" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've heard that Michael Mann doesn't like his own version of the atmospheric &lt;em&gt;Nazi-Zombie-alien&lt;/em&gt; movie &lt;em&gt;The Keep&lt;/em&gt; and I know the the original story author, F Paul Wilson, really hated it. It also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085780/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;isn't very well rated in IMDB&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I liked it, though I saw it a long time ago. Is it really that bad? Is there any clear evidence about who is blocking it from being on DVD?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-05-15T15:53:22.270" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T17:16:12.470" Title="Why is Michael Mann's The Keep currently unavailable?" Tags="|the-keep|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="873" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-11T23:12:49.990" Score="10" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Hammer movie version of &lt;em&gt;Quatermass and the Pit&lt;/em&gt; was released in the mid 1960s and was one of Hammer's best movies. But the original script was broadcast live on the BBC in the 1950s in six 30 minute episodes (and we are very lucky anybody recorded it: the first two series of Quatermass did not survive in their entirety).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the key differences between the 3 hour TV version and the much shorter Hammer movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-05T11:06:08.270" LastActivityDate="2013-11-08T16:34:37.947" Title="What are the key differences between the movie and TV versions of Quatermass and the Pit?" Tags="|quatermass-and-the-pit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="871" CreationDate="2012-01-11T23:16:23.693" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, just in-case they couldn't stop him in the airport, she is the backup...insurance. At least that's how I interpreted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastActivityDate="2012-01-11T23:16:23.693" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="872" CreationDate="2012-01-11T23:33:16.773" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Paramount Studios had intended to release &lt;em&gt;The Keep&lt;/em&gt; on DVD in 2004, but this would have been the (frankly incomprehensible) version, edited down to 96 minutes from Mann's original 180 minute version, and the release was shelved for no apparent reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The edited version seen in theaters and on VHS is indeed pretty poor and doesn't make a whole lot of sense, due, I would think, to being only half a film!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There appears to be no clear evidence over who is blocking the film, and I am not convinced that Mann has enough power to do so, but efforts have been underway for a while now to get a full, director's cut, release made. You can follow these efforts on this fan-run site &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.the-keep.ath.cx/default_en.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and sign the petition &lt;a href=&quot;http://keepfilm.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. This site does include a fascinating &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.the-keep.ath.cx/default_en.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview with Mann&lt;/a&gt; from 1983.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidently, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://shop.idwpublishing.com/comics/graphic-novels/the-keep-tpb.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;graphic novel&lt;/a&gt; was produced, which F Paul Wilson adapted himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="4419" LastEditDate="2013-03-22T13:24:21.427" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T13:24:21.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="876" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-01-12T02:02:04.920" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Spy Who Came In From The Cold&quot; is a 1965 drama.  It features Richard Burton as Alec Leamas, a burnt out ex-spy working for the British government.  Leamas is offered a reward in exchange for providing information to Soviet agents in East Germany, but after his arrival in the communist nation the situation spirals out of his control as he turns out to be wrapped up in an incredibly complex conspiracy.  Based on a book by John Le Carre that was selected as one of TIME Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels.  The film won the 1967 BAFTAs for Best British Film and Best Actor, among others, and received Oscar nominations for Best Actor and Best Art Decoration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="480" LastEditDate="2012-01-12T02:10:18.823" LastActivityDate="2012-01-12T02:10:18.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="877" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-01-12T02:02:04.920" Score="0" Body="&quot;The Spy Who Came In From The Cold&quot; is a 1965 drama starring Richard Burton.  It is based on a book by John Le Carre." OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="480" LastEditDate="2012-01-12T02:17:55.270" LastActivityDate="2012-01-12T02:17:55.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="878" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-01-12T03:09:12.290" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Star Wars Episode IV, A New Hope, is the first of the six Star Wars films (in order of production and release).  From its iconic title crawl to its memorable finale, it is one of the most oft-quoted, highest-grossing (inflation adjusted), and beloved films of all time.  Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fischer, the film won six Oscars (but not best picture, director, actor, or actress).  It is today seen as a milestone in the history of cinema.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="480" LastEditDate="2012-01-12T03:12:02.567" LastActivityDate="2012-01-12T03:12:02.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="879" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-01-12T03:09:12.290" Score="0" Body="Episode IV of the Star Wars trilogy, &quot;A New Hope&quot; is considered to be one of the most classic films of all time and a revolutionary milestone in the movie industry." OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="480" LastEditDate="2012-01-12T03:12:05.080" LastActivityDate="2012-01-12T03:12:05.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="880" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="885" CreationDate="2012-01-12T04:40:41.387" Score="13" ViewCount="2853" Body="&lt;p&gt;In some scenes of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;12 Monkeys&lt;/a&gt; Cole (Bruce Willis) wears a t-shirt with the word &quot;Chris&quot; very visible. This is an homage to Chris Marker, the french film director of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056119/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;La jetée&quot;&lt;/a&gt; in which the movie is based. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GdCmw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Cole sitting on a bed with a letter&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any other subtle references to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_jet%C3%A9e&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;La jetée&lt;/a&gt;&quot; in the movie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="311" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-07-24T21:29:18.887" LastActivityDate="2017-07-24T21:29:18.887" Title="References to &quot;La jetée&quot; in &quot;12 Monkeys&quot;" Tags="|12-monkeys|la-jetee|reference|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="881" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-01-12T04:42:00.930" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;La jetée is a 1962 French science fiction film by Chris Marker. It is also known in English as The Jetty or The Pier. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. The film runs for 28 minutes and is in black and white. It won the Prix Jean Vigo for short film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 1995 science fiction film 12 Monkeys was inspired by, and takes several concepts directly from, La jetée.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="311" LastEditorUserId="311" LastEditDate="2012-01-12T05:07:31.030" LastActivityDate="2012-01-12T05:07:31.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="882" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-01-12T04:42:00.930" Score="0" Body="La jetée is a 1962 French science fiction film by Chris Marker. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. " OwnerUserId="311" LastEditorUserId="311" LastEditDate="2012-01-12T05:07:28.767" LastActivityDate="2012-01-12T05:07:28.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="883" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3520" CreationDate="2012-01-12T13:04:42.903" Score="42" ViewCount="179224" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272152/&quot;&gt;K-PAX&lt;/a&gt;, there are two possible explanations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prot is crazy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is truly an alien.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are facts that indicate 1, but also 2.&#xA;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He seems to respond to hypnosis, has a sort of phobia of water, looks just like his friend and doesn't physically leave. But he sees UV rays, finds his planet and in the end makes the other patient (Bess) vanish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should the whole movie be interpreted, especially the ending?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="418" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-09-21T09:08:55.503" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T18:10:18.507" Title="K-PAX ending explanation" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|k-pax|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="871" CreationDate="2012-01-12T13:45:33.613" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually always saw this as coincidence with her being the &quot;original past version&quot; of this woman, who's unaware of her future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas your interpretation makes much more sense I have a major problem with it: causality! They cannot stop the outspread of the virus because this would prevent Bruce Willis' and her future actions and therefore the whole movie and their stopping of the virus. And he already let it free in the airport when he opened the glass, didn't he?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well most movies about time travel don't care about such causality problems, but especially &lt;em&gt;Twelve Monkies&lt;/em&gt; is one of the few films (or the only one? maybe &lt;em&gt;Source Code&lt;/em&gt; in its own theoretical physical interpretation) I know that handle causality in a plausible way. So I'm pretty sure in the context/story/universe of the movie they cannot prevent the outspread of the virus because all their actions are already prescribed, like Bruce Willis' death in the airport has always been prescribed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But well your interpretation still makes sense, so I think they could still try to stop him (the characters are still unaware of the causality problems) without success or even heal it in the future, where the story is still open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, she's likely to be the insurance to stop him. But again, she will not be able to achieve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; In my &lt;em&gt;coincidence-interpretation&lt;/em&gt; the &quot;insurance&quot; remarks could also be just a symbol for her, one of the scientists/leaders, being an ordinary citizen in the past, in this case an insurance agent. Similar to the symbol of the Holnist leader being a former copier salesman in &lt;em&gt;The Postman&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-01-12T15:41:43.880" LastActivityDate="2012-01-12T15:41:43.880" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="880" CreationDate="2012-01-12T16:16:26.300" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should probably be knowing that the movie itself is inspired from La jetée.&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have seen La jetée, you'd obviously notice that the movie is just a series of still frames with a narrator in the background. There is a scene in Twelve monkeys where Railly narrates a slide show about a insane soldier in World War I. And when Railly and Bruce Willis take refuge in a movie theater that happens to be showing Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (&lt;em&gt;an important influence on Chris Marker and La Jetee&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastActivityDate="2012-01-12T16:16:26.300" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="887" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="888" CreationDate="2012-01-13T00:00:05.017" Score="14" ViewCount="610" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the extinction event that happened in the movie &quot;The Road&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did an asteroid hit or a super-volcano eruption? Does anybody know for sure what the director intended it to be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T14:42:29.380" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T14:42:29.380" Title="What is the extinction event?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-road|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="887" CreationDate="2012-01-13T00:50:52.490" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe the director (or McCarthy for that matter) intended the audience/readers to know what cataclysm caused the apocalyptic backdrop for the drama. It is not specified in either McCarthy's novel or the film - and is left ambiguous so that we may focus more on the situation at hand, rather than the causes and 'finger-pointing'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-01-13T00:50:52.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="883" CreationDate="2012-01-13T00:57:12.087" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's sort of like the endings of movies like &quot;Inception&quot;, &quot;Fried Green Tomatoes&quot;, and &quot;12 Angry Men&quot; where we, as the audience, are not given all the answers.  I think he really was an alien, but I like that the film leaves enough ambiguity and mystery to let us think about it and decide on our own what to believe, rather than just spoon-feeding audiences every answer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastActivityDate="2012-01-13T00:57:12.087" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="890" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="904" CreationDate="2012-01-13T02:40:38.580" Score="28" ViewCount="1177" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I recall, a girl who is about twenty years old finds herself in a strange and gloomy  stop-frame animated city.  A very distinct scene, which should identify the film, involves the girl being captured by a creature described as follows.  It was like the walking skeleton of a long four-legged creature about the size of a bus.  Apparently the girl broke some rule and this creature clamped it's ribcage around her and trotted her off to jail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I had to guess a year, it would be between 1996 and 2006.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="588" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-02T06:19:23.037" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T06:20:22.493" Title="A girl lost in a strange animated city" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:34:04.500" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="731" CreationDate="2012-01-13T13:07:02.497" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nolan has given an explanation for this. According to him the Batman portrayed in his movies is still young and according to comics Robin appears only when Batman grows old and hence needs a sidekick. Nolan has also said that in his trilogy Robin won't appear at all because these movies will present a young Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2012-01-13T13:07:02.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="780" CreationDate="2012-01-13T16:27:48.430" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Superman Wikipedia entry has some information on this, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_%28film%29#Broadcast_television_version_details&quot;&gt;specifically the altered cuts created for television&lt;/a&gt;. It doesn't appear that this scene was originally in the theatrical version of the film, but was added later along with another 40 minutes of footage to present a 3 hour version of the film that could be shown across two nights on ABC. Wikipedia says the reason was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Apparently, in their contract with ABC, the Salkinds (producers) were able to get money for every minute of footage shown on TV. So as a result, they crammed in as much footage as possible for the TV networks in order to maximize their revenues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://superman.wikia.com/wiki/Superman%3a_The_Movie#Different_versions&quot;&gt;Superman Wiki&lt;/a&gt; provides further information about the home video releases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Subsequently, both the theatrical and television versions were distributed in syndication by Warner Bros., which regained control of the film in 1985, but only the theatrical version was issued on home video until 2001, when the special edition DVD featured a 151-minute cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems that the scene in question was not part of the initial theatrical release and was added along with 40 other minutes of footage for television airings. It was not included on home video releases as it was not part of the theatrical release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="126" LastActivityDate="2012-01-13T16:27:48.430" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="894" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="899" CreationDate="2012-01-13T16:48:51.220" Score="12" ViewCount="764" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought it was shocking at the end of American History X that Derek didn't leave Los Angeles and possibly take his family with him.  I was under the impression that, after he got out of prison, the black gangs would be trying to get revenge on him for killing two of their members.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make things worse, he beats up Cameron the night he gets out, and everybody in the white supremacist camp knows about it - one of them (his friend) even tries to shoot him as he's leaving the party.  He even mentions a couple times that he thinks he's in mortal danger.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is he able to walk around in broad daylight without seeming overly concerned for his own safety or that of Danny?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T17:38:22.513" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T17:38:22.513" Title="Why stay in Los Angeles?" Tags="|plot-explanation|american-history-x|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="895" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="898" CreationDate="2012-01-13T16:51:40.930" Score="19" ViewCount="16918" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2003 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Elf&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (starring Will Ferrell and directed by Jon Favreau) has many visual similarities to the Rankin/Bass produced Christmas television special &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer_%28TV_special%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (1964). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Buddy's Elf uniform is identical to the one worn by the head elf:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NxCQV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;elf movie poster&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qiu4V.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Claymation elf&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both have sentient snowman narrators, Leon in &lt;em&gt;Elf&lt;/em&gt; and Sam in &lt;em&gt;Rudolph&lt;/em&gt;:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HsYlv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;snowman from Elf&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IJzFt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;snowman from Rudolph&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both Santas sport suspenders and red long-sleeve shirts as casual attire:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Opp4h.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Claymation santa&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zOGP8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;real life santa&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Elf&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; also features similar scenery and stop-motion in its opening North Pole scene. Has Jon Favreau, the director, ever commented on what his intention was behind all of these similarities? Was this an homage or an attempt to slyly create a sequel to the '60s Christmas special?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="126" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-07-24T21:33:26.283" LastActivityDate="2017-07-24T21:33:26.283" Title="Is &quot;Elf&quot; meant to be set in the same universe as the Rankin/Bass &quot;Rudolph&quot; Christmas special?" Tags="|reference|elf|rudolph-rednosed-reindeer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="896" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="910" CreationDate="2012-01-13T19:18:07.890" Score="22" ViewCount="17824" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a scene in &quot;Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy&quot; where Prideaux (Mark Strong) is in the class room teaching, then suddenly an owl pops out of the fireplace. Prideaux quickly dispatches it. Later on, in the same class room, Prideaux is talking to Smiley (Gary Oldman) and we see a stuffed owl on the wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That (and the bee scene) always seemed rather random to me. Or am I missing some deeper meaning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="16523" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2016-09-05T21:47:16.910" LastActivityDate="2020-05-25T11:50:58.800" Title="Significance of the Owl in &quot;Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|tinker-tailor-soldier-spy|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="895" CreationDate="2012-01-14T04:01:33.720" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;a href=&quot;http://splicedwire.com/03features/ferrellfavreau.html&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; mentions this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We looked at movies like 'Big' and 'Being There,'&quot; the Favreau says.&#xA;  &quot;(Those were) movies with similar concepts that were played very real&#xA;  and very emotional -- and they were good movies, not just funny&#xA;  movies.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To that end, the director (who is most famous for writing and starring&#xA;  in &quot;Swingers&quot;) tried to give the movie an old-fashioned sensibility,&#xA;  hoping to capture the spirit of Christmas classics past, in part by&#xA;  using in-camera techniques instead of special effects to make&#xA;  Ferrell's co-stars like Bob Newhart seem elfin in size and also by&#xA;  paying tongue-in-cheek homage to perennial holiday favorites like&#xA;  &quot;Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer&quot; and &quot;Frosty the Snowman&quot; with his own&#xA;  stop-motion-animation sequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that isn't really a quote, per se.  However, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.ign.com/articles/458/458218p1.html&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; we find&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;...so my pitch was to do it for a price instead of making it this big&#xA;  CGI extravaganza we would sort of use the old fashion methods, make&#xA;  the sets small, make it feel like a nostalgic, old Christmas movie,&#xA;  make it feel like an old Christmas special, actually. Like the Rudolph&#xA;  the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the Rankin/Bass one. That was part of it. We&#xA;  justified it creatively by making the world that Buddy (Will Ferrell)&#xA;  came from was sort of this '60s TV special Christmas world.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's safe to say that Favreau was trying to capture that nostalgic feel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-01-14T05:56:18.310" LastActivityDate="2012-01-14T05:56:18.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="894" CreationDate="2012-01-14T04:10:56.517" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The total timeline of events is really, really short.  Danny gets assigned the paper for Dr. Sweeney on the morning of Derek's release.  He gets killed prior to turning in the paper the very next morning.  So, all of those events happened in a single evening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I never got the impression that Derek was aware of the initial 'smoke in the face' incident that led to the film's conclusion, but was still escorting Danny to school for safety (due to the previous night's events) while he figured out what he was going to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastActivityDate="2012-01-14T04:10:56.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="900" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3810" CreationDate="2012-01-14T04:33:58.570" Score="5" ViewCount="12616" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie- The Caller, why didn't Mary just go to her mom's home?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;when Steve kept hindering her and when she discovered the bodies, she could've just gone to her mom's home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why didn't she?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And on a vague hunch,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Did she have a real mum? Or is she connected to Rose in some way? I say this because if not, how could've Rose been with Mary's childhood-person so much and spent so much time with her? Even when she poured the boiling water on little Mary's body, her mom didn't take any action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any idea anyone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastActivityDate="2015-02-15T23:50:29.923" Title="In The Caller, why didn't Mary just go to her mom's home?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-caller|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="902" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4408" CreationDate="2012-01-14T04:43:10.847" Score="6" ViewCount="276" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Caller, Mary attends a French class and she sits there with all the other children and is taught my a teacher (John).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But later it is revealed that John died when he was a child and the body was never found. (It was found later behind the wall).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So does it mean that all of it is a hallucination?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just like she had with George the gardener?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is, what about the other children? And the whole class and the things that John mended in Mary's apartment (like the A/C)? Were they real or they too were hallucinations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastActivityDate="2019-09-09T21:34:30.640" Title="Did Mary really attend the French class?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-caller|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="903" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-14T05:14:44.113" Score="10" ViewCount="1181" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the middle of the movie, the main character (the piano teacher), breaks one of her students' hands by placing a bunch of broken glass in the pocket of her jacket, destroying her musical ambitions forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That she did this out of her jealousy of the girl's contact with her love interest, Walter, is obvious, but it's also a multifaceted action.  From IMDB:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;She destroys the musical prospects of an insecure but talented girl, Anna Schober, driven by her jealousy of the girl's contact with Walter -- and also, perhaps, by her fears that Anna's life will mirror her own.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also believed at the time that she was disappointed by her student's failure, and so she broke her hand to destroy her musical ambitions.  I saw this as part of her icy, dictatorial, perfectionist personality.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone explain the motivations of this action in sufficient detail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-07T23:27:54.140" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T18:02:22.467" Title="La Pianista - why did she break the girl's hand?" Tags="|plot-explanation|la-pianista|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="890" CreationDate="2012-01-14T10:45:32.320" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds very much like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366780/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;MirrorMask&lt;/a&gt;, a wonderful movie. It isn't French or Eastern European, but it does have some bohemian style to it (a bit like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112682/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The City of Lost Children&lt;/a&gt;). So it's not surprising that you might recall the movie like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The creature is actually a compilation of several creatures, with the ability to use their stilt-caterpillar shape as a walking prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some pictures to jog your memory:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ocAzE.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The visual style was &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; distinctive, and I'm pretty certain this is the one you are thinking of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="595" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-02T06:20:22.493" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T06:20:22.493" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="905" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="906" CreationDate="2012-01-14T12:13:15.400" Score="45" ViewCount="225571" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Shining, when Jack Torrance has clearly gone mad and is chopping down the bathroom door with an axe to get to his wife, why does Jack Nicholson say &quot;Here's Johnny!&quot; when his character's name is Jack? Is it completely random and showing how he's gone so insane he's just saying random names, or does it have some sort of significance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="124" LastActivityDate="2013-03-04T03:53:11.467" Title="Why does Jack Nicholson say &quot;Here's Johnny!&quot; in The Shining when his character is called Jack?" Tags="|the-shining|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="905" CreationDate="2012-01-14T14:12:01.913" Score="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;That line was ad-libbed by Jack Nicholson as an imitation of Ed McMahon's intro for The Tonight Show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/trivia&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jack Nicholson ad-libbed the line &quot;Here's Johnny!&quot; in imitation of&#xA;  announcer Ed McMahon's famous introduction of Johnny Carson on U.S.&#xA;  network NBC-TV's long-running late night television program The&#xA;  Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Stanley Kubrick, who had been&#xA;  living in England since before Carson took over &quot;The Tonight Show,&quot;&#xA;  had no clue what &quot;Here's Johnny!&quot; meant. Carson once used the clip of&#xA;  Nicholson as the introduction to one of his annual anniversary&#xA;  specials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastActivityDate="2012-01-14T14:12:01.913" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="864" CreationDate="2012-01-14T15:40:06.330" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to go through the entire conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mark: The Phoenix is the most diverse. The Fly  Club, Roosevelt&#xA;  punched the Porc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Erica: Which one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mark: The Porcellian, the Porc, it’s the best  of the best&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Erica: Which Roosevelt?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mark: Theodore&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Porcellian Club is a &quot;final club&quot; at Harvard and is also known as the &quot;Porc&quot;. Punch within final clubs refers to getting the invitation but it &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_club#The_clubs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;also refers&lt;/a&gt; to attending events within an organization. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcellian_Club&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Theodore Roosevelt was a member&lt;/a&gt; of the Porcellian Club, so Mark is most likely referring to the fact that a notable person, the 26th President of the United States participated in the Porc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Roosevelt punched the Porc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Literally, Roosevelt was a member &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; participated in the Porc, where &quot;punched&quot; has two meanings&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Get the invitation  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Participate in events&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-01-28T17:58:51.967" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T17:58:51.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="909" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="919" CreationDate="2012-01-15T02:33:14.573" Score="16" ViewCount="466" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;In Time&lt;/em&gt; (2011)&lt;/a&gt;, it is shown that the toll rates are very high to get to the city area from the ghetto. But later, it is also shown that there is an alternate route for people to use which is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;free&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to use. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why, then, does anybody need to use the road which requires payment? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2017-12-13T14:06:59.070" LastActivityDate="2017-12-13T14:06:59.070" Title="Why would anybody pay the toll if an alternate road already exists?" Tags="|plot-explanation|in-time|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2012-01-15T14:51:44.193" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always assumed it was a sign that an otherwise unassuming and placid teacher had a ruthless streak and could deal swiftly and, if necessary, brutally with a situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;---The book explains it (and it was written pre-Harry Potter). The owl had been nesting in the disused chimney. When Prideaux fired it up a half-dead owl was smoked out onto the classroom floor, shocking and startling the boys. Prideaux whisks it up and out of the room. Later the boys find the dead owl on the rubbish heap, its neck neatly twisted and broken.  The point is that Prideaux is a skilled killer. Also in the book, Haydon is killed by persons unknown, his neck neatly twisted and broken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie version compresses the more nuanced details from the book (that also foreshadow the different details of Haydon's death). But the essence that Prideaux is a capable and ruthless killer when required are preserved in a simpler, shorter scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="134" LastEditDate="2020-05-25T11:50:58.800" LastActivityDate="2020-05-25T11:50:58.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="914" CreationDate="2012-01-15T23:06:23.373" Score="13" ViewCount="10004" Body="&lt;p&gt;Approximately 30 years ago, I watched a horror movie which I have been trying to identify for years. The problem is that after so many years I don't remember a lot about the movie and the only things I remember are blurred by time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the details that I do remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The movie was about a group of people staying in a house (I think they were a group of friends who gathered in the house, but this I cannot confirm).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are some strange creatures (I remember them as a kind of small big-headed humanoids) which crawl out of the house's fireplace and attack the house inhabitants; in fact, I seem to remember that the creatures will wait for some person to be isolated from the others and then they will capture this person and drag him/her back to the fireplace, and kill him/her.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what movie this is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="601" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-01T05:49:14.187" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T20:35:21.303" Title="Strange creatures crawl out of the house's fireplace and attack the inhabitants" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:34:10.757" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="912" CreationDate="2012-01-15T23:11:24.927" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are talking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069992/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Don't Be Afraid of the Dark&lt;/a&gt;, but this just has a couple moving into a house - not exactly a group of friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the fireplace and the big headed creatures remind me of this. &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/4TpWSNT5QhE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is the trailer in which the trolls turn up in the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/4TpWSNT5QhE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-19T20:35:21.303" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T20:35:21.303" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="916" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="917" CreationDate="2012-01-16T02:43:12.047" Score="11" ViewCount="1130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought this scene in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly&quot;&gt;The Good, the Bad and the Ugly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was weird.  At about 2:10, as Blondie and Tuco are running down to the bridge with a stretcher and the explosives, they stop suddenly and pick up a Union soldier.  Then they put him back down and carry on with what they were doing.  What is the point of this?  They don't even move him, so it's not like they were getting him out of the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-09T10:32:25.507" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T10:32:25.507" Title="What are they doing with the Union soldier in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="916" CreationDate="2012-01-16T03:00:48.817" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two soldiers passed with a stretcher right when they were ready to drop the explosives. So they dropped the stretcher proceeded to pick up the solider. When the other batch left, you can see Blondie and Tuco look over their shoulders drop the leg and continue back to carrying the explosives to the bridge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point is to show that they were trying to blend in. Earlier they were running so no one really paid any attention to where they were heading. As they slowed to the bridge, it would have been within the view of the two soldiers walking from the river to see what they were up to. Thus, Blondie and Tuco tried to blend in by picking up the body. But they didn't want to take the explosives off the stretcher so they only pretended to move the body until the other soliders left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember the point of blowing up the bridge was to force the armies to fight elsewhere. But seeing that the Union and Confederate forces were ordered not to destroy the bridge because of this (moving the armies), Blondie and Tuco moving towards the bridge with explosives would seem suspicious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastActivityDate="2012-01-16T03:00:48.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="909" CreationDate="2012-01-16T13:35:53.870" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It comes down to the alternate routes might take a much longer time to use.  Whether it be traffic or just the distance you travel in order to get out of paying a few hours (dollars), it might be just more worth their &lt;em&gt;time&lt;/em&gt; to pay up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-01-16T13:35:53.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="921" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-16T19:25:30.570" Score="13" ViewCount="11659" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, the movie was incredibly difficult for me to follow. Contrary to the way &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Kar-wai&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wong Kar wai&lt;/a&gt; directed &lt;em&gt;2046&lt;/em&gt;, which was just as confusing in places but always backed up by narration, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Mood_for_Love&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;In The Mood For Love&lt;/a&gt; is pure dialogue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had to watch it about 10 times before I really followed what was going on and the ending still makes me go, &lt;em&gt;WHAT?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CAMBODIA, 1966&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The presidential corps waits at Pochentong Airport. Prince Norodom&#xA;  Sihanouk and Queen Sisowath Kossamak come forward to greet General De&#xA;  Gaulle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's ten kilometers from Pochentong to Phnom Penh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;200,000 people line the route.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A welcome unprecedented in the history of the kingdom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He remembers those vanished years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something&#xA;  he could see, but not touch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the point of all that historical detail about Cambodia? Is there a point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="320" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T17:38:13.777" LastActivityDate="2016-09-25T20:36:21.797" Title="What is the point of the ending scene in In The Mood For Love?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|in-the-mood-for-love|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="750" CreationDate="2012-01-16T19:33:30.300" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mundt is the perfect. He loves killing. He does not want Nan to escape. He also hates Jews so much that he might have ignroed his British officers and gotten Nan killed.&lt;br /&gt;It is evident that Mundt gave detailed instructions about climbing over the wall and arranged the killing of Nan.&lt;br /&gt;Mundt need her to be dead so that he could remain completely anonymous. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; This is from reading the book, btw&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastActivityDate="2012-01-16T19:33:30.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="924" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="933" CreationDate="2012-01-16T22:31:25.277" Score="14" ViewCount="2143" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right when &amp;quot;The Ecstasy of Gold&amp;quot; starts to play, after he's done being shot with the cannon (really weird, by the way, that they camped out only 100 yards from the graveyard and yet he tried to steal a horse to go to it) he jumps for joy and then throws a bunch of papers away.  What were the papers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2023-08-29T18:50:45.893" LastActivityDate="2023-08-29T18:50:45.893" Title="What does Tuco throw away in &quot;The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly&quot; when they reach the graveyard?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="925" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-01-17T03:13:20.287" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-01-17T03:13:20.287" LastActivityDate="2012-01-17T03:13:20.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="926" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-01-17T03:13:20.287" Score="0" Body="Wong Kar-wai is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized, emotionally resonant work." OwnerUserId="311" LastEditorUserId="311" LastEditDate="2012-01-17T04:52:01.310" LastActivityDate="2012-01-17T04:52:01.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="931" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-01-17T21:21:55.633" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A BBC TV series of feature length episodes updating classic Sherlock Holmes stories to a modern day setting, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock, and Martin Freeman as Dr. John Watson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sherlock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sherlock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T09:08:22.743" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T09:08:22.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="932" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-01-17T21:21:55.633" Score="0" Body="A BBC TV series of feature length episodes updating classic Sherlock Holmes stories to a modern day setting.  Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-01-04T15:23:52.600" LastActivityDate="2017-01-04T15:23:52.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="924" CreationDate="2012-01-18T01:38:52.167" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a map, either hand drawn or official. The map could be coded in such a way that only Tuco understands it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier on before the bridge explosion and the drunk captain, Tuco pulls it out looks at it and says to Blondie,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should be a bridge across that river.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the way he folds it when he tells Blondie to trust him indicates that the paper is very large so it's not notes. The only type of document you fold that way is a map.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene where he throws it away indicates that he no longer needs the map as he is at Sad Hill Cemetery. Blondie told him the name of the grave was Arch Stanton as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember Tuco knows the location of the cemetery, Blondie knows the name of the grave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="82919" LastEditDate="2023-08-28T10:27:00.467" LastActivityDate="2023-08-28T10:27:00.467" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="527" CreationDate="2012-01-18T10:30:28.627" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Been searching and found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.outpost31.com/timeline&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this timeline&lt;/a&gt; picking up on a lot of timeline objects, but not specific to infections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SppG-I_Dhxw&amp;amp;feature=channel_video_title&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Two-part infection timeline analysis&lt;/a&gt; might be the closest thing you get to a timeline chart to this movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="595" LastEditorUserId="45378" LastEditDate="2018-11-20T17:07:41.023" LastActivityDate="2018-11-20T17:07:41.023" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="935" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="938" CreationDate="2012-01-18T10:34:33.693" Score="17" ViewCount="9585" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the crew learn that the ship is set to automatically return to Earth they are clearly disturbed by this. What is Earth like at this time in the Alien story? What has happened to Earth to make them so afraid of returning there? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="618" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-08T18:45:35.793" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T09:54:21.040" Title="In Alien Resurrection, the crew are afraid of returning to Earth? Why, what has happened on Earth?" Tags="|plot-explanation|alien-resurrection|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="830" CreationDate="2012-01-18T10:38:11.627" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sat down and watched this one (its all on &lt;a href=&quot;http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-364883774856478814&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt;) I can only conclude that this is a blooper. They say one thing and do the exact opposite few scenes later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could hope that this was a &quot;hint&quot; or &quot;the vital evidence&quot; that the mission was a hoax, but noone seems to notice it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="595" LastActivityDate="2012-01-18T10:38:11.627" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="937" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1001" CreationDate="2012-01-18T12:54:06.820" Score="20" ViewCount="1040" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you identify this film? You can hear him say &quot;...just what...&quot; at ~0:57 in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/35055590&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;clip&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/35055590&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/F2PJL.png&quot; alt=&quot;Identify this movie&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess he's a policeman in a '70s film, and there's a &quot;LT. V...&quot; on the office door window, must be some police lieutenant's office. He sounds American and there's a New York map on the wall (Long Island and Jamaica Bay flanked by yellow-marked Floyd Bennett Field and JFK airport. Central New York and Manhattan are to the west and are not part of this map, which appears to continues east into Long Island and NY state.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/35055590&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SphdM.png&quot; alt=&quot;Identify this movie&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here's another from the same film (~1:02 in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/35055590&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;clip&lt;/a&gt;) where he again says &quot;...just what...&quot;. And again it looks like a police station, and there's a clipboard hanging behind him that says &quot;BCI...&quot; something (could be referring to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://troopers.ny.gov/criminal_investigation/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bureau of Criminal Investigation&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;the plainclothes detective branch of the New York State Police&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is these are both from the same scene: he's wearing the same clothes, is in the same dull green police office, and is probably getting more angry repeatedly asking this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="386" LastEditDate="2012-01-18T22:40:02.967" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T09:07:20.433" Title="What ('70s cop?) movie is this from?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:34:13.933" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="935" CreationDate="2012-01-18T15:40:38.537" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film, Johner says, &quot;Earth? I'm not going to that fucking slum.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A deleted final scene actually shows us the state of the planet - and it doesn't look pretty. It would appear that a cataclysmic event has left the planet a barren wasteland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, too, would be reluctant to return to Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/PnmMksVK8pY&quot;&gt;Deleted Scene from Alien Resurrection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-01-18T15:40:38.537" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="871" CreationDate="2012-01-18T18:42:54.993" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cole's assignment was not to stop the virus, but to locate the source.  The insurance person I believe was sent to get a sample.  The virus will spread, because it already has.  The goal to the time travelers was to figure out (in the future) how to combat the virus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Here is my take on how time travel works (IMHO); Anything that is known in the future is what happened in the past.  Therefore you can't change the past except in ways that don't make the future inconsistent with the past.  Cole knew about the man (himself) being shot at the airport and I think that the controller that sent Cole into the past also knew and most likely guessed that he was Cole.  They also sent Jose with the gun to help Cole to fulfill his destiny.&#xA;What the controllers want is a way to cure the virus in their time and they need a sample to be able to do that.  The insurance lady is there to get the sample.  This lady has to be from the future and not her younger self or she would have contracted the virus and died, therefore she would not be in the future.&#xA;Another indicator that she was from the future is that Cole was 8 years old at the time, Jose when he gave the Cole the gun said something that 30 years had passed (although I think that more then 30 years had passed as Cole looks to be older than 38).  The age of the insurance lady didn't appear to be 30+ years younger than the future version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="622" LastEditorUserId="622" LastEditDate="2012-02-14T18:12:31.773" LastActivityDate="2012-02-14T18:12:31.773" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2012-01-18T22:03:53.417" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The significance of the bee scene is that, unlike the others in the car, Smiley is totally focused on the things that matter (the mole) and able to completely ignore trivial distractions like the bee. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="624" LastActivityDate="2012-01-18T22:03:53.417" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="946" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="947" CreationDate="2012-01-18T22:56:19.057" Score="10" ViewCount="20456" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of The Artist, George Valentin is looking at his own reflection superimposed on a tuxedo in a shop window (the scene used in the trailer) when a cop comes strolling around the corner. George notices him and his smile fades. The cop approaches George with a seemingly friendly manner and speaks to him but there's no title card so we (at least those of us who don't lip-read!) can't tell what he is saying. The camera dwells on him for some time, cutting to a very tight close-up on his mouth as he talks, and then we see George backing away, looking confused or possibly disturbed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's going on in this scene? What is it telling us?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="314" LastEditorUserId="314" LastEditDate="2014-07-26T18:25:10.483" LastActivityDate="2015-07-18T20:50:02.480" Title="What is the significance of the scene with the cop near the end of The Artist?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-artist|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="946" CreationDate="2012-01-18T23:16:45.713" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's only one explanation I can think of, which involves some spoilers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the final scene we discover that George has a thick French accent. This helps explain his reticence to move into talky films, which up until this point we thought was only down to pride. Perhaps all along George believed that audiences would want their talky stars to have all-American accents, hence his clinging on to the silent era. (This theory is also supported by the fact that neither Peppy nor the studio boss argues with George's assertion that nobody would want to hear him talk.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I wonder if what's happening in this scene is that George doesn't really hear what the cop is saying (hence the lack of title card), all he hears is his American accent: the one thing George can never have, and which he believes has cost him everything. After this scene he goes back to his burnt-out apartment, sits at his bureau, and faces start appearing round him: again, they're talking but we get no title cards, and again it ends up zooming on just on the mouths. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What the people are saying isn't important: it's the fact that they're talking (or &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; they're talking) that's significant. George has become completely preoccupied with his accent, tormented by how effortlessly other people do what he can never do (speak with an American accent), and it is this that drives him to contemplate suicide. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cop is just the catalyst for this final downward spiral.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="314" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-06-01T12:23:34.273" LastActivityDate="2012-06-01T12:23:34.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="790" CreationDate="2012-01-19T14:20:25.277" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Sherlock says &quot;This is low tar&quot;, Mycroft replies &quot;Well, you barely knew her&quot;. This reenforces the idea that the cigarette is a way of coping with the loss - he didn't know her that well, so he doesn't need a strong cigarette.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="626" LastActivityDate="2012-01-19T14:20:25.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-19T15:22:08.303" Score="7" ViewCount="7895" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the first season of &quot;Friday Night Lights,&quot; it is assumed that most of the main teenage characters (Jason Street, Tim Riggins, Lyla Garrity, Tyra Collette) are seniors. Specifically Tyra, who has an entire subplot with guidance counselor Tami Taylor devoted to turning her grades around in her last semester so she can apply for colleges and get out of Dillon, Texas. Then...Tyra's on the show for two more years and this subplot is more or less repeated in season 3, which is her actual senior year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a sophomore, why was Tyra acting like she only had one more semester left to change her GPA? I personally chalk this up to the writing staff not expecting to get more than one season of the show and then de-aging them after season 1, but I would like to know if there's ever been a clear, concrete explanation given for this that is in-canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="126" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T17:25:12.310" LastActivityDate="2016-06-30T15:45:54.773" Title="Why was Tyra so worried about college in season 1?" Tags="|plot-explanation|friday-night-lights|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="950" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-19T15:29:24.983" Score="13" ViewCount="3220" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just finished watching the first series of &quot;Downton Abbey&quot; and now, looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Downton_Abbey_episodes#Series_One_.282010.29&quot;&gt;episode summaries on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, I see that each episode was set in specific months in time. While watching the series, I never caught on that much time was passing between episodes. Then in the series one finale, it's suddenly 1914 and two years have passed since the first episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If each episode is set in a specific month, why doesn't &quot;Downton Abbey&quot; tell you this at the start of every episode? Is this information readily available in the UK, but not on US Netflix Instant Streaming (where I watched it)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="126" LastEditorUserId="69" LastEditDate="2012-01-19T17:11:10.513" LastActivityDate="2012-01-19T17:11:10.513" Title="Why is &quot;Downton Abbey&quot; so vague about its timeline?" Tags="|downton-abbey|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="950" CreationDate="2012-01-19T16:05:11.503" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Period pieces depend quite a bit on the innate knowledge of the audience to place the time accurately for understanding of the story. Usually the director or writer assist by leaving breadcrumbs within the story to acclimate the audience. A show that does this extremely well is &lt;em&gt;Mad Men&lt;/em&gt; which usually chronicles a national or well-known local event within the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2012-01-19T16:05:11.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="641" CreationDate="2012-01-19T20:10:43.963" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am sure that Barry got it right.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I check out the movie last night and the airport that he landed at was the Marseille Provence airport.  This is located in the South East corner of France.  It would not be a very convenient drive in the taxi to go all the way to Portugal from that location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="622" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2012-01-19T20:47:42.363" LastActivityDate="2012-01-19T20:47:42.363" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="953" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="954" CreationDate="2012-01-19T20:49:59.220" Score="41" ViewCount="5005" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firefly is an awesome TV series, so much so that &lt;strong&gt;even after its cancellation it spawned a theatrical movie release&lt;/strong&gt;. What was the ultimate cause of the cancellation of the TV series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T23:33:41.737" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T16:51:14.740" Title="What led to Firefly's cancellation?" Tags="|firefly|cancellation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="953" CreationDate="2012-01-19T21:21:08.813" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several factors led to the demise of &lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt;, but ultimately it was a colossal mistake by Fox executives. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series was played at an unfavorable time slot, and to compound this, Fox decided to play the episodes out of order, insisting that the 'better' episodes play first. Naturally, this meant there was some confusion on the audience's part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Former Fox Entertainment president Gail Berman gives a little insight into the decision in &lt;a href=&quot;http://communityvoices.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/arts-entertainment-living/tuned-in-journal/27525-rethinking-firefly&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; she gave to the &lt;em&gt;Pittsburgh Post-Gazette&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day though, it was a short-sighted decision that should haunt the Fox executives to this day. It's not the first time they've done this though - look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&amp;amp;p_theme=bg&amp;amp;p_action=search&amp;amp;p_maxdocs=200&amp;amp;p_topdoc=1&amp;amp;p_text_direct-0=109DC26AF6A16776&amp;amp;p_field_direct-0=document_id&amp;amp;p_perpage=10&amp;amp;p_sort=YMD_date:D&amp;amp;s_trackval=GooglePM&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Family Guy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-03-07T16:51:14.740" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T16:51:14.740" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="955" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1039" CreationDate="2012-01-19T21:43:49.943" Score="10" ViewCount="2961" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the show Heros, a character named Hiro has the ability to manipulate time (even time travel).  However, in the first season his control over time travel is very sporadic, and it stays like this for a long while.  Other characters that develop their powers go through this sporadic span, but quickly master their new powers.  Is there a canon reason as to why Hiro’s powers are so much more difficult for him to control?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:23:35.427" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T13:35:12.817" Title="Why were Hiro’s powers so sporadic?" Tags="|heroes|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="953" CreationDate="2012-01-19T21:46:14.057" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short, low ratings.  Factors that contributed to said low ratings:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It aired on Friday nights, a traditionally low-viewership time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episodes had some continuity, but were aired out of order, which confused viewers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was mis-marketed as an action-comedy, when it contains more dramatic elements.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://communityvoices.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/arts-entertainment-living/tuned-in-journal/27525-rethinking-firefly&quot;&gt;Nobby's link,&lt;/a&gt; the then-President of Fox says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[W]hen it didn't perform [in the ratings], having to cancel it was very difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was a numbers things. It was a wonderful show and I loved it and I loved working with him on it but that was a big show, a very expensive show and it wasn't delivering the numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-01-19T21:46:14.057" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="955" CreationDate="2012-01-19T23:01:53.843" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The argument can be made is that some people who have powers just have better control over them than others.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at Michah, he seemed to have his power under control at a very young age whereas his mother could only tap into her power while her split personality is active.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peter couldn't control his power until Claude forced him into controlling it by tossing him off a building.  While his brother, Nathan, seemed like he was flying forever once he learned how to control it in a short time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heroes tries a very &lt;em&gt;human&lt;/em&gt; approach to the powers used and I believe this helps portray that by showing people that just have better control over their abilities than others just like some people are just smarter than others and other skills of the sort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-01-19T23:01:53.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="958" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="962" CreationDate="2012-01-20T00:22:26.383" Score="31" ViewCount="3501" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original book that led to the movies &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058700/&quot;&gt;Last Man On Earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067525/&quot;&gt;The Omega Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/&quot;&gt;I Am Legend&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (and have I missed any?) has a somewhat pessimistic ending (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/I-Am-Legend-S-F-MASTERWORKS/dp/0575094168/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1327018773&amp;amp;sr=1-1&quot;&gt;Richard Matheson's great &lt;em&gt;I Am Legend&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). I know that Hollywood often likes to sugar-coat stories as audiences often react badly to pessimism (e.g. the original cuts of Blade Runner, The Long Kiss Goodnight and many others).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this is not a universal rule and some movies don't feel compelled to be upbeat (e.g. from two very different eras, Reservoir Dogs and The Parallax View). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why not for I Am Legend? Has nobody ever attempted a pessimistic version? And what did Richard Matheson think of the movie adaptations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original ending:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the book, the protagonist turns out to actually be &lt;strong&gt;The Legend&lt;/strong&gt;, as opposed to the vampires of 'myth'. To this end, he suddenly realizes that &lt;em&gt;he&lt;/em&gt; is the boogyman, a creature that walks by day and kills scores of the 'new population'. It transpires that the infected are actually starting to improve, so he allows himself to be caught and executed for his crimes - thus becoming &lt;em&gt;the legend&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:19:23.457" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T12:19:23.457" Title="Why has no movie version of I Am Legend dared to keep the original ending?" Tags="|book-adaptation|remake|i-am-legend|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="953" CreationDate="2012-01-20T00:46:25.780" Score="14" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;even after it's cancellation it spawned a theatrical movie release&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(emphasis yours)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was due to strong DVD sales:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As an afterthought, Fox released the 14 episodes on DVD and something surprising happened: The expensive boxed set sold somewhere north of 200,000 copies. On the strength of the DVD sales, Universal green-lit a small-budget movie, to be written and directed by Whedon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/757fhfxg.asp&quot;&gt;http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/757fhfxg.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the decision to cancel was not really in conflict with the decision to make a movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="631" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T00:46:25.780" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="960" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1106" CreationDate="2012-01-20T03:14:01.273" Score="18" ViewCount="56194" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Lars von Trier's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527186/&quot;&gt;Melancholia (2011)&lt;/a&gt; there are two scenes of the sisters riding their horses. Both end with Justine's (Kirsten Dunst) horse Abraham refusing to cross a small bridge. In the second instance this is even despite Justine's frustrated beating of the horse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, as Melancholia is about to arrive, Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) attempts to drive her and her son away from the mansion in a golf cart, which breaks down at the same bridge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any symbolism behind this? Is it a representation of how the sisters--or anyone for that matter--cannot escape their fate brought about by Melancholia? Is it symbolic of the isolation Justine feels? Or is it just von Trier restricting the setting to the mansion? (I remember him doing similar in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276919/&quot;&gt;Dogville&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T14:20:39.300" LastActivityDate="2013-12-11T02:12:30.270" Title="What is the symbolism of the uncrossable bridge in Melancholia?" Tags="|analysis|melancholia|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="961" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-20T04:06:46.133" Score="13" ViewCount="625" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just finishing the 5th season of Dexter and partway through the season Deb ends up going to live with Quinn because of their relationship and because of Dexter's old apartment becoming too crowded for her with the baby and Dexter being there all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Quinn's betrayal is revealed, it is was never clear about where Deb continued to live.  It was obvious she did not stay with Dexter as Lumen moved into the apartment after Jordan Chase started to get close.  But it is never shown her being at Quinn's apartment after their fight in the interrogation room about Quinn suspecting Dexter as Kyle Butler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas where she could have been staying?  I find it very odd that she would not return to the apartment after being confused Quinn's loyalties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-02-12T16:41:28.473" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T02:05:02.403" Title="Where did Deb live towards the end of the season?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dexter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="958" CreationDate="2012-01-20T04:26:43.350" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to have a go at answering all of your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, I believe you have every adaptation listed above, with the exception of the trashy cash-in flick &lt;em&gt;I am Omega&lt;/em&gt;, and perhaps, at a stretch, Romero's classic zombie films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I am aware, nobody has attempted an ending that echoes Matheson's original (and cerebral) conclusion to his novel, even though one might argue that the 2007 Will Smith vehicle didn't end with a classically 'happy ending' (although the ending they plumped for was far from satisfactory). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The simple reason for this is bums on seats. Movie making is a business, run by businessmen/women, and the dollar is the bottom line. Traditionally, the demographic that this kind of film is aimed at likes to see the (male) hero live to kick ass and kiss the girl - it's a brave (and rare) film that tries to break this mold. For the record, I think Darabont's take on &lt;em&gt;The Mist&lt;/em&gt; is one of the greatest downers ever made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Matheson's response to any of the films, I've dug around but haven't unearthed anything. Perhaps another user can dig a little deeper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T04:26:43.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="964" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="966" CreationDate="2012-01-20T04:40:28.617" Score="19" ViewCount="37093" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) a painting is stolen and folded into a briefcase.  Crown doesn't even have time to remove the stretchers.  The painting is later seen no worse for wear.  What magic did he have in that briefcase?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="631" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-11T11:24:16.987" LastActivityDate="2017-03-27T09:31:04.440" Title="How did Crown fold the painting into his briefcase?" Tags="|the-thomas-crown-affair|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="245" CreationDate="2012-01-20T05:22:44.147" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're depending mostly on the fame of the books, and the familiarity of the scenes from the previous Swedish film adaptations.  The quick cuts touch on key characters, locations, and scenes from the film, which will be recognizable to fans.  Then it wraps by revealing what the movie is for those who are unfamiliar with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I get the feeling you're asking more about why they released the teaser so early.  It was purely to build buzz.  This is a normal part of movie marketing.  In this case, they pushed out a super early teaser that could be shown during the big summer movie season.  This establishes that the movie is coming in the popular consciousness, along with providing a time for the movie's release.  This means that a few months later, when the more fleshed-out trailer is released, they aren't selling you on the film from nothing, you'll remember that tantalizing hint of an interesting movie you glimpsed in the original teaser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T05:22:44.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="964" CreationDate="2012-01-20T08:50:54.590" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to IMDB this is a Continuity error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Thomas steals the Monet in the first theft, he puts the painting with wooden canvas stretcher into his briefcase and folds it closed. When he opens the briefcase later, the canvas stretcher is not broken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T08:50:54.590" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="436" CreationDate="2012-01-20T13:53:23.573" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Best reference to this is essentially &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movingpictureshow.com/dialogues/mpsSpielbergCruise.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the interview you talked about&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;People pretend to think they know Stanley Kubrick, and think they know me, when most of them don't know either of us,&quot; Spielberg told film critic Joe Leydon in 2002. &quot;And what's really funny about that is, all the parts of A.I. that people assume were Stanley's were mine. And all the parts of A.I. that people accuse me of sweetening and softening and sentimentalizing were all Stanley's. The teddy bear was Stanley's. The whole last 20 minutes of the movie was completely Stanley's. The whole first 35, 40 minutes of the film – all the stuff in the house – was word for word, from Stanley's screenplay. This was Stanley's vision.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially saying that the first part of the movie, where David is with his family up until around the part where he is cast aside when their son returns, is all  made by &lt;strong&gt;Stanley Kubrick&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; by Spielberg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T09:35:40.220" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T09:35:40.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2012-01-20T14:01:37.413" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is never fully explained just hinted at throughout the course of the movie that it is a fictional something only devil-worshiper types, witches, and anything related to black magic use in their concoctions, recipes, for good luck, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T14:01:37.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="845" CreationDate="2012-01-20T14:05:05.803" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;After some googleing + IMDB + Wiki, all I could find is that this seems to be an &lt;strong&gt;intentional ambiguity&lt;/strong&gt; for the story.  Either that or the writer just didn't think the character was interesting enough to write about after this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T14:05:05.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="973" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="975" CreationDate="2012-01-20T14:12:15.720" Score="11" ViewCount="5790" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching an English language (probably live-action) film as a kid (on the TV, but I don't think it was a series) about which I remember the part where there was a group of people who could turn invisible when they held their breath and, at one point, they are almost given away while hiding when one (possibly a child) can't hold thier breath long enough.  They were possibly aliens.  This would have been early 80s, I think, but possibly an older movie being reshown.  What movie was it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="636" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T08:02:01.250" Title="Movie where holding their breath makes people invisible" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:34:17.063" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="974" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="982" CreationDate="2012-01-20T14:13:43.037" Score="8" ViewCount="1314" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two specific scenes I'm thinking of where angel statues inexplicably appear in strange places.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first is when Sally Sparrow is in the police depot and looks out the window and sees angel statues on the church across the street.  When she looks again, they are gone.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can view this scene here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/TJ-ZvimgZ0o?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second scene is when the officer is in the basement with all the cars.  Sally leaves, and when he turns around, the room is full of angel statues.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can view this scene here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/TaAV2PnxGWo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anybody explain these two scenes within the rules imposed by the episode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T08:03:47.853" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T08:03:47.853" Title="In the Doctor Who episode &quot;Blink&quot;, why do the angel statues appear in weird places?" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="973" CreationDate="2012-01-20T14:15:46.717" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthbound_%281981_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Earthbound (1981)&lt;/a&gt; [&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082308/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the holding-one's-breath-to-turn-invisible plot device, the time-period, and the match of many other descriptions you gave, I'm guessing this is the film you are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/IOiw--16VlE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comments for this video, someone posted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Thank you for uploading this. I must have seen it when it aired on NBC in '82, because I remember the &quot;holding your breath to turn invisible&quot; thing, and particularly the scene shown briefly at 3:04. It's been bugging me for decades, wondering what this movie was. Now I know. :D&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T08:02:01.250" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T08:02:01.250" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="976" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="979" CreationDate="2012-01-20T15:10:51.697" Score="24" ViewCount="3579" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &quot;The Reichenbach Fall&quot;, Sherlock and Moriarty have a confrontation on the roof of the hospital. (I am not sure why Sherlock chose the roof in the first place, but that is neither here nor there.) It becomes clear to Sherlock that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The code Moriarty hinted at when he visited Baker Street was not, in fact, the 'key' to any computer system in the world.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moriarty had snipers aiming at Watson, Mrs. Hudson, and Inspector Lestrade at that very moment, and they would shoot if Sherlock didn't jump off the building.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a code or number somewhere that would call off those snipers without Sherlock jumping.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once Moriarty realizes that Sherlock is capable of guessing the way to stop the snipers, he shoots himself in order to stop Sherlock winning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could Sherlock still have guessed the code and saved the day? Was the code related to the one Moriarty tapped on the chair at Baker Street, or was that really just a red herring?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8" LastEditorUserId="8" LastEditDate="2012-01-20T16:26:13.350" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T17:18:25.123" Title="What was the code that could have affected the outcome of &quot;The Reichenbach Fall&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="977" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="978" CreationDate="2012-01-20T15:24:32.627" Score="17" ViewCount="3596" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;The Reichenbach Fall&quot;, we learn that several hired assassins have moved into the apartments surrounding the one John and Sherlock share. They actually save Sherlock from getting hit by cars a few times, and then when Sherlock shakes their hands, they are instantly shot by... other snipers in the area. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was convinced that when Sherlock shook Moriarty's hand at the end, Moriarty would be shot in a similar manner - that Sherlock's handshake was the signal to these invisible snipers that the recipient should be shot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that didn't happen. Moriarty shot himself. (So the only way my theory could have been correct is if Moriarty had been the sniper the other two times Sherlock shook hands with people in the episode. Which is impossible, since one occurred right after Moriarty drove away in a cab.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, I am confused about the purpose of these characters. Were these assassins hired to protect Sherlock or to kill him? Were they the same ones who were hired to take out John, Mrs. Hudson, and Lestrade? If so, why did they need to be killed just for shaking hands with Sherlock?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8" LastEditorUserId="8" LastEditDate="2012-11-02T02:22:20.657" LastActivityDate="2013-03-14T06:26:32.867" Title="What is the deal with the assassins/bodyguards in &quot;The Reichenbach Fall&quot;?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="977" CreationDate="2012-01-20T15:56:21.157" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, the entire assassin sub-plot was an elaborate ruse to fool Sherlock into thinking he had the key Moriarty used in the break-ins at the start of the episode.  So Moriarty set the whole thing up just to make Sherlock believe there was a reason he was being protected.  (That the key itself didn't exist is covered &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/976/what-was-the-code-that-could-have-affected-the-outcome-of-the-reichenbach-fall&quot;&gt;in another question&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What Moriarty setup was several world-class assassins were hired to live near Sherlock and Watson.  Then they were to try and get the key from him.  However, they must have either been alerted to the fact that other assassins were also on the case, or they noticed each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This setup an armistice of sorts.  Everyone kept their eyes on Sherlock and Watson, and the other assassins.  Each assassin knew that to approach Sherlock and Watson meant instant death from one of the other assassins.  This was because each assassin had to prevent the others from obtaining the key.  Whoever has the key wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moriarty lied to all of the assassins to set this up, which in the end caused Sherlock to believe himself to be more valuable than he was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T17:22:12.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="976" CreationDate="2012-01-20T17:18:25.123" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The code was not the mysterious key to any computer system in the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moriarty reveals that he used 'traditional' methods of arranging the 3 break-ins, and it was merely the shock value of timing them to occur at the same time, and the fact that he was willing to be caught in the process makes people think that he has something bigger up his sleeve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He wants to make the authorities and Sherlock to believe that this was a planned advertisement of Moriarty's computer key to distract them from his real plan of destroying Sherlock's reputation.  Moriarty has become obsessed with Sherlock and wants more than anything else to demonstrate to Sherlock his superior abilities by setting a puzzle that he cannot solve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code is the first part of the bait that keeps Sherlock in the game, this is slowly replaced by wanting to save his reputation, followed by wanting to save the lives of his friends without losing his own.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could Sherlock have guessed the way to call off the hitmen?  We have seen him break riddles set by Moriarty before, but he has always had more to go on.  Here he needs to be 100% sure he can call them off, before he leaves the roof - clearly he decides that he needs some more time to work out what do do next and that faking his death is the easiest way out. Also in the past, Moriarty has set riddles half-hoping that Sherlock would break them.  This time Moriarty intends to set Sherlock an impossible scenario in order to dominate him once and for all.   Of course it would also break the original Arthur Conan-Doyle story if Holmes and Moriarty do not 'die'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key thing in my mind is not 'how did he fake his death' as he was clearly planning something by talking to Molly before these events - it is more, how did he anticipate Moriarty's death, or how did he intend faking his death with Moriarty there watching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-01-20T17:18:25.123" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="980" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="991" CreationDate="2012-01-20T19:19:13.100" Score="10" ViewCount="3016" Body="&lt;p&gt;Biopic movies are based on the true stories of people, like Johnny Depp in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109707/&quot;&gt;Ed Wood&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;Did the family of Ed Wood get paid for this movie? (because, technically, the story is that of Edward Wood)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T15:48:57.623" Title="Do the biopic-ized people get paid for being represented in their respective biopic movies?" Tags="|biopic|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="981" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8179" CreationDate="2011-12-26T07:44:59.707" Score="7" ViewCount="1139" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol&lt;/em&gt;, it's clear that Agents Carter and Hanaway (Josh Holloway's character) were teammates, but I'm curious if there was meant to be something more between them.  In particular, Ethan had a line that very vaguely implied that Carter and Hanaway might have been a couple.  And Carter seemed particularly broken up by&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hanaway's death&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so I wanted to know if some non-movie material established the extent of their relationship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T15:52:29.453" LastActivityDate="2017-10-25T18:54:51.177" Title="What's the relationship between Carter and Hanaway?" Tags="|character|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-ghost-protocol|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="974" CreationDate="2012-01-20T21:20:06.057" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The angels had followed Sparrow to the police station, and they generally hide themselves in positions where you'd expect to see statues (like the church across the street). But when Sparrow turned her back they went across the road into the police station. Once they got to the carpark there was no need to hide any more so they showed themselves more openly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do they seem to move so slowly in the house compared to out in public? I think the main reason is because it made for suspenseful TV. If you like though, imagine something like &quot;the angels move faster when there are more people &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; looking at them.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastEditorUserId="250" LastEditDate="2012-01-22T07:58:07.970" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T07:58:07.970" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="985" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="988" CreationDate="2012-01-20T23:55:06.240" Score="14" ViewCount="1089" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can remember (it's hard to check since I don't think there has ever been a region 2 DVD) the fantastic but under appreciated movie &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120906/&quot;&gt;Zero Effect&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; featured a somewhat reclusive private eye whose sidekick did his publicity. He was also a genius detective whose major failure involved a female criminal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recent Sherlock Holmes remakes (the modern BBC version and the Guy Ritchie Movies) both somehow reminded me of Zero Effect and made me as two questions: why is it impossible to find on DVD or online (at least in Europe)? and was it intended as a sort of modern version of Sherlock (15 years before the BBC did Sherlock)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-03T11:44:45.443" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T11:44:45.443" Title="Was Zero Effect an early attempt to do a modern Sherlock Holmes?" Tags="|plot-explanation|book-adaptation|zero-effect|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1016" CreationDate="2012-01-20T23:55:46.693" Score="12" ViewCount="452" Body="&lt;p&gt;When deciding the value of the bionics for Steve Austin, how did the creators/producers come up with the six million dollar figure?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this just to be catchy with the title, or was there an estimation of &quot;parts and labor&quot; for that time period?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:23:24.333" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T12:23:24.333" Title="Where did the creators of the Six Million Dollar Man come up with that dollar amount?" Tags="|the-six-million-dollar-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="985" CreationDate="2012-01-21T01:27:40.380" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It certainly seems that way, with the &quot;Extreme Deduction&quot; method of detective work. I haven't found any primary source on it, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000101/CRITICALDEBATE/40308053&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Roger Ebert is good enough for me&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;So one finds his way into Zero Effect in the form of Daryl Zero, an aging hippie Sherlock Holmes with the household habits of a Howard Hughes…&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="649" LastActivityDate="2012-01-21T01:27:40.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="985" CreationDate="2012-01-21T01:28:37.557" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't answer the question about region 2 DVDs, but the similarities between &lt;em&gt;Zero Effect&lt;/em&gt; and Sherlock Holmes are not a coincidence.  The film review &lt;a href=&quot;http://jpfmovies.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/the-zero-effect-out-of-the-dung-heap-and-into-the-rose-garden/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Zero Effect–Out of the Dung Heap and Into the Rose Garden&lt;/a&gt; points out many of the similarities between the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Zero Effect ... is based on the great Sherlock Holmes short story A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  The film stars Bill Pullman as Daryl Zero (Sherlock Homes), a gifted but strange private detective who is socially awkward and inept.  His “Dr. Watson” is portrayed as Steve Arlo (Ben Stiller).  Zero keeps himself locked in his apartment where, like Holmes and his violin, he composes dreadful songs on his guitar and subsists on a diet of tuna, Tab, and amphetamines (Holmes’ drug use included morphine and other narcotics).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paralleling A Scandal in Bohemia, Zero is retained by Gregory Stark (Ryan O’Neal), a wealthy man who hires Zero to investigate who is blackmailing him.  During the investigation Zero ventures outside of his apartment encountering Gloria Sullivan (Kim Dickens).  Gloria is based on the character Irene Adler, the only woman who had the wit to outdo Holmes, and he admired her for it.  Sullivan is the blackmailer (like Adler) and as the film progresses, they begin to fall in love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The similarities between the characters Zero and Holmes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;brilliant detective&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;strange personality&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;social awkwardness&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lives alone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;faithful sidekick&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;plays a musical instrument&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;drug use&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;are also shared by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;another TV character inspired by Holmes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-01-21T01:33:44.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="980" CreationDate="2012-01-21T01:31:16.210" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on whether it is authorized or not. Often the movie is unauthorized because it's not favorable to the celebrity, and in those cases the person is rarely paid for it. However, there are many advantages to an authorized biopic (having the subject promoting the movie, for one), and they will typically get paid as a consultant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="649" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2012-01-25T15:48:57.623" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T15:48:57.623" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="990" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5752" CreationDate="2012-01-21T04:22:21.377" Score="7" ViewCount="838" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1748197/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Setup&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Sonny and Petey visit their friend (with the guns and drugs), Petey starts playing around with guns. Later, while Sonny and his friend were talking, they hear a shot and finds that Petey is dead and blood is splattered everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So did Petey shoot himself or did someone else shoot him? Petey is like a mob-boss's right-hand man. So could he been dumb enough to shoot himself? If someone else shot him, who was that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-02-04T12:35:46.653" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T12:35:46.653" Title="Did Petey actually kill himself or did someone else kill him?" Tags="|plot-explanation|setup|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="980" CreationDate="2012-01-21T15:19:48.340" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rights issue is still fairly murky. &#xA;If a program or film is deemed 'newsworthy' (ie documentary) then less rights need to be secured (although privacy copyrights are still in effect and do need to cleared before presentation). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Biopics like &lt;em&gt;Ed Wood&lt;/em&gt;, despite being based on a real person, are considered 'fictional entertainment' and thus do not require clearance from the family unless real photos/sounds are used. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases, biopics can be halted - for example, the Amy Winehouse project that has been stalled because her father has refused to release the rights to her music.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-01-21T15:19:48.340" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="993" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="994" CreationDate="2012-01-21T18:21:39.123" Score="65" ViewCount="112994" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always wondered what techniques directors use to get amateur actors, especially young ones, to cry. How can someone surrounded with so many film crew and cameras can concentrate enough and feel so sad that s/he can possibly burst into tears?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In general, is crying in a movie scene (with real tears) something that can be learned by practice or is it something that only talented people can perform?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="653" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-03-11T15:45:14.797" LastActivityDate="2017-02-21T09:30:05.527" Title="What techniques are used by directors to make an actor cry?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="993" CreationDate="2012-01-21T18:35:39.910" Score="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the same for professional as well as amateur actors - I've known some pros that have a hard time reaching the crying point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One technique includes allowing the actor to focus on the saddest memory they have, in solitude, then pull them out for the take. I recall seeing a documentary that showed Gary Oldman looking through a book of photos of his family (he had just split from Uma Thurman) on the set of &lt;em&gt;Dracula&lt;/em&gt; that got him to the point of sorrow that Coppola wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have worked with some amazing amateur actors that would work themselves up into a state before filming. One actress imagined something terrible happening to her sister, and she delivered a very powerful performance (that got the crew all choked up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all else fails, the vapors from an onion can induce tears (but also cause redness), or a few drops of glycerin in the corners of the eyes can be released - but nothing beats real tears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also heard of directors bullying/belittling actors to the point of melt-down, just to get the shot they want. But that's a pretty extreme way to go about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-01-21T18:35:39.910" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13" CreationDate="2012-01-21T19:38:29.793" Score="16" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is crazy, that's obvious. At a certain point of the film he realizes what he did in the past and he explain everything to the doctor with a lot of details that nobody could have told him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's the first part, with the bout and everything with him getting to the island that it's hard to believe he could have imagined it. This is the only &quot;proof&quot; of a conspiracy that i recall.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastActivityDate="2012-01-21T19:38:29.793" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="993" CreationDate="2012-01-21T22:13:38.543" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not wanting to detract from Nobby's excellent answer I's like to add that very often directors don't use techniques in that sense, but just rely on their actors to know what they're doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two days ago I saw an interview with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0905691/&quot;&gt;Yorick van Wageningen&lt;/a&gt; about a rape scene with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1913734/&quot;&gt;Rooney Mara&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568346/&quot;&gt;The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo&lt;/a&gt;. I was impressed by this young actress's professionalism. Contrary to what actors usually do, meticulously go through a scene prior to shooting it, she told him not to talk about it in advance, but to just let her suffer the rape as if it really happened to her. He said that between the cuts she was still crying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="297" LastActivityDate="2012-01-21T22:13:38.543" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="998" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="999" CreationDate="2012-01-21T22:41:35.470" Score="11" ViewCount="1097" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Lost TV series, Daniel Faraday's mother (Eloise Hawking) meets the losties who want to return to the island.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;How&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; does she know what flight they have to catch to crash again and return. What's the point? Is there another island's rule that put her in charge of doing this? Or it's just a scientific way to make them &quot;let go&quot; the reality they're attached to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; instead, Faraday's father (Widmore) has to put so much effort to find this island?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastEditorUserId="613" LastEditDate="2016-06-14T11:03:52.283" LastActivityDate="2016-06-14T11:03:52.283" Title="How did Eloise Hawking know which flight the losties had to catch?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lost|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="998" CreationDate="2012-01-22T00:46:58.673" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Ajira_Flight_316&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the article about the flight on lostpedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She said that windows provide a route back, but they didn't stay open long, and the window through which they were supposed to enter closed in 36 hours. She handed Jack a binder that contained all air routes that flew over the coordinates of the Island, pointing out that the intended window was directly in the flight path of Ajira Airways Flight 316. Ms. Hawking emphasized that they must take that flight if they had any hope of returning to the Island.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, the island is constantly moving and shifting around (which is what makes it so elusive).  In order to get the Oceanic 6 back to the island, they needed a flight who's path would match up perfectly with where the island would be so that they can crash it onto the island to return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no island rule about this having to be the flight but merely the only way to keep the island &quot;stable&quot; enough to &lt;em&gt;save&lt;/em&gt; it is to have the original/remaining candidates back onto the island in order to stop it from producing the time flashes so sporadically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eloise is merely the one that runs &lt;strong&gt;The Lamp Post&lt;/strong&gt; station which it's purpose is to detect &lt;strong&gt;where&lt;/strong&gt; the island currently resides and where it will be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Faraday's father, Widmore turns out to be the original &quot;others&quot; leader back in the 1950s.  And since Ben banished him when he came of age, he's been desperately trying to get back to the island ever since.  I'm sure anyone ejected from their longtime home that is constantly moving around the world would be pretty determined to get back at any cost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-01-22T03:19:35.900" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T03:19:35.900" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1000" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1003" CreationDate="2012-01-22T06:05:37.110" Score="12" ViewCount="4482" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it considered a filming technique to get one-shot frames unnoticeably embedded in movies to subconsciously affect the viewers' mind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="653" LastEditorUserId="653" LastEditDate="2012-01-22T08:17:18.183" LastActivityDate="2015-09-13T01:08:26.940" Title="Subconsciously influencing the audience with embedded single frames" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="937" CreationDate="2012-01-22T08:52:52.127" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film is &lt;strong&gt;Shaft (1971)&lt;/strong&gt;. That's Charles Cioffi playing Lt Vic Androzzi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pixhost.me/pictures/1985106&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/arpVH.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pixhost.me/pictures/1985106&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://pixhost.me/pictures/1985106&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="314" LastEditorUserId="314" LastEditDate="2012-01-22T09:07:20.433" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T09:07:20.433" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1002" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1013" CreationDate="2012-01-22T14:00:46.970" Score="6" ViewCount="1871" Body="&lt;p&gt;The series is (implied to be) a figment of Tommy Westphall's imagination, existing in the snowglobe that he is focused on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the rationale/justification for ending the series this way?  What symbolic value does either the globe or the snow have on the ending of the series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the fact that Tommy is considered Autistic symbolic in any way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T13:49:55.980" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T13:49:55.980" Title="Why was it necessary for St. Elsewhere to end the way it did?" Tags="|plot-explanation|st-elsewhere|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1000" CreationDate="2012-01-22T15:22:07.130" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, its is not considered a filming technique to do this, at least not an effective technique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a bit of an urban legend that subliminal messages are effective.  Subliminal stimuli are sensory stimuli that are below a threshold of being consciously perceived - in the context of movies these are usually thought of as single frames spliced into the scene.  Classically these are usually thought of in the context of advertising - &quot;Eat more popcorn&quot; - but you could conceive of them being used to influence the audiences response to the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However studies of subliminal stimuli have not really shown that they are effective, and they continue to be an urban legend, alongside the idea that they are somehow 'banned' by regulatory authorities.  For more reading on this see the following &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli&quot;&gt;wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;, and a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/popcorn.asp&quot;&gt;snopes page&lt;/a&gt; on the urban legend.  The snopes page highlights that basis of the urban legend was was a falsified scientific study from the 1950's, which has never been replicated, and the legend has been repeated as fact in other media, such as an episode of Columbo from 1973.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only movie that I can consider using something inspired by this technique is Fight Club, where very brief images including the Tyler Durden character were spliced into the movie before the character was introduced.  However these images were several frames long and deliberately long enough to show as 'glitches' for the audience to see, clearly not subliminal.  Later in the movie Tyler also describes how, when working as a movie projectionist, he used to splice single frames of pornography into family movies.  The use of (almost) subliminal images in the movie are used to hint that the character is somehow not entirely real, but it is also a bit of an 'easter egg' buried in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-01-22T17:57:37.907" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T17:57:37.907" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="278" CreationDate="2012-01-22T15:32:25.617" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Taking a crack at this since it's been unanswered for so long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be a way to signify innocence in everyone as a child in that not only in this movie but a lot.  Any time there are kids involved you usually get the stereotypical kids drawing of a house or of the family posted somewhere to give a kind of atmosphere and a bit of sympathy that this is a real family/real kids/real situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the fact that all these drawings are similar might allude to that innocence everyone once had.  Just sitting around drawing cute pictures for parents to hang up and/or keep forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T15:32:25.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1005" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1008" CreationDate="2012-01-22T17:31:41.637" Score="46" ViewCount="96982" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have never understood why Vader appears in Dagobah in The Empire Strikes Back, I understand that the cave Yoda takes Luke to is strong with the dark side of the force but don't understand why the rest of the scene at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Yoda tell Luke to go in unarmed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why (and how) does Vader appear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Vader have Luke's face?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="962" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T15:19:56.940" LastActivityDate="2016-09-24T08:12:20.647" Title="Empire Strikes Back - Scene in Dagobah with Darth Vader" Tags="|star-wars|the-empire-strikes-back|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="946" CreationDate="2012-01-22T17:34:32.030" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/946/the-artist-what-is-the-significance-of-the-scene-with-the-cop-near-the-end-of-t/947#947&quot;&gt;Mark has a good interpretation.&lt;/a&gt; But I feel it's a bit simpler than that: this is the point at which George realizes what the rest of the public has already determined - that when you see a mouth move, something should come out. By seeing the cop's mouth move, but not being able to hear anything, George sees that he was wrong about talkies not being the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="659" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2012-01-28T00:01:00.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1007" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19900" CreationDate="2012-01-22T17:47:30.080" Score="37" ViewCount="54916" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia&lt;/em&gt;, the Americans force Sherlock to open Irene Adler's safe by threatening Holmes and Adler at gunpoint. The safe turns out to be booby trapped. But just before he opens it Sherlock mutters something to warn them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does Sherlock say and why does it cause Adler and Watson to react the way they do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2023-04-09T10:02:08.767" LastActivityDate="2023-12-10T15:55:20.357" Title="What does Sherlock say just before opening Irene Adler's safe?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1005" CreationDate="2012-01-22T17:53:57.617" Score="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is to reflect Luke's own darkness and how he must overcome it.  He sees Vader as the face of true evil which is why it is envisioned here as him.  Vader never actually appears there, physically. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it is shown that Vader has Luke's face, this is to represent Luke's own fear of becoming as evil as Vader (if this scene occurred a movie later, it would more likely represent his fear of becoming like his father).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure Yoda, as old and wise as he is, tells Luke to go in unarmed for either his own protection against himself and/or because he knows the cave is just where a lot of dark presence is and shows hallucinations to test Luke, rather than to physically fight anything/anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T17:53:57.617" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1009" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1010" CreationDate="2012-01-22T18:13:21.490" Score="8" ViewCount="209" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know the name of a TV series/documentary that ran on Discovery channel and is featuring a British actor whose name I cannot recall but I do remember that he show all the stuff that a &quot;real man&quot; should be able to do, fix etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember the only episode I watched had several questions - how to diffuse a World war II bomb, how to court a lady and several other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user643" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T20:15:13.683" Title="TV series about what a real man should be able to do on Discovery channel" Tags="|identify-this-movie|documentary|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:34:20.190" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1009" CreationDate="2012-01-22T19:10:19.147" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This must be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vs617&quot;&gt;James May's Man Lab&lt;/a&gt;. The mission statement (from the site):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;James May sets out to help modern man relearn some of the vital skills that are now in danger of being lost forever&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember seeing episodes of it, not sure if it was on Discovery, probably the BBC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="297" LastEditorUserId="297" LastEditDate="2012-01-22T20:15:13.683" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T20:15:13.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1007" CreationDate="2012-01-22T19:43:06.963" Score="24" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vatican cameos!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's pretty hard to find a definitive answer, but it looks like it is code for &quot;Duck!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's aimed only at Watson as he's the only one to react at the phrase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conan Doyle makes a reference about in &quot;The Hound of the Baskervilles&quot;. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://holmeschurchmysteries.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=47&amp;amp;Itemid=54&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was exceedingly preoccupied by that little affair of the Vatican cameos, and in my anxiety to oblige the Pope I lost touch with several interesting English cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Conan Doyle never wrote a story about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="640" LastActivityDate="2012-01-22T19:43:06.963" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1012" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-22T20:10:52.817" Score="39" ViewCount="25132" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1999 film &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125664/&quot;&gt;Man on the Moon&lt;/a&gt;&quot; starring Jim Carrey as the infamous comic Andy Kaufman, the movie takes great pains to recreate specific points in Kaufman's life. In a somewhat unorthodox fashion, however, many of the original actors/actresses that Andy crossed paths with were called back to assist with the re-creation of those very same scenes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, aside from the obvious amount of time that has passed (the actors and actresses clearly all look a bit older) the scenes are more-or-less exact replicas of what happened in Andy's past. This includes many cameos from the cast of Taxi, wrestler Jerry Lawler, SNL Producer Lorne Michaels, David Letterman and more. There are most certainly some actors that weren't able to reprise their roles, for various reasons (the scene wasn't important enough, the original actor wasn't available/dead/etc), but there was one key actor missing who could have reprised his role--for a very significant scene: Michael Richards, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_xqiCeIFws&quot;&gt;the &quot;Friday's&quot; incident&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back in '81, Andy appeared on a live sketch comedy show which attempted to take advantage of the success of Saturday Night Live. It was comprised of young comedians getting their start in the industry, and performing sketches on live TV, much in the same fashion as SNL. On one particular night, a sketch involving four friends (one of which was played by Andy Kaufman, another by Michael Richards) took place at a restaurant, with the joke being that they would get up at various times and head to the bathroom to smoke marijuana. About half-way through this sketch, Kaufman decided for whatever reason to go off script, infuriating and frustrating his fellow cast members. At one point, Richards goes off camera and returns with the sketch's cue cards, and tosses them on the table in front of Kaufman, at which point Kaufman sprays Richards with a glass of water, causing even more friction, and an eventual fight breaks out between Kaufman and Friday's co-producer Jack Burns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Andy was known for unconventional humor. Throughout his career, he made a lot of judgment calls about what he thought was true comedy, but that not very many other people seemed to agree on. One recurring theme in his comedy was that &lt;strong&gt;he liked to keep the audience guessing&lt;/strong&gt;. Was what we were seeing really real? Or was it all an elaborate hoax? A staged event that really truly seems like it is actually happening, only to find out later that it was a sham from the start. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people that Kaufman staged these &quot;events&quot; with now confirm today that they were, in fact, staged; the most famous of which could be considered the entire series of events that took place between wrestler Jerry Lawler and Kaufman. And, as expected, in the case of the &quot;Friday's&quot; incident, it was also revealed later that the entire scene...Kaufman going off script, Richards' frustration, the cue-cards, the water splashing and eventual fight...all was a plan from the beginning. Richards himself confirms this in an episode of &lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.firstamendmentcenter.org/about.aspx?id=12083&quot;&gt;&quot;Speaking Freely&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.firstamendmentcenter.org/flash/display_video.aspx?id=20695&quot;&gt;Video&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though people confirm that these Kaufman-events were planned from the start, one very real fact remains: out of all of the actors/actresses that ever had the luxury of coming into contact and dealing with Kaufman, and were given the opportunity to return and pay homage to Andy by recreating those same scenes in the &quot;Man on the Moon&quot; film, one person refused: &lt;em&gt;Michael Richards&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The question is, why?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, like so many other actors, Richards had truly been &quot;in&quot; on the event from the start, then shouldn't he, as a comedian, understand the value of that comedic genius and want to pay homage to it like others? Or was there another reason that kept Richards from participating, other than the most basic guesses of &lt;em&gt;&quot;it was an embarrassment for him&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;&quot;he simply didn't want to re-live the past&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, or even &lt;em&gt;&quot;his schedule simply didn't allow for him to contribute to the movie&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (which seems unlikely). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any proof available to the story that the event, though portrayed after the fact as a hoax, may have truly been, in fact, something that Kaufman came up with on-the-fly, and the network/people involved simply used &quot;oh, it was planned&quot; as a cover for them losing control of Kaufman on live TV--and that the &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; reason Richards refused to portray himself in that infamous scene was due to the fact that &lt;strong&gt;he knew the truth&lt;/strong&gt;...that Kaufman embarrassed Richards and his fellow cast members on live TV without their knowledge, and to this day, will really have nothing to do with any homage paying tribute to Kaufman? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-02T11:43:07.893" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T08:17:39.893" Title="Why did Michael Richards refuse to portray himself?" 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  <row Id="1013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1002" CreationDate="2012-01-23T06:49:11.400" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't find any justification for ending the show this way, other than the writers wanted to end the show on a twist ending, rather than just another typical ending. As for the snow globe, that was the focus of Tommy's attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem that I see with the ending is that they explained away the whole show as the daydreams of an autistic child's imagination. The thing is, autism was - and still is - largely not understood what goes on in a person's brain. Because a lot of autistic children are withdrawn, it seems as though they're in their own world. This is not likely the case (I'm not going to search for links to autism websites for this answer), but for writers looking for some weird ending for their show (other than &quot;it was all a dream&quot;), the idea of a child imagining the world of St. Elsewhere seemed like an easy out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elsewhere#Final_episode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article about the last episode&lt;/a&gt;, someone estimates that &quot;90% of the shows existed in this kid's head&quot; due to the many show crossovers. I actually have an easy answer for that - assuming that the 'real world' has shows like Cheers and MASH on TV, it's entirely plausible that Tommy took characters from those shows after seeing them on TV and made them part of his imagination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorUserId="260" LastEditDate="2012-01-23T11:50:16.760" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T11:50:16.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1014" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1018" CreationDate="2012-01-23T09:08:21.463" Score="25" ViewCount="3829" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a lot of 3D movies out there in these days, but they are also released in 2D (dvd, blu-ray, ...). I think, they are originally captured as 3D movies (with stereo camera). So each frame has 2 versions - one for left and one for right eye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are they transferred to 2D? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have some candidates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only one (better looking) version of frame is taken&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only one version (the same version for whole movie, i.e. only left) of frame is taken&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are somehow combined together, because we don't want to lose any information (how are they combined?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="558" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2012-01-23T16:44:19.650" LastActivityDate="2016-09-21T09:14:48.260" Title="How is 2D movie created from 3D?" Tags="|film-techniques|3d|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1005" CreationDate="2012-01-23T10:30:55.837" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lucas explains this on the Empire Strikes Back DVD commentary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had Luke gone into the cave with no weapons, he would not have met Vader in there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a way to teach the person, by showing them what the Dark Side can bring from inside them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yoda said that what is in there is &quot;only what you take with you&quot; - Luke takes his weapons, he's aggressive - he's making the same mistakes Anakin did 25 years before, and could end up the same way. Note that it is Luke who activates his lightsaber first, not Vader - Luke is the aggressor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T10:30:55.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="986" CreationDate="2012-01-23T11:25:38.140" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Six_Million_Dollar_Man&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show is based on the novel &lt;em&gt;Cyborg&lt;/em&gt; by Martin Caidin, and during pre-production, that was the proposed title of the series. ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Austin is severely injured in the crash and is “rebuilt” in a title-giving operation that costs at least six million dollars. His right arm, both legs and the left eye are replaced by &amp;quot;bionic&amp;quot; implants that enhance his strength, speed and vision far above human norms: he can run at speeds of 60 miles per hour (100 km/h), and his eye has a 20:1 zoom lens and infrared capabilities while his limbs all have the equivalent power of a bulldozer. He uses his enhanced abilities to work for the OSI (Office of Scientific Intelligence) as a secret agent (and as a guinea pig for bionics).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book, the $6m covers the cost of the operation and also maintenance and associated costs to keep Austin operational for five to nine years. From chapter 5:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;My reaction is not the issue. You are talking about years of work, Mr. Goldman. What is involved here concerns the active participation of much of my laboratory, both the public facility, and, of course, our secret center. You are talking about dozens of skilled doctors, engineers, technicians, the use of at least one and perhaps two computers critically needed in other areas. We can promise you no real measure of success, and—&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;May I break in, Dr. Killian?&amp;quot; Goldman asked quietly. &amp;quot;Perhaps I can bring things to a head. What do you estimate would be the financial requirement for this program? More specifically, as it involves Colonel Austin.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Two million the first year, perhaps. After that it is difficult to tell. I would say from a half million to twice that much every year for some time to come.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Doctor, tomorrow by this time there will be placed within your fiscal control—nonreturnable so long as this project is under way—six million dollars.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T11:25:38.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1014" CreationDate="2012-01-23T16:49:35.023" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://disneybluray3d.com/faq.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Disney Blu-ray 3D help site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you're watching a 3D/2D compatible disc in 2D, you are actually watching a single eye view of your film (i.e. the left eye or right eye only).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would imagine this is the method used in theaters as modern 3D films are digital projections and thus can be altered accordingly - so Christian was on the right track.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-09-21T09:14:48.260" LastActivityDate="2016-09-21T09:14:48.260" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1014" CreationDate="2012-01-23T18:45:50.650" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question begins with an incorrect assumption.  Currently, when movies are made, they are mainly made for 2D setups (i.e. theaters, and home systems).  Due to the different ways films are made, this has to be broken out into different options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For live action films where they are recorded in 3D, they can just use one of the two images they've filmed for the 2D version.  There shouldn't be a 'bad version' as the question supposes, because if there is a marked difference in quality between the two, then that will negatively impact the 3D presentation of the film.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For live action films not recorded in 3D, they have to alter the 2D footage to create the 3D footage.  This is called post-production conversion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For CG animated films, they'll create both in concert, and will sometimes create subtle differences created in the 3D version.  (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showpost.php?p=20223258&amp;amp;postcount=46&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tangled&lt;/a&gt; for example)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't know of any non-CG animated films that have been released in 3D, so I guess this is one is unknown.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comparison shots of Tangled's 3D and 2D versions follow.  You can see the differences in the backgrounds, look at the trees and see how they're in clear and in focus in the 3D version, but blurry in the 2D version.  Similarly the fields in the background are clear in 3D, but blurry in 2D.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i1lVH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;3D version&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OGg1S.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;2D version&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2012-01-23T19:28:56.570" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T19:28:56.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1019" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1021" CreationDate="2012-01-23T20:41:57.470" Score="4" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Redtails, Lightning shows that he has a tendency to be pretty reckless. This is shown by him taking the armed train by himself or attacking the german destroyer on his own. However, I didn’t quite understand where this comes from. What was the motivation, or reasoning, why Lightning was so reckless when he flew?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-01-02T17:22:55.077" LastActivityDate="2017-01-02T17:22:55.077" Title="What was Lightning's motivation for recklessness?" Tags="|character|redtails|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1019" CreationDate="2012-01-23T21:23:34.200" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's a fantastic pilot.  And so he wanted to show off.  His tendency to ignore orders freed him to do higher-risk higher-reward attacks.  This got him the acclaim he wanted.  After his attack on the German destroyer, you can see this in him bragging while they're watching the film of his attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T21:23:34.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2012-01-23T21:54:22.980" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen references to Tanis Root providing immortality, but I can find no hard documentation right now to support that theory. Tanis is also an Egyptian city. Shown in the movie Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark to be the resting place of the Ark of the Covenant. However it is normally spelled Tanis and not Tannis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T21:54:22.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1023" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3289" CreationDate="2012-01-23T21:56:40.313" Score="11" ViewCount="647" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485985/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Red Tails&lt;/a&gt;, on the last mission of the movie the Red tails were supposed to escort the bombers only during a part of the flight. They were supposed to rendezvous with other fighter pilots and then break off and return back to base.  However, the rendezvous never happened and they continued on.  Why?  What happened to their relief?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2017-01-06T07:31:40.617" LastActivityDate="2017-01-06T07:31:40.617" Title="Why did the rendezvous fail?" Tags="|plot-explanation|redtails|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2012-01-23T22:54:44.530" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The truth is that the most startling thing about the brother's death is the complete lack of exposition of its circumstances.  Nobody follows up, asks or even hints at what might have caused it.  I think this is a nice move for Malick to pull because it gives the story an almost biblical sense.  As a predominantly spiritual work, dwelling on details like how exactly a person dies are simply distracting.  Like the &quot;she's my sister&quot; trick and locusts in Days of Heaven, it's clear that Malick is taking some cues from the Old Testament here.  The Old Testament almost never goes into detail about the circumstances in which a person dies, it's much more interested in the spiritual lessons surrounding the death.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lessons of the brother's death and how the family comes to grips with it are not meant to be contingent on any particular circumstance, they are meant to be universal and timeless.  People die all the time, often in ways which we find unjust.  The issue to deal with isn't how they died, it's how we relate to it.  And by breaking our narrative expectations and hiding the cause of death, Malick draws our attention to this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which isn't to say that I'm against speculating about what might have killed him, it's just that taken in context, it's clear that the film is intentionally drawing our attention away from that question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="538" LastActivityDate="2012-01-23T22:54:44.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1027" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5812" CreationDate="2012-01-24T02:35:11.650" Score="11" ViewCount="2560" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;So I Married an Axe Murderer&quot;, Harriet (Nancy Travis) cries out for &quot;Ralph!&quot; in her sleep, which Charlie (Mike Myers) correctly attributes to one of her &quot;missing&quot; fiancés.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In trying to cover for herself, Harriet later introduces Charlie to a female friend named Ralph (Jessie Nelson) to ease his mind and convince him that this woman was the subject of her dream.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm never sure whether:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Her name really was Ralph (doesn't seem likely)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This Ralph character knew of Harriet's prior troubles and was helping her establish a cover story&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Ralph character simply thought she was playing into some kind of joke (culminated by Charlie dropping the towel)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can we infer anything about this character's role based on her motivation or intentions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T17:57:41.543" LastActivityDate="2018-10-25T21:32:47.643" Title="Is the female &quot;Ralph&quot; character playing along?" Tags="|character|so-i-married-an-axe-murderer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13036" CreationDate="2012-01-24T04:16:12.747" Score="6" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, &quot;Dream House&quot;, it's revealed that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Will Atenton is actually Peter Ward. And that he had been in the Greenhaven Psycological Hospital for a long time and then discharged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When was Peter in Greenhaven and why? And why was he considered &quot;nuts&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-03-18T03:53:16.063" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T05:19:08.763" Title="When did Peter/Will go to Greenhaven?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dream-house|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1030" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1038" CreationDate="2012-01-24T04:20:16.533" Score="6" ViewCount="26790" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_House_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dream House&lt;/a&gt;, near the end its revealed that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Its actually the man-next-door (Ann's husband and Chloe's father) who kills the Ward's wife and two daughters. We are shown that he is entering the house carrying two guns and shoots the daughters with them. We are also shown that he tries to kill Ann (his wife) to get the insurance on Chloe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why did he try to kill is neighbors? It would have been no use to him (he only would have had to kill his wife to get the insurance). What did he expect from killing the neighbors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-04T11:44:06.163" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T21:58:13.340" Title="Why did the man-next-door attempt to kill the family-next-door?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dream-house|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1032" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1094" CreationDate="2012-01-24T07:51:02.500" Score="10" ViewCount="1544" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several years ago I remember seeing part of a movie - perhaps even a TV only movie - but I can't remember the name of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the premise was that a (married?) couple acted as temporary foster parents to two teenagers (boarding them temporarily). The foster parents were strict, quirky, OCD, and ruled the teens in an obsessive, dictator style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems like for most of the day the kids were locked in their adjacent rooms, and were not supposed to make any noise or else be punished. I think they had a little desk in there and were supposed to be only studying or something like that. I think the foster parents even did things like passing the meals through a window in the door - like the teenagers were incarcerated. Not sure if I remember that part 100%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the teenage girl was there first and then the teenage boy arrives, she tries to maybe tell him about the rules to keep him out of trouble. They whisper through an air vent in the wall, and I think maybe they make an escape or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea what this movie is titled and without knowing really anything more about it I'm not having any luck with Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, for some reason this movie comes to mind when I think about the Goonies - which I haven't seen in a while, but I doubt that is the movie I'm describing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;More Info&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seems like this was one of those late 80's movies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think the boy had dark brown hair and the girl had ligher brown hair...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think both of the foster parents were really thin and lanky - I think the guy reminded me of nicholas cage possibly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="673" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-19T22:15:36.440" LastActivityDate="2018-02-03T14:50:31.293" Title="Two foster kids talk (as captives) through an air duct between their rooms?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:34:23.333" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="750" CreationDate="2012-01-24T18:25:19.357" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mundt wanted to make sure that Leamans would be of no further use to anyone. If Nan were still kept alive in East Berlin, any information that Leamans might have gotten about her - if he got any at all - would be open to suspicion (imagine if the woman you love is prnounced dead, but you have no idea if it's true or not). By making sure that she was with Leamans when he made his escape AND THEN having her killed, Mundt ensured that Leamans would know that his love was dead, and thus would have no will to go on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T18:25:19.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1030" CreationDate="2012-01-24T20:10:06.327" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;He wants to kill his wife, but his murderer (who should kill his wife) went to wrong house - he made mistake. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, he wants to fix everything by killing his wife and neighbour (Ward) too, because everybody thought that Ward is crazy killer - and because he is crazy, he could kill whoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="558" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T20:10:06.327" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1030" CreationDate="2012-01-24T20:24:42.770" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The husband of Ann actually hired someone to kill his own family for the insurance money. The assassin went to the wrong house and killed Peter Wards (Daniel Craig) family instead. He later tries to kill Ann by himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where did you get the synopsis that you posted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2012-01-24T20:24:42.770" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="955" CreationDate="2012-01-24T21:18:36.107" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show Heroes was originally written as a one season series, so a lot of the stories and characters were were not thought out in a way that would lead to more development. The second season of Heroes was affected by the writers' strike. Story lines were dropped in the middle of development and writers were changed. It caused a lot of inconsistent plots and resolutions. It was shown in Season One that his own confidence in his abilities seemed to affect them. When he was in Vegas he seemed to lose his powers, because he had lost confidence in his ability due to the killing of Charlie the waitress and his inability to stop or change the outcome. He later seems to master or at least have control over his powers, as well as the ability to use a katana by the end of Season One.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s also shown in Season One that in the future he masters the English language and also has gone years without letting anyone know he could time-travel as well as teleport. In later seasons Hiro seems to lose his powers for reasons that aren’t always given. When thrown back in time to Japan he can’t get back to his own time. Later on he is reduced to the mental state of a child and given a brain tumor which is killing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real reason this happens is inconsistent writing. Also Hiro and Peter both had extremely strong powers. They both could have potentially solved any conflict with their powers. So the writers had to start writing weaknesses that they didn't have before. Peter was only able to keep one power at a time. Hiro's ability to use his powers become more sporadic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The canon reason as far as Season One goes is that Hiro's power is one of the greater ones and much harder to control properly. The easiest for him to do is teleport and stop time. Using time travel effectively seems to be the hardest. Future Hiro has an extensive 3-D time chart that he has used to figure out exactly how to change the future for the better. So even with mastery of his powers he is struggling to try to change time. The only way he can do it is to time stop Peter on the subway and give him a vague message &quot;Save the Cheerleader, save the world&quot;. Also it seems that the further back in time Hiro goes the longer it takes him to use his powers again, almost like they need to recharge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-08-15T13:35:12.817" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T13:35:12.817" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="706" CreationDate="2012-01-24T22:55:47.437" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A possible answer though I have nothing to back this up is that the Devil is a tempter. If it's an allegory then the people would be souls and the cafe would stand for their last chance for redemption. In order to obtain the souls the Devil would need to actually trick them into leaving after they are offered a chance to save themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An argument could also be made that taking one soul from Jesus gives him more satisfaction than taking the five souls would have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2016-08-13T11:08:45.057" LastActivityDate="2016-08-13T11:08:45.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1046" CreationDate="2012-01-24T23:08:08.990" Score="21" ViewCount="30259" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Evil Dead series of Sam Raimi movies, the two sequels are meant to be funny. But was that the &lt;em&gt;intent&lt;/em&gt; of the original movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-08T18:53:26.250" LastActivityDate="2017-10-25T23:44:27.883" Title="Was the original Evil Dead meant to be funny?" Tags="|horror|comedy|evil-dead|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1042" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-24T23:16:40.113" Score="48" ViewCount="9060" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Matrix is not a movie with an overdose of realism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But parts of it take place in the normal &quot;real&quot; world. We see Neo at work in his software company in his cubicle before the Agents come to his workplace to arrest him. Neo is a programmer in his day job. So why does his cubicle not look like a programmer's? Whatever your view of what a programmer's workplace should look like, it should not be a sterile empty cubicle with no sign of any actual activity. There is no paperwork, no notes and no signs of any sort of activity on his desk. There are no reference books, manuals (and this is set before such resources as stackoverflow went online) or any other sign of activity. Moreover, &lt;em&gt;his computer is turned off&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What explains this? Is it meant to mean something, or were the film makers just being lazy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:20:26.650" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T20:36:01.263" Title="Why does Neo's cubicle not look like the workplace of a programmer?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1042" CreationDate="2012-01-24T23:37:30.347" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just because Neo works at a software company doesn't mean his cubicle has to look like that.  Maybe he works at a software consulting firm.  He is, after all, wearing a suit.  As for the no books, maybe he learns it all at night?  He's supposed to be a programming God, remember, so the lack of books just goes along with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2015-06-18T05:33:35.593" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T05:33:35.593" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1042" CreationDate="2012-01-25T00:43:42.817" Score="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you can see on my SO profile stats, I'm not a terrible programmer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have zero dead tree books in my cubicle. They are all in electronic format for easier searching. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a related note, if you are a programmer and not familiar with O'Reilly Safari, I would strongly recommend you check it out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My &lt;strong&gt;monitor&lt;/strong&gt; (not computer) can be off for 50% of the 2-4 hours a day I spend outside meetings, since I design things and plan on paper (it isn't since I monitor SO feeds, but Matrix was before SO).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't have a single post it note - just a notebook and a Crackberry to organize. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I quit coffee long time ago, and try to keep the desk clear of old tea cups.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pizza boxen go into a data center (of the Sun kind) or garbage (of the food kind), right after pizza is shared, which isn't often. I doubt I have pizza more than 2x/month.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either I exist in the Matrix, or you're WAY overgeneralizing what a typical &lt;strike&gt;slob&lt;/strike&gt; programmer workplace looks like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T00:43:42.817" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1045" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1093" CreationDate="2012-01-25T01:39:43.860" Score="4" ViewCount="2110" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the Cartoon Network show &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_Up_(U.S._TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Level Up&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; they changed the actor playing Max Ross, the creator of the &lt;em&gt;Conqueror of All Worlds&lt;/em&gt; game. In the movie he was one guy and now for the series he is someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seemed that the network green lit the series early on because it's been getting announced ever since the movie was first aired. So why was this one actor replaced? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-01-21T18:40:32.257" LastActivityDate="2019-01-21T18:40:32.257" Title="Why was the game designer actor replaced in the show &quot;Level Up&quot;?" Tags="|casting|level-up|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1041" CreationDate="2012-01-25T01:57:05.890" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes and no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Raimi and co wanted to make a film, but felt that going for a comedy wasn't a great idea - and after doing their research at the local drive-in, knew that horror was the way to go.&#xA;They made a short horror promo, &lt;em&gt;Within the Woods&lt;/em&gt;, and the positive reaction they got from this propelled the development and shooting of &lt;em&gt;Evil Dead&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though they were going for a full-on gross out movie, Raimi's camera techniques and love of &lt;em&gt;The Stooges&lt;/em&gt; tinged the film - and created  a horror hybrid that has influenced generations of filmmakers since.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T01:57:05.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1049" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1051" CreationDate="2012-01-25T12:40:00.770" Score="26" ViewCount="5668" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120201/&quot;&gt;imdb&lt;/a&gt; Starship Troopers is an Action adventure sci-fi where &quot;Humans of a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember going to the cinema to see it and everyone laughing for the whole film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it meant to be funny or funny by accident?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:21:51.983" LastActivityDate="2021-06-03T01:08:30.247" Title="Was the original Starship Troopers meant to be funny?" Tags="|analysis|starship-troopers|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1049" CreationDate="2012-01-25T13:05:15.320" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well it has a very satirical touch, with this extremely conformist/fascist society and its stupid citizens. And it also has many trash elements. Although it's obviously a SciFi-Action movie, you cannot oversee these elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is something like a grey area between a serious movie, a satire, and a trash movie. This is IMHO typical for many of Verhoeven's movies, which often contain what I would call &quot;high-quality trash&quot; elements along with satirical elements. Think of &lt;em&gt;Total Recall&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Robocop&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Showgirls&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think it was indeed meant to be a bit funny or parodistic in the first point, even though that's not its only intention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-01-25T18:04:36.770" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T18:04:36.770" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1049" CreationDate="2012-01-25T14:27:29.367" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a bit unclear what you meant by &amp;quot;original&amp;quot; in the question - did you mean original intent behind the film? Or original as in the book that the film was &lt;strong&gt;supposedly&lt;/strong&gt; (but not actually) based on? I'll try to address both sides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The film was &lt;strong&gt;meant to be a satire of a fascist/militaristic state&lt;/strong&gt; and as any good satire was meant to be funny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The film has &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/36996/976&quot;&gt;almost nothing whatsoever to do with the original book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; except minor superficial trappings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The book was a serious work with philosophical and political ideas packaged in a form palatable to young readers (e.g. adventure SciFi). It wasn't meant to be funny, beyond minor chuckles that are typical of well-written SciFi story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Details&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Original &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Starship Troopers&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; book by R.A.Heinlein was basically a philosophical and political book told with SciFi trappings - like any good SciFi book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the ideas Heinlein presented were serious, the book was written for teenage audience, and as such was well-packaged as a military SciFi adventure, which of course implied a small amount of military-jingoistic SciFi action patina/trappings that the genre dictates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, the book presented positive views of soldiers (note the critical distinction - NOT militarism or even the military. Soldiers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most notably and relevantly, the society is depicted as fully &lt;strong&gt;democratic&lt;/strong&gt;, extremely unbiased and largely egalitarian (especially notable considering the book was written in 1959, with a non-white protagonist and female starship captains), and with &lt;strong&gt;explicit full civilian political control of the military&lt;/strong&gt;. Basically, the polar opposite of the film's militaristic pseudo-fascism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In turn, Verhoeven - who's somewhat left politically&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt; - took Heinlein's book, and basically discarded 98% of it took 2% of the latter-mentioned patina/trappings to visibly base his movie on (ironically, the original film wasn't even planned on being called &amp;quot;Starship Troopers&amp;quot; and was only renamed - and connected to the book - for marketing purposes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Verhoeven  didn't get or use any of the deep philosophical ideas in the book (or at least didn't exhibit any evidence of getting them based on either the film itself, or the interviews).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then turned that 2% into a witheringly sarcastic criticism of a strawman pseudo-fascist society of his own imagining that shared pretty much nothing except the name with the original book (for details of how the film has nothing to do with the book, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/36996/976&quot;&gt;please see this excellent SciFi.SE answer&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;strong&gt;As any good satire, it has elements meant to be funny.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what Wikipedia summary has to say about the film (although I would strongly recommend reading detailed analysis of the differences, both in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/36996/976&quot;&gt;linked SciFi.SE answer&lt;/a&gt; or in far more rigorous way, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kentaurus.com/troopers.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Christopher Weuve's excellent analysis&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name was first licensed for an &lt;strong&gt;unrelated B-movie script&lt;/strong&gt; called &lt;em&gt;Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;which was then retitled Starship Troopers to utilize the book's credibility&lt;/strong&gt;. The resulting 1997 film... had little relationship to the book beyond names and superficial plot details... Admirers of Heinlein were critical of the film, which they considered a betrayal of Heinlein's philosophy, presenting the society in which the story takes place as fascist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Christopher Weuve, an admirer of Heinlein, has said that the society depicted in the film showed only a superficial resemblance to the society that Heinlein describes in his book. Weuve summed up his critique of the film as follows. First, &amp;quot;while the Terran Federation in Starship Troopers is specifically stated to be a representative democracy, Ed Neumeier decided to make the government into a fascist state ... Second, the book was multiracial, but not so the movie: all the non-Anglo characters from the book have been replaced by characters who look like they stepped out of the Aryan edition of GQ... Third, there is real element of sadism present in the movie which simply isn't present in the book.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just for reference, most of the overtly ridiculous fascist stuff in the movie - the stupid propaganda, the kids stomping on the bugs, glamorization of war, etc... - is 100% Verhoeven's, NOT RAH's, and isn't even remotely present in the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could go into more significant detail in the answer if you add specific elements that piqued your interest as &amp;quot;too sarcastic to be in a SciFi movie&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;[1] - when I say &amp;quot;left&amp;quot;, I don't necessarily mean modern late-20th-century USA mushy and undefined left/right split, but more classical start-20th-century alignment. Moreover, Verhoeven's personal political views seem to be reasonably complicated, and don't neatly align with a typical Hollywood celebrities who are indeed 100% in line with US progressives politically.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2021-06-03T01:08:30.247" LastActivityDate="2021-06-03T01:08:30.247" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1042" CreationDate="2012-01-25T15:58:14.480" Score="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's safe to assume that Neo doesn't put too much effort into his day job, and probably does the minimum he can get away with. Notice the contrast between his cubicle and the computer desk in his apartment where he does his &quot;real&quot; work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ELzh4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Neo&amp;#39;s home desk&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/56aO9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Neo&amp;#39;s work desk&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="550" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T08:27:28.270" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T08:27:28.270" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1053" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-25T16:05:01.387" Score="25" ViewCount="3890" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Lisbeth Salander was really good at hacking computers as well as other security breaking skills, to the point where it was way too easy to do from a real life standpoint.  This isn’t the first movie that’s treated hackers this way, showing them breaking stuff too easily, or going about it in a fantastic way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do movies make hackers out to be geniuses, or show spectacular ways to hack computers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="699" OwnerDisplayName="Anonymous" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T08:56:39.823" LastActivityDate="2021-04-11T02:04:02.967" Title="Why are computer hackers shown to either be geniuses, or show them doing it in fantastic ways?" Tags="|analysis|realism|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1053" CreationDate="2012-01-25T16:15:03.977" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodHacking&quot;&gt;movies are unrealistic in these regards&lt;/a&gt;.  It's no different than the &quot;realism&quot; of zooming in on security cameras and cleaning up the images.  It's just not realistic, but it makes for good entertainment and helps with plot advancement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that said, there are plenty of people with &lt;a href=&quot;http://thetechnewsblog.com/2010/01/30/20-popular-and-easy-to-guess-passwords/&quot;&gt;easy-to-guess passwords&lt;/a&gt;.  I know plenty of otherwise intelligent people who don't bother with good passwords, don't change them frequently, etc.  Intelligence is no deterrent to bad password management, and therefore, super-villains and bad guys are just as likely to have easy-to-guess passwords.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were to try to crack into an account without brute force, I'd start with the basic easy-to-guess passwords, and count on the stupidity of the people I'm trying to hack. Or I'd resort to social engineering.  &quot;I'm from the helpdesk and I need to get rid of a virus on your PC.  Can you give me your username and password so I can log in and do it?&quot;  (You'd be surprised how many people fall for this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An easy way to induce &quot;willing suspension of disbelief&quot; for the sake of password cracking in the movies, I tend to favor the &quot;weak password&quot; scenario as it's the most realistic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="698" OwnerDisplayName="David Stratton" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T16:35:08.690" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1053" CreationDate="2012-01-25T16:54:25.200" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In almost every computer security paradigm the weakest link is the human portion.  Some security algorithms are just plain bad which helps hackers.  Social engineering and stupidity go a long way toward making hackers look really good before suspension-of-disbelief is required too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here is an interesting calculator&lt;/a&gt; that gives you a rough idea of different computing power scenarios and how long a brute-force attack would take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using a password like &quot;power&quot; you get a result of less than a millionth of a second with an array of computers designed for brute-force and a worst-case online attack time frame of less than 4 hours.  On the other hand a password like &quot;1We^gold&quot; gives a simulated attack time of 1.12 minutes with the same super-computer, but over two thousand centuries using an online dictionary based attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that to say, on one hand ANY password that doesn't lock out guesses can be brute-forced on a long enough timeline or with enough computing power.  The Hollywood question then becomes, is it easier to convince the audience that the password was weak or that the hacker has access to a super-computing array?  The second option would be nice for a change, but usually the issue is either just ignored or explained by the target's weakness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="704" OwnerDisplayName="Steve the Maker" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:15:30.980" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:15:30.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1032" CreationDate="2012-01-25T18:36:58.030" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was it Flowers in the Attic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093036/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093036/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They were locked in the attic together, so it doesn't sound exactly like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="690" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T18:36:58.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1053" CreationDate="2012-01-25T19:15:09.260" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question raises a lot of Network Security arguments, but i'll try to explain you the essential starting from the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) All hacking movies and books are very unrealistic so a hacker &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stereotype&lt;/a&gt; is someone who usually does everything someone asks, even breaking NSA (Nations Security Agency) systems, that is quite impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) There are a lot of ways to hack someone's computer, not just guessing the password (if there's a password based authentication protocol) by using brute-force attacks (that take very much if the passwords are long and pretty random) or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_%28security%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;social engineering&lt;/a&gt;. There are a lot of other possible attacks if there's a weak protocol:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Passive attacks&lt;/strong&gt; where the hacker can just listen the communication channel when&#xA;somebody logs in and if the password is transmitted in clear (no&#xA;cryptography) then everything's done: no brute force.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Active attacks&lt;/strong&gt; where the hacker just need to change some transmitted bits or to interact with the victim without knowing anything to have the credentials/keys/passwords/passphrase.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, the movie hacker is a &lt;strong&gt;stereotype&lt;/strong&gt; that's able to do EVERYTHING, even that in real life is not so easy, sometimes not possible at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:14:41.050" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:14:41.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="750" CreationDate="2012-01-25T19:38:38.013" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;I haven't seen the movie. I read the story. So I'm not sure of any differences there may be but here is my answer to your question.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few reasons I can come up with, which I feel is appropriate when trying to think like a double agent. Nan was also a communist which is important to note. There is a chance that if she got back to England she could have blown Mundt's cover to some other communists. Another thing is that she is not a spy therefore Mundt might have thought that she needed to be eliminated as she was not controlled by Circus (England). Loose ends need to be taken care of and Nan was a loose end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now he could have killed her in jail or arranged for her to be executed, but there is a chance this would be discovered and his cover may be blown. It might imply to his superiors that he had killed her because he is a double agent and she could have always talked before she was killed. She didn't know everything at the time but he probably didn't want to chance her saying something that might cast suspicion on him. Plus by ensuring she was killed at the border he got to personally make sure that she was killed and the only one she could have talked to was Leamas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now there is a reason to send her in a car with Leamas as well. Leamas would be distrustful of Mundt's directions for escape so having Nan with him both insures that Leamas would believe the directions and have a reason to follow them. Further Leamas may be telling Nan everything that happened before they reach the border because he doesn't trust Mundt and thinks that he will be shot at the border which might also be why he goes first. Of course being a good spy he would not explain or even allude any of this to Nan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the last reason as to why risk letting them both escape is probably the trickiest. By letting them escape it further could implicate Fiedler by showing that Leamas had an escape planned for him and one other if things went bad. By being the first one there and shooting one of the escapees Mundt would show that he was onto Fiedler's scheme and it would only look good for Mundt that he was able to stop even one of the escapees. He may even have manufactured evidence of Nan being a spy (probably provided by Smiley or the Circus) just in case if someone does question why Mundt was there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know there is no explanation given by the author as to why he wrote it this way. But if you follow the thinking patterns of the characters I believe this explanation makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-08-15T13:33:04.693" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T13:33:04.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1053" CreationDate="2012-01-25T20:55:16.473" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, about cracking, some notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is illegal in USA, so most are rogue or simply are not working in a different thing. The exceptions are government agents.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In some movies, it show that the FBI and CIA has a team of expert in cracking. Of course it is stupid, first the FBI and CIA agent earn a average salary while a computer expert can earn the double with less than the effort. Second, it is not easy to work for the FBI and CIA, exist several requirements and every agent in controlled and audited regularly, so i don't think that nobody would want to work in the CIA instead of a big corporation.  And finally, most of the work is outsourced...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Since 2. some programs and services features a backdoor. In fact, most services are required to have a backdoor in case of an investigation. So it makes easiest to crack into some system.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Exist systems with vulnerabilities that everybody (that know about it) can exploit. For example, it is pretty easy to hack into a Windows system (with physical access) using some hacking program (such CIA COMMANDER &amp;lt;-- lol ).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Also, is the fact that most people uses the same password more of one time. So it is possible to collect the password from one site (for example a site of warez) and use the same password for break the email account.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="693" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T20:55:16.473" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1053" CreationDate="2012-01-25T21:38:00.003" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty much all the hacking techniques in the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo are real and used regularly by not only the bad guys, but also law enforcement, penetration testing teams, and security auditors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, Hollywood dramatises them, but in this case, not by much. I have managed teams of individuals who can do the things shown in this film, and in my dim and distant past, I did some of them myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://security.stackexchange.com/q/6095/485&quot;&gt;this question on Password Strength&lt;/a&gt; for some useful information on password strength, and why humans are so bad at making strong ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding video feeds from CCTV cameras, there are now a few companies with systems that pull information from multiple frames to interpolate/extrapolate high quality stills. But no, you can't turn the view round to face the opposite direction the camera was facing (Enemy of the State). And you can't zoom in and pan indefinitely (Blade Runner)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A really good example of real techniques used today by attack groups is given by the Mr Robot series. If we exclude the psychotic/hallucinogenic plot themes, all the hacking, intrusion and exploitation carried out by the hackers are real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="697" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-17T13:14:47.537" LastActivityDate="2016-09-29T19:10:39.697" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1053" CreationDate="2012-01-25T23:29:51.467" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because, it is boring to show hackers as engineers. They didn't show Zuckerberg as a person that like build things - same logic here. I would consider her as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script_kiddie&quot;&gt;Script kiddie&lt;/a&gt;, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="701" LastActivityDate="2012-01-25T23:29:51.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1062" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-25T23:35:49.730" Score="8" ViewCount="727" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prompted by this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/1053/why-are-computer-hackers-shown-to-either-be-geniuses-or-show-them-doing-it-in-f&quot;&gt;Why are computer hackers shown to either be geniuses, or show them doing it in fantastic ways?&lt;/a&gt; I trawled my brain to find any examples I could remember of anything resembling &lt;em&gt;realistic&lt;/em&gt; hacking or cracking in a movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I struggled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I remembered some scenes from the entertaining &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sneakers&lt;/a&gt; where things didn't seem like magic and looked like they took some effort. Ironically, given the question, the password cracking was necessary &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;to access a new technology that &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; enable easy cracking of passwords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It's an old movie but I didn't want to spoil a key plot development.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is this: were the techniques deployed in Sneakers realistic? And, for completeness, what were they? (I haven's seen it for a while)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T17:24:37.973" Title="Are the password cracking methods used in the film remotely realistic?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sneakers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1063" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1088" CreationDate="2012-01-26T00:28:43.390" Score="24" ViewCount="4167" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the things that &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt; was famous for was &quot;bullet time&quot; cinematography.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm fairly sure that, while it was the first one to use the technique extensively and become famous for it, it wasn't the first to pioneer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, which mass-released movie &lt;strong&gt;did&lt;/strong&gt; pioneer it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Must have had wide theatrical release - say, played in &gt;500 movie theaters in USA or another country for longer than 1 week. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are official movie world definitions of mass release, I'm willing to use that one - I just made one up for lack of anything better.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Must be a live-action (not animated) movie.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't have to be an American movie&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Strongly prefer if there's some &quot;professional&quot; source that acknowledges that the technique used in the movie is indeed the same as Matrix's &quot;bullet time&quot; (e.g. a professional publication, or at least a well regarded specialist blog)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T09:19:22.940" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T09:19:22.940" Title="What was the earliest mass-release movie that used Matrix-like &quot;bullet time&quot;?" Tags="|film-techniques|first-appearance|cinematography|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1064" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1065" CreationDate="2012-01-26T00:47:14.923" Score="12" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's well known that many Western moviemakers respect and love foreign moviemakers and liberally borrow/steal/copy/homage ideas and scenes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything from Tarantino and Wuxia movies, to Lucas and Kurosawa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I couldn't find any instance of a Russian or Soviet moviemaker that was notably borrowed from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A single notable example is enough for a yes answer, but for a no answer I'll need a link to a good research publication analyzing the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="390" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-08T08:40:10.100" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T08:40:10.100" Title="Were there any Russian or Soviet moviemakers who were widely imitated by Western ones?" Tags="|reference|remake|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1064" CreationDate="2012-01-26T00:48:55.807" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example&lt;/strong&gt;: The &quot;Odessa Steps sequence&quot; in &lt;em&gt;Battleship Potemkin&lt;/em&gt; by Eisenstein.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battleship_Potemkin#The_Odessa_Steps_sequence&quot;&gt;Wikipedia entry&lt;/a&gt; lists MANY movies that borrowed, in my opinion the most famous was &quot;&lt;em&gt;The Untouchables&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The scene is perhaps the best example of Eisenstein's theory on montage, and many films pay homage to the scene, including Terry Gilliam's &lt;em&gt;Brazil&lt;/em&gt;, Francis Ford Coppola's &lt;em&gt;The Godfather&lt;/em&gt;, Brian De Palma's &lt;em&gt;The Untouchables&lt;/em&gt;, Tibor Takacs' &lt;em&gt;Deathline&lt;/em&gt;, Laurel and Hardy's &lt;em&gt;The Music Box&lt;/em&gt;, George Lucas's &lt;em&gt;Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems &lt;strong&gt;notable&lt;/strong&gt; enough :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T00:48:55.807" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1066" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1068" CreationDate="2012-01-26T00:55:28.870" Score="21" ViewCount="3993" Body="&lt;p&gt;While answering &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/1065/1887&quot;&gt;a previous question&lt;/a&gt;, I noticed that &quot;&lt;em&gt;The Godfather&lt;/em&gt;&quot; was listed as an example of a movie that paid homage to Eisenstein's &quot;Odessa Steps Sequence&quot; from &quot;&lt;em&gt;Battleship Potemkin&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battleship_Potemkin#The_Odessa_Steps_sequence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't seem to recall anything like that in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What exactly was that homage?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T14:46:49.797" Title="What exactly was the homage to Eisenstein in &quot;The Godfather&quot;?" Tags="|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1067" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1069" CreationDate="2012-01-26T01:14:41.383" Score="20" ViewCount="1733" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is obviously inspired by Sasha Grey's &lt;a href=&quot;http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/10/16/steven-soderbergh-looks-to-porn-star-sasha-grey-for-the-girlfriend-experience/&quot;&gt;entrance&lt;/a&gt; into mainstream moviemaking in Soderbergh's &quot;The Girlfriend Experience&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was there a Adult actor or actress who made such a move successfully?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, &lt;strong&gt;who was the first known one?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reject (probably numerous) unsuccesful attempts, I'm ONLY looking for the actor/actress that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Were legitimate full time Adult ones, meaning roles in at least 2-3 movies that would reasonably be classified as Adult Movies, ideally from known studio.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After that, for a period of at least 5 years, derived their main income from mainstream movies (or TV or live theater), appearing in at least 3-5 ones.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have not had any acting roles in Adult Movies after that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid offending people, please refrain from linking to adult-themed sites in your answers - most actors are listed on either IMDB or Wiki, I would hope; or from listing - never mind including pictures from adult movies they were in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T09:26:36.973" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T09:26:36.973" Title="Who was the first actor/actress who made the move from Adult to Non-Adult movies full time?" Tags="|acting-career|adult-movies|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1066" CreationDate="2012-01-26T01:33:41.323" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH1tO2D3LCI&quot;&gt;The Odessa Steps and Its Descendants&lt;/a&gt; on YouTube: &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The relevant scene shows part of the assassination of the heads of the five families, which occurs in the movie near the very end while Michael is at the baptism ceremony.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Two relevant images are the steps themselves as a location for death, and the close-up of a ravaged eye (&lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; a pair of shattered eyeglasses).&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;In the Godfather, the cop on the steps kills family head by shooting him in the back; a second shoots Moe Green in the eye, through his eyeglasses while he is getting a massage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-02-02T14:50:32.477" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T14:50:32.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1067" CreationDate="2012-01-26T02:35:01.520" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;My clear choice for winner here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000183/&quot;&gt;IMDB: Traci Lords&lt;/a&gt;, who resents her &quot;ex-adult star&quot; title.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;If she's not the first to leave the industry, she's clearly the most famous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-02-02T14:57:19.643" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T14:57:19.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1070" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1071" CreationDate="2012-01-26T02:56:46.913" Score="12" ViewCount="2232" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for the title of this movie I watched years ago set in modern times where the hero comes across this society of monsters (mutated people with strange powers) living underground in secret. If i remember correctly the entrance to their place was in a cemetery, possibly in a tomb. In any case the hero finds out he is really of of them and ends up helping them fights off humans come to kill them. In fact at some point I think a little girl was abducted and taken to the local police station where the hero had to rescue her before something happened (she was going to change shape/die/something). I think she was named Babette.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an 80s or 90s movie. I also have this impression it was also a book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone have any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="702" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T19:33:39.297" Title="What is the name of this movie about a secret group of freaks/monsters" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:34:26.453" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1070" CreationDate="2012-01-26T03:17:13.087" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are thinking of Clive Barker's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100260/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nightbreed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was his follow-up directorial effort after &lt;em&gt;Hellraiser&lt;/em&gt;, and is also based on his own written work. He had hoped at the time that this would be the first in a trilogy of films, but the luke-warm reception killed that idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9M9nd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T03:17:13.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="839" CreationDate="2012-01-26T06:34:44.063" Score="21" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible,&#xA;  whatever remains, however improbable, must be the solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Said by Spock in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , written among others by no other than Nicholas Meyer, who wrote &lt;code&gt;The Seven Per-Cent Solution&lt;/code&gt;, which is regarded by many to be the best Sherlock Holmes novel not written by Doyle himself.  So it is a clever nod to the popular culture by the contemporary TV show, which becomes a mindbinding Mobius strip, when you realize that the Spock character himself is in part based on original Sherlock Holmes, in a way House is: logical to a fault and incapable of experiencing basic human emotions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="703" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-06-01T23:40:09.780" LastActivityDate="2014-06-01T23:40:09.780" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1053" CreationDate="2012-01-26T08:04:00.903" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The don't always, What about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109444/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Clear and Present Danger&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;In the movie, CIA computer whiz Petey (Greg Germann) cracks the password of the boat victim by manually guessing combinations of birthday numbers of the victim's family. &quot; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109444/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He later says something about having to write a program to crack a different account of someone with a better/higher CIA account (Ritter's I think)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:14:19.640" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:14:19.640" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1053" CreationDate="2012-01-26T09:11:21.013" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My answer has to do with the personality of most people who take up such skills. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Introverts&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Introverts, tend to score higher on IQ test, because their personality is a better fit for thinking and abstract problems. They actually enjoy these types of activities. It makes them feel good. It motivates them. She seams to be a classic introvert type personality, as do most hacker characters in movies. Speaking for my self, I know that I can spend 20 hours a day learning about how different things work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as how easy it is to hack stuff, well it depends on how well you have prepared/practiced. What you see in the movie is a person, you don't see the 3 years she might have spent writing programs, building networks and testing her skills. It seams to me like she was not really working before the movie and did what ever she liked. She might have 10 years experience in cracking systems. She might not be actually cracking the system in the movie mearly gaining access through a back door she spent 6 months putting in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to understand how easy it can be to gain access, their are software tools that you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasploit_Project&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;download for free right now&lt;/a&gt;. That have sets of attacks pre-loaded to crack certain types of software. Even a moderately knowledgeable person would be able to figure out how to use this software. A highly motivated person could do quite a lot with it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The weakness in most security systems is the people who use them. If you know them well enough it is quite easy to gain access. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="705" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:17:41.053" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:17:41.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1075" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1077" CreationDate="2012-01-26T10:18:01.260" Score="4" ViewCount="744" Body="&lt;p&gt;Detective Robert Goren of Law and Order: Criminal Intent is often compared to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Law_%26_Order%3a_Criminal_Intent_characters#Robert_Goren&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes&lt;/a&gt; and draws on experience in the US Army as a criminal investigator.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He knows facts from a &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; variety of subjects, and he cites them readily during cases.  Where is he purported to have learned all of this information?  He's obviously well read, but is there any evidence that he has formal training in any of these areas (like physics or literature -- we know that he does have some knowledge of psychology/psychiatry from his mother's treatment for schizophrenia)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="34317" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2019-08-20T15:14:10.020" LastActivityDate="2019-08-20T15:14:10.020" Title="From where does Detective Bobby Goren draw his wealth of knowledge?" Tags="|character|law-and-order-criminal-intent|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1067" CreationDate="2012-01-26T11:00:00.677" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This probably shouldn't count because it doesn't meet your first criterion, but I think it is notable. Sylvester Stallone's first film was a (soft-core) adult film called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065904/&quot;&gt;The Party at Kitty and Stud's (1970)&lt;/a&gt; (a.k.a. Italian Stallion). He only did it because he was very desperate for money so I wouldn't call him an adult actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-01-26T21:32:40.303" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T21:32:40.303" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1075" CreationDate="2012-01-26T12:37:11.923" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Besides just being a well read guy, his former mentor Declan Gage (who is involved in at least two episodes, one being the great finale of the 7th season) is a profiling expert (if not pioneer), which explains his excellent knowledge in profiling and psychology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that I don't think he has been anything else than an investigator, or at least I cannot remember it to be stated in the show at any point. But he sure was in college.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you have to keep in mind in addition to that, though, is that police work is his &lt;em&gt;life&lt;/em&gt;. It is clear that his job as a detective is everything for him and even more so that he &lt;em&gt;doesn't actually function&lt;/em&gt; without it and he fails at building any kind of personal life (in fact the most romantic and intimate relationship he has, for an interesting definition of &quot;romantic&quot;, is with his &quot;white whale&quot; Nicole Wallace and is inherently job-related).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he doesn't actually have many &lt;em&gt;distractions&lt;/em&gt; in his private life (though, he earlier had his brother and mother occupying him to some degree). It would be wrong to classify him as having Asperger's or any similar characterization, he very well &lt;em&gt;knows&lt;/em&gt; how interpersonal relationships work, but he definitely is a lone wolf, primarily &lt;em&gt;due to&lt;/em&gt; and in turn &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; his job as a detective. And while you don't necessarily need too much knowledge in physics or literature for that, there's not too much else occupying his time either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-05-13T13:38:13.323" LastActivityDate="2018-05-13T13:38:13.323" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1032" CreationDate="2012-01-26T12:44:18.277" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Might be a reach, but is it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221218/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Glass House&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has a brother and sister that are put under guardianship when their parents are murdered.  Eventually they try to escape the guardians.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50" LastEditorUserId="50" LastEditDate="2012-01-29T18:08:30.257" LastActivityDate="2012-01-29T18:08:30.257" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1062" CreationDate="2012-01-26T15:54:39.667" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love the movie Sneakers, and although I haven't seen it in a long time, I still remember the movie quite well (I espeically like Ben Kingsley shouting &quot;MARTYYYYYY!&quot; lol)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whistler used his hearing to be able to distinguish different tones. This is actually based on some reality, as there was a story of hackers who managed to make free phone calls by getting the switchboard to think it was receiving a signal from the parent company - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_spectator/2011/10/the_article_that_inspired_steve_jobs_secrets_of_the_little_blue_.single.html&quot;&gt;here's the article I read recently&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mother was the electronics guy, essentially the other half of a person if you need to hack into the phone system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Carl and Crease didn't look like they did much, other than helping with strategy and breaking into places&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As far as the black box, in theory it could be possible to make such a device, though I imagine that if such a device DID exist, we wouldn't know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, they did &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%282006_season%29#Episode_59_.E2.80.93_.22Crimes_and_Myth-Demeanors_2.22&quot;&gt;an episode of Mythbusters&lt;/a&gt; where they tested some of the ways they could get around some of the devices in Cosmo's office. Sad to say, those ways were shown to be busted, I.E. they only worked in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2012-01-26T15:54:39.667" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="402" CreationDate="2012-01-27T00:36:05.700" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always took this to be literal.  Kind of like &lt;em&gt;The Three Stooges meet Hercules&lt;/em&gt;, where he was chained to the galley and built up his muscles. Although in this case it was much more realistic as the made him switch sides so as to develop on both sides of his body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conan may have pushed the wheel the other way, although they didn't show that in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian_%281982_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Conan is chained to a large mill, the Wheel of Pain. Years of pushing&#xA;  the huge grindstone build up his muscles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="622" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-06T12:36:39.580" LastActivityDate="2013-09-06T12:36:39.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1082" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1085" CreationDate="2012-01-27T00:57:53.850" Score="9" ViewCount="2333" Body="&lt;p&gt;Peter Greenaway's art house epic &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097108/&quot;&gt;The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was adored by many critics but never got a wide audience. The movie is set in various rooms of a restaurant frequented by a crime lord and his philandering wife. The different areas of the set have different colour schemes (and, though I know many people who have seen the movie without noticing this, the actors' clothing also changes colour as they move from area to area).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The colours are clearly intended to be very significant. What do they signify?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T02:42:11.347" Title="What do the colours in the different areas in The Cook, The Thief, His Wife &amp; Her Lover signify?" Tags="|analysis|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1082" CreationDate="2012-01-27T02:42:11.347" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Greenaway’s film does indeed have a stunning color palette, and this is my personal interpretation of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure there are more in-depth essays written on the subject, but as a starting point I would highlight Greenaway’s respect for, and interpretation of, European Art and his desire to make this film  a living canvas. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I recall correctly, the film starts with a scene of obscene violence against a naked victim and is swathed in blue hues. Blue is normally associated with calm or rebirth, but in this instance it is in direct opposition to the act being perpetrated. The kitchen scenes are bathed in green light, and this reflects the serenity of the environment – possibly the only stable area in the whole establishment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the red hues of the restaurant are meant to reflect the abject nature of the scenes, and is closely associated with passion, death and violence – the themes of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the clothes changing, you are spot on – but note that the Lover’s brown clothing doesn’t change according to the environments – he is bookish and dull and his clothing reflects this – he is unchanging (until the end of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, this may be a simplistic take on what is a complex film, but I hope it is a good foundation for further answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T02:42:11.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1086" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1095" CreationDate="2012-01-27T05:01:39.773" Score="10" ViewCount="900" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a show that was on during the early years of Nickelodeon. It was live action and as far as I can remember it had &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt; Jonathan Harris (Old English-like actor) playing a frail wizard. There were some gifted children that would leap from adventure to adventure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show had a sort of Doctor Who for kids feeling. I only caught the show in spots but remember being very addicted to it. I also remember it changing about halfway thru into a what felt like a different but related show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only have some vague memories beyond this that really haven't helped on Google like mazes and giant rocks. Looking up Harris on IMDB I can not find anything that resembles this and thus believe I may be wrong on the actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I loved this show as a kid and am more than certain that I will never track it down but any more information on it would be greatly appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-01T08:10:18.400" LastActivityDate="2013-12-01T08:10:18.400" Title="Nickelodeon show with a wizard and gifted children leaping from adventure to adventure" Tags="|science-fiction|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:51:27.070" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1086" CreationDate="2012-01-27T07:47:52.233" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds like you're referring to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Eye_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;The Third Eye&lt;/a&gt;.  This was a sci-fi series that aired in the very early days of Nickelodeon. (I remember watching it as a child myself).  It was quite unlike all of the other Nickelodeon programming, and is the only series that I can recall from that Network that fits your description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also remember seeing Dr. Who later on and being reminded of The Third Eye.&#xA;Also see &lt;a href=&quot;http://johnnorrisbrown.com/classic-nick/thirdeye/index.htm&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="698" LastEditorUserId="698" LastEditDate="2012-01-27T13:42:46.347" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T13:42:46.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1063" CreationDate="2012-01-27T12:52:48.637" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you define bullet time as slow motion bullet dodging, or the spinny effect from multiple cameras in an arc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a slow motion scene in the first &lt;em&gt;Blade&lt;/em&gt; film where you can see the bullets moving through the air, giving the target enough time to reacting and move out of way. &lt;em&gt;Blade&lt;/em&gt; came out in 1998, a year before &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's in the scene in Chinatown where Deacon Frost has captured a little girl, at around 2m45 in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RppfiZ50jQ&amp;amp;t=2m45s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt; clip (sorry it's in 4:3 squashovision).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The slow-spinny effect can be found in &lt;em&gt;Lost in Space&lt;/em&gt; (also 1998) when they go into hyperdrive (around 1m20s in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9-CTryNALU&amp;amp;t=1m20s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;clip&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not a movie, but a similar spinny effect to &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt;'s bullet time can be seen in Michel Gondry's music video for The Rolling Stones' &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SrN8OubuHo&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Like a Rolling Stone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also of note (but not a mass-movie), &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pauldebevec.com/Campanile/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Campanile Movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;a short film directed by Paul Debevec made in the spring of 1997 that used image-based modeling and rendering techniques from his Ph.D. thesis to create photorealistic virtual cinematography of the UC Berkeley campus.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;When I saw Debevec's movie, I knew that was the path.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-- Visual Effects Supervisor John Gaeta, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/matrix2_pr.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;WIRED 11.05&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Campanile project Master's student George Borshukov was hired by Manex Entertainment where he and his colleagues applied the Campanile Movie's virtual cinematography techniques to create some of the most memorable shots in the 1999 movie The Matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The linked &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/matrix2_pr.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wired&lt;/a&gt; article about &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt; refers to both of these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fast-forward to the early 1990s, when another Frenchman, Arnauld Lamorlette, the R&amp;amp;D director for design firm BUF Compagnie, faced a problem similar to Laussedat's. Industrial clients examining buildings for structural flaws needed to see Paris from above. Parisian airspace, however, is tightly controlled; nonmilitary aircraft may fly over the city only on Bastille Day. Lamorlette found that by morphing between two photographs, he could generate a 3-D model: digital photogrammetry. BUF employed the technique to help director Michel Gondry create a music video for the Rolling Stones. Its radical camera moves - zipping through a room full of partygoers frozen in midmotion - caused a sensation in Europe. (BUF also used this method to make a Gap ad called &amp;quot;Khakis Swing&amp;quot; that was most Americans' first glimpse of the effect.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gaeta and Kim Libreri pumped up this technique for &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt;: By triggering a circular array of 122 still cameras in sequence, they were able to simulate the action of a variable-speed movie camera that tracked completely around its subject. Because the cameras located on one side of the array were visible to those on the other side, however, they also needed a way to computer-generate photo-realistic sets so they could paint the cameras out of the frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gaeta found the answer in 1997, at the annual visual effects convention Siggraph, where he saw a short film by Paul Debevec, George Borshukov, and Yizhou Yu called &lt;em&gt;The Campanile Movie&lt;/em&gt;. The film - a flyover of the UC Berkeley campus - was generated entirely from still photographs. Like the 19th-century cartographers, Debevec and his team derived the precise shapes and contours of the landscape by triangulating the visual information in still photographs. Then they generated 3-D models based on this geometry, but instead of applying computer-generated textures to the models, they wrapped them with photographs of the buildings themselves. The trick worked spectacularly well. Instead of resembling something out of &lt;em&gt;Toy Story&lt;/em&gt;, the buildings and the surrounding hills in &lt;em&gt;The Campanile Movie&lt;/em&gt; looked absolutely real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here's the 1998 Gap &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzFkZb4OlDM&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Khaki Swing&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; advert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T12:52:48.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1089" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-01-27T14:53:40.733" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movies and tv-shows from Germany&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-01-27T14:53:40.733" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T14:53:40.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1090" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-01-27T14:53:40.733" Score="0" Body="Movies and tv-shows from Germany" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-01-27T14:53:40.733" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T14:53:40.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="946" CreationDate="2012-01-27T18:40:16.617" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would offer this: What nationality were cops portrayed as back then? The answer: IRISH. I would bet that both the cop and all the other &quot;mouths talking&quot; had accents, thus amplifying George's own predicament.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="718" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-01-27T19:10:02.993" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T19:10:02.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1045" CreationDate="2012-01-27T22:50:56.460" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eric Andre (who played Max in the movie) is a series regular on the upcoming show Don't Trust The B***h in Apartment 23. Sometimes when a TV movie is shot ahead of a series, actors only sign contracts for the one appearance. In the interim they'll get other jobs (which probably pay far better) that have contracts that are more strict and don't allow for the time to work on more than one series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also has his own Adult Swim show coming out this summer, so he's pretty busy. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="720" LastActivityDate="2012-01-27T22:50:56.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1032" CreationDate="2012-01-28T09:03:04.457" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097419/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;George's Island&lt;/a&gt;. This is a tale about two children who are put in a foster home, and then on Halloween they breakout and are rescued by their eccentric grandfather.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-02-03T14:50:31.293" LastActivityDate="2018-02-03T14:50:31.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1086" CreationDate="2012-01-28T12:33:23.593" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems the specific answer was a show called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Labyrinth_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;Into the Labyrinth&lt;/a&gt;&quot; which was a component of the aforementioned &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Eye_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;The Third Eye&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. Nickelodeon purchased a series of British Science Fiction and rolled it all together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Into the Labyrinth&quot; starred actor &quot;Ron Moody&quot; (which would explain my mistake and why I couldn't locate information on IMDB.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcwLnIf4JO8&quot;&gt;An excerpt&lt;/a&gt; (and it seems many of the episodes) can be found on YouTube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastActivityDate="2012-01-28T12:33:23.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1032" CreationDate="2012-01-28T13:52:02.870" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to say &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105121/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The People Under the Stairs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, but I'm sure you would have mentioned ghoulish kids and a shotgun wielding fetishist. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-01-28T13:52:02.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1097" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1098" CreationDate="2012-01-28T17:57:39.927" Score="7" ViewCount="869" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't seem to remmember or find the name of the movie or the company that was in the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie was about a mobile game developer (developing on old Nokia phones) company that was based in Sweden (I believe). It was in the time before the dotcom bubble. I believe the companies name started with &quot;a&quot;, but I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a documentary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="721" LastEditorUserId="386" LastEditDate="2012-01-28T20:56:29.573" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T09:37:34.367" Title="Movie about a startup during the dotcom" Tags="|identify-this-movie|documentary|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:34:29.583" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1097" CreationDate="2012-01-28T19:07:21.430" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMDB has this one, which I have not seen, but sounds very close: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Riot On!&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the synopsis straight from IMDB:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sex, lies and mobile games&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The year is 2000 and investors are going crazy about a new mobile phone company called Riot Entertainment. Many high profile companies, like Nokia, invest millions on this unknown firm. Two years later, when all the money has been spent and the company is bankrupt, the fun is over. What happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T09:35:28.457" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T09:35:28.457" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2012-01-28T21:40:46.490" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film, Rosemary is sent a book by Hutch called &lt;em&gt;All of Them Witches&lt;/em&gt; where she discovers the identity if her neighbours. One part of the book is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmsite.org/rosem3.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;underlined&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In their rituals, they often use&#xA;  the fungus called Devil's&#xA;  Pepper. This is a spongy&#xA;  matter derived from swampy&#xA;  regions having a strong&#xA;  pungent odor. Devil's Pepper is considered to have special&#xA;  powers. It has been used in&#xA;  rituals and worn on charms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And later, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The talkative office receptionist&#xA;  (Marilyn Harvey) off-handedly&#xA;  mentions that Dr. Sapirstein also&#xA;  wears a smelly tannis-root cologne -&#xA;  marking him as a member of the&#xA;  witch's coven: &quot;He has the same smell once in&#xA;  a while, whatever it is, and&#xA;  when he does, oh boy.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: Filmsite&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T15:33:32.340" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T15:33:32.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="960" CreationDate="2012-01-29T19:05:36.087" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK - just wanted to be brief with previous reply. I've re-posted my forum post here with a few mods to fix one error and supply context that was missing without prior threads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Analysis of Justine's story&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Synopsis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a bride and groom at their wedding reception in an exquisite setting. A pressured and confused bride makes what appears to be a devastatingly bad decision. Finally the dissolution of the marriage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this story sound familiar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some hints:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what literature do we find chapters bearing single word titles (many of those being first names)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In what literature do we have a story that describes the beginning of the world but (arguably) not its end?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer: I am suggesting that LVT has patterned Melancholia after Judea-Christian scripture (e.g. The Bible).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional themes to support this analysis (character/name analysis):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Justine is from the Latin just or fair. As pointed out in analysis found elsewhere (and even Lars himself may have suggested this), her name is possibly a reference to Novel of same name by Marquis de Sade in which Justine is struck down by a bolt from God. Recall the scenes with lightening emanating from Justine's fingers. While he may have taken her name from this character and found inspiration there, I do think that Justine is also patterned after Eve from Genesis. Her clairvoyance - she describes to Claire as always knowing things - possibly a reference to her having eaten from the Tree of Knowledge leading to banishment from Eden. Her confusion during the reception - repeatedly seeking guidance from Mom &amp;amp; Dad. Her apparent estrangement with her husband (how would it be to one day wake up and realize - you've been created to be someone's bride?) I think as the mother of mankind, she may also be seen here to be representative of mankind, and of course she also represents the planet Melancholia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Michael (Justine's husband) is a name that comes from the Hebrew meaning &quot;who is like God&quot;. I believe Michael is patterned after Adam from Genesis. The obvious symbolism supporting this is the photo of the Apple orchard he gives to Justine at the reception which, of course is not well received. Also, he's portrayed as a simple man.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gaby (Justine &amp;amp; Claire's mother) is the Archangel (Gabriel) or God's messenger or possibly God herself (as depicted in feminine). Her demeanor and dialog could come right from Old Testament fire and brimstone - &quot;enjoy it while it lasts&quot; and telling Justine when her counsel is sought to grow up and that she should be afraid. Also her shirt shows a spiral with an arrow pointing inward - not sure if there is a traditional meaning to this symbol but it could be describing the path of planet Melancholia on its approach to earth. Realistically, this path is the only way that a planet could remain hidden, as described, behind the sun; if it were synchronized on an orbital plane with and 180 degrees opposite that of earth and spiraling towards us. There is also a shot of Gaby the morning after the reception basking in the morning light and posing prayer-like. Oh yeah, and her husband - brace yourselves …&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dexter (Justine &amp;amp; Claire's father) from the Latin meaning on the right side - yup, Jesus Christ. Not a very flattering portrayal. As people have pointed out - Lars does enjoy poking sticks now and then. Other than the name and relationship to Gaby, we have the two Betty's. It's my understanding that Lars converted to Catholicism for a time as an adult. Here's a question for you all: for people who are not raised Christian, what would you say are the biggest obstacles to their acceptance of the religion? In other words, if you had to make a list of the things Christians accept on faith, what two would be at the top of the list? Mine would be resurrection and virgin birth - Betty 1 and Betty 2? The scene with Little Father where Dexter removes the spoons may be a reference to miracles. All the guests see the deception but Little Father continues to serve obediently without questioning …&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Little Father of course there's the name, and the two key scenes - as mentioned the spoons and then later when he returns Gaby's belongings to the estate after John tosses them out the door. I believe Little Father is a composite meant to represent those of faith …&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;John (Claire's husband), John is among most common names given in anglo countries. John is introduced to us as the smart one. He confidently identifies Melancholia to Justine as (I think it was) Antares. Point is, he was wrong. He again points out to Justine that the golf course has 18 holes and we later see a 19th green - wrong again! He also asserts that Melancholia will just fly right by - three strikes and you're out! John is another composite - possibly representing modern man who has replaced belief in God with science. The dialog of John is telling and this character is (IMO) some of Lars' best work here. John repeatedly uses the term &quot;unbelievable&quot; when referring to Gaby. He also tries to eject Gaby from the proceedings as he's apparently attempted to do on other occasions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jack from the Hebrew equivalent Yaakov meaning he who supplants. Money, Money, Money. Bad, bad, fellow. You can guess his role.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tim, didn't feel the need to research name - hired by bad man (Jack) to shadow Justine, told that he must be there for the &quot;birth&quot; of the tag line. Adulterer with Justine but, apparently does not get what he was hired to do. Kinda like the serpent?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Claire the nickname for her used by Justine was Clay. This is in-line with the notion that her character represents Earth. Her role is also one of mother and caretaker to Justine (Mother Earth).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leo (Acronym for Low Earth Orbit) - the moon. Claire's son. An only son.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Abraham (stallion), beast of nobility, of same name as Abraham from Genesis. God makes covenant to give Abraham land. Why does Abraham refuse to cross bridge or leave estate when freed by Claire (see below)?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Estate grounds - possibly Eden - probably symbolic of holy land. Bridge represents passage from Eden into man's world (Sodom and Gomorrah?) Explains Abraham's behavior. Additional scenes to support Holy Land theory - quick scene during prologue showing burning bush on estate grounds; the scene with limousine may be a reference to Matthew 7:14 which translates to roughly &quot;&lt;em&gt;but the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Golf course - probably some of the most beautiful places on earth that are the work of man are found on golf courses. Possibly meant to represent man's failed attempt at attaining perfection (19th green). Justine is seen urinating on golf course and later commits adultery with Tim in of all places a sand hazard - possibly an injection of humor from LVT?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're interested in an interpretation of Claire's story that follows from his, I'll add more later if asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I forgot to address your question about the golf cart dying before the bridge. This is likely symbolic of the impotence of science/technology to save Claire &amp;amp; Leo (who are Earth and Moon personified) from their fated encounter with Melancholia. In the end scene, we have only the 3 celestial actors (Earth, Moon, &amp;amp; Melancholia = Claire, Leo, Justine) to play out the final drama echoing Genesis 1:1 &quot;&lt;em&gt;In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="731" LastEditorUserId="731" LastEditDate="2012-01-30T00:34:57.857" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T00:34:57.857" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1107" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-29T23:38:06.220" Score="9" ViewCount="1241" Body="&lt;p&gt;The British horror/thriller/mystery/I-have-no-real-idea-what-genre-fits movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1788391/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kill List&lt;/a&gt; was described by many critics as one of the best genre movies from the UK for ages. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It starts like a thriller drama and ends like some strange horror homage to The Wicker Man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm confused about what is happening, especially near the end. Is there a reasonable explanation for why or how it ends the way it does or even: what the hell is happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T13:50:42.243" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T13:50:42.243" Title="What is going on in Kill List?" Tags="|plot-explanation|kill-list|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14880" CreationDate="2012-01-30T01:08:01.740" Score="12" ViewCount="1496" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has bugged me since I saw the movie.  Why was the movie called 'The Brothers Bloom'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The brothers are Stephen and Bloom.  We are never given their last names and the credits don't show a last name.  I would doubt that their last name is Bloom.  That would have resulted in 'The Bloom Brothers' though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T14:26:31.620" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T22:01:07.547" Title="Why was this movie called 'The Brothers Bloom'?" Tags="|title|brothers-bloom|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1110" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1111" CreationDate="2012-01-30T02:12:26.830" Score="20" ViewCount="4463" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw Star Wars the weekend it was released in L.A. I distinctly remember Luke trying to rope the scaffolding and missing when crossing the chasm with Leia. Leia gives him a kiss and says, &quot;For Luck&quot; while he reels in the rope and then he makes the second attempt and succeeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My confusion on this topic concerns the &quot;Original Theatrical Release&quot; DVDs which do not show this scene. Was this scene then edited out before the widescreen release or was it edited out later and then omitted from the &quot;theatrical release&quot; DVD set?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T10:27:59.143" LastActivityDate="2017-10-30T22:59:23.427" Title="When was the Star Wars Chasm Fail edited out?" Tags="|star-wars|alternate-version|a-new-hope|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1110" CreationDate="2012-01-30T02:49:39.390" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just re-watched the scene on the &quot;Widescreen Limited Edition&quot; version of &lt;em&gt;A New Hope&lt;/em&gt;.  This is the one that contained not only the re-mastered and Lucas-ized update done in 2006, but also a copy of the earlier print that was not restored.  (And you can see a lot of clarity and picture stability issues in it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that print, Luke throws the line and hook, it hooks, and he pulls on it, and Leia kisses him before they swing across.  That's how I remember it from 1977 onwards, at least the kiss.  (That she gives him a kiss before they swing across.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this is the version that had the echo added to the dialogue between Luke and Leia, so it had already been altered from the original 1977 version of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;.  I know this echo was added for an early re-release that was before 1981.  (I won't go into the landmarks of my life, but let's just say I know it was out before 1981, and likely before 1980, when &lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt; came out.)  That means, with this print, which is the earliest available (remastering was done later, after the echo was added), we can only go back to around 1980 at the earliest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, I have always been puzzled by that, as well.  I thought I remembered Luke throwing the line once, it not catching, and having to throw it again, but it's not in this print.  (I am positive, though, that the kiss was always just before they swung across the line -- trust me, you see a movie like this as a teen on a date with a girl you've been drooling over for a few months, you remember every kissing scene in the movie!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if it did exist, it was cut before 1980 or 1981 and it's going to be almost impossible to find any version of the film to back up that it was once there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T02:49:39.390" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20" CreationDate="2012-01-30T03:06:52.130" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your presumption that the film portrays realistic sci-fi may be misplaced. The extensive use of symbolism and prologue scenes suggest that it is allegorical. While I usually agree that having authentic situations or plausible science is important, in this film I found it easy to dismiss with that expectation. There is an analysis of the Justine chapter &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/960/what-is-the-symbolism-of-the-uncrossable-bridge-in-melancholia&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; that offers you another perspective and may help clarify my reasoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="731" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T03:06:52.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1045" CreationDate="2012-01-30T04:58:17.143" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite simply because Eric André's contract was not renewed. This might be due to various reasons, and I won't try to rely on gossip to answer why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eric André, who played Max Ross in the film, will not be returning for the series. Lonny Ross will be replacing Eric André's character in the series as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="595" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T04:58:17.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1114" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1127" CreationDate="2012-01-30T06:57:00.537" Score="11" ViewCount="11875" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Secret Window&lt;/em&gt;, Mort's dog Chico is found dead stabbed with a screwdriver and Mort deduces that Shooter have killed the dog (as a letter was attached to the dog's body). But later in the movie, it is revealed that its Mort himself who was acting Shooter's part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And also, for the other murdered people (Greenleaf, the detective, etc), it can be said the Shooter/Mort killed them as they stood in his way. But why kill he dog? He was not harm to Shooter/Mort's intentions or whatsoever..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why did the dog have to die? Is is in some way connected to the movie's storyline or just put there to confuse the viewer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorUserId="386" LastEditDate="2012-02-03T16:13:11.137" LastActivityDate="2013-02-06T12:14:08.460" Title="In Secret Window, why did the dog have to die?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-30T10:44:03.770" Score="15" ViewCount="948" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inception&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Cobb tells Ariadne not to show him the architectural plans so that Mal will not appear in the dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, Mal appears at the end of the movie and kills Fischer who is standing in front of the vault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Mal appear in the vault room if Cobb/Mal doesn't know the architecture of the dream?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="509" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2022-05-22T15:29:04.820" LastActivityDate="2022-05-22T18:33:27.350" Title="How does Mal know where to find Robert Michael Fischer?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48" CreationDate="2012-01-30T11:59:25.503" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the climax of the movie, there is a dialogue - &quot;Sometimes truth is not good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. They deserve to have their faith rewarded&quot;. While these dialogues are presented, we see two scenes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alfred burning the letter that Rachel gave to Bruce. Here, Bruce believes that Rachel was going to wait for him but that's not the truth and if revealed, it can break Bruce. So, Alfred hides the truth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Batman asks Gordon to say that Batman killed Harvey because they can not let Joker win. So the truth is that Joker was successful in shaking up Gotham. He indeed took the best man and turned him bad. But Batman &amp;amp; Gordon hide this truth so that the people of Gotham don't lose their faith.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, according to me, is the main theme of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="571" LastEditDate="2014-01-05T16:53:47.643" LastActivityDate="2014-01-05T16:53:47.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="218" CreationDate="2012-01-30T12:03:29.803" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ending depicts Mark's loneliness. He has given a website to the world which helps them connect to friends, but he himself is without any friends. At the end we see that he still hasn't forgotten his old girlfriend as he sends her friend request &amp;amp; refreshes the page continually to see when is it accepted. We see mark's desperation to make a connection. A real one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T12:03:29.803" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48" CreationDate="2012-01-30T13:48:46.993" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the already existing good answers, another theme of the movie, with a strong connection to current political and social problems, is of course terrorism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially how to deal with people (or one man in this case) who are not driven by &quot;ordinary&quot; criminal motives (like money) and don't react to the threats of &quot;ordinary&quot; punishment (like imprisonment or death), how easy it is for them to push an organized society (that is just not prepared for such an irrational person) into chaos and, most important, how far the society's executive organs (in this case the Batman) would go (or what he needs to become himself) to stop such a person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This culminates in Batman building the perfect surveillance state (with those unrealistic cell-phone radars). Although he is smart or honest enough to destroy this machine once he's found the Joker, he has obviously crossed a line there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To conclude, I think it is hard to find one single theme to describe the movie, as it contains many interresting themes. And I would say Nolan himself (he wrote it, didn't he?) didn't have one single theme in mind to center the story around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-01-30T13:54:20.963" LastActivityDate="2012-01-30T13:54:20.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1115" CreationDate="2012-01-30T13:52:35.787" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the point in time that we see Mal appear in the room with Fischer, we see her through a gun-sight aimed by Cobb.  She appears to drop into the room from above.  Mal is just a projection of Cobb, so she does not need to break into the room by knowing the maze around the vault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cobb by his very presence and line of sight of the room, aided by the gun sight is projecting Mal into the dream - at the worst possible point yet again, just as their goal is about to be achieved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-16T14:38:02.010" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T14:38:02.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1115" CreationDate="2012-01-30T17:35:45.663" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ariadne dóes tell Dom the secondary entry when the announcing music for the upcoming kick begins and the plan has to change due to less remaining time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2022-05-22T18:33:27.350" LastActivityDate="2022-05-22T18:33:27.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1122" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1123" CreationDate="2012-01-30T20:45:57.053" Score="12" ViewCount="7219" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Tombstone&lt;/em&gt;, Val Kilmer gives a brilliant delivery of the line &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'll be your huckleberry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot remember any dialogue leading up to it that explained this retort. Was there any or is it a symbolic phrase?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-11T12:51:46.613" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T14:33:33.763" Title="In Tombstone what is the meaning of the line spoken by Doc Holiday?" Tags="|dialogue|tombstone|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1122" CreationDate="2012-01-30T21:38:24.837" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Dictionary of American Slang&lt;/em&gt; defines this, and supplies just this line from Val Kilmer in Tombstone as an example of its usage.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&quot;I'm your huckleberry&quot; means &quot;I'm just the man you're looking for!&quot;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&quot;I'm your huckleberry...&quot; Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Also, the podcast &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.waywordradio.org/discussion/general-discussion/huckleberry/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Way With Words&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from Public Radio, is a call-in show about linguistics, and answered this question this way:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;em&gt;What it means is easy enough. To be one’s huckleberry — usually as the phrase I’m your huckleberry — is to be just the right person for a given job, or a willing executor of some commission. Where it comes from needs a bit more explaining...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-02-02T15:00:58.610" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T15:00:58.610" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1124" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-01-30T23:53:53.297" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A 2010 movie by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Inception tells the story of a team being paid to invade someone's dream to plant an idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Inception wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Inception IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="3323" LastEditDate="2013-01-10T08:16:02.283" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T08:16:02.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1125" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-01-30T23:53:53.297" Score="0" Body="A 2010 British-American science fiction heist thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. " OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T11:21:46.740" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T11:21:46.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1126" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-01-31T00:24:02.953" Score="3" ViewCount="962" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember being impressed by the 1985 thriller &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089360/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jagged Edge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; when I first watched it. The plot (in case you don't remember) involves a prominent Editor (Jeff Bridges) accused of killing his wife brutally. He hires a lawyer to defend him (Glenn Close) who falls in love with him, blurring her clarity about his guilt or innocence (hence providing much of the tension in the plot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Early in the movie the audience sees the murder being committed, but the murderer hides their identity. As a police expert pointed out to me later there is no reason (in the movie) why the murderer needs to conceal their identity other than to deceive the audience until the reveal at the end. They kill any possible witness to the crime so there is no reason to hide their face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I wrong or is there some internal logic to the concealment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-08T03:09:41.530" LastActivityDate="2019-07-15T18:17:22.210" Title="Why does the killer need to conceal their identity?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jagged-edge|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1114" CreationDate="2012-01-31T06:58:27.430" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, it would have seemed weird for the dog to be present throughout the rest of the film, especially with the ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a more analytical point of view, however, it might have been simply because of the psychological breakdown that the main character begins to suffer. Some killings (maybe I could venture to say most) have a strong emotional connection with the killer. I don't remember there being much elaboration about the dog's origins, but killing the dog could have been an outlet for him, a way to express the pent-up emotions from what he's dealt with. Maybe he just used the dog to represent his hatred for his wife cheating on him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I think it just boils down to the dog being at the wrong place at the wrong time.&#xA;You've got a writer who's delusional about breaking up with his wife (since he's putting off the divorce), drinking a hefty amount of Jack Daniel's, and stuck with a lack of writer's inspiration at a cabin in a small town. Isolation and emotional suffering can breed some psychotic issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="738" LastEditorUserId="738" LastEditDate="2012-02-01T18:57:34.423" LastActivityDate="2012-02-01T18:57:34.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2012-01-31T08:01:56.467" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Antagonist obviously was not a normal person, and he did not lead a normal life as is evident from the incestuous relationship he had with his sister. Apparently, he was extremely attached to his sister, and her death (suicide) left a deep impression on him. That's why revenge became the only motive in his life. It is also seen that he is still pretty much immersed in the memories of his sister. Maybe he felt like there was nothing in his life without her. So he wanted to die from the very beginning, but not before he has had his revenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T19:33:49.243" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T19:33:49.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1126" CreationDate="2012-01-31T12:15:58.257" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the movie, but other than the big reveal at the end, it's also possible that the killer had his face hidden in case someone would happen to see him (either coming/going from the murder scene or else from a window). Other than that, I would have to agree that it's just a plot device.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T12:15:58.257" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1133" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1135" CreationDate="2012-01-31T14:51:48.010" Score="5" ViewCount="1071" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember a movie from my childhood that was based on a common folk tale. It was in a very odd animation style (though I cannot remember which). The strongest memory was that there was a very strange wedding with a fairly scary song and the guests were something like wavering creatures enchanted by an evil witch. The wedding was between &quot;A princess?&quot; and some kind of huge and ugly ogre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I strongly remember talking to many friends about the film so it had a fairly good 'release' but I don't seem to have enough strong memories to hang it off of. The multitude of symbols makes it difficult to remember which folk tale it was. The vagueness of the terms haven't turned up anything in attempts to google search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T11:58:14.867" Title="Help identify circa 1970s animated movie with bizarre wedding" Tags="|identify-this-movie|animation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:34:32.710" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1133" CreationDate="2012-01-31T15:15:44.250" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Might you be thinking of the BBC production, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0229533/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Light Princess&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (1978)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only criteria it meets is a fairly odd animation style and a princess. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T15:15:44.250" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1133" CreationDate="2012-01-31T15:31:24.903" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would appear that this film is an Anime variant of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074705/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jack and the Beanstalk&lt;/a&gt; (orig: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_the_Beanstalk_%281974_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jakku to Mame no Ki&lt;/a&gt;&quot; from 1974 (released in the US in 1976). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Ogre was the Giant who was the child/stepson of a witch. He grew larger fueled by anger towards the end. The wedding guests are paper-cutouts which are animated by the witch. The wedding is scored with a very haunting (Elfmanesque) song called (in the English version) &quot;Are you Happy&quot;. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYnmzE3azdk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;video of the scene in Japanese&lt;/a&gt; is available on YouTube. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvkfXICMXBk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;audio of the English version&lt;/a&gt; is also on YouTube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film can (as of this posting) be seen in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnd3MFBink4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;its entirety on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="715" LastEditDate="2016-01-07T11:58:14.867" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T11:58:14.867" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1136" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1137" CreationDate="2012-01-31T17:40:32.793" Score="7" ViewCount="8760" Body="&lt;p&gt;All I can remember is that it starts with a boy who is in a library late at night. At first it's live-action, but then there are these animated colors (don't know how else to describe it) that flood the library. After that, the whole movie goes animated, with the kid having some sort of journey with characters from certain books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it's correct to say it was from the 80s, but its animation style was similar to that time, I think...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="738" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-06T23:44:28.250" LastActivityDate="2013-10-06T23:44:28.250" Title="Set in a library and switches from live action to animation" Tags="|identify-this-movie|animation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:34:35.840" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1136" CreationDate="2012-01-31T17:53:40.293" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe what you are looking for is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110763/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Pagemaster&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has a boy that gets stuck in a library that then gets sucked into an animated world.  The beginning of the movie starts out a bit like so, before going animated, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pagemaster&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Richard slips on some water that had dripped from his coat and falls down, hitting his head and knocking him unconscious. He awakens and finds the rotunda paintings melting, forming a wave of color that transforms him and the library into illustrations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing that makes me doubt it, is the fact that it wasn't released until 1994, but I'm fairly confident the style was because it was being made for a while due to it being an animated feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-gJr7iU6kI&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here is a trailer of the movie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, to help show the movie in action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T17:53:40.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1138" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-01-31T18:18:40.513" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-01-31T18:18:40.513" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T18:18:40.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1139" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-01-31T18:18:40.513" Score="0" Body="Clinton &quot;Clint&quot; Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician, most famous for his early starring roles in Spaghetti Westerns and the Dirty Harry series of movies. Use this tag to ask questions about Movies and TV shows for which Clint Eastwood acted, directed, produced, or composed music." OwnerUserId="740" LastEditorUserId="740" LastEditDate="2012-01-31T18:19:41.370" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T18:19:41.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1140" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1141" CreationDate="2012-01-31T22:23:56.073" Score="3" ViewCount="2895" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412798/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Half Light (2006)&lt;/a&gt;, Angus commits suicide by jumping from the top of the lighthouse. Is he the ghost Angus McCulloch, or the real person who pretended to be the ghost? I got a bit confused about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T14:35:03.133" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T14:35:03.133" Title="Ending of Half Light" Tags="|ending|half-light|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1140" CreationDate="2012-01-31T23:14:11.020" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_Light&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From the wiki article on this movie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the two spark a romance that suddenly goes awry when she learns that Angus died seven years ago by committing suicide after murdering his wife and her lover in the lighthouse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, after a brief fight at the lighthouse, Sharon hits her head and is killed in the kitchen, and Brian is murdered by Patrick, possessed by the spirit of Angus, in much the same way that Angus's wife and lover died seven years previously. Patrick then jumps from the tower, as Angus had done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Implying that Angus was dead but, although Patrick did pretend to be Angus for a time, Angus &lt;strong&gt;did possess him to kill him&lt;/strong&gt; by making him jump as he did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-01-31T23:14:11.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1142" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1163" CreationDate="2012-02-01T00:05:44.323" Score="9" ViewCount="1705" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember a movie, probably italian or some similar latin language, where a cartoonist is slowly transformed into an animated character. It was released, I think, in the same decade as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096438/&quot;&gt;Who Framed Roger Rabbit&lt;/a&gt; which is why I remember the combination of live action and animation (not 100% on the timing, though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the movie, and can I get in on region 2 DVD?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:06:12.337" Title="Identify the movie where a cartoonist turns into an animation" Tags="|identify-this-movie|animation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:34:38.963" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="835" CreationDate="2012-02-01T00:14:19.863" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is intentional and the intention is to echo the moment in revivalist religious meeting when the evangelist gets the waverers in the congregation to commit to God. Whether you are a believer or not, this is the moment where the fervour has been whipped up in the meeting and the potential converts are in an emotional enough state to make a public commitment to change and repentance so their behaviour will, in future, be different. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since many of the techniques he uses are a pretty good psychological analogy to those used by revivalist preachers, the line is likely intentional. I doubt, given his obvious character, that it has anything to do with his personal beliefs. He is merely aping the often shysterism psychological manipulation of many preachers and snake-oil salesmen. The line merely emphasises this link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2012-02-01T00:14:19.863" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1142" CreationDate="2012-02-01T00:36:02.523" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're looking for the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104009/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cool World&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cool World is a 1992 American live-action/animated film directed by Ralph Bakshi, and starring Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne, and Brad Pitt. It tells the story of a cartoonist who finds himself in the animated world he created, and is seduced by one of his characters, a comic strip vamp who wants to be real.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I don't know how you would locate DVDs from other regions, though IMDB shows a lot of South American distributors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:06:12.337" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:06:12.337" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1142" CreationDate="2012-02-01T02:33:37.107" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This could also be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166276/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Monkeybone&lt;/a&gt; with Brendan Fraser which is the story of an animator who gets dragged into the animated world to go up against his chaotic creation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From IMDB: In a coma, a cartoonist finds himself trapped within his own underground creation and must find a way to get back, while racing against his popular but treacherous character, Monkeybone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastActivityDate="2012-02-01T02:33:37.107" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1146" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1151" CreationDate="2012-02-01T12:24:20.027" Score="22" ViewCount="4084" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film Black Swan there are a number of scenes where Nina and Thomas Leroy have a more than professional relationship.  Are these real or are they part of her illness (in the same way as parts of her relationship with Lily).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are three sections I can think of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The kiss which gets her the part&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The scene in the studio&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The kiss during the performance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we have any evidence that any of these didn't happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ETA: The scene in the studio I mentioned earlier was where Thomas Leroy pretended to seduce her to get her to give the performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T18:10:29.377" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T18:10:29.377" Title="In Black Swan how much seduction is real?" Tags="|plot-explanation|black-swan|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="615" CreationDate="2012-02-01T13:36:07.007" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best theory I could come up with is that it was 'disowned' because of the films disturbing nature and content.  Particularly from this scene, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Heart&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;as explained by wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Angel Heart gained attention and controversy even before its release. Bonet was previously known for her role on the family-oriented sitcom The Cosby Show, and several seconds of her extended, graphic and blood-drenched sex scene with Rourke had to be trimmed in order to secure the film an 'R' rating on initial release, though later an uncut X rated version was released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This coupled with the rest of the film's dark tone and religious themes might have made it a rough film to talk about in a general show like that, though I won't pretend to know what the show did and did not cover.  Unfortunately, this is the best I could dig up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-02-01T13:36:07.007" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="476" CreationDate="2012-02-01T16:16:57.790" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The closest reference to any type of influences on this movie come from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaville_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the wiki article&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on this film describing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jean Cocteau was one of the artists who exerted significant influences on Godard's films, and parallels between Alphaville and Cocteau's 1950 film Orpheus are evident. For example, Orphée's search for Cégeste and Caution's for Harry Dickson, between the poems Orphée hears on the radio and the aphoristic questions given by Alpha 60, between Orphée's victory over Death through the recovery of his poetic powers and Caution's use of poetry to destroy Alpha 60.  Moreover, Godard openly acknowledges his debt to Cocteau on several occasions. When Alpha 60 is destroyed, for instance, people stagger down labyrinthine corridors or cling blindly to the walls like the inhabitants of Cocteau's &quot;Zone de la mort&quot;, and, at the end of the film, Caution tells Natasha not to look back, like Orphée did to Eurydice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially the style of the film was influenced by an artist that had a similar tone to the movie that helped Godard come up with the tone of the film.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For further reading, there is a book that these references come from &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0306802597&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;that you can get on Amazon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  Most likely an interesting read if you are a huge Godard fan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-02-01T16:16:57.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1149" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1150" CreationDate="2012-02-01T17:33:29.770" Score="35" ViewCount="64512" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of V for Vendetta, while the building is exploding, you see people pulling off their masks to watch it explode.  During this scene you see some characters that have been previously said to be dead.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the character’s I’m talking about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the girl  vandal (shown to be shot)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the actress (shown killed in the experiments or whatever)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gordon Deitrich (the talk show host said by V to have been shot)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this meant to say that these characters are still alive, or was there a different intent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-26T10:58:00.127" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T10:23:11.870" Title="What’s with the “dead” characters at the end?" Tags="|plot-explanation|v-for-vendetta|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1149" CreationDate="2012-02-01T19:34:44.137" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would consider this a symbolic gesture meant to remind the viewer that the outcome of the movie was not possible without their sacrifices. They all wore V's mask and that symbolizes that we can all be V and that what he stood for cannot die because we all stand for it. Good ideas don't die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="744" LastActivityDate="2012-02-01T19:34:44.137" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1146" CreationDate="2012-02-01T19:38:04.153" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The kiss that gets her the part has to be real.  Otherwise, how does she get the part?  Furthermore, Thomas says that &quot;he saw a bit of that earlier&quot; in reference to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the scene in the studio, you mean where Thomas is having sex with Lily, right?  Because that's Nina's imagination.  She's paranoid that Lily is using sex to get ahead of her, and when the whole set becomes all black, the music and mise-en-scene imply that her paranoia is starting to take over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The kiss during the performance is real.  It's a part of her &quot;performance&quot; as a Black Swan, so the only way the kiss couldn't be real is if her entire performance was her imagination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Black Swan is open to a lot of interpretations, but these are the answers that make the most sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastActivityDate="2012-02-01T19:38:04.153" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1152" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-01T21:15:29.007" Score="25" ViewCount="19479" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Mal shoots Fischer, killing him (or at least mortally wounding him) within the 3rd layer of the dream. Dom and Ariadne go down a level to find him and bring him back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does this actually work? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they find him there and Ariadne brings Fischer back up a level in the dream, in that 3rd dream layer he suddenly seems healed. He doesn't appear to be suffering any physical effects of being shot during the scene with his dying father. Shouldn't he still have a gaping wound in his chest? And if this technique can effectively resurrect the dead (or perhaps heal the mortally wounded) within a given layer of the dream, why didn't they use this earlier on Mr. Saito?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="531" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-16T14:35:31.337" LastActivityDate="2017-03-28T14:34:56.203" Title="How did they bring Fischer back to life within the 3rd layer of the dream?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1152" CreationDate="2012-02-01T21:29:32.527" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I cannot answer this like the other questions on Inception in a positive manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This appears to be a gaping hole in the plot.  Ariadne, the second least experienced of the team proposes to follow Fischer down into Limbo, in order to rescue/retrieve Fischer. She and Cobb do this and both Ariadne and Fischer are brought back to the 3rd dream layer by falling off a collapsing building, a combination of the falling / dying mechanism for going up a dream layer.  Since if Ariadne was wrong, she could end up in Limbo for years - she seems strangely confident and unafraid to try this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you say, if that was possible why did they not let Saito die and do the same thing to him - follow him down there, give him a kick or kill him to push him back up to Dream Level 1 magically healed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only surmise that Ariadne and Cobb were desperate and willing to try anything.  This is surprising from Ariadne as she had little to loose from giving up at this point, but not surprising from Cobb.  Then it would appear that whilst they are sedated too heavily in the real world for waking up when dying in the dream, the dying/kick mechanism for moving up dream layers is not disabled by the sedative even in Limbo.  This may have been a calculated gamble on their part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-16T14:35:49.557" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T14:35:49.557" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1152" CreationDate="2012-02-01T22:15:57.887" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could have something to do with Mr. Saito getting injured in the first layer. Maybe the effects of going in and out of limbo depend on the layer of the dream that the person is in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just speculating here, but I'm guessing that Fischer was &quot;revived&quot; because he re-entered the dream. Limbo doesn't seem to be a layer, but an overall &quot;area&quot; that people can get to in several ways: dying in a dream, going through enough dream layers, etc., so it's possible he just came back in to the third dream layer when he got killed in limbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They probably couldn't help Mr. Saito because he was dying in another dream layer. He wasn't necessarily affected physically in the following dream layers except for his body's reactions to the shot from the first layer, so they couldn't really heal something that happened in &quot;reality&quot; (the first dream layer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's dreaming. We don't know much about it, so there aren't a lot of rules to it in Movie Land.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="738" LastActivityDate="2012-02-01T22:15:57.887" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1152" CreationDate="2012-02-01T23:10:40.817" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Layer 3 is Eames' dream from level 2, and he can dream what he wants. If a dreamer can create buildings, and defy physics, why not also being able of resurrecting one of the co-dreamers. His needing of the use of a defibrillator could indicate that he is not a thát almighty and conscious dreamer, but I think it is better movie than when he would have revived Fischer by clapping his fingers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saito staying as wounded from level 1 just suggests Yusuf has some more dreaming experience to acquire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-16T14:36:09.150" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T14:36:09.150" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1158" CreationDate="2012-02-02T04:04:40.213" Score="12" ViewCount="5682" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching this kids movie where they are being attacked by some sort of trollish type monsters/creatures and they could only be defeated by using water guns filled with milk to shoot them with. I remember that pretty distinctly but the rest of the movie I have no clue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could tell you I saw this in the 90's but I have no idea how old the movie actually is, nor other plot descriptions, apart from that there was an epic battle between the kids and the trollish creatures where they were victorious in thanks to the milk powered water guns (sounds ridiculously hilarious I know). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T13:59:17.953" LastActivityDate="2016-06-18T23:50:34.420" Title="Kids that fight troll-like monsters with water guns filled with milk?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:34:42.087" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1157" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1159" CreationDate="2012-02-02T04:10:04.527" Score="18" ViewCount="1556" Body="&lt;p&gt;This movie was about a bunch of kids that were building a type of space ship and they built something that projected a bubble around their craft and this bubble allowed them to travel great distances fast etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember one scene, they fired (accidental or not I cannot remember) this bubble in the ground and it made a huge hole into the earth, which seemed to go on forever. I vaguely remember one of the kids remarked &quot;its probably half way to china now&quot;, but I could have mistaken this quote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds a lot like an 1980's science fiction movie, but as to the cast and other plots I cannot remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-15T16:00:29.143" LastActivityDate="2014-08-15T16:00:29.143" Title="Kids that build some sort of space craft" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:34:45.220" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1156" CreationDate="2012-02-02T04:24:15.010" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems like the plot to &lt;em&gt;Ernest Scared Stupid&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101821/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMDB&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Scared_Stupid&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has a very full plot description that matches all your criteria. Here's a key line: &lt;em&gt;Kenny and the others launch a defensive and manage to destroy all of the trolls except for Trantor who becomes too powerful to be affected by milk.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-02-02T13:46:47.190" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T13:46:47.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1157" CreationDate="2012-02-02T04:28:05.223" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not 100% sure, but it sounds like you're referring to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089114/&quot;&gt;Explorers&lt;/a&gt;.  This was an 80's movie that featured a ship built by kids, surrounded by a bubble.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember the hole in the earth scene, but it sounds like something that would have been in this movie, and perhaps I just don't remember it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="698" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T04:28:05.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1160" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1161" CreationDate="2012-02-02T10:48:19.770" Score="12" ViewCount="22435" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0905372/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Thing (2011)&lt;/a&gt;, Lars and his friend pursue a possibly infected dog which runs away from the facility. They chase the dog on a helicopter and Lars tries to shoot the dog from some distance. After a few shots, he can't kill it; and during the last shot, the camera shows the gun and the screen goes black.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens there? Could he kill it or does something happen in the helicopter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-04-28T01:14:56.710" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T09:39:09.307" Title="Ending of The Thing (2011)" Tags="|ending|the-thing-2011|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1160" CreationDate="2012-02-02T11:55:49.940" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is retroactively setting up the &quot;original&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/&quot;&gt;The Thing (1982)&lt;/a&gt; for which it is a prequel. The starting scene of the 1982 movie is two Norwegians in a helicopter chasing and shooting at a sled dog that finds its way to an American camp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-04-28T08:06:45.513" LastActivityDate="2013-04-28T08:06:45.513" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1152" CreationDate="2012-02-02T12:58:10.167" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fischer is shot in the 3rd layer of the dream and enters the limbo. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In limbo, you are actually in your own mind, you don't follow the rules of others. What is more, you are so &quot;sedated&quot; (so deep in your subconscious) that you forget reality. This means, you don't have contact to anything else. You are numb (like in a coma). If you pay attention to what the limbo looks like, you'll see that being in the collapsing building (level 3) or in the water (level 1) doesn't seem to affect Cobb. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably that is why Fischer is fine. This is also the case of Saito. When Fischer is rescued, he gets very fast from limbo to dream level 1 (because of the sychronized kicks) and, as we remember, he was fine there. So you might say that at resurrection he &quot;jumps over&quot; two layers and returns to where he was just fine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what happened to Saito? Well, he and Cobb are in limbo and miss those synchronized kicks. The others get the kicks and wake up, destroying the levels 2 and 3. That means we have now only level 1 and limbo. So there are 2 possibilities: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Saito wakes from limbo directly to reality because they stay longer in limbo. He is not affected psychically because Cobb is there to remind him of the reality and to make him realize where he actually was (this was the danger: not to know what's real anymore).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They wake up in level 1 and manage to heal Saito (Fischer finds peace and has something to meditate, so his projections will not be a threat anymore). In level 1, Saito was shot in the stomach, giving him about 45 minutes before he died (so I have read). So after 15 minutes of driving, he still has 30 minutes, enough to create a hospital or an impossible structure to get fast to a doctor. I think he could be saved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, you also asked why they didn't let Saito get into limbo from the beginning. Well, that was not a great plan, since going there is a great risk (you might forget who and where you are) so going after him would not be such a great idea, unless they had no other choice (which happens in the 3rd level).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="418" LastEditorUserId="511" LastEditDate="2017-03-28T14:34:56.203" LastActivityDate="2017-03-28T14:34:56.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1142" CreationDate="2012-02-02T20:22:24.700" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure you're talking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103223/&quot;&gt;Volere Volare (1991)&lt;/a&gt;, an italian movie where the main character has a date with a girl, but he's so nervous that he transformes into an animated character. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastActivityDate="2012-02-02T20:22:24.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1165" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-02T22:57:35.843" Score="23" ViewCount="1198" Body="&lt;p&gt;This scene happens in many martial arts movies: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It usually starts with some hero wandering into a strange town; orders a bowl of noodles; then a couple of bad guys casually sit down and start harassing the hero because he/she appears weak; this is then followed by the hero beating every bad guy in town and casually walking out of the restaurant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One recent &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4YUJ8Lxrqs&quot;&gt;example of this&lt;/a&gt; is with Zhang Ziyi in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The opening scene of Kung Fu Panda also has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr9upB3D67s&quot;&gt;a similar scene&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the reference for this scene? When did it first appear? How did it become popularised? What is its country of origin?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2012-02-03T02:50:44.973" LastActivityDate="2020-01-25T21:17:55.667" Title="Where did the &quot;calmly eating noodles when bad guys walk in&quot; scene first appear?" Tags="|film-techniques|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1166" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1171" CreationDate="2012-02-03T00:29:53.620" Score="5" ViewCount="676" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120744/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)&lt;/a&gt; in the scene where the three musketeers want to free &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0091414/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Philippe&lt;/a&gt; (Leonorado De Caprio), Philippe has one iron mask on (mask 1). They then make another mask (mask 2) and they put it on some corpse which they use in the escape. This body is then quickly burned. After they leave, they send that same mask (mask 1) to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0006258/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Louis&lt;/a&gt; (also played by De Caprio). In a &lt;strong&gt;subsequent&lt;/strong&gt; scene, you see Philippe looking at his mask (mask 3? mask 1?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize they could have made 100 masks and sent them to all corners of Paris, but was this intentional or is it a plot hole? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="376" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2014-07-19T05:50:44.963" LastActivityDate="2014-07-19T05:50:44.963" Title="3 Masks in The Man in the Iron Mask" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-man-in-the-iron-mask|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1180" CreationDate="2012-02-03T05:12:31.617" Score="7" ViewCount="7486" Body="&lt;p&gt;Happy Days maintained a fairly realistic bent throughout it's run (I'm not here to debate shark jumping, I promise).  Two notable detours from this were Mork and Mindy and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Blue_%281979_TV_series%29&quot;&gt;Out of the Blue&lt;/a&gt;.  Mork seemed like an random introduction to the show, and would end up in Colorado on his show, far away from Milwaukee, so he wouldn't have even been considered a &quot;TV neighbor&quot; to the Cunninghams anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the decision-making behind conceiving the Mork character within the Happy Days universe?  Why was it decided that it was worth risking the alienation of the existing audience for a show that might not take off at all?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="417" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2017-05-03T23:53:09.963" LastActivityDate="2017-05-03T23:53:09.963" Title="What prompted the producers of Happy Days to promote and spin-off Mork and Mindy?" Tags="|spin-off|mork-and-mindy|happy-days|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1169" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1173" CreationDate="2012-02-03T06:38:56.513" Score="21" ViewCount="9237" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think one of the lesser praised characters in Breaking Bad was the Aztek walt drove the first 4 seasons. It seemed like a very purposeful bit of 'casting'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, what happened to it? The final episode of Season 4 had Walt driving a small white 2-door at the end. Did I miss an important plot point involving the Aztek? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-02-03T12:48:41.580" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T15:45:49.527" Title="What happend to Walt's Aztek at the end of Breaking Bad season 4?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1170" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-03T07:29:15.393" Score="17" ViewCount="35816" Body="&lt;p&gt;In movie &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0976051/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Hanna Schmitz&lt;/strong&gt; was sentenced to life imprisonment because of her role in the death of 300 victims.  But I could not understand whether she was really responsible for that &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; whether she was &lt;strong&gt;framed by her colleague&lt;/strong&gt; because of her illiteracy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did she &lt;strong&gt;really do that&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't they show this part in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nJHgv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="556" LastEditDate="2020-08-14T20:10:16.347" LastActivityDate="2020-08-14T20:10:16.347" Title="Was &quot;Hanna Schmitz&quot; responsible for the death of 300 people in &quot;The Reader &quot;?" Tags="|analysis|plot-explanation|the-reader|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1166" CreationDate="2012-02-03T08:38:39.110" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I don't have backing-up evidence on my answer. Its according to my viewpoint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the first and second masks (the one Philippe was wearing originally and the mask put on the corpse) are intentionally created. So as to give more of a sense of the deception (the escape) to the viewer. The viewer senses that they kept the original mask (to be sent to Louis) and put-on a second, fake mask on the corpse to help them escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the third mask, I think its a plot-hole (he couldn't have got the mask that was sent to Louis earlier and they wouldn't have created another similar mask just to keep looking at it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my personal viewpoint and may not be accurate. So please don't vote me down if this answer proves to be wrong. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T08:38:39.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1170" CreationDate="2012-02-03T10:32:16.103" Score="13" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She denies authorship of a report on the church fire, despite pressure from the other defendants, but then admits it rather than complying with a demand to provide a handwriting sample.... she is illiterate and has concealed it her whole life. The other female guards who claim she wrote the report are lying to place responsibility on Hanna. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reader_%282008_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, she said she was guilty (even though she wasn't) only not to write down something, because she wasn't able. The whole life she's too ashamed of this thing so she never admitted, even if admitting it would have reduced her sentence in prison. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the other female guards  knew about her illiteracy or at list it's not shown in the movie (you could read the book -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reader&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The reader&lt;/a&gt; if you want to have more details), but I think that's the point: she can easily admit she can't read or write to defend herself. I also think she was not guilty (because the movie led me that way) even if I found several sources stating that the movie contained a cutback scene to her standing refusing to open the doors and allowing the 300 to burn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-03-21T07:53:55.243" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T07:53:55.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1169" CreationDate="2012-02-03T13:51:37.027" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you remember, Walt drove Hank to the &quot;Industrial Laundry&quot; that Hank had sussed out as consuming way-y-y too much energy and had these industrial air filtration systems from Germany. So he had a suspicion it was housing the meth lab - WHICH IT WAS. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt insinuated himself into driving him, using his Aztek to get them there, and getting more and more nervous as they approached. He pretended to be lost as they approached, missed the driveway, then passed the facility, requiring him to U-turn. He does this intentionally right into an oncoming car and BAM! totals the Aztek. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Hank doesn't get into the laundry because he stays with Walt, who's all-too-flustered from causing an &quot;accident&quot;. Also, we see Hank later in a neck brace, presumably injured in the &quot;accident&quot;; maybe there was an ambulance at the scene (I don't remember it)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this happens in the episode &lt;em&gt;Crawlspace&lt;/em&gt;, the one where Walt finds most of the money missing, because Skyler gave it to Ted to pay the IRS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T15:45:49.527" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T15:45:49.527" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1174" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1217" CreationDate="2012-02-03T14:58:17.170" Score="30" ViewCount="22112" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been a little while since I've seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/&quot;&gt;The Big Lebowski (1998)&lt;/a&gt; but I remember The Dude having a string of car problems. At one point his car is stolen for a briefcase full of money. The Dude does recover his car--albeit in poor shape--and finds some kid's homework inside. When he and Walter follow up on this, it seems they come to the conclusion that the kid had nothing to do with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I forgetting a detail or was this just a red herring? I know it originated from an anecdote the Coen brothers heard, so did they just throw it in because they thought it funny or does it have some bearing on the plot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-02-03T20:51:44.660" LastActivityDate="2016-08-20T17:56:30.667" Title="Why was the kid's homework in The Dude's car after it was stolen?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-big-lebowski|coen-brothers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1168" CreationDate="2012-02-03T15:55:38.007" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mork_&amp;amp;_Mindy#Happy_Days_connection&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actor-director Jerry Paris was inspired to create the character of Mork after directing an unusual and memorable episode of &lt;em&gt;The Dick Van Dyke Show&lt;/em&gt; in which van Dyke's Rob Petrie believed the Earth had been surreptitiously invaded by walnut-eating aliens who stole humans' thumbs and imaginations. When he moved on to direct &lt;em&gt;Happy Days&lt;/em&gt;, he introduced Mork in a similarly atypical season-five episode entitled &amp;quot;My Favorite Orkan&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;em&gt;Mork &amp;amp; Mindy&lt;/em&gt;] was a spin-off from the sitcom &lt;em&gt;Happy Days&lt;/em&gt;. The character of Mork, played by a then-unknown Robin Williams, first appeared in the &lt;em&gt;Happy Days&lt;/em&gt; Season 5 episode, &amp;quot;My Favorite Orkan,&amp;quot; which was a take on the 1960s sitcom, &lt;em&gt;My Favorite Martian&lt;/em&gt;. Williams' character Mork attempts to take Richie Cunningham back to his planet of Ork as a human specimen, but his plan is foiled by Fonzie (though all this turned out to be simply a dream Richie had). &lt;strong&gt;The Mork character proved to be popular enough with the audience to go forward with the planned series of his own.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T15:55:38.007" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="752" CreationDate="2012-02-03T17:23:22.533" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_through_the_gift_shop#Reception_and_hoax_speculation&quot;&gt;entry&lt;/a&gt; has a nice summary on the speculations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews, holding 96% on&#xA;  Rotten Tomatoes, and was nominated for Best Documentary in the 2011&#xA;  Academy Awards.[5][6] One consistent theme in the reviews was the&#xA;  authenticity of the film: Was the film just an elaborate ruse on&#xA;  Banksy's part, or did Guetta really evolve into Mr. Brainwash&#xA;  overnight? The Boston Globe movie reviewer Ty Burr found it to be&#xA;  quite entertaining and awarded it four stars. He dismissed the notion&#xA;  of the film being a &quot;put on&quot; saying &quot;I’m not buying it; for one thing,&#xA;  this story’s too good, too weirdly rich, to be made up. For another,&#xA;  the movie’s gently amused scorn lands on everyone.&quot;[7] Roger Ebert&#xA;  gave it 3.5 stars out of 4, starting his review saying that &quot;The&#xA;  widespread speculation that Exit Through the Gift Shop is a hoax only&#xA;  adds to its fascination.&quot;[8] However, in an interview with&#xA;  SuicideGirls,[9] filmmakers Jaimie D'Cruz and Chris King denied that&#xA;  it was a hoax, and expressed their growing frustration with the&#xA;  speculation that it was: &quot;For a while we all thought that was quite&#xA;  funny, but it went on for so long. It was a bit disappointing when it&#xA;  became basically accepted as fact, that it was all just a silly hoax&#xA;  ... I felt it was a shame that the whole thing was going to be&#xA;  dismissed like that really - because we knew it was true.&quot;[10]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The New York Times movie reviewer Jeannette Catsoulis wrote that the&#xA;  film could be a new subgenre, a &quot;prankumentary&quot;.[11]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;New York Film Critics Online bestowed its Best Documentary Award on&#xA;  the film in 2010. French journalist Marjolaine Gout gave it 4 stars&#xA;  out of 5, linking Mr. Brainwash and Jeff Koons and criticizing Thierry&#xA;  Guetta's art as toilet papering.[12]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-02-03T17:23:22.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1179" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1196" CreationDate="2012-02-03T22:23:52.483" Score="10" ViewCount="58927" Body="&lt;p&gt;Close to the end of The Thing (2011), Kate Lloyd burns the snow vehicle (or did she blow it up, one of the two).  After that we are left to our own devices on her fate.  Was this intended for us to believe that she died out there from exposure, or was this supposed to be an opening left for another movie, or did this serve some other purpose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-04-28T01:14:42.817" LastActivityDate="2017-02-06T19:44:48.047" Title="What happened to Kate Lloyd?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-thing-2011|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1168" CreationDate="2012-02-04T01:15:53.080" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;At that time, Happy Days was the best vehicle to test Williams in a Prime Time environment. One has to remember that Happy Days is one of the biggest spin-off trees in TV history (Itself being a spin off)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, spin-offs are finding talent and testing them on a show with a similar demographic to see if they might be able to hold up the ratings and drive more viewership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Williams was known for his spontaneous comedy. It's known that many of the M&amp;amp;M scripts consisted of Dawber's lines followed by &quot;Robin does something funny&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the episodes turned in very high ratings it was decided that it was worth doing the pilot run on M&amp;amp;M and see how it went. On a side note, it is evident that Williams' drug issues, tied to the lack of organized writing left that show (and cast) to get somewhat retooled almost every season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry I can't back this up with any references. It was sort of a pet 'trivia' hobby of mine and I've always loved to talk about the Happy Days spin-off tree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T01:15:53.080" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1181" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1183" CreationDate="2012-02-04T01:25:17.340" Score="9" ViewCount="6544" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe (but it is like fodder for another question) that Happy Days may be part of the largest spin-off tree in TV History (To the date of this posting)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a compiled list or graphic of the tree? (Noting that HD was a spin off so if it's parent Love American Style had other spin-offs, then they belong on the tree as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T15:56:35.433" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T15:56:35.433" Title="Looking for the complete Happy Days Spin Off Tree" Tags="|happy-days|spin-off|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="515" CreationDate="2012-02-04T02:06:43.710" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, first of all the movie's story is based on James Sallis' novel and he doesn't have a name in there either (it must be even harder for a narrator to call him driver all the time ;)). So in addition to what TylerShads already said, it could partly also just be to do justice to the novel (whereas I'm sure they haven't ported the novel one-to-one, it would be a bit strange from the script writer to come up with another/any name for the main character himself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to admit, I haven't read the novel (not yet maybe?), but from the information I gathered about it (after watching the movie and finding it brilliant), it seems the driver is a much more amoral and emotionless character than in the movie. Whereas his moments with Irene and her family (which have a much larger part in the movie) make him more likeable in the movie. On the other hand the book, although giving some details about his backstory and upbringing, doesn't try to analyse his psychology or provide reasons for his motivations and actions (neither does the movie to some degree). So I think in this case removal of a name helps especially to establish a kind of distance to the character and to make him a kind of black-box whose actions you can observe, but never really understand the driving force (pun intended) inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to accomplishing it, how often do you really call the people you're talking to by name? I think you might wonder how seldom. It's only us movie-trained audience who want to see everybody called by name all the time. Just like TylerShads already said, think of Fight Club (no, his name was not Jack even if everybody tries so hard to establish this convention ;)). And by the way, it was rather &lt;em&gt;Hossein Amini&lt;/em&gt; who accomplished it, as this was actually the first of his movies &lt;em&gt;Nicolas Winding Refn&lt;/em&gt; didn't write the script himself for, but sorry for the nit-picking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-02-04T02:13:54.480" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T02:13:54.480" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1181" CreationDate="2012-02-04T03:15:42.640" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, a little bit of research turns up this hierarchy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    Love, American Style&#xA;        Happy Days&#xA;            The Fonz and the Happy Days gang (animated)&#xA;            Out of the Blue&#xA;            Laverne &amp;amp; Shirley&#xA;                Laverne &amp;amp; Shirley in the Army (animated)&#xA;            Mork &amp;amp; Mindy&#xA;                Mork &amp;amp; Mindy (animated)&#xA;            Joanie Loves Chachi&#xA;            Blanksy's Beauties&#xA;        Wait Till Your Father Gets Home&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Mork and Mindy animated was actually a combo with the other two animated series.  But it seems like the hierarchy ends there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also found &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_spin-offs&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this wiki page&lt;/a&gt; that may help identify those with more spinoffs, but it doesn't appear comprehensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-02-05T16:33:40.500" LastActivityDate="2012-02-05T16:33:40.500" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1174" CreationDate="2012-02-04T12:23:07.057" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's not really related to the plot. The only thing that happens is the dude's car getting smashed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is however related to the theme of the movie: mistaken identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="48" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T12:23:07.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="515" CreationDate="2012-02-04T13:44:01.320" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the great things about Drive it that it doesn't pander to normal Hollywood convention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the key choices reinforce each other. The Driver doesn't have any backstory to explain who he is or why he behaves the way he does. The choice not to give him a name seems deliberate and seems to reinforce his lack of a backstory, making him similar to the Clint Eastwood character in The Fistful of Dollars movies with noble instincts but violent tendencies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The unresolved ending also reinforces the same atmosphere. The Driver is like a Ronin, a drifting warrior with no master but himself. The audience has to decide for itself who he is and what are his motivations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T13:44:01.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1187" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1188" CreationDate="2012-02-04T15:14:51.413" Score="6" ViewCount="717" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few years ago I saw an epic fantasy movie involving two twins. I think the twins were elves. The female twin was good and the male twin was evil. They were connected, so that hurting one of them would also hurt the other. The good twin had some powerful magical artifact that the evil twin was trying to get ahold of. There was a big battle at the end in some kind of place with clockwork. The female twin finally stabbed herself to kill her brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it had CG, so it should be relatively modern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="762" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T16:28:45.000" Title="Epic fantasy with one good female twin and one evil male twin?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|fantasy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:34:48.353" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1187" CreationDate="2012-02-04T16:28:45.000" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;That would be &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411477/&quot;&gt;Hellboy II - The Golden Army&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the synopsis: Hellboy fights against the prince across the entire chamber, at one point finally gaining the upper hand. But he refuses to take the Prince's life. As they fight, Nuala feels the wounds that Hellboy inflicts upon her brother. Nuada prepares to stab Hellboy in the back, but suddenly collapses from pain in his chest. Nuala is revealed to have stabbed herself in the heart in a final attempt to stop her brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T16:28:45.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="106" CreationDate="2012-02-04T17:12:37.367" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is a mistake to take the events of &lt;em&gt;Donnie Darko&lt;/em&gt; literally, including the ending. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main character Donnie is developing schizophrenia. The schizophrenia causes Donnie to believe he is at the center of a time-travel adventure that just might save the universe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie shows how this hallucinated fantasy would unfold if it were reality. So the ending isn't intended to bring the movie to a realistic conclusion or even to make sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an extra scene on the DVD, Donnie is having a conversation with his father and says, &quot;Dad, I'm crazy.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think part of the genius of &lt;em&gt;Donnie Darko&lt;/em&gt; is that -- just like many real-life schizophrenics' hallucinations -- Donnie's fantasy almost starts to make sense if you strain to understand. But ultimately it only really makes sense to Donnie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-03-07T02:09:32.663" LastActivityDate="2012-03-07T02:09:32.663" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="871" CreationDate="2012-02-04T17:50:07.103" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;She is &quot;insurance&quot; that the virus will successfully be spread around the world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key is that the scientists were never interested in stopping the virus in 1995. As Cole says early on, &quot;I just have to locate the virus in its original form before it mutates.  So scientists can come back and study it and find a cure.  So that those of us who survived can go back to the surface of the earth.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But later Cole decides to stay in 1995, and by the airport scene, he has given the future scientists the slip by cutting out his teeth. Except Cole leaves a message from the airport, leading the future scientists back to him -- with a two-part plan:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cole's message did not identify the virus spreader, so Jose's task at airport is to give Cole the gun &lt;em&gt;and then watch who Cole goes after&lt;/em&gt;. When Catherine runs up and says she's figured out it is the redhead assistant to Dr Goynes who spreads the virus, Jose fades out of the scene, having got what he needed. (for confirmation see scene as written in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/twelve_monkeys.html&quot;&gt;production draft of script&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;From there, the scientists need to make sure Cole does not actually prevent the virus from being spread because that would dramatically disrupt the timeline. &lt;strong&gt;To prevent the disruption, the lady scientist is sent as back-up who -- if Cole somehow manages to stop redhead-ponytail guy -- can grab the briefcase, take the flights, and make sure the virus still gets spread around the world&lt;/strong&gt; (which seems to end up being unnecessary because redhead-ponytail gets on plane OK)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luckily for the scientists, airport security shoots Cole when Cole tries to shoot the redhead guy. (The scientists may have provided Cole a non-working gun to encourage this outcome.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More evidence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the lady scientist says insurance remark &lt;em&gt;on the plane seated next&#xA;to redhead-ponytail guy&lt;/em&gt;, suggesting she was prepared to go to the&#xA;same destinations, which the scientists had Cole list earlier in the movie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the scientists may have been worried because Pitt's father changing security procedures, showing Cole could indeed disrupt timeline.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;at one point, a scientist in the future scornfully calls the pre-virus world &quot;that dying world&quot; suggesting no interest in saving it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the overall story of the movie is Cole wants to live in the past despite being ordered not to (Cole: &quot;This part isn't about the virus, is it? It's about obeying, about doing what you're told.&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-02-23T07:04:04.410" LastActivityDate="2012-02-23T07:04:04.410" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="752" CreationDate="2012-02-04T18:15:55.573" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I firmly believe that Thierry Guetta is not a real person but was invented for the film. Some evidence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he reportedly made lots of money from his clothing business, but in the brief clip of his store, it looks like a couple of racks of clothes in some crappy room&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he reportedly has a wife and kids, but then leaves them to spend &quot;years&quot; filming his documentary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;all 'Thierry Guetta' or 'Mr Brainwash' material found via Google seems manufactured, not authentic. For example, mrbrainwash.com seems real at first glance, but try to buy something... you can't!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bansky delights in trickery&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the creation of the Guetta character would be an ideal way to spice up what is otherwise just a documentary about Banksy and his fellow street artists&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-02-06T04:29:30.317" LastActivityDate="2012-02-06T04:29:30.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="435" CreationDate="2012-02-04T18:32:12.837" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A scene in the movie provides a lovely explanation of the hat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Verna:&lt;/em&gt; What're you chewin' over?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tom Reagan:&lt;/em&gt; Dream I had once. I was walkin' in the woods, I don't know why. Wind came up and blew me hat off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Verna:&lt;/em&gt; And you chased it, right? You ran and ran, finally caught up to it and you picked it up. But it wasn't a hat anymore and it changed into something else, something wonderful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tom Reagan:&lt;/em&gt; Nah, it stayed a hat and no, I didn't chase it. Nothing more foolish than a man chasin' his hat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T18:32:12.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1193" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4425" CreationDate="2012-02-04T19:13:20.260" Score="70" ViewCount="59572" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Back to the Future Part II, Doc picks up Marty in 1985 and takes him to 2015. Then old Biff realizes the Delorean is a time machine. Old Biff steals the Delorean and travels from 2015 to 1955 to give the 1955 version of himself the 2015 sports almanac. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When old Biff then returned to 2015 from 1955, shouldn't he have arrived in a way-different 2015? Instead, he arrives in the same 2015 that he departed, where Doc and Marty are still running around as if nothing changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's pic of Doc Brown in BTTF2 explaining how Old Biff created new timeline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q3Su5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;doc brown at chalkboard&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a problem created by perspective. When Old Biff takes the Delorean back in time, &lt;em&gt;we viewers do not go along for the ride&lt;/em&gt;. We're left hanging in a 2015 that becomes obsolete when Old Biff changes 1955. Seems our 2015 has two options: continue to exist as an alternate to the 2015 Old Biff created, or cease to exist. Either way, still seems our 2015 would be unreachable by Old Biff and the Delorean on their return from 1955.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="1064" LastEditDate="2017-09-24T20:25:42.583" LastActivityDate="2017-09-24T20:25:42.583" Title="In Back to the Future Part II, how could old Biff have made it back to 2015?" Tags="|plot-explanation|time-travel|back-to-the-future-part-2|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1194" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1201" CreationDate="2012-02-04T19:53:40.943" Score="33" ViewCount="76890" Body="&lt;p&gt;The awesome relationship movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338013/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ends with a scene in which the two main characters are tempted to get back together but are not sure. The woman points out that they both know they will most likely just end up breaking up again. The man responds by saying &quot;Okay&quot; and then the woman also says &quot;Okay.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they saying they are okay with getting back together despite the probable outcome? Or are they saying they are okay with not getting back together despite their mutual attraction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T18:29:47.593" LastActivityDate="2018-09-16T15:52:27.767" Title="What goes down in final scene of &quot;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|eternal-sunshine-of-spotless-mind|" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1195" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1199" CreationDate="2012-02-04T23:40:54.007" Score="11" ViewCount="251598" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokeback_Mountain&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brokeback Mountain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ennis calls Jack Twist's wife and she tells Ennis that Jack died in some freak tire change accident. They flash to a scene of Jack getting beaten by a gang of men -- supposedly a hate crime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What really did happen to Jack? Was the scene they portrayed what actually happened, or is Jack Twist's wife telling the truth? Furthermore:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To what extent was Jack Twist's wife complicit in whatever happened to Jack? To what extent were Jack's parents complicit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="765" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2018-11-12T02:46:42.400" LastActivityDate="2018-11-12T04:25:09.633" Title="What happened to Jack Twist at the end of Brokeback Mountain?" Tags="|plot-explanation|brokeback-mountain|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1179" CreationDate="2012-02-04T23:47:29.997" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't think that Kate blew up the snowbile.&#xA;I believe she torched her boyfriend and rode off.&#xA;I assumed that she survived, and was not infected.&#xA;The way the movie ended though with the helicopter pilot and Lars chasing down the infected dog, was interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only use infected here to refer to not being real and as being the thing.&#xA;The movie was fun and worth many a watch. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="754" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T23:47:29.997" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1193" CreationDate="2012-02-04T23:56:28.550" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;In all the Back to the Future movies, a major component of the plot is reality taking time to catch up to events.  Typically, this is represented as pictures with gradually changing features, which the protagonists are trying to prevent from changing.  Marty's family photo in the first movie, and the tombstone in the third are examples of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this behavior, we can infer it takes time for changes to propagate to the future.  Otherwise, Marty would have blinked out of existence in the first movie as soon as he pushed his father out of the street; and the rest of the movies would have been...  different, to say the least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So since old Biff returned to his present as soon as he interacted with his younger self, the changes hadn't had time to take effect, yet.  This is also required for Doc and Marty to go back to the 50's.  In the altered future, the new Doc and Marty would neither have had the ability, nor known about the change which needed fixing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="411" LastActivityDate="2012-02-04T23:56:28.550" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1198" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1200" CreationDate="2012-02-05T04:29:14.423" Score="8" ViewCount="1569" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching a movie on TV when I was a kid, so in the mid- to late-80's. I expect it was a Disney movie, as at that age the majority of movies I watched were on the &quot;Sunday Night Disney Movie&quot; special (on ABC, I think).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie featured a &quot;teenage&quot; kid who was a robot/android, built by his &quot;father.&quot;  The kid looked fully human. I seem to recall that when his batteries were running low, he spoke, and likely moved slowly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only scene I recall involved him asking a stranger (perhaps after ringing their front door bell?) if he could use their outlet, and they were confused, and showed him to the bathroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T13:59:41.953" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T13:59:41.953" Title="Disney movie with a teenage android?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:34:52.503" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1195" CreationDate="2012-02-05T04:32:18.727" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's any doubt that he was actually killed as a result of a hate crime.  As to whether or not Lureen was aware of the truth of the matter, Anne Hathaway commented on this in an interview on NPR a couple of years ago (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388795/trivia?tab=tr&amp;amp;item=tr1374332&quot;&gt;from here&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a November 2010 interview on the National Public Radio program &quot;Fresh Air,&quot; Anne Hathaway told interviewer Terry Gross that she actually has no idea whether or not her character, Lureen, tells the truth in the phone conversation in which Lureen tells Ennis how Jack died. Hathaway said that she shot two takes of the scene: one in which Lureen &quot;knew what was going on with Jake's character Jack and that he'd been cheating on me with men and that I knew about the gay bashing,&quot; and one in which Lureen &quot;had no idea... you know, it was a terrible accident with a car tire.&quot; Hathaway told Gross that instead of using all of either take, there were shots from both takes edited into the final movie, so she doesn't know what the director's or the editor's intentions for her character or for the truth about Jack's death really were. She also said that she has never asked director Ang Lee what he thinks the truth is because &quot;Ang knows the truth in his head, and it's not important to me. I actually think I get to be a part of the film as an audience member because I don't know, because I think the ambiguity is what is the strength of that scene and what's heartbreaking about it.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastActivityDate="2012-02-05T04:32:18.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1198" CreationDate="2012-02-05T05:00:18.410" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093649/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Not Quite Human&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; which was a Disney TV production from the late 80's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5fn7j.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-02-05T05:00:18.410" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1194" CreationDate="2012-02-05T06:21:04.477" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene goes like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joel: I can't see anything that I don't like about you.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Clementine: But you will! But you will. You know, you will think of things. And I'll get bored with you and feel trapped because that's what happens with me.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Joel: Okay.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Clementine: [pauses] Okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clementine is warning him that she will eventually feel bored with him, and things will go wrong all over again. Joel is saying &quot;Okay&quot; to all that. He wants the chance to make sweet memories with her again. He realized how important they were to him when he almost lost them. Despite the eventual heart break, those moments were worth all the anguish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-02-05T06:21:04.477" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="661" CreationDate="2012-02-05T18:18:08.220" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the record, I have discovered that the gruesome 'death by bendy trees' can be found in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028345/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tarzan Escapes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1936) - but I am still perplexed by the 'dinosaur/tank' memory. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm definitely not thinking of &lt;em&gt;Dr. No&lt;/em&gt;, the location was in the African jungle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am making this a bounty question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-02-05T18:18:08.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="960" CreationDate="2012-02-06T04:08:47.473" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realize an answer has already been accepted, but it is rather long and off-topic -- in fact I'm not even sure if it contains an answer to the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, when interpreting anything in &quot;Melancholia,&quot; keep in mind that Lars von Trier has referenced his own struggles with depression as a source of inspiration for the film. Also, the film's title is &quot;Melancholia.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accordingly, the first instance -- Justine's inability to cross the bridge -- represents how her depression limits her: she can't keep up with her depression-free sister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second instance -- Claire's inability to cross the bridge -- represents how, in the long run, even Claire's freedom from depression can't save her. Unlike Justine, Claire has the desire to survive and has enough mental strength to attempt to escape, but when the golf cart dies, Claire's escape attempt fails, and she's doomed to the same fate as Justine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2013-12-11T02:12:30.270" LastActivityDate="2013-12-11T02:12:30.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1207" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1223" CreationDate="2012-02-06T05:42:32.760" Score="7" ViewCount="2236" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, The Grudge, near the end it is shown that-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the father of the Japanese family have killed the mother (by chasing and stabbing her?) and have drowned the black cat. He has done this in a fit of rage upon discovering the mother's affection for the professor. He then kills himself by hanging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the movie, the little boy (Toshio) is visible to the characters who eventually die. And when the father is killing the cat, Toshio is seen hiding and cowering in a corner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how did Toshio actually die? (And did he?). As I remember, it is not shown clearly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T14:34:17.277" LastActivityDate="2014-01-15T09:31:38.200" Title="How did Toshio die?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-grudge|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1193" CreationDate="2012-02-06T05:48:26.763" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that old Biff made it back to his own timeline should have been an indication to him that his plans didn't work out in the end. There were effectively two timelines old Biff created when he gave the almanac to his younger self.However, once Marty got the almanac back in the alternate 1985, there was then no longer an alternate 2015. The alternate 1985 effectively stopped once Marty was able to fix things again. So when old Biff went back to 2015, there was only one version of 2015, since by that time the alternate timeline had been closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Got all that? ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2012-02-06T05:48:26.763" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1211" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1289" CreationDate="2012-02-06T16:38:09.520" Score="8" ViewCount="1294" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &quot;There's Something about Mary&quot; (1998) the characters sing &quot;Build me up, Buttercup&quot; which seems to be fairly unrelated to the film and at the time unique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was TSaM the first film to employ a &quot;Cast Song&quot; for the credits? If not what was? I'd also be curious about what other films have used this for credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="386" LastEditDate="2012-02-12T11:34:03.157" LastActivityDate="2012-02-12T11:34:03.157" Title="Unrelated Cast Songs for the Credits" Tags="|soundtrack|directors|credits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1212" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-06T17:03:05.170" Score="13" ViewCount="3686" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like many American boys who grew up in the 1980s, I loved the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Joe:_A_Real_American_Hero_(1985_TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking back, I think just about every episode of the show included at least some scenes of intense combat -- but I'm also pretty sure that in all those battles, no soldiers on either side were ever killed or even maimed. People would shoot at each other with those laser guns, but no one ever got hit. And when planes or helicopters would get shot down, the pilots always parachute out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I forgetting something, or &lt;strong&gt;is it true that no one ever died in battle in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that I am referring only to the TV show, and not including GI Joe The Movie, in which Serpentor takes over Cobra)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-09-07T14:58:26.463" LastActivityDate="2016-09-07T14:58:26.463" Title="Was anyone ever killed/maimed in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero?" Tags="|gi-joe-real-american-hero|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1212" CreationDate="2012-02-06T20:07:46.297" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &quot;Worlds without end&quot;, the Joes travel to a parallel universe where G.I.Joe was eradicated and Cobra won. They even run into the skeletons of a few dead Joes. But no one was killed on screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-02-06T20:07:46.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1193" CreationDate="2012-02-06T20:57:55.050" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I explained something similar to this over on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8228/why-was-marty-present-in-his-jump-to-2015-in-back-to-the-future-2/9487#9487&quot;&gt;Sci-fi/Fantasy site&lt;/a&gt;, but this one is actually easier to answer. If the change you made in time affects the future you have to wait for it to catch up to you. An example of this is when Marty saves his dad he alters history but it takes about a week to catch up to his present and erase him from time. Even if he had jumped in the time machine and traveled back to 1985 Hill Valley he would have had to wait a week. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you travel back into time from an altered future point (from 2015 to Biff altered 1985) the transition is instantaneous. This is because you are traveling down the time stream rather than in static time waiting for events to catch up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first this may seem like a contradiction but it really isn't. My belief is that the Flux Capacitor creates a temporary bubble around time travelers that allow them to be absorbed into a changed time line rather than sudden disruption. So Old Biff would not have been able to travel to future Biff ruled 1985 or even 2015 because he is such a completely different individual in those times as well as the world around him has changed so drastically. Marty was able to travel to an alternative 1985 instantly in the first Back to the Future because it was so close to his current 1985. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words there is one time stream in Back to the Future. It can branch and make new futures but those are eventually absorbed into the one time stream. The further it branches off from the original time stream the longer it takes for changes to catch up to current time. So the answer is the greater the change made to time the longer it takes to affect it especially if there is a possibility of correction to the original time stream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.873" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T13:23:32.567" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1174" CreationDate="2012-02-06T20:58:49.700" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Larry did, in fact, steal The Dude's car.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Larry stole the car, and took it for a joy-ride, then abandoned it.  The homework was in there simply because Larry wasn't terribly smart, and didn't seem to particularly care about getting caught.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The theft caused The Dude and Walter a great deal of stress simply because they had not yet realized that Lebowski had duped them.  If Lebowski had actually given them the ransom money, then Larry would have been a likely candidate for where the money went, and therefore is a major plot point... up until we find out that the ransom money, and everything related to it, was in fact a red herring the whole time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="188" LastActivityDate="2012-02-06T20:58:49.700" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1221" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1222" CreationDate="2012-02-07T11:39:49.437" Score="8" ViewCount="2687" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been awhile since I saw the film, so I may be remembering the scene wrong. However, early in the film, when &quot;Tank&quot; is called upstairs for a meeting (which he thinks is a promotion, but which actually is his assignment to essentially be bait), there's a quick shot of some guy staring at the computer monitor showing Tank nervously getting in the elevator (to me, it looked like the boss watching his employee coming upstairs - a bit like Stromberg watching his secretary take the plunge in The Spy Who Loved Me). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my mind, the guy looked a bit like Ice-T, but I couldn't see his credit in IMDB. I always assumed that that one shot was a setup for either later in the film, or for a potential sequel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know who that guy is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T13:48:21.277" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T13:48:21.277" Title="Who is the boss of Mrs. Smith in Mr. &amp; Mrs. Smith?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mr-and-mrs-smith|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1221" CreationDate="2012-02-07T15:16:18.610" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keith David &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0202966/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0202966/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="779" LastActivityDate="2012-02-07T15:16:18.610" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1207" CreationDate="2012-02-07T15:30:43.900" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Toshio was drowned as well. In the film his spirit and the cat's spirit kind of merged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-02-08T16:38:14.677" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T16:38:14.677" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1224" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1225" CreationDate="2012-02-07T19:04:49.027" Score="5" ViewCount="1238" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching a movie a few times about a group of kids with a paper route.  The main kid is a teenager that just moved to the area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main scene I remember is the main kid trying to deliver a paper to an old war vet and having to use some strategy tactics to deliver it and &quot;win&quot; the old man's war, gaining him respect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember seeing the movie somewhere between mid 90's to early 00's.  Does anyone recognize this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-02-07T19:32:22.893" LastActivityDate="2012-02-07T19:38:00.147" Title="What is this movie with a group of kids and a paper route?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:34:55.627" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1224" CreationDate="2012-02-07T19:38:00.147" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the movie you want is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117287/combined&quot;&gt;IMDB: The Paper Brigade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The reviews list all your plot elements, especially about befriending the &quot;crazy&quot; war vet played by&lt;br/&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000387/&quot;&gt;IMDB: Robert Englund&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Here's an excerpt: &lt;em&gt;After the first day he decides it's too much effort until he discovers a pretty girl is on his route. The movie deals with his first love and other antics like a battle worn vet he befriends and neighborhood bullies.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2012-02-07T19:38:00.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1230" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-07T23:21:51.280" Score="10" ViewCount="2229" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;Mad Max&quot;, there was a large farmhand character. In the &quot;Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome&quot; movie, Max fights a masked giant in the dome. I have always imagined it was the same character (big farmboy) from &quot;Mad Max&quot; that had managed to survive the apocolypse by way of his brawn (as &quot;Blaster&quot;). When Max unmasks him, Blaster smiles a &quot;No hard feelings&quot; smile at Max. Is Blaster in &quot;Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome&quot; supposed to be the same character as the farmhand in &quot;Mad Max&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-26T12:34:23.463" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T16:21:03.410" Title="Was Blaster from &quot;Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome&quot; the same character as the big farmhand from &quot;Mad Max&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|mad-max|mad-max-3|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1235" CreationDate="2012-02-08T05:14:45.507" Score="11" ViewCount="5260" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2023998/&quot;&gt;Homeland: Blind Spot&lt;/a&gt;, after Afzal Hamid (I think) is interrogated by Saul Berenson and left alone in the room to reveal details of the Terrorist organization, why is there &lt;code&gt;silence&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;death metal music&lt;/code&gt; time sliced in the interrogation room?&lt;br /&gt;Does this happen in real interrogation situations too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-09-12T14:17:28.440" LastActivityDate="2013-05-04T10:35:46.883" Title="Why is death metal being played in the interrogation room in Homeland: Blind Spot" Tags="|plot-explanation|homeland|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1232" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1233" CreationDate="2012-02-08T06:24:03.423" Score="31" ViewCount="32203" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the last acts of Don Corleone as Godfather is to bring back the peace by calling for a meeting of the five families.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Corleone makes the case for why narcotics are something he wants to stay out of.  Then another guy stands up and makes the case for narcotics. Corleone says he came there to reason and find the peace, and Barzini declares that the narcotics trade will commence despite what Corleone wants, and that Corleone will give up a lot of his power. Corleone gives a monologue where he doesn't seem to say much, and then just like that it's over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did he give in so easily?  He didn't even seem to put up a fight or to argue his case. I don't understand why he felt it was necessary to give Barzini and Tattaglia and his other enemies exactly what they wanted just to keep the peace.  Surely they all wanted peace as well.  Yet it seems like Don Corleone just got slapped in the face at the meeting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2021-11-27T16:57:33.180" LastActivityDate="2023-11-27T21:29:43.857" Title="Why does Don Corleone give in so easily in The Godfather?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1232" CreationDate="2012-02-08T08:41:14.017" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Don Corleone, there were certain red lines you don't cross, and poisoning the people of your neighborhood with drugs was one of those red lines. It also didn't help that Sonny spoke up at the meeting the way he did. Essentially, Don Corleone realized that he had no leverage left among the other dons - they knew not only what his position was, but also who they could potentially exploit to get around that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spoiler ahead for further explanation:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Had Carlo not had Sonny killed in the tollbooth, it's entirely possible Sonny would have been convinced to go along with dealing drugs, even after the attempt on Don Corleone's life. Michael was the one wild card none of the other families knew what to make of him; as far as they were concerned, he was either weak like Fredo or just a simple civilian. That was what allowed them to think they could fool him into sitting down with a meeting with Barzini at the end of the film - they just didn't know that Don Corleone had warned him about that possibility before he died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorUserId="3203" LastEditDate="2014-02-12T08:56:58.057" LastActivityDate="2014-02-12T08:56:58.057" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1231" CreationDate="2012-02-08T09:53:56.487" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because after an hour of being forced to listen to death metal you'll confess to anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They were practicing sleep deprivation, where just as he's about to nod off they jolt him awake again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T09:53:56.487" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1236" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1238" CreationDate="2012-02-08T10:11:48.707" Score="7" ViewCount="994" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi I'm trying to identify a martial arts movie, I thought it was called &quot;The Golden Arrow&quot;.&#xA;I saw it sometime in the early 90s&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't remember all that much, but the scene I remember is when the main character has his master firing arrows at him, while he is blindfolded.  He dodges/deflects them all but then catches &quot;The Golden arrow&quot;  His master rushes over asking how he knows to catch that one and tell him his training is complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there may be a part of the movie where he starts to glow golden but I'm a bit more hazy on that part!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="430" LastEditDate="2012-02-08T10:23:07.867" LastActivityDate="2016-04-11T09:47:11.760" Title="Trying to identify a martial arts movie, I thought it was called &quot;The Golden Arrow&quot;" Tags="|identify-this-movie|martial-arts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:35:01.963" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1236" CreationDate="2012-02-08T13:08:00.087" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the movie you are talking about is &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089461/combined&quot;&gt;The Last Dragon&lt;/a&gt;&quot; - 1985 martial arts musical film. The following is an excerpt from a website describing parts of the movie and fits in with your description (not sure if I am allowed to link to random sites here, I can add them if I am)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;His master fires arrows at him, and he deftly smacks them in half.&#xA;  Very useful, if he's ever attacked by the Sioux nation. He mixes up&#xA;  the routine a little by catching the last arrow, which just happens to&#xA;  have blue feathers instead of black. How did he know that, him master&#xA;  asks of him? Was it because it was the third arrow, and his master&#xA;  just works in patterns? No, he just knew, he explained. Well that&#xA;  tears it. When you can guess the color of arrow feathers, you have&#xA;  officially moved beyond receiving colored belts (or dragon patches, in&#xA;  this case). His training is complete. One thing is still bugging ol'&#xA;  Leroy: when he masters... whatever martial art he's working on, he's&#xA;  supposed to give off some kind of glow to signify his mastery, and yet&#xA;  he merely glistens with sweat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="778" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-02-08T17:44:10.970" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T17:44:10.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1339" CreationDate="2012-02-08T17:43:13.177" Score="6" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Chronicle, the three guys learn how to fly.  While playing around they end up encountering a jet airplane.  In this encounter one of them gets knocked out.  I didn’t see him get hit by it, so how did he get knocked out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:27:19.223" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T12:27:19.223" Title="How did the jet airplane knock one of them out?" Tags="|chronicle|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1241" CreationDate="2012-02-08T18:07:27.117" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was cut out the scene, but I just watched this, and I remember hearing the hit.  It was implied that the guy was hit. It was sort of a messy scene, but I re-iterate that I am pretty sure that the sound of the hit was there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="754" LastActivityDate="2012-02-08T18:07:27.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1246" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-09T04:05:47.403" Score="12" ViewCount="3220" Body="&lt;p&gt;I loved &lt;em&gt;King of Kong&lt;/em&gt;. But is it real? More specifically, &lt;strong&gt;what evidence proves the scoring battles of &lt;em&gt;King of Kong&lt;/em&gt; really happened?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you haven't seen it, the movie's main characters are the perfect David/Goliath contrast... one a super-nice teacher guy down on his luck, the other an arrogant, smug, successful-small-business jerkwad with a mullet. And the good guy wins in the end!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But looking back, the &lt;em&gt;King of Kong&lt;/em&gt; story and especially those characters seemed a little too perfect. So I looked into things on the 'net. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few minutes of Googling led to articles and even some photos (like the one below) appearing to confirm that the Billy Mitchell character is real and has been in gaming for awhile. &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VYNZH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Billy Mitchell 1982 (?)&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But photos are easy to fake. That one of Bily Mitchell could have been easily forged in Photoshop using an old photo of the actor who played Mitchell. And look closely at his sweatshirt... the C in Centipede seems oddly cut-off, no?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And when I dug further on the 'net, I noticed &lt;strong&gt;much of the material confirming the scoring battles appears to come from just a few sources&lt;/strong&gt;, most notably TwinGalaxies.com, the website mentioned extensively in the movie. For instance, many of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Kong:_A_Fistful_of_Quarters#cite_note-newhighscore-26&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the gaming-history-related Wikipedia references for the movie&lt;/a&gt; come from &quot;articles&quot; on TwinGalaxies.com. This site and its contents easily could have been created by the movie's makers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there's other evidence suggesting &lt;em&gt;King of Kong&lt;/em&gt; is a mockumentary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tagline for the movie -- &quot;Don't get chumpatized&quot; -- seems less&#xA;appropo for the movie as a documentary but very appropo for the movie&#xA;as a mockumentary &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The movie references a character called &quot;Mister Awesome&quot; who seems like he would have a significant Internet presence, but basically all that exists is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.royawesome.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a half-assed website&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3gW_91bjkg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a Youtube video with footage from the movie repackaged as a fake news-show segment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Director Seth Gordon is no stranger to comedy,&#xA;having directed an episode each of Modern Family and Community, two&#xA;episodes of The Office, and multiple episodes of Parks and&#xA;Recreation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(update 1) YouTube has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62Z1lqiNSkk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;short clip of 1983 &quot;That's Incredible&quot; episode&lt;/a&gt; which purports to show Walter Day hosting video game tourney, but clip's edits seem strange, and more importantly: no Billy Mitchell&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(update 2) Evidence suggesting King of Kong is real:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.2neatmagazines.com/life/1980-84.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this site that describes old Life magazines&lt;/a&gt;, the January 1983 issue did include story on video-game high-scorers, including Billy Mitchell.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-21T10:59:46.797" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T13:52:56.240" Title="Outside of the movie, what evidence confirms scoring battles of &quot;King of Kong&quot; are real?" Tags="|documentary|the-king-of-kong|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1247" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-09T06:28:39.457" Score="12" ViewCount="2981" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched a movie a few years ago, and now can't remember the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main character received a mysterious email at work containing a list of every woman he had, or would have sex with--past and future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can provide more details if necessary, but I'm sure this will be enough for anyone who's seen the movie (and remembers the title) to identify it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastActivityDate="2012-02-09T15:20:33.813" Title="Movie about a guy who receives a mysterious list of all his girlfriends, past and future" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-11-22T20:30:10.260" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1246" CreationDate="2012-02-09T08:56:22.967" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very intriguing question. I haven't seen the film--only discovered its existence a few days ago--so while I won't understand all the context I may be a little more impartial. I have a few comments and have also done a little research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, regarding the &quot;C&quot; of young Billy Mitchell's top. It just seems to me that the left half is folded underneath a crease, like the &quot;2&quot; of &quot;25,000,000&quot; directly below it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Twin Galaxies seems to be by far the main compilation of gaming records, statistics, etc. Its &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Galaxies&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; contains a lot of its history dating back to 1981, however this is not entirely convincing for the same reason--a lot of its references are from TwinGalaxies.com. It claims to have collaborated with Guinness World Records; the link is dead but an old version can be seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20100107225258/http://gamers.guinnessworldrecords.com/aboutus/twin_galaxies.aspx&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; which confirms a lot of the history. Additionally, performing a &lt;a href=&quot;http://whois.domaintools.com/twingalaxies.com&quot;&gt;whois on TwinGalaxies.com&lt;/a&gt; suggests that the site has been up for at least 9 years (&lt;em&gt;King of Kong&lt;/em&gt; was released in 2007). So to me it seems like a legitimate entity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's hard to tell with Mr. Awesome because I can't believe anyone like that could take themselves completely seriously. From what I've researched, my opinion is that Mr. Awesome is Roy Shildt's half-serious persona--and the serious half reflects Shildt's willingness to do anything to be famous. I found an appearance of his on the Howard Stern Show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZABSfjRrTaw&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (it's Stern, so it's &lt;strong&gt;NSFW&lt;/strong&gt;) in 2001 (source &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.marksfriggin.com/news01/2-5-01.htm&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and do a search on &quot;awesome&quot;). Again it seems to not be created specifically for the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seth Gordon's biography suggests mockumentary. As well as what you've mentioned, he apparently cites as an influence, Christopher Guest, who is well known for his work with mockumentaries such as &lt;em&gt;This is Spinal Tap&lt;/em&gt;. I can't come up with any examples of documentary directors who have later worked in comedy, although I don't think it's impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this evidence considered, I think &lt;em&gt;King of Kong&lt;/em&gt; is genuine. If you believe Guinness WR and whois, then you should recognise Twin Galaxies. And if you recognise them you should believe the information they present. I guess it could be a hoax, but it would have to be incredibly well thought out years in advance, as well as executed perfectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I should really go watch the movie =)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2012-02-09T15:17:41.650" LastActivityDate="2012-02-09T15:17:41.650" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1247" CreationDate="2012-02-09T14:03:21.827" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is Sex and Death 101. It stars Simon Baker (The Mentalist) as a guy who receives a list of all of the women he has or will ever date. At first he thinks of this as a surefire sex list but as events plays out he starts to realize the downside. He can't ever have a date that works out that is not on the list even if he finds the perfect woman for him. Also he only gets their first initial and a last name. It also stars Winona Ryder. It's a pretty decent movie overall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2012-02-09T14:03:21.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1252" CreationDate="2012-02-09T14:44:12.590" Score="18" ViewCount="3061" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the photo-montage end credit sequence for the 2009 comedy hit, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hangover&quot;&gt;The Hangover&lt;/a&gt;, some light is shed on many of the unexplained occurrences that happened during that lost night. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do not recall seeing where the chicken came from, or why they even had a chicken in their suite. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the risk of answering my own question, I assume it was there to feed the tiger but, seeing as everything else in the film was neatly wrapped up, is there any documented evidence to explain its appearance in the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-21T18:07:59.550" LastActivityDate="2013-01-21T18:07:59.550" Title="Where did the chicken come from?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hangover|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1251" CreationDate="2012-02-09T17:53:13.017" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;http://filmdr.blogspot.com/2009/06/hangover-and-chicken-mystery.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;funny article&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;I found, blogged about this mystery, it is revealed in one section that the Chicken is a few things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Officially&lt;/strong&gt;, in an interview with Ed Helms, he mentions the director, Todd Phillips, reasoning for the chicken, he states that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;...Although Todd will tell you, Todd Philips, the director, when I called him on the chicken I was like `What's the deal with the chicken?' He says that we stole the chicken to feed the tiger.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.thephoenix.com/blogs/outsidetheframe/archive/2009/06/01/interview-with-ed-helms-from-quot-the-hangover-quot.aspx&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(full official interview here)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Ed Helms goes on a bit of an extreme stating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;.. the chicken is a &quot;symbol of chaos,&quot; with possible &quot;Bunuel-esque&quot; overtones.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also some funny theories you can link off of in that article, but that I will leave to your own device.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-02-09T17:53:13.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1255" CreationDate="2012-02-09T18:16:39.417" Score="23" ViewCount="5570" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although there is no disputing the impact that Steven Spielberg's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jurassic Park&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; had when it was released in 1992, there has always been one scene that has bugged/perplexed me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I speak of the climax, when Alan Grant et al are surrounded by the Velociraptors and about to be pounced upon, when suddenly the T-Rex lunges in and 'saves the day'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has already been established earlier on the film that the T-Rex telegraphs its approach with thunderous footsteps, and I'm pretty sure that even if the humans were surrounded by malevolent reptiles, they would notice a huge T-rex squeezing in through the front door of the reception center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible explanations include the T-Rex's ambushing skills (as evident in the earlier Gallimimus chasing scene), the afore-mentioned distraction of the Velociraptors, or even a huge suspension of disbelief to better serve the dynamism of the scene. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't like the idea of T-Rex just being shoehorned into the scene to add some va va voom, so is there a better explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T18:02:09.670" Title="Where did the T-Rex come from?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jurassic-park|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1254" CreationDate="2012-02-09T18:31:12.200" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well I never wondered about this. There has been quite a chaos (with them falling through the ceiling into these skeletons) immediately before it, under which an approaching T-Rex could really get lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would indeed attribute this to the distraction created by the velociraptors and the overall chaos of this scene (both for the audience and the characters). And maybe a bit of trying to create a very surprising moment by sacrificing a small bit of realism (which never bothered me at all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2012-02-09T18:31:12.200" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1256" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1259" CreationDate="2012-02-09T19:02:24.240" Score="8" ViewCount="950" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_City_%28film%29#Sequel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, Robert Rodriguez announced that he would do &lt;em&gt;Sin City 2&lt;/em&gt;.  The latest update, according to Wikipedia, is that they're almost done writing the script.  Is there any indication as to why it's taking so long for &lt;em&gt;Sin City 2&lt;/em&gt; to come to fruition?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not looking for speculation or discussion, I'm looking for concrete sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-01-21T12:44:49.457" LastActivityDate="2019-01-21T12:44:49.457" Title="What's taking Sin City 2 so long?" Tags="|production|sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1257" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2421" CreationDate="2012-02-09T19:05:12.703" Score="13" ViewCount="12835" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've asked myself why the imaginary co-worker of Reznik in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361862/&quot;&gt;The Machinist&lt;/a&gt; (2004) is called Ivan, and why Reznik himself reads &quot;The Idiot&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Wikipedia, Ivan is reference to &quot;The Brothers Karamazov&quot; and the movie is influenced by &quot;The Double: A Petersburg Poem&quot; by Dostoyevsky. But are there really references to &quot;The Idiot&quot; and &quot;The Brothers Karamazov&quot; in the movie, or they are used just because they are some of the most famous Dostoyevsky's books?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="796" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-02-09T22:02:18.347" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T10:19:47.793" Title="Is there real connection between The Machinist and Dostoyevsky's books?" Tags="|analysis|reference|the-machinist|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1230" CreationDate="2012-02-09T19:12:17.017" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this sounds like an awesome theory, I'd have to go with &quot;No, they are not.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The farmhand, when Max met him, was an older man, looking well into his early 60s. Judging from Blaster's physique in Thunderdome and given that the third film takes place &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max_Beyond_Thunderdome#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;15 years after the farmhand scene from the original Mad Max&lt;/a&gt;, the farmhand would have been well into his 70s by that point. Regardless of how in shape you are, at that age your skin isn't going to look like a glistening professional wrestler. Especially in a dystopian environment like in the Mad Max films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always attributed that look to Blaster's perceived lack of intelligence, yet understanding of &quot;this is how the world works.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="720" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-26T16:06:51.143" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T16:06:51.143" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1256" CreationDate="2012-02-09T19:21:43.660" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/robert-rodriguez-offers-up-another-sin-city-2-update-funding-script&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;One of the issues that took so long was the funding, which Rodriguez only in August announced was in place&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one is going to write a sequel on spec, so that was a big component. William Monahan was brought in at the end of the summer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/sin-city-2-writer-william-monahan-sandy-129549/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rewrite Miller's screenplay&lt;/a&gt;. Rodriguez still claims that once the script is in place they can start shooting. It is clearly still &quot;not in place.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind, too, Frank Miller was in &quot;movie jail&quot; after the disaster that was The Spirit. This is an unspoken predicament that happens often in Hollywood where someone puts out a film that is a financial and critical disaster. They wind up having to wait a few years before getting a chance to jump back in to actual production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="720" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T10:00:13.197" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T10:00:13.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1261" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1263" CreationDate="2012-02-10T04:06:19.197" Score="8" ViewCount="464" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the risk of provoking nothing but speculation, I was wondering if there is any definite proof as to whether the long-awaited Arrested Development movie will be made. Usually each time I check every few months there is a new hopeful promise, which only seems to serve to displace the previous hopeful promise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ifc.com/fix/2012/01/arrested-development-movie-update&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;current story&lt;/a&gt; is that there will be 10 episodes followed by a movie, shooting this summer to be released early next year. I'm not really savvy to the way these productions happen; is there any solid evidence that these plans will be carried out? Or is the whole thing just a giant pun on the show's name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-04-22T05:04:16.417" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T05:04:16.417" Title="Is the Arrested Development movie really being made?" Tags="|arrested-development|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1262" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-10T04:17:15.047" Score="88" ViewCount="12167" Body="&lt;p&gt;We were watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089218/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Goonies&lt;/a&gt; (1985) tonight and I noticed that in the initial scenes one of the characters is rather prominently holding a Pepsi in his hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8YOG5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;goonies pepsi product placement&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know product placement has been a marketing technique used in movies for a long time now, and I doubt Goonies was the first movie to do this -- but &lt;strong&gt;what &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; the first movie to truly popularize or highlight getting paid for placing a product in a movie?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, any historical background / context on product placement in movies, or movies that made notable early marketing deals which resembled product placement, is welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to understand how this started, since the future of advertising seems to be this seamless paid integration of products into plots, rather than separate ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="205" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-10T11:12:34.240" LastActivityDate="2016-10-24T20:58:36.403" Title="First movie with product placement?" Tags="|first-appearance|product-placement|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1261" CreationDate="2012-02-10T04:17:27.433" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://thefilmstage.com/news/arrested-development-movie-coming-after-10-episode-fourth-season-early-2013-released-planned/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TheFilmStage&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jason Bateman then confirmed on Twitter that they will shoot 10 episodes and the movie will follow. He expects an early 2013 release, but the network on where these initial episodes will air, or the studio that will produce/distribute, haven’t been locked down either. Hurwitz said they don’t own the property outright and “there is still lots of business to do” and the logistics of having a studio working on a film and TV series simultaneously is difficult.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I expect this is the same report you have seen yourself, and is as concrete as the evidence gets at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T12:53:50.513" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T12:53:50.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1262" CreationDate="2012-02-10T04:21:49.527" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Wikipedia, product placement is almost as old as film, showing up even in the 1927 silent film Wings and Fritz Lang's 1932 film M.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia:&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement#Early_examples&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; Product placement Early examples&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="800" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-11-18T09:14:06.360" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T09:14:06.360" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1262" CreationDate="2012-02-10T04:26:55.847" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia has a list of examples of &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement#Product_placement_in_movies&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;product placement in movies&lt;/a&gt;. There it points out to the already mentioned &lt;em&gt;Buster Keaton's&lt;/em&gt; Gas Ad. (although there is no definitive proof that this product placement was paid for). Other following mentions go to Fritz Lang's &lt;em&gt;Dr. Mabuse the Gambler&lt;/em&gt; (1922), and perhaps interesting from the artistic point of view is &lt;em&gt;Wings&lt;/em&gt; (1927), the first to win the Academy Award for Best Picture (It contained a plug for Hershey's chocolate.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And over on Sociological Images there's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/03/22/a-history-of-product-placement/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;nice summary&lt;/a&gt; of a 6,5 min video, which confirms that the first known product placement was in 1919. Among other intersting facts, since the question asks about general background:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hershey’s paid a million dollars to make Reeses Pieces a plot point in E.T.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Michael Bay’s &lt;em&gt;Transformers&lt;/em&gt; has the record for most product placed in a single film with 47.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="806" LastEditorUserId="30713" LastEditDate="2016-10-24T20:58:36.403" LastActivityDate="2016-10-24T20:58:36.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1262" CreationDate="2012-02-10T04:48:18.503" Score="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the documentary &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1743720/&quot;&gt;The Greatest Movie Ever Sold&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (a film specifically &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; the topic of product placement), director Morgan Spurlock notes that one of the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; recognized product placements was in the 1919 Roscoe Arbuckle comedy &lt;em&gt;The Garage&lt;/em&gt;, in which a Red Crown Gasoline logo was displayed on screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect watching the documentary would more than likely provide insight into product placement's rise in popularity in tv and film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thefilmpilgrim.com/features/product-placement-on-movie-screens/6468&quot;&gt;Product Placement on Movie Screens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2012-02-10T04:48:18.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1267" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1269" CreationDate="2012-02-10T08:10:07.913" Score="5" ViewCount="1227" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I've watched the movie named &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780571/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mr.Brooks&lt;/a&gt;. It was a wonderful movie with lots of twists and it certainly has its fair share of suspense and violence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't understand, &lt;strong&gt;Why does Mr. Brooks call Atwood after killing Mr. Smith?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-11T10:41:54.780" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T10:41:54.780" Title="Why does Mr. Brooks call Atwood?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|mr-brooks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1267" CreationDate="2012-02-10T09:56:06.010" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because he wants to know why she became a police officer given that she is very rich, could have gone into her father's business, or just lived the high life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="64" LastActivityDate="2012-02-10T09:56:06.010" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1212" CreationDate="2012-02-10T15:12:58.350" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked a friend and his response was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;There was an episode that had a handful of the JOE team searching for the others. Steeler was really on the edge of insanity because nothing made sense. They found the old JOE base, and ran the records to find everyone else had been killed. I can't remember if it was one of those &quot;skewed universes&quot; or a secret COBRA land, where they made it like they were victorious&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this the episode that SystemDown refers to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-02-10T15:12:58.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13" CreationDate="2012-02-10T18:44:34.530" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read the book. Dennis Lehane's book. I can definitely assure that he was crazy. The whole roleplay scenario was doctor's plan to get him out of his sickness. Eventually he gets cured but because of the guilt he acts like he hasn't been cured and dies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-02-23T16:32:22.883" LastActivityDate="2024-02-23T16:32:22.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1272" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16091" CreationDate="2012-02-10T19:30:30.003" Score="9" ViewCount="5759" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Anderson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wes Anderson&lt;/a&gt;'s new movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonrise_Kingdom&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Moonrise Kingdom&lt;/a&gt;, does not include any of the Wilson brothers, i.e.- &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005561/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Luke&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005562/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Owen&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932992/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Andrew&lt;/a&gt; in the cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In every previous film a Wilson brother has been cast. In fact Owen Wilson has been in all of his films to this point. Did the Wilson brothers and Wes Anderson have a falling out after The Fantastic Mister Fox? Or is there some other reason for their absence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="829" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-06-27T13:21:39.187" LastActivityDate="2014-01-22T12:19:09.327" Title="Why is there no Wilson brother in the new Wes Anderson movie?" Tags="|casting|moonrise-kingdom|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1274" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1310" CreationDate="2012-02-10T20:23:18.973" Score="7" ViewCount="961" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somewhere in the late 70s to early 80s. I remember a movie that I enjoyed (though apparently not enough to remember) that featured a girl somewhere in the age range of 10-14. She is very bright and raised in a good home, but has a penchant for kleptomania. The girl is also terrified of fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She is helped by a piano teacher who is initially abusive. The strongest memory is placing a pencil under the girl's wrists while she practiced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other thing I remember is that the 'bad guy' was about as imposing and scary as a teddy bear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-01T08:06:25.677" LastActivityDate="2013-12-01T08:06:55.803" Title="Kids movie about a kleptomaniac girl with a fear of fire and an abusive piano teacher" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:35:05.083" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1165" CreationDate="2012-02-10T21:15:06.627" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;This theme is not limited to martial arts movies and makes an appearance in many movie genres. The eating a bowl of noodles can easily be traded out with having a beer in a saloon from any number of westerns. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This device has occurs constantly in westerns. See this clip from a 1939 western: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/F2GIirKPy6g?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="829" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T11:10:34.130" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T11:10:34.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1277" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8062" CreationDate="2012-02-11T04:36:01.463" Score="6" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;Blitz&quot;, after some time through the movie, just as the female detective (Falls) is being assaulted by the cop-killer (Weiss), the police emerges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did they know to go there at the very moment? Did they find any pattern in the killings? If so, what is the pattern?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-08T23:06:21.883" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T03:31:14.750" Title="How did they know to go to the female detective's house?" Tags="|plot-explanation|blitz|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1278" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1367" CreationDate="2012-02-11T16:34:23.400" Score="41" ViewCount="105842" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Jurassic Park: The Lost World&lt;/em&gt;, a T-Rex is captured from the island, sedated, and put on a boat for the mainland.  During the trip to the mainland, the T-Rex got free and killed everyone.  When the boat arrives, our intrepid heroes find that in the ship's control room, there are body parts.  How did the T-Rex manage to kill people in that room?  All of the doors look smaller than the T-Rex's head, so how did she eat them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-07T12:15:03.093" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T12:15:03.093" Title="How did the T-Rex kill everyone on the boat?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lost-world-jurassic-park|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1278" CreationDate="2012-02-11T18:26:18.113" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a plot hole of the movie. We really don't know what happened aboard the ship, except that the T-Rex was tranqualized and then counteracted.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;There were 2 T-Rexes, but as told to Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), the infant T-Rex was brought back on the plane. This person was obviously there for the loading of the T-Rex on the boat, witness to the injections, who then accompanied the baby on the plane. Only the adult T-Rex was on the ship, tried to escape through the cargo hold doors (they were ajar, maybe warped from the inside), then escaped when the doors were lifted by the guard after arrival.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;All this would suggest that some human being locked the T-Rex in the cargo hold AFTER the slaughter, but who could do that, and with what bait? AND, if there was someone still alive, why drive the ship into the dock at full speed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-02-11T19:24:03.957" LastActivityDate="2012-02-11T19:24:03.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1281" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-11T20:14:47.257" Score="20" ViewCount="30126" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;No Country for Old Men&lt;/a&gt;, why was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chigurh&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anton Chigurh&lt;/a&gt; being arrested at the beginning of the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vqe1L.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-02-12T04:58:01.803" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T01:57:15.000" Title="Why was Anton Chigurh being arrested at the beginning of the film?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|no-country-for-old-men|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1282" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1291" CreationDate="2012-02-11T21:05:23.103" Score="10" ViewCount="2229" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agatha buys the book (titled The Number 23 written by Topsy Kretts) for her husband Walter as a birthday present. Why does she choose this book? Is it a coincidence? Doesn't she know about the past of her husband?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T13:45:25.960" LastActivityDate="2023-08-25T13:10:16.797" Title="Why does Agatha buy the book titled The Number 23 for her husband?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-number-23|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1281" CreationDate="2012-02-11T21:21:13.187" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film doesn't give us an answer, but the book does. Chigurh (as explained to Carson Wells in the novel) allowed himself to be arrested (he was pulled over after he left the scene) for killing a man in a parking lot after the man said something Chigurh didn't like. He (Chigurh) wanted to see if he could &quot;will&quot; his way out of the situation. Although the book and the movie screenplay differ in many ways, both are excellent. Unless there is a directors cut of the film, the reason for Chigurhs arrest is only available in the novel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="769" LastEditDate="2012-03-09T17:21:05.637" LastActivityDate="2012-03-09T17:21:05.637" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1278" CreationDate="2012-02-12T01:50:58.650" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus#Arms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;T. rex&lt;/em&gt; had strong forelimbs&lt;/a&gt;, and while they were likely evolved to deal with struggling prey larger than human, once the tyrannosaur got hungry enough &quot;life found a way.&quot;  At least one person had to go up to the wheelhouse to control the ship, and the dinosaur presumably killed the crew one by one as they emerged from below decks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="843" LastActivityDate="2012-02-12T01:50:58.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1211" CreationDate="2012-02-12T11:09:08.757" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The earliest I found is from 1994's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brego.net/viggo/movies/floundering/&quot;&gt;Floundering&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During the Floundering (credits, the cast sings along in a&#xA;  rendition of &quot;Nothing Funny 'Bout&#xA;  Peace, Love and Understanding,&quot; as the&#xA;  camera pans through the crowd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sort of thing is less incongruous with light comedies. There's Something About Mary (1998) is the first non-musical comedy I found with a cast singalong is probably the main influence for some later similar films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some later end credits cast songs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6980/is_2_25/ai_n31440894/&quot;&gt;Balls of Fury&lt;/a&gt; (2007) features a cast sing-along of Def Leppard's &quot;Pour&#xA;Some Sugar on Me&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/crazycredits&quot;&gt;Slumdog Millionaire&lt;/a&gt; (2008): &quot;Several of the cast perform a&#xA;traditional Bollywood song and dance&#xA;number set in a train station over the&#xA;end credits.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Frothy and crowd-pleasing, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worstpreviews.com/review.php?id=1515&amp;amp;section=review&quot;&gt;You Again&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (2010) concludes, as all such movies do, with a cast sing-along during the end credits. Most of the time it feels forced, but not here. The clearly great time being had by all as they take to the stage is infectious.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, musicals such as Grease (1978) have had cast songs during the credits and may also be an influence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other noteworthy earlier credits songs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Austin Powers: International Man of&#xA;Mystery (1997) has Austin singing &quot;BBC1&quot; in a band during the credits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some episodes of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074028/crazycredits?mode=desktop&quot;&gt;The Muppets&lt;/a&gt; TV show ended with cast singalongs, for example from 1976: &quot;Harry Belafonte: The cast sing the song &quot;Turn the World Around&quot;&#xA;while the end credits roll. Spike Milligan: The cast sing the song &quot;It's a Small World&quot; while&#xA;the end credits sing. Guest Spike Milligan tells them to keep quiet as he's trying to sleep.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="386" LastEditDate="2012-02-12T11:22:45.913" LastActivityDate="2012-02-12T11:22:45.913" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="961" CreationDate="2012-02-12T16:21:54.513" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;At some point during season five or six, Debra moves into the apartment which once belonged to a murder victim. She discovered the apartment when she attended the crime scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="179" LastActivityDate="2012-02-12T16:21:54.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1282" CreationDate="2012-02-12T16:48:05.063" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;She merely bought the book for him as she felt he would be very interested in it, having just skimmed through it herself.  She did not (nor did Walter, at this point) know anything about his past or that he actually wrote the book.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is essentially a &lt;strike&gt; plot device&lt;/strike&gt; coincidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-02-12T16:48:05.063" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1292" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1298" CreationDate="2012-02-12T17:28:34.547" Score="19" ViewCount="241909" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember Fred from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;I Am Legend&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s65Wb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkyT1vir_fg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;scene&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any idea how Fred did get there in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="553" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-05T16:17:34.670" LastActivityDate="2015-05-25T11:01:37.703" Title="How did Fred (mannequin) move outside the store?" Tags="|plot-explanation|i-am-legend|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1292" CreationDate="2012-02-12T17:40:24.020" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fred was used as a bait by the zombies, evident from the trap set there. This leads me to think that it was the zombies who took Fred out of the store and placed him (or it) at the location in the scene.&#xA;This is only possible explanation I can think of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastActivityDate="2012-02-12T17:40:24.020" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1294" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1297" CreationDate="2012-02-12T22:47:19.240" Score="22" ViewCount="24798" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Man With no Name&lt;/em&gt; trilogy the third movie to be made (&lt;em&gt;The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (GBU))&lt;/em&gt; is sometimes said to be set before the first of the movies to be released, &lt;em&gt;A Fistful of Dollars (FFD)&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the evidence is the clothes worn by Clint Eastwood's nameless character. He picks up a poncho late in GBU and that is what he is wearing at the start of FFD. But he seems moneyless at the start of FFD despite having uncovered large quantities of gold in GBU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the chronology really clear? Was it intended? Is it the same poncho? Or are we just over interpreting movies where the characters are only vaguely connected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-03-04T01:31:33.470" LastActivityDate="2019-03-04T01:31:33.470" Title="Is the Good, The Bad and The Ugly set before a Fistful of Dollars?" Tags="|chronology|the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly|a-fistful-of-dollars|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1294" CreationDate="2012-02-13T00:49:02.733" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are subtle clues inside the films to establish their individual timeframes, but no concrete evidence that they are connected in any way beyond the actor Clint Eastwood, and any connecting mannerisms he places in the character. Sergio Leone himself said that it was merely a packaging ploy by the American distribution company to link the films. The best we can do is establish their times by visual clues inside the films themselves.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly&lt;/em&gt; has grave markers in the military cemetary shown dated 1862 and 1864, while the war is still active, so the events occur in 1864 - 1865.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fistful of Dollars&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;For a Few Dollars More&lt;/em&gt; has Clint Eastwood's revolver as the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/For_a_Few_Dollars_More&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Single Action Army revolver&lt;/a&gt;&quot; introduced 1872. &lt;em&gt;Fistful of Dollars&lt;/em&gt; has a gravestone dated 1873, and &lt;em&gt;For a Few Dollars More&lt;/em&gt; shows a newspaper archive dated 1873. So these films' timeframe is 1873 or later.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;So the films show GBU to be at least 7-8 years before the established timeframe of the other two. Plenty of time to lose, spend, or bury those bags of gold, but, since GBU was filmed later, and not intended by Leone to be connected, that's mere conjecture.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Much of this data is attributed to a variety of websites devoted to details of the films and the director, Sergio Leone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2014-03-24T13:59:57.883" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T13:59:57.883" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1292" CreationDate="2012-02-13T08:46:29.913" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's entirely plausible that Neville simply forgot that he placed Fred there in the first place. Don't forget, this is a man who has been living by himself for who knows how long (essentially trying to fool himself into thinking things are still 'normal' by playing video of morning programs, as if we were watching the normal morning shows), and although he had a regular routine, he could very easily have forgotten that he placed Fred there, especially since he forgot the trap he had set up there in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2012-02-13T08:46:29.913" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="124" CreationDate="2012-02-13T14:02:45.033" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;From reading the books I'd say that in a sense a Time-Turner can't really be used to &lt;em&gt;change&lt;/em&gt; the past &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;. In &lt;em&gt;The Prisoner of Azkaban&lt;/em&gt;, Harry and Hermione use the Time-Turner around midnight to travel back three hours in time, endeavoring to save Sirius and Buckbeak. However, everything they do in these three hours &lt;em&gt;has already happened:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of Chapter 16, there's &quot;the unmistakable swish and thud of an axe&quot; (followed by Hagrid's howling). Later we learn that this was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the executioner killing Buckbeak, but the executioner swinging his axe into the fence in anger.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of Chapter 20, Harry, Hermione and Sirius are saved from the dementors by the Patronus that the back-in-time Harry conjured, and the &quot;real&quot; Harry sees his &quot;future&quot; self patting the Patronus (believing that he sees his father).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only in Chapter 21 they use the Time-Turner. I'd say they &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to use it since they had already taken influence on the past, as described in the previous two bullet points &amp;ndash; their travelling back in time had already happened.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, the answer to your question is: When you use a Time-Turner, you can alter only events that you have no definitive knowledge of. (Everything Harry and Hermione do is 100% consistent with what they had already experienced first-hand.) In particular, you can't go back to the beginning and kill Tom Riddle before he becomes Voldemort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="849" LastActivityDate="2012-02-13T14:02:45.033" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="171" CreationDate="2012-02-13T14:06:28.690" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;*&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spoiler Alert&lt;/em&gt;*&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do not see all of the levels of hell from Dante's inferno. Missing are the eighth and nineth cicrles. In the movie Annabella commits suicide which places her in the 7th circle of hell. All levels up to the 7th circle are accounted for, but they are out of order at times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Listed in order from the Divine comedy, not the movie order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Gate of Hell&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1:05&lt;/strong&gt;-The Tracker says they are at the Gateway to hell, but it does not match Dante's description.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First Circle (Limbo)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1:01&lt;/strong&gt;-Most likely the library they are floating through on the boat symbolizes limbo. Limbo had such famous thinkers as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. This happens right after they leave heaven.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Second Circle (Lust)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1:01:20&lt;/strong&gt;-After the boat floats out of the library into the water we see souls being buffeted by the wind.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Third Circle (Gluttony)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1:06&lt;/strong&gt;-Albert Lewis notices a ship named 'Cerberus' which is the guardian of the gluttons&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1:16&lt;/strong&gt;-Albert Lewis has left the group as we find out it is actually the character 'Ian'. The Tracker and Chris Nielsen take a lift up and find bodies buried in the mud up to the neck. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fourth Circle (Greed)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1:09&lt;/strong&gt;-We see the denzins of hell using weapons and some sword play shortly before this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fifth Circle (Anger)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1:02&lt;/strong&gt;-This circle is supposed to be the river styx, the group is in the boat floating on some body of water. The tortured souls in the water pull them in.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sixth Circle (Heresy)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1:18:31&lt;/strong&gt;-As we see Chris falling deeper into hell, we glimpse the sixth circle. Indicated by the flaming tomb in the background on the right hand side.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seventh Circle (Violence)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1:20&lt;/strong&gt;-Chris sees their house. Since Annabella is a suicide we know she's in the seventh circle.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eighth Circle (Fraud)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We don't make it to this circle&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ninth Circle (Treachery)&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We don't make it to this circle&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danteinferno.info/circles-of-hell/&quot;&gt;http://www.danteinferno.info/circles-of-hell/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.netflix.com&quot;&gt;http://www.netflix.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookteacher.org/Inferno.gif&quot;&gt;http://www.bookteacher.org/Inferno.gif&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8800&quot;&gt;The Divine Comedy- Dante Alighieri&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="829" LastActivityDate="2012-02-13T14:06:28.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1292" CreationDate="2012-02-13T14:17:34.230" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This scene could possibly be interpreted in many ways. One possible way is if the zombies were smart enough to know where he lived at the end, they were probably smart enough to set a trap at night time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-02-13T21:31:30.897" LastActivityDate="2012-02-13T21:31:30.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1302" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-13T16:00:46.363" Score="13" ViewCount="3917" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1980s Genesis spin off group &quot;Mike and the Mechanics&quot; released a song called, &quot;Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground).&quot; The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep7W89I_V_g&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;video (a copy on youtube)&lt;/a&gt; is the subject of a question I've been trying to get answered for nearly as long as it's been in release. (see links 1 and 2 at bottom)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The video for this song features the band layered over a science fiction movie. A child receives a key on his birthday from a mysterious man with an alien voice stating that it will answer his questions as to why his father had to leave. He discovers a hidden room in the house with a cube of FVX in it that eventually has his father explaining some space invasion/war that he had to go fight in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The simple question is: did the movie suggested/previewed by the video ever exist (even if it got shelved and never released) and of course, if so... what was it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The song did appear in the soundtrack to &quot;On Dangerous Ground&quot; which released in the US as &quot;Choke Canyon.&quot; While a scene from this film seems hastily inserted in the video; &quot;Choke Canyon&quot; has nothing to do with the Science Fiction plot suggested by the bulk of the video.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some are quick to point out that &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Silent Running&lt;/a&gt;&quot; was indeed a science fiction film. This is referring to the Bruce Dern space-ecological film of the early 1970s. This film also thematically is completely different from the material of the video.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, is the suggestion of whether the scenes were produced specifically for the video. The lyrics of the song to compliment the theme of the video. The inserts of the band seem layered onto existing footage. The song itself seems like it was written for another movie. And it's hard to believe that the money necessary for some of the effects (for the time) would have been spent strictly for a video. Especially considering that this song was the first release for the band.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search from &lt;a href=&quot;http://80sxchange.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-13132.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2002 on 80s exchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search from &lt;a href=&quot;http://lordandrei.livejournal.com/67232.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2002 on LJ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-22T08:59:16.030" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T08:59:16.030" Title="Does the movie featured in this Mike and the Mechanics music video exist?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|soundtrack|mtv|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:35:08.203" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1302" CreationDate="2012-02-13T16:44:46.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The song's video features a few clips from the film Choke Canyon, but is primarily based on the completely unrelated story on which the song's lyrics are based. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running_%28On_Dangerous_Ground%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know there is not an actual movie. I searched around but I couldn't find anything that could leed me to the &quot;movie&quot;. Based on some other fans opinion, the video was made only for the this song and it's not related to any film or project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastActivityDate="2012-02-13T16:44:46.260" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="848" CreationDate="2012-02-13T18:11:25.953" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;A writer from Star Trek The Next Generation, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Menosky&quot;&gt;Joe Menosky&lt;/a&gt; attempted to put the number 47 in all of scripts he worked on. Joe attended &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomona_College#47&quot;&gt;Pomona college&lt;/a&gt; where the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.47.net/47society/&quot;&gt;47 club&lt;/a&gt; originated. More about the mystery of 47 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pomona.edu/about/pomoniana/the-mystery-of-47.aspx&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.observersarehere.com/number-47/2009/04/&quot;&gt;JJ Abrams has used 47 throughout his productions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Abrams trademarks &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0009190/bio&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; lists 'Often makes references to elements of the original &quot;Star Trek&quot; (1966) series'. Although 47 was not in the original Star Trek series it made many appearances in the series to follow. So it can be deduced that Abrams is paying homage to Star Trek tradition by including the number 47 in so many of his productions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing of note is that in the original Star Trek series: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsession_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)&quot;&gt;Production #47&lt;/a&gt;, is titled 'Obsession'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="829" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-04-19T20:24:21.900" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T20:24:21.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1305" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1314" CreationDate="2012-02-13T18:13:49.150" Score="23" ViewCount="66474" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/&quot;&gt;The Silence of the Lambs&lt;/a&gt;, Mr. Crawford told Agent Starling the subject's name is Jamie Gumb, also known as John Grant and traced out the place of the subject. But she went to Jack Gordon's house. She also found the moth in Gordon's place after she visited the house only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, how does Clarice know that Jack Gordon was the real Buffalo Bill?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iNm1A.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="850" LastEditDate="2013-03-09T17:51:08.120" LastActivityDate="2017-09-08T20:15:04.500" Title="How does Clarice know &quot;Jack Gordon&quot; was actually the real Buffalo Bill?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|the-silence-of-the-lambs|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1306" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2270" CreationDate="2012-02-13T18:21:01.907" Score="5" ViewCount="2623" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a scene in Never Back Down where Mr McCarthy attempts to provoke his son into reacting in front of his friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems strange to me that the character would be included at all if it was not part of a larger theme.  Was this part of a deleted storyline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T17:38:20.137" LastActivityDate="2022-01-26T16:15:05.787" Title="Never Back Down relationship between Mr and Ryan McCarthy" Tags="|never-back-down|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1307" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1311" CreationDate="2012-02-13T18:28:41.457" Score="4" ViewCount="1952" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Never Back Down, I don't understand the relationship between Max Cooperman and Ryan McCarthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of the film scene they appear to be on good terms&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ryan is observing the fight Jake interrupts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Max and Ryan are very friendly at the party&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However later in the film he becomes friends with Jake and the rivalry develops&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He sees (and presumably knows) Ryan beat up Jake in the bathroom&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's aware of the rivalry and Ryan's determination&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He knows of the friction with Baja/Ryan/Jake&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing this why would he agree to join Ryan at his house (leading to his hospitalisation)?  It he being naive or is this simply being used to tell the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2017-02-06T10:20:06.957" LastActivityDate="2017-02-06T10:20:06.957" Title="Are Max Cooperman and Ryan McCarthy friends in Never Back Down?" Tags="|plot-explanation|never-back-down|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1309" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1315" CreationDate="2012-02-13T19:03:25.507" Score="12" ViewCount="1814" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several occasions in the Time Travellers Wife where Henry arrives at the same point as he's already been, such as when he sees himself die and when Alba is conceived.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does he never meet himself on these occasions?  Is there any other reason than the story would become too complicated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2018-11-02T23:00:58.063" LastActivityDate="2021-02-28T22:07:36.137" Title="In &quot;The Time Traveler's Wife&quot; why does Henry never meet himself?" Tags="|time-travel|the-time-travelers-wife|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1274" CreationDate="2012-02-13T19:18:52.113" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks to a friend on IM who suggested I look under synonyms like &quot;Thief&quot;, &quot;Steal&quot; and &quot;Flickering lights&quot; instead of Fire. The latter yielded the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This film is called Anna to the Infinite Power. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_to_the_Infinite_Power&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085169/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00347ZYT8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Anna Hart was always an odd child, a genius, a shoplifter, desperately afraid of flickering lights, with strange prophetic dreams. Simultaneously, several strange things begin to happen. A strange, mysterious neighbor, by the name of MacKayla moves in next door to the Harts. And, most frightening of all, Anna sees her exact double on the television one night. As her investigation of the other Anna, Anna Smithson, progresses, she begins to learn the truth. The truth about a woman named Anna Zimmerman that has been dead for twenty years, and most importantly, the truth about herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film's evil scientist was played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0318527/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jack Gilford&lt;/a&gt; which clearly explains the reason that the villain was not very imposing to my teenage mind when viewing. An actress named Donna Mitchell played the Piano Teacher to respond to the question in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently I managed to forget the entire &quot;Clone&quot; part of the story. Upon reading the summary, the memories came back a bit stronger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-01T08:06:55.803" LastActivityDate="2013-12-01T08:06:55.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1307" CreationDate="2012-02-13T19:19:22.223" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Max invites Jake to come and learn mixed martial arts with his instructor, while Baja invites Jake to a party at her boyfriend Ryan McCarthy's mansion and they were friends. However, Baja faced Ryan and breaks up with him on account that he beat Jake up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his anger, he grabs Baja's arm and refuses to let go, even after she pleads. Jake appears and attempts to stop it, only to which Ryan insults his late father, saying &quot;&lt;strong&gt;You're weak...like your old man...was&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. This insult has a negative impact on Jake's training that creates the vengeance throughout the movie.But eventually, Jake has won the respect of all his fellow students, up to and including Ryan and they become friends again..Of course,they were friends in Never Back Down.&#xA;I think it definitely wouldn't be naive.!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="556" LastEditDate="2012-02-13T19:24:43.323" LastActivityDate="2012-02-13T19:24:43.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1302" CreationDate="2012-02-13T20:25:19.763" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've heard the song before but I've never seen the video until now. Well I recognized Billy Drago right away. I thought that would be a big clue as to whether this was from a movie, or one time episode of something. He seems to be the only actor that can be tracked from the video other than the spliced in footage of Choke Canyon. His IMDB list him as Mysterious Stranger in the video in 1989. The movie Choke Canyon (On Dangerous Ground) was released in 1986 and the song itself was released in 1985. I also see that the director is Jim Yukich which I see from your previous discussion you knew already. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I've seen and researched there doesn't seem to be a movie. The directors other videos have a similar feel and look though not subject (not that he has a lot.) As far as the quality of the beginning sequence I think it was shot with the intention of making it into a onetime movie story like many music videos of the time. Another clue that this is not an actual movie is in the scene where the boy is listening to the message from his father the singers head is shown in the cube as well which it doesn't seem like it was edited in later. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that I didn't get any alien war lines from the video. I could be wrong but I think if you view it again you won't hear any either. It's a moment of your mind filling in the blanks in the story. Here is what I saw. A young boy has a birthday he seems sad though. He is given a key by a man that says his father wants him to have it and it'll explain why his father couldn't be there. Then the kid opens a door and it shows space. Spliced in Choke Canyon video and band playing scenes. Also scenes of his parents having an argument that he overhears but that I couldn't. Then kid uses key to open a room and he sees a white cube that shows his fathers head and starts explaining why he couldn't be there today. Then his mother opens door and sees her son disappear and screams. Tell me if I'm missing something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall this is not a movie it's a onetime music video.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2012-02-13T20:25:19.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1305" CreationDate="2012-02-13T22:08:58.727" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question seems to be more about how quickly Agent Starling finds 'Jack Gordon' in the final scenes of the movie - rather than how she was able to conclusively determine that he was Buffalo Bill (i.e. the moth and then when he attacks her).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I recall correctly there were several clues that led her quickly to his house, and from there to determine he was the killer.  Its been a while since I've seen the movie, so some of this may be on shaky ground - please don't hesitate to correct it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The most important clue comes from Hannibal Lector - he surmises that as the murderer is clearly harvesting skin to make himself a suit, and Lector's psychiatric training and homicidal nature enables him to paint a good profile of the likely murderer. However he only releases this information slowly to Clarice in return for personal details about her, and the clues are often in the form of riddles or his own twisted jokes. When talking with her towards the end of the movie, he offers a hidden final clue to her ... &lt;strong&gt;'we covet what we see every day'&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I seem to recall that Clarice looks out of the window of the first victim's bedroom - perhaps hypothesizing that Bill saw the victim from the very room she was in.  It seems reasonable to assume she prioritized her house-to-house inquiries based on the view out of the window.  Clarice had only just found some semi-nude photos of the victim hidden in the room, perhaps hinting that the victim had an exhibitionist side to her - perhaps she didn't mind being seen from her room (this last bit is somewhat conjecture, but I don't see why those photo's are important otherwise)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jack Gordon shares initials with Jame Gumb and John Grant - perhaps all are aliases.  He gives his name early in the conversation with Clarice - surely this would alert her and make her want to stay talking to him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The moth is the final indisputable clue - it is a species that is not native to the USA, and only a few people rear them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-03-23T14:54:54.303" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T14:54:54.303" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1309" CreationDate="2012-02-13T22:26:08.253" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure about the movie, but in the book he does meet himself a few times. I particularly remember an incident when teenage Henry met himself and decided to ... experiment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-02-13T22:26:08.253" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1294" CreationDate="2012-02-13T23:12:16.417" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, wbogacz already gave a very good answer to the question about the chronology and its clarity. But as to if it was intended or how far it is consistent with the overall story, I think it is rather us audience who just want to draw a connection between different characters where there is none. This motivation lead at least to the coining of the term &quot;Man With no Name&quot;-trilogy, although this man is a completely different character in the particular movies. You wouldn't believe Sentenza to be the same person as Colonel Mortimer just because they were portraied by the same actor, would you? So there isn't anything that makes me believe Clint Eastwood's character to be the same person in &lt;em&gt;The Good, The Bad and The Ugly&lt;/em&gt; as in &lt;em&gt;A Fistful of Dollars&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is to some degree supported by the corresponding &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollars_Trilogy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; which states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although &lt;strong&gt;it was not Leone's intention&lt;/strong&gt;, the three movies came to be considered a trilogy following the exploits of the same so-called &quot;Man with No Name&quot; (portrayed by Clint Eastwood, wearing the same clothes and acting with the same mannerisms). &lt;strong&gt;The &quot;Man with No Name&quot; concept was invented by the American distributor United Artists&lt;/strong&gt;, looking for a strong angle to sell the movies as a trilogy. Eastwood's character does indeed have a name - albeit a nickname - and a different one in each film: &quot;Joe,&quot; &quot;Manco,&quot; and &quot;Blondie,&quot; respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So given that the connection of the third movie to the others was developed after the fact, there is likely no intentional connection between the characters and story of those movies, even if the chronology is pretty definite. Instead of by their backstory and identity, the characters played by &lt;em&gt;Clint Eastwood&lt;/em&gt; in those films are rather connected by their traits, mannerisms and style, which might suggested a deeper connection where there is none. And in fact this is IMHO by-design. We are just not supposed to know anything about this man's motives and his story before or after the individual movies, as that's what actually makes him &lt;strike&gt;the&lt;/strike&gt; a &lt;em&gt;&quot;Man with No Name&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-24T12:44:16.180" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T12:44:16.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1309" CreationDate="2012-02-14T01:32:20.423" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In many books and movies dealing with time travel, there is the implicit (and occasionally explicit) 'rule' that the traveler &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; changes anything, because it may 'alter the course of history.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think Back to the Future, Hot Tub Time Machine, The Terminator, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and 12 Monkeys, just to name a few.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This 'rule' likely plays a role in Henry avoiding himself in the past, because he wants to be sure his future with Claire and the birth of their daughter all happen as he knows them to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2012-02-14T01:32:20.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1319" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-14T05:43:04.140" Score="6" ViewCount="631" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Real Steel, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Atom is called the People's Champ, which seems like a direct reference to The Rock. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the final fight against Zeus, after Atom is down, he got up just like Undertaker does. The Undertaker &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/YkcxEo2kQlA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;does&lt;/a&gt; the exact same thing after getting beaten up pretty badly. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Zeus' entrance is just like Triple H's.(The trademark fist up and evil green color theme) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this some sort of homage/tribute? Or stolen just cuz they are cool? Or am I just imagining things&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T14:45:39.730" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T14:45:39.730" Title="Are there references to WWE Superstars in Real Steel?" Tags="|real-steel|wwe|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1319" CreationDate="2012-02-14T06:58:07.647" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think so....the fighting between the 'bots in the movie is mainly boxing-oriented. Some of the moves may look similar, but I don't see a People's Elbow or a Pedigree happening in the movie, so I doubt it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think these parts of the movie are just symbolic. Atom's the People's Champ because he represents a more human way of fighting, which is more relatable than Zeus, who is &quot;fully automatic&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just boils down to the themes, I think...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I noticed you said that both Atom and Zeus do the &quot;sit-up&quot;, and I forgot that they do both do that. I guess that's more of the fact that their both robots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="738" LastEditorUserId="738" LastEditDate="2012-02-14T20:25:02.763" LastActivityDate="2012-02-14T20:25:02.763" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1305" CreationDate="2012-02-14T07:17:49.560" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is answered in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/faq?mode=desktop&quot;&gt;IMDb FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How does Clarice know that &quot;Jack&#xA;  Gordon&quot; is actually Buffalo Bill? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Her suspicions are aroused when&#xA;  &quot;Gordon&quot; asks if Mrs. Littman was &quot;a&#xA;  great big fat person.&quot; Lecter pointed out&#xA;  that all of the victims were larger&#xA;  women, because the killer wants their&#xA;  skins to fit onto a man's body. That Gumb's first thought of a woman he&#xA;  didn't otherwise recognize was her size&#xA;  was enough to make Starling want to&#xA;  find out more. Once inside his house,&#xA;  Clarice recognizes the Death's Head&#xA;  moth in the living room. Gumb gives his name as &quot;Jack Gordon.&quot; Those initials,&#xA;  J.G., are consistent with &quot;Jame Gumb&quot;&#xA;  and &quot;John Grant,&quot; both aliases named&#xA;  by Crawford.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2012-02-14T07:17:49.560" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1319" CreationDate="2012-02-14T08:15:49.953" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're mistaken and just imagining things. Real Steel is based on the short story “Steel” by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Richard Matheson&lt;/a&gt; (1956). The story takes place in the not so distant future.&#xA;Though Atom is not a physical or “real” character and had no speaking lines, there was something definitely human about him and the bots would knocking out all the WWE Superstars. &#xA;I think they'd definitely paid tribute to Richard Matheson rather than WWE Superstars. According to me, the atoms had its &lt;strong&gt;unique traits of boxing style&lt;/strong&gt; rather than wrestling style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="556" LastEditDate="2012-02-15T05:50:40.513" LastActivityDate="2012-02-15T05:50:40.513" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1324" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1325" CreationDate="2012-02-14T10:51:03.377" Score="9" ViewCount="3244" Body="&lt;p&gt;I heard that there was a history behind the movie 'Pursuit of Happyness', as this was the dream project of Will Smith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I loved that movie and want to know the story. Can anyone help me find it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="857" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-04-22T09:42:36.870" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T09:42:36.870" Title="What was the purpose of 'Pursuit of Happyness'" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-pursuit-of-happyness|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1324" CreationDate="2012-02-14T11:18:09.027" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454921/&quot;&gt;The Pursuit of Happyness&lt;/a&gt; is actually based on the auto biography of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Gardner#The_Pursuit_of_Happyness&quot;&gt;Chris Gardner&lt;/a&gt;. However the story of the movie is slightly different from the biography.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the few differences between the story of the movie and the biography:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Dean Witter internship wasn't unsalaried, but had a $1,000/mo.&#xA;stipend.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The internship lasted 10 months, not 6.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   Chris Jr. was 18 months old, not preschool aged, when his mother left him with his father.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They were not rejected from a women's shelter; Glide Memorial, where&#xA;they stayed in the movie and in real life, was a single mothers'&#xA;shelter at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He did not have to work short hours; in fact he started early and&#xA;stayed late.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He was a bone scanner salesman, but not self-invested; he quit the&#xA;job before taking the internship.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-22T09:27:43.630" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T09:27:43.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="657" CreationDate="2012-02-14T13:15:05.447" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203462304577138730259491756.html#project%3DJACKREACHERQUIZ1201%26articleTabs%3Darticle&quot;&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/a&gt; there were several candidates to play Jack Reacher: Hugh Jackman, Russel Crowe, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Vince Vaughn, Jamie Fox and Will Smith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the article Lee Child explains they went through the list of names above even thinking they should 'find the biggest guy possible'. Reading on you can see it's a money thing. Paramount bought the option for the entire Reacher catalog and gave it to Tom Cruise's production company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before Tom Cruises production company was involved Lee Child even joked 'Definitely not Tom Cruise.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paramount offered a lot more money than Newline and Tom Cruise came along with the deal. There may have been more suitable candidates, but it didn't matter because Tom Cruise already had the in.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="829" LastActivityDate="2012-02-14T13:15:05.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1328" CreationDate="2012-02-14T14:59:33.000" Score="19" ViewCount="1784" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been numerous debates about who shot first in Star Wars Episode IV: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qUjsCODGnE&quot;&gt;Han or Greedo&lt;/a&gt;. It's also been rumored that who shoots first has changed between each &lt;strong&gt;subsequent release&lt;/strong&gt; of Star Wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lucas explains that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/George-Lucas-Claims-Han-Solo-Never-Shot-First-Star-Wars-29355.html&quot;&gt;Han never shot first&lt;/a&gt;, but that can't seem to be true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The questions is: Who really shoots first in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;each release&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of Star Wars Episode IV? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="829" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T19:25:38.597" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T19:25:38.597" Title="Who REALLY shot first, revision by revision: Han or Greedo?" Tags="|star-wars|a-new-hope|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1327" CreationDate="2012-02-14T15:22:08.317" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only one shot was made in the original unedited version (the VHS). There was no second shot. So either Han shot and killed Greedo or Greedo shot and somehow the blaster (bolt) ricocheted off of Han's blaster and killed him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all edited versions after the theatrical release and the first unedited VHS Greedo is shown as shooting and then Han Solo shoots Greedo from Under the table in response. This is shown in the remastered Versions that were digitally altered and re-released in theaters in the late 90's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No explanation is given for how Greedo could of missed at that distance or where his shot did go (no debris from a blaster shot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="645" LastEditDate="2012-02-14T17:41:52.717" LastActivityDate="2012-02-14T17:41:52.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1329" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1331" CreationDate="2012-02-14T16:02:05.337" Score="7" ViewCount="513" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 1 Episode 6, Xander and 4 other students are possessed and they eat a pig. At the end they are all freed of possession and Xander claims memory loss. However Giles tells him when they are alone that he knows Xander didn't lose his memory and I think Xander mentions this in a later season as well. My question is was the fact that 4 students killed and ate the Principal ever brought up again? I mean if Xander remembered eating the pig and being mean they should be in a bad mental condition when they remember killing and eating a human but I don't believe it's ever mentioned again. I'll take answers from any source of tv, comic, or interviews in the Buffyverse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-02-14T16:18:22.607" LastActivityDate="2012-02-14T21:50:42.500" Title="Was the Pack's memory of eating the Principal ever mentioned again?" Tags="|plot-explanation|buffy-the-vampire-slayer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1330" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1333" CreationDate="2012-02-14T21:45:39.167" Score="14" ViewCount="896" Body="&lt;p&gt;The diction in the 2010 production of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1403865/&quot;&gt;True Grit&lt;/a&gt; is much different than that of the 1969 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065126/&quot;&gt;True Grit&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did the Coen brothers decide to follow the diction of the original novel so closely? Did folks in this time period really speak this way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="829" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-08T23:55:45.110" LastActivityDate="2012-11-08T23:55:45.110" Title="Diction in original vs remake of True Grit" Tags="|analysis|remake|coen-brothers|true-grit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1329" CreationDate="2012-02-14T21:50:42.500" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Snyder &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0004943/quotes&quot;&gt;brings it up&lt;/a&gt; in The Puppet Show (1x09):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's the kind of wooly-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Buffy also asks Wood if he had heard about what happened to Flutie in &lt;a href=&quot;http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Beneath_You&quot;&gt;Beneath You (7x02)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that I don't think it comes up much at all. We certainly never see those students again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="250" LastActivityDate="2012-02-14T21:50:42.500" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1327" CreationDate="2012-02-14T23:12:23.657" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;George Lucas says, in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/george-lucas-star-wars-interview-288523&quot;&gt;recent interview with THR&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode&#xA;  IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it&#xA;  upset people because they wanted Solo [who seemed to be the one who&#xA;  shot first in the original] to be a cold-blooded killer, but he&#xA;  actually isn’t. It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing&#xA;  about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in there that&#xA;  made it clear that &lt;strong&gt;Greedo is the one who shot first&lt;/strong&gt;, but everyone&#xA;  wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that&#xA;  he actually just gunned him down.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(the emphasis is mine)&#xA;what this means is that, according to Lucas, the writer, creator, director, and therefore the ultimate authority on the matter, is that Greedo shot first. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;can't say I like or dislike it, but there it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="61" LastActivityDate="2012-02-14T23:12:23.657" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1330" CreationDate="2012-02-14T23:49:17.653" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two answers from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/12/24/joel-and-ethan-coen-on-true-grit.html&quot;&gt;Newsweek&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2873&quot;&gt;Language Log&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When asked why they chose to follow the diction of the book and lack of contractions Ethan Coen said&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We’ve been told that the language and all that formality is faithful to how people talked in the period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to whether or not people actually talked like that Mark Liberman of the University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Linguistics writes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know that that informal American speech in the 1870s was far from contractionless, and in fact I suspect that it had roughly the same proportion of contractions as it does today. Therefore, what Portis (and the Coens?) did was either false archaism or poetic truth — or both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="789" LastActivityDate="2012-02-14T23:49:17.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1337" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1338" CreationDate="2012-02-15T22:31:25.263" Score="9" ViewCount="13505" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the filming of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddyshack&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Caddyshack&lt;/a&gt; it's said that Bill Murray and Chevy Chase had a fight. Ever since then they refuse to work together. I'm wondering if it's known if there is any truth to this or is it an Urban myth? I am especially looking for interviews or statements that show this conflict between two great comedy actors that both started out on SNL and have the same friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-10T17:52:10.943" LastActivityDate="2013-05-10T17:52:10.943" Title="Was there a fight during the filming of Caddyshack?" Tags="|caddyshack|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1337" CreationDate="2012-02-15T23:38:12.487" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wasn't during the filming of Caddyshack but during Saturday Night Live.  Murray started on Saturday Night Live in the fall of 1977.  Chevy Chase had left the show at the end of the 1977 season and his movie &amp;quot;Foul Play&amp;quot; was due to be released in mid 1978.  The fight took place February 18, 1978. According to the excerpt from the book &amp;quot;Live from New York&amp;quot;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://ronmwangaguhunga.blogspot.com/2004/06/bill-murray-versus-chevy-chase-from.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;on this blog,&lt;/a&gt; Bill Murray states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I got into a fight with Chevy (Chase) the night he came back to host. That was because I was the new guy, and it was sort of like it was my job to do that. It would have been too petty for someone else to do that. Its almost like I was goaded into that. I did sense that. I think they resented Chevy for leaving, and leaving and making his own career go. Everybody else was from the improvisational world, where you don't make it about you. You were an ensemble, you were a company. So when he left, there was resentment about that. It was a shock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;At the same time, Chevy was the big potato on the stew. He got the most sketches, he had the most influence, he got the publicity -- all of those things. So they didn't miss that part of it. But there was still hangover feelings that he shouldn't have left until everybody had that. You make sure everybody else is there and then you do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It did leave a big vacuum, because he was really heavy in those shows. You look at those early shows and he's heavy. And so you had a whole year when the writers ended up writing, like writers do -- they write for the guys who can get it done, who can get it on the air -- and Chevy's sketches got on the air because he was &amp;quot;the man,&amp;quot; you know. The other actors had to start from scratch and teach the writers how to write for them ... When you become famous, you've got a year or two where you act like an asshole. You can't help yourself. It happens to everybody. You've got, like, two years to pull it together -- or it's permanent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to cast member Laraine Newman&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It seems that there was a tension between Chevy and Bill all along during the week. I don't know why. I don't know if Chevy provoked it or not. But it culminated with Billy saying to Chevy, 'why don't you fuck your wife once in a while?' And I don't even remember who threw the first punch, Billy or Chevy. But it was ugly. I'd never seen guys fighting like that, let alone people I knew. And, you know, I don't know how he did it, but Chevy went out and did the monologue a few minutes later. Watching from the floor, he seemed shattered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080487/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB Caddyshack Trivia Section&lt;/a&gt; the scene with Murray and Chase's character in the greenskeeper shed were not in the original script.  Harold Ramis realized that the two had no scenes together in the entire movie so he sat down with Murray and Chase and worked out the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="789" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-02-15T23:38:12.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1241" CreationDate="2012-02-16T06:10:44.253" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;possibly&lt;/em&gt; a plot hole. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be knocked out, he would have to have been hit by the plane. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a commercial airliner flying at that height (around 1000 feet) would be doing at least 150 knots (290 km/h or 170 mi/h) which would &lt;em&gt;obliterate&lt;/em&gt; anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But by this time we've seen that the boys are able to protect themselves with their &quot;powers&quot;. It may have been that their powers weren't quite strong enough to protect them from the full impact with the plane resulting in one being knocked out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastActivityDate="2012-02-16T06:10:44.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1342" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-02-16T19:21:12.723" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doctor Who is a science fiction program from Britain that originally debuted in 1963. It currently runs as a relaunched series that began in 2005. From the show there have also been several spin-off series including Torchwood, K-9 and Company, and the Sarah Jane Adventures as well as several related feature films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions using this tag may relate to any one of the series, their nearly endless arsenal of episodes and characters, plots, productions, cast, crew, or the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;General information about the series is located on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and IMDB: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056751/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Classic&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436992/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Relaunch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doctor Who should in no manner ever be confused with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_spoofs#Community_.282011.29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Inspector Spacetime&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="715" LastEditDate="2012-02-16T19:56:12.863" LastActivityDate="2012-02-16T19:56:12.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1343" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-02-16T19:21:12.723" Score="0" Body="A science fiction show from Britain that originally debuted in 1963. After several hiatuses it was relaunched in 2005." OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T09:39:31.763" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T09:39:31.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1345" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1347" CreationDate="2012-02-17T12:16:15.627" Score="7" ViewCount="249" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a movie with following scene (to the best of my recollection):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Manager: What should be the color of this pill for market, orange or purple?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scientist: [Delves into the intricacies and complexity of the chemicals/side effects etc. of the pill, pointing out many facts about the pill etc.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Manager: Orange/purple it is then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it was not even orange or purple, but the sentiment is that scientist came up with a lot of facts and reasons why/why not they should/should not choose some color or the other, without giving any hint of color is suitable, where the manager just decides on color X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="285" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-04-05T18:20:28.510" Title="Movie asking the scientist what should be the color of the pill they have developed, deciding on orange/purple?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:35:11.330" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1345" CreationDate="2012-02-17T14:31:23.443" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116768/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy&lt;/a&gt; ? Anti-depressant that effectively cures depression rather than alleviating the symptoms. It is a blue hue in its synthesized state, but it is distributed as an orange pill. An unfortunate side effect permanently locks users into his/her happiest memory, effectively making the user comatose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the line from the script dialogue: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;          No, no, this is Dr. Chris Cooper. He's the inventor of the drug.&#xA;&#xA;          Thankyou for inventing a marvelous drug.&#xA;&#xA;          This is Cisco. He's head of marketing.&#xA;&#xA;          We were having a little jam session...&#xA;&#xA;          and we wondered what your thoughts were on orange.&#xA;&#xA;          For what?&#xA;&#xA;          The color of the drug. Duh!&#xA;&#xA;          Well, the actual color of the drug in its nonsynthesized state...&#xA;&#xA;          is kind of a bluish hue.&#xA;&#xA;          Great. So orange it is then?&#xA;&#xA;          Yeah? Okay. Yeah, I think that's good.&#xA;&#xA;          Could we get back to work?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastEditorUserId="613" LastEditDate="2012-04-05T18:20:28.510" LastActivityDate="2012-04-05T18:20:28.510" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1348" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1359" CreationDate="2012-02-17T19:44:50.060" Score="6" ViewCount="1109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was re-watching The Boondock Saints last night with a friend and noticed that racial slurs and discriminatory names are injected through the entire movie.  It wasn’t tied to any one character, and breached more than just race.  The remarks at the very least covered race, nationality, and sexual orientation.  The movie even goes so far to have an entire scene centered on a discriminatory joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, did Troy Duffy have a purpose/reason for the use of these, or did he just think that it would make for a better movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T13:43:00.373" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T13:43:00.373" Title="What purpose do the racial and discriminatory slurs serve?" Tags="|plot-explanation|boondock-saints|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1351" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1353" CreationDate="2012-02-18T07:12:51.810" Score="8" ViewCount="1140" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's that movie about a couple moving into a neighborhood, having a &quot;perfect&quot; life and they are trying to impress and influence the neighbors to buy things. They are acually employed salepeople.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="879" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2013-06-24T15:25:22.637" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T15:25:22.637" Title="Movie about a couple moving into a neighborhood and are acually salespeople?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|drama|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:35:14.457" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1351" CreationDate="2012-02-18T13:21:39.883" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285309/&quot;&gt;The Joneses&lt;/a&gt;, released in 2009 starring David Duchovny and Demi Moore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="880" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-02-20T20:19:29.407" LastActivityDate="2012-02-20T20:19:29.407" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1351" CreationDate="2012-02-18T15:13:54.207" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be this one: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joneses&quot;&gt;The Joneses&lt;/a&gt;. From the plot summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kate, Steve, Mick, and Jenn Jones move into a high income suburb under the pretense of being a typical family relocating due to the changing nature of Kate and Steve's careers. In reality, Kate is the leader of a team of stealth marketers, professional salespeople who disguise product placement as a daily routine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2012-02-18T15:13:54.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1354" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1358" CreationDate="2012-02-18T15:22:12.323" Score="41" ViewCount="1532988" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just watched the last of the Harry Potter movies for the second time on a long flight and my brain was addled through lack of sleep. As far as I remember, three of the eight horcruxes were destroyed in that movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I couldn't make my memory add the total destroyed up to eight across the movies. So when were they all destroyed, in which movie and by whom? And does the total add up to 8?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-02-18T17:35:21.997" LastActivityDate="2021-07-23T06:35:40.940" Title="When did each Horcrux get destroyed in the Harry Potter movies?" Tags="|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="453" CreationDate="2012-02-18T16:54:53.670" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure the movie you're thinking of is Noel. I was looking for something extremely similar and that's what I found. You can watch it here: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/tb96EAYgNC8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="881" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T09:42:19.237" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T09:42:19.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1354" CreationDate="2012-02-18T17:21:10.987" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Horcrux hunt was a mission given to Harry Potter in &lt;strong&gt;June of 1997&lt;/strong&gt; to find all of &lt;strong&gt;Lord Voldemort's&lt;/strong&gt; remaining &lt;strong&gt;Horcruxes&lt;/strong&gt; and destroy them. The mission fell to &lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/strong&gt; to complete. He was joined by &lt;strong&gt;Hermione Granger&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Ron Weasley&lt;/strong&gt;, and they set off in the aftermath of &lt;strong&gt;Bill Weasley&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Fleur Delacour's&lt;/strong&gt; wedding.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lord Voldemort's&lt;/strong&gt; had only seven Horcruxes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tom Riddle's diary. &lt;strong&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Destroyed by Harry Potter in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295297/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marvolo Gaunt's Ring.  &lt;strong&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Destroyed by Albus Dumbledore in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417741/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Salazar Slytherin's Locket.  &lt;strong&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Destroyed by Ronald Weasley in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0926084/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I&lt;/a&gt;  with Gryffindor's sword.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Helga Hufflepuff's Cup. &lt;strong&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Destroyed by Hermione Granger in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1201607/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem.  &lt;strong&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Destroyed by Harry Potter in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1201607/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Harry Potter (unknown to Voldemort until after he had &amp;quot;destroyed&amp;quot; him)  &lt;strong&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Destroyed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1201607/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nagini the Snake.  &lt;strong&gt;-&amp;gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Destroyed by Neville Longbottom in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1201607/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Voldemort&lt;/strong&gt; also retained part of his soul inside him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They eventually destroyed all of the Horcruxes by &lt;strong&gt;2 May 1998&lt;/strong&gt;. The hunt ended with the death of &lt;strong&gt;Lord Voldemort&lt;/strong&gt; at the hands of &lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/strong&gt; at the end of the &lt;strong&gt;Battle of Hogwarts&lt;/strong&gt; and this is in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1201607/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.harrypotter.wikia.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;harrypotter.wikia.com&lt;/a&gt; has plenty of well constructed resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Albus Dumbledore, Lord Voldemort created seven horcruxes. Throughout the books and movies, five out of the seven that he created had been destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harry Potter was an accidental horcrux. According to Dumbledore seven horcrux were created before the killing of Harry Potter's parents, so Harry would have been the 8th horcrux. The snake was a horcrux at a later time seeing how the snake never existed during the time that the first horcruxes were created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dumbledore said that there was one horcrux in each house of Hogwarts. The horcrux related to the house of Gryffindor was never found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2021-07-23T06:35:40.940" LastActivityDate="2021-07-23T06:35:40.940" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1348" CreationDate="2012-02-19T01:39:14.550" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least a partial answer.  In the director's commentary during the scene where Rocco is telling the racist joke Troy Duffy says, &quot;I figure if it’s funny, screw you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a lot of speculation online and in some reviews that having the Mafia guys make racist and homophobic jokes was just another way to paint them as &quot;bad people&quot; but I haven't seen anything from Duffy about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="789" LastActivityDate="2012-02-19T01:39:14.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1360" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3665" CreationDate="2012-02-19T02:22:55.197" Score="18" ViewCount="945" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Citizen Kane&quot; scene that shows Kane's first day at the newspaper includes a moment where Kane's assistant Bernstein enters the action by tumbling loudly into the room amid a collapsing pile of supplies. After taking his fall, Bernstein looks up at everyone and says &quot;Oops.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/54X0J.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the surface, it seems like Bernstein just happened to trip on his way into the room. But virtually every detail in &quot;Citizen Kane&quot; seems to have meaning. And Bernstein's tumble happens in the opening minutes of Kane's dramatic arrival at the office, other elements of which unfold as if they were carefully planned by Kane and Bernstein.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was Bernstein's tumble into the scene a true moment of clumsiness? Or was it part of some act, perhaps one he and Kane had arranged to help Kane seize control of the newspaper?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-02-20T02:03:59.127" LastActivityDate="2012-08-05T22:06:58.670" Title="In &quot;Citizen Kane&quot; does Bernstein purposely take a tumble into the newspaper office?" Tags="|plot-explanation|citizen-kane|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1354" CreationDate="2012-02-19T08:01:05.977" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Riddle's Diary destroyed by Harry in Chamber of Secrets with Basilisk fang&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marvolo Gaunt's ring destroyed by Dumbledore in Half Blood Prince with Gryffindor's sword but not shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Slytherin's locket destroyed by Ron in Deathly Hallows Part I with Gryffindor's sword.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Helga Hufflepuff's Cup destroyed by Hermione with a Basilisk fang in Deathly Hallows Part II&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Diadem of Ravenclaw destroyed by Harry with Basilisk fang and then thrown into Fiendfyre in Deathly Hallows Part II&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harry Potter killed by Voldemort in Deathly Hallows Part II&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nagini killed by Neville &quot;Badass&quot; Longbottom in Deathly Hallows Part II with the sword of Gryffindor&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The eighth piece of Voldemort's soul was inside of him and it died with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="789" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2016-04-24T15:23:08.950" LastActivityDate="2016-04-24T15:23:08.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="515" CreationDate="2012-02-19T17:46:47.237" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll expound a little on what Christian says above as, while I think his answer is correct and sufficient, it was this very same question that led to a deeper understanding of the film for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also wondered about the lack of a name for the driver - until a specific moment in the film which I think explains most of the motivation for what is presented. When the driver asks his benefactor if he's familiar with the story of the scorpion and the frog, all one needs to do is look up the fable (see wikipedia) - it went a long way to answering most questions I had about the film. It also made me realize that his name was not important. I'm reminded of the Shakespeare quote &quot;a rose by any other name would smell as sweet&quot;. Stop reading here if you don't want to see spoilers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The driver's scorpion jacket represents his backstory (almost literally). As Christian alludes to, the title &quot;drive&quot; probably refers more to the character's nature than his vocation. The &quot;kid&quot;, or driver, is by nature like the scorpion - a natural killer. The film is likely examining the questions, (1) can one's nature be suppressed? And, (2) can redemption be found by going against nature when one's nature is evil?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scorpion (the &quot;kid&quot;) appears to be willing to suppress his nature and replace it, for a limited time, with the nature of his victim, the frog. The car is the vehicle (sorry) by which the scorpion transforms into the frog and carrying passengers safely to their destination is the scorpion's view of a frog's nature. However, the scorpion is only willing to suppress his own nature for a limited time (5 minutes), after which, he returns to being the scorpion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The transformation is what allows him to find love with Irene. In most scenes with her - they are either driving together or he is out of his skin (without scorpion jacket). The elevator scene (wearing jacket) is where he reveals his true nature to Irene and she is horrified by it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final scenes showing the kid reawakening inside the car and then driving away is perhaps a sign that he has found redemption? Maybe signifying his rebirth as the frog? Pretty cool film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="731" LastActivityDate="2012-02-19T17:46:47.237" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1363" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1368" CreationDate="2012-02-20T01:53:05.670" Score="24" ViewCount="2949" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went to see Hugo in 3D today, and beforehand there was a trailer for the upcoming re-release of Titanic in 3D.  I must say, I was impressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much of the conversion to 3D of a movie that was shot in 2D is done by hand?  I assume they don't have to go through every single frame -- there are probably close to 280,000 frames for a 3+ hour film like Titanic.  Perhaps for a scene can certain items be marked as in the foreground and a computer used to track them through several frames?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-02-20T21:53:41.113" LastActivityDate="2015-09-12T18:51:02.033" Title="How are older movies post-converted to 3D?" Tags="|film-techniques|editing|3d|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1364" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1374" CreationDate="2012-02-20T03:34:11.707" Score="11" ViewCount="565" Body="&lt;p&gt;How far can the character Wikus be related to that of Biko, and his role to abolish apartheid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've recently realized the similar phonetics of the name, so it rang a bell and the question immediately arose. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="885" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:22:23.640" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T12:22:23.640" Title="District 9 - References to Apartheid" Tags="|historical-accuracy|district-9|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1363" CreationDate="2012-02-20T04:15:06.230" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;3D movies are normally filmed using two slightly offset cameras.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both images are projected onto the viewing screen, with those plastic glasses feeding one image into your left eye and the other into your right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a film was not shot using two offset cameras, the conversion involves manual identification of different depths in the shot, as summarized in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://gizmodo.com/5460282/how-regular-movies-are-converted-to-3d&quot;&gt;Gizmodo Article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Graphic artists separate shots out into layers of depth, which can number anywhere from two layers for shots with simple blocking to eight for shots with more complex compositions. Then, the objects in each layer are carefully traced, creating a topographical map of the scene. Here, the computer steps in, simulating the second camera's perspective by generating another, slightly offset image. The images in the layers closest to the viewer are offset the most, creating the illusion of things popping off the screen, while the background is only offset slightly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A more detailed procedure is explained at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2010/01/how_do_you_convert_a_flat_movie_into_3d.html&quot;&gt;Slate&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2012-02-20T16:37:32.170" LastActivityDate="2012-02-20T16:37:32.170" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1278" CreationDate="2012-02-20T06:51:06.293" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched this and thought exactly the same thing. Looking into it a bit it seems the scene showing veloceraptors boarding the boat was scraped. Which makes sense - that whole last 30 minutes seemed out of place!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119567/trivia&quot;&gt;The Lost World: Jurrasic Park's IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The script called for a scene where the Velociraptors got on board the&#xA;  Venture as it was about to set sail. As chaos ensued, the T-Rex also&#xA;  got loose, and killed everything else aboard. This explains why many&#xA;  of the crew members are dead in places the Rex cannot reach. The scene&#xA;  was never filmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastActivityDate="2012-02-20T06:51:06.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1363" CreationDate="2012-02-20T11:14:38.873" Score="16" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2D to 3D Video Conversion is the process of transforming the original 2D video to a 3D form, which in almost all cases is stereo, so it is the process of creating imagery for each eye from one 2D image. That is why the transformation is also called 2D to stereo 3D conversion, or stereo conversion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two approaches to stereo conversion can be loosely defined: &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;quality semiautomatic conversion for cinema and high quality&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; 3DTV, and &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;low quality automatic conversion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; for cheap 3DTV, VOD and similar applications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is that a separate auxiliary picture known as the &amp;quot;depth map&amp;quot; is created for &lt;strong&gt;each frame&lt;/strong&gt; or for a series of homogenous frames to indicate depths of objects present in the scene. The depth map is a separate grayscale image having the same dimensions as the original 2D image, with various shades of gray to indicate the depth of every part of the frame. While depth mapping can produce a fairly potent illusion of 3D objects in the video, it inherently does not support semi-transparent objects or areas, nor does it allow explicit use of occlusion, so these and other similar issues should be dealt with in a specific way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The price on high quality stereo conversion varies in the range of $25,000..100,000 per minute according to several estimates. In your case, Titanic's 3D conversion is estimated to $18,000,000. You can read more about techniques &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2D_to_3D_Conversion&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or read about the art of stereo conversion of some famous movies &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fxguide.com/featured/art-of-stereo-conversion-2d-to-3d-2012/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T21:57:13.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1370" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1372" CreationDate="2012-02-20T18:28:25.287" Score="8" ViewCount="1069" Body="&lt;p&gt;I once watched a movie of which I only remember a few things... The most present memory is this huge &lt;strong&gt;golden tree&lt;/strong&gt;... Or at least I think the tree itself was golden. Then scene in which this tree appeared was golden, too. The sky was golden, the lights, there were &lt;strong&gt;golden particles&lt;/strong&gt; and I think there was &lt;strong&gt;a man crawling around the tree&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene appeared several times in the movie, maybe 4 or 5 times... Unfortunately I don't remember the plot... Another thing I remember that it was a rather &lt;strong&gt;sad, dramatic movie&lt;/strong&gt;. I also remember a &lt;strong&gt;woman lying in a bed&lt;/strong&gt;, maybe she was deathly ill, I'm not sure about this. There might be the possibility that this woman and her illness was very important, there were often people visiting her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure about the ill woman, but I definitely remember this &lt;strong&gt;bizarre, surreal scene of a tree surrounded by gold&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope someone knows which movie that was, because I'd like to watch it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="888" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2013-11-04T04:08:16.670" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T04:03:58.340" Title="What's that movie with a surreal golden tree appearing from time to time?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|drama|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:35:17.587" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1370" CreationDate="2012-02-20T19:24:34.740" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not actually seen the film but reading this could it be, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414993/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Fountain&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had Hugh Jackman as the lead and it just sprung to mind from the trailer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="890" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-02-20T20:08:45.993" LastActivityDate="2012-02-20T20:08:45.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1364" CreationDate="2012-02-20T21:16:01.747" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your parallel is slightly off. It's not Biko that Wikus is related to but Biko's friend, Donald Woods from &quot;&lt;em&gt;Cry Freedom&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both Wikus and Woods were initially of the governing race, and both started with adversarial relationship to Biko/alien known as Christopher Johnson, only later to turn into friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastActivityDate="2012-02-20T21:16:01.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1375" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-20T21:52:04.890" Score="19" ViewCount="722" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good parody movies (e.g. Airplaine, Hot Shots) lampoon a whole bunch of things, in nearly every scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a good resource which analyses some of the main ones scene by scene and notes a full list of what is being parodied?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that I'm looking for a detailed analysis, NOT an IMDB-high-level &quot;references these 5 movies&quot; bullet list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. it needs to have a level of detail like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Hot shots Part Deux&quot;, in a scene where Topper Harley says &quot;Out of all the jungles in all the countries in the world, you had to come into mine&quot;, he was lampooning a famous &quot;Casablanca&quot; quote &quot;Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I used specifically this example because someone I know who deeply appreciates parody movies but wasn't raised on American culture was deeply shocked to find out that this was, indeed the lampooned material (since the person never saw Casablanca). &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-22T10:49:01.337" LastActivityDate="2017-06-19T01:49:02.770" Title="Is there a good resource which analyzes many parody movies for &quot;what is being lampooned&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|parody|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1378" CreationDate="2012-02-21T11:30:49.167" Score="33" ViewCount="111590" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087538/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Karate Kid&lt;/a&gt;, his first lesson is cleaning and waxing his masters car. His master tells him to &amp;quot;wax on, wax off&amp;quot;. Is the purpose of this simply to teach him the value of hard work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/3PycZtfns_U?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="275" LastEditorUserId="83431" LastEditDate="2020-09-07T09:28:14.313" LastActivityDate="2020-09-07T09:28:14.313" Title="What is the purpose behind &quot;wax on, wax off&quot; in Karate Kid?" Tags="|martial-arts|karate-kid|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1376" CreationDate="2012-02-21T12:08:01.217" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Originally it's from the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087538/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Karate Kid(1984)&lt;/a&gt; starring &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Macchio&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ralph Macchio&lt;/a&gt; as Daniel and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Morita&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pat Morita&lt;/a&gt; as Mr. Miyagi and the phrase has been adapted to the remake too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr. Miyagi was supposed to be teaching Daniel karate, but all summer the karate master had the kid just painting stuff and waxing his car. However, the painting and waxing techniques were &lt;strong&gt;secretly teaching his muscles karate moves&lt;/strong&gt;, and when the karate lessons actually began, he found it &lt;strong&gt;relatively easy to learn&lt;/strong&gt;. This technique is known as &lt;strong&gt;the Kagite uke or circle block&lt;/strong&gt;. It is a &lt;strong&gt;very effective block&lt;/strong&gt; that provides a good lead in for follow on techniques.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“There are some skills you can learn on your own, and some you can try to learn, but if you intend to take the &lt;strong&gt;journey of mastery&lt;/strong&gt;, the best thing you can do is to &lt;strong&gt;arrange for first-rate instruction&lt;/strong&gt;. For mastering most skills, there’s nothing better than being in the hands of a master teacher, either one-to-one or in a small group.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think,the purpose of &quot;wax on, wax off&quot; would be not to to teach him the value of hard work, but to teach him the &lt;strong&gt;basic karate movement&lt;/strong&gt; and make him understand &lt;strong&gt;mastery in karate is a long-term journey&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-10-22T21:11:14.940" LastActivityDate="2019-10-22T21:11:14.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1376" CreationDate="2012-02-21T12:20:15.797" Score="48" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Miyagi becomes Daniel's teacher and, slowly, a surrogate father figure. He begins Daniel's training by having him perform laborious chores such as waxing cars, sanding a wooden floor, refinishing a fence, and painting Miyagi's house. Each chore is accompanied with a specific &lt;strong&gt;movement&lt;/strong&gt;, such as &lt;strong&gt;clockwise/counter-clockwise hand motions&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Daniel fails to see any connection to his training from these hard chores and eventually feels frustrated, believing he has learned nothing of karate. When he expresses his frustration, Miyagi reveals that Daniel has been &lt;strong&gt;learning defensive blocks&lt;/strong&gt; through &lt;strong&gt;muscle memory&lt;/strong&gt; learned by performing the chores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr. Miagi's shows him all the specific task he had been doing and how they &lt;strong&gt;transferred into karate&lt;/strong&gt;. At the end of the transfer of learning phase of his training &lt;em&gt;Daniel is amazed at what he had &quot;learned&quot; when he thought he was just doing everyday tasks&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An odd form of training passed off by an unorthodox master on a skeptical student. Sometimes comes disguised as a set of chores, but just as often is a general exercise that promotes a valuable physical or mental attribute in a strange way. Always dismissed as a waste of time early on, and appreciated later. Often this also serves as a lesson to the skeptical student to trust the master and do all the crazy things the master asks without questioning, by demonstrating that the master really knows what he's doing and is in fact effectively teaching the student.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be considered also a life lesson, and you can read more about it &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.english.ctrip.com/ctrip-culture/wax-on-wax-off-karate-kid-lessons-for-us-all-3.html&quot;&gt;in this nice blog post over on a China travel site&lt;/a&gt;. It's like your childhood. When you're young you always complain with your parents for being so severe, but only when you're an adult you fully understand that your parents acted like that because they wanted you to become an educated person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastEditorUserId="2172" LastEditDate="2012-10-16T04:56:49.573" LastActivityDate="2012-10-16T04:56:49.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1376" CreationDate="2012-02-21T16:22:07.267" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the purpose was simply to learn the muscle movements for defense. With the struggle of teaching, I think Myagi was also teaching the boy to trust him. Trust isn't something Daniel was very familiar with, and developing a trusting relationship with Myagi, as we see later, leads to better things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="894" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-02-21T17:22:03.350" LastActivityDate="2012-02-21T17:22:03.350" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1380" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1425" CreationDate="2012-02-21T17:27:15.780" Score="26" ViewCount="2886" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an on-going debate between my husband and I stemming from our viewing of &lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix&lt;/strong&gt; this weekend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In OOTP, Umbridge really appears to be more of a misguided yes-man who is fully convinced that Harry and Dumbledore are trying to use scare-tactics to grab Fudge's position as Minister of Magic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fast forward to Deathly Hallows I (?), and her intentions appear much more malicious.  At this point, she's aware of Voldemort's return and rising influence, yet she has Mad-Eye Moody's eye in her office door (or is this only in the book?  I haven't had the opportunity to re-watch DH I or II yet).  Either way, does this make her a death-eater?  Or just stupid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="896" LastEditorUserId="613" LastEditDate="2012-02-21T17:46:58.353" LastActivityDate="2019-08-21T16:01:10.330" Title="Dolores Umbridge: Misguided or Sinister?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1380" CreationDate="2012-02-21T18:25:30.730" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;One influence is that, they (Harry and his friends) take the locket from Umbridge. I don't remember if the locket was being worn in OoTP, but it would explain how one could move from Misguided to Sinister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DH1 makes it clear that the locket (or at least Horcrux) seems to bring out the darker side of a personality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="74112" LastEditDate="2019-08-21T16:01:10.330" LastActivityDate="2019-08-21T16:01:10.330" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1380" CreationDate="2012-02-21T23:07:39.860" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;A not unreasonable interpretation of Dolores does not have to accept the binary alternatives of Evil vs Stupid. I think a reasonable interpretation of what she represents is something distinct from either: bureaucratic conformity. Bad does not have to be manichaean; there are degrees and multiple dimensions of badness. Some people are faithful followers of Voldemort, others are too foolish to recognise Voldemort and some are merely advocates for whoever is in charge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Umbridge is like a parody of the third group. She doesn't demonstrate a clear ideology but will adapt to whatever ideology is currently running the show. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the real world she would be the worst sort of bureaucrat, following whatever rules existed no matter how dumb and unreasonable or unjust. Many evil human regimes rely on such followers to enforce and sustain their rule. They don't &lt;strong&gt;believe&lt;/strong&gt;, they just &lt;strong&gt;conform&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2012-02-21T23:07:39.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1385" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1387" CreationDate="2012-02-22T00:28:17.310" Score="12" ViewCount="10652" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is often said that the classic 50s movie &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049223/&quot;&gt;Forbidden Planet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is basically just a remake of &lt;em&gt;The Tempest&lt;/em&gt;, Shakesepeare's last play. (The original credits don't reference this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this right? What are the specific parallels between the characters and events in the movie and play?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:23:30.880" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T15:35:40.433" Title="What are the specific parallels between Shakespeare's The Tempest and Forbidden Planet?" Tags="|book-adaptation|forbidden-planet|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1385" CreationDate="2012-02-22T04:20:25.973" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an excellent &lt;em&gt;paper&lt;/em&gt; written on the topic. This document can be located at the following reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.123HelpMe.com/view.asp?id=17255&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Comparison of Shakespeare's Tempest and Forbidden Planet&lt;/a&gt;.&quot; 123HelpMe.com. 21 Feb 2012 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-22T15:35:40.433" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T15:35:40.433" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1385" CreationDate="2012-02-22T04:41:42.733" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's my understanding that Morbius, the scientist in &lt;em&gt;Forbidden Planet&lt;/em&gt; who is alone save for his daughter, is a reflection of Prospero, the anti-hero of Shakespeare's play who is likewise living alone on an island with his daughter. Both Morbius and Prospero seek to control the elements, and thus the world around them, through 'magic' - in Morbius' case, an advanced alien technology. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both versions of the story a group of young men (sailors swept in by the tempest of the title, a space crew on a routine mission) enter this supposed utopia, only to cause upheaval and eventual destruction when the leader of said groups falls in love with Morbius/Prospero's daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One other factor that surely reveals the origins of &lt;em&gt;Forbidden Planet&lt;/em&gt;'s storyline is the inclusion in both versions of a cook for comic relief, this character being a drunken buffoon in both versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-02-22T04:41:42.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1389" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1390" CreationDate="2012-02-22T10:54:41.783" Score="11" ViewCount="644" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, I can usually find things using Google but no luck this time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a film from around mid-90s I think, but could be +/- 10 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Male lead, who I think gets a kind of lethal injection which has so long to take effect. Or it may be a disease which is killing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But either way - he has a few hours to achieve his objective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the defining things is that &lt;strong&gt;as he gets weaker/the film progresses - the colour fades&lt;/strong&gt; - so towards the end of the film it is more black and white than colour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="901" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-19T15:59:35.550" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T15:59:35.550" Title="Film where colour fades throughout to represent dying protagonist" Tags="|identify-this-movie|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:35:20.707" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1389" CreationDate="2012-02-22T13:37:42.510" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094933/&quot;&gt;D.O.A.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; from 1988 starring Dennis Quaid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film (which starts out as black and white in homage to the original), Quaid has been poisoned and attempts to discover his killer before time runs out. As the film progresses the color is drained from the scenes until the film finishes in the black and white state of the opening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-02-22T13:37:42.510" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1391" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1393" CreationDate="2012-02-22T14:18:01.993" Score="7" ViewCount="483" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching these 2 movies I found similarities between them. The visual city in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276919/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dogville&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; reminds me of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047396/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rear Window&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, where the hero is watching to everything from his window.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a case of an homage or is it just a coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="903" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2016-05-17T12:28:38.060" LastActivityDate="2016-05-17T12:28:38.060" Title="Is Dogville inspired from Hitchcock's Rear Window?" Tags="|analysis|rear-window|dogville|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1392" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1515" CreationDate="2012-02-22T14:24:12.780" Score="13" ViewCount="2156" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Man from Another Place is one of the major characters in Twin Peaks. He lives in The Black Lodge and dances like Laura's father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mike says that he lost his left hand and I read somewhere that The Man from Another Place is symbolizing the left-hand of Mike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this the case or is there a different meaning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="903" LastEditorUserId="903" LastEditDate="2012-02-22T14:54:55.580" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T07:33:14.523" Title="What does The Man from Another Place in Twin Peaks symbolize?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|twin-peaks|david-lynch|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1391" CreationDate="2012-02-22T16:39:03.847" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a lot of ways, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040746/&quot;&gt;Rope (1948)&lt;/a&gt; has inspired a number of feature films. Two that come to mind are Rear Window (1954) and Murder by Numbers (2002).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040746/&quot;&gt;Rope&lt;/a&gt; is always a film this writer will suggest to people at the end of the day. In many ways Rope represents a time period where Hitchcock was trying to try something new. After all, the film is an adaptation from a stage play. By using long takes, he gave the feeling of a play on screen. This of course has been done other ways by this point in time, think of 2003's Dogville. By using long takes and keeping more of a set that did not appear to be an on stage production, Hitchcock dared to be different. In many ways, this is part of the reason this writer admires the man ever so much. Hitchcock was never afraid to be different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So reading the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.examiner.com/movie-in-atlanta/right-and-wrong-were-invented-for-the-ordinary-average-man-rope-film-review-review&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; I think Dogville and Rear Window are not directly related, but they have &lt;em&gt;Rope&lt;/em&gt; movie as a common factor. You might read this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themovingarts.com/lars-von-triers-dogville-and-the-dogme-legacy/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; too, that explains pretty much the similarities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastActivityDate="2012-02-22T16:39:03.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1395" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1396" CreationDate="2012-02-22T23:22:21.453" Score="5" ViewCount="680" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched a western that showed some (feasibly only one) extremely sweat-lathered horses. They'd been ridden hard, but I honestly can't remember if it was in the context of a horse-race, outrunning Indians, or whatever. I'm kinda stuck because I've already tried to reference it in an answer over at english.se &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/58880/whip-into-a-lather/58886#58886&quot;&gt;What does &quot;Whip into a lather&quot; mean?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry - I know that's not much to go on. But the lather was pretty extreme!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:38:11.257" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T15:44:32.937" Title="Western with extremely sweat-lathered horses" Tags="|identify-this-movie|western|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:35:23.833" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1395" CreationDate="2012-02-22T23:48:25.490" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ooops! - I found the answer myself! It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072705/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bite the Bullet (1975)&lt;/a&gt;, starring Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen and James Coburn. Not as good a movie as I'd have hoped from that line-up, in all honesty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie centres on a 700-mile &quot;endurance horse race&quot;. I think one of the central themes is basically that it's &quot;the American way&quot; to &lt;em&gt;win at all costs&lt;/em&gt;. Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/58880/whip-into-a-lather/58886#58886&quot;&gt;the answer on ELU&lt;/a&gt; about the meaning of &lt;em&gt;Whip into a lather&lt;/em&gt;, the horses may not actually be as distressed as one might think, but it certainly makes a striking image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:38:11.257" LastActivityDate="2012-02-23T15:25:16.643" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1402" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-23T19:35:19.770" Score="10" ViewCount="1032" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could see reviewers taking issue with some elements of &lt;em&gt;Psycho&lt;/em&gt;, (namely &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VP5jEAP3K4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the shower scene&lt;/a&gt;), though the violence is understated and possibly more of a distraction from the mystery and suspense. In &lt;em&gt;The Birds&lt;/em&gt;, we see small school-children being attacked by flocks birds — an image that could easily offend family-minded reviewers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were scenes like these enough to upset reviewers? If not by the violence, perhaps the sexual elements present in Hitchcock's films? Hitchcock chose stunningly beautiful women like Grace Kelly, Eva Marie Saint and Tippi Hedren to star in his films — perhaps they found the thought of Lisa and 'Jeff' Jeffries spending the night together too forward for the time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="102842" LastEditDate="2024-03-23T14:40:15.197" LastActivityDate="2024-03-23T15:54:41.167" Title="Did any of Alfred Hitchcock's American films receive poor reviews upon release?" Tags="|reception|alfred-hitchcock|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1403" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1404" CreationDate="2012-02-23T19:57:56.337" Score="9" ViewCount="1075" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying to identify an old TV show with the following properties:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was broadcast in the early 1990s in South Africa, but the show likely came from the United States&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The main characters were a team of nerdy/geeky software developers working at a small development company&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Early in the show they hired a non-technical secretary which introduced the more technical minded developers to different 'normal' activities (e.g. going out for lunch, hanging out, social lives, etc).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The owner of the software company used to jump on a trampoline in his office while thinking up new software ideas&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One of the software developers, part of the main cast, always wore sunglasses.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show wasn't on for long, so chances are it was cancelled in the first series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="251" LastActivityDate="2012-02-23T20:24:12.613" Title="Nineties sitcom about small software company" Tags="|comedy|sitcoms|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:51:30.277" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1403" CreationDate="2012-02-23T20:24:12.613" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you're talking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/101902&quot;&gt;Dweebs&lt;/a&gt;, a show described as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Warren ( Peter Scolari), was a young computer software writer whose programs had made him a legend in the industry. Unfortunately, he was &lt;strong&gt;painfully shy and socially maladjusted&lt;/strong&gt; as well as eccentric ( to come up with ideas for the next &quot; killer app,&quot; he &lt;strong&gt;bounced on a trampoline in his office&lt;/strong&gt;). His Seattle company, Cyberbite, was staffed with 3 talented but similarly &lt;strong&gt;socially inept programmers&lt;/strong&gt;. Karl ( Stephen Tobolowsky), the oldest dressed horribly; Vic ( Corey Feldman), who thought his &lt;strong&gt;dark glasses&lt;/strong&gt; made him cool was constantly depressed; and Morley ( David Kaufman), who had been Vic's buddy since high school, was allergic to everything-especially women. Into their dysfunctional world came Carey ( Farrah Forke), &lt;strong&gt;the sexy new office manager who knew absolutely nothing about computers but much about life&lt;/strong&gt;. She hired Todd (Adam Biesk), as a gofer who among other things , translated technospeak into English for her, and set out to give them real lives and some style. Despite their eccentricities, they were nice guys-they just needed help dealing with the outside world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Excessive emphasis my own).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2012-02-23T20:24:12.613" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1402" CreationDate="2012-02-23T20:55:05.423" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had the impression for years that his last movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074512/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Family Plot&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was widely panned, but cannot substantiate it right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the reviews I currently see use mild terms like &amp;quot;witty relaxed lark&amp;quot; (Canby), &amp;quot;not exactly top-tier&amp;quot; (Anderson), mixed in with others that list it as a &amp;quot;complicated delight&amp;quot; (Ebert).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is this fawning, lackadaisical praise for a director past his prime? I really can't tell if they're using terminology to say it's bad, or not-that-good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you visit the review pages in IMDB for this film though, the public at large have no such trouble deriding it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-03-23T15:54:41.167" LastActivityDate="2024-03-23T15:54:41.167" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1402" CreationDate="2012-02-23T21:50:00.787" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Psycho&lt;/em&gt; opened to very mixed reviews. A summary of a few are found on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_%28film%29#Reception&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;it's Wikipedia page.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bad reviews called it a blot on Hitchcock's career, a gimmick movie, and that it looked like a TV show padded out to two hours. One of my film professors hated it, saying that &amp;quot;you shouldn't need to explain the ending of your movie in your movie.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="789" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-03-23T15:52:23.893" LastActivityDate="2024-03-23T15:52:23.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1409" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1412" CreationDate="2012-02-24T06:46:04.177" Score="4" ViewCount="4601" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of the 2007 Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, the Theodore doll speaks Spanish (I think), and I still haven't been able to figure out what he says after watching the movie 30 times. I've worked out that Alvin's doll says &quot;Hello, my name is Alvin, I want a hula-hoop&quot; and Simon's says &quot;My name is Simon&quot;. Do any Spanish speaking people know what Theodore says?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="912" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-18T09:48:16.963" LastActivityDate="2016-11-28T17:37:09.317" Title="What does the Theodore doll say in Alvin and the Chipmunks?" Tags="|plot-explanation|alvin-and-the-chipmunks|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1410" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1411" CreationDate="2012-02-24T13:38:28.533" Score="19" ViewCount="12820" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Cobb (DiCaprio) tells Ariadne (Page) that the most important rule in choosing a totem is to make sure that no one else has ever touched it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is emphasized with flashbacks showing him changing his wife's dream by using her totem which is the spinning top. If the most important rule is to use your own totem and never let anyone else touch it then why is he using his wife's totem? Is there anywhere that mentions what his original totem was?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T16:05:04.873" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T08:41:58.980" Title="Why does Cobb use the spinning top?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1410" CreationDate="2012-02-24T14:12:34.817" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not believe there is any mention of what his original totem was.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we are meant to presume that he adopted Mal's spinning top totem when she committed suicide in what Cobb and we are meant to think is 'the real world' in the story.  We are told that Mal invented the totem concept.  It could be the case that at the time Cobb and Mal are in Limbo that only she has a totem and that he has not yet adopted that idea.  However I think it is fairly safe to assume that as soon as she invents the concept of the totem, that she shares the idea with him and that he has his own totem in Limbo and at the time of her death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore we can safely assume that he believed he was awake at the time and was using his own totem to validate that state.  He seems strongly to believe that they are awake at the time she takes her own life, which appears to support the idea that he has a totem of his own at this point.  His thinking might be that since he knows he is awake, he would then be able to adopt and use Mal's totem safely from then on.  This is the only answer I have to your question - he took and used the totem when he could validate that he was already in the real-world, and trusted that he could then use the new totem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However this is one of many points in the movie that are (I believe) intended to make us wonder whether he is still in a dream in the 'real world' at the start and end of the movie.  The argument that he could use his own totem to validate his awake state before taking and using Mal's totem seems fairly watertight, particularly as it has an easy to interpret sign (if it does not stop spinning he must be in a dream).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However conversely this easy to interpret signal is also a weak point in using the totem that she designed.  Everyone else's totem has something about it that only they understand - Arthur's loaded dice, Ariadne's weighted chess piece.  One can imagine that anyone could dream the spinning top falling over, perhaps Mal had a more detailed and subtle understanding of the top that would enable her to distinguish it falling over in someone else's dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am therefore guessing that at the time he took the top, he was in the real-world as he was using his own totem at the time.  However Mal's totem because it was not of his design is an unreliable guide, and that we cannot assume that he was in the real-world at the start and end of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-02-24T17:09:38.460" LastActivityDate="2012-02-24T17:09:38.460" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1409" CreationDate="2012-02-24T14:20:14.967" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Theodore speaks Japanese. He should say something like that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Konbanwa Watashi Wa&lt;/strong&gt; Theodore &lt;strong&gt;desu&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that means &quot;Good evening my name is Theodore&quot;. It's not pronounced very clearly, and most subtitles wrote &lt;strong&gt;Alvin desu&lt;/strong&gt;, but listening to the voice it seems most likely to be Theodore. Maybe it's a Japanese name translation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastEditorUserId="18325" LastEditDate="2016-11-28T17:37:09.317" LastActivityDate="2016-11-28T17:37:09.317" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1413" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1415" CreationDate="2012-02-24T14:56:33.897" Score="19" ViewCount="179065" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Lieutenant Dunbar survives his suicide attempt in the beginning and gets decorated, he stops at Fort Hays to get his orders to go to the Frontier signed by Major Fambrough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After signing the paperwork, he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I just pissed in my pants... and nobody can do anything about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Dunbar is leaving, the Major shoots himself in the head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is Major Fambrough acting all crazy?  What was the point of his character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="228" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T13:49:23.103" LastActivityDate="2017-03-06T21:35:43.617" Title="What was the deal with the crazy Major at Fort Hays?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dances-with-wolves|" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1413" CreationDate="2012-02-24T16:49:00.047" Score="16" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;What was the point of his character?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His death removes the last living person that would've known where Dunbar was heading, setting the stage for his having time to develop his relationship with the Sioux etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Why is Major Fambrough acting all crazy?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its implied that he's an alcoholic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="576" LastActivityDate="2012-02-24T16:49:00.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1413" CreationDate="2012-02-24T16:51:16.520" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene with major Fambrough is very entertaining, but leaves some out from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/Dances_With_Wolves.pdf&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; I found. In it, Fambrough acts crazy throughout, but gets decidedly worse right after Dunbar leaves, right before the suicide shot that Dunbar hears as the wagon rolls out of town.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;In the script, Fambrough leaves the office naked, except for a plumed hat, his sword, and his revolver. (As written, this reminds me of the incident with Edgar Allen Poe, who arrived to duty similarly once, getting himself expelled from West Point.) This is just after the drink he takes when Dunbar leaves which Dunbar sees through the window. He is pursued by Lieutenant Elgin, who wants to return him to the office. Elgin hears an aside comment from the sargeant who calls Fambrough &quot;crazy&quot;, just before Fambrough raises the revolver to protect himself from Elgin. Elgin continues to carefully approach, but doesn't get there in time for the suicide which occurs on the parade ground.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Earlier script notes describe Fambrough as having &lt;i&gt;&quot;sad, swollen eyes. He is an army lifer passed over too many times for promotion and right now does not look like a well man&quot;&lt;/i&gt; and, &lt;i&gt;&quot;Sweat has broken out all over him. His grooming is awful. His hands are trembling slightly. Something is very wrong with him.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Earlier, the clinking of the glass in the drawer intimates at alcoholism. There is also emphasis about the childish flourishes during filling the form and the signing, with the giggling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-02-24T17:32:32.033" LastActivityDate="2012-02-24T17:32:32.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1380" CreationDate="2012-02-24T17:31:42.330" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;She isn't a death eater but rather someone at the Ministry who is pretty much always suspicious of every action of Albus Dumbledore and The boy who lived of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 7th book pretty much the entire ministry is taken over by the Death eaters when they kill the Minister but still she isn't a deatheater she works for the Ministry rather. I don't remember anything in the book suggesting she is a death eater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She is quite sadistic in which they share the same Death eater traits but not one of them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2012-02-24T17:31:42.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1418" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-25T05:14:12.033" Score="7" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &lt;code&gt;The Ghost Network&lt;/code&gt; from Fringe's first season, the object that is being exchanged is some sort of a disc that is capable of storing information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dr Bishop has been brought into this FBI investigation for the sole purpose of explaining these weird incidents. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that Broyles wanted this to remain a secret, what's the reason behind Dunham not being inquisitive about this disc and not asking Broyles to involve Dr Bishop in finding out what that was?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="356" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T16:03:44.773" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T16:03:44.773" Title="Why isn't Dr Bishop consulted about the disc in &quot;The Ghost Network&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fringe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1418" CreationDate="2012-02-25T13:46:52.473" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;disk&quot; episode investigations were very early in the series and demonstrate the growing investigation capabilities of Olivia Dunham. She was &quot;assigned&quot; to the group, and it could be believed that she was a little put out by it. The mere name &quot;Fringe&quot; could have been mocked by her other FBI compatriots before her transfer. Today she is fierce, self-motivated, and determined. Earlier, she was still being called &quot;Liason&quot; by Broyles and she was unsure of her true investigative standing in the Fringe Division.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I think Nina from Massive Dynamic (MD), knowing the knowledge that Dr. Bishop possessed, and the power Olivia was capable of, used her relationship with Broyles to temper the early investigations. It wasn't revealed until later that MD was deciphering some data from the disks; I think this came after Olivia earned her cortexiphan stripes by defusing the Jones bomb. At that point, I think Nina allowed Broyles to let Olivia determine where and with whom an investigation would lead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2012-02-25T13:46:52.473" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1420" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-25T15:05:53.850" Score="28" ViewCount="8003" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Live and Let Die&quot;, after Bond throws Tee Hee Johnson from the train window at the very end of the movie, and returns to Solitair, we see an image of smiling Baron Samedi sitting on the train engine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dpWW8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... despite the fact that in an earlier scene, Bond killed Samedi by kicking him into a coffin full of snakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_henchmen_in_Live_and_Let_Die#Film_2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; has this to say on the topic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Later on, Bond witnesses Baron Samedi rising from a grave, and shoots him in the forehead; however, it is revealed to be nothing more than an animatronic dummy. Only minutes later, however, the real Samedi rises from the grave and engages Bond in a machete fight. &lt;strong&gt;Bond kills him again by pushing him into a coffin full of snakes. But just before the end credits roll, Samedi is seen riding on the front of Bond and Solitaire's speeding train (laughing), suggesting that he either survived falling into the coffin of snakes or that he was not mortal to begin with - that he really is &quot;the man who cannot die&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt; Because of this, he is probably the only James Bond 007 character to take on a supernatural basis rather than reality itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was there ever any clarification on the point of this shot from someone involved with the movie (as opposed to pure guessing in Wikipedia)? Was Samedi merely not killed by snakes, or were the creators intentionally showing him to be immortal/supernatural?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-06T18:46:21.167" LastActivityDate="2017-05-29T21:01:11.687" Title="What is the significance of a man sitting on the train engine in the last scene of &quot;Live and Let Die&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|james-bond|live-and-let-die|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1420" CreationDate="2012-02-25T18:45:08.520" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Live and Let Die&lt;/em&gt; is generally regarded as the one and only 'supernatural' entry in the Bond franchise, and this would go some way to explaining Baron Samedi's apparent indestructibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The character of Baron Samedi is actually based on a voodoo deity rather than a real person, and one might suppose that this would account for his otherworldly powers. It should also be noted that he is not a strictly 'villainous' character - the baron is relatively neutral in his meddling with the affairs of the living, and so does not need to die (as befits Bond baddies in general).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were also rumors that the Baron would be returning in one of the following films-  but these rumors are uncorroborated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*All information condensed from various articles from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jamesbondwiki.com/&quot;&gt;James Bond wiki&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070328/&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-02-25T18:45:08.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1422" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-25T22:35:05.357" Score="8" ViewCount="545" Body="&lt;p&gt;I happened to watch 2 movies in the same week (&quot;Live and Let Die&quot; and &quot;Scorpion King&quot;) both of which had a common trope of a fortune teller virginal female who is supposed to lose her prescient powers upon physical intimacy (having sex, to put it crudely), though in the former the powers were lost and in the latter the prediction ended up being a fake invented by the fortuneteller bloodline to protect against kingly advances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the cinematic origin (first use) of this trope? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T18:23:20.360" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T18:23:20.360" Title="What is the cinematic origin (first use) of a &quot;Fortune teller will lose powers after intimacy&quot; trope?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1423" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-25T22:41:41.790" Score="6" ViewCount="975" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering what the first movie (made in USA) was where a character speaking Russian was played by an actor for whom Russian was a fluent (though not necessarily first) language, spoken with no noticeable accent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that this question explicitly excludes cases where the character was an non-Russian speaker who could speak Russian (such as Jack Ryan from &quot;Hunt for Red October&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(the impetus for this was the wonderful Scottish-accented Connery's Captain Ramius and remembering my WTF upon hearing the accent).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T21:49:36.613" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T21:49:36.613" Title="First Hollywood (or at least made in USA) movie where Russian dialog was spoken by Russian speaking actor?" Tags="|first-appearance|casting|american-cinema|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1424" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11891" CreationDate="2012-02-25T22:45:32.030" Score="24" ViewCount="5759" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've heard that sounds tend to be dubbed in afterwards, rather than being recorded live. Everything from walking to opening and shutting doors. What is the reason for doing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="275" LastEditorUserId="275" LastEditDate="2012-02-26T10:05:26.867" LastActivityDate="2017-07-03T00:41:25.710" Title="Why are most sounds dubbed in afterwards for movies, instead of being recorded live?" Tags="|soundtrack|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1380" CreationDate="2012-02-25T23:05:40.850" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that Dolores Umbridge is very much a &quot;company yes-woman&quot; and she toes the party line without deviation as a Ministry of Magic employee. Whether she's overtly malicious or not, I'll let you decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Umbridge engages students in what can only be called sadistic detentions, where she forces them to write lines with a quill that uses the student's own blood as ink and simultaneously carves the sentence onto the back of the student's hand, causing permanent scarring.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Umbridge refers to the Centaurs as &quot;filthy half-breeds&quot; and attacks one of the Centaurs with a painful spell after he shoots an arrow her way (on her provocation). If a teacher in our world called a child who's part African-American and part Asian a &quot;filthy half-breed&quot;, would you find that benignly &quot;misguided&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Umbridge derives pleasure from emotionally hurting Professor Trelawney by both sacking her from the Divination post and attempting to have her removed from the Hogwarts grounds, which has been Trelawney's home for over sixteen years.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She &quot;drugs&quot; students so regularly with Veritaserum that she depletes Snape's entire Veritaserum stock. In &quot;Potterverse&quot;, it is forbidden to give students Veritaserum, yet Umbridge relies on it as an information-gathering tactic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Umbridge physically assaults Harry by slapping him across the face after she catches him, Ron, and Hermione trying to use her Floo in her office.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Umbridge is preparing to cast the unforgivable Cruciatus Curse on Harry in order to get him to give her information, saying &quot;What Cornelius [Fudge] doesn't know won't hurt him.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Umbridge is happy to send Dumbledore to Azkaban without the benefit of a trial first following her discovery of Dumbledore's Army.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Umbridge refuses to believe Cedric Diggory was murdered by Voldemort and even goes so far as to punish Harry with her sadistic quill for him daring to contradict her.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Umbridge expresses the sentiment that she &quot;really hates children&quot;, which isn't exactly a quality found in an exemplary teacher!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Umbridge relishes her power and abuses it openly and cruelly. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dolores Umbridge is not an innocuous Ministry drone who is simply acting as she believes her boss wants her to. Her cruelty and sadism is autonomous to her work for Fudge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion? She's sadistic and dangerous. And I didn't even begin to touch on her antics in &lt;em&gt;Deathly Hallows I&lt;/em&gt;, since your question was about &lt;em&gt;Order of the Phoenix&lt;/em&gt; specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="244" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-12-15T20:36:41.293" LastActivityDate="2013-12-15T20:36:41.293" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1424" CreationDate="2012-02-25T23:23:40.733" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the wikipedia page on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_artist&quot;&gt;Foley Artists.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Foley artists look to recreate the realistic ambient sounds that the film portrays. The props and sets of a film do not react the same way acoustically as their real life counterparts. Foley sounds are used to enhance the auditory experience of the movie. Foley can also be used to cover up unwanted sounds captured on the set of a movie during filming that might take away from the scene at hand, such as overflying airplanes or passing traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a great website on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.marblehead.net/foley/&quot;&gt;how it's done.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="789" LastActivityDate="2012-02-25T23:23:40.733" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1427" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-26T00:23:42.850" Score="8" ViewCount="758" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a 2-part question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is it technically possible to shoot a movie though a colored lens/filter? (as opposed to changing the image color AFTER the movie is shot, via CGI or earlier effects)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If possible, was there ever any mainstream (e.g. not an indie) movie shot in its entirety 100% through a color lens or filter?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-09T09:24:46.967" LastActivityDate="2019-12-08T18:15:26.067" Title="Were any non-CGI movies shot in their entirety though a colored lens/filter?" Tags="|effects|cinematography|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1428" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1429" CreationDate="2012-02-26T07:32:43.547" Score="82" ViewCount="238311" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/a&gt;, The Joker told different reasons for the scars on his cheeks. Initially he said that his father gave him the cuts on his cheek as a child after his father performed the same act on his mother, which includes the famous line &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Why so serious?&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Joker also tells &lt;strong&gt;Rachel Dawes&lt;/strong&gt; that his wife had scars due to an accident and that &lt;strong&gt;he cut his own cheeks with a razor&lt;/strong&gt; blade to prove that scars did not matter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He starts to tell Batman a third story about how he might have been &lt;strong&gt;disfigured&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anybody knows what is the real reason?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Was the real reason mentioned in any comics or other books?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ecym2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-29T18:02:33.270" LastActivityDate="2016-11-24T00:47:25.047" Title="What is the real reason for the Joker's scars?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1428" CreationDate="2012-02-26T08:20:11.023" Score="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;The pure nature of the Joker, especially in the movie sense, is to be completely chaotic wanting &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;to watch the world burn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;.  In other words, the Joker is the very definition of the alignment: &lt;strong&gt;Chaotic Evil&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, the conflicting stories about his past are there on purpose to continue this nature of just being &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;an agent of chaos&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice how we're never given a flashback of events during his story-telling, something very prominent in the movies in order to remind the audience of events past.  Even Ra's' origins were given flashbacks, although brief and nondescript.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only facts to his backgrounds are that he started in Gotham, pitting low-level criminals against each other in elaborate robbery schemes where he comes out on top, with money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a point of reference, the opening scene of &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; shows his most recent attempt, with a lack of surprise from Gordon on the situation of criminals killing each other during a heist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this is only the past year (time between the end of &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt; and the beginning of &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;) and the rest of his timeline is what we see in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For clarification and emphasis of the answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;There is no true origin of the Joker in any media.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the comics, the same is true:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a multitude of origins of the Joker told from being a washed up comedian that went nuts, to just being that way from the start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though many have been related, a definitive history of the Joker has never been established in the comics, and his true name has never been confirmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No recounting of the Joker's origin has been definitive, however, as he has been portrayed as lying so often about his former life that he himself is confused as to what actually happened. As he says in The Killing Joke: &amp;quot;Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another... if I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/The_Joker&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;source&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one true constant of any depiction of the Joker is that he wants to assert to Batman that all it takes is &lt;strong&gt;One bad day&lt;/strong&gt; to send &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; into the insanity that he lives everyday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most prominent of this is during the short story &lt;em&gt;The Killing Joke&lt;/em&gt; where he tortures Gordon almost to this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is also what makes the Joker such the notorious villain that he is.  No one can ever be certain of anything of him or what he will do.  Whether it be something as simplistic as his background to any of his plans, constantly fooling even the pinnacle of detectives like Batman on multiple occasions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a final side note about Joker origin, the story that is most accepted as the &amp;quot;true&amp;quot; origin is &lt;a href=&quot;http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/The_Killing_Joke&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Killing Joke&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Where he quits his job to be a comedian and goes completely nuts after being knocked into a vat of acid that bleaches his body the traditional Joker colours (all caused by Batman during a heist gone wrong).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as there is no confirmation of this origin to the Joker, even this can be taken with a grain of salt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Dark Knight's interpretation of the Joker is based primarily on the character's first two appearances in the Batman comics, as well as Alan Moore's one-shot comic book Batman: The Killing Joke, which was given to Heath Ledger in order to prepare for his role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/The_Dark_Knight&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-04-23T14:26:50.293" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1410" CreationDate="2012-02-26T17:53:02.280" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think his totem is his wedding ring. He doesn't wear it when he is awake as far as I remember. Also links in with the back story of his wife dying. I don't know if this is true during the flashback scene to when they are first in limbo however or if they even had totems then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user921" LastActivityDate="2012-02-26T17:53:02.280" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1431" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1432" CreationDate="2012-02-26T20:25:05.817" Score="15" ViewCount="1034" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been a lot of greek myth Gods depicted in film. Which film was the first to show us the face of the Christian God Jehovah? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" OwnerDisplayName="Major Stackings" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-02-26T21:20:17.097" LastActivityDate="2012-03-23T14:53:10.543" Title="Which film was the first to show us the face of God?" Tags="|first-appearance|analysis|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1431" CreationDate="2012-02-26T20:48:24.477" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The earliest reference I could find is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Pastures_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Green Pastures&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1936). The story relates &quot;portrays episodes from the Old Testament as seen through the eyes of a young African-American child in the Depression-era South, who interprets The Bible in terms familiar to her.&quot;  The film is based on the 1930 play of the same name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next one I could find is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Grey_Hare&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Old Grey Hare&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1944) in which the titular character is the beloved Bugs Bunny and the voice of God was provided by Mel Blanc, famous for doing the voices of Bugs Bunny and many other Looney Tune characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" OwnerDisplayName="TangoOversway" LastEditorUserId="386" LastEditDate="2012-03-23T14:32:03.133" LastActivityDate="2012-03-23T14:32:03.133" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1433" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-02-27T02:21:29.047" Score="4" ViewCount="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1842724/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jump City: Seattle&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; often alluded to the judges, however they were never seen nor announced. I understand the show was tied into the &lt;strong&gt;Pro Parkour League&lt;/strong&gt; but couldn't find anything on either G4's site or the PPL's (Sort of) sites. The credits didn't seem to indicate either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T00:09:32.147" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T23:28:02.583" Title="Who judged season one?" Tags="|jump-city-seattle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1435" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1437" CreationDate="2012-02-27T04:42:22.287" Score="16" ViewCount="1164" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the most controversial episode of South Park, involving Muhammad, did the producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone intend to show the face of Muhammad, or did they cave into network pressures demanded by Comedy Central?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="918" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-12-20T18:07:18.960" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T18:08:13.457" Title="South Park and references to Muhammad" Tags="|analysis|south-park|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1410" CreationDate="2012-02-27T04:43:22.690" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a bit of speculation, perhaps Mal didn't invent the token. Rather the entire idea of the token was a result of Cobb's inception. Rather, he implanted the idea of a token into her mind as a way to convince her that her world wasn't real. Everyone else think that its Mal's idea because she emerged from the dream with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="924" LastActivityDate="2012-02-27T04:43:22.690" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1435" CreationDate="2012-02-27T05:38:24.870" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short answer is no.  Below is the long answer.  It is also no. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the South Park episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1635619/&quot;&gt;200&lt;/a&gt; Tom Cruise and other celebrities ridiculed by the show over the years threaten to file a class action lawsuit against the town unless the town brings them the Prophet Muhammad.  The celebrities want to obtain Muhammad's ability to not be ridiculed.  Muhammad appears in the episode disguised in a bear suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the reason this episode was done is that in 2009 a Danish cartoonist &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/28/kurt-westergaard-danish-m_n_337398.html&quot;&gt;depicted Muhammad in a series of cartoons.&lt;/a&gt;  Some Muslims find the depiction of Muhammad and the human form idolatry &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.religionfacts.com/islam/things/depictions-of-muhammad-in-islamic-art.htm&quot;&gt;although this was not always the case.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trey Parker and Matt Stone tried to put an image of Muhammad into the show during the initial uproar but Comedy Central prevented it from happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an interview with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/25/matt-stone-trey-parker-ar_n_475744.html&quot;&gt;Parker and Stone&lt;/a&gt; they stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I think Comedy Central totally fucking pussed out. Now, they weren't any different than anyone else, so it's not like you can single them out. But I think it would've been an important statement for one media outlet in America to stand up. That was one of my most disappointing moments as an American--the American press's reaction to the Muhammad cartoons. It was completely wimpy,&quot; Matt Stone said. &quot;Cartoonists, people who do satire--we're not in the army, we're never going to be fucking drafted and this is our time to stand up and do the right thing. And to watch the New York Times, Comedy Central, everybody just go 'No, we're not going to do it because basically we're afraid of getting bombed' sucked. I was so disappointed&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The storyline from episode 200 continued into the following episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1644896/&quot;&gt;201.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The storyline was supposed to have gingers (redheads) and the celebrities fighting over possession of Muhammad who is rescued by the Super Best Friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a warning was issued to Parker and Stone &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/muslim-group-warns-south-park-22875&quot;&gt;on Revolution Muslim website&lt;/a&gt; Comedy Central decided to censor the episode by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/comedy-central-censors-south-park-22924&quot;&gt;bleeping all mention of Muhammad.&lt;/a&gt;  The character was also covered with a large black bar that said &quot;CENSORED.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trey Parker and Matt Stone then issued the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/live-feed/south-park-creators-respond-network-53499&quot;&gt;following statement:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;In the 14 years we've been doing South Park we have&#xA;  never done a show that we couldn't stand behind. We delivered our&#xA;  version of the show to Comedy Central and they made a determination to&#xA;  alter the episode. It wasn't some meta-joke on our part. Comedy&#xA;  Central added the bleeps. In fact, Kyle's customary final speech was&#xA;  about intimidation and fear. It didn't mention Muhammad at all but it&#xA;  got bleeped too. We'll be back next week with a whole new show about&#xA;  something completely different and we'll see what happens to it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Parker and Stone they did not cave to pressure, but the network did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="789" LastEditorUserId="789" LastEditDate="2012-02-27T05:51:34.727" LastActivityDate="2012-02-27T05:51:34.727" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1420" CreationDate="2012-02-27T11:28:13.750" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ending of the film, with Baron Samendi on the train, was meant to be ambiguous. Partly because the character himself was so ambiguous. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the movie, Bond shoots a Samendi in the head, where that Samendi's eyes roll up as if to inspect the damage. Bond then shoots at that Samendi again, causing it to collapse as if it were just a porcelain mannequin. A few moments later, another Samendi pops up - it's this one that Bond physically fights with and knocks into the coffin filled with snakes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So clearly, something metaphysical was going on, but what exactly was going on was never elaborated in the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-05-02T19:16:37.283" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T19:16:37.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1444" CreationDate="2012-02-27T13:13:27.987" Score="13" ViewCount="1530" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've watched The Fellowship of the Ring several times and am convinced that this is a continuity error but have never seen it documented.  Can someone clarify whether this is an error or my eyes playing tricks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When leaving Lothlorien Celeborn gives Aragorn a knife.  When fighting Lurz at Amon Hen he uses that knife to stab the Uruk Hai through the leg.  Lurtz then draws the blade and throws it at Aragorn who shatters it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the very end of the film during the line &quot;Lets hunt some orc&quot; Aragorn is shown sheathing this blade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have I missed something here?  To shatter a blade and then it pop up again 5 minutes later seems a very large continuity error but I'm sure I saw it shatter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T18:11:03.887" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T18:11:03.887" Title="Fellowship of the Ring continuity error?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-fellowship-of-the-ring|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1442" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1443" CreationDate="2012-02-27T13:15:49.357" Score="40" ViewCount="4220" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the gates of Moria there is a riddle on the door.  &quot;Speak Friend and Enter&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frodo then asks Gandalf &quot;What is the elven word for 'Friend'?&quot; who replies and the door opens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given Moria is a dwarven mine, why would the door require an elven password?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-03-01T02:19:08.820" LastActivityDate="2015-02-22T15:19:35.183" Title="Language of the Moria password in The Fellowship of the Ring" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-fellowship-of-the-ring|dialogue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1442" CreationDate="2012-02-27T14:26:12.907" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;That gate to Moria was created in the &amp;quot;Second Age&amp;quot; of Middle Earth, and was used to trade mithril with the Noldorian Elves of Eregion.  Relations between the Elves and the Dwarves were more cordial in the Second Age. The inscription and password on the gate created by Celebrimbor, the leader of the Noldor, hence is in elvish. Celebrimbor also forged the 3 Elvish rings of power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[This is all in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0618391118&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Silmarillion&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In The Fellowship of the Ring, the inscription on the door reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Im Narvi hain echant. Celebrimbor o Eregion teithant i thiw hin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I, Narvi, made them. Celebrimbor of Eregion drew these signs&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(taken from Wikipedia, I hope it is accurate).  So Narvi the dwarf built the gate, and Celebrimbor drew the lettering and the cast the spell which only opens when the password is given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-22T15:19:35.183" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1441" CreationDate="2012-02-27T15:15:23.757" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aragorn didn't shatter the blade.  When Lurtz threw the blade at him Aragorn used his own sword to deflect it.  I'll see if I can get a screencap and put it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, after several tries I cannot get a decent screen cap that clearly shows the blade.  It just looks like a flashing blur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="789" LastEditorUserId="789" LastEditDate="2012-02-28T00:53:45.907" LastActivityDate="2012-02-28T00:53:45.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1445" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1543" CreationDate="2012-02-27T15:16:06.290" Score="8" ViewCount="1420" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a name of a movie that takes place in Vietnam or is related to Vietnam War (a movie describing someone's memories from the Vietnam War). I remember that the plot was focused on a man who fought in the War. He was desperate, saying he'll &lt;strong&gt;&quot;take a walk on train tracks&quot;, as a metaphor for commiting suicide&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember the movie from my childhood and I'm looking for the title. I believe it might have been shot in the 80s or 90s (definitely no later than 1999).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="925" LastEditorUserId="925" LastEditDate="2012-11-09T06:54:26.393" LastActivityDate="2012-11-09T06:54:26.393" Title="What is the name of this Vietnam War-related movie?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:35:30.087" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1424" CreationDate="2012-02-27T20:37:37.190" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main reason is really cost, plus you can get far better results in a Foley stage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recording sounds live is very expensive and difficult to get each of the sounds independently so that they can be properly mixed later. Say that you want to record the sounds you describe live where there are footsteps and a door shutting. You would have to record two separate sounds for each to allow for later flexibility in mixing the sounds. Furthermore you have the entire crew (who would need to be very quiet) waiting around while the sound guys do their work. Alternatively, they= sound crew could come back after the main crew leave and record the sounds, but this require access to the location for a longer period of time (and again results increasing the cost).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or consider the case of a restaurant scene where the main characters are engaged in a conversation. When shooting such scenes, all the background people pretend to be chatting and eating but they have to refrain from making any background noise such are knives hitting plates. These sounds are added later which ensures that they are at the appropriate mixing level and the appropriate time so as to not distract from the dialog&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, a lot of sounds are added that were not part of the scene that was shot, for example outdoor ambiance: The sounds of crickets are added to indicate that this scene is a t night -- even in cases where such sounds would not exist as is the case for highrise in New York for instance.  Or African jungle sounds are added to indicate that one is in the wild, even though the scene is in Vietnam for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one notable except to this and that is when recording background ambient noise or &quot;room tone&quot;.  When shooting on location, there is &lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt; some background noise. In every day life we get used to hearing that and don't even notice it. At some point during the shooting of a scene the background noise will be recorded in case it needs to be mixed in later. This will involve all the normal sounds emanating from the film crew and the background noise. So for instance if the air conditioner went on in an adjacent room for one take of a scene, but was off in separate take of the same scene, this would be &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; noticeable when the scene was cut together.  This room tone recording would be used to smooth out the background noise so that the ambient noise would not be too jarring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want to get a feel of how much work goes into the sound design, you need to close you eyes and &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; look at the picture.  One of the best examples is the opening scene in Apocalypse now.  Try it for yourself and see. Well, not &lt;em&gt;see&lt;/em&gt;, but you know what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="379" LastActivityDate="2012-02-27T20:37:37.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1445" CreationDate="2012-02-27T21:25:11.173" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this might be the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092609/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Backfire&lt;/a&gt;. It's about a Vietnam vet who keeps having flashbacks that are pushing him towards suicide and his wife who is helping him along. I don't know specifically about the walk on the train tracks line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2012-02-29T13:03:25.187" LastActivityDate="2012-02-29T13:03:25.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1445" CreationDate="2012-02-27T21:35:29.473" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A movie very similar to the one just named (Backfire), has Don Johnson just before his &lt;em&gt;Miami Vice&lt;/em&gt; days. I also don't remember the train track thing, and the suicide may not be his own, but that of his buddy. See if &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088892/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cease Fire&lt;/a&gt; is the one you mean.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;Tim Murphy is a Vietnam Vet. When he loses his job he starts to relive all the pain and horror of his time in Vietnam. The stresses and strains nearly destroy his marriage and his family. Only after joining a veterans' therapy group does Tim find relief from his nightmares. With the support of his fellow vets and the love of his wife, Tim recovers.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2012-02-27T21:35:29.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1451" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1452" CreationDate="2012-02-28T18:37:45.150" Score="11" ViewCount="1812" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think movies like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117998/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Twister&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118928/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dante's Peak&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120696/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hard Rain&lt;/a&gt; as general examples, but feel free to expand on them. Avoid movies like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319262/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Day After Tomorrow&lt;/a&gt; because they're not as clear-cut and may lead to a discussion about global warming rather than answering the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: specifically looking for the &lt;strong&gt;FIRST&lt;/strong&gt; instance of the movie coming out before the event occurred, not &lt;strong&gt;ANY&lt;/strong&gt; instance of the movie coming first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2012-04-17T16:21:01.740" LastActivityDate="2016-04-05T15:13:28.633" Title="What is the first instance of a disaster movie coming true?" Tags="|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1451" CreationDate="2012-02-28T18:42:55.363" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078966/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;China Syndrome&lt;/a&gt; was released in 1979 about 2 weeks before a similar nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Harrisburg, PA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-04-05T15:13:28.633" LastActivityDate="2016-04-05T15:13:28.633" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1451" CreationDate="2012-02-28T20:05:46.333" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though not strictly a movie, there is the now infamous example of the pilot episode of the X-Files spin-off show, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;v=z3WW6eoLcLI#!&quot;&gt;The Lone Gunmen&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Airing 6 months before the terrorist attack on 9/11, it depicts the hackers foiling an attempt by a shady organization to fly a plane into the WTC in order to catalyze a Mid-East attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dodgy conspiracy theories aside, this is a prime example of the entertainment media prophesizing a real event/disaster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-02-28T20:05:46.333" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1454" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1570" CreationDate="2012-02-28T22:10:37.327" Score="4" ViewCount="2390" Body="&lt;p&gt;Robert Aldrich's archetypal film noir, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048261/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kiss Me Deadly&lt;/a&gt;, is highly influential and well rated by many critics. But the original version is said to suffer because parts of the very last scene were often missing (not sure why, but possibly because of dodgy management of the film stock). I certainly remember slightly different, seemingly inconclusive endings. My DVD copy claims to have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;over one minute of crucial footage that clarifies decades of false interpretations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the definitive ending and what were the false interpretations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2012-06-05T13:41:18.730" Title="What is the definitive ending to Kiss Me Deadly?" Tags="|kiss-me-deadly|alternate-version|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1457" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1458" CreationDate="2012-02-29T08:36:27.060" Score="14" ViewCount="24146" Body="&lt;p&gt;When &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348914/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Deadwood&lt;/a&gt; was on the air, it got a lot of attention for its profanity, and as I recall, it had the reputation for using the F word more times per minute than any other TV show (and perhaps movie) at the time (and likely still holds that record).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems unlikely that the heavy use of profanity is an attempt at to add realism, as I don't think most of the profanity in that show was actually in use in common speech in the late 1800's when the show is set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also seems unlikely that it was an attempt to simply modernize the profanity of the day for a modern audience, because much of the profanity seems contrived and forced; not at all natural, even for characters of such ill repute as are common in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did HBO and/or the producers of Deadwood use so much profanity?  Has anyone who worked on the project let on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-30T21:27:12.507" LastActivityDate="2016-06-04T12:22:14.770" Title="Why all the profanity in Deadwood?" Tags="|deadwood|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1457" CreationDate="2012-02-29T10:06:16.200" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to TV critic Charlie Brooker in his glowing review on his BBC programme &lt;em&gt;Screenwipe&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWcpapqAM0I&amp;amp;t=9m50s&quot;&gt;clip, ~9m50s&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Actually the constant bad language is a deliberate stylistic choice. People in the wild west didn't really speak like that, they used cusswords like &lt;em&gt;nincompoop&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;tarnation&lt;/em&gt;, which would have been shocking at the time but strike us today as impossibly tame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But the creators decided to make the townsfolk contemporarily foul-mouthed to maintain that anarchic, underclassy feel in the present day. And it works. The people of &lt;em&gt;Deadwood&lt;/em&gt; talk f---ing tough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadwood_%28TV_series%29#Use_of_profanity&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; agrees:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From its debut, &lt;em&gt;Deadwood&lt;/em&gt; has drawn attention for its extensive profanity. It is a deliberate anachronism on the part of the creator with a twofold intent. Milch has explained in several interviews that the characters were originally intended to use period slang and swear words. Such words, however, were based heavily on the era's deep religious roots and tended to be more blasphemous than scatological. Instead of being shockingly crude (in keeping with the tone of a frontier mining camp), the results sounded downright comical. As one commentator put it &quot;… if you put words like 'goldarn' into the mouths of the characters on 'Deadwood', they'd all wind up sounding like Yosemite Sam.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Instead, it was decided that the show would use current profanity in order for the words to have the same impact on modern audiences as the blasphemous ones did back in the 1870s. In fact, in early episodes, the character of Mr. Wu seems to know only three words of English — the mangled name of one character (&quot;Swedgin&quot;), &quot;San Francisco&quot;, and his favorite derogatory term for those whom he dislikes, &quot;cocksucka&quot;. Wu is fond of the Cantonese derogatory term &quot;gweilo&quot; which he applies to the camp's white males.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The other intent in regards to the frequency of the swearing was to signal to the audience the lawlessness of the camp in much the same way that the original inhabitants used it to show that they were living outside the bounds of &quot;civil society&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The issue of the authenticity of &lt;em&gt;Deadwood&lt;/em&gt;'s dialogue has even been alluded to in the show itself. Early in the second season, E.B. Farnum has fleeced Mr. Wolcott of $9,900, and Farnum tries to console the geologist:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;EB: Some ancient Italian maxim fits our situation, whose particulars escape me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Wolcott: Is the gist that I'm shit outta luck?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;EB: Did they speak that way then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The word &quot;fuck&quot; was said 43 times in the first hour of the show. It has been reported that the series had a total count of 2,980 &quot;fucks&quot; and an average of 1.56 utterances of &quot;fuck&quot; per minute of footage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="386" LastEditDate="2012-02-29T11:55:28.183" LastActivityDate="2012-02-29T11:55:28.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1459" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1506" CreationDate="2012-02-29T13:14:26.433" Score="12" ViewCount="80066" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw the final episode of Chuck and I'm quite touched by the end. I assume it all ends well since Alex and Morgan are moving in together, Elli and Devon are moving to Chicago and it seems like Sarah and Chuck are getting back together,... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what is the true ending with Chuck and Sarah? Are they getting back together or has Sarah really lost her memory and did they end their relationship?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="934" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2012-12-29T21:11:32.087" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T14:07:43.190" Title="What happens with Chuck and Sarah?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|chuck|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1459" CreationDate="2012-02-29T13:41:42.673" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is incongruous to imagine that they should be together at all. They were matched together by outside forces (i.e. Chuck's intersect), and she as guardian to him during his government stint. They cemented a relationship over countless missions together as a series of peril-and-save romance. Now she has lost her memory, and, conceivably, her skills. They have no need to save each others' lives any longer, so this is no longer a workable scenario.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Absent this, he stands as much a chance as the next &quot;6&quot; guy to get with a &quot;10&quot;. Perhaps FOX can revive &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460625/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Beauty and the Geek&lt;/a&gt; for them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2012-02-29T13:41:42.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1461" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1477" CreationDate="2012-02-29T23:16:45.983" Score="8" ViewCount="803" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a continuity plan to end &lt;em&gt;The Clone Wars&lt;/em&gt; Series and tie it up to the movies? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I imagine there are many unanswerable questions related to the star wars universe from the tv series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is George Lucas just milking it as long as he can?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T15:39:02.463" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T15:39:02.463" Title="Does George Lucas have a plan for how The Clone Wars series will continue into the movies?" Tags="|star-wars|the-clone-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1462" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1474" CreationDate="2012-03-01T04:07:27.407" Score="4" ViewCount="8914" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, when Alicia goes to Roberto's workplace to see him, there is a man who's nervous and very impatient about seeing Andrada. He's afraid of being put in jail, but Roberto and his co-workers dismiss his worries &quot;over a silly summons by a judge.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They say they will take him to see Andrada, but after they take him off camera for a little while, Roberto asks &quot;What's wrong?&quot; and we see the co-worker half-dragging the man into a room. The co-worker says everything's fine and tells them to go catch their flight, then shuts the door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a bit, when they are getting in the elevator, Alicia sees someone open the door to the room and walk out, and it seems like the co-worker is straightening the man's collar or something while he's semi-conscious. We don't see anything else, however, and it cuts to them driving to the airport.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was he doing to the man? And what are we supposed to infer from that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mFSPV.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of the scene&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="738" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-04-28T08:23:30.280" LastActivityDate="2017-05-11T16:14:11.123" Title="Explanation of scene in the Official Story (La historia oficial)" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-official-story|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1464" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1465" CreationDate="2012-03-01T15:54:20.647" Score="12" ViewCount="10280" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the opening sequences of Downton Abbey series 1 and 2 there is a &lt;strong&gt;massive&lt;/strong&gt; tree near the house. When it appears in the show characters are often shown sitting on a bench underneath it. What kind of tree is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UzwMG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="593" LastEditorUserId="850" LastEditDate="2012-03-01T16:29:14.597" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T00:29:26.850" Title="What kind of tree is the giant tree in Downton Abbey?" Tags="|downton-abbey|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1464" CreationDate="2012-03-01T19:12:18.540" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon_Cedar&quot;&gt;Lebanon Cedar&lt;/a&gt;.   From the wikipedia page about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highclere_Castle&quot;&gt;Highclere Castle&lt;/a&gt; - the location for the fictional Downton Abbey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The famous 18th century seed collector Bishop Stephen Pococke was a&#xA;  friend and brought Lebanon Cedar seeds from a trip to Lebanon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-03-01T19:12:18.540" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1466" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1467" CreationDate="2012-03-01T21:22:18.690" Score="6" ViewCount="370" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie starts by a samurai walking through woods and practising his skill (he makes a few steps and then cuts through air). I also remember that a lot of the story revolves around him living in a remote house that he finds on his way (wondering around) where he stays and helps out. If I remember correctly in the house lived a woman that would make him food all the time, and I think one older man that was a bit crazy and a few other people..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the movie was in color and it looked like it was more than 20-25 years old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="941" LastEditorUserId="941" LastEditDate="2012-03-03T21:32:18.277" LastActivityDate="2012-03-03T21:32:18.277" Title="What is the title of this samurai movie?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:35:33.217" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1466" CreationDate="2012-03-01T22:14:58.530" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Found it - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181960/plotsummary&quot;&gt;After the Rain&lt;/a&gt;. It seems like I got the description wrong since he was not wondering through the woods, but just practicing there, and he didn't find a house but it was his own house and his wife and the house was actually an inn.. Also, the movie is from 1999, so it's not as old as I thought it was but oh well, at least I figured out which movie it was. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHo8lCA65dQ&quot;&gt;the scene&lt;/a&gt; where he practices while walking through woods. It's quite easy to remember this scene since it lasts for 3+ minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="941" LastEditorUserId="941" LastEditDate="2012-03-02T08:44:38.523" LastActivityDate="2012-03-02T08:44:38.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1468" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3150" CreationDate="2012-03-01T22:51:18.233" Score="75" ViewCount="46917" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always been curious what decides if a credit is in the opening or closing credits.  It seems loosely that cast (in order of today's &quot;big name&quot; significance), directors and financiers get the front spots, and everything else appears later.  But lately I've been developing some specific curiosities about how cast members are credited on TV shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opening credits seem to follow this rough outline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of &quot;opening credits&quot; video segment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(optional) Major Actors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Show Title&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Core Cast Actors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Directors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Producers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(optional) Episode Title&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episode Writers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subtitles over beginning of show, after opening video&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Episode Title and Writers may appear here, instead)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Special Guest Actors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've probably missed a few things, and mis-ordered a few things.  But, as I said, my main curiosity is about actor credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically, there is little indication of which characters the core cast actors play.  Sometimes their name is edited to appear along with an image of the character as an indictator, but sometimes there is no indication.  As I've never seen anyone credited in both the opening and closing credits, that leaves the potential for core actors to never be directly associated with their character.  This seems potentially problematic; is there a reason for this?  Are viewers expected to know who's who?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guest actors sometimes are simply credited by name (and not being part of the opening video, this means they will never be associated with their character in credits).  But often they are credited as &quot;&lt;strong&gt;special guest&lt;/strong&gt; as &lt;strong&gt;character name&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.  This is quite helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing I find really confusing is, sometimes the last few regular cast actors will get the guest actor treatment.  I've seen opening video with &quot;and &lt;strong&gt;actor&lt;/strong&gt; as &lt;strong&gt;character&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; paired with an image of that character for an entire season.  Why does this actor get special treatment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, sometimes guest actors will be credited at the front following the opening video, sometimes they'll be credited in the closing credits.  Are there rules for deciding who get's credited early or late?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've sometimes wondered if shows deliberately play with actor's name position to obfuscate plot arcs (&quot;you won't think we're killing of this character if their actor is still in the opening credits&quot;, or &quot;you won't expect this recurring guest if we place their name in the closing credits&quot;) and I've also wondered if there are thresholds for &quot;people appearing in XX number or YY percentage of episodes get placed &lt;strong&gt;here&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot;  But it's difficult to build a good sampling base for this.  And season 7 of Stargate SG-1 kinda took a shotgun to my guesses so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So...  Are there rules?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="411" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T22:34:49.613" LastActivityDate="2021-04-02T19:22:14.407" Title="What rules govern how TV show opening credits are structured?" Tags="|casting|credits|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1470" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1487" CreationDate="2012-03-02T14:24:06.287" Score="11" ViewCount="4620" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV show &quot;Who's the Boss?&quot;, was the answer to the title ever mentioned in the show itself? Was there ever any mention from the writers of the answer to this. Usually a title is said in the pilot episode or it's titled for the characters in the show. As far as I remember though the title was never mentioned in the pilot, or if it was the question was never answered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear, I am looking for sources from the writer or creator of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-12T14:47:22.433" LastActivityDate="2018-07-11T17:02:56.947" Title="Who was the boss?" Tags="|whos-the-boss|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1471" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-03-02T14:33:03.187" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Official Story&lt;/strong&gt; (Spanish: La historia oficial) is a 1985 Argentine drama film directed by Luis Puenzo, and written by Puenzo and Aída Bortnik. It stars Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, and Chunchuna Villafañe, among others. In the United Kingdom, it was released as The Official Version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is about an upper middle class couple in Buenos Aires with an adopted child. The mother comes to realize that her daughter may be the child of a desaparecido, a victim of the forced disappearances that occurred during Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Among several other international awards, &lt;strong&gt;it won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film&lt;/strong&gt; at the 58th Academy Awards, &lt;strong&gt;being the first Latin American film to achieve it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="311" LastEditorUserId="311" LastEditDate="2012-03-02T14:34:23.917" LastActivityDate="2012-03-02T14:34:23.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1472" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-03-02T14:33:03.187" Score="0" Body="The Official Story (Spanish: La historia oficial) is a 1985 Argentine drama film directed by Luis Puenzo. it won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 58th Academy Awards, being the first Latin American film to achieve it." OwnerUserId="311" LastEditorUserId="311" LastEditDate="2012-03-02T14:34:28.147" LastActivityDate="2012-03-02T14:34:28.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1402" CreationDate="2012-03-02T14:39:06.230" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The New York Times&lt;/em&gt; on &lt;em&gt;The Trouble with Harry&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;It is not a particularly witty or clever script that John Michael&#xA;  Hayes has put together from a novel by Jack Trevor Story, nor does Mr.&#xA;  Hitchcock's direction make it spin. The pace is leisurely, almost&#xA;  sluggish, and the humor frequently is strained.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastActivityDate="2012-03-02T14:39:06.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1462" CreationDate="2012-03-02T15:29:36.237" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They grabbed him, called Macci, and took him into some office so the american walking to the elevator wouldn't see him ranting. He had    complained in an earlier scene that he was only following orders and he was scared,  saying &lt;em&gt;&quot;I won’t go to jail!&quot;&lt;/em&gt; Is not clear if Macci was killed or not, but looks like if they are about to kill him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His coworkers were afraid that he might say something that compromise them or put them in jail. Roberto was a friend of some members of the &lt;em&gt;junta&lt;/em&gt; and that implies the company that Roberto worked for had benefited from them, but at that time started to be evident that the &lt;em&gt;junta&lt;/em&gt; was going to be booted out of power due to raise of economy and social issues. The scene implies that people were disappeared to cover up the &lt;em&gt;junta's&lt;/em&gt; tracks and some companies were in close ties with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, one important thing of this scene is to notice that killing could be a natural action for some ordinary people, not only militaries, an we can also watch Alicia not  been so impressed with that, so we think she couldn't be so naive about Gaby’s parents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="311" LastActivityDate="2012-03-02T15:29:36.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1475" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-03-02T18:58:01.080" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Official Story&lt;/strong&gt; (Spanish: La historia oficial) is a 1985 Argentine drama film directed by Luis Puenzo, and written by Puenzo and Aída Bortnik. It stars Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, and Chunchuna Villafañe, among others. In the United Kingdom, it was released as The Official Version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is about an upper middle class couple in Buenos Aires with an adopted child. The mother comes to realize that her daughter may be the child of a desaparecido, a victim of the forced disappearances that occurred during Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Among several other international awards, &lt;strong&gt;it won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film&lt;/strong&gt; at the 58th Academy Awards, &lt;strong&gt;being the first Latin American film to achieve it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="311" LastEditorUserId="311" LastEditDate="2012-03-02T19:08:21.380" LastActivityDate="2012-03-02T19:08:21.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1476" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-03-02T18:58:01.080" Score="0" Body="The Official Story (Spanish: La historia oficial) is a 1985 Argentine drama film directed by Luis Puenzo. it won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 58th Academy Awards, being the first Latin American film to achieve it." OwnerUserId="311" LastEditorUserId="311" LastEditDate="2012-03-02T19:08:23.750" LastActivityDate="2012-03-02T19:08:23.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1461" CreationDate="2012-03-02T19:59:59.757" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are no definite statements about how the current series will end, as (supervising director) Dave Filoni has mentioned how the story is constantly in flux and an ongoing writing process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, they will indeed have to wrap up Ahsoka's arc (and there are many theories about this), but considering this takes place in the period between the second two prequel films, it would make sense for the series to wrap up on the eve of the space war over Coruscant (which was wonderfully dove-tailed into Genndy Tartakovsky's animated take on the saga).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2012-03-03T05:34:18.393" LastActivityDate="2012-03-03T05:34:18.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1478" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1809" CreationDate="2012-03-02T22:24:15.930" Score="34" ViewCount="6911" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the many notable things about modern film-noir &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114369/&quot;&gt;Seven&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was its reverse credits (scrolling top to bottom, the opposite to the expected direction). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently rewatched the brilliant 1950's film-noir &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048261/&quot;&gt;Kiss Me Deadly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; where the credits do the same, disturbing, thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was &lt;em&gt;Kiss Me Deadly&lt;/em&gt; first to disturb its audience this way? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2012-03-07T05:28:04.887" LastActivityDate="2016-10-19T19:43:26.400" Title="Which movie did top-to-bottom credits first?" Tags="|first-appearance|credits|se7en|kiss-me-deadly|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1479" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-03T00:28:23.953" Score="8" ViewCount="1215" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, &lt;em&gt;OSS 117, Cairo Nest of Spies&lt;/em&gt;, the spy defeats two Russians and the subtitles say something along the lines of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They were &quot;Russian&quot; at me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes sense in English, but the movie is in French. There were a couple of other puns in the movie that made sense in English. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the movie written for an English-speaking audience even though it's in French, or were those thrown in there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="945" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T14:25:08.427" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T14:25:08.427" Title="English puns in OSS 117, Cairo Nest of Spies?" Tags="|dialogue|oss-117|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1480" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1499" CreationDate="2012-03-03T16:54:18.060" Score="7" ViewCount="410" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main scene I remember is that some kidnappers do a sophisticated setup (which they are kind of proud of) to avoid tracing of the caller id. Basically they set up a battery of anti-tracing devices - like 6 in a row.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people of the kidnapped victim (some asian-mafia guys) await the call from the kidnappers and have already installed 7 anti-anti-tracing devices - thus when the kidnappers call they are indeed able to trace the caller id ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is pretty much non-hollywood, asian/hongkong action style, probably 80ies, early nineties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched it in the mid-90ies on a VHS rental tape in Europe. I think it is by John Woo, but could not identify it via the information provided by IMDB (I am positive it is not 'The Killer').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember vaguely that the kidnapping was somehow staged (the victim is somehow with the kidnappers) - and that the movie contains quite a humoristic story level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="948" LastActivityDate="2012-03-06T18:03:34.370" Title="What is the name of the John Woo movie that has this telephone caller id tracing battle scene?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:35:36.340" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1481" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1493" CreationDate="2012-03-03T18:41:50.390" Score="31" ViewCount="4167" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inception&lt;/a&gt;, why does Cobb's passport not get stamped properly at the airport in the final scene i.e, the date was missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it really intended and is there any implicit reason for that or was it just a flaw?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PGUM0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Cobb&amp;#39;s passport page showing stamp and no date&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-10T12:57:18.100" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T12:57:18.100" Title="In the movie Inception, why does Cobb's passport not get stamped properly?" Tags="|analysis|inception|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1482" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1483" CreationDate="2012-03-04T00:25:02.867" Score="39" ViewCount="71504" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen this in a lot of movies and noticed it again now in &quot;Taxi Driver&quot;. There is a scene where Robert De Niro cuts an 'X' into his pistol rounds with a knife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know much about weapons, is there any technical reason to do this? Does it somehow improve the ammunition? Does he do that to open up the round?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or does it have some symbolic reason, like marking the ammunition in a personal way? What is this kind of scene usually supposed to tell the viewer? Is there any special meaning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6XGuz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;cutting scene from Taxi Driver&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T14:12:49.397" LastActivityDate="2023-12-10T23:47:15.067" Title="Why cutting an 'X' into ammunition?" Tags="|analysis|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1482" CreationDate="2012-03-04T02:22:10.500" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cutting a round in this way guarantees that the round will fragment upon striking the body creating more severe wounds. There is the forum post &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20130602182557/http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-215269.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Is it illegal/unwise to modify pistol ammo?&lt;/a&gt; with ammunition specialists answering a similar question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line: While it is &lt;em&gt;not illegal to modify the rounds&lt;/em&gt; (though the MURDER is illegal), don't do it unless you know what you're doing since inaccuracy can cause you to lose some of your own body parts, because it may fragment even before it leaves the gun barrel causing blockage and/or explosion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those looking into the forum entry I listed above, a lot of acronyms abound. I found the translations of the first few:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;JSP - Jacketed Soft Point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;JHP - Jacketed Hollow Point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;FMJ - Full Metal Jacket&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;HP   - Hollow Point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LRN - Lead Round Nose&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2023-12-10T23:47:15.067" LastActivityDate="2023-12-10T23:47:15.067" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1470" CreationDate="2012-03-05T02:09:58.827" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the title referred to a refrain commonly uttered by frustrated parents. It is a rhetorical question, meaning it is not really a question but a statement. The parent saying &quot;Who's the boss?&quot; is basically telling the kid &quot;you're not in charge -- I am.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it was used as a title because it is kind of like a double entendre, in that it could be that the parent saying &quot;Who's the boss?&quot; really isn't the boss. In other words, someone else might really be in charge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s_the_Boss%3F#Background&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In early development, the series was titled &lt;em&gt;You're the Boss&lt;/em&gt;, in reference to Angela employing Tony and the highly unusual gender role reversal. Before the fall 1984 premiere, the producers changed it to &lt;em&gt;Who's the Boss?&lt;/em&gt;, an open ended title which hinted that any one of the leads could get their own way and be the &quot;boss&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-07-11T17:02:56.947" LastActivityDate="2018-07-11T17:02:56.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1488" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1489" CreationDate="2012-03-05T03:44:29.643" Score="4" ViewCount="682" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been watching SyFy's series &quot;Face Off&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1663641/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;&amp;#40;IMDB&amp;#41;&quot;&gt;(IMDB)&lt;/a&gt; since its first season debut. Recently, I watched an episode of SpikeTV's &quot;Ink Master.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not typically a huge fan of 'reality' TV so I was surprised to see how similar these shows were. The format was nearly identical. I was wondering if these two shows were from the same production company, despite being on two separate channels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so or not, who is producing them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T16:10:22.287" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T16:10:22.287" Title="Production company(s?) for &quot;Face Off&quot; and &quot;Ink Masters&quot;" Tags="|production|credits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1488" CreationDate="2012-03-05T04:14:10.777" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Face Off is a production of Mission Control Media with Michael Agbabian and Dwight D. Smith as exectutive producers (From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.syfy.com/faceoff/about&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SyFi Website Face Off About page&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ink Master is a production of Original Media, with Charlie Corwin, Jay Peterson, and Andrea Richter as executive producers (From press release included on &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/ink-master-season-two-22115/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TV Series Finale website&lt;/a&gt;).  Original Media is part of the Endemol reality-tv empire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like just a coincidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-03-05T04:14:10.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1479" CreationDate="2012-03-05T14:22:17.100" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Writing good subtitles is a bit like translating a novel or other fiction, it is more important to convey the meaning or sense of what is going on than translating word for word what the original language was.  When translating idioms and jokes in particular do not translate well 'word for word' but there is often an associated phrase which has a similar meaning - a well translated book will work hard at getting a similar feel as well as a similar meaning to the original&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subtitles are slightly harder than the written word, as it looks slightly odd if the length of text and spoken word do not correspond to some degree&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the example you are giving here, it was probably only important to the translator that a jokey pun of some sort was included, to convey the sense of what is going on.  It is possible that the French joke does not even refer to 'Russian' - which as you say would only work in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-03-05T14:22:17.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1481" CreationDate="2012-03-06T05:04:29.360" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, please note that this answer is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; based on facts and is just my personal observation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you have said in a comment, Christopher Nolan is too great a director to allow minor flaws as this in his movies. (And I guess it would have been easier to stamp a real seal on the passport than one without a date).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inception is almost completely based on dreams within dreams and in different &lt;em&gt;times&lt;/em&gt;. So if a specific date has been stamped on Cobb's passport, it would have given definitive evidence on the exact date and reality Cobb was currently in. And it would have more or less succeeded in lowering the confusion level of the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my conclusion is that this was intentionally done so as to leave the audience further in the dark as this also is very unreal-looking (to have your passport stamped without a date) and confusing about the &quot;real&quot; reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorUserId="125" LastEditDate="2012-03-06T06:07:49.527" LastActivityDate="2012-03-06T06:07:49.527" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1494" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1495" CreationDate="2012-03-06T08:59:17.407" Score="4" ViewCount="943" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we know, &quot;The Artist&quot; was recognized as the best film of 2012 in the Oscar Awards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this the first try to create silent film in last 20 years or have there been silent films made without such success?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="903" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-03-06T13:17:21.440" LastActivityDate="2013-07-20T22:39:18.097" Title="Silent film created after 1990" Tags="|silent-movie|the-artist|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1494" CreationDate="2012-03-06T09:43:53.067" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question isn't restricted to feature films - so it includes short films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Giornate del Cinema Muto (Silent Movie Festival Pordenone)&lt;/a&gt; had a section &lt;em&gt;FILM MUTI DEL XXI SECOLO/21ST CENTURY SILENTS&lt;/em&gt; with modern silent movies.&#xA;You can &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/ed_precedenti/screenings_list.php?KEYWORDS=21ST%20CENTURY%20SILENTS&amp;amp;Submit=Cerca%20/%20Search&amp;amp;FESTIVAL_YEAR=&amp;amp;TITLE=&amp;amp;DIRECTOR=&amp;amp;REL_YEAR=&amp;amp;PROD_CO=&amp;amp;COUNTRY=&amp;amp;CAST_CRED=&amp;amp;ARCHIVE=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;search for films of this sections in the GCM-database&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the films I remember were short films, made by students. Some film schools use silent films as part of the education. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.makesilentfilm.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;competition for filmmakers age 20 and under to create a modern version of silent film&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Norman Studios kicked off a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvQSPrDwWZQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Silent Film Competition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some feature films:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juha&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Juha&lt;/a&gt; (1999) by  Aki Kaurismäki was quite successfull in Europe. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158692/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075222/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Silent Movie&lt;/a&gt; (1976) is another 'big' silent film, but already older then 30 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0496272/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Der die Tollkirsche ausgräbt&lt;/a&gt; (2006, 40 minutes) is another nearly-silent movie. It is in the style of an old silent movie [black and white...) and only one actors talks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093902/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Louis&lt;/a&gt; (2010) is a silent film about Louis Armstrong as a young boy and how he acquired his first cornet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blancanieves&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blancanieves&lt;/a&gt; is a 2012 Spanish black-and-white silent fantasy drama film written and directed by Pablo Berger. Based on the fairy tale &quot;Snow White&quot; by the Brothers Grimm, the story is set in a romantic vision of 1920s Andalusia. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1854513/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132" LastEditorUserId="132" LastEditDate="2013-07-20T22:39:18.097" LastActivityDate="2013-07-20T22:39:18.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1494" CreationDate="2012-03-06T14:14:50.463" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_Upon_the_Brain!&quot;&gt;Brand Upon the Brain!&lt;/a&gt;(2006) is a silent film directed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Maddin&quot;&gt;Guy Maddin&lt;/a&gt;, also rated &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443455/&quot;&gt;7.2&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443455/&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastActivityDate="2012-03-06T14:14:50.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1497" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1498" CreationDate="2012-03-06T16:34:22.207" Score="16" ViewCount="16930" Body="&lt;p&gt;While watching &lt;em&gt;Cars 2&lt;/em&gt; (again) with my son yesterday, I was struck by the scene in which Mater meets a 'headlight seller' in the Parisian marketplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the scene, he approaches a car which appears to be sleeping, and when he questions it, she awakes, opening her eyes which are in her headlight position and &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt;, as is with every other car in the film, on her windshield.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This freaks Mater out and he drives off in alarm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am curious to know if this gag, which seems redundant and/or out of place, is in reference to any other animated films - or whether it is a Pixar inside joke. &lt;strong&gt;Does anyone have any insight into this?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T18:08:30.780" LastActivityDate="2013-08-16T12:24:12.437" Title="Reference for 'headlight eyes' in Cars 2?" Tags="|plot-explanation|cars-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1497" CreationDate="2012-03-06T17:44:38.217" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it was meant as a joke to those who were expecting the eyes on the vehicle in Cars 1 to be at the headlights position. In earlier Disney films, for example Herbie, there was an anthropomorphic 1963 Volkswagen Beetle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though in case of Herbie, a real live action movie there was no need to animate the eyes where as in Pixar Cars much emphasis was placed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one were to relocate the &quot;eyes&quot; for Herbie,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HtwXF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Herbie with Pixar styled eyes&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see that we will lost the view of the actor inside of which there was none for Cars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, to me, it felt as an ill-intentioned attempt to be funny (but not) about why Pixar chose their location for the character's eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can even boil down to any show which places a scene which is extremely different from normally expected just for the sake of doing it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. A small Simpsons scene in Family guy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastActivityDate="2012-03-06T17:44:38.217" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1480" CreationDate="2012-03-06T18:03:34.370" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie you are referring to is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120609/&quot;&gt;The Big Hit (1998)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Directed by Kirk Wong starrring Mark Wahlberg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The phone trace you are referring is the infamous &quot;Trace Buster&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastActivityDate="2012-03-06T18:03:34.370" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1402" CreationDate="2012-03-06T21:58:06.877" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hitchcock likely received bad reviews as commonly as any filmmaker did in his day or ours. Criticism is by definition made in the eye of the beholder: a subjective review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thrust of your question appears to be more about &quot;how did viewers react to socially shocking elements&quot; in Hitch's films. That question, I would suggest, is self-answering. Hitchcock wasn't afraid to tug on cultural norms a little bit in order to influence his audience, to make them uncomfortable. The plot itself of &lt;em&gt;Rope&lt;/em&gt; (1948) is arguably an exercise in this tactic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worth noting that when you reference &quot;Hitchcock's American films&quot;, that period is generally considered to be from &lt;em&gt;Rebecca&lt;/em&gt; (1940) to &lt;em&gt;Family Plot&lt;/em&gt; (1976), well over half of his career. Of those, very likely the worst reviewed of the bunch, albeit something of an outlier, was the domestic comedy &lt;em&gt;Mr. &amp;amp; Mrs. Smith&lt;/em&gt; (1941). He never dabbled in straight comedy again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding &lt;em&gt;Psycho&lt;/em&gt; and the references Legion6000 gives in his answer, keep in mind that Hitchcock produced the movie with his television crew. He did this in order to produce the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_%28film%29#Production&quot;&gt;cheaply under his own expense&lt;/a&gt; since Paramount didn't want to produce the script. I also recall that he wasn't happy with the tacked-on ending of the psychologist's explanation, but I don't have a reference for why. Possible that's from &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0671604295&quot;&gt;Francois Truffaut's interviews&lt;/a&gt;, which I highly recommend reading if you're at all interested in Hitchcock's work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="966" LastActivityDate="2012-03-06T21:58:06.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1504" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-06T22:19:39.943" Score="9" ViewCount="12757" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0893402/&quot;&gt;Franklyn&lt;/a&gt; and most of the time I had no idea what was going on and how the subplots fit together. Can someone explain what the meaning of the two worlds is and what the purpose of the four different characters is? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example I have no clue what relevance Emilia and the guy with the imaginary girlfriend (or guardian angel?) have to do with the rest of the plot and how their family stories are important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What role does the janitor play?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh and: Who the hell is Franklyn?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T13:39:52.710" LastActivityDate="2013-09-04T00:40:10.327" Title="Can someone explain what 'Franklyn' is about?" Tags="|plot-explanation|franklyn|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1459" CreationDate="2012-03-07T04:28:26.853" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Chuck co-creator Chris Fedak, Sarah's memory is slowly returning and Chuck and Sarah will fall in love together again; it will just take time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/interview-chuck-co-creator-chris-fedak-on-the-series-finale&quot;&gt;interview with Chuck co-creator Chris Fedak&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alan Sepinwall: I want to start at the end. They sit on the beach, Chuck tells Sarah the story of their relationship, she laughs, and we've gotten hints that she's starting to remember her life with him. And he kisses her. Does Morgan's magic trick idea work and she remembers everything instantly? Or is it just going to be a slow and steady process for her to get all her memories and feelings back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chris Fedak: I think I'm going to leave that up to the audience. I have my thought, and Josh has his. It's a sweet, nice moment. A happy ending for those two. I think it's up for everyone to judge that kiss at the very end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alan Sepinwall: Well, after last week's episode, a few commenters were upset with the idea that Sarah's memory had been erased, and that all her character growth we had spent the last five seasons was for naught. What would you say to that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chris Fedak: I would certainly say it's not erased. It's not all gone. It hasn't been five seasons all for naught. It's in there. And the fun will be remembering it and falling in love again. How could you imagine anything better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the interview:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alan Sepinwall: We find out what most of the other characters are going to do, and Chuck and Sarah are on the beach, so we know they're going to get back together. But what do you see as the rest of Chuck Bartowski's life being?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chris Fedak: Wow! Well, that's a gigantic question. I will tell you this: I see Chuck and Sarah together, being a husband and wife, starting up that computer security firm. Hopefully they won't find themselves dodging bullets for the rest of their lives. Of course, as a writer, now I start thinking, &quot;You know what? They could get into a little bit of trouble.&quot; That gets the story side of my brain going. But for now, they're happy and they're together and thinking about their future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/series-finale-review-chuck-chuck-vs-sarah-chuck-vs-the-goodbye&quot;&gt;series finale review&lt;/a&gt;, Alan Sepinwall gives his impression of what happens to Chuck and Sarah based on his interview with Chris Fedak:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When the amnesia storyline kicked in last week, some of you expressed concern that five seasons of character growth for Sarah were being thrown out the window. I don't think that's what happened (nor does Fedak, as you can see in our interview). Whether or not Chuck's kiss performs the Disney princess trick and breaks the evil spell all at once or not, it's clear Sarah is coming back. She remembers how to stock the Wienerlicious counter. She remembers Irene Demova. She remembers them carving their names into the frame of their dream house. And as Chuck tells her the story of their great romance, you can see her slowly beginning to connect with the rest. If she's not all the way back now, she will be eventually. He's her Chuck, she's his Sarah, and they get to fall in love all over again, and that's pretty damn sweet.  We may not know exactly what the future holds for those two (Fedak also talks about that a bit), but we know that they'll be together, and all the rest is details. Once upon a time, Sarah was Chuck's guide into a strange new world, and now he gets to return the favor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="972" LastActivityDate="2012-03-07T04:28:26.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1509" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-03-07T12:11:41.197" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-03-07T12:11:41.197" LastActivityDate="2012-03-07T12:11:41.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1510" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-03-07T12:11:41.197" Score="0" Body="Film production company that specializes in acclaimed animated feature and short films, and produces and licenses software to others for similar projects." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-10T14:01:14.483" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T14:01:14.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1494" CreationDate="2012-03-07T23:52:39.397" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a list of silent movies in the last 20 years:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454065/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;La antena(2007)&lt;/a&gt; - A city without a voice.. - 7.4 IMDB rating&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478988/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Call of Cthulhu (2005)&lt;/a&gt; - The Call of Cthulhu is HP Lovecraft's most famous story.. - 7.3 IMDB rating&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1458993/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Single Bound (2010)&lt;/a&gt; - With the desire to leap tall buildings in a single bound, one boy tests the strength of faith and power... - 7.3 IMDB rating&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460791/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Fall (2006)&lt;/a&gt; - In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient... - 7.9 IMDB rating&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this movies have been categorized by IMDB as silent movies, or maybe part of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastActivityDate="2012-03-07T23:52:39.397" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1392" CreationDate="2012-03-08T00:39:07.730" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been awhile since I watched Twin Peaks, but I believe you're correct. He's Mike's left arm. If I remember right...I think there is a more direct explanation in &lt;em&gt;Fire Walk With Me&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user977" LastActivityDate="2012-03-08T00:39:07.730" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1481" CreationDate="2012-03-08T05:15:30.713" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/faq#.2.1.66&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Nolan may have wanted to show that the whole film is a dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Found out the following stuff quoted in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/faq#.2.1.66&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB FAQ&lt;/a&gt; after a long enough googling;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the end when they get off the plane and Cobb gets his passport stamped, the date is missing, suggesting that the &lt;strong&gt;time frame is nonexistent&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-28T08:48:52.550" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T08:48:52.550" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1423" CreationDate="2012-03-08T11:30:41.760" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a hard (if not impossible question to answer, seeing that many early films have been lost in fires etc.) but I will try point you in the right direction. Seeing as dialog is a factor in your question the film must have been made after 1927, when the jazz singer was announced as the first &quot;talkie&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we have a span of 11 years where the movie you are looking for could have been made until 1938 when HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) released a report on communist activities in Hollywood and started the HUAC-hearings. We can not be sure, but there was propably no features during this period with russian (or russian speaking) actors. After that period I know of a movie made in 1966 whit a serbian actor speaking russian, Milos Milos in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming directed by Norman Jewison, but I have a hard time thinking this would be the fist one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it is likley that if such a movie was made during the HUAC-hearings it might have been an independent production and hard to track.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this information will be of help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="979" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-03-12T21:36:05.217" LastActivityDate="2012-03-12T21:36:05.217" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1518" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1532" CreationDate="2012-03-08T11:30:44.523" Score="13" ViewCount="7608" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the cartoon Thundercats they arrive on Third Earth from planet Thundera. It seems like it's an apocolyptic Earth and shares some myths (such as King Arthur) and according to the Thundercats wiki page &lt;a href=&quot;http://thundercats.wikia.com/wiki/Third_earth&quot;&gt;http://thundercats.wikia.com/wiki/Third_earth&lt;/a&gt; Third Earth was once known as First Earth. So why is it called Third Earth? I would assume it's the third Earth that was found but there are no other references to Earth in the series that I know of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T18:08:10.530" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T10:01:32.103" Title="Why was it called Third Earth?" Tags="|plot-explanation|thundercats|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1518" CreationDate="2012-03-08T13:01:47.207" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Unholy Alliance&lt;/em&gt;, the second episode of the series, the following dialogue is spoken:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mumm-Ra:&lt;/strong&gt; As long as evil exists, Mumm-Ra lives!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Slithe:&lt;/strong&gt; What manner of being are you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mumm-Ra:&lt;/strong&gt; You need only know that I am Mumm-Ra and that I know of your mission here on Third Earth. You seek to possess the Eye of Thunder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Slithe:&lt;/strong&gt; You know of the Eye of Thundera? Yessss?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mumm-Ra:&lt;/strong&gt; I have known of its power for a thousand years! From a time when this was still First Earth!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, in the cartoon, they never elaborate on it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user978" LastActivityDate="2012-03-08T13:01:47.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1521" CreationDate="2012-03-08T14:30:05.940" Score="41" ViewCount="10841" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always wondered why they don't do this properly. It seems wrong to me to place a different name on top of an actor's/actress' photo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why don't they align actor &amp;amp; actress names with their photos in film posters? I've seen this myriads of times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rYzno.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-13T01:52:13.027" LastActivityDate="2015-09-13T01:52:13.027" Title="Why don't they align actor &amp; actress names with their photos in film posters?" Tags="|casting|posters|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1520" CreationDate="2012-03-08T14:42:33.670" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is probably a combination of the decisions of graphic designers (who may not agree with you that there is necessarily a 'proper' way to do this).  Plus the order of names in credits and posters is carefully negotiated in contracts with the stars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the example above Nick Stahl probably got top billing, and negotiated his name to be first in all marketing, and then the graphic designers and marketing people wanted to put both the main star in the center of the poster, and slightly larger, and framed by the two women. They probably could have put Nick Stahl's name above the others and complied with the contracts, but a graphic design decision was made that the order of the names was unimportant compared to the overall look of the poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-03-08T14:42:33.670" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1520" CreationDate="2012-03-08T14:42:44.230" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's because the functions are separate. Agents determine the order of the performers' names for publicity, but the art work of the poster is not created until much later, probably just before the film is released. Since it may incorporate a scene or collection of screenshots that need to be aesthetically pleasing, the order of the names previously determined may not fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2012-03-08T14:42:44.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1520" CreationDate="2012-03-08T16:11:55.757" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great question and I think Ian nailed it - but I also wanted to bring up the classic story of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Towering Inferno&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stars Paul Newman and Steve McQueen apparently argued intensely over who should get top billing. In the end the producers settled for a compromise: reading the film poster (which is reproduced as the DVD cover) top to bottom, Paul Newman is first, i.e. higher, or &quot;top&quot; billing. But reading left to right, Steve McQueen is first. The same applies to their photographs either side of the main artwork, McQueen on the left but Newman (marginally) higher up. Ironically, this billing format was an issue when McQueen was considered for a role in &quot;Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FjsC9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviemistakes.com/main1316&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;MovieMistakes.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="56" LastEditDate="2012-06-20T21:04:06.223" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T21:04:06.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1459" CreationDate="2012-03-08T18:24:38.647" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/1506/983&quot;&gt;BennyMcBenBen's answer&lt;/a&gt; is probably as authoritative as you will get, unless they create a spin off or resurrect the show. But I can answer from other &quot;similar&quot; real life examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw the movie &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vow_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Vow&lt;/a&gt;&quot; recently. It was based on a real life event (which was chronicled in a book) where a man's wife lost her entire memory of him. Last thing she remembers is being engaged to another man. Her husband reacted a lot the same way as Chuck - trying to get her to fall in love with him again (except without all the spy stuff). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This movie was also similar that the person she remembered being would never be interested in her current husband. She had forgotten a lot of personal growth and changes she went through that made her the person who fell in love with her husband. Her former fiancee was very successful (much more so than her current husband) and wanted to get back together with her (she dumped him originally).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie we are told that the real life couple it was based on got back together, but she never regained any of her memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in &quot;real life&quot; it has worked out in similar circumstances. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2012-03-08T18:24:38.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1530" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1531" CreationDate="2012-03-08T23:18:18.423" Score="27" ViewCount="16881" Body="&lt;p&gt;In various Star Wars documentaries it is mentioned that Mark Hamill and George Lucas were apparently the only two people on set who knew that James Earl Jones would eventually dub Vader with the famous &quot;Luke, I am your father&quot; line. David Prowse actually had a different line in his script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it documented anywhere what that line was? What did he say that was equally deserving of Luke's reaction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="989" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T15:38:46.833" LastActivityDate="2018-12-31T20:45:20.090" Title="What was the line that David Prowse said on Bespin set?" Tags="|dialogue|star-wars|the-empire-strikes-back|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1530" CreationDate="2012-03-08T23:49:51.840" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe he actually said, &quot;Obi-Wan killed your father.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll go find some proof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_V:_The_Empire_Strikes_Back#Production&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;From Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the original film, Skywalker is told by Obi-Wan Kenobi that his&#xA;  father, Anakin Skywalker, was betrayed and murdered by Kenobi's own&#xA;  apprentice, Darth Vader. However, in The Empire Strikes Back, Vader&#xA;  himself reveals that he is actually Anakin. According to director&#xA;  Irvin Kershner, the shooting script had a false page with Vader's&#xA;  dialogue implicating Kenobi as the murderer of Luke's father, but at&#xA;  the time, only he, George Lucas, screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan, and&#xA;  producer Gary Kurtz were privy to the knowledge that Vader and Anakin&#xA;  were to be the same person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Moments before the scene was filmed, Mark Hamill, the actor playing&#xA;  Luke, was taken aside privately and told the truth by Kershner, who&#xA;  encouraged him to ignore the dialogue Prowse was speaking and &quot;use&#xA;  your own rhythm compared to what he's doing&quot;. During filming, Prowse&#xA;  performed the false lines, while the real lines were later spoken by&#xA;  James Earl Jones in post production – the majority of the cast,&#xA;  including Prowse, were not aware of this plot twist until the first&#xA;  screening of the finished film; at the premiere of the film, Prowse&#xA;  was taken aback, and spoke privately to Kershner later, saying that he&#xA;  (in Kershner's words) &quot;would have done it differently&quot; had he known of&#xA;  the twist. In later years, Prowse claimed he would sometimes deliver&#xA;  joke versions of his lines in Empire and Jedi, knowing that the vocal&#xA;  takes would not be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="58416" LastEditDate="2018-12-31T20:45:20.090" LastActivityDate="2018-12-31T20:45:20.090" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1518" CreationDate="2012-03-09T00:40:28.773" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two prevalent theories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mumm-Ra is using 'Earth' instead of planet. &quot;Third Earth&quot; is known to be the third planet in it's star system.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;or, &quot;Third Earth&quot; refers to their period of this Earth's history, with First and Second Earth being earlier periods - possibly coinciding with our current civilization. There is some speculation that Second Earth may have been a post-apocalyptic period between now and then.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen it, but I hear tell of an unreleased episode that states Mumm-Ra is from First Earth. Also, there is a new series on Cartoon Network - I think - that may or may not go into more detail. I haven't seen it, so I can't say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user977" LastActivityDate="2012-03-09T00:40:28.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1533" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1534" CreationDate="2012-03-09T10:22:41.903" Score="6" ViewCount="2751" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the integration of music in a movie plays one of the key roles in producing a great movie. I have also seen some movies like the award-winning &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1832382/&quot;&gt;A Separation&lt;/a&gt;&quot; which did not have any background music at all! So my question is how is it decided which parts of a movie need background music integration? Is there any rule for that? Or does it just depend on how the director (or music composer) feels about the movie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="653" LastActivityDate="2012-03-16T10:16:46.233" Title="How is it decided which parts of a movie need background music?" Tags="|soundtrack|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1533" CreationDate="2012-03-09T13:27:05.137" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As there are no hard and fast rules for the use of music in filmmaking, this question runs the risk of becoming conversational rather than providing a succinct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I am in the middle of finalizing the score on my latest short animated film - so I'll share my reasoning for the inclusion of the background music in the hope that it answers your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While working with my composer, I had several motives in mind for the&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_%28film_score%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;musical cues&lt;/a&gt; he delivered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Firstly, music (and sound design in general) are a vital part of the&#xA;  overall film language (with some exceptions - see &lt;em&gt;The Artist&lt;/em&gt;, et al&#xA;  ;)), and I needed musical cues that highlighted the emotional impact&#xA;  of certain scenes. There are moments of high tension, comedy and&#xA;  sadness in the film, and my composer has enhanced these moments&#xA;  dramatically by reinforcing the rhythm of the edits and also providing&#xA;  a 'pointer' for the audience as to how they should be feeling at any&#xA;  given time. Music is a very powerful tool for controlling your&#xA;  audience's feelings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Secondly, I instructed him to create a series of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitmotif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;leitmotifs&lt;/a&gt; for&#xA;  the characters in the film. This is a technique used most famously by&#xA;  John Williams in the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; saga, whereby each character has&#xA;  their own theme which reoccurs throughout the films, albeit in&#xA;  different styles, reflecting the characters' current state of&#xA;  mind/situation/interaction with others. Look at Vader's theme. Heavy&#xA;  brass through the original trilogy, and then played on a harp as he&#xA;  dies - beautiful and deeply moving. For my film, I have a main&#xA;  character who is the antagonist (villain) of the piece, and is at odds&#xA;  with the other characters. For this reason, I had his theme not only&#xA;  jar against the rest of the soundtrack, but it becomes strained and&#xA;  unravels as he becomes more dangerous during the film's progression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I also asked my composer to create a theme for the landscape (there is&#xA;  mountain climbing involved), and we used this opportunity to include&#xA;  ethnic instruments that reinforce the geography and the nationality of&#xA;  the protagonists. So we ended up with an epic score that sounds like&#xA;  Max Steiner's &lt;em&gt;King Kong&lt;/em&gt; soundtrack with elements of Tibetan&#xA;  woodwinds and thumb cymbals woven in!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to music decisions,&#xA;  but I hope it gives you a good starting point in answer to your&#xA;  question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="324" LastEditDate="2012-03-16T10:16:46.233" LastActivityDate="2012-03-16T10:16:46.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1445" CreationDate="2012-03-09T20:52:39.787" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099871/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jacob's Ladder&lt;/a&gt;, is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDb description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life&#xA;  isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures&#xA;  in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A user synopsis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;New York postal worker Jacob Singer is trying to keep his frayed life&#xA;  from unraveling. His days are increasingly being invaded by flashbacks&#xA;  to his first marriage, his now-dead son, and his tour of duty in&#xA;  Vietnam. Athough his new wife tries to help Jacob keep his grip on&#xA;  sanity, the line between reality and delusion is steadily growing more&#xA;  and more uncertain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="994" LastEditorUserId="994" LastEditDate="2012-03-10T18:21:41.720" LastActivityDate="2012-03-10T18:21:41.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="387" CreationDate="2012-03-09T21:29:08.257" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a very old thread but I'd like to post my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Thomas Granger is Abe. In the end of the movie Abe tells Aaron to never come back here. I think Abe goes back (way back) in time to prevent Aaron from ever going back farther. Abe effectively decides to travel as far back as he can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This explains why Thomas is a millionaire and why he has those shakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="997" LastEditorUserId="997" LastEditDate="2012-03-10T22:22:57.763" LastActivityDate="2012-03-10T22:22:57.763" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1538" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17764" CreationDate="2012-03-09T21:31:33.340" Score="5" ViewCount="1243" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really get the ending of &quot;How to Rob a Bank (and 10 tips to get away with it)&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest, all of it is very complicated. But I think I understand most of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't understand is the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Jessica and Jynx are leaving the vault and Jessica stops Jynx and makes the point that she shouldn't be tied up when they leave. Somebody shouts &quot;you two stay where you are&quot; and then suddenly Simon gets shot by someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who shouts &quot;you two stay where you are&quot;? And why?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who shoots Simon?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why do the police suddenly decide to storm the building?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I assume Nick goes through with the deal as Jynx is now driving a flash new car, but who is he on the phone to?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I assume he's on the phone to Nick who is coming out of the bank. Why do they stay on the phone when they're right next to each other?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If he is on the phone to Nick, why is he meeting Nick when he obviously already has the money (hence flash car and clothes and such).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why is Nick in the bank? (if that is Nick)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that this will clear things up. If I'm completely misinterpreting the plot then please let me know. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="995" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-01-26T11:52:57.947" LastActivityDate="2016-08-16T08:15:20.167" Title="What happens at the end of &quot;How to Rob a Bank (and 10 tips to get away with it)&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|how-to-rob-a-bank|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1413" CreationDate="2012-03-09T22:03:06.907" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been years since I saw Dances With Wolves, but I remember my &quot;only watches true stories&quot; father-in-law asking me the same question about that scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure it's an indication that Dunbar has gotten so far away from the center of civilization that the only people crazy enough to go out this far are ... well ... crazy.  Or they go crazy from being out that far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the major is the only person who knows that Dunbar is out their by himself in the frontier.  When he kills himself, Dunbar is truly alone.  Especially troubling since, if I remember correctly, Dunbar writes in his diary that he expecting back and up supplies to arrive at his one-man fort -- we the audience know there is no one coming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="998" LastEditorUserId="998" LastEditDate="2017-03-06T21:35:43.617" LastActivityDate="2017-03-06T21:35:43.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1540" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1541" CreationDate="2012-03-09T22:57:06.107" Score="11" ViewCount="1119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love Zombieland. I happened to watch it last week on FX a couple of times in a row, and I was thinking after the movie that it never really showed us about their eating habits and how they survive during the zombie apocalypse. We know Harrelson's character was obsessed with Twinkies, but he didn't find one until the end, and there was this truck with snowballs in the movie. There was no reference further in the movie if they were surviving on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do all the main characters eat during the course of the movie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judging from the timeline in the movie I wonder if all the grocery stores in towns stopped carrying fresh food after the mutation struck? Anyone have any interesting answers to my question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-28T10:11:24.713" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T10:11:24.713" Title="What do main characters survive on during the zombie apocalypse?" Tags="|plot-explanation|zombieland|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1540" CreationDate="2012-03-10T00:03:24.233" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;If snowballs and Twinkies still survive, then I would presume that there was also plenty of tinned and dried food to be found in shops and warehouses. I'm also fairly sure that, despite the zombies, there was plenty of electricity (the movie doesn't make clear whether this is from local generators or from the grid, but there is &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; electricity in many scenes including the theme park at the end) so frozen food will still be available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not a serious movie and it would probably be petty to point out the inconsistency of the existence of network power in a world dominated by zombies where nobody is running the power plants or maintaining the grid. It certainly didn't detract from my enjoyment of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2012-03-10T00:03:24.233" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1445" CreationDate="2012-03-10T06:11:08.753" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095036/&quot;&gt;Distant Thunder&lt;/a&gt; with John Lithgow. He watches a friend of his (and fellow Vietnam bush vet) commit suicide by &quot;kissing a train.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1000" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-03-10T11:52:00.250" LastActivityDate="2012-03-10T11:52:00.250" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1545" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3757" CreationDate="2012-03-10T20:21:09.740" Score="16" ViewCount="28978" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the excellent film Sexy Beast we see a figure dressed in a rabbit outfit similar to the one from Donnie Darko and I wanted to know the significance of this. It appears many times during the film in a dream at a dinner table and at the end of the film attacking a coffin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the film they go hunting and attempt to kill a rabbit and fail, does the rabbit represent some character or moral reprisal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WKbj9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;rabbit&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2017-03-09T00:35:11.313" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T00:35:11.313" Title="What is the meaning of the Donnie Darko like Rabbit figure in Sexy Beast" Tags="|plot-explanation|sexy-beast|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1546" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1549" CreationDate="2012-03-10T20:26:45.100" Score="39" ViewCount="143380" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the amazing film &lt;em&gt;Chinatown&lt;/em&gt;, Jake Gittes is told, 'Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are supposed to deduce from this? Is it that Jake is powerless to prevent or challenge what had just occurred?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it that horrible things like this happen all the time in Chinatown and therefore nobody cares?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-06-25T20:12:07.487" LastActivityDate="2021-07-05T21:09:43.913" Title="What is the meaning of the line at the end of Chinatown?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|dialogue|chinatown|" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10373" CreationDate="2012-03-10T21:03:22.553" Score="23" ViewCount="18023" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443543/&quot;&gt;The Illusionist (2006)&lt;/a&gt;, how could Eisenheim achieve those reflections (visions) on the scene? Even in one of the scenes, there was a (ghost) boy walking through the audience. Given that the film takes place in early 1900s, were that kind of illusions possible in that era? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YX2i8.png&quot; alt=&quot;scr1&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/98JlC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;scr2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-03-07T06:56:18.533" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T15:21:42.270" Title="How could Eisenheim achieve those reflections on the scene in that era?" Tags="|plot-explanation|realism|the-illusionist|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1548" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1550" CreationDate="2012-03-11T01:16:06.303" Score="18" ViewCount="2312" Body="&lt;p&gt;The three shells used in the toilets even confused poor ol' Sylvester, how were they used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T15:09:45.427" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T11:43:34.250" Title="What were the sea shells for in Demolition Man?" Tags="|props|demolition-man|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1546" CreationDate="2012-03-11T01:19:30.777" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the author left it up to interpretation, as I didn't find an &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; answer on the web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/faq&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a FAQ on IMDB about a similar question&lt;/a&gt;, though the answer doesn't source anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of &amp;quot;Chinatown&amp;quot; and the last line of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a young man, Jake was a police officer in Chinatown. He once tried to protect a woman, but as a direct result of his intervention, she was &amp;quot;hurt&amp;quot; (an implication that the woman died). As a result, Jake became cynical and apathetic. Over the course of his investigation in the film, Jake again tries to protect a woman, and once again, she is killed as a direct result of his intervention.&amp;quot;Forget it, Jake; it's Chinatown&amp;quot; is an encouragement to Jake to forget this set of circumstances, just as he &amp;quot;forgot&amp;quot; the circumstances surrounding his time in Chinatown. The dramatic irony of this is that the viewer knows that Jake has never forgotten what happened in Chinatown, and that he will probably never forget the events depicted in the movie, inevitably leading to him becoming even more cynical and apathetic than he was already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the line is a simple reaction to tragedy.  What can you do to carry on but &amp;quot;forget&amp;quot; (and possibly forgive yourself)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More importantly, what does the line mean to &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;?  That interpretation is just as valid as any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user223" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-03-11T01:19:30.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1548" CreationDate="2012-03-11T01:21:37.043" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_Man_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Demolition Man&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;By 2032, toilet paper has fallen out of use; a set of three seashells is provided in every toilet stall. Though their method of use is left unexplained in the movie, Stallone later suggested a possible method in an interview as told to him by one of the film's writers involving extraction with two and scraping with one.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-28T11:43:34.250" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T11:43:34.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1551" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-11T03:13:01.757" Score="42" ViewCount="86119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am thinking of Ally McBeal in particular. For the entire run of the show the opening credits generally had clips of a character and the name of the actor that plays them. The final two actors (Peter MacNicol for the entire run, Gil Bellows until season 4 and Robert Downey Jr from there on) are billed differently. It says 'With Peter MacNicol and Robert Downey Jr', accompanied with the respective video clips for example. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the characters are important, they are by no means the most central. In fact, not one of the actors billed as 'with' appear in every episode! Why are they billed differently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1003" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T22:35:15.093" LastActivityDate="2019-12-05T13:42:14.450" Title="In opening credits for TV shows, why does it say 'with so and so' for some actors?" Tags="|casting|credits|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="687" CreationDate="2012-03-11T04:51:02.017" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is more to suggest the intelligence that might be being developed in the computer, an awareness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really once Euclid found the answer, as is said many times in the movie, everything is infused with the spiral. The spiral is the answer to the universe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1004" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-11-02T20:01:36.410" LastActivityDate="2012-11-02T20:01:36.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="630" CreationDate="2012-03-11T04:56:10.287" Score="3" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;was Inspector Uhl actually crazy?&amp;quot;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;.The Inspector Uhl wasn't crazy.The actual reason of Uhl's&#xA;delighted belly laugh was his dawning understanding of the final&#xA;illusion done by Eisenheim(he has been pick-pocketed) and further he realized Sophie wasn't died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Those flashbacks are true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Certainly&lt;/strong&gt;, the flashbacks were true.Because, in the end of the movie Sophie were rejoined with Eisenheim as Eisenheim promised to sophie when they were kids.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sophie: Do you promise you'll take me with you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eisenheim: One day i will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sophie:One day we'll run away together.We'll disappear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4swEh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-03-11T04:56:10.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1554" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1555" CreationDate="2012-03-10T07:50:37.050" Score="11" ViewCount="5347" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw the movie &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401729/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;John Carter&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (and loved it). But I noticed that four actors in the movie who were also in the HBO miniseries &quot;Rome&quot;. Does anyone know why? For instance, was there staff of &quot;John Carter&quot; who also worked on &quot;Rome&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="396" OwnerDisplayName="John Saunders" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-09-30T22:05:36.270" LastActivityDate="2017-04-08T08:29:13.403" Title="Why Are So Many Actors from &quot;Rome&quot; in John Carter?" Tags="|casting|john-carter|rome|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1554" CreationDate="2012-03-10T15:41:46.207" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/name?roles=tt0384766,tt0401729&quot;&gt;quick search&lt;/a&gt; doesn't show any obvious behind-the-camera shared staff between the two.  &lt;em&gt;John Carter&lt;/em&gt;'s Director and writers all came from Pixar.  &lt;em&gt;Rome&lt;/em&gt;'s creators, who wrote almost all of the episodes of the show are mostly still working on TV shows.  One of them does some work writing TV shows and movies.  Expanding the search to directors of multiple episodes of &lt;em&gt;Rome&lt;/em&gt;, I just see a mix of people working on other HBO shows since, and people who've moved on to TV shows on other networks, with the occasional movie writer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, none of that really proves the lack of a connection, just that one isn't easily found by searching resumes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-03-10T15:41:46.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1546" CreationDate="2012-03-11T05:13:07.630" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found a good answer for this question from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-the-line-Forget-it-Jake-Its-Chinatown&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown&quot; means &quot;&lt;strong&gt;you can't change things, it's&#xA;  the way things are and the way they will be&lt;/strong&gt;, regardless of how much&#xA;  you tilt at windmills. The line is about the futility of fighting&#xA;  injustices and darkness in the world. It's about giving up and looking&#xA;  away, because nothing can be done anyway lest you become another&#xA;  casualty of injustice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chinatown is the world. Jake is everyone. Forgetting about it is what&#xA;  we all do anyway, and so what we may as well keep doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastActivityDate="2012-03-11T05:13:07.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1559" CreationDate="2012-03-11T10:53:22.440" Score="12" ViewCount="1515" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_%282010_Indian_film%29&quot;&gt;Super (2010)&lt;/a&gt;, I noticed the weird concept of &lt;strong&gt;flashbacks within flashbacks within flashbacks&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which was the &lt;strong&gt;first Hollywood movie&lt;/strong&gt; with the same concept?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-04-01T20:13:08.873" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T12:08:16.610" Title="First Hollywood movie with &quot;flashbacks within flashbacks within flashbacks&quot;?" Tags="|film-techniques|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1551" CreationDate="2012-03-11T11:36:05.870" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Contractual agreements generally requested by the actor's agent to garner him/her more recognition. And, like you said, to give them credit for episodes they weren't in. It's just a way to make that actor stick out amongst the rest to earn him/her more brownie points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user978" LastActivityDate="2012-03-11T11:36:05.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1557" CreationDate="2012-03-11T20:28:27.267" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashback_%28narrative%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article on narrative uses of flashbacks&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An extremely convoluted story may contain &lt;strong&gt;flashbacks within flashbacks within flashbacks&lt;/strong&gt;, as in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108149/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Six Degrees of Separation (1993)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037166/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Passage to Marseille (1944)&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038700/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Locket (1946)&lt;/a&gt;. This technique is a hallmark of Kannada movie director Upendra whose futuristic flick Super (2010) is set in 2030 and contains multiple flashbacks ranging from 2010 to 2015 depicting a utopian India.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB flaged also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1191111/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Enter the void (2009)&lt;/a&gt; with this technique. Seems that &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; these movies used this kind of brain teaser. As I found only these titles, i can answer your question saying that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037166/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Passage to Marseille (1944)&lt;/a&gt; was the first movie using this technique. If you are interested you can give a look to the detailed plot &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037166/synopsis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here (SPOILER)&lt;/a&gt; looking how the flashbacks were actually mixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-28T12:08:16.610" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T12:08:16.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1560" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1704" CreationDate="2012-03-12T02:03:23.503" Score="16" ViewCount="2094" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the battle of the Pellenor Fields in &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King&lt;/em&gt;, Pippin searched for Merry on the battlefield. The last time they spoke, Merry was still in Rohan. How, aside from divine intuition, did Pippin know that Merry was with the army? Is there anything in the movies or the book that would explain this? Éowyn, the only person who knew that Merry wasn't left at Dwimorberg, was badly injured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="603" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T09:06:20.440" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T09:06:20.440" Title="How did Pippin know that Merry was part of the Rohirrim army at Minas Tirith?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-return-of-the-king|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1561" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1562" CreationDate="2012-03-12T02:23:27.217" Score="9" ViewCount="460" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was recently watching Schoolhouse Rock with my son and the cartoon for &quot;Nouns&quot; came on. There is a rectangular portal that acts like a giant television that the animated girl watches and at one point jumps into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On this watching I was reminded of a science-fiction movie I'd seen as a kid that had scientists doing something similar. I remember very little about the movie apart from them I think initially falling thru the portal, and then at the very end finding their way back to the original lab where they see themselves moving at very slow speed. They step thru the portal again and then the movie replays at very high speed showing quick clips.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I can remember more about this film, I'll add it. Obviously, googling for &quot;Science fiction film&quot; &quot;Portal&quot; didn't really give me any helpful hints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastActivityDate="2012-03-12T03:36:58.783" Title="Seeking a circa 50s/60s science fiction movie with a Portal" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:35:39.463" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1561" CreationDate="2012-03-12T03:04:11.320" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been stuck on trying to figure out what movie this was for years and couldn't figure it out.  I used a lot of the same terms to Google it, and this time I added &quot;1960s&quot; and found it -- that's luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Travelers_%281964_film%29&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Time Travellers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; made in 1964.  I won't get into the plot, since it's a few paragraphs and I don't want to include more spoilers, but the description in the Wikipedia should help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2012-03-12T03:36:58.783" LastActivityDate="2012-03-12T03:36:58.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1567" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2497" CreationDate="2012-03-12T13:46:36.500" Score="11" ViewCount="294" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for the video where a young man stumbles upon a string (or cable) and begins to follow it, out of curiosity. He follows it a really long time as you can see him age and grow old.&#xA;At the end he reaches a point where the string stops to go up in the sky, in the middle of the desert. He pulls it and a big rock attached to the string crashes him dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This video is only a few minutes long and might be a commercial if I remember well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, is there some kind of mythological or hidden meaning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1008" LastEditorUserId="850" LastEditDate="2012-03-12T20:16:12.573" LastActivityDate="2012-05-24T03:10:32.447" Title="Video in which a man follows a string all his life to end in the desert" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:51:33.567" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1454" CreationDate="2012-03-12T22:34:07.873" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_Me_Deadly&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; article for the movie states that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The original American release of the film shows Hammer and Velda escaping from the burning house at the end, running into the ocean as the words &quot;The End&quot; come over them on the screen. Sometime after its first release, the ending was crudely altered on the film's original negative, removing over a minute's worth of shots where Hammer and Velda escape and superimposing the words &quot;The End&quot; over the burning house. This implied that Hammer and Velda perished in the atomic blaze, and was often interpreted to represent the apocalypse. In 1997, the original conclusion was restored, where Velda and Mike survive. The DVD release has the correct original ending, and offers the now-discredited truncated ending as an extra. The movie is described as &quot;the definitive, apocalyptic, nihilistic, science-fiction film noir of all time – at the close of the classic noir period.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a more thorough (and thought-provoking) analysis of the entire film, including the ending, head to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmsite.org/kiss.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;filmsite&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, which version is the 'definitive' version is open to interpretation. But based on the Wiki article and Tim Dirks' review at filmsite, the original, unedited version is likely considered the 'definitive' ending. Thus making the claim on your DVD correct. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the false interpretations: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the Wiki article states, &lt;strong&gt;&quot;This implied that Hammer and Velda perished in the atomic blaze, and was often interpreted to represent the apocalypse.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; Essentially: the ending is not actually meant to represent the apocalypse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A reviewer at Slate summarizes it quite well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Kiss Me Deadly ends in a fireball of allegorical power. But Aldrich isn't concerned with the narrative ripples of the final incendiary image or its literal consequences, just the raw thematic ingredients spewing into the atmosphere. The glowing Pandora's box (famously recreated in Pulp Fiction) could signify so many evils threatening our existence, from nuclear stranglehold to ideological manipulation, and the genius of Kiss Me Deadly comes in how it makes each an equally feasible endgame. Yet, no matter what Achilles' heel fits best, there's still so much moral ambiguity crashing with those parting ocean waves. Of course, it's Velda who summarizes this idea best: &quot;They. A wonderful word. And who are they? They are the nameless ones who kill people for the great what's it. Does it exist? Who cares.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What seems to be at the heart of this ending, and indeed the movie, is nihilism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="850" LastEditDate="2012-06-05T13:41:18.730" LastActivityDate="2012-06-05T13:41:18.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1571" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1574" CreationDate="2012-03-13T05:54:05.660" Score="15" ViewCount="95224" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last episode (Better Angels) of AMC's The Walking Dead, Shane and Randall became walkers shortly after dying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CUm1l.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Shane from AMC&amp;#39;s The Walking Dead, as a walker&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Angels_(The_Walking_Dead)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This episode suggests that the zombie outbreak could be spread through unorthodox and unidentified means&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It ocurrs to me that everyone is already infected and they turn into walkers after they die unless they die from some kind of cranial/brain blow. If this is true then scratching and biting doesn't turn you at all but you do get infected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this make sense to you, so my question is: Does anybody have a clue about what is going on here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="553" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-28T12:28:41.040" LastActivityDate="2018-04-16T09:02:10.193" Title="How did Shane and Randall turn so fast?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1572" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1573" CreationDate="2012-03-13T08:31:02.623" Score="6" ViewCount="18511" Body="&lt;p&gt;The outrageous character Ashley Schaeffer (played by Will Ferrell) from the excellent Eastbound And Down series seems to not only look like Ric Flair but also copy some of his mannerisms, like the famous &quot;Woo&quot; that is used to punctuate his sentences. Is there any evidence that this is true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Videos for comparison:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPBb2W9GQAg&amp;amp;feature=related&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ashley Schaeffer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J8HC-sxiaY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ric Flair&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastEditorUserId="962" LastEditDate="2012-12-08T12:31:19.633" LastActivityDate="2012-12-08T12:31:19.633" Title="Is Ashley Schaeffer from Eastbound and Down modelled on Ric Flair" Tags="|character|eastbound-and-down|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1572" CreationDate="2012-03-13T12:28:36.340" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Series co-creator Ben Best plays Clegg, Kenny’s confidant and drug dealer, and Sylvia Jefferies is Tracy, a coke-sniffing drunk who becomes Kenny’s sort-of girlfriend.&#xA;  Of course, Kenny wants to get back to the major leagues, or at least make some money off his notoriety. To that end, he approaches BMW salesman &lt;strong&gt;Ashley Schaeffer&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;played by Ferrell in full Ric Flair mode&lt;/strong&gt; – bleach blonde hair, sunglasses and suits with no socks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The full article &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bullz-eye.com/television_reviews/2009/eastbound_and_down_1.htm&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a forum conversation &lt;a href=&quot;http://wfigs.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&amp;amp;board=prowrestling&amp;amp;thread=124232&amp;amp;page=1&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; that seems to have your same doubts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastActivityDate="2012-03-13T12:28:36.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1571" CreationDate="2012-03-13T13:07:29.890" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your hypothesis is correct. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going by what was said on the after-show, &lt;em&gt;The Talking Dead&lt;/em&gt;, and the general consensus on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amctv.com/shows/the-walking-dead&quot;&gt;official site&lt;/a&gt; from AMC, we are indeed being presented with a plot device that sees everyone being infected with the 'zombie' virus, which is then activated upon death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, you can be turned from a bite or bad scratch (or at least the turn is accelerated), but now that just dying has been thrown into the mix, it appears that head shots are the way to go for everyone :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that I have just confirmed what you already thought, but I hope this is of help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-03-13T13:07:29.890" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1575" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1576" CreationDate="2012-03-13T13:07:36.957" Score="8" ViewCount="731" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was on TV in the US about 10 years ago, it is a mystery with some sci-fi/horror elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people in a suburban city start acting weird (possessed/influenced).  They would go out at night and dig, later it is discovered that they were digging out some kind of alien spaceship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone know the name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T14:33:27.110" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T13:00:56.003" Title="TV series about a suburban town digging up a space ship?" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|mystery|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:51:36.760" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1575" CreationDate="2012-03-13T13:18:33.043" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;You call this a TV series, but you could mean a TV movie miniseries of a Stephen King novel &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106156/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tommyknockers&lt;/a&gt;. It starred Jimmy Smits of NYPD Blue fame (and LA Law) and Marg Helgenberger, then just off the TV series China Beach, and lately from CSI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the description from IMDB:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;A buried UFO slowly turns local inhabitants into gizmo-building alien mutates [sic].&lt;/i&gt; (mutants is correct)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also starred Traci Lords who I submitted in this earlier movies.stackexchange question &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/1069/304&quot;&gt;Adult to Non-Adult movies full time&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interesting IMDB movie citations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Marg Helgenberger's mother, Kay, appeared in the movie (her only IMDB acting credit), as did Alan Rosenberg, Marg's then-husband; they divorced in 2010. A real family affair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T13:00:56.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1577" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-13T13:48:13.617" Score="14" ViewCount="3456" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the first full-length feature film shot completely with a subjective point of view, that is, with a subjective camera where shots simulates what a character actually sees (audience, character, and camera all &quot;see&quot; the same thing). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of what I mean is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Ark&quot;&gt;The Russian Ark&lt;/a&gt;, by Sokurov, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloverfield&quot;&gt;Cloverfield&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="311" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-04-28T13:50:03.147" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T13:50:03.147" Title="What was the first film shot completely with a subjective point of view?" Tags="|first-appearance|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1578" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1580" CreationDate="2012-03-13T13:53:09.757" Score="18" ViewCount="26354" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nowadays almost every movie is shot with digital cameras. I would like to know what was the first full-length feature film shot completely with digital technology instead of celluloid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="311" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T16:28:17.877" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T00:59:30.473" Title="What was the first full-length feature film shot completely with digital cameras?" Tags="|cinema-history|cinematography|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1547" CreationDate="2012-03-13T14:17:40.837" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's suggested in the movie itself that these illusions are possible. A couple of performers (perhaps) demonstrate to the inspector how it could be done using what would be called &lt;em&gt;Smoke and Mirrors (S&amp;amp;M)&lt;/em&gt; today. It can be surmised that Eisenheim perfected the technique and used it for his illusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1010" LastEditorUserId="56" LastEditDate="2015-04-28T15:21:42.270" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T15:21:42.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1578" CreationDate="2012-03-13T14:20:31.020" Score="18" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Beginning in the late 1980s, Sony began marketing the concept of &quot;electronic cinematography,&quot; utilizing its analog Sony HDVS professional video cameras. The effort met with very little success. In 1998, with the introduction of HDCAM recorders and 1920 × 1080 pixel digital professional video cameras based on CCD technology, the idea, now re-branded as &quot;digital cinematography,&quot; began to gain traction in the market.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;1994&lt;/strong&gt; Sony executives approached &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108894/&quot;&gt;Party of Five (FOX)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; producer Ken Topolsky and director of photography Roy H. Wagner, ASC, in an effort to photograph side by side tests with Sony's prototype High Def camera and 35mm film. This resulted in one of the first network broadcast television series, FOX Pilot PASADENA (2001), directed by Diane Keaton, photographed by Wagner. The results were so successful, shown to directors and Industry decision makers at the Directors Guild of America and Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) meetings, that many were encouraged by the film like images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Soon many series were considering HD originated image capture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In May 2001 &lt;em&gt;Once Upon a Time in Mexico&lt;/em&gt; became the first well known movie to be shot in 24 frame-per-second high-definition digital video&lt;/strong&gt;, using a Sony HDW-F900 camera, following Robert Rodriguez's introduction to the camera at George Lucas's ranch whilst editing the sound for Spy Kids. In May 2002 Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones was released having also been shot using a Sony HDW-F900 camera. Two lesser-known movies, Vidocq (2001) and Russian Ark (2002), had also previously been shot with the same camera, the latter notably consisting of a single long take (no cuts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cinematography&quot;&gt;Digital cinematography wiki page&lt;/a&gt;. You can read more about that. Hope that's what you were looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2012-03-14T05:57:34.463" LastActivityDate="2012-03-14T05:57:34.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1577" CreationDate="2012-03-13T15:22:26.510" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039545/trivia?tab=tr&amp;amp;item=tr0721602&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lady in the Lake&lt;/em&gt; (1947)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The entire movie plot unfolds from lead Robert Montgomery's point of view, thus creating a rarity in film: the principal character is only seen on-screen as a reflection in mirrors and windows, and as the narrator speaking directly to the audience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user978" LastEditorDisplayName="user978" LastEditDate="2012-03-13T15:27:44.867" LastActivityDate="2012-03-13T15:27:44.867" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1584" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1585" CreationDate="2012-03-13T17:55:22.077" Score="13" ViewCount="6510" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this was a made for TV movie, and a Stephen King novel, but I just looked up his works and nothing rang a bell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story was about an airplane that flew through some kind of portal or vortex while the passengers were asleep. When they woke up, everyone else on the plane was gone.  They landed in a world which looked like the normal world except there were no people. The world appeared as kind of drab, colorless, lifeless, but I'm not sure about that. One of the cast was a blind girl, about middle school age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually, some kind of monster appeared, which was depicted (pretty cheesily) as a big floating pac-man looking thing that ate the people. Eventually they realized they had to get back on the plane and fly back through the portal while they were sleeping. Except the pilot offered to stay awake to pilot them into the portal, and then he died or went off to where everyone else disappeared to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rough estimate of time was the 1990s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1014" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T17:23:36.110" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T17:40:48.920" Title="Cheesy-looking pac-man monster in an alternate reality where most people disappeared" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:35:42.580" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1584" CreationDate="2012-03-13T18:11:37.060" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is definitely a Stephen King story: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112040/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Langoliers&lt;/a&gt;. It was a short story in &lt;em&gt;Four Past Midnight&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Description from IMDB:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Most of the passengers on an airplane disappear, and the remainder land the plane in a mysteriously barren airport... it's like the world is dead. No one is there, the air is still, sound doesn't echo, the food is tasteless. And a distant sound is heard coming closer. A race of monstrous beings bent on their destruction is heading for them, eating everything in sight.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best thing about that movie was Bronson Pinchot(Balkie), though the runway-eating Pac-Men (good description) were fun to watch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually passed through Bangor's airport during the filming of this while on a vacation. Saw the plane on the tarmac, even have a picture!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-28T13:06:44.213" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T13:06:44.213" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1586" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1587" CreationDate="2012-03-13T20:34:58.663" Score="5" ViewCount="3752" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched a few Supernatural episodes and I understood that there should be a background story (in the beginning the search for the father and somebody told me that later they find him, but something else happens - I do not know what). Still, in every episode, they hunt some other creature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is how many episodes contain unresolved mysteries or reveal something important about the background story? I mean, is it just &quot;monster-of-the-week&quot; series, or does it make you want to watch the next episode in order to find out the truth (in a Lost-ian way, or something similar).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="418" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-28T13:09:04.267" LastActivityDate="2016-10-25T01:19:59.067" Title="Is there an underlying story arc in Supernatural?" Tags="|supernatural|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1586" CreationDate="2012-03-13T21:11:04.080" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're actually pretty spot on with your assessment of the beginning of the series.  However, a look at Wikipedia's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Supernatural&lt;/a&gt; entry gives us some insight:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to creator Eric Kripke, the show originally was intended to&#xA;  focus on the weekly monsters, with Sam and Dean Winchester merely&#xA;  being &quot;an engine to get us in and out of different horror movies every&#xA;  week&quot;. His sole desire was to merely &quot;scare the crap out of&#xA;  people&quot;. However, a few episodes in, Kripke and executive producer&#xA;  Bob Singer noticed the onscreen chemistry between Jared Padalecki and&#xA;  Jensen Ackles. This revelation caused them to change the series to&#xA;  focus more on the brothers than the monsters, basing the weekly&#xA;  monster around the storyline they wanted for the Winchesters.&#xA;  According to Kripke, &quot;...sometimes we don't even have the monster&#xA;  until way late in the break, once we get all the angst and the drama&#xA;  done first.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unlike shows with &quot;endless mythology&quot; like Lost, Kripke prefers to&#xA;  keep Supernatural's mythology simpler, saying, &quot;It's so hard to go&#xA;  season after season after season with a mystery and then provide an&#xA;  answer that's going to be satisfying.&quot; He prefers to have the series'&#xA;  structure like that of the earlier X-Files episodes, having&#xA;  mythology-based episodes spread through many self-enclosed&#xA;  episodes—Supernatural usually having three self-enclosed episodes&#xA;  followed by a mythology episode. With this format, viewers do not have&#xA;  to have previous knowledge of the mythology in order to watch the&#xA;  series, being able to &quot;join the party at any time&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to summarize, the series did start as a monster-of-the-week show, but developed into a show about the brothers.  They kept the format of 3 monster shows - 1 &quot;canon&quot; show; however, they started including a lot of story line around the brothers later into the first season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep watching, it only gets better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-28T13:10:03.077" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T13:10:03.077" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1588" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13771" CreationDate="2012-03-13T23:40:01.137" Score="6" ViewCount="1462" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0884335/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chrysalis (2007)&lt;/a&gt;, it turns out that the &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; daughter of Professor Brügen, Manon Brügen, lies on the bed in a coma at her mother's clinic. So who is the healthy girl? Is she another person who has had aesthetic surgery, or is she her twin sister?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T14:34:04.237" LastActivityDate="2013-09-10T13:01:02.477" Title="Ending of Chrysalis" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|chrysalis|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1594" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1596" CreationDate="2012-03-14T13:13:48.623" Score="8" ViewCount="2215" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105695/&quot;&gt;Unforgiven&lt;/a&gt;,Why does the &lt;strong&gt;cowboy stab the woman&lt;/strong&gt; in the beginning of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was he crazy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-03-14T13:17:31.363" LastActivityDate="2023-12-11T00:42:28.110" Title="Why does the cowboy stab the woman in Unforgiven?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|clint-eastwood|unforgiven|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1594" CreationDate="2012-03-14T13:27:13.673" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was mentioned in the film that woman had said something unflattering about the size of the cowboy's 'equipment'. This angered him and he cut her up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="637" LastActivityDate="2012-03-14T13:27:13.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1594" CreationDate="2012-03-14T13:50:00.840" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The woman is one of the younger prostitutes, working from the tavern.  She upsets the cowboy by laughing at him - specifically giggling at his size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When talking to Little Bill after the attack, Alice (the unofficial leader of the girls) says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She's going to live. She didn't steal nothing.&#xA;She didn't even touch his poke. Alls she done, when she&#xA;seen he has a teensy little pecker, is give a giggle. That's all.&#xA;She didn't know no better. Going to hang them, Little Bill?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.clinteastwood.net/filmography/unforgiven/script/unforgivenscript.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a transcript script&lt;/a&gt;, There is also also a pretty similar wording from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/unforgiven.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;David People's script&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its hinted that she is less experienced than the other girls ('she didn't know no better').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2023-12-11T00:42:28.110" LastActivityDate="2023-12-11T00:42:28.110" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1597" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1600" CreationDate="2012-03-14T15:31:09.353" Score="18" ViewCount="10725" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338013/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)&lt;/a&gt;, Joel gets a message from 'Clementine' in his dream inside his head, and since even that dream was erased  how do the real Clementine as well as the 'new' Joel know that they were supposed to meet each other in Montauk the next morning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="510" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-11T11:31:19.403" LastActivityDate="2019-01-25T04:18:57.857" Title="How do Clementine and Joel know that they have to meet in Montauk again?" Tags="|eternal-sunshine-of-spotless-mind|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1605" CreationDate="2012-03-14T15:46:48.530" Score="6" ViewCount="26901" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105695/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Unforgiven&lt;/a&gt;, it's understandable why Little Bill beat up English Bob--because he wanted to scare off anyone else who would come to collect the reward from the women and also keep aside the Big Whiskey from assassins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I couldn't understand, &lt;em&gt;What is the history between &lt;strong&gt;Little Bill&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;English Bob&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because the conversation between Little Bill and English Bob at the outside of Barbershop seems they had a strong history and of course, I couldn't interpret the conversation well enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any help will be appreciated to understand the movie well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2012-03-16T10:16:01.350" LastActivityDate="2019-09-12T07:28:23.500" Title="What is the history between Little Bill and English Bob in Unforgiven?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|clint-eastwood|unforgiven|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1597" CreationDate="2012-03-14T16:05:14.513" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question answered &lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120127181253AA5kvAD&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; as follows,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She doesn't, exactly&lt;/strong&gt;. The whole experience is in his head, and it was&#xA;  the &lt;strong&gt;memory of her that told him&lt;/strong&gt; to go to Montauk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We are supposed to take a guess at what her memory erase experience&#xA;  was like, and assume that she had a similar experience to his, so&#xA;  maybe when they were clearing her memory, he said the same thing to&#xA;  her. But remember, she did it weeks before he did, so the real&#xA;  question is: how did they know to come on the same day? Fate, maybe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Montauk was an important place in their relationship. That's where&#xA;  they had a night picnic on the frozen pond, and they were very close&#xA;  at the time... which is important because it was shortly after that&#xA;  when their relationship went sour. It suggests that there are some&#xA;  things that cannot be forgotten, no matter how powerful the science&#xA;  used against it may be, especially with memories tied to very strong&#xA;  emotions like Love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastActivityDate="2012-03-14T16:05:14.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1601" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1604" CreationDate="2012-03-14T22:05:40.840" Score="5" ViewCount="292" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1586752/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Machine Gun Preacher&lt;/a&gt;. It's not the greatest quality movie I have seen. However the theme is about the warzone in Uganda, and I find it to be a bit coincidental with the whole &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kony2012.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kony 2012&lt;/a&gt; hype. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they related in any way? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine it would bring more attention to such a movie, not to mention sales going up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1022" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T18:14:39.343" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T18:14:39.343" Title="Machine Gun Preacher" Tags="|machine-gun-preacher|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1602" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1603" CreationDate="2012-03-15T00:20:25.107" Score="12" ViewCount="3693" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Predator&lt;/em&gt; (1987), near the end, after they try to trap the Predator in that net, and it shoots its way out, a lot of them die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One guy is badly injured, so Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and that girl help him walk. When the woman tries to pick up a gun, Dutch tells her not to because the Predator didn’t kill her before because she was unarmed, then Dutch calls the Predator a “no sport.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is only fighting armed people being a poor sport? Did Arnold ad lib this line and fail badly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="376" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2022-08-08T00:08:08.033" LastActivityDate="2022-08-12T02:08:52.183" Title="What does Dutch mean in Predator when he said that fighting armed people made Predator a “poor sport?”" Tags="|dialogue|predator|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1602" CreationDate="2012-03-15T02:01:29.917" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;It means exactly the opposite of your take on it. I think Arnold said &quot;No Sport&quot; to indicate that if she was unarmed, she would be too easy to kill; not sporting. If she was armed by picking up the gun, the Predator would consider her to be true sport, in a fairer fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hark.com/clips/rszljdktfc-not-sporting&quot;&gt;sound clip&lt;/a&gt; of a quote from &lt;em&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt; that conveys the same message more clearly: &lt;br/&gt;Roy Batty: &lt;i&gt;&quot;Not very sporting to fire on an unarmed opponent.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-03-15T03:28:08.983" LastActivityDate="2012-03-15T03:28:08.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1601" CreationDate="2012-03-15T03:10:01.673" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well there is the obvious relationship in that they both deal with Joseph Kony and the Lords Resistance Army and its aftermath in Uganda.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sam Childers, the subject of Machine Gun Preacher is known to the Group Invisible Children as seen in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3aZfJlz6QgwEkJ%3ablog.invisiblechildren.com/tag/sam-childers/%20%22invisible%20children%22%20%22sam%20childers%22&amp;amp;cd=2&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;gl=us&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google cache&lt;/a&gt; from Invisible Children's blog where IC says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Actually, let’s start with a disclaimer: Invisible Children does not in any way endorse this man’s actions or methods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now that that’s settled, we can say ‘what the….?’ In brief, this American preacher is leading a militia of Sudanese and Ugandans with the sole aim of killing Joseph Kony. He claims that this is his God-ordained mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is another distinction that Invisible Children and Sam Childers share; they may be more hype than hope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/regional/s_762039.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pittsburgh Tribune&lt;/a&gt; Sam Childers' orphanage has problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some neighbors around Nimule want Childers removed and the orphanage turned over to local leaders. While Childers was on an American publicity tour, Nimule community leaders told a reporter for the magazine Christianity Today that he dishonored his agreement with them. The resulting story detailed a local government inspection that found the orphanage with no food, little medicine and shelters on the verge of collapse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar charges have been levied against Invisible Children.  In a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/03/07/guest_post_joseph_kony_is_not_in_uganda_and_other_complicated_things&amp;amp;h=MAQGwPNw2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;recent post&lt;/a&gt; from journalist Michael Wilkerson he notes that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Invisible Children)... it spends too much money on administration and filmmaking, while still touting its on the ground NGO-style projects. Also, apparently it's never been externally audited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Claims that less than one-third of the money raised actually goes to help children in Uganda have been made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recent showing in of Kony 2012 in Uganda angered many people. An &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.aljazeera.com/africa/2012/03/14/ugandans-react-anger-kony-video&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Al jazzera article&lt;/a&gt; notes that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the film, the mood turned more to anger at what many people saw as a foreign, inaccurate account that belittled and commercialised their suffering, as the film promotes Kony bracelets and other fundraising merchandise, with the aim of making Kony infamous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will it drive up sales of the Machine Gun Preacher dvd when it comes out?  Probably not.  The movie itself didn't even gross $1 million.  I doubt the studio is going to see a real reason to push the dvd of a movie that lost $29 million.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="789" LastActivityDate="2012-03-15T03:10:01.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1599" CreationDate="2012-03-15T04:18:42.343" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly Little Bill had a run in with English Bob in another town while serving as a lawman. Bob is a known 'assassin', Bill's label for vigilantes, gun fighters, and bounty hunters. Bob is also well known for murdering Asian immigrants serving as railroad workers, something he himself alludes too when the character is introduced. All that aside, he does bring a firearm into town, something Bill demonstrates zero tolerance for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe Bill just doesn't like wizards ;) , I jest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user977" LastActivityDate="2012-03-15T04:18:42.343" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1608" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1640" CreationDate="2012-03-15T15:10:57.110" Score="4" ViewCount="2706" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780571/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mr.Brooks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;what happens to Jane's BMW&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Earl asked about the &lt;strong&gt;BMW&lt;/strong&gt; she replied,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A friend's going to drive it up. It'll be here next weekend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, when the cops asked about the &lt;strong&gt;BMW&lt;/strong&gt; she replied,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was actually stolen, Sunday night or Monday morning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which was true, or was neither true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="556" LastEditDate="2012-03-17T14:33:39.733" LastActivityDate="2012-03-18T17:55:58.823" Title="What happens to Jane's BMW in Mr.Brooks?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|mr-brooks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1540" CreationDate="2012-03-15T17:42:16.017" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, I think in Zombieland the zombie apocalypse is only supposed to have happened about 2 months ago, so there would be a lot of food that would still be fresh.  From the comment above if fridges were still on then I reckon there would be loads of edible food.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1027" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-03-16T18:53:26.243" LastActivityDate="2012-03-16T18:53:26.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1451" CreationDate="2012-03-15T18:05:14.943" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well a few months after the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114069/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Outbreak&lt;/a&gt; was released there was an outbreak of the  Ebola virus Zaire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1027" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-08-19T02:12:26.933" LastActivityDate="2012-08-19T02:12:26.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1611" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-15T23:45:42.093" Score="13" ViewCount="2732" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Voight-Kampff test (the so-called &quot;empathy test&quot;) in the film has been bothering me for some time...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is acknowledged in the film that the test can give a false negative - Rachael would have given a false reading in a normal test, as would the other Nexus 6's, according to Tyrell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point Rachael asks if Deckard has ever &quot;retired&quot; a human by mistake but he dodges the question and answers something else: &quot;Simulants are either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as the VK test measures empathy and reactions to things that most people would find distasteful, would a psychopath create a false positive?  Or would there be other mental illnesses/personality disorders that might cause a false positive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="350" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-25T15:16:45.283" LastActivityDate="2023-12-10T18:47:55.167" Title="Would a psychopath create a false positive Voight-Kampff test result?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|blade-runner|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1613" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1626" CreationDate="2012-03-16T06:07:07.163" Score="10" ViewCount="2580" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is a bit on the trivial end, but I'm trying to locate a movie for reference in something I'm writing.  I know I've seen this somewhere, and I can't place it.  I don't think I saw the entire movie, probably just a scene or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember seeing Peter Lorre asking something like, &quot;Can I kill him?  Can I kill him now, boss?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've looked on Google and found one comment that indicates it may be in &lt;em&gt;The Sad Sack&lt;/em&gt;, and I have ordered it, but I don't know when it will arrive and the one place I saw that stated sounded like the author wasn't positive it was from that movie -- and I really can't keep watching every movie someone &lt;em&gt;thinks&lt;/em&gt; contained that line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know where that line came from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T05:32:13.160" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T16:29:03.897" Title="Movie where Peter Lorre asks, &quot;Can I kill him? Can I kill him now, boss?&quot;" Tags="|identify-this-movie|dialogue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:35:45.703" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1614" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-16T12:47:39.720" Score="48" ViewCount="90379" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do the following terms mean in movie business?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Director's Cut &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Editor's Cut&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Theatrical Cut&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the differences between them? Are there any other &lt;em&gt;cut&lt;/em&gt; s?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-18T15:16:11.763" LastActivityDate="2015-03-15T21:22:45.297" Title="Director's Cut, Editor's Cut, Theatrical Cut. What do these mean?" Tags="|alternate-version|terminology|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1614" CreationDate="2012-03-16T13:14:38.783" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_editing&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Film Editing&lt;/a&gt; page defines many of these cuts. I will try to summarize the questioned ones here.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Editor's Cut:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An editor's cut (sometimes referred to as the &quot;Assembly edit&quot; or&#xA;  &quot;Rough cut&quot;) is normally the first pass of what the final film will be&#xA;  when it reaches picture lock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional: The article says that editing starts right after photography starts, utilizing the dailies, so the edited product grows with the director's submissions.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Director's Cut:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When shooting is finished, the director can then turn his full&#xA;  attention to collaborating with the editor and further refining the&#xA;  cut of the film...where the film editor's first cut is molded to fit&#xA;  the director's vision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional: The Director and Editor mold the editor's cut by shifting scene order, reshooting, associating music, etc. until the Director is satisfied with his movie.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Final Cut:&lt;/strong&gt; (BTW - no glossary I looked into had a 'Theatrical Cut')&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Often after the director has had his chance to oversee a cut, the&#xA;  subsequent cuts are supervised by one or more producers, who represent&#xA;  the production company and/or movie studio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional: The article says sometimes disputes with producers arise forcing a tempermental director to sever ties with the final cut of the movie. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/glossary/A&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; lists these types as 'Alan Smithee' films, though other pseudonyms are currently allowed.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;This is just one article defining these -- there are a number of movie glossaries listed on Google to define these terms from (supposedly) film classes at .edu sites -- and generally speaking a &quot;Theatrical Cut&quot; refers to the &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt; version released to cinemas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="3430" LastEditDate="2015-03-15T21:22:45.297" LastActivityDate="2015-03-15T21:22:45.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1617" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1619" CreationDate="2012-03-16T14:27:03.300" Score="23" ViewCount="3953" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is the director's name &lt;strong&gt;shown last in Title Sequence/Opening Credits&lt;/strong&gt; rather than first?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen this fact not only in Hollywood, but also in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood&quot;&gt;Bollywood&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_cinema&quot;&gt;Kollywood&lt;/a&gt; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorDisplayName="user978" LastEditDate="2012-03-16T14:54:30.890" LastActivityDate="2012-03-28T11:28:42.593" Title="Why  is director's name shown last in the title sequence?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1617" CreationDate="2012-03-16T14:58:52.317" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't speak for Bollywood or Kollywood, but in America, the director's credit is last because of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directors_Guild_of_America&quot;&gt;Directors Guild of America&lt;/a&gt; requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia defines it as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...an entertainment labor union which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoted from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lawyers.com/&quot;&gt;Lawyers.com&lt;/a&gt; article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://entertainment-law.lawyers.com/blogs/archives/12021-What-Are-Some-Basics-of-Film-Directors-Credit-Directed-by-or-Film-by.html&quot;&gt;Director Credit Basics&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[The] &quot;Directed by&quot; credit, in accordance with DGA requirements, MUST be the last credit in the main titles. If all credits follow the picture, no main titles, then &quot;Directed by&quot; credit MUST be the first of such credits following the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Wikipedia article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opening_credits#Common_opening_credits_order&quot;&gt;Opening Credits&lt;/a&gt; also lists the director's credit as the last credit stating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While there are numerous variations most opening credits use some variation of the basic order noted within [this article].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user978" LastActivityDate="2012-03-16T14:58:52.317" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1623" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1624" CreationDate="2012-03-16T20:16:54.670" Score="10" ViewCount="637" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many directors or writers keep using brands in other movies they make. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such examples include Abrams with the Slusho brand and Tarantino Red Apple cigarettes. Also many brands are used only in fiction to replace known brands, Spyder Fynder instead of Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if the Stay Puft brand has shown up in any other movies since Ghostbusters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-14T12:11:28.370" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T12:11:28.370" Title="Is the Stay Puft brand brought into any other films?" Tags="|props|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1623" CreationDate="2012-03-16T21:38:55.850" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if Stay  Puft has been in any other shows but I doubt it since &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/e59b/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;it's now a real world product.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gxk1F.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Stay Puft&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While not a brand the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangier_%28disambiguation%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tangiers Casino&lt;/a&gt; has appeared in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112641/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Casino.&lt;/a&gt;  It has also appeared on TV on CSI as one of &lt;a href=&quot;http://csi.wikia.com/wiki/Sam_Braun&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sam Braun's casinos,&lt;/a&gt; and in an episode of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0869544/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bones.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="789" LastActivityDate="2012-03-16T21:38:55.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1613" CreationDate="2012-03-17T00:45:10.343" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're right! It is Sad Sack and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoiu0r8SPFw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here is the clip&lt;/a&gt;.   The line is &quot;Please, can I kill him now?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had rejected that because the image of Peter Lorre I had was a much younger, leaner version -- so I ruled out all movies after about '55.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this is not the only movie he said this line in... :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1030" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T16:29:03.897" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T16:29:03.897" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1631" CreationDate="2012-03-17T16:26:45.360" Score="22" ViewCount="154591" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't understand the ending of Apocalypse Now. What did Coppola want to symbolize by the last sequences involving rogue colonel? And what is the purpose of Marlon Brando's character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="324" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-12-08T18:32:13.090" LastActivityDate="2017-07-08T16:33:20.453" Title="What did Coppola want to symbolize by the last sequences involving rogue colonel?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|apocalypse-now|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1630" CreationDate="2012-03-17T18:00:34.200" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end of the film, when Willard finally makes it to Kurtz's compound, he discovers that the colonel has gone insane and sees himself as a 'god', lording over the indigenous occupants in that part of the jungle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In presenting this conclusion, both the novella and the film show that Willard has left one hell for another, the hell of war for the hell of the tortured human psyche.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kurtz himself has come to terms with the fact that Willard is there to kill him, and in fact he welcomes it, as he knows that he will live on in Willard and eventually make it to the godhood he desires. This is demonstrated when Willard leaves Kurtz's 'hovel' after the killing and drops his weapon, relinquishing his connection to violence, and becoming the new god for the locals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Coppola originally organized the ending of the movie, he had two choices. One involved Willard leading Lance by the hand as everyone in Kurtz's base throws down their weapons, and ends with images of Willard's boat pulling away from Kurtz's compound superimposed over the face of a stone idol which then fades into black. Another option showed an air strike being called and the base being blown to bits in a spectacular display, consequently killing everyone left at the base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original 1979 70 mm exclusive theatrical release ended with Willard's boat, the stone statue, then fade to black with no credits, save for '&amp;quot;Copyright 1979 Omni Zoetrope&amp;quot;' right after the film ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has prompted many to speculate that the intense napalming seen when the film starts is actually the destruction of Kurtz's compound, a flash-forward if you will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are many more eloquent essays written about this subject, but I hope I've provided a good starting point for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-12-08T18:32:53.470" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="693" CreationDate="2012-03-17T20:20:43.547" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To the last point: &quot;Jesus Wept&quot; is a typically British and Irish Catholic expression and is now somewhat archaic in use (my grandparents would have said it a lot but younger people not so much).  It is apparently the shortest sentence in the bible - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_wept&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;see Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; - and is something short and easily memorable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's origin is from the story of Lazarus dying, before his resurrection, when Christ cried over the loss of his friend showing his humanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In actual usage, it has several meanings depending on context but is most commonly another way of saying: &quot;Oh, for God's sake&quot; or something along those lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="350" LastEditorUserId="9718" LastEditDate="2017-04-06T12:56:45.037" LastActivityDate="2017-04-06T12:56:45.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="693" CreationDate="2012-03-17T23:42:29.977" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In regards to your first question, if you're referring to the first movie, which is taken directly from Clive Barker, then there is no religious connection at all. The Cenobites are just crazy S&amp;amp;M freaks from another dimension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your second question depends on context, which as Ivo already alluded to in his comment, there's a bunch of different Hellraisers. Barker lost control of his concept and it's been given the business by a number of different sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like Captain Toad has already answered the third question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user977" LastActivityDate="2012-03-17T23:42:29.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1635" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1901" CreationDate="2012-03-18T02:06:31.403" Score="10" ViewCount="2226" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to remember the title of a movie that had this quote (or something very similar) in it, can anyone help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;there are two kinds of people in this world, those who bend facts to fit beliefs, and those who bend beliefs to fit facts&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1034" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-03-18T11:29:17.880" LastActivityDate="2012-04-10T21:03:24.057" Title="&quot;There are two kinds of people&quot; quote" Tags="|identify-this-movie|dialogue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:35:55.627" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1571" CreationDate="2012-03-18T05:22:21.860" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No one realised, about all the mix of zombie blood in the parking fight?&#xA;Shane and Rick got cover their wounds with zombie Blood, this imo count as infection factor&#xA;Using the Knife, to lure the zombies at the gate also counts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1035" LastEditorUserId="1035" LastEditDate="2012-03-18T05:28:35.987" LastActivityDate="2012-03-18T05:28:35.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1637" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1638" CreationDate="2012-03-18T12:53:03.737" Score="6" ViewCount="1259" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/48471/how-to-generate-the-movie-dvd-available-sound-systems-symbols&quot;&gt;Some square like symbols similar to the ones discussed in this question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AulYr.png&quot; alt=&quot;example of 5.1 surround sound image&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These appear on the back of physical media, for example DVDs, with various number of little solid squares indicating how many channels of audio are included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any hints on what they are called? googling &quot;movie, symbol, subtitle, dolby&quot; etc. brings up completly irrelevant results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="285" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:36:12.693" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T08:56:15.357" Title="What is the name for the symbols next to subtitles, commentaries, dolby, etc?" Tags="|terminology|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1637" CreationDate="2012-03-18T13:06:16.373" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are referring to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.surething.com/ST/Category.asp?CatCode=SE_DESIGNCTR05&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;sound mode icon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0ZaSV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="297" LastActivityDate="2012-03-18T13:06:16.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1608" CreationDate="2012-03-18T17:35:29.053" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't actually know for sure if one of the answers is true. If one of them is true, it will probably the first one, because if it was actually stolen, she wouldn't have any reason to lie to her father about a friend bringing it next weekend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What the two different answers tell us (and Mr. Brooks) is that she lied to the police, when they question her about the murder at her college. We can also assume that the car was somehow involved in the crime, otherwise the police would not ask for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know for sure if she really committed the murder, but it is strongly implied through her behaviour and the fact that even her own father seems to think it. (And being a serial killer himself, he should have the necessary instincts to tell.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What it all comes down to is that it's not really important if a friend really will be driving it up next weekend or if she dumped it somewhere. She definitly has something to hide about the car and it probably was involved in the murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that she actually did commit the murder, knew the car could be traced back to her and therefor lied to both her father and the police, telling each one the story that would get her out of more questions easiest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2012-03-18T17:55:58.823" LastActivityDate="2012-03-18T17:55:58.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1641" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1643" CreationDate="2012-03-18T20:34:00.967" Score="5" ViewCount="3365" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1510938/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Sunset Limited&lt;/a&gt;, White aka &quot;the professor&quot; (played by Tommy Lee Jones) quotes a short German sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am German myself, but I was unable to understand it. Were the words he said actually german? Did he just pronounce them in a strange way maybe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did he say and who did he quote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T08:57:45.360" LastActivityDate="2016-12-23T19:40:00.600" Title="What's the German quotation in The Sunset Limited?" Tags="|dialogue|the-sunset-limited|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1641" CreationDate="2012-03-18T21:34:33.683" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Analysing some subtitles I found out that the quotation can be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ich kann nicht anders&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the pronunciation wasn't that great. The quotation is attributed to Martin Luther:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hier stehe ich, &lt;strong&gt;ich kann nicht anders&lt;/strong&gt;. Gott helfe mir. Amen!: &quot;Here I stand, &lt;strong&gt;I cannot do differently&lt;/strong&gt;. God help me. Amen!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastActivityDate="2012-03-18T21:34:33.683" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1645" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5818" CreationDate="2012-03-19T20:03:01.270" Score="10" ViewCount="3881" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching quite a few episodes of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSI%3a_Crime_Scene_Investigation&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;CSI:Crime Scene Investigation&lt;/a&gt; I get the feeling that all crimes are solved. Is there any episodes where they actually fail in doing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1041" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-25T16:44:47.707" LastActivityDate="2019-11-18T20:30:50.527" Title="Are all main crimes in CSI solved?" Tags="|csi-las-vegas|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1649" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-03-19T21:07:35.610" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A 2003 spin-off from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAG_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;JAG&lt;/a&gt;, created by Donald P. Bellisario and Don McGill and starring Mark Harmon. Fictional naval investigative cases are played out either stand-alone or via multiple episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2012-03-19T21:35:33.137" LastActivityDate="2012-03-19T21:35:33.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1650" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-03-19T21:07:35.610" Score="0" Body="NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) is a 2003 police procedural drama TV series spin-off from JAG." OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2012-03-19T21:35:41.903" LastActivityDate="2012-03-19T21:35:41.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1652" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1656" CreationDate="2012-03-19T22:51:04.430" Score="11" ViewCount="4651" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which movie did S.H.I.E.L.D and/or Nick Fury first appear in and what order subsequently did the former appear in other Marvel comic book movie adaptions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T08:10:17.193" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T08:10:17.193" Title="In the marvel movies what order did S.H.I.E.L.D/Nick Fury appear to the main movie character" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1653" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1658" CreationDate="2012-03-19T22:57:49.740" Score="20" ViewCount="169609" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Others_%282001_film%29&quot;&gt;The Others&lt;/a&gt; recently, and I was blown away by the ending and the story. I  was thinking about this plot element which didn't make much sense to me. It's about the return of the husband of Nicole Kidman's character. I am assuming that plot element employed by the director is that The husband's spirit, after his death, was looking for a way to reach his family, and he even says that dialogue implying that he was searching for their house for a long time in the fog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I really don't understand is if his spirit wanted to be with his family, why does he leave them? I am assuming that during his confused state he understands that his family also died like he did, why did he not stay with them? Does his spirit have any other purpose which was not implied in the movie? Can anyone clarify this aspect for me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T18:20:07.783" LastActivityDate="2017-06-09T08:41:05.240" Title="Why does the husband leave the family in The Others?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-others|" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1652" CreationDate="2012-03-19T23:03:19.500" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember seeing him first in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Iron Man&lt;/a&gt; followed by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Hulk_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Incredible Hulk&lt;/a&gt; and lastly on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America%3a_The_First_Avenger&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Captain America&lt;/a&gt;. I don't remember watching him on Thor I didn't watch the credits on Thor because he comes in Iron man after the credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: I am assuming you're talking about Samuel Jackson as Nick Fury in the recent movies.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Forgot to add &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_man_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Iron Man 2&lt;/a&gt; despite the fact I watched the movie on first day. It turns out there is a post credits scene in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thor&lt;/a&gt; like in the Iron man movie and SLJ does make an appearance there too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2012-03-20T00:34:52.913" LastActivityDate="2012-03-20T00:34:52.913" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1652" CreationDate="2012-03-19T23:33:43.903" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are talking about Samuel L Jackson or S.H.I.E.L.D. then it would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Iron Man&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Incredible Hulk&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Iron Man 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thor (Samuel L Jackson does appear in the credits, but other S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives appear in the movie)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Captain America:The First Avenger&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be it I think, its pretty much all the recent films released by marvel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1027" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T09:00:46.240" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T09:00:46.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1653" CreationDate="2012-03-20T05:07:14.837" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the way I understood it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The husband was killed in the trenches, and is doomed to haunt that place (as his wife and children are doomed to haunt the mansion). He comes home to visit his children, but eventually returns to the front. It is also hinted that his relationship with his wife was strained even when they were alive, and that this strain is what drove the husband to go to join the war in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-03-21T15:10:22.897" LastActivityDate="2012-03-21T15:10:22.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1659" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1767" CreationDate="2012-03-20T13:48:01.303" Score="11" ViewCount="1823" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching this movie at least 12 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It involves a guy sending letters to his criminal associates detailing a planned robbery. After he has posted them, he gets arrested. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the associates turn up and wonder where he is but decide to continue with the plan he has outlined. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While they are carrying out the robbery etc. the original guy escapes from the prison and tries to get home. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other details I remember&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All the associates had exactly the same bag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The police cars had small explosives placed in their engines to prevent them from being able to go anywhere&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At the end, the robbery has taken place and the associates go back to the guys house to split up the money, as they are driving off, the original guy manages to crawl up the hill to his house.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas? It's not a fantastic movie at all, but I can't remember what it was called.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T14:03:10.407" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T14:03:10.407" Title="A movie about a bank robbery?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:35:58.753" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1575" CreationDate="2012-03-20T15:40:41.367" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, this description also fits the 1958 BBC serial &quot;Quatermass and the Pit,&quot; or its 1967 movie remake, which was released in the U.S. as &quot;Five Million Years to Earth&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastActivityDate="2012-03-20T15:40:41.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1661" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1662" CreationDate="2012-03-20T16:09:19.520" Score="40" ViewCount="39570" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know they used a lot of mechanics back then, but were R2D2 and C3PO mechanical, a costume, or something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1160" OwnerDisplayName="Eve" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-03-20T18:56:56.303" LastActivityDate="2015-08-15T21:05:58.503" Title="How were R2D2 and C3PO made in the original trilogy?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1661" CreationDate="2012-03-20T16:15:33.443" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;For c-3po, it was a costume, &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Anthony_Daniels&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anthony Daniels&lt;/a&gt; played c-3po:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ysahN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Anthony Daniels as c3po&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For R2-D2, It was a costume and a remote controlled robot. CGI was also used in the prequel trilogy. So, they had &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kenny_Baker&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kenny Baker&lt;/a&gt; to play him :&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pcXBR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Kenny Baker inside R2-D2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/R2-D2#Portrayal&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Portrayal section of wookieepedia article on R2-D2&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Baker performed the role of R2-D2 inside a standing unit of the droid, wearing a specially-made suit and manipulating the droid's lights and appendages, turning his head, rocking his body back and forth, and moving his eye with a rod. &lt;strong&gt;In addition to Baker's unit, every Star Wars film has made use of a number of remote control units, as Baker's was largely immobile.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [...]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  A computer-generated R2-D2 was also used in many scenes of the prequel trilogy, including a scene in Episode II where the character walks up a staircase. Baker has stated that he would never have been able to do that in his costume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="858" OwnerDisplayName="DavRob60" LastActivityDate="2012-03-20T16:28:34.037" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1664" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-21T02:13:38.757" Score="24" ViewCount="94864" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love The Big Bang Theory, and consider myself to be pretty geeky, but I can't for the life of me figure out what this is.  Could someone ID the prop circled in this picture?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EkRXK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="694" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-07-26T21:11:00.217" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T21:11:00.217" Title="What is this item in Sheldon &amp; Leonard's apartment?" Tags="|props|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1665" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-21T03:35:56.440" Score="37" ViewCount="15181" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've particularly noticed this in the past with cars in movies &amp;amp; TV shows.  A car will quite obviously be of a certain make and/or model, identifiable by certain body features, but it will have all of its logos and brand markings removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also noticed this almost more blatantly in one of my favorite TV shows, The Big Bang Theory.  Most commonly here, it will be seen on snacks or beverages.  The item will have several features which clearly allude to the brand and product, but anything that actually has a product &lt;em&gt;name&lt;/em&gt; on it will have a slightly different name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One particular example I saw recently was a bag of Pop Secret popcorn which quite obviously had just had some letters colored over with marker, so that it said &quot;Po Secre&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other movies or TV shows, I typically notice positions being taken at one extreme or another:  Either a product or brand is particularly featured, specifically to be noticeable, or the props used are deliberately labeled in a way that makes them very generic and not easily associated to any real-world product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the purpose behind this?  Who really benefits here, especially when it's quite obvious what product is (not) being represented?  What makes the un-branding and/or re-branding of recognizable products worthwhile?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="694" LastEditorUserId="694" LastEditDate="2012-05-27T15:45:07.140" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T00:37:00.253" Title="Why do so many movies &amp; TV shows feature recognizable, un-branded or re-branded products?" Tags="|props|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1664" CreationDate="2012-03-21T10:08:18.813" Score="34" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the wall in the living room of Leonard and Sheldon's apartment is an &lt;strong&gt;antique fuse holder with fuses&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This odd item was the subject of much discussion by fans who couldn't work out what it was. Eventually, someone identified it on Twitter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the link of &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.the-big-bang-theory.com/wiki/Antique_fuse_holder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Big Bang theory wiki page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Look closely, each row has a fuse connected from the left to right. Each fuse is bolted to it's connection on the terminal block with two bolt. Each fuse has two eilets (one on each side) where it is bolted onto the terminal block (or strip). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Give a look &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chasingprops.com/test2.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the photo linked there:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9qEht.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastEditorUserId="613" LastEditDate="2012-03-21T10:57:01.420" LastActivityDate="2012-03-21T10:57:01.420" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1665" CreationDate="2012-03-21T10:45:37.857" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TVTropes&lt;/a&gt; classifies this under &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrandX&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brand X&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a script calls for a consumer product, and no one has offered the producers a Product Placement deal, a television program must resort to making up a brand — or, in some cases, obscuring a real brand so that it can't be identified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are quite a few reasons TV shows and movies would do this. The biggest example is the writers need the audience to understand a well-known product without explicitly saying it's name. This may seem ludicrous, but it does make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say there's an episode of &lt;em&gt;Big Bang Theory&lt;/em&gt; where Sheldon discovers Red Bull, becomes addicted, and is now drinking a ton of it. He then terrorizes the rest of the cast because he's always awake, always pointing out mistakes, and always being (more) annoying. The obvious joke is that because he's drinking so much of this energy drink, he's able to stay up and be a jerk 24/7!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But wait, Red Bull has declined the network usage of their product because they don't want their product to be associated with a hyperactive maniac. No license, no Red Bull. The problem is the joke only worked with Red Bull. Everyone knows about this energy drink. Because of this common knowledge, the script didn't need to add extra lines to really nail how much more hyperactive Sheldon would be with this energy drink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do the writers do? Change the name something different but something similar enough to Red Bull so the audience will immediately associate it with Red Bull. Now the drink is Blue Cow. The average American will consciously or subconsciously make the connection between Blue Cow and Red Bull.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who wins? The writers, for one. They get to keep in their joke. The network wins, too. They don't have to pay extra fees now. Technically, Red Bull also wins in what Wikipedia defines as &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_displacement&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Product Displacement&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Product displacement is the removing of trademarked products from primarily visual media in order to avoid the payment of licensing fees, if the trademark owner objects, or if the broadcaster would prefer not to publicize a product for free, if the owners have not paid for it to be included in a programme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Product displacement can also refer to brands/companies deliberately modifying their name or logo in an attempt to make people see the logo and realize that the logo/name is not correct. &lt;em&gt;This extra thinking time forces people to register the real brand. This method can be &lt;strong&gt;more effective&lt;/strong&gt; than product placement.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the flip side, this could also just be a clever joke (or a lazy one, depending on how you look at it,) thrown in from the writers. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Schneider_(TV_producer)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dan Schneider&lt;/a&gt;, of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amanda_Show&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Amanda Show&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_%26_Josh&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Drake &amp;amp; Josh&lt;/a&gt; fame, constantly used/uses jokes like these. Almost every computer in his shows has a very familiar &lt;a href=&quot;http://icarly.wikia.com/wiki/Pear_Company&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pear logo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6OQcqm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pgFyrm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/awXED.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user978" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user978" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T00:37:00.253" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1672" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1673" CreationDate="2012-03-21T19:08:29.733" Score="16" ViewCount="11899" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the 14th episode of Firefly and the following movie there are many Chinese phrases strewn about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are all of the Chinese phrases in Firefly/Serenity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-09-26T07:01:21.173" LastActivityDate="2016-09-27T07:44:39.517" Title="What are all of the Chinese phrases in Firefly/Serenity?" Tags="|translation|firefly|serenity|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1672" CreationDate="2012-03-21T19:29:05.833" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like someone else thought about this and created a &lt;a href=&quot;http://fireflychinese.kevinsullivansite.net/title/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There should be a translation for all the phrases used in Firefly. You can search by title or by phrase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chinese translations with standard &lt;strong&gt;Hanyu Pinyin&lt;/strong&gt; romanization and Chinese characters for &lt;strong&gt;Firefly&lt;/strong&gt; the TV series and &lt;strong&gt;Serenity&lt;/strong&gt; the movie and comic books&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastEditorUserId="613" LastEditDate="2016-09-27T07:44:39.517" LastActivityDate="2016-09-27T07:44:39.517" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="946" CreationDate="2012-03-22T07:22:04.417" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the answers are complicating the scene. I have actually worked on the publicity of the film in East Asia and discussed the film in depth with experts for rating purposes, so here's what I know from there. &#xA;In this scene, George Valentin realizes that the world around him has audible speech. Now, when he hears the cop speaking, it hits him hard that everyone does actually have sound and it will soon hit the movies. Thus, hurting his ego even further that he was wrong flaunting his pride.&#xA;The scene where we cut to a lot of mouths speaking create a disturbing and disorienting noise for him driving him to attempt suicide. &#xA;There is so much noise in the world, that its amplified in his head, there is no place for a proud silent star. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1050" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-03-22T15:49:07.007" LastActivityDate="2012-03-22T15:49:07.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1678" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1679" CreationDate="2012-03-22T21:48:23.083" Score="7" ViewCount="719" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is it &lt;strong&gt;9&lt;/strong&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0901504/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Psych:9&lt;/a&gt;? I thought the film was a sequel to previous 8 films, but apparently there are no 8 prequels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T13:56:25.783" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T13:56:25.783" Title="Why is it 9 in Psych:9?" Tags="|psych-9|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1678" CreationDate="2012-03-22T21:58:57.593" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261983/&quot;&gt;Session 9&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142688/&quot;&gt;The Ninth Gate&lt;/a&gt;, and even pre-DVD with Dante's &lt;strong&gt;nine circles of Hell&lt;/strong&gt;, it's a formidable number. Read more about number 9 and all its usage in culture and mythology &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_%28number%29&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Both movies, Session 9 and Psych:9, take place in abandoned (well in Psych: 9′s case, soon to be abandoned) hospitals and both have that &lt;strong&gt;number 9&lt;/strong&gt; in the title that becomes a major plot point. Upon watching the film I was even more surprised how right I was as Psych follows the same formula as Session with much of the film being a supernatural thriller until the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Roslyn (Sara Foster) is a sad woman who takes a job collating files for a soon to be demolished hospital. During her shifts she notices some strange occurrences such as ghostly figures and some mysterious singing. Roslyn is also grappling with the fact that she apparently can’t bear children, making her more on edge and putting her at odds with her husband Cole (Gabriel Mann). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She eventually befriends the only other person working in the building, Dr. Clement (Cary Elwes), who works up on the fifth floor in the psychology ward. This particular ward is filled with many archaic, cruel looking devices, &lt;strong&gt;especially room 9&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read the whole article &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.killerfilm.com/film_reviews/read/psych-9-review-screamfest-50332&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastEditorUserId="613" LastEditDate="2012-03-22T22:06:30.550" LastActivityDate="2012-03-22T22:06:30.550" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1680" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8974" CreationDate="2012-03-23T00:18:12.257" Score="5" ViewCount="955" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1314170/&quot;&gt;The Child's Eye (2010)&lt;/a&gt;, why does Chuen's wife give birth to a dog-headed baby?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastActivityDate="2012-12-24T20:22:29.890" Title="Why does she give birth to a dog-headed baby?" Tags="|the-childs-eye|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1681" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27981" CreationDate="2012-03-23T00:25:28.490" Score="8" ViewCount="2377" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1314170/&quot;&gt;The Child's Eye (2010)&lt;/a&gt;, the girl throws the book she was reading out of the van's window. What is that book? Why does she do that? After doing this, they have an accident. Can anyone explain what exactly happens at the end of this film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T15:18:49.067" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T14:25:21.880" Title="Ending of The Child's Eye (2010)" Tags="|ending|the-childs-eye|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1682" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-23T05:44:17.577" Score="8" ViewCount="868" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why do most of the Hollywood movies have at least one non-white guy?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any casting guidelines for that &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; Just a coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T18:42:39.067" LastActivityDate="2024-01-13T20:06:13.853" Title="Why do most of the Hollywood movies have at least one non-white guy?" Tags="|casting|american-cinema|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1682" CreationDate="2012-03-23T11:23:55.760" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well first of all I'm not sure the premise of your question is true. I can think of several movies off hand with just white actors in significant speaking roles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you reduce it to 'a majority of modern Hollywood movies' then your observations might be closer to the mark, but I don't think this is down to any form of explicit policy of positive discrimination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The USA is an ethnically diverse country. Ethnicity is a difficult area to quantify, but from recent census data people who identify themselves as white form just over 70% of the population (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;), so if a movie is to represent the normal makeup of the population then it would normally have a significant number of non-white actors. The percentage of white population decreases in urban areas, where (I am guessing) a larger proportion of movies are set.  I am sure the casting team take this into account, both to simply represent normality and to maximize the marketing potential of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-03-23T14:24:46.937" LastActivityDate="2012-03-23T14:24:46.937" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1685" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1795" CreationDate="2012-03-23T12:21:05.673" Score="91" ViewCount="65971" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;first season&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of the Big Bang Theory, the equations on Sheldon's whiteboard change over time and in each episode there's a different equation; so they put someone in charge to show that there's actually a progress in that board. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's a real progress research or those equations reflect something &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;already solid or demonstrated&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a photo with Sheldon, Penny and the whiteboard in the background:&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dFXMk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastEditorUserId="43257" LastEditDate="2017-03-25T08:32:55.433" LastActivityDate="2018-08-09T08:23:06.697" Title="Do Sheldon's equations reflect real math/physics research?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1685" CreationDate="2012-03-23T12:33:10.327" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;The person you write about, the consultant, UCLA Professor &lt;a href=&quot;http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/making-a-big-bang-on-tv-10-questions-83027&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;David Saltzberg&lt;/a&gt;, has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://thebigblogtheory.wordpress.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; that explains the mathematics of the show episodes. Giving a quick glance, it appears there is an entry for each episode that explains the scientific theme(s) brought up during the show. None of the few I read say anything about progression of the math through a series of episodes. They all seem to be standalone; I can't discern a continuity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="58191" LastEditDate="2018-08-09T08:23:06.697" LastActivityDate="2018-08-09T08:23:06.697" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1689" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1726" CreationDate="2012-03-23T17:36:44.717" Score="6" ViewCount="677" Body="&lt;p&gt;While looking for various actors and actresses I keep coming across material they have done that isn't on their IMDB profile. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1270095/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Allison Scagliotti&lt;/a&gt; is in a web short yet there is no mention of it on her page, the web short did give her credit but this isn't always the case. I've noticed that music videos and web videos don't normally show up on IMDB as well as sometimes older roles that the actor/actress doesn't acknowledge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since IMDB is generally the go to for if an actor/actresses was in something. If it's not listed on IMDB or their wiki page (and in some cases I've come across not the actor/actresses own personal page) then how can I make sure if the actor/actress is the one I believe they are? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-03-27T00:32:31.370" LastActivityDate="2012-03-27T04:13:13.113" Title="How to correctly identify an actor/actresses is in something that is not listed on their IMDB profile?" Tags="|casting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1246" CreationDate="2012-03-23T18:33:25.973" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;More proof that a Florida man named Billy Mitchell was very good at videogames in the early 1980's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Q0BWAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;sjid=kekDAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;pg=5315%2C2930327&quot;&gt;1983 Gainesville (FL) Sun newspaper article scan at Google Newspapers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=dCiMr51O9nMC&amp;amp;q=%22bill%20mitchell%22%20centipede&amp;amp;dq=%22bill%20mitchell%22%20centipede&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=Z8BsT__zLon00gHCqIj0Bg&amp;amp;ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA&quot;&gt;1986 Guniness Book of World Records scan at Google Books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Faking these seems beyond the ability of a hoaxer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1057" LastActivityDate="2012-03-23T18:33:25.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1691" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="81239" CreationDate="2012-03-20T21:48:39.260" Score="13" ViewCount="2210" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure the concept of a 'tulpa' from Tibetan mysticism appeared in the TV series 'Twin Peaks' and I'm trying to find references and if possible the exact quote.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it was Agent Cooper (which would make sense given his fascination with Tibet) that proposed the idea.  I'm not sure if the word was mentioned more than once in the series, but I'm interested all the references if possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1051" OwnerDisplayName="AntonChanning" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T15:12:55.453" LastActivityDate="2017-10-13T14:11:46.483" Title="Which episodes of Twin Peaks mention the concept of 'tulpa'?" Tags="|analysis|twin-peaks|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1682" CreationDate="2012-03-24T08:12:27.803" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it dates back to the times of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandrake_the_Magician_(serial)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mandrake the Magician&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Black people were used as assistants and later as sidekicks (referring to the jobs they actually used to get).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gradually, they started entering mainstream roles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1059" LastEditorUserId="46980" LastEditDate="2024-01-13T20:06:13.853" LastActivityDate="2024-01-13T20:06:13.853" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1699" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1700" CreationDate="2012-03-25T01:12:16.450" Score="11" ViewCount="76800" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 2 episode 7 of Archer, Rona Thorne suggests using a kelp tape cleansing technique. I was able to find some reference to kelp as a cleanser on the Google, but nothing mentioning 'tape' explicitly. Is this a real thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user977" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T14:23:25.187" LastActivityDate="2020-09-23T00:14:39.147" Title="Is kelp tape real?" Tags="|realism|archer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1699" CreationDate="2012-03-25T02:19:39.277" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have located a couple references to it, but am not sure it isn't a joke. Many references are very recent, and lead back to &lt;em&gt;Archer&lt;/em&gt;, but one leads to a free-form Q&amp;amp;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=36812.45&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;forum&lt;/a&gt; where the specific topic is 'detox'. Kelp Tape is part of the answer. The answer is disgusting, and again, I am not sure it is for real. Further down the thread we come right back to &lt;em&gt;Archer&lt;/em&gt;. My most fun answer was the one that went 'Ew. Ew. Ew.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2012-03-25T02:19:39.277" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1702" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1705" CreationDate="2012-03-25T04:44:23.950" Score="19" ViewCount="43697" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of the movie Gangs of New York, Priest Vallon tells his son not to wipe the blood of the blade after he's cut himself shaving, saying &quot;The blood stays on the blade&quot;. I've watched the movie multiple times, but can never find what the meaning behind that phrase is. Anyone able to shed some light on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="603" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-03-25T11:37:51.797" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T20:34:21.177" Title="What's the meaning behind the phrase &quot;The blood stays on the blade&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|gangs-of-new-york|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1560" CreationDate="2012-03-25T11:24:33.390" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the book, they meet inside the gates of the City.  Pippin says that Gandalf send him to look for Merry.  From beginning of the chapter &quot;The Houses of Healing&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Slowly the lights of the torches in front of him flickered and went&#xA;  out, and he was walking in a darkness; and he thought: ‘This is a&#xA;  tunnel leading to a tomb; there we shall stay for ever.’ But suddenly&#xA;  into his dream there fell a living voice.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;‘Well, Merry!&#xA;  Thank goodness I have found you!’&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;He looked up and the&#xA;  mist before his eyes cleared a little. There was Pippin! They were&#xA;  face to face in a narrow lane, and but for themselves it was empty. He&#xA;  rubbed his eyes.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;‘Where is the king?’ he said. ‘And&#xA;  Éowyn?’ Then he stumbled and sat down on a doorstep and began to weep&#xA;  again.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;‘They have gone up into the Citadel,’ said&#xA;  Pippin. ‘I think you must have fallen asleep on your feet and taken&#xA;  the wrong turning. &lt;strong&gt;When we found that you were not with them,&#xA;  Gandalf sent me to look for you.&lt;/strong&gt; Poor old Merry! How glad I am to&#xA;  see you again! But you are worn out, and I won’t bother you with any&#xA;  talk. But tell me, are you hurt, or wounded?’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1068" LastActivityDate="2012-03-25T11:24:33.390" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1702" CreationDate="2012-03-25T13:33:00.857" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just did a bit of digging on your behalf regarding this line, and there seems to be no concrete definition of it from any official source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I found several interpretations along the way, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) &quot;You cannot wash away your sins.&quot;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) The blood is worn as a badge of merit on the blade;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) The blood remains on the blade and not on your hands (meaning you are relatively guilt-free).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, considering the overtly religious themes within the film, I would side with option 1, especially since Priest Vallon is saying the line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-03-25T13:33:00.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1707" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1708" CreationDate="2012-03-25T18:48:05.733" Score="7" ViewCount="340" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452702/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vacancy (2007)&lt;/a&gt;, David Fox is stabbed at night (supposedly after midnight), and at the end of the film (in daytime), it turns out he's still alive. Is it possible in real life that a person is stabbed seriously from their abdomen and they can stay alive after several hours? Should blood loss not cause death in these cases?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-03-07T07:09:49.037" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T07:09:49.037" Title="Is this incident realistic in Vacancy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|realism|vacancy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1707" CreationDate="2012-03-25T19:40:52.820" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Medical experts disagree on the need for surgical treatment to abdominal stab wounds. Most agree that an expert medical opinion is needed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.health-care-information.org/injuries/stab-wounds.html&quot;&gt;immediately&lt;/a&gt;. However, barring the evidence of evisceration (organs protruding from the body), or injuries to peritoneum exhibiting visible dramatic blood loss or bubbles indicating an injury to the diaphragm, surgery in the form of a laparoscopy to rule out serious damage is not necessary.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;A study was compiled from stab wound data by &lt;a href=&quot;http://emergency-medicine.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2004/121/8&quot;&gt;Finnish doctors&lt;/a&gt; &lt;i&gt;(Sorry, this article requires you to create a FREE account to read it)&lt;/i&gt; that found that in over 50% of the time, the patient could be discharged without surgery.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;So, it is possible for him to survive a delayed visit to the hospital for 6 - 12 hours, though it is inadviseable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-03-25T19:59:40.020" LastActivityDate="2012-03-25T19:59:40.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1709" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1710" CreationDate="2012-03-26T02:40:09.920" Score="4" ViewCount="2549" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a movie that came out about 1-3 years ago at most that was about an alien race that invaded Earth and they hid in plain sight, and would literally snuff people right out of thin air. I think something happened in the atmosphere that let people know that they were in the area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also remember from the trailer, 2-3 white people were walking in the middle of the street talking and gasping, and something happened in the atmosphere and they knew the aliens were there. I think they had flashlights or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas what this movie is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1071" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:17:33.167" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T12:17:33.167" Title="Identify this alien invasion movie with invisible aliens" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|action|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:36:01.873" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1709" CreationDate="2012-03-26T03:54:26.433" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not conclusive, but you might be referring to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093357/&quot;&gt;The Darkest Hour&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a 2011 sci-fi movie about a an invasion of invisible aliens set in Moscow with some American teenagers as the main protagonists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-03-26T03:54:26.433" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="756" CreationDate="2012-03-26T04:49:53.373" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My conclusion was that, if he had wanted to kill her he would have. The fact that she survived says to me that she was never in any danger. Although it's a possibility it crossed Jimmy's mind. Perhaps we will never know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1072" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-03-26T17:58:17.860" LastActivityDate="2012-03-26T17:58:17.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1714" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-03-26T18:08:54.977" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does something not add up?  Was something left out?  Was something inexplicably changed?  Plot inconsistancies are when something in a movie just doesn't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-03-26T18:08:54.977" LastActivityDate="2012-03-26T18:08:54.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1715" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-03-26T18:08:54.977" Score="0" Body="Seeking to understand events in a movie/tv show that don't appear to make logical sense." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T08:41:06.253" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T08:41:06.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1716" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-03-26T18:10:04.880" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about styles used through films and shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinematic_techniques&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cinematic techniques&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T08:51:43.943" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T08:51:43.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1717" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-03-26T18:10:04.880" Score="0" Body="Questions about styles used through films and shows." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-03-26T18:10:04.880" LastActivityDate="2012-03-26T18:10:04.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1718" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-03-26T18:10:38.670" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The process of casting for a Movie or TV is the process of selecting the actors, guest actors, cameos, under-fives, and sometimes the extras that will appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This topic will include the people involved, the agencies, the techniques, and information in general related as to how performers are chosen for roles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casting_%28performing_arts%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Casting (in performing arts)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T11:25:25.647" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T11:25:25.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1719" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-03-26T18:10:38.670" Score="0" Body="Questions concerning the cast of a film or show." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-03-26T18:10:38.670" LastActivityDate="2012-03-26T18:10:38.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1720" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-03-26T18:11:55.643" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sequel to Batman Begins and continuing the story about 6 months after, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tells the tale of Bruce Wayne's dealings with his most infamous villain yet, The Joker.  Also during the tale of the movie, we witness Batman's dealing with the crazed Two-Face, who combined with the Joker, forces Gotham and Batman to question themselves to their core.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This movie has become one of the top grossing movies of all time due to its high critical reception and because of the death of one of the main stars, Heath Ledger, who played the Joker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T00:14:07.627" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T00:14:07.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1721" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-03-26T18:11:55.643" Score="0" Body="The second movie in Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-04-11T13:00:12.223" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T13:00:12.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1722" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-03-26T18:16:05.357" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-03-26T18:16:05.357" LastActivityDate="2012-03-26T18:16:05.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1723" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-03-26T18:16:05.357" Score="0" Body="Martin Scorsese's movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a US Marshal investigating the disappearance of a woman at a psychiatric facility." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T19:45:24.133" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T19:45:24.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1724" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-03-26T18:16:43.687" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A London-based &quot;consulting detective&quot; whose abilities border on the fantastic, Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to adopt almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve difficult cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-26T12:55:30.883" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T12:55:30.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1725" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-03-26T18:16:43.687" Score="0" Body="All questions relating to the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conal Doyle, appearing in film or TV shows" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T17:38:40.977" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T17:38:40.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1689" CreationDate="2012-03-27T04:13:13.113" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMDb credits are generated by the filmmakers themselves (for smaller, independent productions) or representatives for the filmmakers/producers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On occasion crew and cast members get left off the submission form. I speak from experience as I appear as three different entities on IMDb because the filmmakers I worked for neglected to see if I was already represented and created a new page for me each time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is certainly the case with other actors/crew members, and could go some way to explaining the discrepancies you have discovered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line is IMDb is not infallible, and it would indeed require some serious cross-checking with other sites in order to confirm the actor you are researching is the right one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-03-27T04:13:13.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1360" CreationDate="2012-03-27T06:09:07.120" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't think of any reason why, or even how, Kane and Bernstein would use an intentional fall as a way of helping to seize control of the newspaper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're looking for some meaning of that moment, to me it accentuates the relationship between the three characters of Kane, Leland, and Bernstein. When the trio arrive at the newspaper, Kane and Leland are riding in the front of the stagecoach-thing (?) while Bernstein is on the carriage behind them, sitting on top of the furniture that he later trips up with. Kane and Leland head inside together to confront the newspaper editor while Bernstein is tasked with bringing in all the gear from the carriage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This puts Kane and Leland on an equal level, especially when the editor shakes Leland's hand first, mistaking him for Kane. Jed Leland is a strong character and one of a few who can stand up to Kane as the latter loses his way. On the other side of the coin, Bernstein is like a lap dog to Kane. Unwaveringly loyal but also always in his shadow. So while Kane and Leland make a dignified entrance to their new newspaper as powerfully idealistic young men, Bernstein--a follower--is less than graceful in his entrance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think it's a little bit of slapstick. Shortly afterwards this is expanded as Kane and the editor are arguing in the doorway of the office while Leland and Bernstein push past the flustered editor. Kane is assertively taking over in more ways than one. He is also an avid hoarder; the amount of belongings he brings in and the way he uses them to assert himself in the newspaper is emphasised comically in these scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2012-03-27T06:09:07.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1729" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1731" CreationDate="2012-03-27T09:35:44.727" Score="12" ViewCount="45190" Body="&lt;p&gt;After seeing &quot;the gimp&quot; character in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/&quot;&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/a&gt;, two questions come to mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does &quot;the gimp&quot; come to be in Maynard &amp;amp; Zed's basement? &#xA;and &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why is &quot;the gimp&quot; covered up with a mask?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-11T11:48:47.740" LastActivityDate="2021-02-14T07:34:27.717" Title="How does &quot;the gimp&quot; come to be in Maynard's basement in Pulp Fiction?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1729" CreationDate="2012-03-27T11:47:31.067" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;'The Gimp' was already in the  basement, he is kept down there. We can infer this from Maynard stating 'The Gimp's sleeping' and Zed suggesting 'Well we better wake him up then'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your second one, I suggest googling what a 'Gimp' is. However, if you don't want to, then I suggest googling 'gimp mask' which should be able to explain it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all about sexual practice called 'S&amp;amp;M' which stands for 'Sadomasochism'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps, apologies if my quotes aren't 100% as I don't have the script to hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastActivityDate="2012-03-27T11:47:31.067" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1732" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1734" CreationDate="2012-03-27T13:59:19.163" Score="15" ViewCount="3690" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie The Hunger Games is based on Suzanne Collin’s book of the same name.  The narrative of the book is completely in the first person, with a lot of detail coming from the thoughts of Katniss Everdeen.  However, the movie wasn’t strictly shot from Katniss’ point of view.  They also didn’t include any sort of narrative to the movie, relying instead on Stanly Tucci’s character Caesar Flickerman for some vital information during the games. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was the decision made to shoot the movie without a narrative by the main character, Katniss Everdeen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorDisplayName="user27684" LastEditDate="2015-12-01T04:16:26.043" LastActivityDate="2016-02-13T11:59:33.493" Title="Why was there no narration in The Hunger Games?" Tags="|book-adaptation|the-hunger-games|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1733" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1754" CreationDate="2012-03-27T14:28:11.903" Score="24" ViewCount="148605" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1991 disney adaptation of &lt;em&gt;Beauty and the Beast&lt;/em&gt;, we see several references to technology that seems out of place with the setting, including rifles and steam powered machines. It makes it hard for me to try and judge when the film would be set. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any official answer, on when the film is mean to be set?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1074" OwnerDisplayName="Pureferret" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T18:15:44.877" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T18:42:17.477" Title="What time era is the Disney version of Beauty and the Beast meant to be set in?" Tags="|plot-explanation|beauty-and-the-beast|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1732" CreationDate="2012-03-27T15:05:23.377" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;These kind of questions come here over and over when we talk about adaptations (books to movies, games to movies, comics to games, etc.) and it's really simple to answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because movies aren't the same as books&amp;mdash;the same applies to comics, games, manga, anime, etc. etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, keep in mind that maybe the book could be a really incredible experience to be read. But as I said: to be &lt;em&gt;read&lt;/em&gt;. Trying to copy and paste the narrative mechanisms to another kind of art is very tempting but it could be a disaster, too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Talking about the subject in question, &lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/em&gt;, it's very easy to read because Katniss explains everything (one of the reasons, but let's stay only with this for now). That's because the reader simply watches &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panem#Panem&quot;&gt;Panem&lt;/a&gt; through Katniss' eyes, and lacks the need to construct explanations. In the case of a movie, the images explain themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you imagine two hours of movie with Katniss saying things like &quot;I'm hurt&quot;, &quot;now I'm hungry&quot;, &quot;now I'm falling in love with Peeta... or maybe not&quot; and the sequence of images showing the exact same thing? Boring.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The reason is way more psychological: Collins and the director (Gary Ross) have two different ways to telling the same story, and really that's it. Two different POVs, two different narrative tools, two different minds, two different ways to show us the same thing....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I like both the book and the movie, each for its own reasons. Both the movie and the book show a really dramatic image of a very degenerate world, but both do this in its very unique way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1075" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T09:45:50.580" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T09:45:50.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1685" CreationDate="2012-03-27T15:36:26.610" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, I have no sources right here right now, but I remember that in first season it was some kind of &quot;progression&quot; on his work... or, more than progression a &quot;connection&quot;. But don't take this show too serious, specially not after season 2, a lot of things are just a random mix of  disconnected thoeries, hypothesis, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1075" LastActivityDate="2012-03-27T15:36:26.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="712" CreationDate="2012-03-27T15:37:02.257" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's called &lt;strong&gt;phony accent&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ryan Gosling told to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wmagazine.com/services/presscenter/pressreleases/OctoberPressRelease10&quot;&gt;W magazine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; about his infamously slurry speech,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I&#xA;  thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony&#xA;  accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore. I'm going for&#xA;  the Madonna thing, the Lady Gaga thing--a phony accent that becomes&#xA;  your trademark.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastActivityDate="2012-03-27T15:37:02.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1750" CreationDate="2012-03-27T15:57:35.430" Score="13" ViewCount="599" Body="&lt;p&gt;With actors and actresses in multiple movies with multiple partners; what measures does the industry take in order to prevent their workers from contracting these diseases?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1076" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-03-27T16:03:51.130" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T11:27:49.270" Title="How do the professionals in the adult industry avoid contracting STDs?" Tags="|adult-movies|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1420" CreationDate="2012-03-27T17:12:26.987" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The creators were intentionally showing him to be immortal/supernatural. The character was based on the Voodoo (Vodou) legend of Baron Samedi, who is one of the Guédé, a loa of the dead. Baron Samendi is the head of the family of ancestral loa and embodies the powers of death and fertility. He is the ultimate suave and sophisticated &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vodou Spirit of Death&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on the tradition followed, Baron Samedi is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of the Guédé&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Their spiritual protector, who has raised them from the dead with the help of Baron Samedi's woman, Maman Brigitte.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An aspect of the Guédé gods.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any of these configurations, Baron, Maman Brigitte, and the Guédé &lt;strong&gt;rule death&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;the cemetery and the grave. He is a supernatural being&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T12:12:40.547" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T12:12:40.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1737" CreationDate="2012-03-27T17:34:29.253" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Condoms, required tests before hand, regularly scheduled required tests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-03-27T17:34:29.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1732" CreationDate="2012-03-27T19:58:27.890" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;AirieFenix has given a really good answer above, but I would also add that first-person movies very rarely work satisfactorily. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A great example would be Lynch's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Dune&lt;/a&gt;, which sought to pile on as much exposition as possible through the use of copious inner monologues in the form of voice overs. Personally I don't have a problem with the film, but many viewers found this confusing and stilted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-03-27T19:58:27.890" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1617" CreationDate="2012-03-27T20:13:33.257" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I can't answer your question (I don't know why the director is placed last in the title sequence) but one could ponder the question a little more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_position_effect&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The serial position effect&lt;/a&gt; states that we best remember items that are presented either first or last in a sequence. So, in the opening credits case, it shouldn't matter if you are presented first or last. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QiFpH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;graph: words recalled/position in sequence; best result for first and last&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, my own experience is that you don't really pay attention to the first part of the opening credits. This is when people still are fumbling for their seats in the dark or argues about who should have authority over the popcorn during the film. From that point of view, if I were the director, and I wanted to have the best exposure, I would choose to have my name shown at the end rather than the begining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrary, in the end credits, the director is shown &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt;. This would also seem like a good thing for the director given that people very seldom watch the credits to the very end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a sidenote, there are other fields where the sequential order in which people are mentioned is a source of heated debate. Take, for example, authors in scientific papers. Here's an excerpt from the article &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050018&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Author Sequence and Credit for Contributions in Multiauthored Publications&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The situation in our area of research—the ecological and environmental&#xA;  sciences—has changed in recent years. Following informal practices in&#xA;  the biomedical sciences, the last author often gets as much credit as&#xA;  the first author, because he or she is assumed to be the driving&#xA;  force, both intellectually and financially, behind the research.&#xA;  Evaluation committees and funding bodies often take last authorship as&#xA;  a sign of successful group leadership and make this a criterion in&#xA;  hiring, granting, and promotion. This practice is unofficial, and&#xA;  hence not always followed, meaning that sometimes last authors&#xA;  “mistakenly” benefit when they actually are not principal&#xA;  investigators. Moreover, there is no accepted yardstick in assessing&#xA;  the actual contribution of a group leader to given scientific&#xA;  publications, so interpretation of author sequence can be like a&#xA;  lottery. Hence, one really does not know if being last author means&#xA;  that the overall contribution was the most or least important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="365" LastEditorUserId="365" LastEditDate="2012-03-28T11:28:42.593" LastActivityDate="2012-03-28T11:28:42.593" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1744" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1761" CreationDate="2012-03-27T21:40:20.133" Score="5" ViewCount="999" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the nightmare in the middle of the film, George Valentin experienced a sort of sound amplification in his changing room. For example, some sounds got extremely louder when he put down his glass, when he heard women chatting, when he heard the dog barking.  All the  while only he was mute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is going on here? Why is he still mute? Why are all the sounds being amplified?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1079" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-03-28T13:58:08.303" LastActivityDate="2012-03-28T19:49:15.193" Title="What is the Significance of the Sound Amplification in George Valentin's nightmare?" Tags="|analysis|the-artist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1827" CreationDate="2012-03-27T22:05:20.460" Score="7" ViewCount="3946" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the middle-end part of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970179/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hugo&lt;/a&gt;, there is a train incident (symbolizing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montparnasse_derailment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1895 Montparnasse Train Wreck&lt;/a&gt;) in the station. It seems pretty strange that the train incident is included in the movie, which happened at a different time than in the setting of the Hugo movie itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is Scorsese trying to portray by including the incident inside the Hugo movie?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1079" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T11:33:48.747" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T11:33:48.747" Title="What is the Significance of the train wreck in Hugo?" Tags="|analysis|hugo|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1737" CreationDate="2012-03-28T03:29:48.783" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Up until recently, this was all managed by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_Industry_Medical_Health_Care_Foundation&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation&lt;/a&gt;.  Every performer was required to go through a complete suite of tests every 30 days.  Under federal and state regulations, condoms are mandatory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, producers don't like to use them and no one is enforcing their use regularly, but the testing is mandatory and performers must bring an affidavit of their health to shoots&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to a few blog posts, &quot;Talent Testing&quot; is the new company that is helping manage the testing and certifying the health of the performers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T11:27:49.270" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T11:27:49.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1751" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1752" CreationDate="2012-03-28T03:30:13.923" Score="4" ViewCount="678" Body="&lt;p&gt;Riffling through my memory on another question, I was reminded of a series that aired in the States on broadcast (NBC, I think, though it may have been syndicated), probably Saturday mornings.  I seem to remember it being called &quot;Rock TV&quot; or &quot;Wolfgang Rock TV&quot;.  However, I can find nothing on Wikipedia or IMDB about such a series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It had an animated portion where the characters went to &quot;The Flip Side&quot; with the help of a DJ.  Interspersed between the animated portion, they would play current music videos (the era of the videos was 1983-84 and featured Madonna and The Police, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could anyone tell me the exact name of this series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T10:08:27.327" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T10:08:27.327" Title="&quot;Rock TV&quot; animated/live action series from the early to mid 80s" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|animation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:51:40.003" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1751" CreationDate="2012-03-28T03:41:10.407" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.toonarific.com/show.php?show_id=3965&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wolf Rock TV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Description from Toonarific:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Born with a face for cartoons, deejay icon Wolfman Jack stretched&#xA;  himself into two dimensions to portray a mentor to three teens-Sarah,&#xA;  Sunny, and Ricardo-and a bird named Bopper in this short-lived show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Wolfman, who built his reputation in the 50's and 60's for playing&#xA;  banned songs over Mexican border radio stations, had slowly become&#xA;  more mainstream, especially with his cameo in the 1973 movie American&#xA;  Graffiti. Now, he was a cartoon station manager, overseeing the three&#xA;  kids as they ran a rock TV show featuring real live-action videos.&#xA;  Although the kids dug the super keen Wolfman, the station manager, Mr.&#xA;  Morris, was not exactly a fan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The show, a Dick Clark production, also featured a segment known as&#xA;  “Wolf Rock News,” as well as “The Rock ‘n’ Roll Museum,” where&#xA;  live-action interviews took place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 1989, under the title Wolf Rock Power Hour, the show ran in&#xA;  syndication with the similarly themed Kidd Video.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="783" LastActivityDate="2012-03-28T03:41:10.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1751" CreationDate="2012-03-28T03:44:46.003" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidd_Video&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kidd Video&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The title sequence explained the plot; Kidd Video and his band of the&#xA;  same name (played by live-action performers in the first half of the&#xA;  title sequence) were kidnapped by a villain named Master Blaster, and&#xA;  transported to Master Blaster's home dimension, a cartoon world called&#xA;  The Flipside. They were rescued by a fairy named Glitter, and&#xA;  subsequently spent each episode of the series either helping to free&#xA;  the denizens of the Flipside from Master Blaster's rule, or trying to&#xA;  find a way back to the &quot;real world&quot;. Master Blaster, who seemed to be&#xA;  a cartoonization of a corrupt rock manager or music executive, flew&#xA;  around the sky in his floating castle, which resembled a giant&#xA;  jukebox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastActivityDate="2012-03-28T03:44:46.003" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1733" CreationDate="2012-03-28T04:44:40.220" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Beauty and the Beast&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was originally a French fairy tale written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in &lt;em&gt;La jeune américaine, et les contes marins&lt;/em&gt; in 1740.  An abridgement was published in 1756 by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, in &lt;em&gt;Magasin des enfants, ou dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et plusieurs de ses élèves&lt;/em&gt;, with an English translation appearing in 1757.  This places the story in the mid-1700s.  Both &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifle&quot;&gt;rifles&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_engine&quot;&gt;steam-powered machines&lt;/a&gt; had been invented by that time, so their inclusion in the story would not be anachronistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-03-28T04:44:40.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1758" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1783" CreationDate="2012-03-28T16:23:16.833" Score="8" ViewCount="4909" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can anybody help identify this anime series with a fighting robot? Two specifics stood out in my mind (which hopefully doesn't indicate my remembering two different series):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The boy who controlled the robot did so by phasing through the rock of a mountain that the robot was in.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The bad/guy witch had a face that would split apart down the centre. I think it revealed a smaller version of the bad guy/witch when it opened.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is going to be late 70's early 80s. It was on US Broadcast TV. So likely it was dubbed into English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-20T06:49:38.830" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T11:47:33.413" Title="Anime where pilot phases through a mountain to reach his mecha" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|anime|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:51:43.170" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1759" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-03-28T16:38:24.663" Score="11" ViewCount="2726" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2012 Downton Abbey Christmas Special, the prosecution seems to have a very good idea of all sorts of things Mr. Bates said in various &quot;private&quot; moments - during a side conversation with Anna that was overheard by O'Brien, while dressing his Lordship, and while talking on the phone with his wife in a private conversation that Mrs. Hughes overheard. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things might have just been condensed for narrative clarity, but it really seems like the the prosecutor knew exactly who to call up and what to ask them. However, none of the other people mentioned would have voluntarily revealed anything (not even O'Brien, I think, since she seems to have had a change of heart at this point). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just don't see how this information could have gotten to the prosecutor, so I'm curious: how did the prosecution find out about these remarks? Did the police interrogate those three off-screen and I missed it? Or is there another character who could have overheard all those conversations, and tipped the prosecutor off?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1083" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-04-20T03:59:23.550" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T11:49:45.323" Title="How did the prosecution know what Bates said?" Tags="|plot-explanation|downton-abbey|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1744" CreationDate="2012-03-28T19:49:15.193" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was having a nightmare. He was experiencing a period where talking movies became more and more popular and silent movies were less and less produced. He feared for his future as an actor. His unconscious mind picked on this very fear and created this awful dream: a world where everything and everyone is drowned by loud sounds and where he is alone and mute, that is to say a powerless nobody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the movie was made in 2011, it could actually use sounds (as opposed to a real silent movie) to make that dream even more startling to the audience. I personally thought it was the best scene in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1084" LastActivityDate="2012-03-28T19:49:15.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1758" CreationDate="2012-03-28T21:38:04.490" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The series I remember with a giant robot could be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176379/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mobile Suit Gundam Wing&lt;/a&gt;, A squadron of giant robot pilots of a beleaguered Earth colony bring the war to their oppressive home planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastActivityDate="2012-03-28T21:38:04.490" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1758" CreationDate="2012-03-28T22:57:00.443" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds a lot like Brave Raideen, which has a little kid that phases to get inside of Raideen's head. It's from the 1970s, and is very Japanese giant robot crazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the details you can handle at &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_Raideen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://letsanime.blogspot.com/2008/11/go-go-raideen.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As was mentioned above, if you can think of anything more that would be helpful. A lot of the giant robots from that time period emerge from stuff and have some person or being fly into their head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user977" LastEditorDisplayName="user977" LastEditDate="2012-03-29T13:32:11.933" LastActivityDate="2012-03-29T13:32:11.933" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1758" CreationDate="2012-03-28T23:44:21.950" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it be Tranzor Z? (aka &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazinger_Z&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mazinger Z&lt;/a&gt;) I know that the villain had a henchman that was 1/2 woman/man split down the middel of his/her face and the robot lived in an underground cave. I realize that it is somewhat different than the things you recalled, but some similarities and aired in the US during the correct time period. Some pics &lt;a href=&quot;http://mazinworld.net/Mazinger.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to jog your memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastActivityDate="2012-03-28T23:44:21.950" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1659" CreationDate="2012-03-29T01:35:39.767" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It came out 23 years ago, but I think you're talking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disorganized_Crime&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disorganized Crime&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  You included a few extra details that I don't remember (the matching bags and exploding engines), but the plot summary is the same:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story begins in a small town in western Montana where New Jersey based bank robber Frank Salazar has been hiding out from the law after a series of bank robberies in Newark. Upon realizing that the local bank contains a large amount of cash, Salazar recruits four former accomplices to come to town and help him rob the bank. Among them are Nick Bartkowski, a nervous and possibly alcoholic safecracker; Max Green, an old school explosives expert with a heart condition; Ray Forgy, a young, wisecracking auto thief and getaway driver; and Carlos Barrios, a well-manicured lookout and weapons expert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before they can arrive, however, two New Jersey detectives (George Denver and Bill Lonigan) catch up with Salazar, arrest him, and extradite him back to New Jersey. But Salazar soon escapes and becomes hopelessly lost in the Montana wilderness as he flees Denver and Lonigan's custody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unaware of Salazar's arrest and escape, the four accomplices arrive and realize that he is nowhere to be found. They finally decide to take down the bank on their own but must go through several humorous ordeals before they can complete their plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the (at the time) all-star cast, I'm inclined to agree that it's not that fantastic.  They were going for the same kind of heist film/comedy as &lt;em&gt;Ocean's 11&lt;/em&gt;, but they didn't quite pull it off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-03-29T01:35:39.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="61" CreationDate="2012-03-29T03:50:08.887" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was 30 years ago for Marty's parents.  I can barely remember what happened 30 days ago, I can't imagine remembering something from 30 years prior.  Now given that Marty's parents encounter with &quot;Calvin Klein&quot; is what brought them together, I doubt they could remember what he looked like some 30 years later.  I would say it's plausible that they would remember his name, but not his face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1020" LastActivityDate="2012-03-29T03:50:08.887" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="998" CreationDate="2012-03-29T04:04:45.153" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another part of it was also &quot;re-creating&quot; the conditions of Oceanic 815.  But it had everything to do with the Lamp Post being a place that find the limited window of opportunity to get back to the island.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1020" LastActivityDate="2012-03-29T04:04:45.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="955" CreationDate="2012-03-29T04:37:57.220" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the writing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if you were to put in the context of the show, it just breaks down to the extent of the control of your powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't comment otherwise on this entry.  That is the only reason I entered it as an answer.  Am I missing where I can comment or is there some other reason that I have not discovered yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, before Peter could control his powers, he would randomly grab/copy the power of another 'special.'  Once he ran into Claude, he figured out how to 'access' each of the powers he had 'filed away'/absorbed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1020" LastEditorUserId="1020" LastEditDate="2012-03-29T18:29:35.957" LastActivityDate="2012-03-29T18:29:35.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1759" CreationDate="2012-03-29T09:01:14.643" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;To agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/1759/how-did-the-prosecution-know-what-bates-said#comment2607_1759&quot;&gt;the comment that Tacroy has put forward&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's my personal theory that while being interrogated, Bates told the prosecution about all those things he said and who could confirm it, just because he's such a giant dramaface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only assume that Bates was honest to the core and admitted these things to the police under interrogation as he did not want to be mis-interpreted or omit anything that would just get him into more trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it could be that one of the other servants, namely O'Brien who never liked Bates and could have been listening in on conversations (as she was accustomed to do) and then told the police about the discussion with the Earl. I don't think she had a change of heart about disliking Bates, but about the fact that he could have been executed for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's a plot hole that will come to light in the next series, who knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T11:48:51.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1776" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1777" CreationDate="2012-03-29T16:16:36.103" Score="5" ViewCount="3724" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465494/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hitman&lt;/a&gt;, after watching the four-way fight scene on the train, many questions came to mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the reason why the three agents came to kill agent 47?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why did they point their guns at each other and then fight each other?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If they were hired to kill agent 47, why did they point their guns at each other rather than point all their guns towards agent 47?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T13:50:05.957" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T13:50:05.957" Title="What is the reason for the four-way fight scene on the train?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|hitman|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1776" CreationDate="2012-03-29T17:10:58.470" Score="8" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The agency hired them to kill him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only one can collect the bounty?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;see number 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-03-29T18:04:10.430" LastActivityDate="2012-03-29T18:04:10.430" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1758" CreationDate="2012-03-30T07:17:53.007" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;From your description I'm fairly sure it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grendizer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;UFO Robot Grendizer&lt;/a&gt;. I believe it was aired in the US as Grandizer (&lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt; instead of &lt;em&gt;e&lt;/em&gt;) and was part of the &quot;Force Five&quot; serires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C4hKp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;picture of Grendizer&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the bad guys attacked, the hero (farm hand Daisuke) would rush to Grendizer who was hidden inside a cave and jump into the cockpit while transforming into his real identity as the exiled alien prince Duke Fleed. Here's a youtube of that scene from the Italian version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Oqd1ZczuYo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the major bad guys was General Gandal who (in the first season at least) housed his minuscule wife inside his head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oxocQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;picture of General Gandal&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T11:47:33.413" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T11:47:33.413" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1281" CreationDate="2012-03-30T09:10:28.463" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know that I necessarily disagree with the other answer posted but I've read the book and seen the film and I don't think that an &quot;explanation&quot; can be copied so easily from one to the other.  I found the difference in the way they treat the character of Chigurh is so great that the two stories are practically independent.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film, Chigurh is presented less as a character and more as a force of nature.  He isn't a violent person, he &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; violence.  He's not trying to prove anything to anyone, least of all himself, he just &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;.  That otherworldly or mythical characterization is largely at odds with the book, in which Chigurh is represented as a thinking and morally capable character, albeit a psychopath.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's pretty clear that the Coen Bros cut out the more human parts of Chigurh's character to emphasize/create a more elementally nightmarish creature.  As such, I think that not only was the reason for the initial arrest not shown but it &lt;em&gt;couldn't&lt;/em&gt; have been shown because having a reason--even a psychopathic reason like the one in the book--would undermine the terrifyingly arbitrary nature of Chigurh's character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's how I understand it.  Perhaps if I reread the book and rewatched the film I would embrace the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/articles/book-vs-film-no-country-for-old-men,10236/&quot;&gt;conventional wisdom&lt;/a&gt;.  And perhaps not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="538" LastActivityDate="2012-03-30T09:10:28.463" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1785" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1787" CreationDate="2012-03-30T11:22:47.903" Score="13" ViewCount="2715" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not understand how the best director awards are determined each year. It seems impossible to assess the method of a movie director unless you are part of the crew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how do the nominators/judges assess the directors' performance each year?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1079" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-12T17:04:23.777" LastActivityDate="2017-08-27T21:11:01.317" Title="How are the best director award winners chosen?" Tags="|directors|film-industry|awards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1786" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1799" CreationDate="2012-03-30T11:49:49.623" Score="25" ViewCount="19889" Body="&lt;p&gt;The quote &quot;Frankly, my dear I don't give a damn&quot; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/&quot;&gt;Gone with the Wind&lt;/a&gt; was famous largely because of the early use of profanity in the script. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In films from the 90s to the present, many movies are decorated with profanity. Is Gone with the Wind the impetus for the widespread use of profanity in films nowadays?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, what film is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1079" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T11:52:55.673" LastActivityDate="2017-02-26T11:14:55.783" Title="Era of profanity in movie scripts?" Tags="|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1785" CreationDate="2012-03-30T13:15:04.720" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ehow.com/facts_7352334_decides-wins-oscars_.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;eHow&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In Hollywood, the nominating and selecting for the Oscars are done by the writers, actors, directors, animators, art directors and executives. The only requirement is that each participant be a part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Members of AMPAS are courted by film studios with free screeners, gifts and social evenings in the run up for most award ceremonies. Considering how much extra revenue is on the line when a film wins an award, the expense of these promotions are considered well worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I was a member of the Animator's Guild, I would be sent screeners of the major films released that year, along with cells from the films, making of books, postcards, whatever would work to secure my vote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the nomination ballots are mailed to all AMPAS members, usually in December, and they have a limited amount of time to get their votes in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In the case of the directors' awards&lt;/strong&gt;, your statement &lt;em&gt;'It seems impossible to assess the method of a movie director unless you are part of the crew'&lt;/em&gt; is correct, but the directors are being assessed on their output, not their method. Subject matter can be a great influence, as can the current zeitgeist or even a really solid marketing campaign. It's a general rule of thumb that films picking up awards early in the season jump on the rollercoaster and pick up speed all the way to the Oscars. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T11:52:16.947" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T11:52:16.947" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1790" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1791" CreationDate="2012-03-30T15:28:55.003" Score="8" ViewCount="5040" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember seeing this movie between 2000 and 2008 on one of the premium TV channels like HBO or Showtime.  In the movie there is this girl that’s not entirely happy with her life.  Early in the movie she visits this one booth thing that allows you to take your appearance and alter it.  She alters it to the point where she is a guy and somewhat tall.  Something happens, like an explosion, and she ends up outside of the booth.  She quickly discovers that she’s been turned into a guy, looking exactly the way she looked in the booth thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of the story is about her adapting to the new body, trying to figure out what to do (I don't remember a lot of the details from this part).  The movie had a foreign feel to it, maybe Swedish or something, but I’m not 100% sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T11:54:33.650" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T22:02:44.810" Title="A woman gets turned into a man by a makeover machine" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:36:05.157" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1790" CreationDate="2012-03-30T18:58:41.890" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds a lot like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164221/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Virtual Sexuality (1999)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NiCCP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;DVD Cover&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a part of the storyline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Desperate to find her perfect man Justine goes to a technology fair with her nerdy classmate Chas. It's not really her thing but is eventually persuaded to try a &lt;strong&gt;virtual reality makeover machine&lt;/strong&gt; and discovers that she can create her perfect man even if it is only an electronic facsimile. &lt;em&gt;The power surge from a freakish accident causes a part of her psyche to be copied into her virtual perfect man and he becomes real&lt;/em&gt;! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastActivityDate="2012-03-30T18:58:41.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1685" CreationDate="2012-03-31T19:59:19.857" Score="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a mere viewer of The Big Bang Theory, I can't answer this question with certainty, but as a physicist, I can offer a couple observations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The equations that appear on the whiteboards in TBBT are from widely varied fields of physics and chemistry. They cover a &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; wider scope than a typical scientist would actually be working on. Of course, Sheldon is not your typical scientist, and I suppose he could be doing some sort of highly cross-disciplinary research incorporating many different subfields of physics, but still, all the various equations don't seem to have much of a logical connection. Anyway, given that Sheldon considers pretty much anything other than string theory to be beneath him, I can't really see him getting involved in that kind of project on a regular basis.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many of the equations I recognize as well-established physics, the kind of thing one learns as a beginning graduate student. This doesn't necessarily mean anything by itself, because all research is based on well-established physics, but if the equations on the boards were meant to reflect actual current research projects, I would expect to be going &quot;huh, what's that?&quot; and looking things up a lot more often than I do. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://thebigblogtheory.wordpress.com/&quot;&gt;BBT blog&lt;/a&gt; discusses some reasons why it's generally not practical to incorporate actual current research into the show.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's one particular scene that may be relevant to this: Leslie is over at the guys' apartment (sleeping with Leonard I think), and overnight she fixes an error in Sheldon's math on the whiteboard which he had been struggling with for some time. The thing is, the particular calculation Sheldon was doing (deriving the QCD beta function from renormalization of gluon-exchange diagrams, IIRC) is something that was first worked out back in the 1970s and has been standard physics ever since. It should have been utterly trivial for Sheldon, as an accomplished string theorist (and genius) to do this properly, so I just have  hard time believing that he'd been struggling with it. Even if he were, it would not have been hard for him to just look up the proper method and locate the error that way (perhaps his pride prevented him from doing that, but then again a big part of becoming a successful physicist is being able to look things up).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in summary, I'd say almost certainly &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;, the equations do not in general reflect current progress in research (though the latest couple blog entries on the show's blog suggest that they're trying this). But they are at a much higher level than most other instances of math in movies and TV, and they are actual scientific equations, so you have to give the show credit for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1099" LastActivityDate="2012-03-31T19:59:19.857" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1797" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1802" CreationDate="2012-03-31T20:33:32.967" Score="15" ViewCount="754" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Forbidden Planet&quot; came out in 1956, and there is a particular visual effects shot in the movie that was ground breaking at the time. Projecting live action onto a painted background, and I've always thought this was the first usage of this VFX technique in a motion picture. Particularly the way it was done, which I'm not sure how it was done, but I think it involved filming the live action with a painted glass plate as the background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the shots I'm referring to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/43Q7n.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screen capture from The Forbidden Planet&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fyQGl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screen capture from The Forbidden Planet&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://nzpetesmatteshot.blogspot.ca/2011/03/forbidden-planet-shakespeare-in-space.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I found an interesting blog on the matte paints done for The Forbidden Planet&lt;/a&gt;. With some amazing work in progress shots of those scenes. I hadn't seen these before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That article does point out on interesting point about one of those shots, and that was a MOVING CAMERA. I think this is what I was looking for, and might be the first time a moving camera was integrated with a live action matte painting effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T15:29:18.727" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T15:29:18.727" Title="Was this movie the first usage of screen projection?" Tags="|film-techniques|forbidden-planet|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1786" CreationDate="2012-03-31T21:45:48.350" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was no movie rating system in place back in the 1940's, and movies were greatly censored by the US government. In the 1920's the Supreme Court ruled that free speech did not apply to movies, and a control board was arranged where by all film studios had to submit their scripts for censorship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movie studios were given guide lines by which they had to follow. So it's not so much that profanity is now widespread, as much as it was strictly forbidden back in the 1940's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This system of governed film making slowly started to collapse over the years and gave birth to the Motion Picture film rating system. Where the film ratings and censorship is controlled by the film industry and not by a single controlling person or government.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that we have the rating system, films can be classified by their rating. Today's ratings are, at least by idea, implemented by our peers. So as society changes so do those who review and rate films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is why we see more profanity in PG rated films, as parents who rate the films accept the fact that children in this age group use these profane words or acknowledge that the film works the way the script was written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New ratings were introduced including PG-13. To address the need for films that target a segment of the population that are pre-adult but seek adult style films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, I have to wonder who these people are that rate these films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="1100" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T13:31:06.727" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T13:31:06.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1801" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1954" CreationDate="2012-04-01T00:54:26.920" Score="6" ViewCount="823" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following scene is from a movie I watched several years ago. I would guess the movie itself was released between 1995-2005.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cops and Medics get called for backup. 2 Cops arrive at an apartment building resembling the ghetto and meet an angry mob of black people that are screaming &quot;the police is bad&quot; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They reach to the room where their squad mate is and find a dead body next to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The squad mate then says he needed to shoot the guy because he was in danger.  The main character did not believe him but did not tell him his doubts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dead body was a black drug dealer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main char decides to help his partner out even if he doubts his story.  They put the dead body on a stretcher and pretend to evacuate a injured patient that fell into coma to escape the mob.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It later turns out that the squad mate was a drug addict himself and he killed the drug dealer on purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T12:01:24.653" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T12:03:45.297" Title="Identify Cop Drama where main character helps his partner out of a crime" Tags="|identify-this-movie|drama|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:36:08.287" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1797" CreationDate="2012-04-01T01:00:56.537" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had to watch &lt;em&gt;Forbidden Planet&lt;/em&gt; again, and the mattes you reference are indeed combined with moving, live-action shots and enhanced with animated effects.  I know that &lt;em&gt;The Wizard of Oz&lt;/em&gt; predates &lt;em&gt;Forbidden Planet&lt;/em&gt; by 17 years - and &lt;em&gt;Metropolis&lt;/em&gt; predates it by 30 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your link (and several others I followed) turned out to be quite fascinating and enlightening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately though, I think the first use of rear projected matte paintings was by Georges Melies in his films from 1902 - 1904.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read more about his techniques &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, if you are specifically looking for a film that includes a &lt;strong&gt;moving&lt;/strong&gt; matte combined with live-action, then &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048517/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Prodigal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was released a year earlier in 1955.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One particular shot involves a large matte painting that is combined with a slow pan right to left and ends up in the bedroom of Lana Turner, all the while including live action plates that have been rear-projected into the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iaPPI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T12:00:19.227" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T12:00:19.227" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1801" CreationDate="2012-04-01T02:45:43.843" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching this movie. It was an apartment building and they would visit it a second time later in the film. I think this story was suppose to take place in New York and I think it came out in the early 2000's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430105/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Four Brothers (2005)&lt;/a&gt; is it? I'm not sure cause the scene isn't in the trailer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T12:03:45.297" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T12:03:45.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1804" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1810" CreationDate="2012-04-01T15:28:43.093" Score="12" ViewCount="3334" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen lot of Hollywood horror movies, and most of the directors using a mirror as a ghost's sign or ghosts using mirror as a medium to talk with humans. I couldn't understand what would be the reason for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any strong reason for using a mirror as a ghost's sign?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T14:19:44.150" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T14:19:44.150" Title="Why do many of the Hollywood horror movies use a mirror as a ghost's sign?" Tags="|analysis|horror|american-cinema|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1805" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1806" CreationDate="2012-04-01T19:29:23.230" Score="11" ViewCount="2531" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Inception, in the Mombasa chase scene, How do the Cobol Engineering's agents know Cobb had arrived in Mombasa?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-10T12:57:06.213" LastActivityDate="2023-12-16T12:10:46.910" Title="How do Cobol's agents know Cobb was in the Mombasa motel?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1805" CreationDate="2012-04-02T00:50:19.540" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;As with so many plot points in Inception this is probably designed to cloud our understanding about whether Cobb is in the real world or in a dream.  You could easily say that Cobol Engineering are obviously a very powerful and ruthless company - they were willing to hire Cobb's group to steal ideas from a competitor, and are willing to kill Cobb for his failure.  It seems that they would be the sort of organization that could hire investigator to track Cobb, and would be willing to pay for information about his whereabouts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the movie, Mal (well probably Mal's projection) suggests to Cobb that he doesn't really know what reality is.  She points out that it is odd that he is constantly pursued across the globe by powerful organizations.  The suggestion is that Cobol's agents are acting like projections - hunting Cobb down like he is the architect in someone else's dream.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you can take your pick - they are either a powerful and well informed organization, or they are merely projections of someone else's subconscious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-09-28T15:24:03.180" LastActivityDate="2012-09-28T15:24:03.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1807" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1829" CreationDate="2012-04-02T01:46:26.490" Score="13" ViewCount="37452" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just finished watching season 4, wrapped it up nicely. But I'm a little confused about Starbuck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She was not a Cylon, but she died and came back. Was she supposed to be an angel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastEditorUserId="47253" LastEditDate="2017-04-23T00:09:56.227" LastActivityDate="2018-07-29T10:45:04.700" Title="What was Starbuck?" Tags="|plot-explanation|battlestar-galactica|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1804" CreationDate="2012-04-02T07:37:08.313" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ghost stories and mirrors have shared some common ground.  Take the Bloody Mary urban legend (turn the lights off and say &quot;Bloody Mary&quot; three times and her ghost will come rip your eyes out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weirdworm.com/creepy-mirror-urban-legends/&quot;&gt;Some mirror urban legends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't find a good list, but there are a few ghost stories and urban legends tied to mirrors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T07:37:08.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1478" CreationDate="2012-04-02T10:51:54.297" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to IMDb &lt;strong&gt;there are only 17 movies&lt;/strong&gt; (including shorts) that uses this rolling down credits technique, the earliest being just the one you used as example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048261/&quot;&gt;Kiss Me Deadly (1955)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the list of movies that match this request there's also, as you mentioned, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114369/&quot;&gt;Seven (1999)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435705/&quot;&gt;Next (2007)&lt;/a&gt; used this approach, making it the last to do so thus far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you consider shorts, there are only two:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765846/&quot;&gt;Stocking Stuffers (2001)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1806809/&quot;&gt;Beneath the Veneer of a Murder (2010)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/keyword/credits-rolling-down/?sort=release_date&quot;&gt;IMDb link&lt;/a&gt; to the movie list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-04-28T13:54:44.570" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T13:54:44.570" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1804" CreationDate="2012-04-02T13:10:13.617" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting that mirrors (and any other reflective material for that matter) are a well-used narrative tool for presenting the duality of characters on screen, whether they are protagonists or antagonists (or, more likely, somewhere in between).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As DForck42 has already pointed out, there are many urban legends and stories connected to mirrors as well as popular tales such as &lt;em&gt;Alice Through the Looking-Glass&lt;/em&gt; which suggest an alternate world that is at once recognizable yet unfamiliar and dangerous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The notions of souls being trapped in mirrors, or of mirrors being portals to another world, are as old as time - and therefore a powerful element to be exploited in ghost/horror movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="118" LastEditDate="2012-04-02T19:08:37.750" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T19:08:37.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1811" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1815" CreationDate="2012-04-02T19:56:54.640" Score="9" ViewCount="9443" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119174/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Game&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; At the end of the movie Conrad was shot by his own brother Nicholas Van Orton. But Conrad came back to life at the very end of the movie.&#xA;&#xA; How it this possible? Because, Nicholas Van Orton took the gun from his house, which was hidden inside the book named &lt;strong&gt;To Kill a Mocking Bird&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;&#xA; And also, I think it's a real gun. Because, the conversation between Christine and Nicholas Van Orton clearly elaborates &lt;strong&gt;it was a real gun&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the conversation between Christine and Nicholas Van Orton,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where'd you get that? What?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That gun, that's not an automatic--&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What the fuck are you talking about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all had an automatic. Where did you get the gun?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we've searched the house&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, I guess you missed this, didn't you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Listen, we got a real Goddamn gun up here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;................&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nicholas, Nicholas, listen&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Damn it, he's got a real gun with real goddamned bullets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't understand how it's possible to come back to life after being shot by a real gun. Did i miss something in the movie?&#xA;Any help will be appreciated!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2021-06-20T08:28:18.667" LastActivityDate="2021-06-20T08:28:18.667" Title="How did Conrad come back to life after the gunshot in &quot;The Game&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|plot-explanation|the-game|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1812" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-02T20:17:59.843" Score="5" ViewCount="1160" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119174/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Game&lt;/a&gt;, There are two dates mentioned as Nicholos' birthday.The first one is &lt;strong&gt;October 11th&lt;/strong&gt;, which is mentioned while Nicholas and Conrad has a chat at the hotel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Conrad: and all the sudden it click... October 12th...Nickie's birthday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nicholas: &lt;strong&gt;October 11th&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Conrad: Whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, at the end of the movie the birthday invitation shows it's &lt;strong&gt;October 20th&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m4AY4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Which one was Nicholas' real birthday date?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Does it mentioned intentionally wrong?If so,What was the purpose for that?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-07T13:42:46.410" LastActivityDate="2015-02-07T13:42:46.410" Title="What was Nicholas Van Orton's real birthday date in &quot;The Game&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-game|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1820" CreationDate="2012-04-02T20:39:39.080" Score="5" ViewCount="780" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the late 90's early 2000's I caught part of this movie on at like 3AM on I think USA but could have been AMC.  It is a movie about the first full scale rock concert on a plane, then people start dying left and right.  I don't remember any actors.  Based on the amount of blood and death I would definitely say this was an R rated film.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="567" LastEditorUserId="512" LastEditDate="2012-04-17T17:31:38.020" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T17:31:38.020" Title="What horror movie feature a rock concert on an airplane?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:36:11.407" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1812" CreationDate="2012-04-02T20:43:15.093" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's October 11, as Nicholas states. The celebration takes place later, on a Saturday for convenience (the 11th was a Thursday).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T20:43:15.093" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1811" CreationDate="2012-04-02T20:46:07.850" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;The gun was switched, but they pretended not to have known about it. This was one last psych out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastEditorUserId="52049" LastEditDate="2018-09-15T23:03:07.397" LastActivityDate="2018-09-15T23:03:07.397" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1623" CreationDate="2012-04-02T20:54:50.200" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Wikipedia, Stay Puft returned in the cartoon Ghostbusters series &quot;The Real Ghostbusters&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_Puft_Marshmallow_Man&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_Puft_Marshmallow_Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="567" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T20:54:50.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1807" CreationDate="2012-04-02T21:31:25.963" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;She is, as I've often taken from watching the series, a time traveling Cylon from the future. Capable of downloading into a new body after death, but highly evolved to the point of being completely organic like humans. She represents the paradox of the Cylon universe &quot;what has happen before, shall happen again&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike current sleeper Cylon's that black out when their program triggers them to take action she has visions and makes her own decisions. She represents the evolved state of being able to have both free will and a destiny at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's my two cents. Take it or leave it. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T21:31:25.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1813" CreationDate="2012-04-02T23:29:54.653" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251448/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal&lt;/a&gt; (2001). The movie is rated R for violence. Synopsis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Terrorists hijack an airplane that is broadcasting a rock concert live&#xA;  on the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastActivityDate="2012-04-02T23:29:54.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1821" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2091" CreationDate="2012-04-03T07:33:38.377" Score="28" ViewCount="12352" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question regarding the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/&quot;&gt;The Shawshank Redemption&lt;/a&gt; when Red is narrating Andy's escape - can some one explain why the pipe erupts when Andy breaks it when he is escaping from Shawshank?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would understand if the pipe was under constant pressure, but in the next scene we see that the pipe is only a partially filled.  Was this a goof or is the a logical reason for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T14:28:02.827" LastActivityDate="2016-12-25T10:09:30.507" Title="Why did the pipe explode in The Shawshank Redemption?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-shawshank-redemption|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1821" CreationDate="2012-04-03T09:50:42.027" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two elements to this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;1) The whole story is told from the perspective of Red, who wasn't there at the time and told it with dramatic effect.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2) The pressure may have built up and the explosion was a sudden release, afterwards the pressure was less.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, it is pretty unpleasant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-04-03T12:27:44.500" LastActivityDate="2012-04-03T12:27:44.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1824" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-03T14:28:15.877" Score="6" ViewCount="16550" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched &lt;em&gt;Wrecked&lt;/em&gt;, and there are some unclear parts. I realized that during the robbery, the men (robbers) dragged along the man only to use his vehicle. During that, we are shown the dumbfounded girl sitting on a bench after the quarrel (?) with the man. So I concluded that they are the fiancé and fiancée.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also explains why the man sees the girl almost every time after the accident (she is constantly in his memory).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the problem: why does he (try to) kill her? And also, whenever he sees her, with increasing intensity toward the end of the movie, she does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; look good or happy at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it have something to do with the man getting a flashback (while leaning on the wrecked car), about he himself shooting the girl?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be really thankful to anyone who could clear this up for me. I may be missing something, but don't get what it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorUserId="67810" LastEditDate="2022-04-28T15:47:55.743" LastActivityDate="2022-04-28T15:47:55.743" Title="Who was the girl and why was she seen in Wrecked?" Tags="|plot-explanation|wrecked|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1825" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8672" CreationDate="2012-04-03T15:19:57.980" Score="39" ViewCount="24429" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene where Ariadne closes two mirror planes opposite each other and breaks one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain what that meant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6IDDx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-04-03T15:28:08.833" LastActivityDate="2013-04-08T10:25:15.177" Title="Can someone explain mirror scene with Ariadne in Inception?" Tags="|inception|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1825" CreationDate="2012-04-03T15:31:51.400" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene takes place in Ariadne's second shared-dreaming experience with Cobb.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of this scene is for her to play around in the world, discovering that while she is in control, she can manipulate anything.  This includes turning solid air into a mirror-door and also to show off some fancy visual effects in the movie (endless mirrors without showing a camera).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, there is no real cryptic explanation that I can find for this scene other than her playing around with the physics and her own creation skills within a dream.  As well as enable the writer's to give some background to what shared dreaming actually is and the mechanics of it all (projections, extraction, etc)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-04-03T15:31:51.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1745" CreationDate="2012-04-03T16:36:29.947" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The train wreck is part of Hugo's dream. He has recently shown the drawing the automaton created to Méliès, who, in a state of sudden emotion, ejected Hugo from his home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hugo has felt that there is a part of his father's life which he can only access through repairing and understanding the origin of the automaton, and this rejection has left him reeling. This hurts all the more because even though Méliès is gruff with him, he has accepted Hugo as an apprentice, and is the closest thing Hugo has to a father figure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He dreams of a train wreck, happening as he's attempting to retrieve the key from the track - the key that might give him a connection with his father, or perhaps more importantly access to a new father.  The train wreck symbolizes that everything he's worked to resolve the mystery is crashing down, and in fact it is the key that makes him human.  Without it he feels he has no place in society, and no right to happiness, as he's seen so many other orphans suffer at the hands of the stationmaster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason it is that specific crash is that it originally occurred at that station, and so Hugo would have been familiar with the story, and probably have seen pictures of it. There doesn't seem to be anything particularly relevant about that accident and the film or Hugo, just that it occurred at the station the film is set in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1112" LastActivityDate="2012-04-03T16:36:29.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1825" CreationDate="2012-04-03T18:17:03.990" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As well as allowing a bit of eye-candy for the movie, I think it is used as a device by the writers to explain some of the background of the shared dreaming experience:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The more you as an architect change the environment of the dream the more the projections are going to attack you.  I guess this is done by the writers to place limits on what the architect can do in the dream.  Stops the audience from saying 'why don't they just magic up a new route to the middle of the hospital'.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That Mal is a projection that Cobb brings into the dream, and she is very antagonistic.  We've already been introduced to Mal in the first dream in the movie, but this is the way that we are told she is Cobb's dead wife.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That you should not make a dream space based on large areas of the real world - that you should only use detail and make a completely fake space so that you are always aware of when you are in a dream.  This of course plays into the main theme of the movie in my opinion - is Cobb living in a dream?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: On balance I don't think I've answered the Mirror issue as well as phwd (+1), but I think these are important points that are brought into the scene with the mirror and the bridge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-04-04T02:27:38.353" LastActivityDate="2012-04-04T02:27:38.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1807" CreationDate="2012-04-03T23:33:33.250" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no official answer to this question. The two main schools of thought are that she's either a nod to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraphs_%28Battlestar_Galactica%29&quot;&gt;Seraphs&lt;/a&gt; from the original series or - without spoiling too much - she's the same as messenger Six and messenger Baltar. I think it's a bit of both personally, with a dash of we didn't know what to do with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user977" LastActivityDate="2012-04-03T23:33:33.250" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1825" CreationDate="2012-04-04T00:12:27.927" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene is to demonstrate the limit of her mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier on, she was seen creating the folding road, something that her mind was able to rationalize based on the creativity that is allowed within her sub-conscious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within Inception, a lot of activity within dreams is based on seeing things. Notice the feel and weight of a totem actually tells someone whether they are dreaming on or not. It would seem that this (weight, touch) is not quantifiable when dreaming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to test the limit, of an infinite loop of reflections, seeing that light can only travel so far, what is actually going on beyond the mirror? Is it an actual reflection or are they looking at something parallel with the current projections within the dreams thereby recursing the hallways out of existing material (notice one end of the walkway ends before placing the mirror and now it follows with a new continuous bikepath and you cannot actually see the end of it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So two ways it could be interpreted (in my opinion), either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;she broke the mirror herself to project the infinite walkway or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the mirror broke due to the limit of the creativity of her conscious not knowing what exactly is behind the mirror (playing with the concept of a world behind a mirror)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second seems less likely as it would end up in a discontinuity of the movie environment and Cobb's reaction. My bet is on the first way, she was trying to create an infinite hallway and the break symbolizes either her own actions to break it or the limit of her conscious to what exactly would be an infinite hallway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2012-04-04T00:20:47.777" LastActivityDate="2012-04-04T00:20:47.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1832" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1833" CreationDate="2012-04-04T17:10:23.973" Score="31" ViewCount="124458" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Inception, Cobb was wearing his wedding ring in some scenes and in some scenes he doesn't. After watching the movie so many times, according to me, in &lt;strong&gt;every scene of a dream he was wearing his wedding ring and in every scene of reality he was not wearing his ring&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is true, what was the necessity of the totem? Instead, he can easily use his ring as totem to identify what is a dream and what is reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T18:10:40.760" LastActivityDate="2022-08-04T12:59:00.040" Title="What's the significance of Cobb's ring in Inception?" Tags="|analysis|inception|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2012-04-04T17:34:01.950" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://inception.wikia.com/wiki/Dominick_Cobb&quot;&gt;Inception Wiki&lt;/a&gt;'s article on Cobb suggests:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;His Totem is a spinning top which formerly belonged to his wife, Mallorie Cobb. This is separate from his wedding ring which is a dream based object and thus cannot be a totem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which supports the theory of the ring being a dream-only occurrence and &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; his totem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen a few theories support that his ring was his original totem when Mal first suggested them.  From that, you can conclude that he took Mal's totem because of his guilt over her death, adopting something in the world that was her's to keep her close even outside of his dreams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the overall story, this ring only helps support the purposely cryptic nature of this movie, deceiving and explaining the occurrence of events and objects in more than one way in order to further the ending which is basically to leave the big questions of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is he still dreaming?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was actually real?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-04-04T17:34:01.950" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2012-04-04T20:22:08.373" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is very possible that Cobb used two totems. His wedding ring and his wife's spinning top. It's probable that his wedding ring was his original totem. After she died though he was able to use her totem as he was the only other person to have ever touched it and known it's properties. I found this really great article that wraps up the questions I had about Inception &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/inception-spoilers-discussion-kofi-68330/&quot;&gt;http://screenrant.com/inception-spoilers-discussion-kofi-68330/&lt;/a&gt;  It makes a bunch of great points and is endorsed by Christopher Nolan according to the site and related article. The main thing about Cobb is that he obsessively questioned his reality. So it's very possible that he had a the known totem, a spinning top and another unknown totem his wedding ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2012-04-04T20:22:08.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2012-04-05T01:03:44.283" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ring theory is interesting but I personally find it hard to believe it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My problem is that I also see conflicting issues with the spinning top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all it is my opinion that the top is a poor totem.  If its sign is to spin forever in a dream, or fall over in the real world it seems too obvious and too easy for someone else to dream that behavior if they have seen Cobb use it or describe it.  Arthur will not let someone touch his weighted dice, and Ariadne has a chess piece who's properties only she can tell - so no-one else can dream the behavior correctly.  These seem like good totems.  This makes me think that perhaps the top is not his totem and that as someone who trusts few people, perhaps the top is a decoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrary to this however, when Cobb is distressed by the dream he experiences in Mombasa, he wakes up goes into the washroom and spins the top and is interrupted by Saito.  If the ring (or something else unknown to us) is his only or primary totem then to perform this display of spinning the top seems unnecessary as he thinks he is on his own - particularly as he seems hurried to try to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If forced to choose between the top and the ring, I would reluctantly choose the top as his totem.  Perhaps he knows something more about its physical properties that we have not seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2022-08-04T12:59:00.040" LastActivityDate="2022-08-04T12:59:00.040" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1836" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1837" CreationDate="2012-04-05T01:08:46.937" Score="12" ViewCount="8292" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title says, in the movie it was said by one of the characters that the aliens valued gold as rare as us Humans, but it did not state a reason why they went to so much trouble to get or what they use it for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it was shown that the gold was being funnelled into some core thing, this seemed to be left unanswered of what the purpose was as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:23:46.117" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T18:56:32.353" Title="In the movie Cowboys and Aliens what did the aliens need all the gold for?" Tags="|plot-explanation|cowboys-and-aliens|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1836" CreationDate="2012-04-05T12:15:17.223" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why they needed gold isn't really explicitly explained in the film, but in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Interview-Cowboys-Aliens-Director-Jon-Favreau-25922.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt;, director Jon Favreau said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there a backstory to why they want gold?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for gold; whether that's a simplification or not. If you think of Chariot of the Gods, there's this reoccurring theme of gold. If you also say in addition to no faster-than-light travel, that nobody's created transmutation, gold is created in very trace amounts in supernova, so it would be very rare anywhere and rarity would lead to value. It's also a useful, malleable, ductile material that might be used by higher order of technology and if we ever go anyplace else, it would be like Outland. We'd be belters, we'd be mining for resources from other places. So, they would probably have the same logic. Also, most importantly, if works very well for the metaphor of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and the gold. It's the intersection of where those two things lie and we address it pretty square on. It's either going to be there's here to eat us, which seems silly to me. It's the best choice of all the choices and the one I felt was the most poetic. And then to study us, to get into the whole vivisection mythology of aliens as well, we wanted to encapsulate as many of the images of what people think the aliens do when they're here and then, also, to make it a bit horrific.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="636" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-04-05T12:15:17.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1838" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1840" CreationDate="2012-04-05T15:13:27.140" Score="42" ViewCount="212227" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read the book &lt;em&gt;Forrest Gump&lt;/em&gt; and also watched the &lt;em&gt;Forrest Gump&lt;/em&gt; movie version. In the movie version at the end of movie, Jenny told Forrest that she was suffering from HIV/AIDS virus then she proposes to him and he accepts but &lt;strong&gt;Jenny died at the end of the movie&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the novel, Forrest Gump, Jenny reunited with Gump and with their child and &lt;strong&gt;she didn't die in that novel&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain to me &lt;strong&gt;why does the movie's ending differ from the novel?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T14:48:36.853" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T14:48:36.853" Title="Why is the ending of Forrest Gump different from the novel?" Tags="|analysis|ending|book-adaptation|forrest-gump|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1838" CreationDate="2012-04-05T19:01:49.207" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found a very interesting article based on the differences between movie and the novel. I'll quote some of them, that should answer your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Robert Zemeckis, director of Forrest Gump, chooses not to include several adventures that are present in the book and to change the character’s personality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This significant changes play an important role in the viewer’s perspective of Forrest. Also he is described as a big, tall, and a really strong person while in the movie the viewer would describe him as an average man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jenny, and Forrest’s mother are the only two people that love Forrest the way he is. In the book, however, it seems as if Forrest’s mother doesn’t take him more than just an idiot. “How you gonna have a plan, Forrest?..You is a idiot. How is po idiot gonna have a plan?”(220) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the movie Robert Zemeckis decides to change that and makes her more confident in her son’s mental skills. However, his mental impairment doesn’t seem to bother Jenny, the love of Forrest’s life, who’s feelings toward Forrest evolve differently in the movie compare to the book. &lt;em&gt;The viewer of Forrest Gump doesn’t know her real feelings and might even think that the main character is the person to whom she runs for a comfort and a place to stay until she is strong enough to run away again. This change certainly changes the viewer’s perspective on Jenny’s personality&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically, the director chooses a different ending because he changed the character's personality; and in order to maintain consistency in this, it's not just the ending that has been changed, as you read the book you should know better than me: some scenes were added, some of them were cut off. All these changes have been made to make the movie more touching. So I quote the answer to your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, the adjustments to the main heroes’s characters and the addition of several touching moments change the book into a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;heart breaking movie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read the whole article &lt;a href=&quot;http://hotessays.blogspot.it/2010/10/essay-on-forrest-gump.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastActivityDate="2012-04-05T19:01:49.207" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1841" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-05T19:18:18.213" Score="13" ViewCount="1556" Body="&lt;p&gt;The (excellent) &lt;em&gt;Rango&lt;/em&gt; is filled with references to other movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I found quite a lot of them, I'm stuck on this one.  Which (famous I suppose) western does this scene refer to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PXXZe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1124" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T14:51:06.627" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T14:51:06.627" Title="Rango's Western reference?" Tags="|reference|western|rango|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="363" CreationDate="2012-04-05T20:20:07.277" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am inclined to agree with OP's theory of the present time and 'space bubble' of the future being connected in reality. The position I take is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Izzy writes a novel for which the ending is not written (Tommy awakes from the reading to the blank pages). Despite the ending not being written, she has the idea for the ending planned, as she states 'it starts there....but it [ends up relating to Xibalba]' (paraphrasing, dont know the exact quote).  That is, Izzy feeds Tommy lore about her historically-based novel in which Xibalba was a means for rebirth.  Using this--and by curing death, as he was so adamant to do--he was able to live long enough into a future where he could pilot the bubble into Xibalba.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has the following additional speculations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The seed Tommy put upon Izzys casket at her funeral ended up being the tree that he took with him in the space bubble--a reasonable link between how the tree can be related to Izzy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tommy wrote the ending of her novel during the space travel.  Evidence: If Tommy already continued Izzy's novel with the Conquistador reaching the Tree of Life and subsequently being consumed by it, (for lack of better description) there is no reason the story should then continue to an unrelated, as-of-yet-unmentioned character of the same likeness to go into space with the tree.  Therefore, I propose the theory that Tommy cured death and then took the &amp;quot;tree of Izzy&amp;quot; into space.  Knowing his long journey ahead and his physical looks, he finishes writing the story, interjecting the space traveler version of himself in the Conquistador story, allowing a ultimate parallel theme to the movie: Izzy dies...Tomas dies.  Izzy the tree dies, Tommy the space traveler dies...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, while any version of Tommy can defeat death (immortalization via the tree of life or immortalization by curing death), its the heart--the dedication and passion--and loyalty to her that is paramount.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1125" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-04-05T20:20:07.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1841" CreationDate="2012-04-06T04:34:15.053" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmmm... Seem like you will have to be cautious as this reminds me of Mos Eisley Spaceport where you won't find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cQpfP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case you don't know, this is from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="379" LastActivityDate="2012-04-06T04:34:15.053" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="130" CreationDate="2012-04-06T10:47:24.240" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am from Sri Lanka, and the idea that ghosts are unaware of the fact that they are dead is not totally alien here. I'm pretty sure Shyamalan was aware of these types of myths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1128" LastActivityDate="2012-04-06T10:47:24.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1850" CreationDate="2012-04-06T14:14:23.427" Score="15" ViewCount="1984" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077594/&quot;&gt;The Game of Death(1978)&lt;/a&gt;&quot; the first movie with alternate ending?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Game of Death,&#xA;after Billy was attacking Dr. Land, he falls from the rooftop. The police arrest Billy and the ambulance takes Dr. Land. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other ending, shows that after defeating Dr. Land, Billy is with Ann at a harbour, saying good bye to Jim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this the first movie with alternate ending?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="148" LastEditDate="2012-04-11T07:01:44.577" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T07:01:44.577" Title="Which was the first movie with alternate ending?" Tags="|analysis|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1849" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-06T16:01:23.453" Score="6" ViewCount="1217" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do rainy scenes in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103074/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thelma &amp;amp; Louise&lt;/a&gt; movie happen in sunny weather? I know sometimes when it rains it's possible to see the sun in sky, but this happens in several scenes even in different cities. Is it a gaffe or has it been deliberately made like that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tVzvV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fA5sX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I2OEd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="653" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T14:35:16.930" LastActivityDate="2022-03-10T10:49:30.677" Title="Why are rainy scenes in Thelma &amp; Louise sunny?" Tags="|plot-explanation|thelma-and-louise|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1848" CreationDate="2012-04-06T17:50:31.737" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The wikipedia page regarding &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_ending&quot;&gt;alternate ending&lt;/a&gt; explained that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In movies, alternate endings are often filmed before being scrapped, and may be subsequently included as a special feature in the film's DVD release. These alternate endings are a special type of deleted scene. In other cases, ideas that were presented but discarded early on are alluded to by the production team in commentary or interviews.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, IMO a lot of movies might have alternate ending that maybe you are not aware of because it's not included in the DVD/VHS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me explain better using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088930/&quot;&gt;Clue (1985)&lt;/a&gt; as example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is &lt;em&gt;rare&lt;/em&gt; for a film to have true multiple endings, but one notable example is the movie Clue. &lt;em&gt;Three different endings&lt;/em&gt; were used in the final version of the film &lt;strong&gt;(plus one unreleased fourth ending)&lt;/strong&gt;, with each having a different killer. This is a unique case in that &lt;strong&gt;the theatrical release had only one of the three endings&lt;/strong&gt;, depending on the theater. For the DVD and video releases, all three endings were included, preceded by screen text such as, &quot;That's how it could have happened...&quot; The home viewer can either choose who he or she wants to be guilty, or the viewer can allow the DVD to choose randomly instead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A fourth ending (where the butler did it all) was filmed but scrapped. Clue was orchestrated this way in part because it was based on a board game which offers multiple outcomes. The stage version of Clue also has multiple endings to a certain extent; the killer is randomly selected before the show. However, the true mastermind is always the same at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you can see, that the producer published deliberately all the endings. There could be other movies that have alternate ending, without a release.&#xA;But, searching around, IMDB helped me find a good track (not sure that's the best). There are some movies that are labeled as containing &lt;strong&gt;alternate ending&lt;/strong&gt;, and the first (earliest) one is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023427/&quot;&gt;Scarface(1932)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I quote the wiki part that might interest you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With the disapproval of several censors regarding the film, producer Howard Hughes, being wealthy enough to spend as much money as needed on the picture, willingly brought the film back to production by re-shooting an alternate ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The alternate ending differs from the original ending (version A), in the manner that Tony is caught and in which he dies. Unlike the original ending in which Tony Camonte escapes the police and dies getting shot several times, the alternate ending begins with Tony reluctantly handing himself over to the police. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface_%281932_film%29#Alternate_ending&quot;&gt;wiki page&lt;/a&gt; of the movie. The producer however discarded the second version because the censors rejected it. This should be the first movie with alternate ending which we are aware of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope it's what you were looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastEditorUserId="613" LastEditDate="2012-04-10T08:13:06.550" LastActivityDate="2012-04-10T08:13:06.550" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1841" CreationDate="2012-04-06T19:39:09.913" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I've written before, I don't watch westerns, but I just found a clip of Rango that shows the few minutes up to the above screencap. The surrounding area looks like Monument Valley, which is where John Ford is known to make his westerns. Feeling that Rango was looking to employ the well-known, I was concentrating on the John Ford/Monument Valley combination of films in IMDB. I found: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031971/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stagecoach&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038762/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;My Darling Clementine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Fort Apache&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;She Wore a Yellow Ribbon&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Wagon Master&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Rio Grande&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Searchers&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Sergeant Rutledge&lt;/em&gt; and his last western, &lt;em&gt;Cheyenne Autumn&lt;/em&gt;. Both &lt;em&gt;Stagecoach&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;My Darling Clementine&lt;/em&gt; have IMDB images showing similar geography. the &lt;em&gt;My Darling Clementine&lt;/em&gt; image shows Henry Fonda on a similar overlook. Also, one of many trailers for Rango seemed to concentrate on a shootout; &lt;em&gt;My Darling Clementine&lt;/em&gt; is described as &quot;A Western retelling the tale of the Shoot-out at the OK Corral&quot;. So, that's my new guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2012-04-06T19:39:09.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1853" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-06T21:23:54.440" Score="12" ViewCount="9205" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425210/&quot;&gt;Lucky Number Slevin&lt;/a&gt; is a fantastic genre bending movie with a strange blend of thriller-crime-humour. And it has an excellent twist which I won't reveal for those who have not seen it (but it is the sort of movie that repays multiple viewings even though you know the twist second time around).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One part of the movie requires the protagonist to procure a body for use in a &quot;kansas city shuffle&quot;. The reason for the need for a body is explained but the events that transpire (planned by the protagonist and his associate) render the given explanation somewhat redundant. So for what possible reason did they actually need the body given their actions negate the explanation they gave to the other characters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T15:05:28.213" LastActivityDate="2017-01-24T21:32:55.707" Title="Why was the body needed in Lucky Number Slevin?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lucky-number-slevin|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1853" CreationDate="2012-04-06T21:53:51.770" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The body belongs to the &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; Nick Fisher, who is being killed by Goodcat in the beginning of the movie. He is being chosen because Slevin and Goodcat need someone who has a large monetary debt with both gangster bosses (The Rabbi and The Boss).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way when Slevin takes Nick Fisher's place in his apartment, he will get mistaken for Fisher and be able to get close to the two unsuspecting bosses. This enables him to fulfill his plan to kill those two men who killed his father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The body of Nick Fisher however is needed by Slevin to fake his own death and dissapear after his plan has succeeded. Before they blow up The Fairy's apartment, they put the body there so the police will later find out that Nick Fisher died in the incident and probably will close the file, leaving no questions open and no links to Slevin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2012-04-06T21:53:51.770" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="756" CreationDate="2012-04-07T04:33:13.593" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was gonna have her whacked PERIOD!  As @wbogacz alludes to they knew too much and were a liability to him.  If you listen real closely you can hear the men in the alley way say &quot; Shhh Shhh&quot; when they spot Karen.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jimmy being a true bully didn't have the guts to do it himself, just like with Morrie, so he was gonna get someone else to do it. Henry thought he was safe because he only gave Jimmy the tip about Lufthansa, but Jimmy knew he could rat him out so.....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1131" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-04-16T19:22:37.103" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T19:22:37.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1841" CreationDate="2012-04-07T05:18:11.273" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some reason I keep being drawn to The Magnificent Seven - but I have a feeling it's a John Ford film as mentioned elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a couple of '7' shots anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SaXyz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wQbIa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-04-07T05:18:11.273" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1305" CreationDate="2012-04-07T06:18:14.367" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wasn't Mrs. Littman that Buffalo Bill asks is fat, it was the Bimmel girl.  Also, what led Starling to the house was the fact that it was believed to be owned by Mrs. Littman, who the Bimmel girl had previously worked for. This information was given to Starling by Bimmel's friend.  Upon arriving at the house, Starling encounters Jack Gordon (aka Jame Gumb), who indicates that Mrs. Littman had died and he is the new owner.  This is how Starling finds the residence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is puzzling, however, is that Bimmel's friend did not appear to know that Mrs. Littman was dead.  Considering that Belvediere gives the image of a small town, this would seem to be an oversight.  Not having read the novel and judging from this information, would could infer that Buffalo Bill killed Mrs. Littman and took over her house.  In fact, I believe the body Starling finds in the bathtub is possibly Mrs. Littman.  Therefore, Starling accidentally discovers Buffalo Bill, who may have been assuming Mrs. Littmans bills and other matters surreptitiously. This would also explain why his residence in Calumet City was vacant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the moth (which ultimately seals the killer's fate), Gumb acts very nervous, which raised concerns with Starling.  In addition, there is one shot of the house while Gumb is looking for the phone number for Littman's &quot;son.&quot;  Some of the items (such as the shrink wrap) and the disheveled state of the house would have caused some alarm with Starling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1132" LastEditorUserId="1132" LastEditDate="2012-04-07T06:24:04.843" LastActivityDate="2012-04-07T06:24:04.843" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1611" CreationDate="2012-04-07T18:38:32.377" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there is no VK test to, well test, there can be no definitive disproval, but... The stated purpose of the test is merely an effective ruse. In such a way that is how &quot;lie-detector&quot; tests are employed. The placebo is better than no seemingly objective leverage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously &quot;blade runners&quot; are judge, jury and executioners. So yes! Simply put, all positives depend upon the tester. I'd say the device is more of one to the plot. It is a jumping off point for the scientist in us to speculate what is outside of &quot;reality&quot; and take our understanding of what is &quot;human&quot;, to question in a way that cannot be quantified. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The crux of the story is in our feeling doubt and therefore remorse. Understood artistically, the subject switches places with the object. The test giver has to employ empathy and make determinations about humanity. That neatly explains evasiveness Deckard has about his &quot;retirements.&quot; Also it exposes his doubt as to his own humanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1133" LastActivityDate="2012-04-07T18:38:32.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1861" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17498" CreationDate="2012-04-07T19:14:07.293" Score="8" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;em&gt;Young Adult&lt;/em&gt;, Mavis and Matt discuss her cousin, who is in a wheelchair.  She mentions that the car accident that disabled her cousin happened on the weekend of her sweet 16.  Given her self-centered personality, it seems likely to me that as a fresh driver, she was involved in the accident, but doesn't feel any remorse for her actions.  Is this actually the case, was she involved in the car accident?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-11-21T18:56:41.003" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T00:36:04.320" Title="Did Mavis cause the crash that disabled her cousin?" Tags="|plot-explanation|young-adult|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="871" CreationDate="2012-04-07T19:28:31.940" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The caricature of insurance people is that they are like leeches -- that they make their living off of people's fear. Mortality rates and actuarials are not appealing topics. Their paradox is that without tragedy, insurance wouldn't be a viable business.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This conception has existed for years -- well before the bad behavior and negative publicity insurance companies have earned over the past decade. Denying coverage or revoking claims for profit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Terry Gilliam does what he has always done, and does best! The line &quot;I'm in insurance&quot; is a punchline, absurdism pure and simple. &lt;strong&gt;Maximum irony&lt;/strong&gt;: That insurance woman scores on ultimate tragedy. She is not only immune to the virus, but she prospers in such a way as to become a post-apocalyptic ruler. Ha!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[see &lt;em&gt;Fight Club&lt;/em&gt; for a big send-up of greedy insurers]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1133" LastActivityDate="2012-04-07T19:28:31.940" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1863" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1864" CreationDate="2012-04-07T19:56:57.367" Score="5" ViewCount="23582" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just been to see Wrath of the Titans, Gemma Arterton is credited very highly however I did not see her in a single scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is she in the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so where?  If not why is she credited?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-19T16:17:50.590" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T16:17:50.590" Title="Where is Gemma Arterton in The Wrath of the Titans?" Tags="|casting|wrath-of-the-titans|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1863" CreationDate="2012-04-07T21:21:12.543" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know her character from &lt;em&gt;Clash of the Titans&lt;/em&gt; was replaced by Rosamund Pike in '&lt;em&gt;Wrath&lt;/em&gt;' - are you confusing the two films?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Gemma's &lt;a href=&quot;http://themovieblog.com/2012/review-wrath-of-the-titans/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb page&lt;/a&gt;, she is not in &lt;em&gt;Wrath of the Titans&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the newest film, so I cannot verify this though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE (with SPOILER)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to a review on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://themovieblog.com/2012/review-wrath-of-the-titans/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MovieBlog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gemma Arterton’s character Io, is no longer present as we learn she finally has died, a gift in some ways as Zeus granted her mortality. However her death did not come without a sense of happiness, as she bore Perseus’ son, Helios (John Bell), whom he now raises alone.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every other site I visited claimed she was not in the film - so now I am doubly confused ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2012-04-07T21:59:55.740" LastActivityDate="2012-04-07T21:59:55.740" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1804" CreationDate="2012-04-08T03:34:16.477" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the other answers pointed out, there are a lot of urban legends related to mirrors and reflections. And also, whenever we look in a mirror, we see ourselves, &lt;em&gt;but&lt;/em&gt; everything is inverted (Horizontally). So horror movies &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; employ this observation to show that we (or someone) is seeing a laterally inverted personality or character (for example, it may symbolize the good person looking at the mirror and seeing the &quot;bad&quot; version of himself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I think also that there's a common [superstitious?] saying that many ghosts are seen only through mirrors and camera lenses. That may explain why [in movies], some persons look in the mirror and instead of seeing themselves, they see a ghost of themselves (or a ghost standing besides them)- a previous life of themselves &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; an exactly similar situation that happened before, but which ended in tragic circumstances (the mirrors have &quot;trapped&quot; the situation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also on a more logical note, from ancient times, mirrors have played a popular role of &quot;demon doors&quot;. The reason for that may be that in ancient times, reflections are so supernatural-looking to ancient people and what they may have seen would be an alternate reality. Hence treating mirrors as gateways to demons and gods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, that's what I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastActivityDate="2012-04-08T03:34:16.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1866" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1867" CreationDate="2012-04-08T03:52:34.320" Score="14" ViewCount="1985" Body="&lt;p&gt;The opening scene of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013743/&quot;&gt;Knight and Day&lt;/a&gt; shows the two main characters &quot;accidentally&quot; bumping into each other twice, in the Wichita airport. The city of Wichita, and the state of Kansas, are mentioned many times throughout the film.  Not surprising, considering the movie was previously titled simply &lt;em&gt;Wichita&lt;/em&gt;, during production (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_and_Day&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as a native Wichitan, and someone who has flown into and out of the Wichita airport many times, I can say with absolute certainty that the opening scene of this movie was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; actually filmed in Wichita. The Wichita airport has exactly zero escalators, despite the dozens shown in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where was this scene actually filmed? And why wasn't it filmed in Wichita, Kansas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T15:06:04.533" LastActivityDate="2020-01-05T02:09:52.917" Title="Where was the opening scene of Knight and Day filmed?" Tags="|film-location|knight-and-day|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1866" CreationDate="2012-04-08T11:25:25.497" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_and_Day#Filming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; page for this film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Airport terminal scenes were filmed in Worcester, Massachusetts at Worcester Regional Airport.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As is it extremely common for filmmakers to replace locations with 'better looking' ones (or for tax breaks) — just look at all of the &lt;em&gt;Mission:Impossible 4&lt;/em&gt; scenes set in India (really Canada) — I suspect they shot &lt;em&gt;Knight and Day&lt;/em&gt; at this alternate site to accommodate the script or for a touch more visual oomph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2020-01-05T02:09:52.917" LastActivityDate="2020-01-05T02:09:52.917" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1868" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1876" CreationDate="2012-04-08T20:24:20.103" Score="19" ViewCount="4423" Body="&lt;p&gt;About 13 minutes into &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;I Am Legend&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Robert Neville has a flashback where he starts to rescue his family. While he loads them into the car, the camera cuts to two soldiers and one says to the other &quot;Can't get used to the new rags.&quot; and makes a jerking motion across his face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is he talking about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-09T17:40:56.143" LastActivityDate="2017-04-27T10:15:07.013" Title="Why can't the soldier &quot;get used to the new rags&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|i-am-legend|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1611" CreationDate="2012-04-08T20:39:07.783" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is unfortunately a very difficult question to answer from the movie alone.  Yes, the VK test is challenged in the movie by Rachel - and that it takes very many more questions for Deckard to conclude that she is a Replicant - but that is about the extent of the analysis of the test in the movie.  One can imagine from this scenario where a Replicant with artificial human memories almost fools the test, that a human with emotional issues involving empathy may not test as a human.  However that (and the opening scene) is the extent of the use of the test in the movie - to introduce empathy as a key difference between humans and replicants, but also to blur the boundary between the two. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The novel from which the movie is loosely adapted (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep?&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep&lt;/a&gt;) the test is discussed in more detail.  In the society of the novel most animals in the world have been wiped out, and most if not all humans keep one or more animals as pets.  To not care for one or more animals would be unusual.  Deckard owns an 'electric sheep' a replica animal, but wishes he could afford a more expensive real pet and is planning to spend his bounty money on one. The fact that he has not to date put enough of a priority on owning a real animal despite his good job is a suggestion in the movie that perhaps Decard's humanity is questioned. As a result the VK test in the novel seems particularly geared towards questions about empathy towards animals, or even insects - as abusing or killing even an insect would be taboo in this society.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the novel, the issue surrounding the validity of the test, and indeed the validity of Deckard's claim to being human at all - is challenged by his discovery of an entire shadow police department, staffed by what he believes are androids.  The blade-runner from this alternative police department uses an entirely different test to distinguish android from human - one that relies on the speed of reflex actions.  The two blade runners distrust each other and debate whether one or the other is an android and whether they should take one or other of the tests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key thing from both the movie and the novel is the question .. what is human?  The validity of the test ceases to be important in both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-04-09T00:41:27.777" LastActivityDate="2012-04-09T00:41:27.777" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1042" CreationDate="2012-04-09T00:56:46.403" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the possibility of a mere oversight on the filmmakers' side, it could also be intentionally. This way it emphasizes the sterile and unrealistic feeling Neo has about the world around him, which plays well with him wearing this average joe suit and the very contrast-less visual style of this scene (or many of the in-matrix-scenes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neo is a standard cubicle-drone walking through his 9-to-5-daylife without paying any attention or doing any (considerable) work. Something along those lines maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2012-04-09T00:56:46.403" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1874" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1875" CreationDate="2012-04-09T01:45:57.603" Score="6" ViewCount="4287" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recall very rough memories about a TV show where a man could transform into animals, which you might help me identify. I watched it a long time ago and it should be a US-show from the 80s or very early 90s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember why he did that or why he could do it, I only remember him being able to morph into certain animals, a puma and a hawk, I think. I have a feeling he was some kind of doctor, maybe a psychiatrist. And regarding his looks I remember him looking similar to the faceman from the A-team, at least his haircut (well, who didn't have such a haircut at that time?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-01-29T18:26:04.563" LastActivityDate="2017-11-23T11:11:58.383" Title="TV show about man transforming into animals" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:51:49.700" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1874" CreationDate="2012-04-09T01:52:15.410" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manimal&quot;&gt;Manimal&lt;/a&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Wiki page says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While Jonathan had the ability to change himself into any animal, he&#xA;  would transform into a hawk and a black panther in nearly every&#xA;  episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="783" LastActivityDate="2012-04-09T01:52:15.410" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1868" CreationDate="2012-04-09T02:04:10.077" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the soldier says, &quot;I can't get used to the new &lt;em&gt;regs&lt;/em&gt;&quot; as in &lt;em&gt;regulations&lt;/em&gt;. It's referring to Neville's (Will Smith's) beard that he has in the flashback. The &quot;new regs&quot; are likely to prohibit shaving with a razor in order to prevent open sores that could lead to infection by the virus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="744" LastActivityDate="2012-04-09T02:04:10.077" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="78" CreationDate="2012-04-09T08:14:32.753" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think Manichithrathazhu shares any similarities with Vertigo. To me, remakes often felt like the inaccurate description of Ganga's medical condition. Her anger often directed at the man who plays the lead character. Which I feel is a deliberate nonsensical approach to give more screen time to Hero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Manichithrathazhu script is inspired by the case diaries of a Psychiatrist. The original portrays Ganga as a patient suffering from Dissociative identity disorder. Split personality / multiple personalities have its roots in childhood trauma. Sexual abuse and other trauma, including dejection to name few causes. Lonely childhood of Ganga has enough clues to establish roots of the disease. More importantly, Manichithrathazhu has filmed strong themes around the dejection from Nakulan. Which could have triggered Split personality in Ganga's adulthood?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch these two scenes again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ganga is in bed almost dozing off. She asks Nakulan to wake her up when he is ready to sleep. Nakulan without looking at her says yes and goes on to his work. Remember,  Ganga and Nakulan are newlyweds. Her desire to spending the night with him goes unanswered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a different scene, Ganga passionately talks about opening Manichithrathazhu. Nakulan yet again at work desk. Nakulan nods his approval, without looking away from his computer screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Manichithrathazhu looks like a serious attempt to portray Dissociative identity disorder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1136" LastEditorUserId="1136" LastEditDate="2016-10-11T16:09:18.803" LastActivityDate="2016-10-11T16:09:18.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1879" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-09T08:38:22.803" Score="12" ViewCount="26770" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missing_(2003_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Missing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2003), Brake Baldwin (played by Aaron Eckhart) is found stuffed in something on top of what appears to be a camp fire. Wikipedia makes a reference to a ritualistic killing, but does anyone know exactly what happened to him? Was he killed and stuffed in a bag? Was he burned alive in a pouch? Did they hack him up and stuff him in there, or did they fold him in half and slide him in there? I'm guessing since there was a skinned cow in the vicinity, the pouch was made of cow hide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="376" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-01-23T18:31:04.857" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T18:31:04.857" Title="What exactly happened to Aaron Eckhart's character?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-missing-2003|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1880" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1883" CreationDate="2012-04-09T15:58:55.270" Score="11" ViewCount="4996" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the train scene, when Saito was having information extracted by Cobb, the extraction team were using a two-layer dream. In the lower layer of the dream Saito knew that he was in a dream because the &lt;strong&gt;carpet&lt;/strong&gt; was the wrong material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've always hated this carpet. Stained and frayed in such distinctive&#xA;ways. But very definitely made of wool. Right now... I'm lying on&#xA;polyester. Which means, I'm not lying on my carpet in my apartment.&#xA;You have lived up to your reputation, Mr. Cobb. I'm still dreaming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't understand how Saito worked out that he was in a dream in the upper layer, where Cobb and Arthur were explaining about how they could defend against extraction to Saito? What tipped him off?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="100979" LastEditDate="2024-01-19T23:37:54.383" LastActivityDate="2024-01-19T23:49:39.947" Title="How did Saito know he was under attack by extractors Cobb and Arthur in Inception?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|inception|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1881" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1882" CreationDate="2012-04-09T16:03:43.750" Score="24" ViewCount="77181" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You're waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You&#xA;  know where you hope this train will take you, but you don't know for&#xA;  sure. But it doesn't matter, because we'll be together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What's the implicit meaning of this &lt;strong&gt;riddle&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T17:35:24.103" LastActivityDate="2020-10-09T07:03:19.353" Title="What is the implicit meaning of Mal's riddle in Inception?" Tags="|analysis|inception|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1881" CreationDate="2012-04-09T16:29:34.100" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see this explicitly as a riddle per se, but as a saying they came up with when Mal &amp;amp; Cobb knew they had to get out of their 50yr long dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I say this is because they say it to each other to reassure themselves that by killing themselves in the dream, they'll wake up in the real world; portrayed as they say it while putting their heads on the tracks.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a sad way that they profess their love for each other because, while being &lt;em&gt;stuck&lt;/em&gt; in the dream world for 50 years, you lose a sense for what is actually real (hence the totems) and obviously death is a scary thing for anyone to face, even if you're somewhat sure the outcome is to just wake up from a dream.  They say this to each other to reassure that even if they're wrong and not actually dreaming, they'll be together in the afterlife, if not the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-04-09T16:29:34.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1880" CreationDate="2012-04-09T17:41:25.080" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is stated in scene in the apartment and reinforced in the helicopter scene following the failed attempt at Extraction that Saito was in-effect interviewing Cobb for the attempt at Inception, and that initially Saito thought that Cobb had failed the interview until he realized that they had put him in a two layer dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is implied that he had therefore deliberately allowed himself to have the attempt at Extraction made on him and that he was prepared - by being mentally prepared he did not seem to store too many important secrets in the safe, and that he was suspicious of their approach to sell themselves as anti-extractors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the movie, they use the 'Mr Charles' gambit and deliberately make Fischer aware that he is in a dream.  Perhaps the gambit they use against Saito where they pretend to be friendly Extractors pitching to train a wealthy individual to defend against extraction work well against a mark who is not expecting it. Against Saito, who is prepared and has allowed himself to be introduced into a shared dream, maybe it is an approach that makes him become aware that he might be dreaming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also the scene where we are introduced to Mal, she speaks to Cobb as he begins his attempt to break into the safe, and then enters the room with Saito and Arthur at gunpoint.  Together with her subsequent appearance in shared dreams with Ariadne, this begins to suggest that Cobb's subconscious projection of Mal is directly working against him - perhaps that she directly warned Saito.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-04-09T18:08:01.613" LastActivityDate="2012-04-09T18:08:01.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1881" CreationDate="2012-04-09T19:41:36.620" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a riddle at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cobb starts saying those things to suggest the trains exists to Mal. Notice that only when he starts talking to her about it, the tracks being to tremble and shake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is essentially causing the train to exist and Mal is conjuring it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1218" LastActivityDate="2012-04-09T19:41:36.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1885" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3743" CreationDate="2012-04-09T21:32:22.150" Score="8" ViewCount="1860" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371257/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stay&lt;/a&gt;, you witness the story of Henry Letham as he deals with his survivor guilt in his mind.  One representation of this world, however,  has baffled me recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his dream-like world, it is populated with a bunch of characters from around the accident site and his past, including his parents and fiance'.  However, his father is portrayed in this world as a friend of Dr. Foster, who is &lt;em&gt;blind&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BpQSt.gif&quot; alt=&quot;http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsH/8229-27051.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In real life however, it is heavily implied that his father can see perfectly fine throughout all his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is this piece of symbolism trying to portray within this movie?  Is there some metaphor of a &lt;em&gt;blind father&lt;/em&gt; that I'm missing or does it somehow tie back into some of the &lt;em&gt;Hamlet&lt;/em&gt; references that are strewn throughout the movie that I overlooked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, what is this symbolic meaning of when Henry was able to 'cure' his &quot;father's&quot; blindness towards the end of the movie (assuming there is one as well)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-12-15T13:57:45.640" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T21:16:39.013" Title="Why is the father blind in the dream world?" Tags="|analysis|stay|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1886" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-09T23:09:29.027" Score="5" ViewCount="24592" Body="&lt;p&gt;What exactly happens at the laboratory in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535616/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Divide (2011)&lt;/a&gt;? Who are the guys at the laboratory and what do they try to achieve?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastActivityDate="2014-08-15T01:34:23.090" Title="What is the purpose of the lab in The Divide?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-divide|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1887" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1908" CreationDate="2012-04-09T23:11:31.240" Score="9" ViewCount="10119" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535616/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Divide (2011)&lt;/a&gt;, I am confused as to who nukes the USA? Was it the Arabs? Maybe the Koreans?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-04-16T19:27:01.713" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T17:40:26.063" Title="Who nukes the USA in The Divide?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-divide|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1888" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1892" CreationDate="2012-04-10T02:15:24.177" Score="12" ViewCount="984" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of Trading Places, Winthorpe and Valentine concoct a plan to get back at the Dukes while making themselves rich.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand they used insider trading; but what exactly is Billy Ray doing when he's smiling and checking off that booklet in his hand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He seems to be taking his time while everyone else is in a bit of a hurry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-11-18T20:11:05.277" LastActivityDate="2013-07-10T14:48:43.990" Title="What is Billy Ray Valentine doing on the trading room floor?" Tags="|plot-explanation|trading-places|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1888" CreationDate="2012-04-10T04:00:58.513" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wisebread.com/explaining-the-climax-scene-of-trading-places&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; article does a good job of explaining what's going on during this scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In essence, Valentine (Eddie Murphy) is writing down futures buys for frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ) and is likely smiling because he is making a huge profit, having sold FCOJ futures (just before the crop report was publicly announced) at a higher price.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="744" LastActivityDate="2012-04-10T04:00:58.513" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1888" CreationDate="2012-04-10T13:07:58.747" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the commodities market you can sell what you do not have, as long as you have it to satisfy the deal by the end of the market day. And remember, NOBODY in this room wanted Orange Juice at the end of the day, merely the MONEY that changes hands.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Billy Ray is delaying the purchase of the Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice because they are in a market of rapidly declining prices. This is because the crop report noted that there would be no shortage, and no shortage means that everyone's need for orange juice will be satisfied. In a capital market, satisfaction all around means prices stabilize or decline. A true shortage would have caused demand and prices to go up.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy gave the impression that the market would be constricted (without saying so, I believe, just hinting). This caused the Duke Brothers to really cause the frenzy (because of course, they always made money with Winthorpe, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; they had an insider report that said there would be a shortage - a clear impetus to try to corner the market). They caused a false demand to force the price higher in the breaking hour of the market. Winthorpe and Valentine sold what they did not have, merely a promise to satisfy the deal for Frozen Concentrate by the end of the day for a high price (because they had falsified the insider report - thus knowing the prices would be low). They sold high &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; they bought low. Every chit in Eddie's hand was for a commitment to sell a certain amount of FCOJ for the high price by the end of the market day, and as they slowed the buying, the price dropped. They merely had to keep up with the desperation of the losers (those that bought high earlier and would be stuck with the ORANGE JUICE they paid too much for) while the price continued to decline.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Number of Units Sold early has to equal Number of Units Bought now. Each difference in Sold High minus Bought Low was pure Profit.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Commodities Market is not for the faint of heart; sometimes the spread per commodity unit is in mere cents, with a fortune won or lost pennies by per deal made hundreds of times a day.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;UPDATE: For a step-by-step explanation by a commodities expert, see and/or listen to this week's (July 9, 2013) NPR: Planet Money Podcast. For those arriving late, you'll find it in the archives &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/07/09/200401407/episode-471-the-eddie-murphy-rule&quot;&gt;here:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2013-07-10T14:48:43.990" LastActivityDate="2013-07-10T14:48:43.990" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1893" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2188" CreationDate="2012-04-10T13:24:12.733" Score="49" ViewCount="6205" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Avengers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is taking 4 separate movie franchises (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371746/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Iron Man&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800080/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hulk&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800369/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458339/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Captain America&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) and combining them all into one huge movie with all the main characters from each movie.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing some preliminary research, I have not found anything in cinema history that has been attempted like this before (however &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_crossover&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;in other media&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; like comics, TV, literature, it seems it has).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is simply, is this the first movie to attempt a major crossover of cinema franchises? If not, what was the first movie to accomplish this?  What was the success of this movie (sales, overall critic/public opinion)?  And what were the franchises that it combined?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T09:05:25.200" LastActivityDate="2019-06-20T23:26:07.397" Title="What was the first crossover movie like The Avengers, using only movie franchises?" Tags="|first-appearance|cinema-history|crossovers|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1893" CreationDate="2012-04-10T13:55:39.727" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_vs._Predator&quot;&gt;Alien vs. Predator&lt;/a&gt; would be an example of combining franchises, which was released in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0370263/&quot;&gt;2004&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While not a critical success (garnered only &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alien_vs_predator/&quot;&gt;22% Tomatometer&lt;/a&gt;), it did gross $80.2 million.  It even spawned a sequel, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/avp2/&quot;&gt;Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem&lt;/a&gt; in 2007.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="228" LastActivityDate="2012-04-10T13:55:39.727" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1893" CreationDate="2012-04-10T13:57:19.043" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you asking specifically about comic book franchises? There have been no shortage of public domain crossovers, or crossovers between a branded character set and public domain characters. (For example, &lt;em&gt;The Three Stooges Meet Frankenstein&lt;/em&gt; (1948), &lt;em&gt;The Three Stooges Meet Hercules&lt;/em&gt; (1962), &lt;em&gt;The Seven-Per-Cent Solution&lt;/em&gt; (1976, and has Sherlock Holmes meet Sigmund Freud). &lt;em&gt;King Kong vs. Godzilla&lt;/em&gt; (1962) is another example. There's really no shortage of this sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="940" LastEditDate="2018-08-06T09:52:41.680" LastActivityDate="2018-08-06T09:52:41.680" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1893" CreationDate="2012-04-10T15:19:44.727" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we're not talking public domain characters, then my mind immediately turns to Japanese monster movies. There are several monsters with their own movies, but on occasion they would appear together in a &quot;Vs.&quot; movie. Earliest one I could find is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_vs._Godzilla&quot;&gt;King Kong vs. Godzilla&lt;/a&gt;, which was release in 1962.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-04-10T15:19:44.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1893" CreationDate="2012-04-10T16:55:37.313" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since your question asks &lt;strong&gt;What is the first crossover movie?&lt;/strong&gt; I'll submit two of the earliest I have found, depending on your definition of &quot;crossover&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For movie horror/sci-fi franchises, there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035899/&quot;&gt;Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man&lt;/a&gt; (1943).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think the earliest could be Laurel and Hardy's appearance in the Our Gang comedy short &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024775/&quot;&gt;Wild Poses&lt;/a&gt; (1933). Both &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Gang&quot;&gt;Our Gang&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_and_Hardy&quot;&gt;Laurel and Hardy&lt;/a&gt; are separate movie franchises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastActivityDate="2012-04-10T16:55:37.313" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1899" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-10T17:42:27.360" Score="14" ViewCount="20471" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Goonies, Sloth was the unwanted son of Mama Fratelli and the hero at the end of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had an obvious facial deformity, but he was also really strong, could speak and capable of love.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He seemed to lack some intelligence; but that could have been from the way he was raised (secluded), or dropped as a child (Mama admits to doing this at least twice; but we get the impression it was more) or maybe both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Chunk and Chunk's mom took Sloth to the doctor the day after they were rescued, what diagnose would he receive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, was he mentally handicapped or just deformed?  And what could cause that kind of deformation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-04-10T17:48:09.143" LastActivityDate="2021-04-16T15:45:52.377" Title="What was Sloth's handicap?" Tags="|character|the-goonies|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1635" CreationDate="2012-04-10T21:03:24.057" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988045/&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes (2009)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sherlock Holmes:&lt;/strong&gt; [to Watson] Never theorize before you have data. Invariably, you end up twisting facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastActivityDate="2012-04-10T21:03:24.057" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1470" CreationDate="2012-04-10T21:13:27.800" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently, Angela is the boss. This video sums it up perfectly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/DYhaTPg8lOE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1143" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-28T08:26:55.570" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T08:26:55.570" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1899" CreationDate="2012-04-11T02:17:16.107" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is the direct result of him being dropped by Ma Fratelli when he was an infant. I believe it's alluded to in the movie itself, and by alluded to, I mean &lt;em&gt;explicitly stated&lt;/em&gt; in one scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want a diagnosis, it's usually referred to as infant brain injury. It includes dropping, shaken baby syndrome, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie it is the cause of both his physical deformity as well as his mental handicap, his later treatment by the Fratellis most likely caused the emotional trauma he exhibits later in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user977" LastEditorDisplayName="user977" LastEditDate="2012-04-12T12:55:18.463" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T12:55:18.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1849" CreationDate="2012-04-11T02:29:33.310" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wasn't able to find much, but what I could find leads me to believe that it was just Mother Nature's unwillingness to cooperate. It happens sometimes, as I'm sure you've seen in other films. It's possible it could have some deeper meaning, but I didn't see any production notes anywhere alluding to it. The two primary shooting locations are listed as Bakersfield, CA and Moab, UT, so it's likely it was just unlucky weather.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user977" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T02:29:33.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1905" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1939" CreationDate="2012-04-11T03:07:02.623" Score="7" ViewCount="3833" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was re-watching &quot;Curb your enthusiasm&quot;  6 (end) &amp;amp; 7(beginning). In end of season 6, Loretta and Larry David are dating (the precise exact season isn't the issue; apologize if i have this incorrect)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the middle of the season, Larry tries to break up with her because she may have cancer. He tries to rush in to beat the Doctor  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a gap in the story or i may have missed an episode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the breakup between Loretta and Larry David ever in a particular episode?  Also, are the viewers given the privilege or reason why Leon remains? It makes no sense why leon still lives with Larry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="918" LastEditorUserId="5318" LastEditDate="2013-07-02T20:35:03.793" LastActivityDate="2013-07-05T04:14:15.420" Title="Why does Leon remain in &quot;Curb Your Enthusiasm&quot;?" Tags="|character|curb-your-enthusiasm|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1887" CreationDate="2012-04-11T06:14:10.960" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;That question is never answered in the film, and I believe it is a deliberate strategy by the filmmakers so that the focus is on the group dynamics that ensue, and not all about pointing blame at any one country or faction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the American 'men in white' seemed to be extremely well prepared for this event does seem to imply that it was a homegrown act - but this is purely speculative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T06:14:10.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1909" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1910" CreationDate="2012-04-11T09:46:12.550" Score="29" ViewCount="1790" Body="&lt;p&gt;By the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/&quot;&gt;Source Code (2011)&lt;/a&gt;, we learn that the &lt;em&gt;flashbacks&lt;/em&gt; were reality in an alternate timeline/universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, Captain Stevens manages to save the train in both alternate timeline/universe and realtime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How could this be possible? Is it logically valid in the movie's plot? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds like going back in time and changing things, but time travel is not possible with &lt;em&gt;the source code&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-04-11T12:17:49.807" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T19:26:18.173" Title="Ending of Source Code" Tags="|ending|source-code|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1909" CreationDate="2012-04-11T11:23:50.203" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;What makes you think he saved the train in the original universe/timeline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my understanding the source code program works a lot like time lines in &quot;Back to the Future&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Colter Stevens' consciousness is being projected through a black hole into a parallel universe, where everything is the same except that he is in the body of Sean Fentress now. By that projection (into an earlier moment) the timeline in the alternate universe starts to differ from the &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt; one with everything he does. The original universe is unaffected by anything he does back there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he dies (and he dies every time if you watch closely), his mind is transferred back to the original universe. So when he does not die in the ending, he remains in this alternate universe and in the body of Sean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that he actually stopped the train does in no way carry over to his original universe where the explosion already happened. What we see in the ending, the pizza delivery and the email being received by Goodwin, happens in the alternate universe, where he actually started those events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in conclusion: Stevens does not actually time travel (within the timeline), they just create a parallel universe of an earlier time when the train still existed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="148" LastEditDate="2013-02-13T19:26:18.173" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T19:26:18.173" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1911" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1918" CreationDate="2012-04-11T11:56:46.713" Score="7" ViewCount="958" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a movie (Circa early 80s, maybe late 70s) about a teenager who finds a laser pistol and succumbs to &quot;Power corrupts&quot; eventually going on a killing spree. I remember that the gun required an amulet than eventually began to change the teen. I think the teen was one of those kids that was made fun of and thus used the gun for retribution. I also remember the film not being very good so I've not had a lot of luck with Google on this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T08:27:03.247" Title="Seeking a sci-fi movie with a laser pistol and an amulet" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:36:14.523" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1912" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-04-11T12:44:13.393" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;300 tells the tale of King Leonidas of the Spartans in Greece, rebelling against the advancing Persian Empire looking to take over their lands, in a defiant act against the supposed God-King Xerxes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leonidas leads 300 of his best men into battle against an army rumored to be in the millions, in order to prove to the Persians sheer numbers mean nothing if the soldiers do not know how to fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This movie is based off of the popular Graphic Novel &lt;em&gt;300&lt;/em&gt; by Frank Miller.  Miller based his work off of the Battle of Thermopylae; where a small band of Greek Soldiers lead by the real Leonidas (numbering more in the 7000 range) held off the army of Xerxes I which numbered in the 100k-300k range.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-04-11T12:44:13.393" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T12:44:13.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1913" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-04-11T12:44:13.393" Score="0" Body="A movie about 300 Spartans taking on the Persian empire to keep their land free.  Based on the Graphic Novel of the same name by Frank Miller." OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-04-11T12:44:13.393" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T12:44:13.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1914" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-04-11T12:46:26.043" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Referring to Japanese style of animation and English term for animated series originating in Japan. To be used only on questions specifically about the intricies of anime, not on general questions about specific animes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-22T22:16:16.517" LastActivityDate="2018-01-22T22:16:16.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1915" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-04-11T12:46:26.043" Score="0" Body="Referring to Japanese style of animation and English term for animated series originating in Japan. To be used only on questions specifically about the intricies of anime, not on general questions about specific animes." OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-22T22:16:16.517" LastActivityDate="2018-01-22T22:16:16.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1916" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-04-11T12:49:56.600" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is Christopher Nolan's reboot of the Batman franchise with Christian Bale starring as a young Bruce Wayne, learning the skills he needs and building up his persona of Batman while facing off against Psychologist Johnathan Crane (Scarecrow) and the mysterious Ra's Al Ghul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the first in Nolan's Batman Trilogy and is the origin story of Nolan's version of Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Begins&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T11:50:34.053" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T11:50:34.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1917" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-04-11T12:49:56.600" Score="0" Body="A 2005 British-American superhero film based on DC Comics character Batman, co-written/directed by Christopher Nolan." OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T11:50:34.053" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T11:50:34.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1911" CreationDate="2012-04-11T14:11:44.510" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserblast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Laserblast&lt;/em&gt; (1978)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;... Billy wanders into the desert and discovers the laser cannon and pendant. He starts playing with the cannon, pretending to shoot things, then realizes he can fire the weapon while wearing the pendant...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An edited version was shown on MST3K.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-30T08:27:03.247" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T08:27:03.247" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1919" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1921" CreationDate="2012-04-11T14:55:34.207" Score="9" ViewCount="7450" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274558/&quot;&gt;The Hours&lt;/a&gt; is a very good cross-cutting film because throughout the film it jumps back and forth between three different stories in three different time periods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_cutting&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cross-cutting is an editing technique most often used in films to&#xA;  establish action occurring at the &lt;strong&gt;same time in two different&#xA;  locations&lt;/strong&gt;. In a cross-cut, the camera will cut away from one action to&#xA;  another action, which can suggest the simultaneity of these two&#xA;  actions but this is not always the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, wikipedia doesn't give any details about the first usage of the cross-cutting technique in films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder, &lt;em&gt;What was the first movie with a cross-cutting technique like The Hours?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-04-11T18:30:58.660" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T18:30:58.660" Title="What was the first movie to use a cross-cutting technique like The Hours?" Tags="|film-techniques|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1919" CreationDate="2012-04-11T17:33:00.507" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is generally considered that D.W. Griffith (&lt;em&gt;Birth of a Nation&lt;/em&gt;, et al) was the inventor of cross-cutting, as he tended to pioneer virtually every other editing technique in the early 20th Century - it is evident in his film &lt;em&gt;A Corner of Wheat&lt;/em&gt; from 1909.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I have found an earlier example, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000439/&quot;&gt;The Great Train Robbery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (1903).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is what &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.elementsofcinema.com/editing/parallel_editing.html&quot;&gt;elements of cinema&lt;/a&gt; has to say on the subject:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Also known as cross cutting, parallel editing gained prominence with Edwin S. Porter in his acclaimed movie The Great Train Robbery (1903). In this early picture, cross cutting is used to show what occurs in two different places but not much else. Though Porter didn't use the technique to its full potential, he was responsible for introducing the concept to the American film industry, allowing others to build upon it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-cutting&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; to the wiki page on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-04-11T17:33:00.507" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1923" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-12T00:06:16.230" Score="13" ViewCount="31350" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Battleship, the aliens wear helmets that enhance their vision by highlighting things in either green or red. It is quite clear that green things are deemed harmless while red things are threats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not unlike the predators, it looks like the aliens are very careful not to harm harmless things and refrain from attacking anything which is not a threat. However, this rule does not always apply. Among others:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cannons on the destroyers become red as soon as they are aimed toward the aliens, but the machine gun on the small boat only becomes red when it is fired at them, not sooner.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Several people become green as soon as it is clear they are not armed or don't attack the aliens (e.g. the kid in the stadium), but Hopper stays red even after he is disarmed and is trying to escape.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some objects immediately become red (e.g. the pillars of the bridge) even though they are harmless.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fail to see the logic in that. If the aliens wanted to conquer earth, they would use their powerful firepower to destroy everything, regardless of their nature. If on the other hand they were mere scouts whose mission was to send a message home, they would not initiate conflict and use their formidable shield as a shelter while they wait for reinforcements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T13:48:01.810" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T13:48:01.810" Title="Why do the aliens see things as green or red?" Tags="|plot-explanation|battleship|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="387" CreationDate="2012-04-12T06:20:03.167" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is implied that &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; happens in the future. We are left to assume it has something to do with Rachel dying or being injured some time in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if we followed the events that are implied to have happened, we would have watched Abe and Aaron grieve over her death, remember that the boxes have been running since before her death and then they tell Thomas about them. Thomas would go back before the accident and change the timeline into the one which is covered in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So really Abe and Aaron (the copies we follow around) find that &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; timeline has been messed with without their input.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1140" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T06:20:03.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1925" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1936" CreationDate="2012-04-12T08:05:12.473" Score="23" ViewCount="128047" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm confused by the final scene in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_(2001_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Planet of the Apes&lt;/a&gt; film (2001, not the recent Rise film).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leo lands on Earth in his own time to find it run by the Apes. How does this happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm assuming that the Ape planet they're on for the majority of the film is not Earth, as we're certainly not given any reason to believe it is Earth that I can tell. The ship makes a point of telling him he's landing on Earth which it hasn't elsewhere. If it is however we're led to believe it's many years in the future.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leo travels back in time from the future alien world to Earth (you can see the clock counting down when he's flying)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's a statue to Thade instead of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lincoln&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This implies either that the clock is wrong and this was Earth all along, his navigation is broken, he's going forward in time at the end, not back, and Ape society has mirrored human history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a parallel Earth of some kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or that somehow Thade managed to escape from a locked room on a crashed ship with no fuel (or use Leo's originally crashed pod?). Take off, fly through the storm and arrive on Earth at some time in Earth's history then take over the entire planet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the logic behind this scene? There must be a reason for it being in the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="8496" LastEditDate="2019-11-02T03:10:35.350" LastActivityDate="2019-11-02T06:09:20.413" Title="Final scene in Planet of the Apes (2001)" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|planet-of-the-apes-2001|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1926" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1927" CreationDate="2012-04-12T10:49:51.270" Score="24" ViewCount="12263" Body="&lt;p&gt;The newest Hollywood trend seems to be taking old movies like Star Wars and Lion King and rerelease them with an additional third dimension to squeeze the last bit of money out of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it hit Titanic, which is currently running in the movies in a 3D version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering: Are there any changes apart from the 3D effect that have been made to the theatrical version of Titanic, for example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cuts,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;additional scenes,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cgi postproduction,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;anything else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2019-08-12T09:55:59.813" Title="Are there any differences between the new and old Titanic version besides 3D?" Tags="|3d|alternate-version|titanic|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1926" CreationDate="2012-04-12T11:01:00.023" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;James Cameron has been asked this a few times in the past weeks to the release of the movie, and he has said he did not want to change anything about the movie past adding 3D. However, it seems he admits to making a change while interviewing with a British magazine &lt;em&gt;Culture&lt;/em&gt;. James Cameron resisted temptation to cut scenes he was no longer happy with when preparing to re-release his blockbuster film Titanic in 3D, [however...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Neil deGrasse Tyson, who is one of the U.S.' leading astronomers, sent me quite a snarky email saying that, at that time of year, in that position in the Atlantic in 1912, when Rose is lying on the piece of driftwood and staring up at the stars, that is not the star field she would have seen, and with my reputation as a perfectionist, I should have known that and I should have put the right star field in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So I said, &lt;em&gt;&quot;All right, you son of a bitch, send me the right stars for the exact time, 4:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, and I'll put it in the movie,&quot;&lt;/em&gt; Cameron said. &lt;em&gt;&quot;So that's the one shot that has been changed.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="4174" LastEditDate="2014-06-10T06:17:34.683" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T06:17:34.683" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1926" CreationDate="2012-04-12T12:31:29.597" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;He re-rendered the stars in the sky over the sinking ship to make them accurate, as explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20120413035825/http://news.discovery.com/space/neil-degrasse-tyson-tightens-titanic-accuracy-120402.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Discovery News article&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and widely reported elsewhere).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-08-12T09:55:59.813" LastActivityDate="2019-08-12T09:55:59.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1925" CreationDate="2012-04-12T13:58:18.807" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In lieu of finding anything official on the matter, my own interpretation of the film was that it did indeed take place on Earth throughout the story - just a parallel dimension Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you hold to any multiverse theories, and the nature of infinity, then we will be discussing this film an infinite number times in an infinite number of ways - a 'how long would it take a hundred chimps to write a film script?' kind of thing. To that end, there are an infinite number of possible outcomes to the story, and Leo just landed on one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally saw the film as an exploration of 'possible Earths' caused by a wormhole, 'rip in the fabric of space' or some other wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff.  Leo landed on one possible Earth, then another. We might assume there are an infinite number of other versions too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the logic behind the end scene - I think the producers (including Burton) felt like they needed their 'Statue of Liberty' shot - and the Lincoln Memorial seemed to suffice. It's just a throwaway zinger to end the film - whether it works or not is a matter of personal taste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are at all interested in the making of Burton's film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/02/tales-from-development-hell-apes/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here is a terrific excerpt&lt;/a&gt; from the book &lt;em&gt;Tales From Development Hell: The Greatest Movies Never Made?&lt;/em&gt; which was recently highlighted on wired.com - it's fascinating reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2012-04-12T14:21:45.813" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T14:21:45.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1930" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1935" CreationDate="2012-04-12T14:34:38.170" Score="9" ViewCount="377" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking of the ending of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, and was thinking of ways it could be modernized, and suddenly the ending of Brazil popped into my head. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I haven't seen Brazil in a &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt; time, so all the details are very hazy, but it seemed that this could be a definite nod, from what I could remember.  Is there anything in the scene that would specifically indicate that the overall similarity is more than just coincidence? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="270" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T14:47:53.800" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T14:47:53.800" Title="Is the ending of Brazil a nod to An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge?" Tags="|brazil|occurrence-at-owl-creek|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1923" CreationDate="2012-04-12T15:07:11.623" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw the movie last night, despite its poor ratings I liked it a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the Red versus Green isn't specifically to do with dangerous items or harmless items, I think its more related to their current objective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's probably a default mode that highlights serious weapons like a canon. In the case of the highway, its objective was probably to cut off the potential for any backup to arrive for the humans. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1154" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T15:07:11.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1932" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1934" CreationDate="2012-04-12T15:11:21.960" Score="17" ViewCount="2027" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know taglines in movies are used for advertising purpose and to create a memorable phrase to make the audience remember the film for many years. I've seen numerous movies with taglines and some of them are really catchy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;The first casualty of war is innocence&quot;- Platoon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;One ring to rule them all.&quot; – The Lord of the Rings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;To boldly go where no man has gone before.&quot; – Star Trek&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jyzYD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Platoon movie poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain the &lt;strong&gt;history of using taglines&lt;/strong&gt; in movies, and &lt;strong&gt;what movie was the first to be released with a tagline?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-06-05T15:54:29.233" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T08:54:22.197" Title="What was the first movie released with a tagline?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="249" CreationDate="2012-04-12T15:19:52.483" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that they are both broken people.  Though they way they choose to publically act is very different, which makes them seem superficially very different, they both hide their regrets and broken personalities behind false exteriors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="270" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T15:19:52.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1932" CreationDate="2012-04-12T15:29:28.037" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems taglines have been around almost as long as movies. There are a few online references for them. A quick search of an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adglitz.com/2010/11/18/movie-taglinesslogans-database-of-1000-memorable-famous-movie-taglines-slogans-of-all-time/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;online database&lt;/a&gt; gives me one from 1915 for &lt;em&gt;Birth of a Nation&lt;/em&gt; &quot;The Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also taglineguru.com that did a survey of 300 nominated taglines to come up with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.taglineguru.com/moviesurvey.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;top 100&lt;/a&gt; of all time, and it's earliest popular one is 1939's &lt;em&gt;Ninotchka&lt;/em&gt;, &quot;Garbo Laughs&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This followed &quot;Garbo Talks&quot; for 1930's &lt;em&gt;Anna Christie&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://taglineguru.com/nuts_and_bolts.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;taglineguru.com&lt;/a&gt; uses this to explain taglines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Why a Tagline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Taglines are the easiest and most effective way to communicate a new or revised brand message [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;• Express the meaning of your organization’s vision or mission&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;• Convey essential qualities of your brand character&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;• Emphasize a key differentiator or competitive advantage&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;• Align your message to a specific audience or target market&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;• Promise the fulfillment of a deeply-held need or wish&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-30T08:54:22.197" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T08:54:22.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1930" CreationDate="2012-04-12T16:04:01.633" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;For those of you unfamiliar with An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge &lt;strong&gt;(spoiler ahead)&lt;/strong&gt; - this is a terrific story about a Civil War soldier who is sentenced to hang, but escapes his bonds and enjoys a somewhat supernatural escapade, before it is revealed that the whole event was, in fact, all in his head and took place as the noose was tightening. A downbeat and interesting twist ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I agree that &lt;em&gt;Brazil&lt;/em&gt; does seem to be an homage to this form of story ending, and a little further digging turned up &lt;a href=&quot;http://cineleet.com/2008/03/23/when-the-dead-dream-films-inspired-by-an-occurrence-at-owl-creek-bridge/&quot;&gt;this excellent page on cineleet.com&lt;/a&gt;, which delves into the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, the essay cites several other films that utilize the same ending, including: &lt;em&gt;Carnival of Souls&lt;/em&gt;; &lt;em&gt;Jacob's Ladder&lt;/em&gt;; &lt;em&gt;Donnie Darko&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Brazil&lt;/em&gt;. I would also include &lt;em&gt;The Descent&lt;/em&gt; (depending in which continent you saw it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe there is anything specifically in the scene to link &lt;em&gt;Brazil&lt;/em&gt; to the book, other than the plot device itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T16:04:01.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1925" CreationDate="2012-04-12T16:07:27.333" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been a few years since I've seen that movie but the actual DVD cover had an insert that showed a time map to help make sense of the movie. It is two different planets as it was in the original novel Monkey Planet and Mark Walhberg does end up back on Earth (not a duplicate Earth) in the current time. Apparently the time vortex works in reverse so that the first one in is the last one out. The space ship Oberon goes in last but has crashed thousands of years in the past. It was originally planned to have at least a sequel which would have explained the current Earth better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://voices.yahoo.com/the-return-planet-apes-8931359.html&quot;&gt;http://voices.yahoo.com/the-return-planet-apes-8931359.html&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;The ending of Burton's film confused just about everyone, so much so that when the DVD was released it included a chart explaining how the apes on the planet were able to build their own space ship, enter the vortex, end up in Earth's past, and end up dominating that planet as well. The problem here, without the chart the ending makes no sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T16:07:27.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1937" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-04-12T17:35:36.383" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-04-12T17:35:36.383" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T17:35:36.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1938" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-04-12T17:35:36.383" Score="0" Body="Chuck is an action/comedy television program. It is about a man Chuck who has a CIA database flashed into his mind." OwnerUserId="1157" LastEditorUserId="1157" LastEditDate="2012-04-12T17:38:35.527" LastActivityDate="2012-04-12T17:38:35.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1905" CreationDate="2012-04-12T22:00:44.850" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes they do breakup in Season 7 episode 2 in fact and also this episode shows sorta why Leon stays or is difficult to get rid of to be exact. I would hunt down Episode 2 for further information, I don't want to post the details as they would be spoilers. It sounds like you are halfway through season 7, there is also season 8 for you to enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Larry tries to break up because he can't deal with the hassle of having to look after Loretta during her cancer treatment even questioning the severity of her condition especially as it starts to infringe on Larry's appointments such as golf appointments. &#xA;  He is then asked to help Leon's friend Alton who is a little down and whose birthday it is and is a big seinfeld fan, Leon also remarks he 'has a fine ass wife'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Larry gets the idea from a TV talkshow that his personality would not be conducive to Loretta's recovery by essentially being obnoxious and obsessive about small details and suggests to Loretta to meet this doctor. Before the a dinner appointment Larry phones Alton to wish him happy birthday and said that Leon said that he could cheer him up by calling him but then says that he doesn't know why he should be depressed because Leon said he had a beautiful wife. This raises the suspicions of Alton who suspects Leon may be having an affair with his wife. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Larry meets Jeff and Lewis and learns from Jeff that Lewis received a 'blow job' from his new girlfriend. Leon confronts Larry to complain to him that he has been dropped in it by Larry and tells him he has to fix the problem. Then at the meeting with the TV doctor Larry beings deliberately acting up hoping that the doctor will advise Loretta to leave him which she does in private with Loretta. Lorreta then decides she wants to go to a lecture by the Doctor and during the drive to the lecture they recognise the Doctor's husband driving past them and then see the TV doctor appear apparently from the lap of the husband and they deduce that she must have been giving a blowjob to her husband. Loretta is so shocked that she then doesn't want to go to the lecture and now doesn't trust the Doctor's credentials dashing Larry's hopes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Larry returns home and see Leon rush out with Alton's wife, Leon tells him that Alton is at the front door, we then see Leon help Alton out telling him that his wife is not here. Leon returns to Larry and we see Alton's wife hiding in the passenger footwell and now reappears after being given the all clear, at this point Loretta drives up and she sees the woman appear and it looked like she had just given Larry a blowjob and promptly gives him an earful and leaves with the kids and mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leon appears with soda and chinese food, asks what happened and he tells him 'well I guess this means, you'll be....' indicating that perhaps Leon should also leave. Leon responds 'go upstairs, eat this Chinese food, in my %?*%ing room' and then walks inside, Larry resigns himself to the fact that Leon is not going to voluntarily move out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastEditorUserId="962" LastEditDate="2012-04-15T19:20:58.160" LastActivityDate="2012-04-15T19:20:58.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1940" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8260" CreationDate="2012-04-12T22:47:42.410" Score="10" ViewCount="1977" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Mission: Impossible series and movies, Ethan Hunt's mission briefings always end with the sentence &quot;Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to (...)&quot;. Has he ever used that option and refused a mission?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T12:36:27.030" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T12:36:27.030" Title="Has Ethan Hunt ever refused a mission?" Tags="|mission-impossible|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1941" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1942" CreationDate="2012-04-13T02:30:21.983" Score="21" ViewCount="26998" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the Mask finishes kissing a young, gorgeous Cameron Diaz; the jealous Dorian Tyrell, Diaz' boyfriend and film primary antagonist comes downstairs with his cronies to confront him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They pull their guns and--after several failed attempts--finally shoots him.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comically, we hear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You got me, partner....Hold me closer, Ed, it's getting dark&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voice he uses to say these lines sounds very familiar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which actor\character is he impersonating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastEditorUserId="78319" LastEditDate="2020-01-13T04:11:25.623" LastActivityDate="2020-01-13T04:11:25.623" Title="Who is &quot;The Mask&quot; impersonating after he gets &quot;shot&quot;?" Tags="|reference|the-mask|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1941" CreationDate="2012-04-13T03:22:36.863" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mask_%28film%29#Cultural_and_literary_allusions&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mask&lt;/a&gt; Wikipedia article there were several references in that one &amp;quot;dying&amp;quot; scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When &amp;quot;shot&amp;quot; at the first scene inside the Coco Bongo, the Mask's consequent &amp;quot;dying&amp;quot; dialogue references several classic literary moments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;Ya...got me partner!&amp;quot; - A good impression of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Buttram&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pat Buttram&lt;/a&gt;, a voice highly associated with Western films.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;Tell Auntie Em to let Old Yeller Out&amp;quot; - A reference to Aunt Em in The Wizard of Oz and Old Yeller.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;Tell Tiny Tim I won't be coming home this Christmas&amp;quot; - Tiny Tim is a character in Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&amp;quot;Tell Scarlett I do give a damn&amp;quot; - A comedic reply to Rhett Butler's line &amp;quot;Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn&amp;quot; in Gone With the Wind.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At the end of the scene, he is presented with an award for his performance and breaks the fourth wall by thanking the movie audience with Sally Field's acceptance exclamation &amp;quot;You love me! You really love me!&amp;quot;. As this is going on, people-shaped silhouettes appear onscreen and applaud while Dorian combs his hair, adding to the illusion of an appreciative film theatre audience.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-04-13T03:22:36.863" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1943" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4057" CreationDate="2012-04-13T05:10:00.217" Score="25" ViewCount="1375" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Gremlins 2 the Gremlins supposedly get into the projection booth and wreak havoc with the film. It snaps and the Gremlin in the projection booth starts making hand shadows....  Etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the home video release, when the same scene occurs, there is a test pattern, the Gremlin then plays in the TV's &quot;White Noise&quot; (Those of you under 30 will have to look that up)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this the first time that a scene was changed and adapted for a separate release? I'm not looking for Director's Cuts or remasterings. I'm also not looking for 'edited for TV'. Specifically content changes because of the distribution change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both versions are currently viewable online on Youtube in &quot;Jared Jeffries&quot; review of Gremlins 2, &quot;DYAF - Gremlins 2: The New Batch&quot; (Published on Oct 30, 2015):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Film (&lt;code&gt;https://youtu.be/L6ZSQy4H1hw?t=162&lt;/code&gt;) &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/L6ZSQy4H1hw?start=162&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TV (&lt;code&gt;https://youtu.be/L6ZSQy4H1hw?t=214&lt;/code&gt;) &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/L6ZSQy4H1hw?start=214&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2018-03-11T13:08:52.273" LastActivityDate="2018-03-11T13:08:52.273" Title="Was Gremlins 2 the first film to re-adapt a scene for release on different media?" Tags="|distribution|alternate-version|gremlins-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1944" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1945" CreationDate="2012-04-13T21:27:20.763" Score="43" ViewCount="97012" Body="&lt;p&gt;4 8 15 16 23 42 - every Lost fan knows this sequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even after watching the ending, I am still not sure what the numbers really mean and how it's all connected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I recall correctly, in the last season it turns out that Jacob numbered the people stranded on the island and those 6 numbers are the ones of the people he judged as worthy to follow in his footsteps. I remember seeing him in the cave where he crossed people/numbers out that did not fulfill his somewhat unclear requirements. The man in black explained this by saying something like &quot;He (Jacob) had a thing for numbers.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While that being one explanation for the numbers being in the show, that still leaves me with a lot of open questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are the numbers actually cursed? Or did Hugo just have an unbelievable streak of bad luck?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why did the french people send those numbers over the radio transmitter?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the numbers are really just related to Jacob's list, what was up with that computer? Why was it necessary to input them every 108 minutes? Weren't they once explained as part of a formula for humanity's extinction?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope I missed something that answers those questions and maybe someone who rewatched the seasons after the finale can tell me what was actually going on with those numbers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-10T21:57:44.613" LastActivityDate="2016-12-21T06:52:08.230" Title="What was really behind the mysterious number sequence in Lost?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lost|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1944" CreationDate="2012-04-14T00:05:03.500" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only other real explanation given for the numbers relates back to one of the bonus features with DHARMA showing that the numbers are actually part of an equation that &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Valenzetti_Equation&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;predicts mankind's extinction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other major explanation of the numbers are, as you say, part of Jacob's numbering of the final candidates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZpzuN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4 - Locke&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;8 - Reyes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;15 - Ford&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;16 - Jarrah&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;23 - Shephard&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;42 - Kwon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also on &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Numbers&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lostpedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, you can find uses of the numbers strewn across the whole series as a bit of an Easter Egg for those paying attention (and not just in this series)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for the numbers to be entered into the computer was to discharge the magnetic power that the Swam station contained.  The first time we witness the numbers not being entered caused Oceanic 815 to crash in the first place (the plane flying over and the magnetic field becoming to strong, causing the plane to get out of control and break up and crash).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second time we witness the numbers being missed is when Locke destroyed the computer, causing Desmond to activate the Fail-Safe, blowing up the Swan and the power it would try to contain in the first place.  I can only assume they chose this sequence of numbers either because of the aforementioned equation or because it was the &amp;quot;serial number&amp;quot; of the base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Uecl1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as Hugo, because the numbers have this strange relation to the extinction of man, it could be implied that using them would cause bad luck.  However, this is never heavily implied and can be just a plot device/just a string of terrible events that happened in his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than these explanations, there have been no other pure explanations for the Lost numbers by any of the creators or writers that I can find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One final note to add, an answer from &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Numbers#Production_notes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Damon Lindelof&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, explaining why the numbers don't have a definite meaning throughout the series using the Midi-chlorians from Star Wars as an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some questions that are very engaging and interesting, and then there are other questions that we have no interest whatsoever in answering. We call it the midi-chlorian debate, because at a certain point, explaining something mystical demystifies it. To try and have a character come and say, &amp;quot;Here is what the numbers mean,&amp;quot; actually makes every usage of the numbers up to that point less interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can actually watch Star Wars now, and when Obi-Wan talks about the Force to Luke for the first time, it loses its luster because the Force has been explained as, sort of, little biological agents that are in your blood stream. So you go, &amp;quot;Oh, I liked Obi-Wan's version a lot better.&amp;quot; Which in the case of our show is, &amp;quot;The numbers are bad luck, they keep popping up in Hurley's life, they appear on the island.&amp;quot; ... But if you're watching the show for a detailed explanation of what the numbers mean—and I'm not saying you won't see more of them—then you will be disappointed by the end of season six.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-04-15T14:03:44.827" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1947" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1950" CreationDate="2012-04-14T08:19:02.200" Score="40" ViewCount="74812" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know long ago they would have the car stationary and use a projector screen to with moving scenery to make it look like the car was moving. It was obviously staged, but good enough. I've seen &quot;behind the scenes&quot; video clips and still showing some sort of filming rig on an actual car that isn't on a set, but that seems way to dangerous for anything of any complexity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I am assuming they have come a long way with the stationary car on a set, and they mix that with a real car with cameras mounted on it. Is this accurate? If not, how do they make it look so real and still keep everyone safe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="983" LastActivityDate="2017-11-08T07:22:59.153" Title="How do they film scenes with the actors driving in a car?" Tags="|effects|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1947" CreationDate="2012-04-14T09:01:24.473" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;The technique you are talking about with stationary car on set is called &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_key&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chroma key compositing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;chroma keying&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;is a special effects / post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together, used heavily in many fields to remove a background from the subject of a photo or video - particularly the newscasting, motion picture and videogame industries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it's a very old special effect it's very used even these days, with a big difference of course. So even today in car scenes technique is wildely used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are of course other ways of filming these scenes, when do you want to have maximum reality. One of them is using &lt;strong&gt;camera mounts&lt;/strong&gt;, suction pads and vacuum mounts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t0VK8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5lgzX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QtFIZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ABOo1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can film every scene you like with these gadgets. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastActivityDate="2012-04-14T09:01:24.473" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1947" CreationDate="2012-04-14T11:31:50.287" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another common technique is to use a &quot;process trailer&quot;, aka an insert trailer or low loader.  It is used as a moving camera platform and is towed by a special truck-like vehicle that may contain cameras, booms and or lights. The process trailers are generally very low to the ground to give a realistic perspective of height.  They can expand in width to allow a camera to be placed along the side, for example to film actors speaking through a side window.  Note the safety bars in the first picture below so the crew don't fall off the trailer while it is moving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some companies renting this type of equipment are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.actioncameracars.com/processtrailers.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Action Camera Cars&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shotmaker.com/process-trailer.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shotmaker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Aru8I.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they only need to shoot from the front, and not from the side, they can dispense with the trailer altogether and simply tow the car behind the film truck:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ae0FZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In either the case, the actor playing the driver doesn't actually drive the car, but they  must &lt;em&gt;appear&lt;/em&gt; to be driving, same as if chroma key was being used with a stationary car on a set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2012-04-14T17:44:22.673" LastActivityDate="2012-04-14T17:44:22.673" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1801" CreationDate="2012-04-14T15:54:14.047" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;After days of searching a friend of mine finally identified this. It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765429&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;American Gangster&lt;/a&gt; with Denzel Washington and Russel Crow. The scene starts approximately 31 minutes into the movie, here is the synopsis excerpt from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765429&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It switches back to Richie who gets a phone call in the middle of the night from his partner who is flipping out because he killed a guy. They bandage the dead guy's neck to make it look like he isn't dead. Richie tells this partner that he needs help because he is hooked and that is why he killed the guy in the first place. His partner gets mad and jumps out of the ambulance. His partner says that it was Richie's fault to begin with, because he takes drugs to forget that everybody at the police station sneers at him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screen of the dead body:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l5zFI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screen capture of the dead body&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screen of them bringing him out, calming down the angry mob:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BfFNk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screen capture of them bringing him out and calming down the mob&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His partner Javier Riviera (played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0651159/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;John Ortiz&lt;/a&gt;) later dies of a drug overdose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T12:02:56.103" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T12:02:56.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1957" CreationDate="2012-04-14T17:37:51.103" Score="7" ViewCount="824" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've all heard the saying &quot;released straight to DVD&quot; to indicate the failure of a movie to make it into the theaters. Now, I'm not talking about the &quot;made for DVD&quot; films, or foreign films that were released there in theaters and then find there way here only on DVD. I'm also excluding indie films that were produced but couldn't find a theater distributor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm talking about when the phrase is used to refer to the failure of a major film. &quot;It sucked so bad it went straight to DVD&quot;. Is this saying true, or is it just a saying / myth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has there been a major film by a professional studio that when it was finished. It went straight to DVD and skipped the theaters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;p.s. DVD and BluRay, yea the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T10:44:45.087" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T10:44:45.087" Title="What causes a high budget title to be direct-to-DVD?" Tags="|distribution|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1956" CreationDate="2012-04-14T18:40:12.540" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes - this happens all the time, and there are hundreds of larger-budget films that go directly to DVD either because test screenings fell flat or the distributors got cold feet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Big names including Pacino, Statham and Butler are not immune to this, and to prevent this question and answer turning into a long list, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywood.com/static/the-top-10-highest-profile-straight-to-dvd-releases&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here is a link to Hollywood.com&lt;/a&gt; which profiles ten of the most recent direct-to-DVD releases. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-26T11:40:02.153" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T11:40:02.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1963" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1964" CreationDate="2012-04-15T03:33:45.860" Score="18" ViewCount="1525" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you were to analyze the popularity surge Travolta earned after doing Pulp Fiction, how would it breakdown?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He did a great job in the movie and his character was very entertaining; but all the actors in this movie did a tremendous job in creating a masterpiece.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when I think of this movie, I think &lt;em&gt;Travolta Comeback&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was it his dancing in the movie?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did he do a lot of PR?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did TV shows like Access Hollywood or E.T. tout him constantly?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Internet was still in its infancy back then.  There were no viral online movements to generate buzz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a science to this or did it just happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T18:35:35.977" Title="How did Pulp Fiction spawn Travolta's comeback?" Tags="|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1963" CreationDate="2012-04-15T04:25:05.267" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any answer to this question is going to be uncomfortably close to opinion rather than fact, but I will have a go at answering it objectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Travolta and Willis were - by far - the most well known actors in the movie. Travolta in particular had been around in leading roles since the 70s with major parts in &lt;em&gt;Grease&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Saturday Night Fever&lt;/em&gt;. However, his more recent successes were very light material such as &lt;em&gt;Look Who's Talking&lt;/em&gt;. Willis had not enjoyed much great success recently either but &lt;em&gt;Die Hard&lt;/em&gt; was not that far in the past compared to Travolta's heyday in the late seventies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other actors in the movie, whilst known, were not big stars. Roles in &lt;em&gt;Dangerous Liasons&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Baron Munchausen&lt;/em&gt; were probably Thurman's biggest to date. Likewise, Samuel L. Jackson has appeared in a lot of movies but in relatively minor roles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there was the the story involving Mia (Thurman) and Vincent (Travolta) in the movie. We get to see Travolta at his very best - good acting, a funny and dramatic plot, and he gets to remind us that he can dance a little. Coupled with the more comedic moments with Jules book ending the movie, his character is arguably the most prominent in a very well regarded movie.  As Nobby also points out, the role of Vincent Vega as drug-taking hitman is vastly different from the roles he normally takes, particularly the role of James in the &lt;em&gt;Look Who's Talking&lt;/em&gt; movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Travolta's position as a fading star coupled with him being attached to such a prominent role in such a well regarded movie is the reason why this is remembered as the movie that re-launched his career. It did no harm to Jackson and Willis' careers too, and Thurman goes on to do &lt;em&gt;Kill Bill&lt;/em&gt; with Tarantino, probably the role that she will be remembered for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie had a lot of buzz about it at the time. It was only 2 years after Tarantino has emerged into the mainstream consciousness with &lt;em&gt;Reservoir Dogs&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Reservoir Dogs&lt;/em&gt; was a very controversial movie at the time, and the follow up garnered a lot of free attention as a result. I am sure it got good publicity, but it was a bit of a perfect storm that Tarantino is unlikely to be able to repeat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="13261" LastEditDate="2016-07-01T18:35:35.977" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T18:35:35.977" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1965" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1968" CreationDate="2012-04-15T05:56:52.297" Score="23" ViewCount="4985" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Inception, it always makes me wonder why Cobb didn't say a hello to his team members. He does not even smile at any of his team members at the airport.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the reason he acts like he does now know his team members?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Can someone help me to understand the airport scene in Inception?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-10T12:56:40.030" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T12:56:40.030" Title="Why didn't Cobb talk to any of his team members at the airport in the ending of Inception?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|inception|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1966" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-15T07:04:02.697" Score="8" ViewCount="46662" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887912&quot;&gt;The Hurt Locker&lt;/a&gt;, I initially thought the dead boy covered up with bomb was Beckham, but after googling I'm certain they were &lt;strong&gt;two different kids&lt;/strong&gt;. Now, I am puzzled to know,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What's the reason the boy that looked like Beckham was killed?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Who killed the boy that looked like Beckham?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why did he cover it up with an unexploded bomb?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why didn't James believe Beckham was alive?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please someone help me understand!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-09T12:07:48.070" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T16:07:28.333" Title="Why didn't James believe Beckham was alive in The Hurt Locker?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hurt-locker|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1965" CreationDate="2012-04-15T14:59:48.120" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;They do give each other some knowing glances but you are correct, as the team arrive in Los Angeles airport, they split up and almost ignore each other going through immigration and baggage collection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO there are two main reasons for this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They have just completed a crime, they illegally drugged Fischer and forced him into a shared dream without his knowledge. The team appeared to board the plane giving the impression of not knowing each other. They probably do not want to make Fischer suspicious by suddenly being all friendly at the destination.  Fischer has woken up with a new idea in his head (to break up his fathers business empire) and they probably don't want him to even start to connect that with the journey he just completed. As a result the team are moving through the arrival lounge just as if they are normal business people on separate journeys.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cobb is wanted for murder and is just about to go through immigration checks. Everyone else in his team knows this. Cobb is probably nervous and his friends are probably nervous for him and/or curious too see whether Saito was able or willing to get Cobb into the country.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-04-15T20:57:31.467" LastActivityDate="2012-04-15T20:57:31.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1504" CreationDate="2012-04-15T16:05:47.560" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Franklyn&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see this film to be a debate about religion, faith, fate, delusion, trauma and loss. Each of the three central characters have experienced some sort of trauma or loss&#xA;in their past. Preest/David lost his younger sister as well as having experienced the trauma of war as a soldier; Milo had lost his father as a child and then, more&#xA;recently, had his fiancee leave him very close to the day of their planned wedding. Amelia had probably, though it wasn't explicitly said, been abused by her father as&#xA;a child and her and her mother had left him as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David/Preest's father was a man of religion and had said that the death of his daughter - David/Preest's sister was the will of god. Preest was unable to accept this&#xA;and he blamed his father for the death of his sister. This, along with the trauma of war, had triggered a psychotic episode in him. He wanted to avenge the death of &#xA;his sister and because he saw the death of his sister as so unjust, he took issue with religion as a whole. The line in the film &quot;if god is willing to stop bad things&#xA;happening but unable, then he is not omnipotent, if he is able but unwilling then he is malevolent, if he is neither willing or able then he is not a god&quot; explains&#xA;Preest's inner torment perfectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Milo has recently been through a break-up just before he was due to get married. He then starts to see a childhood friend/love interest, Sally. She is not real. He&#xA;first saw Sally just after his dad died - a very traumatic experience - and began to see her again after the break-up of his relationship with his fiancee - another&#xA;traumatic experience. He tells his friend the story of the story-teller who's stories became reality. At the end of the film when he meets Amelia, who looks exactly&#xA;like his imaginary friend, Sally, it begs questions of fate. It also means that the story-teller is in fact Milo - What he believed became reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Amelia is slightly less significant in the film but she needs to be there for Milo's story to make sense. She is also incredibly beautiful so I don't mind her being&#xA;in the film!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The caretaker at the hospital chapel, however, I cannot figure out the significance of. Is he God? Is he just a guy? Why did he disappear in the last scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, though, I think this film just asks a load of questions rather than attempts to answer any. I think this is pretty wise, as the subject matter is so far-reaching and deep. It doesn't do anything as silly as to say that God planned anything, It doesn't say that Milo meeting Amelia is anything other than coincidence. It doesn't say that Preest is wrong or right to question religion. It doesn't try to be too clever or too profound. It simply asks questions that we all ask as human beings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1170" LastEditorUserId="1170" LastEditDate="2012-04-15T16:11:59.923" LastActivityDate="2012-04-15T16:11:59.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1971" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1981" CreationDate="2012-04-16T03:44:14.127" Score="22" ViewCount="114383" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spider-Man 1 with Tobey Maguire tells the story of how Peter Parker acquired his abilities.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time he is fully clothed.  However, we are privy to at least one scene (the day he gets bit) where we see a super-skinny, ailing Peter Park about to turn into the Webcrawler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bl5oHm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Skinny Tobey&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see a little bit of biceps here, but his chest is flat and he almost looks anorexic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next day, we see the new, improved muscular Peter Parker:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gc3rAm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;dud to stud&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In real life, we know there was a lot of diet and exercise that came with this transformation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is this:  Did they film skinny Tobey first, let him bulk up and then film the rest of the movie?  If so, how long can a movie studio wait while its primary actor works on his character? (e.g. in this case, gets ripped).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-07-10T08:26:38.400" LastActivityDate="2023-12-02T05:54:19.833" Title="Did Spider-Man filming halt so Tobey Maguire could bulk up?" Tags="|film-techniques|spider-man-trilogy|spider-man|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1972" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1975" CreationDate="2012-04-16T07:43:35.437" Score="7" ViewCount="1444" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040979/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Drunken Angel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; by &lt;strong&gt;Akira Kurosawa&lt;/strong&gt; last night.&#xA;Though I really enjoyed the film and found it entertaining - even though it is made 60+ years ago, I could not understand why so many people consider it to be such a masterpiece.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they just over-hyping the film or is there something that I am missing?&#xA;(I am no expert or film critic but really enjoy good films - irrespective of them being mainstream or indie / foreign language).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So was just trying to gauge what I am missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1172" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-21T22:48:15.363" LastActivityDate="2015-03-21T22:48:15.363" Title="Why is Drunken Angel considered to be a masterpiece?" Tags="|analysis|drunken-angel|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1966" CreationDate="2012-04-16T07:51:19.247" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's the reason the boy looking like Beckham was killed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The boy looking like Beckham was killed because it was a manner in which the terrorists planted bombs inside dead bodies so that when people came to collect the bodies, they would detonate - thus killing even more people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The boy was a random boy and was not killed because he looked like Beckham. So there is no linkage there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who killed the boy looking like Beckham?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Terrorists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why was he covered with an unexploded bomb?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See answer to your first question above.&#xA;If you have seen the film &lt;em&gt;No Man's Land&lt;/em&gt;, a similar technique is used which also becomes the focal plot point of that film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why James didn't believe Beckham was alive?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that James hadn't seen Beckham for quite sometime and the dead boy looked similar to Beckham. Added to this, being in a war zone can be quite stressful and hence it is only normal that your mind makes you be on an edge and really alert to your surroundings. Hence even a small suspicion is blown out of proportion. (Guilty unless proven innocent in this case)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1172" LastEditorUserId="1172" LastEditDate="2016-05-09T16:07:28.333" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T16:07:28.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1974" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1989" CreationDate="2012-04-16T12:40:05.987" Score="17" ViewCount="26836" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain to me the reason behind Christopher Nolan choosing Edith Piaf's &lt;strong&gt;Non, je ne regrette rien&lt;/strong&gt; as a kick song in Inception?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2012-04-16T14:10:50.123" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T09:11:49.227" Title="Why did Nolan choose &quot;Non, je ne regrette rien&quot; as a kick song in Inception?" Tags="|analysis|inception|christopher-nolan|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1972" CreationDate="2012-04-16T13:02:56.220" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;*I'll try to answer this with the thought that this whole question and answer might be scratched for being a borderline discussion/opinion piece...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many times when we are asked to consider the validity of film 'masterpieces' we must consider the context and history of the piece in question. Made in 1948, &lt;em&gt;Drunken Angel&lt;/em&gt; was just one of a number of films that dealt with the state of post-war Japan, but this was one that did not feature any G.I.s or any other characters normally associated with films from that era. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than link to a bunch of external essays, if you'll permit me the indulgence, I'll add some text from one of my own papers that I wrote during some film history classes that focused on Kurosawa. I think this extract highlights one of the reasons why &lt;em&gt;Drunken Angel&lt;/em&gt; is so admired. The emphasis has been added by me for this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;em&gt;The master/pupil relationship that Kurosawa has created in Drunken Angel (1948) is a complicated one. Sanada (played by Takashi Shimura) is the titular character, a doctor who strives to help others, but has his own, drink induced, problems. Matsunaga (played by Toshiro Mifune) is his unwitting pupil, a gangster on the cusp of death through tuberculosis, masking his fear with staggering bravado.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The festering sump pool on Sanada’s doorstep, a metaphor for the decay in post-war Japan and the state of Matsunaga’s lungs&lt;/strong&gt;, links these men and it is often referred to by Sanada when he is trying to make a point to the younger man.&#xA;When Sanada diagnoses Matsunaga’s illness, the young gangster is horrified, but this manifests itself as anger toward the doctor. Sanada knows he cannot cure the younger man’s T.B., but he takes it upon himself to try to cure him psychologically, showing him the error of his criminal ways and perhaps attempting to make amends for his slump into alcoholism through Matsunaga.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sanada’s methods employ a form of tough love when it comes to tending to Matsunaga’s wounds. He is brutal when he takes a bullet out of the gangster’s hand, making him suffer and showing him the consequences of the yakuza way of life. Eventually Matsunaga begins to understand the doctor’s teachings, and this is hammered home when Okada is released from prison and Matsunaga is demoted in the gang.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When Matsunaga discovers that Sanada is living with Miyo (played by Chieko Nakakita), Okada’s old moll, he sees a chance for redemption, protecting his mentor but giving up his life in the process. &lt;strong&gt;Ultimately, Sanada’s teachings were all about willpower. Having the will to fight the disease, the will to change one’s lifestyle and the strength to face the imminent changes happening in Japan under western occupation.&lt;/em&gt;*&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T13:02:56.220" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1976" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1977" CreationDate="2012-04-16T13:19:10.133" Score="9" ViewCount="2110" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's written on Cook's hand in the film Drive? When The Driver is planning the pawn shop robbery with Standard, Cook and Blanche, Cook sends Standard and Blanche away and says to the Driver that this is what you get out of the job, and show's the driver his hand where he has written: ????&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it says &quot;F$%^ off&quot;, but that doesn't make any sense to me, &quot;F$%^ all&quot; would.  Did I misread it?  I didn't get a chance to re-watch the scene but it's been bothering me since.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-30T09:20:31.937" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T09:20:31.937" Title="What's written on Cook's hand in the film Drive?" Tags="|plot-explanation|drive|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1976" CreationDate="2012-04-16T13:29:37.170" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It says &lt;em&gt;Fuck off&lt;/em&gt; because Cook doesn't trust The Kid and thinks The Kid just some overzealous/arrogant punk forcing his way into a world he doesn't understand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as we learn, The Kid does understand it very well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Kid still gets to go on the job not only because he's doing it for Standard and his wife, showing his arrogance and determination as part of his strengths (instead of the usual weakness it invokes in most characters) but because he presents to Cook that he'll do it &lt;em&gt;for free&lt;/em&gt;, meaning The Kid can be just more free muscle for Cook's job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-04-16T14:11:21.970" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T14:11:21.970" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1978" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1979" CreationDate="2012-04-16T13:51:04.397" Score="5" ViewCount="1191" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched this stand-up comedy special at a friend's house sometime between 87-91.  It would have been on a premium channel (my guess is either HBO or Cinemax).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember if there were multiple acts, but there is one comedian who stands out in my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was Caucasian, slightly overweight (not by much though) and had, I think, short hair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The part I remember about his act is that he had this song he sang called &quot;I don't care.&quot;  He would just sing that over and over.  At one point he left the stage, went outside and started singing the song to people on the street.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He walked up to one guy and said something like &quot;what are you doing?  scalping tickets?&quot; and the guy looked like he was scalping tickets and had a pissed off look on his face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T09:21:25.763" Title="Identify this late 80s, possibly early 90s stand-up special with a comedian who sings &quot;I don't care.&quot;" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:51:52.940" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1978" CreationDate="2012-04-16T14:09:48.390" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are thinking of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Meaney&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kevin Meaney&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I even found him singing his song...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/SAp-T8Gklw0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-30T09:21:25.763" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T09:21:25.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1971" CreationDate="2012-04-16T15:06:53.443" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually actors are supposed to do such things, like losing or getting weight to fit to the movie part. Tobey Maguire did this more than once. Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobey_Maguire#Personal_life&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt; part:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maguire has been a vegetarian since 1992 and in 2009 became a vegan. He often makes changes in his diet to either gain or lose weight for movie roles; for example, he dramatically decreased his calorie intake for Seabiscuit followed by a rapid increase to regain weight for Spider-Man 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first Spider-Man movie as you said Peter Parker was a nerd student; so it wouldn't be realistic if that kind of student appeared with those muscles. So he had to workout a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://culture.com/articles/540/spider-man-interview-with-tobey-maguire.phtml&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; says that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maguire spent &lt;strong&gt;six months&lt;/strong&gt; taking martial arts, weight training, and an intensive gymnastics programme in order to bulk up, look buff, and be able to match the lithe athleticism of Spider Man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maguire worked out a lot to get into that condition. On the DVD commentary, Raimi states that one of the first scenes shot was where Tobey takes off his shirt and is not in great shape while one of the last ones shot was the one in the mirror you are referring to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.trainbodyandmind.com/2011/02/tobey-maguire-%E2%80%93-the-spiderman-workout/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; you can read exactly all the exercises he did. This is the diet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Diet&lt;/strong&gt; – Diet was an important part of the program. All fried nutrition was excluded to make way for healthy fruit like fruit, vegetables, whole grains, fresh meat low-fat milk and cottage cheese. Tobey drank about one gallon of water per day (3,7 liters) and eat every three hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T15:06:53.443" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1971" CreationDate="2012-04-16T15:07:17.437" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how they handled it in this specific case, but keep in mind that usually scenes are not filmed in the chronological order they will end up in the movie. Reasons for this are mostly logistical and economical. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have several scenes in the same location throughout the movie, it is just practical to shoot them all at once. Also factors like weather, rent for equipment and locations, actor availability etc are relevant to this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while waiting for Maguire to &quot;bulk up&quot;, they could easily shoot scenes that appear later in the movie where he either does not appear at all or where his body strength would not be visible because he is wearing clothes. Stopping the whole production for this seems unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T15:07:17.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1983" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1984" CreationDate="2012-04-16T16:38:57.847" Score="9" ViewCount="6221" Body="&lt;p&gt;The history of which country is depicted in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1701210/&quot;&gt;Black Gold&lt;/a&gt;? Is it Qatar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to be, considering the movie is made by France | Italy | Qatar | Tunisia :D And Qatar Being the richest country and everything...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe it's just made up stuff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T13:58:28.370" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T13:58:28.370" Title="Are the events in Black Gold based on fact?" Tags="|historical-accuracy|black-gold|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1983" CreationDate="2012-04-16T17:04:05.683" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the movie is based on the 1957 novel &lt;strong&gt;&quot;South of the Heart: a novel of modern Arabia&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Ruesch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hans Ruesch&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I could find out the novel is not depicting any actual events or wars. The principalities &quot;Hobeika&quot; and &quot;Salmaah&quot; did not actually exist, and the conflict between them is unlikely to be based on a real one according to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://historienschinken.de/?p=914&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;german historical movie site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The daily life of the people in this region around 1930 are very likely to be historically accurate though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T17:04:05.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1985" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1988" CreationDate="2012-04-16T17:46:54.610" Score="17" ViewCount="3922" Body="&lt;p&gt;The opening to Titanic shows Rose &quot;Dawson&quot; watching a TV news report of Brock Lovett's ship searching the Titanic wreckage.  She then makes a phone call to Lovett during which a private conversation ensues.  The next scene shows Rose arriving on Lovett's boat by helicopter, with pets and many personal affects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Lovett invite her to come in person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly Lovett believed she had valuable information about where he might find the diamond he was seeking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why was her visit to his boat necessary to exchange such information?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that she possessed the diamond at the time of the phone call, she must have been either very vague over the phone, or she outright lied to Lovett. If she was vague, why did he invite her on board, at such great expense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did he invite her and her daughter and pets on board just to hear her love story?  She never even made any mention (that I know of) to Lovett about the location of the diamond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... &lt;strong&gt;What was the arrangement that lead Rose to Lovett's search boat?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-04-17T12:06:51.613" LastActivityDate="2017-06-25T01:52:26.747" Title="Why did Lovett invite Rose aboard his search boat in Titanic?" Tags="|plot-explanation|titanic|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5806" CreationDate="2012-04-16T17:53:59.750" Score="11" ViewCount="29937" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0108399/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;True Romance&lt;/a&gt;, there is a scene where Vincenzo Coccotti (Christopher Walken) interrogates Clifford Worley (Dennis Hopper) on Worley's son's whereabouts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Worley tries a couple of failed lies, he then decides to give a derogatory history lesson on the Sicilians.  This speech infuriates Coccotti to the point where his only focus becomes to put several bullets in Worley's head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, before the gunshots, everyone is smiling and laughing and Coccotti says to Worley:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're a cantaloupe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is in response to being called another type of fruit by Worley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/S3yon2GyoiM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why Coccotti called Worley a cantaloupe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any meaning behind this or was he just trying to go tit-for-tat and that was the best response he could come up with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastEditorUserId="46980" LastEditDate="2021-05-18T09:56:29.557" LastActivityDate="2021-05-18T11:08:06.353" Title="Does &quot;...you're a cantaloupe&quot; have any meaning?" Tags="|plot-explanation|true-romance|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="1987" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3403" CreationDate="2012-04-16T18:05:07.220" Score="14" ViewCount="8598" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Way of the Dragon, Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee fight. This scene is not comedic; yet there are numerous cuts to a cat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point at the end, the camera actually zooms in and out on the cat!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/TYHZEu7Y7DU#t=8m15s?start=495&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the importance of the cat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-04-30T09:36:29.543" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T09:36:29.543" Title="What is the significance of the cat?" Tags="|plot-explanation|way-of-the-dragon|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1985" CreationDate="2012-04-16T18:15:17.840" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lovett, obsessed with the Titanic and the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Heart of the Ocean&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, has been searching for the diamond for three years and the time and money for his expedition were running out, so he clearly is in a difficult position. His investors want to call off the search if he does not come forward with any progress soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they find the picture showing a woman wearing the diamond &lt;strong&gt;the day the Titanic sunk&lt;/strong&gt;, he realizes that after years of searching this is the greatest shot he ever had on finding out the location of the diamond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in the light of this great discovery, the cost of flying Rose in and interviewing her personally is nothing compared to the expenses this expedition probably devoured in the previous months tapping in the dark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you said, it is likely that Rose bargained her way into the flight, offering information/her story in exchange for seeing the Titanic and especially her picture again. It is unlikely that she had a hard time convincing Lovett though, because he wouldn't want to risk missing important details by disgruntling his only contemporary witness and he probably was eager himself to hear the story from face to face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the main factor for this deal was the fact that Lovett was running out of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course it seems a little bit unfair from Rose's side to lie about the diamond, knowing exactly that this is what Lovett and his crew are searching for for years. She carries it with her the whole time, and finally drops it into the ocean to find closure for herself while she could help a man struggeling for his &quot;career&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand with her story she changed Lovett's view on the Titanic and her history. He was so obsessed with the diamond that he never thought about the real meaning of the events and the disastrous impact it had on so many lives:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Three years, I've thought of nothing except Titanic; but I never got it... I never let it in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it might be argued that while she did not help him find the diamond, she helped him find something better: the true story behind the Titanic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2012-04-16T18:22:54.260" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T18:22:54.260" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1974" CreationDate="2012-04-16T18:39:46.203" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been searching for a direct quote where Nolan addresses the reasons &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; this song was included in the script. All I found was &lt;a href=&quot;http://leonardodicaprio.yuku.com/topic/2144/Responses--Friday-s-Inception-Press-Conference--DiCaprio-Nol#.T4xiw-3Xfa4&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this transcript&lt;/a&gt; from a press conference which included the following exchange:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hollywood News: The score and the sound design for this film are phenomenal; it’s almost like another character. Chris, can you talk about that a little bit, how you constructed that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nolan: I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable. And one of the interesting things that happened early on is the Edith Piaf song [“Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien”] was always in the script — long before Marion came on the film — it had always been that choice of song — and right at the beginning of our post-production process, I had to make the decision of “Do I get the sound department or do I get the music department?” Do I get Hans to manipulate that track until it sounds as if you’re hearing it through the dream, where it slows down and gets massive and all the rest. There was an interesting way to go; what I decided to do was give it to Hans and let him run with it and see if in some way it might inform elements of the score, because we always knew, we talked in early conversations about how towards the action climax of the film, there was going to be a need for the score to interweave seamlessly with this source cue, which is and extremely difficult technical thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That quote doesn't explain why that particular song was chosen, but it does explain that the song was chosen early in the writing process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't think it's necessary to get a straight answer from Nolan to this question. It's pretty evident from the lyrics that it has a strong connection to the theme and plot of Inception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the lyrics translated to English:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I regret nothing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;no, I have no regrets&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I regret neither the good things that were done to me nor the bad things&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are all the same to me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The past is payed, swept away, forgotten&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t care of the past anymore&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I set my memories on fire&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My agonies, and my pleasures&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don’t need them any more&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Swept away in the agonies of love&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Swept away forever, I’m restarting with nothing…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T18:39:46.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="237" CreationDate="2012-04-16T18:50:11.043" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you notice carefully (I had to pause the DVD for this) - for a fraction of a second, there is a scene in which Sammy Jenkins is sitting in a chair and for just a fraction, he turns into Leonard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/2MUnDhxAif0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(see at 0:25)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A more detailed explanation is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/tdnh8/there_is_an_easter_egg_in_christopher_nolans/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1172" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T18:13:30.283" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T18:13:30.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1991" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1993" CreationDate="2012-04-16T19:00:27.937" Score="10" ViewCount="146461" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maria and Nicholas existed in Trevor's daily delusion because of his guilt about the past hit and run. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how come Ivan exists in his imagination? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any clues in movie that can prove Ivan's actuality in Trevor's past? Or is Ivan's figure totally delusional as in schizophrenic people?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1079" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-04-16T19:03:54.657" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T11:21:32.870" Title="How come Ivan exists in the Machinist?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-machinist|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1992" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="1994" CreationDate="2012-04-16T19:11:24.320" Score="12" ViewCount="27071" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice that Trevor always cleaned his hands and toilet floor with bleach. He surely kept things clean at home that he always bought bleach, he kept several used toothbrushes to scrub his floor in detail manner, he kept notes at the fridge. But when he past his fridge when there was fish-blood leak on the fridge, he didn't notice the leak until his third passing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is the relationship between the bleach and the plot?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't he notice the blood from the rotten fish when he was a bit aware of cleanliness?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is the relationship between the bloody and rotten fish inside the fridge (that he got when he went fishing with one of his co-worker) with the whole story?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1079" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2012-04-16T21:14:27.757" LastActivityDate="2014-12-27T16:38:46.887" Title="What is wrong with the bleach and the fish in the Machinist?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-machinist|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1991" CreationDate="2012-04-16T19:21:19.353" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is as simple as Ivan is Trevor's guilt, manifested into a human hallucination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He uses Ivan's supposed mysteriousness to start blaming his distractions and his recent obsession over who is out to get him when really Ivan does not exist at all.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fight Club spoilers explain this best:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a way it is like the ending of Fight Club where The Narrator turns out to be Tyler Durden.  In the end, the picture that he kept claiming was Ivan, was really him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The picture is taken before his accident and shows how Trevor was before the guilt of killing a child started seeping into him and causing him to lose sleep for a year.  Notice that Ivan is finally gone from his life when he finally turns himself in for what he has done and is also able to finally sleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2014-06-16T16:46:13.470" LastActivityDate="2014-06-16T16:46:13.470" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1992" CreationDate="2012-04-16T19:28:59.487" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bleach is for Trevor to clean his apartment with.  Because he cannot sleep, I can only assume he turned his mind to something to keep him distracted; hence over-cleaning his apartment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He probably did not notice the blood as because the fish were from the trip that we can assume he was coming home from when he killed 'Nicholas'.  He probably was so shocked from this crime that he shoved the fish into the freezer and forgot about them as his mind began to shut down over the course of the next year.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe it is explicitly shown that this has occurred during the whole year, but at the very end when Trevor is trying to find Ivan, when he stops caring about his apartment due to his manhunt is when this occurs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T19:28:59.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1996" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="53322" CreationDate="2012-04-16T22:27:48.960" Score="9" ViewCount="13263" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Draft_Riots&quot;&gt;New York Draft riots&lt;/a&gt; of 1863 close The Gangs of New York both in terms of time and content.  The most extraordinary element of this sequence is the (apparently) indiscriminate shelling of the Five Points neighborhood by the Navy.  The fact that the &quot;native&quot; government is destroying the old order is clearly a major factor in the meaning of the film.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any historical evidence for anything near this level of indiscriminate destruction?  If not, are there interviews/articles in which the filmmakers  describe their decision to include it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia mentions &quot;artillery&quot; but it sounds more like the occasional small cannon on wheels and not the heavy barrage depicted in the film.  Generally I'm not a stickler for these things but since so much of the film's meaning appears to be tied up with this self-inflicted widespread annihilation, I can't help but wonder if it is included because it reflects something that really happened or if it reflects an attitude/message that the filmmakers wanted to capture and were thus willing to give up historical accuracy in an otherwise painfully accurate production.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="538" LastActivityDate="2016-05-22T08:49:33.193" Title="Any basis for indiscriminate shelling of Five Points in Gangs of New York?" Tags="|historical-accuracy|gangs-of-new-york|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1997" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-04-16T22:55:50.440" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions asked here should be looking for the first time something was used either on screen (a special movie characteristic, plot device etc) or during the making (e.g. cutting technique, special equipment, effects).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2012-04-16T23:09:37.833" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T23:09:37.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1998" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-04-16T22:55:50.440" Score="0" Body="Which was the first movie/show to use a certain characteristic or technique?" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2012-04-16T23:09:36.943" LastActivityDate="2012-04-16T23:09:36.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="1999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1996" CreationDate="2012-04-17T00:09:25.550" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this mention on a historical website called the &lt;a href=&quot;http://clevelandcivilwarroundtable.com/articles/society/nyc_riots.htm&quot;&gt;Cleaveland Civil War Roundtable&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One mob looted and burned a block of elegant houses on Lexington Avenue near Forty-Sixth Street; another set fire to the draft office on Broadway near Twenty-Ninth Street.  Other rioters extorted money or liquor from merchants or saloonkeepers.  When detectives heard rumors of a looming attack upon the Treasury vaults on Wall Street, two warships were dispatched from the Brooklyn Naval Yard, their cannon covering the lower end of Manhattan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that it doesn't mention whether the cannon was actually used or not. I've found no mention of indiscriminate shelling in historical records I've read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T00:09:25.550" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2000" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2004" CreationDate="2012-04-17T03:21:54.763" Score="12" ViewCount="780" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Spider-Man 2 (2004) there are a number of scenes where Peter Parker exits and comes back as Spider-Man only after he &lt;strong&gt;witnesses&lt;/strong&gt; something wrong (even if he is in the vicinity of the occurring crime).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like, in the scene where Doctor Octavius' fusion reactor is about to explode. They make no mention of Spidey's Spider-Sense . &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the bank-job scene, Peter Parker is right there with Aunt May opening up a &quot;super-saver account&quot; and yet he does not &quot;sense&quot; that Doc Ock is about to pull a job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I ask you... What is up with that ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1135" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-07-04T07:35:58.710" LastActivityDate="2016-07-04T07:36:23.823" Title="No &quot;spider-sense tingling&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|spider-man-trilogy|spider-man-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2000" CreationDate="2012-04-17T03:47:55.820" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't Spider-Man 2 where he goes through the whole life crisis thing and loses his powers for a while? I could see that being a part of him not sensing danger when it's around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-07-04T07:36:23.823" LastActivityDate="2016-07-04T07:36:23.823" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2000" CreationDate="2012-04-17T12:27:33.930" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;em&gt;Spider-Man 2&lt;/em&gt;, Parker goes through a &lt;em&gt;puberty&lt;/em&gt;, if you will, regarding his identity and what it really means for his life as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to all the stress of school, MJ seeing what seems to be the perfect guy for her, and being Spider-Man, he decided to try to give up being Spider-Man when his powers start to diminish as a result of all these burdens upon him and his desire to just &lt;em&gt;be normal&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to this, it would indicate that his Spider-Sense would also be not working just like his web and his wall-climbing abilities; hence him not being able to predict actions and crimes as well as he used to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the bank job specifically, I believe it has been mentioned in the comics that because Doc Ock's tentacles are &lt;em&gt;mechanical&lt;/em&gt; it causes them to &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; be picked up by his senses very well, hence Ock being able to get the drop on him in the bank as well as during their fights (I cannot find any sources for this at this time, however).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the first fusion reactor scene (which is the one I assume you mention), this might be due to his powers dwindling that he does not sense the explosion or because he is too distracted by being at a demonstration from his idol that this gets in the way as well; it is made quite clear during this film that his emotions control his powers.  Another explanation is obviously a &lt;em&gt;plot hole&lt;/em&gt; or even that because he was surrounded by so many people, by the time he could react &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; leaving to put his suit on, he would expose his identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T12:27:33.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2007" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2018" CreationDate="2012-04-17T16:22:43.063" Score="26" ViewCount="4629" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Cabin in the Woods, there is a board with a list of monsters on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tgBZG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;image showing whiteboard listing various horror movie monsters&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Between Deadites and Mummy in the lower left, there is Kevin. I am Kevin. I would like to know what monster reference this is to, as most of these are references to other movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2018-11-02T22:21:07.993" LastActivityDate="2023-07-03T10:56:50.133" Title="What movie is Kevin from?" Tags="|reference|props|the-cabin-in-the-woods|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2008" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2070" CreationDate="2012-04-17T16:55:23.960" Score="23" ViewCount="2451" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that older movies with a 7 - 7.5 rating are really good, while 2012 movies with that rating are quite bad, and they would most likely be rated 4 - 5.5 in 2004 for example :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also newer movies have many more votes then older ones. I've heard companies hire people to register random accounts and rate their movies. Is this true? IMDB ratings don't seem to be reliable anymore&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="12783" LastEditDate="2016-09-25T05:36:10.613" LastActivityDate="2016-09-25T05:36:10.613" Title="Are movie production companies hiring people to rate their movies on IMDB?" Tags="|imdb|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2008" CreationDate="2012-04-17T17:26:02.017" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's difficult to say who's hiring, but I know at least &lt;a href=&quot;http://fiverr.com/gigs/search?query=imdb&amp;amp;x=0&amp;amp;y=0&quot;&gt;one source&lt;/a&gt; where people are offering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would guess fiverr is more for the amateurs.  Big movie studios generate enough buzz on their own to get people talking and rating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T17:26:02.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2007" CreationDate="2012-04-17T18:07:30.213" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you  watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_City_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Sin city&lt;/a&gt;? I am supposing that Elija Wood's character Kevin could be the reference. I thought it could be a take on Jason from the story writer's perspective. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-04-17T19:44:03.410" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T19:44:03.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2011" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2012" CreationDate="2012-04-17T18:19:53.967" Score="21" ViewCount="9203" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film, Liam Neeson's character states something along the lines that they had tried to destroy Gotham once before via economics, but some stubborn citizens (Bruce's parents) kept things afloat.  It seems like he alluded that he had a hand in their death, but doesn't  state it outright.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, are we to make the conclusion that the murder of Bruce's parents was actually planned, and not just an accident?  Was Ra's al Ghul a part of the plan, or at least the League of Shadows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1039" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T12:08:12.897" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T12:08:12.897" Title="Did Ra's al Ghul have a hand in the murder of Bruce's parents?" Tags="|plot-explanation|batman-begins|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2011" CreationDate="2012-04-17T18:37:14.497" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, he mentioned that when they tried to take down Gotham before, the combination of their building Wayne tower &lt;strong&gt;and their deaths&lt;/strong&gt; sparked the citizens of Gotham to come out of the depression that The League of Shadows caused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole cause of the depression is revealed to be The League of Shadows' doing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ra's Al Ghul:&lt;/strong&gt; Of course. Over the ages, our weapons have grown more sophisticated. With Gotham, we tried a new one: Economics. But we underestimated certain of Gotham's citizens... such as your parents. Gunned down by one of the very people they were trying to help. Create enough hunger and everyone becomes a criminal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their deaths galvanized the city into saving itself... and Gotham has limped on ever since. We are back to finish the job. And this time no misguided idealists will get in the way. Like your father, you lack the courage to do all that is necessary. If someone stands in the way of true justice... you simply walk up behind them and stab them in the heart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you could say he &lt;em&gt;indirectly&lt;/em&gt; caused their deaths by making the depression therefore making Chill desperate enough to rob and shoot a rich couple in a back alley.  Ra's created his downfall that fateful night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While clearly capable of such acts, I doubt Ra's Al Ghul would leave such an important task of making sure the Waynes are dead in the incapable hands of a street rat like Joe Chill, and would have assassinated them himself, as well as Bruce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T18:37:14.497" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2013" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2014" CreationDate="2012-04-17T21:47:48.173" Score="10" ViewCount="3033" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the title sequence of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, just after the camera pans up the frozen wall, there is a 'blinking' effect and a strange futuristic sound. Is this supposed to represent something important?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-12T08:22:32.513" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T20:56:35.880" Title="In the title sequence, what is the strange futuristic noise/blinking effect?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|sound-effects|title-sequence|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2013" CreationDate="2012-04-17T22:01:23.910" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its the sound made by the viewing lens changing. If you watch the intro carefully, you'll see that the &quot;zoom&quot; changes in conjunction with the sound. Apart from being a cool effect, I doubt it has any deeper meaning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-04-17T22:01:23.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2015" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4444" CreationDate="2012-04-17T22:44:03.263" Score="2" ViewCount="2845" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1594562/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Innkeepers (2011)&lt;/a&gt;, who was the old guy in room 353? How was he related to Madeline O'Malley or to the events that took place thereat in the past?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="56" LastEditDate="2012-04-17T23:59:38.427" LastActivityDate="2012-10-01T03:54:29.123" Title="Who was the old guy in room 353?" Tags="|the-innkeepers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2016" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-17T22:52:01.803" Score="3" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1594562/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Innkeepers (2011)&lt;/a&gt;, what kind of voice recording machine was that which Claire and Luke use? In what fields is that machine used in real life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MG2ZB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;machine1&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dNikh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;machine2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T11:29:42.863" Title="What kind of voice recording machine was that in The Innkeepers?" Tags="|the-innkeepers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2017" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-17T22:57:47.710" Score="4" ViewCount="45425" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1594562/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Innkeepers (2011)&lt;/a&gt;, Leanne Rease-Jones tried to warn Claire, and she seemed to know something crucial, but she never told the truth about what was going on. I am confused about the ending of this movie, and I'd appreciate it if someone provided a good explanation as to why Madeline O'Malley killed Claire? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-07-05T19:10:31.043" LastActivityDate="2019-11-18T10:52:36.610" Title="Ending of The Innkeepers" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|the-innkeepers|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2007" CreationDate="2012-04-18T00:22:37.733" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/9141341&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Official Visual Companion&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;em&gt;The Cabin in the Woods&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Some stuff had to get cut from the monster rampage sequence at the end. The Angry Molesting Tree, which you can glimpse in the elevator in one scene, got much more molest-y in another shot, which might wind up as a DVD extra. &lt;strong&gt;Also, one of Goddard's favorite monsters was Kevin, a sweet-looking guy who seemed like he might work at Best Buy — until he dismembers people.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="100979" LastEditDate="2023-07-03T10:56:50.133" LastActivityDate="2023-07-03T10:56:50.133" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2022" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2036" CreationDate="2012-04-18T04:54:30.227" Score="46" ViewCount="52641" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/&quot;&gt;The Shawshank Redemption (1994)&lt;/a&gt; Red has three parole hearings. For the first two, in 1947 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDl1rn0RPT4&quot;&gt;YouTube link&lt;/a&gt;) and in 1957, he tells the parole board what he thinks they want to hear, and is unsuccessful. In his third in 1967 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE7mhZgME2k&quot;&gt;YouTube link&lt;/a&gt;) he takes a different approach, saying, quoting from the IMDB quotes page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1967 Parole Hearings Man&lt;/strong&gt;: Ellis Boyd Redding, your files say you've served 40 years of a life sentence. Do you feel you've been rehabilitated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Red&lt;/strong&gt;: Rehabilitated? Well, now let me see. You know, I don't have any idea what that means. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1967 Parole Hearings Man&lt;/strong&gt;: Well, it means that you're ready to rejoin society... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Red&lt;/strong&gt;: I know what &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; think it means, sonny. To me it's just a made up word. A politician's word, so young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie, and have a job. What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1967 Parole Hearings Man&lt;/strong&gt;: Well, are you? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Red&lt;/strong&gt;: There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this old man is all that's left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Red is then granted parole. Why, after this disparaging and weary speech? Was it because he was being so bluntly honest? Was intimidation a factor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T08:07:58.680" LastActivityDate="2023-04-03T18:59:43.383" Title="Red's parole hearings in The Shawshank Redemption" Tags="|the-shawshank-redemption|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2007" CreationDate="2012-04-18T11:38:02.367" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Kevin&quot; is an analogue to &quot;Jason&quot; from the &lt;strong&gt;Friday the 13th&lt;/strong&gt; movies. (It may also be a reference to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932078/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kevin Williamson&lt;/a&gt;, the writer of the &lt;strong&gt;Scream&lt;/strong&gt; films.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="192" LastActivityDate="2012-04-18T11:38:02.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2022" CreationDate="2012-04-18T11:58:57.637" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is purely my opinion on parole, and may not be the opinion of the scene's author:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Parole is a play, acted out by two battle-weary combatants - the parolee who wants to get out his prison cell at all costs, and the bureaucrat who wants to get out of his prison cell at all costs, too. Remember prison confines those on both sides; the prisoner's walls are physical, the parole board's walls are mental or metaphysical. However, the bureaucrats understand that at the end of the day, they go home, and this is the only true superiority to the prospective parolee. To be superior is easy, to &lt;em&gt;feel&lt;/em&gt; superior, they have to find some achnowledgment that there is still someone &quot;below&quot;. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Red has finally come to understand this. He doesn't try placating the bureaucrat as he did in the first attempts with fake sincerity, but by demonstrating true humility to the board. He finally conveyed that he understood their superiority, though a weak position it truly is. His speech demonstrated that acceptance, and they could come to accept him as sincere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-04-18T12:09:36.140" LastActivityDate="2012-04-18T12:09:36.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2012-04-18T16:13:38.667" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Parkour was Hot at that time&#xA;The director (GoldenEye and Zorro fame) is fond of stunts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour#Popular_culture&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;source&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1059" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-04-19T13:22:50.097" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T13:22:50.097" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2030" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2031" CreationDate="2012-04-18T18:41:48.380" Score="31" ViewCount="13816" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Tim Burton's Batman Returns, Max Shreck throws Selina out a high story window where she plunges to the ground. It's not quite clear to me if she dies upon landing or just knocking at death's door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, cats come out of nowhere and start licking her and nipping at her fingers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T28dn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Selena screen capture from Batman Returns&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next thing you know, she's more assertive, confident and has quite the spring in her step (the back-flips and whatnot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What role did the cats play making Catwoman?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2023-12-17T13:22:15.470" LastActivityDate="2023-12-17T13:22:15.470" Title="Did cats have magical powers in Batman Returns?" Tags="|plot-explanation|batman-returns|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2030" CreationDate="2012-04-18T19:09:28.773" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I've always read that scene is that she fell, but did not die. She did however suffer severe trauma. The larger part of that trauma was to her psyche. An oft used story telling instrument in movies is the personality switching trauma. This happened to Selina when she fell, it changed her into a more assertive character. Having the cats around her when she woke up as the new Selina &amp;quot;impressed&amp;quot; on her mind a more feline personality. Not only is she more aggressive and independent, she also moves and acts more like a cat. You could say that the trauma to her head made her more than a little bit 'insane'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2023-12-17T13:21:55.020" LastActivityDate="2023-12-17T13:21:55.020" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2033" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-19T01:47:02.087" Score="8" ViewCount="703" Body="&lt;p&gt;During her escape from the research facility, Selene jumps onto a driving truck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The truck driver notices her, makes a full stop and she flies over the vehicle. The driver then steps out with a gun in hand, walks up to her lying on the ground and without blinking an eye, shoots her straight in the face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C3GSI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;killer truck driver&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was the point where I was completely baffled. What the hell is wrong with this guy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe he had a bad day, ok. We all know those, but shooting someone cold blooded without even asking why she used his truck as a taxi?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could argue that he is living in a pretty bad world with vampires and werewolves and you can never be too careful, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There haven't been any werewolf or vampire sightings in years apparently, so he has no good reason to believe she is one of both.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A normal gun wouldn't help him in this case anyway.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why is he acting this way? Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2017-01-12T07:34:45.637" LastActivityDate="2023-12-16T16:01:15.133" Title="Why did the truck driver shoot Selene?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|underworld|underworld-awakening|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2034" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2053" CreationDate="2012-04-19T02:01:34.467" Score="23" ViewCount="2988" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inception&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, dream-sharing is (obviously) a huge part in how the entire plot functions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any valid references (either scientific or even just an explanation from the writers/director) as to how it is possible for multiple people to share a dream in order to perform the simulations (the birth of dream-sharing in the military training exercise) and extraction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this based on actual science related to lucid dreaming or something of the like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is this whole dream-sharing business expected to be taken as a simple plot device?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T08:16:08.997" Title="How does the dream sharing actually work?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2035" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2166" CreationDate="2012-04-19T02:21:38.033" Score="20" ViewCount="4846" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently so called reboots are the new answer to Hollywood running out of original ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last years several franchises have been &quot;rebooted&quot; such as Spider-man, Batman, Star Trek and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not generally criticizing reboots, retelling a great story with modern touch and technology has brought us some great movies lately, but I'm afraid the success of this can put things a little bit out of hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Nolan's Batman story is still not finished, there already seems to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877830/&quot;&gt;the next Batman reboot&lt;/a&gt; underway. Also I heard of a Fantastic Four reboot and seriously, who needs that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I would like to know is: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What started this reboot madness? Which was the first movie that can be counted as a reboot of some previously existing franchise?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify, the term reboot in this question refers to a movie that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;differs from the previously existing canon in a significant way, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;starts over a continued story of some sort, so more than just one isolated movie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's how I would distinguish it from a remake, even though I doubt that this is a definition everyone agrees with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T08:19:05.180" LastActivityDate="2016-07-24T01:20:38.847" Title="What was the first instance of a movie reboot?" Tags="|first-appearance|reboot|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2022" CreationDate="2012-04-19T10:15:13.547" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if I'd agree with parts of Wbogacz answer.  The Humility part specifically.  I always got a more resigned vibe from Red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He doesn't believe that the board will really grant his parole, and as such doesn't see the point in lying to them.  He is honest, sincere and expresses true regret for his actions, rather than trying to convince the board that he's been &amp;quot;Rehabilitated&amp;quot; as he did in the prior attempts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there was any intimidation either. If I recall the scene correctly, Red sat in a relaxed pose for the interview, not in a leaning forward threatening manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="74112" LastEditDate="2020-10-05T03:45:53.237" LastActivityDate="2020-10-05T03:45:53.237" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2037" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2085" CreationDate="2012-04-19T12:23:27.163" Score="13" ViewCount="19549" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld%3a_Awakening&quot;&gt;Underworld Awakening&lt;/a&gt; Selene is captured and cryonically frozen after a bomb grenade hit her and Michael underwater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She awakes 12 years later to find out she has a daughter, and apparently Michael is the biological father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I can't recollect that they actually ever explained where the daughter came from? Was Selene pregnant when they caught her? Or was the baby produced in the lab with DNA from both captives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I just missed that part, I hope someone can clear that up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2017-01-12T07:33:43.017" LastActivityDate="2017-01-12T20:25:58.927" Title="How did Selene get pregnant?" Tags="|plot-explanation|underworld|underworld-awakening|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2038" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2039" CreationDate="2012-04-19T12:49:53.930" Score="18" ViewCount="26084" Body="&lt;p&gt;A recurring mystery throughout the Lost seasons was the cabin in the jungle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is introduced to Locke by Ben as the alledged location of Jacob, who doesn't seem to be there though. Ben is talking to some invisible person (or more likely pretends to do that). Locke then hears a voice asking him for help, Ben is being pushed by some invisible force and Locke has a glimpse on a misteriously appearing person in the chair. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After they left, Ben explained that this was Jacob.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did they ever explain what really happened there? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was that actually Jacob? If so, what motivation could he possibly have had to pull off this scare and why did he ask for help? Or was it the Man in Black?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T07:37:48.347" Title="What did actually happen during Locke's first visit in the cabin?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lost|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2038" CreationDate="2012-04-19T13:04:04.237" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was actually later revealed by Ilana that the person in the cabin &lt;strong&gt;was not Jacob&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Exiting the cabin, Ilana informed Bram that Jacob was not there, that he had not been at the cabin in a long time and that someone else was using it. She then ordered the others to set fire to the cabin. The group departed, leaving the structure to burn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She further states that he hasn't been there in a long time and that &lt;em&gt;someone else&lt;/em&gt; has been using it, therefore her desire to burn it to the ground.  This is proven when on Locke's third visit to the Cabin, Christian Shepard is there with Claire.  At this point we know that MiB &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; Shepard's father on the island (his ability to take on the forms of the dead), which would imply that he is the one now using the Cabin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is heavily implied that this someone is indeed &lt;em&gt;The Man in Black&lt;/em&gt; (MiB) impersonating Jacob.  It is not a surprise that MiB has been manipulating people just as much as Jacob in order to win his side of &lt;em&gt;the Game&lt;/em&gt; between the two of them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe Ben says this is Jacob because it is later revealed that Ben has never seen Jacob until the night MiB manipulated him into killing Jacob.  So he would say this is Jacob because he saw the strange occurrences with Locke on that first visit.  His bewilderment and expectation that no one would actually be there would lead him to believe that it was Jacob when it was not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be worth noting that the producers/writers have not explicitly stated that it was indeed MiB inside the cabin and they have yet to reveal this at all, nor I don't think they ever will.  But all the episodes involving the Cabin and what we know of MiB points to the extreme possibility of him being the one that Locke and Ben saw inside the Cabin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T13:04:04.237" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2040" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2045" CreationDate="2012-04-19T13:20:47.153" Score="18" ViewCount="3041" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758730/faq#.2.1.37&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Aliens are far more dangerous, they have no fear, can lose most of&#xA;  their limbs and still pose a major threat, they have acid blood, can&#xA;  kill with their claws, tails and teeth and can see predators even when&#xA;  they're cloaked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never heard that they can see predators, especially when they're cloaked...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there direct references/examples to this in any of the AVP movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-20T21:59:04.303" LastActivityDate="2013-08-20T21:59:04.303" Title="Can Aliens see cloaked predators?" Tags="|aliens-vs-predator|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2044" CreationDate="2012-04-19T13:29:12.290" Score="8" ViewCount="16500" Body="&lt;p&gt;During a battle between the Predator and the Aliens the Predator's shoulder cannons are damaged. As a result he modifies one into a hand-held blaster. In the final battle Dallas ends up with the blaster before it is taken off him by the special forces when the helicopter crashes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Predator's blaster cannon is presented by Colonel Stevens to a Ms. Yutani in what i think is the last scene of the film. I think she says something about earth/humans not being ready for this technology yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what happens to the blaster after this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:17:43.543" LastActivityDate="2018-07-15T19:35:31.807" Title="What happened to the Predator blaster at the end of AVP Requiem" Tags="|aliens-vs-predator-requiem|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2033" CreationDate="2012-04-19T13:47:59.600" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the movie, but if it's a semi-truck, or a truck to haul any sort of cargo or materials, he could have thought she was trying to steal something off of his truck.  Truckers tend to get pretty touchy about people messing with stuff on their trucks.  This character could have just been a bit further on the touchiness scale than usual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T13:47:59.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2041" CreationDate="2012-04-19T14:10:00.647" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we can make a reasonable assumption that the Yutani Corp uses this technology to kickstart their own scientific breakthroughs. This would explain why they are bedfellows with Weyland in the future stories. The actual artifact itself would be disassembled for analysis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see this as the equivalent of Cyberdine systems getting their hands on the original arm and chip from &lt;em&gt;The Terminator&lt;/em&gt;, thus setting their own wheels in motion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-04-19T14:10:00.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2040" CreationDate="2012-04-19T14:40:11.577" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aliens don't have eyes. They sense their prey through changes in air pressure and noise. How they manage this with such accuracy isn't known, but a Predator's cloak bends light so that they appear camouflaged by their surroundings. When a Predator moves when cloaked they still emit changes in air pressure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aliens are also effective hunters underwater and can sense their prey's electromagnetic field much like a shark, and Aliens also adapt the senses of the host who gave birth to them. So if they are grown in a Predator they will take on Predator traits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aliens are a scary bunch! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-07-23T10:04:32.173" LastActivityDate="2013-07-23T10:04:32.173" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2049" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2162" CreationDate="2012-04-20T01:42:44.130" Score="10" ViewCount="2858" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron%3a_Legacy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tron Legacy&lt;/a&gt;, Sam Flynn finds his fathers computer still running in the old arcade. After typing on the keyboard he triggers the digitizer and is transported to the grid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where is the grid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first movie the Tron universe is control by master control who states he has access to the pentagon and wants language files for Asia. So it's clear in the first movie that the grid is part of the world network, or at least has access to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Tron Legacy it seems very isolated. Did Keven Flynn build a private network in the arcade where he created the grid, and if so, where in the movie is this clarified? If it was an isolated network, then how could CLU send a message to Alan's pager?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:24:14.663" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T12:24:14.663" Title="Where did Tron Legacy take place?" Tags="|plot-explanation|tron-legacy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2050" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-20T05:14:51.603" Score="11" ViewCount="437" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1723811/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shame&lt;/a&gt;, Brandon tries to enter a night club (or something), and is denied entry by the bouncer who says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not tonight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I said, not tonight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What establishment was he trying to enter?  And why was he denied entry?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2023-12-16T15:35:43.660" Title="Why was Brandon denied entry to the night club?" Tags="|plot-explanation|shame|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2051" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-20T09:10:07.470" Score="12" ViewCount="15350" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am aware Matt and Trey intentionally censored South Park, but for some time, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.southparkstudios.com/&quot;&gt;southparkstudios.com&lt;/a&gt; has been offering uncensored versions of the show about a week or two after airing on TV. And, according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park&quot;&gt;South Park Wikipedia entry&lt;/a&gt;, South Park airs uncensored in some places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When did Matt and Trey stop intentionally censoring South Park with bleeps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="476" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T08:32:30.597" LastActivityDate="2019-06-19T12:57:26.600" Title="When did Matt and Trey stop intentionally censoring South Park with bleeps?" Tags="|dialogue|south-park|censorship|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2049" CreationDate="2012-04-20T14:53:07.753" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, it's been ages since I've seen Tron, and I've only seen Legacy once.  So making up something which sounds quite reasonable to me, but could easily be disproven...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe, in both movies, the computers which house the virtual universe are contained in the server room of the giant quasi-&quot;evil&quot; company which briefly appears at the beginning of either movie.  This is most certainly the case in Tron, with allusions that the company is a defense contractor (thus creating potential for pentagon connections, and world-wide connections).  In Legacy, elder Flynn seemed to have gained a massive stake in said company or to have created his own similar-scale company, which would enable him to create a private network at the company to house his play environment.  Remember, he wasn't trying to work against the system anymore, he was trying to create something to better mankind.  So...  good network security, but plenty of R&amp;amp;D money to make something huge.  The terminal at the arcade was more likely a telecommuting station than the whole project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, when he disappeared, the company continued making money as best it could (very well!).  Many of his projects were probably shut down, but some things get missed, or are too integrated into the company systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for data connections to the real world in Legacy, it's entirely possible the servers were fully connected.  Yes, it's quite likely there were massive firewalls and data connection was very limited so it took lots of work to get a cell call out.  But maybe not.  The programs in Legacy did not want logical access to the real world, they wanted physical access.  Something they could only get from elder Flynn.  Maybe they had all the data they needed, or maybe they were fully connected to data streams.  In any case, data wasn't what they wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="411" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T14:53:07.753" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2034" CreationDate="2012-04-20T16:28:25.467" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film inception isn't really about dream sharing, and while your question asks if it's possible I think that part is mostly fiction. While we might be able to one day visualize dreams on a monitor while they happen, transferring and connecting two or more people to a host's dream is purely science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, the film is about planting ideas via one's dream. Using their subconscious to control their waking behavior. That part of the film is very plausible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many psychology tests that measure's a persons ability to recall information from memory. When it comes to recalling information after a long period (several days) this is greatly improved if the information is studied just before a REM sleep cycle. If the person studies the information, sleeps and fails to dream, then recall performance is reduced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a connection between the development of long term memories and dreaming. Which raises the question, can you introduce new memories during a dream cycle? Yes, I think you can or at least it's a very popular myth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dreamscience.org/idx_science_of_dreaming_section-1.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;More info here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer your question, the plot of the film is plausible, the technique used in the film is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T08:16:08.997" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T08:16:08.997" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2051" CreationDate="2012-04-20T16:39:07.403" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Matt and Trey never censored South Park. The networks airing their show do the censoring as required by their broadcast licenses. A broadcast license is relative to the country that issues it. An Americian station's license is not govern by licenses required in Canada, even if their air waves cross the border.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you can watch an episode in Canada from the US and see content/language that you might not see on a Canadian channel, and vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see these shows aired without censorship when the broadcast uses data encryption to deliver the content. This might include networks like The Movie Network (TMN) and Comedy Central's subscription channels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Channels/air waves that employ encryption are not governed by public airwaves standards of their licenses, because the delivery is to targeted subscribers who pay to decrypt the signal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So on those channels you can see porn, hear all language, etc, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comedy Central is a subscription channel delivered privately to satellite/cable viewers who pay for the subscription. They likely switched over to encryption after digital TV became standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2012-04-20T19:39:50.783" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T19:39:50.783" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1109" CreationDate="2012-04-20T18:09:12.997" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assumed that with them being orphans, perhaps Bloom never had a first name (i.e. he was orphaned as an infant and was just Baby Bloom) so he always went by his last name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T18:09:12.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1691" CreationDate="2012-04-20T18:26:04.637" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might try episode two - that's the one where mentions Tibet, having a dream and then throwing the rocks to narrow down suspects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2012-04-20T18:26:04.637" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2057" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2061" CreationDate="2012-04-20T19:38:47.207" Score="14" ViewCount="2162" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &quot;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&quot; series musical episode, &quot;Once More With Feeling&quot;, during the Giles and Buffy fight montage (Song: 'Standing in the Way') there is a scene where Buffy is hitting a punching bag in slow motion. Giles in regular speed is singing, he walks in front of her and then behind her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand how one layer is through a green screen. I'm not entirely sure how it worked for two layers in real time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone give a quick synopses how this worked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-05-03T12:04:40.447" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T15:11:49.533" Title="Walking around someone who is moving in Slow Motion?" Tags="|film-techniques|effects|buffy-the-vampire-slayer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2058" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2062" CreationDate="2012-04-20T22:28:53.803" Score="5" ViewCount="1546" Body="&lt;p&gt;When &lt;em&gt;Dumb &amp;amp; Dumber&lt;/em&gt; came on TBS, I pulled my eight year old on the couch and said &quot;Here..let's watch this.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The laughs started when Jeff Daniels walked out in the dog suit and didn't stop till the credits rolled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a fun, bonding moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it came on Stars a few weeks later, we decided to watch it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This time, we saw scenes I had forgotten about; particularly Seabass and the bathroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very funny and nothing overt; but a theme I would have waited a few years to show my son.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, with that being said, is there a way to obtain a TV edit of a movie without waiting for it to actually come on TV?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing DVDs are out the question; but are there any online services that would offer this?  (e.g. if there was a TBS on demand that showed the edited Dumb &amp;amp; Dumber movie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T10:43:51.003" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T10:43:51.003" Title="Is there a way to view the &quot;TV Edits&quot; of movies without waiting for them to come on TV?" Tags="|distribution|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2057" CreationDate="2012-04-20T23:25:28.407" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not seen this episode, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/162462/philosophical-potential-in-buffy-the-vampire-slayer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;have read that the effect is similar to the &quot;bullet time&quot; special effects in the Matrix&lt;/a&gt;.  The latter was achieved using 120 still cameras in a circle surrounding the subject.  The still cameras are fired sequentially (for hyper-slow motion) or all at the same time (to freeze the action instead). The single frames from each camera are arranged and displayed consecutively to produce an orbiting viewpoint of the action.  Meanwhile a regular movie camera, running on a track and aligned with a laser targeting system, captures the live action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Matrix DVD has a special feature describing the process. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KtghA0rkDY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here's a link&lt;/a&gt; to it on YouTube:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_KtghA0rkDY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T09:37:53.040" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T09:37:53.040" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2057" CreationDate="2012-04-21T07:54:17.793" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't recall the particular shot, but the effect is commonly created using multiple composite layers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically there will be three layers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the person walking in real time,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the person in slow time,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the background&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each is filmed separately as individual layers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the &quot;people&quot; layers only the people (and I guess the punchbag in this case) are used - the rest of the layer is transparent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now in editing a composite is done with the background layer, then the Buffy layer, then the Giles layer. When Giles moves behind Buffy the editor simply swaps over the order of those two layers at that point. So&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Background &gt; Buffy &gt; Giles&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Becomes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Background &gt; Giles &gt; Buffy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result is that they then appear behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Filming wise this probably means that &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; actors were acting in front of a Chroma key (green) screen. Also if the camera was moving in the shot then a motion controlled camera is likely to ensure that each element of the composite was filmed from the same angle throughout the shot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1005" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T15:11:49.533" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T15:11:49.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2058" CreationDate="2012-04-21T12:40:00.827" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to answers on a similar question on ask.com, you have several options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check your local video store - they sometimes carry edited versions (especially Blockbuster),&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contact the production company directly to find out if they have edited films available,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Purchase a 'ClearPlay' DVD play that edits out offensive material as the film is played.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting this warning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Do not purchase copies of movies from companies that buy films and then edit them themselves. These companies operate in violation of current copyright law. ClearPlay doesn't violate copyright law because the technology doesn't alter the original version of the film and create a new one, according to Clean Edited Movies.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-04-21T12:40:00.827" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2063" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2089" CreationDate="2012-04-21T12:51:19.940" Score="55" ViewCount="46293" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a friend who has never seen Star Wars and he wants to watch it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am unsure which order I should suggest. Should he watch the old or new Trilogy first? Or some kind of mixed order? I am looking for a well-reasoned answer, not one-liners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36" LastEditorUserId="100979" LastEditDate="2023-12-11T22:53:30.293" LastActivityDate="2023-12-11T22:53:30.293" Title="In what order should a newcomer watch the Original and Prequel Star Wars films?" Tags="|star-wars|suggested-order|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2064" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2065" CreationDate="2012-04-21T13:00:13.033" Score="54" ViewCount="166051" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Obi-Wan fights Darth Vader in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/&quot;&gt;Episode IV: A New Hope&lt;/a&gt;, he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can't win, Vader. If you strike me down, I shall become more&#xA;  powerful than you can possibly imagine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does he mean by that? Is it true? If it is true, why does he tell Vader?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T19:24:05.833" LastActivityDate="2019-11-12T21:59:14.643" Title="Why does Obi-Wan say that he'll become more powerful if Vader kills him?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|star-wars|a-new-hope|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2064" CreationDate="2012-04-21T14:57:00.827" Score="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;He is referring to the fact that he will become one with The Force - a technique only a handful of jedi have learned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a 'spirit' he will continue to guide Luke, and thus become somewhat omniscient - subsequently becoming more powerful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might say as an older man, he had become physically weak, but once bonded with the Force he becomes greater than the sum of his parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="36" LastEditDate="2013-01-07T22:11:37.307" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T22:11:37.307" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2063" CreationDate="2012-04-21T14:59:53.040" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am watching the films with my little boy, and am using a new method that seems to be the most agreeable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ep. 4 - A New Hope &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ep. 5 - The Empire Strikes Back, &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;then go back and watch the three prequels as a sort of 'flashback'&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ep. 6 - Return of the Jedi.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this way, your child gets the full story of Anakin's rise, fall and redemption, without the big 'Father' surprise being spoiled. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="16465" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T16:13:11.613" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T16:13:11.613" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1109" CreationDate="2012-04-21T17:33:35.763" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Bloom&quot; is also a verb, which might mean they went for an admittedly weak pun in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastActivityDate="2012-04-21T17:33:35.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2068" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2103" CreationDate="2012-04-21T19:08:35.260" Score="6" ViewCount="56455" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1634121/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Intruders&lt;/a&gt; to be a rather confusing, and intellectually unsatisfying film.  I felt it left too many questions unanswered.  Or maybe I just didn't catch the answers--which could well be the case, considering I watched it in Mexico, where the Spanish scenes were not subtitled.  And although I do speak some Spanish, I didn't understand all of the Spanish-language dialog in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the origin of Hollowface, and how was he finally defeated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My best understanding of his defeat was that by sheer will power and/or knowledge of his nature, his power to frighten was lost.  Is this much accurate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-11-05T10:40:35.320" LastActivityDate="2013-08-03T01:08:09.277" Title="Where did Hollowface come from, and how was he defeated in Intruders?" Tags="|plot-explanation|intruders|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2069" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2080" CreationDate="2012-04-21T22:35:28.807" Score="12" ViewCount="4483" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got season five of &lt;em&gt;24&lt;/em&gt; from my local library. I't might be a long wait before I can get the other seasons, although I want to see them all eventually. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will it ruin the storyline if I start from season 5?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much of a continuing plot is there between seasons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1193" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T18:18:06.190" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T21:00:48.003" Title="Are seasons of 24 standalone stories or related in some way?" Tags="|plot-explanation|24|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2008" CreationDate="2012-04-22T01:43:45.067" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've some experiences in freelancing. I guess &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/2009&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; is correct because I've seen numerous job postings like this to give positive reviews. But one point to be noted is that, to stop this sort of rating manipulation, &lt;strong&gt;IMDB only counts votes from regular voters&lt;/strong&gt;. That means if you just register and give couple of movies very high ratings, you votes are not going to be included in the calculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I've another explanation, but I don't have any proof to back it up. Old movies are seen mostly by people who really love movies and passionate about them. They are more like movie critic type. On the other hand, new movies are seen mostly by general audiences. And I believe ratings from critics are most of the time less than the ratings from general audiences. So for this reason, being equal in quality, newer movies enjoy better ratings than old movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="324" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2013-04-21T02:19:22.230" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1479" CreationDate="2012-04-22T05:45:40.750" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know any French, but landed here looking for how many liberties they took with the subtitles.  They're throwing English puns in there because the French puns don't translate at all.  At one point, Hubert mishears &quot;un groupe hippie&quot; as &quot;un gros pipi&quot;, or mishears &quot;hippy commune&quot; as &quot;big tinkle&quot;.  Not much evolved beyond Austin Powers. :-}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1196" LastActivityDate="2012-04-22T05:45:40.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2072" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2073" CreationDate="2012-04-22T06:41:09.587" Score="9" ViewCount="1111" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mean according to Walter, there could be any number of infinite universes if I'm not wrong. So why do they only talk about two universes and only one remaining in the end. What about others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1197" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:27:14.943" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:07:22.180" Title="Why is there only a single parallel universe in Fringe?" Tags="|fringe|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2072" CreationDate="2012-04-22T12:42:44.167" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There can be a number of theories but I think the primary one is because it would have few viewers, certainly not enough to make the show profitable. TV shows are a conveyance for advertising - it is meant to be a profit center, &lt;i&gt;and cannot be just ART&lt;/i&gt;. Ideally every television show's advertisers want millions of viewers each week, something that is difficult if the audience is expected to reboot their thinking at every return from a commercial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;Are we in universe 1 or the alter-1?&quot;&lt;/i&gt; is easier to handle than, &lt;i&gt;&quot;Are we in universe 1, alter-1, alter-2, alter-3, or _alter-N?&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The writers would get confused, the actors would miscue which one they were supposedly in, the writers/actors would have to develop/portray different back story &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; keep them alive (but separate) simultaneously. All this is a lot of trouble, and would develop a diligent core viewership of &lt;em&gt;art followers&lt;/em&gt; who, granted would like to keep expanding the universe until it filled their heads. But, honestly, the number of viewers dwindles each time the alter-N is increased because, &lt;em&gt;&quot;It's just too damn hard&quot;&lt;/em&gt; to make it, to portray it, and, frankly, for the average viewer to watch it. And every time an audience member leaves, the show's sponsor's pockets gets slightly emptier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, they've acknowledged it through dialog that there are theoretically greater than two universes. However, I think they have kept the universes to two to keep the dedicated audience, and to help the actors and the writers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:07:22.180" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:07:22.180" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2069" CreationDate="2012-04-22T12:59:32.113" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;By all means begin watching 24 from series 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some storylines which carry forward, generally regarding Jack and his family and his colleagues/friends etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may find out things that are spoilers for the other earlier series, however this should be minimal and you'll be more interested in watching the earlier series to find out how it happened etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;24 is fantastic, don't even consider holding off watching it if you have it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastActivityDate="2012-04-22T12:59:32.113" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2069" CreationDate="2012-04-23T00:01:03.050" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would recommend that you watch them in order if possible, but do allow some time in between each season (i.e., don't watch one season and continue on to the next immediately).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There a few things that do carry forward from one season to the next and they certainly add to the events that are taking place. The show will still be great if you watch them out of order, just that you will miss out on some of the subtle sub plots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="379" LastActivityDate="2012-04-23T00:01:03.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2069" CreationDate="2012-04-23T01:36:24.063" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;24 is one show that I would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; recommend starting in the middle.  While each season is one complete day in the life of Jack Bauer, making each one &lt;em&gt;mostly&lt;/em&gt; a self-contained story, there are going to be &lt;em&gt;major&lt;/em&gt; spoilers for earlier seasons.  At the very least you'll learn who lives and who dies in earlier seasons, but there are also double agents, double-crosses and betrayals in 24 that will not be nearly as gripping if you already know who's on what side.  I think you'll enjoy the show a lot more if you start at season one and watch them in order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-04-23T01:36:24.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2072" CreationDate="2012-04-23T18:20:06.820" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any more and we'd either be watching sliders (with them unable to get home and constantly moving) or stargate (inevitable hostile universes trying to invade).. The story simply demands only 2...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1202" LastActivityDate="2012-04-23T18:20:06.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2082" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-23T18:24:52.743" Score="13" ViewCount="2426" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie The Time Traveler's Wife, shortly after Henry meets Clare for the first time, Clare spends the night at Henry's. Following morning she finds a lipstick in Henry's bathroom, and when Henry comes in he explains it by saying &quot;I'm not doing that anymore/It's in the past&quot; (something along those lines, not a direct quote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In another scene he's dressed up as a drag queen. No explanation is given, and I haven't had the chance to read the book. So I'm wondering, what does it mean? Is/was he a transvestite?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1201" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-13T18:13:53.550" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T18:13:53.550" Title="Henry's secret in The Time Traveler's Wife" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-time-travelers-wife|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2037" CreationDate="2012-04-23T21:47:46.073" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eve is the three-way hybrid daughter of Selene and Michael Corvin,&#xA;  through whom she is a descendant of Alexander Corvinus. In Underworld:&#xA;  Awakening, she tells Selene that her names is Subject 2. &lt;strong&gt;She was born&#xA;  without her parents' knowledge during their 12-year captivity in&#xA;  Antigen.&lt;/strong&gt; [Note] (this is also confirmed in bonus material on the DVD &amp;amp; Blu-ray).  The scientists in the facility told her that her parents were&#xA;  dead. &lt;strong&gt;After her escape, Selene discovers that she had given birth to&#xA;  Eve during her unconscious state.&lt;/strong&gt; Being pursued by both humans and&#xA;  Lycans because of her unique origin, and despite Selene's attempts to&#xA;  shield her from the dangers around them. Although never referred to as&#xA;  &quot;Eve&quot; in the film, the name has caught on among fans of the series.&#xA;  She is portrayed by India Eisley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: &quot;The first ten minutes of Underworld: Awakening is a prologue that explains everything that’s happened before the events of the film, then it cuts to 13 years later.&quot; ~ &lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/underworld-4-awakening-set-visit/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Underworld: Awakening Set Visit interview; Producer Richard Wright Full Interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the details from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="21319" LastEditDate="2016-06-08T14:09:33.843" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T14:09:33.843" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2082" CreationDate="2012-04-23T22:33:31.470" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Henry does have a relationship with another woman named Ingrid in the book.  This takes place before he meets Clare.  Ingrid doesn't appear in the movie, but it's her lipstick that Clare finds in the book, so I assume it was hers as well in the film, but they just dropped the character due to time/budget constraints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've only seen the film once, but I don't remember a scene where Henry was dressed in drag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-04-23T22:33:31.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2087" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2105" CreationDate="2012-04-23T23:21:58.267" Score="9" ViewCount="1522" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched a movie approx 5/6 years ago on TV and I don't remember its name and watched it only for 5 minutes. Now I want to watch it in full but do not know its name or any other detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only remember a scene where an adult (young) boy in a toilet talking to an evil insect-like creature (insect is in wash-basin) is standing against him. The insect is using abusive language and then it somehow kills an old man sitting on a pot. Then the adult boy's ear is staring to ejaculate fluid and then he forcibly tried to clear his ear and a long creepy snake like dead thing come out of his ear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more thing this insect like thing have some supernatural power and it is long thick insect like a small snake structure but too fatty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is like some kind of horror flick and its looks like some recent movie of that time. Can anybody recognize it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-02T13:57:01.343" LastActivityDate="2016-11-02T13:57:01.343" Title="Boy in a toilet talking to an evil insect-like creature" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:36:23.880" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2087" CreationDate="2012-04-24T02:06:52.287" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds a bit like &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Naked Lunch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From one of the user reviews:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's a ride, a drug-induced nightmare full of horribly funny visions (the sort of visions that artists used centuries ago to represent hell). Anuses talk. Aliens sip alcohol in bars. People get impaled. Typewriters turn into bugs. Liquids ooze.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-10T11:58:30.457" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T11:58:30.457" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2063" CreationDate="2012-04-24T09:13:25.520" Score="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nomachetejuggling.com/2011/11/11/the-star-wars-saga-suggested-viewing-order/&quot;&gt;Machete Order&lt;/a&gt; seems to be a great idea. It is a variation of the method @Nobby suggested, but it leaves out Episode I completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the order is: &lt;strong&gt;IV, V, II, III, VI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article is long but worth reading, it makes a lot of great points. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little extract on why Episode I is unnecessary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Episode I is a failure on every possible level. (...) Luckily, George&#xA;  Lucas has done everyone a favor by making the content of Episode I&#xA;  completely irrelevant to the rest of the series. Seriously, think&#xA;  about it for a minute. Name as many things as you can that happen in&#xA;  Episode I and actually help flesh out the story in any subsequent&#xA;  episode. (...) Every character established in Episode I is either&#xA;  killed or removed before it ends (Darth Maul, Qui-Gon, Chancellor&#xA;  Valorum), unimportant (Nute Gunray, Watto), or established better in a&#xA;  later episode (Mace Windu, Darth Sidious).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(already added it as a comment, but I think it deserves its own answer)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="36" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T09:13:25.520" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2090" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3113" CreationDate="2012-04-24T11:29:05.003" Score="14" ViewCount="18476" Body="&lt;p&gt;While Joe and Frank are at Dunning's house, the FBI (or maybe the CIA, or maybe both!?) surrounds them. Victoria tells them they are surrounded and there is no clean exit, but she can cover them to the woods, if they can create a distraction. Frank tells Cooper he is surrendering and coming out, and Cooper swears that he will be safe. He issues a no-shoot order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Frank (Joe pretending to be Frank) leaves the house he is shot instantly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who shot him and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-01-20T15:20:51.923" LastActivityDate="2021-11-24T00:15:05.853" Title="In &quot;Red&quot;, who shoots Joe as he leaves Dunning's house?" Tags="|plot-explanation|red|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1821" CreationDate="2012-04-24T11:53:49.793" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've done some more digging on this according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviequotesandmore.com/shawshank-redemption-mistakes.html#.T5aQB7MS3hc&quot;&gt;moviequotesandmore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When the top of the pipe is broken open, it shoots a fountain, indicating that it is pressurized (if only by gravity). But then the pipe drains nearly empty. It should only have drained to the lowest point in the hole broken at the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and there's an even more detailed discussion on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slipups.com/items/3897.html&quot;&gt;Slipups&lt;/a&gt; That discusses such things as &lt;strong&gt;fluid dynamics&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;the angle of the pipe&lt;/strong&gt; and the &lt;strong&gt;effectiveness of the shot&lt;/strong&gt; i.e. getting the audience to feel revolted for what Andy had to go through.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that this was a deliberate mistake that the director decided would enhance the shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T11:53:49.793" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2092" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2093" CreationDate="2012-04-24T12:04:32.477" Score="14" ViewCount="3635" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene that I am referring to is the one in which the Nebuchadnezzar comes to Zion for the first time in the film (after the all captains meeting in the Matrix).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the control room where the women in white guide the ship home, there are some people (4 if I remember correctly) who are shown to be lying on a couch like surface within the control room itself and are plugged in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The camera never lingers on them for very long - but they are very clearly shown a couple of times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I understand correctly, people cannot broadcast from within Zion - but need to find a secure broadcast facility outside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what are these people connected to? Is there any relevance to it? Seems like a decent amount of work to have people shown plugged in - if it does not mean anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1172" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-04-24T12:46:29.993" LastActivityDate="2017-09-30T16:45:04.060" Title="In Matrix Reloaded, what are the 'traffic control' people connected to?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix-reloaded|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2092" CreationDate="2012-04-24T12:22:41.503" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;It relates to the training areas of the first movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you recall, the ships are there in order to broadcast a &lt;em&gt;'hacker signal'&lt;/em&gt; into the Matrix in order to get their people inside it.  This requires them to travel a great distance away from Zion.  From this we can deduce that this is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; the Matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, recall that where they trained Neo (and themselves, for that matter) is essentially a Local-only (LAN only) version of the Matrix where they could create whatever they pleased (called &lt;em&gt;The Construct&lt;/em&gt;).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This area that these 'Gatekeepers' appear to be plugged into is a similar Construct.  It gives them computers and a database and all other kinds of control over the gates and who does/does not have access to Zion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as meaning and how much work it requires, I cannot say that this all seems practical, nor does it seem likely that they should be doing this, but such is the way of this series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T12:22:41.503" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2098" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2099" CreationDate="2012-04-24T16:49:21.240" Score="9" ViewCount="1798" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the significance (if any) of the title of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaagaz_Ke_Phool&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kaagaz Ke Phool&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1210" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-21T14:22:01.203" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T10:34:18.153" Title="Does the title of Kaagaz Ke Phool carry any significance?" Tags="|title|kaagaz-ke-phool|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2098" CreationDate="2012-04-24T16:58:12.497" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052954/reviews&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;As discussed on IMDB&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An interpretation of the title Kaagaz ke phool (exact translation means &quot;Paper flowers&quot;.) Bees look for honey and hunt for flowers. A song from movie &quot;Dekhi zamaane ki yaari&quot; says &quot;Oh thirsty bees, fly away from here these are all Paper flowers (naturally they don't have what the bees are searching for!&quot;).&#xA;So this name suits the movie in a way that it's saying the world as artificial paper flowers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T10:34:18.153" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T10:34:18.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2100" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-24T17:30:08.723" Score="8" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Aguirre: The Wrath of God&lt;/em&gt;, two natives approach the raft, and are taken aboard.  After the priest on the raft attempts to convert them by showing them the bible and saying that it is the word of God, one of the natives tries to listen to it, and complains he can't hear anything.  This makes the people on the raft upset, and they gather around, yelling at the natives, who crouch down, presumably in fright.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, in the next scene, they are gone for good.  Were we supposed to infer that they were killed?  The movie didn't shy away from showing other deaths.  But it's not obvious that they could have gone anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I miss something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="270" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-08-31T08:13:25.437" LastActivityDate="2013-08-31T08:13:25.437" Title="What happened to the natives?" Tags="|plot-explanation|aguirre-wrath-of-god|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2101" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2119" CreationDate="2012-04-24T17:35:22.693" Score="5" ViewCount="26634" Body="&lt;p&gt;In A Tale of Two Sisters, during a seizure, a woman happens to see something (someone?) under the sink, and she tells her husband about it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We later see a hand come out from under the sink, but due to the nature of the movie (a very unreliable narrator), we can't easily know for sure if the hand was real.  However, we have no reason that I know of to distrust what the first woman saw.  Was there a tie in with the rest of the story somehow?  Or was this just a red herring?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="270" LastEditorUserId="270" LastEditDate="2013-05-07T15:10:15.603" LastActivityDate="2019-01-03T22:07:36.020" Title="What was under the sink in A Tale of Two Sisters?" Tags="|plot-explanation|a-tale-of-two-sisters|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="563" CreationDate="2012-04-24T20:22:31.567" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first life he took was his unborn twin brother he strangled with his own umbilical cord while in the womb. See the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Constantine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="206" LastActivityDate="2012-04-24T20:22:31.567" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2068" CreationDate="2012-04-24T22:32:49.620" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie opens with a young boy, Juan, in Spain having nightmares about&#xA;Hollowface, a monster with no face. The plot then moves to England, following John and his family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shows two parallel stories with a connection;Juan is actually John (Mia's father).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, John realizes his Hollowface connection with his daughter. Hollowface is disguised as a monster to suppress post traumatic stress. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John's mom relocated to England to escape the death of Juan's father in Spain. John's biological father is Hollowface, who he created as the young Juan through storytelling. Mia and John shared a psychic connection, so Hollowface is a fabricated spirit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John's biological father who was released from jail attempted to abduct him. As a result, Juan and the mom watch the father fall off the ledge and into cement/soil. The mom refused to confess to the priest about the traumatic event that caused Juan nightmares.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original synopsis found at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.twistendings.com/2013/08/intruders-movie-with-twist.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Twist Endings&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-03T01:08:09.277" LastActivityDate="2013-08-03T01:08:09.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2030" CreationDate="2012-04-24T22:58:20.010" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not watched &lt;em&gt;Batman Returns&lt;/em&gt; but if it is like &lt;em&gt;Catwoman&lt;/em&gt;; Patience (the Catwoman incarnation of this movie) died and cats make her alive again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is told by the old woman (who is slightly implied to be Selina Kyle) that cats have magical powers and revived her from the dead and gave her abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2023-12-17T13:21:30.610" LastActivityDate="2023-12-17T13:21:30.610" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2087" CreationDate="2012-04-24T23:07:08.190" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like the excellent &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094793/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brain Damage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an image from the bathroom scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o68wz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and here's the &quot;creepy snake&quot; from his ear (it's not a snake): &lt;a href=&quot;http://rue-morgue.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/bdcolor65.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NSFW - Gore&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1183" LastEditorUserId="1183" LastEditDate="2012-04-25T16:48:53.807" LastActivityDate="2012-04-25T16:48:53.807" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2107" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2112" CreationDate="2012-04-25T06:58:26.823" Score="8" ViewCount="1146" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a die-hard fan of the X-Men animated series &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men%3a_Evolution&quot;&gt;X-Men Evolution&lt;/a&gt; and I also like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_%28film_series%29#Main_series&quot;&gt;X-Men Movie Trilogy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the main trilogy there are two more movies (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/&quot;&gt;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270798/&quot;&gt;X-Men: First Class&lt;/a&gt;) which are prequels. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why have the writers and directors decided to do &lt;em&gt;prequels&lt;/em&gt; rather than a &lt;em&gt;sequel&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_%28film_series%29#Sequels_to_X-Men%3a_First_Class&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; says that they are planing for a sequel for the &lt;em&gt;X-Men First Class&lt;/em&gt; movie but there is no clarification about an &lt;em&gt;X-Men 4&lt;/em&gt; movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T18:13:11.400" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T06:26:13.060" Title="Why is the production team making prequels of X-Men rather than sequels?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|movie-franchise|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2108" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2109" CreationDate="2012-04-25T10:21:14.067" Score="18" ViewCount="23033" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do the film makers take permission of all the real people (that were portrayed in the film) before making the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, is it okay / legal for anyone to make such a film - considering that it portrays (down to using the real names of) people who are alive during the screening of the movie - especially if many of the parts of the film are &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/trivia?tab=tr&amp;amp;item=tr1375858&quot;&gt;apparently&lt;/a&gt;&quot; inaccurate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried searching in relation to &lt;em&gt;The Social Network&lt;/em&gt; and could not get any definite answer. What I got was this following quote from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/trivia?tab=tr&amp;amp;item=tr1351193&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was not involved with this film&#xA;  adaptation of author Ben Mezrich's biographical novel 'The Accidental&#xA;  Billionaires', neither did he meet Jesse Eisenberg prior to, or&#xA;  during, the movie shoot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1172" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2013-11-04T04:04:36.430" LastActivityDate="2013-11-04T04:04:36.430" Title="How can a studio make a biographic film like The Social Network?" Tags="|biopic|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2108" CreationDate="2012-04-25T11:37:03.850" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;No one owns the story of their own life. It is absolutely legal for people to write unauthorized biographies, make documentaries or dramas about someone without needing their permission. You do not need permission to portray a real person in a work of art such as a book or movie - this happens all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for accuracy, in most countries you have recourse to the law if you think you have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation&quot;&gt;libeled&lt;/a&gt; by someone in a work of art. However the level of proof and the necessity to demonstrate damage to your reputation may be high depending on the country you attempt to do this in - it is for example easier to claim libel in the UK compared to the USA. Freedom of speech is enshrined in law in many countries and works against rights to privacy or being libeled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally it is often simply not worth fighting something like this, the negative publicity of trying to stifle the creator of a work of art can at times be considerable. Taking to the courts to defend your privacy can draw attention to your situation or your discomfort more .. see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect&quot;&gt;Streisand Effect&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that this book and the movie are about a lawsuit, would make any defamation claim that might be brought by Mark Z even bigger news - therefore likely to be worse publicity, even if he could prove libelous damage against him.  Given that he is a very successful businessman, it is probably not worth his time and effort pursuing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-04-25T16:13:00.950" LastActivityDate="2012-04-25T16:13:00.950" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2111" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2113" CreationDate="2012-04-25T13:50:40.440" Score="26" ViewCount="26429" Body="&lt;p&gt;In some movies, for instance the &lt;strong&gt;Jaws series&lt;/strong&gt;, it's a wonderful feeling to see sharks  underwater and have it feel very realistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious to know how they film underwater scenes in movies.  Not just in Jaws, but other movies as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;What are the techniques used to film the underwater scenes in movies?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lPao0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-06-05T15:51:57.910" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T16:14:51.083" Title="How are underwater scenes in movies filmed?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2107" CreationDate="2012-04-25T14:35:26.093" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this quote on the X-men: First Class wiki page gives us a decent amount of insight as to why they're making &quot;prequels&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As producer Simon Kinberg read the comic series X-Men: First Class, he&#xA;  suggested studio 20th Century Fox to adapt it. Kinberg, however, did&#xA;  not want to follow the comic too much, as he felt &quot;it was not fresh&#xA;  enough in terms of storytelling&quot;, considering them too similar to John&#xA;  Hughes movies, and also that the producers wanted an adaptation that&#xA;  would introduce new characters. Both Kinberg and Shuler Donner said&#xA;  they wanted characters with visuals and powers that had not been seen&#xA;  yet, and that worked well as an ensemble even if they did not work&#xA;  together in the comics.[11] Shuler Donner later said the original idea&#xA;  was to green-light First Class depending on the success of X-Men&#xA;  Origins: Magneto&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we see that they wanted a shift in focus from the main set of characters established in the X-Men trilogy.  While quite a few characters were introduced, the main plots revolved around only a hand full of characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reasoning is that the X-Men universe is quite vast and dynamic.  Each character has more than one story arc that just can't be covered in one or two movies.  For example, if we look at the story arcs for Wolverine, we get something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pre-Memory loss (X-Men Origins: Wolverine)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post Memory Loss (X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wolverine and the X-Men (X-Men 1-3)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, character story arcs criss-cross in the X-Men universe.  It is literally a giant bowl of spaghetti, complicated even more by time travel in some instances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-04-25T14:35:26.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2111" CreationDate="2012-04-25T15:11:34.300" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mostly with &lt;strong&gt;underwater cameras and divers mixed with Computer Generated Imagery (CGI)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This particular scene looks to be filmed completely underwater with a&#xA;shark model. Nowadays they would simply film the water surface and add a CG&#xA;shark later. CG effects grow better and they just make complete scene with CG.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When there is a need to film an actor in water the scene is shot in a swimming pool&#xA;and cover the background with green screen so the CG can make it seem they are deep in the water or in some other location.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Behind the cameras there is full team in scuba gear.  The scene is shot in many little pieces depending how long actors can hold their breaths before they surface or are given an air tank.  When the video is cut and other camera angles added it appears as they never left the water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When an actor's face is not visible, a professional &quot;breath hold&quot; diver is shot in the scene in one continuous roll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3qtbO7zz8A&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; you can see how they filmed &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; underwater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-07-16T05:46:47.510" LastActivityDate="2013-07-16T05:46:47.510" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2090" CreationDate="2012-04-25T16:03:56.673" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your point will become clearer by the following scene from the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cooper tries to negotiate Frank's surrender, but Frank tells Cooper&#xA;  about the vice-president's treachery, which shakes his faith. Joe&#xA;  sacrifices himself by taking Frank's place and pretending to give up.&#xA;  An unknown sniper kills Joe as he leaves the mansion, despite Cooper's&#xA;  order to hold fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source- &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RED_%282010_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-07-01T19:18:12.870" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T19:18:12.870" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-04-25T16:11:19.677" Score="17" ViewCount="5247" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080455&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blues Brothers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1980) for the first time last night and I couldn't help but see many parallels between it and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091042&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ferris Bueller's Day Off&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1986).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both plots feature an adventure in the city of Chicago. There are some similar scenes such as the scene at the French restaurant and over-the-top musical numbers. The two movies had a very similar feel in many places and I can't help but compare them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were the creators of &lt;em&gt;Ferris Bueller's Day Off&lt;/em&gt; inspired by &lt;em&gt;Blues Brothers&lt;/em&gt;? Were specific parallels drawn intentionally?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="765" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-02-01T21:37:39.060" LastActivityDate="2018-07-19T21:35:12.333" Title="Is Ferris Bueller's Day Off intentionally inspired by Blues Brothers?" Tags="|analysis|ferris-buellers-day-off|the-blues-brothers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2107" CreationDate="2012-04-25T22:56:29.057" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot provide as much insight (or any knowledge about the comics) as DForck42's answer. But from a mere movie viewpoint the finale X-Men tirlogy was a pretty closed end, with many main characters dying, or losing their powers (Xavier, Jean Grey, Magneto).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this can make it a bit harder to start a new story after those events, whereas the time before all those events is still fresh and it might be an easier option to turn there for new X-Men stories (at least for now).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2012-04-25T22:56:29.057" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2117" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2118" CreationDate="2011-10-03T15:29:31.590" Score="31" ViewCount="1012" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Harry Potter movies are clearly intended for people who have been reading the books but unlike situations where a single movie is made from a single book, these movies were released prior to the completion of the book series.  This means that most readers were aware of the movie interpretation of events as they continued with the series.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the success of the Harry Potter books and movie series, this multimedia model of of storytelling is likely to become more common. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does this multimedia exposure to a story affect the relationship between the reader and the story in ways that differ from past models where the reader experienced the book and movie separately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1326" OwnerDisplayName="DQdlM" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-21T13:14:45.443" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T13:14:45.443" Title="How is the relationship between the reader and the story affected by movies that are released prior to the completion of a book series?" Tags="|book-adaptation|reception|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2117" CreationDate="2011-10-03T22:37:18.387" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;For starters, it might help to think about some of the differences that we experience when viewing a single movie made from a single book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Appearance/attractiveness of characters.  Especially for those characters to whom we're attracted, the change of blond hair to brown, or dark skin to light can be jarring.  This is always going to happen because film creators are limited by the set of actors who actually exist, whereas of course characters in books are not limited at all.  (Eg. Brad Pitt plays the attractive guy, regardless of whether he matches the character's description.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ethnicity of characters.  In Western literature, non-white characters are going to be made &quot;ethnically explicit&quot; much more often than white characters.  Seeing a character whose race is different than expected on screen might entirely shift the ways in which readers identify with that character.  (Is Harry Potter ever explicitly identified as white in the book?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tone of characters or settings.  Perhaps you imagined a particular setting as a very dark place, while it's filmed very brightly.  Or maybe you see the evil character as darkly serious but the film portrays her as careless and apathetic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Emphasizing of different portions of the story.  Did anyone else miss Tom Bombadil?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general effect is one of discordance.  What we expect is slanted, mutated or sometimes flat-out untrue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we're talking about movies and books being intermingled in the way Harry Potter has, we get two competing effects:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the discordance of bouncing between multiple interpretations, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a synergizing of the content such that the books will provide subtext for unseen portions of the movies, while the movies will gradually shape how we interpret the books.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quality of the adaptation determines the extent to which we move from the former to the latter over time.  If they complement one another, then alternating between book and movie can be an enriching experience.  If the films are of bad quality or offend your interpretation, obviously the experience will be less pleasant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The films overshadowing the books can be another problem, depending on your point of view.  This can result in some practical concerns, like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They provide a sort of objective interpretation.  When friends quote the characters, for instance, they'll likely quote the film version simply because everyone will recognize the reading - even if the line is exactly the same in the book.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some readers may ignore remaining books entirely, knowing that the movies will be easier to consume and not too far off.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The story may not be &quot;done&quot; until the last film, which puts the books in an oddly secondary position in spite of being source material.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that similar phenomena can happen outside the book/film context.  The toys released in advance of each new Star Wars movie rather ruined some of the fun, for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1214" OwnerDisplayName="ladenedge" LastActivityDate="2011-10-04T18:17:13.013" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2101" CreationDate="2012-04-26T12:07:31.223" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie recently and from what I could gather, everything that happened (except the part where the older sister returns to the house after her treatment and the bird being killed) is imagined...it's in the mind, because of her dissociative identity disorder. The other woman couldnt have arrived at all, I think, because all the while the stepmother was not present at all in the house. She arrives only much later. So if the stepmother wasn't there, and it was the girl imagining everything, even these incidents are part of the supposed imagination. A bit far fetched I know but this is the best I could comprehend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: It appears my interpretation of this was skewed. The family dinner did happen and the woman did see something. It seems that what she was is supposed to be a ghost of the dead sister. Please see this link for a detailed discussion on the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/135340-a-tale-of-two-sisters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/135340-a-tale-of-two-sisters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="240" LastEditorUserId="240" LastEditDate="2012-04-27T07:31:12.630" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T07:31:12.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2120" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2127" CreationDate="2012-04-26T12:25:40.563" Score="8" ViewCount="3013" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Saw 3D it is revealed that Dr. Lawrence Gordon, John's oncologist from the first film, is with John after Saw 1.  Since this was the case, why did John kidnap Lynn Denlon (another oncologist doctor) for his operation in Saw 3? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is seemingly no need to have Lynn Denlon because John's tumor cannot be treated as said in Saw 1 and even Lynn Denlon also said the same in the SAW 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-05T12:54:18.107" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T12:54:18.107" Title="Why did Jigsaw kidnap Lynn Denlon for his operation in Saw 3?" Tags="|plot-explanation|saw|saw-3|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2121" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-04-26T13:03:37.927" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Horror film franchise based on the exploits of &quot;Jigsaw&quot;, a terminally ill man obsessed with putting his victims in harm's way via logic puzzles and physical restraints of his own design. The victims are given a choice, the choice to live or the choice to die. Choosing to live comes with a heavy price, which invariably involves severe physical suffering and disfigurement. Many of the victims fail to survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4001" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditorDisplayName="user4001" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T00:21:31.053" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T00:21:31.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2122" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-04-26T13:03:37.927" Score="0" Body="Horror film franchise based on the exploits of &quot;Jigsaw&quot;, a terminally ill man obsessed with putting his victims in harm's way via logic puzzles and physical restraints of his own design. " OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T00:21:06.003" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T00:21:06.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2123" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-04-26T13:06:05.940" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-04-26T13:06:05.940" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T13:06:05.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2124" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-04-26T13:06:05.940" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-04-26T13:06:05.940" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T13:06:05.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2125" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-04-26T13:07:43.117" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-04-26T13:07:43.117" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T13:07:43.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2126" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-04-26T13:07:43.117" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-04-26T13:07:43.117" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T13:07:43.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2120" CreationDate="2012-04-26T14:04:12.763" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jigsaw was just testing her and her husband he didn't intend to survive that's why he recorded that little tape that he ate at the bed, also he was testing Amanda along the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Saw 3D you can see Lawrence Gordon suggesting Lynn Denlon as a test subject to John along few other quick cut scenes of him setting the traps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would he test Lynn since she doesn't look like bad person? Actress who played her told &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Saw_characters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;But I think, in his mind, because my character's depressed ... so she's been dead inside. She's totally dead inside and this is Jigsaw's way of waking her up and saying, 'What the hell are you doing?' And she does. You see the metamorphosis in her.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T10:41:00.403" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T10:41:00.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2128" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3020" CreationDate="2012-04-26T15:26:20.930" Score="6" ViewCount="345" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somewhere in the middle of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113269/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Haunted (1995)&lt;/a&gt;, Robert Mariell kissed his sister Christina in the painting room while David was spying on them. Why did he kiss his own sister? What is the significance of that scene? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2016-01-03T01:02:04.363" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T01:02:04.363" Title="Why did Robert Mariell kiss his sister?" Tags="|plot-explanation|haunted|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2132" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2140" CreationDate="2012-04-26T17:29:18.873" Score="19" ViewCount="2442" Body="&lt;p&gt;In First Blood&quot; (1982),  When John Rambo travels to the small town of Hope, Oregon, he was quickly spotted by the town's sheriff, Will Teasle. Teasle soon picks him up and drives him to the edge of town, while stressing his dislike of drifters and &quot;trouble makers.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rambo begins heading back into town immediately after being dropped off, and Teasle then arrests him when Rambo did not comply and takes him to the local police station.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the story goes on...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the government of USA allow this kind of activities by a sheriff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does a sheriff possess power to kick somebody out of a town without any reason? Then if he doesn't want to be kicked off, does a sheriff have enough power to take him into custody?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1215" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-12-21T10:46:48.907" LastActivityDate="2017-07-11T08:26:22.697" Title="Is the overzealous and overprotectiveness of Sheriff Will Teasle as seen in the movie &quot;First Blood&quot; (1982) possible in USA?" Tags="|first-blood|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2133" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2134" CreationDate="2012-04-26T18:08:09.067" Score="10" ViewCount="1155" Body="&lt;p&gt;This still is from &lt;em&gt;30 Rock&lt;/em&gt; season 3 episode #14, &quot;The Funcooker&quot;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QSuNc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;30 Rock&lt;/em&gt; is known for its attention to detail and its endless pursuit of even minor jokes and sight gags, so I am willing to bet that the face on the cover of this magazine is some crush of Liz's that is mentioned at some point, either in previous or subsequent episodes. (Is it Astronaut Mike Dexter, by any chance?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So. Can anyone figure out who's on the cover of this magazine? Is it a reference to anything, within or outside of the &lt;em&gt;30 Rock&lt;/em&gt; canon? Bonus points: is this a real issue of &lt;em&gt;Playgirl&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-11T04:57:23.920" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T04:57:23.920" Title="Who's on the cover of this issue of Playgirl in 30 Rock?" Tags="|props|30-rock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2133" CreationDate="2012-04-26T20:39:56.563" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is a real issue. It is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://oldmags.com/issue/Playgirl-December-1979&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;December 1979 issue&lt;/a&gt; (Special Christmas Issue) of Playgirl magazine, and the person on the cover is &lt;strong&gt;Nick Nolte&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/a33N9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastActivityDate="2012-04-26T20:39:56.563" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2132" CreationDate="2012-04-26T22:44:15.580" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ehow.com/info_8328761_difference-between-sheriff-city-police.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;definitions&lt;/a&gt; of sheriff versus that of police chief helps to distinguish whether Will Teasle is truly acting outside the allowable confines of the role.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The easy answer is that sheriffs exercise control exactly the way they want, subject only to the citizenry they serve, because the job is political in addition to law enforcement. His job incorporates law enforcement, but is much more. Based in the tradition of the &quot;shire reeve&quot;, who served the dictates of the king, in current times, he serves the dictates of the citizenry who elected him. Keeping the town clear of vagrants seems exactly the type of loosely-defined role a sheriff would be assigned.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;While I agree that Teasle may have been unfair and overzealous, I don't believe he did anything illegal. Stallone/Rambo clearly gave off the look and attitude of a drifter (long hair, dishevelled look, American flag decorations, backpack), and Teasle merely made a rapid decision to rush him out of town. For a sheriff who considered his God status unquestionable, Stallone clearly questioned it by returning to town. By twisting the sheriff's arm, he got his own twisted in return.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I don't even believe the actions of the deputies who cleaned Rambo up with the water hose were illegal, either, nor the attempted shave. Every prisoner everywhere gets a shower and a shave. Rambo was not cooperative, possibly even combative, so the exercise of constraint by the beating was something that could be described as defensive, and Rambo would need a witness to the contrary to form a case of brutality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-12-20T18:17:03.687" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T18:17:03.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2137" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2138" CreationDate="2012-04-26T23:08:20.840" Score="7" ViewCount="4179" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Saw 3&lt;/em&gt;, a sequence is shown where Dr. Lynn Denlon performs an operation on John (Jigsaw) using a drill and other similar tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first question is, how can they perform an operation where hardware tools are used rather than medical instruments? Also, how can a person speak during his open brain surgery?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My second question is, is there any similarity between this operation sequence and reality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2021-11-11T07:25:18.127" LastActivityDate="2021-11-11T07:25:18.127" Title="Is the brain sequence similar to reality or not?" Tags="|film-techniques|realism|saw|saw-3|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2137" CreationDate="2012-04-27T00:02:39.620" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not seen the movie so I have not seen the tools themselves. However operations which require cutting bone often require tools which might at first glance look like conventional power tools, such as drills. Tools designed for operations are designed to be very controllable in terms of speeds and the cutting implements themselves are made of high quality materials to prevent contamination, and can be autoclaved to be sterilized (using high pressure and temperature) but essentially they are not that far removed from hardware tools. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of being awake during surgery. The main reason to anaesthetise a patient in an operation is to prevent the pain and stop any movement which would disturb the operation. The scalp itself has pain receptors but the brain has none, once the work has progressed into the brain itself no pain from that part would be felt, but with a local topical anaesthetic the scalp might not be too painful. One could imagine that you could be awake but not be in much discomfort in a brain operation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-10-19T13:51:55.600" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T13:51:55.600" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2139" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2559" CreationDate="2012-04-27T04:29:23.047" Score="3" ViewCount="1497" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is Choti Bahu killed by Majle Babu's henchmen in 1962's movie Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam? If yes, then why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1210" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-12-05T13:28:04.583" LastActivityDate="2017-06-29T21:08:51.810" Title="Can someone explain the ending of Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sahib-biwi-aur-ghulam|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2132" CreationDate="2012-04-27T12:15:57.750" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Such laws, since the 1972 Supreme Court decision &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papachristou_v._Jacksonville&quot;&gt;Papachristou v. Jacksonville&lt;/a&gt;, have to be written so that they're not arbitrarily vague or enforced and that proper public notice has to be given. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the movie was set after that time, it could be argued that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rambo_characters#Will_Teasle&quot;&gt;Teasle&lt;/a&gt; wasn't acting within US law although a vagrancy law that predated that decision might still be on the books in the town. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His arrest and subsequent treatment could have been challenged legally, probably with some success, but his actions following it were illegal and more or less made it a moot point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="637" LastEditorDisplayName="user1215" LastEditDate="2012-04-27T13:20:26.910" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T13:20:26.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2108" CreationDate="2012-04-27T18:37:49.787" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's possible to libel living people, as Metro­GoldwynMayer discovered in 1934 when Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupoff sued them for defamation over &lt;em&gt;Rasputin and the Empress&lt;/em&gt;, claiming &amp;quot;she was clearly recognizable in the film as Princess Natasha, whose intended, Prince Chegodiefl, murders &amp;quot;the mad monk&amp;quot; in a palace on the Moika River.&amp;quot; MGMy were found guilty and heavily fined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this, film makers began claiming their films were entirely fictional, whether they were or not. Natalie Zemon Davis said on 12 April 1987 at Duke University during the Fifth Annual Patricia Wise Lecture of the American Film Institute:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since 1934, any number of films have used some version of this disclaimer: &amp;quot;The events and characters depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;Raging Bull&lt;/em&gt; has the formula at its end, even though its subject, Jake LaMotta, is listed as a consultant and the film is remarkable in its evocation of the boxing milieu and the constraints of manliness in Italo­American families of the 1950s. &lt;em&gt;Platoon&lt;/em&gt; also has the formula at its end; yet it is based on the experiences of the director, Oliver Stone, in Vietnam. It has even been praised by veterans, among them a career Marine writing in the &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt;, for &amp;quot;its authentic portrayal of infantrymen.&amp;quot; And Andrzej Wajda's &lt;em&gt;Danton&lt;/em&gt;, after the guillotine has done its work and the credits have told who played the various revolutionaries and who served as historical consultant, flashes its final message (or at least it does in the American version): &amp;quot;The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any resemblance to the names, character, or history of any person is coincidental and unintentional.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, the &amp;quot;coincidence&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;fictitious&amp;quot; disclaimers are in. adequate summaries of the truth status of many films to which they are appended. Nor do they fully protect against a defamation suit, as the makers of the World War II movie &lt;em&gt;They Were Expendable&lt;/em&gt; were to learn when sued by Commander Robert Kelly in 1948, and as the makers of &lt;em&gt;The Bell Jar&lt;/em&gt; learned when sued earlier this year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &lt;em&gt;The Social Network&lt;/em&gt;, Jim Emerson says on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2010/12/la_ny_crix_love_the_social_net.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chicago Sun-Times scanners blog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as with any work of fiction or nonfiction based on historical events, whether it's Arthur Penn's &amp;quot;Bonnie and Clyde&amp;quot; or Bob Woodward's latest book (&amp;quot;The Social Network&amp;quot; was fictionalized from accounts in the &amp;quot;nonfictionish&amp;quot; book &amp;quot;The Accidental Millionaires&amp;quot; by Ben Mezrich), Fincher and Assayas's films are fictions that derive much of their texture from precise observations of time and place, even if the characters' personalities and interactions are matters of artistic license. That's art. (And forget about eyewitness accounts; they're about as likely to be &amp;quot;accurate&amp;quot; as something the filmmakers just made up.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For legal as well as artistic reasons, there's also this familiar-sounding mantra, quoted from the end credits of &amp;quot;The Social Network&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;While this story is inspired by actual events, certain characters, characterizations, incidents, locations and dialogue were fictionalized or invented for purposes of dramatization. With respect to such fictionalization or invention, any similarity to the name or to the actual character or history of any person, living or dead, or any product or entity or actual incident is entirely for dramatic purposes and not intended to reflect on any actual character, history, product or entity.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the filmmakers are saying: &amp;quot;Yes, we know exactly what kind of beer the real Zuckerberg drank on that particular occasion and what sandals he wore and, no, we don't care that he actually had a girlfriend all through college and is still with her at the time of this movie's release. We have decided to include the former details and not the latter because this is the movie we want to make.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T18:37:49.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2143" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2144" CreationDate="2012-04-27T20:39:50.393" Score="19" ViewCount="7211" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;In Time (2011)&lt;/a&gt;, and at the beginning of the film, in the bar, there is a guy who has the following watch on his arm:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/krm0W.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The watch shows &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;0116:39:3:23:58:38&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, this should mean 116 years, 39 months, 3 days, 23 hours, 58 minutes, and 38 seconds. I am confused about the &lt;strong&gt;months&lt;/strong&gt; part. Shouldn't it be &lt;strong&gt;11&lt;/strong&gt; at maximum? Why is it greater than 11 in the watch?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-05-01T14:52:42.200" LastActivityDate="2019-01-11T10:53:01.000" Title="What time format is this guy's &quot;watch&quot;?" Tags="|in-time|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2143" CreationDate="2012-04-27T20:53:51.233" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe they aren't using months at all. It could be 116 years, 39 weeks, 3 days, 23 hours, 58 minutes and 38 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2012-04-27T20:53:51.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2143" CreationDate="2012-04-28T16:09:48.923" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you go to the movie's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.intimemovie.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;official website&lt;/a&gt;, there are screens that show what the time format is. See the attached image. The format is &lt;strong&gt;Years - Weeks - Days - Hours - Minutes - Seconds&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2vgrh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;In Time Date Format&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="56" LastEditDate="2012-04-28T23:08:29.567" LastActivityDate="2012-04-28T23:08:29.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1923" CreationDate="2012-04-28T22:30:05.127" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I saw, the Aliens were reacting purely in self defense. The point of violent contact occurred when the horn was rang by the Human ship... they replied with a louder horn which hurt the Humans. The humans then fired and the aliens returned fire with superior firepower. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems like the events escalated into conflict. The aliens 'respect' for human life in also shown in the fact they do not fire unless threatened OR in meeting specific objectives such as cutting off re-enforcement's by destroying the bridge, and the marine base and the mobile police forces. Note however, this military assault began AFTER the battle between the Human ships and the Aliens began at sea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1222" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-04-29T06:08:43.493" LastActivityDate="2012-04-29T06:08:43.493" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2017" CreationDate="2012-04-29T02:19:18.023" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, what happened is that the ghosts in the house were the two guys that killed the young woman. When the fiancée arrived at the hotel, she was already dead. The two killers made it look as though she had hung herself though, and it broke the man's heart to see his wife hanging there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He took the blame of her death all to himself as he thought it was his fault that she hung herself, because he was late. With all that being said, it took a while for him to build up the balls to come back and kill himself to be with her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the only question that remains is: why did Madeline kill the girl? Well, this is simple. The psychic told her not to go in the basement, because that is where Madeline was waiting for her husband to return. She meant no harm and all she wanted was to be left alone. &quot;You don't disturb the dead&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to find the full truth behind this masterpiece of film: Take a good look at Madeline's face. The truth lies within it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1223" LastEditorUserId="56" LastEditDate="2012-04-29T12:52:01.887" LastActivityDate="2012-04-29T12:52:01.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2153" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2155" CreationDate="2012-04-29T17:35:11.000" Score="18" ViewCount="8883" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706593/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chronicle (2012)&lt;/a&gt; and this question just popped into my mind. What techniques are used for filming flying human scenes? Do they always use chroma keying or are there other techniques?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-06-10T01:16:19.200" LastActivityDate="2017-09-26T14:46:33.440" Title="How do they film &quot;flying human&quot; scenes?" Tags="|film-techniques|effects|chronicle|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2154" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2340" CreationDate="2012-04-29T19:21:34.913" Score="3" ViewCount="8273" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_Engagement_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rules of Engagement&lt;/a&gt;, Brenda (Sara Rue) was going have Audrey and Jeff's baby. Now her character seems to be gone from the plot. Did they just drop the plot point and move on without Sara Rue, or did I miss the episode that explains her absence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T13:52:19.217" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T13:52:19.217" Title="What happened to Brenda?" Tags="|plot-explanation|rules-of-engagement|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2153" CreationDate="2012-04-29T21:53:07.963" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The primary technique used for flying stunts are wire harnesses and then &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the_art_of_wire_removal/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wire removal&lt;/a&gt;.  The actors wear a harness which is connected to wires that suspend the actor in mid-air.  If the scene is filmed in front of a green screen (chroma keying), then the wires can be removed automatically in most cases, before the background is added.  If no chroma keying is used, as in the scene below, then an editor must remove the wires from each frame manually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wdnj6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;example scene&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="56" LastEditDate="2012-04-29T23:00:06.373" LastActivityDate="2012-04-29T23:00:06.373" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2588" CreationDate="2012-04-30T06:23:12.723" Score="14" ViewCount="6039" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest&lt;/em&gt; we see Captain Jack Sparrow as the cannibal tribes' chieftain. Is there a back story that clarifies whether or not Jack is a cannibal? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ya7kT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Captain or cannibal?&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T12:52:06.190" LastActivityDate="2017-06-05T07:13:47.780" Title="Did Captain Jack Sparrow eat people?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pirates-of-the-caribbean|dead-mans-chest|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2157" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2289" CreationDate="2012-04-30T07:21:09.670" Score="27" ViewCount="8599" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Avengers, why does Thor desperately try to break out of the cage / box while it is falling in which he is trapped by Loki if he is a demi god and immortal? I remember Loki telling him that they both are immortals and hence cannot be killed by humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not seen Thor - just Avengers - so I might have missed some back-story to this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1172" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T17:56:16.963" LastActivityDate="2021-04-17T16:20:34.120" Title="Why does Thor try to break out of the cage?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2158" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2163" CreationDate="2012-04-30T07:26:59.960" Score="14" ViewCount="18556" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399103/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Transformers 3&lt;/a&gt; is named: &quot;Dark of the Moon&quot;. I've never seen the movie, but I firmly believe that the trailers named it &quot;Dark Side of the Moon&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it renamed at a later date, because of similarities to the Pink Floyd album?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T15:32:07.963" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T15:32:07.963" Title="Was Transformers 3 once named &quot;Dark Side of the Moon&quot;?" Tags="|title|transformers|dark-of-the-moon|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2157" CreationDate="2012-04-30T07:47:02.613" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe there was a phrase something along the lines of &quot;They believe us to be immortal&quot; which implied to me that this was incorrect and Loki knew that the fall would indeed kill him (and Thor).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T07:47:02.613" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2160" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2805" CreationDate="2012-04-30T07:51:36.227" Score="10" ViewCount="2925" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the James Bond film &lt;em&gt;Goldeneye&lt;/em&gt; there is a scene were Bond threatens Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky. Zukovsky says something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Walther PPK, 7.65mm. Only three men I know use such a gun... I believe I've killed two of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, immediately afterward a henchman appears behind Bond with what appears (to me at least) to be an identical gun.  This leaves several options for me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Zukovsky was lying&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The guns are indeed different&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a continuity error&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T13:15:54.957" LastActivityDate="2023-05-04T18:41:19.527" Title="Gun Scene in Goldeneye" Tags="|james-bond|continuity|goldeneye|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2049" CreationDate="2012-04-30T19:30:51.973" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Grid of the original &lt;em&gt;Tron&lt;/em&gt; was in Encom's servers.  Those servers had network access to the outside world, which is how the MCP was trying to access the Pentagon's computers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Tron Legacy&lt;/em&gt;, Flynn setup a server in the hidden room in his arcade.  Next to the touchscreen that Sam uses to interact with the server, are large cylinders, this is the bulk of the server.  This server must have network or phone connections, which is how CLU sent the page.  At the end of the film, Sam takes what is presumably a backup or copy of this server's storage with him as he leaves the arcade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T19:30:51.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2158" CreationDate="2012-04-30T20:08:17.840" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many journalists have got the name wrong, and apparently some characters refer to the dark side of the moon, but I can't find any evidence that &lt;em&gt;Transformers 3&lt;/em&gt; was ever named &lt;em&gt;Dark Side of the Moon&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The earliest Google News result for &amp;quot;Transformers 3&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;dark side of the moon&amp;quot; is OnTheRedCarpet.com from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/Transformers-3-teaser-trailer-is-released---watch-now/7834307&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;September 12, 2010&lt;/a&gt; and says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Transformers 3&amp;quot;, aka &amp;quot;Transformers: Dark of the Moon&amp;quot;, the latest film in the hit ... the dark side of the moon, confirming that mankind is not alone in the universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The end of the trailer shows the current title as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next results are all from 6th, 7th and 8th October 2010, after the title was first revealed. CinemaBlend.com from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Transformers-3-To-Be-Called-Transformers-The-Dark-Of-The-Moon-21033.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Oct 6, 2010&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Transformers 3 To Be Called Transformers: The Dark Of The Moon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you thought titles didn't get much worse than &lt;em&gt;Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, brace&lt;/em&gt; yourself, because it looks like the third movie is going to be called something even more ludicrous. &lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/transformers-3-title-transformers-the-dark-of-the-moon/53069/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Collider&lt;/a&gt; confirmed today that the movie previously known only as &lt;em&gt;Transformers 3&lt;/em&gt;, will bear the title &lt;em&gt;Transformers: The Dark of the Moon&lt;/em&gt;. No, not &lt;em&gt;The Dark Side of the Moon&lt;/em&gt;-- that would make too much sense. It's just &lt;em&gt;The Dark of the Moon&lt;/em&gt;, and other than being a vague nod to the extraterrestrial origins of the Autobots and Decepticons, I have no idea what it could possibly mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/transformers-3-title-transformers-the-dark-of-the-moon/53069/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Collider&lt;/a&gt; said earlier the same day:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Title of TRANSFORMERS 3 Is “TRANSFORMERS: THE DARK OF THE MOON”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Transformers 3&lt;/em&gt; now has its official title and that title is: &lt;em&gt;Transformers: The Dark of the Moon&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-movie-just-movie-31/transformers-3-title-revealed-170697/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TFW2005&lt;/a&gt; first discovered the title through the listing of some upcoming movie tie-in novels, &lt;em&gt;“Transformers: The Dark of the Moon – Secret of the Autobots“, “Transformers: The Dark of the Moon – Autobots Betrayed!“&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;“Transformers: The Dark of the Moon: Invasion of the Decepticons”&lt;/em&gt; (all three novels are set to be released on May 17, 2011). We have now confirmed the title with sources close to the production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even earlier that day &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-movie-just-movie-31/transformers-3-title-revealed-170697/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TFW2005&lt;/a&gt; said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Transformers 3 Title Revealed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some upcoming books listed at the Amazon revealed what might possibly be, the Title of the 3rd Transformers Movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The books are to be released (May 17, 2011) very near the release date of &lt;em&gt;Transformer 3&lt;/em&gt; (July 1, 2011). The author of the books is official and has written books for the 2007 Movie and ROTF. The publisher is none other than HarperColins, which produced similar books for both movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No need of spoiler tags, here's the possible &lt;em&gt;Transformers 3&lt;/em&gt; Title...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Transformers: The Dark Of The Moon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update (Yes, an update already) : There is a movie website domain name &lt;a href=&quot;http://whois.domaintools.com/transformersthedarkofthemoonmovie.com&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;registered&lt;/a&gt; on 13th September this year. It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.transformersthedarkofthemoonmovie.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;www.transformersthedarkofthemoonmovie.com&lt;/a&gt;. The domain is registered by the same people who registered both the 2007 Transformers movie and ROTF Domains on behalf of Paramount &amp;amp; Dreamworks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TFW2005, Bringing &lt;em&gt;Transformers 3&lt;/em&gt; News... First!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hmm, well seems OnTheRedCarpet.com knew the name in advance, a day before the domain was registered in September, but strange the other sites didn't cotton on when it was big news in October. Surely they will have seen the same teaser trailer (though perhaps the actual trailer video was updated later). And it's possible they went back and put in the full title once it was known, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20100515054814/http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Michael-Bay-Spreading-Transformers-3-Disinformation-Twins-Spotted-On-Set-18537.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;others&lt;/a&gt; have &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Michael-Bay-Spreading-Transformers-3-Disinformation-Twins-Spotted-On-Set-18537.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;done&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I don't see any evidence for &lt;em&gt;Dark Side of the Moon&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-04-30T20:08:17.840" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2164" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2169" CreationDate="2012-05-01T02:01:03.350" Score="14" ViewCount="2853" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 1984, the movie &lt;strong&gt;Gremlins&lt;/strong&gt; teamed up with &lt;strong&gt;Hardees&lt;/strong&gt; to sell a set of LPs that came along with the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rytjF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each week a different record would be sold, thus, each week, parents had to take their children to Hardees to get the latest one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the first movie to team up with fast-food to do something like this?  What was the product they sold?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2016-12-24T23:40:59.480" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T16:07:27.987" Title="First movie that collaborated with fast-food outlets?" Tags="|first-appearance|marketing|gremlins|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2164" CreationDate="2012-05-01T03:35:54.553" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it was the first time that &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; movie teamed up with a fast food restaurant, but the first ever themed promotion for McDonald's Happy Meal was for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Picture&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Trek: The Motion Picture&lt;/a&gt; in 1979.  From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Meal#History&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Happy Meal&lt;/a&gt; Wikipedia article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The packaging used for the Star Trek Meal consisted of various images and games related to the film, as well as a comic strip adaptation of the film. Consumers had to buy numerous meals in order to complete the set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found an image of the toy communicator from that Happy Meal in the article &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.complex.com/city-guide/2012/01/the-50-coolest-happy-meal-toys-of-all-time#31&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The 50 Coolest Happy Meal Toys of All Time&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eAsGy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Star Trek Happy Meal Toy - 1979&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-05-01T03:35:54.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2035" CreationDate="2012-05-01T08:31:46.107" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://tonightatthemovies.com/indexhold/?p=15144&quot;&gt;originates in the world of comics&lt;/a&gt;, and there have been many &quot;reboots&quot; of comics turned into TV series and/or TV series turned into films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But assuming your definition is restricted to movies rebooted from other movies only, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reboot_%28fiction%29#film&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; tells us &lt;em&gt;Godzilla&lt;/em&gt; is the earliest. First made in 1954, and rebooted at least in 1984 and 2000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As new directors came in over the years, the style and story changed considerably. (See the question on this site asking if the monster Godzilla is good or evil.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2012-05-01T08:31:46.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="661" CreationDate="2012-05-01T09:03:37.173" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tank/dinosaur featured in a 1967 Ron Ely episode of Tarzan called 'Track Of The Dinosaur'.  From memory the bad guys were using it to scare off locals to gain land.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0718000/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1232" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T14:17:58.090" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T14:17:58.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2164" CreationDate="2012-05-01T09:03:43.773" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kathysfastfoodtoys.com/wordpress/?page_id=113&quot;&gt;KFFT List Guide&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Burger King was a pioneer in the&#xA;  advertising practice known as the&#xA;  product tie-in with a successful&#xA;  partnering with George Lucas’&#xA;  Lucasfilm, Ltd. to promote the 1977&#xA;  film Star Wars in which BK sold a set of glasses featuring the main characters&#xA;  from the film. This promotion was one&#xA;  of the first in the fast food industry and&#xA;  set the pattern that continues to the&#xA;  present. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from Wikipedia &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_King_advertising&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_King_advertising&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Burger King's first successful cross- promotional campaign was in 1977. It offered several collectible items, such as&#xA;  posters, glasses and sticker sets that&#xA;  featured scenes and characters from Star Wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kathysfastfoodtoys.com/wordpress/?p=165&quot;&gt;photos of the 1978 posters and cups&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rebelscum.com/bk1977glasses.asp&quot;&gt;cups from 1977&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="386" LastEditDate="2012-05-01T09:25:18.343" LastActivityDate="2012-05-01T09:25:18.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2171" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-01T17:36:28.210" Score="14" ViewCount="668" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458339/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Captain America&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lord of The Rings&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Social Network&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; have each used a technique where an actor has either been shrunk down (Captain America &amp;amp; LoTR) or completely replaced by a face (Captain again &amp;amp; Social Network).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is what kind of planning and production goes into pulling off this kind of feat? I am wondering about the specific technologies are used for what seems to be either camera tricks or CGI, using these movies as examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it pure CGI on all levels?  Is it all camera tricks with minor CGI?  Or is it a nice synergy between the two?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T15:19:24.850" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T15:25:50.197" Title="What is the science behind making actors appear different?" Tags="|production|effects|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2182" CreationDate="2012-05-01T18:36:44.143" Score="31" ViewCount="49158" Body="&lt;p&gt;A recent trend that I've noticed (or I'm just crazy and need to delete this question) is to release a major film &lt;strong&gt;outside of the U.S. first&lt;/strong&gt;, even if it's a Hollywood film.  Usually a week or so later the film gets released in the U.S.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are movies being released this way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T14:19:18.387" LastActivityDate="2017-10-28T11:16:32.083" Title="What's with the trend of releasing movies outside the US first?" Tags="|film-industry|distribution|american-cinema|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2173" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2174" CreationDate="2012-05-01T19:26:17.473" Score="14" ViewCount="1739" Body="&lt;p&gt;About 30 minutes into &lt;em&gt;Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan&lt;/em&gt; (1982), Kirk is performing an inspection of the training crew on board the Enterprise. Kirk inspects engineering and then says to McCoy &amp;quot;I'll be on the bridge&amp;quot; and goes up the elevator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;McCoy responds &amp;quot;What about the rest of the inspection?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kirk whispers something and waves his hand making a &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; gesture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen this film so many times over the years and have never been able to figure out what he whispers. It looks like he might be saying &amp;quot;I loathe…&amp;quot; but while replaying the scene it doesn't seem to match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what is said?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2023-12-20T23:26:43.830" LastActivityDate="2023-12-20T23:26:43.830" Title="What does Admiral Kirk whisper to Doctor McCoy?" Tags="|star-trek|star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2173" CreationDate="2012-05-01T19:37:02.180" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/startrek2_wrathofkhan.txt&quot;&gt;According to the script&lt;/a&gt;, he is saying &quot;Later&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BONES:&lt;/strong&gt; (dry) &lt;em&gt;Admiral!  What about the rest of the inspection?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KIRK:&lt;/strong&gt; (mouths word) &lt;strong&gt;Later.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-21T23:12:04.047" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T23:12:04.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2172" CreationDate="2012-05-01T22:07:34.267" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I first wrote this answer this trend was fairly new.  Historically Hollywood movies opened in the USA first (weeks or even months before the rest of the world if you go back a decade or two).  However by 2012 simultaneous releases had become the new procedure that the industry was experimenting with.  Since 2012 it has clearly become the norm for movies to open somewhere in the 'rest of the world' before it opens in the USA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main enabling factor was technological changes in movie distribution.  With digital rather than film distribution it is much easier and quicker to distribute movies. With the method of distribution being less of a barrier, you can now design your launch of the movie to meet your other needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One important reason is that you can build the reputation of a movie before it opens in the USA, one of the biggest markets in terms of revenue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However another key factor in the minds of studio execs is preventing piracy cutting into profits. It used to be very hard to pirate a movie.  You would often have to film a movie in a theater, and the quality would be normally pretty bad. A pirated movie on VHS or DVD would be notably lower quality than the product in the theatre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowadays, with vastly better technology, it is far easier and cheaper for high quality pirated copies of movies to be made and quickly distributed worldwide.  Studio's have to hit the worldwide market much faster to prevent pirated copies of the movie diluting their profits, especially around the world in markets where enforcement of pirated content is not so strong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2017-01-06T15:19:08.743" LastActivityDate="2017-01-06T15:19:08.743" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2177" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2199" CreationDate="2012-05-01T23:24:59.823" Score="8" ViewCount="523" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the name of the movie which uses the same &quot;VX Poison Gas Pearls&quot; as a weapon that &quot;The Rock&quot; used. Maybe they have another name in the movie, but it was the same prop that was used in &quot;The Rock&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is very similar to &quot;The Rock&quot; in that they use the Pearls as a threat to extort money from some country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aj9wW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/krCYn.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Film starts with a research project of  the  government,  that crashes and destroys a little island.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Years later a terrorist group steals this bio weapon and threatens, on live TV, to throw the glass pearls over a bridge (that would destroy a city near the bridge) if they don't get a ransom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, the main actor attacks them and steals the bio weapon and tries to flee.  During the escape, he was stopped in a tunnel and now had a new problem: the bio weapon would explode if it heats up over 20°C. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the army decides to close the tunnel with skyrockets.  Now the main actor tries to save the people in the tunnel. He finds ice in a cargo bay (which was to be used for cooling beer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nobody was killed, a happy ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what I can remember so far from my memories... but I don't remember the title or any of the actors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1238" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T14:01:02.347" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T14:01:02.347" Title="Movie with the same weapon as in &quot;The Rock&quot;" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:36:27.007" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2068" CreationDate="2012-05-02T05:51:48.507" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on our website, Intruders is a simple psychological thriller. Two parallel stories coincide, though John and Juan are the same person. Juan created the Hollowface character to deal with the PTSD he experienced. His mother went along with the story, knowing that something terrible happened. She disclosed the truth to avoid conflict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hollowface is a fake monster. He is essentially a plot device to keep the moviegoer interested in the trauma. The power of the mind can create any type of fear. John never fully recovered from his childhood fear. With the help of his mother, Juan created Hollowface as a child. We discover the truth once the mother appears in the twist ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The daughter and John defeat a fake monster brought on by fears and the mind. At any time, you too can invent a fear. This movie is a psychological thriller written to convey unresolved trauma originating from past events. Hollowface is fake. He is not like Freddie Krueger. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.TwistEndings.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TwistEndings.com&lt;/a&gt; (The site I'm affiliated with) to read more about Intruders. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1240" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-05-03T15:59:07.707" LastActivityDate="2012-05-03T15:59:07.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2172" CreationDate="2012-05-02T11:46:15.710" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In some cases the original delay involved the time required for licensing (music), appropriate copyrights, ratings, and in some cases the redubbing of the film into other languages. The latter of which can not typically begin until the final edit is determined. In some major films (especially action films) the final edit may not be complete until the film initially releases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As film companies see better returns internationally, they try to shorten this process or build it in for a world-wide release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the cases of American film releases outside the US first; there are a number of reasons. One can be to build US expectation; to assess general reaction before domestic release in the event the film needs to be reedited, or in some cases the delays above (such as rating or licensing) may cause a delay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T11:46:15.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2183" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-02T15:51:34.933" Score="15" ViewCount="1176" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though they seem happy during the show, at many times they are following commands from the voice-over (&quot;show Tinky Winky the bowl&quot;). They also seem to obey the wind mill when it starts spinning, sometimes saying &quot;uh-oh&quot; as if they have forgot something, or as if they should obey immediately. Even the strange loudspeakers that come from the ground tell when the Teletubbies should wake up or sleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are then the Teletubbies prisoners of some kind, forced to obey the wishes of the one that keeps them in the garden and house? Is the baby in the sun the one that locked them up, since he is watching them constantly and smiling when they obey?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1555" OwnerDisplayName="Marco Mustapic" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-05-02T16:56:17.093" LastActivityDate="2012-06-04T23:07:54.103" Title="Are Teletubbies prisoners?" Tags="|analysis|teletubbies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2184" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2185" CreationDate="2012-01-08T20:10:53.090" Score="22" ViewCount="1190" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at the evidence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b9ePz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the name suggests, they have &lt;strong&gt;implanted televisions!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were they born that way or did they undergo some fiendish experiment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1245" OwnerDisplayName="Wikis" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T10:14:42.747" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T10:14:42.747" Title="Are the teletubbies cyborgs?" Tags="|plot-explanation|teletubbies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2184" CreationDate="2012-03-13T23:04:17.407" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that the Teletubbies are not cyborgs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The peculiar antenna and visual display appendages are naturally occurring adaptations which allow them to exist in symbiotic harmony with humans. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They display a distinct and uncontrollable physiological requirement for the reception of (mostly) childrens basic and crucially, innocent thought patterns. This coupled with our own natural requirement for congnative and social development; the 'Tubbies' use their individual personalities and applicable talents to display moral and ethical guidance, through the performance of simplistic song, dance and play scenarios...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would therefore classify them as Symbiote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="Lee Blakeborough" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-05-14T18:15:24.453" LastActivityDate="2012-05-14T18:15:24.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1893" CreationDate="2012-05-02T18:58:55.747" Score="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;French gentleman thief Arsène Lupin battles the English detective Sherlock Holmes in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars%C3%A8ne_Lupin_contra_Sherlock_Holmes&quot;&gt;1910&lt;/a&gt; German drama film serial &lt;em&gt;Arsène Lupin contra Sherlock Holmes&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars%C3%A8ne_Lupin&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A contemporary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941) was the creator of the character of gentleman thief Arsène Lupin who, in Francophone countries, has enjoyed a popularity as long-lasting and considerable as Sherlock Holmes in the English-speaking world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There had been individual Arsène Lupin and Sherlock Holmes films before this, the first appearing in 1908 and 1900 respectively. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2012-05-02T18:58:55.747" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2172" CreationDate="2012-05-03T02:55:23.800" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that the US, being a huge market and often at least a third of the film's worldwide revenue, can be used to push up if hype is a factor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the Avengers, if they know in advance it's going to be a success - and franchises tend to do well worldwide - especially superhero ones, releasing internationally only intensifies the hype back in the US (and Canada, I should point out, having just moved here from New Zealand, I'm gutted that I have to wait longer than my Kiwi friends who have all seen it).  A week later, everyone in the US (and Canada) goes to see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just a theory, but I suspect the actual marketing plan involved is just a theory anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OrF8t2CHs4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;youtube blogger suggest that THIS&lt;/a&gt; is the reason for it...that by releasing it worldwide, it helps to combat the threat of worldwide piracy that happens when movies are released first in the US.  However, one would think that since worldwide sales tend to be 2/3 of big blockbuster sales, the opportunity for piracy increases immediately and those with fast internet connections in the US could just download it, negating that effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="366" LastEditorUserId="366" LastEditDate="2012-05-03T19:28:39.243" LastActivityDate="2012-05-03T19:28:39.243" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2190" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2191" CreationDate="2012-05-03T03:40:40.873" Score="227" ViewCount="129613" Body="&lt;p&gt;It always makes me wonder how do they place the cameras and crew members while filming a scene which is opposite to a reflecting object, such as mirror.  Because, when filming the reflected objects we should see the camera and cameraman because of their reflection.  But this does not happen in the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How do they film the scenes with an actor facing a mirror?  Why don't we see the cameras and crew?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What is the technique they use to film the scenes with reflecting objects?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="556" LastEditDate="2012-05-27T08:24:41.993" LastActivityDate="2021-04-21T16:14:12.880" Title="How do they film the mirror scenes in movies?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2190" CreationDate="2012-05-03T06:43:34.380" Score="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look closely, you'll almost always note that the mirror is angled so the camera is out of its view. This is sometimes masked by the actor looking directly into [the reflection of] the camera, which gives the impression that he is looking at himself in the mirror. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are at least two other options for getting a shot in which the camera should, by rights, be visible but isn't:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;one is using visual effects (optical or CGI) for the reflection.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The other was used by James Cameron in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Terminator 2&lt;/a&gt;: Cameron wanted a tracking&#xA;shot (camera moving sideways) behind Linda Hamilton removing a chip&#xA;from Arnold's head in front of a mirror. If done with a mirror, the&#xA;camera would have been visible as it moved around behind the actors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than do this with effects, the set was built so that the mirror was actually a window, and on the other side was a complete mirror-image version of the set on the camera side. Schwarzenegger and Linda sat on the far side facing the camera, and a fancy Arnold puppet and Linda's twin sister sat with their backs to the camera, mimicking all of the moves of their counterparts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other examples of this are:   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the case of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_John_Malkovich&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Being John Malkovich&lt;/a&gt;, where the shot was from his POV &#xA;the camera man just stood in front of an empty frame in the wall with&#xA;Malkovich standing 'inside' the wall on a reverse set of the scene...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the bad attempt of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucker_Punch_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sucker Punch&lt;/a&gt; scene in the dressing room when Sweet Pea, Rocket and Blondie talk about not helping Baby Doll, their movements not matching their mirror images (&lt;em&gt;especially Sweet Pea's&lt;/em&gt;). Doubles are being used. This is done so the camera can move behind them without being reflected. You can watch it at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.petapixel.com/2012/05/30/mind-bending-mirror-scene-from-the-movie-sucker-punch/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="65888" LastEditDate="2018-10-04T15:49:59.710" LastActivityDate="2018-10-04T15:49:59.710" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2192" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2205" CreationDate="2012-05-03T10:51:06.200" Score="3" ViewCount="841" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to know what the significance is of &quot;Book of Shadows&quot; in the title of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Shadows:_Blair_Witch_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2&lt;/a&gt;, the sequel to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blair_Witch_Project&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Blair Witch Project&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched the full movie and did not got any hints about what the Book of Shadows is.  Maybe I missed some part or it means something else? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2019-11-20T09:58:22.813" LastActivityDate="2019-11-20T09:58:22.813" Title="What does Book of Shadows stands for in title of movie Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2?" Tags="|title|book-of-shadows-blair-witch-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2193" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2195" CreationDate="2012-05-03T12:49:08.683" Score="13" ViewCount="21782" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 2003 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286716/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hulk&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was released to theatres with very unfavorable reviews and the director even calling it a financial failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due in part to this failure they rebooted the franchise only 5 years later in 2008's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800080/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Incredible Hulk&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Which would go on to receive much praise and be a part of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Avengers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is this.  While it says on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk_%28film%29#Reboot&quot;&gt;Wikipedia &lt;/a&gt; that this new Hulk is meant to be standalone, did the production team have any intention of becoming a sequel to the 2003 film in an capacity?  Whether it be in writing, story elements, plot, etc?  Or was a decision made quickly to try to have as little to do with the 2003 version as possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T09:21:11.333" LastActivityDate="2021-03-07T02:13:03.467" Title="Is the 2008 version of The Incredible Hulk meant to be a spiritual sequel to the 2003 version?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-incredible-hulk|hulk|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2194" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2202" CreationDate="2012-05-03T12:59:43.037" Score="24" ViewCount="21571" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Lost, there are countless mysteries, but one that started in the beginning of the series has struck my mind recently and my research cannot bring anything up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt Lloyd, Michael's son who he tries so desperately to protect, gets captured by The Others at the end of the first season with the reason that &lt;em&gt;He Is Special&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We then witness Michael's struggle over the course of the second season to do whatever it takes to reclaim his son, including killing 2 characters and betraying a few (Jack, Kate, Sawyer, and Hurley).  But then they just let him go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this and until the end of the series, it is alluded to his &lt;em&gt;mysterious power&lt;/em&gt; appearing before Locke in a time of need when he has been off the island for a &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt; time as well as when Locke went to visit him as Jeremy Bentham.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, in the &lt;em&gt;Epilogue&lt;/em&gt; we see Hurley and Ben whisk Walt away with Ben again calling him &lt;em&gt;special&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question here is &lt;strong&gt;What makes him special?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="65889" LastEditDate="2018-08-21T17:07:07.163" LastActivityDate="2018-08-21T17:07:07.163" Title="Why is Walt special?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|analysis|lost|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2193" CreationDate="2012-05-03T13:24:13.247" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember reading that Edward Norton did a major rewrite of the original script that was presented to him. On digging a bit, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/the-truth-about-edward-norton-vs-marvel/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;I found this interesting article&lt;/a&gt;, this is an interesting snippet from the article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leterrier told Collider that 70 minutes of deleted footage is set to&#xA;  be released on the inevitable Bluray release. (Leterrier describes the&#xA;  out-takes: “&lt;em&gt;It’s like the back story. It’s more the sequel to the Ang&#xA;  Lee movie.&lt;/em&gt;”)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, Norton had written a lot of dialogue, conversations, etc. to give the character more depth - but Marvel wanted to make a short, action packed film - so about 70 mins of footage was dropped from the final cut (I believe a lot of which was written by Norton).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Norton was understandably pissed. He was brought onto the project&#xA;  under the premise that he would have considerable creative control.&#xA;  But the final cut was, of course, not his. Norton and Leterrier&#xA;  lobbied for a more nuanced cut of the film that ran about two hours&#xA;  and 15-20 minutes, but Marvel stuck to their guns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if this answers your question exactly - but I hope it throws some more light on your query.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1172" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T14:36:26.723" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T14:36:26.723" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2193" CreationDate="2012-05-03T13:27:35.630" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember getting the feeling at the time of watching The Incredible Hulk that it felt like a sequel.  I think the reason being is that in The Incredible Hulk (if my memory serves correctly) Bruce Banner has already gotten his powers and is in hiding and attempting to learn control.  The lack of an origin story makes it feel like a sequel, whether this was intentional or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-05-03T13:27:35.630" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2197" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2486" CreationDate="2012-05-03T14:47:42.200" Score="5" ViewCount="495" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the definition of a &lt;em&gt;High Profile&lt;/em&gt; actor/actress may be a bit subjective on its own; lets just figure it is determined by the &lt;em&gt;financial&lt;/em&gt; (an objective quantifier) success of past movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What kind of channels must production companies go through in order to obtain these people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just as its displayed and parodied (&quot;Have your people call my people&quot;) or do they actually interact with the performer directly explaining the plot, duties of the role, have them go through a formal audition, etc.  Or is there something in between that I have not thought of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2017-07-02T18:27:30.077" Title="What process does a production company have to go through in order to obtain a 'high profile' actor/actress?" Tags="|production|acting-career|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2198" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2206" CreationDate="2012-05-03T15:28:50.527" Score="23" ViewCount="72306" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371746/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228705/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;three&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;movies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, you see Downey Jr (as Tony Stark, and occasionally Cheadle as Rhodes/War Machine) in the namesake suit, either completely covered, or with the head open or having the suit put on/taken off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is what kind of filming techniques were used in order to achieve this feat of seamless transition from ordinary man to Iron Man?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T13:20:32.000" LastActivityDate="2020-02-25T20:04:48.440" Title="How are the Iron Man suit scenes filmed?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|marvel-cinematic-universe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2177" CreationDate="2012-05-03T15:59:50.333" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, most part, especially the tunnel part, sounds exactly like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163579/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Chill Factor&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is any TV threatening, the evil guys just want to sell the weapon. It is one of the researchers who smuggles it out and by accident it gets into the hands of two average guys who are then chased by the evil guys in an attempt to get the weapon. This weapon has indeed some similarities to the VX gas. It is in a form of small gelatinous pearls, which always have to be kept cold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a bridge scene, where there is a small standoff, and one party (the good ones, I think) pretends to throw it over the bridge (or was it a dam, maybe even Hoover Damn, considering mid-western scenery?), so that the others don't get it. But at the end there is exactly this tunnel scene you describe. So I'm pretty sure you're after this movie but imported some memories from &lt;em&gt;The Rock&lt;/em&gt;, like the terroristic threatening and the glass pearls (which are a bit different here, being a gelatinous mass).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; And Wikipedia says, it also begins with an island research facility getting accidentally devastated by the weapon, though I didn't remember this myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-05-03T16:58:27.760" LastActivityDate="2012-05-03T16:58:27.760" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2200" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3181" CreationDate="2012-05-03T16:33:24.083" Score="17" ViewCount="4863" Body="&lt;p&gt;In several scenes in both Iron Man 1 and 2, there are several scenes with references to &lt;em&gt;hot rods&lt;/em&gt; throughout both movies.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether it be the screen savers on the computers, Tony constantly working on one, or the influence in the final Iron Man color &lt;em&gt;Toss in a little hot rod red&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the significance of this car in relation to either the movies or perhaps Iron Man in general?  Or is this some kind of inside joke tossed about within the production team?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="51336" LastEditDate="2018-04-23T05:10:16.903" LastActivityDate="2019-02-25T19:18:36.477" Title="What is the purpose or meaning behind the hot rod in the Iron Man series?" Tags="|analysis|marvel-cinematic-universe|props|iron-man|iron-man-2|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2194" CreationDate="2012-05-03T18:35:44.693" Score="19" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Walt is &quot;special&quot;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Walt_Lloyd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lostpedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;People have noticed something &quot;special&quot; about Walt throughout his life, and he seems to have psychic powers of some sort. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his flashback episode, called &quot;Special&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Brian also admitted that he was afraid of Walt, saying: &quot;There's something about him. Sometimes, when he's around, things happen. He's different somehow.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One thing that made Brian suspect Walt was &quot;different&quot; happened shortly before his mother Susan's death. As Brian and Susan were discussing her recently diagnosed illness, Walt was studying a book of Australian native birds, seemingly oblivious to the conversation happening in the room. He wanted Brian to look at the entry for the Australian Bronze cuckoo. When Brian ignored him, Walt became angry and insistent, demanding &quot;You're not looking!&quot; Suddenly a bird slammed into the sliding glass door, killing itself on impact. It was an Australian Bronze Cuckoo. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's referred to as special at least three times:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ben refused, saying Jacob wanted him there, and that Walt is important and special. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Later, Juliet commented to Michael that Walt was special, that he wasn't an ordinary boy, and that's why she was worried about him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Walt brought up his kidnapping by Ben years ago, Ben apologized and once again referred to Walt as &quot;special.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tom said that while in their care, Walt was safe, along with Zach and Emma. Tom also said that Walt is &quot;special&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Boring &quot;official&quot; answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Walt_Lloyd#Trivia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Triva&lt;/a&gt; section answsers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At Comic-Con 2011, co-creator Damon Lindelof stated that the source of Walt's powers was never meant to be full-throttled mystery. He said the answer to question, &quot;why is Walt special?&quot; is that &quot;because he is&quot; and nothing more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/lost-producers-reunite-at-comic-con-present-new-footage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cited source, HitFix&lt;/a&gt; adds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(That said, because they had expected to be canceled after the first 13 episodes, they never banked on having to deal with Malcolm David Kelley's growth spurt, and at that point had to write him out, only giving Walt some semblance of closure in the bonus epilogue, &quot;New Man in Charge,&quot; on the complete series DVD set.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Unofficial fan answers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lostpedia lists as one of the Unanswered Questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is Walt &quot;special&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These Unanswered Questions are not to be answered on the main page, and are to be kept open-ended and neutral without suggesting an answer. Instead, many &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Walt_Lloyd/Theories#Ability&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fan theories&lt;/a&gt; are offered. There are many; some are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Walt is &quot;special&quot; because he can manifest his thoughts into reality.&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In the episode &quot;Special&quot; (Season 1) while playing backgammon with Hurley, Walt thinks a number out loud and then rolls it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In the episode &quot;Special&quot; when Locke is teaching Walt how to throw knives, Locke says, &quot;Imagine it in your mind's eye.&quot; When he does, Walt is right on target.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In the episode &quot;Special&quot;, When studying native Australian birds, Walt tries to get his distracted stepfather's attention to look at the bronze cuckoo and when he can't a bronze cuckoo flies into the back door and kills itself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In the episode &quot;Special&quot;, Walt is chased through the jungle by a polar bear after reading a comic book with a polar bear in it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;All of the above stems from the exposure Walt had to a source of electromagnetic energy in Australia.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Much of the apparent psychic ability Walt has displayed while on the Island may stem from his reading of the Green Lantern comic book. Inspired by this, Walt may be the so-called &quot;the magic box&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In &quot;Special&quot;, Walt's ability to see with his mind's eye is a sign of the artistic vision he received from his father.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Walt's powers may be, in essence, a &quot;younger version&quot; of the same abilities that Desmond has.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Walt is &quot;special&quot; because his body and mind both travel time as opposed to Desmond who has only traveled with his mind.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Walt can teleport because the MIB could not have been Walt so he had to of been the actual Walt who appeared to Locke and Shannon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are lots more theories at About.com's lost pages: &lt;a href=&quot;http://lost.about.com/b/2010/06/28/unanswered-lost-question-why-and-how-was-walt-special.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Unanswered 'Lost' Question - Why and How was Walt Special?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="386" LastEditDate="2016-04-19T07:54:59.970" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T07:54:59.970" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="883" CreationDate="2012-05-04T00:49:21.133" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some parts that could be considered as &quot;weird&quot; and used as &quot;for&quot; or &quot;against&quot; for the theory that Prot was an alien.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he is &quot;talking&quot; with the dog, when the security cam stopped working at 5:51am sharp on 27th of July when he was supposed to leave, Bess's disappearance and maybe some other that I can't remember at the moment. But there is no proof that he actually did understand that dog. There is no proof that the security cam didn't just stop working by an accident. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no proof that Bess went to K-PAX. She could've taken the chance when everyone was rushing to Prot's room and sneak out (but again why would she?). I just wonder how he could know that much about some distant galaxy (that even top scientists didn't know at that time - according to the movie) if he is not an alien. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That drawing with formulas that positioned planets in that galaxy exactly is something that even the scientists couldn't explain. There could be an explanation if he was a former scientist who had some advanced knowledge and in some point of time went crazy and mixed reality with imagination, but he was a worker at some meat packing plant... So, this is the only thing in the whole movie that gives me a lot of confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1247" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-05-04T01:50:51.057" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T01:50:51.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2192" CreationDate="2012-05-04T03:00:45.937" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't find anything definitive, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The two main characters are researching the Blair Witch for a book they are writing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The characters are a Wiccan and a Goth Psychic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A &quot;Book of Shadows&quot; is a Wiccan text containing spells, rituals, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The television show 'Charmed' was wildly popular at the time and the &quot;Book of Shadows&quot; is a critical element to the show.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;Book of Shadows&quot; is never mentioned in the movie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on those items, barring anything else definitive, I think the title is tenuous and convenient and has nothing to do with the movie itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T03:00:45.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2198" CreationDate="2012-05-04T03:34:35.553" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Iron Man&lt;/em&gt;, there was a heavy physical suit they sometimes used, but the bulk of the footage was CGI, as the proportions of the Iron Man suit aren't that of a human's.  Wikipedia &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man_%28film%29#Effects&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;mentions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;sometimes, Downey would only wear the helmet, sleeves and chest of the costume over a motion capture suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.moviefone.com/2010/09/28/iron-man-2-how-tony-starks-suit-was-made/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[The Iron Man 2 suit] was only a half suit -- from the waist up. I think we weighed it in at about 13 pounds. The [suit in] the first film was about 85 pounds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 2&lt;/em&gt;, they built a light partial suit that a person could fit in.  If you compare Iron Man in any of the action scenes against the suit that Stark is wearing during his party for example, you'll see that the party suit is much larger and bulkier.  This is because he's wearing the physical suit during the party scenes (they then transition back to the CGI for the fight afterwards).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Physical suit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W1J27.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of partial suit&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, the arms and legs are then added via computer later on.  However, they leave the thicker real torso for these scenes instead of making him thin.  After they've put it through computer movie magic, it looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bzrit.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Iron man in physical suit&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For one of the all-CGI suits, see how it's much thinner in the waist:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FQutS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;War Machine image&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the same article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The upper suit is real for most of those shots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the shots where it isn't real, they also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.awn.com/articles/article/vfx-oscar-bakeoff-2011-staying-alive/page/3%2C1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;had this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PndD8.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Before/After animated gif of RDJ and Don Cheadle in CGI suits&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update for &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5940888/weird-secrets-of-the-avengers-that-youd-never-have-guessed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;io9.com&lt;/a&gt; recently interviewed some of the folks at ILM who worked on the special effects for &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Robert Downey Jr. basically never wears the full Iron Man suit any more.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  That suit is really, really uncomfortable and pinchy, says Chu. And whenever you see Iron Man in his armor, that's a CG rendering of Iron Man, or a stunt man named Clay. After the first Iron Man movie, says Chu, Downey Jr. saw what they could do with CG versions of the suit. &quot;He knew he did not have to wear as much of the suit, and that would make him a lot more comfortable.&quot; There's a partial version called the &quot;football suit&quot; that he wears in a couple scenes, like at the end when he's laying on the ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although, there are still occasions where he wears a full version of the suit:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ow4SJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Captain America and Iron Man&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7VEPm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Iron Man and Joss Whedon&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2020-02-25T20:04:48.440" LastActivityDate="2020-02-25T20:04:48.440" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2207" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2214" CreationDate="2012-05-04T03:47:00.417" Score="8" ViewCount="1419" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movies do not explain this, but based on the hand-to-hand combat scenes from the Bourne movies, which discipline(s) does he seem to be skilled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T14:49:39.957" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T14:49:39.957" Title="Which Martial Arts does Jason Bourne know?" Tags="|character|the-bourne-identity|the-bourne-supremacy|the-bourne-ultimatum|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2208" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2217" CreationDate="2012-05-04T04:25:01.680" Score="11" ViewCount="1041" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I watched &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; on my 1080i HDTV, the special effects looked seamless.  In other words, I knew what I was watching was fake, but it was hard to tell.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I upgraded to a 1080p HDTV, the show looked more like a Soap Opera and the Special Effects were not as impressive; mainly because the scenes containing CGI stood out like a sore thumb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Early black and white films with special effects have always seemed this way to me.  However, I've only watched them on Television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were sitting in a 1950s movie theater, would my naked eye be able to distinguish real from fake using the technology from that era?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T00:02:39.850" Title="Would special effects for early movie patrons seem real?" Tags="|film-techniques|effects|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2207" CreationDate="2012-05-04T07:52:10.907" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's a Hollywood blend based on a Filipino style called Kali but I'm afraid I don't have any supporting links, do seem to remember something in one of the directors commentaries (or a extra) from Identity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T07:52:10.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2210" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2211" CreationDate="2012-05-04T08:00:56.230" Score="8" ViewCount="1016" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Iron Man 2, Pepper and Tony are discussing Natalie and there's a discussion about Latin.  Pepper explains that you can read Latin but you can't speak it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought Latin was commonly spoken in churches, law and medicine until very recently? So why did Pepper say that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T13:18:43.787" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T13:18:43.787" Title="Pepper's comment about Latin" Tags="|dialogue|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-2|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2210" CreationDate="2012-05-04T09:08:13.590" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I don't remember the scene exactly, but I'm pretty sure, that this was meant rather sarcastic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Latin is really not an easy language and has a rather complex grammar. Besides that it's not really spoken in everyday life anymore and only read from ancient texts or used in quite specialized contexts (law and medical terms, recitated prayers), but not spoken in direct dialogue. That's why it's commonly referred to as a &lt;em&gt;&quot;dead language&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what she probably means is, that somebody who claims to &lt;em&gt;speak&lt;/em&gt; Latin (fluently) is either an impostor or some weird genius (or works in Vatican, which doesn't make it any better ;)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T09:08:13.590" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2212" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2259" CreationDate="2012-05-04T09:49:18.673" Score="3" ViewCount="4481" Body="&lt;p&gt;It obviously wasn't the British Royal Family as her first stop on her tour of Europe was London. All I recall from the movie is that it was one of Europe's oldest royal families.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="277" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-12T17:03:55.943" LastActivityDate="2023-12-16T18:18:37.333" Title="In Roman Holiday, which Royal Family was Ann princess of?" Tags="|plot-explanation|roman-holiday|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2213" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2265" CreationDate="2012-05-04T11:17:22.827" Score="6" ViewCount="14170" Body="&lt;p&gt;In movie &lt;em&gt;The Greatest Game Ever Played&lt;/em&gt;, whenever Harry Vardon tries to play a shot, he sees mysterious guys in Black Top Hats. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who are those guys and what their role in the movie. What are they trying to represent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="652" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T13:21:49.263" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T13:21:49.263" Title="Who are the Guys in Tall Black Hats in movie 'The Greatest Game Ever Played'" Tags="|the-greatest-game-ever-played|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2207" CreationDate="2012-05-04T12:23:14.920" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bourne.wikia.com/wiki/Kali_Martial_Arts&quot;&gt;The Bourne Directory&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jason Bourne is a masterful expert in Kali martial arts. He is seen using it in the movies and video game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, amongst his &lt;a href=&quot;http://bourne.wikia.com/wiki/Delta-One&quot;&gt;weapons&lt;/a&gt; are listed are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeet Kune Do&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Krav Maga&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kali Martial Arts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the page about the game &lt;a href=&quot;http://bourne.wikia.com/wiki/Robert_Ludlum%27s_The_Bourne_Conspiracy&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a third-person espionage action game, players move from fistfights to firefights to car chases to experience sequences that aim to seamlessly blend Bourne's signature Kali martial arts with intense shooting and the ability to escape and evade deadly situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="386" LastEditDate="2012-05-04T12:32:09.213" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T12:32:09.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2215" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2220" CreationDate="2012-05-04T12:33:17.217" Score="19" ViewCount="3440" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800080/&quot;&gt;The Incredible Hulk&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/&quot;&gt;The Avengers&lt;/a&gt;, the Hulk is an obvious CGI character. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I am unclear as to how much of him is actual CGI vs motion capture or if his face is a real person's face or another part of the wonders of CGI, etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much of the Hulk can be attributed to a &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; entity and how much is pure CGI?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T08:23:34.580" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T08:23:34.580" Title="Is Hulk a pure CGI being?" Tags="|film-techniques|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|the-incredible-hulk|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2216" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2219" CreationDate="2012-05-04T12:44:57.687" Score="14" ViewCount="9748" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not having read the comics at all and not being a huge mythology buff, I have only the general knowledge of some Norse mythology and Thor's (comic/movie version) background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously the names and some settings are the same. But what I'm referring to is the general setting (Asgard, the bifrost, etc), the character's personality (Loki is known as a trickster God if my recollection serves properly) and countless other examples (Mjolnir, Odinsleep, Frost Giants, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much of the Thor universe is based off of &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; Norse mythology and how much of it is either created from the comic for the movie and so on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T09:12:22.380" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T09:12:22.380" Title="How much of Thor is based on actual mythology?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|comic-adaptation|thor|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2208" CreationDate="2012-05-04T12:47:47.697" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The recent film &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_%28film%29&quot; title=&quot;Hugo - film&quot;&gt;Hugo&lt;/a&gt;&quot; references the urban legend of contemporary audiences of 1896 watching the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_and_Louis_Lumi%C3%A8re&quot; title=&quot;Lumière Brothers&quot;&gt;Lumière Brothers&lt;/a&gt; &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Arriv%C3%A9e_d%27un_Train_en_Gare_de_la_Ciotat#Contemporary_reaction&quot; title=&quot;L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat&quot;&gt;L'Arrivée d'un train en care de La Ciotat&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Stations) where the audience supposedly became overwhelmed at the approach of a train because it was shot in a manner that made people believe it was headed mostly towards the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, there is the fact that people acclimate to effects in the films. The 1950s film &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tingler&quot; title=&quot;Tingler&quot;&gt;The Tingler&lt;/a&gt;&quot; used mild shocks in the theatre that people weren't accustomed to and thus heightened the sensory reaction. One can say that effects have to improve because audiences grow to find the old effects common-place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting Arthur C. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws&quot; title=&quot;Arthur C. Clark's Three Laws&quot;&gt;Clarke's third law&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;&quot;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T12:47:47.697" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2215" CreationDate="2012-05-04T12:56:53.473" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question actually dates back to some of the debates in animation. How much of a character is the director, writers, and artists and how much is a part of the voice artists providing the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This debate is what has often fueled the salary battles of actors from &quot;The Simpsons&quot; as well as an endless history of industry strikes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Avengers&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2010/09/mark_ruffalo_on_actually_playi.html&quot; title=&quot;NYTimes article on Ruffalo playing the Hulk&quot;&gt;opted to use motion capture&lt;/a&gt; on Mark Ruffalo so that the Hulk would actually resemble Banner not merely in features but in expression. So as the effects and CGI improve, there seems to still be a desire to have a human being actually perform (Lord of the Rings, Avatar, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, etc) Back on the topic of voice, Lou Ferrigno returned as the voice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question of &quot;Real Entity&quot; vs. &quot;Pure CGI&quot; is left as a constant debate in the industry. even fully CG characters such as &quot;Otto&quot; the auto-pilot in &quot;WALL-E&quot; still have their grounding in an artist and director. Though, I believe this may be the closest to date as a Pure-CG character since the voice was fully CG Generated as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T12:56:53.473" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2216" CreationDate="2012-05-04T14:46:44.523" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, I'll attempt an answer, based only on the movie (not the comics) and my small bit of knowledge about Norse mythology (paired with up-to-date Wiki-research).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all the movie depicts the gods as being just a kind of powerful aliens (wandering on the same paths as &lt;em&gt;Stargate&lt;/em&gt; and its farther-in-spirit &lt;em&gt;Erich von Däniken&lt;/em&gt; already did). Indeed this isn't that bad an idea, as in Norse mythology (like in Greek mythology and I guess many other pantheistic religions) the gods aren't that almighty as the monotheistic gods. They can be killed by other gods, fight with each other, and aren't completely all-knowing by birth (I think Odin had to sacrifice his eye for gaining the power to see the future). They didn't even create the world on their own, I think. So they are indeed just another race of very powerful, maybe even immortal, but not allmighty, beings in the mythology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then &lt;em&gt;Odin&lt;/em&gt; is indeed the highest of the &lt;em&gt;Aesir&lt;/em&gt;, the higher of the two god races, so it makes sense for him to be the king of &lt;em&gt;Asgard&lt;/em&gt; (the home of the &lt;em&gt;Aesir&lt;/em&gt;) in the movie. Furthermore he is the father of &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt;. But as said, he doesn't lose his eye in a battle against giants, as depicted in the movie, but sacrifices it in order to gain future-seeing powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in mythology everybody knows &lt;em&gt;Loki&lt;/em&gt; is the son of two giants (one of them being &lt;em&gt;Laufey&lt;/em&gt;, as mentioned in the movie) and nobody would think he is &lt;em&gt;Odin&lt;/em&gt;'s son. But even in mythology he is still counted to the &lt;em&gt;Aesir&lt;/em&gt; and not to the giants, and is indeed somehow like a brother to &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt;, with them getting into many adventures together (but also fighting each other when &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt; is fed up with &lt;em&gt;Loki&lt;/em&gt;'s tricks). In mythology he is a very ambivalent character, too. He is both intelligent and intrigant and often helps the other gods with his cunning, while other times trying to sabotage them and even fighting on the side of the giants and other monsters in the final apocalyptic battle. But he doesn't offensively try to kill all humans or even fight the other gods directly, as in the movie, though he would be best choice if the movie wants an intelligent and powerful enemy for &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; It seems he is even banned from &lt;em&gt;Asgard&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;em&gt;Odin&lt;/em&gt; after he has gone too far with one of his intrigues and is actually the leader of the giants during &lt;em&gt;Ragnarok&lt;/em&gt; (the final battle). This might be seen as parallel to the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt; is depicted not that inaccurately, I think, being very powerful and sometimes a bit carefree. He does more count on strength than on intelligence or tactics, but he's not dumb. But I think they made him a bit more likeable/friendly in the movie (/comic?) to better appeal to the audience. He also wields the hammer &lt;em&gt;Mjölnir&lt;/em&gt; in mythology (though I'm not sure it has to be a hammer in all sources), whose feature to always return to &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt; was also depicted in the movie. But he doesn't really have such a gang of co-fighters and friends as in the movie and I don't know in which way they are based on &quot;real&quot; gods (though one of them is called &lt;em&gt;Sif&lt;/em&gt;, which is the name of &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt;'s wife).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie depicts the world &lt;em&gt;Jötunheim&lt;/em&gt; to be the home of the &lt;em&gt;Frost Giants&lt;/em&gt;, although they are actually from &lt;em&gt;Niflheim&lt;/em&gt; (but this is just a minor deviation, as &lt;em&gt;Jötunheim&lt;/em&gt; is the home of the &lt;em&gt;Giants&lt;/em&gt;). But the giants and frost giants are indeed the main antagonists of the gods and &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt; would often venture into their lands to beat them up, sometimes together with &lt;em&gt;Loki&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Bifröst&lt;/em&gt; is actually the rainbow bridge between &lt;em&gt;Midgard&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Asgard&lt;/em&gt; and is indeed guarded by &lt;em&gt;Heimdall&lt;/em&gt;, so it makes sense, in the context of the movie, to turn it into some hyperspace teleporter or something the like. But it does just connect &lt;em&gt;Midgard&lt;/em&gt; (say Earth) to &lt;em&gt;Asgard&lt;/em&gt; and doesn't connect all the 9 worlds together, I think, as depicted in the movie (maybe they have to go over &lt;em&gt;Midgard&lt;/em&gt; to reach the other worlds in the mythology?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this whole &lt;em&gt;Destroyer&lt;/em&gt; thing (this guarding robot misused by &lt;em&gt;Loki&lt;/em&gt;) is utter crap. And I think also this urn the giants want to steal doesn't have any real background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Regarding the Odinsleep from the comics, I don't think this has any real background. When in real life you say &quot;someone is going to Odinsleep&quot; means he is entering a very deep and long sleep. This goes back to a particular legend as part of the &lt;em&gt;Sigurd&lt;/em&gt;-legend (I'm not sure how far this applies to the more modern and mythology-cleaned &lt;em&gt;Nibelung&lt;/em&gt;-legend), where &lt;em&gt;Odin&lt;/em&gt; made &lt;em&gt;Brynhild&lt;/em&gt; sink into a very long sleep for doing something wrong (I think for killing or rather choosing the wrong men in her role as &lt;em&gt;Valkyrie&lt;/em&gt;, at least in the versions where she is a &lt;em&gt;Valkyrie&lt;/em&gt;). But I don't think there is any mythological instance of Odin himself going into a long and vulnerable sleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These were just some small and superficial things I could come up with. All in all I think they did quite a good job to transfer all those mythological things into some kind of &quot;super-powerful aliens&quot;-context and treated the mythological sources not that inaccurately, even if making some errors and creating some things anew (Ok, this robot destroyer thing was really rubbish). But besides that I was indeed surpised how they managed to turn a god into a superhero without hurting &lt;em&gt;Norse&lt;/em&gt; mythology that badly (though an expert on the topic may think differently).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-17T13:57:02.203" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T13:57:02.203" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2215" CreationDate="2012-05-04T15:27:43.927" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Computer artists start by developing a hand drawing of a character, and places like ILM will sometimes create small clay figures as references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are then passed to the modeling artists who convert the concept into a digital character with high level of detail. This is often done with special digital clay sculpting software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some examples I found;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ByZLI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The face can be done digitally as well, and made to be very realistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bp6K5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those images were taken from artists on the Pixologic community forum at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zbrushcentral.com/forum.php&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.zbrushcentral.com/forum.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After digital sculpting is complete, the model is passed to Technical Directors who apply bones/muscles and controls. Also layers of visual effects can be added (smoke, fire, sparks, glowing things). This process is actually very complex and time consuming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point the character has become what is called a &quot;digital asset&quot;. It can move through the production pipeline to different departments. It might go back for more sculpting, go to the rendering departing for lighting, go to texture artists for painting, etc.. etc..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The animators will bring the character to life by key framing the motion. They work on shots and sequences assigned to them by a producer. They can acquire data from another department in the form of data files captured during motion capture sessions with an actor. While an actor might have performed motion capture sessions, an animator is still required to clean and apply the sequence to the character. A lot of people think motion capture makes things easier, but it doesn't. It's a challenge to work with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read more about VFX processes at CGSociety. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cgsociety.org/index.php/CGSFeatures/CGSFeatureSpecial/mpc_in_wrath&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wrath of The Titans&lt;/a&gt; is a recent example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-01-10T15:54:51.513" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T15:54:51.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1409" CreationDate="2012-05-04T20:12:12.407" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, Watashi Wa means &quot;I&quot; in Japanese, Kon means &quot;Good&quot; while the second part would refer to the time of day like good morning, good afternoon, good evening, ext.. As far as des goes it's actually &quot;Desu&quot; and that's how you would end a sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is definitely Japanese. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mata Ne (Bye/see you soon!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1252" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T20:12:12.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2224" CreationDate="2012-05-04T20:55:02.200" Score="36" ViewCount="6961" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just finished the first season of &quot;Game of Thrones&quot;, where one of the main themes is 'The Wall', a huge ice wall that devides the realm (Westeros) from the dangerous and winterly North.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I could gather this huge construct is not man-made. It was mentioned that it simply rose a few hundred years back from the ground. One of the characters says this when mentioning that they were no different than the wildlings, just happened to be on the right side of the wall. &#xA;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: found the quote on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1829962/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tyrion Lannister:&lt;/em&gt; But... I don't believe that giants and ghouls and white walkers are lurking beyond the Wall. I believe that the only difference between us and the wildlings is that when that Wall went up, our ancestors happened to live on the right side of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently the northern side of the Wall is extremely dangerous, hosting wildlings, dangerous animals and the mysterious &quot;White Walkers&quot;. Therefore, the Night Watch has to constantly guard and protect the Wall from outside dangers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't understand though is:&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Where does the long tunnel leading through the Wall come from?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is featured in the very first scene of the series, definitely looks man-made (it's shaped in a perfect bow form) and is covered by multiple massive gates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the people from Westeros cut the tunnel into the ice? It would've certainly taken years to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if yes, what motivation could they possibly have? They probably knew before the wall came up that the north was dangerous. Why would they undertake such an effort to open a passage to this risky area?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from just being not of any worth to them, it also leaves a gaping hole in the otherwise perfect defensive structure that the Wall poses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the risk they would certainly be better off to close the tunnel than to have a passage open and constantly send patrols out there. And even if they needed to go north of the Wall, they could simply let themselves from above, couldn't they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is the tunnel man-made and with what motivation, or is it simply a story device?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2dVoo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;the wall&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="55668" LastEditDate="2019-03-07T20:56:07.737" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T20:56:21.593" Title="Where does the tunnel in the Wall come from?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2223" CreationDate="2012-05-04T21:12:23.640" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not yet gotten the chance to watch the series on TV but I have read the books and without any spoilers from beyond the first book here is the purpose for the tunnel in the wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all the wall is over 900 ft high that has been built by both man and some magical help.  IIRC the tunnel was cut into the wall to create that path to the other side specifically so that they could chop back the forest growth.  By chopping back the forest they create a lane of perfect sight to see when someone is attempting to climb the Wall and attack Westeros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for climbing down from the top of the wall to the northern side was not something they wished to do as it prevents a speedy return trip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="567" LastEditorUserId="567" LastEditDate="2012-06-08T15:19:46.830" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T15:19:46.830" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2223" CreationDate="2012-05-04T21:25:57.353" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've only seen the TV series, so I can only speak to that telling of the story.  The Wall is man-made.  As part of its construction, tunnels were built/dug through it, presumably to allow patrols to cross to maintain defense.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://viewers-guide.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/season1/#!/guide/appendix/westeros-through-the-ages/&quot;&gt;HBO's season 1 guide&lt;/a&gt; provides more information on the Wall's origin:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a future protection against the White Walkers, Brandon Stark – known as Bran the Builder – built a massive ice wall across the northern boundary of Westeros. The Night's Watch was founded to man the massive structure's many strongholds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that the Wall being constructed has been hinted at in the show, in offhand dialogue, but was unable to find quotes after doing some searching.  There hasn't been a mention of this Brandon Stark in the show, but the necessity of The Wall as protection against the White Walkers and other threats from the North has been discussed many times.  Especially early in season 1, when Tyrion makes his trip up to The Wall, and again while Jon is joining the Nightwatch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T21:25:57.353" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2226" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2230" CreationDate="2012-05-04T21:54:37.753" Score="30" ViewCount="8250" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the credits roll on &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;, there is a brief scene that appears to hint at who the next villain will be. I thought it looked kind of like the Red Skull, but others I saw it with disagreed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who was it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="531" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T08:01:12.703" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T08:01:12.703" Title="Who was the guy in the scene after the credits in The Avengers?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2208" CreationDate="2012-05-04T21:57:02.767" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could you be experiencing the &quot;Soap Opera&quot; effect of newer HDTVs with higher refresh rates? This is fairly well documented in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/gtsearch.php?cx=partner-pub-7584088214081698:4628h1-nrqv&amp;amp;cof=FORID:10&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;q=soap%20opera%20effect&amp;amp;sa=Search&amp;amp;siteurl=avsforum.com%252F&amp;amp;ref=avsforum.com/&amp;amp;siteurl=avsforum.com%252F&amp;amp;ref=avsforum.com/&amp;amp;siteurl=avsforum.com%252F&amp;amp;ref=avsforum.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;avsforum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially by ramping up the refresh rate, often referred to as auto-motion plus on Samsung TV's, it causes the movie/video to look hyper-real, much like video used for Soap Operas, hence the name. Just a guess though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1217" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T21:57:02.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2226" CreationDate="2012-05-04T21:57:51.467" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will confirm this when I see the movie later tonight, but preliminary research indicates that this villain is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanos&quot;&gt;Thanos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Feige revealed on an Empire magazine podcast that the &quot;master&quot; in the post credits scene is Thanos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_%282012_film%29#cite_note-EmpirePodcast-171&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-05-04T21:57:51.467" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2226" CreationDate="2012-05-05T06:59:36.007" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got back from the film, and the mid-credits scene villain is indeed &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanos&quot;&gt;Thanos&lt;/a&gt;.  He's a cosmic-level villain who seeks to control the universe.  The idea that the entire film's plot was just a scheme his minions were working on for him is a pretty great introduction for him.  His desire for objects of power suggests that his goal was to get the &quot;Tesseract&quot;, which in the comics are called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_cube&quot;&gt;Cosmic Cubes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, his Chitauri minion referred to attacking Earth as 'courting Death', which is a reference to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanos#The_Infinity_Saga&quot;&gt;Thanos having a thing for Death&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T15:23:53.413" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T15:23:53.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2017" CreationDate="2012-05-05T08:30:24.530" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you want to find the full truth behind this masterpiece of film: Take a good look at Madeline's face. The truth lies within it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've watched the movie twice and I'm still trying to understand this statement. What can one derive from looking at her face. Brenda Cooney did a marvelous job playing Madeline, but there really wasn't anything a person could derive just by &lt;em&gt;looking at her face.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My take was that Claire had come between her and the old man being reunited and she was exacting her revenge on Claire. Not to mention that Claire already had a breathing problem, hence the asthma emergency spritzer, and she simply died of fright.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1255" LastActivityDate="2012-05-05T08:30:24.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2232" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3343" CreationDate="2012-05-05T10:21:59.113" Score="35" ViewCount="13399" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Minority Report&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; again and I always wonder about one part of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When &lt;em&gt;Det. Anderton&lt;/em&gt; is about to get his eyes transplanted illegaly, the eye surgeon tells him, that he got imprisoned by Anderton in the past, which ended his normal life and made him an illegal eye surgeon in a shabby apartment after a not very nice time in prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder though why he then helped &lt;em&gt;Anderton&lt;/em&gt;, considering that he already got paid (I think) and &lt;em&gt;Anderton&lt;/em&gt; was already about to anesthesize. He could just have left him blind or do whatever to him. But he doesn't do anything bad to him (well, he left the rotten food right next to the good food in the fridge, but I'm not sure if this was intentional besides not being that evil a trick).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He tells &lt;em&gt;Anderton&lt;/em&gt; something about learning new things in prison and finding himself, but this sounded a bit sarcastic and I don't really believe he was actually happy to have been imprisoned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was this just a plot device which wasn't thought out that well (raise the tension by implying the eye surgeon is evil, which he then isn't)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was the eye surgeon really happy to have been imprisoned?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has he just got over it and forgiven &lt;em&gt;Anderton&lt;/em&gt; and now only does his job?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or was there indeed something I may have overseen in the story?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-12-12T14:14:10.733" LastActivityDate="2019-08-19T04:30:34.307" Title="Why does the eye surgeon help Anderton" Tags="|plot-explanation|minority-report|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2236" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2240" CreationDate="2012-05-05T23:46:55.910" Score="71" ViewCount="115346" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the climatic battle, Banner says 'That's my secret. I'm always angry', and transforms into the Hulk. Does this imply that Banner learned how to control Hulk? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is the case, why did he transform during the Helicarrier attack? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1257" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T09:21:03.360" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T09:21:03.360" Title="Banner's control of Hulk in Avengers" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|the-incredible-hulk|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2236" CreationDate="2012-05-06T03:09:15.177" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He learned to control Hulk&lt;/strong&gt;, as you could see when he didn't try to smash all of the avengers along the enemy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On helicarrier he still din't know &quot;his secret&quot;, that's why he pummeled them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first he tried to control his anger, on helicarrier it was proven impossible and as a completely wrong solution... After that he realized that he should stop trying to control himself and let his anger take over, which lets him maintain some control. Simply put he was never calm, he was just building up his rage, that's why he said &quot;I'm always angry&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorUserId="65" LastEditDate="2012-05-08T12:35:11.300" LastActivityDate="2012-05-08T12:35:11.300" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2236" CreationDate="2012-05-06T17:42:57.720" Score="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;My theory is this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Banner can already control The Hulk at the beginning of Avengers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is shown when he is about to show his 'secret' to Black Widow the first time.  They are then interrupted (I forget by what already) before he can show her (presumably, his instant transformation).  It is then shown (in a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; epic fashion) that he can turn into The Hulk at will when the giant Chitauri is approaching them stating to Widow &quot;I'm always angry&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when Loki was escaping and caused the floor to pop out from underneath him and Widow, he then &lt;strong&gt;loses this control due to the sudden nature of the event&lt;/strong&gt; and therefore doesn't have full control over The Hulk, hence the battle with Thor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-05-06T17:42:57.720" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2246" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4402" CreationDate="2012-05-07T04:37:16.487" Score="28" ViewCount="17720" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although the Avengers is a great movie in most aspects, it has its own faults or in need of explanations in certain situations, such as:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would Chitauri troops die as soon as the portal closed!? It's as if their brains were wired to mother-ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would their resistance to gravitation depend upon the portal/mother-ship!? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1248" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T08:02:59.827" LastActivityDate="2017-07-28T14:51:42.270" Title="In the Avengers movie, why did the Chitauri troops die almost instantly when the portal closed?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2251" CreationDate="2012-05-07T04:44:26.450" Score="6" ViewCount="612" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the crossover movies like &lt;em&gt;Alien Vs Predator&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt; etc. But I want to know if there is any plan for the DC comic character crossover film such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Justice League&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Where we can see Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, Hawkgirl and Martian Manhunter together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any plans for it in future or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-02T00:12:55.683" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T15:44:15.953" Title="Is there any plan for the DC comic's superhero crossover movie?" Tags="|comic-adaptation|crossovers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2249" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2255" CreationDate="2012-05-07T09:28:54.333" Score="10" ViewCount="4688" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first minute of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1465522/&quot;&gt;Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)&lt;/a&gt;, there's a scene involving a young woman and a camera man investigating a murder scene. Both are killed, and we briefly see their murderer. Who is it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is Chad, due to the similarity of the burns, but that's hard to believe considering how his face pierced a pole three days earlier, or is it just a random person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="81" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T13:30:22.810" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T09:45:02.710" Title="Who is the murderer in the beginning of Tucker &amp; Dale vs Evil?" Tags="|plot-explanation|tucker-and-dale-vs-evil|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2247" CreationDate="2012-05-07T10:05:06.503" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Digging a little on IMDB, I came across &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0974015/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Justice League Part One&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am guessing the spectacular response to Avengers should hurry them along...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In January 2008, Warner Bros. announced the film was on indefinite&#xA;  hold, allowing options to lapse for the cast. The studio felt the&#xA;  script needed perfecting, which was impossible because of the&#xA;  2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Found &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifimafia.com/2011/03/nolan-to-produce-batman-reboot-after-the-dark-knight-rises-warner-prepping-the-flash-and-wonder-woman-movies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;another link&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which points to the JLA movie being in the works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just yesterday, we brought you the news that Warner Bros. president&#xA;  Jeff Robinov reportedly stated that the brothers Warner are planning a&#xA;  Justice League feature film for a 2013 release, after Zack Snyder‘s&#xA;  forthcoming Superman: Man of Steel hits theaters in 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Today, the LA Times reports that Jeff Robinov has confirmed that the&#xA;  Justice League script is in development, though he wouldn’t reveal who&#xA;  was penning the screenplay. The new Warner Bros. president also stated&#xA;  that the Batman film franchise will be rebooted after Christopher&#xA;  Nolan‘s impending return to Gotham with The Dark Knight Rises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1172" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-02T15:44:15.953" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T15:44:15.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2247" CreationDate="2012-05-07T10:29:22.573" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League_in_other_media&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; Says-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When the Los Angeles Times interviewed Warner Bros. president Jeff Robinov, they speculated on the future of DC Comics' properties and believed a new Justice League film was in the works. They stated, following the 2011 launch of the Green Lantern film, Warner Bros. are &quot;to release new Batman and Superman films in 2012 and Justice League, a teaming of DC's top heroes, in 2013.&quot;[34] However, there is no official word if the film is happening or not and how the Superman film being pushed back to the summer of 2013 would affect it. However, it was later announced that the film may be released in 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Batman&lt;/a&gt; heading:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With the conclusion of Christopher Nolan's current trilogy, Warner Bros. is rumored to be producing a Justice League film, targeted for a 2015 release. With the Batman franchise being revamped to fit into the Justice League universe, Nolan and his wife, Emma Thomas, will stay on as producers for the project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League_in_other_media&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; Justice League article - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con Zack Snyder, director of Man of Steel,&#xA;  confirmed an upcoming sequel for Man of Steel currently known as&#xA;  Batman/Superman, though the official title is yet to be announced; the&#xA;  movie is slated for release on July 17, 2015. The film will star Henry&#xA;  Cavill reprising his role as Clark Kent/Superman and many of the first&#xA;  film's cast are set to return. Ben Affleck will also join the cast as&#xA;  Bruce Wayne/Batman. Flash and Justice League films are rumored to be&#xA;  released in 2016 and 2017 respectively&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-08-27T07:58:49.053" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T07:58:49.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2246" CreationDate="2012-05-07T15:37:00.490" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Chitauri did not stop working when the portal closed as the portal did not close until after the ship had been destroyed.  What I took from this meant they were a linked consciousness where once the main body dies the rest of the creatures linked to it would also die (see the buggers from Ender's Game).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marvel has also covered this in their wiki &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/Chitauri&quot;&gt;page&lt;/a&gt; in the Alternate reality section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="567" LastActivityDate="2012-05-07T15:37:00.490" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2249" CreationDate="2012-05-07T18:32:48.510" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_&amp;amp;_Dale_vs_Evil&quot;&gt;Chad&lt;/a&gt;. It becomes quite evident towards the ending of the movie where he is revealed to be the son of the actual memorial day killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2012-05-07T18:32:48.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2256" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="71824" CreationDate="2012-05-07T19:48:45.977" Score="39" ViewCount="117012" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Captain America walks onto the bridge of the ship, he gives Nick Fury a ten dollar bill. Is this because he is amazed by the ship or is it some reference to the fact that he is from a time when African Americans weren't quite treated as equals yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1269" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:19:44.587" LastActivityDate="2023-12-16T18:51:03.087" Title="Why did Captain America give Nick Fury a ten dollar bill?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2256" CreationDate="2012-05-07T20:27:57.040" Score="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;Captain America pays Nick fury $10 in response to the bet he made with him in the gym about not likely going to be amazed by anything else he was shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="567" LastEditorUserId="567" LastEditDate="2012-05-07T21:05:49.287" LastActivityDate="2012-05-07T21:05:49.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2258" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9348" CreationDate="2012-05-07T21:28:15.827" Score="4" ViewCount="540" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speed Racer was always using gadgets to survive and win. His opponents had some as well, though not all of his opponents survived. Beyond raceday lap count, what were the rules? Were there any? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T14:04:30.647" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T14:04:30.647" Title="What were the Race rules in the Speed Racer cartoon series?" Tags="|speed-racer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2212" CreationDate="2012-05-08T07:29:55.820" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Holiday&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ann (Hepburn) is the crown princess of an unspecified country&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T14:54:51.430" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T14:54:51.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2260" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2261" CreationDate="2012-05-08T17:15:27.230" Score="12" ViewCount="1939" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie about 10-15 years ago. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a movie about a deaf girl. One day she walks across the street and doesn't hear a car comming and an ownerless dog saves her life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She takes the dog home and trains him to be a hearing dog. I think she calls him &quot;ears&quot; because he replaces her ears. As the movie proceedes, he saves her life again, warning her of a fire in the house. Later a women appears and claims the dog is hers, she can even prove it as he has a chip. The girl can not stand having to let him go, so she tries to get him back. Thats when she finds out, that the women is a criminal that tries to get the reward put out for a dog looking similar to &quot;ears&quot; and that the chip was only put beneeth his neckband.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it has been a while since I have seen this movie, i'm not so sure about the details, but thats how I remember it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have searched for this movie for years. When I saw it, it was in German, but as the dog was called ears, I think it was an English movie. I once heard about a book which apparently had a similar content. Its title is &quot;broken ears&quot; but I couldn't find out the name of the author nor could I find a movie with that name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody know the title of this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1272" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-18T15:08:51.510" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T15:08:51.510" Title="Deaf girl finds a dog and trains him to be a service dog" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:36:33.260" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2260" CreationDate="2012-05-08T17:43:40.897" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128006/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sunny's Ears (1997)&lt;/a&gt;. IMDB gives the plot summary as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sunny is a 13-year-old girl who lost her hearing at age 11 after a&#xA;  bout of meningitis. She talks normally, and her family is learning&#xA;  sign language - and she has a nutty school friend who was born deaf,&#xA;  and who can't talk. One day, she stumbles across a stray dog, who&#xA;  saves her from being run over. She wants to keep him, but her parents&#xA;  don't want a dog in the house. She rescues him from the pound where&#xA;  they send him, and comes up with the idea of having him trained as a&#xA;  hearing dog. This convinces her parents to allow him in the house, and&#xA;  she names him Ears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KAHyJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastActivityDate="2012-05-08T17:43:40.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2262" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2266" CreationDate="2012-05-08T18:04:05.000" Score="14" ViewCount="4762" Body="&lt;p&gt;George Michael Bluth's on again off again girlfriend, Ann Veal, is either disliked or ignored by the other members of the Bluth family (with the exception of when Gob dated her in the third season), but we never really learn why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aBqN4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Her?&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a definitive reason behind their feelings toward &lt;strike&gt;bland&lt;/strike&gt; Ann?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-05-11T14:18:59.843" LastActivityDate="2012-05-11T14:18:59.843" Title="Why does everyone on Arrested Development dislike Ann?" Tags="|character|arrested-development|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2263" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-08T19:48:52.607" Score="11" ViewCount="4018" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching &lt;em&gt;Downton Abbey&lt;/em&gt; recently and noticed that Anna and Gwen have different maids' apron designs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HKYC8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;L to R: Gwen, Anna&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does their apron design indicate rank in some way? I know they are maids for differently-ranked ladies of the house, but Miss O'Brien (who serves Cora Crawley, Lady Grantham) wears no apron at all, and Mrs. Hughes is also dressed in all-black.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19" LastEditorUserId="19" LastEditDate="2012-05-22T18:04:42.043" LastActivityDate="2013-03-19T19:39:03.900" Title="Do the maids' apron designs indicate position?" Tags="|downton-abbey|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2213" CreationDate="2012-05-08T23:12:39.857" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe they are flashbacks to the opening scene, in which young Harry is told that golf is a gentleman's game and therefore he shouldn't wish to play. He has now become the best golfer in the world, but he always remembers the day they told him he wasn't good enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Ouimet is the main protagonist, Vardon is played up quite a bit as a sympathetic character because they both had to work their way up through external discouragement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1113" LastActivityDate="2012-05-08T23:12:39.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2262" CreationDate="2012-05-09T01:04:46.053" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ann is made up to be rather plain and frumpy, so it's not so much that everyone else in the Bluth family &lt;em&gt;dislikes&lt;/em&gt; her, they just don't see what George Michael sees in her.  Michael in particular seems to think his son can do much better, and often gets Ann's name wrong, calling her Egg, Bland, Plant, and of course, &quot;&lt;em&gt;...Her?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's probably one of the funniest and most well-known running gags from season two of the show.  You can find a transcript and a few clips of the best &quot;Ann&quot; moments at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.couchbaron.com/?p=122&quot;&gt;“Her?” A Loving Tribute To Arrested Development’s Ann Veal&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-05-09T01:04:46.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2236" CreationDate="2012-05-09T03:13:49.543" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;My impression was everyone kept assuming the hulk was something he was constantly fighting for control, and whenever he got angry enough to lose his focus he'd run wild, when the reality was Banner doesn't &quot;lose&quot; to the Hulk, he calls him out. Once he transforms he doesn't have a great deal of control over what the Hulk decides to smash, because like he keeps saying, it's 'another guy' taking over at that point, but the choice to change is Banner's. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It makes sense if you accept Banner the man isn't necessarily a great person to begin with, which I don't think he's ever claimed to be, and can get to the point where he actually wants to unleash the Hulk and let the consequences be damned. This also explains why he'd run off to hide in one of the most densely populated areas of the world, where the collateral damage would be massive if he ever let the Hulk out. It's not to get himself away from stress, it's to put himself in a position where the cost of calling the hulk would be more than he's willing to pay. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the airship Loki manipulates them all into wanting to fight each other, which explains why Banner would let the Hulk come out to play, he wasn't losing control over a monster, he was just as eager to throw down as the Cap and Stark were a few seconds earlier. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a thought. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1275" LastActivityDate="2012-05-09T03:13:49.543" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2268" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2269" CreationDate="2012-05-09T13:17:03.597" Score="42" ViewCount="19744" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the UK the movie is called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPoHPNeU9fc&quot;&gt;Avengers Assemble&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was it given a different name in that market?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T17:58:40.577" LastActivityDate="2019-08-06T17:46:25.263" Title="Why was the Avengers movie called something different in the UK?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|title|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2268" CreationDate="2012-05-09T13:24:46.837" Score="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Avengers was given a somewhat different name because of the British TV show &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Avengers&lt;/a&gt;.  The new name was to help keep them separate and to avoid any confusion for audiences in the UK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_%282012_film%29#Release&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In February 2012, Disney announced that the film's title would be&#xA;  changed in the United Kingdom to avoid confusion with the British TV&#xA;  series of the same name, as well as its 1998 film adaptation, but this&#xA;  led to confusion over the film's actual title. Empire magazine&#xA;  reported that the film would be titled Marvel Avengers Assemble&#xA;  while The Hollywood Reporter said that it would be called simply&#xA;  Avengers Assemble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="65239" LastEditDate="2019-08-06T17:46:25.263" LastActivityDate="2019-08-06T17:46:25.263" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1306" CreationDate="2012-05-09T13:35:21.887" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was supposed to provide background to the character Ryan McCarthy. He's so into fighting and being the best, as Max mentioned to Jake he said that Ryan's dad was psycho and had him in Karate since before he could crawl. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shows why Ryan is so aggresive, so cocky, so focussed on winning. He takes out his frustrations that his father causes him to have on the people that he pounds on and humiliates in fights: Jake being the main one in the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically Mr. McCarthy is a microcasm to Jake's training in MMA. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1276" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-05-09T13:39:00.837" LastActivityDate="2012-05-09T13:39:00.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2268" CreationDate="2012-05-09T14:25:09.813" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;They changed the name in UK because of having the same name to TV show &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Avengers&lt;/a&gt;. So they changed the name but only for UK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They said-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Well sir, with people who associate the name ‘The Avengers’ with the&#xA;  TV show, there’s a slim chance that they’ll get confused by the movie&#xA;  poster and so may not want to watch our movie.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Avengers Assemble name is selected because The Avengers team say it every time they go into battle in comics and its the most common phrase, So that's the whole reason for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-12-22T14:37:15.117" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T14:37:15.117" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2272" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2276" CreationDate="2012-05-09T14:36:29.113" Score="22" ViewCount="15051" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are movies titled differently in the UK?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example; &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2268/why-was-the-avengers-movie-called-something-different-in-the-uk&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; changed to &lt;em&gt;Avengers Assemble&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1433562/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vertige&lt;/em&gt; is called &lt;em&gt;High Lane&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the reason why so many movies are retitled for the UK?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the reason why the title of &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; was changed in the UK, but what is the overall reason for changing movie titles for the UK?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2019-12-28T03:10:01.870" Title="Why do many movie titles differ between the U.S. and the UK?" Tags="|title|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2273" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2287" CreationDate="2012-05-09T15:29:03.810" Score="32" ViewCount="58449" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the climatic battle of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Avengers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, we see the full might of our heroes teaming up to protect the world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://24.media.tumblr.com/03d89ab3fe7b118238963319b30994e8/tumblr_mmswbjHqd41r1mr1po1_500.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;one scene&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; during this battle, while hilarious on it's own right, does not make much sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While battling the Chitauri together, Thor and Hulk eliminate what appears to be a small force residing in a building.  While catching their breath, Hulk all of a sudden &lt;em&gt;punches Thor with great force away from him&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; does he do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The theories swirling in my head point to either a &lt;em&gt;revenge&lt;/em&gt; punch for their fight in the Helicarrier.  Or a &lt;em&gt;brofist&lt;/em&gt; for beating a pack of Chitauri, taken a bit too far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any official wording on why this happened and Thor seemed to think &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T08:01:00.063" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T08:01:00.063" Title="Why did The Hulk punch Thor while fighting the Chitauri?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|plot-explanation|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2272" CreationDate="2012-05-09T15:30:22.357" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other questions answer very well why some of the reasons why a small minority of English language movies are re-titled for the a particular country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at your other example, &lt;em&gt;Vertige&lt;/em&gt; is a French movie. &lt;em&gt;Vertige&lt;/em&gt; does not mean anything particularly in English, even if it is reminiscent of the translation of 'vertigo'.  Unfortunately &lt;em&gt;Vertigo&lt;/em&gt; is a very well known Hitchcock movie from the 1950s, so although the simple translation must have occurred to the producers, they obviously chose not to use that.  The movie was renamed to &lt;em&gt;High Lane&lt;/em&gt; for the English language market worldwide, and on other markets:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;High Lane - Schau nicht nach unten!  (Germany)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dead Cliff   (Japan - this might be an English translation of the real Japanese title)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gerilim hatti (Turkey)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ypsofovia    (Greece)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Závrat   (Czech Republic)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1433562/releaseinfo#akas&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-06-20T16:11:19.933" LastActivityDate="2013-06-20T16:11:19.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2272" CreationDate="2012-05-09T16:00:27.157" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;The UK is a different country from the USA, with a different culture, language, licencing laws, censorship restrictions and different existing properties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes films in the US conflict with one of those and get a very different release in the UK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example is The Boat That Rocked - in the UK it got quite a clever poster that riffs on the Beatles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VbrId.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Boat That Rocked&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the US it was renamed to Pirate Radio and the poster changed to include the love-interest and a boat full of girls (and is a layout mess):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kRH3t.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Pirate Radio&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet another example is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Madness_of_George_III&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Madness of King George III&lt;/a&gt; - it was renamed for the US release because while Brits are used to referring to kings by numbers the Americans aren't, so they didn't want to confuse audiences into thinking it was a sequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They can make very odd marketing decisions too: the film Couples Retreat got strange &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20170201213613/http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1227868/Race-row-black-stars-airbrushed-Couples-Retreat-film-poster.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;racist posters the UK&lt;/a&gt; but not in the US..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fact is that the UK and US are very different markets, so films get different names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1277" LastEditorUserId="76006" LastEditDate="2019-12-28T03:10:01.870" LastActivityDate="2019-12-28T03:10:01.870" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2277" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2284" CreationDate="2012-05-09T16:16:27.407" Score="8" ViewCount="464" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before being inducted into MiB, K takes J into Jeebs' Pawn Shop. Jeebs calls him &quot;Officer Edwards&quot; (Knowing J's name)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeebs obviously knows J from his pre-MiB life. When J's history is erased do they do so with the knowledge that Jeebs knows his identity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The neutralizer can wipe backwards but doesn't seem to have selective memory removal. (To get rid of J's life in Jeebs head would require blanking Jeebs to before he ever met J)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-02T15:59:01.220" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T15:59:01.220" Title="When J's history is erased do they do so with the knowledge that Jeebs knows his identity?" Tags="|plot-explanation|men-in-black|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2272" CreationDate="2012-05-09T16:36:05.427" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;A well-known example is the first Harry Potter book and movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;British author J.K. Rowling titled her first book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Scholastic later published the book in the U.S., changing the title to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.  When Warner Brothers bought the movie rights, it kept the American book title in the U.S.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rowling claimed that she regretted this change and would have fought it if she had been in a stronger position at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scholastic thought that a child wouldn't buy a book with the word 'philosopher' in the title. The U.K.-based Harry Potter Teaching Resources site suggests that the book was retitled &quot;...presumably to make it sound more magic orientated rather than philosophy orientated.&quot;  They also may have doubted American grade-schoolers would be familiar with the mythic philosopher's stone, a mineral substance that could transform base metal into gold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result of the name change, all the scenes in the movie that mention the stone were filmed twice, once with actors saying &quot;sorcerer's&quot; and once with them saying &quot;philosopher's.&quot;  Same for the book -- &quot;philosopher's&quot; was replaced with &quot;sorcerer's&quot;, along with other editing to reflect different British/American spelling differences (e.g. colour vs color). and usage (crumpets vs. muffin).  The latter I find curious, since the book/movie actually takes place in England.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2012-05-09T16:36:05.427" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2281" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2304" CreationDate="2012-05-09T19:06:47.697" Score="12" ViewCount="16937" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the third episode of the first season of Arrested Development, titled &quot;Bringing up Buster,&quot; there are two instances when Buster uses (what is assumed to be) obscene language to describe his mother, Lucille.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Buster:&lt;/strong&gt; [about Lucille]: It's like she gets off on being withholding. &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Michael:&lt;/strong&gt; Whoa, Buster! &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Gob:&lt;/strong&gt; Look who's ragging on the old lady! &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Buster:&lt;/strong&gt; 'Because I'm an uptight... &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [long bleep] &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Buster:&lt;/strong&gt; ...Buster... &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [long bleep] &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Buster:&lt;/strong&gt; ...you old horny slut!' &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Michael:&lt;/strong&gt; [stunned] Nobody's going to top that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Buster:&lt;/strong&gt; And you might be [bleep] and it’s going to [bleep]. &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Michael:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is Buster actually saying?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T09:52:51.443" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T09:52:51.443" Title="What does Buster say under the bleeps in the &quot;Bringing up Buster&quot; episode of Arrested Development?" Tags="|dialogue|arrested-development|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2283" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2290" CreationDate="2012-05-09T19:27:49.470" Score="18" ViewCount="292908" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am confused, what happened at the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1601913/&quot;&gt;The Grey (2011)&lt;/a&gt;? Did Ottway die or did he manage to survive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-10T17:55:37.783" LastActivityDate="2021-04-19T10:22:51.423" Title="What happened at the end of The Grey?" Tags="|ending|the-grey|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2277" CreationDate="2012-05-09T20:31:24.657" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2277/mib-jeebs-memory-question#comment3360_2277&quot;&gt;I think that @tylershads hit the Jeebs on the head&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wonder if, because he is already a part of that world, they entrust him with that information. Because releasing that, would expose himself as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When J was erased, everything that consisted of his &lt;strong&gt;human&lt;/strong&gt; existence was erased.  If Jeebs only knew him through J’s law enforcement duties he probably doesn’t have any personal information on J, making it almost impossible for Jeebs to find out any other information.  He would have to do a lot of leg work to find out any information from people still alive that knew J (police also don’t share personal information very freely), and doing so would probably put him on MIB’s hot list, which I think is enough to force Jeebs to keep the information to himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T15:57:42.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2273" CreationDate="2012-05-09T21:18:29.717" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Official wording? The answer is because Hulk is chaotic and unpredictable and loves to punch things. He's always been that way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1283" LastActivityDate="2012-05-09T21:18:29.717" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="790" CreationDate="2012-05-09T23:38:28.597" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mycroft and Watson mentioned a &quot;danger night.&quot; I assume Mycroft gave him the stick to be nice when seeing his brother emotionally falling down. Tobacco has also completely replaced the morphine use, but he did refer to his 7% cocaine solution in one episode. &#xA;It was just a treat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1284" LastActivityDate="2012-05-09T23:38:28.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2273" CreationDate="2012-05-10T00:26:57.030" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I have nothing to back this up, I am a writer and one of my characters parallels the Hulk fairly closely.   In my mind, there's little doubt why he did it.  He loves to hit things, he just got through having an aggressive fight, Thor is still upright, and he knows that Thor won't be hurt by it.  It's like punching your teammate on the shoulder pads after he makes the game-winning touchdown, only sized up to Superhero proportion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1285" LastActivityDate="2012-05-10T00:26:57.030" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2293" CreationDate="2012-05-10T01:26:01.373" Score="5" ViewCount="777" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying to locate a movie that I saw only a few scenes to while recovering from some injuries. If I am remembering correctly, the protagonist exists in a society where everyone has a religion, save himself. I believe there were some characters (guards, police) who wore trench coats and had white face masks on (like Rorschach); and there was a receptionist who had just switched religions to something like &quot;7th day adventists.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone recall this movie? I want to say it was a more recent (last 5 years) film, but I am not certain. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1286" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2012-05-11T20:40:03.810" LastActivityDate="2012-05-11T20:40:03.810" Title="Trying to find a movie with fantasy religion-based world" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:36:36.383" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2157" CreationDate="2012-05-10T01:38:26.853" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe he would survive, it could have been just reaction lead by fear and panic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thor can &quot;fly&quot; but inside a steel cage it is of no use to him so&#xA;getting out is smart idea no matter how immortal he is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Falling and getting hit by a steel roof also can't feel too&#xA;good...and it could ruin his magnificent hair.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is always fear of death, and especially when Loki mentioned it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Loki didn't count that it would kill him, his goal was just to get rid of Thor and separate avengers. &#xA;Also if Thor broke the glass earlier he could have flown back to the ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T17:56:54.573" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T17:56:54.573" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2283" CreationDate="2012-05-10T02:24:27.193" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the ending is intentionally ambiguous, so each member of the audience can draw their own conclusion.  Even if Ottway kills the Alpha, will the rest of the pack let him survive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you watched past the credits, you saw that there was a very short (maybe two seconds) scene where we see Ottway and the Alpha wolf after they fight.  They're both alive, but badly injured.  Ottway's head is resting on top of the wolf's body.  Since both are so badly injured, I think it's unlikely that either one of them will survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-02T16:03:57.590" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T16:03:57.590" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2273" CreationDate="2012-05-10T02:31:21.900" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the Hulk is a bit of an a-hole in the movie, not out of character for him or anyone who knows their power is unmatched. He undoubtedly remembers their battle in S.H.I.E.L.D.s' carrier and remembers he could not lift Mjolnir, Thor's hammer. He has a bit of contempt for demigods. Something Loki found out first-hand after announcing himself as a god and in the same breath insulting a Hulk that is much more in touch with his internal Banner! &quot;Puny god!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1287" LastActivityDate="2012-05-10T02:31:21.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2273" CreationDate="2012-05-10T07:47:59.383" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hulk hates competition, and was still angry of the fact that Thor stood up to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1289" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-07-08T00:02:07.783" LastActivityDate="2012-07-08T00:02:07.783" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2288" CreationDate="2012-05-10T08:12:54.313" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is Franklyn. Here is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0893402/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link to it&lt;/a&gt;. However, I wouldn't count on too much action. There are three important characters, each one with its own story, one of them sounding very similar to what you described here: in a world where every person must have a religion(even if it is a very weird one, more like a club), an atheist becomes a vigilante, trying to find and kill the head of a criminal... religion. Although this may seem like a film packed with action, there are quite few thrilling scenes. The intention of the filmmakers was to make you ask yourself some questions regarding religion, faith, existence and other philosophical topics. But, this goal doesn't seem to me as being achieved. In my opinion, they aimed at too many things at once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope it will be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="418" LastEditorUserId="418" LastEditDate="2012-05-10T17:48:37.590" LastActivityDate="2012-05-10T17:48:37.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2296" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-10T10:14:05.860" Score="14" ViewCount="393" Body="&lt;p&gt;I firmly believe in paying for what I watch - they paid to make it, I should pay to watch it. Completely fair. However, I hate physical media: DVD, Blu-ray, you name it. I'm happy to buy them to pay my royalty to those involved, but my understanding is that despite having paid for the film, in the UK it is illegal to have a ripped or downloaded copy of any movie, regardless of whether or not you own a physical copy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought &quot;Digital Copies&quot; sold in Triple-play packages might be the solution, but they force ridiculous limitations, like tying it to one computer for the rest of forever. I'm not going to have one computer for the rest of forever, rendering it useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is, is there a robust, legal means for me to be able to carry my movies on my hard drive (for travelling and suchlike) given that I am more than happy to pay, and even pay a premium, for the privilege? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand this is quasi-legal in the states, but generally falls into a grey area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1292" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-11T15:10:57.063" LastActivityDate="2015-07-11T15:10:57.063" Title="Digital Movies, DVD's and the law" Tags="|distribution|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2296" CreationDate="2012-05-10T12:31:00.973" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently the best legal method to own a digital copy of a movie is to go through &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uvvu.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UltraViolet&lt;/a&gt;.  I know this service is probably not as robust as you are looking for but it is currently the standard backed by most of the major production groups and is slowly expanding as new movies are released to DVD. The only problem that I was unable to find out is if this service is available in the UK as I did not see it explicitly listed in the Terms of Service or their FAQ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="567" LastEditorUserId="567" LastEditDate="2012-05-10T13:57:55.657" LastActivityDate="2012-05-10T13:57:55.657" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2299" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-10T16:17:17.297" Score="6" ViewCount="9344" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched the Hollywood version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298130/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Ring (2002)&lt;/a&gt;, but I didn't watch the original Japanese version &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0178868/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ringu (1998)&lt;/a&gt;. Are the plots of both movies exactly the same? If not, what are the differences between them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-21T11:54:08.997" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T14:38:16.237" Title="Difference between The Ring and Ringu" Tags="|comparison|the-ring|ringu|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2299" CreationDate="2012-05-10T17:29:03.840" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298130/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Ring&lt;/em&gt; (2002)&lt;/a&gt; is a remake of the Japanese horror film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0178868/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ringu&lt;/em&gt; (1998)&lt;/a&gt;. You can read summaries of both plots in Wikipedia by following links &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ringu&lt;/em&gt; (1998)&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ring_%282002_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Ring&lt;/em&gt; (2002)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, both films are based on Koji Suzuki's novel &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1932234411&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ring&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and focus on a mysterious cursed videotape that contains a seemingly random series of disturbing images. So in most places movies are similar with little change and even the ending part is similar too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main difference I got from Wikipedia is that in &lt;em&gt;Ringu&lt;/em&gt;, the reason for the curse is in history of the great psychic Shizuko Yamamura, whose astounding supernatural power was accused to be a fraud. Yamamura committed suicide for which and the power passed on to her daughter also made her distrusted by the world and ultimately, killed by her father. And that girl become the ghost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Ring&lt;/em&gt;, the story is little different but otherwise the story follows the similar path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogcritics.org/ringu-vs-the-ring/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a point to point difference from a viewer point of view. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-12-22T14:38:16.237" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T14:38:16.237" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2303" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3241" CreationDate="2012-05-11T00:11:32.877" Score="11" ViewCount="39702" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1053810/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Big Year (2011)&lt;/a&gt;, Kenny Bostick does a big year and finishes with &lt;strong&gt;755&lt;/strong&gt; bird species. After watching the film, I checked Wikipedia for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_year&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Big year&lt;/a&gt; and reached the following information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Big Year of 1998 was the subject of a book of the same name by Mark Obmascik. In that year three birders, Sandy Komito, Al Levantin and Greg Miller, chased Komito's record of 721 birds. In the end Sandy Komito kept the record, listing 745 birds plus 3 submitted in 1998 and later accepted by state committees for a revised total of &lt;strong&gt;748&lt;/strong&gt;. The book was adapted for the 2011 20th Century Fox film &lt;em&gt;The Big Year&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of 2011, the world record is still &lt;strong&gt;748&lt;/strong&gt;, but in the movie it is &lt;strong&gt;755&lt;/strong&gt;. Why is the record in the movie  not the same as the real one? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T18:42:47.937" LastActivityDate="2013-05-30T10:23:20.980" Title="Why is the big year record not accurate?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-big-year|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2281" CreationDate="2012-05-11T02:38:18.297" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the Notes Section of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://arresteddevelopment.wikia.com/wiki/Bringing_Up_Buster&quot;&gt;Arrested Development Wiki&lt;/a&gt; for this episode, S1 Ep3, The Parents Television Council (PTC) had troubles with the profanity in the series, especially since in this episode Buster had two long strings of profanity.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;It also noted that Tony Hale personally does not use profanity, so, if the script called for it like here, he would improvise.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The notes say that he was reciting the alphabet, and that it can be discerned by lip reading.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I rewatched the episode on DVD, with captioning, and this I cannot confirm. Captioning highlights the bleeps during the tirade, and the camera is mostly on the shocked expressions of Michael, Gob and Lindsay.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The second or two we actually see the lips move, I can't say we can see clearly that it is the alphabet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2012-05-11T02:38:18.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2306" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3920" CreationDate="2012-05-11T07:24:05.850" Score="7" ViewCount="5474" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a witch in the Tim Burton movie Dark Shadows.  In a couple of scenes she is shown to crack like she is made of porcelain?  Specifically towards the end of the movie she starts cracking away to revel a hollow interior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did the witch crack like porcelain?  Was this mentioned in the movie at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-06-20T13:08:09.793" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T07:49:06.110" Title="Why did the witch crack like porcelain?" Tags="|dark-shadows|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2307" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-11T10:52:52.437" Score="2" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/604/to-what-extent-are-child-actors-exposed-to-the-violent-aspects-of-the-movie-they&quot;&gt;To what extent are child actors exposed to the violent aspects of the movie they perform in?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I correct in thinking that children who make films which are rated at a particular age rating cannot actually &lt;strong&gt;see&lt;/strong&gt; the movie until they are of said age?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: let us assume that John, aged 8, has played a major part in a horror movie (Movie X), where he was filmed in a number of scary scenes involving lots of blood, gore and some swearing.  However, upon classification, the BBFC decided that a rating of 15 was suitable for Movie X.  Therefore, will John not be allowed to see his &quot;own movie&quot; until he is at least 15 years of age even though he acted in the gory scenes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Logically, I would say no, John is not allowed to see said movie until he is of age; however, that statement in itself is illogical, given the background history of the movie as he starred in many gory and horrific scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: which would be the most accurate assumption?  That John &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;isn't&lt;/strong&gt; able to see the movie until he is of age, even though he starred in most of it and has seen the horror scenes first-hand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1300" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2012-05-11T10:52:52.437" Title="Children in Horror Movies" Tags="|horror|content-rating|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2012-05-11T12:07:26.233" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2308" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2322" CreationDate="2012-05-11T12:32:12.313" Score="10" ViewCount="51586" Body="&lt;p&gt;What relevance do the buttons (button-eyes) play in Coraline as it never appears to be defined.  For those of you who have not yet seen the film, then please do not read any further as the plot will be revealed.  For those of you who &lt;strong&gt;have&lt;/strong&gt; seen it, then please continue to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thought was that it was because the Other Mother made the other world and thus used buttons as her 'signature', if you like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone clear this up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1300" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-28T16:17:10.837" LastActivityDate="2019-10-29T01:00:32.767" Title="Coraline - Relevance of Buttons (Button-Eyes)?" Tags="|coraline|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2273" CreationDate="2012-05-11T13:04:07.983" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was obviously a case of Hulk having the last laugh, so to speak and was intended to make people smile or laugh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I highly doubt that there is any &quot;official&quot; reasoning available for such a minor thing which is clearly intended for the viewers to make what they will of it, with the implication that it was in relation to their (Hulk &amp;amp; Thor's) earlier battle with one another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1300" LastActivityDate="2012-05-11T13:04:07.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2310" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="113219" CreationDate="2012-05-11T13:18:56.053" Score="12" ViewCount="10049" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one of the final scenes of Constantine Gabriel appears and has several wristbands on her arms.  I can only read two of them, I believe they say &quot;Sorrow&quot; and &quot;Passion&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming these are two of a number of traits, what are they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would Gabriel be wearing them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-05-11T13:21:42.380" LastActivityDate="2021-03-30T10:24:37.753" Title="Gabriel's Wristbands in Constantine" Tags="|constantine|costume|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2311" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2312" CreationDate="2012-05-11T13:21:28.297" Score="48" ViewCount="51095" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the original Star Wars movies (IV, V, and VI) three actors ended up playing Darth Vader.  David Prowse was the actual physical body for the most part, James Earl Jones was used for the voice, and in Return of the Jedi when the helmet was taken off he was played by Sebastian Shaw (who was also one of the &quot;ghosts&quot; at the end of the movie originally but was edited out and replaced by Hayden Christensen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is, why was the decision made to have so many people play one character in the original movies?  Did Prowse just not have the right voice or look right (except for his height)?  Was Sebastian Shaw not tall enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T15:09:28.490" Title="Why did three actors play Darth Vader?" Tags="|star-wars|casting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2311" CreationDate="2012-05-11T14:09:25.207" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;David Prowse definitely did not have the right voice. He is from Bristol in the UK, and has a Bristolian accent, what would be described as in the UK as a 'west country accent'. To many ears this sounds a little parochial - most people would think this more the accent for a farmer than a galactic enforcer for the Emperor, however unfair that comparison might be.  However David Prowse was a body-builder, had acting experience so he had the right look at 6 foot 6 inches tall.  He was also from the UK where many of the scenes involving Vader were made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James Earl Jones is to a degree the opposite - he has an amazing voice, and although a more accomplished actor than Prowse, does not have the right bodybuilder physical presence and is (only) 6 foot 2 inches tall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, why Sebastian Shaw and not Prowse for the final scene with Vader? They may have thought that Prowse, only in his late 40's, might look a little too young to be Luke's father, and the accent would have been too striking a difference to the 'in helmet' voice.  Of course with the later casting of Hayden Christensen as the young Anakin, the age would have been about right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2012-05-13T11:17:42.943" LastActivityDate="2012-05-13T11:17:42.943" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2313" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2316" CreationDate="2012-05-11T14:14:07.920" Score="29" ViewCount="10400" Body="&lt;p&gt;In two separate episodes of Seinfeld, George mentions his brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first, in episode fifteen of the third season, titled &quot;The Suicide&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RULA:&lt;/strong&gt; Who’s Pauline?&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GEORGE:&lt;/strong&gt; Pauline? . . . Wait a minute. I got it. My brother once impregnated a woman named Pauline.&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RULA:&lt;/strong&gt; Do you think about her?&#xA;  &lt;BR&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GEORGE:&lt;/strong&gt; When I hear her name mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second, in the twenty-third episode of the third season, titled &quot;The Parking Spot&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ELAINE:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh come on, George, please put it in a garage. I don't want to spend&#xA;  an hour looking for a space.&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GEORGE:&lt;/strong&gt; I can't park in a garage.&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ELAINE:&lt;/strong&gt; Why?&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GEORGE:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't know, I just can't. Nobody in my family can pay for parking,&#xA;  it's a sickness. My father never paid for parking; my mother, my brother,&#xA;  nobody. We can't do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further confusing the situation is that in later episodes George repeatedly claims to be an only child. (examples welcome)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt; seinfeldvoice &gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;So what's the deal with George Constanza's brother? Is he real, or is George an only child?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&amp;lt; / seinfeldvoice &gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-05-11T14:18:48.033" LastActivityDate="2018-10-21T05:17:37.873" Title="Does George Costanza have a brother?" Tags="|character|seinfeld|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2306" CreationDate="2012-05-11T15:11:17.913" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please note: most of my answer is based on supposition and experience as a Director.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no references as far as I can tell (under cursory research) about superstitions related to the facade of a witch cracking under duress or to any similar behavior in the &quot;Dark Shadows&quot; original series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is assumable that the Director (Burton) does this for cinematic and symbolic reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A witch (often like a vampire) has a lot of mythological license (along the lines of poetic license). The Wicked Witch of the West melts from water, Baba Yaga is weakened if her mirror is destroyed. Witch is also a generic term that can range from &quot;Oz&quot; to &quot;Practical Magic&quot; to &quot;Buffy.&quot; It can reference a supernatural creature or a normal, human woman who uses supernatural forces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the penalties or side effects can be as varied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, focus on the character and the effect. &quot;The beautiful woman cracks when angry showing a hollow interior&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, this is &quot;Directing Symbolism&quot; 304. (Third year, major class, because you want some terminology and experience before you start doing in depth analysis). The idea of a beautiful veneer cracking can be symbolic of the beauty being damaged. A veneer can be a false cover. The hollow interior... One can run with that about as far as one can run with Tony Stark having no heart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is a specific &quot;Canonical&quot; reason for it. I think we can basically point to Burton making a directorial decision. And I'd hazard a successful one if it resulted in someone asking, &quot;Why&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="715" LastEditDate="2012-05-11T15:17:59.483" LastActivityDate="2012-05-11T15:17:59.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2313" CreationDate="2012-05-11T17:12:09.037" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately it is an unsolved mystery; those are the only 2 times his brother is mentioned and there is much more of him claiming otherwise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It could only be a common &quot;movie&quot; mistake, since there is not any weight&#xA;put on his brother he is only used as a subject in a response.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In other case it could only be that his is just sarcastic when&#xA;telling he is only child, like he has a grunge against his brother.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would go with a &quot;movie&quot; mistake however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorUserId="56" LastEditDate="2012-05-11T18:41:53.497" LastActivityDate="2012-05-11T18:41:53.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2310" CreationDate="2012-05-11T18:30:42.310" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I managed to read these : &lt;strong&gt;Awakening&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;sorrow&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;rage&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;passion&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;melancholy&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;joy&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;love&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They might be the &quot;trophies&quot; she collected for the sisters that killed themselves and each one is their reason for doing it or getting there in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its most likely just accessory to make her look more insane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastActivityDate="2012-05-11T18:30:42.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2310" CreationDate="2012-05-11T18:31:26.187" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good catch, I had a closer look and could only identify one more, the topmost one on the right hand, and it seems to say &quot;Awareness&quot;. (not sure its visible in the resolution here, its at the very bottom of the screen)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m13t2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Top right wristband&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the meaning of the wristbands we can only speculate, as there seems to be no official comment about those. (At least I was unable to find any.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My theory is that the bracelets represent human traits that lead to suffering. Gabriels motivation for his/her actions result from the view that God has blessed the humans with so many gifts and his unlimited love and understanding, but they have not earned it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gabriel thinks that humanity can only show it's best side and true greatness when they are suffering. Gabriel therefore wants to literally bring hell to earth, so that those who survive all the horror and pain are really worthy of gods love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wristbands indicate that Gabriel is the bringer of humanitys suffering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also notice that the bracelets are the ones of a mental institute, the same one that Isabel was wearing when she jumped off the building, probably somehow influenced by Gabriel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2012-05-11T18:31:26.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2308" CreationDate="2012-05-11T22:20:07.540" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watched this movie a 1,000 times. My daughter loves it and watched it over and over again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The eyes are the window to the soul, and once she has your eyes she has your soul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other three children let the mother sew buttons into their eyes, and she was able to keep them in the other world. In the original book the mother eats the three children, and their spirits are trapped. The children warn Coraline not to let her sew buttons in her eyes, and Coraline helps free their souls at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is really anything deeper in the meaning then that. If Coraline lets the mother sew the buttons into her eyes, then she is becoming compliant and accepting of the new world she's in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2019-10-29T01:00:32.767" LastActivityDate="2019-10-29T01:00:32.767" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2324" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2348" CreationDate="2012-05-11T22:58:43.650" Score="114" ViewCount="19234" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the ending of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2010), there is some doubt that Cobb is in the real world. But if he is not in the real world then at which level of the dream he is in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Starting at the presumed 'real world' as the first level of the story, I think the final scene it's the fifth level (limbo) because at the fourth level they save Fischer, but I need clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-04-05T11:21:18.983" LastActivityDate="2019-10-25T20:56:08.333" Title="At which dream level did Inception end?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|inception|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2324" CreationDate="2012-05-12T01:53:27.073" Score="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a wedding ring theory which leads to the conclusion that he is indeed back in the real world. A quick Google will turn up a number of explanations of that theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the otherhand, Christopher Nolan refuses to answer the question, indeed &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/chris-nolan-dark-knight-rises-inception-ending-sequel-videogame-schrad-90115/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; he seems to go so far as to insist there is no answer. Personally I think that's nonsense: either the wedding ring theory is true, or the person in charge of consistency screwed up in a way that happened to perfectly support the theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other thing I believe, is that not having a clear answer to the question is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; some wonderful way of getting people to question the nature of reality, rather it's just a cheap trick to avoid a clichéd ending, which is done in such an obvious way that it only leaves people annoyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that sounds harsh, I did truly enjoy the film, but I think the ambiguity at the end didn't improve the message of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1305" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2012-05-14T05:04:18.423" LastActivityDate="2012-05-14T05:04:18.423" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2328" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2420" CreationDate="2012-05-12T02:08:14.480" Score="18" ViewCount="3890" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally find British panel shows to be among the funniest shows you can find on TV. One common occurrence I've noticed is that the panellists are often seen writing scribbling notes while another member is talking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular I've noticed it on the shows QI and Have I Got News for You, where some panellists seem the write furiously in between making jokes or answering questions. That said t's certainly not limited to just shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One guess is that, given the unrehearsed nature of those shows, they are writing down jokes as they occur to them, to be made a a later more appropriate moment. Still the shear consistency at which pen and paper is provided, and panellists are seen writing, suggests there must be a well established reasoning behind it beyond my random musings, but search for a semi-official explanation has never turned up any results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1305" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T10:07:54.447" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T10:07:54.447" Title="Why do panelists on British panel shows have a pen and paper which they seem to use regularly?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2330" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2331" CreationDate="2012-05-12T12:38:20.780" Score="7" ViewCount="1885" Body="&lt;p&gt;Approximately 7-8 year before I have seen a cartoon series where animals fight with their enemy using super natural powers. The main enemy in the series is a self minded machine which sends mechanical robot fighter each time to fight with the animal group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Animals group have a leader who looks like King Kong with his friends which are bat, spider, etc. The all animals can transform into different looks with more powers. It's somehow inspired from Transformers animated series in background music and transformation sequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the middle of series the animal won and they killed the machines but the main machine became a virus and controlled the mind of animals to make fight in between them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can somebody identify this animated series which was telecast on Cartoon Network India more than 6-7 years ago?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-11-21T12:11:33.703" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T12:11:33.703" Title="Identify this animated series with the animal fighters which transforms" Tags="|animation|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:52:02.537" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2330" CreationDate="2012-05-12T13:47:36.387" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers:_Beast_Wars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Beast Wars&lt;/a&gt; which was a &lt;em&gt;Transformers&lt;/em&gt; series where the Transformers were animals instead of vehicles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The initial US run 1997-1999 so I'm not sure about the Indian run as the wiki only lists actors for US, Japan, and Spanish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It featured the battle between the &lt;em&gt;Maximals&lt;/em&gt; (Autobots) and the &lt;em&gt;Predecons&lt;/em&gt; (Decepticons) with mostly the same names as the primary transformers with animal puns (e.g. Optimus &lt;em&gt;Primal&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Followed by the direct sequel &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_Machines:_Transformers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Beast Machines: Transformers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-11-21T12:10:37.247" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T12:10:37.247" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2332" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2333" CreationDate="2012-05-12T16:30:47.353" Score="19" ViewCount="8386" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning and end of every Seinfeld episode, Jerry performs a bit of stand-up themed alongside the general plot of that particular episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the club where he performs this stand-up ever identified? If so, what was its name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100" LastActivityDate="2012-05-12T18:22:09.873" Title="&quot;The Club&quot; where Jerry Seinfeld performed" Tags="|seinfeld|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2332" CreationDate="2012-05-12T18:16:12.393" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://sites.google.com/site/seinfeldfilmlocations/inspiration&quot;&gt;This page&lt;/a&gt; provides info on Seinfeld filming locations and it seems that the club's name is &lt;strong&gt;Catch A Rising Star Comedy Club&lt;/strong&gt; located in New York.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jerry Seinfeld used to perform stand up at the &lt;em&gt;Catch A Rising Star&#xA;  Comedy Club&lt;/em&gt;, which is now the &lt;em&gt;Vudu Lounge&lt;/em&gt; at &lt;em&gt;1487 1st Avenue&lt;/em&gt;. In the&#xA;  late 90's the club was located at &lt;em&gt;253 W. 28th Street&lt;/em&gt;, which was seen&#xA;  in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the link to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catcharisingstar.com/&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; of the club.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="56" LastEditDate="2012-05-12T18:22:09.873" LastActivityDate="2012-05-12T18:22:09.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2334" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34284" CreationDate="2012-05-12T18:38:10.650" Score="16" ViewCount="22890" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219289/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Limitless&lt;/em&gt; (2011)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Eddie Morra was at the apartment just before and after the murder of Vernon Gant. He also called the police.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Eddie Morra was at the hotel-room when the &quot;blonde&quot; was murdered.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gennady and his Russian's associates were killed in Eddie Morra's apartment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, why does Eddie not seem to be affected by these incidents throughout the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1215" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2012-05-13T11:16:35.440" LastActivityDate="2020-07-06T10:30:15.570" Title="In the film &quot;Limitless&quot; (2011), why were the murder incidents relating to Eddie Morra downplayed by police?" Tags="|plot-explanation|limitless|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2335" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-12T22:57:57.407" Score="18" ViewCount="9972" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the scene on the balcony where Moriarty and Holmes were playing chess and then Holmes thinks through their fight, he figures he can not win and therefor he jumps from the balcony, taking Moriarty with him (I guess to prevent him from doing any more harm). But in his calculation he never considers Watson helping him in the fight and they proved before, that together they can achieve much more than Holmes can do on his own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just before he jumped, Watson came in the door and Holmes saw him. Why wouldn't he just let Watson help? And how could he have survived this fall? Was this part of the plan or just good luck? Is it possible, that Moriarty survived, too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1272" LastEditorUserId="56" LastEditDate="2012-05-13T09:06:02.737" LastActivityDate="2018-06-25T17:13:47.593" Title="Why did Sherlock Holmes jump from the balcony instead of letting Watson help him in the fight?" Tags="|sherlock-holmes-a-game-of-shadows|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2336" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2342" CreationDate="2012-05-13T03:33:34.970" Score="44" ViewCount="91593" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;, Black Widow is a Russian super-spy.  In the scene that introduces her, it ends with her receiving orders to bring in Dr. Bruce Banner.  After receiving these orders, the scene ends with her saying something in a foreign language, presumably a swear word.  What did she say, and what's the translation to English?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T17:59:12.853" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T17:59:12.853" Title="What did Black Widow say?" Tags="|dialogue|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|translation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2337" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2703" CreationDate="2012-05-13T03:36:08.837" Score="39" ViewCount="8363" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the middle of &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;, the team is split up after coming together on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier.  Bruce Banner/Hulk end up in an abandoned warehouse.  Thor ends up in a field.  Shortly afterwards, Tony Stark determines Loki's next destination, Stark Tower.  This information is never transmitted to Banner or Thor.  However, both of them show up in New York City and join in the climactic battle.  How did they know where to go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T08:00:30.740" LastActivityDate="2018-05-12T09:03:42.523" Title="How did Thor and Banner know where to go?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2338" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2378" CreationDate="2012-05-13T03:46:22.600" Score="7" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie The Last Starfighter, there's a scene where this guy walks in front of the video game.  The game makes some noise and he loOks at it and encased with light, being replaced with an alien.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alien goes on to try and assassinate Alex.  Did the alien come from the video game, or did the video game force the alien to show its true form?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T13:29:44.713" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T13:29:44.713" Title="What's with the alien and the video game?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-last-starfighter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2335" CreationDate="2012-05-13T09:26:13.800" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sherlock knew that even if he did defeat Moriarty, the evil doctor would never stop hurting him by exploiting his weaknesses, i.e. the people he loves and cares for. Moriarty had already taken Irene, and Watson was going to be next. The only way to stop Moriarty was to kill him &lt;em&gt;right now&lt;/em&gt;. The only way to do that was to sacrifice his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-05-13T09:26:13.800" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2154" CreationDate="2012-05-13T09:37:59.113" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0749081/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sara Rue&lt;/a&gt; was again in the most current episode broadcast May 10,2012, &quot;Goodbye Dolly&quot;, where she is in the later stage of pregnancy for Jeff and Audrey's child. I'm guessing that the baby will be the final act of this series, which is, as of today (May 13, 2012), still not renewed for a new season, though most other shows on CBS have had a decision.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;UPDATE (May 13, 2012 afternoon): CBS just now revealed its cancellation plans for all remaining shows EXCEPT Rules of Engagement, leading me now to think it may survive to next season, and the Baby will be a key plot driver.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-05-13T20:26:22.333" LastActivityDate="2012-05-13T20:26:22.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2341" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2375" CreationDate="2012-05-13T13:58:04.257" Score="22" ViewCount="4249" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've personally always really enjoyed '&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_film&quot;&gt;shorts&lt;/a&gt;', and always wondered why feature length films are the length they are, especially given my experience that most people's attention spans only last 30-40 minutes at most; meaning I get the feeling most people would not mind shorter films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the history for the feature length film durations, and has there been any research on the fitness/effect of this duration?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1309" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-05-13T23:29:32.433" LastActivityDate="2012-05-15T16:18:39.923" Title="History and reasoning behind average length of a feature film" Tags="|cinematography|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2336" CreationDate="2012-05-13T14:00:00.697" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I remember she said &quot;bozhe moi&quot;(Боже мой) which would be &quot;&lt;strong&gt;My God&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; or better put &quot;Oh My god!&quot; and obviously it is Russian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To hear it pronounced &lt;a href=&quot;http://translate.google.com/#ru/en/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B5%20%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B9&quot;&gt;Google translate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorUserId="4476" LastEditDate="2013-05-04T06:02:39.120" LastActivityDate="2013-05-04T06:02:39.120" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2343" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2350" CreationDate="2012-05-13T17:38:16.940" Score="6" ViewCount="3905" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jiraiya is a legendary Sannin, so he must have made legendary money. Also he's a book author. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why does he keep taking Naruto's money?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1310" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T14:04:07.503" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T22:57:19.420" Title="If Jiraiya is so rich, why does he keep taking Naruto's money?" Tags="|character|naruto|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2345" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2346" CreationDate="2012-05-13T20:33:26.050" Score="7" ViewCount="373" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Moon&lt;/a&gt;, the 2009 British science fiction drama film directed by Duncan Jones, is suppose to be the first in a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_%28film%29#Sequels&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;trilogy of films set in the same fictional universe.&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What are the plot summaries for the other two movies?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1309" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T18:12:54.337" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T22:58:22.223" Title="Plot summaries for the other two movies related to Moon" Tags="|movie-franchise|moon|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2345" CreationDate="2012-05-13T21:25:54.887" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The second film in the trilogy is supposed to be &lt;em&gt;Mute&lt;/em&gt;. Duncan Jones has stated it is a Blade Runner inspired movie, which he is a big fan of, and it takes place in a futuristic Berlin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About the third film, there is not much known but I remember one of his interviews where he has said the third film could be the adaptation of &lt;em&gt;Escape from the Deep&lt;/em&gt; which is an underwater epic focusing on a submarine and her crew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, you can &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/#!/ManMadeMoon/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;follow him&lt;/a&gt; on Twitter where he provides info on his future projects as well. In April, he announced another project which is a non sci-fi movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/#!/ManMadeMoon/status/187191621094359040&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QaqLS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;image of tweet, click to go to Twitter&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-04T22:58:22.223" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T22:58:22.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2345" CreationDate="2012-05-13T21:44:28.150" Score="1" Body="&lt;h2&gt;MUTE (in development)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zdm34.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;MUTE-image&quot;&gt;&#xA;[&lt;strong&gt;CAPTION:&lt;/strong&gt; Artist depiction from the homepage &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.liberty-films.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Liberty Films&lt;/a&gt;, the film's production company.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/2346/1309&quot;&gt;As stated in the selected answer&lt;/a&gt;, the movie appears to be inspired by Blade Runner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1309" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2012-05-14T01:29:42.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2324" CreationDate="2012-05-13T23:21:01.383" Score="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;None of the different means you can use to guess whether Cobb is in a dream or not at the end of the movie are completely reliable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The spinning top has huge issues - the fact that it was Mal's totem, that it appears to act in a simplistic way that perhaps other people could dream, hence invalidating its usefulness - and of course the fact that we are never even shown what the top does at the end of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am unconvinced by how completely watertight the wedding ring theory (referenced in @Eoin's answer), as it seems possible for Cobb to dream the wedding ring when &lt;em&gt;he thinks&lt;/em&gt; he is in a dream and not otherwise.  Yes it is an interesting theory, but whilst it is certainly a deliberate action from the writers/director - the meaning is not completely clear.  Cobb clearly seems to treat the spinning top as his totem (flawed or not), as he uses it when flustered by his dream in Mombassa.  So yes, it could be a clue, it could even be his true or second totem - but it is still not completely reliable in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is Cobb in a dream at the end? I don't think we can tell.  Unlike the other answer, I like the ambiguity in the movie.  If pushed to give an answer I would say that the fact that he is such an experienced shared dreamer, it seems likely that he would eventually work out if he is in a dream or not - so I guess he is likely to be in the real world, and the wedding ring therefore might be a true clue to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer the original question, if this is not the real world, what level is this?  Well if the top level of the story is not the real world, and is in fact another dream, then 'who knows' is the only real answer.  The question has no real meaning as there are possibly untold levels of dreaming we have no knowledge of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-05-13T23:21:01.383" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2341" CreationDate="2012-05-14T01:48:18.500" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;History of theatre:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Appears the Greeks liked full-length dramas, though &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_ancient_Rome#Roman_drama&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Romans did not&lt;/a&gt;; which is to say that the idea of &quot;full-length&quot; is very old, and it's likely impossible to know the reasoning behind story lengths 1000s of years ago.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;First feature length films:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Historic Context:&lt;/strong&gt; The first &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;feature length film&lt;/a&gt; was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_the_Kelly_Gang&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Story of the Kelly Gang&lt;/a&gt;, which was 60-80 min; the real length is unknown, since only 17-mins of the film still exist today.  At the time the first feature length film was introduced, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/ebooks/pdf/Australia%27s%20Lost%20Films.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the average film length was 15-mins&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reel length:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/ebooks/pdf/Australia%27s%20Lost%20Films.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The first feature length film was approximate reel length was 4,000 feet&lt;/a&gt;, and at this length would have been a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel#Motion_picture_terminology&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;reel-to-reel film&lt;/a&gt;; meaning that the duration of the film was not based on the length of the film itself having to be on just one reel. One reason for its length may have been that it was a narrative film, based on a real story; though that's just speculation, and not based on any facts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Profits:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_the_Kelly_Gang&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Story of the Kelly Gang&lt;/a&gt; cost £1,000, was extremely successful, and was said to have returned at least £25,000 to its producers. It's possible that if the first few feature length films had failed financially, there would have been less interest in producing them. It was not until 1911 that countries other than Australia began to make feature films. By this time &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_industry#History&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Australia had made 16 full-length feature films&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cost:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Company#Backlash_and_Decline&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;In 1911, when Eastman Kodak modified its exclusive contract with the MPPC&lt;/a&gt;, to allow Kodak to sell its raw film stock, which led the industry in quality and price, to unlicensed independents. The number of theaters exhibiting independent films grew by 33 percent within twelve months, to half of all houses.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Modern history:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VHS:&lt;/strong&gt; During the 20 years or so that VHS tapes were the primary medium for retail movie sales and rentals, few movies were released longer than two hours, since that was the capacity of a VHS T120 tape, played at standard speed. With DVDs now the medium of distribution, that limit no longer applies. (Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2341/history-and-reasoning-behind-average-length-of-a-feature-film/2349#comment3480_2341&quot;&gt;Comment to question&lt;/a&gt;.) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1309" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2012-05-15T16:18:39.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2343" CreationDate="2012-05-14T02:04:18.370" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well &lt;a href=&quot;http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Jiraiya&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jiraiya&lt;/a&gt; is a Legendary Sannin alright but there is no explanation given by Masashi Kishimoto in the manga as far as I could remember relating to that attribute. given the fact he is clumsy, show-off (from his entrances in all the battles he faced), an Open Pervert (as claimed by himself).and most importantly he is Naruto's Godfather I think he would have wanted for Naruto to work for the ninjutsu he teaches him (Even though he is his favorite disciple he would've liked naruto to do the extra hard work and may be he could have been messing with him totally because he is his mentor).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kishi himself said that the best teacher student bonding he loved writing was with Jiraiya and Naruto and Jiraiya's cheap tricks when it comes to money seems to me is more of messing with Naruto in a playful sense more than anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-04T22:57:19.420" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T22:57:19.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2337" CreationDate="2012-05-14T02:10:06.243" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;To elaborate a little Banner was brought in initially to trace the gamma signature from the Tessaract. So i think he would've been easily able to spot the place where the show down is going to be by tracking those gamma signatures of that Loki's sceptre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Thor he is an Asgardian and brother of Loki plus he is the guardian of Earth. So he could've easily sensed the interference and the opening in the sky which brought Loki's army.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am pretty sure about Banner because Nick Fury points out in the movie that Banner was tracked to join the team to identify the gamma signature from the Tessaract. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-09-03T20:42:08.940" LastActivityDate="2012-09-03T20:42:08.940" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2353" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2357" CreationDate="2012-05-14T03:21:09.257" Score="13" ViewCount="26435" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Hunger Games, Katniss is attacked by Clove, but saved at the last moment when Thresh kills Clove.  Thresh is then in a position to kill Katniss, too, but says (quoting from memory):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just this once, Twelve. For Rue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then runs back into the woods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Thresh know that Katniss had befriended Rue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-05-14T05:05:49.200" LastActivityDate="2017-04-17T03:59:22.437" Title="How did Thresh know that Katniss befriended Rue in Hunger Games?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hunger-games|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2082" CreationDate="2012-05-14T04:42:51.450" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Henry dressed like a drag queen because he would steal clothes from the first store he came across every time, so that may be a reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for that lipstick looks like it's from a previous relationship to another woman before meeting with Clare. This also becomes clear to me after &lt;code&gt;Bill the Lizard&lt;/code&gt;'s answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-29T19:30:06.513" LastActivityDate="2012-09-29T19:30:06.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2355" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2462" CreationDate="2012-05-14T04:47:20.627" Score="2" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056049/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Naked Island&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0793881/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kaneto Shindô&lt;/a&gt; we see a pair of peasants growing crops on an island.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of their crops seem to be some kind of wheat. But they seem to grow something else, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do they grow on the naked island?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjVtXe2pLaU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;You can watch the film on Youtube.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wheat?&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s4JNh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A small bushy plant(to her left, not the big ones to the right):&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ioYxq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-12T17:03:42.963" LastActivityDate="2012-12-12T17:03:42.963" Title="What crops do the peasants in &quot;The Naked Island&quot; grow?" Tags="|naked-island|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2356" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2359" CreationDate="2012-05-14T04:57:50.557" Score="13" ViewCount="664" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a scene after the miscarriage where Henry and his wife are sleeping on their bed and they see blood on the bed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does it mean?  Is this a second miscarriage or did I miss something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2018-11-02T20:25:50.257" LastActivityDate="2018-11-02T20:25:50.257" Title="What is the reason for the blood between Henry and Clair in The Time Traveler's Wife?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-time-travelers-wife|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2353" CreationDate="2012-05-14T05:03:39.717" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I recall, as Clove has Katniss pinned and is about to kill her, the two women share some dialog about Rue.  Thresh hears this and kills Clove.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to reword it, Clove gloated about the death of Rue and Thresh overheard and killed her in his anger, but also saved Katniss for his gratitude towards her for taking care of her since he and Rue are both from District 11.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2012-05-14T11:43:13.113" LastActivityDate="2012-05-14T11:43:13.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2358" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2374" CreationDate="2012-05-14T06:15:30.470" Score="7" ViewCount="10216" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Naruto, the entire Uchiha Clan are all slaughtered by Sasuke's brother, Itachi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they're so weak, why did they want to rebel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the third hokage doesn't seem to be the kind condoning genocide. Does this make Konoha a socialist country?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1310" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-08-19T08:51:01.757" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T16:34:47.047" Title="Why did the Uchiha Clan want to Rebel?" Tags="|naruto|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2356" CreationDate="2012-05-14T06:24:01.890" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that yes, it was a second &quot;miscarriage&quot;. Although not a traditional miscarriage, but rather the fetus had time-traveled, which of course lead to the unborn baby's death, as it could not survive outside the mother's womb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastActivityDate="2012-05-14T06:24:01.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2360" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2373" CreationDate="2012-05-14T08:29:09.820" Score="6" ViewCount="2483" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dont recall much of that movie except that it was a psychological thriller, and a verse was scribbled on a dilapidated wall. In one scene, the villain impersonates a nurse and escapes from the lunatic asylum or some place where he was confined. I dont recall much else so am sorry for the vague details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="240" LastActivityDate="2012-08-19T20:35:05.423" Title="Psychological thriller in which the verse &quot;My father was a penny&quot; keeps recurring on a wall?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:36:39.510" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2361" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2362" CreationDate="2012-05-14T08:41:07.727" Score="21" ViewCount="18755" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do all of the Seinfeld episodes have the stand-up parts at the beginning and the end of each episode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="941" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-05-14T13:27:26.573" LastActivityDate="2018-10-04T05:48:31.523" Title="Do all of the Seinfeld episodes have a stand-up part?" Tags="|seinfeld|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2361" CreationDate="2012-05-14T10:15:38.893" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most of the series, Jerry Seinfeld performed a standup routine at the beginning and end of each episode, the theme of which relates to the events depicted in the plot. In later seasons, these standup clips became less frequent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Season 8, the opening (and closing) stand-up comedy segments were discarded, replaced by more conventional opening sketches at the beginning of each episode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last season (Season 9), in the final scene during the credits, Jerry is seen wearing an orange prison suit, doing a stand-up routine of prison-related jokes. The finale was not filmed in front of an audience, for the sake of keeping its plot secret, though a laugh track was later added. It was the first episode since the 7th season to feature opening and closing stand-up acts by Jerry Seinfeld.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="56" LastEditDate="2012-05-14T10:21:00.883" LastActivityDate="2012-05-14T10:21:00.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2236" CreationDate="2012-05-14T10:58:37.707" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Banner and Stark were in the lab, Stark poked Banner with something.  Then in the same scene he said something along the lines of &quot;I learned to control Iron Man with this thing (points to light on chest) - you can control the Hulk with something too.&quot; Banner then says something like: &quot;That won't work for me.&quot; Tony then says something like, &quot;Yeah you will, you'll see.&quot; Then Banner turns into Hulk on the ship, but whatever Tony did hadn't kicked in yet (at least not fully).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also why Tony knew that Banner would show up at the final battle , saying &quot;Let me know when Banner gets here, okay?&quot; to everyone's surprise, because he knew that Banner should be feeling the effects of whatever Tony did to him.  Then, at the very end, Bruce and Tony ride off together - because now they are close friends who understand each other and share scientific acumen as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1314" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-05-14T13:33:41.777" LastActivityDate="2012-05-14T13:33:41.777" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1685" CreationDate="2012-05-14T11:38:48.283" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the bonus material of season 1 or 2, there is this item about the scientist who provides these equations and the material for it. I remember he said that the problems that are written down, are recent problems that are brought up/solved in recent papers in the respective fields of Sheldon/Leonard/Raj.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1315" LastActivityDate="2012-05-14T11:38:48.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2171" CreationDate="2012-05-14T11:45:38.867" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know for LOTR, the long scenes in the house of Bilbo, they actually made two versions of it. One small one, and one big one. In the small one Gandalf would be too big, and in the other one Bilbo would be extremely small.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using digital effects, and other techniques mentioned in the comments, these two can be merged together to get the effect they were after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also noticed in the extended edition of the Return of the King, that in the final scene were Frodo leaves, you clearly see body doubles walking towards the boat (proportions are different, they are clearly kids instead of adults).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1315" LastEditorUserId="1315" LastEditDate="2012-05-21T12:27:02.977" LastActivityDate="2012-05-21T12:27:02.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2353" CreationDate="2012-05-14T12:07:56.357" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to overhearing the conversation between Katniss and Clove in the arena, Thresh may have also noticed that Rue had been &quot;shadowing&quot; Katniss during the training sessions.  This may lend some credibility to Katniss' story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if I remember both correctly, I think there was slightly more dialogue in the book between Thresh and Katniss during the scene in the arena.  He asks her if what he overheard was true, who killed Rue, if Katniss killed the other tribute, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-05-14T12:07:56.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2367" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27097" CreationDate="2012-05-14T15:47:44.447" Score="10" ViewCount="3388" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the sixteenth episode of the first season of Arrested Development, &quot;Altar Egos,&quot; we see young Michael Bluth as a lawyer in a play (and again later in the tenth episode of season three, &quot;Fakin' It&quot;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Narrator:&lt;/strong&gt; In order to satisfy an English requirement, Michael appeared&#xA;  in the Drama Club’s production of an original play, “The Trial of&#xA;  Captain Hook.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Young Michael:&lt;/strong&gt; (singing) / You’re a  crook, Captain Hook / / Judge, won’t you throw the book at the&#xA;  pirate... /&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/59zTX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Trial of Captain Hook&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Logic suggests they wouldn't set up a shot that elaborate for about nine seconds of a joke, but maybe they would. &lt;strong&gt;Is there any additional footage of this play beyond what we see in these two episodes?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T18:34:10.147" Title="Is there any additional footage of 'The Trial of Captain Hook,' the play Michael starred in on Arrested Development?" Tags="|arrested-development|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2115" CreationDate="2012-05-14T17:39:33.687" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferris_Buehler%27s_Day_Off&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; says this about the location of the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Chicago is what I am,&quot; said Hughes. &quot;A lot of Ferris is sort of my love letter to the city. And the more people who get upset with the&#xA;  fact that I film there, the more I'll make sure that's exactly where I&#xA;  film. It's funny—nobody ever says anything to Woody Allen about always&#xA;  filming in New York. America has this great reverence for New York. I&#xA;  look at it as this decaying horror pit. So let the people in Chicago&#xA;  enjoy Ferris Bueller.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there doesn't' seem to be any indication that the location was inspired by Blues Brothers, but rather it was Hughes' fascination with the city that inspired him to shoot there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think they just happened to have some similar characteristics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-07-05T20:20:58.500" LastActivityDate="2015-07-05T20:20:58.500" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2367" CreationDate="2012-05-14T21:14:12.743" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell there is no more footage. The DVDs do not include it as a special feature or in the deleted/extended scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible that a little more footage was shot than actually aired, however, your logic that they wouldn't set up a shot like that for a few seconds of footage is not really true. Arrested Development was notorious for having high ambitions and being an expensive show to film (that's part of the reason it was cancelled).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastActivityDate="2012-05-14T21:14:12.743" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2371" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-05-14T23:20:40.967" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Avengers, also known as Avengers Assemble in some countries, is a 2012 American superhero movie based upon the Marvel Comics super hero team of the same name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Starring Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård, and Samuel L. Jackson. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie shares continuity with the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It features the combined efforts of Iron Man, The Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye, Black Widow and the rest of SHIELD to put a stop to Loki's evil plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_(2012_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for The Avengers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page for The Avengers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2018-12-24T17:01:09.510" LastActivityDate="2018-12-24T17:01:09.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2372" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-05-14T23:20:40.967" Score="0" Body="A 2012 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. &#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;Starring Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård, and Samuel L. Jackson." OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T08:39:45.580" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:39:45.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2360" CreationDate="2012-05-15T00:29:12.377" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the phrase that you're looking for is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;My daddy is a dollar / I wrote it on a fence / My daddy is a dollar / not worth a hundred cents.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am pretty sure this is the movie because this is what the killer keeps on writing on the asylum. The movie is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120710/&quot;&gt;In Dreams&lt;/a&gt; and I think its very much similiar to the type of the movie you mentioned about. It has the same scene where killer when he was a kid escapes the asylum in the disguise of a nurse who works there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the youtube &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrRlBd0IDOo&quot;&gt;trailer&lt;/a&gt;. Hoping this is the one you are seeking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2012-05-15T00:29:12.377" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2358" CreationDate="2012-05-15T05:46:23.753" Score="8" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Itachi is not an evil guy, he is a double agent. He does the killing for Konoha because the entire Uchiha clan was planning for a coup de'tat against the village and Itachi, who already have seen so much slaughter in the ninja war, does not want more blood spilled, so he kills everyone in the clan including his parents. The third Hokage was against the policy from the start and the killing took place without his permission. It was headed by Konoha elders, Danzo and ANBU under him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't he kill Sasuke? Because he loved his brother and he couldn't kill him. He wants Sasuke to be an Avenger so he can become powerful and, because of his hatred for his brother,  Sasuke can surpass Itachi. Finally Itachi plans their final battle so that by the time he dies he transfers his eye techniques. Yes, Sasuke gets the Mangekyo after that showdown and Yes, Itachi dies at the end of the battle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How does Sasuke know about this ? It's revealed to him by the Head of Akatsuki (Remember Itachi and Kisame were going after Naruto) which is a terrorist organization for which Itachi was a part of. He joined the group to keep tabs on the organization and secretly keep his eyes on their plans with respect to the village. the reason he comes to the village when he fights Sasuke is because he wanted to threaten Danzo to prove to him that he is alive so he doesn't cause any concern to Sasuke.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Konoha is one among the major five Countries and throughout the series the crux of the matter is being a Ninja is about making sacrifices and how much one pushes themselves for the sake of the mission and their Village. Itachi loved Konoha.  To him the village meant something more than his clan, except his brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope I have clarified your question. if you require further clarification. Add a comment. I will try to explain furthermore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-05-15T20:25:35.943" LastActivityDate="2012-05-15T20:25:35.943" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2341" CreationDate="2012-05-15T06:18:52.420" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thats a very interesting question. Though I couldn't find a precise answer, here are some interesting takes on t he subject that I learned while researching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From this article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_film&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A feature film is a film that runs for 40 minutes or longer, according&#xA;  to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Film&#xA;  Institute, and British Film Institute, though the Screen Actors Guild&#xA;  states that it is 80 minutes or longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The majority of feature films are between 90 and 210 minutes long. The&#xA;  Story of the Kelly Gang was the first feature film based on length,&#xA;  and was released in 1906. The first feature-length adaptation was Les&#xA;  Misérables which was released in 1909.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Feature films for children are usually between 60 and 120 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/7-Films-That-Prove-A-Perfect-Movie-Should-Run-90-Minutes-Or-Less-26135.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cinemablend&lt;/a&gt; has an interesting article on this very topic:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's a school of thought that says 90 minutes is the perfect length&#xA;  for a movie-- the length of 3 TV episodes, just enough time to get in,&#xA;  tell your story, and get out without wasting any more of the&#xA;  audience's time. There are countless examples that prove the rule,&#xA;  economically told stories that feel perfect and tight without a second&#xA;  wasted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finally, there is an answer on &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_length_of_a_movie#ixzz1uusyprdG&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikianswers&lt;/a&gt; which has a different take:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Most movie scripts are 120 pages and a page translates to roughly a&#xA;  minute of film, hence most films being about just under 2 hours. It's&#xA;  quite genre dependent as comedies and animations are rarely more than&#xA;  90 minutes, but summer blockbusters and thrillers are usually about 2&#xA;  hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1172" LastActivityDate="2012-05-15T06:18:52.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2377" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2390" CreationDate="2012-05-15T14:09:16.017" Score="7" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596365/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Woman in Black&lt;/em&gt; (2012)&lt;/a&gt;, Arthur Kipps finds the dead body of the child in the marshes, and he places his dead body into his grave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought the grave should have been empty, but there was another corpse (in skeleton form) in that grave. Whose corpse is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2023-12-21T06:01:34.863" LastActivityDate="2023-12-21T06:01:34.863" Title="Whose corpse is in the grave towards the end of The Woman in Black?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-woman-in-black|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2338" CreationDate="2012-05-15T18:37:28.460" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically yes. The video game The Last Starfighter was designed to be a recruiting device. It also had detection equipment so that it would be able to identify who was playing it. So the game basically turned off whatever cloaking device the alien had and allowed it to be seen as an alien.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alien did not come from the game. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="645" LastEditDate="2012-06-01T18:06:19.093" LastActivityDate="2012-06-01T18:06:19.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2380" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-05-15T20:32:08.447" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This tag is for questions related to the body of work of Christopher Nolan, a British-American filmmaker known for his complex and nonlinear storytelling. Do not use this tag for questions about a single film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of Nolan's films include &lt;em&gt;Memento&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; trilogy, &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Dunkirk&lt;/em&gt;. For a complete list of his films, see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Nolan_filmography&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Christopher Nolan filmography Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chrisnolan.fandom.com/wiki/Christopher_Nolan_Wiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Christopher Nolan Wiki&lt;/a&gt;. Nolan’s films often feature metaphysical and existential questions, non-linear narratives, practical special effects, and large-format film photography.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information on when to use this tag, see the related meta post: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1293&quot;&gt;When should a director tag be used/created?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB Page: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634240/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Christopher Nolan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Nolan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Christopher Nolan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2024-01-20T13:38:28.660" LastActivityDate="2024-01-20T13:38:28.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2381" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-05-15T20:32:08.447" Score="0" Body="For questions about Christopher Nolan’s body of work, not just a single film. Nolan is a British-American filmmaker known for his complex and nonlinear storytelling. His films include The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, and Oppenheimer." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2024-01-20T15:13:09.537" LastActivityDate="2024-01-20T15:13:09.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2382" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2383" CreationDate="2012-05-15T21:21:03.697" Score="15" ViewCount="3123" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/&quot;&gt;Memento (2000)&lt;/a&gt; is presented as two different sequences of scenes: a series in black-and-white that are shown chronologically, and &lt;strong&gt;a series of color sequences shown in reverse order&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example I can remember is Seinfeld's 9th season episode &quot;The Betrayal&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this style have a name in movie jargon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-18T15:15:36.413" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T15:15:36.413" Title="What is the technique called when series of events in a film are played in reverse order?" Tags="|terminology|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2382" CreationDate="2012-05-15T21:33:29.267" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I've found out that term is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_chronology&quot;&gt;Reverse Chronology&lt;/a&gt;. Wikipedia gives some nice details together with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_chronology#Examples_of_use&quot;&gt;examples of use&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_chronology#Film&quot;&gt;movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Reverse chronology&lt;/em&gt; is a method of story-telling whereby the plot is&#xA;  revealed in reverse order. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a story employing this technique, the first scene shown is actually&#xA;  the conclusion to the plot. Once that scene ends, the penultimate&#xA;  scene is shown, and so on, so that the final scene the viewer sees is&#xA;  the first chronologically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many stories employ flashback, showing prior events, but whereas the&#xA;  scene order of most conventional films is A-B-C-etc, a film in reverse&#xA;  chronology goes Z-Y-X-etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastActivityDate="2012-05-15T21:33:29.267" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2382" CreationDate="2012-05-15T21:33:34.500" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, &quot;Reverse Chronology&quot; sounds like a fitting term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1320" LastActivityDate="2012-05-15T21:33:34.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2385" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-15T21:41:44.740" Score="4" ViewCount="12164" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Fairy Tail, does Natsu retain his ability to utilize some of the non-dragonfire elemental magic he eats?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Natsu has eaten Etherion, Black Flames, and Lightning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does his consumption of other magics give him a chance of possibly calling them up for use in a tough battle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1320" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-05T00:44:39.737" LastActivityDate="2021-06-11T09:26:37.437" Title="Does Natsu Dragneel retain his ability to utilize some of the non-dragonfire elemental magic he eats?" Tags="|character|fairy-tail|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2386" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2391" CreationDate="2012-05-15T21:49:51.263" Score="10" ViewCount="2846" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a theory about my question about the reasoning behind the average length of feature length films, but that theory is based on finding the annual revenue for film industry by year adjusted for inflation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do such numbers exist? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1309" LastActivityDate="2012-05-16T02:08:26.467" Title="Annual revenue for film industry by year adjusted for inflation" Tags="|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2387" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2388" CreationDate="2012-05-15T21:52:11.713" Score="2" ViewCount="367" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to figure out the year the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warriors_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Warriors&lt;/a&gt; (1979) was first shown on TV or cable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1309" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-04-26T16:35:03.483" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T16:35:03.483" Title="What year was The Warriors (1979)  first shown on TV or cable?" Tags="|the-warriors|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2387" CreationDate="2012-05-15T22:16:51.380" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://80smemories.com/2011/07/the-cult-classic-the-warriors-first-time-on-tvhbo-1983/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;webpage&lt;/a&gt;, The Warriors was first time on TV in &lt;strong&gt;1983&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastActivityDate="2012-05-15T22:16:51.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29" CreationDate="2012-05-15T22:30:52.507" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a child Kurosawa read a lot. He was a particular fan of Russian literature and Shakespeare. while his early films were not adaptations of Shakespeare there was definitely a lot of influence there, for example, the manner in which he constructed his characters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Kurosawa there has always been a strong western influence, matter of fact one of his favorite directors and one of his biggest influences was john ford the american director. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1321" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:04:04.707" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:04:04.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2377" CreationDate="2012-05-16T00:04:48.477" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The child's mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason Arthur went through all that trouble was to reunite the two since her ghost was possessing/killing all the children. Also, Arthur's son was on his way to town.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He'd hoped it would chill her out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But no, the ghost was just as crazy as the one from &lt;em&gt;The Ring&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2023-12-21T06:00:43.357" LastActivityDate="2023-12-21T06:00:43.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2386" CreationDate="2012-05-16T02:08:26.467" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm, there seems to be plenty of sources for total gross per year but none are adjusted for inflation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficemojo.com/&quot;&gt;Box Office Mojo&lt;/a&gt; have a little explanation detailing how to adjust total gross using annual average ticket prices &lt;a href=&quot;http://boxofficemojo.com/about/adjuster.htm&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. It also has a table of averages stretching back to the early 20th century. The data gets more intermittent the further back you go, but you could probably get sensible numbers from interpolation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially it boils down to dividing the gross by the ticket price of that year and multiplying by the ticket price of the year you are adjusting to. For example we can do this with BOM's table for yearly domestic gross found &lt;a href=&quot;http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to give&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Year    Total (M)  2012-Adjusted (M)&#xA;2012    $3,859.80   $3,859.80&#xA;2011    $10,174.10  $10,161.27&#xA;2010    $10,565.50  $10,605.67&#xA;2009    $10,595.50  $11,188.85&#xA;2008    $9,630.70   $10,623.28&#xA;2007    $9,663.70   $11,124.49&#xA;2006    $9,209.50   $11,135.76&#xA;2005    $8,840.50   $10,923.05&#xA;2004    $9,380.50   $11,963.54&#xA;2003    $9,239.70   $12,135.73&#xA;2002    $9,155.00   $12,479.79&#xA;2001    $8,412.50   $11,771.55&#xA;2000    $7,661.00   $11,256.98&#xA;1999    $7,448.00   $11,611.84&#xA;1998    $6,949.00   $11,734.77&#xA;1997    $6,365.90   $10,984.30&#xA;1996    $5,911.50   $10,592.55&#xA;1995    $5,493.50   $10,001.96&#xA;1994    $5,396.20   $10,224.38&#xA;1993    $5,154.20   $9,860.21&#xA;1992    $4,871.00   $9,295.98&#xA;1991    $4,803.20   $9,035.95&#xA;1990    $5,021.80   $9,402.52&#xA;1989    $5,033.40   $10,041.44&#xA;1988    $4,458.40   $8,591.37&#xA;1987    $4,252.90   $8,614.57&#xA;1986    $3,778.00   $8,065.16&#xA;1985    $3,749.20   $8,364.41&#xA;1984    $4,031.00   $9,501.64&#xA;1983    $3,766.00   $9,468.80&#xA;1982    $3,453.00   $9,301.96&#xA;1981    $2,966.00   $8,449.90&#xA;1980    $2,749.00   $8,093.71&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which seems pretty reasonable. 2002 was such a strong year because it had Spider-Man, a LotR, a Star Wars, and a Harry Potter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately this data only goes back to 1980 so you will have to find another source if you're interested in before then. Also note that the table above is only for the U.S. domestic market; I'm not sure if that's what you want or if you're after worldwide figures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2012-05-16T02:08:26.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2392" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-16T02:21:02.143" Score="10" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film and, I believe, the Documentary about the making of the film start with C.  Like Corvalis, or Cromanthus....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The documentary was shot up north in the US, maybe Wisconsin, Michigan.  It stars the filmmaker, and his family and friends (the stars of the actual film).  It is a strangely compelling documentary because the film maker has no money, no real obvious skill and no real tration with anyone in the community that might want to see him succeed except an Uncle and the one best friend, if memory serves.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is tragically comic scene where the guy is documenting a segment in which a guy gets his head slammed through a cabinet (the actual movie) -- and it obviously is very painful, no stuntman, no evident re-engineering of the panneling to make it easier to put a head through, etc....the documentary keeps rolling as we see the actors and director come to an impass becuase the guy really hurt his head. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the end, the director (kind of a goofball, dyslexic type with lots of passion) gets to finsh the film because his uncle dies and leaves him 50k.  The documentary guy is very dissapointed that the director kept the original working title (the one I can't f'in remember...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can remember some other details but the two or three above are the most memorable. Think I saw this on Netflix streaming about 4 years ago when there was really no content.  Please help me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1322" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-02-02T21:14:05.050" LastActivityDate="2017-02-02T21:14:05.050" Title="Name of an independent film whose making was documented by another film....Heart of Darkness kind-of-thing" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:36:42.700" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2392" CreationDate="2012-05-16T05:14:33.807" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The documentary is &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181288/&quot;&gt;American Movie&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, which depicts amateur filmmaker Mark Borchardt's attempt to produce a horror movie called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0225434/&quot;&gt;Coven&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further reading: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Movie&quot;&gt;American Movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coven_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Coven&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-01-20T17:36:49.597" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T17:36:49.597" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2394" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2395" CreationDate="2012-05-16T07:53:13.303" Score="70" ViewCount="5562" Body="&lt;p&gt;In most of the movies and TV-series I have watched, whenever there is some kind of &quot;technology&quot; involved (say, like a tracking device or hacking something important), there is a lot of unnecessary, impractical key-pressing and fancy colors and sounds (a lot of 1's and 0's going on the screen and a lot of &quot;beep&quot;s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, take the TV-series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808096/&quot;&gt;Primeval&lt;/a&gt;. Their device for tracking anomalies have a lot of the things said above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do movies and TV-series employ this kind of false-looking tech? It would have been much easier to use a real OS (like MacOS for normal things and Linux for hacking-kind-of things), maybe with a custom-made software suited to the task. It would have been more realistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is there any specific reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorUserId="3248" LastEditDate="2012-10-23T00:22:42.697" LastActivityDate="2019-03-04T03:08:30.450" Title="Why all the fancy technology in most movies?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2394" CreationDate="2012-05-16T09:27:22.127" Score="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I think there is perfect reason for it: audience appeal. Of course those things are totally unrealistic and over the top, but show a simple black-and-white console to the audience or a basic database application and they will just find it boring to look at or think there is not much to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course it bothers the hell out of those who know better, but the average guy that uses his computer for YouTube, Facebook and maybe Office is just more pleased with colorful displays and stunning graphics in a simple database query and is more likely to accept that there is something interesting going on. It's about conveying the information inherent in those abstract and hard to grasp processes in an interesting and entertaining way, thus sacrificing some realism for the sake of story-telling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And of course all hackers fluently communicate in 0s and 1s, which makes them so awesome. ;-))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-25T01:38:14.310" LastActivityDate="2014-01-25T01:38:14.310" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2394" CreationDate="2012-05-16T12:23:38.903" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think one reason is that it explicitly divorces the tech in the show from real world tech.  This allows writers more freedom because there isn't going to be some expert somewhere saying &quot;That isn't how you use regular expressions!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the tech is &quot;fancy&quot; then only those in the show are the experts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1326" LastActivityDate="2012-05-16T12:23:38.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2394" CreationDate="2012-05-16T13:20:13.413" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mainly, because it follows the basic principle of &quot;do it like somebody else, but maybe flashier.&quot;  It is a simple audio/visual cue that viewers are used to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's really no different than hearing a &quot;slap&quot; sound when somebody gets punched (instead of a thud), or somebody flying backwards when they get shot, or zooming in on a license plate from a hijacked satellite feed with a half-dozen key strokes (and no mouse).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reality is boring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="982" LastActivityDate="2012-05-16T13:20:13.413" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2335" CreationDate="2012-05-16T17:14:52.313" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Holmes was clearly planning ahead to fake his own death and hide, even from Watson. Moriarty's subordinates and organization could easily go after Holmes, even if Moriarty himself was dead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1331" LastActivityDate="2012-05-16T17:14:52.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2403" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2413" CreationDate="2012-05-16T17:45:58.697" Score="23" ViewCount="222865" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the past few seasons they have used Conway Twitty as a distraction from the regular plot of the episode (including some really really long interruptions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why has Conway Twitty appeared as a distraction in Family Guy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-25T15:49:51.950" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T15:49:51.950" Title="Why has Conway Twitty appeared as a distraction in Family Guy?" Tags="|family-guy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2404" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-05-16T17:50:44.800" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Animation is a method by which still images are manipulated to create the illusion of movement. This can be done using a variety of techniques, including traditional animation, stop-motion animation, and computer animation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Animation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Tag usage&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag is for questions about the animation process used in movies and TV shows. Do not use this tag if your question is not about animation, even if the movie or TV show you're asking about is animated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2023-05-25T22:40:15.593" LastActivityDate="2023-05-25T22:40:15.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2405" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-05-16T17:50:44.800" Score="0" Body="For questions about the animation process used in movies and TV shows. Do not use this tag if your question is not about animation, even if the movie or TV show you're asking about is animated. Animation is a method by which still images are manipulated to create the illusion of movement. This can be done using a variety of techniques, including traditional animation, stop-motion animation, and computer animation." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2023-05-25T22:40:32.003" LastActivityDate="2023-05-25T22:40:32.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2407" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-16T19:15:33.640" Score="33" ViewCount="72578" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well for one thing Ted is already an adult in his 30's and also isn't he telling the story to his kids in 2030 (which is only 18 years from now), so someone's voice does not change that much in 18 years! (Ted's voice hasn't changed that much in the 8 years the show has been on!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whats the deal with that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="202" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-05-16T20:12:09.973" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T14:05:07.490" Title="Why is Bob Saget the future voice for Ted Mosby'?" Tags="|how-i-met-your-mother|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2409" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2416" CreationDate="2012-05-16T19:55:24.473" Score="8" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I was sitting in the bathroom when the theme song to Walker, Texas Ranger popped into my head.  The line “If you’re in Texas look behind you, because that’s where the ranger’s going to be.”  It got me thinking if Walker &lt;strong&gt;does&lt;/strong&gt; ever sneak up or appear behind a bad guy in the series, and I honestly can’t remember and have no idea how I would search for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in keeping with the theme song for the show, did Walker ever actually sneak up &lt;strong&gt;behind&lt;/strong&gt; a bad guy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="3394" LastEditDate="2012-12-11T02:49:43.587" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T02:49:43.587" Title="Did Walker ever show up behind the bad guy?" Tags="|walker-texas-ranger|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2410" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2412" CreationDate="2012-05-16T20:35:30.927" Score="33" ViewCount="73850" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though the stories and characters have become the focal point for analysis as Mad Men has evolved, early in its existence there was a great deal of discussion regarding the amount of smoking and drinking the characters do. (See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/arts/television/19stan.html?ref=magazine&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; New York Times article from 2007 for one example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yn2ha.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How accurate is this presentation? Is that what the advertising world was like in the 1960s? What about other businesses?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Essentially: is the portrayal of business professional smoking and drinking in excess&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;while at work&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;presented in Mad Men accurate?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="850" LastEditDate="2012-05-16T20:58:28.853" LastActivityDate="2016-09-19T02:26:14.037" Title="How accurate are the smoking and drinking habits of the characters on Mad Men?" Tags="|mad-men|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2411" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4556" CreationDate="2012-05-16T20:40:45.507" Score="14" ViewCount="11428" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Executive Producer Matthew Weiner asserts in this article, the character of Don Draper is based on the &quot;creative head&quot; of advertising agency Leo Burnett in the 1960s, Draper Daniels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about the firm where the fictional character Don Draper plies his trade, Sterling Cooper Draper Price (formerly of Sterling Cooper)? Is there any pattern connecting accounts the firm has on the show and a real-life ad agency?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="850" LastEditDate="2012-05-16T20:56:47.063" LastActivityDate="2012-10-10T06:17:31.683" Title="In Mad Men, is the firm of Sterling Cooper Draper Price (or its earlier iteration, Sterling Cooper) based on a real advertising agency?" Tags="|mad-men|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2410" CreationDate="2012-05-16T22:59:29.763" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Via Jerry Della Femina, the veteran ad exec widely regarded as one of Madison Avenue's biggest personalities, most creative thinkers and an over-the-top publicity-seeker:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: Did ad agency executives really drink that often — and that much — in the 1960s?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: If anything, it's underplayed. There was a tremendous amount of drinking. Three-martini lunches were the norm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: But the show makes it look like everyone kept a bottle or two in their desk drawer. And it wasn't Geritol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: Bottles in desk drawers were not the exception but the rule. I had an open bar at the agency in which I kept 10 to 15 bottles of booze. Anyone at the agency could walk in and get it. Invariably, one or two guys would come in at 9 a.m., pour a shot and slug it down. It was a business of drinking. The way we lived really would make the characters in Mad Men all look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. We drank and screwed around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: Did agency executives really smoke that much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: I smoked three to four packs a day. Everybody smoked at all times in all meetings. Once, when I was sitting in a meeting for the Contac account, I had a (lit) cigarette in my hand and another in the ashtray. When I put down the cigarette to do a chalk talk, I tried to light the piece of chalk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/adtrack/2009-08-30-real-life-mad-men-were-about-sex-and-booze_N.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-05-16T22:59:29.763" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2403" CreationDate="2012-05-17T04:13:58.637" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although there is no hard and fast official answer for this (at least not an obvious one), Conway Twitty used to be known as &lt;em&gt;The High Priest of Country Music&lt;/em&gt; and held sway over his audience, often being described as 'mesmerizing'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To this end, the makers of &lt;em&gt;Family Guy&lt;/em&gt; have used his live performances as a distraction whenever a particularly bad taste joke or situation arises. Quoting from a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_Twitty&quot;&gt;wiki entry on Twitty&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In the show, one of the characters, usually Peter Griffin, needing a distraction, turns to the camera and says &quot;Ladies and gentlemen... Mr. Conway Twitty,&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seth Mcfarlane has long been recognized for pushing the envelope regarding how long to sustain a gag, exemplified by the inclusion of an entire Twitty song lasting well over 3 minutes in the episode &lt;em&gt;The Juice is Loose.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a more detailed breakdown of the songs and their appearances, go to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/Conway_Twitty&quot;&gt;Family Guy Wiki page dedicated to Conway Twitty&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-05-17T04:13:58.637" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2414" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2415" CreationDate="2012-05-17T13:21:25.030" Score="16" ViewCount="815" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145487/&quot;&gt;Spider-Man&lt;/a&gt; last night, after Parker's fateful night with the robber, we flash-forward to him being Spider-Man in full.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it is never shown where exactly his costume came from or how it evolved from a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; rough version of his drawing to the iconic red, black, and blue suit we all know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did he obtain and/or maintain this outfit during the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-07-07T20:44:11.837" LastActivityDate="2016-07-07T20:44:11.837" Title="Where did the Spider-Suit come from?" Tags="|plot-explanation|spider-man-trilogy|spider-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2414" CreationDate="2012-05-17T13:40:43.450" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I can recall (it's been some time since I've seen the movie) there is no explicit explanation of how his suit was made.  The movie just leads the audience to believe or assume that he ended up making it himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The process of making a suit isn't very interesting, and the director probably didn't want to waste much time on it, so they probably shot it like this to lead the audience to believe he made it without having to worry about the whole boring process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T10:11:30.650" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T10:11:30.650" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2409" CreationDate="2012-05-17T13:42:12.597" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually Walker Texas Ranger routinely approaches bad guys from behind. I think it's used to show Walker as always getting the drop on them and surprising them. I am going to use a clip from Conan O'Brien that I found on Youtube to illustrate this. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez0rTYKq0h4&amp;amp;feature=related&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez0rTYKq0h4&amp;amp;feature=related&lt;/a&gt; As you can see Walker comes up from behind to surprise a man caught in a bear trap and also jumps from a plane to land behind a villain in car. But it is a little puzzling since the last clip clearly shows that Walker could just as easily have an advantage by letting the bad guys sneak up on him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2012-05-17T13:42:12.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2407" CreationDate="2012-05-17T14:50:22.030" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah this question seems to come up a lot since the Family Guy episode where Peter asked this. Interestingly enough even though it's well known that Bob Saget is the voice of the Narrator he is not credited. No reason has been given so far as to why he is the Narrator. They have even shown Future Ted in the show and he sounds just like Present Ted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My best guess is that this is a joke that was written and the punchline hasn't been revealed yet, a typical device for this show (such as what happened with the goat). It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://perezhilton.com/2012-02-05-bob-saget-not-being-replaced-by-josh-radnor-on-how-i-met-your-mother#.T7UN58UdVgs&quot;&gt;supported by this story&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was earlier speculated that Josh would replace Bob as the show's narrator for the finale, but executive producer Craig Thomas has reassured us that Bob isn't going anywhere for the finale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most likely  there is a joke involved with the differences in voice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bob Saget is a well known name and many recognize his voice, which might be why he's used. It may have also contributed to the show getting green-lit, as there none of the cast was a big name actor at the time. Also, the distinction between future Ted's narration and the current story helps to differentiate between who is speaking at that moment. It would get confusing very quickly if present-day Ted's (Josh Radnor) voice were heard correcting his future-self. For the audience, it would be indistinguishable from the in-scene Ted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="202" LastEditDate="2012-05-22T12:57:58.763" LastActivityDate="2012-05-22T12:57:58.763" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2418" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2419" CreationDate="2012-05-17T19:07:44.643" Score="16" ViewCount="2303" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5911066/someone-built-a-brawndo-water-fountain-from-idiocracy&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this article&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and it got me thinking about fictional brands we see in movies and TV. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they actually applicable trademarks? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meaning are they registered and legally upheld or could anyone market a product using a trademark from a movie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademarks&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is the wiki link to trademarks I didn't see anything that mentions this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2012-05-17T22:40:16.407" LastActivityDate="2012-05-22T22:33:58.583" Title="Are fictional trademarks or brand names used in movies and TV legally held?" Tags="|props|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2418" CreationDate="2012-05-17T22:30:22.537" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very few (if any) fictional products are actually registered trademarks, however they are &lt;em&gt;creative works&lt;/em&gt;. This means any use of similar packaging is subject to copyright infringement laws. There is a possible case against a product using only the same name, if it's reasoned the name could cause confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best example to understand this situation would be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff_Beer&quot;&gt;Duff Beer&lt;/a&gt; from The Simpsons. That wiki page lists several instances of beers named Duff around the world. Some have had legal action sought against them by Fox (names only as well as name and design), and some have escaped any legal action. Interestingly, a man in Mexico has managed to register 'Duff' as a trademark in Mexico.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastActivityDate="2012-05-17T22:30:22.537" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2328" CreationDate="2012-05-18T00:03:35.993" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the most likely reason is writing down notes/topics for making jokes as you supposed. A post on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=16720&amp;amp;view=previous&quot;&gt;QI forum&lt;/a&gt; suggests the same. Since the format of these shows allows diverting off-topic, any jokes (and interesting facts in the case of QI) that come into their head are fair game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On some shows, notepads may be used for other things. For example, on QI the panellists are sometimes set challenges at the beginning of the episode that they work on during the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On A Question of Sport (more a straight quiz show than panel show), the contestants often write down details in the video clips they see to aid them, or write down a few possible answers to discuss with teammates without giving the answer away to their opponents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastActivityDate="2012-05-18T00:03:35.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1257" CreationDate="2012-05-18T14:53:30.497" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vanessa-appassamy.suite101.com/dostoyevsky-in-brad-andersons-the-machinist-a213347&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;I found this article in relation to the link between The Machinist, The Idiot and Crime and Punishment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly the novel The Idiot presents a protagonist in the form of innocent Prince Lev Nikolaievich Myshkin who as a youth was prone to blackouts, his current mental condition is unclear; [...] Myshkin meets his reverse in Rogozhin, who is associated with darkness in contrast with Myshkin’s lightness. Trevor Reznik seems to be the embodiment of both these characters; in his relationship with Marie he is charming, kind and gallant (Myshkin) while with Stevie he is mistrustful and vicious (Rogozhin)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stevie is a much more dangerous woman as she seems to be derived from Anastassya Filippovna Barashkov, the femme fatale of The Idiot who Myshkin mistakes his pity for her, as love. Stevie also seems to be associated with another Dostoevsky heroine in Sonya from Crime and Punishment. Sonya prostitutes herself for the sake of her family and falls for murderous Raskolnikov, the alienated protagonist of Crime and Punishment. [...] Stevie’s extended kindness is revealed to be the true saviour of Reznik as one of his final conversations with her reveals he has finally transgressed from killer to victim and he now understands his crime and acknowledges his guilt and moral responsibility...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The devil incarnate Rogozhin, can be link to the hellish figure of Ivan, a deformed character [...] whose confidence and personality are equally repulsive and inciting. Ivan can also be described as a guardian angel as he also helps Reznik understand who he is. Ivan is seemingly Reznik’s opposite and yet the two are cut from the same cloth as their identities overlap. [...] Ivan is Trevor Reznik’s conscience but he is also a strand of his former personality [...] It is the fictional Ivan who forces Reznik to confront his sins, till the very end and perhaps Reznik’s views his machinist self through the transgressed identity of the grotesque Ivan...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally have only read Crime and Punishment and always thought that there was a direct link between this and the Machinist due to the main character in each ultimately being driven mad by the guilt from the act they committed and ultimately handing themselves in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading the first article above would suggest there is a rather large link with The Idiot as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1342" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-24T20:59:45.607" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2403" CreationDate="2012-05-18T17:02:10.657" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is an interview that Seth MacFarlane did with Kevin Pollak where he actually asks him about that specifically. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kevinpollakschatshow.com/archive/?cat=202&quot;&gt;http://www.kevinpollakschatshow.com/archive/?cat=202&lt;/a&gt; The discussion of the overall theme of the long running joke that Family Guy does starts at around 1:03:00 The last of the discussion is at 1:11:00. The specific Conway Twitty cutaway part is discussed at 1:05:27. It's a good two hour long interview. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically there are two elements to the gag. One is that this primetime expensive airtime that advertisers are paying for is being used in this ridiculous way especially with (in Seth MacFarlane's opinion) such an uncharismatic performer as Conway Twitty. The other element is that a joke like this (also the hurt knee, chicken fight, Bird is the Word) is that it follows a formula of really funny-horrible-hilarious. First the audience laughs,then they don't, then they hate it, then they once again think it's fun and even funnier than at first. It has to be followed through with completely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intro is in the style of variety shows of 70's (Hee-Haw, Sonny and Cher, Donny and Marie, Johnny Cash). Other examples of this type of joke are given in the interview and I would like to add Any Kaufman reading Moby Dick to the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2012-05-18T17:02:10.657" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2425" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2426" CreationDate="2012-05-18T22:42:50.807" Score="8" ViewCount="1435" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the board of all the monsters in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cabin_in_the_Woods&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Cabin in the Woods&lt;/a&gt; what does the blue lettering mean written next to the Monster's name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hWw1Q.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The board&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="282" LastEditDate="2012-08-18T12:59:05.723" LastActivityDate="2012-08-18T12:59:05.723" Title="What is the meaning of the blue lettering on the board from Cabin in the Woods?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-cabin-in-the-woods|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2425" CreationDate="2012-05-18T22:45:51.930" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blue letters represent the group which bid on the monster. Do you remember the scene at the start of the movie where they start collecting money from the people working ? That's what the money is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example in the movie The Redneck Torture family was chosen by the characters. The Maintenance team bet on that before the group spends their night at the cabin. Oh I forgot the intern chips in too on that same bet as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2012-05-18T22:45:51.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2427" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6911" CreationDate="2012-05-18T23:26:23.373" Score="10" ViewCount="15698" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per the original storyline of Spider-Man &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Stacy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gwen Stacy&lt;/a&gt; is the first serious love  of Peter Parker (Betty Brant is the first relationship of him which never worked). Then why did Marvel/Columbia Pictures choose &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jane_Watson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mary Jane&lt;/a&gt; over her for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2002 Spider-Man&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any specific reason for it or just a random decision? I know about the death of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Stacy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gwen Stacy&lt;/a&gt; but none of them forced them to eliminate her role.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now in the 2012 reboot, they are using Gwen in the lead role and replacing Mary Jane by Gwen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my question is that why they used Mary Jane in Sam Rami's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_in_film#Sam_Raimi_series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Spider-Man Trilogy&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-30T21:08:02.217" LastActivityDate="2016-06-30T21:08:02.217" Title="What is the reason for choosing Mary Jane over the Gwen Stacy in the 2002 Spider-Man movie?" Tags="|character|production|spider-man-trilogy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2428" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2429" CreationDate="2012-05-19T11:44:00.210" Score="22" ViewCount="2235" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have a whole lot to go on here, but I am trying to identify a very old children's VHS. I would have seen the VHS in the very early 90's, but I believe the actual short films were from the 50's or shortly after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The VHS was some sort of compilation, I seem to remember watching it around Christmas time, but that could just be coincidence. I remember at least two different shorts, and I can only remember a couple seconds of each. The whole VHS was either black and white, or very dull colors. Both were stop-motion using dolls or puppets, not claymation. Both films are mostly silent, with instrumental music, possible very brief speech, &quot;Oh my!&quot; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This short is the first on the VHS, a maestro is trying to conduct (an orchestra maybe?) and becomes very upset, I think I remember his large moustache twitching. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like I said, not a lot to go on, if you can help at all, it would be greatly appreciated, thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; The 1950's Hansel and Gretel may have been part of the compilation, I remember having this, but don't remember if it was separate or not. The stop-motion style was similar in any case, which leads me to think that the whole thing was probably 1950-1960's productions. (Though, as mentioned I was definitely watching in 1990's VHS compilation form.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1343" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-09-02T06:28:35.433" LastActivityDate="2017-07-22T05:54:08.263" Title="Stop-motion animation about a conductor with a large moustache" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:36:45.830" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2428" CreationDate="2012-05-19T12:04:29.360" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm having a hard time placing the ballerina segment, but the conductor makes me think of one of George Pal's more famous &lt;strong&gt;Puppetoons&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035697/&quot;&gt;Bravo, Mr. Strauss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (1943). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JNHxV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;George Pal is considered one of the foremost animators of the 40's and 50's, and his prolific output was employed by many advertising companies before he successfully turned his hand to live-action effects (&lt;em&gt;War of the Worlds, The Time Machine&lt;/em&gt; et al).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-05-19T12:04:29.360" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2430" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-19T16:30:48.297" Score="4" ViewCount="3372" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Naruto &lt;a href=&quot;http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Two_Heartbeats%3a_Kabuto%27s_Trap&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;went to Orochimaru's&lt;/a&gt; base, Jiraiya is &quot;entertained&quot; by a female ninja that poisoned him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no continuation except that Jiraiya suddenly shows up later on the back of a toad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is that girl and how come Jiraiya defeats the poison?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1310" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T14:03:13.077" LastActivityDate="2017-06-12T02:25:05.240" Title="Who is the girl that poisons Jiraiya in Naruto 140?" Tags="|plot-explanation|naruto|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2427" CreationDate="2012-05-19T18:09:56.880" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;One possible reason might be the desired to avoid too much angst. A Gwen Stacy plot has to end with Peter blaming himself for Gwen's death, and being blamed by her father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already have that plot element in any Spider-man origin story with the death of Uncle Ben. Running the same plot device twice in the same movie seems wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those of us who were reading Spider-man in the 60's think of Betty Brant as Peter's first crush, and MJ as the first girl he has any significant relationship with. She may not have been Peter's first love, but she was many a reader's dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1219" LastActivityDate="2012-05-19T18:09:56.880" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2434" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-19T22:47:27.417" Score="0" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/993/what-techniqes-are-used-by-directors-to-make-an-actor-cry&quot;&gt;What techniqes are used by directors to make an actor cry?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do actors always have to get in the mood to cry? Are their teardrops always real? What techniques are used to help actors in such scenes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2012-05-20T01:10:21.577" Title="How do actors cry in movies?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2012-05-20T03:09:38.737" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="993" CreationDate="2012-05-20T00:10:19.280" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia leads back to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislavski&quot;&gt;Constantin Stanislavski&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislavski%27s_system&quot;&gt;Stanislavski system&lt;/a&gt;, a system of acting techniques to access emotions. He prefered to refer to it as system (little 'S'). The system is the result of Stanislavski's many years of efforts to determine how someone can control in performance the most intangible and uncontrollable aspects of human behavior, such as emotions and art inspiration. The most influential acting teachers, including Richard Boleslavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Michael Chekhov, &lt;b&gt;Lee Strasberg&lt;/b&gt;, Stella Adler, Harold Clurman, Robert Lewis, Sanford Meisner, &lt;b&gt;Uta Hagen&lt;/b&gt;, Ion Cojar and Ivana Chubbuck all traced their pedigrees to Stanislavski, his theories and/or his disciples.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Lord Laurence Olivier wrote that Stanislavski's &lt;em&gt;My Life in Art&lt;/em&gt; was a source of great enlightenment&quot; when he was a young actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sir John Gielgud said, &quot;This director found time to explain a thousand things that have always troubled actors and fascinated students.&quot; Gielgud is also quoted as saying, &quot;Stanislavski's now famous book is a contribution to the Theatre and its students all over the world.&quot;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Stanislavski once insisted that all actions that a person must enact, such as walking, talking, even sitting on stage, must be broken down and re-learned. For example, his book, translated into English as &quot;Building a Character,&quot; gives a description of the correct way of walking on stage. Such rigors of re-learning were probably constant throughout his life.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Stanislavski's system is a method for actors to produce realistic characters on stage. His original studies of techniques led to the use of &lt;b&gt;'Emotional Memory'&lt;/b&gt; that required actors to trigger the emotions of their characters internally.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The example of crying is specifically covered in the article. &lt;em&gt;Stanislavski developed the &quot;method of physical actions,&quot; to solve the dilemma of spontaneous emotion in a created environment. In this technique, the actor would perform a physical motion or a series of physical activities to create the desired emotional response for the character. Emotions were considered to be formed from the subconscious, so this technique allowed the actors to consciously target and control their subconscious emotions through movement. For instance, if an actor needed to weep, he could sigh and hold his head in his hands, a physical action that many who are crying instinctively do...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The correct physical action does not come automatically for every psychological response nor are they stimulate identical responses for every individual. Many times, actors need to experiment until they determine what best works for them and for the character they are trying to portray. The best way to experiment with this is through improvisation. The best improvisers are those who can intuitively act and behave onstage as though they are in a real situation.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Additional techniques are explained in the wikipedia article - an interesting read.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;For the TLDNR crowd, here's a different take, a quick-and-dirty:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://plays.about.com/od/basics/ht/How-To-Cry-An-Actors-Guide-To-Crying-And-Tears.htm&quot;&gt;An Actor's Guide to Crying and Tears&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-05-20T01:10:21.577" LastActivityDate="2012-05-20T01:10:21.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2437" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2447" CreationDate="2012-05-20T12:35:30.863" Score="12" ViewCount="11275" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the techniques to create a realistic fight/combat scene without injuring the actors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastActivityDate="2016-05-17T07:16:40.170" Title="How do they shoot fight scenes without causing harm to performers?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2438" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2446" CreationDate="2012-05-20T12:40:13.667" Score="5" ViewCount="399" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stuntmen are widely used in many action films to shoot difficult and dangerous scenes. How is it decided whether to use a stuntman in a scene? Are there official rules for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="56" LastEditDate="2012-05-21T19:05:51.807" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T11:07:11.910" Title="How is it decided whether to use a stuntman?" Tags="|stunts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2439" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2440" CreationDate="2012-05-20T13:04:10.337" Score="3" ViewCount="2557" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Mission Impossible 1, Ethan is being suspected of being a mole because his dad's farm has $127,000 in their bank account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A high-end programmer, among other jobs, make close to that much in a year and they do not have such great skills as Ethan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One would think that someone as good as him wouldn't become a mole over $127k.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1310" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T15:37:02.907" LastActivityDate="2019-04-12T13:33:19.287" Title="What was the salary of an IMF agent?" Tags="|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-1996|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2439" CreationDate="2012-05-20T13:47:35.227" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Mission-Impossible.html&quot;&gt;script online&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                     KITTRIDGE (CONT'D) &#xA;           I want to show you something, Ethan. &#xA;&#xA;He now shoves the papers across the table.  They're xeroxed &#xA;copies of a Wisconsin bank account in the name of DONALD and &#xA;MARGARET ETHAN HUNT.  It shows a balance of $127, 000. &#xA;&#xA;                     KITTRIDGE (CONT'D) &#xA;           Since your father's death, your family's &#xA;           farm has been in sub-chapter S and now, &#xA;           suddenly, they're flush with over a &#xA;           hundred and twenty grand in the bank. &#xA;           Dad's illness was supposed to have wiped &#xA;           out the bank account -- dying slowly in &#xA;           America after all, can be a very &#xA;           expensive proposition Ethan.  So, why &#xA;           don't we go quietly out of here onto the &#xA;           plane... &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what appears to have raised the suspicion of IMF is that Ethan's father had died after a long illness and that his mother should have only had very little money in her bank account and the farm she owned with his father is bankrupt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At no point is it implied that IMF think that this is the sole money that Ethan as the suspected mole in IMF has received. The NOC list that is at the center of the plot in the movie is worth millions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that Ethan's mother, a poor widow, suddenly has a large amount of money in her checking account is just a piece of evidence they are using &lt;strong&gt;along with&lt;/strong&gt; the fact that Ethan was apparently the only agent to survive a botched mission.  Yes, perhaps Ethan does earn enough money to be able to support his Mother - but enough to gift her over $120k?  As far as IMF are concerned this piece evidence is suspicious and enough to want to detain Ethan for more questioning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;      PHELPS&#xA;           ..when you think about it, Ethan, it was&#xA;           inevitable..no more Cold War.  No more&#xA;           secrets you keep from everyone but&#xA;           yourself, operations you answer to no one&#xA;           but yourself.  Then one morning you wake&#xA;           up and find out the President of the&#xA;           United States is running the country -&#xA;           without your permission.  The son-of-a-&#xA;           bitch!  How dare he?  You realize itís&#xA;           over, youíre an obsolete piece of&#xA;           hardware not worth upgrading, youíve got&#xA;           a lousy marriage and sixty-two grand a &#xA;           year.  Kittridge, weíll go after that no&#xA;           good son-of-a-bitch, big time!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Phelps, Ethan's team-leader in IMF earns $62,000 a year, so it is likely that Ethan earns less than this.  This is probably in line with a 'high end programmer' in 1996 - but one imagines that agents like Ethan (or James Bond or ... name any fictional spy) are probably not in this for the money, but they are somehow attracted to the danger, challenge and jet-setting lifestyle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-05-20T15:44:22.450" LastActivityDate="2012-05-20T15:44:22.450" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2443" CreationDate="2012-05-20T14:22:25.177" Score="10" ViewCount="12197" Body="&lt;p&gt;During a scene in the movie, while Ethan is looking at a bible with a Chicago stamp on it, he has a revelation that Jim Phelps is actually the mole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did he come to this idea and how did the Chicago stamp lead him to this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1310" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T15:37:11.270" LastActivityDate="2020-01-20T21:46:31.410" Title="How does Ethan know that Phelps is the mole?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-1996|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2442" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2825" CreationDate="2012-05-20T14:24:55.450" Score="9" ViewCount="4497" Body="&lt;p&gt;We see Jim Phelps murder his wife, needlessly, and yet, only give Ethan what amounts to a glancing blow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why wouldn't he just kill Ethan and try to escape with his wife instead of taking the risk of leaving him alive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1310" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T15:37:51.467" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T15:37:51.467" Title="In Mission Impossible 1, why didn't Phelps kill Ethan as easily as his wife?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-1996|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2441" CreationDate="2012-05-20T15:19:03.777" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the bible is not just from Chicago, but especially from the &lt;em&gt;Drake Hotel&lt;/em&gt; in Chicago, where Jim lived as he said earlier. This is quite a coincidence, considering that Jim wouldn't have any reason to steal a bible from the hotel. On the other hand &lt;em&gt;Job&lt;/em&gt; surely needs a bible for the communication cypher with &lt;em&gt;Max&lt;/em&gt; based on bible quotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it is the mere coincidence, that the bible is exactly from the hotel &lt;em&gt;Jim&lt;/em&gt; lived in and he probably took it with him. Together with the fact that he surprisingly survived it is a strong indication of &lt;em&gt;Jim&lt;/em&gt; being the traitor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure he immediately believed &lt;em&gt;Jim&lt;/em&gt; to be the traitor when reading the stamp, but he gets suspicious. Then seeing &lt;em&gt;Jim&lt;/em&gt; alive (and denouncing &lt;em&gt;Kittridge&lt;/em&gt;, which isn't that believable to &lt;em&gt;Ethan&lt;/em&gt;, I guess) substantiates the suspicion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T10:06:38.627" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T10:06:38.627" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2438" CreationDate="2012-05-21T01:52:52.030" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you are talking about stuntman/actor decision since every dangerous scene is mostly a stunt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;strong&gt;minor stunts&lt;/strong&gt;(backflips,jumps...), it is determined by &lt;strong&gt;director&lt;/strong&gt; if he wants it to be real or shoot with ropes. Secondarily it is up to &lt;strong&gt;actor&lt;/strong&gt; if he can do the desired trick. Sometimes actors even go through training courses just to do a good scene of a small stunt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Major stunts&lt;/strong&gt; with explosions,cars,... are first decided by &lt;strong&gt;insurance companies&lt;/strong&gt;. You can have problems even if a stuntman gets hurt(contract). If you minimize the risk enough, the stuntman gets in action. With current CGI technologies, most scenes can now be filmed safely so it gets back to directors choice and actors capability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-11T11:07:11.910" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T11:07:11.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2437" CreationDate="2012-05-21T02:24:25.187" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fight is shoot in many &lt;strong&gt;small pieces&lt;/strong&gt;,in movies you can see how camera always changes many positions during fight scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;camera position&lt;/strong&gt; faces so that the fist blocks the view of impact,actors keep the distance between them so actually there is &lt;strong&gt;no real contact&lt;/strong&gt; between them,the &lt;strong&gt;sound and the impact effects are added later&lt;/strong&gt; on.Each &lt;strong&gt;scene is reviewed&lt;/strong&gt; to make sure that actor that gets hitted timed accordingly to the first actor that is hitting him so that it looks believable to a viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also actors can perform parts of the fight in &lt;strong&gt;slow motion&lt;/strong&gt; to make the best timed hits and other complicated awesome moves,it is edited and fixed later on so it looks like real time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In movies like matrix with longer and steady camera scenes the fight requires a lot of &lt;strong&gt;choreography&lt;/strong&gt; from actors and from the cameraman and it includes a lot of extras and ropes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastActivityDate="2012-05-21T02:24:25.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1786" CreationDate="2012-05-21T10:51:57.327" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm led to believe that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061801/&quot;&gt;&quot;I'll Never Forget What's'isname&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (1967) was the first film to use the f-word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an interesting aside, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_that_most_frequently_use_the_word_%22fuck%22&quot;&gt;here is a list&lt;/a&gt; of films in which the word appears most frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1290" LastActivityDate="2012-05-21T10:51:57.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2430" CreationDate="2012-05-21T15:22:50.787" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 2 instances in the main arc which resemble the plot element you listed, one is when Itachi returns to Konoha where he tries to place Jiraiya under Genjutsu before trying to corner naruto alone but I am sure that's not the one you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second one the more close solution is in &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Bringing Tsunade Back Arc&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; where naruto and Jiraiya try to convince tsunade to return to konoha to heal Rock Lee and Sasuke (who eventually got hurt by Itachi in the earlier encounter i mentioned). Tsunade drugs Jiraiya before trying to confront orochimaru to kill him its because she didn't want jiraiya to involve in the fight. I think you might be aware that Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Tsunade were called the &lt;strong&gt;Sannin&lt;/strong&gt; *&lt;em&gt;(Legendary three&lt;/em&gt;*) because they were a team once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The drug causes jiraiya not to mold chakra properly causing him to fight at half his strength and he still summons &lt;strong&gt;Gamabunta&lt;/strong&gt; (Chief toad) in that fight. I think that's the episode you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2012-05-21T15:22:50.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2012-05-21T19:41:14.657" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It IS an anagram, it's Tanas Root - when Roman mentions it to Hutch during Hutch's visit to the apartment, he's never heard of it and does some digging. Then, at Hutch's funeral, Grace, the woman who answered his phone while he was in a coma, gives Rosemary a paper-wrapped book and told Rosemary that Hutch said to tell her &quot;the name is an anagram.&quot; Rosemary repeats the phrase &quot;the name is an anagram&quot; while she's reading the book and telling herself there can't possibly really be witches. So the movie itself states that the name - the name of tanas root, which Hutch had never heard of and did some research on - is an anagram. I don't know why I only see it spelled Tannis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1351" LastActivityDate="2012-05-21T19:41:14.657" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2236" CreationDate="2012-05-21T21:36:18.310" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seemed to me that Banner's influence over the Hulk depended on how much control he had over the transformation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time, he transformed because he was in pain, and Hulk was out of his control. The second time, he transformed by choice for a specific reason. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Helping things along was the fact that during the second transformation, Hulk had a lot of targets to take his rage out on - and no enclosed, confined spaces, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of it as the difference between a professional football player getting knocked down in a crowded nightclub, versus getting knocked down in the middle of a game. In the second case, he's prepared for it, and has a strategy for venting his anger in the next minute. In the first, he's blindsided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1352" LastEditorUserId="1352" LastEditDate="2014-11-24T19:42:07.937" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T19:42:07.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2337" CreationDate="2012-05-21T21:40:08.773" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thor magically knew where to find Loki the first time, when he abducted him from the Quinjet. I suppose the same magic could have helped him find Loki the second time, too. (Perhaps Odin infused Mjolnir with some sort of spell to track Loki quickly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Banner, that one's actually easier to answer. He's the only one who saw the location of the Tesseract on the helicarrier's computer screen, just before Hawkeye blew up the engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1352" LastEditorUserId="1352" LastEditDate="2014-08-06T13:16:54.573" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T13:16:54.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2454" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2464" CreationDate="2012-05-21T22:20:44.567" Score="5" ViewCount="1192" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104691/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Last of the Mohicans&lt;/a&gt;, Hawkeye, played by Daniel Day Lewis, appears out of the forest to save the Major from a raiding party of Indians. When the Major grabs a gun and is about to fire at one of the Indians who is running away from Chingachgook (Hawkeye's father), Hawkeye stops him and says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In case your aim's any better than your judgement&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't he have said &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In case your aim's **not** any better than your judgement&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't imagine the Major would intentionally shoot the people that saved his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the action sequence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/faaX7IPErdc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene in question is about 2:50 in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="376" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-05-04T23:15:30.417" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T23:15:30.417" Title="Daniel Day Lewis Quote in Last of the Mohicans" Tags="|dialogue|last-of-the-mohicans|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2455" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2960" CreationDate="2012-05-21T23:28:45.873" Score="10" ViewCount="10006" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;Spy Game&lt;/em&gt;, Nathan Muir is seen driving away from CIA headquarters; my impression of the scene is that he's in a hurry. He peels away from the gate, and the next shot of him is driving his Porsche along an open country road -- it seems to be implied that he's going &lt;em&gt;fast&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the past day, he's committed at least two crimes (bribery of a foreign official, forgery) and several acts that, if not technically illegal, are likely to get him into very serious trouble if for no other reason than that they have pissed off high-ranking CIA officials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is he supposed to be escaping? Does he seriously think he can outrun the CIA (à la &lt;em&gt;Hopscotch&lt;/em&gt;) with no money? Or does he anticipate no real personal consequences, hoping they'll realize he ultimately did the right thing? This seems like an oversight. What is Muir up to after he leaves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1353" LastEditorUserId="1353" LastEditDate="2017-04-11T02:00:40.630" LastActivityDate="2018-09-12T20:32:40.237" Title="What did Muir think was going to happen after he left McLean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|spy-game|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2454" CreationDate="2012-05-22T00:47:53.203" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  The premise of the quote is his judgement is terrible.  If his aim is better than that (better than terrible, i.e. good) he might hit what he's aiming at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If his aim was &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; better than his judgement, he would obviously miss, and could be allowed to shoot wildly into the air.  Unless you're concerned about collateral damage, I suppose...  ^_^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="411" LastActivityDate="2012-05-22T00:47:53.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2459" CreationDate="2012-05-22T03:48:37.920" Score="42" ViewCount="42169" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unlike Hollywood movies, Bollywood movies are quite different, because they're usually mixed with &lt;strong&gt;masala&lt;/strong&gt; i.e dance, song and love sequences. This is the case in most films which are released in various languages in India.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why do Bollywood movies have song and dance sequences?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T00:50:39.680" LastActivityDate="2023-05-15T02:06:52.067" Title="Why do Bollywood movies have song and dance sequences?" Tags="|indian-cinema|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2458" CreationDate="2012-05-22T04:38:47.433" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;There may be quite a few reasons for this &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are not many bands that perform music on a large scale, at least not till recently &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Peer Pressure, everybody is doing it &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pressure from Producers / Distributors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If Songs become a huge hit and even if the movie is not that great it can still fetch the producers and distributors enough money (Eg The movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_%282012_Indian_film%29&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The legacy left over from the 1950s, it just refuses to go away .&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="119" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-03T14:12:30.993" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T14:12:30.993" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2458" CreationDate="2012-05-22T05:36:56.377" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Musicals from Hollywood are popular.  They aren't as popular as they were in the 40s, 50s, and into the 60s, but they do still exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some recent examples, just off the top of my head:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1204342/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Muppets&lt;/em&gt; (2011)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445922/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Across the Universe&lt;/em&gt; (2007)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395251/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Producers&lt;/em&gt; (2005)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299658/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chicago&lt;/em&gt; (2002)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course, many children's movies have musical numbers, song, and dance, like the Shrek series, and most animated Disney movies I've seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course it's still true that musicals from Hollywood aren't as popular as those from Bollywood.  But that's mainly the result of what sells in the target markets for each country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Musicals do sell in the U.S. (or they wouldn't keep making them), but they don't sell as well as they do in Indian markets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-17T07:41:04.673" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T07:41:04.673" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1786" CreationDate="2012-05-22T05:46:15.430" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The films &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_%281967_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ulysses&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ll_Never_Forget_What%27s%27isname&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'll Never Forget What's'isname&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (both &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_in_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1967&lt;/a&gt;) are contenders for being the first film to use the word 'fuck,' although the word 'fucking' is clearly mouthed silently in the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sink_the_Bismarck!&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sink the Bismarck!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_in_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1960&lt;/a&gt;), and the title character says it in the cartoon &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosko%27s_Picture_Show&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bosko's Picture Show&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1933).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastActivityDate="2012-05-22T05:46:15.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2355" CreationDate="2012-05-22T07:15:53.883" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://jfilmpowwow.blogspot.com/2008/07/review-naked-island-kaneto-shindo-1960.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They grow a meager crop of potatoes and wheat to eat and to sell&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They include a screenshot of an islander tending to grown wheat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jrDF3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;wheat&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here's a photo of potato plants with pointed leaves:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GO5C4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;potatoes&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Photo from Wikipedia by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Potato_plants.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fir0002/Flagstaffotos&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2012-05-22T07:15:53.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1786" CreationDate="2012-05-22T08:05:05.800" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Significance&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be argued that some swearing is overused and unnecessary but some films contain swearing because some people swear in real-life, and it can make a film more dramatic or shocking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;History&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It depends on what is considered swearing, which has changed over the years as sensibilities change, and also on culture, but swearing dates back to silent films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://douglasfairbanks.org/2010/10/15/museum-consults-on-new-history-channel-documentary/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Douglas Fairbanks Museum&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vintage news articles from the museum’s newspaper and magazine archives were requested by the network specifically pertaining to the 1916 Douglas Fairbanks comedy, &lt;em&gt;The Habit of Happiness&lt;/em&gt; – reportedly the first Hollywood film to contain a curse word. And this was in the silent days before spoken dialogue!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although there are no swear words in the printed title cards, Fairbanks reportedly swore up a blue streak in one particular scene, sparking a nationwide lip-reading movie controversy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/faq#.2.1.2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb's &lt;em&gt;Gone With The Wind&lt;/em&gt; (1939) FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this the first movie to use profanity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. &amp;quot;Damn&amp;quot; was surprisingly common in intertitles of silent movies, and John Gilbert even shouts &amp;quot;Goddamn you!&amp;quot; to the enemy during battle in &lt;em&gt;The Big Parade&lt;/em&gt; (1925), and cries, &amp;quot;Christ! He's dead!&amp;quot; in &lt;em&gt;The Show&lt;/em&gt; (1927). Talkies that used &amp;quot;damn&amp;quot; include &lt;em&gt;Glorifying the American Girl&lt;/em&gt; (1929), &lt;em&gt;Gold Diggers of Broadway&lt;/em&gt; (1929), &lt;em&gt;Hell's Angels&lt;/em&gt; (1930), &lt;em&gt;The Big Trail&lt;/em&gt; (1930), &lt;em&gt;The Dawn Patrol&lt;/em&gt; (1930), &lt;em&gt;The Green Goddess&lt;/em&gt; (1930), &lt;em&gt;Dirigible&lt;/em&gt; (1931), &lt;em&gt;Blessed Event&lt;/em&gt; (1932), &lt;em&gt;The 39 Steps&lt;/em&gt; (1935), &lt;em&gt;The Man Without a Country&lt;/em&gt; (1937), and &lt;em&gt;Holiday&lt;/em&gt; (1938). &lt;em&gt;GWTW&lt;/em&gt; wasn't even the first Best Picture Oscar winner to use &amp;quot;damn&amp;quot;: Clive Brook says it in &lt;em&gt;Cavalcade&lt;/em&gt; (1933).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1468340&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Digital Spy Forums&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd have to define your 'swearing' boundaries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;em&gt;Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?&lt;/em&gt; (1966) was the first American film to feature a fairly liberal use of words accepted as 'swearing' (several bastards, bloodys and buggers), as opposed to just mild 'cussing' of the damn and blast variety. 'One or two' instances of those had been accepted in British films for quite a while though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia's fuck article&lt;/a&gt; (which goes into much more detail):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The films &lt;em&gt;Ulysses&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;I'll Never Forget What's'isname&lt;/em&gt; (both 1967) are contenders for being the first film to use the word 'fuck,' although the word 'fucking' is clearly mouthed silently in the film &lt;em&gt;Sink the Bismarck!&lt;/em&gt; (1960), and the title character says it in the cartoon &lt;em&gt;Bosko's Picture Show&lt;/em&gt; (1933).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the 1970s, the use of the word &amp;quot;fuck&amp;quot; in R-rated movies has become so commonplace in mainstream American movies that it is rarely noticed by most audiences. Nonetheless, a few movies have made exceptional use of the word, to the point where such films as &lt;em&gt;Fuck, Good Will Hunting, Casino, The Last Detail, Menace II Society, The Big Lebowski, The Departed, Scarface&lt;/em&gt; (1983), &lt;em&gt;Pulp Fiction, Blue Velvet, South Park: Bigger, Longer &amp;amp; Uncut&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Goodfellas&lt;/em&gt; as well as the HBO TV series &lt;em&gt;The Sopranos&lt;/em&gt; are known for its extensive use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From several posters on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=246323&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Straight Dope Message Board&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John Gilbert, via intertitle, shouted &amp;quot;goddamn it&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;b------s!&amp;quot; (sic) during the heat of the battle in the hugely successful &lt;em&gt;The Big Parade&lt;/em&gt; (1925).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the closing line of the exotic &lt;em&gt;The Green Goddess&lt;/em&gt; (1930), George Arliss, as a Asian tyrant, dismisses a woman who escaped his clutches with the comment, &amp;quot;She probably would have been a damned nuisance, anyway.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another World War I epic, &lt;em&gt;Hell's Angels&lt;/em&gt; (1930), really let it rip: you could hear &amp;quot;It's me, goddamit&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;What the hell&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;For Chrissake&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Jesus!&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;That son-of-a-bitch!&amp;quot; amid the aerial dogfights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even after the Motion Picture Production Code began to be enforced in 1934, there were pre-&lt;em&gt;Gone With the Wind&lt;/em&gt; uses of &amp;quot;damn&amp;quot;, including Katharine Hepburn quoting Lady Macbeth's &amp;quot;Out, damned spot&amp;quot; in &lt;em&gt;Holiday&lt;/em&gt; (1938). The earliest Code-era &amp;quot;goddamn it&amp;quot; I know of was from Don Murray in &lt;em&gt;Bus Stop&lt;/em&gt; (1956).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scott Wilson was the first to say &amp;quot;shit&amp;quot; in an American feature, as one of the murderers in &lt;em&gt;In Cold Blood&lt;/em&gt; (1967).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first major Hollywood film to use &amp;quot;bullshit&amp;quot; was &lt;em&gt;Bullitt&lt;/em&gt; in 1968.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coincidentally, I've been trying to find the first mainstream American movie to feature the most taboo word of all - &amp;quot;cunt&amp;quot;. I know it was in &lt;em&gt;Boys In The Band&lt;/em&gt; from 1970, but I think there may be an earlier instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rip Torn in &lt;em&gt;The Cincinnati Kid&lt;/em&gt; (1965): &amp;quot;Yes, for my kind of money, gut money. I wanta to see that smug old bastard gutted. Gutted!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are supposedly several cases from the silent era where lip-readers did complain about swearing in the dialogue. In this vein, there's a scene between Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017540/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;What Price Glory&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1926) that reputedly caused problems, as did some of Gloria Swanson's language in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019344/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sadie Thompson&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1928). Similarly, there's the case of Douglas Fairbanks and the dirty joke in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006751/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Habit of Happiness&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1916).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-05-22T08:05:05.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2454" CreationDate="2012-05-22T15:46:05.320" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem here is that the major is aiming at Chingachgook.  The major may think he's one of the attackers running away.  It's clear that he's aiming at Chingachgook because even after Chingachgook kills the only other Indian within the line of site of the Major, the Major keeps taking aim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously HawkEye doesn't want Chingachgook shot, So since the Major's Judgement is that he should shoot Chingachgook, one of the guys who just saved him, his Judgement is considered by Hawkeye to be bad.  If his aim is better he might actually hit Chingachgook&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastActivityDate="2012-05-22T15:46:05.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2466" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2483" CreationDate="2012-05-22T17:49:13.227" Score="25" ViewCount="25001" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an episode of the very popular TV series Friends wherein Phoebe says that she wants to patch things up with her twin sister before their 30th Birthday (in a flashback in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583489/&quot;&gt;The One Where They All Turn Thirty&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do Phoebe and her twin sister Ursula never talk to each other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-26T03:34:19.993" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T16:33:45.773" Title="What's wrong between Phoebe and her twin sister Ursula in Friends?" Tags="|plot-explanation|friends|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2263" CreationDate="2012-05-22T18:02:08.537" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not likely that the apron corresponds directly to rank. In a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/season2_world_style.html&quot;&gt;Masterpiece photo gallery thing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The World of Downton Abbey&lt;/em&gt; author Jessica Fellowes notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The maids had to make their own uniforms of two dresses: a print dress with a plain apron for cleaning in the morning, changing into a black dress with a more decorative pinny for the afternoons and evenings. This could be expensive: in 1890 the price of the fabric could eat up six months' [sic] of a scullery maid's wages. In many houses, a bolt of cloth was given to the maids at Christmas so they had only the work, but not the cost, of the dress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems that the differences between the maids' uniforms are based on what materials are available to each maid and on her dressmaking skills. (In that way, they might be indirectly indicative of the maid's rank, since more experienced maids are probably paid more and can probably produce more decorative or ornate pieces for themselves.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8" LastEditorUserId="8" LastEditDate="2012-05-30T14:56:55.180" LastActivityDate="2012-05-30T14:56:55.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2471" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2472" CreationDate="2012-05-22T19:36:24.800" Score="13" ViewCount="74724" Body="&lt;p&gt;Through the first three seasons of Mad Men, Don and Betty's relationship (and Don's indiscretions) are a primary focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What factors contributed to the dissolving their marriage?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-05-22T20:45:17.733" LastActivityDate="2017-03-11T05:43:56.320" Title="What lead to Don and Betty getting divorced on Mad Men?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mad-men|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2471" CreationDate="2012-05-22T19:36:24.940" Score="14" Body="&lt;h1&gt;**SPOILERS**&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there are many possible factors contributing to Don and Betty getting divorced, based on what we the viewers observe, these are the most glaring contributors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Cheating&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both Don and Betty had extra-marital affairs. What follows is a list of the people both had relationships with outside of their marriage.&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Don:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Midge Daniels&lt;/em&gt; (Season 1)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kx0Wz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Midge Daniels&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Don and Midge conducted a continuous affair over the course of the first season. Her life as an art illustrator allows her to experiment freely with marijuana with other Beatnicks and &quot;proto-hippies,&quot; as well as lovers other than Don. Don concludes the relationship at the end of Season 1 after seeing a picture of her with another man.&#xA;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mad_Men_characters#Midge_Daniels&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Rachel Menken&lt;/em&gt; (Season 1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/drokw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Rachel Menken&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Menken is the head of a her family's department store, Menken's, who meets Don at a pitch meeting at Sterling Cooper. When Pete Campbell attempts to blackmail Don, the latter suggests Rachel join him in an 'escape' to Los Angeles. Rachel rebuffs, Don persists, and the relationship ends when she calls him a &quot;coward&quot; upon the realization that Don only wanted to run away, not run away &lt;em&gt;with her&lt;/em&gt;.&#xA;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mad_Men_characters#Rachel_Menken&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bobbie Barrett&lt;/em&gt; (Season 2)&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aXBJR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bobbie Barrett&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bobbie Barrett (Melinda McGraw) is the wife of comedian Jimmy Barrett (born Jimmy Bernstein) (Patrick Fischler), an insult comic reminiscent of Don Rickles, who the firm uses in their advertisements for Utz Potato Chips. After Jimmy insults the wife of Utz's owner about her weight, Don has to intercede and ends up meeting Bobbie, also Jimmy's manager, who shrugs off her husband's behavior. On the way to get Jimmy to apologize to the Schillings, Bobbie seduces Don, though he initially resists as he is determined to remain faithful to his marriage vows, despite previous infidelities. When Bobbie later tries to get more money from Don (in a bathroom of the restaurant they and Schillings are at for the apology) in exchange for the pay-or-play contract of her husband's, Don grabs her hair with one hand and puts the other up her skirt and his fingers up further still, then threatens to ruin Jimmy. Bobbie appears to enjoy the attention, and then quickly makes her husband apologize. Later, she comes to Don with a TV pitch called, &quot;Grin and Barrett,&quot; a sort of Candid Camera-type show, except with her husband using his insult comic skills as the host. Don helps her arrange things and they continue to see each other on the side until the two are in a car accident that requires a cover up story. The two resume their affair after a brief hiatus following the accident but the affair ends when Bobbie reveals to Don that she and other women with whom Don has had affairs have been talking about his prowess as a lover. Upset to learn that he has a &quot;reputation&quot; and annoyed at his inability to control Bobbie, Don leaves Bobbie during the middle of a sexual encounter while she is tied up. Later, during a party, where Don and Bobbie and their spouses are in attendance, Jimmy reveals to Betty, Don's wife, that Don and Bobbie have had an affair. Betty is humiliated and kicks Don out of the home for a time. Though Betty may have suspected affairs in the past, Don's affair with Bobbie appears to be the only affair Betty actually knows about. Don later encounters Jimmy in an underground casino where he delivers a solid punch to Jimmy's face and knocks him off his feet, which Jimmy later disparages as nothing. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mad_Men_characters#Jimmy_and_Bobbie_Barrett&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Joy&lt;/em&gt; (Season 2)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z31DT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Joy&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After impulsively deciding to accompany Pete Cambell on a business trip to Los Angeles, Don meets a European viscount with a 21-year-old daughter named Joy. The two sleep together after Don joins the viscount and his family on a trip to Palm Springs, terminating the relationship when he departs to visit his old friend, Anna.&#xA;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Draper#Draper_and_women&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Suzanne Farrell&lt;/em&gt; (Season 3)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p9hJx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Suzanne Farrell&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the beginning of Season 3, Suzanne Farrell (Abigail Spencer) is Sally Draper's homeroom teacher. She engages in an extended period of flirtation with Don, and eventually enters into a sexual relationship with him. ... At the end of Season 3, Don signals a desire to strengthen their relationship, but his plans are scuttled when Betty unexpectedly returns home from a vacation and confronts Don about his past. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mad_Men_characters#Suzanne_Farrell&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Betty:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Random guy at bar (played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574131/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ryan McPartlin&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fpaCB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;betty and random guy&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After discovering she is pregnant in the finale episode of Season 2 (&quot;Meditations in an Emergency&quot;), Betty meets a stranger at a bar and has sex with him.&#xA;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Draper#Season_two&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Henry Francis&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x1lQv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;pregnant betty and henry francis&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Henry Francis (Christopher Stanley) is a Republican political advisor who serves as the Director of Public Relations and Research in the Governor's Office under New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and, later, is an advisor to New York City Mayor John Lindsay. He is instantly infatuated with Betty Draper when he meets a six-months pregnant Betty at the Sterling's Kentucky Derby party. Later, when Betty calls him to ask if he can use his influence to save a local reservoir, they develop a personal connection. Betty reciprocates Henry's attention because she increasingly feels no connection with Don due to his non-stop infidelities, lies over his true identity, and his sometimes verbally abusive attitude towards her. After the death of Betty's beloved father, the much older Henry also serves as a replacement father-figure for her. Henry and Betty have only a few brief and furtive meetings before Henry proposes marriage in the wake of the Kennedy assassination. Season 3 ends with the two of them on a plane with baby Gene, presumably flying to Reno so Betty can obtain a quick divorce from Don. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mad_Men_characters#Henry_Francis&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Don concealing his past&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The name &quot;Don Draper&quot; is an alias; his given name is Richard &quot;Dick&quot; Whitman. Draper was born in Illinois to a 22-year-old prostitute, who died giving birth to him. He was subsequently taken in by his biological father Archibald &quot;Archie&quot; Whitman and stepmother Abigail.&#xA;  When Dick Whitman was 10 years old, his biological father was killed by a spooked horse that kicked him in the face during an electrical storm; Dick witnessed this. Subsequently, Abigail, Dick and his half brother Adam moved to Pennsylvania (described by Draper as &quot;coal country&quot;) and were raised by Abigail and a man referred to as &quot;Uncle Mac&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Episode 11 (of Season 3), Don is cornered by Betty, who has managed to unearth evidence of Don's past life via pictures and documents from a locked drawer in his desk. He tells her about his life as Dick Whitman, how he came to exchange dog tags with Lieutenant Don Draper, and his half-brother Adam's suicide. While apparently somewhat sympathetic to his feelings of guilt about the latter, Betty is highly conflicted about the fact that Don has hidden this aspect of his life from her for the duration of their relationship and marriage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In summation:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Don's habitual extra-marital affairs, and his lying when confronted by Betty, resulted in her being unable to trust him. Not sharing his true past with Betty pushed her further away, and likely left Betty feeling like she didn't even know the man she married.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Betty, feeling alienated and alone, sought the attention she needed from another man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other factors, including Don working late, having a temper and having her psychiatrist send Don transcripts and tapes from their meetings (which she discovered along with the materials documenting Don's true identity), undoubtedly contributed to their dissolution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="850" LastEditDate="2012-05-22T20:41:59.250" LastActivityDate="2012-05-22T20:41:59.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2473" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-22T19:43:59.433" Score="8" ViewCount="5959" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been looking at various pictures from this and there seems to be (for the most part) a rationale between uniform colours and ranks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been unable to dig up specifics and I'm curious if anyone else has seen the info or knows the details?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For simplicity, I'm really only looking for ranks as concerned with the original American/Japanese series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xJ6AK.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T14:03:00.153" LastActivityDate="2015-06-08T20:51:53.533" Title="Guide to Uniform colours and ranks on StarBlazers (Space Battleship Yamato)" Tags="|costume|starblazers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2466" CreationDate="2012-05-22T20:24:19.170" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;They dislike each other pretty much for no reason at all. In the very episode Ursula is introduced, Joey seems to catch an attraction to her but Ursula seems to be put off by him. Phoebe is concerned for Joey because she thinks Ursula's cold demeanor could hurt Joey and eventually she actually acts like Ursula and gently stops Joey from pursuing it further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They have significant persona differences: Phoebe is shown to be carefree and easygoing while Ursula is shown rather mean and cold in her cameos. For example, when Phoebe tells Ursula about her biological mother whom she meets, Ursula replies that she already knew about her but hadn't told Pheobe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want you can read about their other meetings &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Friends_characters&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Although I don't recall any distinctive back story to their mutual hatred for each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="118" LastEditDate="2012-05-23T11:28:40.047" LastActivityDate="2012-05-23T11:28:40.047" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2475" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-05-22T20:45:01.673" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-05-22T20:45:01.673" LastActivityDate="2012-05-22T20:45:01.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2476" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-05-22T20:45:01.673" Score="0" Body="Questions concerning historical movies (genre)." OwnerUserId="297" LastEditorUserId="297" LastEditDate="2012-05-22T20:46:21.960" LastActivityDate="2012-05-22T20:46:21.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2418" CreationDate="2012-05-22T22:33:58.583" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to think they are not, as stores such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lastexittonowhere.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Last Exit To Nowhere&lt;/a&gt; appear to commercialize fictional movie brands. (Or to put it differently, I'd be very surprised if shops like LETN would have negotiated with the movie studio's in order to be allowed to use the fictional brands).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="104" LastActivityDate="2012-05-22T22:33:58.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2479" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2482" CreationDate="2012-05-23T00:22:41.387" Score="36" ViewCount="243808" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the ending of House, &lt;strong&gt;a lot&lt;/strong&gt; of cast members returned to their roles in order to give some sort of closure either to their story or even just as more character development to House.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the sore thumb sticking out of it all is Cuddy, who did &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; return for this final season.  &lt;em&gt;Not even the finale.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing some general scanning and research, I keep coming across the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2011/09/houses-hugh-laurie-on-lisa-edelsteins-departure-shows-premature-swan-song.html&quot;&gt;same thing&lt;/a&gt; of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;[Lisa's departure] came out of left field in my world, too,&quot; Laurie says. &quot;I don't know who was privy to what at what time, but it was a great shock to me and everyone obviously misses her very greatly. Not only was she a great asset to the show as a performer, but we also just miss her company, because she is an absolute hoot to have around. She has been snapped up by another show and damn right, they'd be nuts not to. I hope she is having a great time, and I am sure she is.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is also the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvline.com/2011/08/05/house-season-8-spoilers-cuddy/&quot;&gt;reaction&lt;/a&gt; of the creator, David Shore:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was not our plan [to lose Lisa]. It is not what we had in our mind. Certain stuff got thrust upon us that I was not pleased with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is:  What really happened for Edelstein that compelled her to leave the show and not even come back for the finale; unlike the other characters that have either been killed off (Kutner &amp;amp; Amber) or just plain left (Thirteen, Cameron, even Masters)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I highly doubt a role on &lt;em&gt;The Good Wife&lt;/em&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0249046/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;3 episodes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, like I've seen in some places, was the sole reason for her departure and refusal to participate in the finale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-07-02T12:30:02.600" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T22:13:38.510" Title="Why did Lisa Edelstein not return for the final season of House?" Tags="|character|casting|house|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2479" CreationDate="2012-05-23T08:57:57.553" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can remember, there were two reasons for Lisa Edelstein to leave House:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Her contract was ending at the end of Season 7&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00040587.html&quot;&gt;She was not going to get a pay rise, in fact the possibility of a pay cut&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also remember reading an article at the time stating that she wanted to get a pay rise to be in line with other members of the cast, but was denied the opportunity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-05T22:13:38.510" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T22:13:38.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2466" CreationDate="2012-05-23T09:04:57.500" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't remember any specific reasons why they dislike each other, but Ursula was born 1 minute earlier and did everything earlier so was deemed the better of the two to family and friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In episode 1.16 - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583568/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The One with Two Parts (Part 1)&lt;/a&gt;, the following conversation takes place&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rachel&lt;/strong&gt;: Um, Pheebs, so, you guys just don't get along?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Phoebe&lt;/strong&gt;: It's mostly just dumb sister stuff, you know, I mean, like, everyone always thought of her as the pretty one, you know. Oh, oh, she was the first one to start walking, even though I did it, later that same day. But, to my parents, by then it was like &amp;quot;yeah, right, well what else is new&amp;quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the fact that Ursula doesn't care about Phoebe's feelings, including not showing her the suicide note that their mother left (Episode 4.01 - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583620/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The one with the Jellyfish&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ursula&lt;/strong&gt;: No, I umm, I read about her in Mom’s suicide note.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Phoebe&lt;/strong&gt;: There-there was a suicide note?! (Ursula nods ‘Yes.’) Well, do you still have it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ursula&lt;/strong&gt;: (disgusted) Hang on. (She goes into her apartment and slams the door in Phoebe’s face.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Phoebe&lt;/strong&gt;: I can’t believe you didn’t tell me there was a suicide note!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are more references etc. but this should help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T01:32:31.113" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2484" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2489" CreationDate="2012-05-23T14:18:39.037" Score="3" ViewCount="7297" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the recently released Bollywood movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahaani&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kahaani&lt;/a&gt;, at the ending, why did &quot;Milan&quot; actually show up? Why did he want to Kill Vidhya Balan? How was he seriously affected by the things done by her? Why didn't he send just someone else instead of traveling all the way from wherever he was to Kolkata [West Bengal, India] to kill her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-12-21T14:58:03.600" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T22:14:53.130" Title="Why did 'Milan' Actually Show up in end of movie Kahaani[2012]?" Tags="|plot-explanation|kahaani|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2485" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-23T15:00:12.153" Score="5" ViewCount="303" Body="&lt;p&gt;Method acting as a concept has been around since the 1930s, derived from Stanislavski's system (predating the former by a few decades) of actors creating 'real' emotions by Meisner, Adler and Lewis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though it has evolved slightly over time, the core component is that the actor employing the technique of method acting 'becomes' the character they're playing by taking the (either hypothetical or explicit) psychological and emotional motivations of the character and making them their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actors utilizing the techniques promoted by Stanislavski, Meisner, Adler or Lewis include:&#xA;Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Daniel Day Lewis, Meryl Streep, Marilyn Monroe, etc. etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there any correlation between using these techniques and success (success being measured by awards, box office tallies, long career)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2012-05-23T18:30:23.597" Title="Is there any correlation between the use of method acting and award or box office success?" Tags="|acting-career|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2197" CreationDate="2012-05-23T17:33:03.320" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simplest answer? It depends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be a request casting, where the performer is specifically asked through their agent to try out for the part. In this case, there may be a formal audition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or the producer may simply offer to cast the performer without an audition, usually relying on a familiarity with the performer's past work as a basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, one or more of the actors can simply be friends of someone in production, and approached in a very informal manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that to say, there are few to no hard-and-fast rules in the industry, and every performer has their own preferences and way of doing things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user35" LastEditorDisplayName="user35" LastEditDate="2017-07-02T18:27:30.077" LastActivityDate="2017-07-02T18:27:30.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2485" CreationDate="2012-05-23T18:30:23.597" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not believe this question is inherently answerable. While we know of successful actors who &quot;Ascribe&quot; to &quot;The Method&quot; we don't have a full list nor we do really have a list of actors who don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd have to basically research each &quot;Successful/Awarded&quot; actor to get their comments on this acting approach. (I suggest using &quot;Inside the Actor's Studio&quot; as it's the best insight to a performer's approach). Granted you'd also have to examine their career as a whole. And honestly whether they use &quot;The Method&quot; or just give it public lip service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can say that the famous actors who've credited &quot;The Method&quot; give some sense of credibility, but the field is so wide that you can't correlate based only on those who've satisfied the requirement of one point of correlation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We really don't have a huge list of actors who use &quot;The Method&quot; who don't get famous or Famous actors who poopoo on &quot;The Method&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastActivityDate="2012-05-23T18:30:23.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2488" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-23T18:49:24.067" Score="5" ViewCount="2199" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229238/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mission:Impossible-Ghost Protocol&lt;/a&gt;, at the last fight scene, Ethan and Hendricks were in a parking structure and Ethan was trying to get that briefcase which contains the Satellite launch terminal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end of the fight scene, Hendricks jumps from the middle of the building and dies. But it surprised me because he was a &lt;strong&gt;nuclear strategist&lt;/strong&gt;, why did he die like that? As a &lt;strong&gt;sane man&lt;/strong&gt; he might have known, if he jumped from the middle of the building he would definitely be killed and obviously Ethan will get the briefcase and press the abort button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain to me &lt;strong&gt;why Hendricks jumped from the parking structure at the end of the fight scene in MI4?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T15:52:43.960" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T15:52:43.960" Title="Why did Hendricks jump from the parking structure at the end of the fight scene in MI4?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-ghost-protocol|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2484" CreationDate="2012-05-23T19:05:24.030" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahaani&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Kahaani&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vidya calls Bhaskaran to tell him that she has got hold of sensitive&#xA;  documents from Sridhar's office and if Bhaskaran helps Vidya find her&#xA;  husband, she would hand over the documents to Bhaskaran. Bhaskaran&#xA;  nonchalantly tells Vidya to contact the local police as he is not&#xA;  associated with this. However, within a few minutes, Vidya gets a call&#xA;  from an unknown number, warning her that she should hand over the&#xA;  documents to the caller if she wishes to see her husband alive. Khan,&#xA;  recognizing the voice, reveals the caller to be Milan Damji.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per this conversation Bhaskaran got threatened so he sent Milan to meet Vidya because she asked to meet her husband who looks like Milan. So Bhaskaran's plan is to kill Vidya by her own husband(I mean Milan, who looks like her husband). So its order from Bhaskaran, his head, so that Milan personally went to meet her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-05T22:14:53.130" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T22:14:53.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1375" CreationDate="2012-05-23T19:17:15.783" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general most entries on IMDB will have a &quot;Connections&quot; link mentioning other entries that either reference or are referenced by the target. I don't believe you will ever find a complete database anywhere, but that is the one source that seems to be already trying to track this specific issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly your example is not on the list but there are several others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799949/trivia?tab=mc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Epic Movie IMDB Connections&quot;&gt;&quot;Connections&quot; page for the &quot;Nothing but Parody&quot; film &quot;Epic Movie&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastActivityDate="2012-05-23T19:17:15.783" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2473" CreationDate="2012-05-23T21:10:59.180" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ranks of the characters are all listed &lt;a href=&quot;http://ourstarblazers.com/vault/696/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Matching ranks, uniforms and divisions it looks a bit like divisions have colours as in Star Trek but there are so many variations that I don't think they stuck rigidly to this. I can't see any rank insignia at all, maybe someone with better eyes can make it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1219" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-05T22:11:51.373" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T22:11:51.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2488" CreationDate="2012-05-23T22:39:21.283" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has everything to do with him being a good thinker. well he knew ethan couldn't move all the way from the top of the car factory to the bottom with that injured leg (quite sure he gets injured while they fight i think it was the leg). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is my take on this. Since the time to launch was closeby he assumed with the injury it will take more time for Ethan to reach his deadbody if he take the fall and ethan takes the regular route to get to him. He assumed even if Ethan followed suit and jumped  then Ethan would end up being dead like him so it makes it win-win scenario even in his death and quite possibly assumed that none of the cars in the factory were in a driveable state because you see parts of cars being assembled while they were assembled and you hardly expect those cars to have fuel as well in the factory when being assembled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there you go!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2012-05-23T22:39:21.283" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2493" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2502" CreationDate="2012-05-24T01:06:14.787" Score="12" ViewCount="7272" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zR0uw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jurassic Park tour vehicle&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the image above and examination while viewing Jurassic Park, it appears there is no physical connection between truck and track (though there &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the proposed method of moving the tour vehicles - having them follow a track that moves them along with electricity - actually a viable method of moving a vehicle? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2493/is-the-electric-track-the-tour-vehicles-follow-on-in-jurassic-park-actually-poss#comment3765_2493&quot;&gt;what @Shufler realizes in his comment&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I just understood the difference between the JP SUVs and electric trains (and OP's original question) -- that the SUVs don't appear to contact the track, where as subways and other electric trains have physical contact with a &quot;third rail&quot; or wire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what I was getting at - I am familiar with monorails and how they work. What I was hoping to learn was whether or not a a track could propel a car without (discernible) contact &lt;em&gt;electrically&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2493/is-the-electric-track-the-tour-vehicles-follow-on-in-jurassic-park-actually-poss#comment3761_2493&quot;&gt;which @wbogacz addresses&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2020-06-05T01:34:09.230" Title="Is the electric track the tour vehicles follow on in Jurassic Park actually possible?" Tags="|realism|jurassic-park|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2458" CreationDate="2012-05-24T01:22:40.167" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from being a popular format to make films, songs are included nowadays for primarily two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Film promotion&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Go to any music channel and you will see endless repeats of songs mostly from upcoming films. Same goes for radio.&#xA;If my film does not have songs, then I cannot use this medium of promotion at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence even films which don't warrant a song, will have an item number somewhere or towards the end of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alternate source of revenue&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;If the music of the film is good, many films will recover a substantial cost of production by selling the music rights. This gives the producers a cushion to minimize their losses if the film doesn't do well - which happens to a number of films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1172" LastActivityDate="2012-05-24T01:22:40.167" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="711" CreationDate="2012-05-24T02:39:41.327" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nobody realises this, but Jacob fell in love with Hannah instantly and helps Cal because he reminds Jacob of Hannah.&#xA;Jacob never thinks &quot;you remind me of Hannah,&quot; but he just feels some sort of connection to him. Hannah doesn't display any qualities of Cal but it's some sort of psychic thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1361" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-06-01T16:29:11.847" LastActivityDate="2012-06-01T16:29:11.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1567" CreationDate="2012-05-24T03:10:32.447" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is most likely the short called &quot;The String&quot; (2007) directed by Naomi Wright and produced by Ginita Jimenez.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NiKSu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The String&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastActivityDate="2012-05-24T03:10:32.447" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2500" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2501" CreationDate="2012-05-24T11:07:21.727" Score="10" ViewCount="1497" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was having a chat this morning about jury duty and I thought of a scene from a film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The set up is that whoever is being tried in this case has the jury paid off, and the prosecutor or cops involved discover this just as the trial is about to start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They go talk to the judge, and he comes back in looking all shaken and orders the bailiff to swap the jury with a jury in another trial which is just about to start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When asked how they got him to do the swap the prosecutor or cops say something like we showed him a list of names paid off, and the his (the judge) was on the list.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone tell me what movie this is from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T15:35:38.427" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T15:35:38.427" Title="Movie where jury gets swapped just before a trial begins?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:36:52.500" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2500" CreationDate="2012-05-24T11:48:56.340" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094226/&quot;&gt;The Untouchables&lt;/a&gt;. Kevin Costner (Eliot Ness) shows the list to the judge at the beginning of the trial of Al Capone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastEditorUserId="1039" LastEditDate="2012-05-24T14:01:17.640" LastActivityDate="2012-05-24T14:01:17.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2493" CreationDate="2012-05-24T13:01:30.980" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the question is whether an autonomous car technology exists. The answer is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;yes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The movie displays electronics that depended on communication on a short range of 1-2 ft. The current vision is to include communications to drive cars from '&lt;em&gt;such techniques as laser, radar, lidar, GPS and computer vision.&lt;/em&gt;'&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;People have been talking about autonomous cars and driverless highways since the 40's (corrected from 70's), and I met people during my job in the 90's who were hired to design such systems.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Also, the technology is independent of the power needed to propel the car. Gasoline/electric power - the technology makes no distinction. I think the movie made the car electric because it could be easily disabled for the plot.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;UPDATE: While reviewing the relevant movie section, I hear Samuel Jackson specifically mentions the car batteries, leading me to think the track supplies no energy.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;When the kids and the scientists jump out of the car to aid the Triceratops, the central computer says something to the effect 'Stopping park vehicles...'.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;When Nedry (Newmann) sets the power to fail so he can escape, the track data flow fails to the vehicles bringing them to a halt right next to the T-Rex cage. T-Rex is no longer contained by 10k volts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T09:30:18.557" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T09:30:18.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2337" CreationDate="2012-05-24T14:03:38.870" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, remember when right before Hawkeye attacked the S.H.I.E.L.D. ship, Banner gets a hit on the Tesseract and goes &quot;oh my god&quot;. That was Stark Tower but he couldn't tell everyone because Hawkeye's bomb exploded and he turned into the Hulk. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1364" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-11-01T19:13:37.823" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T19:13:37.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1413" CreationDate="2012-05-24T16:26:43.107" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I saw it, Fambrough was a sad little king of a sad little kingdom. He probably envisioned his work to be to bring civilization to the frontier, but the frontier kept moving west and he got left behind. When he encounters Dunbar, he is confronted with unbearable truths. His frontier kingdom is an illusion, his power is meaningless, and before him stands a man on a true path to become a human being. Before him stands a king. Faced with this, Fambrough's life no longer has meaning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1366" LastActivityDate="2012-05-24T16:26:43.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2458" CreationDate="2012-05-24T18:47:42.990" Score="13" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Historical, social and psychological&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, Bollywood films are not just simple company products. Based on the local Indian culture, film and the way that people appear in it is like a part of their life. According to a 2005 world bank estimate, 41.6% of the total Indian population falls below the international poverty line of US$ 1.25 a day (PPP, in nominal terms 21.6 a day in urban areas and 14.3 in rural areas).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be like a sweet dream for them: when they do not have that kind of entertainment in their reality, they escape to the film world and (based on Freud's ideas) they enjoy gazing at films like daily life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has happened to all of us: we have some sweet dreams that we could not find in reality so we send the dream to our unconscious mind and live with it or hide it. In sociological terms, it is a two-way interaction between Hindi films and Indian taste. This method of filmmaking has quite a long history and when we search in Hinduism history, we can find singing and dancing in their culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this is the best reason and it is better to advertise in a family-acceptable film style which they produce, it can be an attractive point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a cinematic viewpoint, it is easier to think about dance and song in different parts than creating a (Appeal of Character style) of film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1367" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2023-05-15T02:06:52.067" LastActivityDate="2023-05-15T02:06:52.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2012-05-24T19:47:58.237" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's about dominance and industry. Hollywood is A) an industry, and B) a US propaganda tool. Neither of them works optimally if there is competition. So it's kind of modus operandi for hollywood to take successful pieces of cinema art and hollywoodise them, so that their public keep watching the same old actors, same old crap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1368" LastActivityDate="2012-05-24T19:47:58.237" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2012-05-24T22:21:31.757" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Films with subtitles don't get as many viewers, especially in the UK and US where we expect everyone else to speak English. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People will watch remakes of foreign films, and the studio knows that the film played well in its original market so it's a fairly safe investment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take Girl With A Dragon Tattoo - the original was good, but not in English. Its a safe bet that an English version will play in lots of US cinemas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movie makers look to &lt;em&gt;reduce risk as much as possible&lt;/em&gt;. A film that's already done well in its home market is a safer bet than an unknown property.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1277" LastActivityDate="2012-05-24T22:21:31.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2012-05-24T22:45:01.477" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question contains the answer, in that only &lt;em&gt;successful&lt;/em&gt; foreign films are re-made in the US. They are re-made because &lt;strong&gt;the industry knows that if a concept is a hit in one major country, the concept has a good chance of succeeding in the US mass market&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;American hits can often be exported directly to other countries' mass markets, without having to be re-shot in each country. But that doesn't work in reverse... the American mass market usually just won't bite on foreign films, so foreign hits have to be re-shot for the American market.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2012-05-24T22:45:01.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2513" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2518" CreationDate="2012-05-25T00:58:48.180" Score="65" ViewCount="62736" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right before the final fight, we see Loki and Stark discussing the terms of the upcoming battle, bantering back and forth between who will win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is then that Loki gets the idea of turning Stark against his comrades like he did with Hawkeye, as well as a bunch of other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents at the beginning of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, &lt;strong&gt;it doesn't work at all&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V2NX7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this because of Stark's Arc Reactor countering the Cosmic powers somehow, because Stark is &lt;em&gt;incorruptible&lt;/em&gt; (which doesn't make much sense), or possibly because simply he was &lt;em&gt;touching the Arc Reactor&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; Stark's flesh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, is there an explanation of why this did not work on Tony?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T12:39:37.550" LastActivityDate="2018-12-11T10:34:36.177" Title="Why didn't Loki's mind control work on Tony Stark?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2236" CreationDate="2012-05-25T08:38:31.967" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we saw in the end of the Incredible Hulk, Bruce banner has to have some form of calmness and meditation before he transforms, it's the difference between being calm and under a lot of stress and anger. Also he has to have a clear picture on his enemies and his allies before transforming&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the helicarrier they all fought with each other which caused stress and anger, and to top that Hawkeye blew up one of the engines which caused more stress and anger so the situation took advantage of Bruce, (Hulk controls Banner)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the city we see him much more calm and at ease before transforming. Captain America tells him that now would be a good time to 'get angry' meaning to transform and Bruce responds by say his secret is that he is always 'angry' just another way of saying he can always transform at will and thus Bruce takes control of Hulk! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1372" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-06-01T16:30:48.473" LastActivityDate="2012-06-01T16:30:48.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2283" CreationDate="2012-05-25T08:39:06.843" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the ending is fairly obvious, if you recall toward the beginning of the film Ottway shoots a wolf trying to attack the drillers. While the injured wolf is dying in the snow Ottway hovers over it and places his hand on the wolfs chest, the entire time we are clearly seeing the final labored breaths of the dying animal which is very similar to the scene at the end of the movie. Its pretty clear they both died, unless Ottway was pooped and decided to spoon with the alpha for a bit before returning to his aimless wandering through the Alaskan wilderness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore this scenario would never happen since pack alpha's rarely do any of the killing, however they do in conjunction with the beta's decide who eats first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, wolves are absolutely timid around humans, most documented fatalities have been children during the 18th and 19th century in North America. Although there are circumstances that would cause a wolf to attack, its very rare - I think shark and bear attacks are more common compared to wolves. The idea that these wolves would hunt these men down one by one like velociraptors is far-fetched unto itself but certainly makes for great cinema. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1373" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-02T16:03:20.667" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T16:03:20.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2517" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2540" CreationDate="2012-05-25T13:13:44.927" Score="14" ViewCount="936" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the film, J decides to use the time machine to gain an advantage over Boris.  However, unlike before, when he time jumps he comes back into his body that was in 1969 &lt;strong&gt;before he made that jump&lt;/strong&gt;.  This is inconsistant because when Boris made the jump to the past there were two of him, the past and the future versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why did J return to his body instead of there being a second J?  Why did the time machine work differently this time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2015-07-08T11:33:18.737" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T11:33:18.737" Title="Why did the time machine work different for J?" Tags="|plot-explanation|time-travel|men-in-black-3|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2513" CreationDate="2012-05-25T13:15:01.337" Score="64" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Loki tries to take control of Stark he actually hits the ARC reactor and not the flesh over his heart.  Your graphic explains it best with the &quot;Tink, Tink&quot; sound showing that Loki is actually hitting the metal of the reactor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt; director commentary, Joss Whedon states it fails to work because the ARC reactor prevents the staff from reaching Tony's heart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="567" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2012-09-27T01:21:59.737" LastActivityDate="2012-09-27T01:21:59.737" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2543" CreationDate="2012-05-26T03:07:58.260" Score="19" ViewCount="16025" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1409024/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Men in Black 3&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; yesterday and it seems like they have a very half baked theory to the entire time travel plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why can only Agent J remember K correctly? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As in - why can only he remember him and all episodes until the previous day when K gets killed in the past? Agent O says something to the effect of that you knew him before (which also gets revealed in the last scene) - but so did Agent O and I am sure many other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why does only J remember him so distinctly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1172" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-28T20:34:29.273" LastActivityDate="2024-01-24T06:34:08.100" Title="Why is J the only person who remembers K?" Tags="|plot-explanation|men-in-black-3|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2526" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2537" CreationDate="2012-05-26T14:43:45.013" Score="17" ViewCount="5103" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the very popular TV Series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108778/&quot;&gt;Friends&lt;/a&gt;, the character Joey Tribbiani moves out from his small apartment (where he lived with Chandler) to a very big and expensive place when he gets a role in the soap opera &quot;The Days of Our Lives&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When his character is killed in the series, he moves back to the apartment with Chandler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when his character re-emerges, why doesn't he moves back to a bigger and more expensive apartment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reference saying that he got a much lower salary this time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T15:27:55.943" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T15:27:55.943" Title="Why doesn't Joey move back to the bigger apartment in Friends?" Tags="|plot-explanation|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2527" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2538" CreationDate="2012-05-26T14:58:19.150" Score="6" ViewCount="7103" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369179/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Two and a Half Men&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, why is Alan Harper called a &lt;em&gt;loser&lt;/em&gt; multiple times in multiple episodes by various characters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, the difficulties in his life are only due to the divorce. Otherwise he had his own home. Also he is poor only because of the alimony, otherwise he is fine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T21:32:47.183" LastActivityDate="2022-07-21T15:12:28.143" Title="Why is Alan considered to be a loser?" Tags="|plot-explanation|two-and-a-half-men|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2528" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2529" CreationDate="2012-05-26T17:41:46.467" Score="6" ViewCount="10501" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back in the good old days of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automan&quot;&gt;Automan&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_American_Hero&quot;&gt;The Greatest American Hero&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manimal&quot;&gt;Manimal&lt;/a&gt;, I remember watching another (probably) tv-series featuring a sort of Aquaman. I think I watched just a few episodes of this series, maybe only the pilot, so I just remember this man with webbed hands and feet, trapped in some sort of lab, saying he was cold (or warm?) because he was mutating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone help me in identifying this series and, maybe most important, tell me if it's worth watching today?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastActivityDate="2016-10-03T10:23:43.013" Title="'80s Aquaman tv-series?" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:52:05.727" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2528" CreationDate="2012-05-26T17:51:40.050" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can stretch '80s to include 1977-78 this sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_from_Atlantis&quot;&gt;Man From Atlantis&lt;/a&gt;, starring Patrick Duffy of Dallas fame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a very short run series after some TV movies about the character. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your last question - I suspect not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-05-26T17:51:40.050" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2530" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-05-26T18:36:54.623" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-03-09T07:10:12.633" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T07:10:12.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2531" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-05-26T18:36:54.623" Score="0" Body="Refer to the question regarding movies made in India, such as Bollywood, kollywood, Sandalwood etc. " OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-03-09T07:10:12.633" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T07:10:12.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2533" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2534" CreationDate="2012-05-26T20:34:52.023" Score="11" ViewCount="11022" Body="&lt;p&gt;Years ago (late 80’s to early 90’s), we watched a movie in which a seaside town is terrorized by a sea-monster which turns out to be a giant turtle. At the very end of the movie, the turtle sinks into the ocean and we see its shell with the initials (with the typical ‘+’ and heart, I think) that the boy and girl carved onto it when they were young.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=giant%20turtle%20shell%20engraved%20initials%20movie&quot;&gt;Googling it&lt;/a&gt;, but the only thing I could find were some news articles about a real-life incident (from May 2012) where a turtle is found 47 years after a boy carved his initials in its shell. Obviously the movie predates the real-life incident (strange that I thought of the movie only a few weeks after the news broke).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what the movie was?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastActivityDate="2015-11-25T09:24:34.073" Title="Boy carves Initials onto turtle shell; years later, turtle is gigantic" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:36:55.657" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2533" CreationDate="2012-05-26T20:51:56.110" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it be this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bermuda_Depths&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bermuda Depths&lt;/a&gt;. The plot element on the page looks a more closer match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Magnus dreams of his childhood, playing on the same beach. He finds a&#xA;  turtle egg in the sand, and calls to his friend Jennie to have a look.&#xA;  As they watch, the egg hatches. A few years later, Magnus and Jennie&#xA;  play with the rather large turtle. Magnus takes a shell and carves&#xA;  &quot;J+M&quot; inside a heart on the turtle's shell, while Jennie finishes&#xA;  making a coral necklace, which she places around Magnus's neck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-07-12T17:09:52.080" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T17:09:52.080" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2527" CreationDate="2012-05-26T20:58:59.973" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cause Charlie Sheen says so :)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a rather serious note. I think divorce has got everything to do it. Let me put it with a realistic example if you look at current scenario of the events which unfold in modern day life it doesn't matter what you're in the past it always matter what you're in the present (Best example probably would be sports world i can cite several instances from it). In the Two and half men scenario he is shown as the guy who stays with his son at Charlie sheen's place so that's the reason he could be pictured like that and added by Charlie sheen and his son's mockery doesn't help his cause at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2012-05-26T20:58:59.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2526" CreationDate="2012-05-26T21:04:31.660" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;He couldn’t afford the apartment as it was because he was living beyond his means. When he moved to the new place, he bought all kinds of unnecessary novelties on credit and accumulated quite a lot of debt (remember the giant ceramic dog and waterfall?) As a result, when he got the new job, (even if he was making as much as before), he could not go back to that extravagant lifestyle, at least not without making a lot of cuts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, there was the emotional aspect since he wasn’t enjoying living on his own as much as he had expected to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastEditorUserId="214" LastEditDate="2012-05-26T21:17:28.540" LastActivityDate="2012-05-26T21:17:28.540" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2527" CreationDate="2012-05-26T21:09:57.443" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because the show constantly places him in line to be the hapless character for the sake of comedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main activities which define this are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Divorced and paid alimony&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Son doesn't respect him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lives at brother's place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Controlled by his mother&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Berta (the maid) doesn't respect him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Falls for the wrong women&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then through the episodes we see that he always encounters the unlucky situation and the audience becomes desensitized to the failures that happen even though it would be gut wrenching for this to be real life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to say it's a continuous vicious cycle of redefinition and strengthening of the definition of the name calling that pushes Alan to believe he is a loser more than he really is. And thus, it becomes more likely for future issues to continue to blow up in his face due to the negative setting he was previously in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reality, a person would be able to eject from this by getting help but as this is one of key devices of the show, Alan Harper must remain the loser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2013-07-21T21:17:46.583" LastActivityDate="2013-07-21T21:17:46.583" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2527" CreationDate="2012-05-26T21:12:17.873" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main person that calls and treats Alan as a loser is/was Charlie, and that was primarily because Alan is a moocher/freeloader. That is, even though they are brothers and Charlie would have been happy to help Alan out for a while, Alan took advantage of the generosity and permanently moved in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even worse, Alan was cramping Charlie’s lifestyle which of course, Charlie was upset about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result, Charlie constantly complained about Alan in the hopes that Alan would take the hint and or be offended enough to move out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Charlie died, Walden bought the house. Alan saved Walden’s life, so Walden felt obligated to help Alan out a bit, but once again Alan took advantage of the generosity and basically moved in (or rather, did not move out). Walden does not insult Alan as much as Charlie did because they are not as close, so Walden feels awkward insulting Alan who he met less than a year ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jake insults Alan because, well, he’s Alan’s teenage son and unfortunately that is typical of many American children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alan’s ex-wife Judith makes fun of Alan as well, but since she left him, she presumably has reasons to dislike him. Plus, she has to constantly fight him for alimony and child-payments. She has since re-married Jake is now an adult, but she is likely to continue to hassle him for other, personal reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, his own mother treats him poorly, but then Evelyn treats everybody poorly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastEditorUserId="214" LastEditDate="2012-05-26T23:17:38.733" LastActivityDate="2012-05-26T23:17:38.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2517" CreationDate="2012-05-26T21:33:27.920" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be called plot inconsistency but I rather not think of it like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;       0   o&#xA;      []- '|| J_prev at t = -5&#xA;      /\   /\&#xA;      =========================== Ledge&#xA;            ^&#xA;            |---- Where J current will end up after jump at t = -5&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;o--== J current at t = 0           __&#xA; '&#xA;                                     2ft limit&#xA;================================== __&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now J decided to go back a few minutes to when Boris just threw him, this would place him exactly at the stop where &lt;code&gt;J_prev&lt;/code&gt; would be at. Without trying to get too deep into space-time continuum, the time device moves you by &lt;em&gt;time&lt;/em&gt; not &lt;em&gt;space&lt;/em&gt;. So you are in the very exact spot, two steps (plus or minus) before you made the jump. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, one could see the situation as two bodies being at the same exact spot at the same exact time. So there can only be one mass that can occur at that spot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Building on that, J uses the device to jump the timeline so in order to maintain consistency without breaking anything after he finished saving the world with K he would jump back to the time he left (on the building). If he were to jump again while not returning to complete the first jump in 2012, which timeline would he be in? A paradox would occur in my opinion. The most logical thing for the writers to do would be to have J enter his old self on the second jump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-05-27T03:34:54.023" LastActivityDate="2012-05-27T03:34:54.023" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2520" CreationDate="2012-05-27T03:42:55.523" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is because right as the time fracture happened he had just been in contact with K and K was heavily on his mind.  If he had been doing just about anything else besides having just gotten off of the phone with K then he probably wouldn't have remembered him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-05-27T03:42:55.523" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1665" CreationDate="2012-05-27T04:31:59.373" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;With respect to the person who put the other answer, it is simply untrue that there is any formal or legal requirement that show creators have to pay money for any product placement. The person who wrote that answer is confusing common practises as being absolute rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Show creators &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;do not have to&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; pay to display a real life product, and are free to mention products that they do not have licensing deals with. There is no law that says they can't, nor any automatic fee that can be levied just for mentioning a brand. If you happen to mention Google, they can't just call you up and say &quot;You owe us ten thousand dollars now.&quot; At least not countries where there is free speech.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2575988/&quot;&gt;Silicon Valley&lt;/a&gt;. In the opening title sequence alone, they display the logos of dozens of brands with huge market value. And the sequence changes time to time as well, showing even more brands. No show could afford to pay for all of those brands if it was a requirement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xfLT5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Silicon valley opening&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More often the case is that brands are avoided, though. Not as a rule, just as good business practise and convention. The reason you see unbranded goods in TV shows is simply to maintain good relations with brands, avoid potential litigation, and lastly to maintain the value of product placement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the TV industry still makes its money off of advertising, and usually their contracts are with large corporations and advertising agencies that represent hundreds or thousands of brands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So let's say a show depicts one product in a way that is detrimental to a brand, at least in the eyes of the company that makes it. It might be the case where that brand is not advertised anywhere on the network. But, the people who own that brand have other products being advertised, and they may threaten to reduce or pull the other advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet more likely, networks and production companies have a blanket policy of not using brands as much as possible simply to avoid potential problems. After all, if you're a network who makes money of advertisers, you want to present an image of being advertising friendly, which would mean avoiding hassles with brands &lt;em&gt;in general&lt;/em&gt;, so as to assure &lt;em&gt;future&lt;/em&gt; advertisers of a safe harbour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the potential for litigation. If a show depicts a brand as being wildly harmful to people or characters, then a company might even go so far as to sue for damages in the form of lost sales. Or, if a brand is shown in a way that can be used dangerously in real life (like &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/mythbusters/&quot;&gt;Mythbusters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; making a bomb out of a detergent), the show might even face criminal charges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This kind of legislation is a rarity, but if it does happen, it could be disastrous, and lawyers are a risk adverse bunch, so their advice to networks and production companies is to just not risk it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in short, the reason you don't usually see brand names in shows is because the networks and production houses are playing it &quot;better safe than sorry&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, there's maintaining the value of product placement. By removing all real life brands from a show, then when you do show a brand, it has value you can sell to an advertiser. If you're Coke, you might be less inclined to advertise on a show where a character was seen last week drinking a Pepsi, and Pepsi didn't have to pay for it. It's not as valuable to be just one of many brands depicted on the show as it is to be the only brand the sexy character uses exclusively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1380" LastEditorUserId="1380" LastEditDate="2015-09-30T00:21:12.323" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T00:21:12.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2520" CreationDate="2012-05-27T05:31:28.910" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;He remembers Agent K because he (Agent J) was there - as a child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pawn shop guy that helped him time travel foreshadows this when Agent J asks why he remembers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1382" LastEditorUserId="4174" LastEditDate="2024-01-24T06:34:08.100" LastActivityDate="2024-01-24T06:34:08.100" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2544" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2545" CreationDate="2012-05-27T05:38:53.137" Score="15" ViewCount="2022" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few movies I can note where their directors also played a role in their films:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Orson Welles tended to star in many of his films, but that was during the 40's&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Roman Polanski  played the role of the man who cut Jack Nicholson's nose in &lt;em&gt;Chinatown&lt;/em&gt;, but &lt;em&gt;Chinatown&lt;/em&gt; was released in 1974&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The most recent film I can think of where this happened was when Quentin Tarantino played Jimmy in &lt;em&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/em&gt;, which was released in 1994&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't really think of any recent movies where directors did this. Is it common to see directors acting in their own films these days?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1381" LastEditorUserId="23014" LastEditDate="2022-01-19T19:15:09.317" LastActivityDate="2022-01-19T19:15:09.317" Title="Is it common to see directors acting in their own films?" Tags="|directors|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2544" CreationDate="2012-05-27T07:05:06.083" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a very common occurrence. To quote a recent instance, Jon Favreau played the chauffeur in both Iron Man and Iron Man 2. Quentin Tarantino acted in Grindhouse, From Dusk Til Dawn, and had several other films. Clint Eastwood appeared in Gran Torino and Million Dollar Baby. I could cite even more if I could recollect year by year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directors_who_appear_in_their_own_films&quot;&gt;This Wikipedia article could be of some help.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="118" LastEditDate="2012-05-27T12:31:09.073" LastActivityDate="2012-05-27T12:31:09.073" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2546" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2549" CreationDate="2012-05-27T07:45:46.507" Score="5" ViewCount="270" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you watch &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1069826/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gautham's&lt;/a&gt; block buster movies like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnale&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Minnale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnaithaandi_Varuvaayaa&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekk_Deewana_Tha&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ekk Deewana Tha&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you may notice that the male protagonists are all mechanical engineers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder, why does Gautham choose to portray his male protagonists as a mechanical engineer in most of his films?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-09-28T18:56:05.517" Title="In Gautham's film, Why are most of the male protagonists portrayed as a mechanical engineer?" Tags="|analysis|gautham-menon|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2548" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2558" CreationDate="2012-05-27T12:22:34.287" Score="10" ViewCount="11122" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the year 2000, Adam Sandler, Tim Hirlihy an Steven Brill wrote the film 'Little Nicky', in which the title character was the son of the Devil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A character in the TV series Twin Peaks was also called 'Little Nicky'.  An orphan boy being looked after by the character Dick who at one point says of him &quot;It’s our mutual friend, Little Nicky. How shall I put this? He’s- he’s- Andy I believe that Little Nicky, incredible as it may seem, may, in fact, be the devil...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that Sandler, or one of the other writers were influenced by this minor Twin Peaks character in the choosing of the name of the character and film title, but can find no evidence to back my suspicion up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone find evidence that they were influenced by Twin Peaks in this regard?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1051" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T15:32:59.853" LastActivityDate="2022-01-16T08:20:20.827" Title="Did Adam Sandler name the film 'Little Nicky' after the character in Twin Peaks?" Tags="|twin-peaks|little-nicky|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2546" CreationDate="2012-05-27T13:54:21.673" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that he himself is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautham_Menon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mechanical Engineer&lt;/a&gt; could be the primary reason. Secondly there is a good chunk of Engineers as the targeted audience as well quite simply many people can relate it to their times during engineering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly he hasn't done enough movies to consider it as a pattern. He also has couple of cop movies. Couple of serial killer movies. Quite simply from a standpoint I think there could be no pattern at all really in choosing those attributes to the protagonists other than the fact he himself is one and could've chosen the protagonists to play it that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-01-15T04:09:17.470" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T04:09:17.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="739" CreationDate="2012-05-27T23:34:10.460" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Er... The programs trace the light cycle back from its original location. I'm assuming that the bike has some kind of GPS system which explains why sam was able to find Zeus so easily. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1385" LastActivityDate="2012-05-27T23:34:10.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2552" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3446" CreationDate="2012-05-28T02:59:22.683" Score="7" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have only watched a few episodes of Being Human (the original BBC series) so I may have missed something. (Just got hold of the dvds so trying to catch up.)  In episode 3, George transforms into a werewolf after/during fighting Tully in the shed.  He exhales a green mist just after the transformation has finished.  I didn't notice this in any other episode, did it have something to do with fighting Tully?  Eg, proximity of another werewolf?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other explanation - maybe just werewolves have very bad breath?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1264" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T14:34:49.083" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T14:34:49.083" Title="Why does the werewolf exhale a green mist?" Tags="|plot-explanation|being-human|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1272" CreationDate="2012-05-28T11:14:59.287" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;They just took a break.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/wes-anderson-reveals-owen-wilson-will-return-for-his-next-film-20120521&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wilson will be back&lt;/a&gt; for Anderson's next film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1386" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-23T11:00:39.610" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T11:00:39.610" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2554" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3031" CreationDate="2012-05-28T14:17:36.077" Score="8" ViewCount="5516" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.de/title/tt1748122/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Moonrise Kingdom&lt;/a&gt; the children are listening to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Person%27s_Guide_to_the_Orchestra&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Benjamin Britten's &quot;The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically the structure of this musical piece is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All musical instruments play together&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Every section (strings, percussion, woodwind) gets its own solo presentation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this theme applied to the narrative structure of the movie? Does the movie have certain motifs that are introduced by themselves in it and brought together in the grand finale?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-04-11T11:36:21.237" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T11:36:21.237" Title="What is the significance of Benjamin Britten's &quot;The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|plot-explanation|moonrise-kingdom|wes-anderson|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="739" CreationDate="2012-05-28T15:51:00.157" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question isn't exactly accurate. Quorra didn't say they couldn't go off the grid - just that they could not follow them. When she rescues Sam, they jump the vehicle across a canyon and switch the vehicle into all-terrain mode. The light cycles that were used in the games could not follow them or make the jump, but CLU has no problem traveling into the badlands or other parts of the grid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flynn was not hiding off the grid. He was hiding in the badlands which was outside the city. CLU didn't know where Flynn was because he disappeared after the war. Staying in his hideout, his approach to fighting CLU was to do nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had CLU known about Flynn's whereabouts he would have gone there and forcefully taken Flynn's disk (but he could not kill him, as the two were the same). Since Flynn had disappeared, CLU tricked Sam into entering the grid in order to get Flynn to expose himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CLU was able to trace the light cycle back to the hideout, because light cycles leave a trail behind them. It's this trail that is used to create a wall of glass in the games. Had Sam used a different vehicle then maybe CLU wouldn't have been able to retrace its path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-03-18T16:18:37.047" LastActivityDate="2019-03-18T16:18:37.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1665" CreationDate="2012-05-28T16:07:03.337" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a television series features a product like &quot;Pepsi&quot; in their shows on a regular bases, then they have screwed themselves from seeking sponsorship from the Coca-Cola company. So they hide the labels or hide the brands just in case an opportunity rises in the future to work together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I use to think they were doing this to protect themselves from legal law suites by the brand owners, but that is not the case. The television producers just don't want to be associated with any brands unless there is a profit in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you remember the revived television show for Knight Rider. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor company. So all the cars and Ford logos were clearly shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of this gone wrong was the movie E.T. where Spielberg ask Smarties for permission to feature their candy in the movie and Smarties said &quot;no&quot; and they used Reeses pieces instead. There was no contract and Reeses didn't know the film was going to be a hit. It was only after did they sign a deal to marketing E.T. on the Reeses boxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the Big Bang Theory they have a contract with Alienware to feature their laptops on the show. That is why their laptops are strategically placed on desks that intentionally have the logos facing the cameras. Where as in the first season Sheldon's laptop was placed on a desk near the back window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's because of things like this that producers often hide brands to allow the show to make a brand association later or offline in marketing. Had the Big Band Theory being using iBooks they might not have gotten the Alienware contract.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T09:22:52.683" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T09:22:52.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2548" CreationDate="2012-05-28T16:49:06.477" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I decided to look into this matter and whilst I can't find any definite proof, there does seem to be a fair amount of circumstantial evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, I'm not the only one to have spotted the link between the name of the Twin Peaks character and title of the later film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chud.com/25352/lost-found-twin-peaks-season-2-episodes-11-12/&quot;&gt;M Morse&lt;/a&gt; on chud.com in his comprehensive review of Twin Peaks has this to say of the character:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I’m also admittedly intrigued by Nicky’s background, which involves his &#xA;  parents being killed, and eventually the possibility that ‘Little Nicky’ (Anyone else instinctively think of that stupid Adam Sandler movie whenever Nicky’s referred to that way?) is malevolent&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More significant perhaps is the links between Adam Sandler and former actors and actresses of Twin Peaks, including &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000141/&quot;&gt;David Duchovny&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.passedaway.com/in_the_news/actress_frances_bay_passes_away/636/&quot;&gt;Francis Bey&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In May 1995, when Duchnovny hosted &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0694680/&quot;&gt;Saturday Night Live&lt;/a&gt;, Sandler played numerous roles, so it seems reasonable to assume they had met.  Duchovney had of course appeared in several Twin Peaks episodes as DEA Special Agent Dennis/Denise Bryson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further in Adam Sandlers 1996 hit, Happy Gilmour, Canadian actress Francis Bey played his grandmother.  She had previously appeared in a Twin Peaks episode as the mysterious Mrs Tremond.  She also starred in the film 'Fire Walks With Me' and has worked with Lynch on other films such as 'Blue Velvet'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other actors link Sandler to Twin Peaks in the other direction, namely they appeared on film or tv with Sandler before appearing in the series or the film 'Fire Walks With Me'.  These include Keifer Sutherland and Billy Zane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1051" LastActivityDate="2012-05-28T16:49:06.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2139" CreationDate="2012-05-29T11:11:37.623" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, in the movie, Choti Bahu was killed by the henchman. The reason behind it is unknown. It's like the movie ended on a note where it's left to the audience to think and interpret the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T12:19:50.183" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T12:19:50.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="142" CreationDate="2012-05-29T19:54:58.943" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's always the possibility that Vincent had begun to like Max and was tired of his line of work.  Perhaps Vincent was ready for it to end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally like to think its a combination of this and the other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1395" LastActivityDate="2012-05-29T19:54:58.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2567" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9721" CreationDate="2012-05-29T22:23:52.507" Score="11" ViewCount="11377" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the war movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050212/&quot;&gt;The Bridge on the River Kwai&lt;/a&gt; (1957), at the end Major Warden has a brief dialog with the women porters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The women back away from him as he exclaims: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I had to do it. They might have been captured alive. It was the only&#xA;  thing to do!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand this part of the film. At least it did not appear that he was trying to fire the weapon at the commandos (Shears and Joyce). In fact the only time an explosion occurs near them is after they are dead and a explosion lands near Colonel Nicholson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1396" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-05T23:04:52.753" LastActivityDate="2018-04-14T05:23:17.533" Title="Ending dialog in &quot;The Bridge on the River Kwai&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|bridge-on-the-river-kwai|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2568" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-29T22:29:04.230" Score="29" ViewCount="3377" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/znt9g.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just saw Men in Black 3 and enjoyed it immensely.  There was practically no smoking in the film.  In MIB 1 and 2, there was a lot of smoking and tobacco product placement.  Did the makers of the films get any payoff from &quot;Big Tobacco&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1397" LastEditorUserId="40536" LastEditDate="2018-03-26T23:41:24.240" LastActivityDate="2018-03-26T23:41:24.240" Title="Did the tobacco industry fund MIB 1 and 2?" Tags="|product-placement|men-in-black|men-in-black-2|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2571" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3107" CreationDate="2012-05-30T06:20:54.487" Score="12" ViewCount="3110" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sammy Barnathan is a key character in &quot;Synecdoche, New York,&quot; which was written and directed by Charlie Kaufman. In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://movie.douban.com/subject/2028819/discussion/25089724/&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; excerpt below, Kaufman suggests that there is meaning behind the name: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;That character's name is maybe something someone will pick up on, maybe someone won't.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm one of the people who is not picking up on the name, so does anyone know what is significant about the character name Sammy Barnathan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="850" LastEditDate="2012-07-16T20:03:55.287" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T20:56:49.733" Title="In &quot;Synecdoche, New York&quot; what is the meaning of the character name Sammy Barnathan?" Tags="|synecdoche-new-york|analysis|charlie-kaufman|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2572" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-05-30T08:22:36.563" Score="44" ViewCount="18644" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like almost every Batman fan, I enjoy Christopher Nolan's interpretation of the role of Batman in The Dark Knight Trilogy. But why does Christian Bale change his voice to such a great extent when playing Batman? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it to scare off/intimidate people? Or to hide he's Bruce Wayne?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="934" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-11-13T06:40:05.857" LastActivityDate="2021-08-04T12:58:25.333" Title="Why does Christian Bale change his voice when playing Batman" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight-rises|the-dark-knight|batman-begins|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2572" CreationDate="2012-05-30T08:31:51.180" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, most people often forget how easy it is to recognize somebody by voice and Bruce Wayne is kind of a celebrity. So changing his voice is a natural consequence of Nolan's making Batman more realistic. Of course Superman can't be Clark Kent, as he's obviously missing the characteristic glasses ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And well, it surely also contributes to his dramatic appearance, but this more as a second goal, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2012-05-30T08:31:51.180" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2572" CreationDate="2012-05-30T08:47:19.280" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably a bit of both.  The main reason would be to disguise his voice so that people don't recognise him as Bruce Wayne.  But in selecting the how to disguise his voice he would want it to sound intimidating.  It would make for a very different movie if he sounded all cute and fluffy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="430" LastEditDate="2021-08-04T12:58:25.333" LastActivityDate="2021-08-04T12:58:25.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2544" CreationDate="2012-05-30T12:38:06.130" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking as a director- &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To step back, one has to consider what the job of directing is. It's a story teller who sees the big picture. Directors have to be able to create the scene and the tone with picture, framing, editing, and of course acting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some directors are stronger at pulling the best performance out of an actor; some are better at setting the scene. But inevitably, everything you see they've had their hand in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being part of the final product, even for just a split second lets them take the ride they are building. Chris &quot;X-Files&quot; Carter went so far as to have Ten-Thirteen Production's Logo include a voice saying, &quot;I Made This!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, who better to figure out where to put a little bit of self-homagistic fun into a film than the person directing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not every director will have the desire to do so, and there may be many cases of directors in films that haven't been caught; but it's very common and very likely to continue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastActivityDate="2012-05-30T12:38:06.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2576" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-05-30T12:42:37.277" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Director comes from the term &quot;Direction&quot; as in the assigning of tasks. (From Wikipedia) A film (or television) director is a person who directs the actors and crew in a film or television production. They control the artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag will focus both on the people in the industry who direct as well as techniques used in direction. This topic will include but not be limited to biography, technique, style, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="715" LastEditDate="2012-05-30T13:27:54.660" LastActivityDate="2012-05-30T13:27:54.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2577" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-05-30T12:42:37.277" Score="0" Body="Focusing on the people and techniques of the men and women who &quot;Direct&quot; movies and television." OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="715" LastEditDate="2012-05-30T13:27:54.520" LastActivityDate="2012-05-30T13:27:54.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2578" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2579" CreationDate="2012-05-30T13:04:38.647" Score="10" ViewCount="3682" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title hopefully sums up the question entirely. Brenda Chapman was one of the lead animators on &quot;Lion King&quot; and was to be Pixar's debut female director on &quot;Brave&quot; which she has sole story credits on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About a year or so into the process, Ms. Chapman was replaced by Mark Andrews and took a (temporary?) leave of absence from Pixar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most Googleable articles simply state the transition and do not address what may have been the motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has any of this information been released or is this issue going to be another of Hollywood's mysteries?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-06-01T00:52:02.350" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T11:02:15.070" Title="Why was Brenda Chapman released from directing &quot;Brave&quot;?" Tags="|directors|pixar|brave|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2578" CreationDate="2012-05-30T14:36:01.430" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unsurprisingly, the true details are hard to dig up, but this is nothing new. Pixar has a reputation for major shake-ups during production, see this extract from an article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/motion-captured/posts/director-brenda-chapman-replaced-on-pixars-brave-while-animation-insiders-buzz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;hitfix.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They have the best track record in the business for a reason.  They have a carefully managed story department, and they are ruthless during development.  They have had several major shake-ups on films, including &lt;em&gt;Cars, Ratatouille, and Toy Story 2&lt;/em&gt;, with directors being replaced and big chunks of story being thrown out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A line from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/exclusive-brenda-chapman-no-longer-directing-pixars-brave.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cartoonbrew.com&lt;/a&gt;, which first broke the news and continues to cover it, reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The key to their success is reworking and reworking a project until it becomes something great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking through comments from Pixar workers who had seen the original animatic for &lt;em&gt;The Bear and the Bow&lt;/em&gt;, it appears Chapman's intentions were a little more off the wall (for that read 'daring and interesting') and not a guaranteed sell for Pixar - hence the change of director and storyline (and title).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It must be said, though, that this move raised a lot of eyebrows and led to much furious internet debate, exemplified in an article from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/pixar-sexist-blogosphere-angry-studio-replaces-woman-director-%E2%80%98brave%E2%80%99-21874?page=0,0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;theWrap.com&lt;/a&gt; which includes the opening paragraph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pixar reaped a heap of anger Wednesday as the blogosphere accused Disney’s animation house of sexism -- and worse, being formulaic -- for firing Brenda Chapman, the first female director in its history, from “Brave,” a film she had written and nurtured through the development process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-11T11:02:15.070" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T11:02:15.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="612" CreationDate="2012-05-30T15:16:39.410" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it goes deeper than this. Having watched the film with my summer stock group, we had a very long conversation on this topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keating's job was to make these boys the future men of their society. The men needed to find their own voices. In Neil's case; Neil discovers not merely his dream but also that his personal fulfillment comes from the theatre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can run harshly counter in the 50's to a business man who is spending his money to see his son also become a leader. Theatre didn't represent that in the time period on any level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the use of Puck in Midsummer is a fantastic allegory for this as Puck was a character who walked in several worlds and was master of none of them. Though in his guile he would often influence all of them. There is a wonderful research topic in theatre: &quot;Puck vs. Oberon: Who's in control&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, Neil walks in many circles of which he is not afforded the right to take control... Most importantly: &quot;His own destiny&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keating does open Pandora's box. But that is what he's supposed to be doing. Opening the boys to commanding their own futures. Unfortunately, Keating forgets that the boys will not always be permitted to seize their own destinies because their parents may not let go of the plans they have for their children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, and it pains me to say, Neil is the one to blame for his own suicide. The act is taken on several levels at several times but it comes down to his father's challenge. His father says, &quot;You will not have Theatre.&quot; It is Neil who must now challenge his father and become his own person. This is by no means an easy challenge. It is obvious that his father holds a very powerful place in his heart even if it is through fear and domination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neil must choose between the connection he holds to his father and the expectations that his father will place on him and the choice of something that truly fulfills him. And not merely on an experiential level, but on one that gives him spiritual joy as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neil chooses (as is normal for the time) to abandon that joy in himself. In acquiescing to his father at that point he chooses the world he will walk in. Effectively killing his heart and passion, he spiritually commits suicide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The physical act is merely the clarifications that he does not wish to walk around life as a dead man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Who draws the ethical gun&lt;/em&gt;? Neil is the one told to make the decision and Neil is the one who can not release the limitations placed around him to be free. He could run away and sever all contact with family and be free to pursue theatre. No one puts Neil in the situation and I think all carry some of the blame to not help him with the decision. But inevitably, it is Neil who makes the decisions of which way he will go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-02-05T11:15:28.540" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T11:15:28.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2581" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2587" CreationDate="2012-05-30T15:59:29.303" Score="28" ViewCount="6957" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/a&gt; intro, we are presented with a very steam-punk like map of interactive pieces representing the kingdoms and what they represent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I noticed when Theon Greyjoy arrived in Pyke, the next episode showed Pyke on the map, rising up from the sea.  Going back a few, a friend noticed Qarth appeared as well when Daenerys and her people arrived.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has the intro always been like this, and is it in the directors/animator's mind to always update the intro to reflect where the current events are happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-12T18:23:11.187" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T18:23:11.187" Title="Does the Game of Thrones intro change to reflect the current story?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|title-sequence|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2585" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2610" CreationDate="2012-05-30T21:08:47.483" Score="10" ViewCount="13110" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the tenth episode of the fifth season, in an episode titled &quot;Christmas Waltz,&quot; Joan and Don visit a Jaguar dealership to test drive a car, and subsequently find themselves at a bar discussing their respective current personal woes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9436a.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Joan and Don sat at a bar&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the flirting between them appears to be more like two friends with similar intellects and of similar levels of attractiveness simply admiring each others beauty, it's not completely clear why they haven't taken their relationship further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although Don is (sometimes happily) married to Megan, he has a history of philandering with co-workers - though that &lt;em&gt;seems&lt;/em&gt; to be both in the past and out of the question with Joan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joan is only a short while removed from being served divorce papers by her occasionally abusive husband, Greg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is obvious sexual tension between the two of them, though perhaps that's all it is. The question remains: &lt;strong&gt;why have Joan and Don never slept together?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-05T23:23:55.497" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T23:23:55.497" Title="Why have Joan and Don never gotten together?" Tags="|mad-men|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2581" CreationDate="2012-05-30T21:14:12.063" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the intro does change to reflect the locations where the episode's story takes place, and has been doing this from the beginning of the series. For instance, when Dany finally arrives at the city of Qarth, the intro stopped showing us Vaes Dothrak (where the Dothraki horse people are from) and replaced it with Qarth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T09:29:13.103" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T09:29:13.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2581" CreationDate="2012-05-30T23:43:28.570" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;The animators worked out four different map sequences, which can effectively indicate the locations shown in the upcoming episode. The initial plan was to show the map every time the scene changed, but this was deemed too disruptive to the storyline, and it was decided to introduce the locations in the title sequence instead.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.artofthetitle.com/2011/05/12/game-of-thrones/&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="307" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T09:28:53.093" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T09:28:53.093" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2156" CreationDate="2012-05-31T01:37:56.417" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not know if any of the books cover that backstory. However based on the logic of the movie Jack is their leader and they intend on eating him. In theory, so they can gain some of his power/assist him in releasing his spirit so that it can return to the gods (become a god). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do not know (in the context of the movie) how he became leader. We do know Jack purposely ran the Black Pearl aground to escape Davy Jones and the Kraken. One can assume that Jack would not put his crew in danger on purpose so we can assume he did not know about the natives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So somehow Capt. Jack convinces the natives that he is their leader (which we all know Jack is very good improviser). Capt. Jack, as we all know, is not above betrayal to save his own skin (hence why he has not intervened in the natives eating the crew).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all this in mind, I believe one can safely assume that Jack has figured out somehow to not actually have to eat flesh. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-06-05T07:13:47.780" LastActivityDate="2017-06-05T07:13:47.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1691" CreationDate="2012-05-31T16:53:17.087" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The quick answer: The word '&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa&quot;&gt;Tulpa&lt;/a&gt;' does not appear anywhere in the Twin Peaks series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The long answer: If the word doesn't appear in the series why would I have such a strong memory of hearing it?  In series 2 episode 20, Major Briggs shows Cooper a video tape of Windom Earle where he uses the word '&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugpas&quot;&gt;Dugpa&lt;/a&gt;', also of Tibetan origin:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... these evil sorcerers, dugpas, they call them, cultivate evil for the sake of evil and nothing else. They express themselves in darkness for darkness, without leavening motive. This ardent purity has allowed them to access a secret place of great power, where the cultivation of evil proceeds in exponential fashion. And with it, the furtherance of evil's resulting power. These are not fairy tales, or myths. This place of power is tangible, and as such, can be found, entered, and perhaps, utilized in some fashion. The dugpas have many names for it, but chief among them is the Black Lodge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But you don't believe me, do you? You think I'm mad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Overworked. Go away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems I misheard the unfamiliar word 'Dugpa' for a word I was at least vaguely aware of.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, a Tulpa in Tibetan Buddhism and Bon shamanism refers to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtform&quot;&gt;thought-form&lt;/a&gt; created through the discipline of sorcery such that it appears as a being or object that can be seen and interact.  The initiates of the Dugpa sect would certainly be included in the list of sorcerers that can reputedly do this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the magician characters in Twin Peaks were based on the real Dugpas they were named after, it would certainly be a possible explanation for some of the phenomenon they manifest... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1051" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T09:11:17.913" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T09:11:17.913" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2597" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2598" CreationDate="2012-05-31T17:13:04.447" Score="7" ViewCount="450" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 6 one of the main storylines is a summit in China. In the episode &lt;em&gt;A Change is Gonna Come&lt;/em&gt; Kate Harper and Will Bailey are sitting with the Chinese delegates going over the agenda when the Chinese officials receive a call from within the White House.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will Bailey makes the comment &quot;I thought cell phones weren't supposed to work in here.&quot; To which Kate replies &quot;They aren't.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two episodes later (in &lt;em&gt;Impact Winter&lt;/em&gt;) the president is incapacitated and needs the chair lift to leave Air Force One. Kate is speaking Chinese to the official when the following dialogue is exchanged:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Toby Ziegler &quot;Pretty snazzy with the language there.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    Kate &quot;Not really, just a second grade level.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    Toby &quot;Hydraulic compressor lift is second grade?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    Kate &quot;Around here it is.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is at least twice that the series is trying to say that the Chinese are superior to the United States from both an educational and technological point of view. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="61934" LastEditDate="2018-04-02T11:22:14.477" LastActivityDate="2018-04-02T11:22:14.477" Title="Why were the writers trying to play up the Chinese as more advanced than the United States?" Tags="|the-west-wing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2597" CreationDate="2012-05-31T18:51:55.683" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;China is increasingly the centre of production for most of the technology we consume.  In part this is because of cheap labour but it also comes down to the fact that China has control of most of the worlds &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_earth_element#Global_rare_earth_productionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_earth_element#Global_rare_earth_production&quot;&gt;rare earth minerals&lt;/a&gt; manufacturing, particularly those used in the manufacture of microchips.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;US and other western technology corporations often manufacture their products in China for this very reason, including most of our smartphones and tablets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;China's power in this area has lead to its recent decision to severely reduce exports of rare earth minerals, thus forcing western companies to increasingly relocate their manufacturing in China.  This lead to Japan, the US and the EU teaming up to &lt;a href=&quot;http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/chinas-restrictive-rare-earth-mineral-policy-draws-global-ire/&quot;&gt;complain to the WTO&lt;/a&gt; about China blocking the free trade of these minerals. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may also be an element of '&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RaceTropes&quot;&gt;Race Trope&lt;/a&gt;' going on.  The Asian tech-wizard trope perhaps started with the rise of Japanese tech corporations such as Sony and Nintendo, which inspired films such as Bladerunner, but may be updated to China to reflect concerns in the recent shifts in global economic power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1051" LastEditorUserId="1051" LastEditDate="2012-05-31T19:16:28.163" LastActivityDate="2012-05-31T19:16:28.163" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2688" CreationDate="2012-05-31T19:43:24.983" Score="8" ViewCount="3139" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Revolver, towards the end of the movie Jason Statham’s character, Jake Green, ends up in an elevator by himself.  In the elevator he has a dialogue with himself.  I wasn’t able to quite follow the point of this dialogue in this scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the meaning of the elevator scene in Revolver?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T13:25:19.750" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T13:25:19.750" Title="What was the meaning of the elevator scene?" Tags="|plot-explanation|revolver|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="946" CreationDate="2012-06-01T03:13:00.043" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Artist in the first layer, gives a very strong story about a period of time in film history that some main actors of silent era fall from their popularity, the other good example of  this kind of caters is Sunset Blvd. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this scene Valentin sees himself in the reflection of the mens furnishing shop, first to remember about the elements of attraction in science, second to remind us about most important reason to be an actor on that time, the body. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we remember the first dancing scene behind the curtain by Valentin and Peppy Miller remember that the director shows us only the foot of Miller because the important element is the body.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By interring the police as a representation of the society norm, Valentine came back from his imagination, the reflection, to the real world, and importance of speaking in life more than body. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we see the police officer is very still and we see from his long shot to his mouth closing up, this new norm embarrassing him.  The director emphasized on this change by the previous scene when Valentin sees all of his staff in the store and not any more in the guest room or other places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1367" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-06-01T12:28:41.363" LastActivityDate="2012-06-01T12:28:41.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1548" CreationDate="2012-06-01T03:57:45.933" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aintitcool.com/node/30865&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is the page with the interview to Stallone where the question of the questions was originally answered. We all say thank you &lt;strong&gt;Louis Saucedo from Dallas, Texas&lt;/strong&gt; for having asked it exactly that day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is also a small screenshot for posterity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vOWXo.png&quot; alt=&quot;demolition man three seashells revealed aintitcool.com&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastActivityDate="2012-06-01T03:57:45.933" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2568" CreationDate="2012-06-01T09:06:42.007" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Officially, &lt;em&gt;Men in Black II&lt;/em&gt; received no funding, but some anti-smoking groups claim secret payments are regularly made by tobacco companies to filmmakers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both &lt;em&gt;Men in Black&lt;/em&gt; (1997) and &lt;em&gt;Men in Black II&lt;/em&gt; (2002) show Marlboro cigarettes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Men in Black II&lt;/em&gt; was made after the 1998 &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agreement#Restrictions_on_youth_targeting&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement&lt;/a&gt;, originally between the four largest United States tobacco companies (including Marlboro manufacturer Philip Morris USA) and the attorneys general of 46 states, which included restrictions on youth targeting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Generally, the participating manufacturers agree not to &quot;take any action, directly or indirectly, to target Youth within any Settling State in the advertising, promotion or marketing of Tobacco Products, or take any action the primary purpose of which is to initiate, maintain or increase the incidence of Youth smoking within any Settling State.&quot; (§III(a))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Smoke Free Movies, the makers of &lt;em&gt;Men in Black II&lt;/em&gt; didn't receive any payment for showing Marlboro, but they suggest there are secret agreements and payments made by tobacco companies to filmmakers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the article, &quot;&lt;em&gt;Superman II&lt;/em&gt; took $43,000 to push Marlboros at kids. Why would &lt;em&gt;Men in Black II&lt;/em&gt; do the same thing for free?&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/pdf/sfm10_variety.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;pdf&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yet Hollywood keeps cranking out&#xA;  G, PG and PG13 fare that promotes&#xA;  smoking and speciﬁc tobacco brands. It&#xA;  looks just like paid product placement.&#xA;  Hollywood denies it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Example? &lt;em&gt;Men in Black II&lt;/em&gt; reportedly&#xA;  received $35 million in “promotional&#xA;  support” for flashing logos on-screen&#xA;  including Burger King ($15 million tied&#xA;  into special kid-meal deals) and Sprint,&#xA;  and for placing products from Ray-Ban,&#xA;  Mercedes-Benz and Hamilton (Swatch).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Of all products featured, we are&#xA;  asked to believe the world’s most heavily-advertised cigarette brand, Marlboro,&#xA;  appeared for free: no cash, no&#xA;  favors of any kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why would &lt;em&gt;MIIB&lt;/em&gt; executive producer Steven Spielberg indulge a&#xA;  director promoting the Marlboro&#xA;  brand to kids?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why would director Barry&#xA;  Sonnenfeld feel compelled to show&#xA;  his cartoon-like characters gleefully&#xA;  smoking up a storm?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why would Sony Pictures and&#xA;  other high-proﬁle brands risk their&#xA;  reputations and millions of promotional dollars linking themselves&#xA;  to a movie that favors the most&#xA;  despised industry in the world —&#xA;  Big Tobacco?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're also asking for films to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/solution/nopayoff.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;certify no pay-offs&lt;/a&gt; at the end of films, with a statement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No person or entity associated with this film received payment or anything of value, or entered into any agreement, in connection with the depiction of tobacco products.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently watched &lt;em&gt;Gran Torino&lt;/em&gt; (2008), which showed unbranded smoking, and it carried such a certificate at the end of the credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-11-07T00:45:48.897" LastActivityDate="2016-11-07T00:45:48.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2603" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2604" CreationDate="2012-06-01T09:26:27.823" Score="26" ViewCount="4272" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watch Game of Thrones on HBO in Singapore. The nudity I have heard so much about has been completely cut and I assume some of the more graphic violence has also been cut. The editing seems to be a lot better than most shows and is not that obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I likely to be missing any major plot developments or is it all just pillow talk?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84" LastActivityDate="2015-04-08T23:06:40.907" Title="Am I only missing nudity and violence?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|censorship|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2603" CreationDate="2012-06-01T11:08:37.783" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I don't think the show would be worth watching without the sex and violence, but that might just be me.  To actually answer your question though I think many of the sex scenes actually establish character and subtleties of plot, and the same might also be said of the violence.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.herebegeeks.com/tv/a-game-of-censors-game-of-thrones-and-spartacus-vs-singapore-cable/&quot;&gt;Here be Geeks&lt;/a&gt; about 2-3 minutes have been cut from each hour in Singapore, and they express concerns that many of these scenes&#xA;will be integral to the plot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some gore or sex could probably be safely edited out of the shows, but I fear that certain scenes will be rendered useless due to censorship. Lots of ... Game of Thrones eps have violence and gore that and &lt;em&gt;(sic)&lt;/em&gt; in some way or another is integral to the plot, and while off the top of my head I think most of the boobs from Game of Thrones can be edited out, there’s that one key scene in a whorehouse that I think really speaks volumes about quite a major character and his worldview. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1051" LastActivityDate="2012-06-01T11:08:37.783" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2605" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2606" CreationDate="2012-06-01T14:09:28.217" Score="16" ViewCount="3572" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;many&lt;/strong&gt; scenes in Heroes, we witness Hiro Nakamura display his ability to stop time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pn8ED.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, also in these scenes, we witness him interact with the scene, whether it be interacting with stopped objects or just to move around.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is &lt;strong&gt;how was this accomplished?&lt;/strong&gt;  Is it a simple CGI trick or a combination of that with actors/extras having to remain &lt;strong&gt;REALLY&lt;/strong&gt; still?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-06-04T08:16:49.840" Title="How were Hiro's time halting scenes filmed?" Tags="|effects|heroes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2605" CreationDate="2012-06-01T14:31:46.073" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the DVDs from the series has an excellent special feature showing the process used. It was often a combination of Green Screen/CGI and staged actors and props. So to answer the question it is a fusion of both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The example shown on the DVD is a scene in the street where he's moving through a crowded shopping district and rescuing a child from an accident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: No CGI trick is &quot;Simple&quot; ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4KUHq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastActivityDate="2012-06-01T14:31:46.073" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2607" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2608" CreationDate="2012-06-01T14:34:36.180" Score="9" ViewCount="9386" Body="&lt;p&gt;If X-Men First Class (XFC) is based before X-Men Origins (XMO) then how did &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Frost&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Emma Frost&lt;/a&gt; end up being captured by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stryker&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Colonel Stryker&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last we see of Emma Frost in XFC she is with Magneto and Raven, but it doesn't make sense that Magneto would let her be captured and not do anything about it especially when she is captured by someone who treats mutants so badly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also we see that Professor Xavier is walking at the end of XMO which would mean that XMO is before XFC. At the end of XMO he invites the captured mutants to join his school but in XFC he didn't create the school until he was in a wheelchair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the films meant to be in chronological order or should they just be seen as two completely separate movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-13T19:49:53.867" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T16:03:58.263" Title="Is X-Men First Class based earlier in time than X-Men Origins:Wolverine?" Tags="|plot-explanation|x-men-cinematic-universe|chronology|comic-adaptation|x-men-first-class|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2607" CreationDate="2012-06-01T14:50:02.577" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer your main question, X-Men First Class is based before X-Men Origins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;X-Men First Class is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270798/&quot;&gt;based in the 60s&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 1962, the United States government enlists the help of Mutants with&#xA;  superhuman abilities to stop a malicious dictator who is determined to&#xA;  start world war III.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Origins, Striker doesn't &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_Origins%3a_Wolverine#Plot&quot;&gt;approach Wolverine&lt;/a&gt; until the 70s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 1973, Victor (Liev Schrieber) attempts to rape a local village&#xA;  woman, but is stopped after killing a senior officer. James (Hugh&#xA;  Jackman) defends his brother, and the two are sentenced to execution&#xA;  by firing squad, which they survive. Major William Stryker (Danny&#xA;  Huston) approaches them, now in military custody, and offers them&#xA;  membership in Team X&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In regards to Xavier walking, there is a lot of debate as to which movie is canon and there is currently no correct answer (AFAIK). First class also seems to have a lot of other &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110604121634AA6LouL&quot;&gt;continuity problems&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="84" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2012-06-01T20:03:17.643" LastActivityDate="2012-06-01T20:03:17.643" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2609" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2949" CreationDate="2012-06-01T15:53:50.123" Score="13" ViewCount="1405" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to reconcile the relationship between Cliff and Clair. It seems as though they started courting at a very young age (12?). Cliff says he went to Hillman college because Clair was going there, but Clair missed her prom because Cliff was a junior at Hillman and taking finals. Cliff also presumably went into the Navy for 4 years. All of these events apparently happened before they were married? They were dating for like 14 years?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is a Cosby Show expert who can build a timeline for Cliff (or the entire show) that would be great. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="211" LastEditDate="2012-06-01T22:12:51.397" LastActivityDate="2012-06-21T18:38:52.847" Title="How long did Cliff date Clair in the Cosby Show?" Tags="|character|cosby-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2585" CreationDate="2012-06-01T19:33:53.670" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Christina Hendricks, the actress who plays Joan Harris (née Holloway), alludes to Don and Joan being nothing more than good friends in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gq.com/entertainment/tv/blogs/the-stream/2012/05/mad-mens-christina-hendricks-on-joans-epic-moral-moment.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview with GQ&lt;/a&gt;. They are two people that respect one another and enjoy each other's company, but that is it. Not to mention that both are &quot;too wise about office politics [Joan and Don sleeping together] into their already-tricky lives at the moment.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, she points out that &quot;adding another layer to [Sterling Cooper Draper Price]&quot; would over-pack an already jammed environment, from a structural plot line point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2012-06-01T19:33:53.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2612" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2645" CreationDate="2012-06-01T22:42:50.730" Score="12" ViewCount="16832" Body="&lt;p&gt;I imagine it's safe to assume Pirates of the Caribbean is based in the Caribbean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we assume that when they go to Singapore at the beginning of the film that they sailed all the way down around the bottom of South America? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just wondering as this seems like an awful long way for a pirate ship to travel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T13:01:23.200" LastActivityDate="2021-09-17T01:40:50.213" Title="How did they get to Singapore in Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pirates-of-the-caribbean|at-worlds-end|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2613" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2617" CreationDate="2012-06-02T04:31:54.017" Score="13" ViewCount="842" Body="&lt;p&gt;Magneto spends the better part of the &lt;em&gt;X-Men&lt;/em&gt; trilogy trying to exterminate all human life on earth, being imprisoned and subsequently killing his way out. Afterwards, why was he left free to roam sunny parks playing chess against himself? Is it because he is (temporarily?) powerless, and so he is now acquitted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user35" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T07:19:57.333" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T07:19:57.333" Title="For Magneto, does being powerless mean he is innocent?" Tags="|plot-explanation|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-the-last-stand|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2614" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2615" CreationDate="2012-06-02T05:15:03.100" Score="8" ViewCount="1446" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been trying to remember the name of a movie I saw once, when I was younger - maybe early 1990s. The movie takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Water is rationed and the world is basically a desert. All the water in the world has been locked up in a building/bunker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember there being some, I think kids, playing a hockey-like game with round balls. One of them finds a new ball the glows or something, in the end it turns out to be a comet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it sounds weird, maybe I made it up and just think I watched it when I was a kid. It may well have been a made-for-TV movie. Anyone remember anything like this that can help describe it better than me? I'm looking for the title of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-05T23:30:45.573" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T23:31:49.560" Title="Kids in a post-apocalyptic world playing a hockey-like game" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:37:01.920" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2614" CreationDate="2012-06-02T10:29:27.960" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091981/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Solarbabies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While searching for it, I also found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114614/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tank Girl&lt;/a&gt; that is on a similar topic and seems interesting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Storyline&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth. The group in question plays a hockey based game on roller skates and is quite good. It has given them a unity that transcends the attempts to bring them to heel by the government. Finding an orb of special power, they find it has unusual effects on them. They escape from the orphanage (on skates) and try to cross the wasteland looking for a place they can live free as the stormtroopers search for them and the orb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T23:31:49.560" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2613" CreationDate="2012-06-02T15:56:18.773" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assume that because he no longer has powers (and is no longer a mutant) they see him as no threat. The main idea of prison is to rehabilitate criminals so they can be released back into society safely. Magneto losing his powers was his rehabilitation as such. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume the authorities think that Magneto's power loss is permanent so he will no longer want mutants to take over the world and it's safe to have him in society.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like losing his powers is punishment enough for all the crimes he committed. At the end of the day it is Marvel so they mightn't want to appear to punish Magneto even further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastActivityDate="2012-06-02T15:56:18.773" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2618" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-02T15:58:34.917" Score="5" ViewCount="10958" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to watch &quot;The Avengers&quot;, and I was wondering do I need to have watched any of the films such as Thor, Iron Man, Captain America etc to understand Avengers? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1409" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:20:58.587" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T15:20:58.587" Title="Which related films do I need to watch before watching Avengers Assemble?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|prequels|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2619" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-02T20:04:33.960" Score="31" ViewCount="7750" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.animalinfo.50megs.com/custom.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;number&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruelty_to_animals&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;of sources&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;cruelty to animals&lt;/strong&gt; is an offence and it is punishable in most countries. But in historical film it's inevitable, because if a film is looking to be historically accurate, and hunting animals (for example) was something important to the historical period and in battle sequences. For instance, in &lt;strong&gt;Gladiator&lt;/strong&gt;  the horse sequence at the initial battle were worst and of course that's a worst animal abuse sequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruelty_to_animals#TV_.26_film_making&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TV &amp;amp; film making&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Animal cruelty has long been an issue with the art form of filmmaking,&#xA;  with even some big-budget Hollywood films receiving criticism for&#xA;  allegedly harmful—and sometimes lethal—treatment of animals during&#xA;  production. One of the most infamous examples of animal cruelty in&#xA;  film was Michael Cimino's legendary flop Heaven's Gate, in which&#xA;  numerous animals were brutalized and even killed during production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious to know about, nowadays, &lt;strong&gt;do the directors follow any techniques to prevent animal cruelty&lt;/strong&gt; i.e filming with trained animals, faking the slaughter of animals?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-02-13T22:01:14.607" LastActivityDate="2019-02-15T16:43:27.360" Title="How do they prevent animal cruelty in movies?" Tags="|film-techniques|directors|editing|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2620" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2625" CreationDate="2012-06-03T00:17:32.390" Score="40" ViewCount="27439" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many movies depict children and minors (and non smoking actors) actively smoking a cigarette and blowing actual smoke. How is that done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T23:35:24.277" Title="How do they film minors smoking?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2621" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2690" CreationDate="2012-06-03T01:39:00.683" Score="15" ViewCount="5823" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger fan of 'The Wire' than me. The writing was superlative; amongst the very best ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I always struggled with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leander_Sydnor&quot;&gt;Detective Leander Sydnor's&lt;/a&gt; character. I mean really, what was the point? I'm sure that Corey Parker Robinson loved being on the show (and I'm sure that he loved the paycheck and royalties that came with it), but for me, Sydnor's character did absolutely &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; to advance the plot of the show!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My Question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can anyone explain the character motivation behind Detective Leander Sydnor's character?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-13T08:48:57.430" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T16:11:42.013" Title="Detective Leander Sydnor - What was the point?" Tags="|character|the-wire|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2622" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2640" CreationDate="2012-06-03T02:00:17.917" Score="2" ViewCount="1103" Body="&lt;p&gt;A long while ago, a new TV show called &lt;em&gt;Not Safe for Work&lt;/em&gt; premiered on truTV. It was a total crap show and I didn't enjoy a moment of the two episodes that aired. Apparently a lot of people agreed because after the second episode, the show seemed to have completed vanished off the face of the Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently, a new show called &lt;em&gt;Clipaholics&lt;/em&gt; premiered on truTV which appears to be the same exact thing. Same ideas, same style and theme, and even some of the same exact videos. I didn't bother watching any of it because, well, it looked like the same &lt;em&gt;Not Safe for Work&lt;/em&gt; show that I hated before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know the reasoning behind the cancellation of the original series, &lt;em&gt;Not Safe for Work&lt;/em&gt;, and the sprouting of the &quot;new&quot; and renamed series, &lt;em&gt;Clipaholics&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="992" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-06-03T02:03:09.147" LastActivityDate="2012-06-04T22:42:55.870" Title="Why was Not Safe for Work repremiered as Clipaholics?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2619" CreationDate="2012-06-03T02:11:21.083" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is done using Computer Graphics. I do not know about others, but atleast in Bollywood, all the movies that have even a small scene with any animal, shows the following message at before the actual start of the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No Animals were harmed during the making of the movie. It is a work of Computer Graphics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some movies like, &lt;strong&gt;All the Best&lt;/strong&gt; Starring Ajay Devgan, Sanjay Dutt, Bipasha Vasu, delare in detail before the start of the movie. This is what you would see before the start of &lt;strong&gt;All the Best&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No animals were harmed during the making of movie. The sequence with the dog is a work of computer graphics and animation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastActivityDate="2012-06-03T02:11:21.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2620" CreationDate="2012-06-03T06:19:16.447" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually the film makers claim that the cigarettes used by the minors are &lt;strong&gt;tobacco-free cigarettes&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;nicotine-free cigarettes&lt;/strong&gt;. They are commonly called &lt;strong&gt;herbal cigarette.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbal_cigarette&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Herbal cigarettes are also used in acting scenes by performers who&#xA;  are non-smokers, or -- as is becoming increasingly common -- where&#xA;  anti-smoking legislation prohibits the use of tobacco in public&#xA;  spaces.Herbal cigarettes are not viewed as physically addictive, as they do not contain addictive substances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Ua54.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;picture of packet of herbal cigarettes&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-06-03T16:30:54.450" LastActivityDate="2012-06-03T16:30:54.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2626" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2796" CreationDate="2012-06-03T09:00:18.553" Score="3" ViewCount="1384" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Rangers_Dino_Thunder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Power Rangers Dino Thunder&lt;/a&gt; the Red, Yellow, and Blue ranger don't transform when they first touch a Dinogem. Tommy Oliver modifiest their gems to morph them into rangers. However, Trent Mercer, the White ranger, was instantly transformed by touching the white gem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was the white ranger's transformation different from the others? Or i missed something?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-12-12T06:38:03.660" LastActivityDate="2017-12-12T06:38:03.660" Title="Why is the white ranger's transformation different in Power Rangers Dino Thunder?" Tags="|plot-explanation|power-rangers|power-rangers-dino-thunder|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2607" CreationDate="2012-06-03T09:40:42.357" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_First_Class&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;X Men: First Class article on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Goldman added the film was kind of an &amp;quot;alternate history&amp;quot; for the X-Men, saying that while rebooting the writers did not want to go fully &amp;quot;against the canon of the X-Men trilogy&amp;quot;, comparing to the various approaches the comic had in over fifty years of publication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This lines from wiki says that they want to start fresh, not fully dependent on original story arc that's why they didn't take care of inconsistency with original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From IAR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iamrogue.com/news/interviews/item/4757-iar-exclusive-interview-producer-lauren-shuler-donner-talks-%E2%80%98x-men-first-class%E2%80%99-cameos-a-possible-sequel-emma-frost-%E2%80%98the-wolverine%E2%80%99-and-%E2%80%98deadpool%E2%80%99.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;(Source)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: Is January Jones’ Emma Frost somehow the same character we saw in&#xA;X-Men Origins: Wolverine?&#xA;Donner: No, she’s Emma from First Class. That’s who she was and she’s&#xA;the real Emma Frost. I think January did a pretty good job of&#xA;portraying her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: So there is no connection between the First Class Emma Frost and the&#xA;one we see in X-Men Origins: Wolverine?&#xA;Donner: No … not really, no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T16:03:58.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2631" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2674" CreationDate="2012-06-03T16:24:02.370" Score="28" ViewCount="104140" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Prometheus&lt;/a&gt;, the alien that Elizabeth Shaw extracted from her womb kills the Engineer. Later on, a primary form of alien xenomorph is seen bursting out of the Engineer's chest. The scene takes place in Meredith Vickers' escape pod, stranded at a distance from the Engineers' crashed ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alien&lt;/a&gt;, the team that explores the derelict ship discovers the body of an Engineer pilot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5AGwh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The corpse wears what we now know is some sort of armor, and his chest has been damaged by an alien xenomorph, as we later figure out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything seems to indicate that the corpse in Alien is actually the Engineer in Prometheus. However, there are two major discrepancies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Engineer is killed in the escape pod, not in his pilot seat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The corpse in Alien is much taller than the Engineer in Prometheus.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What other theory could possibly explain how a (much taller) Engineer sat in the crashed ship and was killed by a xenomorph?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="8496" LastEditDate="2014-11-08T23:05:53.830" LastActivityDate="2016-09-16T00:13:53.483" Title="How to explain the discrepancies between the end of Prometheus and the beginning of Alien?" Tags="|prometheus|ridley-scott|alien|continuity|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2632" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11152" CreationDate="2012-06-03T16:44:34.163" Score="19" ViewCount="154032" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the season 3 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1196946/&quot;&gt;The Mentalist&lt;/a&gt;, Patrick Jane threatens J.J. LaRoche to expose his secret if he doesn't give him his suspect list. LaRoche's secret is &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; he keeps in a tupperware in his safe. Jane actually bluffs since he knows only of the existence of the tupperware, but has apparently no idea of its actual content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on, Jane says that &lt;em&gt;whatever J.J. LaRoche's dark secret is, it must be horrible&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any clue to what J.J. LaRoche's dark, horrible secret is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-29T07:39:36.540" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T02:38:16.420" Title="What is J.J. LaRoche's dark secret?" Tags="|character|the-mentalist|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2633" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2636" CreationDate="2012-06-03T18:30:12.070" Score="15" ViewCount="4845" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see from the trailers for the new Hobbit film that Frodo Baggins is in it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been a while since I read the book but I don't remember Frodo being in it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was his addition only for the movie adaptation or was he in the story all along?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T09:06:48.400" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T09:06:48.400" Title="Was Frodo Baggins in the original version of The Hobbit?" Tags="|plot-explanation|book-adaptation|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2620" CreationDate="2012-06-03T20:55:21.550" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the more famous scenes of a young actress smoking is Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://forever-starlet.livejournal.com/6121.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This article&lt;/a&gt; quotes her as saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Peter [Bogdanovich, the director] wanted me to smoke in the movie,&#xA;  but the cigarettes were filled with lettuce, not tabacco. They glued&#xA;  sandpaper to my fingers so I could strike a match one-handed.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also has discussions of the following other young actresses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Natalie Portman in Leon: The Professional&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thora Birch in Now and Then&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dakota Fanning in Hounddog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kiernan Shipka on Mad Men&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AnnaSophia Robb in Sleepwalking&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in another answer, they almost all mention some type of herbal cigarettes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-05T23:35:24.277" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T23:35:24.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2605" CreationDate="2012-06-03T21:21:10.137" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fxguide.com/featured/heroic_vfx_stargate_digital_and_nbcs_heroes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;fxguide.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t7XG5.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/n6ThV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;To achieve the effect of frozen time special rigs were used&quot; title=&quot;To achieve the effect of frozen time special rigs were used&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zTEMo.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Mghh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;To achieve this effect the crew had to make sure even the wind was not blowing the tree leaves&quot; title=&quot;To achieve this effect the crew had to make sure even the wind was not blowing the tree leaves&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In “&lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/_KtghA0rkDY&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;bullet time&lt;/a&gt;” or the classic multiple camera shoot, all action is&#xA;  frozen and the path of the cameras cannot be very complex. Without&#xA;  either the shooting time nor the resources for a computerized camera&#xA;  rig, the team needed to be inventive. The solution was to produce&#xA;  special frozen mounts and rigs to allow for actors to just act still&#xA;  and frozen while filmed by a normal camera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To make the effect work there is also filmed a semi clean plate. While&#xA;  this plate is not motion control, it provides enough textures for the&#xA;  team to project onto dummy geometry and make a convincing final shot.&#xA;  The finishing touches are added by having some CG objects seamingly&#xA;  suspended in the air. This approach allowed the character Hiro to&#xA;  actually interact with the set and ‘walk’ the visual effect in the&#xA;  same pass as the main plate photography solving both eyelines and&#xA;  removing the need for any motion control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The company that worked on it uploaded a &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/Xmo8m2_Ut78&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; to their YouTube channel about the visual effects of the 3rd season. The making of the effect is discussed at around 2:03.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not Heroes, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/1REyjUmf_DI&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; is a quite detailed video about the same effect achieved with the help of motion control.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1415" LastEditorUserId="1415" LastEditDate="2012-06-04T08:16:49.840" LastActivityDate="2012-06-04T08:16:49.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2633" CreationDate="2012-06-03T21:58:38.367" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like Frodo is being shoe-horned into &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; to keep audiences happy (general audiences, mind you, not LotR fans who are not pleased with this news).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to a report from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aintitcool.com/node/51787&quot;&gt;AICN&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What’s Frodo doing in The Hobbit? I don’t want to spoil too much, but I can say that Frodo is part of the connecting tissue between The Hobbit and Fellowship of the Ring.&#xA;In fact, the next shot was an over the shoulder on Elijah Wood hammering a sign up on Bag End’s front gate: “No Admittance Except On Party Business.” You guys should have an idea where that puts this moment in the timeline&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extrapolating from this tidbit, I believe it is safe to say that 'Elderly Bilbo' (Ian Holm has already filmed his scenes in London) will be recounting his tale to Frodo before the party that we see in &lt;em&gt;Fellowship of the Ring&lt;/em&gt;. The events of The Hobbit took place 60 years before the &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; trilogy (and 28 years before Frodo was born) - so this explanation seems to make the most sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In answer to your original question - he was only added for the movie adaptation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW - the same goes for Legolas...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-06-03T21:58:38.367" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2637" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2687" CreationDate="2012-06-03T22:18:01.760" Score="17" ViewCount="131501" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout Brian DiPalma's 1983 classic, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086250/&quot;&gt;Scarface&lt;/a&gt;, Tony Montana has an odd relationship with his sister Gina. His attitude toward her ranges from overprotective to jealous to generous, and just about any conceivable emotion in between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At those moments when Tony's jealousy and overprotective nature are exposed (seeing Gina go into the bathroom with a guy, when he shoots Manny, etc.), it appears that Tony has passionate feelings for his sister stronger than two siblings should share.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Simply put: is Tony in love with his sister, Gina?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T18:42:21.353" LastActivityDate="2022-11-01T13:08:00.090" Title="Is Tony in love with Gina?" Tags="|analysis|character|scarface|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2622" CreationDate="2012-06-04T02:42:10.150" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are right, it seems to be the same show. (And it does look like trash.) The only &quot;official&quot; word I could find was from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/#!/clipaholics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Clipaholics twitter feed&lt;/a&gt; which tweeted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No new episode this week -- we'll be back with an all-new clip show next Thursday at 10pm (e/p)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(2 May 2012)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, we're changing our name up and everything else about the show. Stay tuned! You can get up to the minute updates here on Twitter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(2 May 2012)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's nothing conclusive, but it seems like it was taken off briefly and re-tooled, probably due to a negative response. There doesn't seem to be any journalism covering this because it's such a minor show. I'm not sure why they changed the name but my guess is that the phrase &quot;Not Safe For Work&quot; has such a strong presence on the Internet already that it wasn't being associated with the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2012-06-04T02:42:10.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="363" CreationDate="2012-06-04T03:32:28.557" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tree is not the &quot;tree of Izzy&quot;. It is the old growth tree from Guatemala which was discussed by the scientists. It is metaphorically a parallel to Izzy because he is trying to keep it alive just as he was originally trying to keep her alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;( Besides, the seed pod he places over her grave has already released its seeds, though that could be a production oversight. )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1418" LastActivityDate="2012-06-04T03:32:28.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2619" CreationDate="2012-06-04T08:05:36.657" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for the U.S., producers can choose to make their films in compliance with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.humanehollywood.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;American Humane Association Film and TV Unit&lt;/a&gt;. They are the only group officially sanctioned to do this and it is they who provide the &quot;No animals were harmed . . .&quot; message during credit sequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that bringing in the AHA to monitor the production of a film is voluntary. As can been seen from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.humanehollywood.org/index.php/movie-reviews&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;reviews section of the site&lt;/a&gt;, most productions are in fact monitored and get the &quot;Outstanding&quot; rating. Those which are not monitored are mostly (although not necessarily all--I only looked at a few) filmed internationally (and thus outside AHA jurisdiction) or have benign/no animal involvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The AHA have guideline (2.4 MB .pdf download &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.americanhumane.org/NAWH-Guidelines&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) that describes in detail the precautions taken to ensure animal wellbeing. Very briefly, it includes such things as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Always having a veterinarian on hand.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Making sure the set, crew, costume, and makeup are all safe for the animal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The animal must be properly trained and conditioned for special effects (e.g. gunfire and explosions) as well as stunt work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Specific considerations for each of dogs, cats, birds, fish, horses, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The guidelines are very detailed but may be more about what you &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; do rather than what &quot;tricks&quot; directors use to shoot a scene without hurting the animals involved. However I suspect the latter is achieved through training, makeup/props (in the vein of blood squibs for when humans are &quot;shot&quot;), and (increasingly) CGI effects. Their review of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.humanehollywood.org/index.php/movie-archive/item/battleship&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Battleship&lt;/a&gt; explicitly mentions a CGI shark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2019-02-14T16:01:25.563" LastActivityDate="2019-02-14T16:01:25.563" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2612" CreationDate="2012-06-04T10:30:05.813" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is based on the following logical points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Black Pearl is a fast gallon that sails at 10 knots (historically they sailed around 8 knots, but the Pearl is special and it makes the math easier)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Assuming 10% of the trip is spent on re-supply&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A knot is 1.15MPH&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They used the common trade route of Caribbean to Portugal around Africa hugging the coast all the way to Singapore (thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_route#Spice_Route&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The distance between Cuba and Singapore using the above route (thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-is-it-between.htm&quot;&gt;free map tools&lt;/a&gt; for mapping) is roughly 17,000 miles&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the two answers are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What route did they take? See above for trade route&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How long did it take? 10 knots or 11.5MPH * 17,000 miles = 1478 hours plus resupply of 147.8 hours = 1625.8 hours or 67.7 days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T13:02:23.380" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T13:02:23.380" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="363" CreationDate="2012-06-04T10:38:50.830" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is all about meth, desire and appearance of life. three episode speaking about the focal point of our life. the story written by Izzi, shows some thing like religious opinion join to her believe about life, the hard working of tommy is like a symbolic presentation of people preoccupation in the life and forgetting about the way and thinking about destiny. there is a junction by Tomas story, a person that active to the real meaning of mortality by feel and experience of Izzi life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion scene when Tommy kill the taboo about guardian of 'tree of life' joining of Tomm to the tree is like bringing the myth to the earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1367" LastActivityDate="2012-06-04T10:38:50.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="711" CreationDate="2012-06-04T11:44:23.233" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I remember right, Jacob once said that his dad was kind of too honest, too fair or something. That is why his wife (Jacob's mom) treated him not in a good way (maybe cheated too)&#xA;Maybe it was the scene where Hannah and him are chatting in his bedroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1424" LastActivityDate="2012-06-04T11:44:23.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2631" CreationDate="2012-06-04T13:28:48.540" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;The moon visited by the Prometheus, called LV-223, is not the same planet visited by the Nostromo in &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt;, which is called LV-426.  I believe that the latter was not named on screen until the second film, &lt;em&gt;Aliens&lt;/em&gt;.  So they are two different Engineer ships and two different dead Engineers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, the distress call/warning intercepted by the Nostromo was in an alien language and needed to be decrypted, so it was not the warning in English sent by the humans in &lt;em&gt;Prometheus&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1425" LastEditorUserId="1425" LastEditDate="2012-06-04T13:36:39.713" LastActivityDate="2012-06-04T13:36:39.713" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2656" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2673" CreationDate="2012-06-04T16:53:08.923" Score="19" ViewCount="6383" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the movie Avengers, we are first introduced to Thor when he crashes the party on the plane, taking his brother Loki to get the location of the Tesseract from him.  How did Thor know that Loki was on the plane?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T08:00:41.963" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T08:00:41.963" Title="How did Thor know Loki was on the plane?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2657" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3161" CreationDate="2012-06-04T18:26:18.313" Score="14" ViewCount="4621" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now discounting satires or films that are specifically about fighting...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the brawl between Nada and Frank in &quot;They Live&quot; the longest non-stop fight in a film?&#xA;It's clocked at around 5 minutes of (well, really silly) brawling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The fight in its entirety can be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-MVMbm6c0k&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;found on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dcSGn.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image from &amp;quot;They Live&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T09:49:34.053" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T09:49:34.053" Title="Is the street fight in &quot;They Live&quot; the longest clocked street fight in a film?" Tags="|stunts|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2658" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2662" CreationDate="2012-06-04T19:14:02.497" Score="5" ViewCount="3023" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Men in Black 3&lt;/em&gt;, Agent J (Will Smith) goes to see Jeffrey Price in the electronics store to obtain the time-travel device built by Price's father that J can then use to travel back to 1969 to avert K's murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in an &lt;strong&gt;earlier&lt;/strong&gt; scene in the film, we see Boris the Animal (Jermaine Clement) visit Jeffrey Price in the same store to obtain the device in order to go back to commit the murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that time-travel films open up a huge kettle of worms when it comes to inconsistencies and plot-holes, but this seems to be a glaring error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is shown that the device stays with the user when they time-jump, are we to assume that there is more than one device (which does not seem to be the case when we are shown the holding container), or is this just a script error?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-29T22:03:01.467" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T20:26:15.000" Title="How is Agent J able to get the time-travel device in Men in Black 3?" Tags="|time-travel|men-in-black-3|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2658" CreationDate="2012-06-04T19:43:07.813" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My assumption when watching the film was that, when Boris returned to the present, he gave the device back, thus enabling J to go back in time with the device.  I believe that it's actually evidenced in Jeffery's log book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had Boris been smart he would have thought to not return the device, but as we have seen he's not the sharpest crayon in the box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-06-04T19:43:07.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2661" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-04T19:56:13.460" Score="7" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every year MTV hosts the MTV Movie Awards.  How are the movies nominated, what movies &lt;strong&gt;can be&lt;/strong&gt; nominated, and how are the winners chosen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-01-22T08:59:58.490" LastActivityDate="2017-01-22T08:59:58.490" Title="How are movies chosen for the MTV Movie Awards?" Tags="|awards|mtv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2658" CreationDate="2012-06-04T20:19:56.123" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've only seen the movie once, but when Jeffrey Price shows us the case with the single time travel device in it, there was an empty space next to it that suggested he had two devices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fmLDX.png&quot; alt=&quot;box for the devices&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1429" LastEditorUserId="1429" LastEditDate="2012-06-05T19:05:03.433" LastActivityDate="2012-06-05T19:05:03.433" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2622" CreationDate="2012-06-04T21:13:49.820" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the truth.  TruTV ruined the original concept behind &quot;Not Safe For Work&quot;.  Development was very slow and had very little backing from network execs... combine that with horrid ratings after week two... Tru won the battle against the creative team and made them re-tool it to a more similar &quot;Top 20&quot; format.  Yes, for the first few weeks you'll see that many of the clips will be the same and it will feel unoriginal.  All I can say is that the original cuts of NSFW 101-107 were incredibly hilarious and well written until Tru began tweaking and cutting out all of the comedy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1430" LastEditorUserId="1430" LastEditDate="2012-06-04T22:42:55.870" LastActivityDate="2012-06-04T22:42:55.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2664" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2666" CreationDate="2012-06-04T22:53:44.980" Score="9" ViewCount="1870" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;em&gt;Dog Soldiers&lt;/em&gt; by Neil Marshall, the following dialogue occurs between two characters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where is Spoon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no Spoon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Spoon referenced in the dialogue was one of the characters in the film who was eaten by werewolves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this a deliberate reference to &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1417" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-07-03T01:29:17.680" Title="Did Neil Marshall deliberately reference The Matrix in Dog Soldiers?" Tags="|reference|the-matrix|dog-soldiers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2183" CreationDate="2012-06-04T23:07:54.103" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, they are based on toddlers.  The teletubbie world is an abstraction of what the creators remembered life to be like when they were children.  The narrator represents an adult carer figure, such as a parent, guardian, or nursury supervisor and the show deals with the interaction between toddler and adult agendas and perceptions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is what co-creator Anne Wood has to say about them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Children, especially little children, live in the same world as the rest of us but perceive it differently. So the most important thing any adult can do for a child is to listen to them and try to understand them. Children love to be listened to - so when Andrew Davenport and I created Teletubbies together, we spent a lot of time observing and listening to children. We tried to find our own way back to feeling how we had felt as children and also shared what we had learned about their different perceptions. Along the way, we realized that the difference between an adult agenda and a child's agenda can often be very funny, so we had a lot of fun - and placed the notion of fun at the heart of the program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pbs.org/parents/teletubbies/progsummary.html&quot;&gt;read more on the PBS website&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this in mind, we can see that the restricted world in which they live represents the restricted world of the child, with the the narrator, the wake up call and the windmill signifying bedtime representing the influence of the adult agenda.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This closeness to a representation of how a toddler sees the world apparently explains why they relate to the show so easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1051" LastActivityDate="2012-06-04T23:07:54.103" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2664" CreationDate="2012-06-05T08:52:28.970" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Soldiers_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page for the movie&lt;/a&gt;, the director, cast and crew commentary on the DVD confirms that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film contains homages to H.G. Wells, the films The Evil Dead,&#xA;  Zulu, Aliens, The Matrix and Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means that the dialogue mention by you is directly referring to The Matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-06-05T13:17:05.160" LastActivityDate="2012-06-05T13:17:05.160" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2661" CreationDate="2012-06-05T09:56:43.553" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV_Movie_Awards&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MTV Movie Awards wiki link&lt;/a&gt;, it says-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The nominees are decided by producers and executives at MTV. Winners&#xA;  are decided online by the general public. Presently voting is done&#xA;  through MTV's official website through a special Movie Awards link at&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://movieawards.mtv.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;movieawards.mtv.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2012-06-05T09:56:43.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2668" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2669" CreationDate="2012-06-05T11:23:00.220" Score="7" ViewCount="413" Body="&lt;p&gt;BBC created Planet Earth series a few years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trailer can be seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/collections/p00fxg1n&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; - if you go to 0.25 (screenshot below) it shows a sky diver jumping into a forest hole - I wanted to know where that is filmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6YpzB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screen-bbc-planet-earth-sky-diver&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1432" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2017-01-22T21:33:23.570" LastActivityDate="2017-01-22T21:33:23.570" Title="In the BBC Planet Earth trailer - where is the sky diver jumping?" Tags="|planet-earth|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2668" CreationDate="2012-06-05T12:35:22.033" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Cave of Swallows&quot; - This can be seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocpuuaNwMSw&quot;&gt;here:&lt;/a&gt; at about 1:05&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the youtube description:&#xA;This 400 meters deep cave is located in a rainforest in San Luis Potosí.&#xA;This Video is a beginning of BBC´s 2006 &quot;Planet Earth&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2012-06-05T12:35:22.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2670" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2671" CreationDate="2012-06-05T13:02:21.117" Score="6" ViewCount="3317" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Paths of the Dead is where Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli go to recruit the undead army to fight for Gondor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most detailed map of Middle Earth I could find is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.lefigaro.fr/hightech/assets_c/2011/06/middle-earth-map-33096.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From reading on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paths_of_the_Dead&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; it mentions all the places it's near like Harrowdale and Dimholt but I can't find any of these on the map so I can't figure out where the Paths of the Dead is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastActivityDate="2012-06-05T14:04:43.007" Title="Where in Middle Earth is the Paths of the Dead?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2670" CreationDate="2012-06-05T13:40:52.297" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The relevant information can be found in the Lord of the Rings wiki &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/White_Mountains&quot;&gt;here:&lt;/a&gt;. The description places the mountains: &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;em&gt;The White Mountains formed the northern boundary of Gondor and the southern boundary of Rohan except in their easternmost provinces, where Gondor's province of Anorien lay to the north of the mountains.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The entrance to the Paths of the Dead is described as &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Dwimorberg&quot;&gt;Dwimorberg&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Harrowdale&quot;&gt;Harrowdale&lt;/a&gt; is described as being near the Snowbourn River, hence on your map, near where the mountains and the river intersect, Edoras.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-06-05T14:04:43.007" LastActivityDate="2012-06-05T14:04:43.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2656" CreationDate="2012-06-05T17:45:03.620" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not stated in the movie, however one can assume one of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;From the events in Thor that Heimdall the all seeing gatekeeper of the rainbow bridge Bifrost was able to &quot;see&quot; Loki and keep tabs on his location. After Loki appeared on Earth Thor needed time to prepare a way to journey to Earth (I assume that the rainbow bridge had been repaired between the events of the two movies)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thor has access to some device that is able to track the Tesseract when it is active. Since it was not active until Loki transported to Earth. Thor was unable to track Loki until the Tesseract  was active.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Tesseract is a crystal ball only when is became active was when Thor could again see what Loki was doing&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some being told Thor, Loki was alive and on Earth&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thor is technically a god&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2012-06-05T17:45:03.620" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2656" CreationDate="2012-06-05T20:41:07.703" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thor seems to have some unstated capability to track and find Loki.  He knew exactly where the S.H.I.E.L.D. jet carrying Loki was when he intercepted it.  Then later in the film, after being dumped out of the Helicarrier, he knows to go to New York City to stop Loki.  If he is capable of always finding Loki, it explains both of these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-11-01T19:15:57.383" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T19:15:57.383" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2631" CreationDate="2012-06-05T21:33:35.760" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prometheus and Alien deliberately share a lot of themes, as well as the same universe, but they are not directly prequel and sequel (spoilers follow...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Space Jockey&lt;/em&gt; in Alien is old enough to be fossilised. Possibly by the same events that wiped out the Engineers in Prometheus (2000 years ago according to Shaw's carbon dating) but too close to Alien's dates to be the same one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The planets have different names: LV-223 in Prometheus and LV-426 in Alien.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The planets have different atmospheres - LV-426 is &quot;primordial&quot; while LV-223 is &quot;almost breathable&quot; except for the too high CO2, which is not the case in the pyramids.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are no alien structures on LV-426.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The ship in Prometheus is carrying black goo vases, but no eggs. The one in Alien lots of identical eggs, but no black goo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the same?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Space Jockey&lt;/em&gt; in Alien is a giant 'human' in a suit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The black goo is the source of both the alien in Alien and the various things in Prometheus. The DNA of its victim species has some effect on the result, and the final result in Prometheus is approaching the alien from Alien.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The eggs being carried by the crashed ship in Alien are probably the result of the black goo on something other than human, maybe something that layed eggs instead of giving birth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think that the ship in Alien is another attempt to wage biological warfare by the space jockeys/engineers. Either the eggs are before or after the black goo - both obviously went wrong so it's hard to guess which attempt came first.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The space jockeys/engineers share humanity's propensity for building really stupid ways to kill each other, as well as our DNA.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ridley Scott has said that he envisions Prometheus as a trilogy, so maybe this gets tied up somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1277" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-27T11:39:09.320" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T11:39:09.320" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3434" CreationDate="2012-06-06T09:28:28.740" Score="8" ViewCount="989" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually Big Blockbusters are timed to be released in major countries at roughly the same time. This even includes movies that are dubbed for localised version. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/releaseinfo&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;London premiere was on 31 May 2012&lt;/a&gt; but the German release will be on 9 August 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any information why the German version got a 2 month delay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-06-11T14:33:00.673" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T09:35:08.500" Title="Why is the German version of Prometheus released 2 months after the world premiere?" Tags="|prometheus|film-industry|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2631" CreationDate="2012-06-06T10:01:56.933" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer seems much more obvious than comparing moons and what not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, David informs Elizabeth Shaw that: 'There are many more ships'. In Alien, it's just another ship with another Engineer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1436" LastActivityDate="2012-06-06T10:01:56.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2677" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="68458" CreationDate="2012-06-06T10:10:48.380" Score="9" ViewCount="408" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glastonberrygrove.net/texts/script21.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Twin Peaks&lt;/em&gt; episode 21&lt;/a&gt; (aka season 2, episode 14), we see Dr. Jacoby at the Great Northern helping Ben work through his “Civil War” insanity. Later, though, we see him walking out of the sheriff’s office, where he claims to have spent the past 24 hours with Lana and says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Good, I wanted everyone to hear this. I have just spent&#xA;  most of the last 24 hours with this charming&#xA;  young lady.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m pretty sure there was no indication that a day passed between these two scenes and in the first Dr. Jacoby looked pretty wrapped up in Ben's case. How can he have been in both places? Is there any explanation - in-universe or otherwise - for what happened here? Or is this a simply plot inconsistency that was overlooked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1051" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2017-07-20T02:32:29.030" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T02:32:29.030" Title="How can Jacoby be with Lana and Ben at the same time?" Tags="|plot-explanation|twin-peaks|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2488" CreationDate="2012-06-06T10:30:07.180" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;He didn't plan to survive the nuclear holocaust, if my memory serves me correctly. So it kind of makes sense for him to act like a suicide bomber would. The problem here really is that sacrificing himself at this point is counterproductive to his goals. His plan is to prevent Hunt from pressing abort. A better way to do this is throw down the briefcase and continue fighting Hunt to the death at the platform, maybe try to pull Hunt down with him. This would buy him even more time to complete his evil scheme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, it was badass of him to just take the case and make the jump no matter what. Serves to show just how comitted he is to his whole eradication-of-the-human-race-plan. So it was an understandable decision from a director's point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1437" LastEditorUserId="1437" LastEditDate="2012-06-06T11:44:03.370" LastActivityDate="2012-06-06T11:44:03.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2679" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2806" CreationDate="2012-06-06T10:39:31.193" Score="10" ViewCount="25735" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering what exactly is shown to the Colonel by Griffin near the end of Men in Black 3 (MIB3)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember exactly what the Colonel answered when J asked him what he saw, but it was pretty vague.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="196" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T00:08:42.553" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T00:09:33.770" Title="What did Griffin show the Colonel to convince him in Men in Black 3?" Tags="|plot-explanation|men-in-black-3|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2679" CreationDate="2012-06-06T13:34:37.317" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I can recall he said &quot;He showed me how important you were.&quot;  I'm guessing that he was shown what would happen if J and K weren't allowed to put the Arc Net on the ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-06-06T13:34:37.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2686" CreationDate="2012-06-06T14:29:48.207" Score="6" ViewCount="677" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I was a child, we rented a children's movie one day from Jumbo Video during the 1980's. My mother slept through it, but my sister and I watched it. It was definitely animated, and may have been Japanese/Anime. It was a sort of action-fantasy movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recall that air/wind played an important part in the movie as though the characters were air-warriors or wind-riders, or some such. I also recall an iconic image from the movie (either from the movie itself, or more likely, from the cover of the tape) being of a bunch of characters riding large animals towards the camera with wind and sand blowing behind them (something like the—very—crude drawing below). I forgot to draw it, but in this picture, they were running through some sort of dusty valley, so the picture should have had some cliffs on the sides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another uniquely identifying scene I remember was of a boy and girl in a cave, wherein one of them (I believe it was the girl) eat some ice cream that turned out to contain Tabasco/hot sauce/jalapeños, after which she spat it out and gasped for water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what movie this was?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lZ2of.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastEditorUserId="214" LastEditDate="2012-06-06T16:59:51.187" LastActivityDate="2012-06-06T21:24:04.903" Title="Tobasco ice-cream and air warriors in an (Anime?) animated movie?" Tags="|animation|fantasy|anime|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:37:05.043" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2684" CreationDate="2012-06-06T16:43:34.020" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably a long shot, but could it be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windaria&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Windaria&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plot summary-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The mountainous kingdom of Paro and the coastal city-state of Itha had&#xA;  been at peace for over a century. They would have remained that way&#xA;  but for the ambitions of Paro's power-hungry king. Paro invaded Itha,&#xA;  despite the love between Jill, Paro's prince, and Ahanas, Itha's&#xA;  princess. Caught between duty and emotion, the star-crossed lovers&#xA;  were forced to fight a war to its bitter conclusion. Isu was a simple&#xA;  farmer from the neutral village of Saki, but he saved Itha from being&#xA;  destroyed by a spy from Paro, and found himself hungering for wealth&#xA;  and glory that the Ithan monarchy could provide. Agents from Paro made&#xA;  him an offer to fulfill his wishes, and he left his wife Marin behind&#xA;  in what would turn into a battlefield between the two kingdoms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-06-06T16:43:34.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2684" CreationDate="2012-06-06T21:24:04.903" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; tempted to say it's &quot;Warriors of the Wind&quot;, which is a bastardized version of the anime classic &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VprRQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Warriors of the Wind cover&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything sort of matches your description, though I'm having trouble with the Tabasco ice cream. In the original Japanese version there was a scene where Nausicaa and Asbel are eating nuts inside an underground cavern, they turn out to be really really bitter. But I'm not sure if that scene made it to the Warriors of the Wind version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-06-06T21:24:04.903" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2637" CreationDate="2012-06-07T19:06:53.573" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think he's more in love with the &lt;em&gt;idea&lt;/em&gt; of an innocent Gina, the little girl he used to know before he went to jail. He is obsessed with keeping her &lt;em&gt;pure&lt;/em&gt;, since everything else in his life is steeped in sin. So when he catches her doing adult things, like her encounter in the club and having a secret affair with his best friend, he loses his mind as he sees her as the only good thing in his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="97988" LastEditDate="2022-11-01T13:08:00.090" LastActivityDate="2022-11-01T13:08:00.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2599" CreationDate="2012-06-07T19:49:45.780" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film deals about pride and ego. Zach and Avi try to teach Jake that one needs to accept his weaknesses and recognize faults and fears. Once stripped of pride then your ego will show itself, which literally happens in the elevator scene. He battles his insticts of selfpreservation which ends up in a clash between himself and his ego. Once seperated he can take back control of his own life. It plays further on the basic ideas repeated multiple times in the film: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Our greatest enemy is your own inner perception, is your own ignorance, is your own ego.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even better are Avi's words during the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The greatest con, that he ever pulled... was making you believe... that he is you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he's finally able to break his perception and finds liberation. There's so much more happening on this subject but this is I think more or less the importance of the elevator scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1441" LastEditorUserId="1441" LastEditDate="2012-06-08T07:12:37.347" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T07:12:37.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2618" CreationDate="2012-06-07T20:13:01.010" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blatantly &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1883/1027&quot;&gt;lifted&lt;/a&gt; from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2618/which-related-films-do-i-need-to-watch-before-watching-avengers-assemble#comment3953_2618&quot;&gt;linked&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Sci-fi &amp;amp; Fantasy.SE&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/16184/1027&quot;&gt;question's answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skipable&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Iron Man&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 2&lt;/em&gt; are, IMO, the best movies in the current Marvel film universe. They are also not very important to understand what's going on in &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; - if you understand that Tony Stark is a brilliant jerk and has a robot suit, that's about all you need to know. &lt;em&gt;2&lt;/em&gt; has Black Widow, but she's not really &lt;strong&gt;introduced&lt;/strong&gt; until &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Incredible Hulk&lt;/em&gt; is completely missable if you're even slightly familiar with the Hulk character. It's an average action movie, hardly alluded to during &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;, and it's not even the same actor between the two.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nice to See&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Captain America&lt;/em&gt;'s backstory is used often for humor and occasionally for drama. If you don't see it you'll probably miss or barely catch a lot of the jokes in the first half.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Important&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt; is mandatory - &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; is almost &lt;em&gt;Thor 2&lt;/em&gt;. The main antagonist of &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; is the antagonist in &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt;. A scientist in &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt; is also a character in &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; and is given absolutely no introduction or explanation; if you want to understand the character dynamics in any of the scenes with him, you'll have to see &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2012-06-07T20:21:14.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2621" CreationDate="2012-06-07T20:19:59.847" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that the character does not have a well defined stance or feel like many of the other cast. I see him as a comrade to the crew, helping and digging in with the rest. Near the end he becomes more and more stronger on his views of justice. I also think that at the end of the series the analogy is made between the beginning of the Wire with McNulty+Judge and Sydnor+Judge. The character had a long, slow evolution, maybe some sort of a learning curve in the shadow of the other characters but he ended at a place where you feel as a viewer some sort of continuation is happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1441" LastActivityDate="2012-06-07T20:19:59.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2691" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-07T20:34:55.507" Score="22" ViewCount="1517" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie there is a scene where the group grab the police commissioner at fund raiser and drag him into the bathroom to threaten him so that he doesn't follow through on a vow to take down their group. My confusion comes from the fact that Brad Pitt punches the commissioner and drags him into the bathroom while Ed Norton locks the door. Now considering the twist of this movie this is the one scene that I can't figure out how it's possible to both drag a guy and lock a door. So how did it happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-06-07T20:45:18.510" LastActivityDate="2012-06-07T20:48:06.270" Title="When grabbing the commisoner what is Tyler Durden actually doing?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fight-club|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2692" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3284" CreationDate="2012-06-07T20:43:15.043" Score="47" ViewCount="13280" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ed Norton plays the Narrator or Jack ( due to reading a book that described someone called Jack's body parts from a 1st person perspective).  Meanwhile Brad Pitt is introduced as Tyler Durden. Later on we find out that they are the same person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is Tyler Durden the new name he has chosen which he went and made an ID for and got various part-time jobs under or is it his original name and he somehow keeps blanking it out when he needs to tell police (things like his apartment exploded, or that other things will explode) or when he sees it on his checks from work or his work documents Id and many other things that would have his name on them? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-10-30T20:40:59.850" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T13:47:15.557" Title="Did Tyler Durden forget his name?" Tags="|analysis|fight-club|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2691" CreationDate="2012-06-07T20:48:06.270" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always took that to mean one of the Project Mayhem members locked the door.  Edward Norton's character imagined/remembered that it was him instead of someone else doing it.  Presumably this was guided by Tyler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see Edward Norton's character imagine himself doing things at other points in the movie.  For example during the Tyler and Marla having sex montage, Edward Norton walks up to Tyler's bedroom door and peeks in.  Tyler and Edward Norton have a short exchange, Edward walks off, then Marla asks Tyler, &quot;Who are you talking to?&quot; which indicates that Tyler was in control of the body at that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-06-07T20:48:06.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2694" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44221" CreationDate="2012-06-07T21:08:05.280" Score="5" ViewCount="1121" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the &lt;em&gt;Wyld Stallyons&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_&amp;amp;_Ted%27s_Excellent_Adventure&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure&lt;/a&gt; have a breakdown in their time-machine, they just have all of their historical buds chew some gum and patch the antennae back together in a feat of extreme engineering that would make the &lt;em&gt;Mythbusters&lt;/em&gt; proud. But where did they get all of the gum from? Never mind the ridiculous amount of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't expect an answer that explains the amount but it's definitely more than a pack. In a phone booth that is already packed to its limits like some kind of college prank, where did they get the gum to do the repairs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-02-04T18:03:16.790" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T02:55:00.210" Title="Where did they get all of the gum from?" Tags="|plot-explanation|bill-and-teds-excellent-adventure|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2479" CreationDate="2012-06-07T23:32:08.570" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The studio wanted Fox to foot the production cost, Fox wanted the studio to foot the production costs. They had to trim some of the fat which meant pay cuts. The rest of the cast took the pay cut but Lisa was not having it (I don't blame her).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, The studio should have paid up to keep Lisa - what they did not realize was that Cuddy and Wilson were a huge part of the dynamics of House's character, and without her around the show suffered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1446" LastEditorUserId="4174" LastEditDate="2013-07-08T11:40:39.803" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T11:40:39.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2698" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2699" CreationDate="2012-06-08T02:39:08.497" Score="15" ViewCount="1663" Body="&lt;p&gt;After his demise to Gideon towards the end of the movie.  Scott is trapped in the deserted sub-space world, left to contemplate his mistakes for, seemingly, eternity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OY8lr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, he suddenly remembers that he has an extra life that grants him a do-over of his failures.  The question here is &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt;?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why after suffering such a defeat, ruining the lives of 2 women as well as his own would he decide to go back and try it all again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T20:50:32.487" Title="What is Scott Pilgrim's motivation for fighting Gideon the second time?" Tags="|analysis|character|scott-pilgrim-vs.-the-world|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2698" CreationDate="2012-06-08T02:39:08.637" Score="20" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ramona&lt;/strong&gt;:Maybe I'm not the one you should have been fighting for.....&#xA;  ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scott&lt;/strong&gt;: Wait, I feel like I learned something...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/76LWi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon Ramona's words in sub-space, Scott starts to contemplate what he was fighting for.  He finally realizes that he was fighting merely for &lt;strong&gt;blind love&lt;/strong&gt; instead of fighting for &lt;strong&gt;himself&lt;/strong&gt;.  Wronging so many people on the way:  Ramona, Knives, Kim, and the rest of his friends.  Understanding what he must do, Scott grabs his 1-Up and gets back to right after he hung up the phone with Gideon.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He previously casted out everything that made him &lt;em&gt;Scott Pilgrim&lt;/em&gt; in order to just &lt;em&gt;get the girl&lt;/em&gt;(Ramona). Scott sees his second chance not only as a second chance to best Gideon, but to right all the wrongs he has committed while chasing his wild dream of being with Ramona.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scott&lt;/strong&gt;:  Don't worry. I know what I'm doing.  Stephen, the new line-up rocks. You guys sound better without me. Young Neil? You have learned well. From this point forward, you shall be known as 'Neil'. And Kim?  Sorry about...everything.  Sorry about me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l6zzC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see the first evidence of this not only in his confidence and demeanor besting the waves of guards and checkpoints on his way down to the Chaos Theatre, but when he admits to his own wrongs and apologizes to the band and Kim directly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kim even cracks a &lt;strong&gt;smile&lt;/strong&gt; for the first time in the whole film due to Scott's words and maybe even since he left her all those years ago; signifying to the audience how cruel he really was.  We then start to see the &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; Scott Pilgrim, not the &lt;em&gt;damaged&lt;/em&gt; Pilgrim we have seen the whole movie; who has been reeling from Envy's break-up during the majority of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scott&lt;/strong&gt;: No...I want to fight you for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ECa5d.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is most clearly reflected upon his second encounter with Gideon where he says he isn't fighting for Romona, or Knives, or because he is upset about Envy.  But fighting for himself.  To prove to himself that he can be a kindhearted, generous guy.  It is upon these words that Scott gets the &lt;strong&gt;[Power of Self Respect]&lt;/strong&gt; Sword and easily bests Gideon's Pre-Boss Mode, showing not only to Gideon, but further proving to himself that his confidence in himself and desire to be the good guy is the perfect driving force.  Not to just &lt;em&gt;be with someone&lt;/em&gt; but to be &lt;strong&gt;himself&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scott&lt;/strong&gt;: No Knives, I hurt you!  I cheated on you.  I cheated on both of you.  I'm really sorry....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aK1sF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the linchpin in the whole thing.  Scott finally admits to his ultimate wrong.  Admitting to both women at the same time that he had cheated on the both of them.  Scott lays his soul out for them and shows that he knows what he did and would like nothing more than to be forgiven for his wrong doing.  Surprisingly, the reaction is strong, both ladies accept his apology and his coming out and are quick to defend him when  Gideon rises up for the final battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-06-08T20:50:32.487" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T20:50:32.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2700" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3202" CreationDate="2012-06-08T02:55:18.580" Score="29" ViewCount="11295" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the three Batman films, there has been one running theme in common.  Each movie &lt;em&gt;has its own color scheme&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/strong&gt; - Brown &amp;amp; Black&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/strong&gt; - Blue &amp;amp; Red&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dark Knight Rises&lt;/strong&gt; - White &amp;amp; Black&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kfP2N.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is Nolan's reason for this?  Is there a meaning behind the colors that directly link back into the major theme of the films?  Or are these colors a way to represent the overall situation throughout the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-08-27T02:30:00.300" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T13:45:43.927" Title="What is the reason for the color scheming of Nolan's Batman franchise?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|christopher-nolan|batman-begins|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2701" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2772" CreationDate="2012-06-08T03:06:01.823" Score="25" ViewCount="3537" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the course of the Avengers, you see Mr Banner talk about his alter ego as just another entity inside of himself.  Afraid, reluctant and very much un-willing to let him out, even if it means his escape from being captured by S.H.I.E.L.D.  Citing Hulk's violence, lack of self-control, and raw power that would come of unleashing such a creature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, during the argument on the plane as well as for the final battle, Banner is willing, and eventually &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; let the beast lose, seemingly without knowledge as to whether or not he can control him properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why&lt;/strong&gt; does Banner choose to release the Hulk and where does he get the confidence he needs to be sure that he can point the indestructible beast towards the enemy, and not towards the Avengers? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T12:42:59.067" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T12:42:59.067" Title="Why does Banner finally allow the Hulk to come out?" Tags="|character|analysis|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2701" CreationDate="2012-06-08T04:04:58.060" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, as evidenced in the ending scene of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800080/&quot;&gt;The Incredible Hulk&lt;/a&gt; (2008), Banner already knows how to control the transformation. But, while he does have &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; control over the Hulk when the transformation is controlled (as opposed to having none when the transformation is spontaneous, like the one on the Hellicarrier), his control is not 100% complete (The Hulk surprise punching Thor). So Banner is comfortable unleashing the Hulk only when there is a real emergency. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T04:04:58.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2337" CreationDate="2012-06-08T06:39:14.297" Score="36" Body="&lt;h2&gt;How Bruce Banner found the Avengers:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Banner was aboard the Hellicarrier, his gamma ray search algorithm had worked out where the Tesseract was (Stark Tower), but before he could tell anyone Loki's machinations kicked in and he turned into the Hulk. After he went back to being Bruce Banner, he just found his way to Stark Tower, where the rest of the Avengers had assembled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How Thor found the Avengers:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one's a bit more problematic. Thor seems to have the ability to track down Loki. Witness how Thor knew Loki was held inside the jet after he was captured by S.H.I.E.L.D.. &lt;em&gt;How&lt;/em&gt; he does that isn't known. So I'm assuming that, however he does it, Thor simply tracked down Loki to Stark Tower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="63984" LastEditDate="2018-05-12T09:03:42.523" LastActivityDate="2018-05-12T09:03:42.523" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2704" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-08T09:24:10.980" Score="18" ViewCount="2961" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;X-Men Origins Wolverine&quot;, Logan undergoes an operation to have Adamantium bonded to his skeleton. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't the Adamantium bond to his teeth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1449" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T07:21:25.707" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T07:21:25.707" Title="If Wolverine's skeleton is completely bonded with Adamantium, why are his teeth still white?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-origins-wolverine|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2704" CreationDate="2012-06-08T10:39:10.023" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting point - since Wolverine is a fictional character, it could simply be because adamantium teeth are not good looking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://sciencenordic.com/why-don%E2%80%99t-teeth-heal-themselves&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; It seems to be related that teeth do not have any cells to repair themselves, plus they are exposed to what we breath in and eat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the bones that where bonded where only the ones that could repair themselves. Wolverine could heal himself quickly if not instantly, so it would stand to reason that the bones inside the body would be able to cope with the transformation, and the teeth couldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, it is only a theoretical answer for a fictional character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1443" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T00:15:27.680" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T00:15:27.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2700" CreationDate="2012-06-08T12:01:47.143" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently stumbled upon an article explaining the same &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Batman Begins had a dominatly brown color scheme to paint Gotham City&#xA;  as the crime infested wasteland shithole that it was. The Dark&#xA;  Knight's color scheme was mostly blue,which was done to create a&#xA;  contrast...at first it is used to create a vibe of calm relaxation in&#xA;  showing that Batman has really made a difference and gotten the city&#xA;  out of the slump it was in in Batman Begins...but then when the shit&#xA;  starts to go down,the blue turns out to be a corrupted false sense of&#xA;  security and is then used as a means of shaping the dark and bleak&#xA;  atmosphere that will carry over the remander of the film&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://kefchat.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&amp;amp;action=display&amp;amp;thread=217&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This post on a forum is a good read itself.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user96" LastEditorDisplayName="user96" LastEditDate="2012-06-08T13:39:00.113" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T13:39:00.113" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2707" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33996" CreationDate="2012-06-08T12:15:01.560" Score="1" ViewCount="891" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the significance of certain movie titles with respect to their context? I mean, take for example, these 3 movies (spoilers ahead, be warned):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Winter's Bone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Raising Arizona &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Monster's Ball&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldnt figure out why these movies were named as they are. For example, in the case of the second listed movie, the baby was called Nathan Jr. so wouldnt it make sense to call it Raising Nathan Jr or even Raising Junior? So why the last name, especially when it could mean any one of the tiny tots and not one specific one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="240" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T00:48:32.500" Title="Movie Title versus Movie Context" Tags="|plot-explanation|title|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2707" CreationDate="2012-06-08T13:02:44.370" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Raising Arizona&lt;/em&gt; case, one of the quintuplets was chosen at random. Using the last name was the only solid thing in that experience. Randomness is a player in the movie. Everything seems to be driven positively or negatively based on chance. Nick Cage's character is the stereotypical Hapless Man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title would have been tough to choose &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; way if it were to be based on the movie's events:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shiftless Ex-con pulls failed con,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Con/Law-Woman Rom-Com,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Baby-on-Board-and-off Bank Robbery,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and on...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the title says too much, why bother seeing the movie? Though there are movies like &lt;em&gt;The Great Train Robbery&lt;/em&gt; that reveal just enough with the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T00:17:41.303" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T00:17:41.303" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2704" CreationDate="2012-06-08T13:17:21.087" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the most simpliest answer is that the adamantium was &lt;strong&gt;injected into his body&lt;/strong&gt;, where it covered his bones.  In order for his teeth to be covered the injected metal would have had to ooze out of his gums into his mouth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T13:17:21.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2710" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-08T13:31:47.573" Score="3" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;During Lethal Weapon, after Riggs and Murtaugh escape their captives after being tortured, Riggs chases down Joshua, the mercenary, but he gets away.  Joshua then proceeds to go to Murtaugh's house, presumably to use his family for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Joshua choose to go to Murtaugh's house, instead of fleeing the city after everything went south?  What did he hope to achieve there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-06-08T14:10:43.890" LastActivityDate="2012-06-15T17:40:17.413" Title="Why did Joshua go to Murtaugh's house instead of fleeing?" Tags="|analysis|lethal-weapon|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2707" CreationDate="2012-06-08T13:52:11.027" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movie titles can be anywhere from straight-forward, such as &quot;Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark&quot;, to a simple play on words like &quot;Smokin Aces&quot; (in this context it means killing a person named Aces), to complex plays on words with deeper meaning, like “Winter’s Bone” (in this context meaning something along the lines of winter throwing you a bone, so to speak).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some titles are meant to be descriptive, while others are meant to get their audience to look at the deeper meanigns of the title and film, and to come to their own conclusions as to the meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T13:52:11.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2700" CreationDate="2012-06-08T14:17:53.660" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not knowing much about the upcoming movie, nor anything about Bane the main adversary, I can only comment on the first two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The choice of brown evokes grime and dirt and brooding menance - a perfect analogy of the scene in Gotham, particularly with The Narrows - a slum part of the city, a no-go area for police similar to the (no-longer existing) Kowloon in Hong Kong.  The main adversary is Scarecrow, and the brown and black theme also evokes earthiness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The brighter blue/red theme in The Dark Knight is perfect for the character of the Joker.  The burning Batman symbol evokes a smiling Joker mouth, and ties into a key line of Alfreds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T14:17:53.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9315" CreationDate="2012-06-08T15:04:51.590" Score="5" ViewCount="617" Body="&lt;p&gt;While reading his wiki page it says that: Running alongside his enthusiasm for DVD, Scott is sometimes considered the &quot;father&quot; of the director's cut, though the impetus to produce such versions has sometimes begun with other parties. The positive reaction to the Blade Runner Director's Cut encouraged Scott to re-cut several movies that were a disappointment at the time of their release (including Legend and Kingdom of Heaven). Today the practice of alternative cuts is more commonplace, though often as a way to make a film stand out in the DVD marketplace by adding new material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blade Runner was his first Director's cut but he has made many since. It seems he has the most Director's Cut Editions. Also it seems that he does a lot of Director Cut because his movies are changed by studio input after test screenings. So does his making of so many Director's Cut actually hurt the movies ( since the original movie is no longer the definitive version) or help them by creating more layers? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="645" LastEditDate="2013-01-08T14:01:36.007" LastActivityDate="2013-01-08T14:01:36.007" Title="Does Ridley Scott's Director's Cut releases hurt his movies?" Tags="|ridley-scott|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2334" CreationDate="2012-06-08T15:20:51.103" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The entire point of the movie is that the drug gives Eddie the ability to think his way out of situations which would be completely impossible for normal people to. Since people already regularly get away with murder, it would be almost trivial for Eddie to figure out ways to convincingly alibi himself out of anything the police might want to pin on him. However, I do think this is an oversight on the part of the script, and should have been dealt with more explicitly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1453" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T15:20:51.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2694" CreationDate="2012-06-08T15:30:26.410" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simply answer is a Deus Ex Machina. As with most movies when the hero needs a item (or knows just what to do) to save the day he/she/it will somehow have just the item needed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we also have not only do Bill and Ted have a magical item, they someone have acquired cans of beans and franks. Also they have somehow acquired the knowledge to fix a future device.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T15:30:26.410" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2719" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3225" CreationDate="2012-06-08T16:50:05.333" Score="18" ViewCount="2536" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Philip K. Dick's novel 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' there are key aspects of the plot of the novel that are completely excluded from Blade Runner, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That animals have almost died out, and people keep one or more animals as pets, including farm animals.  This feeds into the elements of empathy and the Voigt Kampff test.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That many people in the world follow a technological religion - Mercerism - where people commune with an enigmatic figure through a virtual reality device called an 'empathy box'.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That a shadow Police force exists in L.A. almost entirely staffed by replicants, and that they use an entirely different test for human/android.  A blade runner from that outfit directly wonders which one of them (Deckard or himself) are real.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the novel, LA and indeed most of the planet is now vastly underpopulated, which is another reason why people use empathy boxes and pets to make themselves feel part of a community.  This is hinted in the movie in the scenes where J.F.Sebastian lives in a deserted condo, but many of the street scenes and bars are very crowded.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did the writers and Ridley Scott exclude these aspects of the original source material, despite them being core to the plot of the novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-27T12:48:11.353" LastActivityDate="2016-07-24T17:18:30.247" Title="Why did Blade Runner deviate from the source novel so significantly?" Tags="|analysis|book-adaptation|blade-runner|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2720" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2726" CreationDate="2012-06-08T17:14:54.893" Score="31" ViewCount="6682" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout Blade Runner we see Gaff (Edward James Olmos) making origami figures at various points in the movie. He makes a chicken, matchstick men and at the end of the film there is a unicorn waiting outside Deckard's apartment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VlZMZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;origami unicorn&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5181048/blade-runners-original-ending-yes-deckards-a-replicant&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;great&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://dreckfiction.wordpress.com/2010/08/22/yes-deckard-is-a-replicant/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;deal&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themes_in_Blade_Runner#Deckard:_human_or_replicant.3F&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;discussion&lt;/a&gt; out there regarding the unicorn in particular, and how it indicates that Deckard is a replicant. I think an answer regarding the use of origami in general will be interesting new ground to cover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why origami? What does the origami represent in Blade Runner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-07-22T13:45:35.850" LastActivityDate="2017-07-22T13:45:35.850" Title="What does the origami represent in Blade Runner?" Tags="|analysis|blade-runner|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2722" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-08T18:49:43.730" Score="19" ViewCount="8544" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of &lt;em&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt;, Deckard enters Sebastian’s apartment, gets ambushed and kills the girl.  He then gets chased around the apartment by Roy, who leads Deckard to believe that he is going to kill him.  At the end of the chase Roy saves Deckard from falling off the building, then gives his speech and dies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, why did Roy let Deckard live?  He had every opportunity to kill him, and plenty of motivation, but in the end he chose not to.  Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-03-23T04:06:08.667" LastActivityDate="2024-03-25T16:06:47.070" Title="Why did Roy let Deckard live?" Tags="|analysis|blade-runner|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2723" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2724" CreationDate="2012-06-08T19:26:25.663" Score="10" ViewCount="443" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of Ridley Scott's most exclaimed science fiction movies is Alien. It's also one of the few movies that does not have a city scape. When involved in the re-release in 2003 he started to want to direct another Alien movie. It's states on his wiki though that he wasn't happy with the Director's Cut because he found the original pretty flawless. So why would he make a prequel then? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T19:41:11.590" Title="Why did Ridley Scott decide on doing a prequel?" Tags="|ridley-scott|prometheus|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2723" CreationDate="2012-06-08T19:41:11.590" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not actually a prequel, but rather is set in the same universe but earlier in the time line.  He made the coice to not make a direct prequel to essentially avoid being repetative in the material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film began development in the early 2000s as a fifth entry in the&#xA;  Alien franchise, with both Scott and director James Cameron developing&#xA;  ideas for a film that would serve as a prequel to Scott's 1979 science&#xA;  fiction horror film Alien. By 2003, the project was sidelined by the&#xA;  development of Alien vs. Predator, and remained dormant until 2009&#xA;  when Scott again showed interest. A script by Spaihts acted as a&#xA;  prequel to the events of the Alien films, but Scott opted for a&#xA;  different direction to avoid repeating cues from those films. In late&#xA;  2010, he brought Lindelof onto the project to rewrite Spaihts' script,&#xA;  and together they developed a separate story that precedes the story&#xA;  of Alien but is not directly connected to that franchise. According to&#xA;  Scott, though the film shares &quot;strands of Alien's DNA, so to speak&quot;,&#xA;  and takes place in the same universe, Prometheus will explore its own&#xA;  mythology and ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T19:41:11.590" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2722" CreationDate="2012-06-08T19:59:20.477" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the main themes of the movie is the question what makes us human, and, especially, if the replicants in their desperate struggle for survival are in the end not more human than the cold-blooded killing Blade Runner. In this way this scene may be interpreted as &lt;em&gt;Roy&lt;/em&gt; showing the humanity that &lt;em&gt;Deckard&lt;/em&gt; would have probably not shown to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I also think &lt;em&gt;Roy&lt;/em&gt; actually already saw his end coming at this point. So he just let matters rest and helped him, to tell him his last words, since he had not to fear him any more. He was only fighting for his own survival and showed his humanity when laying down his sword once this obstacle didn't stand between them anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="67810" LastEditDate="2024-03-25T16:06:47.070" LastActivityDate="2024-03-25T16:06:47.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2720" CreationDate="2012-06-08T20:40:43.327" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's because with origami you can go from a simple non living material such as a simple sheet of paper and mold it into something that is a representation of a living thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although this might never get a true answer I like to think it has something to do with the artificial creation of something representing life or dreams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When thinking further along these lines it strikes me that indeed the origami are all artificial representations of something living, yet a unicorn can never be really alive which can then be some sort of an origami analogy for Deckard = Replicant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1441" LastEditorUserId="1441" LastEditDate="2012-06-08T21:37:26.007" LastActivityDate="2012-06-08T21:37:26.007" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4476" CreationDate="2012-06-08T21:40:46.150" Score="11" ViewCount="1839" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/article_19852_5-famous-movies-that-shamelessly-ripped-off-obscure-ones.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Cracked article,&lt;/a&gt; it states that Ridley Scott ripped off two other lesser know movies to make &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt;. However according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia,&lt;/a&gt; Dan O'Bannon takes the credit for stealing from these two movies. How much influence is from the script and how much is from the director? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, even though it's a comedy site they don't actually say that the director never gave credit to these two movies. Has Ridley Scott ever acknowledged these movies as influencing his designs for this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2017-01-06T10:17:44.180" LastActivityDate="2017-01-06T10:17:44.180" Title="How much was Ridley Scott actually influenced on Alien?" Tags="|ridley-scott|alien|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2729" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2738" CreationDate="2012-06-08T22:07:05.210" Score="4" ViewCount="911" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems there is a difference of opinion as to what the definition of a prequel is on this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2723/why-did-ridley-scott-decide-on-doing-a-prequel&quot;&gt;Why did Ridley Scott decide on doing a prequel?&lt;/a&gt; So what are the defining characteristics of a prequel? Are there varying degrees or is everything that happens previous to the first story and sharing elements ( characters, scenes, items, companies, nouns of all kinds) able to be considered a prequel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T10:20:38.823" Title="What makes a movie a prequel?" Tags="|prequels|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2730" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2784" CreationDate="2012-06-08T22:08:04.257" Score="40" ViewCount="112661" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/&quot;&gt;Prometheus&lt;/a&gt;, when the android David is talking with the Engineer, first he stumbles a bit and stays crouched, then they are all asking him questions and David seems to translate it. Then they all stand up, the Engineer strokes his chair and snaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, did the Engineer destroy David and go on a rampage because of what he said, or did he have another reason for that? If so, &lt;strong&gt;What did David say to the Engineer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-13T18:48:05.163" LastActivityDate="2020-10-09T07:08:49.073" Title="What did David say to the engineer in Prometheus?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|prometheus|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2742" CreationDate="2012-06-08T22:10:09.870" Score="22" ViewCount="66024" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope this question isn't too tirivial, but in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330793/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Punisher&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Harry Heck&lt;/em&gt; says to &lt;em&gt;Frank&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You are one dumb son of a bitch. Bringing a knife to a gunfight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;right before &lt;em&gt;Frank&lt;/em&gt; kills him making said knife shoot out from the shaft.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always understood this quote as a reference to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094226/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Untouchables&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when &lt;em&gt;Malone&lt;/em&gt; (having a gun in hand) says to some thug trying to stab him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Isn't that just like a wop? Brings a knife to a gun fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just before running into a trap and being gunned down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;So first of all is there any source that this is indeed intended as a reference to &lt;em&gt;The Untouchables&lt;/em&gt; or is it just me drawing a connection where there is none (though the quotes are really similar).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And furthermore, is the quote from &lt;em&gt;The Untouchables&lt;/em&gt; maybe in turn a reference to another (maybe more famous) older movie/story (to which &lt;em&gt;The Punisher&lt;/em&gt; maybe actually refers, too)?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2017-10-05T19:10:23.980" Title="Origin of &quot;knife to a gunfight&quot; quote" Tags="|dialogue|the-untouchables|origin|the-punisher|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2722" CreationDate="2012-06-08T23:55:21.480" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Roy and the other replicants have been engaged in a desperate struggle to live, and Roy has been running most of the show. The struggle was Roy's and though it has been carried out on the cerebral level where he is the most able (i.e. get to Earth, find Tyrel, get access, force him to provide a fix...) it has been a desperate time nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he finds Pris dead, Roy is understandable angry and he starts by trying to make Deckard &lt;em&gt;live&lt;/em&gt; the fear and desperation, but in the course of watching (and causing) Deckard's struggles he begins to empathize with the man who came after him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of all that, Roy's end is coming. His body is breaking down during the same time as Deckard fights to stay ahead of him, Roy's final speech gives us a clue: he wants someone to remember that he lived and some pale shadow of what he saw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Empathy and legacy come together and Deckard gets his reprieve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="454" LastEditorUserId="454" LastEditDate="2017-06-27T19:56:57.767" LastActivityDate="2017-06-27T19:56:57.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2730" CreationDate="2012-06-09T00:24:08.847" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it was really what he said so much so as what David said was in the language of the engineers and that scared the engineer. Think of it from his perspective. The engineer is in stasis and is woken up by small humanoids from earth (I think it is fair to say the engineers would know more about us then we do about them). We got someone being very emotional, screaming and crying and then getting beaten and silenced, a creepy old guy, a dude with a gun and then David, talking in his language. The engineer checks him out and sees that he is different and perhaps a threat. He tries to destroy David and the others to complete his mission of cleansing earth out of fear from what has happened ; life on earth now is almost competition if not a threat to other life in the galaxy. In later films mankind is seen terra forming and colonizing the rest of the galaxy, similar to the way the engineers do it all be it not as divine or sentient.  So I think what he asked was probaly what wyland asked him to ask, it was just the shock of seeing that humans had learned so much about there creators. But like Prometheus, do we understand the power of that knowledge, or will it be our undoing. Great film, great scene, great anticipation for any other Prometheus sequels!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1457" LastEditorUserId="1457" LastEditDate="2012-06-09T00:40:34.307" LastActivityDate="2012-06-09T00:40:34.307" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2736" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2749" CreationDate="2012-06-09T00:54:21.303" Score="32" ViewCount="138165" Body="&lt;p&gt;Elrond mentions that going to The Undying Land which is west of Middle Earth allows Elves to be immortal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this apply to other creatures such as Hobbits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know Frodo and Bilbo Baggins go there at the end of the Lord of the Rings but do they go there to die or to be immortal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-23T12:26:49.877" LastActivityDate="2021-01-01T04:31:52.637" Title="Do Frodo and Bilbo live forever at the end of the Lord of the Rings trilogy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2730" CreationDate="2012-06-09T00:58:09.083" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a difference between the Engineer at the beginning of the movie and the violent Engineer at the end, being one is muscular the latter seems to be either in a suit or biologically altered. The reason for this is unanswered but the Engineer at the end seems to act more militantly, he can even fly the ship and plots a course for Earth. I assume he does know who the humans are, it's his business and his job to drop all those vials of black gunk in his pay load. However, I also get David is 'playing' with the scientists as he displays psychotic mannerisms, like he has his own agenda, so I wouldn't rule out that he whispers something malevolent, just to see what happens. Is the Engineer at the end part Xeno? Perhaps... however, as a movie character it just would not make sense if he gave them all a big hug, said 'well done, you've made it' then flew off to destroy earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1458" LastActivityDate="2012-06-09T00:58:09.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2729" CreationDate="2012-06-09T03:21:28.623" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prequel:&lt;/strong&gt; A story or movie containing events that precede those of an existing work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This forms a vague descriptive definition as it does not dictate what or how far the movie precedes the story, or if the events do lead up to the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to speak, Prometheus is a prequel because it takes place in the same universe as Alien and happens before its time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically, Prometheus is not a prequel. Although the story is same in the same arc (universe) the plot or the film does not lead to the events of happening from Aliens, although it &lt;em&gt;influences&lt;/em&gt; certain events. Prometheus thus is like a &lt;em&gt;soft&lt;/em&gt; prequel, not entirely unrelated to Alien. The main thing to be a prequel is the &lt;em&gt;continuum&lt;/em&gt; of the story. Alien is a prequel for Aliens because the two are connected by storylines and events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2012-06-09T03:21:28.623" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2631" CreationDate="2012-06-09T03:53:41.033" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no actual evidence that Prometheus takes place on a different planet. There is a widely accepted &quot;theory&quot; that it takes place on LV-223 instead of the LV-426, but there is no hard evidence, other than word of mouth. Even if that is from the director himself; it's still word of mouth. The truth is: they screwed up on the continuity either on purpose (just to add one last scare), or on accident (just to add one last scare)--and LV-223 was just a way for fans to cope with the continuity error . . . which it is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why the atmosphere changed from Prometheus to Alien is because the spaceship which is in itself a terraforming mechanism crashed and hence, wasn't working properly. What happens when an oxygen super producing underground spaceship stops working? The area around it has becomes less full of oxygen. Without plantlife on earth, earth would have mor Carbon Dioxide in the air . . . and it's the same with Prometheus. The ship no longer produced oxygen and thus more carbon dioxide in the air many years in the future when the people from Alien landed on the planet (and the spaceship is in the exact same position, mind you).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, likewise, the reason why there were no eggs in the fallen spaceship in Prometheus is because the alien that popped out of the super human's chest hadn't yet laid the eggs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's really quite obvious that Prometheus and Alien takes place on the same planet; or at least the writers wrote it for that reason because all the pieces of the puzzle seem to fit the same way The Thing prequel fit with the events in original The Thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, it being a different planet was only born to cope with this particular continuity error . . . and it is a continuity error. A BIG ONE. Such a big one that perhaps they (being perhaps Ridley Scott) would purposefully plant it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1462" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2012-06-10T03:35:50.327" LastActivityDate="2012-06-10T03:35:50.327" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2730" CreationDate="2012-06-09T07:50:11.503" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it more like the engineer is seeing the very thing its people fear right in front of it. The race we see in the beginning and the end are the same. They all seem to focus on the answer from a genetic not synthic point of view. The engineer sees David speak to him in is native speech. This shakes it's senses and he attacks David when wayland try's to stop it it defends it self gets shot and goes on a rampage. This confirms his fear and decides to deploy the weapon of best result against a genetic foe. This will reduce its resistance to destroy a synthetic foe. Think about it they create life in there own image not robots, when they visit to check on us it's all good but when the don't like the way that branch is going they send down a adaptable weapon a weapon that feeds on and replicates in so every lose to us is a gain to them that is a powerful weapon. I don't think earth would be a one off project, I'm sure that this is a bigger problem for the engineers then we see in the prologue. We're not alone I think in the resistance to the engineers plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1464" LastActivityDate="2012-06-09T07:50:11.503" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2731" CreationDate="2012-06-09T09:06:58.607" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, it comes from &lt;em&gt;The Untouchables&lt;/em&gt; film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Films&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to searches at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.subzin.com/search.php?q=knife%20gunfight&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Subzin&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Untouchables&lt;/em&gt; was the first with this line, but has been emulated in at least 20 other films since 2000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Untouchables&lt;/em&gt; (1987)&#xA;01:21:23 Brings a knife to a gunfight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Target Shoots First&lt;/em&gt; (2000)&#xA;00:17:38 What are you doing, Max? Bringing a knife to a gunfight?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shottas&lt;/em&gt; (2002)&#xA;00:18:22 what are you doing, max? bringing a knife to a gunfight?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Duplex&lt;/em&gt; (2003)&#xA;01:17:10 Who are ya, bringing a knife to a gunfight?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Punisher&lt;/em&gt; (2004)&#xA;01:06:55 Bring a knife to a gunfight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Waist Deep&lt;/em&gt; (2006)&#xA;00:33:12 Nigga, don't bring a knife to a gunfight, my...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;BloodRayne II: Deliverance&lt;/em&gt; (2007)&#xA;00:28:09 Ain't it like an Irishman&#xA;to bring a bottle to a gunfight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dod vid ankomst&lt;/em&gt; (2008)&#xA;00:59:29 How typical of you, bringing a knife to a gun fight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull&lt;/em&gt; (2008)&#xA;Nice try kid, but I think you just brought a knife. To a gunfight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day&lt;/em&gt; (2009)&#xA;00:35:47 That's like bringing a knife to a gunfight. / Yeah, or like bringing a really small gun to a gunfight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Good Guy&lt;/em&gt; (2009)&#xA;00:37:24 Never take a knife to a gunfight, mate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wonderful World&lt;/em&gt; (2009)&#xA;00:26:00 Never bring a knife to a gunfight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Death Hunter&lt;/em&gt; (2010)&#xA;00:50:49 Just like a rookie to bring a knife to a gun fight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Including some variations on the theme:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Glimmer Man&lt;/em&gt; (1996)&#xA;00:16:59 It's kind of like takin' a screwdriver to a gunfight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Black Cat Run&lt;/em&gt; (1998)&#xA;00:32:40 A crow bar to a gun fight? Drop the fucking crowbar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Urban Justice&lt;/em&gt; (2007)&#xA;01:27:07 l know you ain't dumb enough to bring a fist to a gunfight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;G-Force&lt;/em&gt; (2009)&#xA;01:12:27 [Speckles] Just like humans. Bringing guns to a space junk fight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unrivaled&lt;/em&gt; (2010)&#xA;00:28:46 you brought a knife to a bottle fight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cross&lt;/em&gt; (2011)&#xA;00:08:06 Genius. Brings sticks to a gunfight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Books&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Untouchables&lt;/em&gt; film is based on the 1957 book of the same name, but it doesn't seem like the quote comes from the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first use of the phrase I could find in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=%22knife%20to%20a%20gunfight%22%20OR%20%22knife%20to%20a%20gun%20fight%22%20OR%20%22knife%20to%20a%20shootout%22&amp;amp;num=20&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;safe=off&amp;amp;biw=930&amp;amp;bih=462&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=SQrTT9PRB4qK4gSWiZG2Aw&amp;amp;ved=0CDcQpwUoBA&amp;amp;source=lnt&amp;amp;tbs=sbd:1,cdr:1,cd_min:,cd_max:12/31/1990&amp;amp;tbm=bks&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google Books&lt;/a&gt; is in 1989, after the film came out: in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=%22knife%20to%20a%20gunfight%22%20OR%20%22knife%20to%20a%20gun%20fight%22%20OR%20%22knife%20to%20a%20shootout%22&amp;amp;num=20&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;safe=off&amp;amp;biw=930&amp;amp;bih=462&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=SQrTT9PRB4qK4gSWiZG2Aw&amp;amp;ved=0CDcQpwUoBA&amp;amp;source=lnt&amp;amp;tbs=sbd:1,cdr:1,cd_min:,cd_max:12/31/1990&amp;amp;tbm=bks&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;fishing magazine&lt;/a&gt; and a book called &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=jL-B-Zqwu6MC&amp;amp;q=%22knife%20to%20a%20gunfight%22%20OR%20%22knife%20to%20a%20gun%20fight%22%20OR%20%22knife%20to%20a%20shootout%22&amp;amp;dq=%22knife%20to%20a%20gunfight%22%20OR%20%22knife%20to%20a%20gun%20fight%22%20OR%20%22knife%20to%20a%20shootout%22&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=XArTT6jzFMbm4QTw7_CxAw&amp;amp;ved=0CEMQ6AEwAg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Texas Wit and Wisdom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;). It does sound like it could be a Texas phrase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=knife%20to%20a%20gunfight,knife%20to%20a%20gun%20fight&amp;amp;year_start=1980&amp;amp;year_end=2000&amp;amp;corpus=0&amp;amp;smoothing=3&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ngram&lt;/a&gt; shows nothing before 1987:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iSvzm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ngram&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Newspapers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, the first use I found in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=%22knife%20to%20a%20gunfight%22%20OR%20%22knife%20to%20a%20gun%20fight%22%20OR%20%22knife%20to%20a%20shootout%22&amp;amp;num=20&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;safe=off&amp;amp;gl=us&amp;amp;tbs=cdr:1,cd_max:1990,sbd:1&amp;amp;tbm=nws&amp;amp;source=lnt&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=kQ3TT9T3OI2B4AT29aCOAw&amp;amp;ved=0CDcQpwUoAQ&amp;amp;biw=930&amp;amp;bih=462&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google News&lt;/a&gt; is from June 24, 1987 in the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mV8iAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;sjid=AqsFAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;pg=2959,4795026&amp;amp;dq=knife-to-a-gunfight%20%7C%20knife-to-a-gun-fight%20%7C%20knife-to-a-shootout&amp;amp;hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Argus Press&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;'s review of &lt;em&gt;The Untouchables&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;'Untouchables:' It's a Brilliant Movie Destined To Be a Classic&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He [Sean Connery] has lots of great lines as Ness's mentor but the best one is when he tells Ness right away the first rule of police work:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Make sure when your shift is over you go home alive.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another is when, fighting for his life, he cracks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Leave it to a ... to bring a knife to a gunfight.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="386" LastEditDate="2012-06-11T10:26:34.717" LastActivityDate="2012-06-11T10:26:34.717" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="599" CreationDate="2012-06-09T10:29:59.703" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The quote both relates how, by the end of the film, Jake LaMotta has found his own peace; and as a tribute to Martin Scorsese's film teacher, Haig P. Manoogian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmsite.org/ragi3.html&quot;&gt;Filmsite&lt;/a&gt;'s review of &lt;em&gt;Raging Bull&lt;/em&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The final title commemorates Jake's &quot;once I was blind and now I can&#xA;  see&quot; salvation and new understanding:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Final Title:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    So, for the second time, [the Pharisees]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    summoned the man who had been blind and said:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    &quot;Speak the truth before God.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    We know this fellow is a sinner.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    &quot;Whether or not he is a sinner, I do not know,&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    the man replied.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    &quot;All I know is this:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    once I was blind and now I can see.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    John IX. 24-26&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    the New English Bible&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Remembering Haig P. Manoogian, teacher.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    May 23, 1916 - May 26, 1980.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    With Love and resolution, Marty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Remembering Haig P. Manoogian, teacher. May 23, 1916 - May 26, 1980. With Love and resolution, Marty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;[Director Martin Scorsese's dedication to his NYU film teacher.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmreference.com/Films-Pi-Ra/Raging-Bull.html&quot;&gt;Film Reference&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Martin Scorsese's telling of the story of Jake La Motta has given rise to a number of different, often conflicting, readings. For Scorsese himself, La Motta's trajectory from promising boxer to middleweight champion of the world to night-club performer is the story of &quot;a guy attaining something and losing everything, and then redeeming himself.&quot; Such a reading is clearly reinforced by the quotation from St. John's gospel preceding the final credits, which tells of a man whose sight has been restored by Christ rebuking the Pharisees: &quot;Whether or not he is a sinner, I do not know,&quot; the man replied. &quot;All I know is this: once I was blind and now I can see.&quot; On this level, La Motta's life becomes a kind of spiritual odyssey of the kind encountered before in the work of Schrader and Scorsese, both separately and in collaboration one with another. As Scorsese describes La Motta: &quot;He works on an almost primitive level, almost an animal level. And therefore he must think in a different way, he must be aware of certain things spiritually that we aren't, because our minds are too cluttered with intellectual ideas, and too much emotionalism. And because he's on that animalistic level, he may be closer to pure spirit.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it wasn't how the script originally ended. From Les Keyser's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adherents.com/people/ps/Paul_Schrader.html&quot;&gt;Martin Scorsese&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Twayne Publishers: New York, 1992), pages 121-122:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The title cards with which Scorsese chooses to end &lt;em&gt;Raging Bull&lt;/em&gt; suggest that he did not feel equivocal about La Motta's salvation. The original script ended with images of Jake shadowboxing, a description of Jake as &quot;still alive, still a condender, a forty-two year old man fighting for a shot,&quot; and a citation from St. John's Gospel, chapter 3, beginning with verse 3: &quot;Verily, verily I saw unto thee except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.&quot; By the time &lt;em&gt;Raging Bull&lt;/em&gt; was completed, Scorsese decided to change the citation to later lines in St. John's Gospel, chapter 9, beginning with verse 24: &quot;So, for the second time, the Pharisees summoned the man who had been blind and said: 'Speak the truth before God, We know this fellow is a sinner.' Whether or not he is a sinner, I do not know,' the man replied. 'All I know is this: once I was blind and now I can see'.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Scorsese was totally responsible for the new text. His collaborator [screenwriter] Paul Schrader maintains that it does not fit the film: &quot;I had no idea it was going to be there, and when I saw it I was absolutely baffled. I don't think it's true of La Motta either in real life or in the movie; I think he's the same dumb lug at the end as at the beginning, and I think Marty is just imposing salvation on his subject by fiat. I've never really got from him a terribly credible reason for why he did it; he just seemed to feel that it was right&quot; (Schrader 1990, 133).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In this new &quot;now I can see&quot; citation, Scorsese was commemorating Jakes' new understanding and peace, but as his title card went on to note, he was also &quot;Remembering Haig P. Manoogian, teacher, May 23, 1916-May 26, 1980, with love and resolution, Marty.&quot; Those who knew Manoogian would recall that he challenged all his New York University students to see and linked the idea of seeing with the essence of art and religion. As a headnote, for example, to his text &lt;em&gt;The Filmmaker's Art&lt;/em&gt;, Scorsese's mentor had cited the Victorian critic John Ruskin: &quot;The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plan way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, all in one&quot; (Manoogian, vii). Scorsese found poetry, prophecy, and religion in La Motta's life and struggled in &lt;em&gt;Raging Bull&lt;/em&gt; to make audiences share his vision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2012-06-09T10:29:59.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2736" CreationDate="2012-06-09T11:34:00.583" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The elves are immortal by nature and it isn't &lt;em&gt;Valinor&lt;/em&gt; that makes them immortal (they would have lived forever in &lt;em&gt;Middle Earth&lt;/em&gt;, too, they just go to a nicer place to live). Likewise does it not cause the mortal hobbits to live forever. It is called the &lt;em&gt;Undying Lands&lt;/em&gt; because only immortals live there and not the other way around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But on the other hand, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valinor&quot;&gt;this Wikipedia site&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...only immortal beings were allowed to reside there, but the land&#xA;  itself, while blessed, did not cause mortals to live forever. Amongst&#xA;  the exceptions to this were the surviving bearers of the One Ring —&#xA;  Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the phrasing here is a bit unclear. It could be they were an exception to only immortals being allowed there, or they could be an exception to the fact that it didn't cause mortals to live forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been quite a long time since I read &lt;em&gt;LotR&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Silmarillion&lt;/em&gt;, but I don't think &lt;em&gt;Frodo&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Bilbo&lt;/em&gt; were going to live forever. They just got a nice place to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2012-06-09T11:34:00.583" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2748" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2751" CreationDate="2012-06-09T19:19:40.183" Score="43" ViewCount="190015" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/&quot;&gt;Prometheus&lt;/a&gt; I don't have a clear idea of why the Engineers created the human beings. Because, if they created humans so that they can test their bio-weapons on us, then it makes sense, but it's ambiguous. &lt;strong&gt;Why did the Engineers want to destroy the human beings&lt;/strong&gt; that they have created?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I miss something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-13T18:47:50.587" LastActivityDate="2023-08-14T14:49:15.380" Title="What was the motivation behind the Engineers actions in Prometheus?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2736" CreationDate="2012-06-09T19:32:17.973" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am delivering here a relevant portion of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=15004&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;forum thread&lt;/a&gt; concerning the immortality of mortals who pass to the Undying Lands. It seems that Christopher Tolkien used many of his father's letters to accumulate a fair body of knowledge about Middle Earth and its rules in &lt;em&gt;The Silmarillion&lt;/em&gt;, but that some letters specific to the life and death of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins were unclear, (perhaps intentionally so - my interpretation - The whole thread is a very interesting read).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the relevant passage I found:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in this story it is supposed that there may be certain rare exceptions or accommodations (legitimately supposed? there always seem to be exceptions); and so certain 'mortals', who have played some great part in Elvish affairs, may pass with the Elves to Elvenhome. Thus Frodo (by the express gift of Arwen) and Bilbo, and eventually Sam (as adumbrated by Frodo); and as a unique exception Gimli the Dwarf, as a friend of Legolas and 'servant' of Galadriel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have said nothing about it in this book, but the mythical idea underlying is that for mortals, since their 'kind' cannot be changed for ever, this is strictly only a temporary reward: a healing and redress of suffering. They cannot abide for ever, and though they cannot return to mortal earth, they can and will 'die' - of free will, and leave the world. - &lt;em&gt;Letter #154&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or from letter #325:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Frodo or other mortals, they could only dwell in Aman for a limited time - whether brief or long. The Valar had neither the power nor the right to confer &amp;quot;immortality&amp;quot; upon them. Their sojorn was a &amp;quot;purgatory&amp;quot;, but one of peace and healing and they would eventually pass away (die at their own desire and of free will) to destinations of which the Elves knew nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T14:22:47.200" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2730" CreationDate="2012-06-09T19:37:04.207" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before the crew enters the chamber to awaken the Engineer, Elizabeth asks David why the Engineers would want to destroy Earth. David replies &quot;sometimes before you can create you must destroy&quot;. It's also explained earlier in the film that the reason the Engineers ship has breathable air is because it was terraforming the planet. So the Engineers are planet builders, which is exactly what Wayland Industries has become. Mankind has started to mimic it's creators, mankind has even created David so they've become a creator as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the Engineer is awakened he is faced with his own creation, that is mankind. There is Weyland demanding that David ask him what the key to life is. Elizabeth is demanding that David ask why the Engineers want to destroy Earth. One of Weyland's bodyguards strikes Elizabeth sending her to the ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David watches all this chaos. It's clear during the film that David becomes intrigued and amazed by the Engineers. He is also fascinated by the idea that a thing can meet its maker. So we are not sure what David's mindset is when he first speaks to the Engineer. We know that David is capable of murder because he has no feelings for humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Engineer sees his creation &quot;mankind&quot; in its raw form. Weyland represents greed, death and weakness. Elizabeth represents fear and anger, and her being pushed down represents the sins of mankind. David speaks to the Engineer and he turns to David, places his hand on his head almost to say &quot;I am pleased, but also I am sorry&quot;. The Engineer then tries to kill David by ripping his head off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Near the end of the film, David's talking head tells Elizabeth he was wrong about the Engineers. It's not explained what he was wrong about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think it's clear that David says something condemning the human race to the Engineer while everyone else in the room is acting badly. So the Engineer pats David on the head much like a master patting his dog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="1100" LastEditDate="2014-11-08T23:13:10.707" LastActivityDate="2014-11-08T23:13:10.707" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2012-06-09T19:49:56.220" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Engineers are planet builders who seed planets with the gift of life. It's shown in the start of the film that the Engineers visit Earth repeatedly, as their figure pointing to a constellation of stars is found throughout history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the film starts, an Engineer drinks the dark fluid, that starts this chain reaction of life. This fluid is so powerful, that it can turn a dead planet into a living Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the crew of the Prometheus lands on the alien planet, and they enter the tomb their foot steps uncover worms that are preserved in the tomb. They are still alive and crawling. The tomb cylinders start to leak the black fluid and the worms mix with the fluid. These worms evolve into the snake like creatures that later attack the two crew members stuck in the tomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, only the Prometheus captain refers to the black cylinders as bombs or weapons. When Elizabeth is talking to David she asks why the Engineers would want to destroy Earth, David replies &quot;sometimes before you can create you must destroy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the Engineers were going to destroy Earth as much as &quot;restart&quot; it. It's clear they took an active role in making our planet, but they had some kind of agenda that isn't defined in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why, at the end of the film Elizabeth flies to their home world. To find out why the Engineers had decided Earth was a failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I answered this question two years ago, but since then a lot has been revealed about the plot for Prometheus by Ridley Scott. The following comes from various sources that I've read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the start of the film. Illustrations of figures pointing to the stars implies this was a message from the Engineers. Ridley stated in an interview that there is nothing in the film that indicates these figures were Engineers, and the pointing could have been a warning not an invitation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ridley says the early planet shown at the start where an Engineer sacrifices himself was not Earth, nor does it indicate if it was a historic reference or present day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ridley Scott has said in an interview that the reason the Engineers wanted to destroy Earth (specifically mankind) was because Jesus Christ was an Engineer. The Engineers made man, man went bad so they sent an Engineer to try and fix the problem. We crucified the Engineer and apparently they didn't like this. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many other controversial topics related to the film, but I decided to only reference the things that came directly from Ridley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="1100" LastEditDate="2014-09-23T20:31:48.227" LastActivityDate="2014-09-23T20:31:48.227" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2631" CreationDate="2012-06-09T20:01:52.087" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ridley Scott has stated clearly before this movie was released that it is not a prequel to the Alien film. It takes place almost a hundred years before LV-426 is found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, Ridley Scott has talked about making a trilogy of the Prometheus films. We can assume that the strange looking xenomorph shown at the end of Prometheus is an early ancestor to the xenomorph shown in Alien.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this the mother to all aliens or just an example of a xenomorph hatched from an Engineer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Updated Sept - 2016&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read an interesting interview with Ridley Scott in which he explains that we never see the original xenomorph that laid the eggs in the dialect ship. Not in the original Alien (1979) film or the follow up Aliens (1986) film. In both of those films the xenomorph seen was birthed from human DNA, and the xenomorph shown in Prometheus was a human/Engineer hybrid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ridley has also stated he will not be returning to the planet visited in Prometheus. So the genealogy of the xenomorph born on that planet will remain a mystery. He's also stated that in the coming films he wants to explore new design ideas for the xenomorph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the size of the Engineer in Prometheus compared to Alien (1979). Some people on the internet have verified that at the end of Prometheus when the Engineer takes the cockpit chair. He is the same size relative to a human as in Alien (1979). The issue is that the Engineer's in Prometheus are not wearing the same spacesuit when they are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; in the cockpit chair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="1100" LastEditDate="2016-09-16T00:13:53.483" LastActivityDate="2016-09-16T00:13:53.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2754" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2763" CreationDate="2012-06-10T09:22:38.370" Score="41" ViewCount="117436" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every time Frodo put on the ring the Eye of Sauron could see where he was and almost see into his soul as well. Frodo appeared to suffer hugely when he put the ring on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bilbo was able to turn invisible and have no side effects or suffering when he wore it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What changed between Bilbo having the ring and then passing it on to Frodo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were the Nazgûl looking for the ring when Bilbo had it or was it only around the time Frodo got the ring?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-09-07T03:28:33.910" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T08:47:53.163" Title="Why did the ring affect Frodo so much and not Bilbo?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2704" CreationDate="2012-06-10T09:36:53.110" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;In humans, teeth make up part of the skeletel system but they are not classified as bones. Teeth are made up of Dentin and Enamel whereas bones are made up of Osseous tissue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I imagine the adamantium only bonded to the Osseous and not the Dentin or Enamel which results in adamantium bones and shiny white teeth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-06-10T09:50:19.827" LastActivityDate="2012-06-10T09:50:19.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="124" CreationDate="2012-06-10T10:00:11.727" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If just say Harry had travelled back to when Tom Riddle was young and killed him, Harry would have no way of getting back to the present time as it appears the Time Turner only allows people to go back and no forward. This would result in Harry being old by the time he is supposed to be in Hogwarts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if this was to work then one individual would have to sacrifice their life in the present time for a life in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastActivityDate="2012-06-10T10:00:11.727" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2012-06-10T14:31:03.663" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is fairly clear that the engineers were responsible for the seeding of human life on earth (and probably all life unless the film makers were careless in how they described DNA similarities). But there is very little evidence given directly as to why they did this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also know the engineers must have interacted with early mankind or the archaeological traces with the star map would not have been created. But we don't have any evidence about what they did to early man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the other threads in the movie is the somewhat naive desire in some characters to &quot;meet their maker&quot;. Peter Weyland seeks their knowledge because it might preserve his fading life. Elisabeth Shaw seeks them out of some primal urge to understand where she came from (perhaps compensating for the early deaths of her parents). She ends with a strong desire to know whey they &quot;rejected&quot; humanity (almost as if she is asking &quot;what did we do wrong?&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything shown about the engineers in the movie itself seems designed to contradict these naive views about them being benign &quot;creators&quot;. The best theory about their work on the planet was that it was a military experiment, deliberately isolated from engineerdom because it was dangerous (I think this was the captain's idea). The storage areas for the &quot;eggs&quot; certainly suggest that they were being made and stored by the engineers. The stored videos in the pyramid complex certainly look like something went wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So why the connection with earth?&lt;/em&gt; Given the above I think the engineers were simply creating species to use in their experiments. We were just sophisticated lab rats and they felt no more  empathy with us then we would with rats killed in medical experiments. The woken engineer just wanted to destroy the people waking him and his urgency to act after waking might be a product of wanting to destroy humanity before it gets out of hand (clearly the original plan to test the weapons would have been on a pre-space age planet where the experiments could not escape).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in conclusion, &lt;strong&gt;it wasn't that they wanted to destroy humanity: they wanted to use us as guinea-pigs in a bio-weapon experiment.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only mystery is why they interacted with ancient man (though they could just have been monitoring the experiment's progress). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="68" LastEditDate="2012-06-10T15:41:34.043" LastActivityDate="2012-06-10T15:41:34.043" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2754" CreationDate="2012-06-10T19:04:41.690" Score="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the two main reasons behind this are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That Sauron is slowly increasing his powers over the whole timeline of the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings - the stories of which take place over an 80 year period.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That Bilbo never receives the attention of Sauron in quite the same way that Frodo does.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bilbo's 111th birthday party which starts the story of the Lord of the Rings, and where Bilbo gives the ring to Frodo, takes place about 60 years after the events of The Hobbit.  A further 18 years elapses before Frodo starts to bear the ring towards Mordor to destroy it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the distant past, Sauron was defeated by Isildur and thought to be destroyed, however he is slowly rebuilding his power for literally hundreds of years under the guise of being The Necromancer of Dol Guldur. Sauron does not even openly declare himself until about 10 years after Bilbo finds the ring, and he believes the ring has been lost in the area he was defeated by Isildur.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at the time that Bilbo owns the ring, Sauron is not as powerful, and he believes the ring is lost and is searching for it in the wrong area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Tolkien's writings, Bilbo's party is in S.R. (Shire Reckoning) 1401.  It is not until some time between 1409 and 1417 that Gollum (venturing into Mordor seeking the ring himself) is captured by Sauron.  Since Gollum is released only a year before the Nazgul actively start seeking for &quot;Baggins&quot; one can guess that it is likely that this happens towards the end of this time period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it is well after Bilbo is no longer the owner and active user of the ring that Sauron starts to seek him.  Frodo obeys Gandalf's recommendations and does not use the ring in this period, and breaks this for the first time 'accidentally' in the Prancing Pony very briefly, and does not seem to suffer particularly from the experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is when he is attacked by the Nazgul on Weathertop that he first starts to see things - and even then it is primarily the nearby Nazgul that can sense and see him - not Sauron yet from his tower hundreds of miles away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also Bilbo stays in the Shire with the ring whereas Frodo brings the ring ever closer to Sauron in the attempt to destroy it, so its possible the closer he comes to Mordor the more powerful and corruptive a hold it gains on Frodo.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2019-04-05T08:47:53.163" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T08:47:53.163" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2764" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3266" CreationDate="2012-06-11T00:19:24.167" Score="26" ViewCount="24641" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Idiocracy&lt;/em&gt; (2006)&lt;/a&gt;, several real-life name brands are made fun of.  The three I remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Starbucks gives hand jobs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fuddruckers changes its name to &quot;Buttf***ers&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Carl's Jr. changes its slogan from &quot;Don't bother me, I'm eating&quot; to &quot;F**k you! I'm eating.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the makers of &lt;em&gt;Idiocracy&lt;/em&gt; make any effort to get permission to use these brand names? If not, have any of these companies expressed disapproval?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2012-07-13T20:29:39.033" LastActivityDate="2014-08-02T21:25:27.947" Title="How did Starbucks, Fuddruckers, and Carl's Jr. respond to Idiocracy?" Tags="|idiocracy|product-placement|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2765" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2779" CreationDate="2012-06-11T01:19:05.497" Score="29" ViewCount="15424" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/&quot;&gt;12 Angry Men (1957)&lt;/a&gt; (as well as the other plays and films, I assume) the jurors do not know each other by name, only number. That is until the final scene when jurors 8 (the protagonist) and 9 (the old man) share their names of Davis and McCardle, respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any significance of these names, or even of the act of name swapping itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-06-11T15:04:00.587" LastActivityDate="2017-11-02T06:58:22.057" Title="What is the significance of exchanging names at the end of 12 Angry Men?" Tags="|analysis|12-angry-men|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2101" CreationDate="2012-06-11T09:09:19.137" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spoilers ahead, for those who haven't seen this film&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember watching this film with the commentary on (on the UK double disc DVD release), and the person providing the commentary (their name eludes me at the minute) talks about how the film originally had scenes which implied&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; the father and Su-mi were having an incestuous relationship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I remember the scene being available on the bonus disc somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might help explain the unreliable nature of the narration/story telling, as Su-mi might be using the apparition of her Su-yeon as a way of dealing with the death of her sister and mother, and (the above spoiler).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This all makes me think that huge chunks of the film happen inside Su-mi's head. And the kitchen scene takes place in her head, or is partly fictional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least, that's my interpretation of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1475" LastEditorUserId="1475" LastEditDate="2012-06-11T09:34:57.077" LastActivityDate="2012-06-11T09:34:57.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2754" CreationDate="2012-06-11T11:08:50.523" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can't really know exactly what effect it had on Bilbo though. You don't see it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Frodo did too become invisible when putting on the ring. In the scene on the hill top with the ruins, he puts it on to escape from the Nazgul. However, he gets stabbed nonetheless because the Nazgul &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; see him. After all, they're  Saurons elite units :p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="461" LastActivityDate="2012-06-11T11:08:50.523" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2466" CreationDate="2012-06-11T12:27:03.047" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;More notable and important details than what's answered already I cannot remember, and I've watched the entire series quite recently. It's never made clear, except that their miserable childhood probably had impact on the relationship between Phoebe and Ursula. Their mother killed herself and after that, Phoebe and Ursula lived on the streets for years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phoebe usually tried to get on Ursula's good side, but always failed, poor Phoebs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yes, all in all, it comes down to the fact that Ursula is just a b*tch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="461" LastActivityDate="2012-06-11T12:27:03.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2701" CreationDate="2012-06-11T14:00:57.450" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought the line: &quot;That's my secret Cap, I'm always angry.&quot; suggested that he can control the appearance of the beast and that it is bubbling under the surface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The appearance of the Hulk is a problem when it is a reflex action and his life is in danger, e.g. suicide attempts, or the attack on the ship. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he is consciously bringing the Hulk out then he can direct the Hulk.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1477" LastActivityDate="2012-06-11T14:00:57.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2771" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2773" CreationDate="2012-06-11T14:34:05.130" Score="17" ViewCount="58648" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did the Engineer at the start of the movie drink the dark liquid? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(2012_film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Prometheus&lt;/a&gt;*:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Above a waterfall, a humanoid alien consumes a dark liquid, and a hovering spacecraft departs. After drinking the liquid the alien starts to disintegrate. The bodily remains fall into the waterfall below and the alien’s DNA triggers a biogenetic chain reaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;sup&gt;Note that since this question was posted, the Wikipedia article has been changed and no longer contains the above excerpt. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prometheus_(2012_film)&amp;amp;oldid=497142702&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This can be found in the page history for the Prometheus article&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T00:40:33.283" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T00:40:33.283" Title="Why did the Engineer at the start of the movie drink the dark liquid?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2701" CreationDate="2012-06-11T15:08:44.153" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Largely he gains his confidence from Tony Stark.  Their working together and sharing their personal issues caused Banner to rethink the way he thought of &quot;the other guy&quot;.  Stark coped with his condition by turning it into the Iron Man, and helping others.  Banner still feared what &quot;the other guy&quot; would do when unleashed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was then reinforced after he is induced into becoming the Hulk on the Helicarrier.  Upon awaking in the abandoned warehouse and learning the Hulk aimed for it to prevent casualties, Banner came to realize that the Hulk isn't always a danger to others.  Thusly he chose to join the other heroes in New York City to defend Earth, whereas earlier in the film he had made it abundantly clear that his only role was to identify the location of the Tesseract.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-06-11T15:08:44.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2771" CreationDate="2012-06-11T15:52:01.017" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we can see after he drinks the liquid, his DNA seems to desintegrate into the water. But from the particules of his DNA, life is created. It is showed by the particules turning step by step into cellular life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my hypothesis is that his suicide was necessary to give birth to a new species: Us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A friend of mine told me that he might have missed his flight (we can see a ship leaving), but I don't think that it is a good reason to get suicidal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1476" LastEditorUserId="56" LastEditDate="2012-06-11T16:01:00.437" LastActivityDate="2012-06-11T16:01:00.437" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2771" CreationDate="2012-06-11T16:54:21.773" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The humanoid wanted to break down the &lt;strong&gt;biological make-up&lt;/strong&gt; of him, and then his infected DNA which eventually combined with Earth's water gives rise to all living beings on earth, including humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/faq#.2.1.12&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why did the humanoid die at the beginning of the movie?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be assumed that the Humanoid or &amp;quot;Space Jockey&amp;quot; at the beginning&#xA;of the movie was standing on Earth, and the liquid that he drank was&#xA;probably the same matter that David discovers (when he says &amp;quot;big&#xA;things have small beginnings&amp;quot;). Supposedly this liquid dematerialises&#xA;the Space Jockey's DNA which eventually combined with Earth's water&#xA;gives rise to all living beings on earth, including humans. Why the&#xA;Space Jockeys couldn't have extracted DNA from stem cells or even just&#xA;manufactured it, remains a mystery. One theory is that that along with&#xA;the mythology behind the movie title, the space jockey standing on&#xA;Earth stole the technology from the biological weapons seen on LV-223,&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;to create new life instead of destruction&lt;/strong&gt;. This lone dissident having&#xA;no means to add the space jockey/human genome to the liquid compound&#xA;had to make do with what he had; his own body. Concept art of the film&#xA;showed an extended opening scene involving two Space Jockeys. An elder&#xA;SJ gives a younger looking SJ the cup of black liquid in a ritualistic&#xA;manner. So the opening scene is part of a ritual &lt;strong&gt;to begin the creation&#xA;of organic life on any given planet&lt;/strong&gt;. The scene is rumored to have been&#xA;shot so it may end up on the home release as behind the scenes or&#xA;deleted footage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-06-11T16:54:21.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2775" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-11T17:39:58.147" Score="33" ViewCount="31487" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, perhaps the most interesting person aboard the Prometheus was the android, David. I'm still confused by his seeming fascination with the movie, &lt;em&gt;Lawrence of Arabia&lt;/em&gt;. Although I couldn't make notes during the film, I believe that he quoted Peter O'toole's character, Lawrence, on more than one occasion. Was he attempting to attain a similar achievement with the Engineers as Lawrence did with the Arabs? Why did he infect the Crew leader? What was his motivation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1478" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-13T18:47:39.040" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T18:47:39.040" Title="What was David's motivation in Prometheus?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|prometheus|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-11T17:43:54.410" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;@LaurentPireyn highlights a good example of their improvisation in the &quot;lock it up!&quot; banter &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0396269/trivia&quot;&gt;over on IMDb&lt;/a&gt;, but there is more out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a number of sources in which Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson speak to their methods of improvisation and their freedom to do so. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.people.com/people/owen_wilson/0,,,00.html&quot;&gt;One&lt;/a&gt; mentions how they &quot;rehearsed improvisational lines over games of backgammon or ping-pong.&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://lubbockonline.com/stories/091605/ent_091605033.shtml&quot;&gt;Another&lt;/a&gt; includes co-star Isla Fisher in the improvisational mix. &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.about.com/od/theweddingcrashers/a/weddingvv071005.htm&quot;&gt;Still another&lt;/a&gt; provides this quote providing more detail about how they prepared (or didn't prepare) for deviating from the script in scenes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“The writers wrote a great script and the concept was great, but me and Owen did customize a lot of the lines and do stuff. A lot of it we had done, or we would do prior to shooting. It wasn’t like we would make up the lines as we shot. We would sit and write, come up with stuff prior to shooting the scenes.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, Isla Fisher mentions that Vince Vaughn encouraged her to improvise and was very supportive of her efforts when sharing a scene together &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.about.com/od/theweddingcrashers/a/weddingif071005.htm&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An expansive document including a film synopsis, actor bios and interviews with members of the production team &lt;a href=&quot;http://hollywoodjesus.com/movie/wedding_crashers/notes.pdf&quot;&gt;at Hollywood Jesus&lt;/a&gt; (a .pdf-- questionable source, but interesting info contained within) speaks further to the improvisational environment during filming. According to Owen Wilson, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;[y]ou're never going to get the last word with Vince...He improvises&#xA;  a lot and is super fast and glib...Vince had some funny ideas for my&#xA;  character and gave me some great lines to say and sometimes I would&#xA;  have an idea for his character in the scene.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Producer Andrew Panay:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“The real fun began after take three or four when David would let Owen&#xA;  and Vince have a free take to do whatever they wanted. Almost every&#xA;  time they would come up with these gems and it was difficult not to&#xA;  laugh during the middle of the take.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Director of photography Julio Macat adds a note from his perspective:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“You have to be loose with Owen and Vince so you’re not restricting them to hard&#xA;  marks for the lighting,” explains Macat. “If you’re not loose, you can miss a&#xA;  moment. In certain situations we did things like cover two people from across&#xA;  each other at the same time, which isn’t easy because it ends up being a jungle&#xA;  of flags and cutters. It takes more time to set up, but really pays off with guys like&#xA;  Owen and Vince, who may improvise their lines, but always get to the thematic&#xA;  point of the scene just by saying one little thing that touches a chord.”&#xA;  Dobkin adds, “I think magic happens all the time, especially when you're&#xA;  improvising...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Director David Dobkin is &quot;...a strong believer in script develeopment,&quot; continuing &quot;Owen and Vince always make significant and substantial contributions to story and character.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, after comparing a handful of quotes mentioned in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0396269/quotes&quot;&gt;IMDb 'Memorable Quotes'&lt;/a&gt; page for the movie to the script located &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/wedding_crashers.pdf&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, many popular lines are not present in the script (though naturally, there are a few exceptions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some&lt;/em&gt; Examples:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;Holy Shirts and Pants;&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;I'm reading don't-kill-myself books;&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot; I'm not perfect. But who are we kidding? Neither are you. And you wanna know what? I dig it!;&quot; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot; Gloria, I apologize to you as I don't seem real eager to jump into a forced, awkward intimate situation...;&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Jeremy's 'confession' to the priest;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;That's not how you cut cake, you gotta treat cake like a lady!;&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;people helping people;&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;Grab that net and catch that beautiful butterfly, pal!&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some&lt;/em&gt; Exceptions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;We're all one;&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;massage oils and a book on Tantra;&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;I can do it myself &lt;strong&gt;__&lt;/strong&gt;!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I concede that discrepancies between this script and the actual film do not necessarily indicate heavy improvisation, but they may -- and that possibility is worth considering in this case, given the quotes above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So to answer your questions @SethRogers: yes, they improvised and yes they deviated from the script-- heavily at times.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2012-06-11T17:43:54.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2704" CreationDate="2012-06-11T17:53:40.527" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the goal of the experiment was to bond the admantium to the bones inside the body forming the skeletal framework only&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When wolverine was 'bonded' with admantium, the experiments carried out were to inject and turn the bones into admanitum so that a skeleton of this 'super-metal' will make the body highly resistant to damage. The admantium was only injected into his bodily bones, and not over his teeth and other appendages. It is the same as asking why admantium was not put over his 'nails'. The experiment was limited only to the bones making part of body skeleton. As such, wolverines claws are automatically coated with the super-metal. &#xA;Unlike other experiments, where external claws and skin were tried to be bonded with admantium, Logan's experiment was limited to his bones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2012-06-11T17:53:40.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2722" CreationDate="2012-06-11T18:00:30.690" Score="8" Body="&lt;h4&gt;At least someone recognises that he was trying to be a mere &lt;em&gt;human trying to survive.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Roy and the other replicants have not been shown to be a 'violent' variety. It is only when they realise the impending doom carried by their bodies that they become &lt;em&gt;rebellious&lt;/em&gt; and decide to gain &lt;em&gt;life&lt;/em&gt; at any cost. When Roy learns from his &lt;em&gt;maker&lt;/em&gt; that there is possibly no cure, he kills him in his rage. As he is being chased by Deckard, Roy's impulse is to survive and defend himself from being terminated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after losing his allies, Roy comes to a realization and understanding of the inevitability of his death. It is because of this, that Roy wishes to die &lt;em&gt;like humans&lt;/em&gt; and not like a machine being put out of work. Knowing of his fast approaching death, regardless of whatever he does, Roy decides that at least someone should recognise him in his dying hours; that he too was trying to be a mere &lt;em&gt;human trying to survive&lt;/em&gt;. It is for this reason he chose to say those words to Deckard and let him live. Or rather, refused to kill him by his own choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-03-23T04:09:40.250" LastActivityDate="2024-03-23T04:09:40.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2765" CreationDate="2012-06-11T18:06:03.773" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;A jury usually withheld names in order to remove any effects of names, castes etc into the process. Inside the jury room, the people are simply humans trying to impart justice. When two people swap names, it signifies a bond, especially if it is done &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; passing through an experience together. The men, after having gone through a emotional, social and philosophical awakening inside the room, share a common realization of the darkness inside every one of them. They have now formed a bond because they believe each of them has contributed to the &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt;  by voting &lt;em&gt;not guilty&lt;/em&gt;. When the two men exchange names, it is their belief and respect in each other, as well as the implication of a beginning of a bond or friendship between the two. When (in the old times), strangers came to town, the names would be exchanged only when they had gathered respect or became enemies. Thus, the name exchange signifies the &lt;em&gt;human social&lt;/em&gt; element in the men, that outside the jury room, they are just ordinary people in their lives. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2012-06-11T18:06:03.773" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2775" CreationDate="2012-06-11T19:04:17.960" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the very beginning of the film David's hair style is different, then we see him watching the film while he is coloring the roots of his hair to match Peter's, and then he combs it so that he has the same hair style. He later repeats the phrase &quot;The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts&quot;. I think David repeats that line two or three times. I took this to imply that David's natural appearance is different including his hair color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this sequence connected to David's fascination with the Engineers. Absolutely, because this scene defines a repeating theme that David tents to overly obsess over things related to the human condition. I think you have to watch Lawrence of Arabia to understand what was being implied by that scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why did David infect the Doctor?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David is seen reporting to Peter Weyland that the Engineers are all dead, and he then explains that Peter Weyland ordered him to &quot;try harder&quot; to discover what happen to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Peter tell David to infect a crew member, or did David conceive this idea on his own? That isn't made clear in the film. Later in the film, Peter Weyland is told to take off his helmet and Elizabeth protests saying that the infection that killed the Doctor could be air born. Peter Weyland appears to not know that the Doctor is dead, and David just gives Elizabeth a look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What was his motivation?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David says &quot;big things have small beginnings&quot; and then later while talking to the Doctor. He says &quot;if you could meet your creator, what would you say?&quot;. I really feel that David understood that the dark fluid was a virus, and that it created life. In that scene David expresses a fascination with meeting ones creator, and also his disapproval of humans. I think he gave it to the Doctor, so he could destroy his creator and turn himself into a creator at the same time. While answering the question, what does this black stuff really do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2012-06-11T19:04:17.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2775" CreationDate="2012-06-11T19:05:45.447" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;strong&gt;3 possible motives&lt;/strong&gt; for David.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He wanted to test the black-goo to &quot;&lt;strong&gt;try harder&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;David was receiving orders from Weyland as he told &quot;Try Harder!&quot;.The scene where David spikes Charlie's drink happens after the 'try harder' scene (with Vickers). David goes to Holloway, asks him how far he is willing to go to find his answers, and &lt;strong&gt;Holloway replies he would do whatever it takes&lt;/strong&gt;. David takes this as an &lt;strong&gt;invitation to experiment with the goo on Holloway&lt;/strong&gt;, ultimately at Weyland's request. David is simply following orders.&#xA;So my guess is that, &lt;strong&gt;he probably wanted to test it&lt;/strong&gt;, just in case it turned out to be what Weyland was looking for, an immortality potion or something&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He wanted to kill the crew to gain his freedom .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;David starts to hate the humans. Note how antagonistic Holloway had a jerk towards David.When Holloway asking David why he's wearing a suit as much to say &lt;strong&gt;'you're not one of us, why are you bothering to try?'&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He wanted to kill Dr. Holloway to remove him as competition for Dr.&#xA;Shaw&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He seemed to pay more attention to her from the start by looking in&lt;br&gt;&#xA;on her dreams and taking special care of her when she awoke from cryo. I think when he tried to put her back into cryo he was trying to do what was best for her. I also thought that, at the end, &lt;strong&gt;when&#xA;he    said he was afraid she had been killed that he was being&#xA;genuine&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David:&lt;/strong&gt; I was scared you were dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shaw:&lt;/strong&gt; you know nothing about being scared, david.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="556" LastEditDate="2012-06-14T16:09:41.353" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T16:09:41.353" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2730" CreationDate="2012-06-11T19:17:36.773" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: Now we know. In an interview revealed at Total Film with Dr. Anil Biltoo:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, according to Dr. Anil Biltoo, the film’s official translator and linguistics consultant, David did as he was asked, translating his words as follows: “This man is here because he does not want to die. He believes you can give him more life.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The rest of the text of this article stands unedited except for the interview inserts, in italics.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are forced to reconcile the reaction of the Engineer with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His/its original mission, to destroy the Earth.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His/its momentary pause as it analyzes the situation upon awakening.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His/its decision to kill the team and continue its primary mission.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does David betray his creator? His pathological hatred of all of humanity is obvious to us, but not necessarily to them. Would he use the opportunity to ask a different question than he was asked or would he comply out of duty (or programming). My suspicion is &lt;strong&gt;David asked exactly what he was told by Weyland. Not that it mattered, the Engineer answered only with his actions to kill the team.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;My supposition still stands and is supported in the rest of the Total Film interview review:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So there we have it. David wasn’t up to anything sinister, it just turned out that the Engineer wasn’t best pleased to be interrupted by a member of the species he was charged with destroying. Apparently, the scene was initially written to involve a much longer conversation, so perhaps more details will emerge in the deleted material on the DVD. Or even in a sequel…&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why wouldn't David say what he had been asked to? He is not concerned with the question or the answer. For him, it is academic at best. He has already made his decision about humanity and given the information he has up to that point, he assumes the Engineers already have their own less than stellar opinion of humanity as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, given the purported intelligence of the Engineers, and a time-table of their last visit (approximately 2,000 years ago, during a very warlike period on Earth) once he saw how violent, humanity had remained, he realized he would have to complete his mission. He did not seem conflicted in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suspicion was he recognized what David was and could extrapolate how long he had been asleep, which may have given him greater motivation to deliver his payload, fearing a galactic outbreak of this violent species. The Engineer did not seem surprised to see us, likely as a diminutive and less impressive form of itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had the impression the Engineer did not fear humanity, so much as their lack of individual control. He was privy to, in a matter of seconds, hierarchical dominance behavior, aggression, anger, and directed violence. From the aspect of a species that creates life, certainly an undesirable outcome. Perhaps the same reaction we might have if a beloved pet suddenly attacked us. We would put it down, for its own good. The Engineer maintained a surprising level of apparent emotional control during his attack on the team and his subsequent launching of his ship. He did not appear to have any issues with completing his mission, so his belief in the necessity was apparent in his actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also have to credit this Engineer with some degree of forethought. He was the only one on this ship to make it back to stasis and secure himself before the pathogen was able to reach him. I suspect he thought it would be safer to be in stasis than dying in the halls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David's experience of humanity soured him on meeting the Engineers and even though he was intellectually curious about their technology, he showed no real interest in the Engineers, themselves, likely considering them as potentially dangerous as he considered mankind. Maybe more so, since humanity was based on their DNA. If he did give the Engineer an account of what happened or how they came to be here, rather than Wayland's requested information, I am certain, he was surprised with his/it's reaction. It was certainly not an expected outcome from David's perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="580" LastEditorUserId="26101" LastEditDate="2020-10-09T07:08:49.073" LastActivityDate="2020-10-09T07:08:49.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2785" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2786" CreationDate="2012-06-11T19:22:13.413" Score="19" ViewCount="7551" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/&quot;&gt;Prometheus&lt;/a&gt;, when Shaw touch the surgery-pod Vickers warned her not to touch it because it is rare and so expensive, but i could not understand &lt;strong&gt;why the operating pod was made for a male, but the owner, Meredith Vickers was female&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did she allow an operating pod that even she could not use.&#xA;Why was the surgery pod configured only for men? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was it meant for Weyland all along?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And if it was so expensive, couldn't the creators configure it for men and women?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-13T18:47:02.917" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T18:47:02.917" Title="Why was the surgery pod configured only for men in Prometheus?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2785" CreationDate="2012-06-11T21:14:22.683" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;The surgery-pod was on board Prometheus to provide medical support for Peter Weyland. Who was secretly added to the crew list before the flight left, and was located inside the life pod of Peter Weyland's daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2012-06-11T21:14:22.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2787" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2788" CreationDate="2012-06-11T21:15:20.917" Score="35" ViewCount="36063" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I was watching Prometheus this weekend, I initially thought that Meredith Vickers was an android, like David.  They never made it perfectly clear that she was or wasn't human. They did hint at both though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Peter Weyland, the old trillionaire, did say that she was his daughter. He could have meant this figuratively though. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Janek, the captain of the Prometheus, asked Vickers for sex like he was asking an android for a glass of water.  After she agreed without emotion, he sang &quot;if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with&quot; before he had sex with her (although they didn't show it). This suggested to me that he wasn't going to be with a human, but was going to love the android he was with.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The surgery pod wasn't designed for use by a woman. Why would a trillionaire who could afford to build a surgery pod not build one for use by his own daughter?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vickers has a different last name than Weyland, which at least suggest that they are not natural father-daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T23:01:38.137" LastActivityDate="2020-09-08T17:59:41.800" Title="In Prometheus, is Meredith Vickers a human or android?" Tags="|character|prometheus|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2787" CreationDate="2012-06-11T22:51:14.347" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my mind, it's likely that Vickers is an android.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first clue while watching the film was her quick recovery from cryosleep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Later she's called Weyland's daughter, but David was given the name Weyland &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Peter_Weyland&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;had initially reserved for his own human son&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vickers has the physical strength to easily push David around.  In &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt;, androids are depicted as being much stronger than humans, so this suggests Vickers is as strong as David, an android.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;David and Vickers were the only ones who knew that Weyland was on board, so Weyland trusted them both completely.  We know why he trusted David, it doesn't seem outlandish that he trusted Vickers for the exact same reason.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The med pod is in Vickers quarters but would be unable to properly perform surgery on her, given that it's set to male.  If she were a human, it's possible that Weyland didn't care enough for Vickers to provide her with the medical capabilities that the med pod provided.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My own theory is that Vickers is a later model of android than David.  David's (a male, mind you) a logical breakthrough who can imitate human emotions.  Then for a later model, a female android is created who has actual emotions.  This provides a sort of symbolical balance in Weyland's ultimate creation, artificial men and women.  This also makes a nice biblical reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2012-06-12T15:02:13.017" LastActivityDate="2012-06-12T15:02:13.017" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2798" CreationDate="2012-06-11T23:58:28.720" Score="61" ViewCount="63712" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final scene of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, we see Batman go on a final confrontation with the corrupted Dent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dent, hell bent on making Batman and Gordon pay for Rachel's death, flips his trademark coin to decide the fate of the 3, Gordon being replaced with his son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kkhut.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Batman's fate turns out poor, while Dent escapes, however, Gordon's fate seemingly is decided as poor and Dent prepares to shoot the boy.  In a quick act, Batman lunges at Dent and both of them fall a few stories down the blown up building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Joker:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh, you. You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. You truly are incorruptible, aren't you? &lt;strong&gt;You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness.&lt;/strong&gt; And I won't kill you because you're just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(emphasis mine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HtMoy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have confirmation from Nolan that these events &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.superherohype.com/features/articles/97411-aaron-eckhart-on-two-face&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;killed Harvey Dent&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and actually set into motion the events of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean the Joker actually won, and caused Batman to &lt;em&gt;break his one rule&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Joker:&lt;/strong&gt; You have these rules, and you think they'll save you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Batman:&lt;/strong&gt; I have &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Joker:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh, then that's the rule you'll have to &lt;strong&gt;break&lt;/strong&gt; to know the truth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone that knows Batman mythos knows that Batman's one rule is &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;never kill&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar thing happens at the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  While Batman and Ra's are duking it out on the train, it turns out to be just a distraction while Gordon derails it.  Batman then claims to Ra's:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ra's al Ghul:&lt;/strong&gt; Have you finally learned to do what is necessary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bruce Wayne:&lt;/strong&gt; I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allowing Ra's to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do these two events actually count as Batman breaking his One Rule?  Or are they actually excusable occurrences due to the nature of events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2022-12-21T18:26:43.550" Title="Did Batman break his one rule?" Tags="|character|analysis|the-dark-knight|batman-begins|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2789" CreationDate="2012-06-12T01:16:03.417" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dent dies as the result of an &lt;em&gt;accident&lt;/em&gt;, not because Batman killed him.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt;Batman's one is to never kill. But that does not mean that he goes out of his way to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; let the bad guys be killed. If he has a choice, if it is necessary, the bad guys can be left to fend off on their own. Like in Batman Begins, when he leaves Ra's on the train while making his escape. In The Dark Knight, Dent as Two-Face is hell-bent on trying to seek his warped justice by deciding people's fate with chance. When Gordon's turn forces the gun on the boy, Batman tries his best to save the kid, jumping on Dent and plunging the both of them to the ground. Inspite of such a fall, Batman (injured) managed to make his escape. Dent dies as the result of an &lt;em&gt;accident&lt;/em&gt;, not because Batman killed him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2012-06-12T01:16:03.417" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2385" CreationDate="2012-06-12T01:25:17.183" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Natsu's consumption allows him a temporary release of other elements from what he has consumed. It is not a permanent thing. When the energy of whatever he has eaten subsides, the power washes away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2012-06-12T01:25:17.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2335" CreationDate="2012-06-12T01:34:13.350" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is clearly implied that Holmes faked his death due to &lt;em&gt;unseen&lt;/em&gt; factors which might result in forming the next film. It is also a homage, or tribute to the original Author's death and revival of Sherlock Holmes. There might be a bigger or someone sinister going on in the world somewhere and Holmes would like them to think he was dead. Maybe to investigate or do something un-noticed. It is clear, that Holmes planned the whole thing, as he kept the breathing pipe with him from the start of the meeting. He also planned for Watson to witness his &lt;em&gt;death&lt;/em&gt;. This shows that Holmes had an ulterior motive at hand when faking his own death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2012-06-12T01:34:13.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2787" CreationDate="2012-06-12T03:42:21.380" Score="11" Body="&lt;h1&gt;It's never revealed if Vickers is indeed an android.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it's up to the viewer to decide.I'm also guess she would be a android.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Age Issue:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Weyland seems he &lt;strong&gt;aged like 100+&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;too old to be her father&lt;/strong&gt;, with Vickers being too young to be his daughter. She may call Weyland father in the same way David refers to Weyland as &quot;father&quot;, in the sense that she was made by and serves Weyland.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Relationship of David and Vickers'&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David calls Meredith his &quot;mother.&quot; If both were androids created by Weyland and Meredith was &lt;strong&gt;David's predecessor&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vickers last name Issue:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meredith's last name is Vickers, So there is no possibility that she's Weyland's daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meredith's death is not shown:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If she were attacked by an alien, her blood (or lack of it) would be definitive evidence as to whether or not she was an android. Instead, &lt;strong&gt;her death seems intentionally ambiguous&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Surgery pod:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The surgery pod configured only for men, so it's suggesting that she doesn't need medical assistance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/faq#.2.1.21&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Evidence for the android theory;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;She calls Weyland &quot;Father,&quot; but in a sardonic tone. Weyland seems too old to be her father, with Vickers being too young to be his&#xA;  daughter. She may call Weyland father in the same way David refers to&#xA;  Weyland as &quot;father&quot;, in the sense that she was made by and serves&#xA;  Weyland.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Vickers also appears to throw David against the wall with ease, which would seem strange if Vickers is indeed human. We see in Alien&#xA;  how hard it is to physically move an android; when Ash attempts to&#xA;  kill Ripley it takes two people to stop and restrain him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The surgery-module in her escape pod only performs operations on males, as shown when Shaw attempts to perform a cesarean section; odd&#xA;  considering the point of such a device would be to heal injuries&#xA;  inflicted on Vickers or the entire crew (or possibly just for&#xA;  Weyland), suggesting that she doesn't need medical assistance.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;While Vickers sleeps in a cryo-chamber for the trip and David doesn't; we are shown Ash in Alien to sleep in a cryo chamber as well;&#xA;  Ash was masquerading as human and so Vickers may have been doing the&#xA;  same, especially if she is there to carry out the will of Weyland&#xA;  discreetly. Sleeping in a cryogenic chamber would be good cover and&#xA;  would remove any suspicion.&#xA;  5.She shows little or no emotion at the death of Weyland, although he is supposedly her father.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="556" LastEditDate="2019-08-14T08:25:31.913" LastActivityDate="2019-08-14T08:25:31.913" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2795" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2859" CreationDate="2012-06-12T10:35:49.703" Score="6" ViewCount="34546" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &quot;Alice in Wonderland&quot; (2010), at the Tea party, when Alice is hidden in the teapot Bayard comes sniffing under the table right up to the teapot, indicating that he knows she's in there. The Mad Hatter then says something to him and he goes away. I assume it's some sort of passphrase letting him know that they all work for the white queen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't figure out what he says though. Can anyone enlighten me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="16523" LastEditDate="2016-08-28T11:11:05.870" LastActivityDate="2023-12-16T19:25:45.720" Title="What does the Mad Hatter say to Bayard?" Tags="|plot-explanation|alice-in-wonderland-2010|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2626" CreationDate="2012-06-12T13:25:05.670" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Rangers_Dino_Thunder#Dino_Rangers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Power Rangers Dino Thunder wiki&lt;/a&gt; page has this to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tommy (known often as Dr. O) himself joins the team as the Black Dino&#xA;  Ranger, and they are also later joined by Trent Mercer as the White&#xA;  Dino Ranger, with the powers of invisibility and camouflage,&#xA;  respectively. Trent must deal with the inner struggle of good and&#xA;  evil, as Tommy himself once had to do as the evil Green Ranger, due to&#xA;  the fact that he gained his powers from a raw Dino Gem in Mesogog's&#xA;  lab, with the powers originally intended to be Mesogog's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't actually seen the series,  but this passage leads me to believe that the Dino Gem that Trent found wasn't exactly the same as the other two, and that's why his transformation is different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-06-12T13:25:05.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2789" CreationDate="2012-06-12T15:44:49.813" Score="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;Batman has more than one rule, but the one line that he refuses to cross - &lt;em&gt;the one thing that would turn him from a crusader into a villain&lt;/em&gt; - is that he does not kill. Only taking Christopher Nolan's Batman into consideration then &lt;strong&gt;yes, he did break this rule&lt;/strong&gt; by directly causing the fall that accidentally killed Harvey Dent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's look at the scene: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Batman is shot, Dent is safe, and the boy's fate is undecided, but Batman can't let a coin determine that fate. He lunges at Dent and the boy and all three go over the edge. Despite his armor, Batman is injured and not at full strength. He is only able to save the boy before he himself falls after Dent. Crashing through more debris than Dent (who was pushed far enough out that he was clear (and who may have survived had he not been in such a badly burned condition)) Batman gets more injured on the way down and lands near Dent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on when talking to Gordon, Batman says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. I can do those things, because I'm not a hero, like Dent. I killed those people. That's what I can be.&quot; ----- &quot;I'm whatever Gotham needs me to be.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a great and powerful scene, but in its essence, it's one man &lt;em&gt;(Batman)&lt;/em&gt; pushing another man &lt;em&gt;(Dent)&lt;/em&gt; off a building and killing him &lt;em&gt;(while saving an innocent boy)&lt;/em&gt;, then taking the blame for not only Dent's death but the deaths caused by Dent as well. Batman is not just telling Gordon that he killed Dent, he is saying that he killed those people too. Batman feels directly responsible for their deaths and in Harvey's case, he &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; directly responsible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the true genius of Nolan's Batman; he's not only real and plausible, he is constantly trying to figure out what he's doing, why is he doing it, and has he gone to far? Nolan made Batman break his most important rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of fans don't want to admit that Batman killed. An accidental killing doesn't count as breaking his rule they say, but to Batman it does count. It will haunt him. The deaths Two-Face caused will haunt him. &lt;em&gt;He&lt;/em&gt; takes the blame for everything that happened. He pushed Two-Face off of a building and Two-Face died. The line has been crossed. How will Batman deal with that? How will he deal with being a criminal? The next movie will definitely deal with this but it is a huge step for Batman. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nolan has created a realistic Batman. In &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt; we got to see what makes a man become a Batman. What training, what psychological problems, what Gotham's corruption had to do with it. When fighting Ra's al Ghul, we started to see a bending of the rule not to kill. Leaving Ra's al Ghul on the train was not killing in Batman's mind because Ra's al Ghul had survived a seemingly unsurvivable situation before, plus he had planned meticulously. If Batman could survive it, then he assumed Ra's al Ghul could as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the start of &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; we start to encounter a basic problem with his rule: if Batman doesn't kill, why do criminals need to fear him? By the end of the movie Batman has killed and has taken the blame for more killings. This not only adds to the myth of the Batman but it directly affects his mental state. Throughout &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; we see him wrestling with how far he should push himself, what is his limit, what keeps him from being the Joker? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then he breaks his most important rule and it seems to define him more. Did he plan to kill Two-Face? No. Did he directly cause his death? Yes! He did it in the only allowable way, to protect the innocent, and he did so &lt;em&gt;by accident&lt;/em&gt;, but he still killed and still broke his rule. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now we have a whole new Batman going into &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;. One who has killed. One who has become a villain. Yet he is more sure of himself and what he stands for than ever before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="24267" LastEditDate="2018-01-04T23:32:55.890" LastActivityDate="2018-01-04T23:32:55.890" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2799" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-06-12T15:47:32.980" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prometheus&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a 2012 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof. The film stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green and Charlize Theron. Set in the late 21st century, the story centers on the crew of the spaceship Prometheus as they follow a star map discovered among the remnants of several ancient Earth cultures. Led to a distant world and an advanced civilization, the crew seeks the origins of humanity, but instead discovers a threat that could cause the extinction of the human race.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Prometheus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T09:52:01.013" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T09:52:01.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2800" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-06-12T15:47:32.980" Score="0" Body="A 2012 British-American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott." OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T09:52:01.013" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T09:52:01.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2801" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2803" CreationDate="2012-06-12T18:34:24.583" Score="10" ViewCount="677" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the end of The Dark Knight, Batman knocks Dent off the building, barely managing to catch himself and the kid.  After Gordon gets the kid Batman falls.  After his fall from the building the conversation between him and Gordon about him “&lt;strong&gt;taking the fall&lt;/strong&gt;” for Dent’s actions occurs.  He is then chased by the police, with Gordon’s conversation with his son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, did Nolan intend for Batman falling from the building to be a representation of his “&lt;strong&gt;fall from grace&lt;/strong&gt;” that was occurring, or am I reading more into the scene than there really is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T14:01:26.053" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T14:01:26.053" Title="Was this a representation of Batman’s fall?" Tags="|analysis|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2801" CreationDate="2012-06-12T19:00:59.427" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's the great thing you can count on when it comes to Nolan; he will always throw in some sort of physical representation of his symbolism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this example, while we do see Batman's actual fall from grace from being Gotham's protector, we can now see him as what most of Gotham probably sees him: even more mysterious than before.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It must be a hard thing to grasp being a citizen there that the dark protector you have come to love and count on keeping the city clean, has let it become a playground for Joker's brand of order (or lack thereof).  From one extreme to the next, it is then shown (we assume) that Batman has killed an experienced cop (Wertz), 2 mobsters (Maroni and his driver) and now Gotham's beloved new DA who single-handedly put away over 800 criminals at once.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Top this upon all the deaths and destruction occurred since the beginning of Joker's threats; Commissioner Loeb, several cops, Judge Sirillo, and others as well as destruction of the city's main hospital.  Batman has fallen from the highest of highs to Gotham with Dent's death being the final straw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time however, we see reflection of the &lt;em&gt;opposite&lt;/em&gt; direction with those around him who know his secret and/or trust him.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alfred burns Rachel's letter to keep Bruce's faith from shattering.  Fox smiles as his trust is rewarded with the sonar servers being destroyed.  This is even represented when Gordon is breaking the Bat-Signal.  His first hit, which could have destroyed it, fails to do so; showing his reluctance to defame the character of the hero he has come to respect throughout his career since Lieutenant &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer the question, is this a representation of Batman's fall?  &lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, with the title of the newest film being &lt;strong&gt;Rises&lt;/strong&gt; we will soon witness his &lt;em&gt;return&lt;/em&gt; to this former grace as he attempts to save the city from the destruction Bane is sure to bring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-06-12T19:00:59.427" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2804" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12099" CreationDate="2012-06-12T22:54:54.587" Score="30" ViewCount="12790" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Monkeys&quot;&gt;12 Monkeys&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and have seen it a dozen times. Still I can't figure out if Jeffrey Goines is &lt;em&gt;working in conjunction with redheaded scientist&lt;/em&gt; to destroy mankind, or if Jeffrey's only plan was to let all the animals out of the zoo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point Jeffrey's father says he has stepped up security in the lab to prevent any trouble with the virus, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-BHGjtmb4nhbbuJ/twelve_monkeys_1995_kidapping_goines_sr/&quot;&gt;Jeffrey says &quot;too late,&quot;&lt;/a&gt; suggesting Jeffrey indeed is involved with the virus plot and knows it is already in motion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Releasing the animals could be a secondary part of the virus plot -- perhaps a distraction or a way to jump-start the return of the animals' dominion over earth. But the movie seems to leave room for the possibility that Jeffrey was only interested in releasing the animals and was unaware of redheaded scientist's actions. Which is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T21:53:02.600" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T00:05:09.567" Title="Is Jeffrey involved in the virus plot or just the animal-release plot?" Tags="|plot-explanation|12-monkeys|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2160" CreationDate="2012-06-13T02:41:05.613" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;When James Bond points his gun at Valentin Zukovsky it is clear that his gun is a Walter PPK. Notice there are no grooves on the side of the gun towards the back&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nwkZz.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nwkZz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;James Bond Walter PPK&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Valentin's henchman points his gun at James, grooves can be seen on the side of the gun towards the back of the gun.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2KSfW.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2KSfW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Valentin's Henchman Gun&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This to me shows that the henchman is using a different gun and not a Walter PPK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be a very bad mistake for the production team to have the henchman using a Walter PPK just after Valentin saying pretty much that there is only one person alive who uses it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="98496" LastEditDate="2023-05-04T18:41:19.527" LastActivityDate="2023-05-04T18:41:19.527" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2679" CreationDate="2012-06-13T06:38:48.390" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;He answers with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He showed me how important you are... you and your partner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my interpretation is he showed him &lt;strong&gt;the truth&lt;/strong&gt; about J, J's future and his mission:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Young Agent K: You ever wanna see more, I know a top secret organization that can use a man like you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Colonel: I wish I could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here I have the impression that Colonel has also seen his own death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1485" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T00:09:33.770" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2807" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3773" CreationDate="2012-06-13T07:48:38.460" Score="10" ViewCount="1589" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first Men In Black movie it is made quite clear that K is still in love with the girl he left behind which he had to abandon to be a Man In Black.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in MiB he flirts heavily with Agent O, even though the incident with the girl he left behind must not have been long ago. J even makes snide remarks about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a narrative point, this plot line makes K look more human in MiB3 and adds a subplot with a love interest, but it completely disregards K's personality from MiB1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can it be assumed that the screenwriters just disregarded K's History to have a love interest in MiB3? Is K unfaithful too his youth love / love interest from MiB in MiB 3?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T18:23:12.563" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T18:23:12.563" Title="Is K unfaithful too his youth love / love interest from MiB in MiB 3?" Tags="|plot-explanation|men-in-black-3|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2804" CreationDate="2012-06-13T08:51:25.307" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeffrey simply is not involved in the virus outbreak. But because of the spread of Army of 12 Monkey's messages, and their promise to cause some chaos, the virus outbreak [possibly the reason] is linked to them. It was in fact, the lab scientist who propagated the virus to every corner of the world.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 12 Monkeys, James is introduced to Jeffrey in the mental institution. James is researching the &quot;Army of 12 Monkeys&quot; to find out about the virus outbreak. During their time together, James lets Jeffrey know about the crazy plan to put the virus out over the world. Years later, when James finds out that Jeffrey leads the Army of 12 Monkeys, Jeffrey is surprised to learn that James is accusing of planning the virus outbreak. He exclaims that he has heard such a crazy thing only from James himself (during their time in the mental institution). Jeffrey is simply an anarchist, and lets the zoo animals on street. It is his fathers lab worker who causes the virus outbreak. He has access to the virus, since he works at the lab. When James calls Jeffrey's father, his father assures him that the security at the lab is tight. &lt;br&gt; There are two possible implications: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The scientist got to know about the plan when James called the lab and let Jeffrey's father know.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He got to know from Jeffrey through unknown means.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2012-06-13T08:51:25.307" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2811" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2812" CreationDate="2012-06-11T17:42:32.493" Score="19" ViewCount="6070" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;. The show is set in a pseudo-medieval world. &#xA;I'm wondering whether the sword fights and the swords are authentic representations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here're an example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/15-op9n7FO8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="anon" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2019-06-09T02:23:58.727" LastActivityDate="2019-06-09T02:23:58.727" Title="Is the sword fighting historically accurate?" Tags="|historical-accuracy|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2811" CreationDate="2012-06-12T00:04:22.883" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not particularly. While it is, in part, derived from European sword fighting, there are also dashes of Chinese sword theatrics (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVDPoyVuZZg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wushu&lt;/a&gt;) along with exaggerated and dramatic moves designed to film well. As with hand-to-hand martial arts, actual real life fighting is a lot faster, direct and brutal. The downside is that these methods don't film well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="637" OwnerDisplayName="jfrankcarr" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T00:47:48.827" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T00:47:48.827" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2821" CreationDate="2012-06-13T16:35:17.767" Score="16" ViewCount="11468" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Prometheus&lt;/a&gt;, archaeologists Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway have discovered a pictogram of a very tall man pointing to a series of stars. The two archaeologists are clearly very excited and believe the man depicted is an extra-terrestrial and that the image is intended as an invitation to the humans to come and find them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/datAZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;the pictogram&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After watching the whole movie, I doubted that premise. Was the star map really an invitation? If so, what was the point of it if the engineers wanted to destroy Earth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did they invite the humans to come visit, if they wanted to destroy us?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-13T18:46:49.543" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T18:46:49.543" Title="What is the real purpose of the star map in Prometheus?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2813" CreationDate="2012-06-13T17:03:54.403" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simple question, easily answered was, &quot;Why go there to destroy them, if we can lead them here, corrupt them, and have that corruption taken back to the original planet?&quot;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is exactly why I laugh at dramas where commandos take over a municipal water system - Why? Best way to infiltrate and sicken a population? Create a cookie and give it out for free as a &quot;Sample&quot; of a new product. They'll be clamoring all over themselves.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Have your victims come to you. No muss, no bullets, no training exercises. Easy peasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-06-13T17:11:00.370" LastActivityDate="2012-06-13T17:11:00.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2813" CreationDate="2012-06-13T19:31:15.580" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the Engineers left the map in hopes that the humans would eventually get smart enough to figure it out and come calling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The humans were just another experiment for the Engineers and they would eventually pull the plug on the experiment. Although, no reason is given as to why humans would need to be destroyed and not just left alone to destroy themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, the purpose of the star map is to determine whether humans are smart enough to figure it out and come calling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2012-06-13T19:31:15.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2816" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2818" CreationDate="2012-06-13T19:45:27.260" Score="19" ViewCount="5417" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been watching a lot of older films lately (older, in this instance reads &quot;circa 80's and 70's&quot; and mainly in the Sci-Fi and action genres), and have been asking myself the same thing as I watch each one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: I'm watching these on DVD or Blu-Ray, they're not rips or VHS tapes if that makes any difference.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that a lot of these films have their soundtrack's mixed in a very particular way. I've noticed that the musical queues and sound effects seem to be mixed at a higher volume than the dialogue. I the versions of the films that I have and watch, at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, I've recently watched the UK version of the Blu-Ray release of Aliens, and I found that I had to turn my sound system up quite high to hear the dialogue, but turn it back down again during the action sequences (or scenes with lots of sound effects or musical queues) as I have room-mates and don't wish to disturb them just so that I can hear the dialogue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm convinced that it's not my sound system, as a lot of the films from the same era seem to be mixed the same way. Also, playing them back through my PC, I notice the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this related to a stylistic decision made by the director/sound engineer? A technical limitation of the technology of the time? Is it related to potential problems with converting the (I'm guessing) analogue soundtrack to a digital format and compressing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know (from a very limited knowledge of how it works) that Dolby is an encoding format aimed at reducing hiss, and that one of the ways it can achieve this is by lowering the overall volume of the soundtrack to a point where hiss isn't as easily detectable. So, I'm guessing that this might just be a by-product of that encoding process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas or suggestions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1475" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T08:57:29.127" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T15:45:14.947" Title="Why the discrepancy between the sound levels of dialogue and music in older movies?" Tags="|production|soundtrack|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2817" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2824" CreationDate="2012-06-13T19:50:02.630" Score="1" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently started watching a show called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1630574/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Breaking In&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. I have found multiple different articles, some claiming it was cancelled, then renewed, and then others claiming that it was cancelled again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone please set the record straight? As of the current date, what is the official status of the show? Also, can someone please explain what happened with the whole &quot;cancelling/un-cancelling&quot; situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T16:03:14.557" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T16:03:14.557" Title="Is &quot;Breaking In&quot; canceled or not?" Tags="|breaking-in|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2816" CreationDate="2012-06-13T20:15:58.720" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a by-product of the Dolby encoding process, although Dolby does allow greater &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dynamic range.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sound engineers employ a technique called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;dynamic range compression&quot;&lt;/a&gt; to reduce the difference between the loudest and softest sounds in a recording.  Use of compression is much more pronounced and widespread today than it was in the past, which explains your observations about sound level.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because many viewers are &quot;casual&quot; viewers (in the sense that they're not necessarily looking for the full-blown cinematic experience, but merely something to watch on a Saturday afternoon), modern sound engineers favor a more highly-compressed sound mix that reduces the overall change in sound levels, so that you can still hear the dialog amidst the explosions.  This explains why Blu-Ray discs (which presumably cater to an audience looking for the &lt;em&gt;cinematic&lt;/em&gt; experience) tend to have less compression than other forms of video media, such as ordinary cable television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Applying heavy compression to audio tracks on a DVD or Blu-Ray is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;flawed technique&lt;/a&gt;: it's much easier to apply compression &lt;em&gt;after the fact&lt;/em&gt; (i.e. in your receiver electronics) than it is to attempt to recover the dynamics that are lost due to heavy compression.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Reading&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-sound-mixes/id/15294&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The many different mixes of Star Wars: A New Hope&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="512" LastEditorUserId="512" LastEditDate="2016-01-15T15:45:14.947" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T15:45:14.947" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2816" CreationDate="2012-06-13T20:16:32.697" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The property of audio that allows them to do this is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dynamic range&lt;/a&gt;.  When mixing the audio for movies, the sound engineer is choosing to minimize the dialogue and maximize the other audio for some effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have several options to deal with this.  The first is to check your audio receiver's manual.  Look for a 'night mode' and enable it when you want the dynamic range compressed (increases the volume of dialogue and decreases the volume of the loud parts).  Another option is to make adjustments in your audio receiver.  If you turn up the center channel (where dialogue is traditionally), then turn down the overall volume, that will balance out the difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Understand that this was put in place on purpose as part of the job of crafting the movie.  Just as, for example, horror movies will use darkness to make scenes more imposing, the audio is designed to have these variations in volume between elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-06-19T18:58:11.687" LastActivityDate="2013-06-19T18:58:11.687" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2813" CreationDate="2012-06-13T20:42:58.967" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry, I don't have the link, but I read an interview with Ridley Scott where he states clearly that no where in the film does it actually say the tall figures in the drawings are engineers. He neither confirms or denies who they might be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a key moment where David is talking to one of the crew members, that the planet they are landing on &quot;might be&quot; the home of the engineers. David responds by saying something like &quot;assuming your thesis is correct&quot;. David makes it very clear that the star they are traveling to is based upon a thesis that isn't proven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ridley Scott explains that the solar system they visit has several possible planets and that the crew picked that one moon cause it seemed logical. Ridley also explained that the drawings could have been interpreted as a warning rather then an invitation. I think he wanted the drawing to be thought provoking rather then clearly defined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2012-06-13T20:42:58.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2787" CreationDate="2012-06-14T03:23:14.830" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;She is clearly not an android:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She answered &quot;yes&quot; to having sex, to prove her humanity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An android would not have argued with its creator.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An android would not have had the option to either come with its creator or stay behind and manage a company.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An android would not have been awakened from stasis as it would not age and not be put in stasis.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An android would not require a life pod.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An android would not set fire to a person infected with a disease rather than allowing them upon a spaceship. It would not be vulnerable to disease.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1494" LastEditorUserId="148" LastEditDate="2012-11-08T21:35:04.727" LastActivityDate="2012-11-08T21:35:04.727" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2817" CreationDate="2012-06-14T05:46:08.443" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I’m afraid &lt;a href=&quot;http://thefutoncritic.com/showatch/breaking-in/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Breaking In&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is officially canceled. Just like &lt;a href=&quot;http://thefutoncritic.com/showatch/i-hate-my-teenage-daughter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;I Hate My Teenage Daughter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, it got a second chance (to be aired during breaks/summer) thanks to FOX’s weak list of filler shows. Unfortunately both shows performed poorly (despite &lt;em&gt;Breaking In&lt;/em&gt; trying to shake things up in season two), and were not renewed for a third/second season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side-note, Odette Yustman’s timely departure of &lt;em&gt;Breaking In&lt;/em&gt; for &lt;em&gt;House&lt;/em&gt; is interesting because both shows were cancelled by FOX, so she was no better off in either, though her presence (or lack thereof) may be conjectured to have had an effect on the fate of the shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastEditorUserId="214" LastEditDate="2012-06-14T06:04:15.537" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T06:04:15.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2442" CreationDate="2012-06-14T06:57:33.657" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only valid explanation that comes to mind is that Jim Phelps wanted to frame someone so the file could be closed instead of an open-end investigation that could lead to his capture ultimately!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1495" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T06:57:33.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2826" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2834" CreationDate="2012-06-14T07:37:06.073" Score="5" ViewCount="636" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie in 1999 or 2000 on TV (when they wouldn't even display names during the movie). It was a futuristic Govt + Army against &lt;em&gt;rebels&lt;/em&gt; kind of a movie with a female central character. I remember 4 things from the movie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The movie wasn't animated but lots of animated scenes were shown in between like Natural Born Killers!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lots of fancy airships and guns.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The girl when captured refers to blowjobs as &quot;Anyone needs an oil change&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the final fight scene, an animation is shown where her boobs turn into missiles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looked like a hell of a movie but I have never been able to track it! Would appreciate if anyone can help!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1495" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-04T01:57:13.187" LastActivityDate="2013-09-04T01:57:13.187" Title="Female protagonist in a futuristic army vs. rebels film" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:37:08.190" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="333" CreationDate="2012-06-14T09:30:52.413" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think he &lt;em&gt;employed&lt;/em&gt; him (as in, offering him money for doing it). I think it is more that he &lt;em&gt;commanded&lt;/em&gt; him to do it, that is, he's now the one who can get Biff to do things for him, and Biff no longer has the balls to refuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1490" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T09:30:52.413" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2829" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2833" CreationDate="2012-06-14T09:41:59.890" Score="16" ViewCount="3405" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only detail I can remember that can give a hint on what &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0003521/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Walter&lt;/a&gt;'s job was in &lt;em&gt;The Big Lebowski&lt;/em&gt;, is that he works in Security, as written in his van:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tYxrv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't remember anything for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0003517/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Donny&lt;/a&gt;. Is there another hint in the movie on what Donny's job could be and what Walter's job in Security is, specifically?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T10:53:59.020" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T18:10:47.650" Title="What are Walter and Donny's occupations (when the events in the movie are unfolding)?" Tags="|character|the-big-lebowski|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2830" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-14T10:58:36.523" Score="10" ViewCount="1003" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the last scene in Prometheus, how did the Engineer enter the ship after Dr.Shaw had locked the doors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1497" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T00:00:50.303" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T00:00:50.303" Title="How did the engineer enter the locked ship?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2787" CreationDate="2012-06-14T11:23:19.833" Score="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://m.mtv.com/news/article.rbml?id=1687022&amp;amp;weburl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mtv.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F1687022%2Fprometheus-secrets-damon-lindelof.jhtml&amp;amp;alt=http%3A%2F%2Fm.mtv.com%2Fnews%2Findex.rbml&amp;amp;cid=300&quot;&gt;MTV interview&lt;/a&gt; with the writer, Damon Lindelof:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We talked a bit about David but let's concentrate on Vickers for a second if we could. Like David, her motivations remain mysterious for much of the film. And certainly her resemblance (look, icy mannerisms) to David is interesting to say the least. Janek asks the question directly so I shall as well. Is she a robot?!? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vickers. Yes, she does look like David. Yes, this was intentional. What better way to piss off your daughter than to build the male equivalent of her? But enough about daddy issues (seriously, Lindelof, we get it!), allow me to answer your question. &lt;strong&gt;Is she a robot? She is not.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To address the points brought up more specifically though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Peter Weyland, the old trillionaire, did say that she was his daughter. He could have meant this figuratively though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He calls David &quot;the closest thing [he has] to a son.&quot; If he sees androids as his figurative children, it would seem odd for him to see David as only being &quot;close to a son&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Janek, the captain of the Prometheus, asked Vickers for sex like he was asking an android for a glass of water. After she agreed without emotion, he sang &quot;if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with&quot; before he had sex with her (although they didn't show it). This suggested to me that he wasn't going to be with a human, but was going to love the android he was with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Janek is on a multi-year mission away from home and presumably away from his family. The other less devious conspiracy-filled theory is that he's lamenting the fact that he's away from his actual lover (wife, girlfriend, whomever). If he can't be with his true love, for whatever reason, he may as well love the one he's with. In this case, he had two female options: Shaw and Vickers. Since Shaw was in a committed relationship with another person on board, Vickers makes a little more sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The surgery pod wasn't designed for use by a woman. Why would a trillionaire who could afford to build a surgery pod not build one for use by his own daughter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Weyland has demonstrated that he has no particular love for his daughter. He is an egotistical man whose aims are centered solely around himself. The surgery pod was also not set up for Shaw, who was arguably a more instrumental crew member than Vickers. The pod was intended for his own personal use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vickers has a different last name than Weyland, which at least suggest that they are not natural father-daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plenty of children have different last names from their fathers - regardless of biology. Many even have the same last name even though they are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; biologically related. This argument holds no weight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1046" LastEditorUserId="1046" LastEditDate="2014-02-12T22:01:50.460" LastActivityDate="2014-02-12T22:01:50.460" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2012-06-14T12:16:57.790" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;After seeing the movie, this question ate at me and I kept coming back to the same idea. Ridley Scott answered this question and confirmed what I suspected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever happened on LV-223, happened approximately 2000 years ago. It's clear that the Engineers were loading up their ships with cannisters (oddly shaped like 20th century bombs don't you think?) and plotting a course for earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's clear the Engineers visited earth many times after the creation and interacted with humans. So at one point they were quite happy with us. But something changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened on Earth 2000 years ago that would anger our creator to the point that they decided enough was enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well .. according to one of our largest religions, we killed a man who did nothing more than preach peace and love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every religion has the creation story and the story of some great event that nearly destroyed mankind. At some point, the creator becomes angry and starts over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Prometheus, &quot;God&quot; was pissed! Period. A messenger was sent down to warn us that we were on the wrong the path. Instead of heeding that warning, we crucified the messenger. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;God&quot; had enough and decided to wipe out His creation. Only this time, the weapon intended to wipe us out turned on &quot;God&quot; and destroyed all of His kind first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1498" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T12:16:57.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2829" CreationDate="2012-06-14T13:17:29.997" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walter owns his own security store. He is clearly in front of Sobchak Security store when The Dude picks him up to go pay the ransom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that he is a Viet Nam vet, is into arms, interrogation, and security is exceedingly important to the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Donny's day job, I have no clue. Great question though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EPGI6.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EPGI6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-06-06T22:52:37.640" LastActivityDate="2016-06-06T22:52:37.640" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2826" CreationDate="2012-06-14T13:26:31.747" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds a lot like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114614/&quot;&gt;Tank Girl&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First part of the plot on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Girl_%28film%29&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Set in a dystopian 2033, a comet has hit the Earth, and altered the&#xA;  climate turning it into a dry and arid wasteland. There has been no&#xA;  rain for over 11 years - water is extremely scarce, and what little is&#xA;  available is controlled by the Water &amp;amp; Power company, led by Kesslee&#xA;  (Malcolm McDowell). Water &amp;amp; Power are opposed by the almost mythical&#xA;  &quot;Rippers&quot;, a mysterious group that no one can find. Rebecca - Tank&#xA;  Girl - (Lori Petty), is a member of a small community that has set up&#xA;  their own water well in the basement of a house. Learning of this,&#xA;  Water &amp;amp; Power attacks, killing most in the house and capturing Rebecca&#xA;  and a young girl named Sam. Imprisoned, Rebecca is repeatedly&#xA;  brutalized by Kesslee, who wishes to break her spirit, brainwashing&#xA;  her into working for him. Between intellectual jousts with Kesslee,&#xA;  Rebecca befriends Jet Girl (Naomi Watts) - an otherwise un-named&#xA;  mechanic who works on Water &amp;amp; Power's vehicles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the movie there are some animated scenes, some of them quite weird.  If I recall correctly one of them matches the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8LqnPQEAN0#t=18s&quot;&gt;missile thing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="214" LastEditDate="2012-06-15T01:05:44.967" LastActivityDate="2012-06-15T01:05:44.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2520" CreationDate="2012-06-14T14:08:52.883" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been wondering that same thing, I can't quite figure it out. I have two theories though. Either it had something to do with the fact that he time-traveled while in the past, when he jumped down from the rocket launch thingy with Boris. Maybe that somehow made him resistant to time fracture, because he wasn't really present while the change happened.&#xA;Or maybe it has to do with agent K neurolizing young James. It somehow made him forget about the changes in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize it's not very helpful, but that's the best I have been able to come up with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1500" LastEditorUserId="1172" LastEditDate="2012-06-14T14:37:56.167" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T14:37:56.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2829" CreationDate="2012-06-14T14:29:47.370" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having watched the movie a few times, As far as I can tell no where in the movie is Donny's job indirectly or directly expressed (I could be wrong). However we can infer from the plot and overall theme of the movie the following&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They all have places they live which costs money&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They all bowl which costs money&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For the most part they have decent clothes which cost money&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Logically they all have to have some sort of income. My guess is they have some sort of slacker time part time jobs along with some sort of other income.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T14:29:47.370" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2811" CreationDate="2012-06-14T15:05:43.003" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is worth bearing in mind that single handed swords did little against plate armour, they did little against maille and padding unless you landed a good solid thrust.  Curved swords have almost no affect against solid armour too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have suits of maille and plate and regualarly fight in tournaments wearing them.  We have fought at full power with swords and I have never been hurt despite getting hit a lot!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fight with Ned Stark and Jamie which the OP has provided a link for is a good example of Hollywood fighting.  If you watch carefully the head shots and thrusts would normally miss even if the target stayed still but they move or block and with a good camera angle it looks like a close thing but they were never in danger.  Slashes to the body are normally swung in when the opposing blade is already in place to block them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extra:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just watched the scene with Jamie and Briene on the bridge.  The part just before the actual sword clashes is historically correct as related to 15c fighting manuals.  They are taking recognised 15c guards called the ox and the plough.  Once the fighting starts the blows are telegraphed and aimed at the weapon rather than the person.  There is also a lot more pressing swords together (called binding) than would normally happen for real, if you pressed swords and stood that close you would be punched or headbutted.  Jamie mentions that she should not grimace before thrusting, this is correct and is actually a very common bad habit with newer fighters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="1501" LastEditDate="2013-06-11T19:02:10.490" LastActivityDate="2013-06-11T19:02:10.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2838" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2841" CreationDate="2012-06-14T15:20:22.817" Score="12" ViewCount="2068" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early in the film the Fifield's 'Pups' (The red survey balls) are released to map the structure.  After they have done the mapping one of them stops at the end of a passage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We later discover this is the entrance to the Alien Spaceship, or perhaps a door within the spaceship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later when Milburn and Fifield are stranded in the pyramid structure after becoming lost trying to find the way out, Janek (back on the ship) notices that this pup is &quot;pinging&quot; a life form.  But not consistently so they suspect it was a glitch in the pup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this pup picking up the engineer in the stasis pod? If so what accounts for the inconsistent nature of detection? If not, what Life-form is the pup detecting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T00:01:51.450" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T00:02:36.547" Title="What life form was the survey probe picking up in Prometheus?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2838" CreationDate="2012-06-14T15:52:01.077" Score="11" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Is this pup picking up the engineer in the stasis pod? &lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, certainly the pup picking up the engineer in the stasis pod. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Reason for the inconsistent nature of detection:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To stay alive, you need to maintain some level of &lt;strong&gt;metabolism&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;a heartbeat on every hour makes some sense&lt;/strong&gt;. Suspended animation isn't a complete freezing of the body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that at times there is a &lt;strong&gt;light in the stasis pod&lt;/strong&gt; that comes on for a short while and then goes.That may be simply due to the &lt;strong&gt;slowing down of the metabolism&lt;/strong&gt; in stasis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T00:02:36.547" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T00:02:36.547" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="333" CreationDate="2012-06-14T18:55:48.787" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;For all we know, in the intervening years, Biff saw the error of his ways, begged forgiveness, and was accepted by the McFlys as a changed man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastActivityDate="2012-06-14T18:55:48.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2845" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2862" CreationDate="2012-06-14T19:31:31.037" Score="12" ViewCount="4145" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Prometheus, the black goo appears to affect life forms in five different ways. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the very beginning of the movie, the Space Jockey drinks the black-goo, and it kills him and  &lt;strong&gt;makes the body decompose very quickly&lt;/strong&gt;.So it creates human life on earth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While watching the worm attack, the black-goo mutates into a &quot;&lt;strong&gt;cobra-hugger&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; and it attacked on Milburn's throat.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Fifield falls into the goo, he later returns as a &lt;strong&gt;mutated monster&lt;/strong&gt; version of himself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When David spikes Holloway’s drink with a tiny amount of black goo, Holloway appears to follow the same pattern of cell breakdown as the sacrificial Engineer, only at a &lt;strong&gt;slower rate&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, &lt;strong&gt;Shaw impregnate&lt;/strong&gt; because of black-goo infected Holloway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Did the black goo affect the different people in different ways? If so, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-13T18:46:21.530" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T18:46:21.530" Title="Did the black goo affect life forms in different ways in Prometheus?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2846" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2861" CreationDate="2012-06-14T19:54:23.113" Score="21" ViewCount="1520" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/&quot;&gt;Prometheus&lt;/a&gt;, for &lt;strong&gt;what reason did Weyland hide on the ship&lt;/strong&gt;? When he finally revealed that he was in the ship, it turns out &lt;strong&gt;nothing happens&lt;/strong&gt;, there are no particular consequences and the reason for the secrecy is unclear. Why didn't Weyland just inform the crew that he's also aboard in the ship?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain to me, what are the reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-13T18:46:13.987" LastActivityDate="2020-10-25T00:43:18.830" Title="Why does Weyland have to hide that he was on the ship?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2012-06-15T01:57:54.930" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that there are two groups of engineers. There was a split in their thinking that lead to war between them. One group of engineers wanted to create a race much like themselves, but others among them rebelled against the thought of creating others like themselves and in secret, created the xenomorphs as a weapon to use against the other element of engineers that may have been protecting humans. I think the war was devastating and very few survived it, so when the one was awakened he knew that his side must have failed in winning the war. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that the surviving engineer did not bother to try and communicate with his homeworld, which leads me to believe that they all must be dead too or they think he is. He figured this out because it was humans that found him and not his own kind. Then there is also the fact that there are other working ships on the planet, no one leaves working interstellar hardware laying around on a military installation unless they are all dead. It will be interesting to see if Elizabeth finds them, but I think she will only find a dead homeworld.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the other possiblity that the faction that may have been protecting us killed off the creators of the xenomorphs and left the planet for dead, but I don't think that if they were still alive they would have left such a dangerous weapon on the moon and planet unchecked. They did, however, leave a warning so they must have had some conscience. Hopfully we get to find out in a sequal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1505" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-06-20T13:10:05.263" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T13:10:05.263" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2850" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3450" CreationDate="2012-06-15T05:04:00.633" Score="8" ViewCount="505" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of season 4, we see Tara get fatally wounded in the back of the head from a shotgun blast from Debbie, aiming for Sookie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the initial shock, Pam arrives just in time, looking for Eric.  However, instead of doing the usual 'let them drink your blood to heal'; Sookie, in a panic, tells Pam to raise her as a Vampire instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing Tara's past with vampires, and usually how simplistic it is for friendly vampires to let the wounded drink their blood for health, would Sookie decide to turn her best friend into a Vampire?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it because Tara is dead, or rather, close enough to death that even Vampire blood cannot save her?  Or is this merely a slip-up on Sookie's part, panicking over her best friend's condition?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T19:27:46.943" Title="What was the reasoning behind Sookie's decision?" Tags="|plot-explanation|true-blood|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2852" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2865" CreationDate="2012-06-15T07:29:36.000" Score="10" ViewCount="295" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 11th doctor's 1st series there is a story arc involving cracks appearing across the universe and removing people from history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I don't understand, in some examples people are removed from history (the troops from the Byzantium and Rory), however in other places beings appear to be able to enter and exit the cracks at will (Prizoner Zero and the Doctor when checking for debris inside the crack).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any opinion on why the cracks have different effects on different people?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-12-22T19:12:03.230" Title="Cracks in the wall inconsistencies" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2335" CreationDate="2012-06-15T10:38:29.360" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This stuck in my mind too.  Holmes arranged the meeting out there by the drop (he sent the note) knowing he already had the breathing device, so going over the edge was probably on his mind anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the stories he did it to avoid Moran who he spotted and then he used this to go undercover, he could not let Watson in on the scheme because Watson is unable to be successfully deceiptful (in the stories Holmes will often not tell Watson a plan or lie to him rather than trying to get Watson to put on an act).  So it may have been that, Holmes was playing the long game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watson was tough, Holmes was tough but injured.  Moriarty is tough, possibly armed and fighting like a cornered animal.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, from a tactical point of view at that point Holmes knew he had Moriarty.  The chance of surviving that fall is very low even with the breathing equipment so that chance of Moriarty surviving is not really any higher than if Holmes shot him.  If he had let that moment slip Moriarty might have got away, for all we (and Sherlock) knew M had a pistol concealed on him and would have used it had the odds gone against him.  Remember from the voice over M was confident that he could outfight Holmes due to Holmes's injury and he exploited that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-06-15T10:38:29.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2710" CreationDate="2012-06-15T11:09:14.140" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He probably wanted vengence before fleeing the city.  He pulled up and noticed that there were only two officers there.  It looked like a pretty easy walk in - kill - walk out, probably only taking a couple of minutes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had no way of knowing that Riggs and co had beaten him there and had laid an ambush. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-06-15T11:09:14.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2692" CreationDate="2012-06-15T15:55:12.967" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since Ed developed Tyler as part of his split personality a.k.a. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder&quot;&gt;Dissociative identity disorder&lt;/a&gt;. Then all memories of Tyler are actually his with his mind filling in the logical holes in the memory. So Tyler looks and acts like a separate person with all the accessories that would make the separate person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not until the end that the two personalities become &quot;aware&quot; of each other. At this point the memories merge and the personalities become one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="105" LastEditDate="2012-06-18T18:36:46.710" LastActivityDate="2012-06-18T18:36:46.710" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1005" CreationDate="2012-06-15T16:00:46.007" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;A small but important note is the Yoda does not say to go in unarmed he says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Your weapons, you will not need them&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luke was still trusting to physical force and dominance which is a way to the dark side.  Had he gone in there trusting the force (even if it had meant his life) then he would have passed the test.  It shows how on a knife edge Luke actually is.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice he resorts to weapons later when he tries to kill the emperor in his rage and then fights Vader.  He attempts to avoid the fight by hiding and negotiating but eventually loses his temper and becomes powerful enough to defeat Vader.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the knife edge moment but this time Luke passes, he glances at his robotic hand and observes that he is already on the way to becoming like his father and decides to throw his weapon aside.  Despite being in a hostile fortress surrounded by enemies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it turns out to be the right move!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-06-15T16:00:46.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2710" CreationDate="2012-06-15T17:40:17.413" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched the movie recently again on tv. First obvious choice is his vengeance. If you rollback to the start of the movie in that initial scene in bar where he puts his hand out on the lighter for his boss to show his loyalty, so I think it could be part vengeance and part loyalty to his boss to kill off the people who hindered his boss and even if it means as to walking onto an ambush (which he never saw coming).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2012-06-15T17:40:17.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2795" CreationDate="2012-06-15T18:52:56.637" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's like you assumed: he says &quot;Downal wyth Bluddy Behg Hid!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It means &quot;Down with the bloody big head&quot; or as the source below quotes it: &quot;Down with the Red Queen, the slogan of the Resistance.&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/glossary-of-terms-for-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It obviously means that the hatter is hinting Bayard that they are on the same side. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing that might confuse people here is when people assume that Bayard believes in red queen's promises that his family will be released. But I don't think people would still continue to assume the same way after that scene where Bayard helps Alice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as a summary - Bayard knows that he is being used and helps Mad Hatter in this scene leaving Alice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1508" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T00:45:25.347" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T00:45:25.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2860" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2905" CreationDate="2012-06-15T19:32:12.150" Score="7" ViewCount="32961" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been following the show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810788/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Burn Notice&lt;/a&gt; very closely since it's inception, but one thing has been bothering me. Who burned Michael?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was always under the impression that a burn notice was the way in which a spy was fired, so naturally, I had assumed it was CIA sponsored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the most recent season(s), the team has been chasing a man named &lt;a href=&quot;http://burnnotice.wikia.com/wiki/Anson_Fullerton&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anson Fullerton&lt;/a&gt;, who is supposedly &quot;rebuilding the organization that burned Michael.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/leynK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Anson (right) and Michael (left)&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, that was where I became confused. I can understand if he was the person, working for the CIA, who was in charge of the burning of Michael, but what was this &quot;organization&quot; they were talking about, if it wasn't the CIA?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If the CIA wasn't the organization that burned Michael, who was it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="905" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-06-15T21:07:11.153" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T17:37:21.820" Title="Who Burned Michael Weston?" Tags="|burn-notice|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2846" CreationDate="2012-06-15T19:43:21.880" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got the impression Weyland did not want the scientists (especially the two head scientists) to realize his selfish reason for wanting to contact the engineers. He kept them under the impression that he was funding the mission so that mankind could have the knowledge, even faking that he was already dead, the ultimate way to get credibility. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he had been honest and said &quot;I want the engineers to help me live forever&quot; the scientists might not have gone along as he wanted them to. (For example, David suggests Weyland wanted Elizabeth Shaw there as a good-luck charm). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember the scene where Vickers tells the two scientists that they are not to make contact with the engineers? This is the first hint that Weyland (in the hologram) was lying. Vickers knew Weyland was alive, and knew his true goal, and did not want the scientists to interfere with that goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-07-22T19:14:39.047" LastActivityDate="2012-07-22T19:14:39.047" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2845" CreationDate="2012-06-15T19:53:50.303" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The black goo does not affect its victims in different ways. It consistently causes organisms to mutate into bizarre killing-machine versions of themselves:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the very beginning of the movie, the Space Jockey drinks the black-goo, and it kills him and makes the body decompose very quickly.So it creates human life on earth.&quot;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;-Actually &quot;Space Jockey&quot; consumes something other than the black goo -- what he consumes is a brightly colored, congealed substance (which does have different effects than the black goo).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While watching the worm attack, the black-goo mutates into a &quot;cobra-hugger&quot; and it attacked on Milburn's throat.&quot;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;-the &quot;cobra-hugger&quot; is the result of the worms coming in contact with the black goo.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Fifield falls into the goo, he later returns as a mutated monster version of himself.&quot;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;-like the worms turned into &quot;cobra-huggers,&quot; humans turn into mutated monster humans.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When David spikes Holloway’s drink with a tiny amount of black goo, Holloway appears to follow the same pattern of cell breakdown as the sacrificial Engineer, only at a slower rate.&quot;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;-Actually Holloway is not suffering the same fate as the sacrificial engineer -- instead, Holloway begins to mutate slowly into the same thing as Fifield, though Holloway gets himself killed before he mutates all the way.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shaw impregnate because of black-goo infected Holloway.&quot; &#xA;&lt;em&gt;-Shaw has sex with Holloway when Holloway has begun to mutate, so what she is pregnant with is some kind of mutant offspring.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2012-06-17T03:25:19.730" LastActivityDate="2012-06-17T03:25:19.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2775" CreationDate="2012-06-15T20:10:00.683" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;David has multiple motivations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;to help Weyland achieve Weyland's goal, which is to contact engineers so engineers can help Weyland cheat death. After all David is a computer with a programmed purpose: serving Weyland.&#xA;(&quot;Try harder&quot; is Weyland telling David to keep looking for a living engineer, which David then does successfully.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;to reveal how humans were not special but instead -- like David -- were created by other intelligent beings. This is the irony underlying Holloway's insulting David.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-06-17T02:37:43.973" LastActivityDate="2012-06-17T02:37:43.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2335" CreationDate="2012-06-15T20:11:28.830" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In that scene, even if he did take Watson's help - I don't think injured Holmes + Watson would beat Moriarty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving aside the possibility of Holmes planning to fake his own death, I have an alternate and more Sherlock movie like theory as of why this happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say that Holmes didn't expect Watson to come at the end of their fight and quite possibly - instead had the &quot;area&quot; under the hill (that valley) and the dynamics of his and Moriarty fall figured out (which Moriarty definitely wouldn't have thought about - according to Holmes) just before he made the jump. He also planned the jump in such a way that he would somehow escape the fall (quite possibly by falling into the water, while Moriarty falls on Rocks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can see Moriarty screaming all the way down, but Holmes keeping his cool while falling, which mildly indicates this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, by the time Watson comes in, Holmes caught Moriarty in such a way that in a split second Moriarty knew what Holmes was going to do. Given a little more time, Moriarty would have managed to push Holmes down (because he is towards the wall) - So, Holmes didn't have enough time to change his plan - otherwise Moriarty would kill him, and most likely Watson too after that. This is why, he continued with what he planned before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I guess through this scene - Sherlock is shown as more Intuitive and &quot;outside the box&quot; sort of planner when it comes to his &quot;fighting simulations&quot; compared to Moriarty. Clearly, Moriarty didn't expect the possibility of both of them falling down and Sherlock wins!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1508" LastActivityDate="2012-06-15T20:11:28.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2852" CreationDate="2012-06-15T21:47:59.123" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general suggestion (at least as far as The Doctor is concerned) is that as a creature of time he is able to control his contact with the effects of the crack. He has to give himself over to it willingly before it consumes him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 11th season, the nature of the crack is said to not be fully understood and will be effected by the &quot;Great Unasked Question&quot; of season 12. It is possible that the Silence and the race that Prisoner Zero is from are involved in this greater issue and can transcend the effects of the crack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do see that once inside the crack, the Doctor has some general control as he steps backwards and 'unwinds' through his own history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastActivityDate="2012-06-15T21:47:59.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2866" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-06-15T23:54:18.483" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-06-15T23:54:18.483" LastActivityDate="2012-06-15T23:54:18.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2867" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-06-15T23:54:18.483" Score="0" Body="A spy recently disavowed by the U.S. government uses his Special Ops training to help others in trouble." OwnerUserId="905" LastEditorUserId="905" LastEditDate="2012-06-16T00:34:20.213" LastActivityDate="2012-06-16T00:34:20.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2869" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2870" CreationDate="2012-06-16T02:23:55.390" Score="7" ViewCount="1457" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From the Wikipedia article for the movie, Memento&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The purpose of the fragmented reverse sequencing is to force the audience into a sympathetic experience of Leonard's defective short-term memory, where prior events are not recalled, since the audience has yet to see them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about Irréversible's reverse chronology?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="88" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T00:04:58.080" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T00:04:58.080" Title="Is there any reason behind Irréversible's reverse chronological order?" Tags="|chronology|irreversible|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2869" CreationDate="2012-06-16T07:49:22.677" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the name suggests actions you make in life are irreversible, one action leads to another and you can't go back to change them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This film analyzes what actions lead to the brutal actions of Marcus (Vincent Cassel).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Doing this in reverse order forces the viewer to reevaluate his view of Marcus, because in retrospect his actions can be justified by the unfortunate events that happened to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shown in chronological order this film would be a &quot;normal&quot; revenge thriller but the reverse chronological order gives this film a special psychological aspect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113" LastActivityDate="2012-06-16T07:49:22.677" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="869" CreationDate="2012-06-16T08:03:53.810" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;She was probably a mixture of drugged and hypnotised. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Observe the power of auto suggestion in the film with the public thinking that Blackwood is a demon. Even the order (who are well-educated people) have convinced themselves they have magic powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the right conditioning, a cocktail of drugs and a touch of Hollywood &quot;magic&quot; (special effects) she could easily have been moved to attempt suicide. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-02-27T17:07:24.207" LastActivityDate="2019-02-27T17:07:24.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="867" CreationDate="2012-06-16T08:06:58.203" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flip the question around, you know how ruthless and efficient M is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know that Adler is in the firing line and is in extreme danger, you have warned her several times. You know if you were M you would kill her, you have half tried once with the bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would M be lying about actually killing her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-06-16T08:06:58.203" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2873" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2878" CreationDate="2012-06-16T14:22:04.703" Score="8" ViewCount="2785" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched 6 seasons of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460681/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Supernatural&lt;/a&gt;, and in almost every one of them, Sam and Dean talks about many different kinds of monsters- with different names, killing-methods and habits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I was wondering, is there any credibility to that information? I mean, monsters are not considered real by most people (and most probably they aren't), but I do know there are many myths and legends about them- originating from ancient times. For example, in Supernatural, they almost always use salt to keep monsters away, and also the much-used Devil's Trap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is this kind of lore real or just made up for the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T00:07:14.203" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T00:07:14.203" Title="Is there any credibility to the &quot;details&quot; in Supernatural?" Tags="|plot-explanation|supernatural|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2730" CreationDate="2012-06-16T14:49:59.633" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What David said was exactly what Weyland told him to say, as David is an android programmed to serve Weyland. This is consistent with how David behaves through the earlier parts of the movie. There is no evidence that David ever disobeys Weyland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the engineer decapitated David to confirm quickly that David was not a human. The engineer suspected this because David was clearly the only member of his group who could speak with the engineer. Evidence includes the soft touch the engineer originally gives David -- basically the engineer was thinking &quot;there's something unusual about this one.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure why the engineer turns on the rest of the humans but is probably in self defense and/or in conjunction with his apparent original mission of killing off human life on earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-06-16T15:25:36.297" LastActivityDate="2012-06-16T15:25:36.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2775" CreationDate="2012-06-16T19:36:21.457" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My 2 Strongest theories about this are:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;He turned out to hate the humans due to the actions of Dr.Holloway&lt;/em&gt;. To me, since the first time David and Holloway met... I always had the gut feeling that David was going to do something to Holloway sooner or later. I mean, Holloway was being such an ass towards David! Plus, not only that.. but.. to me, it seemed as if he knew that the black goo was dangerous. One reason why I believe he knew is that he didn't inform the crew about taking that black goo back with him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;He has a thing for Shaw.&lt;/em&gt; If you think about it, what Vijin said is true. And, I do not want to type all about it when the informations already up here, lol. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1512" LastActivityDate="2012-06-16T19:36:21.457" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2876" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2887" CreationDate="2012-06-16T21:21:01.603" Score="18" ViewCount="33634" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently started watching the Spartacus (just finished Blood and Sand and Gods of the Arena, currently watching Vengeance) and the events described seemed rather exaggerated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it doesn't bother me one bit and I enjoy the series because it is what it is, it conflicts a little with what I had already known about the romans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For starters, even if the gladiators were slaved, I lived under the impression that the most famous ones, the champions, were treated much better, something that doesn't seem to be the case with Spartacus and Crixus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The amount of sex seems also too much. The roman orgies are very famous, but the characters in the series have no shame towards the slaves and indulge themselves in all sort of strange practices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And last but not least, it seemed fairly easy to kill someone and get away with it back then, as Batiatus demonstrated not just once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, considering the nature of the show, things are bound to be inflated, to make the series more entertaining and it's definitely working but still... just how much of the show is true and how much is fiction? I would to point out that my question it's not about the historical figure Spartacus and his story, but the roman society and his habits as it was presented in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1514" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2012-06-17T22:53:13.603" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T13:27:08.020" Title="How historically accurate is the TV series Spartacus?" Tags="|historical-accuracy|spartacus-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2336" CreationDate="2012-06-16T21:50:49.853" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought it was closer to &quot;Боже мой&quot; - an interjection &quot;Oh goodness&quot;, &quot;Oh my&quot;, or &quot;My God&quot; - but its the same sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;бог&quot;(bog) would be Russian for God, but I think she definitely says &quot;Боже мой&quot; (bozhe moi). Though essentially they mean the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1516" LastActivityDate="2012-06-16T21:50:49.853" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2873" CreationDate="2012-06-17T03:49:38.513" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Supernatural is inspired from several folk lore, legends, myths and a creative team. So most of it is born out of the existing myths out there. Of course, the team goes on to make some stuff of their own. The thing is, Supernatural borrows from myths all over the world. The salt thing and devil's trap are myths that exist. Though I wouldn't worry about the series being &lt;em&gt;credible&lt;/em&gt; because they often involve plots that throw you off your screen like the Horsemen, heaven, hell etc etc. Just enjoy the show! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2012-06-17T03:49:38.513" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2880" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3359" CreationDate="2012-06-17T04:44:52.817" Score="10" ViewCount="644" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460681/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Supernatural&lt;/a&gt;, Season 6, Episode 15, Sam and Dean find themselves pushed into an &quot;alternate reality&quot; where they are two &lt;em&gt;actors&lt;/em&gt; acting in a &lt;em&gt;TV show&lt;/em&gt; called Supernatural. And their names (in the alternate reality) are Jared Padalecki (Sam) and Jensen Ackles (Dean).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In real world, those two are the two main actors in Supernatural (in our time, our world). Its the same case with Misha Collins (Castiel) and Robert Singer (Producer and Bobby Singer). Also in this &lt;em&gt;reality&lt;/em&gt;, Genevieve Padalecki is Sam's wife (this is also true in real life- Jared Padalecki is married to Genevieve Padalecki).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any specific name for this kind of technique? The real actors &lt;em&gt;acting&lt;/em&gt; as themselves in the perspective of their characters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is, are there any specific reasons and work that go into this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-22T15:39:56.937" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T15:39:56.937" Title="Actors acting the real actors inside a movie?" Tags="|film-techniques|supernatural|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2787" CreationDate="2012-06-17T05:50:36.843" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My biggest reason besides the cryosleep that indicates she is an android is the design.  David has the yellow hair and wears shades of cool blue and cool gray that is also tied into the ship's design.  Meredith likewise has the same color scheme.  They are both hardware just like the ship.  She walks like David.  She is strong like David, and she doesn't display human compassion like when she burns up Charlie (Elizabeth tells David her compassion is the reason that she is human and he isn't).  There will be those who say, what about the other scientists who had blonde hair?  But those scientists were seen yacking after cryosleep or slumped over; and they weren't given the prominence Meredith was given.  Meredith wasn't.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the subtext in the film is that David knows she is an android and she doesn't know it, just like Rachael in Blade Runner.  David gets a kick out of her trying to establish her human superiority over his robotic inferiority (when she threatens to cut his cord) because he has intimate knowledge of her fabrication.  The look on his face is that he wants to tell her but his orders prevent it.  When we see David getting his orders from Weyland about &quot;Try harder&quot; -- it was evident by the skewn composition that we were seeing it from someone else's point-of-view.  But the point of view was detached and withdrawn.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it involved a level of stealth that clearly verged on predatory or suprahuman.  Then the revelation was that Charlize Theron was the individual who had snuck up on him and was watching him.   When is a human character in a Ridley Scott film ever able to sneak up on a non-human character in such a predatory way unless it was alien or android?  In this scene, the power is clearly Charlize Theron's.  Not just in her actions but in the way Scott codes her as a silent stealthy creature.  It's clear that David and Meredith are related in ways the others are not related because their movement, their mannerisms, and their attitudes are synchronized.  As actors, they are playing off each other, so Theron tries to humanize Meredith in a way that is far more advanced than David.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, we can see the expressions in Weyland's face that when she tries to use emotional pleas for him not to go and see the Giant, that her emotional pleas ring hollow.  Firstly, it's the way she says father -- though it's an appeal to emotion, it is awkwardly uttered and awkwardly timed.  She was directed to say the line as if it lacked proper emotion.  As if it were the thing to say.  Only a machine that lacked emotion but were trying to find a way to make an emotional appeal based on its programming would do so in such an apathetic manner.   Weyland's physical reaction is that her appeals ring hollow because he knows she is a hollow woman at her core.  Far more advanced and emotionally sophisticated but not sophisticated enough.  Some argue that Weyland's quest for eternal life from the Giants might be motivated by his dream to create an emotionally exact replica of human life in the form of a robot.  So although Theron is far more advanced than David, she still has room for refinement.  That her last name is Vickers is simply Weylan'ds way of giving her an additional level of identity separate from David's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On an exegetical note -- whenever a magician says pay not attention over here, then there's something there that he really wants you to see, and it's a form of reverse psychology in the art of misdirection.  Likewise, the text tried to dismiss the question of whether or not that she was an android in such an obvious way that it was like c'mon 97% of what I have seen codes her as an android, and you want me to place that 3% in the form of dialogue over what my eyes have seen?  I'm sorry, people lie with their words all the time; I will trust my eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't buy Lindelof's answer.  Scott supercede's Lindelof as a director.  The history of his work indicates that Meredith is an android.  He codes her as such, frames her as such, has her walk and talk and posture as such.  She moves silently as such.  She could be the Terminatrix.  If she were definitely human, than ambiguity would not be necessary.  If she were android, ambiguity is understandable.  I think Scott is smarter than that.  So my answer is yes, she is an android.  Until Scott himself says 'no.'  If she is not an android, then I will be the first to admit that I was wrong.  But I don't see why a smart director allows for that level of ambiguity.  I think she is in such denial of her robotic nature that she needs to prove her humanity.  Having sex does not mean she is not an android.  Androids have simulated sex in Scott's films before.  And David could be the android that does his physical (dark bidding), and Meredith could be the one that does his corporate bidding.  He can use them as different aspects of his will seeing as how a man with secrets like himself can't trust anything he can't control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1518" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-07-03T19:15:35.390" LastActivityDate="2012-07-03T19:15:35.390" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="839" CreationDate="2012-06-17T19:07:18.347" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the sixth Star Trek movie, Spock quotes Sherlock Holmes' famous line &quot;Once you've ruled out the impossible, whatever remains, however improbably, must be true.&quot; Of course, since the modern-day Sherlock couldn't be quoting himself, Watson identifies the quote as Spock's, and not Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's. I really liked this reference, particularly the way it messes with time...but in the new Sherlock, they're assuming that the original quote came from Star Trek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the bits about struggling with emotions are rather Spock-ish, since Spock rarely shows his own emotions in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope that helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1521" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-08-11T17:17:18.757" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T17:17:18.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2886" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2899" CreationDate="2012-06-17T19:39:16.677" Score="19" ViewCount="17783" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Reservoir Dogs, near the end of the film, there's a standoff between three guys.  They all end up firing their guns.  One was aiming at Mr. Orange, one was aiming at Mr. White, and one was aiming at the boss.  When the guns fired Mr. White, the boss, and Nice Guy Eddie fell.  No one was aiming at Eddie!  Who shot Nice Guy Eddie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-11T11:48:31.887" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T09:37:12.437" Title="Why did he fall to the ground?" Tags="|plot-explanation|reservoir-dogs|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2876" CreationDate="2012-06-17T19:41:40.303" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the Spartans were way more brutal than it was depicted in the show. Because, &lt;strong&gt;the  majority of the things depicted are true &lt;/strong&gt; - the characters &lt;strong&gt;personalities&lt;/strong&gt; and all of the &lt;strong&gt;battles&lt;/strong&gt; and stuff, as I can believe, but it's &lt;strong&gt;not historically accurate&lt;/strong&gt; as far as i know. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it is focused on the lives of merchants and slaves, and low level magistrates and praetors in a gladiator school in Capua, rather than the lives of consuls as you get with most &lt;strong&gt;depictions of Roman life&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;arena combat is highly unrealistic&lt;/strong&gt; and stylized for the sake of&#xA;entertainment rather than as an accurate depiction of the way&#xA;gladiators truly fought.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The most historically inaccurate area is probably the language and&#xA;dialogue. The slaves were taken from all over the Roman empire and&#xA;would have had little to no education in most cases. &lt;strong&gt;They would&#xA;have no common language&lt;/strong&gt; and what little communication they were&#xA;capable of wouldn't have contained the verbose level of word usage&#xA;the show is so fond of.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words the show clearly tries to maintain a level of historical accuracy while not losing sight of the fact that &lt;strong&gt;it's entertainment and not a documentary&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T13:27:08.020" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T13:27:08.020" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2888" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2910" CreationDate="2012-06-17T19:52:12.630" Score="11" ViewCount="588" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, I saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106856/&quot;&gt;Falling Down (1993)&lt;/a&gt; for the second time or so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Spoiler ahead, if you managed not to see this movie yet)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the movie, which in real time covers the best part of a day, William Foster, clearly in a violent mood, threatens to visit his ex wife, Elisabeth, to attend their little daughter Adele’s birthday party. He calls her a number of times. She is terrified of him and notifies the police until they get fed up with her and don't offer her any protection any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beth stays at home, knowing that William is on his way. Isn't that strange? When she finally runs, William is already entering her house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that the plot needs suspense. But my question is, is it made plausible in the movie itself why she lingers so long?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I randomly sampled the haystack of 346 reviews at IMDB, but no luck).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="297" LastActivityDate="2022-08-21T04:52:52.297" Title="Why did Beth not run earlier?" Tags="|plot-explanation|falling-down|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2889" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-06-17T19:59:26.930" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-06-17T19:59:26.930" LastActivityDate="2012-06-17T19:59:26.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2890" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-06-17T19:59:26.930" Score="0" Body="HBO television series by Alan Ball concerning the lives, experiences, and relationships of supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T02:51:11.557" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T02:51:11.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2891" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17738" CreationDate="2012-06-17T21:00:45.227" Score="2" ViewCount="313" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's only one scene in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141974/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The War Zone&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that is shot in a city, which I assume to be London (as implied by the story.) The girl that the brother and his sister meet there seems to be a prostitute, set up for him by his sister. Yet, she interrupts them when the &quot;prostitute&quot; was just getting started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the sister change her mind, or did I miss something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastEditorUserId="105" LastEditDate="2018-07-01T22:16:08.763" LastActivityDate="2018-07-01T22:16:08.763" Title="Who was the girl in London?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-war-zone|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2888" CreationDate="2012-06-17T22:17:55.553" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are a few factors to this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She clearly did not want him to dictate her life anymore. If she is forced to run away because of him, that's exactly what he achieved. Also if she ran away from him, it won't be over with that. He probably will try it again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maybe she still had doubts if he really would show up. If you are scared of something, your hope can easily convince yourself that it will probably not happen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was her daughters birthday, so she probably did not want to ruin the day for her over nothing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course you are right, after the later phone calls it was quite obvious that he was not bluffing. Waiting with running away clearly was a bad decision from her side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2012-06-17T22:17:55.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2894" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-06-17T22:24:29.350" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law in lead roles, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is directed by Guy Ritchie and serves as a sequel to Sherlock Holmes(2009 film). Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are on their new adventure to prevent their nemesis, Professor Moriarty, from starting a war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27264" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-08-26T10:07:03.847" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T10:07:03.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2895" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-06-17T22:24:29.350" Score="0" Body="Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is the 2011 sequel to the Guy Ritchie movie from 2009, Sherlock Holmes." OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2012-06-17T22:40:48.910" LastActivityDate="2012-06-17T22:40:48.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2896" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5769" CreationDate="2012-06-17T22:51:24.980" Score="4" ViewCount="555" Body="&lt;p&gt;FBI only has jurisdiction on US property and soil (domestically, embassies internationally).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie The Jackal, what was the FBI's involvement with the Russian murder investigation at the beginning of the movie? Why where they, and not another organization with international jurisdiction, the organization involved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="252" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-04T14:05:06.377" LastActivityDate="2016-07-26T17:34:20.007" Title="Why was the FBI involved in the international events of The Jackal?" Tags="|the-jackal|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2897" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-06-17T23:11:09.620" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;TV shows are single or repeated segments produced for television broadcasting. Repeated shows are usually called &lt;em&gt;series&lt;/em&gt; and consist of &lt;em&gt;episodes&lt;/em&gt;, oftentimes ranged into &lt;em&gt;seasons&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How to use this tag&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tv-shows&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'tv-shows'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv-shows&lt;/a&gt; tag should only be used when referring to the creation or editing of &lt;strong&gt;tv-shows in a general sense&lt;/strong&gt; and should &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; be used when talking about a specific show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your question is &lt;strong&gt;Why are there credits at the end of TV shows even though only Unicorns read them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question is about TV-Shows in a general sense, go ahead and use the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tv-shows&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'tv-shows'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tv-shows&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if your question is &lt;strong&gt;Why did Dexter shoot the pony instead of stab the unicorn?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;question is about &lt;em&gt;Dexter&lt;/em&gt; which &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a TV show, tag it with &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/dexter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'dexter'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dexter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2012-06-17T23:12:43.867" LastActivityDate="2012-06-17T23:12:43.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2898" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-06-17T23:11:09.620" Score="0" Body="A segment of one-off or recurring content intended for broadcast on television. To be used on general questions about TV-shows, not for questions about a specific TV-show." OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-25T17:58:09.663" LastActivityDate="2015-01-25T17:58:09.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2886" CreationDate="2012-06-18T02:58:43.327" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, one of the great movie questions. I'm surprised it hasn't come up here before. This particular Mexican standoff scene has been dissected quite a bit, and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105236/faq#.2.1.1&quot;&gt;IMDB link&lt;/a&gt; provided by @GertArnold gives the consensus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The bullets were supposed to fly thusly: Joe shoots Mr. Orange, Eddie shoots Mr. White, and Mr. White shoots Joe and then Eddie. However, during filming Eddie (Chris Penn)'s squib went off before Mr. White was able to get to him, and he fell to the floor anyway. Hence, the confusion began. Tarantino has claimed that he realized the mistake, but left it in the film to give people something to talk about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other possibilities are either Mr. Pink or Mr. Orange, but Pink was hiding and Orange had just unloaded his gun into Mr. Blonde:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Seeing as how Mr. Orange did not have a loaded gun at that time, Mr. White is really the only possible candidate for Eddie's shooting and if you watch the scene in slow motion, as Mr. White is falling, he clearly turns and fires at Eddie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The scene can be watched in slow motion &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRwxjaLzKIc&quot;&gt;here on Youtube&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, an excerpt from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Reservoir-Dogs.html&quot;&gt;original script&lt;/a&gt; backs up that it was Mr. White:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Mr. White SHOOTS Joe twice in the face. Joe brings his&#xA;hands up to his face, screaming, and falls to the ground.&#xA;&#xA;Eddie FIRES at Mr. White, HITTING him three times in the&#xA;chest.&#xA;&#xA;Mr. White brings his gun around on Eddie and SHOOTS him.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the shootout unfolds slightly differently in the script to what is on screen, it is mainly superficial details such as what is said. The characters' intentions are maintained, which clears Mr. Orange and Mr. Pink, who were present but not responsible:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Mr. Orange lies perfectly still, except for his chest&#xA;heaving.  The only SOUND we hear is his loud breathing.&#xA;&#xA;Mr. White is SHOT full of holes, but still on his knees,&#xA;not moving.&#xA;&#xA;Mr. Pink is standing motionless.  Finally he grabs the&#xA;satchel of diamonds and RUNS out the door.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was Mr. White after he shot Joe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Though some argue that Han shot first&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_shot_first&quot;&gt;[&lt;em&gt;citation needed&lt;/em&gt;]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="83" LastActivityDate="2012-06-18T02:58:43.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2900" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4054" CreationDate="2012-06-18T03:43:02.523" Score="5" ViewCount="11890" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to figure out the placement of all the rooms in the Huxtable home on the Cosby Show. They seem to have following rooms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kitchen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Living Room&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Formal Dining Room&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4 Bedrooms? (Master Bedroom and 3 Bedrooms?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 Bathrooms (including master bath)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 sets of stairs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clair's Study (eventually built in the 8th season)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if the layout of the rooms as seen in the sets can be lined up to an actual floor plan. Especially considering all the external shots clearly show the house as being a row house (with houses connected on either side). This means the house should be longer than it is wide. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="211" LastEditDate="2012-06-18T04:09:15.830" LastActivityDate="2018-07-29T17:49:59.770" Title="What is the floor plan of the Huxtable home?" Tags="|cosby-show|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2719" CreationDate="2012-06-18T11:01:45.500" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot speak definitely but it might be that Ridley Scott wanted to tell a slightly different story or thought he could tell it in a better way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, bear in mind that books and films are very different media.  What makes an exciting book might not work if translated directly to film due to pacing, audience expectations etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hunt for Red October is a good example.  The climax in the book was very good but would have translated poorly to film and they opt for more of a shoot out rather than a psychological battles of wits against the sabatuer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-06-18T11:01:45.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2903" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2904" CreationDate="2012-06-18T15:00:57.290" Score="5" ViewCount="7162" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know there are a lot of IP's out there that start in different media(Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, etc) when they switch to TV that they try to follow the source material, in this case the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlene Harris, faithfully but eventually take a turn away.  My question is how far into the series do you need to watch before the switch actually occurs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="567" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-06-18T15:24:22.923" LastActivityDate="2013-06-04T14:30:20.167" Title="How close to the Sookie Stackhouse books is True Blood?" Tags="|book-adaptation|true-blood|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2903" CreationDate="2012-06-18T15:21:50.430" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the biggest (I consider) is right at the end of Season 1.  Lafayette is &lt;strong&gt;still alive&lt;/strong&gt;.  He dies in the first book towards the end and is actually the body they find in Andy's car at the end of the season (Which isn't revealed until the second book).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there is the lack of the addition of the &lt;strong&gt;Brain Damaged Vampire Bubba&lt;/strong&gt; who is actually Elvis in Vampire form who was damaged due to an overzealous vampire fan of his, working as a morgue attendant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the series itself keeps a bit of the overall plot elements of the book it is on (currently, we are on book 5), they have detracted a lot from the book at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, Maryann, the other antagonist for the second season, was played up &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; more than she was in the book, where the whole plot revolved around the disappearance of Godric.  Upon returning to Bon Temps, they find the sex party has gotten out of control (headed by Castillo, renamed to Maryann) and Bill and Eric have to clean up her mess and she leaves.  There is only a &lt;em&gt;hint&lt;/em&gt; of her relationship with Sam and he is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the main focus of her deeds in the town.  This is also the same events that kill Lafayette, as I mention earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list goes on but I think I have made my point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-06-18T15:21:50.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2860" CreationDate="2012-06-18T16:54:13.920" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anson Fullerton was a psychologist in the employ of the CIA.  He was also the mastermind of a rogue network of operatives involved in various illicit activities.  Anson wanted Michael to join his network so he used his own access, as well as the access of the operatives in his network, to plant false evidence implicating Michael in a number of illegal activities.  So, in the technical sense, it was the CIA that burned him, but it was Anson's organization that caused him to be burned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="666" LastEditorUserId="666" LastEditDate="2012-06-18T18:58:00.553" LastActivityDate="2012-06-18T18:58:00.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2007" CreationDate="2012-06-18T19:42:22.177" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just stumbeled across this movie title the other day, and it reminded me of this question.  The movie title was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Need_to_Talk_About_Kevin_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;We Need To Talk About Kevin&lt;/a&gt;.  I believe that this may have been the movie that was being referenced on the white board.  here's part of the plot synopsis from Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Adolescent Kevin Katchadourian (Ezra Miller) is in prison after&#xA;  committing a massacre at his high school. His mother, Eva (Swinton), a&#xA;  once-successful travel writer, lives alone in a run-down house and&#xA;  works in a mall travel agency in a town near the prison where she&#xA;  visits Kevin. She looks back at her memories of him growing up as she&#xA;  tries to cope with the anger and hostility of her neighbours, who know&#xA;  her to be Kevin's mother. Her memories are shown in flashbacks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-06-18T19:42:22.177" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2888" CreationDate="2012-06-19T07:54:52.087" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aside from what is said explicitly in the film (and it's been more than 10 years since I last saw this), we never find out if William has ever threatened Elisabeth but failed to follow through - which might make her decision to stay until absolutely necessary easier for her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it's her daughter's birthday, which means that there will be a party, which means that there will be plenty of people over. This can help in some situations due to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_in_numbers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;safety in numbers&lt;/a&gt; theory. Having people over for her daughter's birthday party might cause William to reconsider his threat, as he would have to deal with an unknown number of other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1475" LastEditorUserId="83431" LastEditDate="2022-08-21T04:52:52.297" LastActivityDate="2022-08-21T04:52:52.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2911" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-19T13:42:49.353" Score="14" ViewCount="1052" Body="&lt;p&gt;Carl has a supply of the drug, so why does he need Eddie to run for president, instead of putting his own candidate (on pills) in the running? Alternatively, why doesn't he either use the pills himself or give them to one of his minions so that he can take out Eddie like he threatened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="275" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-29T17:04:10.320" LastActivityDate="2013-08-29T17:04:10.320" Title="Why doesn't Carl use the pill to either replace or take out Eddie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|limitless|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2845" CreationDate="2012-06-19T14:08:03.923" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't assume that there is only one type of black goo. The Engineers have mastered biological technologies far beyond ours, and may use one type of goo for seeding foreign planets (as in the opening sequence) and another type for weapons development. These might look similar to us in the same way that a television remote control looks similar to a telephone to a two-year-old. That doesn't make them do the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also, the opening sequence preceded the main action by millions of years. The technology presumably changed over time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastActivityDate="2012-06-19T14:08:03.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2917" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2918" CreationDate="2012-06-19T19:22:26.600" Score="5" ViewCount="1359" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2170049/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;True Blood: Authority Always Wins&lt;/a&gt;, Alexander Drew's character was great and fantastic, he was aged 9 years before being turned (according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://trueblood.wikia.com/wiki/Alexander_Drew&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;trueblood.wikia&lt;/a&gt;).  But it also says that he serves the &lt;strong&gt;Vampire Authority as a Chancellor&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://trueblood.wikia.com/wiki/Alexander_Drew&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;trueblood.wikia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alexander Drew is an angelic looking, yet impetuous vampire. He was&#xA;  turned at the tender age of 9, and serves the Vampire Authority as a&#xA;  Chancellor. He enjoys smoking cigarettes and taunting everyone around&#xA;  him, including his fellow Chancellors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other vampires such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://trueblood.wikia.com/wiki/Salome_Agrippa&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Salome&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://trueblood.wikia.com/wiki/Godric&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Godric&lt;/a&gt; are aged 2000+ years. So, &lt;strong&gt;how does it possible for Alexander to become a chancellor of the Vampire authority?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-06-27T16:17:16.680" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T13:54:39.607" Title="How is it possible for Alexander to become a chancellor of the Vampire authority?" Tags="|plot-explanation|true-blood|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2917" CreationDate="2012-06-19T19:32:30.103" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://trueblood.wikia.com/wiki/Alexander_Drew&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;As the wiki states&lt;/a&gt;, Alexander was aged 9 years old &lt;strong&gt;when he was turned&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just like all vampires, they do not age beyond what age they were when turned.  For all we know he could be beyond age of all vampires including Russell (2800 years old), Eric (1100+), and especially Bill (176).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This detail has not been made known yet, however but we can assume he is a very old vampire, if not, very experienced to be on the council.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T13:54:39.607" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T13:54:39.607" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2919" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2920" CreationDate="2012-06-18T21:31:58.723" Score="13" ViewCount="745" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know Lucas has a habit of making a movie, then changing it every time he re-releases it.  (If you're not clear what I'm looking for, Google &quot;Han Shot First.&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does he do this with only Star Wars movies, or does he do it with other properties?  Has he retconned &lt;em&gt;American Graffiti&lt;/em&gt; or any other movies he's directed?  And has he managed to do anything like that with the Indiana Jones movies, which he created the stories and characters for, but which Spielberg directed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just how far into other movies has his habit to retcon reached?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" OwnerDisplayName="TangoOversway" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T13:37:53.363" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T13:37:53.363" Title="What else (other than Star Wars) has Lucas retconned?" Tags="|george-lucas|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2919" CreationDate="2012-06-19T16:04:25.130" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 2004, Lucas released his Director's Cut of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THX_1138&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;THX 1138&lt;/a&gt;. There are no changes as big as making Greedo shooting at Han, but the there were still some controversial changes. Here a quote from &lt;a href=&quot;http://oc.wikia.com/wiki/George_Lucas#Controversy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The O.C. Wikia &lt;em&gt;George Lucas&lt;/em&gt; article, &lt;em&gt;Controversy&lt;/em&gt; section&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changes Lucas personally made to THX 1138 for its 2004 DVD release further re-enforced criticism from fans who felt that he was spoiling the integrity of his original films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, a significant change he made with THX that he didn't do to Star Wars was reordering some scenes. You could see a exhaustive list of changes &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.maverick-media.co.uk/movies/thx_1138_1971/changes_001.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=541751&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Here is the whole Postscript section of the first link (Emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Although the story stays pretty much the same the movie has been extensively changed. I'm sure George Lucas would claim that he couldn't accomplish his original vision back in 1970 due to the technology of the time and budget&lt;/strong&gt;, so changes and additions could be seen as reasonable. The thing is though, George Lucas doesn't mention on the DVD that there has been any changes made at all, in the interviews, commentary, packaging, anywhere, the only mention is that the movie has been restored, this all seems very strange indeed...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see George Lucas and ILM have done a wonderful job (except for the ones I have mentioned) in updating and widening the scope of THX's world for the masses to enjoy. This is a testament to the original movie that it can still be viewed today without looking too 70s. &lt;strong&gt;Some people may not like the changes, preferring instead the original, however, in my opinion they are both excellent.&lt;/strong&gt; The George Lucas Director's Cut should have been released with the restored original theatrical cut rather than the way it has been released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="858" OwnerDisplayName="DavRob60" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-06-19T23:40:03.677" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2921" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2922" CreationDate="2012-06-20T03:23:53.353" Score="10" ViewCount="1914" Body="&lt;p&gt;While Thor and Iron Man are fighting, Loki has plenty of time in which to try to escape. Why doesn't he do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="275" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T17:57:18.793" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T17:57:18.793" Title="Why doesn't Loki escape while the Avengers are fighting each other?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2921" CreationDate="2012-06-20T03:58:31.240" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you are talking about the fight between Thor and Iron Man.  Loki didn't escape &lt;em&gt;because he wanted to be caught and taken to the air ship.&lt;/em&gt;. That was part of his plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-06-20T13:04:29.157" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T13:04:29.157" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2923" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-20T07:58:47.920" Score="13" ViewCount="1144" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Predator we see Anna is on the American helicopter when Dutch gets there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did they allow her on? As far as they were concerned, she was a random stranger at best and a guerilla fighter at worst.  Did she explain that the military unit had been attacked by a superpowerful alien and Dutch would be along to vouch for her once he had wiped all the mud off and taken down some expert level booby traps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-20T01:37:30.520" LastActivityDate="2022-06-08T01:22:04.630" Title="Why did they allow Anna onto the helicopter?" Tags="|plot-explanation|predator|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2924" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-20T10:19:54.527" Score="8" ViewCount="7439" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Renton went into a dream sequence where he dived into a toilet to get his pill, why was he sopping wet when he went back to his flat afterwards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was he still in a dream, is the rest of the film a dream sequence too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T14:19:42.590" Title="Why was Renton wet after the dream sequence?" Tags="|plot-explanation|trainspotting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="572" CreationDate="2012-06-20T10:56:30.250" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In geometry, we learn about line sectors: Pieces of lines that have two end points. Each of the six points on the XYZ plane is an endpoint thus lowering the possibility of error. Note how Dr. Daniel Jackson said &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...you need six points to determine the exact location...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Six points on the XYZ plane gives the exact Stargate that you will exit. The more points you use, the less results you will get. For example, if you type &quot;Cat&quot; into Google, you will get resulted for all different kinds of cats, but if you type &quot;Long-haired calico cat,&quot; then you will get less of the results you didn't want and more of the ones you wanted (provided you were searching for Long-haired calico cats). Obviously, depending on where your destination is in the universe, there will be varying amounts of Stargates. In the vicinity of Earth, there is probably only one with the coordinates to dial Earth's Stargate. In the vicinity of Abydos, there are more Stargates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my first time even thinking about this in depth, and my knowledge of Physics is taking over...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1538" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T10:56:30.250" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1126" CreationDate="2012-06-20T11:35:37.430" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been many years since I watched it but I think that the main reason is to keep the audience guessing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the character reason would be to conceal his identity in case somehow someone saw him or something unexpected happened.  Remember that he was a smart meticulous character and would not leave things to chance, allowing everyone to see your face because you intend killing them is risky (what if there was someone hiding who got away?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T11:35:37.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="625" CreationDate="2012-06-20T12:25:21.237" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read that the original movie had a voice over added to it to make things more accessible and the happy ending was tagged on because the studio requested it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was meant to have subtle implications on whether Deckard was a repicant and of how deeply replicants were in society - how many of the 'people' in the film are actually replicants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have never seen the 'Unicorn version' but I read that this was meant to make the emphasis a little stronger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T12:25:21.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="226" CreationDate="2012-06-20T12:34:56.123" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a big question to a very deep and complicated film!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kubrick mentions how it 'suggests' the reincarnation of Jack, he does not say that this suggestion is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice how the surrounding furniture is covered in white sheets and the sign for the Goldroom is on the other side to the previous position.  It would imply some kind of time shift or something.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How it relates is another deep question.  It might just be a collection of souls which the hotel has taken (this photo was not present when we saw the wall earlier).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google collative learning by Rob Ager for a detailed analysis of this film.  It is very deep!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="56959" LastEditDate="2018-08-10T08:43:57.373" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T08:43:57.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2830" CreationDate="2012-06-20T13:09:03.940" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has been edited a bunch of times. I'll try and break it down:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During the last scene in Prometheus, how did the Engineer enter the ship after Dr.Shaw had locked the doors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brute force I guess - he was also able to rip an android's head off. This may be something to come in a future director's cut, as I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/ridley-scott-prometheus-deleted-scenes-interview/172202/&quot;&gt;a few minutes of fight scene were edited-out&lt;/a&gt; between the Engineer arriving at the pod and Shaw opening the inner door to the squid-thing (possibly to avoid an R/18 rating).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also not sure that she actually locked the external doors, just closed the air-lock door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And how come the engineer came without the mask?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Early on they state that the atmosphere is almost breathable, but with toxic levels of CO2. maybe the Engineer has a higher tolerance to CO2, or maybe he could hold his breath for the fairly short walk from the crashed ship to the life-pod.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, what is that floating ball device which creates holographic maps from in the engineers ship?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fifield (the geologist) brought the floating red balls in order to map the location - it sounds like they are standard kit for mapping caves or similar. Fifield refers to them has his 'pups'. They create the holographic map of the Engineer's pyramid on-board the Prometheus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(and how come it floats)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not a clue. They have faster than light travel, almost-human androids and suspended animation. I figure they have some advanced space tech in there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;and what is that map like shown in the engineers ship ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The map inside the Engineer's ship appears to be some kind of holographic &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrery&quot;&gt;orrery&lt;/a&gt;, though I don't think it maps to just one system or to scale. I'm not sure whether that includes some kind of Kinect-like gesture interface or whether David just appears to touch the map of the Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1277" LastEditorUserId="1277" LastEditDate="2012-06-20T16:18:05.847" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T16:18:05.847" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2930" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3402" CreationDate="2012-06-20T15:40:50.140" Score="10" ViewCount="10576" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alfred Hitchcock was a master of mise-en-scène, whereby in film just about every inch of every frame of a film was intentional. Rear Window is one of his greatest and most influential films. Throughout, the viewer is at the mercy of Hitchcock, as he has already decided where you will look, what you will see, and maybe even what you will think or feel. From the perspective of Jeff's wheelchair, the viewer becomes a voyeur observing the the lives and relationships of his neighbors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The dichotomy of relationships presented in Rear Window include:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jeff and Lisa:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Lisa wants to settle down, get married. Jeff wants to remain together, but &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; marry. He appreciates his independence and the freedom his job as a news photographer provides him (a profession Lisa wants him to abandon for something more stable).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Old married couple:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Their lives, from the POV of the viewer are repetitive and largely-routine&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The young married couple:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Their on-screen* time bounces from excited newlyweds to what appears to be useless banter.&#xA;&lt;br&gt;*Note that much of what we the viewer observe about them is not on- but off-screen, merely through dialogue heard through the window.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The ballerina:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;She is entertaining (what appear to be) potential suitors throughout the movie, until the end when her (especially nerdy looking) boyfriend/husband comes home.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;'Miss Lonelyhearts'&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A single woman living by herself, intent on finding a partner. She eventually goes on a date with a forceful man who she kicks out her apartment. Lisa and Jeff are especially interested in her, and express great concern for her safety when they believe she commits suicide. Near the finale of the movie, we see 'Miss Lonelyhearts' enchanted by music she hears coming from an apartment above her-- the partying musician-- and the viewer is left to assume they live happily ever after.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Thorwalds&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Mr. and Mrs. Thorwald (an invalid) fight often and loud-- until they suddenly don't. Jeff and Lisa pay more attention to them than anyone else in their view. This relationship and the one between Jeff and Lisa are the primary focus of Rear Window.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hitchcock has given us, the viewer: a beautiful single woman, an old single woman, a newly-married couple, a old couple, a 'middle of the road' married couple and Jeff and Lisa-- whose status is passively changing throughout the film. Some are desperate to find a partner, while others are desperate to maintain their freedom. Is he saying that relationships have a life of their own, that all are different? That happiness is unattainable/attainable? That we put too much emphasis on our relationships? That marriage is an end to work toward? Or that autonomy and freedom are what saves us?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the degree of directorial control Hitchcock employed, &lt;strong&gt;was he making a statement about 1950s gender politics and/or gender roles?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="850" LastEditDate="2013-05-10T18:37:47.247" LastActivityDate="2013-05-10T18:37:47.247" Title="Was Rear Window making a statement about 1950s gender roles?" Tags="|analysis|directors|alfred-hitchcock|rear-window|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2932" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3090" CreationDate="2012-06-20T18:51:54.973" Score="28" ViewCount="4678" Body="&lt;p&gt;Akira Kurosawa is often credited as the first director to point his camera towards the sun in his film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042876/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rashomon&lt;/a&gt; (1950). Was this an artistic first, or was there some technical hurdle that Kurosawa was able to bypass?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yMFCO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yMFCO.png&quot; alt=&quot;The sun shining through the forest cover in Rashomon&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="50172" LastEditDate="2021-07-10T13:48:53.827" LastActivityDate="2021-07-10T13:48:53.827" Title="Why was Kurosawa the first director to shoot the sun?" Tags="|cinema-history|cinematography|japanese-cinema|akira-kurosawa|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2933" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2934" CreationDate="2012-06-20T19:14:04.533" Score="12" ViewCount="2559" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Beauty_(1999_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;American Beauty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, towards the end of the movie a scene happens which leads Ricky's father to believe that he was gay.  He confronts Ricky and Ricky lies to him, telling him that he is gay.  His father, distraught with the information, kicks his son out of the house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Ricky's dad kick him out for being gay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-11T10:52:02.683" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T10:52:02.683" Title="Why did Ricky's dad kick him out?" Tags="|analysis|american-beauty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2933" CreationDate="2012-06-20T20:31:09.497" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ricky's father, Frank Fitts (played by Chris Cooper) is hyper-controlling and wants to maintain a strict control over both his wife and Ricky - and does so with an ever-present threat of physical violence.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also becomes apparent that Frank has some repressed homosexual feelings.  This is evident from the later scene where he unexpectedly gives into these feelings with Lester (Kevin Spacey), and Lester gently and sympathetically turns him down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my interpretation, Frank is repressing his homosexual feelings and hates these things in himself, as they are far removed from what he believes are right and proper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ricky on the other hand is more of a free-spirit, and although he does not openly challenge his father until the end of the movie, he clearly wants to live his life in a different way, a way that his father does not understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frank sees Ricky become friends with Lester, and given his own repressed sexuality, is suspicious of the relationship.  Presumably (although it is not explicitly shown) he is likely to know that Lester gave up a good job, and sees him buy a sports car and start using weights in his garage, and spend time with his son often furtively as Ricky is selling Lester pot. He is attracted to Lester but repulsed by the lifestyle that he thinks goes along with that.  When he challenges Ricky to admit that he is gay - he is not surprised that Ricky says yes because of his own sexuality, and a misunderstanding of his son's alternative lifestyle.  The idea repulses him, doubly so because of his own struggles with his sexuality, and he throws Ricky out of the house as he cannot deal with the emotions he is feeling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This dual fascination and fear/loathing of his own sexuality leads onto even more extreme consequences when he cannot deal with the realization that Lester and presumably Ricky are in fact not gay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-06-20T20:31:09.497" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2938" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31193" CreationDate="2012-06-21T02:12:27.177" Score="45" ViewCount="14473" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Inception, why do the kicks on the different levels have to occur simultaneously, rather than one after another?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="275" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-29T17:04:54.243" LastActivityDate="2022-05-24T06:49:56.757" Title="Why do the kicks have to occur simultaneously?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|inception|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2283" CreationDate="2012-06-21T07:39:38.270" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Live and die on this day... the wolf died, Liam lived.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise the wolf would have been eating him and his buddies would have joined in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either that way, or Liam found the meaning of life on the same day he died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1544" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-02T16:01:45.707" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T16:01:45.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2942" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2944" CreationDate="2012-06-21T11:22:13.113" Score="9" ViewCount="70310" Body="&lt;p&gt;As told in the Curse of the Black Pearl, Captain Jack Sparrow faces mutiny by his crew members and is abandoned on an island before the mutineer crew find a chest of cursed coins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it then possible that he ends up being cursed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="652" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-01-21T14:48:43.247" LastActivityDate="2018-03-28T18:17:41.320" Title="Why does Captain Jack Sparrow suffer from the curse?" Tags="|plot-explanation|curse-of-the-black-pearl|pirates-of-the-caribbean|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2942" CreationDate="2012-06-21T11:52:49.147" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;He wasn't cursed, to begin with, it was only near the end of the film when he takes a coin directly from the chest that he gets cursed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-06-05T10:13:27.623" LastActivityDate="2017-06-05T10:13:27.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2942" CreationDate="2012-06-21T11:54:09.820" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually Captain Jack Sparrow &lt;strong&gt;didn't get cursed&lt;/strong&gt; when his old crew found the Aztec gold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you may be thinking of is the point in the movie where Jack becomes undead for short time. In the cave, while Barbossa and Jack negotiated, &lt;strong&gt;Jack stole one Aztec coin&lt;/strong&gt; from the chest getting himself cursed until he returned it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Cursed_crew&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; you can read fairly detailed plot in case you missed something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2016-03-01T19:57:17.313" LastActivityDate="2016-03-01T19:57:17.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2945" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2946" CreationDate="2012-06-21T12:08:25.707" Score="15" ViewCount="29671" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even after the curse was lifted in the first movie, Barbosa's monkey Jack remains undead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Dead Man's chest, Jack trades the monkey with the witch and shot him and pronounced him as undead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is that possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="652" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T22:44:58.660" LastActivityDate="2017-06-03T04:06:16.997" Title="Why did the monkey remain undead in Pirates of the Carribbean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pirates-of-the-caribbean|curse-of-the-black-pearl|dead-mans-chest|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2945" CreationDate="2012-06-21T12:29:38.967" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &quot;Curse of the Black Pearl&quot;, after the credits, there is a scene where Jack (monkey) &lt;strong&gt;takes a coin&lt;/strong&gt; from the chest - getting himself cursed again, similar to what Captain Jack Sparrow did during the fight with Barbossa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sparrow took the coin during the fight which he returned later, Jack (monkey) on the other hand &lt;strong&gt;didn't return it&lt;/strong&gt;. He had probably hidden it with his other shiny things or lost it somewhere, he is a monkey after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_%28monkey%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack's complete story&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/J6Y6XVvSoFk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T13:00:29.243" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T13:00:29.243" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2730" CreationDate="2012-06-21T14:44:32.583" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Turns out David was following orders.  He told the Engineer what Weyland wanted him to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[A]ccording to Dr. Anil Biltoo, the film’s official translator and linguistics consultant, David did as he was asked, translating his words as follows: &quot;This man is here because he does not want to die. He believes you can give him more life.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.totalfilm.com/news/translator-explains-prometheus-ending&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;revealed in an interview&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-06-21T14:44:32.583" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2948" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2970" CreationDate="2012-06-21T10:55:40.493" Score="33" ViewCount="2943" Body="&lt;p&gt;The two franchises are held by two separate companies. One, Sony, holds the rights to Spider-man 4-7, and are obliged to continue this line or give up the rights to the movies. The other, Marvel Studios, owns the rights to the Avengers and the subsidiary characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under what circumstances might Spider-man join the Avengers? Are movie rights buys outs uncommon? Could a serenity/firefly-esque loophole be pulled off? Could the two studios 'team up'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original reason for me asking this is that Spider-man plays a large part in the civil war comic. With The Civil War movie in the horizon,  and the shuffling of executives in Sony after the hack debacle,  I thought there might be some news on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1074" OwnerDisplayName="Pureferret" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-02-10T09:46:58.493" LastActivityDate="2022-07-23T18:33:47.753" Title="What would have to happen to merge the Spider-man franchise and the Avengers franchise?" Tags="|the-avengers|marvel-cinematic-universe|spider-man|crossovers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2609" CreationDate="2012-06-21T18:38:52.847" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode titled &quot;27 and Still Cooking&quot; (S7E18), Cliff spends the episode attempting to recreate Calliloo Pot, a restaurant they went to on their honeymoon twenty-seven years prior. So by season seven, &lt;strong&gt;they were married twenty-seven years&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cliff turned 48 in the first season, so you could logically surmise that he was roughly 54 years old by their 27th wedding anniversary (though per @Kevin's solid point above-- the Cosby Show universe doesn't necessarily apply logic at all times)-- so &lt;strong&gt;Cliff was about 27 when they were married&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clair turned 46 in the fifth season,  making her (at best guess) 48 for their anniversary in the aforementioned episode, so &lt;strong&gt;Clair was about 21 when they were married.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The confusing part of this answer enters the conversation upon review of the fourth season episode titled &quot;The Locker Room,&quot; wherein we learn that Clair is four years &lt;em&gt;younger&lt;/em&gt; that Cliff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mystery and answers aside, I concede this does not answer your specific question: how long did Cliff and Clair date? But it does illuminate just how messy the Cosby Show continuity is (while &lt;em&gt;sort of&lt;/em&gt; answering your question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cliff informs Denise that his reason for attending Hillman College was to follow a girl there, who he reveals to be Clair in S1E6 &quot;Breaking With Tradition.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In S4E23 &quot;The Prom,&quot; we learn that Clair never went to her prom because Cliff was taking final exams in his junior year at Hillman.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cosby_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;List of Cosby Show Episodes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Cosby_Show_characters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;List of Cosby Show Characters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2012-06-21T18:38:52.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2950" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2951" CreationDate="2012-06-21T22:13:12.503" Score="4" ViewCount="630" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1989 movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097737/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Leviathan&lt;/a&gt; the crew finds an old Russian submarine and brings aboard a bottle of Vodka. After drinking the Vodka members of the crew mutate into a sea creature that attacks the rest of the crew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't their DNA matured by a virus in the bottle? Wouldn't the alcohol in the Vodka act as a disinfectant and kill any viruses, and how did the virus get into the bottle in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-18T16:59:41.733" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T16:59:41.733" Title="Why does the crew get infected from the Vodka in Leviathan" Tags="|leviathan|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2950" CreationDate="2012-06-21T22:22:49.247" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If memory serves, the vodka was infected on purpose by the Russians so they could see what happened to the crew. As for disinfecting, I'm no biologist but I believe that viruses can survive under some harsh conditions that would kill most bacteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1548" LastActivityDate="2012-06-21T22:22:49.247" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2953" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2962" CreationDate="2012-06-21T22:39:28.880" Score="6" ViewCount="7368" Body="&lt;p&gt;My (admittedly poor) recollection of the scene is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The camera is doing a visual close-up of the soil. I forget if this was the part showing small, flowing rivulets of black goo.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The soil is visually barren (except for the goo if that is indeed this part).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One of the human characters walks across the soil.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As they lift their boot, a worm appears. I remember it as a centipede rather than a worm, but that's not too important.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, was the worm in the soil and was exposed by the person walking over it? If so, why hadn't it become mutated at some point in the past? Or was it transferred from the person's boot, perhaps picked up from outside and stuck in the groves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1548" LastActivityDate="2017-12-19T07:54:15.960" Title="Where did the worm that appeared in the black goo chamber come from?" Tags="|prometheus|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1063" CreationDate="2012-06-21T22:45:37.040" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the first recorded use of bullet time was in Kill and kill again in 1981.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a link to the wiki entry: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_and_Kill_Again&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_and_Kill_Again&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a summary of what wiki says about it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kill and Kill Again is a 1981 South African/American action film notable for being the first live-action film to use the visual effects known as bullet-time. It is a sequel to Kill or Be Killed (1980). Filmed in Sun City, Bophuthatswana, the film has a more tongue in cheek comedy approach than its predecessor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bullet-time scene occurs at the end, when Marduk has died and his&#xA;chief guard is about to kill Dr. Kane while Steve is climbing up the&#xA;outside of the building they're in. The guard fires his gun (at&#xA;1:36:10) and the bullet comes out very slowly and moves across the&#xA;screen in a recognizable (but low-budget) early version of the famous&#xA;scene in the Matrix. After ten seconds of the bullet flying across the&#xA;room, Steve Chase has gotten up the building, gets inside the room,&#xA;and deflects the bullet with a metal ashtray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This very low-budget &amp;quot;Bullet-Time-Slice&amp;quot; sequence was achieved very&#xA;simply, in-camera, with no post-production effects. The first shot of&#xA;the bullet exiting the barrel of the gun was shot in close-up, with&#xA;the barrel removed from the frame of the gun locked-off pointing&#xA;downwards but with the camera also turned on its side, framing the&#xA;barrel horizontally, but pointing down toward the floor. (When viewed&#xA;'upright,' this would then appear to be pointing at the subject in a&#xA;correct manner.) A bullet, smaller in diameter than the inside of the&#xA;barrel, was then dropped down through the barrel along with a puff of&#xA;smoke from a cigarette. The bullet-and-smoke shot was filmed at 120fps&#xA;to create the desired effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-26T16:41:46.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2955" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3336" CreationDate="2012-06-22T01:57:53.813" Score="16" ViewCount="8096" Body="&lt;p&gt;The the last time we see the heroin in No Country for Old Men, Lewellyn Moss is present. He finds they money and heroin, but takes only takes the money. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next time we are at the scene, Anton Chigur kills the two men and pursues the money. The heroin is not shown or discussed. Did Chigur get the heroin?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next time we are at the scene, the heroin is gone, and Ed Tom Bell knows the heroin was there, but is now gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Moss or Chigur take the heroin? Was it someone else who came and took it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T22:48:05.590" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T23:14:47.257" Title="Who stole the heroin in No Country For Old Men?" Tags="|plot-explanation|no-country-for-old-men|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="142" CreationDate="2012-06-22T03:02:04.693" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see Max take a small step to the side while he's firing. Perhaps by firing once or twice--giving Vincent a target--and then moving, Vincent ended up firing at the wrong spot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this is logical and makes Max look smart, Vincent was unloading his weapon through a small window with Max directly in the path. I really don't see how Max could have remained unscathed other than luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1548" LastActivityDate="2012-06-22T03:02:04.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="826" CreationDate="2012-06-22T04:46:13.587" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My answer is that it represents the bond and relationship of somebody you have a deep respect, admiration, and affection for. A way to honor the blessings of somebody very special.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1549" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-06-26T16:30:52.523" LastActivityDate="2012-06-26T16:30:52.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2455" CreationDate="2012-06-22T08:10:19.790" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's look at the options the CIA got:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pursue him legally. Although he has certainly broken the law with his actions, the CIA cannot just admit that they got deceived by a single employee who invaded a (quasi) enemy country with a marine team just to enforce his own private goals. That would be quite embarrassing. I don't think the few bosses from the conference room can even tell it to the rest of the CIA.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Secretly punish him financially. They are surely able to do this, but what should they take, since he lost his whole money for this job. On the other hand the government didn't lose any money.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Secretly kill him. They won't do him any physical damage, they're just not the bunch of cliché evil-guys killing people for fun and are not depicted in that way in the movie either.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Secretly imprison him. They could certainly do that, but again, they would have to keep this entirely secret, since as few people as possible outside of this small conference room should know about &lt;em&gt;Muir&lt;/em&gt;'s actions. Additionally I'm not sure if imprisoning him would really buy them anything.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So considering the fact that they cannot tell anybody, not even the rest of the government or the CIA, what &lt;em&gt;Muir&lt;/em&gt; did, and the fact that &lt;em&gt;Muir&lt;/em&gt; used his own money and is just a poor old man now, from a pragmatic point of view they neither have many possibilities to punish him nor a large motivation to do so. They may certainly observe him in order to get sure he doesn't talk about what he did, but why should he do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the end I'm not that sure the script writers really thought about this that largely. Usually the audience just doesn't think outside of the movie's limited time frame. Think of the mandatory romance in your favourite action or adventure movie, of course they will split afterwards since they just don't fit together, but they have to kiss at the end. In the same way &lt;em&gt;Muir&lt;/em&gt; just has to drive away from the CIA in the last moment, no matter if they know where he lives and what he's done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2012-06-22T08:10:19.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2953" CreationDate="2012-06-22T10:48:32.123" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;We've changed the atmosphere of the room&quot; - Dr. Shaw&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably the door acted as an air lock. Maybe the room was sealed off to halt the biological processes of EVERYTHING in the room (which is why the head is perfectly preserved), and the worms where already in the soil. By breaking the seal for the room, the biological processes are able to continue - maybe there was some sort of cryogenic freezing happening because of the room being sealed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the seal is broken, and the biological processes have started again, the &quot;black goo&quot; begins to ... &quot;unthaw&quot; (for want of a better word), the worms begin to crawl around in the room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least, that was my interpretation of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1475" LastActivityDate="2012-06-22T10:48:32.123" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2813" CreationDate="2012-06-22T12:57:47.037" Score="13" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why did they invite the humans to come visit, if they wanted to destroy us?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Who says we were invited? That's Shaw's interpretation, but the paintings could be something else: a warning, or maybe a copy of a glyph seen on the ships. It's not explained in the film; the map to the location and the giants is significant, but that's all we actually know.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Who says that they want to destroy us? Again that's the interpretation of the characters based on their contact with one (admittedly very aggressive) Engineer and the black goo. Janek refers to the black goo as an arsenal, but while it's obviously very dangerous that isn't necessarily its designed purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the start of the film we see an Engineer sacrifice himself using similar technology to the black goo in order to seed a world (possibly Earth) with his DNA. I think that indicates that the Engineers have uses for the technology beyond destruction and that they're quite prepared to destroy themselves in the process of using it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the beginning when Holloway and Shaw are showing the matching cave paintings they vary greatly in date:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gLtO0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Matching cave paintings&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two are fairly recent: Mayan (620AD) and Hawaiian (680AD). This is interesting because earlier on they found the that the calamity that befell the Engineers on LV-223 happened about 2000 years ago - if Prometheus happens in 2093 the implication is that some of the cave paintings happened &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the Engineers set up whatever they were doing with the black goo on LV-223.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the black goo is not intended to destroy humanity as such, though that may well be a side effect. I think (and this is pure conjecture) that, to the Engineers, whatever the black goo is supposed to do is some kind of step forward. If the painting are an invitation then it's to come and become something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1277" LastActivityDate="2012-06-22T12:57:47.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2813" CreationDate="2012-06-22T13:39:42.753" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A theory that I read in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prometheusforum.net/categories/prometheus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Prometheus forums&lt;/a&gt; is that the paintings are not invitations, but merely pattern representations drawn by humans throughout the years that are encoded in our DNA (DNA shared with the Engineers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-06-22T13:39:42.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2965" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5731" CreationDate="2012-06-22T13:53:45.130" Score="10" ViewCount="2371" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Javert arrests the man he thinks is Valjean why doesn't he look for Valjean's tattoo on the prisoner?  After all, it is how Valjean showed he was the real man so Javert must have known about it and it is not as if the prisoner is going to refuse to show his chest as he was facing a nasty prison sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T22:49:32.050" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T22:49:32.050" Title="Why did Javert not check for the tattoo in Les Miserables?" Tags="|plot-explanation|les-miserables|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2967" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3017" CreationDate="2012-06-22T14:22:09.423" Score="8" ViewCount="15230" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early in the movie, director Tobe Hooper shows both parents smoking pot in their bedroom while their son Robbie is spooked by a menacing tree outside his window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AQRcn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Diane and Steve smoking doobies&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, after the incidents start to get worse (and the team of parapsychologists from UC Irvine comes to investigate the phenomena), both Steve and Diane are seen drinking - even Dr. Lesh, the team-lead participates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why were these characters shown smoking pot and drinking? What was Tobe Hooper trying to achieve by doing so?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T22:52:13.423" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T22:52:13.423" Title="Why were the parents in The Poltergeist shown smoking pot and drinking?" Tags="|analysis|character|poltergeist|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2938" CreationDate="2012-06-22T15:45:25.903" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie the plan is to enter Robert Fischer's mind while he is flying. So they only have a limited time. One member stays behind to &quot;kick&quot; they to the next level. They have to go deep so they can plant a idea that seems like it comes from Robert Fischer's own mind which is planted idea: that his father wishes him to be his own man and that he must split up the conglomerate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cobb has done this before (which one finds out near the end who and what he did). The reason for the multi-level kick is so they can rapid ascend the levels and in theory wake up and hide everything before Robert Fischer wakes up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2012-06-22T15:45:25.903" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2948" CreationDate="2012-06-22T15:55:46.547" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Film corporation collaborations are not as uncommon as one might believe. This is especially true when dealing with music or music artists signed to one label that is under the umbrella of another corporation. Granted in those cases the film corporation really tries to pull music and artists from under it's own parent company labels but such is not ALWAYS possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise when taking characters it always depends on what the film companies are willing to do. In that case it's always going to come down to money. Who gets what portion. This involves actors, screenwriters, and of course franchise owners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best example of this is &amp;quot;Who Framed Roger Rabbit&amp;quot; which gave us the first appearance of &amp;quot;Bugs Bunny&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Mickey Mouse&amp;quot; on the screen at the same time. And the blood between Warner and Disney over animation was always HIGHLY hostile. (More talent theft than you see between Google, Apple, and Microsoft)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, while collaborations aren't rare; what they collaborate over can be far more rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to answer the question, sometimes it's a contractual buyout of the franchise/character. Sometimes it's a character loan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in other responses, after months of deliberation, in February of 2015, Sony and the MCU announced an agreement to allow Spiderman to appear in upcoming MCU films. Details can be found at &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20161015222804/http://marvel.com/news/movies/24062/sony_pictures_entertainment_brings_marvel_studios_into_the_amazing_world_of_spider-man&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Marvel.com website.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per the original answer; it comes down to two corporations with rights to come to a contractual agreement over those rights. The same situation would be the case with the X-Men, or a Marvel/DC cross-over. The latter, far less likely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2022-07-23T18:33:47.753" LastActivityDate="2022-07-23T18:33:47.753" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="2971" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-22T16:45:26.343" Score="11" ViewCount="797" Body="&lt;p&gt;In most (or all) of Ridley Scott movies there is at least one scene with slowly rotating fans. Sometimes light is shining from behind the fan casts shadows on a heavy smoke atmosphere. This is very evident in Blade Runner and Alien. There is also a scene with a slowly rotating fan in Black Rain, and even in Gladiator it is simulated with palme leaves (or feathers maybe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a scene with a slowly rotating fan in Prometheus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1555" LastActivityDate="2013-03-16T23:15:40.220" Title="Did Ridley Scott include slowly rotating fans in Prometheus?" Tags="|ridley-scott|prometheus|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2973" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-22T17:42:00.157" Score="8" ViewCount="939" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the first scene of the film we're shown a montage of landscape shots (actually Iceland) as establishment for the section when the CGI 'guy' drinks, disintegrates and drops into the waterfall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the scene where the ship 'Prometheus' is flying across LV223 we're shown a similar montage sequence of landscape shots prior to it landing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a sub-second overhead landscape shot that is &lt;em&gt;identical&lt;/em&gt; in both sequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only think of two explanations;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;that as multiple hands-on editors were involved in the film an oversight was made and the same clip was reused,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;that there is something to this and somehow both are the same place - and yes that would have a very significant affect on the assumption that the disintegrating guy was somehow seeding his DNA on an Earth of the past.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume it's the more obvious first explanation but I've found little other reference to this elsewhere. Does anyone actually know an answer to this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-06-22T17:51:16.893" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T22:53:12.590" Title="The 'same landscape shot' conundrum" Tags="|analysis|prometheus|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2967" CreationDate="2012-06-22T19:41:13.660" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Short answer:&lt;/strong&gt; He was attempting to show that this was your average run-of-the-mill family.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Up until then, this type of thing was just considered normal. It was really in the mid-to-late 80's that kids started learning in school how damaging these things can be, and I can easily see why someone born later in life would think there's some deeper meaning, but there's really not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The rest of this is a clarification of that short answer.  It goes on a bit, but if you're sitting there thinking &quot;Huh?  Average run-of-the-mill family with parents that smoked pot?&quot;, read on.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was 1982, and people in that age group had grown up in the 60's and 70's where smoking pot wasn't such a big deal, and having a drink was just a normal thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wasn't until the mid-to-late 80's that we saw a huge increase in in-school initiatives to teach the kiddies young to avoid the evil vices of smoking, drinking, drugs, etc.  The combination of the PMRC launching it's war against sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll, along with the rise of groups like SADD and MADD, and later DARE have pushed the idea of teaching good behaviors in schools.  These came about later in the 80's. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a personal illustration to show how things changed in the 80's:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I graduated in high school in 1987, and even then, we noticed it.  My best friend had a younger brother in grade school that came to us wide-eyed one day, saying &quot;There's a kid in our class that's &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;really bad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. We asked what he did.  Did he beat some kid up?  Swear at a teacher?  throw rocks at cars?  In the same tone of voice that you'd expect a kid to say he shot his own parents, he said, &quot;No!  He smoooookes!&quot;  (Nodding his head to show he's not making this up.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We thought it was hilarious, because to us, the idea that smoking was a big deal was just silly, but as time has gone on, we've seen a couple of generations growing up having had this type of education, and as a result, more people find the idea of smoking, drugs, and alcohol, especially on television and in movies to be odd.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back then, heroes smoked while killing the bad guys.  (Think Bruce Willis in Die Hard) Now, it's usually only the bad guys that smoke, or the anti-heroes, largely because of years of pushing from various groups to not show such things in a good light.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, probably they wouldn't be shown smoking pot because some group or another would raise a stink.  Back then they'd have said &quot;It's an R-Rated movie, what do you expect?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="698" LastEditorUserId="698" LastEditDate="2012-06-22T19:46:27.337" LastActivityDate="2012-06-22T19:46:27.337" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2976" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2994" CreationDate="2012-06-22T23:56:46.173" Score="12" ViewCount="16669" Body="&lt;p&gt;Were the two 1982 Spielberg movies &lt;em&gt;E.T.&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Poltergeist&lt;/em&gt; filmed in the same neighborhood? They were both filmed in tract housing developments during the same year. Were they filmed in the same place in succession?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T19:29:53.397" LastActivityDate="2016-11-03T02:21:18.227" Title="Were Poltergist and E.T. filmed in the same neighborhood?" Tags="|film-location|poltergeist|et-the-extra-terrestrial|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2977" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-23T03:32:59.180" Score="10" ViewCount="1044" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are innumerable fictions in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (based on Seth Graeme Smith's 2010 novel). From the existence of vampires, to the mass collection of silver to combat the Confederacy's employment of vampires in their army, most of the film deviates from real life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But where do the historical accuracies end and the fiction begin?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did Lincoln's mother die when he was young?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was his former employer a trusted aide along his side all the way to the White House?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was Lincoln life-long friends with an African-American who also remained at his side throughout his life?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did Lincoln steal Mary Todd away from Stephen Douglas?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T22:56:02.013" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T22:58:15.287" Title="Where do the historical accuracies end and fiction begin in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter?" Tags="|analysis|historical-accuracy|abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2978" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2979" CreationDate="2012-06-23T04:39:40.793" Score="41" ViewCount="14993" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are 3D films so dark?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched Brave yesterday and the film was so dark (light wise) in places that it was hard to make out what was happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are 3D films darker than 2D films and does it also depend on the glasses used? (do some type of glasses work better than others?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if 3D films are generally dark - why don't film makers make sure that their films are adequately lit (even in the dark scenes) so that audience can view better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1172" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T23:01:49.957" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T23:06:34.443" Title="Why are 3D films so dark?" Tags="|production|3d|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2978" CreationDate="2012-06-23T05:13:26.443" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 3D films, the 3D glasses are the reason for the dimness.Because the &lt;strong&gt;3-D glasses are darkly coated with polarized filter&lt;/strong&gt; that decode the images and give them depth dim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found a good &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.film.com/movies/why-is-3-d-cinema-so-dark&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; and let me summarize the stuff from that site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;According to the so-called father of 3-D cinema, &lt;strong&gt;Lenny Lipton&lt;/strong&gt;, because it projects two separate pictures, viewers lose half their light (half to one eye and half to the other). Then, as we all know, the darkly coated polarized 3-D glasses that decode the images and give them depth dim the movie further.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If filmmakers didn't plan ahead and initially shoot the feature in 3-D, allowing the director of photography to add light and optimize it for the big screen — you guessed it — darker. And none of the above factors in the projector, which is also wearing 3-D glasses (i.e. a polarizing filter). Better theaters compensate with brighter projectors but odds are your aging, butter-stained neighborhood multiplex doesn't. In Lipton’s opinion it all adds up to 3-D films screening with one-third the light level of a 2-D film.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's hard to fix the dimness in 3D movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Inception” director Christopher Nolan joined the 3D naysayers, saying that he refused to make his new film in the format largely because of the darkness problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Nolan;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“On a technical level, it’s fascinating,”, “but on an experiential level, I find the dimness of the image extremely alienating.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 3D process, Nolan said;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;makes “a massive difference” in the brightness of the image. “You’re not aware of it because once you’re in that world, your eye compensates – but having struggled for years to get theaters get up to the proper brightness, we're not sticking polarized filters in everything.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You cannot see so dimness in Avatar 3D, because &lt;strong&gt;Avatar was shot in 3D using techniques that boosted the amount of light&lt;/strong&gt; and compensated for the darkening process to come, was screened at light levels about half of a run-of-the-mill 2D film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T23:03:51.170" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T23:03:51.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2978" CreationDate="2012-06-23T10:25:20.250" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/3d-progress-lost-dark-19392&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Dark Flaw in 3D's Bright Future&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The figure of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-lambert&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;16 foot-lamberts&lt;/a&gt; is the standard established by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Motion_Picture_and_Television_Engineers&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers&lt;/a&gt; for a projector with no film in it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you add a &lt;strong&gt;2D film&lt;/strong&gt; to a projector that meets the brightness standard, you’ll generally wind up with &lt;strong&gt;about 14 foot-lamberts&lt;/strong&gt;, considered an appropriate level of illumination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3D projection, though, displays two separate pictures&lt;/strong&gt;, one designed for the left eye, one for the right [...] the immediate result of dividing the picture into two images is that, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Lipton&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lenny Lipton&lt;/a&gt;’s words, “&lt;em&gt;You lose half your light, because half the light goes to one eye and half goes to the other.&lt;/em&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Instantly, a 14-foot-lambert image is reduced to 7.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The glasses&lt;/strong&gt; used to decode the two images [...] &lt;strong&gt;then cut the light further&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Avatar,” says Lipton, generally screened at about four-and-a-half foot-lamberts; other films are as low as two or three.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fourteen foot-lamberts is a decent picture. Half of that, you’re doing fine.  But a third of that, you’re kind of getting hairy.  And when you get down below three foot-lamberts, you start losing your color vision, and the images are appalling.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“&lt;em&gt;It can all be solved,&lt;/em&gt;” Lipton insists. “&lt;em&gt;The technology is there.&lt;/em&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/06/23/michael-bay-and-transformers-3-shine-a-light-on-bad-theater-projection/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael Bay and 'Transformers 3' shine a light on theater projection&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Michael Bay &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/business/media/22transformers.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;has been lobbying theater companies to turn up the brightness of their projector bulbs&lt;/a&gt; to make &lt;em&gt;Transformers: Dark of the Moon&lt;/em&gt; look better in 3-D.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WLVao.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Letter&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/michael-bays-letter-to-3d-projectionists-his-plea-for-fans-to-go-3d/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paramount Pictures has taken the added step of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118038975?refCatId=13&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;shipping an extra-bright digital “print” of the film to about 2,000 theaters&lt;/a&gt; showing it in the RealD 3-D format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would a theater be reluctant to pump up the wattage? It’s because the bulbs can average around $3,200 or run as high as $5,700 and burn out after about 500 screenings, which adds up quickly at a multiplex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T23:06:34.443" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2981" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="2983" CreationDate="2012-06-23T15:41:57.317" Score="7" ViewCount="3766" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1217209/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brave&lt;/a&gt;, one thing that I was curious about was the curly hair of the main character, Merida. It’s so long! It bounces and everything! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it possible to animate that hair for every frame? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h5tfZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;picture of Merida with a bow&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T15:55:41.537" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T00:50:00.500" Title="How did they animate Merida's curly hair in Brave?" Tags="|film-techniques|brave|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2982" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17145" CreationDate="2012-06-23T16:19:55.870" Score="18" ViewCount="13758" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recall reading years ago that each Pixar film included some new technology or capability to their internal rendering software that they they'd developed as part of making that film.  Monsters Inc. for example introduced fur.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://sciencefocus.com/feature/tech/science-pixar-25-years&quot;&gt;This article&lt;/a&gt; makes mention of this tradition as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pixar’s subsequent films act like a timeline of technological developments in computer graphics. Building on the work of other researchers, 2001’s Monsters, Inc. introduced the on-screen representation of fur. Two years later, Finding Nemo pioneered new techniques in digital lighting, which were used to create realistic-looking water. The Incredibles and Ratatouille brought with them believable human characters, and advances in the simulation of crowds and fluids.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, what technological development did each Pixar film introduce?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T23:12:07.590" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T23:12:07.590" Title="What technology did each Pixar movie introduce?" Tags="|cinema-history|pixar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2981" CreationDate="2012-06-23T17:36:10.663" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are automatic hair generation and physics-based animation bolt-ons available for most common commercial CGI creation/rendering packages, these have been around for a long while really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said Pixar do tend to write their own software and will probably have done so for 'Brave'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially you define the area on the head where hair is to be, you can then define length, colour, drop-off areas etc. and the hair itself is then procedurally created. It's then down to the physics package to handle how it moves when moving/turning etc. and the rendered is told the reflection/refraction expected of the hair so just gets on with the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a lot of complex calculations but it's far from 'rocket science' these days, realistic shadows and flickering light are much more challenging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastActivityDate="2012-06-23T17:36:10.663" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2845" CreationDate="2012-06-23T18:40:24.110" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the following assumption; the Black Goo is Death, then the observations made about the Black Goo's effects correlate nicely.  As a weapon the black goo will mutate the victims into death-dealing daemons which would quickly die out as its environment was rapidly killed.  It was biologically controlled Death with no ability to procreate. (*Base on all the Engineers are dead after exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One major design flaw: if the victim achieves procreation while carrying Death, then Death just gained the ability to promulgate itself, albiet only in the host-dependent parasitic form. This is based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Xenomorph&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Xenomorph&lt;/a&gt;, which maps the life-cycle as egg, face-hugger, chest-burster, and [Death-dealing] adult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Truisms of note: The xenomporphs in Aliens were meant to be much older than the one that was born of Kane in Alien; they do not seem to eat and only seek sustenance on the lowest level;  perhaps absorbing energy from environmental sources as they are simply high-efficiency Death-machines.  They cannot promulgate their species without a host, limiting their spread that of its hosts' environment.  (*Based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prometheusforum.net/discussion/624/what-do-xenomorphs-eat/p1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.prometheusforum.net/discussion/624/what-do-xenomorphs-eat/p1&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Engineer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1559" LastActivityDate="2012-06-23T18:40:24.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2945" CreationDate="2012-06-24T07:49:32.573" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you watched the after credit scene in the first film? That's where the monkey steals another coin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-06-03T04:06:16.997" LastActivityDate="2017-06-03T04:06:16.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="55" CreationDate="2012-06-24T07:54:16.433" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has to do with the separation of officer and regular soldiers.  He does not get involved in this type of situation. That is what his sergeant is for (hence Mike glances at Tom hanks and then intervenes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Hanks is a sensible, mature officer. He realises that he has to do something to resolve the situation, and decides to connect with them and explain why he is doing what he is doing. Normally officers have to keep their distance, and do not become personal friends with their men as it might compromise the command hierarchy and influence the officer's judgment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a big step to take, and showed the men that Tom Hanks was not immune to the frustration and stresses of the mission. He was sharing it with them, and they all needed to work together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-11-28T23:00:26.580" LastActivityDate="2016-11-28T23:00:26.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2990" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-24T10:35:59.690" Score="5" ViewCount="717" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I look at the the image below, I am able to &quot;hear&quot; the sounds of the weapons in my mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zP8Rp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://www.billsienkiewiczart.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Artwork Credited to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.billsienkiewiczart.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bill Sienkiewicz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, the sound effects for the weapons made the cartoon much more enjoyable.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were these effects the product of some person (or team) sitting in front their tools (whatever they may have been at the time) and conjuring the best sound?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, would they have cycled through existing sound effects created over the years?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T23:13:49.613" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T23:13:49.613" Title="Were weapon sound fx for D&amp;D cartoon created specifically for the series?" Tags="|sound-effects|dungeons-and-dragons-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2976" CreationDate="2012-06-25T00:57:36.037" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, they are not the same place.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fast-rewind.com/locations_polter.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;, Poltergeist was filmed in Agoura Hills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ehK2q.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fast-rewind.com/locations_et.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Another page on the same site&lt;/a&gt; indicates that the street where they take off on the bike (I assume that's the one you're thinking of) is filmed in Granada Hills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ci8zO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a semi-related piece of trivia I found on that same site, in the Charlie's Angel's remake starring Drew Barrymore, there's a scene where she rolls into the villain's backyard, and the house is the same one she and Eliot lived in in E.T.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1563" LastActivityDate="2012-06-25T00:57:36.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="2999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2013" CreationDate="2012-06-25T09:20:49.607" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it goes with the mechanical theme for the intro - when they change zoom level they accompany it with a 'snick' sound and show the edge of the new lens crossing the screen. To zoom in more there are multiple lenses to slide in, so multiple 'snicks'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is similar to how you change magnification level with a microscope. It's very hard to smoothly change zoom at small scales, and I think they want to reinforce the effect of the intro being a mechanical map that's just about possible using the technology available in the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1277" LastActivityDate="2012-06-25T09:20:49.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1599" CreationDate="2012-06-25T10:33:39.693" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watch Little Bill's conversation in the jail to the writer.  It shows that Bill ran in the same social circles as Bob when he was younger and that there is little real difference between them.  He also knows about Munny and his history.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The old gun fighters have grown up and are trying to find ways in the world but the world has no real use for them anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bod tries to become a posh English assassin (notice his real accent comes out when he is being driven away).  At heart he is, basically, an East End thug but is trying to become something else and it falls apart, he is beaten, humiliated and driven out.  The only part of him that still works is his gun skill (notice the competition on the train).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Little Bill was a gun slinger and is trying to become an honest man but simply does not have the skills.  Notice he is trying to build a house (very common skill for a man at that point) and he is terrible at it, he is also not a very good Sherrif.  His spineless way of handling the girl having her face cut up just causes trouble for the town.  His bullish way of trying to stop assassins from arriving does not work.  He beats Ned to death even after getting the information about who was with him, which directly causes Munny to come back and kill several people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Munny tried becoming a farmer but his farm was failing, to make enough money to set himself up he has to resort to his gun skills and to handle that stress he resorts to drinking (notice how the first time he drinks is just before he rides back to town to kill Little Bill).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a deeper analysis you can say that these men know each other as well as they know themselves as once you cut beneath the surface they are the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="1501" LastEditDate="2019-09-12T07:28:23.500" LastActivityDate="2019-09-12T07:28:23.500" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2977" CreationDate="2012-06-25T14:25:32.573" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've got good questions, but the answers are easily found with a little research. One mustn't go farther than Wikepedia.org to find answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;In Indiana, when Lincoln was nine, his mother Nancy died of milk sickness in 1818&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rense.com/general63/friend.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Frederick Douglass was Lincoln's &quot;black friend&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;See also the Wikipedia article for Frederick Douglass&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Todd_Lincoln&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mary was courted by Stephen Douglas, against whom her later husband notably debated&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Speed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joshua Fry Speed was Lincoln's business partner and friend&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen this movie, it was enjoyable, I had a good time - but I can't see that it will win an Oscar or be nominated for one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T22:58:15.287" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T22:58:15.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3005" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3168" CreationDate="2012-06-25T14:48:21.890" Score="4" ViewCount="1270" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the finale to this season of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1695360/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Legend of Korra&lt;/a&gt; we see Korra finally battle Amon head-to head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the turn out is unfavorable as Korra loses her bending skills, but somehow retains and activates her Airbending&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In another twist, she connects to her past lives and Aang is shown restoring her bending and activating her Avatar State.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, how are all these events possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it truly Amon's Blood-Bending that blocks the power or did Amon achieve what Tenzin thought impossible and learn Energy-Bending?  And if so, how did bending Korra's energy take away all forms of bending &lt;em&gt;except&lt;/em&gt; Air-Bending?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, how is she able to gain all her bending back through connecting with her past lives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T14:12:49.410" Title="What really happened to Korra?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-legend-of-korra|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3006" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-25T15:02:28.477" Score="5" ViewCount="887" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two examples spring to mind immediately:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/a&gt; Ra's Al Ghul is pronounced in the movie as RAHZ AL GOUL whereas in the Animated series it is pronounced &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Nkh2G443A&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RASHE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; AL GHUL &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0938283/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Last Airbender&lt;/a&gt; Changed a few character's names including AANG to AHNG and SOKKA to SOAKA&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, to me, seems a bit of an ignorance taken by directors for truly knowing the character they're bringing to life on the big screen.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any kind of reasoning behind decisions like this in general (or for these examples)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T20:46:04.820" Title="Why do some directors change pronunciation of character's names?" Tags="|batman-begins|adaptation|the-last-airbender|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3007" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3042" CreationDate="2012-06-25T15:10:00.030" Score="4" ViewCount="1198" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casshern_Sins&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Casshern Sins&lt;/a&gt;  we are quickly introduced to our anit-hero Casshern and his seemingly eternal battle to survive in the ruined world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is constantly attacked, not only for his misdeeds but because the remaining robots believe very strongly that &lt;em&gt;eating&lt;/em&gt; him will heal the world of the Ruin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why do they believe this?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do these beings who supposedly need no nourishment and most likely do not even have &lt;em&gt;digestive systems&lt;/em&gt; believe that eating a seemingly invincible robot will suddenly revive their world to its former glory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T14:02:19.870" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T00:12:15.837" Title="Why do the robots believe eating Casshern will heal the world?" Tags="|plot-explanation|casshern-sins|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2410" CreationDate="2012-06-25T17:31:27.147" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;My mother was an office secretary in New York in the 1960s and 70s, and she told me that the general representation on MadMen that a lot of people really did chain smoke three of four packs a day back then was actually pretty dead-on accurate. She said that she continued to smoke at least three packs a day herself back then through the 80s and most of the 90s, even after she moved to the southern US, before eventually trying to cut down to only a pack a day in the early 2000s shortly before being diagnosed with emphysema. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that kind of background, it seems almost inevitable that I would have ended up a two pack a day smoker myself, even though our company banned smoking in the office back in 2003. I had just started working in the office in the late 90s, and a big attraction for me was the fact that several other women here had ashtrays on their desk and could smoke at work. It was frowned upon even then, despite being allowed, but the first 4 or 5 years I worked here, I could smoke at my desk and it wasn't a big deal. But then in 2003, once they banned smoking in the office, I think my office productivity took a nose dive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1566" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:06:46.880" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:06:46.880" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2410" CreationDate="2012-06-25T17:38:51.380" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm only 43 and even going back to when I started work (1990) in the IT industry in the UK smoking was rife in almost offices and I worked alongside guys who would routinely go out drinking quite heavily for two hours at lunch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a friend who works for a large Japanese company at their head office and even today they smoke a very great deal in their open offices and there's a drinks cabinet in most senior's offices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this wasn't too long ago, I'd imagine MM was pretty much on the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastActivityDate="2012-06-25T17:38:51.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3010" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3016" CreationDate="2012-06-25T18:24:27.017" Score="12" ViewCount="16056" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know how old &lt;a href=&quot;http://pixar.wikia.com/Andy_Davis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Andy&lt;/a&gt; is in Toy Story because he goes to Pizza Planet to celebrate his &lt;em&gt;eighth&lt;/em&gt; birthday. In Toy Story 3, Andy is said to be &lt;em&gt;seventeen&lt;/em&gt; and heading off to college.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Toy Story 2, we see Andy slightly grown up, but not quite as much as in Toy Story 3. &lt;strong&gt;How old is Andy in Toy Story 2?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T15:54:45.907" LastActivityDate="2019-06-24T10:01:11.000" Title="How old is Andy in Toy Story 2?" Tags="|character|toy-story|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2012-06-25T18:33:46.740" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pixar’s subsequent films act like a timeline of technological developments in computer graphics. Building on the work of other researchers, 2001’s Monsters, Inc. introduced the on-screen representation of fur. Two years later, Finding Nemo pioneered new techniques in digital lighting, which were used to create realistic-looking water. The Incredibles and Ratatouille brought with them believable human characters, and advances in the simulation of crowds and fluids.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not one of those statements is correct, if given as an industry wide example of developments of computer graphics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These statements might be correct, if referring to Pixar's own usage of those technologies. Monster's Inc was the first time Pixar used Fur extensively for one of it's own feature films, but fur in computer graphics had been in use for many years by this point. I would credit them this achievement as being the largest usage of fur in a feature film to that date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree that Pixar set many milestones for standards in the level of quality in computer graphics. They were not the only studio setting new standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ILM set the standard for computer graphics and lighting in the 1993 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/&quot;&gt;Jurassic Park&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disney set the tone for most realistic computer generated animal in the 2000 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130623/&quot;&gt;Dinosaur&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A year later Square Pictures (R.I.P) released the 2001 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173840/&quot;&gt;Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within&lt;/a&gt;, which to this date still exceeds anything in visual production value that Pixar has ever done. Including the claim for believable human characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That same year in 2001 the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/&quot;&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring&lt;/a&gt; demonstrated the most realistic human generated character (Gollum).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't a list of the best, but just a list of the many other films and studios that have far out done Pixar in the area of computer graphics. Pixar at best has the best quality of children's films, but their continued focus on soft lighting and uniformly playful characters limits how far they can push technology. It's difficult to make Woody compare to Gollum, because Woody is a toy and the most photo-realistic toy just doesn't impress visually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="1100" LastEditDate="2012-06-25T18:57:14.840" LastActivityDate="2012-06-25T18:57:14.840" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3012" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3014" CreationDate="2012-06-25T18:34:00.983" Score="27" ViewCount="5743" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early in the first Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear believes he truly is a Space Ranger. His struggle to accept that he is not actually Buzz Lightyear, Space Ranger is a key part of the first movie in the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;why does he act like a toy when people are around? Wouldn't he try to interact with them as a Space Ranger would?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T15:53:53.983" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T15:53:53.983" Title="Why does Buzz Lightyear act like a toy around people in Toy Story?" Tags="|character|analysis|toy-story|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3012" CreationDate="2012-06-25T18:59:22.323" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As seems to be the case in all of the movies, the toys don't seem to gain sentience unless they are not being looked at or being played with by a human child.  You see this with the other Buzz Lightyear toys they all believe they are Buzz.  You also see this shortly after Buzz in introduced when Andy is flying him around the room you see Woody turn his head to the pair only once Andy's back is turned.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you couldn't tell I'm invoking the rules set forth in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093493/&quot;&gt;Mannequin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="567" LastActivityDate="2012-06-25T18:59:22.323" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3012" CreationDate="2012-06-25T19:52:06.570" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's a built-in sub-conscious instinct that, with enough force of will or self-sentience, can be over-ridden.  The toys attacking Sid being a good example of gaining the force of will to ignore this instinct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-06-25T19:52:06.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3010" CreationDate="2012-06-25T22:13:42.273" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Andy is 12, or darn close, in Toy Story 2.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you point out, he's 8 in the first movie.  And &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story_2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;according to Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, the second one takes place four years later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XwOIQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1563" LastActivityDate="2012-06-25T22:13:42.273" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2967" CreationDate="2012-06-25T23:10:52.203" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The filmmakers portray characters in specific lights to enhance the purity of Carol Ann. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Diane and Steven are shown to be impure by their &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marijuana usage&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Consumption of alcohol, arguably excessively, when faced with the true force of the poltergeist&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Their handling of their problems by yelling, screaming, reacting before thinking (Ex: Diane and Steve running around the house both inside and out trying to save Robbie and ignoring Carol Ann, leaving her at the mercy of the poltergeist to capture her.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dana is a reflection of her mother, evidenced by Diane's pleased reaction to Dana dealing with construction workers whistling at her by flipping them off in a sassy way (and more subtly, when Dana is up late on the phone-- possibly talking to a boy). In addition both Diane and Dana have similar names and dark hair in contrast to Carol Ann's different name and pure blond locks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Robbie is an instigator, always starting fights with Carol Ann, though not necessarily in a mean-spirited way-- more playful than anything else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Carol Ann never speaks loud or defiantly, never cries or screams, embodying a more peaceful and angelic demeanor to the slightly more chaotic (read: normal) rest of the family.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@DavidStratton makes an excellent point regarding the normalcy of the family being expressed by their use of marijuana and alcohol that absolutely applies here. But to be clear, it only applies to Diane, Steven, Robbie and Dana-- &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; Carol Ann. She is not normal: she is special, pure, better. Even Robbie, who is a close second to Carol Ann in regard to how pure her character is, can never match her. Which is why he was sucked into the &lt;em&gt;darkness&lt;/em&gt; in the evil tree outside the house, while Carol Ann was brought closer to the &lt;em&gt;light.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum up: Steven and Diane are shown smoking pot to portray them as a typical couple of grown-up-hippies (even reaching for a biography of Ronald Reagan to further assimilate to their new world of conservative homogeneity) just trying to raise a family-- in addition to raising Carol Ann up on to a pedestal of purity to show us, the audience, just why the poltergeist wanted her and not them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T07:00:48.647" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T07:00:48.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3019" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3058" CreationDate="2012-06-26T13:53:11.917" Score="13" ViewCount="2805" Body="&lt;p&gt;Notice during the “tack scene” in the principal’s office, Helen is not holding Jack Jack:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cFgv7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, in the next scene, while Dash is begging to play sports, Jack Jack is quietly sitting in the back seat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UK3py.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as we know, the Parrs had no friends (presumably b/c they were superheroes in hiding) and did not use a babysitter.  (Kari did not come along till Violet hired her to watch Jack Jack so she and Dash could hitch a ride on the Jet.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Helen is a very loving, protective mother; so where was Jack Jack while she was in the principal’s office?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T15:53:25.257" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T15:53:25.257" Title="Does Elastigirl leave her baby in the car by himself?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-incredibles|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2128" CreationDate="2012-06-26T15:56:06.070" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is to show how messed up the family are. The originally present as a normal, healthy family with a slightly batty grandmother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we get to know them better we realise that they are seriously messed up.  The implied incest is an example of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-06-26T15:56:06.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="826" CreationDate="2012-06-26T16:54:23.723" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;IIRC the neckalace his wife hands him is actually a claw or fang from the creature that Leonidas kills in the beginning of the film.  I think he gave it to his wife to show his prowess as hunter/fighter.  She in return gave it to him to remind him of this feat as an encouragement to return as a victor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="567" LastActivityDate="2012-06-26T16:54:23.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3023" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3027" CreationDate="2012-06-26T17:41:42.447" Score="26" ViewCount="14687" Body="&lt;p&gt;Despite the diversity of characters filling out the cast in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story&quot;&gt;Toy Story&lt;/a&gt;, Andy's dad wasn't created. It can't be especially difficult for the filmmakers to create a &lt;strong&gt;dad character&lt;/strong&gt; because they've created so many others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why didn't Pixar create Andy's dad character in Toy Story?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T18:07:20.843" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T11:20:49.337" Title="Why doesn't Andy have a dad in Toy Story?" Tags="|plot-explanation|toy-story|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3023" CreationDate="2012-06-26T18:28:13.430" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I doubt it was technical limitations (designing another character), but I do suspect it was for storytelling reasons. The main focus of the story was on the toys themselves. Only a few humans (mostly Andy and Sid, and perhaps Hanna to a lesser degree) were truly crucial to the story and the rest were mostly superfluous background noise. Adding another human with no real role to play would only add to that noise and serve as distraction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-06-26T18:28:13.430" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3023" CreationDate="2012-06-26T18:30:58.467" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the point of a missing father figure was to highlight the importance of Woody as an authority figure in the movie.  Woody's character served as a surrogate father to Andy, whether Andy realized it or not.  Also, Woody was the &quot;father&quot; to all of the toys, providing them structure that they otherwise lacked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-06-26T18:30:58.467" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3023" CreationDate="2012-06-26T19:30:12.717" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/Toy-Story-movie-series/Why-is-Andys-father-never-mentioned-in-any-of-the-Toy-Story-films&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Craig L Good, Pixar Camera Artist&lt;/a&gt;, human characters were too expensive to design back then. So since a dad was not necessary for the story, Andy didn't get one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm often highly entertained by the deep analyses and psychological&#xA;  guesswork about this. The real answer is that we couldn't afford a&#xA;  dad. Human characters were just hideously expensive and difficult to&#xA;  do in those days [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1572" LastEditorUserId="1572" LastEditDate="2016-03-19T11:20:49.337" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T11:20:49.337" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2787" CreationDate="2012-06-26T21:38:30.890" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think like a writer..not like the story is real as one post did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SHE IS WITHOUT A DOUBT A ROBOT.&#xA;We know this through the writing technique used. There is no point in having David expound so heavily on the fact that he was wearing the hazard suit for &quot;show&quot; if there was not another character also wearing one for show.&#xA;You write this dialog in the script only to explain ALL of the hidden robots behavior--which is obviously Vickers. Your not suppose to know this---but you are suppose to recall what David said when Vickers is exposed and you object. The audience will recall the pretending to be human lines and it will explain why you didnt see it. It extremely common technique in mystery.&#xA;In fact as soon as these lines were spoken I knew there was another robot and no more than a minute went by when she was called a robot by the captain. &#xA;I am almost certain there were scenes cut at the end that show it. As soon as our star's hazard mask broke --I think Vickers broke too and she was going to be able to survive but it was saved for the next movie. Either way, that scene is coming as all dialog and actions point to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1574" LastActivityDate="2012-06-26T21:38:30.890" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3030" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10404" CreationDate="2012-06-26T23:40:22.497" Score="12" ViewCount="1182" Body="&lt;p&gt;The nearest I can find is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032762/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Mark of Zorro&lt;/a&gt;. It shows the villain (played by the wonderful &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001651/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Basil Rathbone&lt;/a&gt;) slicing through a candle with rage and then the hero slicing through a candle but seemingly missing. Afterward the villain laughs and then the hero shows how good he really is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the oldest movie I can find that shows this. Are there any older movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1575" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2020-05-15T03:52:06.070" Title="What is the first movie to show slicing through a candle to show sword prowess" Tags="|first-appearance|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2554" CreationDate="2012-06-27T00:32:36.107" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I write this answer as someone who reviews films for a living and is also intimately familiar with Britten's music. I'm hard pressed to think of any relationship between the structure of the film's story and the structure of &lt;em&gt;The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra&lt;/em&gt;. The musical piece is structured as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_%28music%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;theme and variations&lt;/a&gt;, which the spoken narration briefly refers to. Such a work begins with a theme (either an original one or one by another composer, as is the case here) and then is followed by a set of variations, in which the composer alters the original theme in various ways. In &lt;em&gt;The Young Person's Guide&lt;/em&gt;, Britten uses the different variations to showcase different instruments in the orchestra. In Britten's Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge, he turns a strain composed by one of his music teachers into a classical minuet, a Viennese waltz, an Italian opera fanfare, and a somber funeral march, among other things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a film to take the structure of a theme and variations, it would have to be very episodic, moving from one character or set of characters to another and having each vignette somehow reflect the main plot. I've seen &lt;em&gt;Moonrise Kingdom&lt;/em&gt; several times, and I don't detect this structure at work. The situations of Suzy's parents, Scoutmaster Ward, Captain Sharp, the other Khaki Scouts, etc. don't really mirror Sam and Suzy's romance in any appreciable way. I'm sure there's a film out there that is structured as a theme and variations, but it's not coming to mind at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the structure of &lt;em&gt;The Young Person's Guide&lt;/em&gt; doesn't reflect the structure of the movie, then what's it doing in the movie? Well, Wes Anderson is apparently a longtime Britten fan who performed in a production of Britten's opera &lt;em&gt;Noye's Fludde&lt;/em&gt; when he was 10 or 11. He said that he began the film with a notion that Britten's music should be used to illustrate this story. Most of the other Britten selections he found for the film, but &lt;em&gt;The Young Person's Guide&lt;/em&gt; is one of Britten's most popular works. (The composer wrote a great deal of music for children.) It makes sense to begin the film with a piece that's well-known. It's also logical, within the story, that Suzy's parents would have this record in their house for their children to listen to. The music makes a backdrop to the opening credit sequence, in which we're introduced to Suzy and the members of her family. Visually, the sequence does emphasize how each member of her family is occupying a different space in their house, which chimes with the psychic distance between Suzy's mother and father, and between Suzy and her parents. All this to music in which Britten compartmentalizes the different sections of the orchestra. We then hear the music again near the end of the movie, when Suzy is back with her family. Specifically, we hear the end of the piece, when all the instruments in the orchestra once again play together. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1576" LastEditorUserId="1576" LastEditDate="2012-06-27T00:49:45.737" LastActivityDate="2012-06-27T00:49:45.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2017" CreationDate="2012-06-27T10:56:35.447" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's like the orphanage, the ghosts didnt really do anything wrong....Leigh the spirtualist caught a glimpse of the future (she explained her abilities as being just that) and said she saw three spirits...one could assume this is Madeleine, the old man who comitted suicide upstairs, and Claire herself...she was warned to stay away from the basement as Leigh foresaw her death there...but the ghosts themselve did not actually harm Claire...in fact it was only through her persistant attempts that there was any contact between them at all...she died of fright/asthma attack and Leigh's prophecy of three spirits being in the hotel was concluded!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1580" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-09-27T06:35:53.813" LastActivityDate="2017-09-27T06:35:53.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3036" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-06-27T13:20:56.637" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-06-27T13:20:56.637" LastActivityDate="2012-06-27T13:20:56.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3037" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-06-27T13:20:56.637" Score="0" Body="A 1997 American action thriller film directed by Richard Donner staring Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-06-27T13:20:56.637" LastActivityDate="2012-06-27T13:20:56.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3038" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3039" CreationDate="2012-06-26T23:28:37.060" Score="13" ViewCount="11241" Body="&lt;p&gt;Harem Anime is comprised of the following concepts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;akward, underconfident or extremely hard headed boy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lots of girls that want him, but never quite get him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;action involving the boy saving the girl in one way or another&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Literally hundreds  of anime of this style come out in Japan, but how did it start?  What is the origin of Harem Anime?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="Jason Rob" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2020-08-05T10:57:30.317" LastActivityDate="2021-10-27T15:01:42.213" Title="What is the origin of Harem Anime?" Tags="|anime|origin|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3038" CreationDate="2012-06-26T23:38:48.560" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is generally thought that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumiko_Takahashi&quot;&gt;Rumiko Takahashi&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; best selling female Manga author in history) is the one who started the Harem genre, or at the very least the one who popularized it. Which one of her works can be considered as the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; depends on how you define Harem anime. If you define it as one person (any gender) being romantically sought after by the majority of the cast, then the answer is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urusei_Yatsura&quot;&gt;Urusei Yatsura&lt;/a&gt;. If you narrowly define it as being a boy chased by several girls, then the answer is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranma_%C2%BD&quot;&gt;Ranma ½&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" OwnerDisplayName="SystemDown" LastActivityDate="2012-06-26T23:38:48.560" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3038" CreationDate="2012-06-27T01:55:02.793" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is already answered, but I was just going to keep putting up longer and longer comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically the genre defining Harem Anime/Manga is &lt;strong&gt;Tenchi Muyo&lt;/strong&gt;, so I think it deserves a mention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The big distinction in favor of Tenchi Muyo is the romance component. While many earlier works may feature a popular guy who is chased by many women, a harem anime will attempt to incorporate romance. A Harem anime will also feature a seemingly worthless guy, who's hidden virtues (sometimes so hidden they don't exist) somehow win a scad of female attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tenchi is this dorky-ish guy who fits the hard-headed/unconfident/awkward bill.&#xA;&amp;quot;Tenchi-Muyo&amp;quot; is a bit of an omni-pun with many meanings, the most popular translation is &amp;quot;No Need for Tenchi&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Useless Tenchi&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As harem anime would have it he ends up becoming the desire of a house full of beautiful women:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Space Policewoman&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Crazy Mad Scientist / goddess&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Innocent Girl Princess / goddess&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Strict Uptight Princess&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Party Animal Demon Girl / Space Pirate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Normal schoolgirl&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...and a shape shifting space cat-rabbit (cabbit).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As luck would have it, Tehchi is also heir to the throne of a galactic empire.&#xA;The chosen one who has light-saber battles against the forces of evil.&#xA;And a hard working student who basically keeps his mouth shut, has nosebleeds, and gets overly embarrassed all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also saves the lives of most of the girls at one point in time or another. Each female character has a different reason for her attachment to him (which may vary depending on the continuity).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above items, while the setting changes, are staples of the modern harem anime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The genre is a result of pushing the everyman envelope.&#xA;First the everyman is the chosen one, with powers, and a kingdom.&#xA;Now all the girls like him, but he's just too thick to notice.&#xA;Finally he basically has a house full of improbable women, who all want him. The everyman's dream come true. The story possibilities are endless, and even if you draw a blank for story, you can always have &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; kind of drama.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tenchi came out in 1992, so it is 4 years younger than Ranma, and much younger than Yatsura. While Ranma is chased by several girls that he is technically engaged to, Ranma is unlike most harem heroes. He is confident, brash, and contrives humor from his many engagements in non-emotional ways. You'll never see the typical &amp;quot;guy accidentally falls and lands on one of the girls&amp;quot;-scenes. You will never see Ranma embarrassed about anything. However, it is a good candidate for a predecessor to Harem anime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've got to admit that Tenchi put the word &amp;quot;Harem&amp;quot; into the genre list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1583" OwnerDisplayName="Gorchestopher H" LastEditorUserId="1583" LastEditDate="2021-10-27T15:01:42.213" LastActivityDate="2021-10-27T15:01:42.213" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9033" CreationDate="2012-06-28T00:23:15.463" Score="1" ViewCount="1150" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Spanish thriller &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1437358/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sleep Tight (2011)&lt;/a&gt; [original title: Mientras duermes], why is César obsessed with Clara? Does he have a past relation with her? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, César occasionally goes to hospital to see his sick mom, and tells her about the bad things he's done. Why does he need to tell these to his mom?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T06:50:12.977" Title="Why is César obsessed with Clara?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sleep-tight|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3007" CreationDate="2012-06-28T01:56:05.173" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the key here is what Casshern is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure if this is considered a spoiler itself, but Casshern is a robot himself. Or what is known as a Neodroid, or robot with a human mind. He was originally a servant of the robot Boss (Breaking Boss) and was sent, as the most powerful in the robot army, to destroy Luna who was supposed to be humanity's salvation against robot rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Casshern went to destroy Luna, but in the process the Earth became toxic. Robots are in a constant state of decay. Except for Casshern, his body is immortal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... because Casshern does not deteriorate, and he is a robot, and he is seemingly the cause of the blight, other robots believe integrating him with them will grant them his immortality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1583" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T00:12:15.837" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T00:12:15.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3043" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3051" CreationDate="2012-06-28T05:41:01.783" Score="13" ViewCount="1433" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early in the movie Prometheus, while most of the crew is still in cryosleep, David makes the rounds of the ship. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While walking from one room to another, David seems surprised to see something on the floor of Prometheus. He stops to pick it up and looks at it quizzically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did David stop to pick up and look at?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T00:18:42.493" Title="What does David pick up off the floor early in Prometheus?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3044" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3050" CreationDate="2012-06-28T05:44:49.063" Score="5" ViewCount="499" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Moonrise Kingdom&quot; a social-services agent implies that an orphan with behavior problems could be subjected to shock therapy (aka electro-convulsive therapy or ECT).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were children really subjected to shock therapy in the 1960s?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-06-28T13:28:19.283" LastActivityDate="2012-06-28T14:54:55.987" Title="Were children subjected to shock therapy in the 1960s, as implied in Moonrise Kingdom?" Tags="|historical-accuracy|moonrise-kingdom|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3045" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3048" CreationDate="2012-06-28T10:03:18.677" Score="0" ViewCount="21305" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the near end of the movie, when a box delivered to the trio in a deserted place is opened, David Mills' (played by Brad Pitt) wife Tracy Mill's face appears for a fraction of a second.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_%28film%29#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia's plot summary&lt;/a&gt; of the movie suggests that his wife was murdered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Doe claims to represent the sin of &quot;Envy&quot;; he was jealous of Mills' normal life, and killed Tracy after failing to &quot;play husband&quot; with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the viewers don't have first hand account of whether the murder actually took place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that John Doe (played by Kevin Spacey) didn't actually kill his wife? If he really did, how can the viewer be sure of the murder other than the subliminal appearance of Tracy Mill's face when the box was opened and John Doe's account to David Mills?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="571" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-06-28T13:17:39.030" LastActivityDate="2018-06-10T14:19:15.080" Title="Doubt about the ending of Se7en" Tags="|plot-explanation|se7en|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3045" CreationDate="2012-06-28T10:27:20.820" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It  is possible, it could have been a fake head in the box etc.  However, going on Mills's character I think it is more likely he actually killed her and sent the severed head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-22T08:58:48.193" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T08:58:48.193" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="261" CreationDate="2012-06-28T10:28:36.407" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;ISTR that pride was the girl who had her nose cut off and then took an overdose (tablets glued to one hand) rather than phone an ambulance (phone glued to the other hand).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-06-28T10:28:36.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3045" CreationDate="2012-06-28T10:41:42.970" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the &quot;credibility&quot; of the Kevin Spacey character (he hadn't failed to follow through...ever) I would think he can't possibly be &quot;faking&quot; his climax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1585" LastActivityDate="2012-06-28T10:41:42.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3044" CreationDate="2012-06-28T14:54:55.987" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the therapy in question is Electroconvulsive therapy, then yes, it is highly possible that children were given this treatment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the fact that ECT was allegedly phased out during the 60's and 70's, the treatment continued to be administered, and even gained a little popularity around 20 years ago due to its effectiveness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-06-28T14:54:55.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3043" CreationDate="2012-06-28T15:01:22.080" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just took it to be a bit of fluff or dirt. This seems to be just another piece in a greater montage showing the tediousness and repetitiveness of David's two-year wait for the ship to reach its destination. The picking up and looking at the speck just adds an extra, fastidious, layer to David's personality and is further evidence of Fassbender's compelling performance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of Niles picking a piece of fluff off his pant leg in &lt;em&gt;Frasier&lt;/em&gt; ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T00:18:42.493" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T00:18:42.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3052" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3053" CreationDate="2012-06-28T15:20:08.227" Score="17" ViewCount="161004" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early in the first season of Mad Men, Don Draper's wife Betty seems to be suffering from some kind of affliction that makes her hands go numb. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She eventually sees a psychiatrist and the whole thing is never mentioned again for the remainder of the season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we ever find out what it was? Was it really just a psychological thing or was there something physically wrong with her that the medicine at the time simply couldn't diagnose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="615" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-06-28T15:37:55.813" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T21:35:39.460" Title="What was wrong with Betty's hands?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mad-men|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3052" CreationDate="2012-06-28T16:08:41.530" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are correct in both your assertions that we never find out exactly what is causing Betty's shaky hands, and that we know based on evidence that it is likely psychological.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/znzup.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;shaky Betty&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you mention in your question, the shaky hands are a part of Betty's character from day one. The first observance of this problem by the viewer is roughly three months after her mother dies (by Betty's own admission at her first visit to the psychiatrist). The issue is forced in &quot;Ladies Room&quot; (S1E2) after two hand-shaking incidents (the first was following a night of heavy drinking, the second when Betty's hands freeze up while driving sending the car up a curb) Betty is encouraged by her doctor to see a psychiatrist, as he believes the problem could be psychological.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the conclusion of &quot;Ladies Room,&quot; we observe Don listening to the psychiatrist's report on Betty's visit, and then nothing. After this episode, the writers leave the viewer to draw his or her own conclusions. Betty's shaking hands largely stop. But in the S2E3 (&quot;The Benefactor&quot;), Betty is hit on by a married man while at a horse stable, and in the process of lighting her cigarette while rebuffing his advances, we see her shaky hands return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summation; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;, we do not find out precisely what causes Betty's shaky hands,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;, it likely is psychological based on circumstantial evidence,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;, there is no overwhelming evidence that there is something physically wrong with Betty.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Sources:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whattamisaid.com/2009/09/sexism-makes-me-hate-betty-draper.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Sexism Makes Me Hate Betty Draper&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;http://madmen.wikia.com/wiki/Mad_Men_Wiki&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mad Men Wikia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T00:30:44.707" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T00:30:44.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3054" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-28T16:10:04.430" Score="4" ViewCount="815" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1493886/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Wild Hunt&lt;/a&gt;, after a series of incidents occur with Evelyn, the shaman's followers end up kidnapping her and make her wear the skull mask.  After she puts on the skull mask she starts freaking out and runs off.  They start following her, starting the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Hunt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wild Hunt&lt;/a&gt;, but instead of playing in-game they actually start killing people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Murtagh and his followers start killing people?  Being upset over what happened in a game seems like a rather odd issue to kill people over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="42940" LastEditDate="2016-11-11T08:06:34.860" LastActivityDate="2016-11-11T08:06:34.860" Title="Why did they start killing people?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-wild-hunt|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3055" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3057" CreationDate="2012-06-28T18:09:16.397" Score="35" ViewCount="145876" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the movie Fight Club, in the ending scene we can see the narrator shoot himself in the mouth asking Tyler to &quot;&lt;em&gt;really listen to him&lt;/em&gt;&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is How/Why did Tyler got shot in the head when the narrator himself shot in the mouth? It could have been somewhere else and not the head, right? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this just because the Narrator &quot;really&quot; wanted Tyler to listen to him and die? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Tyler is just a hallucination, we know that Tyler dies when narrator mind accepts his death. The narrator can't do this on his own, since he needs Tyler's permission to do so (otherwise why would he ask Tyler to listen to him?). Now, if he really wanted Tyler to die, he could have shot Tyler directly and imagined his death, which would have lead to the end of Tyler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this shooting scene in the significance of &quot;Fight Club&quot; where the narrator wanted to shoot himself just with the &lt;em&gt;spirit of hurting himself&lt;/em&gt;? Does this indicate that Narrator and Tyler became one at the end? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was that shot really needed to kill Tyler? What would have happened if Tyler also got shot in his mouth and was alive instead of getting shot in his head?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have attempted the plot-explanation, but I watched the movie only once long back... I would be glad if someone can expand this/ explain this even better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1508" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2013-11-04T04:10:18.010" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T19:39:03.510" Title="How/Why did Tyler Durden got shot in the head?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fight-club|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3055" CreationDate="2012-06-28T19:25:08.727" Score="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the end scene of the movie is to have the Narrator finally conquer his 'problems' in the form of killing Tyler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He cannot simply shoot at him as he is just a hallucination of his own mind and the bullet would just fly off into nothing.  While before beating him up would have worked, it was just a physical representation of a mental battle.  By bringing in an actual object into the fray, his attempts at Tyler's life are pointless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see the Narrator finally realize that he has been in control all along and this is why he is presented able to take the gun from Tyler, because he is the one actually holding the gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is then he realizes that he must follow Tyler's own advice and &quot;hit bottom&quot;.  Only by doing so, is he able to control his own body and &quot;kill&quot; Tyler.  To hit bottom he realizes he must do something life-threatening and plain insane.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas the bullet only blew a hole in his &lt;em&gt;cheek&lt;/em&gt;, it was his mental &lt;strong&gt;F--- You&lt;/strong&gt; to Tyler, showing him that he can take care of himself now, which is why the bullet is shown to have gone through the &lt;em&gt;back&lt;/em&gt; of Tyler's head, killing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-06-28T19:25:08.727" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3019" CreationDate="2012-06-28T19:54:14.080" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/3019/does-elastigirl-leave-her-baby-in-the-car-by-himself#comment4648_3019&quot;&gt;I'd say that iandotkelly actually answered this in the comments&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most likely thing that happened is that Helen had someone in the receptionist office watch Jack Jack while the principal had a serious discussion with her about Dash, since babies can be very distracting to such a talk. It's quite common for parents to bring their younger kids with them to parent teacher conferences. This probably wasn't shown or animated because it's such a normal thing for parents that it wouldn't even register that Jack Jack isn't with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T00:14:57.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3059" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3062" CreationDate="2012-06-28T20:26:57.193" Score="4" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Scarecrow and Mrs. King&quot; told the story of a divorced mom who accidentally meets a hunky secret agent and -- unbeknownst to her family and friends -- joins the secret agent on many spy adventures. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a pre-teen viewer, I liked the show for its action and adventure, and I also had a boy's crush on Mrs. King (Kate Jackson). But more than 20 years later, I realize the show also seems to have offered an appealing escape fantasy to adult women, not to mention the cute capering of a former Charlie's Angel to adult men.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a long time, I assumed &quot;Scarecrow &amp;amp; Mrs. King&quot; was aimed at kids, kind of like &quot;A-Team&quot; or &quot;Knight Rider&quot;. But is that accurate? &lt;strong&gt;Which audience was &quot;Scarecrow and Mrs. King&quot; trying to attract -- kids, adult women, adult men, or some combination of the three?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T00:39:50.250" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T00:39:50.250" Title="Which audience was targeted by &quot;Scarecrow and Mrs. King&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|scarecrow-and-mrs-king|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3006" CreationDate="2012-06-29T11:01:45.123" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some directors take care that is pronounced right and some don't and some want it that way so that it suits the audience that the movie is targeted at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1594" LastActivityDate="2012-06-29T11:01:45.123" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3059" CreationDate="2012-06-29T11:54:20.527" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the audience desired was Nielsen Families. Really the three shows you described all had a target audience of families. In the 80's there were a lot of family shows that were trying to include action into their format. So most shows on during primetime were either an action family show or a family sitcom. This show really did attract a wide range of audience though. Having a former Charlie's Angel on attracted both men and women, a bored house wife appealed to women, the handsome secret agent pulled in women for the handsome and men and kids for the secret agent. Also kids and moms related to Mrs. King since she was a regular mom. Women could daydream they were Mrs. King men could daydream they were the secret agent and kids could daydream that their mom was a spy while they were at school.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="645" LastEditDate="2012-06-29T13:32:27.847" LastActivityDate="2012-06-29T13:32:27.847" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3065" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3104" CreationDate="2012-06-29T14:48:59.020" Score="16" ViewCount="1059" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/&quot;&gt;Donnie Darko&lt;/a&gt;, Donnie occasionally talks with Frank, who we end up finding out at the end of the film is a guy that Donnie shot because he accidentally ran over his girlfriend.  Is Frank a manifestation of Donnie's consience, having premonitioned what was going to happen in the future?  If not, what was Frank supposed to be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2016-10-27T10:15:13.843" Title="What was Frank?" Tags="|analysis|donnie-darko|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3066" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3067" CreationDate="2012-06-29T18:38:47.990" Score="33" ViewCount="28961" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QCr38.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Throughout Seinfeld, Jerry and Newman have an adversarial relationship, marked by the infamous exchange of &quot;Hello, Jerry&quot; &quot;Hello, &lt;em&gt;Newman&lt;/em&gt;.&quot; While at times they get along (In &quot;The Barber,&quot; (S5E8) Jerry allows Newman to use his bathroom and invites him to watch Edward Scissorhands with him), or work together (In &quot;The Andrea Doria,&quot; (S8E10) Jerry helps Newman deliver mail on his route so that Newman can get a promotion to the Hawaii so he'll move away from Jerry), the general dynamic of the relationship never changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why do Jerry and Newman dislike each other?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="850" LastEditDate="2012-06-29T18:45:23.380" LastActivityDate="2017-03-15T09:45:24.973" Title="Why do Jerry and Newman dislike each other?" Tags="|character|seinfeld|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3066" CreationDate="2012-06-29T18:55:48.097" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason for the animosity is never revealed explicitly on the show, however, Jerry Seinfeld gave a reason in commentary to the DVDs as explained in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman_(Seinfeld)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Newman (Seinfeld) Wikipedia entry&lt;/a&gt; under &lt;em&gt;Personality&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When asked about why the character Jerry hates Newman, Jerry Seinfeld&#xA;  explained it in the Season 3 DVD inside look of the show:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He was the first person on the show, &lt;strong&gt;my own show&lt;/strong&gt;, who was coming&#xA;  on to sabotage me in some way. And so why would I not hate him forever&#xA;  for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2015-08-21T19:22:13.770" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T19:22:13.770" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3068" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3206" CreationDate="2012-06-29T20:03:12.823" Score="12" ViewCount="4379" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 1, Episode 7, there is funny, heart-warming bar scene between McNulty and Bunk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're both drunk and McNulty's laying on all kinds of compliments.  Then he closes with &quot;you know why I respect you so much, Bunk?....It's because when it came time for you to fuck me, you were very gentle.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hfIaV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is this conversation referring too?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T00:38:55.103" Title="How did Bunk cross McNulty?" Tags="|the-wire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1468" CreationDate="2012-06-29T21:13:17.390" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to be an amalgamation of agreements between the various guilds: the screen actors guilds, the screen writers guild, and directors guild.  These aren't set in stone and there are many different variations to opening credits.  Wikipedia has a pretty good article on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opening_credits&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Opening Credits on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2012-06-30T20:04:54.577" LastActivityDate="2012-06-30T20:04:54.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3071" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14284" CreationDate="2012-06-30T00:46:30.227" Score="11" ViewCount="42943" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1605630/&quot;&gt;American Reunion (2012)&lt;/a&gt;, we learn that Jim's mom is dead. Is there any info or clue in the movie about how she died?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastActivityDate="2016-07-14T02:22:54.880" Title="How did Jim's mom die?" Tags="|american-reunion|american-pie|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3071" CreationDate="2012-06-30T02:40:18.187" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;None at all. No mention is made of her cause of death in the film, and I've yet to dig up any official sources that state the reason for her demise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-06-30T02:40:18.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3074" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3075" CreationDate="2012-06-30T06:02:22.607" Score="12" ViewCount="337" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The South Indian Tamil Movie, 'Mankatha' why is the colour of blood shown to be Green in the main character's imagination?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is miles far from anything related to Science Fiction or Fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T00:40:31.790" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T00:41:39.400" Title="Green Colour of Blood in &quot;Mankatha&quot;" Tags="|production|mankatha|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3074" CreationDate="2012-06-30T15:52:33.143" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The green blood is to ease the violence level because they didn't want to make it a bloody mess for the kids viewing the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see that information on all over the fans and review sites for the movie, for example in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ajithfans.com/media/media-news/2011/09/01/mankatha-movie-review-by-arun-guhan-fans-share/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mankatha movie Review by Arun Guhan&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T00:41:39.400" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T00:41:39.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="960" CreationDate="2012-06-30T16:29:46.977" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the bridge symbolizes the inability to get past something. Melancholia is coming, and there is no way of stopping it, or passing it, you can only accept it. The bridge is something that can only be accepted, and it cannot be crossed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1602" LastActivityDate="2012-06-30T16:29:46.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3077" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3079" CreationDate="2012-06-30T20:12:35.713" Score="5" ViewCount="768" Body="&lt;p&gt;At some time in the 80s I've seen part of a movie of which I don't know the name. Since I couldn't see it to the end, since then I've always wondered how it continues (and also what was in the jacket; see below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie starts with a cat, and some girl's voice saying &quot;help me&quot;. The cat gets then caught and ends up at an anti-smoking  organization, and the movie then focuses at a man consulting the organization. That organization has some &quot;electro-cage&quot;, which they demonstrate with the cat, and which makes whoever is inside &quot;dance&quot; through electric shocks. They say that it the man smokes again, they'll put his wife into that cage, if it happens again, his daughter, and if it happens yet again, they'll send someone to rape his wife. To the question of what happens if he smokes yet again afterwards, he opened his jacket, but I couldn't recognize what was inside; it must have been something that answered the question. The man tries not to smoke, but ultimately fails to do so, and they put his wife in the cage. Then the cat escapes, and the voice of the girl again says &quot;help me&quot;. That's the part of the movie I've seen. While the smoking story seemed like it ended, the &quot;help me&quot; afterwards makes me believe that this wasn't the end of the movie (that is, the part I've not seen is probably more than just the closing credits).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it's so long ago, I might mis-remember some detail. However I know that it was played from a video tape (can't tell if it was recorded from TV, or a bought tape).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody know that movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1490" LastActivityDate="2012-06-30T21:05:07.060" Title="Movie with a cat and an anti-smoking organisation?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:37:17.557" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3078" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3080" CreationDate="2012-06-30T20:22:40.407" Score="23" ViewCount="51808" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the climax of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162222/&quot;&gt;Cast Away&lt;/a&gt;, Chuck (Tom Hanks) writes a note on the Fedex box which states that this package has saved his life. How exactly did that package save his life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I am correct, he never opens that package during the course of the film. Does it mean that he wants to deliver that package, which gives him a reason to live? Or have I missed something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="937" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-24T11:51:24.840" LastActivityDate="2022-02-08T02:40:31.297" Title="How did the package save his life?" Tags="|analysis|cast-away|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3077" CreationDate="2012-06-30T21:05:07.060" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film is &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088889/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cat's Eye&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; from 1985.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As soon as I saw the words 'cat' and 'cigarettes' I knew you were talking about one of my guilty pleasures from the mid-eighties ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the IMDb page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Three horror-thriller tales revolve around a mysterious stray cat which is attempting to find a little girl in trouble. In &quot;Quitters, Inc.&quot;: the cat is picked up by a shady New York &quot;doctor&quot; who uses experimental techniques to get people to quit smoking. His latest client is a man named Morrison, who learns he'll suffer some terrible consequences if he tries to cheat.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XJllD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-06-30T21:05:07.060" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3078" CreationDate="2012-06-30T21:11:58.207" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;You pretty much answered your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The package that Tom Hanks' character held onto throughout his ordeal was the one thing keeping him going. His determination to see the package delivered gave him a purpose in life and, even though it seems trivial in nature, sometimes even the smallest goals can give people in trouble the strength to carry on and survive their predicaments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-06-30T21:11:58.207" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3081" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-06-30T22:22:34.110" Score="9" ViewCount="2063" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Laurel &amp;amp; Hardy movie (or episode, if you will) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020698/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blotto&lt;/strong&gt; (1930)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, in the first scene, Stan is reading a hebrew newspaper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KMsUg.png&quot; alt=&quot;Hebrew newspaper&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I was wondering, why a hebrew newspaper? Is there any reason and purpose for this, or has it got any meaning? I couldn't spot anything in the movie that this is a reference to or anything... I can guess it's some sort of a 'random' joke that really doesn't have a special meaning or purpose, yet I'm eager to find out if this is the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="461" LastEditorUserId="461" LastEditDate="2016-08-03T08:01:16.497" LastActivityDate="2016-08-03T08:01:16.497" Title="Hebrew newspaper in Laurel &amp; Hardy's Blotto?" Tags="|props|laurel-and-hardy|blotto|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3082" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3896" CreationDate="2012-07-01T00:16:44.207" Score="12" ViewCount="23018" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching Johnny Bravo when I was a kid and through out the series he is portrayed as a macho narcissistic guy trying to hit on women all the time and fail miserably. I never did get a chance to get through the series completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r3bCF.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does he find true love/get a girl friend at any part in the series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T14:55:37.970" Title="Does Johnny Bravo Ever get a girlfriend?" Tags="|johnny-bravo|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3081" CreationDate="2012-07-01T00:40:19.910" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the joke is that he is presumed not to be able to read Hebrew, so this signifies that he is only pretending to read the newspaper. It could have been any other language, but one which uses a different alphabet makes it more obvious, and it may be that at the time the only choices most Americans would recognize would be Hebrew and possibly Russian, although since this is pre-Cold War, even that might be a stretch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastActivityDate="2012-07-01T00:40:19.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3084" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-01T01:42:26.297" Score="9" ViewCount="518" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093223/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;House of Games&lt;/a&gt;, the Lindsay Crouse character (psychiatrist Margaret Ford) seems to be unaware of her being the mark until the red convertible shows up unexpectantly. She then performs a rudimentary investigation by visiting the tavern and overhears the recap of the con by Mike (Joe Mantegna) and this co-conspirators that solidifies her suspicions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect she knew she was the mark much earlier than that, since it would be much too difficult to devise a counter-con (the elements in parens below) that quickly. It was already night when she heard the conversation, had to develop a plan before 10 PM, and execute it at the airport:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bank story and a bag with ($250,000 cash),&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;A convincing story of being followed (&quot;I'm frightened all the time&quot;),&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;The gun had to have bullets (Did her suicidal &quot;patient&quot; really give her a loaded gun?),&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;The accusation and (her confidence in Mike's bravado - false or otherwise),&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Mike turns against her because of her (&quot;crap out of turn&quot;),&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&quot;You're all bluff&quot; - (&quot;It's not my pistol, I was never here&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how early in this counter-con did Margaret know she would kill Mike?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2013-04-13T19:44:37.587" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T00:46:30.023" Title="When did Margaret Ford know she was going to kill Mike?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|house-of-games|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3085" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-07-01T02:44:49.497" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-07-01T02:44:49.497" LastActivityDate="2012-07-01T02:44:49.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3086" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-07-01T02:44:49.497" Score="0" Body="Questions related to the David Mamet written and directed mystery crime thriller concerning the psychology behind grifters and their cons." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-07-01T02:44:49.497" LastActivityDate="2012-07-01T02:44:49.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2953" CreationDate="2012-07-01T06:43:01.023" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My take is that the black DNA-altering ooze transforms whatever it contacts into a gnarlier version of the original, e.g., the worms in the soil in the room give rise to the swimming alien worms  of unusual size in the black liquid on the floor.  The concept of the sealed door to the room halting all biological processes until it is opened makes sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1605" LastActivityDate="2012-07-01T06:43:01.023" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2932" CreationDate="2012-07-01T08:03:16.073" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the article &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.carleton.edu/curricular/MEDA/classes/media110/Fitch.removed/Articles/paper.html&quot;&gt;Lighting and Meaning in Kurosawa's &lt;em&gt;Rashomon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot; by Asa Fitch (1998):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The effect of pointing the camera right at the sun in this scene and in others is an innovation in cinematography. Until Rashomon was made, pointing the camera directly at the sun was unheard of. It did not occur to anyone that pointing the camera at the sun would do anything more than burn the eyes. Rashomon proved this wrong. &quot;These days it is not uncommon to point the camera directly at the sun, but at the time Rashomon was being made it was still one of the taboos of cinematography.&quot; (Autobiography, 185)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Autobiography refers to Akira Kurosawa. Something Like an Autobiography. Trans. Audie Bock. New York: Random House, 1983.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Upon further research) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/196-akira-kurosawa-on-rashomon&quot;&gt;Here is a fuller quote from Kurosawa&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I had to be sure that this huge gate looked huge to the camera. And I had to figure out how to use the sun itself. This was a major concern because of the decision to use the light and shadows of the forest as the keynote of the whole film. I determined to solve the problem by actually filming the sun. These days it is not uncommon to point the camera directly at the sun, but at the time Rashomon was being made it was still one of the taboos of cinematography. It was even thought that the sun’s rays shining directly into your lens would burn the film in your camera. But my cameraman, Miyagawa Kazuo, boldly defied this convention and created superb images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T14:26:28.407" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T14:26:28.407" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3091" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3095" CreationDate="2012-07-01T08:36:42.613" Score="7" ViewCount="2995" Body="&lt;p&gt;An Indian taxi driver told me about this movie, but I forgot the movie name&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found the plot to be very interesting. It is an Indian movie, about someone who report his well being stolen. The entire village being bribed to confirm that this guy had a well but lost it in the following morning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to watch it but can't find any clue from Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the name of this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1607" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-07-01T11:20:57.483" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T11:50:31.613" Title="Identify this Indian movie about someone reporting his well being stolen" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:37:20.673" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3081" CreationDate="2012-07-01T09:22:18.547" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was typical at the time to film movies in more than one language. &lt;em&gt;Blotto&lt;/em&gt; was simultaneously filmed in French and Spanish. Anita Garvin, who plays Stan's wife, is replaced by Spanish and French actresses in those versions of the film. Perhaps the choice of newspaper was an attempt to find a visual joke that would work in more than one country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This excerpt from an article on Leo McCarey (who wrote &lt;em&gt;Blotto&lt;/em&gt;) by film historian Richard W.Bann suggests it may be a carryover from McCarey's other work at the time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;One of McCarey's first projects as production supervisor was to develop a series of Max Davidson comedies. Somehow, McCarey's Irish heritage helped him see the possibilities for Jewish humor surrounding Max Davidson as a beseiged, henpecked husband at the mercy of his family. And what a family.&#xA;Rich in visual gags and situational humor, the Max Davidson comedies written, supervised, or directed by Leo McCarey remain among the funniest - and also the most unsung - of all silent short subject films.&#xA;Born in Berlin, Max Davidson's brief series ended only when ethnic humor temporarily fell out of favour. One reason it fell out of favour was quite simply that the Jews who ran Hollywood were embarrassed by what they considered to be stereotypes. Seen even today, the little comedian's material is basically inoffensive and quite restrained.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.laurel-and-hardy.com/archive/articles/1998-10-mccarey-long.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.laurel-and-hardy.com/archive/articles/1998-10-mccarey-long.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-07-01T09:22:18.547" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3093" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3105" CreationDate="2012-07-01T09:31:07.587" Score="6" ViewCount="1377" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S7E3 &quot;Decision 3012&quot;, a man from the future travels back in time to stop Nixon winning the election. Since he defeats Nixon, there is no need for him to return to his own time. He never does and the episode ends showing Nixon winning the election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because Nixon has now won, shouldn't the man from the future travel back again and win the election? It looks like him travelling back in time causes a loop but the show just ended with Nixon winning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is what happened in the show what should've happened or is just Futurama trying to make time travel less paradoxical?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-29T16:46:15.090" LastActivityDate="2016-04-26T20:51:37.627" Title="Time travel paradox in Futurama" Tags="|plot-explanation|futurama|time-travel|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3091" CreationDate="2012-07-01T14:38:44.660" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Must be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_Done_Abba&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Well done Abba&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On seeing the words &lt;em&gt;well&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;stolen&lt;/em&gt;. That's the first one that came to my mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though the well being stolen isn't the crux of the story, its a part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a Hindi movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HS6J4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user96" LastActivityDate="2012-07-01T14:38:44.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3097" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3099" CreationDate="2012-07-01T16:19:56.523" Score="11" ViewCount="2924" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you help me identify the movie where a computer, an artificial intelligence, dies and makes all phones on Earth ring in unison at the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a list of memories I have from this movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Computer falls in love with computer scientist's girlfriend&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Computer competes for love of girl&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Computer scientist walks down stairs with girlfriend held off the ground in his arms trying to hide her escape from the computer, but the computer senses the weight difference from the sound and detects what is happening&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Computer makes a love song and performs it for the girl&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Computer's love song shows lack of understanding love, and comes off sounding very technical, for lack of better way of describing it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Computer eventually commits suicide by making an electric surge hit itself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Computer makes all phones in the world ring in unison to signal its death&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may be off on some of these points. In fact the phones all ringing in unison might be from a different movie, such as The Lawnmower Man. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1582" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-04T06:51:29.300" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T12:17:18.483" Title="A.I. dies and makes all phones on Earth ring in unison at the end" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:37:26.930" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3097" CreationDate="2012-07-01T16:48:23.080" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Dreams_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Electric Dreams&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1984)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u9OMo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Electric Dreams&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thevine.com.au/entertainment/movies/electric-dreams-dvd-review/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Electric Dreams&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1984 British-American comedy/drama/romance/science fiction film set in San Francisco, California, that depicts a love triangle between a man, a woman, and a home computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The ending isn't &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;cell phones&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; but a song played on radios all over America.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek08KvgqFGM&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trailer&lt;/a&gt; (YouTube)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JLW58pABOM&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ending Scene&lt;/a&gt; (YouTube)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-07-01T17:05:09.580" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3101" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3102" CreationDate="2012-07-01T18:34:00.480" Score="19" ViewCount="1806" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Community&lt;/em&gt; season 3 episode 12 'Contemporary Impressionists', when Troy returns to his flat and sees Abed sat down with a leg cast, he fears the worst and then a Robin Williams lookalike appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Troy then goes to his blanket bedroom and says &quot;Get out!&quot; and four lookalikes appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last two are clearly Julia Roberts and Tom Cruise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But who are the first two characters (on the left in the picture) supposed to be and what films are they from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S9grK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Three men standing in front of Abed&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2017-03-13T19:44:36.280" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T19:44:36.280" Title="Who are the look-alikes hired by Abed supposed to be?" Tags="|plot-explanation|reference|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3101" CreationDate="2012-07-01T19:17:56.980" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The guy holding two lobsters is Woody Allen playing the part of Alvy Singer from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075686/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Annie Hall&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HldsU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Woody Allen&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second guy is Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XAAsI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Roy Batty&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-07-01T19:17:56.980" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="290" CreationDate="2012-07-01T19:51:58.723" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think she's a little more Columbo than Mason (and I just happened to reach it as I also have a copy). I think she is flattered when Mike calls her because she makes a side trip to meet him while on business in the Twin Cities, and when she goes into the restraunt to meet him for lunch, she makes a point of straightening out her clothes (the most feminine and prettiest wardrobe she wears in the whole movie) and smooths her hair. She's obviously happy to see him and called him back to make the date as she got the restraunt info from the hotel staff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although her husband Norm is sweet and attentive, he does seem a little dull and at 6 months 7 months pregnant, Marge may also be looking for a little validation. But, she's quick enough to pick up on Mike's insecurities and talk with her girlfriend to uncover the truth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think what leads her to Jerry's office is simply a follow-up question on the Dealer plates questions. The car must have been stolen from a dealership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the end, she got her man!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1609" LastActivityDate="2012-07-01T19:51:58.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3065" CreationDate="2012-07-01T20:13:49.387" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real-life &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/faq#.2.1.70&quot;&gt;Frank&lt;/a&gt; that runs over Donnie's girlfriend is Elizabeth's (Donnie's sister) boyfriend. We see him drive past Donnie at the start of the movie after dropping her off at home shortly before the engine crashes into the house. You can see this sequence of events more clearly at the end of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Frank that Donnie speaks to throughout the movie is a Messenger sent to warn Donnie of the impending end of the world. The characters that are killed in the alternate universe are manipulated by whomever is helping Donnie save the world. They are known as Manipulated Dead and are briefly explained in the book from the director's cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1548" LastActivityDate="2012-07-01T20:13:49.387" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3093" CreationDate="2012-07-01T20:14:21.100" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the two standard ways of resolving time travel paradoxes are the consistent universe and the split timeline solutions. In the consistent universe solution the time traveller could not have managed to defeat Nixon in the first place, so that can be ruled out. Therefore the split timeline solution would apply. In the many worlds solution, by travelling back in time, he created a new branch of the time line, in which he arrives in the past, defeats Nixon, but doesn't travel back. The time line where he doesn't arrive in the past, but travels back exists &quot;parallel&quot; to the other one. Therefore in the split timeline resolution, there would be two timelines, one where Nixon won, and one where he didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the two timelines in some sense form a common causal loop (although saying Nixon won &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; the man didn't travel back is a bit of a stretch), one sees the story line following one full iteration of that loop (which involves &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; times jumping back to the past; once with the time traveller, and once where there is no time travelling). Of course a loop (even if it is a double loop) doesn't have a natural end (i.e. as you correctly noticed, after Nixon winning, you could have followed the time traveller travelling back in time and defeating Nixon again), after having shown the full loop once, there's nothing new (you'd just see a repeat of the exact same events you've seen previously).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course if you want a more &quot;realistic&quot; view of the causal loop, nobody hinders you from watching the episode repeatedly in an endless loop. :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1490" LastActivityDate="2012-07-01T20:14:21.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1012" CreationDate="2012-07-01T20:29:26.553" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a definitive answer, but perhaps a clue can be found in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/michael-richards-2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview with Michael Richards&lt;/a&gt; where he claims that the version of events in &lt;em&gt;Man on the Moon&lt;/em&gt; was not correct. Three excerpts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Richards: Yeah, and in the movie, &quot;Man in the Moon,&quot; that's not&#xA;  correct. That's not how it happened because the network didn't really&#xA;  know about it either. No one, as a matter of fact, knew about it,&#xA;  except Jack Burns, myself, Andy, and one of the other producers, John&#xA;  Moffet. The cast did not know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Paulson: He must have trusted you to let you in on it or to make you a&#xA;  member of the — of the skit. Did Jack Burns approach you, or did Andy&#xA;  Kaufman come to you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Richards: No, we came up with it together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Paulson: Oh, really?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Richards: We were tossing it about, yeah, 'cause Andy wanted to do&#xA;  something interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Paulson: So what was your take on &quot;Man in the Moon&quot; overall? Was that&#xA;  90% right, based on what you knew?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Richards: 90? Yeah. I can't say. I know too many people associated&#xA;  with it. I mean, I think it could've been more accurate, but then, on&#xA;  the other hand, there's much in it that's — it's useful if you&#xA;  understand the — the premise, Andy's premise as a comic. He was out to&#xA;  fool everyone, and most everything was fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T08:17:39.893" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T08:17:39.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2571" CreationDate="2012-07-01T20:55:21.607" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;em&gt;Charlie Kaufman: Confessions of an Original Mind&lt;/em&gt;, p.138 (by Doreen Alexander Child)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The character's name, Sammy Barnathan, may be a clever play on the&#xA;  name of a Rabbi in the Talmud. Rabbi Samuel bar Nathan had a prayer&#xA;  leader removed from guiding a religious service because of his&#xA;  excessive bowing. This overly submissive posture greatly angered the&#xA;  Rabbi, and in turn he fired the cantor from his position. Tom Noonan's&#xA;  character Sammy essentially fires Caden from this life as his&#xA;  passivity is unacceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-07-01T20:55:21.607" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3108" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3444" CreationDate="2012-07-01T23:27:41.513" Score="2" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did the production team get a chance to wrap up the Story arcs or were there major plot point left unfinished that they intended to finish in subsequent seasons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="310" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-07-02T18:50:07.813" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T15:54:58.823" Title="Does the single season of Flash Forward manage to finish up plot points?" Tags="|production|flash-forward|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3109" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-02T03:48:05.867" Score="7" ViewCount="562" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0936501/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Taken&lt;/em&gt; (2008)&lt;/a&gt; again, and I'm at the infamous &quot;particular set of skills&quot; speech. I just realized he says &quot;...I can tell you I don't have money...&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His wife's new husband is portrayed as an obvious millionaire and this guy just blew the chance that he could get his daughter back by offering them the husband's money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone think of any sort of logic or reasoning behind this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="945" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2017-12-13T14:08:45.240" LastActivityDate="2017-12-13T19:35:21.913" Title="Taken - &quot;I can tell you I don't have money&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|taken|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3091" CreationDate="2012-07-02T09:31:39.567" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The name of the movie is Saluun.&#xA;But i think the movie did not release at the box office due to some reasons.&#xA;Moreover i could not even find it online also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1611" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-04-19T11:50:31.613" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T11:50:31.613" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3109" CreationDate="2012-07-02T12:30:04.850" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you admit to having money the kidnappers have a reason to keep her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I have a lot of money and a set of -&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Send it to us or we will kill her&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;hang on, I was saying I have a set of unique -&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;We want 10 million dollars or we kill her tomorrow &lt;em&gt;click - brrrrrr&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I will find you and I will .... hello - hello?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*kinappers triple the guard on the hostage who they now know is valuable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way he plays it there is no benefit to keeping her and potentially a lot of trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="1501" LastEditDate="2012-07-02T13:25:48.970" LastActivityDate="2012-07-02T13:25:48.970" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2090" CreationDate="2012-07-02T19:35:43.083" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cooper’s reaction indicates that it did not come from the CIA, and the only other agency there was the FBI. Since it was not likely to be Frank, Sarah, Victoria, etc., it points to the FBI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem of course is that just because Cooper called for hold-fire, does not mean that someone else from the CIA couldn’t have done it. As you suggested, it could have been another CIA agent working under direct orders from the higher-ups, working for his own agenda, or even just a case of nerves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Dunning probably has some more guards and could have tripped some sort of alarm to send for reinforcements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything about that scene (especially the slow-motion and muted sound) make it clear that the shot is supposed to be dramatic and mysterious, so we are not really meant to know for sure. Plus, don’t forget that the scene leads immediately to an action escape, so the viewer is probably not meant to dwell on the facts and that scene served as a sort of transition to &#xA;their unlikely escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastActivityDate="2012-07-02T19:35:43.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3109" CreationDate="2012-07-02T19:47:06.877" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has been on my mind all day and a few things occurred to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before Bryan said the line, the abductor had been on the phone for several seconds, so if it was a kidnapping, he had plenty of opportunity to demand a ransom. This leaves likely possible scenarios:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The abductor is just some petty thug, some muscle hired to do the actual kidnapping, and the guys boss would later contact them to demand a ransom&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The abduction has nothing to do with ransom, in which case it is likely to be either:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something nasty with rape and murder&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kidnapping for use in sex-trafficking&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is the first case and the guy was just a petty thug, then Bryan’s threat had a small, but decent chance of scaring the guy into abandoning the kidnapping and running away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is not about ransom and it was the first sub case, then Kim was as good as dead by the time that Bryan has a chance to even get to France. In this case, skip to the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is the second sub case (sex-trafficking), then he knows that even if they treat her like crap, they are going to keep her alive since they don’t usually cater to necrophiliacs. Remember that Bryan is a retired CIA agent so regardless of what department he was in, he has likely learned quite a bit about the sex-trafficking “industry” and how it works. He likely understood that they would be somewhat professional and thus, prefer to just rent her out or sell her than to attempt to arrange a likely-to-fail ransom exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Either way, he had nothing left to lose (his ex-wife is married to another man, he is retired, and now his daughter has been kidnapped). What else is he going to do now, read the Harry Potter books? Of course not; he has nothing to lose and nothing to do anymore, so he may as well spend the rest of his life tracking her down if possible and hunting the kidnappers down and killing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No doubt that at the back of his mind, he considered that he may very well never see her again. He is not the type of person to play the victim and just roll over, so he of course he wants to pull a &lt;em&gt;Ransom&lt;/em&gt; and fight back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that warning them was bad. He may be around the world, but by telling them that he’s got skills and connections and is coming for them, he puts them on high-alert, especially with her. However, don’t forget that no matter how well he is trained to contain his emotions, his child was just abducted, so he feels fear and rage and cannot just think through every single angle and action in a couple of seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastActivityDate="2012-07-02T19:47:06.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="315" CreationDate="2012-07-02T23:13:42.057" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Laurel &amp;amp; Hardy's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023950/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dirty Work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; has a scene where Oliver turns into a monkey and talks. Not sure if it's the first one, but it sure is an early one (1933).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="461" LastEditorUserId="461" LastEditDate="2017-01-26T16:52:59.620" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T16:52:59.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="315" CreationDate="2012-07-03T00:59:14.650" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Predating all of the above, but not necessarily considered features (if the length of the film is of concern) the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogville_Comedies&quot;&gt;Dogville Comedies&lt;/a&gt; featured talking dogs in a variety of situations.&#xA;These shorts began being shown in 1929, not long after the advent of sound in motion pictures.&#xA;These can often be seen on TCM, or you can can see an example &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/L4-EFOEmfi0&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; on Youtube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-07-03T00:59:14.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1427" CreationDate="2012-07-03T05:39:25.533" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is possible. According to this article, Alexander Sokurov's &lt;em&gt;Faust&lt;/em&gt; (2011) was filmed entirely through a &quot;color filter that lends it a faded tone, tending towards blues and greys and very, very stark whites.&quot; The film won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. The film may have been changed further through CGI, but this example answers the first part of your question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zapadnik.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/alexander-sokurovs-faust/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://zapadnik.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/alexander-sokurovs-faust/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen some references to the move &lt;em&gt;Safe House&lt;/em&gt; being shot with colored filters, but I have not been able to confirm with an authoritative source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2012-07-03T06:15:34.130" LastActivityDate="2012-07-03T06:15:34.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2012-07-03T08:40:17.557" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the engineers that we saw weren't the true engineers but slaves/robots.  The real engineers in fact look identical to us.  The slaves/robots were built to be bigger so they have the necessary strength to carry out difficult tasks.  The engineer we saw at the beginning was a slave/robot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then 2000 years ago there was a revolt by the slaves against their masters.  Once the universe was populated by many Earth-like planets supporting humans.  The slaves rebelled and destroyed these populations.  Only one Earth remains.  That is us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1618" LastActivityDate="2012-07-03T08:40:17.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3127" CreationDate="2012-07-03T09:39:54.373" Score="8" ViewCount="723" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was this series which I saw during the 90s in which there are 4 to 8 survivors after a nuclear war. the survivors consisted of elderly as well as young people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all I remember about the series (since I was only a child) but yes in 1 episode they decide to have a &lt;em&gt;currency&lt;/em&gt; and they use some shredded paper as currency which starts conflicts and rivalries to the extent that by the end of the episode they decide not to introduce money in their &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; society and dump all the currency into a well!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1495" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-24T15:59:59.493" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T15:59:59.493" Title="Post-apocalyptic survivors and shredded paper as currency" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|comedy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:52:18.520" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3126" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19124" CreationDate="2012-07-03T12:51:41.753" Score="4" ViewCount="8754" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the ending of the movie, the plan seemed to centre on the main character following the terrorist's van, then losing sight of it in the street and accidentally following the wrong van.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have I missed something? How could the terrorists possibly have predicted this would happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="118" LastEditDate="2012-07-04T16:40:55.857" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T08:52:57.950" Title="The plan in Arlington Road" Tags="|plot-explanation|arlington-road|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3125" CreationDate="2012-07-03T14:01:25.440" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;May it can be this one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103583/&quot;&gt;Woops! @ IMDB.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Synopsis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The series centered around the six survivors of a world nuclear&#xA;  holocaust. The six of them live together in an abandoned farm house&#xA;  while trying to survive and re-establish civilization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woops!#Synopsis&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1547" LastActivityDate="2012-07-03T14:01:25.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2775" CreationDate="2012-07-04T00:17:34.377" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my biggest problem with it: David knows absolutely nothing about the black goo. What would make him think that it could create, change, preserve, whatever, human life? I mean, if you happened to come across a bunch of black goo would your first thought be to feed it to some animals. Even if it contains a bunch of nutrients, eating an egg doesn't cause a chicken to start growing in my body. So he just comes up with this alien virus/embryo idea out of nowhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only that, but they have an awesome lab there, why doesn't he just use that to run some experiments on it? Why doesn't he work with the other scientists to find out more about it? Surely that would aid the old man just as much if not more than david working alone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you make the argument that he is just following orders, that just shifts the blame from him to the old man. It doesn't really change the fact that his motives make no sense whatsoever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1622" LastActivityDate="2012-07-04T00:17:34.377" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3130" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3134" CreationDate="2012-07-04T01:54:14.147" Score="21" ViewCount="82672" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did not understand this bit of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; S02E10. I thought Doreah chose to be with Xaro Xhoan Daxos to save Daenerys life? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Daenerys somehow felt betrayed and sentenced her to death inside the giant vault along with Xaro Xhoan. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-14T18:09:07.930" LastActivityDate="2019-02-03T11:37:05.997" Title="Why did Daenerys Targaryen feel betrayed by Doreah?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="481" CreationDate="2012-07-04T05:17:48.813" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The name is an anagram&quot; doesn't refer to Tannis root. It refers to Roman Castavet. Recall when Rosemary uses Scrabble tiles to figure out Roman Castevet is really Steven Marcato.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tannis root, with its mystic/magic property and bad smell, is simply a clever plot device used by author Ira Levin to demonstrate the power of the devil worshipers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1624" LastActivityDate="2012-07-04T05:17:48.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3130" CreationDate="2012-07-04T06:51:52.097" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's see the situation from Daenerys's eyes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She returns to the palace to find many of her men and a faithful handmaiden (Irri) dead. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not only that, but her precious dragons, her &lt;em&gt;babies&lt;/em&gt;, missing. Her other trusted handmaiden (Doreah) is also missing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She spends many days, nervous and afraid, as she looks for the missing dragons.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once she finally finds out where they are hidden she has to go through an extremely dangerous and stressful ordeal (the House of the Undying) in order to get them back.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When she figures out that Xaro Xohan Daxos was responsible for the kidnapping in the first place, she also finds out that Doreah is safe and sound and in his company.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dany deduces that Doreah had sold her out to Xaro in order to keep herself safe and win the wealthy man's favor.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Doreah protests that she all did it to keep Dany safe, but at this point of time she only has Doreah's word that this is true, and Dany has no reason to believe her at that moment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, the whole ordeal has made Dany a less trusting person (the lesson she thanks Xaro for), and now sees Doreah as a traitor who deserves death. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Doreah &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; do what she did to save Dany's life? Perhaps. But the price (the death of Irri and the kidnapping of the dragons) was too high to justify it in Dany's eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, in a deleted scene it is revealed that Doreah herself killed Irri with a strangling cord when Irri walked in to find the dragons in cages, so it is truly a life for a life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-06-28T14:29:28.160" LastActivityDate="2016-06-28T14:29:28.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3135" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3154" CreationDate="2012-07-04T12:35:06.307" Score="20" ViewCount="55831" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Deer Hunter&lt;/em&gt; begins with an hour long act in which there is a young couple getting married in an elaborate Russian Orthodox ceremony and reception rolled into a bit of a sendoff party for Michael (Robert DeNiro), Nicky (Christopher Walken), and Steven (John Savage, also the groom) before they are sent over to Vietnam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The significance of the Russian-American culture in the film is a bit elusive, but given the length of the sequence, must be quite important to the writers.  I can't tell if this backdrop was used due to a prevalence of Russian ethnicity in the Western Pennsylvania steel towns, or if it was meant to forge some kind of a connection to the &quot;Russian Roulette&quot; which played an important role in the wartime sequences and especially in the conclusion of the film with Nicky's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the significance of this choice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-07-04T17:22:21.137" LastActivityDate="2020-02-09T10:51:47.227" Title="What was the significance of the Russian cultural backdrop in &quot;The Deer Hunter&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-deer-hunter|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1427" CreationDate="2012-07-04T16:25:25.437" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1958 film &lt;em&gt;South Pacific&lt;/em&gt; made extensive use of colored filters and the result was so irritating that it probably scared other filmmakers away from the technique for decades.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_(film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_(film&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article is ambiguous but I believe the filters were applied in post-production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastActivityDate="2012-07-04T16:25:25.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3137" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-04T19:05:27.167" Score="5" ViewCount="2752" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is about a few prisoners that are transported in a small van in to the country side, they managed to let the van stop and kill the cops with a big rock on his head (you see a dent in the head I remember)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this they find a small wooden house in the mountains on a grassy area (not in dense woods). There is a Christian family in the house that are cannibals and try to eat/kill the prisoners.  They had a cross above their door. They invited the prisoners in and made them comfortable, but turned cannibalistic on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie around 2007 on DVD. I think it is American but I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea of the name. It is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; one of the following:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wrong Turn 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;House of 1000 Corpses&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Hills Have Eyes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you found a possible title I might be wrong because some parts are faded or I mixed up another movie. But the most important is that wooden house in the mountain area with some cannibals living in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1626" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-01-01T19:01:39.853" LastActivityDate="2016-03-07T20:46:57.523" Title="Horror movie about prisoners encountering Christian cannibals" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:37:33.183" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3141" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3144" CreationDate="2012-07-04T23:02:54.070" Score="8" ViewCount="1939" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching America's Got Talent last night, and during the opening credits was struck by the number of executive producers listed.  It seems to grow longer each year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are (from the official &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nbc.com/americas-got-talent/about/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;NBC site&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Executive producers: Simon Cowell, Cécile Frot-Coutaz, Ken Warwick, Jason Raff, and Georgie Hurford-Jones&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Co-executive producers: Nikki Boella, James McKinlay, Tabitha Hanson-Obtulowicz&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Executive in Charge of Production: Tiffany Hoss, Charlie Krestul&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I understand Simon Cowell and Cécile Frot-Coutaz.  He is head of the production company SYCO TV, and she is the CEO of FremantleMedia North America, which produce the show.   And Ken Warwick is an executive producer and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showrunner&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;showrunner&lt;/a&gt; for American Idol.  (Not clear if he is is also a showrunner at AGT.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But who are all these other seven EPs?  None of them have entries in Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_producer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;executive producer entry in Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; indicates there can be several types of executive producer: traditional EPs (production executives, financiers, etc.), head writer(s), and showrunner(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't see how there could be more than one head writer -- host Nick Cannon is the only one that appears to have a script.  AGT is making a ton of money, so it wouldn't seem there would need to be a lot of investors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do they really need ten chefs in the kitchen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2021-05-20T11:26:18.400" LastActivityDate="2021-05-20T11:26:18.400" Title="Why does America's Got Talent have so many executive producers?" Tags="|production|credits|americas-got-talent|producer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3141" CreationDate="2012-07-05T05:05:44.430" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;These days it is more common for people to 'buy' themselves  a credit on TV and film productions through financial backing, sponsorship or other enabling methods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Traditionally (at least on film), the executive producer(s) coughed up the money to get the production rolling - they generally wouldn't have any other impact on the production. Of course, there are a few horror stories about executive producers only providing finances on the proviso that their terrible niece got a role, or they could sit in on the set (and interfere).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of AGT, I suspect that this roster of EPs is made up mostly of financial backers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-07-05T05:05:44.430" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3146" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3163" CreationDate="2012-07-05T13:41:03.600" Score="20" ViewCount="8895" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently finishing up the book &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fight Club&lt;/a&gt; after being a fan of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; for so long.  While the movie retains most of the dialogue and several tones of the book, one giant contrast is now present to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book, the ending goes similar to how the movie occurs.  However, one glaring difference  is while in the movie, the Narrator shoots himself through the cheek, doing this kills Tyler, and he and Marla stand atop the building, watching the destruction caused by Project Mayhem in a seemingly (while twisted) peaceful ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book, however, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The Narrator shoots himself, but is then put &lt;strong&gt;into a mental health facility until the end of his days&lt;/strong&gt;. To me, this seems like a heavy contrast and much more depressing ending to the story compared with the movie version. Also in the book, there is &lt;strong&gt;more hostility towards the Narrator when he tries to stop Project Mayhem&lt;/strong&gt; while near the end of the movie, they seem to &quot;forgive&quot; him by bringing Marla to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason to these changes or documentation stating why Fincher decided to take these turns  with the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-11-23T23:03:29.887" LastActivityDate="2017-11-23T23:03:29.887" Title="Why did the ending change in the Fight Club adaptation?" Tags="|production|book-adaptation|fight-club|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3147" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3149" CreationDate="2012-07-05T17:54:22.057" Score="55" ViewCount="11022" Body="&lt;p&gt;My recollection of the prime-time television I watched growing up -- the 70s and 80s plus whatever were on at the time -- are almost invariably of episodic television. At the end of each episode, everything that had happened was completely and forgotten, and the show effectively &quot;reset&quot; for the next episode. This included not just the obvious sit-coms, but also dramatic shows like sci-fi, cop shows, etc. I don't remember any show that stands out as paying the least attention to &quot;continuity&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only deviation here were soap operas, which were just a bunch of overlapping, long-running storylines woven together, but those seemed to be the exception to the rule, and only a handful showed up on prime time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the late 90s it seemed like there was a change, to the point where everything &lt;em&gt;but&lt;/em&gt; sit-coms were more serialized. Episodes were still self-contained but also fit together into longer, multi-episode, season-wide or even multi-season story arcs. Things that happened in one episode would be written in to subsequent episodes on a regular basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some reason, the two shows that always stick in my brain when I think about this are &lt;em&gt;Golden Girls&lt;/em&gt; (one of the last shows I remember from living at home) vs. &lt;em&gt;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&lt;/em&gt; (one of the first shows I remember from living on my own.) and how dramatically different those shows treated continuity. These days, most dramatic television seems to make at least some effort to be internally consistent from show to show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I just mis-remembering the kind of TV that was popular up through the 90s? Were there a lot of quality serial-type shows on at that time that I just never saw or have since forgotten? Or was there really a shift in the type of programming that made it to prime time teleivsion, and if so, why did that happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also, I should point out that I'm specifically not counting things like major cast changes, which would be &lt;em&gt;impossible&lt;/em&gt; for a show to ignore, but rather that &lt;em&gt;events&lt;/em&gt; that happened in one episode are never brought up again, even when they would be relevant, or that there was no cross-episode plots that linked them together.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPATE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several comments have pointed out how much riskier serial dramas are than episodic ones from the network's perspective. That makes sense, especially when you factor in syndication deals later on. That might explain the my lack of memory of such dramas on television in previous decades. However, it doesn't explain why so many dramas on television &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt;  serialized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:23:47.237" LastActivityDate="2017-08-20T02:08:15.900" Title="When/Why did American television change from primarily episodic to primarily serialized?" Tags="|cinema-history|continuity|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3147" CreationDate="2012-07-05T18:12:03.213" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;What we remember is clouded by our age. My guess is that you were probably too young to watch it, but, I was able to find an early serialized medical drama called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nurses_%28CBS_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Nurses&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for CBS in 1962. It ran for 3 years, was nominated for Emmy awards for Primetime Drama, and was then carried to daytime soap from 1965 to 1967.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I believe that serialization of television defeats the primary purpose of television - the delivery of advertising, with interesting televised segments comprising a story between. But advertisers require a consistent audience, and will abandon shows they find delivers few viewers to sell to. Neilsen ratings support the sponsor by judging a show's popularity to deliver advertising consistently.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Since advertising is sold by the network, they have an interest too in the delivery of an appealing show, including repeats, to fill out the broadcast year. The serialization format places a demand on episodes to be run in order, without which story arcs stretching over many episodes may be difficult for new viewers to delve into, so it is likely to lose its audience unless they are very dedicated to the story.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Also, if you've spent the season watching it to the end, why would you repeat watching the show and all it revealed into the off-season?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-07-05T18:25:05.487" LastActivityDate="2012-07-05T18:25:05.487" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3147" CreationDate="2012-07-05T18:28:32.677" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would hazard a guess that, if you were a kid in the 70's/80's that you may just not have watched many of the serialized shows. (of course, I was a kid in the 80's and remember watching all of these...)  Off the top of my head, from the 80's, you've got:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hill Street Blues  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;St. Elsewhere  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cheers  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;M.A.S.H.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moonlighting  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Family Ties  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;L.A. Law&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These were all shows that had long story arcs and episodic consistency...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditDate="2013-04-22T09:20:48.480" LastActivityDate="2013-04-22T09:20:48.480" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1468" CreationDate="2012-07-05T18:38:06.960" Score="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rules for how the order of credits is produced is very long and convoluted. They also vary from show to show, so for any one &quot;rule of thumb&quot; it's almost guaranteed you can find an exception on the air right now on some channel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic guidelines that most shows follow most of the time are drawn from the rules for the various industry guilds. In the case of actors, that would be SAG (the WGA and DGA would determine how/when a writer or director get credited.) The Wikipedia articles linked in a few comments/answers gives a basic rundown of all the guild rules that have to be followed in the &quot;typical&quot; credits sequence. Note that movies opening and closing credit sequences differ a lot from television ones (in particular, you rarely see the name of the production company in a TV show's opening credits.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there's a lot of variation on the basic theme, because the placement and styling in the credits sequence is often part of an actor's individual contract with the studio. Studios will rearrange the credits or give certain actors special consideration in the credits as part of the negotiations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic flow of credits is as you mentioned: core actors first, followed by guest actors, followed by a handful of top-level production staff. In TV, it's rare to have a full set of closing credits the way you have in movies, where the entire cast would appear with their character names, for simple time reasons: they would take a really long time that could instead be used for commercials. (In fact, many networks now show split-screen closing credits side by side with a promo for the upcoming program.) So those credits are usually limited to production-level people and companies, copyright/legal notices, and other minutia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why&lt;/em&gt; a particular actor gets a particular spot in the credits is mostly a matter of PR, and explains some of the variations you mention in your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Being billed before the title is &quot;more prestigious&quot; than after the title; usually only the one or two top-tier stars will get this billing, if at all. In ensemble shows it's rare to see this type of split billing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Actors are generally billed in rough &quot;order of importance&quot; to the show.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Being billed &lt;em&gt;last&lt;/em&gt;, however, is also considered a key position, as long as it is somehow differentiated from the rest of the cast. For example, in the &lt;em&gt;Buffy&lt;/em&gt; TV show, Anthony Stewart Head (arguably the most &quot;famous&quot; cast member prior to the show) was billed as &quot;and Anthony Stewart Head as Giles&quot; - the only cast member whose character was named.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Since the opening credits are pre-recorded, typically only season regulars make it into the &quot;core&quot; credits sequence (think &quot;theme music&quot;) for shows that have them. Recurring guest stars are usually billed overtop of the opening scene, introduced with &quot;Also Starring&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Single-episode guest stars go last; depending on how famous/important they are, they may also get the &quot;as &lt;em&gt;charactername&lt;/em&gt;&quot; treatment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, having a unique style of credit (e.g. being specifically associated with a character) is a bonus given out to special guest stars and particularly important actors that lets them stand out from the rest of the cast. This is something a well-known or highly-priced actor would negotiate as a condition of their appearance. They even negotiate down to the exact wording, which can include &quot;guest&quot; vs. &quot;special guest&quot;, are they &quot;starring&quot; or &quot;appearing&quot;, etc (I have seen shows that had multiple guest stars, each billed slightly differently).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another key distinction to make is between series regulars and recurring guest stars. A series regular will still appear in the opening credits, and be given credit for the episode, even if they don't actually appear in the episode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general idea here is that a series regular, even if they aren't in a particular episode, is contractually required to &lt;em&gt;be available to appear&lt;/em&gt; in that episode. A recurring guest actor, on the other hand, is typically contracted to appear in only a specific number of episodes, and can usually skip a particular episode if they have prior commitments. A recurring guest star, with lower billing, may actually get more screen time than a series regular that gets top billing. This happened in &lt;em&gt;House&lt;/em&gt; in seasons 4-6, where Olivia Wilde, Kal Penn and Peter Jacobson were given lower &quot;Also Starring&quot; billing, while rarely-appearing Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer continued to be billed as series regulars. As always, this was entirely down to the contracts the latter two had with the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-11-16T07:45:42.387" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T07:45:42.387" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3147" CreationDate="2012-07-06T01:38:30.743" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no research for this one, but my own fuzzy memory would put the start of the shift to 1978 and the first prime-time soap opera, Dallas. It began as a 5-part miniseries and grew into a serial. It's popularity took off with the 1980 season-end cliffhanger &quot;Who shot JR?&quot; America was hooked. It was followed by a slew of other primetime soaps, and then other shows began to serialize to pull audiences back week after week. A successful serial is an advertiser's dream!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T01:38:30.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3153" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-06T02:43:24.897" Score="14" ViewCount="18080" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948470/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/a&gt;, in the post credit scene &lt;strong&gt;Dr. Curt Connors&lt;/strong&gt; is in a jail cell and he was talking with someone, but his face was never shown in the movie due to shadows. Here is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-NDoaMxgP8&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;youtube link&lt;/a&gt; of that scene.  Also, this is a still image from the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/484Tn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any idea &lt;em&gt;who the man is in the credit scene in The Amazing Spider-Man?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-07-11T16:13:55.463" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T13:07:11.420" Title="Who is the man in the credit scene in The Amazing Spider-Man?" Tags="|credits|the-amazing-spider-man|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3135" CreationDate="2012-07-06T02:49:15.850" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no evidence that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1353/did-the-russians-ever-play-russian-roulette&quot;&gt;Russian Roulette&lt;/a&gt; had its origins in Russia, so that seems a superficial connection. It was probably chosen, as you suggest, partly because of its prevalence in the West Pennsylvania steel towns and partly because it is so heavily ritualistic and ritual is a theme of the movie - a Wedding, the dances at the Wedding party, hunting trips, men drinking together after work, a funeral, people gathered to gamble, the brutal rituals of war. (David Nolan, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slowreview.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=51&quot;&gt;The Slow Review&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original idea for the movie came from a script called &lt;em&gt;The Men Who Came&#xA;to Play&lt;/em&gt; which was set in Las Vegas (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deer_Hunter&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;). This was combined with ideas from the plot of &lt;em&gt;The Best Years of Their Lives&lt;/em&gt;, which chronicles the lives of three veterans returning from WWII to smalltown middle America. (Nolan) I have yet to find an interview indicating why the director Michael Cimini or the screenwriter Deric Washburn chose the Pennsylvania steel town to begin with. One can only guess - the likely camaraderie of steel workers, the small town environment where people grow up together into adulthood, the gritty color/non-color of steel factory backdrop which foreshadows the war setting, the Russian Orthodox religious connection....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T02:49:15.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3155" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3156" CreationDate="2012-07-06T03:19:49.717" Score="4" ViewCount="25006" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Spider-Man franchise, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobey_Maguire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tobey Maguire&lt;/a&gt; is an outstanding performer as a Spider-Man and also reprised his role in the sequels Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3. He also provided the voice of Spider-Man for the videogame adaptations of the films, but he wasn't in the recent release of Spider-Man series &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948470&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since his outstanding performance in the Spider-Man series, I was surprised. &lt;strong&gt;Why didn't Tobey Maguire get a chance to act in The Amazing Spider-Man?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="11206" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T16:56:28.763" LastActivityDate="2022-02-26T02:13:29.747" Title="Why wasn't Tobey Maguire in The Amazing Spider-Man?" Tags="|casting|the-amazing-spider-man|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3155" CreationDate="2012-07-06T04:00:02.460" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new Amazing Spider-Man is a &lt;em&gt;reboot&lt;/em&gt; of the series. In other words, it has nothing to do with the earlier three movies. A few core elements remain, but the rest have been changed. So it only makes sense since they're giving the franchise a fresh start to give the role of Peter Parker to someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T04:00:02.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3153" CreationDate="2012-07-06T05:04:24.237" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe he's actually talking to himself.  Like he did earlier when he found out that Spiderman was Peter Parker.  He had a conversation in his head about what to do.&#xA;Now that he is in his cell, I feel the filmmaker just showed it how Connors saw it in his head.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Remember, he's in a jail cell.  If I remember right, when they opened the door to the cell it was empty.  How would Osborne be able to have a secret door into his cell?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1635" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T05:04:24.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2200" CreationDate="2012-07-06T10:27:49.023" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would personally think that this is a subtle reference to the type of person that Tony Stark is, he is what would commonly be referred to as a 'Hot-Rod' in that he has a firey temper and is quite reckless in his life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it gives him the inspiration for the colour of the Iron Man suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T10:27:49.023" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2657" CreationDate="2012-07-06T10:54:52.587" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Added examples, all over 5:05 - hopefully will lose the downvote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say no, principally because of Jackie Chan. His movies like Supercop and Rumble in the Bronx are basically 90-minute street fights punctuated with bursts of dialogue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few excerpts from the master of the running non-stop fight: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjkSC4SQORw&quot;&gt;Who Am I&lt;/a&gt; as an example clocks in at over 5:05.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&amp;amp;v=UrlxwlCHFXY&amp;amp;NR=1&quot;&gt;Wheels on Meals&lt;/a&gt; - 9 min+&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the final act of Kill Bill Pt. 1 is pretty much a non-stop fight:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVDl16kvkYM&quot;&gt;Bride vs. B-squad Crazy 88s and O-Ren Ishii&lt;/a&gt; with The Bride versus the Crazy 88s clocks in at over 6:30 (1:15 to 7:45)- warning: includes blood, gore and a gratitutious sword-spanking. She does pause a few seconds between some kills.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both together would clock in at almost 20 mins but there is a breather after she finishes off Gogo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1634" LastEditorUserId="1634" LastEditDate="2012-07-10T22:51:06.033" LastActivityDate="2012-07-10T22:51:06.033" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2924" CreationDate="2012-07-06T11:02:57.573" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainspotting_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Wikipedia article for Trainspotting&lt;/a&gt;, that scene was copied from a segment of the novel &lt;a href=&quot;http://discursivewords.wordpress.com/tag/gravitys-rainbow/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gravity's Rainbow&lt;/a&gt;. Directors often put little homages to favorite works of theirs in throwaway movie scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1634" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T14:19:42.590" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T14:19:42.590" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3146" CreationDate="2012-07-06T11:21:43.500" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoted from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fincher considered the novel too infatuated with Tyler Durden and changed the ending to move away from him: &quot;I wanted people to love Tyler, but I also wanted them to be OK with his vanquishing.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something I learned about Fight Club during an &lt;a href=&quot;http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/11/22/midmorning2/&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with Chuck Palanihuk is that he considers Fight Club a coming-of-age story; the narrator grows up and accepts his role in life by rebelling, discovering a mentor and then transcending the mentor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After he sees through Tyler, the narrator destroys him and is then ready to choose life, apparently embarking on the kids-and-minivan-in-quiet-suburban-life with Marla. A more depressing ending than the book, from one perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1634" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-04-22T06:27:38.360" LastActivityDate="2013-04-22T06:27:38.360" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1422" CreationDate="2012-07-06T11:38:39.243" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say Cassandra, which it looks like you already know about, and that story has been appearing in films since their invention. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I checked IMDB and their search interface isn't turning up movies from the 20s about the fall of Troy but I know they are out there. Kind of piqued my interested about IMDB's search interface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also say Joan of Arc, as she remained a virgin (and thusly never lost that power), which doesn't provide your question an answer but illustrates the counter-point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1634" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T11:38:39.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3155" CreationDate="2012-07-06T11:50:28.530" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a Reboot and reboot with same stars will look dumb. Take the case of Hulk and Batman both movies reboot don't cast the same actors. It's not the hard rule but if we are going to see a reboot then we expecting something new, new story, new angle and obviously new stars too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same movie reboot having the exact same script or same stars will look lame and nobody will going to watch it. If It's spider-man 4 then it should be with &lt;code&gt;Tobey Maguire&lt;/code&gt; but for movie like &lt;code&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/code&gt; which is like starting up a new franchise the same star-cast is not a good decision at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-02-24T04:36:24.310" LastActivityDate="2017-02-24T04:36:24.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3005" CreationDate="2012-07-06T12:51:23.523" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I got the same doubts when I watched this season yesterday. However, I am going to try answering your questions. Please keep in mind that I didn't watch previous three seasons, so I might lack some knowledge about this bending world, so correct me if I am wrong somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are all these events possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it truly Amon's Blood-Bending that blocks the power or did Amon achieve what Tenzin thought impossible and learn Energy-Bending? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. Amon used bloodbending to take away bending abilities. He was able to duplicate the Energy Bending which is possible to avatars only, using his bloodbending. My guess is that he does something to the blood flow (to the areas that correspond to bending) in brain, that probably &lt;em&gt;disables&lt;/em&gt; those parts of brain which are used to control bending. He must have got this knowledge about parts of brain and the energy flow in brain etc. because of his additional knowledge about chi-blocking. We should keep in mind that he is the only person who knows both chi-blocking and bloodbending. Amon must have used these both successfully to duplicate Energy Bending in this aspect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Amon also doesn't heal/restore his brother's bending abilities at the end. He could have let his brother have at least the water bending abilities so that he could help him in his next quest. However, he doesn't/couldn't do that. Energy Benders can restore these abilities. It seems Bloodbenders like Amon can't do this sort of thing (not yet). This proves that Amon didn't have real Energy Bending abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And if so, how did bending Korra's energy take away all forms of bending except Air-Bending?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that there are &lt;em&gt;parts of brain&lt;/em&gt; corresponding to each bending ability. When Korra's abilities were removed, she didn't have the ability to air bend. Also, Amon knew what abilities she had/ didn't have. So, he must have probably removed the other three. Trying to unlock them might have led korra to unlock the one that hasn't been unlocked before, because she was in a situation where she needed to bend in order to save her love. So, she might have directed all her bending chi to the area which she never was able to direct to before. This could also hint that she was connecting to her spiritual self.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if in case there was nothing like &lt;em&gt;parts of brain&lt;/em&gt; for each bending ability - it could mean two things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A person could do other form of bending that is different from what&#xA;has been taken away. It means that a fire bender can learn water&#xA;bending after their fire bending has been taken away. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is similar to alchemists learning Alkahestry in Full Metal Alchemist:  Brotherhood no matter whether they still have Alchemy abilities or not. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Korra must have started connecting to her spiritual self even more&#xA;strongly and learned the air bending ability from Aang. It was said&#xA;in the series that Aang connected to his previous lives and had this&#xA;immense experience behind him to ask from. Korra must have done&#xA;that, and got the air bending abilities from Aang.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would mean that her spiritual quest must have started when she&#xA;was in the metal container, and made her learn the air bending&#xA;abilities in the process and finally led to her becoming a perfect&#xA;avatar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding what Amon did under the assumption that &lt;em&gt;parts of brain&lt;/em&gt; didn't exist, it would mean that Amon wasn't able to simulate the Energy Bending totally. We know that Energy benders have some special abilities among which removing/ restoring bending is a part. Amon should have been able to use his skill only in the removing aspect and not the restoring aspect. Even when he was a child, he says that removing is the best quality among all - this could mean that he must have concentrated on this single aspect and forgot/ disregarded the other ones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also means that Amon was never interested in learning Energy Bending, but only the removing part of it, the only thing he was able to do successfully. In any case, Amon didn't Energy Bend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1508" LastEditorUserId="684" LastEditDate="2014-10-06T14:12:49.410" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T14:12:49.410" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3170" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3172" CreationDate="2012-07-06T13:30:31.417" Score="5" ViewCount="1414" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Maximus is knocked to the ground he lands a shot through his opponent's foot with an axe.  His opponent then seems to be spitting blood (hard to tell due to the helmet) and then falls over dead.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did he die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-07-06T14:26:31.140" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T14:48:52.787" Title="Maximus fighting the masked champion in the arena with tigers" Tags="|plot-explanation|gladiator|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="835" CreationDate="2012-07-06T14:44:31.713" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answers are accurate but take the point of view that Blake was asking this of the salesmen. He wasn't - it was a rhetorical question in the context of AIDA, which is what he was describing to the salesmen to further humiliate them (AIDA is Sales 101).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's asking them to &lt;em&gt;ask the prospect&lt;/em&gt; to make a decision as if they are committing themselves to Christ - absolute, genuine, irrevocable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see this in Ricky Roma's pitch later in the movie to the uncertain buyer, about faith, and then when Ricky derides Kevin Spacey's sale to the gentleman who signs contracts and then backs out of them (&quot;Vishnu himself could come down and say sign and he still wouldn't go through with it!&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1634" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T14:44:31.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3170" CreationDate="2012-07-06T14:48:52.787" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is from the script. I couldn't find a video. The blood probably comes from the blow to the head. Tigris was pretty injured from this hit but was probably trying to hold back any sign of his being hurt that bad until the axe went into his foot and he couldn't stand the pain so the blood that was in his mouth from the hit to the head came out at that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maximus finally manages to land a stunning blow to his opponent’s head causing Tigris to drop his axe.  Maximus switches his sword to his other hand and stands ready to administer the killing blow.  Suddenly a fourth tiger jumps out of the last door and leaps on Maximus and just as quickly, Maximus twists and turns his sword arm, impaling the tiger.  He is thrown to the ground by the weight of the beast all the while stabbing and eventually killing the big cat.  The crowd cheers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tigris seeing an advantage moves closer.  Maximus, pinned under the weight of the tiger, reaches out and grabs Tigris lost axe.  The axe has a spike on one end and in one movement; Maximus brings the spike down and into the top of Tigris foot.  Tigris bends over from the pain, blood pouring from the mouth of his mask.  Maximus jumps to his feet and kicks Tigris to the ground.  Maximus standing over the fallen Tigris lifts the other man’s face cover and raised the axe.  He looks to Commodus for direction.  The crowd yells.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T14:48:52.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3173" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-06T14:57:18.813" Score="14" ViewCount="119380" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has always bothered me. In the comics and cartoons Spider-Man started to lose his powers because his mutation started changing him. In the movie it seemed like it was his self-esteem which makes no sense to me really. Is there any reason why Spider-man lost his powers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-07-04T07:38:13.240" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T15:32:49.843" Title="In Spider-Man 2 Why does Parker lose his powers?" Tags="|character|spider-man-trilogy|spider-man-2|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3174" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3175" CreationDate="2012-07-06T16:28:28.527" Score="9" ViewCount="7814" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Amazing Spider-man&lt;/em&gt;, Peter's parents leave him with his aunt and uncle at the start of the film.  They're never heard from again.  Where did they go, what happened to them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2012-07-06T20:21:50.140" LastActivityDate="2018-03-28T13:49:34.280" Title="What happened to Peter's parents?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-amazing-spider-man|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3174" CreationDate="2012-07-06T16:28:29.400" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film, this is slightly unclear.  During a montage, Peter searches for information about Dr. Connors and his parents.  This shows that Peter's parents died in a crash.  However, later in the film there are two scenes, one where Peter yells at Uncle Ben, another where Dr. Connors is talking to Osborne's henchman, which both make it sound like their disappearance is a secret/mystery.  I recall hearing dialogue in one of the trailers that also suggested their vanishing was a mystery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not the only one to notice this.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://badassdigest.com/2012/07/05/was-the-untold-story-cut-from-the-amazing-spider-man/&quot;&gt;This article&lt;/a&gt; posits that there were some last minute re-cuts made to the film.  As a result, the released version contains hints that Peter's parents' fate is a mystery that Connors and Osborne are involved in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The last two trailers released have Dr. Connors saying, mid-Lizard transformation, ‘If you want the truth about your parents, Peter, come and get it!’ What truth is that? There’s no ‘truth’ in the film, and Connors and Peter never have a good conversation about Peter’s parents. Going by the &quot;ASM Deleted Scenes #1&quot; image that line of dialogue may very well take place during the sewer encounter with Mr. Ratha.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-11-20T10:32:32.173" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T10:32:32.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3176" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3180" CreationDate="2012-07-06T17:19:41.153" Score="5" ViewCount="6949" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2011 Tamil movie &lt;em&gt;Kanchana&lt;/em&gt;, the main character Kanchana is shown to be transgender but after watching the movie, I am not able to understand whether Geeta is also transgender?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, why was Geeta's school's principal saying, &amp;quot;Children like Geeta...&amp;quot; in two of the scenes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="46980" LastEditDate="2021-10-28T13:35:31.857" LastActivityDate="2021-10-28T14:37:28.180" Title="Is Geeta transgender?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|kanchana|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3177" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-07-06T17:23:38.420" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kollywood&lt;/strong&gt; is the Indian film industry based in &lt;strong&gt;Chennai&lt;/strong&gt;, Tamil Nadu, India, dedicated to the production of feature films in the &lt;strong&gt;Tamil language&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is based in &lt;strong&gt;Chennai's Kodambakkam&lt;/strong&gt; area, where several South Indian film production companies are headquartered. With reference to this, the industry is also &lt;strong&gt;colloquially&lt;/strong&gt; referred to as &lt;strong&gt;Kollywood&lt;/strong&gt;, a &lt;strong&gt;portmanteau of Kodambakkam and Hollywood&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tamil cinema is India's &lt;strong&gt;third largest film industry&lt;/strong&gt; in terms of films produced, as per the CBFC report of 2011, with high revenues and worldwide distribution, having audiences mainly including people from the four southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka, &lt;strong&gt;placing the industry among the largest in the world&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="556" LastEditDate="2012-07-15T12:40:56.710" LastActivityDate="2012-07-15T12:40:56.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3178" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-07-06T17:23:38.420" Score="0" Body="Questions on the Kollywood Movies Industry i.e., Tamil Language Movies made in the Indian State of Tamilnadu." OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorDisplayName="user1356" LastEditDate="2012-07-06T17:28:45.057" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T17:28:45.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3179" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3188" CreationDate="2012-07-06T17:47:04.350" Score="7" ViewCount="1687" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can understand the reboot of the Batman Series but I couldn't understand why Hulk was rebooted. And now why do we have to reboot Spider-Man, too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it they are not able to write the script in the same back-drop as the previous movies in the series? Is it because they are not able to write sequels or prequels that will not conflict with the story already told in the previous movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-07-10T08:26:07.243" LastActivityDate="2017-07-10T08:26:07.243" Title="Why Reboot Spider-Man?" Tags="|the-amazing-spider-man|spider-man-trilogy|reboot|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3176" CreationDate="2012-07-06T18:15:45.330" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty much sure that &lt;strong&gt;Geeta is transgender&lt;/strong&gt;, because I've watched the movie couple of times. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muni_2:_Kanchana&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The movie's Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; also confirms she's transgender.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kanchana is a transgender woman who was disowned by her parents. She is offered shelter by a kind Muslim named Akbar Bhai, who has an intellectually disabled son. Regretting that she could not become a doctor as she intended, she adopts another young transgender girl named Geetha and works hard to support her financially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="46980" LastEditDate="2021-10-28T13:37:16.260" LastActivityDate="2021-10-28T13:37:16.260" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2200" CreationDate="2012-07-06T19:01:37.053" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Showing Tony's infatuation with Hot Rods is a very efficient storytelling tool. And through &lt;em&gt;show-not-tell&lt;/em&gt; you can immediately deduce that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tony loves to tinker with machines.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lives life in the &lt;em&gt;fast&lt;/em&gt; lane.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has oodles of money (and time) to spare on pet projects.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has a very obsessive (and possessive) personality.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these are core to the character of Tony Stark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-07-06T19:01:37.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3173" CreationDate="2012-07-06T22:31:45.187" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie the reason spidey loses his powers is the more enigmatic part. I will try to explain my take on this by taking a closer look at his scenario step by step.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie we see a relatively younger Spider-Man (people who rescue him from the train fight remark that he is still a kid) who despite his IQ level shown in Spider-Man 2 (for identifying the flaw with Doc Ock's initial demonstration) is still not the financially secure guy because he is in school and delivering pizza (which is not the ideal job when trouble brews in town)  and unlike Batman he doesn't have Lucius Fox or Alfred in his life to cover his appearance or managing the financial aspect of his life when he is the vigilante&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of him being the vigilante his relationship with MJ gets strained initially in the movie and she ends up getting engaged to someone else, Plus the burden of his uncle's death seems to have a bearing on him until he confessed the truth to his aunt and on top of that the very photographs he takes for his work were used to showcase him being the bad guy by the Daily Bugle. These all add up leading to the stress which makes him doubt his own powers and destiny leading him to make the decision to quit being the hero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So once he makes the decision i assume he wasn't able to exert the control on his powers like he would normally when he has more belief in his ability and the responsibility it carries with it which led him to lose it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: This question has a more open ended scope to it and I would love to hear other opinions as well and I can try to clarify if anyone has any doubts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-07-04T07:38:47.587" LastActivityDate="2016-07-04T07:38:47.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1292" CreationDate="2012-07-06T23:25:30.960" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;My interpretation of this scene is that Robert did in fact place Fred there, to keep a sense of normality as someone stated above. After all, it isn't set in stone that the mannequins remain in the same place all the time. I mean, who hangs out at a Movie Store? Moreover, Robert is clearly going insane from being alone and in such a hostile environment. A normal person in their right state of mind would have seen the mannequin out of place from where they last remember leaving them, and rationalize &quot;Okay, how the hell did it get there?&quot; But he immediately swerved into a panic and began interrogating an inanimate object. While it's clear the mutants were changing in the movie, I doubt it's anything more than what Robert described. That circumstances have caused them to ignore their basic survival instincts. One might argue that the central male mutant we kept seeing in the film is more evolved than the rest --even sentient, but I see no reason to believe that. What we saw in the movie was basic &quot;pack animal mentality&quot;, essentially the male was the Alpha. The natural leader. Stronger, more aggressive, dominant. As for the &quot;meaningful eye-contact&quot;, aside from that being for movie drama it's nothing but typical animal behavior. Looking an animal in the eye is considered a challenge in the animal kingdom. Ever wonder why your dog can't stare back directly into your eyes for long?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm of the firm belief he's simply flipped his lid and gone bananas, so to speak. After all, there were no indications in the movie that the mutants were showing any signs of intelligence --in fact Robert himself states that their minds have completely diminished. However, there are signs left and right the whole time that Robert is simply a broken, lonely man in a hostile world that's constantly trying to kill him. He went through that upwards of a thousand days. Can anyone really testify they could last longer without snapping?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1640" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-25T11:01:37.703" LastActivityDate="2015-05-25T11:01:37.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3179" CreationDate="2012-07-07T08:13:41.333" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason behind &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hulk's&lt;/a&gt; reboot is the negative reviews of the film (It's a different fact that some of people like me liked the old Hulk movie more). And the new Hulk film is also made up his entry in Marvel cinematic universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For case of Spider-man Sony and Rami's Clashes are the reason for cancelling Spider-man 4 and then Sony decided for a reboot to save the lose of copyrights of spider-man films. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_in_film#Spider-Man_4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T07:26:42.123" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T07:26:42.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3186" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3260" CreationDate="2012-07-07T08:38:38.960" Score="5" ViewCount="1877" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched Immortals and the whole movie seemed so dark and gloomy. I mean, the visuals are more black and yellow based than normal movies. No sun, no birds, no happiness- just night and black and killings. Why was it made this way? And is this any specific filming technique?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T13:21:03.200" Title="Why was Immortals so dark?" Tags="|film-techniques|immortals|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3187" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3230" CreationDate="2012-07-07T12:46:50.373" Score="31" ViewCount="27526" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a very popular scene from the movie Pulp Fiction, Jules Winfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta) are discussing about Jules' will to retire from being an hitman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are carrying a guy, named Marvin, in the back of the car, and when Vincent asks him an opinion and turns to talk to him, the gun goes off, killing the guy instantly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Jules asks for an explanation, Vincent attributes the &quot;incident&quot; to the car going on a bump in the street. Is there some &lt;strong&gt;canon&lt;/strong&gt; answer about whether this was an intentional shot or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, if the answer is &quot;Tarantino left this ambiguous on purpose&quot;, I'll consider that an answer too as long as you can back it up with some canon source. By canon I mean interviews where Tarantino states this and/or articles from official sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-10T13:38:45.187" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T13:38:45.187" Title="Did Vincent Vega shoot Marvin on purpose?" Tags="|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3179" CreationDate="2012-07-07T15:51:43.340" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deadline.com/2010/01/urgent-spider-man-4-scrapped-as-is-raimi-and-cast-out-franchise-reboot-planned/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deadline - 'Spider-Man 4'′ scrapped&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: (January 2010)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...] &lt;strong&gt;Sony Pictures decided today to reboot the Spider-Man franchise after franchise director Sam Raimi pulled out of Spider-Man 4 because he felt he couldn’t make its summer release date and keep the film’s creative integrity.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...] My sources tell me that Raimi told Sony Pictures: “&lt;em&gt;I can’t make your date. I can’t go forward creatively.&lt;/em&gt;” And, so, once he said “&lt;em&gt;That’s it&lt;/em&gt;”, Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal and Columbia Pictures’ Matt Tolmach decided they didn’t want to replace him and instead chose to reboot the franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...] The events that led to today’s shocking decision to scrap Spider-Man 4 can be traced to mid-December when I saw a December 11th email alerting the pic’s special effects crew that the fourquel would not be starting as planned ”&lt;em&gt;but Sam Raimi has story issues [that] need to be resolved before we are ready to shoot&lt;/em&gt;”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that point, it wasn’t well known that the Spider-Man franchise director helming the 4th installment had huge problems with the script that has run through screenwriters Jamie Vanderbilt, David Lindsay-Abaire, and Gary Ross. I was told Sam Raimi had been very vocal inside Sony that he “hated” it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(click the link to read the Sony's official press release)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-07-07T15:51:43.340" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3187" CreationDate="2012-07-07T16:02:23.890" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only canon reference we have is from Vincent. He tells the wolf &quot;the gun went off, I don't know why&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible he is lying but there seems to be little reason to do so, he is certainly not scared of the wolf and is not shy about sharing his opinions (eg he tells he partner his plan to wonder around having adventures would make him a bum etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall the only ref we have is Vincent saying several times it was an accident and his generally truthful (even to point of confrontation) nature so I think it was an accident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-07-07T16:02:23.890" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3126" CreationDate="2012-07-07T19:02:58.767" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The terrorist's van carried not only the bomb, but the son of Michael Faraday. When he saw the bomb and the boy together, together with the remembered conversation from Oliver Lang about how Faraday's dead wife's friends would pay, he was lead to believe the bombing target was the FBI building. He followed the van because he saw the bomb placed aboard, knew the target, and that the bombing would be imminent.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;His chase was interrupted by Oliver's crashing into him (because the van lead Faraday right into the alley where the &quot;accident&quot; could occur), and a fight ensued in the warehouse, where (off-screen) the bomb was transferred from the van to Michael Faraday's car. When Faraday escaped the warehouse and continued on to the FBI building, he encountered a different van from the same company on its daily delivery run to the FBI building. He would not have known about the daily delivery, but since the company was used by Lang and his co-conspirators, Oliver certainly did (remember during the fight he screams &quot;Do you really think we'd leave anything to chance!?!&quot;). Counting on the mistaken identity, and Michael's crazed chase to save his son, everything carries into the FBI building. Faraday still believed, passionately, his son and the bomb were now in the FBI garage, in the van.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;He was wrong on both counts, the son was with the terrorist's wife and the bomb was in his own car. We see this milliseconds before the blast. Delivery and execution of the bombing complete, the terrorists go away scot-free with a patsy to boot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-07-07T19:15:26.567" LastActivityDate="2012-07-07T19:15:26.567" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3192" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3196" CreationDate="2012-07-07T20:14:48.147" Score="19" ViewCount="3780" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of Alfred Hitchcock's films contain a strong female lead. From Grace Kelly's Lisa in &lt;em&gt;Rear Window&lt;/em&gt; to Ingrid Bergman's Alicia Huberman in &lt;em&gt;Notorious&lt;/em&gt;, these actresses were characteristically assertive, intelligent and rarely allowed themselves to be sublimated by men.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The term &lt;em&gt;feminist&lt;/em&gt; may be ambiguous, so I'll define a feminist for this situation as: &lt;em&gt;a person who believes that women should enjoy the same benefits as men through equality in the political, social and economic spheres.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider Alma Hitchcock, his wife. She was by his side for many of his films, and was considered an asset in the editing room. Per the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/Alma_Reville&quot;&gt;Hitchcock Wiki&lt;/a&gt;, Alma &quot;...noticed Janet Leigh inadvertently swallowed after her character's fatal encounter with Norman Bates' &quot;mother&quot; in &quot;Psycho&quot; (1960), necessitating an alteration to the negative.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or even Edith Head, Hitchcock's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whitebowlproductions.com/2012/02/wihm-day-25edith-head-and-alfred-hitchcock/&quot;&gt;favorite&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://lancelonie.hubpages.com/hub/The-Incredibles-Edna-Mode-is-Hollywood-costume-designer-Edith-Head&quot;&gt;costume designer&lt;/a&gt;, who won &lt;em&gt;eight&lt;/em&gt; Academy Awards-- more than any other woman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By including such characters (or such actresses) in his films, and surrounding himself with smart and successful women, was Alfred Hitchcock (either consciously or unconsciously) expressing a personal desire to see equal treatment for women?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2012-07-08T03:04:06.743" Title="Was Alfred Hitchcock a feminist?" Tags="|analysis|directors|alfred-hitchcock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3193" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3194" CreationDate="2012-07-07T21:43:10.010" Score="30" ViewCount="5220" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do they do on the Spanish version of Toy Story 3 when Buzz is set to Spanish mode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone out there who has seen the Spanish version?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2012-07-07T21:48:48.807" LastActivityDate="2012-07-07T22:02:05.253" Title="Toy Story 3 in Spanish" Tags="|toy-story-3|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3193" CreationDate="2012-07-07T22:02:05.253" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435761/faq#.2.1.22&quot;&gt;Toy Story 3 FAQ&lt;/a&gt; in IMDB:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the Spanish versions of the film, during Buzz Lightyear's &quot;Spanish&#xA;  mode&quot;, he continues to speak Spanish rather than a different language&#xA;  such as English. However, different accents and dialects are used&#xA;  depending on the region. In the Latin American version, &quot;normal&quot; Buzz&#xA;  uses the local Latin American variety of Spanish in the dubbed&#xA;  version, but when he converts to &quot;Spanish mode&quot;, he shifts to the&#xA;  &quot;standard&quot; Castilian accent (from central Spain), which to native&#xA;  speakers, sounds very different from Latin American Spanish. In Spain,&#xA;  &quot;normal&quot; Buzz uses standard Castilian Spanish in the dubbed version,&#xA;  and when he converts to Spanish mode, he then uses an exaggerated&#xA;  Andalusian accent from southern Spain, which is appropriately the land&#xA;  of flamenco and many other traditions identified as stereotypically&#xA;  Spanish. Woody even responds to him with a mock imitation of this&#xA;  Andalusian accent. In that way, the basic premise of the joke is&#xA;  retained or even enhanced in the Spanish dubbed versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-07-07T22:02:05.253" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3195" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-07T22:14:26.617" Score="8" ViewCount="2391" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at IMDB's listing for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446683/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Domino One (2005)&lt;/a&gt;. It is very strange. No one seems to know much about it. Does anyone have any information about it? Why is it so hard to find information about it? Was it ever released?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The official website appeared to be www.dominoone.com (which is now down, but historically accessible via &lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.org/web/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Wayback Machine&lt;/a&gt;) but it contained no information other than the tagline &quot;Welcome to the club.&quot; Several hours of googling turned up nothing. The mystery has sparked my interests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1642" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-10T13:33:53.303" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T13:33:53.303" Title="Domino One (2005), does it exist?" Tags="|domino-one|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3192" CreationDate="2012-07-08T03:04:06.743" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;You ask a complicated question! There are arguments for Hitchcock as feminist, but the bulk of the literature I have seen is more inclined to label him as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/Literature_Film_Quarterly_%282000%29_-_Fashion_dreams%3a_Hitchcock,_women,_and_Lisa_Fremont&quot;&gt;misogynist&lt;/a&gt; (not to mention fetishist, sadist and voyeur). The icy blondes that were his trademark may have been strong characters on film, but in life were very much under his control. He not only dressed Vera Miles for his film &lt;em&gt;The Wrong Man&lt;/em&gt;, but dressed her for general wear as well. Joan Fontaine called him a Svengali for the way he controlled her during the making of &lt;em&gt;Rebecca&lt;/em&gt;. Tippi Hedren was picked out of a television commercial not for her acting ability but for her look. She was allowed to be brutally attacked by birds in the filming of the movie &lt;em&gt;The Birds&lt;/em&gt;. During the filming of &lt;em&gt;Marnie&lt;/em&gt;, rather than give her direction, Hitchcock would pose her, &lt;a href=&quot;http://hitchcockandme.wordpress.com/tag/tippi-hedren/&quot;&gt;even arranging her expression with his fingers&lt;/a&gt;, then roll film. When she rebuffed his advances and his need for control, he threatened to ruin her career and he did – keeping her under contract for a small sum for several years, after which no other studio would touch her. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://thehathorlegacy.com/tippi-hedren-on-alfred-hitchcock/&quot;&gt;Interview with Hedren&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trouble with labeling Hitchcock is the incongruencies between the product of his work and the methods employed to achieve them. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=ud-8TEqdBaIC&amp;amp;pg=PA1&amp;amp;source=gbs_toc_r&amp;amp;cad=4#v=onepage&amp;amp;q&amp;amp;f=false&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, author Tania Modleski argues that Hitchcock was indifferent to feminism and that is the reason there is so much debate on the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personal opinion? He recognized the strength in women, but rather than appreciate their strength, he used his films and his film-making as a way to obsessively control them. Art history is full of people whose art and motive seems disparate. Genius in art does not always come from a place of honor. To judge Hitchcock, or any artist, you have to look at both work and life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-07-08T03:04:06.743" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="530" CreationDate="2012-07-08T04:24:30.890" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am late to this discussion, but the Weapons Specialist Ltd company makes retractable syringes and all sorts of other cool props. The website includes a video of the syringe in action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/htxmJFg-dik?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-31T20:19:40.823" LastActivityDate="2016-12-31T20:19:40.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3198" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3199" CreationDate="2012-07-08T06:51:49.317" Score="38" ViewCount="51466" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Pulp Fiction, Vincent and Jules killed all the guys at Brett's apartment for stealing the briefcase from Marsellus Wallace but not Marvin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why didn't Vincent and Jules kill Marvin in the apartment?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2022-08-31T11:15:10.577" LastActivityDate="2023-07-07T16:28:19.657" Title="Why didn't Vincent and Jules kill Marvin?" Tags="|analysis|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3198" CreationDate="2012-07-08T06:51:49.597" Score="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's never explicitly said in the film, but if we listen closely to the apartment scene we can understand that Marvin was their informant within that group. Here is the script of the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jules - &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;We should have shotguns for this kinda deal.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vincent - &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How many are up there?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jules - &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Three or four.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vincent - &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;That's &lt;strong&gt;counting our guy&lt;/strong&gt;?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jules - &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Not sure.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vincent - &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;So that means there could be up to five guys up there?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jules - &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;It's possible.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Vincent says &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;That's counting our guy&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, it means Marvin was their guy who's the informant.  After shooting Brett and the others, Vincent says to Jules, &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Do you know this guy?&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; and Jules responds, &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Yeah&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. This is why they didn't shoot him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditDate="2023-07-07T16:28:19.657" LastActivityDate="2023-07-07T16:28:19.657" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3200" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3201" CreationDate="2012-07-08T10:00:09.613" Score="31" ViewCount="47452" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the Narrator goes into his cave he encounters a penguin that says, &quot;Slide.&quot; What is the meaning of sliding, and why is there a penguin?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1646" LastEditorUserId="1548" LastEditDate="2012-07-14T09:45:51.780" LastActivityDate="2017-05-18T05:43:21.240" Title="What is the meaning of the penguin in Fight Club?" Tags="|fight-club|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3200" CreationDate="2012-07-08T13:21:35.743" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cave and the penguin are the result of therapy where the female voice tells the whole group how to &quot;meditate&quot;. Every person has their own interpretation of the cave and an animal that is inside (which represents them); in the narrator's case he sees himself as a penguin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He probably interpreted himself as a penguin to show himself his inability to let go of his depressing lifestyle, since penguins can't &lt;em&gt;fly&lt;/em&gt; away from their &quot;problems&quot; they can merely &lt;em&gt;slide&lt;/em&gt; away. Which is what he did he slid to the &quot;new life&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie there is also another quote that references the &quot;sliding&quot; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Narrator:&lt;/em&gt; You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The&#xA;  ability to let that which does not matter truly &lt;strong&gt;slide&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorUserId="206" LastEditDate="2014-05-24T00:48:35.203" LastActivityDate="2014-05-24T00:48:35.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2700" CreationDate="2012-07-08T14:15:55.213" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see these colors/movie titles as the day in the life of a bat, beginning at sunset (orange) and ending at sunrise (white/bight) with a dark night in between (blue). Also plays on the titles; BEGINS, NIGHT and sunRISE. That is another nice conclusion to the saga.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1648" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-01-01T13:45:43.927" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T13:45:43.927" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3195" CreationDate="2012-07-08T19:14:03.620" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Domino One was a film made by Harvard students Nick Louvel and Nick Garrison using a camera lent by Ben Affleck. It starred Steve Guttenberg and Harvard students Tatyana Ali and Natalie Portman. It was entered into the 2005 DC Film Festival but did not win. It was never released to the public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Helpful links:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?t=204752&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Random forum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geocities.com/~barneyoldfield/hcf070110.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Geocities site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.natalieportman.com/npcom.asp?page_number=140&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NataliePortman.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-07-09T19:36:18.043" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T19:36:18.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2012-07-08T19:29:50.823" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the early days of the Vietnam War death notifications became so commonplace, and the military so unprepared for the great numbers of death notices that they were delivered by telegram.  The practice was later changed and representatives of the deceased military service would personally deliver the death notification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The telegram delivery is a pivotal scene because it shows how &quot;wrong&quot; a life is that simply focuses on nature and ignores grace.  What could be worse than a strangers handing a note to a mother to read alone that her 20 year-old son was now dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, the grandmother stating to the grieving mother, &quot;people die and life must go on&quot; is so devoid of grace that we see ignoring the grace aspect of life, however inconvenient, will even override nature.  This is reinforced by the dying dinosaur scene when the dinosaur leaves the injured dinosaur without killing it.  Grace has its proper place in nature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1650" LastActivityDate="2012-07-08T19:29:50.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3068" CreationDate="2012-07-08T22:01:43.117" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the scene: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZekrhML4frI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understood this as two very drunk friends basically talking rubbish to each other.  Bunk explains how screwed McNulty is (professionally) and rather than say 'yeah thanks for the advice' or 'you are right', he just starts talking rubbish at him, winding him up.  And Bunk takes the lead and runs with it - &quot;I knew it was your first time...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In common with much of The Wire, this is two real guys having a conversation (in this case, a drunken one), not directly moving the plot forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, having said that, it perhaps does relate to some incident in particular, or perhaps just in general - you'd expect two guys who work together in that environment at some point to have a disagreement.  But it doesn't necessarily mean it was something that occurred or was referred to in a previous episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I mean is this is good writing and a great show - soak it up!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1651" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T00:38:55.103" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T00:38:55.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1965" CreationDate="2012-07-08T22:33:12.390" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with what's been said &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/1968/5603&quot;&gt;in the other answer&lt;/a&gt;, but also I consider a major factor to be mood.  The whole sequence is designed to give that sense of the magnitude of their (his) accomplishment, and heighten his fear and expectation as he makes it through immigration and then customs and finally freedom.  Plus there is a general sense of a dream or waking from a dream as the camera tracks his movement through the airport.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/oeN-jDGQlpQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus anyone who's ever traveled on one of those long flights knows the feeling of slight zombification you get from landing until you're finally home.  It actually conveys that feeling really well!  Though I doubt this was an aim of the filmmakers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1651" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T09:16:04.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3091" CreationDate="2012-07-09T05:22:54.073" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is Marathi movie with same story. The movie is 'Jau Tithe Khau', starring Makarand Anaspure and Deepali Sayyad...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mukund (Makarand Anaspure) is hard working and intelligent young man, who is unable to find a job. He faces a lot of issues in his day to day life for the things which he has to depend on. Every public officer he meets like at electricity board, pension office etc. ask him for bribe to carry out the work. Enraged by this behavior and the corrupt political system he decides to fight against the system. He is helped by his girlfriend Lekha (Deepali Syed) and few friends. Based upon this help he applies for a government scheme in which the person is entitled for loan approval on getting a well dug. By bribing all the officers in the loop, he manages to get the loan approved without even digging the well.&#xA;At the climax he files a case in the police station and court about his well getting stolen. At first he is held as madman, as a well, a solid structure can't be stolen. But then Mukund presents the proofs on the paper about the well being dug. The court has to accept the proof and declare that the well was indeed stolen. Mukund wins the Lawsuit.&#xA;However Mukund rejects the decision by himself and explain the people the real situation and warns them about the current state of corruption in the country. The film ends on the note that 'Today a well is proven to be stolen, Don't let the country to be proved stolen&quot; as addressed by Mukund to the people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jau Tithe Khau was remade in Hindi as Well Done Abba.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1093" LastEditorUserId="1093" LastEditDate="2012-09-04T13:57:01.207" LastActivityDate="2012-09-04T13:57:01.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2657" CreationDate="2012-07-09T11:09:55.090" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a great scene in a great film but the fights in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Eastwood&lt;/a&gt;'s &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077523/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Every Which Way But Loose&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080377/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Any Which Way You Can&lt;/a&gt;&quot; were clearly longer, as was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000078/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John Wayne&lt;/a&gt;'s excellent &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045061/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Quiet Man&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T11:09:55.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1729" CreationDate="2012-07-09T12:58:43.030" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;He could easily have been kidnapped just like the two main characters were.  If Butch had not gone back then Wallace probably would have been used as a gimp too.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However as Butch's father's friend told him when he was a child &quot;When two men are in a dangerous situation they take on a certain responsibility for each other&quot; (quote might not be accurate) he was honour bound to go back and prevent this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T12:58:43.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3198" CreationDate="2012-07-09T13:01:56.880" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;They did not kill Marvin because he was part of Wallace's network and was an informer in the gang.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember they asked &quot;why didn't you tell us there was a man in the kitchen with a god damn cannon?&quot; or something like that.  This shows that they were expecting him to provide this info and logically he was their man (mentioned in the hallway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they had killed him then there would be little incentive for people to inform on gangs that had betrayed Wallace in the future.  This is also, probably, why Jules and Vincent are uninterested in the excuses &quot;You're ass ain't talking your way out of this&quot; because regardless of what they say the hitmen know their true plan from Marvin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T13:01:56.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3216" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3222" CreationDate="2012-07-09T14:20:11.410" Score="2" ViewCount="497" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Movie, &quot;The Book of Eli&quot;, after getting the book in his hands, why did he (the town's mayor or whatever) not ask Eli for the key on the spot to verify the contents of the book?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-07-09T14:31:56.207" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T19:13:40.687" Title="Verifying Contents of the Book in &quot;The Book of Eli&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-book-of-eli|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3217" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3218" CreationDate="2012-07-09T16:59:35.970" Score="5" ViewCount="299" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did Peter Parker invent the web-goo himself, or is it implied that he stole the formula from Oscorp? I'm a bit hazy on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-11-20T10:28:36.327" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T14:12:41.377" Title="Spider-man's webshooters" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-amazing-spider-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3217" CreationDate="2012-07-09T17:04:36.617" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film it appears that he orders the webbing from Oscorp.  However later in the film he does say that he invented the formula himself (IIRC talking to Gwen, so he could be trying to impress her).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speculation: I think Parker followed the age old scientific trick of starting with a known base (Oscorp's formula) and improving upon it thus allowing for a more web like shot.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the comics universe spider-man actually does invent the webbing himself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="567" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-20T14:12:41.377" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T14:12:41.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3265" CreationDate="2012-07-09T17:20:08.610" Score="1" ViewCount="360" Body="&lt;p&gt;After first injecting himself at Oscorp, Curt created his own lab in the sewer system later in the movie. If he was the head of the lab at Oscorp, couldn't he have just kept everyone out of the lab (he had already done this previously) and done all of his testing there, instead of doing it in the sewer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T02:29:48.817" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T10:27:24.867" Title="Why was Curt Connors in the sewer?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-amazing-spider-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3220" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3221" CreationDate="2012-07-09T18:15:00.307" Score="2" ViewCount="4406" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the significance of 3DD in the movie title &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_3DD&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Piranha 3DD&lt;/a&gt;. Is this the lack of new title or any other meaning inside it. Is there any official word on it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-02-07T17:20:16.090" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T17:20:16.090" Title="What is the significance of 3DD in Pirahana 3DD?" Tags="|title|pirhana-3dd|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3220" CreationDate="2012-07-09T18:35:10.340" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a bit of a play on words/abbreviations.  The first part, 3D, was for the intention for the movie to be viewed in 3D.  The second part, DD (pronounced Double Dee) is a reference to the bra size that some women wear.  This is because there are a lot of scantly clad women in the movie, it happening in the water and women wearing bathing suits and all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the second D is also an indicaiton that it's the second movie.  The first movie was called &quot;Pirahana 3D&quot;, adding the second D alludes to it being a sequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-07-09T19:16:50.110" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T19:16:50.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3216" CreationDate="2012-07-09T19:13:40.687" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not know the answer, however I give a logical reason for Carnegie's actions which is the meat of the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carnegie (the town's mayor) has been searching for the book for some time. He believes that the Bible is a source of power that will allow him to build more towns and control people. Eli's first encounter with Carnegie, Carnegie considers killing him until he finds out that Eli is a learned man. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carnegie makes a offer and sweetens the deal with Carnegie's blind concubine Claudia's daughter Solara. However Solara finds out Eli is not easily swayed by offers of the flesh. Carnegie stumbles across the fact that Eli has a Bible (supposedly the last one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eli escapes and Solara follows him, Carnegie chases them to the house with the old cannibals. At this point the excitement gets the better of him and he grabs the book without asking about the key. Once he has the book he leaves to go back to town with Solara in tow in which she causes issues. Carnegie is forced to return to town due to low gas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So logically the answer is either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Carnegie is so excited to get the book he forgets the key, fiquring the Engineer can open the book. More so he is prevented from returning due to the actions of Solara.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plot hole&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T19:13:40.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3137" CreationDate="2012-07-09T19:42:26.460" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This reminds me of a scene from Judge Dredd:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dredd finds himself seated next to Herman Ferguson on a transport ship&#xA;  to the Aspen penal colony. While passing over the Cursed Earth the&#xA;  ship is shot down by the Angel Gang, a family of cannibalistic&#xA;  scavengers who capture Dredd and Herman. A squad of Judges tracks&#xA;  Dredd to the Angels' camp and a battle ensues. Fargo arrives just in&#xA;  time to save Dredd's life, but is mortally wounded by Mean Machine&#xA;  Angel (Chris Adamson). Before dying, Fargo reveals the secrets of&#xA;  Dredd's past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The family claimed to be christian and cannbalistic, if I remember correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-07-09T19:42:26.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2719" CreationDate="2012-07-09T21:09:28.773" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lots of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Books and movies are different art forms - direct and strict conversions from one form to the other rarely work (unless they have large fan bases, such as LoTR, Harry Potter, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The movie was written and re-written several times by several screen-writers.  You can imagine they all brought their own visions and ideas to the screenplay.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Direction - Ridley Scott also brought his own vision to the project, plus if you read about the production you will see it was full of conflict between him, the producers, the financiers, the designers and the shooting crew.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Budget - again, many choices of shot and setting were due to limited budget.  They had a tiny studio based set, which forced him to shoot at night, use lots of smoke and rain, close shots of crowded streets to hide the fact they were reusing the same area continually.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of mentions about how rare animals are - the artificial snake - &quot;you think I'd be working here if I could afford a real snake?&quot; and the owl at the beginning.  Again, it would be hard to make this a real theme of the movie, and lets face it, it's a bit all over the place in terms of plot and theme (heresy alert).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Avoiding religion in what was supposed to be a mass market movie was probably an easy decision...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While none of these things demanded the themes you mention being dropped, you can see the environment in which the film was created made it likely significant divergences from the source material likely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1651" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-08-21T18:23:47.890" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T18:23:47.890" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3187" CreationDate="2012-07-10T02:05:48.090" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have any real evidence, but I was thinking he might have done it on purpose to try and prove to Jules that accidents like that happen - in doing this he is trying to convince Jules that the bullets missing them in the apartment was not a miracle, but just a mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only 'proof' of this is that Vincent was on the topic of how sometimes 'freak accidents' do happen, and so he may have used that as a way of making Jules think he had done it by accident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know though, its just a thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1656" LastActivityDate="2012-07-10T02:05:48.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3228" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3294" CreationDate="2012-07-10T05:28:17.083" Score="7" ViewCount="8590" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson moves into a new house in season one (two?), she discovers a cat that has been living in the home already, whom she names &quot;Kitty&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Kitty&quot; is a she, but Brenda keeps referring to her pet as a &quot;he,&quot; despite being constantly corrected by her significant other.  While her initial ambivalence towards the cat changes, this incorrect gender identification does not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of season five, the cat passes away.  She grieves and carries the cat's ashes around with her, first as a mistake, and then as a remembrance.  The ashes are finally placed on the mantle in a fancy urn, despite Brenda's opposition to such practices earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In literature, cats carry a symbolic value, for things like cleanliness and good fortune (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_cats&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;). It seems as though for being such a minor &quot;character&quot; this cat gets a lot of attention in the series to not mean something to the plot or character development.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a deeper connection between Brenda and the cat that the writers and director are trying to establish?  Are they comparing Brenda's strong skills in interrogation to &quot;catching a rat&quot;?  If she's so close with the cat, why does she maintain this distance with the name &quot;Kitty&quot; and referring to she as a &quot;he&quot;?  (drawing on any hints from official sources or evaluations from critics if possible)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastActivityDate="2012-07-15T04:30:11.680" Title="Is there a special significance to the cat in The Closer?" Tags="|character|analysis|the-closer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3187" CreationDate="2012-07-10T10:44:58.713" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Searching around, I found an interesting detail. When Jules and Vincent are going to Brett's apartment, they open the trunk of the car in order to get the guns, and this is what they say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;             JULES&#xA;We should have shotguns for this &#xA;kind of deal.&#xA;&#xA;            VINCENT&#xA;How many up there?&#xA;&#xA;             JULES&#xA;Three or four.&#xA;&#xA;            VINCENT&#xA;Counting our guy?&#xA;&#xA;             JULES&#xA;I'm not sure.&#xA;&#xA;            VINCENT&#xA;So there could be five guys up there?&#xA;&#xA;             JULES&#xA;It's possible.&#xA;&#xA;            VINCENT&#xA;We should have fuckin' shotguns.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vincent says &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Counting our guy?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and indeed, they are talking about Marvin. This explains why they don't kill him in the apartment and they take him with them. He's not an hostage, he's an &lt;strong&gt;accomplice&lt;/strong&gt;. This is not a 100% attack-proof evidence, but if he's their guy, it might be that the shot could be indeed an accident. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/trivia&quot;&gt;IMDb page about Pulp Fiction&lt;/a&gt;, it is stated that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to an interview with Phil LaMarr&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, it was he who came up with the idea of his character Marvin being shot in the face. Marvin was originally supposed to be accidentally shot in the throat and survive. Knowing that Marvin would die a slow, painful death, Vincent and Jules decide that Marvin should be shot in the head and put out of his misery. Knowing that this would make the characters unlikeable, LaMarr took his idea to Quentin Tarantino and he agreed to it, figuring that a single-bullet kill would be funnier. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This kind of proves the accident way, since originally he was meant to be &lt;em&gt;accidentally&lt;/em&gt; shot, not in a fatal way, and then be killed by the two hitmen in order to avoid a slow and painful death. But here the death is sudden, yet still accidental. I'll add the interview if I find it. If someone finds it, please post it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;: The actor who plays Marvin.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastEditorUserId="1319" LastEditDate="2015-05-10T13:24:33.233" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T13:24:33.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3236" CreationDate="2012-07-10T12:35:57.607" Score="9" ViewCount="38491" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1999 film The Mummy.  Why was the mummy afraid of cats?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that they were the guardians of the underworld etc.  But what could the house cat that Connor had actually have done?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or was the Mummy just so knee deep in his superstition that he never actually stopped to realise it was a harmless kitty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-07-10T13:17:55.850" LastActivityDate="2018-01-07T01:24:35.297" Title="Why was the mummy afraid of cats" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-mummy|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2657" CreationDate="2012-07-10T13:31:19.587" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not have measurements to hand but wasn't the sword fight which ended up in the wheels in the pirates of the Caribbean sequel longer than 5 minutes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, do battle scenes count? The dday sequence of saving private Ryan is longer than 5 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="1501" LastEditDate="2012-07-10T13:45:49.070" LastActivityDate="2012-07-10T13:45:49.070" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3231" CreationDate="2012-07-10T13:40:44.787" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cats were especially revered by Egyptians and were seen as protectors and were also directly protected by the goddess Bastet. Bastet was the daughter of Ra. Ra was the fierce flame of the sun who burned the deceased should they fail one of the many tests in the underworld.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2018-01-07T01:24:35.297" LastActivityDate="2018-01-07T01:24:35.297" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3234" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3256" CreationDate="2012-07-10T14:31:43.597" Score="93" ViewCount="764668" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So I watched Memento, and I felt like I understood the story pretty well, however, some things don't make so much sense to me. As far as I know:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leonard, the main character, did in fact see his wife being raped in&#xA;the middle of the night by two criminals. He got hit in his skull and was injured, hence his condition.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Some time afterwards, Leonard and his wife were involved in a car&#xA;accident. Since then, he could not remember anything for longer than&#xA;5-10 minutes. His wife wasn't hurt.&lt;/strike&gt; Apparently, there was no car accident (see s427's answer &amp;amp; comments).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since the injury all he could remember was things happened to him before the injury, like his name, his former work, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since his memory condition, he has managed to live by making puzzles and playing detective in order to find the &quot;guy who murdered his wife&quot;. He can't remember he had already found this guy, who in fact raped (not murdered) his wife, and killed him.&#xA;Teddy, a police officer, has helped and is helping Lenard with his puzzles in order to give his life meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leonard killed his own wife with the insulin shots - she died because of an insulin overdose (Sam Jenkins story). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Most of those details are being revealed at the end of the movie (the last scene, which is really the beginning of the sequence of events). Teddy, the police officer, tells him who he really is - Sam Jenkins.&#xA;Now, this is what I don't quite understand:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leonard tells everyone he was an insurance investigator, and he was the one who handled the Sam Jenkins case. If he is Sam Jenkins, then was he ever an insurance investigator? If he killed his wife with the insulin shots, doesn't it mean that he used to be a doctor? Did he make up the insurance agent story? Why, and how? (because it means he was looking at himself from the outside).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the Sam Jenkins story Lenard says that he was in a hospital after he killed his wife. Was Leonard really in a hospital? When did this happen, and how did he recover?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How does Leonard know he has a memory condition? Sam Jenkins, as seen, wasn't aware of his condition, and if Sam is Lenard after the accident, how can he be aware of his condition? Even if someone told him about his condition, he wouldn't remember it. I know he had &quot;Remember Sammy Jenkins&quot; tattooed on his arm. This is how he remembers he has this condition?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here is the final dialogue between Leonard and Teddy, in the final scene, where most of truth about Leonard is being revealed:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; He knew about Sammy, why would I tell him about Sammy?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; You tell everybody about Sammy! Everybody who'll listen!&#xA;  &quot;Remember Sammy Jankis?&quot; &quot;Remember Sammy Jankis?&quot; Great story. Gets&#xA;  better every time you tell it. So you lie to yourself to be happy.&#xA;  There's nothing wrong with that. We all do it. Who cares if there's a&#xA;  few little details you'd rather not remember?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; What the fuck are you talking about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't know. Your wife surviving the assault. Her not&#xA;  believing your condition. The torment and pain and anguish tearing her&#xA;  up inside. The insulin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; That's Sammy, not me. I told you about Sammy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah, right. Like you tell yourself over and over again.&#xA;  Conditioning yourself to remember, learning through repetition. Sammy&#xA;  let his wife kill herself. Sammy ended up in an institution. Sammy was&#xA;  a con man. A faker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; I never said that Sammy was faking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; You exposed him for what he was. A fraud.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; I was wrong. That's the whole point. See, Sammy's wife came&#xA;  to me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; Sammy didn't have a wife. It was your wife who had diabetes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; My wife wasn't diabetic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; You sure? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; She wasn't diabetic. You think I don't know my own wife? What the &#xA;  fuck is wrong with you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; I guess I can only make you remember the things you want to be&#xA;  true. Like old Jimmy down there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; He's not the right guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; He was to you. Come on, you got your revenge. Enjoy it while&#xA;  you still remember. What difference does it make whether he was your&#xA;  guy or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; It makes all the difference. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; Why? You're never gonna know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, I will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; No, you won't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; Somehow I'll know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; You won't remember!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; When it's done, I will know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; I thought so, too, I was sure of it, but you didn't! That's&#xA;  right. The real John G. I helped you find him over a year ago. He's&#xA;  already dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; Don't lie to me any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; Look, Lenny...I was the cop assigned to your wife's case, I&#xA;  believed you. I thought you deserved a chance for revenge. I'm the one&#xA;  that helped you find the other guy in your bathroom that night. The&#xA;  guy that cracked your skull and fucked your wife. We found him, you&#xA;  killed him. But you didn't remember. So I helped you start looking&#xA;  again, looking for the guy you already killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh, yeah? So who was he?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; Just some guy. Does it matter who? No reason, Lenny, no&#xA;  conspiracy, just bad fucking luck. Couple of junkies too strung out to&#xA;  realise your wife didn't live alone. But when you killed him I was so&#xA;  convinced that you'd remember. But it didn't stick. Like nothing ever&#xA;  sticks, like this won't stick. I took that picture. Just when you did&#xA;  it. Look how happy you are. I wanted to see that face again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh, gee, thanks(!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; Fuck you. I gave you a reason to live and you were more than happy to&#xA;  help. You don't want the truth. You make up your own truth, like your&#xA;  police file. It was complete when I gave it to you. Who took out the&#xA;  twelve pages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; You, probably. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; No, it wasn't me, see, it was you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; Why would I do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; To create a puzzle you could never solve. Do you know how many&#xA;  towns...how many John Gs or James Gs? I mean, shit, Lenny, I'm a&#xA;  fucking John G.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; Your name's Teddy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; My mother calls me Teddy. My name's John Edward Gammell. Cheer&#xA;  up. There's plenty of John Gs for us to find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1659" LastEditorUserId="1659" LastEditDate="2016-09-23T22:23:38.653" LastActivityDate="2021-05-03T13:07:06.220" Title="What really happened in Memento?" Tags="|plot-explanation|memento|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3231" CreationDate="2012-07-10T14:54:00.047" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Mummy was afraid of the cat because of the Egyptian belief that cats are the guardian of the dead.  Having been risen from the dead, Imhotep probably thought that the cat could possibly send him back, hence being afraid of them.  I know if I was risen from the dead and believed something could send me back I'd avoid it and be scared of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-07-10T14:54:00.047" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3231" CreationDate="2012-07-10T17:43:19.367" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Egyptians worshipped cats. Cats were deified, were thought to be holy, and the mummy was an unholy undead creature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am relatively certain that the movie makers wanted it to be similar to a vampire confronted with a cross, or something to that effect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-08-07T13:15:26.473" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T13:15:26.473" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3237" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3242" CreationDate="2012-07-10T18:36:34.113" Score="16" ViewCount="6449" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one of the most memorable jokes from Seinfeld, Elaine dances at a company party in &quot;The Little Kicks&quot; (S8E4), and again briefly in &quot;The Slicer&quot; (S9E7).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VQETw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;fullbodydryheavesettomusic&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xi4O1yi6b0&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has Julia Louis-Dreyfus ever discussed how the dance came about? Was there input from Larry David or any of the cast members? &lt;strong&gt;What inspired her dance moves?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T14:19:02.087" LastActivityDate="2019-09-01T05:20:42.067" Title="What inspired Elaine's dance moves?" Tags="|character|seinfeld|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3234" CreationDate="2012-07-10T18:42:49.643" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you have the events correct. Leonard was an insurance investigator not an agent, so he was already something of a detective, and the Sam Jenkins case was a real case but the man was faking it and his wife didn't die. Leonard was able to kill his wife by administering her insulin shots. My wife is a type 1 diabetic (where you inject insulin) so I can tell you there is no medical training required or prescription needed to administer her shots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember this but I imagine with his condition and his wife dead he probably would have been in a hospital for awhile. But considering how he confuses his actual memory with the Sam Jenkins case it's possible that his hospital recovery was from the accident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this last question goes a bit more into analysis of this movie so I'll keep it a bit brief for now. Leonard does remember the Sam Jenkins case since it happened before his memory problem. So &quot;remember Sam Jenkins&quot; will trigger his memory of the condition.  There is a memory case similar to Leonard. He was known as H.M. He had a part of his hippocampus removed in order to stop his epilepsy. However, this caused him to lose the ability to form new Lon term memories. He could learn new motor abilities, but couldn't remember when he did. This is similar to the case of Leonard, where he tries to condition himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-12-01T02:22:33.183" LastActivityDate="2013-12-01T02:22:33.183" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3239" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3240" CreationDate="2012-07-10T19:13:49.133" Score="15" ViewCount="363" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been watching the First Doctor serials with William Hartnell, and many of the episodes had to be reconstructed because much of the original material was lost (apparently by the BBC cleaning up). However, I wonder; while the video feed has to be stitched together from stills some times, the audio track seems to be consistently preserved (well, not always in the best quality, but there is an audio track as far as I've watched, which is about 20 serials).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that? What is the background of the lost episodes? Which circumstances led to the video track being lost while the audio track was preserved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="667" OwnerDisplayName="bitmask" LastActivityDate="2012-07-10T20:17:33.863" Title="How come the old audio tracks are mostly preserved while the film is not?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3239" CreationDate="2012-07-10T20:17:33.863" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.recons.com/aboutrecons.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; site talks about how the reconstructions were made. Here's what it says about why there are missing episodes at all:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...By the 1970's the show had moved to colour and the old 60's black and white episodes were becoming less popular to show as more and more foreign TV stations opted to show the newer colour stories instead. The copies distributed abroad were supposed to be either destroyed or returned to the BBC after use. &lt;strong&gt;Believing that the BBC film archive held copies of all Doctor Who stories, BBC Enterprises decided that their old black and white film prints would no longer be required for overseas sales and their destruction began in the early 1970s.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It was later discovered that the film Archive did not keep copies, all the original prints and negatives had been passed to Enterprises.&lt;/strong&gt; By the late 1970s virtually all the 60s episodes had been destroyed. Copies of many episodes have subsequently been found in other BBC archives and returned from foreign TV stations and private collectors. ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and here's what it says about why we have audio from all of them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the BBC kept some of the sound effects and music used from the 60s episodes, the full soundtracks were not recorded separately. However, &lt;strong&gt;several fans did record the stories on reel-to-reel audio tape from their televisions upon their original transmission, most notably David Holman, Richard Landen, David Butler and Graham Strong.&lt;/strong&gt; Most of the audio recordings that were taken had the opening and closing credits cut out at the time of recording to save on tape, so although all the episodes do exist on audio, there are a few seconds at the start or end of some episodes that are missing. For this reason it is often necessary to combine several different versions to produce a complete soundtrack and the exact start/finish points of episodes are often difficult to determine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably this also helps explain the quality issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1661" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-07-10T20:17:33.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2303" CreationDate="2012-07-11T00:54:02.023" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://slowbirding.blogspot.ca/2012_01_01_archive.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This page&lt;/a&gt; has a calculation on what one birder SHOULD have done, who ended on 748:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In late August instead of birding in Colorado for some code 1 birds&#xA;  that he could have picked up at other times of the year, he could have&#xA;  been in the Pribiloffs for a few days before going to Gambell. If he&#xA;  had he could have seen taiga and dark-sided flycatchers (code 4's), a&#xA;  jack snipe (code 4) and a long-toed stint (code 3). All of these birds&#xA;  could have been seen without missing out on other birds that John saw&#xA;  during the same time periods. If he had seen all these additional&#xA;  birds his 2011 total would have been 755.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd theorise then that they were basing it on the theoretical maximum then, ie the answer to the &quot;if he'd done everything right, how many could he have seen?&quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="366" LastActivityDate="2012-07-11T00:54:02.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3237" CreationDate="2012-07-11T03:34:08.890" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/seinfeld/the-little-kicks-2378/&quot;&gt;tv.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was reported in Allure magazine that the dance moves Elaine made&#xA;  were completely Lorne Michaels (noted Saturday+Night+Live producer)&#xA;  own moves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-07-11T03:34:08.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3243" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3245" CreationDate="2012-07-11T06:10:29.133" Score="13" ViewCount="9625" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the series Seinfeld, why does Jerry not change his character's name? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user96" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T08:23:55.730" Title="Why does Jerry Seinfeld not change his character's name" Tags="|seinfeld|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3243" CreationDate="2012-07-11T16:38:12.647" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The similarities between the real Jerry and the fictionalized Jerry are subtle. Since his life as a comedian was the show's core, there was great reason to tie the real and fictionalized characters together. They did so using the name of the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I am sure there was a bit of ego involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2012-07-11T16:38:12.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3246" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3293" CreationDate="2012-07-11T19:29:55.213" Score="17" ViewCount="1744" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have had little to no interest in a movie that claims it is &quot;Based On a True Story&quot; since Fargo. It's well known that it was a lie that Fargo was based on a true story. There are many movies though that alter so much of the real story though that they end up more fiction than reality. So what is the point of putting &quot;Based on a True Story&quot; in the movie description? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2013-12-22T02:38:58.153" Title="Why is &quot;Based on a True Story&quot; used?" Tags="|analysis|plot-explanation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3271" CreationDate="2012-07-11T19:32:41.693" Score="10" ViewCount="68774" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the film, Hepburn's character, Ethel Thayer, is wobbling in a fashion that some older people do when they start to lose motor control (sometimes as a result of a degenerative disease).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was she acting this, or was she actually affected by such a condition?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1062" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2014-05-16T15:23:41.287" LastActivityDate="2017-03-18T23:44:11.827" Title="Is Katherine Hepburn's shaking real or acted in On Golden Pond?" Tags="|character|on-golden-pond|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3247" CreationDate="2012-07-11T19:43:21.237" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hepburn developed what's known as Essential Tremors &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_tremor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_tremor&lt;/a&gt;. It's a neurological disorder that often causes tremors of the hands and arms but can also cause tremors of the head and neck. It is thought to be passed genetically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2012-07-11T19:43:21.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3264" CreationDate="2012-07-11T19:54:00.473" Score="9" ViewCount="3885" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a re-telling of the origin story of Spider-man. There wasn't any girlfriend in the comic origin. I understand that a love interest is needed in a movie but why was Gwen Stacy chosen instead of the better known Mary Jane Watson? Gwen Stacy has a tragic death in the comic, which means they could potential kill her in the re-boot. Why bring her into a retelling?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:22:32.093" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T12:22:32.093" Title="Why is Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) in the Amazing Spider-man?" Tags="|the-amazing-spider-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3153" CreationDate="2012-07-11T20:18:08.763" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having watched it again, and continuing with the Sinister Six theory I mentioned earlier, I now believe this might be the introduction of Electro.&#xA;If you'll recall, the figure appears and disappears during lightning strikes, which would be the perfect cover (and set up) for Electro.&#xA;Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Electro features pretty prominently in the game of the movie, which might not mean much, but could be another clue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-07-11T20:18:08.763" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3255" CreationDate="2012-07-11T22:12:55.930" Score="16" ViewCount="11638" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hattori Hanzo in Kill Bill says that despite he made a blood oath to never make another sword, he would make one for the Bride because of the goal she has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he later hands over the sword, he is wearing what can be seen as some sort of ceremonial garnments. They look to me quite close to clothing I've seen in some other movies on Japanese people that were preparing to commit suicide in a traditional way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it implied in Kill Bill that Hattori Hanzo commits suicide (because he has broken his oath) when the Bride leaves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1669" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-07-12T12:40:40.013" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T16:55:41.940" Title="Does Hattori Hanzo commit suicide in Kill Bill?" Tags="|analysis|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3254" CreationDate="2012-07-11T22:54:05.543" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's implied that he commits suicide, in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I'm no expert about traditional Japanese clothing, I think that the garments he wears are typical for the ceremony of the sword and not for suicide. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, he doesn't &quot;simply break&quot; his oath. He chooses to make an exception because his honor tells him to. Basically, Bill is Hanzo's former student, and since Bill betrayed his teachings by becoming a contract killer, Hanzo is &quot;forced&quot; to punish him for that, by making and giving The Bride a sword, in order to &quot;fix&quot; the situation. Check the dialogue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;        HANZO       (JAPANESE)&#xA;I am retired.&#xA;&#xA;        THE BRIDE       (ENGLISH)&#xA;Then give me one of these.&#xA;&#xA;        HANZO       (ENGLISH)&#xA;These are not for sale.&#xA;&#xA;        THE BRIDE       (ENGLISH)&#xA;I didn't say, sell me. I said, give&#xA;me.&#xA;&#xA;        HANZO       (ENGLISH)&#xA;And why should I be obliged to&#xA;assist you in the extermination of&#xA;your vermin?&#xA;&#xA;        THE BRIDE       (ENGLISH)&#xA;Because my vermin, is a former&#xA;student of yours. And considering&#xA;the student, I'd say you had a&#xA;rather large obligation.&#xA;&#xA;Hattori Hanzo goes to a dusty window, and writes the name,&#xA;&quot;BILL&quot; on it with his finger.&#xA;&#xA;The blonde girl nods her head yes.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She says &lt;em&gt;&quot;Because my vermin, is a former student of yours. And considering the student, I'd say you had a rather large obligation.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; It's a matter of honor, he's doing this for honor. Committing suicide would &quot;make sense&quot; (in that context) if there was dishonor. Hara kiri is done when you have dishonor and only by committing suicide you'll regain it. It's not the case of Hanzo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you prefer I can look for a more clear source, but I think this really makes a point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastActivityDate="2012-07-11T22:54:05.543" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3234" CreationDate="2012-07-11T23:01:48.680" Score="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't remember of a car accident, and actually I don't think it fits with the plot. Leonard gets badly injured on the head during the burglary/rape (in his house), which causes his condition. This is actually important, because the last thing he remembers is this aggression (he says so himself), so it follows logically (to him) that his wife was killed during that night. (When actually his wife died only some times later and for another reason.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If his condition didn't originate from that night, he would have formed more memories with his wife after that, and so he would know that she wasn't killed during that night. Which is not the case, so his condition definitely started that night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that we can guess that the story he tells about Jankis' wife is actually his own story (somewhat distorted), since the policeman tells him that Jankis was actually a fraud that Leonard managed to uncover. So if the story Leonard tells about Jankis does not really apply to Jankis, we can suppose it actually applies to Leonard (at least partially).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think that for some reason his (Leonard's) wife had doubts about his condition (feared he was faking it) and decided to put him to the test, by repeatedly asking him to give her her insulin shot, which caused her death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now comes the most interesting (and frightening) part: confronted with the fact that he killed his own wife, Leonard can't accept it and &lt;strong&gt;erases&lt;/strong&gt; the part of the report that explains what happened. And he sets up some random clues that will lead him on a false track for a wrong reason (vengeance), &lt;em&gt;knowing&lt;/em&gt; that he will soon forget that those false clues were planted by himself. And also knowing that his last memory (of his wife) will corroborate the idea that she was murdered that night, which will validate his quest for vengeance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he deliberately (and successfully) manipulates himself (and kills some innocent drug dealer who was set up by Teddy to make money in the process), simply because he knows that a normal life is no longer possible for him (due to his condition as well as the death of his wife) and that he needs a simple goal (vengeance) to keep going forward, day after day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(We can only speculate that once he killed the cop, he will repeat the process with some other random clues, in order to give his life some meaning again. ;) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1670" LastEditorUserId="1064" LastEditDate="2021-05-03T13:07:06.220" LastActivityDate="2021-05-03T13:07:06.220" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2692" CreationDate="2012-07-12T00:46:16.760" Score="-8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edward Norton's character's name is Tyler Durden. He asks his girlfriend Marla (Helena Bonham Carter) what his name is. She replies, &quot;Tyler Durden.&quot; The next time The Narrator interacts with Tyler, Tyler says to him, &quot;I told you not to talk to her about me.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Tyler seems to know about it only after The Narrator knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1671" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T00:46:16.760" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3258" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3308" CreationDate="2012-07-12T01:49:41.510" Score="3" ViewCount="869" Body="&lt;p&gt;Garden state is my favorite film of all time, and I watch it time after time enjoying the incredible subtleties that Zach Braff includes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the one detail that I don't understand is when he is in the airport about to leave back to New Jersey and when he walks by the sinks, each faucet goes off as he walks past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do you think Zach Braff chose to do this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1672" LastEditorUserId="31426" LastEditDate="2017-08-18T15:54:10.240" LastActivityDate="2021-06-05T00:58:54.737" Title="Faucets in &quot;Garden State&quot;" Tags="|analysis|garden-state|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3243" CreationDate="2012-07-12T01:55:40.397" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mean, the show is called Seinfeld. I think much of the basis of the show is that it is an exaggerated interpretation of his own life. A viewer is meant to believe that the Jerry we watch in Seinfeld is the same Jerry we see doing stand up comedy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1672" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T01:55:40.397" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3186" CreationDate="2012-07-12T02:11:43.167" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the idea was to attempt a 300-like movie by shooting and editing with particularly dark effects. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the dark plot line, Greek mythology did tend to be dark and such details as the three priestess' being cooked in an iron bull are accurate but this movie takes it way too far&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1672" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-10T13:21:03.200" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T13:21:03.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3261" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3262" CreationDate="2012-07-12T02:16:54.167" Score="2" ViewCount="689" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Ice Age: Continental Drift movie, when Scrat dives into the sea with help of a large stone to get the acorn, his bones start disappearing as he goes down. Why does that happen?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1248" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-07-12T17:11:48.240" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T17:11:48.240" Title="In Ice Age 4, what's the significance of Scrat's bone disappearance?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ice-age-4|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3261" CreationDate="2012-07-12T02:31:09.420" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a bit of artistic license on the part of Blue Sky's animators who did this to exaggerate the effects of water pressure on him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the short, Scrat is dragged under fairly rapidly by the rock, and so the water pressure exerted on him would build up extremely quickly and with great force. However, this being a cartoon, Scrat merely continues his effort to retrieve the acorn/map with his body crushed and floppy.&#xA;It's animation physics :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T02:31:09.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3263" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-12T05:59:57.423" Score="3" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading about &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_lake&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lava lakes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and got to wondering: have there been any Discovery or other scientific documentary TV specials about them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious to know if there are any real-life examples that get even close to what science fiction usually portrays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="273" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T22:23:44.627" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T22:23:44.627" Title="Have there been any TV specials on lava lakes?" Tags="|documentary|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3251" CreationDate="2012-07-12T12:35:00.583" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.com/universe/Stacy,_Gwen&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marvel.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gwen Stacy was Peter Parker's first true love&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next to the death of his Uncle Ben, no death has weighed as heavily upon Spider-Man's shoulders as her passing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nYnsv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Death of Gwen Stacy&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From producer &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.inquirer.net/4811/emma-stone-is-gwen-stacy-in-the-amazing-spider-man&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Matt Tolmach&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The relationship between Peter and Gwen is very significant – the previous movies haven’t explored this until now.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gwen is a very self-assured character; she’s his rival intellectually. And her father happens to be Captain Stacy and let’s be honest, it’s hard enough to meet your girlfriend’s parents for the first time, but when he happens to be the head of the police force that’s chasing you, it makes things that much more complicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there’s an emotional honesty and partnership that’s unique to their relationship. Gwen is really the only person who truly knows Peter – and because of that, there’s a closeness that develops between the two of them that neither of them have with anyone else in their lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From director &lt;a href=&quot;http://movieline.com/2012/07/04/reboot-amazing-spider-man-marc-webb-gwen-stacy-spoilers/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marc Webb&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One of the reasons why I wanted to use Gwen — first and foremost, she’s his first love in the comics. Let’s just set the record straight, it’s not Mary Jane.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;I like the idea of following somebody who is as smart, if not smarter, than Peter Parker.&lt;/strong&gt; And Emma Stone is the perfect woman to play somebody who is much more proactive, much more intelligent and feisty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they’re kind of lovers as rivals, you know? There’s this back and forth that I love, in the laboratory, and there’s just this great bond that you feel between them. She’s not just a prize, she’s not just a damsel in distress. She’s a confidante, and that was a really important thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;I'd say using &lt;em&gt;Gwen Stacy&lt;/em&gt; instead of &lt;em&gt;Mary Jane&lt;/em&gt; also helps distinguish &lt;strong&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/strong&gt; from Raimi's &lt;strong&gt;Spider-Man&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-07-12T12:43:49.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3219" CreationDate="2012-07-12T13:38:42.130" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Lizard often retreats to the sewers, lives in the sewers in his appearances in the comic &quot;The Amazing Spider-Man&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the more famous Lizard storyline The Gauntlet has him trying to get humans to act like Lizards, turn them into lizards. He does this whilst hiding in the sewer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Practically this is useful for a reptile who likes wet/humid conditions whilst also eliminating to some degree Spider-Man's main asset which is his agility given the cramped confines. It also allows him to navigate the city quickly without drawing attention to his form. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current story arc in the Amazing Spider-Man, which start in issue 688 (I think) features the Lizard who is found living in the sewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think the film was trying to replicate the character from the comic for those comic fans out there, like myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1342" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-11-20T10:27:24.867" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T10:27:24.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2764" CreationDate="2012-07-12T21:06:42.880" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, the production staff lawyered up real well. From a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/the-mike-judge-interview-part-2-gene-simmons-and-ben-affleck-in-extract-corporate-product-hilarity-in-idiocracy-and-the-kamikaze-futures-of-beavis-butt-head/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Slashfilm interview with Mike Judge&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And as far as the products stuff, I remember writing it and going, “Oh&#xA;  man, there’s no way we’re going to clear all of this stuff.” And I had&#xA;  a meeting with the lawyers, who were actually really cool and really&#xA;  liked the script. [laughs] And in the Beavis &amp;amp; Butt-Head movie I&#xA;  couldn’t even have a bottle that was shaped like a Jack Daniel’s&#xA;  bottle. I couldn’t have, there was more, it was just ridiculous on&#xA;  that [movie].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But on Idiocracy, when we were talking about Starbucks, the lawyers&#xA;  said, “Well, it would help if you didn’t pick on just one company and&#xA;  if you did more than one.” So, [laughs] I was like okay, and that’s&#xA;  why there’s the whole red light district with Starbucks and there’s an&#xA;  H&amp;amp;R Block with “Tax Return and Relief,” and all of that. But the other&#xA;  stuff, Carl Jr’s, that was all in the script, and I couldn’t believe&#xA;  it all cleared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, it wasn't high profile enough to cause the companies any big issues (from the same interview):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At one point, [Fox] told me, “Hey, it’s not testing well, we’re not&#xA;  going to spend a lot of money promoting it.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="421" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-02T21:25:27.947" LastActivityDate="2014-08-02T21:25:27.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1413" CreationDate="2012-07-13T13:41:52.993" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several aspects of the symptoms could also be from syphalis and opiat addiction which both were common in that time period.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1679" LastActivityDate="2012-07-13T13:41:52.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3247" CreationDate="2012-07-13T14:41:08.027" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Katharine Hepburn's tremors in On Golden Pond were real.&lt;/strong&gt; She developed essential tremors, a disease that can affect the extremities by causing them to involuntarily shake in varying degrees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eldercareteam.com/public/622.cfm&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; specializing in health-related information for older adults:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;...her tremulous voice and the persistent involuntary movement of her&#xA;  head, particularly during her performance in &quot;On Golden Pond.&quot; These are classic symptoms of essential tremor that has affected the head and voice. She never appeared to have any difficulty walking. Ms. Hepburn did not have Parkinson's Disease, and despite her &quot;disability,&quot; she was able to perform for many, many years.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an additional excerpt from a New York Times Q&amp;amp;A where someone asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/22/science/q-a-head-and-hand-tremors.html&quot;&gt;&quot;Why did Katharine Hepburn's head shake?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Katharine Hepburn's ailment, recently discussed on television by her&#xA;  niece Katharine Houghton, was not Parkinson's disease, but a&#xA;  progressive yet treatable neurological disorder called essential&#xA;  tremor. Ms. Hepburn's was referred to as familial tremor, the&#xA;  inherited form. Each child of a parent with the disease has a 50&#xA;  percent chance of inheriting a gene that causes it. In other cases,&#xA;  there is no family history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The disorder, which varies in location and severity, used to be called&#xA;  palsy. The International Essential Tremor Foundation, which offers&#xA;  information and helps search for a cure, says the disease stems from&#xA;  abnormal communication among areas of the brain, including the&#xA;  cerebellum, thalamus and brain stem. The group estimates that 10&#xA;  million people in the United States and 200 million people worldwide&#xA;  have some form of the problem, often undiagnosed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many do not seek treatment because they fear Parkinson's or think&#xA;  tremors are part of aging. Shaking, usually starting with the hands,&#xA;  can begin at any age but is more common in older people; tremors&#xA;  starting with the head are more common in women.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2012-07-13T14:41:08.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3272" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3276" CreationDate="2012-07-13T14:51:36.907" Score="13" ViewCount="20984" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of American Beauty, after her affair was found out by Lester and the relationship is broken off, Carolyn can be seen distraught in her car, and eventually loads a gun.  She then drives home and finds Lester dead, after which she is found again to be extremely upset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems obvious that Carolyn didn’t have an real intentions to kill Lester.  What did she mean to do with the gun?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-07-13T15:10:01.300" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T17:47:32.380" Title="What was Carolyn’s intention with the gun?" Tags="|plot-explanation|american-beauty|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3273" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4567" CreationDate="2012-07-13T15:07:15.550" Score="15" ViewCount="6478" Body="&lt;p&gt;While reading this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/3065/what-was-frank&quot;&gt;What was Frank?&lt;/a&gt; it reminded me of one scene in Donnie Darko that I especially don't get how it ties into the story or why it's even there. He is under hypnosis with his therapist and he reaches into his pants and starts masturbating. I believe he does this while telling his therapist he's thinking of her. Why is this scene important?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2021-04-21T18:20:18.297" Title="What is the point of the masturbation scene in Donnie Darko?" Tags="|analysis|donnie-darko|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3274" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3275" CreationDate="2012-07-13T15:28:03.803" Score="6" ViewCount="3384" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the movie, the big fight between Spider-Man and The Lizard (Kurt Connors) happens, and Spider-Man ends up defeating The Lizard, but gets thrown off the building.  The issue with this is that The Lizard had previously destroyed his web shooters.  However, just before Spider-Man would fall to his death, Kurt catches him while he’s reverting back to being human, and saves him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did he save Spider-Man?  Shouldn’t he be mad that he was thwarted?  That Spider-Man turned him back into a human with only one arm and will be in prison for the rest of his life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2014-02-28T06:47:00.897" Title="Why did Kurt Connors save Spider-Man?" Tags="|analysis|the-amazing-spider-man|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3274" CreationDate="2012-07-13T15:41:43.693" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is actually easier to understand in the comics and the 90's cartoon series where Curt actually really likes Peter and respects his intelligence. You can also see that Curt and the Lizard are two different beings trapped in the same body (Jekyll and Hyde). From those other sources you see that whenever Curt comes back from being the Lizard he does his best to try and make amends for the foul deeds committed by his alter ego, in this case saving Spider-man from falling off Oscorp tower.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also see the disparity a little bit as Peter goes and talks with him after he's figured out that Curt is the Lizard. Instead of trying to hurt him there in the middle of the lab he just tells Parker to go away he's working on a solution himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="567" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-11-20T10:23:34.727" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T10:23:34.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3272" CreationDate="2012-07-13T17:26:02.883" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;This scene is set-up as sort of a who-dunit to start with. The actual scene where Lester is killed just shows a gun to the back of his head and it's unclear who pulled the trigger. His daughter looks very serious in the video her boyfriend takes of her when she says she wants her dad dead. Her boyfriend then gives a very serious ( I might do that for you) look back. Lester has also just ruined his wife's affair and her business partnering which are probably the two most important aspects of her life at this point. Plus with his change in behavior lately she is very jealous of his carefree life but can't let go of her image of who she is. So with everything seemingly falling apart and considering her violent outburst before I think that there is a very good chance that she planned to threaten him with her gun. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She doesn't have the guts to actually kill Lester but she is mad and her world as she knows it has collapsed and everything can be traced back to Lester changing on her. So yeah she would want to threaten and scare him, but I think you are correct she wasn't really going to kill him. She's just a traditional &quot;red herring&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2012-07-13T17:26:02.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3272" CreationDate="2012-07-14T05:52:38.403" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure Carolyn intended to kill Lester, or at least she &lt;em&gt;believed&lt;/em&gt; she intended to. She had been listening to the &quot;take life by the horns&quot; motivational tapes and felt she was justified in removing Lester from her life. She looked very intense sitting in the car before going inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wasn't until she heard the gunshot and found Lester dead that she realized how deeply she loved him, as evidenced by her melting into his clothes while crying hysterically at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1548" LastActivityDate="2012-07-14T05:52:38.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3273" CreationDate="2012-07-14T06:02:42.700" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;She asked him about girls, and he said he met a girl. She then asked about school and his family, but he was stuck thinking about girls, and watching Christina Applegate on Married with Children. He never mentioned his therapist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not know the significance of the scene other than to make him seem like a normal teenage boy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1548" LastActivityDate="2012-07-14T06:02:42.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2692" CreationDate="2012-07-14T06:41:42.417" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to Orion's answer, I'd add that while it's not specifically stated in the movie, I think it's implied well enough that the Narrator's name is not Tyler Durden. Tyler says at one point that the Narrator is &quot;slowly letting himself become Tyler Durden.&quot; If his name was actually Tyler, this line wouldn't make any sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect the movie avoids telling us his real name as a clue that he and Tyler are the same person. It was very clever indeed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still remember the first time I watched it and Marla is asking him his name, &quot;What's your name? It's not on your card. Is it Radith? Corneleus? Any of the stupid names you give each night?&quot; The bus passes in front of her, ending the scene so we don't get to hear the Narrator's answer . . . and it didn't phase me one bit. It just seemed like a neat way to end the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fight Club is definitely one of my top ten movies of all time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1548" LastActivityDate="2012-07-14T06:41:42.417" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3200" CreationDate="2012-07-14T07:22:33.443" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The penguin was the Narrator's &quot;power animal.&quot; As Arremer, it told the Narrator to slide to mean &quot;relax and let go.&quot; Further, I think the choice of a penguin was based on it being black-and-white to hint at the duality building within the main character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1548" LastActivityDate="2012-07-14T07:22:33.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2971" CreationDate="2012-07-14T20:19:34.207" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there are no scenes in &lt;em&gt;Prometheus&lt;/em&gt; with slowly rotating fans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure how I can cite or backup a &lt;em&gt;lack&lt;/em&gt; of something, but I have seen the movie a couple of times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-07-14T20:19:34.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1023" CreationDate="2012-07-14T21:32:50.183" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I could find, it was for dramatic effect.  After doing some research into the actual mission, it appears as though the real-life mission had them purposefully going with the bombers to Berlin.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Tails#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia's&lt;/a&gt; Plot summation for that portion of the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Tuskegee Airmen are then tasked with escorting the first American bombers to attack Berlin. However, despite their P-51s having more than enough fuel for the trip, the 332nd is only asked to escort the bombers on the first leg of their journey due to propaganda reasons. But the fighter squadron meant to relieve the 332nd never arrives, and Easy makes the decision to stay with bombers all the way. They are then attacked by Pretty Boy, now leading a flight of revolutionary Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighters. Despite being outclassed by the jet fighters' superior speed and 30 mm cannon, the Tuskegee Airmen are able to shoot down some of the Me 262s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After some digging, I found that this mission was likely a mission that occurred on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tuskegee.edu/about_us/legacy_of_fame/tuskegee_airmen/tuskegee_airmen_facts.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;March 24, 1945&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The 332nd Fighter group was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for its' longest bomber escort mission to Berlin, Germany on March 24, 1945. During this mission, the Tuskegee Airmen (then known as the 'Red Tails') destroyed three German ME-262 jet fighters and damaged five additional jet fighters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both descriptions mention escorting bombers to Berlin, and shooting down MS-262s.  However, I couldn't find any mention that this wasn't the original mission plan all along.  None of my searches returned results that indicated that there was a failed rendezvous.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=15471&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;For example&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tuskegee's airmen faced the best the Luftwaffe had, including the first jet fighters. On March 24, 1945, as the 332nd became one of the first Italy-based fighter unit to escort all B-17s all the way to Berlin and back, they met 25 German Me 262 jets. In the ensuing combat, three jets fell and the 332nd lost only one P-51. Significantly, the 332nd had completed the full 1,600-mile mission, for which it earned the Distinguished Unit Citation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, it looks like it would be impossible for them to have performed the mission as shown in the film.  The length of the trip required their planes to have larger than normal fuel tanks to make the trip there and back.  In the film, they're portrayed as simply happening to have enough fuel for a full trip.  In reality, that would not have happened if they were planned to only do a partial escort of the planes.  From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tuskegee.edu/sites/www/uploads/files/About%20US/Airmen/Nine_Myths_About_the_Tuskegee_Airmen.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a document&lt;/a&gt; that details some Tuskegee Airmen myths:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[They] needed the larger fuel tanks to take them all the way to Berlin, because all of them had aircraft over the target area on March 24, 1945.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it must have been part of the fiction of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-07-14T21:32:50.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3153" CreationDate="2012-07-15T00:05:17.910" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dont think it's Norman Osborne because it wouldn't make sense. Curt is in jail, how could Norman get in there. I think it's between Dr. Connors' conscience, or it could be Peter's dad, because they never showed what happened to him.  Plus, remember Peter went on a computer and looked up info about his dad, and they said Peters mom and dad died in a plane crash&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1683" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T00:09:26.497" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T00:09:26.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3263" CreationDate="2012-07-15T03:50:38.437" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a 30-minute documentary called &lt;em&gt;Lava Lake Acid Lake&lt;/em&gt; by volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft. The Kraffts were famous for close-up photography of lava flows, and in fact, died in Japan in 1991 (along with 41 other people) when a lava flow suddenly changed direction. Their documentary appears to have been released on disc in 2006 by Learning Media of America (Las Vegas) - that company, which distributed educational films for free, may now be out of business, their former web address (lmofa.com) having been subsumed by someone else. The World Catalog shows a few libraries with the disc, so you could ask your local library to try to get it through interlibrary loan. At most public libraries this is a free service, but sometimes holding libraries won't lend something if they consider it rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The BBC's 2008 &lt;em&gt;Earth: the Biography&lt;/em&gt; covers volcanoes on the first of 2 discs, and  the lava lake in Ethiopia is covered. It is available through Amazon, and many libraries have this one, so you should have no problem getting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Nova  program (PBS) produced an episode called &lt;em&gt;Volcano Under the City: &#xA;Will Mount Nyiragongo Obliterate This Thriving City?&lt;/em&gt;  Nyiragongo is famous for its lava lake, so it is probably discussed. The same volcano is covered in the 2011 National Geographic Explorer series, Season 1 Episode 13, &lt;em&gt;Man vs Volcano&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-07-15T03:50:38.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="946" CreationDate="2012-07-15T03:50:46.367" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene featuring the policeman talking at George parallels the opening clip of the character in the movie-within-the-movie being tortured by sound. Perhaps the simple answer to the policeman-scene's importance is that sound, or too much talk, does assault the ears. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet his wife, portrayed as pretty bland and humorless, needs words, needs George to prattle. Maybe, then, the movie is suggesting that instead of talking, a bit of &quot;mugging,&quot; as Peppy would phrase it, is charming, a good thing, especially if the alternative is inane drivel. Charm does seem to rely on the unspoken, the subtle; the overt tends to rob the imagination...  And as for George's single utterance? It has a certain je ne sais quoi, n'est-ce pas? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1684" LastActivityDate="2012-07-15T03:50:46.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3246" CreationDate="2012-07-15T04:15:21.697" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lots of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Usually, the creative team wishes to use artistic license to make the story more entertaining. They might condense the time frame, eliminate or combine minor characters,  imagine sequences or conversations that cannot be known, or leave parts out that seem to distract from the primary story.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There may be a fear of litigation if they don't get the story exactly right.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There may be a wish to protect innocent parties.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The creators heard a great story and wanted to use it as a starting point for their own creation, yet they still wanted to give credit for the idea. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The creators want to build believability in from the start, so they give you the subtitle to pique your interest (which in your case does the opposite). The subtitle &quot;Based on a True Story&quot; has been so overutilized by cheap television productions emanating from salacious headlines, that it does tend to make you want to run!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In literature, sometimes an author (think Erik Larson) will publish a book as non-fiction even though it has fictionalized dialogue and a certain degree of supposition, which I find equally annoying. James Frey's memoir &lt;em&gt;A Million Little Pieces&lt;/em&gt; contained enough fabrication that libraries don't know where to put it! If the story (movie or book) is interesting enough, &quot;based on a true story&quot; always makes me want to research the true story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-07-15T04:15:21.697" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3228" CreationDate="2012-07-15T04:30:11.680" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pawnation.com/2009/06/08/kitty-gets-a-closeup-in-the-closer-with-kyra-sedgwick/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with executive producer James Duff, he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Though Brenda is not a &quot;pet person&quot; she adopts the cat, simply calling&#xA;  it &quot;kitty,&quot; and begins to develop a relationship with her. &quot;A pet is&#xA;  usually not a part of the procedural aspects of a crime show, but it&#xA;  is a part of everyday life for a lot of people and we wanted to show&#xA;  Brenda as an ordinary person,&quot; says Duff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the death of kitty:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kyra Sedgwick broke down weeping when she arrived on set to begin&#xA;  filming the fifth season of TNT's hit show &quot;The Closer&quot; and learned&#xA;  that her character, Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, would be&#xA;  grappling in ensuing episodes with the serious illness of Kitty, her&#xA;  pet cat. Unbeknownst to the show's creator and executive producer,&#xA;  James Duff, Sedgwick had just lost her real-life cat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We didn't feel like we had a choice,&quot; says Duff, explaining why he&#xA;  decided to make Kitty's illness a major storyline. The cat that played&#xA;  Kitty had, in real life, been diagnosed with a serious kidney&#xA;  condition. &quot;We could replace the cat and keep filming, or we could&#xA;  accept the cat was seriously ill and write it into the story.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-07-15T04:30:11.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3296" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-07-15T13:57:04.863" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-07-15T13:57:04.863" LastActivityDate="2012-07-15T13:57:04.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3297" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-07-15T13:57:04.863" Score="0" Body="Ajith Kumar is an Indian film actor who works mainly in Tamil cinema aka **Kollywood**. He performs predominantly in leading roles in major studio films, genres ranging from romantic comedies and drama to action thrillers. His 50th film **Mankatha** brought his best ever opening in his career." OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="556" LastEditDate="2012-07-15T14:08:53.403" LastActivityDate="2012-07-15T14:08:53.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3298" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-15T14:50:07.050" Score="14" ViewCount="15174" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;Gladiator&lt;/strong&gt;, every time before a war scene, Maximus picks up a small quantity of dirt from around his feet and rubs it on his hands. Sometimes he smells his hands after the battle. What was the purpose of that scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it simply for the grip on his sword, or did Maximus had other reasons to do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-13T18:46:04.163" LastActivityDate="2020-10-29T21:43:07.290" Title="Rubbing dirt on hands scene in Gladiator" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|gladiator|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3302" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-15T20:27:23.970" Score="7" ViewCount="778" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Inception&quot; it seems that Cobb takes over the use of Mal's totem (the spinning top).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the totem is a personal item that helps you keep your hold on reality, can the totem really be transferred from one person to another? Or, does it add credibility to the question that Cobb may not actually be dealing with reality anymore?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-10T14:23:10.387" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T14:23:10.387" Title="Is it actually possible to transfer a totem?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|inception|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3303" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3309" CreationDate="2012-07-15T22:22:21.597" Score="11" ViewCount="20906" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did not understand this scene in &lt;em&gt;Unknown&lt;/em&gt; (2011) at all, an old guy called Rodney Cole rings up Ernst Jürgen and wants to meet. Ernst Jürgen then instead of using time between phone call and Rodney's arrival to escape, or even prepare a trap for Rodney, he does nothing but wait.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're both old and would hardly resolve to a fight, even though Rodney probably would win due to sheer size over Ernst, yet a physical encounter never came to it as when Ernst tells Rodney he knows he is from &quot;sector 15&quot; he then takes cyanide powder and dies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Ernst Jürgen commit suicide??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-10-12T17:10:33.657" LastActivityDate="2016-12-02T21:49:04.690" Title="Why did Ernst Jürgen choose to do that in the film Unknown?" Tags="|plot-explanation|unknown|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3302" CreationDate="2012-07-15T23:32:40.263" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the only way that someone could safely adopt someone else totem would be for both the following to be true:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To have your own totem, which you can first use to confirm that you are not in a dream&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For you to totally trust the person you have taken the totem from, or that they are no longer alive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second rule is just the normal &quot;don't let anyone else know your totem's secret' - so really the only new thing here is the step of using one totem to confirm reality before adopting and learning the secret of a new one.  From the moment you start shared dreaming ... your current totem(s) is(are) holding your reference to reality, and you should use a 'chain of custody' approach when transferring this reference to another device.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can do this, there is no reason why you could not safely use another totem - its just another physical object who's secret behavior only you (or you and the trusted other person) know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it add credibility to the question that Cobb may not be dealing with reality any more?  Unfortunately we are not shown how he adopts the totem from Mal, or whether he uses his original totem to confirm reality before he does so - but I would imagine that he does indeed do this.  One can presume that this happens after Mal commits suicide, in a place that we know he believes is reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the spinning top either has another secret that we as the viewer are not aware of, or it is a terrible totem as its secret is far too easy to understand.  But I've talked about this in other Inceptions questions so I won't repeat that here as it does not add to the answer much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-07-15T23:41:59.023" LastActivityDate="2012-07-15T23:41:59.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3305" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3307" CreationDate="2012-07-16T01:53:39.300" Score="9" ViewCount="1487" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I read a list of the top box office of all time adjusted for inflation, it's always just domestic.  I understand you've got different currencies and what not.  But, it isn't impossible to figure out currency adjustments to get every movie in terms of American dollar values and then adjust for inflation.  Does anyone know of a list that figures out worldwide gross adjusted for inflation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="926" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-10T14:13:18.763" LastActivityDate="2017-02-18T07:28:07.717" Title="Adjusted Worldwide Box Office" Tags="|box-office|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3298" CreationDate="2012-07-16T02:00:22.680" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;In her book &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://faculty.uml.edu/Ethan_Spanier/Teaching/documents/CyrinoGaldiator.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gladiator and Contemporary Society&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, University of New Mexico Professor of Classics Monica S. Cyrino writes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Marcus Aurelius asks Maximus after the battle in Germania: &amp;quot;Tell&#xA;me about your home,&amp;quot; Maximus delivers a sentimental speech about the&#xA;simple beauty and tranquillity of his farm, with its fecund soil&#xA;&amp;quot;black like my wife's hair.&amp;quot; His wistful reverie evokes the modern&#xA;individual's yearning for the simplicity of the land. Russell Crowe&#xA;wrote this speech himself, drawing on his feelings of homesickness for&#xA;his own ranch: &amp;quot;That's the way I feel about missing my home too.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marcus Aurelius tells Maximus that his home is &amp;quot;worth fighting for&amp;quot;&#xA;and thereby suggests that the protection of the small family farm is&#xA;one of the purposes of Roman military conquest. The old emperor, beset&#xA;by doubts about the legacy of his rule, has come to realize that the&#xA;countryside, not the city, is the true Rome. Maximus' speech&#xA;anticipates and fortifies his depiction as an old-fashioned man of the&#xA;land in the rest of the film, one who has been brutally displaced.&#xA;Maximus &amp;quot;has a farmer's vanity-free self-confidence.&amp;quot; He picks up a&#xA;handful of dirt and smells it before each fight, drawing strength from&#xA;his connection to the soil. Franzoni explained why: &amp;quot;We wanted a&#xA;character trait that humanized the hero before battle ... Some thought&#xA;he did it when his life was in danger. But really, the impulse was,&#xA;he does it when he's about to kick ass.&amp;quot; Maximus cannot lose as long&#xA;as he keeps in contact with the earth. (p.141)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David Franzoni was the screenwriter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-07-16T02:00:22.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3305" CreationDate="2012-07-16T02:13:30.653" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currency conversion rates can change multiple times in a minute, and can vary widely in a day, a week, a month, or a year. So which conversion rate do you use? The closing rate on the day the movie came out? The average rate for the year of production?  And inflation rates vary country to country throughout history. Again, which rate do you use?  Also some currencies disappear over time (think of the Euro replacing a number of individual countries' currencies). It seems like it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to come up with a methodology for calculation that would be consistent. If the goal is to be able to compare one movie to others, then consistency is essential. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-07-16T02:13:30.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3258" CreationDate="2012-07-16T04:00:15.370" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Water usually symbolizes emotions. A faucet controls the flow of water. Faucets turning on and off automatically as Largeman passes could be saying something about his emotions being controlled by forces outside of him (drugs his father has prescribed) or about the limited range of his emotions at the start of the movie - this happens in a very sterile-looking bathroom after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene might also be foreshadowing an awakening of emotion in the character, something he will cause by deliberate action: walking too close to the sensors = stopping medication (both cause the emotions to start to flow). There is another scene in his parents' house where he tries to stop a leaky faucet and fails - perhaps he wants to stop the flow of emotion that has begun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other water references in the movie. There is a rainstorm and an ark (prepared for a flood). There is a swimming pool into which Largeman conspicuously fails to jump. The tub is a symbol - it can hold a lot of water. The quarry can hold even more. There are Sam's tears and eventually Andrew's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-07-16T04:00:15.370" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3303" CreationDate="2012-07-16T08:48:26.610" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is right there in the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cole turning to face Jurgen. Smile gone. Glint of a gun inside his jacket. Jurgen looking steadily back at him. Takes a deep gulp of coffee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;COLE: You had fifteen minutes after I called. Why didn't you run?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JURGEN: Where would I run from Section 15, Mr. Cole? I can hardly walk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then later on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;COLE: I want to know how he found you. I want every number, every source you've contacted on his behalf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JURGEN: And then what? We shake hands and you go away?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cole reaches a hand inside his jacket...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JURGEN (CONT'D): There's no need for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Beat. Cole's eyes flicker. Jurgen's body tightening... the coffee... the empty sachet of sweetener...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Unknown.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMSDb&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cole may be an old man too, but he is armed and his ruthlessness is seen clearly enough in the later scene when he deals with Martin. Jürgen - the old Stasi man who is already dying of lung cancer - would rather die on his own terms than be interrogated then murdered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love that scene: two fantastic performances and a real air of mutual respect between old adversaries. To my mind it feels like a scene from a proper spy drama like &lt;em&gt;Tinker Tailor&lt;/em&gt; grafted into an action thriller.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="314" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-12-02T21:49:04.690" LastActivityDate="2016-12-02T21:49:04.690" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3311" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3313" CreationDate="2012-07-16T14:12:38.530" Score="55" ViewCount="7406" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film Being John Malkovich is replete with unique plot ideas, the most captivating being the portal discovered by Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) taking him into actor John Malkovich's head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did screenwriter Charlie Kaufman select John Malkovich as the person who had a portal to his brain? Furthermore, was Malkovich included in the early discussions involving the production of the film? Would the film have happened if Malkovich balked at the idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-07-16T19:27:07.717" LastActivityDate="2012-07-16T21:00:46.630" Title="Why was Being John Malkovich based around John Malkovich?" Tags="|analysis|being-john-malkovich|spike-jonze|charlie-kaufman|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3311" CreationDate="2012-07-16T18:15:30.647" Score="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charlie Kaufman explains it in an (video) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/1510&quot;&gt;interview with Charlie Rose&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;skip to 21:00&lt;/em&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I don't know... I thought it was funny. It's hard to explain, but I&#xA;  thought it was funny, but not jokey. Because [John Malkovich] is a serious actor, he&#xA;  is a great actor, &lt;strong&gt;but there is something odd about him&lt;/strong&gt; and there is&#xA;  something behind his eyes that you can't see. And I thought that was a&#xA;  good person for this.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And then I think his name is perfect for the title&lt;/strong&gt;... when we trying to get the movie made... we didn't know if John was going to do it and Spike [Jonze] and I sort of tried to make a list of other possibilities and there are lots of good actors but nobodys name sounded good in the title... so... it was important for that reason.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;As &lt;strong&gt;John Malkovich explains&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMYPPnyNYzc&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;in this (video) interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, even though he liked the script from the start, he asked Kaufman &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;if he would make that movie about someone else, that I would like to direct it and we would produce it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only several years after that the movie finally got made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is also mentioned on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120601/trivia&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMDb trivia page&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;John Malkovich was approached about this film several times and loved the script, but he and his production crew felt that another actor would fit the role better. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Malkovich offered to help produce the film, and aid Spike Jonze in any way, but refused to star in it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eventually after a couple of years Malkovich's will was worn down and he agreed to star in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2012-07-16T21:00:46.630" LastActivityDate="2012-07-16T21:00:46.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3314" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3315" CreationDate="2012-07-16T21:18:05.927" Score="21" ViewCount="2080" Body="&lt;p&gt;Professor Moriarty is generally known as the greatest villain Sherlock Holmes has ever faced.  I know that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sherlock&lt;/a&gt; was planned to end after the second season, concluding with the death of Sherlock, but plans were changed and it was decided to not kill off Sherlock.  However, after everything was changed they still kept with the story line of Moriarty being killed in order to force Sherlock to commit suicide to save his friends.  Why was the decision made to go ahead with this storyline instead of preserving Moriarty for further plot lines?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorDisplayName="user9668" LastEditDate="2018-09-09T12:18:58.120" LastActivityDate="2018-09-09T12:18:58.120" Title="Why did the writers choose this development for Moriarty?" Tags="|production|sherlock|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3314" CreationDate="2012-07-16T21:54:58.793" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;+1 for this very good question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will try to answer this question from the storyline of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Conan Doyle and my first guess would be on the fact that the creators of the show are so faithfully ardent to the original source material written by Doyle.  The first reference to Moriarty in the novel comes on one of the 4 long stories of Sherlock Holmes namely &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Valley_of_Fear&quot;&gt;The Valley of Fear&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the time line specified in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sherlockpeoria.net/Who_is_Sherlock/SherlockTimeline.html&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; ( I have read all the short and long stories of the author I think this timeline looks approximate if not precisely accurate). and then reference to Moriarty is made again in the Final Problem. As a reader we can assume that they had their intellectual duel in these 2 years. The creators already put a thorough illustration of this duel in the first 2 seasons. if you look at the list there are still plenty of notable adventures which remains after Moriarty's death such as the Empty House, World War stories etc. (An ardent reader might argue that the best of the stories happened only either before or during the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_Sherlock_Holmes&quot;&gt;Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes&lt;/a&gt;, that's a different topic altogether)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;THe creators only made 2/4 Long stories (A Study in Pink and Hound of Baskervilles) so far in the series and from Moriarty's death we can safely assume that Valley of Fear won't be adapted which still leaves room for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sign_of_the_Four&quot;&gt;The Sign of Four&lt;/a&gt; (A significant story where Watson meets Mary Morstan who becomes his wife) and if you read Moffat's comments &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/sherlock-creator-moriarty-wont-return/261748&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; we can safely assume that creators want to focus on other villains created by Doyle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either that or the creators are playing coy and bring Moriarty back alive to settle the Final duel once and for all. We never know, but I think Moriarty is gone and from his comments the next Season might start with loose adaptation of The Adventure of the Empty House which is the first of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_Sherlock_Holmes&quot;&gt;Return of the Sherlock Holmes&lt;/a&gt; series so they stay in tune with Doyle's timeline and to possibly focus on Other Villains in the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-07-16T22:23:19.910" LastActivityDate="2012-07-16T22:23:19.910" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3316" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-17T03:56:19.813" Score="13" ViewCount="16512" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adler said it was her measurements, but what does that mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1691" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-07-17T04:28:06.717" LastActivityDate="2012-07-17T12:51:22.647" Title="How did Sherlock know the combo for Adlers safe?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2017-02-08T08:15:53.860" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3316" CreationDate="2012-07-17T04:26:28.860" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a woman has clothes made, the tailor generally needs her measurements - the distance around in inches at chest, waist and hips. These three numbers made up the combination. Apparently, Irene Adler's measurements are 32-24-34 according to random websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2012-07-17T12:51:22.647" LastActivityDate="2012-07-17T12:51:22.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3493" CreationDate="2012-07-17T05:38:00.450" Score="5" ViewCount="530" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is in color and probably from the 1960s. I don't think it is &lt;em&gt;Mysterious Island&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Captain Nemo and the Underwater City&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only scene I remember involves characters in a room, with wooden planks on the floor and the walls. The center is bare and prisoners face a group questioning them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are wearing what looks like pirate or sailor costumes from an earlier century.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the center of the room is a trap door. After questioning one of the prisoners, one of the men opens the trap door, revealing the mouth of a monster. The prisoner is thrown into the trap door and is eaten by the monster, feet first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1692" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-28T15:53:30.633" LastActivityDate="2013-11-28T15:54:15.433" Title="Character Eaten by Monster from a Trap Door on the Floor" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:37:42.560" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3319" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8085" CreationDate="2012-07-17T05:43:45.467" Score="5" ViewCount="1744" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film is in color and is probably from the late 1970s or the early 1980s. I could not see the ff. scene in Battle Beyond the Stars or Star Crash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A woman is strapped on to a vertical plane, where another with tiny needles attached to transparent tubes is moved to her. Blood is slowly siphoned from her body. There is a brief close up showing her nipple as one of the tubes is attached to her breast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure, but I think the aliens (who are humanoids) need blood to stay alive, and plan to invade earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1692" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-28T15:49:31.407" LastActivityDate="2013-11-28T15:51:50.340" Title="Women's Blood Siphoned Out to Feed Invading Aliens" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:37:45.700" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3319" CreationDate="2012-07-17T11:28:23.610" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a scene similar (ish) to this in Dark Angel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alien kills a girl with a massive drug overdose and then drains a fluid from her to use as a drug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has Dolph Lundgrun in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-07-17T11:28:23.610" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3314" CreationDate="2012-07-17T11:32:27.723" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a look at how many different Sherlock Holmes stories there are, there is lots for Sherlock to do other than battle Moriarty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the producers of the show knew that they had a good villain and wanted to end before it became stale.  One of the bravest and best tricks writers can pull off is to end a good thing when it is still a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are old enough and live in the UK contrast Fawlty Towers with Bread.  Fawlty has few episodes which are all very funny, Bread started well but eventually got repetitive and - ahem - stale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="19074" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T13:11:02.307" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T13:11:02.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1232" CreationDate="2012-07-17T11:46:43.320" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don Corleone's first priority was his family's safety - especially Michael's. By signing peace treaty with others he ensured no one harmed Michael in any way and interfere with his homecoming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But he was never weak as at the same time he warned others that he would not leave anyone who would try to harm his family -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;But I'm a superstitious man. And if some unlucky accident should befall him - If he should get shot in the head by a police officer, or if he should hang himself in his jail cell - or if he's struck by a bolt of lightning, them I'm going to blame some of the people in this room, and that I do not forgive. But, that aside, let me say that I swear, on the souls of my grandchildren, that I will not be the one to break the peace we've made here today.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, he knew that he alone cannot go against Tattagallia and Barzini as they may seek support of other Dons. And none of the Dons at that time wanted an all out open war, so they may choose the stronger side which was apparently not of Don Corleone at that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1695" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:37:42.270" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:37:42.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3324" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3325" CreationDate="2012-07-17T11:39:54.140" Score="29" ViewCount="4747" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096438/&quot;&gt;the film&lt;/a&gt; some time ago and don't recall this eponymous question being explicitly answered. They uncover some conspiracies and plots within others but who &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; frame Roger Rabbit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it Christopher Lloyd's character? Roger's manager? The Denver Broncos? ... err ... wrong universe, sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyhow, who's to blame?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="667" OwnerDisplayName="bitmask" LastEditorUserId="56" LastEditDate="2012-07-17T17:45:17.560" LastActivityDate="2012-07-17T20:06:20.200" Title="Who framed Roger Rabbit?" Tags="|plot-explanation|who-framed-roger-rabbit|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3324" CreationDate="2012-07-17T12:07:38.223" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first two.  Christopher Lloyd's character, Judge Doom, is the big conspirator organising the whole situation, but it's the head of Roger's studio, R. K. Maroon, who does the actual setup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was the one to setup the situation between Acme and Jessica (the patty-cake), and he was also the one to hire Eddie Valiant to take pictures of the meeting.  Then later when Valiant meets with Maroon to show him the results, they show Roger the pictures and he runs off to write his love poem, causing him to not have an alibi for the murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judge Doom convinces Maroon to do all of this by agreeing to buy his company, but only if he can also buy Acme at the same time.  However it was never Maroon's intention for there to be a murder, he was just hoping to blackmail Acme into selling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No, you gotta understand, Valiant, I had nothin' to do with Acme gettin' killed.  I just wanted to sell my studio.  But they wouldn't buy my property unless Acme would sell his.  And he wouldn't.  So I was gonna blackmail Acme with pictures of him and the rabbit's wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="M_the_C" LastActivityDate="2012-07-17T12:07:38.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1232" CreationDate="2012-07-17T15:02:09.700" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is made clearer in the book than in the movie. Vito Corleone is a very patient and calculating man. He is willing to wait and slowly manipulate things, unlike his angry and rash son Santino. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of Santino's (Sonny) death Vito realizes that an all out war is costing him too much (the death of his son). He decides to stop the killing by meeting with all the families and agreeing to the drug trafficing. He also learns that the Barzini house is ultimately behind a plot to destroy his family. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book (where you can see into the minds of the characters) it is obvious that Vito Corleone doesn't forget or forgive insults. It may take him years, but he eventually enacts his revenge. He likely saw his time was over, given his failing health, and so decided to invest what time he had left into training Michael to take over (and ultimately get revenge). Santino was the oldest and the natural successor, even though he didn't have the temperment to be a good leader. Fredo was weak willed and less intelligent, particularly after the attack on his father (before that attack he was seen to be very tough). Michael was the only son that had the calculating mind of his father and the patience to wait for opportune moments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In book and the movie Michael Corleone kills the heads of the houses and their co-conspirators (such as Moe Greene). The book concludes with the Corleone family once again ascerting themselves as the most powerful family in New York. The movies take a different turn, with Michael attempting to legitimize the business and get away from crime. Neither the book or the movie is clear about whether drug traffficing continued after Michael destroyed all his enemies. It is possible he reversed that position once he was the only one left standing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastActivityDate="2012-07-17T15:02:09.700" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2924" CreationDate="2012-07-17T15:52:11.187" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene has two components, that which is really happening, and that which is happening only in the mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the real world, he has dropped the pill into the toilet, and in the real world, he has put his hands into the toilet to grab it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the fantasy world, he completely enters the toilet.  We know he can't fully enter the toilet in the real world, but as a high school bully can demonstrate, a human head fits into a toilet bowl.  A junkie thrashing about in delirium, one arm fully down the drain, is likely to get himself quite wet.  It would be quite plausible for him to make enough of a mess on the floor of the bathroom, that his entire body ends up covered in liquid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire film is a mix of the real and the imagined, with the imaginary often based on the real, but expanded and exaggerated for comic or grotesque effect.  I have always taken it as a given that this is a deliberate affectation meant to provide the viewer with a taste of what life is like inside the mind of someone going off and on heroin, unable to determine what is real and what is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1696" LastActivityDate="2012-07-17T15:52:11.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="827" CreationDate="2012-07-17T17:42:02.073" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you take the movie as &lt;strong&gt;allegory&lt;/strong&gt; this question — and the movie — become sublime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I like wbogacz's and DVK's answers very much, I humbly suggest they are incomplete.  It's about more than overcoming selfishness or solipsism (all about me) or even insufficient solipsism, as keen an insight as that is.  For me the answer to the original question comes when the movie is taken as allegorical, an analogy for one of life's deepest lessons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When today is invested in tomorrow, only that breaks the monotonous cycle of days.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes selflessness is a part of that.  So is empathy as an antidote to solipsism.  But neither explain the piano lessons.  Those represent pure and simple investment today into a better tomorrow, and so form a part of the escape from each new day being no better — being indistinguishable — from the last.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know little of Buddhism (and half of that from just now reading Wikipedia) but the lesson reminds me of the Buddhist concept of liberating oneself from the endless cycle of suffering and rebirth.  I wonder if reincarnation was originally an analogy for the same concept: to invest in today for a better tomorrow is to attain greatness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1698" LastEditorUserId="1698" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T17:31:53.937" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T17:31:53.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2016" CreationDate="2012-07-17T19:43:45.133" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia lists this type of microphone as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphone&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;shotgun&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Shotgun microphones are the most highly directional. They have small lobes of sensitivity to the left, right, and rear but are significantly less sensitive to the side and rear than other directional microphones. This results from placing the element at the back end of a tube with slots cut along the side; wave cancellation eliminates much of the off-axis sound. Due to the narrowness of their sensitivity area, shotgun microphones are commonly used on television and film sets, in stadiums, and for field recording of wildlife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the characters are trying to pick up sounds of paranormal activity, the noise cancellation they speak of would be beneficial. I couldn't find this specific model, but looking in google for &quot;Shotgun Condenser Microphone&quot;, brought page after page - there are dozens of models.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one looks &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guitarcenter.com/Audix-UEM-81S-Battery-Powered-Shotgun-Condenser-Microphone-103375853-i1176481.gc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;closest so far&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-11T11:29:42.863" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T11:29:42.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3324" CreationDate="2012-07-17T20:01:19.617" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Judge Doom framed Roger Rabbit.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judge Doom wanted to buy ToonTown but Marvin Acme wouldn't sell. Accordingly, Doom asked R.K. Maroon to blackmail Acme. As a result, Doom knew Maroon had shown Roger evidence that Jessica Rabbit was having an affair with Acme. So Doom used the opportunity to kill Acme, hoping everyone would think Roger did it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though Acme's murder is not shown in the movie, what happened is confirmed by Jessica Rabbit's dialogue: Judge Doom killed Marvin Acme and framed Roger Rabbit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;JESSICA RABBIT: It was Doom who killed Acme, you know?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;VALIANT: Why didn't you tell me?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;JESSICA RABBIT: I didn't know who I could trust.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-07-17T20:06:20.200" LastActivityDate="2012-07-17T20:06:20.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="827" CreationDate="2012-07-18T00:44:15.103" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a miracle of God intervening in his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For whatever reason, he was permitted to experience reality over and over and over again, while fully cognizant and fully remembering everything prior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like conscious reincarnation, each day being a new life, only with him starting out as a 45 yro instead of an infant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After thousands of days, he had successfully traversed from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;infant - not knowing what the heck is going on,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;child - innocent child trying to figure things out,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;teenager - hedonistically having fun, robbing banks, dying, etc.,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;adult - trying to make things right, seeking Enlightenment (piano playing, learning foreign languages, etc.),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;wise sage - a state near enlightenment where only Today mattered and all his desires were overlooked for the benefit of others and the betterment of the world. Rita was a perk, not his sole mission.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this sense, the movie is a clear indication of the cycle of Reincarnation, albeit one where this individual did not have to be reset continuously inorder to progress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ending is him literally breaking out of Maya (illusion), as the Hindus say, and leading a wholly Activated, Enlightened existence, without the need of further reincarnations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1702" LastActivityDate="2012-07-18T00:44:15.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3334" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-18T08:51:49.770" Score="9" ViewCount="1110" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the train when they are talking to Bethany and they see the Apostle they panic and jump up, taking Bethany hostage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?  What could he have done?  There were two of them, logically they could have overpowered him if he tried anything physical and he did not seem to have anything else to offer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was there a problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-10T14:21:02.027" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T14:21:02.027" Title="Why were Loki and Bartleby afraid of the Apostle in the film Dogma?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dogma|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3334" CreationDate="2012-07-18T13:48:09.443" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;They panicked because they &lt;em&gt;knew&lt;/em&gt; that he was Rufus (the Apostle), and that the Apostle was traveling with the last scion to stop them from traveling through the altar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2012-07-18T13:48:09.443" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2955" CreationDate="2012-07-18T16:45:47.943" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having read the book, I was under the impression it was the Mexicans who took the heroin, that is, the same guys who chase Moss after he returns to the cars in the night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Moss first finds the cars and the drugs, it is clear that he doesn't take the heroin with him: &quot;He wet his forefinger and dipped it in the powder and smelled it. Then he wiped his finger on his jeans and pulled the tarp back over the parcels and stepped back and looked over the country again.&quot; When he returns to the cars the next night: &quot;He shone the hooded light into the cargo space behind the seats. Everything gone.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chigurh visits the scene only after all this has taken place, so the heroin was already gone by then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been a while since I saw the film, so unfortunately I don't remember if the storyline differs from the book. Hope this helps anyway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1709" LastActivityDate="2012-07-18T16:45:47.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3339" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3344" CreationDate="2012-07-18T23:27:38.543" Score="43" ViewCount="62579" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the Breaking Bad episodes involves a scene with a fly. Walter is obsessed by a fly in the lab and tries to kill it in order to keep the room clean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was told there's a special meaning but I have no clue about it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1714" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-22T19:20:09.013" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T05:10:10.763" Title="What is the meaning of the &quot;fly scene&quot; in Breaking Bad?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2938" CreationDate="2012-07-18T23:35:57.903" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's probably to avoid limbo. One enters limbo if they die in a dream while being heavily sedated in reality. One other concept to grasp here is that when a higher level dreamer cuts out the dream, the lower level starts collapsing/the other dreamers in lower level might get killed by projections. The second part of this concept is however, my own one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say we are in second level. If one among the dreamer dies while dreaming, he/she gets the kick to the higher level (and goes to first level). But the people who are still dreaming will experience (in second level) things such as the dream collapsing, and also may be the projections (of the dreamer who exited) trying to kill them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Arthur was killed while Cobb was trying to extract Saito, the dream started collapsing, because Arthur was its architect and he woke up in the higher level. Now, Arthur didn't have his subconscious projections in the dream space in that level, because afterall he is just an architect. The subconscious was Cobb's and Saito's. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads to a chain of questions which answer themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if Arthur wasn't the Architect of that dream, or instead Cobb was killed in that level - what would have happened to Mal and Arthur in this dream? Would Mal have tried to kill Arthur because he was the dreamer? Could she/ other projections killed Saito and Arthur instead? Would Mal exist in such a scenario? What would happen to Cobb's subconscious that existed till then in that level? Did the dream start collapsing only because Arthur was the architect and does that mean what you've created only will get destroyed? One thing we should know is that when you see other persons subconscious in your dream, it automatically becomes your subconscious too, but you know that it doesn't belong to you. Does that mean the person's projections still exist and due to the heavy disturbances created by you, the dreamer, the projections will start to kill you too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking into account the possible answer to those questions, let's assume the worst case scenario  that even the projections (of the person who exited) would also try to kill the dreamers (who are still dreaming) in this level. However, this wouldn't change my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, what happened to those people who didn't get the kick as planned? Saito and Cobb - they entered limbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And because the dream will collapse and may be the projections might kill you at a lower level, you have to get out of it as soon as possible. So, all of them got their kicks at the same time to ensure no one dies, and to ensure no one enters limbo. At the first level (van ride one), they probably would have kicked Fischer in such a way that he would wake up a little later after they wake up - so that no one doubts anything has happened. We have to assume that they didn't let the security kill them in the first level and they kicked themselves to wake up in the aeroplane, assuming you want to take the ending for reality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that much explanation settles it. Hope that helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1508" LastEditorUserId="1508" LastEditDate="2012-07-18T23:44:54.147" LastActivityDate="2012-07-18T23:44:54.147" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="949" CreationDate="2012-07-18T23:47:00.787" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two of my daughters have graduated high school and both times I heard strong emphasis from guidance counselors that the 11th grade is the time to start researching and selecting colleges.  Somewhere I picked up that colleges look at your GPA from the 10th grade on.  I'm sure it depends on the college and on the high school, but both of these underscore the importance of 10th grade grades.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your speculation about season strategies rings true.  But as a parent who has been through this at least obliquely it does not strike me as feasible at all to expect to get into a great school based only on senior-year grades.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1698" LastActivityDate="2012-07-18T23:47:00.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3342" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3345" CreationDate="2012-07-18T23:55:24.727" Score="15" ViewCount="1991" Body="&lt;p&gt;When they are in the limbo, we see Ariadne asking Cobb to find and get Saito and not to lose himself before jumping from the building. However, before they entered this limbo Saito was still alive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He dies protecting these dreaming people - Fischer, Cobb and Ariadne in the Snow Fortress in third level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, how does Ariadne know that he is dead in the upper level, when she asks Cobb to find and get him? He was alive before they started dreaming, so they shouldn't know it right? Am I missing something or is it a mistake?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1508" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-07-19T13:54:27.573" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T12:52:29.257" Title="How does Ariadne know that Saito is dead in the upper level?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2232" CreationDate="2012-07-18T23:57:56.987" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0003730/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sample of the dialog&lt;/a&gt; by the way, between Anderton and Dr. Solomon Eddie at IMDB.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the doctor was describing his experience in prison, his um difficulties in the shower, notice something? Something not in his words, but in his tone. He's dispassionate. He's not angry. I think he actually was &lt;strong&gt;reformed&lt;/strong&gt;. Now he just wants to make a living. He talks as if he's going to mete revenge on Anderton. But never does. He's actually thanking him for turning his life around. I mean, a plastic surgeon who sets his patients on fire for entertainment -- look how far he's come. And he knows it. (This is a better question than I first thought.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was also the creepy assistant. Doctor talked at one point as if his assistant saved Anderton, because she had a kind of crush on him. But I don't think that's the real reason the doctor helps Anderton. He's way cynical, to be sure, but he's resigned to a boring life of relatively unremarkable crime. And he's okay with that. So maybe he kinda owes Anderton in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Shane F. makes an excellent point:  the doctor's back-story is a &lt;strong&gt;plot device&lt;/strong&gt; meant to call his trustworthiness [and motives] into question, thereby boosting the suspense about whether he will help or hurt Anderton.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice how many other ways this movie tricks you with the good-guy / bad-guy dichotomy. Witwer (Colin Farrell) seems bad but turns out good. Von Sidow's character seems good but turns out bad. Other characters are more nuanced than pure good or pure evil. These surprises strategically support the overall point of the movie: to &lt;strong&gt;question your assumptions about criminality&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The eye surgeon is just one more bad guy that wasn't all bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1698" LastEditorUserId="1698" LastEditDate="2017-05-22T22:40:33.723" LastActivityDate="2017-05-22T22:40:33.723" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3339" CreationDate="2012-07-19T02:23:33.870" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/05/24/breaking-bad-season-3-episode-10-fly-tv-recap/&quot;&gt;review&lt;/a&gt; in the Wall Street Journal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The fly has become a symbol of the loss of control in Walt’s life, so&#xA;  its defeat is all that’s important to him right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-07-19T02:23:33.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3342" CreationDate="2012-07-19T03:33:59.810" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Personally I do have a lot of sympathy with your thought that this is a plot hole - but here is a train of thought that might explain it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be fair on Ariadne, it is actually Cobb who first asserts that Saito is dead.  From the script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    ARIADNE&#xA;Cobb, I'm not going to let you lose &#xA;yourself in here! You have to get &#xA;back to your children!&#xA;&#xA;    COBB &#xA;Send Fischer, I have to stay&#xA;&#xA;    ARIADNE&#xA;You can't stay here to be with her&#xA;&#xA;    COBB&#xA;I'm not. Saito is dead by now. That &#xA;means he's here. I have to stay &#xA;here and find him.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that making the distinction between Cobb and Ariadne first suggesting that Saito is dead seems very nitpicky, as we can ask the same question 'how does he know?'. However it does give a sliver of a reason why this might not be a plot hole.  As pointed out earlier in the story when it is revealed how strong their sedation is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    EAMES&#xA;So what happens if one of us dies?&#xA;&#xA;    COBB&#xA;That person doesn't wake up. Their &#xA;mind drops into Limbo.&#xA;&#xA;    ARIADNE&#xA;Limbo?&#xA;&#xA;    ARTHUR &#xA;Unconstructed dream space.&#xA;&#xA;    ARIADNE &#xA;What's down there?&#xA;&#xA;    ARTHUR&#xA;Raw, infinite subconscious. Nothing &#xA;there but what was left behind by &#xA;anyone on the team who's been trapped &#xA;there before. On this team... just &#xA;Cobb.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cobb is the only person in the party who has been to Limbo and what was left behind by Cobb is the only thing filling Limbo.  This residual Limbo can only have lived on within Cobb's mind - almost like Limbo is his dream.  Cobb as the only visitor to Limbo has got some more ownership over it than the others until they inhabit it and claim it for their own.  Ariadne and Cobb have only been in limbo a few minutes or perhaps a few hours, which would only be a very short time in the dream layer above, but perhaps Cobb through his stronger connection with Limbo and the world he created in it, he can sense that Saito has died and entered it with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tenuous I know - but it is my only 'in universe' explanation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-07-19T03:33:59.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3346" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-19T05:46:01.440" Score="68" ViewCount="28077" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Sherlock, BBC Series, Season 2 Episode 3 - The Reichenbach Fall, how did Sherlock survive the fall? I've read some theories online regarding this, but in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/jan/20/steven-moffat-sherlock-doctor-who&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt;, Steven Moffat says &quot;There is a clue everybody's missed&quot;. He also says &quot;Yes. We had to have Holmes dying in Watson's arms – and get away with that, which we have.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how? Does anybody know yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1710" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-07-19T12:44:00.713" LastActivityDate="2016-03-22T21:27:01.740" Title="How did Sherlock survive the fall?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3346" CreationDate="2012-07-19T07:14:11.753" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;He jumped into the truck which was in front of the pavement and drove off as soon as he pushed a body out wearing his clothes or he landed in the truck and then rolled from the truck to the pavement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember how he told Watson exactly where to stand?&#xA;(to make sure he could only see from the correct angle)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watson was delayed by a bicycle hitting him as he ran over.&#xA;(to give Holmes and co some extra time)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watson was pushed back by bystanders telling him not to look?&#xA;(so he would not spot any inconsistencies but would see enough)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suddenly medics appeared and rushed off with the body?&#xA;(to prevent Watson, or anyone else, looking too closely)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Holmes remarking to Molly that he needed her?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(either for a spare corpse or to falsely pronounce him dead)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This fits well with the books where Holmes often keeps Watson in the dark, especially as Watson is a very poor liar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="21705" LastEditDate="2015-12-08T17:12:17.047" LastActivityDate="2015-12-08T17:12:17.047" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3346" CreationDate="2012-07-19T09:24:57.923" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;My favourite theory  is akin to the answer given above, but with the extra that when the cycle courier bumped into Watson he exposed him to the chemical from the previous episode that induces hallucinations of that person's worst fear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been a while since I've seen the episode but I do remember that Watson got a clear look at the body on the ground, rolled it over and saw Holmes face. My theory is that by this time the body had already been swapped out, and it was the effects of the hallucinogen that made Watson see the body as Holmes when in fact it was A.N.Other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1392" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-05T05:22:43.520" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T05:22:43.520" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3319" CreationDate="2012-07-19T16:34:39.347" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bit of a long-shot, but could it be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeforce_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Life Force.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say this as it is just within your timescale and involves alien vampires, which links to the symphonic of blood. I saw this years ago, so do not know if the scene you describe is in the film or not. The title just came to my mind while reading your description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1392" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T22:17:43.527" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T22:17:43.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3352" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3357" CreationDate="2012-07-19T16:49:09.147" Score="6" ViewCount="943" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm hoping someone can help me identify the following film that I would have seen in the early 90's or late 80's. It is a film in the era of Weird Science, Flight of the Navigator and Explorers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I really remember is that some American teens build a science project which seems to be able to control time or manipulate time. Different characters from different time periods are brought into their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One scene I remember which I think is towards the end of the film involves the teens going into their school or university to where this device is located. When they get to the main hall the area has been transformed into a Jurassic jungle environment complete with dinosaurs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One other very random clip I remember is a scene whereby a bunch of Hells Angels style bikers arrive or are summoned by this device ( I'm hoping this isn't bleed-through from another film...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1392" LastEditorUserId="15428" LastEditDate="2014-11-30T21:32:26.423" LastActivityDate="2014-11-30T21:32:26.423" Title="Sci-fi film: American teen science project brings people and dinosaurs into present" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:37:48.823" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3352" CreationDate="2012-07-19T16:51:50.740" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, it doesn't really seem right, but it could be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096928/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bill &amp;amp; Ted's Excellent Adventure is a 1989 American science fiction&#xA;  comedy buddy film and the first film in the Bill &amp;amp; Ted franchise in&#xA;  which two metalhead slackers travel through time to assemble a&#xA;  menagerie of historical figures for their high school history&#xA;  presentation.[2]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-07-19T16:51:50.740" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3342" CreationDate="2012-07-19T17:17:26.777" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the answer is in what Cobb says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Saito is dead by now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;by now&lt;/strong&gt; being the important part.  Based on the injuries sustained by Saito it is obvious that he only has a short time to live.  And while time passes differently at the different levels, Cobb is aware it has passed.  He may not know with 100% confidence but biased on how long it looked like Saito had to live, and how much time has pass he can say with a fair degree of certainty that Saito is dead &lt;em&gt;by now&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastActivityDate="2012-07-19T17:17:26.777" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3352" CreationDate="2012-07-19T18:35:44.923" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Science_Project&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Science Project&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1985)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... After Michael and his friends plug it into a power source, it&#xA;begins to materialize objects from other times and dimensions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When&#xA;his science teacher (Dennis Hopper) experiments by plugging the orb&#xA;directly into the power grid, it starts a chain reaction that warp the&#xA;dimensions and time around it. Past, present and future collide in a&#xA;whirling vortex which engulfs the school and only Michael and his&#xA;friends can stop it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkylDvmZl_c&amp;amp;list=UUZd7jt0Vc_gq1p36FJLy0Ug&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From a YouTube clip:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/n7fL9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Dinosaur&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-07-19T18:35:44.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2410" CreationDate="2012-07-19T20:55:07.077" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;My grandmother used to be a big city office secretary back in the late 1950s and early 1960s when she was in her 20s before she became a housewife and she has told me that most people smoked in the office back then and it was very normal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She said her boss usually smoked two to three packs a day just at the office and that she'd have to empty his ashtray several times a day and also bring him a fresh cigarettes anytime he asked for it. She said she was expected to keep at least two cartons of cigarettes in her desk drawer for him so he didnt run out, and that she was told to order his cigarettes just like ordering office supplies for pens, paper, staples etc. He also told her she could order herself cigarettes when ordering his, and as long as she smoked the same brand he did, she could smoke all she wanted while at work.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She also told me that her boss drank often at work, and that he kept both several bottles on a bar at the back of his office and that he also kept a bottle or two in his desk. Again, she said hed have her order bottles for him to keep in her desk as backup. She also said that it was not uncommon for the guys to go out for drinks after working late, but also that on more than one occasion her boss would take her out to a fancy dinner in the City, just the two of them, even though he was married to another woman. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I told her how strange that seemed now, she just laughed and said I would even recognize the workplace, especially with all the sexual harassment suits and stuff now. That was of particular interest to me since I had been the subject of sexual harassment at the workplace recently, and I asked her if shed ever been harassed. She said &quot;not unwillingly&quot; and proceeded to tell me about how she used to sleep with her boss from time to time. Yikes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1723" LastActivityDate="2012-07-19T20:55:07.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2880" CreationDate="2012-07-19T22:18:16.710" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafiction&quot;&gt;Metafiction&lt;/a&gt; is the umbrella term that covers this specific technique, and related ones.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafilm&quot;&gt;Metafilm&lt;/a&gt; being the specific subset that are TV/film works.  They essentially are catch-alls for works that have some sort of self-awareness to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-reflexive&quot;&gt;Self-reflexive&lt;/a&gt; works would be closer to your specific scenario.  They're works where the work refers to its real-life self.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-07-19T22:18:16.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3362" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3364" CreationDate="2012-07-19T23:04:22.347" Score="7" ViewCount="3094" Body="&lt;p&gt;And if the fire didn't kill anyone, what would be the point? Destroying a headquarters won't prevent the organisation carrying out its plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="275" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T14:00:17.280" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T14:00:17.280" Title="Did Batman break his no killing rule when he burned down the monastery in Batman Begins?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|batman-begins|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3363" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3688" CreationDate="2012-07-19T23:18:51.020" Score="5" ViewCount="580" Body="&lt;p&gt;In many Hollywood horror movies the last climactic scene features the dialogue &quot;take me instead&quot;. For example,  &lt;em&gt;Dark Water&lt;/em&gt; (2005), &lt;em&gt;The Exorcist&lt;/em&gt;  and &lt;em&gt;The Ring 2&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the origin of this famous dialogue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T17:25:21.567" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T17:25:21.567" Title="What is the origin of the dialogue &quot;take me instead of her/him&quot;?" Tags="|first-appearance|dialogue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3362" CreationDate="2012-07-20T07:33:24.763" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Besides the fact that, as oers said, he wasn't Batman at that time (and has maybe not thought that philosophically about killing people yet), the only reasons for doing this are not just to either kill anyone or destroy the organization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most obvious reason for starting the fire was to make distraction and chaos, which enables him to escape. I would say he was at a dead end and needed some way to get out of it fast, so starting the fire was a good chance for enabling his escape. He probably didn't think through that fast if anyone would get killed in this fire, he just needed to escape. He didn't kill anyone on purpose there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2012-07-20T07:33:24.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3365" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3371" CreationDate="2012-07-20T07:48:46.593" Score="18" ViewCount="47952" Body="&lt;p&gt;A number of times in the film, we hear chanting, singing (whatever it may be). At a key moment, when Bruce is ascending up and out of the prison, we learn what they are chanting is &quot;rise.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What language are they speaking?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-12T16:57:01.330" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T21:53:06.127" Title="What language were the people speaking when chanting in The Dark Knight Rises?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3366" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3512" CreationDate="2012-07-20T07:52:52.343" Score="22" ViewCount="15318" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of The Dark Knight Rises, we learn that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; John Blake's birth name is Robin, and that John Blake is merely an alias.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What motivated the Nolan brothers to include this in the film? Are they merely nudging and winking at the audience? Furthermore, why &lt;em&gt;Robin?&lt;/em&gt; The real Robin's (original) name is Dick Grayson (though as the character evolved, was reborn, became Nightwing among others his identity changed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-06T07:26:45.913" LastActivityDate="2016-05-06T07:26:45.913" Title="Why choose that birth name for John Blake?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight-rises|christopher-nolan|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3367" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3374" CreationDate="2012-07-20T07:56:06.537" Score="43" ViewCount="98226" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early in The Dark Knight Rises, Bruce is seen limping with a cane. Some characters allude to an injury sustained from a fight, but we never see this in The Dark Knight. At the conclusion of that film, we see Batman surviving his run-in with Harvey Dent and escaping while &lt;em&gt;running away&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What happened to Bruce Wayne/Batman's knee in between The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: we know the injury is real because we see Bruce requiring a knee brace of some kind prior to him suiting up as Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-06T07:26:00.703" LastActivityDate="2016-05-06T07:26:00.703" Title="What happened to Bruce Wayne/Batman's knee?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3368" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3389" CreationDate="2012-07-20T08:05:04.680" Score="25" ViewCount="52370" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the course of the film, it is explained that Bane has to wear his mask in order to keep his pain level down to a bare minimum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the final fight, we see Batman start to disable this device by disconnecting some of the &lt;em&gt;piping&lt;/em&gt; on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What kind of device is this exactly and is there a real-world equivalent that causes the same effects?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-08-27T02:36:03.083" LastActivityDate="2016-09-28T01:26:30.273" Title="What kind of apparatus is Bane's mask?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3369" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3466" CreationDate="2012-07-20T08:09:49.903" Score="49" ViewCount="24749" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final twist of the movie, it is revealed that Talia is actually the one to have climbed out due to Bane helping her get up the hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Bane's pure motivation during the events of the movie lead the audience to believe that his only motive is a more physical and structured one of the Joker of taking over Gotham.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is never lead on that Bane is sympathetic to &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; during the movie, so why would he protect a young Talia and endure a great injury, just to save her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-08-26T13:20:33.340" LastActivityDate="2022-06-05T14:56:35.443" Title="Why does Bane protect the girl?" Tags="|analysis|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3370" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3391" CreationDate="2012-07-20T09:10:13.383" Score="15" ViewCount="49978" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/d/DarkKnight.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;shot in Chicago&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sfM6w.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/b/batmanbegins.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt; is clearly shot in New York City. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was Gotham moved to a new city for the last part of the trilogy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113" LastEditorUserId="113" LastEditDate="2012-08-27T06:33:27.780" LastActivityDate="2013-10-16T13:03:36.157" Title="Why was Gotham City moved to New York City in The Dark Knight Rises?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|film-location|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3365" CreationDate="2012-07-20T09:10:47.300" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deh-Shay Deh-Shay Bah-Sah-Rah&lt;/strong&gt; is what they are chanting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are strong notions suggesting that it's Moroccan which translate to &lt;strong&gt;He Rises. He Rises&lt;/strong&gt;. The guy in the movie says it means rise. I am guessing the chant is the motivation for the person to climb up which could literally mean &quot;he rises&quot; when the crowd are chanting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Part-Dark-Knight-Rises-Score-By-Recording-Yourself-Chanting-27748.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; also suggests that the language is Moroccan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-05-12T21:53:06.127" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T21:53:06.127" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3366" CreationDate="2012-07-20T09:23:04.700" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Nolan left it in the idea that Batman is retiring and wanted to end the saga unlike the comic book stories which run infinitely. He wanted Blake to take over the legacy from Batman and probably plays a little homage to Robin like Ducard's reference from the comics as pointed out earlier. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also using Dick Grayson would've led people to believe before the movie that we might see Robin that's also another reason why they had to wait til the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2012-07-20T09:23:04.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3373" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3379" CreationDate="2012-07-20T09:29:11.447" Score="8" ViewCount="1413" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was rewatching Batman begins and watched it until the credits roll. I noticed that &lt;strong&gt;Liam Neeson&lt;/strong&gt; was listed as &lt;strong&gt;Ducard&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Ken Watanabe&lt;/strong&gt; was listed as &lt;strong&gt;Ra's Al ghul&lt;/strong&gt;. It made me ponder over the entire movie as to whether Liam Neeson's character was really Ra's Al Ghul or did he take over the league after the death of Ken Watanabe because I remember towards the end, Bruce Wayne's character complimenting on Ra's deception tricks when they meet at Wayne Manor again. Is that a minor glitch or intended to be food for thought? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T14:06:01.603" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T14:06:01.603" Title="Batman Begins credit scene" Tags="|credits|batman-begins|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3367" CreationDate="2012-07-20T12:35:41.657" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the hospital check up scene, the doctor reveals via x-ray that Bruce Wayne has absolutely no cartilage left in his knee. I'm no doctor, but I think that would make anyone walk with a limp. Thankfully they fix it with that leg gizmo so he doesn't limp for the rest of the movie ;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2012-07-21T04:00:05.897" LastActivityDate="2012-07-21T04:00:05.897" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3378" CreationDate="2012-07-20T12:49:01.890" Score="17" ViewCount="4159" Body="&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I need some assistance understanding the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight Rises (2012)&lt;/a&gt;, it doesn't seem at all plausible for me. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohQY7kpOc50&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;We see Batman save Gotham City from Bane&lt;/a&gt; by escaping the city while carrying the the bomb with the Bat out to sea before it has a chance to detonate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can appreciate that he wants to fake his own death and retire for real, and I can believe he fixed the autopilot (when Fox couldn't), but it really did not seem to me that he could have ejected at a safe distance considering the shots prior to the explosion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we are to believe that he did get out, six miles before the explosion, judging by the rate of the Bat that would put him about 12 miles out when he landed in the Bay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So either he has a crazy swim to do, or I'm being too picky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T06:49:01.623" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T06:49:01.623" Title="The Ending of Dark Knight Rises" Tags="|ending|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3362" CreationDate="2012-07-20T13:43:47.127" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the definitive answer is no, he did not break his code about not killing people, the reason being is that he didn’t intentionally kill them with his bare hands.  As we see near the end of Batman Begins, he has no problem with letting Ra’s Al Ghul and his clan die in the crash.  He even stated &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I'm not going to kill you, but I don’t have to save you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this brings us back to him blowing up that building.  He didn’t intend for any prisoners to be killed, he was just trying to escape. Since he didn’t directly kill them, it doesn’t break his code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-08-27T02:48:51.097" LastActivityDate="2012-08-27T02:48:51.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3376" CreationDate="2012-07-20T14:20:56.963" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to make some guesswork on my own here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we see the scene where the bomb hits the Traffic signal light/Board for the Highway and takes a dip below as soon as he takes off in &lt;strong&gt;The Bat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second we see Batman flying towards a big building in front of him trying to make the Bat take off and go over it then I remember the scene switching to Blake in the bridge with the Kids.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we see Batman creating a way for him blowing the building obstacles (we actually see the explosion and kids gets excited during that scene) . I think this is where I think he made the switch because if he were flying it i think he could've maneuvered it over the obstacle rather than blowing it (remember the scene where he guides the missiles from the tumbler which were fired after him flying skillfully to guide it back to the sender)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think he made the eject when he was approaching the time when he was trying to flying above the building and cleared the obstacles with missiles which could hinder it progress with Autopilot and then got away.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: I only watched it once so far I could be little fuzzy with the detail of that sequence. Please feel free to correct me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2012-07-20T14:20:56.963" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3373" CreationDate="2012-07-20T14:42:54.540" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Neeson was indeed Ra's Al Ghul, and that the credits were only that way because that was how they would be listed on IMDb - if their true roles had been listed then the big surprise would be revealed before the film opened. This is similar to Marion Cotillard's character being listed on IMDb as Talia Al Ghul a year before TDKR opened (the listing was changed recently) thus ruining &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; big twist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-07-20T14:42:54.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="731" CreationDate="2012-07-20T15:07:23.230" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;He is in &lt;em&gt;The Dark Night Rises&lt;/em&gt; with the cover name &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; John Blake who is a rookie cop and a big fan of Wayne and &quot;Batman&quot;. He also knew from when he was a kid that Wayne is The Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the final scene you hear a woman asking why he does not go by his real name, and then calls him &quot;Robin&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1728" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2012-07-20T23:03:39.663" LastActivityDate="2012-07-20T23:03:39.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3367" CreationDate="2012-07-20T15:07:34.870" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's from the Dark Knight and his fall. At the end of that movie he's also limping after he took down Harvey Dent from a few stories up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1729" LastActivityDate="2012-07-20T15:07:34.870" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3273" CreationDate="2012-07-20T19:10:45.207" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the scene is suppose to reflect Donnie's lust for Jena Malone's character Gretchen. Not only this however, but also how easily Donnie can be transformed by hypnosis. Donnie is very vulnerable to the powers of hypnosis and becomes more cynical as we see from him masterbating. Seeing what the hypnotist evokes from Donnie by accident can lead the viewer to see just what sins Donnie is capable of under the hypnosis of Frank. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1672" LastActivityDate="2012-07-20T19:10:45.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3339" CreationDate="2012-07-21T05:01:51.443" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's about little things escalating to big things.  The episode starts with Walt noticing .14% of each batch coming up short.  He's detected Jesse's skimming but doesn't know it yet.  The fly represents nagging doubt.  A little minor annoying thing, which leads to a bigger thing (losing his shoe) which leads to a bigger thing (falling off the mezzanine).  What problem, little today, if neglected will escalates?  &lt;strong&gt;A downfall starts tiny.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt has his secret betrayal too, about Jane's death, which he almost discloses after Jesse drugs his coffee with sleeping pills.  One more candidate for Walt's undoing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, this is what is known as a &lt;strong&gt;&quot;bottle&quot; episode&lt;/strong&gt;.  Small setting, small cast, small budget.  Like a fly in a bottle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1698" LastActivityDate="2012-07-21T05:01:51.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3368" CreationDate="2012-07-21T15:03:37.460" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think I really answered the original question.&#xA;Regarding real-life variations on Bane's mask, the following snippet can be found on wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Other gases or vapors which produce general anesthesia by inhalation include nitrous oxide, cyclopropane and xenon. These are stored in gas cylinders and administered using flow meters, rather than vaporizers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found a couple of real world images that struck a chord - the first looks like the masks worn in Batman Begins (in shape only, not in function)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qh0T0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the second image is of a concept mask for firefighters which could be attached to gas cylinders. I have to say though, that no cylinders were apparent on Bane's costume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qPl2V.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-07-21T15:03:37.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3393" CreationDate="2012-07-21T15:19:02.023" Score="18" ViewCount="9602" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does Bane talk about giving Gotham to the people if he intends to blow it all up. Why doesn't he just detonate the bomb right away?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="275" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T06:48:33.967" LastActivityDate="2016-09-26T11:11:50.863" Title="Why doesn't Bane just detonate the bomb?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3370" CreationDate="2012-07-21T15:25:14.657" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;From interviews with director Christopher Nolan, it would appear that the goal was to create a non-specific setting (the film was actually shot in Pittsburgh and LA as well as New York and New Jersey), that felt both &quot;operatic&quot; and real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From an interview with &lt;a href=&quot;http://social.entertainment.msn.com/movies/blogs/the-hitlist-blogpost.aspx?post=8d70cd56-4f69-47c7-94d3-907dc245b8c0&quot;&gt;James Rocchi&lt;/a&gt; at MSN Entertainment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MSN Movies:&lt;/strong&gt; You knew you were doing a third film.  Is the pressure to do things bigger, better -- is that from the studio? Is it from the&#xA;  audience? Or is it that all from you? Are you the person saying,&#xA;  &quot;Let's do more with this&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Christopher Nolan:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, I was trying to push filmmaking from the point of view of the audience.  I'm trying to make a film that I would&#xA;  want to go see on a Friday night and lay down ten dollars or what have&#xA;  you and be thrilled and moved by or whatever.  And that's what was the&#xA;  impulse, and so when you know you're dealing with characters the&#xA;  audience have a relationship with, you're asking the audience to come&#xA;  back to Gotham City.  So you feel a huge creative responsibility to&#xA;  give them a reason to come back to Gotham City.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From an interview with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.emanuellevy.com/review/dark-knight-rises-interview-with-director-nolan/&quot;&gt;Emanuel Levy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For the first time, three separate cities provided locations and&#xA;  backdrops for Gotham City, with scenes filmed in Pittsburgh, Los&#xA;  Angeles, and the city sometimes nicknamed Gotham, New York.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nolan offers, “When you look back on the films, you can see the world&#xA;  we’re living in reflected, but we don’t want to be specific about it.&#xA;  We just come at the stories from the point of view of what concerns&#xA;  us. What gives us fear? What gives us hope? What would require a hero&#xA;  of Batman’s stature to rise up in our world?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from an interview with &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvfilmnews.com/christopher-nolan-the-dark-knight-rises-interview/&quot;&gt;Alex Tucker&lt;/a&gt; at TV-Film-News:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;**‘The Dark Knight Rises’ magnifies and resolves the main themes of the&#xA;  trilogy, one of which is mythmaking, and the discussion of the Batman&#xA;  Gotham needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Christopher Nolan:** One of the things I’ve enjoyed about working with&#xA;  these characters is that they have the potential to be topical. And&#xA;  the reason for that is they’re not real. It’s not real life. You’re&#xA;  dealing with a heightened reality. You’re not dealing with Chicago or&#xA;  New York; you’re dealing with Gotham City. And that gives you a very&#xA;  interesting world to be able to play with in a very heightened way, in&#xA;  a very operatic way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And some practical reasoning from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ae-0722-borrelli-chicago-gotham-20120720,0,7522757.column&quot;&gt;Chicago Tribune&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chicago-less Gotham&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chicago, don't take this personally, but: &quot;The Dark Knight Rises,&quot; the&#xA;  first of Nolan's Batman movies not to be shot here, was wise not to&#xA;  shoot here this time. For variety's sake, sure. But also, a better&#xA;  reason: A quick shot of the Chicago skyline screams money and&#xA;  prosperity. A quick shot of Pittsburgh, where a lot of the film was&#xA;  shot, reveals working-class areas within yearning range of gleaming&#xA;  skyscrapers. You'd have to find a pretty wide lens before you could&#xA;  hold the poor of Chicago and the rich of Chicago within the same&#xA;  frame. True, in &quot;Rises&quot; the Manhattan skyline is liberally mixed in;&#xA;  all the better to play up the 1-percenters. (Still, two nods to&#xA;  Chicago do sneak in, sorta: Batman swings by a historic neighborhood&#xA;  named &quot;Old Town,&quot; and those Gotham license plates are hilariously&#xA;  reminiscent of Illinois license plates.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-07-21T15:25:14.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3392" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3396" CreationDate="2012-07-21T15:25:30.610" Score="4" ViewCount="637" Body="&lt;p&gt;The episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://bones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Princess_and_the_Pear&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;“The Princess and the Pear”&lt;/a&gt; of the TV series Bones is about the murder of a “princess” (actually a booth babe at a convention playing a princess). The title seems to be an allusion to “The Princess and the Pea”, but I didn't notice anything about a pear in the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does the pear in the title of the episode refer to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="282" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-07-23T16:43:29.180" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T17:42:40.097" Title="What does “Pear” mean in “The Princess and the Pear” episode of Bones?" Tags="|title|bones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3390" CreationDate="2012-07-21T15:50:46.290" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;He explains this best when he first imprisons Bruce as an homage to the prison where he came from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He explains to Bruce that he wants him to watch the city struggle on while being held under Bane's martial law.  Suffering, hoping that Batman will come to save them or anyone, for that matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the while, he imagines Bruce just laying in his prison, suffering from his injury, watching the city die, until it finally exploded from the core, decimating Bruce's soul.  At this point, Bane plans on having Bruce killed, knowing he failed 12 million people all while he just lay in a prison cell, not being able to do anything to stop it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, as we learn towards the end of the movie, the whole point of the bomb is actually Talia's doing, in order to make Bruce suffer and garner her vengeance for the murder of her father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-12T17:39:29.553" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T17:39:29.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2692" CreationDate="2012-07-21T16:48:34.537" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This appears to be intentionally ambiguous on the part of the author. From an interview with author &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dvdtalk.com/interviews/chuck_palahniuk.html&quot;&gt;Chuck Palahniuk&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What exactly IS the name of the main character in Fight Club, is his name Tyler, Jack, or something else?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;His name was never given in the book. They needed a name for the screenplay to put next to the character's lines so they just put Jack in there for the hell of it.&#xA;  In the book at one point he even takes out his drivers license and&#xA;  shows it to Marla to prove that he's not Tyler Durden, but Marla was&#xA;  introduced to him under a dozen different names in the support groups.&#xA;  So when he finally comes to save her as Tyler, that's who she knows&#xA;  him as. All the people who have met him have met him as Tyler, so&#xA;  that's who they know him as. But his name is really…. I have no idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/trivia&quot;&gt;IMDB][2]&lt;/a&gt;, Palahniuk explains that he &quot;named Tyler Durden after the character of Toby Tyler in &lt;em&gt;Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus&lt;/em&gt;, and a man called Durden with whom Palahniuk worked, who was fired for sexual harassment. Marla Singer was named after a young girl called Marla who used to beat up Palahniuk's sister in school.&quot; So the name has symbolic meaning to the author, not the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2012-07-21T17:16:35.953" LastActivityDate="2012-07-21T17:16:35.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="731" CreationDate="2012-07-21T17:26:39.497" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Robin is in the final Nolan directed Batman movie (&quot;The Dark Knight Rises&quot;).  In the final few minutes of the movie, when Officer Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is collecting his property from the boys home, the woman behind the desk isn't able to find his name in their system.  He then gives her is 'real name,' after which she says &quot;You should use your real name, I like it better (or something to that nature) . . . Robin.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interesting part about the conclusion of the Dark Knight Rises is that it seems to be a set up for a &quot;Robin&quot; franchise in the next few years.  When Officer Blake discovers the batcave beneath Wayne Manor (Now the new home for Gotham's Orphans) it seems to be a 'passing of the torch' moment. Also when he is talking with Bruce Wayne about the similarities of their pasts, and at the end of the movie when he is talking with Gordon about why he is leaving the police force (i.e. the 'structure'). In fact, during the first thirty minutes of the movie, there even seems to be a set-up for who the villain will be for Robin . . . Killer-Croc.  When Commissioner Gordon is taken captive by Bane in the sewers, there is a brief mention by one of the officers of a &quot;large crocodile&quot; (or something using those terms) in the sewers.  I believe that Killer-Croc spent the majority of his time in the sewers in the comic series.  It seemed like an off the cuff kind of statement for a character, and pointless to have in the movie, since it's humor factor didn't really have too much of an impact.  I honestly believe it was a direct set up line for a Robin movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1735" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T10:41:28.207" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T10:41:28.207" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3392" CreationDate="2012-07-21T17:33:01.937" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1359122/synopsis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The murder weapon was a &quot;medieval torture device&quot; called the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oddee.com/item_96596.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pear of Anguish&lt;/a&gt;.&quot; The device was inserted into the victim's mouth and then slowly opened, crushing the orifice outward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HKNLf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of Pear of Anguish from www.oddee.com/item_96596.aspx&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-12T17:42:40.097" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T17:42:40.097" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3397" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3901" CreationDate="2012-07-21T18:16:31.630" Score="11" ViewCount="1621" Body="&lt;p&gt;A fair amount of the second act of &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt; has a class warfare plotline.  This is foreshadowed in the trailers with Selina Kyle's &quot;there's a storm coming&quot; monologue.  Some of the verbiage and themes of this portion of the film seem to mirror the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Occupy Movement&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and I wanted to know if this was on purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the writers of &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt; purposefully model this plotline on the &lt;em&gt;Occupy Movement&lt;/em&gt;, or were they pulling from some other source?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-08-27T02:37:19.177" LastActivityDate="2013-11-13T04:13:06.313" Title="Were parts of The Dark Knight Rises a commentary on the Occupy movement?" Tags="|analysis|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3397" CreationDate="2012-07-21T19:03:41.513" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been doing a bit of reading on this subject, and most of the reports  articles I have read indicate that the script was in development well before the events of 'Occupy Wall Street' - that said, there are several parallels, and there is one article at &lt;a href=&quot;http://theweek.com/article/index/230797/does-the-dark-knight-rises-have-a-political-agenda&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;theweek.com&lt;/a&gt; which sums up the opposing views quite nicely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To wit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nolan casts Bane as the leader of a &quot;ragtag movement with a propensity for violence&quot; against the wealthy, evoking Occupy Wall Street. &quot;Bane's henchmen literally attack Wall Street, savagely beat the rich, and promise the good people of Gotham that 'tomorrow, you claim what is rightfully yours.'&quot; The movie is a damning indictment of the anti-corporate movement and the threat of social chaos it poses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But Nolan sympathizes with Occupy Wall Street: While director (and co-screenwriter) Nolan claims that his movie is &quot;above partisanship,&quot; &lt;strong&gt;Rises&lt;/strong&gt; clearly has a &quot;down-with-the-system undercurrent.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Over the three films, Batman has &quot;oscillated between seemingly opposite poles&quot; — &quot;savior and destroyer, human and beast, the ultimate radical individualist and people's protector.&quot; The distinctions between his two sides have &quot;grown progressively messier,&quot; and it's impossible to force his character into a black-and-white, liberal v. conservative framework.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess you can take your pick - however, it is worth remembering that many thought &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; sided with Bush's methodology when dealing with terrorists...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-13T04:13:06.313" LastActivityDate="2013-11-13T04:13:06.313" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3399" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3400" CreationDate="2012-07-21T20:24:59.200" Score="11" ViewCount="2720" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to numerous sources, The Dark Knight Rises will be the end of the Batman series. I think all the three Batman movies directed by Nolan was successful and did well at the box office. Since his great success in Batman series, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why did Nolan want to end the Batman series?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-06T07:25:43.437" LastActivityDate="2021-06-04T15:56:26.553" Title="Why did Nolan want to end the Batman series?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|directors|christopher-nolan|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3399" CreationDate="2012-07-21T22:21:02.797" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are numerous magazine articles and interviews with Nolan in which he states that he always conceived his Batman films as a three-act story. He and his brother had the basic arc mapped out from the beginning, it was just a case of putting meat on the bones when the time came to write the next script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20170429115127/http://collider.com/christopher-nolan-speaks-updates-on-dark-knight-sequel-and-superman-man-of-steel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quoting Nolan:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without getting into specifics, the key thing that makes the third film an great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story. And in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story ... I’m very excited about the end of the film, the conclusion, and what we’ve done with the characters. My brother has come up with some pretty exciting stuff. Unlike the comics, these thing don’t go on forever in film and viewing it as a story with an end is useful. Viewing it as an ending, that sets you very much on the right track about the appropriate conclusion and the essence of what tale we’re telling. And it hearkens back to that priority of trying to find the reality in these fantastic stories. That’s what we do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW - DC and Warner really want to move on with their attempt at a Justice League movie, and Nolan's Batman does not fit into that scheme in any way; the character would need to be rebooted in order to allow the more fantastical elements of the JL stories to be told - right now he is too grounded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2021-06-04T15:56:26.553" LastActivityDate="2021-06-04T15:56:26.553" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3368" CreationDate="2012-07-21T23:52:28.287" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a film after all, so let's just run with it, maybe it's a refill which he changes every do often, in the comic he has &quot;venom&quot; pumped into him every 12 hours, so they might have taken that idea, but instead of venom decided to take a more realistic approach and give him anathsetic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also at the beginning of the movie in the plane, he is asked if he will die if the mask is removed, his reply is &quot;it would be extremely painful, for you.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1736" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-09-28T01:26:30.273" LastActivityDate="2016-09-28T01:26:30.273" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2930" CreationDate="2012-07-22T01:03:16.030" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Foremost Hitchcock critic Robin Wood has written two books on Hitchcock’s films which are available through your local library’s InterLibrary Loan  (ILL)  service if you live in the US (and a number of other countries as well): &lt;em&gt;Hitchcock's Films&lt;/em&gt; (1977) and &lt;em&gt;Hitchcock's Films Revisited&lt;/em&gt; (1989). He also wrote several essays in the book &lt;em&gt;A Hitchcock Reader&lt;/em&gt; (Deutelbaum and Poague, 1986), which can be read in part on &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=JXuTcTlOjjoC&amp;amp;pg=PR7&amp;amp;lpg=PR7#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=rear&amp;amp;f=false&quot;&gt;Google books&lt;/a&gt;. The chapter called “Male Desire, Male Anxiety: The Essential Hitchcock” addresses the film &lt;em&gt;Rear Window&lt;/em&gt; (starting p. 223). This book is also widely available through ILL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;A Hitchcock Reader&lt;/em&gt;, Wood discusses the theme of castration (signified by the broken leg and the smashed camera), and the reassertion of potency through the act of looking, first through eyes, then binoculars, then a “huge erect telescope.”  Wood contends that &lt;em&gt;Rear Window&lt;/em&gt; is about marriage as castration of the male – so a different twist on the interpretation in your question (and very interesting reading).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also be interested in the transcript of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/Documentary%3a_Rear_Window_Ethics_-_transcript&quot;&gt;documentary&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Rear Window Ethics&lt;/em&gt;. It includes a number of revealing quotes from Wood that support your suppositions in part: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What I think is being shown here, seems to be one of the absolutely&#xA;  central themes of all Hitchcock's work. This goes right back to&#xA;  British period. It goes right through the American films. The terrible&#xA;  incompatibility of male and female positions, as they've been defined&#xA;  and have evolved within our culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The man's viewpoint is one thing. The woman's is always another. And&#xA;  with all this is the idea of romantic love, what Miss Lonelyhearts is&#xA;  longing for, what the newlyweds were expecting, what Lisa wants.&#xA;  Hitchcock's view of romantic love is extremely sceptical, to say the&#xA;  least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think one of Hitchcock's central concerns is the isolation of people&#xA;  within our society. The apartments reflect the sense that everybody is&#xA;  in a prison. Each person is in his or her own little prison. That all&#xA;  comes to a head, of course, in what I see as the crucial scene of the&#xA;  film, from this point of view anyway. The scene where the woman comes&#xA;  out on her balcony and sees her dog has been killed and accuses all&#xA;  the neighbours. It’s a kind of central statement, I think, in&#xA;  Hitchcock, is this whole idea of people not being able to reach out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think another of Hitchcock's concerns is the way in which people&#xA;  build these protective facades around themselves, and claim this as&#xA;  their identity. It's a way of defending themselves against the&#xA;  unpredictability and chaos... of life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What the film eventually moves to at the end, is a kind of resolution&#xA;  of the Jefferies-Lisa relationship. A lot of people have found it&#xA;  cynical because Lisa, although she's dressed in adventure-type&#xA;  clothes, presumably ready to take off with Jefferies on some&#xA;  expedition, and is reading a book called &quot;Beyond The High Himalayas&quot;&#xA;  or something like that, puts it aside when she sees he's asleep and&#xA;  picks up Harper's Bazaar. It seems to me what Hitchcock is saying is&#xA;  not exactly cynical. It’s realistic. Male and female positions are,&#xA;  within the culture, incompatible, within the culture as it exists&#xA;  today. And to a great extent it exists now. Lisa is showing us, at the&#xA;  end, that she must retain a certain perspective of her own and&#xA;  interests of her own, that she will not abandon her own interests in&#xA;  life and her values in life for his. I think that's wonderful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="282" LastEditDate="2012-07-22T09:05:04.887" LastActivityDate="2012-07-22T09:05:04.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1987" CreationDate="2012-07-22T01:42:10.270" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=Z4qHatHRJlsC&amp;amp;pg=PA87&amp;amp;lpg=PA87&amp;amp;dq=%22way%20of%20the%20dragon%22%20cat&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=VYmoP9LefP&amp;amp;sig=NLYhZATVeO8hcGRcNl-H4SQbMpI&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=FVYLUKLEHKeQ2QWi-NXqDw&amp;amp;ved=0CF0Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=had%20the%20film%20edited%20so%20that%20cat%27s&amp;amp;f=false&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bruce Lee: Incomparable Fighter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (M. Uyehara, 1988, p. 87), Bruce had the film edited so the cat's actions would &quot;interrelate&quot; to his (his toying with his opponent, for example, like the cat toys with the ball of paper), but it &quot;didn't succeed in the finished product.&quot; At the time, this movie was the most expensive produced in a Chinese studio, at $150,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-07-22T01:42:10.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3404" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3405" CreationDate="2012-07-22T02:07:26.080" Score="25" ViewCount="229500" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the movie, we're given different versions of the past.  I am also not sure if it's ever made very clear why Bane wears his mask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why did Bane have to wear his mask?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2020-02-02T00:43:25.230" Title="Why does Bane wear the mask?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3404" CreationDate="2012-07-22T02:13:39.903" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I've gathered, he has to wear that mask in order to tolerate the constant pain he is in after the mauling he took while helping Talia escape. It feeds a nerve numbing gas to him. That said - it is not really shown in use (gas canister-wise) during the film, and a bit ambiguous. Also seems a bit of a weak spot for such a tough guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found a quote from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2012-05/22/tom-hardy-bane-mask-dark-knight-rises&quot;&gt;GQ magazine&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nolan has revealed that Hardy's audio-muffling mask is actually pumping Bane's body full of anaesthetic. &quot;Bane is ravaged by pain from a trauma suffered long ago,&quot; he explains.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you'll recall, Tom Conti's character (the old man in the prison) recounts the story of 'the child' who escaped, and this is then extrapolated upon during the big reveal at the end by Talia, who goes on to explain how Bane was her protector and how he was set upon by the other inmates when she escaped. The doctor with the gammy eye tried to help him but his injuries were so severe that he was in constant pain from that moment on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, I think another good question might be: &lt;em&gt;where did he get his mask from?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-12T17:44:40.713" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T17:44:40.713" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3406" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3706" CreationDate="2012-07-22T02:47:14.727" Score="18" ViewCount="6541" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jason Bourne, from &lt;strong&gt;The Bourne Identity&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;The Bourne Supremacy&lt;/strong&gt; often experiences headaches due to something he went through to become the way he is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What exactly did he go through to get these headaches?  Is there an in-universe explanation (perhaps from the books, or in &lt;strong&gt;The Bourne Ultimatum&lt;/strong&gt;) for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;strong&gt;The Bourne Supremacy&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pamela&lt;/strong&gt; You'd been working at Treadstone for three years, and your cover at the time was what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nicky&lt;/strong&gt; That I was an American student in Paris.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pamela&lt;/strong&gt; And what exactly did your job with Treadstone in Paris consist of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nicky&lt;/strong&gt;  I had two responsibilities.  One was to coordinate logistical operations.  The other was to monitor the health of the&#xA;  agents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pamela&lt;/strong&gt; Health, meaning what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nicky&lt;/strong&gt; Their mental health.  &lt;em&gt;Because of what they had been through&lt;/em&gt;, they were prone to a variety of problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pamela&lt;/strong&gt; What kind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nicky&lt;/strong&gt; Depression, anger, compulsive behaviors. They had physical symptoms. Headaches, sensitivity to light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pamela&lt;/strong&gt; Amnesia?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nicky&lt;/strong&gt; Before Bourne? No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;strong&gt;The Bourne Identity&lt;/strong&gt;, we know that the symptoms affect more than just Jason Bourne:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Professor&lt;/strong&gt; Do you get the headaches?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bourne&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Professor&lt;/strong&gt; I get such bad headaches.  You know at night when you're driving a car?  I don't know, something to do with the headlights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1737" LastEditorUserId="1737" LastEditDate="2012-07-22T02:55:20.440" LastActivityDate="2013-10-02T16:41:30.070" Title="Why does Bourne get headaches?" Tags="|the-bourne-identity|the-bourne-supremacy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3376" CreationDate="2012-07-22T04:28:44.117" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;One more clue that proves that Batman is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; dead is the final scene - Alfred has never seen Selena, so if it was his imagination, how could he have seen Bruce with her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Thank to the commentators - Alfred does see her at the beginning of the movie and again when Bruce shows him her profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I feel it's good they didn't kill him. The minute the bomb exploded, I thought that (the) Batman was dead as the first thing that came to my mind wasn't &quot;oh no!&quot; but &quot;Just like Apocalypse!&quot; If they'd stopped there, it would be too similar to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if we assume that he &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; use autopilot (which he most certainly did), we can do some math...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He needs to go 12 miles from Gotham City. Let's say he was a further 6 miles inside Gotham, meaning he flied 18 miles in around 2 minutes (I think the timer showed 1:54 just before he flew away). He may not even need to go an extra 6 miles, probably 4 would be enough, considering the Bat is extremely strong and sturdy. Also, after dropping the bomb, it would enter the sea, and that would dampen the effect further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That comes to 540 mi/hr. A Bowing 777 flies as 560, so I think we can safely assume that the Bat travels much faster. The mushroom cloud could've blocked the view of the Bat, especially if he flew close to (or maybe inside?) the water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1739" LastEditorUserId="1739" LastEditDate="2012-07-24T10:39:14.067" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T10:39:14.067" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3408" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11968" CreationDate="2012-07-22T05:16:57.803" Score="3" ViewCount="15873" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the film &quot;War Horse,&quot; Albert is attempting to bid on the horse, Joey, before it is auctioned off by the military.  Also present at the auction is Emilie's grandfather (unnamed), who ultimately wins the horse with a high bid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first, Grandfather tries to leave with Joey, but the horse insists on returning to Albert's side.  Initially, Grandfather only offers Albert his father's military regalia, which Albert had tied to the horse before it was sold to the army in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, Grandfather relents on giving the horse to Albert, but not after emphatically offering that &quot;[His granddaugher's] name was Emilie.&quot;  This seems to be the final condition for handing over the horse.  Albert nods in understanding, and the exchange is made.  As Grandfather is walking away, he again repeats &quot;Her name &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; Emilie&quot; (which, as an aside, I have seen interpreted as an admission that she's alive).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is Grandfather so insistent upon Albert knowing her name?  Was it an attempt to guilt Albert into giving him the horse after all?  Or, if she was in fact dead, did he use it to humanize a victim of war?  Or was it simply to clue us into Emilie's status and illustrate the lengths to which Grandfather would go to get the horse for her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastActivityDate="2016-07-13T15:07:57.217" Title="Why did Grandfather insist on Albert knowing Emilie's name before giving him the horse?" Tags="|plot-explanation|war-horse|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3409" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3419" CreationDate="2012-07-22T06:23:18.657" Score="18" ViewCount="37101" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/a&gt;, at the end of the movie Talia said, it was her father's dream to destroy Gotham city, and I accept that any daughter who was in that situation will definitely  think to destroy Gotham to fulfill her father's dream. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, I don't understand &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;why does Bane want to fulfill the dream of Ra's al Ghul&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was expelled from the &lt;strong&gt;League of Shadows&lt;/strong&gt; by &lt;strong&gt;Ra's al Ghul&lt;/strong&gt;. So, any man who was in that position would definitely have furious anger over Ra's al Ghul and take vengeance. But Bane didn't do that, despite his ex-communication from the League of Shadows why would he want to work for &lt;strong&gt;Ra's al Ghul&lt;/strong&gt;'s dream?  Unless it is because he's in love with Talia?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T06:49:42.390" LastActivityDate="2016-10-25T00:50:32.303" Title="Why does Bane want to destroy Gotham city?" Tags="|analysis|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3410" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3429" CreationDate="2012-07-22T07:36:59.203" Score="24" ViewCount="147336" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of &lt;a href=&quot;https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fantastic_Mr._Fox_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fantastic Mr. Fox&lt;/a&gt;, and just after the film's climax, Mr. Fox, Ash, Kristofferson and Kylie encounter a wolf. Like the scene, the wolf seemingly came randomly and out of nowhere (with Mr. Fox remarking about that). The encounter ends with Mr. Fox remarking &amp;quot;What a beautiful creature&amp;quot;, referring to the wolf, and tells his companions to wish the wolf, good luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kTtmj.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kTtmj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screencap of said scene&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr. Fox has claimed that he has a phobia of wolves (but he is not &amp;quot;scared&amp;quot; of them). Related part of the movie script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;KYLIE&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Are you scared of wolves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MR. FOX&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;No. I have a phobia of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;KYLIE&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Well, I have a thing about thunder!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MR. FOX&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Why? That’s stupid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also mentions that he has a phobia of wolves to the wolf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Besides that (being a &amp;quot;phobia&amp;quot; of Mr. Fox'), does the wolf symbolize something else in the film? What does Mr. Fox mean when he said that he's not scared of wolves but has a phobia of them?&#xA;What is the significance of this scene where Mr. Fox meets the wolf?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should also point out that unlike the other animals in the film, the wolf is not wearing clothes, is not standing upright, and never spoke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-10-16T17:57:31.283" Title="What is the significance of the appearance of the wolf?" Tags="|analysis|wes-anderson|fantastic-mr-fox|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3365" CreationDate="2012-07-22T09:03:58.160" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;They chanted like, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dey-shey dey-shey Bah-sur-rah bah-sur-rah.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we translate the chant to &lt;strong&gt;Hindi&lt;/strong&gt;, which closely means,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;long live, long live&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, Nolan would've chosen that phrase because the pitfall/prison portrayed in the movie is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehrangarh_Fort&quot;&gt;Mehrangarh Fort&lt;/a&gt;, located in India. So, I guess Nolan would be using the &lt;strong&gt;Hindi&lt;/strong&gt; chant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2012-07-22T18:41:41.593" LastActivityDate="2012-07-22T18:41:41.593" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3412" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3415" CreationDate="2012-07-22T10:04:52.857" Score="12" ViewCount="31693" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/a&gt;, till the end of the movie the audience would be think like, the kid get out from the pit was &lt;strong&gt;Bane&lt;/strong&gt;. But, in the climatic scene the movie revealed that the kid wasn't Bane, it was Talia. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, when Bruce was in the pit, his inmates used to say there was only one person escaped/get out from the pit and that was a small kid. According to the movie it was Talia. Then, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;how's it possible for Bane to get out from the pit?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-08-27T02:10:28.243" LastActivityDate="2013-01-22T16:24:29.100" Title="How did Bane get out of the pit/prison in The Dark Knight Rises?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3413" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3414" CreationDate="2012-07-22T10:30:48.177" Score="25" ViewCount="26744" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/a&gt;, when Catwoman (Selina) brings Batman to Bane's place, she trapped him in Bane's place, after a short while Bane came and called Batman by his real name, Bruce Wayne. I was stunned at that moment, because &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;how did he know Batman's real name?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-03T06:32:47.153" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T06:32:47.153" Title="How does Bane know that Batman is Bruce Wayne?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3413" CreationDate="2012-07-22T12:28:14.623" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Bane is working for Talia Al Ghul who is the daughter of Ra's Al Ghul who trained Bruce Wayne and helped him become Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-12T17:49:24.757" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T17:49:24.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3412" CreationDate="2012-07-22T13:36:00.440" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Talia escapes, she informs Ra's Al Ghul of Bane; so he comes to the prison &amp;amp; rescues Bane (this scene is shown for a short time ~5 seconds), and later trains him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user96" LastActivityDate="2012-07-22T13:36:00.440" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3416" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3417" CreationDate="2012-07-22T14:50:28.093" Score="31" ViewCount="101452" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Dark Knight Rises at the scene when Bruce first meets Blake (where the latter goes calling at Wayne Manor), the way Blake confidently asserts to Bruce that Batman is needed seems to suggest that he has more than hunch about Batman's true identity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did he come across that (it is later acknowledged by Bruce in the car scene, when he says that Batman could be anyone...), and why does Bruce accept his assertion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="446" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-28T10:33:24.623" LastActivityDate="2016-04-28T10:33:24.623" Title="How does Blake know that Bruce Wayne is Batman?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3416" CreationDate="2012-07-22T15:24:39.907" Score="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blake doesn't have a full confirmation that Wayne is Batman, but as he explains to Bruce, he always had an inkling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blake talks about losing parents is something no child can ever move on from, not someone stuck in an orphanage like him, or someone like Wayne, with boundless money and potential.  Its a kind of unspoken comradery that only those in the situation can understand, hinted at when Blake says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blake&lt;/strong&gt;: No one knows how it feels to be angry in your &lt;em&gt;bones&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this, and from the time that Bruce visited the boys home, the boys always had a fantasy of Bruce being Batman, as a bit of a joke.  But Blake could tell from Bruce's face that day, from the look and smile he gave everyone, that it wasn't just pure fantasy.  As Blake also explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blake&lt;/strong&gt;: I know that smile you put on...its the same one I taught myself&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this, Blake has a gut feeling that Bruce isn't who he lets on to everyone, billionaire playboy extraordinaire.  But something different.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Not to mention one big element from the movie, Bruce goes into seclusion almost around the same time Batman disappears.  Putting these pieces together, Blake makes the assumption that Bruce is Batman, and confronts him with Gordon's shooting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This turns out to be correct, of course, and garner's Bruce's trust because Blake is someone who can understand Bruce's situation, coming from it himself.  And Blake is also someone who share's Batman's ideals, as he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blake&lt;/strong&gt;: I don't know why you took the fall for Dent's murder, but I'm still a believer in the Batman&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Showing us and Bruce that he has, at least similar, ideals to how Bruce was when he first put on his cape and cowl. And also the reason why he trusts Blake with the cave at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-07-22T15:24:39.907" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3409" CreationDate="2012-07-22T17:38:36.293" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Bane said, he viewed himself as carrying on the League of Shadows' mission in the wake of Ra's' death.  As Ra's explained in &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt;, the League periodically culls civilizations, and Gotham was next.  Batman prevented their attempt in &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt;, but Bane returned to finish the job in &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the revelation at the end of Talia's identity and role, much of the above still holds.  However, instead of Bane being the leader, he was simply a top lieutenant following Talia's orders.  Talia's motivation was more of a revenge thing.  She wanted to get back at Batman/Bruce for killing her father.  And the thing that Bruce cares about most is Gotham, so slowly and painfully destroying that would give her the vengeance she desired over the loss of her father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-07-22T17:38:36.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3463" CreationDate="2012-07-22T18:06:39.803" Score="14" ViewCount="10900" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, even smaller earthquakes measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale in Japan have triggered tsunamis. Was the atom bomb used in The Dark Knight Rises not this powerful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1741" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-02T07:46:09.310" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T07:46:09.310" Title="Why didn't the bomb cause a tsunami in Dark Knight Rises?" Tags="|realism|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3421" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3480" CreationDate="2012-07-22T18:32:22.037" Score="14" ViewCount="23054" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone familiar with Batman universe would be quite familiar with Ra's Al Ghul's &lt;a href=&quot;http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/Lazarus_Pit&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lazarus pit.&lt;/a&gt; Given the realism shown in the Batman movies by Nolan, for instance Bane's character and his mask. In the comics/video games Bane is portrayed along these lines with tubes to control the venom which runs into his body&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YRA1Y.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie he is shown as a really strong guy with a mask to subdue his pain from his previously sustained injury. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ra's Al Ghul's pit is known to resurrect half dead people and heal people from their severe injuries, which often explains the reason why Ra's Al Ghul is immortal (That's a dialogue even quoted by Liam Neeson's Ra's Al Ghul character briefly in the scene when he talks to Bruce Wayne when he was imagining talking to him ). Given the fact Bruce Wayne gets over his broken back in a relatively few days given his age, could we assume it's equivalent to a realistic version of  Ra's Al Ghul's Lazarus pit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love to hear any interesting perceptions on this topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-07-23T14:04:20.287" LastActivityDate="2013-03-13T02:05:30.630" Title="Is the pit in Dark Knight Rises a representation of Ra's Al Ghul's Lazarus pit?" Tags="|analysis|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3423" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3424" CreationDate="2012-07-22T19:34:49.143" Score="13" ViewCount="6981" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;, Bane wears a mask that covers the bottom half of his face.  This obscures his mouth and jaw such that it's pretty hard to tell when the actor is actually speaking.  The clarity and audio quality of his speech seemed a little off.  During the filming, was he speaking the recorded dialogue, or did they have the actor go back later and rerecord the dialogue which was then added in post-production?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T11:14:03.277" Title="Was Bane's dialogue spoken during filming or dubbed in during post?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3423" CreationDate="2012-07-22T20:35:47.590" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was added in post. It is well documented that many audience members found his speech inaudible during the opening scene which was shown with M:I 4 - so Nolan went back in and reconfigured the audio.&#xA;See The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/dark-knight-rises-christian-bale-batman-tom-hardy-bane-275489&quot;&gt;Hollywood Reporter article&lt;/a&gt; (one of many)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naturally Hardy would have said his lines during filming so that everyone else could react to them, but it would have always been the intention to dub them afterwards as it is very hard to mic someone wearing a mask of that type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-08-31T20:22:49.607" LastActivityDate="2012-08-31T20:22:49.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3366" CreationDate="2012-07-22T23:38:51.260" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole point of Nolan's Batman is a meditation on myth and legend. He includes these things to imply, I think, that the version of batman we learnt about over the years is a myth based on some things which may or may not have happened, events passed on by word of mouth and stories. As in all myths, names change over time, get jumbled up, and the story changes like Chinese whispers. so Nolan's version is one telling of the myth. The next director will tell another version. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one version of the myth Robin is his side kick, in another his successor. In one version two face carries on damaging the city symbolically due to the draconian laws past as a reaction to his death and the lies his death propagates which eat away at the soul of Gotham; in another myth he literally goes on damaging the city as a criminal. It's kind of like the various gospels in religion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1744" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-12T17:07:47.477" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T17:07:47.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3426" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3517" CreationDate="2012-07-22T23:55:35.010" Score="16" ViewCount="1382" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first movie, they had the Delorean rev up with the emergency brake turned on and the speedometer revved up close to the magical 88mph. What I'm wondering is why they didn't just have the car do a brakestand to 88mph instead of trying to drive the Delorean to the same speed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="603" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T11:34:21.527" Title="Why didn't they keep the brakes on when revving the Delorean to 88mph?" Tags="|plot-explanation|back-to-the-future|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3427" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-23T02:10:46.577" Score="10" ViewCount="1305" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Wes Anderson's &lt;em&gt;Moonrise Kingdom&lt;/em&gt;, young protagonist Sam is being chased by a band of Khaki Scouts, and they are about to catch him when he stops atop a cairn in &quot;lightning field&quot; and is struck by lightning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A moment later, he awakens, surrounded by friends. The pursuing Khaki scouts are not there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened? The darkest theory is that everything from that point on in the film is a fantasy, and that Sam is dead. There is some evidence that this may be the case, but nothing conclusive. (If this is what Anderson had in mind, then the end is something like the end of Fanny &amp;amp; Alexander, which has a similar moment of disaster followed by an almost magical resolution of all difficulties, sometimes interpreted as the death of the title characters).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastActivityDate="2012-11-23T18:15:12.043" Title="What happened to the pursuers when the lightning hit?" Tags="|plot-explanation|moonrise-kingdom|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3366" CreationDate="2012-07-23T04:46:02.530" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because some non-comic readers aren't familiar with Dick's name, &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; Nolan didn't have the sense to reveal his real name as Grayson and throw in a line about him being a Boy Wonder (which would have clued in the audience AND satisfied the fans).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1745" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T04:46:02.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3410" CreationDate="2012-07-23T04:51:32.920" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Director &lt;a href=&quot;http://rushmoreacademy.com/2009/10/the-times-london-talks-to-wes/&quot;&gt;Wes Anderson&lt;/a&gt; said of the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There were some people who didn’t like the wolf scene. In particular&#xA;  one very important person. And he said, I don’t understand what this&#xA;  scene is doing in the movie. And I would always say to him, I’m not&#xA;  cutting it. That scene is why I’m making the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what does it mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actor &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyactor.com/2009/11/jason-schwartzman-on-the-fantastic-mr-fox-its-the-best-movie-ive-ever-been-a-part-of/&quot;&gt;Jason Schwartzman&lt;/a&gt;, who plays a 12-year-old fox in the film, said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...we stop and we see a wolf on a distant hill, and it’s a really&#xA;  beautiful, beautiful scene.  It’s like so heart-warming because it’s&#xA;  just a beautiful moment between these foxes and little animals and&#xA;  this really like mysterious wolf who we’ve heard about the entire&#xA;  movie and who doesn’t talk in this scene and he’s not wearing clothes.&#xA;  He’s kind of, he represents I guess, the wild.  He’s a wild wolf and&#xA;  animal, and it’s a beautiful moment where they have this great&#xA;  connection, and in that moment, it really like to me the point of that&#xA;  scene is let’s keep on being free.  Let’s keep on being animals.  And&#xA;  it’s such an uplifting moment, and like when I’ve seen it with&#xA;  audiences, a bunch of people break into huge cheers and hooting.  It’s&#xA;  such an awesome, awesome scene.  It really just blows my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;http://drburnshead.tumblr.com/post/1706458186/the-wolf-scene-in-fantastic-mr-fox&quot;&gt;anonymous reviewer&lt;/a&gt; stated this more eloquently:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think it shows that Mr Fox is afraid of his wild side and yet&#xA;  desires greatly to live it due to fears that he has become&#xA;  domesticated. The wolf represents pure, unbridled, rugged and wild&#xA;  power. Mr Fox tries to communicate with it but realises that being&#xA;  wild is not for him and is best left to the wolf. He exchanges a&#xA;  symbol of brotherhood with the wolf and returns to his family and&#xA;  community while the wolf returns to its harsh forest, not needing a&#xA;  thing in the world, being truly free. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, this article by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.overthinkingit.com/2009/11/30/phallic-fantastic-mr-fox/&quot;&gt;Shana Mlawski&lt;/a&gt; talks about the scene in the context of the plot, suggesting that the movie is about castration. Mr. Fox has had his tail shot off and he is trying to get it back, at the same time that he is trying to revert to his wild nature from the domesticated life he had taken on in in order to support his family. An excerpt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The ambiguity of Mr. Fox’s decision to give into his natural, wild&#xA;  impulses can also be seen in his relationship with the Wolf. &#xA;  Throughout the film, Mr. Fox shows that he is afraid of the Wolf. &#xA;  “Wolf?  Where?!” Fox says, cowering with eyes wide open.  The Wolf is&#xA;  described as the wildest, most frightening, and yet most beautiful&#xA;  creature in the world.  Mr. Fox fears the Wolf and yet wants to be&#xA;  exactly like him.  We can thus say that Mr. Fox fears pure, wild&#xA;  masculinity yet also yearns to own it himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After Mr. Fox and Ash save Kristofferson and Mr. Fox’s ruined tail,&#xA;  Mr. Fox actually does meet the Wolf, his masculine ideal. &#xA;  Significantly, Mr. Fox cannot speak with him.  The Wolf, being the&#xA;  representation of pure wildness, cannot speak English (or French, or&#xA;  even Latin—which is important, because it means that Wolf cannot even&#xA;  understand his own “scientific” or “natural” name, which is of course&#xA;  as culturally-determined as the names “Wolf” and “Mr. Fox”).  Mr. Fox&#xA;  does pump his fist at the Wolf to say, “Fight the Man,” but that is&#xA;  all Fox can do.  His wife is pregnant again; he cannot live in the&#xA;  wild world of the manly wolves.  He can only learn to survive his&#xA;  neutered life in the suburbs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The review continues on, assessing the moral of the story – a very interesting read about the male midlife crisis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T04:51:32.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3430" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3523" CreationDate="2012-07-23T05:24:07.967" Score="11" ViewCount="9410" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching antenna TV and now I wonder: What year did they begin to &lt;strong&gt;make the point of announcing&lt;/strong&gt; that specific TV shows were &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Filmed in front of a live studio audience&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; and which show was the first one to include that announcement in its credits? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T22:40:42.440" LastActivityDate="2016-04-10T19:57:46.790" Title="What year did they begin announcing that TV shows were &quot;Filmed in front of a live studio audience&quot;?" Tags="|first-appearance|credits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2938" CreationDate="2012-07-23T07:17:14.867" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found the following &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviequotesandmore.com/inception-quotes-2.html#.UAz4kKO1UYs&quot;&gt;dialog&lt;/a&gt; that I think answers my question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ariadne: So, do you use a timer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Arthur: No, I have to judge it for&#xA;  myself. While you're all asleep in five-two-eight, I wait for Yusuf's&#xA;  kick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ariadne: Well, how will you know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Arthur: Cause music warns me&#xA;  and then when the van hits the barrier of the bridge that should be&#xA;  unmistakable, so we get a nice synchronized kick. If it's too soon we&#xA;  won't get pulled out, if it's to late I won't be able to drop us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ariadne: Well, why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Arthur: Because the van will be in free fall.&#xA;  Can't drop you without gravity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the &quot;we won't be pulled out&quot;, means that the kick from the level above won't pull them out before the fall kills them and they end up in limbo. I've also heard another theory that the kicks need to be synchronised because this is the only way to wake them up with the strong sedative, but I don't believe that this is well supported.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="275" LastEditorUserId="275" LastEditDate="2012-07-23T07:27:29.537" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T07:27:29.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3433" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-23T08:00:59.280" Score="10" ViewCount="13124" Body="&lt;p&gt;First the van rolls, then later the van falls off the bridge. Why doesn't this kick wake up Arthur?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related questions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2938/in-inception-why-do-the-kicks-have-to-occur-simultaneously&quot;&gt;Why do the kicks have to occur simultaneously?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="275" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2022-11-13T18:38:49.777" Title="Why isn't Arthur woken up by the kick?" Tags="|inception|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2675" CreationDate="2012-07-23T09:35:08.500" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems like Vijin was right. I asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/foxdeutschland&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;@foxdeutschland&lt;/a&gt; about this and they responded:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZLi7S.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This roughly translates to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;oers&lt;/strong&gt;: Why is Prometheus released here [in germany] two month after the&#xA;world premiere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;fox&lt;/strong&gt;: The german release had to be postponed due to the&#xA;UEFA Euro 2012 to august.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T09:35:08.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3435" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3478" CreationDate="2012-07-23T14:07:17.347" Score="31" ViewCount="4160" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Dark Knight Rises, we see a bit of history of what has happened to Gotham in the past 8 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Batman in seclusion, criminals being locked up for being part of organized crime, and Gordon's guilt from what happened with Dent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there seems to be &lt;strong&gt;absolutely no mention&lt;/strong&gt; of the Joker at all during the movie, not even a &lt;em&gt;hint&lt;/em&gt; at what happened to him after being apprehended.  In comparison, Crane has been seen across all three movies and given some sort of wrap-up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, it is a &lt;em&gt;tad&lt;/em&gt; hard to film anything new with the death of the actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But is there any reason Nolan gave on why he wouldn't at least give us a visual &lt;em&gt;hint&lt;/em&gt; at the Joker being locked up (example being a pan across a door reading &lt;strong&gt;EXTREMELY DANGEROUS&lt;/strong&gt;) or him escaping into hiding (example: Gordon saying to a fellow officer that &quot;&lt;em&gt;The Madman still got away&lt;/em&gt;&quot;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-29T18:02:00.830" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T13:10:28.937" Title="Why was there no hint of the Joker?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3436" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3442" CreationDate="2012-07-23T14:25:25.237" Score="16" ViewCount="9132" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the passing of Harvey Dent, Gotham City passed the Dent Act, which allowed Gotham to clean up the streets quite a bit.  It was stated that the act gave the police department the teeth it needed to do this.  Was it ever made clear exactly what the Dent Act did to make it easier for the police to do their job?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-12-05T04:52:07.983" Title="What did the Dent Act do?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3437" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3439" CreationDate="2012-07-23T14:32:09.480" Score="17" ViewCount="5454" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Bruce is left broken and suffering in the Prison Pit, Bane explains that this is where he suffered and where Bruce will fully realize his failure with Gotham, and then be killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During his time there, the Doctor and his friend explain that Bane owns the prison, and their only duty is to keep him alive until Bane wants to kill him.  However, they seem to turn around, heal his back and start encouraging him to find the will and ability to climb out of the pit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question here is, &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would they disobey Bane and help Bruce?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-08-27T02:36:21.417" LastActivityDate="2014-01-22T07:50:56.543" Title="Why did the prisoners help Bruce?" Tags="|analysis|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3435" CreationDate="2012-07-23T15:11:11.750" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the only reason I could think of presently is the fact that Nolan wanted to preserve the memory of the character created by Heath Ledger and decided to end it with Dark Knight. Any reference to him in the movie would've created a scene portraying him since he isn't alive the creators would've refrained from making any reference to it which could've resulted in negative publicity / reception because of his iconic portrayal in Dark Knight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the Fact &quot;Spoilers below&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see Liam Neeson's character speaking to Bruce again even though he was killed off in the First movie, had Heath Ledger been alive I think we could've seen a different take on the whole movie with Joker probably playing another major role (Because of Heath Ledger's dialogue in Dark knight &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;I think you and I are destined to this forever&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for what could've happened to Dark knight. The last scene where he is shown is the scene where is hanging on the building towards the end of Dark knight where the swat team enters pointing their gun at him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My assumption is that they could've taken him to Arkham because of his instability as the reason, where he could've been mourning over the failure of his plan and also since there was no activity about Batman finding no inspiration he could've died at Arkham or broken free and leave the city for good. or He could've been killed by the SWAT team because he killed many cops, blew up hospitals. I don't think he was put along with Dent's prisoners because if that was the case he would've been brought back out during the war sequences towards the end, so I think he died at some point during the peaceful times in Gotham and if he had left Gotham definitely the war at Gotham would've prompted him to come back to join in on the fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2018-07-05T13:10:28.937" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T13:10:28.937" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3437" CreationDate="2012-07-23T15:27:12.090" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I see, it's still a prison and those prisoners who are under Bane's orders are trapped in the same way as Bruce Wayne was. There was no privilege which they enjoyed specifically more than him though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly Bruce was stuck there for a time that was time long enough to develop some camaraderie and seeing his passion and reaction to the way Gotham was destroyed in front of him could've appealed to their human side. It's often said prison is supposed to be creating a lot of retrospective thought processes for people who are imprisoned and I think they could've found a newer path after taking a look at Bruce Wayne and seeing him struggle against his wounds would've sparked a definite surge in them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This third part I am not sure. Bane while he was in the pit as we see in the flashbacks fought with plenty of them protecting Talia. I think in a way he would've made enemies then. Since Bruce Wayne was against Bane. Enemy of my enemy theory could quite possibly have kicked in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2012-08-24T01:28:04.810" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T01:28:04.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3441" CreationDate="2012-07-23T15:28:27.293" Score="9" ViewCount="23943" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bruce Campbell was in all three of the Sam Raimi movies, but as different bit characters in each one.  Why was he used in all three movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-30T21:07:10.243" LastActivityDate="2016-06-30T21:07:10.243" Title="Why was Bruce Campbell in all three Spider-Man movies?" Tags="|analysis|spider-man-trilogy|bruce-campbell|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3440" CreationDate="2012-07-23T15:32:35.980" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were a couple of reasons for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Sam Raimi (director) and Bruce Campbell are good friends and Bruce normally gets cameo's in his films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) There was a rumor before and after Spider-man 3 Bruce Campbell was going to become Mysterio as Mysterio constantly blames Spider-man for his failed acting and stunt gigs.&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.accesshollywood.com/bruce-campbell-spider-man-4-shooting-in-january-villainous-role-in-the-works_article_22863&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="567" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-29T11:22:14.543" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T11:22:14.543" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3436" CreationDate="2012-07-23T15:46:55.057" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this piece online while looking for something related to the Dent Act. Looks real enough to think that it was released as part of the trailer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nIyTr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;dent_act&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it provides stricter penalties and parole denial to put fear into people committing organized crime. Anyone probably arrested on suspect could be tried immediately rather than the usual turn around time associated with an appeal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/the-dark-knight-rises-harvey-dent/174399/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2012-08-28T15:46:13.700" LastActivityDate="2012-08-28T15:46:13.700" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3433" CreationDate="2012-07-23T15:53:46.017" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally, a kick in some level wakes you up only if you physically wake up in that level. If you are sleeping in a chair and you were given a kick, your brain wakes you up from the dream because it considers that an emergency situation. The same thing happens when in the beginning Arthur doesn't let Cobb breathe when he's dreaming so that he will wake up. Because if that weren't the case, he would die dreaming - which is why your brain exits you from a dream. One thing to note here is that you can exit a dream when your brain wants to exit the dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If physical kick was not given, it seems evident from the movie that you can exit the dream either when you &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to exit the dream or when you get killed in the dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the van was falling, simple reason for why physical kick didn't occur is that these people had seat belts. They wanted to be sure that they could only exit the dream after the job has been done. This is why they planned for two kicks, in case one fails (and apparently had seat belts too). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, they are heavily sedated - which means they have to accept the kick at the level below to wake up in the higher level because they can't kill themselves in dream (they may enter limbo) nor could they physically wake up in the above level (they had seat belts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the music played, Arthur says &quot;&lt;em&gt;it's too soon&lt;/em&gt;&quot; and doesn't want to quit the dream so early, which is why he doesn't accept the kick (rather his brain doesn't accept the kick and wants to continue the dream). However, he accepts the second kick, after completing his job by giving every one a kick in his level (after they completed theirs). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1508" LastEditorUserId="32755" LastEditDate="2017-07-08T12:28:06.707" LastActivityDate="2017-07-08T12:28:06.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3108" CreationDate="2012-07-23T15:54:58.823" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not only were their major plot points left unfinished, but in classic cliffhanger style, a whole new one opened up at the end. Through the season we mostly found out who and what caused the blackout, but not &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; everyone flash-forwarded. We never found out the end goal of the men behind the blackout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1749" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T15:54:58.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3412" CreationDate="2012-07-23T16:12:04.237" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Essentially what happened was, Talia's mother was imprisoned (because of Ra's Al Ghul if I remember correctly) and gave birth to Talia.  At one point something happens and they start beating on Talia's mother.  To protect her Bane put Talia up on the wall so that Talia could escape while he fought them off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Talia finds her father and brings him back to the pit, where they discover a broken (but kinda repaired) Bane.  The League of Shadows takes over the prison, and Bane somewhat becomes Talia's body guard/confidant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T16:12:04.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2552" CreationDate="2012-07-23T17:51:28.663" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You didn't miss anything; you just caught something that probably doesn't matter. This never shows up or comes up in any subsequent episodes. I assume it's supposed to be simply George's breath/vapor from exhaling - just not done very well! It's so short that it might also just be a reflection mistake when filming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, unless there's a &quot;pilot&quot; episode on the DVDs that I'm not aware of, this scene actually occurs in episode 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1749" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T17:51:28.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2785" CreationDate="2012-07-23T18:03:22.477" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think circumstantial evidence hints that &lt;strong&gt;the surgical pod was limited to men so the filmmakers could avoid mentioning abortion.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A. It seems odd and arbitrary that the script calls for a machine that is advanced enough to perform a wide array of medical procedures on a man but cannot perform most or all of those procedures on a woman. For one thing, there is more variation within gender than between gender. Also, limiting the machine to men would cut in half the machine's return on investment. Overall, the men-only constraint feels forced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;B. if the script had allowed for the machine to treat both men and women, the procedure Elizabeth Shaw would have requested would have been &quot;abortion&quot; or &quot;termination of pregnancy&quot; or something similar&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C. abortion is one of the most controversial topics in the world&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By restricting the machine to men-only treatment, the filmmakers avoided having to broach the abortion issue. Instead, Elizabeth Shaw commanded the machine to &quot;remove foreign object,&quot; avoiding any abortion-related terminology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T18:03:22.477" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3448" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3449" CreationDate="2012-07-23T18:03:55.973" Score="21" ViewCount="6612" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Dark Knight Rises, we see the twist of Bruce/Batman taking the bomb himself across the sea, presumably, to sacrifice himself to keep Gotham safe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know this isn't the case for Bruce Wayne is very much alive.  Only Batman, is known as dead to the general public.  We see at Bruce's supposed funeral, only Gordon, Blake, Fox and Alfred are present. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, what is the reason the public knows Bruce to be dead, without revealing his identity to those who already know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is said on wiki that he is presumed dead by the riots, but that is never stated anywhere implicitly whether in papers of the movie, or by any character, nor is this referenced anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything official stating why Gotham thinks Bruce Wayne is dead, without assuming he is Batman?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-08-27T02:35:54.957" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T08:15:53.130" Title="What is Bruce's alibi in the end?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3448" CreationDate="2012-07-23T19:22:22.270" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer to why the city thinks Bruce is dead is - the city assumes Bruce Wayne is dead because of the riots. There is no body but one can assume the city thinks it's because of all the chaos. Also Gordon, Alfred, Blake and Fox probably helped in covering his trail by telling everyone they saw Bruce die, maybe even a nice quiet funeral.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Logically, the reasons why Bruce/Batman more or less faked his own death are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Batman took some serious physical damage in his torture by Bane, Batman could be  permanently injured that may hurt his ability to deal with criminals in combat and/or transverse the city. Also this presents a weakness for others to exploit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Batman has stated that he is a symbol, not a man. Therefore no matter who wears the mask the symbol is strong as ever.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bruce Wayne, in the Dark Knight, had been talking about the toil on his life that crime fighting was taking. Also it's hard to fight crime and run a multi-million dollar company. He may have wanted to retire but didn't know how or he was waiting for someone worthy of the keys to the Batcave.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastEditorUserId="1637" LastEditDate="2012-07-26T04:22:31.033" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T04:22:31.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2850" CreationDate="2012-07-23T19:27:46.943" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason is that Sookie either knows or assumes that Tara is too far gone or would be dead before the blood could take affect. This is backed up by a couple of points in the series that is takes a while for the blood to work, and more than a bit is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sookie knows of Tara's dealing with vampires, but I assume her desire to save her childhood friend over-rode her knowledge that Tara had very bad dealings with vampires. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO I would not be surprised if both Tara and Pam leave the show by the end of this season, it seems to be heading that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1402" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T19:27:46.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3451" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-07-23T19:47:01.797" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; completes Nolan's Batman trilogy, showing Bruce Wayne's final struggle in the battle for Gotham City.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is put up against the cruel terrorist and exiled League of Shadows member Bane with his harbinger Selina Kyle, a master jewel thief, looking for a fresh start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been 8 years since Batman took the fall for Dent's killing and crimes and Bruce hasn't put on his infamous costume ever since, becoming a recluse inside his newly rebuilt mansion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Rises&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T08:54:28.230" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T08:54:28.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3452" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-07-23T19:47:01.797" Score="0" Body="The third and final film of the Dark Knight Trilogy created by Christopher Nolan." OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T08:54:28.230" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T08:54:28.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3453" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3455" CreationDate="2012-07-23T20:44:22.337" Score="11" ViewCount="3654" Body="&lt;p&gt;Late in The Dark Knight Rises, Gotham is closed off from the rest of the world and the police are forced underground (both literally and figuratively). We catch up with the action when the government sends a highly-trained government agent in to help with the efforts to overthrow Bane, his mercenaries, and the criminals now free in Gotham. There are a number of times that John Blake is shown drawing a Batman symbol with chalk (shown below is an image of the album cover for the soundtrack that has a similar drawing on it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What purpose do these drawings serve?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ghDKX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My best guess is that they had something to do with tracking the trucks carrying the bomb around, but that wasn't especially clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-30T04:44:04.163" LastActivityDate="2016-04-30T04:44:04.163" Title="Why does Blake draw the Batman symbols all over town?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3454" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-23T20:51:59.110" Score="21" ViewCount="75513" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the geographic location of the pit Bruce Wayne is imprisoned in by Bane? Is this prison in Gotham or somewhere else? Bane and Bruce seems to travel between the two rather quickly. It seems like a Middle Eastern location when Talia's mother is dropped in.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1751" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-12T05:03:59.537" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T08:15:40.577" Title="What is the geographic location of the pit Bruce Wayne is imprisoned in by Bane?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3453" CreationDate="2012-07-23T20:53:48.730" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;We also see the boy in the orphanage drawing little chalky bats during Blake's visit there - this led me to believe that Blake (being one of the former orphans) used to draw these himself as a symbol of hope, and that he was merely replicating these around the city as he attempted to free the cops and also to track the truck routes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of them as 'resistance symbols', like 'V' or Che Gervara stencils.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T20:53:48.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3454" CreationDate="2012-07-23T21:31:15.337" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering the chanting we hear (&quot;Deh-shay, deh-shay bah-sah-rah, bah-sah-rah,&quot;) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Part-Dark-Knight-Rises-Score-By-Recording-Yourself-Chanting-27748.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;is Moroccan&lt;/a&gt;, I think we can assume the pit is is North Africa somewhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5mcT5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-07-23T21:31:15.337" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3404" CreationDate="2012-07-23T22:47:04.523" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason that Bane wears the mask is because he has to be dosed with a supply of a drug called &quot;venom&quot;. This drug is why he is so fast and so strong. He was already incredibly smart before the drug. The drug was forced upon him back at the prison where the guards and that doctor tested it on him. They did this because they were testing a lot of the inmates and Bane could tolerate it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The venom is actually supposed to go into his brain via tubes, but that would have involved almost a whole extra movie. In the end the movie had many clashes with the comics but was an awesome movie....this is what Bane is really supposed to receive but after reading the other posts Nolan could've have just rewrote some stuff about pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1752" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-07-24T13:56:59.100" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T13:56:59.100" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3459" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3490" CreationDate="2012-07-24T02:29:11.733" Score="14" ViewCount="10190" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of The Dark Knight Rises, Alfred is fed up with Bruce's inability to let go of Batman and quit despite Alfred saying to him &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I've buried enough members of the Wayne family&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so Alfred leaves Bruce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the final moments of the film, we see Alfred, sipping his drink in Italy, as he spots Bruce with Selina Kyle-- just as he said he dreamed to one day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the interim, Alfred is gone to who-knows-where. His whereabouts are never discussed, never explained or intimated about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So: was Alfred in on Bruce's plan to 'kill' both Batman and Bruce Wayne, so that Bruce could finally be free? Would they assume the League of Shadows had a way of keeping tabs on their actions, so their fight was just an act?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-08-26T14:51:28.103" LastActivityDate="2014-04-08T16:38:51.173" Title="Was Alfred in on Bruce's plan in The Dark Knight Rises?" Tags="|analysis|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3437" CreationDate="2012-07-24T05:04:42.087" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the prisoners in there were no ordinary people. It would have taken them a lot to piss Bane in a way that instead of killing them he chose even a bigger punishment for them of putting in the pit and also for these prisoners death wouldn't have been a big deal just like for Batman. &#xA;I am sure they were not afraid of Bane killing them as they were in even worse condition and would have preferred death anyway. Helping Batman would provide them a little sense of victory and hope which was very rare in that pit.&#xA;Also in the movie they had very high regard for the child who climbed the pit. So climbing the pit is a very big deal for them bigger than death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1695" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T05:04:42.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3420" CreationDate="2012-07-24T05:46:55.163" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;First it was 4.2 on Richter scale. 4.2 M&lt;sub&gt;W&lt;/sub&gt; is just unit of energy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the bomb would have caused a tsunami though - it may have caused huge waves but they wouldn't have reached Gotham.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Bomb was capable of destroying 6 mile radius area. So assuming that bomb was dropped 6 miles away from Gotham in the ocean,  the water would have absorbed much energy and say the effect would have been reduced by an additional 1 or 2 miles. (The energy is constant, the effect of exploding in water doesn't make a difference)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I would like to quote from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geologyinmotion.com/2011/03/how-much-power-in-japanese-tsunami-of.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article from Geology in Motion&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This means that the power of the tsunami along that shoreline was about 1.3 *10^12, or 1.3 petawatts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(1 petawatt is 10&lt;sup&gt;9&lt;/sup&gt; M&lt;sub&gt;W&lt;/sub&gt; or (1000000000 M&lt;sub&gt;W&lt;/sub&gt;), easily many times the bombs dropped in Hisroshima and Nagasaki combined.)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this was the energy of the waves at the coastline in Japan, Just imagine the energy at the point where it was created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I accept the effect of nuclear explosion under water would have been very serious as it would have caused the entire water to get contaminated by nuclear radiation. All marine life would have died in many mile radii and still thousands of people would have been affected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1695" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-12T18:04:20.377" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T18:04:20.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3421" CreationDate="2012-07-24T10:44:25.000" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought the Lazarus Pit analogy in the film was very well done, particularly when the story of Bane unfolds at the end. When Ra's Al Ghul talks of many forms of immortality this definitely re-enforces this idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1754" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T10:44:25.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3465" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3472" CreationDate="2012-07-24T10:49:55.290" Score="43" ViewCount="11857" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;, Bane publicly reveals the cover-up of Dent's death and disclosed all the  crimes were made by Harvey Dent. Further, he reveals the role of Commissioner Gordon to cover-up Dent's crime by his letter, at that moment &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;why didn't he reveal Bruce Wayne is Batman?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Instead of that, he helped Bruce by not disclosing the Batman's secret.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any rules in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;League of Shadows&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; as not to disclose each other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2018-01-03T14:27:42.140" LastActivityDate="2018-01-03T14:27:42.140" Title="Why didn't Bane reveal to the public that Bruce Wayne is Batman?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3369" CreationDate="2012-07-24T10:59:06.547" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I felt that while we assumed Bane was the child that escaped, it was because we knew his backstory included him being incarcerated as a child. I think that this is still the case and that the mirroring of his own circumstances was enough to want to protect Talia and help her be free. He was a man tortured by hope amongst criminals in the pit, he ended up caring only for Talia's happiness. Also, Talia's mother may have spoke to him about Ra's Al Ghul and promised to save him if he helps the child escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1754" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T10:59:06.547" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3366" CreationDate="2012-07-24T11:13:46.753" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took the mention of his first name being Robin as a sly joke. He is an amalgamation of all the sidekicks Batman has had and was essentially the Robin character in spirit. The problem was that the dynamic between batman and robin had become so campy and ridiculous in the film representations they needed to approach it in a fresh way and not have him deck out in tights and run around after bats. So he could be taken as a Robin character and also can become the Batman much like Dick Grayson did in the comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1754" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T11:13:46.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3465" CreationDate="2012-07-24T11:35:22.917" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is probably because in the bid that he can convince the people to go against the law that imposed the 'Dent Act' and realize they have &quot;worshipped a false idol&quot; Two-Face, he re-enforces his plea with the letter that Gordon wrote expressing how the true hero was the Batman:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the speech:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I present to you as the shining example of justice. You have been supplied with a false idol to stop you from tearing down this corrupt city. Let me tell you the truth about Harvey Dent from the words of Gotham's police commissioner James Gordon. The Batman didn't murder Harvey Dent, he saved my boy then took the blame for Harvey's appalling crime so that I could, to my shame, build a lie around this fallen idol. I praised the mad man who tried to murder my own child but I can no longer live with my lie. It is time to trust the people of Gotham with the truth and it is time for me to resign. And do you accept this man's resignation? Do you accept the resignation of all these liars?! Of all the corrupt?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bane cared only to rally Gotham against the system that the lie helped create, I don’t think the letter really showed the extend of Batman's involvement in the conspiracy, he simply saved the family, vanished and the police vilified him. Batman in a sense needed to appear a victim for Bane which is fine for him if it helps to promote his false hope, in fact the Batman returning is part of this hope while knowing Batman/Wayne are broken and forgotten in a pit to watch Gotham be ripped apart - that seemed to me all he cared about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1754" LastEditorUserId="24251" LastEditDate="2016-08-05T10:49:56.620" LastActivityDate="2016-08-05T10:49:56.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3437" CreationDate="2012-07-24T11:43:27.230" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see a possible selfish motivation in both the prisoners helping Bruce and Bane helping Talia and in a way shows a contrast between Bruce and Talia. Bane saves Talia in hope of her rescuing him alone, resulting in Ra's coming back to claim vengeance. Prisoners help Bruce when they become inspired by his strength yet at the same time hope he can both scale the wall and help them escape - which he actually does if you spot as soon as he defeats the pit he throws the abseil ropes down for them to pull themselves out. It shows that Bruce can inspire good and show mercy while Talia and Bane inspire hated and show vengeance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1754" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T11:43:27.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3470" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-24T13:36:08.790" Score="13" ViewCount="8588" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've heard a few people mention that the ending of Dark Knight Rises, where Alfred sees Bruce and Selina at the bistro in Italy, was just a dream.  When I watched it I thought it was really happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What evidence is there for and against this being real/imaginary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-29T17:41:10.580" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T17:41:10.580" Title="Evidence for and against the ending of Dark Knight Rises" Tags="|analysis|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3470" CreationDate="2012-07-24T14:17:06.540" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was really happening. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end during the climax scene it was focussed on all characters who are still alive. We see Morgan Freeman looking at the Bat to see it had a software update, we see Gordon looking at the new Bat symbol. We see there is a package for Blake which leads him to Batcave. the only alive characters remaining are Alfred and Selina. I am going with supposed hypothesis that batman is dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the camera focuses to Alfred, He sees Bruce and Selina. Correlating with other events which I mentioned earlier I don't think all of that was done by Alfred which only leads to one possibility which is Batman being alive (This is similar to the ending in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Returns&quot;&gt;Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller&lt;/a&gt;) and we already have a movie for this argument for dream ending hypothesis which is Inception. This is Dark Knight Rises. I am pretty sure its not Alfred's imagination (theory is quite fantastic but sadly not the case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;+1 Bruce is very much alive at the end. Its not a dream&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2013-09-12T15:48:07.807" LastActivityDate="2013-09-12T15:48:07.807" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3465" CreationDate="2012-07-24T14:40:06.020" Score="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Bane was trying to cause chaos in the city by pitting the rich against the poor. You see those judgements passed for the rich people who lived their life so luxuriously given by Crane. Revealing the fact that Bruce Wayne (who is one of the richest people in the gotham) to be Batman might create the idea that not all rich people are bad and might make Bruce being pictured as a hero in the eyes of Poor who would probably start questioning Bane's ideals and could very well jeopardize Bane's plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T14:40:06.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3473" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3474" CreationDate="2012-07-24T15:47:49.563" Score="17" ViewCount="23116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of &lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/strong&gt;, Batman was stabbed by Miranda. After a while Batman took his bat and flew away to detonate the bomb. Then at the end of the movie he was at the dining table with Selina Kyle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it possible for Batman to survive when he was strongly stabbed by Miranda?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-03T06:31:50.373" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T06:31:50.373" Title="How did Batman survive when he was stabbed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3473" CreationDate="2012-07-24T15:59:17.483" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a difference getting stabbed normally and with the bat suit on which could absorb some of the major damage intended. We can assume the fact that he is using the same suit he used from Dark Knight at this point, although one more curious point to note is during the earlier scene when he meets Lucius Fox for the first time in the third movie he seems to be making stuff keeping Batman in mind and there is quite a possibility that he could've upgraded the suit from the Dark knight to be more robust and i think its a strong possibility&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Miranda stabs him she doesn't intend it to be the killing blow because after stabbing him, she remarks to Bane to keep him alive till Gotham blows to dust. I think she missed a vital spot on purpose (given the fact she was trained by the League of Shadows) and he survives a straight shot in Dark Knight from Two face. I think this knife would be relatively easier to withstand in my perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-07-16T11:21:07.270" LastActivityDate="2013-07-16T11:21:07.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3475" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-24T16:18:56.570" Score="15" ViewCount="23466" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Dark Knight Rises, after Bane defeated Batman, he snapped Batman's spine, or at least sprained it seriously. In the pit, we see someone push his spine (or something) back in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How long did Batman spend in the pit (in order for him to recover)? The pit wasn't mentioned as Lazarus pit, was it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume at least 6 months, because that was the time mentioned for the nuclear core to be destabilized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1637" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-29T09:44:20.333" LastActivityDate="2016-04-29T09:45:02.913" Title="How long did it take Bruce to recover?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3406" CreationDate="2012-07-24T16:57:24.033" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Treadstone project took individuals (like David Webb - who would become Jason Bourne) and used brainwashing techniques/ behavior-modification programs to break them down and rebuild them (stripping away their morality or hesitancy to kill) as ultimate assassins. The modification had chronic physiological effects such as headaches and light sensitivity. This was covered more thoroughly in the books that the movies were based on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T16:57:24.033" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3475" CreationDate="2012-07-24T17:44:10.763" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The specific timeline is never revealed, but it is within a few weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bane and Pavel tell everyone publicly that the bomb will take 6 months to deteriorate by itself. Lucius Fox, however, explains that the core will overheat and detonate in 54 days if it is not reconnected to the full generator. The number of days remaining can be seen on the countdown timer on the core. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While R'as Al Ghul is typically associated with the Lazarus Pit, I believe the prison depicted is meant to be a reference to Santa Prisca, where Bane was born in the comics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1046" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-29T09:45:02.913" LastActivityDate="2016-04-29T09:45:02.913" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3435" CreationDate="2012-07-24T17:47:32.197" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywood.com/news/Christopher_Nolan_not_referencing_Ledgers_Jokers_fate_in_new_Batman_film/29030407&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Director Christopher Nolan decided against referencing Heath Ledger's The Joker character in the new Batman film, insisting acknowledging the &quot;real-life tragedy&quot; of the late star was &quot;inappropriate&quot;....&#xA;  He explains, &quot;We're not addressing The Joker at all. That is something I felt very strongly about in terms of my relationship with Heath and the experience I went through with him on The Dark Knight. I didn't want to in any way try and account for a real-life tragedy. That seemed inappropriate to me. We just have a new set of characters and a continuation of Bruce Wayne's story, not involving The Joker.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="446" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T17:47:32.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3479" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4252" CreationDate="2012-07-24T20:34:30.243" Score="11" ViewCount="6264" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Archer season 1 why does Cheryl (shown below) change her name quite frequently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She goes by Carol, Carina, Crystal etc. in the first few episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Ya3y.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;x&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="297" LastEditDate="2012-07-24T22:01:26.740" LastActivityDate="2012-09-20T20:53:23.030" Title="Why does cheryl change her name often?" Tags="|analysis|archer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3421" CreationDate="2012-07-24T21:06:22.840" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the risk of merely stealing someone else's hypothesis (due in some part to there being no &lt;em&gt;official&lt;/em&gt; word on the matter), I would point you to &lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?p=23969929&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt; at superherohype.com where some excellent points have been made, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;the chant which the inmates recite is in Moroccan; can't be coincidental that it is Ra's al Ghul's native language&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Talia is the one who is born in it and escapes it, not Bane&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The League seems to be the only thing from the outside world that knows the Pit's location&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;when Bruce was first in the Pit, he was there as a paraplegic but when he left he was fully &quot;healed,&quot; albeit not supernaturally&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the commentators then posted the following image which seems to correlate with the events in the film, but actually depicts a lazarus pit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/llrEc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't take the credit for these ideas (which seem quite conclusive to me), but I am happy to make them available to you ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T21:06:22.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3421" CreationDate="2012-07-24T21:09:04.907" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the pit itself is never given the name of &quot;Lazarus&quot;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/161168-the-dark-knight-rises-into-the-pit-and-out/&quot;&gt;many&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.utepprospector.com/dark-knight-does-little-rising-in-convoluted-last-entry-1.2881455#.UA8LoLRYu2a&quot;&gt;other&lt;/a&gt; blogs and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Pit#Film&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; believe it to be a simple homage to this entity in DC's universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, using the points you have given:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Batman is seen getting over his injury in a short time&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that the one inmate resets his spine in a few days after Bane has left, he has about 4-5 months after this event in order to fully recover.  Realism comes into play here (and as &lt;a href=&quot;http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/5488884#5488884&quot;&gt;@Nobby has stated&lt;/a&gt;), the conditions in which he is in and the time frame makes one wonder if the pit itself has any special healing properties to it.  Assuming Nolan's 'realistic' Batman universe where there is nothing supernatural, one can assume this is a simple plot hole.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Subscribing to the notion that due to this being the finale of Batman, one can also argue that this is Nolan's hint into the supernatural world Batman faces on a daily basis in his comic counterparts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In the movie he [Bane] is shown as a really strong guy with a mask to subdue his pain from his previously sustained injury.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This directly counters the above argument.  If the Pit itself has properties to help Bruce Wayne overcome a severe back injury and get into enough shape off of very little provisions and effort to best Bane, then why does Bane need the mask in the first place?  It can be assumed that he was sitting in the Pit for a long time while Talia summons Ra's to save Bane.  It would not be out of the realm of possibility, assuming Bruce's condition that he should be just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, we are never told what kind of injury Bane faced and why it was severe enough for a constant flow of anesthetic gas.  Also, it can be argued that the Pit only heals those that are righteous in nature, therefore healing Bruce due to his fight against the unjust and criminals, and not Bane who is fighting for a more sinister goal in general (also shot down due to his reason for getting the injury in the first place, protecting the innocence of a child).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, the answer may be as simple as, this is a Pit.  It is the only realistic way to introduce Lazarus Pits into Nolan's Batman, which aims for realism of the characters above all else (minus a few sci-fi gadgetry)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As said, without official word from Nolan, we may never know.  But looking to Inception, Nolan may never want to give a concrete answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-07-24T21:09:04.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3130" CreationDate="2012-07-24T23:27:16.723" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, let's see...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Daenerys's dragons are gone and her friend and handmaiden Irri is found dead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She risks her life trying to find her babies (dragons).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dany finds Doreah in bed with Xaro.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dany sees Doreah as a common whore and not her friend at all in the end, so she locked her (and Xaro) up in that vault for good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about it, if you were in Daenerys's place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1758" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-06-28T14:29:58.080" LastActivityDate="2016-06-28T14:29:58.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3483" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3485" CreationDate="2012-07-25T04:15:50.530" Score="34" ViewCount="133078" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Dark Knight Rises, at the beginning of the film Bane kidnapped a guy from the plane, then he drew blood from the guy he kidnapped. And then throughout the movie I didn't see any news regarding this kidnap scene. But, before the end of the movie we find out that the guy kidnapped by Bane was &lt;strong&gt;Dr Pavel&lt;/strong&gt;. Bane needed him to convert the fusion project into a nuclear bomb and Dr Pavel was the only guy who could have done it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't understand, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;why did he draw blood from Dr Pavel&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-07-25T13:32:55.257" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T21:01:58.690" Title="Explain the plane scene in The Dark Knight Rises?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3483" CreationDate="2012-07-25T04:44:57.247" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;He wanted the flight crash to make it look like the death of Dr Pavel, so he took the blood from Pavel and put it in other guy so that when they find the bodies after the crash they can confirm the death of pavel by his blood signature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Bane wanted Pavel to be assumed dead because a nuclear scientist missing would bring needless attention to the plan he was forging to destroy Gotham, and I think sooner or later his connection to the scientist could have been exposed if he wasn't assumed to be dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one specific reference in the movie when Bruce Wayne talks about his nuclear energy project (when he is about to go bankrupt so he tries to market the idea to Miranda to back him) and during the discussion it was mentioned that Pavel was the only guy who could've helped him out with the success of that operation and when Bruce asks about his whereabouts it was revealed to him that he was killed in an air-crash (6 months prior or something, forgot the duration).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope it clarifies your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-07-25T13:34:33.787" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T13:34:33.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3416" CreationDate="2012-07-25T05:23:11.757" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is found in the wearing of &quot;masks.&quot;  Blake, being an orphan, explains that he always put on a front or wore a figurative mask to conceal his misery and pain.  He had to pretend to be someone else.  When he met Bruce Wayne at the orphanage, with the two girls around his arms, he knew that Bruce was putting on a show.  Blake understood the pain Bruce had experienced being an orphan.  Since Blake's parents were murdered as well, he probably also understood the anger.  He ended up putting two and two together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1760" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T05:23:11.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3487" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-25T06:31:57.410" Score="10" ViewCount="12345" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know it was a great scene and established where the Dr. came from but it wasn't really necessary. If you take that scene out, Bane's first reveal is in the sewer. Was the opening plane scene an added action sequence to start the movie with a bang rather than a speech about Dent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1761" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-12-02T15:34:36.530" LastActivityDate="2012-12-02T15:34:36.530" Title="Was the opening scene in Dark Knight Rises there in the original script?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|production|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3459" CreationDate="2012-07-25T14:49:51.700" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene at the Wayne graves, Alfred is crying as he feels he has let the Wayne parents down for allowing Bruce to die. He says how he has failed the parents. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this clearly indicates that he had no idea of Bruce's plan as you can see he is clearly distraught over the events that unfolded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T14:49:51.700" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3491" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9031" CreationDate="2012-07-25T14:58:35.403" Score="14" ViewCount="228252" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ip_Man_%28film%29#Plot&quot;&gt;Ip Man (2008)&lt;/a&gt;, Ip Man fights Japanese Army general Miura in a martial arts match and beats him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that incident historically true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, what was the real incident?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1215" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-04T19:25:18.627" LastActivityDate="2022-02-07T18:23:36.140" Title="Is it historically true that Ip Man beat a Japanese General in a martial-art match?" Tags="|historical-accuracy|ip-man|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3491" CreationDate="2012-07-25T16:07:54.620" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.film4.com/reviews/2008/ip-man&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This review&lt;/a&gt; says no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While, during the war, Ip Man did indeed refuse to teach his martial arts to the military police of the occupying Japanese - a decision which eventually forced him to flee Foshan - he certainly never had, let alone won, a duel with a Japanese general (played in the film by Hiroyuki Ikeuchi).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They do not cite a source for that statement, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T16:07:54.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3318" CreationDate="2012-07-25T17:42:05.840" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only other film that this remotely reminds me of is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063240/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Lost Continent&lt;/a&gt; from 1968.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This film starts out like the Love Boat on acid, as a cast of varied characters, with various issues, take Captain Eric Portman's leaky cargo ship to escape their troubles. When a violent storm strikes, the ship is swept into the Sargasso Sea and our heroes find themselves trapped on an island of man-eating seaweed, populated by giant monster crabs and some Spanish conquistadors who think the Inquisition is still on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-28T15:54:15.433" LastActivityDate="2013-11-28T15:54:15.433" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3494" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3495" CreationDate="2012-07-25T17:50:40.727" Score="19" ViewCount="10432" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the course of the film, the Gotham PD is trapped by Bane underground, and it is up to Blake to keep them informed via numerous cut scenes of him threading fishing lines down storm drains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How long were the cops down there? 5 months?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How many cops were there? I thought I heard 3000, but that number seems a bit excessive - that said, it was made clear that the entire dept was down there on their 'training exercise'.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Never mind the fact they all emerged clean-shaven, what did they live on down there?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, is there any logical explanation why Bane did not just kill them all when they were trapped? They could have been crushed, incinerated or gassed - all methods were well within Bane's means.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a very good chance that I am not recalling specifics from the film very clearly, however, this is a huge murky area and I would welcome a little clarification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2018-03-22T21:26:39.987" LastActivityDate="2018-03-23T05:15:06.633" Title="How did the police department survive, and why were they allowed to?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3494" CreationDate="2012-07-25T17:55:23.293" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do remember several scenes (quick ones) and off-the cuff explanations that they were receiving supplies through the man-hole that Blake's partner emerges out of near the climax as well as through the destroyed football stadium (at one point you see a whole pallet of supplies being hoisted down from...somewhere).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While vague, the audience is expected to assume the supplies they were receiving were enough not only for the citizens of Gotham, but enough to deposit down to the police's prison underground, allowing them proper sustenance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only logical explanation that Bane kept them alive aside from arrogance that no one would attempt to free them; is for Bruce or even Gordon to know the full extent of their failure to the city, having the police suffer down in the confined depths. If memory serves, however, Bruce doesn't know about the plot to trap the police until he finally returns to the city, so it is more likely this is Gordon's punishment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-07-25T18:22:50.210" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T18:22:50.210" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3496" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3498" CreationDate="2012-07-25T20:04:58.933" Score="9" ViewCount="798" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the arcs in the TV show &lt;em&gt;Community&lt;/em&gt; is what career Troy Barnes is going to pick.  In season 1, one of the community college's plumbers tries to encourage Troy to become a plumber.  Later the Air Conditioning School tries to get Troy to join them.  Troy has actively avoided choosing either, but to my knowledge, he's never stated what career he was planning on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that he wasn't planning on becoming either a plumber or an A/C repairman, what was Troy planning on for his post-community college career?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-07-25T20:42:19.730" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T22:37:42.363" Title="What career was Troy planning on?" Tags="|plot-explanation|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3496" CreationDate="2012-07-25T22:37:42.363" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am fairly sure it was never mentioned that Troy had specific plans for his career after community college. My assumption is that he does not have anything planned yet. That is backed by several facts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His original plan was to play football and go to a elite university. That plan was ruined (by himself) when he dislocated both his shoulders before the big game, because he could not handle the pressure. He probably had no alternative career plan when this failed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His reasons to come to Greendale where rather arbitrary than a real career choice. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://community-sitcom.wikia.com/wiki/Troy_Barnes&quot;&gt;community wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ultimately, Troy chose Greendale because it was close to his house, and because the Greendale commercial had a student giving a thumbs up sign in a &quot;cool way.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;As you said, he toyed around with several alternatives during his time in Greendale (plumber, AC repairman). If he really had his career planned out, he probably would not have picked those up that easily.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  Apart from that, I think the dialogue with Jerry the Janitor from Episode 1x24 &quot;English as a second language&quot; also hints at the fact that he actually does not really know what reason he goes to college for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jerry:&lt;/b&gt; This is a life, kid. A real one. Doing something that matters. Something that makes sense.  &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;    &lt;b&gt;Troy:&lt;/b&gt; The only thing that makes sense is this. Learning. Thoughts.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;    So I can think,&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;    and get a student loan,&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;    and grind my own coffee,&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;    and understand HBO.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;b&gt;Jerry:&lt;/b&gt; You don't have to do that, kid. You're special. You could be a plumber!&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2012-07-25T22:37:42.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3499" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-07-26T01:02:05.820" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title of a movie is its name. Questions with this tag should be questions about the name, what it means, analysis of the title or alternative titles of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-28T13:24:19.300" LastActivityDate="2015-07-28T13:24:19.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3500" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-07-26T01:02:05.820" Score="0" Body="Questions or analysis related to the meaning of a movie or TV show's name. Please do NOT use this tag to ask what the title of a movie/TV show is: identification questions are off-topic here." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="46980" LastEditDate="2021-01-02T20:57:32.710" LastActivityDate="2021-01-02T20:57:32.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3504" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-07-26T04:23:27.770" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Twenty-two years have passed since Roger's execution, and Monkey D. Luffy, a young pirate inspired by Red Haired Shanks, has since set off on a journey from the East Blue Ocean to succeed Roger and find the legendary treasure. He organizes and leads a nine-member crew named the Straw Hat Pirates. Each crew member Luffy encounters eventually become his close friends, including the swordsman Roronoa Zoro, the navigator and thief Nami, the sniper Usopp, the womanizing chef and martial artist Sanji, the doctor and anthropomorphized reindeer Tony Tony Chopper, the archaeologist Nico Robin, the cyborg shipwright Franky, and the musician skeleton Brook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1718" LastEditorUserId="1718" LastEditDate="2012-07-26T04:50:41.040" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T04:50:41.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3505" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-07-26T04:23:27.770" Score="0" Body="A fantastic story about a young pirate who wants to become &quot;King of the Pirates&quot;(Kaizoku). This series is filled with pirates and marines(these characters are designed based on the stories of real pirates and marines) who have mysterious powers gained from eating &quot;devil's fruit&quot;! " OwnerUserId="1718" LastEditorUserId="1718" LastEditDate="2012-07-26T04:50:36.330" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T04:50:36.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3508" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3509" CreationDate="2012-07-26T13:30:23.193" Score="4" ViewCount="6194" Body="&lt;p&gt;I likely missed the bit where it's mentioned or not, but I was just curious is there any mention of his family in the movie? I assume his wife and son probably had enough after what happened in The Dark Knight, and separated/moved out of Gotham City.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1768" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2012-07-26T15:05:00.267" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T15:05:00.267" Title="Where is Commissioner Gordon's family in The Dark Knight Rises?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3508" CreationDate="2012-07-26T13:41:54.143" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Arnaki you are correct his wife and kids left and went to Cleveland.  This statement is made during the Harvey Dent day events at Wayne manor.  The line was spoken by Brett Cullen's character the Congressman to the police chief Foley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="567" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T13:41:54.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3459" CreationDate="2012-07-26T16:17:23.140" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this whole &quot;ambigious death&quot; thing about Bruce Wayne is all due to the fact that Nolan's previous film Inception had this type of ending, therefore people suddenly assume this must also apply here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems perfectly clear to me Bruce is alive, here is the evidence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;autopilot fixed on The Bat - (makes sense it was used to fly the bomb out to sea)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bat signal fixed - surely Bruce Wayne's work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pearl necklace noted as missing from Bruce's possessions at the will reading...which Selina is wearing at the cafe&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alfred sees Bruce at the Cafe! there is nothing to suggest this a dream or his imagination - why would such an imaginary scene appear out of the blue, and out of any type of context?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why would Alfred have imagined/dream of Selina being with Bruce? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I don't believe Alfred was in on the &quot;plan&quot;. I don't think this was even a plan in the first place - it just happened. Alfred crying at the funeral and his surprise and happiness at seeing Bruce at the cafe all show that he was not aware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1769" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-07-26T17:02:19.653" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T17:02:19.653" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3366" CreationDate="2012-07-26T17:35:20.103" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Analyzing the past two films and Rises, Nolan (Director) and his brother Jonathan (Screenplay Writer) are trying to envision a world where they asked the question… &quot;What if... Batman existed in our current world today as opposed to the comics.&quot;  Thus the feel and directing has a less comic book-ish (if that's a word) look, and more of a real world view.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This film take on Robin is quite incredible when you think about it.  Like the previous person in this article wrote, he is an embodiment of all the Robin’s in the comics.  In contrast you have Nolan’s Robin (&lt;strong&gt;John Blake&lt;/strong&gt;) who is, at this point, the first Robin “&lt;strong&gt;Dick Grayson&lt;/strong&gt;” to Batman.   He’s referred to being hot headed and angry like the Robin “&lt;strong&gt;Jason Todd&lt;/strong&gt;”.   For the “&lt;strong&gt;Tim Drake&lt;/strong&gt;” Robin… well, he was the one that was able to deduce batman of his true identity and was also depicted as an orphan.   And with the film using elements from the “The Dark Knight Returns” comic by Frank Miller, the role of that Robin was a female “&lt;strong&gt;Carrie&lt;/strong&gt;”. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1770" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-17T13:26:39.387" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T13:26:39.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3514" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3521" CreationDate="2012-07-26T19:25:25.577" Score="15" ViewCount="1442" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the great revelation of The Dark Knight Rises, we are shown it was Talia who escaped The Pit, then brought her father back to rescue her savior, Bane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, considering the fact that Talia was born and raised in the prison, how did she know where to find her father or who he was?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One can assume that her mother instructed her on her father's name and nature of his profession, but it is reasonable to believe that her mother didn't know where Ra's was since her incarceration?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="940" LastEditDate="2017-01-30T23:22:22.383" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T23:22:22.383" Title="How did Talia find her father?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3515" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3516" CreationDate="2012-07-26T20:15:03.547" Score="31" ViewCount="10055" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the conclusion of Nolan's Dark Knight movies, we are now able to look at all three movies as a single entity, broken up into three parts (acts, if you will).  Is there a specific theme, or set of themes, that span the entire trilogy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-11T15:39:23.190" LastActivityDate="2016-10-14T14:28:57.627" Title="Does Christopher Nolan's Batman have an overarching theme?" Tags="|analysis|the-dark-knight-rises|the-dark-knight|christopher-nolan|batman-begins|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3515" CreationDate="2012-07-26T20:55:58.130" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chaos&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Anarchy&lt;/strong&gt; are the greatest overarching themes of the entire trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/strong&gt;, we are presented a Gotham that is seemingly serene, as we witness a young Bruce playing in his garden, blissful and happy. Until one fateful night, his parents are taken from him in a drastic event that spirals his world completely out of control, into &lt;em&gt;chaos&lt;/em&gt;.  We are then presented the true chaotic nature of this Gotham city. Ruled by the unjust, criminal, and greedy, being sent into a downward spiral into total &lt;em&gt;anarchy&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even when Bruce returns, he is faced with a city that has only descended further into these two states.  Surrounded only by criminals, anarchists, and agents of greed, he dons his mask and starts to clean up the city to the former glory we see at the beginning of the movie.  After all is said and done during these events, we get a small glimmer of hope that the city can be restored after his triumph over the League of Shadows, only to be shown the hint of the &lt;strong&gt;true&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Agent of Chaos&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enter &lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/strong&gt;.  Again, we are presented a Gotham that has recovered and is limping on from its chaotic period, only to be driven mad by the true chaotic force, the Joker himself.  The Joker tests the city by bringing in his own reign of chaos, pitting ordinary citizens with disruptive and morally grey choices.  Only to incite Anarchy at the end by trapping the city within itself, a repeat of past events from the League of Shadows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Joker then turns Gotham's greatest hope onto his side.  By decimating Dent's sanity, inciting him to introduce his own version chaos, using the excuse of fairness and chance above all else, ignoring the proper system, delving into a false Anarchy, lead by a coin and anger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This movie presents the ending the same, just when the audience think the threat is over with the apprehension of the Joker, he reveals his &quot;Ace in the Hole&quot;.  A just man turned to chaos to overthrow Batman's plans.  While we see the cover up as successful, it is not without it's own consequences....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, we wrap up with &lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/strong&gt;.  We enter our heroes, again in a serene state, albeit decaying.  Hints of uprising and plotting drive the Batman out of his vacation and hiding into what is truly going on.  A plot to incite &lt;em&gt;anarchy&lt;/em&gt; throughout the whole City of Gotham.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bane's &lt;em&gt;breaking&lt;/em&gt; of Batman only serve as a foreshadowing of what his true plan is; breaking Gotham.  By using the bomb, Bane turns Gotham into a City-State, ruled only by the people as they see fit.  Money doesn't matter, order doesn't matter, only the majority matters, and the majority wants &lt;em&gt;anarchy&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether either theory is correct about Bruce Wayne's survival of these events.  One thing remains clear; his acknowledgement that there will &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; be a need for a hero against the chaos and the anarchy.  That there will always be a need for a silent protector, a Dark Knight.  Hence his appointment of &lt;em&gt;Robin&lt;/em&gt; John Blake as his successor, to ensure, alive or dead, Gotham has hope against any who decides to continue to place the city into chaos or anarchy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-07-26T20:55:58.130" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3426" CreationDate="2012-07-26T22:22:36.337" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;The car had to reach a velocity of 88 miles per hour. It had nothing to do with the speedometer hitting 88 miles per hour. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the animated series episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Gone_Fishin%27&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gone Fishin`&lt;/a&gt; Jules Brown (one of Doc Brown's sons) places a spare flux capacitor in a barrel. When the barrel falls over the waterfall and reaches 88 mph, the flux capacitor activities and moves Jules Brown through time (and space) before crashing at the bottom. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-12-20T11:34:21.527" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T11:34:21.527" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="883" CreationDate="2012-07-27T03:11:27.177" Score="37" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Prot is human&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prot has a human subconscious&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prot has a human history (e.g. the school book, and the probable trauma)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prot remains on earth after July 27th&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Prot is an alien inhabiting a disturbed human's body&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He can see ultraviolet rays (perhaps through the glasses)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has an astounding knowledge of astronomy, physics, and advanced psychology (cures patients of serious mental illnesses that are equal to his own if he were human)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The electrical disturbance on the surveillance when he 'left'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He managed to disappear and survive unnoticed for almost 5 years since the incident.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He evaded security and left for 3 days completely unnoticed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He left Bess's letter on her bed before she disappeared, confirming some sort of interaction that allowed her to disappear unnoticed on July 27th. (Perhaps he told her of a way to breach security)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prot was an ET and could travel through a light beam in human body physical form but only one at a time. Hence, &amp;quot;I can only take one of you&amp;quot; ultimately choosing Bess.&#xA;Robert Porter was Prot's human friend before suffering mental trauma and becoming catatonic so Prot occupied his body to protect him and travel through until he could deliver him from peril after finding the right caretaker (Dr. Powell), then catching his prearranged travel timed Lightbeam Home using Bess as his human form (Vehicle), leaving Robert in safe haven with Dr. Powell. That's my synopsis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, Prot acknowledges his return to consciousness with Jeff Bridges, asking that he take care of him. To me this says that although Prot may be an alien in Robert's body, he may still maintain some of the human subconsciousness.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;For these reasons I find the clues are more consistent with the possibility that he is an Alien, than he is not. Funny enough to say, it would be almost more convoluted to argue that he was human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1771" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-03-24T18:25:02.360" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3514" CreationDate="2012-07-27T05:47:12.450" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's more about how Ra's Al Ghul found his daughter rather than a matter of her finding him. The news of a child escaping the pit would have spread fast and must have reached to Ra's Al Ghul. He must have tried to contact the person who escaped the pit in order to make her join league of shadows and in that process he may have came to know she is his daughter. &#xA;I have to admit that I am not familiar with comics and this is the most logical explanation that came to my mind!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1695" LastEditorUserId="940" LastEditDate="2017-01-29T16:53:51.880" LastActivityDate="2017-01-29T16:53:51.880" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3430" CreationDate="2012-07-27T08:34:30.867" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the earliest, if not the first such announcements was &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;All in the Family&lt;/em&gt; was recorded on tape before a live audience&amp;quot; from 1971.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Michael Tueth's &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.fi/books?id=MBRvw2pvjFoC&amp;amp;pg=PA58&amp;amp;lpg=PA58&amp;amp;dq=Filmed%20%22a%20live%20studio%20audience%22&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=3LmaC9iQHF&amp;amp;sig=EfgDR3YKghTpuOS04Z6YL9Peg1w&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=yEoSUKK9MY7P4QTp0YH4Cw&amp;amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=Filmed%20%22a%20live%20studio%20audience%22&amp;amp;f=true&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Laughter In The Living Room&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2005), one of the earliest American sitcoms to broadcast live was &lt;em&gt;I Love Lucy&lt;/em&gt; (1951 – 1957). For personal reasons, Lucy Ball wanted to produce the programme from Hollywood instead of New York City, but New York was the only place where live TV was produced and broadcast live. Ball suggested they film in Hollywood, and broadcast from New York. This started a trend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tueth says they also insisted on filming with a live audience, but this wasn't repeated until a new wave of comedies in the 1970s, such as &lt;em&gt;All in the Family&lt;/em&gt; (1971 – 1979) started announcing it &amp;quot;was filmed in front of a live studio audience&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_in_the_family#Production&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;All in the Family&lt;/em&gt; was the first major American series to be videotaped in front of a live studio audience. In the 1960s, most sitcoms had been filmed in the single-camera format without audiences, with a laugh track simulating audience response. Lear employed the Multi-camera format of shooting in front of an audience, but used tape, whereas previous multi-camera shows like &lt;em&gt;Mary Tyler Moore&lt;/em&gt; had used film. Thanks to the success of &lt;em&gt;All in the Family&lt;/em&gt;, videotaping sitcoms in front of an audience became common format for the genre during the 1970s. The use of videotape also gave &lt;em&gt;All in the Family&lt;/em&gt; the look and feel of early live television, including the original live broadcasts of &lt;em&gt;The Honeymooners&lt;/em&gt;, to which &lt;em&gt;All in the Family&lt;/em&gt; is sometimes compared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the show's final season, the practice of being taped before a live audience changed to playing the already taped and edited show to an audience and recording their laughter to add to the original sound track. Thus, the voice-over during the end credits was changed from Rob Reiner's &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;All in the Family&lt;/em&gt; was recorded on tape before a live audience&amp;quot; to Carroll O'Connor's &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;All in the Family&lt;/em&gt; was played to a studio audience for live responses&amp;quot;. (Typically, the audience would be gathered for a taping of &lt;em&gt;One Day at a Time&lt;/em&gt;, and get to see &lt;em&gt;All In the Family&lt;/em&gt; as a bonus.) Throughout its run, Norman Lear took pride in the fact that canned laughter was never used (mentioning this on many occasions); the laughter heard in the episodes was genuine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laugh_track#Comeback_of_live_television_in_the_U.S.&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Creator Norman Lear's &lt;em&gt;All in the Family&lt;/em&gt; (CBS, 1971–1979) followed suit in 1971. Videotaped live, Lear wanted the studio audience to actually like the performer, with hopes of the two developing a rapport with each other. Lear was not a fan of pretaped audiences, resulting in no laugh track being employed, not even during post-production when Lear could have had the luxury of sweetening any failed jokes (Lear relented somewhat in later seasons, and allowed [sound engineer and laugh track inventer Charles] Douglass to insert an occasional laugh). Lear's decision resulted in the show being a huge success, and officially ushered in the return of live audiences to the U.S. sitcom mainstream. To make his point clear, an announcement proclaimed over the closing credits each week that &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;All in the Family&lt;/em&gt; was recorded on tape before a live audience&amp;quot; (or during the show's final seasons where live audiences no longer attended tapings of the show) &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;All in the Family&lt;/em&gt; was played to a studio audience for live responses.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-07-27T08:34:30.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3525" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3526" CreationDate="2012-07-27T15:56:56.167" Score="14" ViewCount="10081" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Dark Knight Rises, in the beginning of the movie Selina Kyle stole a necklace from Bruce's home as well as taking finger prints of Batman and helping Bane to steal from the share market. Then, she stole his costly car in that party scene. Eventually she betrayed Batman to Bane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the movie clearly reveals Selina's betrayal of Batman. Again, when he return from the pit , &lt;strong&gt;Why does Batman trust Selina Kyle?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's understandable, he maybe needed an ally with a skill-set like Selina had to rescue the city. But, my question is, why does he trust Selina, why does he think that she'll help him rescue the city?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-29T17:38:32.063" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T17:38:32.063" Title="Why does Batman trust Selina Kyle all the time?" Tags="|analysis|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3525" CreationDate="2012-07-27T16:04:17.817" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of Bruce's greatest weapons in his experience is his ability to read people and figure out what they truly want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With Selina, Bruce figured out all she wanted was a way to start over in the world, without her criminal record (the party scene, dancing with her and when he gives her the &lt;em&gt;Clean Slate&lt;/em&gt; program).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While his &lt;em&gt;level&lt;/em&gt; of forgiveness can be questioned, the reason he does is because he knows that all she really wants is to be able to get back on her feet because she has had &lt;em&gt;no choice&lt;/em&gt; but to be a criminal.  That, and liking her in general (as he does in the comic books) clouds his judgment of her a tad, I would imagine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-07-27T16:04:17.817" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3525" CreationDate="2012-07-27T20:53:29.433" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's drama, and Bruce likes it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce represents high society and the rich, and Selina represents the street hustler and poor. The very people that Batman wants to protect. That's way at the end he gives his home to the children's group. She did steal the necklace, but when Bruce is at the dance with her, he tells her it looks better on her anyway, but that he still couldn't let her keep it because of sentimental value. So she took his car instead. It played out more like a lovers quarrel then a robbery. She also didn't help Bane steal from the stock market. When Batman asks her what Bane wanted with Bruce Wayne's finger prints she answered that she didn't know. When they are in the tunnels looking for Bane, so she didn't really betray him cause Batman was looking for a fight. When the gate closes, Batman turns to her and says &quot;You don't have to do this&quot; and she says &quot;I had no choice, he would have killed me&quot; (or something like that). She stays and watches the fight. It's clear she regrets what she did. When Batman returns from the bit, he doesn't really trust her, he bribes her using the software on a USB key. He needs her to take him somewhere, and after she helps him, then he trusts her with his Bat pod. She tells Batman that she's not staying, but after clearing the tunnel she returns to help Batman. The point isn't that Batman trusts her, but that he sets an example on what it means to be a hero. So she returns, kisses him and tells him she wishes things had been different. We then see them together at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2012-07-27T21:41:55.357" LastActivityDate="2012-07-27T21:41:55.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="731" CreationDate="2012-07-27T22:15:13.403" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Batman will be rebooted to fit in with the new DC Universe leading up to an eventual Justice League movie that has been green lighted after the success of Marvel's Avengers. It will not be confirmed until after the Superman reboot that's coming next year. So there was no time to introduce Robin as the Franchise had to go to make way for what they expect to be a bigger movie, believe it or not considering the success of Nolan's Batman franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, and after watching the ending of the TDKR... they're obviously toying with the idea of a Robin or Nightwing franchise in the Nolan &quot;realistic&quot; Universe because it is such a wildly popular adaptation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect to see a spin-off Franchise dealing with how Robin becomes Nightwing in a few years. Otherwise what was the point of that ending?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1779" LastActivityDate="2012-07-27T22:15:13.403" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3473" CreationDate="2012-07-28T04:03:25.733" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bullet resistant material is not the same as knife resistance for those geniuses out there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first lines &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletproof_vest&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; contain a description of such equipments and they sound pretty similar to those worn by Batman:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[on ballistic vest]: &quot;Metal or ceramic plates can be used with a soft vest, providing additional protection from rifle rounds, and metallic components or tightly woven fiber layers can give soft armor resistance to stab and slash attacks from knives and similar close-quarter weapons.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that Batman was using a soft vest with metal or ceramic plates, without the other fiber for mobility reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting stabbed hurts, that is why he was in pain. Common sense thrown in for fun, one can see she was an experience assassin, so she would have known where to hit for it not to be deadly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1782" LastEditorUserId="418" LastEditDate="2012-08-07T14:08:42.123" LastActivityDate="2012-08-07T14:08:42.123" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3534" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3546" CreationDate="2012-07-28T21:16:17.367" Score="9" ViewCount="1709" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0884328/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Mist&lt;/em&gt; (2007)&lt;/a&gt;, a white fog covers a small town, and a number of residents take refuge in the local supermarket.  But the fog stops at the glass windows, never seeping through the cracks around the doors, or later in the movie, through the broken windows or the opened garage door. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastActivityDate="2012-07-30T01:39:06.050" Title="Why didn't the fog enter the supermarket in The Mist?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-mist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3535" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3662" CreationDate="2012-07-28T21:24:03.273" Score="4" ViewCount="1963" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1566501/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada&lt;/em&gt; (2012)&lt;/a&gt;, there is a scene in the first half of the movie in which a train is robbed by the Cristeros.  Padre Vega, who is in command in the scene, asks one of his subordinates if all the people are off the train, to which his subordinate answers &quot;Yes.&quot;  They then light the train on fire, and screaming is heard from the back of the train. Padre Vega shows a concerned look on his face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Through the rest of the movie, Padre Vega takes a lot of flack for having burned &quot;51 innocent people&quot; alive, and Vega half-heartedly defends his actions as revenge against the brutal Mexican government.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the explanation of this plot element?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Were the people burned unintentionally?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And if so, did Vega intentionally kill those people, or did his subordinates subvert his authority to kill them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why didn't they try to rescue the people from the train when they were found to be still aboard?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why did Vega explain his actions, rather than saying it was an accident?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who was actually killed?  Civilians, or Mexican federal soldiers, or someone else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this is based on a true story, if it is better for me to ask this question on History.SE, I can do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2012-07-28T21:37:12.013" LastActivityDate="2012-08-05T03:13:06.870" Title="What was the explanation of the 51 people burned alive on the train in For Greater Glory?" Tags="|plot-explanation|for-greater-glory|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3420" CreationDate="2012-07-29T14:53:33.537" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to numerous resources, nuclear detonation cause rapid waves but that waves couldn't enough to propagate hazardous tsunami waves.&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Tsunami are huge ocean waves&lt;/strong&gt; caused by natural forces like underwater earthquakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tsunami.org/faq.html#Nuclear&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;tsunami&lt;/a&gt; website,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Could Nuclear testing create a tsunami?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nuclear testing at and near Pacific islands, with ample wave detection&#xA;equipment included, showed that such explosions &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;do not propagate&#xA;hazardous tsunami waves&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been several underwater atomic tests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;BAKER&lt;/strong&gt; shot in Bikini Atoll in 1946, the WIGWAM shot off California in 1955, the UMBRELLA shot and the WAHOO shot at Enewetak in 1958.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BAKER was a 20 kiloton atomic bomb detonated 200 feet below the surface in a shallow lagoon. It generated a 90 foot wave 1000 feet from the detonation. However, that wave was only 6 feet high 22000 feet from the detonation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WIGWAM was a 30 kiloton atomic bomb detonated 2000 feet below the surface. The official report on WIGWAM does not mention any significant waves from the explosion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UMBRELLA was a 8 kiloton atomic bomb detonated 150 feet below the surface. WAHOO was a 9 kiloton atomic bomb detonated 500 feet below the surface. The official reports on UMBRELLA and WAHOO do not mention any significant waves from the detonation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference between the WIGWAM and WAHOO deep water tests is that the bubble created by the explosion broadens and can collapse before reaching the surface thus limiting the wave generated at the surface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following &lt;a href=&quot;http://nige.wordpress.com/files/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; show the conclusions of atomic testing on the damage effects on ships:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One conclusion is that underwater atomic explosions do damage at twice the distance as air or surface explosions. The damage is not so much due to waves but to the blast wave being transmitted through water to the ship hull and secondary effects like hogging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing to note about all the underwater shots: fallout was limited by the water and in the case of the deep underwater explosions, little fallout was released in the air.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare the above tests to the 15 kiloton Hiroshima bomb. Severe damage to builds occurred within a 1 mile radius and firestorm was started with a radius of about 2 miles. The bomb did severe damage to a greater area than could be expected to be done with an underwater detonation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, there is no comparison between the energy released by an atomic bomb to the energy released by an earthquake. The recent earthquake in Japan was the equivalent of 6.7 trillion tons of TNT. That's more about 1000 times the explosive power of all the atomic weapons in the world or about 17,000 Hiroshima bombs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FYI, check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l6Q8Q1smwg&amp;amp;feature=related&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this youtube video&lt;/a&gt; that has a &lt;strong&gt;nuclear bomb explosion at sea&lt;/strong&gt; - bikini atolls, that &lt;strong&gt;didn't cause tsunami&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/faq#.2.1.94&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; faq,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Would the explosion at sea have caused a tsunami?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. In nuclear&#xA;explosions tested at sea there were no reported tsunamis. Potentially&#xA;there would have been higher waves but nothing significant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-07-29T15:07:56.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3487" CreationDate="2012-07-29T18:19:47.757" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine it's a week before the opening scene. Bane is scheming on how to destroy Gotham, learns of Wayne's fusion reactor/neutron bomb via Miranda/Talia, and decides it will be his main device to hold Gotham in fear while he lets them destroy themselves from the inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.meh.ro/original/2010_02/meh.ro3567.jpg&quot;&gt;Sinister, indeed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bane also comes to learn Dr. Pavel is the only living person who can defuse this bomb. He feels it will be easier to capture Pavel earlier than later; that way no one will be able to call on Pavel in Gotham's upcoming dire moment of need. (It's likely at this point that Bane already had some plan to fake Pavel's death, albeit in a less grandiose way than what he ends up having to do.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But wait. Uh-oh. The CIA is looking for Pavel too! Bane and his men quickly adapt to this new information. Little does the CIA know that the man bringing Dr. Pavel in is actually Bane's top lieutenant, injected into the operation by Bane when he realized the CIA might capture Pavel first, severely diminishing the chances for his operation's success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now we're at the opening scene. Bane and his militia don hoods and fake their own capture, and Bane's lieutenant hands off Pavel to the CIA. In this dialogue, we hear Bane's lieutenant explain, &quot;They were trying to rack a price [on Pavel]. They worked for the Masked Man [Bane].&quot; The CIA agent, being the smart cookie he is, realizes he has an opportunity to track down a lead on Bane, probably hoping to eventually capture him. Little does he know that the hooded men are actually Bane and his militia, who have anticipated his wanting to board them on the plane after hearing such a juicy tidbit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is where things start to go sour for our poor CIA agent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some more of Bane's militia now take control of the CIA's plane from the outside, necessary for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bane and his men would not have been able to get weapons on-board otherwise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bane still needs the rest of the world to not be looking for Pavel. He still needs to fake Pavel's death. Thus, he brings a recently-deceased body on board and transfuses some amount of Dr. Pavel's blood into the dead body.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bane now breathes a huge sigh of relief. He can rest easy knowing that when the plane goes down, a body containing Dr. Pavel's blood signature will go down with it, thus tricking whatever poor sap has to investigate the plane wreckage into thinking Pavel went down with the plane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only remaining task: make sure Pavel stays alive. Bane grabs a hold of Pavel, fastens him securely to the rope extending from Bane's plane, and, just before releasing the CIA's plane from any further duty, assuages Pavel's concerns:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Calm down doctor, now is not the time for fear. That comes later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tl;dr: This scene was necessary because it foreshadowed later events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1789" LastActivityDate="2012-07-29T18:19:47.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3543" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3560" CreationDate="2012-07-29T19:11:28.160" Score="24" ViewCount="11035" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eisenheim performs a sword illusion in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443543/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Illusionist (2006)&lt;/a&gt;. Is this illusion realistic? Could it be practiced in real life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a YouTube video showing what I mean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/osb_Fklz5ag?start=140&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TCTMB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;image of Hisenheim&amp;#39;s sword illusion&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T09:48:55.207" LastActivityDate="2017-03-21T07:45:41.073" Title="Is Eisenheim's sword illusion realistic?" Tags="|realism|the-illusionist|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3544" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3590" CreationDate="2012-07-30T01:22:36.030" Score="6" ViewCount="930" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the “Reincarnation” episode of &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt;, they broke the episode up into three segments, each of which used a different style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first one was in an old-fashioned Max Fleischer style and the main gag was that Fry accidentally created a new color unlike any other color previously known, which of course we couldn’t see because the segment was in black-and-white.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second act was in 16-bit video-game style—which &lt;em&gt;Community&lt;/em&gt; had recently done—and the gag was that the professor’s fancy microscope was able to zoom to a super-microscopic level, allowing him to see the smallest form of matter in all its “beautiful, intricate, detailed” glory and thus allowed him to discover a grand-unified-theory. The gag of course being that because the segment was in 16-bit, we could not see the detail the professor mentioned and only saw a single pixel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final part was in anime style. I did not notice any specific gag about something that we would be unable to see because of the style used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://theinfosphere.org/Reincarnation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This page&lt;/a&gt; mentions a communications issue between the two races which seems like it could work because of how anime programs are (poorly) dubbed into English, but that would be pretty weak compared to the previous two. It also mentions Zoidberg doing an intricate dance, but the camera simply panning over him standing still. That really sounds like the second one, but I don’t see how it has anything to do with doing the segment being anime or why it would have been different had they done it in their normal style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what the third gag was (or if there even was one—which would really surprise me if there were not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-12T18:24:03.283" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T18:24:03.283" Title="What was the third gag in the “Reincarnation” episode of Futurama?" Tags="|futurama|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3543" CreationDate="2012-07-30T01:36:50.943" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well when you look at the attempts to move it, it clearly does move, but very difficultly. I would suspect that he put some sort of extremely strong electromagnet just under the floor. That way any metal objects that are close enough are held tight towards it (like how &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neodymium&quot;&gt;neodymium magnets&lt;/a&gt; are extremely difficult to pull apart).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be an electromagnet instead of a permanent one so that someone can turn it off on cue, (like they did).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, it would have been designed to have a very strong strong magnetic &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field&quot;&gt;field&lt;/a&gt; that falls off exponentially with distance so that it only affects thing ferromagnetic objects within a few inches so that the audience’s jewelery doesn’t suddenly come off and fly towards the stage (that would be a different show altogether). &lt;code&gt;;-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastActivityDate="2012-07-30T01:36:50.943" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3534" CreationDate="2012-07-30T01:39:06.050" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to speculate that it's because the fog was not necessarily supernatural in nature and the supermarket had a climate control system.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Buildings in San Francisco don't get filled with fog even if they're surrounded by it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastActivityDate="2012-07-30T01:39:06.050" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3397" CreationDate="2012-07-30T02:00:41.897" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. While Nolan makes no secret that current events (especially those that stoke our fears, such as the global financial crisis) influence the tone and themes of his films, the writing and filming of TDKR was nearly complete by fall, 2011 - just before the Occupy movement began making major headlines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1791" LastActivityDate="2012-07-30T02:00:41.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3548" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3549" CreationDate="2012-07-30T05:14:42.137" Score="4" ViewCount="2914" Body="&lt;p&gt;Toward the end of Dark Knight Rises, the biggest city in the United States has been held hostage for nearly five months. Bane has threatened to destroy the city via nuke if anyone leaves the city. Bane has also explained to the world how the nuke is going to detonate on its own after five months (&lt;em&gt;update on this last sentence: apparently Bane did not announce the five-months thing -- only a handful of characters were aware of it)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at some point, perhaps as the five months was almost over, wouldn't the US government have nothing to lose by directing the military to try some sort of raid? Given Bane's army consisted mainly of homeless teens with small arms, seems like the world's most advanced military could probably have put together more than one plan-of-attack to choose from, especially with five months to think about it -- and the military would probably be eager to take a shot at saving millions of citizens from obliteration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would the U.S. government let the nuke detonate without even trying to stop it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-07-30T14:00:00.787" LastActivityDate="2012-07-30T14:00:00.787" Title="In &quot;Dark Knight Rises&quot; what was U.S. government's strategy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3548" CreationDate="2012-07-30T07:07:20.643" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watch the movie, Bane never states to the public the bomb is on a timer, as far as the goverment is concerned it can only be detonates by the mystery citizen, so they had no reason to worry about the 5 month limit they knew nothing about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1794" LastActivityDate="2012-07-30T07:07:20.643" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3494" CreationDate="2012-07-30T11:25:54.600" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be an attempt to humiliate them: it seemed to me that Bane tried to reverse everything(the rich living on the streets, the righteous being judged). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this situation, having the police trapped in a hole (maybe an analogy to the &quot;hole&quot;/isolation where prisoners are sent for very bad behavior) and fed by the prisoners might make sense. This would also explain why they were shaven: they were offered the same treatment criminals in a prison would get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, killing all the policemen at once (crushed like bugs) would have been, in my opinion, more tragic and a lot safer for him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, as we have seen, Bane has a sense of drama, and all his actions have to be somehow theatrical (he only blows up the stadium &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the anthem is sung, keeps the bomb in a truck and has it driving through the whole city in order to remind the people of his power, and the examples could go on), so aspects like safety or big sudden tragedies are not very familiar to Bane. He said it himself that he finds it more enjoyable to let the people have a hope and then crush it, repeating the process until the citizens are truly broken (the same strategy is he trying to apply to Batman).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="418" LastEditorUserId="5879" LastEditDate="2017-01-30T06:10:18.713" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T06:10:18.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3552" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3555" CreationDate="2012-07-30T11:51:19.340" Score="19" ViewCount="4887" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of &lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/strong&gt;, Fox examines the Bat and finds out that an auto-pilot had been installed. This seems to me a bit strange, because we have seen the Bat carrying the bomb far from Gotham. I have seen that there are some questions here about the way Batman managed to escape the explosion, but shouldn't the vehicle have been completely destroyed? From what I understood, the bomb was bigger than an atomic bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did they manage to retrieve the Bat and analyze its software(this is even more unbelievable)? Have I missed something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="418" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-29T17:34:42.937" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T17:34:42.937" Title="Fox's analysis of the Bat" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3421" CreationDate="2012-07-30T16:03:32.477" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are all right in your analysis. But you are missing one key point, the Pit, in the movie heals you so quickly because it brings out your will. Apparently, in the form of fear. It is not uncommon to hear of stories regarding miraculous recovery when a patient has displayed immense, undying will to recover. I think, since Nolan likes his realism in the Batman trilogy, that he was going for this. I firmly believe the Pit is the Nolan equivalent of the Lazarus Pit. To reinforce my idea, Bane is not souped up on Tytan, he was broken and built in the Pit. This gives him the strength we see Batman show in the fight on the courthouse stairs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1797" LastActivityDate="2012-07-30T16:03:32.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3552" CreationDate="2012-07-30T16:56:42.187" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I'm remembering right, the techs say that the change was 'checked in'.  I took this to mean  'checked into &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control&quot;&gt;source control&lt;/a&gt;'.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;That is: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are two bats&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They both use the same software, which includes (non-functional) autopiloting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bruce Wayne was planning on using &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; of them, but needed the autopilot fixed.  So he modified the autopilot.  Being the nice guy he is (or perhaps just not wanting to lose his work), he checks his changes into source control.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;During a regular maintenance cycle (perhaps when the techs booted up the &lt;em&gt;second&lt;/em&gt; machine), the software is pulled and deployed to the other bat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The existence of a working autopilot is communicated to Lucius Fox.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="524" LastActivityDate="2012-07-30T16:56:42.187" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3514" CreationDate="2012-07-30T17:19:06.293" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;ahem&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's these things called telephones.  In the era before cheap, pay-as-you-go cells (aka 'burners'), you were restricted to landlines.  To set up clandestine calls, have someone call a payphone.  In the advent that you want a more 'permanent' solution, have a 'retired' member maintain a phoneline, have people call them, and then the lieutenant calls whatever number you've last set up for them, passing on the message.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's how I see the last conversation between Ra's and Talia's mother going:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&quot;Ra's, Daddy's at the door!&quot;  &#xA;&quot;Oh dear - I'll try to escape, but we should meet up afterwards&quot;&#xA;&quot;But how will I find you?  You'll have to leave the country!&quot;&#xA;&quot;Here, take this phone number.  Tell the person on the other end where you are.&quot;&#xA;&quot;Goodbye, take care!&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, her mother never got to make that phone call (or some variation on passing messages this way), but she could have told &lt;em&gt;Talia&lt;/em&gt; how to find her father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="524" LastActivityDate="2012-07-30T17:19:06.293" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3558" CreationDate="2012-07-30T19:53:38.290" Score="32" ViewCount="2422" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bane appears to be an incredibly effective leader, commanding dozens or perhaps even hundreds of criminal underlings in a successful campaign to capture Gotham and hold the entire city hostage for five months. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I am confused about Bane's leadership style:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the opening plane scene, Bane uses the term &quot;brother&quot; affectionately as he orders one of the guys with him to die in the crash. The guy does not hesitate to accept and indeed appears to be honored to help &quot;start the fire&quot; with his death -- giving the audience the impression that Bane is a powerfully beloved leader with dedicated followers who will do anything for him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Later, in a sewer scene, Bane seems to run things more like Darth Vader, occasionally killing his minions when he is not pleased with them -- a character trait that would seem to inspire a different type of obedience than that conveyed in the plane scene.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In another early scene, a street kid says that there are employment&#xA;opportunities in the sewers, suggesting Bane was paying at least some&#xA;of his minions for their efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how exactly did Bane so impressively motivate his people as he carried out his dastardly plan? &lt;strong&gt;Did Bane motivate his minions through love? Through fear? Through money? Or all of the above?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-08-01T23:42:30.357" LastActivityDate="2012-08-01T23:42:30.357" Title="What type of leader is Bane?" Tags="|analysis|the-dark-knight-rises|character|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3557" CreationDate="2012-07-30T20:16:13.847" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually think he had three &quot;levels&quot; of minions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;League of Shadows members.  These are the ones that are willing to lay down their lives for him and &quot;the cause&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thugs.  Disposable minions that he may pay to do things that he may not want directly tied to the League (guys running the cement trucks, the one that he shot, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Street urchins.  These are the homeless people that he was paying to do work underground.  This group probably didn't have any overview of Bane's plans and were highly disposable if they discovered anything.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-07-30T21:16:20.977" LastActivityDate="2012-07-30T21:16:20.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3543" CreationDate="2012-07-31T02:56:58.587" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/movies/illusionist-director-has-a-few-tricks-up-his-sleeve-448357/&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with writer and director Neil Burger:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; Several of the illusions that are shown in the film are based on real illusions from that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; That's what I tried to do with the illusions. It is based on a short story, and it has some of the illusions in it. I used that as my&#xA;  point of departure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Magicians at that time -- in a way it was kind of the highest&#xA;  performing art at the time because it was certainly the most popular&#xA;  -- were taking whatever was on the cutting edge of technology and adapting it to their performance. The sword illusion was based on&#xA;  electromagnetism; a general audience wouldn't have been familiar with&#xA;  the application of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did it actually work? The magician who designed the trick, &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/2006/oct/30/entertainment/et-rickyjay30&quot;&gt;Ricky Jay&lt;/a&gt;, won't say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When an actor or a director must know how an illusion works to&#xA;  accomplish the artistic goal, we gladly comply, but we abjure&#xA;  gratuitous exposure. Our intent is not to be coy but to uphold our&#xA;  belief that preserving secrets can help to excite and mystify an&#xA;  audience, whether the performance is on stage or screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actor Ed Norton learned and performed the tricks for the movie, but I expect he was sworn to secrecy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-07-31T02:56:58.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3561" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-31T08:25:28.803" Score="12" ViewCount="5100" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Brandt captures Preston he shouts to witnesses about how the cleric has been caught etc which seems to be a clear case of pride.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I seem to remember when Preston is being interviewed and is asked about the best way to get a cleric's weapon off him Brandt smiles as he answers, clearly happy with himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If emotions are illegal then why are these tolerated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-07-31T10:21:11.820" LastActivityDate="2022-02-11T20:21:06.540" Title="Why were some emotional displays tolerated in Equilibrium?" Tags="|plot-explanation|equilibrium|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3564" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3595" CreationDate="2012-07-31T15:11:35.653" Score="15" ViewCount="2800" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Casablanca, when Rick says this to Laszlo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She tried everything to get them, and nothing worked. She did her best&#xA;  to convince me that she was still in love with me, but that was all&#xA;  over long ago. For your sake, she pretended it wasn't, and I let her&#xA;  pretend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;does Laszlo believe him?  Or is this just a fib they're all willing to pretend is true to move on with their lives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1801" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2012-07-31T15:13:50.010" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T04:43:24.313" Title="&quot;She did her best to convince me that she was still in love with me&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|casablanca|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3565" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-07-31T15:18:45.963" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson. Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in the words of one character, love and virtue. He must choose between his love for a woman and helping her Czech Resistance leader husband escape from the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2012-07-31T15:25:25.543" LastActivityDate="2012-07-31T15:25:25.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3566" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-07-31T15:18:45.963" Score="0" Body="Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson." OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2012-07-31T15:25:31.533" LastActivityDate="2012-07-31T15:25:31.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3567" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-07-31T15:48:06.333" Score="10" ViewCount="1302" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember seeing a movie back when I was a kid that revolved around the idea of a punishment that revolved around &quot;age payment.&quot;  If you committed a horrendous crime, rather than lock you up, they put you in a machine and age you 50+ years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the main characters in the movie gets framed as a child for a crime, and he is then aged to about 40ish.  The movie deals with the concept of this type of punishment, as well as his ability to cope with the adult world with the mind of a child.  The idea was pretty interesting, but I do remember it being a &quot;B&quot; type of movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I was to narrow it down, it would be late 80's early 90's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="269" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-27T09:03:14.363" LastActivityDate="2016-10-23T23:43:51.983" Title="If you commit a crime your punishment is premature aging" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:37:52.497" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3568" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3569" CreationDate="2012-07-31T16:17:05.290" Score="6" ViewCount="6955" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the middle of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667889/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ice Age: Continental Drift&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Peaches' mom asked Peaches to go to sleep. Then, she hung on the tree. This particular scene was quite strange and confused me pretty badly, because she's a mammoth, &lt;strong&gt;why did she hang on the tree like that?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, I've only watched the Ice Age3 and Ice Age4. Did I miss anything? Did they show any scene towards Peaches' mom's strange behavior in the previous parts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-14T09:58:50.190" LastActivityDate="2013-10-14T09:58:50.190" Title="Why did Peaches' mom hang on the tree?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ice-age-4|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3568" CreationDate="2012-07-31T16:28:39.380" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Ice Age 2, when Elle was first introduced, she thought she was a possum, thus hanging upside down in a tree to sleep. Some of her habits were taught to Peaches, thus the girl sleeping upside down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Ice Age 4, there was a line of dialogue from Peaches about being half possum.  this came from the idea that Elle still believes herself to be a possum, but that Peaches' dad is a mammoth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-01T12:40:35.440" LastActivityDate="2012-08-01T12:40:35.440" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3567" CreationDate="2012-07-31T16:34:08.733" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070948/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Zardoz&lt;/a&gt; -- From &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Zardoz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TVTropes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The immortals punish the criminal by speed-aging the offender. The more you resist, the closer you get to endless senility...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastActivityDate="2012-07-31T16:34:08.733" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3568" CreationDate="2012-08-01T06:35:48.443" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In ICE AGE 2, Ellie is introduced as having been living with the Possums. She is led to believe that she is &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; a Possum ( Yes,it is true that she thinks she is one of them.Watch the movie). There are quite a few scenes dedicated to Manny trying to convince Ellie that she is actually a mammoth and not a possum. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;/Possums sleep by hanging upside down from a tree using their tails as a hook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why Peaches believes that she is half-possum and she hangs upside down from a tree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1806" LastActivityDate="2012-08-01T06:35:48.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3574" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3668" CreationDate="2012-08-01T15:24:20.740" Score="6" ViewCount="5442" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;Shutter Island&lt;/strong&gt;, it's hard to understand the ending because it's quite ambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, a while before the ending of the movie Teddy confessed to Dr. Cawley as, he's Andrew Laeddis and he killed his wife. Then, he walked with Chuck in the final scene. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the significance of this scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was Teddy really cured?&lt;/strong&gt;  If he was cured, why didn't they just arrest him for the crime of killing his wife?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the significance of Dr. Cawley's eye gesture at the final scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="1088" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T10:19:23.380" LastActivityDate="2019-12-17T13:21:33.130" Title="Ending of Shutter Island" Tags="|plot-explanation|shutter-island|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3575" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3588" CreationDate="2012-08-01T15:40:11.413" Score="49" ViewCount="308663" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Shutter Island, at the end of the movie Teddy had a chat with Chuck, in that scene Teddy told to Chuck as,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which would be worse: To live as a monster, or to die as a good man?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the implicit meaning of this dialogue? Who's the monster as Teddy mentioned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, who's a good man?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2018-03-16T09:18:12.447" LastActivityDate="2019-02-03T06:34:29.543" Title="What is the meaning of Teddy's last dialogue in Shutter Island?" Tags="|analysis|dialogue|shutter-island|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3575" CreationDate="2012-08-01T16:06:08.147" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both cases are Teddy, himself, and he lives this duality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one case, if he acknowledges he is the killer of his wife (and indirectly his children because he was away so long and often he never noticed his wife's depression), he is the 'Monster', but he can continue to live here on the island in peace, since he will accept the lobotomy. If he refuses to acknowledge his guilt, assuming the mantle of 'Good Man', and pursues trying to get off the island, he will certainly die during the attempt, since the island is remote, and the guards heavily fortified and 'itchy' to shoot someone (Remember that a prison is as much a prison to the guards, who spend long days languishing for something to do).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-01T16:17:40.320" LastActivityDate="2012-08-01T16:17:40.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3577" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3578" CreationDate="2012-08-01T16:13:48.887" Score="18" ViewCount="30823" Body="&lt;p&gt;When he gives Aunt May the eggs he was supposed to bring earlier, he is clearly injured but Aunt May does not suggest that he is Spider-man. (At least that's what I remember)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after Gwen goes to his door, Aunt May asks why he didn't ask her out and he replies that he's no good for her. Then Aunt May says something about him being good - does she know he is Spider-man?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1534" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-07-01T07:14:42.093" LastActivityDate="2021-06-01T15:17:15.777" Title="At the end of the movie, does Aunt May know Peter Parker is Spider-man?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-amazing-spider-man|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3577" CreationDate="2012-08-01T16:25:53.980" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, Aunt May didn't know that Peter was Spider-Man nor did she have any inklings.  Rather, what's she seeing is a teenager stricken by grief from the passing of his uncle, which he believes to be his fault, finally coming to terms with his passing and trying to get back on track.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To Aunt May, Peter's just a teenager going through a rough time, getting into fights and dealing with the passing of his uncle.  Him finally bring home the eggs is a sign to her that he's making an effort, instead of just forgetting everything like before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-08-01T16:25:53.980" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3552" CreationDate="2012-08-01T18:08:37.130" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Descriptions of the bomb in the movie are inconsistent, but at one point it's mentioned that it's a neutron bomb. A neutron bomb would have a higher radiation yield but less destructive power. There's a good analysis of the bomb's potential effects &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allyngibson.net/?p=6220&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, though it would be hazardous to salvage at ground zero, it's plausible that the aircraft could have been found intact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1492" LastEditorUserId="1492" LastEditDate="2012-08-07T20:24:37.933" LastActivityDate="2012-08-07T20:24:37.933" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3581" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3582" CreationDate="2012-08-01T22:38:44.280" Score="17" ViewCount="15075" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alfred leaves Bruce, telling him that he has buried enough members of the Wayne family. But, Bruce has been running around all this time as Batman. I think the odds of him being killed are pretty high. Why is Alfred only worried now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="275" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-30T04:42:49.380" LastActivityDate="2016-11-08T17:48:31.963" Title="Why does Alfred leave in The Dark Knight Rises?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3581" CreationDate="2012-08-01T23:07:47.880" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Bruce Wayne returns as Batman in Dark Knight Rises he isn't the same person in terms of his reaction times and agility which he possessed years ago when he decided to hang up his boots at the end of Dark Knight (plus the limping at the start of the movie). Alfred strongly believes that he is also inferior in physicality, strength and reaction to Bane when he sees all the footage of him during the motorcycle chase scene he enacts in front of Gotham.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alfred tries to explain the scenario to Bruce Wayne to the extent of Bane's strength and also believes that Bruce Wayne is trying to be batman to satisfy his obsession, even though he is old Bruce Wayne still has the heart of the old batman and tries to counter him stating that his weakness can be exploited which ultimately leads Alfred to leave on the fact of their heated discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All those years Alfred never gave up on Bruce because he believed that he could fight those odds but in the case of Bane, Alfred instinctively knew that this was the fight Batman can never win at that point of time given his strength and also earlier Alfred hints to him (the coffee place he talks about) about starting a family (or finding the right girl) which could have led him to that decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Alfred is correct at that point and Bruce Wayne gets his broken back immediately after he leaves)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-14T09:20:02.693" LastActivityDate="2015-05-14T09:20:02.693" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-02T00:14:28.760" Score="23" ViewCount="17987" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay so after watching The Dark Knight Rises, I spent a bit of time thinking about the film, at first I didn't get it. I understood the storyline but this major plot flaw/continuity error really baffled me and annoyed me for practically the whole film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Bruce Wayne puts on the knee brace he is able to support his weight again after having as the film says 'no cartilage in his knee.' This means he couldn't walk without support aka this knee brace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is he able to walk/climb/jump in the pit without this brace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1813" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-29T17:33:32.060" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T17:33:32.060" Title="How can Batman run and climb in the pits without his knee brace?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3561" CreationDate="2012-08-02T08:13:23.003" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that Brandt and Father aren't taking Prozium. They--most likely along with a small group of elites--enjoy a privileged yet secretive status with access to art, pleasure and expression. Brandt is clearly adept at hiding his emotions but cannot help but gloat when he deceives Preston, the master cleric capable of sniffing out sense offenders with only the smallest clue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, why would the regular non-cleric cops tolerate these displays of emotion? First, they were only responsible for enforcing the rules of the clerics. When Preston is caught outside the city (when he rescue's the dog), the cops withdraw when they realize he's a cleric. It's not until they hear the dog that they intervene. My guess is that the mystery surrounding the clerics and their abilities makes them out of reach of the cops unless another cleric, Brandt in this case, makes the call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1548" LastEditorUserId="1548" LastEditDate="2012-08-02T08:18:25.073" LastActivityDate="2012-08-02T08:18:25.073" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3581" CreationDate="2012-08-02T10:57:31.743" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alfred burnt the letter from Rachel that stated she'd chosen Dent over Wayne. This obviously puts a strain on their relationship so he leaves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastActivityDate="2012-08-02T10:57:31.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3575" CreationDate="2012-08-02T11:52:47.187" Score="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;To Live as a Monster&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he accepts his guilt and becomes sane he will become the Monster. His delusions are his brains way of removing this guilt and hiding the fact that he ignored his family, did not act on his wife's mental illness, allowed her to murder their children and then murdered her. By accepting what the doctors are telling him he will need to go on living in the knowledge that he allowed terrible things to happen and did terrible things. The doctors will be able to treat him without a lobotomy but he will be fully aware of the crimes he committed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To die as a good man&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his delusion he is a good man. He truly believes that he is on the side of law and order and that he is doing right. If he chooses to continue to believe this he will be lobotomised and will no longer have relevant brain function to question what he did or did not do. The death is not literal as the other answer suggests. It is about the fact that if he continues to believe he is this good man he will be lobotomised and effectively &quot;die&quot; believing in this. He will not die in a literal sense until later, but he will do so in the belief he was a good man. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is most exciting and cathartic about this decision is that this appears to be a moment of lucidity where he understands what has happened and is not in thrall of his delusions. He at this point of lucidity makes the decision that he can not live with his crimes and would prefer to lie to his doctor as he knows this will result in his lobotomy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By making the statement to his doctor he makes him aware of this also and by virtue of this you could also argue that he is being a good man by electing to be punished as well as the belief in his delusion that he is good. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1342" LastActivityDate="2012-08-02T11:52:47.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3544" CreationDate="2012-08-02T17:08:14.833" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that the Zoidberg dance was the &quot;gag&quot; in the third part.  From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation_%28Futurama%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A running joke for the episode involves a key plot point in each&#xA;  segment being obscured by the specific animation style, though the&#xA;  characters themselves express amazement over what they see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This enforces your idea of the three parts having important information obscured because of the style.  For the third part, wikipedia states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Planet Express crew attempts to relay a message of peace, but&#xA;  cannot communicate with the aliens properly due to both the humans'&#xA;  and aliens' inability to understand each other's language. Doctor&#xA;  Zoidberg successfully persuades the aliens to leave by shedding his&#xA;  shell and performing an intricate dance universally symbolizing peace,&#xA;  which is depicted as Zoidberg merely posing his body and standing&#xA;  still while the camera pans across his body per anime action sequence&#xA;  conventions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-08-02T17:08:14.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3544" CreationDate="2012-08-02T17:18:47.337" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, I think I figured it out. The reason that Zoidberg’s “intricate dance” was a joke when done in anime style is because anime tends to use limited animation frames resulting in a jerky motion, sort of like stop-go or claymation. For example, instead of smooth movements like many of today’s cartoons, even modern day anime seems to still use a more 60’s style with few intermediate key frames (like many smaller animated GIFs).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, instead of Zoidberg doing a smooth, flowing dance like the in-show characters see, we &lt;em&gt;should have&lt;/em&gt; seen a simple, jerky dance, but instead they just showed a slow pan across his body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, what the characters saw may have been something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TqAl4.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Zoidberg dancing smoothly&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we would have only seen this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qi1wS.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Zoidberg dancing jerkily&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastActivityDate="2012-08-02T17:18:47.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3487" CreationDate="2012-08-02T23:26:50.730" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, it brings up the theme of intentionally being captured. Bane was intentionally being captured so as to have access to Dr. Pavel. Later on in the third act, Bruce gets intentionally captured so as to have Lucious Fox access R&amp;amp;D, and then Selina Kyle saves him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 'The Dark Knight' the Joker is also intentionally captured so he can help Lau escape and access all the mob's money. Perhaps a coincidence, but as we just learned, we're not allowed to believe in coincidences anymore. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1821" LastEditorUserId="1821" LastEditDate="2012-08-02T23:32:49.167" LastActivityDate="2012-08-02T23:32:49.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3487" CreationDate="2012-08-03T04:23:00.017" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Notably the plane scene was screened as a special prologue &quot;before Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol on only 70mm IMAX theaters.&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://theblemish.com/2011/12/dark-knight-rises-has-a-leaked-7-minute-trailer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the filmmakers had the plane scene in mind for somewhere more toward the middle of the movie (where I think it would seem to fit more neatly) but then found a way to make it work as the opening scene so they could release it as the prologue mentioned above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T14:40:05.750" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T14:40:05.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3564" CreationDate="2012-08-03T04:43:24.313" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the ambiguity concerning whether Ilsa is really in love with Rick or with Laszlo is one of the elements that makes Casablanca such a timeless classic.  Ingrid Bergman's performance convinced me that she was in love with both of them.  Watch her in scenes with Paul Henreid (Laszlo) and you can see what looks like genuine adoration on her face.  But the passion between Ilsa and Rick seems just as genuine.  So, why couldn't she be truly in love with both of them?  These are two very different men that she met at different times in her life, under very different circumstances.  Even the kind of love she would have felt for the two men was different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your questions, yes I do think Ilsa is still in love with Rick at the end, but I don't think she's any less in love with Laszlo.  Laszlo is probably (desperately) willing to believe that she isn't.  &quot;She did her best to convince me that she was still in love with me, but that was all over long ago&quot; is a lie that both Rick and Ilsa are probably willing to live with so that they can both go on with their lives, and so that Ilsa at least can be happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T04:43:24.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3596" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6881" CreationDate="2012-08-03T14:24:50.653" Score="9" ViewCount="1152" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, the end result of about 19 different versions of Blade Runner seems to be that all indicators point to Deckard being a Replicant himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do indeed hold to this theory, what was the purpose of creating him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was he a test model like Rachel, or is it explained somewhere that he was commissioned by the military like Roy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T14:54:57.400" LastActivityDate="2015-01-16T13:44:10.343" Title="What kind of Replicant is Deckard?" Tags="|blade-runner|philip-k-dick|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3597" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:04:21.277" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T15:04:21.277" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T15:04:21.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3598" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:04:21.277" Score="0" Body="This tag is incorrectly spelled. Suggest using philip-k-dick for topics of the Science Fiction author Philip Kindred Dick, whose works have engendered many movies and television projects." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T15:04:21.277" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T15:04:21.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3599" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:05:22.617" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T15:05:22.617" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T15:05:22.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3600" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:05:22.617" Score="0" Body="Used for for topics of the Science Fiction author Philip Kindred Dick, whose works have engendered many movies and television projects." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T15:05:22.617" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T15:05:22.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3601" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:24:49.293" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Identification of movies or TV shows is no longer supported on this site. For further information please see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4087/we-are-discontinuing-support-for-identification-questions&quot;&gt;related meta post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still want your film identified? Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4129/49&quot;&gt;this question and its answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-05-25T20:09:09.360" LastActivityDate="2019-05-25T20:09:09.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3602" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:24:49.293" Score="0" Body="NO LONGER ON TOPIC. DO NOT USE. IDENTIFICATION QUESTIONS WILL BE CLOSED AS THEY ARE NO LONGER SUPPORTED.&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;Process of giving details about a show so that the community can identify it." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-18T21:59:17.843" LastActivityDate="2018-01-18T21:59:17.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3603" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:29:26.247" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following his commercial breakthrough with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alien&lt;/a&gt; (1979), his best-known works are sci-fi classic &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/a&gt; (1982), &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_&amp;amp;_Louise&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thelma &amp;amp; Louise&lt;/a&gt; (1991), best picture Oscar-winner &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator_%282000_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gladiator&lt;/a&gt; (2000), &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hawk_Down_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Black Hawk Down&lt;/a&gt; (2001), &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchstick_Men_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Matchstick Men&lt;/a&gt; (2003), &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Heaven_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kingdom of Heaven&lt;/a&gt; (2005), &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gangster_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;American Gangster&lt;/a&gt; (2007), &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_%282010_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Robin Hood&lt;/a&gt; (2010), and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Prometheus&lt;/a&gt; (2012).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000631/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ridley Scott&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridley_Scott&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ridley Scott&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T11:41:40.083" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T11:41:40.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3604" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:29:26.247" Score="0" Body="An English film director and producer, best known for his films Alien, Blade Runner, and Prometheus." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T11:41:40.083" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T11:41:40.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3605" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:35:24.010" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T15:35:24.010" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T15:35:24.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3606" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:35:24.010" Score="0" Body="American writer, director, and producer most well known for television projects Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly. Has lately written and/or directed movies most notably The Avengers in 2012." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T15:35:24.010" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T15:35:24.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3607" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:38:17.580" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lord of the Rings (film series)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-fellowship-of-the-ring&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-fellowship-of-the-ring&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-fellowship-of-the-ring&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-two-towers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-two-towers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-two-towers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-return-of-the-king&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-return-of-the-king&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-return-of-the-king&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2019-04-19T21:32:20.117" LastActivityDate="2019-04-19T21:32:20.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3608" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:38:17.580" Score="0" Body="For the early 2000s trilogy of films directed by Peter Jackson. Questions about the 1978 animated version, use the tag with that date. If questions are about a specific film in the trilogy, also use that film's sub-title (e.g. the-two-towers) as a tag." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-03-06T18:06:28.043" LastActivityDate="2016-03-06T18:06:28.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3609" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:41:21.867" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T15:41:21.867" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T15:41:21.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3610" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:41:21.867" Score="0" Body="Refers to the 1986 movie directed by James Cameron, which is the second part in the Alien movie series." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2013-05-14T21:25:34.167" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T21:25:34.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3611" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:44:10.477" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of providing a factual or historical record or report. Only to be used on questions about the intricacies of documentaries, not for general questions about specific documentaries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-22T22:15:56.720" LastActivityDate="2018-01-22T22:15:56.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3612" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:44:10.477" Score="0" Body="Category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of providing a factual or historical record or report. Only to be used on questions about the intricacies of documentaries, not for general questions about specific documentaries." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-22T22:15:56.720" LastActivityDate="2018-01-22T22:15:56.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3613" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:47:26.277" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T15:47:26.277" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T15:47:26.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3614" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:47:26.277" Score="0" Body="Questions about the 9-season American sitcom aired on NBC, created by and starring American writer and comedian Jerry Seinfeld. " OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-04-01T17:02:46.400" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T17:02:46.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3615" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:50:34.373" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T15:50:34.373" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T15:50:34.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3616" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:50:34.373" Score="0" Body="A story or movie containing events that precede those of an existing work." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T15:50:34.373" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T15:50:34.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3617" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:51:42.157" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is an American epic fantasy television drama series created for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It is an adaptation of &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt;, George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, the first of which is titled &lt;em&gt;A Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;. Filmed in a Belfast studio and on location elsewhere in Northern Ireland, Malta, Croatia, Iceland, and Morocco, it premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011. As of 2016, six seasons have aired; a total of eight are planned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-07-29T12:30:37.107" LastActivityDate="2016-07-29T12:30:37.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3618" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:51:42.157" Score="0" Body="HBO TV series based on George R R Martin's &quot;A Song of Ice and Fire&quot; books." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2013-07-24T10:14:22.883" LastActivityDate="2013-07-24T10:14:22.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3619" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:53:45.883" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T15:53:45.883" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T15:53:45.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3620" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:53:45.883" Score="0" Body="Cable television drama fictionalizing the 1960's era of advertising on New York City's Madison Avenue. Ran from 19 July 2007 until 17 May 2015." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-06-07T15:35:20.547" LastActivityDate="2015-06-07T15:35:20.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3621" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:56:48.157" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Television drama detailing the saga of the Winchester family and friends to protect the world from Satan, his minions, and a variety of fantastical, weird, or unexplained beings and events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460681/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Supernatural&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural_%28U.S._TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Supernatural&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:04:48.137" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:04:48.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3622" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:56:48.157" Score="0" Body="An American TV series which follows two brothers as they hunt demons, ghosts and other supernatural beings.&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;This tag is for tv series with name 'Supernatural', it is not be used for id questions or questions related to other movies or tv series depicting supernatural beings or genre." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2016-12-29T06:08:38.467" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T06:08:38.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3623" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:59:52.303" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/em&gt; is a 1996 American spy action thriller based on the TV-show of the same name and first installment in a continued movie series starring Tom Cruise as IMF agent Ethan Hunt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about this film should also be tagged with the general franchise tag &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/mission-impossible&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mission-impossible&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mission-impossible&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T12:49:19.553" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T12:49:19.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3624" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T15:59:52.303" Score="0" Body="1996 American spy action thriller based on the TV-show of the same name and first installment in a continued movie series starring Tom Cruise as IMF agent Ethan Hunt. Questions about this film should also be tagged with the general franchise tag [mission-impossible]." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T12:49:19.553" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T12:49:19.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3625" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:03:48.947" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T16:03:48.947" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T16:03:48.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3626" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:03:48.947" Score="0" Body="Television show, previously of the Fox Television Network, recently NetFlix, and a proposed movie, detailing the events of a jailed Real Estate patriarch and the comedic efforts of his family to maintain the business in his absence." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T16:03:48.947" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T16:03:48.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3627" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:05:52.767" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T16:05:52.767" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T16:05:52.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3628" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:05:52.767" Score="0" Body="Generally relates to the first movie of a series created from the writings of Michael Crichton involving the recreation of dinosaur life in present day. Could refer to the series in whole or part." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T16:05:52.767" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T16:05:52.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3629" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:09:14.230" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T16:09:14.230" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T16:09:14.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3630" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:09:14.230" Score="0" Body="Refers to either the film or previously-released TV miniseries based on the action thrillers of Robert Ludlum involving assassination on the global stage." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T16:09:14.230" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T16:09:14.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3596" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:10:28.223" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no indication he was anything special in terms of replicant creation (a test subject etc).  I think he was made to do a job, Bladerunning and was customised to have abilities and skills  which suit that role.  That is what he does, he was given a personality as well which fuzzes things up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the question we really should be asking is how many of the other people that we saw are replicants?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T16:10:28.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3632" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:12:02.857" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T16:12:02.857" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T16:12:02.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3633" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:12:02.857" Score="0" Body="Television show of the 90s involving solving the mystery of the death of a high school girl of the Pacific Northwest, Laura Palmer, and the supernatural events surrounding the principal suspects, their friends, and enemies." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T16:12:02.857" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T16:12:02.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3634" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:16:07.593" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T16:16:07.593" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T16:16:07.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3635" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:16:07.593" Score="0" Body="Television show from 2004-2010 involving an airplane crash upon a desert island, the survival efforts of the remaining passengers, their interactions with a collection of persons, and the occurrence of surreal events." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="7911" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T10:02:30.743" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T10:02:30.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3636" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:19:52.443" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T16:19:52.443" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T16:19:52.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3637" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:19:52.443" Score="0" Body="Prison movie of the 90s based on the writings of Stephen King, written and directed by Frank Darabont, generally resides as the top #1 movie on IMDB." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T16:19:52.443" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T16:19:52.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3638" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:23:17.010" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early 1979 science fiction suspense film concerning the discovery of a malevolent alien lifeform by a mining crew and the efforts of that same crew to survive. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T08:45:28.027" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T08:45:28.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3639" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:23:17.010" Score="0" Body="Early 1979 science fiction suspense film concerning the discovery of a malevolent alien lifeform by a mining crew and the efforts of that same crew to survive. NOT for use as a generic tag for all movie aliens. please the the &quot;science-fiction&quot; tag instead," OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="34317" LastEditDate="2017-06-19T11:51:43.507" LastActivityDate="2017-06-19T11:51:43.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3640" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:25:16.683" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T16:25:16.683" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T16:25:16.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3641" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:25:16.683" Score="0" Body="In general terms, films that explore human interaction of a sexual nature; pornography." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T16:25:16.683" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T16:25:16.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3642" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:27:35.510" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T16:27:35.510" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T16:27:35.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3643" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:27:35.510" Score="0" Body="The FX network animated comedy television show that centers on a group of secret agents in a private espionage agency, led by master spy, Sterling Archer, his mother and boss, Mallory, and a team of other spies and support staff." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T00:21:10.447" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T00:21:10.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3644" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:34:20.467" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T16:34:20.467" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T16:34:20.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3645" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-03T16:34:20.467" Score="0" Body="Relates to the film by Orson Welles concerning the life of a newspaper owner, politician and magnate as presented through the eyes of an investigative reporter." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-03T16:34:20.467" LastActivityDate="2012-08-03T16:34:20.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3646" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3648" CreationDate="2012-08-03T19:10:40.087" Score="16" ViewCount="2514" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Bruce and Miranda shared an intimate moment, they cuddled by the fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point, Miranda gets up and we are given a clear shot of some form of branding on her skin.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wasn't clear to me if this was intended for Bruce or just for the audience, but I don't remember seeing that branding anywhere else in the movie; or the series for that matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to assume it had something to do with the League of Shadows, but I'm just not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-29T17:32:41.937" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T17:32:41.937" Title="What was the significance of the branded tattoo on Miranda?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3596" CreationDate="2012-08-03T19:12:16.560" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fictitious kind.  Deckard was human.  : )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Philip K. Dick himself, Hampton Fancher (the screen writer), Harrison Ford (&lt;strong&gt;Deckard&lt;/strong&gt;), and the producers of the film (the people that hire the director) all state clearly, and consistently, that Deckard was human.  They have stated that from the beginning of production on through to this very day.  Think about that for a moment and let it sink in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To say he is NOT human undermines much of the movie when you think about it.  As nifty an idea as it is, the notion detracts much more than it adds.  But the argument has been around since the beginning.  Harrison Ford actively argued against it at one point during shooting and stormed off.  Ford has stated clearly his red-eye scene was a mistake, and that on set the effect was intended solely for Rachel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ridley is the revisionist, by adding the unicorn after the theatrical release (he admits the footage was shot for a &lt;em&gt;different movie entirely&lt;/em&gt;) and stating blithely in his 2007 Final Cut special features (twice) that Deckard was a replicant – 25 years AFTER THE FACT!  He thus backed away from his long standing, &lt;em&gt;~“There is no correct answer to that”&lt;/em&gt;, or, &lt;em&gt;~“To answer that misses the point.”&lt;/em&gt;, etc., which supports the notion of an intentionally polysemous art.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All things considered, it seems to me that to flatly insist: &lt;em&gt;“Yes, Deckard was a replicant”&lt;/em&gt;, is the worst of all possible answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my mind Scott's use of a &lt;strong&gt;unicorn&lt;/strong&gt; [spliced in, after the fact] says much more about his sublime trolling skills to spur confusion and debate than it does proving Deckard a replicant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, I hear Leni Riefenstahl prepared a director's cut of &lt;em&gt;Triumph of the Will&lt;/em&gt; before she died.  In the special features she will explain the newly introduced shot of her behind a camera filming, where her feet are in shackles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="546" LastEditorUserId="546" LastEditDate="2015-01-16T13:44:10.343" LastActivityDate="2015-01-16T13:44:10.343" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3646" CreationDate="2012-08-03T19:30:04.470" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's one of the clues given by the Director &lt;strong&gt;for the audience&lt;/strong&gt; building towards the surprise ending we're treated where its revealed that Talia is the one climbed out of the pits and not Bane. There were many clues which makes sense after the ending including Talia's interest in the Reactor initially during the movie (the scene involving the board and stuff)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was another scene in the movie where they show a family picture discovered by Selina after Bane takes control of the city . I thought it was a picture of Ra's al ghul family portrait. Then the scene in the court room after Gordon gets the Death by Exile sentence from the Scarecrow, Not sure Talia got the same punishment but Bane asked his goons to send Talia to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the scar at her back could have been a symbol given by the League of Shadows after she joined in. Bruce was about to get one in Batman Begins which he eventually knocks out to kick start the fire which destroys the house. I think Talia would have gone through a plastic surgery or something to cover it up not to arouse any suspicion from Bruce. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-08-17T23:54:26.960" LastActivityDate="2012-08-17T23:54:26.960" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3346" CreationDate="2012-08-03T20:48:35.797" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I theorize that Sherlock JUST DID JUMP &lt;strong&gt;(1)&lt;/strong&gt;.  He did, however, have a means of breaking the fall presumably by the exact same means that helped one of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://bbc-sherlock.wikia.com/wiki/Neilson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CIA operatives&lt;/a&gt; survive in 'A Scandal in Belgravia'.  If you recall, Sherlock was asked on the phone by Lestrade:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LESTRADE: And exactly how many times did he fall out the window?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: It’s all a bit of a blur, Detective Inspector. I lost count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from Mrs. Hudson when we hear Neilson fall from the room:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MRS HUDSON: Ooh. That was right on my bins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we know that the CIA operative (Neilson) was able to survive multiple falls and he was still in standing-condition, I propose that Sherlock did the exact same thing: foreseeing that he was going to have to jump &lt;strong&gt;(2)&lt;/strong&gt; even from a height much higher than what Neilson had to do, he did so but was more severely injured.  The fact that Sherlock also was sitting (rather than standing with a cane) in the final reveal supports this idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, it's certainly plausible that Sherlock gave the biker some of that hallucinogen to get Watson to believe Sherlock was dead.  However, one thing I don't necessarily understand is why he would have required Watson to be alone in that 'poisoning'...in that if he also got the pedestrians nearby affected, they would further corroborate the idea he fell and died (which is what their suspicions were, likely, anyway).  Of course, it does make sense that he kept Watson so far away (because then he might have identified the means Sherlock had to break his fall).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Molly assuredly was part of the plan &lt;strong&gt;(3)&lt;/strong&gt; (his means to get past the coroners and proclaimed dead) and because of how Irene got proclaimed dead as well, I have every reason to believe Mycroft was in on it &lt;strong&gt;(4)&lt;/strong&gt; , too (explaining his disinterest when he reads about it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, I also believe that this would have had to have been convincing EVEN IF Moriarty did not shoot himself, which makes 'jumping onto a truck' less viable...not to mention it seemed clear to me his downward falling trajectory couldn't possibly have landed on the street, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a TANGENT, one of the more popular theories I've read was that it was a double and that Hallucinogen + Facemask is how he faked his jump (akin to how the kidnapped children were afraid of Sherlock).  But I refute the facemask idea for reasons of inelegance, as well...not to mention that it seems fairly clear how those children were scared.  Richard Brook was a real persona created by Moriarty (as 'the Reader') in which he used the television show to tell stories of Hansel and Gretel and (though not shown on the series), with a &lt;em&gt;very good likeness of Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;(5)&lt;/strong&gt; over television, condition the two orphans (and probably lots more children!) to be afraid of him when they finally saw him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: added corroborating evidence from &lt;a href=&quot;http://arianedevere.livejournal.com/64895.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;S3E1&lt;/a&gt; by the numbers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Sherlock spreads his arms to either side and falls forward,&#xA;  plummeting towards the ground. Inside the building, Molly gasps as he&#xA;  falls past her window. We see from John’s point of view that the last&#xA;  thirty feet or so of the fall are blocked from his view by the&#xA;  station. Unseen by him, Sherlock is plunging towards the airbag,&#xA;  twisting as he goes.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK (voiceover): I needed to hit the airbag – which I did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK (voiceover): There were thirteen likely scenarios once we&#xA;  were up on that roof. Each of them were rigorously worked out and&#xA;  given a code name. It wasn’t just my reputation that Moriarty needed&#xA;  to bury – I had to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: Molly found the body, faked the records, and I provided the other coat. I’ve got lots of coats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: Mycroft’s men intervened before he could take the shot. He was invited to reconsider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: You assumed she reacted like that because I was her kidnapper. But I deduced Moriarty must have found someone who looked very like me to plant suspicion, and that that man – whoever he was – had to be got out of the way as soon as his usefulness ended. That meant there was a corpse in a morgue somewhere that looked just like me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1125" LastEditorUserId="1125" LastEditDate="2016-03-22T21:27:01.740" LastActivityDate="2016-03-22T21:27:01.740" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3515" CreationDate="2012-08-04T15:56:25.450" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the movies are about &quot;Controlling the Fate of Gotam.&quot; First movies, I CAN control the fate of Gotham, Second Movie, I CAN'T control the fate of Gotham. Third Movie, WE CAN control the fate of Gotham.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1828" LastActivityDate="2012-08-04T15:56:25.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3187" CreationDate="2012-08-05T01:55:16.360" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I was trying to say, is that he is proving that accidents can happen - this may then trigger a thought in Jules' head such as &quot;Maybe the bullets missing was just a mistake, after all Vincent just accidently shot Marvin&quot;. That way Vincent gives Jules the idea without actually arguing with him about it. Like I said, it just my opinion of what went down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1834" LastActivityDate="2012-08-05T01:55:16.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3470" CreationDate="2012-08-05T02:05:48.373" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm fairly sure it was really happening. I believe the reason why we at first made to believe that batman is dead, is that he is. Batman has 'died', but Bruce Wayne lives on - starting a new life with Selina (a family, as Alfred hoped). Batman's 'death' in the movie was not literal, it just meant his time was up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1834" LastActivityDate="2012-08-05T02:05:48.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3535" CreationDate="2012-08-05T03:13:06.870" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=SsTFZ8GFEMwC&amp;amp;pg=PT415&amp;amp;lpg=PT415&amp;amp;dq=cristero%20rebellion%20jose%20vega&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=2rR_5WHTWp&amp;amp;sig=Ucf9h6ob2U6Eib3r21heFCH0iiQ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=Y-AdUOqYG8a22gWew4GQDw&amp;amp;ved=0CEoQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=cristero%20rebellion%20jose%20vega&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Companion to Mexican History and Culture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (ed. William H. Beezley) (excerpted in Google books)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Mexico City press helped sway public sentiment in favor of the&#xA;  government in popularizing Catholic atrocities, especially where&#xA;  civilians were involved. One episode featured the execution of 51&#xA;  noncombatats on the orders of militiant Father Jose Reyes Vega, whose&#xA;  troops derailed a Mexico City-bound train, herded injured passengers&#xA;  into a wooden boxcar and set it ablaze.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a review of the movie on &lt;a href=&quot;http://the-american-catholic.com/2012/06/03/a-film-for-our-time/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The American Catholic&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Father José Reyes Vega  is one of the main characters in the film and&#xA;  is depicted as a good priest who reluctantly takes up arms and becomes&#xA;  a Cristero general.  The actual Vega was a disgrace as a priest, who&#xA;  routinely broke his vows of chastity and was merciless in his&#xA;  treatment of Federales luckless enough to fall into his untender&#xA;  mercies.  He was a very effective general.  His greatest crime was&#xA;  burning a train filled with civilians after his brother died in taking&#xA;  the train.  The film depicts this as an accident, alas that was not&#xA;  the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might find the whole review interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-08-05T03:13:06.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1360" CreationDate="2012-08-05T22:06:58.670" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/citizenkane.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; actually reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is a terrific crash at the doorway.  They all turn to see&#xA;  Bernstein sprawled at the entrance.  A roll of bedding, a suitcase,&#xA;  and two framed pictures were too much for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The commotion happens just after Kane states that &quot;I don't know my plans myself...As a matter of fact, I haven't got any.  Except to get out a newspaper.&quot; Perhaps the crash at the doorway is indicative of the haphazard approach Kane intends to take - an approach that includes doing too much at once, and perhaps not always with grace. The crash is a visible and audible symbol of change coming. In the immediate conversation that follows, Kane introduces Bernstein as his general manager and announces that the paper is now a 24-hour enterprise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the spill is an indictment of Bernstein's competence, though, as moments later we discover Bernstein has already ordered 6 phones for the office and instructs Carter to get a discount, after which &quot;Kane looks at Leland with a fond nod of his head at Bernstein.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've looked at three different versions of the script, and only one included Bernstein's &quot;Oops!&quot; - this may have been an adlib that is recorded in later versions but not originally intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-08-05T22:06:58.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3667" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3673" CreationDate="2012-08-06T03:02:35.750" Score="7" ViewCount="52047" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;Kiss of the Dragon&quot;, Jet Li's character stabs the main villain in the neck, which causes him to suffer quadriplegia, and once removed, to have an incredibly painful looking anerysym. While I'm sure it was Hollywooded up, is there such a move in acupuncture/martial arts that would be even close to being this disabilitating that it was based upon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="603" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-08-06T04:01:01.957" LastActivityDate="2014-05-15T07:02:52.107" Title="Is the Kiss of the Dragon a real procedure?" Tags="|plot-explanation|kiss-of-the-dragon|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3574" CreationDate="2012-08-06T03:52:08.040" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;My answer is just the opinion of me, and not based on hard proof. That said, I think Teddy was really cured, but he just pretended that he was still investigating the case. That way, he wouldn't get arrested for killing his wife and could just &quot;role-play&quot; his life again and again without arousing any suspicion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For your second question, I think Teddy just made his game (pretending he wasn't cured) seem more realistic. His conversation with Chuck before getting up and walking away convinced Chuck that Teddy really &lt;em&gt;is not&lt;/em&gt; cured. That may be the reason Chuck looked at the doctors(?) and slowly shakes his head while maintaining eye contact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another theory is that (for your 2nd question), Teddy just confessed his cure to Chuck in that conversation before getting up and walking away. But Chuck decided not to tell the doctors(?) of Teddy's cure. 'Cause if he &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; that, Teddy would definitely be locked away. Teddy's constant role-playing with Chuck may developed some connection (pity? friendship?) between them- and Chuck decided not to give up Teddy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just my opinion and the way I interpreted it and &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastActivityDate="2012-08-06T03:52:08.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3584" CreationDate="2012-08-06T08:48:40.183" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The inspiration for The Pit in the movie is (or can be found - Nolan, as far as I know, never said anything about it) found in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Pit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lazarus Pit from DC Universe&lt;/a&gt; (comic). Lazarus Pit is very well known for it's mystic healing abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this jumping and climbing from the point of view of Dark Knight Rises might be indeed plot hole, it is actually very plausible if we look at the whole Batman universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="290" LastActivityDate="2012-08-06T08:48:40.183" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3667" CreationDate="2012-08-06T13:48:43.913" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In theory if pressure points are struck hard enough it can cause paralysis and death.  Lots of martial arts claim that they can do it but when you push them for examples they can rarely produce any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I fought in a tournament once and my opponent landed a very hard shot on the back of my right calf (as in body part, not animal) below my knee cramped and went dead and I had to fight the rest of the match basically hopping on one leg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also had my arm numbed by a shot to the forearm nerve too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly similar very hard strikes to the nerves in the head and throat would cause serious damage but very hard strikes to the throat and head cause serious damage anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-08-06T13:48:43.913" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3667" CreationDate="2012-08-06T14:04:25.727" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this falls into the same category of martial art mythology as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_of_Death&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;'Touch of Death'&lt;/a&gt; (known by many names, such as the Quivering Palm, or the 5 Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique) seen in movies like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378194/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kill Bill vol 2&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190332/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon&lt;/a&gt;.  They fall into the realm of urban legend rather than being seriously part of a martial-art or medical reality.  Whilst it is certainly true that disabling or even death dealing blows can be dealt through pressure points, there is no evidence for magic 'walk 5 steps and then you die', or 'all the blood goes to your head causing an aneurysm'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some commentary on the touch of death is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2509/is-the-ninja-death-touch-real&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They make great legendary stories, and probably do no harm to the mythos around martial arts - it does no harm to your chances in a fight if your opponent is more scared of you than they should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-08-07T01:46:07.657" LastActivityDate="2012-08-07T01:46:07.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3674" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7987" CreationDate="2012-08-06T15:05:59.750" Score="24" ViewCount="1553" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Total Recall (2012)&lt;/em&gt;, most of the world was rendered uninhabitable.  Two regions remain habitable, the UK and Australia.  So you'd expect accents appropriate to those areas to be common.  However, in the film, almost everyone has American accents.  I would normally brush this off as a result of it being a Hollywood film, but one of the exceptions hints there may be more to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Lori (Kate Beckinsale's character) reveals herself to be an undercover cop, she switches from having an American accent to having an English accent.  The English accent then persists through the end of the film.  This implies that to be a convincing wife to Douglas, she needed to have an American accent, so there's some in-universe importance of accents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is, why were American accents so common, instead of UK and Australian accents?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2012-11-15T00:50:03.830" LastActivityDate="2017-06-18T12:09:47.617" Title="Why were American accents common?" Tags="|plot-explanation|total-recall-2012|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3676" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-07T06:38:47.200" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-08-07T06:38:47.200" LastActivityDate="2012-08-07T06:38:47.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3677" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-07T06:38:47.200" Score="0" Body="The 1987 action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jesse Ventura, and Carl Weathers about soldiers being hunted by an alien being.  This film paved the way for additional films in the franchise, including Predator 2 and the crossover Alien Vs. Predator series." OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T18:34:24.203" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T18:34:24.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3584" CreationDate="2012-08-07T09:16:25.177" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't remember seeing Bruce Wayne without trousers or with short trousers in the pit.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He could still wear his knee brace, but why Bane would let him keep that would be a another mystery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113" LastActivityDate="2012-08-07T09:16:25.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3679" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3689" CreationDate="2012-08-07T13:22:28.983" Score="16" ViewCount="7291" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Total Recall (2012)&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Total Recall (1990)&lt;/a&gt; both are loosely based on the Philip K. Dick short-story &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_Wholesale&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;We Can Remember It for You Wholesale&lt;/a&gt;. But Mars is the major part of the original story as well as 1990's movie . But what is the reason of eliminating the plot of Mars from the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Total Recall (2012)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just to distinguish it from the original movie or any other reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mars is a very good element of story and they can do so many creative thing within Mars which is not possible in 1990. So what is the need to completely remove it from script?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-02-07T17:19:51.333" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T17:19:51.333" Title="Why was plot of Mars replaced in Total Recall (2012)?" Tags="|plot-explanation|total-recall|total-recall-2012|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="835" CreationDate="2012-08-07T15:56:14.433" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;David Mamet has never written a line he didn't intend.  Blake's speech is not motivational, it is a terror-tactic.  What he's saying is that he's firing all but two of the sales staff, and since Ricky isn't there at the time it means only one of the salesmen he's talking to will still have a job when the &quot;contest&quot; is over. The decision he is referring to is not the salesmen's decision, it is the decision of the customer.  He's saying in order to sell anything, you need to lead the customer to commit fully to the sale.  When he says &quot;Have you made your decision for Christ?&quot; he is modeling sales technique in the most brutal, cutthroat way possible.  The salesmen must inspire that kind of commitment in their marks if they want to stay alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly enough, the Blake character and scene do not exist in the original play.  Mamet added it to the movie to raise the stakes of the story, which he most certainly did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1848" LastActivityDate="2012-08-07T15:56:14.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="711" CreationDate="2012-08-07T19:23:44.190" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something I too pondered, however thanks to DVR and rewind/replay you can see that Gossling's character Jacob actually answers Carrell's character Cal's question &quot;Why are you doing this?&quot; with &quot;Maybe you remind me of ME&quot; - the Audio track was edited in post production to what we all hear, &quot;Maybe you remind me of SOMEONE&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because Gossling's facial expression and limited mouth movement when he speaks... it was an easy edit to make and unless your looking for it will probably easily miss.  As for my theory for the change... I understand a fair amount of Gossling's lines were ad libbed. To that end, When he's in bed with Stone's character Emma and they're talking and Jacob asks for 'a kindness' and reveals his fathers softness and that his mother easily took advantage of him is part one element. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My additional association is that when Hanna blows him off in the bar and he gives her the long stare... I think he also see's Hanna in Cal. My reason for the latter is Jacob says the same line when he 'honks' both of their noses. I realize Jacob's character is shocked when he ultimately meets Cal in the back yard 'meet the Mother &amp;amp; daughters - however, I still think there is some subliminal and intriguing tie between what he sees in Father Weaver and Daughter Weaver characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1849" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-05T10:53:54.070" LastActivityDate="2013-06-05T10:53:54.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3683" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3944" CreationDate="2012-08-07T20:23:31.303" Score="5" ViewCount="935" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the destruction of The Fall, we see Quaid and Melina jump off, but I don't recall seeing Lori jump off of the machine.  Was there a scene of Lori jumping off and I just missed it somehow?  How did Lori survive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T04:28:18.317" LastActivityDate="2017-04-12T04:28:18.317" Title="How did Lori survive?" Tags="|plot-explanation|total-recall-2012|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3685" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5612" CreationDate="2012-08-08T05:06:38.983" Score="10" ViewCount="775" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ends of the book and movie versions of &quot;A Scanner Darkly&quot; list people author Philip K. Dick knew who suffered illnesses due to long-term drug use, and Dick himself is on the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scanner_Darkly_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki explains&lt;/a&gt;, Dick had a long history of amphetamine use and even shared a house with other addicts -- experience that no doubt helped him write about the cranked-up addict roommates in &quot;A Scanner Darkly&quot; with such realistic description and dialogue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that in mind, I've always wondered -- &lt;strong&gt;did any of the main characters in &quot;A Scanner Darkly&quot; resemble Philip K. Dick himself&lt;/strong&gt;? In other words, did he write himself into his story? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(The movie had five main characters: Keanu Reeves as relatively straight-edge Bob Arctor/Fred/Bruce. Robert Downey, Jr. as fast-talking schemer James Barris. Woody Harrelson as lunky stoner Ernie Luckman. Rory Cochrane as burned-out geek Charles Freck. Winona Ryder as shady cokehead Donna Hawthorne/Audrey/Hank.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-08-08T18:42:11.393" LastActivityDate="2012-10-15T02:01:34.170" Title="Did any character in &quot;A Scanner Darkly&quot; resemble Philip K. Dick himself?" Tags="|character|philip-k-dick|a-scanner-darkly|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3686" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-08T06:44:39.970" Score="27" ViewCount="15618" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rope hanging in the pit has the end tied up near the top of the well, or somewhere around midway. So why didn't the climbers directly used the rope to climb rather than climbing manually? Is this a plot hole or am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1695" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-08-08T21:11:22.370" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T12:17:48.770" Title="In the pit in The Dark Knight Rises, where was the rope tied?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3686" CreationDate="2012-08-08T06:59:26.813" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rope they used to secure themselves with was not tied to the top of the pit. You can see it ending somewhere beneath the &quot;jump spot&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce Wayne lowers a second pile of rope into the pit, after escaping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113" LastActivityDate="2012-08-08T06:59:26.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3363" CreationDate="2012-08-08T08:47:38.273" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The theme of sacrifice oneself for another is quite common in film and literature, so finding the origin may be impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, searching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.subzin.com/search.php?title=&amp;amp;imdb=&amp;amp;q=%22Take%20me%20instead%22&amp;amp;search_sort=Oldest&amp;amp;genre=-1&amp;amp;type=All&quot;&gt;Subzin&lt;/a&gt;, the earliest mention I found of &quot;take me instead&quot; is from &lt;em&gt;The Battle of China&lt;/em&gt; (1944):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1:34:30 General, I beg you to let the girl go&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  01:34:36 She is innocent&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  01:34:40 &lt;strong&gt;Take me instead&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first specifically horror film is &lt;em&gt;The Gate&lt;/em&gt; (1987)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;01:15:06 No!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  01:15:08 Come back here!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  01:15:11 &lt;strong&gt;Take me instead!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  01:15:13 Come back!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  01:15:15 What do you want? Another sacrifice?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  01:15:17 Come back! &lt;strong&gt;Take me instead.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  01:15:21 Come back.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  01:15:23 Come back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2012-08-08T08:47:38.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3679" CreationDate="2012-08-08T12:08:58.977" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The director, &lt;strong&gt;Len Wiseman&lt;/strong&gt;, explains in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/interview-len-wisemen-total-recall/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;interview with ScreenRant&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SCREENRANT&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You said that you wanted to stay a bit closer to the Philip K. Dick story. How do you think you’ve done that with this film?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;LEN WISEMAN&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It’s a combination of more of a tone that I’d say is familiar with with the short story. &lt;strong&gt;Our biggest difference with the Verhoeven film is that we don’t travel to Mars. Which – the book never goes to Mars, as well. They talk about it, but it all takes place on Earth, and it’s actually, for those who know the book, the imminent threat is actually about invasion on Earth.&lt;/strong&gt; And so we incorporated a lot of those ideas. But I really think it’s a fun combination of a lot of things that are familiar from the story, things that are familiar from Verhoeven, and things that are entirely original to our own film.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://screencrave.com/2012-07-31/interview-director-len-wiseman-total-recall/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;interview with ScreenCave&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LEN WISEMAN&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;... &lt;strong&gt;the short story actually never travels to Mars. The threat is actually an invasion to Earth… Quaid or Quail is put in position to hopefully stop this invasion from happening to Earth.&lt;/strong&gt; But Dan O’Bannon, who I think was the first writer on that one, took creative license to go in the other way of creating the alien aspect of it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;When people go, ‘Well if this doesn’t go to Mars then it’s not really inspired by Philip K. Dick.’ I go, ‘Wow, you guys. It didn’t even go to Mars.’&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1683538/total-recall-len-wiseman.jhtml&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;interview with MTV&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MTV:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Will we see Mars?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LEN WISEMAN&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We won't see Mars. And I got to say, it's one of the things that attracted me to the script, because I really, I along with a lot of other people, I really loved the Verhoeven film. I was very skeptical on just the reboot, just the idea. And until I read the script, with a lot of speculation going, it takes it in such a different direction from that film. &lt;strong&gt;Because it didn't go to Mars, funny enough, is why I was interested. And it's also just like I said: It plays a little bit into the threat of what the Philip K. Dick story had of, much more of bringing the threat back, really Doug's mission to save Earth, not Mars.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2012-08-08T12:16:22.867" LastActivityDate="2012-08-08T12:16:22.867" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3686" CreationDate="2012-08-08T12:33:43.877" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://theshootening.com/2011/12/20/news-the-dark-knight-rises-official-trailer-released/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;screenshot&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from the trailer shows that the rope doesn't go all the way to the top:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IjqxR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Pit&quot; title=&quot;pit from down under&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="202" LastEditDate="2012-08-08T17:17:07.017" LastActivityDate="2012-08-08T17:17:07.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1194" CreationDate="2012-08-08T19:45:05.870" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being the optimist I am, I choose a more upbeat ending for the film. It all has to do with the fact, that they both hear the tapes that were recorded of themselves when going to get the initial treatment done. When Clementine comes to Joel's apartment at the very end, listening to the tapes he comes to a realization. That in retrospect, the relationship he had with Clem was really one of the most important things in his life, and despite the fact that he saw flaws in her, he is willing to overlook them indefinitely to make a happy life with Clem. The fact that you can listen to a tape of a person listing the other person's absolute worst flaws and still want to be in a relationship says it all to me. The ending of the film really comes together for me in a particularly beautiful and touching scene during Joel's &quot;treatment&quot; dream, when he is reliving the 2nd time he saw Clementine at Barnes and Noble after he met her at the beach party. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It would be different.... If we could just have another go around&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Remember me.... Try your best.... Maybe we can&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The experience of having the procedure down allowed Joel to view his relationship in retrospect and realize that what he had was worth the flaws because of all of the beautiful times they had. I think the moral just goes to show that sometimes we don't realize how important things are until they are gone. Joel does come to this realization and thankfully is given a second chance to be with Clem, so that he wont make these mistakes again. It's about redemption... redemption of the soul. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1853" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2017-07-16T11:08:58.150" LastActivityDate="2017-07-16T11:08:58.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3693" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3820" CreationDate="2012-08-08T20:47:31.520" Score="48" ViewCount="42152" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Prestige, the secret to Angier's 'Real Transported Man' trick is that he is effectively cloned while teleporting, and the original Angier is drowned when disappearing under the stage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Alfred Borden went behind the stage to investigate the trick and find out Angier's secret (and discovering Angier dying in the water tank), he was accused of murdering Angier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what happened to the transported 'clone' of Angier? If he presented himself as was normal for the trick, no one would've thought Angier died. So how did the 'clone' know to not appear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-10T13:05:59.610" LastActivityDate="2020-06-01T14:02:23.533" Title="How did Angier know not to appear in The Prestige?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3693" CreationDate="2012-08-09T11:23:09.560" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;See on this my opinion is that ANgier did this whole setup - 100 shows of 'The Real Transported Man' to trap Bordon. He knew that one day Bordon will come up the stage disguised in some form and he will go below the stage to see what's happening. This is also evident from one scene when Bordon goes home after he first sees Angier's trick. He says it there &quot;What's happening beow that stage&quot;. So when finally that moment arrived - when Angier is performing the trick and someone from the audience is called up on stage Angier identifies Bordon and the he knew that now is the time, not to appear, because this will leave Brodon with the dead body in the basement. –&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2012-08-23T12:45:42.113" LastActivityDate="2012-08-23T12:45:42.113" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3701" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3756" CreationDate="2012-08-10T02:38:03.320" Score="6" ViewCount="415" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the last 5 minutes of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrC470sHOBY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;. See clip @approx 0:08.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Someone in the room:  &quot;Are we done here?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Harker: &quot;Non-disclosure agreement.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Muir quickly signs the NDA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Folger: &quot;Aren't you gonna read it?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Muir: &quot;Read it a thousand times.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;--&gt; Folger makes eye contact with Muir and looks confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Harker: &quot;Aiken... will you escort Mr. Muir from the building?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Folger look at him that way?  It's as if Folger was thinking that someone like Muir would &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; read the fine print.  That doesn't make any sense to me because Muir really would have seen thousands of these after that long in the CIA and I'm sure they are all mostly boilerplate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1859" LastEditorUserId="1859" LastEditDate="2012-08-10T21:51:49.980" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T02:57:01.133" Title="Why does Folger give Muir a confused look in this scene at the end of Spy Game?" Tags="|spy-game|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2308" CreationDate="2012-08-10T05:49:07.047" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sewing of the buttons into the children's eyes resembles two different thing's. What they want you to think is that Coraline is just suppose to accept the other mother and the world so she can eat her, but what this is really representing is part of the new world order or in other words the illuminati and how they try to when we are very young 'sewing button's' into our eyes so we can't see what they don't want us to see. As the saying goes 'the best place to hide something is in plain sight. But don't just take it from me research it yourself, that the problem with some people these days they don't bother looking into things that will take somebodies word for, just don't do that! Some documentary on this are 'zeitgeist' and also 'kymatica'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1861" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T05:49:07.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3704" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3705" CreationDate="2012-08-10T06:27:14.640" Score="12" ViewCount="1625" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Nazi comedy-satire movie Iron Sky features numerous swastikas throughout - on uniforms, buildings, artworks etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Germany&quot;&gt;German law post-war&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The German and Austrian postwar criminal code makes the public showing of the Hakenkreuz (the swastika) and other Nazi symbols illegal and punishable, except for scholarly reasons. It is even censored from the illustrations on boxes of model kits, and the decals that come in the box. Modellers seeking an accurate rendition often have to either stencil on the marking, or purchase separate decals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This film had its &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmofilia.com/iron-sky-premieres-in-berlin-film-festival-87795/&quot;&gt;premiere at the Berlin Film Festival&lt;/a&gt; but I cannot find out if it was shown in full, or if there was a recut version replacing the swastikas with something else (unlikely, they're pretty engrained in the film), or whether their use was just blurred?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are Swastikas now just shown in movies when released in Germany despite being technically illegal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1091" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:24:07.617" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T12:24:07.617" Title="Was the 2012 Finnish film Iron Sky shown in full in Germany despite the multiple uses of Swastikas?" Tags="|censorship|iron-sky|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3704" CreationDate="2012-08-10T07:45:31.960" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw the film and I clearly remember seeing some swastikas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think in Film and art it is generally tolerated that swastikas are shown, e.g. in &lt;code&gt;Indiana Jones&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Inglorius Basterds&lt;/code&gt; (although there is no swastika on the dvd casing for Inglorius Basterds)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bundespruefstelle.de/bpjm/redaktion/PDF-Anlagen/bpjm-aktuell-hakenkreuze-film-fernsehen-computerspielen-aus-03-10,property=pdf,bereich=bpjm,sprache=de,rwb=true.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this document from the Bundesprüfstelle&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wesentlich problematischer und zudem in Rechtsprechung und Schrifttum&#xA;weitgehend unbehandelt sind entsprechende Kennzeichenverwendungen in&#xA;fiktionalen Unterhaltungsmedien wie insbesondere Spielfilmen und&#xA;Computerspielen. Die auch häufigere Veranschaulichung von Hakenkreuzen&#xA;in bekannten und populären Action- und Abenteuerfilmen wie „Indiana&#xA;Jones” oder jüngst dem Tarantino-Streifen „Inglourious Basterds” wird&#xA;in der Regel allgemein geduldet, wobei die Subsumtion solcher in&#xA;erster Linie dem reinen Entertainment dienender Filme unter die&#xA;Sozialadäquanzfälle des § 86 Abs. 3 StGB kaum gelingt. In der Praxis&#xA;tendenziell restriktiver ist demgegenüber die Handhabung der&#xA;Kennzeichenverwendung bei Computerspielen, in denen in der Regel schon&#xA;die kurze einmalige Visualisierung eines verfassungsfeindlichen&#xA;Kennzeichens i.S.d. § 86a StGB auf Grund vereinzelter&#xA;obergerichtlicher Rechtsprechung zu Beginn des Computerspielzeitalters&#xA;erhebliche Risiken der Beschlagnahme und Strafverfolgung mit sich&#xA;bringt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.. the showing of swastikas is tolerated in modern media (films and computer games).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gutefrage.net/frage/iron-sky---hakenkreuz&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;answer on gutefrage.net&lt;/a&gt; states the same:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The restriction generally does not apply to the use in [...], Art, [...].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Der Film muss auch keinen dokumentarischen Sinn ergeben. Relevant sind&#xA;die §§ 86 und 86a StGB. Diese sagen nicht nur aus, dass man&#xA;Kennzeichen bzw. Propagandamittel von verbotenen Organisationen&#xA;prinzipiell erstmal nicht verwenden darf, sondern auch dass diese&#xA;Verobt nicht gilt, wenn die Verwendung &amp;quot;der staatsbürgerlichen&#xA;Aufklärung, der Abwehr verfassungswidriger Bestrebungen, der Kunst&#xA;oder der Wissenschaft, der Forschung oder der Lehre, der&#xA;Berichterstattung über Vorgänge des Zeitgeschehens oder der Geschichte&#xA;oder ähnlichen Zwecken dient.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Da der Film eindeutig als Kunst zu werten ist, ist die Verwendung von&#xA;Hakenkreuzen oder anderen ansonsten verbotenen Symbolen ganz klar&#xA;erlaubt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a more literal translations is required please let me know :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Further reading/information:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comparison of English Blu Ray (with swastika) vs. German Blu Ray (without swastikas):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zmt6h.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the German Cover for Inglorius Basterds without the swastika:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZxBOk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-08-14T06:55:30.727" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3406" CreationDate="2012-08-10T12:54:29.397" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In her book &lt;em&gt;Robert Ludlum: A Critical Companion&lt;/em&gt;, Gina MacDonald draws from &lt;em&gt;The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual&lt;/em&gt; of the American Psychiatric Association to discuss author Ludlum’s development of the causes and symptoms of Webb/Bourne’s ailments (p 134-135). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bourne is the deadly alter ego that Webb assumed to survive the jungle&#xA;  warfare in Vietnam and Cambodia as a member of the Medusa Brigade; in&#xA;  times of stress this alter ego surfaces and the gentle Webb recedes.&#xA;  Unfortunately, Webb will never rid himself of the results of his&#xA;  initial trauma unless he can destroy the cause of retraumatization,&#xA;  specifically, the Jackal. The series explores Bourne’s progression:&#xA;  amnesia and a divided personality resulting from debilitating&#xA;  psychological responses to trauma, then retraumatization, treatment,&#xA;  and gradual progress toward normality, followed by retraumatization,&#xA;  and a final working out of conflict that may result in a reintegrated,&#xA;  whole personality…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ludlum, drawing on the expertise of relatives in the medical&#xA;  profession, provides plentiful details about causes, symptoms, and&#xA;  retraumatization…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) [is] a constellation of&#xA;  characteristic symptoms that develop following a psychologically&#xA;  traumatic event… the immediate systematic responses include heart&#xA;  palpitations or tachycardia, cardiac uneasiness or pain, headaches,&#xA;  giddiness, dimness of vision, and general neurological upselt&#xA;  (exaggerated respiration, dilation of arteries, increased generation&#xA;  of adrenalin). The long-term effects include deep anxiety, depression,&#xA;  hysteria, dissociative reaction, depersonalization, neurasthenia,&#xA;  intense psychological distress when  exposed to events resembling the&#xA;  initial trauma event,…intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, and nightmares.&#xA;  There may be a feeling of detachment or estrangement from others,&#xA;  difficulty sleeping, persistent irritability or anger, hypervigilance,&#xA;  exaggerated startle response, guilt, episodes of terror or panic,&#xA;  difficulties making decisions, and a feeling that one’s personality&#xA;  has changed. These are all effects that Webb/Bourne experiences at one&#xA;  time or another in the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the short answer is PTSD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-10-02T16:41:30.070" LastActivityDate="2013-10-02T16:41:30.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3708" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-10T13:40:43.283" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-10T13:40:43.283" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T13:40:43.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3709" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-10T13:40:43.283" Score="0" Body="A brief excerpt from a character's lines in a movie for question emphasis or analysis" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-10T13:40:43.283" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T13:40:43.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3710" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-10T13:45:22.203" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The listing at the beginning or ending of a film/tv show that displays all people involved in producing the project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closing_credits&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Closing Credits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T11:32:16.577" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T11:32:16.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3711" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-10T13:45:22.203" Score="0" Body="The listing at the beginning or ending of a film/tv show that displays all people involved in producing the project." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T11:32:16.577" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T11:32:16.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3712" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-10T13:49:58.190" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-10T13:49:58.190" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T13:49:58.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3713" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-10T13:49:58.190" Score="0" Body="2002 American superhero movie about the eponymous Marvel Comics character with Tobey Maguire in the title role." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T00:29:07.040" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T00:29:07.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3714" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-10T13:53:05.317" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marvel Comics character explored in this 2012 release to reboot the franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-amazing-spider-man-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-amazing-spider-man-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-amazing-spider-man-2&lt;/a&gt; for the sequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-28T14:32:41.997" LastActivityDate="2016-09-28T14:32:41.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3715" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-10T13:53:05.317" Score="0" Body="Marvel Comics character explored in this 2012 release to reboot the franchise." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-10T13:53:05.317" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T13:53:05.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3716" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-10T13:56:53.130" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-10T13:56:53.130" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T13:56:53.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3717" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-10T13:56:53.130" Score="0" Body="The second film of the Marvel character, released 2004. Alfred Molina stars as Doctor Octopus and the Sandman is also introduced to the trilogy. " OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T10:24:25.490" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T10:24:25.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3718" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-10T14:08:43.853" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-10T14:08:43.853" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T14:08:43.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3719" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-10T14:08:43.853" Score="0" Body="American filmmakers, brothers Ethan and Joel Coen, who write, direct and produce their films jointly. Generally known for award-winning films Fargo, and No Country for Old Men." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T16:08:10.353" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T16:08:10.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3720" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3740" CreationDate="2012-08-10T14:09:43.603" Score="26" ViewCount="30134" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the comedy &lt;em&gt;Office Space&lt;/em&gt;, the protagonist works for a company called &quot;Initech&quot;. At the end of the film, his co-workers take jobs at a competing company called &quot;Initrode&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that these names are meant to sound silly, but can someone here tell me if these fictitious names may also be some sort of word-play?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1865" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2020-09-09T14:32:23.513" LastActivityDate="2020-09-09T20:35:25.410" Title="Are the fictitious names “Initech” and “Initrode” a play on words?" Tags="|office-space|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3721" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-10T14:13:08.387" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Batman is fictional character, a comic book superhero created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. It is crime fighting character which is the source material for many entertainment projects, including, but not limited to movies, television, computer games. Also, specifically the 1989 movie or a number of television shows of the same name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Batman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T09:04:54.527" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T09:04:54.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3722" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-10T14:13:08.387" Score="0" Body="A fictional character comic book superhero (created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger) who fights crime in Gotham City." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T09:04:54.527" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T09:04:54.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3723" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-10T14:14:52.943" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-10T14:14:52.943" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T14:14:52.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3724" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-10T14:14:52.943" Score="0" Body="The second film of the Tim Burton movies pertaining to the DC Comics crime fighting character." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-10T14:14:52.943" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T14:14:52.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3725" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-10T14:18:21.987" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-10T14:18:21.987" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T14:18:21.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3726" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-10T14:18:21.987" Score="0" Body="Television series (twice - mid-1970s and mid-2000s) concerning the survival activities of humans against a race of super beings we created and lost control of." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-10T14:18:21.987" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T14:18:21.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3727" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-10T14:20:49.677" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The X-Men film series consists of superhero films based on the Marvel Comics &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;superhero team of the same name&lt;/a&gt;. 20th Century Fox obtained the film rights to the characters in 1994.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;#Films in the franchise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;X-Men&lt;/a&gt; (2000) { &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/x-men&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men&lt;/a&gt;}&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X2_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;X2: X-Men United&lt;/a&gt; (2003) {&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/x-men-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men-2&lt;/a&gt;}&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_The_Last_Stand&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;X-Men: The Last Stand&lt;/a&gt; (2006) {&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/x-men-the-last-stand&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men-the-last-stand&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men-the-last-stand&lt;/a&gt;}&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_Origins:_Wolverine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&lt;/a&gt; (2009) {&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/x-men-origins-wolverine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men-origins-wolverine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men-origins-wolverine&lt;/a&gt;}&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_First_Class&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;X-Men: First Class&lt;/a&gt; (2011) {&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/x-men-first-class&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men-first-class&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men-first-class&lt;/a&gt;}&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolverine_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/a&gt; (2013) {&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-wolverine&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-wolverine&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-wolverine&lt;/a&gt;}&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_Days_of_Future_Past&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past&lt;/a&gt; (2014) {&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/x-men-days-of-future-past&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men-days-of-future-past&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men-days-of-future-past&lt;/a&gt;}&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadpool_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Deadpool&lt;/a&gt; (2016) {&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/deadpool&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deadpool&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deadpool&lt;/a&gt;}&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_Apocalypse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;X-Men: Apocalypse&lt;/a&gt; (2016) {&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/x-men-apocalypse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men-apocalypse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men-apocalypse&lt;/a&gt;}&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Logan&lt;/a&gt; (2017) {&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/logan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;logan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;logan&lt;/a&gt;}&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadpool_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Deadpool 2&lt;/a&gt; (2018) {&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/deadpool-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;deadpool-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;deadpool-2&lt;/a&gt;}&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_Dark_Phoenix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dark Phoenix&lt;/a&gt; (2019) {&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/x-men-dark-phoenix&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men-dark-phoenix&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men-dark-phoenix&lt;/a&gt;}&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Mutants_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The New Mutants (2019)&lt;/a&gt; {&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-new-mutants&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-new-mutants&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-new-mutants&lt;/a&gt;}&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;#TV shows in the franchise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Legion (TV series)&lt;/a&gt; {&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/legion&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;legion&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;legion&lt;/a&gt;}&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gifted_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Gifted (TV series)&lt;/a&gt; {&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-gifted&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-gifted&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-gifted&lt;/a&gt;}&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;X-Men (film series)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2021-10-20T07:00:09.860" LastActivityDate="2021-10-20T07:00:09.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3728" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-10T14:20:49.677" Score="0" Body="A film series of superhero films based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:19:39.780" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:19:39.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3729" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-10T14:24:12.873" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-10T14:24:12.873" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T14:24:12.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3730" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-10T14:24:12.873" Score="0" Body="Martin Scorcese film from 1976 starring Robert DeNiro as a mentally unstable Vietnam veteran with a mission to clean up crime and corruption." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-10T14:24:12.873" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T14:24:12.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3732" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-10T14:29:47.423" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-10T14:29:47.423" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T14:29:47.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3733" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-10T14:29:47.423" Score="0" Body="Award winning movie director, producer, and writer, who is best known for movies Blue Velvet, Dune, and Mulholland Drive, and television show Twin Peaks." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T07:43:32.970" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T07:43:32.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3584" CreationDate="2012-08-10T14:41:16.350" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was in the pit for 5 months. That's plenty of time to get fit. Though I still don't believe it's realistic, considering all his injuries. I think the broken back thing is just staying true to the comics and the will power of Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1866" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T14:41:16.350" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3735" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3737" CreationDate="2012-08-10T15:55:51.200" Score="10" ViewCount="567" Body="&lt;p&gt;Coming from someone who has only watched the Bourne series and never read the books, it came as a great surprise to me that Jeremey Renner is playing a different character in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194173/&quot;&gt;The Bourne Legacy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a specific production reason why they changed to a different character like Matt Damon or even the writers getting bored of Jason Bourne.  Or is it as simple as the production wanting to tell this tale from someone else affected by the Treadstone program?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-08-13T12:34:34.583" Title="What is the reason behind choosing a different character for Legacy" Tags="|the-bourne-legacy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3736" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3745" CreationDate="2012-08-10T16:09:36.337" Score="19" ViewCount="2515" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we all know, the most exciting part of seeing a movie is the trailers of upcoming movies before the actual film (note, this is coming from an American point of view, I am uncertain if this occurs in theatres everywhere).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there doesn't &lt;em&gt;seem&lt;/em&gt; to be much of a forethought given to what trailers are shown, besides making sure big movie trailers are shown before other big movies.  For instance, the idea of seeing a &lt;em&gt;Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt; trailer before &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt; (two different production companies, let alone two rival comic book companies) doesn't seem to make much sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a strict guideline trailers are released controlled by the MPAA or do the theatres have free run of what to show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T00:34:55.690" Title="What factors go into determining what trailers are played before movies?" Tags="|trailers|film-industry|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3735" CreationDate="2012-08-10T16:12:27.970" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia has &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_%28film_series%29#The_Bourne_Legacy&quot;&gt;a couple&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bourne_Legacy_%28film%29#Production&quot;&gt;of pages&lt;/a&gt; of the reasons, with multiple links to detailed quotes if you are interested in those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here’s a summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently they changed their minds about making &lt;em&gt;Ultimatum&lt;/em&gt; the final movie and started on a fourth, which was to be original (i.e., not based on any books). The timing however did not fit nicely into their schedules and by the time they had something ready, director Paul Greengrass had moved on and Matt Damon had stated that he would not do another &lt;em&gt;Bourne&lt;/em&gt; movie without him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They decided to do a prequel (which was eventually changed to be parallel to Jason’s story) and after testing numerous actors, they settled on Renner. While Damon is not in the latest movie, producer Frank Marshall hopes to have Renner and Damon co-star in a future installment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-08-13T12:34:34.583" LastActivityDate="2012-08-13T12:34:34.583" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3735" CreationDate="2012-08-10T16:21:05.930" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, there was a desire to continue the Bourne franchise by the movie studio (and the Ludlum estate), however, the books didn't really support a continuation*.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/09/showbiz/movies/tony-gilroy-bourne-legacy/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's a nice article explaining some of the reasoning.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither Damon nor &amp;quot;Ultimatum&amp;quot; director Paul Greengrass were interested in a round four, and &amp;quot;after those guys left, the studio and the estate [of 'Bourne' series author Robert Ludlum] were very aggressively trying to figure out what they were going to do next,&amp;quot; Gilroy said. &amp;quot;I don't think I was the only person they were talking to.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*The books after the Bourne Ultimatum, which are not written by Ludlum, are basically unreadable and should not be considered part of the canon, imnsho.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T16:21:05.930" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2012-08-10T18:08:12.457" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching this video made me think of Prometheus.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n-tTst-vyQ&amp;amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n-tTst-vyQ&amp;amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;I think the engineers were a type 1 civilization or were attempting to get to a type 2 civilization, they clearly had a mastery and understanding of the galaxy.  My guess is she visits the planet and it is a wasteland, which also explains why the engineer/warrior did not try to communicate with the homeland prior to its attempt to destroy earth.  I think the best twist on this is that they had a conflict between the engineeers (science) and another group, whether equal and internal (warrior clan) or engineered, external replicas of some sort that rebelled and tried to kill their creator.  I also think that they used the black goo on several worlds, in one version it created the xenomorph, in another it created us.  To them, perhaps, we are the same as the xenomorph, who would destroy them in similar fashion.  So that was why they were trying to destroy us with their own biological weapons, although that might be too intricate.  Clearly focusing on the themes is the solution: fathers and children, the Greek theme of Prometheus, of stealing fire (the first engineer creating life on earth and man becoming capable of such worldly destruction) and the relationship with death and the eternal question of the source of life, must be explored. It is, however, very human to ask WHY?  That is the question David cannot understand, and one of the themes used as well.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1868" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T18:08:12.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3720" CreationDate="2012-08-10T19:39:06.303" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the &quot;ini&quot; is supposed to be the phonetic equivalent of the word &quot;any.&quot; So the people are working for &quot;any tech&quot; company. &quot;Trode&quot; is short for electrode.  As something that often plugs into something else, trode could reference a cubicle worker that can easily be plugged in to a new work environment. Not surprisingly, trode also apparently references a part of the male anatomy (see Urban Dictionary). In the movie, Peter mistakenly calls it Penetrode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T19:39:06.303" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3736" CreationDate="2012-08-10T22:53:57.263" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2010/04/how_do_movie_theaters_decide_which_trailers_to_show.html&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; answering your question. In short:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Out of a typical 6 trailers, two are chosen by the studio that made the film you paid to see. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The other four are usually chosen by the theater which profiles the audience using a quadrant system (male, female, under 25, over 25).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes the choice will be based on rating (if you are at an NC-17 movie, you might get more NC-17 trailers) or format (at a 3D movie you might get other 3D trailers).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In selecting particular films, theaters try to be fair to all studios.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Though it is frowned upon, sometimes studios will pay big fees to get trailers shown with blockbuster movies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-08-10T22:53:57.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1885" CreationDate="2012-08-11T01:28:36.177" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From reviewer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.emanuellevy.com/review/stay-5/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Emanuel Levy&lt;/a&gt;:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Henry's quest to be saved brings him into contact with a blind&#xA;  psychiatrist, Dr. Leon Patterson (Bob Hoskins), who is either Sam's&#xA;  mentor or Henry's deceased father–depending on your perception. The&#xA;  scene in which Leon regains his sight with Henry's help is played as a&#xA;  metaphor and reality, tapping into the roots of father-son&#xA;  relationships, suggesting the ways children wish their parent can see&#xA;  them for whom they really are. Like every element in the film, Leon's&#xA;  blindness is part of a symbolic structure but also part of reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you take this as a film about how the mind deals with its dying moments, and the way it might attempt to make sense of what is happening in the way our dreams do, melding in the current reality (people and comments from the accident scene), then every character in the story becomes a symbolic version of the self. So maybe the fatherly, perhaps judgmental side of himself was blind, then begins to see. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Director &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/interview-marc-forster.php&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marc Forster&lt;/a&gt; has admitted, though, in interviews that the movie has plot holes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Speaking objectively, narratively speaking, there are definitely&#xA;  things that do not work in &lt;em&gt;Stay&lt;/em&gt;, and don’t tie together. That was&#xA;  more for me; it was like a painting and going through an experience of&#xA;  images. Narratively speaking, it definitely has holes. If you look at&#xA;  the film rationally you can point at the holes and say, “This and that&#xA;  are ridiculous.” For me, I didn’t really care if anyone didn’t like&#xA;  the movie, because I really like the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alongside another &lt;a href=&quot;http://outnow.ch/specials/2006/Stay/Interview-Forster.E/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt;, done at the time of the release, there is a photo of the blind psychiatrist/father with a caption: I’m confused! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So many Hollywood movies are explained from start to finish. I think&#xA;  it's important to ask questions and to be left in the unknown, because&#xA;  I think you get more out of it... Stay should be taken as a visual&#xA;  experience...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The actors and I tried to discuss [what was going on] in the&#xA;  beginning, but we soon noticed that everybody needs to come up with&#xA;  his own logic. As a director I then had to direct them intuitively.&#xA;  Someone might think now that if a movie is not set in the real world,&#xA;  you can do whatever you want. But it's not like this. It's much more&#xA;  difficult. It was one of the most difficult films to shoot for me in&#xA;  that sense. But like this you start feeling a little like Ewan&#xA;  McGregor's character, who tries to analyze the situation rationally&#xA;  but the situation then gets more and more out of hand. Bob Hoskins&#xA;  told me that he didn't understand the story even after reading the&#xA;  script twice or three times. When I asked him why he still wanted to&#xA;  make the movie with me, he said, that's exactly want interests him: to&#xA;  find the character while making the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no definitive answer, but some clues...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-08-11T01:28:36.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3744" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3750" CreationDate="2012-08-11T02:04:35.167" Score="4" ViewCount="1301" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the show Metalocalypse the band Dethklok usually wears a specific make-up style when performing their shows.  It appears as white skin tones with blacked out eyes and ash around the eye black.  Is there a name for this style of make-up? It seems similar to other real bands like Cradle of Filth but not quite as influenced by the band Kiss&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1858" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T18:09:51.997" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T18:09:51.997" Title="What style of make up does Dethklok wear when performing?" Tags="|metalocalypse|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3736" CreationDate="2012-08-11T02:16:13.637" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a friend who owns a (very) small theater... so some of this probably isn't &quot;official&quot; (I know they bend the rules a bit at times). Also, they operate only on film, I'm not for sure about digital&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, one thing a lot of people don't realize is that film is usually shipped on 6 or so small reels. The movie theater then tapes together these reels into usually 1 or 2 big reels(depending on what's capable of the projector and the size of the movie). During this time, they add on small preview reels. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I can tell, usually 2 or 3 previews are shipped with a particular movie. It's not mandatory that theaters put them on, but they are usually the latest, so it gives theaters a good incentive. Unlike movie reels which must be returned, preview reels can be kept by the movie theater. So the movie theater can of course add on more previews if they wish as well. I believe it's allowed for them to add no previews on as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, with digital there is much less choice. I believe the previews with digital movies are completely fixed.. So, it's completely up to the studios.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for how they select which previews are shipped with blockbuster movies, see the other answers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1871" LastEditorUserId="1871" LastEditDate="2012-08-11T02:25:02.893" LastActivityDate="2012-08-11T02:25:02.893" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3746" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3748" CreationDate="2012-08-11T03:59:42.883" Score="6" ViewCount="14112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if Gus Van Sant has admitted it but it seems clear that this movie has been inspired by the shooting in Columbine High School.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a link between this event and an elephant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363589/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Elephant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2003) called that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1872" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-02-21T13:38:47.860" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T13:38:47.860" Title="Why was the movie 'Elephant' given that title?" Tags="|analysis|title|elephant|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1932" CreationDate="2012-08-11T10:31:26.400" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmposters.com/vintage-posters/vintage-posters.asp&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;FilmPosters.com&lt;/a&gt;, taglines originated in the 1910s:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the very beginning movie posters were a part of commerce, designed to get patrons to the box office.  In 1890 a Frenchman named Jules Cheret is credited with producing the very first movie poster, a lithograph designed to promote a short film entitled “Projections Artistiques”. Five years later, a movie poster for the Lumiere Brothers’ “Arrival of a Train” in 1895 was the first to depict an actual scene from the film. However, up until the early 1910s, the majority of early film posters were nothing more than simple “broadside” style signs with little more than block text. A typical poster for an early Edison film contained little more than the movie’s title and the words “Another Edison Photoplay”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This situation changed rapidly with the birth of the Studio System, and by the mid-1910s such studios as Essanay, Biograph, Vitaphone, Edison and Mutual were each producing their own posters and developing their own unique advertising styles with special border art, title treatment, studio logo, and slogan or “tag-line” to distinguish their quality film from the rest of the pack. In this way, patrons could readily distinguish, for example, between an Edison morality play and a Biograph cliffhanger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, it seems the first movie poster was for the Lumières' &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Arroseur_arros%C3%A9#The_poster&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;L'Arroseur arrosé&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1895) (and their &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Arriv%C3%A9e_d%27un_Train_en_Gare_de_la_Ciotat&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arrival of a Train&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was released in 1896 rather than 1895):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The poster for &lt;em&gt;L'Arroseur&lt;/em&gt;, illustrated by Marcellin Auzolle, depicts an audience (in the foreground) laughing as the film (in the background) is projected against a screen. It depicts the moment the gardener is splashed in the face, and is thus also the first film poster to depict an actual scene from a film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2fWtG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The poster advertising the Lumière brothers cinematographe&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This poster doesn't have the name of the film, so it could be (unconvincingly) argued that &amp;quot;Cinématographe Lumière&amp;quot; is the first tagline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The earliest I found in IMDb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0001948/taglines&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Two Orphans&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1911): &amp;quot;The Story That Never Grows Old&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The IMP awards has a tagline database, the earliest I found from their poster gallery is one from 1912 and a number from 1913 (follow links to see posters):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.impawards.com/1912/richard_iii.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Richard III&lt;/a&gt; (15 October 1912): &amp;quot;Shakespeare's Masterpiece&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WCrXQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Richard III 1912 poster&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.impawards.com/1913/alkali_ikes_misfortunes.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alkali Ike's Misfortunes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (31 May 1913): &amp;quot;A comedy riot with Augustus Carney the &amp;quot;Gibraltar of Fun&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.impawards.com/1913/last_days_of_pompeii.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Last Days of Pompeii&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (13 August 1913) (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.impawards.com/1913/last_days_of_pompeii_ver2.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;version 2&lt;/a&gt;): &amp;quot;A Spectacular Photo-Drama&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.impawards.com/1913/arizona.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arizona&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (August 1913): &amp;quot;America's Greatest Play&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;6 Parts, 210 Scenes, 150 People&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.impawards.com/1913/traffic_in_souls.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Traffic in Souls&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (24 November 1913): &amp;quot;A Powerful Photo-Drama of Today&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;Six Reels of Thrilling Realities&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From MoviePosters.com:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmposters.com/movie-poster.asp?ProdID=12178&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Absinthe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (7 January 1913): &amp;quot;Reflective Moments&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C1rcd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Absinthe poster&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-08-11T10:31:26.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3746" CreationDate="2012-08-11T10:47:21.160" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363589/&quot;&gt;IMDb link&lt;/a&gt; in the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gus Van Sant borrowed the title from Alan Clarke's film of the same name, and thought that it referred to the Chinese proverb about five blind men who were each led to a different part of an elephant. Each man thinks that it is a different thing. What Clarke's title actually referred to was the idea of the &quot;elephant in the room&quot;, where something is so obvious that to miss it would be the equivalent of not seeing a huge elephant in an ordinary room, yet is still not recognized out of either stupidity or willful ignorance. In this film, the &quot;elephant in the room&quot; is the homicidal rage of Alex and Eric, which leaves them free to precipitate the last-scene massacre at their school. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2012-08-11T10:47:21.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3736" CreationDate="2012-08-11T10:57:34.787" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer is based on some guesswork, but may still be of interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a photo of a computer running a digital projector in a small cinema in France. It's running software called Cinelister and you can see the playlist on the right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PbmJz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Digital cinema projector&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's part way through the showing of a film called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2076176/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cloclo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2012). I didn't attend the screening, but I assume trailers were shown at the start. As far as I can tell from the playlist, there's no separate trailer section, so my guess is they were part of the main feature item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-09T00:34:55.690" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T00:34:55.690" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3744" CreationDate="2012-08-11T19:36:48.617" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Initial searching almost had me convinced there was not a name for it, but alas, it is called corpse paint or corpsepaint. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpse_paint&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Corpse paint or corpsepaint is a style of black-and-white makeup, used&#xA;  mainly by black metal bands during live concerts and photo shoots. The&#xA;  makeup is used to intensify the bands' imagery of evil, inhumanity,&#xA;  and corpse-like decay. It is most commonly worn just on the face, but&#xA;  in some rare occasions is also applied on arms and torso and in even&#xA;  rarer occasions, some musicians use other colors than just black and&#xA;  white.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do a google image search for corpsepaint you get lots and lots of examples! Here is Brendon Small, the creator of Metalocalypse who occasionally tours as Dethklok, in corpsepaint:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gFa2h.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-08-11T19:36:48.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3751" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-11T19:49:11.663" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-08-11T19:49:11.663" LastActivityDate="2012-08-11T19:49:11.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3752" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-11T19:49:11.663" Score="0" Body="Metalocalypse is an American animated television series, created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha, which premiered on August 6, 2006 on Adult Swim. The television program centers around the larger than life death metal band Dethklok, and often portrays dark and macabre content, including such subjects as violence, death, and the drawbacks of fame, with extremely hyperbolic black humor; which accounts for the cartoon's consistent TV-MA rating." OwnerUserId="1858" LastEditorUserId="1858" LastEditDate="2012-08-11T20:39:02.377" LastActivityDate="2012-08-11T20:39:02.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3753" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4062" CreationDate="2012-08-11T20:52:05.717" Score="15" ViewCount="1014" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for the in-universe answer to &quot;How long has Alice (as Alice or her clones) been fighting against the Umbrella Corporation?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-16T09:22:28.410" LastActivityDate="2015-05-16T09:22:28.410" Title="How long has Alice been fighting the Umbrella Corporation?" Tags="|plot-explanation|resident-evil|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3754" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-11T21:07:13.357" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Resident Evil&lt;/em&gt; is a sci-fi/horror zombie franchise based on a 1996 Capcom video game. First released in 2002, it was the beginning of a series of live action and animated &lt;em&gt;Resident Evil&lt;/em&gt; films that feature characters from the video game in a post-apocalyptic battle against the evil Umbrella Corporation and the T-virus the company developed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film series is comprised of six movies so far:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Resident Evil&lt;/em&gt; (2002) &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/resident-evil&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resident-evil&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resident-evil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Resident Evil: Apocalypse&lt;/em&gt; (2004)  &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/resident-evil-apocalypse&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resident-evil-apocalypse&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resident-evil-apocalypse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Resident Evil: Extinction&lt;/em&gt; (2007)  &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/resident-evil-extinction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resident-evil-extinction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resident-evil-extinction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Resident Evil: Afterlife&lt;/em&gt; (2010)  &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/resident-evil-afterlife&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resident-evil-afterlife&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resident-evil-afterlife&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Resident Evil: Retribution&lt;/em&gt; (2012)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Resident Evil: The Final Chapter&lt;/em&gt; (2016)  &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/resident-evil-the-final-chapter&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resident-evil-the-final-chapter&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resident-evil-the-final-chapter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-01-28T14:51:39.697" LastActivityDate="2019-01-28T14:51:39.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3755" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-11T21:07:13.357" Score="0" Body="Resident Evil is a sci-fi/horror zombie franchise based on a Capcom video game. Use this tag for both the 2002 movie and the franchise as a whole." OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-01-28T16:46:04.387" LastActivityDate="2019-01-28T16:46:04.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3701" CreationDate="2012-08-12T01:08:49.750" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no research for this, but maybe Folger is considering that Muir has not been disclosing things to &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt; - having signed a thousand NDAs, he is a man who keeps secrets. Moments later they discover his deception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2012-08-12T01:14:42.377" LastActivityDate="2012-08-12T01:14:42.377" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1545" CreationDate="2012-08-12T02:37:14.753" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read a number of &quot;mainstream&quot; reviews, and other than referring to fantasy elements and obvious symbolism (especially the rock in the pool), none of them address the rabbit specifically. The blogosphere does, however. I have found three reviews that all seem to indicate that the rabbit symbolizes the life Gal is trying to leave behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://theimpostume.blogspot.com/2008/01/brits-abroad-sexy-beast-in-jonathan.html&quot;&gt;Jason Phereus&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don isn’t alone in his cave under the swimming pool of course, he’s&#xA;  also joined by the movie's symbol of death (drive), something that’s&#xA;  best summed up by the term Giant Death Rabbit. The Rabbit menaces Gal&#xA;  in a dream sequence, and in his later meeting with crime kingpin Teddy&#xA;  Bass the sequence is partially replayed, reintegrating it from the&#xA;  imaginary realm into the film's real-world frame brilliantly. In an&#xA;  early sequence both Aitch and Gal’s surrogate son fail to kill the&#xA;  rabbits they are hunting due to problems with their guns, and soon the&#xA;  Rabbit has returned in monstrous form to symbolize the world that Gal&#xA;  has left behind. The world of crime and its transgressive delights.&#xA;  Don Logan knows who Gal really is, what drives animate him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.culturevulture.net/Movies/SexyBeast.htm&quot;&gt;CultureVulture&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Glazer's capitulations to visual excess are mercifully brief, notably&#xA;  when Gal experiences visions of some sort of anthropomorphic entity&#xA;  presumably representing his criminal past (it looks like a cross&#xA;  between Sasquatch and a jackrabbit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifimusings.blogspot.com/2010/05/sexy-beast.html&quot;&gt;Musing from a SciFi Fanatic&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don Logan is synonymous with the boogie man. He's even represented by&#xA;  a hideous, monstrous jack rabbit creature, a symbol of death for&#xA;  Winstone's character, a symbol of his past he cannot outrun. This is&#xA;  juxtaposed by a scene earlier when the men are unable to kill a live&#xA;  jack rabbit in the Spanish desert. It is symbolic of their fortunes or&#xA;  lack thereof to come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-08-12T02:37:14.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3758" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-04T00:31:10.220" Score="26" ViewCount="18321" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_artists&quot;&gt;Foley artist&lt;/a&gt; make the futuristic Jetson &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?v=QdWswvLPdE0&quot;&gt;flying car sounds&lt;/a&gt; in 1962?                                                                                                    &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TZZTA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Flying car&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" OwnerDisplayName="Major Stackings" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T18:07:40.890" LastActivityDate="2014-11-22T05:25:38.390" Title="What did they use to make the Jetsons flying car sound effects?" Tags="|sound-effects|jetsons|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3758" CreationDate="2012-08-04T02:59:11.867" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just listened to it in the show lead-in on the Hanna-Barbera section of Warner Brothers, Turner website.  To me, it sounds like a metal gym whistle being blown with a finger covering part of the opening.  Back in my lifeguard days, I played a lot with my nice chrome-plated whistle, from loud to almost no sound at all.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kidswb.com/video/The-Jetsons/&quot;&gt;http://www.kidswb.com/video/The-Jetsons/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, facebook wouldn't let me upload an audio clip and I didn't have anywhere else to post one so here's a link to a video I had to produce - just so you folks can enjoy (heh) the sound track.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy the sound track.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=443843192323200&amp;amp;saved&quot;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=443843192323200&amp;amp;saved&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="Shawn Hendricks" LastActivityDate="2012-08-04T03:43:09.923" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3693" CreationDate="2012-08-13T07:23:05.333" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there was enough time to get the message across before the prestige that Borden had just shown up. Instead, my theory is that Angier faked using a double as part of his act along with faking his own death. This way, it explained a dead Angier and a living look-a-like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1875" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-08-18T09:22:41.873" LastActivityDate="2012-08-18T09:22:41.873" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3761" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3766" CreationDate="2012-08-13T09:45:52.753" Score="16" ViewCount="8017" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Prometheus&lt;/a&gt; the alien is born from the last 'human-alien' of the planet they traveled to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, how should it be interpreted? The alien is a mutation from the parasite inside the body of the other one? Or the alien is the real aspect of the others that is hiding inside some kind of armor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1823" LastEditorUserId="6245" LastEditDate="2013-11-14T12:15:06.000" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T12:15:06.000" Title="What's the real meaning of the birth of the alien in Prometheus?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3762" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3763" CreationDate="2012-08-13T10:03:52.653" Score="13" ViewCount="32179" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final sequences of &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt; (1979), Ripley activates the self destruct sequence of the Nostromo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After seeing the alien in front of the shuttle entrance, Ripley runs back to the control room and frantically tries to deactivate the self destruct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole sequence can be &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20140205010110/http://www.markta.co.uk/alien/chapter12.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;seen here in pictures&lt;/a&gt; and in the YouTube clip below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would Ripley make this decision; what’s the need for disabling the self-destruct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically she was dead anyway. Nowhere to go and the alien was on to her. So it would just seem to be the best option to destruct the ship and the alien.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/jz4kXFI_VtE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2018-06-11T15:34:05.660" LastActivityDate="2018-06-11T15:34:05.660" Title="Why did Ripley try to deactivate the self-destruct sequence at the end of Alien?" Tags="|plot-explanation|alien|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3762" CreationDate="2012-08-13T11:01:17.590" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;She was a fighter, giving in and commiting suicide was not in her nature.  Have a look at her in Aliens, insisting on being taught how to use the grenade launcher, returning the loader to fight the queen etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alien moved around the ship and although it was blocking her way out at the moment it would probably move, it was just a matter of her not getting caught.  If nothing else she might be able to hold it off with the flame thrower until she got out, there were several options other than just giving up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am guessing that at that point she was going to turn off the self destruct, get in the pod and blast off and then just broadcast a warning about the ship's contents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-08-13T11:01:17.590" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3764" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3769" CreationDate="2012-08-13T16:58:43.763" Score="4" ViewCount="1085" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Vanishing on 7th Street, people disappear if they become engulfed in darkness.  At one point Paul is lying on the pool table and the kid went to the bathroom.  The lights flicker and Paul gets up.  He ends up finding his way into this tunnel.  When he reaches the end he looks back and all of the lights go out.  The kid goes back in and finds Paul missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the meanign of the tunnel scene?  It seems that it didn't actually happen, but I'm confused as to why it's included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-11-22T04:21:28.480" Title="What was the meaning of the tunnel scene?" Tags="|analysis|vanishing-on-7th-street|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3765" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10573" CreationDate="2012-08-13T17:00:43.013" Score="6" ViewCount="585" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the beginning of the movie, Paul ends up disappearing into the darkness like most everyone else.  However, Luke ends up finding him, pretty beat up, in a bus stop lit by solar powered lights.  Why did Paul reappear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-03-19T22:51:27.323" Title="Why did Paul return from the darkness?" Tags="|plot-explanation|vanishing-on-7th-street|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3761" CreationDate="2012-08-13T20:48:21.403" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The scene is the culmination of the movie-long reveal of the origins of the killer creatures that cause so much havoc in &quot;Alien&quot; and its sequels&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Prometheus,&quot; the creature is the result of a somewhat complicated process:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A human (Holloway) was infected by the black goo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The infected human created a new organism within a non-infected human (Shaw)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This new organism grew to be an octopus-like mutant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The octopus-like mutant created another new organism within an Engineer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second new organism's &quot;birth&quot; consisted of it springing out of its host's rib cage, just like the creatures in &quot;Alien&quot; and its sequels -- which it also resembles physically. (Notably, the alien at the end of Prometheus looks somewhat different from the aliens in the other Alien movies. I attribute this to the fact that in Prometheus, the alien is spawned from an Engineer, while in the other movies the aliens are spawned from humans.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of movie's ironies is the first action on the list above was taken by an android, who was a creation of man, who in turn was a creation of the Engineers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-08-14T17:36:36.227" LastActivityDate="2012-08-14T17:36:36.227" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3764" CreationDate="2012-08-13T22:10:22.100" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this, too. My opinion was it's a flash dream like Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge. Something that feels long or extended, but only happens in a moment. And he was the one taken, not the kid&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1878" LastActivityDate="2012-08-13T22:10:22.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2807" CreationDate="2012-08-14T17:19:51.743" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;He could have ended his relationship with the woman from the first movie and joined the MIB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In working with Agent O they developed a mutual attraction that was never acted upon, however that doesn't mean he no longer had feelings for the woman he left. It could have been his attraction to O was just to help deal with the loss of the other woman. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having realized that a relationship with a fellow Agent was either not allowed or a bad idea he returned to viewing O as a colleague and eventual superior (i.e. he &quot;Friendzoned&quot; her) this would have allowed his feelings for the woman he left to resurface and since having emotional attachment to her would have little to no impact on his abilities as an Agent he continued to follow her as he did in the first movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1858" LastEditorUserId="113" LastEditDate="2012-08-16T10:06:37.467" LastActivityDate="2012-08-16T10:06:37.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3774" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-14T18:27:30.943" Score="4" ViewCount="482" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1748122/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Moonrise Kingdom&lt;/a&gt;, the scene after the &quot;chapel&quot; looks very, very familiar - what is it a parody of? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the scene is seen in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N8wkVA4_8s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the trailer&lt;/a&gt;, from 1:43 to 1:46.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1879" LastEditorUserId="1879" LastEditDate="2012-08-15T05:40:52.427" LastActivityDate="2012-08-17T20:18:56.007" Title="In Moonrise Kingdom, what is the scene after the chapel a parody of?" Tags="|moonrise-kingdom|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3775" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-14T20:38:29.593" Score="20" ViewCount="15943" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both the 2012 and 1990 versions of Total Recall rely on the same back story for the main character, Quaid:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quaid was working for Cohagen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quaid agreed to be brainwashed to think he switched to the rebel side&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;brainwashed Quaid spent time helping the rebels&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;brainwashed Quaid was captured by Cohagen's men&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;brainwashed Quaid was brainwashed again to think he was Average Joe on an assembly line&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both movies start after step 5 has occurred, with Quaid in Average Joe mode. We eventually learn that the Cohagen wants Quaid to get close to the rebel leader -- so &lt;strong&gt;why would Cohagen have reprogrammed Quaid as an Average Joe? How did that advance Cohagen's plan?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As the story unfolds, Average-Joe Quaid actually does manage to get closer to the rebel leader -- but only by fighting off Cohagen's forces every step of the way, and only after going to Recall, which Quaid's &quot;wife&quot; and &quot;friend&quot; had tried to stop him from doing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2012-11-15T00:49:07.373" LastActivityDate="2013-02-23T12:31:45.910" Title="What purpose did Quaid serve Cohagen as an Average Joe on the assembly line?" Tags="|plot-explanation|total-recall-2012|total-recall|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3775" CreationDate="2012-08-14T22:46:21.380" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I recall correctly, in the 1990 movie the resistance leader could tell if someone's mind had been tampered with.  So Cohagen needed to create someone who was a part of the resistance but also had a legit reason for mind tampering.  This is accomplished by capturing BW-Quaid and re-brainwashing him.  From there, Quaid needed to find his way back to the resistance, but there needed to be an active perception that Cohagen didn't want him getting back to the resistance, thus the &quot;wife&quot; who's trying to stop him.  And, once everything came out, the mole needed to be someone who would give the info about the resistance to Cohagen, thus it needed to start with someone loyal, like Quaid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I presume this is also correct for the new movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="411" LastActivityDate="2012-08-14T22:46:21.380" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2012-08-15T09:18:23.317" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think Bond is less &quot;tech savvy&quot; in the new Bond films. It is a definite move away from the Moore/Brosnan era. The new approach to the character is less tech driven and moves more toward the literary character. Although the Bourne films can be credited for the more gritty fight scenes and slick editing, you only have to look back at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057076/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From Russia with Love&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064757/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;On Her Majesty's Secret Service&lt;/a&gt; for early examples of this style of Bond. Both of these Bond films were credited to be nearer the literary character than any other and were also very low tech in comparison to other movies. It would seem that the Daniel Craig Bond is a step in this direction which (for me) is a very good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1877" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-08-19T02:11:24.000" LastActivityDate="2012-08-19T02:11:24.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3780" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3781" CreationDate="2012-08-15T13:31:42.220" Score="7" ViewCount="6739" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie The Wicker Man (the Nicholas Cage version not the original) after the fade to black and before the credits there is a screen that says &quot;For Johnny Ramone&quot; What was the reason behind dedicated this movie to one of the founding fathers of punk rock?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1858" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T14:33:34.057" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T14:33:34.057" Title="Why was the movie The Wicker Man dedicated to Johnny Ramone?" Tags="|credits|the-wicker-man-2006|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3780" CreationDate="2012-08-15T13:51:08.277" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMDB page for the movie's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450345/trivia&quot;&gt;trivia&lt;/a&gt; lists that:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;The film is dedicated to late musician Johnny Ramone, who introduced Nicolas Cage to Robin Hardy's original The Wicker Man.&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2012-08-15T13:51:08.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3780" CreationDate="2012-08-15T13:55:18.247" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Johnny Ramone's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Ramone#Posthumous_honors&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; page states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 2006, the remake of the horror film The Wicker Man was dedicated to&#xA;  Johnny Ramone's memory, as he was a close friend of the film's&#xA;  producer and star, Nicolas Cage&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-08-15T14:05:55.517" LastActivityDate="2012-08-15T14:05:55.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2035" CreationDate="2012-08-15T19:38:43.580" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The earliest instance of a movie re-boot I can find is that of Tarzan.&#xA;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;earliest film was made in 1918&lt;/a&gt;. The same wiki link also shows us:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the advent of talking pictures, a popular Tarzan movie franchise was developed, which lasted from the 1930s through the 1960s. Starting with Tarzan the Ape Man in 1932 through twelve films until 1948, the franchise was anchored by former Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in the title role. Weissmuller and his immediate successors were enjoined to portray the ape-man as a pidgin-speaking noble savage, in marked contrast to the cultured aristocrat of Burroughs's novels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &amp;quot;me Tarzan, you Jane&amp;quot; characterization of Tarzan persisted until the late 1950s, when producer Sy Weintraub, having bought the film rights from producer Sol Lesser, produced Tarzan's Greatest Adventure followed by eight other films and a television series. The Weintraub productions portray a Tarzan that is closer to Edgar Rice Burroughs' original concept in the novels: a jungle lord who speaks grammatical English and is well educated and familiar with civilization. Most Tarzan films made before the mid-fifties were black-and-white films shot on studio sets, with stock jungle footage edited in. The Weintraub productions from 1959 on were shot in foreign locations and were in color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1877" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T12:03:23.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3784" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3812" CreationDate="2012-08-15T20:09:48.050" Score="6" ViewCount="636" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can anyone find an example of the first robot that was human in appearance? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The earliest I can think of is in the 1973 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Westworld&lt;/a&gt;. I'm looking for the first cinematic android that was created not to replace a specific person, but to have it's own function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1877" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-16T09:30:58.717" LastActivityDate="2015-05-16T09:30:58.717" Title="The first human robot?" Tags="|science-fiction|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3785" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14670" CreationDate="2012-08-15T20:26:26.123" Score="27" ViewCount="39049" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unlike some shows that generally keep similar pace with real life&amp;mdash;where a season is a year&amp;mdash;&lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; doesn't seem to.  Currently (part-way though season 5), the characters were remarking that it had been a year since Walt's cancer diagnosis, though I forgot when that was relative to the premiere (if it happened 'then', or in a flashback).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much time (in universe) has passed in each season of &lt;em&gt;Bad&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T10:24:01.727" Title="How much time has passed in Breaking Bad?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3784" CreationDate="2012-08-15T20:57:19.043" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golem%3a_How_He_Came_into_the_World&quot;&gt;The Golem (1920)&lt;/a&gt; is already quite human - but no robot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Metropolis (1927)&lt;/a&gt; you find a robot, which is transformed to a very human looking &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0110187/&quot;&gt;Maria&lt;/a&gt; see this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcReykfvqi4&quot;&gt;youtube video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found some hints of a 1886 film &lt;em&gt;l'Eve Futur&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 1886, the French novel l'Eve Futur featured a Thomas Edison-like mad scientist building a robot in the likeness of a woman. &lt;a href=&quot;http://topics.info.com/How-far-back-do-robots-go-in-the-movies_110&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same information at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmsite.org/robotsinfilm1.html&quot;&gt;http://www.filmsite.org/robotsinfilm1.html&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;I'm searching for some more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132" LastEditorUserId="132" LastEditDate="2012-08-15T21:08:19.440" LastActivityDate="2012-08-15T21:08:19.440" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3791" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3793" CreationDate="2012-08-16T12:15:41.317" Score="22" ViewCount="3065" Body="&lt;p&gt;He originally works for Ra's al Ghul in Batman Begins poisoning patients with his neuro-toxin.&#xA;And in the Dark Knight Rises he is appointed judge of the court trying the rich and powerful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is he part of the League of Shadows or just a pawn that is used by the criminals in Gotham?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-02T05:34:39.003" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T05:34:39.003" Title="Is Dr.Crane/Scarecrow part of the League of Shadows?" Tags="|analysis|the-dark-knight-rises|batman-begins|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3791" CreationDate="2012-08-16T12:53:27.260" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just realised in Batman Begins the following is said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bruce:&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;He's not a member of the League of Shadows?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ra's al Ghul:&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;Oh course not! He thought our plan was to hold the city to ransom.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So clearly Scarecrow was only being used as a pawn who managed to weaponize the neuro-toxin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-08-16T18:25:52.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3794" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3795" CreationDate="2012-08-16T19:13:10.240" Score="18" ViewCount="25236" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was there any particular reason why Will Smith used his own name for his character in the TV series, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe he wanted to get his name out there as an actor but still seems like a strange choice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-08-16T19:22:05.020" LastActivityDate="2012-08-16T19:37:18.263" Title="Why did Will Smith use his actual name in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?" Tags="|the-fresh-prince-of-bel-air|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3794" CreationDate="2012-08-16T19:30:08.820" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098800/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb - Trivia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Will Smith in an interview, the reason for his character being named &amp;quot;Will Smith&amp;quot; was that, during the creation of the show, he and Alfonso Ribeiro were brainstorming names for their characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alfonso remarked that Will had to be careful in naming his character, as people would refer to him in public by that name for the rest of his life, and suggested that he name the character &amp;quot;Will Smith&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will Smith's character name in the show is actually different than in real life. In the show, he is &amp;quot;William&amp;quot; Smith, in real life he's &amp;quot;Willard&amp;quot; Smith. This is referred to when one of Will's girlfriend's father calls him Williard as a joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFjwbKMlmF4#t=0m24s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here is the video interview&lt;/a&gt; where he reveals that Alfonso Ribeiro suggested the name &amp;quot;Will Smith&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-08-16T19:37:18.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3796" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3849" CreationDate="2012-08-16T19:55:49.957" Score="10" ViewCount="852" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't remember Blackgate being mentioned in the first two of the Nolan Batman Trilogy. Was the prison built to house all the extra criminals imprisoned because of the Dent Act or was it  there all along? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In The Dark Knight, Lau is told if he doesn't take the stand he will be sent to &quot;county&quot;. Is &quot;county&quot; meant to be referring to Blackgate Prison?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-02T05:38:04.647" LastActivityDate="2020-05-09T21:00:50.940" Title="When was Blackgate prison built?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|the-dark-knight|batman-begins|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3797" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-16T20:09:35.353" Score="17" ViewCount="8683" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both Bruce Wayne and Bane were obviously trained by the League of Shadows so it seems quite possible that their time with the League of Shadows could've coincided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bane was in the pit for a long time but had he been rescued from the pit and joined the League of Shadows when Bruce was there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-02T05:37:01.270" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T05:37:01.270" Title="Was Bane part of the League of Shadows during the time Bruce was being trained?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight-rises|batman-begins|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="545" CreationDate="2012-08-16T21:37:33.323" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought that the ending of 2001 was open in the following sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film narrates of two main steps in human evolution, both triggered by alien intervention using the monolith as an inductive device.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first occurred in the far past, where ape-like creatures were transformed into homo sapiens through an enhancement of their intelligence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have to expect that a similar enhancement characterizes the second step, located in the near future of the year 2001, when the dying body of David Bowman is transformed into a newborn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the first act of the first creature with the intelligence of a homo sapien was to conceive a new powerful weapon and eventually use it against other, formerly equal, men to his own advantage. All human technology (that's underlined by the famous bone-to-starship jump sequence) derives from that first killing tool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what will be the first act of the newborn starchild who is already so powerful to be able to return to Earth almost instantly? What will be his (?) feelings for the humans on Earth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The viewer is left to ponder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1889" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2017-01-02T03:40:41.087" LastActivityDate="2017-01-02T03:40:41.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11" CreationDate="2012-08-16T21:47:45.633" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the things I found interesting about the entire sequence in the &lt;em&gt;Discovery&lt;/em&gt; is a sort of reversing: Bowman and Poole behave coldly, don't give in to emotions and seem--at least emotionally--always in control of the situation. HAL, on the other hand, is the one that cracks under pressure and panicks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, of all the crew, HAL is the real human character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1889" LastActivityDate="2012-08-16T21:47:45.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3758" CreationDate="2012-08-17T02:09:55.930" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that it is the sound of the magnetic field generated by an electric motor, that is turned into an electrical signal by an inductive transducer (similar to the pickups on an electric guitar), recorded on magnetic tape, and played back at variable speed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some years ago, I put a inductive pickup (that was sold by Radio Shack to record telephone calls via &quot;listening&quot; to the handset speaker) on a hard drive and recorded it spinning up and powering down, and it made some really cool sounds. A variable speed cordless drill also sounded very sci-fi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1890" LastEditorUserId="1890" LastEditDate="2012-08-17T02:16:19.963" LastActivityDate="2012-08-17T02:16:19.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3802" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-17T05:45:30.160" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Released in 2012 in 3-D. Part three in the &lt;em&gt;MIB&lt;/em&gt; film franchise. This edition reunites agents J and K as they battle a time traveling alien intent on invading Earth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="769" LastEditDate="2012-08-17T09:08:04.343" LastActivityDate="2012-08-17T09:08:04.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3803" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-17T05:45:30.160" Score="0" Body="The third film in the Men in Black movie series. It was released in 2012." OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-01T04:13:21.747" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T04:13:21.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3804" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-17T06:17:21.417" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Released in 2001. Based on J. R. R. Tolkien's classic tale of good vs. evil. In order to save middle-earth, a fellowship is formed to transport a ring of power and destroy it before the ring can be reclaimed by Sauron, its Lord and Master.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="769" LastEditDate="2012-08-17T09:08:27.650" LastActivityDate="2012-08-17T09:08:27.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3805" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-17T06:17:21.417" Score="0" Body="The first installment in the Peter Jackson &quot;Lord of the Rings&quot; film franchise." OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="769" LastEditDate="2012-08-17T09:08:44.013" LastActivityDate="2012-08-17T09:08:44.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3420" CreationDate="2012-08-17T11:12:03.130" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't cause a tsunami, but still fairly large and destructive waves at short ranges should be expected unless &quot;the bat&quot; went up to a high altitude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Mike&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The first test of a fusion explosion&lt;/a&gt; produced around 10 megatons of energy, was not an underwater explosion but still produced 20 feet waves that &quot;stripped the test islands clean of vegetation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1892" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-12T18:00:04.157" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T18:00:04.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3808" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-17T13:34:10.643" Score="17" ViewCount="4217" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &quot;A Scandal in Belgravia&quot; (S02 E01), Sherlock gives Mycroft Irene's mobile and she's probably let free without her mobile, ending up in Karachi when we are told she has been supposedly beheaded. Sherlock, however, received a text message from her saying goodbye from the same phone number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How could she do that? Is that such an incredible mistake?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1893" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-08-17T13:44:55.290" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T08:38:17.700" Title="How could Irene Adler text Sherlock without her mobile?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3646" CreationDate="2012-08-17T14:33:38.583" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought that Bruce noticed the scar on her back. I'm sure he rubbed it with his hand just before the close-up. I also think Miranda made some comment regarding it. ( I only saw this last night, but cannot remember the dialogue..)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1392" LastEditorUserId="1392" LastEditDate="2012-08-17T15:23:24.137" LastActivityDate="2012-08-17T15:23:24.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="900" CreationDate="2012-08-17T15:19:05.633" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter even if she goes to her mom's place because Rose who calls her from the past could go ahead and kill her mom in the past if she doesn't answer her phone calls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes she does have a real mom because we see her talk to her in the present and also Rose mentioning about her mom on the phone plus we see the photographs of them together in the movie with Rose standing in background all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2012-08-17T15:19:05.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3774" CreationDate="2012-08-17T20:18:56.007" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, that scene has similar camera angle and swagger as the opening-credits shots in Reservoir Dogs when the entire group of robbers are walking together -- beginning at &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qBWc8FCEEM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;00:27 in this clip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2012-08-17T20:18:56.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3784" CreationDate="2012-08-17T20:23:36.283" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The earliest fictional robots and androids in film listed on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_robots_and_androids#Film&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Dummy&lt;/strong&gt;, played by Ben Turpin in the silent short &lt;em&gt;A Clever Dummy&lt;/em&gt;, dating from 1917, when the term &quot;robot&quot; did not yet exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-&gt; Doesn't count: the Dummy was made to replace a postman.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Mechanical Man&lt;/strong&gt; from the silent film of the same name (1921)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-&gt; Doesn't count: the Mechanical Man doesn't look like a human.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maria/Futura&lt;/strong&gt;, the Maschinenmensch – a robotic gynoid, played by German actress Brigitte Helm in both her robotic-appearing and human-appearing forms—from &lt;em&gt;Metropolis&lt;/em&gt;, the silent science fiction film by famed Austrian-German director Fritz Lang (1927)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-&gt; Might count: the Maschinenmensch had both human and robotic forms.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going down the list, the next human-looking androids are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sexbots or Fembots, including Robot # 11 (Diane)&lt;/strong&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine&lt;/em&gt; (1965) and &lt;em&gt;Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs&lt;/em&gt; (1966)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the first on the list that specifically mentions androids is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The robotic gunfighters and other androids in &lt;em&gt;Westworld&lt;/em&gt;, one of which was played by Yul Brynner (1973)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's interesting that androids don't really show up in movies until relatively late compared to books, as it's much easier to show a normal-looking human and claim it's a robot underneath than these clunky looking mechanical robots. But perhaps there wasn't much fun doing it that way, and perhaps audiences would have felt cheated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2012-08-17T20:23:36.283" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3814" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3816" CreationDate="2012-08-18T00:16:55.993" Score="24" ViewCount="15305" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been clearly established that Ra's Al Ghul &amp;amp; Talia Al Ghul are Moroccan. And it is assumed that The Pit is in Morocco.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean that we should assume Bane is also Moroccan? Or is it just coincidence that he was in a Moroccan prison and involved with two Moroccans?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-15T13:58:08.627" LastActivityDate="2017-04-25T18:44:14.280" Title="What nationality is Bane?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="756" CreationDate="2012-08-18T01:01:20.813" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also tend to think Jimmy's plan was to have Karen killed. As the FBI agent later tells her &quot;don't give me the babe in the woods routine, Karen. I've listened to those wiretaps... you're talking about cocaine.&quot;  Karen knew a lot and, as others have pointed out, Jimmy had spouses killed for less than that. I think the reason why Jimmy may have been sloppy in the hit is that he also seems to be losing it near the end. Henry narrates earlier when Morrie is breaking balls that Jimmy &quot;was a nervous wreck&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, as others have mentioned, the genius of Scorcese is that the scene is ambiguous, engaging the viewer to wonder. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1898" LastActivityDate="2012-08-18T01:01:20.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3814" CreationDate="2012-08-18T01:18:39.260" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;An article written by NBC has the following quote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DC Comics describes Bane’s father as a British mercenary and his mother a rebel from the Caribbean. His life spent in a jail on the fictional Caribbean Island of Santa Prisca, a seemingly Spanish name.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically Bane is half British, half Caribbean which would explain why he is so tanned yet still speaks perfect English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Link to the article &lt;a href=&quot;http://nbclatino.tumblr.com/post/13457338255/debate-is-batmans-archrival-bane-latino&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-08-18T01:26:46.440" LastActivityDate="2012-08-18T01:26:46.440" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1194" CreationDate="2012-08-18T05:46:15.337" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really like Max's answer, but I think it failed to answer the question. Rather, I think the wrong question was asked. The final scene of the movie isn't in the hallway, it's of the two of them running on the snowy beach. If you remember, it jump cuts and replays, signifying them re-creating the memory, obviously. But then it does it AGAIN, right before the credits roll. The obvious answer to me is that their is another erasure to follow the relationship begun in the hall, or, that we actually watched the 2nd go around, their true first meeting never being shown. (We do never see Naomi, and Joel mentions something is odd about their relationship in the beach house) However, I think the 1st explanation is more feasible; that they are two weak souls, dying to be together, but incapable of not screwing things up. Had it not been for that second jump cut, I would be 100% in Max's corner. But to anyone that didn't think about that, I urge you to watch it again. It seriously gave me chills. Has anyone else thought this? I just watched it and am desperately looking for some opinions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1899" LastActivityDate="2012-08-18T05:46:15.337" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3693" CreationDate="2012-08-18T09:34:33.037" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess he just recognized &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt; from the people examining the apparatus while he stood in it and assumed that he will probably walk behind the stage (or maybe even saw him do that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact is, that &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; was at that point in time so much sunken in his wrath against &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt; and the desire to know how his &lt;em&gt;Trasported Man&lt;/em&gt; worked, that he didn't just do those &lt;em&gt;Real Transported Man&lt;/em&gt; shows to make a good show and beat &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt; success-wise. He actually planned this &quot;murder&quot; to happen some day to finally &quot;win&quot; against &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt;, since he knew he would show up one day to look behind the stage and nobody would doubt that he murdered his enemy. But even if at first &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; looked like the one that always got framed and played wrong by &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt; (and finally murdered, as is shown at the beginning of the movie) it was actually always &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; who took this fight from a job-related competition to a higher level, involving kidnapping and finally murder. This is also to some degree evident from his dialogue when he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cutter:&lt;/strong&gt; What kind of booking are you after?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Angier:&lt;/strong&gt; The one that Borden can't ignore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he was prepared for &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt; to show up some day and just needed to look out for him, the rest was already planned out perfectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-31T17:05:21.143" LastActivityDate="2015-07-31T17:05:21.143" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3797" CreationDate="2012-08-18T21:02:26.370" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Talia left the pit she is seen to be quite young maybe between 10-15, so assuming that she went and found here father who then returned and freed Bane (who doesn't look significantly older) within 5 years then I imagine that Bane would have been excommunicated from the League of Shadows well before Bruce Wayne was there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is based on the assumption that Talia and Bruce are roughly the same age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also Talia says that she could not forgive her father for excommunicating Bane from the League of Shadows until Bruce killed him suggesting that she was angry at him for a long time, however Bruce only killed Ra's Al Ghul a short while after he trained with the league so it would seem that Talia and Bane were not there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Bruce is training with the league in Batman Begins he talks to Ra's Al Ghul about his parents death and Ra's Al Ghul tells him that he had a wife but that she was taken from him, I imagine he would mention his daughter at this point if she was there and there was not bad feelings between the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that all these points are just suggestion but there will be no concrete answer in the films but I am pretty confident in saying that no they were not both there at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1027" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-08-18T21:41:19.937" LastActivityDate="2012-08-18T21:41:19.937" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3823" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-18T21:45:58.857" Score="21" ViewCount="3339" Body="&lt;p&gt;Claire was able to give birth on the Island because she had conceived her child off the Island. However, no women who were impregnated on the Island could complete the term / give birth, and all died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why? What is the significance of this? If he Island is supposed to be a place where &quot;your problems get fixed (Rose's cancer, Locke's paralysis)&quot;, why wouldn't the natural process of child birth be purposefully impeded?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1867" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-06-12T04:39:46.783" LastActivityDate="2016-07-12T01:04:39.953" Title="Why is it impossible for women to be impregnated on the Island and survive the whole pregnancy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lost|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3686" CreationDate="2012-08-18T22:23:11.980" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This scene (or the few climbing scenes have a few problems). Surely Bruce could have climbed up the rope and then to the jump point, it would have been a bit faster and easier. However my main problem with these scenes is when Bruce falls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First the man at the bottom holding the rope should be pulling tight on the rope all the time so when someone falls the rope catches them almost immediately instead of having to fall a long way first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly after falling a long way the rope catches bruce, however falling this distance and then being caught by a normal rope just tied around the waist would surely break his back (and damage other organs as well) especially as he already had his back broken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have also thought that Bruce could have fashioned some sort of grappling hook and once he had reached the jump section just use that to climb out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1027" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-08-19T01:49:51.420" LastActivityDate="2012-08-19T01:49:51.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3785" CreationDate="2012-08-18T23:08:24.847" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the pilot, we see Walt celebrate his 50th birthday (this is where we see the &quot;bacon spelling out his age&quot; thing for the first time).  In S5E4 &lt;em&gt;Fifty-One&lt;/em&gt;, we see him celebrate his 51st birthday.  In S5E1, we see a flashforward where Walt is celebrating his 52nd birthday alone in a diner.  In the last episode, we see the flashforward resume, so the show ends around Walt's 52nd birthday.  Beyond that, I'm not sure how long each season was, but those are some anchor points for how much time has passed during the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-10-24T18:56:48.677" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T18:56:48.677" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3823" CreationDate="2012-08-18T23:12:27.080" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Island somehow strengthens the immune system of people on it, and provides some other healing capabilities.  The issue with pregnancy, which I think Juliet explained, was that the amped up immune system mistook pregnancy for a disease.  The immune system would interfere with normal pregnancy, resulting in a miscarriage.  People who got pregnant off-Island would not have those complications, and by the time the Island's effects kicked in, they would give birth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-08-18T23:12:27.080" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3827" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-19T00:40:44.667" Score="13" ViewCount="2194" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1515091/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows&lt;/a&gt;, why does Moriarty want a sniper to additionally shoot the man in the hotel? Was the bomb not enough?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the first movie, the purpose of Professor Moriarty was stealing the remote control, but it is not mentioned in the second movie at all! Was there a point?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1903" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T14:53:48.060" LastActivityDate="2016-05-11T13:00:12.087" Title="Professor Moriarty's motivations in the Sherlock Holmes movies" Tags="|character|sherlock-holmes-2009|sherlock-holmes-a-game-of-shadows|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3828" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3833" CreationDate="2012-08-19T01:27:46.480" Score="5" ViewCount="517" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone know where the Fox Hills Crematory in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0629524/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Law &amp;amp; Order: Criminal Intent episode &quot;DEAD&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (S2:E1) was filmed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks an awful lot like the carriage house of the Bartow-Pell Mansion/Museum in the Bronx. The building, the driveway, the benches, the field beyond the driveway when the camera pans away from the building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried googling but couldn't find anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1904" LastEditorUserId="34317" LastEditDate="2019-08-20T15:13:56.233" LastActivityDate="2019-08-20T15:13:56.233" Title="Filming Location: Fox Hills Crematory in Law &amp; Order: Criminal Intent" Tags="|film-location|law-and-order-criminal-intent|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1923" CreationDate="2012-08-19T02:13:34.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A) If we were going to make another planet our home, would we kill all the food as soon as we got there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;B) If we went to another planet and found lesser intelligent life and decided to use them for our &quot;menial labor&quot; then we'd try to preserve the ones that are non threatening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1905" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2012-08-21T21:19:12.330" LastActivityDate="2012-08-21T21:19:12.330" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3827" CreationDate="2012-08-19T02:32:38.367" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bomb actually was a coverup to the assassination of the designated target. If the specified target alone is killed with the bullet, Moriarty might have deduced that any of the threads for plotting the murder could be traced back to him or his accomplices. So, he wanted to cover it up with a bomb to blow up everyone to spark a political conspiracy rather than making it a single person assassination hit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your second question is correct. I don't recollect that aspect being used in the second movie, but I think the director used it as a major plot element to introduce Moriarty to viewers — after all, Moriarty is Holmes's greatest adversary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="571" LastEditDate="2012-09-15T11:28:12.067" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T11:28:12.067" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3828" CreationDate="2012-08-19T13:56:31.747" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh! You appear to be right! Look at these two images. You can clearly see the arch behind the fake front door, and you can match up the stones.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fswpf.png&quot; alt=&quot;http://mybigfatfreakinlife.blogspot.com Slide Show II&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sCxQ6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;www.jhpokorny.com Conservation project&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-08-19T13:56:31.747" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3785" CreationDate="2012-08-20T03:31:48.813" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it's because I'm a mother of very small children, but it helped me to look at the age of Walt's new daughter to help me somewhat decipher the passage of time in the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Skyler was pregnant in the first episode, and the daughter was born in the second season.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She's still an infant, which means to me that &lt;strong&gt;a year hasn't passed yet&lt;/strong&gt; since her birth.  Watching the little girl grow might help to determine how much time passes in each season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1913" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T09:48:44.107" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T09:48:44.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3836" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3838" CreationDate="2012-08-20T07:21:01.370" Score="30" ViewCount="55805" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is &quot;Junior&quot; in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; all of a sudden now called Flynn?  I thought he was dubbed Junior as he is also Walter White (Jr.).  Is Flynn a middle name or second given name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastActivityDate="2015-03-12T23:26:12.513" Title="Why is Walter Jr. being called &quot;Flynn&quot;?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3836" CreationDate="2012-08-20T08:23:03.250" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walter Jr decided that he didn't want to be called Walter White Jr as that's his dad's name and isn't cool. He was a teacher at the school his son goes to so I guess there is some pressure there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was never any reference to where it came from or why he chose it, I guess it's just different to Walter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastActivityDate="2012-08-20T08:23:03.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3836" CreationDate="2012-08-20T08:36:50.527" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walter Jr. starts calling himself &amp;quot;Flynn&amp;quot; in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2009/03/breaking-bad-mondays-season-2-ep-4-down/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Season 2 episode &amp;quot;Down&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;. He does it to distance himself from his father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Breaking_Bad_characters#Walter_Hartwell_White_Jr.&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He grows apart from Walt due to his father's absences and bizarre behavior&lt;/strong&gt;, being taught to drive by his friends and &lt;strong&gt;wanting to be called &amp;quot;Flynn&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From a 2009 &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/2009/05/rj-mitte-interview.php&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview with RJ Mitte (Walter Jr.)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Walter Jr. gives himself a nickname this season. Any idea where &amp;quot;Flynn&amp;quot; came from?&lt;/em&gt;*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I know it was an old movie star -- Errol Flynn. It took me a while to figure out where it came from though. I asked Vince, &amp;quot;Flynn? Out of all the nicknames?&amp;quot; And he's like &amp;quot;Well, that's why I picked it.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-08-20T08:36:50.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3808" CreationDate="2012-08-20T12:04:21.707" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have had several different phones but have kept the same number, couldn't she have done the same?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It only takes a few hours for the numbers to transfer across etc, add a little TV speed factor increase and bam there you go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-08-20T12:04:21.707" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3823" CreationDate="2012-08-20T13:22:58.913" Score="-8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well they were already dead / in heaven. I guess you can't create new life in death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1917" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-08-27T20:07:36.047" LastActivityDate="2012-08-27T20:07:36.047" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3842" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-20T14:30:00.270" Score="15" ViewCount="8185" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Holmes and Moriarty are having a stand off in the swimming pool Holmes has a gun trained on Moriarty's chest.  He looks at Watson and Watson nods so he moves his aim to the bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would this be a good idea?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bomb will not necessarily go off when shot and if it did it would kill him and Watson too, why not just shoot Moriarty in the head and take his chances with anyone else who might be there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="1501" LastEditDate="2012-11-29T09:27:26.583" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T03:44:30.023" Title="Why did Holmes aim at the explosive rather than at Moriarty?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3842" CreationDate="2012-08-20T20:51:01.437" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Sherlock shot Moriarty, then the snipers would kill him and Watson, end of story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he shoots the bomb, there's a chance they all die, but there's also a chance to create enough of a mess to be able to escape. If the bomb exploded, the snipers wouldn't try to shoot, since they'd risk harming Moriarty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So detonating the bomb was the best option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To expand about the uncertainty of the situation, it's the best option for Sherlock. Remember that him and Moriarty are the kind of people that can think pretty much every outcome of a situation. Sherlock probably realized that he has no option to escape in the current situation, so creating a situation where neither him nor Moriarty can predict the outcome is the best (and probably only) solution for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="640" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-11-28T18:07:17.880" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T18:07:17.880" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3796" CreationDate="2012-08-21T15:41:27.250" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the animated series, Blackgate Prison was built by Harvey Dent and Bruce Wayne.&#xA;There's no reference to it in the first two Nolan films, but there are many references to it in the video games Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference: Arkham Asylum is the psychiatric hospital that hosts insane criminals, while Blackgate Prison is the penitentiary for other sorts of criminals, like mobsters and mafia bosses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some detail:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1993 &lt;strong&gt;COMICS&lt;/strong&gt;: In Batman #491, Bane destroyed the Arkham building, and its inmates were temporary moved to Blackgate, until the new building was opened in Batman #521.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1992-1995 &lt;strong&gt;CARTOON&lt;/strong&gt; (Batman: The Animated Series): episodes 1x9, 1x49, 2x7. And maybe much more. In this universe it's called &quot;Stonegate Penitentiary&quot; but it's exactly the same one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1997 &lt;strong&gt;COMICS&lt;/strong&gt; (Batman: Blackgate Vol 1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CARTOON&lt;/strong&gt; (Batman: The Brave and the Bold): a few episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2009 - &lt;strong&gt;VIDEOGAME&lt;/strong&gt; (Arkham Asylum): The backstory is the one above. In addition, one of the Riddler's trophy is the Blackgate Prisoners Trophy (located at the roof of guard tower closest to the Gardens)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2009 - &lt;strong&gt;PROMOTIONAL WEBSITE&lt;/strong&gt; (ArkhamCare.com): Warner Bros promotional website. It's cited on the fake news.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2011 - &lt;strong&gt;VIDEOGAME&lt;/strong&gt; (Batman: Arkham City): Backstory. Arkham City exhists since Asylum and Blackgate were almost destroyed and can't be used.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;other &lt;strong&gt;COMICS&lt;/strong&gt; (countless): &lt;a href=&quot;http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Blackgate_Penitentiary/Appearances&quot;&gt;http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Blackgate_Penitentiary/Appearances&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1929" LastEditorUserId="1929" LastEditDate="2012-08-28T14:33:10.653" LastActivityDate="2012-08-28T14:33:10.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2632" CreationDate="2012-08-21T16:47:06.733" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that's not the answer you were looking for, but &lt;strong&gt;there's no real clue about LaRoche's dark secret&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, we know a lot about its personality and that could bring some consideration to the &quot;discussion&quot;. &#xA;He lives in a big house fitted with monothematic ornaments and only a cat as a friend.&#xA;He's extremely detailed and obsessive. He has good feelings. He probably experienced a tragic lost and maybe he feel responsible for it. &#xA;His secret could be someway related to this profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1929" LastActivityDate="2012-08-21T16:47:06.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="678" CreationDate="2012-08-21T18:46:15.803" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, &lt;strong&gt;the final scene in the movie shows Alex's priorities have changed&lt;/strong&gt;: he formerly enjoyed being a criminal who operated outside of society, but now he looks forward to a more socially acceptable lifestyle -- while still retaining some of his wild nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the scene appears to be a fantasy Alex experiences &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pFqQKaniK8&amp;amp;feature=related&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;just after he agrees to play along&lt;/a&gt; with the government's explanation of what happened to him. In effect, Alex has just made a deal with society in which he will be rewarded if he controls himself to some extent. In a sense, he has matured. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accordingly, this change is evident in the final scene's fantasy depiction of a man (presumably Alex) having sex with a woman as a crowd of well-dressed &quot;normal&quot; people watches and applauds. Note how Alex's fantasy-life has changed: The sex seems a bit wild, but it is monogamous (contrasting with an earlier threesome) and it is consensual (at least in comparison to earlier rapes) -- which is apparently enough to earn the approval of society (versus the condemnation of society that Alex used to earn).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1f1gD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2012-08-21T18:46:15.803" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1577" CreationDate="2012-08-21T19:23:49.917" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the movies of the &quot;Found Footage&quot; genre are basically full lenght subjective camera works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, I can't think a 100% POV movie before &lt;strong&gt;The Blair Witch Project&lt;/strong&gt; (1999).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here You can find some good lists to dig:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_footage_(genre&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_footage_(genre&lt;/a&gt;)&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://horror.about.com/od/horrorthemelists/tp/povhorrormovies.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://horror.about.com/od/horrorthemelists/tp/povhorrormovies.htm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1929" LastActivityDate="2012-08-21T19:23:49.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="964" CreationDate="2012-08-22T04:59:06.107" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://feelinglistless.blogspot.com/2004/04/scene-unseen-thomas-crown-affair-take.html&quot;&gt;quote&lt;/a&gt; from John McTiernan, the director:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Anyway we did an elaborate thing of folding the painting into the&#xA;  brief case and people were so offended by it that I sorta hadda cut it&#xA;  out and make it much briefer.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-08-22T04:59:06.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="572" CreationDate="2012-08-22T08:39:25.633" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the logic in the movie, 4 points are enough, because each line appears to pass through the same point, i.e. you only need 2 lines. Given the random placement of stars, it is extremely unlikely that you will find 6 in just a few constellations that enable 3 lines to intersect at the same point (try it with 3 straws, or pencils, and see that it just won't work). 3 planes could designate a point in XYZ, but 2 points are not enough to define a plane, because the plane can have any orientation. In short, the movie logic is &lt;strong&gt;flawed&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1935" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-09-20T20:58:40.590" LastActivityDate="2012-09-20T20:58:40.590" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="63" CreationDate="2012-08-22T08:40:30.080" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's basically just a reference to 'Made In U.S.A' and...that's pretty much it. That's the only reason anything happens in that movie; it's just there to remind you of another movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1934" LastActivityDate="2012-08-22T08:40:30.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3808" CreationDate="2012-08-22T18:53:51.467" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The mobile handed over to mycroft is not the mobile she uses for communication. The mobile given to mycroft is the mobile that was in the vault. That's how she was able to leave that specific mobile for sherlock and text him &quot;mantelpiece&quot; from the mobile she uses for communication. So that is the mobile she has always kept for texting even while sherlock had the mobile from the vault with the information on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1937" LastActivityDate="2012-08-22T18:53:51.467" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="63" CreationDate="2012-08-22T20:33:50.843" Score="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quentintarantino.de/download/kill_bill_screenplay.txt&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/31MWC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Script&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://beat.3x.ro/Uma%20Thurman%20interview%20-%20Kill%20Bill.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview with Uma Thurman&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why do they bleep your name?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;That one eludes me. You'll find out her name. You will definitely find out her name, I can tell you right now, but that'd ruin it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.family-source.com/cache/389140/idx/0&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview with Vivica A. Fox&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What name do you and Uma say when they bleep it out?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Beatrix. Her name is Beatrix. It is weird right? Even when I saw the screening of it the other day I thought, “Are people going to get that?” You never hear her name. She’s just The Bride. Whenever I go, “Sweetie this is an old friend of mommy’s, Beatrix, Beatrix, this is my daughter,” it’s bleeps. And she goes, “Hi honey, my name is…” and it bleeps. See, you’ve got to go see it again.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why does he do that?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Because he wants you to come back and see it again and figure out what the hell her name is. Just to add little things. Just a quirk.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;There were several hints about the name, giving people the opportunity to figure it out before it was eventually revealed in &lt;em&gt;Volume 2&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, when she buys a plane ticket to Japan her name is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eeggs.com/items/42349.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;visible on the boarding pass&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bBbos.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ticket&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where did the name &lt;em&gt;Beatrix Kiddo&lt;/em&gt; come from?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,609679,00.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview with Quentin Tarantino&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Uma came up with the name Beatrix -- she worked for somebody with that name. And I came up with Kiddo. That's what I call women -- when I really like a girl, I call her &amp;quot;kiddo&amp;quot;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Speculation:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quentin Tarantino is a known fan of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Godard&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jean-Luc Godard&lt;/a&gt; (his production company &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Band_Apart&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Band Apart&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was named after Godard's movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bande_%C3%A0_part_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bande à part&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Godard's movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060647/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Made in the U.S.A.&lt;/a&gt; there is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://theseventhart.info/tag/kill-bill/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;running gag&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Godard censors Richard’s second name with all kinds of sounds possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So maybe this was Tarantino's inspiration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-08-22T20:33:50.843" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3864" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3865" CreationDate="2012-08-22T21:24:39.603" Score="9" ViewCount="1960" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the television series, &quot;How I Met Your Mother&quot;, who is Barney Stinson married to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1938" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-17T13:29:38.820" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T15:10:04.317" Title="In &quot;How I Met Your Mother&quot;, who is Barney married to?" Tags="|how-i-met-your-mother|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3864" CreationDate="2012-08-22T21:42:42.793" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;strong&gt;Robin&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lGJK5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Robin&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Barney%27s_Wedding&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvguide.com/News/HIMYM-Finale-Barney-Bride-Craig-Thomas-1047516.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Guide&lt;/a&gt; (May 2012):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;It had to be Robin.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what &lt;em&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;/em&gt; co-creator/showrunner Craig Thomas says about Barney's big bride reveal on Monday's Season 7 finale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;There was just no other way,&amp;quot; he tells TVGuide.com. &amp;quot;We always knew it was gonna be Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and Robin (Cobie Smulders).&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;When did you and Carter [Bays] decide that Barney and Robin will get married?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Craig Thomas:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;We decided literally years ago. As we were breaking them up, we knew there would be a rekindling and that wouldn't be the real deal ... and we would reveal them to be the groom [in the Season 6 finale] and bride now. ... Season 8 is gonna be filling in the steps between Point A and Point B. We know they do get married, but there are a lot of steps between Point A and Point B....&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-08-22T21:42:42.793" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3868" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-23T04:46:31.760" Score="18" ViewCount="3883" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right before Bruce Wayne attempts to leave the pit he packs up something in a towel and wraps it around his body.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone see what he packs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1940" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-02T05:35:22.300" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T05:35:22.300" Title="What does Bruce Wayne pack on his third attempt of leaving the pit in Dark Knight Rises?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3870" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-23T09:41:47.880" Score="15" ViewCount="4924" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the Terminator, the teen John Connor, Sarah Connor and Miles Dyson go to the Cyberdyne Systems Corporation building in order to destroy any data that could lead to Skynet's creation (and therefore to Judgment Day), the alarm is raised by the reception guards and as a consequence all entry panels are deactivated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point Miles Dyson's knowledge is useless. He knows the codes but everything is remotely blocked. John Connor uses his &quot;Pin cracker&quot; device, used for cracking ATMs, and tries to get the code and so open the safe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But here's the problem... Myles Dyson &lt;em&gt;already knew&lt;/em&gt; the codes. There was no need to &quot;get them&quot; illegally. The problem is not there, the problem is that the panels are blocked anyways, codes are irrelevant. Not to mention that an ATM probably works very differently from a security panel in a secret research building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-06T15:10:07.483" LastActivityDate="2016-08-06T15:10:07.483" Title="Is the &quot;Pin number cracking&quot; scene in Terminator 2 a plot hole?" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-series|terminator-2-judgment-day|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3870" CreationDate="2012-08-23T11:17:55.147" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/t2.txt&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/idFkW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Script 1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UXnA8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Script 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G6YO3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Script 3&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NEUTRALIZED CODES:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Miles Dyson says &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;[The alarm] neutralizes the codes throughout the building&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess: &#xA;&lt;br&gt;I think it would make sense that there is some sort of &lt;em&gt;emergency&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;master code&lt;/em&gt; that does not get neutralized, so security (and/or the big boss) can still open doors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So maybe John Connor cracks that &lt;em&gt;master code&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ATM / LOCK CRACKING&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The third script excerpt I posted says &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;...his lap-top, which is running code combinations...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suggests John is doing a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_search&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;brute-force search&lt;/a&gt; with his &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Portfolio&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Atari Portfolio&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4gnYX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Scene 1&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.svas.com/computers/antiques.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RTo68.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Scene 2&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://starringthecomputer.com/appearance.php?f=3&amp;amp;c=3&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Atari Portfolio, released in 1989, was the first PC-compatible palmtop computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BycIE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Atari&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Portfolio&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starringthecomputer.com/appearance.php?f=3&amp;amp;c=3&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Starring the Computer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which is a website dedicated to the use of computers in film and television says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sB6Qy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Realism&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2012-08-24T07:49:59.760" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T07:49:59.760" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3870" CreationDate="2012-08-23T12:30:34.187" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;It neutralises the user codes in the building, there would still be master codes etc.  Otherwise how would the police move around in the building, what if there was a fire etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is this master code that John cracked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the ATM working differerntly:  What John appeared to have was a brute force number generator (perhaps with a little optimising AI), therefore any machine which relied on combination entry would be vulnerable to it.  The machine was not designed to purely work on ATMs, that is merely the main thing John used it for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-08-23T12:30:34.187" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3868" CreationDate="2012-08-23T14:22:14.203" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;He packs some food.  He's assuming he'll escape, but he needs provisions to survive on the surface, as he doesn't know where he is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-08-23T14:22:14.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2246" CreationDate="2012-08-23T16:39:37.420" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;They died before the portal was closed, but after the nuke hit the thingie. Conclusion: the thingie was relevant to them working/staying alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1944" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T13:44:13.010" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T13:44:13.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3868" CreationDate="2012-08-23T19:24:02.903" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Bruce is packing up his stuff the doctor says the following to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doctor:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;Ah supplies for your journey. Oh that's, that's wonderful!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I imagine it contains things vital to stay alive once he leaves the pit such as food and water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastActivityDate="2012-08-23T19:24:02.903" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4028" CreationDate="2012-08-23T19:30:55.753" Score="11" ViewCount="2695" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Bruce gets the hardest part of escaping the pit, the big jump, he stands at the edge and jumps from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is clearly room on the ledge he is standing on for him to take a running jump. Obviously a running jump would enable him to jump a lot further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would Bruce not take a running jump?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-30T04:41:29.567" LastActivityDate="2016-04-30T04:41:29.567" Title="Why doesn't Bruce take a running jump when trying to escape from the pit?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3369" CreationDate="2012-08-23T19:58:48.923" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think initially Bane's motivations aren't about evil. He saw the similarity between him and Talia growing up in the pit so he helped her to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After helping Talia and being attacked by the prisoners, his motives changed as he was in constant pain. This pain lead him down the path of evil and eventually onto becoming &quot;Gotham's Reckoning&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastActivityDate="2012-08-23T19:58:48.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3881" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-23T22:41:04.040" Score="10" ViewCount="1779" Body="&lt;p&gt;This 1972 movie, co-written and directed by the surrealist Luis Bunuel. I never actually get what is this the title about, especially &quot;discreet charm&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Foremost, why is it &quot;discreet&quot;? Secondly, is the word &quot;charm&quot; used ironically, since some may find this movie freaky even without making any extra connection of what it is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, what does &quot;discreet charm&quot; mean together? &#xA;From here I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; I could figure out the rest, but more explanation is always welcome. &amp;lt;;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1577" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-10-03T19:26:16.480" LastActivityDate="2012-10-03T19:26:16.480" Title="What does the title of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie mean, especially the Discreet Charm part?" Tags="|title|analysis|discreet-charm|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3584" CreationDate="2012-08-24T01:33:40.093" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the knee brace was originally just to allow Bruce to begin walking again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many ways knee-cartilage can be replaced as seen in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knee_cartilage_replacement_therapy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Bruce could easily have had one of these procedures to fix his knee during the time between using the knee-brace originally and being thrown in the pit which would explain why he doesn't need the knee-brace in the pit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T01:33:40.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3881" CreationDate="2012-08-24T08:15:26.677" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Discreet Charm&quot; is a common european idiom, often used sarcastically to highlights how subtly appealing could be something wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1929" LastActivityDate="2012-08-24T08:15:26.677" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3397" CreationDate="2012-08-24T09:26:27.613" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought it was a very modern outlook on the French revolution, Cranes court, to storming of the prison, power to the people. It seems very similar to storming of the Bastille: beheading the nobility, the sham courts of justice, ruthless bloodshed, and the addition of the word citizen to the people of France.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1951" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T23:06:29.687" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T23:06:29.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="726" CreationDate="2012-08-25T01:47:48.347" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I worked at Intel at the time and the similarities were so great that I assumed Initech = Intel.  Not specifically, but a play on words with a company everyone knows that they figured had the same undesireable cubicle culture.  I figured they made the line of work different to not get sued. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1954" LastActivityDate="2012-08-25T01:47:48.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="290" CreationDate="2012-08-25T10:55:33.120" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.about.com/cs/donniedarko/a/donniedarkork_4.htm&quot;&gt;interview with &lt;strong&gt;Richard Kelly&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (writer/director of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/&quot;&gt;Donnie Darko&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can you explain the character of Cherita [Chen]?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I like to call her my ‘Mike Yanagita.’ Remember Mike Yanagita from “Fargo?” He hits on Frances McDormand at the Radisson. They have Diet Cokes at the Radisson and he comes on to her.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If the Coen Bros. didn’t have final cut, a studio executive would have demanded that they cut that scene because it doesn’t make sense, it doesn’t contribute to the plot. But if you really pay attention to “Fargo,”&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;that scene is really pivotal to Frances McDormand’s character because when she finds out that Mike Yanagita is completely lying about his wife dying, that it was a complete lie, she’s just shocked that she could have been lied to. She’s such a trustworthy person and it makes her go back to William H. Macy’s car lot to question him again.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So the Mike Yanagita scene is actually really, really important on a character level.&lt;/strong&gt; On a plot level, it’s superfluous and it’s just the Coen Bros. just being weird or self-indulgent maybe. But I think it’s a great pivotal scene for character reasons and I think that’s probably what they thought, too.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Using that metaphor for Cherita Chen, she contributes nothing to the plot at all. She is extraneous and superfluous, but that moment where Donnie is wearing the earmuffs couldn’t exist were it not for Cherita Chen. That is a very important character moment.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://bombsite.com/issues/55/articles/1936&quot;&gt;interview with &lt;strong&gt;Frances McDormand&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[The Coen Bros.] told me they wanted to develop Marge’s character in a different context, other than with her husband, or with the murder case.&lt;/strong&gt; Any character development—that’s good. So when they come up with this Mike Yanagita scene—I didn’t really get it until I saw the finished movie.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In that scene with Mike Yanagita, she realized he was lying. That’s the biggest thing she has to accept&lt;/strong&gt;, because at the end when she talks about greed and not understanding why these guys did what they did, that’s just Marge’s general condition.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-08-25T10:55:33.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3893" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-25T12:43:14.743" Score="11" ViewCount="1960" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voldemort returned to physical, human form in the Goblet of Fire. But can someone explain what the physical effects of using the curse on Harry as a baby had on his body? He didn't die but also, wasn't human. What was his state?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, when Wormtail put him into the cauldron in HP4, he was nothing more than a small baby-like creature. Where had he been before he was under Wormtail's care? He didn't look capable of taking care of himself or even moving. Was it ever explained where Wormtail actually found him? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T09:18:17.783" LastActivityDate="2018-02-24T17:17:16.907" Title="Voldemort's physical presence pre-Goblet of Fire" Tags="|character|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3895" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-25T16:10:14.113" Score="8" ViewCount="1098" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Mr. Monk and the Three Pies we meet Adrian's brother Ambrose. When Captain Stottlemeyer comes to Ambrose's house Ambrose gives him a cup of coffee with a number 6 on the mug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adrian explains that the number is to represent where the mug should go in the cupboard (between 5 and 7). From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livedash.com/transcript/monk-%28mr._monk_and_the_three_pies%29/612/KICU/Sunday_May_23_2010/307435/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;transcript&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;00:35:06  Why is it numbered?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;00:35:07  &lt;strong&gt;Mother numbered&lt;/strong&gt; ..&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;00:35:09  So we'd always put them back in the right order.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;00:35:11  Of course &lt;strong&gt;she&lt;/strong&gt; did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did Monk's mother also suffer from OCD, that she needed to have the mugs in a certain order, or was Adrian's and Ambrose's need for order such that she numbered the mugs so that her two sons wouldn't have to agonize about which mug went where?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="20764" LastEditDate="2020-12-31T16:35:09.227" LastActivityDate="2021-01-30T18:03:40.400" Title="Did Monk's mother also suffer from OCD?" Tags="|character|monk|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3082" CreationDate="2012-08-25T16:28:04.040" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading through the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Johnny_Bravo_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia list&lt;/a&gt; of episodes confirms that no, he never did get a girlfriend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-08-25T16:28:04.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3898" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3899" CreationDate="2012-08-25T19:05:11.910" Score="14" ViewCount="10020" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Saw&lt;/a&gt;, at the end of the movie we learn that Zep was forced to hold the Gordons captive to obtain an antidote for the slow-acting poison in his body. However, this scene confuses me, because &lt;strong&gt;Zep hasn't done anything wrong to Jigsaw&lt;/strong&gt;. He was just an attendant to him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Jigsaw poison Zep?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Jigsaw choose Zep to hold the Gordons captive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T14:29:05.033" LastActivityDate="2015-08-07T22:12:25.833" Title="Why did Jigsaw choose Zep in Saw?" Tags="|plot-explanation|saw|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3898" CreationDate="2012-08-25T19:41:19.743" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://sawfilms.wikia.com/wiki/Zep_Hindle&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sawpedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zep formed a sort of bond with John [Kramer] while he was being treated, but was considered to have &amp;quot;issues of his own&amp;quot; by him. Zep talked about the doctors behind their backs, saying that they were all having affairs and calling Dr. Lawrence Gordon a cold-hearted bastard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John seemed to see a lot of his own actions in Zep's goals, reminding him of himself before he was diagnosed with cancer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The reason why John decided to test Zep was because the former noticed that Zep was wasting his life with dreams of becoming a doctor, dreams that were never going to come true&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://sawfilms.wikia.com/wiki/Saw:_Rebirth&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Saw: Rebirth&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-08-25T19:41:19.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1170" CreationDate="2012-08-25T19:43:27.167" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to director &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Interview-The-Reader-Director-Stephen-Daldry-11178.html&quot;&gt;Stephen Daldry&lt;/a&gt;, the ambiguity is intentional:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think it's a complex story, and there is a great ambiguity. And one&#xA;  of the things we work very hard to do is to maintain that ambiguity,&#xA;  so people can have different responses to it. Mr. Schlink wrote the&#xA;  book about a generational issue, about how to love. I think he wanted&#xA;  to talk about, for his generation, the difficulties of loving your&#xA;  parents or your teachers or your pastors, and to heighten that issue,&#xA;  put the generational issue into a love affair. How is it possible to&#xA;  love in the context of a generation that's been through [genocide]? Is&#xA;  it possible to love? Is that love valid or invalid? When you find out&#xA;  the truth about the person you love, does that mean that everything&#xA;  you had together is a lie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the stories that Michael reads to her, Checkhov's &lt;em&gt;The Lady with the Dog&lt;/em&gt;, was chosen particularly because it is known for its lack of resolution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story is a parable which was written to help the generation that came after deal with what came before. The question facing the court is not whether she is guilty or not, but her level of responsibility for this particular event. She admits her guilt with regard to the women whom she sent to be gassed. She demonstrates brutality in her dominant relationship with Michael. Whether or not she ordered the burning, she did not stop it, so she is guilty. That she would accept full responsibility for the burning over the others because she was embarrassed to admit illiteracy is telling - her illiteracy is a metaphor for whatever blindness allowed Germans to allow these atrocities to happen, and no matter what the level of actual involvement, many Germans of that generation carry the guilt as if they had ordered the atrocities themselves. Whatever excuse they have for the decisions they made seem trivial in light of the atrocities, and we see that juxtaposition in Hanna's case before the court. The challenge for Michael is what to do with the love he felt for her, just as the next generation of Germans had to deal with their love for their parents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-08-25T19:43:27.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3397" CreationDate="2012-08-25T20:30:15.080" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an interview with &lt;em&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/em&gt;, director &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/christopher-nolan-dark-knight-rises-isn-t-political-20120720&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Christopher Nolan&lt;/a&gt; insists his film is apolitical:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In the new movie, you have Bane more or less trick Gotham's 99 percent&#xA;into rising up against the rich – is that intended as an anti-Occupy&#xA;Wall Street statement?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had as many conversations with people who&#xA;have seen the film the other way round. We throw a lot of things&#xA;against the wall to see if it sticks. We put a lot of interesting&#xA;questions in the air, but that's simply a backdrop for the story. What&#xA;we're really trying to do is show the cracks of society, show the&#xA;conflicts that somebody would try to wedge open. We're going to get&#xA;wildly different interpretations of what the film is supporting and&#xA;not supporting, but it's not doing any of those things. It's just&#xA;telling a story. If you're saying, “Have you made a film that's&#xA;supposed to be criticizing the Occupy Wall Street movement?” – well,&#xA;obviously, that's not true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But the movie certainly suggests that there's a great danger of&#xA;populist movements being pushed too far.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the populist movement is&#xA;manipulated by somebody who is evil, that surely is a criticism of the&#xA;evil person. You could also say the conditions the evil person is&#xA;exploiting are problematic and should be addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-08-25T20:30:15.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="615" CreationDate="2012-08-25T21:55:26.360" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He did talk about the film in this 35-minute &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW5D5kues_Q&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; from the time for &lt;em&gt;Directors Series&lt;/em&gt;. There is also apparently a new &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/10935/angel-heart-special-edition/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with him on the 2004 DVD release where he &quot;discusses the original novel from which the film was derived (entitled &lt;em&gt;Fallen Angel&lt;/em&gt;). He points out the changes he made, with the author's approval, to the original story. He discusses his love affair with the American south and wonders what all the fuss was about regarding the censorship of the movie's sole sex scene. Toward the end, he seems lost in his own movie and the narrative becomes sparse and obvious. But overall, he does provide great insight into this esoteric movie.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-08-25T21:55:26.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3903" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3905" CreationDate="2012-08-25T22:48:40.047" Score="17" ViewCount="43944" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV show Friends, which is based around six friends living in Manhattan, New York - Joey (Matt LeBlanc) gets cast in the TV show &quot;Days of our Lives&quot;, which is filmed in Los Angeles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is Joey still frequently around on the show despite filming DOOL in LA?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2015-08-04T15:24:48.587" Title="How can Joey be cast in &quot;Days of our Lives&quot; while living in New York?" Tags="|plot-explanation|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3904" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3909" CreationDate="2012-08-25T23:09:38.960" Score="14" ViewCount="5193" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV show &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends&quot;&gt;Friends&lt;/a&gt;, what is the real world address for the building always shown in exterior shots of Monica's (and the separate apartment across the hall which was formally Chandler's, and is now Joey's) apartment building?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2014-08-20T04:47:15.383" LastActivityDate="2016-09-05T17:06:10.467" Title="Where are Monica and Chandler's apartments?" Tags="|friends|film-location|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3903" CreationDate="2012-08-25T23:10:44.590" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108778/trivia?tab=gf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMDb&lt;/strong&gt; suggests&lt;/a&gt; this is &lt;em&gt;incorrectly regarded as a goof&lt;/em&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joey is a regular on &amp;quot;Days of Our Lives&amp;quot; while living in New York. But &amp;quot;Days of Our Lives&amp;quot; is taped in Los Angeles. However, &lt;strong&gt;since most characters featured on the fictitious &amp;quot;DOOL&amp;quot; were not actually on the real show, the fact that it's filmed in New York could just be another characteristic to this fictitious version&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://friends.wikia.com/wiki/Days_of_our_Lives&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Friends Wiki&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Days&lt;/em&gt; was satirized on Friends when Joey Tribbiani got a job as Dr. Drake Ramoray on the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All storylines shown on Friends (with guest shots by actual Days of our Lives stars) were fictional and did not represent what was really going on in the soap opera itself.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;So, since the &amp;quot;DOOL&amp;quot; version seen in FRIENDS did not represent the real version, it might have been possible that in the &lt;em&gt;FRIENDS-verse&lt;/em&gt; the show was filmed in New York instead of L.A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-08-25T23:10:44.590" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3906" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3914" CreationDate="2012-08-25T23:14:50.683" Score="8" ViewCount="1545" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Phoebe's mum died, Phoebe says she went and lived on the street - but why? Surely before her mother died they would have lived in a house, why would someone take it away from them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2016-10-04T05:51:25.743" Title="Why did Phoebe live on the streets?" Tags="|analysis|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3907" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3911" CreationDate="2012-08-25T23:20:48.897" Score="22" ViewCount="31714" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 3 of Friends, Ross Geller says that he is 29 years old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In season 4 of Friends, Ross again states that he is 29 years old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In season 5, Ross talks about getting divorced twice before turning 30. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Ross stuck in some sort of time dilation where he doesn't age, perhaps being in denial about his age or is there some other explanation for how he doesn't seem to get older over a three year period in the show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-27T00:34:19.573" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T00:34:19.573" Title="How old is Ross Geller?" Tags="|character|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3908" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3918" CreationDate="2012-08-25T23:27:42.317" Score="8" ViewCount="531" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one of the episodes of Friends, everybody gets locked out of Monika's apartment (the episode with the long winded discussion over the differentiation between &quot;got the keys!&quot; and &quot;got the keys?&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, when Rachel moves out there is a scene where Rachel gives Monika her key to the apartment back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How come in the last episode it shows that all six friends each had their own key to the apartment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2012-08-26T02:20:45.053" Title="Keys to Monika's apartment" Tags="|plot-explanation|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3904" CreationDate="2012-08-25T23:28:22.267" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://gvshp.org/blog/2011/09/22/so-no-one-told-you-life-was-gonna-be-this-way-2/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GVSHP&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No. 90 Bedford Street&lt;/strong&gt;, on the southeast corner of Bedford and Grove Streets, stood-in as the exterior of her building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SWFvA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Building&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the ground floor of their building was the coffee shop, &lt;em&gt;Central Perk&lt;/em&gt;, where the gang spent the other half of their time.  There is a ground floor food establishment at 90 Bedford, but Central Perk is a little more down-to-earth than today’s real-life counterpart, the &lt;em&gt;Little Owl&lt;/em&gt; restaurant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O22S2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Cafe&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://friends.wikia.com/wiki/Monica%27s_Apartment&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Friends Wiki - Trivia:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The apartment is numbered 5 for the first part of the series; however, after being pointed out that it's situated too high to have such a small number, it's re-numbered to 20;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is no balcony on Monica's Apartment when seen from the outside, also the fire escape is inbetween where Chandler and Joey's apartment and Monica's Apartment should be however when seen from the inside there are 2 fire escapes one for each apartment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-08-25T23:28:22.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3910" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3912" CreationDate="2012-08-25T23:39:42.127" Score="34" ViewCount="51230" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the pilot episode of Friends, there is a scene in Ross's apartment where he is talking to Joey and Chandler about his failed marriage with his ex-wife Carol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ross says that he is worried that there is only 'one woman' for each person and Joey encourages him to 'grab a spoon' - to which Ross replies: 'Do you know how long it's been since I grabbed a spoon? Do the words 'Billy don't be a hero' mean anything to you? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to say that the words 'Billy don't be hero' mean nothing at all to me, what is this a reference to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2012-08-28T12:10:49.823" LastActivityDate="2019-12-07T05:29:33.043" Title="Do the words 'Billy don't be a hero' mean anything to you?" Tags="|analysis|friends|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3907" CreationDate="2012-08-25T23:50:09.657" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://friends.wikia.com/wiki/Ross_Geller#Age_and_birthday&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FRIENDS Wiki&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; points out that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ross's age is treated inconsistently by the show's writers&lt;/strong&gt;, the best evidence is that he was born on October 18, 1967.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;There are several episodes in which Ross's birthday/age is either mentioned or hinted at, but they often contradict each other (click the link for details).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-08-25T23:50:09.657" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3910" CreationDate="2012-08-26T00:06:45.177" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/theadventuresofpriscillaqueenofthedesert/billydontbeahero.htm&quot;&gt;lyrics&lt;/a&gt; to a song - a woman is pleading with her fiance as he leaves for war not to be a hero, but to come back and marry her. He does something heroic, and he is killed. Apparently Ross thought that &quot;grabbing the spoon&quot; (getting out and trying with another woman) was risking his life, and that such a heroic gesture would mean his demise. Perhaps also, he is comparing the dating world to war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-08-26T00:06:45.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3906" CreationDate="2012-08-26T00:39:55.987" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Phoebe mentions that her mother died &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; that her step-father was back in prison. Chances are that the house was taken away from both Phoebe and Ursula on account of them being too young and/or not having enough money to pay for the bills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2012-08-26T00:39:55.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3915" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3917" CreationDate="2012-08-26T00:48:51.483" Score="27" ViewCount="120295" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Die Hard&lt;/em&gt;, John McClane (Bruce Willis) says the line &quot;Yippie Ki Yay&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-06-30T17:40:11.083" LastActivityDate="2019-06-30T17:40:11.083" Title="What does &quot;yippie ki yay&quot; mean?" Tags="|dialogue|die-hard|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3916" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3921" CreationDate="2012-08-26T01:35:49.627" Score="15" ViewCount="2958" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Die Hard, near the end, John McClane ties a fire hose around his waist and jumps off the roof of the Nakotomi plaza building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would a fire hose really be able to support the weight of a man of that build at falling speeds?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T10:44:39.997" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T10:44:39.997" Title="Could a fire hose really support the weight of a falling man?" Tags="|realism|die-hard|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3915" CreationDate="2012-08-26T01:45:18.730" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;First time John McClane uses that term in the Die Hard series is when he speaks to Hans on walkie talkie. When Hans was asking him if he was another American cowboy inspired by John Wayne and then McClane says he is partial to Roy Rogers and ends his conversation with Yippie Kay Yay and swears after it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual meaning of the phrase from the  &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yippie%20ki-yay&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;references&lt;/a&gt; I looked up means the phrase doesn't actually mean anything except it's used as reference to an exclamation used by Cowboys in the old times. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-06-30T17:39:58.193" LastActivityDate="2019-06-30T17:39:58.193" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3908" CreationDate="2012-08-26T02:20:45.053" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Years pass between these episodes, so I don't think this can really count as a plot inconsistency.  After everyone is locked out of the apartment, Monica could have made sure everyone had a key so this wouldn't happen again.  Rachel gives back her key as a symbolic gesture when she moves out, but it can easily be explained that she's given another key later because she's always there (along with everyone else) even though she no longer lives there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-08-26T02:20:45.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3916" CreationDate="2012-08-26T03:29:10.387" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fire hoses are designed to take huge water pressure - up to 290 psi - with bursting pressure up to 3 times that. I don't know what stress the weight of a man at the speed of falling would would be - but I suspect the hose would be adequate to the task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-08-26T03:29:10.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2306" CreationDate="2012-08-26T04:21:49.090" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.inquirer.net/3889/eva-green-a-vengeful-witch-in-dark-shadows-opens-may-10&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with Eva Green (who played Angelique):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I’ve always been a fan of Tim’s,” Green says. “He’s so creative, but&#xA;  also open to suggestions, which is wonderful for an actor. We had the&#xA;  same understanding of Angelique’s character. He never treated her like&#xA;  a one-dimensional villain; he got her pain.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Angelique is a woman who has changed with the times. During the 18th&#xA;  century, Angelique was a dark-haired servant girl. As Angie, the CEO&#xA;  of Angel Bay, she’s a successful blonde businesswoman. “Tim wanted her&#xA;  to look like the American dream,” says Green. “Everything about her is&#xA;  perfect. Too perfect. Perfect makeup, red lips, platinum hair. She’s&#xA;  very glamorous yet sophisticated. But, little by little, from the&#xA;  moment Barnabas escapes from his tomb, her facade starts to crack.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2012/06/blood-relations-making-of-dark-shadows.html&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; explains the effect they were after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-08-26T04:21:49.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3916" CreationDate="2012-08-26T06:41:13.980" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect the fire hose would survive, but our poor action hero would not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creative-science.org.uk/hollywood18.html&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So in the Die Hard fall its unlikely to stretch very much. Lets say in&#xA;  Bruce's jump a 10m fire hose stretches 1% i.e. 0.1m. Our force formula&#xA;  now becomes F = 7900 / 0.1 = 79000 N ... equivalent to the weight of&#xA;  about 100 Bruce Willis!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So what would happen to our action hero? Talking through all this one&#xA;  day with the actor and presenter Robert Llewellyn he quite rightly&#xA;  reflected &quot;I think there would be a Bruce and somewhere else a&#xA;  Willis!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1959" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-08-26T12:17:05.050" LastActivityDate="2012-08-26T12:17:05.050" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3367" CreationDate="2012-08-26T11:03:28.850" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://osteoarthritis.about.com/od/osteoarthritis101/a/cartilage.htm&quot;&gt;about.com&lt;/a&gt; cartilage can be worn away for different reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If a joint is burdened by improper alignment, excessive weight, excessive activity, overuse, or injury, articular cartilage wears away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Excessive activity&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;overuse&lt;/strong&gt; certainly apply in the case of Bruce Wayne.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there was one particular incident that caused the cartilage to be worn away but it was just the repeated strain on the body associated with being Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastActivityDate="2012-08-26T11:03:28.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3923" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-26T16:53:20.497" Score="27" ViewCount="82647" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently saw the Muppets movie. It's the first time I've ever seen anything on the Muppets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I saw the Cookie Monster, but that he was not in the Muppets movie. I found out that only the original Muppets were in the Muppets 2011 movie, and that the rights for the Sesame Street characters are not owned by Disney, who could not then use the characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see a list of complete Sesame Street muppets but no list of exactly which ones are/are not in Sesame Street.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how did this split/merge happen? Did someone else create Sesame Street?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there bad blood here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1960" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2022-08-13T17:37:42.097" LastActivityDate="2022-08-13T17:37:42.097" Title="Explanation of the Muppets/Sesame Street split/merge" Tags="|muppets|sesame-street|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1699" CreationDate="2012-08-27T01:50:00.200" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a podcast of an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L_c632mF0c&amp;amp;feature=related&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with Maxon Crumb which references the documentary during which Maxon claims to swallow purification cloth which cleanses the intestines. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yoga-abode.com/shat-karma&quot;&gt;Shatkarma: Yoga Cleansing Techniques&lt;/a&gt; include swallowing a 3&quot; by 20' piece of water-soaked muslin, allowing it to stay in the stomach for 5 minutes, and then pulling it out very slowly (so, no, it is not pulled out the other end, and no, it is not made of kelp). This technique is combined with a second enema-like technique (see link) which cleanses the rest of the digestive tract. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A kelp tape is improbable on many counts. First, kelp would digest, particularly if left for three days. Second, the chance that the tape would continue on its own through the intestines without jamming up, well, this just gets too gross. Finally, even if it were possible, you would be keeping the pyloric valve between stomach and intestine open for 3 days. Issues of bacteria growing and bile seeping into the stomach come to mind - neither very purifying!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-08-27T01:50:00.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3927" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3932" CreationDate="2012-08-27T02:06:16.347" Score="15" ViewCount="24789" Body="&lt;p&gt;Viewers are lead to believe that Ra's Al Ghul died when the train de-railed and crashed into Wayne Tower in Batman Begins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But he appears to Bruce while he is in the pit during the Dark Knight Rises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ra's Al Ghul&lt;/strong&gt;: &amp;quot;Did you not think I would return Bruce?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bruce Wayne&lt;/strong&gt;: &amp;quot;Ra's?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ra's Al Ghul&lt;/strong&gt;: &amp;quot;I told you I was immortal.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bruce Wayne&lt;/strong&gt;: &amp;quot;I watched, I watched you die.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ra's Al Ghul&lt;/strong&gt;: &amp;quot;Oh there are many forms of immortality.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just Bruce dreaming or is Ra's truly immortal and did appear to Bruce in the pit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T05:33:51.207" Title="Is Ra's Al Ghul alive or dead?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight-rises|batman-begins|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3412" CreationDate="2012-08-27T02:16:48.247" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Talia explains to Bruce how she was the one who escaped the pit and went to find her father once she escaped. Ra's Al Ghul and the League of Shadows came back to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;exact terrible vengeance&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it was Ra's and the League of Shadows that helped Bane escape from the pit so he didn't make the jump and escape like Talia and Bruce did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2013-01-22T16:24:29.100" LastActivityDate="2013-01-22T16:24:29.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3930" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3978" CreationDate="2012-08-27T05:57:47.557" Score="6" ViewCount="3668" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Know_Who_Killed_Me&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I Know Who Killed Me&lt;/a&gt; and I didn't understand the significance of the color blue in the movie. It shows the blue flowers all the time and even killer use all blue weapons for killing, even victims house decoration is mostly blue. Movie poster have blue color flower on it. Most of the things are of same blue shade used in hospitals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even in the Aubrey Fleming house many things are of blue color even the cat's collar is blue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2U8tC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Cat with Blue Collar&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the significance of the color blue. Maybe due to some censorship issue when telecasting the movie in India few scenes got cut, I didn't got the point behind it. Even some cutting of scenes have been noticed by me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anybody have any clue about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2020-02-12T21:53:56.367" LastActivityDate="2020-02-12T21:53:56.367" Title="What is the significance of the color blue in &quot;I Know Who Killed Me&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|i-know-who-killed-me|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="66837" CreationDate="2012-08-27T06:13:23.740" Score="10" ViewCount="26052" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th:_A_New_Beginning&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Friday the 13th: A New Beginning&lt;/a&gt;, Roy is the one who is pretending to be Jason Voorhees and is the killer of the movie. But in the last scene of movie why is Tommy seen with a knife and wearing a hockey mask? What is the significance of this scene? Is it connected to its sequel or is there any other explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also read the whole story of sequel &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th_Part_VI:_Jason_Lives&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Friday the 13th Part VI:Jason Lives&lt;/a&gt; on Wikipedia but nothing strikes my mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-04-15T13:31:20.520" LastActivityDate="2018-04-15T13:31:20.520" Title="Why does Tommy wear a hockey mask in the end of Friday the 13th: A New Beginning?" Tags="|plot-explanation|friday-the-13th|friday-the-13th-a-new-beginning|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3927" CreationDate="2012-08-27T07:37:55.927" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that Ra's disappeared after talking with Bruce leads you to strongly believe that he was nothing more than a hallucination.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind a couple of things: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bruce had just undergone serious physical trauma (getting his broken back reset); &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ra's had figured out how to use a lotus flower to cause a person to see a blurred view of the world (think of the scene in Batman Begins when Bruce has to pick out Ra's among a group of masked assassins). In this world, its conceivable that Ra's managed to implant some suggestion in Bruce's mind that would trigger under such conditions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Major Spolier Alert for TDKR&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; In the end, both Talia and Bane effectively confirm that Ra's was killed by Batman in the first film, so it's pretty safe to assume that the Ra's in this film was just a hallucination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorUserId="113" LastEditDate="2012-08-27T12:10:24.750" LastActivityDate="2012-08-27T12:10:24.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3933" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-27T10:34:09.503" Score="17" ViewCount="548" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rutledge (&lt;em&gt;Jeffrey Wright&lt;/em&gt;) explains that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source Code&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is not actually time travel, but merely a computer &quot;construct&quot; or &quot;simulation&quot;, using the last 8 minutes of memory a person has (in this case: &lt;em&gt;Sean Fentress&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when Colter Stevens (&lt;em&gt;Jake Gyllenhaal&lt;/em&gt;) manages to procure information Sean Fentress couldn't have in his memory (e.g. where the bomb was, what car the terrorist was driving, the licence plate of that car,...) Rutledge does not question the reliability of this information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This made me wonder if Rutledge knew all along that the &quot;Source Code&quot; would allow Stevens to do more than just explore Fentress's last 8 minutes of memories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do any interviews with cast or crew, or DVD extras, shed more light on whether Rutledge was aware of what the &quot;Source Code&quot; could really do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T10:51:18.040" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T10:51:18.040" Title="Did Rutledge lie about the &quot;Source Code&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|source-code|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3369" CreationDate="2012-08-27T11:44:20.193" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The motivation for the League of Shadows' acts of seemingly-random destruction was stated in &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt; as a kind of purification of society once it had become too corrupt.  Bruce Wayne's point of difference with the League was not about ends, but means.  The members of the League of Shadows see themselves as good people willing to do what it takes to purify humanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is therefore no contradiction in Bane being compassionate and self-sacrificing and joining the League.  If he was just out for himself, the League would have probably had no interest in him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The League tried to harness Bruce's rage, but succeeded in twisting Bane's compassion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1963" LastActivityDate="2012-08-27T11:44:20.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3775" CreationDate="2012-08-27T17:57:17.940" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't say anything for the 1990 version, but I don't think step 2 was included in the 2012 version. I could be wrong, but my understanding was that Quaid worked for the rebels knowing he was a double agent. The video recording that was activated by playing the piano had Quaid stating that he was Cohagen's agent with the mission of getting close to and killing the rebel leader. He said that this mission changed when he met Melina, and she showed him the &quot;truth&quot; about the rebels. So, we are lead to believe that Cohagen realized Quaid had turned, so he gave Quaid the false information about the kill code as an unknown source of disinformation. Then, to make the disinformation seem real, Cohagen captured, brainwashed, and hid Quaid from the rebels. By doing this and having the &quot;wife&quot; complicate things, he made it seem that the info Quaid found out was very important. Once the rebels got the &quot;average Joe&quot; Quaid to the rebel leader, they tried to access the information about the kill code in his brain. But, this just allowed Cohagen to trace the location of the rebels, since the code doesn't exist. In the 2012 version, it seems that Cohagen played Quaid from day one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, for the 2012 version, the purpose Quaid served as a factory worker was to be a &quot;trojan horse&quot; and unknowing double agent after he was brainwashed. This allowed Cohagen to pinpoint the rebel leader's location and kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1964" LastActivityDate="2012-08-27T17:57:17.940" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3936" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-27T18:18:33.313" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-08-27T18:18:33.313" LastActivityDate="2012-08-27T18:18:33.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3937" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-27T18:18:33.313" Score="0" Body="A bored, self-made billionaire entertains himself by stealing a priceless painting, and manipulating the police and a worthy adversary in an engrossing game of cat-and-mouse." OwnerUserId="1964" LastEditorUserId="1964" LastEditDate="2012-08-27T18:19:38.227" LastActivityDate="2012-08-27T18:19:38.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3390" CreationDate="2012-08-27T18:34:32.553" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;He doesn't detonate the bomb for two reasons. First, Bane explains that true torture comes from hope. This is the function of the hole they can climb to try to escape in the prison. When there is no hope, total despair overcomes people and nothing more can torture them when they have given up completely. If there is a perpetual reminder of escape, then hope keeps people suffering. Bane wanted to truly torture Gotham, with the hope that they might survive. Second, Bane wanted to punish Bruce for betraying Ra's and the League by making him watch Gotham's suffering. This was to break Bruce by showing him how he failed the entire city he betrayed the League for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1964" LastActivityDate="2012-08-27T18:34:32.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3939" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3941" CreationDate="2012-08-27T18:48:46.820" Score="17" ViewCount="1761" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, it is established that Bane would die for Talia, and that she is dedicated to completing Ra's Al Ghul's plan to destroy Gotham. It seems that Bane takes point as &quot;Gotham's reckoning&quot; to hide Talia's involvement and true identity. He seems to listen to her, and she takes control to finish the job at the end (the other members of the League seem to recognize her authority). She is also the one that has the detonator; so, she seems to be controlling this plan overall. She seems to be the hidden hand that controls the plan, and that she was the one that wanted to complete Gotham's destruction for her father. So, is Bane just following the orders of the child he is dedicated to protecting? Or, did Bane really plan everything, and Talia is just there to be a part of her father's original plan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1964" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-30T12:54:15.463" LastActivityDate="2016-04-30T12:54:15.463" Title="Is Bane just an agent in Talia's plan, or is he the true mastermind?" Tags="|character|analysis|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3940" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4084" CreationDate="2012-08-27T19:15:40.097" Score="8" ViewCount="3498" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Prometheus, we are lead to believe that the Engineers were planning on using the black goo as a biological weapon to end human life on Earth. At the beginning of the movie, black goo is used to create the DNA that would lead to human life. Humans don't seem super aggressive compared to the life forms created by the black goo in the airlock room. Is this the same black goo used to create human life in the beginning of the movie, as the black goo that created the hyper-aggressive worm and the giant squid Dr. Shaw gave birth to? Or, did the Engineers try to &quot;tweak&quot; this goo to perform different actions on DNA? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1964" LastActivityDate="2012-09-08T20:19:07.360" Title="Is the black goo used to create human life the same the Engineers intended to use as a biological weapon to destroy human life on Earth?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3939" CreationDate="2012-08-27T19:16:01.870" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that she has the detonator pretty much implies that &lt;strong&gt;she is the one in charge&lt;/strong&gt; (you in fact have pointed out the major key facts in your question supporting that theory). if you look at the issue Bane has nothing what so ever to do with Gotham or its reckoning he was even kicked out of the league. But for Talia it was more personal she knew Batman was responsible for her father's death and the reason to avenge him by completing Ra's Al ghul's plan in front of Batman by bringing Gotham to an end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bane was merely very loyal to Talia and was very much wiling to die for her plan. Her role in the plan was as much as important as Bane's was to get the confidence of Bruce wayne and Lucius Fox to get to know as much as possible about the Reactor while Bane was responsible for all the muscle work in bludgeoning Batman and Gotham to submission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2012-08-27T19:16:01.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3683" CreationDate="2012-08-28T02:56:31.420" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;They showed her looking at an emergency exit similar (if not the same one) to what Quaid and Melina used to climb to the top of the machine. It shows her looking through the exit door and seeing the machine falling, and that she is running out of balconies to jump out on. Then, the scene changes and you are left to assume that she jumped out of the emergency exit, or didn't make it (which we know she did).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1964" LastActivityDate="2012-08-28T02:56:31.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3945" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-28T06:30:51.423" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Horror fiction is a broad genre of fiction that is designed to scare or shock the viewer. Such movies or shows include events that induce feelings of fear or terror in the viewer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The horror genre includes a number of more &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_film#Subgenres&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;specific sub-genres&lt;/a&gt;, though most horror films tend to mix elements from different sub-genres. Some of the more popular are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Psychological Thriller - relies more heavily on subtle or implied terror, sound effects, and hidden/unseen antagonises; &lt;em&gt;Rosemary's Baby&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Shining&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Slasher - Focuses on a single or small number of serial killers that commit multiple violent and gory murders on screen. Frequently includes elements of the supernatural - &lt;em&gt;Friday 13th&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Nightmare on Elm Street&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Halloween&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gothic Horror - One of the oldest types of horror, frequently includes a romance as a core plot-line; &lt;em&gt;Dracula&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Sleepy Hollow&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Nosferatu&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Splatter - Includes scenes of extreme or excessive violence and gore; &lt;em&gt;Saw&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Hostel&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Zombie Horror - Depicts a world being taken over by zombies; &lt;em&gt;Dawn of the Dead&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;28 Days Later&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Horror films frequently include several &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HorrorTropes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tropes&lt;/a&gt; that are unique to the genre; the presence of these tropes is often a defining characteristic of a horror film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-11-29T00:38:30.240" LastActivityDate="2016-11-29T00:38:30.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3946" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-28T06:30:51.423" Score="0" Body="A genre of fiction in which events are focused on shocking or scaring the viewer by inducing feelings of terror or horror. Use this tag when asking questions pertaining to the overall genre of horror." OwnerUserId="1962" LastEditorUserId="1146" LastEditDate="2016-03-06T16:15:14.237" LastActivityDate="2016-03-06T16:15:14.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3947" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-28T06:31:56.693" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-08-28T06:31:56.693" LastActivityDate="2012-08-28T06:31:56.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3948" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-28T06:31:56.693" Score="0" Body="A motion picture rating system that is designated to classify films with regard to suitability for audiences in terms of issues such as sex, violence, substance abuse, profanity, impudence or other types of mature content." OwnerUserId="1962" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T00:14:51.263" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T00:14:51.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3949" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-28T06:35:02.650" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;An account of the historical development of both movies and television series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;History of film&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T11:30:48.720" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T11:30:48.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3950" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-28T06:35:02.650" Score="0" Body="An account of the historical development of both movies and television series." OwnerUserId="1962" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T11:30:48.720" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T11:30:48.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3951" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-08-28T06:36:13.663" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-08-28T06:36:13.663" LastActivityDate="2012-08-28T06:36:13.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3952" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-08-28T06:36:13.663" Score="0" Body="Questions regarding a particular section of a film or TV show." OwnerUserId="1962" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-09T06:27:48.197" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T06:27:48.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3953" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3955" CreationDate="2012-08-28T07:09:09.340" Score="5" ViewCount="1715" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched a horror movie approx 6 years before on TV about some kind of bee's which can turn human into Zombies by entering into their body mostly through their mouth or injuries .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people become zombies and tried to make more people like them.Its a Zombie Invasion type film but here human can easily tackle zombies but major problem is Bee's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Near the ending of movie the group of people discover that music is the weakness of Bee's and they use it to fight them but somehow the bee's become immune to music and human looses the fight and only one girl remains in the end and which too attacked by bee's in the last seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't remember the movie name and exact year of release. Any idea? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T10:55:42.110" Title="Identify a Horror film about bees which convert human into zombies" Tags="|horror|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:38:08.113" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3953" CreationDate="2012-08-28T09:05:13.653" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie you are looking for is probably &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287497/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Infested&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reelz.com/trailer-clips/23712/infested-trailer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here is the trailer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen it and I remembered the song (&quot;Da Da Da&quot; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trio_%28band%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Trio&lt;/a&gt;). It does not say anything about zombies in the description, but I think that this is the one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not clear enough from the trailer that the people are zombified, but there are a few hints (see the ending scene, where the woman &lt;strong&gt;lets&lt;/strong&gt; bees fly out of her mouth).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="418" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T10:55:42.110" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T10:55:42.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3963" CreationDate="2012-08-28T11:23:44.503" Score="40" ViewCount="8664" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167404/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Sixth Sense&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, several months(?) after an &quot;incident&quot;, child psychologist &lt;em&gt;Malcolm Crowe&lt;/em&gt; (Bruce Willis) takes up a new case: 8-year old &lt;em&gt;Cole Sear&lt;/em&gt; (Haley Joel Osment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S18hp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sixth Sense&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myreviewer.com/The_Sixth_Sense_Blu-ray_Review/a130569&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how did Crowe learn of Cole's issues? Given the &quot;state&quot; Crowe is in, it seems unlikely that it was Cole's mother who reached out for his help and hired him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who hired Malcolm Crowe to look after Cole Sear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-17T13:12:08.187" LastActivityDate="2023-09-10T08:05:08.053" Title="Who hired Malcolm Crowe?" Tags="|analysis|the-sixth-sense|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3957" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3959" CreationDate="2012-08-28T11:49:59.833" Score="55" ViewCount="10802" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071706/&quot;&gt;Juggernaut (1974)&lt;/a&gt; recently. There is a scene in the end of the movie when the bomb disposal expert, Fallon has to choose one of the two wires (red or blue) to cut in order to disarm the bomb. Finally, Fallon makes a choice by intuition. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen the similar scenes in several other movies (one of the parts of &lt;em&gt;Die Hard&lt;/em&gt;, for example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my questions are: What was the first movie to introduce &quot;cut the wire&quot; bomb disposal? Is it &lt;em&gt;Juggernaut&lt;/em&gt; itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick search on Google and IMDB didn't reveal any info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="564" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T09:48:43.190" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T09:48:43.190" Title="What was the first movie to introduce &quot;blue wire or red wire&quot; bomb disposal?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3957" CreationDate="2012-08-28T13:49:44.143" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of people seem to think &lt;em&gt;Juggernaut&lt;/em&gt; is the earliest film to use the &quot;wire dilemma&quot; trope.  I found references to it everywhere from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B0007URSVW?pageNumber=2&quot;&gt;Amazon reviews&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://rapgenius.com/Aesop-rock-number-nine-lyrics#note-273172&quot;&gt;rap lyrics&lt;/a&gt;.  Slightly more reliable references include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/2008/11/movies_you_should_own_juggernaut_terror_on_the_bri.php&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Movies you should own: Juggernaut (Terror on the Britannic)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The first film to develop the 'red wire/blue wire' dilemma, it's a tense piece directed by Richard 'Superman II' Lester, with dialogue by Alan 'Beiderbecke' Plater, that while featuring an all-star cast is in reality a mesmerising monologue by Harris and a musing on the nature of death. It's a movie you should own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blackholereviews.blogspot.com/2008/08/juggernaut-1974-very-british-disaster.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JUGGERNAUT (1974) - a very British disaster movie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's a scene in the film that's famous, but you probably don’t realise it was shown here first. Where the crucial decision has to be made – to cut the blue wire or the red wire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also the oldest film listed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WireDilemma&quot;&gt;Televison Tropes - Wire Dilemma&lt;/a&gt; article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-08-28T13:49:44.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3796" CreationDate="2012-08-28T15:07:26.087" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviequotesandmore.com/dark-knight-rises-quotes-1.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;quote from TDKR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JOHN BLAKE:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Those men, &lt;strong&gt;locked up for eight years in Blackgate&lt;/strong&gt;, and denied parole under the Dent Act. It's based on a lie.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless the prison was built in record time, this suggest it already existed &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/Dent_Act&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dent Act&lt;/a&gt; passed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/nailbiter111/news/?a=43300&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;memorial plaque&lt;/strong&gt; shows&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HW8f6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Blackgate&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means the prison was dedicatet to Harvey Dent 4 years after his death &lt;em&gt;(according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://timerime.com/en/timeline/81073/Brimverse+Nolanverse+AU/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this timeline&lt;/a&gt; Dent died in 2006)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-08-28T15:07:26.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3957" CreationDate="2012-08-28T15:52:14.850" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the &quot;deleted scenes&quot; in Griffith's 1915 silent &lt;em&gt;The Birth of a Nation&lt;/em&gt; had a red wire/blue wire bomb defusing dilemma.  The scene was cut because the color issue didn't work in a B&amp;amp;W film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1975" LastActivityDate="2012-08-28T15:52:14.850" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3962" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-28T18:21:22.947" Score="9" ViewCount="559" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genre&lt;/strong&gt; : Romance + Thriller (Thriller, in the sense there is no crime nor shooting)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Actors&lt;/strong&gt; : Male part is played by someone similar in age/appearance to Ryan Reynolds/Gosling. Female protagonist, not sure. There is a 3rd actress who is 'not much shown in scenes' but plays a &lt;em&gt;very important&lt;/em&gt; role in this movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Date&lt;/strong&gt; : A movie probably in the timeline 2003 - 2010. Its a 2000s movie anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Story&lt;/strong&gt;: I faintly remember it and there are 2 possible plots and one of them is right:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plot 1: The hero and heroine meet each other and fall in love and due to some turn of events get separated geographically and are remaining apart. In the course of the movie they are in their run to meet each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plot2: The hero and heroine have not met each other in person but knows about each other by some form of indirect communication. In the course of the movie they are in their run to meet each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Be it Plot1 or Plot2, the 3rd female actor I mentioned about is a friend of the female lover. She knows about the 2 lovers and their relationship. During the course of the movie she acts to keep them separated/meeting from each other. But this intention of hers is only revealed at the end of the movie and is the &quot;suspense&quot;. It turns out that it was only because this 3rd female character had a crush on the male protagonist. The 3rd character herself confesses about all what she had done to keep them from meeting each other. But eventually both the lovers are united.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1980" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-11T12:03:22.233" LastActivityDate="2013-05-11T12:03:22.233" Title="Identify a hollywood 2000's romance genre movie" Tags="|identify-this-movie|thriller|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:38:11.257" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3956" CreationDate="2012-08-28T19:23:40.050" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;No one hired Malcolm Crowe to look after Cole. Over the course of the movie it is established that Cole can see dead people and that reason the dead haven't moved on is because they have something they still need to see accomplished on earth (for example, the little girl who's mother had poisoned her wanted her father to know the truth). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all the pictures of Cole there is always a white streak around his head to signify that dead people that were always around him. Though it is never specifically spelled out, it is suggested that both Cole and Vincent (the patient that shot Malcolm) are inundated with the spirits of the dead. I don't think the dead even understand that they are drawn to the people with this gift, it just happens - like steel to a magnet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, Malcolm was drawn to Cole (instinctively) and as he (Malcolm) did not realize he was dead, he automatically fell into the roles and rites of his job - thus assuming that he was there to help Cole as a therapist. What was really happening though is that he was dead and had not moved on because of his guilt about not helping Vincent etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you watch carefully, after Malcolm is shot nobody speaks to him other than Cole for the rest of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-17T13:13:19.427" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T13:13:19.427" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3962" CreationDate="2012-08-28T19:45:47.480" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119738/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;My Best Friend's Wedding&quot;&lt;/a&gt; with Julia Roberts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per IMDB: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When a woman's long-time friend says he's engaged, she realizes she&#xA;  loves him herself... and sets out to get him, with only days before&#xA;  the wedding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It kind of sounds like the description above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1979" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T17:42:01.537" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T17:42:01.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3967" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3970" CreationDate="2012-08-29T04:58:57.040" Score="5" ViewCount="55810" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just back from seeing &lt;em&gt;The Expendables 2&lt;/em&gt; and was wondering what was the last song the Expendables team sing at the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1948" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-26T17:31:17.280" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T17:31:17.280" Title="What's the last song that the Expendables team members sing?" Tags="|ending|soundtrack|the-expendables-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3962" CreationDate="2012-08-29T05:58:53.910" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found it. The movie is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324554/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wicker Park&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember seeing the hero in a movie with Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis. I googled both the names together and bumped into &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425210/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lucky Number Slevin&lt;/a&gt; and searched the cast to find out the hero's name. Then from imdb I searched his movie list and got it :) I had seen this movie earlier. The 3rd character I was mentioning about is played by 'Rose Byrne'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1980" LastEditorUserId="1980" LastEditDate="2012-09-25T04:03:38.647" LastActivityDate="2012-09-25T04:03:38.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3967" CreationDate="2012-08-29T09:15:32.793" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are the lyrics of the team hymn:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Beware, Beware, Walk With Care&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Careful what You Do&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Or Mumbo Jumbo's Gonna Hoodoo You,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mumbo Jumbo Is Gonna Hoodoo You,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Boomlay, Boomlay, Boomlay, Boom!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a military cadence based on the 1912 Vachel Lindsay's poem &amp;quot;The Congo&amp;quot; (available &lt;a href=&quot;http://ipoet.com/archive/rhythmic/Lindsay/congo.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1929" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T17:28:52.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="353" CreationDate="2012-08-29T09:18:26.460" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems &lt;em&gt;The Good, the Bad and the Ugly&lt;/em&gt; is considered a sort of prequel, but this doesn't mean you need to watch it &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the other ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from the various &quot;pieces&quot; I've seen now and then, I've finally watched them &quot;completely&quot; using the order of release:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(1964) A Fistful of Dollars&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(1965) For a Few Dollars More&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(1966) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way the Trilogy, although Sergio Leone did not originally intend it to be a trilogy, is also called &lt;em&gt;&quot;Dollars trilogy&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastActivityDate="2012-08-29T09:18:26.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3972" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-29T16:35:24.607" Score="0" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2324/at-which-dream-level-did-inception-end&quot;&gt;At which dream level did Inception end?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was Leonardo DiCaprio dreaming in the last scene of the movie Inception or was that happened in reality? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2012-08-29T16:35:24.607" Title="Confusion Over Last Scene of Inception" Tags="|inception|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2012-08-29T16:57:19.627" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3973" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3974" CreationDate="2012-08-29T19:31:40.650" Score="7" ViewCount="720" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a somewhat obscure question, but through a bit of Googling and a bit of background work, I've been unable to find an answer.  I'm a UMD student, and have been trying to ascertain whether or not the shots of the University of Maryland in the X files are real, or shot somewhere in California.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are never action shots, simply lead characters walking into buildings, overhead shots of the campus, etc... It looks like the shots might be real (given that nothing too amazing happens), but as it was the early 90s, the landscaping has changed slightly (and it's a fairly standard east coast school architecture without an amazing amount of distinctive features).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is X Files shot on location at UMD's campus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1985" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T11:05:16.243" LastActivityDate="2017-06-07T00:05:12.613" Title="Is X Files shot on location at UMD's campus?" Tags="|film-location|the-x-files|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3973" CreationDate="2012-08-29T20:04:38.277" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106179/locations&quot;&gt;credits for locations&lt;/a&gt; do not list any Maryland locations. However, since there's no indications of how those locations were used, it would be difficult to identify what locations were used to represent UM, short of finding someone who actually recognizes the specific places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1357" LastActivityDate="2012-08-29T20:04:38.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3975" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4021" CreationDate="2012-08-29T21:28:31.237" Score="4" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102045/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hitman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Sal was enraged because he had been passed over for a plum assignment in favor of Grogan.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sal loudly expressed his outrage to the crime boss, but at a crucial moment the legal advisor &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/0zG-BiKm6KM?t=57s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interjects something in Italian&lt;/a&gt; (YouTube, NSFW language).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've long wondered what she said; can anyone provide a translation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="843" LastEditorUserId="843" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2016-03-31T04:05:41.267" LastActivityDate="2016-03-31T04:05:41.267" Title="What did the legal advisor say in The Hitman?" Tags="|translation|the-hitman|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3893" CreationDate="2012-08-30T08:02:39.223" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This explanation is given in &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Peter_Pettigrew&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry potter wikia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After his escape from capture at Hogwarts, Peter Pettigrew(Wormtail) had no choice but to rejoin&#xA;  his master, or Sirius and Remus would surely kill him. He went to&#xA;  retrieve Voldemort's wand, then travelled to Albania where he learned&#xA;  from the rats there of a place in the forest where the creatures&#xA;  feared to travel. They said a dark shadow (Voldemort) took over the&#xA;  animals and killed them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On his way to his master, Peter ran into Bertha Jorkins, a Ministry&#xA;  witch who was on holiday in Albania, while she had stopped at an inn&#xA;  for food. Although she recognised him, Pettigrew was able to lure her&#xA;  into the forest and overpower her, before handing her over to the Dark&#xA;  Lord. Under torture, Jorkins gave them information that helped&#xA;  Voldemort make plans for an attack on Harry Potter, including&#xA;  information on the Triwizard Tournament and the location of a faithful&#xA;  Death Eater. Voldemort's rudimentary body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pettigrew milked venom from Voldemort's snake, Nagini, to strengthen&#xA;  him and provide him with a rudimentary body. He carried Voldemort's&#xA;  weak, small body on the long journey back to Britain, where they took&#xA;  up temporary residence in the Riddle House outside of Little&#xA;  Hangleton. Voldemort called Peter by his Marauder name, &quot;Wormtail.&quot;&#xA;  Over time, Pettigrew tried unsuccessfully to convince Voldemort to use&#xA;  a wizard other than Harry Potter to rebuild his body, but Voldemort&#xA;  saw this as an attempt at desertion and claimed that Pettigrew was&#xA;  regretting ever returning to him in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no explanation of this in movies themselves, but it is explained in the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-02-24T17:17:16.907" LastActivityDate="2018-02-24T17:17:16.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3930" CreationDate="2012-08-30T14:54:01.847" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8sIhb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Aubrey &amp;amp; Dakota&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://awesomebadtv.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/i-know-who-killed-me-2007/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/IKnowWhoKilledMe?from=Main.IKnowWhoKilledMe&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aubrey's world is blue, Dakota's world is red.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://notcoming.com/reviews/iknowwhokilledme/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not Coming to a Theater Near You&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aubrey, the good girl, is always blue&lt;/strong&gt;. Blue filters, blue clothing, blue roses, blue uniforms for the high school football teams—right down to the blue gag the villain eventually uses on her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dakota, the bad girl, is always red&lt;/strong&gt;: red filters, red stripper outfits, red lipstick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-08-30T14:54:01.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3979" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-30T16:32:56.583" Score="3" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/1661/how-were-r2d2-and-c3po-made-in-the-original-trilogy&quot;&gt;How were R2D2 and C3PO made in the original trilogy?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found out that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000054/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;R2-D2&lt;/a&gt; was played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0048652/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kenny Baker&lt;/a&gt; and I am surprised. How did he control it? Did he really get inside it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T15:22:13.733" Title="How did Kenny Baker play R2-D2 in Star Wars?" Tags="|character|star-wars|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2012-08-30T21:25:42.187" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3981" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3982" CreationDate="2012-08-30T19:26:39.210" Score="15" ViewCount="1355" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a lot of Asian horror movies (particularly Japanese ones) a common motif is the ghost lady in white, with long black hair covering her face. The wide spread use of this image has led me to wonder if there's a cultural background to her in Asian horror folklore?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-21T22:48:36.387" LastActivityDate="2015-03-21T22:48:36.387" Title="Cultural Basis of Asian Ghost Lady" Tags="|horror|japanese-cinema|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3981" CreationDate="2012-08-30T20:49:41.353" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StringyHairedGhostGirl&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt; provides a good starting point on the subject:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An entity often seen in Japanese horror movies is a ghost, usually that of a young woman, with long, stringy black hair that covers her face, clad in a white burial kimono or shroud. Her face itself is often quite ghastly to look upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is actually a type of ghost known as an onryo, the ghost of a young woman who was greatly wronged by a man in life and now seeks vengeance on the living. Strangely enough, the man who actually did the wronging is often left untouched by the onryo, which is probably perceived as the way it should be in the traditionally male-dominated Japanese society...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White#Religion&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia sidenote&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some Asian and Slavic cultures, white is considered to be a color that represents death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is why they're wearing white.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now on to Wikipedia to learn &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onryo&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;about the appearance of the Onryo&lt;/a&gt;, which TV Tropes mentioned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Traditionally [citation needed], onryō and other yūrei had no particular appearance. However, with the rising of popularity of Kabuki during the Edo period, a specific costume was developed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Highly visual in nature, and with a single actor often assuming various roles within a play, Kabuki developed several visual shorthands that allowed the audience to instantly clue in as to which character is on stage, as well as emphasize the emotions and expressions of the actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A ghost costume consisted of three main elements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;White burial kimono&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wild, unkempt long black hair&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;White and indigo face make-up called aiguma.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, that part of the Wikipedia article is entirely unsourced, so I can't speak to the veracity of these claims.  Wikipedia also states the origins of the Onryo trace back to 8th century, but doesn't have a source for that either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tonight's &lt;em&gt;Saturday Night Live&lt;/em&gt;, provided a new clue for me.  A skit refers to this trope as a &amp;quot;mool-gwishin 물귀신&amp;quot; (that's the Korean written language), which some googling got to a few separate descriptions that mention the long haired, white robed ghost.  Wikipedia's article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwishin&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gwishin (귀신)&lt;/a&gt; states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gwishin are usually transparent, legless and float in mid-air. Old gwishin usually have white &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanbok&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hanbok&lt;/a&gt; (한복) which are worn for funerals. They have long, drooping black hair and sometimes they are faceless, depending on their personality. Male gwishin are somewhat rare, but they're like female ghosts, except female gwishin are more often heard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Korea has similar ghost legends that match the Onryo's description.  The summary for the gwishin (귀신) article provides some background detail on them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gwishin (귀신) are Korean ghosts who are similar to a Yogwi (요괴); they are people who have died, not monsters or creatures such as Dokkaebi. They can be found in many places, but are commonly in abandoned buildings, houses, cemeteries, forests, etc. When a person who dies without completing something that they must do (e.g. revenge or staying longer with their family), their spirit remains on earth to complete the task before going on to the underworld. However, very strong gwishin do not go to the underground world if they want to remain on earth, and over time these gain strength.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, one of the reasons gwishin (귀신) are around is to seek revenge, another similarity with the Onryo.  This looks like Korea has similar legends as Japan, which helps confirm this is an Asian ghost legend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-05-12T05:05:55.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3983" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-08-30T20:49:51.947" Score="14" ViewCount="6036" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3CVR9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Real World&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104001/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TRON: Legacy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Sam Flynn and Quorra escape into the real world, but I'm wondering how the &lt;em&gt;rematerialization process&lt;/em&gt; works on Quorra? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Digital or human?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nMPUM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bleeding&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sam bleeds, which prompts Rinzler to identify him as a &quot;User&quot;. The blood seems to suggest that Sam is still human in the Grid (&lt;em&gt;programs don't bleed, they de-rez&lt;/em&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In return, would that mean that Quorra remains &quot;digital&quot; in the real world? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it possible for Quorra to enter the real world? Is she still an ISO or flesh and blood?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T13:55:24.057" LastActivityDate="2017-10-04T18:48:23.027" Title="How does Quorra &quot;escape&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|tron-legacy|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3987" CreationDate="2012-08-31T01:28:49.887" Score="37" ViewCount="4586" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was told before that all the McBain clips on The Simpsons, though they may seem independent, when pieced together actually make a full film where each clip follows on from the previous one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've looked on YouTube but I couldn't find anything. Does anyone know if this is the case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastActivityDate="2020-02-17T23:16:54.287" Title="Do all the McBain clips in The Simpsons form a film when pieced together?" Tags="|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3986" CreationDate="2012-08-31T01:31:45.513" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;Funny or Die pieced all the clips together and can be seen here and they do make one long clip:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/BzjfrdcN1Z8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From FoD&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;McBain from the Simpsons is actually a full length film when you put them all together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="74724" LastEditDate="2020-02-17T23:16:54.287" LastActivityDate="2020-02-17T23:16:54.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="3988" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3991" CreationDate="2012-08-31T03:19:39.143" Score="24" ViewCount="334267" Body="&lt;p&gt;Katie Holmes played Rachel Dawes in Batman Begins but Maggie Gyllenhall played the character in The Dark Knight. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there any particular reason why Katie Holmes didn't continue on in the role?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-30T12:52:50.447" LastActivityDate="2016-04-30T12:52:50.447" Title="Why didn't Katie Holmes play Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight?" Tags="|casting|the-dark-knight|batman-begins|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3988" CreationDate="2012-08-31T04:52:44.553" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;No one can ever know if her public statements were the real reason(s), but she supposedly turned down coming back so that she could be in &quot;Mad Money&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1579619/katie-holmes-doesnt-regret-dark-knight-absence.jhtml&quot;&gt;MTV article&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Not at all. I had a great experience working with Chris Nolan [and] I'm sure it's going to be a great movie. [But] I chose to do this movie ['Mad Money'], and I'm really proud of it,&quot; she told MTV News.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1159" LastActivityDate="2012-08-31T04:52:44.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3988" CreationDate="2012-08-31T04:54:23.983" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;strong&gt;Julie Polkes&lt;/strong&gt;, a spokeswoman for Ms. Holmes,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Katie was offered but was unable to accept the role because of&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;scheduling conflicts&lt;/strong&gt;. She was in the process of negotiating for&#xA;  another project. In addition, when she returns to work, she would like&#xA;  to tackle a new character.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But according to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116977056966988402.html&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The studio is searching for a &lt;strong&gt;new actress who can replace Ms. Holmes&#xA;  in the big-budget picture&lt;/strong&gt;, for which the salary range likely would&#xA;  have been $1 million to $2 million, say these people, compared to the&#xA;  roughly $1 million she earned for &quot;Batman Begins.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="556" LastEditDate="2012-08-31T05:07:43.153" LastActivityDate="2012-08-31T05:07:43.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3983" CreationDate="2012-08-31T07:47:43.787" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While watching movie I thought she is like an Android in the real world but I was wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As said in &lt;a href=&quot;http://tron.wikia.com/wiki/Quorra&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tron.wikia of Quorra &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Quorra ultimately had her wish granted when she accompanied Sam on his&#xA;  journey back to the real world, apparently becoming a flesh-and-blood&#xA;  human in the process, and happily set off with Sam as he showed her&#xA;  the wonders of the physical world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She is flesh-and-blood human in real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In movies they never cleared this point, so it's just movie magic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-08-26T07:40:29.780" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T07:40:29.780" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3994" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4516" CreationDate="2012-08-31T10:04:14.643" Score="2" ViewCount="703" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end all nations were fighting with each other. America was fighting to save its helium 3 tanks on moon. Were they saved or destroyed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1720" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-08-31T12:16:54.070" LastActivityDate="2012-10-07T21:47:12.590" Title="What happened to the helium 3 tanks of america in movie Iron-Sky?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|iron-sky|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3931" CreationDate="2012-08-31T10:28:25.273" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;After digging a little, I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://horror-movies.wikia.com/wiki/Tommy_Jarvis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt; which states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ultimately, Tommy killed Roy in self-defense and exposed his true&#xA;  identity; nonetheless, this event seemed to push him over the edge,&#xA;  leading him to attack Pam while donning a hockey mask fortunately,&#xA;  however, Pam managed to return Tommy to his senses and help him&#xA;  recover before things went too far&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In movies this scene got cut, but this cleared my mind about this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T10:49:16.447" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T10:49:16.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3983" CreationDate="2012-08-31T13:35:09.933" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's answer this by asking a simple question - how is it possible for a human being to be 'digitized'? Once you accept the ideas that A) A human (I.E. organic, living being) can be digitized and then reformed as they were and B) That computer programs can have a distinct personality (such as Tron from the original film), then the idea that Quorra could become human is not far-fetched at all. The program that turned a digitized Sam and returned him back to his same body did the same thing with Quorra - effectively creating a human body where there was none.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2012-08-31T13:35:09.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3939" CreationDate="2012-08-31T13:38:30.333" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's also one bit which should answer this question. When Talia pulls the knife out of Batman and is about to walk away with the detonator, she plainly tells Bane to hold him until the explosion goes off 'so he can feel the heat.' Bane, being someone who has no qualms about snapping someone's neck, would not have taken that order so willingly unless he was, indeed working for her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2012-08-31T13:38:30.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3998" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="3999" CreationDate="2012-08-31T13:49:09.667" Score="4" ViewCount="195" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1778304/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Paranormal Activity 3&lt;/a&gt;, it is either alluded to or outright stated what is actually causing the hauntings/possessions that occur in the entire series.  I can't for the life of me remember if it was supposed to be a ghost, a demon, or something else.  What type of entity is supposed to be causing all of the events that are going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-09-26T07:49:09.093" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T07:49:09.093" Title="What's causing the hauntings/possessions?" Tags="|plot-explanation|paranormal-activity|paranormal-activity-3|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="3999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3998" CreationDate="2012-08-31T15:14:38.583" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://paranormalactivity.wikia.com/wiki/Demon&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paranormal Activity Wiki&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Demon is the main antagonist of the Paranormal Activity film series&lt;/strong&gt;, the demon haunts the families of two sisters, Katie and Krisiti. The Demon is then revealed to be Toby. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/paranormal-activity-ending-explained-2-kofi-137162/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ScreenRant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has a summary of the entire &lt;em&gt;Paranormal Activity&lt;/em&gt; movie trilogy in chronological order, with the connections between the films pointed out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-08-31T15:14:38.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4001" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4007" CreationDate="2012-08-31T19:55:58.253" Score="4" ViewCount="699" Body="&lt;p&gt;This weekend, Marvel's re-releasing &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; into theaters in the US.  At the moment there's little information on whether this release is identical to the original release.  Many blogs are taking the text of the release to suggest there's some new footage post-credits, but when I read it, it just seems like they're pointing people to not miss the shawarma &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=427199330671412&amp;amp;set=a.229675623757118.60886.126757470715601&amp;amp;type=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;scene&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marvel’s The Avengers is back in theaters for Labor Day Weekend!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don’t forget to stay through the credits and enjoy your shawarma!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this re-release identical to the original release?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T08:02:51.750" Title="Any differences between The Avengers releases?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|alternate-version|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4003" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4024" CreationDate="2012-08-31T22:10:00.410" Score="11" ViewCount="2613" Body="&lt;p&gt;When The Bride is in the Pussy Wagon in the hospital car park, thirteen hours elapse (which is stated in film as the time it took for her wiggle her toes) - surely during this time someone would have noticed Buck was dead and the police would have been called?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would this have not led to Buck's car being searched as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a deliberate mistake or an oversight?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-09-02T18:37:02.833" LastActivityDate="2014-05-15T23:14:47.173" Title="Time spent in the Pussy Wagon" Tags="|plot-explanation|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4004" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4016" CreationDate="2012-08-31T22:20:56.683" Score="13" ViewCount="1539" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the various scenes that take place in Japan, the characters sometimes speak English and sometimes Japanese, sometimes even a line in English as a reply to a line in Japanese or vice versa. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was made clear that The Bride can speak and understand Japanese, is there a reason they keep switching languages like that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T13:04:46.050" Title="Is there a reason for this language switching?" Tags="|kill-bill|dialogue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4006" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4014" CreationDate="2012-09-01T02:21:55.243" Score="6" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched a film that had the main protagonist attending a conference where the (iirc) American president was making a speech.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The speech referenced the politician doing different things and getting a number of votes from a specific states. As the joke progressed he would get more and more votes until the punch-line was something along the lines of 'smoked pot in college; California 20,000 votes'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please help me to find this film, it's driving me mad now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1996" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-09-01T03:42:14.103" LastActivityDate="2012-09-01T23:54:25.937" Title="Trying to find a film with a political joke about pot and california" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:38:17.513" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4001" CreationDate="2012-09-01T04:14:17.513" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got back from a showing, and it's the same release as before.  No new footage, no new post-credits sequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-09-01T04:14:17.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2513" CreationDate="2012-09-01T06:44:21.550" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember: Stark's father was studying the power of the cube. In &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 2&lt;/em&gt; he said only Tony could accomplish the creation of this new particle. It could have been a tesseract particle of some sort that Tony made with his new reactor. This could be why the spear of Loki didn't affect Stark. Just the same as the spear could affect the closing of the portal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1997" LastEditorUserId="8" LastEditDate="2012-09-21T17:21:48.080" LastActivityDate="2012-09-21T17:21:48.080" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4009" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4011" CreationDate="2012-09-01T06:48:04.383" Score="5" ViewCount="12435" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Into the Wild&lt;/a&gt;, Emile Hirsch keeps on reading a book at different times, such as night time. In some scenes, the cover of the book is slightly visible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the book he was reading?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1613" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T14:02:43.383" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T14:02:43.383" Title="What is the book that Emile Hirsch reads in &quot;Into the Wild&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|character|into-the-wild|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4001" CreationDate="2012-09-01T07:15:36.240" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure, there seemed be some subtle differences in the sound and several short reaction shots early on that I don't remember from previous viewings.  All my previous viewings have been Regal or AMC, this is the first time I have seen it at Cinemark.  Their different sound system may be making me imagine differences that aren't there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are differences, it only adds up to a total of 1 or 2 minutes through the whole movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1998" LastEditorUserId="1998" LastEditDate="2012-09-01T07:21:03.190" LastActivityDate="2012-09-01T07:21:03.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4009" CreationDate="2012-09-01T10:15:30.377" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can spot him &lt;em&gt;reading&lt;/em&gt; a few different books:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Family happiness&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Leo Tolstoy&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Call of the Wild&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Jack London&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doctor Zhivago&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Boris Pasternak&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and, of course, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tanaina plantlore, Dena'ina k'et'una&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Priscilla Russell Kari&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie You can also see the entire book collection is carrying (at about minute 20), featuring:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;War and Peace&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Leo Tolstoy&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Death of Ivan Ilych&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Leo Tolstoy&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Call of the Wild&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Jack London&lt;/em&gt;) [that I already cited]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;White Fang&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Jack London&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Taras Bulba&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Nicolai Gogol&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walden&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Henry David Thoreau&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Spectator Bird&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Stegner&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doctor Zhivago&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Boris Pasternak&lt;/em&gt;) [that I already cited]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Family Happiness&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Leo Tolstoy&lt;/em&gt;) [that I already cited]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the Krakauer's book, &quot;Supertramp&quot; was also carrying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crime and Punishment&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Fyodor Dostoyevsky&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Education of a Wandering Man&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Louis L'Amour&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moon-Face&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Jack London&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brown Wolf&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Jack London&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To Build a Fire&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Jack London&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Terminal Man&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Michael Crichton&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;O Jersualem!&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Larry Collins &amp;amp; Dominique Lapierre&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1929" LastActivityDate="2012-09-01T10:15:30.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4006" CreationDate="2012-09-01T14:25:37.957" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is &lt;em&gt;The Sum of All Fears&lt;/em&gt;, and the full quote you're thinking of is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My beautiful wife, Julie, is from New Jersey. 15 electoral votes... and is, as you know, half Jewish. So we'll take Florida's 25 electoral votes and divide by 2. My daughter, Jeanie, is expecting her first child. If it's a girl, she will be named Virginia. 13 electoral votes. In fact, even if it's a boy, he'll be named Virginia. She reminds me that I have publicly acknowledged that as a young Marine officer in Vietnam, I did, on a handful of occasions, smoke marijuana. &#xA;  [pause] &#xA;  California. 54 electoral votes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source for the quote is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164184/&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;, but I recognized the movie as I recently rewatched all the Jack Ryan movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2012-09-01T23:54:25.937" LastActivityDate="2012-09-01T23:54:25.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4015" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4019" CreationDate="2012-09-01T20:56:12.287" Score="35" ViewCount="11750" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following images illustrate my question;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k08lk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image 1&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5WwrY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image 2&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lvHbs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image 3&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Bart toys have a blue t-shirt when in the TV series he always wears a red t-shirt? Did he originally wear a blue t-shirt and have it changed to a red t-shirt at some stage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2016-11-08T09:05:39.387" LastActivityDate="2016-11-08T09:05:39.387" Title="Why did Bart Simpson toys have him wearing a blue t-shirt?" Tags="|character|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4004" CreationDate="2012-09-01T21:37:27.120" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Switching between languages is a trick which gives a sense of authenticity to the movie, without having to translate the entire film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are actually three ways to manage different languages in a movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using only one language and making the foreigners speaks with a different accent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Using every language when required, adding subtitles to the foreign languages&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Switching between the main language and the foreign one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the same stratagem on other Tarantino movies (e.g. &lt;em&gt;Inglorious Bastards&lt;/em&gt;) and on other classics involving mixed cultures (e.g. &quot;The Godfather&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1929" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-17T13:04:46.050" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T13:04:46.050" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4015" CreationDate="2012-09-02T05:22:58.167" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have found no definitive reason why this is the case, only a series of possible answers to this.  It would be great to find an interview with Matt Groening with an answer to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, early pictures of the Simpsons family from the days of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_shorts&quot;&gt;Tracey Ullman Show&lt;/a&gt; do sometimes have Bart in a blue shirt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KCfea.png&quot; alt=&quot;Simpsons Family Showing Bart in Blue Shirt&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Low resolution picture from Wikipedia - uploaded to Wikipedia as 'fair use')&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I have also seen on YouTube the early character with an orange colored shirt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There has been some speculation that the blue shirt is an easy way for some counterfeit merchandise made from pictures of the show to be spotted, as it will typically have a red shirt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blue shirt for merchandise, even if it started accidentally has become a 'meta joke' within the series, witness the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.snpp.com/episodes/CABF05&quot;&gt;Pokey Mom&lt;/a&gt; from 2001:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Homer:  That's not going to do it, Marge; you need something red.  &#xA;        [picks up Lisa, and waves her over the stadium railing]&#xA;        Hey, Toro!  Here's something to gore!&#xA; Lisa:  Da-a-ad!&#xA;Homer:  Not now, honey, Daddy's busy.&#xA;        [it works; the bull begins to charge toward Homer and &#xA;        Lisa]&#xA;        [pulls Lisa back into the stadium] Now, for a little &#xA;        calming blue.  [turns to Bart] Hey, where's your blue &#xA;        shirt.&#xA; Bart:  I don't have a blue shirt.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T14:05:09.657" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T14:05:09.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3369" CreationDate="2012-09-02T09:10:46.353" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I figured that Miranda was with Bane but was dissapointed that he ended up being just a fool in love. But when you think about it it does make sense . Bane was a purely rational and sane mercenary, so once it was established his main motive was not money then it had to be something else, LOS? but in reality he was a mercenary so doubt he shared their agenda n also they kicked him out before, so if its not money or ideology then it can only be love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2003" LastActivityDate="2012-09-02T09:10:46.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3975" CreationDate="2012-09-02T09:13:34.850" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;She says &quot;&lt;em&gt;hai visto e preso l'uomo migliore, non come questo stronzo&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It means &quot;&lt;strong&gt;You met and hired the best man, not like this asshole&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that she's not mothertongue and her pronunciation isn't very clear (she pronunces &quot;migliore&quot; as &quot;migliori&quot; that's plural, actually).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1929" LastActivityDate="2012-09-02T09:13:34.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4003" CreationDate="2012-09-02T09:46:06.887" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming that she stashed Buck in her room, it took time to discover its dead body.&#xA;Since she was in coma state, her room wasn't checked too often by the hospital personnel (maybe no more than twice a day).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, 12 hours isn't an unusual shift for a nurse, so its plausible that it took a lot of time before someone noticed him missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite that, yes, it could be a deliberate mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1929" LastActivityDate="2012-09-02T09:46:06.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4023" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4043" CreationDate="2012-09-02T10:18:28.880" Score="6" ViewCount="3355" Body="&lt;p&gt;While watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cabin_in_the_Woods&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Cabin in the Woods&lt;/a&gt; I thought the keeping of ghosts in a glass cabin was inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Ghosts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thirteen Ghosts&lt;/a&gt; and even the opening closing sequence of glass cabins also looks similar. Except 13 ghosts have more explanation how they are able to capture ghosts( through glass room with spells written on walls).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Thirteen Ghosts the first movie to show that ghosts can be captured in glass rooms or is it also inspired by some other movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-08T18:55:07.927" LastActivityDate="2012-11-08T18:55:07.927" Title="Is The Cabin in the Woods inspired by Thirteen Ghosts?" Tags="|first-appearance|the-cabin-in-the-woods|thirteen-ghosts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4003" CreationDate="2012-09-02T11:37:20.387" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Beatrix wakes up it's night. You understand it because everything is dark. When we see the scene of Beatrix laying in the bed before the mosquito bites her waking her up, the camera shows the room with a circular movement and you can clearly see the window being dark, the only light comes from the lamps above the beds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XWaGy.png&quot; alt=&quot;window screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;A screenshot of the window&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that most of the hospital personnel is sleeping and that only those who have a night shift will be there at the hospital, one of them being &lt;strong&gt;Buck&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Kill Bill: Vol. 1 FAQ on imdb, there is a question that says &lt;em&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266697/faq#.2.1.4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Are we really supposed to believe that she can stay in a dead guy's truck for 13 hours without the cops finding her?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the answer confirms what I said, also adding other theories (I added the numbers 1 and 2) and repeating what VoT said in his answer (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No, just like we are not supposed to believe that arterial spray is that insane and that a very, very old Chinese man can stand on the tip of an outstretched sword (as happens in vol. 2). The film generally does not take a hard, realistic tone. &lt;strong&gt;It's possible that it could have been near the beginning of Buck's eight hour (or possibly longer) shift when The Bride took him out.&lt;/strong&gt; Perhaps the next nurse coming in decided not to check on them for a while because s/he had other things to do, and no one found the bloody mess in the room for over thirteen hours. &lt;strong&gt;They were in the coma ward, where nurses possibly didn't check on the patients that often.&lt;/strong&gt; By the time he was found, with all the usual shock of the discovery of a double homicide, it's entirely possible they didn't get around to checking his truck by the time the Bride left. &lt;strong&gt;(1)&lt;/strong&gt; Not to mention, if they did check for his truck they would see that it was still there, and possibly wouldn't check inside. Seeing as how the truck wasn't stolen, they may not have found it necessary to check it. &lt;strong&gt;(2)&lt;/strong&gt; The Bride also takes the keys to Buck's truck, and without those for identification, no one else might have known which car belonged to Buck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastActivityDate="2012-09-02T11:37:20.387" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4023" CreationDate="2012-09-02T18:27:48.897" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading a plot summary of Thirteen Ghosts it seems like the ghosts are trapped by inscriptions written on the glass, so there is nothing specifically important about the glass rooms (please correct).   There is no indication in The Cabin in the Woods that the glass rooms had a similar confinement - the use of glass seems unimportant - perhaps other confinement is required for the non-corporeal residents of the facility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Cabin in the Woods deliberately pulls on all sorts of standard tropes about horror movies and government conspiracy.  Rather than being inspired by the glass rooms from Thirteen Ghosts, it seems like The Cabin in the Woods is rather more inspired by the trope of 'secret government facility' with aliens or monsters held in confinement, usually in glass rooms.  As an example of this trope, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892782/&quot;&gt;Monsters v Aliens&lt;/a&gt; has such a facility, with most of the monsters kept in glass cells in a very similar arrangements to The Cabin in the Woods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As TylerShads indicates in his comment - there are many references to other horror stories in the movie, the whole point of the story is to imply that there is some sort of reasoning behind horror cliches.  It may be a 'nod towards Thirteen Ghosts, but inspired would perhaps taking it too far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-09-02T18:39:39.133" LastActivityDate="2012-09-02T18:39:39.133" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4026" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-02T19:22:46.717" Score="10" ViewCount="1679" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching both Total Recall versions back to back I was struck by a very similar anomaly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both movies Quaid starts out bugged so Cohagen's people can track him (in the Arnold version he pulls a bug from his nose, in the Colin Farrell version the bug is extracted from a phone embedded in his hand). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Quaid escapes the initial hunt and settles down somewhere safe, he is immediately found again and an attempt is made to persuade him he is still at Rekall. Not much time seems to have passed since the escape and the removal of the bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question arises: How did the government track him so fast with no bugging device?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="16523" LastEditDate="2016-06-08T20:32:32.117" LastActivityDate="2019-12-10T10:10:00.747" Title="How does Cohagen track Quaid after the bug is removed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|total-recall|total-recall-2012|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3879" CreationDate="2012-09-03T10:50:31.847" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seem to remember the whole point of the exchange (before Bruce made his final attempt) between him and the doctor was that he had to be scared to be able to make it out - Bruce had told his cell mate several times that he wasn't scared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the fact that he had to be scared meant that he had to walk to the edge and jump from there. The fear of not making it from a standing jump could have given him what he needed to make it. At least, that's my interpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1475" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T10:36:22.270" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T10:36:22.270" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4026" CreationDate="2012-09-03T12:49:41.983" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not seen the remake but I remember in the original the entire thing was in Quaid's mind.  The evidence is when they are putting him under and they ask him to describe his perfect girl and he says something like 'brunette, athletic, sleazy' and on the monitor they show Melina, the girl he meets later in the bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either they happened by co-incidence to show a model inspired by what Quaid said which looked EXACTLY like a random girl on a different planet which he later met or it was the same girl and everything from then on was a part of Quaid's dream state - which is why is pretty much happened exactly as described in the sales pitch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you consider that then it makes sense that Cohagen's men would find Quaid and there would be an exciting fight sequence where he out-smarted and out-fought everyone as that is what he has paid for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS - please do not downvote this because you do not agree he was in a dream state unless you have any evidence for why you think I am wrong and do not forget that I am referring only to the original, I have not seen the remake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-02T14:38:38.937" LastActivityDate="2014-07-02T14:38:38.937" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3775" CreationDate="2012-09-03T12:52:40.620" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you considered the possibility that the film was not real and actually was the dream that Quaid bought?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would explain why everything happened the way it was explained in the sales pitch and why the girl on the monitor when Quaid described his perfect girl looked exactly like the girl he met on Mars later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise there was a very low chance of the plan actually working as so many co-incidences had to line up and that does not include the fact that Cohagen's henchmen did not know the plan and kept trying to kill Quaid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-09-03T12:52:40.620" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4031" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4033" CreationDate="2012-09-03T18:31:17.550" Score="6" ViewCount="1786" Body="&lt;p&gt;They have the Tower of Hanoi puzzle in Rise of the Planet of the Apes but for some reason they call it the Lucas Tower. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason why they would change the name of such an iconic puzzle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-12T19:03:48.910" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T19:03:48.910" Title="Tower of Hanoi in Rise of the Planet of the Apes" Tags="|rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4031" CreationDate="2012-09-03T19:35:52.710" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Tower of Hanoi was first popularized in the western world by a French mathematician named Lucas, so perhaps scientists are more likely to call it by its more formal name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastActivityDate="2012-09-03T19:35:52.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4031" CreationDate="2012-09-03T19:52:34.620" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The names are interchangeable :)&#xA;The &lt;em&gt;Tower of Hanoi&lt;/em&gt; aka &lt;em&gt;Tower of Brahma&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Lucas' Tower&lt;/em&gt; was &quot;invented&quot; (in the west) by the french mathematician Edouard Lucas in 1883.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;From Wikipedia:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Tower of Hanoi is frequently used in psychological research on&#xA;  problem solving. There also exists a variant of this task called Tower&#xA;  of London for neuropsychological diagnosis and treatment of executive&#xA;  functions. (...) The Tower of Hanoi is also used as a test by&#xA;  neuropsychologists trying to evaluate frontal lobe deficits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I agree with you: in psychological research we rarely refers to it as &quot;Lucas Tower&quot;. It's much more frequent to call it &lt;strong&gt;Hanoi Task&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;Tower of Hanoi&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1929" LastActivityDate="2012-09-03T19:52:34.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3933" CreationDate="2012-09-04T02:25:03.323" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostinreviews.com/2011/03/source-code-interview-with-duncan-jones-and-ben-ripley/&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with director Duncan Jones and writer Ben Ripley, Ripley explains that each time Colter goes back he enters a parallel reality (so he is not changing the past, he is accessing the last 8 minutes of a different reality experienced by Sean Fentress). Inhabiting Sean’s body/mind, he learns a bit more which he can take with him on the next “trip.” The conundrum is whether these parallel realities already exist or are they being created by the act of sending Colter back? In the end, he goes into a reality where he is the one that stops the bomber, which in a linear world, connects to a different future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ripley: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And I think that Source Code is different in that it says if&#xA;  something happened in our past, you can’t change it.  And that’s in&#xA;  line with what theoretical physicists are saying these days.  You&#xA;  can’t change it, but what you can do via Source Code, or some other&#xA;  technology, is access a kind of parallel track.  Now, was this&#xA;  parallel reality there to begin with always, and we just kind of&#xA;  opened a portal?  Or by virtue of sending him there did we actually&#xA;  create it?  I think that’s actually, even headier.  And the end of the&#xA;  movie, when she gets the text message, implies that Source Code‘s much&#xA;  more powerful than you realize.  Vera Farmiga, we actually created you&#xA;  by sending me back on that train.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duncan: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...we reset and we rejoin the story in a parallel reality.  One where&#xA;  a train has not blown up on it’s way to Chicago, but (one where) poor&#xA;  Sean Fentress is now inhabited by Colter Stevens, and there is a body&#xA;  waiting to be sent on a mission at Vera Farmiga’s facility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Rutledge know what the Source Code would do? Ripley refers to Rutledge as “the bad guy who’s just obsessed with the technology he created.” I think that indicates that he did know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-09-04T02:25:03.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3868" CreationDate="2012-09-04T03:34:52.100" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to this copy of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scribd.com/doc/104526560/198/INT-CAVE-PRISON-MORNING&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; (p. 127):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wayne puts some scraps of bread into a rough coat which he folds into&#xA;  a makeshift shoulder pack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-09-04T03:34:52.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4026" CreationDate="2012-09-04T16:38:26.100" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can only speak for the 2012 remake. They find him in his old apartment building and try to persuade him he is still at Rekall. If he is trying to figure out who he is, it is a logical assumption for those hunting him that he might end up at his old apartment to look for clues. His apartment is sealed by police tape, so the apartment or building could very easily have been under some type of surveillance. Also, he was carrying an unconscious Melina through the building and entering an apartment that was taped off by the police.  People in the building could have reported this.  So, it could be that they had a hunch he would go there, and verified he was there by people witnessing him entering the building carrying a woman. Or, the apartment was under surveillance in the first place. Melina did say that they shouldn't have come here, so it seems they would have been found there eventually for any of the above reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1964" LastActivityDate="2012-09-04T16:38:26.100" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3923" CreationDate="2012-09-04T22:00:52.847" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing so dramatic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prior to Sesame Street's creation, Jim Henson (creator of the Muppets) already had a show called &lt;em&gt;The Muppets&lt;/em&gt;. The cast of this show are the Muppets of &lt;strong&gt;The Muppets&lt;/strong&gt; franchise (including the movies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When The Children's Television Workshop started developing &lt;strong&gt;Sesame Street&lt;/strong&gt; they wanted puppets to be part of the program, so they asked Jim Henson to provide these puppets. So Jim Henson developed a separate cast of Muppets for Sesame Street, but also added his signature character from the original Muppets: Kermit the Frog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why the two franchises have different characters, and thus different rights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2022-08-13T17:36:53.133" LastActivityDate="2022-08-13T17:36:53.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="387" CreationDate="2012-09-05T08:24:34.207" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This interested me a lot too. What happened to Thomas Granger, why did he come back and why does he pass out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly as soon as they discover that Granger has come back they realise it could only have been because of an emergency. It could be argued that since he was financing Abe and Aaron he would have been in the best position to discover or be told about the machines. Its quite likely something went wrong with regards to Rachel's ex and he killed someone. Maybe he killed  all 3 (Rachel, Aaron and Abe) and Granger found the failsafe. Why didn't he warn them about their deaths? Maybe because he couldn't get near Aaron without going into a coma. Why couldn't he? Its unclear, maybe because of paradoxes involving Aaron dying and Abe surviving. Abe realised he couldn't go back because of the paradox and thought Granger could fare better than him and he was waiting to talk to Abe alone when he was in the car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In either case its unclear if Thomas Granger appears in timeline that the viewers are sent to when Abe uses the failsafe because it never gets that far. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2011" LastActivityDate="2012-09-05T08:24:34.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4023" CreationDate="2012-09-05T11:13:00.627" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/interview-cabin-in-the-woods-co-writer-director-drew-goddard/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview with director and co-writer &lt;strong&gt;Drew Goddard&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question:&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;Out of all the horror movies you've seen, pick one that you feel pushed your inspiration more than any other with &quot;Cabin in the Woods&quot;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Drew Goddard:&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;I don't know that I can pick one. Let me pick three. I'm gonna pick &lt;strong&gt;&quot;The Thing&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, I'm going to pick &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Dr. Strangelove&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, and I'm going to pick &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Evil Dead&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. Let's go with those three.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those &lt;em&gt;glass cabins&lt;/em&gt; are actually &lt;strong&gt;elevators&lt;/strong&gt;, and only glass on two sides.&#xA;&lt;br&gt;They move in three dimensions and spin/rotate (&lt;em&gt;which reminds me of the 1997 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123755/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bQDar.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Glass Elevators&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Speculation:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;Glass was used so one can see what's inside, not because it has any special &lt;em&gt;ghost trapping&lt;/em&gt; properties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-09-05T11:13:00.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4044" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-05T13:21:22.863" Score="9" ViewCount="22701" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Cube series is a really complicated movie series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285492/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hypercube&lt;/a&gt;, Kate gives a device to some serious guys (military guys maybe). This device was taken from Alex Trusks' neck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the purpose of this device?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jj7dI.png&quot; alt=&quot;Closeup of the device&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-08T09:37:13.497" LastActivityDate="2015-03-08T09:37:13.497" Title="What is the device taken from Alex Trusks at the end of Hypercube?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|cube-2-hypercube|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4044" CreationDate="2012-09-05T14:23:55.343" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was some sort of storage device with confidential information on it.  I don't remember many other details though as to why she was looking for it or who had it initially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-20T02:59:43.463" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T02:59:43.463" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="706" CreationDate="2012-09-05T14:33:41.637" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Satan has free will but don't forget that the Devil is controlled by God. He's like a dog on a leash. The Bible calls him a toothless lion all he can do is go after the weary and try to tempt or frighten them.  Remember how he got &lt;em&gt;permission&lt;/em&gt; from God to go after Job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is God uses him to test people's faith. But of course, Satan wants more than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jesus closed the road to keep the strangers from getting into a car accident which would've killed them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2012" LastActivityDate="2012-09-05T14:33:41.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2336" CreationDate="2012-09-05T15:22:03.057" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;According an unofficial &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8263477/4/Marvels-The-Avengers-Script&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; she said the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Romanoff: боже мой. (Pronounced Bozhe moĭ - Russian for, 'my God'.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastActivityDate="2012-09-05T15:22:03.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4048" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4049" CreationDate="2012-09-05T15:32:07.567" Score="16" ViewCount="5913" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_(James_Bond)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jaws&lt;/a&gt; is one of the iconic henchmen in the James Bond series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there any explanation given in any of the films as to how Jaws ended up having metal teeth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T14:43:53.947" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T14:43:53.947" Title="How did Jaws get metal teeth?" Tags="|character|james-bond|moonraker|the-spy-who-loved-me|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4048" CreationDate="2012-09-05T15:54:27.000" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Jaws&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;James Bond Wiki&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Most of the background information on Jaws comes from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0228970/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Christopher Wood&lt;/a&gt;'s novelisation of the film &lt;em&gt;The Spy Who Loved Me&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Wood's novel, &lt;strong&gt;Jaws's real name is Zbigniew Krycsiwiki&lt;/strong&gt; and he was born in Kraków, Poland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Krycsiwiki was arrested by the secret police for his part in the &amp;quot;1972 bread riots&amp;quot;. While imprisoned the police &amp;quot;beat him with hollow steel clubs encased in thick leather&amp;quot; until they thought he was dead leaving his jaw broken beyond repair&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Krycsiwiki later escaped and stowed aboard one of &lt;a href=&quot;http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Karl_Stromberg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stromberg&lt;/a&gt;'s vessels. Eventually he was caught; however, instead of turning him in Stromberg hired a prestigious doctor to create an artificial jaw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;After 14 operations Krycsiwiki's jaw was restored using steel components&lt;/strong&gt; that created two rows of terrifying razor-sharp teeth. The result of the artificial jaw left Jaws a mute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;However&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Since none of the above is actually mentioned in either movies &lt;em&gt;[&amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076752/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Spy Who Loved Me&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079574/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Moonraker&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;]&lt;/em&gt; this is not necessarily considered canon.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;While Jaws is a mute in Wood's novelizations, he does speak in the film &amp;quot;Moonraker&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(this contradiction is a bit odd, since Wood also wrote the &amp;quot;Moonraker&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;The Spy Who Loved Me&amp;quot; film scripts)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-09-05T16:38:41.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3973" CreationDate="2012-09-05T18:00:22.253" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every single episode in the first five seasons was filmed entirely within the greater Vancouver area in British Columbia, Canada. Every single episode in the last four seasons was filmed entirely within Southern California. The only exceptions are the establishing shots of the FBI building and aerial views of DC, both from stock footage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2013" LastActivityDate="2012-09-05T18:00:22.253" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4052" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4053" CreationDate="2012-09-06T16:10:25.610" Score="5" ViewCount="465" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to remember the name of a film I haven't seen years. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the bits I can remember (its been a long time since I seen it so the details are lacking)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It involves the Japanese Yakuza (possibly different Yakuza gangs) but in America (I think).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The main actor is an american cop trying to arrest a member of the gang or avenge someone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The main actor I think if I remember correctly always seems to travel about on a motorbike.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think the film ends with a gunfight at a graveyard or something like that and a motorbike chase.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2018" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-09-07T17:51:32.650" LastActivityDate="2012-09-07T17:51:32.650" Title="80's Yakuza Film" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:38:20.633" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4052" CreationDate="2012-09-06T16:16:34.400" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are thinking of Michael Douglas in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096933/combined&quot;&gt;Black Rain&lt;/a&gt;. He plays a NYC detective, probably crooked, who is sent to Japan to chase down a Yakuza gang boss who is trying to get into US Currency counterfeiting, something they don't discover for awhile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He races street bikes on the NYC waterfront as a hobby, and as a way to make quick cash. Since he is spending way beyond his means, he is under investigation by Internal Affairs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His NYC buddy during his Japan trip is Andy Garcia, who is killed as a warning to him. His Japanese counterpart detective never really trusts him, and Michael Douglas takes some liberties with the way he conducts the investigation in Japan, causing him to be expelled by the Japanese Police, an order he ignores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final scene has motorbikes chasing him in a Japanese vineyard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="1319" LastEditDate="2012-09-06T16:30:30.037" LastActivityDate="2012-09-06T16:30:30.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2900" CreationDate="2012-09-06T17:41:59.720" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are the full floorplans of the Huxtable home from &lt;strong&gt;the Cosby Show&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;First Floor (&lt;em&gt;Piano Terra&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZYUDq.gif&quot; alt=&quot;First Floor&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Formal Dining Room&lt;/strong&gt; (Sala Pranzo)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kitchen&lt;/strong&gt; (Cucina)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cliff's Studio&lt;/strong&gt; (Studio Cliff)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Basement&lt;/strong&gt; (Cantina)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Living Room&lt;/strong&gt; (Salotto)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Entrance&lt;/strong&gt; (Ingresso)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Second Floor (&lt;em&gt;Primo Piano&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tUpIE.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Second Floor&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bathroom&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Bagno&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vanessa &amp;amp; Rudy's Room&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Vanessa &amp;amp; Rudy&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Theo's Room&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Camera Theo&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cliff &amp;amp; Clair's Room&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Camera Cliff &amp;amp; Clair&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sondra &amp;amp; Denise's Room&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Camera Sondra &amp;amp; Denise&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1929" LastActivityDate="2012-09-06T17:41:59.720" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="949" CreationDate="2012-09-06T20:23:10.527" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My memory of some of the details is a bit fuzzy, but I'll give it a shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During season 2 or 3, we're told that Tyra had a 1.9 GPA after her freshman year. Yet her goal was to attend a 4 year college - not a community or junior college - which would look at more than just GPA. It follows that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tyra had to make huge and immediate improvements in her grades to achieve an acceptable overall GPA. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tyra was apparently intelligent/academically capable, so her poor grades were ostensibly the result of years of inadequate effort. As a sophomore, she thus lacked some of the skills needed to achieve her desired grades, further impeding her efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To improve her grades, she had to make lifestyle changes: less partying and less skipping school.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tyra had to accomplish this without initial support from her mom (her mom originally told her that she wouldn't be able to afford college) and without a father of any sort. This environment had produced an underachieving teenager with low self-esteem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tyra needed extracurricular activities to improve her college application: physics club (season 1?), volleyball (season 2?) &amp;amp; student body president (season 3?).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In season 2 or 3, (I believe) we're told that she failed to meet her GPA goals Sophomore year (season 1), which would make her need to improve her grades/extracurriculars in seasons 2 &amp;amp; 3 increasingly desperate and helps to explain the continuation of this subplot for two more seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, OP's observation about de-aging seems accurate. During season 1, I assumed that Tyra was a senior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2017" LastEditorUserId="2017" LastEditDate="2012-09-26T05:21:07.370" LastActivityDate="2012-09-26T05:21:07.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1943" CreationDate="2012-09-06T21:50:10.730" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The gimmick in &lt;em&gt;Gremlins 2: The New Batch&lt;/em&gt; with the projector is actually inspired by the film &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tingler&quot;&gt;The Tingler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; which first introduced it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently &lt;em&gt;The Tingler&lt;/em&gt; was screened in theaters and in drive-ins. When the film went black, a voice warned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ladies and gentlemen, please do not panic. But scream! Scream for your lives! The Tingler is loose in this theater!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the drive-in version, the voiceover was changed to say&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ladies and gentlemen, please do not panic. But scream! Scream for your lives! The Tingler is loose in this &lt;strong&gt;drive-in&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course in 1959 there was no such thing as home video. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-11-05T15:18:55.263" LastActivityDate="2014-11-05T15:18:55.263" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2012-09-06T22:07:54.990" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;After seeing the preview to the new movie Skyfall, I think there might be another possible explanation.  In the preview, they introduce Q for the first time in the reboot. They also seem to imply that Q is going to &quot;revitalize&quot; MI6, maybe with more emphasis on tech support instead of purely physical methods of getting information (as Daniel Craig has done in the earlier movies). Perhaps there are not as many gadgets because this reboot emphasizes the beginning of 007 and is before Q is there to create the gadgets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1964" LastActivityDate="2012-09-06T22:07:54.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4060" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-07T08:44:24.710" Score="33" ViewCount="42278" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;'s plot summary of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082971/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Raiders of the Lost Ark&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;(all images are taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://sites.google.com/site/youngindyfilmlocations/indiana-jones-film-locations/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-film-locations&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Indiana Jones&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Marion&lt;/em&gt; leave Cairo to escort the Ark to England on board a tramp steamer. The next morning, their boat is boarded by Belloq and the Nazis, who once again steal the Ark and kidnap Marion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hCD8D.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bantu Wind&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indiana stows away on their U-boat and follows them to an isolated island in the Aegean Sea&lt;/strong&gt; where Belloq plans to test the power of the Ark before presenting it to Hitler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bSsDL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Submarine&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nWQg5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Journey&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How exactly did Indy &amp;quot;stow away&amp;quot; on the submarine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2020-09-04T07:24:36.327" Title="How did Indiana Jones manage to follow Marion to the Island?" Tags="|plot-explanation|indiana-jones|raiders-of-the-lost-ark|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4060" CreationDate="2012-09-07T10:00:23.183" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/indiana-jones-and-the-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-script-links/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;script&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; reveals that &lt;strong&gt;Indy attaches himself to the periscope&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Indy climbs the ladder to the top of the turret and braces him-&#xA;         self between the two uprights there--the 7 foot radio mast&#xA;         and the 20 foot periscope.&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Still the ocean comes up to&#xA;         meet him.  Soon the top of the turret is under water and&#xA;         the radio mast is disappearing.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Indy shifts his grip to&#xA;         the periscope, working his way up it and hanging on for&#xA;         dear life as the ocean whips at his body.  The periscope is&#xA;         quickly going under. Indy hangs on to the top three feet,&#xA;         all that remains above.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The forward movement of the sub continues, but, to Indy's&#xA;         slowly dawning delight, the dive stops.  No more of the&#xA;         periscope goes under.  Indy smiles; it's a pretty good&#xA;         smile, too, given the circumstances.  &lt;strong&gt;Indy pulls out his&#xA;         bullwhip and begins  tying himself to the periscope.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;And it seems that at least some of this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theraider.net/films/raiders/deleted_scenes.php&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;was filmed&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The periscope ride&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is the most well-known of the Indy cut scenes, by virtue of being the one most crucial to the plot. &lt;strong&gt;This scene explains how Indy survived his trip at sea attached to a submerged submarine&lt;/strong&gt;. As the sub descends, he climbs up and grabs hold of its extended periscope. He then lashes himself to it with his whip for the long trip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tc38u.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Model&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MRadO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Model&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BcmOc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Live&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;This cut scene did make it into the &lt;a href=&quot;http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark_%28comic%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marvel Comics adaption&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L1d5c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Comic&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indianajones.de/indy1/texte/deleted.php#&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-09-07T10:00:23.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3753" CreationDate="2012-09-07T15:01:45.403" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Resident Evil (2002)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alice spends several hours negociating the hive before being apprehended near the exit. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She wakes up a day later in Racoon City Hospital &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil%3a_Apocalypse&quot;&gt;Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Picks up right where the first movie ended, with Alice exiting the hospital&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fights for the entire day and night&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the morning the helicopter goes down and Alice is recovered by the Umbrella team. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Three weeks later she awakens and escapes the Umbrella facility&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil%3a_Extinction&quot;&gt;Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Five years after the initial outbreak the world is a wasteland. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alice and the motey crew band together for a few days. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After Umbrella's attempt to apprehend Alice in Las Vegas, Alice decides to take the fight to them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alice discovers her clones&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil%3a_Afterlife&quot;&gt;Resident Evil: Afterlife&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alice and her clones travel to Tokyo to confront Albery Wesker (presumably this takes at least a day to get from Nevada to Japan)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The facility is destroyed and all of the clones perish&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6 months later Alice goes to Alaska to find the supposed safezone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After meeting up with Claire, they both decide to head to LA&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Upon defeating Wesker Alice decides to setup a safe haven on the Arcadia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2d + 1d + 3w + 5y + 2d + 1d + 6m + 1d = 5 years, 7 months (or 6 months and 4 weeks). Give or take a few days for traveling to Japan, traveling to Las Vegas, and other unknown time frames.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the release of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1855325/fullcredits#cast&quot;&gt;Resident Evil Retribution&lt;/a&gt; on September 14, 2012, no doubt Alice will spend even more time fighting the Umbrella corporation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastActivityDate="2012-09-07T15:01:45.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4063" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4066" CreationDate="2012-09-07T16:29:32.250" Score="25" ViewCount="49072" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull&lt;/a&gt;, a short while after the beginning of the movie, Irina Spalko captured Indy and forced him to lead the U.S soldiers military base which contains bunch of crates. Then, they opened a highly magnetic crate which contained a weird creature. Meanwhile, Indy attempted to escape, however the attempts failed because Mac was pointing a gun at Indy's head and then revealed &lt;strong&gt;he's a spy working for the Soviets&lt;/strong&gt;. In that time, Indy and Mac had a conversation and then finally Spalko asked, 'No defiant last words, Dr. Jones?' to Indy. He replied, '&lt;strong&gt;I like Ike&lt;/strong&gt;'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/a3/indiana-jones-crystal-skulls-script.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is the script of the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;INDY: Drop the guns, or Colonel Dr. Spalko is dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MAC TURNS HIS GUN ON INDY&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;INDY: Why, Mac?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MAC: Well, what can I say, Jonesey? I'm a capitalist, and they pay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;INDY: After all those years we spent spying on the Reds? I thought we were friends, Mac.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MAC: I've had a run of bad luck with the cards lately, mate. Awful. Bloody awful. I can't go home empty-handed again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SPALKO: No defiant last words, Dr. Jones?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;INDY: I like lke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does 'I like Ike' mean in this particular context?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Indy say that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2020-08-19T14:59:32.680" LastActivityDate="2021-06-17T07:13:12.927" Title="Why does Indiana Jones say 'I like Ike'?" Tags="|dialogue|indiana-jones|the-kingdom-of-the-crystal-skull|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3983" CreationDate="2012-09-07T17:44:48.227" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How is it possible for Quorra to enter the real world?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is stated specifically that Flynn's exit was placed far away from the population to avoid stray programs from &lt;code&gt;wandering in.&lt;/code&gt; This implies that any program could have exited if they had access to Flynn's disc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also stated the CLU has found a way to not only bring himself, but all of his minions into the real world. He places Flynn's disc in a holder high in his ship, presumably so the exit effect would take everyone on the ship with him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there was no danger of letting programs (or ISOs) re-materialize into the real world, Flynn wouldn't have had to make the necessary precautions of placing the exit far away, and requiring his data disc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is she still an ISO or flesh and blood?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flynn spoke about Quorra as a solution to all of the real world's problems. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kevin Flynn: Yeah. The last ISO.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Sam Flynn: All this time, you were just protecting her.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Kevin Flynn: She's the miracle, man. Everything I ever worked for. &quot;A digital frontier to reshape the human condition.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Sam Flynn: I always thought that was a plug line.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Kevin Flynn: &lt;strong&gt;In our world, she can change everything.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads me to the conclusion that she didn't rematerialize as a human. Or maybe she is the perfect human, with no flaws (ie such as maybe no genetic flaws, or perfect disease immunity or something). I don't think she is an android, if a program came through it would just try to complete its programming. Perhaps she is a new lifeform that takes on the shape of a human. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T13:57:18.203" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T13:57:18.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4063" CreationDate="2012-09-07T18:11:46.130" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Irina Spalko was a KGB operative communist working for the Soviet Union. She was attempting to obtain the Crystal Skull in order to give the USSR an advantage over the Americans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ike&lt;/strong&gt; was a nickname for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, staunch opponent of communism. &amp;quot;I like Ike&amp;quot; was one of his campaign slogans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theraider.net/films/indy4/multimedia/kingdomofthecrystalskull.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;screenplay&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The barrel of Mac’s gun, pointing directly at Indy’s head.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;INDY (cont’d) Why Mac? Why? *&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;MAC What can I say, Jonsy, I’m a capitalist. And they pay. *&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;INDY After &lt;strong&gt;all those years we spent spying on the Reds&lt;/strong&gt;?! I thought we were friends Mac.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;SPALKO No defiant last words, Dr. Jones?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;INDY I like Ike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indiana Jones was clearly opposed to communism and at the time President Eisenhower was the strongest force against communism. And given that Jones had just learned his friend betrayed him, he wanted to show that he was still loyal American.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2021-06-17T07:13:12.927" LastActivityDate="2021-06-17T07:13:12.927" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4067" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-07T19:01:09.770" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A period of movies ranging from the year 1980 to 1989.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_in_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1980s in Film&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_in_television#1980s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1980s in Television&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T09:14:31.867" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T09:14:31.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4068" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-07T19:01:09.770" Score="0" Body="A period of movies and television ranging from the year 1980 to 1989. To be used on ID-questions or questions pertaining to the 80s in general, not for questions on individual movies or TV-shows." OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-12T14:45:22.670" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T14:45:22.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4069" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4070" CreationDate="2012-09-07T20:06:50.573" Score="15" ViewCount="8361" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, when Indy is going through the cave to get to the grail, he goes through several different obstacles.  Either my memory is wrong or he was muttering to himself about different &quot;clues&quot; on how to get through.  What were these &quot;clues&quot; and where did they come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-09-10T15:51:41.880" LastActivityDate="2012-09-10T15:51:41.880" Title="Where did the clues come from?" Tags="|plot-explanation|indiana-jones|indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4069" CreationDate="2012-09-07T20:46:16.443" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The three challenges&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/Temple_of_the_Sun&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;were&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Breath of God&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Only the penitent man will pass&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Word of God&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Only in the footsteps of God will he proceed&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Path of God&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Only in the leap from the lion's head will he prove his worth&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indy used his father's&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/Grail_diary&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grail Diary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;to guide him through the traps:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BgYLx.png&quot; alt=&quot;Henry Jones's Diary&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Grail Diary&lt;/em&gt; was a possession of Doctor Henry Jones, Sr. In it, he recorded all of his findings on the topic of the &lt;em&gt;Holy Grail&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the study of which he had made his life's work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He did many travels between America and Europe, contacted many scholars and sought several historical documents during his studies, always carrying it with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indy's knowledge of his father's research in the diary helped him slip past the traps in the Grail Temple&lt;/strong&gt; and recover the Grail to save his wounded father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LwlKI.png&quot; alt=&quot;Diary&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3YC32.png&quot; alt=&quot;Diary&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KwzXa.png&quot; alt=&quot;Diary&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(the above images are from &lt;a href=&quot;http://zenseeker.net/GrailDiary/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;, which contains an extensive amount of information about the diary)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-09-10T15:50:16.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4071" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-07T23:04:08.613" Score="4" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one episode of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThePhilSilversShow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Phil Silvers Show&lt;/a&gt; (aka Sgt. Bilko), Bilko buys a racehorse and wants to get rich by sponsoring him at the races.  Of course, they had to feed the horse, and a fair amount of the comedy of the episode was based on the premise that all the men thought that oats were disgusting and only fit for horse food.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today that seems very strange; they're a well-loved staple in America and elsewhere.  And that's hardly a new cultural phenomenon, since oats have been grown as food for both man and livestock for thousands of years. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why, on a TV show from the 1950s, was the contemporary audience expected to find the characters' discomfort at having to eat oats funny?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2023" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T16:53:21.263" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T16:53:21.263" Title="What did Sgt. Bilko &amp; co. have against oats?" Tags="|analysis|the-phil-silvers-show|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4072" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-08T10:04:30.277" Score="6" ViewCount="6492" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Enemy of the State&lt;/a&gt;&quot; last night and at one stage I was convinced some of the stuff (such as the satellite tracking) was a bit far fetched. But given the age of that movie and the fact that terrorist attacks are often foiled it's probably not unrealistic to an extent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How realistic is that stuff and given that the movie is so old, are techniques even further advanced than they are portrayed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2024" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T16:54:26.487" LastActivityDate="2016-06-29T12:38:11.803" Title="How realistic is the surveillance in the movie &quot;Enemy of the State&quot;?" Tags="|realism|enemy-of-the-state|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4071" CreationDate="2012-09-08T12:19:30.897" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bilko gets the oats by signing a &quot;requisition form&quot;, but it turns out he signed a &quot;volunteer requisition&quot; for a &lt;em&gt;personnel survival test&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The test is about &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;surviving on nothing but oats&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Bilko points out that it was a mistake, the Major from the Medical Corps is dissapointed and orders the oats to be put back on the truck. But because Bilko needs the oats he quickly agrees to take part in the experiment after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So four of Bilko's men have to eat nothing but oats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KF1Jx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Oats&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgZP9rc6Ni8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-09-08T12:19:30.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4074" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-08T15:20:22.000" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-09-08T15:20:22.000" LastActivityDate="2012-09-08T15:20:22.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4075" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-08T15:20:22.000" Score="0" Body="Simulated effects or imagined events in a story through the use of optics, mechanics, or computer generated effects that portray or convey non-natural environment, conditions or characters." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-09-08T15:20:22.000" LastActivityDate="2012-09-08T15:20:22.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4076" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-08T15:26:33.363" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-09-08T15:26:33.363" LastActivityDate="2012-09-08T15:26:33.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4077" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-08T15:26:33.363" Score="0" Body="Summer 2012 Bruce Willis film where a young boy and girl fall in love and run away together causing various town members to search for them and the town is turned upside down -- which might not be such a bad thing. " OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-09-08T15:26:33.363" LastActivityDate="2012-09-08T15:26:33.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4078" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-08T15:30:13.563" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Breaking Bad is a TV show which ran on the AMC Network.  The show portrayed a chemistry teacher who contracts cancer and attempts to provide for his family by producing meth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For prequel TV series Better Call Saul, use tag &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/better-call-saul&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;better-call-saul&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;better-call-saul&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-03T11:00:39.293" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T11:00:39.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4079" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-08T15:30:13.563" Score="0" Body="For questions about the AMC TV show Breaking Bad, its plot, characters or other references" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-03-06T20:24:28.910" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T20:24:28.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4081" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-08T15:34:51.467" Score="0" Body="Franchise films featuring the character Indiana Jones in a series of adventure films, starting in 1981 with Raiders of the Lost Ark. The character is an archeologist and archeology professor.  The first 5 films star Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2023-07-08T12:44:02.650" LastActivityDate="2023-07-08T12:44:02.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4082" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-08T15:40:44.703" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total Recall&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1990 science fiction film starring &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Arnold Schwarzenegger&lt;/a&gt;, based on the short story &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_Wholesale&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;We Can Remember It for You Wholesale&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Philip K. Dick&lt;/a&gt;, involving a character who realizes the memories of his life experiences are merely implantations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions using this tag should be related to &lt;strong&gt;Total Recall (1990)&lt;/strong&gt; or the Total Recall franchise in general. For questions exclusive to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2012 remake&lt;/a&gt;, please use &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/total-recall-2012&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;total-recall-2012&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;total-recall-2012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Total Recall on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall_%281990_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T17:58:27.903" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T17:58:27.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4083" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-08T15:40:44.703" Score="0" Body="A science fiction film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, based on the short story of Philip K. Dick (&quot;We Can Remember It for You Wholesale&quot;), involving a character who realizes the memories of his life experiences are merely implantations." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="4174" LastEditDate="2013-08-19T13:49:03.957" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T13:49:03.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3940" CreationDate="2012-09-08T20:19:07.360" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.t3.com/features/ridley-scott-reveals-prometheus-secrets-to-t3/Ridley-Scott-interview-Part-4--Prometheus-Spoilers--Secrets&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with director Ridley Scott and writer David Lindelof indicates that it is the same liquid, but their film is intentionally ambiguous about what exactly the liquid does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David Lindelof: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So there’s a speculative part of it – the question becomes, “What does&#xA;  the black goo do?” That is the question that you’re supposed to be&#xA;  asking coming out of this movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The movie demonstrates what it does in certain circumstances. So,&#xA;  here’s what it does if it gets on worms; here’s what it does if it&#xA;  gets on your face; here’s what it does if someone just puts a little&#xA;  bit of it in your drink. Now we see that lots of this is headed to&#xA;  Earth. Now, you used the word “weapon” – you’re extrapolating that&#xA;  based on the theory Janek [Idris Elba] has, because it looks like a&#xA;  payload to him; all these ships are loaded with this stuff, and&#xA;  they’re headed for Earth. The intent has to be to wipe us out, or is&#xA;  it to evolve us, or is it for something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These are all hopefully questions and points of debate – frustrating&#xA;  for some – but ultimately the kind of science fiction. Why the two&#xA;  movies that Ridley did decades ago are still being discussed is this&#xA;  idea that when you walk out of the cinema that you have to go into a&#xA;  community and start to discuss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For his part, Scott quips that the goo does three things: cleans your teeth, acts like Viagra, and causes a meltdown in the morning!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-09-08T20:19:07.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4088" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-08T21:52:12.887" Score="0" Body="A television drama on PBS dealing with the turn-of-the-century (20th) English Upper Class Crawley family of the Downton Abbey estate, their experiences with technology advances, personnel issues in times of social class 'warfare', political advances, and their own familial interpersonal issues." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-09-08T21:59:12.270" LastActivityDate="2012-09-08T21:59:12.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4090" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-08T22:06:14.210" Score="0" Body="Animated television dramedy which started its life as animated shorts on the Tracey Ullman show to progress into the longest-running prime-time (animated or otherwise) television show, starting its prime-time life in the 1989-1990 television season for Fox Broadcasting Network, itself just out of its own studio infancy." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="798" LastEditDate="2014-05-20T00:57:28.653" LastActivityDate="2014-05-20T00:57:28.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4092" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-08T22:13:49.320" Score="0" Body="2011 Action thriller concerning a man whose mission objective is resolved through multiple insertions of his consciousness into the bodies of others known to be victims of crimes for the last 8 minutes of their lives. His current objective is to find the perpetrator of a bombing. " OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T12:48:32.193" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T12:48:32.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4094" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-08T22:19:35.897" Score="0" Body="Silent movies are dialogue-free movies generally of the early movie era, though some attempts to make them recently have been pursued. Could also refer to the film of the same name from 1976 by Mel Brooks, whose plot outlines comedically the pursuit of making a silent film as a director's artistic expression." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-09-08T22:19:35.897" LastActivityDate="2012-09-08T22:19:35.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4096" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-09T01:04:00.713" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-09-09T01:04:00.713" LastActivityDate="2012-09-09T01:04:00.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4097" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-09T01:04:00.713" Score="0" Body="1966 Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood collaboration where the main character played by Eastwood is similar to that of other Leone films. The plot concerns the race to the location of a hidden cache of gold coins stolen from a Civil War payroll. Eastwood conveys &quot;The Good&quot; opposite Lee Van Cleef &quot;The Bad&quot; and Eli Wallach &quot;The Ugly&quot; in the race to the prize." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-09-09T01:04:00.713" LastActivityDate="2012-09-09T01:04:00.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4098" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-09T01:15:54.520" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Long-running CBS television comedy series portraying the lives of a group of young professionals of NYC, their relationships, together and separately. Loosely plotted through the story-telling of the main character, Ted Mosby of the future, explaining to his children how the relationship to his wife, their mother, developed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show started in 2005 and ended in 2014. There are 9 seasons and a total of 208 episodes of 22 minutes each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Links&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Met_Your_Mother&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460649/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_How_I_Met_Your_Mother_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;List of episodes (wikipedia)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="34492" LastEditDate="2017-01-18T16:41:36.850" LastActivityDate="2017-01-18T16:41:36.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4099" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-09T01:15:54.520" Score="0" Body="Long-running CBS television comedy series portraying the lives of a group of young professionals of NYC, their relationships, together and separately. Loosely plotted through the story-telling of the main character, Ted Mosby of the future, explaining to his children how the relationship to his wife, their mother, developed." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T23:52:56.637" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T23:52:56.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4101" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-09T01:20:43.813" Score="0" Body="Star Wars! American Grafitti! Indiana Jones! Superstar Writer, Producer, Director of some of Americas's iconic movies." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-09-09T01:20:43.813" LastActivityDate="2012-09-09T01:20:43.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4102" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-09T01:26:04.867" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-09-09T01:26:04.867" LastActivityDate="2012-09-09T01:26:04.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4103" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-09T01:26:04.867" Score="0" Body="Jaws! E.T.! Gremlins! Back to the Future! Schindler's List! Jurassic Park! Superstar Writer, Producer, Director of some of America's iconic movies." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T17:03:35.687" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T17:03:35.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4104" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4106" CreationDate="2012-09-09T04:58:05.950" Score="73" ViewCount="118819" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark&quot;&gt;Raiders of the Lost Ark&lt;/a&gt;, at the Ark opening ceremony the Nazi troops brings the &lt;strong&gt;Ark of the Covenant&lt;/strong&gt; to the top of the mountain as Belloq said something before opening the Ark. Then they took the sand from the Ark and suddenly spirits coming out from the Ark and they're all killed (except Indy and Marion) by the freed-spirits which came from the Ark. Meanwhile, Indy asks Marion to &lt;strong&gt;keep her eyes shut&lt;/strong&gt;. They didn't see the Ark when it was opened, so they're survived.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m83JcNoNQ-4&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt; link of that scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/m83JcNoNQ-4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that scene what I don't understand is &lt;em&gt;how did Indy know not to look into the Ark when it was opened?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T17:01:23.473" LastActivityDate="2017-06-23T05:35:10.953" Title="How did Indy know not to look into the Ark?" Tags="|plot-explanation|indiana-jones|raiders-of-the-lost-ark|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4105" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17728" CreationDate="2012-09-09T05:50:56.423" Score="5" ViewCount="998" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm currently working my way through the tv series &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt; (currently on early season 5, watching via Netflix Streaming).  One thing that strikes me as odd is that at the end of some episodes, there is a preview of upcoming episodes (e.g. S5E5).  The word 'Soon' appears and then the preview scenes play, then the episode's end credits roll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I'm watching via Netflix, I assumed I was missing some context here, like these were mid-season breaks.  But, looking up this latest episode where there's a preview, there wasn't a mid-season break at this point in the season, so whatever the reason was for this specific episode to have a preview, it's not apparent to me.  In addition, since I'm watching it via Netflix Streaming, I'm not sure if these previews were so sporadic when the show aired, or maybe they were present at the end of each episode when they originally aired, and then most of them got removed as part of the editing for the Netflix version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do some &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt; episodes end with previews, and others don't?  Is there something special about these specific episodes that isn't immediately apparent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2012-09-09T19:14:23.780" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T21:08:07.453" Title="Why do these specific Supernatural episodes have previews?" Tags="|supernatural|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4104" CreationDate="2012-09-09T09:26:49.780" Score="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There was a&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theraider.net/films/raiders/deleted_scenes.php&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;deleted scene&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;that explained it&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A plot element involving the Ark of the Covenant was cut from the film and is only hinted at during the finale when the Ark is opened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Basically, &lt;strong&gt;there were 2 rules about the Ark not mentioned in the final cut of the film&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you touch the Ark, you die&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you look at the Ark when it is opened, you die&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is first explained in additional dialogue for the scene when Indy and Sallah visit Imam. Before translating the writings on the headpiece that give the height of the Staff of Ra, &lt;strong&gt;Imam warns Indy not to touch the Ark or look at it when it is opened&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4MhHt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Imam&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/Imam&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The next scene involving this Ark subplot is when Sallah and Indy remove the Ark from the Well of the Souls. When Sallah first sees it he reaches out to touch it. Indy stops him before he does and reminds him of Imam's warning. Then &lt;strong&gt;they insert long poles through each side of the Ark to lift it out of its crypt.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XnSAn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poles&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/Ark_of_the_Covenant&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Notice that nobody ever touches the Ark throughout the rest of the film until the finale.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;And from the &lt;strong&gt;Bible&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(King James Version)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%206:19&amp;amp;version=KJV&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1 Samuel 6:19&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;  &lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, &lt;strong&gt;because they had looked into the ark of the Lord&lt;/strong&gt;, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Samuel%206:6-7&amp;amp;version=KJV&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2 Samuel 6:6-7&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, &lt;strong&gt;Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it&lt;/strong&gt;; for the oxen shook it. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; &lt;strong&gt;and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2012-09-11T11:38:12.697" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T11:38:12.697" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2157" CreationDate="2012-09-09T09:51:41.067" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Loki was being sarcastic you see if Thor fell he would not die but be injured (as you would be after such a big fall) causing him to dissappear for a while to recover. If he was away for a while people would give up the idea of him being immortal and think he just died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2028" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T14:07:14.120" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T14:07:14.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2050" CreationDate="2012-09-09T11:58:52.653" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What establishment was he trying to enter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name of the club was &quot;Score&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LOYES.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=score&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;urban dictionary&lt;/a&gt; definition and Brandon's choices before and after the bouncer's refusal of entry, I have a feeling it was a sex club.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And why was he denied entry?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer was not was clear.  Brandon was trying to sneak past him so I would guess he'd been there before.  It seems to me whatever moral or legal &quot;rules&quot; he'd broken previously, the Bouncer enforced his suspension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastActivityDate="2012-09-09T11:58:52.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4109" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-09T15:55:04.813" Score="8" ViewCount="168620" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384537/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Silent Hill&lt;/a&gt; again, but I couldn't really understand its ending. Rose and Sharon seem to be forever trapped within the foggy dimension, but neither of them seem to really understand that. They are no longer in Silent Hill, but neither are they in the &quot;real&quot; world. Sharon seems to be possessed, but the ending is very vague about everything. I have read some opinions on IMDb, but neither were truly answering my question, or else I wasn't able to understand them. Are the games vital to the understanding of the movie (I have played none of them)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens to the girls at the end of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="418" LastEditorUserId="32199" LastEditDate="2018-12-07T12:50:13.473" LastActivityDate="2020-06-21T05:35:01.720" Title="What happens to the girls at the end of the movie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|silent-hill|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4113" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-09T19:55:16.133" Score="13" ViewCount="2297" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/myuU6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Giant Door&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3666446080/tt0024216&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;King Kong (1933)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A massive wall protects the native village from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_%281933_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;King Kong&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. But if you build a wall to keep a giant ape out, why would you put a door in that's conveniently his size?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the purpose of the &lt;em&gt;Kong-sized&lt;/em&gt; door? &lt;em&gt;(Do the remakes from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_%281976_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1976&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_%282005_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2005&lt;/a&gt; address this?)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T17:07:20.363" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T17:07:20.363" Title="What's the purpose of the giant door?" Tags="|analysis|king-kong-1933|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4113" CreationDate="2012-09-09T22:54:47.800" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have only seen the 1933 and 2005 versions, neither of which address the origin or purpose of the door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only explanation that I have read about this is that the human inhabitants of Skull Island chose a defendable peninsula, and built the wall to make themselves an enclave.  The map from the 1933 picture is below, showing the peninsula as 'village' - a significant portion of the island so likely to have been infested by dangerous creatures whilst the wall was being built.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MSbD1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Map of Skull Island - From Wikipedia - Fair Use&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being able to herd dinosaur sounds implausible, but no more implausible than being able to build the wall in that environment in the first place.  Maybe they used fire to scare the creatures off and herd them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The gap in the wall and the door was built to allow the final dangerous creatures such as dinosaurs to leave the enclave when the wall was complete, and then humans closed the door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I was an islander however, once the door had been slammed shut, I would be bricking it up as well though!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-09-09T23:03:01.563" LastActivityDate="2012-09-09T23:03:01.563" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4109" CreationDate="2012-09-10T08:22:22.953" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not really think that the video game series is vital to the understanding of the movie Silent Hill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, concerning the Silent Hill games, there are several of them, but they all deal with different stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, the 1st game Silent Hill deals with a guy named Harry Mason who searches his adoptive daughter Cheryl after a car accident, while the game Silent Hill 2 talks about James Sunderland who decides to go to Silent Hill town after receiving a letter from his deceased wife Mary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, even though all the games have different stories, they still have common things like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the main characters need to survive against a lot of creepy monsters, in a scary alternate dimension (for information, only some game scenarios occur in the town Silent Hill, but not all of them)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the player need to solve crazy puzzles&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;short vision range: sometimes when exploring the games, you have thick snow and / or no light (so, the player need to use a flashlight and BOOH! Here comes a creepy monster ;P )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;ambiguous endings: according to the paths you followed during the games, you can have a &quot;good&quot;, &quot;bad&quot;, or &quot;joke&quot; (= crazy funny ending which can include UFOs for example) ending.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When playing a given game, you may find some references to another game, but these do not consist in a essential link to continue your quests and to succeed in the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When watching the movie, you notice that the adaptation shares similar stuffs coming from the video game series, but the story remains different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the end of the movie, I think that they wanted to keep this ambiguous feeling and let the spectators decide what would be the ending. So, it would be up to us to decide what happens: they may be still trapped in this hell dimension, or they might be possessed, or they might be trapped in their mind or some kind of nightmare (I think that in one of the video game, there's an ending where you finally understand that the main character was actually insane or in a coma... I will have to check that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1991" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T10:51:00.770" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T10:51:00.770" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4109" CreationDate="2012-09-10T10:35:49.397" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, in the movie, they are in different dimensions. When they go back home and Christopher is in the same room, they cannot see each other. Also the color of the scene is different to suggest that (that is the same chair):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G9WUx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yz8VT.png&quot; alt=&quot;real dimention&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One theory (I cannot find some backup canon sources) states that they stay there because Alessa doesn't want them to leave. I'll add something if I can find some definite answer to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastEditorUserId="1319" LastEditDate="2012-09-10T10:47:27.757" LastActivityDate="2012-09-10T10:47:27.757" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4118" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4126" CreationDate="2012-09-10T13:40:19.877" Score="2" ViewCount="6827" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the cabby saying (and in what language) in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100449/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Quick Change&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/k0PvMpHHwjY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T17:08:08.510" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T16:53:37.893" Title="What is the cabby saying in Quick Change?" Tags="|dialogue|quick-change|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4069" CreationDate="2012-09-10T15:14:10.027" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The clues came from the the Chronicles of St. Anselm.  Professor Jones found them there and wrote them into his Diary&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Professor Henry Jones:&lt;/em&gt; Well, he who finds the Grail must face the final challenge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Indiana Jones:&lt;/em&gt; What final challenge? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Professor Henry Jones:&lt;/em&gt; Three devices of such lethal cunning.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Indiana Jones:&lt;/em&gt;  Booby traps?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Professor Henry Jones:&lt;/em&gt; Oh, yes. &lt;strong&gt;But I found the clues that will safely take us through them in the Chronicles of St. Anselm.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Indiana Jones:&lt;/em&gt; [pleased] Well, what are they? &#xA;  Can't you remember? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Professor Henry Jones:&lt;/em&gt; I &lt;strong&gt;wrote them down in my diary&lt;/strong&gt; so that I wouldn't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastActivityDate="2012-09-10T15:14:10.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4121" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-10T17:29:22.863" Score="13" ViewCount="35855" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Dark Knight Rises movie, Bruce Wayne visits the doctor and is diagnosed with cartilage problems. That is, he has no cartilage. Is the knee bracing device that he uses meant to heal the cartilage or brace the knee or both? Is it a real medical device?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2032" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T23:04:35.100" Title="What is the device that Bruce Wayne uses to heal/brace his knee in Dark Knight Rises?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4072" CreationDate="2012-09-11T03:09:09.120" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technology will have moved on in even the 15 years since &lt;em&gt;Enemy of the State&lt;/em&gt; was being put together, and much of that movement has been in precisely the areas you mention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=10&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;ved=0CGgQFjAJ&amp;amp;url=http://ftp.rta.nato.int/public//PubFullText/RTO/EN%255CRTO-EN-SCI-209///EN-SCI-209-05.doc&amp;amp;ei=k6JOUNuNIs6S0QXSzYCgDQ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFDCohwkl1hJa9_isNUzud8QoWalw&amp;amp;sig2=MqdK1IX6AnkjOMC0GhoxoA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this paper&lt;/a&gt; includes a chart showing how satellite camera resolution continues to improve, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://internationalsocialist.org.uk/index.php/2012/07/the-drone-wars-and-us-strategy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; confirms the increased military use of &quot;drone&quot; (unmanned) planes, which are more often configured for surveillance than attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Police forces in the UK &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/24/police-unmanned-surveillance-drones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;are or soon will be&lt;/a&gt; using small drone helicopters that will be too high up and quiet for you to hear, but easily capable of seeing when you illegally drop a cigarette butt on the pavement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1789157.stm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;According to statistics, the average [UK] citizen is caught on CCTV cameras 300 times a day&lt;/a&gt;, and according to that BBC link, analysts expected a tenfold increase in the next five years after 2002 when that article was written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't find a source, but I recall reading a few weeks ago of plans install dozens of sensitive directional microphones in Wembley Stadium, that with a bit of trivial processing power will enable operators to focus on a whispered conversation while 90,000 other people are shouting &lt;em&gt;&quot;Goal!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also consider Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Conversation&lt;/a&gt;, where Gene Hackman brilliantly portrays a paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert. I'm not convinced the technology at the time was actually as good as what was portrayed, but it's &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; better today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't have to be particularly paranoid to see the direction things are headed. Many &quot;possible&quot; technologies are never really taken up, but surveillance equipment is definitely on a roll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="170" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T16:56:41.030" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T16:56:41.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4060" CreationDate="2012-09-11T03:33:57.610" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does the film actually show the submarine submerged for its journey?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Raiders of the Lost Ark &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;is set in 1936&lt;/a&gt;, the pre-World-War-II era.  Unlike nuclear submarines today, &lt;strong&gt;U-boats of that time weren't capable of long journeys while submerged&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;U-boats traveled on the surface, propelled by diesel engines.  They would dive to periscope depth to follow ships and attack.  They would dive deeper only in order to avoid detection or attack by enemy ships.  Speed was severely limited while submerged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because diesel engines need oxygen for combustion, underwater operation required electric engines powered by batteries.  These batteries had to be recharged periodically by running the diesel engines—which, therefore, the U-boat could only do while surfaced.  It simply wasn't practical or even possible for a U-boat to be submerged all the time;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a couple of sources on this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike nuclear submarines, which could dive to depths of over 1,000 feet, travel thousands of miles submerged and remain on patrol for months at a time, the u-boat can operate submerged only for brief periods at a time.  (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uboataces.com/uboat-type-work.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;UBoatAces.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because speed and range were severely limited underwater while running on battery power, U-boats were required to spend most of their time surfaced running on diesel engines, diving only when attacked or for rare daytime torpedo strikes.  (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-boat#World_War_II&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was no reason for the submarine to submerge at all, even to periscope depth.  Indy simply rode on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conning_tower#Submarines&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;conning tower&lt;/a&gt; until the submarine got near the cave, and then jumped or climbed off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(By the way, for a real-life example of a submarine from the same time period, visit the Museum of Science &amp;amp; Industry in Chicago, IL.  There you can tour the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-505&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;U-505, a German submarine captured by American forces during World War II&lt;/a&gt;.  The U-505 and its fellow &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Type_IX_submarine#Type_IXC&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Type IX U-boats&lt;/a&gt; were manufactured in 1935 and 1936.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1064" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-03-03T21:12:34.440" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4118" CreationDate="2012-09-11T04:43:30.617" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds like he is a non-English speaking person imitating a New York cabbie saying, &quot;Where the hell to?&quot; Only he doesn't understand the answer because he doesn't speak English. He also doesn't understand traffic laws.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been suggested that he was speaking Arabic since he is of Lebanese descent, but this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/11906/A_HandsOn_Actor/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; dispels that notion since he does not speak Arabic. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Shalhoub&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; refers to his character as &quot;linguistically unidentifiable.&quot; And this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/quickchangerhowe_a0b28c.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;review&lt;/a&gt; from the Washington Post describes the character as  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;as an all-purpose-foreign cab driver who speaks no English, appears&#xA;  not to understand traffic lights and whose favorite word seems to be&#xA;  &quot;Blaftoni.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blaftoni (or bluftoni as it is more commonly spelled) appears to have been his word for &quot;bus&quot; - though it is not the word for bus in any real language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In recent years, Shalhoub has taken up the cause of biases against Arab-Americans with film projects like &quot;T for Terrorist&quot; and &quot;American East.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T04:43:30.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4127" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4129" CreationDate="2012-09-11T07:30:10.337" Score="19" ViewCount="29844" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been stumbling upon this problem for quite sometime now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What kind of Operating System (or what is it branching from (ex: Linux, Windows...)) is Tony Stark using on his suite and Framework computer at the office when Pepper went to steal the data using the hacking dongle Tony gave her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would that hacking dongle do, like coding wise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1433" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T08:51:49.680" LastActivityDate="2020-12-03T11:50:53.637" Title="What operating system does Tony Stark use on his office desktop?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4127" CreationDate="2012-09-11T11:25:20.393" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot exactly recall the scene but I would bet it is one that they have pretty much made up for the film.  You could probably knock one up similar based on linux if you had the skills and inclination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hacking dongle would, most likely, do nothing for real. If you had a secure system it would not allow anything on the dongle to run without the admin password and the admin password would be strongly typed and closely guarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, consider the fact that actual hacking is quite boring to watch.  It is mainly a numbers game combined with some specialist knowledge.  Not very cinematic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence film makers have to find ways of making hacking scenes quick and obvious to viewers, that is probably what the dongle is doing.  It is a plot device that keeps the story going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T11:25:20.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4127" CreationDate="2012-09-11T11:27:53.573" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a fictional OS, designed by &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20081119155949/http://www.spglab.com/projects/details/60/0/0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Philip Shtoll&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/paqFE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;sample 1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DDzpR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;sample 2&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure what the &lt;em&gt;hacking dongle&lt;/em&gt; did exactly, but I guess it automatically accessed and downloaded certain files:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O706o.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;sample 3&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(you can watch Philip Shtoll's work reel for the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20130116105111/http://www.spglab.com:80/movies/index/67/0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2020-12-03T11:50:53.637" LastActivityDate="2020-12-03T11:50:53.637" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4130" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4131" CreationDate="2012-09-11T13:32:54.440" Score="10" ViewCount="843" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a cartoon I watched as a child on VHS I'm trying to remember the name of. Here is a list of details I can recall about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Its &lt;strong&gt;old&lt;/strong&gt; - pre 1960's (at a guess)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Its &lt;strong&gt;called &quot;The 3&quot; Something&lt;/strong&gt; I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; the third word in the title began with a &lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was &lt;strong&gt;silent&lt;/strong&gt; save music and some sound effects&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was in &lt;strong&gt;colour&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There were &lt;strong&gt;3 main characters&lt;/strong&gt;, 1 big burly guy, 1 very short guy and 1 tall thin guy each riding inappropriately sized horses.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think its &lt;strong&gt;Russian&lt;/strong&gt; if not its definitely &lt;strong&gt;Eastern European&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is what I can remember of the story line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 3 men are riding around the country side and find a village of beautiful women where each find a perfect match for themselves. During the night something happens (Cant remember exactly what one of them, or someone else gets kidnapped and they have to go find them) They go out at night searching and witness witches and other creatures (including a pumpkin on a stick wearing a raggedy shirt) travelling along a road into the woods. They decide to follow them and come across a very Strange tavern, the tavern has a waterwheel which when they first come across it digs into the ground in order to turn the tavern around 360 degrees after which the door opens and smoke comes out of the chimney.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inside they find various nightmarish creatures drinking and smoking and partying. After a while the barman makes a concoction of various powders and liquids which he places in front of a pair of boots. The drink is then lifted by an invisible force and consumed above the pair of boots revealing a huge red head with legs and arms (I believe its supposed to be the devil).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Various things happen after that, the 3 guys end up beating up the creatures and returning happily to the village of women.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1499" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T17:18:08.793" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T09:48:04.123" Title="Identify an old (Russian?) Cartoon. &quot;the 3 ____&quot;" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|animation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:52:34.617" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4130" CreationDate="2012-09-11T14:02:12.267" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cossacs. Looks like story about Cossacs.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8_%28%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%29&quot;&gt;Russian wiki link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's Soviet cartoon and there are a number of episodes, actually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2036" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-09-11T15:05:23.913" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T15:05:23.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4132" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4133" CreationDate="2012-09-11T15:19:55.097" Score="8" ViewCount="11311" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882&quot;&gt;Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull&lt;/a&gt;, a short while before the ending of the movie, there was a long trail in the temple and eventually Mac and Spalko died inside the temple. Then, the temple crumbles, and a flying saucer rises from the ground and disappears as then the Amazon river floods the valley. Then Indy asked, &quot;where did the alien go?&quot; to Oxley, he replied, &quot;Into the &lt;strong&gt;space between spaces.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Indy : Where did they go? Space?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oxley : Not into space. Into the &lt;strong&gt;space between spaces.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which space Oxley mentioned in the movie as space between spaces?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastActivityDate="2018-10-09T20:40:15.267" Title="What does 'space between spaces' mean?" Tags="|dialogue|indiana-jones|the-kingdom-of-the-crystal-skull|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4132" CreationDate="2012-09-11T15:34:37.963" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I interpret Oxley's answer as &quot;the aliens went to another dimension.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes sense as a follow-up to his earlier dialogue with Mutt Williams:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Williams: &quot;What are they? Spacemen?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oxley: &quot;Interdimensional beings in point of fact.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-09-11T15:50:57.943" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T15:50:57.943" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4136" CreationDate="2012-09-11T15:46:20.587" Score="26" ViewCount="7122" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Raiders of the Lost Ark&lt;/em&gt; scene in which he calmly shoots a sword-swinging assassin, Indiana Jones reveals that he -- unlike a more-moral Batman-type character -- is not averse to killing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, by my memory of the movies, Indiana Jones rarely kills anyone. Many bad guys die, but Indy rarely causes their deaths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I can't remember any direct victims besides the sword-swinger in the first film. Am I forgetting anyone? &lt;strong&gt;Across all the movies, did Indiana Jones directly kill anyone besides the sword-swinger in &lt;em&gt;Raiders of the Lost Ark&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relevant comment included from deleted answer:&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;My question is focused on direct killing and not &quot;death by omission&quot; and like you, I think the propeller death falls in the omission group.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-10-14T21:05:08.300" LastActivityDate="2013-10-14T21:05:08.300" Title="Did Indiana Jones kill anyone besides the sword-swinger?" Tags="|indiana-jones|raiders-of-the-lost-ark|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4134" CreationDate="2012-09-11T16:54:43.463" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indy doesn't always play nice&lt;/strong&gt;, as can be seen in the video &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS-MSi05tx0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Indiana Jones Body Count&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He &lt;strong&gt;shoots people&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tRNGb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Shooting&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H95mI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Shooting&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;throws people into lava&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d8vQh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Lava&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1PubQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Lava&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;throws a skewer of pigeon flambé&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UxBJs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;flambe&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3nft9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;flambe&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;cuts a bike ride short&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ER6gR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;bike&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hb6gB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;bike&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(these are just a few examples, watch the video for more)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20080604184141/http://www.indy-net.co.uk/articles.php?article_id=4&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &quot;shooting&quot; of the &lt;em&gt;Arab Swordsman&lt;/em&gt; wasn't actually in the script&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harrison Ford&lt;/strong&gt;: &#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;I was in my fifth week of dysentery. I'm riding up to the set at 5.30am and can't wait to storm up to Steven with this idea. We could save four days on this lousy location this way! Besides which, it was right and important - what is more vital in the character's mind is finding Marion; he doesn't have the time for another five-minute fight. But as was very often the case when I suggested it to Steve - 'Let's just shoot the fucker' - he said he'd thought the same thing that morning.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2012-09-11T17:00:29.270" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T17:00:29.270" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4137" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4138" CreationDate="2012-09-11T17:27:19.853" Score="23" ViewCount="83318" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the television episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey%27s_End_%28Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation%29&quot;&gt;Journey's End&lt;/a&gt; of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wesley Crusher leaves the Enterprise, drops out of Star Fleet Academy and joins the Traveler. This is the last episode where Wesley makes an appearance on the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has there ever been any clarification of what happens to Wesley? Where he goes with the Traveler and what he learns. Wikipedia states he makes an appearance in Star Trek Nemesis, but it seems like his character's plot is just ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-22T22:49:22.133" LastActivityDate="2022-06-14T23:14:14.097" Title="What happens to Wesley Crusher when he leaves with the Traveler?" Tags="|character|star-trek|star-trek-the-next-generation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4137" CreationDate="2012-09-11T17:36:11.573" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;More details than you could possibly want are available at &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Wesley_Crusher&quot;&gt;Memory Alpha&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 2370, cadet Crusher resigned from Starfleet Academy after The&#xA;  Traveler - posing as a villager on Dorvan V - guided him through a&#xA;  vision of his deceased father who told him that his destiny lay&#xA;  somewhere other than with Starfleet and that he should not follow in&#xA;  his footsteps. Much to his mother's and Picard's disappointment yet&#xA;  with their support, Wesley heeded the advice after which The Traveler&#xA;  revealed his true identity and promised to mentor the young man on his&#xA;  new journey, presumably to other planes of existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Crusher eventually returned to Starfleet and in 2379 he became a&#xA;  full-fledged officer, holding the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe that there are significant details about what he actually does with The Traveler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="452" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T17:36:11.573" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4137" CreationDate="2012-09-11T20:13:14.513" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Wesley_Crusher&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Memory Beta&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the database for all licensed Star Trek works &lt;em&gt;(including e.g. novels, comic books, video games,...)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;in 2373 Wesley altered history by erasing the &lt;em&gt;Maquis&lt;/em&gt;, and instead created a short border war between the &lt;em&gt;Federation&lt;/em&gt; and the &lt;em&gt;Cardassian Union&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;br&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Short Story:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Gods,_Fate,_and_Fractals&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gods, Fate and Fractals&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Around the end of the &lt;em&gt;Dominion War&lt;/em&gt;, Wesley encountered &lt;a href=&quot;http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/J._R._Rasmussen&quot;&gt;J. R. Rasmussen&lt;/a&gt;, a time-traveling researcher for 20th century television program, &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Deep Space Nine&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;br&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Short Story:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Research&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Research&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 2377, Wesley briefly boarded the &lt;em&gt;USS Enterprise-E&lt;/em&gt; under the guise of &lt;a href=&quot;http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Evan_Jackson&quot;&gt;Evan Jackson&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Short Story:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Adventures_in_Jazz_and_Time&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Adventures in Jazz and Time&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 2378, Wesley gave advice and assistance to Starfleet &lt;em&gt;Captain Chakotay&lt;/em&gt; when Chakotay temporarily possessed the power of the &lt;em&gt;Sky Spirits&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;br&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Novel:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Enemy_of_My_Enemy&quot;&gt;Enemy of my Enemy&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Later in 2378, Wesley had learned a lot from The Traveler and [...] they returned to Tau Alpha C so that Wesley could be re-born as a Traveler. &#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Before becoming a Traveler, Wesley had to gaze into the &lt;a href=&quot;http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Pool_of_Prophecy&quot;&gt;Pool of Prophecy&lt;/a&gt; to undergo the final test. Inside the Pool, he witnessed the destruction of the &lt;em&gt;Enterprise&lt;/em&gt; at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Rashanar_Battle_Site&quot;&gt;Rashanar Battle Site&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Following this, he left Tau Alpha C and went to the &lt;em&gt;Enterprise&lt;/em&gt; to successfully prevent their destruction from a shape-shifting vessel from another dimension. &lt;br&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Novels:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/A_Time_to_Be_Born&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Time to Be Born&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/A_Time_to_Die&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Time to Die&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In late 2379, Wesley appeared at the wedding of &lt;em&gt;William Riker&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Deanna Troi&lt;/em&gt;. &#xA;  &lt;br&gt; In 2381, Wesley materialized at the wedding of his mother, &lt;em&gt;Beverly Crusher&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Jean Luc Picard&lt;/em&gt;. &#xA;  &lt;br&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Novels:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/A_Time_for_War,_A_Time_for_Peace&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Time for War, A Time for Peace&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Greater_Than_the_Sum&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Greater Than the Sum&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;em&gt;Novels&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Short Stories&lt;/em&gt; are usually not considered &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_canon&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;canon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T20:13:14.513" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4140" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-11T20:19:02.100" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Related tags&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;TV series&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-trek-the-original-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-the-original-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-the-original-series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-trek-phase-ii&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-phase-ii&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-phase-ii&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-trek-the-animated-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-the-animated-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-the-animated-series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-trek-the-next-generation&quot; 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class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-nemesis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-nemesis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-trek-2009&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-2009&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-trek-into-darkness&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-into-darkness&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-into-darkness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-trek-beyond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-beyond&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-beyond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2020-03-30T21:17:53.763" LastActivityDate="2020-03-30T21:17:53.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4141" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-11T20:19:02.100" Score="0" Body="A science-fiction franchise, comprising TV series, movies and other media created by Gene Roddenberry." OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-09-11T20:19:02.100" LastActivityDate="2012-09-11T20:19:02.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1231" CreationDate="2012-09-12T01:01:14.980" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a form of &quot;not really torture&quot; called Advanced Interrogation Techniques.&#xA;The band they used are called Gridlink, by the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2038" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T01:01:14.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4143" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4144" CreationDate="2012-09-12T14:36:56.567" Score="4" ViewCount="510" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, in the Amazon chasing scene, Marion was in a boat-shaped car. At the end of the chasing scene, she drives the boat-shaped car onto a tree that just happens to be growing on the side of the cliff and slips gently into the water. I guess that the tree on the cliff won't be visible from the car, because the tree was grown horizontally on the cliff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder, how did Marion definitely know there'll be a tree in the cliff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T17:26:00.447" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T17:26:00.447" Title="How did Marion know there's a tree on the cliff?" Tags="|plot-explanation|indiana-jones|the-kingdom-of-the-crystal-skull|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4143" CreationDate="2012-09-12T17:18:07.327" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marion sees the tree a few moments earlier.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theraider.net/films/indy4/multimedia/kingdomofthecrystalskull.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;script&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(page 102A&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marion ducks as the Russian GUNFIRE SCREECHES off the metal sides of the duck.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But it allows Mutt and Mac to jump in from the other side, &#xA;  keeping low.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marion hits the gas and they take off toward the river. But they &#xA;  soon reach a short cliff.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marion stomps on the brakes and looks over the edge. She sees &#xA;  they’re only about twenty or thirty feet above the river, and &#xA;  there’s a large tree halfway down.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ISVkw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Cliff&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6O6gX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Cliff&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;She turns the duck around, but she’s thinking something.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-09-12T17:18:07.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2303" CreationDate="2012-09-13T03:26:48.730" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always liked to think it had to do with Hank Aaron's true home run record.  Obviously birding and baseball have no relation but I still always liked to think they made Bostick's record 755 which is what Aaron's home run total was.  Maybe their sticking it to that cheater Barry Bonds.  Of course, this is probably all ridiculous and completely false.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2044" LastActivityDate="2012-09-13T03:26:48.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4146" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4155" CreationDate="2012-09-13T05:12:52.273" Score="9" ViewCount="9368" Body="&lt;p&gt;Empire of the Sun - excellent movie. In one scene the character played by Christian Bale, Jim signals to the invading Japanese Fleet with morse code. Shortly after they start firing at the building Jim signaled from. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does he say? Is it morse code? If so what language it is? Japanese, Chinese or English?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-09-13T18:06:11.067" LastActivityDate="2014-05-22T16:50:14.420" Title="Morse code from Empire of the Sun" Tags="|translation|empire-of-the-sun|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1459" CreationDate="2012-09-13T06:53:53.767" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest, it can end every way you can imagine. Sarah forgot the last 5 years, but she didn't forgot her skill cause she learned them before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes she is WAAAAAAAY over Chuck's league and yes they fell in love just cause they were working together and she had time to know him. In real life there are slim to non chances to get woman like that in just one attempt. And that is all you'll get. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show ended with Chuck's attempt to get her back and Sarah watching her personal video diary thus her willing to give him another chance. From that point you can think whatever you want: either Chuck did win her back or he failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2045" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-13T14:07:43.190" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T14:07:43.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4121" CreationDate="2012-09-13T09:18:05.407" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The knee brace was a nod to the comics where he had a cybernetic knee brace to help him walk. It is very much a piece of fictional batman technology and doesn't exist in real life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a nod to the comic books, he develops a knee brace with servomotors&#xA;  that  alleviates his need for a cane, and he takes up the mantle once&#xA;  again,  taking on new foes in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/ager/news/?a=64345&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Comic example 1&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wizardworlddigital.com/the-dark-knight-rises-says-goodbye-and-leaves-us-satisfied-for-now.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Comic example 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1375" LastEditorUserId="1375" LastEditDate="2012-09-18T12:38:51.137" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T12:38:51.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="60" CreationDate="2012-09-13T10:29:18.763" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Until reading the other answers here I always assumes that it contained gold bars because of the orange glow. I know this is a slightly boring conclusion but I don't think that Pulp Fiction is supernatural in any way and the theory about Wallace's soul is just silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It had to be something very valuable due to Tim Roth's reaction to it and the colour of the glow makes me think gold rather than diamonds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1375" LastActivityDate="2012-09-13T10:29:18.763" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4152" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-13T18:13:32.180" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Typically questions about a specific character in a movie/tv show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T08:51:07.190" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T08:51:07.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4153" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-13T18:13:32.180" Score="0" Body="Typically questions about a specific character in a movie/tv show." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T08:51:07.190" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T08:51:07.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2160" CreationDate="2012-09-14T05:19:34.457" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The henchman's gun is a copy of the PPK that was produced in Soviet Russian known as the Makarov.  It is also a larger caliber, a 9x18mm.  I do believe that design is still being used by the Russian military to this day, as well as being a rather popular civilian gun. Thousands of them have been imported to the US.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2050" LastActivityDate="2012-09-14T05:19:34.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4146" CreationDate="2012-09-14T05:37:31.357" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The use of a lamp by Jim in the movie is a change from the book on which it is based. In the book, Jim sees a Japanese launch try to get the attention of American and British vessels. Then he sees the launch communicating with a Japanese gunboat using signal lamps. He thought the Japanese were trying to sell something to the British or the Americans, and he knew the American officers were not aboard the USS Wake, and that the Japanese were wasting their time. &quot;Standing against the window with his arms outstretched, he tried to remember the semaphore he had learned in the cubs.&quot; (p 27) Presumably, he was trying to communicate to them what he knew using semaphore (an alphabetic code consisting of arm positions, often done with flags to communicate ship to ship). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, Jim communicated with a lamp, and so he would have been using Morse code (what he could remember of it). When guns started exploding, Jim thought he had mistakenly started the war with his poor communication: &quot;Jim watched them somberly. He realized that he himself had probably started the war, with his confused semaphores from the window that the Japanese officers in the motor launch had misinterpreted.&quot; (p 28)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Japanese have their own version of Morse code which they used in the war, called wabun code. Each symbol in wabun code maps to a kana, or Japanese syllable. &quot;Wabun Code was famously used to transmit the message &quot;NIITAKA-YAMA NOBORE 12 08&quot; on December 2, 1941, signalling the go-ahead of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.&quot; (Wikipedia)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The screenplay was primarily written by Tom Stoppard, with collaboration from the book's author, J.G. Ballard. It is hard to imagine that Ballard would have wanted to make Jamie's message more explicit in the movie than it was in the book, but I have not been able to find a copy script to verify this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-09-14T05:37:31.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4178" CreationDate="2012-09-14T05:47:57.840" Score="12" ViewCount="6345" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early in Prometheus, the human crew is in &quot;hypersleep&quot; for a couple years, and at one point, an android uses a touch-screen interface to &quot;see&quot; on a screen what a woman crew-member is dreaming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a later scene, when everyone has been woken up at the destination planet, the earthlings find an &quot;engineer&quot; who appears to have been in the engineer version of hypersleep for hundreds of years. The engineer appears to have faintly registered on the earthlings' scanner as it searched for signs of life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This all got me wondering... how does hypersleep work, exactly? I had assumed it put the subject in a state of suspended animation that would not allow for dreaming or for registering on scanners. But the scenes above suggest I'm wrong -- that  people dream vividly in hypersleep, and that their bodies are exhibiting some vital signs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any clues from the movie or other relevant sources about how hypersleep was supposed to work in Alien/Prometheus/etc and/or how it might work in real life?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T20:34:21.863" Title="Explain &quot;hypersleep&quot; from Alien, Prometheus, etc.?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|aliens|alien|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4156" CreationDate="2012-09-14T11:24:30.420" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the book of Alien ISTR that hyper sleep is just a very deep sleep and you dream in the same way as you normally would only more vividly due to the deeper sleep and longer time spent in it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you do not need food or water (or at least do not seem to).  Hence one can be in hyper sleep for long periods (Ripley managed 57 years) without serious ill effects and without aging.  It works, basically, as a machine induced coma without the need for nutrition which also prevents aging (see the Ripley example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-09-14T11:24:30.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4158" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4160" CreationDate="2012-09-14T15:51:44.240" Score="14" ViewCount="36988" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/&quot;&gt;The Graduate&lt;/a&gt;, Mrs Robinson asks Benjamin not to take Elaine Robinson out or date her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does she want to prevent Benjamin from dating her daughter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would it be that she thinks Benjamin does not have a good character? If yes, why is she having an affair with him in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="571" LastActivityDate="2016-06-17T12:33:28.643" Title="Why did Mrs Robinson ask Benjamin not to take Elaine out in The Graduate?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-graduate|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4159" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4175" CreationDate="2012-09-14T21:39:58.290" Score="16" ViewCount="12937" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Resident_Evil_characters#Alice&quot;&gt;Alice&lt;/a&gt; is the main protagonist in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil_%28film_series%29&quot;&gt;Resident Evil film series&lt;/a&gt; and even the main attraction of the movie. What was the reason to choose a different protagonist from the video games? There are so many characters in the video game that could have been the main female protagonist, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Wong&quot;&gt;Ada Wong&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Redfield&quot;&gt;Claire Redfield&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Valentine&quot;&gt;Jill Valentine&lt;/a&gt;. I know that the name Alice is inspired from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_%281988_film%29&quot;&gt;Alice in Wonderland&lt;/a&gt; and a catchy name, but what is the need for it if we have a character like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Redfield&quot;&gt;Claire Redfield&lt;/a&gt; already? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any official word on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-14T12:26:27.057" LastActivityDate="2021-12-17T10:01:20.403" Title="Why is Alice chosen as the main protagonist in Resident Evil?" Tags="|character|resident-evil|video-game-adaptation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4158" CreationDate="2012-09-15T05:42:51.467" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be easy to just say it was jealousy, but that would miss out on the complexity of Mrs. Robinson and her place in feminine history. In an insightful article written for the &lt;em&gt;Berkeley Undergraduate Journal&lt;/em&gt;, Rebecca Neumann traces how Mrs. Robinson has evolved into the &quot;cougar&quot; of recent times. She notes how difficult it is for people in recent generations to appreciate the experience of a middle-aged woman in the 60s. She also notes the care with which director Mike Nichols and writer Buck Henry crafted the character of Mrs. Robinson through details in the film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some points she makes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mrs. Robinson is a predator - she is often dressed in animal prints.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She is not motherly - she never shares a scene alone with her&#xA;daughter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She is vengeful toward her daughter whom she is jealous of for&#xA;attending college - she seduces Benjamin in Elaine's bedroom even&#xA;though she knows Elaine has a crush on Benjamin.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The affair, which is about power more than anything else, hurts her&#xA;husband, whom she also holds responsible for her powerless situation&#xA;because of the unplanned pregnancy that caused her to drop out of&#xA;college.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Her powerlessness is also demonstrated in her financial dependence on&#xA;her husband, her inability to drive, and the fact that the only name by which&#xA;she is referred is her husband's name.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The particular social order that produces &lt;em&gt;The Graduate&lt;/em&gt;'s Mrs. Robinson is specific to the 1960s.&quot; This bored, bitter woman was pre-sexual revolution, pre-birth control, pre-abortion, pre-women in the workforce after marriage, pre- no fault divorce. Mrs. Robinson was a woman with no choices, no outlets except this affair. It was a passionless affair of which Benjamin says they &quot;might as well have been shaking hands.&quot; It was an attempt to have power over one corner of her life, a power she wielded over Benjamin, and in order to maintain that power, she naturally could not allow Benjamin to date her daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://escholarship.org/uc/item/186959sr#page-1&quot;&gt;Predator, Prisoner, and Role Model: The Evolving Figure of Mrs. Robinson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, 2011&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-09-15T05:42:51.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4161" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4347" CreationDate="2012-09-15T13:21:50.397" Score="-2" ViewCount="1075" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Prometheus, why did the Engineer kill the humans? What is that thing that killed the Engineer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2053" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T17:43:50.017" LastActivityDate="2013-07-29T09:53:39.987" Title="Why did this character in Prometheus kill without apparent reason?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4162" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4163" CreationDate="2012-09-15T13:56:22.177" Score="17" ViewCount="5625" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EJLBw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Terminator T-800&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-terminator-justin-lin/87725/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;out-of-universe&lt;/em&gt; explanation is obvious: English is not Arnold Schwarzenegger's first language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But given &lt;strong&gt;James Cameron&lt;/strong&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://gawker.com/5898584/james-cameron-alters-titanic-in-nerdiest-way-possible&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;reputation as a perfectionist&lt;/a&gt; I wonder if he ever gave an &lt;em&gt;in-universe&lt;/em&gt; explanation for why an artificially intelligent machine would talk with an accent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an &lt;em&gt;in-universe&lt;/em&gt; explanation for why the T-800 model talks with an accent? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-05T16:56:19.850" LastActivityDate="2016-08-05T16:56:19.850" Title="Why does the T-800 Terminator model talk with an accent?" Tags="|character|terminator-series|the-terminator|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4162" CreationDate="2012-09-15T14:25:26.623" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is explained in a deleted scene, although not all might agree on considering it canon, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181852/trivia?tab=tr&amp;amp;item=tr0744952&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Terminator 3 Trivia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &quot;Sgt. Candy&quot; scene, which was included in early prints of the film, explains why all the Terminators look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold's character (Sgt. Candy) has a Southern US accent. When one of the scientists questions it, another scientist replies (in an Arnold voice over), &quot;We can fix it.&quot; The actor portraying this scientist is Jack Noseworthy. This scene is available as a special feature on the DVD version. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kayFrIR-Qfw&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;deleted scene&lt;/a&gt; on YouTube:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/kayFrIR-Qfw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T17:47:08.380" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T17:47:08.380" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4165" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4167" CreationDate="2012-09-15T23:14:55.053" Score="12" ViewCount="3817" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1650062/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Super 8&lt;/a&gt; there is a scene where the kids are filming in front of a house being searched by the army. The boy's father (the Sheriff) shows up and puts the boy in the back of his police car. The Sheriff then walks up to the army (captain?) who is in charge and asks about why his trucks are sweeping the town, then the army guy says they will be out of the way shortly, and the Sheriff responses with &quot;You wouldn't mind me contacting D.C. and talk to some friends about &lt;em&gt;Walking Distance&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene ends not explaining anything more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the Sheriff referring to? and what did I miss before this that referenced this term?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T18:21:41.080" LastActivityDate="2023-12-27T22:16:59.820" Title="What does the &quot;Walking Distance&quot; phrase mean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|super-8|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4166" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4171" CreationDate="2012-09-15T23:22:00.323" Score="7" ViewCount="7624" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm watching through Dallas, and I'm to season 9 (by the DVD numbering; I understand it was previously called season 8). Patrick Duffy left at the end of season 8. Season 9 is all a dream Pam was having one night, leading up to the infamous shower-reveal. What I'm wondering is, at what point in the process was it decided that season 9 would be a dream? Was this a last-minute thing? Or did the writers know it was coming at some point earlier in the season?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, how much of season 9 is written to be &quot;reality&quot; and how much is written to be Pam's dream?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1331" LastEditorUserId="1331" LastEditDate="2012-09-16T20:23:37.463" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T20:23:37.463" Title="When did the writers decide that Dallas season 9 was a dream?" Tags="|analysis|dallas|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4165" CreationDate="2012-09-16T03:58:22.533" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;He had overheard the phrase earlier when listening in on the military radio frequency.  From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1650062/synopsis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb Super 8 Synopsis&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jackson soon grows concerned when the Military begins to roll into Lillian. Still not receiving answers as to their presence in the town, he receives word from one of the townspeople about a radio frequency that seems to be picking up Military transmissions. Jackson has the other officers tune their radios into the frequency, and soon hears word of something codenamed &quot;Operation: Walking Distance.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another interesting note about the phrase &quot;Walking Distance&quot; is that it was chosen by &lt;em&gt;Super 8&lt;/em&gt; director J.J. Abrams because it's the name of his favorite episode of &lt;em&gt;The Twilight Zone&lt;/em&gt;.  See &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.inverse.com/article/12279-j-j-abrams-is-building-a-big-screen-twilight-zone-with-the-cloververse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;J.J. Abrams Is Building a Big-Screen 'Twilight Zone' With the Cloververse&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2017-05-11T13:31:30.453" LastActivityDate="2017-05-11T13:31:30.453" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4162" CreationDate="2012-09-16T09:56:39.737" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;James Cameron&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,314766,00.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;once said&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Somehow, even his accent worked. It had a strange synthesized quality, like they hadn't gotten the voice thing quite worked out.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/William_Candy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sgt. Candy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;scene&lt;/strong&gt; (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/4162/why-does-the-t-800-terminator-model-talk-with-an-accent/4163#4163&quot;&gt;@Alenanno&lt;/a&gt;'s answer):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MbthR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Making of the Video Game&lt;/em&gt; from the &lt;em&gt;Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines&lt;/em&gt; DVD, &lt;strong&gt;it is implied that this scene was filmed to be used as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cut_scene&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;cut scene&lt;/a&gt;, and not actually intended to be used in the theatrical release.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would explain &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_%28character%29#Physical_template&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;why&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This contradicts information from the first film, where Kyle Reese refers to the [Arnold model] as &amp;quot;new&amp;quot;, replacing the older rubber-skinned &lt;a href=&quot;http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Series_600&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;600 series&lt;/a&gt;, also seen in &lt;em&gt;Terminator Salvation&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the novel &lt;a href=&quot;http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/T2:_Infiltrator&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T2: Infiltrator&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a different origin for the physical and vocal templates &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_%28character%29#Physical_template&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;was provided&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Dieter_von_Rossbach&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dieter von Rossbach&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was a former counter-terrorist, who meets and joins forces with the Connors in the present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason stated for copying Dieter was that Skynet was looking in the old military files for someone whose body could effectively conceal the Terminator's massive endoskeleton.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T09:56:39.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4166" CreationDate="2012-09-16T10:39:01.557" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ultimatedallas.com/episodeguide/dreamzonefaq.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dallas Dream Season FAQ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is it termed as the dream season?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;Season nine followed the aftermath of the death of Bobby Ewing. &lt;strong&gt;When Patrick Duffy decided to come back as Bobby in the spring of 1986 the producers decided to make the whole of Season Nine a DREAM&lt;/strong&gt;. So Pam woke up and Bobby was alive, it had all been her nightmare.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why did they bother to bring Bobby back anyway?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ratings were down this season, this was blamed by Larry Hagman on the producer Philip Capice, Larry Hagman also missed working with his old friend Patrick Duffy. Larry Hagman did not hide his contempt for Capice and finally said either Capice went or he did. Capice left and Hagman also demanded Duffy back. Larry was not happy with the stories that season.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who's idea was it to have the dream?&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;Patrick Duffy's wife is credited with the idea. Apparently she turned to Patrick and stated &quot;The only way you can go back to that show is if it turns out to be a dream.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T10:39:01.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2012-09-16T11:06:38.420" Score="15" Body="&lt;h3&gt;It's because of what happened (what humans did) to Jesus.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;That Jesus&lt;/a&gt;. Apparently he's an Engineer-Space-Jesus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Excerpts from &lt;a href=&quot;https://cavalorn.livejournal.com/584135.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Prometheus Unbound: What The Movie Was Actually About&lt;/em&gt; (cavalorn.livejournal.com)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20120614074942/http://www.movies.com/movie-news/ridley-scott-prometheus-interview/8232&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;An astonishing excerpt from the Movies.com interview with Ridley Scott&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Movies.com:&lt;/strong&gt; We had heard it was scripted that the Engineers were targeting our planet for destruction because we had crucified one of their representatives, and that Jesus Christ might have been an alien. Was that ever considered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ridley Scott:&lt;/strong&gt; We definitely did, and then we thought it was a little too on the nose. But if you look at it as an “our children are misbehaving down there” scenario, there are moments where it looks like we’ve gone out of control, running around with armor and skirts, which of course would be the Roman Empire. And they were given a long run. A thousand years before their disintegration actually started to happen. And you can say, &amp;quot;Let's send down one more of our emissaries to see if he can stop it.&amp;quot; Guess what? They crucified him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah. The reason the Engineers don't like us any more is that they made us a Space Jesus, and we broke him. Reader, that's not me pulling wild ideas out of my arse. That's RIDLEY SCOTT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how did our (in the context of the film) terrible murderous act of crucifixion end up wiping out all but one of the Engineers back on LV-223? Presumably through the black slime, which evidently models its behaviour on the user's mental state. Create unselfishly, accepting self-destruction as the cost, and the black stuff engenders fertile life. But expose the potent black slimy stuff to the thoughts and emotions of flawed humanity, and 'the sleep of reason produces monsters'. We never see the threat that the Engineers were fleeing from, we never see them killed other than accidentally (decapitation by door), and we see no remaining trace of whatever killed them. Either it left a long time ago, or it reverted to inert black slime, waiting for a human mind to reactivate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The black slime reacts to the nature and intent of the being that wields it, and the humans in the film didn't even know that they WERE wielding it. That's why it remained completely inert in David's presence, and why he needed a human proxy in order to use the stuff to create anything. The black goo could read no emotion or intent from him, because he was an android.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shaw's comment when the urn chamber is entered - 'we've changed the atmosphere in the room' - is deceptively informative. The psychic atmosphere has changed, because humans - tainted, Space Jesus-killing humans - are present. The slime begins to engender new life, drawing not from a self-sacrificing Engineer but from human hunger for knowledge, for more life, for more everything. Little wonder, then, that it takes serpent-like form. The symbolism of a corrupting serpent, turning men into beasts, is pretty unmistakeable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Refusal to accept death is anathema to the Engineers. Right from the first scene, we learned their code of willing self-sacrifice in accord with a greater purpose. When the severed Engineer head is temporarily brought back to life, its expression registers horror and disgust. Cinemagoers are confused when the head explodes, because it's not clear why it should have done so. Perhaps the Engineer &lt;em&gt;wanted&lt;/em&gt; to die again, to undo the tainted human agenda of new life without sacrifice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2023-08-14T14:49:15.380" LastActivityDate="2023-08-14T14:49:15.380" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3584" CreationDate="2012-09-16T13:27:38.147" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMHO, I think Bruce Wayne was still wearing his knee brace. We never saw his knee to confirm that Bane took it off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We just assumed that Bane took it off, because it seems logical. However, think about it from Bane's perspective:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bane was talking about breaking Batman. He said that he would break his body and soul. He did break his back leaving him crippled. All was left is to break his soul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was so sure that Bruce wouldn't even try to fight back or come after him (Remember his surprise when he saw him again).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;A man so sure of his victory won't bother by simple details as a knee brace (which is neither a weapon or a communication device) when your opponent is already half dead and prisoned in a pit he himself failed to escape (again remember when he was fighting batman and bragged about being born in the shadows contrarily to batman who training in shadows ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2056" LastEditorUserId="2056" LastEditDate="2012-09-16T17:34:50.183" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T17:34:50.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4159" CreationDate="2012-09-16T15:49:22.780" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil_%28film%29#Pre-production&quot;&gt;Originally&lt;/a&gt; a script was written based on the characters and story of the first game:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Romero's screenplay revolved around the plot of the Arklay incident and included characters from the Resident Evil video games. Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine were the lead characters, involved in a romantic relationship. Barry Burton, Rebecca Chambers, Ada Wong and Albert Wesker were to also appear.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Romero's script was disapproved of and production was placed into development hell.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then Sony decided to hire a different writer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Paul W. S. Anderson wrote a screenplay, which was ultimately favored over Romero's. In late 2000, Anderson was announced as director and writer, and Resident Evil re-entered pre-production stages. &lt;strong&gt;Anderson stated the film would not include any tie-ins with the video game series&lt;/strong&gt; as &quot;under-performing movie tie-ins are too common and Resident Evil, of all games, deserved a good celluloid representation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the character of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_%28Resident_Evil%29#Alice&quot;&gt;Alice&lt;/a&gt; was created. Paul W.S. is said to have based Alice on the strong women which are portrayed in the Resident Evil game series. Because, as noted in the original question, the film was intended to originally be an allegory to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the character was given the name Alice. Although that name is never spoken in the first film, it is the name listed in the credits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-02-08T16:47:28.213" LastActivityDate="2013-02-08T16:47:28.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4156" CreationDate="2012-09-16T20:46:10.047" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How it might work in real life (in the far distant future):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scientists like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/suspended-animation-au.html&quot;&gt;Mark Roth&lt;/a&gt; have studied suspended animation by starting with cases of spontaneous suspended animation, like the Canadian toddler who survived 2 hours of bitter cold in a nappy, the Japanese man who survived 23 days in the cold with no food or water, and the 29-year-old skier found frozen and revived after 9 hours. Here they have found a link between low oxygen and low temperature that triggers the body to slow metabolism. Scientist are also studying the effects of &lt;a href=&quot;http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/zoology/all-about-animals/hibernation1.htm&quot;&gt;hydrogen sulfide&lt;/a&gt;, which the body makes in low doses, but when breathed in in large doses can cause the body to shut down completely - an effect that can be reversed with the reintroduction of oxygen. The thought is that perhaps if your body was producing a little extra hydrogen sulfide than normal, it might slow down the metabolism enough before freezing for you to survive the cold. You sort of turn yourself off before you get too cold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Roth has successfully induced a 6-hr hibernation in mice using hydrogen sulfide, with successful reanimation, but experiments with larger mammals have so far been unsuccessful. The goal at this point is to increase survival rates in surgery by slowing things down a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How &lt;a href=&quot;http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/zoology/all-about-animals/hibernation1.htm&quot;&gt;hibernation&lt;/a&gt; actually works in animals:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It isn't sleep. There are drastic physiological changes involved.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Brain waves of hibernating animals closely resemble their wakeful&#xA;patterns, though they are somewhat suppressed. The brain serves as a&#xA;control over mechanisms regulating body systems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When an animal wakes from hibernation, it exhibits signs of sleep&#xA;deprivation and may need sleep to recover.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Preparation is essential for successful hibernation - primarily&#xA;insulation and food stores (eaten intermittently in waking periods or&#xA;eaten ahead and stored as fat).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Animals have a minimum temperature (set point) below which their &#xA;endocrine system will not let the body fall. The larger the animal&#xA;the higher the setpoint, because it would require too much energy to&#xA;reheat a large body. Some say that bears do not actually hibernate - they are too&#xA;big to allow their temperatures to drop very far.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;During hibernation, the heart rate can drop to 2.5% of normal, &#xA;breathing drops 50-100% (some reptiles stop breathing altogether),&#xA;consciousness is greatly diminished, and body fat is used to maintain&#xA;these minimal body functions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fecal matter is not produced because nothing is passing through the&#xA;digestive tracts. The body does produce urea, but it is broken down&#xA;into amino acids rather than excreted. Hydration comes from body&#xA;fat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extrapolated thoughts:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think the engineer would probably produce enough internal activity&#xA;to register on equipment (if we allow that he could have survived at all).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Brain waves that resemble waking brain waves indicate to me that there would not be dreaming.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The body instinctively curls up to preserve heat. Sleeping supine or&#xA;in the nude seems counter to animal instinct.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This would be an artificially induced hibernation, so presumably they could reduce temperature below what fat stores would normally allow for because re-acclimation would be done artificially as well. Still, none of these film characters has any body fat, so I am not sure what sustains them. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Studies of bears show that they maintain muscle mass, muscles strength, and bone density (likely because of rich fat stores). I am not sure how this would work for humans over the long haul. Bears also move around during hibernation, shifting position about once a day.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To survive without fat stores, humans would need either a food source (which it seems would trigger digestive functioning), or rather than being in suspended animation, they would have to be actually frozen. This involves a whole other realm of science (cryobiosis), the probable replacement of blood with saline before freezing, and a complicated reanimation process that includes the return of blood and an electric shock. The engineer would not have registered on equipment in this state.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T20:46:10.047" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4179" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4198" CreationDate="2012-09-16T22:05:31.943" Score="12" ViewCount="1421" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm aware of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/1947/how-do-they-film-scenes-with-the-actors-driving-in-a-car&quot;&gt;How do they film scenes with the actors driving in a car?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; in this site, but I'm more interested in the &quot;why&quot;, not the &quot;how&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it illegal to just drive a car recording/action without permissions in most jurisdictions? (this happens in many countries) Safety concerns? Or maybe it's just cheaper?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2059" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T22:46:07.050" Title="Why are most scenes in a car recorded with chroma?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4182" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-16T23:26:06.683" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-16T23:26:06.683" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T23:26:06.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4183" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-16T23:26:06.683" Score="0" Body="A comic book series created by Robert Kirkman chronicling survival efforts in a world mysteriously overrun by zombies. Made into a tv series airing on AMC." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-16T23:35:17.120" LastActivityDate="2012-09-16T23:35:17.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4185" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-17T01:25:25.653" Score="0" Body="Long running ensemble comedy series airing on NBC. Loosely based on Tina Fey's experiences as a writer on SNL." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T01:40:32.423" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T01:40:32.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4187" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-17T01:34:41.877" Score="0" Body="Film directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks as a Fed Ex employee who survives a plane crash and makes a life for himself on a deserted island." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T01:40:20.083" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T01:40:20.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4189" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-17T01:49:13.977" Score="0" Body="90s era NBC sitcom about a young man (Will Smith) from a rough neighborhood in Philadelphia sent to live with his uncle's wealthy family in Bel Air. " OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T02:15:32.767" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T02:15:32.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4191" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-17T02:04:31.580" Score="0" Body="The Terminator series is a science fiction franchise encompassing a series of films and additional media concerning battles between Skynet's artificially intelligent machine network, and John Connor's Resistance forces and the rest of the human race. Use [tag:the-terminator] for the 1984 film." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T07:36:24.347" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T07:36:24.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4193" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-17T02:41:58.367" Score="0" Body="80s era slasher film franchise about a boy who drowns at a summer camp, only to rise from the dead fully grown to terrorize amorous teens in locales ranging from summer camps to NYC to outer space." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T02:53:05.950" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T02:53:05.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4195" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-17T03:30:11.313" Score="0" Body="Horror/comedy about a young man who inadvertently sets off the near destruction of a small town when he ignores basic instructions for the care of a mysterious creature he receives as a gift." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T10:17:54.107" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T10:17:54.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4197" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-17T04:26:09.570" Score="0" Body="Largely improvised comedy series starring Larry David, playing a character quick to defy social conventions but unwilling to face the unintended consequences." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T10:18:05.230" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T10:18:05.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4179" CreationDate="2012-09-17T09:25:45.880" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course this changes from country to country, but generally speaking it's not illegal to film on the streets, since it's a public area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most car scenes are recorded with chroma just for pratical reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a professional production you look for &quot;quality&quot; and you can achieve it only if you have &lt;strong&gt;control&lt;/strong&gt;. It's all about control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a studio setting you get full control of the lights, the movements, etc. in one word, the scene. And of course, you minimize the hitches that can occurs in the real world (also safety concers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However you should film outdoor shots to enrich and give credibility to your scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1929" LastEditorUserId="1929" LastEditDate="2012-09-18T22:46:07.050" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T22:46:07.050" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4199" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-17T13:31:20.007" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T13:31:20.007" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T13:31:20.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4200" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-17T13:31:20.007" Score="0" Body="Paranormal Activity is a 2007 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Oren Peli. The film centers on a young couple, Katie and Micah, who are haunted by a supernatural presence in their home. It is presented in the style of &quot;found footage&quot;, from cameras set up by the couple in an attempt to photograph what is haunting them." OwnerUserId="1375" LastEditorUserId="1375" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T13:36:49.633" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T13:36:49.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4201" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-17T13:38:01.290" Score="2" ViewCount="35275" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)&lt;/em&gt;, at the end of the film Sally is dragged into the creature's lair and made one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any explanation of how they explain this to the police?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-11-16T06:50:44.437" LastActivityDate="2017-11-16T06:50:44.437" Title="How do they explain the ending of 'Don't be Afraid of the Dark'" Tags="|plot-explanation|dont-be-afraid-of-the-dark|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4203" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4239" CreationDate="2012-09-17T15:48:54.037" Score="34" ViewCount="145776" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just watched a sci-fi horror movie called &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123755&quot;&gt;Cube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. It was pretty awesome, as well as it left a lot of questions unanswered. However, the one that frustrated me a lot was, the Cube's purpose. I mean, who and why did they construct the cube and put all those people into it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did they reveal it in the sequels? I haven't watched them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:19:35.410" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T05:47:44.733" Title="What's the purpose of the cube?" Tags="|plot-explanation|cube|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4204" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-17T15:56:05.040" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T15:56:05.040" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T15:56:05.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4205" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-17T15:56:05.040" Score="0" Body="Genre in which the storylines center around a fantastic element such as a magical being, object or world." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T15:59:18.437" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T15:59:18.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4203" CreationDate="2012-09-17T16:11:14.233" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to watch Cube and Cube Zero to get more of an idea of what's going on.  Essentially, the Cube is owned by a rather powerful organization that uses it for &quot;prisoners&quot;, or people that they want to get rid of.  As we see in Cube Zero, when someone in the cube makes it out, they are then questioned about a few things.  If they answer wrong they are destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, we are left to assume that it's a trial of sorts, and once you make it out and face the final trial, you are free (in theory, we don't actually see this though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T16:11:14.233" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4207" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-17T16:22:45.503" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T16:22:45.503" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T16:22:45.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4208" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-17T16:22:45.503" Score="0" Body="The main character in a series of films focused on the complicated relationship between a giant gorilla and his unrequited love interest." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T16:24:03.450" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T16:24:03.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4203" CreationDate="2012-09-17T16:33:46.420" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cube made no extensive attempt to explain what the cube that the characters are confined in is, why it was created, or how the people were selected to be put inside there. The movie remains without any answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Sequels have done that as stated by in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The second film reveals that a company named &quot;IZON&quot; is responsible for&#xA;  the development of the Cubes, and the third film indicates that their&#xA;  construction and operation has either been ordered or directly carried&#xA;  out by a non-descriptive &quot;government&quot;. The films are alluded to be set&#xA;  in the future, however, one of the characters of Cube 2 mentions&#xA;  Muammar Gaddafi, who was alive at the time of filming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even in the third film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_Zero&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cube Zero&lt;/a&gt; which is prequel to CUBE and CUBE 2 it is mentioned that everyone in The Cube was facing a death sentence and was presented a choice: Go in the Cube with their memory completely erased or be sentenced to death. Only if a person signs the consent form will he or she then be placed in the cube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However Eric discovers that there is no consent form in Cassandra's file (Cassandra is the main protagonist of Cube Zero and Eric is a watcher outside the cube). That meant that the consent is not always given for all prisoners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end Jax shows Eric his consent form and says he had been put in the Cube not as a victim, but as an observer with his memory reprogrammed so he would have no memory about his past life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In March 2011, Lionsgate announced it was considering an additional film in the series, tentatively titled Cube 3D (May be a sequel or Spinoff). This movie may explain about why people are kept in the cube without their consent and is there any other type of people in the cube except observer and victim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2019-04-05T05:47:44.733" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T05:47:44.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4201" CreationDate="2012-09-17T16:35:27.727" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;An explanation was never given in the film itself, and I haven't seen any of the bonus footage to see if maybe they cut it out.  From what I recall there's no physical proof of her struggle, so they could say she disappeared and there would be no way for the police to say that he had anything with her disappearance, so filing a missing person report could be feesable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T16:35:27.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4211" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4409" CreationDate="2012-09-17T16:49:08.940" Score="6" ViewCount="9455" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one of the final episodes of Monk, Mr. Monk is finally reinstated to the force and Natalie Teager leaves and gets another job. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would Mr. Monk no longer require the services of Natalie Teager?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-19T13:11:02.967" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T13:11:02.967" Title="Why did Natalie Teager get a different job in &quot;Mr. Monk and the Badge&quot;?" Tags="|monk|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4215" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-17T17:21:05.933" Score="0" Body="A short story written by Stephen King about a mysterious fog that envelops a small town and harbors malevolent creatures of unknown origin. Made into a film directed by Frank Darabont in 2007." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-17T17:34:08.067" LastActivityDate="2012-09-17T17:34:08.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4216" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4256" CreationDate="2012-09-17T19:53:46.990" Score="22" ViewCount="23821" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the airport Cole meets Jose who gives him a gun and instructs him to kill Dr. Peters. Now the question is - why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They make it clear in the film that the past cannot be altered and that is why he was sent to get a sample of the virus and not stop it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2063" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-29T14:06:14.857" LastActivityDate="2021-07-29T20:01:26.837" Title="Why did Jose give Cole the gun?" Tags="|plot-explanation|12-monkeys|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4216" CreationDate="2012-09-17T22:30:36.497" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure the scientists from the future did not know Dr. Peters was carrying the virus. As explained on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://imdb.com/title/tt0114746/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;movie FAQ&lt;/a&gt; at IMDB.com:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is strongly implied that the scientists from the future planned Cole's death because he refused to return to his own time, and they could not allow him to disturb the past any further. They send Jose (Jon Seda) through time to give Cole an ancient gun and instructions to complete his mission. They might have intended that Cole try to use the gun in a(n) (futile) attempt to kill the carrier of the virus.The scientists probably knew it would not work and would cause security personnel to neutralize him, while the female scientist herself made sure the mission was completed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2021-07-29T20:01:26.837" LastActivityDate="2021-07-29T20:01:26.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4218" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4219" CreationDate="2012-09-17T23:42:32.943" Score="23" ViewCount="12194" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say it's a movie from the 80's or 90's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point the main character sees a monster in the street (I'd say at night, in an alley).  It's quite a big monster and the monster can talk.  They talk and the guy is frightened and the monster agrees to spare his life under one condition: that the man never ever talks to anyone about the monster. So the man agrees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then life goes on.  He meets a girl and they have kids (if I recall correctly, not 100% sure about the kids).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then the guy is not doing well: he thinks about that monster he saw years ago all too often. Eventually after years of silence (I think years went by because I think they did have kids), he breaks the deal and talks about the monster to his friend / wife. And the wife starts screaming / yelling at him and...  she turns back into the monster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not too sure about what happen next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2064" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-06-03T15:25:52.467" LastActivityDate="2013-06-03T15:25:52.467" Title="Man's wife turns back into a monster when he talks about it" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|horror|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:38:27.080" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4218" CreationDate="2012-09-18T02:01:10.643" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Darkside%3a_The_Movie&quot;&gt;Tales From the Darkside&lt;/a&gt;, the movie. The monster is Tommy Chong's daughter (IRL), I believe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was 1 of about 3 or 4 stories in the whole thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2012-09-22T14:53:52.003" LastActivityDate="2012-09-22T14:53:52.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4218" CreationDate="2012-09-18T02:13:00.343" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds like the third segment of &lt;em&gt;Tales from the Darkside: The Movie&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A despondent artist named Preston (played by James Remar) witnesses a&#xA;  gruesome murder by a gargoyle-like monster. The monster gets Preston&#xA;  to swear to never speak of what he saw in exchange for a promise to&#xA;  spare his life. After making the promise, Preston meets a beautiful&#xA;  woman named Carola (played by Rae Dawn Chong). Preston marries Carola,&#xA;  they have two kids, and Preston has a revival of his art career. But&#xA;  Preston was still tormented by guilt about his silence, and started&#xA;  reconsidering the promise he made to the monster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Preston then tells Carola about that night ten years ago when they met&#xA;  after he had witnessed the killing of a man by a monster which he&#xA;  sculpted to show her. After releasing a heartbroken screech, Carola&#xA;  reveals herself to be the very same creature he made the promise with,&#xA;  lamenting that the promise Preston made to the monster had been&#xA;  broken. As such, she reverts to her previous form, and their children&#xA;  transform into similar monsters as well. Within the shock and despair&#xA;  of such revelations, Preston is killed at 'her' hands, and she escapes&#xA;  through a skylight with their children. The final scene shows that the&#xA;  gargoyle and children have turned to stone upon a building ledge,&#xA;  staring down at Preston's body in remorse. (Wikipedia)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rege9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T02:13:00.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4224" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-18T04:54:02.807" Score="0" Body="Novel written by Audrey Niffenegger about a man born with the involuntary ability to time travel and how it affects his relationships. Later turned into a film starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-18T06:55:34.313" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T06:55:34.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4226" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-18T12:38:21.347" Score="0" Body="Long running scifi series on the Fox network starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents investigating paranormal phenomena. Created by Chris Carter." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-18T14:06:28.310" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T14:06:28.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4228" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-18T12:59:55.843" Score="0" Body="80s era comedy starring Eddie Murphy as a con man who gets to switch lifestyles with a rich man when two stock market investors make a bet. Directed by John Landis." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-18T14:06:35.687" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T14:06:35.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4235" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-18T14:45:06.933" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;FBI is an US agency to fight for law against terrorism inside US. This tag deals with movies having presence of FBI and analysis if their works and procedures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-10-26T12:44:54.290" LastActivityDate="2012-10-26T12:44:54.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4236" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-18T14:45:06.933" Score="0" Body="Short for the Federal Bureau of Investigation." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-18T15:28:13.450" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T15:28:13.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4237" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-18T14:51:57.783" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-18T14:51:57.783" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T14:51:57.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4238" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-18T14:51:57.783" Score="0" Body="God of thunder in Norse mythology; heroic character in the Marvel Comics universe and member of the Avengers superhero team. " OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-18T15:02:21.787" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T15:02:21.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4203" CreationDate="2012-09-18T15:24:43.670" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Putting prequels and sequels aside, keep in mind that Cube is a metaphor for life, for the human condition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the beginning, each character wakes up in a strange, uncomfortable place.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Each quickly realizes that making a bad move will result in death&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Each reacts to the situation in a unique way&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Those who live longest never get any real insight into who/what put them there, or why&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So while the characters (and us viewers) focus on trying to figure out the purpose of the cube, no answer is ever given -- just like in life.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An additional point is that the sole escapee is the mentally disabled man, who just accepted what was going on, and never asked &quot;why&quot; or &quot;who&quot; or &quot;how&quot; -- suggesting the movie's message might be &quot;you're better off embracing the mystery than trying to solve it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-09-18T19:56:29.893" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T19:56:29.893" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4241" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-18T16:00:19.007" Score="0" Body="American actor, best known for his leading roles in blockbuster Hollywood films from the mid 90s to the present. Started out as the rapping half of DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. " OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-18T16:25:04.710" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T16:25:04.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4242" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-18T16:22:21.210" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions about the nature of movie and TV-show trailers as a type of advertisement in which select scenes, symbols or sound bites are taken from a film or television series and edited together to create excitement or curiosity among viewers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T07:53:09.807" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T07:53:09.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="4244" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-18T17:11:35.423" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;General questions about the techniques for producing and showing movies in 3D and its implications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T08:44:37.710" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T08:44:37.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4245" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-18T17:11:35.423" Score="0" Body="General questions about the techniques for producing and showing movies in 3D and its implications." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T08:44:37.710" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T08:44:37.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4246" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-18T17:18:18.567" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Iron Man is a 2008 superhero film produced by Marvel, starring Robert Downey Jr as the titular character, an obscenely wealthy technology pioneer who uses a weaponized suit of armor to keep his creations from falling into the wrong hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also stars Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Shaun Toub and Gwyneth Paltrow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/iron-man&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'iron-man'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iron-man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/iron-man-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'iron-man-2'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iron-man-2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/iron-man-3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'iron-man-3'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iron-man-3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel-cinematic-universe'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the Marvel Cinematic Universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the Marvel character, Iron Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man_(2008_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for movie, Iron Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T18:57:48.247" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T18:57:48.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4247" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-18T17:18:18.567" Score="0" Body="Iron Man is a 2008 superhero film produced by Marvel, starring Robert Downey Jr as the titular character, an obscenely wealthy technology pioneer who uses a weaponized suit of armor to keep his creations from falling into the wrong hands." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T19:00:05.500" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T19:00:05.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4248" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-18T17:36:38.737" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-18T17:36:38.737" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T17:36:38.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4249" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-18T17:36:38.737" Score="0" Body="Sitcoms, short for situational comedies, are a genre of TV show in which the character(s) are placed in a set of circumstances (being stuck in an elevator, missing a work deadline, babysitting an obnoxious child) and the humor is derived from their failure or success. This tag is to be used for questions pertaining to the topic of sitcoms in general, not for questions about individual sitcoms." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="26402" LastEditDate="2020-07-17T20:55:56.513" LastActivityDate="2020-07-17T20:55:56.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4250" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-18T17:54:16.513" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Incredible Hulk refers to the 2008 'reboot' of the Hulk starring Edward Norton, which is the second film released as part of the new Marvel Cinematic Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel-cinematic-universe'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the Marvel Cinematic Universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk_(comics)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the Marvel character, Hulk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Hulk_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the Incredible Hulk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800080/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for the Incredible Hulk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T19:05:46.503" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T19:05:46.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4251" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-18T17:54:16.513" Score="0" Body="The Incredible Hulk refers to the 2008 'reboot' of the Hulk starring Edward Norton, which is the second film released as part of the new Marvel Cinematic Universe." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T19:00:55.310" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T19:00:55.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3479" CreationDate="2012-09-18T18:02:45.207" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;She first changes her name to Carol because that's what Archer called her while they were in a relationship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From IMDB:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0199489/quotes&quot;&gt;&quot;Archer: Training Day (#1.2)&quot; (2010)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cyril Figgis:&lt;/strong&gt; Hello Cheryl. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cheryl:&lt;/strong&gt; It's Carol. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sterling Archer:&lt;/strong&gt; Uh, since when? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cheryl:&lt;/strong&gt; Since I had it legally changed because you always call me&#xA;  Carol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She claimed that Carina &quot;better captured [her] sensual womanhood&quot; in the episode &quot;Killing Utne&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the change to Cristal was done to curry favor with Conway Stern in &quot;Diversity Hire&quot;. Cristal being the name of a wine that was briefly popular amongst rappers, which in Cheryl's mind probably equated to all black people including Conway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yes, it has become a running joke exemplify the character's personality issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2069" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-09-20T20:53:23.030" LastActivityDate="2012-09-20T20:53:23.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4253" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-18T18:20:43.757" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-18T18:20:43.757" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T18:20:43.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4254" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-18T18:20:43.757" Score="0" Body="A tv series, loosely based on a comedic film of the same name, about a teenage girl who kills vampires and all manner of supernatural threats that constantly emerge from a dimensional portal located in the small town of Sunnydale." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-18T18:24:09.650" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T18:24:09.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4216" CreationDate="2012-09-18T20:04:35.063" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scientists use Jose to force Cole into trying to kill the virus-spreader because they needed to learn the virus-spreader's identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, the scientists knew Cole was at the airport because Cole had left a voicemail from there. But in the voicemail, while Cole said the Army of the 12 Monkeys did not spread the virus, he didn't say who the real culprit was. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So Jose's task at airport is to give Cole the gun and then watch who Cole goes after. But while Jose and Cole are talking, Catherine runs up and says she's figured out it is the redhead assistant to Dr Goynes who spreads the virus. At this point, Jose fades out of the scene, having got what he needed.&lt;/strong&gt; (for confirmation see scene as written in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/twelve_monkeys.html&quot;&gt;production draft of script&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, airport security shoots Cole when Cole points the gun at the virus-spreader. The scientists may have provided Cole a non-working gun to encourage this outcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-09-18T20:09:56.647" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T20:09:56.647" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4257" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4261" CreationDate="2012-09-18T20:34:12.983" Score="5" ViewCount="10081" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its in the 80s most likely. I was a kid and I watched this movie with my father so I do not remember much other than remembering that I loved that movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is a typical Bollywood Film about a good guy who fights bad guys with the help of his dog. I remember the last scene where the bad guy was killed (by the dog?) next to a beach. That's all I remember (its been more than 20 years).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user2071" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T14:52:31.737" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T14:48:30.213" Title="Old Indian movie where the star has a dog helping him" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:38:30.210" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4258" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-18T22:16:40.900" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-18T22:16:40.900" LastActivityDate="2012-09-18T22:16:40.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4259" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-18T22:16:40.900" Score="0" Body="For questions specifically about the genre of biographical films. Not to be used for questions about individual films unrelated to the intricacies of biopics." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-02-05T15:51:57.423" LastActivityDate="2019-02-05T15:51:57.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4257" CreationDate="2012-09-18T23:07:20.347" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie may be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teri_Meherbaniyan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Teri Meherbaniyan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sQLvq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where Jackie Shroff is the main lead and he gets killed around the middle of the movie and then the movie takes a 180 degree angle change. His Dog turns out to be the real hero of the movie and kills all the bad people. And the Dog is even only one who knows killers' faces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-12-22T14:48:30.213" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T14:48:30.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4262" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4372" CreationDate="2012-09-19T00:37:25.300" Score="4" ViewCount="1386" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of Season 3 Episode 1 of &lt;em&gt;Boardwalk Empire&lt;/em&gt;, Richard Harrow kills two men: Manny Horvitz and somebody else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is that &quot;somebody else&quot; significant?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was it Roland Smith (a.k.a. the thief's wheelman from earlier in the episode)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or was it simply a wheelman for the occasion and nothing more?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2015-05-19T14:53:06.003" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T14:53:06.003" Title="Who else did Richard Harrow kill in Season 3, Episode 1?" Tags="|character|boardwalk-empire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4263" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5663" CreationDate="2012-09-19T00:54:58.693" Score="4" ViewCount="22665" Body="&lt;p&gt;Across the web, fans were shocked and outraged at the end of Season 2 of &lt;em&gt;Boardwalk Empire&lt;/em&gt; when Terence Winter decided to kill off the James Darmody character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that fateful night, Mr. Winter told fans that it was a &quot;fait accompli&quot;. Things were reaching a boiling point, Jimmy had double-crossed Nucky, and death was a logical conclusion for this character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, Season 3 Episode 1 puts the first two seasons into sharp relief. During the first two seasons, the young gangsters (Nucky included) were just getting warmed up. They were just getting accustomed to their power and the money that comes with the bootlegging racket.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, everybody becomes full-fledged gangsters in Season 3. Nucky is more powerful and wealthier &quot;than God&quot; and he won't hesitate to execute a rival.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the Gyp Rosetti character (full-fledged gangster, loose cannon type) typify Season 3 just as the James Darmody character (newly minted gangster) typified 1 and 2?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2015-05-19T23:14:37.127" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T23:14:37.127" Title="Does the Gyp Rosetti character typify Season 3 just as the James Darmody character typified 1 and 2?" Tags="|character|boardwalk-empire|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4264" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-19T03:59:37.303" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T03:59:37.303" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T03:59:37.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4265" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-19T03:59:37.303" Score="0" Body="Children's cartoon about the adventures of a trio of sentient chipmunks being raised by a bachelor after he finds them in a basket on his doorstep. Also the subject of several films and record releases." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T10:24:06.943" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T10:24:06.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2157" CreationDate="2012-09-19T09:35:32.083" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are not immortal. Human weaponry cannot kill them due to their GOD-LIKE power, but a fall like that would most definitely. &#xA;Loki is a Jotan and Thor are is an Asguardian, beings who had come to Earth during the Viking age. The Vikings mistook them for Gods and so the legend of Norse Gods was born.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(NOTE this refers to the mythical world of the Avengers and Thor. This is not a judgement on the Norse religion.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2075" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-11-13T16:54:21.573" LastActivityDate="2012-11-13T16:54:21.573" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4267" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-19T12:14:04.173" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T12:14:04.173" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T12:14:04.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4268" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-19T12:14:04.173" Score="0" Body="Main character of author Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom saga about a Civil War era soldier who is teleported to Mars. In the 2012 film &quot;John Carter of Mars&quot;, he finds himself caught between forces fighting for the enslavement and liberation of its inhabitants. " OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T12:34:06.253" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T12:34:06.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4269" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-19T12:34:00.590" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Poltergeist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1982 American supernatural horror film written and produced by &lt;strong&gt;Steven Spielberg&lt;/strong&gt; and directed by &lt;strong&gt;Tobe Hooper&lt;/strong&gt;. The first and most successful entry in a multi-film series, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Poltergeist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; focuses on a family whose home is overrun by supernatural forces which abduct their younger daughter. Spielberg fully intended to direct &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Poltergeist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, but involvement in a concurrent project—namely, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;—contractually prohibited him from doing so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Released by &lt;strong&gt;Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer&lt;/strong&gt; on June 4, 1982, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Poltergeist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; became a major critical and commercial success and was ultimately ranked &lt;em&gt;eighth highest-grossing film of 1982&lt;/em&gt;. In addition to receiving &lt;em&gt;three Academy Award nominations&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Poltergeist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was ranked #84th on the &lt;strong&gt;American Film Institute&lt;/strong&gt; list, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;100 Years...100 Thrills&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, a countdown of the country's most heart-pounding movies.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist_(1982_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43924" LastEditorUserId="43924" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T10:29:52.630" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T10:29:52.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4270" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-19T12:34:00.590" Score="0" Body="1982 film about a family being terrorized by supernatural phenomena after moving into their new home. Directed by Tobe Hooper." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T12:40:58.350" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T12:40:58.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4271" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-19T12:46:41.760" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T12:46:41.760" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T12:46:41.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4272" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-19T12:46:41.760" Score="0" Body="The tale of a father and his young son trying to survive the barren wasteland of the United States after a mysterious cataclysmic event. This film is based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy. " OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T12:51:01.010" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T12:51:01.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4273" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-19T13:01:32.757" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T13:01:32.757" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T13:01:32.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4274" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-19T13:01:32.757" Score="0" Body="American actor who rose to comedic stardom in the 90s following the release of &quot;Ace Ventura, Pet Detective&quot;. Got his start on the Fox network sketch comedy show &quot;In Living Color&quot;.&#xD;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T13:13:07.387" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T13:13:07.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4275" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-19T15:05:05.427" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Bourne Supremacy&lt;/em&gt; is a 2004 American action, mystery, thriller film, directed by Paul Greengrass, and screenplay by Tony Gilroy. It stars Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, and more. It premiered USA-wide on July 23, 2004. It is based on the novel of the same name by Robert Ludlum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full IMDb Storyline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After escaping from the emotional and physical pain he previously encountered. Jason Bourne and his girlfriend Marie begin a new life as far away as possible. But when an assassination attempt on Bourne goes horribly wrong, Bourne must re-enter the life he wanted to leave behind, in order to find out the truth why they are still after him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372183/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bourne_Supremacy_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41249" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-29T21:01:27.733" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T21:01:27.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4276" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-19T15:05:05.427" Score="0" Body="The 2nd movie in the Bourne Trilogy, Bourne is dragged back into the world of espionage and decides to hunt down and destroy the remains of the Treadstone program and those people involved." OwnerUserId="1964" LastEditorUserId="1964" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T15:08:59.003" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T15:08:59.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4277" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4312" CreationDate="2012-09-19T15:23:37.193" Score="5" ViewCount="997" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to find out what movie I have seen a few years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The action takes place in occupied France if I remember correctly. The first part is more like love story between a man and a woman. After this man enlists in the army and leaves to fight, the woman  apparently has an affair with a local nazi commander or something. When the man comes home finds out about the two and tries to convince her to leave him. Unfortunately she can't tell him the real reason why is she involved with the nazi guy, but later the man finds out that she actually enlisted as a spy for the French resistance :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, the french resistance manages to overtake the nazi occupation, but the woman gets caught by french people and she is considered a traitor because everyone who lived there saw her with the nazi commander.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The man tries to find her, but she eventually gets killed by the angry mob :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has one of the most frustrating movie endings I have ever seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="149" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-08-31T16:55:50.823" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T22:56:42.370" Title="Love triangle between Spy, Nazi commander &amp; Resistance Soldier in occupied France" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:38:33.343" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4278" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-19T15:26:23.807" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Genre in which the setting for the story is usually somewhere in the industrialized American western territories and involves justice being sought after and meted out by an individual or individuals following a strict code of honor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_%28genre%29#Film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Western (genre)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:24:04.623" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:24:04.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4279" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-19T15:26:23.807" Score="0" Body="A genre of film usually devoted to stories set primarily in the late 19th Century, in the American Old West." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:24:04.623" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:24:04.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4280" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-19T16:16:15.243" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A film genre in which one or more heroes are thrust into a series of challenges that typically include physical feats, extended fight scenes, violence, and frantic chases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Action films tend to feature a resourceful character struggling against incredible odds, which include life-threatening situations, a villain, or a pursuit which generally concludes in victory for the hero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Film: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Action film&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T11:44:21.197" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T11:44:21.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4281" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-19T16:16:15.243" Score="0" Body="TV/film genre noted for use of physical force by majority of characters against one another to advance plot points." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-07T19:25:19.107" LastActivityDate="2016-12-07T19:25:19.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4282" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-19T19:12:52.380" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T19:12:52.380" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T19:12:52.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4283" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-19T19:12:52.380" Score="0" Body="2004's action film about marvel comics book character of same name. Starring Thomas Jane as the antihero Frank Castle (The Punisher)." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T14:33:37.100" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T14:33:37.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4284" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-19T19:26:54.563" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T19:26:54.563" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T19:26:54.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4285" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-19T19:26:54.563" Score="0" Body="A film from the early 1980s about a teenager who is recruited by aliens to pilot the actual version of a spaceship from an arcade game he dominates." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T20:06:01.653" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T20:06:01.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4286" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-19T20:03:36.483" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T20:03:36.483" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T20:03:36.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4287" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-19T20:03:36.483" Score="0" Body="Hugely popular 80s era sitcom starring Bill Cosby (Cliff Huxtable) and Phylicia Rashad (Claire Huxtable) as the loving parents to a clan of 5. Popular themes on the show included the generation gap, sibling rivalries and Cliff's love of hoagies." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T20:05:53.310" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T20:05:53.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4288" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-19T20:44:56.430" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T20:44:56.430" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T20:44:56.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4289" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-19T20:44:56.430" Score="0" Body="The famed comic book company whose writers and artists brought the likes of Batman, Superman and Green Lantern to the world." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T20:55:15.543" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T20:55:15.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4290" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-19T21:03:17.547" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T21:03:17.547" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T21:03:17.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4291" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-19T21:03:17.547" Score="0" Body="80s era Saturday morning cartoon about a group of friends who are turned into archetypal characters in a D&amp;D fantasy world after something goes wrong during a carnival ride." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T22:13:36.810" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T22:13:36.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4292" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-19T21:16:10.747" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T21:16:10.747" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T21:16:10.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4293" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-19T21:16:10.747" Score="0" Body="Popular 80s scifi comedy about a group of paranormal investigators who collectively work to capture and detain destructive poltergeists." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-19T22:13:49.243" LastActivityDate="2012-09-19T22:13:49.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4299" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-20T12:21:43.107" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Iron Man 2 is a 2010 superhero film produced by Marvel, starring Robert Downey Jr as the titular character, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke and Samuel L Jackson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This movie introduces the Mandarin and Whiplash characters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the third movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/iron-man&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'iron-man'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iron-man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/iron-man-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'iron-man-2'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iron-man-2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/iron-man-3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'iron-man-3'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iron-man-3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel-cinematic-universe'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the Marvel Cinematic Universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the Marvel character, Iron Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Iron Man 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T18:55:05.427" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T18:55:05.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4300" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-20T12:21:43.107" Score="0" Body="Iron Man 2 is a 2010 superhero film produced by Marvel, starring Robert Downey Jr as the titular character, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke and Samuel L Jackson. " OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T19:05:49.973" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T19:05:49.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4301" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-20T12:24:21.807" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-20T12:24:21.807" LastActivityDate="2012-09-20T12:24:21.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4302" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-20T12:24:21.807" Score="0" Body="A given actor or actress's entire body of work." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-20T13:50:18.517" LastActivityDate="2012-09-20T13:50:18.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4303" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-20T12:31:57.633" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-20T12:31:57.633" LastActivityDate="2012-09-20T12:31:57.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4304" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-20T12:31:57.633" Score="0" Body="Pixar film franchise about a group of sentient toys whose main purpose is to find ways to bring joy and comfort to their owners." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-20T13:50:11.560" LastActivityDate="2012-09-20T13:50:11.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4305" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21708" CreationDate="2012-09-20T15:09:01.943" Score="13" ViewCount="10369" Body="&lt;p&gt;At one point during The Bourne Legacy Aaron Cross comes up behind an Austrailian security chief and knocks him unconscious. He then proceeds to take the man's watch, and then leaves the area. In this scene there are lots of people around, it isn't like he had time to mug him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did he take the time to steal the watch?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-02-05T23:31:22.457" LastActivityDate="2021-10-06T07:48:27.323" Title="Why did Aaron Cross take the watch from the security chief?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-bourne-legacy|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="830" CreationDate="2012-09-20T16:17:34.790" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is an error to allow the smooth flow of dialog.  It is odd that they ram it down out throats in that way though.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is rather like aliens in Star Trek speaking English because the translator translates the words ... but somehow their lips also perfectly match the English that it is being translated to rather than the alienese that they actually spoke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-09-20T16:17:34.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4307" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-20T21:23:04.797" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-20T21:23:04.797" LastActivityDate="2012-09-20T21:23:04.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4308" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-20T21:23:04.797" Score="0" Body="Point of view. Can refer to camera technique or what perspective a story is told from." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-21T01:40:11.250" LastActivityDate="2012-09-21T01:40:11.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4309" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-21T02:09:55.103" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-21T02:09:55.103" LastActivityDate="2012-09-21T02:09:55.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4310" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-21T02:09:55.103" Score="0" Body="A reality show hosted by Nick Cannon in which celebrity judges Howard Stern, Sharon Osbourne and Howie Mandel cast votes for a variety of amateur acts over the course of a season. The act with the most votes wins a chance at fame by appearing in their own Las Vegas revue. " OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-21T04:46:42.010" LastActivityDate="2012-09-21T04:46:42.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4305" CreationDate="2012-09-21T05:19:01.333" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;One answer is that the watch was valuable (a Rolex Daytona Gold watch, value close to $20,000). Presumably he perceived that he might need it to barter with, and indeed he uses it to pay off the boatman later in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other, more jaded answer, is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.perpetuelle.com/watches/iwc-pilots-watch-top-gun-ref-iw379901-in-the-bourne-legacy/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;product placement&lt;/a&gt;. Swiss Watchmaker IWC made the watch that Jeremy Renner wears in the movie - the Pilot Watch Double Chronograph Edition Top Gun. &quot;IWC hopes that Mr. Renner’s portrayal of a thrill-seeking lifestyle of an elite agent will correlate to the brand image.&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.luxurydaily.com/iwc-taps-the-bourne-legacy-series-for-product-placement/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Luxury Daily&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if IWC has the starring role, who better than competitor Rolex to feature as a prop which is stolen and used for barter? This is supposition on my part - I can find no article suggesting Rolex was involved in the placement, cannot imagine that they would want their brand used in this way, and am aware that companies rarely pay for a product placement if a competitor is also allowed to advertise in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The watchophiles in both the IWC and Rolex camps are all over this movie in their forums!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C7q8F.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://www.luxurydaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/iwc-bourne.jpg&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JiBfz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-09-21T05:19:01.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4277" CreationDate="2012-09-21T09:16:32.380" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing it's &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338097/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Head in the clouds&lt;/a&gt;&quot;  Since you said it is ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338097/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;imdb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;HEAD IN THE CLOUDS is a sweeping romantic drama set in 1930's England,&#xA;  Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish&#xA;  schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world&#xA;  drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle&#xA;  and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel&#xA;  impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are&#xA;  separated - seemingly forever&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastActivityDate="2012-09-21T09:16:32.380" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4313" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-21T11:03:43.933" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-21T11:03:43.933" LastActivityDate="2012-09-21T11:03:43.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4314" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-21T11:03:43.933" Score="0" Body="Harrowing film directed by Gaspar Noe about a couple whose lives are forever altered after the woman suffers a brutal assault and the man hunts down her attacker." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-21T11:22:06.407" LastActivityDate="2012-09-21T11:22:06.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4317" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4318" CreationDate="2012-09-21T21:37:12.730" Score="17" ViewCount="3839" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching parts of a movie on tv some years ago. I missed the beginning, and saw some parts from the middle and the end. I didn't really understand what was happening, but I can provide some details about what I remember (including the ending, so stop reading if you want to avoid spoilers):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the movie had a very creepy atmosphere, and the image seemed to be quite desaturated if not black and white&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a guy was having some weird dreams (or visions?), including an ominous figure walking behind some pillars; the dreams always stopped before he could see who it was&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there were some messed up mirrors in a building, showing and/or doing horrible things (I think including killing people); apparently there was another world behind them, with a demon or several demons&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a demon was trying to come out into the real world, and several characters were trying to stop it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the part I remember most clearly: in one scene, a girl went to a mirror and the demon was kinda swimming towards her from the other side; they joined hands, then the girl went into the mirror, somehow pushing the demon away; then I think the guy (who was in the room) smashed the mirror; I understood this as a self-sacrifice of the girl&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and the really creepy ending: the guy is having that weird dream again, and now he can see the figure - it's the girl from the previous scene&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some details may not be accurate, but that's how I remember them. I found &quot;Into the Mirror&quot; (2003) and &quot;Mirrors&quot; (2008) on wikipedia, but I can't find a description of the ending that matches what I remember. And I think I saw (those parts of) the movie before 2003.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2086" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-14T14:12:39.460" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T14:12:39.460" Title="Girl looks into mirror, sees demon swimming towards her" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|thriller|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:38:39.597" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4317" CreationDate="2012-09-21T21:45:51.380" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Darkness_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Prince of Darkness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (1987) by John Carpenter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia's description matches the details you remember, including the creepy ending:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the end of the film, Marsh has the recurring dream again, except&#xA;  now an apparently possessed Danforth is the figure emerging from the&#xA;  building. Marsh appears to awaken, rolling over to find a gruesomely&#xA;  disfigured Kelly lying in bed with him. Marsh awakens, screaming, and&#xA;  then recovers enough to approach his bedroom mirror, hand&#xA;  outstretched. The film cuts to black just before his fingers touch the&#xA;  mirror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2069" LastActivityDate="2012-09-21T21:45:51.380" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4320" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10631" CreationDate="2012-09-22T14:23:20.790" Score="13" ViewCount="5701" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have once seen a movie (or a TV episode, but probably not) with the following plot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the beginning, a reporter is making a story on immortality and does interview with a an elderly couple who claim that they can live forever by moving their souls into new bodies. Later, several tragedies happen to him and his family that derail his life and put him into depression. In the end, he finds out that the couple he interviewed are actually capable of stealing bodies as long as soul of the victim is broken and not ready to fight back. So all things that happened to him were part of their plan to use him as a new body for the husband's soul. There is no happy end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is all I remember as I watched it 10 or more years ago. I tried several queries on IMDB and Google, but no luck. I am not sure about country where it was made — most probably it is USA, but potentially might be UK/Europe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone identify the movie in question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2091" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-04T06:30:52.510" LastActivityDate="2013-11-04T06:30:52.510" Title="Elderly couple manipulate people in order to steal their bodies" Tags="|identify-this-movie|identify-this-tv-show|drama|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:38:42.953" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4321" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-22T18:12:31.300" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-22T18:12:31.300" LastActivityDate="2012-09-22T18:12:31.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4322" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-22T18:12:31.300" Score="0" Body="American actor usually seen in scifi, fantasy or horror productions; best known for starring in the Evil Dead slapstick horror franchise." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-22T18:31:08.083" LastActivityDate="2012-09-22T18:31:08.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4323" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4324" CreationDate="2012-09-22T18:50:54.357" Score="12" ViewCount="387" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the new Judge Dredd movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343727/&quot;&gt;Dredd 3D&lt;/a&gt; an adaptation or inspired by a specific storyline in the comics or graphic novels?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-29T15:58:34.373" LastActivityDate="2013-04-29T15:58:34.373" Title="Is Dredd 3D an adaptation of a specific comic storyline?" Tags="|comic-adaptation|dredd|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4323" CreationDate="2012-09-22T20:39:45.370" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, Dredd 3D is not an adaptation or inspired by a specific storyline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alex Garland did consider adapting one of the more well known Judge Dredd storylines such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_%28Judge_Dredd_story%29&quot;&gt;Origins&lt;/a&gt;, but decided that that he would not adapt such a big epic and instead went for an approach of writing an original story - a kind of 'day in the life of Judge Dredd'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read more about this in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1530&quot;&gt;Empire&lt;/a&gt; interview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-09-22T20:39:45.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4325" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-22T21:48:26.893" Score="5" ViewCount="20665" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just finished Season 2 of Misfits and there is one story aspect I don't quite understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Episode 2x06, where they all become famous as the &lt;em&gt;ASBO Five&lt;/em&gt;, Simon follows Alisha to the hidden flat of future Simon (aka &lt;em&gt;&quot;the guy in the mask&quot;&lt;/em&gt;). She then tells him that he actually will become that mysterious figure that jumps around and saves them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in that episode the milk guy kills most of the characters which leads Curtis to &lt;strong&gt;rewind time several weeks back&lt;/strong&gt; where they presumably kill the milk guy before he becomes famous in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alisha never told Curtis (or any of the others) about the flat or the true identity of the mask guy, so Curtis would not remember after rewinding time. Simon loses all knowledge that he gathered in those rewinded weeks, so he should not be aware of his destiny either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the next episode (titled &lt;em&gt;'Christmas special'&lt;/em&gt;) we see &lt;strong&gt;Simon jumping around on rooftops, trying to learn Parkour&lt;/strong&gt; and being &lt;strong&gt;in the flat with Alisha&lt;/strong&gt; where they are obviously a couple now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this timeline however Alisha would not have had any reason to break her promise and tell Simon the truth, because this time he did not confront her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First I thought it might be a plot hole, but I doubt they would mess up something this obvious and essential to the story line. So what am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Simon learn about his future after Curtis turned back time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2012-09-22T21:54:08.493" LastActivityDate="2018-12-31T10:29:05.327" Title="How does Simon remember his destiny?" Tags="|plot-explanation|misfits|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4326" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-23T01:36:18.033" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T01:36:18.033" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T01:36:18.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4327" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-23T01:36:18.033" Score="0" Body="The 2nd film bringing the iconic Judge Dredd comic book character to the big screen. " OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T02:30:01.500" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T02:30:01.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4328" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4352" CreationDate="2012-09-23T08:49:19.233" Score="14" ViewCount="1841" Body="&lt;p&gt;The earliest I could locate was a Mexican film El Tren fantasma as described &lt;a href=&quot;http://thebioscope.net/2010/11/20/three-mexican-silents/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_General_%281926_film%29&quot;&gt;The General (1926)&lt;/a&gt; starring Buster Keaton was known for its action in a train, but I am unable to reliably establish if there was a fight on top of a moving train.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any older movie which has such a fight?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="778" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T11:41:25.367" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T05:54:54.550" Title="What was the first film to have a fight on top of a moving train?" Tags="|first-appearance|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3454" CreationDate="2012-09-23T10:14:05.523" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The pit in the Dark Knight Rises is located is near the fort of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahendragarh&quot;&gt;Mahendragarh&lt;/a&gt; in India. It's located near Thar Desert in the Rajasthan state. I have seen local news paper headlines of the Dark Knight Rises team visiting here for shooting...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2093" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2012-09-24T11:18:46.853" LastActivityDate="2012-09-24T11:18:46.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4330" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-23T12:58:16.857" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T12:58:16.857" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T12:58:16.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4331" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-23T12:58:16.857" Score="0" Body="Film adaptation of the biographical work by Jon Krakauer; based on the life of Chris McCandless, an idealistic young man who tried to forge out a life according to his own uncompromising standards." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T13:05:18.447" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T13:05:18.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4332" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-23T13:17:32.343" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T13:17:32.343" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T13:17:32.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4333" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-23T13:17:32.343" Score="0" Body="Pixar film about a superpowered family placed in peril by a mad scientist's elaborate plot to rid the world of heroes." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T13:34:53.697" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T13:34:53.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4334" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-23T13:30:41.407" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T13:30:41.407" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T13:30:41.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4335" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-23T13:30:41.407" Score="0" Body="Film directed by Michael Cimino about a group of friends whose lives are altered when one of them is changed by the horrors he faced during his time in the Vietnam war; features an amazing cast including Meryl Streep, Robert DeNiro and Christopher Walken. " OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T13:35:09.983" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T13:35:09.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4336" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-23T14:08:54.420" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T14:08:54.420" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T14:08:54.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4337" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-23T14:08:54.420" Score="0" Body="2012 scifi/action film directed by Peter Berg based on the classic boardgame. Stars Rihanna as a Navy seaman." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T15:10:34.763" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T15:10:34.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4338" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-23T14:36:29.723" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T14:36:29.723" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T14:36:29.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4339" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-23T14:36:29.723" Score="0" Body="Hit medical drama for the Fox network starring Hugh Laurie as a sarcastic doctor whose main value to his employer is diagnosing and treating patients exhibiting atypical symptoms for varying medical conditions." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T15:10:50.567" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T15:10:50.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4340" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-23T15:08:00.677" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hit 90s NBC sitcom about a group of six young adults living in NYC who often gather in a local coffeehouse to discuss their lives and relationship problems. It had 10 seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Friends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;IMDB Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108778/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Friends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:15:49.687" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:15:49.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4341" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-23T15:08:00.677" Score="0" Body="An American sitcom about a group of six young adults living in NYC created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:15:49.687" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:15:49.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4342" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-23T15:24:58.893" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T15:24:58.893" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T15:24:58.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4343" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-23T15:24:58.893" Score="0" Body="A system of beliefs adhered to by a community; usually based on a creation myth." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T15:28:52.107" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T15:28:52.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4344" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-23T16:01:25.573" Score="4" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790799/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;$9.99&lt;/a&gt;, is it just an illusion that Lenny has when the sofa chairs in Tanita's apartment start talking to him about bone removal or were they really Tanita's ex-lovers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I am asking is after Lenny comes back from his &quot;bone removal operation&quot; he is seen in the same shape of the sofa chair in Tanita's apartment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2095" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2017-01-06T07:49:01.793" LastActivityDate="2017-01-06T07:49:01.793" Title="Are the sofa chairs in Tanita's apartment her ex-lovers?" Tags="|plot-explanation|9.99|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4345" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-23T16:26:19.160" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T16:26:19.160" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T16:26:19.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4346" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-23T16:26:19.160" Score="0" Body="Film directed by Sam Mendes about the breakdown of neighboring suburban families." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T16:26:45.500" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T16:26:45.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4161" CreationDate="2012-09-23T16:28:26.197" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Alien you are saying is actually an &quot;Engineer&quot; and they developed the so called &quot;parasite plague&quot; to end the planet earth (which they created in the first place).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you remember the alien or parasite plague agent that killed &quot;engineer&quot; was forcefully taken out by Elizabeth (Eli) from her stomach in the med pod. She actually froze it using decontamination gas of the med pod but it survived and tried to come out of that room at the end and the &quot;engineer&quot; was accidentally present there at the same time. The alien killed the engineer and supposedly impregnated him and that's why you see a new alien born at the end of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/board/nest/204361312&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; post which gives an insight into the whole plot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2095" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T16:28:26.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4348" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-23T18:03:40.583" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T18:03:40.583" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T18:03:40.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4349" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-23T18:03:40.583" Score="0" Body="A scene shot for the end of a film/tv show that isn't used for the original release/airdate; often found as an extra on the subsequent dvd release." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T18:19:48.537" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T18:19:48.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4350" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4351" CreationDate="2012-09-23T18:36:26.363" Score="11" ViewCount="303" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie 10-15 years ago and can't really remember the details. What I remember is that the protagonists developed some way to achieve temporary clinical death. They are basically trying to find out what is on the other side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="964" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T17:18:39.253" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T17:18:39.253" Title="Identify this movie: the protagonists are searching for what is beyond by reaching clinical death and coming back" Tags="|identify-this-movie|mystery|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-11-22T19:19:34.990" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4350" CreationDate="2012-09-23T18:40:45.813" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099582/&quot;&gt;Flatliners&lt;/a&gt;, a 1990 movie starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts and Kevin Bacon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is about medical students doing exactly what you describe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T18:40:45.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4328" CreationDate="2012-09-23T19:40:09.110" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The oldest I know is &quot;The Great Train Robbery&quot; (1903).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X19_zg1QygY&quot;&gt;youtube clip&lt;/a&gt;, see scene 4, approx. in minute 4ff&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are more information about the film at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Train_Robbery_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017925/&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T19:40:09.110" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4353" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-23T19:48:07.740" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T19:48:07.740" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T19:48:07.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4354" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-23T19:48:07.740" Score="0" Body="Trainspotting is a 1996 British black comedy film directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh." OwnerUserId="132" LastEditorUserId="132" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T21:04:46.110" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T21:04:46.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4356" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-23T23:02:58.033" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T23:02:58.033" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T23:02:58.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4357" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-23T23:02:58.033" Score="0" Body="Referring to the Aliens Vs. Predator films; popular acronym for the first film of the series." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T23:47:27.047" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T23:47:27.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4358" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-23T23:31:28.877" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T23:31:28.877" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T23:31:28.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4359" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-23T23:31:28.877" Score="0" Body="Director Ang Lee's interpretation of the Incredible Hulk mythos. " OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T23:47:40.837" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T23:47:40.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4360" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-23T23:54:01.383" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-23T23:54:01.383" LastActivityDate="2012-09-23T23:54:01.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4361" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-23T23:54:01.383" Score="0" Body="2011 dramedy starring Charlize Theron as a writer struggling to come to grips with the harsh reality of a stalled career, her own loudly ticking biological clock and a pattern of questionable decision making that started in the hometown she decides to finally revisit." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-24T00:13:11.257" LastActivityDate="2012-09-24T00:13:11.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4363" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4382" CreationDate="2012-09-24T09:23:41.993" Score="2" ViewCount="954" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having watched Hollyoaks later this week I've noticed that it is filmed in a different style to regular Hollyoaks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some colours seem washed out but others seem very vibrant, I was just wondering what they do to achieve this effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hollyoaks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zSOv6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hollyoaks Later&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/n2Eir.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1375" LastActivityDate="2012-09-25T09:58:29.877" Title="Hollyoaks Later filming style" Tags="|film-techniques|hollyoaks|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4366" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4367" CreationDate="2012-09-24T14:28:12.190" Score="8" ViewCount="487" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Doctor Who episode 'The Long Game' (Doctor Who 2005, Season 1, Episode 7), Adam makes multiple phone calls from the future back to his own time, leaving a message on his parents answering machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something in the plot that explains how a phone call can be made through time and space to a distant point in the past?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2012-09-24T14:35:21.690" Title="Phone calls to the past - The Long Game" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4366" CreationDate="2012-09-24T14:35:21.690" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wasn't Earth tech. He used &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_items#Superphone&quot;&gt;Rose's cellphone&lt;/a&gt; that was originally modified by the Doctor so that she could talk to her mother:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &quot;Superphone&quot; is an upgraded mobile phone that can make calls across time and space. It even calibrates to the user's home time period, as shown by Adam Mitchell's ability to call his home time on Rose Tyler's phone (&quot;The Long Game&quot;), despite their native time periods being about six years apart.&#xA;  [...]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The superphone first appears in &quot;The End of the World&quot;, where the Ninth Doctor modifies Rose's Nokia 3200 mobile phone with a special device that goes in place of the battery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="615" LastActivityDate="2012-09-24T14:35:21.690" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4368" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4371" CreationDate="2012-09-24T14:43:00.310" Score="29" ViewCount="6778" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons&quot;&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/a&gt; has been running for a long time, how does the series handle the character's aging? There's an annual Halloween episode, so we know the years pass in Springfield, but do the characters age at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2100" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T08:04:37.223" LastActivityDate="2017-02-24T04:19:17.110" Title="How do the writers of The Simpsons handle the character's aging and time progress?" Tags="|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4368" CreationDate="2012-09-24T14:54:45.120" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following &lt;a href=&quot;http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Aging_of_characters_in_The_Simpsons&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikia link&lt;/a&gt; says - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The aging of characters in The Simpsons has been a subject of common&#xA;  fan debate. The passage of time is clear, but characters only show&#xA;  minor, if any, signs of aging, despite openly saying that years have&#xA;  passed. The children also remain in the same grades at school. The&#xA;  writers and character designs seem to ignore the issue of aging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not the only cartoon where age doesn't change with time. There are so many others too that don't need to be mentioned. The given wikia link also tells you the &lt;code&gt;Common Theories&lt;/code&gt; used for the non-aging issue of Simpsons .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Common Theories Used to explain this are -&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eternal Youth-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One common theory is that, like in many cartoons, the characters never age and are trapped at the age of their first appearance. However, Homer, Bart, Lisa and Maggie have all had episodes involving their birthdays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Slowed Time-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another common theory is that, because only one half-hour episode airs approximately each week, the flow of time in The Simpsons is considerably slower than in real life. This theory is supported by the apparent, though minimal, growth of the characters, as well as the noted marks of time. However, this causes a problem with episodes such as All's Fair in Oven War, when the kitchen takes 2 years (in the Simpsons-verse) to remodel, but no-one has aged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time Evolution-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though the above theories are accepted, they fail to address the fact that as the years go by, it becomes apparent that the characters evolve through time. Homer and Marge fell in love in the 1970s in early seasons, and now it is said to have occurred in the 1990s. It may be that as time progresses, the characters present, past and occasionally future selves evolve into consecutive timezones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example is if the viewer is told in an episode that aired in 1990 that Homer was born in 1963, then in a 1991 episode he will have been born in 1964.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anti-Growth HormonesEdit-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a section of Behind the Laughter, Lisa said that to prolong the series, she was forced to take anti-growth hormones, however, this episode is non-canon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-02-24T04:19:17.110" LastActivityDate="2017-02-24T04:19:17.110" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4368" CreationDate="2012-09-24T15:39:47.010" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Simpsons utilizes a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_timeline&quot;&gt;floating timeline&lt;/a&gt; to explain how the world of the show advances in time while the characters remain the same age. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A floating timeline (also known as a sliding timescale) is a device&#xA;  used in fiction, particularly in comics and animation, to explain why&#xA;  characters age little or not at all over a period of time - despite&#xA;  real-world markers like notable events, people and technology&#xA;  appearing in the works and correlating with the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show always takes place in the current year and the characters will always remain the same (general) ages except in certain episodes that show flashbacks or someone's future or where the plot simply requires a birthday, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result, there's actually very little continuity between the episodes themselves and plenty of things that just don't make sense if you look at the series as a whole. Basically, the writers do what they want, and if you ever notice a problem you can just assume &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWizardDidIt&quot;&gt;a wizard did it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2069" LastActivityDate="2012-09-24T15:39:47.010" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4262" CreationDate="2012-09-24T17:19:05.787" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He's pretty likely an unlucky driver/minion of Manny's.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we have enough information to be sure, but based on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The victims location (sitting outside Manny's house waiting in a car), and &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The context (Manny's response to hearing a honk indicates that he was expecting to be picked up), &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's safe to assume that Richard's mission to avenge the murder of Tommy's parents by killing Manny also claimed the life of a hapless wheelman or accomplice for Manny's planned trip that night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1563" LastActivityDate="2012-09-24T17:19:05.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4373" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-24T18:12:44.203" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-24T18:12:44.203" LastActivityDate="2012-09-24T18:12:44.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4374" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-24T18:12:44.203" Score="0" Body="A mythological creature described as having the outward appearance of a human being but requiring blood for sustenance. Vampires have been the subject of numerous tv shows, books and movies." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-24T19:06:49.283" LastActivityDate="2012-09-24T19:06:49.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2679" CreationDate="2012-09-24T19:27:30.890" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film seemed to imply that he was shown clips from J's life; notice that he says J, specifically, is &quot;important&quot;, then hastily amends that to being the pair of them. Similarly, he was probably aware that his death is what caused J to grow up as he had, since, as Guy pointed out, he seems aware of his own death. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2103" LastActivityDate="2012-09-24T19:27:30.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4378" CreationDate="2012-09-24T20:05:27.147" Score="20" ViewCount="38168" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I've had the opportunity to watch Tarantino's &lt;em&gt;Kill Bill: Vol. 1&lt;/em&gt;. It was lots of blood and gore. However, I liked the movie very much. The one which I liked most was, O'Ren-Ishii's lengthy Japanese-animated introduction scene. While watching this scene, I wonder, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why did Tarantino want to show O'Ren-Ishii's character as a animated sequence&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in particularly. How did he get that idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does he explained the reason for this scene in any interview?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImyntxVxZyE&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I've embedded the video of that scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T19:55:20.757" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T19:55:20.757" Title="What's the reason for the O'Ren-Ishii animation sequence?" Tags="|kill-bill|quentin-tarantino|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4368" CreationDate="2012-09-24T20:14:37.737" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 11th season finale &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind_the_Laughter&quot;&gt;Behind the Laughter&lt;/a&gt;, Lisa reveals the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick,_Sad_World&quot;&gt;sick, sad&lt;/a&gt; truth:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701068/quotes?qt=qt1344018&quot;&gt;To prolong the run of the series, I was secretly given anti-growth hormones. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="511" LastActivityDate="2012-09-24T20:14:37.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4376" CreationDate="2012-09-24T20:28:42.110" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found the information from this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ugo.com/movies/the-animated-history-of-o-ren-ishii-kill-bill-comic-con&quot;&gt;site&lt;/a&gt; which contains the interview given by the animation producer for that shot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the most striking sequences in both Kill Bill films is the&#xA;  backstory sequence of Deadly Viper Assassination Squad member O-Ren&#xA;  Ishii. Tarantino collaborated with Production I., the anime studio&#xA;  behind Ghost in the Shell, Blood: The Last Vampire and segments of The&#xA;  Animatrix, to craft this bloody, hand-drawn expansion of mythology, an&#xA;  setup that dimensionalizes Ishii and her violent practices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Animation producer &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuji_Morishita&quot;&gt;Katsuji Morishita&lt;/a&gt; explained to CGSociety that,&#xA;  &quot;Quentin himself came to our studios to meet with us in person. He&#xA;  already had the image and style in mind, and wanted us to make the&#xA;  animation based on his script. He actually acted out the performances&#xA;  of the characters to be animated in front of us. There were 4&#xA;  sequences in all, and the production period was 1 year. Those 4&#xA;  sequences would've been extremely difficult to make in live-action.&#xA;  Even if it had been possible, it would've taken tremendous amount of&#xA;  budget and work.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No kidding -- the price tag for the blood alone would have been seven&#xA;  figures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="113" LastEditDate="2012-09-25T07:54:15.963" LastActivityDate="2012-09-25T07:54:15.963" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2012-09-24T21:26:10.083" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess as to what happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The earth that they had populated in the beginning was another form of biological experiment to see how lifeforms feed off of each other, however, one life form (human), extended its reach beyond earth and into space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, the human bioweapon became smarter and posed a major threat to the existence of those that created the human bioweapon in the first place.  Hence, when the engineer wakes up, he makes no attempt whatsoever to communicate with the humans and robot android, but realizes that the human bioweapon has extended its reach beyond earth, and cannot be contained.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, he kills everyone within his vicinity and starts heading for earth to destroy it completely using either the black liquid or other form of weapons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion he kills them because human behavior imitates that of a virus and is a deadly weapon of warfare against other life forms.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2105" LastEditorUserId="113" LastEditDate="2012-09-25T11:13:51.023" LastActivityDate="2012-09-25T11:13:51.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4380" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-24T23:01:48.500" Score="26" ViewCount="1985" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story&quot;&gt;Toy Story&lt;/a&gt;, Why is Buzz the only toy that does not believe he is a toy?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is this a stage of being a toy or does Buzz have some sort of neurological dysfunction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2106" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-06-22T14:24:43.297" LastActivityDate="2017-06-22T14:24:43.297" Title="Why is Buzz the only toy that does not believe he is a toy?" Tags="|character|toy-story|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4363" CreationDate="2012-09-25T04:22:35.170" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The difference may be accounted for by the camera setup. &lt;em&gt;Hollyoaks&lt;/em&gt; is filmed with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollyoaks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;single camera&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Hollyoaks Later&lt;/em&gt; is filmed with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollyoaks_Later&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;multiple cameras&lt;/a&gt;. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-camera_setup&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, with a multiple camera set-up, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...multiple shots are obtained in a single take without having to&#xA;  start and stop the action. This is more efficient for programs that&#xA;  are to be shown a short time after being shot as it reduces the time&#xA;  spent film editing or video editing the footage...Drawbacks include a&#xA;  less optimized lighting which needs to provide a compromise for all&#xA;  camera angles and less flexibility in putting the necessary equipment&#xA;  on scene, such as microphone booms and lighting rigs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to this an &lt;a href=&quot;http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/hollyoaks-later-neil-newbon-walker-teases-dark-plot-exclusive-interview-and-pictures/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with actor Neil Newbon (Walker), the single camera gives &lt;em&gt;Hollyoak&lt;/em&gt; its dramatic feel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hollyoaks is still the only soap that shoots with only one camera, we&#xA;  don’t use multiple camera shots across one another, and we shoot like&#xA;  a drama and because of that we are unique, it has more of a dramatic&#xA;  angle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With single camera, every time the camera has to be moved, the lighting people have time to set the lights just the way they want them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-09-25T04:22:35.170" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4380" CreationDate="2012-09-25T05:03:41.657" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a toy is new, they may not yet know that they are toys. Maybe that is the reason buzz didn't believe he was a toy. That was the character / personality of Buzz, that was also responsible for his reluctance to believe.&#xA;Its just an interpretation though!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2012-09-25T05:03:41.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4380" CreationDate="2012-09-25T06:15:31.803" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because all the toys shown in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story&quot;&gt;Toy Story&lt;/a&gt; are all old toys mostly. So they all know the reality. But &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Lightyear&quot;&gt;Buzz Lightyear&lt;/a&gt; is a new toy who doesn't know about reality. If you have seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Story_2&quot;&gt;Toy Story 2&lt;/a&gt; then you will definitely remember that when new Buzz appears he is not under the impression that he is a toy. Even Zurg who comes later and tries to kill Buzz because he also doesn't believe that he is a toy rather thinks that Buzz is his enemy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short Buzz is not the only toy who doesn't know that he is a toy and mostly every new toy come to this phase that he feels he is a real person and not a toy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="15790" LastEditDate="2014-11-12T07:34:24.893" LastActivityDate="2014-11-12T07:34:24.893" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4363" CreationDate="2012-09-25T09:58:29.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's really just a case of different use of colour timing/correction - that's all, just an artistic decision that's implemented during editing by the tweaks they set when rendering the output files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastActivityDate="2012-09-25T09:58:29.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4387" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4388" CreationDate="2012-09-25T11:38:17.070" Score="10" ViewCount="3637" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do TV networks air pilot episodes of a series that has already aired a first episode? Why do they call it a pilot episode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Irrespective of the result (good or bad ratings) of the pilot episode, would the network continue to air the series anyway? By the time they actually start airing the series, wouldn't they have the complete season 1 in hand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2095" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T08:14:49.833" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T08:14:49.833" Title="Why do TV networks air pilot episodes?" Tags="|pilot|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4387" CreationDate="2012-09-25T11:58:30.377" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many different types of TV pilots. You can find your answer in this wikipedia &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_pilot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;entry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, many networks never air certain series in their entirety. This can be for a variety of reasons, such as a controversial topic or extremely low ratings. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-09-25T12:09:18.200" LastActivityDate="2012-09-25T12:09:18.200" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4389" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4392" CreationDate="2012-09-25T16:54:00.903" Score="34" ViewCount="112470" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Prometheus&lt;/a&gt;, we saw that a creature was born from the body of the dead engineer, which was essentially identical to the Alien creature pictured in the Alien vs. Predator movies (a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_%28creature_in_Alien_franchise%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Xenomorph&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my question is how are they connected chronologically? I imagine that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVP:_Alien_vs._Predator&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;AVP&lt;/a&gt; happens in the present time but Prometheus is dated in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T21:56:06.503" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T21:56:06.503" Title="How is Prometheus connected to Alien vs. Predator in the chronological sense?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|alien|chronology|aliens-vs-predator|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2748" CreationDate="2012-09-25T19:33:00.457" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Engineers never expected humans to come anywhere closer to their technology. They are afraid that if human race is left as it is humans might conquer the Engineer's world in future. So they plan to kill entire human race using a biological weapon (parasite plague)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2095" LastEditorUserId="2095" LastEditDate="2012-09-26T06:57:08.047" LastActivityDate="2012-09-26T06:57:08.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4389" CreationDate="2012-09-25T19:41:26.063" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/faq#.2.1.41&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Prometheus&lt;/em&gt; IMDb FAQ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It should be noted that AvP franchise is not considered part of the official canon of the &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt; saga&lt;/strong&gt; [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Prometheus&lt;/em&gt; is considered by both Ridley Scott and the film's producers to be the first film in the &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt; series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.craveonline.com/film/interviews/190017-fundamental-mysteries-damon-lindelof-on-prometheus-and-star-trek-2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;interview with Damon Lindelof&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...] Look, as to what’s canon and what’s not canon, for me as a screenwriter it’s transcended by Ridley as a director.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here’s the thing. Ridley invented this. He created this &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt; universe. He birthed it out of his own heart and soul. So he gets to do whatever it is he wants to do and &lt;strong&gt;he wanted to use Weyland as a conduit in the story, and was not interested at all when I said to him, &lt;em&gt;“You know, Weyland was a character in one of the Alien Vs. Predator movies,”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; he just sort of looked at me like I had just slapped him in the face. That was the beginning, middle and end of all &lt;em&gt;Alien Vs. Predator&lt;/em&gt; references in our story process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-09-25T19:41:26.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4393" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4404" CreationDate="2012-09-26T01:34:37.473" Score="7" ViewCount="9261" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only remember one thing very clearly about the movie so I think it's going to be very hard to find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie was taking place a long time ago: maybe featuring vikings or romans (I know that is not precise at all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I remember clearly is this: there were people that had been captured by a clan or a tribe and they were being killed by a very special method: the man was pushed in a gigantic tobogan and gaining a lot speed (the tobogan was very steep and very long) and, at the end of the tobogan, there was a huge blade that was cutting the man in two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was cutting them in two from the head to the groin, leaving two symmetrical part of the body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure there were a lot of spectators enjoying the &quot;show&quot; of the ennemies being cut in two parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say the movie is at least 30 years old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw this as a kid and this movie, that part of the movie, totally freaked me out...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2064" LastActivityDate="2017-04-21T22:06:57.723" Title="Identify this movie with a very special kind of guillotine tobogan" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:38:47.053" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4389" CreationDate="2012-09-26T06:10:07.167" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_series&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; says -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Prometheus was originally intended as a direct prequel to the 1979 science&#xA;  fiction horror film Alien, set approximately 30 years before the&#xA;  events depicted in the film. While the finished film explored a more&#xA;  stand-alone mythology based upon the race of giant beings discovered&#xA;  by the crew of the Nostromo in Alien, it is, as acknowledged in the&#xA;  end credits, based on elements from the original film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_vs._Predator_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Alien vs. Predator Wikipedia page &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a 2002 interview, Scott's concept for a story was &quot;to go back to&#xA;  where the alien creatures were first found and explain how they were&#xA;  created&quot;; this project eventually became Scott's 2012 film Prometheus.&#xA;  On learning that Fox intended to pursue Alien vs. Predator, Cameron&#xA;  believed the film would &quot;kill the validity of the franchise&quot; and&#xA;  ceased work on his story, &quot;To me, that was Frankenstein Meets&#xA;  Werewolf. It was Universal just taking their assets and starting to&#xA;  play them off against each other...Milking it.&quot;[38] After viewing&#xA;  Alien vs. Predator, however, Cameron remarked that &quot;it was actually pretty good. I&#xA;  think of the five Alien films, I'd rate it third. I actually liked it.&#xA;  I actually liked it a lot.&quot;[38] Conversely, Ridley Scott had no&#xA;  interest in the Alien vs. Predator films. When asked in May 2012 if he&#xA;  had watched them, Scott laughed, &quot;No. I couldn't do that. I couldn't&#xA;  quite take that step.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's clear that Ridley Scott never in a favor of &lt;code&gt;Alien vs. Predator Franchise&lt;/code&gt; and that's the reason that his film &lt;code&gt;Prometheus&lt;/code&gt; only connected to Alien Franchise, it doesn't have any connection to  &lt;code&gt;Alien vs. Predator&lt;/code&gt; films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Prometheus Wikipedia link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Development of the film began in the early 2000s as a fifth&#xA;  installment in the Alien franchise. Scott and director James Cameron&#xA;  developed ideas for a film that would serve as a prequel to Scott's&#xA;  1979 science fiction horror film Alien. By 2003, the development of&#xA;  Alien vs. Predator took precedence, and the project remained dormant&#xA;  until 2009 when Scott again showed interest. Spaihts wrote a script&#xA;  for a prequel to the events of the Alien films, but Scott opted for a&#xA;  different direction to avoid repeating cues from those films. In late&#xA;  2010, Lindelof joined the project to rewrite Spaihts's script, and he&#xA;  and Scott developed a story that precedes the story of Alien but is&#xA;  not directly connected to that franchise. According to Scott, although&#xA;  the film shares &quot;strands of Alien's DNA, so to speak&quot;, and takes place&#xA;  in the same universe, Prometheus explores its own mythology and ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's clear that Prometheus is a sequel to first alien film and their may be one more Prometheus film which will fill the gap between First Alien film and Prometheus and AVP's is just like a spinoff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="511" LastEditDate="2013-09-13T13:16:21.873" LastActivityDate="2013-09-13T13:16:21.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4396" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-26T12:42:16.673" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-26T12:42:16.673" LastActivityDate="2012-09-26T12:42:16.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4397" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-26T12:42:16.673" Score="0" Body="The follow up to the long running Nickelodeon fantasy cartoon series &quot;Avatar: The Last Airbender&quot;, &quot;Legend of Korra&quot; tells the tale of the next person selected to be the Avatar. The Avatar is an immensely powerful spirit channeled through a human, usually summoned when facing imminent threats to themselves or to an overmatched community." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-26T13:16:07.737" LastActivityDate="2012-09-26T13:16:07.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4398" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4399" CreationDate="2012-09-26T14:54:48.020" Score="8" ViewCount="1370" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember seeing a movie around 2000-2005 on the premium channels (HBO, Showtime, etc.).  I believe that it had a wide release, but I'm not sure.  It was American, in English, and in color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is about a space ship (I think they're some sort of hospital spaceship or science ship) that responds to an emergency.  They end up with this alien artifact on board.  A crew member (or someone they saved from the emergency) becomes obsessed with the artifact, and it starts to change him.  He ends up going psychotic and kills most everyone save the captain(?) and a black woman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie ends with the white guy and black woman using a pod to escape the explosion of the alien artifact.  During the pod jump, the two end up swapping some dna because they shared the same pod, and the woman becomes pregnant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-11-22T18:52:25.540" LastActivityDate="2017-11-22T18:52:25.540" Title="Alien artefact on spaceship turns crew member into a killer" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:38:51.030" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4398" CreationDate="2012-09-26T15:10:14.767" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you mean &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134983/combined&quot;&gt;Supernova&lt;/a&gt;, with Robin Tunney from Mentalist. The black officer is Angela Bassett, also has James Spader. The one that goes crazy, if I remember correctly, is Peter Facinelli, who plays Karl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2012-09-26T15:10:14.767" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="921" CreationDate="2012-09-26T19:12:38.643" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In September 1966, Charles De Gaulle gave a famous speech in Phnom Penh (Cambodia). He expressed France's disapproval of the US involvement in Vietnam (preceding Nixon by 7 years) and he called for a US withdrawal from Vietnam as the only way to ensure peace.  So the director MAY be making a political statement about how the war lasted seven years beyond what imperialist France wished.....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="578" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-26T21:08:13.397" LastActivityDate="2012-09-26T21:08:13.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2246" CreationDate="2012-09-27T01:26:09.873" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt; director commentary, Joss Whedon touches on this (and how he hated to take this shortcut!).  He refers to it as being a sort of queen bee and drones situation.  When the proverbial queen on the other side of the portal dies, all the minions lose all guidance and will to live, so they all just drop dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr. Whedon states they took this route so as to allow the fight to wrap up then and there.  Otherwise they'd have to have this triumphant strike happen, the portal would close, and then the Avengers would have to spend hours hunting down all the Chitauri in New York City.  That would rob the good guys of their victorious moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-09-27T01:26:09.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2100" CreationDate="2012-09-27T02:03:29.343" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your scene can be seen on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5pJ85dR2Mk&amp;amp;feature=fvwrel&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Youtube&lt;/a&gt; in Spanish with subtitles. Here is a screenshot with dialogue in English:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kXjlg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this indicates they were indeed killed. It is possible that, as this is near the end of the film, Herzog was running up against the end of his budget ($370,000, a third of which went to Kinski), and so the lack of a scene showing the death might have been a lack of cash. In the book &lt;em&gt;Herzog on Herzog&lt;/em&gt;, he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometimes I had to sell my boots or my wristwatch just to get&#xA;  breakfast. It was a barefoot film, so to speak, a child of poverty. (p. 84)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read the section on &lt;em&gt;Aguirre: Wrath of God&lt;/em&gt; in the Herzog book at &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=ydN_2oj8M0wC&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&amp;amp;q&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google Books&lt;/a&gt; starting on page 76. The film is only very loosely based on the the biography of Aguirre (which is sparse at any rate). The script is almost a complete fabrication. The ending, where Aguirre goes mad surrounded by monkeys in the Amazon, is not factual - Aguirre made it out of the jungle and was later killed in Venezuela. Herzog's telling of his decision-making processes with this film are fascinating reading!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-09-27T02:03:29.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4393" CreationDate="2012-09-27T12:12:40.967" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you referring to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057259/&quot;&gt;The Long Ships?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has a method of execution/torture that is called 'The Mare of Steel' that people slide down and are cut in two. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is demonstrated in the movie by the owner directing one of his troops to 'ride' it to his death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastActivityDate="2012-09-27T12:12:40.967" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4405" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4406" CreationDate="2012-09-27T15:24:26.113" Score="13" ViewCount="9955" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hank's epiphany in the last scene of the &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; mid-season 5 finale spawns a flashback from season 3 (I think) where he and Walt talk about a book that Gale owned(?); maybe Gale owned it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever the case, there was the same book sitting on Walt's toilet. (exact same?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please help me recollect the purpose of this book and how the inscription or whatever wording was on the dedication page caused Hank's synapses to fire off like crazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T00:57:05.393" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T00:57:05.393" Title="The last scene of the Breaking Bad mid-season 5 finale" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4405" CreationDate="2012-09-27T15:34:24.190" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gale kept a diary of items related to the construction of the meth lab operation he performed for Gus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't know this, but the Breaking Bad blog says the lab was originally for Gale alone to provide meth for Gus, possibly also for the Croatians, where the quality was expected to be low (Lydia's explanation to Walt about Gus' plans for Europe). Walt's consistent high quality product made him a better candidate for the job, and Gale relegated to backup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This lab was presented as a gift to Walt and Pinkman when Walt agreed to work for Gus. It replaced their travelling lab - the RV. The notebook was found during the investigation of Gale's murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gale would sprinkle commentary, scientific formulas, equipment specifications, etc. throughout the notebook. The notebook was dedicated to WW, which Walt told Hank could be to Walt Whitman, since he recognized a bit of poetry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gale must have also dedicated to Walt, a copy of Whitman's poems. The handwriting was similar and contained a similar feeling. Hank probably recognized the handwriting, and possibly just a loose connection to the poetry. The inscription &quot;W.W.&quot; stood out for him enough for him to recall the earlier conversation with his brother-in-law where Hank intimated, in jest, the possibility of initials WW meant Walter White.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an image of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120903064815/breakingbad/images/6/6a/5x8_to_WW_from_GB.png&quot;&gt;Leaves of Grass&lt;/a&gt; inscription.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the other inscription by opening the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amctv.com/shows/breaking-bad/gale-boetticher-case-file&quot;&gt;Notebook&lt;/a&gt; at AMCTV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: During a rewatch of season 5, Hazard Pay (episode 3) is the first episode where I noticed the copy of Leaves of Grass which is later revealed to be Gale's inscribed copy to Walt. Walt unpacks it, studies its cover, and chuckles before he places it very conspicuously on his nightstand as he moves back from the apartment to their house together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T16:19:23.017" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T16:19:23.017" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="902" CreationDate="2012-09-27T17:50:06.913" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt; it was not a hallucination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie shows the call being happening through 2 different timelines. The caller speaking to the old Mary when she could see the little Mary growing up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since John threatens the caller when she was on phone, so she kills him by finding the little John and kills him and buries the body behind the wall. so doing that affects the entire reality happening around Mary except her, only she knows that the caller is doing this everyone else assumes that John went missing when he was a kid and never was found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happens the same way for every other instance caller does something to Mary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="37467" LastEditDate="2019-09-09T21:34:30.640" LastActivityDate="2019-09-09T21:34:30.640" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4211" CreationDate="2012-09-28T04:29:20.603" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Monk_and_the_Badge#Episode_adaption&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, in this episode (based on the book &lt;em&gt;Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu&lt;/em&gt;), it wasn't that Monk did not require her services so much as, perhaps feeling that she was no longer needed, she &quot;reveals that she has an interview for a glamorous job with a concert promoter.&quot; Mr. Monk warns her that her new boss will not be as good as he was. In the end, she misses the excitement of working with him, and she returns to her job as he relinquishes his badge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/monk/mr-monk-and-the-badge-1286219/&quot;&gt;dialogue&lt;/a&gt; at the end, they disagree about whether she quit or was let go:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Monk: I pay $900 a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Natalie: I am not taking a pay cut, Mr. Monk! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Monk: Then you shouldn't have quit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Natalie: I didn't quit, you let me go. Oh, God, you make me mad! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This episode was directed by Dean Parisot, whose only other episode was the pilot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, in the book, Natalie does not leave when Monk gets his badge back (which he only gets temporarily because he is operating as a scab during an unofficial police strike - &quot;blue flu&quot;), but continues working with him at his job. In the television series, they were trying to wrap up a lot of loose ends as the series came to an end, and one of those loose ends was Adrian getting his badge back. But once he had it back, he decides it is not for him. That storyline naturally had to consider what would happen to Natalie if Monk went back to regular work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-09-28T04:29:20.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4411" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4412" CreationDate="2012-09-28T07:56:15.383" Score="14" ViewCount="32985" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780504/&quot;&gt;Drive (2011)&lt;/a&gt; a little while ago. It was the second time I watched this movie. I am a little bit confused about the ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the driver leave the town or went to meet Irene at the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2119" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-09-28T11:39:44.967" LastActivityDate="2017-05-24T16:54:03.017" Title="Was 'The Driver' leaving the town at the end of Drive (2011)?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|drive|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4411" CreationDate="2012-09-28T10:57:17.817" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_%282011_film%29#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Driver makes a final phone call to Irene to tell her he is leaving&lt;/strong&gt;, and says that meeting her and Benicio was the best thing that has ever happened to him [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...] &lt;strong&gt;That evening, Irene knocks on the Driver's apartment door, with no response.&lt;/strong&gt; The Driver drives into the night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/drive-movie-ending-kofi-132077/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'Drive' Ending Explained&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we last see Driver – bleeding out while behind the wheel of his car, before pulling himself together and speeding off into the night – there is a certain amount of lingering doubt about the literalness vs. figurativeness of what we are seeing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I &lt;strong&gt;asked [the director] Refn first-hand what the ending of Drive was all about&lt;/strong&gt;, I expected the typically coy filmmaker to hand me an equally coy answer. However, he was surprisingly straight forward in his response:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Well all my films always have open endings. All of them. Because I believe art is always best when…you talk about it and think about it, so forth. Maybe once in awhile I’ve gone too far, but I always believe in finding the right balance. And in ‘Drive’ &lt;strong&gt;he lives on for more and new adventures.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...] &lt;strong&gt;the implications of the film are such that Driver will likely speed off into new adventures&lt;/strong&gt;, as Refn claims, albeit still stuck in the lonely and isolated existence in which we found him. The only difference is: he now knows what kind of hero he can be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-09-28T10:57:17.817" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4415" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-09-28T18:39:09.680" Score="1" ViewCount="3310" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happens at the end of &lt;em&gt;The Burrowers&lt;/em&gt;? I watched it a few times but I don't understand it. Was it just a dream?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2120" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T14:35:08.720" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T13:59:15.803" Title="What happened in the end? Was it just a dream?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-burrowers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4415" CreationDate="2012-09-29T02:11:56.187" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iconsoffright.com/IV_JT2.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with the writer/director JT Petty, he explains that the burrowers, creatures who lived underground and came out periodically to feed, were &quot;basically part of nature. Like if white people didn't show up, they would have kept on their feeding cycle, and everything would have been fine. They come up every 30 years or so; and they came up one time and all the buffalo were gone.&quot; So they had to find another warm mammal to eat, and what they found were the people who had slaughtered all the buffalo. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In researching for his movie, Petty discovered that 40% of cowboys in that time were black, and the majority of the rest were immigrants - it wasn't a job anyone wanted. So the inability of people to communicate with each other leads to a lot of mistrust and bad assumptions, which sort of drives the film, and reinforces the underlying message of our historical lack of understanding and subsequent assumptions with regards to Native Americans, a tendency which perhaps persists today with regard to other cultures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, just when the Irishman is about to learn the secret from the Indians for how to kill the beasts, the Cavalry arrives &quot;misinterprets the situation and ruins their chances of success...Where misunderstanding piles onto misunderstanding and causes everyone to get f**cked.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the soldier brags about killing the Indians, the Irishman (Fergus Coffey, played by Karl Geary), stares off into space, reality dawning that their only hope of survival is hanging from a makeshift gallows. It is a desolate ending suited to the horror genre!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-09-29T02:11:56.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4421" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4449" CreationDate="2012-09-29T20:52:30.927" Score="5" ViewCount="510" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been many characters who have travelled through time but who was the first? Off the top of my head, I can only think of Ebenezer Scrooge and his 3 ghostly visitors. I'm not even sure that they qualify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2013-09-30T14:42:34.963" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T17:15:52.233" Title="What was the first tv show or movie to feature a character who travelled through time?" Tags="|first-appearance|time-travel|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4422" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-29T21:39:28.243" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror drama television series, starring &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lincoln&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Andrew Lincoln&lt;/a&gt; as sheriff's deputy &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Grimes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rick Grimes&lt;/a&gt;, who awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Developed by: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Darabont&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Frank Darabont&lt;/a&gt;, based on the comic book series of the same name by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kirkman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Robert Kirkman&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Moore_%28artist%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tony Moore&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Adlard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Charlie Adlard&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Links&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1520211/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4174" LastEditorUserId="4174" LastEditDate="2014-12-02T07:06:27.340" LastActivityDate="2014-12-02T07:06:27.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4423" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-29T21:39:28.243" Score="0" Body="An American horror drama TV series about a post-apocalyptic world dominated by zombies known as 'Walkers'." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="4174" LastEditDate="2014-12-02T12:05:27.967" LastActivityDate="2014-12-02T12:05:27.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1546" CreationDate="2012-09-30T03:35:33.173" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You also can't separate the ending of the movie from the recent happenings in Polanski's life at that time, given the cruel and purposeless way in which his wife and love, Sharon Tate, was killed in cold blood by the Manson &quot;family&quot; only a few years prior. A sad reflection of Polanski's life experience unfortunately&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2124" LastActivityDate="2012-09-30T03:35:33.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1193" CreationDate="2012-09-30T09:10:16.417" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speculation: Old Biff returns to the changed 2015 (designated 2015A). Doc and Marty &amp;quot;transitioned&amp;quot; to 2015A without noticing. Why didn't they notice? Maybe because they were out on the street when it happened and Hilldale looks the same in 2015A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, time travelers &amp;quot;transitioning&amp;quot; between changed timelines is implied by Doc Brow when he tells Marty not to worry about leaving Jennifer on the porch in &amp;quot;alternate 1985&amp;quot;. After they restored the timeline Jennifer was still sleeping on the porch.*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_Part_II#Deleted_footage&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Futurpedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In scenes deleted from the film, Biff Tannen of 2015 fades out of existence&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(much like Marty was in the original movie when interfering with his parents' meeting)&lt;/em&gt; once arriving in the future, having been erased from existence in that time period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be explained for two different reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First, these events created a time paradox. Having created an alternate timeline by giving his younger self the almanac, the old Biff from 2015 no longer existed, once 2015A became part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/1985A&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1985A timeline&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility is that Lorraine, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/1996&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1996&lt;/a&gt; of the alternate timeline, shot and killed Biff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These events are never depicted in the trilogy, although Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale suggest this theory as a way of explaining Biff's &amp;quot;disappearance.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;I took some screenshots from a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2NBw-ZSQ98&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YouTube clip&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9mPeX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Biff&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vOPvG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Biff&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VunyD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Biff&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qUBCy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Biff&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-10-15T04:24:26.527" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4426" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4474" CreationDate="2012-09-30T14:55:51.203" Score="7" ViewCount="1352" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Moonrise Kingdom&quot;, why doesn't anything happen to Sam after lightning hits him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next scene shows that he is covered in black dust but other than that he doesn't seem to be hurt at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2095" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-30T16:28:11.697" LastActivityDate="2013-04-01T06:20:15.647" Title="Why doesn't anything happen to Sam after the lightning hit him?" Tags="|plot-explanation|moonrise-kingdom|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4427" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4436" CreationDate="2012-09-30T15:06:53.127" Score="38" ViewCount="77117" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;The Prestige&quot;, why does Borden keep saying (in the diary as well as to Angier) that he doesn't know which knot he tied at the scene where Julia drowns? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's got to be one of the twin brothers who tied the knot. One of them would surely know which knot they tied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2095" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-30T16:03:00.443" LastActivityDate="2021-03-31T15:01:01.127" Title="Why doesn't Borden know which knot he tied?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4428" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4432" CreationDate="2012-09-30T15:14:20.500" Score="11" ViewCount="1799" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;The Prestige&quot;, after each &quot;Real Transported Man&quot; magic show, Angier doesn't dispose of his dead clones but just keeps them (along with the water tank).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does he think they are proof of the sacrifices he has made and doesn't want to get rid of them? It would be risky if someone finds out too, right? So he must have had a strong reason to not dispose of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2095" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-10-01T17:50:01.790" LastActivityDate="2012-10-01T17:50:01.790" Title="Why doesn't Angier dispose of the bodies in the tanks?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4429" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11809" CreationDate="2012-09-30T18:07:32.410" Score="6" ViewCount="10225" Body="&lt;p&gt;By the end of &lt;em&gt;Safe House&lt;/em&gt;, I was led to think that Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) was the good guy. That belief was challenged when he asked the other (good) guy to be better than him. Now, I am not a very careful viewer, so something along those lines may have been mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-06-05T07:02:35.720" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T20:35:24.707" Title="What wrong did Tobin Frost do?" Tags="|plot-explanation|safe-house|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2754" CreationDate="2012-09-30T18:55:02.717" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frodo also KNEW more of the ring than Bilbo (Gandalf told Frodo whereas with Bilbo he pretty much just kept an eye on the hobbit). That knowing would alter how Frodo would use the ring - whether he willed it or not. Additionally, Bilbo never sought to DESTROY the  ring, thus the Ring had no reason to protect itself from Bilbo and therefore had less of a grip on him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2125" LastActivityDate="2012-09-30T18:55:02.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4431" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4434" CreationDate="2012-09-30T19:25:46.343" Score="5" ViewCount="910" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard_with_a_Vengeance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Die Hard: With a Vengeance&lt;/a&gt; (at around 1:44), where &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McClane&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John&lt;/a&gt; and Zeus are handcuffed to the bomb in the ship, John talks about picking the lock. Suddenly he has a piece of a wire/cable in his mouth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What happened? Where did he get it from?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T08:15:58.643" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T08:15:58.643" Title="Where does the wire (to pick the handcuffs) come from?" Tags="|plot-explanation|die-hard-with-a-vengeance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4428" CreationDate="2012-09-30T19:26:55.923" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Angier moves the bodies to the old abandoned Theatre that he rehearsed the show in, to clear them out of the Theatre he was performing in, and does this nightly after the show.  The blind stage-hands will assist with this process, as they have no idea that they are transporting bodies in the tanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no indication from the movie that he had any particular plans to dispose of the bodies properly once the run of performances was over, but also no indication to the contrary.    Perhaps he intended to deal with this personally once everything was over - he could rely on no-one else to do this for him, and it is a final affirmation that he 'got his hands dirty' to be a great magician.  Perhaps he even planned all along to burn the old theatre down, though clearly not in the circumstances that occur at the end of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As someone who meticulously planned this final act, to crown his achievement as the greater magician, and frame Borden for his murder, it does seem strange that he did not dispose of the body each day - as it was clearly a risky plan to store the bodies for some period - but it is not inconceivable that he planned to get rid of them eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-09-30T19:26:55.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4433" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4435" CreationDate="2012-09-30T19:49:20.403" Score="19" ViewCount="2870" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been several times in the various Star Trek series when one actor interacted with himself/herself as a clone, Mirror Universe double, or other &quot;alternate&quot; version of the same basic character.  But has the same actor ever played two completely distinct characters in the same scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, Jeffrey Combs once said that he always wanted to do this with Brunt and Weyoun, but he never had the chance to.  And in the &lt;em&gt;Deep Space Nine&lt;/em&gt; episode &quot;Chimera,&quot; the alien guest star was played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/J.G._Hertzler&quot;&gt;J. G. Hertzler&lt;/a&gt;, and Martok is mentioned several times in the episode, but he never appears on screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has it ever been done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2023" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-04-26T18:28:51.183" LastActivityDate="2016-10-29T20:53:56.640" Title="Did one actor ever play two distinct characters in one scene in the Star Trek franchise?" Tags="|star-trek|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4431" CreationDate="2012-09-30T20:08:56.207" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The wire came from the cable they used to get on the boat.  The cable was a braided wire cable and a splinter from it ended up in his shoulder as they reached the boat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-09-30T20:08:56.207" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4433" CreationDate="2012-09-30T20:37:00.847" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best I can come up with is Brent Spiner - he played Data on The Next Generation, and appeared onscreen in three episodes as Lore, Data's brother.  I'm not sure that this is far enough from the instances of clones or mirrors that you mention, but the characters exist simultaneously and have distinct personalities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lore_%28Star_Trek%29#Lore&quot;&gt;This is the Wikipedia article featuring Lore, and explains some of the filming techniques&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="307" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T08:23:42.937" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T08:23:42.937" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4427" CreationDate="2012-09-30T20:40:57.980" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, as we learn at the end, the whole diary was made up to lead &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; on a wrong track. This means we cannot rely on the fact that he didn't know which knot it was to be the ultimate truth just because it was in his diary (and even less if he just tells him from his own mouth).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there are different possibilities and I (as well as the movie, I think) cannot give you a definite answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The statement that he didn't know which knot was a lie and he really knew it. He might have written that into the diary to confuse &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; even further or just to not confess his guilt to him, having chosen the wrong knot (or rather the one &lt;em&gt;Julia&lt;/em&gt; wanted, as denoted by the nod she gives him).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Like &lt;em&gt;iandotkelly&lt;/em&gt; says in his comment, it was indeed always the other twin who told this to &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; and he never got told by his brother about which knot it was because that twin didn't want his brother to know it either (maybe for the same reasons of not confessing his guilt).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He maybe really didn't know which knot it was in the sense that he suppressed the memory in order to not even confess his possible guilt to himself and not having to face his responsiblity for &lt;em&gt;Julia&lt;/em&gt;'s death.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-09-30T21:00:02.353" LastActivityDate="2012-09-30T21:00:02.353" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4433" CreationDate="2012-09-30T20:48:58.890" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is the &lt;strong&gt;TNG episode&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defector_%28Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Defector&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In addition to his regular role of &lt;em&gt;Captain Picard&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Patrick Stewart&lt;/em&gt; also played the role of the holodeck character of &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Michael Williams&amp;quot; from Shakespeare's Henry V&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Act 4, Scene I, in the opening scenes of the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stewart requested this out of his love for Shakespeare, himself a member of the &lt;em&gt;Royal Shakespeare Company&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ES09h.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Henry V&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dhAVU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Henry V&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NAG3F.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Henry V&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyDBvmiragA&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watch clip on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-09-30T20:48:58.890" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4440" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-09-30T21:41:18.903" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-09-30T21:41:18.903" LastActivityDate="2012-09-30T21:41:18.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4441" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-09-30T21:41:18.903" Score="0" Body="Quirky character actor best known for his role as an obsessive compulsive private investigator in USA network's &quot;Monk&quot;." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-09-30T21:56:11.667" LastActivityDate="2012-09-30T21:56:11.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4427" CreationDate="2012-09-30T21:53:04.897" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;As @ChristianRau suggests, this could simply be guilt, or suppressed memory.  I think it is possibly both, coupled with the fact that Borden/Fallon are twins.  From the voice over as Angier reads Borden's diary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;BORDEN (V.O.) How often I've fought with my self over that night ..&#xA;  one half of me swearing blind that I tied a simple slip knot... the&#xA;  other half convinced that I tied the Langford double.  I suppose I'll&#xA;  never know for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems clear from how this is written that one of the twins believed that a simple slip knot had been used, the other believed that a Langford double had been used.  It seems likely that the twin responsible believed he'd tied the usual knot, but perhaps suppressed the real memory as @ChristianRau suggests. The other twin might understandably believe, as Angier did, that he &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; have tied the more secure double.  This is supposition, but seems a more plausible than the other way around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when Angier asks Borden directly, during the funeral, or when performing the bullet-catch - it seems likely that whatever twin is asked, he just was not sure - even the twin that was Borden that night might have doubts even if he started out convinced he had tied the slip knot.  This would be even more likely if by coincidence Angier asks the twin who was Fallon that night, so would really not know for sure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2015-01-28T20:17:20.213" LastActivityDate="2015-01-28T20:17:20.213" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2015" CreationDate="2012-10-01T03:54:29.123" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The old man was not related to Madeline O'Malley. She died in the 1800s, and he is not old enough to be related to her. The Yankee Pedlar Hotel (a real hotel) is renowned for its hauntings: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...rumors of wanderings by the ghosts of original owners of the hotel,&#xA;  Frank and Alice Conley, random disembodied voices, a chair that rocks&#xA;  on its own and doors that close on their own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Room 353, which many believe to be the heart of the hotel's hauntings&#xA;  because Alice Conley died there, is depicted in the movie as the most&#xA;  haunted room in the hotel. West said he chose that room for shooting&#xA;  without knowing of its history or notoriety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We picked the room because it was at the end of a hallway,&quot; he said.&#xA;  &quot;When shooting, we learned it was the most haunted room in the hotel. (From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.courant.com/2012-03-01/entertainment/hc-innkeepers-0302-20120302_1_hotel-yankee-pedlar-inn-hauntings&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; in the Hartford Courant.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/02/the-refreshingly-mundane-scares-of-the-innkeepers/252463/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;review&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;em&gt;The Atlantic&lt;/em&gt; suggests a reason for the old man and the other random hotel visitors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That absence of direction is what The Innkeepers is really about, and&#xA;  where its real horror lies. West's film is a visual manifestation of&#xA;  the trapped psychology and the deeply unsettling anxieties of the&#xA;  aimless. He accomplishes this with cleverly placed peripheral&#xA;  characters that he describes as &quot;representations of where you can go&#xA;  in life.&quot; One of the hotel's rooms is occupied by a mother and her&#xA;  young son; she's having marital trouble and needs to get away from&#xA;  home for a few days. Another is a barista saddled with relationship&#xA;  problems so tedious to hear about that Claire bolts the coffee shop&#xA;  without even getting her drink when forced to listen to them. A sad&#xA;  old man shows up after the death of his wife to spend one last night&#xA;  in the room where they had their honeymoon decades ago. All roads lead&#xA;  back to the Pedlar. Add in the ghost of a bride who committed suicide&#xA;  in one of the rooms, and one can't even escape after death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-10-01T03:54:29.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4445" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4446" CreationDate="2012-10-01T08:01:30.933" Score="17" ViewCount="2000" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Dexter murders someone he always prepares the room with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lots of plastic foil&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;pictures of victims&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;small details for atmosphere&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we only see him dispose the bodies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The amount of plastic foil and the blood that must have been spilled must be very hard to dispose of. Just the foil alone would need one round trip with his small car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then he mostly only has one night to prepare, play and dispose. How does he handle this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any mention in the series or some canon explanation on  this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-10-01T09:20:08.600" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T08:28:07.193" Title="How does Dexter handle the logistics of his murders?" Tags="|dexter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4445" CreationDate="2012-10-01T09:12:34.163" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the famous quotes of Season 6:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Most of the people here don't have two rolls of duct tape, 80 yards of plastic sheeting and a surgical saw in their trunk.&quot; - Dexter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dexter's car trunk can accommodate the plastic foil and/or other items that are used in the murder scene. What we see is Dexter dropping two/three plastic bags into the sea but there has to be more such bags containing the body parts along with the plastic/other items used in the murder scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2095" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T08:28:07.193" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T08:28:07.193" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4447" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-01T10:55:26.337" Score="2" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126886/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Election&lt;/a&gt;, when McAllister secretly disposes two of Tracy's votes to reduce her vote count by 2, won't it also alter the vote counts for the Vice President? Since for both president and vice president, students voted in the same sheet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His students could have stated this and proved their count is correct. So, is this a plot hole or they did not count votes for vice president?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1710" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T11:15:49.980" LastActivityDate="2013-07-05T22:43:26.107" Title="Election (1999) vote count" Tags="|plot-explanation|election|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4448" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4555" CreationDate="2012-10-01T18:23:28.877" Score="14" ViewCount="755" Body="&lt;p&gt;A long time ago (about 16 years ago) I watched a large portion of an animated short film. Thinking about it now, I'm not sure it was suitable for an audience of 6-8 year olds. I still have some very vivid images and clearly remember that I didn't get to watch its end and for many years I've been eager to see it, but I wasn't able to come up with the correct Google keywords combination to find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following are the information I still remember about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's an animated colored cartoon, not fancy 3D animation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's basically about horses that live in a heavenly place, surrounded with clouds and it appears to be some sort of floating island.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The horses are portrayed mostly with a Homosapien posture (standing up on two limbs).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The horses engage in daily-life activities, one horse is pictured practicing &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacksmith&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blacksmithery&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Main plot idea:&lt;/strong&gt; At some point one of the horses suddenly stops his activity and then he walks and appears to be asleep but with open and strangely colored eyes while other horses stop their activities and appear to be sad about him. The other horses avoid looking at him by covering their eyes with their hands. The horse continues walking until he reaches a pit in which he throws himself. The fall takes a long time during which the horse is morphing into strange shapes and then he reaches a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupa&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pupal state&lt;/a&gt; and as he continues to fall he comes out as some kind of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batoidea&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batoidea&lt;/a&gt; then he exists from the bottom of the floating island where he flies in the heavenly space.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm 95% certain it didn't have any dialogue, apart from random sounds the horses made to express surprise or sadness. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I watched it some time between 1995 and 1997.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope I was able to provide enough information to make identification possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; After &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/4555/2131&quot;&gt;jlmcdonald's answer&lt;/a&gt; I watched the film again, I was very shocked. I think the whole thing (watching the film long time ago when I was young and then watching it again) was a very interesting experience. I was surprised how little I remembered about the graphics/colors (I had a totally different image in my head) and how some scenes were vividly engraved in my memory. I was also surprised to see that I, indeed, watched the whole film the first time I saw it, but for some reason I thought otherwise. It turned out they weren't actually horses, but at the age of 6-7 that was the best I could come up with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2131" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T08:32:10.590" Title="An Animated Short Film About Horses Living In Heaven" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:38:54.217" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4421" CreationDate="2012-10-01T19:32:56.937" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_travel_science_fiction&quot;&gt;this Wikipedia list of time travel in science fiction writing, film &amp;amp; tv&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;the 1949 adaption of &lt;em&gt;A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is the first example of time travel in a film or tv sci-fi work. I can't speak to the completeness of the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, that list categorizes Charles Dicken's 1843 &lt;em&gt;A Christmas Carol&lt;/em&gt; as sci-fi and includes the 2009 film adaptation in the film list. Based on the Wikipedia entry for the first film adaption, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge;_or_Marley%27s_Ghost&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost&lt;/em&gt; (1901)&lt;/a&gt;, I don't believe the characters traveled through time in that particular adaptation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like the play, the film dispenses with the different ghosts that visit Scrooge, instead relying upon the figure of Jacob Marley, draped in a white sheet, to point out the error of Scrooge's ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_A_Christmas_Carol_adaptations&quot;&gt;Numerous film adaptions of &lt;em&gt;A Christmas Carol&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; were made before 1949. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol_%281910_film%29&quot;&gt;The entry for 1910 adaption&lt;/a&gt; is the first mention Scrooge being visited by the spirits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Scrooge is visited by three more spirits, who show him his past, the present, and the future that awaits him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's unclear if the spirits showed Scrooge visions in the present or if Scrooge actually travelled through time with the ghosts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2017" LastActivityDate="2012-10-01T19:32:56.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4450" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-10-02T00:25:57.873" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-10-02T00:25:57.873" LastActivityDate="2012-10-02T00:25:57.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4451" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-10-02T00:25:57.873" Score="0" Body="An official language of India, the Hindi film industry is commonly known as &quot;Bollywood.&quot;" OwnerUserId="2017" LastEditorUserId="2017" LastEditDate="2012-10-02T00:33:47.237" LastActivityDate="2012-10-02T00:33:47.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4452" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-10-02T00:41:48.103" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-10-02T00:41:48.103" LastActivityDate="2012-10-02T00:41:48.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4453" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-10-02T00:41:48.103" Score="0" Body="A critically-acclaimed, ensemble television drama that originally aired from 2002-2008 on HBO. Taking place in Baltimore, the show explores the inner-working and relationships among the police department, seaports, illegal drug trade, city government, public schools and print media." OwnerUserId="2017" LastEditorUserId="2017" LastEditDate="2012-10-02T01:43:39.750" LastActivityDate="2012-10-02T01:43:39.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3319" CreationDate="2012-10-02T04:04:16.607" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it be 1985's &lt;em&gt;Evils of the Night&lt;/em&gt;? From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evils_of_the_Night&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Evils of the Night is a 1985 low-budget science fiction/&quot;porno horror&quot;&#xA;  film starring Aldo Ray, Neville Brand, Tina Louise, John Carradine,&#xA;  and Julie Newmar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vampire aliens Dr. Kozmar (Carradine), Dr. Zarma (Newmar) and Cora&#xA;  (Louise) recruit two dim-witted mechanics (Ray and Brand) to abduct&#xA;  teenagers living in a college town and bring them to a rural hospital.&#xA;  There, the aliens drain them of their blood, which they need to stay&#xA;  young.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C4Zju.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-28T15:51:50.340" LastActivityDate="2013-11-28T15:51:50.340" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1193" CreationDate="2012-10-02T10:03:28.070" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When old Biff goes back to 1955 and creates a timeline B (which is reality now), he started to fade in 1955 of timeline A after handing the magazine to his younger self. Maybe this is because he doesn't live to be that old in timeline A after he makes his younger self a billionaire. Maybe it gets him killed before he can get past 1985 and that old. In fact, Marty actually stops timeline B from happening after all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when he was fading back in 1955 after handing in the magazine, he thought the only way he can survive is by quickly going back to the future. But he arrives at the timeline A instead of B because he doesn't even exist in timeline B in 2015 because he gets killed long before 2015 in B. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also he still survives in timeline A for few seconds after arriving because of the slow fading theory and because he doesn't belong to timeline A either. Because time still allows you a few minutes to correct your mistakes, Biff arrived in timeline A. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he was smarter, he could arrive back in 2015 10 mins earlier so that he could stop himself from taking the Delorean back to 1955, thus stopping any changes or his death or go 10 mins behind in 1955 to stop himself giving the magazine to his younger self. But he was stupid and came to future where time was already changed and he didnt exist, so why A? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had a better chance to rectify his mistakes at timeline A than in B. He was more linked to A than B because he came from A and never been to B and the Delorean also belonged to A.  Marty and Doc could not go back in A because they exist in B now. Old Biff doesn't exist in either, but came to A just by the mercy of time as a chance to rectify or bring the Delorean's molecular structure to where it belonged. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2132" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-10-02T14:06:49.767" LastActivityDate="2012-10-02T14:06:49.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1630" CreationDate="2012-10-02T10:13:04.983" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The greatest movie of all, and the least understood.  The theme of the movie is this: &lt;strong&gt;THROUGH THE EYES OF THE INSANE, A SANE MAN APPEARS TO BE CRAZY&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To understand that theme, you must realize that the viewer's perspective is that of the insane.  We are seeing things as the insane sees them. Secondly, you must understand the setting:  The U.S. failed in Vietnam because it was unable to fully commit to war in Vietnam.  In the actual war, the U.S. won virtually every battle, but failed to accomplish anything and ultimately pulled all of its troops out of the country.  That is an amazing thing if you think about it - to win all the battles, but lose the war.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why did that happen?&lt;/strong&gt; Because the U.S. was confused, did not have a clear objective and was even in coflict with itself.  If you think of the U.S. as a nation, you might say, well &quot;that's politics.&quot; But what about a person who was &quot;confused, did not have any clear objective, and was in conflict with himself? Would you not call him insane? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, the Air Cavalry Colonel who loved the smell of napalm in the morning accurately demonstrates both how capable America was of winning any battle in Vietnam and how winning those battles accomplished nothing, BECAUSE America's objectives were confused, undefined, and meaningless (insane). The air Cav Colonel fought and won a battle, very effectively, so that he could go SURFING (insane).  He had no sane objective, no concern for whether the war was won or lost, and no regard for the horror of war (insane).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kurtz, always regarded in the movie as the one man who DID understand how to win (Precise goals and strength to endure the horror of war) was restrained by his superiors and not allowed to win - because they had the insane notion of fighting an 'ethical war' Dropping bombs on people wasn't horrific to them, but curse words were (insane).  Kurtz was NOT actually insane.  The Air Cav Colonel WAS insane, as was everyone else.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kurtz tried and tried and tried to reach Captain Willard and show him who actually WAS insane.  Willard realized the truth, but chose to kill Kurtz and remain in the insane world rather than being outcast.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The BEAUTY of Apocalypse Now:  &lt;strong&gt;In an insane world, being sane is crazy&lt;/strong&gt;.   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The unparalleled GREATNESS of Apocalypse Now:  &lt;strong&gt;We DO live in an insane world&lt;/strong&gt;, Coppola is trying to explain that, but all the insane people just think he's crazy.   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2133" LastEditorUserId="32199" LastEditDate="2017-07-08T16:33:20.453" LastActivityDate="2017-07-08T16:33:20.453" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4459" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-02T15:55:50.993" Score="10" ViewCount="984" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film &lt;em&gt;La jetée&lt;/em&gt; - famous for inspiring &lt;em&gt;12 Monkeys&lt;/em&gt; - appears to feature a method of time travel that is more psychological than mechanical. There is no time machine. Instead, a man who is known for having a strong memory is given an injection. Then the movie cuts back-and-forth between scenes of the man in the past, in the future, and writhing on a cot in the present, under the influence of the injection:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kMzhD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Am I understanding the method of time travel in &lt;em&gt;La jetée&lt;/em&gt; accurately? Does the time travel all occur within the time-traveler's mind, meaning his body never leaves the present?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My interpretation for La jetée is that the man is not actually time-traveling. Instead, the injection (and whatever other treatment) he is given sends him deep into his mind and his memory, allowing him to mentally re-visit the world he grew up in vividly enough to deliver to the scientists the information they need from the past. Similarly, the injection enables the man to anticipate the future and again get the information the scientists need.*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Here's link to &lt;a href=&quot;http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4536409644066983943&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spanish-language-dubbed version of La jetée&lt;/a&gt;. Starting at about 9:00, you can see how the &quot;time travel&quot; seems to consist of the man writhing on his bed. The narrator says something like &quot;After 10 days, scenes began to come through.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(At the end of La jetée, the man realizes the scientists are going to execute him. He asks to be sent back to the past, and appears to be killed while he is &quot;in&quot; the past. My interpretation is the scientists were kind enough to first give him one last injection before executing him while he was under the influence - so in his mind, he felt like he was dying in the past.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T08:37:41.587" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T08:37:41.587" Title="In &quot;La jetée&quot; does the time-traveler's body stay in the present time?" Tags="|la-jetee|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4459" CreationDate="2012-10-03T01:09:21.080" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't be answered for sure but in both movies (La Jette and 12 Monkeys) the body is present in the future. Although the details aren't clear, looks like the psychological aspect is only the beginning of the travel, later followed by the body itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="311" LastActivityDate="2012-10-03T01:09:21.080" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4263" CreationDate="2012-10-03T01:40:04.390" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have now seen 3 episodes with Gyp's involvement (fantastic character). I appreciate the resemblance in the context you describe but your question is answered by the fact that from a show's perspective Nucky needs a competitor - last season Jimmy, this season Gyp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point is that both represent completely different challenges. There was an emotional attachment to Jimmy who almost only went against the tide to prove a point but also as his wartime experiences had rendered him desensitised to the gangster culture he returned to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gyp simply doesn't give a fuck. It's all or nothing and he feels he's made it far enough to exploit the opportunity that this time period is offering. Nucky has never encountered someone like this: nothing to lose, ruthless, impulsive but strategic. How Nucky will utilise his intellect and political prowess to contain this new force will be intriguing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2138" LastActivityDate="2012-10-03T01:40:04.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4429" CreationDate="2012-10-03T02:31:29.850" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tobin Frost &lt;strong&gt;was&lt;/strong&gt; a good guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He was a whistle-blower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he asked &quot;the other good guy&quot; to be better than him, he was, in effect, saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &quot;Blow the whistle. Tell people who can fix the corruption; but live to tell about it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="1410" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T20:35:24.707" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T20:35:24.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4463" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4469" CreationDate="2012-10-03T03:27:39.063" Score="11" ViewCount="3343" Body="&lt;p&gt;At one point in Looper, someone comes out of the crops in the dark and walks towards the woman.  Joe jumps out to save her to find that the person isn't a threat and has a sign on them.  I didn't catch what the sign said.  What did it say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-03-27T00:44:05.490" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T00:44:05.490" Title="What did the sign say?" Tags="|looper|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="844" CreationDate="2012-10-03T11:12:15.447" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://imsdb.com/scripts/Brothers-Bloom,-The.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                      CHIEF OF POLICE&#xA;                   (in Czech)&#xA;               It has been a privilege, madame, to&#xA;               behold even briefly such a strong,&#xA;               beautiful flower.&#xA;&#xA;                         PENELOPE&#xA;                   (in Czech)&#xA;               Thank you sir, I will not soon&#xA;               forget your kindness.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2141" LastEditorUserId="100979" LastEditDate="2023-11-26T11:10:57.870" LastActivityDate="2023-11-26T11:10:57.870" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4468" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4509" CreationDate="2012-10-03T13:21:40.637" Score="14" ViewCount="3193" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure I quite understand how the timelines of Looper work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have the initial timeline (A), where Joe shoots himself, goes on to party, and then meets the Asian woman.  The Rain Maker starts closing all of the loops.  Joe (A) ends up killing the people that have him, and sends himself back in time and prevents his younger self killing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We find out that whatever happens to the young Joe (B) happens to older Joe (A).  However, this doesn't quite make sense since the timeline seems to have already been disturbed drastically by Joe (A) not being killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how is the timeline supposed to work in Looper?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T09:04:05.797" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T09:04:05.797" Title="How did the timeline work?" Tags="|looper|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4463" CreationDate="2012-10-03T14:00:39.927" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having seen the movie a second time, here's the text of the sign:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;PLEASE HELP MUWTE&#xA;FOOD &amp;amp; GOD&#xA;BLESS YOU&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once Young Joe saw the sign, he just gestured for the vagrant to leave, instead of shooting him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2012-10-06T21:20:29.867" LastActivityDate="2012-10-06T21:20:29.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4470" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8222" CreationDate="2012-10-03T14:49:15.083" Score="30" ViewCount="20987" Body="&lt;p&gt;After reading the answer to this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/4427/why-doesnt-borden-know-which-knot-he-tied&quot;&gt;Why doesn&amp;#39;t Borden know which knot he tied?&lt;/a&gt;, in which Angler was told by the &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt; twin which knot resulted in his wife's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to tell which Borden is which when watching the movie. Is Christain Bale's performance for each character different enough that every scene with Borden can be determined which is which?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The short answer would be yes/no, but a better answer would either present ways to tell the brothers apart, or offer a map of their apperances throughout the film.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2018-03-16T17:15:04.213" Title="Is it possible to tell who is who in each scene?" Tags="|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4471" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4472" CreationDate="2012-10-03T14:57:23.483" Score="24" ViewCount="13312" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does Borden want to change the knot used in the tank trick? Is it because he is poor at tying it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-10-03T17:33:23.937" LastActivityDate="2018-12-05T02:43:08.627" Title="Why does Borden want to change the knot used in the trick?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4471" CreationDate="2012-10-03T15:18:10.810" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is given in the scene following the first time we see Julia performing the trick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CUTTER I saw you drop the knot again, Borden. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JULIA I think I had my&#xA;  wrist turned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CUTTER (ignoring Julia) Some nights you just can't&#xA;  get it, can you?  If that knot slips when Julia's on the hoist she'll&#xA;  break a leg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cutter is criticizing Borden for being careless when tying the knot and risking an accident.  (We see Borden having to tie the knot twice in the scene earlier).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Borden then suggests the Langford Double would be better, which Cutter rejects as he says it would be unsafe under water as it would swell and lock.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-10-03T17:09:38.667" LastActivityDate="2012-10-03T17:09:38.667" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4473" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-03T15:27:13.560" Score="9" ViewCount="342" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can remember, we see a total of three Joes in the movie.  Joe A kills himself, then 30 years later gets sent back and is killed by Joe B, a closed loop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joe B, however, changes from the original timeline of Joe A, and manages to escape his captors and sends himself back and is not killed by Joe C.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What changed in Joe B's timeline that caused the break in the timeline?  His wife being shot?  Something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-10-23T19:51:25.760" Title="What happened to change Joe's timeline?" Tags="|time-travel|looper|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4426" CreationDate="2012-10-03T16:10:49.263" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was also expecting a worse outcome from lightning strike. But IMHO the harmless result is part of the movie's not-quite-realistic style. This cartoonish style is also evident when the junior scoutmaster rescues the senior scoutmaster by jumping an impossible distance. The movie is not meant to be taken 100% literally... it has a exaggerated-campfire-story vibe throughout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2012-10-03T16:10:49.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2728" CreationDate="2012-10-04T02:35:46.717" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cracked.com is a great place to find false information. I wouldn't recommend taking them too seriously, but that article is correct about &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Good artists copy. Great artists steal.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dan O'Bannon explicitly stated in an essay he stole elements from those movies (it's available on the &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt; special features disc). So it is really the script that contains stolen ideas, not the directing. I don't really like using the word &quot;stole&quot; for this, because it seems to me that parts of the script were &quot;inspired&quot; by those movies. Nothing can be completely original--writers are always influenced by others. Dan O'Bannon seemed like a nice, laid back guy, and he intended to create a work of art by writing the script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the combined creative genius of Ridley Scott's visionary style, Giger's alien designs, and O'Bannon's script, they were able to create something truly unique, even if it did use some ideas from other films. I would highly recommend watching the &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt; special features if you want the full story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2144" LastActivityDate="2012-10-04T02:35:46.717" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4479" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4500" CreationDate="2012-10-04T07:42:37.020" Score="6" ViewCount="5635" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed the reoccurring use of water in the movie &lt;em&gt;Fatal Attraction&lt;/em&gt;. When they first have the affair, the water from the sink appears. Then in the rabbit scene, there is boiling water. And at the end, Alex is drowned in water (I probably forgot to mention a few other incidents). The cinematography is very clever about focusing on the water, especially on the faucets which disperse the water. What could the water be symbolizing? I know there's not an objective answer, but I'm curious to see what others think. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2144" LastEditorUserId="113" LastEditDate="2012-10-04T07:54:09.113" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T22:57:10.167" Title="Water as a symbol in Fatal Attraction" Tags="|analysis|fatal-attraction|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4470" CreationDate="2012-10-04T07:56:56.427" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;In some scenes : Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way we can differentiate these two people is by who they loved. One of them loved Sarah and the other Olivia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the scene where &lt;code&gt;Sarah&lt;/code&gt; tells &lt;code&gt;Borden (the one who appears on the scene)&lt;/code&gt; that she is pregnant his immediate reaction is : &lt;code&gt;&quot;We should tell Fallon&quot;&lt;/code&gt;. In this particular scene &lt;code&gt;Fallon&lt;/code&gt; is the &lt;code&gt;Borden&lt;/code&gt; who loved Sarah.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All the scenes where &lt;code&gt;Borden&lt;/code&gt; tells &lt;code&gt;Sarah&lt;/code&gt; I Love You, but she reacts saying &lt;code&gt;&quot;Some days its not true.&quot;&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://media.screened.com/uploads/1/10673/558506-picture_12.png&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;. &#xA;In all of these scenes she is actually talking to the Borden who loves Olivia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The scene where Borden talks with Olivia asking her to believe that he loves her. Its obvious that the Borden here loves Olivia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The scene where Borden and Sarah have confrontation and we see Fallon taking their child outside. Here Sarah is probably arguing with the wrong Borden (i.e the one who loves Olivia) and Fallon in this scene is the Borden who loved Sarah.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the &lt;code&gt;Bullet Catch Trick&lt;/code&gt; scene when &lt;code&gt;Angier&lt;/code&gt; points gun at one of the twins performing the trick, he is supposedly asking the wrong twin, which means the Borden whose fingers were cut by the bullet is the one who loves Sarah. Because if you see the scene &lt;a href=&quot;http://media.screened.com/uploads/1/10673/558507-picture_13.png&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, its clear that this Borden has cut his fingers fresh (with the help of other Borden) and he isn't bothered much about the child waking up and he just wants to get back to work, this implies that he is the Borden who loved Olivia. If the one who tied the knot is the Fallon at the scene of &quot;Bullet catch&quot; then it means the one who tied the knot at Julia drowning scene is the one who loved Olivia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could be many other scenes where we can figure out who is who, will update my answer as I think of more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2095" LastEditorUserId="2095" LastEditDate="2012-10-04T08:36:27.343" LastActivityDate="2012-10-04T08:36:27.343" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4471" CreationDate="2012-10-04T09:06:43.117" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think one of the twin brother is not good at tying the knot, which is evident as said by Cutter: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Some nights you just can't get it, can you? If that knot slips when Julia's on the hoist she'll break a leg&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that night the twin brother who is not good at tying simple knots tied the knot. Both of the twin brothers are probably good at tying Langford double, so Borden proposes a change in the knot which eventually Cutter rejects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the next show of the same trick, as per answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/4427/why-doesnt-borden-know-which-knot-he-tied&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; the twin brother who is good at simple knots is present and he tied a simple knot (also gave a glance to Julia without knowing the discussion his twin brother had after the previous show regarding the knot). Julia thought (per glance from Borden) that its a Langford double and underwater in the tank she tried to use Langford untie technique, but by the time she realized that's its a simple knot it was too late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2095" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T09:07:58.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4483" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-04T09:45:30.213" Score="19" ViewCount="1458" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Looper&lt;/em&gt;, why don't more things change when they kill/maim people?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like when Joe shoots himself at the end and Older Joe disappears, why doesn't it undo the things that Older Joe did seeing as he now can't come back from the future and do them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it's a time travel movie so it's not going to make 100% sense but surely the kid he shot would come back to life etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1375" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T22:03:00.973" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T22:03:00.973" Title="Why don't more things change back?" Tags="|plot-explanation|time-travel|looper|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4479" CreationDate="2012-10-04T12:38:53.820" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seem to recall that the tide coming in was often used as a metaphor for intercourse in older films.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot really remember the film but perhaps water is symbolising lust - being released from taps, becoming dangerous when boiling and becoming calm and relaxed again with the (apparent) death of Alex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I stress that I have no expertise in this area and this is merely virtual guesswork!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-10-04T12:38:53.820" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4486" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4503" CreationDate="2012-10-04T16:48:33.897" Score="5" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265208/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Girl Next Door&lt;/a&gt;'s final scenes, we see Kelly receiving a gift on his newest shoot that is a box of his favourite Cuban Cigars, clearly sent by Matt with a note reading: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The juice was worth the squeeze.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is, is this box meant as a peace offering for their past conflict over Danielle and the numerous deceptions and theft of one another?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or did Matt want to send him the box as a giant F*** you, essentially saying &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You're a loser, I got the girl AND the money!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-11T12:58:27.200" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T12:58:27.200" Title="What was the nature of Matt's gift to Kelly?" Tags="|plot-explanation|girl-next-door|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4487" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-04T16:55:32.237" Score="11" ViewCount="667" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the return of the series for Season 7, Dexter is obviously frustrated with what is going on in his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to deal with his stress, he finds a new victim to prey upon &lt;code&gt;Doing what I do best&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He captures his victim in a Miami Airport and takes him into a baggage claim area to perform the deed and uses a surf board bag to carry his body out of the airport to finish the disposal process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, knowing how strict US airports have been recently (for foreigners, you essentially get an hour questioning for a toothbrush, if you look at the Security officials the wrong way), how is he able to not only get needles through security, but remains unseen during his whole stalking and abducting of the target?  Or is this just meant for the viewer to suspend reality for this series of events?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2023-08-04T03:38:42.247" Title="How did Dexter get away with his plan in the airport?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dexter|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4488" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4490" CreationDate="2012-10-04T17:58:58.457" Score="2" ViewCount="3293" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure it's from a film, and I'm fairly sure it's sort-of said under the breath, in a respectful manner - for example as though the subject, &lt;em&gt;Harry&lt;/em&gt; is out of earshot anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Similar to the bit at the end of &lt;em&gt;Babe&lt;/em&gt; when Cromwell's all like &lt;em&gt;&quot;That'll do, pig. That'll do.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also nearly 100% sure it's not referring to &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2147" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T09:48:26.640" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T09:48:26.640" Title="What's the origin of the quote &quot;You da man, Harry. You da man.&quot;?" Tags="|dialogue|origin|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3421" CreationDate="2012-10-04T18:16:39.377" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought this same exact thing while watching the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My take on it is that it is the Lazarus Pit. The only problem being that Nolans universe is a realistic one. (ie: Bane does not grow to superhuman size when fed the venom from his suit, as this would be impossible in real life and not very realistic, so they give him a mask which feeds him some sort of pain killer thus making him pretty much invincible.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In real life, people do not come back from the dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in comes the underground prison or pit. Life in this pit is pretty much hopeless and one may as well be dead if imprisoned there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BUT if one could climb out of the pit and escape, as Bruce Wayne did in the film, he could be said to have &quot;Risen from the dead&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2148" LastActivityDate="2012-10-04T18:16:39.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4488" CreationDate="2012-10-04T18:22:56.440" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Armageddon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the character &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bear&lt;/strong&gt; (Michael Clarke Duncan)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/quotes&quot;&gt;says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yo, Harry, you're the man.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;after &lt;em&gt;Harry (Bruce Willis)&lt;/em&gt; detonates the bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV4t7x7686g#t=6m47s&quot;&gt;Watch clip on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-10-04T18:22:56.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4491" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5608" CreationDate="2012-10-04T18:32:38.877" Score="15" ViewCount="8769" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the penultimate scene of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110413/&quot;&gt;Léon: The Professional&lt;/a&gt;, Leon uses the line &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;You have given me a taste for life&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to Mathilda, convincing her to escape through the ventilation system to meet up with him at Tony's after his own escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as we discover, it didn't seem that he planned on escaping due to the large amount of grenades attached to his body when he blows Stansfield up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, was this just a fail-safe if he should get caught by Stansfield and/or the DEA?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or did Leon actually plan on escaping with Mathilda, running away with her and/or exacting revenge at a later date when he could get the jump on Stansfield?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or did he just want his final act to be exacting revenge on Mathlida's behalf?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2015-07-12T02:22:33.310" Title="Did Leon see no other way out?" Tags="|plot-explanation|leon-the-professional|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4492" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-10-04T23:24:43.960" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A concept frequently used as a plot device involving the manipulation of events by characters traveling back into the past or into the future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Time travel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T09:51:14.767" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T09:51:14.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4493" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-10-04T23:24:43.960" Score="0" Body="A concept frequently used as a plot device involving the manipulation of events by characters traveling through time. " OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T09:51:14.767" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T09:51:14.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="731" CreationDate="2012-10-05T03:45:47.247" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;To keep it short:   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of the Robin reference was to display that even though the audience did not know Blake was Robin, he still was. In some interview, someone close to the production of the movie mentioned how the purpose is that he was Robin the whole time, you only find out at the end. This represents perfectly what Batman says to Blake earlier in DKR, that his goal was only to inspire people. The purpose of Batman is not that only Batman can do it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The message is that anyone has the ability to stand up for justice and protect his or her society. Some of the true heroes of the day are Gordon, Blake, and Selina (Selina actually SAVES Batman when Bane is about to kill him at the end of the movie). Making a Robin movie would veer away from the purpose and just present another hero of Gotham, while, conversely, the hero of Gotham is the soul of hope. And that belongs to anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2150" LastEditorUserId="113" LastEditDate="2012-10-05T07:59:53.940" LastActivityDate="2012-10-05T07:59:53.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3198" CreationDate="2012-10-05T07:10:53.127" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_LaMarr&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Phil LaMarr&lt;/a&gt; (actor who played Marvin), from his &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20140924050121/https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/tzhg3/iam_phil_lamarr_voice_actor_face_actor_mad_tv/c4r48gv/?context=6&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;AMA (Ask Me Anything) post on Reddit /r/IAMA&lt;/a&gt;, it's because (emphasis mine):  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The back story that Quentin and I talked about was that &lt;strong&gt;Marvin and Jules had people in common&lt;/strong&gt; and when this briefcase thing went down &lt;strong&gt;Jules was able to get in touch w/ Marvin and offered these guys who were holed up, scared and obviously way out of their depth a way to resolve this&lt;/strong&gt;. &quot;All you have to do is make sure the door is unlocked at 7:45.&quot; He didn't know exactly how it was going to be resolved and he wasn't street-smart enough to figure that the resolution might have a significant cost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2019-01-09T03:07:14.357" LastActivityDate="2019-01-09T03:07:14.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4496" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-05T16:29:49.157" Score="21" ViewCount="1684" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Looper&quot; the future bad-guys send back people to be killed in a field by a guy with a stupid gun who then takes them into what appears to be a massively-insecure blast-furnace equipped factory of some sort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why couldn't they just make the people appear inside the furnace in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there a reason given other than it would have made for a considerably shorter film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T21:48:34.690" Title="In &quot;Looper&quot; was there a reason why they didn't send people directly to the furnace?" Tags="|time-travel|looper|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4496" CreationDate="2012-10-05T16:55:49.577" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the intention is that it's a lot easier and cleaner to have someone on the other side there to make sure the victim is taken care of, rather than just popping them to a location that they'll die at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about it this way.  Lets say that they did pop people into a furnace to kill them.  What happens if said furnace is down that day and the victim doesn't get killed?  Now they've got a royal mess on their hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, so a man-made way to kill them doesn't work, lets pop them over some lava.  Can they do that?  Transport someone mid-air?  That doesn't seem likely as we always see them touching the ground when they appear, but we can't be sure of the laws.  OK, the bottom of the ocean?  Well that's submersing them in a non-air medium, which might not be possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, out of all of the possibilites I can think of, transporting someone back to a known spot in time to be killed by someone seems the most logical, especially since you have someone back there governing everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-10-05T16:55:49.577" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4487" CreationDate="2012-10-05T18:10:53.817" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought he said something about they only care where you are going not where you came from. So they will check you over numerous times to get in but to leave they don't really give much attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2142" LastActivityDate="2012-10-05T18:10:53.817" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4468" CreationDate="2012-10-05T18:24:44.300" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on your question, we're ignoring the fun times around Seth at the start of the film, and focusing on Joe.  Having seen the film twice, there are some nuances I missed the first time through, so I'm altering my answer.  There are three timelines that matter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First, there's the original timeline where Old Joe is taken, his wife is killed, but then he fails to overpower the mob henchmen.  He is sent back slightly late, and is promptly killed by Young Joe.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Second, the timeline is similar to the above, except Old Joe overpowers the henchmen, and decides to go back to kill the Rainmaker.  This is where the bulk of the movie happens.  As the ramifications of Old Joe and his mission ripple through the present, they impact the future history of Old Joe.  Young Joe carves 'Beatrix' into his arm to arrange the meet with Old Joe.  Old Joe kills the first child, then remembers a future where he and his wife had a kid.  It seems that once Young Joe learned of this, it impacted his original-timeline decision to not have children with his future wife.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Third, Young Joe kills himself, Old Joe ceases to exist.  Sarah is safe, and raises the widdle Rainmaker to not be a monster.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/ten-mysteries-in-looper-explained-by-director-rian-johnson/&quot;&gt;The director acknowledges&lt;/a&gt; there are some oddities around the timelines, as the Rainmaker is described as having a fake jaw and seeing his mother killed in front of him, which would suggest that we always see timelines where Old Joe shot widdle Rainmaker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within the film narrative, I think it's stating that one of the ramifications of timeline 1 above was that because Joe knew his loop would be closed, that he then was able to successfully overpower the henchmen and choose to go back in time.  Thus, he created the 2nd timeline, because the causality loop of him killing himself wasn't tight enough, due to the possibility of overpowering the henchmen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2012-10-08T14:25:12.563" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T14:25:12.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4479" CreationDate="2012-10-06T01:35:07.050" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order to understand the use of water in an Adrian Lyne film, you should probably look more widely at the use of water in his complete body of work. &lt;em&gt;Lolita&lt;/em&gt; frolics under a sprinkler, &lt;em&gt;Flashdance&lt;/em&gt; has its famous water dance, there's the bathtub scene in &lt;em&gt;Jacob's Ladder&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Unfaithful&lt;/em&gt; has horseplay with water pistols, a car wash, a sink sponging, and a bath scene. It may be less about symbolism than about artistic preference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Writing about his &lt;a href=&quot;http://movieline.com/1990/11/01/adrian-lyne-magnificent-obsessions/#utm_source=copypaste&amp;amp;utm_campaign=referral&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with Adrian Lyne regarding his &quot;thing with water,&quot; Jeffrey Lantos says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yo, Adrian! What's with you and water? You got soggy subway stations,&#xA;  you got buckets of water falling on strippers, you got ice cubes&#xA;  dripping down breasts, you got people screwing in puddles and sinks,&#xA;  you got more rainstorms than Costa Rica. Even your roads are wet.&#xA;  &quot;Water looks good on skin. It's evocative. And wet roads look better&#xA;  than dry roads.&quot; Oh, c'mon, I say, it's gotta be more than that. Isn't&#xA;  there some subliminal message you're sending? Adrian Lyne smiles and&#xA;  shrugs. &quot;It must be some obscure thing from childhood.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mMniu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Flashdance&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q6VBJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jacob&amp;#39;s Ladder&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jnmO8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Lolita&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X5pGx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Unfaithful&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-10-06T01:35:07.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4501" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4502" CreationDate="2012-10-06T02:05:00.337" Score="10" ViewCount="50502" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Rock of Ages, did the actors themselves sing for the film, or did other people sing and they dub over the actors?  Or was it a mix?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2016-07-07T01:25:07.263" Title="Did the actors sing for Rock of Ages?" Tags="|rock-of-ages|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4501" CreationDate="2012-10-06T09:30:15.260" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/movies/review-rock-of-ages-a-musical-starring-tom-cruise.html?partner=rss&amp;amp;emc=rss&amp;amp;_r=0&quot;&gt;this &lt;strong&gt;New York Times&lt;/strong&gt; review&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All the songs are sung&lt;/strong&gt;, mostly without shame or distinction, &lt;strong&gt;by the actors themselves...&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The director &lt;em&gt;Adam Shankman&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303830204577446563074429858.html&quot;&gt;wouldn't have cast&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Tom Cruise&lt;/em&gt; if he hadn't been able to sing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;[Tom Cruise and I] made a gentlemen's agreement that if the vocal thing doesn't work out, we'll just shake hands and look for something else&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tom Cruise&lt;/em&gt; ended up training for over 4 months. And he &lt;a href=&quot;http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/anne-hathaway-surprising-singing-stars/story?id=16467442#1&quot;&gt;insisted&lt;/a&gt; that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;there be no digital enhancements of his voice either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-10-06T09:30:15.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4486" CreationDate="2012-10-06T12:18:07.100" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somehow this is one of my favourite films, really not sure how - but I've always read it as a 'clearing the air' gift from an older and wiser Matt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastActivityDate="2012-10-06T12:18:07.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4504" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-06T15:51:03.417" Score="11" ViewCount="770" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess this is more a question about the nature of time travel more than anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, Joe shoots himself in a field and changes the course of history. What I'm curious about is how Joe ended up in the field given the change in history. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If his future self had never existed he'd never have gone on the mission he did and thus he never would have ended up in the field. It seems as though once he'd killed himself, he couldn't have killed himself because what led to that event was the existence of his future self. So theoretically, time and space should have just folded in on itself and popped out of existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? Is there something I'm missing that would explain a dead Joe in a cornfield and how we would have ended up there without their having been a future version of himself to try and stop?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2152" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2012-12-20T00:37:21.130" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T00:37:21.130" Title="How could Joe end up in the field?" Tags="|plot-explanation|looper|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4505" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4536" CreationDate="2012-10-06T18:21:31.670" Score="13" ViewCount="8801" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot; The Big Bang Theory&quot;, Rajesh from India is shown to be very shy and can't speak in front of Women without first drinking alcohol. But all of a Sudden, in Season 5 Episode 20, he is shown to be dating Laxmi, without any reference to his hesitation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-10-06T18:37:14.743" LastActivityDate="2019-12-11T00:34:11.707" Title="Rajesh suddenly gets over his hesistation?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4505" CreationDate="2012-10-06T18:34:23.703" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without any real evidence, it is my experience that when I have noticed Rajesh talking to women, he always has a drink within reach. Most times in early episodes, it is in his hand suggesting easy writing, but lately the placement is more subtle. I always look for that drink to be within reach, or if not, back to the last place he sat or entered from. Sometimes it is necessary to count the beer bottles on table tops, etc. I cannot recall any time when it was not evident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: Here's a screen shot of their dinner date where her wine glass is in full view, but his is obscured by the salad bowl, but still &lt;a href=&quot;http://the-big-bang-theory.com/gallery/picture/1849/&quot;&gt;evident&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-10-06T18:43:51.600" LastActivityDate="2012-10-06T18:43:51.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4505" CreationDate="2012-10-06T20:20:08.927" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/big-bang-theory-kunal-nayyar-235671&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with the &lt;em&gt;Hollywood Reporter&lt;/em&gt;, actor Kunal Nayyar talks about his character's development with regards to women, explaining that his newfound confidence is a result of his having spent the night with Penny at the end of season 4:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“What happens that night really gives him this level of confidence,”&#xA;  Nayyar says. “Whether that works in his favor or doesn’t, it does give&#xA;  him some self belief.” While Nayyar was mum about whether or not Raj&#xA;  would romantically pursue his best friend’s ex-girlfriend, he hopes&#xA;  Raj’s newfound confidence is just a small step forward for the&#xA;  character who at the end of Season 4 was still only able to speak to&#xA;  women with the assistance of alcohol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Do I hope that Raj becomes this womanizing player who can talk to&#xA;  women all the time? No, I hope that he continues to grow,” Nayyar&#xA;  says. “I really think if you take away a character’s obstacles then&#xA;  there’s no comedy. Comedy is really based on overcoming obstacles and&#xA;  if you take away that obstacle, my fear is that [Raj] would lose his&#xA;  funny.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-10-06T20:20:08.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4387" CreationDate="2012-10-07T06:31:36.230" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why do TV networks air pilot episodes of a series that has already aired a first episode? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A TV pilot is a scripted and filmed “first episode” of an intended series. It is usually used to test the waters of whether or not an idea for a TV show is viable and marketable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why do they call it a pilot episode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first episode of many TV series is called &quot;Pilot&quot; because the episode functions as a pilot for the series, just as a &quot;pilot&quot; is a person who operates a &quot;plane&quot;, in comparison, a pilot episode therefore is the &quot;take off&quot; episode of a TV series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Irrespective of the result (good or bad ratings) of the pilot episode, would the network continue to air the series anyway? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often a TV pilot will never air because no network shows interest in the project. Sometimes one network will produce a TV pilot, and another network will “pick up” the show and air it, because the original producing network is not interested after viewing the TV pilot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a network expresses interest in the TV pilot, they may use test audiences to see how likely the pilot is to be appreciated, before committing to producing a series. If a test audience responds favorably to the TV pilot, then the network may choose to make a series, which expands on the premise of the pilot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By the time they actually start airing the series, wouldn't they have the complete season 1 in hand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This depends, on the network. But once a pilot has been approved then a certain number of episodes will be &quot;green-lighted&quot; or ordered by a network. Some TV series has complete season episodes written (but not filmed) by the time the pilot episode is aired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-tv-pilot.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-tv-pilot.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_pilot&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_pilot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1674" LastActivityDate="2012-10-07T06:31:36.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4468" CreationDate="2012-10-07T14:36:29.463" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.film.com/movies/looper-infographic&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Film.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has an &lt;em&gt;infographic&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/theslush&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rick Slusher&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/29S8H.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Looper&quot; /&gt; [&lt;em&gt;click link for a larger image&lt;/em&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Timeline A:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Timeline A&lt;/em&gt;, the looper hitman Joe successfully “closes his loop” in 2044, executing his time-traveling older self at the prescribed moment, earning his golden payday and proceeding to live out the rest of his life.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the other key characters in Timeline A, the infographic illustrates a problematic time paradox in the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Despite Old Joe’s execution in this initial timeline, young Cid must still somehow come to lose his mother Sara and, devoid of her positive influence, develop into the angry, telekinetic, all-powerful gangster kingpin known as the Rainmaker in order to send Old Joe back in time to close his loop in the first place.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Timeline B:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moment of Joe’s successful loop-closing in Timeline A instantly launches &lt;em&gt;Timeline B:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joe’s 30-year post-looper retirement inevitably leads to his eventual wife’s tragic murder in 2074. The trauma inspires Joe’s older self to change his life’s trajectory by escaping his own self-execution in the past to hunt down the child who will become the Rainmaker, whom he holds responsible for his wife’s murder.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Timeline C:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, Joe’s altered moment of execution in 2044 – this time a narrow escape rather than a successful kill – instantly launches &lt;em&gt;Timeline C:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Old Joe seeks to save his wife by murdering the Rainmaker as a child, whereas Young Joe understands this attempted murder will paradoxically bring about the very outcome Old Joe is striving to avoid. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Young Joe’s final decision to commit suicide alters everyone’s destiny: As both he and his older self cease to be, Cid is allowed to grow up under his mother Sara’s positive influence and never develop into the monster he might have been.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-10-07T14:36:29.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4510" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-10-07T18:01:33.570" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This genre tends to be fast paced with an air of mystery – this mystery can come from the plot or from the characters themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most, though not all, crime novels share a common structure. First there is the crime, usually a murder; then there is the investigation; and finally the outcome or judgment, often in the shape of the criminal's arrest or death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has several sub-genres, including detective fiction (such as the whodunnit), legal thriller, courtroom drama and hard-boiled fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sub-genres details can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://thescriptlab.com/screenplay/genre/crime&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. For a brief history of crime fiction, please read &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.findmeanauthor.com/crime_fiction.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1674" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T00:52:12.543" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T00:52:12.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4511" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-10-07T18:01:33.570" Score="0" Body="A TV or film genre that fictionalises crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. Also crime film, crime fiction." OwnerUserId="1674" LastEditorUserId="1674" LastEditDate="2012-10-07T18:17:54.320" LastActivityDate="2012-10-07T18:17:54.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4512" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-10-07T18:51:30.667" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-10-07T18:51:30.667" LastActivityDate="2012-10-07T18:51:30.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4513" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-10-07T18:51:30.667" Score="0" Body="Action thriller directed by Luc Besson about a hitman who harbors a young girl after her family is killed by a rogue narcotics cop." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-10-07T19:13:19.827" LastActivityDate="2012-10-07T19:13:19.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4320" CreationDate="2012-10-07T21:25:30.880" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The description reminded me of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397101/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Skeleton Key&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with a couple trying to steal a body, but not everything fits so probably not what your looking for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-10-07T23:25:26.347" LastActivityDate="2012-10-07T23:25:26.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3994" CreationDate="2012-10-07T21:40:40.693" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;America claims the tanks so it would become independent of other nations (on the helium 3 front). All nations then begin to fight over the claim, making them turn on each other. It is not shown if the tank survive or not, only the burning wreckage of the nazi base is visibly shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="2155" LastEditDate="2012-10-07T21:47:12.590" LastActivityDate="2012-10-07T21:47:12.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4517" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-08T05:08:44.850" Score="11" ViewCount="2826" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a bit confused as to why they would be so quick to close the portal if all the Chitauri were powering down/dying? What's the big rush?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the only thing that could make sense would be the nuke blast coming through the portal, but the explosion seems way too far away to have done that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2156" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T17:57:53.337" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T17:57:53.337" Title="In the Avengers movie, why did they close the portal?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4518" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4521" CreationDate="2012-10-08T05:27:46.430" Score="5" ViewCount="2282" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;sqi=2&amp;amp;ved=0CCAQFjAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt1570728%2F&amp;amp;ei=nWJyUJf2HYvirAf6yYHYCw&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFRFd4IvWLY6bhaCn2cRXfS33LoZQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Crazy, Stupid Love&lt;/a&gt; a while ago. The scene with the big fight among Cal, Jacob, Bernie and David was hilarious. It is one of my favorites.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't understand is what Cal meant when he says to Robbie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Go big or go home, right bud&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always thought it meant &lt;code&gt;Do or die&lt;/code&gt;, but that can't be right. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a famous quote from somewhere else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2119" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-24T20:38:21.353" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T01:59:18.010" Title="What did Cal mean by - &quot;Go big or go home&quot;?" Tags="|dialogue|plot-explanation|crazy-stupid-love|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4517" CreationDate="2012-10-08T07:12:01.993" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the distance between the blast and the portal was small, then it could have come through, so it would have to be closed as soon as possible. If the distance was large, then other Chitauri, not killed in the blast, could have come through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T07:12:01.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4518" CreationDate="2012-10-08T07:19:07.757" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a common expression to say that if you're gonna try something, try your best or otherwise don't even bother. There are several theories on the Internet to explain the origin but nothing seems to point to specific quotes/song titles/...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T07:19:07.757" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4523" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-10-08T10:07:49.670" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Drama film is a genre that relies on the emotional and relational development of realistic characters. While Drama film relies heavily on this kind of development, dramatic themes such as  - alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, sexuality, poverty, class divisions, violence against women and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenomena - a large role in the plot as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often, these dramatic themes are taken from intense, real life issues. Whether heroes or heroines are facing a conflict from the outside or a conflict within themselves, Drama film aims to tell an honest story of human struggles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drama is the most broad of movies genres and includes subgenres as romantic drama, biography, period drama, courtroom drama, dramedy, historical, melodrama, political and tragedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thescriptlab.com/screenplay/genre/drama&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://thescriptlab.com/screenplay/genre/drama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_film&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1674" LastEditorUserId="1674" LastEditDate="2012-10-08T10:37:56.260" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T10:37:56.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4524" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-10-08T10:07:49.670" Score="0" Body="A TV/film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. " OwnerUserId="1674" LastEditorUserId="1674" LastEditDate="2012-10-08T10:27:17.633" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T10:27:17.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4517" CreationDate="2012-10-08T11:22:08.890" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;They did not know what else was coming.  There could have been a huge alien about to come through which they could not have stopped therefore they had to shut the portal as quickly as possible even if it meant sacrificing Stark (who, btw, proved that he was the one to make the sacrifice play after all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T11:22:08.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4527" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4529" CreationDate="2012-10-08T13:12:41.470" Score="25" ViewCount="147026" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; season 4 episode 6 &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornered_(Breaking_Bad)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cornered&lt;/a&gt;, at one point, we see Skyler go the the border of four states and flip a coin.  Upon seeing the coin land in one quadrant and looking frustrated, she then slides the coin to the quadrant in front of her and leaves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of this scene?  What is she doing out here?  And what is the significance of flipping a coin at this place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-17T01:22:45.850" LastActivityDate="2017-04-29T03:17:16.087" Title="What is the meaning of the Four Corners scene?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4517" CreationDate="2012-10-08T13:38:46.147" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always took it as protection of the city from the radioactive fallout of the nuke that just detonated on the other side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, another explanation could be that no one was watching the troops since they were concentrating on the portal, so they didn't know at the time that they were all dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2013-02-20T03:53:37.240" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T03:53:37.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4527" CreationDate="2012-10-08T14:21:28.903" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;She was planning on fleeing, and was using the Four Corners as a way to pick where to run to.  Whichever state the coin landed in, she would flee to.  However, fate refused to conspire with her, and kept putting the coin in a state she really didn't want to go to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T14:21:28.903" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4320" CreationDate="2012-10-08T14:56:00.260" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds a bit like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120601/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Being John Malkovich&lt;/a&gt; where a large number of people would live on inside a person's head when they die. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it's not 100% accurate to what you are suggesting, it is the first thing that popped into my head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T14:56:00.260" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4531" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4535" CreationDate="2012-10-08T17:36:30.593" Score="9" ViewCount="2000" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt; there is the following dialogue between &lt;em&gt;Cobb&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Ariadne&lt;/em&gt; (forgive me for not being word-accurate):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ariadne:&lt;/strong&gt; Why can't you return home?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; Because everybody thinks I killed her (&lt;em&gt;Mal&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ariadne:&lt;/strong&gt; For what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; Not asking if I did it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not completely sure how to interpret &lt;em&gt;Cobb&lt;/em&gt;'s reaction here. It may be obvious, but while he seems to really thank her for not asking (maybe believing she doesn't care or believes he didn't do it), to me he seems kind of angry or annoyed when saying this. But it may be just me misinterpreting his behaviour here (or the German synchronizer distorting it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how is his reaction to be interpreted (while this sounds like an open discussion question, I guess there was a clear intent by the writer how his reaction should come across):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did he indeed thank her along the lines of &lt;em&gt;&quot;Thank you for not asking, it's refreshing to see somebody not caring about it and just concentrating on the work.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or was it more like &lt;em&gt;&quot;Thank you for not asking and just trusting me not to have done it.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or was it really a sarcastic thank you and an angry/annoyed reaction, like &lt;em&gt;&quot;Thank you for not asking! You're thinking I did it, don't you?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to the more obvious first version, but he just seemed kind of angry to me, which would favor the third version. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-09-08T13:22:25.797" LastActivityDate="2016-09-08T13:22:25.797" Title="Is Cobb's reaction honest or sarcastic/angry" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|inception|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4532" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4533" CreationDate="2012-10-08T17:51:13.893" Score="44" ViewCount="184445" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question is about Stephen King's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098084/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pet Sematary (1989)&lt;/a&gt;. Why is &lt;em&gt;cemetery&lt;/em&gt; misspelled as &lt;em&gt;sematary&lt;/em&gt; in the title? Is there a special reason which may be explained in the novel or in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-05-28T09:22:16.843" LastActivityDate="2019-05-28T09:22:16.843" Title="Why is it Pet Sematary but not Pet Cemetery?" Tags="|title|pet-sematary-1989|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4532" CreationDate="2012-10-08T18:00:14.980" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pet Sematary is based on the novel of the same name. The name is described by the elderly neighbor, Jud. He explains that it was created by the children of the neighborhood to bury their dead animals killed on the heavily travelled road. The children had misspelled the name when it was created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting the Stephen King novel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;...It narrowed, and then, just ahead, Louis saw Ellie and Jud go under an arch made of weatherstained boards. Written on these in faded black paint, only just legible, were the words PET SEMATARY.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-10-08T18:16:41.557" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T18:16:41.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4532" CreationDate="2012-10-08T18:00:31.817" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember it as the sign placed by the children of that town. They &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Sematary&quot;&gt;misspelled&lt;/a&gt; it while putting it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T18:00:31.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4531" CreationDate="2012-10-08T19:44:54.627" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;He does sound a little angry or bitter when he says that line.  You could put that down to him suspecting that she is thinking that question, which would indeed make it slightly sarcastic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, given his circumstances: a man wanted for murder, a man who operates with criminals on a daily basis who are unlikely to keep their thoughts to themselves - it is likely that this is not the first time he's had this conversation, and that other people have been less generous in their presumption of his innocence, or even just less likely to keep silent when told.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My impression from that exchange was that he had had that conversation before, and was bitterly pleased that she had not immediately asked him the question.  Bitterly because he probably knows it is in her mind, but that she has not blurted it out.  He says the 'thank you' fairly soon, so also managing to head-off the chance that she is about to ask.  He manages to both imply that he believes he is innocent, without the embarrassment of having to deal with the question directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-10-09T21:35:21.513" LastActivityDate="2012-10-09T21:35:21.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4505" CreationDate="2012-10-08T21:01:38.003" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Raj&lt;/em&gt; has not yet overcome his &lt;em&gt;&quot;shyness&quot;&lt;/em&gt; regarding women&lt;/strong&gt;, not even with &lt;em&gt;Penny&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The episode starts with the gang having a meal and Raj is seen drinking out of a beer bottle before he starts talking &lt;em&gt;(and judging from what's on the table he is the only one drinking alcohol)&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6ZOVk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;BBT 1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Before his first date with Lakshmi he is seen drinking wine:&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Z05F.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;BBT 2&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ulg1a.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;BBT 3&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the date at his home half-empty wine glasses can be seen on the table:&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iKuxu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;BBT 4&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-10-08T21:01:38.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4537" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4541" CreationDate="2012-10-09T08:10:54.167" Score="13" ViewCount="35460" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Taken 2 when Bryan Mills/Liam Neeson, was kidnapped, and calling Kim/Maggie Grace from his locked cell. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He asked her to draw 2 circles, according to the map chart: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of 3 km from the hotel, and the other of 3 km from the (harbor I think), he then asked her to draw a new one of 4.5 km.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He pointed that his whereabouts are on the eastern point of where the two circles connect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How did he get to that (while he was blindfolded - and counting seconds and scenery marks - stupid idea IMO)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why did he decide it was the eastern one?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some more details: If anyone can identify the hotel they Mills stayed in, and the market they were kidnapped - that can assist in identifying Bryan's thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole idea looks weird, as when he was kidnapped, they go over the ferry, but than, when Kim rushes to his aide, he just runs over the rooftops (unless - he was kidnapped, and driven over the river &lt;em&gt;back&lt;/em&gt; to the hotel side).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2162" LastEditorUserId="2162" LastEditDate="2012-10-09T16:16:04.217" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T20:05:30.067" Title="How did Liam Neeson know his location in Taken 2?" Tags="|plot-explanation|taken-2|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4537" CreationDate="2012-10-09T14:08:55.893" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;After they were kidnapped Bryan did three things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he counted how long it took them to get to where they were using his watch.  given an average moving speed of the vehicle you can draw a rough radius from the hotel using this information alone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he listened for specific sounds during the trip.  this wasn't used for the girl to find him, but instead is later used to find the bad guy's place (where they stopped temporarily).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he noted the turns they took.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using 1 and 3, he could get a very good radius on how far from the hotel he was.  He somehow messed up though and didn't give a large enough radius from the hotel.  I don't remember what the second radius was centered on, I think it was the boats but I'm not 100% sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He used the sound of the grenade his daughter set off to refine the radius.  He did this by couting from when the grenade went off (which was at the center of the first radius) to went the sound wave got to him.  The speed of sound is 340.29 m/s at sea level.  It took roughly 4 1/2 seconds to get to him, so he has a roughly known radius of 4.5*340 m from the hotel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the two radius intersected, he somehow used the wind to determine he was at the eastern location.  This part I am unsure of how he determined which spot he was at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-10-09T14:08:55.893" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4544" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-09T16:05:05.920" Score="3" ViewCount="350" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am somewhat confused as to what happens in the hotel. The bad guys go to the girl's room, but don't find her. They then go to her dad's room, but didn't find her in there but see the open window. One goes left and one goes right. The girl is in the closet with the suit case with her dad's equipment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this just a room with the door locked, or did Bryan have two separate hotel rooms adjoined with a door?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2018-03-23T13:06:07.613" LastActivityDate="2018-03-23T13:06:07.613" Title="Did Bryan have two separate hotel rooms?" Tags="|plot-explanation|taken-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4545" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-09T16:24:55.960" Score="7" ViewCount="17391" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie '&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrior_%282011_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Warrior&lt;/a&gt;', we see Tommy taking pills and he is later forced to give them up by his father after requesting his help in the training for the tournament 'Sparta'.&#xA;So, what are these pills he is taking and are they medicinal or recreational?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2168" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-14T10:55:41.117" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T06:05:41.627" Title="What kind of pills was Tommy Riordan taking?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|warrior|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4546" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13810" CreationDate="2012-10-09T17:16:26.113" Score="6" ViewCount="6473" Body="&lt;p&gt;While watching Sons of Anarchy Season 5 Episode 3: &quot;&lt;em&gt;Laying Pipe&lt;/em&gt;&quot; I noticed that Tig doesn't have the Sons of Anarchy logo tattooed on his back.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I assumed that all members have this tattoo, especially seeing as they went to great lengths to burn it off the back of Kyle Hobart (an excommunicated traitor) early on in the first season episode &quot;&lt;em&gt;Giving Back&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason why Tig doesn't have this tattoo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2142" LastEditorUserId="2142" LastEditDate="2013-09-12T13:23:30.407" LastActivityDate="2016-03-18T07:06:16.623" Title="Why doesn't Tig have the Sons of Anarchy tattoo on his back similar to Jax?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sons-of-anarchy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4549" CreationDate="2012-10-09T18:26:51.740" Score="8" ViewCount="1696" Body="&lt;p&gt;Trying to remember a film that I watched around 2003 about this boy who lived with his step-father and crept in his cart and watched him kill and cremate the body? Anyone know what it is called? I alse remember something about a baseball bat!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The police do not believe him, but his father tells the killer that his son never lies to him. The killer stabs his victim in the car while his step-son hiding in the car sees. He then burns him in a small crematoriom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2169" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-10-09T21:57:43.147" LastActivityDate="2012-10-09T21:57:43.147" Title="What film has a boy living with a killer instead of his father?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:38:57.470" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4548" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4550" CreationDate="2012-10-09T20:21:21.253" Score="6" ViewCount="27577" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Taken 2, the characters end up in Istanbul.  In the film we end up seeing quite a bit of a market and surrounding buildings.  Were any of the scenes actually filmed in Istanbul?  If so, which ones?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2016-04-04T20:48:24.473" Title="How much in Taken 2 was actually filmed in Istanbul?" Tags="|film-location|taken-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4547" CreationDate="2012-10-09T21:22:19.623" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249478/&quot;&gt;Domestic Disturbance&lt;/a&gt; Vince Vaughn is the step-father and the boy hides in his car one night and sees him kill. The boys actual father John Travolta is the only one that believes him.  Try to add more details if you post another question it helps a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2012-10-09T21:22:19.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4548" CreationDate="2012-10-09T21:23:32.107" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neesson during a roundtable interview with a number of other journalists.  During the group interview Neeson talked about how the sequel came together, what it was like filming in Istanbul. They set it in Istanbul and he thought, ok that’s certainly one city I would love to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What surprised you the most about working in Istanbul? Either the&#xA;  under the circumstances of working there or also seeing some of the&#xA;  sights in your free time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;NEESON: Well, its- I’ve read so much about Constantinople as it used&#xA;  to be from when I was doing Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven, you&#xA;  know? Because it is the gateway from the west to the east and there’s&#xA;  so many generations of conquests.  And you see it in the streets&#xA;  there, you see foundation stones that were laid by, not just the&#xA;  Romans, the Romans were only 2000 years ago, but generations thousands&#xA;  of years ago, you know? So it such a rich incredible historical&#xA;  culture, and you feel it.  And I think it adds something to our film,&#xA;  it just gives it a texture.  All those car scenes we were doing, those&#xA;  car chases and stuff, you know, yes we had a police presence, but the&#xA;  shopkeepers, merchants on these tiny, narrow streets said, “No, no,&#xA;  no; you shoot your film, but we’re keeping our shops open.” So you’d&#xA;  have customers crossing streets all the time, they weren’t extras, and&#xA;  we’re barreling up these streets in Mercedes Benz’s at reckless&#xA;  speeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/taken-3-liam-neeson-interview/199412/&quot;&gt;http://collider.com/taken-3-liam-neeson-interview/199412/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2170" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-10-10T00:27:31.917" LastActivityDate="2012-10-10T00:27:31.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4551" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-09T21:34:36.053" Score="12" ViewCount="544" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be a cultural thing more than movie explanation but since the movie is about the experiences of a slum dog kid growing up I think it fits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What were they supposed to be doing that would make someone choose their stall AND pay them for it?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a still of the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VGtNJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="850" LastEditDate="2012-10-10T14:13:09.563" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T15:43:51.540" Title="What service do the boys provide at the out houses?" Tags="|plot-explanation|slumdog-millionaire|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4551" CreationDate="2012-10-09T21:53:20.110" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably several things combined:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they keep it clean so it is more attractive than the outdoors solution&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they give people using the stall a sense of security (=nobody will disturb them)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when it's the only option around, people have no choice but to pay them, and they just take advantage of it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-11T13:06:45.843" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T13:06:45.843" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4553" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-10-09T22:48:17.143" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-10-09T22:48:17.143" LastActivityDate="2012-10-09T22:48:17.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4554" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-10-09T22:48:17.143" Score="0" Body="A man must fight for his life, as well as the lives' of his ex-wife and daughter, when human traffickers seek revenge on him due to his actions when saving his kidnapped daughter in the first movie Taken." OwnerUserId="1964" LastEditorUserId="1964" LastEditDate="2012-10-09T23:06:06.667" LastActivityDate="2012-10-09T23:06:06.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4448" CreationDate="2012-10-10T05:49:59.907" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0228867/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Skywhales&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; the movie you're after? Here is a clip on YouTube:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/qQ6qw1nh0tA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T08:32:10.590" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T08:32:10.590" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2411" CreationDate="2012-10-10T06:17:31.683" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;More than anything, SCDP functions as an archetype for the Madison Avenue of the 1960s rather than as something modeled (even in part) after a real firm. Certainly, some of the work Draper Daniels did could tie SCDP into various firms that Daniels worked for, most notably the Leo Burnett Company. But that connection likely serves more to support the notion of Draper as creative genius than anything. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other connections are possible, too -- I've always thought that Young &amp;amp; Rubicam, an actual agency which is mentioned frequently on the show as a firm in &lt;em&gt;Mad Men&lt;/em&gt;'s world as well (think of the water bombing scene in the 1st episode of Season 5), has a similar history to Sterling Cooper -- founded in 1923 by two partners, major creative force in the 60s, etc. (This connection might be strengthened by noting that Young and Rubicam is one of the few ad firms still operating in its original Madison Avenue space, a history which would be appealing to Weiner in the arguments he's trying to make about the place of his show in today's culture). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But many other moments in the show make it very apparent that SCDP is really meant to evoke a cultural discourse rather than a historical context. Think of the &quot;It's Toasted&quot; slogan from the pilot ... an actual slogan from Lucky Strike in 1917, not 1960. Such anachronisms point to Weiner's attempts to make SCDP more about &quot;Madison Avenue&quot;-ness rather than anything truly concrete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2012-10-10T06:17:31.683" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4544" CreationDate="2012-10-10T11:12:35.150" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both rooms had beds so it was definitely not just an extra office. It might be that he just wanted an extra room to keep his security stuff. It could also be a room rented for someone else on the security team (that left with the client). Both rooms seemed to be fully equipped to act as singles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2012-10-10T11:12:35.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4561" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4564" CreationDate="2012-10-10T13:19:10.037" Score="13" ViewCount="7104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe I overlooked something, but Mal is trying to sabotage (killing his teammates) all dreams of Cobb concerned with his work (theft of information in dreams, inception of ideas). But during the training of Ariadne in the large industry hall, there is a scene, where he dreams on his own and then Ariadne joins the dream. When Mal sees her, she instantly gets angry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, Mal is a projection of Cobb, so why is she always sabotaging his professional dreams, when he seems to be able to dream of her as his loving wife? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="217" LastActivityDate="2012-10-10T16:55:42.603" Title="Why is Mal sabotaging all/only professional dreams of Cobb?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4562" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-10-10T13:39:45.810" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-10-10T13:39:45.810" LastActivityDate="2012-10-10T13:39:45.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4563" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-10-10T13:39:45.810" Score="0" Body="Horror film from 1989 based on the novel written by Stephen King about a man who disturbs a haunted burial ground." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-05-28T09:27:27.070" LastActivityDate="2019-05-28T09:27:27.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="4564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4561" CreationDate="2012-10-10T16:55:42.603" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mal is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subconcious&quot;&gt;subconscious&lt;/a&gt; representation of Cobb's wife. He has no control over her at all. She is an aspect of his own psyche. I would say that Mal is sabotaging Cobb's team because she is a representation of his failure and guilt over his actions leading to his actual wife's suicide. You could say that deep down Cobb doesn't want to succeed and he wants to kill himself. The sweet Mal that he sees is just him trying to convince himself to die. Mal might actually be the most complicated character of all since she is Cobb's hidden desires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2012-10-10T16:55:42.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4565" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4568" CreationDate="2012-10-10T18:28:52.193" Score="16" ViewCount="6233" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tommy (played by Joe Pesci) is one of the most interesting characters to me in this film. His story arc starts with him being slightly off balance funny guy and a real tough guy then moves quickly into him being a bitter, resentful and psychotic paranoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two scenes that stick out to me are the one where he kills a &quot;Made Man&quot; who is making fun of him because Tommy used to shine his shoes. It's a huge sign of disrespect that Tommy just won't take. Then there is the scene with Spider. Spider is pretty much following the same trail up the mob ladder that Tommy did. He's an errand boy. Tommy disrespects Spider and pushes him to a point that leads to Spider disrespecting Tommy in front of the gang. Once again Tommy retaliates with extreme violence and shocks everyone. These two murders define Tommy. The parallels between himself and Spider are what I'm interested in having more analysis on as well as why was Tommy's behavior allowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="105" LastEditDate="2013-02-23T20:29:28.373" LastActivityDate="2013-02-23T20:29:28.373" Title="Why was Tommy allowed to be a psychopath?" Tags="|analysis|goodfellas|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4565" CreationDate="2012-10-10T20:15:03.903" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;That character was based on real life wiseguy Thomas Desimone. You can read about him at this link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_DeSimone#References&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_DeSimone#References&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently he was as unpredictable, probably more than Joe Pesci's character. So it isn't so much that he's allowed to be psychotic. You could argue that being a mafioso is psychotic in itself. Why would his circle regulate that behavior when they benefit from it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-10-10T20:27:27.603" LastActivityDate="2012-10-10T20:27:27.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3273" CreationDate="2012-10-10T20:31:13.557" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly I think it has to do with what Donnie's personality is like.  He often seems very cynical and void of emotion, except when his sister says he's a dick.  He usually just observes things like a zombie of some sort.  I think what the scene represents is another side of Donnie that most people wouldn't see normally.  The psychiatrist is trying to break through like most normal doctors and understand Donnie.  With the hypnosis and him coming out like that I feel it was almost a warning to her that if you want to dig deep into him, you may not like what you see.  That I also feel is a metaphor throughout the movie.   We can see it in the guru, the gym teacher, and other characters.  They are one way when we look at them, but when you did deeper it may not be something we wanted to know in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2174" LastActivityDate="2012-10-10T20:31:13.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4565" CreationDate="2012-10-10T20:40:11.110" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, Tommy doesn't get away with being a psychopath - he's killed at the behest of his superiors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Murders&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a time, Tommy gets away with murdering Billy Batts because his superiors don't know for sure that Tommy killed Billy Batts. If I remember correctly, only Jimmy (Irish) &amp;amp; Henry (half-Irish) are present for the murder. They're not made men (and cannot become made men because of their ethnicities); they're more loyal to their friend and co-worker, Tommy. Additionally, having helped dispose of Batts' body, they're also now complicit in his murder and could be punished, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spider, on the other hand, isn't a made man, well-connected or a good earner, so his murder is of little consequence. Unlike murdering a made man, this (apparently) doesn't breaking any mob rule. Insightfully, Henry describes the mob power structure as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All they got from Paulie was protection from other guys looking to rip them off. That's what it's all about. That's what the FBI can never understand - that what Paulie and the organization offer is protection for the kinds of guys who can't go to the cops. They're like the police department for wiseguys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from a few rules, like not murdering made men without approval and always paying the necessary tributes, wiseguys are largely autonomous. Tommy may be a psychopath, and he may not have many friends, but he's a good earner. Yes, people - as we see in the &quot;you think I'm funny?&quot; scene - are afraid of him. But Tommy hasn't committed serious offenses (that Paulie/superiors can prove) in the eyes of mob. Paulie gets his cut. Henry &amp;amp; Jimmy need him as a part of their cohort. So everyone is willing to put up with his crazy behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Tommy &amp;amp; Spider&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I disagree that there's an arc to Tommy's character. Apart from brief scenes of him as a teenager, I don't recall him ever being anything but a feared psychopath. Both Spider &amp;amp; Tommy are errand boys - but Henry, too, began as an errand boy. It seems to be a mob rite of passage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the more interesting parellel is that Tommy, growing up, was bullied by Billy Batts (also, this is the only thing we get that's close to an explanation of Tommy's behavior). Now an adult, Tommy harasses Spider. This could be interpreted as ritualistic hazing or, more likely, as Tommy getting &quot;revenge&quot; on Billy via Spider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2017" LastEditorUserId="2017" LastEditDate="2012-10-11T19:35:31.660" LastActivityDate="2012-10-11T19:35:31.660" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4569" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-10-10T20:57:43.430" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-10-10T20:57:43.430" LastActivityDate="2012-10-10T20:57:43.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4570" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-10-10T20:57:43.430" Score="0" Body="Prolific American writer, best known for his horror novels and short story anthologies. There are numerous television and film adaptations of his works. " OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-10-10T21:39:20.913" LastActivityDate="2012-10-10T21:39:20.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4565" CreationDate="2012-10-10T21:09:51.290" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in other answers, Tommy is based on a real person. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mafiosos knew Tommy was an unpredictable psychopath, and feared that side in him (see the famous &quot;Funny how?&quot; scene). But they tolerated that side of him because he was extremely useful to them as a brute and as a hitman. No job seemed to be too violent or too dark for Tommy, and that made him a valuable asset to his bosses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when Tommy kills Spider (and does other objectionable things), the bosses are willing to overlook Tommy's violent side. After all, Spider was a nobody while Tommy was a valuable member of the mob. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when Tommy killed Billy Batts, he crossed the line. Killing a made man without getting authorization first is one of the biggest taboos in the mafioso circle. It disrupts the whole social structure of &quot;being made untouchable&quot;. So that was a transgression that his bosses could not ignore, no matter how useful Tommy was, and the order was given to whack him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-10-10T21:09:51.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4551" CreationDate="2012-10-11T01:44:33.237" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's some possible background on the situation you see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/world/asia/in-mumbai-a-campaign-against-restroom-injustice.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;In Mumbai, a Campaign Against Restroom Injustice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IeOEH.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IeOEH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Almost always, a male attendant oversees these toilets, collecting fees. Petty corruption is rampant in India, and public toilets are no exception: Men must pay to use a toilet but can use urinals free (based on the premise that urinals, usually just a wall and a drainage trench, do not need water). But women are regularly charged to urinate, despite regulations saying they should not be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...The toilet fees might be considered nominal, ranging from 2 to 5 rupees (about 4 to 9 cents). Yet in India, the poverty line is so low that the government recently defined the urban poor as those living on less than 29 rupees a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems unlikely that men use these toilets very often anyhow.  But then it also seems unlikely that children would be guarding them rather than grown men.  And they probably don't get cleaned very often.  Has anyone read the book Q&amp;amp;A that the movie is based on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1064" LastEditorUserId="9718" LastEditDate="2017-04-11T15:43:51.540" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T15:43:51.540" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4574" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4579" CreationDate="2012-10-11T05:13:10.413" Score="2" ViewCount="4208" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the TV Series Revenge Nolan has has those awesome little cameras in the shape of a whale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the series is fictional, but they way he uses them in terms of spying - you can't do that unless the camera is connected to the internet right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to clarify I am not wanting to spy, I was just after the logistics of it:-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1443" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-08T18:33:36.143" LastActivityDate="2021-04-04T00:27:46.640" Title="How do the Whale Web Cams on Revenge TV Series work?" Tags="|production|revenge-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4575" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4577" CreationDate="2012-10-11T13:57:11.820" Score="12" ViewCount="1154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had seen all the trailers of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;sqi=2&amp;amp;ved=0CCAQFjAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0948470%2F&amp;amp;ei=2852UM3hHJGSiQfJxoGgBQ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEzMlAN61ef2DZcZrPTTqB8gW-aMQ&quot;&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/a&gt; before its release. In one of those trailers Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) says to Peter,  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you have any idea what you really are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to imply that Uncle Ben knows about Peter's identity. This would have been a huge spoiler. But when I saw the movie, there was no such scene. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do the filmmakers discuss such spoilers with some of the audiences and see if they like it and then change it accordingly? Or was this scene cut for other reasons? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2119" LastEditorUserId="8" LastEditDate="2012-10-15T15:57:27.170" LastActivityDate="2013-01-27T13:42:48.043" Title="Why was this scene from the trailer not in the film?" Tags="|the-amazing-spider-man|editing|trailers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4575" CreationDate="2012-10-11T16:39:08.323" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they do that on purpose. Many scenes that are included for a certain trailer don't make the final cut when the actual film comes out. So maybe those are from the deleted scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2177" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-10-11T21:16:32.947" LastActivityDate="2012-10-11T21:16:32.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4575" CreationDate="2012-10-11T18:55:17.737" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don’t forget that marketing may start on a film long before a final print is finished for theatrical distribution. Often times, editors will have access to ALL of the footage when cutting a trailer, sometimes just specific sequences. It’s a collaborative effort where they approve whatever is used, but this is why alternate takes or even jokes are used in trailers. Because at the time, there may not have been a final one created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailer_%28promotion%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia says&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Trailers tell the story of a film in a highly condensed fashion that&#xA;  must have maximum appeal. In the decades since film marketing has&#xA;  become a large industry, trailers have become highly polished pieces&#xA;  of advertising, able to present even poor movies in an attractive&#xA;  light. Some of the elements common to many trailers are listed below.&#xA;  Trailers are typically made up of scenes from the film they are&#xA;  promoting, but sometimes contain deleted scenes from the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Most trailers have a three-act structure similar to a full&#xA;  feature-length film. They start with a beginning (act 1) that lays out&#xA;  the premise of the story. The middle (act 2) drives the story further&#xA;  and usually ends with a dramatic climax. Act 3 usually features a&#xA;  strong piece of &quot;signature music&quot; (either a recognizable song or a&#xA;  powerful, sweeping orchestral piece). This last act often consists of&#xA;  a visual montage of powerful and emotional moments of the film and may&#xA;  also contain a cast run if there are noteworthy stars that could help&#xA;  sell the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some trailers use &quot;special shoot&quot; footage, which is material that has&#xA;  been created specifically for advertising purposes and does not appear&#xA;  in the actual film. The most notable film to use this technique was&#xA;  Terminator 2: Judgment Day, whose trailer featured an elaborate&#xA;  special effect scene of a T-800 Terminator being assembled in a&#xA;  factory that was never intended to be in the film itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this may be the same for the case of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Spider-Man_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Amazing Spider-man&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Rises&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/a&gt;'s trailer which contains some deleted scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-27T13:42:48.043" LastActivityDate="2013-01-27T13:42:48.043" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="720" CreationDate="2012-10-12T03:11:59.233" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm starting to think he didn't lose his memory and it was a plot by Treadstone to set him on a path he never lived. Such as his apartment in Paris. He doesn't remember it because he was never there before. It was all a plot to set him up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2178" LastActivityDate="2012-10-12T03:11:59.233" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4574" CreationDate="2012-10-12T05:53:05.443" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There would be several ways for the cameras to get a live signal to Nolan's computer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One would be satellite (i.e. what television news has been doing for decades), but as the cameras are indoors, that's not a real possibility. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A second would be for the whale cams to connect to the local WiFi router wherever they're placed, and with Nolan's hacking skills this is a theoretical possibility, but it would require a lot of preparation - he'd have to hack each individual WiFi network and then encrypt all his intrusions so that the whale cams couldn't be tracked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The third possibility, and by far the most likely, would be for the cameras to transfer their stream via cellular technology... any smartphone can already do this. You would just need the camera, a 4G radio, and a battery, and it could then transmit to a server that Nolan could log into and watch the live streams. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spygeargadgets.com/internet-streaming-hidden-cameras/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Something like these&lt;/a&gt;, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More support for this last possibility has to do with NolCorp - though it hasn't been explicitly stated, it has been very subtly implied that NolCorp manufactures mobile technology... in episode 2 of season 1, the big announcement about which company would be making components for a NolCorp product is reminiscent of Apple always making such a big deal over who makes their components. What's more, the ABC site has a series of supposed memos that Nolan wrote to his company, and one of them mentions how the NolPad will be better and faster than the iPad or Samsung tablets. If NolCorp makes mobile technology, then a 4G hidden camera makes more than enough sense for the fiction of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T14:34:19.903" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T14:34:19.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4580" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4581" CreationDate="2012-10-12T09:41:35.937" Score="6" ViewCount="1382" Body="&lt;p&gt;In taken 2 there is a scene where they capture and torture &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0705005/&quot;&gt;Jean-Claude&lt;/a&gt; for information on Liam Neeson's whereabouts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first he refuses and says he will never tell until they bring out a teddy bear. What was so important to him about the teddy bear that made him give up the location?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2164" LastEditorUserId="1319" LastEditDate="2012-10-12T15:48:09.953" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T10:22:13.863" Title="What's so important about the teddy bear in Taken 2?" Tags="|plot-explanation|taken-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4580" CreationDate="2012-10-12T12:42:24.913" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the intention was to tell him that if he didn't cooperate his kid (or kids?  I can't remember) would pay for his insubordination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-10-12T12:42:24.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2938" CreationDate="2012-10-12T15:52:50.560" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are three ways to wake up from the dream: wait for the timer to run out; die; or receive a kick from the next level up. Because of the sedatives, dying wasn't an option; they'd just end up in limbo. And because of the multiple dream levels, waiting for the timer to run out wasn't an option, because they'd all be killed by the projections in the time involved. Kicks were the only way out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, it was clear from the movie that there was a definite problem with kicks coming too soon. I don't think the exact consequences were made clear, but we can deduce some things. If it's a two-level dream, in the first level is one awake guy (the first-level dreamer) and some number of sleeping people who are in the second level dream. If a kick comes in the first level, the first-level dreamer is &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; going to wake up. We can assume that, at least under the sedated dream we saw in the movie, the remaining dreamers don't also wake. Otherwise there wouldn't be a problem; the top-level kick would have woken them all the way down the chain! So for the kick to wake you &lt;em&gt;from&lt;/em&gt; the first level, you have to be awake &lt;em&gt;in&lt;/em&gt; the first level. This may be a consequence of the sedative, and not a general rule of dreaming. Or it may be a function of the differing time scales; if time is moving subjectively faster on the lower levels, what would seem like a sudden acceleration one level up might subjectively be too slow for you to notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens if the first-level kick comes while you're still in the second level? The guy dreaming the first level just woke up, so if you wake up from the second level after that, what are you waking up &lt;em&gt;to&lt;/em&gt;? Limbo seems the most likely consequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the kicks needed to be as late as possible, to have as much time as possible to complete the mission. But they still needed to come in a definite order, to avoid limbo. Thus the tight synchronization required. But they are definitely not simultaneous, as the question asks. We see characters waking up from level after level, in sequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1331" LastEditorUserId="1331" LastEditDate="2014-10-31T17:03:35.740" LastActivityDate="2014-10-31T17:03:35.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4548" CreationDate="2012-10-12T20:29:50.980" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, definitely. You can see the Galata bridge (which connects Eminönü and Karaköy) very often, and the Eminönü district in the background with its Mosques..e.g. when they are on the ferryboat..and there will be also a guy selling Turkish tea on those ferryboats (www.sehirhatlari.com.tr). But I actually never saw a Mercedes cab there, and I think they used retired police cars  - but the car chase itself was in Istanbul, too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2184" LastActivityDate="2012-10-12T20:29:50.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4585" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="4592" CreationDate="2012-10-12T21:33:13.330" Score="14" ViewCount="8160" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Matrix (2000) Thomas A. Anderson or more widely known as Neo was recruited by Morpheus to rebel against the machines. As per the plot, The Matrix of the story was un-real and a virtual reality created by the machines, so considering this wouldn't this make Mr. Thomas Anderson un-real or virtual? Or did the Red Pill transformed him into reality? If we considered that Mr. Anderson was a virtual consciousness of Neo this means his physical self was &quot;Plugged&quot; to The matrix somewhere, but then the plot also describes that the Red Pill was the thing that made him capable of getting plugged onto the matrix at will. Also, why was he pursued by the agents even before he knew Trinity and or Morpheus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, when the Oracle says that Neo is not The One was she lying intentionally to Neo (to avoid a pressure situation) or was she telling the truth for all intents and purposes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2185" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-10-14T12:55:53.023" LastActivityDate="2023-12-20T05:36:51.580" Title="What's real in &quot;The Matrix&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4587" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-12T22:12:11.697" Score="7" ViewCount="34151" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Avengers, Hawkeye seems like a filler character.  He isn't in any of the previous movies, and there's no story about him at all.  Does he just have super vision? Does he have a back story about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2187" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T08:02:41.643" LastActivityDate="2016-06-29T11:36:15.353" Title="What is Hawkeye's super power?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4587" CreationDate="2012-10-12T22:19:02.997" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkeye_%28comics%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hawkeye&lt;/a&gt;, like Natasha Romanoff aka &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Widow_%28Natalia_Romanova%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Black Widow&lt;/a&gt;, is a human, except he is a lot more skilled than most. He doesn't have super powers like Captain America, Thor, or Hulk,  but he is a master assassin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He does make a cameo in Thor uncredited as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Clint Barton&lt;/a&gt;, which I think you can say is a precursor before his role in Avengers, though he didn't have as important a role that Black Widow's character had in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man_2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Iron Man 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case you might be curious about his skillset you will find this excerpt from Wikipedia enlightening:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Hawkeye has no superhuman powers (with the exception of the&#xA;period when using Pym particles to become Goliath), he is at the very&#xA;peak of human conditioning; he is an exceptional fencer, acrobat and a&#xA;grandmaster marksman, having been trained from childhood in the circus&#xA;and by the criminals Trick Shot and Swordsman. This includes&#xA;considerable strength, as a supervillain found out when he tried to&#xA;use the superhero's 250 pounds-force (1,100 newtons) draw weight bow&#xA;and found that he could not draw back the string to launch an&#xA;arrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hawkeye has also been thoroughly trained by Captain America in tactics, martial arts, and hand-to-hand combat. Hawkeye excels in the&#xA;use of ranged weapons, especially the bow and arrow, and carries a&#xA;quiver containing a number of customized &amp;quot;trick arrows&amp;quot;. In his role&#xA;as Ronin, Barton shows great proficiency with the katana and other&#xA;melee weapons. He has gained a reputation for being able to &amp;quot;turn any&#xA;object into a weapon&amp;quot;, and has been seen using items such as tin&#xA;plates, coins, sticks and other debris to great effect against his&#xA;enemies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hawkeye is also known to use a &amp;quot;Sky-Cycle&amp;quot; as his mode of transportation. The Sky-Cycle is modelled after a commercial&#xA;snowmobile and is fitted with anti-gravitational technology. It is&#xA;voice operated and has an auto-pilot steering system. The original&#xA;Sky-Cycle was custom made for Hawkeye by Jorge Latham while he was&#xA;employed by Cross Technological Enterprises. Latham was later&#xA;employed by the West Coast Avengers and built several more&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-06-29T11:36:15.353" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4585" CreationDate="2012-10-13T14:42:03.397" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a lot of questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The matrix is a virtual reality. The dark tunnels, the breeding grounds, the Nebuchadnezzar, the bad food, etc., is the real reality.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thomas Anderson is a real person only in the perspective of everybody in the virtual matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The red pill did not transform Thomas Anderson, it kind of killed him: The red pill was a &quot;virus&quot; that the matrix program could not handle, thus so releasing Neo from its incubator, and &quot;sending&quot; a tracking signal to the code stream of the matrix which is intercepted by Morpheus' team. Neo woke up, became aware of the reality for the first time in his life and Thomas' code was purged from the matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Morpheus tells Thomas that when he takes the red pill, he simply will tumble into a rabbit hole giving nothing but the truth. The red pill does not plug him into the matrix, nor did Morpheus say so.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thomas was pursued by the agents from the moment the matrix program recognized the goal/plan of Morpheus' team. The very beginning of the movie reveals Trinity searching for Thomas. Of course the agents went after Trinity first.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The oracle tells Neo a lie because &lt;em&gt;the one&lt;/em&gt; had to find things out for himself. Also, he kind of becomes &lt;em&gt;the one&lt;/em&gt; by almost sacrificing himself due to the lie, but that's a whole different discussion with surely lots of opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="1319" LastEditDate="2012-10-13T15:13:44.387" LastActivityDate="2012-10-13T15:13:44.387" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4593" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31204" CreationDate="2012-10-13T17:23:44.827" Score="23" ViewCount="14978" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inception begins with Cobb waking up or lying on the beach in the water. He is brought before Saito. Later on, we learn that this is limbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Eames' dream (level 3), Cobb and Ariadne go a level deeper to get Fischer back. Everything in the movie points to that level also being limbo. One proof being Cobb presuming to find Saito there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he wants to find Saito, why does he 'play around' in the ocean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did he stumble over his own-made cliff?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did the search take a lot of his strength, making him too tired and fall asleep on the beach?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was the fourth level not limbo after all or not the limbo Saito was in, and did Cobb go another level deeper to get to Saito's? This could explain Cobb getting in random surroundings if limbo had much changed because of Saito's long presence there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was the opening scene just a nice piece of cinematography without much eye for plot?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or am I simply missing something?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-16T14:47:18.030" LastActivityDate="2020-12-26T03:43:26.440" Title="Why does Cobb wake up in the water?" Tags="|analysis|inception|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4587" CreationDate="2012-10-13T17:33:50.150" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hawkeye is far from a filler character. He's been in every Avengers lineup in every continuity (Comics, Animated, Movie ... etc). Movie-wise, this isn't his first appearance either. He first appears in the Thor movie (the same way Black Widow appears first in Iron Man 2).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like Black Widow, he doesn't have any super human powers and his past is shrouded in mystery (at least in the movies universe). Although one can argue that his skill with the bow and arrow is super-natural.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-10-13T17:33:50.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4587" CreationDate="2012-10-13T18:24:46.240" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the comic Ultimate Comics Hawkeye #2 there is a spot where it mentions he has higher than normal rod cells.  Normal person has hundered and fifty million rod cells and hawkeye has closer to 4 hundred million.  Also the muscle around his eye allow for orb distortion giving him the ability to change focal length.  This could be argued as a mutation similar to those in X-Men.  Which would make him a superhuman/superhero and not just a normal human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2142" LastActivityDate="2012-10-13T18:24:46.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="4597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4551" CreationDate="2012-10-13T18:32:50.357" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;a href=&quot;http://rahulbrown.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/will-the-peepoo-disposable-toilet-work-for-indian-slums/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; proposing a possible alternative to Mumbai's lack of sanitation,&#xA;it explains that without a sewage system, people have a choice of defecating in the open, in a government toilet if there is one available, or in a private pay-per-use toilet. Urination is free for men using urinals or nature. For women, urination is more problematic. They can squat in the open, or they can use the paid toilets which are really designed for defecation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Salim's job in the film was to operate a pay-toilet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-10-13T18:32:50.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5593" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5594" CreationDate="2012-10-13T21:03:06.513" Score="9" ViewCount="40362" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lt. Kara Thrace, a prominent character of the famous sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica, or more famously known as Starbuck was purportedly dead while fighting Cylon battle ships amidst a solar storm along with Lee Adama or Capt. Apollo and others. Starbuck was assumed dead for months until the beginning of season 4 where she re-appears aboard Galactica, all well and with a new (factory painted) battleship, believing she was gone for 6 hrs and claiming to have seen Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that there may not be a &quot;correct&quot; answer to this question. If she was really dead then was the new Starbuck an astral projection of herself? (Even more so since she vanishes in the end?) What happened there that made her come back all well with a new ship? Or was there a possibility that she was a cylon herself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did she come back?  What was she?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2185" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2017-09-11T19:35:25.073" LastActivityDate="2019-12-12T21:38:19.050" Title="How did Starbuck come back?" Tags="|plot-explanation|battlestar-galactica|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5593" CreationDate="2012-10-13T21:22:16.783" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't remember there being a solid explanation for her new state/resurrection. An astral projection is one possibility, but I'd like to go even further to explain her pivoting role regarding the location of earth. It could be she was some sort of &lt;strong&gt;angel&lt;/strong&gt;, sent out to guide the humans, as she disappears in the end when she has fulfilled her purpose. She is quite heavily involved in the &lt;strong&gt;faith/god storylines&lt;/strong&gt; so I always assumed her resurrection to be faith related. Something brought her back in a grand scheme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her being a cyclon is a bit harder to believe as no real supporting evidence is given (but then again, there is no real explanation) and it would not really fit to here personality. It would also not explain how she vanishes in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2012-10-13T21:22:16.783" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3305" CreationDate="2012-10-14T01:06:16.490" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm from Brazil. I do not speak English, so used google translator to write this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adjusted WORLDWIDE Box Office&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FOREIGN BOX OFFICE ADJUSTED BY DOMESTIC INFLATION           &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;top&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1-  TITANIC US$ 3,500,000,000 (including 3D release)&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(titanic release 1997 only US$ 3,160,000,000)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 - GONE WITH THE WIND US$ 3,250,000,000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3 - AVATAR US$ 2,850,000,000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4 - STAR WARS NEW HOPE US$ 2,360,000,000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5 - E.T US$ 2,075,000,000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;6 - THE SOUND OF MUSIC US$ 2.060.000.000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;7 - 10 COMANDAMENTS US$ 1.930.000.000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;8 - JAWS US$ 1,860,000,000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;9 - DOUTOR ZHIVAGO US$ 1.780.000.000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;10 - JURASSIC PARK US$ 1,770,000,000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;11 - SNOW WHITE US$ 1.760.000.000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;12 - LIONKING US$ 1,650,000,000 (including 3D release) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;13 - EXORCIST US$ 1,580,000,000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;14 - STAR WARS Ep 1 (1999) US$ 1,560,000,000 (including 3D release) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FOREIGN BOX OFFICE ADJUSTED BY DOMESTIC INFLATION&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so we get a fairer basis, and the box office with Major tax revenues abroad are not harmed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3190" LastEditorUserId="3190" LastEditDate="2012-10-26T17:46:22.347" LastActivityDate="2012-10-26T17:46:22.347" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5596" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5597" CreationDate="2012-10-14T01:42:00.470" Score="5" ViewCount="19468" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching Band of Brothers and in the first show, they're all getting ready to run Currahee, and everyone has changed except for Private White, whose still in his uniform. What was the purpose of that storywise? Seemed very confusing for someone that isn't familiar with the military&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="603" LastActivityDate="2012-10-14T04:54:00.573" Title="What was the purpose of showing Private White sitting in full uniform?" Tags="|plot-explanation|band-of-brothers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5596" CreationDate="2012-10-14T04:54:00.573" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Private White didn't change gear because he was refusing to run Currahee; in essence he was quitting which we are supposed to surmise from his failure to answer Lipton. You can read a nice synopsis of the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://everything2.com/title/Band+of+Brothers%253A+Part+One+-+%2522Currahee%2521%2522&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;  or &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikiofbrothers.wikia.com/wiki/Currahee&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; if you missed any other details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-10-14T04:54:00.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4593" CreationDate="2012-10-14T06:43:19.117" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You ask a difficult question! A lot of people have different opinions about this, and as the film continually skirts the line between awake and asleep, there is a lot of ambiguity that is left for the viewer to resolve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best clues to the logic of &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt; can probably be derived from the interview between Christopher Nolan and his brother Jonathan, which can be found in the book &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=PLtlf3DdFrkC&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&amp;amp;q&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inception: The Shooting Script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Insight Editions - you can read it in part at the link to Google Books).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Christopher recalls being in college, when he would get up after a couple of hours of sleep, go have breakfast, and then come back and sleep some more. This after-breakfast sleep was different - he calls it active dreaming (also known as lucid dreaming) - when you realize you are dreaming and take control of the dream. This got him interested in the &quot;infinite potential of the human mind.&quot; He talks about how in dreams we create whole worlds and we think we are having conversations with people, but we are actually putting the words in the other person's mouth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt; ...is about a more everyday experience of dreaming...It&#xA;  doesn't question an actual reality. It's just saying, &quot;Okay, we all&#xA;  dream  every night. What if you could share your dream with someone&#xA;  else?&quot; And it becomes an alternate reality simply because the dream&#xA;  becomes a form of communication - just like using a telephone or going&#xA;  online. I wanted it, then, to have a rule set, a set of reasons that&#xA;  you could  graph for why it's not chaos and anarchy - for why it has&#xA;  to be order, and why you need architects and an architectural brain&#xA;  to create the world of the dream for the subject to enter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story is moved along by the mind's conflicting tendencies to create structures to defend itself and protect information and also to leak secrets when worried. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a hand-drawn diagram in the book &quot;detailing the team's path through the various layers of the heist dream , and their subsequent 'kick' back to reality.&quot; Here it is in part:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HD0ut.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2012-10-14T21:51:08.523" LastActivityDate="2012-10-14T21:51:08.523" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4504" CreationDate="2012-10-14T09:33:58.920" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Multiple loops of the same story, we are just seeing the final loop that closes the story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3194" LastActivityDate="2012-10-14T09:33:58.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5601" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5606" CreationDate="2012-10-14T09:53:40.907" Score="8" ViewCount="4830" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not an American so someone from the US may be able to explain. Why does John Casey admire and keep photos of ex-President Ronald Reagan, I mean why that specific president, and not any other previous or current president?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Itxx.gif&quot; alt=&quot;John Casey and Regan&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="1375" LastEditDate="2012-10-15T11:38:03.510" LastActivityDate="2012-10-15T11:38:03.510" Title="Why does John Casey from Chuck have such admiration for President Ronald Reagan?" Tags="|character|chuck|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5601" CreationDate="2012-10-14T10:30:03.983" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be because Reagan was strongly anti-communist and lead a strong military policy during the cold war, two points which agree very well with John Casey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-10-14T13:01:07.900" LastActivityDate="2012-10-14T13:01:07.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5603" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5609" CreationDate="2012-10-14T11:44:08.767" Score="8" ViewCount="14409" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for an authoritative reference that supports either the plausibility or implausibility of the moves and techniques used by Jaden Smith / Jackie Chan in the remake of the Karate Kid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's proving difficult to find by Google searching. I just find lots of regular reviews.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2172" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T13:57:52.663" LastActivityDate="2016-11-14T08:39:50.397" Title="Is the martial arts choreography in the 2010 remake of Karate Kid realistic?" Tags="|analysis|martial-arts|karate-kid-2010|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5604" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-10-14T15:15:43.863" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-10-14T15:15:43.863" LastActivityDate="2012-10-14T15:15:43.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5605" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-10-14T15:15:43.863" Score="0" Body="Character choices and actions are influenced by their personal history. To fully understand their behaviour in some situation, a clear view on their past and present, as told in canon, is necessary." OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="2155" LastEditDate="2012-10-14T16:29:59.853" LastActivityDate="2012-10-14T16:29:59.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5601" CreationDate="2012-10-14T19:28:07.820" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adam Baldwin was personally responsible for the development of the Casey character, a character with which he identifies strongly. The photo of Reagan is his own personal photo, he often tweets Reagan quotes, and he is due to play Reagan in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://freewayhome.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/adam-baldwin-to-play-ronald-reagan-in-historical-drama/&quot;&gt;upcoming film&lt;/a&gt;. In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/01/27/BH-Interview--Adam-Baldwin-On-Saying-Farewell-to-Chuck--Being-Openly-Conservative-in-Hollywood&quot;&gt;interview with Big Hollywood&lt;/a&gt;, he talks about being openly conservative in Hollywood:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I do take the responsibility of portraying a guy who’s serious about&#xA;  protecting the nation and I am a serious patriot, an American Patriot.&#xA;  I believe that without our military, fighting men and women, that our&#xA;  country would have fallen long ago. But they didn’t allow that to&#xA;  happen so I support and defend that in my civilian capacity as much as&#xA;  I can. And I try to portray that as well as I can. So, I love the&#xA;  military. I love weapons as tools of defending liberty, individual&#xA;  liberty, and freedom. I believe in the Constitution. I believe in the&#xA;  American founding documents, or as Madison or Adams called them,&#xA;  America’s political scriptures, which are the Declaration of&#xA;  Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Casey defends, protects, serves America, which is what America’s&#xA;  scriptures say, which is protect, secure life, liberty and the pursuit&#xA;  of happiness. And, that’s what Casey, he is. You know, the folks (on&#xA;  &quot;Chuck&quot;) were accommodating to the fact that I brought a perspective&#xA;  that they necessarily didn’t have in their life, or their creative&#xA;  writing, that could make John Casey more authentic...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did you keep the picture of Ronald Reagan that was in Casey’s apartment?&lt;/strong&gt; Well, that was mine. That was a copy I have, so I have&#xA;  the original. Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-10-14T19:28:07.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5607" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-14T19:42:17.710" Score="8" ViewCount="842" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West_Wing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The West Wing&lt;/a&gt; was shot on film and six of the seven seasons were broadcast in high definition.  Warner Brothers made all seasons available in high definition through download and streaming, but the plot recap and opening title sequence are in standard definition. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3196" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-13T16:52:09.250" LastActivityDate="2016-10-19T16:36:17.527" Title="Why are the plot recap and opening title sequence of The West Wing in standard definition when the rest of the episode is high definition?" Tags="|production|the-west-wing|title-sequence|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4491" CreationDate="2012-10-14T20:55:16.267" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an interesting analysis of the film (and Luc Besson's work in general) in her book &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=NRs9hlrjMnwC&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;amp;dq=luc%20besson&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=eRrrAiquZo&amp;amp;sig=gJ5euXvzCbTqdgBIjm4cZbhpuOY&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=gBl7UJ_FNobzrAG26IGwCw&amp;amp;ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=luc%20besson&amp;amp;f=false&quot;&gt;Luc Besson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (1998), Susan Hayward explains that when looking at the film's structure overall, the ending is not so much about a character's intentions as what makes sense for the story. Psychologically, when Mathilda is attracted to Leon as lover, she is transferring love for her brother and desire for the love of father she never had to Leon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leon plays father, son, and lover. But he assumes that latter role&#xA;  only when it is too late. Or, put another way, since the social order&#xA;  of things prohibits him from becoming Mathilda's lover, he gives up&#xA;  his body for her. He sacrifices the material body for the corporeal&#xA;  love that cannot be had. Equally significant, he pulls the plug (the&#xA;  pin of the hand grenade) on his life in exchange for that of&#xA;  Mathilda's. Having acknowledged his love for Mathilda, the only way&#xA;  that love can be sublimated is through death, that is, through a&#xA;  de-phallicising of the masculine body. This notion of the&#xA;  de-phallicised masculine body is in fact a trope of melodrama. The&#xA;  phallus is made safe so that the social order of things remains safe&#xA;  and so that the family does not come under threat...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Besson continues in his description of these two protagonists:&#xA;  &quot;...Elle lui amene la vie.  En acceptant, il accepte sa mort. Mourir&#xA;  pour donner la vie. Geometrique et cellulaire.&quot; (Roughly, She brings&#xA;  him life. In accepting it, he accepts death. He dies to give life.&#xA;  Geometric and cellular.)(p. 141-146)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You ask whether Leon intended to die, and we cannot know this this since Leon is only a construct of the storyteller. The storyteller intended that Leon should die and that Leon should accept this death, as repayment for life (&quot;You have given me a taste for life&quot;) and love. He also tells her he wants a bed to sleep in and roots, and she gives him that by planting his peace lily. Geometric!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you try to imagine a world where he survives, where would this relationship go? &#xA;Besson did write a sequel to it, by the way, with Mathilda all grown up, but as he is no longer connected to the production company that filmed the original (and has rights to the sequel), it may never get made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-10-14T20:55:16.267" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5603" CreationDate="2012-10-14T21:44:11.963" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In his article &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wildaboutmovies.com/behind_the_scenes/KarateKid2010-BEHINDTHESCENES.php&quot;&gt;The Karate Kid: Behind the Scenes&lt;/a&gt;,&quot; Tim Nasson interviews the cast and crew of the film.  This film is connected to the original in theme and story, though the protagonist this time learns a version of kung fu rather than karate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When the filmmakers decided to open up the movie and go to China, one&#xA;  change that became necessary was the fighting style that Dre would&#xA;  learn. He would learn a Chinese fighting style, rather than karate,&#xA;  which originates from Okinawa and Japan... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In The Karate Kid, &#xA;  Dre learns wushu martial arts, a physically demanding, active kung fu&#xA;  sport taught and practiced in China. He was trained by Wu Gang, the&#xA;  stunt coordinator for the Jackie Chan stunt team, which is responsible&#xA;  for the stunts in the films that Chan directs. Master Wu, as Jaden&#xA;  Smith came to call him, trained Smith for three months in Los Angeles&#xA;  before the production began in Beijing, then continued to train him&#xA;  throughout the four-month production. &#xA;  “When I first met Jaden, he was&#xA;  just a kid,” says Wu. “A few months later, he was at the same level as&#xA;  kids that have been training for five or six years. He was very&#xA;  focused, very talented, and never complained. I’m very proud of him.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They were starting at the beginning. “Whenever I teach anyone kung fu,&#xA;  but especially a kid, the first thing I teach them is respect for&#xA;  other people. Kung fu isn’t about fighting, but about helping people,”&#xA;  says Wu. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From there, Wu began training Smith in wushu. Despite the&#xA;  fact that they were making a movie, Wu says that the filmmakers were&#xA;  never tempted to rely on moviemaking tricks to make Smith look like he&#xA;  could do something he couldn’t. “No matter what, he had to learn how&#xA;  to move, how to fight, the basic training. There was a serious need&#xA;  for real kung fu, wushu learning.” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Of course, Smith and all of the&#xA;  other kung fu kids would be taught how to fight for the camera in a&#xA;  choreographed match and look good doing it on the big screen. “All of&#xA;  the kids in the film are full time wushu students, but none of them&#xA;  had movie fighting experience,” Wu notes. “It’s not easy to get the&#xA;  timing, the rhythm, and the reaction when you get hit. Also, the drama&#xA;  and the acting in the fight are just as important as the action – the&#xA;  kids needed to tell the dramatic story of the fight with their faces&#xA;  and bodies. It’s very challenging. But the big difference with this&#xA;  movie is that the movements are real.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-10-14T21:44:11.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3685" CreationDate="2012-10-15T02:01:34.170" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;While in an interview, Dick says that &quot;everything in &lt;em&gt;A Scanner Darkly&lt;/em&gt; I actually saw,&quot; in the&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://butterflyjunk.blogspot.com/2008/02/scanner-darkly-authors-note.html&quot;&gt;author's note&lt;/a&gt; for the book, in which he makes the dedication you mention, he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I myself, I am not a character in this novel; I am the novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-10-15T02:01:34.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5603" CreationDate="2012-10-15T09:25:53.313" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that the tournament is fairly unrealistic. Apart from the level of savagery which is unlikely in a tournament of that age category it suffers from too many 'big' moves. I have fought several times under various rule formats and the moment I see a large 'flowery' move I, basically, run forward and throw punches. Their technique does not land 'cleanly' hence they do not score and as it does not land cleanly it rarely hurts. A genuine combatant would not stay in at the correct range (or conveniently move to the correct range) long enough for the majority of these techniques to land unless the skill difference was absolutely massive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movie combat is very rarely realistic because realistic fights are quick, graceless and over pretty quickly. Martial art tournaments normally have fighters sticking to a few techniques they know well which optimise the rules set but are rarely as clean and polished as you would see here. The original Karate Kid had far more plausible tournament fighting (apart from the Crane kick - your opponent would simply move to the side and charge in) and also tournament admin (although that is not what you are asking I guess).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the insultingly stupid movie physics website:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A western style boxer must move to within an arm's length of his&#xA;  opponent in order to land a punch. The punch's time of travel to its&#xA;  target will be less than 0.1 second--barely enough for an opponent to&#xA;  see it coming let alone respond. Needless to say, if  the opponent's&#xA;  arms are even slightly out of blocking position or he fails to realize&#xA;  that a punch is about to be thrown, he's going to be hit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Likewise, if the person throwing the punch misjudges the location of&#xA;  his target or it unexpectedly moves, he's going to miss. Mid-course&#xA;  corrections of a punch are next to impossible to make. If the puncher&#xA;  develops the bad habit of preceding his punch with any type of&#xA;  unnecessary motion, such as slightly pulling his hand back before&#xA;  striking, he warns his opponent that a punch is coming. It's going to&#xA;  be blocked. Although punching looks simple, it takes countless hours&#xA;  to perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Properly throwing the punch is only part of the requirement for&#xA;  winning. Boxers bob and weave in seemingly random ways to confuse&#xA;  their opponents but also because moving targets are harder to hit. It&#xA;  takes a considerable amount of strategy involving jabs, feigns, and&#xA;  footwork to set up the openings required to land a powerful punch. If&#xA;  the the punch fails, the boxer is now in range for a counterattack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some martial art styles completely avoid high kicks for just such&#xA;  reasons. To reach an opponent's face, a foot has further to go than a&#xA;  punch, thus taking more time, which a defender can use to detect and&#xA;  counter it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For the final dramatic kick in the movie, the current karate kid&#xA;  (Jaden Smith) stood perfectly still then jumped upward, rotated his&#xA;  body, hit his opponent in the face, and ended with a  perfect landing&#xA;  after a 360º flip all using only one leg. Like the boxer, before&#xA;  making his move, the current karate kid would  have needed to&#xA;  accurately estimate the final position of his moving opponent to&#xA;  actually hit him. His ability to alter his trajectory in the middle of&#xA;  the kick would have been limited. Likewise, his timing would have&#xA;  needed to be perfect. If the kick were executed a little too soon or&#xA;  late it would have missed. Compared to a punch, his opponent would&#xA;  have had lots of time to see the kick coming and respond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When the foot found its target some of the kicker's rotational&#xA;  momentum would have been transferred to the opponent. The more&#xA;  forceful the kick the greater the loss of rotational momentum, the&#xA;  more momentum lost, the greater the chances that the rotation and&#xA;  landing could not be completed. Of course, choreography, dramatic&#xA;  music, sound effects, camera and editing tricks along with wire work&#xA;  can make even non-martial artists look like power rangers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="16523" LastEditDate="2016-09-04T15:01:10.077" LastActivityDate="2016-09-04T15:01:10.077" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5614" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-15T13:54:13.293" Score="2" ViewCount="718" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was rewatching the Boondock Saints recently and noticed that at the start of the film when Willem Dafoe's character is introduced he somehow knows all the names of the cops at the crime scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is that possible? Also, he doesn't know detective Greenley's name which makes it even stranger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2164" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-05T01:34:09.890" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T01:34:09.890" Title="How does Paul Smecker know everyone's name in Boondock Saints?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|boondock-saints|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5615" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5793" CreationDate="2012-10-15T17:27:55.357" Score="2" ViewCount="30644" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of the ending scene in the movie &lt;em&gt;The Ides of March&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does &lt;em&gt;Stephen Meyers&lt;/em&gt; reveal the true story as a reply to the interviewer's question? If yes, why does he do that? There wasn't any reasonable scenes (at least in pre-climax) that showed the drastic change in his character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Not, how can we be sure?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2095" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-10-16T07:38:13.900" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T23:24:41.373" Title="Ending scene of The Ides of March" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-ides-of-march|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5616" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-10-15T17:37:58.137" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ides_of_March_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Ides of March&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a 2011 US film directed by George Clooney. It depicts the political and personal machinations of various US Democratic politicians.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-07-29T12:15:13.857" LastActivityDate="2016-07-29T12:15:13.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5617" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-10-15T17:37:58.137" Score="0" Body="&quot;The Ides of March&quot; is a 2011 US political drama film by George Clooney." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-07-29T12:15:07.683" LastActivityDate="2016-07-29T12:15:07.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5618" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-10-15T17:39:19.047" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-10-15T17:39:19.047" LastActivityDate="2012-10-15T17:39:19.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5619" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-10-15T17:39:19.047" Score="0" Body="This is the incorrect title for this film. Please use the-ides-of-march" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-10-15T17:39:19.047" LastActivityDate="2012-10-15T17:39:19.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5620" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-15T19:04:32.000" Score="20" ViewCount="54390" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Looper&lt;/em&gt; (2012)&lt;/a&gt;, Joe starts explaining time travel to Sara, and she says &quot;You're a looper?&quot;  How did she know what a Looper was?  What was her previous tie to the criminal world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastActivityDate="2023-10-05T14:12:15.847" Title="How did Sara know what a Looper was?" Tags="|plot-explanation|looper|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5621" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-15T19:06:38.770" Score="13" ViewCount="4507" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Looper&lt;/em&gt; (2012)&lt;/a&gt;, we see a number of &quot;old&quot; (for 2044) cars driving around.  Many (maybe all?) have some sort of tubing running into the fuel tank.  Do we have any idea what these are?  I can only assume they're some sort of alternate fuel retro-fit, that engineers in 2044 are too stupid to put inside the vehicle...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But is it actually explained anywhere that I missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastActivityDate="2013-05-10T21:13:05.510" Title="What were the car attachments/retrofits in Looper?" Tags="|plot-explanation|looper|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5620" CreationDate="2012-10-15T20:32:47.547" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/Looper&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How does Sara know about loopers?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They're known about in various circles, and may just be kind of that thing you don't discuss, like the mob in general. She may have just heard about it in passing, which could be part of the reason why she chose to move so far away from city life.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Its implied that she was a hooker, and that she probably had Loopers as clients.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-10-15T20:32:47.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5614" CreationDate="2012-10-15T21:19:56.130" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just rewatched the scene to see if he read their names off their uniforms, but they were all standing way too far away when he addressed them.  The only other explanation that makes sense from what's shown is that Agent Smecker is driven to the crime scene in the back of a marked police car (he's shown arriving at the beginning of the scene, when he flashes his ID to the police chief from the back of the squad car).  He could have met with the uniformed officers at the police station before being taken to the scene, and he almost certainly would have chatted up the two officers that he rode over with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-10-15T21:19:56.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5621" CreationDate="2012-10-15T21:33:16.613" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those are probably some kind of modified gasifiers which intake the exhaust fumes and convert them into consumable gas that would in turn run the engine. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasification&quot;&gt;Gasification&lt;/a&gt;, was primarily done by burning fossil fuel like coal or wood. However, in my opinion the movie protrays some kind of an advanced gasifier that helps in fuel preservation, fuel re-cycling in a car and in turn run the engine with the outcome, more like a &quot;Loop&quot; (more appropriate if considered with the theme of the movie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2185" LastEditorUserId="2185" LastEditDate="2012-10-15T21:38:32.643" LastActivityDate="2012-10-15T21:38:32.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5627" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-10-15T21:52:11.537" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looper is a 2012 American science fiction action film written and directed by Rian Johnson. The film stars Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Looper, time travel is invented by the year 2074 and, though immediately outlawed, is used by criminal organizations to send those they want killed into the past where they are killed by &quot;loopers&quot;, assassins paid with silver bars strapped to their targets. Joe, a looper, encounters himself when his older self is sent back in time to 2044.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Looper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looper_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Looper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2185" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:10:02.333" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:10:02.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5628" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-10-15T21:52:11.537" Score="0" Body="A 2012 American science fiction action film written and directed by Rian Johnson." OwnerUserId="2185" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:10:02.333" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:10:02.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5629" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5819" CreationDate="2012-10-15T23:11:57.383" Score="11" ViewCount="320561" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched the new movie with Emma Watson, &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Perks of Being a Wallflower&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The central theme of the movie is the relationship between Charlie and his aunt. He has been traumatized by her death, which he seems to feel responsible for, and has recurring flashbacks of her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not completely sure that I understood what was going on with him and her. Did she sexually abuse him? If so, and he actually wished her death, why did he say to Sam that she (his aunt) was his favorite person ever?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, what is the part about his best friend having killed himself? Who is he referring to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-21T21:32:02.350" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T13:14:43.787" Title="What did Charlie's aunt do?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5653" CreationDate="2012-10-15T23:34:45.340" Score="14" ViewCount="99315" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the Epilogue, in the the last scenes of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lars von Trier's &lt;em&gt;Antichrist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, hundreds of blurred-faced women were ascending towards the hero. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zv8VR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Still from Epilogue&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews48/antichrist_blu-ray.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Picture source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who are these women and what is their significance? Is there any official word for their significance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-07-02T16:14:56.860" LastActivityDate="2018-07-02T16:14:56.860" Title="Who are these women arriving at the end of Antichrist?" Tags="|plot-explanation|antichrist|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5634" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5635" CreationDate="2012-10-16T06:48:36.887" Score="22" ViewCount="16574" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/a&gt;, it is mentioned that the cops had a nick name for &lt;em&gt;Harvey Dent&lt;/em&gt; even before the accident in which half of his face got burnt. Why did they call him that?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2119" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-10T13:05:27.467" LastActivityDate="2018-11-10T19:30:18.090" Title="Why did they call Harvey a two face even before the accident?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5634" CreationDate="2012-10-16T07:35:42.937" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the scene where Gordon stands at Harvey's bed in the hospital (which is also where his nickname is first mentioned) it is said that Harvey was working for the Internal Affairs Department, which is in itself not that popular with the cops. So I understood this along the lines of Harvey &lt;strong&gt;showing two faces to the people/cops, the nice and charismatic friend and the hardened investigator&lt;/strong&gt; without mercy. Add to this that they might also have known about his habit of &lt;em&gt;&quot;making his own luck&quot;&lt;/em&gt; by employing a coin with two faces. This could also have contributed a little to that name (provided people knew it was a two-faced coin), even if the major reason was probably more his character than this little playful habit. So much to the likely in-universe explanation of this matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is however an even more significant and deeper aspect to this. The fact that he was called &quot;Two-Face&quot; even before the accident can also be seen as an &lt;strong&gt;allusion to the idea that this dark persona has always been present in him&lt;/strong&gt;. At first it seems an obvious explanation that his personality as Two-Face was caused solely by a combination of the physical and psychological trauma he experienced during the whole Rachel event and the surrounding circumstances. But the truth is, his physical distortion is not the cause for his psychological one, it is merely an incarnation thereof. This dark side has always been part of Harvey Dent. In his book &lt;em&gt;Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight&lt;/em&gt; Travis Langley also makes a short mention of Harvey's case in &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; specifically (and his difference to Bruce, who afterall shared a similar trauma), reinforcing this notion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;More obviously mirroring the hero overall, the Batman/Bruce Wayne duality, is Harvey &quot;Two-Face&quot; Dent -- another man transformed by tragedy into a figure with two faces...Worth noting from this film is one hint as to why their defining tragedies sent these two men down different forks in the road -- Bruce taking charge of his life, protecting the innocent, and fighting for what's right, and Harvey into trusting only 50-50 fate, seeking revenge, and threatening innocents while showing no sign of remorse. Long before fire scars Harvey down one side, police have already nicknamed him &quot;Two-Face.&quot; Though we never hear why, it may mean they'd glimpsed some hypocrisy, a malevolent potential that the Joker would later lure out. When Gordon asks why Harvey won't let the doctors treat his burns, Harvey's answer is to insist Gordon utter that nickname, after which Harvey says, &quot;Why should I hide who I am?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in fact at various points &lt;strong&gt;throughout Batman lore it has repeatedly been shown that it is not his disfigurement that makes Two-Face who he is&lt;/strong&gt; and it is not done with healing him physically and the mind will just automatically follow. Take, for example, his depiction in Frank Miller's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Returns&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Returns&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, where a psychiatrist and a surgeon try to heal both Harvey's mind &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; his body in unison. And they both think they were successful (as does Bruce Wayne). But it turns out Two-Face's inherent character cannot be changed and even if he looks like Harvey Dent again, he'll always be Two-Face. Then there's also his origin story in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103359/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Batman: The Animated Series&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; where it shows that the evil side of Harvey has always slept within him, supressed from his childhood days, and his physical trauma was merely a facilitator in letting it break through completely. And last but not least, we have Jeph Loeb's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Long_Halloween&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Long Halloween&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/761/49&quot;&gt;major inspiration for &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. There Harvey also shows in his dialogue that he is the most progressive and reactionary of the three crime fighters and it is hinted (even if ultimately left open) that he might have commited some of the Holiday Murders himself even before his transformation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So on the bottom line, the deeper reason, if less of a direct explanation, why he was called &quot;Two-Face&quot; even before his accident is &lt;strong&gt;because that's who he truely is and has always been underneath&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-11-10T19:30:18.090" LastActivityDate="2018-11-10T19:30:18.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5636" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5639" CreationDate="2012-10-16T09:48:10.587" Score="18" ViewCount="14965" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 3 of the Sopranos. Paulie and Chris let a Russian associate escape in the woods in the episode &quot;Pine Barrens&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there ever any reference to the character or what happened to him in any later episodes? I can't remember there being any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="148" LastEditDate="2012-10-16T11:03:54.090" LastActivityDate="2019-03-14T18:38:58.853" Title="Was there any reference to the Russian who escaped in the woods in the Sopranos?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-sopranos|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4483" CreationDate="2012-10-16T11:04:53.800" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's just because the &quot;loop&quot; in which Joe kills himself is that final loop, and something like killing someone is irreversible. But who knows, another Looper that knows Joe could come back and kill Joe before he kills that boy, and so in that loop the boy will live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically there are many loops with many different versions of our world, depending on certain events. Since time travel isn't real, the director and writers can do whatever they want to do like the writing on your arm, will suddenly be engraved on the future version of yourself. In actuality, if time travel were real, the carving on the arm would have always been there, it wouldn't just magically appear as you're writing it. But this is up for debate as well. It just makes the most sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3205" LastActivityDate="2012-10-16T11:04:53.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5636" CreationDate="2012-10-16T14:13:12.790" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, he was never referred to again.  I assumed that he got away and kept his head down from there on out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20038366_3,00.html&quot;&gt;an interview&lt;/a&gt; with Terrence Winter and David Chase it was revealed that they kept it intentionally vague (emphasis added):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Perhaps the biggest legacy of ''Pine Barrens'' is what you don't&#xA;  see, i.e., what becomes of the Russian. It has become one of the most&#xA;  tantalizing mysteries in The Sopranos history.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WINTER:&lt;/strong&gt; That's the question I get asked more than any other. It drives people crazy: ''Where's the Russian? What happened to the&#xA;  Russian?'' &lt;strong&gt;We could say, ''Well, he got out and there's a big mob&#xA;  war with the Russians,'' or ''He crawled off and died.'' But we wanted&#xA;  to keep it ambiguous.&lt;/strong&gt; You know, not everything gets answered in&#xA;  life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CHASE:&lt;/strong&gt; They shot a guy. Who knows where he went? Who cares about some Russian? This is what Hollywood has done to America. Do you have&#xA;  to have closure on every little thing? Isn't there any mystery in the&#xA;  world? It's a murky world out there. It's a murky life these guys&#xA;  lead. And by the way, &lt;strong&gt;I do know where the Russian is. But I'll never&#xA;  say because so many people got so pissy about it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="576" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2012-10-16T19:39:18.050" LastActivityDate="2012-10-16T19:39:18.050" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5640" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5641" CreationDate="2012-10-16T16:05:34.643" Score="17" ViewCount="2055" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is the TV show, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_Simple_Rules&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;8 Simple Rules&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; named so? I have watched the whole first season and there is no mention of any &quot;Rule(s)&quot; at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-11T13:05:08.133" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T13:05:08.133" Title="Why is &quot;8 Simple Rules&quot; named so?" Tags="|title|8-simple-rules|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5640" CreationDate="2012-10-16T16:19:26.927" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its named after the book &lt;strong&gt;8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter: And other tips from a beleaguered father (not that any of them work)&lt;/strong&gt; by W. Bruce Cameron.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, the rules are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1: Use your hands on my daughter and you'll lose them after. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2: You make her cry, I make you cry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;3: Safe sex is a myth. Anything you try will be hazardous to your&#xA;  health. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;4: Bring her home late, there's no next date. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;5: Only delivery men honk. Dates ring the doorbell. Once. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;6: No complaining while you're waiting for her. If you're bored,&#xA;  change my oil. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;7: If your pants hang off your hips, I'll gladly secure them with my&#xA;  staple gun. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;8: Dates must be in crowded public place. You want romance? Read a&#xA;  book&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="576" LastActivityDate="2012-10-16T16:19:26.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5640" CreationDate="2012-10-16T16:33:35.013" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show is &lt;strong&gt;based on a book by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brucecameron.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=58&amp;amp;Itemid=67&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;W. Bruce Cameron&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zesXl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;8 simple rules&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brucecameron.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=63:8-simple-rules-for-dating-my-teenage-daughter&amp;amp;catid=35&amp;amp;Itemid=67&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Rules are:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rule One:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;If you pull into my driveway and honk you’d better be delivering a package, because you’re sure as heck not picking anything up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rule Two:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter’s body, I will remove them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rule Three:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don’t take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose this compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, In order to assure that your clothes do not, in fact, come off during the course of your date with my daughter, I will take my electric staple gun and fasten your trousers securely in place around your waist.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rule Four:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;I’m sure you’ve been told that in today’s world, sex without utilizing a “barrier method” of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate: when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I WILL kill you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rule Five:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You may believe that in order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is “early.”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rule Six:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make YOU cry.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rule Seven:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process which can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don’t you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rule Eight:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places where parents, policemen, or nuns are not within eyesight. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to induce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than a goose down parka zipped up to her chin. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual theme are to be avoided; movies which feature chain saws are okay.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-10-16T16:33:35.013" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5630" CreationDate="2012-10-16T20:53:48.950" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I couldn't find anything from an official source, but I think that it's pretty safe to say that since the antagonist believed that all women were &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;inherently evil&lt;/a&gt;, these ladies represent that belief and I believe that they intend to kill the Hero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3209" LastActivityDate="2012-10-16T20:53:48.950" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5620" CreationDate="2012-10-16T21:24:09.373" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read a fascinating &lt;a href=&quot;http://xsoldier.tumblr.com/post/33136581021/loopertimelines&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;review/article that mentioned in passing this plot point&lt;/a&gt;. The author of this review put forward a theory which blew my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see in the movie that not just &amp;quot;Loopers&amp;quot; and people sent to disappear are sent to the past. We saw that Abe was sent back from the future to hire Loopers and keep an eye on that end of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end Sara convinces Cid that she is his mother and it was her &amp;quot;sister&amp;quot; who was killed accidentally by his tantrum. What if Sara was sent from the future to the year 2044 so that Cid would have a stable childhood and not grow to become the Rainmaker?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a quote from the article (which the writer/director Rian Johnson &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/X_SOLDIER/status/255143739494916096&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;retweeted&lt;/a&gt; so probably thinks is an interesting theory if not what he was planning when writing it):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sara sits down outside of her house, and pantomimes taking a drag from a cigarette, while spinning her free hand. She does the exact same thing later, just after sleeping with young Joe. She’s smoking while using her TK powers to float her lighter. THIS event is the final thing that ensures that Joe cares enough about the two of them to kill himself to prevent old Joe from turning Cid into the Rainman. It should also be noted that Cid - who is a GENIUS - also says candidly that she’s not his mom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means she’s could actually someone looping back to care for Cid, after he accidentally killed his real mother in a psychic tantrum. This would explain how Cid originally came to be motherless and turn into Rainman without old Joe’s involvement. This would also explain how she knows about Loopers, why she does’t shoot Joe when she sees him, why she bears a striking resemblance to Joe’s hookup Suzie so as to attract him, and how she would know what to do in order to ensure that Cid doesn’t become Rainman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;…or maybe that’s all just a clever coincidence. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2023-10-05T07:50:48.417" LastActivityDate="2023-10-05T07:50:48.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5647" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5648" CreationDate="2012-10-16T21:56:08.310" Score="7" ViewCount="41920" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Antichrist&lt;/a&gt;, what is the significance of &lt;code&gt;The Three Beggars&lt;/code&gt;.&#xA;I know that the three beggars referred in the movie are the crow, the deer and the fox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4PoGT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is their significance in the plot? As per the heroine's words &lt;strong&gt;&quot;when the three beggars arrive someone must die.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does it mean? Is this some kind of witchcraft or what? Is there any explanation on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T14:45:45.200" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T10:52:38.303" Title="What is the significance of the three Beggars?" Tags="|plot-explanation|antichrist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5647" CreationDate="2012-10-17T02:10:57.370" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read so many analyses of this movie, and I am not sure there is a single answer to any question anyone can ask about it. People who hate it and are repulsed by it are still moved by it, because it is so emotional and there is no way to understand it or put it into a safe context. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a sampling of the meaning of the three beggars from different reviewers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Grief, pain, and suffering&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the beggars in Russian folklore who, like Christ, offer wisdom and compassion through suffering&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the Three Kings, heralding death in Antichrist the way they herald birth in the Christ story&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the id, ego and superego (subconscious states of the mind from Freud)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These animals represent, then, the woman's tacit philosophical acceptance of her &quot;evil&quot; sisterhood: so-called &quot;pagan witches&quot; who danced and prayed by moonlight in the forests; who controlled familiars (animals), and who -- their powers joined -- could make the sleet fall.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Roger Ebert has a saying: “If you have to ask what something symbolizes, it doesn’t.”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lars von Trier has done many interviews about the film, which was written in the depths of depression and served as his means to survival, forcing him to get out of bed to write ten pages each day. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jul/12/lars-von-trier-interview&quot;&gt;one interview&lt;/a&gt; he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Truthfully, I can only say I was driven to make the film, that these&#xA;  images came to me and I did not question them. My only defence is:&#xA;  'Forgive me, for I know not what I do.'&quot; This precipitates a bout of&#xA;  giggling. &quot;I am really the wrong person to ask what the film means or&#xA;  why it is as it is,&quot; he says finally, &quot;It is a bit like asking the&#xA;  chicken about the chicken soup.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When asked about where the fox in particular came from, he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;From my shamanic journeys,&quot; he replies, without batting an eyelid.&#xA;  &quot;All these animals come from a practice I did 10 years ago. It's a&#xA;  Brazilian technique where you enter a trance through this very&#xA;  powerful drumbeat. There are no drugs involved so it is very safe but&#xA;  very powerful. It's not really that difficult to enter the parallel&#xA;  world.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The beggars, like everything in the film, may be symbols, but they are symbols of things deep within the psyche of a man who is not analyzing them, merely reporting them and sharing them in his art.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-10-17T02:10:57.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5649" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="51589" CreationDate="2012-10-17T02:21:14.563" Score="4" ViewCount="11754" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of season four of Doctor Who, when Tennant's Doctor is towing the earth back to its proper place, the track playing is &quot;Song of Freedom&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this track, there are some chanting voices. Does anyone know what they are chanting, in what language? Do the lyrics have any hidden meaning? Or maybe they are only chanting noises, and not necessarily actual words. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I wasn't sure if this fit better on Movies &amp;amp; TV or Sci-fi &amp;amp; Fantasy. It's not specifically about the sci-fi plots or technology or species or anything of the show (as far as I can tell), so I opted to put it here. If an admin thinks it'd be better on SciFi&amp;amp;Fant, please move it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1904" LastActivityDate="2016-04-12T00:37:37.327" Title="What are the chanting lyrics in &quot;Song of Freedom&quot;" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5649" CreationDate="2012-10-17T02:39:47.257" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a video with the Latin lyrics superimposed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cmkad_x6xUs?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And with a literal translation in English:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/lihghy0YU2E?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://weavingsandunpickings.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/the-latin-in-murray-golds-vale-decem/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lyrics and translations by Classicist Penelope Goodman, University of Leeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Murray Gold’s lyrics&lt;/strong&gt;        &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vale Decem...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Ad aeternam...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Di meliora...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Ad aeternam...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Vale Decem...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Di meliora...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Beati...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Pacifici...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Vale Decem...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Alis grave...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Ad perpetuam memoriam...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Vale Decem...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Gratis tibi ago...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Ad aeternam...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Nunquam singularis...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Nunquam...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Dum spiro fido...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Vale...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Literal translation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Farewell, Ten...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  To the eternal...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  (May the) gods (grant you) better (things)...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  To the eternal...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Farewell, Ten...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  (May the) gods (grant you) better (things)...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Blessed...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  (Are) the peacemakers...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Farewell, Ten...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Heavy with wings...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  To perpetual memory...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Farewell, Ten...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  I give you thanks...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  To the eternal...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Never alone...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Never...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  While I breathe I trust...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Farewell...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mood-appropriate translation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Farewell, Ten...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  On to eternity...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  The fates be with you...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  On to eternity...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Farewell, Ten...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  The fates be with you...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Oh, blessed he...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Who brought us peace...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Farewell, Ten...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Lay down your burden...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  We will remember you forever more...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Farewell, Ten...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  We give you thanks...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  On to eternity...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  You are not alone...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Never...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Trust to the last...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Farewell...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T14:48:13.020" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T14:48:13.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5652" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5664" CreationDate="2012-10-17T04:58:56.197" Score="-4" ViewCount="4441" Body="&lt;p&gt;At a glance Frankenstein seems quite anti-semitic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The name &quot;Frankenstein&quot; is a very Jewish name. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The creator is Dr - a common Jewish profession.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The townsfolk (symbolised by pitchfork {ei. farmers - not a common Jewish profession}) attack the &quot;Jew&quot; and burn down his house (the historic practice of &quot;firing&quot; was a common way to get someone out of your town).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The movie came about in the 1930s when anti-semitism was just about to peak.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any history or solid evidence that Frankenstein is anti-semitic, or am I just reading into it too much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-10-17T08:42:13.787" LastActivityDate="2019-10-18T07:45:26.183" Title="Is the Frankenstein franchise antisemitic?" Tags="|analysis|movie-franchise|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5630" CreationDate="2012-10-17T05:25:19.283" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this film, in general, defies attempts to analyze it, here are a few (hopefully not too jumbled) thoughts which are a composite from reading many analyses of this film, a film rich in incoherent and possibly unintended(!) religious symbolism:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While She came to believe that women were inherently evil, He was repulsed by this idea. The trip to Eden was about exorcising the evil which She had incorporated into her being during her studies (&quot;masculine&quot; knowledge attained from outside). She crippled her son, in Eden She tries to cripple her husband; She tries to neuter both of them, removing the organs which both created the son and were responsible for his death. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The women at the end, who were perhaps somehow the same as the fragments of women entwined in the tree roots earlier in the film, are climbing - Heaven is up. They are dressed - leaving Eden. The mood is peaceful. It feels like the women have been released by the death of She. There are references in the film to witchcraft, and one has to remember that women who were accused of witchcraft were often mystics or inclined to intuitive knowledge rather than actual &quot;witches.&quot; This could be seen as a release of &quot;feminine knowledge&quot; which in the time of witch hunts was seen as evil, but which is really the powerful intuition we all access at times - knowledge from inside. The whole Eden story is about eating from the tree of knowledge (and there are many ways to interpret that one!). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Bible version of the story, Eden is the work of God and eating the fruit means Adam and Eve are cast from the garden for yielding to Satan's temptation. This film is called &lt;em&gt;Antichrist&lt;/em&gt;. It is a story that presumes Eden is the work of Satan, and the expulsion this time  can be seen as a positive (in traditional terms), a move toward God instead of away from God. Note that he is eating berries on his way out - the bramble a symbol of Christ (think thorny crown).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As noted in another question about this film, Lars von Trier wrote this film in the depths of depression. It served as his means to survival, forcing him to get out of bed to write ten pages each day. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jul/12/lars-von-trier-interview&quot;&gt;one interview&lt;/a&gt; he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Truthfully, I can only say I was driven to make the film, that these&#xA;  images came to me and I did not question them. My only defence is:&#xA;  'Forgive me, for I know not what I do.'&quot; This precipitates a bout of&#xA;  giggling. &quot;I am really the wrong person to ask what the film means or&#xA;  why it is as it is,&quot; he says finally, &quot;It is a bit like asking the&#xA;  chicken about the chicken soup.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The symbols in this film are from deep within the psyche of the artist, but his joke suggest a Biblical theme. I don't think you will find an authoritative answer to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmquarterly.org/2009/12/antichrist-a-discussion/&quot;&gt;analytical discussion&lt;/a&gt; of the film between Rob White (Film Quarterly) and philosopher Nina Power is an interesting place to start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-10-17T05:25:19.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1909" CreationDate="2012-10-17T07:24:33.400" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Truely great and clear explanation of parallel universe by atticae !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, what i perceive from the movie is that the Parallel Universe in time exists and varies by the events and not by the materialistic or physical things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish to add that one more Parallel World exists wherein the blast has already happened and the team of Goodwin and Colter Stevens are trying to analyse the plot to catch the culprit behind the same, hence using the Source Code as it appears at the start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Coller Stevens pulls off the plot by ensuring that event does not happen so the  particular universe is discontinued.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3215" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-10-17T14:00:50.250" LastActivityDate="2012-10-17T14:00:50.250" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5652" CreationDate="2012-10-17T08:26:00.740" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, the movie is of course based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mary Shelley&lt;/em&gt;'s 200 year old book&lt;/a&gt;, so your theory either applies to the whole franchise, as started by the book, or to the 1931 movie alone (which wasn't even the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0001223/&quot;&gt;first movie&lt;/a&gt;), and I have never heard about any signs of anti-semitism analysed into &lt;em&gt;Mary Shelley&lt;/em&gt;'s work (though this may be just me and someone has already picked up that theory before). So we could actually devitalize the first two of your points, since they come directly from the book, but I've still listed them here, as they're the most easy to devitalize by common sense:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The name &quot;Frankenstein&quot; is a very Jewish name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even more than that it is a common German name and as we all know from the 200 year old book, &lt;em&gt;Frankenstein&lt;/em&gt; was &lt;em&gt;&quot;by birth a Genevese&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. And also his family was &lt;em&gt;&quot;one of the most distinguished of that republic&quot;&lt;/em&gt; which I would dare to say wouldn't hold so much for a Jewish family 200 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The creator is Dr - a common Jewish profession.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Huh? Well, it may be regional (or rather historic) reasons or ignorance (since I and most of the people I know don't really care about religion), but I know a thousand doctors (exaggeration intended) which are not Jews. And I also have never heard of such a cliche. Had he been a banker... (don't take that seriously, I don't want to support that cliche either).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from your usage of the word &lt;em&gt;&quot;creator&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, I hope you don't mean the creator of &lt;em&gt;Frankenstein&lt;/em&gt;, because that was &lt;em&gt;Dr Victor Frankenstein&lt;/em&gt;'s father (well, in fact his father was a doctor, too). You of course know that the &lt;em&gt;creation&lt;/em&gt; is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; called &lt;em&gt;Frankenstein&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The townsfolk (symbolised by pitchfork {ei. farmers - not a common&#xA;  Jewish profession}) attack the &quot;Jew&quot; and burn down his house (the&#xA;  historic practice of &quot;firing&quot; was a common way to get someone out of&#xA;  your town).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well ok, I don't remember that happening in the book. It is true that for historical reasons going back to medieval times Jews were indeed only allowed to a limited range of professions, none of that being farmers, I think. But still farmer is a very common human profession and I would rather see it as a symbol for the rather simple minded of people than for good Christians. And in fact driving someone out of your town by violence and burning down the house was probably not only done to Jews, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The movie came about in the 1930s when anti-semitism was just about to&#xA;  peak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, I don't know much about the situation in the US at that time so I cannot say this is true, neither do I know about The director's/writer's background. But in Europe anti-semitism IMHO didn't get &lt;em&gt;&quot;really popular&quot;&lt;/em&gt; until two years after the movie. Other than that anti-semitism has always been &lt;em&gt;&quot;popular&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, even if not as drastic as in the last century.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there any history or solid evidence that Frankenstein is&#xA;  anti-semitic,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think so, but maybe you find some remote analyst having tryed that weird theory before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;or am I just reading into it too much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most probably. Maybe the fact that in the US somebody called &lt;em&gt;...stein&lt;/em&gt; often is Jewish (as &lt;em&gt;iandotkelly&lt;/em&gt; explains in his comment) might have confused you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As as side note, if you want to see a movie that is IMHO both in its story, but even more so in its tone and moral, much nearer to the book (though not perfectly either), I recommend &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109836/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kenneth Branagh&lt;/em&gt;'s 1994 version&lt;/a&gt;. Or rather just read the book, which is really good, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-10-17T15:17:44.887" LastActivityDate="2012-10-17T15:17:44.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4426" CreationDate="2012-10-17T17:13:21.627" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought the entire lightning strikes part was pointless drama.... the anticipation of lightning and storms, the ridiculously asinine sparks between the lips thing left me cold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="578" LastActivityDate="2012-10-17T17:13:21.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4504" CreationDate="2012-10-17T18:18:05.470" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's the concept of alternate timelines. I don't know whether you realize this or not, but I can sum it up as this - you can go to your past, but can't come to the future - it doesn't exist in the &quot;same&quot; timeline anymore. When Old Joe came back into the past, he came back to a different timeline. When his body was sent back into time, if Joe had killed him, he would have grown old 30 years later to be again sent back later to be killed. This is the &quot;loop&quot; and that's why he is a &quot;looper&quot;. When Old Joe starts shooting and doing things in the current timeline, it's all valid because he exists - he was ported from the future. But when Joe kills  himself, both die. Joe is killed, and Old Joe disappears because if Joe dies young, how would Old Joe exist? He broke the loop, thereby severing the existence of Old Joe in his timeline. So Old Joe existed because he was ported from some future (timeline) and that does not mean that everything would be undone just because he does not exist (from time XX:xx onwards in the current timeline, he does exist from the time he appeared to the time Joe dies)... &#xA;Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2012-10-17T18:18:05.470" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5621" CreationDate="2012-10-17T18:20:16.217" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;By the looks of it, I presume some kind of hydrogen-burning technology was implied? Because of the way blue flames were shown? As is, electric was ruled out - we could clearly see the flaming exhaust. The only alternative to be carried (if implied from our times) is the fuel-cell technology...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2012-10-17T18:20:16.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4473" CreationDate="2012-10-17T18:23:16.847" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were no changes in Joe B's timeline. His wife WAS shot the first time (as Joe A) but he could do nothing, was captured (as shown when he was shown sprawled across the floor) and sent back and killed. The second time, he managed to over power his captors and send himself back. This was the change in Joe A &amp;amp; B... Also, Joe B knew Joe C would shoot him as soon as he arrived, hence he did the turn back, throw brick, punch and escape thing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2012-10-17T18:23:16.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4473" CreationDate="2012-10-17T22:53:38.927" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've thought about that too. It's not explicitly explained how time travel works except for how Old Joe explained how his memories change and were a &quot;sea of probabilities&quot; until Young Joe formed new ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thoughts are it's the infinite worlds hypothesis, there are an infinite number of realities, maybe old Joe only had a 5% chance of overwhelming his captors and removing the hood, giving Young Joe a split second's hesitation so he can avoid having his loop closed. We're only shown two different &quot;loops&quot; in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're looking for the &quot;trigger&quot; my idea is that the phone call that gives him the &quot;Rainmaker&quot;'s number is the trigger. Now he has something to look for in the past, and a slim hope of avoiding his fate…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastActivityDate="2012-10-17T22:53:38.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4263" CreationDate="2012-10-17T23:17:23.280" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gyp Rosetti is (from the words of a producer) a combination of a few different gangster-types from around that era. One has to wonder, out of the plethora of prohibition personalities the writers can choose from, which real life people is Gyp meant to be an amalgam of.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since one of the biggest characters missing from the Boardwalk Empire lineup is Benny &quot;Bugsy&quot; Siegel, I would imagine him to be one of the influences. Playboy-ish, quick tempered, both are qualities that Bugsy and Gyp share. I understand Rosetti is Italian, and Siegel a Jew. Yet both though are affiliated with the Genovese Crime Family (this was eluded to in S03E05, with AR saying he didn't want to move on Gyp and start a war in New York over problems in New Jersey).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, with there being a connection to Meyer Lansky &amp;amp; the Murder, Inc. crew, Siegel cannot be the entire inspiration.  There will probably be other significant crime figures left out of the future of Boardwalk Empire that Gyp will take over for... and I for one am glad. Mr. Cannavale is great in this role and they shouldn't kill him off (like they did Jimmy) just because some entertainment freaks NEED B.E. to be as historically accurate as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let entertainment be entertainment and history be history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3221" LastActivityDate="2012-10-17T23:17:23.280" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5652" CreationDate="2012-10-18T03:47:10.373" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;What an interesting topic to research! While the question may somewhat oversimplify  the seriousness of its topic, there is a small but vibrant body of scholarly literature out there to support or at least question the connection between antisemitism and both Early Modern English Literature and early American Gothic film-making, including Mary Shelley's &lt;em&gt;Frankenstein&lt;/em&gt; and the 1931 film version of the story by James Whale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's start with Mary Shelley and the England she grew up in. In the second half of the 18th century a bill was passed in England that allowed for naturalization of Jewish people in very limited circumstances (effectively only rich Jewish businessmen), which came to be known as the Jew Bill. Following passage, there was massive opposition by both the Anglican Church and London businessmen, and the bill was repealed, ushering in a transition to a new, modern incarnation of anti-semitism, which was a centuries old sentiment in Europe by that time (the Jews having migrated from country to country in search of a home). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a young, insecure woman, Mary allowed her much older and experienced husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, to make many edits to her text. We cannot know what influence his writing had over her work, but there are small anti-semitic strains in his writing as there are in that of many writers of his time (prevailing culture being an undeniable influence for artists). There is an essay attributed to Mary (in her handwriting) called &quot;History of the Jews&quot; which questions the credibility of several books of the Old Testament. And the 1831 edition of Frankenstein includes a passage describing where the character Elizabeth came from (a story about how her mother had picked a fair-haired, angelic child from a group of dark-haired and less desirable children - I can't find that text at the moment). None of this is to say that &lt;em&gt;Frankenstein&lt;/em&gt; is anti-semitic, but only that Mary grew up with it and would have felts its influence, so a connection to her writing is plausible (Matthew Biberman, &lt;em&gt;Masculinity, Anti-Semitism and Early Modern English Literature&lt;/em&gt;, 2004). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While much recent historical scholarship suggests the creature from the book is symbolic of a broad range of societal elements, and that the story in general is about understanding the taboo or irrational, the films of the 20th century had other influences. &quot;In an era when totalitarianism was reshaping the world's political landscape and attaining its form primarily through the ambitious expressions of individual megalomaniacs such as Hitler and Mussolini, the subtext of the Frankenstein films from 1930-45 detail the devastation that comes when an individual chooses to pursue domination fantasies and ignore moral prohibition&quot; (Tony Magistrale, &lt;em&gt;Abject Terrors: Surveying the Modern and Post-Modern Horror Film&lt;/em&gt;, 2005). &quot;Lugosi-Dracula, as well as other 1930s film monsters, like Boris Karloff's creature of Frankenstein, were often portrayed as social outsiders looking in through windows on a scene they long to be a part of but are excluded from. Their attempts at entrance threaten imminent destruction of that comfortable social order&quot; (John Cawelti, &lt;em&gt;Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture&lt;/em&gt;, 2004). Again, there is nothing definitively linking the film to anti-semitism, but there is enough information out there (and I have only quoted from two sources - there are more) to say it's possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The books I've mentioned are interesting looks at not only anti-semitism in reference to &lt;em&gt;Frankenstein&lt;/em&gt;, but also other books and films that were from the same time periods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS - I also saw a reference in the literature suggesting that the creature is the misunderstood Christ, and the townfolk are the Jews who want to crucify him (he dies on the windmill). Not sure I want to pursue this topic any farther!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2012-10-18T04:00:14.100" LastActivityDate="2012-10-18T04:00:14.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5669" CreationDate="2012-10-18T03:52:33.967" Score="19" ViewCount="2764" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was the new TV version of &lt;em&gt;Green Arrow&lt;/em&gt;, simply called &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt;? Have the studios given any reasoning behind that decision?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-15T06:17:10.660" LastActivityDate="2021-01-13T01:31:52.227" Title="Why was the &quot;Green&quot; removed from &quot;Green Arrow&quot;?" Tags="|arrowverse|arrow|comic-adaptation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5665" CreationDate="2012-10-18T04:45:01.503" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/cw-arrow-tv-trailer-yman-172887/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; from Screenrant suggests that it was done to reach a wider audience. Presumably the name &quot;Arrow&quot; might attract people who could be turned off by the comic-book-sounding name &quot;Green Arrow.&quot; Anyway, it seems he is more about the Arrow now than the Green:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mdcyc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dhC1w.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-10-18T04:45:01.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5667" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-18T08:49:36.973" Score="7" ViewCount="13017" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Tron Legacy, Sam Flynn and Quorra escape with his father's ID disk.  Why are they so reluctant to leave Kevin Flynn behind when it is clear that Sam could simply get out, leave Quorra there, and come back in to rescue his father? The portal only closes from the inside, not the outside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3224" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-08-26T07:38:56.867" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T23:30:01.817" Title="End of Tron Legacy" Tags="|plot-explanation|tron-legacy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5667" CreationDate="2012-10-18T09:03:46.717" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole trip would cost Sam some time and there's no telling what might happen during his absence. CLU could capture Quorra and his father or even kill them. The risk of CLU getting the upper hand and escaping to the real world is too big.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2012-10-18T09:03:46.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5665" CreationDate="2012-10-18T12:33:48.640" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Writer and co-executive producer &lt;a href=&quot;http://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/fall-tv/shows-arrow-revolution-hit-bulls-eye-archery-craze-005549551.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Andrew Kreisberg says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[dropped] the &amp;quot;Green&amp;quot; from the title because &amp;quot;Arrow&amp;quot; felt &amp;quot;sexier, a little more dangerous.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;But I think the name change also reflects that this version is noticably different from the &lt;em&gt;Smallville&lt;/em&gt; incarnation, but also from the &lt;em&gt;Comics&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lead actor &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2012/05/10-spoilers-arrow-stands-apart-from-smallville-plus-teen-wolf-season-2-scoop-and-a-new-face-on-homel.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stephen Amell says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nobody in our universe has super powers&lt;/strong&gt;, so that's a big jumping off point...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Other than in name, there are virtually no similarities between [the 'Smallville' version and the new version].&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A world without superpowered characters would definately be a very big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Pilot director/executive producer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2012/03/19/first-look-at-arrow&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;David Nutter says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When I directed the pilot for 'Smallville', I knew that making Clark Kent relatable would be the key to audiences believing in him as a hero. &lt;strong&gt;ARROW is a different show — darker and harder-edged&lt;/strong&gt; — but it’s the same core idea. &lt;strong&gt;We’re creating a real, believable world&lt;/strong&gt; in which Oliver Queen can do incredible things.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;They have also renamed &lt;em&gt;Star City&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;Starling City&lt;/em&gt; and changed Oliver Queen's hair color and family constellation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-10-18T12:33:48.640" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5671" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7947" CreationDate="2012-10-18T13:49:03.477" Score="12" ViewCount="6010" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the first episode of Season 3 of &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt;, I noticed the group is now very cavalier about taking down walkers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/annmI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;AWWWW!!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a staunch contrast from the first season when they covered themselves in walker parts to get through Atlanta.  I don't have that scene handy but, in my mind, it seems like they were very cautious in how they covered themselves (e.g. seemed like they were wearing HAZMAT suits).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that, as time passes, the characters learn more Walker &lt;em&gt;do's and don'ts&lt;/em&gt;; but I was under the impression if Walker blood got in their system, they would turn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this true or have I imagined this rule?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2018-11-02T15:45:49.797" LastActivityDate="2018-11-02T15:45:49.797" Title="As of S03E01, does walker blood have an effect on open orifices/wounds?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4537" CreationDate="2012-10-19T03:03:24.027" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;what brian did was actually calculate the displacement he travelled from one of the landmark.. So he got an approx distance, as he estimated the speed of vehicle (using sound of engine maybe?), and he counted the time. So distance is speed x time. Plus he noted the turns he made, so it gave him a rough idea of angle. Using simple mathematics (sine rule i guess) to get the displacement. Thats how he got the radius for one of the cirles.. Also, he must be at the circumference as thats his displacement&#xA;Due to some mistakes, he messed up and made smaller circle with hotel at centre.&#xA;Then he used grenade as sound travels at speed of nearly 340 m per sec. So, sound took 4.5 secs to get to him. He make another circle using this. Also, he was at cirumference of this circle. Therefore he was at the intersection of two circles.&#xA;He also noted what turns he made, and so, he guessed he must be at the eastern point.&#xA;Hope that helped..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3228" LastActivityDate="2012-10-19T03:03:24.027" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2923" CreationDate="2012-10-19T10:59:33.977" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't forget that Dillon (Carl Weathers' character) knew that there was more to their mission that what Dutch originally thought. It's plausible that he explained what was going on to some superiors, who authorized the chopper to pick ANYONE up assuming they came out alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Anna possibly being a guerrilla fighter, unless she had a grenade on her person and was willing to blow herself up with the chopper (sorry, da choppaaa!), the people on the helicopter could easily overpower her. Besides, once the CIA had her in custody, she was able to give some insight into what the Predator was (as Gary Beusey's character explained in Predator 2).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2012-10-19T10:59:33.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5679" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-19T19:08:31.403" Score="23" ViewCount="7736" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just wondering if anyone could think of any reasonable reason as to why in Looper the loopers have to kill their older selfs? I mean why not just send the older looper back to a different looper to kill and nobody would be any the wiser?&#xA;It seemed to cause them a lot of problems....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1027" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2012-10-19T20:53:30.410" LastActivityDate="2021-06-14T08:41:02.547" Title="Why are loopers required to kill themselves?" Tags="|plot-explanation|looper|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5679" CreationDate="2012-10-19T20:04:56.900" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shamelessly copied from my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/24328/&quot;&gt;over on sci-fi &amp;amp; fantasy.SE&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/ten-mysteries-in-looper-explained-by-director-rian-johnson/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an interview with Slashfilm&lt;/a&gt;, the director, Rian Johnson, addresses this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is it essential for a looper to close his own loop?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is another one of those questions Johnson had answered in his head but didn’t put in the movie. In fact, he even conceived a scene with Abe addressing it but never shot it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“People in the future, all they know about time travel is to be afraid of it. So they’re trying to keep it as tight as possible. So the initial reason they set it up this way was to keep the causality loop as tight as possible,” Johnson said. Because, for example, if someone else kills your older self and you have to exist with your own murderer for 30 years, what’s stopping you for murdering them or doing something to screw everything else up?  ”Every bit of evidence is gone from that loop when you kill yourself,” he said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-10-19T20:04:56.900" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5682" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-20T07:01:48.093" Score="5" ViewCount="3109" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167261/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers&lt;/a&gt;, at Helm's Deep when Aragorn was commanding the Elves during the battle, he yells &quot;Ladders&quot; in the Elvish tongue (Sindarin). A moment later we hear &lt;em&gt;Gimli&lt;/em&gt; saying &quot;Good&quot;, because he was very eager to fight, and finally the wait was over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how did he know what Aragorn said? How did he know Elvish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2119" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T09:04:18.200" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T09:04:18.200" Title="How did Gimli know Elvish?" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-two-towers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4483" CreationDate="2012-10-20T08:03:56.320" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been thinking about this for a while and I think it's best explained by saying time isn't continuous but has lots of branches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, when young Joe kills himself, old Joe ceases to exist in that reality although what has already happened cannot be undone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There will be another timeline in which young joe never existed to come back as old Joe to be killed be himself. This reality would create a brand new loop where young Joe wouldn't have killed himself (because Old Joe never existed). He would have then grown into old Joe again but because the rainmaker never existed, there would be a whole new reality for him. Maybe he gets sent back to get his loop closed, maybe he doesn't, I don't know if loop closing was specific to the rainmakers reign.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3233" LastActivityDate="2012-10-20T08:03:56.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3370" CreationDate="2012-10-20T08:17:41.123" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Batman Begins, it was built mostly from scratch, but dark knight and dark knight rises,were filmed in real, existing cities like Chicago, New York, and London, England&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3234" LastActivityDate="2012-10-20T08:17:41.123" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5682" CreationDate="2012-10-20T09:17:51.063" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several possible explanations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The word for ladders in Elvish is similar to the word for it in Dwarvish&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gimli learned the word from talking to Legolas and Aragorn during the time they spent together and his good relation with Legolas&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gimli heard the word during battle strategy meetings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gimli knows a bit of Elvish. The Elvish tongue was not kept secret and many people know some basics of it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gimli just assumed that something was going to change during the seige (why else would Aragorn yell something) and any change in combat type was good for Gimli&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and probably some more&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2012-10-20T09:17:51.063" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5687" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5689" CreationDate="2012-10-20T11:57:07.050" Score="18" ViewCount="7278" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have a youtube link (I think &lt;em&gt;&quot;The shining&quot;&lt;/em&gt; has such a scene), but you all probably know this effect, the actor is zoomed in by the camera while the background zoomed out, probably by zoom in camera while the camera increases distance. How is this effect called and exactly made. Also, how is it interpreted by the audience (the actor is shocked, engrossed,...)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="217" LastActivityDate="2012-10-20T13:49:47.943" Title="Zoom actor in while background out? How is this effect called and made?" Tags="|cinematography|effects|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5688" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5740" CreationDate="2012-10-20T12:06:09.723" Score="2" ViewCount="1230" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_%282000_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Traffic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which uses a lot of different filters. How do these filters typically change perception of a scene or whole movie (I've seen whole movies overlayed with yellow filter). It seems very subjective to me so I'm wondering if there are any rules of thumb maybe supported by psychological studies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="217" LastActivityDate="2012-10-24T03:42:54.357" Title="Is there are list/table what camera filters cause what perception of a movie by the audience?" Tags="|cinematography|effects|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5687" CreationDate="2012-10-20T13:42:23.490" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's called &lt;strong&gt;Dolly Zoom&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(but there are a couple of alternate names for it)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/dolly-zoom.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MediaCollege&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A &lt;em&gt;dolly zoom&lt;/em&gt; is a cinematic technique in which the camera moves closer or further from the subject while simultaneously adjusting the zoom angle to keep the subject the same size in the frame.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The effect is that the subject appears stationary while the background size changes (this is called perspective distortion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Invention of the dolly zoom is credited to cameraman &lt;em&gt;Irmin Roberts&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The technique was made famous by Alfred Hitchcock&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Vertigo&lt;/em&gt; being the best-known example), and was used by &lt;em&gt;Steven Spielberg&lt;/em&gt; in Jaws and &lt;em&gt;ET&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_zoom&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The dolly zoom is commonly &lt;strong&gt;used by filmmakers to represent the sensation of vertigo, a &quot;falling-away-from-oneself feeling&quot; or a feeling of unreality, or to suggest that a character is undergoing a realization that causes him or her to reassess everything he or she had previously believed.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;After Hitchcock&lt;/em&gt; popularized the effect the technique was used by many other filmmakers, and eventually became regarded as a gimmick or cliché. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This was especially true after director &lt;em&gt;Steven Spielberg&lt;/em&gt; repopularized the effect in his highly regarded film &lt;em&gt;Jaws&lt;/em&gt;, in a memorable shot of a dolly zoom into Police Chief Brody's (Roy Scheider) stunned reaction at the climax of a shark attack on a beach (after a suspenseful build-up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Examples on YouTube:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je0NhvAQ6fM#t=00m32s&quot;&gt;Vertigo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svEPWBxpYjo&quot;&gt;Jaws&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTuCTVJMdQA&quot;&gt;Poltergeist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV9aC9w6430#t=00m53s&quot;&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2012-10-20T13:49:47.943" LastActivityDate="2012-10-20T13:49:47.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5690" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5693" CreationDate="2012-10-20T14:13:57.240" Score="8" ViewCount="1770" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the series Arrested Development, the various adult members of Michael's family all perform variations of the chicken dance to annoy Michael. At one point in Season 3, Michael himself does a chicken impression while on the phone to Lindsay (only the sound effects, not a dance though). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Buster not have his own chicken dance? Is it because GOB has been shown to intimidate him with it in the past (which enrages Buster when they are working on the construction site in Season 1)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3236" LastActivityDate="2012-10-21T05:30:33.277" Title="Why does Buster not join in the family chicken dance?" Tags="|analysis|arrested-development|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5690" CreationDate="2012-10-21T05:30:33.277" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if there's a definitive reason why Buster doesn't do a chicken dance over the course of the show, but there are a few possibilities that could make sense depending on how much you want to read between the lines. Your thought concerning GOB using his dance to intimidate Buster is certainly something to consider. It's probably also important to note that Buster's response in that episode was that &quot;chickens don't clap,&quot; typical of Buster's approach to coping with many Bluthian activities. This very literal perception of GOB's dance reminds us how Buster sees the world, eschewing things that don't generally make any sense to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also wonder if it might not be fruitful to think about the constant doubt surrounding Buster's lineage -- that is, as yet another sign that he's not full Bluth (of course, Tobias isn't a Bluth, either, but him performing his own Chicken Dance is perfectly consistent with his playing parts to achieve his desire to be fully accepted of the groups he associates with). Or along the same lines, perhaps the lack of the Chicken Dance is more a demonstration of the lack of George's presence in Buster's life as a father figure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe Buster is just too afraid (too chicken ... ha ha) to do it himself. Of course, this is all just speculation, and maybe Buster will bust out his own dance in the first episode of the new season. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One interesting thing is that at last year's reunion, when Portia de Rossi and Will Arnett started doing their dances at the request of an audience member, Tony Hale started to clap along (http://youtu.be/gTsu-ks9Gb8) -- maybe chickens do clap after all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2012-10-21T05:30:33.277" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5694" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5695" CreationDate="2012-10-21T15:44:59.727" Score="3" ViewCount="124" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does the former President of the United States of America have an abundance of security with him at all times? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, he is only the former president and not the current president.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2017-01-06T07:40:53.787" LastActivityDate="2017-01-06T07:40:53.787" Title="Security of former President of USA in &quot;Welcome to Mooseport&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|welcome-to-mooseport|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5694" CreationDate="2012-10-21T15:52:36.457" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Under U.S. law, former presidents and their families are afforded some protection even after they leave office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.secretservice.gov/protection.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;United States Secret Service: Protection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Former presidents and their spouses for their lifetimes, except when the spouse remarries. In 1997, Congressional legislation became effective limiting Secret Service protection to former presidents for a period of not more than 10 years from the date the former president leaves office&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2012-10-26T13:38:27.110" LastActivityDate="2012-10-26T13:38:27.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5699" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5708" CreationDate="2012-10-21T21:33:28.663" Score="30" ViewCount="4366" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Azbjz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;A-Team&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20130313195834/https://www.nerdsraging.com/2012/08/06/retro-tv-shows-the-a-team/#main-content&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Archived source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_A-Team&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The A-Team&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; intro &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1HMCArgqWM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;... If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... the A-Team.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The A-Team&lt;/em&gt; is on the run from the &lt;em&gt;military police&lt;/em&gt;, so they can never stay in the same place for long and therefore travel all over the country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless, people in need of their help are somehow able to &lt;em&gt;find them&lt;/em&gt;? But it's not like the A-Team puts out ads for their services with their current contact information attached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did people initiate the first contact with the A-Team?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="83431" LastEditDate="2022-12-25T23:32:12.630" LastActivityDate="2022-12-25T23:32:12.630" Title="How does one hire &quot;The A-Team&quot;" Tags="|the-a-team|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5702" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5715" CreationDate="2012-10-22T00:00:28.293" Score="1" ViewCount="948" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of Looper, &quot;old Joe&quot; is captured by the young guy and brought back to the mob's HQ in the strip club. Joe escapes by first kicking Abe in the crotch then shooting the young guy and Abe. Joe shoots his way out then blows up the club.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assumed Abe was killed, but the next scene showed him alive and hiding behind a table. But shortly after, there is a shot of him lying dead on the floor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I miss something here? What actually happened to Abe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T21:27:25.410" Title="What happened to Abe in Looper?" Tags="|looper|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5702" CreationDate="2012-10-22T03:18:03.800" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cynical answer - movie needed to be edited for time or an editing glitch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long answer - Old Joe had been shown to be a killing machine already, and it wasn't necessary to show the end of Abe and his heavies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1634" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T03:18:03.800" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4127" CreationDate="2012-10-22T04:17:50.027" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;OSX or, if you want to use something very similar that is compatible on more types of computers .... I would say Debian 6 or Mint LMDE ....    When Rhodey's suit reboots it looks VERY much like Debian linux.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3245" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T04:17:50.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5707" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5770" CreationDate="2012-10-22T06:52:40.643" Score="0" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the very last scene, our vengeful hero could have easily walked to the Antonio Banderas character, but instead climbs the house before climbing down to a surprised face. Does that make sense, or is it mere script badness? Surely this was not done just for the sake of suspense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastActivityDate="2012-10-25T20:43:01.350" Title="Why did the hero take the long way around for her kill?" Tags="|plot-explanation|haywire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5699" CreationDate="2012-10-22T07:20:25.140" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are a few episode starters I remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People contact Amy/Tawnia because they heard that she is connected to the A-Team and want her to pass the message (after which Murdock sets up a meeting...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People put out an advertisement in the newspaper seeking for help and the A-Team responds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People go to someone (which turns out to be Hannibal) who said they could contact the A-Team &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More unrelated episode starters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The A-Team learns that Amy/Tawnia is working on a story and wants to fight that injustice&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some old friends of the A-Team are in trouble and they decide to go help&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They find themselves in a sudden rough spot (e.g.one of Face's deals goes wrong) and the episode deals with it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T07:20:25.140" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3243" CreationDate="2012-10-22T08:23:55.730" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to a documentary I watched seinfeld didn't change his name because he has based it on his life, he also used the series to showcase his standup comedy talents&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3248" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T08:23:55.730" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5710" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5728" CreationDate="2012-10-22T10:28:31.260" Score="7" ViewCount="814" Body="&lt;p&gt;I imagine, but do not know for sure, that in the early days of film and television, credits were filmed on a second reel and added to the production after the fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Historically, what was the first film or television series to use credits that were generated by a computer instead of presented on transparencies or through other means?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T15:55:16.770" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T15:55:16.770" Title="What was the first film or television show that used computer generated credits?" Tags="|production|first-appearance|credits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3895" CreationDate="2012-10-22T11:43:55.363" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, Adrian developed OCD at a young age, which meant that he was the one who pu the numbers on the cups&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3248" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T11:43:55.363" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="90" CreationDate="2012-10-22T11:51:16.603" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Peeves was in the philosophers (sorcerers stone) however he was not needed for the rest of the movies so the character wasn't included&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3248" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T11:51:16.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3895" CreationDate="2012-10-22T12:20:30.807" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ambrose had been living in that house for 32 years before this episode so it´s more plausible to understand that he established the order of the cups or more probably both brothers did when they were younger. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It´s true that the mother was supposed to have some mental issues as she was 'catatonic' (perhaps and exaggeration) for some time after their father left them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3249" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T12:20:30.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5702" CreationDate="2012-10-22T12:41:30.407" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I remember from watching it this weekend you are thinking of two different guys as one. When Blue Kid (the young idiot) brings Old Joe to the club he doesn´t meet Abe before starting killing people. He meets another bearded man who is indeed killed. Then he works his way up to Abe to get him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3249" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T12:41:30.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5741" CreationDate="2012-10-22T12:49:23.847" Score="8" ViewCount="2096" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the pilot implied that &lt;em&gt;Trudy's&lt;/em&gt; murder triggered &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monk's&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;obsessive–compulsive disorder&lt;/strong&gt; (OCD), which let to him having to leave the police force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0650641/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mr. Monk and the Marathon Man&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; contained a flashback, showing him at a younger age:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uOJnt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Monk&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/53838072@N00/2293095308/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Young Monk wasn't able to run because he obsessed over his uneven shoelaces &lt;em&gt;(after that episode the writers stuck with the idea that Monk already showed compulsive behaviour as a child)&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember wondering if that was a &lt;em&gt;goof&lt;/em&gt;, because if he had OCD before he became a cop, how did he manage to pass the police academy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the show ever address how Monk got through police academy with his OCD?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T14:58:06.053" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T14:58:06.053" Title="How did Mr. Monk manage to become a police officer?" Tags="|monk|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20" CreationDate="2012-10-22T14:19:08.270" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that disbelief must be suspended in any movie, but for realistic value, to ignore the atmosphere being sucked away with the gravity is highly overlooked. We would be dead way before it hit us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3250" LastEditorUserId="8" LastEditDate="2012-10-22T14:38:51.680" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T14:38:51.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5718" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5720" CreationDate="2012-10-22T15:27:09.840" Score="7" ViewCount="1738" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen this movie on HBO, between 10- 12 years ago. At that time I was not a Hollywood movie buff but I really liked the story. This was a suspense movie and am guessing it must have been made in between 1990 -2000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a killer in the movie who drops live girls with heavy weights tied to their legs into a river. One lucky girl is saved by some cops driving by the river. Then they create a life size dummy of the girl and put cameras in the dummy's eyes. When the killer comes back to the river to check the girl's body, cops get his picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3251" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2012-10-22T18:39:15.627" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T23:54:31.933" Title="Movie about a serial killer who drowns his victims" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:39:06.967" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5718" CreationDate="2012-10-22T15:34:04.340" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199389/&quot;&gt;Cabin by the Lake&lt;/a&gt; (2000)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A screenwriter does research for his new script by actually kidnapping and drowning young girls. He then places them in his &quot;garden&quot; of other dead girls coming back daily to check on them. One girl narrowly escapes and the other bodies are found leading to an ingenious plot to try and capture the killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3252" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2012-10-22T23:54:31.933" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T23:54:31.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5702" CreationDate="2012-10-22T17:36:57.730" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I recall, we see a shot of Abe hiding behind his desk as Joe is about to kick the door in. We next see him with a bullet hole in his head.&#xA;Keiju is correct when he mentions the first bearded fellow (not Abe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T17:36:57.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5723" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-22T18:07:00.987" Score="19" ViewCount="22808" Body="&lt;p&gt;An early &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.macgyveronline.com/pages/faq.html#q2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;press release&lt;/a&gt; revealed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088559/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MacGyver&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;em&gt;first name&lt;/em&gt; to be &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stacey&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, but when the show aired it was never uttered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KXJ7F.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Press Release&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not until the &lt;em&gt;last season&lt;/em&gt; episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0638715/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Good Knight MacGyver&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; do we finally learn that MacGyver's &lt;em&gt;first name&lt;/em&gt; is actually &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Angus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did the creator/producers choose to make a mystery out of MacGyver's first name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T14:58:33.513" LastActivityDate="2019-02-19T03:06:56.747" Title="Why was MacGyver's first name kept a mystery?" Tags="|macgyver|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="333" CreationDate="2012-10-22T19:05:47.183" Score="-8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you ever noticed how feminine Biff's character is in the new 1985? The assumption the audience is being invited to make is that, because he was so completely emasculated in his encounter with George McFly the night of the dance, Biff eventually became a homosexual. This explains why George McFly doesn't consider it a risk to keep him around the house despite his past misdeeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3255" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T19:05:47.183" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5699" CreationDate="2012-10-22T19:08:12.643" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;They must first meet with Mr. Lee, who is in fact Hannibal in disguise. This allows them to sort those who need help from those who may want to capture the team or just use them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3256" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T19:08:12.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5682" CreationDate="2012-10-22T19:21:51.350" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the start of the battle, Aragorn led the elf warriors, and he did so using the elvish language.  They were all in a group on the wall, and this was where Gimli was.  It stands to reason that in preparation for the battle, anyone who was in that group would be briefed on the various commands that Aragorn would use.  So I'd argue that off-camera Gimli was told what the various elvish words were and their meaning, so he would be able to follow the same orders as those around him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T19:21:51.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1879" CreationDate="2012-10-22T19:44:35.803" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was packed inside deer hides and hung over an open fire to bake...like being put into an oven...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3257" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T19:44:35.803" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5710" CreationDate="2012-10-22T21:05:17.633" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A. Michael Noll produced the first computer animated title sequence for Bell Labs' short film &quot;Incredible Machine&quot; in 1968, and for an Arthur C. Clarke TV special &lt;em&gt;The Unexplained&lt;/em&gt; in 1970. Clockwork-Muse is correct in the comment above that the original Superman movie was the first feature-length film. I don't know about regular TV series, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's &lt;a href=&quot;http://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2011/4/22/AT&amp;amp;T-Archives-Incredible-Machine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Incredible Machine&lt;/a&gt; from the AT&amp;amp;T Archives, if anyone is interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2012-10-26T13:37:34.757" LastActivityDate="2012-10-26T13:37:34.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2965" CreationDate="2012-10-22T22:03:56.753" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a question that is best answered by the original book. Not having read it, however, I can't imagine that Javert didn't check for the number. I wouldn't be surprised if the faux Valjean had some numbers, maybe close numbers, and maybe a number that was hard to distinguish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better explanation might be that there was a scar where the number would have been (or maybe some numbers missing/hard to read), which lead Javert to believe that he tried to remove it. Evidence of this theory would be the inmates Javert called in to testify that the accused was indeed Valjean. Why would he need to prove he was Valjean if the number was easily recognizable? This also explains why Valjean had to stand and testify in court to convince his inmates that he is the real Valjean. Showing his number was the last straw to prove his identity since it wasn't fully working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3259" LastActivityDate="2012-10-22T22:03:56.753" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2283" CreationDate="2012-10-23T05:24:18.890" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's symbolic:  honor your life and confront your fears.  The whole movie was about his ambivalence about living after his wife died.  He fought the enemy honoring &quot;life&quot; and symbolically, he won. That's my take. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3261" LastActivityDate="2012-10-23T05:24:18.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5716" CreationDate="2012-10-23T07:18:29.167" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless in the last four episodes they addressed this, then no it wasn't. However, I'm not sure how much monk you have actually seen, but his OCD seems to get worse as the show progresses. My theory is that he wasn't as bad when he was younger, so getting through police academy wouldn't have been as hard. But that's just my theory&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this has answered your question :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3248" LastActivityDate="2012-10-23T07:18:29.167" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5723" CreationDate="2012-10-23T12:37:39.160" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because it's an easy, dirt-cheap way of adding mystique to a character and make them more memorable. (And it worked - here we are, talking about it 25 years later!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3265" LastActivityDate="2012-10-23T12:37:39.160" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4473" CreationDate="2012-10-23T19:51:25.760" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I may be completely wrong here, but . . &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally thought that a paradox had been created in that timeline.&#xA;When Young Joe fell from the fire escape I thought the fall killed him, which would have stopped him living to be old joe, to come back &amp;amp; die, thus negating the need for young joe to go on the run in the first place . . . &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took this as the break in the timeline that allowed us to move to another one where young joe lives on to become old joe, who gets sent back and escapes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do love a good time travel brain teaser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3256" LastActivityDate="2012-10-23T19:51:25.760" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5736" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5737" CreationDate="2012-10-23T20:15:03.767" Score="46" ViewCount="41559" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Back to the Future Part 3 Marty follows Doc back to 1885 to rescue him from being shot at the hands of Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen.&#xA;He arrives in 1885 some time after Doc has written the letter that Marty receives in 1955. Unfortunately for them the DeLorean springs a leak and loses fuel, which leaves them short of a way to get the DeLorean up to 88mph. The Mr Fusion only powers the time circuits, but the engine runs on standard gasoline and always has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why don't they just use the other DeLorean?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are now TWO DeLoreans in 1885. The one Marty arrived in and the one Doc has hidden in a mine with repair instructions for his 1955 counterpart. Why don't they just syphon the fuel from that DeLorean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may be a plot hole, but there may be perfectly logical explanation for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3256" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-21T20:05:19.210" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T15:06:52.967" Title="Why doesn't Marty use the other DeLorean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|time-travel|back-to-the-future|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5736" CreationDate="2012-10-23T21:02:10.590" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;You do have a point in that the fuel could have been syphoned. However, it's more likely that there just wasn't any. When the doc gets back to 1885 with broken time circuits, he first tries to fix it. When he realizes it can't be fixed, he buries the car in the mine after first draining it of all fluids.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it is unclear if the car could be dug up, it wouldn't have had any fuel. The doc would have had to keep all fluids that he drained from the car. You could argue that some gasoline could always come in handy, but as the doc mentions in his &lt;a href=&quot;http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Doc%27s_letter&quot;&gt;letter&lt;/a&gt;, he is concerned about the space time continuum. Keeping it around in his shop would be dangerous (what if someone found it?) and he wasn't going to use it in a car as he specifically forbids Marty to rescue him. To avoid disrupting space-time, the simplest thing would have been to dispose of all fuel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The official explanation can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://bttf.wikidot.com/official-bttf-faq#toc19&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Apparently the time paradox for going back into the mine was too dangerous too go back in. However, Doc could have still drained it and kept it in his shop. Either he didn't want to keep it around (for the danger of discovery) or he didn't see the point in keeping it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T14:59:15.977" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T14:59:15.977" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5716" CreationDate="2012-10-23T21:15:38.443" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adrian Monk was a very brilliant detective for the SFPD until he had a nervous breakdown due to his wife's death in the car bomb blast. He gradually started  living in voluntary seclusion  and was discharged from the police department. He finally was able to come out of seclusion after three and a half years with the help of nurse Sharona Fleming and this also enabled him to become a private investigator/detective. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My assumption is that the massive nervous breakdown was one of the key reasons of all his fear, phobias and disorders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2185" LastActivityDate="2012-10-23T21:15:38.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5688" CreationDate="2012-10-24T03:42:54.357" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you can say that a color filter can be used to evoke a particular psychological effect in the viewer as a rule because the filter is always working in conjunction with environmental conditions (including artificial lighting). A yellow filter in one condition creates one effect and in another condition it does something else. More likely, a filmer will want to create an effect and chooses a filter (color or not) that might create that effect in a given situation. Even more likely, a filmer will select a filter to overcome environmental conditions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tiffen is one of the primary manufacturers of filters for the movie and television industries. On their &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tiffen.com/filters.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;filter website page&lt;/a&gt; you can click to see images with and without a variety of filters. It explains, for example, that yellow filter used with color film are for &quot;shooting tungsten corrected film outdoors, producing natural colors in your images.&quot; You may find the links on their &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tiffen.com/tiffen_product_literature.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Product Literature Page&lt;/a&gt; (scroll down to see filters) helpful, as well as this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tiffen.com/userimages/Tiffen_Bfilt_Broch_07_std.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;brochure&lt;/a&gt;. This is what a yellow filter does (from the brochure):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G4ZJb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tiffen has a manual (from the early 80s) devoted to filter use - you can borrow it through your public library's interlibrary loan system (ISBN 9780817437008).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a study of lighting and color in cinematography, you might try one of Blain Brown's books:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worldcat.org/title/motion-picture-and-video-lighting/oclc/86117483&amp;amp;referer=brief_results&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Motion Picture and Video Lighting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (2008, 2nd ed. ISBN 9780240807638)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worldcat.org/title/cinematography-theory-and-practice-imagemaking-for-cinematographers-and-directors/oclc/712780763&amp;amp;referer=brief_results&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cinematography: Theory and Practice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (2012, 2nd ed. ISBN 9780240812090)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are also available through interlibrary loan in the US and many other countries as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-10-24T03:42:54.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5716" CreationDate="2012-10-24T04:09:51.967" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Monk?from=Main.Monk&quot;&gt;tvtropes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He is a lifelong sufferer of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and has&#xA;  many phobias, and those obsessions became crippling after his&#xA;  breakdown, forcing his retirement; he recovers throughout the series,&#xA;  though he is never fully &quot;cured&quot;. His OCD is also the reason Monk was&#xA;  such a successful policeman; one of his compulsions is paying amazing&#xA;  attention to details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His becoming a cop before rising to detective is never discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-10-24T04:09:51.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5742" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-24T09:41:03.513" Score="16" ViewCount="2909" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love Bollywood movies and Hollywood movies. There are a great number of superstars in Bollywood who act well and are globally renowned. But we have not seen much participation of Bollywood stars in the Hollywood film industry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have seen them participate very little, if at all, in Hollywood, and their participation is usually insignificant compared to other major Hollywood actors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example Anil Kapoor's &lt;a href=&quot;http://mumbaiboss.com/2011/12/20/stuck-in-cruise-control/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;tiny part&lt;/a&gt; in MI4 or Irfan Khan in Slumdog Millonaire is far less than what Bollywood has provided these actors in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what might be the reason Bollywood actors do not like to work in Hollywood? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that because they hesitate because of language problem? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or do they fear comparing with other great heroes in Hollywood?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T14:16:57.013" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T14:16:57.013" Title="Why don't Bollywood superstars do more in Hollywood?" Tags="|indian-cinema|american-cinema|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2658" CreationDate="2012-10-24T11:43:36.963" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have another explanation (sorry, English is not my mother tongue).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I prefer this one, unfortunately it leads to a stronger inconsistency of the scenario:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One should notice that spacetime where Boris meets Jeffrey Price is different from spacetime where J meets Jeffrey. This happens not only a few days after! Actually universe split in two versions in 1969, exaclty when 2012-Boris (old Boris-1) arrived in 1969.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the first version, in 1969, K blasts Boris-1' arm and sends him to prison in 1969, and 40 years later, Boris-1 escapes from moon, and finally visits Jeffrey.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;But in the second version, in 1969, 2012's old Boris-1 kills K before installing the arcnet, so that the young Boris keeps his arms and doesn' go to prison: Boris-2 appears! Consequently, 40 years later, old Boris-2 doesn't need to visit Jeffrey since K is already dead 40 years ago! (Moreover absence of arcnet enables a boglodites' invasion). Actually, the old Boris-1 vanished in 1969 in this second spacetime just after having killed K: in the 2nd spacetime, there is NO Boris without arm who spent years in jail! For a given spacetime, and given age, there is only one Boris (although there may be at the same time two different versions of the same character at DIFFERENT ages, which happens in the movie.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The good point is that J transited in 2012 from 1st version to 2nd, due to his presence in 1969 (according to Jeffrey). This gives birth to a 3rd timespace version, the one depicted in the second part of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum up, in the 2nd version, Jeffrey should have not met Boris, but only J! Thus no problem if there in only one time device! Nevertheless, there is a big script error. Jeffrey-2 should have never met Boris in 2nd spacetime. Anyway, that inconsistency was necessary for the scenario (By the way, maybe you know that the storyline writing was a huge pain in the ass _ Griffin would have said ^^)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Boris-1 loses his arm in 1969, lives 40 years in prison, jumps in 1969, kills K and vanishes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Young Boris-1 splits to Boris-2 at the time he keeps his arm (thanks to Boris-1), he doesn't go to prison, and coordinates boglodites' invasion in 2012, as one can watch before J travels to time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Young Boris-1 also splits to Boris-3 (due to J's intervention upon Boris-1s'one), and is killed by K a few minutes after killing J's father, instead being stopped as B-1 was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not all! Just before vanished, due to J's intervention too, old Boris-1 splits to Boris-4. He dies incinerated by the rocket.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Boris-1 and Boris-4 are not the same! Old B-1 killed young K, not B-4 (dont' forget K is alive at the end).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3274" LastActivityDate="2012-10-24T11:43:36.963" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5744" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5745" CreationDate="2012-10-24T18:02:39.977" Score="7" ViewCount="13272" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to remember what movie this was. The bad guys, like 2 or 3, were trapped in a 2 dimensional plane that flew out into space. Family guy did a short parody once I think. I asked a few people in the office but no one knows. I feel like it might be one of the old superman movies but I'm not sure and can't find it online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user3276" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-10-24T18:13:49.940" LastActivityDate="2016-03-01T22:22:44.320" Title="What was that movie where the bad guys are trapped in a 2d plane in space" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:39:10.140" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5744" CreationDate="2012-10-24T18:12:48.810" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that you are thinking of Superman 2. The villains (General Zod, Ursa and Non) had been banished from Krypton into the &quot;Phantom Zone&quot; which was depicted as what looked similar to a plane of glass that flew through space. Right up until Superman pushes a nuclear bomb out of Earth's atmosphere and into space to save Paris (I think). When the device explodes it breaks open the Phantom Zone and releases the villains. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is clip of there release on Youtube:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/xlKM4nUlXyw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T15:01:19.980" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T15:01:19.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5742" CreationDate="2012-10-24T18:56:46.757" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;When we're talking about Hollywood, we usually talk about big budget movies. Studios fund these movie projects not out of love of art, but to make a profit. To make a sizable profit they need to &lt;em&gt;sell&lt;/em&gt; the movie to the audience so that they buy tickets (and buy DVDs and BluRays ... etc). One of the bigger selling points of any movies is the cast. People will pay money to see their favorite actors on screen. That's why actors with greater popularity (even if they don't really &lt;em&gt;act&lt;/em&gt; that well) can demand bigger salaries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, every country has its own cache of superstar actors that people in their own country will recognize. But very very seldom does this recognition cross borders. If you ask any Indian (or fan of Indian cinema) who Amitabh Bachchan is, they will most likely know who he is. Now ask that same question to anyone else, and they'll probably have to Google the answer. Thus, Amitabh Bachchan can sell movies to Indians and fans of Indian movies but probably not to the rest of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a comment on their acting abilities, but on their &lt;em&gt;selling&lt;/em&gt; ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing is that Hollywood casting is still pretty much stuck on stereotypes. When Hollywood casts an actor of an ethnic background, they will usually stick that actor with a role stereotypical to his ethnicity. So when they cast an Indian actor, it will be to fill a certain type of role instead of a generic one. Thus, Ashwariya Rai as an Indian girl in an arranged marriage, Dev Patel as an Indian slums boy .... etc. That stereotyping further limits the role of Non-American actors (not just Bollywood actors) in Hollywood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2012-10-24T19:25:09.433" LastActivityDate="2012-10-24T19:25:09.433" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5747" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5755" CreationDate="2012-10-24T20:42:38.000" Score="5" ViewCount="3653" Body="&lt;p&gt;   &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/65zHG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;666 Park Avenue&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviepilot.de/serie/666-park-avenue/bilder/8415925&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About the TV series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2197797/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;666 Park Avenue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At &lt;em&gt;666 Park Avenue&lt;/em&gt;, all of your dreams and burning desires can come true: wealth, sex, love, power, even revenge. But just be careful what you wish for, because the price you pay... could be your soul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Welcome to &lt;em&gt;The Drake&lt;/em&gt;, the premiere apartment building on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Owned by the mysterious &lt;strong&gt;Gavin Doran&lt;/strong&gt; and his sexy wife Olivia, &lt;em&gt;The Drake&lt;/em&gt; is home to dozens of residents who are unaware they're living in the dark embrace of supernatural forces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if the &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;666&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; is supposed to be a hint that the &lt;em&gt;Devil&lt;/em&gt; is at play, or if it's just meant as a general reference for &amp;quot;evil&amp;quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the rich, powerful and ruthless &lt;em&gt;Gavin Doran&lt;/em&gt; supposed to be the Devil?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T03:30:44.973" Title="Is this character supposed to be the Devil?" Tags="|666-park-avenue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="862" CreationDate="2012-10-24T21:44:32.123" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first time you see the fight, some people look at them because they're interested in the fight, and then later ask him if they could have a go one time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then later, when it turns out he was beating himself up, it still makes sense actually, because it's still a valid reason for them to go looking at him, and also to ask if they could have a go (in this second case meaning punching him). When the first fight started it all makes sense as in the first case actually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what I thought of it at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3278" LastActivityDate="2012-10-24T21:44:32.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="60" CreationDate="2012-10-25T00:41:44.937" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid I must also weigh in with boring old, run of the mill diamonds. I read that Tarantino didn't want to use diamonds (even though that's what is in the briefcase according to the script) because he'd just come off Reservoir Dogs which featured a diamond heist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3256" LastActivityDate="2012-10-25T00:41:44.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="990" CreationDate="2012-10-25T01:31:59.133" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think its heavily implied that he was indeed that big an eejit. He makes a statement prior about how he's handy with the steal, or words to that effect.&#xA;I thought it was a brilliant bit of dark humour. Unexpected and well timed. Very funny.&#xA;Getting back to your question though, yes, I believe its intended that he did accidentally shoot himself and no other party was involved. Lets be honest, we all know at least 1 gobshite like that ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3256" LastActivityDate="2012-10-25T01:31:59.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5744" CreationDate="2012-10-25T01:59:49.460" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene you are talking about where the bad guys get trapped is from Superman (the first film). Jor-El (Marlon Brando) imprisons three villains Zod, Ursa and Non.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4BLuA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jor-El imprisons Zod, Ursa and Non.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They don't feature further in that film, but are the main villains of Superman 2, when they are accidentally released.&#xA;The imprisonment scene probably may be included in Superman 2 as a recap (I can't recall), but without Brando due to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_II&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;production saga&lt;/a&gt;, and payment disputes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3281" LastActivityDate="2012-10-25T01:59:49.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5747" CreationDate="2012-10-25T05:00:19.280" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The show is deliberately vague&lt;/strong&gt; on whether or not Terry O'Quinn's character is the devil -- it's likely that's one of the hooks the show's writers are playing with in their plot arcing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many settings, this question has been brought up, and answers are purposefully inconclusive ... for example, &lt;strong&gt;Terry O'Quinn, at &lt;em&gt;Comic Con&lt;/em&gt;, said&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“He seems, at the moment, pretty evil . . . He doesn’t seem like he’d slow down for a baby in a carriage.”&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Executive producer &lt;strong&gt;David Wilcox also said&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“He’s not who you’d expect . . . It’ll take some times to figure out who he is.”&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(both quotes from an &lt;a href=&quot;http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/07/13/666-park-comic-con-terry-oquinn/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Entertainment Weekly&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; article) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Other promotional materials will say things like &lt;em&gt;&quot;He's positively devilish&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and other vague phrases. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be useful to think of some of the tropes that this show is relying on in trying to guess the answer to your question -- things like &lt;em&gt;Faust,&lt;/em&gt; for example. Of course, the show could either be playing to such a trope, or against it, so there's still no definitive answer -- but it's certainly relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2012-10-25T09:13:59.907" LastActivityDate="2012-10-25T09:13:59.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2283" CreationDate="2012-10-25T05:18:04.630" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its almost certain that after someone or something kills the alpha of a pack, then the other wolves back off, praise, or even make them the new leader of their group. Because the alpha was lying weakly on the bed of snow at the brief scene after the credits, it should be obvious that he was killed or in the middle of dying. Otherwise, he'd undoubtedly be eating John and so would the others. Meanwhile, John is lying and resting his head on the side of the black alpha wolf. We're not certain if he's dead or if he survived, but the one thing we know is that the wolf is dead. One thing I can say about the way the wolf died was by the dagger John held and the broken glasses he wrapped around his hand (which looked to be some sort of medicine tube). John must have known something about the glasses because he was a huntsman after all, maybe containing poison to kill off the wolves. Either way the wolf was dead and as for John, its really up to you to figure that out. Odds are, he was sitting there thinking and praying judging the way the director casted him always in deep thought. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3283" LastActivityDate="2012-10-25T05:18:04.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2281" CreationDate="2012-10-25T06:05:55.443" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first string of profanity might be along the lines of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;and you'll be eating my shit that falls out (..?) inside of your mouth &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but I haven't watched this scene with a higher resolution/quality yet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3284" LastEditorUserId="113" LastEditDate="2012-10-26T14:06:21.950" LastActivityDate="2012-10-26T14:06:21.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5629" CreationDate="2012-10-25T06:23:35.327" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aunt Helen is emotionally and mentally sick. There are no circumstances in which any adult, or anyone else, may take liberties with or violate a child's mind or body, or anyone's mind or body. Any person who behaves in this manner is mentally ill and their conduct is a crime. Molestation is illegal and punishable by law, but only if it is reported.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sam did NOT &quot;do the same thing&quot;. Sam and Charlie are teenagers. If one teenager expresses interest in another teenager, this is an appropriate behavior. It is not all right for any person, however, to take liberties with or violate another person, regardless of age or any other circumstance. If Charlie rejected Sam, this means that Sam may or may not have expressed an interest and Charlie declined. This is not the same as violation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when one person expresses sexual interest of any kind in a person who has been molested (violated), this will pretty much guarantee that memories, whether implicit or otherwise, will be activated, and there will be a reaction, conscious or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no answer to &quot;Why&quot; a sexual predator such as a molester commits the atrocity against another human being. They are sick, and it is like asking someone why they went and got cancer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3262" LastActivityDate="2012-10-25T06:23:35.327" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5615" CreationDate="2012-10-25T06:26:25.277" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original meaning indicates a hopeful ending for the Republic, and I assume by revealing the truth on national TV, Myers is assassinating the character built by the Governor, destroying his chances in the election and salvaging his own conscience, before it turns dark and cynical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, The Ides of March is a movie that will likely only appease the most die-hard political pundits in the crowd. For most everyone else, an hour and a half watching people discuss the nature of modern American politics will probably be as fun and insightful as a night spent watching C-SPAN.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3262" LastActivityDate="2012-10-25T06:26:25.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5761" CreationDate="2012-10-25T10:20:55.000" Score="11" ViewCount="14201" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Wall-E there are several places which I could not understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How did Earth change to trash? Did any World-war 3 happen? Or did any Atomic war take place? Did men destroy the environment totally?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why was Wall-E made? I suppose to collect the dumps. But who made him and why was he alone? Surely those who made Wall-E did not make him alone? Where were the others?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why did B&amp;amp;L take the responsibility to bear the expenditure of letting mankind survive in their spaceship? It looks like they somehow are responsible for what happened to Earth in that movie. But how?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could not find any answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2017-08-25T20:14:45.820" LastActivityDate="2017-08-25T20:14:45.820" Title="How was the Earth change into trash and why did B&amp;L take everybody to the spaceship in Wall-E?" Tags="|plot-explanation|wall-e|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5760" CreationDate="2012-10-25T10:49:27.510" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL-E&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; provides answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 2805, &lt;strong&gt;Earth is covered in garbage due to decades of mass consumerism facilitated by the megacorporation &lt;em&gt;Buy n Large&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BnL&lt;/em&gt; evacuated Earth's population&lt;/strong&gt; in fully automated starliners in 2105, &lt;strong&gt;leaving behind trash compactor &lt;em&gt;Waste Allocation Load Lifter – Earth Class&lt;/em&gt; (“WALL-E”) robots to clean the planet&lt;/strong&gt;, but they eventually stopped operating and Earth was left abandoned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One WALL-E unit has managed to remain active&lt;/strong&gt; by repairing itself using parts from other broken units.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;And from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/faq#.2.1.38&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMDb FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How was Operation Clean-up supposed to work?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;According to Andrew Stanton ... the plan for &lt;em&gt;Operation Clean-up&lt;/em&gt; ... was to use large machinery to incinerate massive sections of trash at once, after the WALL·E units had cubed and stacked it. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-10-25T10:49:27.510" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3369" CreationDate="2012-10-25T14:11:41.290" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bane protected Talia in the Pit because he could empathize the pain that he'd been going through since he was a child with her. He, like Talia, was &quot;born in the dark, molded by it&quot; and &quot;didn't see the light until he was already a man&quot;. He wanted to preserve the innocence that he lost during his childhood by protecting Talia. Bane is like a second father to her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3288" LastActivityDate="2012-10-25T14:11:41.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5764" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-25T14:57:46.513" Score="13" ViewCount="84705" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Big Bang Theory, Sheldon occasionally brags about his IQ which is very high (187), and his best friend Leonard has a whooping 173. Its clear Sheldon does not think Howard to be smart enough because he is mere engineer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However what is the IQ of Raj, because he is only one who gets the chance to work with Sheldon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3251" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-10-25T19:28:37.017" LastActivityDate="2019-03-25T11:23:43.407" Title="What is the IQ of Raj?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5765" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-10-25T15:17:26.173" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/strong&gt; is an American sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the show along with Steven Molaro. All three also serve as head writers. It premiered on CBS on September 24, 2007.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show primarily follows five characters living in Pasadena, California: roommates Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper; Penny, a waitress and aspiring actress who lives across the hall; and Leonard and Sheldon's equally geeky and socially awkward friends and co-workers, mechanical engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The geekiness and intellect of the four guys is contrasted for comic effect with Penny's social skills and common sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2016-12-17T18:10:21.637" LastActivityDate="2016-12-17T18:10:21.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5766" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-10-25T15:17:26.173" Score="0" Body="US television situation comedy concerning the daily life experiences of a pair of highly intelligent roommates, their work lives in science, and their interaction with their friends and neighbors who are of varying degrees of intelligence in relation to them." OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2016-12-17T18:10:13.267" LastActivityDate="2016-12-17T18:10:13.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2896" CreationDate="2012-10-25T18:39:14.270" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, right from the first scene of the movie, we have seen the whole theme was a joint investigation by the Russian MVD and American FBI. Now the rule is FBI is made to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners. It performs these responsibilities in a way that is responsive to the needs of the public and faithful to the Constitution of the United States.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to achieve that mission, they might need help from other countries. The FBI&#xA;cannot arrest a person in a sovereign country, but any country can cooperate with the FBI with their own forces in an investigation and in catching criminals. In Jackal, we have always seen that the Russian MVD have accompanied the FBI in searching for Jackal right from the very start. This continued in Montreal. So the FBI was never alone. Rather it was a joint venture which is practical. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But one thing I would like to cite from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/faqs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FBI's official site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How accurately is the FBI portrayed in books, television shows, and motion pictures?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To that FAQ it stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any author, television script writer, or producer may consult with the FBI about closed cases or our operations, services, or history. However, there is no requirement that they do so, and the FBI does not edit or approve their work. Some authors, television programs, or motion picture producers offer reasonably accurate presentations of our responsibilities, investigations, and procedures in their story lines, while others present their own interpretations or introduce fictional events, persons, or places for dramatic effect.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now make out something from it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-26T17:34:20.007" LastActivityDate="2016-07-26T17:34:20.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2896" CreationDate="2012-10-25T20:32:28.983" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The raid of the nightclub in &lt;em&gt;Moscow&lt;/em&gt; was a joint operation betweent the &lt;em&gt;Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD)&lt;/em&gt; and the &lt;em&gt;FBI&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And looking at the FBI's &lt;em&gt;real word&lt;/em&gt; examples &lt;em&gt;(see below)&lt;/em&gt;, such an operation doesn't seem to be completely unrealistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/legat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The FBI does have offices around the globe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(including Moscow)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DU4ao.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;FBI legats&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today, &lt;strong&gt;we have legal attaché offices—commonly known as legats—and smaller sub-offices in 76 key cities around the globe, providing coverage for more than 200 countries, territories, and islands.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each office is established through mutual agreement with the host country and is situated in the U.S. embassy or consulate in that nation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Through the years &lt;strong&gt;FBI agents, analysts, and other personnel overseas have made major contributions to solving cases, disabling worldwide terrorist and criminal networks, bringing fugitives to justice, and ensuring the safety of global events.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few &lt;em&gt;examples&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Legat Jakarta&lt;/strong&gt; collaborated with Indonesian law enforcement partners during the investigation of the &lt;strong&gt;Bali nightclub bombing in 2002&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Legat Madrid&lt;/strong&gt; provided investigative assistance following the string of &lt;strong&gt;bombings in 2004 on mass transit systems in Spain.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the wake of the &lt;strong&gt;tsunami of 2004&lt;/strong&gt;, the International Operations Division played a crucial role in facilitating &lt;strong&gt;FBI involvement throughout Southeast Asia&lt;/strong&gt;, providing various forms of humanitarian and laboratory support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Legat Beijing&lt;/strong&gt; coordinated the FBI’s role in the &lt;strong&gt;2008 Summer Olympic Games&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T13:34:06.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5707" CreationDate="2012-10-25T20:43:01.350" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have spent some time looking through interviews with Antonio Banderas, movie reviews, and other information on Haywire. I have not found a single explanation for that scene, except that it might set up a sequel. I would have to say that climbing over the roof was purely for effect, in order to scare or surprise the recently revealed &quot;mastermind&quot; in the movie. With that over-the-top action, it gives the scene a &quot;he won't make it out of this alive&quot; feel, because he is so completely outmatched by her skills. So, it seems to be on purpose and totally for effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1964" LastActivityDate="2012-10-25T20:43:01.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5771" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5772" CreationDate="2012-10-25T21:35:19.970" Score="3" ViewCount="2226" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;8 Simple Rules&quot;, what is the age difference between Bridget and Kerry?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have watched the complete 3 seasons of the show and got no clue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="2155" LastEditDate="2012-10-25T22:30:21.667" LastActivityDate="2012-10-25T22:30:21.667" Title="Age difference between Bridget and Kerry?" Tags="|8-simple-rules|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5771" CreationDate="2012-10-25T22:12:48.970" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/8-simple-rules/pilot-180030/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvrage.com/8_Simple_Rules/episodes/312482&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt; Bridget and Kerry are 16 and 15 years old at the beginning of the first season. This seems about right to me as there are a couple of episodes in which they have to take driver's tests and there's a prom in the 3rd season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2012-10-25T22:12:48.970" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5775" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5776" CreationDate="2012-10-26T02:54:55.773" Score="6" ViewCount="2304" Body="&lt;p&gt;On season 6 episode 9 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433309/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Numb3rs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; John Buckley mentions a game that he played in prison. What was the game that he mentioned, and is it a real game?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3296" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-18T11:53:06.583" LastActivityDate="2015-09-26T16:48:25.397" Title="What game does John Buckley mention in S06E09?" Tags="|plot-explanation|numb3rs|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5775" CreationDate="2012-10-26T03:53:40.623" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livedash.com/transcript/numb3rs-%28con_job%29/7854/TNTP/Friday_October_15_2010/476899/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;transcript&lt;/a&gt;, the game is called Jeu Militaire, also known as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffmancoding.com/code/fmg/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;French Military Game&lt;/a&gt; thought it has nothing to do with France or the military. It is a strategy game that works like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The game is played against the computer with the two players&#xA;  alternating turns. You control the three black pieces while the&#xA;  computer controls the remaining red piece. You always go first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The pieces move along the lines to the adjacent spots. The red&#xA;  computer piece can move in any direction along those lines, while your&#xA;  black pieces cannot go in a backward (downward) direction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To move, drag a black piece to valid adjacent location. You win the&#xA;  game by trapping the computer where it cannot move within 20 turns. As&#xA;  an example, if the black pieces were at the lower left, middle, and&#xA;  upper left spots and the red piece was trapped at the middle left, you&#xA;  would win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The computer wins by reaching the very bottom, where it cannot be&#xA;  caught.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gR2Cr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There appears to be a downloadable &lt;a href=&quot;http://hem.passagen.se/melki9/haregames.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;freeware version&lt;/a&gt; called Hare - it requires additional downloads, so I have not tested it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2012-10-26T04:08:37.877" LastActivityDate="2012-10-26T04:08:37.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5777" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5787" CreationDate="2012-10-26T05:35:30.350" Score="8" ViewCount="901" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole war thing of Avatar was based on the human greed for unobtainium that is found in large scale on Pandora. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now Dr. Grace had a wonderful knowledge on the biological structure of Pandora. But none listened to her and Pandora was attacked. In the whole film it was shown Parker Selfridge as the administrator of the program. But what kind of administrator was he that neither he ever listened nor he tried to understand what kind of biological treasure was on Pandora? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more thing to be noticed nobody from Earth ever asked for what is going on Pandora for a particular time? I mean no feedback form the human base camp on Pandora at all to the earth where the sponsors and govt were there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't there have been another supervisor from the Earth whom Grace could report to what is going on Pandora and how Parker was going to destroy Pandora? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If she did, nothing should have happened! Watching the whole movie, sometimes it seems the mission was a reckless driving by a stubborn driver like Parker and no body was there to pull him. Dr. Grace could report to earth about the misleading by Parker there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-27T14:59:48.113" LastActivityDate="2012-12-27T14:59:48.113" Title="Is there a higher authority than Parker in Avatar?" Tags="|plot-explanation|avatar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5777" CreationDate="2012-10-26T06:54:08.817" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole situation/movie could be seen as a critique to the human imperialism/capitalism. The humans are mining on Pandora to get the unobtanium and have no regard for what they do to the planet or its ('inferior') inhabitants. The central earth government doesn't really care about how the mining is caried out, only that they get their mineral. In some way the parallel to our present day industry could be drawn. Our planet is suffering from the effects of, but we (as a people) still allow, some rather detrimental industrial activities to go on (wood harvesting from the rain forest, strip mining hills, widespread burning of fossil fuels). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James Cameron &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Eye-popping-Avatar-pioneers-new-technology-3278484.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;acknowledged&lt;/a&gt; that there is a point there but not as explicitly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2012-10-26T06:54:08.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5779" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-10-26T06:58:18.623" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Avatar is a 2009 American epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron, and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Joel David Moore, Giovanni Ribisi and Sigourney Weaver. The film is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are mining a precious mineral called unobtanium on Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Na'vi—a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The film's title refers to a genetically engineered Na'vi body with the mind of a remotely located human, and is used to interact with the natives of Pandora.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-10-26T12:46:33.383" LastActivityDate="2012-10-26T12:46:33.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5780" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-10-26T06:58:18.623" Score="0" Body="2009 American epic science fiction film set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are mining a precious mineral called unobtanium on Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system." OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T04:10:54.823" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T04:10:54.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5723" CreationDate="2012-10-26T09:44:28.797" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it had to do with the name Angus itself. When you think of that name, you come up with either images of a Scottish person, or just Angus beef (okay, maybe it's just me, but still). I think it's plausible Mac was teased for a long time in school about his name, and just decided to go with MacGyver or Mac for short. Mac sounds 'cooler' than Angus and doesn't illicit the same type of teasing (or questioning) that the name Angus would provide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2012-10-26T09:44:28.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5783" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7971" CreationDate="2012-10-26T09:52:19.487" Score="9" ViewCount="15840" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any time limits for the running time of the movies in hollywood?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike Bollywood and Kollywood , Hollywood movies run for only 1.30 to 2 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in case of Bollywood and Kollywood, movies run minimum 2.30 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3298" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T14:17:24.573" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T14:52:36.083" Title="Minimum or Maximum Movie Running Time Limits?" Tags="|american-cinema|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5784" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5789" CreationDate="2012-10-26T10:01:44.233" Score="3" ViewCount="2178" Body="&lt;p&gt;In India, any kollywood or bollywood movies get certified by Central Board of Film Certification before hitting to theaters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it same for the Hollywood movies? Do they get certified also? Are hollywood movies in original and dubbed to be certified by Central Board of Film Certification before it releasing in Indian theaters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or For Hollywood movies , there is any certification board for recognizing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3298" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T14:01:00.570" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T15:07:15.087" Title="Is CBFC certificate required for Hollywood movies before release in India?" Tags="|content-rating|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5785" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5788" CreationDate="2012-10-26T10:08:37.143" Score="5" ViewCount="18262" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is The &lt;a href=&quot;http://cbfcindia.gov.in/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Central Board of Film Certification&lt;/a&gt;'s (CBFC) 'S' certification?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any S certified movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3298" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T01:10:20.970" LastActivityDate="2017-06-30T12:13:59.767" Title="What is the CBFC 'S' certification?" Tags="|indian-cinema|content-rating|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5783" CreationDate="2012-10-26T10:08:54.690" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia says&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Film Institute and the British Film Institute, all define a feature a film with a running time of 40 minutes or longer. &lt;code&gt;The Centre de la Cinématographie&lt;/code&gt; in France defines it as a 35 mm film than 1,600 metres, which is exactly 58 minutes and 29 seconds sound films, and the Screen Actors Guild gives a minimum running of at least 80  Today, a feature film is usually 70 and 210 minutes[citation needed]; a film is between 60 and 120 minutes[citation needed]. An anthology film a fixed sequence  short subjects with a common theme, combined a feature film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is no clarification I found for Indian movies yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-12-22T14:52:36.083" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T14:52:36.083" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5777" CreationDate="2012-10-26T10:23:49.897" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Parker Selfridge&lt;/em&gt; is the &lt;em&gt;head administrator&lt;/em&gt; of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Resources_Development_Administration&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RDA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on Pandora.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nP1n3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;RDA&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Resources Development Administration&lt;/strong&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;RDA&lt;/em&gt;, is the largest single non-governmental organization in human space. Its power is such that it outmatches most of Earth governments in wealth, political influence, and military capability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The RDA has monopoly rights to all products shipped, derived, or developed from Pandora and any other off-Earth location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pandorapedia.com/human_operations/rda/the_avatar_program&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Avatar Program&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Under strong pressure from the UN, scientists and the general public, the RDA agreed to set up a program to enhance communications between humans and Na’vi.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first this consisted solely of an Indigenous Terrain program to study Na’vi culture and language and to attempt to establish communication between man and Na’vi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Originally part of RDA’s Na’vi outreach program instigated at the behest of Earth government authorities, &lt;strong&gt;the Avatar Program has moved from being a poorly-defined xenobiological experiment controlled by Earth-based bureaucrats, ivory-tower academics and populist politicians to become a tightly-managed engineering project incorporating the most advanced technology from RDA’s labs.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Project_880&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;original script&lt;/a&gt; has a character named &lt;strong&gt;Marcia de los Santos&lt;/strong&gt;, she is the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Freemedia Officer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is her job to send home the inspiring footage used for corporate advertising and recruiting, though technically she is keeping a full and impartial record of the operation at &lt;em&gt;Hell's Gate&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Selfridge heavily edits her downlinks to Earth&lt;/strong&gt;, claiming the &amp;quot;expense&amp;quot; of data transmission, but really it is ironfisted censorship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1629423/your-unresolved-avatar-questions-answered.jhtml&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;according to&lt;/a&gt; this &lt;em&gt;James-Cameron-approved&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0061896756&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;guidebook&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l4w1P.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Field Guide&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The cost of sending a message to earth is &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;approximately $7,500 per bit&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;So I think it's possible that messages to Earth had to be approved by &lt;em&gt;Selfridge&lt;/em&gt;. That could explain why &lt;em&gt;Grace&lt;/em&gt; never talked to someone on Earth about her frustration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-10-26T10:23:49.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5785" CreationDate="2012-10-26T11:22:20.477" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;CBFC stands for Central Board of Film Censors,Pakistan or Central Board of Film Certification, India. As the question is tagged &quot;Bollywood&quot;, I am taking it for the latter one. It is a referred to as &lt;strong&gt;censor board&lt;/strong&gt; for movies in India. The Center Board of Film Certification is a censorship and classification body under the &lt;strong&gt;Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India&lt;/strong&gt; . Its task as per Wikipedia &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Board_of_Film_Certification&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;says&lt;/a&gt; is with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;regulating the public exhibition of films under the provisions of the Cinematograph Act 1952&lt;/strong&gt;. It assigns certifications to films, television shows, television ads, and publications for exhibition, sale or hire in India. Films can be publicly exhibited in India only after they are certified by the Board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a certification by CBFC is a must for release of a film in India. The certification of films by &lt;a href=&quot;http://cbfcindia.gov.in/html/uniquepage.aspx?unique_page_id=2#4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CBFC&lt;/a&gt; follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://ibnlive.in.com/news/ua-s-x-r-demystified-how-films-are-rated/159663-8.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IBN&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Cinematograph Act, 1952 (Act 37 of 1952), apart from including provisions relating to Constitution and functioning of the CBFC or the Central Board of Film Certification (called the Central Board of Film Censors before 1983), also lays down the guidelines to be followed by certifying films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Initially, there were only two categories of certificate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;‘U’ (unrestricted public exhibition): Movies such as &lt;em&gt;Stanley ka Dabba&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Taare Zameen Par&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Roadside Romeo&lt;/em&gt;. Movies you would take your younger siblings to watch and not feel red-faced about. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;‘A’ (restricted to adult audiences): This category grew to include any movie with expletive language, sex and violence- &lt;em&gt;Kaminey, Love, Sex and Dhokha&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Ragini MMS&lt;/em&gt; – the slightly off-beat but box office safe movies that the censor board kept away from the children. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Two other categories were added in June, 1983 – &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;‘UA’ (unrestricted public exhibition subject to parental guidance for children below the age of twelve): The movies like &lt;em&gt;We are Family&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Apne&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Waqt&lt;/em&gt; - the ultimate family and social value films - the ultimate tear-jerkers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The ‘S’(restricted to specialized audiences such as doctors or scientists). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[above text has been reformatted from original source]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Board_of_Film_Certification&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;This rating signifies that the film is meant for a specialised audience, such as doctors.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I could not find any list of &quot;s&quot; certified movies by CBFA, but what I really could find is nothing less important. See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scribd.com/doc/78129049/Central-Board-of-Film-Certification-Annual-Report-2010&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;annual report&lt;/a&gt; by CBFA for the year 2010, no &quot;s&quot; certified movies were made. So it makes clear that &quot;s&quot; certified movies must be hardly made in India. If it had produced in a good amount, we might have found it on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2015-08-10T17:05:30.140" LastActivityDate="2015-08-10T17:05:30.140" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5784" CreationDate="2012-10-26T11:49:39.757" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In case of Hollywood movies to be broadcast in India, certification is a must.  There are a few examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Under the &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt; category the board usually allows the portrayal of very strong, gory, graphic, brutal and/or sadistic violence. Film such as Prometheus (R-rated in the US) have received this certificate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Under the &lt;strong&gt;U&lt;/strong&gt; category, only mild sexual references and sensuality is permitted. Moderate sexual references and undetailed sexuality is allowed under the UA category. Strong sexual references and detailed sexuality is restricted to &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt; category only. Examples include Friends with Benefits and No Strings Attached, both R-rated in the United States. But in 2011, The CBFC banned the film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on account of heavy nudity and sexuality. Cut version is available.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The board is quiet strict towards censorship of profanity. Only mild language and mild swear words are allowed under the &lt;strong&gt;U&lt;/strong&gt; category. Moderate profanity and swear words are permitted under the &lt;strong&gt;UA&lt;/strong&gt; category. Films under the &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt; category do not have any limitation on the bad language that is used. The strongest terms such (eg. fuck and cunt) are allowed only under the &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt; category. Films such as The Hangover and The Hangover Part 2 (R-rated) have received this certificate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the process how Hollywood films get rated by CBFC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T15:07:15.087" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T15:07:15.087" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5790" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-10-26T12:52:42.807" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-10-26T12:52:42.807" LastActivityDate="2012-10-26T12:52:42.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5791" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-10-26T12:52:42.807" Score="0" Body="The Central Board of Film Certification (often referred to as the Censor Board) is a statutory censorship and classification body under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. It is tasked with &quot;regulating the public exhibition of films under the provisions of the Cinematograph Act 1952&quot;." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-10-26T12:56:51.877" LastActivityDate="2012-10-26T12:56:51.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2064" CreationDate="2012-10-26T13:21:51.117" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obi Wan learned a specific force technique from Qui-gon Jin that allows him, after death to retain communication with the living via the force.  This partially explains Kenobi's comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What Obi Wan is most likely referring to is the fact that if Vader kills him it will drive Luke to learn the force and take on the Empire.  Obi Wan believes that since Anakin was not the chosen one, the one who would bring balance to the force, (although arguably either side winning results in unbalance) that Luke is in fact that person.  Kenobi is aware of the fact that Luke will witness Vader killing him while he is clearly in a pose of surrender, and he believes this will motivate Luke to become a Jedi Master and a match for Vader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Obi's comment foreshadows at least two major plot developments - his post-death ability to tutor Luke in the ways of the force, and Luke's increased interest in the destruction of the Empire/Vader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3299" LastActivityDate="2012-10-26T13:21:51.117" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5615" CreationDate="2012-10-26T15:53:16.210" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite the opposite, throughout the movie, the theme remained to be &quot;the gears are continually turning&quot;. Stephen has settled with the idea that idealism is politics is folly, and the candidate is just another guy and not &lt;em&gt;&quot;the one&quot;&lt;/em&gt; hence the playing of &quot;integrity matters, doing the right thing matters&quot; in the background by Governor Mike Morris.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There isn't any drastic change in his character and if there was, he would have taken the alternative route of going to other consulting firms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meaning of the end reinforces the true disingenuous nature of what is a political campaign; building stories and playing on words to give the &quot;appearance&quot; of integrity in a candidate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Whether that's true in reality is another thing altogether)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastActivityDate="2012-10-26T15:53:16.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5794" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5797" CreationDate="2012-10-26T16:24:21.553" Score="13" ViewCount="4270" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason given in the movie Looper for sending targets to the past is that it is difficult to dispose bodies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104/synopsis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thirty years into the future in 2074, time travel is invented, but is&#xA;  immediately outlawed. However, because by that point tracking&#xA;  technology has rendered it nearly impossible to dispose of bodies&#xA;  secretly, crime bosses turn to time travel to send their targets to&#xA;  the past to be killed using &quot;loopers&quot;: hired guns paid in silver to&#xA;  kill whoever is sent to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When trying to capture old Joe, they kill his wife. So how did they dispose the body of his wife? Or is it difficult to dispose bodies only in US and not in China? And they came for old Joe only because the Rainmaker wanted to close the loops?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone explain? What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1710" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T15:09:57.107" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T15:09:57.107" Title="How did they dispose old Joe's wife's body in the movie Looper (2012)?" Tags="|plot-explanation|looper|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5794" CreationDate="2012-10-26T17:50:25.057" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe they did dispose of her body.&#xA;The reason for loopers is mainly so organised crime lords can make people disappear. Hard to argue that so and so was killed when you can't track a body.&#xA;Joe's wife was what might be considered collateral damage. They most likely wouldn't get any blow back from anyone other than Joe so no need to dispose of her body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the Rainmaker was closing loops wholesale so he may have found other ways of disposing of bodies. The loops where closing over a matter of weeks for young Joe, but this may have been mere days for the Rainmaker in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I had to pick one answer though, I'd say she just wasn't important enough to have to disappear, dead was good enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3256" LastActivityDate="2012-10-26T17:50:25.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5796" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5799" CreationDate="2012-10-26T18:35:06.637" Score="10" ViewCount="21194" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does &quot;The Middle&quot; refer to in the TV show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442464/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Middle&lt;/a&gt;? I thought it referred to one of the kids being the middle child before I watched it, but that's obviously not correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-18T11:52:16.763" LastActivityDate="2020-12-28T23:03:21.537" Title="What does &quot;The Middle&quot; refer to in the TV show &quot;The Middle&quot;?" Tags="|title|the-middle|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5794" CreationDate="2012-10-26T18:51:11.783" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA2Y6WUqaY8#t=04m02s&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;video interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Director &lt;em&gt;Rian Johnson&lt;/em&gt; addresses the killing of Joe's wife:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... that's an accident. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;That was not supposed to happen. And they made some half-assed attempt to cover it up with burning down the house.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;But the truth is, they're in trouble because of that...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;He also gives some more details about the tracking method:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;everybody has nano-technology tracking material in their body&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;whenever there’s a death, a location tag is sent to the authorities&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;but when they send people back in time that is not triggered&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;the police aren't constantly tracking everybody&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Rian Johnson also talks about a few other &quot;plot holes&quot; in the video)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-10-26T18:51:11.783" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5783" CreationDate="2012-10-26T18:53:04.203" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although there seems to be a a good length defined for Hollywood movies, Bollywood produced 2.30 hours length movies. There are a number of reasons for that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1)Bollywood movies are long because they do have singing and dancing, but it also gives the masses a chance to get out of the heat of India and into some air conditioning. The singing/dancing added to the story simply makes the movie a more rounded entertainment experience for the average movie goer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movie tickets in India are cheaper than in the U.S. Yet the population is poorer, so they want good value...&lt;strong&gt;paisa vasool&lt;/strong&gt;(make the most of the money)...for their money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) While Bollywood films have singing and dancing, classifying them as &quot;musicals&quot; isn't totally &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiamarks.com/you-know-youre-watching-a-bollywood-movie-when/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;correct&lt;/a&gt;. Hollywood musicals have the actors breaking into song in the middle of a scene. In Bollywood, the song sequences are generally stand alone, meaning a lot of times, they are nearly like music videos (and they are marketed like this to help promote the movies). Sometimes, the songs are used to push the storyline along with various scenes of the actors doing something. In this way, it actually shortens the film by pushing the plot along without excessive dialog. Bollywood movie soundtracks can be as important to the marketing of the film as the movie themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) Another difference is that religion can play an important role in Bollywood movies. While not every one features something about religion, it is important to note that religion is an important aspect of Indian culture, so you will find more religious tones or ideas in Bollywood films than you will in Hollywood. So it goes without saying that nudity or overt sexual scenes are not prevalent in Bollywood films. Beautiful women in swimsuits? Sometimes. Steamy sex scenes (sometimes not even kissing) are a no-no. Many times, it depends upon the actor's feelings as to whether he/she will kiss in a movie. Some will, some won't. These are real facts in Bollywood movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However we are seeing &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/line-of-sight/entry/will-hindi-movies-get-shorter1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;changes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Take a filmmaker like Karan Johar, who makes decidedly old fashioned Bollywood movies albeit in new clothes. Karan's last movie My Name is Khan clocked in at 145 minutes. Now take an upstart filmmaker like the brilliant Dibaker Bannerji. His last movie Love Sex aur Dhoka had a running time of just over 100 minutes. Imtiaz Ali's Love Aaj Kal? 122 minutes. Ayan Mukerji's Wake Up Sid? 138 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end I would like to add a picture to describe although Indian films are cheaper to produce, cheaper to promote or lengthy in time it is the business which has forced &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-08-31/news/29949374_1_regional-language-bhojpuri-ravi-kishan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;hollywood production house to come to India&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gUVgY.gif&quot; alt=&quot;bollywood-vs-hollywood&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastActivityDate="2012-10-26T18:53:04.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5796" CreationDate="2012-10-26T19:04:36.017" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show is set in Indiana, and the title is trying to evoke the idea that this is a fun, &quot;meat and potatoes&quot; family sitcom that represents &quot;middle&quot; America (i.e. it's not New York, it's not California, it's not the South ... just the &quot;Heartland&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a &quot;TV Tropes&quot; link that can really do a better job answering your question than me: &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlyoverCountry&quot;&gt;Flyover Country&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there's also a secondary nod to the economic, &quot;middle class&quot; suburban community depicted on the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2012-11-02T13:24:10.947" LastActivityDate="2012-11-02T13:24:10.947" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5796" CreationDate="2012-10-26T19:06:13.473" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it refers to the middle class lifestyle of Frankie and the rest of the family. The show is mostly about the day-to-day problems of them in (again) a middle-class town somewhere in the middle of America, to get the audience to relate to the characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-22T13:53:28.183" LastActivityDate="2014-01-22T13:53:28.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5801" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5837" CreationDate="2012-10-26T19:13:09.990" Score="5" ViewCount="758" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lantern_%28film%29#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; Green Lantern&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Millions of years ago, a group of beings called the Guardians of the Universe used the green essence of willpower to create an intergalactic police force called the Green Lantern Corps. They split the universe into 3600 sectors, with one Green Lantern per sector. One such Green Lantern, Abin Sur of Sector 2814, defeated the being Parallax and imprisoned him in the Lost Sector on the ruined planet Ryut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie we see, some alien astronauts crashed on Ryut and inform the base that they have crashed on Ryut and requests for help. During their walking, they fell into a pit and found Parallax. But despite being imprisoned, he took their lives, became strong and broke the prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems somewhat faulty. Did Abin Sur, the great Lantern, make such a fragile prison to hold an evil such as Parallax, so that it could easily be broken? And did Abin Sur not know that he can eat on lives by his eye? If he knew, why did not he make such a mechanism(like a cover in-front of his eyies or opaque jail), so that Parallax cannot take lives from a distance? Certainly he did not do it intentionally. And also we see, right after his flee from the prison, Parallax attacks Abin Sur and surprisingly, Abin Sur could not return a good fight, which is somehow not expected from him. Let it be taken that, Parallax became stronger feeding upon those astronomers lives. But how come he so easily vanquished Abin Sur? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-10-27T20:19:42.767" LastActivityDate="2012-11-01T10:02:30.997" Title="Did Abin Sur not make the prison good enough to hold Parallax forever and how was Abin Sur defeated so easily?" Tags="|plot-explanation|green-lantern|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5803" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-10-26T21:58:21.657" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Stargate franchise began with the movie &quot;Stargate&quot;. The &quot;Stargate: SG1&quot; series starts several years after the events of the first movie and ran for 10 seasons. The movies &quot;Stargate: Continuum&quot; and &quot;Stargate: The Ark of Truth&quot; wrap up the main story lines of the series. The &quot;Stargate: Atlantis&quot; and &quot;Stargate: Universe&quot; series are both spin-offs of the main series and ran for 5 and 2 seasons respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Associated tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-1994&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-1994&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-1994&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-sg1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-sg1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-sg1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-ark-of-truth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-ark-of-truth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-ark-of-truth&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-continuum&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-continuum&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-continuum&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-atlantis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-atlantis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-atlantis&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-universe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-infinity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-infinity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-infinity&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stargate.mgm.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Stargate_Wiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stargate Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gateworld.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gateworld&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111282/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T21:45:14.267" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T21:45:14.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5804" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-10-26T21:58:21.657" Score="0" Body="Science-fiction franchise comprising various films and TV shows. Use this tag when asking questions about any work in the Stargate franchise. If you're asking about a particular movie or TV-show only, also tag the question with the tag for that movie/TV-show (for example [stargate-1994] or [stargate-sg1] etc.) " OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-06T18:34:56.040" LastActivityDate="2016-11-06T18:34:56.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1986" CreationDate="2012-10-27T02:44:34.970" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was an ad-lib by Christopher Walken (as explained during his appearance on Inside The Actors Studio). He said &amp;quot;I was looking at his head, thinking what I'm gonna do to it&amp;quot;. So he was actually comparing Clifford Worley's (Dennis Hopper's) head to a cantaloupe melon!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3303" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2021-05-18T11:07:14.160" LastActivityDate="2021-05-18T11:07:14.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4325" CreationDate="2012-10-27T08:03:50.937" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever any TV Series/Movie employs time travel there tends to be some major gaps. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless I'm missing something there are several in Misfits throughout the first three series, mainly the latter two - and yes, I think they must just be plot holes - I'll give another example or two. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A major one is Superhoodie's actions in general - if he came back to save Alisha, why does he need to act upon so many different things? Saving Nathan, Curtis etc. It suggests that there have been many versions of time in which Superhoodie has slowly improved the timeline with each attempt, but it makes absolutely no sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DO NO READ ON IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED THE THIRD SERIES YET!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It turns out the time arc is complete when Simon heads back into the past at the end of the third series. His only reason for going back is to see Alisha - not save her - or he'd simply stop her throat being slit and find a different way of stopping her being shot by the gamer bloke. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's rewind a bit. If he went back solely for Alisha, what's with the other actions? For example, he saved Nathan from the Virgin group at the end of series one - but why is that necessary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of series two or three would even have happened if Nathan had been converted by the group, so surely the original timeline would have been all but Simon being converted and a totally different world and story being created. I'm rambling but you get the idea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simpler example is the Nazi episode. A whole different reality is created. In that world, Kelly would have grown up in a totally different way, under Nazi control etc.. she would not have lived the same life. So how is it that when she travels back in time at the end of the episode and stops it all from happening - she is able to go back to the normal reality and speak to the rest of the gang as though she never left? It makes no sense whatsoever - the non-Nazi world should be totally alien to her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably a more elaborate answer than you were hoping for and one that probably raises more questions than it answers. Sorry!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3305" LastActivityDate="2012-10-27T08:03:50.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5809" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5813" CreationDate="2012-10-27T13:16:25.927" Score="19" ViewCount="16367" Body="&lt;p&gt;James Bond comes face to face with Blofeld in &quot;You Only Live Twice&quot; when he infiltrates his base in the volcano. Bond was played by Sean Connery and Blofeld was played by Donald Pleasence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the next film, &quot;On Her Majesty's Secret Service&quot;, Bond (played by George Lazenby) meets Blofeld while posing as Sir Hillary. However, Blofeld doesn't recognise him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't he recognise him? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="3203" LastEditDate="2013-01-23T10:26:50.967" LastActivityDate="2018-09-18T06:07:48.623" Title="Why doesn't Blofeld recognise James Bond in &quot;On Her Majesty's Secret Service&quot;" Tags="|james-bond|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5810" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5816" CreationDate="2012-10-27T14:12:38.567" Score="9" ViewCount="1642" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've only a vague recollection of this science fiction movie, probably released between 1965 and 1972, which features two humanoid alien men on Earth, hunting for a female alien, who has disguised herself as human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The aliens wear special eye-glasses or sunglasses, which, when worn, can distinguish aliens from normal humans. The film ends with the death of one or both of the alien men, and in the final shot the camera pans through a pair of the special glasses, which have fallen to the ground when one of the aliens was killed, and as we look through them they reveal the identity of the woman who was being hunted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So fas as I can recall, I think the woman turned out to be an alien robot; but I don't remember why this was significant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've searched through lists of SF movies of the Sixties and Seventies, but without finding any title that rings a bell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3306" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-10-27T19:56:43.367" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T17:37:07.230" Title="Seeking a 1960s Sci-Fi movie about a female humanoid robot" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:39:13.260" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1027" CreationDate="2012-10-27T14:41:39.030" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's important to bear in mind that although Mike Myers' character is under the mistaken belief that his fiancee/wife, Harriet, is hiding the fact that she is an axe-murderer, what Harriet is really trying to hide is her shame that, as she believes, she has been dumped by all of her many previous fiancees (who, in fact, have actually been murdered - they didn't dump her at all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She has come to believe she is so unattractive that any man who gets to know her intimately will dump her.  She becomes pathologically terrified of Myers finding out she's had so many previous engagements. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She therefore persuades her girl friends to conspire with her to hide that from Myers. This is a comedy, and the joke is that Ralph is an unlikely name for a girl; but, nonetheless, at one point Harriet does try to pass off her unintentional mention of 'Ralph' as a reference to a girl she knows. To convince Myers, she then has to get one of her female friends to pretend to be Ralph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3306" LastEditorUserId="19941" LastEditDate="2018-10-25T21:32:47.643" LastActivityDate="2018-10-25T21:32:47.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="5813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5809" CreationDate="2012-10-27T14:49:16.627" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;The order of the movies is reversed: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Movie Order:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062512/&quot;&gt;You Only Live Twice&lt;/a&gt; (1967)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064757/&quot;&gt;On Her Majesty's Secret Service&lt;/a&gt; (1969)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Novel Order:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Her_Majesty%27s_Secret_Service_%28novel%29&quot;&gt;On Her Majesty's Secret Service&lt;/a&gt; (1963)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_%28novel%29&quot;&gt;You Only Live Twice&lt;/a&gt; (1964)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064757/faq#.2.1.4&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMDb FAQ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... screenwriter &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0537363/&quot;&gt;Richard Maibaum&lt;/a&gt; stuck very closely to the original story when writing the screenplay for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;On Her Majesty's Secret Service&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Bond and Blofeld had not yet met at that point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001094/&quot;&gt;Roald Dahl&lt;/a&gt;, the screenwriter for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;You Only Live Twice&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; ... made major changes in his screenplay and added a scene where Bond and Blofeld meet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;So the reason why &lt;em&gt;Blofeld&lt;/em&gt; doesn't recognize &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; in the movie &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;On Her Majesty's Secret Service&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is because the screenwriter was more faithful to the original story. And that story preceeds &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;You Only Live Twice&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The screenwriter for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;You Only Live Twice&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; however wasn't so faithful to story in the novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2012-10-27T14:58:33.643" LastActivityDate="2012-10-27T14:58:33.643" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1049" CreationDate="2012-10-27T15:16:02.803" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Robert A. Heinlein’s 1959 novel was a serious work of fiction, written by a man who had himself done military service, having graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1929. It was not a comedy. Hence, the humour in the movie does not derive from the novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The novel is an attack on communism, and celebrates the American dream in a manner common in the 1950s. It represents the enemy as an insect race; by implication, this depiction of the 'bugs' as having a hive-mind instead of being individuals is a representation of the communists, as they were usually seen by Americans at that period in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Earth soldiers are fighting for the right to vote. Only soldiers, in the novel, can acquire this right, which has to be earned. The bugs, in contrast, are loaded down by the author with all the worst aspects of communism, being mere slave labour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The novel seeks to give a realistic picture of life as a boot-camp trainee soldier, and paints quite a grim picture of that. Very little of the novel involves actual combat missions. Despite the notional SF background, the storyline is nevertheless based much more on World War II than on 'The War Of The Worlds'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very little of all this makes it into the movie, which is a comedy broadly based on a mix of the Harry Harrison novels &lt;em&gt;Bill the Galactic Hero&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the Universe&lt;/em&gt;, with merely a few character names and placenames borrowed from Heinlein's book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3306" LastEditorUserId="3306" LastEditDate="2016-07-24T19:14:12.137" LastActivityDate="2016-07-24T19:14:12.137" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5810" CreationDate="2012-10-27T15:27:00.400" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are looking for &lt;em&gt;The Love War&lt;/em&gt;, a made-for-TV movie from 1970 (you can see it on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WcmJceWA-M&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;youtube&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Two different alien races are at war. Representatives of each race&#xA;  have landed on Earth to battle it out here, but they're being sneaky&#xA;  about it: They've taken human form and they can only spot other aliens&#xA;  through the use of special glasses. (imdb)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's your alien in sunglasses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oL2KJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the view of Angie Dickinson through the glasses on the ground at the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qFTLx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2012-10-27T17:22:39.143" LastActivityDate="2012-10-27T17:22:39.143" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4" CreationDate="2012-10-27T15:45:31.533" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In deciding whether the film was originally planned as a comedy you might look, for instance at the names of the Director, the screenwriter, and the cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many films did Peter Sellers make which were not comedies, for instance? His entire reputation was in comedy, from the time of his earliest beginnings in radio with 'The Goon Show'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blake Edwards was not known for making Shakespearean drama, nor even for making contemporary drama. He was not Irwin Allen, who directed 'Towering Inferno' and 'The Poseidon Adventure'. Nor was he Cecil B DeMille.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a mistake to suppose that the lead actor, Sellers, can re-write the screenplay. Only the director of the film can do that; and if the actors wish to make changes, this cannot be done without the agreement and support of the director. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sellers had the ability to make a humorous screenplay funnier in performance than it might appear on the written page; but unless the director was making a comedy, Sellers had no chance of getting laughs, if that was not Edwards' intention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, why hire Sellers at all, unless you were making a comedy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3306" LastActivityDate="2012-10-27T15:45:31.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1645" CreationDate="2012-10-27T16:56:59.637" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the crimes on CSI are wrapped up neatly by the end of a single episode.  They also have longer story arcs that take anywhere from two or three episodes to an entire season to solve.  The Blue Paint Killer, Miniature Killer, Dick and Jane Killer, and Dr. Jekyll story arcs are all examples of cases that take several episodes for the CSI team to solve.  The pilot episode of the series also introduces a case that isn't solved until season two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very rarely there are cases that just go completely unsolved.  One example is &lt;a href=&quot;http://csi.wikia.com/wiki/Sqweegel_%28character%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sqweegel&lt;/a&gt;, which is based on a character from CSI creator Anthony Zuiker's series of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.level26.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Level 26&lt;/a&gt; novels.  Sqweegel was responsible for a series of attacks in one episode in season 11, but so far hasn't shown up again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-10-27T16:56:59.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5629" CreationDate="2012-10-27T18:43:56.360" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is fairly faithful to Stephen Chbosky's book, and in this reader's guide from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shmoop.com/perks-of-being-a-wallflower/aunt-helen.html&quot;&gt;shmoop&lt;/a&gt; (like Cliffs Notes or Spark Notes):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Charlie thinks about his mom's sister a lot. He even visits her grave,&#xA;  telling her secrets that he only shares in his letters. So why does he&#xA;  love and trust her so much? He thinks it's because she was one of the&#xA;  few people who bought him two gifts at the holidays—one for Christmas&#xA;  and one for his birthday, which was Christmas Eve. He thinks it's&#xA;  because she died in a car accident on Charlie's seventh birthday when&#xA;  she went to buy his birthday present. He thinks it's because he's&#xA;  guilty for her death...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Growing up, Aunt Helen was molested by a friend of the family. When&#xA;  she finally told her parents, they didn't believe her. They did&#xA;  nothing to stop it, and even continued inviting the man into their&#xA;  home. Eventually, Aunt Helen grew up and got away. But of course, the&#xA;  trauma stayed with her: &quot;My aunt Helen drank a lot. My aunt Helen took&#xA;  drugs a lot. My aunt Helen had many problems with men and boys. […]&#xA;  She went to hospitals all the time&quot; (2.13.9).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Victims of abuse often become abusers themselves. And of course, Aunt&#xA;  Helen goes on to molest Charlie. She took advantage of shy, quiet&#xA;  Charlie's love and trust. Charlie forgives her, but it has changed the&#xA;  course of his life forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of best friend Michael Dobson:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As the novel opens, Charlie is still reeling from his best (and&#xA;  probably only) friend Michael's suicide. We never really get to know&#xA;  Charlie and Michael as a duo—all we know is that they went to a few&#xA;  football games and peeped inside their neighbors' windows. Seems like&#xA;  tame high school fun, but maybe Michael was window shopping for a new&#xA;  family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're pretty sure Michael exists to show Charlie how not to be. Even&#xA;  though Charlie eventually stops writing about Michael, the suicide&#xA;  still haunts him. When he experiences his own suicidal thoughts, he&#xA;  pleads with the reader, &quot;I never wanted to. You have to believe me&quot;&#xA;  (2.15.12), as if to say, I won't end up like Michael. I won't. Maybe&#xA;  he's trying hard to convince himself of that, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Michael is the only character in the book who gets a last name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-10-27T18:43:56.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2973" CreationDate="2012-10-27T20:30:17.427" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first scene was on the Earth. Here is an important &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/faq#.2.1.49&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; from IMDB, where it clearly states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is no definite answer. It could very well be Earth in the early stages of life, possibly sometime after the extinction of the dinosaurs (the meteor which was responsible actually resulted in a mass extinction of nearly all life on the planet; the Engineers could have chosen Earth as it was a planet capable of supporting life, and maybe saw the creation of humanity as a way to &quot;heal&quot; the damage). However, there is no indication that it is specifically Earth. It could very well be another planet, as it is suggested that the Engineers created other life besides humans. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Prometheus-Explained-Unraveling-Unanswered-Questions-31317.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;site&lt;/a&gt; stated supporting it was Earth:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Our Theory: What we are seeing in the beginning is the creation of Earth. The giant ship (which is different from the ring-shaped one we see later in the film, weirdly) has landed on Earth to drop off the Engineer so that he can terraform the planet and make it sustainable for life. We think he drinks the black goo to break down his own structure and spread life on Earth through his own DNA, but that doesn’t really explain his surprise while he’s disintegrating (and if the Engineers do have the same DNA as us, it’s hard to say why the Engineers had to be broken down in order to create humanity)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/7099&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Prometheus forum&lt;/a&gt; also states it is Earth showed in the first scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The engineer basically killed himself by drinking that stuff, which broke down his body and allowed his DNA to be dispersed and then (as per the film) this kick started life on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the same landscape is concerned you can see there is are touches of &quot;slight greenery&quot; in the first scene, whereas when Prometheus was entering the planet, no such greenery could be seen! Also water was present in the first scene, whereas no signs of water was there before entering the cave in Prometheus. The planet was full of rocks, sands and all. No signs of life was there. This makes the two landscapes different. However filming was done on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_%28film%29#Sets_and_vehicles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Earth&lt;/a&gt; only. So there can be some similarities...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iw0n1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;slight greenery in starting scene&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;slight greenery in starting scene&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7Svlp.png&quot; alt=&quot;greenery as well as water in the first scene&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;greenery as well as water in the first scene&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T22:53:12.590" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T22:53:12.590" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5723" CreationDate="2012-10-27T23:27:28.737" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The name 'Stacey' was never formally adopted within the show as canon:  instead, they went for him just being called 'Mac'.  The intention, in the first season, was for the character to have a somewhat mysterious background, with hints of history rather than specifics.  This approach was dropped by the end of the first season, partly because it wasn't very successful, partly because it didn't catch the interest of the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, the character was given an increasing amount of backstory (not always consistent).  By the fifth season, the absence of a first name had almost become a running joke; a near-reveal (done partly as an audience tease) established that MacGyver disliked his first name, never used it, did not allow its use and would not answer to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The full reveal was finally done in the final season, and a big production (a two-part episode with fantasy sequences) was made of it.  Other than that episode, the only time the name was ever mentioned was in the series finale:  it was revealed that MacGyver's son had been given the name 'Angus' as a middle name, and that he didn't like the name either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3310" LastActivityDate="2012-10-27T23:27:28.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2787" CreationDate="2012-10-28T04:49:39.380" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meredith Vickers is not an android. The reasons are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;She died in the movie by the crushing spaceship. If she was an android she could never die like David.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Meredith meets with Weyland she calls him &quot;father&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Weyland: &quot;Anything else?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mederith: &quot;No, Father!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now an android may also call its creator &quot;father,&quot; but an android does not feel  anxiety for his creator and sob like Meredith did after the scene. On the other hand David, an android, never cries. To him an order is an order.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Remember the conversations between the captain and Meredith in the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Captain:&lt;/em&gt; You know if you really wanna get laid, you really don't have to pretend to be interested in Pyramid scan. You could just say,&#xA;  &quot;Hey, I'm trying to get laid.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mederith:&lt;/em&gt; I could. I could say that, right? But it wouldn't make sense why I would fly myself half a billion miles from every man on&#xA;  Earth if I wanted to get laid, would it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Captain:&lt;/em&gt; Hey Vickers, I was wondering, are you a robot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Meredith (With an inviting smile):&lt;/em&gt; My room....10 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sequence clearly indicates that the Captain tried to mock Meredith with &quot;Are you a robot&quot;?&#xA;To which Meredith invited him for &quot;sex&quot;. Androids don't do sex.......Does David?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Androids don't need life-support systems...like she needed. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Androids also don't burn an infected body if not instructed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Her body strength may be nearly the same as David because surely she made herself strong enough like David as she must be angry with him because of her father's fondness for him over her. Another logic can also be that when she pushed him he was not at all ready for the attack, and also David would not attack the creator's own daughter!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also the cold nature of her father must push her into being cold. But that does not make her an android.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="27960" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T07:35:04.423" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T07:35:04.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5824" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5826" CreationDate="2012-10-28T05:24:20.473" Score="3" ViewCount="3697" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;The Adjustment Bureau&quot;, it was never revealed who &quot;The Chairman&quot; was. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Was The Chairman &lt;strong&gt;God&lt;/strong&gt;? When Norris asked &quot;Are you angel?&quot; Harry said &quot;We have been called that&quot;. So this implies they might be God.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What was &quot;The plan&quot;? Was it some sort of paper where fortune is written by the God?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What was the office of the bureau? Was it heaven?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T15:12:01.080" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T15:12:40.443" Title="Who was &quot;The Chairman&quot; and what was &quot;The Plan&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-adjustment-bureau|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5824" CreationDate="2012-10-28T09:20:00.000" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole movie just depicts a race of powerful beings that guide our daily lives. If you want to call them angels, you could. The producers didn't want to pin them down to 1 culture or religion, to make it more accessible for the broad audience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5778984/whos-the-secret-chairman-of-the-adjustment-bureau&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; shows, any interpretation is valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They originally planned for a woman chairman but left that out for suspense. The plan was just what they wanted for humanity, again it can be mapped to anything religious like karma, faith or...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Point is they tried to be culture independent so everyone could enjoy it. Don't try to pin it down to one culture/religion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T15:12:40.443" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T15:12:40.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4132" CreationDate="2012-10-28T16:58:22.110" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The aliens have come from &lt;strong&gt;inter-dimensional space&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Kingdom_of_the_Crystal_Skull&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; narrates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spalko believes that the crystal skull belongs to an interdimensional being and holds great psychic power, and proves her theory by showing that the corpse stolen from the warehouse has an identically shaped skull.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It further says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After the Soviets arrive, Spalko replaces the skull. The aliens communicate to the group through Oxley using an ancient dialect and promises to reward them with a &quot;big gift&quot;; Spalko demands to &quot;know everything&quot;. The skeletons grant her request and transfer their collective knowledge into her mind. At the same time they activate a portal to another dimension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/faq#.2.1.86&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;confirms&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This refers to the fourth dimension. Definition in the American Heritage dictionary: &quot;Time regarded as a coordinate dimension and required by relativity theory, along with three spatial dimensions, to specify completely the location of any event.&quot; There is a plausible theory in astrophysics that the fourth dimension may exist, which is utilized by the UFO in the film as the propellant engine to travel through the space/time continuum, as Nobel Prize winner in Physics Albert Einstein, who developed the theory of relativity, summarily explains: &quot;An attempt at visualizing the fourth dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oxley knew it. So he said &lt;strong&gt;Into the &lt;em&gt;space between spaces&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastActivityDate="2012-10-28T16:58:22.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5828" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5829" CreationDate="2012-10-28T18:35:48.960" Score="11" ViewCount="33973" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just finished watching Episode 12 of Season 1 of &lt;em&gt;Once Upon a Time&lt;/em&gt;. As stated by Henry at the beginning of the series, everyone's memories have been erased, including the Mayor's. However, the Mayor is clearly aware that she is the Evil Queen after taking the Huntsman's heart from its box and crushing it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on though, she begs Mr. Gold to tell her his real name, even though it is shown that she knew his name when she was the Evil Queen. Does this mean that she does know the truth, but some of her memories are hazy as opposed to fully erased like everyone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3236" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-06-17T04:44:56.030" LastActivityDate="2018-04-20T14:57:05.640" Title="Is the Mayor aware of the fact that she is the Evil Queen in Once Upon a Time?" Tags="|plot-explanation|once-upon-a-time|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5828" CreationDate="2012-10-28T19:12:04.293" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;To the question title, yes.  Regina retains all her memories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the question in the body, no, her memories aren't hazy.  Regina is the one who cast the curse; from her point of view, she &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be the only one who knows their true identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to Mr. Gold's actions in previous episodes, Regina had become suspicious that he might actually know who he really is.  She had to word it carefully so that, if Mr. Gold didn't know he was Rumplestiltskin, he wouldn't think Regina was going crazy.  But if he did know, he would answer as such, confirming her suspicions that he did remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="552" LastActivityDate="2012-10-28T19:12:04.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5831" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5833" CreationDate="2012-10-29T12:08:42.127" Score="2" ViewCount="355" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177971/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Perfect Storm (2000)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was a movie about a some fishermen caught in a big storm:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After debating whether to sail through the building storm or to wait it out, the crew decide to risk the storm. However, between the Andrea Gail and Gloucester is a confluence of two powerful weather fronts and a hurricane, which the Andrea Gail crew underestimate.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perfect_Storm_%28film%29#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Excerpt from the plot section of Wikipedia article about &lt;em&gt;The Perfect Storm (film)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is somewhat similar to Frankenstorm, which would result from the encounter of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hurricane Sandy&lt;/a&gt; and a winter storm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the perfect storm from the movie the same kind of storm as Frankenstorm?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="858" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T15:14:04.533" LastActivityDate="2018-08-05T11:18:42.730" Title="Was the storm from The Perfect Storm (2000) a similar storm as Frankenstorm?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-perfect-storm|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5832" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-29T13:27:25.970" Score="11" ViewCount="1274" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went to see &quot;Fellowship of the Ring&quot; within its first week of showing at a cinema.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember it having a scene at the beginning that has Frodo being asked to tell the story of how he lost his finger.  I have tried to find articles of this scene existing, but have not found any.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose my head may have filled in this scene after I had seen &quot;The Return of the King&quot;, but I think not.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any article or other evidence that there was this alternate beginning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="926" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T03:26:29.353" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T03:26:29.353" Title="Alternate &quot;Fellowship of the Ring&quot; Opening" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|alternate-version|the-fellowship-of-the-ring|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5831" CreationDate="2012-10-29T14:00:53.560" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, its very similar in that you have a tropical depression absorbing a nor'easter.  Sandy has the added &quot;benefit&quot; of a full moon, which many are thinking will make it even more destructive than the 1991 storm that the movie is based on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="576" LastActivityDate="2012-10-29T14:00:53.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5834" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6843" CreationDate="2012-10-29T14:53:06.573" Score="6" ViewCount="1564" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a scene in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071807/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Man with The Golden Gun&lt;/a&gt; where Bond, Hip and Hip's two nieces are fleeing from a karate school. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The four of them reach Hip's car. Hip and the girls get in and they drive away. Why did he leave Bond? Did he think they was in the car? This scene has bothered me for years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T13:16:10.923" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T13:16:10.923" Title="In &quot;The Man with the Golden Gun&quot; why does Hip drive off without James Bond?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|the-man-with-the-golden-gun|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5835" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="5836" CreationDate="2012-10-29T16:30:47.887" Score="10" ViewCount="33759" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accent of Leonardo DiCaprio as Danny Archer sounded different in the Blood Diamond Film. I have seen quite a good number of Hollywood movies, so I have become familiar with their accents. When I heard Danny speak in Blood Diamond, it seemed different to me. For example, he says &quot;bru&quot; for &quot;bro&quot; and &quot;Are you craze&quot; instead of &quot;crazy&quot; to Commander Zero. He also uses of &quot;huh&quot; with every sentence. In fact, he pronounces his name as &quot;Aurchor&quot; for &quot;Archer&quot;. All of this sounded different to me. I am not sure if I am right about the accent thing, but if I am correct, why is it so? Danny said &quot;He belongs to Rhodesia&quot;. So as he is from Rhodesia, was his pronunciation changed in the movie for the sake of the character? I already looked around a bit, but didn't find any explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-10-29T17:06:18.870" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T06:57:59.307" Title="Why does the accent of Leonardo DiCaprio sound so different in Blood Diamond?" Tags="|character|blood-diamond|leonardo-dicaprio|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5835" CreationDate="2012-10-29T18:07:29.533" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;, he was trying to sound like someone from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesia&quot;&gt;Rhodesia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450259/faq#.2.1.12&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMDb&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is a Rhodesian accent, or Southern African.&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;  &lt;br&gt;It is different to the South African accent, like the New Zealand and Australian accents are different. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe, has a small white population who have their own accent, which is often confused with the white South African accent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;In Leonardo DiCaprio's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thecinemasource.com/blog/interviews/leonardo-dicaprio-interview-for-blood-diamond/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;own words&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[I spent] a lot of time with the locals, drinking beers with them, hearing a lot of their stories. [I spoke with] a lot of guys from the South African military.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And of course I have an accent coach and he was there guiding me through it. But we had conversations with these people, listened to their stories, made them say sentences over and over again.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;He also briefly talks about it in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UtTmk8Tkv4#t=01m52s&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;video interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-10-29T18:07:29.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="5837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5801" CreationDate="2012-10-29T22:46:00.440" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lantern_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Green Lantern&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; movie is only very loosely based on the comic book series. As opposed to being imprisoned in a prison of emerald crystal in the movie, Parallax was originally captured in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://greenlantern.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Lantern_Central_Power_Battery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Green Lantern Central Power Battery&lt;/a&gt; as the yellow impurity. He then escapes from it to wreak havoc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, none of that happens in the movie so we can only speculate. The prison he was in was created by Abin Sur. Seeing as only Abin Sur could stand up against Parallax, he must have been very powerful. His prison would have been even more powerful to hold him. As with all Green Lantern things, it's only as strong as the willpower that drives it. It is possible &lt;strong&gt;the willpower of Abin Sur had diminished since the time he imprisoned Parallax&lt;/strong&gt;. While it originally was strong enough to hold a powerfull Parallax, it is now weaker and, apparently, weak enough for Parallax. Parallax's powers also weakened (as he was there for quite some time without anybody around to give him power) during his captivity which is probably why he could only escape when the astronauts were there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could Abin Sur have used eye patches? Perhaps, but there might have been better things that were no longer there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mentioned that Abin Sur's powers could have diminished since he imprisoned Parallax. This can be found in the comic books as &lt;a href=&quot;http://greenlantern.wikia.com/wiki/Abin_Sur&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Abin Sur&lt;/a&gt; had heard of the Blackest Day prophecy. He then started to use a spaceship while all Green Lanterns could easily travel using their power rings. As Abin Sur no longer trusted his resolve and &lt;strong&gt;feared&lt;/strong&gt; the prophecy and Parallax had the advantage of catching him offguard, he was able to defeat Abin Sur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2012-10-29T22:46:00.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5832" CreationDate="2012-10-30T03:36:00.567" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are indications that other prologue narrations were considered, and you might find what you are looking for on the Extended Edition DVD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dvdjournal.com/reviews/l/lordoftherings_fellows2.shtml&quot;&gt;DVD Journal review&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring:&#xA;Extended Edition&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Under the menu for Visualizing the Story you'll find a featurette&#xA;  called Storyboards and Pre-Viz: Making Words into Images, covering the&#xA;  obsessive planning of every aspect of the film...Also in this section&#xA;  are Early Storyboards, animatics of scenes that were never used,&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;including an alternate opening with Frodo as narrator&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/trivia&quot;&gt;imdb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Originally the narration at the prologue was to be spoken by Elijah&#xA;  Wood, but it was felt that the information imparted had little bearing&#xA;  on the character of Frodo. Ian McKellen also recorded a narration but&#xA;  once again it was felt that Gandalf wasn't the right character to&#xA;  speak it. They eventually settled on Cate Blanchett as Galadriel, as&#xA;  it emphasizes the timelessness of the elves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-10-30T03:36:00.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6841" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-10-30T11:32:57.217" Score="13" ViewCount="53202" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Safety_Not_Guaranteed&quot;&gt;Safety Not Guaranteed&lt;/a&gt;, Kenneth's ad was (emphasis mine):  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Wanted: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. &lt;strong&gt;I have only done this once before.&lt;/strong&gt; Safety not guaranteed.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there any indication or hint in the movie that Kenneth was able to time-travel (before he meets Darius and her colleagues)?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any indication or hint in the movie that it was indeed a time-traveling Kenneth who crashed his car into Belinda's then-boyfriend's house (proving Kenneth's claim that if Belinda is alive, then his time traveling worked)?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about any other hint that Kenneth was able to time-travel (in his attempt with Darius)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2012-10-30T11:41:46.217" LastActivityDate="2020-08-16T07:48:46.543" Title="Did Kenneth indeed time-travel?" Tags="|plot-explanation|safety-not-guaranteed|" AnswerCount="16" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4426" CreationDate="2012-10-30T12:05:19.380" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A possible &quot;dark&quot; interpretation of that scene is that Sam died after getting hit by lightning and everything after that is just Sam's (or Suzy's) dream; that's why things got better from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastActivityDate="2012-10-30T12:05:19.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5834" CreationDate="2012-10-30T13:42:43.273" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's just simple confusion.  The two girls jump into the back seat, James closes their door and starts to run around the back of the car, presumably intending to get into the front passenger seat.  Hip hear's the door slam and assumes everyone one is in and drives off!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He may not have noticed James wasn't in the car when he looked back.  Why he didn't stop top leave him into the car I don't know!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene can be seen in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnHXyHAfqLU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this YouTube clip&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/bnHXyHAfqLU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T15:14:59.157" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T15:14:59.157" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6844" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6903" CreationDate="2012-10-30T16:52:49.017" Score="19" ViewCount="27957" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Skyfall James Bond has to complete a word assocation exercise as part of his evaluation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the words the psychiatrist says is  &quot;skyfall&quot; to which Bond replys &quot;done&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems as if the word prompted Bond to go after Patrice as this is what he did immediately after his evaluation. Did we miss a scene where this mission was discussed? Is it just a coincidence it was also the name of Bonds old home?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T15:04:18.153" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T15:04:18.153" Title="Word association test in Skyfall" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1923" CreationDate="2012-10-30T18:37:47.543" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The red and green is to do with wether something is harmless or not but from the scene on the bridge it was merely a necessary target to cut off transportation routes to pave the way for a landing on the island. When Hopper was running away he was still red because they probably already had his intel from the first encounter with him and knew he was a leader along side Captain Nagata if that makes sense so seeing him as a nuisance more then a threat. Also on the scene with the science guy (I dont remember his name) they let him go because he was not threat he was ready to piss himself and they probably did not know what was in his metal brief case because most human tech is considered useless to them except the satalite array. They just focused on the fact that he was ready to piss himself and seen him as no threat and not worth there time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3320" LastActivityDate="2012-10-30T18:37:47.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2692" CreationDate="2012-10-30T20:16:13.413" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a member of Project Mayhem, the narrator has no name. Tyler can have a name, because he is not the true identity, and therefore not a real person-- and therefore not a member of project mayhem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3321" LastActivityDate="2012-10-30T20:16:13.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6847" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6862" CreationDate="2012-10-30T21:05:31.723" Score="21" ViewCount="74794" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g5x0V.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jessica Rabbit&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://calitreview.com/8885&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://hollywoodlostandfound.net/trivia/rogerrabbit.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trivia page&lt;/a&gt; for the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096438/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who Framed Roger Rabbit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jessica Rabbit's&lt;/em&gt; speaking voice was performed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000678/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kathleen Turner&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, who was uncredited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She performed the role as a favor to director &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000709/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Robert Zemeckis&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, with whom she had worked with previously on &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088011/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Romancing the Stone&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jessica's&lt;/em&gt; singing voice was performed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001388/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Amy Irving&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096438/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMDb&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; also says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jessica Rabbit's&lt;/em&gt; speaking voice was performed by &lt;em&gt;Kathleen Turner&lt;/em&gt;, and her singing voice was performed by &lt;em&gt;Amy Irving&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kathleen Turner&lt;/em&gt; was uncredited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was &lt;em&gt;Kathleen Turner&lt;/em&gt; not credited for providing the voice of &lt;em&gt;Jessica Rabbit&lt;/em&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2019-10-07T19:49:15.763" Title="Why was Jessica Rabbit's voice uncredited?" Tags="|who-framed-roger-rabbit|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6847" CreationDate="2012-10-30T23:28:26.053" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know that you'll find an official answer to your question unless an insider can respond, but several facts may hint at some possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There were many rumors that came out concerning tension between disagreeing voices in the making of this movie (such as the notion that Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck couldn't appear without Bugs and Daffy appearing beside them, to avoid favoring Disney over Warner Bros.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The movie was originally billed as a Disney/Spielberg collaboration, but ultimately released as a Touchstone/Spielberg collaboration.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Amy Irving, who was credited as you note, was married to Spielberg at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, you could come to the conclusion that there were a series of power plays between competing producers (and the director as a third factor), leading to behind-the-scenes negotiation that left Turner off the credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did come across a reference suggesting that Turner and Irving both declined to be credited, as they wanted Jessica Rabbit to remain mysterious, but there was no source cited so there may be no truth to that suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is worth noting that Turner was credited for Jessica Rabbit's voice for the subsequent animated shorts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastEditorUserId="36447" LastEditDate="2019-10-07T19:49:15.763" LastActivityDate="2019-10-07T19:49:15.763" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2337" CreationDate="2012-10-31T02:39:30.450" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before Hawkeye's arrow explodes, Banner is the one member of the team who walks over to the screen as sees the location of the Tesseract.  He never gets the chance to tell anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know about Thor.  I found this page by searching for the answer to that question.  i think the theory that he can find Loki is a good one, since he found him on the place (as stated above).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3322" LastActivityDate="2012-10-31T02:39:30.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3693" CreationDate="2012-10-31T07:49:34.783" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought the clone just stayed hidden and observed the audience for a few second, to see their reactions. (There was always a pause between the disappearance and the reappearance) Since when Borden found his dead body, he started shouting, which everyone in the audience heard. So the clone just waited and heard if Borden was shouting. If yes, he now knows that he found his dead body. If everyone just looks amazed and no sound of Borden, the clone will appear and repeat the same process next time. I think that's why he arranged 100 performance because he doesn't know when Borden will show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3324" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2020-06-01T14:02:23.533" LastActivityDate="2020-06-01T14:02:23.533" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6853" CreationDate="2012-10-31T09:02:54.907" Score="16" ViewCount="18378" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to know the difference between the professional titles &quot;writer&quot; and &quot;screenwriter&quot; in the context of movies. Please notice that I'm not a native English speaker and I have little knowledge of cinematographic terminology. As far as I understand:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;writer&quot; creates the &quot;story&quot; of a movie, the plot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;screenwriter&quot; works on the &quot;screenplay&quot;, the dialogues.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'd like to be sure one does not mistake &quot;writer&quot; for those who write books instead of films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3325" LastEditorDisplayName="user27684" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T23:55:23.293" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T23:55:23.293" Title="What's the difference between the professional titles &quot;writer&quot; and &quot;screenwriter&quot;?" Tags="|production|credits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6851" CreationDate="2012-10-31T11:35:07.703" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://noblemania.blogspot.co.at/2011/04/screenplay-terminology-story-by-vs.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's the Difference?: How to Tell Things Apart that Are Confusingly Close&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;“story by”&lt;/strong&gt; credit is given to the person or team who came up with the essence of a film &lt;em&gt;(such as the plot or main characters)&lt;/em&gt; and who may have written a treatment, but who didn’t write the screenplay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, a &lt;strong&gt;“screen story by”&lt;/strong&gt; credit goes to a person or team who adapted other material such as a novel, a TV show, or a news article for film and made it substantially different from the source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;“screenplay by”&lt;/strong&gt; credit is given to the person or team who wrote the scenes and dialogue of a screenplay but didn’t generate the idea for the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;“written by”&lt;/strong&gt; credit is given to the person or team who both conceived of the story and wrote the screenplay. It usually merges &lt;em&gt;“story by”&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;“screenplay by”&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“And”&lt;/strong&gt; indicates multiple writers or writing teams who contributed but did not collaborate directly—they may never have even met.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;strong&gt;ampersand (&amp;amp;)&lt;/strong&gt; indicates multiple people or teams who wrote together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Example:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325980/fullcredits#writers&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Perl&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Screen Story by&lt;/strong&gt;: Ted Elliott &amp;amp; Terry Rossio and Stuart Beattie and Jay Wolpert&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Screenplay by&lt;/strong&gt;: Ted Elliott &amp;amp; Terry Rossio&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case &lt;em&gt;Jay Wolpert&lt;/em&gt; was hired by Disney to write a script based on the theme park ride. Later &lt;em&gt;Stuart Beattie&lt;/em&gt; was brought in to rewrite the script. After that &lt;em&gt;Ted Elliott &amp;amp; Terry Rossio&lt;/em&gt; worked as a team on another rewrite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America,_West&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Writers Guild of America&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(WGA)&lt;/em&gt; has a page with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wga.org/subpage_writersresources.aspx?id=171&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;more details&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;em&gt;Screen Credits&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-10-31T11:35:07.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6854" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8000" CreationDate="2012-10-31T13:54:41.753" Score="34" ViewCount="58409" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bruce Wayne is a billionaire, trained by the League of Shadows, pretty smart too but how does he manage to fix a sophisticated piece of tech like the &lt;em&gt;Bat's Auto-pilot&lt;/em&gt; on his own (&lt;em&gt;I assume he did that on his own&lt;/em&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to forget the supposedly &quot;complex&quot; program that Bruce Wayne wrote that would wipe Selina's record clean, something that's impossible to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my motivation to go out and ask, exactly how qualified is Bruce Wayne to successfully accomplish such a task?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Pardon my ignorance of the &quot;comics universe&quot;, my reference being the Nolan-Bale trilogy. &lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-29T09:59:32.260" LastActivityDate="2016-04-29T09:59:32.260" Title="How educated is Bruce Wayne/Batman?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6855" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6856" CreationDate="2012-10-31T15:01:19.423" Score="9" ViewCount="21274" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the recent news that Disney has bought LucasFilm and plans to make at least 3 new films in the Star Wars series, that would make 9 films in total (presumably all linked story-wise). &lt;strong&gt;Would this make it the film series with the most &lt;em&gt;direct&lt;/em&gt; sequels/prequels?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Bond series has 23 films, however they are generally regarded as standalone movies, not having any links between them (besides the character of Bond). From research the Halloween series has 10 and Friday the 13th has 12, though again I think those films only share the main character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for &lt;strong&gt;English-language films only, that have had cinema releases&lt;/strong&gt; (i.e. not including direct-to-DVD movies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2014-10-19T04:23:19.483" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T20:01:07.273" Title="Which film has the most direct sequels/prequels?" Tags="|sequels|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6855" CreationDate="2012-10-31T15:20:58.817" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Land Before Time &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_Before_Time_%28series%29#Films&quot;&gt;series&lt;/a&gt; has a total of 13 movies, they seem to all be sequels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This compares to Friday the 13th &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th_%28franchise%29#Films&quot;&gt;franchise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; with 12 movies.  However, the newest one is a reboot of the series so, imho, is not a direct sequel/prequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-10-31T15:20:58.817" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6857" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6858" CreationDate="2012-10-31T17:46:49.387" Score="6" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a movie a few years ago but can only remember some elements of the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A guy starts working at a new company. I think they were selling stocks over the phone. The company were either selling crooked stocks or else the stocks they were selling all dropped causing all the buyers to lose money. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can remember two scenes. In the first one the lead goes out to a bar with work colleagues and gets in a brawl with another group of guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second scene the lead is on the phone with a customer trying to help him either get his money back or sell the stocks before they drop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought Edward Norton played the lead but I went through his Imdb page and couldn't find the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2012-11-02T02:54:28.803" LastActivityDate="2012-11-02T15:33:06.247" Title="Movie about a guy working in a crooked organization" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:39:16.383" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6857" CreationDate="2012-10-31T20:11:16.497" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181984/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Boiler Room&lt;/a&gt;.  I'm guessing you're misremembering &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001570/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Norton&lt;/a&gt; as playing &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000610/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Giovanni Ribisi&lt;/a&gt;'s character, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0013877/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Seth Davis&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="576" LastEditorUserId="576" LastEditDate="2012-11-02T15:33:06.247" LastActivityDate="2012-11-02T15:33:06.247" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6854" CreationDate="2012-11-01T02:03:25.487" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Creators Kane and Finger started the Batman series, and only addressed his background after about 6 months (from &lt;em&gt;Batman - The Complete History: The Life and Times of the Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; by Les Daniels:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dySAu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later editions expanded the mythology. According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Bruce_Wayne_%28Earth-One%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DC Comics wiki&lt;/a&gt;, in the Earth-One series:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Bruce became a teenager, he dedicated himself towards learning&#xA;  everything he could about police procedure. He decided to track down&#xA;  the city’s most famous private detective, Harvey Harris. Donning a&#xA;  bright red, yellow and green costume to conceal his identity, Bruce&#xA;  tracked Harris down, only to find a criminal waiting to ambush him.&#xA;  Bruce used a large advertising display piece to waylay the thug,&#xA;  saving Harvey's life. Harvey was so impressed with the teen's verve&#xA;  that he agreed to take him under his wing. Thinking the masked teenage&#xA;  boy looked as colorful as a robin redbreast in his costume, Harvey&#xA;  decided to call him Robin. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Robin, Bruce spent several weeks training under Harvey's tutelage.&#xA;  Harris instructed him on the finer points of criminal detection, and&#xA;  trained him in gymnastics, and hand-to-hand combat. Working together,&#xA;  the two became inseparable and in the span of just a few years, they&#xA;  managed to deal a marked blow against the criminal underworld.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When it was time for Bruce to enter college, he parted company with&#xA;  Harvey and threw himself into his studies. He specialized not only in&#xA;  criminology, but in the sciences as well. After four intense years, he&#xA;  was nearly ready to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a&#xA;  law-enforcement agent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Upon graduation however, Bruce began to re-evaluate his future. He&#xA;  recognized the fact that law enforcement agencies were often the&#xA;  victims of an endless bureaucracy that hampered them from meting out&#xA;  true justice. He could not in good conscious follow such an&#xA;  ineffective path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Batman_%28Bruce_Wayne%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;later series&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He spent his youth traveling the world, training himself to&#xA;  intellectual and physical perfection and learning a variety of&#xA;  crime-fighting skills, including chemistry, criminology, forensics,&#xA;  martial arts, gymnastics, disguise, and escape artistry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At age 14, Bruce Wayne began his global sojourn, attending courses at&#xA;  Cambridge, the Sorbonne, and other European universities. However, he&#xA;  never stayed long and would often drop out after one semester. Beyond&#xA;  academia, Wayne successfully acquired various &quot;practical&quot; skills.&#xA;  While abroad, he studied and received training in multiple martial&#xA;  arts under various instructors and in different countries, man-hunting&#xA;  under Frenchman Henri Ducard, stealth and reconnaissance under the&#xA;  Japanese ninja Kirigi and other certified shinobi, hunting under the&#xA;  African Bushman (the Ghost Tribes of the Ten-Eyed Brotherhood, among&#xA;  others), traditional healing disciplines under Nepalese monks and even&#xA;  ventriloquism under skilled practitioners. His knowledge of so many&#xA;  varied disciplines has made Wayne an unconventional and unpredictable&#xA;  individual. At age 20, he attempted to join the FBI, but after&#xA;  learning about its regulations and conduct, Wayne deducted that he&#xA;  would never be able to completely oppose crime while working within&#xA;  the legal system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-11-01T02:03:25.487" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6847" CreationDate="2012-11-01T04:10:52.857" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Bill Bryson's &lt;em&gt;Made in America&lt;/em&gt; (p 295):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The longest credits yet - for &lt;em&gt;Who Framed Roger Rabbit&lt;/em&gt; - lasted six&#xA;  and a half minutes and saluted 763 creative artists, technicians, and&#xA;  other contributors - without mentioning Kathleen Turner, the voice of&#xA;  Jessica Rabbit, who opted not to be credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure why she would opt for this, but some thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kathleen Turner recalls the film fondly in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/articles/kathleen-turner-talks-the-perfect-family-body-heat,73499/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with Nathan Rabin of Random Roles, which makes it seem unlikely that she had a problem with associating her name with the film. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The lack of credit may have more to do with the fact that she was 9 months pregnant while doing the voice for Jessica, her daughter being born on the last day of recording. It just may have not been something she was concerned about at the time. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Besides having a baby and building a house in 1987, between 1987 and 1988, she was in 4 films and a documentary. It is possible that there were contractual issues that kept her from being credited.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because she was amazed by the creative achievements of others on the film, she may not have thought her contribution that noteworthy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On a list of 763 names, who would notice?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interview excerpt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)—“Jessica Rabbit”&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;KT: Ooooh. Bob&#xA;  Zemeckis, what an extraordinary feat, matching animation and live&#xA;  film. Nobody had done that before. That was just a remarkable process.&#xA;  They kept sending me tapes of how it was going along, and how they&#xA;  were shooting a scene with Bob Hoskins and this sort of metal frame&#xA;  that was Jessica, that would be drawn over in later stages in the&#xA;  process. And then right up to when we had to start doing the breathing&#xA;  of the character, because it’s one thing to do lips and face, but the&#xA;  whole body is the breath, so [I had to] go in and do all the breathing&#xA;  so they could finish the body, and then go back to do the face. It was&#xA;  a fascinating process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;AVC: It was a technological breakthrough, but did you suspect she&#xA;  would become this widespread figure of lust?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;KT: [Laughs.] I’m sort of amazed. Half the photos I get autograph&#xA;  requests for are Jessica. [Laughs.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;AVC: How much of you was in that character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;KT: Oh, to me, it was just fun. I was just seeing what I could do with&#xA;  that voice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;AVC: Do you see Jessica as another parody of the femme fatale?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;KT: No. I believe she was sincerely in love with the rabbit. They had&#xA;  a good marriage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;AVC: There’s that famous line, “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;KT: Well, yes, that was just too fun to pass up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="36447" LastEditDate="2019-10-07T19:49:09.920" LastActivityDate="2019-10-07T19:49:09.920" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5801" CreationDate="2012-11-01T10:02:30.997" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question depends on which side you want it from, the movie reference or the comic canon?&#xA;In the movies it is not really explained but from what I can gather Parallax had been feeding off the organisms fear each time they came in close proximity. Then when the astronauts crashed this was the last bit of fear that he needed to escape, by this time his power had grown to match Abin Sur's which is why he was able to escape. From what I can gather he then went and fed on others fear and became more powerful, so powerful that he was able to defeat Abin Sur. And because his power can grow each time he feeds on fear, and because Abin Sur was not ready, a bit out of practice and his power had maybe diminished a little he was defeated. Although I still think that he was one of the greatest Green Lantern's as he was not scared and still had the Will to fight back a little whereas some of the other's were fed on later on in the film. Abin Sur lived long enough (with a hole in his chest, not many could do this) for the ring to find a new member.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3329" LastActivityDate="2012-11-01T10:02:30.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6865" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6866" CreationDate="2012-11-01T13:54:59.700" Score="17" ViewCount="1781" Body="&lt;p&gt;The final scene of the Sopranos has been the subject of much debate since it aired. I read a great post several months ago located at &lt;a href=&quot;http://masterofsopranos.wordpress.com/the-sopranos-definitive-explanation-of-the-end/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Sopranos: Definitive Explanation of &amp;quot;The END&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to agree with the author of that article when he states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; Tony was killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However my question is, has David Chase ever commented on the ending to give an indication to what actually happened to Tony Soprano?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="36447" LastEditDate="2020-09-11T18:18:33.553" LastActivityDate="2022-12-24T19:52:22.070" Title="Has David Chase ever commented about the fate of Tony Soprano?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-sopranos|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6865" CreationDate="2012-11-01T14:10:34.320" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chase is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/david-chase-reveals-truth-behind-sopranos-ending-article-1.231236&quot;&gt;on record&lt;/a&gt; as saying that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tony did not get whacked&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the same piece: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;There are no esoteric clues in there. No 'Da Vinci Code&lt;/strong&gt;,&quot;' Chase&#xA;  states matter-of-factly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And he feels the show concluded on a hopeful note.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A.J. will &quot;probably be a low-level movie producer. But he's not going&#xA;  to be a killer like his father, is he? Meadow may not become a&#xA;  pediatrician or even a lawyer ... but she'll learn to operate in the&#xA;  world in ways that Carmela never did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;It's not ideal. It's not what the parents dreamed of. But it's better&#xA;  than it was,&quot; Chase says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As for the blackout midway through Journey's &quot;Don't Stop Believin',&quot;&#xA;  Chase had wanted the show's ending to be even more abrupt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Originally, I didn't want any credits at all,&quot; says Chase. &quot;I just&#xA;  wanted the black screen to go the length of the credits - all the way&#xA;  to the HBO 'whoosh' sound. But the Directors Guild wouldn't give us a&#xA;  waiver.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The choice was an artistic one&lt;/strong&gt;, and was not meant as a slap in the&#xA;  face to fans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="576" LastActivityDate="2012-11-01T14:10:34.320" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6867" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6868" CreationDate="2012-11-01T14:49:18.827" Score="6" ViewCount="6058" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/1468/what-rules-govern-how-tv-show-opening-credits-are-structured&quot;&gt;What rules govern how TV show opening credits are structured?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/1551/in-opening-credits-for-tv-shows-why-does-it-say-with-so-and-so-for-some-actor&quot;&gt;In opening credits for TV shows, why does it say ‘with so and so’ for some actors?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the credits of Seinfeld series I noticed that Jason Alexander is listed as 'Jason Alexander as George'. While others are listed with just their names and their character name is left out. &quot;Jerry Seinfeld&quot;, &quot;Julia Louis-Dreyfus&quot;, and &quot;Michael Richards&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I Googled for 'Seinfeld credits Jason Alexander George' and found &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006043025668&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;In the Seinfeld credits, why does it say &quot;Jason Alexander as George&quot; when no one else has as after their name?&lt;/a&gt; It says a lot of TV shows do that and may be it is because their name is last.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still I find it odd. They could have gone with 'Michael Richards as Cosmo Kramer' and put Jason Alexander as third in the credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any trivia that I'm missing on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1710" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2012-11-02T13:22:05.923" Title="Seinfeld credits - Jason Alexander as George" Tags="|credits|seinfeld|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2012-11-02T07:13:04.917" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6867" CreationDate="2012-11-01T15:29:48.223" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AndStarring&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a way to draw special attention to the last actor on the list, their name will often be bracketed with an additional annotation, such as &amp;quot;With&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;And&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;And Starring&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, this would be elaborated even further, giving the name of the character portrayed by the actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past, this was reserved for either the star of the show, a cast member who is not part of the &amp;quot;primary&amp;quot; ensemble, or a big name doing a cameo. Over time, as stars and their agents learned about the power of marketing, it has become an increasingly important bargaining point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The credits of Seinfeld ended with &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;And Jason Alexander as George&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, as he had arguably the highest profile as an actor of the four principals.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jason Alexander&lt;/em&gt; was on Broadway before doing &lt;em&gt;Seinfeld&lt;/em&gt;, and in 1989 he &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.backstage.com/news/celebrating-the-tony-awards-with-jason-alexander/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;won a &lt;strong&gt;Tony Award&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Best Actor in a Musical )&lt;/em&gt; for his perfomance in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Robbins%27_Broadway&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jerome Robbins' Broadway&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-11-01T15:29:48.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6870" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6872" CreationDate="2012-11-01T20:30:10.113" Score="4" ViewCount="502" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Loves_Raymond&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Everybody Loves Raymond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; series, why does Frank (the Grandfather) always opens the zip of his pants when he sits down in chair?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-11T13:01:28.703" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T13:01:28.703" Title="Frank opening his pants each time he sits down?" Tags="|plot-explanation|everybody-loves-raymond|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6870" CreationDate="2012-11-02T04:34:26.427" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;People sometimes undo their pants when the are bloated after a meal. The ever-uncouth Frank does this routinely, in front of others, reminding us that he really doesn't care what anyone thinks about him. This was a running gag that appears to have been originated by the creators of the show. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a book about the creation of the series, &lt;em&gt;You're Lucky You're Funny: How Life Becomes a Sitcom&lt;/em&gt;, Phil Rosenthal writes about the casting of Frank Barone. They were looking for a &quot;nonethnic ethnic&quot; to contrast with the more ethnic Italian/Jewish Ray Romano and Brad Garrett. When Peter Boyle arrived for the audition he was furious because he had had trouble finding the place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He scared me, and I gave him the part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He happened to be funny, too, when he calmed down. But we saw that we&#xA;  could use a little of that anger... Lucky for us, he was also&#xA;  hilarious at sitting in a chair with his pants open and rifling&#xA;  one-liner at his wife, his sons, and anyone else in range. We had the&#xA;  father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-11-02T04:34:26.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6876" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6886" CreationDate="2012-11-03T12:36:01.303" Score="1" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I completed &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bourne Trilogy&lt;/a&gt; and noticed a thing very interesting. They used Motorola as cell phone for each person in the movie which is very impractical. I have seen such thing in other movies also. Motorola as cellphone for each cast is shown in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_%282006_Hindi_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Don&lt;/a&gt; and Audi in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transporter_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;transporter movie series&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_vehicles#Aston_Martin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Aston Martin&lt;/a&gt; in Bond series. So is it done to promote the products thorough the films? Or do the companies sponsor the films? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-12-27T15:08:02.617" LastActivityDate="2012-12-27T15:08:02.617" Title="Why is a special company's product shown through out a film?" Tags="|product-placement|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="625" CreationDate="2012-11-03T13:16:01.633" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Wikipedia page referred to gives an exhaustive list of the differences, in terms of deleted scenes. There are indeed many scenes in the Final Cut which were omitted from earlier releases. But this is not really to the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to the question is what differences those changes have made to the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Final Cut (2007) is a very different movie, in terms of plot. Harrison Ford is always hunting for replicants, but never before did the director's real vision emerge. Ford's character is defined by the differences in what he &lt;strong&gt;does&lt;/strong&gt; in those changed scenes. The differences boil down to whether he falls in love with the replicant, Rachael, or not. And whether he, Deckard, is revealled to be a replicant himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I originally saw the international edition on its UK release in 1982, and most recently saw the latest version, the Final Cut director's version edited by Ridley Scott, and I was amazed by the difference. The Final Cut is a significantly better movie; and I finally understood the reasons why the director was so unhappy with the 1982 release, which the studio had forced him to release in that form, such that - according to press reports at the time - he had tried to disassociate himself from the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot changes made in the Final Cut are all for the better, IMHO, giving real emotional depth to a picture which was, on its original release, little more than a routine Bruce Willis style shoot-em-up. Deckard and Rachael finally become real people, with real motivations and real emotions, in the Final Cut; which is deeply ironic, given that in it they are both depicted, by a very subtle implication in Deckard's case, as not actually being human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3306" LastActivityDate="2012-11-03T13:16:01.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2719" CreationDate="2012-11-03T13:51:54.050" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ridley Scott wanted to tell a story that was tightly focused on the two key players, Deckard and Rachael, and - if you accept his more recent comments - to make it a love story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His 21st century director's cut certainly plays up the love angle, which is far more iconic and of far broader appeal to an audience than a routine sci-fi shoot-em-up (which was basically what the original cinema release amounted to).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the three points you identify as being omitted from the screenplay are interesting concepts, in terms of Philip K Dick's dark vision of the world in the 21st Century, in terms of the movie all three points amount only to padding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They do not bear directly on Deckard's hunt for the missing replicants, but are merely incidental aspects that seek to explain or expand on the world-setting within which the hunt takes place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They do not have any direct connection with the love story, as Deckard begins to fall in love with Rachael. She is probably - depending on which cut of the movie you watch - unaware that she is not human, which engages Deckard's initial sympathy for her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore the three points in question are not necessary in order to tell the story of Deckard's investigation. A movie must concentrate only on essentials, because otherwise it quickly loses focus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This movie in particular, which has more re-edited releases than almost any other in film history, desperately needs to retain its focus and concentrate its limited screen time on the key element of the storyline: which is a 21st century re-make of the movie &quot;Love Story&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3306" LastEditorUserId="3306" LastEditDate="2016-07-24T17:18:30.247" LastActivityDate="2016-07-24T17:18:30.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2722" CreationDate="2012-11-03T14:25:44.130" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a difficult philosophical question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We, the audience, are asked to judge Roy's motivations from observing his actions. And the fact that there are so many differing versions of this movie makes this a somewhat more than usually difficult thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, my opinion is that Roy, and the other replicants, long to be human. It seems to me that Ridley Scott is telling us that they are not merely struggling to gain more life, but are actually seeking a way to become fully human; something which, of course, includes a longer lifespan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My take on Roy is that in saving Deckard's life he is demonstrating to the audience that he is psychologically already human, in that he is acting in the way a human would act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether Deckard, who in one edit subsequently kills Roy, is morally justified in doing so - since he owes Roy a debt for saving his life - is a different question. Subtly, Ridley Scott is implying here that Deckard is less human than Roy, to support the theme Scott is fostering that Deckard is actually a replicant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, Roy lets Deckard live in order to demonstrate that Roy is thinking and behaving like a human; and, in addition, to contrast this with Deckard then killing Roy, thereby showing himself to be less human than Roy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3306" LastEditorUserId="3306" LastEditDate="2012-11-03T14:30:52.387" LastActivityDate="2012-11-03T14:30:52.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6844" CreationDate="2012-11-03T15:02:22.280" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think its a coincidence, that was how the story was laid. It was something to do with the movie's editing that it made viewers feel it was a coincidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skyfall wasn't just his old home; his parents also died there, and he hadn't been there since their death. So, when the psychiatrist says 'Skyfall', he actually wanted to check if he had moved on from their death or not. 'Done', was probably Bond's way of saying 'Yes'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After (failing) the tests, he continues on his mission (that computer scene where they tell him go to China because Patrice is there) only after &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt; gives the go-ahead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user96" LastActivityDate="2012-11-03T15:02:22.280" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3596" CreationDate="2012-11-03T15:06:07.830" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whether Deckard is himself a replicant is left deliberately ambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the original novel, a security force exists in addition to the regular police force in Los Angeles, whose operatives are termed 'blade runners' and who are actually replicants, created to do that special job of locating and terminating replicants that go 'rogue'. It's a kind of 'set a thief to catch a thief' arrangement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This force of replicants did not make it into the movie; it is one of several elements in the novel which were lost in the process of adapting the original story for the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the notion may have persisted, in the mind of the director, that 'blade runner' is a job carried out by replicants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He hints at this in the movie, by including - in the 2007 director's Final Cut - the Unicorn scene, implying that Deckard is having artificial dreams, one of the hallmarks of a replicant (an element which echos the original title of the novel: 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?')&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Deckard treats the replicants very badly, executing all of them (except Rachael) - thus showing himself to be less human than they. For when the opportunity arises for a replicant to kill Deckard, the one called Roy saves his life. Morally, this implicitly elevates the replicants over Deckard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet there is no indication in the movie of Deckard having a limited lifespan, something which all the replicants suffer from, beyond the fact that the police allow him and Rachael to ride away into the sunset together, unmolested, at the end of the picture; thereby implying that the police believe the couple have too little time left to cause any further problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3306" LastActivityDate="2012-11-03T15:06:07.830" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4433" CreationDate="2012-11-03T15:56:14.383" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; best I can come up with is Brent Spiner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He played not two but THREE characters in the same scene, in the 77th episode of Star Trek The Next Generation, '&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_%28Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brothers&lt;/a&gt;', where he appears simultaneously as Data, as Data's evil android brother Lore, and as their creator Dr Noonien Soong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: William Shatner &lt;em&gt;kept&lt;/em&gt; doing it. In season one, he appears in &lt;em&gt;The Enemy Within&lt;/em&gt; - repeatedly - as both the good Kirk and the evil Kirk (capturing him in engineering, recapturing him on the bridge, scenes in sickbay, scenes in the transporter room). The same season, in &lt;em&gt;What Are Little Girls Made Of&lt;/em&gt;, he plays both Kirk and the Android Kirk in several scenes. And in &lt;em&gt;Operation Annihilate&lt;/em&gt; he plays both Kirk and Kirk's brother, Sam. In season 2, in &lt;em&gt;Return to Tomorrow&lt;/em&gt; he plays both Kirk and the alien leader, Sargon. In season 3, he appears in &lt;em&gt;Whom Gods Destroy&lt;/em&gt; as both Kirk and Kirk's double, the disguised Lord Garth of Izar. And in &lt;em&gt;Turnabout Intruder&lt;/em&gt; he plays both Kirk and Dr Janice Lester, when she takes over his body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3306" LastEditorUserId="3306" LastEditDate="2016-10-29T20:53:56.640" LastActivityDate="2016-10-29T20:53:56.640" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12" CreationDate="2012-11-03T16:20:32.507" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;All they needed was a tall actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since his face would not be seen, behind Vader's mask, and his character's voice would be dubbed by another actor, all that was required was height.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several actors were perfectly qualified for the part. Dave Prowse was well known in the British film industry, because of his role in Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange', which was entirely filmed in England, and from his role as the Green Cross Code man in TV and cinema road safety adverts, filmed on behalf of the Central Office of Information, a public body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had played a lot of stunt work in films and on tv, including science fiction, having had a role in 'Doctor Who', in 1972, as the Minotaur in the serial 'The Time Monster', a role in which he also wore a face mask and had no dialogue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in contention was the 7-foot-tall Richard Keil, who, also in 1977, was cast in the Bond film 'The Spy Who Loved Me', which was made in studios in England and on location in Egypt. Keil played 'Jaws', the enormously tall professional assassin, a role that he later repeated in a second Bond film, 'Moonraker', in 1979. Again, it was a part without any dialogue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One might bear in mind also Peter Mayhew, who was cast in 'Star Wars' as Chewbacca, who also had the requisite characteristics of height and an ability to act despite being entirely concealed within a costume and mask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the casting of Dave Prowse as Darth Vader was not entirely a forgone conclusion. There &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; other tall actors suitable for the part, who were working in England in 1977. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3306" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-11-28T01:33:49.027" LastActivityDate="2016-11-28T01:33:49.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2064" CreationDate="2012-11-03T16:56:05.433" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to understand clearly one crucial point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only a Jedi who adheres to the 'good' side becomes part of The Force in the event of his death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Jedi adherent of the dark side who perishes is truly dead; he cannot survive as a part of The Force. Hence Vader, having adopted the dark side, had no knowledge that a Jedi was capable of surviving beyond death. This is why Kenobi warns him that he has a surprise coming if he strikes Kenobi down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We learn later, in &lt;em&gt;Revenge of the Sith&lt;/em&gt;, that the Emperor has imbued Vader with awesome powers, by courtesy of the Dark Side. It gives tremendous power in life, but there is no existence after death. Vader has learned about the Dark Side from the Emperor, so they are both ignorant of the truth about The Force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, Vader saves Luke from the Emperor, turning against the Dark Side, thereby redeeming himself; hence Anakin is accepted into The Force, and Luke can see him - or his 'ghost' or spirit - become a part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is interesting to note, from Leia's reactions in that final scene, that only Luke can see Kenobi, Yoda and Anakin. Only another Jedi has the power to communicate with one who has passed into The Force. Others, such as Leia, cannot see or communicate with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3306" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2019-11-11T09:18:34.533" LastActivityDate="2019-11-11T09:18:34.533" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="6885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1327" CreationDate="2012-11-03T17:35:55.853" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to assert my personal knowledge here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually saw 'Star Wars' in 1977, several times, on its original release. In the original theatrical version there is only a single shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind that they are sitting down, at a table in the Cantina bar, opposite each other. Greedo goes for his gun, saying, &quot;I'm going to enjoy this&quot;. There is a muffled blast, and a flash, as Solo, in self defence, fires under the table, without even drawing his blaster from its holster. Greedo slumps face-down on the table, dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand where the suggestion has come from that Solo shot him in cold blood. Greedo quite plainly grabs for his own blaster, and even has time to deliver his gloating line; his intention to murder Solo is perfectly clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Solo merely waits, to see what Greedo's intention is. It is only when that intention is clearly demonstrated, and Greedo is actually in the act of going for his gun, that Solo fires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That shot got a big laugh, because Greedo was so clearly not expecting it, and so obviously thought Solo was entirely at his mercy. But, unexpectedly, Solo shoots him - without even drawing his weapon. His innocuous, unthreatening posture took the audience, and Greedo, completely by surprise; and the unexpected reversal - with Greedo shot dead instead of doing the shooting - got a well deserved belly laugh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lucas is mistaken. The reason why audiences reacted badly to his later tampering with this scene was because they wanted to preserve that laugh. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole point of the scene is to introduce the character of Han Solo with a joke and a belly laugh. Greedo thinks he's got the upper hand; but Solo demonstrates how clever and resourceful he actually is, behind his harmless pose. It's an Indiana Jones moment, pulling his chestnuts out of the fire unexpectedly, and at the last possible moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Audiences wanted to associate Han Solo with that particular laugh, because that's how he was first introduced to them in the entire 'Star Wars' saga. They resented Lucas for later tampering with a scene that was already perfect, and that perfectly summed-up the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3306" LastActivityDate="2012-11-03T17:35:55.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6876" CreationDate="2012-11-03T18:31:57.273" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Motorola was a huge sponsor of the Bourne Trilogy, even doing an advanced screening of the films for VIPs. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techdigest.tv/2007/08/13_technologyre.html&quot;&gt;This article&lt;/a&gt; from TechDigest chronicles all of the high tech product placements in Bourne Ultimatum. Sadly, product placement is becoming so blatant that it is becoming distracting!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you say, it is done to promote the products by associating them with certain types of characters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2012-11-03T18:41:32.697" LastActivityDate="2012-11-03T18:41:32.697" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3423" CreationDate="2012-11-03T18:34:14.287" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;30% of the movie was adr, a low percentage for a hollywood blockbuster. I think that percentage holds for Bane's dialog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3340" LastActivityDate="2012-11-03T18:34:14.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6890" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6891" CreationDate="2012-11-04T02:33:14.070" Score="13" ViewCount="255519" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112573/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Braveheart&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; after the Scots take over the local garrison and execute the sheriff, everyone begins to chant &quot;Maccaulich!&quot; (which them seems to morph into Wallace). Is there a meaning to this word, a purpose to it, or some character in the movie that I missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="603" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-30T15:49:07.757" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T17:29:56.703" Title="Why do the Scots start chanting &quot;Maccaulich&quot; after their first victory?" Tags="|plot-explanation|braveheart|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6890" CreationDate="2012-11-04T06:43:57.710" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112573/faq#.2.1.9&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; they're chanting &lt;em&gt;MacAulish&lt;/em&gt;, which means &quot;son of Wallace.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Following the death of Murron MacClannough (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001517/&quot;&gt;Catherine McCormack&lt;/a&gt;), when the Scots took out the very first garrison of English soldiers, the crowd starts chanting 'MacAulish...MacAulish!' then changes to 'Wallace...Wallace!' Scottish surnames beginning with 'Mac' mean 'son of...'. Thus, MacAulish means 'son of Wallace.' The crowd is, in essence, cheering William as the 'son of Wallace' (referring to his father) and then Wallace himself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-11-04T06:43:57.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6893" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7936" CreationDate="2012-11-04T12:17:04.407" Score="2" ViewCount="580" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who vandalized Dustin's car with the obscene drawing?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ktGpv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screencap of said scene&quot;&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it TJ or was it &lt;a href=&quot;https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hesher_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hesher?&lt;/a&gt; I would like to know more about the characters of TJ and/or Hesher based on that event in the film.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if TJ deserved Dustin's rage or if this was actually Hesher's first &quot;act of revenge&quot; to Dustin for what happened to TJ. If it was the former, then we'll know that TJ is actually capable of revenge (but not &quot;Hesher level&quot;), and might deserve Dustin's rage after all. If it was the latter, then it means Hesher saw this act of bullying (the text in the obscene drawing was what Dustin said to TJ) and the second act of bullying, and did nothing to intervene at both occasions, but did the &quot;act of revenge&quot; for both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastActivityDate="2012-11-08T03:31:20.090" Title="Did the movie show or hinted at who vandalized Dustin's car with the obscene drawing?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|hesher|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4537" CreationDate="2012-11-04T15:22:29.703" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think about the doppler effect where the sound of a car is high coming towards you and then low going away from you.  This is because it is first the speed of sound plus the car and then the speed of sound minus the car.  Could be the same principle here.  He could hear the actual pitch of the blast on the phone - and then if what he heard 4.5 seconds later was higher in pitch, he would conclude he is downwind and if it were a lower pitch he would conclude he is upwind. From that point he just has to ask his daughter which way the wind is blowing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3344" LastActivityDate="2012-11-04T15:22:29.703" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6895" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7935" CreationDate="2012-11-04T17:52:48.207" Score="23" ViewCount="14489" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Wreck it Ralph&lt;/em&gt;, the video game bad guys are having their Bad Anon meeting. I've been able to identify all the bad guys in the meeting, except for the blue elf lady in the red dress. In the picture below she's in the bottom left corner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r56wg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is she?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-12T15:47:25.667" LastActivityDate="2013-11-23T02:55:48.907" Title="Who is the blue elf lady in the Bad Anon meeting?" Tags="|character|wreck-it-ralph|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1107" CreationDate="2012-11-05T01:10:30.267" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no clear explanation at all in the film but I felt that the conspiracy revolved around using the lead character (and his family) as an elaborate and semi-complicit human sacrifice (semi-complicit as the lead character chooses to carry out the previous assassinations that set up the storyline and is pressed into taking the job by his wife). Having said that, I think that the film is meant to be open to your own interpretation but hope that's useful. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3346" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T01:10:30.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="647" CreationDate="2012-11-05T04:18:16.710" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is more than a lucky guess, and Exley is definitely not able to hear their conversation. The moment is his final step in learning to play the system efficiently. He knows how interrogations work and who is likely to be listening in. He knows what has happened and, being the cleverest among the characters, the optimal resolution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moment is imbued with a bit of movie magic as well, which helps deliver a final punch for our man against crime. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3348" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T04:18:16.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6899" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11187" CreationDate="2012-11-05T07:23:32.093" Score="14" ViewCount="16899" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always thought that &quot;&lt;strong&gt;M&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; was an arbitrary company assigned code name, &lt;em&gt;a thought shared by&lt;/em&gt; Bond in Casino Royale (remember the scene where he broke into M's apartment?). But there have been hints to that it has something to do with her real name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;MAJOR SPOILER ALERT for those who are yet to see SKYFALL&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The house-keeper of Bond's ancestral house, back in Scotland refers to M as Emma. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that her true identity? If yes, how does he come to know of it??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T15:24:52.480" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T15:24:52.480" Title="What is M's real name?" Tags="|character|james-bond|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6899" CreationDate="2012-11-05T09:20:16.130" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the house-keeper called her Emma because Em is short for Emma so he just makes the logical assumption that this is her nickname.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think that M means something like Master as Q is referred to in Skyfall as Quartermaster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I strongly doubt that M has any direct link to her actual name as that would suggest that hire people based on their own name as all people holding that position in all the bond films have been known as M.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2164" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T09:20:16.130" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6899" CreationDate="2012-11-05T10:50:52.650" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vaguely recall from a documentary that I saw about Flemming that it started out as an abbreviation.  The person in charge, when he read documents, would sign them 'M' as it was his initial.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a while it grew into being his name because it was easier to say than 'Section Commander ...'.  When he stepped down/was pushed aside the next person continued to use M as their signature as everyone was calling him M anyway.  Hence is became a kind of code name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T10:50:52.650" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6855" CreationDate="2012-11-05T10:54:26.200" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would Shelock Holmes count?  There are many Basil Rathbone films which feature the same characters in the same setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T10:54:26.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6844" CreationDate="2012-11-05T11:01:02.123" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the test was just probing Bond's psychological state.  Skyfall would involk a painful memory and Bond replied 'Done' in the sense that he was done with the test (hence he walked out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bond is rarely one for sharing his true feelings and had a defiant streak.  Once he knew that the test was going to ask personal question he did not want to discuss he walked out partially because he was upset at the memory, partly because he was offended that they asked something so personal and partly because he did not want to be there anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T11:01:02.123" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6844" CreationDate="2012-11-05T12:15:01.340" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you watch the movie you'll come to know that the word Skyfall refers to Bond's ancestral house in Scotland, where his parents died a supposedly tragic death. The reaction to this word (walking out of the room and quitting the test) eventually leads to Bond failing the test and the evaluator adding a remark of &quot;Personal Childhood Trauma&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-08T09:11:17.570" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T09:11:17.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6899" CreationDate="2012-11-05T12:26:40.737" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;M's name is not revealed in the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if the use of &quot;M&quot; as a code name was based on it being the first letter of the surname of the first person to occupy that role, then this reflects real life, as the first head of the real &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Intelligence_Service&quot;&gt;MI6&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansfield_Smith-Cumming&quot;&gt;Captain Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming&lt;/a&gt;, signed his documents as &quot;C&quot;, as have all his successors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, this suggests 4 possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;M is the first head of the fictional MI6.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She's not the first M, but both her surname, and the first M's surname, begin with &quot;M&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The head of the fictional MI6 is always referred to by the first letter of their surname, and it's just coincidence that, in this case, they both begin with &quot;M&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;None the above, and it is really is a randomly assigned initial, or is short for &quot;Master&quot; or something similar.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="233" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T12:26:40.737" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4486" CreationDate="2012-11-05T13:19:13.360" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well I would say it's a little of both! In the movie, Matt was genuinely a nice guy and even though Kelly beat him up, took his girl, drugged him and what not, there was no grudge on Matt's part as he eventually gets Danielle, goes to Princeton and ends up making a lot of money too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that shouldn't stop someone from having the last laugh, right?! And if you remember, Kelly's smirk on reading the note was more of like an involuntary 'tip of the hat'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-11T12:57:57.437" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T12:57:57.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6907" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="6909" CreationDate="2012-11-05T16:19:07.853" Score="12" ViewCount="4423" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Greek&quot; managed to board a plane with Vondas at the end of season 2 therefore avoiding being arrested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember a scene in season 5 where Marlo meets Vondas on a park bench which leads to a deal between the two and cutting out proposition Joe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the Greek ever mentioned or seen again? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T06:36:44.890" Title="What happened to &quot;The Greek&quot; in the Wire?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-wire|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6908" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-05T17:35:36.773" Score="6" ViewCount="9117" Body="&lt;p&gt;After checking out some guys like Alex Dimitrios and Le Chiffre using M's credential's, he gets out in the Evening to play poker with the Alex. But, before starting his game he says something to two guys (whose car was parked earlier by Bond himself while entering The Ocean Club) at the Drink's table.&#xA;What exactly does he say at this moment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eqaPG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3350" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T13:13:05.913" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T13:13:05.913" Title="In Casino Royale, what Exactly does Bond say at this moment?" Tags="|dialogue|james-bond|casino-royale|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6907" CreationDate="2012-11-05T18:41:29.753" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's at the bar in the final episode when the Co-op members meet with Vondas to arrange their deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="576" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T18:41:29.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4483" CreationDate="2012-11-05T20:41:18.377" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Looper universe, the &quot;change&quot; asked about only happens to people who are visiting the present from the future. And the only type of change that happens is that the people from the future will bear the effects of anything that happens to their present-day selves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, cutting present-day Joe will result in Old Joe's body suddenly showing a scar -- but it won't change the impact of any actions Old Joe has already done in the present. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T20:41:18.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="6911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2427" CreationDate="2012-11-05T21:29:57.687" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd reason it's because Mary Jane was the more famous/iconic choice for Peter's love interest at the time of the original films and the writers/producers wanted to try their best to appeal to a wider audience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jane_Watson#Development&quot;&gt;Mary Jane entry&lt;/a&gt; on Wikipedia notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to co-creator Stan Lee, Mary Jane was originally intended to be simply a rival for Gwen Stacy for the affections of Peter Parker. Lee had always intended for Gwen Stacy to be Spider-Man's one true love. The pairing of Mary Jane and Peter Parker became one of the most prominent couples in the superhero genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 2002 film was one of the first big superhero adaptations in years, so they may have wanted to play it safe by choosing the more popular character, which at the time was definitely Mary Jane. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since then, superhero movies have become much more popular and there have also been big changes within the Marvel universe such as Peter Parker and Mary Jane no longer being married. I would still argue that Mary Jane is more well-known than Gwen Stacy, but I don't think that fact mattered as much when they were making the reboot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2069" LastActivityDate="2012-11-05T21:29:57.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6908" CreationDate="2012-11-06T04:40:31.537" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could be &quot;good evening&quot; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://translate.google.com/#en/de/good%20evening&quot;&gt;German&lt;/a&gt; (Google pronunciation - it's a bit mechanical). Compare to Bond in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/22216347&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; at 32:22. Really hard to tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-11-06T04:40:31.537" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7914" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7916" CreationDate="2012-11-06T14:33:23.237" Score="15" ViewCount="983" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt;, why does Cobb slip the sedative into Robert's glass of water himself, taking considerable amount of risk at getting caught? Why didn't the Air hostess get the pre-drugged water for Fischer? Is there any reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3350" LastEditorUserId="100979" LastEditDate="2023-07-15T22:35:41.770" LastActivityDate="2023-07-15T22:35:41.770" Title="Why does Cobb risk drugging Fischer on the flight?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7915" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7918" CreationDate="2012-11-06T14:45:22.993" Score="25" ViewCount="125044" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Godfather 2&lt;/em&gt;, Frankie Pentangeli walks into a bar. A man puts a cord around his neck and says &quot;Michael Corleone says hello&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on we find out that Roth ordered the hit as Michael confronts him about it. Why would the assassin say &quot;Michael Corleone says hello&quot; if Roth ordered the hit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T08:42:15.763" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T02:20:33.947" Title="Why does Frankie Pentangeli's would be assassin say &quot;Michael Corleone says hello&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-godfather|the-godfather-2|" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7914" CreationDate="2012-11-06T14:46:48.097" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cobb wanted to be absolutely sure that the drug was in. There was just too much at stake to leave something like that up to the hostess. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="6350" LastEditDate="2013-10-06T12:41:37.440" LastActivityDate="2013-10-06T12:41:37.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7917" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7920" CreationDate="2012-11-06T17:21:09.673" Score="14" ViewCount="61201" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Godfather 2&lt;/em&gt; Frankie Pentangeli is before a committee ready give evidence against Michael Corleone. His brother enters the room and Frankie to immediately changes his story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it just out of guilt or was there another less obvious reason? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2017-06-17T10:07:06.023" LastActivityDate="2021-08-01T09:26:49.837" Title="Why does Frankie Pentangeli immediately change his story when he sees his brother?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-godfather-2|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7915" CreationDate="2012-11-06T17:23:18.293" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://godfather.wikia.com/wiki/Hyman_Roth&quot;&gt;Godfather Wiki&lt;/a&gt;, the attempt on Pentangeli's life was intended to fail. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Shortly before the Cuban fiasco, the Senate began hearings on the impact of organized crime. The subcommittee's lawyer, Questadt, was on Roth's payroll, and alerted Roth. Seeing a chance to eliminate Michael from the scene, Roth had the Rosatos &lt;strong&gt;try to kill Pentangeli and make him think that they did so on orders from Michael&lt;/strong&gt;. Pentangeli tells the FBI that Michael is really a powerful Mafia leader who controls all of the gambling in North America, and has ordered dozens of murders. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read this way, the passing policeman was intended to distrupt the murder. This would give Pentangeli a motive to betray his oath and reveal secrets about the Corleone family before the Senate committee meeting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastActivityDate="2012-11-06T17:23:18.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7915" CreationDate="2012-11-06T17:39:16.540" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some theories that Hyman Roth told the would-be assassins to say that as part of a larger plan to turn Pentangeli against the Corleones, hence why Tom Hagen says that &quot;Roth played this one beautifully&quot;, but this raises more questions about how much of what went down (the random cop walking by, and the shootout that follows) could have been planned in advance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing we do know is that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Aiello#Career&quot;&gt;Danny Aiello simply ad libbed the line&lt;/a&gt; and Coppola kept it in the film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think he did it to taunt Pentangeli by making him think he'd been duped and that Hyman Roth was able to turn a failure into an almost success, but that's just me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2069" LastActivityDate="2012-11-06T17:39:16.540" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7917" CreationDate="2012-11-06T17:44:56.877" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's another less obvious reason that was left out of the final cut of the film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Pentangeli&quot;&gt;From Wikipedia:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The finished film leaves unclear exactly what about his brother's&#xA;  presence motivated Frank to change his story. The final film only&#xA;  states that Vincenzo is himself a Mafia chieftain in Sicily. An&#xA;  early draft of the film explains that Vincenzo, shocked that Frankie&#xA;  is about to break his blood oath and betray the Corleones to&#xA;  government authorities, attends the hearing to remind Frankie that he&#xA;  must not break the Mafia's code of silence, Omertà. His brother's&#xA;  presence, as well as the stare they exchanged, serves as a threat that&#xA;  if Frankie follows through with his planned testimony, retribution&#xA;  will be taken against his children, who are living in Sicily under&#xA;  Vincenzo's guardianship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2069" LastActivityDate="2012-11-06T17:44:56.877" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5679" CreationDate="2012-11-06T20:56:53.893" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a good example of how Looper's premise is shaky in terms of logistics -- too many unanswerable questions, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be better to have the FIRST person each looper kills be the looper's future self? Then each loop would be closed from the start.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Given their drug-addled, crime-ridden lifestyles, how many loopers will actually live a full 30 years after &quot;retiring&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If a given looper did live 30 years, wouldn't he go into hiding in year 30? Or maybe start cooperating with the authorities in an effort to save his life?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Overall, if they're all running around for 30 years, isn't there a risk that one or more loopers would alter the timeline significantly, changing what the world would look like in year 30?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2012-11-06T20:56:53.893" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7925" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-07T00:35:01.987" Score="13" ViewCount="5963" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Batman Begins there is a scene where William Earle fires Lucius Fox. I just watched the movie for the first time so I may have missed something, but it seemed out of place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time he is fired there is no reason provided, but there is a quote later when Lucius is speaking with Bruce which states the apparent reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lucius Fox: [about the microwave emitter] Earle just fired me for&#xA;  asking too many questions about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears we have a cannon answer, but it doesn't seem like a very good one. So, are we given any more clues as to why he was fired or is there anything to support that he was fired for asking too many questions about the emitter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems odd that Earle went to Lucius to tell him about the emitter and ask him for information and then to fire him for asking too much about it. Fox was already banished, if there was another reason I assume he could have just been fired earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="255" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-29T10:11:59.330" LastActivityDate="2016-04-29T10:13:07.157" Title="Why was Lucius Fox fired?" Tags="|plot-explanation|batman-begins|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7926" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7934" CreationDate="2012-11-07T06:27:26.697" Score="0" ViewCount="6794" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;strong&gt;&quot;The Merry-Go-Round of Life&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; from  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347149/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Howl's Moving Castle&lt;/a&gt; a song in the public domain? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, was it written specifically for the movie, or was it a public-domain waltz that the producer arranged for the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3297" LastEditorUserId="113" LastEditDate="2012-11-07T10:35:46.257" LastActivityDate="2012-11-08T02:45:22.457" Title="Is &quot;The Merry-Go-Round of Life&quot; from Howl's Moving Castle a song in the public domain?" Tags="|soundtrack|howls-moving-castle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-01-02T15:09:57.640" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7927" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7928" CreationDate="2012-11-07T07:22:34.773" Score="15" ViewCount="2213" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;sqi=2&amp;amp;ved=0CB8QFjAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt1285016%2F&amp;amp;ei=nQuaUL_iHIqPrgeH1YCgCQ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFyfySm1i727h-DPs9nVk3Sq6rlDQ&quot;&gt;The Social Network&lt;/a&gt;, which &quot;movie star&quot; was &lt;strong&gt;Divya Narendra&lt;/strong&gt; referring to when he says:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The biggest thing on a campus that included nineteen Nobel Laureates, fifteen Pultizer Prize Winners, two future Olympians, and a movie star. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2119" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T09:48:20.420" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T09:48:20.420" Title="Who is the &quot;movie star&quot; being referred to in one of the scenes from The Social Network?" Tags="|the-social-network|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7927" CreationDate="2012-11-07T07:29:56.943" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had always thought that referred to Natalie Portman who graduated from Harvard in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Portman#Education&quot;&gt;2003&lt;/a&gt; around the time that The Social Network was to have taken place.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard#Alumni&quot;&gt;list&lt;/a&gt; on Wikipedia (which is certainly by no means authoritative or exhaustive), she's the only actor/actress that would fit that time frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastActivityDate="2012-11-07T07:29:56.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7925" CreationDate="2012-11-07T09:26:50.610" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest, that was something which also bothered me when watching it the first times. Why fire him just for asking this single question? But it certainly makes sense, even if probably not written that well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fox&lt;/em&gt; has always been a thorn in the eye of &lt;em&gt;Earle&lt;/em&gt;, who banished him into the dead end the R&amp;amp;D department is (or was). So when going to him he just needs some information about this emitter. But &lt;em&gt;Lucius&lt;/em&gt; asking this slightly curious question (&lt;em&gt;&quot;you don't miss one, do you?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; or something similar) was probably a bit too much for &lt;em&gt;Earle&lt;/em&gt;'s nerves at this point and he probably also interpreted a bit of a spitefulness into this question (which might even have been intended by &lt;em&gt;Fox&lt;/em&gt;). So at this point &lt;em&gt;Earle&lt;/em&gt; was just too fed up with &lt;em&gt;Fox&lt;/em&gt; and did what he was going to do sooner or later anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; And as &lt;em&gt;Morpheus&lt;/em&gt; adds in his comment, &lt;em&gt;Fox&lt;/em&gt; also makes a good scapegoat to blame for the loss of such a valuable R&amp;amp;D item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-29T10:13:07.157" LastActivityDate="2016-04-29T10:13:07.157" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13" CreationDate="2012-11-07T12:37:36.403" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;He &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; crazy. I really wonder how people can see this as an 'implanted memories'-game. The character Leonarde portrays is obviously 'realizing' stuff and the moment you're rewatching this movie, you actually see all these hints in the rest of the patients that show they have trouble playing along with 'yet another' attempt to heal him. They are obviously playing along and not being punished or threatened to do so. Do you think this would have worked the same way if the staff would have made patients forcefully play along to try to brainwash a person again and again and again? Would the patients react the same way? They are confused and anxious and nervous, because they are scared they'll do something wrong, but they aren't scared to death, frightened and terrified for their lives about doing something wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only part the movie makes you wonder about is what happens to him in the end and if he is consciously making the decision to die, by pretending he's gone back to his little mind-play again, or that he's actually gone back to his previous state of mind. I can understand people debating that. But just watch the movie again and you'll notice this is not about 'implanted memories' and brainwashing, but actually the opposite. Trying to free someone from their own brainwashing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's pretty straight forward. It messes with your head, because it doesn't let you understand everything from the start. But watch it again my friend, and you'll see it's pretty straight forward. You'll be surprised at suddenly viewing a totally different movie. Which is intriguing and more sad than the first time you watched it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3360" LastEditorUserId="56522" LastEditDate="2019-02-27T19:22:59.153" LastActivityDate="2019-02-27T19:22:59.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7932" CreationDate="2012-11-08T01:18:09.163" Score="7" ViewCount="1770" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a movie that I wanted to watch, but never got around to it and no longer remember much about the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the theater trailer there is a serial killer who carries some kind of mechanical device. He holds the small device in one hand, a cable or tube comes from the device and goes to a canister he holds in his other hand. To kill his victims he holds the device up to their foreheads. I've often wondered if this was something used to kill cattle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trailer never actually shows what happens, but the context is that his victims don't realize the danger of the device.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One victim shown might be a sales tenanted at a gas station in the country, and I think in one shot the killer is shown using the device to pop the lock on a door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The time period seems to be in the present, in the country and there is either a sheriff or detective trying to catch this killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The killer has a calm and quiet demeanor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This film came out a few years ago (I think).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2012-11-08T01:28:10.897" Title="A killer who used some kind of device on people's foreheads" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:39:19.503" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7931" CreationDate="2012-11-08T01:25:03.867" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I strongly suspect you are thinking of the character of Anton Chigurh played by Javier Bardem in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/&quot;&gt;No Country for Old Men&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The character uses a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_bolt_pistol&quot;&gt;Captive Bolt Pistol&lt;/a&gt;, to kill several people and unlock a door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-11-08T01:25:03.867" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7926" CreationDate="2012-11-08T02:45:22.457" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The music was composed for the film by Joe Hisaishi (professional name of Mamoru Fujisawa), who was born in 1950. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hisaishi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another Miyazaki film, Howl's Moving Castle, for which Hisaishi&#xA;  composed the score, was released on November 20, 2004 in Japan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here he is &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/26381426&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;performing&lt;/a&gt; it himself. Very moving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-11-08T02:45:22.457" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6895" CreationDate="2012-11-08T03:13:35.137" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may be &lt;a href=&quot;http://shining.wikia.com/wiki/Mishaela&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mishaela&lt;/a&gt;, a minor villain from &lt;em&gt;Shining Force&lt;/em&gt;. Same pointy ears and blue skin and belt, though her hair is usually shown as purple and her dress a bit less sexy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BvLxb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QKdlz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2012-11-10T03:07:00.113" LastActivityDate="2012-11-10T03:07:00.113" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6893" CreationDate="2012-11-08T03:31:20.090" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film hints at the perpetrator in the scene where Hesher is standing outside the window sniffing a marker:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AUEw0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He throws the marker at TJ, but then the teacher takes it away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-11-08T03:31:20.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7940" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10843" CreationDate="2012-11-08T09:29:02.697" Score="17" ViewCount="2305" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the start of Skyfall Bond is chasing down the hard drive which contains all the names of agents under cover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then later on in the film you find out that Silva is actually a genius hacker and he gains access to MI6s network and uses his hacking skills cause explosions  and open doors etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why did he not just use his hacking skills to hack his way into that list rather than going through the trouble he did?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2164" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T15:03:52.577" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T15:03:52.577" Title="why did Silva steal the hard drive in Skyfall?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7940" CreationDate="2012-11-08T10:09:51.660" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The list was on a hard drive on a laptop. If the laptop was online and if Silva knew where he had to look for, yes, he could have hacked on to the laptop. But considering the sensitive information of the list, it's plausible that this was kept offline, which means he would have no way of being able to hack into the laptop. Even if the laptop was online, Silva would have to know &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the specific information of the laptop&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when the laptop would be online&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;having to break through any firewalls that might have been there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for how he could hack into MI6, he was an operative for them for many years. It's also possible that when he wasn't going on missions for MI6, he got the information necessary to know how to get into their system. I mean, James Bond was able to log on to M's computer in &lt;em&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/em&gt;, so there must be some kind of weakness MI6 has yet to fix. And the MI6 servers were always online, and always in the same location, so that made getting past the firewalls the only major obstacle for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2012-11-08T17:25:07.437" LastActivityDate="2012-11-08T17:25:07.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7940" CreationDate="2012-11-08T11:06:44.793" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a friend who used to work in government research.  Apparently some items of data are so sensitive that you have to disconnect from the network (and definitely the internet) before accessing them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Logically this list would be about as sensitive as it gets so it is unlikely to ever be put on a PC in way it can be network accessed and would only be transported via USB stick or something, probably under armed guard with various built in safety measures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-11-08T11:06:44.793" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7943" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7946" CreationDate="2012-11-08T12:11:16.077" Score="38" ViewCount="220379" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of No Country for Old Men, Anton Chigurh tracks down Carla Jean Moss. They are sitting in a room together and he gives her the option of heads or tails to decide her fate. Is there any definitive evidence that he killed/didn't kill her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="3203" LastEditDate="2012-11-25T17:41:22.807" LastActivityDate="2021-01-30T04:07:33.387" Title="Does Anton Chigurh kill Carla Jean Moss?" Tags="|plot-explanation|no-country-for-old-men|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7944" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-08T12:47:38.033" Score="4" ViewCount="1543" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why can Stan Laurel use his thumb as a lighter in Way Out West?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it's slapstick comedy but it just seems a bit random.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1375" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-11-15T07:50:14.563" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T07:50:14.563" Title="Why can Stan Laurel use his thumb as a lighter in Way Out West?" Tags="|plot-explanation|laurel-and-hardy|way-out-west|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7944" CreationDate="2012-11-08T14:51:49.807" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FingerSnapLighter&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/strong&gt; - Finger Snap Lighter&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One fun way of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlayingWithFire&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Playing with Fire&lt;/a&gt; is to &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CouldntFindALighter&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;coolly light your cigarette, cigar or pipe&lt;/a&gt; with a finger snap in an extravagant show of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MundaneUtility&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mundane Utility&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Done by &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Laurel and Hardy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029747/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Way Out West&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(1937; probably the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TropeMakers&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trope Maker&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stan&lt;/em&gt; ignites his thumb as if it were a cigarette lighter several times; each time, &lt;em&gt;Ollie&lt;/em&gt; stares in disbelief and tries to copy him. And eventually it works for &lt;em&gt;Ollie&lt;/em&gt;, who reacts with horrified alarm.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDrYVzb5KAU#t=00m19s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Watch Clip on YouTube&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-11-08T14:51:49.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7943" CreationDate="2012-11-08T15:10:40.680" Score="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not 100% definitive, but I always thought that he did.  Evidence that he kills her:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Its explicitly stated that he does in the book&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The shot of him inspecting his boots on the way out implies that he is checking for blood&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="576" LastActivityDate="2012-11-08T15:10:40.680" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5671" CreationDate="2012-11-08T18:17:44.787" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that they may be modeling the initial fear and then subsequent relaxing of fears in the same way HIV/AIDS was viewed initially. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first it was believed that being around people that were &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;infected&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; would cause you to be infected as well (drinking after someone, etc), but this was eventually dispelled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the Dr. at the CDC, Rick learns that they have all been infected and carry a dormant form of the zombie disease, but being bitten, scratched or dying accelerates the progression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of Herschel and his leg, we see that if you are able to remove the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;infection&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; quick enough, one can survive a bite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may have been different in season 1, where you see several examples of people committing suicide or dying without turning. In Season 3 and going forward, I think its understood that you don't turn till you are attacked and/or die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3209" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-26T21:49:15.380" LastActivityDate="2014-10-26T21:49:15.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7950" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7951" CreationDate="2012-11-09T04:38:10.283" Score="11" ViewCount="1161" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scientist Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) from Ghostbusters has a very interesting personality, he is always flirting with female clients and is more laid back it seems than the other Ghostbusters.  While he is very snippy and cynical would it be correct to consider his character in the movie a narcissist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3373" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-09-28T18:07:55.963" LastActivityDate="2019-09-17T16:00:24.917" Title="Is Peter Venkman from Ghostbusters a narcissist?" Tags="|analysis|character|ghostbusters|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7950" CreationDate="2012-11-09T05:35:41.040" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the answer to that would be no. Narcissism is a serious psychological disorder. The symptoms, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Reacting to criticism with anger, shame, or humiliation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Taking advantage of others to reach their own goals&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Exaggerating their own importance, achievements, and talents&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Imagining unrealistic fantasies of success, beauty, power, intelligence, or romance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Requiring constant attention and positive reinforcement from others&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Becoming jealous easily&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Lacking empathy and disregarding the feelings of others&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Being obsessed with oneself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Pursuing mainly selfish goals&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Trouble keeping healthy relationships&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Becoming easily hurt and rejected&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Setting goals that are unrealistic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Wanting &quot;the best&quot; of everything&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Appearing unemotional&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Narcissists can be quite sadistic in their need to elevate self by putting others down. Venkman had some ego issues, but he was not without empathy - he bonded with his team and he did develop a relationship. The audience liked him. A narcissist does not make a likable character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-09-17T16:00:24.917" LastActivityDate="2019-09-17T16:00:24.917" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7952" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7958" CreationDate="2012-11-09T06:30:18.583" Score="14" ViewCount="1843" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's of no doubt that Talia was the mastermind behind the plan and Bane her executor. Did she plan for Bane to be sacrificed(&lt;em&gt;if needed&lt;/em&gt;) for the successful execution of the plan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask this question because towards the end Talia asks Bane to keep Batman alive so that he can &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;feel the heat&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot; and also bids &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Goodbye my friend&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot; to Bane, kind of implying that he was to meet his end too with Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2021-01-23T17:14:29.163" LastActivityDate="2021-01-23T17:14:29.163" Title="Was Bane's destiny pre-plotted?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|character|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3436" CreationDate="2012-11-09T11:54:40.583" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Dent Act. among all things puts dangerous and important clogs of the organised crime world into prison with no possibility of parole. So essentially they are not gonna see the light of the day till a long long time and deter people from being involved in such activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Excerpt from the scene where Bane unveils Harvey Dent's reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;John Blake to Gordon: Those men locked up for eight years in&#xA;  Blackgate, and denied parole under the Dent Act, based on a lie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastActivityDate="2012-11-09T11:54:40.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6899" CreationDate="2012-11-09T12:48:03.993" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer your specific questions -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is M's (Jude Dench's M) real name? - nobody knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that her true identity? - nobody knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes, how does he come to know of it?? - Living in a world where people usually don't have codenames he would have assumed that Bond said Em, not M, and it was short for Emma.  Whether her name is actually Emma and it was a coincidence? - nobody knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3376" LastActivityDate="2012-11-09T12:48:03.993" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7961" CreationDate="2012-11-09T13:08:17.387" Score="6" ViewCount="542" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen TV shows marathon episodes and bloopers such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leverage Marathon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;X-Files Bloopers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they things like credits or previews? What are their meanings?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3377" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T22:38:00.060" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T22:38:41.797" Title="What is meant by bloopers and marathon?" Tags="|terminology|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7956" CreationDate="2012-11-09T13:21:16.773" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;A marathon is a collection of shows from the television show run one after another, mostly in order of release, such as a full season run together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bloopers are generally mistakes caught during filming that would tend to be funny (i.e. trips and falls, or really dangerous and bloody accidents, or unfortunate script mispronunciation, especially if it comes out sounding sexual).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2012-11-09T13:21:16.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7952" CreationDate="2012-11-09T14:31:40.590" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering the fact that they were mere moments from being in the blast radius of a nuclear explosion, I can confidently argue that neither Talia nor Bane expected to get out of this situation alive, and that their eventual death was part of their plan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sequence is merely Talia and Bane recognizing that, if their plan comes to fruition, that moment will be the last they see of each other.  Also from the looks of the plan, Talia was merely leaving to ensure the bomb will go off and that no last minute rebellion from the police, military, or whatever stragglers remains would interfere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously they both failed in their overall plan and met their demise regardless, just not in the way they hoped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-11-09T14:31:40.590" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7959" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7960" CreationDate="2012-11-09T14:41:06.460" Score="4" ViewCount="6203" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was browsing around on the internet recently, as you do, and came across this image, which is a picture of Kenzi from Lost Girl;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HKhkS.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Tick Tick... Booooom&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To save me from watching both series of Lost Girl again to find this episode, does anybody know which episode this image has been captured from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-05-04T16:49:25.443" Title="Which episode is the 'tick tick boom' image captured from?" Tags="|lost-girl|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7959" CreationDate="2012-11-09T14:50:56.650" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Season 2, Episode 16, 'School's Out'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="576" LastActivityDate="2012-11-09T14:50:56.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7956" CreationDate="2012-11-09T17:15:42.403" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the name suggests, a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_%28television%29&quot;&gt;marathon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is the sequential broadcast of a single or a number of related television programs for a long period of time; up to days if it is a TV series with many episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most common reasons for a network to run a TV show marathon are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to celebrate the acquisition of a series,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to lead into a highly anticipated episode of a series (such as a return from a hiatus or a series finale),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when well known star of a show retires or passes away (this is particularly popular on networks such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Land&quot;&gt;TV Land&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Show_Network&quot;&gt;Game Show Network&lt;/a&gt;, which specialize in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rerun&quot;&gt;reruns&lt;/a&gt;),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to celebrate a holiday, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to inexpensively counterprogram against more popular programs such as the Super Bowl&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the longest running marathons are the two &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone_(1959_TV_series)&quot;&gt;Twilight Zone&lt;/a&gt; marathons that air on the SyFy in the United States on New Years Day and Independence Day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blooper&quot;&gt;blooper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a short sequence of a film or video production, usually a deleted scene, containing a mistake made by a member of the cast or crew. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The term blooper was popularized in the 1950s in a series of record albums entitled Pardon My Blooper, in which the definition of a blooper is thus given by the record series' narrator: &quot;&lt;em&gt;Unintended indiscretions before microphone and camera&lt;/em&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bloopers are often the subject of television shows or are occasionally revealed during the credit sequence at the end of comedy movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1674" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T22:38:41.797" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T22:38:41.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7962" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7963" CreationDate="2012-11-09T20:50:58.603" Score="16" ViewCount="6142" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Big Lebowski, The Dude's car is stolen (or possibly towed) after it is parked in a handicap zone.  Walter and The Dude find some homework in the car and assume that the owner of the homework stole the car. I don't recall there being any evidence that it was stolen or who stole it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Larry is the owner of the found homework and seems to be a fourteen year old kid. It seems unlikely that Larry actually stole the car. His only motivation might be a joyride. When accused, he does not seem to take it seriously, as though is his guilty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the vehicle was retrieved from impound, the detective suggested that a bum might have slept in it. There was no suggestion of a bum stealing it though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seem highly unlikely that the car was towed, and then somehow stolen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence in the move as to who actually stole The Dude's car? If known or unknown, does the actual perpetrator have any effect on the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastActivityDate="2022-10-22T03:02:22.153" Title="Who Stole the Dude's car in The Big Lebowski?" Tags="|coen-brothers|the-big-lebowski|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7962" CreationDate="2012-11-09T21:59:01.360" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I remember &lt;strong&gt;it was the kid&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This actually happened in real life to a friend of the &lt;em&gt;Coen Brothers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20070216015234/http://www.peterexline.com/dude.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Peter Exline&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Funny how a dinner story can wind up on the movie screen&lt;/strong&gt;. Back in '89 Joel and Ethan Coen were in town shooting “Barton Fink,” and I had them over for dinner. The neighbors had moved out and left behind a rug, which I appropriated for my living room, joked about how it &amp;quot;...tied the room together...&amp;quot; all night long. Joel and Ethan thought it quite funny.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I kept talking about my friend &amp;quot;Big&amp;quot; Lew Abernathy, also a Vietnam Vet from Denton, Texas. He's a former private eye, mercenary and screenwriter. Big friend of Jim Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd and went diving with them. He's the basis of a character in &amp;quot;The Abyss.” Also, Cameron used him in &amp;quot;Titanic.&amp;quot; In the opening he's operating the robot inside the submersible.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, I'm telling the story about my car getting stolen and finding a kid's homework in the car, then tracking the kid and calling his folks&lt;/strong&gt;. Lew and I went over there. Lew had a briefcase and inside it were baggies filled with stuff from the car. One baggie had a Whopper wrapper, another the kid's homework. The kid's father lived in the living room in a hospital bed. Older guy. Don't think he and the kid played a lot of baseball in the backyard. Turns out he had a thirty year career in Hollywood.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joel and Ethan loved the story, and Lew and I became the basis for Walter, along with John Milius.&lt;/strong&gt; There’s even lines of dialogue from the movie, things I said at dinner.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2022-10-22T03:02:22.153" LastActivityDate="2022-10-22T03:02:22.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="830" CreationDate="2012-11-09T22:19:26.367" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comment prior to the conversation with the astronauts´ wives (in the control center) clearly states that Capricorn 1 is just close enough to Earth to allow the fluent conversation. Only at the most distant point of the mission the conversation gaps reach 21 minutes. Thus, there seems to be no blooper nor plothole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(I am much more worried about the Apollo mission technology used for a journey of at least a year. Could three astronauts just sit in the command module most of the time? I guess even the strongest personalities would have gone mad. There might have been a strong extended/additional stage of a modified Saturn rocket for the outward and return journey. If this stage was equipped with extra rooms, stores etc. it would appear more realistic than what we see in the movie.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3381" LastEditorUserId="148" LastEditDate="2012-11-10T01:18:27.293" LastActivityDate="2012-11-10T01:18:27.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7965" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-10T04:25:21.960" Score="43" ViewCount="171234" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386703/&quot;&gt;Total Recall (2012)&lt;/a&gt;, does the missing symbol on Quaid's arm symbolize that it is all a dream/fake memory? And, if so, why does he just accept it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3383" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-25T17:42:02.090" LastActivityDate="2020-01-08T16:03:47.783" Title="What does the missing symbol on Quaid's arm symbolize?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|total-recall-2012|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4105" CreationDate="2012-11-10T06:50:14.603" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think because during the time on tv the show was possibly on a break or hiatus. I was wondering the same thing so I think they posted the preview and the soon message so fans wouldn't think the show was over or something. Also possibly to just keep the viewers locked in because some people get bored of the same story line that lasts forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3384" LastActivityDate="2012-11-10T06:50:14.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6841" CreationDate="2012-11-10T07:01:50.117" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it's supposed to be open ended, but I believe he probably did time travel in one scenario. My other thoughts are that he never time travelled but wanted to because he was in love with the only girl that didn't make fun of him and was going to fix his mistakes. Though by Darius falling in love with him he didn't need to fix his past. My last thought is he was totally crazy and built a suicide machine and this was a very dark ending of two lost souls. In any case I was left wanting more and was left wanting the magazine story or some answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3386" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-26T04:58:57.333" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T04:58:57.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7969" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8938" CreationDate="2012-11-10T09:18:34.113" Score="8" ViewCount="1013" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386703/&quot;&gt;Total Recall (2012)&lt;/a&gt;, the invasion is reported throughout the colony with a TV-announcement that thousands of troops have boarded The Fall. The governor declares a state of emergency and orders evacuation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't the colony destroy The Fall before Cohagen had a chance to dock? It seems to me they could have disabled/destroyed the station/the tunnel and the invasion would have been unable to land.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T18:10:39.593" Title="In Total Recall, why didn't they stop the invasion sooner?" Tags="|plot-explanation|total-recall-2012|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5783" CreationDate="2012-11-10T11:33:17.227" Score="13" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;: Is there any time limits for the running time of the movies in Hollywood?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact 1&lt;/strong&gt;. Let us categorized first what &lt;strong&gt;Hollywood movies&lt;/strong&gt; are. Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word &lt;strong&gt;Hollywood&lt;/strong&gt; is often used as a &lt;strong&gt;metonym&lt;/strong&gt; of American cinema. Therefore, when we say Hollywood, that would mean the United States cinema or movies produced in the United States.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact 2&lt;/strong&gt;. Then there is also the case of what could be &lt;strong&gt;considered a film/movie&lt;/strong&gt;. According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Film Institute, and British Film Institute, a feature film runs for &lt;strong&gt;40 minutes or longer&lt;/strong&gt;, while the Screen Actors Guild states that it is &lt;strong&gt;80 minutes or longer&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer&lt;/strong&gt;: Based on the above facts, I would say there &lt;strong&gt;maybe a minimum running time requirement&lt;/strong&gt; for feature films/movies &lt;strong&gt;but there is no maximum running time limit&lt;/strong&gt; for Hollywood films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But&lt;/strong&gt; this standard minimum running time is not adhered by film makers, thus there are Hollywood films that are as short as 4 seconds and as long as 87 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Therefore, one could also say that there is no running time limit.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To prove my point, here is a list of popular shortest and longest American films:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Longest running time:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cleopatra (1963) - 242 mins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once Upon a Time in America (1984) - 229 mins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - 222 mins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gone With the Wind (1939) - 221 mins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Heaven’s Gate (1980) - 220 mins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Ten Commandments (1956) - 220 mins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ben-Hur (1959) - 212 mins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dr. Zhivago (1965) - 203 mins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Apocalypse Now Redux (1979) - 202 mins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Malcolm X (1992) - 202 mins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Giant (1956) - 201 mins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Godfather Part II (1974) - 200 mins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Schindler’s List (1993) - 195 mins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cure_for_Insomnia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Cure for Insomnia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, directed by John Henry Timmis IV, was officially the world's longest movie, according to Guinness World Records with 5220 minutes (&lt;strong&gt;87 hours&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greed_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Greed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a silent film directed by  Erich von Stroheim is one of the longest American film ever made with 462 minutes (almost &lt;strong&gt;8 hours&lt;/strong&gt;) running time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shortest running time:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Critic_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Critic&lt;/a&gt; (1963) - 4 mins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1_Second_Film&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The 1 Second Film&lt;/a&gt; - 1 second (followed by a 90-min documentary of how the movie was made)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_Boy_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Soldier Boy&lt;/a&gt; (2004) - 7 seconds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1674" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-11-11T09:40:28.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7972" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-10T11:36:25.337" Score="13" ViewCount="835" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of Dexter Season 7, Episode 6 &lt;em&gt;'Do the Wrong Thing'&lt;/em&gt;, Dexter makes a momentary decision not to kill Hannah McKay and instead cuts her free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, why would Hannah arise and feel attracted to Dexter (and make-out with him!)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't she instead have felt threatened by Dexter's actions? Shouldn't she have felt betrayed that he brought her over to the closed theme park as if to fulfill her long-desired wish but instead had an ulterior motive? Shouldn't she have pounced back at him the first chance she got, grabbing the same knife he would've used against her, back to his throat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3388" OwnerDisplayName="SNag" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-09-28T18:12:19.617" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T18:12:54.140" Title="What's the rationale behind Hannah McKay's behaviour at end of Do the Wrong Thing?" Tags="|character|dexter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7972" CreationDate="2012-11-10T14:56:26.223" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hannah made mention that deep down she's still the young girl that ran off with Wayne and based on revealed history, obviously likes the whole 'bad boy' type. And of course, she's still a killer, herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think she finds a lot of similarities between Dexter and Wayne, so she's trying to return to what she sees as her glory days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1046" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-09-28T18:12:54.140" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T18:12:54.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7976" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="7989" CreationDate="2012-11-11T00:04:07.810" Score="13" ViewCount="5932" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Skyfall, after leaving the floating casino in Macau, Sévérine gets on board a boat.  Bond gets on board too and they have an amicable scene in the shower.  The boat is shown going out to sea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, the ship is approaching the deserted island where the villain Raoul Silva is hiding out.  Bond and Sévérine are both restrained with their hands tied behind their backs, and there are a number of thugs on deck with automatic weapons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I blink and miss something?  When were Bond and Sévérine taken prisoner?  I don't remember any fight scene on the boat.  Was she used as bait?  Was she being forced to go to the island in the first place?  If she was going to be taken prisoner, why didn't she warn Bond?  (Well, I guess she did sort of, in the casino she told him he would be killed shortly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T15:03:46.030" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T15:03:46.030" Title="In Skyfall, what happened in the boat on the way to the island?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7977" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-11T07:01:48.730" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Film-making&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;film production&lt;/strong&gt; involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, through &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptwriting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;scriptwriting&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casting_%28performing_arts%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;casting&lt;/a&gt;, shooting, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_editing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;editing&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_screening&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;screening&lt;/a&gt; the finished product before an audience that may result in a film release and exhibition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Film production involves three major stages&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pre-production&lt;/strong&gt; - Preparations are made for the shoot, in which cast and film crew are hired, locations are selected, and sets are built. The Development stage, in which the ideas for the film are created, rights to books/plays are bought, etc., and the screenplay is written, occurs before Pre-production.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Production&lt;/strong&gt; - The raw elements for the finished film are recorded.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post-Production&lt;/strong&gt; - The film is edited; production sound (dialogue) is concurrently (but separately) edited, music tracks (and songs) are composed, performed and recorded, if a film is sought to have a score; sound effects are designed and recorded; and any other computer-graphic 'visual' effects are digitally added, all sound elements are mixed into &quot;stems&quot; then the stems are mixed then married to picture and the film is fully completed (&quot;locked&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TV production&lt;/strong&gt; begins when a network approves a pilot episode of a TV show for filming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Filming is conducted in a &lt;strong&gt;television studio&lt;/strong&gt; in which video productions take place, either for the recording of live television to video tape, or for the acquisition of raw footage for post-production. The design of a studio is similar to, and derived from, movie studios, with a few amendments for the special requirements of television production. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before filming begins, first, the showrunner and producers are hired. The &lt;strong&gt;showrunner&lt;/strong&gt; is the person in charge. He or she works with the writers and script, casts the actors, is responsible for creative direction and usually oversees the project from start to finish. Sometimes the showrunner is the person who created the show's concept, wrote the script or treatment and pitched it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Producers&lt;/strong&gt; help the showrunner handle everything. They help with hiring the &lt;em&gt;director&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;talent&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;crew&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;writers&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;assistant producers&lt;/em&gt;, and their first task is rewriting or updating the script. When that's done, cast auditions are next. Then the producers hire the crew -- and &lt;strong&gt;finally, the pilot is shot and edited&lt;/strong&gt;. This schedule is generally outlined as &lt;strong&gt;preproduction&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;production&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;postproduction&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;References&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmmaking&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmmaking&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_production&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_production&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/tv-production.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/tv-production.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1674" LastEditorUserId="1674" LastEditDate="2012-11-11T07:46:24.273" LastActivityDate="2012-11-11T07:46:24.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7978" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-11T07:01:48.730" Score="0" Body="For questions related to the process of producing a film or a TV show." OwnerUserId="1674" LastEditorUserId="56594" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2018-02-28T17:45:56.957" LastActivityDate="2018-02-28T17:45:56.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7979" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-11T10:15:53.173" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-11T10:15:53.173" LastActivityDate="2012-11-11T10:15:53.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7980" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-11T10:15:53.173" Score="0" Body="Questions about the meaning or significance of an entity (i.e. symbols, objects, characters, scene) and what they represent on a film or TV show." OwnerUserId="1674" LastEditorUserId="1674" LastEditDate="2012-11-11T15:16:21.650" LastActivityDate="2012-11-11T15:16:21.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7981" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-11T10:56:18.640" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about the precise conformity of events or characters portrayed in films or TV shows to historical figures and actual events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:05:46.157" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:05:46.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7982" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-11T10:56:18.640" Score="0" Body="Questions about the precise conformity of events or characters portrayed in films or TV shows to real figures/events." OwnerUserId="1674" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:05:46.157" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:05:46.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7965" CreationDate="2012-11-11T11:13:28.223" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=544053&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here is a detailed comparison&lt;/a&gt; between the &lt;em&gt;Theatrical&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Extended Director's Cut&lt;/em&gt;. One of the differences is an &lt;strong&gt;additional scene at the end&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doug looks down and removes the bandage from the spot where the injection tattoo was burned in at Rekall – it cannot be seen anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S5fcY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;EDC&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could interpret this as a hint that Quaid is still in a dream world. Although, that 'tattoo' might have been just a &lt;em&gt;stamp mark&lt;/em&gt; that had rubbed off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-05T15:24:22.647" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5764" CreationDate="2012-11-12T00:45:58.917" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;No IQ scores for either Raj or Howard have been stated. Sheldon has occasionally mentioned Raj having higher intelligence than Leonard (173), but nothing specific or official.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3394" LastEditorUserId="3394" LastEditDate="2017-08-04T16:53:46.063" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T16:53:46.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3674" CreationDate="2012-11-12T00:53:08.667" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/movies/kate-beckinsale/story-e6frf9h6-1226461435038&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quoting from a Hearld Sun (Australian newspaper) interview with Kate Beckinsale&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;When you go bad in Total Recall, your accent changes from American to English. Are British people more evil?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's mandatory for British actors to play a villain in an American movie; that's the law. Other than that, the fact she flips into her English accent adds a sinister, &amp;quot;Oh my God, you've been lying this whole time.&amp;quot; -- Kate Beckinsale&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from that exception, it seems like they were just following Hollywood's usual playbook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3394" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-14T10:09:21.167" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7988" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8001" CreationDate="2012-11-12T02:40:19.180" Score="5" ViewCount="14542" Body="&lt;p&gt;The critics gave &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YellowBrickRoad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;YellowBrickRoad&lt;/a&gt; some pretty bad ratings, but I have to say I enjoyed it quite a bit. However, the end bothers me to no end -- I just don't understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it that the main character was stuck in the 1940's? Or is everything just happening in his mind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1503" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-08T17:13:28.713" LastActivityDate="2013-07-21T08:40:25.627" Title="Understanding the end of YellowBrickRoad" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|yellowbrickroad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7976" CreationDate="2012-11-12T07:23:28.390" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;You must understand that Sévérine was under the complete authority and control of Raoul Silva. Everything she did or was doing was on Silva's command. Silva wanted Bond on the barren island and Sévérine was to be the &lt;em&gt;bait&lt;/em&gt;. Though she tries her best to warn Bond of the danger involved and makes her reluctance shown. But Bond being Bond and having his own plans, follows her to Silva.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing to notice is that Sévérine already considers herself dead and has no expectation of being freed from Silva's &lt;em&gt;slavery&lt;/em&gt;. But &lt;em&gt;fear&lt;/em&gt; of Silva &lt;strong&gt;[1]&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;em&gt;hope&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;[2]&lt;/strong&gt; that Bond just might be her savior, brings her to do what she did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[1]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sévérine:&lt;/strong&gt; What do you know about fear? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;James Bond:&lt;/strong&gt; All there is.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sévérine:&lt;/strong&gt; Well not like this. Not like him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[2]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The scene where Sévérine says that her bodyguards are going to kill&#xA;  Bond right after&#xA;    she leaves, she asks Bond if he'll be able to kill Raoul Silva(something on these lines, dont remember the exact quote).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2012-11-22T07:39:18.853" LastActivityDate="2012-11-22T07:39:18.853" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7990" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-12T08:29:39.213" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use this tag when asking questions relating to the sound and music recorded for a motion picture or television show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundtrack&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Soundtracks article on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sound&quot;&gt;Questions about sounds used in movies on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/sound-effects&quot;&gt;Questions about sounds used in anime on Anime Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T17:47:01.670" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T17:47:01.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7991" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-12T08:29:39.213" Score="0" Body="For questions related to sound and music recorded for a motion picture or television show." OwnerUserId="1674" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2024-01-13T21:55:17.373" LastActivityDate="2024-01-13T21:55:17.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="7992" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-12T08:46:40.060" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;An action film sub-genre dominated by action to varying degrees and contains numerous martial arts fights between characters who are martial artists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_arts_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Martial arts film&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41249" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T00:14:45.027" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T00:14:45.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7993" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-12T08:46:40.060" Score="0" Body="A genre which contains numerous martial arts fights between characters." OwnerUserId="1674" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:09:10.320" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:09:10.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7995" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43502" CreationDate="2012-11-12T13:56:37.583" Score="1" ViewCount="1871" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this is episode is new enough to warrant a spoiler block, but because it's the series finale, I'll add one anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Doctor Who series 5 episode 13: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_%28Doctor_Who%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Big Bang&lt;/a&gt;, At &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amy and Rory's wedding, after Amy jumps on the table and starts yelling about remembering the Doctor&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The camera pans across the faces of several stunned guests.  One of the guests looks like Adam Sandler. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1607759/fullcredits#cast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The full cast list for this episode&lt;/a&gt; doesn't mention him at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did he have an uncredited cameo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a screen capture of the scene I'm asking about:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VeQI3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="92" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T11:50:51.517" Title="Was there an uncredited Adam Sandler cameo in Doctor Who: The Big Bang (S5 E13)" Tags="|doctor-who|cameo|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="7997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7995" CreationDate="2012-11-12T16:35:45.530" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really know how to prove it definitively, but it seems pretty clear to me that they're not the same guy when you look at the guy from your picture side by side with 2010 Adam Sandler.  I guess the most telling part is different head shape, the Dr Who guy has less of an oval shape to his noggin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EcGXa.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="576" LastActivityDate="2012-11-12T16:35:45.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6854" CreationDate="2012-11-12T18:42:19.937" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the DC Comics version of Bruce Wayne is highly educated, no mention of education was mentioned in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy.  Furthermore, while Bruce Wayne in the comics held degrees in chemistry and physics[&lt;a href=&quot;http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/Batman_%28Bruce_Wayne%29#Powers_and_Abilities&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;], in a scene[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/quotes?qt=qt0470001&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;] from Batman Begins (after becoming Batman) it appears he has not had such education:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lucius Fox&lt;/strong&gt;: [&lt;em&gt;Bruce Wayne is recovering after being poisoned by Scarecrow&lt;/em&gt;] I analyzed your blood, isolating the receptor compounds and the protein-based catalyst.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bruce Wayne&lt;/strong&gt;: Am I meant to understand any of that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His degrees in the comics universe include (among many others) Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, and Mathematics[&lt;a href=&quot;http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/Batman_%28Bruce_Wayne%29#Powers_and_Abilities&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;], so based on those degrees he would be highly qualified to fix 'The Bat's auto-pilot and hack into national databases and erase Selina Kyle's record.  It would not actually be impossible to hack into the government's computers and erase/modify records for Selina Kyle.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether his education in the in-comics universe exists in Nolan's trilogy is anyone's guess, but most computer hackers are self-taught and in obtaining that knowledge must learn quite a bit of programming, which, depending on how Lucius Fox designed 'The Bat', could have allowed him to easily fix the auto-pilot.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility is he simply used his near limitless funds to hire someone quietly to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3394" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T08:19:20.737" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T08:19:20.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7988" CreationDate="2012-11-12T18:46:34.560" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its left deliberately vague but I did not get the sense that it was either all in his head or that he was stuck in the 1940s, but rather that it was a supernatural phenomenon where each person's fate depended on their personality and character.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest to a definitive answer that I could find is from an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/44775/exclusive-andy-mitton-and-jesse-holland-talk-yellowbrickroad&quot;&gt;interview with the film-makers&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We purposely left the ending open for interpretation because this&#xA;  movie is about the journey- where our characters end up at the end of&#xA;  YellowBrickRoad is dependent on their fears and motivations. Every&#xA;  character ends up with a different fate because of who they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="576" LastActivityDate="2012-11-12T18:46:34.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8002" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-12T23:24:18.550" Score="2" ViewCount="1155" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Sybil she had 16 personalities, before the psychiatrist had broken her down to realize this was a possibility her host personality was not cognizant of her alternate personalities.  Some of her personalities however were aware of the fact that there were many more of them, for example one of her most dominant personalities Victoria spoke to the Dr. and revealed the fact that their were more.  Were all of her personalities aware of each other existence? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3373" LastEditorUserId="576" LastEditDate="2012-12-05T14:40:05.140" LastActivityDate="2012-12-05T14:40:05.140" Title="Did all of Sybil's personalities know each other?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sybil|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7952" CreationDate="2012-11-13T06:44:27.993" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There mission behind the attack on Gotham city by both Talia and Bane was to, like Ras-Al-Ghul thought, perish the city as corruption in the city went too far for correction. So they planned to attack with nuclear bomb, so that nobody could escape alive from Gotham. The only problem in front of the success of their plan was the Batman. So to make sure the bomb goes off as planned, they chose not to leave the city. Here the psychology of Suicide Bomber sometimes matches with the attitude of them. They knew from the start if they stay in the city they will die like @tyler pointed out, the blast radius is too big for anybody to escape from it. But they also wanted to made it a success, which Batman could hamper. So they decided to rather stay. So we can conclude that they wanted to stay and die for the reason.  She loved him and wanted him to join her for the noble (!) cause. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as Talia is concerned, I don't think she wanted to leave the city alone or sacrifice Bane. You see, Talia had the trigger to blast the bomb and she did not try to escape while pressing it. Its because of Gordon's try the bomb did not went off then. She did not merely use Bane for the success of the plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Bane joined her just because they loved each other and he also wanted to join Talia for the so called &quot;noble&quot; reason (Don't forget he was also the disciple of Ras-al-Ghul). So they knew they were going to die. Bane beat Batman because he was angry on him like any criminal should be. He also wanted to make sure that Batman passes away as early as possible, because there is nothing more stupidity than keep ones enemy alive. After all we cant deny he was an A-1 criminal. That is why before Talia left him she bid the last &lt;strong&gt;Good Bye&lt;/strong&gt; to her protector cum lover Bane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-11-15T18:08:52.107" LastActivityDate="2012-11-15T18:08:52.107" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8005" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8015" CreationDate="2012-11-13T07:45:22.133" Score="8" ViewCount="621" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_%28film%29#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Prometheus&lt;/a&gt;, it is shown in 2089, Dr. Shaw and Dr. Holloway discovered another cave-drawing of so-called engineers. In 2093, they reached LV-223. They have been asleep for two years (The geologist told the biologist &lt;code&gt;I have been asleep two years&lt;/code&gt;) . That concludes both the doctors met Weyland in 2091. But when Weyland had told in the video &lt;code&gt;And I am long dead&lt;/code&gt; in the ship, nobody became surprised. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So was Weyland expected to be dead by that time? What happened to him? Was he suffering from some sort of disease? Or he was very old and that is why everybody thought he might have been dead. It seemed that the crew knew that Weyland was going to die very soon. Holloway said ,“Wow! Never taken orders from a ghost before.”, Who met Weyland himself. I did not understand that part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-12-19T07:26:23.113" LastActivityDate="2017-12-19T07:26:23.113" Title="What was Weyland suffering from?" Tags="|prometheus|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2157" CreationDate="2012-11-13T13:39:01.633" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thor is not immortal and neither is Loki, otherwise there would be little point in them fighting.  Loki stabs Thor and he is clearly injured from it.  They are very tough compared to humans but they are not all powerful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fall would most likely have killed Thor - even if not it would have badly hurt him - even if not, he is not going to hang around to find out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-11-13T13:39:01.633" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7965" CreationDate="2012-11-13T16:04:49.413" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;These set of dialogues has to be especially revised while he is being injected with the Chemicals from the chinese guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You could be working for the Resistance. Maybe you work for Cohaagen.&#xA;  Or why limit yourself? Why not both?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You're going to have such a good time, you're not going to want to&#xA;  come back. Look at that. Looks like your wife does have a man who&#xA;  appreciates her. No conflict there. Sorry. Still the best way to get&#xA;  chemicals into the human body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Let's get this show on the road. Get ready to save the world. Happy&#xA;  trails, man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from there on he goes on exactly does that, saving the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="131" LastEditorUserId="131" LastEditDate="2020-01-08T16:03:47.783" LastActivityDate="2020-01-08T16:03:47.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2157" CreationDate="2012-11-13T17:39:59.623" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thor would likely die or at least be severely hurt, and they are not immortal. The idea that they are immortal comes from human Norse mythology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Loki's father the ice king was killed by Thor's father &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin_%28comics%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Odin&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Odin must go into the &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/Glossary%3aOdinsleep&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Odinsleep&lt;/a&gt; else he would die, and while in the sleep he is &lt;em&gt;mortal&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thor will inherit the thrown of Asgard when his father dies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Oden (Thor's father) is the son of Bor and Bestla who are now died.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was Thor afraid of being trapped in the cage, and why did Nick Fury put Loki in the same cage? It's because the Hulk is the only known superhero to best an Asgardian. There are several comic books, television shows and even in the Avengers films where the Hulk beats up an Asgardian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one Marvel animated film Loki uses mind control over the Hulk, and uses him to attack Asgard. Where the Hulk destroys most of the city before Thor is able to break the mind control spell that Loki was using, but at one point in the film Thor tells another Asgardian that he expects to die when he faces the Hulk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Marvel animated film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Hulk_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Planet Hulk&lt;/a&gt;. The Hulk is outcast to another planet where he battles &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.com/universe/Beta_Ray_Bill&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Beta Ray Bill&lt;/a&gt;. Beta Ray Bill is the only other character to ever receive his own Asgardian hammer of the Gods. The same weapon used by Thor. Beta Ray Bill is the only character to match Thor's strength and good will. Still, Hulk beats Beta Ray Bill to an inch of his life before he finally stops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Avengers film Hulk beats up Thor, and would have won had a fighter jet not distracted him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Loki traps Thor in the cage, because he does not know if Thor could get out. The cage can be ejected from the carrier, because Nick Fury knows it wouldn't hold the hulk. So it's not an indestructible cage. When the cage is ejected Thor struggles to get out, and at the last second manages to escape but is &lt;em&gt;knocked out&lt;/em&gt; in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could it have killed him? Yes. Would it be guaranteed to kill him? No, but you if want to kill an Asgard. Send the Hulk after them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="1100" LastEditDate="2012-11-13T17:49:09.500" LastActivityDate="2012-11-13T17:49:09.500" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8013" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8014" CreationDate="2012-11-13T20:59:33.487" Score="17" ViewCount="1308" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are massively rich and have powerful connections, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it they have not stolen Robert's throne previously?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NB: I have not read the books and have only seen the TV series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="417" LastEditDate="2012-11-14T00:53:28.480" LastActivityDate="2017-11-11T15:26:44.283" Title="Why haven't the Lannisters previously made a bid for power?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8013" CreationDate="2012-11-13T21:19:14.117" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could probably write a pretty long essay on this, but essentially putting a Lannister on the throne after the previous king's demise would've been very problematic. (and prior to that the regency was passed down through the Targareyen line due to their dragon's blood, which is how their came to be a king in the first place)  Mainly because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jaime was sworn to protect said king and instead assassinated him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tywin did not side with Robert's rebellion until near the end when he sacked King's Landing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Robert, as leader of the rebellion, had popular support&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting a queenship out of the deal was actually a step up from the previous regime, where Cersei had been spurned and Jaime had been co-opted into the Kingsguard, and hence unable to marry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="576" LastActivityDate="2012-11-13T21:19:14.117" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8005" CreationDate="2012-11-14T04:18:03.027" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cause of Weyland's alleged death is never revealed in the movie -- but &lt;strong&gt;whatever the cause of the alleged death, his entrance later suggests he was lying in the hologram, intending to convince the hologram's viewers that he would be dead well before &#xA;2093&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The motive behind this lying is also not revealed in the movie (though it is &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2846/why-does-weyland-have-to-hide-that-he-was-on-the-ship&quot;&gt;discussed on StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T04:18:03.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1925" CreationDate="2012-11-14T11:31:17.960" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In fact it's not confusing. For my analysis, the astronaut did not make it to go back to the real earth. He entered the wrong path, a sort of time travel. He just landed on the future of The Planet of Apes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He need to use another spaceship and go back to the real earth... The ending left its viewers to ask for more. We want a sequel of this film and not a reboot, just like &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_of_the_Planet_of_the_Apes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rise of the Planet of the Apes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;... very disappointing! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3402" LastEditorUserId="8496" LastEditDate="2019-11-02T06:09:20.413" LastActivityDate="2019-11-02T06:09:20.413" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8017" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8021" CreationDate="2012-11-14T12:04:17.100" Score="3" ViewCount="7822" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know how naive I seem asking this question but was far too fascinated by the character JARVIS in the Iron Man movies to not ask this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well JARVIS is nothing but Tony Stark's personal assistant that happens to be a &lt;em&gt;computer program&lt;/em&gt; with amazing &lt;em&gt;AI&lt;/em&gt;(Artificial Intelligence) and has a personality of its own. In Peter David's novelization of the film, JARVIS is revealed as an acronym for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Just A Rather Very Intelligent System&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically speaking, does such a &lt;strong&gt;real world&lt;/strong&gt; system exist? If yes, please do provide concrete references. If not (&lt;em&gt;I bet&lt;/em&gt;), how close a system has been developed? (&lt;em&gt;references again!&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T08:53:09.167" LastActivityDate="2019-01-04T16:15:20.760" Title="Can JARVIS be for real?" Tags="|character|realism|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8017" CreationDate="2012-11-14T13:29:36.240" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe any such system exists, in the same way that no real Iron Man suit exists.  JARVIS is mentioned many times in the comics I believe and so was just a character to be carried across (just like Stark and Pepper).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest that the largest available similar system is Google Voice or Siri!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T13:29:36.240" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8017" CreationDate="2012-11-14T13:31:13.747" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the assumptions you made are quite true in all the aspects. JARVIS stands for &lt;strong&gt;Just A Rather Very Intelligent System&lt;/strong&gt; in the movie. So what can Jarvis do? In the movie we saw him as a computer which acts as a Digital Assistant. Jarvis handles each and everything about Tony Stark including his work, writing programs for his suit, handling security of his house and all.Technically we have not yet reached that far yet. But &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;apart from Film, is it possible to have such intelligent computer in the real life ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and Researchers &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techbloghub.com/is-it-possible-to-have-real-life-jarvis-computer.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;say&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well Answer is Yes cause i believe impossible itself says i am possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we view this problem from programmers point of view&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;apart from the customization one important thing is the accurate voice recognition system and yes this is not a General voice recognition system that has a simple database of pre-described commands and compare the human voice to the commands stored. Jarvis Computer is like a Responsive voice recognition system that can even raise questions by itself and wait for the answer. I hope you can understand what I am talking about. Yes we need to Put some Artificial Intelligence Programs to avail such feature which is not easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But some geeks have started working on it. Like Chad Barraford who has already made device named DIY which can work almost like Jarvis. It &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/how-to/software/diy-jarvis-digital-assistant&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;can&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jarvis Can Talk&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Barraford developed a language interpretation system that employs MacSpeech Dictate, a program that converts speech into text so Jarvis can interpret it. In this video, Barraford demonstrates Jarvis's listening and speaking abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He Can Wake You&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Here, Barraford demonstrates Jarvis's alarm clock system and daily weather report.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jarvis Watches Over the Home&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Barraford gave his dog and his close friends RFID key chains so that Jarvis would know when they are in the apartment. &quot;He figures out who is home and who isn't, and he changes the environmental settings based on that information,&quot; Barraford says. For example, Jarvis uses the X10 system to turn off the lights if no one is home, and when friends are over he keeps Barraford's Facebook notifications private, instead of reading them aloud like usual. In this video, Barraford demonstrates the RFID tag reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And He Can Even Help With Migraines&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Jarvis really comes in handy when Barraford gets a debilitating migraine headache, which occurs about once every other month. An instant message is all it takes to switch Jarvis into migraine mode, which calls for him to send an e-mail to Barraford's boss, update Twitter and Facebook and dim the apartment lights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For all these functions The complete pack of Jarvis includes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Mac Mini&#xA;radio-frequency-identification (RFID) tag reader&#xA;X10 home automation system&#xA;wall speakers and a wireless microphone.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we cannot say we have made an exact thing like Jarvis, but we can surely say that we are approaching to create like one slowly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2019-01-04T16:15:20.760" LastActivityDate="2019-01-04T16:15:20.760" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8017" CreationDate="2012-11-14T19:20:23.723" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to provide some more links (I'm not gonna try and match the other answer):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jarvis is shown to interact in conversation. This involves voice recognition and interpretation. Voice recognition is the conversion of sound to text/language and is actually easier than the interpretation part in which the AI has to really understand what you're saying. Siri is indeed an example but still rather simple as it mostly uses the same basic set of commands/answers. Others include &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cleverbot.com/&quot;&gt;cleverbot&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jabberwacky.com/&quot;&gt;jabberwacky&lt;/a&gt;. Most of them use machine learning underneath to interpret previous answers. At the moment, most of them are not that human-like but still fun to try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of AI development is also being done in the gaming industry to create human-like players. Read &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-09/28/gaming-ai-appears-to-be-human&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; on gaming AI and the Turing test.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2012-11-14T19:20:23.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8023" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9274" CreationDate="2012-11-14T23:15:35.157" Score="8" ViewCount="584" Body="&lt;p&gt;A while back I had a small debate with someone about whether Jim knew Claudia was addicted to drugs and needed help. My interpretation was that he did know and felt he could be her &quot;knight&quot; because all she needed was someone to treat her right. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My basis for this claim was when he leaves her apartment after investigating the loud music he reluctantly goes down the stairs after she lets him out. He pauses for a moment as if he hadn't reached his goal. I thought he seemed to want something else, maybe to get her number, as he didn't seem too eager to move on i.e. he paused while standing in the staircase for a few seconds. I thought he was completely aware of what she was hiding but played it otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been a while since I have seen the movie so I apologize if anything is unclear and that I'm not recalling the event correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is an accurate answer, what is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3404" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-11-15T10:07:19.997" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T06:31:53.373" Title="Did Officer Jim Kurring know that Claudia was a drug addict?" Tags="|plot-explanation|magnolia|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8028" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8031" CreationDate="2012-11-15T11:09:29.240" Score="24" ViewCount="34026" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hulk (2003)&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Eric Bana&#xA;Bruce Banner&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Incredible Hulk (2008)&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Edward Norton&#xA;Bruce Banner&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Avengers (2012)&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Mark Ruffalo&#xA;Bruce Banner&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason why different actors are used in different versions of the same role?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2098" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-06-23T10:15:05.667" LastActivityDate="2017-06-23T10:15:05.667" Title="Why has the role of Bruce Banner been played by different actors in the three films that Hulk has appeared in?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|casting|the-avengers|the-incredible-hulk|hulk|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2637" CreationDate="2012-11-15T12:36:44.910" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tony knew that they already have the sexual relationship but when his mother cries in-front of him , he become angry that his mom told that he had made her exactly as him...so he killed many...but later due to sorrow and stress Gina thinks that he is saving her for sex....that is why after death he cries for Gina.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3409" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-11-15T13:19:22.450" LastActivityDate="2012-11-15T13:19:22.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8030" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8038" CreationDate="2012-11-15T13:25:22.877" Score="9" ViewCount="43662" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381849/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;3:10 to Yuma&lt;/a&gt;, we see Ben killed his teammate Charlie after failing to save Dan.  We have seen that Ben tried to cooperate with Dan during the second half of the movie. So, was Ben feeling weak towards Dan? It's very unnatural given the role he has portrayed in the movie. Ben is a cold-hearted mass murderer. How come has he changed? And why did he try to save Dan and kill Charlie? Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-08T18:43:35.947" LastActivityDate="2016-04-03T21:03:27.237" Title="Why did Ben try to help Dan?" Tags="|plot-explanation|310-to-yuma|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8028" CreationDate="2012-11-15T13:28:41.273" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Eric Bana version of the Hulk was critically panned, receiving poor reviews from critics and fans alike, thus, Marvel called for a reboot to be tied into their Avengers plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I understood, Edward Norton quit after the 2008 version due to a lot of internal disputes (more information can be found on &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/2195/130&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to a similar question I asked before)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, with the departure of Edward Norton from the Avengers Universe Hulk, Marvel hired Mark Ruffalo to handle the role, and from &amp;lt;Rumors&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/new-hulk-standalone-movie-wouldnt-be-until-after-the-avengers-2-but-a-possible-plot-could-hint-at-avengers-3/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rumors I have found&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, he will continue playing the Hulk in a planned release, due after the Avengers 2 &amp;lt;/Rumors&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T23:41:40.950" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8013" CreationDate="2012-11-15T16:16:10.223" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Lannisters are indeed a strong and wealthy family, but they are also mistrusted by the other great families. So if they tried to take Robert's throne forcibly the other families would unite against them. In the TV series the Lannisters have trouble facing only three of the great families (The Starks, Baratheons and Tullys), so if you add the rest of the  families (The Tyrells, Martells, Arryns, and possibly the Greyjoys) that makes for an impossible to win situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the only way to get the throne was through subterfuge. Assassinating King Robert so blatantly would throw too much suspicion on them, that's why the Starks suspect that the Lannisters assassinated Jon Arryn (King Robert's first Hand) hoping to replace him with Tywin or Jaime Lannister in order to take real control since Robert delegated all the actual ruling to his Hand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then Robert picked Ned Stark instead, and Stark was shaping up to be a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; anti-Lannister Hand. Starks were now hounding them both politically (through Ned Stark) and militarily (kidnapping Tyrion). It was then that the Lannisters knew that they had to act &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;, or risk losing power (or more). Thus the move to eliminate King Robert and replace him with a Lannister puppet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-11-15T16:16:10.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8033" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-15T16:38:31.403" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-15T16:38:31.403" LastActivityDate="2012-11-15T16:38:31.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8034" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-15T16:38:31.403" Score="0" Body="A 2012 American science fiction action film remake of the 1990 film of the same name, but unlike the original film, the plot does not include a trip to Mars and exhibits more political overtones." OwnerUserId="1674" LastEditorUserId="1674" LastEditDate="2012-11-15T17:33:21.130" LastActivityDate="2012-11-15T17:33:21.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8035" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8571" CreationDate="2012-11-15T18:06:04.613" Score="41" ViewCount="9912" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched one movie when I was a boy, around 18 years ago maybe and I did not know the name nor the name of any actor, even worse it is not a popular movie. I am asking here because years of googling have not worked :). Hope this is the right place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is all the info I recall from the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Movie info:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drama, Low budget, I saw it on Cinemax. Has some mature content (one boy stabs another). Color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What the movie is about&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is about a normal teenager who is sent to a mental asylum, or some kind of camp for teenagers with mental conditions (can't remember why). In the asylum there is one of his childhood's friends who is obviously mad (aggressive type), a bully and a girl (I think redhead with freckles) with whom the main character falls in love. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is about his struggle in this place, where he clearly doesn't belong. His relief being the girl who he eventually sleeps with and the movie unfolds when the bully after harassing so much the main character ignites the rage of the main character's friend: He stabs the bully and runs away in a car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie finishes with a touching farewell of the two friends (the crazy one is arrested) and a much more mature main character, whose parents come to pick up and apologize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Main actor:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A fat teenager, with Hispanic features. I think I saw him in movies of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091445/&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; kind but not as main actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some tips:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie had some dialogs/situations that stayed in my mind for so long like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The crazy aggressive friend tells him that he is nuts because he set his mother's curtains on fire; the main character replies &quot;but you set your mother on fire&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The girl doesn't read the love notes she gets and instead uses them as hair-clips&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When the parents come to pick him up he's laying outside in the floor and he says he is &quot;creating a tornado&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; I can tell about the movie.. does anyone know it?? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3410" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-08-24T05:43:12.990" LastActivityDate="2013-08-24T05:43:12.990" Title="Boy sent to a mental asylum for teenagers where he falls in love" Tags="|identify-this-movie|drama|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:39:25.743" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8036" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8037" CreationDate="2012-11-15T18:32:35.047" Score="10" ViewCount="1283" Body="&lt;p&gt;How closely does the movie &quot;First Blood&quot; (1982) portray the contemporary ‍public attitude towards the returning Vietnam War veterans?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this trend still continue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1215" LastEditorUserId="44708" LastEditDate="2017-07-16T06:08:52.343" LastActivityDate="2017-07-16T06:08:52.343" Title="How closely does &quot;First Blood&quot; portray the contemporary attitude towards war veterans?" Tags="|realism|first-blood|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8036" CreationDate="2012-11-15T19:53:25.590" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's part of the reason why this movie was so popular, and in the directors commentary Sylvester Stallone credits anti-Vietnam attitudes for making the film a success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Blood&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; has the film labelled as &lt;em&gt;&quot;First Blood was a post-Vietnam War psychological thriller&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An interesting article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.historytoday.com/michael-paris/american-film-industry-vietnam&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;American war films&lt;/a&gt; proposes the idea that First Blood represents American's lack of willingness to win the Vietnam war. Where the soldiers were capable both in skills and equipement, but altermately failed cause of a lack of support from the American public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rambo has flash backs to his imprisonment during the war as a POW, which are triggered by his false prosecution by the town Sheriff William Teasel. A town ironically called &quot;Hope&quot;. The Sheriff is a representation of American anti-Vietnam attitudes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The soldier without a war is a common theme in many reality and fantasy films. Where the soldier fails to reintegrate into a society that is responsible for his existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120157/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Soldier (1998)&lt;/a&gt; is a perfect example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zQhol.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2012-11-15T19:53:25.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8030" CreationDate="2012-11-15T20:48:51.877" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ben &lt;strong&gt;could've escaped&lt;/strong&gt; whenever he wanted, he wanted to ensure that Dan sees him off in the train to Yuma, The reason being he wants Dan to succeed in his endeavor because of the promise he made to his son and his wife and also he sympathizes with Dan on the fact that he used to be a  soldier and his life changed after he sustained the injury in the war and wanted to give him the fulfillment of sending the notorious criminal to the jail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when Charlie kills him against his orders Ben gets angry on that issue and he no longer cares for the group and he kills them all and goes in the train simply to fulfill Dan once again and once the train departs he flees on his horse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2012-11-15T20:48:51.877" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8039" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-15T22:06:47.280" Score="9" ViewCount="1562" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed while watching Dexter series that absolutely nothing that happens on a computer screen looks even remotely familiar. Operating systems are not Windows, OSX or Linux, nor are they re-skins of those, blogs look similar to LiveJournal but obviously are not a custom skin, chat programs look like nothing i have seen before. And there is a lot of detail in those, too. Usually there is always some small detail, something that lets you tell this is actually some familiar software. But in Dexter - nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This have been bugging me. Is this just some actual software that i have never seen? Or did they actually take time to design all this (quite cheesy, frankly) stuff that most of the time can only be seen on the screen for a split second? And why on earth would they do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3412" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T14:54:27.707" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T14:54:27.707" Title="What software and web sites are portrayed in Dexter?" Tags="|dexter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8035" CreationDate="2012-11-15T22:32:19.370" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252684/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Manic&lt;/a&gt; Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Here is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://movieclips.com/ZVz8e-manic-movie-videos/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; to a full rundown of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was shown at Sundance and was also the first pairing of him and Actress Zooey Deschanel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few differences in your description and the movie: the main character is not fat, the parents don't come to pick him up at least not at the end. But I think this is the one you watched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="118" LastEditDate="2012-11-16T02:00:29.850" LastActivityDate="2012-11-16T02:00:29.850" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8043" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-16T05:48:13.830" Score="7" ViewCount="6404" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final minutes of Paul Thomas Anderson's &quot;The Master&quot; (2012) the character played by Joaquin Phoenix enters a bar and makes suggestive eye contact with a woman there, and then scene cuts to the two of them in bed together, engaging in some pillow talk. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They laugh with each other as Phoenix's character playfully describes some philosophical idea that the master taught him. There is also a brief flashback shot of the sand-castle woman from the beginning of the movie. Also, Phoenix repeatedly asks the woman her name, and she eventually tells him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there any record of Anderson commenting on the meaning of this ending? If not Anderson, any other credible source?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-06T15:40:15.310" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T15:40:15.310" Title="Why does Freddie attempt to &quot;process&quot; the blonde in the final scene?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-master|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8045" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-16T14:46:14.427" Score="19" ViewCount="5761" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is Leia, the twin of Luke, not a Jedi?  Is she not supposed to be the &quot;one other&quot; to whom Yoda refers in Star Wars Episode V?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3415" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T15:38:13.950" LastActivityDate="2020-09-07T12:57:12.170" Title="Why is Leia, the twin of Luke, not a Jedi?" Tags="|character|star-wars|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8045" CreationDate="2012-11-16T15:13:38.740" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;She is not a Jedi because she hasn't received any training.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are hints of her Force powers in the movies.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt;, she senses Luke's distress and has Lando turn around to retrieve him from underneath Cloud City.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, at the end of &lt;em&gt;The Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt;, she can tell that Luke made it off the Death Star before it exploded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books that were released later (such as Timothy Zahn's &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0553296124&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thrawn Trilogy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), it is revealed that Leia has potential for strong Force powers, just like her brother, and has started Jedi training under Luke's instruction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="188" LastEditorUserId="188" LastEditDate="2012-11-16T16:39:44.390" LastActivityDate="2012-11-16T16:39:44.390" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8045" CreationDate="2012-11-16T19:41:44.430" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somewhat of a joke, but somewhat serious; cause Lucas didn't think it all the way through yet.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always sensed he did Ep IV as a simple movie. Once he saw it was big, then Star Wars went from an action romp to a &quot;deep thinking saga&quot; (TM). Think of all the changes in the re-releases that kind of fit this model. Most famously: Han Shot first. Han goes from a rogue in Ep IV and later has to be ret-conned to a hero, firing in self-defense.  I remember hearing that there was some dialog about Luke's dad during the attack on the first Death Star that got removed or muted after the Vader-Luke connection was shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somewhat related, I always wondered why in Ep IV Vader didn't sense her Jedi-ness or daughterness right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3420" LastActivityDate="2012-11-16T19:41:44.430" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8045" CreationDate="2012-11-16T20:15:09.383" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somewhat related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12403/did-yoda-intend-on-training-leia-as-a-jedi/12411#12411&quot;&gt;This question over on Sci-Fi SE&lt;/a&gt;. The short of it is that Ben Kenobi (and Yoda) were keeping tabs from afar on both Luke and Leia. Luke got the nod for Force training for the sole reason that Leia had been captured, and Ben needed some help getting her out of trouble. Ben, pragmatic as he was, used this serendipitous meeting between himself, Luke, and R2 (carrying a message from Leia) to kick-start the plan he and Yoda had set in motion twenty years earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, think back to Ep IV. Vader had Leia in captivity, and was torturing her personally in her holding cell for some time. He never discovered any latent Force-sensitivity in her. Yet, in the heat of battle, in two separate fighter cockpits separated by several dozen meters of vacuum, Vader could sense in just a few seconds that the Force was strong with the pilot in his crosshairs. That's pretty strong evidence that Luke is in fact the stronger of the two in the ways of the Force. This is borne out in EU sources; Leia trains under Luke in the days of the New Republic, and becomes a Jedi Consular in the New Jedi Order using her Force powers for negotiation and diplomacy. However, she is never a warrior to compare with Luke, or even her own children Jaina, Jacen and Anakin, all three of which become Jedi Knights and one of which falls to the Sith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="895" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2012-11-16T20:15:09.383" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8052" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8144" CreationDate="2012-11-16T21:24:37.393" Score="24" ViewCount="21517" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Bond is given the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Royal-Doulton-bulldogs-fly-shelves-James-Bond/story-17300286-detail/story.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;porcelain bulldog figurine&lt;/a&gt; at the end of &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;, he smiles as if he understands the meaning of this figurine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the movie, we can see the camera focusing on that figurine at least three times:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When we first see M at her desk.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After the MI6 explosion on M's desk.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Bond opens the box at the end.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of this figurine, and what is the purpose of giving it to Bond?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3422" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-25T12:11:40.383" LastActivityDate="2015-10-25T12:11:40.383" Title="What is the purpose or message behind the dog figurine that Bond receives?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3367" CreationDate="2012-11-16T22:57:38.493" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't you think that he got injured in the Dark Knight when he tackled Harvey and fell off a (i think 2-3) storey building before he told Gordon to frame him? Because that was a really nasty fall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3424" LastEditorUserId="2155" LastEditDate="2012-11-17T01:35:42.140" LastActivityDate="2012-11-17T01:35:42.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8045" CreationDate="2012-11-17T00:05:39.477" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Leia was a woman... it was made 1977... and George Lucas was born in 1944. He wasn't thinking of the sociopolitical context of the story for the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3425" LastActivityDate="2012-11-17T00:05:39.477" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8052" CreationDate="2012-11-17T00:24:18.910" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I simply thought of it as being a collegial joke by M, because Bond wondered a bit sarcasticly why solely that dog had survived the bombing. Just as in: &quot;Oh, you don't like it? Have fun with it then!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2012-11-17T00:24:18.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3584" CreationDate="2012-11-17T09:49:54.633" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole cripple thing might just be a  ruse from Bruce Wayne.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Thanks to that ruse, people let him alone when there's a party at the manor in the beginning (a bit like when he pretends to be drink in the previous movie).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Then thanks to that ruse again, he's able to secretly contact Gordon at the hospital, pretending a visit to the doctor. A minute after hearing the diagnosis, he jumps down several floors to chat with his friend.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This is probably painful anyway, but not as much for him as he'll tell people. As mentioned before, he's the Batman ! And can overcome by his master mind and iron will what his body would seem to refuse doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2089" LastActivityDate="2012-11-17T09:49:54.633" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8059" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8060" CreationDate="2012-11-17T10:08:51.440" Score="14" ViewCount="3349" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not much familiar with superhero-type movies, so please let me know if I am wrong somewhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last time I watched The Avengers, I thought that all the team members were supposed to be superheroes. I have seen &lt;strong&gt;Iron Man&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Captain America&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Hulk&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Thor&lt;/strong&gt; in action before, but there was a girl and a guy who supported these superheroes during the mission in Avengers. The guy was an archer and the girl was also a shooter. I have not seen any of their movies featuring them as a superhero before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was just wondering that if they actually are the superheroes or if they are just there in the mission to support the superheroes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, is there any other movie of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2031" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:23:12.180" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T15:23:12.180" Title="Who are the two stars in Avengers who support superheroes?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8059" CreationDate="2012-11-17T12:03:45.350" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2 heroes you are referring to are Black Widow and Hawkeye, played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424060/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Scarlett Johansson&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0719637/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jeremy Renner&lt;/a&gt;. There is talk about &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/black-widow-solo-movie-rob-79528/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;their own movies&lt;/a&gt; but no official releases. Marvel is focusing on the Avengers storyline first. It will probably depend on the box offices ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Black Widow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Uh6Y.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Black Widow&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should have seen her in Iron Man 2 (part of the S.H.I.E.L.D. storyline). She is Natalia Romanova, an elite Russian spy, biologically enhanced by the Russians. This has enhanced her normal human skills to the limits of what's humanly possible, giving her a.o. extreme agility. She has also received intense training in martial arts and espionage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She features in the Marvel comic book series first as the Russian counterpart of Iron Man but later defects to join the USA and the Avengers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hawkeye&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HnT1Y.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Hawkeye&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clint Barton grew up in a carnival where he learned and perfected his archery skill. He was recruited by Black Widow but later also joins the Avengers (all in the Marvel comic book series).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No solo movies as of yet but he did make a cameo appearance in Thor and Renner is the lead character in the latest Bourne movie, so if you want to see him in action on his own...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T19:18:08.393" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8059" CreationDate="2012-11-17T12:12:20.520" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;First make the concept clear about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkeye_%28comics%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hawkeye&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Widow_%28Marvel_Comics%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Black Widow&lt;/a&gt;. They are superhero  and superheroine respectively in the original comics. Wikipedia clearly states that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hawkeye (also known as Goliath and Ronin, and as his alter ego Clint Barton) is a fictional character and comic book superhero who appears in publications by Marvel Comics&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Black Widow is the name of several fictional superheroines appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Most of these versions exist in Marvel's main shared universe, known as the Marvel Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same link states &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkeye_%28comics%29#Powers_and_abilities&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the power and abilities of Hawk Eye&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Widow_%28Natalia_Romanova%29#Powers_and_abilities&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Powers and abilities of Black Widow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we cant say there were just supporters. They are the parts of the avengers team and they got the chance with their own qualities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To speak about their movies, as a character, there are no solo movies of Black Widow or Hawkeye. But they will play along the avengers series for now. Although Black Widow has appeared in Iron Man 2 and Avengers, played by Scarlett Johnson. Hawkeye role was played by Jeremy Renner in Avengers and Thor. However if fortune allows they can get their &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/black-widow-hawkeye-solo-movies-rob-113609/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;solo movies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As actor and actress, both &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0719637/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jeremy Renner&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424060/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Scarlett Johansson&lt;/a&gt; has played roles in different movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-11-18T04:57:31.030" LastActivityDate="2012-11-18T04:57:31.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1277" CreationDate="2012-11-17T19:30:33.177" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since when Weiss killed two policemen viz. Sandra Bates and Theo Nelson, he was on the suspect list of Brant. Brant knew about him from Radnor, who gave him the news of Weiss's killing a police dog and posting it on Youtube. Since then Brant was suspecting him. Also Brant recognized Weiss in his apartment due to his fight with him about a year ago. So whenever any killing took place he tried to connect it with Weiss.  Eventually from his criminal records in the police station with the help of a lady police,, Brant discovered that any police who arrested Weiss, Weiss is attacking them particularly and Falls was the next. So assuming it is true, Brant took no risk and sent immediate help to her apartment and we find Weiss falls flat in his attempt to murder Halls.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-11-18T03:25:52.987" LastActivityDate="2012-11-18T03:25:52.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3475" CreationDate="2012-11-17T23:27:49.220" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was 3 months- I am watching it right now and Joseph Gordon Levitt's character is talking to the cops/agents who came with the emergency food shipment with the commissioner in the room as well. They are talking about the 3000 cops in the tunnels who &quot;haven't seen daylight in 3 months.&quot; Which makes sense because as a previous poster said football season is in the early fall and was just beginning to snow so that means it is around early December.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3428" LastActivityDate="2012-11-17T23:27:49.220" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8065" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-18T01:08:46.063" Score="7" ViewCount="551" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the second season episode of &lt;em&gt;American Horror Story&lt;/em&gt;, &quot;I Am Anne Frank, Part II&quot;, we're told that Anne Frank is actually Charlotte Brown, delusional and obsessed wife of Jim Brown, a new character to that specific episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But new to the series (as far as I'm aware), they go and shift into this odd type of filming that looks similar to a play being played out on a television as the story is being told during the relevant sequences, and I can't quite seem to figure out what it represents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What exactly does this new style represent?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2135" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-18T11:51:29.277" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T11:51:29.277" Title="What does the television-esque film style in the episode &quot;I Am Anne Frank, Part II&quot; represent?" Tags="|film-techniques|american-horror-story|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8066" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8075" CreationDate="2012-11-18T03:20:02.447" Score="21" ViewCount="7551" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early on in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indy is seen leaving his class at Barnett College to go to his office. When he gets there, his outer office is filled with student's clamoring for Dr. Jones's attention. What do they want from him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/noW3Q.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the joke that Indy hates the bureaucratic side of his job? Or that his students are obsessed with him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3430" LastEditorUserId="3430" LastEditDate="2012-11-18T19:49:23.423" LastActivityDate="2022-07-16T20:49:09.073" Title="In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, why do the students want his attention?" Tags="|plot-explanation|indiana-jones|indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8052" CreationDate="2012-11-18T03:25:00.230" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bond isn't fond of the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldog#Popular_mascot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;British Bulldog&lt;/a&gt;&quot; figurine, but clearly M is. He makes disdainful remarks when he sees that, of all things, the ugly figurine he dislikes so much survived the explosion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he receives it at the end of the movie, it's because M left it to him. She knew how much he disliked it, so what could be a better present to remind him of her!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3430" LastEditorUserId="3430" LastEditDate="2013-09-26T12:51:58.617" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T12:51:58.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8066" CreationDate="2012-11-18T03:59:28.057" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well I am just explaining it like it seemed to me. There are two possible reasons I can see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) I think, while Indiana was teaching in the class, the students did not know about his previous days adventure. But then his friend Marcus Brody entered the class and Indiana talked to him about the recovery of the golden cross. As soon as the students left the class, they might have got the news about their teacher's adventure. So they decided to stay and talk to and get the autograph of their famous teacher. There are two ways, I am guessing, they came to know about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a) They might have got the news from anybody inside the school. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;b) They were eavesdropping on Indiana and Marcus's conversation from outside the class, because Indiana met them just outside the class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) There may be another explanation. The result of any exam in the school was out on that day and the students came to know about it. So they were murmuring outside the classroom out of excitement. Maybe Indiana was going to declare the result. That is why he wanted to see everybody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;lrene, put everybody's name&#xA;on a list...&#xA;and l'll see each and&#xA;every one of them in turn!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-25T14:25:17.143" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T14:25:17.143" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1923" CreationDate="2012-11-18T04:35:50.620" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The logic is simple. The color of the objects change according to whether it is harmful or not to the aliens or the aliens want to attack it or not. Now we have to think deeper in this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The color is &quot;Green&quot; when the object is not harmful in its true sense, meaning if the object is a human being, he should not think evil. We see Hopper had an evil plan to attack the alien in another way. The alien might have perceived it. So he maintained red-alert for him. &#xA;In case of the cannons, if the direction of them is towards the alien ship, it was shown as &quot;danger&quot; meaning it might fire upon them. The machinegun was never seen by alien ship (I think because the boat was too small to be seen), until it started firing upon the ship. Then they looked at it and it was seen as &quot;red&quot; (as it was firing). In case of pillars, like I said, the alines saw &quot;red&quot;, if the object seen is meant to be attacked on. The pillars were meant to be attacked, so it was seen &quot;red&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To question your query to why they did not attack the earth, I would rather say the plan &quot;That they were going to need another planet&quot; was just a mere guessing by Harper. It is not confirmed in the movie. So it might not be true. And that whatever they attacked on earth might be just a precaution, so that the human do not try to attack them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastActivityDate="2012-11-18T04:35:50.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8072" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9540" CreationDate="2012-11-18T18:19:56.243" Score="5" ViewCount="1090" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who is the bleeding man at the train station? He is most likely just imagined, as is so many other things in the movie (e.g. the brain), but I can't imagine what it means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastEditorUserId="546" LastEditDate="2013-01-19T11:41:06.880" LastActivityDate="2013-01-19T11:41:06.880" Title="The bleeding man in Pi (1997)" Tags="|analysis|pi|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8073" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8076" CreationDate="2012-11-18T18:43:36.840" Score="11" ViewCount="8220" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a question audiences have been asking since 1933, so I thought this would be the perfect place for it :) Even Peter Jackson decided to side-step this particular issue in his remake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z25AT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did they get &quot;King Kong&quot; back to New York?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3430" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-16T15:43:18.913" LastActivityDate="2015-08-16T15:43:18.913" Title="How did they get &quot;King Kong&quot; back to New York?" Tags="|plot-explanation|king-kong-1933|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8074" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8167" CreationDate="2012-11-18T19:42:11.087" Score="8" ViewCount="306" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Wife_%28season_4%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Good Wife (season 4)&lt;/a&gt;, I think that the end of episode 6 is wrong, mainly in the facts, but I need someone with some legal knowledge to confirm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we are told, Cpt. Laura Hellinger has lost the Army law suit she had against her claimed rapist, and judge Kalhun, asks Alicia to help in the civil court.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the episode, we learn of a new witness who heard Cpt. Laura Hellinger and her rapist fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am sure that this is new information - Isn't that grounds to open the military case again?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shouldn't Alicia/Kalinda/Will (who's not in the episode) or someone else point that the military case can and should be re-open? -- THIS is how the episode should have ended!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2162" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-18T11:50:24.593" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T11:50:24.593" Title="Wrong end to The Good wife season 4 episode 6" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-good-wife|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8066" CreationDate="2012-11-18T19:52:13.273" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, I've done some of my own research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the joke is that Indy is an adventurer (albeit, a scholarly one), and that he isn't cut out for the day-to-day bureaucracy and paperwork of academia. They're a necessary evil of his job, but one that he'd rather avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His secretary, Irene, says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                     IRENE&#xA;       Dr. Jones, I'm SO glad you're back. &#xA;       Your mail is on your desk. Here are &#xA;       your phone messages. This is your &#xA;       appointment schedule. And these term &#xA;       papers *still* haven't been graded!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back at school, Indy is immediately overwhelmed with paperwork. What's more, I looked at the original script, by Jeffrey Boam, and I discovered the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Students once again CLAMOR for his attention: &#xA;&amp;quot;Doctor Jones!&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Wait, Doctor Jones!&amp;quot; &amp;quot;My grade!&amp;quot; &amp;quot;My term paper!&amp;quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of dealing with his irate students, he makes up a scheme (where poor Irene has to try and decide who should be seen first) and then jumps out his office window to escape it all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3430" LastEditorUserId="3430" LastEditDate="2022-07-16T20:49:09.073" LastActivityDate="2022-07-16T20:49:09.073" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8073" CreationDate="2012-11-18T20:18:51.830" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1933 movie doesn't show how King Kong was transported, but according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://atlantisonline.smfforfree2.com/index.php/topic,3029.20/wap2.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lugYK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;script&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They possibly towed the raft with the ship&lt;/strong&gt;, all the way to New York.&#xA;&lt;br&gt;(Maybe &lt;em&gt;Peter Jackson&lt;/em&gt; thought using a &lt;em&gt;raft&lt;/em&gt; is a silly idea and therefore didn't include it in his version)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;However, the &lt;em&gt;raft idea&lt;/em&gt; was used in &lt;a href=&quot;http://jellydonut25.hubpages.com/hub/King-Kong-vs-Godzilla-Kaiju-KomedyNot-Really-Funny#&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;King Kong vs. Godzilla&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nfra8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;raft&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.co.at/2012/07/cult-movie-review-king-kong-1976.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1976 version&lt;/a&gt; they &lt;strong&gt;used an oil tanker&lt;/strong&gt; to transport &lt;em&gt;Kong:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8MTzf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;oil tanker&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-11-18T20:18:51.830" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2789" CreationDate="2012-11-19T01:18:13.107" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to say he didn't break his rule, but he actually did.&#xA;He didn't save Ras, which is fair enough, he saved a young boy by killing Dent, unintentionally (though he may have died from infection eventually anyway), both are questionable.&#xA;What most people are forgetting is that in the first movie, when Bruce claims to not be an executioner, lets one man live (a thief) by causing an explosion, killing most of Ras Al Gul's men, and also killing the guy pretending to be Ras.&#xA;The building exploded because of Bruce, we saw people die, so he technically broke his rule before putting on the mask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that being said and done, if i was in his shoes, i wouldn't have changed anything he did, and deem them ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3434" LastActivityDate="2012-11-19T01:18:13.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8079" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8166" CreationDate="2012-11-19T07:34:17.180" Score="19" ViewCount="3988" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qC9Yr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These were a group of some of the brightest scientists in the world, right? So why would they decide to take off their helmets on an alien planet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if things &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; safe, they would still be unable to board the ship without going through quarantine procedures, so why do it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear, six characters venture onto the planet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shaw (archaeologist) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Holloway (archaeologist) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fifield (geologist)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Millburn (biologist)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ford (doctor)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;David (android)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ALL of them take off their helmets. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if Holloway's scans revealed the Co2 levels were low enough for the air to be breathable, what about airborne diseases? I'm no scientist and &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; understand the dangers, so why don't they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have an answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3430" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2015-06-15T08:40:57.767" LastActivityDate="2021-11-04T10:06:32.673" Title="Why did the crew take off their helmets?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8079" CreationDate="2012-11-19T08:03:30.890" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Their scans indicated it was safe to breathe. As scientists, they constantly formulate hypotheses and test them, according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;scientific method&lt;/a&gt;. If all their tests indicated it was safe, the next step would be trials using living organisms. They could have used some other animals (if they had some) but I believe they were rather impressed by the whole meeting-our-makers-thing that they were very optimistic. They were also only archeologists, more trained in history and excavations, then in biology (and hence don't focus on the toxic gasses).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thrill of breathing the air might be enough for them to go through quarantaine (would you pass up that chance because you don't want to go through quarantaine?). It's a discovery of a lifetime... Most reactions on &quot;taking their helmet off&quot; seem to forget this typical human behaviour. They've come all the way from earth in stasis, they're not turning back now. Don't forget that they might not be the brightest scientists as they're pursuing their own hypothesis. There was no selection protocol with ample (qualified) candidates for the job. Other scientists might be more careful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2012-11-19T08:03:30.890" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="524" CreationDate="2012-11-19T09:07:11.760" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know you may not want to hear this, but is it possible you're mis-remembering things?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be against the law for the film to be released under a different cut on home video without it being re-assessed by the BBFC. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbfc.co.uk/AFF152651/&quot;&gt;As you can see on their website&lt;/a&gt;, however, no changes were made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The running-time difference due to the change in frame rate from film to PAL, and is entirely consistent with no changes having been made.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that you saw this version on a plane? &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/alternateversions&quot;&gt;According to the IMDB&lt;/a&gt; a longer version was prepared for flights...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A lot more pseudo-documentary footage on the making of the fictional Truman Show was shot but not used in the theatrical version. Only some short segments have been included in the released film, in the pre-credits sequence. Segments of this outtake footage, featuring Meryl Burbank and Marlon being interviewed and talking about their roles on the show and their personal lives, have been included in some airline versions, presumably to pad the running times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're absolutely sure about what you saw, then I suppose it's possible that your cinema got shipped the wrong print. (I heard stories of the Coen Brother's film &quot;The Man Who Wasn't There&quot; getting shipping some colour reels instead of the intended black and white ones, for instance.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that case, your experience was an unintended fluke...!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3430" LastActivityDate="2012-11-19T09:07:11.760" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8082" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8083" CreationDate="2012-11-19T09:14:35.587" Score="12" ViewCount="14479" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109040/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ace Ventura Pet Detective&lt;/a&gt; today and observed a very interesting thing. The soundtrack of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mission Impossible&lt;/a&gt; is used in a scene where Jim Carrey is seen entering the bathroom of Camp and jumping from the window of the bathroom and reaching the pool. The soundtrack starts with this scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dvKFy.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ace Entering Camps bathroom&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how is this possible given the fact the first Mission Impossible released on 1996 whereas Ace Ventura released in 1994?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T09:47:58.247" LastActivityDate="2018-10-26T03:39:11.297" Title="How was it possible to use the theme music of Mission Impossible in Ace Ventura Pet Detective?" Tags="|soundtrack|ace-ventura-pet-detective|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8082" CreationDate="2012-11-19T09:37:38.833" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;The song you are talking about was the theme tune of the TV series &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_from_Mission:_Impossible&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mission: Impossible (1966–1973).&lt;/a&gt; It returned to television for two seasons from 1988 to 1990.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original theme From YouTube:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/mWGeRgFa-hI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Mission Impossible movie is based on the TV series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1996, the theme was remade by U2 members Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. for the soundtrack for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117060/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mission Impossible&lt;/a&gt; movie. This means that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109040/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ace Ventura Pet Detective&lt;/a&gt;  used the older version of the song from the TV series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-10-26T03:39:11.297" LastActivityDate="2018-10-26T03:39:11.297" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3319" CreationDate="2012-11-19T10:18:55.510" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the answer is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080058/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;L'umanoide&lt;/a&gt;. I also was looking for this movie for a long time and identified it by pure chance, I came upon &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5909094/some-of-the-cheesiest-movie-moments-of-all-time/gallery/1?tag=retro-future&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article in io9.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It also has some of the best Darth Vader dialog ever, a robot dog named Robodog, a psychic Jedi-child, and an evil queen who has to absorb the juices of one topless young fashion model every day to stay young&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3435" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-28T15:51:02.883" LastActivityDate="2013-11-28T15:51:02.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8086" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8087" CreationDate="2012-11-19T13:49:03.307" Score="15" ViewCount="4463" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381061/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; there is a scene during the poker game when &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Vesper&lt;/em&gt; go to their room during a pause. On their way &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; fetches an envelope from the reception (that I guess he deposited there earlier) containing his gun and then in the elevator &lt;strong&gt;asks &lt;em&gt;Vesper&lt;/em&gt; to open it and take out the gun&lt;/strong&gt;. When exiting the elevator they hear screams from &lt;em&gt;Le Chiffre&lt;/em&gt;'s room (who is visited by his angry African clients) and &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; engages the danger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my question is, why did &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; take out the gun from the envelope in the first place, since at this point he didn't know there is danger ahead? He could have just done it in his room or not fetch/deposit the envelope at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Am I just overinterpreting this and he just took it out as a matter of security?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was he actually anticipating the upcoming danger or knew that &lt;em&gt;Le Chiffre&lt;/em&gt; got unwelcome visitors?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did he actually plan something serious I have overseen, like capturing &lt;em&gt;Le Chiffre&lt;/em&gt; or at least searching his room or something the like?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or was this plot device of fetching the envelope and drawing out the gun just not thought out that well?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T13:12:55.170" LastActivityDate="2020-05-21T07:07:58.827" Title="Why did James Bond draw his gun?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|casino-royale|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8086" CreationDate="2012-11-19T14:36:56.200" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You must have overlooked how Bond put a &lt;em&gt;tracker/microphone&lt;/em&gt; on Le Chiffre's inhaler:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mhdkD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;inhaler&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the elevator he asks Vesper to open the envelope while he puts a wireless earpiece in his ear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xj7yl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;earphone&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He takes the gun while holding a phone in his left hand:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6UQxy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Phone&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The phone displays Le Chiffre's position:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0K9MS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Phone&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, Bond had a plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-11-19T14:36:56.200" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8089" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8090" CreationDate="2012-11-19T15:14:23.543" Score="11" ViewCount="817" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for the title of a Thriller/Horror film where there is a guy and his cat that moves to an estate. I remember that it is winter. I think the guy is a writer. He starts unraveling a mystery about a girl that drowned. As he gets more and more clues the serial killer kills his cat and leaves it on the doorstep. Near the end of the film the guy ends up sneaking into the killer's house and takes a knife from the kitchen. The killer comes home, and notices the writer in his back yard. He invites him in to his house. Then he notices that the knife is missing and goes crazy. He brings him down to his lair (where he tortures his victims).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any guesses?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3436" LastActivityDate="2012-11-19T15:20:40.647" Title="Serial killer movie where cat gets murdered on doorstep?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:39:28.863" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8089" CreationDate="2012-11-19T15:20:40.647" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the American remake of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568346/&quot;&gt;The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene was made as a warning to Mikael Blomkvist (the Writer you speak of) to stop investigating into the secrets of the island and the mystery of the girls disappearance with the help of Lisbeth Salander.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-11-19T15:20:40.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8091" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8094" CreationDate="2012-11-19T18:33:36.053" Score="12" ViewCount="2974" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie a long time ago. The action takes places in a small town as far as I can remember. The people there get &quot;infested&quot; with some sort of parasite and they start losing their teeth. I only remember a particular scene where the lead character is in the bathroom in front of the mirror and he takes some pliers and pulls out a tooth so that the other people would not suspect he's not actually &quot;infested&quot;. I think those &quot;parasites&quot; were of alien nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It probably appeared in late 80s or 90s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3437" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-09T15:10:13.203" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T15:10:13.203" Title="Town infested with alien parasites causing people to lose their teeth" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|horror|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:39:31.983" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2658" CreationDate="2012-11-19T18:34:41.483" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 2 devices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Boris takes 1 device and travels back.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;J takes the second device and travels back.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The box had room for 2 devices. The log book shows Boris had not returned. Boris then gets fried under the rocket so he couldn't have returned anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3439" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-28T20:26:15.000" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T20:26:15.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8091" CreationDate="2012-11-19T20:29:54.780" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_Fever_2%3a_Spring_Fever#section_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cabin Fever 2:Spring Fever&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Cabin fever 2 virus spread through drinking water and infected people looses their teeths. During one sex scene the lady looses her teeths and boy got shocked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T06:00:53.467" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T06:00:53.467" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8091" CreationDate="2012-11-20T01:31:40.717" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Might be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106156/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Tommyknockers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(1993)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;    &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xIe43.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tommyknockers&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://serialkillercalendar.com/VHSWASTELAND/VHS-WASTELAND-AUGUST-2.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;[Source]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But instead of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tommyknockers_(TV_miniseries)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; I'll quote &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.34thdimension.com/articles/53-the-second-annual-valentines-day-horror-movie-marathon.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The 34th Dimension&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s been a long time since I’ve seen &lt;em&gt;The Tommyknockers&lt;/em&gt;, but from what I remember the plot goes like this: blah blah blah, midwestern American town, blah blah blah, alien things show up, blah blah, &lt;strong&gt;A GUY PULLS OUT HIS OWN FUCKING TEETH.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I gave you a better explanation than that I’d pretty much be copy/pasting the IMDB or Wikipedia entry. But, c’mon. &lt;strong&gt;He pulls out his own goddamn teeth. With pliers.&lt;/strong&gt; And then shows them to his wife. C’moooooon. Did I mention it has aliens?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T01:47:56.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8097" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8147" CreationDate="2012-11-20T05:50:50.333" Score="14" ViewCount="5943" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Mars version of &lt;em&gt;Total Recall&lt;/em&gt;, it was a doctor. In the 2012 version, his friend, Harry. How did he know to not take the pill / shoot his friend rather than Melina?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1274" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-01T22:46:52.403" LastActivityDate="2014-10-01T22:46:52.403" Title="How did Quaid know who to shoot when someone pretended to be trying to &quot;wake him up&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|total-recall-2012|total-recall|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8098" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8099" CreationDate="2012-11-20T06:32:09.413" Score="10" ViewCount="6385" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching a movie on a local cable channel, which doesn't display the name of the movie until the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie was about a guy who has some power to see what is going to happen in the next 2 minutes(if I am not wrong). There was a scene in which he saw a vision of a bullet coming and then he escaped from the bullet. At the end, he saved the city from some nuclear explosion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2031" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2017-01-06T07:55:07.493" LastActivityDate="2017-01-06T07:55:07.493" Title="Movie where a guy can see what is going to happen in next 2 minutes" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:39:35.100" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8098" CreationDate="2012-11-20T06:38:38.153" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ya I have seen it. You are certainly talking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_%282007_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Next&lt;/a&gt;. The main actor is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Cage&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nicolas Cage&lt;/a&gt;. He can see the next two minutes. As he could see the future, he could dodge the bullet. He also saved the city from nuclear explosion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OZ0iT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T06:44:02.303" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T06:44:02.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8100" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-20T06:57:16.513" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T06:57:16.513" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T06:57:16.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8101" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T06:57:16.513" Score="0" Body="A fictionalization of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in a Movie. It is a romantic movie set up during the events of the sinking of the Titanic. It stars  Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet &amp; Billy Zane." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-01-19T17:46:14.097" LastActivityDate="2017-01-19T17:46:14.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8102" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:05:53.997" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T07:05:53.997" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T07:05:53.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8103" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:05:53.997" Score="0" Body="Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is a 1994 American comedy film directed by Tom Shadyac and starring Jim Carrey." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T13:10:13.590" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T13:10:13.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8104" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:09:08.170" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Casino Royale is a 2006 British spy movie and the twenty-first film in the James Bond film series. Casino Royale is the first to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/james-bond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'james-bond'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;james-bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(literary_character)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for James Bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia list of James Bond movies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(2006_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Casino Royale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381061/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Casino Royale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T01:24:19.573" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T01:24:19.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8105" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:09:08.170" Score="0" Body="A 2006 British spy movie and the twenty-first film in the James Bond film series. Casino Royale is the first to star Daniel Craig as James Bond." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T23:44:32.567" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T23:44:32.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8106" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:11:12.737" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T07:11:12.737" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T07:11:12.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8107" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:11:12.737" Score="0" Body="Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American adventure film and the third installment in the Indiana Jones franchise. " OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T13:10:20.407" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T13:10:20.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8108" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:13:08.940" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Skyfall is the twenty-third James Bond film produced by Eon Productions. It was distributed by MGM and Sony Pictures Entertainment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It features Daniel Craig in his third performance as James Bond, and Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva, the film's antagonist. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was directed by Sam Mendes and written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan, and features an Academy Award-winning theme sung by Adele.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/james-bond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'james-bond'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;james-bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(literary_character)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for James Bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia list of James Bond movies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyfall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Skyfall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Skyfall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T03:24:55.040" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T03:24:55.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8109" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:13:08.940" Score="0" Body="A 2012 British spy movie and the twenty-third film in the James Bond film series. Directed by Sam Mendes and featuring Daniel Craig in his third performance as James Bond." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T03:24:37.407" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T03:24:37.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8110" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:15:23.710" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T07:15:23.710" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T07:15:23.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8111" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:15:23.710" Score="0" Body="The term is frequently used, especially in the context of the film industry, as a synonym for the amount of business a particular production, such as a film or theater show, receives." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T13:10:29.487" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T13:10:29.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8112" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:17:12.177" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T07:17:12.177" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T07:17:12.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8113" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:17:12.177" Score="0" Body="Rambo is an action film series based on the David Morrell novel First Blood and starring Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T13:37:09.937" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T13:37:09.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8114" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:33:18.940" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T07:33:18.940" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T07:33:18.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8115" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:33:18.940" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T07:33:18.940" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T07:33:18.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8116" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:33:56.957" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The team was composed of thin Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and heavyset American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957). They became well known during the late 1920s through the mid-1940s for their slapstick comedy, with Laurel playing the clumsy and childlike friend of the pompous Hardy.[1][2] The duo's signature tune is known variously as &quot;The Cuckoo Song&quot;, &quot;Ku-Ku&quot;, or &quot;The Dance of the Cuckoos&quot;. It was played over the opening credits of their films and has become as emblematic of the duo as their bowler hats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More details can be find on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.laurel-and-hardy.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Official Site&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_and_Hardy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2016-12-17T18:44:13.180" LastActivityDate="2016-12-17T18:44:13.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8117" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:33:56.957" Score="0" Body="Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T13:07:34.143" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T13:07:34.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8118" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8135" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:34:29.670" Score="6" ViewCount="813" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is my first identify this movie question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only saw part of the movie of the movie perhaps in 2006 or 2007 (could not recollect correctly) on the PC of my friend. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the part it was shown:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A small girl (around 8-13 yrs age) boarded on a ship with her family. In the evening there was a ball dance going on among the passengers of the ship on the deck. The girl was standing alone finding no company. A kind old man (60-70 yrs age) appeared in front of her and proposed her to join him. The girl smiled and started dancing with him very slowly. All on a sudden, a sharp rubber band type string like thing that was almost invisibly bound across the length (or width) of the deck cut off and all the passengers on deck were cut down by it. The old man and her family, all of them was cut dead in front of her eyes. Basically they were cut on the height of their waist. As The girl was small in height, the thing passed over her head and she was not killed by it. Now the girl was alone on the ship. What would she do? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was the part of the movie that I can remember. Cannot remember whether there was a psycho killer or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-12-02T06:25:44.093" LastActivityDate="2012-12-02T06:25:44.093" Title="Teenage girl saved, alone on the ship" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:39:38.320" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8119" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:35:05.517" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T07:35:05.517" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T07:35:05.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8120" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:35:05.517" Score="0" Body="Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T13:07:29.247" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T13:07:29.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8121" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:38:49.157" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Francis Ford Coppola&lt;/a&gt; based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Puzo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mario Puzo&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather_%28novel%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1969 novel of the same name&lt;/a&gt;. The film is about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Corleone&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vito Corleone&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Brando&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Marlon Brando&lt;/a&gt;), the aging Don of The Corleone Mafia family transferring control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Corleone&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Michael Corleone&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Pacino&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Al Pacino&lt;/a&gt;) who has just returned from WWII.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From The Godfather on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_godfather&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T18:42:19.803" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T18:42:19.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8122" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:38:49.157" Score="0" Body="The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola about Vito Corleone, the aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transferring control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son, Michael." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T18:42:25.147" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T18:42:25.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8123" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:39:27.703" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T07:39:27.703" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T07:39:27.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8124" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:39:27.703" Score="0" Body="Partially based on Puzo's 1969 novel, The Godfather, the film is in part both a sequel and a prequel to The Godfather, presenting two parallel dramas." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T13:06:41.977" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T13:06:41.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8125" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:40:38.387" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T07:40:38.387" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T07:40:38.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8126" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:40:38.387" Score="0" Body="A 2012 American computer animated comedy movie. The act of the film takes place in the arcade, between characters belonging to various video games. The movie contains a number of references to notable, real life video games." OwnerUserId="13168" LastEditorUserId="64996" LastEditDate="2019-01-02T04:31:40.050" LastActivityDate="2019-01-02T04:31:40.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8127" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:54:46.903" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T07:54:46.903" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T07:54:46.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8128" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:54:46.903" Score="0" Body="Green Lantern is a 2011 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T11:14:04.490" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T11:14:04.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="8130" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:56:31.643" Score="0" Body="Parallax is a fictional  supervillain in the Green Lantern Movie." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T13:06:35.877" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T13:06:35.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="8132" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:57:58.143" Score="0" Body="He was a member of the Green Lantern Corps and is best known as the predecessor of Green Lantern Hal Jordan." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T13:06:39.653" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T13:06:39.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8133" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:59:48.297" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T07:59:48.297" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T07:59:48.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8134" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T07:59:48.297" Score="0" Body="2012 is a 2009 American science fiction disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich.The film includes references to Mayanism, the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar and the 2012 phenomenon in its portrayal of cataclysmic events unfolding in the year 2012." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T13:06:30.607" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T13:06:30.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8118" CreationDate="2012-11-20T08:00:04.300" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0288477/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GhostShip (2002)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7poHYtkNZY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Trailer I found&lt;/a&gt; does not have that scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22XdYRbFHoE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the opening scene of that movie&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CqvR4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OgFTV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113" LastEditorUserId="3445" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T10:21:47.343" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T10:21:47.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8136" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-20T08:00:50.557" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;WALL-E (stylized with an interpunct as WALL·E) is a 2008 American CGI science-fiction romantic comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future. He falls in love with another robot named EVE, who also has a programmed task, and follows her into outer space on an adventure that changes the destiny of both his kind and humanity. Both robots exhibit an appearance of free will and emotions similar to humans, which develop further as the film progresses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL-E&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T20:35:57.480" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T20:35:57.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8137" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T08:00:50.557" Score="0" Body="2008 American CGI science-fiction romantic comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future. " OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T20:35:57.480" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T20:35:57.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8118" CreationDate="2012-11-20T08:05:28.697" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This movie is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Ship_%282002_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ghost ship&lt;/a&gt;. The scene you have mentioned is starting scene of the movie. The girl was named Katie. She was offered for a dance by the Captain of the ship. The girl survived because her height wes smaller than from where the wire passes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The girl was killed in the later part of the movie in some other boat, whose passengers were trying to claim the gold of sunked ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2031" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T08:23:56.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8140" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-20T08:09:06.573" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T08:09:06.573" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T08:09:06.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8141" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T08:09:06.573" Score="0" Body="Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is an English actress and model. Watson rose to prominence playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T13:06:33.617" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T13:06:33.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8052" CreationDate="2012-11-20T10:37:08.280" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well I would choose not to speculate on the &lt;strong&gt;Bond-M&lt;/strong&gt; relation and rather point out something from the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cut to the scene where Moneypenny hands Bond the object in question:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moneypenny&lt;/strong&gt;: Maybe that was her way of telling you to take a desk job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;James Bond&lt;/strong&gt;: Just the opposite!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, IMO, that was M's way of providing an &lt;em&gt;emotional nudge&lt;/em&gt; to Bond, to carry on, from the &lt;em&gt;far and beyond&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-08-14T15:53:16.503" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1435" CreationDate="2012-11-20T10:53:28.970" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extending Legion600's great answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real interesting fact is that in 2001, before the danish incident, south park aired its first episode featuring &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Best_Friends&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Super Best Friends&lt;/a&gt;. Muhammad character was shown all episode long&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They make a reference to this in the episode with &quot;Censored&quot; , the main characters say Muhammad was there and it was OK. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even more interesting, you cannot watch &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s05e04-super-best-friends&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Super Best Friends&lt;/a&gt; episode in their website southparkstudios.com .. ;) today, but you could before this polemic 200 episode aired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3410" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-12-20T18:08:13.457" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T18:08:13.457" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2051" CreationDate="2012-11-20T10:59:36.007" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may still see recent episodes with bleeps. Matt and Trey explained in an interview that sometimes they use real children to make the  voice acting. When this happens the script does not have actual curse words but stuff like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shat!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Frog!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mother Froster!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:) .  And then the bleep is added to the show because the character should actually curse.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last two seasons however Matt and Trey seem to do all the voices so I don't think it has happened since&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3410" LastEditorUserId="1100" LastEditDate="2019-06-19T12:57:26.600" LastActivityDate="2019-06-19T12:57:26.600" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8097" CreationDate="2012-11-20T11:11:10.770" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;strong&gt;1990 version&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dr. Edgemar claims it doesn't matter to him if he gets shot, because he isn't actually real. But when Quaid notices a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;drop of sweat&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; running down Dr. Edgemar's face he takes it as a tell-tale sign that Dr. Edgemar is lying &lt;em&gt;(why would he be afraid to die if he is not real?)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ytsht.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sweat&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;In the &lt;strong&gt;2012 version&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Harry tells Quaid that Melina (and everything else) is not real. But when Quaid notices that Melina &lt;strong&gt;sheds a tear&lt;/strong&gt; because she is afraid of losing the man she loves, he decides that she must be real. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Wether or not that makes sense is related to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/7965/what-does-the-missing-symbol-on-quaids-arm-in-total-recall-symbolize&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ULQkb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Teardrop&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T18:06:20.193" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8035" CreationDate="2012-11-20T12:31:14.170" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your description matches a bit with this movie- &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo%27s_Nest_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;One Flew Over the Cuckoo's&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also you would like to have a look at these &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bridges4kids.org/articles/2003/1-03/iCAN1-03.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;movies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. It lists movies whose stars are suffering from disabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2031" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T12:31:14.170" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="8152" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T13:05:17.973" Score="0" Body="Ace Ventura is a fictional character, created by screenwriters Jack Bernstein, Tom Shadyac and Steve Oedekerk. Ace was played by Jim Carrey in the films (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, released in 1994, and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, released in 1995.) He was voiced by Michael Daingerfield (credited as Michael Hall) in the animated television series." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T13:06:27.733" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T13:06:27.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="8154" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T13:06:06.987" Score="0" Body="Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an English actor. Best known for his roles in American films." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T13:06:22.417" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T13:06:22.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="8156" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T13:08:57.730" Score="0" Body="Alternate reality is usually a synonym for a Parallel universe" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T13:10:16.973" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T13:10:16.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="8158" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T13:27:50.150" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T13:27:50.150" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T13:27:50.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8159" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-20T13:53:02.617" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;South Park&lt;/strong&gt; is an American adult animated sitcom created by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trey_Parker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trey Parker&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Stone&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Matt Stone&lt;/a&gt; famous for its crude language and dark, surreal humour that satirizes a wide range of topics. The ongoing narrative revolves around four boys: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Marsh&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stan Marsh&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Broflovski&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kyle Broflovski&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Cartman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Eric Cartman&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_McCormick&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kenny McCormick&lt;/a&gt;, and their bizarre adventures in and around South Park, Colorado.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From South Park on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_park&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T04:48:54.753" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T04:48:54.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8160" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T13:53:02.617" Score="0" Body="An American adult animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone famous for its crude language and dark, surreal humour that satirizes a wide range of topics. The ongoing narrative revolves around four boys: Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick, and their bizarre adventures in and around South Park, Colorado." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T04:48:31.850" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T04:48:31.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8161" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-20T13:58:23.680" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T13:58:23.680" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T13:58:23.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8162" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-20T13:58:23.680" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-20T13:58:23.680" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T13:58:23.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="61" CreationDate="2012-11-20T16:03:21.980" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who is to say they DIDN'T notice and comment on it... but we didn't see it? What would they have said anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lorraine&lt;/strong&gt;: Wow, Marty! You look just like a highschool friend of ours. (To George)&#xA;  Honey, c'mere! Look at Marty. Doesn't he look like that friend of&#xA;  yours, Kevin?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;George&lt;/strong&gt;: You mean Calvin? Oh yeah, he does! Shame we don't have any&#xA;  photos of him. Honestly, if he hadn't had disappeared all those years&#xA;  ago, I'd have sworn you'd been cheating on me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lorraine&lt;/strong&gt;: Oh, honey! As if I'd cheat on you...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;George&lt;/strong&gt;: I know, dear. *kiss* Hmm. Is Biff done with that car yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would YOUR parents say if you resembled a childhood friend they hadn't seen in 30 years? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3430" LastEditorUserId="3430" LastEditDate="2017-09-06T15:41:40.900" LastActivityDate="2017-09-06T15:41:40.900" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8079" CreationDate="2012-11-20T17:56:52.680" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree the helmet removal was preposterous... hard to believe anyone would take that risk, given the stakes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But think of it from a film-making perspective... if the characters don't remove their helmets, their heads and faces are largely obscured through much of the action of the movie, which would probably have been less visually compelling than when they're helmetless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, like a few other &quot;mysteries&quot; in Prometheus, I think the answer to this question involves film-making logisitics: &lt;strong&gt;the removal of helmets was likely inserted into the screenplay to allow the actors to be seen without their helmets.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T17:56:52.680" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8079" CreationDate="2012-11-20T22:24:17.750" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;The removal of the helmets isn't some half baked attempt at taking risks, and was an important plot point in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The crew is following the &amp;quot;Pups&amp;quot; deeper into the maze of caves, and they come across running water. It's at this point they realize they are inside an alien terraforming plant, because the outside air is toxic but inside it's clean fresh air. As quoted by one of the crew &amp;quot;cleaner than Earth's actually&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's Holloway who removes his helmet (as others protest), but he's also the one who wrote the thesis predicting the planet they were on would be occupied by the Engineers. At this stage in the film, the crew is still expecting to discover the Engineers alive and well. Their attitude is positive and they still view the Engineers as friendly beings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the crew removes their helmets, the two guys back on the ship settle their bet that the structures were used for terraforming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be difficult to sell the terraforming intention of the Engineers if the air wasn't breathable, and would be difficult to sell that to the audience if they left their helmets on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The audience can now assume the Engineers are &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; and that Holloway's thesis was correct to bring them to this planet, but in the very next scene we find out everything went wrong. They watch the holographs run through the hallway and discover the Engineers are dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that they now have their helmets off also raises the risk. Had they found breathable air after discovering the holographs, then the direction of the film would be completely different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree it was stupid for them to remove the helmets, but it was also a mistake to go to the planet, enter the structure and open doors. This isn't a crew playing it safe, but one misguided by their own excitement in making a great discovery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2021-10-25T19:20:58.583" LastActivityDate="2021-10-25T19:20:58.583" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8074" CreationDate="2012-11-20T22:58:35.200" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Under civil law frameworks based on common law (which we have in the US), there is the doctrine of &lt;em&gt;res judicata&lt;/em&gt; -- or &quot;already judged.&quot; Once the appeals process is complete, or the time frame for filing appeal has run out, &lt;em&gt;res judicata&lt;/em&gt; states that the suit cannot be brought again, even for new evidence (there are exceptions, such as proof of fraud). Its purpose is to strike a balance between the rights of the defendants and plantiffs as well as to make the courts run more efficiently ... kind of like the principle of double jeopardy under criminal law. The U.S. military has affirmed it holds to the doctrine of &lt;em&gt;res judicata&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this episode, where the time for an appeal of the original case had likely long expired, it could not be brought again, as it would be dismissed as already ruled upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2012-11-20T22:58:35.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8169" CreationDate="2012-11-21T06:15:57.800" Score="39" ViewCount="297887" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been watching Spider-Man movies from the start. The recent movie I watched was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Spider-Man_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Amazing-Spider Man&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2012).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the difference I found in this movie and the last one was that, in this movie the Spider-Man did not have his natural power to generate and shoot web. Instead of it he creates a wrist gadget to shoot web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know if there is some logic of the producers behind this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2031" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-01-18T00:50:54.813" LastActivityDate="2024-01-18T00:50:54.813" Title="Why does the Amazing Spider-Man not have the natural power to shoot web?" Tags="|character|production|the-amazing-spider-man|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8168" CreationDate="2012-11-21T06:35:54.467" Score="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all Spider-Man doesn't have Organic webs in its starting stage in comics. He got Organic web later in the Comics series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Sam Raimi's trilogy of Spider-Man he does not follow the real Spider-Man comics story as it is and skipped the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man%27s_powers_and_equipment#Artificial_web-shooters&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Artificial Web-shooters&lt;/a&gt; thing and even skipped the main characters like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Stacy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gwen Stacy&lt;/a&gt;. So, you can say that it's the director's/writer's choice to choose which aspects they grasp from the original content or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is some description of his main powers from origin to now in main universe of Marvel Comics -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original abilities&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Peter Parker was bitten by a lethally irradiated spider,&#xA;  radioactive mutagenic enzymes in the spider's venom quickly caused&#xA;  numerous body-wide changes. Immediately after the bite, he was granted&#xA;  his original powers: primarily superhuman strength, reflexes, and&#xA;  balance; the ability to cling tenaciously to most surfaces; and a&#xA;  subconscious precognitive sense of danger, which he called a&#xA;  &quot;spider-sense.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Additional abilities&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spider-Man's web-shooters were perhaps his most distinguishing trait,&#xA;  after his costume. Peter had reasoned that a spider (even a human one)&#xA;  needed a web. Since the radioactive spider-bite did not initially&#xA;  grant him the power to spin webs, he had instead found a way to&#xA;  produce them artificially. The wrist-mounted devices fire an adhesive&#xA;  &quot;webbing&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Organic webs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the &quot;Disassembled&quot; storyline Parker undergoes a transformation that&#xA;  results in the ability to produce organic web fluid from his wrists,&#xA;  and is able to fire his webbing in much the same manner as his&#xA;  artificial web-shooters. According to the new 2007 Spider-Man&#xA;  handbook, Parker has grown spinnerets in his forearms that terminate&#xA;  in small pores at the junction of his wrists. By pressing down with&#xA;  his middle fingers to his palm, he causes the pores to open and the&#xA;  spinnerets to eject the organic fluid with a force equal to or greater&#xA;  than that of his web-shooters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Click &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man%27s_powers_and_equipment&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By the way Sam Raimi's Script is inspired of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;James Cameron scriptment&lt;/a&gt;, which took the idea of organic web-shooters for&#xA;  Stevens's Failed Script.  Since 1985 there have been many scripts&#xA;  written for the Spider-Men. But James Cameron's Script got the most&#xA;  attention and become the basis of 2002's film.&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_in_film#Development&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;[source]&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the 2012's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Spider-Man_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/a&gt; follows the similar path to the comics and they choose the artificial web-shooter for their movie to establish Peter Parker as a genius scientist.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-03-28T10:49:42.790" LastActivityDate="2018-03-28T10:49:42.790" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8170" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-21T07:36:56.743" Score="11" ViewCount="10998" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched &quot;Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans&quot; (2009) and I was wondering about the ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Immediately after Nicolas Cage's character snorts a line from the bag of uncut heroin and sits next to his father's wife to watch the football game, it cuts to a scene in which he's walking into the police station, sitting down at his desk.  One right after the other, all the loose ends get tied up.  The money he owes his girlfriend's client is forgiven, the game turns around and his bookie gives him $15,000 in winnings, the speeding ticket magically gets taken care of and then the captain comes in and shows him evidence that will convict the heroin dealer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They then proceed to bust the heroin dealer and Nicolas Cage's character takes the high road and makes sure he's arrested instead of having an &quot;accident&quot;.  Later we find his girlfriend is pregnant, they have a house and his whole family has given up alcohol.  We even find out that the man he saved at the beginning of the film is clean and getting his life on track.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are hints that he's still his bad self.  He's snorting dope, he's harassing kids that are coming out a night club, etc, but overall it's very much a &quot;Disney ending&quot;, with everything working out well for the lead character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is this:  Is this ending real or is it really the last fevered fantasy of Nicolas Cage's character as he's dying from a heroin overdose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many references to the uncut heroin being too strong to take without being cut.  Nicholas Cage's character mentions it to his girlfriend right before she tells him she's going to a meeting with his father.  The gangsters tell him that he needs to cut the dope &quot;unless you wanna kill the motherfucker&quot;.  We see Nicolas Cage's character clearly snorting a line with the bag sitting next to it before the &quot;Disney ending&quot; starts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ending also feels much too saccharine, especially for someone like Herzog.  Also notice that when the &quot;Disney ending&quot; starts, the criminals that come in are talking about highly illegal activity, like murder, theft, gambling, prostitution and drug use, all while sitting at his desk without regard to discretion.  There is even a scene where his bookie hands him $15,000 in cash, shows him the contents with his partner sitting in the desk next to him, clearly within earshot and line of sight of his partner sitting in the next desk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another interesting fact is that Nicolas Cage's character is leading the arrest of the heroin dealer even though he's been pulled to the sidelines and had his weapon confiscated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even the last scene, where he is sitting at the base of a large aquarium tank full of fish, can be interpreted a few ways.  Perhaps it can be interpreted as &quot;swimming with the fishes&quot;.  There is also a reference to sleeping and dreaming, suggesting a tie to the original poem he found by the murdered child (&quot;My friend is a fish. He live in my room.  His fin is a cloud.  He see me when I sleep.&quot;) with also the standard metaphor of death and sleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought of this immediately when viewing the film and found it obvious, but from looking online, I don't find another reviewer who acknowledges this theory.  Most seem to accept the ending at face value.  I only found one review who even considered this possibility only to then casually dismiss it to deride Herzog for tacking on a Hollywood ending to what was an otherwise dark film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also can't find any interviews with Herzog on the matter, but directors are often known to not talk about what kind of meaning their films have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have conclusive evidence that this is the case?  Does anyone have any references that would support this theory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3452" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-02-13T19:17:24.310" LastActivityDate="2022-12-12T04:56:52.377" Title="Ending of &quot;Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|ending|bad-lieutenant-new-orleans|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8175" CreationDate="2012-11-21T10:27:08.027" Score="21" ViewCount="22431" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The &lt;em&gt;Godfather&lt;/em&gt;, Sollozzo and the Tattaglia's attempt to assassinate Don Corleone. He is shot several times in the back but survives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An hour before the assassination Sollozzo picks up Tom Hagen. He tells him that the Don had to be killed as he stood in the way of his plans. He also asks &quot;Sonny was hot for the deal wasn't he?&quot;. This is because he spoke up at the earlier meeting between Don Corleone and Sollozzo. Sollozzo asks Tom to make the peace between Sonny and himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was Sonny speaking up at the meeting a major factor in the planned assassination of Don Corleone? Would it have taken place if he didn't speak up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-12-06T04:36:05.783" LastActivityDate="2019-01-27T23:21:31.560" Title="The planned assassination of Don Corleone" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8172" CreationDate="2012-11-21T14:47:21.437" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;My interpretation would be yes, it was a key factor and the assassination attempt would not have taken place if Sonny had not tipped Sollozzo off to the difference in opinion between himself and the Don.  By doing so, Sonny effectively showed Sollozzo that the Don was all that was standing in the way of his plans, and removing him would clear the way for said plans by putting the more amenable Sonny in charge.  Had Sonny kept his mouth shut, there would have been no obvious advantage to Sollozzo to remove the Don at that point.  (which is not to say the plot couldn't have contrived one, or that something similar wouldn't have gone down at a later date anyway)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="576" LastActivityDate="2012-11-21T14:47:21.437" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="981" CreationDate="2012-11-21T18:06:37.517" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you ask about the relationship between them within the movie, there are a few no of proofs which led us to believe that they might have been in a relationship. The points are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Like you posted, Carter seemed particularly broken up with the death of Hannaway. She was very sad to see him die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Before the death, Hannaway said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You are so beautiful. I am sorry I should have told you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) After the killing of Sabine Moreau, Brant argued that throwing her off the building was an &lt;strong&gt;instinctive move&lt;/strong&gt; by Carter. He suspected she took the revenge of the death of Hannaway by killing her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask about if they were having any relationship between them off screen, I would say neither did I hear about it, nor &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; could cast any light on this! :P   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-11T12:47:39.603" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T12:47:39.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7976" CreationDate="2012-11-21T19:04:08.743" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I recall correctly, as the boat is approaching the island, Bond and Severine are standing at the front of the boat, looking at the island. They are NOT tied up yet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Severine gets cold feet and says something like &quot;we still could turn around.&quot; But Bond knows that Silva is expecting him, and Bond knowingly says something like &quot;no, it's too late&quot; -- just as the shot widens to show the ship's crew slowly approaching Bond and Severine with their guns drawn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;the crew took Bond and Severine prisoner just before reaching the island.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-11-22T08:24:30.637" LastActivityDate="2012-11-22T08:24:30.637" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8181" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8579" CreationDate="2012-11-21T19:09:47.827" Score="31" ViewCount="57544" Body="&lt;p&gt;Skyfall opens with a chase scene that culminates in Bond's partner accidentally shooting Bond instead of shooting the bad guy. The bullet hits Bond hard enough to blow him off a train into the river below, and everyone concludes that he died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, Bond turns up alive and shirtless, sporting a shrapnel wound (which he is touching in the picture below) received from the bad guy -- but no apparent injury from the bullet that blew him off the train. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So where on his body did that bullet hit Bond? Or &lt;strong&gt;was Bond faking that the bullet hit him&lt;/strong&gt;? (Bond was able to hear M order the shot, so maybe upon hearing, he was shocked enough and upset enough to fake like the bullet hit him and bail out of the situation - which seems consistent with his subsequent refusal to report in for duty, his descent into drunken abandon, and most importantly his apparent lack of bullet wound.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0AR53.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T15:05:51.337" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T15:05:51.337" Title="in Skyfall opening scene on train, does Bond fake getting shot?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8181" CreationDate="2012-11-21T19:48:36.873" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I could not find any evidence to support my answer, I am trying to give the answer as best as I can with my own proofs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am posting 3 sequences of the gunshot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cross-hair on Bonds body&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H3JFP.png&quot; alt=&quot;cross-hair on Bonds body&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When Bond is hit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WLv6J.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;when Bond is hit&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When he is falling down&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bz4yt.png&quot; alt=&quot;when he is falling down&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if you look carefully, the cross-hair was meant to be shot on the right side of Bonds body on a height of the chest. In the second scene, we see the right hand of Bond is more bent, as if something has struck hard and the blazer on the right side is more spread to outside. And in the final snap we see, right hand is lower than the left hand meaning again he has been struck on the right side. So we can conclude the bullet struck him on the right side between shoulder and belly (most probably on the right side of the chest). That is why we never see the wound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I do not think Bond was faking the shot. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyfall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; clearly states that &#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Eve accidentally shoots Bond , allowing Patrice to escape. Bond goes missing, presumed dead.&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: The comments of different users unfold different theories. If we think from Bonds view, he can take the step of jumping off the train in a quick moment, so he could choose a bad p,an like throwing himself off the train. But as he is Bond, he comes with only good plans even within a short span. So like _Oliver_C_ said this is too childish for Bond to do. &lt;em&gt;KeyBrd&lt;/em&gt; s comment is also interesting. He was fighting on the roof of a running train, maybe the bullet just grazed him throwing him off the roof. But I think in this picture we can see blood from his body. Here is the picture:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FrQXg.png&quot; alt=&quot;Blood from Bonds Body&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the bullet maybe grazed him and that is why it did not make a severe wound to be seen!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-11-24T16:34:09.630" LastActivityDate="2012-11-24T16:34:09.630" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8183" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-22T00:09:47.127" Score="5" ViewCount="2283" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a strange scene at the end of the movie, where people on the oil rig look in amazement at some bells hanging from... what is happening here? Given the seriousness of the movie, it would be strange if this was just meaningless non-sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastActivityDate="2012-12-09T03:48:32.240" Title="The sound of bells near the end of Breaking the Waves" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-the-waves|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8184" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8244" CreationDate="2012-11-22T00:16:43.010" Score="2" ViewCount="3167" Body="&lt;p&gt;The lead character got seriously injured in the movie, and me wonders what happened. I am thinking it might the bad guys in the 'big' ship, but that is just a guess, since there was no mention of it later on... even in court.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T18:16:55.730" Title="What happened to Bess near the end of Breaking the Waves" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-the-waves|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8181" CreationDate="2012-11-22T00:56:38.697" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought that this large wound in his upper body was from &lt;em&gt;Eve&lt;/em&gt;'s sniper shot. This wound is also emphasized heavily during the title sequence, which makes sense to me, since it was rather the sniper shot that &lt;em&gt;&quot;killed&quot;&lt;/em&gt; him and not those rather small grazing shots from &lt;em&gt;Patrice&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the shots from &lt;em&gt;Patrice&lt;/em&gt; only left some small wounds that healed easily and didn't leave any further scars (and you don't see any large blood stain on his upper body after &lt;em&gt;Patrice&lt;/em&gt;'s shots). This could also be the reason why &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; didn't discover those shrapnels earlier, when operating the sniper wound shortly after the shot. They just &lt;em&gt;&quot;got lost&quot;&lt;/em&gt; in the more severe injury he received from &lt;em&gt;Eve&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; As to your updated question, I really like the interresting viewpoint of &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; faking getting shot and your reasoning is not bad. But from the emphasize of this significant wound during the title sequence and no signs of it during the train chase (after getting shot at in the crane), I still stand by my answer. And in the end, don't forget the recoil. Ok, a bullet throwing him away that heavily is probably not that realistic in the first place, but &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; alone doing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And likewise, whereas I understand your explanation of &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt;'s reasons, I would still doubt that he would abort this important mission just because he feels insulted by &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt;. Of course he is upset after actually getting &lt;em&gt;&quot;killed&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, but &lt;strong&gt;aborting the mission&lt;/strong&gt; (which he was still confident to succeed in) and playing dead just because &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt; ordered &lt;em&gt;Eve&lt;/em&gt; to shoot without him actually being hit would be a bit too childish from him. In the end &lt;em&gt;Eve&lt;/em&gt; could've just hit &lt;em&gt;Patrice&lt;/em&gt; and the mission succeeded, which he wouldn't even realize had he just thrown himself off the train (and into a possible death) right after hearing the shot. And he isn't one of the people getting nervous when hearing shots at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Ok, after rechecking it (and thanks to &lt;em&gt;Shane&lt;/em&gt;'s/your comment), I have to correct that you can indeed see a large blood stain right after &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; is shot by &lt;em&gt;Patrice&lt;/em&gt; inside the crane. So this renders my theory of the shoulder wound being from &lt;em&gt;Eve&lt;/em&gt;'s shot totally wrong. Nevertheless I'll leave my last paragraph as it stands, even if I'm for now a bit more unclear about &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; faking his death and might start to tend to your theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-11-22T17:32:53.647" LastActivityDate="2012-11-22T17:32:53.647" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8186" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8190" CreationDate="2012-11-22T01:21:28.897" Score="9" ViewCount="8141" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the main lab assistant, Zack Addy, was found to be in cahoots with an evil character a few seasons ago, the role of the lab assistant on Bones has been played by a rotating set of actors and actresses, any one of which would be featured on a particular episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode of Bones from the week before last (U.S. airdate,&quot;The Patriot in Purgatory&quot;) brought together Dr. Temperance Brennan's lab assistants to all work together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This interaction as part of Dr. Brennan's Phil Jackson-influenced team made me curious about why this assistant role has been designated to all of these performers, and not just focused down to perhaps a couple of recurring assistants with stronger character depth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have worked in science, and while there is some variety in personnel, I don't see this casting move as being symbolic of scientists working with a variety of different assistants on a day-to-day basis.  Are we to believe that we're getting to know bits and pieces of these characters as Dr. Brennan might with her semi-limited ability to socialize?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, is this totally a decision based on economic and logistic needs of the production staff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="417" LastEditDate="2012-11-22T09:34:32.017" LastActivityDate="2012-11-22T22:51:38.533" Title="Is there a symbolic reason for the rotating lab assistants on Bones, or was it a production decision?" Tags="|character|production|bones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8187" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8188" CreationDate="2012-11-22T12:44:47.150" Score="8" ViewCount="618" Body="&lt;p&gt;Identify this Hollywood movie set in a world where maximum of world population become vampire and they live in fear of sunlight in closed houses with black or closed windows and having black window cars with camera fitted to give outside view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Story is about two brother(One of them is a human blood hunter and other is Scientist researching for cure for need of blood). Even coffee shops use a little bit of blood in coffee to sell it and day by day percentage of blood in coffee reduced due to shortage of blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scientist person come in contact with the human girl and its group and an Ex-vampire(who became human due to exposure of sun). They together find the cure to transform vampire back to human. But the head of vampires doesn't accept it and in final battle the scientist looses his brother in fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also some different kind of Vampires lives in basements which was killed under sunlight by authorities due to lack of blood. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't remember the release year/cast etc but its look new to me, may be 20's movie but not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-15T12:29:10.943" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T12:29:10.943" Title="Identify this Movie about a world full of Vampires searching for supplement for blood" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:39:41.733" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8187" CreationDate="2012-11-22T13:04:34.453" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie you're looking for is most probably &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433362/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Daybreakers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I cannot say much to prove my claim, other than that its plot matches your descriptions in pretty much every aspect, as can be seen from the corresponding &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daybreakers&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2012-11-22T13:04:34.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8189" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8817" CreationDate="2012-11-22T14:47:11.540" Score="9" ViewCount="6743" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that there was &lt;a href=&quot;http://expendables.wikia.com/wiki/Kill_Count&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;203 people  killed&lt;/a&gt; in the Expendables.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how many people were killed in the Expendables 2?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user3192" LastEditorDisplayName="user3192" LastEditDate="2013-01-07T15:52:17.017" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T15:52:17.017" Title="How many people are killed in The Expendables 2?" Tags="|the-expendables-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8186" CreationDate="2012-11-22T16:32:24.767" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://bones.wikia.com/wiki/Category%3aInterns&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bones&lt;/em&gt; wiki&lt;/a&gt;, the assistants since Zack's departure are interns. As such, they would be working for a limited period of time in order to get on-the-job training as part of a degree program, and then they graduate and move on to real jobs. For the dynamics of the show, it gives a fresh energy every season or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ADDITIONAL INFO - In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvfanatic.com/2009/03/bones-scoop-rotating-interns-forever/&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with executive producer Stephen Nathan, he said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;As of now we're going to continue to rotate them. We were looking&#xA;  back at all the interns we used this season and trying to figure out&#xA;  who would work out best, and we can't make a decision,&quot; Nathan said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We love them all. And I think [the variety] has really helped the&#xA;  show a lot, because fans have their favorite, so people tune in to&#xA;  find out who's going to be on that week. Also, we've been extremely&#xA;  lucky with the actors we've cast. Everybody our casting director Rick&#xA;  Milligan has brought in could easily be a regular on our show, and&#xA;  that's a very rare thing to find. It seems like we have a permanent&#xA;  cast of players now.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would indicate the decision has less to do with how real labs work and more about ratings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2012-11-22T22:51:38.533" LastActivityDate="2012-11-22T22:51:38.533" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8192" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8200" CreationDate="2012-11-23T09:58:11.627" Score="13" ViewCount="23291" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Massachusetts State House is visible in numerous scenes in the Departed. These scenes always include Colin Sullivan. It is even visible from his apartments window and he often looks out upon it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is its significance? Does he long to enter politics? The character is very driven so is it where he wants to end up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastActivityDate="2018-06-28T20:30:49.070" Title="What is the significance of the Massachusetts State House in the Departed?" Tags="|character|the-departed|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8168" CreationDate="2012-11-23T11:56:40.487" Score="17" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://splashpage.mtv.com/2012/06/21/amazing-spider-man-web-shooters/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;History of Web-Shooters&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;strong&gt;one key spider-like attribute has historically not come naturally to Spider-Man: the ability to create webs.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, &lt;strong&gt;Spider-Man comes equipped with what are known as &lt;em&gt;web-shooters&lt;/em&gt;, artificial devices that allow him to spin a web, any size&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QW4qT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;How It Works&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spider-Man's web-shooters are fairly ingenious devices of his own invention; &lt;strong&gt;as a brilliant but socially isolated student with a particular talent for science, Peter Parker came up with them to complement his newly-acquired spider powers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/what-happened-to-james-camerons-spider-man-movie/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;James Cameron goes 'Organic':&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aOpkz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;James Cameron&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some might remember that &lt;em&gt;James Cameron&lt;/em&gt; was once attached to write/direct an adaptation of &lt;em&gt;Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the book &lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0307460312&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cameron had lobbied &lt;em&gt;Carolco&lt;/em&gt;, the independent studio behind &lt;em&gt;Terminator 2&lt;/em&gt;, to purchase the rights to the Spider-Man comics, which they did in 1990.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He wrote a Spider-Man scriptment for &lt;em&gt;Carolco&lt;/em&gt; that was widely admired in Hollywood. The comic’s creator, &lt;em&gt;Stan Lee&lt;/em&gt;, adored it and gave a Cameron-directed Spider-Man movie his hearty endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;Cameron made some thoughtful changes to the iconic character, starting with the Spider-Man’s wrist shooters.&lt;/strong&gt; Lee’s comic called for Peter Parker to build them himself, but &lt;strong&gt;Cameron thought a biological explanation was more plausible.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I had this problem that Peter Parker, boy genius, goes home and creates these wrist shooters that the DARPA labs would be happy to have created on a 20-year program. I said, wait a minute, he’s been bitten by a radioactive spider, it should change him fundamentally in a way that he can’t go back.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several elements of &lt;em&gt;Cameron’s&lt;/em&gt; version made it into &lt;em&gt;Sam Raimi’s&lt;/em&gt; take on the web-slinger. Specifically, the organic web-shooters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/08/01/amazing-spider-man-director-why-the-web-shooters-are-back/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;‘The Amazing Spider-Man’: Why the Web-Shooters are back&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TW8cB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Marc Webb&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/marc-webb-talks-avengers-crossover-and-possible-spider-woman-appearance/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Director &lt;em&gt;Marc Webb&lt;/em&gt; says that when he took on the reboot project he wanted to go his own path&lt;/strong&gt;, which meant breaking from the Raimi movies in places where it made sense — and when it came to the webbing he sought out some very specialized counsel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“&lt;strong&gt;I had a meeting with Stan Lee and we talked about the web-shooters.&lt;/strong&gt; I was curious about the incarnation of them [because] of course in the previous films [they went away from them] and &lt;strong&gt;we wanted to reestablish ourselves&lt;/strong&gt; ... the other thing was the fact that &lt;strong&gt;the web-shooters were able to dramatize Peter’s intellect and I thought that was really cool.&lt;/strong&gt; … To me, it’s something I remember from when I was a kid and thinking ‘It would be cool if I could build those.’”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-11-23T11:56:40.487" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8196" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-23T13:46:54.020" Score="21" ViewCount="17649" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bane saved Talia when she was a baby. He was pretty old maybe in his 20s or 30s. But then she grows up and wouldn't that make Bane 60? He looks young.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3467" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-28T10:33:46.233" LastActivityDate="2016-04-28T10:33:46.233" Title="Talia and Bane age problems?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|chronology|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8198" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8199" CreationDate="2012-11-23T16:49:17.950" Score="10" ViewCount="2329" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the U.S. series &lt;em&gt;The Office&lt;/em&gt; episode entitled &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2433396/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Here Comes Treble&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0170306/&quot;&gt;Stephen Colbert&lt;/a&gt; plays the role of &quot;Broccoli Rob&quot;, a Cornell alum and a Capella who competes with Andy for the lime light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Colbert's entire portrayal is done via web cam. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this an artistic choice, or was it brought on by extenuating circumstances? Was Colbert unable to attend a physical taping of the show due to scheduling conflicts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastActivityDate="2012-11-24T15:41:54.623" Title="Why was Stephen Colbert's cameo in The Office done entirely by webcam?" Tags="|film-location|cameo|the-office|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8198" CreationDate="2012-11-23T17:28:28.313" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywood.com/news/The_Office_Stephen_Colbert_Halloween/43042259&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;em&gt;Hollywood&lt;/em&gt; contends that it was probably scheduling conflicts (Colbert films his show in NY while &lt;em&gt;The Office&lt;/em&gt; originates in Van Nuys, CA). Reporter Michael Arbeiter suggests it is a sure sign your show is running dry when the guest stars don't even show up in person!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think about it, though, if you wanted to contact someone you knew in college in NY years ago, would you fly to Scranton, PA to see them or would you Skype? This is a real-world plot solution. If Broccoli Rob had turned up in person, it may have seemed contrived - there really wasn't a reason for him to be in town.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2012-11-24T15:41:54.623" LastActivityDate="2012-11-24T15:41:54.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8192" CreationDate="2012-11-23T17:41:42.800" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crimetv.com/page/movies/gangster-films/the-departed/456&quot;&gt;analysis&lt;/a&gt; on CrimeTV.com: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Massachusetts State House is featured in the film as a symbol of&#xA;  Colin Sullivan's ambition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This view is echoed in the Pacific Northwest Inlander &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inlander.com/spokane/article-10077-bloody-entanglements.html&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; &quot;Bloody Entanglements&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Damon manages to convey an astounding amount of information in scenes&#xA;  where he doesn't even speak. From the way he sits and stares at the&#xA;  Massachusetts State House dome, we get that he has political&#xA;  ambitions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no actual apartment in Boston with that view, however. According to imdb trivia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The view of the Massachusetts State House was an effect shot from the&#xA;  roof of Suffolk University, which is the law school where Sullivan&#xA;  says he is taking night classes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-11-23T17:41:42.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3427" CreationDate="2012-11-23T18:15:12.043" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a fascinating &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/05/28/moonrise_kingdom_and_peanuts_wes_anderson_s_latest_is_filled_with_allusions_to_bill_melendez_and_charles_schulz_s_specials_.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;em&gt;Slate&lt;/em&gt;, Forrest Wickman explains that this film (like others of Anderson's before this, notably &lt;em&gt;Rushmore&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Bottle Rocket&lt;/em&gt;) was influenced by Anderson's love of &lt;em&gt;Peanuts&lt;/em&gt; and the work of &lt;em&gt;Peanuts&lt;/em&gt; director Bill Melendez. (The dog in the film is even named Snoopy.) You are in a fantasy world from the beginning, but perhaps you just don't realize it until the lightning scene.  Of &lt;em&gt;Moonrise Kingdom&lt;/em&gt;, Wickman says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some of its sequences are remarkably cartoonish. When one character is&#xA;  struck by lightning, he looks more like he was hit by Acme dynamite:&#xA;  His face is blackened with soot, and he seems otherwise unharmed. And&#xA;  the scouts aren’t Boy Scouts, they’re Khaki Scouts, a fictional&#xA;  takeoff that’s reminiscent of Snoopy’s Beagle Scouts. Anderson has&#xA;  spoken often of his fondness for “self-contained worlds,” a penchant&#xA;  he says comes from Peanuts—and while all of Anderson’s worlds feel&#xA;  self-contained, that’s never more true than here, in which all the&#xA;  action literally takes place on a (fictional) island. The magic of&#xA;  self-contained worlds is also one of the central themes of the film:&#xA;  At the end of the movie we learn that Moonrise Kingdom takes its name&#xA;  from Sam and Suzy’s own secret place, a cove where they try to make a&#xA;  life of their own away from troubles back home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It’s there that Moonrise’s hero bonds with his own Little Red-Haired&#xA;  Girl: Suzy. Suzy’s outfit, complete with pink dress, white collar,&#xA;  and, in some scenes, a pink cape, is almost identical to that of the&#xA;  Little Red-Haired Girl. Sam’s outfit may not mimic Charlie Brown’s as&#xA;  neatly, but he does wear a lot of yellow—and, as The Star-Ledger’s&#xA;  Stephen Whitty pointed out, at one point he even says, “Rats!”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wickman draws from the work of film critic Matt Zoller Seitz, who has studied Anderson's work and has created a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/the-substance-of-style-pt-1-20090330&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;video commentary&lt;/a&gt; called &quot;The Substance of Style - Part 1&quot; about Anderson's work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-11-23T18:15:12.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8202" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-24T08:34:22.937" Score="15" ViewCount="4026" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Big Bang Theory season 3, Raj start working &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Sheldon, or as Sheldon says working &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; him, and they fight over some desk size in office. However in later episodes it never shown whether Raj is working with Sheldon or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently I am watching season 6 and still it is not clear they are working together or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3251" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-11-24T15:54:11.910" LastActivityDate="2012-11-25T03:29:15.703" Title="Is Raj still working with Sheldon?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8202" CreationDate="2012-11-24T09:00:29.980" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sheldon and Raj disagree on how to solve a work-related problem and Raj walks out. Sheldon actually apologizes at the end of the episode and he accepts that Raj was right but doesn't concede himself as being wrong. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;They agree to continue working together.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source-&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory_%28season_3%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Big Bang Theory(Season-3)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also you will love to have a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajesh_Koothrappali&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Raj's biography&lt;/a&gt;. It describes that &lt;em&gt;Raj definitely need some work to stay in the country.&lt;/em&gt; If he would not have been working with Sheldon, he would be deported back to India.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2031" LastEditorUserId="417" LastEditDate="2012-11-25T03:29:15.703" LastActivityDate="2012-11-25T03:29:15.703" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8202" CreationDate="2012-11-24T15:39:26.680" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 4, episode 4, Raj moves a desk into the office against Sheldon's will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In season 5, episode 7, we see the two of them working together in the office. Sheldon puts a snake in Raj's drawer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In season 5, episode 17, Sheldon moves into his new office, and Raj says, &quot;I’m happy for you, Sheldon. But I have to admit I’m going to miss sharing an office with you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot see where it has been addressed in season 6 as yet, but one would have to presume it will be if the situation changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find transcripts of the episodes &lt;a href=&quot;http://bigbangtrans.wordpress.com/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-11-24T15:39:26.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8205" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8210" CreationDate="2012-11-24T15:56:31.200" Score="10" ViewCount="3398" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least one part of the movie &quot;Flight&quot; suggests its story takes place before September 11, 2001: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About 30 minutes into a flight, the pilot played by Denzel Washington exits the cockpit, goes part way into the cabin in view of the passengers, and talks to the passengers over the intercom. If the pilot had done this after 9/11, I think he would have been violating &lt;a href=&quot;http://kcubbin.tripod.com/id34.html&quot;&gt;FAA procedure&lt;/a&gt;, as after 9/11, pilots must stay in the locked cockpit for the duration of every flight, except to use the bathroom. But after the plane crashes, the investigators never mention the cockpit exit, suggesting it wasn't yet a violation of protocol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I correct that &quot;Flight&quot; took place before September 11, 2001? And &lt;strong&gt;is it possible to pin down the precise year in which &quot;Flight&quot; was supposed to take place&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update 7 May 2013: After looking around the web a bit more, I have learned that pilots do not have to limit themselves to either the cockpit or the bathroom... they just have to make sure that when they leave the cockpit, it is locked behind them. So it was not necessarily a breach of rules for the Denzel character to make the speech to the passengers, even under post-9/11 rules.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2013-05-07T19:46:21.357" LastActivityDate="2016-06-25T05:17:06.233" Title="What year was &quot;Flight&quot; supposed to have taken place?" Tags="|plot-explanation|flight|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8206" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8869" CreationDate="2012-11-24T15:56:44.500" Score="5" ViewCount="1572" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rajat, Nishant and Vikrant are the friends whose love-life is shown in the Pyaar Ka Punchnama movie. We have seen them doing work and in their office also. But I got no clue to find any instance of what kind of job they do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So anybody has any idea about what is the job that they do in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-01-02T17:46:35.660" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T12:22:27.357" Title="What kind of job three friends do in Pyaar Ka Punchnama?" Tags="|character|pyar-ka-panchnama|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8181" CreationDate="2012-11-24T17:24:56.423" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;James Bone is shot twice in the opening sequence for the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once while driving the Backhoe digger on the train. He is shot while rotating the Backhoe around 180 degrees. The shot hits him in the upper right shoulder, where he will later remove the shrapnel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Eve shoots Bond while he is fighting on top of the train. The impact of the shot throws him off the train and into the river.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that James hear M announce to Eve to take the shot over the radio, but James is more thrown then jumps when the shot is taken. So it's doubtful that he faked being shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When James Bond falls into the river he goes over a water fall. During this sequence he hits the bottom of the water falls and sinks into the water. At this point you can see &lt;em&gt;bubbles&lt;/em&gt; coming from his right side ribs. As shown in this image. I've circled the two locations where he has been shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ox1qZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the opening credits of the film only one bullet hole is shown for the iconic imagery of Bond. This bullet wound is in the location where he was shot driving the Backhoe. The hole appears several times during the opening credits, in shadow figures of Bond and in a cardboard target of Bond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/n6RsQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the film James Bonds appears shirtless, but sporting only one bullet wound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ysOsu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the interview sequence with the bad guy (sorry, forget his name, that's a movie joke). We are only shown one bullet wound, but M is blamed for the wound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bDJSp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this raises the question. Where is the second bullet wound caused by Eve when she shot him on the train?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears only once in the film, the moment when he hits the water. You can see two distinct injuries on Bond's right side. One in his shoulder, and one in his ribs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the film. Eve and Bond are discussing the shooting that went wrong. This happens just after he enters the new underground base for MI5. He tells Eve the shot only &lt;em&gt;&quot;cost me 3 ribs&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Yet, later in the film we see him shirtless without any wound in that area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="1100" LastEditDate="2012-11-24T17:32:39.290" LastActivityDate="2012-11-24T17:32:39.290" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6899" CreationDate="2012-11-24T18:06:45.527" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;M&quot; could be the British short form for &lt;em&gt;Mom&lt;/em&gt;.&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Mom&lt;/em&gt; is the British word of respect for a woman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James Bond refers to her using both M and Mom in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;British military may refer to a female officer as &lt;em&gt;Mom&lt;/em&gt; instead of &lt;em&gt;Sir&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's disrespectful to refer to a man as &lt;em&gt;Mom&lt;/em&gt;, which is why Bond might have referred to her replacement at the end of the film as &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt;. He was the guy who got shot in the arm (sorry, can't remember his name).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember when Bond calls him &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt; he says it almost sarcastically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2012-11-24T18:06:45.527" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8205" CreationDate="2012-11-24T19:01:07.147" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paramount.com/flight/#story&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;, the story has its genesis in 1999, before Sullenberg or 9/11, so screenwriter John Gatins did not have those references when he wrote it, and obviously he decided not to reference them in his film made this year. The movie does have three scenes shot in Atlanta's St. Regis Hotel, though, which it mentions by name. The hotel opened in April 2009. So it's current in its setting, but perhaps without recent events having been calculated in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that Washington's character had been drinking and on drugs, perhaps he would not be concerned about breaking an FAA rule. In fact, going back to talk on the intercom was the only way he could access the little bottles of vodka,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jDEZV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://blogs.ajc.com/the-buzz/files/2012/11/Denzel_Washington_Flight_St_Regis-300x124.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-11-24T19:01:07.147" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8212" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-25T00:41:25.030" Score="14" ViewCount="1510" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Men in Black 3, K has to travel from MiB HQ all the way to the Apollo 11 space launch then deal with all the inherent problems of getting the ArcNet pendant onto the Launch Escape System.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presuming that the various alien species frequenting our planet must arrive and depart using their own spacecraft, why didn't or couldn't K ask a friendly alien species to do this for him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="249" LastEditorUserId="3394" LastEditDate="2012-12-11T04:26:15.130" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T15:06:14.750" Title="Why couldn't the humans ask an alien species to launch the ArcNet Shield?" Tags="|plot-explanation|men-in-black-3|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8213" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8220" CreationDate="2012-11-25T00:54:09.587" Score="13" ViewCount="31949" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the show Dexter, season 6 episode 4, when Dexter Morgen walks into the crime scene with the two corpse horsemen, Dexter says &quot;this spectacle makes me think of...&quot; and Debra finishes the sentence &quot;your brother... Rudy, the Ice Truck killer...&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When exactly did Debra find this out, as I don't remember any reference prior to this where Dexter has specifically stated that Rudy was his brother?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-06-05T01:31:18.980" LastActivityDate="2017-06-12T12:56:12.570" Title="In which episode did Debra find out about Dexter's brother?" Tags="|dexter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1992" CreationDate="2012-11-25T03:27:40.973" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's not forget the symbolism behind him washing his hands with the bleach. Bleach is used to remove stains that cannot be cleaned off with regular detergent, however Trevor uses the bleach in a more metaphorical sense. He cannot get over the crime he committed as it constantly haunts him, meaning he lives his life with his hands &quot;dirty.&quot; He constantly washes his hands with bleach to try to clear his conscience, but even the bleach doesn't remove the stain that has led him to psychopathy. He is constantly cleaning in attempt to clean his past; it isn't so much to keep him occupied. He is not a neat-freak, the actual blood on the floor likely did not bother him as much as the metaphorical blood on his hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3472" LastActivityDate="2012-11-25T03:27:40.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8215" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8216" CreationDate="2012-11-25T03:47:16.633" Score="16" ViewCount="5633" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched through Dexter and there are multiple references to Harry's code of conduct, but they're never listed specifically in any of the episodes as far as I remember. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that the first rule is &lt;code&gt;Don't get caught&lt;/code&gt;, the second rule is &lt;code&gt;Never kill an innocent&lt;/code&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the various rules in Harry's code of conduct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2020-12-10T11:09:06.857" Title="What are the various rules in Harry's code of conduct?" Tags="|dexter|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8215" CreationDate="2012-11-25T03:53:03.303" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this reference on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://dexter.wikia.com/wiki/Code_of_Harry&quot;&gt;Dexter Wiki&lt;/a&gt; the rules are essentially all that you state above (in the simplest form). These are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Never get caught&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Never kill an innocent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are various hints in dialogue that there may be more rules but seeing as the code was never written down we may never know unless stated in the show. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking further into it, it seems that not having a family besides Deb might be against the code. Though, this can be argued as general advice to continue his ways vs an actual rule of the code. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2012-12-05T12:50:29.760" LastActivityDate="2012-12-05T12:50:29.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8217" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8221" CreationDate="2012-11-25T04:43:41.607" Score="10" ViewCount="913" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611224/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter&lt;/a&gt;, Abraham Lincoln is portrayed as a vampire hunter. I do not understand why the producers chose him to be a vampire hunter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Historically he is of great importance in not only American history, but also in global history. So, is it not a bad idea to choose this famous character to be portrayed as vampire hunter? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the reason behind choosing Abraham Lincoln? I searched Google and found a novel of the same &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln,_Vampire_Hunter_%28novel%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;name&lt;/a&gt;. So, is the movie based on the novel and that is why the character is Lincoln? Also I do not think showing him as vampire hunter is such a great idea, because it can create misconceptions with the public, which we have already seen in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2977/where-do-the-historical-accuracies-end-and-fiction-begin-in-abraham-lincoln-vam&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2012-12-27T14:59:48.053" Title="Why was Abraham Lincoln chosen to be a vampire hunter?" Tags="|book-adaptation|abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8213" CreationDate="2012-11-25T09:43:27.027" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happened &lt;strong&gt;at the end of &lt;em&gt;Season 4&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://dexter.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_412:_The_Getaway&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Getaway&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Debra finds out the truth about &lt;a href=&quot;http://dexter.wikia.com/wiki/Laura_Moser&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dexter's mother&lt;/a&gt;, and tells him that she knows that Dexter's brother was the &lt;em&gt;Ice Truck Killer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dexter pretended this news was new to him and acted surprised. He is now concerned that Debra is getting closer to finding the truth about him, which gives him more of a reason to change his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-11-25T09:43:27.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8217" CreationDate="2012-11-25T10:00:13.373" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is &lt;strong&gt;based on the&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln,_Vampire_Hunter_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;novel&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of the same name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/91tIF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2010/02/qa-abraham-lincoln-vamire-hunter-author-seth-grahame-smith&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;interview with the author&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Seth Grahame-Smith&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (2010):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;When you got the idea for this book, were you thinking, “I sure do love Abe Lincoln, but I wish his story had more vampires?” Or was it, “I’m sick and tired of all these vampire novels without any historical context?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;To be honest, I don’t know which came first in that chicken or the egg scenario. I’ve been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history. I read a lot by Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough and Walter Isaacson. I’ve always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I guess where it really came from was, I like to wander around bookstores and see what people are reading. Last year, during the Lincoln bicentennial—and this was when 'Twilight' was really blowing up—it seemed to me like every book on the front shelves was either a Lincoln biography or a vampire novel. So it was like an instantaneous click in my brain.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;You thought, “If I can find a way to combine these two genres, I will rule the world?!”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Laughs.) Something like that. It was a weird chocolate-meets-peanut-butter moment for me. It was a chance to take my two favorite tastes and put them together.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-11-25T10:00:13.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4470" CreationDate="2012-11-25T13:54:53.823" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to add some more points and try to point which was the Borden who loved Olivia and the Borden who loved Sarah in each scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;code&gt;I loved Sarah. He loved Olivia.&lt;/code&gt; says a lot of things in the last scene of the movie. BORDEN WHO LOVED SARAH loved Sarah and BORDEN WHO LOVED OLIVIA loved Olivia. Now how can we say that the living one is BORDEN WHO LOVED SARAH? Before Fallon i.e. his twin brother joined him in the movie, he fell in love for her and he said &quot;I loved Sarah&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2)  BORDEN WHO LOVED SARAH is the Borden who took interest in Sarah and went to her house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3)  Remember when Borden who loved Olivia gifted her the key, the conversation was like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;I asked you last week&#xA;You caught me in a wrong mood&#xA;But you wont ever&#xA;Sarah..&#xA;I am gonna have to change my mind, aren't I? &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it is presumable that when she requested for it, it was BORDEN WHO LOVED OLIVIA, who was in the wrong mood. But as soon as he told BORDEN WHO LOVED SARAH, he took no time in arranging a house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4) In the party after Borden was compelled to give the keyword &quot;TESLA&quot; to Angier, he was acting very bad to Sarah, this was probably BORDEN WHO LOVED OLIVIA and Fallown was there BORDEN WHO LOVED SARAH because When Sarah requested him to escort Olivia to home, despite Borden who loved Oliviard said &lt;code&gt;Don't ruin this evening&lt;/code&gt; he stood up and took Olivia home. After that Borden who loved Oliviar quarreled with Sarah, which proves my opinion. At the end, Sarah said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;No Alfred stop. This isn't you. Stop performing.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5) Olivia came to BORDEN WHO LOVED OLIVIA, with whom she fell in affair with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;6) When Borden who loved Sarah was going to take them for the zoo, he said to Sarah&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;I love you. I will always love you.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and Sarah said:&#xA;    You mean it today.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This is BORDEN WHO LOVED SARAH in action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;7) In a scene where Borden was talking to Fallon, he said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;And, uh... Sarah,Uh, at least she knows&#xA;that something is not right,&#xA;Talk to her, just&#xA;convince her that I do love her.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here BORDEN WHO LOVED SARAH is talking to BORDEN WHO LOVED OLIVIA. We get the proof in the next scene, when he meets Olivia and she kisses her and he said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;It's nothing. It's just that&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;sometimes it seems wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;8)  Before committing suicide in the last fight, Sarah was talking to BORDEN WHO LOVED OLIVIA and Fallon was the BORDEN WHO LOVED SARAH who took their daughter aside. That is why,&#xA;   When  Sarah asked &quot;Do you love me?&quot;&#xA;   He said &lt;code&gt;No, not today&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;9)  In the last meeting with Olivia, he said he loved her and he did not mention Sarah's name once. that is the BORDEN WHO LOVED OLIVIA. Olivia was upset with the fact and said &lt;code&gt;It  is inhuman to be such cold.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;10) And the Borden who loved Sarah lived and who was hanged was BORDEN WHO LOVED OLIVIA, who said &lt;code&gt;I am sorry for a lot of things. I am sorry about Sarah. Did not mean to hurt her. You two live for both of you.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means the living one was BORDEN WHO LOVED SARAH and the hanged one was BORDEN WHO LOVED OLIVIA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;11) In the opening scene when Sarah informed about her pregnancy to Borden, it was who loved Olivia, that is why he said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;We should tell Fallon&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So these are some other points where we can differentiate between them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-11-26T08:53:44.327" LastActivityDate="2012-11-26T08:53:44.327" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="719" CreationDate="2012-11-25T15:16:45.797" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally think the implant of the laser was to reveal Bourns own identity to himself if any &lt;em&gt;accident happens&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was likely from the beginning that Bourne may get amnesia due to the drug effect. So if anything of that happens, he can get back his identity easily(Like the movie went on). Maybe they thought, it will create pain in the implanted area and he would eventually find it. But I guess, his employer did not think that after committing to the plan, he would turn against them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The doctor found the laser because he wanted to examine an severely wounded body thoroughly. So he found the scar, felt something inside it and made it out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-11-25T16:51:58.590" LastActivityDate="2012-11-25T16:51:58.590" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8228" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-26T03:21:46.723" Score="6" ViewCount="1922" Body="&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of TV shows are now available in high definition. However, much content still seems to be framed for &quot;center cuts,&quot; where the center of a high definition image in a 16:9 aspect ratio is cropped for a standard definition, 4:3 aspect ratio image. This is especially apparent in sports and news broadcast graphics, where pan-and-scan techniques cannot be edited in real time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When will producers and broadcasters stop optimizing contents for the 4:3 aspect ratio and will standard definition broadcasts then receive a 16:9 letterbox?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3196" LastEditorUserId="3196" LastEditDate="2012-11-28T06:17:02.837" LastActivityDate="2016-10-16T12:59:40.907" Title="When will high definition television no longer account for the standard definition 4:3 aspect ratio?" Tags="|editing|cinematography|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1413" CreationDate="2012-11-26T03:40:23.367" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the voice over provided by Dunbar/Costner as he arrives at Fort Hayes, Kansas he states, &quot;The bloody slaughter continues in the East...&quot;  Though Maj. Fambrough is obviously an unstable alcoholic, I've always thought his reference to &quot;The King is dead; long live the King&quot; may mean that word has arrived of Lincoln's assassination.  If correct, then the war has been over several weeks.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3479" LastActivityDate="2012-11-26T03:40:23.367" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8236" CreationDate="2012-11-26T05:56:09.813" Score="7" ViewCount="309" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source Code&lt;/a&gt;, it is shown that by redialing a number from the same phone that was connected to the bomb, Capt. found the guy finally who set up the bomb. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But is it realistic for a terrorist to leave any loose (major actually) end like this in such planning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This gives birth to two questions. What was the necessity for the terrorist to call the number? And if it was called for checking the connection purpose, should not the terrorist have deleted it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is a major plot-hole in the movie and catching of the terrorist should have been done in another way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-12-27T15:15:39.447" LastActivityDate="2012-12-27T15:15:39.447" Title="Is it realistic for a terrorist to leave his phone number behind in the call list?" Tags="|plot-explanation|source-code|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8232" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8235" CreationDate="2012-11-26T06:02:18.837" Score="11" ViewCount="1690" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Source Code, I did not get the meaning of a conversation between Capt. and Christina in the train. It was between roughly 00:42:00-00:43:00&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The conversation was as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Capt- Okay. Christina? Um...I've been having these dreams lately. Really vivid. &#xA;      And you've been in them.&#xA;Christina- Really?&#xA;Capt- What? Oh. No. Not like that. Not that I wouldn't. I...It's just...Um..&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what was it that he wanted to say, but could not complete and why Christina left him without listening to him completely. I could not get that part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-01T13:01:12.147" LastActivityDate="2017-10-31T18:27:29.993" Title="What does the conversation mean?" Tags="|dialogue|source-code|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8228" CreationDate="2012-11-26T06:40:58.190" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;4:3 aspect ratio is in the market since the early days of television. 16:9 came into picture more recently. It is true that 16:9 is becoming more and more popular now a days. But we have not reached the time to forget about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4:3&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Standard 4:3 format aspect ratio&#xA;  A standard aspect ratio television screen is a TV with a resolution that matches the NTSC or PAL broadcasting standards. These TVs are designed for analog signals and use a square-like 4:3 aspect ratio. Devices with a standard 4:3 aspect ratio are incapable of outputting High Definition content. In this respect, standard format televisions are inferior to widescreen televisions, and there are many other benefits to using widescreen devices which are covered in more detail below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Standard 4:3 television screens are gradually being phased out, as are standard definition analog television broadcasts. Within consumer electronics shops non-widescreen televisions are becoming increasingly rare. Furthermore, the majority of countries in North America and Europe now have set dates in the near future when these analog signals will be turned off permanently. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;16:9&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Widescreen 16:9 format aspect ratio&#xA;  The widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio is the image standard of the future, designed to succeed the traditional 4:3 square aspect ratio. To take advantage of the benefits “true” widescreen can offer, you need to own both a widescreen television and videos coded in a 16:9 aspect ratio, such as High Definition television content, which only comes in widescreen format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although widescreen 16:9 format is synonymous with High Definition content, 16:9 is also commonly used with standard definition television and DVDs. The reason for this is because DVD film producers and TV broadcasters offer both 16:9 and 4:3 outputs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reasons for still using 4:3 aspect ratio:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While the 4:3 aspect ratio is viewed as somewhat dated, it is still very common and is still the standard aspect ratio for computer screens. While it is true that High Definition content is becoming more and more prevalent, the majority of broadcasters still output in a 4:3 aspect ratio. While the same cannot be said for films, if you still watch a lot of VHS tapes of older films then a 4:3 television will allow for the image to take up the screen. Displayed on a 16:9 television it would appear stretched, or would have black borders running along the edges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reasons for still using 4:3 aspect ratio:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The benefits of the widescreen aspect ratio format are numerous, so it is easy to see why widescreen devices have become so popular so quickly. These benefits are summarized below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The future format&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In only a few years time, videos in widescreen format will be the only type available. Furthermore, widescreen televisions will soon become the only type of TV available for purchase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Same size picture as films&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All movies are now shot using a 16:9 aspect ratio, meaning if you have a widescreen display device the video will be displayed without the black borders present in 4:3 television screens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blu-ray format&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Blu-ray is the next generation DVD format that outputs films in High Definition. To make use of this it is necessary to have a widescreen 16:9 High Definition television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;High definition content&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;High Definition content is only output in 16:9 aspect ratio resolutions of 1280×720 or 1920x1080.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Increased viewing area&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pictures displayed using a widescreen aspect ratio show 25% more of an image than 4:3 aspect ratio pictures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So from the above discussion it is quite obvious that 4:3 is phasing out slowly. But still we cannot ignore it totally. Different users still prefer 4:3 to 16:9 for different reasons like cited before. In this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mobileread.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-121097.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;forum&lt;/a&gt;, you can see some examples. When we would be able to make 16:9 more advantageous and when economy would allow us to make it cheap so that maximum of common people can afford buying HDTV, I think then only producers and broadcasters would stop making in 4:3 ratio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FYI, Still in third world countries and developing countries like India (Where I belong to by birth) the price is too high for maximum of average people. It starts from around 60K and ends at 300K INR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.steves-digicams.com/knowledge-center/how-tos/digital-camera-operation/the-difference-between-a-169-aspect-ratio-and-43-aspect-ratio.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.steves-digicams.com/knowledge-center/how-tos/digital-camera-operation/the-difference-between-a-169-aspect-ratio-and-43-aspect-ratio.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bambooav.com/aspect-ratios-explained.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.bambooav.com/aspect-ratios-explained.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bambooav.com/widescreen-169-and-standard-43-formats.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.bambooav.com/widescreen-169-and-standard-43-formats.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-11-26T07:56:09.217" LastActivityDate="2012-11-26T07:56:09.217" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8232" CreationDate="2012-11-26T08:38:12.460" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was talking about the entire source code project (getting in someone else's body) and trying to explain to her what was really going on to make her understand/help him. As he realizes his actions might seem strange, he tries to convince her to go with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She dismisses it as it doesn't seem important (only dreams) and flirts with him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2012-11-26T08:38:12.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8231" CreationDate="2012-11-26T08:56:51.090" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like default locale says, the phone would explode along with the bomb; So nobody would ever get to see it/recall the last number. Removing the last number should only be done if the bomber fears to be discovered. As the bomber has successfully bombed before and nobody on the train (without time travel capacities) can even begin to expect something, he doesn't expect someone to find his bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to place yourself in the bomber's place. If you assume the bomb to fail, then you could just as well abort the mission. There's also a million other more important things to worry about (getting the components, building the bomb, smuggling it on the train, installing it, other bombings,...). Why not use a better/more reliable stand alone system (other than GSM) to trigger the bomb. Nobody would be able to trace that. Why not use a more basic phone with no memory at all? Why did he call the phone in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just one of the many design choices you have to make while building a bomb and it doesn't seem too important compared to major issues (I would worry about hiding my explosives).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT :&lt;/strong&gt; Just thought of  another explanation.&#xA;If you want the bomb to explode only when receiving a call from a specific number, then you have to store that number in the cell phone. If you don't, it might blow when a telemarketer calls for an advanced subscription plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-11-26T09:18:29.627" LastActivityDate="2012-11-26T09:18:29.627" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4545" CreationDate="2012-11-26T13:15:44.977" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since there is no hard-evidence in the movie that would suggest either, nothing can be said definitively. But, I would say that those pills would most likely be anti-psychotic (neuroleptic) or anti-depressant of some kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I say this is because Tommy (Hardy) is shown to have a &lt;strong&gt;tough childhood&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;mother's chronic illness and death, father's drinking issues&lt;/em&gt;) and later on his &lt;strong&gt;buddy&lt;/strong&gt; in the Marines &lt;strong&gt;dies&lt;/strong&gt; in &lt;em&gt;friendly-fire&lt;/em&gt;, that eventually leads in Tommy going &lt;em&gt;AWOL&lt;/em&gt; from active duty. Now I reckon, &lt;em&gt;such scenarios are enough for any sane person to develop psychological issues.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; A friend suggested that he might be taking &lt;em&gt;steroids&lt;/em&gt;, but that seemed a little off to me since Tommy was in the &lt;strong&gt;Marines&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;where I suppose steroids that are not prescribed would not be allowed&lt;/em&gt;) and frankly I doubt Tom Hardy's physique (though mammoth) is a result of steroid popping!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-02-03T21:58:36.053" LastActivityDate="2013-02-03T21:58:36.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3155" CreationDate="2012-11-26T13:37:21.243" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spider-Man is about a young boy. Tobey Maguire was getting older. The innocent face of a young troubled boy was no longer visible in him as it was in part 1 &amp;amp; 2. I mean Spider-Man 3 was such a letdown. That's why he could not be continued to play Spider-Man. And after the relatively dismal performance/reception of Spider-Man 3 the producers decided to start all new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what I think happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-08-12T09:48:55.280" LastActivityDate="2017-08-12T09:48:55.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4565" CreationDate="2012-11-26T13:44:30.770" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone knew he was psychotic (and I mean more so than others although the mafia is full of dangerous people) - note how someone (not sure who) tries to intervene in the 'you think I'm funny' scene - he says something like &quot;Tommy, you got it all wrong&quot; and Tommy replies &quot;He can speak for himself&quot; and everyone is immediately quiet as they did not want to become collateral damage, even his one of best friends is not sure at first whether Tommy is about to turn on him.  However, it is revealed to be a big joke and everyone laughs with relief and because they want to stay onside with Tommy.  Seriously, would you have stayed dead pan and reprimanded Tommy?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Murdering Spider did not really matter to the mafia, he was just a low level errand boy.  He did not have any connections etc so the mafia are unlikely to care whether Tommy killed him or not.  Remember these people would order an execution in the same way I would delete some code and retype it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that point Tommy was useful, he was charasmatic, brave, resourceful, terrifying but apparently controllable.  He seemed to largely do what he was told but then 'they' found out he had killed a made man and that meant a death sentence.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-11-26T13:44:30.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8240" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8241" CreationDate="2012-11-26T13:51:50.187" Score="5" ViewCount="279" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying to get the name of a tv series which had R. Paul Wilson from 'The Real Hustle' in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode I saw was when he performed a penetration test on a casino with some colleagues he picked up using a special kind of transmitter they made.  It went wrong and they got caught and arrested, although they were freed again of course as the owner had hired them.  The camera crew was explained to staff as being part of a documentary being filmed in the casino.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually I saw part of another episode, it involved a pool hustler in a bar who was spoiling things by always thrashing everyone (or something) and Paul brought some women in who played the guy for a load of money (she was some kind of pool champion) and she won the match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what the series was called, I really enjoyed this and would like to see some more of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-11-26T16:59:45.657" Title="Documentary series in one episode they attacked a casino" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:52:47.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8240" CreationDate="2012-11-26T15:26:03.033" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be Derren Brown's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1509646/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Derren Brown: The Events&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; series. This had an episode titled &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1526795/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;How to Take Down a Casino&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Updated:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other series it could be is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/the-takedown/episodes/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The Takedown&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; season 1:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/the-takedown/shootout-at-mr-luckys-433151/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 2: Shootout at Mr. Lucky's&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paul Wilson and the gang head to a pool hall where pool sharks have&#xA;been known to invade and have created a serious problem for the owner&#xA;of the hall. They recruit the help of one of the top pool players in&#xA;the world. It's her task to &amp;quot;hussle the hussler&amp;quot;. However, he's a lot&#xA;tougher than she expected, and he really gets into her head by trash&#xA;talking. It is a nail biting competition for a while, but she manages&#xA;to defeat him. As Paul Wilson says, &amp;quot;you'll probably never see him&#xA;here again.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are various episodes such as these where they try to beat the casino using gadgets:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/the-takedown/gone-in-sixty-minutes-466912/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 6: Gone in Sixty Minutes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paul and his team try to cheat at a roulette wheel using computers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/the-takedown/shootout-at-mr-luckys-433151/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 10: Beating the Bandits&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paul takes his team to the Fitzgerald's Casino in Las Vegas. They use light wands to try and rip off multiple slot machines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="249" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-11-26T16:59:45.657" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8242" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8256" CreationDate="2012-11-26T15:34:02.957" Score="31" ViewCount="235062" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The movie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289879/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Butterfly Effect&lt;/em&gt; (2004)&lt;/a&gt; has multiple and very different endings. Specifically there appears to be two factors on the main character's decision:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Save his girlfriend's life&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Save his girlfriend's life and mother's life.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found it weird that the first ending would not compromise the other (it's like a happy ending where the viewer doesn't know what happened to his mother or to the main character's &quot;gift&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After checking on the web and discussing with others I am not sure &lt;strong&gt;which was the original intended ending&lt;/strong&gt;.     &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it reported anywhere why the need to dramatically change the ending?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3410" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-10-19T16:47:11.337" LastActivityDate="2016-10-19T16:47:11.337" Title="What was the original ending and why was it changed?" Tags="|ending|plot-explanation|alternate-version|the-butterfly-effect|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8184" CreationDate="2012-11-26T17:38:20.480" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeah, its the guys on the boat.  They were so rough that the other prostitutes would not go there, and tried to brutalize Bess on her first visit there.  She goes back and the next thing we know she is heading to the hospital in serious condition.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its not explicitly shown but I think that is just because they were trying to avoid being gratuitous, I personally didn't see where there was any ambiguity as to where her injuries came from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="576" LastEditorUserId="576" LastEditDate="2012-12-06T18:16:55.730" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T18:16:55.730" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8246" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8285" CreationDate="2012-11-26T19:04:15.537" Score="4" ViewCount="544" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KoKWf6pLs8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;funny montage&lt;/a&gt; of movie and TV clips on YouTube in which variations of the phrase &quot;you don't get it, do you&quot; are used.  Sometime after I watched that video I saw a 1959 episode of &lt;em&gt;Bat Masterson&lt;/em&gt; entitled &quot;Wanted: Dead.&quot;  In it actor John Dehner said to Gene Barry, &quot;You just don't get it, do you Masterson?  They all killed that boy.&quot;  I laughed out loud and then wondered just how long this phrase has been in use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the earliest use of the phrase &quot;You [still/just] don't get it, do you?&quot; in movies and television?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="843" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-27T09:39:20.617" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T22:28:09.103" Title="What is the earliest use of &quot;You just/still don't get it do you?&quot;" Tags="|dialogue|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="242" CreationDate="2012-11-27T01:30:53.493" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simply: up until now Jules has been evil - now he's gonna try to do right, which is harder.  You have to remember that this quote comes in the context of Jules quitting the business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3483" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T18:34:58.503" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T18:34:58.503" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8242" CreationDate="2012-11-27T05:20:18.837" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't quite get what you meant by,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I found it weird that the first ending would not compromise the other (it's like a happy ending where the viewer doesn't know what happened to his mother or to the main character's &quot;gift&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the way I understood is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original ending was the ending which Evan was in a psychiatric hospital- he is in a really depressed state as he is fully aware that it is he who killed his girlfriend, Kayleigh.  What the doctor said was true- Evan was making alternate realities in his mind to escape his guilt about killing her (he throwed the dynamite at her father, but it landed beneath her).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then he steals the earliest home-movie tape in which he had met Kayleigh for the the first time in his life (the real one)- at a party. He then &quot;travels&quot; into the scene (for real) and then blames Kayleigh (says he hates her, etc, etc.), thus avoiding ever meeting her and playing with her- and the dynamite scene and child abuse (by her father) would never have happened in the first place. And consequently, Evan would not be crazy, his other friends would be good in life, and he would have led a normal college life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not based on real facts, but is the way I interpreted the movie and understood it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastActivityDate="2012-11-27T05:20:18.837" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8253" CreationDate="2012-11-27T05:23:19.843" Score="8" ViewCount="2179" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a scene in &quot;A View To A Kill&quot; where Bond is snooping around Zorin's property and sets off an alarm. Bond escapes by waiting in May Day's bed for her to return to her room, and then acting like he was there all along. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene ends with May Day jumping in bed with Bond to do the wild thing, and Zorin -- who seemed to be May Day's boyfriend -- just kind of walking away and being cool with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eneuw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why did Zorin so casually allow Bond to sleep with May Day?&lt;/strong&gt; Part of Zorin's weird personality? Testament to Bond's sex appeal? Commentary on the promiscuous 1980s? Or something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T13:16:25.087" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T13:16:25.087" Title="In &quot;A View To A Kill&quot; why does Zorin let Bond sleep with May Day?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|a-view-to-a-kill|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8252" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8254" CreationDate="2012-11-27T10:03:42.750" Score="24" ViewCount="36192" Body="&lt;p&gt;Saw Skyfall over the weekend and was just wondering what's written on the side and bottom of Q's cup?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T15:03:27.550" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T15:03:27.550" Title="What's written on Q's cup in Skyfall?" Tags="|james-bond|props|skyfall|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8251" CreationDate="2012-11-27T10:12:51.537" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd really attribute it in part to his personality. In the end he didn't really care for &lt;em&gt;MayDay&lt;/em&gt; apart from being his assistant, training partner, and sex toy. But in the same way he trusts her as his loyal assistant to not make more of her little adventure with &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; either. So seeing her sleep with &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; won't do him any harm. There may be some good old childish jealousy in &lt;em&gt;Zorin&lt;/em&gt;, but he's controlled and psychotic enough to hide it, since he knows (or thinks to know) &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; will get his punishment sooner or later, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the end it may help to distract &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; or gain some information from him. Well ok, it's &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; and he won't fall in love with her or tell any mission-sensitive information. But on the other hand &lt;em&gt;Zorin&lt;/em&gt; doesn't have anything to loose and while &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; has fun with &lt;em&gt;MayDay&lt;/em&gt; he won't run around spying for secrets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2012-11-27T10:12:51.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8252" CreationDate="2012-11-27T10:28:02.517" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't watch Skyfall, but some of googling gives me this picture which says its Q&lt;sub&gt;10&lt;/sub&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oQfah.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its part of Wild and Wolf's Scrabble mug collection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each ceramic mug features one Scrabble letter on the front and the official Scrabble letter distribution chart on the back.&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/Skyfall-2012-movie/Whats-on-Qs-cup-in-Skyfall-2012&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;(Source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Available for purchase on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Scrabble-Mugs-by-Wild-Wolf-A-Z-Free-Delivery-/290538632483&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;ebay&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wild-Wolf-Scrabble-Mug-Q/dp/B0041RRC7C&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;amazon&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://usa.wildandwolf.com/home_interior/mugs3/scrabble_mug_q.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wildandwolf.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is images for the back of cup you are talking about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jvdl0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here its detailed look&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jCHvU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-03T20:24:36.733" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T20:24:36.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8181" CreationDate="2012-11-27T11:26:59.547" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Missed all the major organs. It's a big possibility that the two shots were extremely close to each other and hence the one &quot;iconic&quot; wound in the opening sequence, imho. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3485" LastActivityDate="2012-11-27T11:26:59.547" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8242" CreationDate="2012-11-27T11:32:09.770" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289879/faq#.2.1.7&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4 different endings&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Theatrical Ending:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Evan travels back to the birthday party where he first meets Kayleigh and whispers to her &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I hate you and if you ever come near me again I'll kill you and your whole damn family.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; Kayleigh runs away crying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/acyoP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;1&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jwB5s.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;2&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a montage of his memories disintegrating, Evan returns to present day in the dorm room with Lenny, and the two of them burn all of Evan's journals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eight years pass. One day, Evan and Kayleigh (Amy Smart) are walking down a street, going in opposite directions. When they pass each other, they seem to recognize each other for a second but keep walking away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J6Lkr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;3&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8zO9rDKmyA#t=00m03s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watch &lt;em&gt;Theatrical Ending&lt;/em&gt; on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Alternate Ending 1:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same as &lt;em&gt;Theatrical Ending&lt;/em&gt;, only Evan turns and follows Kayleigh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TDG53.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;a1&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vmrxl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;a1b&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TND38xcU0p8&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watch &lt;em&gt;Alternate Ending 1&lt;/em&gt; on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Alternate Ending 2:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same as &lt;em&gt;Alternate Ending 1&lt;/em&gt; only Evan and Kayleigh talk to each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nCBmU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;a2&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hnJsb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;a2b&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TND38xcU0p8#t=01m03s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watch &lt;em&gt;Alternate Ending 2&lt;/em&gt; on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Director's Cut:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, while Evan has barricaded himself in the office, he starts playing a home movie his father made just as his mother was giving birth to him. Evan travels back into his mother's womb and strangles himself with the umbilical cord.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1qAdv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;dc1&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T7FKQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;dc2&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Said to be the original ending but, because it did poorly with the screening audience, the theatrical ending was chosen for cinema release.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Director's Cut&lt;/em&gt; has quite a few more additional scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=2027&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Detailed comparison between &lt;em&gt;Theatrical&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Director's Cut&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Watch Director's Cut Below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/1wSH1SpQh9c?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-04-24T19:48:45.110" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8196" CreationDate="2012-11-27T19:50:40.793" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Timeline Info from Script:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;When the Young Prisoner (Young Talia, though not introduced as such at the time) is introduced, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thesportshero.com/?p=4165&quot;&gt;Script&lt;/a&gt; says she is 'about 10'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;INSERT CUT: a child of about ten looks up towards the light&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Miranda Tate is introduced, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thesportshero.com/?p=4165&quot;&gt;Script&lt;/a&gt; says she is in her 30s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alfred talks to an elegant woman, thirties, Miranda Tate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the short answer is 20-29 years between Talia Al Ghul escaping the prison and the beginning of the events in The Dark Knight Rises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Batman Begins &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nolanfans.com/screenplays/&quot;&gt;Script&lt;/a&gt; info:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Bruce Wayne is age 8 in the first scene where he falls into the cave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is Bruce Wayne, aged 8&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce Wayne is age 28 when he meets Ra's Al Ghul:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;BRUCE WAYNE aged 28&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce Wayne's 30th Birthday is at the end of Batman Begins:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EARLE:&lt;/strong&gt; Not yet. I checked the trust, and Bruce can’t assume control until his thirtieth birthday. (presses intercom) Jessica, where’s that coffee?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;BOARD MEMBER:&lt;/strong&gt; But that’s in three months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Timeline Info from Movies:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In &lt;strong&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;This was after his wife took his place (with Talia).  It's also implied that he had found out he had discovered her fate at this point and gotten his revenge.&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Batman_Begins&quot;&gt;[source]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Henri Ducard&lt;/strong&gt;: But I know the rage that drives you. That impossible anger strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved ones is just poison in your veins. And one day you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed, so you'd be spared your pain. I wasn't always here in the mountains. Once I had a wife, my great love. She was taken from me. Like you, I was forced to learn that there are those without decency that must be fought without hesitation, without pity. Your anger gives you great power, but if you let it, it will destroy you, as it almost did me.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bruce Wayne&lt;/strong&gt;: What stopped it?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Henri Ducard&lt;/strong&gt;: Vengeance.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce Wayne spent 7 years traveling abroad according to Alfred in Batman Begins:&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/quotes?qt=qt0469952&quot;&gt;[source]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bruce Wayne:&lt;/strong&gt; Have you told anyone I'm coming back?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Alfred Pennyworth:&lt;/strong&gt; I just couldn't figure the legal ramifications of bringing you back from the dead.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bruce Wayne:&lt;/strong&gt; Dead?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Alfred Pennyworth:&lt;/strong&gt; You've been gone seven years.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Joker:&lt;/strong&gt; Let's wind the clocks back a year. These cops and lawyers wouldn't dare cross any of you. I mean, what happened? Did... did your balls drop off?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I interpret this as one of two possibilities: 1) a year ago batman didn't exist; or 2) a year ago Bruce Wayne was just starting as Batman and had not yet dealt a crippling blow to their organization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John Blake:&lt;/strong&gt; Those men locked up for eight years in Blackgate, and denied parole under the Dent Act, based on a lie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/strong&gt; takes place at least 9 years after &lt;strong&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, from all of this:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Between 20 and 29 years passed from the time Talia escaped to the events at the beginning of The Dark Knight Rises.&#xA;Bane in the prison is at least in his late teens.  All we see of him is a fairly young looking face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, we have a rough timeline.  Assume year 0 is Bruce Wayne's birth.  Years in &lt;em&gt;italics&lt;/em&gt;, the specific year is unknown and provided as ranges which should contain &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; possible years, Years in &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt; are certain, and based on above sources.  Any range (i.e. 0-9) indicates the exact point at which the event occurred is unknown, but could be anywhere in between, based on above sources.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;0&lt;/strong&gt;: Bruce Wayne Born.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;0-9&lt;/em&gt;: Talia Al Ghul born.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;10-19&lt;/em&gt;: Talia Al Ghul is about 10, escapes the prison, Bane is at least in his late teens, early 20s.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;10-28&lt;/em&gt;: Talia Al Ghul finds her father, rescues Bane from prison. They are trained by the League of Shadows.  Bane excommunicated.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;22&lt;/strong&gt;: Bruce Wayne leaves Gotham, travels the world living amongst criminals.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;28&lt;/strong&gt;: Bruce Wayne meets &quot;Henri Ducard&quot;(Ra's Al Ghul) and trains under him.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;29&amp;amp;30&lt;/strong&gt;: Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham, events of Batman Begins, Ra's Al Ghul's death.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;30-31&lt;/em&gt;: Events of The Dark Knight&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;38-39&lt;/em&gt;: Events of The Dark Knight Rises.  Bane is at least about the same age as Bruce Wayne.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, based on that, there does seem to be an age problem.  I don't think it was ever explicitly stated that Bane is younger than Bruce Wayne, just that Bruce Wayne was no longer in his top physical capability, being a recluse for 8 years and using a cane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Timeline Info from Actors/Actresses age:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This doesn't really give a definitive age for any of the characters, especially Bruce Wayne and Bane, but it's extra information I looked at before finding the above, so I included it here.  Ages are rough, due to assuming the actor/actress had their birthday for 2011 at the time of filming.  2011 was chosen as an estimate of when filming took place, since the movie came out in Summer 2012, leaving time for post-production.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The actress who played Young Talia is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1428821/&quot;&gt;Joey King&lt;/a&gt;, was 12 in 2011. The character appears to be anywhere from 8-13.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The actress who played Adult Talia/&quot;Miranda Tate&quot; is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0182839/&quot;&gt;Marion Cotillard&lt;/a&gt;, was 36 in 2011.  The character appears to be anywhere from late 20s to mid 30s.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The actor who played Bane is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0362766/&quot;&gt;Tom Hardy&lt;/a&gt;, was 34 in 2011.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The actor who played Bruce Wayne/Batman is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/&quot;&gt;Christian Bale&lt;/a&gt;, was 37 in 2011.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3394" LastEditorUserId="3394" LastEditDate="2012-11-28T19:37:35.400" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T19:37:35.400" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8252" CreationDate="2012-11-27T22:09:20.673" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a Scrabble mug.  The opposite face is the letter distribution (the number of tiles per letter in the classic Scrabble set).  The bottom is the Scrabble logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are available for purchase &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;tbo=d&amp;amp;tbm=isch&amp;amp;tbnid=EVcQNVWf4a-0UM%3a&amp;amp;imgrefurl=http://www.incrediblethings.com/food/scrabble-without-coffee-is-like-q-without-a-u/&amp;amp;docid=B6agOmhsvOVyFM&amp;amp;imgurl=http://www.incrediblethings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Scrabble-Coffee-Mugs-1.jpg&amp;amp;w=570&amp;amp;h=372&amp;amp;ei=tjm1UN3XCbTE0AGYtoHIAg&amp;amp;zoom=1&amp;amp;iact=rc&amp;amp;dur=431&amp;amp;sig=109866874620237023219&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;tbnh=134&amp;amp;tbnw=200&amp;amp;start=0&amp;amp;ndsp=22&amp;amp;ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:88&amp;amp;tx=58&amp;amp;ty=25&amp;amp;biw=1366&amp;amp;bih=636&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="307" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-11-28T02:59:53.887" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T02:59:53.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1940" CreationDate="2012-11-28T06:40:59.173" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am pretty sure the asker is asking about the Mission Impossible film series because there was no character named Ethan Hunt in the the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060009/fullcredits#cast&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV series&lt;/a&gt;. Ethan hunt was the name of the IMF operative in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission%3a_Impossible_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;film series&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The films feature Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, an IMF agent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the film series, he never refused a mission, we know that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-11-28T08:38:33.000" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T08:38:33.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8261" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8269" CreationDate="2012-11-28T09:02:54.283" Score="8" ViewCount="7900" Body="&lt;p&gt;Detailed review of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_%28James_Bond%29&quot;&gt;M's character in Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; showed that Ian had different real life people in mind while portraying M. Wikipedia states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fleming based much of M's character on Rear Admiral John Godfrey, who was Fleming's superior at the Naval Intelligence Division during World War II. After Fleming's death, Godfrey complained &quot;He turned me into that unsavoury character, M.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite that different people are named, each one of them being a male. In the films also every characters for M was filmed as male before Judi Dench came into the scene. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what might be the reason producers suddenly changed their view for M as male and introduced a female as M? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT :&lt;/strong&gt; After @jampez77 comment I also found this &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_%28James_Bond%29#Judi_Dench%3a_1995.E2.80.932012&quot;&gt;wikipedia link on Judi Dench&lt;/a&gt;, where it is told that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the producers brought in Dame Judi Dench to take over as the new M. The character is based on Stella Rimington, the real-life head of MI5 between 1992 and 1996.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is now why did the producers took the risk to change the gender of such an important character in the movie? As it is seen viewers do not like it when anything vital is changed in the movie of any famous novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-11-28T09:43:36.130" LastActivityDate="2018-09-22T06:12:51.657" Title="Why was a female selected for M's character in James Bond?" Tags="|character|james-bond|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8261" CreationDate="2012-11-28T09:09:28.360" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the older James Bond movies, the women were basically just there as eye candy and wouldn't have been taken seriously as head of an organization like the Secret Service. It has become true to life now, especially as Stella Rimington became the Director-General of the real life MI5 from 1992-1996.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also In Fleming's earlier James Bond novels M was always a man. At that time there weren't really many women who had achieved high office ranks, but now women serve as Presidents in some countries and Prime Ministers in some countries too. So women can now portray M who is the head of MI6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2164" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-11-28T17:24:30.837" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T17:24:30.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8196" CreationDate="2012-11-28T09:37:59.570" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's implied that Bane is older than Tom Hardy at the time (at least). I just get that impression about his character, the way he acts, the older tone of his voice and also during the fight scene, he criticizes how Batman &quot;Fights like a younger man&quot;. It's inferred he's older, 40, or even more than 50 depending upon how old he's supposed to be in the pit scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3492" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-11-28T10:00:43.533" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T10:00:43.533" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="790" CreationDate="2012-11-28T10:31:55.253" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, if you paid attention to the episode he reveals his use of the Nicotine patches, he says its next to impossible to keep a smoking habit in London &quot;nowadays&quot; this is likely due to some form of legislation limiting areas where one can smoke or additional taxes on them. While Mycroft most likely extends this due to the loss of Irene Addler as well, it is also because of some form of restriction to smokers in London. At least, that is my analysis without checking in on British law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3493" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T10:31:55.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8267" CreationDate="2012-11-28T13:19:38.947" Score="1" ViewCount="2134" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486822/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Disturbia&lt;/a&gt;, why was Kale Brecht under house arrest?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3494" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T14:25:23.497" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T14:25:23.497" Title="Why was Kale Brecht under house arrest in the movie Disturbia?" Tags="|plot-explanation|disturbia|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8266" CreationDate="2012-11-28T13:37:09.390" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is explained right at the beginning of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disturbia_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A year after a devastating car accident that resulted in his father’s&#xA;  death, teenager Kale Brecht (Shia LaBeouf) is sentenced to three&#xA;  months house arrest after assaulting a teacher when he made a remark&#xA;  about his father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-28T13:55:45.723" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T13:55:45.723" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8268" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8274" CreationDate="2012-11-28T14:04:43.690" Score="2" ViewCount="2980" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did FBI know that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Young&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Amanda Young&lt;/a&gt; was an accomplice of Jigsaw at the point of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_IV&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Saw 4&lt;/a&gt;? I mean at this instance the people who knows the reality of Amanda Young are dead or in traps. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So who informed FBI about this? Only  Mark Hoffman know about it but there is no mention that he revealed Amanda's truth and he is the person who is also  accomplice of Jigsaw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T22:02:23.070" LastActivityDate="2016-07-26T17:34:25.130" Title="How did FBI know that Amanda Young was an accomplice of Jigsaw?" Tags="|plot-explanation|saw|saw-4|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8261" CreationDate="2012-11-28T14:07:30.237" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;@jampez77&lt;/em&gt; s answer is fine. Just adding some more references to make the answer more compact. It is evident from all the wikipedia links or other sites that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming&quot;&gt;Ian Fleming&lt;/a&gt; himself portrayed M as a male officer, since in his time (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964), these type of jobs were typically handled by male.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_films&quot;&gt;Film series of James Bond&lt;/a&gt;, M was characterized by different great actors as male. But things changed with the emergence of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Rimington&quot;&gt;Dame Stella Rimington&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DCB (born 13 May 1935) is a British author, who was the Director General of MI5 from 1992 to 1996. She was the first female DG of MI5, and the first DG whose name was publicised on appointment. In 1993, Stella Rimington became the first DG of MI5 to pose openly for cameras at the launch of a brochure outlining the organisation's activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Judi came into the scene, Robert Brown was playing as M. But &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_%28James_Bond%29#Judi_Dench%3a_1995.E2.80.932012&quot;&gt;after a long period&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After the long period between Licence to Kill and GoldenEye, the producers brought in Dame Judi Dench to take over as the new M.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113189/trivia&quot;&gt;IMDB trivia shows&lt;/a&gt;, she was selected as M as the first female character because of the emergence of Stella Rimimgton's being the first major DG of MI5. Producers thought it would be nice to change the gender of M from male to female to keep in pace with the contemporary thinking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lois Maxwell, who played the character Moneypenny in Bond movies from 1962-1985, had made the suggestion of having M as a woman in 1985.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judi Dench is famous for acting as M, but Louis is also famous(other than her being Moneypenny) for making the suggestion to the producers. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/oct/01/guardianobituaries.film&quot;&gt;Link1&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.steynonline.com/617/mishing-moneypenny&quot;&gt;Link 2&lt;/a&gt; suggest the fact. She was the one who first thought of M being a female.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the way M was changed to female by introducing &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judi_Dench&quot;&gt;Judi Dench&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-11-28T16:51:31.797" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T16:51:31.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8270" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8273" CreationDate="2012-11-28T14:14:39.720" Score="3" ViewCount="3336" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_IV&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Saw 4&lt;/a&gt;, Art is a lawyer involved in a housing development project with John Kramer and Jill Tuck before the events that would turn John into Jigsaw. Art is targeted by Jigsaw for successfully defending guilty people in his role as lawyer, including Brenda (a pimp), Ivan (a rapist) and Rex (an abusive husband).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why was Art Blankin tested two times?&#xA;I mean he passed one test then he should be free, why did Jigsaw shedule a second task for him? It doesn't even fit into trend of assigning series of tasks .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T22:01:15.657" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T22:01:15.657" Title="Why did Jigsaw test Art Blank two times in Saw 4?" Tags="|plot-explanation|saw|saw-4|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8271" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-28T14:22:04.603" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fourth &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Saw&lt;/a&gt; film and a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequel#Midquel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;midquel&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_III&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Saw 3&lt;/a&gt;. The obsession of the &quot;Jigsaw&quot; character continues as he strives to teach people the &quot;value of their own lives&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story mainly follows SWAT commander &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Rigg#Daniel_Rigg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Daniel Rigg&lt;/a&gt; as he is put through a series of tests that revolve around his obsession of trying to save everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4001" LastEditorDisplayName="user4001" LastEditDate="2013-03-26T10:51:47.797" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T10:51:47.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8272" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-28T14:22:04.603" Score="0" Body="The fourth Saw film and a midquel to Saw 3. The obsession of the &quot;Jigsaw&quot; character continues as he strives to teach people the &quot;value of their own lives&quot;." OwnerDisplayName="user4001" LastEditorDisplayName="user4001" LastEditDate="2013-03-26T10:33:14.870" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T10:33:14.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8270" CreationDate="2012-11-28T14:26:24.687" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of the traps that makes the least sense in the series.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken in account that it was Gordon that sewed Trevor's eyes shut, and Hoffman does not know that Gordon is working with Jigsaw, we can determine this is a Jigsaw trap, probably one of his last as there is not even a tape at the beginning, the trap just starts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://sawfilms.wikia.com/wiki/Saw_IV&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;saw wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a later flashback, Art finds two items waiting for him elsewhere in the mausoleum: a recorded message from Jigsaw and an envelope containing instructions.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be determined, due to the new trend of having a person go through a series of tests for freedom, that this was part of that process, and Art was simply continuing with his series of tests that started out in the mausoleum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might also be possible that Hoffman didn't know the test even took place, looking into John's history and captured Art on his own accord in order to have someone as a Zepp-like pawn for his test against Rigg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T14:26:24.687" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8268" CreationDate="2012-11-28T14:34:36.777" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are so so many theories regarding the possible answer to your question. This question has been discussed plenty of times in different forums on the internet. So I see no extra room to come up with my own theories. Some of the theories I found after hitting Google are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sawfilms.wikia.com/wiki/Amanda_Young&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;First Theory:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1) During Saw IV, Amanda's ability to pick up the much heavier Allison Kerry's unconscious body into her trap near the beginning of the previous movie is questioned by the FBI, leading them to suspect that there may be a second Jigsaw apprentice. It is unknown how the FBI knew that Amanda was in fact an accomplice to Jigsaw at the time. It is most likely that Hoffman had previously revealed it to the departments to cover up the fact that he was an apprentice as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sawfilms.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:TeamHoffmanChick22/How_did_they_know?&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Several theory from the viewers&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2) Kerry told about Amanda after Daniel told her, but she never talked about it with anyone except the FBI (Kerry was liason working for the FBI).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;3) In Saw 2 , after Daniel Matthews' disappearance, when the FBI started to investigate the Tape, they found 6 dead bodies and Daniel Matthews in the Safe, However the eighth person was recognized as Amanda Young, when they could not track her, they came to conclusion that Amanda Young was the accomplice to Jigsaw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;4) Daniel Matthews told Amanda when Allison Kerry found him. And Allison Kerry only told it to Peter Strahm and Lindsey Perez, That explains why she knew that someone else was responsible for the death of Troy in Saw III.!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also explains that Allison Kerry, just before she died, was not surprised when she saw Amanda!!! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;5) They found fingerprints of Amanda on Troy's body or something else of the classroom trap! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.officialsawforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=1986&amp;amp;sid=9959246555697ce228e648b815e190f4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;And another theory :)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;6) I kinda think they found out through Daniel because after they found him they must have taken him to the hospital and then interviewed him, so he mentions Amanda and his feeling hit on the back. Then the FBI says, maybe&#xA;  she's an accomplice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;7) They watch a record from Saw 2. We can't see the end of the record, and I think they saw how Amanda drugged Daniel and took his body from the gas house. Saw 4 (when we know that FBI already knew about Amanda) is far later than Saw 2. All the magazines wrote about Jigsaw, as we've seen. So the police and FBI know about Amanda.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all great theories from Saw lovers. I have not stated any theories on my own. It is kind of a collection of theories, but I could not find any official response on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_IV&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although how the FBI knew that Amanda Young was an accomplice of Jigsaw, at this point in time this fact remains unexplained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-26T17:34:25.130" LastActivityDate="2016-07-26T17:34:25.130" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8275" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8281" CreationDate="2012-11-28T15:08:14.467" Score="8" ViewCount="410" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have heard several songs by different artists or bands which are used in their albums as well as in the movies. So sometimes I don't understand whether these songs are made for the films or they are bought by the producers legally after the artists made it for their albums? Do the producers sometimes sponsor the song on the album? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example 1: &quot;Love Story&quot; by Taylor Swift used in Letters to Juliet movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example 2: &quot;New Divide&quot; by Linkin Park in the end of one of the Transformers movies. (I cant remember exactly which part the song is used in).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how does the whole procedure work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-01-10T20:48:05.603" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T20:48:05.603" Title="Are these songs made for the movies or are they bought by the producers?" Tags="|soundtrack|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8276" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8277" CreationDate="2012-11-28T15:13:45.367" Score="8" ViewCount="13696" Body="&lt;p&gt;Help me settle a debate with my 5-year-old daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the children's show &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459161/reference/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Toopy and Binoo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, is Binoo a boy or a girl?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2023-07-02T08:58:36.317" LastActivityDate="2023-07-02T18:11:36.400" Title="In the children's show Toopy and Binoo, is Binoo a boy or a girl?" Tags="|character|toopy-and-binoo|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8276" CreationDate="2012-11-28T15:26:54.937" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://toopyandbinoo-season1and2.treehousetv.com/universe.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Treehouse TV refers&lt;/a&gt; to both characters as 'he'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Toopy is a mouse with a vivid imagination. &lt;strong&gt;He&lt;/strong&gt; transforms reality into a series of fantastic stories brimming with amazing creatures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Binoo, the tiny cat, is Toopy’s ideal companion. &lt;strong&gt;He&lt;/strong&gt; shares in the adventures with absolute wonder and untainted innocence, often outdoing Toopy in imagination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T05:30:54.747" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8278" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8279" CreationDate="2012-11-28T15:49:11.900" Score="29" ViewCount="34494" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a foolish (in my opinion) question asked on Scifi.SE &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/27298/is-james-bond-a-timelord&quot;&gt;Is James Bond a timelord?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;James bond keeps returning with a different face, albeit usually a similar one, and often operates with high-tech gadgetry that seem to be on par with the Doctor's sonic screw driver.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion each new actor represents a reboot of the franchise using the new face, not a continuation of the story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any continuity between versions of James Bond which change actors? I'm not talking about characters like M or Q, I'm talking about events or past advisories being referenced in a different Bond movie where the main actor was someone else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.873" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T06:35:23.643" Title="Is there any continuity between James Bond movies that have different actors portraying the title character?" Tags="|james-bond|continuity|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8278" CreationDate="2012-11-28T16:09:24.537" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first thing that comes to my mind is &lt;a href=&quot;http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Tracy_Bond&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tracy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Diana Rigg)&lt;/em&gt;, the woman Bond &lt;em&gt;(George Lazenby)&lt;/em&gt; marries in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064757/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;On Her Majesty's Secret Service&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Kxqx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tracy Bond&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/aks/themen/bond110_ga-1_pic-3.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The follow up film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066995/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Diamonds Are Forever&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; , shows James Bond &lt;em&gt;(Sean Connery)&lt;/em&gt; tracking down Blofeld in the pre-title credits, but it is only assumed that Bond is doing so out of revenge for Tracy's death. She is never mentioned by name in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Subsequent films also rarely mention Tracy or make reference to the fact that Bond was previously married.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076752/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Spy Who Loved Me&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Roger Moore), when Bond meets Anya Amasova in the Mujava bar, she recites facts of his life, including that he had been married once and that his wife was killed. Bond's eyes glaze over for a moment, then quickly changes the subject; Anya recognizes and comments upon Bond's unexpected sensitivity in talking about his late wife.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082398/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;For Your Eyes Only&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Roger Moore), Bond stands at her grave before boarding a helicopter which Blofeld has booby-trapped. It's actually in this sequence where Bond ultimately gets revenge for her murder, by impaling an uncredited Blofeld's wheelchair on one of the helicopter's skids and eventually dropping him (wheelchair and all) down a tall industrial smokestack. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jz3Fp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tracy Grave&quot;&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;(While she went by the name &quot;Tracy&quot; her real name was &quot;Teresa&quot;. The year of her death, 1969, is the release year of the movie &quot;On Her Majesty's Secret Service&quot;. She died at the end of that movie)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097742/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Licence to Kill&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Timothy Dalton), after Bond refuses to catch the garter of Felix Leiter's new wife, Della, Leiter makes a short, sad reference to the fact that Bond was married &quot;a long time ago&quot;. Nothing else is really said on the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113189/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;GoldenEye&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Pierce Brosnan), Alec Trevelyan asks Bond if he has &quot;found forgiveness in the arms of all those willing women for the dead ones you failed to protect?&quot; Although the statement could refer to several women in Bond's past (including Aki or Corinne Dufour), Tracy is obviously the most prominent woman he has &quot;failed to protect.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143145/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The World Is Not Enough&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Pierce Brosnan), Elektra King (whose father has been killed in the pre-credit sequence) asks Bond whether he has ever lost anyone 'that he truly loved'. Bond appears uncomfortable and does not answer the question, continuing with a different line of conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2012-11-28T16:21:59.747" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T16:21:59.747" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8278" CreationDate="2012-11-28T16:49:03.897" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;OliverC&lt;/em&gt; s answer is great. Just adding something to make it more informative. Searched the net and found an interesting note on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/007-films-and-their-sort-of-continuity-part-ii/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;continuity of the Bond film series&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1995 producer Michael G. Wilson in a fan convention in New york stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bond films weren’t one big film series but rather a “series of series.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;when asked about continuity of the series. They tried continuity in For your Eyes explicitly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Your Eyes Only, which had a pre-titles sequence that explicitly tied that movie to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, even giving Tracy Bond’s date of death as 1969, the same year OHMSS was released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The producers again showed continuity implicitly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brosnan’s tenure ended with 2002′s Die Another Day, which featured a scene where Brosnan’s Bond while talking to John Cleese’s Q (Desmond Llewelyn died following a 1999 car accident) is in a storage area full of props from earlier Bond movies. Brosnan even asks if the Thunderball jet pack “still works” while throwing a switch activating it. It’s hard to say, given the scene was part of the film’s “Where’s Waldo?” motif of providing homages to previous Bond movies throughout the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But producers decided to reboot the Bond series with Daniel Craig in after the end of Brosnan era.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brosnan was out, Daniel Craig was in and Eon opted to begin the saga all over again. In effect, Eon followed Warner Bros.’s strategy with Batman, rebooting the character in 2005 following a four-year series that ran 1989 to 1997. Wilson called it the “beginning of Bond”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.totalfilm.com/features/decade-s-best-casino-royale&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; Barbara Brocolli confirmed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TOTAL FILM: So… Bond is our Reboot Of The Decade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BARBARA BROCCOLI: Well, that’s wonderful! Thank you very much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the Casino Royale only we could say we saw a direct &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_films#Series_of_films_by_Eon_Productions&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;sequel&lt;/a&gt; Quantum of Solace, starting with the interrogation of Mr. White previously captured. So definitely The reboot is a continuous one, but previous movies were not shown directly to be &lt;strong&gt;continuous&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T16:49:03.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8275" CreationDate="2012-11-28T18:28:45.217" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no hard and fast rule. Sometimes the production will request a song from an artists specifically for the movie. Examples include Celine Dion's &lt;em&gt;My Heart Will Go On&lt;/em&gt; for &lt;em&gt;Titanic&lt;/em&gt;, and almost every James Bond theme song. Most of the times the production will just license existing songs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Creating a song specifically for a movie can get pretty expensive, especially when it's by a big name artist. So you almost only see it being done in big budget movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T18:28:45.217" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8282" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-28T20:04:46.380" Score="21" ViewCount="14697" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ending to me makes no sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Batman put his plane on auto pilot that was carrying the bomb away from the city, but they should be affected for many years to come just like Hiroshima.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How come there is no mention of people in Gotham city suffering from radiation poisoning due to the explosion? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3497" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-29T09:48:05.397" LastActivityDate="2020-08-28T17:30:25.627" Title="Why doesn't the bomb cause radiation poisoning to Gotham City?" Tags="|ending|realism|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8282" CreationDate="2012-11-28T20:47:05.960" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nci.org/02NCI/01/lyman-chat.htm&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is an interview with Edwin Lyman, PhD, scientific director for the Nuclear Control Institute, in November 2001.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Member Question:&lt;/strong&gt; What are the levels of radiation risk at 10 miles, 100 miles, 100,000 miles from ground zero? How far can the radiation travel? Is that based solely on wind direction?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Edwin Lyman:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, again one should distinguish between a nuclear weapon attack and an attack on a nuclear plant.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  For a nuclear power plant accident, the acute effects I described -- acute radiation sickness with a high chance of death -- would be limited to within 10 miles or less of the accident. This is partly the basis for the choice of 10 miles as the size of the emergency planning for U.S. plants. However, the plume would be carried by the wind and depending on atmospheric conditions could contaminate a large area and even hundreds of miles downwind there would be some significant contamination. This was seen after the Chernobyl accident, where large sections of Northern Europe did receive significant contamination and the aftermath was detectable all around the northern hemisphere.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The range of effects from a nuclear weapon is very strongly dependent on its yield and whether it was detonated on the ground or at some height above the ground. If we take the example of a terrorist crude nuclear device, let's say one-tenth or one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima yield (which would be about a 1,000 tons of TNT equivalent), the blast affects would be fairly limited in range, probably to less than one mile.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The direct radiation effects would be felt considerably farther and fallout would travel hundreds of miles, and that would be directly related to atmospheric conditions and wind direction. So, the extent does depend on a lot of factors, but the ultimate effect could be felt tens or hundreds of miles away. However, the farther one is from the site of detonation, the more time there is to take countermeasures.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bomb in The Dark Knight Rises was not a 'bomb' exactly.  It was a nuclear core built for a reactor, converted to be used as a bomb by Bane and his followers.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Bruce Wayne has 2 minutes to fly 'The Bat' away from Gotham.  Though there were words said between this and when he actually got in the cockpit, let's just assume he had the 2 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BATMAN:&lt;/strong&gt; Two minutes. I can fly it out over the bay... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jalopnik.com/5929486/these-are-the-real-planes-that-inspired-the-bat-from-the-dark-knight-rises/gallery/1&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; article says that 'The Bat' flight sequences were done by helicopters, so we can estimate the speed of The Bat with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter#World_records&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, the fastest helicopter(checked 11/28/2012) reached 250 mph in 1986, or a little over 4 miles per minute.  With modern engineering and the resources of Wayne Enterprises and with the goal of building one aircraft, not a large fleet of cost-effective aircraft, I think the speed would be able to get a little further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not convinced that Batman was able to carry the nuclear core far enough in the time provided to prevent the damage.  We don't really have enough information about the capabilities of &quot;The Bat&quot; or the specifics of the nuclear core depicted in the film.  There are also other factors that decide how far the radiation will travel (and over what period of time), and I don't know how heavily nuclear fallout has been researched.  I think this is just something we have to accept as a 'given' for the purposes of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the film ended right afterwards, so there may very well be some radiation poisoning that was just not shown.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3394" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T20:47:05.960" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8246" CreationDate="2012-11-28T22:28:09.103" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using the script search site &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.subzin.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Subzin&lt;/a&gt;, I found no instances of the phrase in use prior to 1959.  A naive search produced several candidates; I've listed them below.  All of these turned out to be either foreign films with English subtitles added later, or English language films incorrectly titled or incorrectly dated or both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Noored Kotkad&lt;/em&gt;: 1927 Estonian film.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Devil's Parade&lt;/em&gt;: 1930 musical, purported script actually was &lt;em&gt;The Devil Wears Prada&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Love Is On The Air&lt;/em&gt;: 1937 film, purported script referred to &quot;the internet.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;When The Lights Go On Again&lt;/em&gt;: 1944 film, purported script contains post-1959 references.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam&lt;/em&gt;: 1957 German film.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So barring new developments, the answer is still 1959, &lt;em&gt;Bat Masterson&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="843" LastActivityDate="2012-11-28T22:28:09.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8290" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-11-29T08:40:04.563" Score="2" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/237/what-detail-should-i-be-looking-for-in-leonard-in-memento-to-determine-the-plot&quot;&gt;What detail should I be looking for in Leonard in Memento to determine the plot?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I understood after watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_%28film%29#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Memento&lt;/a&gt;, Leonard got the no of the car of Teddy and forgot where did he get it from and continued investigating with it. He noted the no just because Teddy told him his name also stands for Johnny G. But Teddy informed him that &lt;strong&gt;Leonard had already killed the killer&lt;/strong&gt;, but he disbelieved him. Leonard had also jot down &quot;Don't believe in his lies&quot; under Teddy's picture because Teddy accepted not telling Leonard intentionally the truth that Teddy himself was a police officer working undercover. Later he also forgot why he wrote this for Teddy before killing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard was really crazy who gave purpose to his own life for living by investigating already settled case of rape and murder of his wife?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy was really his wife's killer?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T03:45:56.307" Title="Was Leonard Shelby really crazy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|memento|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2012-11-29T13:34:53.250" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="8293" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-29T10:53:20.243" Score="0" Body="Taken is a 2008 thriller in which Liam Neeson plays a former CIA operative who sets out to track down his daughter after she's been kidnapped by human traffickers." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-18T17:10:57.960" LastActivityDate="2013-08-18T17:10:57.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8294" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-29T10:55:39.540" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Hobbit is a series of three epic fantasy-adventure films: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/an-unexpected-journey&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;an-unexpected-journey&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;an-unexpected-journey&lt;/a&gt; (2012)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-desolation-of-smaug&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-desolation-of-smaug&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-desolation-of-smaug&lt;/a&gt; (2013)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/battle-of-the-five-armies&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;battle-of-the-five-armies&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;battle-of-the-five-armies&lt;/a&gt; (2014)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions concerning specific movies should also include those tags. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series acts as a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Links&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_(film_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34492" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-01-18T16:40:58.453" LastActivityDate="2017-01-18T16:40:58.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="8302" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-29T12:07:32.957" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-29T12:07:32.957" LastActivityDate="2012-11-29T12:07:32.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8303" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-29T12:07:32.957" Score="0" Body="The Ring is a 2002 American psychological horror film. It is a US remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film Ringu." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-29T12:29:47.863" LastActivityDate="2012-11-29T12:29:47.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8304" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-29T12:08:48.217" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Underworld: Awakening is a 2012 American 3D action horror film which is the fourth installment in the Underworld film series, with Kate Beckinsale reprising her role as Selene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld:_Awakening&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1496025/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/underworld_awakening&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rotten Tomatoes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1539" LastEditorUserId="1539" LastEditDate="2019-05-28T16:49:53.900" LastActivityDate="2019-05-28T16:49:53.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8305" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-29T12:08:48.217" Score="0" Body="Underworld: Awakening is a 2012 American 3D action horror film which is the fourth installment in the Underworld film series, with Kate Beckinsale reprising her role as Selene" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-11-29T13:02:49.020" LastActivityDate="2012-11-29T13:02:49.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8282" CreationDate="2012-11-29T16:26:50.523" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the ultimate answer to this question is: movie magic.  Movies are known to bend the laws of physics to meet their needs, Batman is no exception.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, look at how hard it was for the bat to even lift the bomb up, let alone fly fast with it.  He couldn't have gotten the bomb much more than a couple of miles out into the water before it blew up.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-11-29T16:26:50.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1925" CreationDate="2012-11-29T16:47:57.577" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My interpretation of this is that the planet he was on throughout the movie is the same planet he lands on in the end.  This has to be the case because of the Lincoln Memorial that states &quot;The memory of General Thade is enshrined forever&quot;.  There are no alternate Earths.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is much left to the imagination here (I didnt read books so I am only going by what I saw in the film) but you were led to believe that the apes and humans would live together in peace before Leo left to find the storm.  Somehow somewhere, something went terribly wrong.  There are no humans in the end scene which makes you think the apes took over again at some point...I think it's because Thade escaped the ship and took back over the planet...this time wiping out all humans.  Also Thade understood the &quot;power of invention&quot; as his father warned of the humans.  Once Thade took back over and killed all humans he embraced the idea of technology which is why you see apes in end scene as humans (fireman, police, weapons, etc).  It's the only thing that makes sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3505" LastActivityDate="2012-11-29T16:47:57.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8311" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8314" CreationDate="2012-11-29T18:45:21.857" Score="43" ViewCount="6787" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I am missing a key plot point here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bond had to fake-kidnap M and bring her to Skyfall in order to lure Silva there for one last stand. Why did this have to be a secret from his colleagues at MI6? Why couldn't there have been other agents there to help defend the house and take down Silva?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, why did he have to have Q lay a fake trail to get Silva to follow him to Skyfall when he was actually going there, and he wanted Silva to follow him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T15:03:21.410" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T15:03:21.410" Title="Why couldn't Bond have backup at the battle of Skyfall?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8311" CreationDate="2012-11-29T19:29:12.683" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As stated in the film Silva was always one step ahead of them. Bond implies that there was a mole at MI6, and if M put her safety in the hands of MI6 she would surely be killed by Silva.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only person Bond trusted at MI6 was Q, but he knew that no matter where he took M that Silva would quickly follow. So he asked Q to create a fake digital trail to take Silva on a wild goose chase, and this gave Bond time to escape to SkyFall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bond took M to SkyFall because he had no where else to go, and it was the last place anyone would look for them. While it might not make sense to hide from Silva at SkyFall. It was a good place for Bond to hide from MI6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure Q's job was to get Silva to SkyFall. I don't think Bond ever told him where they were going, and to ensure they were not tracked digitally they switched cars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Q was entering the data in the computer for Silvia to follow. There were three people (including Q) in the room at the time. One of them must have tipped Silvia off to Bond's location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Thugs show up at SkyFall without Silvia. It's possible they were there to search for Bond, and when they started fighting one of the might have contacted Silvia. This explains why he shows up later arriving via helicopter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2012-11-29T19:29:12.683" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8313" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8315" CreationDate="2012-11-29T20:48:43.820" Score="29" ViewCount="16102" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I understand &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyfall&quot;&gt;Skyfall&lt;/a&gt; correctly, James Bond's primary mission is to protect M from being killed by Silva -- despite this, near the end of the movie, M dies from a wound inflicted by Silva's men. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the movie, Bond had been tasked with preventing Silva's distribution of the names of MI6's undercover agents -- but Silva was able to begin distributing the names, resulting in the deaths of multiple undercover agents and a public inquiry into MI6. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Silva successfully detonated bombs in MI6 headquarters and in the London Underground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all this in mind, &lt;strong&gt;did James Bond fail his mission in &quot;Skyfall&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;? Bond managed to save his own life and to kill Silva, but virtually all of Silva's plan seemed to succeed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T15:03:14.193" LastActivityDate="2016-08-27T09:44:29.570" Title="Did James Bond fail his mission in &quot;Skyfall&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8311" CreationDate="2012-11-29T21:35:00.357" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I can remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Bond &quot;kidnaps&quot; M she says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Too many people are dying because of me.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bond suggests that they use Silva's desire to kill M to their advantage. M agrees to play the bait, but insists:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Just us, no one else.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bond then asks Q to create a &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;... trail of breadcrumbs impossible to follow except for Silva.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Q asks if this is &lt;em&gt;official&lt;/em&gt;, Bond answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Not even remotely.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Bond and M going &lt;em&gt;rogue&lt;/em&gt; explains why there are no reinforcements.&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What Bond didn't know was that &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt; had been sold when he was believed to have died. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Bond asks Kincade about the &lt;em&gt;gun room&lt;/em&gt; he learns that all the guns had been sold to a collector weeks ago (except for Bond's father's hunting rifle).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This explains why they had to &lt;em&gt;improvise&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-11-29T21:35:00.357" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8313" CreationDate="2012-11-29T22:05:54.447" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bond's official mission was to retrieve the hard drive with the names on it. When Q plugged the drive into his laptop it hacked MI6's network, and Silva escaped. Silva then tries to kill M, but Bond saves her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bond and M go to Skyfall where they fight Silva. Bond kills Silva, but M dies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think he was officially given a mission to protect M in the film, but M didn't want anyone else to die because of her. So they both left London to go to Skyfall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2012-11-29T22:05:54.447" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8361" CreationDate="2012-11-30T06:20:36.367" Score="15" ViewCount="55043" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bourne_Legacy_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Bourne Legacy&lt;/a&gt; starts with Aaron Cross climbing over the mountains until he reaches a rest station occupied by another agent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Aaron Cross first meets the agent he tells him he lost his medication, when in fact he hid the pills in his boot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other agent points out that he crossed the mountains in record time, but Aaron Cross said he had to because he lost his meds. Aaron Cross beat the record by 2 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Aaron Cross was 2 days ahead of schedule, had meds left in his pill case he had around his neck. Why did he hide them in his boot and lie that he lost them? I know he wanted more pills from the other agents locked stash, but what was Aaron Cross motivation for getting more pills to begin with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="211" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T15:50:51.830" LastActivityDate="2014-06-16T12:16:12.147" Title="Why does Aaron Cross lie about being out of medication?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-bourne-legacy|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8319" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-30T06:32:57.813" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Directed by Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire is set and filmed in India and depicts the story of Jamal Malik who participates in an Indian version of &quot;Who Want to Be a Millionaire?&quot; and answers questions at every stage correctly. After being accused of cheating, he tells the story of his life and illustrates how he was able to answer correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag can be used with &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/character&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/analysis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;analysis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;analysis&lt;/a&gt; etc. according to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Links&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slumdog_Millionaire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2018-01-29T11:12:45.023" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T11:12:45.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8320" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-30T06:32:57.813" Score="0" Body="Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film directed by Danny Boyle, It is an adaptation of the Vikas Swarup's novel Q &amp; A (2005) and based on the Indian Reality show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati'." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2018-01-29T11:12:45.023" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T11:12:45.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8321" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-30T06:35:58.923" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Last Airbender is a 2010 American fantasy adventure film written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It is based on the first season of the Nickelodeon animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender. The film stars Noah Ringer as Aang, with Dev Patel as Prince Zuko, Nicola Peltz as Katara, and Jackson Rathbone as Sokka.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Airbender&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T04:15:39.623" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T04:15:39.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8322" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-30T06:35:58.923" Score="0" Body="Live-action film adaptation of the first season of the Nickelodeon animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T04:15:39.623" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T04:15:39.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8323" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8362" CreationDate="2012-11-30T06:38:03.023" Score="23" ViewCount="354220" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Pi_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Life of Pi,&lt;/a&gt; Pi tells us two stories. One with the tiger (unrealistic) and one without the tiger (realistic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that he was metaphorically referring himself as the tiger who enters the forest (world) after being rescued.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is my thinking correct? can you explain me the ending?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end did Irfan Khan (older Pi/narrator) say that &quot;even God chose the first story&quot;? Does it mean that the first story was indeed real?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1948" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-14T23:01:04.890" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T23:04:28.977" Title="Which story is true at end of the movie &quot;Life of Pi&quot;?" Tags="|ending|life-of-pi|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8324" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-30T06:38:03.260" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T06:38:03.260" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T06:38:03.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8325" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-30T06:38:03.260" Score="0" Body="Sucker Punch is a 2011 American film follows the fantasies of a young woman who is committed to a mental institution, as she makes a plan to escape the hospital before suffering a lobotomy." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T07:20:47.097" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T07:20:47.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8326" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-30T06:41:52.000" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T06:41:52.000" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T06:41:52.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8327" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-30T06:41:52.000" Score="0" Body="Refers to the 1978 film Superman." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-02T00:09:19.540" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T00:09:19.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8328" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-30T06:57:22.280" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T06:57:22.280" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T06:57:22.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8329" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-30T06:57:22.280" Score="0" Body="Silent Hill is a 2006 live-action adaptation of the survival horror video game Silent Hill. " OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T07:20:50.403" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T07:20:50.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8331" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-30T07:17:22.587" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T07:17:22.587" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T07:17:22.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8332" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-30T07:17:22.587" Score="0" Body="Life of Pi is a 2012 American adventure drama film based on Yann Martel's 2001 novel of the same name" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T07:21:07.003" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T07:21:07.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8333" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-30T07:18:44.070" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Bourne Legacy&lt;/em&gt; is a 2012 American action, adventure, mystery film, directed by Tony Gilroy. It stars Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Scott Glenn, and more. It released USA-wide on August 10, 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full IMDb Storyline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The events in this movie take place around the same time as the events in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007). When a British reporter was writing an expose about Black Ops operations Treadstone and Black Briar, and the ones responsible for them are concerned. And when Jason Bourne, former Treadstone operative got the file on Treadstone and Black Briar and gave it to Pamela Landy who then passed it to the media. When the men behind Treadstone and Black Briar learn of this, they're concerned how this will affect other ops they have. They decide it's best to shut down all ops and make sure make everyone involved disappears. They try to take out Aaron Cross who is part of another op called Outcome, but he manages to survive. He then seeks out Dr. Marta Shearing who worked on him when he began. It seems part of the program is for all subjects to take medications but he has run out, which is why he seeks her. But someone tries to kill her. He saves her and she tells him, he should have stopped ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194173/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bourne_Legacy_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41249" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-29T21:02:30.920" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T21:02:30.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8334" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-30T07:18:44.070" Score="0" Body="The Bourne Legacy is a 2012 American action thriller film and the fourth installment in the Bourne film series, which is based on Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne series. " OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T07:21:00.730" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T07:21:00.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8335" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-30T07:28:43.560" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T07:28:43.560" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T07:28:43.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8336" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-30T07:28:43.560" Score="0" Body="The Bourne films are a series of action/thriller spy films based on the character Jason Bourne, a former CIA assassin suffering from extreme memory loss,created by author Robert Ludlum." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T13:24:58.920" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T13:24:58.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8337" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8354" CreationDate="2012-11-30T09:06:23.737" Score="10" ViewCount="8120" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracture_%282007_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fracture (2007)&lt;/a&gt;, when Beachum prosecutes with new evidences, Crawford is surrounded by defense attorneys from Wooton &amp;amp; Simms, the law firm from which Beachum got a job offer. My question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is the job offer part of Crawford's scheme?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes me think like this because of the following theory.&#xA;Crawford is incredibly rich and he can afford that, he planed for several months before the murder, investigating Beachum's background and by letting Wooton &amp;amp; Simms offer such a dream job to Beachum he can gain some advantages... And Nikki Gardner, Beachum's future boss at Wooton &amp;amp; Simms knows the scheme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not explicitly stated in Wikipedia article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got this implication also from Nikki's strange behaviors, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a) She told Beachum not to thank her when Beachum was excited about the luxury/comfy workplace at Wooton &amp;amp; Simms. It seemed she knew in advance that Beachum would lose the case and never had the chance to work at Wooton &amp;amp; Simms. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b) She told Beachum that he had only two weeks before flying to Chigago for a lawsuit (the client being a big corporation), while in normal case transition from criminal law to corporate attorney requires several months, that forced heavy pressures on Beachum, who was afraid to lose the opportunity.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;c) She refused to help when Beachum was trying to get a court order to keep Jennifer on life support, and said &lt;code&gt;It has nothing to do with Wooton &amp;amp; Simms&lt;/code&gt;. That is not a normal reaction when one is asked to offer help or someone will die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3513" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T19:51:53.710" LastActivityDate="2017-03-21T02:06:45.707" Title="What was the actual role of Wooton &amp; Simms in the plot?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fracture|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8318" CreationDate="2012-11-30T09:09:33.600" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Later in the movie we discover that some pills were a way to control agents.&#xA;Guess Cross lied to hide a couple of pills and protect himself in case of lack of medication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3514" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T09:09:33.600" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8339" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-30T10:04:36.030" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T10:04:36.030" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T10:04:36.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8340" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-30T10:04:36.030" Score="0" Body="Skyline is a 2010 alien invasion science fiction thriller film produced and directed by the Brothers Strause." OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="1100" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T11:35:53.950" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T11:35:53.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8323" CreationDate="2012-11-30T12:07:10.300" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;First let me tell you that the ending of the movie is intentionally kept dim because it is the main attraction part of the movie. There are a lot of successful movies where a question is kept alive intentionally through out the movie and never a perfect answer is given because public like mystery and they likes solving it themselves if no answer is given (like you are trying :) ). It is something that makes the movie healthy. I found some great piece of lines in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shmoop.com/life-of-pi/ending.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;web&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now for the BIG question: Which version do you believe? Do you think Pi, as young boy, comes up with fantastical tale to cope with an ugly truth? Or is it somehow not the point to decide what actually happened? That the beauty of the first story outweighs the believability of the second? On the one hand, Martel spends a good 200 pages developing the first story and about 7 on the second. The sheer volume, the proliferation of details, favors the first. On the other hand, the first story is also totally unlikely. We're not going to tell you which story to believe. Uncomfortable? Good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what made a brilliant contribution for the success of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even the author himself wanted to remain the mystery when asked about which is the true one. In this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/interpretations-of-reality-yann-martels-life-of-pi&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; he speaks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reality isn't just &amp;quot;out there&amp;quot;, like some block of cement: reality is an interpretation. In a sense we co-create our reality. And we do that all the time, every day. One day we wake up and we're in a great mood, the city we live in is a beautiful city, the next day it's an ugly city. That's just the way we interpret things. We're not free necessarily to choose the facts of our life, but there is an element of freedom in how we interpret them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So please dont try to analyze, just enjoy the story as it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with @ankit about the saying &amp;quot;and so it goes with God&amp;quot; reveals that this story might be true (again depends on you). Some hints the author gave himself too in the same interview:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I was trying to do in this book was try and discuss how we interpret reality - most secular readers will read the book and say 'Ah, okay, there's one story told and actually something else happened, and Pi 'invented' this other story to pass the time, or make his reality bearable. That's the secular. The other one, the more religious interpretation, would just be the story you're reading and that's what happened...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at the end, no confirmed answer is there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T23:04:28.977" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8343" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-30T12:19:24.910" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T12:19:24.910" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T12:19:24.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8344" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-30T12:19:24.910" Score="0" Body="A View to a Kill (1985) is the fourteenth spy film of the James Bond series, and the seventh and last to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T13:24:56.033" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T13:24:56.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8345" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-30T12:22:28.973" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dexter is an American television drama series that centers on Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the fictional Miami Metro Police Department (based on the real life Miami-Dade Police Department) who moonlights as a serial killer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0773262/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dexter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dexter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T11:46:03.727" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T11:46:03.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="8348" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-30T12:24:06.400" Score="0" Body="Pyaar Ka Punchnama (प्यार का‍ पन्चनामा) is a 2011 Hindi film  is the story of three bachelors who find girls whom they fall in love with and the twists and turns of the newly developing love stories." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T13:25:01.413" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T13:25:01.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8311" CreationDate="2012-11-30T12:31:48.323" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;He wanted &lt;em&gt;Q&lt;/em&gt; to make up a trail so that only &lt;em&gt;Silva&lt;/em&gt; can follow them and not the whole &lt;em&gt;MI6&lt;/em&gt;, who were of course also in search for &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; wanted to leave the rest of the government out of this, because they would make this whole thing a large bureaucracy act and in the end wouldn't allow &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt; to be used directly as bait. They would rather secure her and investigate this whole situation. This in turn would lead &lt;em&gt;Silva&lt;/em&gt; to hide again, resuming his evil doings (and maybe even publishing more agent names), until he one day comes up with another ingenious plan to kill &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; just wanted to end it. So he needed to act fast and the situation to look reasonably easy for &lt;em&gt;Silva&lt;/em&gt;, so that he confronts him in a direct fight, without going into recluse again and making evil plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T12:52:50.133" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T12:52:50.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="8351" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-30T12:44:47.207" Score="0" Body="The Expendables 2 is a 2012 American ensemble action film , sequel to the 2010 action film The Expendables." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T13:37:07.487" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T13:37:07.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8352" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-30T12:46:10.780" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T12:46:10.780" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T12:46:10.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8353" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-30T12:46:10.780" Score="0" Body="Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person/being." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T13:28:57.840" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T13:28:57.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8337" CreationDate="2012-11-30T12:55:40.140" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally think there might be two reasons behind the last scene of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) I take your argument very convincing. Crawford was awesome intelligent and careful (no explanation is needed for this statement). He is very rich. So he might have planted all these things in his super plan. The way he switched his gun with Nunallys, it needed thorough background search which he did. Even he played as his own attorney in such a case where attempt to murder is charged. When an intelligent guy like him took so much risk, it is easily understandable how much confidence he had on himself. So adding the factor of lucrative job from Wooton &amp;amp; Simms at the same time when the particular case was on, might have been an addition to the plan. We saw &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Beachum is busy, making preparations for his transition from criminal law to corporate attorney for Wooton &amp;amp; Simms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Crawford by using his money power got the information that Beachum is the one, who was going to fight him in the court. So to make him inattentive from the case by making him busy for Wooton &amp;amp; Simms might have been a plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) It is my personal opinion. I guess the last scene indicates two important facts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a) Crawford was confident the first time because the hearing went just like he wanted. The case was spoiled just where he knew it would be (the gun-switching trick). So he even dared to not take any attorney for him. But as soon as everything went out of his super-intellectual plan, he was frightened and he hired the top most law firm Wooton &amp;amp; Simms for saving his life. It depicts the fact without his plan, he was worthless and no less afraid than any normal truly spoiled criminal (rather say Brat).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b) If we see from Beachum's view, the last scene might signify that even after loosing his love for unfolding the truth, he did not stop standing for the truth and that led him to fight with his own ex-employer Wooton &amp;amp; Simms. But he did not hesitate or get fear to stand for the truth. That is the value some times an honest man has to pay in his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T10:41:56.497" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T10:41:56.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8355" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-30T13:10:56.560" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Good Wife is an American television legal drama that premiered on CBS on September 22, 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1539" LastEditorUserId="34317" LastEditDate="2018-04-16T11:48:46.793" LastActivityDate="2018-04-16T11:48:46.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8356" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-30T13:10:56.560" Score="0" Body="The Good Wife is an American television legal drama that premiered on CBS on September 22, 2009." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T13:37:04.413" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T13:37:04.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="8358" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-30T14:07:44.663" Score="0" Body="Fracture is a 2007 American crime-drama mystery film tells the story of a man who shoots his unfaithful wife and a young prosecutor trying to prevent him from manipulating the justice system to get away with the crime." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T14:13:33.480" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T14:13:33.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8359" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-11-30T14:38:58.040" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T14:38:58.040" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T14:38:58.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8360" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-11-30T14:38:58.040" Score="0" Body="Lost Girl is a Canadian supernatural crime drama television series that premiered on Showcase on September 12, 2010.It follows the life of a succubus named Bo, played by Anna Silk, as she learns to control her abilities, helps those in need, and discovers the truth about her origins." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-11-30T14:45:38.140" LastActivityDate="2012-11-30T14:45:38.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8318" CreationDate="2012-11-30T16:00:57.640" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aaron Cross was afraid of running out of his stock and reverting to the significantly less intelligent person he used to be. Later in the film Marta is asking why the meds are so important to him and he shows her a picture of himself and says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This was me... Was... My army recruiter was looking to make his quota. He added 12 points to my IQ... 12 Points to make the minimum...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He didn't have a substantial stash as it was anyways. He had only a few blue pills (the ones most important to him because of their intelligence enhancement) and no green pills (which he no longer needed, but he didn't know that). When he finally tracks down Marta he tells her he hasn't had a green pill for 50 hours. At that point he only has 1 or 2 blue pills left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He knew he was running out, that is why he told the agent he needed more. He also comes across as something of an addict. He'll do anything to get his fix; lie, cheat, murder, anything...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;+ Although the U.S. military does not test IQ they do administer the ASVAB, &#xA;which tests basic math and reading skills. There is a minimum score a &#xA;candidate is expected to get to enter into the military. &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T19:03:12.850" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T19:03:12.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8323" CreationDate="2012-11-30T16:22:58.750" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the start of the movie, the main character (as a boy) is intrigued by ideas from multiple religions, but his father says everyone must choose just one religion. So from the beginning, the core dilemma facing the main character involves his personal understanding of God. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This dilemma is resolved by the end of the film: when the main character shares the without-tiger version of what happened at sea, he explains that &lt;strong&gt;the with-tiger story is more pleasant than the real story -- just like believing in some kind of God makes life more pleasant, no matter which version of God one accepts.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his explanation, the narrator also matches each animal to its real-life equivalent:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;zebra is the Buddhist guy &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hyena is the cook &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;orangutan is the narrator's mother &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;tiger is the narrator himself, or more specifically, his animal nature, which was drawn out by the ordeal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-12-13T16:54:27.480" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T16:54:27.480" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8370" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8395" CreationDate="2012-12-01T01:56:37.277" Score="74" ViewCount="132369" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Matrix, why did Neo have magic powers in the real world? For example, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) Those scenes where he blows up those robots purportedly with his mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(2) That one where he has no eyes but can see. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3518" LastEditorUserId="3518" LastEditDate="2012-12-01T03:00:40.507" LastActivityDate="2018-02-26T15:38:35.733" Title="Why did Neo have powers in the real world?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix-revolutions|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8370" CreationDate="2012-12-01T04:37:17.870" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to force an explanation,the idea is that Neo is like an virus inside matrix same as one virus would be on your computer,but when Neo is unplugged/your pc powered off it can't pose any threat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the virus was so good,and your hardware(motherboard BIOS) poorly built/programmed...the virus could theoretically take control of your motherboard,and next time you boot up your PC it could overclock its voltage until it burns out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could partially explain how he would destroy the robots,and seeing the machines would be just your windows recognizing your new USB keyboard however windows won't run on powered off pc so they can't recognize anything but on the other hand Neo,unlikely the windows had an advantage of existing in both worlds(software/hardware).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He couldn't just beat up the robots like he did in matrix since there was much more effort needed,he had to implement the whole new hardware part to his strategy,which would also explain why he didn't do it more often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorUserId="65" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T01:17:37.903" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T01:17:37.903" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8375" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-01T08:01:53.840" Score="9" ViewCount="2278" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching the 11th series of &lt;em&gt;Top Gear&lt;/em&gt;, they seem to have a running joke about the Dacia Sandaro.  Does each series have a subtle (or not so subtle) gag or reference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastActivityDate="2021-05-24T14:21:31.700" Title="Are there running gags per series in Top Gear?" Tags="|top-gear|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8378" CreationDate="2012-12-01T08:31:41.233" Score="3" ViewCount="475" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several high-tech robots are shown in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Steel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Real Steel&lt;/a&gt;. Robots that can follow &lt;em&gt;voice commands&lt;/em&gt; and even having &lt;em&gt;shadow recognition&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;voice recognition&lt;/em&gt; there. I was wondering:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do these types of robots really exist today or will exist by 2016 (Remember Noisy Boy was defeated in Rubicon 2016)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not then how was the &lt;strong&gt;filming&lt;/strong&gt; of the movie done? It seemed so realistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T14:57:08.393" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T14:57:08.393" Title="How far advanced are today's robots with respect to those shown in Real Steel?" Tags="|film-techniques|realism|real-steel|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8376" CreationDate="2012-12-01T09:21:15.110" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fights in Real Steel are all computer animated, as it would be very costly to create and destroy the robots. In this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McK90j9GFds&quot;&gt;clip&lt;/a&gt; you can see some of the filming to which they add the robots later. They do have the robots but there are just props.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the technology, the different parts are all being developed but not yet ready to make fighting robots. Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voice recognition: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4D4kRbEdJw&quot;&gt;Siri&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Movement: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJmQqC1nHTU&quot;&gt;research&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Computer vision: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0pM1YUQtf0&quot;&gt;research&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Combining them is the next step but 2016 would be very soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-12-01T14:00:27.150" LastActivityDate="2012-12-01T14:00:27.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8313" CreationDate="2012-12-01T13:21:28.480" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;this has been bugging me too.  I loved the movie, but this plot issue has been rattling around my brain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, 007 seems to fail in every way possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He takes part in a botched operation where the hard drive is stolen. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He knows M has given the order to 'take the shot' because he is listening on his earpiece; but he fails to duck and is hit. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He fails his fitness test, pyschological test and firearms test&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He promises to protect the woman who introduces him to Silva - she dies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He assists Q when he plugs in the hard-drive that makes Silva's escape possible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He chases Silva but he gets away.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He takes M to Skyfall where he will protect her.  She dies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So does he fail his mission? That of, retrieving the hard drive. Technically, maybe, no.  But he certainly fails in everything else!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3521" LastEditorUserId="2119" LastEditDate="2014-09-29T07:38:20.867" LastActivityDate="2014-09-29T07:38:20.867" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8382" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8384" CreationDate="2012-12-01T16:45:47.860" Score="6" ViewCount="5856" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember some scene when someone connects to a computer and put on some glasses and gets some 3d interface or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I remember some kind of cube that he tries to open as some kind of encryption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure that there was chip implants there too&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3522" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-01T08:13:52.733" LastActivityDate="2016-07-26T01:50:09.710" Title="Chip implants in humans and an encrypted cube" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:39:52.043" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8382" CreationDate="2012-12-01T17:01:53.920" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogates_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Surrogates&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Willis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bruce Willis&lt;/a&gt;. It is a 2009 sci-fi film. Here the humans can connect to computers and wear glasses and they live within artificial robots where they look more beautiful and alive. The robots also had chips in their heads. Although I could not remember the cube scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-26T01:50:09.710" LastActivityDate="2016-07-26T01:50:09.710" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8382" CreationDate="2012-12-01T17:03:10.610" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could be any number of Virtual Reality movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/media/rm51296512/tt0113481&quot;&gt;Johnny Mnemonic (1995)&lt;/a&gt; with Keanu Reeves.  Johnny is an information courier, carrying data in a chip implanted in his head. It has several scenes with virtual reality glasses and connecting to networks etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-12-01T17:03:10.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8375" CreationDate="2012-12-02T02:39:41.123" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, some of the series have series-contained running jokes.  Wikipedia handily documents some of them on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_%28series_11%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Top Gear series-specific pages&lt;/a&gt;.  Series 11 has:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The series included running jokes appearing in each episode: Clarkson showing an image he claims to have found on &quot;the Internet&quot; which is censored for the television broadcast; and, in the news section, May appearing to feign enthusiasm whilst presenting a brief news item about the Dacia Sandero with no further discussion before they move on to the next item.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Series 12 has:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The running joke regarding the Dacia Sandero continues from series 11, with the alteration that Clarkson is now the one making the announcement with feigned enthusiasm, to utter indifference from May (instead of vice versa). Each news segment also features one of the hosts wearing something unusual, like slippers or a garishly patterned shirt. The only reference to this is that one of the other hosts will, at some point in the segment, ask if they're wearing it for a bet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the episode summaries comment on running jokes as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-12-02T02:39:41.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8388" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8393" CreationDate="2012-12-02T05:33:27.380" Score="13" ViewCount="27319" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is usual in films to use &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_persons_fictitious_disclaimer&quot;&gt;Disclaimer&lt;/a&gt; in it to reduce the possibility of legal action for libel from any person who believes that he or she has been libeled via their portrayal in the work (whether portrayed under their real name or a different name).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A sample disclaimer looks like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wording of this disclaimer differs from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and from country to country, as does its legal effectiveness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my question is if everybody knows that it is made to get saved from any legal action from the person, the movie indicated to, why are people allowed to use it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, I think the disclaimer is an intelligent lie. The whole plot is intentional. Sometimes we have also seen in movies that the president of different countries(specially USA) are shaded falsely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if different countries thinks they would sue them, can producers be saved from international law?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again if a renowned person thinks a movie falsely showed him, can he not sue him because of the disclaimer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is any example, please add them. It would be informative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2014-05-29T19:25:29.707" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T20:21:12.610" Title="Disclaimer of a movie: Can it really save the producers?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8389" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27632" CreationDate="2012-12-02T07:22:45.813" Score="14" ViewCount="213957" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are Dwight's &quot;&lt;em&gt;What is my perfect crime?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; lines in Season 5, Episode 8 titled &quot;Frame Toby&quot;, a reference to something? What is being referenced to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lines:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dwight:&lt;/strong&gt; What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffany's at midnight. Do I go for the vault? No, I go for the chandelier. It's priceless. As I'm taking it down, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop. It's her father's business. She's Tiffany. I say no. We make love all night. In the morning, the cops come and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in Mexico, but I go to Canada. I don't trust her. Besides, I like the cold. Thirty years later, I get a postcard. I have a son and he's the chief of police. This is where the story gets interesting. I tell Tiffany to meet me in Paris by the Trocadero. She's been waiting for me all these years. She's never taken another lover. I don't care. I don't show up. I go to Berlin. That's where I stashed the chandelier.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1248752/quotes?item=qt0502430&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1248752/quotes?item=qt0502430&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2013-04-27T13:27:08.200" LastActivityDate="2017-09-18T08:07:20.347" Title="Are Dwight's &quot;What is my perfect crime?&quot; lines in S05E08 - &quot;Frame Toby&quot; a reference to something?" Tags="|dialogue|reference|the-office|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8390" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-02T07:27:03.613" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Office is an American comedy television series broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). It is an adaptation of the previous BBC series of the same name. The Office was adapted for American audiences by Greg Daniels, a veteran writer for Saturday Night Live, King of the Hill, and The Simpsons. It is co-produced by Daniels' Deedle-Dee Productions, and Shine America, in association with Universal Television. The original executive producers were Daniels, Howard Klein, Ben Silverman, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, with numerous others being promoted in later seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. To simulate the look of an actual documentary, it is filmed in a single-camera setup, without a studio audience or a laugh track. The show debuted on NBC as a midseason replacement on March 24, 2005, and features Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, B. J. Novak and Ed Helms among the main cast. Series star Carell, who portrayed Michael Scott, left the series near the end of the seventh season. Since its debut, the show has aired 184 half-hour episodes and is currently airing its ninth season, which has been confirmed to be the series' last.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Office has received critical acclaim and has been included on several top TV series lists, and has also won several awards including four Primetime Emmy Awards, one of which for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2006. The series initially debuted to low ratings, but during its second season it became the highest-rated scripted series on NBC and was eventually chosen to follow Super Bowl XLIII. Off-network syndication of The Office began in late 2007, notably on TBS and Fox-owned stations in the United States.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Excerpted from: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_%28U.S._TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Office (U.S. TV series) Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_%28U.S._TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nbc.com/the-office/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Official website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2012-12-02T08:17:47.000" LastActivityDate="2012-12-02T08:17:47.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8391" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-02T07:27:03.613" Score="0" Body="The Office is an American comedy television series broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. To simulate the look of an actual documentary, it is filmed in a single-camera setup, without a studio audience or a laugh track." OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2012-12-02T08:17:53.303" LastActivityDate="2012-12-02T08:17:53.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8392" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8397" CreationDate="2012-12-02T10:11:44.390" Score="10" ViewCount="2370" Body="&lt;p&gt;Risk seems null when Raul Silva is isolated in a glass cage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z5yQL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Raul Silva in glass cage&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Silva nevertheless manages to break into the MI6 computer system at that moment. How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His prosthesis hides a tongue-controlled computer that connects wirelessly to his laptop&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He had programmed everything in advance (sounds impossible: MI6 just moved, so infrastructure has probably still changed a lot since his arrest)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is helped by his team (improbable: The movie seem to imply that only Q and Silva are hackers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2107" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T01:07:34.210" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T10:40:03.277" Title="Is Raul Silva's prosthesis a computer?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8388" CreationDate="2012-12-02T10:41:16.457" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, let me say this: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;do not take this answer as legal advice. I'm not a lawyer.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's analyze it a little bit. If you make a movie with that disclaimer and someone sues you, what's likely going to happen in court?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, it's true that things (especially legal things) change from country to country, and they change a great deal sometimes, but I think it's safe to assume that your lawyer could use this to help your case in court.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;If the president in your movie is corrupted, you're not necessarily saying that the real one is too.&lt;/em&gt; You just want to preserve your freedom of creation, by saying &quot;in my movie/story the president is corrupted&quot;, that's all. A movie should not be constrained by real world issues up to that point. Sure, there are some limits but those usually coincide with balance and common sense. Some TV series use this disclaimer, such as Cold Case or Law &amp;amp; Order. Unfortunately this is not what is always going to happen, and this is why if you're considering writing a book or making a movie, you should always make sure that the characters are unique enough, not only as characters per se, but also different from real life people that might consider themselves defamed by your work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if your movie is about a John Smith that robs a bank in New York, and you don't use the disclaimer, it's very likely every single John Smith will sue you for that. Using the disclaimer will improve your chances of avoiding lawsuits from every John Smith in the city.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;But, there's a but.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if the two entities (real person and character) share too many things that might have them associated, then the director/creator might face legal consequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Creating a character and changing the name might not be enough&lt;/strong&gt;, as there are many things that could help people associate two people that share other details: social background, ethnicity, particular episodes, appearance, job, etc. If someone knows the person you took inspiration from and, basing on details in the book, they can identify that person in that character you can end up being in trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why the disclaimer is useful but doesn't make anyone invincible. And it should be clear that &lt;strong&gt;the disclaimer doesn't deny people from suing you&lt;/strong&gt;. It can definitely happen, but it can be useful both before lawsuits (people won't care, after all, you said all characters are fictional), and during lawsuits. Yes, it should be used because it helps, but only meaning that it might help you in case of lawsuits, not that people will be 100% prevented from suing you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read a bit more about it in its relevant &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_persons_fictitious_disclaimer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;. To reiterate, the page states that it &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;is done to reduce the possibility of legal action for libel from any person who believes that he or she has been libeled via their portrayal in the work (whether portrayed under their real name or a different name)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;however, very important (emphasis mine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The wording of this disclaimer differs from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and from country to country, &lt;strong&gt;as does its legal effectiveness&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a &lt;a href=&quot;http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/law-order-faces-a-case-of-libel-in-fiction/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lawsuit filed against Dick Wolf&lt;/a&gt; shows, we can see that such a disclaimer won't protect you and won't deny people from suing you if they deem it necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastEditorUserId="1319" LastEditDate="2013-05-26T09:08:18.140" LastActivityDate="2013-05-26T09:08:18.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8388" CreationDate="2012-12-02T10:47:03.657" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/business/media/04portrayal.html?_r=0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The New York Times&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; asked that question about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mark Zuckerberg&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Social Network&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... how can filmmakers take liberties with the story of a living person, and does that person have any recourse if the portrayal upsets him? After all, many movies run a legal disclaimer in the credits that says, &lt;em&gt;“Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.”&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When it comes to public figures, lawyers say, appropriating someone’s life story for a movie is not so different from telling such details in a news article or printed biography.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Floyd Abrams, a leading First Amendment lawyer, says &lt;em&gt;“&lt;strong&gt;a moviemaker is not going to get less protection than a journalist&lt;/strong&gt;. If they’ve got sources and depositions and the like, and they use it in a reasonably fair way, they are likely protected.”&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Eugene Volokh, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, law school, said that &lt;strong&gt;if Mr. Zuckerberg sued and was declared a public figure, he would then &lt;em&gt;“have to show that the filmmakers knew the statements were false, or were reckless about the possibility of falsehood.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenwriter &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0041864/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John August&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; puts &lt;a href=&quot;http://johnaugust.com/2003/fictional-events-disclaimer&quot;&gt;it this way&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;em&gt;non-public&lt;/em&gt; figures:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Let’s say the movie has an evil drug dealer named Joe Thompson. If some guy named Joe Thompson in Wayzata, Minnesota decides the movie has defamed him and tries to sue, the studio can point to that disclaimer and say, &lt;em&gt;&quot;Look, we said this character wasn’t based on anyone.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter12/12-b.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stanford University - What Good Are Disclaimers?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When using a person’s name or image, some businesses attempt to avoid liability for breaching a person’s publicity or privacy rights by providing a disclaimer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A disclaimer by itself will never shield a business from liability.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; This is about disclaimers in general, not just in movies.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/thr-esq/top-10-legal-disclaimers-hollywood-96858&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Hollywood Reporter&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; made a list of the &lt;strong&gt;Top 10 legal disclaimers in Hollywood History&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;This production has not been approved, endorsed or authorized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; -- &lt;strong&gt;The X-Files&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;All characters and events in this show —even those based on real people— are entirely fictional. All celebrity voices are impersonated ... poorly&quot;&lt;/em&gt; -- &lt;strong&gt;South Park&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;[click the link above for the full list]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is certainly possible to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_litigation&quot;&gt;sue internationally&lt;/a&gt;, but I feel like the details about that subject are out of scope for &lt;em&gt;Movies.SE&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2012-12-02T11:10:02.560" LastActivityDate="2012-12-02T11:10:02.560" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8370" CreationDate="2012-12-02T11:03:36.043" Score="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main explanation I've seen, and that seems to be pretty official, was that the plug thing Neo has in the back of his head worked as a wireless device. Well, as you will read below, this isn't actually specified like this, but since the source speaks of the &amp;quot;brain becoming a  wireless connection&amp;quot;, it seems the safest thing to assume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, no magic is involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242653/faq?ref_=tt_faq_sm#.2.1.10&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB FAQ page for Matrix Revolutions&lt;/a&gt;, we see the question: &lt;em&gt;What explanation does the movie give for Neo now having his powers in the real world?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the answer is (emphasis mine).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The machines in the real world are all connected to a &amp;quot;singular consciousness&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, the birth of Artificial Intelligence described by Morpheus in the first Matrix film. This consciousness is otherwise known as &amp;quot;The Source&amp;quot;. &lt;strong&gt;The machine connection is a remote one or some sort of wireless signal. Having touched The Source (i.e. meeting with the Architect) and having the data needed to reboot the Matrix, Neo is, at this point, simultaneously in possession of his human brain but also connected to the singular consciousness.&lt;/strong&gt; In other words, his is also now a wireless connection. Hence the reason Neo says, &amp;quot;Something's different. I can feel them.&amp;quot; The machines are all separate entities but all connected to this one Source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now, Neo is connected as well. He is thereby able to harness this power and stop the Sentinels.&lt;/strong&gt; However, Neo wasn't ready to handle the signal surge at the end of Reloaded and collapsed in a comatose state, no longer in control of just where this wireless signal would be directed. The signal (Neo's residual self-image) is then captured and held in a program limbo derived from the Source but undetected as an existing realm, so to speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This limbo (the &amp;quot;Mobil Ave&amp;quot; train station) was created by the Trainman (Bruce Spence), a program in service to the Merovingian (Lambert Wilson). &lt;strong&gt;This connection forged by Neo's visit to the Architect (Helmut Bakaitis) and his subsequent decision to return to the real world made him, unknowingly, unique.&lt;/strong&gt; Neo became simultaneously human and machine in a sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-10-17T22:34:10.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8392" CreationDate="2012-12-02T13:23:34.727" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the breakout, Bond realises Silva had planned everything in advance. He knew that MI6 would retreat to the tunnels after the bombing. He then planted his computer virus that takes over Q's framework while Q tries to hack Silva's code. This is further supported by the fact that Q acknowledges that Silva is a master hacker. Silva had the tools to program an attack on MI6 without him having to push any extra buttons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Option 1 seems unlikely as no real indication of it is seen in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2012-12-02T13:23:34.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8392" CreationDate="2012-12-02T13:31:35.213" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In fact it wasn't Silva who hacked into the MI6 system but Q, when he plugged in the hard drive they obtained from Silva. Silva planned all this in advance. When causing an explosion right inside the MI6 headquarters, he forced them to move to this old bunker (since he knew their security protocols). And he also knew they would try to access the hard drive, so he made the password easy enough to guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also explained in the movie, when Silva escaped and they realize that all of this (including his capture, of course) was planned out perfectly by him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-10T10:40:03.277" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T10:40:03.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="903" CreationDate="2012-12-02T15:06:11.190" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am just going to repeat the lines for the consistency of the answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;, the scene is described as: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Erika destroys the musical prospects of an insecure but talented girl, Anna Schober, driven by her jealousy of the girl's contact with Walter — and also, perhaps, by her fears that Anna's life will mirror her own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the only reason why Erika broke Anna's hand. From the start of the movie, we saw how Erika had lived her life, and we saw the psychology of a &quot;sexually repressed&quot; woman. She wanted a partner in her mid 40s to fulfill her dream of a fetish relationship. In the meantime Walter emerges into the scene. She was attracted to his charming nature and she could not resist herself from thinking of Walter. Although she tried to let herself understand, this is not right, but she barely could stand the attraction in her mind. So when she saw Anna with Walter, she became envious and that is why(only) she planned to break her hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I am not convinced by the fact that she did it because she was a perfectionist and she was not happy with the performance. If Erika had such a personality, she would have spoiled many students' lives until then. Those accidents in turn would harm the reputation of her class. Parents would be frightened to send their children there and no teacher wants such a thing to happen. So I think &lt;strong&gt;only the romantic activity with Walter&lt;/strong&gt; led Anna's hand to be broken by Erika.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-25T18:02:22.467" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T18:02:22.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8399" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8401" CreationDate="2012-12-02T16:26:01.697" Score="11" ViewCount="8561" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the incident which caused Leonard's condition in &lt;em&gt;Memento&lt;/em&gt;, he cannot remember anything more than a few minutes old, other than the events before that incident. Yet, he remembers his condition?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-11T20:08:56.233" LastActivityDate="2021-09-05T19:06:53.513" Title="How does Leonard know about his condition?" Tags="|plot-explanation|memento|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8400" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-02T16:38:11.363" Score="38" ViewCount="36740" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Breaking Bad series 3, Gus organises a whole high-tech lab so Walt can make large volumes of his high quality crystal meth. The lab comes with a competent and reliable assistant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Walt contrives a feeble excuse to dump the assistant and bring back the somewhat unreliable Jesse. The excuse that he can't work together because of technical competence  isn't very convincing and there is no obvious personality clash (in fact early on Walt overcomes his early suspicions and the two then seem to get on well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is motivating Walt to dump a reliable assistant for an unreliable partner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T17:41:11.380" Title="Why does Walt want to retain Jessie as his partner?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8399" CreationDate="2012-12-02T16:54:30.717" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leonard cannot remember his condition. Sometimes he even forgets what he is doing at the moment. Remember the scenes when he is running because he is being chased or when he drinks the beer with spit in it. He just suddenly loses any clue why is he doing something. After the accident, he said he cannot store &lt;strong&gt;recent memories&lt;/strong&gt;, but he can remember everything before the accident. He has to be reminded of the incident (he does it by viewing his tattoos, notebook, etc). His tattoos reminds him of everything - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/faq#.2.1.31&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;about the condition&lt;/a&gt;. Look carefully:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Left Hand (0:06:50) &quot;remember Sammy Jankis&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He remembered Sammy Jankis, who had a special condition. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Left Forearm (0:11:30) &quot;THE FACTS&quot; Circling his neck in mirror image: &quot;JOHN G. RAPED AND MURDERED MY WIFE&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He remembers the accidents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Right Bicep: &quot;CONSIDER THE SOURCE&quot; and &quot;MEMORY IS TREACHERY&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By remembering Sammy Jenkins, he remembers he has a similar condition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Upper Abdomen (Upside-down): &quot;condition yourself&quot; Lower Left Ribcage (Upside-down): &quot;DON'T TRUST&quot; and &quot;HIDE YOUR WEAKNESS&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He now confirms his weakness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;13-17) Lower Right Ribcage (Upside-down): &quot;buy film&quot; {Tattoo is in script}, &quot;CAMERA DOESN'T LIE&quot;, &quot;NOTES CAN BE LOST&quot;, &quot;HABIT &amp;amp; ROUTINE&quot;, and &quot;LEARN BY REPETITION&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He reminds himself how he can try to remember things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the way he reminds himself about his condition and the other facts he is looking for. Sam Jankis is a fictional character through which he remembers he has the condition. Sammy is a character from Leonard's memory where the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/faq#.2.1.11&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;memory of Leonard and Sammy is mixed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The movie seems to suggest that the &quot;Sammy story&quot; that Leonard tells is a mixture of real Sammy memories from Leonard, recollections of Leonard about things that happened to him as well as Sammy, projections of things that happened to Leonard but did not happen to Sammy, and some confabulation (common among people with memory problems) of things that Leonard makes up to fill in the gaps. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-26T06:24:40.790" LastActivityDate="2016-07-26T06:24:40.790" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8400" CreationDate="2012-12-02T17:49:52.510" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walt is clearly a manipulator. He controls most, if not all, of the facets of his life - his wife, her sister, her sister's law enforcement husband. He controls Jesse, his former science partner and his ex-partner's wife, even the school principal for a while. All this took a large part of his time to construct, and a sizeable amount of effort and attention to keep together. I believe that Walt saw Gale as a wild card, something that was to be intrinsic to his existence, but something he didn't design for. Like juggling too many balls, his belief would be that he would not be able to convincingly control Gale; he had to go. But the contract with Gus needed 200 pounds per week, and the lab work required two people for that amount - Jesse remained his partner, not by preference, but by default. The real factor that cemented Walt and Jesse together was the threat to both their lives from Gus, thus requiring elimination of Gale to leave themselves as the defacto meth kings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-12-02T17:57:48.363" LastActivityDate="2012-12-02T17:57:48.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8400" CreationDate="2012-12-02T21:32:10.530" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happens in the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/breaking-bad-recap-episode-7-one-minute-delivers-a-buzzing-mid-season-climax-but-at-the-expense-of-realism/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;One minute&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hank has a meltdown and beats the crap out of Jesse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bRlH6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Hank vs Jesse&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jesse ends up in the hospital and is majorly pissed. He wants to destroy Hank through a lawsuit and he also threatens to rat out Walt if he ever gets arrested by the police.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XVxw1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jesse and Walt&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Walt tries to make amends and offers Jesse a job partnership that is worth $1.5 million &lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Walt gets rid of Gale so he can offer Jesse the job)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jesse blows Walt off at first, but later calls him and agrees to a 50/50 partnership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTWowlMCa1c&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watch a recap of the epiosde&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-12-02T21:32:10.530" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8405" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-03T07:23:28.253" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T07:23:28.253" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T07:23:28.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8406" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-03T07:23:28.253" Score="0" Body="Real Steel is a 2011 American science fiction sports drama film based in part on the 1956 short story &quot;Steel&quot; by Richard Matheson." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T11:28:17.017" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T11:28:17.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8407" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-03T07:45:43.320" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T07:45:43.320" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T07:45:43.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8408" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-03T07:45:43.320" Score="0" Body="The Matrix Revolutions (2003) is the third and final movie in the Matrix trilogy, directed by the Wachowski brothers." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T16:35:59.553" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T16:35:59.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8400" CreationDate="2012-12-03T08:02:26.053" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;An unemployed Jesse is the biggest threat imaginable to Walt (at least in season 3). Walt has an extremely  low estimation of Jesse's discipline.  This feeling is amplified by Jesse's drug use which Gus points out at their first meeting. After Jesse threatens Walt from the hospital bed (the &quot;get out of jail free card&quot; speech) it's clear that Walt has to either kill Jesse or keep him employed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At which point the question becomes Gale or Jesse. One of them has to die: Gale, to free the job for Jesse or Jesse,  to keep him quiet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why kill Gale? By the time it came to the killing there was really no choice but even beforehand you could anticipate it. Gale is almost as good as Walt. So close that it becomes difficult to justify keeping Walt around (especially with someone like Jesse floating around in the background). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even before the kid killing forced Walt's hand, it was clear: he had to re-employ Jesse whatever the costs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="538" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2014-01-27T12:24:24.300" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T12:24:24.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8410" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8502" CreationDate="2012-12-03T09:20:15.540" Score="33" ViewCount="35666" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes we see a mask is used by an actor of a film by which he drastically changes his face. I was under the impression that only after plastic surgery one can change his face. I stumbled upon this question while watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285241/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Don2&lt;/a&gt;. Here it is shown &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0451321/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shahrukh Khan&lt;/a&gt; changes his face drastically by using such mask to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004335/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hrithik Roshan&lt;/a&gt;s face. I believe such mask does not exist because from IMDB I found Hrithik had a special appearance(I believe only for the face changing scene) in that movie. I am posting the screenshots to make you guys more clear about which mask I am talking about. Here Don i.e. Shahrukh Khan opens the mask:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MbMJQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Hrithiks Face&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hrithiks Face&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sx2bP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Opening the mask&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Opening the mask&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k9Sfq.png&quot; alt=&quot;SRK showing his face&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SRK showing his face&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember similar masks were shown in MI 2 and 3. So how is this scenes done if the mask is not real?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T12:09:08.313" Title="Is this mask really possible?" Tags="|film-techniques|realism|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8392" CreationDate="2012-12-03T10:51:47.180" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is option 2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The physical infrastructure had changed but the way computers work had not.  They still had the same systems, they either had backups, brought the physical machines across, or accessed them in the cloud.  Either way Silva had deep knowledge of MI6, it's procedures and it's capababilities.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, he was a spy and master hacker so he almost definitely had accessed and read all kinds of things when he was at MI6 that he was not supposed to.  Look how Bond hacks M's password etc.  Imagine how much more a master hacker could do with the computer networks, no information would be safe!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T10:51:47.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8412" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8507" CreationDate="2012-12-03T12:14:34.530" Score="3" ViewCount="2023" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Ben 10 Omniverse there are so many continuity issues i observed But the main issue is with his new watch, Is there anything mention in any episode which i have missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean how can this new watch can exists with the old Ultimatrix plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any official clarification about it ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-05T15:32:04.433" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T08:26:58.623" Title="How the new Omnitrix watch connected to the old Ultimatrix plot?" Tags="|plot-explanation|continuity|ben-10|ben-10-omniverse|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8414" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-03T12:34:20.227" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T12:34:20.227" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T12:34:20.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8415" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-03T12:34:20.227" Score="0" Body="Ben 10 is an acclaimed American media franchise created by &quot;Man of Action&quot; and produced by Cartoon Network Studios. The franchise is about a boy who acquires a watch-like alien device called the Omnitrix (later the Ultimatrix) that allows him to turn into alien creatures" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T12:39:38.160" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T12:39:38.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8417" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-03T13:53:18.613" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T13:53:18.613" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T13:53:18.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8418" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-03T13:53:18.613" Score="0" Body="Ben 10: Omniverse is an American animated television series. The series is the fourth installment in the Ben 10 franchise." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T14:05:06.433" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T14:05:06.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8419" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-03T14:01:47.347" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T14:01:47.347" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T14:01:47.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8420" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-03T14:01:47.347" Score="0" Body="Tron: Legacy is a 2010 American science fiction film released by Walt Disney Pictures. Its a  sequel to the 1982 science fiction film Tron," OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T14:05:13.080" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T14:05:13.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8421" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-03T14:06:56.617" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T14:06:56.617" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T14:06:56.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8422" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-03T14:06:56.617" Score="0" Body="Arrow is an American action-adventure television series based on the fictional character Green Arrow, a costumed crime-fighter who appears in comic books published by DC Comics." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T14:15:54.517" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T14:15:54.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8423" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-03T16:38:34.977" Score="5" ViewCount="2361" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know, the guy who is advising M for a while during beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; wanting her to resign and such.&#xA;He sure seemed evil to me and my friends and I had a debate about this... So is he a good guy or bad guy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3531" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T01:07:07.157" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T01:07:07.157" Title="The guy who takes over M's position in Skyfall, is he evil or good?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8423" CreationDate="2012-12-03T17:07:28.010" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think his character is a red herring: early, he seems like he might be a bad guy who wants to destroy MI6 -- but by the end of the movie, &lt;strong&gt;his actions (particularly during the courthouse shooting scene, when he has a chance to shoot good guys but instead shoots bad guys) suggest he is looking out for England's best interests, just like Bond and M&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2014-06-26T00:03:01.143" LastActivityDate="2014-06-26T00:03:01.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8425" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-03T17:19:27.197" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This tag should be used for questions about specific pieces of a work's spoken word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dialogue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T09:37:29.747" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T09:37:29.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8426" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-03T17:19:27.197" Score="0" Body="Questions related to specific pieces of a work's spoken word." OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T09:44:27.070" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T09:44:27.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8427" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-03T17:21:01.317" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T17:21:01.317" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T17:21:01.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8428" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-03T17:21:01.317" Score="0" Body="To be used for general questions about the intricacies of franchises spanning multiple movies. Not to be used for questions about a specific movie and its franchise." OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-16T11:31:43.407" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T11:31:43.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8429" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-03T18:09:45.990" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T18:09:45.990" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T18:09:45.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8430" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-03T18:09:45.990" Score="0" Body="Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It is based on the fairy tale La Belle et la Bête" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T18:09:58.143" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T18:09:58.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8431" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10186" CreationDate="2012-12-03T19:13:40.850" Score="5" ViewCount="1629" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Spy Game, when Tom Bishop was a sniper in Vietnam, he had a partner (his spotter) who, as far as I can tell, is named Tran, played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0938950/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Benedict Wong&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AQ0c2m.png&quot; alt=&quot;spotter in Vietnam&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, he does a &quot;rogue&quot; operation in China, where he has a couple of assisstants (some of whom may be real doctors), but one guy in particular who is in radio communication with him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mcqMZm.png&quot; alt=&quot;&amp;quot;Doctor&amp;quot; in China&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't figure out who this guy is, and I wondered if it might be Bishop's old buddy. It really doesn't look like the same person -- eyebrows and noses seem way different -- but there's also almost no good shots of Tran, and precious few of this fellow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any information about this character? Is he the &quot;Li&quot; listed in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266987/fullcredits#cast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;credits&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1353" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2014-05-16T15:26:31.580" LastActivityDate="2023-07-21T23:23:54.867" Title="Who's Tom Bishop's support in China? Is it the same guy he worked with in 'Nam?" Tags="|character|spy-game|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8432" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8433" CreationDate="2012-12-03T19:43:58.087" Score="5" ViewCount="489" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking to identify a television show that I saw a long time ago.  I believe the show was from the 80's but may have been even from the late 70's.  It involved people living/working on a game preserve or national park in (what I assume is) Africa.  I believe it was 2 scientists, with a chimp and, the most unique character, a cross-eyed lion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode/scene that I have stuck in my head is where one of the scientist is trying to improve the lion's eyesight by feeding it carrots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3416" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T19:58:02.727" Title="Television show with a cross-eyed lion" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:52:50.660" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8432" CreationDate="2012-12-03T19:52:53.543" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is Daktari, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daktari&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059977/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=daktari&amp;amp;oq=daktari&amp;amp;gs_l=youtube.3...0.0.0.68475.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1ac.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;some scenes at youtube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132" LastEditorUserId="132" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T19:58:02.727" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T19:58:02.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8434" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-03T21:44:22.757" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T21:44:22.757" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T21:44:22.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8435" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-03T21:44:22.757" Score="0" Body="Spy Game is a 2001 American spy film directed by Tony Scott and starring Robert Redford and Brad Pitt." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T23:32:32.130" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T23:32:32.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8436" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-03T21:48:28.147" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T21:48:28.147" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T21:48:28.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8437" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-03T21:48:28.147" Score="0" Body="The Others is a 2001 psychological horror film, inspired partly by the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T18:21:20.360" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T18:21:20.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8438" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-03T22:07:23.267" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T22:07:23.267" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T22:07:23.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8439" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-03T22:07:23.267" Score="0" Body="RED is a 2010 American action-comedy film inspired by the limited comic book series of the same name created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, and published by the DC Comics imprint Homage." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T23:32:19.853" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T23:32:19.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8440" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-03T22:08:45.467" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T22:08:45.467" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T22:08:45.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8441" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-03T22:08:45.467" Score="0" Body="RED is a 2010 American action-comedy film inspired by the limited comic book series of the same name created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, and published by the DC Comics imprint Homage." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T23:53:12.403" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T23:53:12.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8442" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-03T22:10:45.723" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T22:10:45.723" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T22:10:45.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8443" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-03T22:10:45.723" Score="0" Body="Intruders is a Spanish film directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and written by the Spanish duo Nicolás Casariego and Jaime Marques." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T23:32:11.757" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T23:32:11.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8444" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-03T22:12:07.123" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T22:12:07.123" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T22:12:07.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8445" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-03T22:12:07.123" Score="0" Body="Dog Soldiers is a 2002 British horror film written and directed by Neil Marshall, and starring Kevin McKidd, Sean Pertwee and Liam Cunningham." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T23:33:12.413" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T23:33:12.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8446" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-03T22:12:44.097" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T22:12:44.097" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T22:12:44.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8447" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-03T22:12:44.097" Score="0" Body="Neil Marshall (born 25 May 1970) is an English film director, editor and screenwriter. Marshall began his career in editing and in 2002 directed his first feature film Dog Soldiers." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T23:32:26.610" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T23:32:26.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8448" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-03T22:17:27.080" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T22:17:27.080" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T22:17:27.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8449" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-03T22:17:27.080" Score="0" Body="Sam Raimi's Spider-man Trilogy consisting of Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007)." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-11-20T10:19:17.300" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T10:19:17.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8450" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8512" CreationDate="2012-12-03T22:30:09.450" Score="8" ViewCount="32992" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic_River_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Mystic River&lt;/a&gt;, Sean and Whitey don't have a clue about the real killers of Katie until they finally listen to the 911 tape. Sean notices that the caller refers to the victim as a she, although he couldn't know that the victim is a girl since he saw only the car and the body was dumped in the park. This tells Sean that the caller probably knew more about the case - but how did they make the connection to Silent Ray and his friend Johnny? Not once in the movie do we see them being in contact with the police and they didn't give their names either...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3533" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T22:49:59.147" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T17:40:45.997" Title="In Mystic River, How did listening to the 911 tape solve the case?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mystic-river|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8451" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-03T22:54:37.093" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mystic River is a 2003 American mystery crime drama movie revolving around a group of three friends whose lives are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag can be used with &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/character&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/analysis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;analysis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;analysis&lt;/a&gt; etc. according to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Links&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic_River_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327056/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2018-01-29T11:48:40.953" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T11:48:40.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8452" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-03T22:54:37.093" Score="0" Body="Mystic River is a 2003 American drama film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood, starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney and Emmy Rossum." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T23:32:46.563" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T23:32:46.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8453" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-03T23:20:23.410" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T23:20:23.410" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T23:20:23.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8454" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-03T23:20:23.410" Score="0" Body="Super 8 is a 2011 American science fiction-thriller film written and directed by J. J. Abrams and produced by Steven Spielberg. " OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-03T23:33:02.443" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T23:33:02.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4483" CreationDate="2012-12-03T23:56:57.270" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie itself provides two exhibits for not changing more than purging old Joe from existence. After young Joe shoots himself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cid still has a scar,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The car/truck whereby old Joe had arrived is still on the road.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason is that everything happend in the past is definite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2012-12-03T23:56:57.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8456" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8459" CreationDate="2012-12-04T00:46:46.413" Score="6" ViewCount="12851" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_Man&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rain Man&lt;/a&gt;, Raymond Babbit has the following attributes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eidetic memory&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Crazy counting and maths skills&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Obsessive compulsive about schedule (ie. meals, TV)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dislike of human touch&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Random&quot; fears - rain, flights, ect&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Minimal interest in people&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Doesn't understand money&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unusual way of talking&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are probably others. How realistic is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="275" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T13:44:47.107" LastActivityDate="2017-04-12T04:15:30.450" Title="How accurate was the portrayal of Autism in Rain Man?" Tags="|character|rainman|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8457" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8513" CreationDate="2012-12-04T07:25:32.250" Score="12" ViewCount="3079" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the old days one could easily empathize with some characters, thus many situations ended up as funny ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now a days, it's like they try to convince us to empathize with them by giving some explanation, or justification, or a character's actions.  It seems like all characters tend to justify their actions somehow, as a parody of themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Could those changes be due to a change in the target audience?  How has the show objectively changed over time?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially, the show was intended as a broad audience. I started watching the series as a kid, and even as an adult I find it funny, at least the earlier seasons. Now the show seems more like SpongeBob SquarePants or The Fairly OddParents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following are some interesting data:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ta89L.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Simpsons_episodes#Ratings&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Simpsons_episodes#Ratings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qbThi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2012/04/ranking-simpsons-seasons.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2012/04/ranking-simpsons-seasons.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;List of showrunners throughout the series' run:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 1–2: Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, &amp;amp; Sam Simon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 3–4: Al Jean &amp;amp; Mike Reiss&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 5–6: David Mirkin&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 7–8: Bill Oakley &amp;amp; Josh Weinstein&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 9–12: Mike Scully&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 13–present: Al Jean&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it could be related somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3534" LastEditorUserId="3534" LastEditDate="2012-12-06T16:30:07.273" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T16:30:07.273" Title="Has The Simpsons changed significantly in essence with time?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8506" CreationDate="2012-12-04T07:48:27.577" Score="14" ViewCount="3069" Body="&lt;p&gt;That was what I thought when they released The Matrix Reloaded, and later in The Matrix Revolutions, when Neo exhibits super-natural powers in the &quot;real&quot; world.&#xA;Giving the posibility that the &quot;real&quot; world could be just another simulated reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3534" LastEditorUserId="3534" LastEditDate="2012-12-05T17:08:19.790" LastActivityDate="2012-12-09T17:54:40.560" Title="Could Neo's supernatural powers in the real world suggest that there were a super-matrix?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix-reloaded|the-matrix-revolutions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8456" CreationDate="2012-12-04T07:51:37.383" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many, many references exist detailing that Dustin Hoffman's character was based in large part on Kim Peek, an autistic savant who exhibited a lot of the characteristics that Hoffman portrays. I think the key here is that there's a difference between being autistic and being a savant -- those are two distinct syndromes, and they don't often go together. Some of the things in your list would be a symptom of being a savant (eidetic memory, counting skills, etc), while others would come from from autism (and many of the things you list -- obsessive/compulsive nature, fears, minimal interest in people, etc. are known symptoms of autism in varying degrees). So what you see in Rain Man does happen, but is quite rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note ... when I was 12, Kim Peek came to speak to our Junior High, and he really was like you see in the movie -- you could give him a date in history and he'd tell you what day of the week it happened on (adjusting for leap years, changing calendars, etc.), and he memorized the order of 3 shuffled decks of cards in a matter of seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T07:51:37.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8410" CreationDate="2012-12-04T08:49:24.927" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is certainly possible to alter the facial appearance of a person to make him/her resemble another person using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themakeupgallery.info/lookalike/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;prosthetic make-up&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But those shown in the movies such as Mission Impossible, Charlie's Angels and the one depicted above are not practically possible as it would involve the mask to be a &lt;em&gt;one-piece&lt;/em&gt; wearable and removable item, very much unlike current date prosthetic masks that are a &lt;em&gt;composition of a set of different pieces&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To gain a little more perspective of what I am talking about you could go through &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/rahul/amitabh-bachchans-makeup-in-paa&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; slide that shows the transformation of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabh_Bachchan&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mr. Amitabh Bachchan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; into a kid suffering from &lt;em&gt;progeria&lt;/em&gt;, for the Bollywood movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1532957/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Paa&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-09-12T12:11:31.467" LastActivityDate="2013-09-12T12:11:31.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8461" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8464" CreationDate="2012-12-04T10:15:07.987" Score="7" ViewCount="1698" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyfall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Skyfall&lt;/a&gt;, they send a hint that there could be some major changes to the Bond franchise, or even possible a final episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For the first time 007 appears getting old&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Q is now a different   character, not just another actor   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;M dies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3534" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T19:22:55.043" LastActivityDate="2019-03-16T18:02:47.370" Title="Is Skyfall preparing the ground to some major change in the franchise?" Tags="|plot-explanation|skyfall|james-bond|movie-franchise|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8461" CreationDate="2012-12-04T11:22:37.493" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me it was more like going back to the more traditional Bond and away from the &quot;Jason Bourne&quot; like Action Bond:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;M is a male again&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moneypenny is back, and her office looks exactly like the old ones (Coat hanger, &quot;typewriter&quot;, Wooden Door)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;M's office looks more traditional, it is all heavy wood&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T11:22:37.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8456" CreationDate="2012-12-04T12:25:19.457" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is realistic in the sense that it is not impossible for someone to be like this.&#xA;However, this sort of person is extremely rare and is the combination of several different character, mental and physical traits all at once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My daughter is autistic and she has the following out of your list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Eidetic memory  (she remembers things from years ago, a big deal when you are 3)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obsessive compulsive about schedule (pretty standard for autistics)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Random&quot; fears (she is terrified of some loud noises, dogs etc).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Minimal interest in people (she lives in her own world a lot of the time but interacts happily with alter egos)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, some of these are typical for a 3 year old anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have mild autism and I had several of these traits but have learned coping strategies.  I used to have very good memory for things I had heard and could repeat some conversations from years previously word for word, if I watched a film a few times I pretty much knew the script etc.  This has lessened now - now that it would be very useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T04:15:30.450" LastActivityDate="2017-04-12T04:15:30.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8461" CreationDate="2012-12-04T12:52:04.350" Score="16" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Not at all, rather on the contrary.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They rather &lt;strong&gt;reintroduced classic characters, but adapted them&lt;/strong&gt; to the new modern rebooted &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt;, like Q (who is now rather a hacker than an inventor) or Moneypenny (who is much stronger and more self-confident than the languishing little secretary she was before the reboot). In the end Bond is a different character himself (and not just another actor), as introduced no later than &lt;em&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is true that the modern Bond is much more vulnerable (both physically and emotionally) and the &lt;strong&gt;stories center much more around Bond himself and his development. But those &lt;em&gt;&quot;major changes&quot;&lt;/em&gt; rather started with &lt;em&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt; seems more like a step towards classic &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; movies (while still retaining the modernizations of the &quot;Craig-era&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't find any hint that there could be a final episode. Bond &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/8313/49&quot;&gt;had his difficulties in this movie&lt;/a&gt;, but &lt;strong&gt;at the end &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/8052/49&quot;&gt;he's more confident and ready to go on than ever before&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. And afterall there will never be a final episode. If you cannot continue a storyline in a reasonable way, you just do a reboot (which is especially common nowadays).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you may experience is, that &lt;strong&gt;the story of the movie centered much more around the internals of MI6 and directly involved major characters in dramatic events&lt;/strong&gt;, especially M dying. This indeed somehow new ground may spark the deduction that if M can just die throughout the movie, then why not Bond also? But in fact the final scene somehow shows (and Mrs. Dench may forgive me for saying that) how replaceable M actually is and that &lt;strong&gt;it requires a bit more than his/her death to endanger the further continuation and overall immutability of James Bond's adventures&lt;/strong&gt;. It is just that the new Craig-movies have a much closer relation to each other and a higher overall story-consistency, or call it a more dynamic cross-movie development of the story and characters, compared to the rather ground-up start of virtually each of the pre-Craig movies (in fact &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/8278/49&quot;&gt;Bond's wife and her death is the only major cross-movie story development&lt;/a&gt; of the pre-Craig era, I think). But this fine-grained development doesn't neccessarily need to imply major changes in the overall franchise (and in &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt; it certainly didn't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as said, the emphasis on Bond's own character and development and his physical and emotional weakness are not a novum of &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt; but rather of the modern Craig-&lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; as a whole, it's just emphasized a bit more in this movie. But neither does it give me the impression of discovering totally new ground compared to the previous movies. It even &lt;strong&gt;promises more traditional directions, even if not dropping all the modernizations&lt;/strong&gt;, in the future (personal disclaimer: I like both the &quot;Craigian&quot; modernizations as well as the more &quot;traditional&quot; &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt;-movies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And last but not least, I just found &lt;a href=&quot;http://popcornworld.net/2012/11/18/old-dog-new-tricks-skyfall-and-the-reconstruction-of-bond/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this related article&lt;/a&gt; which may provide some additional thoughts about &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt; making a statement for retraditionalizing the franchise. Although I for myself wouldn't go that far, it provides some interresting views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(As a little addendum regarding the following film, without going too much into details about it as it's only an afterthought to your actual question: While keeping up with the trend of trying to put an overaching storyline over the series, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spectre&lt;/em&gt; indeed went into a very traditional classic &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; direction&lt;/strong&gt;, maybe even forcefully so.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-03-16T18:02:47.370" LastActivityDate="2019-03-16T18:02:47.370" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8466" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-04T13:45:55.593" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T13:45:55.593" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T13:45:55.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8467" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-04T13:45:55.593" Score="0" Body="Rain Man is an Oscar-winning 1988 drama film, tells the story of an abrasive and selfish yuppie, Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his estranged father has died and bequeathed all of his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T13:49:50.360" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T13:49:50.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8468" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-04T13:55:29.520" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T13:55:29.520" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T13:55:29.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8469" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-04T13:55:29.520" Score="0" Body="Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English screenwriter, film director and producer, best known for directing Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Swept Away, Revolver, RocknRolla, Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T14:47:38.030" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T14:47:38.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8470" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-04T13:57:44.447" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T13:57:44.447" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T13:57:44.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8471" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-04T13:57:44.447" Score="0" Body="Harvey is a 1950 film based on Mary Chase's play of the same name, about a man whose best friend is a pooka named Harvey—in the form of a six-foot, three-and-one-half-inch tall invisible rabbit." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T14:47:29.230" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T14:47:29.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8472" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-04T13:59:30.280" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T13:59:30.280" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T13:59:30.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8473" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-04T13:59:30.280" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T13:59:30.280" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T13:59:30.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8474" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-04T14:00:16.083" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T14:00:16.083" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T14:00:16.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8475" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-04T14:00:16.083" Score="0" Body="Hannibal is a 2001 American psychological thriller film directed by Ridley Scott, adapted from the Thomas Harris novel of the same name. It is a sequel to the 1991 Academy Award-winning film The Silence of the Lambs." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T14:47:32.210" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T14:47:32.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8476" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-04T14:01:36.363" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Silence of the Lambs&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1991 American thriller directed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Demme&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jonathan Demme&lt;/a&gt; and based on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_%28novel%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;novel of the same name&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harris&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thomas Harris&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film follows FBI trainee &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarice_Starling&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Clarice Starling&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodie_Foster&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jodie Foster&lt;/a&gt;) who must enlist the help of notorious murderer and cannibal, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Lecter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dr. Hannibal Lecter&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Hopkins&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Anthony Hopkins&lt;/a&gt;), to track down &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bill_%28character%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Buffalo Bill&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Levine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ted Levine&lt;/a&gt;), a serial kidnapper and killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Silence of the Lambs&lt;/a&gt; on Wikipedia.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hannibal (2001)&lt;/a&gt;, the sequel to Silence of the Lambs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dragon_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Red Dragon (2002)&lt;/a&gt;, the prequel to Silence of the Lambs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Rising_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hannibal Rising (2007)&lt;/a&gt;, the prequel to the film series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-01T08:18:26.507" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T08:18:26.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8477" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-04T14:01:36.363" Score="0" Body="A 1991 American thriller about FBI trainee Clarice Starling who must enlist the help of notorious murderer and cannibal, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, to track down Buffalo Bill, a serial kidnapper and killer." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-01T08:05:32.887" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T08:05:32.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8478" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8491" CreationDate="2012-12-04T17:18:44.057" Score="4" ViewCount="816" Body="&lt;p&gt;I the movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;In Time&lt;/a&gt;, the main characters stole a million years but still how did they manage to almost die at the last part of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, why did they ever put themselves in such a position that they almost died?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:27:30.680" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T12:27:30.680" Title="With a million years with them, how did they ever managed to almost die?" Tags="|plot-explanation|in-time|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8002" CreationDate="2012-12-04T17:55:46.997" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they all knew each other. At the beginning, the movie shows a dark room where she introduces each personality while under the influence of another personality that was not Sybil. They also spoke to eachother. In this disorder, if they think they're someone else they'll see them in the mirror. When she's walking through the city talking to herself but in the mirror it shows 2 people, that's her recognizing the other personality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3535" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T17:55:46.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8481" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-04T18:06:17.340" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T18:06:17.340" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T18:06:17.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8482" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-04T18:06:17.340" Score="0" Body="Hello Darling is a Bollywood comedy film produced by Ashok Ghai and directed by Manoj Tiwari, starring Gul Panag, Isha Koppikar and Celina Jaitley in the lead roles." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T18:10:00.520" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T18:10:00.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8483" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-04T18:10:38.073" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T18:10:38.073" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T18:10:38.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8484" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-04T18:10:38.073" Score="0" Body="2002-2005 TV Comedy-Drama starring Katey Sagal, Kaley Cuoco, and John Ritter. This show was originally titled, &quot;8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.&quot;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-04T00:31:11.420" LastActivityDate="2013-08-04T00:31:11.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8485" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-04T18:12:20.010" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T18:12:20.010" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T18:12:20.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8486" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-04T18:12:20.010" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T18:12:20.010" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T18:12:20.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8487" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-04T18:28:09.800" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T18:28:09.800" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T18:28:09.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8488" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-04T18:28:09.800" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-04T18:28:09.800" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T18:28:09.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8489" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8500" CreationDate="2012-12-04T18:36:11.583" Score="14" ViewCount="854" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;James Van Der Beek&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1819509/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is one of the more recent examples of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;celebrities playing a fictionalized version of themselves&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear, I'm not talking about a &lt;em&gt;cameo appearance&lt;/em&gt; where the celebrity is seen for a only few seconds, I'm looking for cases where the celebrity is part of the &lt;em&gt;main cast&lt;/em&gt;, a &lt;em&gt;recurring character&lt;/em&gt;, or plays an otherwise &lt;em&gt;significant role&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Examples:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Larry David&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264235/&quot;&gt;Curb Your Enthusiasm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wil Wheaton&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898266/&quot;&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lou Ferrigno&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165581/&quot;&gt;King of Queens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;John Malkovich&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120601/&quot;&gt;Being John Malkovich&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Al Pacino&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810913/&quot;&gt;Jack and Jill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tom Jones&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116996/&quot;&gt;Mars Attacks!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which &lt;em&gt;movie&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;TV series&lt;/em&gt; was the first to feature a celebrity playing a fictionalized version of her/himself?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T21:14:45.063" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T21:14:45.063" Title="What was the first case of a celebrity playing a fictionalized version of her/himself?" Tags="|first-appearance|casting|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8478" CreationDate="2012-12-04T20:58:45.703" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are probably two main things to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Will's whole goal is to distribute as much time to as many people as possible. If he were to keep too much for himself, there could be someone, somewhere, who wouldn't have enough. Remember his line, 'no one should be immortal if even one person has to die.' Will had gotten used to living on just enough time, so he wasn't worried about it, and the movie constantly shows him giving time away (a trait he likely inherited from his mother ... she gave him some time in the morning even though she didn't have it to spare).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Will and Sylvia get a rush out of having very little time -- almost as if that's their way of knowing they're still alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T20:58:45.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8489" CreationDate="2012-12-04T21:13:42.360" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;On television, a couple of early examples (though not necessarily the earliest) might be &lt;em&gt;The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet&lt;/em&gt;, although it's debatable if those are really fictional versions of themselves or just characters with the same names. Then there is &lt;em&gt;The Monkees&lt;/em&gt; in 1962, which is most certainly them playing themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as film goes, others might be able to chime in better, but you might be able to consider Laurel and Hardy as often playing themselves (though it depends on the film, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T21:13:42.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8489" CreationDate="2012-12-04T21:21:53.243" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The earliest TV Show would probably be The Jack Benny Program ( from wiki: The television version of The Jack Benny Program ran from October 28, 1950) Jack Benny played himself although it was a caricature much like James Van Der Beek. There may be earlier examples though from movies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T21:21:53.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8458" CreationDate="2012-12-04T21:23:50.173" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea of a &quot;dream within a dream&quot; was probably popularized by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_within_a_dream&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Edgar Allan Poe poem&lt;/a&gt;, published in 1849, and so the idea has had time to pervade the public meme space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1357" LastActivityDate="2012-12-04T21:23:50.173" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8399" CreationDate="2012-12-05T06:52:20.873" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the tattoos listed by Mistu4u help Leonard in guiding himself to cope with his conditions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However even in this condition he never forgets daily chores like driving, eating, shaving etc. He is also able to use English language comfortably. Through his subconscious he knows about his condition too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3538" LastActivityDate="2012-12-05T06:52:20.873" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8423" CreationDate="2012-12-05T08:22:08.097" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mallory or M is the new boss of MI6 and he looks to be good guy. He even &lt;strong&gt;tried to save M&lt;/strong&gt; when she was attacked by Silva in the court room. However he can easily be interpreted as a double agent or an enemy in the upcoming movie. So we will have to wait n see...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3538" LastActivityDate="2012-12-05T08:22:08.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8489" CreationDate="2012-12-05T10:03:17.613" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Baseball players in 1911, 1912, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1920, 1921, 1927, 1942&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=U3rJxPYT32MC&amp;amp;pg=PA64&amp;amp;dq=%22played%20himself%22%20OR%20%22played%20herself%22%20movie&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=yxO_UPacMojf4QTCwoGwAw&amp;amp;ved=0CDgQ6AEwBDgU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Guide to United States Popular Culture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (2001) by Ray Broadus Browne and Pat Browne says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Linda K. Fuller has noted, &quot;The real story of the success of baseball films is not the batting box, but at the box office. From the beginning, filmmakers were quick to realize the added box-office potential of the day's baseball stars, so it wasn't long before some of the began appearing, usually as themselves, in dramatized films as well as in newsreels.&quot; Ever since Hal Chase played himself in a 1911 film [&lt;em&gt;Hal Chase's Home Run&lt;/em&gt;], followed the next year by Chief Bender, Jack Coombs, and Rube Olding in &lt;em&gt;The Baseball Bug&lt;/em&gt;, others joined the film fun: Christy Mathewson in &lt;em&gt;Love and Baseball&lt;/em&gt; (1914), Mike Donlin and John McGraw in &lt;em&gt;Right Off the Bat&lt;/em&gt; (1915), Ty Cobb in &lt;em&gt;Somewhere in Georgia&lt;/em&gt; (1916), Frank Baker in &lt;em&gt;Home Run Baker's Double&lt;/em&gt; (1914), Jack Johnson in &lt;em&gt;As the World Rolls On&lt;/em&gt; (1921), and Babe Ruth in &lt;em&gt;Babe Comes Home&lt;/em&gt; (1927), as well as a number of shorts produced by Universal Pictures, like &lt;em&gt;Fancy Curves, Just Pals&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Slide, Babe, Slide&lt;/em&gt;. Also, Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, Ralph Houk, White Ford, and other actual players have made film appearances. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=aFCFDlPn8HIC&amp;amp;pg=PA261&amp;amp;dq=%22played%20himself%22%20OR%20%22played%20herself%22&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=ZQ6_UKP0KNGK4gS93IGABQ&amp;amp;ved=0CEQQ6AEwBw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;100 Things Yankees Fans Should Know &amp;amp; Do Before They Die&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2012) by David Fischer says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ruth also played himself in 1920 in the film &lt;em&gt;Heading Home&lt;/em&gt;, and he played a fictionalized version of himself seven years later in the movie &lt;em&gt;The Babe Comes Home&lt;/em&gt;, as the character Babe Dugan. In retirement, Ruth played himself in the 1942 movie &lt;em&gt;The Pride of the Yankees&lt;/em&gt;, based on Lou Gehrig's life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But were these parts any more than just a cameo?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least Hal Chase's role in &lt;em&gt;Hal Chase's Home Run&lt;/em&gt; (1911) was &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1982&amp;amp;dat=19110930&amp;amp;id=0VxjAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;sjid=MWQNAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;pg=4580,6214508&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;more than a cameo&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... in which the leading role is played by the famous First Baseman and Manager of the New York American League Team...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, Frank &quot;Home Run&quot; Baker played the leading role in &lt;em&gt;Home Run Baker's Double&lt;/em&gt; (1914). Here's an &lt;a href=&quot;http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1914-06-25/ed-1/seq-5/;words=Run+Home-Run+Double+Baker+double+Home?date1=1836&amp;amp;rows=20&amp;amp;searchType=basic&amp;amp;state=&amp;amp;date2=1922&amp;amp;proxtext=%22Home%20Run%20Baker%27s%20Double%22&amp;amp;y=0&amp;amp;x=0&amp;amp;dateFilterType=yearRange&amp;amp;index=4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;account&lt;/a&gt; of the 'photoplay', and it certainly sounds like a fictional story of a baseball player, his doppelganger and some crooks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Love and Baseball&lt;/em&gt; (1914), according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/236167/Love-and-Baseball/overview&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;New York Times&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Legendary baseball player Christy Mathewson played &quot;himself&quot; in the Bison two-reeler Love and Baseball.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://1.usa.gov/THB79m&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1914 paper's account of the story&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Heading Home&lt;/em&gt; (1920) (&lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.org/details/Heading_Home&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;watch online&lt;/a&gt;) stars Babe Ruth as a fictional version of himself. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heading_Home&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It attempts to create a mythology surrounding the life of baseball player Babe Ruth... Ruth stars in the film, playing himself, but the details of his life are completely fictionalized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from &lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0011267/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &quot;true story&quot; of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  If this is the &quot;true story&quot; of Babe Ruth, then I am a Llama!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Cowboy gangsters in 1912, 1914, 1918&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=O_7qRCNxzQcC&amp;amp;pg=PA286&amp;amp;dq=%22played%20himself%22%20OR%20%22played%20herself%22&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=ZQ6_UKP0KNGK4gS93IGABQ&amp;amp;ved=0CDgQ6AEwAw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2002) by Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During its first years of statehood, Oklahoma itself temporarily became a center for filming westerns; characteristically, given the wild-and-woolly reputation of the first whites who had come to Indian Territory, the peculiar western subgenre that developer there was the  cowboy-gang narrative produced and performed by the ex-gangsters themselves: reformed train robber Al Jennings played himself in &lt;em&gt;The Bank Robbery&lt;/em&gt; (1914), and Emmett Dalton (last survivor of the notorious Dalton gang) played himself in &lt;em&gt;The Last Stand of the Dalton Boys&lt;/em&gt; (1912) and &lt;em&gt;Beyond the Law&lt;/em&gt; (1918).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="386" LastEditDate="2012-12-21T12:49:20.960" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T12:49:20.960" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8410" CreationDate="2012-12-05T11:17:46.673" Score="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120755/trivia&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMDb&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; explains this for a scene in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120755/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mission: Impossible II&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The scene where &lt;strong&gt;Tom Cruise &lt;em&gt;&quot;peels off his face&quot;&lt;/em&gt; to reveal Dougray Scott&lt;/strong&gt; was achieved in one shot by shooting both actors against a &lt;em&gt;green screen&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cruise, not wearing a mask, was simply told to place his hand in a pre-arranged position under his chin then pull his hand across his face. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scott wore a plain mask&lt;/strong&gt; with sensors that could provide a computer with a three-dimensional view of his face. &lt;strong&gt;He then peeled off this mask to finish the scene&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cruise's face was superimposed on the mask as it is pulled away&lt;/strong&gt; and the two images morphed together in the computer; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JvrLZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;1&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVt4jjgr06s&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EfYV5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The background of the 747 cabin was added in to replace the green screen. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Yagher&quot;&gt;Kevin Yagher&lt;/a&gt; contributed some more traditional latex mask effects for other face-peeling scenes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%282011_season%29#Episode_160_.E2.80.93_Mission_Impossible_Mask&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MythBusters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; have tested if &lt;em&gt;realistic masks&lt;/em&gt; can be used to fool people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I1qnq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;MythBusters&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It only worked if people stood far enough away. Once they were up close they knew something was off. [&lt;a href=&quot;http://mythbustersresults.com/mission-impossible-mask&quot;&gt;Results&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/mission-impossible-outtakes.htm&quot;&gt;Watch Clip&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/8113296/Asian-man-boards-plane-disguised-as-old-white-man.html#&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;real-life case&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of someone using a rubber mask to get through airport security:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m5x94.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Asian male&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An Asian male disguised himself as an elderly white man using a silicone mask and successfully boarded a flight from Hong Kong to Canada.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-12-05T11:17:46.673" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8458" CreationDate="2012-12-05T11:55:43.673" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, a pretty much official explanation exists. And the question is not really &quot;open&quot;. As I've stated in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/8370/why-did-neo-have-powers-in-the-real-world/8395#8395&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, it's explained by the fact that when Neo comes into contact with the Source (i.e. when he meets the Architect), his brain becomes a wireless connection. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, the real time in the Matrix franchise is set in a tech-wise advanced future, so why shouldn't a much more powerful wireless connection exist? I think the term wireless here is used to explain the concept of the &quot;without wires&quot; kind of technology, and not necessarily the actual wireless connection we all currently know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that Neo can, for example, affect the Sentinels with viruses wirelessly is not that absurd in a Sci-fi franchise like the Matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2012-12-09T17:54:40.560" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8458" CreationDate="2012-12-05T17:08:08.120" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the answer is that it was suggested a supermatrix, because it's more likely within the matrix's universe, considering the machine's cold logic, but the idea was possible abandoned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why a super-matrix?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The machines where able to defeat Neo and Agent Smith, and his viral propagation, at the same time, and took Zion after the battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the machines' ultimate goal was to end the conspiracy. Why they didn't exterminate every free human being. If the reason was that machines were &quot;man&quot; of his word, I pass thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if there were a super-matrix, they could allow the free humans to continue living, just because they were more useful conected to the super-matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was the super-matrix idea abandoned?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After so many years, I think so. Maybe they couldn't explain in a credible way how the free humans would know when they definitely defeated the machines... if there could be a super-matrix, why not many nested matrix layers each with a diferent simulated reality even more &quot;real&quot; that the previous one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3534" LastActivityDate="2012-12-05T17:08:08.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8412" CreationDate="2012-12-05T18:59:37.440" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last episode of &quot;Ben 10: Ultimate Alien&quot;, Azmuth takes the Ultimatrix back from Ben and gives him the new improved Omnitrix Ben's wearing in &quot;Ben 10: Omniverse&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1492" LastActivityDate="2012-12-05T18:59:37.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8508" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8509" CreationDate="2012-12-05T22:30:06.557" Score="16" ViewCount="12014" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's in season 8 episode 3 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460649/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; at 8:22min. I found it on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzyYvNyMo0k#t=3m3s&quot;&gt;youtube&lt;/a&gt; too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Barney!!!&quot; &quot;Icksnay on the ealray amenay!&quot; &quot;Mr and Mrs Erikson?&quot;&#xA;  &quot;Youuu son of a... itchbay!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The itch-Bay was easy.&#xA;And to me the previos is: Nicks on the real name!&#xA;But what does that mean? A referrence to the NY nicks?&#xA;I don't get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3543" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T17:32:45.723" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T17:32:45.723" Title="What does Barney say and mean?" Tags="|dialogue|how-i-met-your-mother|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8508" CreationDate="2012-12-05T22:47:48.840" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not &quot;icksnay&quot;.  It's &quot;ixney&quot;, which is &quot;nix&quot;, as in stop talking about it.  He's telling them not to mention his real name in front of the woman he's trying to fool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3541" LastEditorUserId="3541" LastEditDate="2012-12-05T22:56:45.190" LastActivityDate="2012-12-05T22:56:45.190" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8450" CreationDate="2012-12-06T06:48:27.387" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This break through might look a little vague but still there was a shot in the dark for Sean and Whitey. The only connection they could make from the case was that the shot fired to kill Katie was fired using the gun of 'Just Ray'. So there was a possibility that someone from the Harris household would have committed the crime. However the elder Harris had passed his polygraph with flying colors as mentioned by Sean. When they went to question Katie's boyfriend Brendan for the first time at his house they had met the Harris junior with his friend John O'shea too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After listening to the 911 tape they found out that the boys knew more about the murder. Hence they might have taken a wild guess that mute Harris junior might have access to that gun and he was always with his friend John. Although it looks to be exaggerated but for investigative purpose they went to meet him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more feasible explanation can be that after listening to the tape Sean and Whitey had gone to question Brendan about those two boys whom Katie might have known or have grudge against. But at the time they entered John had already drawn a gun over Brendan. Once police got them they confessed everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3538" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T06:48:27.387" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8457" CreationDate="2012-12-06T08:20:56.293" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons#Criticism_of_declining_quality&quot;&gt;Wikipedia has a nice section about that&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It basically make the same assumptions as in the comments&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Simpsons becoming a shallow parody of itself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shift from plot driven to gag driven episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Critics' reviews of early Simpsons episodes praised the show for its&#xA;  wit, realism, and intelligence.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  In the late 1990s, around the airing of season ten, the tone and emphasis of the show&#xA;  began to change. Some critics started calling the show &quot;tired&quot;. By 2000,&#xA;  some long-term fans had become disillusioned with the show and pointed&#xA;  to its shift from character-driven plots to what they perceived as an&#xA;  overemphasis on zany antics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The BBC noted &quot;the common&#xA;  consensus is that The Simpsons' golden era ended after season&#xA;  nine&quot;, while Todd Leopold of CNN, in an article looking at its&#xA;  perceived decline, stated &quot;for many fans [...] the glory days are long&#xA;  past.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jim Schembri of the The Sydney Morning Herald called the&#xA;  show &quot;a cultural touchstone for at least two—possibly&#xA;  three—generations of couch potatoes&quot;, but claimed that the show has&#xA;  declined in quality. He attributed this decline in quality to an&#xA;  abandonment of character-driven storylines in favour of and overuse of&#xA;  celebrity cameo appearances and references to popular culture.&#xA;  Schembri wrote: &quot;The central tragedy of The Simpsons is that it has&#xA;  gone from commanding attention to merely being attention seeking. It&#xA;  began by proving that cartoon characters don't have to be caricatures;&#xA;  they can be invested with real emotions. Now the show has in essence&#xA;  fermented into a limp parody of itself. Memorable story arcs have been&#xA;  sacrificed for the sake of celebrity walk-ons and punchline-hungry&#xA;  dialogue.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another objective critery for the downfall could be top ten ratings like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/news/the-10-best-simpsons-episodes-of-all-time-so-far-27855/&quot;&gt;this from the guardian frm 2012&lt;/a&gt; where every episode is prior to season 10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;#1: &quot;The Itchy &amp;amp; Scratchy &amp;amp; Poochie Show&quot; (S08E14)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;#4: &quot;Last Exit to Springfield&quot; (S04E17)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;#7: &quot;Marge vs. the Monorail&quot; (S04E12)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T08:20:56.293" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8515" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8517" CreationDate="2012-12-06T11:50:44.973" Score="3" ViewCount="886" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the end credits of Argo a man speaks about the events of the film. Who is the speaker?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T13:17:13.643" Title="Who is speaking over the end credits of Argo?" Tags="|argo|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8516" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8533" CreationDate="2012-12-06T13:04:47.157" Score="5" ViewCount="4728" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the trick-play (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumblerooski&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fumblerooski&lt;/a&gt;) to level scores against the guards, the Mean Machine go for the two-point conversion. Here, they start talking among themselves and Crewe with Scarborough to &lt;em&gt;confuse&lt;/em&gt; the guards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this kind of trick play legal in the game of American Football? On a similar note, are all the plays shown in the movie authentic and legal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; Please pardon my ignorance of the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T16:11:20.027" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T16:11:20.027" Title="Was the last play in The Longest Yard(2005) completely fair?" Tags="|plot-explanation|realism|the-longest-yard-2005|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8515" CreationDate="2012-12-06T13:17:13.643" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024648/trivia?tab=cz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Argos imdb site&lt;/a&gt; this is from an interview with Jimmy Carter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Past the photos of cast members and the real people they play, there's&#xA;  audio from an interview with then-President Jimmy Carter talking about&#xA;  the crisis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="113" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T13:17:13.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8518" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-06T13:23:12.743" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This tag indicates the question is about something in film that might be possible in real life or just a movie device.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Realism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T09:50:26.697" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T09:50:26.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8519" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-06T13:23:12.743" Score="0" Body="The general attempt to depict things accurately in films and tv shows." OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="44202" LastEditDate="2019-09-25T04:02:30.333" LastActivityDate="2019-09-25T04:02:30.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8531" CreationDate="2012-12-06T18:51:27.627" Score="17" ViewCount="13863" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, during the scene before Bond visits the casino in Macau, when Eve shaves him, it is not completely clear to me if they sleep with each other afterwards, although the atmosphere between them right before might imply it (and first made me sure that's what happened, until watching the movie again and not being that sure anymore). But maybe they didn't even have the time for it before getting ready for the casino anyway (but then again, when did Bond not have time for this?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now of course as we learn afterwards Eve is actually Eve Monneypenny and in the previous movies a general story fact was that there has never been anything physical between them, which actually was the reason for the tension and fun of their occasional flirts. But on the other hand &lt;em&gt;starting&lt;/em&gt; the sexual tension between them with a physical act might also fit pretty well to the modern and much more active and self-confident version of Monneypenny introduced in the movie (and would actually emphasize this modernization even further).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my pretty simple question is, &lt;strong&gt;did Bond sleep with Eve that night?&lt;/strong&gt; Now this might of course have been intentionally left open for interpretation, but I might also just have missed something obvious and there is a more or less definite answer to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-10T00:23:48.793" LastActivityDate="2018-01-10T00:23:48.793" Title="Did Bond sleep with Eve?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2911" CreationDate="2012-12-06T20:51:37.823" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me do the honors...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think he was getting at that he controls Eddie's supply now (or so he thinks). For whatever reason, it doesn't seem like Carl himself takes the drug, most likely because he knew it would be addictive/kill him like his competitor. Little did he know that (supposedly) Eddie has the drug in his system naturally and permanently (and seemingly more potent). - @TylerShads&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3209" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T20:51:37.823" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3448" CreationDate="2012-12-06T20:52:02.053" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The end is not a dream because alfred has no knowledge of Bruce's relationship with Selina Kyle.  He saw her once when he asked her to take the food to Bruces' wing of wayne manor.  and a second time when Bruce was running her prints  there is no reason for alfred to think the two would be together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3549" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T20:52:02.053" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8527" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8530" CreationDate="2012-12-06T22:54:07.400" Score="2" ViewCount="7689" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched it several days ago, and only now just caught on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end when he goes back to the brothel to rescue the boy from Rosetti's men, he was alone. It wasn't part of some plan of Nucky's. This means that not only did he just massacre a dozen hardened killers by himself, but that he had intended to do so even if Masseria's men hadn't been pulled out. He was like a force of nature or something... on a scale of 1 to Brock Samson, he's a 9.8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is he just crazy (and lucky), or is he really that damned good? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-07T02:02:50.407" LastActivityDate="2016-01-10T14:49:02.233" Title="What happened with Richard Harrow in the (season 3) finale?" Tags="|plot-explanation|boardwalk-empire|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8528" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-06T23:21:22.887" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-06T23:21:22.887" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T23:21:22.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8529" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-06T23:21:22.887" Score="0" Body="Kaagaz Ke Phool is a 1959's Bollywood Hindi film produced and directed by Guru Dutt and he is also the main lead." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-06T23:37:21.970" LastActivityDate="2012-12-06T23:37:21.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8527" CreationDate="2012-12-07T00:00:12.460" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Richard Harrow is an ex US Army sharpshooter who on meeting Jimmy Darmody gets swept into the life of being a gangster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His character is complex, he seems very sensitive, plus he is loyal and caring to friends, including the Darmody family in Season 2, and even Gillian Darmody to an extent in Season 3.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This contrasts with the fact that he seems particularly cold blooded and ruthless when performing his duties as a hit man.  Throughout Series 2 and 3, we regularly get to see Harrow without apparent emotion shoot others, either from a distance or even at point blank range.  His skill is a level above the average gangsters in the series, and he seems to exercise that skill in a cold blooded way, not appearing to fear death, or acting out of anger like other gangsters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we see Harrow prepare his weapons at the end of the episode before the finale, it seemed clear to me that he would try something like this - and that he would not hesitate to carry it through until either everyone he faced or himself was dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He does nearly come unstuck when he ends up grappling with one of Rosetti's men, and then he could easily have been shot as he appears to put the rifle down in the stand-off with the gangster holding the boy. The raid could easily have ended with his death.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we are to infer that he really is that good - but that he did have one or two lucky breaks too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-01-10T14:49:02.233" LastActivityDate="2016-01-10T14:49:02.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8521" CreationDate="2012-12-07T02:32:18.527" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;For two reasons, I believe &lt;strong&gt;Bond did not sleep with Eve Moneypenny&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, the Bond series usually makes it clear when James has sex with a woman. There are very few love scenes that are ambiguous -- but the scene with Eve is ambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, Skyfall introduces Moneypenny, but I don't think Skyfall changes the nature of her relationship with Bond -- and in all the preceding Bond movies that feature Bond and Moneypenny, their banter suggests he wants sex but she insists on commitment first. Moneypenny often mentions things like engagement rings, while Bond makes loads of sexual references. Also, their flirting consistently strikes me as having a hopeful tone suggestive of the tension of a relationship yet to be consummated -- not the more knowing tone suggestive of a prior, brief sexual relationship:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dr. No&lt;/em&gt; (1962)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moneypenny: 007 is here sir.&#xA;[Slaps Bond's hand away from the papers on her desk]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond: Moneypenny! What gives?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moneypenny: Me, given an ounce of encouragement. You've never taken me to dinner looking like this. You've never taken me to dinner...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond: I would, you know. Only &quot;M&quot; would have me court-martialed for... illegal use of government property.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moneypenny: Flattery will get you nowhere - but don't stop trying. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Goldfinger&lt;/em&gt; (1964)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond: What do you know about gold, Moneypenny?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moneypenny: Oh, the only gold I know about is the kind you wear... you know, on the third finger of your left hand?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond: Well, one of these days we really must look into that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moneypenny: How about tonight? You'll come over for dinner...&#xA;[playfully tosses Bond's hat onto the hat rack] and I'll cook you a wonderful angel cake.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond: Well, nothing would give me greater pleasure, but I'm afraid I have a... business appointment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moneypenny: [laughing] That's the flimsiest excuse you've ever given me. Oh, well, some girls have all the luck. Who is she, James?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;M: [over intercom] &quot;She&quot; is me, Miss Moneypenny. And kindly omit the customary byplay with 007. He's dining with me and I don't want him to be late.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moneypenny: [to Bond] Then there's hope for me yet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond: [gives Moneypenny a playful peck on the cheek] Moneypenny, won't you ever believe me? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You Only Live Twice&lt;/em&gt; (1967)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;M: [buzzing intercom] Miss Moneypenny, give 007 the password we've agreed with Japanese S.I.S.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MoneyPenny: Yes sir. [to Bond] We tried to think of something that you wouldn't forget.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond: Yes?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MoneyPenny: &quot;I, love, you&quot;. Repeat it please, to make sure you get it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond: Don't worry, I get it. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Diamonds Are Forever&lt;/em&gt; (1971) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond: What can I bring you back from Holland?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moneypenny: A diamond? In a ring?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond: Would you settle for a tulip?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moneypenny: [Bond leaves; she sighs longingly] Mm, yes. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;GoldenEye&lt;/em&gt; (1995)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond: What would I ever do without you?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moneypenny: As far as I can remember, James, &lt;em&gt;you've never had me&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond: Hope springs eternal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moneypenny: You know, this sort of behaviour could qualify as sexual harassment. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond: Really? What's the penalty for that?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moneypenny: Someday, you'll have to make good on your innuendos.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond: After you, Moneypenny.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moneypenny: No, I insist. You first.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tomorrow Never Dies&lt;/em&gt; (1997)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond: I doubt if she'll remember me.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;M: Remind her. Then pump her for information.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moneypenny: You'll just have to decide how much pumping is needed, James.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond: If only that were true of you and I, Moneypenny. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The World Is Not Enough&lt;/em&gt; (1999)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moneypenny: James! Have you brought me a souvenir from your trip? Chocolates? An engagement ring?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond: I thought you might enjoy one of these. [gives Ms. Moneypenny a cigar tube]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moneypenny: How romantic. I know exactly where to put that. [throws the cigar tube in the garbage]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond: Oh Moneypenny, the story of our relationship: close, but no cigar. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="148" LastEditDate="2013-03-24T20:19:17.647" LastActivityDate="2013-03-24T20:19:17.647" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8532" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-07T07:15:32.810" Score="4" ViewCount="382" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does one decide which &quot;films&quot; need to be certified by the CBFC? Would a long special episode created only for television, with no theratrical release, require certification because it is called a &quot;movie&quot;?. Is a film defined in terms of its length or the format in which it has been released?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3550" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-12-07T17:16:50.043" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T12:37:45.713" Title="What is the CBFC's definition of a Film?" Tags="|content-rating|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8516" CreationDate="2012-12-07T08:14:43.697" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only certain types of deception or misdirection are prohibited in football; specifically, anything that simulates a snap or the beginning of a play is prohibited (so a center making jerking movements, a back starting to run forward, etc.). The talking, slow standing, moving backward, etc. is all allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, there is another rule that states that those on the line (and there must be at least 6 when the ball is snapped) must be completely set at least 1 second before the snap. Notice when Crewe is heading over to talk to Scarborough ... several linemen stand up. This is legal, but if they don't either A) get back down in their stances for at least one second, or B) stay perfectly still for at least one second, then they would be penalized. The last view we see is of Crewe, and then the ball is snapped, so we never see what the linemen do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum everything up, it is certainly plausible as a legal play, but the camera angles make it impossible to confirm or deny whether it was executed legally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT (to address rest of question):&lt;/strong&gt; Nothing throughout the rest of the movie really sticks out in my mind as being obviously illegal or implausible, although admittedly it's been 4 or 5 years since I watched the whole thing ... I refreshed my memory on Netflix of those final scenes last night. One thing to note about the final scoring play (before the two-point conversion); while the Fumblerooski is a perfectly legal play in pro football most of the time (it was banned in college football in 1992), a while ago the pro rules were changed that outlaw it in the final two minutes of either half or when it's fourth down (in those situations, the rule now states that an offensive player can only advance a fumbled ball if he is the one who fumbled it). I don't believe that rule was in effect at the time the movie was made, however, so we'd have to assume the game was being played under pro rules (or some form of house rules).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastEditorUserId="2171" LastEditDate="2012-12-07T16:11:49.813" LastActivityDate="2012-12-07T16:11:49.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8534" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8537" CreationDate="2012-12-07T08:54:22.647" Score="9" ViewCount="15811" Body="&lt;p&gt;A scorpion is visible on the drivers jacket throughout the whole film. He even asks Albert Brooks' character &quot;Did you ever hear the story of the scorpion and the frog?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does the scorpion represent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T17:42:32.690" LastActivityDate="2020-08-15T07:44:05.430" Title="What does the scorpion represent in Drive?" Tags="|analysis|drive|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8521" CreationDate="2012-12-07T08:59:54.693" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think that it's the same as many of the love scenes in all the Bonds.  You see Bond and the girl kissing then the camera fades out (or suddenly becomes very interested in a lampshade/curtain or other inanimate object).  The assumption is made that they sleep together but for the genre (not to mention the age rating) you never actually see it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is the same, it's heavily implied but you never actually see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2012-12-07T08:59:54.693" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8536" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8538" CreationDate="2012-12-07T09:05:27.370" Score="7" ViewCount="1520" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie I am looking for consists of two stories which are almost separate, almost as if someone took two movies and concatenated them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first part of the story, the protagonist learns to hypnotise people. I don’t remember much from this part except that I think he also hypnotised a cat and a dog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I remember the second part better: The protagonist somehow acquired the ability to read minds (he just “hears” other people’s thoughts). He proves this to his girlfriend, who thinks “touch my hand” and he does, and then “kiss me” and he does. He goes on to help the police sort criminals from innocents by reading their thoughts during interrogations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later at a restaurant, he “overhears” someone’s thoughts of plotting a murder. The alleged murderer comes up with the idea of burying evidence in his garden. He runs off to alarm the police and an investigation occurs in which no evidence buried in the guy’s garden is found. It later turns out that the guy is actually an author and the murder plot was for one of his crime novels. He writes under a pen name, which I believe was “Lex Fortis”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the film may have been released in the 70s or 80s, but this is a guess. It’s definitely older than 1995.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3551" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-23T12:11:40.640" LastActivityDate="2013-09-23T12:11:40.640" Title="Man learns hypnosis and mind-reading; helps police during interrogations" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:40:01.423" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8534" CreationDate="2012-12-07T09:27:36.957" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://meetsobsession.com/2011/film-animation/conversations/a-conversation-with-nicolas-winding-refn-on-his-new-film-drive-and-lead-actor-ryan-gosling/&quot;&gt;interview with the director &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nicolas W. Refn&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You talk about the idea of Drive as a superhero film, can you talk about where the idea for the scorpion symbol on Ryan’s jacket came from and the allusion to the scorpion and the frog story within the film?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I knew I wanted a satin jacket because I knew I wanted him to shine at night. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you deal with very good actors, you often let them figure out their wardrobe themselves because that’s very much how they build their characters, through wardrobe. So Ryan would go out and find a jacket that he’d feel comfortable in and he’d bring it back and we’d make it satin. A lot of them were old military jackets with symbols of eagles and other iconic American symbols, and I thought &lt;em&gt;“oh that would be great if he had a symbol on himself, like a logo!”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We decided we were going to put some kind of animal on the jacket&lt;/strong&gt;, but then by coincidence I was with the costume designer in a garage looking at how mechanics dress. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ryan was there working on his car because he was building his own car at the time, and he said that I should &lt;strong&gt;show the costume designer my visual reference for the Drive, which was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058555/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scorpio Rising&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. The film starts with the logo of a scorpion&lt;/strong&gt;, and the telekinetic minds of myself and Ryan simultaneously said &lt;em&gt;“it’s a scorpion!”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Then &lt;strong&gt;Ryan had the idea that we could use this design to incorporate &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog&quot;&gt;this story about the scorpion and the frog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and it turned out really great.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-12-07T09:27:36.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8536" CreationDate="2012-12-07T14:31:59.830" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A friend of mine found it for me. It’s called “The Misadventures of Merlin Jones” and it’s as old as 1964...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Misadventures_of_Merlin_Jones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (Wikipedia)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058355/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (IMDb)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3551" LastActivityDate="2012-12-07T14:31:59.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8543" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-08T05:25:07.917" Score="6" ViewCount="4331" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the most recent episode of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386676/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Office&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2514850/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dwight Christmas&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Jim very enthusiastically supports Dwight's Christmas party plans.  And he seems to genuinely enjoy the party, in all of its awkwardness.  Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seemed entirely uncharacteristic of Jim.  Whenever he supports one of Dwight's unusual schemes, it's because Jim is trying to set Dwight up for failure. What was different about this time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastActivityDate="2012-12-09T00:28:08.817" Title="Why was Jim so enthusiastic about Dwight's Christmas party?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-office|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8543" CreationDate="2012-12-08T17:52:31.687" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there was quite a bit of sarcasm/irony behind Jim's enthusiasm for Dwight's Christmas party.  Messing with Dwight is one of Jim's favorite hobbies, and with his impending departure to Philadelphia, he knows he won't get many more chances.  Hearing Dwight describe his family's Christmas traditions, Jim seems to realize that an office party organized around them will have tremendous train wreck appeal, so he enthusiastically supports the idea.  Jim's sarcasm is subtle, but it's clear in one line where he refers to Dwight's Christmas dishes and characters &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm not understanding the confusion.  Am I the only one who wants to try Hufflepuffs, and Schnauserhosen, and meet this Glennpickle guy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also pretty clear in a later scene when Dwight appears as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belsnickel&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Belsnickel&lt;/a&gt;, and Jim comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So he's kind of like Santa, only dirty and worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2012-12-08T17:52:31.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8543" CreationDate="2012-12-08T18:45:03.783" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Bill about the sarcasm. Jim was not so much interested in the party because he thought it would be good, but specifically because he thought it would be a crazy mess like most of his other experiences with Dwight’s life (like the B&amp;amp;B he stayed in).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also agree that because Jim is expecting to leave the office, he may have been a little saddened that he would more than likely not be keeping in touch with Dwight and thus miss out on future craziness, so he wanted to have a last bash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think that there were a couple of more points that explain his behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He was hyped up about his trip to Philawhatever and the prospect of a new (and presumably more entertaining, not to mention lucrative) job. The endorphins and adrenaline would have made him a little less rational and a lot more excitable. Plus, he probably had a couple of egg-nogs. &lt;code&gt;;-)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He knew that leaving the office and Pam to jet off to Philly at Christmas time was pretty bad timing and he may have been perceived as selfish or more interested in work than friends and family, so by getting everybody wrapped up in Dwight’s craziness, he could distract them from his absence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think Jim really did get caught up in the festivities, especially when he found a way to arrange things so that he could go to the meeting, but also stay for the party. This is probably due to his realization that his life is going to change and he will not be seeing these people whom he has grown fond of over the years. This nostalgia and sadness caused/allowed him to drop the sarcastic pretense and genuinely enjoy his last Christmas party at the The Office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2012-12-09T00:28:08.817" LastActivityDate="2012-12-09T00:28:08.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8549" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8551" CreationDate="2012-12-08T18:54:20.723" Score="15" ViewCount="5475" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a big fan of this movie. However I did not understand what Will's major problem was? He was a mathematical genius but did not care about academic or financial success. I do get that he was a victim of violence from his childhood and Sean Maguire helps him to overcome his problems. In the end he tells him that &quot;It's not your fault&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still don't get how did that help him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3538" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T18:14:31.217" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T18:14:31.217" Title="Will's problem in Good Will Hunting" Tags="|good-will-hunting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8550" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8580" CreationDate="2012-12-08T20:57:34.883" Score="6" ViewCount="1587" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to figure out if matinees (and the subsequent matinee prices) have always been a part of movie history or if they were adopted later on. I know &lt;code&gt;matinee&lt;/code&gt; was adopted by the English from the French in the 19th century to mean daytime (for daytime performance) (even though the French matinee means morning). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T22:51:38.340" Title="When did theaters first start showing matinees or giving matinee discounts?" Tags="|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8549" CreationDate="2012-12-08T21:03:31.267" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like many victims of child abuse, Will Hunting was consumed by shame about what happened to him, and to avoid painful reminders of the shame, he used defensive techniques such as underachieving to avoid failure (like with his choice of jobs) and sabotaging relationships to avoid intimacy (like with his girlfriend). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sean Maguire helped Will begin to move past the shame -- and, presumably, to get more out of life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2012-12-08T21:10:54.527" LastActivityDate="2012-12-08T21:10:54.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8412" CreationDate="2012-12-08T23:48:05.753" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes and no, although this version of an omnitrix exists in the final ep. of B10:UA, the Ben of the future of B10:UA who had knowledge of the events involving the temporal villian Eon is seen only using an Ultramatrix of the same design as the Ben of the present. While it is possible Ben simple returned to using the more combat oriented model in the future no such explination has been offered. However, concidering the term 'omniverse' indicates multiple universes are involved, and the fact that the personality of this Ben is definitively different from that of B10:AF&amp;amp;UA, it is more likely this is yet another Ben Tennyson who may at some later date interact with the B10:AF&amp;amp;UA universe.  Unfortunately, the B10 series are notorious for unexplained changes to continuity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3561" LastActivityDate="2012-12-08T23:48:05.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3552" CreationDate="2012-12-09T00:12:14.680" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole ending is up for interpretation and how Lucius retrieves the Bat seems to be part of it. When he first shows Bruce the Bat it is a prototype, and he tells Bruce &quot;and yes it does come in black.&quot; This suggests to me there is more than one. The black one Bruce uses, the one we see the techs in at the end is the original prototype first shown to Bruce. As someone said, when Bruce fixes the autopilot on his black Bat, maybe it synchs with the prototype. The techs said it was fixed 6 months ago. So the autopilot is working long before Bruce takes the Bat out across the bay. The confusing thing is why he tells Selina there is no autopilot. Perhaps just to throw her off to enhance his planned fake death, not to mention just a way of tricking the audience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3562" LastActivityDate="2012-12-09T00:12:14.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8183" CreationDate="2012-12-09T03:48:32.240" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I remember, the heroine belongs to a chilly, oppressive Christian church which specifically forbids the ringing of bells even on special occasions.  The movie views her as a kind of saint or martyr who suffers willingly for her disabled husband and finally offers her life by submitting again to the men on the sea.  So when she dies, the ringing of giant bells shows that she has risen above that religious oppression, perhaps to heaven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3392" LastActivityDate="2012-12-09T03:48:32.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8527" CreationDate="2012-12-09T06:34:45.707" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't feel as though Richard Harrow had any politcal or motivation or intentions of revenge when he re-entered that brothel fully armed and ready. He has been crafted as a character of loyalty and integrity, who strongly values the commitments he makes. When he killed Manny Horvitz it was only to avenge Angela's death, because she was an innocent victim. If you recall, he met with Nucky shortly after that incident and ensured him that he was not in danger. Jimmy's death didn't need to be avenged because he was a soldier who went to war, already knowing what he was in for. Richard Harrow is a man who acts on loyalty and morals. He made a promise to Jimmy, that Tommy would be taken care of. And for that this little boy is the number one priority in Richard's life. He considered the circumstances of a child, living in a brothel currently occupied by a ruthless gang of criminals. When Jillan casted him out of the picture he knew that Tommy would not be safe, and he was driven by his responsibility to do something about it. He also knew his re-entrance into that home wouldn't happen without a fight, so he was prepared to go to war. I believe that his only objective was to get Tommy out, no matter what it took to do so. Despite the political impact of his final act of valor, politics was not his intended purpose. I credit the writers with placing him in the position of an inadvertant hero. It's been said that acts of selflessness often speak the loudest. Richard was a force of nature, a very loud and poetic one at that. And he really is just that damned good!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3563" LastActivityDate="2012-12-09T06:34:45.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8556" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8557" CreationDate="2012-12-09T07:33:39.483" Score="7" ViewCount="30317" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Sound of Music&lt;/em&gt;, who &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; Max Detweiler, a.k.a. Uncle Max? I know he mooches off rich people. That much is obvious. But how does he know the Captain and the Baroness, and why do all the children know him so well that they call him Uncle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1062" LastEditorUserId="113" LastEditDate="2012-12-09T12:46:33.803" LastActivityDate="2012-12-09T15:17:38.597" Title="What is Max Detweiler's relationship with the other characters?" Tags="|character|the-sound-of-music|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8556" CreationDate="2012-12-09T13:43:17.250" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Uncle Max is not actually a blood relative, merely a friend of their father's.&#xA;In this instance, the 'Uncle' title is an informal title for a close friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's actually more information (that may or may not have any bearing on his role in the story) here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0008786/bio&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb Bio&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-12-09T13:43:17.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2072" CreationDate="2012-12-09T15:00:09.463" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can possibly rectify this with string theory by extrapolating that these two universes are already converging, making it easier to cross between them as opposed to other universes. This would also explain why they both have so many similarities like the fact that human life exists on a planet with identical composition and that many of the people have genetic equals in both universes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3564" LastActivityDate="2012-12-09T15:00:09.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8556" CreationDate="2012-12-09T15:17:38.597" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Sound of Music&lt;/em&gt; is loosely based on the first part of the book, &lt;em&gt;The Story of the Trapp Family Singers&lt;/em&gt;. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/von-trapps.html&quot;&gt;real life&lt;/a&gt;, the von Trapps' priest, the Reverend Franz Wasner, acted as their musical director for over 20 years, and the father of the family, Georg, was actually an active participant in the music rather than the strict and distant disciplinarian we see in the film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film sought to show Maria as a healing force for the family, so painted the father as remote (much to the actual Trapp family's disappointment).  The film  creators then needed another character to act as the musical promoter, as the family priest would have been unlikely to act in this role if Georg was not approving. &quot;Max&quot; was a colorful choice, obviously well-known to Georg (he is the only one to call Georg by his first name) and thus able to nudge the father in this direction.  His motive for promoting the singing group was money, though he clearly was fond of the family. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie does not expressly convey how Max came to know Georg or the Baroness, but simply showed him to be enamored by wealth with the ability to charm his way into the family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-12-09T15:17:38.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8561" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8562" CreationDate="2012-12-10T01:54:20.927" Score="20" ViewCount="10383" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noted that there is typically a maximum of 24 episodes per a season in a TV show. What is the reason for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3377" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-12-10T03:52:25.057" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T04:00:49.647" Title="Why are there typically no more than 24 episodes in a TV Season?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8561" CreationDate="2012-12-10T02:47:05.917" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 52 weeks in a year.&#xA;American TV series usually go from the end of September to May, about 34-35 weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before the late 1960s, a television season was closer to about 30 episodes in the United States.[&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_season#North_American_usage&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;]  [&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Television_program&amp;amp;oldid=526760163#North_American_usage&quot;&gt;Version&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most shows go on hiatus over the winter holidays and thanksgiving, due to lower viewership.  Events such as the president of the United States giving a speech, also usually means that there will be no new television that night.  In the 2012-2013 year, there were 3 presidential debates and election night, so there was no new television for any of those nights.  Some episodes end up not being shown on the originally-planned day because of being pre-empted by athletics games.  There are some series that have 2-hour specials which cut into other shows at certain points in the season.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to have time to air all the episodes produced, the networks generally order seasons of 22-26 episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3394" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T02:47:05.917" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8568" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8570" CreationDate="2012-12-10T14:01:23.937" Score="2" ViewCount="3009" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you call the green backgrounds which are used to create CGI backgrounds, weather reports etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is green color always used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3377" LastEditorUserId="3394" LastEditDate="2012-12-11T01:41:55.760" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T15:26:15.957" Title="What is the green background? (&quot;green screen&quot;)" Tags="|production|effects|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8569" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8701" CreationDate="2012-12-10T14:03:28.250" Score="12" ViewCount="1068" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070735/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Sting&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; again this weekend. I know that the pay-off at the end netted the grifters a lot of money, but even before that Gondorff, Hooker, and Twist are spending left and right. Clothes, a make-over, equipment and real-estate.  Buying paint, train tickets, hiring 20-30 guys is expensive. Just where did all the start up cash come from? How much did it cost to run &quot;The Sting&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3569" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-12-10T15:16:35.140" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T05:12:01.503" Title="How much money did it take to run &quot;The Sting&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-sting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8568" CreationDate="2012-12-10T14:08:05.403" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chroma key is the effect used to replace a single color with video from another source.  Commonly called &quot;green screen&quot;, other colors, originally blue, and now orange or magenta can also be used, depending on the subject and effect desired.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_key&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; has a fairly detailed description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3569" LastEditorUserId="1801" LastEditDate="2012-12-11T15:26:15.957" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T15:26:15.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8035" CreationDate="2012-12-10T14:20:22.773" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I found it !&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is titled &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112733/&quot;&gt;&quot;Crazy for a kiss&quot;&lt;/a&gt;; a tv movie for which I have not seen a cover even no wonder how hard it was to find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title doesn't help either as it is not romantic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did I find it? - I knew the actor was in movies of the kind i pointed so I regularly went to IMDB and watch pictures of any teenager that looked similar to the main actor.. and a few days ago I found shaun weiss. - his big change of look didnt help either :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, I don't seem to find any way of getting a copy of this movie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3410" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T14:20:22.773" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8572" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8581" CreationDate="2012-12-10T14:44:50.047" Score="12" ViewCount="5597" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince&quot; in the end of the &quot;That's for my father&quot; incident with Malfoy on the Hogwarts Express, Luna Lovegood finds Harry Potter under his cloak with the help of Wrackspurts revealing glasses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the books this cloaks make the wearer invisible for any charms and spells. Is this a plot inconsistency or just a screenwriter have written a bit of nonsense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user3192" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditorDisplayName="user3192" LastEditDate="2016-11-22T10:34:01.597" LastActivityDate="2016-11-23T13:06:28.957" Title="Does Harry's cloak make the wearer invisible to all charms and spells?" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|the-half-blood-prince|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8568" CreationDate="2012-12-10T15:12:55.967" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are called &quot;green screens&quot; because of their green appearance.  Green is used because it's one of the colors lesser worn on people.  For example, they used to have blue screens, but if the person was wearing blue jeans then their legs would disappear instead of just the background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Jim Green mentioned there are other colored screens as well, probably to use in different situations depending on what people are wearing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T15:12:55.967" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8572" CreationDate="2012-12-10T15:48:46.333" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, in the books, it's Tonks who got Harry off the train.  She did so with the use of a spell, the same way Malfoy petrified him.  While it is completely possible to still affect the person wearing the cloak with spells, it's also feasible she could have used the glasses to &quot;see&quot; Harry.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3541" LastActivityDate="2012-12-10T15:48:46.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8575" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8576" CreationDate="2012-12-10T16:38:49.997" Score="18" ViewCount="13621" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie District 9, Wikus van der Merwe goes through a transformation into an alien after being exposed to an alien artifact. Throughout the development of the story, it is revealed that the artifact contains a type of fuel needed to operate the alien ship. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Wikus first discovered the artifact, he tried to open it. Some of the contents was expelled (looked like it may be under pressure) into his face, triggering the transformation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the substance that triggered the transformation, and the fuel collected by the alien Christopher the same thing? In addition, given the potent nature of the substance that affected Wikus, would he not have been spreading it to everyone he came into contact with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="251" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-10T17:53:57.327" LastActivityDate="2017-06-09T05:53:54.933" Title="Did the fuel transform Wikus, or was it something else?" Tags="|plot-explanation|district-9|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8575" CreationDate="2012-12-10T17:38:54.463" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both the fluids are same, as it's revealed in the plot lines of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Christopher discloses that the fluid in the canister is fuel which&#xA;  would allow him to reactivate the dormant mothership and reverse&#xA;  Wikus' mutation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we saw in the movie only Wikus transforms into an alien. That means only direct contact with fuel triggers the transformation (but it's just a speculation). The nature of the fuel is never explained in the movie, it's just an alien spacecraft fuel of unknown origin/properties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per &lt;a href=&quot;http://district9.wikia.com/wiki/The_Fluid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;District 9 Wikia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Fluid is a liquid that seems to fuel everything that the Prawns&#xA;  use like their weapons and ships. The Fluid probably powers their&#xA;  everyday technology on their home planet. It also seems to contain&#xA;  prawn DNA, where the observed effects of coming into contact with&#xA;  Wikus seemed to initiate a genetic reaction, eventually resulting in&#xA;  his apparent transformation into a Prawn. It seems 1 canister of The&#xA;  Fluid can power a whole ship for hyperspace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="16523" LastEditDate="2016-08-28T09:50:30.227" LastActivityDate="2016-08-28T09:50:30.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8578" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9798" CreationDate="2012-12-10T22:37:25.177" Score="10" ViewCount="4116" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1967 Soviet film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_%281967_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Анна Каренина&lt;/a&gt; directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi, there is a race sequence during which Count Vronsky's horse, Frou-Frou, is seriously injured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened to the horse which performed this stunt? It seems impossible the real horse survived.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is &lt;em&gt;the least&lt;/em&gt; violent picture of the sequence (I cannot even watch the other pictures: remember the horse is going &lt;em&gt;full speed&lt;/em&gt;):&#xA; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6HSIC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has someone any piece of information about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="67" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-01-22T00:18:57.400" LastActivityDate="2017-01-22T00:18:57.400" Title="What happened to Frou-Frou in the 1967 Soviet film Anna Karenina?" Tags="|effects|stunts|anna-karenina|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8181" CreationDate="2012-12-11T00:06:12.790" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am surprised no one has suggested a bullet proof vest as the explanation. The first shot, hitting Bond in the shoulder, is above the location of any kevlar plates. This shot leaves an entry wound and shrapnel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second shot, that knocks Bond off the train, makes impact around his ribs on his right side. If Bond did have a bullet proof vest on, this area is likely to be covered. The impact from the bullet is transferred through the kevlar plate/s onto a larger area of Bonds body. Rather than penetrating his ribcage, and leaving an entry wound, the vest stops the bullet. Stopping the bullet before it enters his body imparts a lot more force onto Bond, which explains him being thrown off the train. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also explains the 4 broken ribs and minor organ damage. Bullet wounds are typically puncture wounds, deep and localised. Without a vest, Bond would have suffered much more serious organ damage as the bullet tears through him. Bullet proof vests typically leave blunt trauma injuries, affecting larger areas, and are not likely to leave scarring. One direct bullet wound is not likely to break 3 ribs, however the impact through a kevlar plate definitely is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3571" LastEditorUserId="3571" LastEditDate="2012-12-11T11:45:42.527" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T11:45:42.527" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8550" CreationDate="2012-12-11T02:32:35.987" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first part of your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-12-07/news/9712070335_1_audience-bum-rap-musicals-in-broadway-history&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chicago Tribune&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to Facts on File's Dictionary of the Theatre, the first matinee was in 1843, at New York's Olympic Theater. The same entry goes on to state that &quot;they tend to attract audiences consisting of children and organized outings.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Couldn't find info on the history of matinee pricing.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openisbn.com/isbn/9780816019458/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; book was mentioned in the linked article and might have an answer.  It's viewable on a website, but it requires a research subscription.  A lot of large research universities offer these resources to students free of charge, so someone else might be able to go check.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3394" LastEditorUserId="3394" LastEditDate="2012-12-11T15:42:43.940" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T15:42:43.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8572" CreationDate="2012-12-11T09:02:14.567" Score="13" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But in the books this cloaks make the wearer invisible for(&lt;em&gt;from&lt;/em&gt;) any charms and spells.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This assumption is incorrect on your part. I would like to draw your attention to the scene right before Dumbledore is killed by Snape. Harry and Dumbledore come back to Hogwarts after destroying a Horcrux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'Go and wake Severus,'  said Dumbledore faintly but clearly. Tell him &#xA;  what has happened and bring him to me. Do nothing else, speak to nobody &#xA;  else and do not remove your Cloak. I shall wait here.' &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at this point we have established that Harry &lt;strong&gt;is wearing&lt;/strong&gt; the cloak of invisibility. Now, cut to the scene where Dumbledore is disarmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Then, by the light of the Mark, he saw Dumbledore's wand flying in an &#xA;  arc over the edge of the ramparts and understood ... Dumbledore had &#xA;  wordlessly immobilised Harry, and the second he had taken to perform the &#xA;  spell had cost him the chance of defending himself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This proves that the wearer of the invisibility cloak is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; immune to spells and charms but merely &lt;strong&gt;invisible&lt;/strong&gt; to the naked eye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2016-11-23T13:06:28.957" LastActivityDate="2016-11-23T13:06:28.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8582" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8586" CreationDate="2012-12-11T11:30:20.807" Score="12" ViewCount="4496" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Skyfall, the contract killer Patrice travels to Shanghai where he forces entry into a skyscraper and shoots a man in an adjacent building with his sniper rifle, when he is attacked and inadvertedly thrown out of the window by Bond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B7prQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Patrice&quot;&gt; (image source: official international trailer)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The assassionation target is in a room with several people, including Sévérine, none of whom seem to be surprised by the fact that the target ends up with a bullet in his head the second he is being shown an obviously valuable painting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later Bond finds out that Sévérine hired Patrice for the hit, leaving me with the following questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did the target want to die? Was it an arranged suicide by an art lover? If so, why go through all the trouble? Flying in a contract killer, breaking into a building, killing a guard. A simple bullet in the head from a gun would have been so much easier. What's the point?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it was murder instead, still the question: If everyone in the room was in on it, why all the trouble? There is a high chance that something could go wrong. Patrice could miss or trigger an alarm while entering the building. Killing the target from 1m distance seems a lot easier. Also it would save a lot of money. (Patrice was paid multiple million dollars for the contract)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T23:10:38.947" Title="Was Patrice hired for murder or suicide?" Tags="|plot-explanation|skyfall|james-bond|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8582" CreationDate="2012-12-11T12:06:55.860" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seemed to me that it was for murder. I think the reason they went through so much effort is so they could dispose of the body and hide any evidence of wrong doings. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be much easier for them the get the target if they are compliant so a set up of some sort of art deal was manifested in order to relax the target into a chair to ensure there would be no struggle or noise from them which could result in them getting caught.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2164" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T12:06:55.860" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8582" CreationDate="2012-12-11T13:50:14.613" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I just want to note that I've only seen the film once, so I'm going by memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that the whole plot, from the youtube videos to the leak about Patrice's whereabouts, to Silva's capture on the island, was &lt;em&gt;all part of Silva's plan&lt;/em&gt;.  Whether Patrice succeeded in his assassination attempt or not, he was bait for Bond to follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it didn't matter if Sévérine knew before hand about the assassination attempt.  The painting she was showing was Modigliani's Woman with a Fan, a real painting stolen in 2010 and never recovered.  I'm sure that the last thing on her mind was to draw attention to the sale of stolen art.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to answer your question, while I think it was for murder, the murder was not the ultimate goal.  Leaving a &quot;crumb trail&quot; for Bond was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3569" LastEditorUserId="556" LastEditDate="2012-12-11T17:54:00.993" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T17:54:00.993" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2613" CreationDate="2012-12-11T16:32:29.780" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's also the US constitution to consider.  The 3rd movie made clear that mutants were now recognized by the government and receiving representation on the president's cabinet.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment to the US Constitution says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Section 1.&#xA;  All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; &lt;strong&gt;nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.&lt;/strong&gt; [&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;US Constitution&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With these rights, Magneto's treatment before and during the events of X2 were illegal, and likely received much outrage when brought to light at the end of X2.  The third film also discusses the morality of a 'cure', and the use of the 'cure' in weaponized form.  This could also be a major legal/political issue, and likely angered a large portion of the mutant community.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a president that is supportive of mutant rights, and as it could be believed that the 'cure' was final, it's possible that the government either pardoned or decided not to prosecute a now-broken old man who is believed to no longer be capable of posing a threat.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3394" LastEditorUserId="3394" LastEditDate="2012-12-11T19:17:25.090" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T19:17:25.090" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8572" CreationDate="2012-12-11T17:06:29.717" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I understood the scene, Luna was able to see the wrackspurts around him.  I see it being similar to how flies might be circling an invisible trash can.  Luna's beliefs in such things may be considered insane by most of the wizarding community, but I guess that's just how they decided to do the scene.  Therefore, I would say it's a plot inconsistency/hole.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to those who feel that Dumbledore's ability to immobilize Harry at the end of book 6 is evidence that the cloak does not ward against spells or magical abilities, we must remember that this is Dumbledore we're talking about.  Dumbledore is considered the most powerful wizard in living memory, possibly of all time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In book 2, it's hinted that he was able to see through Harry's&#xA;invisibility cloak in the scene with Hagrid being arrested and&#xA;Dumbledore being removed from the school.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In book 7, it's stated that invisibility cloaks are not infallible,&#xA;that the charm or effect wears off over time.  Dumbledore rejects the&#xA;belief that the hallows were created by 'death' instead believing&#xA;they were just created by 3 very powerful wizards.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that is the case, then it can simply be explained by Dumbledore's petrification spell being strong enough to pierce any protections that the invisibility cloak might have.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in book 7 it's also shown that Harry's invisibility cloak was resistant to spells:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Thief's Downfall, supposed to remove any magical effects, did not&#xA;affect the cloak when they broke into Gringott's.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Harry, Ron, and Hermione apparate into Hogsmeade, a Death Eater&#xA;hears the noise and attempts to summon the cloak off of them, which&#xA;has no effect, not even a minimal one. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, In the beginning of book 6, it's shown that Draco Malfoy used &lt;em&gt;Petrificus Totalus&lt;/em&gt; on Harry while he is invisible due to the invisibility cloak, on the train ride to Hogwarts.  While Malfoy's abilities are noted to have increased significantly between books 5 and 6, it is all but guaranteed that he was still nowhere near Dumbledore's capabilities.  With the events in book 7 displaying the resistance properties of the invisibility cloak more prominently than any of the previous books, I think this is just a plot hole, this time by J K Rowling.  As above, a death eater's spell had no effect on the cloak and the Thief's Downfall securing Gringott's from magical intrusion is likely to be a far more powerful effect than Malfoy's &lt;em&gt;Petrificus Totalus&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3394" LastEditorUserId="3394" LastEditDate="2012-12-11T19:50:56.150" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T19:50:56.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8591" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-11T17:43:44.213" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-11T17:43:44.213" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T17:43:44.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8592" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-11T17:43:44.213" Score="0" Body="Refers to the films presented entirely in black and white." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-11T18:11:01.077" LastActivityDate="2012-12-11T18:11:01.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8593" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8628" CreationDate="2012-12-11T22:32:20.180" Score="2" ViewCount="395" Body="&lt;p&gt;A friend is going as Dr No for his Christmas party, and wants to make sure he gets all the finer details down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I decided to go the whole hog and have built myself a surprisingly&#xA;  accurate Dr. No radiation suit (photos to follow).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But, I'm stuck on a finer detail. Does he have all 5 fingers on both&#xA;  hands in the movie? &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_No&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_No&lt;/a&gt; suggests&#xA;  yes, but I thought one hand was more crippled that the other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone provide definitive evidence of the state of his fingers in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And are there any other key distinguishing features that he needs to ensure he has?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="366" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-02T07:45:33.560" LastActivityDate="2013-05-02T07:45:33.560" Title="Does Dr No have all his fingers?" Tags="|character|james-bond|dr-no|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3775" CreationDate="2012-12-12T00:06:37.710" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure about the 1990 version, but I just watched the 2012 version.  This is what happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quaid was working for Cohagen to infiltrate and kill the rebel leader, Mythias(?).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quaid met Melina, then fell in love and was convinced that Cohagen must be stopped.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quaid was captured by Cohagen's men (showed in the beginning), THEN GOT BRAINSHED into    thinking that the bitch cop was his wife and that he was working at the factory.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;BW-Quaid regains memory when he goes to the Rekall shop because he wanted a double-agent memory, but since he actually WAS one, cops showed up, he reacted by killing the cops, then started to run away.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The rest is him just finding out about his true identity and stopping the Cohagen's invasion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, to answer your question. My guess is that Cohagen knew the rebel would look for Quaid and try to convince him to give them the nonexistent &quot;kill code&quot; for the &quot;synthetics.&quot;  This also works because if the plan had gone smoothly, then no police would have gotten hurt or killed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3575" LastActivityDate="2012-12-12T00:06:37.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8598" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8608" CreationDate="2012-12-12T05:45:00.230" Score="13" ViewCount="3494" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a memory of watching a movie on TV when I was a kid. I wasn't familiar with anime at the time, but looking back I believe it was anime. I would have watched it sometime between 1982 and 1986 on broadcast TV in Cleveland, OH.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot focused on a man who was an apprentice magician or sorcerer. His master made him kidnap people, who would then be transformed into roughly human-shaped building blocks that the sorcerer then used to expand his castle. The apprentice knew what he was doing was evil, but went along with it to protect his little sister. He bides his time, covertly working to ultimately defeat his master and save all the people who have been taken and have used as building material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the gist of the movie as I remember it, but I'm aware that memory is imperfect. Hopefully it's enough to be identifiable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3577" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-23T12:08:57.813" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T02:48:02.427" Title="Apprentice magician kidnaps people to turn them into human-shaped building blocks" Tags="|anime|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:40:04.583" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8602" CreationDate="2012-12-12T07:05:09.030" Score="8" ViewCount="1274" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not read the Game of Thrones books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at the same time I have heard of people complaining that there has been deviation from the plot and a lot of characters merit more development and presence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has there been a huge difference from the plot of the books when translated to the TV Series or has the series been true to the plot of the books?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;P.S.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Please confine yourselves to events that have occurred till the end of Season 2.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2012-12-13T05:04:17.377" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T22:03:05.993" Title="Differences in plot or character among Game of Thrones TV adaptation and book" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|book-adaptation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8601" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-12T10:28:40.190" Score="1" ViewCount="1526" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampire_Diaries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Vampire Diaries&lt;/a&gt;, S01E11, Why does Damon takes Elena to a far off city and then to a bar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was his purpose? In an earlier episode it was said that he does everything with a purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="5605" LastEditDate="2013-07-29T18:24:59.443" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T05:49:45.943" Title="Damon taking Elena to a faroff city and bar?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-vampire-diaries|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8599" CreationDate="2012-12-12T11:01:13.743" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ign.com/wikis/game-of-thrones/TV-Book_Differences&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IGN - TV-Book Differences&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Point of View:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Since the plot in the novel is told from the viewpoints of the principal cast of characters, the show fleshes out certain key scenes that are either absent from the book, implied, or talked about in other chapters. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Character Names:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Certain characters have undergone a name change for the TV series to avoid confusion. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Character Appearance:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Certain characters within the series have been played by actors who do not share the same physical traits as the said characters. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Some characters' races have been changed in the show as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Character Additions, Omissions, and Mergers:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;e.g. &lt;em&gt;Talisa of Volantis&lt;/em&gt;, a character not featured in the book, replaces &lt;em&gt;Jeyne Westerling&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some minor characters, like &lt;em&gt;Alton Lannister&lt;/em&gt; are substitutions to help move forward key scenes that involve characters omitted from the show.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Certain characters had their fates altered and are killed off differently or earlier in the story. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some characters introduced in book 1 or 2 are absent from season 1 or 2, respectively and may appear in later seasons. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;[&lt;strong&gt;Click the link to see more examples/details, including a breakdown by season&lt;/strong&gt;]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Differences_between_books_and_TV_series&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Wiki&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; also has an extensive list of differences:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Differences_between_books_and_TV_series_-_Season_1&quot;&gt;Season 1 Differences&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Differences_between_books_and_TV_series_-_Season_2&quot;&gt;Season 2 Differences&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2012-12-13T09:37:38.573" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T09:37:38.573" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6841" CreationDate="2012-12-12T11:45:23.653" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course he time traveled.  He went back once before, saved his ex girlfriend by crashing his car into her house.  He must've run the original deadly car off the road before crashing into her house.   He wanted to return  again so he could prevent himself from crashing into her house in the hopes of getting her back but then he met Darius and he changed his mission to save her mother.  Which is where they went in the end.  Great movie!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3581" LastActivityDate="2012-12-12T11:45:23.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8065" CreationDate="2012-12-12T15:31:09.490" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd have to go back and watch it again to see what specific scenes you're referring to, but in I Am Anne Frank (both parts) the style shifts a few times. WWII-era flashback scenes are stylized to look like documentary footage, and I remember the flashback scenes when her husband recounts how her delusion developed also shifted style to something more akin to how scenes shot at that time would look. I take it to symbolize that these scenes are being told from the narrating character's viewpoint, so the visuals gain that period-documentary look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a scene in Part 2 that is styled to resemble a late-60's sitcom. This, I believe, is also done to reflect the viewpoint of her husband, evoking the &quot;perfect family&quot; archetype that pervaded tv shows then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3577" LastEditorUserId="3577" LastEditDate="2012-12-12T15:36:12.433" LastActivityDate="2012-12-12T15:36:12.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8606" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-12T15:44:37.177" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Licence to Kill is a 1989 British spy movie and the sixteenth James Bond film. It is also Timothy Dalton's second and final performance in the role of James Bond. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/james-bond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'james-bond'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;james-bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(literary_character)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for James Bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia list of James Bond movies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_to_Kill&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Licence to Kill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097742/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Licence to Kill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T07:37:42.137" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T07:37:42.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8607" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-12T15:44:37.177" Score="0" Body="A 1989 British spy movie and the sixteenth James Bond film. It is also Timothy Dalton's second and final performance in the role of James Bond. " OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T03:25:29.973" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T03:25:29.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8598" CreationDate="2012-12-12T16:04:47.477" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unico#Unico_in_the_Island_of_Magic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Unico in the Island of Magic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The summary on Wikipedia only mentions the block people being used as slaves, but they certainly look like they could be used as the walls in a castle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VawE2.png&quot; alt=&quot;Human-shaped building block&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, you still have the evil wizard and the young apprentice working to protect his sister while turning people into blocks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2069" LastActivityDate="2012-12-12T16:04:47.477" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6895" CreationDate="2012-12-12T16:51:44.317" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The dress reminds me of a skin for a champion of League of Legends named &lt;a href=&quot;http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Evelynn/Background&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Evelynn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Slightly NSFW as the character's base skin has very skimpy garments)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tIR6k.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though she is not a villain in the game itself, she is known as &lt;strong&gt;The Widowmaker&lt;/strong&gt; and when picked in the game, generally causes a lot of panic to the opponents, as she has a deadly stealth mechanic and is typically known for nuking enemies, when played properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-12T17:07:40.650" LastActivityDate="2012-12-12T17:07:40.650" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1179" CreationDate="2012-12-12T17:14:39.917" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Kate supposedly survived the Thing's existence and even made it back to civilization or another Artic Camp for help, she would be able to warn others of her experience. If she died, then the chance for a sequel would be slim. Unless...and here is your possible sequel to the prequel of the original story: All that happened during the John Carpenter film took place before she could make her way back to civilization or for &quot;Help&quot;, and the sequel can pick up at the end of the Carpenter film with teams arriving and finding Childs and Macready either frozen or waiting in the fire. &#xA;Sorry for the Rantyness...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastEditorUserId="3582" LastEditDate="2012-12-13T13:15:56.980" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T13:15:56.980" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8613" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-12T18:17:25.217" Score="18" ViewCount="34850" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can believe Teddy's lies then he was a cop who had worked on the case of the break in, attack on Leonard and rape of Leonard's wife. He then worked with Leonard and helped him track down and kill John G. Teddy claims that he believed in Leonard and thought that helping him track down the killer would help Leonard feel peace. Now Teddy is an outside observer so he knows very well what Leonard's condition is, also since he was there since the initial investigation he knows how much Leonard has warped his own reality of what happened. So why is Teddy using Leonard? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Teddy seems to at the best be a dirty undercover cop (if he's even still a cop at all) at the worst he's a drug dealer(and may be the original John G.). He seems to be using Leonard to kill people whether it's some form of vigilante justice or just killing the competition it doesn't really make sense why he would use someone who not only couldn't be trusted from literally minute to minute but who also had to be led around and talked into every action. I can see the usefulness of a revenge obsessed man who has the perfect documented alibi of &quot;I can't remember what I did or who I was with&quot;, but it seems like a lot of effort and patience for not much payout. Is Teddy getting some actual satisfaction from making Leonard happy or does Leonard just amuse Teddy? Does Teddy even feel like he needs to help Leonard?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking why does Teddy help Leonard?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="645" LastEditDate="2012-12-12T20:29:09.377" LastActivityDate="2020-04-30T03:39:01.833" Title="Why was Teddy using Leonard in Memento?" Tags="|analysis|memento|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8613" CreationDate="2012-12-12T19:33:13.633" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy's only interest is profit.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outside of some self-serving dialogue from the untrustworthy Teddy himself, nothing in the movie suggests Teddy was ever acting out of kindness. Instead, the movie shows Teddy trick Leonard into killing Jimmy because Teddy had stolen from Jimmy -- which is definitely not a way to &quot;help&quot; Leonard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Teddy is not a nice person -- he's a scheming criminal. And after gaining an understanding of Leonard's memory problem (reportedly as the cop assigned to the case, although that could be a lie) Teddy realizes he can get Leonard to do some of the dirty work required to rip off bad guys:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;You're not a killer. That's why you're so good at it.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Cheer up. There's plenty of John Gs for us to find.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2013-01-04T03:10:20.393" LastActivityDate="2013-01-04T03:10:20.393" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8615" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10321" CreationDate="2012-12-12T19:52:25.713" Score="14" ViewCount="1226" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the James Bond movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonraker_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Moonraker (1979)&lt;/a&gt;, the earliest plot development is the theft of a Moonraker shuttle from the back of a 747 &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Carrier_Aircraft&quot;&gt;SCA&lt;/a&gt;, which, according to Bond (approx. 9m 36s into the film), &quot;crashed somewhere in the Yukon&quot; (with no trace of the shuttle, of course!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know from the same scene that the shuttle was being loaned from the Americans to the British, and that the shuttle is manufactured in California. We also know that the loaned shuttle was almost definitely destined for Britain, as in an earlier scene a pilot (or navigator) says that the 747 will &quot;pass over the English coast 15 minutes ahead of time.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: &lt;strong&gt;why would the 747 have crashed in the Yukon?&lt;/strong&gt; Assuming that the Moonraker was being flown from California to Britain—e.g., from San Francisco to London—the shortest great circle arc comes nowhere near overflying the Yukon (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=SFO-LHR&quot;&gt;SFO-LHR route&lt;/a&gt;). Even using relatively northerly locations in California and Britain, such as Crescent City, California, and Perth, Scotland, the 747 still wouldn't have overflown the Yukon. (In fact, it looks like the only air routes originating in the US that would overfly the Yukon using optimal great circle paths would be from Hawaii or from certain Alaskan airports.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible explanations I have thought of that don't call the film's script into question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I realize that some airline routes take weather/air patterns into account, but I don't see anything that would suggest that an optimal California–Britain route would take such a northerly course.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or is it feasible that that the 747 could have flown long enough off-course to crash in the Yukon? (I know, this raises questions about the damage the 747 sustained during the Moonraker theft; the film's effects show that the plane is intact but engulfed in flames, pitching way down and rolling sharply right—see approx. the 1m 55s mark.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that there are plenty of other unrealistic things in the film (and the 747 destruction scene alone!), but unlike most of those, the plot doesn't seem to require or benefit from a Yukon crash site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3583" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T22:24:40.470" LastActivityDate="2013-03-03T06:19:17.050" Title="Why has the Moonraker Shuttle Carrier Aircraft crashed in the Yukon?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|moonraker|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8616" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-12T22:11:46.870" Score="15" ViewCount="18367" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TuVK6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Stone Giant&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/hobbit-unexpected-journey-image-gallery/the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-31/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, after Bilbo and the Dwarves leave &lt;em&gt;Rivendell&lt;/em&gt; they encounter &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Three(?) &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stone Giants&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; who punch and throw rocks at each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appeared like they were sleeping when all of a sudden they woke up and started battling. They seemed oblivious to presence of the Hobbit and the Dwarves and only focused on hurting each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why did the &lt;em&gt;Stone Giants&lt;/em&gt; fight each other?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-19T21:44:47.390" LastActivityDate="2016-04-25T22:50:06.327" Title="Why did these 'creatures' fight each other?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hobbit|an-unexpected-journey|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8617" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-12T23:13:30.767" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A period of movies ranging from the year 1990 to 1999.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s_in_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1990s in Film&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_in_television#1990s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1990s in Television&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T09:17:45.410" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T09:17:45.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8618" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-12T23:13:30.767" Score="0" Body="A period of movies ranging from the year 1990 to 1999." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T09:17:45.410" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T09:17:45.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8613" CreationDate="2012-12-12T23:14:19.513" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Leonard's wife was raped, nobody believed Leonard that there were two people involved. One that Leonard beat down, and a second one: &quot;John G&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; There had to be a second man. It was from behind, I remember. It's&#xA;          about the last thing I do remember. But the police didn't believe me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Teddy, the cop that was working the case of his wife that died later through insulin overdose, was the only one who believed his story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His help started out as an act of pity and probably he also wanted to deliver justice, where the law failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not. I was the cop assigned to your wife's death. I believed you, I thought you deserved the chance for revenge. I helped you find the other guy who was in your bathroom that night. The guy who cracked your skull and fucked your wife. We found him and you killed him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, Leonard could not remember the revenge.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that Teddy actually developed a real sympathy and friendship towards Leonard and he realized that Leonard would be lost without a cause, like he was before his wife died. (Remember that parts of the story he tells about Sammy Jenkins are actually what happened to himself. His lethargy was what ultimately got his wife to kill herself.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he decided to help him keep his search going, mainly because he wanted to see him happy again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; You didn't remember, so I helped you start looking again, looking for the guy           you already killed.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [..]  I've never seen you so happy - I was&#xA;          convinced you'd remember.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [..] Fuck you; I gave you a reason to live and you were more than happy to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He usually led Leonard to bad people, criminals. That's how he kept his conscience clean and kept carrying out his acts of self justice. I don't believe that Teddy was a corrupt/dirty cop, but that he was disillusioned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With Leonard he could beat two birds with one stone: Help a friend to keep his life together and carry out his very own &quot;Avenger&quot; mission against criminals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But somewhere along the road he got selfish and started to think: &quot;Why not make some profit out of it?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why he told Jimmy he wanted to sell drugs, so that Leonard would kill him and he would get the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Teddy:&lt;/strong&gt; Jimmy's your guy, Leonard. I just figured we'd make some money on the side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in conclusion I think that Teddy's motives started out good and still are to some point, he actually wants to help Leonard, but he got corrupted and more and more started using him and his condition as a tool for his own benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2015-02-25T13:44:41.360" LastActivityDate="2015-02-25T13:44:41.360" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8616" CreationDate="2012-12-13T00:00:13.713" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the movie yet; only the trailer where they make an appearance. Having read the book many times, though, I do know they are present there as well. In the book, the stone giants aren't battling, but instead are throwing rocks for fun, and (as you point out) are oblivious to any other creatures around them that might be affected by their game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could read their presence in the book as a sort of literary description of how, in a world of fantasy like middle-earth, devastating weather (like the dwarves and Bilbo encounter in the Misty Mountains) might be imagined. It makes sense to see their game of boulder throwing as serving a similar purpose in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T00:00:13.713" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8621" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8853" CreationDate="2012-12-13T02:21:38.727" Score="2" ViewCount="883" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that it would ruin the story but why not shoot the target in the future and then just send back the dead body? Or with their legs broken? Or drugged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like a lot could go wrong with sending back live targets. If they escape they could kill those people trying to kill them before they're born or as children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; example rainmaker. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the future they have that cool contact-less-taser. Why not use that, or some sleeping pills. They're sending them back gagged, a peg on the nose would do it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-07-16T08:35:45.637" LastActivityDate="2017-07-03T13:44:37.060" Title="Why not send back dead or drugged people in Looper?" Tags="|time-travel|looper|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8626" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8630" CreationDate="2012-12-13T13:40:02.837" Score="4" ViewCount="4355" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_in_Black_3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Men In Black 3 (2012)&lt;/a&gt;. Here as Griffin (the man who could see future) told that someone should have to die, if it's not Agent K, then it would be someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exactly according to it, a cop was killed by Boris the Animal was intentially going to kill Agent K. Then the cop's kid came to Agent K asking for his father. I dont exactly remember the child's name, but it was something starting with J (might be Jonathan). Then Agent J, who was their from future thought for a while and Agent K took the child with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if that child was actually Agent J in the future or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2031" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-28T20:32:25.040" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T05:32:10.540" Title="Is Agent J son of the Cop who died at the end" Tags="|plot-explanation|men-in-black-3|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8593" CreationDate="2012-12-13T14:25:20.957" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at the images on Google for &quot;Doctor No&quot;, you'll see that his hand does have 5 fingers (he wouldn't be able to hold his cigar without a thumb in the screenshots):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KthoR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Picture 1 [1]&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A closer look:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0fSqU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The crippling was the fact that he was caught in an explosion and that his hand is an artificial hand - it can't feel like a regular hand, but it IS capable of crushing a small metal statuette (not sure if your friend can get a similar artificial hand!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About the only other thing I can think of would be the suit, which is similar to one &#xA;Bond himself wears [3] when he's a prisoner of Dr. No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorUserId="850" LastEditDate="2012-12-13T17:55:48.710" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T17:55:48.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8626" CreationDate="2012-12-13T14:44:07.670" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;the little boy's name was James, the same name as agent J. It seems that the implication is that this military man was, indeed, J's father and raising the boy became a responsibility of K.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3552" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T14:44:07.670" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8626" CreationDate="2012-12-13T14:50:24.503" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the kid was Agent J.  Earlier in the movie it's alluded that J grew up without a father figure, but couldn't remember what happened to him, he just disappeared.  We later find out that J's father was killed by Boris.  In an act of sympathy K wiped the kid's memory, giving us the reason for why J couldn't remember his father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T14:50:24.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8631" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-13T16:10:45.060" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-13T16:10:45.060" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T16:10:45.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8632" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-13T16:10:45.060" Score="0" Body="Kahaani is a 2012 Indian suspense thriller film ,which tells the story of a pregnant woman in search of her missing husband in the city of Kolkata during the Durga Puja festivities." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-13T16:51:16.320" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T16:51:16.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8633" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-13T16:21:22.043" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-13T16:21:22.043" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T16:21:22.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8634" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-13T16:21:22.043" Score="0" Body="Placement of two or more  fictional characters or universes into the context of a single story." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T06:42:51.840" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T06:42:51.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5607" CreationDate="2012-12-13T20:33:02.453" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is just a possible guess, but it's likely it has something to do with the process needed to create the plot recap and the title sequences. I imagine the cost-analysis showed that it wasn't worth it to recreate those from the original film source (they'd have to re-edit, re-cut, re-mix the audio, etc.). They also didn't do anything with the audio when releasing the HD downloads, leaving them stereo only. Saving a bit of money (and bandwidth because your resulting digital files are now a little smaller) on things that people probably don't care much about when watching a show online can add up in the long run, especially knowing that a measurable selection of the viewing population would be using laptops, mobile phones, tablets, etc. where the difference between 480p and 720p (which at least Amazon Instant prime is ... don't know about iTunes) is not very noticeable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they ever release a Blu-ray, Warner Brothers might make different choices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2012-12-13T20:33:02.453" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="585" CreationDate="2012-12-13T23:00:10.807" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Destination_%28film_series%29#Future&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On February 1, 2011, Tony Todd said in an interview with DreadCentral&#xA;  that if Final Destination 5 is a success at the box office, then two&#xA;  sequels would be filmed back-to-back. On August 23, 2011, when&#xA;  inquired whether he will be directing a sequel, Stephen Quale&#xA;  elaborates, &quot;Who knows. Never say never. I mean, it'll be up to the&#xA;  fans. We'll see how this one performs internationally and if it makes&#xA;  as much money as the fourth one, I'm sure Warner Brothers will want to&#xA;  make another one.&quot; With the success of Final Destination 5, it is&#xA;  likely that a sixth film will be made, though Warner Bros. has yet to&#xA;  confirm this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means most probably there may be two more entries in the movie series. As the 5&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; one is a prequel to the series. There are rumours for the next one to be a mid-equal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Final Destination Wikia also says yes for FD6 and FD7.(&lt;a href=&quot;http://finaldestination.wikia.com/wiki/Final_Destination_6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SOURCE&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-02T17:11:54.373" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T17:11:54.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8642" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9244" CreationDate="2012-12-14T00:54:56.377" Score="9" ViewCount="11396" Body="&lt;p&gt;I keep thinking about a show I used to watch on tv, and damn I wanna know the title :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a live-action show that I saw somewhere between halfway the 90's and halfway the 2000's, and I'm almost sure it was produced around that time as well. It was in English, most likely an American show. It was for kids and/or teenagers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I can hardly remember anything about the story, I do know some of the important details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show was about a room, I think an attic, where there was a large standing mirror, I think oval of shape. I don't know exactly how, but that mirror somehow connected the normal world (set in the here and now) to another world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This world 'on the other side of the mirror' had a medieval-based setting, but with some fantasy elements. I remember the classic 'good vs. evil' being the main concept the story was revolved around. Some details and fragments that I rememer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One of the 'bad guys' gets a magical or mechanical glove that she can shoot electrical bolts with, making her powerful and feared.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The intro of the show contains (or perhaps entirely exists of) the magical mirror and a cloudy sky as a background.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The medieval-like land is what the show is mainly about; the normal world is only seen in a few episodes I think.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="461" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T02:16:09.177" Title="Tv show about another dimension/magic land through a magic mirror" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:53:03.480" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8642" CreationDate="2012-12-14T02:41:35.593" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possible it was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_10th_Kingdom&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The 10th Kingdom&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a miniseries with 5 episodes that ran in the year 2000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastEditorUserId="282" LastEditDate="2013-01-07T14:04:44.630" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T14:04:44.630" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1005" CreationDate="2012-12-14T03:36:11.120" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well I think that everyone has answered your question except for why these event happen in the cave, and why Yoda sent Luke into the cave. It was a Jedi practice to pass as a padawan to become a Jedi Knight.  It works by using the force to create a mental illusion, much like what you can see in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3595" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-12-14T16:54:21.120" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T16:54:21.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1005" CreationDate="2012-12-14T05:29:46.130" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read in one book that the Jedi hid a powerful Sith weapon powered by the dark side on Dagobah in the cave. Yoda the last of the Jedi counsel made Dagobah his home to keep watch over the weapon so that it wouldn't fall back into their hands. This explains why the cave was strong with the dark side, but it wasn't explained in the films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main plot of that film was that Luke could not alter his &lt;strong&gt;fate&lt;/strong&gt;. He was destined to confront Darth Vader. Yoda keeps telling him to keep his mind focused on training, and not to worry about his friends. Which ultimately is his weakness and results in him meeting Darth Vader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yoda's fear is that Luke will not survive a confrontation with Darth Vader, but Yoda fails or underestimates the value of Luke's friends to save him from his fate. The goal of Yoda's training is to teach Luke that he is not ready to meet his fate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite Yoda's teachings Luke doesn't seem to be afraid of his fate. Thus the phrase from Yoda &quot;you will be&quot;. It's just another example of how Yoda is aware of Luke's fate, and Luke is ignorant of the risks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Luke enters the cave he sees Darth Vader. He is confronted by his fate, and when Luke strikes down Vader to reveal his own face in the mask. It demonstrates that Luke's self-confidence in his skills to beat Darth Vader will ultimately result in his death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is simple. If he fights Vader he will die, if he takes a path that leads to the dark side he will die. Staying with Yoda and finishing his training will delay his fate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yoda was trying to teach Luke a lesson. Luke needed to stay and complete his training. Yoda knew Luke was destine to face Darth Vader and that confrontation would kill him, because Luke wasn't ready (or worse he would turn to the dark side). Yoda was trying to protect Luke from his own fate, but at the same time understood he could do little to change his fate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Luke has Yoda raise his x-wing out of the swamp onto dry land, then this marks the point were Yoda gives in. He no longer seems able to steer Luke away from his fate, and Yoda dies. Yoda's death represents Luke's commitment to his fate. He can no longer continue his training. He has no choice but to face Darth Vader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point. He sets on a path to full fill the vision in the cave. Face Darth Vader and die. At least, by a movie viewer's perspective at this stage in the film. That's the expected outcome, but his friends save him in the end and we learn why his fate is so closely connected to Vader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="1100" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T14:53:45.627" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T14:53:45.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8647" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-14T08:13:33.363" Score="1" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2010 Hindi movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Darling&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hello Darling&lt;/a&gt;, how come the victims of &quot;Pati Sudharo Sansthan&quot; never filed any police complain about it? It is surely illegal and should not be operating at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How were they even able to operate without a lot of legal consequences?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-07-04T10:27:05.877" LastActivityDate="2017-07-04T10:27:05.877" Title="Complaints filed about &quot;Pati Sudharo Sansthan&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|hello-darling|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8648" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8783" CreationDate="2012-12-14T08:18:45.910" Score="2" ViewCount="573" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2012 Hindi movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talaash_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Talaash&lt;/a&gt;, Did Rosie charge Surjan Singh for the endless talking by the river side he did for a few days? After-all, she was a 'fancy lady'. Also, Surjan Singh must have become suspicious if she didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another Question, Why did Rosie spent so much time with Surjan Singh at all? She could have got her revenge without doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-21T14:21:47.273" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T14:21:47.273" Title="Did Kareena Kapoor charge Aamir Khan for talking to her?" Tags="|plot-explanation|talaash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8649" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-14T08:21:23.417" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-14T08:21:23.417" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T08:21:23.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8650" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-14T08:21:23.417" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-14T08:21:23.417" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T08:21:23.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5629" CreationDate="2012-12-14T08:55:01.703" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will quickly give my take on your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, I would say that it is not the only central theme - friendship for one, I think is much more central. But yes, both child abuse, suicide and mental illness are central themes as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the other post mentioned, the aunt, gave him two presents on his birthday, and therefore actually made a big deal about his special day, which is important for such young children. My guess is that she in other manners too paid much attention to him, which probably was not done to many others, as Charlie was a quiet child. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;If so, and he actually wished her death, why did he say to Sam that she (his aunt) was his favorite person ever?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that when he was in the spot, he wished her dead, because he knew that the attention he was getting was wrong, and he didn't know how to stop it. As he says, he is afraid that he killed her, since it was his birthday present she went out to get. This must have caused him a lot of guilt, which is why he keeps telling everyone that she was his favorite person. He probably feels that this is the least he can do to honor her memory. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I have only seen the movie. The book might clarify things much more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3596" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-02-04T19:42:26.713" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T19:42:26.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8652" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8653" CreationDate="2012-12-14T11:01:56.850" Score="6" ViewCount="756" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1993 released English movie, Last Action Hero, is the reference to Jack Slatter real?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there ever any movie named Jack Slatter with same or similar story to that shown in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastActivityDate="2020-02-21T16:31:00.463" Title="Last Action Hero refers to real movies?" Tags="|reference|last-action-hero|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8652" CreationDate="2012-12-14T11:31:56.017" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not so much a reference to a single particular movie, but to all the archetypical action movies of that kind, starring a hard-boiled one-man hero (usually a cop) who has a meaty name (like &lt;em&gt;John McLane&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Jericho Jackson&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Jack Slater&lt;/em&gt;) and kills bad-guys while giving cool one-liners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, it wasn't refering to an actual movie starring an actual &lt;em&gt;Jack Slater&lt;/em&gt;, and yes, it was refering to a whole bunch (or whole genre) of other movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T11:31:56.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="935" CreationDate="2012-12-14T12:07:26.320" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that they blew up the ship ultimately to stop the possibility of an alien infestation from occurring on earth. This has always been Ripley's mission in the previous films...therefore her Human half took over in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T12:07:26.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8658" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8667" CreationDate="2012-12-14T12:46:03.727" Score="5" ViewCount="7894" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is Mr. Weyland a great grandchild of the Weyland in &lt;em&gt;Alien vs. Predator&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-12-27T12:24:39.990" LastActivityDate="2020-10-31T07:36:28.697" Title="The character of Weyland in Prometheus and Alien vs. Predator" Tags="|character|prometheus|aliens-vs-predator|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="935" CreationDate="2012-12-14T12:52:13.370" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My assumption was that although they didn't like earth they didn't want to see it overrun by the alien species.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They were afraid of returning there because the aliens would be unstoppable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T12:52:13.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8660" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-14T14:26:27.347" Score="8" ViewCount="2473" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Elizabeth and David take off at the end of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Prometheus&lt;/a&gt; in the alien ship are they heading for LV-426?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2017-01-27T08:42:49.333" LastActivityDate="2017-01-27T08:42:49.333" Title="The ending in Prometheus" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|prometheus|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3761" CreationDate="2012-12-14T14:35:20.087" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Shane; and the birth of an alien from the engineer is to merely show a greater association of Prometheus to the original Alien franchise...the fact that the alien looked different is because of who it was hatched from. Now we know that the Black Goo in the movie is associated with the creation of the Alien creatures. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T14:35:20.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8662" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-14T14:47:42.593" Score="3" ViewCount="815" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are the androids in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ALIENS&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ALIEN³&lt;/a&gt; designed after the original Weyland from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVP%3a_Alien_vs._Predator&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;AVP&lt;/a&gt;, but not in any of the other movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-14T16:34:17.617" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T14:55:47.477" Title="The movie Prometheus and Alien android designs:" Tags="|plot-explanation|aliens|aliens-vs-predator|alien-3|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8660" CreationDate="2012-12-14T14:56:04.730" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://entertainment.time.com/2012/06/12/prometheus-sequel-final-scene/&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with writer &lt;em&gt;Damon Lindelof&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In that final scene, David wants to go to Earth, and Elizabeth wants to go to the alien home world. Where do you think they’re going?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think they’re going where she wants to go. His fundamental programming has been scrapped. Weyland [the man who built and programmed him] is dead and so now his programming is coming from God knows where. Is he being programmed by Elizabeth, or is it his own internal curiosity now that Weyland isn’t telling him what to do any more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He’s always been interested in Elizabeth, remember that: He’s watching her dreams when she’s sleeping in much the same way that he watches 'Lawrence of Arabia'. He’s a strange robot that has a curious crush on a human being, and when Weyland is eliminated, I think he is genuinely interested in what she’s interested in. He reaches out partly for survival, but partly out of curiosity, and I think he’s sincere that he’ll take her wherever she wants to go.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Acheron_%28LV-426%29&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LV-426&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;is not the &lt;em&gt;Engineers'&lt;/em&gt; homeworld.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T14:56:04.730" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8658" CreationDate="2012-12-14T16:13:30.400" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prometheus is intended to be the prequel to the Alien directed by Ridley Scott. Alien vs Predator was a spin-off franchise and has nothing to do with Alien or Prometheus time lines. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no relation what so ever between weyland characters in both movies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T16:13:30.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8662" CreationDate="2012-12-14T16:18:47.797" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Henriksen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lance Henriksen&lt;/a&gt; assumed the role of android in Aliens and did a character as Weyland in AVP. Aliens and Alien vs predator universe are not related by any means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T16:18:47.797" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5671" CreationDate="2012-12-14T18:32:52.133" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not following, &quot;Universal Precautions&quot;, is a bad idea...no way is the virus selective about how it gets in your system...if a walker's blood mixes with yours, you are in trouble...it's the same as a bite or dying...so they're just taking a huge chance, or the writers aren't thinking it through correctly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T18:32:52.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8658" CreationDate="2012-12-14T19:35:52.170" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Lindelof&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lindelof&lt;/a&gt; explains &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.craveonline.com/film/interviews/190017-fundamental-mysteries-damon-lindelof-on-prometheus-and-star-trek-2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;About the prometheus and AVP connection in an interview as:-&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; You said nothing is an accidental reference, so is there a possible&#xA;  intentional Alien Vs. Predator reference in that the Weylands are&#xA;  always seeking eternal life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lindelof:&lt;/strong&gt; You mean in terms of Charles Bishop Weyland? Look, as to what’s canon&#xA;  and what’s not canon, for me as a screenwriter it’s transcended by&#xA;  Ridley as a director. Here’s the thing. Ridley invented this. He&#xA;  created this Alien universe. He birthed it out of his own heart and&#xA;  soul. So he gets to do whatever it is he wants to do and he wanted to&#xA;  use Weyland as a conduit in the story, and was not interested at all&#xA;  when I said to him, “You know, Weyland was a character in one of the&#xA;  Alien Vs. Predator movies,” he just sort of looked at me like I had&#xA;  just slapped him in the face. That was the beginning, middle and end&#xA;  of all Alien Vs. Predator references in our story process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That clearly indicates that they want to completely ignore &lt;strong&gt;AVP&lt;/strong&gt;, and Weyland characters in both movies have no relation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T07:48:45.500" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T07:48:45.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8668" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8669" CreationDate="2012-12-14T19:57:05.420" Score="3" ViewCount="40103" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just finished watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil:_Afterlife&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Resident Evil: Afterlife&lt;/a&gt; and feel like I have missed a scene where Jill Valentine got this red spider strapped to her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CYlvr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When did this happen? Was it in this movie or did I miss something from the third movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-11-16T13:28:39.837" LastActivityDate="2018-11-16T13:28:45.947" Title="When did Umbrella take control of Jill Valentine?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|resident-evil|resident-evil-afterlife|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8668" CreationDate="2012-12-14T20:07:57.527" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you didn't miss anything. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jill Valentine disappeared after the end of &lt;strong&gt;Resident Evil: Apocalypse&lt;/strong&gt; and came in the pre-credit scenes of &lt;strong&gt;Resident Evil: Afterlife&lt;/strong&gt; with the red spider strapped to her. It isn't explained yet that how she got control over her through that spider thing. Even in the &lt;strong&gt;Resident Evil: Retribution&lt;/strong&gt; there is no explanation for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Originally, Jill Valentine was to appear in Resident Evil: Extinction&#xA;  as the leader of the convoy. Her role would've have been major and&#xA;  involved a subplot concerning her resentment toward Alice for killing&#xA;  Angela while under the control of Umbrella and her eventual sacrifice&#xA;  for the convoy when she became infected by a zombified Carlos.&#xA;  However, Sienna was unable reprise her role as Jill because of&#xA;  scheduling conflicts with Eragon. As a result, she was written out of&#xA;  the movie and replaced with Ali Larter as Claire Redfield.(&lt;a href=&quot;http://residentevil.wikia.com/Jill_Valentine/multiverse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T07:36:21.257" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T07:36:21.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8670" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8671" CreationDate="2012-12-14T20:25:47.377" Score="18" ViewCount="60369" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've watched &lt;em&gt;Donnie Darko&lt;/em&gt; many times, yet I always feel like I'm missing something important when Drew Barrymore's character brings up &quot;Cellar Door&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Karen Pommeroy:&lt;/strong&gt; This famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, that &quot;cellar door&quot; is the most beautiful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some significance to the word?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3597" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-10-16T08:29:24.163" LastActivityDate="2021-03-12T16:25:03.363" Title="What does the word &quot;Cellar Door&quot; represent in the movie &quot;Donnie Darko&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|dialogue|donnie-darko|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8670" CreationDate="2012-12-14T20:56:42.233" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellar_door&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The English compound noun &lt;strong&gt;cellar door&lt;/strong&gt; is commonly used as an&#xA;  example of a word or phrase which is beautiful in terms of&#xA;  phonaesthetics (i.e., sound) with no regard for semantics (i.e.,&#xA;  meaning). It has been variously presented either as merely one&#xA;  beautiful instance of many, or as the most beautiful in the English&#xA;  language; as the author's personal choice, that of an eminent&#xA;  scholar's, or of a foreigner who does not speak the language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QUVDV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The semantics of &quot;cellar door&quot; derive straightforwardly from its&#xA;  component terms: in the United States, a cellar door is often a door&#xA;  or pair of shutter doors between the outside of a building and its&#xA;  cellar. In Britain, Ireland and Canada, a cellar door is often located&#xA;  within a house and opens onto a flight of stairs leading to the&#xA;  cellar. Outside doors are more common to pubs and restaurants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nunberg further suggests the semantics of &quot;cellar door&quot; are not&#xA;  actually irrelevant; in fantasy, a mundane door can become a portal to&#xA;  another world, as with the wardrobe of The Lion, the Witch and the&#xA;  Wardrobe or the rabbit hole of Alice in Wonderland. &lt;strong&gt;This idea is&#xA;  utilized in the 2001 film Donnie Darko, where the phrase &quot;cellar door&quot;&#xA;  is discussed in one scene, and an actual cellar door figures into the&#xA;  plot in a later scene.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-10-16T08:31:13.320" LastActivityDate="2018-10-16T08:31:13.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1825" CreationDate="2012-12-14T21:01:35.673" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ariadne is in the process of changing the dream and Cobb’s subconscious senses the changes and begins to attack her. With the mirrors, Ariadne is discovering a way to create changes in the dream that Cobb’s mind can accept. In this instance, she creates an extended road that wasn’t there before. Cobb’s mind accepts the change in the dream because the two mirrors create the illusion of an extended road. All that is left for her to do is break the mirror and she successfully creates a road without bothering Cobb’s subconscious.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This explanation fits best with the context of the discussion between Cobb and Ariadne. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3598" LastActivityDate="2012-12-14T21:01:35.673" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8673" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-14T21:49:15.410" Score="9" ViewCount="4648" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sixth season of the 2003 TMNT cartoon marked a distinct change from the earlier series; a lighter tone, aimed at a lower aged audience (over use of catch phrases, stating the obvious etc), and with a marked change of character (not caring about destroying Cody's items in training, overly proud characters, and Splinter not being his usual wise self).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've checked on wikipedia and there seems to be no change in the productions team, nor can I see any where online a reason for this change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1074" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-15T15:38:43.553" LastActivityDate="2014-11-08T10:20:58.043" Title="What happened to the production between seasons 5 and 6 of the 2003 TMNT series?" Tags="|production|tmnt-2003|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8674" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8678" CreationDate="2012-12-15T01:47:16.527" Score="54" ViewCount="228044" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read that Mithrandir is one of Gandalf's aliases. Why do certain people call him by this name and not Gandalf? I've noticed in particular that Galadriel uses the name Mithrandir quite often. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2012-12-16T01:59:08.223" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T08:47:12.267" Title="Why is Gandalf referred to as Mithrandir?" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1885" CreationDate="2012-12-15T02:14:25.377" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tristan Reveur the artist who was talked about so much in the films father was blind and a chess player. This is the reason for the father being blind and also for the chess playing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3601" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T02:14:25.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="63" CreationDate="2012-12-15T03:50:17.357" Score="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Her name is bleeped because she cannot be named until she deserves to. Throughout the film she has 4 names. In chronological order the first event of the story is the wedding massacre. At this point she is Black Mamba. She is shot in the head by Bill. This is the death of Black Mamba. She wakes up four years later. This is the birth of The Bride. Now The Brides sole purpose is to take up the sword and wreak havoc on those who wronged her. She kills O-Ren with the sword and Vernita with a knife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She becomes dependent on the sword. So much so that she underestimates Budd. Her plan is of course to attack Budd in his trailer with the sword. This immediately backfires when Budd shoots her with rock salt and disarms her. What happens next is the most significant part of the film. Having her sword taken away from her she is now powerless. Budd nails her in a wooden coffin and buries her alive. This is the death of The Bride. It is during this burial that through remembering her training with Pai Mei she realizes she doesn't need to rely on the sword. Her power lies in her hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She punches her way out of the coffin. This is the birth of Beatrix Kiddo. From here on her name will not be bleeped and she will not use the sword again. Beatrix doesn't kill Budd, Elle Driver does. Beatrix snatches Elle's other eye out leaving her completely blind. It is questioned in the end credits whether Elle dies or not as she is left blind in Budd's trailer with a deadly Black Mamba snake. After this, only Bill is left. She tracks him down ready to kill him when suddenly she is killed. Well symbolically of course. She is shocked at the sudden realization that her daughter is still alive. Her daughter shoots her with a toy gun. Beatrix falls to the ground (dies) and is woken up by B.B. (her daughter). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She is reborn as &quot;Mommy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3604" LastEditorUserId="1290" LastEditDate="2013-12-31T20:00:30.863" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T20:00:30.863" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8674" CreationDate="2012-12-15T04:47:31.937" Score="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gandalf is one of the Istari - practically immortal creatures put in middle earth to guide and help its inhabitants.  He is therefore very long lived and has picked up a lot of different names or nick-names to different people at different times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mithrandir is a Sindarin phrase meaning Grey Pilgrim or Wanderer (ref: &lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Gandalf/Names#Ol.C3.B3rin&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tolkien Gateway&lt;/a&gt;). Sindarin is the everyday language of Elves and therefore the name that Galadriel uses for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gandalf, or Gandalf the Grey, or Gandalf Greyhame are just some other names for him - I don't think we are told that any of them is distinctly &lt;em&gt;his&lt;/em&gt; name.  Gandalf appears to be the common name used by Dwarves and Hobbits for him at the time of The Hobbit, hence the name we think of him as having.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2019-04-05T08:47:12.267" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T08:47:12.267" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8680" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8681" CreationDate="2012-12-15T14:37:06.717" Score="6" ViewCount="1088" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking about the name of a &lt;em&gt;live-action&lt;/em&gt; movie, in which tiny people appear who have to cross the city, and get lost in a milk factory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it called? The only thing I can find is an animated movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3608" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-06T23:39:36.143" LastActivityDate="2013-10-06T23:39:36.143" Title="Tiny people have to cross a city and get lost in a milk factory" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:40:10.837" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8680" CreationDate="2012-12-15T14:55:46.443" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118755/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Borrowers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A secret family of four-inch people living inside the walls of a house must save their home from an evil real estate developer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borrowers_%281997_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; confirms that there are scenes in a milk factory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/udPDX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Borrowers&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgZQ8gyUlwI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watch Trailer&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T14:55:46.443" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8682" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8688" CreationDate="2012-12-15T15:47:33.140" Score="8" ViewCount="2153" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...drops of Ofelia's blood spill onto the altar that is supposed to lead&#xA;  her into the underworld. Ofelia is reunited with the king and queen of the underworld. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Queen of underworld seems to be Ofelia's mother in the mortal world and she is holding a baby in her arms. All of them (Ofelia, her mother, and her father) are dead by that time, except her new-born brother. If those people in the underworld are all dead, why is her mother holding her alive son?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm really confused about connection between people in the mortal world and the underworld.  Shouldn't they be dead to be in the underworld or is it a complete other world with different people from the mortal world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3413" LastEditorUserId="3413" LastEditDate="2012-12-15T17:33:40.127" LastActivityDate="2013-01-28T15:32:55.250" Title="Ending of Pan's Labytinth" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|pans-labyrinth|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8673" CreationDate="2012-12-15T16:05:06.280" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently there is confusion over which season is which, because the original Season 5 (Ninja Tribunal) was not aired after season 4, but instead was aired much later and then only in part. The reasons included trying to increase interest in the series and reduce violence. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_%282003%29_%28season_5%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia's article&lt;/a&gt; on Season 5:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &quot;Ninja Tribunal&quot; arc (13 episodes) was originally intended to be&#xA;  season five of the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series,&#xA;  but the schedule was changed to try to increase interest in the series&#xA;  and &quot;Fast Forward&quot; became the fifth season to air on commercial TV.&#xA;  After the scheduling change was made, Mirage and its partners decided&#xA;  to finish production on the &quot;Ninja Tribunal&quot; episodes and release them&#xA;  directly to DVD. 4Kids Entertainment later signed a deal with Comcast&#xA;  and this season began airing on Comcast-On-Demand in August 2006. Mass&#xA;  confusion ensued regarding which season was officially season five and&#xA;  which was season six. However after airing five episodes Comcast&#xA;  stopped airing the episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &quot;Ninja Tribunal&quot; episodes were scheduled to be released on DVD&#xA;  sometime in early 2007, but 4Kids Entertainment later removed them&#xA;  from their release schedule. 4Kids started showing the episodes&#xA;  starting on February 9, 2008. Although the title doesn't appear in the&#xA;  show itself, the season was promoted in commercials as Teenage Mutant&#xA;  Ninja Turtles: The Lost Episodes. The DVD set was released on May&#xA;  20, 2008.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &quot;Nightmares Recycled&quot; episode was never completed. The script was&#xA;  finished and some animation had begun when 4Kids pulled the plug&#xA;  because it was deemed too controversial and violent for a children's&#xA;  program (Hun and the Garbageman were conjoined twins that were&#xA;  surgically separated at birth by a back-alley surgeon with the&#xA;  Garbageman being discarded as 'garbage'). Since there was no chance of&#xA;  it airing, it was shelved in the early stages of production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2012-12-15T21:39:05.447" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T21:39:05.447" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3339" CreationDate="2012-12-15T20:03:12.263" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought it could possibly be a role reversal. Walt was Hank constantly trying to catch the fly and obsessing with it to the point where he was hurting himself and doubting his life which is exactly what has happened to Hank through is obsession with finding Heisenberg. Also, Jessie ends up killing the fly which could possibly foreshadow Jessie killing Walt. But that's every unlikely...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3609" LastActivityDate="2012-12-15T20:03:12.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8685" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-15T21:27:42.633" Score="18" ViewCount="4565" Body="&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8ZVai.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;George Lucas&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/13075648&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.craigerscinemacorner.com/Reviews/willow.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This review&lt;/a&gt; of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096446/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Willow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which was produced by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000184/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;George Lucas&lt;/a&gt;, claims:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;George Lucas was desperately attempting to secure the rights to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; series and its prequel, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, for years and hoped to make it his next epic series post-STAR WARS. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hardcoregaming101.net/willow/willow.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This page&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;em&gt;Willow&lt;/em&gt; computer games makes the same claim:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It should also be noted that &lt;em&gt;Willow&lt;/em&gt; was originally intended to be a film adaptation of &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;, but George Lucas could not procure the rights to the Tolkien franchises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Willow_%28film%29&amp;amp;oldid=514073844#Development&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page on &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Willow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; also used to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lucas was originally going to do a film of JRR Tolkien's &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;. But he was unable to get the rights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;this has since been edited out&lt;/strong&gt; because no source was provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did George Lucas once try to acquire the rights to &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; and/or &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;br&gt;or is this an unfounded rumour?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2017-09-11T05:15:29.720" Title="Did George Lucas try to acquire the rights to 'The Lord Of The Rings' / 'The Hobbit'?" Tags="|cinema-history|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-hobbit|willow|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8686" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8825" CreationDate="2012-12-15T23:25:33.763" Score="6" ViewCount="1402" Body="&lt;p&gt;3-D films are becoming more and more common. While I find the experience interesting, I have yet to find &quot;the best seat in the house&quot;. Opticaly, there ought to be a optimal viewing area where the visual experience is better than anywhere else.  Where, from the film editors point of view, is the optimal place to sit in order to get the best visual effects when viewing a 3-D film? Is there such an area?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="769" LastEditDate="2012-12-16T00:28:15.113" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T05:04:49.960" Title="Is there a visually optimal area to view a 3-D movie at the theatre?" Tags="|effects|3d|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8682" CreationDate="2012-12-16T03:32:42.667" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;During a film studies class we took a long look at &lt;em&gt;Pan's Labyrinth&lt;/em&gt;, and some interesting observations were made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My memory is sketchy, but to answer your question it is my understanding that two story threads are unraveling here; one is Ophelia's fantasy-laced ascent into womanhood (symbolized by the 'blood-letting' at the end which announces her arrival), and the other is the quite literal story that culminates in her (real-world) death. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we are to believe that the fantastical events of the film were all in her head, fabrications created to deal with the real-world horrors being perpetrated all around her, then it is reasonable to assume that at the moment of death she should imagine her entry into the underworld, complete with familiar loved-ones and a happy ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-12-16T03:32:42.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2403" CreationDate="2012-12-16T06:00:54.280" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because the writers noticed a resemblance between Seth MacFarlane and Conway Twitty and decided to poke fun at him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3613" LastActivityDate="2012-12-16T06:00:54.280" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8694" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8776" CreationDate="2012-12-16T18:55:27.600" Score="27" ViewCount="14708" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing I have never understood about one of my favorite movies, &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Ferris Bueller's Day Off&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;: why does Jeanie decide to help Ferris out at the end of the movie and save him from being busted by Mr. Rooney?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She has spent the entire movie expressing her hatred for Ferris and finally has a chance to show her parents that he skipped school, yet she lets him off the hook and saves him from both her parents and Mr. Rooney.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/faq&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;, someone has offered the explanation that it's because she doesn't want her brother to keep going to school with her, which he would be if Rooney holds him back and doesn't let him graduate. But I find this answer unsatisfying.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it's been suggested that perhaps her therapy/makeout session at the police station with Charlie Sheen helped change her attitude.  But I find this answer unsatisfactory too, because if this was the case, why did she speed home from the police station, hoping to get there before Ferris?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can anyone offer up a better explanation for Jeanie's change of heart?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="753" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2013-05-22T08:34:10.997" LastActivityDate="2022-02-05T03:44:15.150" Title="Why does Jeanie help Ferris out at the end of Ferris Bueller's Day Off?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|ferris-buellers-day-off|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8694" CreationDate="2012-12-16T19:11:43.543" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basic psychology - students rebel against authority (even the goody-goodies). Giving Mr. Rooney a win was not in the cards. &quot;The enemy of my enemy is my friend.&quot; To paraphrase - Ferris, the enemy of Mr. Rooney, is my friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2012-12-16T19:11:43.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8697" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9439" CreationDate="2012-12-16T22:13:59.903" Score="2" ViewCount="364" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Bennett Holiday character (played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Wright_%28actor%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeffrey Wright&lt;/a&gt;) looks like a very unhappy character, made worse by the annoying housemate, who is always drunk on-screen. What is that supposed to achieve, in a movie that is already full characters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastActivityDate="2013-01-14T04:04:15.780" Title="Significance of the alcoholic housemate" Tags="|plot-explanation|syriana|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8699" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8716" CreationDate="2012-12-17T02:21:45.653" Score="7" ViewCount="6872" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early in the movie Skyfall, when Bond is presumed dead, he is shown drinking at a bar and being cheered on by a large group of spectators as he attempts to down a drink with a live scorpion on his hand.  Immediately as this scene ends, Bond is shown at the same bar, but the bar is now empty except for the bartender.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I originally saw the movie, I thought the quick cut was meant to show that it was the next day, and that Bond had spent the entire night at the bar.  However, I have seen some speculate that the first scene was merely a daydream - Bond imagining how he would like his life to be, when in reality he spends his time drinking alone in the middle of the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Could someone explain whether it was a daydream or not?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="753" LastActivityDate="2013-09-28T19:38:57.203" Title="In Skyfall, was the bar scene a daydream or was it real?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3910" CreationDate="2012-12-17T02:47:01.687" Score="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought that Ross was trying to tell the guys it has been a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; long time since he last asked a woman out, so he mentions the song, &lt;em&gt;Billy Don't Be a Hero&lt;/em&gt;, which came out in 1974, &lt;strong&gt;20 years before&lt;/strong&gt; this episode takes place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice how he phrases his reply: &quot; &lt;strong&gt;Do you know how long it's been&lt;/strong&gt; since I grabbed a spoon? Do the words 'Billy don't be a hero' mean anything to you?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, he was exaggerating, since he had presumably asked Carol out a few years earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="753" LastEditorUserId="753" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T03:11:59.527" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T03:11:59.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8569" CreationDate="2012-12-17T03:06:15.000" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;They got some of their cash from Lonnegan himself &amp;amp; the other players in the train poker game.  That was the secondary purpose of the poker game.  The primary reason was to feed Lonnegan the tale and get him interested in getting even, but Gondorff also used the opportunity to steal Lonnegan's wallet AND fleece the other poker players out of some money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon returning to Hooker after the card game, Hooker asks how it went and Gondorff responds &quot;we've got some working money&quot;, while thowing down the wad of cash he won at the card table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, for those grifters who saw &lt;em&gt;The Sting&lt;/em&gt; as a &lt;strong&gt;huge&lt;/strong&gt; money making opportunity ($500,000 would have been an enormous amount of money during the depression), they may have been willing to invest some of their own money in the endeavor. And don't forget that for many of the players involved the money was only a partial reason for the sting, they mostly wanted to get revenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the cost of running the sting, when Twist is renting the space to be used for the betting parlor, he pays the old man $250 to rent both the parlor room and the room across the street.  In the same scene, Twist is told that to rent all the equipment for &lt;em&gt;the store&lt;/em&gt; it will cost two grand, three grand if a full bar is included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="753" LastEditorUserId="753" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T05:12:01.503" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T05:12:01.503" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8703" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-17T03:36:40.160" Score="8" ViewCount="15342" Body="&lt;p&gt;I couldn't quite make out what the lyrics were to the song the dwarves sang in Bilbo's house in &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&lt;/em&gt;.  What song was that, and why did they sing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-19T21:43:47.020" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T02:42:53.047" Title="Why did the dwarves sing the song?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hobbit|an-unexpected-journey|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8704" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8718" CreationDate="2012-12-17T03:40:12.173" Score="16" ViewCount="8861" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&lt;/em&gt;, in the mountains when the whole party was brought into the mountain and Bilbo found Gollum, were those creatures orcs, goblins, or something else? I initially thought they were orcs (guess I wasn't paying quite enough attention to what they looked like) but my girlfriend said they were goblins. I'm a bit confused. So were they supposed to be goblins or orcs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-19T21:46:10.147" LastActivityDate="2019-03-10T21:03:59.640" Title="Were they goblins or orcs?" Tags="|the-hobbit|an-unexpected-journey|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8704" CreationDate="2012-12-17T04:35:12.030" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Orcs&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;goblins&lt;/strong&gt; are most certainly related, if not even the same creature. Tolkien, in early drafts of both &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;, would sometimes use the terms interchangably. Later, it seems he came to see &lt;strong&gt;orc&lt;/strong&gt; as a more generic term, and &lt;strong&gt;goblin&lt;/strong&gt; a specific term for larger-in-stature creatures. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also evidence that Tolkien considered &lt;strong&gt;orc&lt;/strong&gt; to be a term hobbits would use, when others would use the term &lt;strong&gt;goblin&lt;/strong&gt;, or perhaps &lt;strong&gt;orc&lt;/strong&gt; a more proper term while &lt;strong&gt;goblin&lt;/strong&gt; was a more colloquial one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia provides more clarification:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc_(Middle-earth)#Orcs.2C_Goblins.2C_and_Uruks&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc_(Middle-earth)#Orcs.2C_Goblins.2C_and_Uruks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;LOTR&lt;/em&gt; movies, the term &lt;strong&gt;orc&lt;/strong&gt; is used almost exclusively, staying consistent with the books. In &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; movies, Peter Jackson also chose to use the term &lt;strong&gt;orc&lt;/strong&gt; over &lt;strong&gt;goblin&lt;/strong&gt; most of the time, presumably to keep the movie feeling like a part of his other trilogy. However, he made the decision to make them look differently than the creatures in the LOTR movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T04:35:12.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8703" CreationDate="2012-12-17T05:07:03.507" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was an old dwarvish song, presumably originating from a time not long after Smaug took over the Lonely Mountain. It describes a desire to return to reclaim their home under the mountain, primarily for the earthly treasure located there (the song describes in great detail the nature of the various treasures). Later verses in the song also briefly narrate the story of Smaug coming and destroying the town of Dale, forcing the dwarves to flee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the lyrics from the song as recorded in the book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thorinoakenshield.net/misty-mountains-lyrics/&quot;&gt;http://thorinoakenshield.net/misty-mountains-lyrics/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to your question concerning why they sing it, I've always likened it to ancient Israelite songs of returning to Zion or American slavery spirituals -- such singing provides inspiration, motivation, and community, keeping a focus across generations on a cultural goal that holds deep, deep significance for a group of people. The song was likely ingrained in the dwarves' cultural heritage, perhaps being sung in their homes, their churches, their schools, etc. Because of this, when the dwarves are at Bilbo's house, ready to finally start this journey that all their people had been singing about for so long, they couldn't hold back, and that song seemed the best choice for communicating their excitement and sense of fulfillment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastEditorUserId="2171" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T11:34:02.650" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T11:34:02.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8708" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8875" CreationDate="2012-12-17T05:21:17.920" Score="1" ViewCount="8290" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the S10E19 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313043/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CSI:Miami&lt;/a&gt;, Darren Vogel is also in the car which was driven by Sam (in the final segment of the episode). But after the accident, we see Sam is carried away by Horatio and Delko. Eddie Coster is shown dead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But only one dead body is taken away from the scene (which definitely has to be of Eddie's). So it makes a total of two people taken out from the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there were three people in the car. What happened to Darren (the third person)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3377" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-21T06:45:22.323" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T16:13:40.167" Title="What happened to Darren Vogel in CSI:Miami?" Tags="|character|plot-explanation|csi-miami|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8712" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-17T07:57:19.727" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T07:57:19.727" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T07:57:19.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8713" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-17T07:57:19.727" Score="0" Body="CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ( aka CSI: Las Vegas) is an American crime drama television series." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T10:11:04.083" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T10:11:04.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8714" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-17T07:59:09.820" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T07:59:09.820" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T07:59:09.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8715" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-17T07:59:09.820" Score="0" Body="CSI: Miami (Crime Scene Investigation: Miami) is an American police procedural television series . It is the first spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation(CSI: Las Vegas)." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T10:11:14.427" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T10:11:14.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8699" CreationDate="2012-12-17T09:52:02.747" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is more likely to have been real imho.   Bond is superficially charasmatic and able to make shallow relationships with ease, like his ability to seduce women. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, he has issues forming deep relationships with anyone.  His relationships with women usually end quickly with little emotional connection.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the same in the bar, one minute he is able to impress everyone and become the centre of attention but none of them are actually his friends and he quickly ends up alone again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T09:52:02.747" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8704" CreationDate="2012-12-17T11:15:33.030" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkien.cro.net/orcs/goblins.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tolkien FAQ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They are different names for the same race of creatures.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the two, &amp;quot;Orc&amp;quot; is the correct one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been a matter of widespread debate and misunderstanding, mostly resulting from the usage in the &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; (Tolkien had changed his mind about it by &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; but the confusion in the earlier book was made worse by inconsistent backwards modifications).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which originally was unconnected with the &lt;em&gt;The Silmarillion,&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;he used the familiar term &amp;quot;goblin&amp;quot; for the benefit of modern readers&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By the time of &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;, however, he'd decided that &amp;quot;goblin&amp;quot; wouldn't do&lt;/strong&gt;... Thus, in &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;, the proper name of the race is &amp;quot;Orcs&amp;quot; (capital &amp;quot;O&amp;quot;), and that name is found in the index along with Ents, Men, etc., while &amp;quot;goblin&amp;quot; is not in the index at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a handful of examples of &amp;quot;goblin&amp;quot; being used (always with a small &amp;quot;g&amp;quot;) but it seems in these cases to be a kind of slang for Orcs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[click the link for more info]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; was puplished in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1937&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1954/55&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie this guy was referred to as &lt;strong&gt;Goblin King&lt;/strong&gt;, who ruled over &lt;strong&gt;Goblin Town&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5Ml0W.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Goblin King&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.news.com.au/news/aussies-make-best-goblins-jackson/story-fnejlvvj-1226533246511&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T11:26:24.530" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8719" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8861" CreationDate="2012-12-17T15:39:52.093" Score="3" ViewCount="407" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Vampire Diaries S02E21 and also a few near-by episodes, it is said that Klaus is cursed - as he is both a Vampire and a Werewolf and more powerful than both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it a curse and not a blessing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorDisplayName="user1356" LastEditDate="2012-12-22T05:32:08.327" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T10:58:57.743" Title="Why is being a hybrid a curse?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-vampire-diaries|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8720" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-17T15:41:28.433" Score="5" ViewCount="528" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Vampire Diaries&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://vampirediaries.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sun_Also_Rises&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;S02E21&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Sun Also Rises&lt;/em&gt;, when Klaus's main werewolf turns, why doesn't Klaus himself and his backup werewolf also turn at the same time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2016-01-12T06:04:08.767" LastActivityDate="2016-05-11T19:27:33.983" Title="Why aren't all the werewolves turning at the same time?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-vampire-diaries|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8721" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8821" CreationDate="2012-12-17T15:45:05.380" Score="5" ViewCount="445" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Vampire Diaries, S02, How come Katherine manages to get her hands on the exact same clothes as Elena and act as her? This happens multiple times throughout the season. Stefan asks this question to Katherine in one of the scenes but she doesn't replies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-03T14:02:15.833" LastActivityDate="2016-04-03T14:02:15.833" Title="Katherine wearing the same clothes as Elena Gilbert?" Tags="|character|the-vampire-diaries|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8722" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8723" CreationDate="2012-12-17T15:49:09.760" Score="6" ViewCount="349" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1993 movie &lt;em&gt;Last Action Hero&lt;/em&gt;, can the magic ticket be used more than one time? Like for multiple movies/show? I think that it must not be, as the ticket was torn into two at the start of the movie, and as in the real world ordinary tickets cannot be used more than once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one of the scenes, Nick (the projectionist) expresses excitement and speaks about the movies he would like to get into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2020-07-19T09:45:54.930" LastActivityDate="2020-07-19T09:45:54.930" Title="Can the magic ticket be used more than once?" Tags="|plot-explanation|last-action-hero|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8722" CreationDate="2012-12-17T15:59:58.823" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In fact, the ticket is used on multiple movies in the movie.  Benedict used the ticket to grab the Ripper from &lt;em&gt;Slater III&lt;/em&gt;.  Also, Death from &lt;em&gt;The Seventh Seal&lt;/em&gt; comes out of his movie towards the end of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2020-07-19T09:44:27.043" LastActivityDate="2020-07-19T09:44:27.043" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8725" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8729" CreationDate="2012-12-17T17:06:37.267" Score="32" ViewCount="13791" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Sauron is shown killing Elendil and then being destroyed by Isildur he is clearly not invisible and he is wearing the Ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But any time Bilbo or Frodo put on the Ring they went invisible without fail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the Ring change after Sauron was destroyed or is Sauron capable of controlling the rings power unlike anyone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastActivityDate="2015-04-04T07:09:15.833" Title="Why wasn't Sauron invisible when he wore the Ring?" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8726" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-17T17:16:42.393" Score="8" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Homeland, I can't remember whether Carrie knows about the drone strike Estes and Walden authorised way back. I know Saul has seen the recordings but does Carrie know about this operation, either from Saul or Brody ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3622" LastActivityDate="2013-05-16T19:23:17.917" Title="Does Carrie know about the drone strike Walden authorised" Tags="|homeland|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8699" CreationDate="2012-12-17T17:26:15.927" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The scene at the beach bar was real.&lt;/strong&gt; The change from crowded night to empty day shows that Bond's drinking binge lasted all night. He wasn't there to party like the other patrons -- he was there to get blind drunk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bond went on the drinking binge because he was upset at M for having Eve shoot at Patrice. Bond explains this to M when he comes back to MI6. He says something like &quot;I couldn't believe you didn't trust me to finish the mission.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bond's anger stems from how M is a mother-figure to Bond (a key theme of &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;). When M ordered the shot, Bond felt something akin to rejection or violation of trust. He was thinking something like &quot;M was one of the few people I thought I could trust, but even she isn't reliable, so what's the point of anything? I might as well just get wasted and get laid.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T17:26:15.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8726" CreationDate="2012-12-17T17:34:32.083" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently, Carrie does not know anything about the drone strike.  Her thoughts for why Brody turned are because Brody was broken and became grateful to the man that 'rescued' him from his torture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems the only people left alive that know about the strike, as of S2E12, is Saul, with Quinn having an idea that the hit on Brody is for something 'personal' to Estes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T17:34:32.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8725" CreationDate="2012-12-17T18:14:23.443" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a &lt;a href=&quot;http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/ringfaq.htm#Q1-SauronVisible&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FAQ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;about the Rings&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was Sauron visible when wearing the Ring?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Though Tolkien never answered this question directly, most opinion in &lt;a href=&quot;http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/ringfaq.htm#Refrabt&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;r.a.b.t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is that Sauron was visible even while wearing the Ring.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Rings of Power (&lt;a href=&quot;http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/ringfaq.htm#Q3-Invisible&quot;&gt;except the Three&lt;/a&gt;) made their wearers invisible by &lt;a href=&quot;http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/ringfaq.htm#Q0-InvWhy&quot;&gt;shifting them mostly into the Unseen world&lt;/a&gt;. But Sauron already lived in that world as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia_%28Middle-earth%29&quot;&gt;Maia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (an “angelic” spirit).&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;His material body was something deliberately put on, as we put on clothes. Sauron was naturally pure spirit, not a hybrid like mortals, Elves, and Dwarves.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[click link for more details]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;So, there are basically two worlds, the &lt;em&gt;material&lt;/em&gt; and the &lt;em&gt;spiritual&lt;/em&gt; world. Putting on the Ring &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;shifts one partly into the spiritual world.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; But &lt;em&gt;Sauron&lt;/em&gt; was already living in the &lt;em&gt;spiritual&lt;/em&gt; world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T18:14:23.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8730" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-17T21:18:11.520" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Animatrix is a 2003 direct-to-video anthology film based on The Matrix trilogy produced by the Wachowskis, who wrote and directed the trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="1992" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T21:22:21.977" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T21:22:21.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8731" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-17T21:18:11.520" Score="0" Body="The Animatrix is a 2003 direct-to-video anthology film based on The Matrix trilogy produced by the Wachowskis, who wrote and directed the trilogy." OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="1992" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T21:22:16.720" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T21:22:16.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8725" CreationDate="2012-12-17T21:45:42.060" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usage of the rings of power are based on the experience/desires of the user as well as the limitations of the ring itself. In &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;, when Bilbo first used the ring (in Gollum's lair) his greatest desire at the moment was to go unnoticed (i.e., invisibility). Frodo likely had the same experience since his initial understanding of the Ring was as limited as Bilbo's. Keep in mind that in the LOTR books, another character, Tom Bombadil also did not become invisible (or affected in any way) when wearing the ring likely due to his experience as a much older magical being. Thus, Sauron could use it to help create entire armies, whereas magically inexperienced Hobbits simply became invisible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, what Oliver_C answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3624" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T21:45:42.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8733" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8734" CreationDate="2012-12-17T21:59:42.613" Score="16" ViewCount="7597" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Neo learned kung fu, Neo and Morpheus connected to Matrix for a sparring program similar to the programmed reality of the Matrix. After the training, there was a conversation between them;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bj1ev.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Morpheus: How did I beat you?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Neo: You... you're too fast.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Morpheus: Do you believe that my being stronger or faster has anything to do with my muscles in this place? Do you think that's air&#xA;  you're breathing now?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they really breathing air when they in the Matrix? Or it was also just an another control system? Is there any information about that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1992" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T11:04:00.497" Title="Are they breathing air in Matrix?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8733" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:12:21.500" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;When they're having that conversation, they're still in the Simulation Program. I think Morpheus meant (more bluntly):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Look, I didn't beat you because I have more muscles. This is simulation, you can hack it and break its laws unlike reality where you must submit to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He says &lt;em&gt;&quot;Do you think that's air you're breathing now?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; meaning &quot;There is no air.&quot; That is a simulation, they're in a virtual world which obviously implies they don't need to obey reality laws. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about videogames, you do things you won't ever do in real life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T22:12:21.500" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8735" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:22:34.547" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;K-PAX is the name of the first novel in the K-PAX series by Gene Brewer and a film based on the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="1992" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T23:24:25.480" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T23:24:25.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8736" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:22:34.547" Score="0" Body="K-PAX is the name of the first novel in the K-PAX series by Gene Brewer and a film based on the series." OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="1992" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T23:25:30.600" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T23:25:30.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8737" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:25:02.617" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;L.A. Confidential&lt;/em&gt; is a 1997 American noir crime thriller set in 1953 Los Angeles. It is based on a novel of the same name by James Ellroy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119488/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Confidential_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-28T13:57:09.610" LastActivityDate="2016-09-28T13:57:09.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8738" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:25:02.617" Score="0" Body="1997 American noir crime thriller set in 1953 Los Angeles. Based on a novel of the same name by James Ellroy." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-28T13:57:09.610" LastActivityDate="2016-09-28T13:57:09.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8739" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:26:34.880" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T22:26:34.880" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T22:26:34.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8740" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:26:34.880" Score="0" Body="Kingdom of Heaven is a 2005 epic action film set during the Crusades of the 12th century." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-16T23:20:46.333" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T23:20:46.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8741" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:30:06.103" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T22:30:06.103" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T22:30:06.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8742" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:30:06.103" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T22:30:06.103" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T22:30:06.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8743" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:31:05.620" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Second film of Men in Black series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="1992" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T23:23:50.190" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T23:23:50.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8744" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:31:05.620" Score="0" Body="Second film of Men in Black series." OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="1992" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T23:24:55.873" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T23:24:55.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8745" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:32:17.917" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T22:32:17.917" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T22:32:17.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8746" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:32:17.917" Score="0" Body="Is an American actor and film producer best know for his role in Titanic, Blood Diamond, Inception and Shutter Island etc. " OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-14T23:48:05.103" LastActivityDate="2013-03-14T23:48:05.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8747" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:33:42.050" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T22:33:42.050" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T22:33:42.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8748" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:33:42.050" Score="0" Body="Saving Private Ryan is a war film directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 1998." OwnerUserId="16547" LastEditorUserId="16547" LastEditDate="2016-04-12T00:59:56.690" LastActivityDate="2016-04-12T00:59:56.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8749" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:35:07.777" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T22:35:07.777" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T22:35:07.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8750" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:35:07.777" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T22:35:07.777" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T22:35:07.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8751" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:37:44.550" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T22:37:44.550" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T22:37:44.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8752" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:37:44.550" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T22:37:44.550" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T22:37:44.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8753" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:39:43.070" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-17T22:39:43.070" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T22:39:43.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8754" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-17T22:39:43.070" Score="0" Body="1998 film directed by Peter Weir in which Jim Carrey plays a character whose entire life is a TV reality show" OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2016-08-16T21:50:58.333" LastActivityDate="2016-08-16T21:50:58.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8733" CreationDate="2012-12-17T23:31:34.963" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Sparring Program that Morpheus and Neo fight in is a simulated reality along the same lines as the Matrix, but much smaller and presumably hosted by the Nebuchadnezzar computers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they are 'plugged into' these simulated realities, clearly their physical bodies are breathing air, but the reality they are experiencing is simulated.  Hence there is no air that they are breathing in that simulated reality.  Morpheus is trying to make Neo realize he is not bound by the same physical realities as the real world, that it is his mind that is fighting him, not any physical body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-12-17T23:31:34.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8313" CreationDate="2012-12-18T00:58:04.697" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Silva won.  He wanted to discredit M and die with her, and that's what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bond's official mission was really just a small part of Silva's scheme.  This is a common trope in the thriller genre, and we expect the hero to eventually figure out what's going on and thwart the villain's plan at the last possible moment.  But Bond didn't do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bond did score two modest successes: Silva died at Bond's hands, rather than his own or M's; and Silva died believing that he had failed.  Even so, Silva came out on top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3625" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T00:58:04.697" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8758" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8971" CreationDate="2012-12-18T08:05:15.480" Score="14" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was interested to find out that in the 1950s, Nielsen used devices in the homes of the families that were surveyed to record their viewing preferences, and only later introduced their system of using a diary to record habits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...in 1950...This information was collected on a device that was attached to a television that recorded what was being watched.  In 1953, the company began sending out diaries to a smaller sample of homes (“Nielsen families”) within the survey to have them record what they had watched&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_Company#Radio_and_Television&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, presumably as multiple different viewers in the home were considered in the sample, the means through which the ratings were recorded changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that so many people are able to record shows digitally and watch when convenient and that so many view their favorites on outlets such as iTunes, how have the Nielsen ratings systems adapted (or how does the company plan to adapt them) to capture our modern viewing preferences?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While a DVR-recorded show still technically makes its original &amp;quot;timeslot&amp;quot; relevant to the equation, will Nielsen consider timeslot-specific data a hindrance to comparisons between those shows viewed on cable and the same show viewed on iTunes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-04-09T22:20:43.367" Title="How are the measurements used by Nielsen evolving to meet new methods of content delivery and viewing?" Tags="|audience-measurement|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8759" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-18T09:04:07.110" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nielsen ratings&lt;/strong&gt; are the audience measurement systems developed by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_Company&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nielsen Company&lt;/a&gt;, which are used to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nielsen families&lt;/em&gt; who contribute to the research will typically either fill in a diary of what they watch on TV, or have a device attached to their television which monitors minute-by-minute their viewing habits. Once recorded, these figures are used by networks to determine the audiences reaction to a show as well as how much they can charge for advertising based on the number of people watching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Nielsen ratings on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_ratings&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T21:41:21.507" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T21:41:21.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8760" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-18T09:04:07.110" Score="0" Body="Audience measurement systems to determine the audience size and composition of television programming." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:51:55.313" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:51:55.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8694" CreationDate="2012-12-18T16:47:42.913" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you have a little/big brother or sister, you hate them...you would do anything to get over on them or even hurt them sometimes...but when someone else tries...they become YOUR territory that is being threatened...you should defend your territory. This was Jeanie's knee-jerk reaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T16:47:42.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8765" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8767" CreationDate="2012-12-18T16:58:04.620" Score="26" ViewCount="66703" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did Keanu Reeves actually know martial arts when he acted for the movie &quot;The Matrix&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no, how did he act in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does he actually know any kind of Martial Arts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1215" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-01-22T00:19:17.060" LastActivityDate="2017-01-22T00:19:17.060" Title="Did Keanu Reeves actually know martial arts when he acted for the movie &quot;The Matrix&quot;?" Tags="|martial-arts|the-matrix|acting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8765" CreationDate="2012-12-18T17:14:26.260" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently Keanu Reeves, after the Matrix experience, got hooked on Martial Arts. But as far as the movie is concerned, we're talking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choreography&quot;&gt;choreography&lt;/a&gt; (you learn moves as when you do with dancing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/faq&quot;&gt;The Matrix FAQ&lt;/a&gt; on Imdb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The actors that were hired had some kind of physical background; Carrie Anne-Moss was a dancer and Keanu Reeves used to play ice hockey. These experiences were used by Yuen Woo-Ping and his stunt crew when choreographing the fight scenes although all of the actors had stunt doubles for the more dangerous stunts. Most of the actors had no previous training. The actors underwent a hard training under &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0950759/&quot;&gt;Master Yuen Woo-Ping&lt;/a&gt; who made them all look like expert Kung Fu fighters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T17:14:26.260" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8769" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8774" CreationDate="2012-12-18T18:31:26.690" Score="4" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the television series, New Girl, S01E24, it is shown that Smith and Jess conduct interview for new room mate to replace Nick. They select one of them and he also moves in with his luggage but at the end of the Episode Nick just walks in back to the Apartment and there is no mention of the new room mate at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-18T18:33:56.517" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T22:23:26.317" Title="What happened to the new room mate?" Tags="|plot-explanation|new-girl|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8771" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8773" CreationDate="2012-12-18T19:16:11.973" Score="13" ViewCount="15517" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching &quot;Looper&quot;, I could not understand how closing a loop works. What I understood is, If person A is in present as a looper, he would be sent to Past where he would wait for the victim from the present and would kill him so that he can easily dispose of the dead body in the past. Then he would return to present again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when a loop is being closed, the looper has to kill his own future-self. But how is it done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: After getting a clear answer by @Dforck42 about closing a loop, my question changes a little. So when a contract with a looper comes to an end, the present looper kills his future self in present which is sent from future. Now I am trying to set up an example to clarify what I am trying to ask regarding this concept. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose Abe decides to end the loop of person A in present. Then the future self of A has to be sent from future to present by future Abe. So how can the future Abe know that A should be sent to the particular past say 30yrs back, i.e. present from movies perspective? Somebody should inform the future Abe that A's loops is being closed in present. Then only future Abe can know that A should now be sent to present. But it is not shown anywhere explicitly in the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-12-19T13:54:49.840" LastActivityDate="2018-08-01T00:31:31.877" Title="Clarification about closing a loop in Looper" Tags="|plot-explanation|looper|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8772" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-18T19:22:59.240" Score="9" ViewCount="717" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could not understand why was Abe there from the future to manage the loopers. Quoting &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looper_%28film%29#Plot&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;His boss, Abe (Daniels), was sent from the future to manage the loopers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Where is present Abe and why was it required to let future Abe sit as the manager in the present?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Who said or ordered him to come to present?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-12-19T04:35:35.157" LastActivityDate="2012-12-25T14:29:55.127" Title="Why was Abe sent from the future and where is Abe in the present?" Tags="|plot-explanation|looper|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8771" CreationDate="2012-12-18T19:26:38.723" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way it works is someone is hired as a Looper, with the contract saying that their employment will end when they kill themselves and get a nice payout.  This is called closing their loop.  After a loop is closed a looper has 30 years to live until their loop is closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way it works is the Looper's future self is sent to the past (the present from the movie's perspective) and the present looper kills themself.  They then go on living their life until 30 years later when they're grabbed and sent back and killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;update for edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the decision to close a loop is made in the future, so the looper is sent 30 years back to the past (present in the movie).  &lt;strong&gt;the decision to close a loop is not made by the Abe in the present.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a person is sent back they are usually masked, the loopers usually shoot the second they see someone appear.  It also seems to be a part of the job &lt;strong&gt;to not look at who they just killed&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a conversation in the movie about the future bosses closing out the loops. It's never mentioned that Abe actually decides when a loop is closed, or have any say in it at all. It was told that in the future the bad guy (the rainmaker) took over and started closing loops.  We just see the part where the Rainmaker took over and started closing ALL of the loops. It's not alluded to though that Abe makes any decisions on when a loop is closed, he just manages the loopers to make sure everything goes without a hitch and that they close their own loop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-12-19T13:54:04.093" LastActivityDate="2017-12-19T13:54:04.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8769" CreationDate="2012-12-18T22:23:26.317" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &quot;mention&quot; of sorts of the new roommate, Neil, by the images in the final scene ... Nick just takes back into his room without saying anything, everyone dances to AC/DC, and Neil is meekly sitting on the couch. Such an image quite clearly represents that there is no room for Neil because Nick is back in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T22:23:26.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8772" CreationDate="2012-12-18T22:36:59.223" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not mentioned how the time-travel works in Looper.  You seem to enter a chamber to 'depart' but when you arrive you don't need any sort of equipment.  It may be that time travel only works 'one way' that you can only go into the past.  There is talk of 'news' from the future - which implies that messages can be sent back (physically at least). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when time-travel is invented I think we are meant to presume that the gang leaders in the future think this is a great way to dispose of bodies - &lt;em&gt;BUT&lt;/em&gt; they need some sort of reliable way to ensure that the people are killed and the bodies disposed of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are all sorts of potential plot holes here - like why not send them into a volcano, or into water or whatever.  Ignoring these issues, if you decided that you need some way to set up the network of loopers, show them how its going to work etc - then you need a manager to go back and set it up.  You reward him by setting him up in his own fiefdom in the past, send him silver/gold etc - or let him bet on baseball results ala Back to the Future.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my answer to 1 is .... somewhere in the present, doesn't really matter - but he is there to set the looper system up in the first place.  He is the bootstrap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who ordered him.  Its not clear whether the Rainmaker is his boss, or whether he works for another crime organization.  I don't think this is clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T22:36:59.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8694" CreationDate="2012-12-18T22:57:28.353" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never really considered it to be a territorial issue as much as it was for her to seize the only win-win outcome for herself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeanie already faced-off (or rather, kicked in the face) Mr. Rooney, mistaking him for a normal burglar.  Seeing that he was &lt;em&gt;correctly pursuing Ferris for truancy&lt;/em&gt; (meaning Ferris was truant, not that his methods were justified)--and knowing the futility of law enforcement in the situation--she claimed her win over Mr. Rooney here by excusing Ferris' behavior and absence, which Mr. Rooney could not contest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With Ferris, it is true she failed to justify hers and Ferris' inequitable treatment, as we remember from her voice-over in the school hallways ('why should Ferris get away with everything? ...after all I got a car, he got a computer...').  But, I speculate that getting home before Ferris would be her way to gain leverage over him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The opportunity, however, to humiliate/deprive Mr. Rooney &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; indebt Ferris ultimately was probably more appealing than the inevitable shattered, broken happy home that would occur when their parents' found out he isn't such an angel as they believed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1125" LastActivityDate="2012-12-18T22:57:28.353" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8778" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-19T04:08:13.687" Score="6" ViewCount="5641" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bond takes a bullet in the right shoulder in the opening sequence and it is clearly shown during his fight with Patrice on the train. Subsequently, as he is recovering, the wound is shown in a reflection in the mirror, in his right shoulder as was earlier witnessed.  Much later in the film, as Bond is trying to pry fragments of the bullet from his shoulder for forensic analysis, the camera shows him face on trying to probe the wound now in his left shoulder. How could the director miss this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3640" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T01:07:00.397" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T01:07:00.397" Title="Does Patrice wound Bond in the initial scenes in the right or left shoulder?" Tags="|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3234" CreationDate="2012-12-19T05:11:45.820" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end of the movie, when lenny is going to emma s tatto, we see a backward memory of him with his &quot;wife&quot; lying down in a bed and he has a tatto in chest say it: &quot;i have done it&quot; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3642" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T05:11:45.820" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8782" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8785" CreationDate="2012-12-19T06:02:47.010" Score="14" ViewCount="14144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;http://inception.davepedu.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;deep &lt;code&gt;bwaaah&lt;/code&gt; sound from Inception&lt;/a&gt; in several movies and trailers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently &lt;a href=&quot;http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2012/12/07/proof-that-the-inception-sound-is-taking-over-movie-trailers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;others have too&lt;/a&gt;--hear a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;v=830I9w7I7wM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;montage of similar sounds&lt;/a&gt; (collected by Gregory Porter). I found some &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/06/pl_screen_crashsounds/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;info on Wired about Inception's other (crash) sounds&lt;/a&gt;, but nothing about the &lt;code&gt;bwaah&lt;/code&gt; sound, specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It seems similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/ihNjUA_8UQU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Trek The Motion Picture's Blaster Beam instrument&lt;/a&gt;. Anyone know how was the Inception sound was made?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Also I think &quot;that Inception sound&quot; works but would &quot;musical stab&quot; be the right term for such a sound/effect?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I've seen it spelled or referred to as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;BRRRRRRRAAAAAWWWWRWRRRMRMRMMRMRMMMMM!!!&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ugo.com/movies/the-inception-sound-makes-bad-movies-good&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BWONG&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ryanpitts.com/projects/inceptionator/#&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Inception Trailer Horn&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/who-really-created-the-inception-braaam-composer-mike-zarin-sets-the-record-straight-20131113&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BRAAAM&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/hans-zimmer-feels-horrible-when-his-inception-bramms-are-used-in-movie-trailers-20131106&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BRAMMS and BRAAMS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3641" LastEditorUserId="3641" LastEditDate="2015-01-07T01:22:52.870" LastActivityDate="2015-01-07T01:22:52.870" Title="How did they make the Inception sound?" Tags="|inception|sound-effects|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8648" CreationDate="2012-12-19T06:48:17.227" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were no proofs of charging Surjan by Rosie. She acted to Surjan like she wanted to help him because she liked him(or maybe she tried to seduce him so that he finally accepts to sleep with her!) and also wanted to finish the bad things happening around the red light area. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rosie spent too much time with him and it is also true that she could get her revenge without helping him. But she wanted not only to kill them but also to show the world what they did to her and why did such accidents occur and they deserved death sentence. At last everybody including Surjan came to know what they did. This is what she wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another point also to be considered that like Frenny told &quot;Dissatisfied souls seek other dissatisfied souls(whether living or dead)&quot;. Surjan was in pain, so maybe she thought of helping him as he was in pain due to his sons sudden death. After all till the end of the movie it is evident Surjan started believing in ghosts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T06:48:17.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8784" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8801" CreationDate="2012-12-19T07:02:33.663" Score="8" ViewCount="6302" Body="&lt;p&gt;The mouse used in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119715/&quot;&gt;Mousehunt&lt;/a&gt;, the mouse is shown extra ordinarily clever. Was that a real mouse used in that movie or another computer created bug? Whatever it is, it seemed very real!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T15:54:11.363" Title="Is it a highly trained mouse?" Tags="|film-techniques|mousehunt|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8782" CreationDate="2012-12-19T10:51:36.183" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the featurette &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/13396749#t=3m23s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Sound of Inception&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; sound designer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0455185/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Richard King&lt;/a&gt; talks shortly about recording &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;sounds from an oscillator that are played through subwoofers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's when you can hear that &lt;code&gt;bwaah&lt;/code&gt; sound, as you call it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wWWtS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;oscillator&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i344L.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sound&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mixonline.com/post/features/christopher_nolan_inception//index2.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mix Magazine&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has an article in which &lt;em&gt;Richard King&lt;/em&gt; explains a bit more about using &lt;em&gt;subwoofers&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;oscillators&lt;/em&gt; to create certain sounds for the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T10:51:36.183" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8787" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17771" CreationDate="2012-12-19T11:45:24.163" Score="3" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;When they were in the pub they were talking to Jeff, the land lord, when they said where they were staying he dropped a glass and looked shaken.  As he was talking he dropped another one and tried to laugh it off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the issue with where they were staying?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-19T13:33:09.923" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T20:10:44.497" Title="In Inbred, what was the problem with where they outsiders were staying?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inbred|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8778" CreationDate="2012-12-19T13:50:09.597" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the fragments he's trying to pull out of his shoulder are from the bullet the baddie  (Patrice?) shot him with.  Notice he gives them for analysis - there would be no need to analyse the shot from the MI6 rifle!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to answer the question I believe Patrice shot him in the left side, Eve shot him in the right.  Bad day at the office!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T13:50:09.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8784" CreationDate="2012-12-19T15:08:22.487" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I recall, I think it's a mix of real life and cgi, depending on the scene you're watching.  In a good portion of the movie I believe they used a train mouse, and for the more complex scenes (liek when the mouse was knocked out if I remember correctly) they used cgi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all based on my memory though so I have to references for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T15:08:22.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8791" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27585" CreationDate="2012-12-19T15:16:09.607" Score="6" ViewCount="3428" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of season 7, Crowley enters into a contract with Dick Roman (the leviathan) to share parts of the U.S./Canada with Crowley.  It seems that helping the Winchesters by giving them his blood would be breaking that contract.  So, did Crowley break the contract, or did I misunderstand the terms of the contract they wrote up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T10:36:57.417" Title="Did Crowley welch on his contract?" Tags="|plot-explanation|supernatural|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8793" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-19T15:18:13.647" Score="3" ViewCount="1376" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the season 7 finale of Dexter, Hannah has Arlene slip her some sort of drug that seems to have a delayed effect of causing serious seizures and lasts long enough only to allow her to the hospital to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was this drug and are the effects realistic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-19T15:29:02.237" LastActivityDate="2017-08-02T19:06:59.860" Title="What did Hannah use to escape?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dexter|realism|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8795" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8796" CreationDate="2012-12-19T15:22:10.043" Score="10" ViewCount="2128" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of Season 1 of Homeland, Brody makes his suicide video and places it in a secret dead drop point.  After deciding to not go through with his suicide, he tries to recover the video only to discover it is gone and Walker is there instead.  He finishes Walker off and returns home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of Season 2, however, the video turns up in Beirut and is the CIA's primary bargaining chip against Brody to turn him back to their side.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it is unclear who exactly grabbed the video as the diplomat working for Nazir was already dead, Walker appeared to not have it, and obviously Brody did not have it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is, who grabbed it?  Are we to assume it was just some random henchman that grabbed it or even perhaps Roya?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-19T15:28:52.643" LastActivityDate="2014-08-03T22:51:01.853" Title="Who grabbed Brody's video in Season 1?" Tags="|plot-explanation|homeland|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8795" CreationDate="2012-12-19T15:26:07.413" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nazir's network already had plenty of people in the country at that time, so many people could have done this.  Roya is a possibility.  The mole who has plagued the CIA for both seasons could also have done it (assuming the mole isn't Brody).  Also, the assault team that stormed the tailor's shop in season 2 were active &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_%28Homeland%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;back in season 1&lt;/a&gt;, we just didn't see them on screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the number of agents that Nazir already had active in the US, we don't have one specific candidate for who picked up the video.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-01-09T16:54:59.207" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T16:54:59.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8797" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9995" CreationDate="2012-12-19T15:27:22.593" Score="11" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is discovered towards the end of Season 1 that Walker is the other operative, and the enabler for Brody to carry out his plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Brody's reasons for turning against the country are clear due to the loss of Isa, but Walker's are not.  The only things we discover about Walker is that he was presumed dead when Nazir and Brody's captors force Brody to beat Walker 'to death', but is never shown attached to Isa or Nazir in any other way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is Walker's reason for participating in the plot and going the lengths that he did?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T12:24:10.083" Title="Why is the shooter involved in the plot against the country?" Tags="|plot-explanation|homeland|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8798" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-19T15:31:21.367" Score="10" ViewCount="971" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the finale of Lost, The Man in Black travels with Jack to the Source of the Island's powers in order, in his objective, to destroy the Island and finally get away from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Jack's plan was to use this opportunity to finally defeat the now-Mortal Man in Black and prevent his departure from the Island.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the Man in Black &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; he would become mortal when the Island's power was removed, and was willing to risk this vulnerability in order to escape, or did he simply have a fatal oversight on his plan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-19T15:40:29.813" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T23:12:15.367" Title="Did the Man in Black know he would lose his powers?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lost|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8799" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-19T15:38:16.673" Score="12" ViewCount="1121" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Sea_%28Lost%29&quot;&gt;Season 6 E15&lt;/a&gt; it is shown that Jacob and the Man in Black are really twin brothers and are raised by the mysterious woman that lives on the Island who grants Jacob the powers of the protector.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when Jacob discovers his brother murders their 'mother', he is filled with rage and tosses his brother into the Source of the Island.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens here is the question at hand, the Smoke Monster comes out of the Source and begins to take the shape of his brother, implying that they are one in the same, however, his brother's body is still present, and is buried with their 'mother'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So did this man &lt;strong&gt;become&lt;/strong&gt; the Smoke Monster, or did Jacob simply &lt;strong&gt;awaken&lt;/strong&gt; the smoke monster, with his rage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T14:11:01.707" Title="Is the man in the flashbacks really the Man in Black?" Tags="|analysis|lost|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8799" CreationDate="2012-12-19T15:43:37.090" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a little of both.  From the early seasons of &lt;em&gt;Lost&lt;/em&gt; we see that the smoke monster can take the forms of dead people.  It also learns their memories.  So when it was first released, the first person it did this on was the Man in Black.  We don't know what the smoke monster was like previous to that, but starting there, he had the full memories and form of the Man in Black.  It's possible that since that was its first human form, it became its favorite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T15:43:37.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8784" CreationDate="2012-12-19T15:45:07.703" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemareview.com/production.asp?prodid=9&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cinema Review&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is actually an ensemble performance delivered by &lt;strong&gt;a combination of real mice, an animatronic mouse and a computer-generated (CGI) mouse.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Animal trainer &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boone_Narr&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Boone Narr&lt;/a&gt; trained ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... &lt;strong&gt;60 mice to perform the complex stunts and tricks&lt;/strong&gt; they would have to perform in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Grouped in teams of four or five, the mice had to be taught to do basic running and climbing stunts, as well as more intricate actions, including climbing into a sardine can bed beneath a tissue paper comforter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mice became so beloved that many of the &amp;quot;Mouse Hunt&amp;quot; cast and crew adopted them after shooting was completed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The visual effects company &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rhythm.com/features/credits/mouse-hunt/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rhythm &amp;amp; Hues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was responsible for the &lt;em&gt;computer generated mouse&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Rhythm &amp;amp; Hues' visual effects supervisor &lt;em&gt;Charles Gibson&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;The goal with 'Mouse Hunt's' visual effects was to make people believe we had the world's most amazing trained mouse, and never a CGI creation.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;animatronic mouse&lt;/em&gt; came from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20207033_20439407,00.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stan Winston Studios&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vfxhq.com/1997/mousehunt.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VFX HQ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has an article about the &lt;em&gt;CG mouse&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T15:54:11.363" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8803" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8809" CreationDate="2012-12-19T16:01:37.013" Score="5" ViewCount="782" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1137462/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kings&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was a short run series that aired on NBC in the US that told, in a modern sense, the story of David from the bible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series seemed to have a sense of where it was going and aired a full season before being cancelled by NBC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The initial reviews and ratings seemed to have a strong reaction to them and did not suffer from the same mistake Fox made with Firefly, airing episodes out of order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T16:03:20.860" LastActivityDate="2016-08-01T19:33:46.980" Title="What led to the cancellation of Kings?" Tags="|kings|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8804" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8806" CreationDate="2012-12-19T16:23:39.327" Score="4" ViewCount="32193" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though the show wasn't very much like the books, I quite enjoyed &lt;em&gt;The Dresden Files&lt;/em&gt;. But why was the show cancelled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-10-07T13:12:22.483" LastActivityDate="2016-10-07T13:12:22.483" Title="Why was The Dresden Files cancelled?" Tags="|dresden-files|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8804" CreationDate="2012-12-19T16:52:42.323" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 2007 &lt;strong&gt;Jim Butcher&lt;/strong&gt;, the author of the novels, announced the cancellation of the TV series on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jim-butcher.com/posts/2007/dresden-files-tv-show-canceled&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;his website&lt;/a&gt; and linked to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvguide.com/roush/Dresden-Sci-Fis-9835.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TV Guide&lt;/strong&gt; article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...it's official: The show isn't returning for a second season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A shame, but hardly a surprise, given the reticence to discuss the matter every time I brought it up to Sci Fi or NBC Universal Cable execs during the recent TCA press tour. In their world, &lt;strong&gt;it's all about &amp;quot;running the numbers&amp;quot; (in other words: looking at the ratings and budgets, etc.) and to them, &lt;em&gt;Dresden&lt;/em&gt; just didn't seem to measure up.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T16:52:42.323" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8799" CreationDate="2012-12-19T17:14:50.587" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm under the impression that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;MIB&lt;/em&gt; and the &lt;em&gt;Smoke Monster&lt;/em&gt; are one and the same.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Across_the_Sea&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Across the Sea&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(S6 Ep15)&lt;/em&gt; we learn that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Mother&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Mother&quot;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;made it so they &lt;strong&gt;can never hurt each other&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would the &lt;em&gt;Smoke Monster&lt;/em&gt; adhere to this (and look for a &lt;em&gt;loophole&lt;/em&gt;) if it wasn't Jacob's brother?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In that same episode we see that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;MIB&lt;/em&gt; is desperate to leave the Island&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;&lt;br&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Smoke Monster&lt;/em&gt; has the same wish.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg1qikMstEA#t=1m38s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;humorous video&lt;/a&gt; where &lt;em&gt;MIB&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Jacob&lt;/em&gt; have a frank talk about some of that Island stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T17:14:50.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8803" CreationDate="2012-12-19T17:21:04.837" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a word, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.courthistorian.com/2009/07/the-new-king-part-2.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ratings&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_%28U.S._TV_series%29#U.S._Nielsen_ratings&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; has a nice table of per-episode ratings.  After the premiere, the ratings plunged (Note that the first 4 episodes aired on Sundays.  After that, one episode aired on Saturday.  Then the rest was shelved until the summer).  After moving &lt;em&gt;Kings&lt;/em&gt; off Sunday night, &lt;a href=&quot;http://insidetv.ew.com/2009/04/13/ratings-nbc-bet/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NBC saw higher ratings in that timeslot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, it was not cheap to make, at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/tvbizwire/2009/03/nbcs_silverman_backed_expensiv.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;$4 million an episode&lt;/a&gt;.  Personally, I think the show's poor marketing didn't help things.  Watching ads on TV leading up to the premiere didn't make it clear what &lt;em&gt;Kings&lt;/em&gt; was or what it was about.  I only knew because I read up online about the show, and found the premise of 'bible story in the modern day' to be interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T17:21:04.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8810" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8818" CreationDate="2012-12-19T17:47:00.433" Score="16" ViewCount="1936" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I've read a few of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Arrow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Green Arrow&lt;/a&gt; comics, I honestly don't remember much of it, including anything about Oliver Queen's origins. Does he even have an origin story? How true is the plot of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV series, Arrow&lt;/a&gt;, to the comic? Are there any similarities at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-11T16:43:26.363" LastActivityDate="2016-11-11T16:43:26.363" Title="How true is the plot of 'Arrow' to the comic with regards to his origins and background?" Tags="|arrow|arrowverse|comic-adaptation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8771" CreationDate="2012-12-19T18:01:57.270" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/8773/148&quot;&gt;DForck42&lt;/a&gt; already answered on how a Looper contract works, one who chooses the Looper profession also chooses to kill himself somewhere in future and to have a rich life from that moment on for only 30 more years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On your question update, taking the Abe example: in the movie, it is never implied that Abe makes decisions on closing loops. But suppose he did, then the answer is very simple: he just has to remember to send that Looper back in time. It surely is his own decision; all he needs is a calendar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T18:01:57.270" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8812" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8813" CreationDate="2012-12-19T18:38:01.970" Score="19" ViewCount="6817" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching the Alien director's cut and noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Ash the science officer&lt;/a&gt;, who is revealed to be an android later in the movie, in one of the scenes is shown to be drinking what appears to be milk.  Seeing it was the director's cut, was that scene left in deliberately?  Or was the character drinking the white blood-like fluid which comes out of all the android models shown in Alien movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-07-29T12:11:55.167" LastActivityDate="2016-07-29T12:11:55.167" Title="What does Ash drink in Alien Director's cut?" Tags="|plot-explanation|alternate-version|alien|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8812" CreationDate="2012-12-19T19:03:30.890" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alienexplorations.blogspot.ca/1979/10/unravelling-of-ash.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here is a nice interview&lt;/a&gt; with a large portion of the original filmmakers, in which they discuss how Ash is drinking milk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I can ascertain, the androids in this film series can indeed drink fluids - but in this case it seems to be a precursor for a later gag in which Ash sweats a white fluid in an approximation of an 'android orgasm'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From an interview with Ridley Scott:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Interviewer: Just before assaulting Ripley, the robot starts to sweat....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ridley Scott: This is one of the humorous touches in the film. At the end of the previous scene, you've seen it drink milk, or some liquid with which it feeds its circuits. The drop that appears on its forehead is an alarm signal, a way of warning the audience that something is going wrong&#xA;  .... and I always thought that it was interesting that er, do humanoids have sexual urges, what would be nice is that this is the closest he gets to sexual relationhsips (smirk)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Shepperton Studios 1978 documentary (The Making of Alien ) ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="24251" LastEditDate="2016-07-29T12:10:42.583" LastActivityDate="2016-07-29T12:10:42.583" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8812" CreationDate="2012-12-19T19:16:36.343" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always taken from the films that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_%28Alien%29&quot;&gt;Ash&lt;/a&gt; is drinking Android blood, or a fluid needed to support their systems. It is a consumable bio fluid that needs to be replenished as part of their regular maintenance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that their blood is white as seen in Alien, Aliens and Prometheus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mc92V.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Alien&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K6IG3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Aliens&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only possible exception is in Aliens 3, when actor &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000448/&quot;&gt;Lance Henrickson&lt;/a&gt; makes an appearance near the end. When he is injured his blood looks red. Could he be a real human or have Androids evolved? I don't know but later in Aliens Resurrection the female android again is revealed to have white blood (if I remember correctly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D8LCS.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Aliens 3&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T19:16:36.343" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2200" CreationDate="2012-12-19T21:02:54.390" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hot rods are typically American cars with large engines modified for linear speed.  Ironman is American...a True American Hero. Hots Rodding is a true American hobby and being Starks hobby....inspired the colour red for his suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3652" LastEditorUserId="3652" LastEditDate="2012-12-20T06:21:18.147" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T06:21:18.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8816" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8835" CreationDate="2012-12-19T23:56:03.023" Score="11" ViewCount="483" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dring the course of Lost, the Island's power are continuously quantified as electromagnetic in nature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, why do the creators go this route, attempting to use science to explain the supernatural nature of the Island instead of leaving as A supernatural mystery to the viewer?  Were they trying to go for a more 'realistic' tone for the island, or perhaps just a simple creative decision?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:50:46.587" Title="Why does the Island's powers appear as electromagnetism?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lost|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8189" CreationDate="2012-12-19T23:59:55.570" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It took a bit of digging - but it turned out that the most reliable source was the &lt;a href=&quot;http://expendables.wikia.com/wiki/Kill_Count&quot;&gt;Expendables Wiki&lt;/a&gt;, which claims that the final body count was &lt;strong&gt;489&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-12-19T23:59:55.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8810" CreationDate="2012-12-20T00:05:59.810" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The TV show actually uses a similar origin story to the very first Green Arrow comics from the DC 'Golden Age'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only major difference is that in the comic, Oliver Queen was actually the boy's father, Green Arrow himself being Roy Harper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a quick rundown of the original comic book story from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Arrow_Origins&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DC database&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Roy Harper was a young boy whose parents had been killed in a plane&#xA;  crash that stranded him on the isolated Lost Mesa; he had learned to&#xA;  hunt to survive. (His father) Oliver Queen's museum was burned down by&#xA;  criminals he had been fighting during an attempted robbery, and he&#xA;  ventured to the Mesa as a means of finding a new lease on life.&#xA;  Criminals followed him in search of rumored treasure and shot Harper's&#xA;  only friend Quoag, forcing the man and boy to work together. They took&#xA;  their code-names Green Arrow and Speedy from off-handed remarks the&#xA;  thugs had made, and defeated them using bows and arrows. Discovery of&#xA;  the treasure made them very wealthy, and they used that money to fund&#xA;  their crime-fighting careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-18T13:48:29.653" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T13:48:29.653" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8820" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9008" CreationDate="2012-12-20T02:08:05.687" Score="3" ViewCount="7805" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251075/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Evolution&lt;/a&gt; which I took as director Ivan Reitman's attempt to reboot the GhostBusters franchise. Was a good film (by my standards) and it's been more then ten years now since it's release. Is there any hope or speculation that a sequel will be made?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T18:13:19.930" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T03:50:51.390" Title="Are there any plans to make a sequel to the film Evolution (2001)" Tags="|evolution|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-09-05T07:24:59.570" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8721" CreationDate="2012-12-20T02:46:07.227" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is because Katherine was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelg%C3%A4nger&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Doppelgänger&lt;/a&gt; who can take on the look and traits of Elena. Including her cloths and behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an evil force that brings evil or misfortune.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T02:46:07.227" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8719" CreationDate="2012-12-20T02:50:27.000" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a curse because he has the disadvantages of both. He thirsts for blood while suffering the effects of turning into a Wherewolf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T02:50:27.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8685" CreationDate="2012-12-20T03:10:53.973" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would appear to me that those claims could be true, because researching the subject in Google found many references to George Lucas and Lord of the Rings. You have to also accept that George would have the financial ability to purchase such rights, and he is clearly a huge fan of Tolkien's work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;George is referenced in this FOX News report as being close friends with director Peter Jackson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lucas also told me that he and Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson have become good friends, commiserating with each other in Australia and New Zealand on their shoots about making their two series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read more: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,75540,00.html&quot;&gt;http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,75540,00.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moongadget.com/origins/lotr.html&quot;&gt;StarWars Origins&lt;/a&gt; website. I found the following.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lucas has often cited The Lord of the Rings as a major influence on Star Wars. The superficial stuff is the most obvious, but the subtle lesson Lucas learned from Tolkien is how to handle the delicate stuff of myth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LOTR is a reoccurring theme when Goerge is interviewed. So I think this makes this myth possible that he once tried to purchase the rights. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T03:10:53.973" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8685" CreationDate="2012-12-20T04:55:30.397" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked this question on Facebook to a couple of friends of mine (&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Pablo_Hidalgo&quot;&gt;Pablo Hidalgo&lt;/a&gt;, content manager and author for Lucasfilm, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Mark_Newbold&quot;&gt;Mark Newbold&lt;/a&gt;, writer for Star Wars Insider) and as far as they know, this rumor isn't true. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lucas certainly saw Tolkien's work as an influence, but he didn't actively seek to acquire the rights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2012-12-20T18:35:29.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T18:35:29.057" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8686" CreationDate="2012-12-20T05:04:49.960" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Major S, I would suggest that the focal point in any given shot is not determined by the editor, but by the director of photography and the director. In many instances the DP works in conjunction with the gaffer to light the scene so that the focal point (be it a character or object) is highlighted in accordance to the director's wishes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This set-up carries through to 3D filming whereby specific elements in the frame can be enhanced or reduced in value in order to make the focal point 'pop'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not carried out by the editor, but is a post-production process handled by the post houses, color timers, compositors et al.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for an optimum position in the theater, in theory you are supposed to get a great 3D experience from any position in the house (except maybe in the first few rows, but then I know folks who love those seats...), but from personal experience it is always 'middle/middle' for the best in picture and especially sound which, at the end of the day, is 50% of the viewing experience any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, any director I have ever known sits at the back of the auditorium during screenings and judges everyone else's reactions. By that point they are usually sick of watching their own film ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T05:04:49.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8826" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8827" CreationDate="2012-12-20T10:14:03.760" Score="25" ViewCount="54851" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;'How you doing?'&lt;/em&gt; line of Joey in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108778/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Friends&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is very famous. English is my third language. I seem it's general conversation dialogue. What's so special about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2012-12-20T10:54:29.837" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T17:37:21.590" Title="What does 'How you doing?' by Joey mean?" Tags="|analysis|friends|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8826" CreationDate="2012-12-20T10:44:13.770" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K4ZgJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Joey&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://timedump.tumblr.com/post/8679051864/how-you-doing-classic-joey&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Tribbiani&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joey is extremely promiscuous with women, often relying on &lt;strong&gt;his catchphrase pickup line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   &lt;em&gt;&quot;How you doin'?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMVRAUFqgZU&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watch a &lt;em&gt;How You Doin'?&lt;/em&gt; compilation&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T10:44:13.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8826" CreationDate="2012-12-20T10:54:04.453" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;The expression &lt;em&gt;How you doin'?&lt;/em&gt; is a modification of the English &lt;em&gt;How are you doing?&lt;/em&gt; which is another way of saying &quot;How are you?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This phrase seems to be used by stereotypical mobsters in popular culture, who usually were of foreign descent and so would pronounce expressions with an accent. For example, Tony Soprano in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Sopranos%3a_Season_3#Another_Toothpick&quot;&gt;third season&lt;/a&gt; (the 5th quote in Another Toothpick):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tony Soprano: How you doin'? I got new shoes. Soles are a little heavy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joey does the same (probably a reference to his foreign descent) but in his case, the sentence is a pick-up line, a conversation starter for his die hard promiscuity with women.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T10:54:04.453" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8829" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-20T11:45:28.827" Score="9" ViewCount="1381" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last episode of season 7, we see Hannah McKay leaving a black flower at Dexter's door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does it mean? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will she try to kill him or was it a goodbye-gift meant to symbolize her sadness that he betrayed her? Or is it something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="418" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T13:49:09.343" Title="Meaning of Hannah's last appearance" Tags="|plot-explanation|dexter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8830" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8836" CreationDate="2012-12-20T13:59:11.143" Score="7" ViewCount="681" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a recent reviewing of Donnie Darko, while understanding most of what is going on, one bit always seems a bit extreme for me, the blatant hate of Cherita Chen by a lot of the schoolchildren.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it is made clear that she is a bit awkward and not the most social, why are some of the students so blatant in their hatred towards her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, one of Donnie's friends at the bus stop rips on her with the following line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Go back to China, Bitch!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T16:10:34.250" Title="Why all the hate towards Cherita?" Tags="|character|donnie-darko|richard-kelly|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8831" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8834" CreationDate="2012-12-20T14:09:38.700" Score="8" ViewCount="813" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have heard a lot of theories spout about how the world of Adventure Time is actually based on a Post-Apocalypic Earth that has adapted to nuclear fallout, changing all living things with what they know as 'magic'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted I'm not that far into the episodes, but is there any real merit to these claims and is there specific hints one should be looking out for that support this theory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2020-07-19T11:52:33.193" Title="Is the Land of Ooo really a post apocalyptic Earth?" Tags="|analysis|adventure-time|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8832" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8833" CreationDate="2012-12-20T14:12:17.597" Score="8" ViewCount="1689" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jake the Dog has the power to expand and retract his body at will and to seemingly, any size desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But does he have a size limit as far as how big he can expand himself or how small he can shrink himself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2017-04-12T04:08:45.367" Title="Do Jake's powers have any real limitation?" Tags="|character|adventure-time|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8832" CreationDate="2012-12-20T14:45:46.700" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://adventuretime.wikia.com/wiki/Jake&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Adventure Time wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the episode &quot;The Limit,&quot; Jake's Stretchy Powers are put to the test. It is revealed that while Jake can stretch his body to incredible lengths, he does have a limit. As he approaches this limit, his body becomes dangerously thin. Once his mass is distributed along a certain length of his body, it becomes difficult for him to support himself; at one point, Jake was forced to walk along the ground. If he were to stretch beyond his absolute limit, it is presumed that he would completely thin out and die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that Pen Ward has said in an interview that Jake uses his powers lazily and doesn't know their full extent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T04:08:45.367" LastActivityDate="2017-04-12T04:08:45.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8831" CreationDate="2012-12-20T14:49:45.573" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://adventuretime.wikia.com/wiki/Land_of_Ooo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Adventure Time wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pendleton Ward, the creator of Adventure Time, has stated in an interview that the Land of Ooo is actually a post-apocalyptic Earth, the result of a global disaster called the Mushroom War, hence the ruined pieces of modern technology scattered across the land.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T04:06:48.550" LastActivityDate="2017-04-12T04:06:48.550" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8816" CreationDate="2012-12-20T15:51:30.373" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the science explanation is just one way of looking at the island. You can form theories of how stuff works on the island based on the electromagnetic properties and see if it fits. The scientists in the series do just that and offer facts for the viewers that adhere to such a story line and want to analyze it scientifically. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could also look at the island in other ways, like religion, magic,... Each of these ways of looking at the island gives you another perspective. You can focus on John Locke/MIB to give you some clues to how the island really works philosophically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, none of the different perspectives fully explain everything on the island as a lot of things are still mysterious. I wouldn't say that the series failed to explain itself as the scientific explanation wasn't present/complete. That would mean that the writers wanted to provide a full scientific explanation. However, I believe that they didn't want to provide a clear scientific explanation. They just didn't provide any full explanation, as (in life) there're always things that remain mysterious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as for your question, I believe &lt;strong&gt;the writers wanted to provide as many perspectives on the island as possible&lt;/strong&gt; (as everyone has a different view on life). The scientific approach might suit you the best but that might not be the case for a preacher. I wouldn't say &quot;they wanted to be more realistic&quot; as the scientific explanation is not complete and thus leaves scientific viewers wanting more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why they use electromagnetism instead of for example quantum mechanics: I think it more closely relates to how scientific work/experiments are set up. It's easy to measure it and is still one of the fundamental forces in physics. They could have included some string theory and worked with that but given the time setting of the series, it's more likely to measure electromagnetism first and build a theory with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:50:46.587" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:50:46.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8830" CreationDate="2012-12-20T16:10:34.250" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the themes of the movie is 'outsiders', people that for one reason or another are not fully integrated or fully understood by their peers, parents, siblings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cherita is an outsider because she looks different and is a bit awkward.  The movie is set in the mid 80's where perhaps there were fewer asian immigrants in the USA, and perhaps it was a little less socially unacceptable to express racially inspired abuse like that, particularly amongst adolescents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Donnie himself is clearly an outsider, but of a more subtle kind.  His family know that he has issues and is seeing a psychologist or psychiatrist, but beyond that he is less isolated socially than Cherita seems to be.  However he knows that he is different, and is experiencing  things he does not understand.  I believe he empathizes with Cherita and wants to help her.  I believe the abuse she gets and Donnie's response is used by the writers to reveal Donnie's empathy with another outsider and his innate kindness, as in many other respects he does act like a bit of a jerk towards his family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T16:10:34.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8837" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8838" CreationDate="2012-12-20T16:19:13.337" Score="4" ViewCount="1104" Body="&lt;p&gt;The remake of The Clash of the Titans is radically different from the original, but does keep a couple of elements the same.  Why did Louis Leterrier decide to have the remake be so radically different and introduce other elements into the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-22T10:33:34.150" LastActivityDate="2013-09-22T10:33:34.150" Title="Why was the Clash of the Titans remake so radically different from the original?" Tags="|remake|clash-of-the-titans-2010|louis-leterrier|clash-of-the-titans-1981|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8837" CreationDate="2012-12-20T16:25:41.917" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Louis Leterrier was a huge fan of the original film, but, as he put it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I watched the original again. I went to a shop and bought the DVD and the stuff I love was still there. But it’s funny: memory is the best editor. So it was like, Oh, really? This was in it? It’s that simple? He goes on a journey because he fell in love with her? Really? I felt like what needed the most work was not the creatures, because they were fantastic (and, yes, we use different technology to bring them to life). It was really the story and the motivation. Why would this guy go on this suicide mission, this impossible mission, for the love of a princess? That was not working for me.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore he kept some of the principal characters and monsters, but created a new version of the story. Incidentally, it should be noted that his film was effectively butchered in editing by the 'suits' - and Io's arc was drastically altered to make her Perseus' lover, not his sister as originally filmed. You can read more insights here:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2010/04/clash-of-the-titans-director-you-shouldnt-remake-clash-of-the-titans&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Vanity Fair Article on the Clash of the Titans Remake&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T16:25:41.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8839" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8841" CreationDate="2012-12-20T16:45:54.140" Score="15" ViewCount="2302" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/BryanSinger/status/281256660025081857&quot;&gt;twitter announcement&lt;/a&gt; from director Bryan Singer that reveals Hugh Jackman's Wolverine will be in the new film, &lt;em&gt;X-men: Days of Future Past&lt;/em&gt;, this has further cemented (following the announcements from Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan) the intention of the filmmakers to place ALL of the x-men films, &lt;em&gt;First Class&lt;/em&gt; included, into the same timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a fan of the films, but not a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;FAN&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in the truest sense, so I have no idea how this will impact the overall arc of the timeline. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I am aware, some quarters are up in arms over this announcement, and my questions are: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What are the major issues with having all of these films placed in one universe?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Has there been any official explanation as to how the filmmakers intend to integrate the loose threads into this new film?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Addendum:&lt;/strong&gt; There seems to be some confusion about the Professor X character regarding how he ended up in the wheelchair, also the Emma Frost character arc doesn't appear to work across the timeframe, and there also seem to be issues with Woverine's relationship to Sabretooth. These are just a few of the 'issues' raised that I have seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Here are some more:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In X-Men, Professor Xavier claims he met Erik Lehnsherr when he was 17, in X-Men: First Class he is considerably older during their first meeting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In X-Men, Prof X seems confused as to how Magneto has found a way to shield himself from Cerebro, but in X-Men: First Class, Xavier sees Magneto's helmet and knows what it can do.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In X-Men, Prof X says that he and Magneto collaborated on the construction of Cerebro, but in X-Men: First Class, Cerebro was designed by Hank (Beast). The original was constructed by the CIA, and whichever version ends up at the X Mansion is of unknown origin but was definitely built after the Xavier/Magneto split.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In X-Men, we wee a different X Mansion from the one that appears in X-Men: First Class. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;OK, so they moved. I can relate to that :)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In X-Men, Prof X doesn't seem to remember meeting Wolverine before, though they meet briefly in X-Men: First Class.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In X-Men: First Class, Emma Frost (White Queen) meets and is an adversary of Charles Xavier. In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, she doesn't seem to know him and follows him onto a helicopter without comment or complaint. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;This one might have been answered below.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In X-Men 3: The Last Stand, Prof X and Magneto are seen visiting the home of Jean Grey to recruit her to the school. This scene presumably takes place many years after the end of X-Men: First Class, where we see the rift between Xavier and Magneto has already taken place.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In X-Men: First Class we see Hank turn into the blue furry Beast as a young man in the year 1963. In X2: X-Men United Dr. Hank McCoy appears in a television interview and he is not blue and furry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-26T13:40:29.550" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T07:22:13.740" Title="Has the continuity timeline been established for the new X-men movies?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|continuity|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8839" CreationDate="2012-12-20T17:58:21.500" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how there's any confusion about Professor X being in the wheelchair.  He's clearly &quot;shot&quot; (bullet deflected) in the &lt;em&gt;First Class&lt;/em&gt; movie, as well as being IN the wheelchair at the end.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Emma's story, there was a lot of confusion about the character thanks to the &lt;em&gt;Wolverine: Origins&lt;/em&gt; movie.  There's a young girl being held captive by Stryker who can turn into diamond.  Many believed that she was Emma, yet she's only referred to as &quot;Kayla's sister&quot;, even in the credits.  It is possible they could make that reference in future movies, or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regards to Sabertooth and Wolverine's &quot;relationship&quot;, that will be a bit easier to do.  Since Wolverine lost his memory, he has no idea why Sabertooth seems to be hunting him.  In the comics, Sabertooth hunts him down every year on his birthday, just to beat him to a pulp.  This is to show that he's always going to be the superior mutant.  If I recall, to this day, Wolverine has not beaten Sabertooth in a one on one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as for potential issues that could arise, there's one that comes to my mind.  If Wolverine does make an appearance in this film, much more than the cameo we saw in &lt;em&gt;First Class&lt;/em&gt;, why does Professor X seemingly have no knowledge of him in &lt;em&gt;X-Men&lt;/em&gt;?  Wolverine's lack of memory is understandable, as we know that &lt;em&gt;Wolverine: Origins&lt;/em&gt; takes place quite some time before &lt;em&gt;First Class&lt;/em&gt;, and thus he's lost his memory.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, though, the sad answer is that they will &quot;try&quot; to address what they think needs addressing and nothing more.  The hope is that if there are any glaring holes, they'll fix these.  But it's really up to the director and the writers to pay attention and try to make it mesh as seamlessly as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3541" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T17:58:21.500" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8842" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-20T19:25:50.303" Score="3" ViewCount="3421" Body="&lt;p&gt;The golden drinking horn proved useful in the cave, but it did not look like Beowulf (from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_%282007_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the 2007 movie&lt;/a&gt;) knew it would. Why did he bring it, especially since his sole purpose to visit that cave was to kill the witch?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2012-12-21T15:37:01.507" LastActivityDate="2013-03-21T16:51:27.043" Title="Why did Beowulf bring the prized gift to the cave?" Tags="|plot-explanation|beowulf|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8829" CreationDate="2012-12-20T19:42:39.500" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dexter-season-8-spoilers-dexter-deb-laguerta-scott-buck-403148&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From the executive producer&lt;/a&gt; (Scott Buck) :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Buck: It was a very dark shot, but it was a black orchid, which is meant to be a very ominous sign from Hannah that Dexter would understand what it meant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="576" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T13:49:09.343" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T13:49:09.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8844" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8868" CreationDate="2012-12-20T20:00:59.540" Score="32" ViewCount="9010" Body="&lt;p&gt;This thought recently occurred to me while reading up on theories for the finale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Season 7 had an overwhelming theme of love and what one would do in the name of love with all the storylines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dexter doing whatever it takes to protect Hannah from her father and Isaak.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Isaak doing whatever it took in order to avenge Viktor, his lover.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quinn going back to his dirty cop ways in order to protect his new found love, including shooting himself to protect her.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LaGuerta using her past love for Doakes to risk her life and job proving his innocence&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Debra going against everything she believes in as a cop in order to protect Dexter's true identity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be possible that this is the only season to incorporate this but do the other seasons do this in some capacity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T07:57:28.417" Title="Does each season of Dexter have an overarching theme?" Tags="|analysis|dexter|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8826" CreationDate="2012-12-20T21:13:26.977" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others have pointed out, the phrase in itself is very innocuous and mundane, but it's mostly the &lt;strong&gt;WAY&lt;/strong&gt; he says it that adds the flirting overtones. Notice how when he usually says it he narrows his eyes and raises his chin in what he must believe is a seductive look. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think it says 2 things about his character:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is not smart enough to think up anything more original&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And/or he believes he is so good looking he doesn't have to say anything more to attract women&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="753" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T21:13:26.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8798" CreationDate="2012-12-20T22:17:02.917" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Man in Black did not know that he would become mortal; he expected that he would be free from the island but retain his form and powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is made plain by analyzing the scene with Jack and MiB (as Locke) just after they come out of the cave, following Desmond's extinguishing of the heart. Jack tackles Locke and punches him. Locke tastes blood, and the look on his face registers surprise. He then touches the blood and looks at his hand in shock. Jack then smiles, and, with the line that confirms that MiB didn't know, says, &quot;Looks like you were wrong, too!&quot; (and, of course, punches him a few more times).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a screenshot from that scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E7ZHd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastEditorUserId="2171" LastEditDate="2012-12-20T23:12:15.367" LastActivityDate="2012-12-20T23:12:15.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7965" CreationDate="2012-12-20T23:19:19.477" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My theory is that Quaid never actually went to the Rekall lounge (where the Asian guy injected him). Cohaagen and his group just implanted that memory into him that he went there. So that's why he doesn't have a scar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3662" LastEditorUserId="27969" LastEditDate="2019-03-07T16:51:05.563" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T16:51:05.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8852" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10219" CreationDate="2012-12-21T00:33:55.600" Score="32" ViewCount="61926" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the movie Life Of Pi, we are given a new vision of the events depicted in the story.&#xA;The writer that interviews the main character explains that the Zebra, Orang-Utan, Hyena, and Tiger from the main story represent the Buddhist Sailor, Pi's mother, the Cook, and Pi's dark (murderous) side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we assume this logic applies to all the events between the sunk of the ship, and Pi's rescue on Mexico shores; there is an episode left unexplained. This is the part when Pi discovers an island made of floating trees, whose waters dissolve animals at night.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could represent this event in the alternate vision of the story?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What could be the meaning of this short episode?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is all the more disturbing since this is the most &quot;hard to believe&quot; part in the first version of Pi's story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kXDOp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2089" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-10T13:09:11.850" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T13:10:10.327" Title="What would be the equivalent of the carnivorous island?" Tags="|analysis|life-of-pi|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8621" CreationDate="2012-12-21T03:17:00.640" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;They send them back because there is no evidence of any murder in the future if the person is sent to the past.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T03:17:00.640" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8852" CreationDate="2012-12-21T03:42:56.427" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;EDIT March 9 2013: Here's author Martel's explanation:  island served the sole purpose of making the “animal” version of the story harder and harder to believe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Many readers assume it is something deeply symbolic they just don’t get, or it’s an hallucination –they need a reason to prop up the fiction.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But in his own words “religion goes beyond the confines of the reasonable”.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;http://paula-greatstories.blogspot.com/2008/09/life-of-pi-explained.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://paula-greatstories.blogspot.com/2008/09/life-of-pi-explained.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;my original answer:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;IMHO &lt;strong&gt;the island represented how Pi's view of life had changed after he killed the cook&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the insurance guys, there was no such island in reality, suggesting it was a symbol of something, not a real island.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pi found the island after Richard Parker killed the hyena, which symbolizes Pi killing the cook (and shows that the ordeal at sea had changed Pi forever -- the innocence of his youth was gone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially the island seems like a tranquil paradise but is eventually revealed to be a killer, just like how Pi begins the movie an innocent boy but eventually kills another human being -- and just like how as all of us get older, we inevitably see some of the darker sides of life, and even participate in some of the darkness ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After finding human teeth in a tree he is sitting in, Pi realizes that the island slowly &quot;digested&quot; someone who tried to stay there before -- symbolizing Pi realizing what will happen if he gets too bogged down in thinking about how he killed the cook (or about other horrors in life).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then Pi decides that instead of staying on the island (which would represent dwelling on what he did or on life's horrors) he's going to get back on the raft and keep going (which represents moving on with his life).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-10T13:10:10.327" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T13:10:10.327" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8856" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9136" CreationDate="2012-12-21T06:49:01.273" Score="-2" ViewCount="13515" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched Prometheus last night. Though I found some good information on Movies.SE, I still have some questions about the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There were some scenes that picture holographic images. I don't understand how they have enough energy to create holographs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What happened to Dr. Shaw at the end? Was she able to return to Earth or she was stuck on the same planet?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why did the engineer want to destroy Humanity? And since he had no weapons, how could he have destroyed  all of Humanity on Earth with a single space craft?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2031" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-01-04T16:59:14.000" LastActivityDate="2017-04-21T15:42:20.037" Title="What happened at the end of Prometheus Movie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|prometheus|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2017-04-22T09:33:51.660" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2156" CreationDate="2012-12-21T08:19:46.323" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this picture doesn't prove Jack &lt;em&gt;eats&lt;/em&gt; people, he at least appears to bite their toe nails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6e5Bb.png&quot; alt=&quot;Jack&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you like jam with that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T08:19:46.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="229" CreationDate="2012-12-21T08:25:37.447" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did agree with you. And hence my review baseline for movie is &quot;when baseline is hollow, the building can't stand tall.&quot; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;Still if you force yourself, you can say that the lesson here is that true love does not see the face value, but the pure heart. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3665" LastEditorUserId="3665" LastEditDate="2013-01-21T15:52:51.880" LastActivityDate="2013-01-21T15:52:51.880" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8859" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8860" CreationDate="2012-12-21T08:31:34.617" Score="8" ViewCount="710" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know few things which are restricted in Indian movies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Showing the face of president &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Showing that the prime minister is corrupt.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any other things that a creator of a movie has to avoid? Are the Indian censorship guidelines available online somewhere? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3665" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T00:53:32.627" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T00:53:32.627" Title="Indian movie censorship guideline" Tags="|censorship|indian-cinema|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8859" CreationDate="2012-12-21T09:58:06.313" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;simple&lt;/strong&gt; Google search led me to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cbfcindia.gov.in/html/uniquepage.aspx?unique_page_id=1&quot;&gt;Guidelines of Central Board of Film Certification.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Cinematograph Act lays down that a film shall not be certified if&#xA;  any part of it is against the interest of the sovereignty and&#xA;  integrity of India, the security of the State, friendly relations with&#xA;  foreign States, public order, decency or involves defamation or&#xA;  contempt of court or is likely to incite commission of any offence.&#xA;  Under section 5B(2) the Central Government has issued the following&#xA;  guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A film is judged in its entirety from the point of view of its overall&#xA;  impact and is examined in the light of the period depicted in the film&#xA;  and the contemporary standards of the country and the people to whom&#xA;  the film relates, provided that the film does not deprave the morality&#xA;  of the audience. Guidelines are applied to the titles of the films&#xA;  also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Objectives of Film Certification i)    the medium of film remains responsible and sensitive to the values and standards of&#xA;  society; ii)   artistic expression and creative freedom are not unduly&#xA;  curbed; iii)  certification is responsible to social changes; iv)  the&#xA;  medium of film provides clean and healthy entertainment; and v)   as&#xA;  far as possible, the film is of aesthetic value and cinematically of a&#xA;  good standard.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In pursuance of the above objectives, the CBFC shall ensure that   i)      anti social activities such as violence are not&#xA;  glorified or justified ii)      the modus operandi of criminals, other&#xA;  visuals or words likely to incite the commission of any offence are&#xA;  not depicted; iii)     scenes - a.  showing involvement of children in&#xA;  violence as victims or perpetrators or as forced witnesses to&#xA;  violence, or showing children as being subjected to any form of child&#xA;  abuse. b.   showing abuse or ridicule of physically and mentally&#xA;  handicapped persons; and c. showing cruelty to, or abuse of animals,&#xA;  are not presented needlessly iv)     pointless or avoidable scenes of&#xA;  violence, cruelty and horror, scenes of violence primarily intended to&#xA;  provide entertainment and such scenes as may have the effect of&#xA;  de-sensitising or de-humanising people are not shown; v)      scenes&#xA;  which have the effect of justifying or glorifying drinking are not&#xA;  shown; vi)     scenes tending to encourage, justify or glamorise drug&#xA;  addiction are not shown; a.   scenes tending to encourage, justify or&#xA;  glamorise consumption of tobacco or smoking are not shown; vii)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  human sensibilities are not offended by vulgarity, obscenity or&#xA;  depravity; viii)   such dual meaning words as obviously cater to baser&#xA;  instincts are not allowed; ix)     scenes degrading or denigrating&#xA;  women in any manner are not presented; x)      scenes involving sexual&#xA;  violence against women like attempt to rape, rape or any form of&#xA;  molestation or scenes of a similar nature are avoided, and if any such&#xA;  incidence is germane to the theme, they shall be reduced to the&#xA;  minimum and no details are shown xi)     scenes showing sexual&#xA;  perversions shall be avoided and if such matters are germane to the&#xA;  theme they shall be reduced to the minimum and no details are shown&#xA;  xii)     visuals or words contemptuous of racial, religious or other&#xA;  groups are not presented xiii)    visuals or words which promote&#xA;  communal, obscurantist, anti-scientific and anti-national attitude are&#xA;  not presented xiv)    the sovereignty and integrity of India is not&#xA;  called in question; xv)     the security of the State is not&#xA;  jeopardized or endangered xvi)    friendly relations with foreign&#xA;  States are not strained; xvii)   public order is not endangered xviii)&#xA;  visuals or words involving defamation of an individual or a body of&#xA;  individuals, or contempt of court are not presented   EXPLANATION:&#xA;  Scenes that tend to create scorn, disgrace or disregard of rules or&#xA;  undermine the dignity of court will come under the term ''Contempt of&#xA;  Court'' : and   xix)   national symbols and emblems are not shown&#xA;  except in accordance with the provisions of the Emblems and Names&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950 (12 of 1950)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Board of Film Certification shall also ensure that the film i)    Is judged in its entirety from the point of view of its&#xA;  overall impact; and ii)   Is examined in the light of the period&#xA;  depicted in the films and the contemporary standards of the country&#xA;  and the people to which the film relates provided that the film does&#xA;  not deprave the morality of the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Films that meet the above – mentioned criteria but are considered unsuitable for exhibition to non-adults shall be certified&#xA;  for exhibition to adult audiences only.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;i)    While certifying films for unrestricted public exhibition, the Board shall ensure that the film is suitable for&#xA;  family viewing, that is to say, the film shall be such that all the&#xA;  members of the family including children can view it together. ii)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  If the Board, having regard to the nature, content and theme of the&#xA;  film is of the opinion that it is necessary to caution the parents /&#xA;  guardian to consider as to whether any child below the age of twelve&#xA;  years maybe allowed to see such a film, the film shall be certified&#xA;  for unrestricted public exhibition with an endorsement to that effect.&#xA;  iii)   If the Board having regard to the nature, content and theme of&#xA;  the film, is of the opinion that the exhibition of the film should be&#xA;  restricted to members of any profession or any class of persons, the&#xA;  film shall be certified for public exhibition restricted to the&#xA;  specialized audiences to be specified by the Board in this behalf.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Board shall scrutinize the titles of the films carefully and ensure that they are not provocative, vulgar, offensive or violative&#xA;  of any of the above-mentioned guidelines.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T09:58:06.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8719" CreationDate="2012-12-21T10:10:59.673" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://vampirediaries.wikia.com/wiki/Hybrid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vampire Diaries Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hybrids are &lt;strong&gt;obligated&lt;/strong&gt; to serve &lt;em&gt;Klaus&lt;/em&gt; because his blood created them and they feel loyal to him because he freed them from the pain of turning every full moon. &lt;em&gt;They have limited free will, along with lack of control.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This lack of control and their susceptibility to mind-control is a &lt;strong&gt;curse&lt;/strong&gt; which only hybrids have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; In light of OP's edit, narrowing down the discussion to Klaus only, the possible explanation is the worst of both the species - Vampires and Werewolves. The thirst for blood, as well as the pain of turning into a wolf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2012-12-24T08:44:45.153" LastActivityDate="2012-12-24T08:44:45.153" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8862" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8863" CreationDate="2012-12-21T10:21:21.263" Score="16" ViewCount="45361" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Hobbit shows that the events of the Hobbit took place sixty years before Bilbo's grand birthday party which took place in the 'Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring' as clearly the openings of both the movies cross each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the movie Bilbo seems to be very young too. However he himself announced that it was his 111th birthday on the party. That leaves him 51 years old when Gandalf meets him for the first time. But on the contrary he shows no sign of old age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something from the book?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3538" LastEditorUserId="1992" LastEditDate="2012-12-25T08:40:32.927" LastActivityDate="2017-06-29T16:09:48.710" Title="What is the age of Bilbo in the events of The Hobbit?" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8862" CreationDate="2012-12-21T10:30:00.683" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are correct, Bilbo is 50 when he meets Gandalf in the Hobbit ... in Third Age 2941, 60 years before the party in TA 3001, at the start of the Lord of the Rings.  He will turn 51 later that year in the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hobbits live longer then Humans, shown by the fact that Bilbo's age at the party of 111 is not that unusual, what is unusual is how young he looks for his age due to the ring.  Also Hobbits come of age at age 33, rather than is typically 16-21 for Humans today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You say that Bilbo is quite young in the movie.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0293509/&quot;&gt;Martin Freeman&lt;/a&gt; is 41 years old now, so was around 40 when filming the movies.  Given that Hobbits live longer, I don't think its unrealistic to think that he doesn't look typically old for a 50 year old Hobbit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-01-01T00:35:08.517" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T00:35:08.517" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8864" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8866" CreationDate="2012-12-21T11:14:23.900" Score="56" ViewCount="368463" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often wonder if actors really go nude for certain scenes in films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not talking about those movies where we can see the sexual body-parts or genitals of the actors/actresses, but instead less explicit scenes. Do they also perform nude then to make the scene more realistic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I can remember at the start of the epic film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332452/&quot;&gt;Troy&lt;/a&gt;, Paris had sex with his lover, Helen. During the sex scene, we could not see any sexual body-parts, but the scene was shot such a way that we can understand they were nude and were having sex. In these types of scenes it seems like this type of shot is impossible because of the way their bare body parts are shown, unless they really go nude. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is done in these situations? Do they perform nude or not? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2012-12-21T15:51:17.417" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T21:53:06.707" Title="Do the actors really go nude in the shooting of the movies?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8865" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8867" CreationDate="2012-12-21T11:25:59.247" Score="12" ViewCount="2962" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_Buffay&quot;&gt;Phoebe&lt;/a&gt; was working as Massage Professional, why did she hate massage parlors? And convincing her friends not to go there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2012-12-21T21:05:13.387" LastActivityDate="2018-02-19T07:24:09.963" Title="Why did Phoebe hate massage parlors?" Tags="|analysis|friends|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8864" CreationDate="2012-12-21T11:53:47.257" Score="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's really up to the actor (if they have enough clout). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very often it is written into contracts whether an actor will go fully or partially nude, regardless of whether their on screen character does so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During filming it is not unknown for filmmakers to use body doubles for close up shots, and many times during mid to long shots an actor might request to wear skin tone pieces which cover their genitals or nipples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;*As an example - here is Megan Fox (who will not do fully nude roles) wearing flesh-colored nipple covers and 'briefs' for a supposedly nude swimming shot in the film &lt;em&gt;Jennifer's Body&lt;/em&gt;.*&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WFWuE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2012-12-21T15:32:14.440" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T15:32:14.440" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8865" CreationDate="2012-12-21T12:19:53.320" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing you are talking about the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://friends.wikia.com/wiki/The_One_With_The_Fertility_Test&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The One With The Fertility Test&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(S9Ep21)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rachel receives a gift certificate to get a free massage at a &lt;strong&gt;chain massage center&lt;/strong&gt;, which Phoebe doesn't want her to take advantage of as &lt;strong&gt;she feels it takes away business from independent massage therapists like herself.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What Phoebe doesn't tell Rachel is that she's one of the employees at the very same massage center. However, she has a hard time concealing her identity to Rachel, her client, during her massage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlqedAZhzk#t=0m4s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watch the scene on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c5k6L.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Massage&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;While Phoebe hates these &lt;em&gt;massage chains&lt;/em&gt; she works for one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;... because it's good money ... and they give me benefits, like medical and dental...&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but she admits about feeling ashamed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... &lt;em&gt;because I sold out for the cash&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T12:19:53.320" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8844" CreationDate="2012-12-21T12:34:54.723" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, each season has a theme. From a post by EnormousHatred on &lt;a href=&quot;http://ww.reddit.com/r/Dexter/comments/13mxon/season_themes_what_do_you_guys_think/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;reddit&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 1: Individualism.&lt;/strong&gt; In the beginning Dexter followed Harry's code to the letter and never really let his own feelings get in the way. He never really questioned a way of life that came from within. Brian represented the antithesis of Harry's code; he was a free spirit with no rules. By the end of the season, Dexter's strict adherence to Harry's teachings ended up costing him his brother, &amp;quot;the only one he ever wanted to let go&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 2: Possession.&lt;/strong&gt; Lila was the embodiment of dependence, she coveted Dexter to the point that it nearly brought down everyone around her. The opposite action is to let go, to free oneself of the bindings, the vices that sustain yet also chain us. Dexter struggled with this when he had to make his toughest decision yet regarding Doakes: &amp;quot;Kill me now or set me free!&amp;quot; It was either give in to his greatest weakness, the need to kill, or set him free and ultimately risk losing everything. Doakes brought up suicide, and even planted seeds of regret and shame in Dexter's mind, causing him to consider turning himself in—other ways of letting go. (Addiction lies in this same sphere so you were pretty much on the money here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 3: Trust.&lt;/strong&gt; This mostly goes hand-in-hand with friendship, but it extends beyond that somewhat. There were parallels drawn between Dexter's relationships with Miguel and Rita. Friendship and marriage are ultimately built on the same foundation of trust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 4: Responsibility.&lt;/strong&gt; With family comes a great need for responsibility and priority (see also care, neglect, nurturing). Dexter eventually learned the hard way that you can't just make perfunctory appearances and not expect things that have been built up to degrade. (On a side note I think this was eventually illustrated in a clumsy way with the twist ending, but at least the point was clear.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 5: Altruism.&lt;/strong&gt; Story-wise it was sort of an extension of the last season because Dexter was dealing with guilt over his brief and neglectful marriage. The things he did for Lumen were essentially an act of contrition. He couldn't make things right with Rita, so he took in a battered and broken individual and selflessly took on her own darkness. He might have hunted these same individuals had he not met Lumen, but in the end he took his hands off the steering wheel and let her solve her own brief taking-on of the &amp;quot;Dark Passenger&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 6: Faith.&lt;/strong&gt; Dexter never really takes on a spiritual side, but he gains a respect for the concept of faith. He didn't start to question whether there was a &amp;quot;God&amp;quot; per se, but Brother Sam was able to help him discover a capacity to trust that things will work out when they lie outside your control. Control is important to Dexter, so when Harrison was in the hospital, he felt helpless because there was literally nothing he could do but wait. Travis represented the dark side of faith by taking his Lord's name in vain. He was a person who chose to interpret mere words in a radical, concrete fashion, absolving himself of responsibility by saying this is &amp;quot;how it's supposed to be&amp;quot;, while missing the bigger picture unlike Sam. Ironically, Dexter found himself hoisted by own petard when he decided to faithfully disregard the minute possibility that Debra would visit him at the church.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 7: Love.&lt;/strong&gt; Pretty obvious so far, though I don't mean that in a bad way. The dangers of love make good and bad people alike suspend rationality and integrity; Debra's love for Dexter is great enough that it drives her to cover for his heinous crimes; Dexter can't bring himself to take out Hannah despite fitting his code quite well; Isaak chooses to pursue a frivolous vendetta, ignoring the fact that Viktor, objectively, committed some terrible acts. More on this one as the season churns on...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another user, PunchingClouzot, replied:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty interesting. I'll bet &lt;strong&gt;Season 8&lt;/strong&gt; will be &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Sacrifice&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; to complete the pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue that, if EnormousHatred's theory is correct - and I wouldn't doubt it - there's a an arc on the discovery for human empathy. Individualism being his status quo, possession a natural step to follow which ended with a need to settle hence &amp;quot;trust&amp;quot; (the first positive step). Everything else leads towards a more empathic character BUT his nature cannot be denied hence why a conflict between his new self and his old dark passenger can lead to one ultimate altruistic act - sacrifice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T13:12:28.737" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8206" CreationDate="2012-12-21T12:37:38.897" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rajat (Kartik Tiwari), Nishant &quot;Liquid&quot; Agarwal (Divyendu Sharma) and Vikrant Chaudhary (Rayo Bakhirta) are bachelors who live together in a flat in Noida. Film not more focused on what jobs they were doing. It is more focused on how girls use boys. Though some circumstances show their work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nishant - Works in IT field.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rajat - Doing some job.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vikrant - Works in musical field.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nishant is used to show some work with coding and computers stuff so behaves like working IT. Vikrant is shown as playing Guitar many times so guessed about musical field (may be shown hobby and doing job in some office). And Rajat is shown as doing some office work ay be in marketing and his girlfriend wanted to be him in her control. Film not focused more on jobs. Only shown as how girls use boys in every field. Like Charu use Nishant to do her office work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyaar_Ka_Punchnama&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyaar_Ka_Punchnama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="3323" LastEditDate="2012-12-21T13:58:03.423" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T13:58:03.423" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8864" CreationDate="2012-12-21T12:40:43.530" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a variety of techniques that directors can employ, depending on their and the actor's preferences (depending on how much the actor is worth, low grade actors would not get a choice):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The easiest is for the actor to be nude and for editing to ensure&#xA;that the finished film is decent and their modesty is protected. &#xA;However many very famous actors refuse this as they know that the&#xA;prints of them naked will almost definitely find their way out of the&#xA;studio and onto the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The actor can wear clothes and these can be kept out of shot with&#xA;good editing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The actor can wear special body suits (these appearing often in the&#xA;background of things like 'Rome') which makes it look like they are&#xA;naked when they are actually not.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The actor's face is used for some close up shots and a body double is&#xA;used for the rest of the scene ('Love Actually' shows some body doubles at work).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, I suppose CGI could be employed too.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; that there is a technique used where the actor is clothed but the script refers to them as being naked.  This seemed to be what they did in Friends once when Chandler was handcuffed in Rachel's boss's office.  Chandler was wearing his shirt, boxer shorts and socks but Rachel and the other seemed to be discussing the situation as if he was naked (ISTR Rachel was discussing the size of his manhood and made a deal where she agreed to exaggerate it).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="1501" LastEditDate="2012-12-29T01:44:34.460" LastActivityDate="2012-12-29T01:44:34.460" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8864" CreationDate="2012-12-21T12:54:10.153" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the article &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/the-naked-truth-about-on-screen-nudity/article550548/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Naked Truth about on-screen nudity&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The subject of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudity_clause&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;nudity clauses&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has come up with increasing regularity these days, particularly as more flesh is being revealed on network television. Though naked actors may be more prevalent than ever, the choice not to show all is also more accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Megan Fox, Jessica Alba, Scarlett Johansson – who have gone on record as refusing to do full nudity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the strict union guidelines around on-set nudity, there’s seldom a reason for performers to be surprised. &lt;strong&gt;Actors must be told of any nude scenes well in advance&lt;/strong&gt; and nudity waivers require directors to itemize exactly what will be shown and how.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;em&gt;Anne Hathaway&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://m.npr.org/news/front/131566903?singlePage=false&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;told &lt;em&gt;National Public Radio&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the typical process goes like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“The director submits a shot list, and you look over them for approval. And a lot of times, if an actor feels the shot demands a lot of them, they'll demand money for it.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... for the 2010 film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758752/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Love and Other Drugs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, she and &lt;em&gt;Jake Gyllenhaal&lt;/em&gt; agreed to waive the nudity clause, allowing director &lt;em&gt;Edward Zwick&lt;/em&gt; to shoot what he wanted. But she and Gyllenhaal had final cut over those scenes, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/2010/11/24/131566903/anne-hathaway-from-princesses-to-passion&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;which she exercised&lt;/a&gt;, asking for about five seconds of the film to be cut...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From the article &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=193121&amp;amp;GT1=6657&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fakin' It -&#xA;Actors discuss the ins and outs of making a successful sex scene&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While women wear &lt;em&gt;body stockings&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;G-strings&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasties&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;pasties&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on-set, men get what is known as a &lt;em&gt;'sock':&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;It's a flesh-colored pouch that wraps your genitals up like a bag of leprechaun's gold.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;There is also the option of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_double&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;body doubles&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.screenjunkies.com/movies/movie-lists/9-famous-nude-scenes-that-used-body-doubles/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;9 Famous Nude Scenes That Used Body Doubles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/entertainment/2012/08/18/stars-who-use-body-doubles/#slide=1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stars who used nude body doubles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T12:54:10.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8872" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-21T13:22:31.207" Score="1" ViewCount="889" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the episode where Jake meets Lady Rainicorn's parents.  Misinformation happens and he accidently gives her parents permission to eat Finn.  They then attack him in a blind hunger-rage and explain that humans are now extinct and are a delicacy to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt;?  Were they considered that before the mass extinction or because of it?  And is it only Rainicorns that like to eat humans, or do other species of Ooo desire the taste of human flesh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T21:49:03.883" Title="Why are humans considered a delicacy in the Land of Ooo?" Tags="|plot-explanation|adventure-time|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8842" CreationDate="2012-12-21T15:46:06.893" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The golden horn was a gift/talisman bestowed upon Beowulf by the old King. The old man attributed a great deal of importance to this item, and Beowulf took it with him, partly to use in the cave and partly to display to the 'witch' his alignment with the King.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the horn itself was a gift given to the old king by the witch in return for a son (Grendel), and by ensuring that it was now in Beowulf's possession a gesture similar to 'passing the torch' has been made. Now it is Beowulf's turn to give the witch what she wants (a son, revealed upon the beach at the end of the film) and the horn is the symbol of his illicit pact with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T15:46:06.893" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8874" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8876" CreationDate="2012-12-21T16:09:21.387" Score="6" ViewCount="1237" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Board_of_Film_Certification&quot;&gt;Censor Board&lt;/a&gt; for films produced in India. It assigns certifications to films, television shows, television ads, and publications for exhibition, sale or hire in India. Films can be publicly exhibited in India only after they are certified by the Board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do USA or some large film industries have these types of censorship board, specially for Hollywood movies?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are their acceptance criteria?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T14:18:12.173" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T14:18:12.173" Title="Is there any censorship board present for films and TV shows for Hollywood?" Tags="|film-industry|content-rating|censorship|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8708" CreationDate="2012-12-21T16:13:40.167" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching the episode for several times, I finally managed to find him!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Darren is also taken away from the accident scene. The reason he isn't noted is that the camera stays on him only a few seconds. He is alive when he is taken away, with an oxygen mask attached to his mouth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really thought this was a odd mistake. But finally there he was!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3377" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T16:13:40.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8874" CreationDate="2012-12-21T16:27:53.750" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the United States, there isn't a strict analogue for your Censor Board.  Here, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_amendment&quot;&gt;First Amendment to the US Constitution&lt;/a&gt; provides protection to film makers, ensuring the government won't censor their work.  However, the law doesn't prevent voluntary censorship, which is where the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America_film_rating_system#Ratings&quot;&gt;MPAA&lt;/a&gt; comes in.  They're a trade group of movie studios who created a ratings system.  Films can voluntarily be submitted to be rated by them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movie theaters in the US then do some enforcement of policies based on these ratings.  For example, usually children under 17 are not allowed into rated R films unless accompanied by an adult.  In addition, theaters will sometimes not screen any films that lack a rating.  Theaters will also often refuse to screen NC-17 films, which ends up acting as a sort of censorship, as when a film is being made in part to make a profit, not being able to distribute it to thousands of theaters nationwide due to an NC-17 rating means the contents of the film will be self-censored down to rated R-levels of content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually in the making of a film, a specific rating will be targeted for marketing reasons.  So a film that the studio wants to have broad appeal will have its content crafted to ensure a PG-13 rating, which doesn't have the &quot;no people under 17 can freely get in the theater&quot; limitation that rated R films have.  This helps ensure more people can easily watch the film in theaters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T16:27:53.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8877" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8879" CreationDate="2012-12-21T17:12:18.253" Score="12" ViewCount="1257" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don't Orcrist / Goblin-cleaver and Glamdring / Foe-hammer glow like Sting when orcs/goblins are near?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="290" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T20:33:16.987" Title="Swords in The Hobbit" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8877" CreationDate="2012-12-21T20:33:16.987" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the book, they did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chapter 4, Over Hill and Under Hill, page 64:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Suddenly a sword flashed in its own light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Gandalf wielding Glamdring the Foe-Hammer/Biter)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;page 65:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He took out his sword again, and again it flashed in the dark by&#xA;  itself. It burned with a rage that made it gleam if goblins were&#xA;  about; now it was bright as blue flame for delight in the killing of&#xA;  the great lord of the cave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why they don't in the movie, is never said.  I can think of no in-universe answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3569" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T20:33:16.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8874" CreationDate="2012-12-21T21:24:49.530" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;And to answer your second question, the MPAA doesn't explain their criteria.  A lot of directors guess at what is acceptable, and will even throw in some obvious, over the top scenes in hopes that something else (what they really want) will pass through. See &quot;Censor Decoy&quot; and &quot;Getting Crap Past the Radar&quot; on tvtrope.org's page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3569" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T21:24:49.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8881" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8882" CreationDate="2012-12-21T21:29:42.420" Score="14" ViewCount="3545" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Episode 3 of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; Season 4 (&quot;Open House&quot;), Marie is wandering around a house looking at spoons. The realtor spots her and then the following conversation happens:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cyspX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;REALTOR: Hi. Can I answer any questions?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  MARIE: Oh! Spoons...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  REALTOR: Yes, the owner is quite the collector. Aren't they something? One for each of the &lt;strong&gt;50 states&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  MARIE: Well... &lt;strong&gt;Puerto Rico&lt;/strong&gt; is technically a &lt;em&gt;territory&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  REALTOR: (&lt;em&gt;surprised&lt;/em&gt;) Huh!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  MARIE: You know, maybe they were thinking, &quot;some day!&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Both laugh&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it's an extremely minor thing, and the conversation itself is meaningless within the scope of the whole show, but can anyone explain to me what happened here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What point is Marie making? Why is the Realtor surprised? I'm pretty sure everyone knows that Puerto Rico isn't a state(!), so what's going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3430" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-16T11:11:15.410" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T15:23:01.937" Title="What's with Puerto Rico and Marie?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8881" CreationDate="2012-12-21T23:44:19.880" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure it is deliberate. The realtor comments that there is at least one commemorative spoon for each of the 50 states. Marie's response is not out of the blue, but instead indicates that she noticed one of the spoons was from Puerto Rico rather than from a state. Rather than just say, &quot;hey, that one isn't from a state like you said they were,&quot; she is a bit more passive aggressive in her response (while still being playfully banal) -- she's in essence undermining the realtor's knowledge of the house owner's collection by pointing out that it's not technically a collection consisting solely of US state spoons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the larger sense, I might even argue it's not a meaningless conversation at all. It helps build up the story arc of Marie trying to deal with Hank's depression from being home-bound. He won't let her take care of him, and belittles her at every turn, especially when it comes to his own collections, so as she goes from house to house pretending to be different people, she can escape being Hank's wife for a little bit of time. She can be Tori or Charlotte or whatever other alias she chooses ... someone who knows about Puerto Rico or who  has a different job ... and the kleptomania that goes along with it (from this house, she takes one of the spoons, correct? Maybe it's the one from Puerto Rico) shows how she wants to hold on to the remnants of these other imaginary lives. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2012-12-21T23:44:19.880" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8883" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-22T00:51:51.697" Score="6" ViewCount="5723" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does the building Tyler and Marla are in collapse at the end? Because I hear Tyler saying to the rest of the guys &quot;I'll meet you downstairs&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3671" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-12-22T01:04:48.107" LastActivityDate="2012-12-27T23:11:10.190" Title="Fight club ending question" Tags="|analysis|fight-club|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7965" CreationDate="2012-12-22T04:32:47.720" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything indicates that he is not dreaming, except for the symbol, but if it's all a dream Quaid´s should never would have dreamt about Melina before he goes to RECALL and that entire first scene doesn´t make sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now assuming that is all real there is no explanation for the symbol. So in my opinion it has the ending wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no reference that the symbol is permanent. it could be as simple as an ink stamp and can be erased easily, so imho everything is real or as you say the first scene would make absolutely no sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3672" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2013-01-03T19:21:08.443" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T19:21:08.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8885" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8888" CreationDate="2012-12-22T05:33:57.370" Score="8" ViewCount="4427" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Tribbiani&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joey Tribbiani&lt;/a&gt; is shown as struggling actor from first season of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Friends&lt;/a&gt;. He was shown acting in the fictional soap opera Days of Our Lives (DOOL). He also performs as a body double for the butt for some famous actor in a movie in another episode. He is shown performing many acting roles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone remember which was the official first cast of Joey Tribbiani in Friends? Was it for a movie or TV show? Which episode was that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-21T10:31:50.330" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T10:31:50.330" Title="What was the first acting job of Joey Tribbiani seen in Friends?" Tags="|friends|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8886" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8891" CreationDate="2012-12-22T05:48:13.257" Score="6" ViewCount="22372" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Geller&quot;&gt;Monica Geller&lt;/a&gt; was shown as overweight in her early or college days in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends&quot;&gt;Friends&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;In all seasons she was shown as normal weight. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why was Monica Geller overweight in her early years?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How did she become normal weight?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2012-12-22T15:11:04.383" LastActivityDate="2015-02-25T20:17:09.613" Title="Why was Monica Geller overweight in her younger years?" Tags="|analysis|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8885" CreationDate="2012-12-22T06:39:09.853" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the pilot episode, it is revealed that Joey was in a play (&lt;em&gt;Pinocchio&lt;/em&gt;). This would be the first role he has within the show's time frame. Later episodes also talk about work he did before the starting point of the show, including a porn film (which the friends all watch in &quot;The One with Phoebe's Husband&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2012-12-22T06:39:09.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8886" CreationDate="2012-12-22T10:05:13.950" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monica was fat in her younger years because she ate too much.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friends-tv.org/zz803.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The One Where Rachel Tells...&lt;/a&gt; Ross says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I grew up with Monica. If you didn't eat fast, you didn't eat!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friends-tv.org/zz903.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The One With The Pediatrician&lt;/a&gt; we learn that Ross used to go to a therapist, because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monica:&lt;/strong&gt; ... &lt;em&gt;he used to have this recurring nightmare. It really freaked him out.&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rachel:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Wow, what was it?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monica:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;That I was going to eat him.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friends-tv.org/zz703.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The One With Phoebe's Cookies&lt;/a&gt; it is revealed that Monica was once sent to &lt;em&gt;fat camp&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ross:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;He still tells the story about how Monica tried to escape from fat camp.&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monica:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I wasn't escaping!&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ross:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Then how did you get caught in the barbed wire?&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monica:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I was trying to help out a squirrel.&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ross:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;You were trying to eat it!&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monica lost the weight because of an incident during &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_with_All_the_Thanksgivings&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thanksgiving 1987&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt; when she overhears Chandler say to Ross:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I just don't want to be stuck here all night with your fat sister.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFskf5fQYgI#t=4m22s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watch the scene on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nT5r8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;1987&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That prompted Monica to lose weight, which she successfully managed by Thanksgiving 1988.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0-1vwCn-WM#t=0m32s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watch the scene on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N0dPF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;1988&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2012-12-22T10:05:13.950" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8892" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-22T13:16:43.720" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a group of hard working guys find out they've fallen victim to a wealthy business man's Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genres:&lt;/strong&gt; Action | Comedy | Crime&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Director:&lt;/strong&gt; Brett Ratner&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stars:&lt;/strong&gt; Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller and Casey Affleck&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read more at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471042/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uI96V.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3377" LastEditorUserId="3377" LastEditDate="2012-12-22T14:18:00.777" LastActivityDate="2012-12-22T14:18:00.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8893" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-22T13:16:43.720" Score="0" Body="Tower Heist is a 2011 crime comedy film directed by Brett Ratner and written by Ted Griffin and Jeff Nathanson, based on a story by Bill Collage, Adam Cooper and Griffin." OwnerUserId="3377" LastEditorUserId="3377" LastEditDate="2012-12-22T14:17:05.273" LastActivityDate="2012-12-22T14:17:05.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8894" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-22T13:17:12.240" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;While still out to destroy the evil Umbrella Corporation, Alice joins a group of survivors who want to relocate to the mysterious but supposedly unharmed safe haven known only as Arcadia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genres:&lt;/strong&gt; Action | Adventure | Horror&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Director:&lt;/strong&gt; Paul W.S. Anderson&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stars:&lt;/strong&gt; Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter and Wentworth Miller&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read more at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1220634/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nkMJu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3377" LastEditorUserId="3377" LastEditDate="2012-12-22T16:12:08.847" LastActivityDate="2012-12-22T16:12:08.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8895" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-22T13:17:12.240" Score="0" Body="2010 science-fiction action horror film and the 4th installement in the videogame-based Resident Evil film series." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-09T10:37:51.007" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T10:37:51.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8896" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-22T13:18:36.760" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two stumblebum inheritors are determined to rid their antique house of a mouse who is equally determined to stay where he is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genres:&lt;/strong&gt; Comedy | Family&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Director:&lt;/strong&gt; Adam Rifkin&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stars:&lt;/strong&gt; Nathan Lane, Lee Evans and Vicki Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read more at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119715/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q5yMS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3377" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-09T00:32:43.613" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T00:32:43.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8897" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-22T13:18:36.760" Score="0" Body="MouseHunt is a 1997 American slapstick comedy film, directed by Gore Verbinski, written by Adam Rifkin and starring Nathan Lane and Lee Evans. It was the first family film to be released by DreamWorks." OwnerUserId="3377" LastEditorUserId="3377" LastEditDate="2012-12-22T14:17:52.713" LastActivityDate="2012-12-22T14:17:52.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8898" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17539" CreationDate="2012-12-22T14:21:17.087" Score="4" ViewCount="15531" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Oceans Thirteen, after the drill hit the bank's hotel building for the third time, the drill does not stop at once; it goes on for several seconds and the building vibrates. Then Rusty asks others (maybe he asks himself), &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you think Roman would.... [pause]  Nah.....&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we see Roman Nagal drinking from a soda/beer can. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I want to know is, what exactly Rusty was referring to in his dialogue above? I can't think of anything that fit into the plot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3377" LastEditorUserId="3377" LastEditDate="2012-12-23T06:05:30.377" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T23:07:14.450" Title="What is Rusty Ryan is referring to in this scene?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oceans-thirteen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8899" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-22T15:57:06.093" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ocean's Thirteen is a 2007 American heist movie and the third installment in the trilogy about Danny Ocean and his unique group of highly skilled thieves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Danny Ocean rounds up the boys for a third heist, after casino owner Willy Bank double-crosses one of the original eleven, Reuben Tishkoff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genres:&lt;/strong&gt; Crime | Thriller&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Director:&lt;/strong&gt; Steven Soderbergh&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stars:&lt;/strong&gt; George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8sFTR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%27s_Thirteen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0496806/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3377" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T21:25:42.103" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T21:25:42.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8900" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-22T15:57:06.093" Score="0" Body="A 2007 American heist movie and the third installment in the trilogy about Danny Ocean and his unique group of highly skilled thieves." OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T21:25:27.563" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T21:25:27.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8901" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-22T15:59:42.313" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perseus, mortal son of Zeus, battles the minions of the underworld to stop them from conquering the Earth and the heavens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genres:&lt;/strong&gt; Action | Adventure | Fantasy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Director:&lt;/strong&gt; Louis Leterrier&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stars:&lt;/strong&gt; Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read more at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800320/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7kcsR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3377" LastEditorUserId="3377" LastEditDate="2012-12-22T16:13:09.657" LastActivityDate="2012-12-22T16:13:09.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8902" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-22T15:59:42.313" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-22T15:59:42.313" LastActivityDate="2012-12-22T15:59:42.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8903" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-22T16:01:27.583" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel's mother, who begins killing out of revenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genres:&lt;/strong&gt; Animation | Action | Adventure &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Director:&lt;/strong&gt; Robert Zemeckis&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stars:&lt;/strong&gt; Ray Winstone, Crispin Glover and Angelina Jolie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read more at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0442933/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wFMeR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3377" LastEditorUserId="3377" LastEditDate="2012-12-22T16:10:50.923" LastActivityDate="2012-12-22T16:10:50.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8904" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-22T16:01:27.583" Score="0" Body="2007 American fantasy film directed by Robert Zemeckis as a 3D computer animation with motion-captured actors. Based on the Old English epic of the same name." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-09T10:40:07.000" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T10:40:07.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8905" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-22T16:06:06.953" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Vampire Diaries is an American supernatural drama TV series based on the popular book series by L J Smith. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genres:&lt;/strong&gt; Drama | Fantasy | Horror&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stars:&lt;/strong&gt; Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Commencement:&lt;/strong&gt; 2009&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jy5LP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampire_Diaries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1405406/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3377" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T21:25:36.243" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T21:25:36.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8906" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-22T16:06:06.953" Score="0" Body="The Vampire Diaries is an American supernatural drama TV series based on the popular book series by L J Smith. " OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T21:26:28.923" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T21:26:28.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8907" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-22T16:07:45.827" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genres:&lt;/strong&gt; Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Director:&lt;/strong&gt; Steven Spielberg&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stars:&lt;/strong&gt; Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read more at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K7Jlw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3377" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-05T14:28:06.180" LastActivityDate="2016-06-05T14:28:06.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8908" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-22T16:07:45.827" Score="0" Body="2002 American science-fiction thriller by Steven Spielberg set in the near future and starring Tom Cruise as a police officer preventing future crimes by the help of the visions from precognitive mutants and seeing himself confronted with a possible conspiracy when he himself gets predicted as a murderer. Based on the Philip K. Dick short story of the same name." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-05T14:28:06.180" LastActivityDate="2016-06-05T14:28:06.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8909" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-22T16:09:33.500" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="3377" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-13T19:26:52.390" LastActivityDate="2013-09-13T19:26:52.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8910" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-22T16:09:33.500" Score="0" Body="2009's South African film by director Neill Blomkamp about the struggles of an extraterrestrial race who live in slum-like conditions and their clashes with the mankind." OwnerUserId="16523" LastEditorUserId="16523" LastEditDate="2016-08-28T09:51:15.707" LastActivityDate="2016-08-28T09:51:15.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8911" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-22T16:11:49.487" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genres:&lt;/strong&gt; Biography | Drama | Family&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Director:&lt;/strong&gt; Robert Wise&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stars:&lt;/strong&gt; Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and Eleanor Parker&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read more at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059742/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KXVWb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3377" LastEditorUserId="3377" LastEditDate="2012-12-22T16:12:13.247" LastActivityDate="2012-12-22T16:12:13.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8912" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-22T16:11:49.487" Score="0" Body="1965 American musical about a woman who leaves a convent to become a governess. Based on the Broadway musical of the same name." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-09T10:29:39.433" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T10:29:39.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8913" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8934" CreationDate="2012-12-22T18:10:03.600" Score="5" ViewCount="10818" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching a Hindi movie where a man becomes woman after he commented badly about girls. Then an accident happened the next day when he awakes from his sleep. He turns into a woman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Slowly when leading a girls life he understands how difficult a girls life is! I remember a scene where he becomes very upset when he understands that every guy in his office was seeing at his legs. Those were not covered as he was not accustomed to feel shy. But then he understands he should be shy when he is in a girls form!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-12-23T07:01:44.553" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T14:19:44.583" Title="Identify a bollywood movie where a man changes to woman" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:40:23.637" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8915" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9181" CreationDate="2012-12-23T00:54:20.163" Score="1" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rain scene in Cable Guy seemed to be based of a scene from a classic movie, can anyone identify the original movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="285" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T15:28:26.223" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T15:28:26.223" Title="Identify the movie that the rain scene in Cable Guy mimics?" Tags="|cable-guy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8920" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-23T05:55:36.447" Score="7" ViewCount="468" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series The Vampire Diaries, Elena (the main character), with the help of Damon, makes her brother Jeremy forget about the death of Vicky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After some time, her brother finds out about it by reading her journal and this causes a lot of tension and dramatic situations many of which Elena is not able to handle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, why doesn't Elena just asks Damon to make Jeremy forget again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T16:00:55.143" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T17:09:11.593" Title="Why not just make him forget again?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-vampire-diaries|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8921" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8930" CreationDate="2012-12-23T05:58:33.997" Score="3" ViewCount="1695" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Television series, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460649/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How I met Your Mother&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2556002/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Season 8 Episode 11&lt;/a&gt;, a reference has been made to a point of time 5 years ago where Barney doesn't follows the rule of a &quot;Jinx&quot; and ends up in a hospital.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, does this refers to an actual episode in some previous season of the television show? Because I think that I remember Barney in Hospital.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2012-12-23T10:11:23.990" LastActivityDate="2012-12-23T10:11:23.990" Title="Does this flashback scene refer to an actual previous episode?" Tags="|how-i-met-your-mother|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8922" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8929" CreationDate="2012-12-23T06:01:14.387" Score="8" ViewCount="1267" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2012 release movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/a&gt;, it is shown that young children from 12 different districts - named District 1, District 2,..., District 12 come together to kill each other in Hunger Games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My Questions are -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In which district is the Hunger Games conducted? Is it within any district?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does the district numbers indicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2019-02-07T14:46:17.753" Title="In which District is the Hunger Games conducted?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hunger-games|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8923" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8953" CreationDate="2012-12-23T06:05:00.360" Score="1" ViewCount="450" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the television series, Supernatural, thorough out the various seasons of the series on various occasions we see that Sam and Dean capture various Demons, try to talk to them but are not able to succeed as the demon leaves their vessel through the mouth of the vessel and escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My Question is, will it be possible to prevent the demon from escaping if he was gagged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastActivityDate="2012-12-26T19:02:13.880" Title="Preventing Demons from leaving their vessels?" Tags="|supernatural|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8924" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8959" CreationDate="2012-12-23T06:21:20.577" Score="12" ViewCount="1852" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 3 of the &lt;em&gt;Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; television series, what is the problem with the Governor? Why is he killing other humans?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For God's sake, it's the Apocalypse, 95% of the world is dead, all the technology has been destroyed. Everyone is sad because of losing many loved ones and still - their exists this one man &lt;em&gt;Governor&lt;/em&gt; who is killing other humans. But why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-12-13T06:11:32.583" LastActivityDate="2017-12-13T06:11:32.583" Title="Why killing other humans in the Walking Dead?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8925" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8928" CreationDate="2012-12-23T06:47:47.167" Score="5" ViewCount="1990" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which was the first animated movie in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hollywood&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="148" LastEditDate="2013-01-27T10:48:09.613" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T06:10:47.573" Title="Which was the first animated movie in hollywood?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|first-appearance|animation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:40:26.777" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8926" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8927" CreationDate="2012-12-23T06:52:54.847" Score="3" ViewCount="3114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which was first TV show with animation in USA? No real characters. All characters should be animated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T18:43:06.513" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T18:43:06.513" Title="Which was first TV show with animation?" Tags="|animation|first-appearance|american-cinema|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8926" CreationDate="2012-12-23T07:13:39.517" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animated_cartoon#Television&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; search gave me the following information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Competition from television drew audiences away from movie theaters in the late 1950s, and the theatrical cartoon began its decline. Today, animated cartoons are produced mostly for television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;American television animation of the 1950s featured quite limited animation styles, highlighted by the work of Jay Ward on Crusader Rabbit. Chuck Jones coined the term &amp;quot;illustrated radio&amp;quot; to refer to the shoddy style of most television cartoons that depended more on their soundtracks than visuals. Other notable 1950s programs include UPA's Gerald McBoing Boing, Hanna-Barbera's Huckleberry Hound and Quick Draw McGraw, and rebroadcast of many classic theatrical cartoons from Warner Brothers, MGM, and Disney.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Hanna-Barbera cartoon, The Flintstones, was the first successful primetime animated series in the United States, running from 1960-66 (and in reruns since).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in case you want to know first cartoon to be broadcasted on TV, here is it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The WALT DISNEY cartoon Donald's Cousin Gus was the first film cartoon shown on the May 19, 1939 telecast of NBC's experimental station W2XBS (now WNBC) in New York.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvacres.com/broad_cartoons.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.tvacres.com/broad_cartoons.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another useful reference in this regard:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://library.thinkquest.org/11039/history1.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://library.thinkquest.org/11039/history1.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-23T07:13:39.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8925" CreationDate="2012-12-23T07:23:25.490" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodfilmoffice.org/history.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hollywood history&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1937&#xA;  Disney releases “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” – the first animated feature – using the new Three-Strip Technicolor process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_%281937_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length cel animated feature film in history, the first produced in full color, the first to be produced by Walt Disney Productions, and the first in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-12-23T07:28:33.207" LastActivityDate="2012-12-23T07:28:33.207" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8922" CreationDate="2012-12-23T09:22:24.947" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could not find any definite answer, but I guess it should be &quot;The Capitol&quot; where the hunger games were conducted. The reasons being:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) If the dictator would have run the game in the Districts in front of the people, it might have caused another rebellion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) From &lt;a href=&quot;http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Panem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The arenas were also a popular tourist destination for many Capitol citizens, who would spend months vacation visiting the arena from their favorite games, where they would be able to rewatch the Games, visit the sites of the deaths and even take part in reenactments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the arenas were a popular destinations to the capitols people. So it is assumebale they were created in the Capitol itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) It would be unbiased to set up the arena in capitol because every district were participating in this game. Setting up in a particular district may attract rumors of being slanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each of the districts was named 1,2,...,12 to make them separate from each other. Also the numbering helped the Capitol to administer them efficiently. Each district was unaffected from others in culture, living etc. and it was illegal for them to interact with each other. There are also more unique features to every one of them. &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_did_each_district_in_The_Hunger_Games_represent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here is a short list of those:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;District 1- Luxury (Great comfort or living)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;District 2- Masonry/Stonework/Peacekeepers(not said officially in books, but later revealed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;District 3- Electronics&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;District 4- Fishing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;District 5- Power (not said officially in books, but later revealed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;District 6- Transportation (not said officially in books, but later revealed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;District 7- Lumber (Type of wood)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;District 8- Textiles (Manufacture of cloth or woven fabric)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;District 9- Grain&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;District 10- Livestock (Farm animals kept for use or profit)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;District 11- Agriculture (The science or practice of farming)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;District 12- Coal Mining&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;District 13: (Was thought to be terminated) Graphite Mining (Unofficially they manufactured nuclear weapons and among that housed and produced other weaponry).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More of the districts could be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Panem#Districts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="8251" LastEditDate="2014-02-26T15:44:42.303" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T15:44:42.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8921" CreationDate="2012-12-23T10:05:28.433" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;That flashback was from the &lt;strong&gt;Season 3 finale&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Miracles&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Miracles&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Barney was crossing the street to the get to the hospital when he is hit by a bus driving the wrong way down a one way street.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4yCRj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;HIMYM&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prosieben.at/tv/how-i-met-your-mother/episoden/staffel-3/wunder-ueber-oewunder-folge-20-staffel3-1.3206319/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-23T10:05:28.433" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8933" CreationDate="2012-12-23T11:06:12.760" Score="31" ViewCount="217999" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking forward to &lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1790885/&quot;&gt;Zero Dark Thirty&lt;/a&gt;, and curious to know where the title comes from. Does anyone know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="624" LastEditorUserId="624" LastEditDate="2015-07-05T12:02:04.393" LastActivityDate="2015-07-05T12:02:04.393" Title="What does &quot;Zero Dark Thirty&quot; mean?" Tags="|title|zero-dark-thirty|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8931" CreationDate="2012-12-23T11:09:22.210" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Turns out it's answered in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1790885/trivia?tab=tr&amp;amp;item=tr1761304&quot;&gt;trivia section of the IMDb entry&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;0 dark 30&quot; is a term commonly used by the military to refer to a non-specific time when it is dark outside, either very late or very early. However, the prevailing pronunciation is &quot;oh dark thirty&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="624" LastActivityDate="2012-12-23T11:09:22.210" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8931" CreationDate="2012-12-23T11:10:35.627" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Director Kathryn Bigelow &lt;a href=&quot;http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/08/06/zero-dark-thirty-first-look/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;explains&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the significance of the title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It’s a military term for 30 minutes after midnight, and it refers also to the darkness and secrecy that cloaked the entire decade long mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-zero-dark-thirty-20121209,0,4636914.story&quot;&gt;this review&lt;/a&gt; reveals:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...the raid that has Navy SEALs striking Bin Laden's Pakistan compound [happens] at half past midnight (the coded &quot;Zero Dark Thirty&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;According to the handbook &lt;a href=&quot;http://de.scribd.com/doc/102438865/4/Military-Time#outer_page_10&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Air Force 101 - Military Time&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;the time between &lt;em&gt;00:01h&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;05:59h&lt;/em&gt; can be refered to as &quot;oh-dark-thirty&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And according to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://sgtbrandi.com/?page_id=2260&quot;&gt;military website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;&quot;oh-dark-thirty&quot;&lt;/em&gt; is equivalent to &lt;em&gt;&quot;zero-dark-thirty&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&quot;zero-dark-hundred / oh-dark-hundred&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2012-12-31T21:51:20.547" LastActivityDate="2012-12-31T21:51:20.547" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8913" CreationDate="2012-12-23T12:17:04.203" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Ya_Miss&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mr Ya Miss&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this movie Aaftab Shivdasani got killed and restored as a woman Antara Mali and his best friend acted by Ritesh Deshmukh, got fall in love with her and help in finding the killer which may be Divya Datta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-28T14:19:44.583" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T14:19:44.583" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8936" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-23T13:10:42.270" Score="4" ViewCount="664" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did the federal police come to arrest Quaid suddenly? They should not have arrested him because everything was going according to their plan. First I thought, the man in the Recall might have pressed an alarm, but that does not fit well as they tried to kill each other(the man of the Rekall and the police). So why and how did the police know to come and arrest Quaid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also why did the police kill the man and why was the man shooting at them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T20:40:07.297" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T20:40:07.297" Title="Why did the federal police come to arrest Quaid and why was the operator at Recall killed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|total-recall-2012|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8937" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8940" CreationDate="2012-12-23T13:21:37.597" Score="11" ViewCount="1014" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever the colony is shown, we see it is raining there. What is the reason for that? I believe there must be a reason behind shooting the scenes in rain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastActivityDate="2017-01-04T18:34:18.973" Title="Why is it always raining in Total Recall?" Tags="|total-recall-2012|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7969" CreationDate="2012-12-23T13:34:59.293" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are reasons not to destroy the fall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The colony was a colony to UFB. So there was always some soldiers who were present in the colony and with whom the inhabitants of the colony was of no match in fight (Like Lori and the cyborgs). We have seen how much the dwellers there fear them. That is why terrorist groups of special persons were formed to fight the UFB soldiers. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;@Oliver_c s logic is also quite true. Within 17 minutes it was hard to destroy a thing like The fall. I mean common it isn't a toy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another reason might be, we have seen that the troops can go to deadliest places like where Matthias lived by not using the fall. that means only destroying the fall cant stop them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I also think, if they had destroyed the fall, this could be more dangerous to themselves as they were in every way dependent on UFB. They could not survive on themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-09-28T18:10:39.593" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T18:10:39.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8937" CreationDate="2012-12-23T15:34:36.587" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/films/recall-reboot&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quoting&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Colin Farrell&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The film’s split into two hemispheres – one being the Colony and the other being the United Federation Of Britain.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So over &lt;strong&gt;in the Colony&lt;/strong&gt;, which is mainly full of proletariat, &lt;strong&gt;the weather’s more symbolic of the more downtrodden existence that the people there have. So it’s always dark and rainy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And then &lt;strong&gt;in the UFB&lt;/strong&gt;, which is very unlike Britain, &lt;strong&gt;the skies are sunny and clear and things are a little bit more optimistic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-23T15:34:36.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3346" CreationDate="2012-12-23T15:38:08.000" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bicyclist is Holmes.&#xA;He calls Watson from his cell so he could be anywhere.&#xA;Man on ledge is not Holmes he wears the costume Moriarity used to&#xA;scare the children and that is what he has returned to Moriarity not the key code.&#xA;Homeless (Holmesless) Network and Molly play the parts in the leap of death magic act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3682" LastActivityDate="2012-12-23T15:38:08.000" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8942" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8970" CreationDate="2012-12-23T18:10:31.667" Score="8" ViewCount="1315" Body="&lt;p&gt;Off-late, many people on Facebook have been sharing this particular still from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilwale_Dulhania_Le_Jayenge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DDLJ&lt;/a&gt;. It seems funny or logical? Why didn't Simran get into bogey from first door? Does director want to show &lt;strong&gt;LOVE IS BLIND&lt;/strong&gt;? Or director seized the opportunity for Simran to take the longer route (she's in Love, my boy) and thereby accomplish the feat of stretching the climax by 2-3 more minutes? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YQfIe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T06:49:27.353" LastActivityDate="2017-05-04T11:19:26.813" Title="Why didn't Simran get into bogey from first door in DDLJ?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dilwale-dulhania-le-jayenge|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8942" CreationDate="2012-12-23T18:57:14.130" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I believe it is an unintentional error by the director. Now the viewers observes a lot more than a director thinks. But if I am to cover the director I would say, it really depends upon the way a person thinks. Generally ladies are said to like taking decision by heart rather than by brain and it is true. May be if this was SRK in place of Kajol as the runner, he might have entered by the last gate! I feel at that particular moment Simran was so eager to meet Raj in that situation, she did not think about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if I see it logically, it is a foolish mistake by the makers. They should have made him stand in the last door of the bogey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-04-18T10:16:30.423" LastActivityDate="2017-04-18T10:16:30.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8931" CreationDate="2012-12-23T23:45:18.820" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's humourous military slang for the small hours of the night, when you'd rather be asleep than on duty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;em&gt;zero dark thirty&lt;/em&gt;,  another term is &lt;em&gt;zero dark hundred&lt;/em&gt;, or more commonly &lt;em&gt;oh dark hundred&lt;/em&gt;, which, according to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/a/69836/9001&quot;&gt;qualified paratrooper (Army, Airborne) and former soldier (MI, Armor, Engineer)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In military (US) slang that period [between midnight and dawn] is referred to as&#xA;  &quot;oh-dark hundred&quot; or sometimes &quot;zero-dark&#xA;  hundred&quot;. On the 24-hour clock the hours before&#xA;  10 am start with a 0; so 1:00 am is 0100 and said&#xA;  as oh-one-hundred and so forth. Thus oh-dark&#xA;  hundred is anytime after midnight while it is still dark:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The woke us up at oh-dark-hundred and ran us&#xA;  thru the obstacle course.&quot; Meaning they woke us&#xA;  up in the wee hours of the morning before&#xA;  daylight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:38:11.257" LastActivityDate="2012-12-23T23:45:18.820" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4201" CreationDate="2012-12-24T00:24:00.440" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The second filme Sally is taken into the basmint but Kim comes to save Sally then Sally is safe but then Kim gets tageled in the net and gets transformed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3684" LastActivityDate="2012-12-24T00:24:00.440" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2754" CreationDate="2012-12-24T04:21:46.617" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, in the very end of the third movie(I haven't read the books in a long time :\   ) when they are headed towards the sea to leave with the elves, Bilbo, who looks like his life force is held on by a string asks Frodo if he still has the ring and even says, &quot;I would have liked to have held it one last time&quot;. I agree, the movie timeline is really not apparent. You assume the extreme aging of Bilbo is because he no longer has the ring. The movies make it feel like the trilogy took half a year lol. Except for the end when Frodo says to Sam, &quot;It's been four years...&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would Sauron ever think that the ring was destroyed? Is he not DIRECTLY linked to the ring? IF it was destroyed would he not also be killed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3687" LastActivityDate="2012-12-24T04:21:46.617" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8923" CreationDate="2012-12-24T07:01:16.427" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although the Winchesters are never shown to use your &lt;em&gt;novel&lt;/em&gt; idea, there are other ways to prevent a demon from escaping the body. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Binding_Link&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Supernatural Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;binding link&lt;/strong&gt; is a symbol which keeps a demon trapped inside its&#xA;  Meatsuit i.e. the human it is possessing. The demon can neither escape&#xA;  voluntarily or be exorcised. A binding link may be related to the&#xA;  &quot;binding magic&quot; used on Curse Boxes to keep the evil inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastActivityDate="2012-12-24T07:01:16.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8954" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41436" CreationDate="2012-12-24T09:26:09.313" Score="15" ViewCount="1993" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1977 movie, Star Wars Episode IV, orders to excecute the princess are given several times. Once an order to execute her &quot;immediately&quot; but still she was not executed and was later rescued. Why was she not executed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T19:26:40.610" LastActivityDate="2017-11-14T22:50:19.163" Title="Why was princess Leia not executed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|a-new-hope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8955" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8967" CreationDate="2012-12-24T09:33:57.680" Score="4" ViewCount="698" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the television series, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460649/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, S08E11, Lily and Marshall go to the storage room of the shop of an old friend. It looks weird to them and freak out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their friend brings up a check of an heavy amount to give it to them, but when he discovers that lily and Marshall were trying to kill him. He starts speaking, goes on. At the end he tares of the check, Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't he give them the cheque he brought for them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T17:31:51.050" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T17:31:51.050" Title="Why didn't Marshall and Lily receive the check?" Tags="|plot-explanation|how-i-met-your-mother|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8883" CreationDate="2012-12-24T09:56:32.013" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the building Tyler was in was SUPPOSED to be blown up also, but the van that had the explosives was deactivated when Tyler - as the narrator - cut the cord (which then led to the fight scene in the parking garage before going upstairs)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2012-12-24T09:56:32.013" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8958" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8966" CreationDate="2012-12-24T11:44:43.153" Score="1" ViewCount="3669" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the television series, Supernatural S04E16, It is said that the first seal is broken when a rightious man serves in the hell. And so, Dean has broken the seal. But already, John has served in hell because of the same reason as Dean. So, John must have broken the seal and not Dean right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-07-03T13:26:19.433" LastActivityDate="2013-07-05T04:27:56.833" Title="Was John Winchester not a righteous man?" Tags="|plot-explanation|supernatural|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8924" CreationDate="2012-12-24T11:47:55.090" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one of the first episodes introducing the character of the Governor, we see him and his men murder a team of soldiers heavily armed, to rid them of their weapons.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If he did not had killed them, but had instead incorporated them to its little community, with their equipment, training, and experience as a unified team, the soldiers might have been strong enough to take over the control of the organization of the Governor's community.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This is something that the Governor could not bear : the power he has over the community is all he wants.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's how I started to think about this character after watching the movie &quot;The Postman&quot; (that I actually liked), and comparing him to the bad guy, &quot;General Bethlehem&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The General shares some aspects with the Governor : he explains he was a kind of loser before the apocalypse, but he has power in the new order of the world and therefore enjoys it a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2089" LastEditorUserId="2089" LastEditDate="2012-12-24T11:56:09.460" LastActivityDate="2012-12-24T11:56:09.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8960" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9004" CreationDate="2012-12-24T11:53:39.593" Score="2" ViewCount="383" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the television series, Supernatural Season 5, throughout the series we see that Michael and a few angels torture Sam and Dean to say &quot;yes&quot; to give their bodies up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, What is the whole point of having the system where a person has to say yes with his free will when an angel can torture them. Isn't it a loophole in the whole system of the heaven?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-03-31T15:59:09.997" LastActivityDate="2015-03-31T15:59:09.997" Title="Sense of the &quot;Vessel has to say 'yes'&quot; system?" Tags="|supernatural|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8961" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9002" CreationDate="2012-12-24T11:57:11.877" Score="4" ViewCount="16849" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the television series Supernatural, at what point of time and during which season did Sam lose his powers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I mean to ask whether it was around the time Sam was brought back from hell without his soul by Cass, that he completely lost all his powers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorDisplayName="user1356" LastEditDate="2012-12-27T05:05:07.287" LastActivityDate="2014-08-21T23:34:54.753" Title="When does Sam lose his psychic powers?" Tags="|supernatural|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8962" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8968" CreationDate="2012-12-24T12:03:04.333" Score="1" ViewCount="3455" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the television series, Supernatural, S04E18, Why were Sam and Lilith going to have sex at the first place at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Sam was going to have a contract with Lilith, then that would require just a kiss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastActivityDate="2014-08-21T23:32:05.043" Title="Why were sam and lilith going to have sex?" Tags="|plot-explanation|supernatural|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8963" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9001" CreationDate="2012-12-24T12:13:09.290" Score="3" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the television series, Supernatural, throughout the series it is shown that Sam and Dean have a symbol at their chest to protect themselves from possession by deamons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in S08E02, it is shown that a deamon can burm the symbol and possess a person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, What is the whole purpose and sense of the seal at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastActivityDate="2012-12-26T18:08:06.110" Title="Sense and purpose of anti-demon possesion symbol?" Tags="|plot-explanation|supernatural|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8964" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8972" CreationDate="2012-12-24T12:23:31.730" Score="17" ViewCount="1341" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1977 movie release of Star Wars Episode IV, why was the princess rescued in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the required information was with the droid and a lot of time had passed since she was captured, there was a high probablity that she was already dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if she was to be rescued, why not do both the missions - rescuing the princess and destroying the weapon at the same time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T19:23:15.840" LastActivityDate="2019-01-03T22:43:56.047" Title="Why was the princess rescued in the first place?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|a-new-hope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8965" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8994" CreationDate="2012-12-24T12:50:30.130" Score="14" ViewCount="11832" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the television series &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt; it is said that upon death, demons go back to hell and vampires and other creatures go to purgatory. Where do angels go when they die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="7454" LastEditDate="2014-01-03T22:05:28.323" LastActivityDate="2019-11-12T11:04:13.403" Title="Where do angels go upon death?" Tags="|supernatural|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8958" CreationDate="2012-12-24T14:01:29.273" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The first seal shall be broken when a righteous man sheds blood in Hell.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When John dies, he goes to hell where he is tortured everyday by Alastair so that he tortures other souls to get himself off the rack. Later Alastair, reveals to Dean that his father never broke, i.e. never accepted his deal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Dean succumbed and gave in to Alastair in just 3 months(&lt;em&gt;30 yrs in human years&lt;/em&gt;) and tortured souls for the next 10(&lt;em&gt;human&lt;/em&gt;) years. In S04E11 &lt;em&gt;Family Remains&lt;/em&gt;, Dean even confesses to Sam that he enjoyed torturing souls, as he finally had the chance to dish out the same pain that he'd endured for the past thirty years. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR:&lt;/strong&gt; John and Dean are both righteous men but the first seal was not broken by John as he never gave in to Alastair's torture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastActivityDate="2012-12-24T14:01:29.273" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8955" CreationDate="2012-12-24T14:03:58.040" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole episode is about people trying to impress the people from their past. Ted tries to win over the professor with his new building and Daryl wants to impress Lily and Marshall with his business. However, after Marshall and Lily turn him down, he realises &quot;he doesn't need the validation of some people he met in college&quot;. The money he wanted to give them was to get them to like him more/get them to acknowledge that he is a success. He no longer needs them to think he's cool so he just keeps the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2012-12-24T14:03:58.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8962" CreationDate="2012-12-24T14:11:29.340" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Lilith&quot;&gt;Supernatural Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lilith is able to make deals herself and is bound by the same rules as a Crossroads Demon in making them, however, she claims a deal with her will take a sexual act instead of a kiss, but this may simply be her preference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I remember, she explicitly tells Sam that &lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt; deal needs to be consummated instead of the usual &lt;em&gt;seal-the-deal&lt;/em&gt; kiss. But then again, I think she was just toying with the handsome man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastActivityDate="2012-12-24T14:11:29.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8969" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9016" CreationDate="2012-12-24T14:31:37.123" Score="12" ViewCount="160190" Body="&lt;p&gt;In most episodes, Gibbs in seen working on his boats in the basement. He gets a couple of them done, but it doesn't show how he gets them out of the basement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anybody know how he gets them out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3693" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T11:46:36.127" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T15:21:34.900" Title="How does Gibbs get his boats out of his basement?" Tags="|continuity|ncis|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8942" CreationDate="2012-12-24T16:45:49.233" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As noted, this is only speculation, but the woman is not running to catch a train, she is running to a man who looks to be waiting to help her aboard. Logically, she could have taken the first door, but if this is a romance, it would not be the romantic choice. I don't think this is an accident by the film-maker, but a confirmation of her intent and the intent of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-12-24T16:45:49.233" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8758" CreationDate="2012-12-24T17:05:04.563" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/solutions/measurement/television.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nielson.com&lt;/a&gt; (retrieved Dec 2012):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How We Do It&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Panels&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Electronic metering technology is at the heart of the Nielsen&#xA;  ratings process. Our tools capture not only what channel is being&#xA;  watched, but also who is watching and when, including “time-shifted”&#xA;  viewing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nielsen’s TV families represent a cross-section of representative&#xA;  homes throughout the U.S. Their viewing is measured by our TV meters&#xA;  and Local People Meters which capture information on what’s being&#xA;  viewed and when and, in the major U.S. markets, specifically who and&#xA;  how many are watching. Additionally, we collect more than two million&#xA;  paper diaries from across the country each year during “sweeps.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Census&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Using data from set top boxes, Nielsen delivers a constant,&#xA;  real-time stream of information, revealing tuning behavior during&#xA;  programs and commercials. We can tell clients which commercials are&#xA;  being watched and which have the strongest engagement and impact. We&#xA;  even analyze which position in the program or commercial block is most&#xA;  effective for a specific brand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cross Platform Measurement&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We measure national TV viewing using Nielsen's People meter technology&#xA;  to electronically capture all viewing from our nationally projectable&#xA;  sample of panelists. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nielsen representative panels of Internet users provide browsing and&#xA;  streaming metrics for online users. Using census-based measurement, we&#xA;  provide in-depth tracking and analysis of site performance as well as&#xA;  information about audience consumption of, and engagement with,&#xA;  streaming media.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And for mobile media, we are pursuing on-device meter panels to record&#xA;  every interaction users have with measurable mobile devices, which&#xA;  complement our robust survey data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Finally, through single-source panels along with modeled databases, we&#xA;  measure how consumers engage with multiple media platforms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a short video at the link above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="26325" LastEditDate="2018-04-09T22:20:43.367" LastActivityDate="2018-04-09T22:20:43.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8964" CreationDate="2012-12-24T17:12:00.430" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, there was no particular plan to save the princess. They ended up on the Death Star because of a tractor beam when they came out of hyperspace. Their goal was to deliver the schematics to Alderaan which has been destroyed by the Death Star. When, after being dragged onto the Death Star, they discover that she is aboard and still alive, they then move to rescue her in order to collect some cash (in Han's case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3552" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-01-03T22:43:56.047" LastActivityDate="2019-01-03T22:43:56.047" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8973" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8976" CreationDate="2012-12-24T18:40:53.847" Score="3" ViewCount="869" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065528/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Catch-22&lt;/a&gt;, we see Yossarian confront his friend Aarfy in a room where the latter confesses to raping and murdering a girl by throwing her out of the window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is the dead girl? The two men talk as if she's not a stranger (and also not a prostitute).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2012-12-25T04:00:54.620" LastActivityDate="2012-12-25T04:00:54.620" Title="Who's the dead girl at the end of Catch-22?" Tags="|character|catch-22|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1680" CreationDate="2012-12-24T20:22:29.890" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a point in the movie where Rainie Yang's character says that the worst thing a pregnant woman can do is kill something, then she kills a cockroach. There are many Chinese superstitions about pregnant women that suggest killing or harming an animal will result in the baby looking like that animal. Chuen's wife killed the dogs, so she has a dog-faced baby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best plot explanation I found is &lt;a href=&quot;https://sites.google.com/site/vinnyreview/reviews-2012/the-child-s-eye&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and accounts of Chinese pregnancy superstitions are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.4panda.com/chinatips/culture/baby.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (and many other sites as well). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-12-24T20:22:29.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="106" CreationDate="2012-12-24T21:32:29.637" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The key element that some of the other answers miss is that Donnie makes a &lt;em&gt;choice&lt;/em&gt; when he discovers how the whole alternative universe and weird timeline stuff actually works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the timeline that takes up most of the movie, his actions and choices result in the death of someone he loves (not strictly his fault, but wouldn't have happened if he had made other choices). But the book from Roberta Sparrow taught him that he could change this timeline, so he chooses an alternative where he dies but his girlfriend survives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the key to interpreting what happens is that it is, somehow, a redemptive self-sacrifice. That is, at least, what it &lt;em&gt;feels&lt;/em&gt; like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2012-12-24T21:32:29.637" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8973" CreationDate="2012-12-24T22:15:03.850" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarfy#Michaela&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; entry on the book on which the movie is based, she is the maid, Michaela, and she represents innocence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Toward the end of the novel, Aarfy rapes and murders a maid, Michaela,&#xA;  while on leave in Rome. This inadvertently forms the emotional center&#xA;  of the novel. When an aghast Yossarian tells him that he will be&#xA;  arrested and possibly executed, Aarfy laughs dismissively that no one&#xA;  would do that to &quot;good old Aarfy&quot;:&#xA;          &quot;But I only raped her once!&quot; he explained.&#xA;          Yossarian was aghast. &quot;But you killed her, Aarfy! You killed her!&quot;&#xA;          &quot;Oh, I had to do that after I had raped her,&quot; Aarfy replied in his most condescending manner. &quot;I couldn't very well let her go around&#xA;  saying bad things about us, could I?&quot;&#xA;          &quot;But why did you have to touch her at all, you dumb bastard?&quot; Yossarian shouted. &quot;Why couldn't you get yourself a girl off the&#xA;  street if you wanted one? The city is full of prostitutes.&quot;&#xA;          &quot;Oh, no, not me,&quot; Aarfy bragged. &quot;I never paid for it in my life.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-12-24T22:15:03.850" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8977" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8978" CreationDate="2012-12-24T22:15:35.487" Score="10" ViewCount="6135" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079116/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Escape from Alcatraz&lt;/a&gt;, nobody had ever escaped from Alcatraz prison, and Frank with two friends tried to escape. However, at the end of the film, we never know if they survived or if they drowned in the sea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is information in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_Alcatraz_%28film%29#Background_and_historical_accuracy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While it is not known whether the three escapees survived, sightings&#xA;  of them over the years provides circumstantial evidence that they may&#xA;  have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any information about whether they survived or not other than this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-12-27T21:49:02.377" LastActivityDate="2012-12-27T21:49:02.377" Title="Have they really escaped from Alcatraz?" Tags="|plot-explanation|historical-accuracy|escape-from-alcatraz|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8977" CreationDate="2012-12-24T22:39:36.550" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to all-knowing &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Morris_%28prisoner%29&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; (smile):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the end, authorities pointed out that the chances of the prisoners&#xA;  surviving the trip across the bay were slim. At the time, there was no&#xA;  discovery of robberies or car thefts that could have been attributed&#xA;  to them, and the men were habitual criminals yet were never arrested&#xA;  again. The FBI officially closed the case on December 31, 1979,&#xA;  concluding that &quot;no credible evidence emerged to suggest the men were&#xA;  still alive&quot; (though there have been many subsequent reconstructions&#xA;  and yearly triathlon events are held to commemorate the event). There&#xA;  have been sightings of the three men over the years which provides&#xA;  circumstantial evidence that they might have survived. If Morris did&#xA;  survive the escape and is still alive today, he would be 86 years&#xA;  old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this video on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;amp;v=9W7coNTryV0&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;, his cousin Bud Morris says he helped finance the escape and he saw Frank after the escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-cochran/frank-morris-escape-alcatraz_b_1872290.html&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt;, the case was reopened in 1993:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The official position of the marshals service is that the inmates&#xA;  likely drowned in their attempt, however, their spokesman, Dave&#xA;  Branham was quoted as saying, “we think there is a possibility they&#xA;  are alive.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article also claims:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The following day, a search party found the remains of the raincoat&#xA;  raft on Angel Island, two miles north of Alcatraz. Along with the raft&#xA;  was discovered a small plastic bag containing the personal effects of&#xA;  the Anglins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To further add to the mystery, footsteps were seen heading away from&#xA;  the raft on the beach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this totally reliable account from &lt;a href=&quot;http://mafiatoday.com/general-breaking-news/breaking-news-frank-morris-alcatraz-escapee-found-living-in-ireland/&quot;&gt;mafiatoday.com&lt;/a&gt; claims to have interviewed him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Frank Morris the most famous convict ever to escape from Alcatraz&#xA;  prison and who was presumed to have drowned by authorities has been&#xA;  found to be living under the assumed name of Padraic Welsh in a remote&#xA;  part of Connemara on the western coast of Ireland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Frank now 83 years of age decided the time was right to break the&#xA;  silence and put the record straight after 47 years living a tranquil&#xA;  life in a remote part of the west of Ireland. Recounting the night of&#xA;  June 11, 1962, Frank said the escape went ahead as planned and along&#xA;  with fellow escapees brothers John and Clarence Anglin they placed the&#xA;  dummies in their beds, escaped through the vents at the back of their&#xA;  cells and into the utility corridor. They then proceeded onto the roof&#xA;  and down to the bay. There they boarded the raft they had constructed&#xA;  and disappeared into the night to rendezvous with a boat which they&#xA;  had arranged to pick them up, they then destroyed the raft and&#xA;  scattered personal belonging into the bay to throw the authoritys off&#xA;  their trail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Frank having relatives from the west of Ireland and an aunt living in&#xA;  Connemara had already organised passage to the Emerald Isle prior to&#xA;  escaping as for John and Clarence Anglin he never heard from them&#xA;  since and often wonders what became of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you have to choose what you believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-12-24T22:39:36.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8979" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8981" CreationDate="2012-12-25T00:06:36.487" Score="13" ViewCount="59965" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981677/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pitch Perfect&lt;/a&gt;, why was Beca's riff-off &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q573_hDhTbE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;considered invalid&lt;/a&gt;? What &amp;quot;it&amp;quot; did they need to match and how? I've watched this particular scene, like, 50 times and I still have no clue. Maybe there's something in the book that they forgot to include in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3696" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2022-03-17T12:08:00.197" LastActivityDate="2022-03-17T12:08:00.197" Title="Why was Beca's riff-off considered invalid?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pitch-perfect|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="8981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8979" CreationDate="2012-12-25T03:55:07.173" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jesse's song used the word &quot;&lt;em&gt;it&lt;/em&gt;&quot; in its lyrics. Beca's rap riffed off this word. However, her song began with the word &quot;&lt;em&gt;it's&lt;/em&gt;&quot; and was therefore deemed invalid on a technicality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2012-12-25T04:40:20.923" LastActivityDate="2012-12-25T04:40:20.923" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8982" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8983" CreationDate="2012-12-25T04:06:11.850" Score="12" ViewCount="1320" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471042/&quot;&gt;Tower Heist&lt;/a&gt;, it was said a specific car belonging to Arthur Shaw is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000537/&quot;&gt;Steve McQueen's&lt;/a&gt; car. Now herein lies my doubt. Is it really his car? Can anybody provide any reference?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zaQMh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Steve McQueen&amp;#39;s car&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2012-12-25T04:59:40.630" LastActivityDate="2012-12-25T04:59:40.630" Title="Is it really Steve McQueen's car?" Tags="|props|tower-heist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8982" CreationDate="2012-12-25T04:37:10.847" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it isn't McQueen's car. It's a replica of it. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Heist&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki for this movie&lt;/a&gt; links to the movie's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.visualhollywood.com/movies_2011/tower_heist/notes.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;production notes&lt;/a&gt; [PDF]:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pièce de résistance of Arthur Shaw?s multimillion-dollar penthouse equaled a 1963 Ferrari  250 GT Lusso that was once owned by Steve McQueen. It provides the billionaire with lofty  bragging rights. This highly coveted and priceless collectible is the crown jewel of Shaw?s home.  To showcase it among his other treasures, Shaw had the car cautiously disassembled after its  purchase and then reassembled in his penthouse apartment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it came to this aspect of the story line, the filmmakers became quite inventive. McQueen  actually did own a Ferrari 250 GT Lusso, which venerable auction house Christie?s auctioned off  in 2007 for $2.3 million. Several years later, that wise owner sold the car for a staggering $10  million.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rare sports car (only 350 of the models were ever manufactured) easily sells for close to $1  million, so the practicality of buying one for the production was not an option. Frankly, it would  never survive the rigors of filming. &lt;strong&gt;The next best plan was to reproduce it,&lt;/strong&gt; so the production  commissioned two replicas, both of which had different uses for filming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the decision was made, &lt;strong&gt;a little creative license was taken with the final color of the vehicle&lt;/strong&gt;. The McQueen original was custom painted a muted &amp;quot;marrone metallizzato,&amp;quot; or metallic brown. &amp;quot;The King of Cool&amp;quot; chose the color to elude law enforcement when zooming up the Pacific Coast Highway. However, the filmmakers wanted a vibrant, eye-popping color that would leave an impression. After performing camera tests on three versions of authentic vintage Ferrari colors, the filmmakers decided on &amp;quot;amaranto,&amp;quot; a brilliant red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also confirmed to an extent &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471042/trivia?tab=tr&amp;amp;item=tr1583548&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;on IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-25T04:37:10.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8984" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-25T08:44:28.040" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2012-12-25T08:44:28.040" LastActivityDate="2012-12-25T08:44:28.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8985" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-25T08:44:28.040" Score="0" Body="Escape from Alcatraz is a prison film about the escape attempt of Frank Morris and two friends from Alcatraz prison." OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-01-26T12:12:59.400" LastActivityDate="2013-01-26T12:12:59.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8987" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-25T12:50:15.890" Score="4" ViewCount="1566" Body="&lt;p&gt;Asked in The Guardian's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2012/dec/19/most-repeated-tv-episode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Notes &amp;amp; Queries&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I notice Channel 4 is again screening the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqL2bjeLdDo&amp;amp;oref=http://www.youtube.com/channel/SWkyWJHHHIxwM&amp;amp;has_verified=1&amp;amp;has_verified=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Christmassy Ted&lt;/a&gt; episode of Father Ted. Which episode of a TV series (as opposed to one-offs such as The Snowman) has been screened most often on one of the five main TV channels?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The five main TV channels are the UK's BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. The answer doesn't necessarily need to be a Christmas special. I'm looking for some concrete basis to the answer rather than guesswork.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T10:49:04.073" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T10:49:04.073" Title="What is the most repeated programme on British telly?" Tags="|scheduling|most-appearances|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="572" CreationDate="2012-12-25T14:26:30.600" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The universe is continually expanding. In order to define an intersection point within a moving (expanding) spatial section, two points within the referencing vector are required for each of the three referencing axes keeping in mind the expansion doesn't necessarily occur in a uniform (concentric) form.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3700" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-12-25T15:08:46.867" LastActivityDate="2012-12-25T15:08:46.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8772" CreationDate="2012-12-25T14:29:55.127" Score="5" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Abe was sent from the future to manage the Loopers. As for present-Abe, this character may not even have existed yet in the movie's time setting (2044). Maybe Abe was born in, let's say, 2049 and was sent way back in the past to, let's say, 2025. So for 19 years up to the movie's time setting (2025 when he was sent from the future to 2044), Abe was already working to manage the Loopers. There is even a scene where Abe explains how he first met Joe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Probably the crime lords from the future who used time travel to dispose the the future crime lords enemies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the Rainmaker, his ascent to power is aided by his telekenesis. The last sequence explains how Future Joe causes a young Rainmaker to become vengeful and destroy the loopers from the future (2074).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3701" LastActivityDate="2012-12-25T14:29:55.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8990" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9018" CreationDate="2012-12-25T16:20:01.360" Score="10" ViewCount="2347" Body="&lt;p&gt;Argo has a scene where the fake film crew joins an official from the Iranian government's department of culture and art (or something like that). When the official is introduced to the director, the official asks him something about the movie, and the director answers with &quot;no&quot; but looks confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the culture official asking about? It sounded like he was asking if the movie was going to be a love story, but I couldn't understand much of what he was saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T06:58:43.440" Title="In Argo, what is the culture official asking about?" Tags="|plot-explanation|argo|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8991" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2012-12-25T16:31:01.590" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A dramatization of the 1980 joint &lt;code&gt;CIA-Canadian&lt;/code&gt; secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary &lt;code&gt;Iran&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="1992" LastEditDate="2012-12-25T17:08:04.517" LastActivityDate="2012-12-25T17:08:04.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8992" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2012-12-25T16:31:01.590" Score="0" Body="A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran." OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="1992" LastEditDate="2012-12-25T17:08:35.217" LastActivityDate="2012-12-25T17:08:35.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8993" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="8999" CreationDate="2012-12-26T01:18:19.247" Score="6" ViewCount="3911" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Christmas Story&lt;/a&gt;, the Mother (name unspecified) is suspect in the breaking of the Leg Lamp, because she never liked it. She seems believable when she says it was an accident and she doesn't know how it happened. However, while The Old Man (name unspecified) is trying to repair it, in the background she seems giddy that it is broken, and when his attention is returned to her, she immediately goes solemn and concerned. Is there evidence somewhere, even in the Jean Shepherd books and stories the movie is based on, that prove or disprove the Mother intentionally broke the lamp?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-12-26T02:42:06.083" LastActivityDate="2012-12-26T12:40:29.343" Title="Did the Mother break the Leg Lamp?" Tags="|plot-explanation|a-christmas-story|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8965" CreationDate="2012-12-26T04:09:22.677" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually it's never stated that demons go back to hell &lt;strong&gt;when they die&lt;/strong&gt;.  They do go back to hell when they're exorcised, and since yellow eyes was killed we haven't seen him except for flashbacks and such.  Vampires and pretty much all other monsters go to purgatory when they die.  It's never stated if angels go anywhere when they die, I believe they simply stop existing completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In season 8 we see Dean kill some vampires in purgatory, it's assumed that once you die in purgatory you stop existing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-12-26T16:26:45.587" LastActivityDate="2012-12-26T16:26:45.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8996" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-26T11:35:49.927" Score="20" ViewCount="32778" Body="&lt;p&gt;Andy Dufresne in Shawshank Redemption is digging the tunnel to escape through the wall of his cell. He digs slowly and desperses the excavated material in the prison yard so that it doesn't accumulate in the cell. The tunnel entry is covered with a poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How come noone ever looks under the poster and the tunnel is not discovered for so many years?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3707" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2012-12-26T13:15:44.840" LastActivityDate="2014-01-24T23:16:40.423" Title="How was Andy Dufresne able to dig the tunnel for many years without being discovered?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-shawshank-redemption|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8996" CreationDate="2012-12-26T12:32:16.063" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;No one looks under the poster because for many years Andy was a model prisoner &amp;amp; he was helping out the warden with his shady schemes.  He also endeared himself to the guards too, and he never gave any indication that he wanted to break out of prison, so he was left alone and neither the tunnel nor his hammer was ever discovered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="753" LastActivityDate="2012-12-26T12:32:16.063" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8996" CreationDate="2012-12-26T12:36:22.307" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0001391/&quot;&gt;Warden Norton&lt;/a&gt; sees the poster when he checks his cell. He says;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can't say I approve of this but I suppose exceptions can be made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because he wants to use Andy with his money laundering business and he doesn't want to disturb him very much. Also he wants Andy to think of himself as a &lt;em&gt;privileged prisoner&lt;/em&gt;. If normal prisoner hung this poster, the Warden would probably have taken it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KDjlY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="753" LastEditDate="2012-12-26T15:31:06.240" LastActivityDate="2012-12-26T15:31:06.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="8999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8993" CreationDate="2012-12-26T12:40:29.343" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's intentionally left ambiguous whether it was an accident or it was done on purpose.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even in the short story that this incident is based on, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;My old man and the lascivious special award that heralded the birth of pop art&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;,  it's never stated outright if breaking the lamp was intentional.  Of course, in both the story and the movie the Mother is glad to see it go, and the Old Man accuses her of breaking it on purpose, but I don't think there's a definite answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="753" LastActivityDate="2012-12-26T12:40:29.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8996" CreationDate="2012-12-26T16:38:17.630" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are multiple ways that Andy hid his escape.  The first and possibly the most obvious was the poster he used to hide the hole, as illustrated by &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/8998/1992&quot;&gt;Soner&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/8997/1992&quot;&gt;Paul&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are a few other reasons why it went unnoticed.  The first was that he did it very gradually over time.  It took him &lt;strong&gt;years&lt;/strong&gt; to make the hole.  The second was that he was using the little rock hammer to &lt;strong&gt;slowly chisel away the hole&lt;/strong&gt;, so he didnt' make a lot of noise or movements when he worked on the hole.  The third was that &lt;strong&gt;he spread the dust in the yard&lt;/strong&gt;, so there was no other physical evidence of him working on the hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Andy went unnoticed because he took his time and played everything as safe as he could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2012-12-26T19:05:37.990" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8963" CreationDate="2012-12-26T18:08:06.110" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually a demon &lt;strong&gt;did not&lt;/strong&gt; burn the symbol off, it was Nike (or a god like Nike).  Yes the symbol can be destroyed, but we're not certain if it can be done by a demon or if only certain people (like the old gods) can do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it CAN be burned off by anyone, it still would be somewhat hard to accomplish since the demon would have to get close to detroy the lock, then leave it's current body and posses its target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-12-26T18:08:06.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8961" CreationDate="2012-12-26T18:56:32.407" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sam loses his powers whenever he stops drinking demon blood.  Bobby and Dean made him go through a detox in order to get all of the demon blood out of him.  It looks like this happened some time in season 4 after Dean came back.  However in at least one episode Sam intentially drank demon blood for one reason or another and ends up going through detox again.  At the end of season 5 we see him drinking gallons of demon blood to prepare him to host Lucifer so that they can capture him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-12-26T18:56:32.407" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8923" CreationDate="2012-12-26T19:02:13.880" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe that gagging a possesed person would prevent a demon from being exorcised.  The demon is essentially a tortured spirit, it's essense would probably leak through whatever gag was in the mouth, or possibly even violently remove the gag for the demon to leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of ways to prevent a demon from leaving.  The first being the binding link Keybrd mentions.  It also seems that demons can't leave the possesed body as long as it's in a demon trap.  Also, saying the exorcism prayer in reverse shows to shove a leaving demon back into the possessed body that it's trying to leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-12-26T19:02:13.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8960" CreationDate="2012-12-26T19:04:49.663" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thinkt he intention was to highlight the purity of the angels.  They won't/can't take a body without it willfully giving up it's body.  Even Lucifer has to have his vessel say yes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Castiel's case we are shown that he had his vessel go through several &quot;trust buidling&quot; exercises to get him to say yes.  Lucifer, however, preyed on the vessel's weaknesses to get him to say yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, it's a loophole in the sense that the angels can torture their vessels into saying yes, but most angels are pure enough that they wouldn't do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2012-12-26T19:04:49.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9005" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9007" CreationDate="2012-12-26T19:17:45.390" Score="6" ViewCount="4388" Body="&lt;p&gt;Relating to this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/1821/explain-the-exploding-pipe-in-the-shawshank-redemption&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Explain the exploding pipe in The Shawshank Redemption&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  In that scene Andy is timing his strikes on the sewage line to the match the lightning strikes (shouldn't it be the thunder he waits for?). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would he have done if there was no lightning? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has already followed his plan to a point that he couldn't just slip back into his cell and replace everything. So he needed to crawl out through the pipe, but he hadn't made a hole in it already or even weakened the pipe in any way. I always assumed it was the pressure in the pipe that kept him from making a hole before, like he had in his wall, but &quot;Explain the exploding pipe&quot; shows that it was a drama effect only. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He needed to go out that pipe, he had only a short amount of time to escape and if the storm hadn't come through he wouldn't have been able to make so much noise breaking into the pipe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Andy is meticulous, so I don't believe he would have left this detail to such a great chance as a lightning storm (even if he checked for a storm before he switched the books there would be no guarantee of lightning); so how else would he have gotten the pipe open within the limited time frame he had to do it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2014-04-20T23:29:28.453" Title="What if there was no storm?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-shawshank-redemption|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9005" CreationDate="2012-12-26T19:54:45.663" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that he would have had to go ahead and break the pipe anyway (as you point out, he  has already carried out his plan past the point of no return).  The thunder provided a way to mask the sound and give him more chances to open the pipe, but if there had been no storm, he probably would have still broken open the pipe and hoped that either no one figured out what the sound was or that it would take the guards too long to figure out where the noise was coming from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="753" LastActivityDate="2012-12-26T19:54:45.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8820" CreationDate="2012-12-26T22:24:28.650" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering &lt;em&gt;Evolution&lt;/em&gt; was a pretty huge loss for Dreamworks ($40 million return against an $80 million budget (&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; including marketing)), it is unsurprising that a sequel was not green-lit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the filmmakers did indeed hope for it to be a new franchise in the same vein as &lt;em&gt;Ghostbusters&lt;/em&gt; seeing as they produced a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alienators%3a_Evolution_Continues&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;short-lived animated show&lt;/a&gt; on Fox Kids based on the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-12-26T22:24:28.650" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9011" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9012" CreationDate="2012-12-27T08:35:30.160" Score="2" ViewCount="8409" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317648/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hidalgo&lt;/a&gt;, director Joe Johnson demanded that it was based on true story. However when I tried to look into the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hopkins&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;life of Frank Hopkins&lt;/a&gt;, I found his life is full of mystries and the whole story of his race in Arabia is very much disputed. Quoting wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A number of his stories have been disputed by historians, for example, that he had won more than 400 races. He also said he had raced in a ceremonial 3,000-mile ride that passed the Gulf of Syria and the inland borders of two other countries, which was supposed to have taken place in Arabia in 1890.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the racing in Arabia is based on the autobiographical memoir by him which is really controversial as it is full of self-challenging information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So from which source did the director claim the whole story to be true? Did they do any research themselves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2012-12-28T07:29:38.260" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T07:29:38.260" Title="Is there any proof that Frank Hopkin's race in Arabia was a true story?" Tags="|hidalgo|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9011" CreationDate="2012-12-27T10:42:57.993" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hidalgo is based on a&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/life_and_art/2004/03/a_mirage_in_the_desert.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not-so-true story&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thelongridersguild.com/hopkins.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Long Riders' Guild&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a group for people who make continuous horseback journeys of 1,000 miles or more, have devoted considerable time to proving that Hopkins was a sham and that his story is a lie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most problematic of all the disputes, however, is the one surrounding &lt;strong&gt;the &lt;em&gt;Ocean of Fire&lt;/em&gt;, the long-distance race through the Middle East that serves as the centerpiece event in the Disney movie... didn't exist.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hidalgo&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;screenwriter &lt;em&gt;John Fusco&lt;/em&gt; acknowledges that he took some liberties with history in the script, but&lt;/strong&gt; he is skeptical of the degree to which the anti-Hopkins camp discredits the rider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fusco says the &lt;em&gt;Ocean of Fire&lt;/em&gt; existed&lt;/strong&gt; — he based his account of it on two chapters about the race found in Albert W. Harris' &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.muchadoabouthorses.net/catalog/Arabian/The-Blood-of-the-Arab-by-Albert-Harris&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blood of the Arab&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a book the screenwriter says is &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;considered to be the early 'Bible' on Arabian horse history.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accurate as that assessment might be, Harris bases his &lt;em&gt;Ocean of Fire&lt;/em&gt; chapters primarily on letters Hopkins wrote him in 1940 — hardly independent verification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond &lt;em&gt;Blood of the Arab&lt;/em&gt; and Hopkins' own work, Fusco says, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Having taken place in 1890, and the Bedu culture being of an oral tradition, I was not bothered by lack of contemporary documentation&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; of the race.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article has a bit more on &lt;em&gt;John Fusco's&lt;/em&gt; research about Frank Hopkins being an accomplished horse rider, but&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fusco's research is difficult to verify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To call Hopkins an [equestrian] enthusiast seems fair, but to present him as a real-life champion cowboy is outlandish.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Yes, the screenwriter did do some research, but there doesn't seem to be any hard evidence that the &lt;em&gt;Ocean of Fire&lt;/em&gt;, the big race in the movie, actually ever happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thelongridersguild.com/hoax-summary.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quoting&lt;/a&gt; Arab historian &lt;em&gt;Dr. Awad Al-Badi&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;There is absolutely no record or reference to Hopkins with or without his mustangs ever having set foot on Arabian soil.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The idea of a historic long distance Arab horse race is pure nonsense&lt;/strong&gt; and flies against all reason. Such an event in Arabiaany time in the past is impossible simply from a technical, logistical, cultural and geopolitical point of view. This race has never been part of our rich traditions and equestrian heritage.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-27T10:42:57.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9013" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9015" CreationDate="2012-12-27T10:46:10.953" Score="20" ViewCount="31549" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I have watched a variety of X-Men movies, including X-Men Origins: Wolverine and X-Men First Class. In X-Men First Class the story at the end of the movie indicates that Charles Xavier loses his ability to walk after a shot fired at Magneto hits him in his lower back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, at the end of X-Men Origins: Wolverine Charles Xavier is seen walking towards those who escaped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, in both instances this is probably just artistic license changing the story. According to X-Men canon, how does Professor Xavier actually get paralysed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T17:43:14.403" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T03:16:05.450" Title="How does Professor X actually get paralysed?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|comic-adaptation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9013" CreationDate="2012-12-27T11:10:10.347" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uncannyxmen.net/db/issues/showquestion.asp?fldAuto=809&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;X-Men (1st series) # 20&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;(May 1966)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RD8sI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;X-Men&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Years ago, &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.com/universe/Professor_X&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Xavier&lt;/a&gt; discovered a city in Tibet being under some sort of alien mind-control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The professor managed to inspire a rebellion against &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.com/universe/Lucifer_%28Quist%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lucifer&lt;/a&gt;, and the alien was forced to abandon his base, however not before &lt;strong&gt;causing a block of concrete to fall and crush Xavier’s legs&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-27T11:10:10.347" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8969" CreationDate="2012-12-27T11:59:34.427" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has never been enough detail provided in the episodes that have aired to date - there are a few hints and a few jokes along the way (like knocking down a wall and using a ramp) - but this one doesn't really have an answer currently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The boat &amp;quot;Diane&amp;quot; does have an &lt;em&gt;answer&lt;/em&gt; as to what happened to it;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the episode &amp;quot;Kill Ari&amp;quot; (3x02) Jen goes home with Gibbs so he can change clothes after being out in the rain storm, and sees the boat Diane. She asks if this was the same boat he was building 6 years ago to which Gibbs answers no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Jen asks what happened to the other one, Gibbs tells her that he burned the boat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, whether the boat was burned inside the house or not (unlikely, considering that burning a boat in a basement would probably burn the house down) is never covered in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-27T11:59:34.427" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8990" CreationDate="2012-12-27T17:08:03.583" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The culture official asks whether the film is about a foreign bride who comes to Iran, but she doesn't understand the language or the custom so there is a misunderstanding and lapse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To this, Bob, the &quot;director&quot;, replies that it's not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-30T15:00:40.837" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T15:00:40.837" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9019" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9027" CreationDate="2012-12-27T17:30:21.913" Score="12" ViewCount="704" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm interested in the evolution and/or existence of the police procedural genre on television. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_procedural#Televised_stories&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; outlines the timeline and summarizes representative shows through history for a few English-speaking countries (which also happen to be common-law countries - perhaps that factors into the existence of the genre?). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make this specific and perhaps to highlight how the same genre is different in different environments, I am mostly interested in the evolution of the genre in former-Soviet countries including East Germany (and the comparison to the genre in West Germany prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the genre once unified). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this genre exist in any of those countries? How did the genre evolve over time from inception to current day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, how did the types of crimes presented and the portrayal of the victims, suspects, and police evolve with the social norms and political climate? Was there a marked change in any of those pre- and post-collapse of the Union? Are recent shows focused on present times (akin to &lt;em&gt;Law and Order&lt;/em&gt; in the US and UK) or do shows exist set in historical periods (and if there are, is the portrayal nostalgic/revisionist/romanticized or is it trying to expose the corruption in the system)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources to back-up the analysis would be appreciated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3718" LastEditorUserId="5879" LastEditDate="2019-10-03T02:06:03.640" LastActivityDate="2019-10-03T02:06:03.640" Title="How have television police procedurals in non-English speaking countries evolved over time?" Tags="|analysis|crime|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9020" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9106" CreationDate="2012-12-27T18:10:22.617" Score="72" ViewCount="36866" Body="&lt;p&gt;Through Netflix &amp;amp; Amazon streaming, I have recently &quot;discovered&quot; a bunch of really good British sitcoms that I never knew existed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I think some of these comedies are as good or better than anything on U.S. television, my only complaint is that there aren't enough of them. I get hooked on them and then watch all the episodes available in a day or two, while it would take weeks to watch all the episodes of a typical successful American sitcom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the British version of &lt;strong&gt;The Office&lt;/strong&gt; only had 14 total episodes.  The U.S. version of &lt;strong&gt;The Office&lt;/strong&gt; currently has almost 200.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The show &lt;strong&gt;Coupling&lt;/strong&gt; lasted for only 4 seasons and 28 episodes, while &lt;strong&gt;Friends&lt;/strong&gt; ran for 10 seasons and over 200 episodes. (I know this isn't the same show, but thought they were comparable)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The IT Crowd&lt;/strong&gt;, which I also found hilarious, sadly ran for only 24 episodes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now one of the benefits of these shows producing fewer episodes is that the writers don't seem to run out of ideas and there are no &quot;Jump the Shark&quot; plotlines. But surely there are more good stories to be told about these characters, aren't there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can someone from across the pond explain why these really good and (I'm assuming) very successful shows have so few episodes &amp;amp; seasons?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="753" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2017-05-09T10:19:49.337" LastActivityDate="2017-05-09T10:19:49.337" Title="Why do British sitcoms have much fewer episodes than American ones?" Tags="|sitcoms|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9020" CreationDate="2012-12-27T18:47:27.160" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most likely explanation is simple economics. Since the US population is approximately five times that of Great Britain, the television viewership is significantly larger, allowing for larger budgets per episode and more total episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1357" LastActivityDate="2012-12-27T18:47:27.160" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9020" CreationDate="2012-12-27T19:15:57.057" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of this depends on the TV schedule, and if the season was filmed before it ran on TV. Some networks will purchase a season in it's completed form. This covers the costs of production and film crew. It's much more expensive to hire a crew for 12 weeks, then for 12 days. So you could film 12 episodes quickly and air them on TV over a weekly schedule to recover costs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some shows like Friends become so popular the network can afford a full-time production crew. So they switch from pre-filming seasons to producing shows weekly. Keeping a crew on hand to produce each weekly show. Some shows can have operating costs over $1 million per episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stargate for example ran for 10 years, and resulted in a full-time crew with their own production studio just for filming Stargate. Where as the first season of Terra Nova was all filmed at once, and after it ran it was cancelled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of popular British shows that have full-time schedules, but most of what you were watching were less known or popular. As a result, they were likely pre-film in smaller batches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2012-12-27T19:15:57.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9025" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9026" CreationDate="2012-12-27T20:21:04.120" Score="8" ViewCount="23663" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final scene of Martin Scorsese's 'King of Comedy' a news report suggests that Rupert Pupkin (played by Robert De Niro), after coming out of prison, becomes a sensation and releases his much awaited autobiography. At the same time he is shown to be holding various offers for shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that he would have imagined this bit too like his previous conversations and stage shows with Jerry Langford? Is there any suggestive evidence leading to reality or otherwise? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3538" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2012-12-27T21:41:27.070" LastActivityDate="2020-07-29T18:16:56.043" Title="Was the success of Rupert Pupkin real in King of Comedy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|the-king-of-comedy|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9025" CreationDate="2012-12-27T21:03:45.903" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There appears to be some debate over this (on IMDb boards and Rotten Tomatoes et al), but I found &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Comedy_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a Wikipedia snippet&lt;/a&gt; that suggests the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Film scholar David Bordwell, writing in Film Viewer's Guide, mentioned the (un)reality of the ending as a topic for debate. A number of scenes in the film — Rupert and Jerry in the restaurant, Jerry meeting Rupert after having listened to his tape and calling him a genius, Rupert getting married &quot;live&quot; on Jerry's show — exist solely in Rupert's imagination, and Bordwell suggested that some viewers would think the final sequence is another fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2020-02-29T18:42:30.270" LastActivityDate="2020-02-29T18:42:30.270" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9019" CreationDate="2012-12-27T22:03:59.590" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not an expert on the topic, but regarding the two former (and one recent) German countries I can refer you to two famous TV shows, the West-German &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0806910/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tatort&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Crime Scene&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/a&gt; and the East-German &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0806901/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Polizeiruf 110&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Police call 110&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/a&gt;, which are comparable quite well. The answer is mostly based on both &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatort&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polizeiruf_110&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;sites&lt;/a&gt;, since I don't have too much experience with them (not to say with their pre-'90 versions):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tatort:&lt;/strong&gt; This was created in 1970 as a police-based crime TV show, broadcast in 90 minute TV-movies. The show has been (and still is) an iconic still running show, with many shows produced a year (and its broadcast on sunday's primetime being unwritten law) and various different detecives from many German cities usually produced by the regional departments of the public (state-funded) television. But I'm not sure how much it classifies as a police procedural, since it more or less concentrates on the work of the police detectives solving the crime (usually a murder), like a classical crime show, not so much on paper and lawyer work (like, say the 50-50 emphasise of &lt;em&gt;Law and Order&lt;/em&gt;), and also includes aspects of the detective's personal lifes and problems (though to a small extent).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Polizeiruf 110:&lt;/strong&gt; As a, say counter-measure, East-Germany started a likewise iconic TV-show in 1971 being on the surface kind of a &lt;em&gt;Tatort&lt;/em&gt;-copy. But they kept it more factual, concentrating on the police work and leaving out the personal lifes and problems of the detectives. In this way it probably classifies more for a police procedural. It has to be said, that while being a totalitarian socialist country, the actual law and police system still wasn't that much different from the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Western&lt;/em&gt;&quot; countries in its essence, I think. But being a state-produced show (like the &lt;em&gt;Tatort&lt;/em&gt;, but in the West there wasn't so much content-control of the public TV by the government) they indeed put some pedagogical effort in it, with the criminals often being depicted as &lt;em&gt;&quot;failed existences&quot;&lt;/em&gt; that don't integrate well into the society. And they also didn't concentrate that much on murder, but other (less heavy) crimes (maybe not to show that the GDR has to fight with murder, too). As Wikepedia says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The scriptwriters attached particular importance to representation of&#xA;  the criminal and his state of mind, as well as the context of the&#xA;  crime. Many episodes aimed to teach and enlighten the audience about&#xA;  what does and what doesn't constitute appropriate behaviour and&#xA;  appropriate thought, rather than just to entertain. Polizeiruf was one&#xA;  of the few broadcasts by GDR media in which the real problems and&#xA;  difficulties of the supposedly more advanced socialist society could&#xA;  be displayed and discussed to some extent, albeit in a fictionalized&#xA;  and pedagogicalized environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the reunion in 1990 and till today those two iconic programmes still exist on their own, but with the Eastern &lt;em&gt;Polizeiruf&lt;/em&gt; having converged more to the Western &lt;em&gt;Tatort&lt;/em&gt; in its structure and content, not so much to a blend of both shows. But this reflects the general political situation of the reunion, which wasn't so much a blend of both cultures, but an annexation of East-Germany by West-Germany. There are now both shows set in cities all over Germany, but with the &lt;em&gt;Polizeiruf&lt;/em&gt; still having more shows set in former GDR-states, though being not as famous as the &lt;em&gt;Tatort&lt;/em&gt;. And I guess today the &lt;em&gt;Tatort&lt;/em&gt; maybe classifies a bit less as police procedural, as the personal lifes of the detectives still play a role and certain &lt;em&gt;Tatort&lt;/em&gt; s (like the one from &lt;em&gt;Münster&lt;/em&gt;) also feature other entertaining aspects (the funny interaction between the forensic doctor and the detective being quite iconic) generating interrest apart from the crime story itself. But it nevertheless stays a major iconic show delivering high quality crime stories, that also often feature current political and social problems and IMHO give a good objective insight into actual police work (though not being an expert on the topic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; As a more referential side note not contributing that much to the analysis part of the question, there has also been a famous precursor to &lt;em&gt;Tatort&lt;/em&gt; in West-Germany, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0793361/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stahlnetz&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Steel net&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/a&gt;, produced from 1958 to 1968. But compared to the later &lt;em&gt;Tatort&lt;/em&gt; this was more factual and documentary in nature and concentrating on the police work with objective meticulousness, leaving out any background about the detectives and psychological motives of the criminals. And the cases were based on real cases. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stahlnetz&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;German Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; (there is no real English one) also says that it was based on the US show &lt;em&gt;Dragnet&lt;/em&gt;, which I for myself don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2012-12-31T11:13:52.617" LastActivityDate="2012-12-31T11:13:52.617" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8883" CreationDate="2012-12-27T23:11:10.190" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;(I would definitely checkout the helpful comment discussion that TylerShads commented with.) The answer is no the building they stand in and watch the destruction from isn't meant to be blown up and doesn't blow up. It does shake from the shock wave of the other buildings collapsing. The building they were standing in was chosen to view the perfect destruction of the other buildings. That's why the Project Mayhem members are up there with beers to celebrate and watch. Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) did not actively try to kill anyone. In fact Project Mayhem went out of the way to insure that no one would be killed in those buildings. If Tyler Durden (Brad or Edward) didn't have any sense of self preservation then there wouldn't have been any fight for control. Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) Honestly wanted to live and didn't kill himself ( Edward Norton) because of the chance that he might not live through it, among other reasons.  Post Script: If I can find the image of the map of financial institutions that needed to be blown up I believe it would prove my answer. It's just really hard to find that screen shot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2012-12-27T23:11:10.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9047" CreationDate="2012-12-28T00:08:44.190" Score="43" ViewCount="55029" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a scene in Django Unchained in which Candie (Leo DiCaprio) demands that Schultz shake his hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Candie really want just a handshake or did he have something more sinister in mind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T17:14:26.573" LastActivityDate="2017-02-06T15:38:41.163" Title="What was the purpose of Candie's handshake in Django Unchained?" Tags="|plot-explanation|django-unchained|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9020" CreationDate="2012-12-28T01:28:12.523" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;To expand on Donald's answer, larger budgets in the US mean many more writers. American sitcoms are typically written in large teams (20+ writers), with one writer penning an episode that includes contributions from all on the team. (Incidentally &lt;em&gt;The Simpsons'&lt;/em&gt; writers have stated on DVD commentaries that the credited writer only ends up with about 30% of the lines in the final episode.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Britain however, that set-up simply does not exist. Sitcoms are typically written by just one or two writers in isolation, and they often direct too. For example, &lt;em&gt;The Office&lt;/em&gt; was written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant while &lt;em&gt;The IT Crowd&lt;/em&gt; was written solely by Graham Linehan (a prolific comedy writer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subjectively, us Brits like to think of it as quality over quantity ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T01:28:12.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3491" CreationDate="2012-12-28T04:59:37.377" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no doubt that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yip_Man&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;history of YIP man&lt;/a&gt; is very different than what is shown in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ip_Man_%28film%29#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IP Man&lt;/a&gt;. The film loosely portrays his life. There are lots of historical inaccuracies in the movie. For instance the duel that you asked about, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ip_Man_%28film%29#Historical_accuracy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki states&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;it never happened.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another &lt;a href=&quot;http://gohongkong.about.com/od/historyandcultureofhk/fr/Ip-Man-Movie-Review.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;movie review&lt;/a&gt; also seconds this fact:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After witnessing repeated Japanese brutality, Man decides that he will seek revenge by fighting in Japanese General Miura’s martial arts dojo – where the General is trying to prove the supremacy of Japanese martial arts over Chinese. As Ip Man tries to rebuild his life, the General seeks him out for a final showdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Historically, it’s mostly fairytale, but the heart pounding patriotism and simple tale of good vs evil makes for a fantastic film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2020-04-24T15:35:04.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3041" CreationDate="2012-12-28T06:50:12.977" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No past with Clara. He is obsessed with her. He is trying to find happiness. He is sick in the head. He tells his mom because he knows she cannot speak therefore cannot tell anyone. I'm pretty sure he might have had something to do with her ending up in the hospital. She knows how he is which is why she cries while listening to césar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3727" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T06:50:12.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8043" CreationDate="2012-12-28T08:44:54.193" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess The Master has a &amp;quot;happy ending&amp;quot; showing the blurring of the borders between protagonist and antagonist, good and evil. In the end we're all just men (or women). We do what we used to do, make ourselves happy, and hope this isn't our only life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a good theory by some member &lt;a href=&quot;http://mubi.com/topics/the-master-what-does-the-ending-imply&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;in a forum&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he is having sex and brings up Dodd’s practice, he seems to be &lt;strong&gt;trying to hypnotize himself&lt;/strong&gt;, which brings us to one of the earlier shots of him caressing the sand-lady. He was &lt;strong&gt;happy, free, and at peace&lt;/strong&gt; in that moment when Dodd woke him up from the hypnosis. He is trying to &lt;strong&gt;recall that ecstasy&lt;/strong&gt;, but never will be able to again. His life only had purpose with Dodd, yet he refuses to &lt;strong&gt;surrender all of his dignity to be with him&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Freddie was indebted to Dodd for showing his life as something brave and wonderful, and Freddie stayed despite all the mind games and ego-tripping. But when he walks through the ominous halls of Dodd’s now successful legion of loons, it occurs to him he will always come second, and in the presence of others be an artifact of Dodd’s brilliant insights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: Freddie left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David Thomson is the author of The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). An article appeared in the October 4, 2012 issue of the magazine. He &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/107217/there-will-be-dud&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wrote there&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an ending that, if you wish, you can call &lt;strong&gt;enigmatic&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;mysterious&lt;/strong&gt;, or just a helpless way of drawing the attenuated proceedings to a close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/opinions/what-the-master-actually-means-jgiro.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Another review&lt;/a&gt; shares a good point of the movie with us:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right from the beginning, Dodd pegs Freddie all wrong. He calls Freddie a “hopelessly inquisitive man,” except he is nothing of the sort. Freddie doesn’t need a master to live his life. All he needs is a &lt;strong&gt;beach he can draw a naked woman on and cuddle up next to&lt;/strong&gt;. Dodd – whether because he seeks so aggressively to become one or because he genuinely needs one himself – can’t understand a Master-less existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As chaotic as Freddie’s state of mind is, he has this life figured out. Dodd is the lost one who needs guidance. The final minutes show the cult leader will always wear an artificial mask, while Freddie will &lt;strong&gt;continue on his childlike and comfy routine, never having to hide who he is.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I could not find any interpretation by the director of the ending anywhere. Anyways &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-master.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; is a good reference to many good critics on the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T08:44:54.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9035" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9036" CreationDate="2012-12-28T10:06:04.067" Score="34" ViewCount="5958" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the start of the rebooted series, in &lt;em&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/em&gt;, we see Bond gain his 00 status, and through that film and &lt;em&gt;Quantum of Solace&lt;/em&gt; Bond goes on his 'first' adventure. &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt; continues this 'firsts' theme, by reintroducing some stalwarts of the original franchise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moneypenny&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;M's wooden office with the studded leather door and Moneypenny in the anteroom&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Q division&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond's DB5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt; also has a theme of ageing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond is getting &lt;em&gt;too old&lt;/em&gt; according to some characters, M also&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond and Silva apparently served together in the 80s (before Bond was a 00-agent?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond's DB5 is apparently an old Q-division product, that M is familiar with&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this theme contradict the concept of a rebooted franchise showing us the beginning of Bond's career?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3729" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T07:45:22.257" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T07:45:22.257" Title="Does the ageing theme in Skyfall contradict the rebooting of the Bond franchise?" Tags="|james-bond|skyfall|movie-franchise|reboot|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9035" CreationDate="2012-12-28T11:51:40.553" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer was already partly asked and answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/8461/is-skyfall-preparing-the-ground-to-some-major-change-in-the-franchise?rq=1&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, but to offer a quick answer for this question: No. The thing you have to keep in mind is that while Quantum of Solace is directly after Casino Royale (the opening car chase in QoS being very soon after Bond shoots Mr. White in the leg at the end of CR), Skyfall is set sometime after Quantum of Solace. Although the actor Daniel Craig had only aged a few years, we have no indication of how many years he aged in the new Bond universe. Thus, it's entirely possible that Bond had many adventures in between Quantum of Solace and Skyfall, including when he got the old Aston Martin (which M would have known about, seeing as it was an expensive piece of equipment given to Bond to use at one point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Bond and Silva, I don't believe they actually worked together, just that Bond was familiar with Silva's having worked for M while she was stationed in Hong Kong (after all, there are only a limited amount of 00's out there). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T11:51:40.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9037" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9077" CreationDate="2012-12-28T12:02:01.670" Score="2" ViewCount="1797" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ending of 2005 Australian movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Proposition&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Proposition&lt;/a&gt; left me unsatisfied.&#xA;Arthur Burns takes revenge from Captain Stanley for the death of his brother&#xA;but doesn't do anything to Eden Fletcher who was the real culprit.&#xA;In fact Stanley tried to save his brother from flogging that lead to his death.&#xA;Why would the director create such an unjustified ending ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-28T15:03:50.633" LastActivityDate="2017-09-05T20:32:43.890" Title="Unjustified Ending of The Proposition" Tags="|ending|the-proposition|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-28T15:11:56.930" Score="7" ViewCount="318" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was it the kid? If it was, it was never clear, unless I missed something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastEditorUserId="105" LastEditDate="2018-11-17T21:00:02.073" LastActivityDate="2019-11-03T20:46:39.667" Title="Who/what was controlling the killer robot before Wikus got in?" Tags="|plot-explanation|district-9|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9038" CreationDate="2012-12-28T15:20:17.603" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes you missed the scene where Christopher's son activated the killer robot which is actually a battle suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is clear from the following &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt; plot lines &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Christopher's son activates the mothership and an alien mechanized battle suit which saves Wikus by killing Obesandjo and his men. Wikus takes control of the battle suit and rescues Christopher&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-02-24T04:38:28.287" LastActivityDate="2017-02-24T04:38:28.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9040" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9041" CreationDate="2012-12-28T16:47:28.107" Score="7" ViewCount="1221" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the name of this film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A boy meets a girl in an apartment complex playground. It's cold, snow on the ground, and she might be smoking. The boy is shy and a loner. The girl isn't what she seems. Maybe a vampire or werewolf. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The girl might be living with her father. The boy takes the girl to an old basement room in the building that he has turned into a secret hideaway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember scenes where the boy is in his bedroom listening to noises from her apartment. Her father wants her to stay inside or something, but she wants to be free. The father might not be her real father. He might have to go out and kill people for her to survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember much more about the film. Except that in the end something happens in the girl's apartment. Someone is killed in the bathroom. There is a lot of blood. She ends up having to leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was released in the last 10 years (maybe less).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-23T11:52:37.920" LastActivityDate="2016-07-21T14:50:52.767" Title="Boy meets girl in an apartment complex playground" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:40:29.923" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9040" CreationDate="2012-12-28T17:01:46.133" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like the 2008 Swedish film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Let the Right One In&lt;/a&gt;.  There was also a Hollywood remake in 2010 called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228987/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Let Me In&lt;/a&gt;, so you may have seen that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2016-07-21T14:50:52.767" LastActivityDate="2016-07-21T14:50:52.767" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9043" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9044" CreationDate="2012-12-28T19:21:24.473" Score="10" ViewCount="4747" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently had a debate about the 1963 movie &lt;em&gt;The Great Escape&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I thought the movie was very funny to a certain extent and could possibly be seen as a satire, the person I was talking to denied that it was meant to be or was funny at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am aware that the history behind the movie is a very serious one, but the casual way the prisoners behave and for example the multiple failed escape attempts gave me the impression that the movie was satirical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I might have just been influenced by the comedy series &lt;em&gt;Hogan's Heroes&lt;/em&gt; that had a very similiar setting. Another explanation might be, that the movie is just humouros from today's point of view, but was rather serious 50 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB lists the movie as &quot;Adventure | Drama | History&quot;, so no indication there whether there was any humor intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: Was the &lt;em&gt;The Great Escape&lt;/em&gt; meant to be funny or satirical at the time it was shot, or is that just my perception of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T20:02:13.397" Title="Was The Great Escape meant to be funny?" Tags="|analysis|the-great-escape|perception|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9043" CreationDate="2012-12-28T19:52:49.713" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Escape_%28film%29&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Great Escape&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is based on a historical event that was considered heroic and inspirational. Therefore, it is correctly classified as a drama.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Life is sometimes full of funny moments and &lt;em&gt;The Great Escape&lt;/em&gt; certainly demonstrates that even in the direst circumstances, humanity's sense of humor is one of it's best defenses against despair. However, for the most part, the humor that you see in the movie is either secondary or ironic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1357" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T19:52:49.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9043" CreationDate="2012-12-28T19:52:58.263" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Escape_%28film%29#Film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; is based on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Escape_%28book%29#Film_adaptation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;book of the same name&lt;/a&gt;. The book is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;.... an insider's account by Paul Brickhill of the 1944 mass escape from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III for British and Commonwealth airmen. As a prisoner in the camp, he participated in the escape plan but was debarred from the actual escape 'along with three or four others on grounds of claustrophobia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does not look like a satire at all. Although it is true that some scenes here are portrayed as to show funny, but in the end it isn't. We should also keep in mind when to say a film is parody and when not. Here I found a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmreference.com/encyclopedia/Independent-Film-Road-Movies/Parody.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;good note&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Parody is a comic technique that imitates a previous text for the purposes of ridicule. For instance, in the film The Great Escape (1963) the character played by Steve McQueen is repeatedly thrown into solitary confinement (&quot;the cooler&quot;) where he bounces a baseball against the wall to pass the time until his release. In the parody film Chicken Run (2000) the chicken Ginger gets sentenced to solitary confinement in a coal bin and bounces a rock against one wall to pass the time. The camera angle, the character's posture, and the sound of the ball bouncing off the wall all replicate the familiar scenes in The Great Escape . In order for this moment to function as parody for the audience, the spectator must be aware of the cinematic precedent, and able to connect it to the imitation (for the many young children who enjoyed Chicken Run , a coal bin is just a coal bin). There also must be a twist or element of comic difference to the imitation—in this case, the fact that the prisoner is a chicken and not a soldier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So taking all these issues into account, we can say it was not meant to be shown as a satire. However we know there are a plenty of films which were created thinking of a genre, but might result in more successful as movie of another genre. The whole thing is about personal choice. The genre is decided by the majority of viewers. However in this case, the majority has chosen history and that is it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T19:52:58.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9043" CreationDate="2012-12-28T20:23:40.263" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's really valid to compare Hogan's Heroes to The Great Escape.  Hogan's Heroes was definitely a comedy and intentionally omitted the more gruesome aspects of being a prisoner of war.  For example, even though Hogan's men blew up bridges and trains and such, they never showed a person being killed or seriously injured. Also, in Hogan's Heroes most of the Germans are portrayed as being totally idiotic and easily manipulated and were not feared by the prisoners at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrast that to The Great Escape, where we see graphic scenes of prisoners being killed, like when the mole attempted to climb the fence or the ending when 50 escapees were executed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are certainly moments of humor in The Great Escape, but overall it is correct to classify it as a drama.  As Mistu4u pointed out, the movie was based on a book, and the events in the movie actually took place (although of course some of the details were fictionalized or exaggerated).  In fact, some of the Nuremberg trials after the war centered on who ordered the execution of the fifty men, since that was considered a war crime.  During the trial of Herman Goering, he claimed that Hitler himself ordered the fifty to be executed (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_Luft_III_murders&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt; for more info)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="753" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T20:23:40.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9029" CreationDate="2012-12-28T20:30:21.843" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it is to be interpreted as &quot;getting the last laugh&quot;, &quot;getting one up&quot;, or &quot;getting the better&quot; of the other person. A game of wits in which the two are playing mind games with each other to see who can get the last laugh. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the scenes leading up to this moment, after Candie forces Schultz to pay 12,000 for Broomhilda, Candie repeatedly says things to Schultz such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You're just upset that I got the better of you &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(not an exact quote), implying that he outwitted Schultz. So when Schultz refuses to shake Candie's hand, Candie devises a scheme to &quot;get one up&quot; and &lt;em&gt;force&lt;/em&gt; Schultz to shake his hand, to which Schultz replies with a gun shot to the chest. Schultz ultimately gets the better of Candie, but does so knowing he will lose his life. &quot;I couldn't resist&quot; &lt;em&gt;shrugs&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3732" LastActivityDate="2012-12-28T20:30:21.843" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9048" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-28T20:38:44.317" Score="6" ViewCount="6744" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Men in Black (1997)&lt;/em&gt;, the neuralyzer devices employ a red flash. &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0t7wc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Red neuralyzer&quot;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A few years later, in &lt;em&gt;Men in Black II (2002)&lt;/em&gt;, the neuralyzers have apparently been upgraded or modified, and now use a blue flash. &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rQZFg.jpg&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;374&quot; /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Men in Black III (2012)&lt;/em&gt;, a 1969-time-travel scene shows a young Agent K using a neuralyzer powered by a belt-mounted battery pack.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agent K originally retired at the end of &lt;em&gt;Men in Black&lt;/em&gt;, during the age of red neuralyzers. Yet at the end of &lt;em&gt;Men in Black II&lt;/em&gt;, K is shown activating a &lt;em&gt;blue&lt;/em&gt; neuralyzer located in the torch of the Statue of Liberty, using his watch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The implication seems very strong that this neuralyzer was K's secret, as it is activated by a watch which he kept in the locker, with the key hidden across town.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So how could the Statue's neuralyzer be blue? Wouldn't it be red, as that was the last &quot;version&quot; of neuralyzer he used before retiring in 1997?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user35" LastEditorUserId="1461" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T15:59:17.370" LastActivityDate="2017-12-12T07:51:56.373" Title="Change in neuralyzer color in MIB films" Tags="|men-in-black|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9049" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9050" CreationDate="2012-12-28T20:59:38.417" Score="6" ViewCount="2038" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question about the movie the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/&quot;&gt;hobbit&lt;/a&gt;. People claim that the quality of the movie is way better because the movie is recorded and displayed in 48 fps. Normally this is 24 fps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that better frame quality only is possible with better techniques or when other settings are used. I think it can’t be because of only a frame increasement. It’s true that more frames per second makes new techniques available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why do they think that the screen quality is better? Is it maybe because of a higher resolution? Or do they just use other settings?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3733" LastEditorUserId="3733" LastEditDate="2012-12-29T09:04:26.077" LastActivityDate="2012-12-29T20:22:53.647" Title="The hobbit, how is it possible that 48 FPS is better than 24 FPS" Tags="|film-techniques|3d|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9049" CreationDate="2012-12-28T21:54:54.817" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a huge difference in the feeling of the film based upon the Frames Per Second it was shot in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a number of films that were shot using a digital camera, but at a higher 30FPS that were reviewed to have a &quot;poor quality or feel&quot; because the faster shutter rate gave it a television feeling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many professional digital camera now shoot at the slower 24FPS to capture that film feeling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many faster 30FPS digital cameras often produced a cleaner, sharper, wider range of color image that was perceived to be to different from traditional film stock. That the color space and feel of film could not be reproduced digitally. Much of this is true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today, many digital cameras now use all the same lens, hardware and mounts that older traditional film cameras used. The sensors are much more refined and adjusted to give a more natural color space. Post-processing has also greatly improved to reproduce many film stocks as a digital filter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were speaking to someone who was not technical, but experienced in the film industry. He may have experienced producing films at 30FPS which were much sharper and cleaner then traditional 24FPS film stock. As a result. I can totally understand his perspective that 30FPS has a higher quality image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The techniques to produce 30FPS and 24FPS films at one time was very different. Today, it's better to clarify that the difference is not frame rate, but film versus digital.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, frames per second can have a direct impact on the type of motion blur produced in an image. The higher the frame rate the less motion blur there is. Resulting in a cleaner sharper image for objects in motion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="1100" LastEditDate="2012-12-29T20:22:53.647" LastActivityDate="2012-12-29T20:22:53.647" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8282" CreationDate="2012-12-29T01:31:43.217" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, at one point he claims it's a 4 Megaton nuclear bomb, that bomb should be able to destroy buildings with a 15 mile radius, even outside of that there would be a blast wave. The Bat is supposed to be for an urban environment, not designed for speed, but assuming it can match the best helicopter (as Padenton said) it could get 6 miles away (he only had a minute and a half)&#xA;6 miles from the 59th st. bridge is just past the tip of the island. The bomb would take everything from Richmond to the Bronx to Essex. 10 million+ dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3735" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-29T09:50:37.400" LastActivityDate="2016-04-29T09:50:37.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9053" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9060" CreationDate="2012-12-29T02:29:24.207" Score="8" ViewCount="1262" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790724/&quot;&gt;Jack Reacher&lt;/a&gt;, and not having read any of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Child&quot;&gt;Lee Child&lt;/a&gt; books upon which the film was based, I was surprised by the amount of humor in the film. These elements reached their nadir with a bizarrely slapstick scene involving an attempted murder with a baseball bat in a bathroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know a little about the books and character, and was surprised by the inclusion of a scene like this (plus other comedic asides). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this tone true to the book series, or did Christopher McQuarrie deliberately change things up through his script and direction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2012-12-29T02:42:32.577" LastActivityDate="2012-12-29T14:43:19.883" Title="Are the comedic elements in the film Jack Reacher evident in the novels on which it was based?" Tags="|jack-reacher|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9054" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9056" CreationDate="2012-12-29T06:20:37.230" Score="18" ViewCount="13941" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the opening part of Inglourious Basterds Hans Landa asks Monsieur LaPadite if he knows the nickname the French people have bestowed upon him. When LaPadite anxiously reveals that he has heard the term &quot;Jew Hunter&quot;, Landa puts him at ease saying he is &lt;em&gt;proud&lt;/em&gt; of this nickname &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;precisely because I have earned it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the last act of the film when Hans Landa is sitting in front of a captured Aldo Raine and &quot;Little Man&quot;, when referred to as &quot;Jew Hunter&quot;, Landa is disgusted. He states &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I'm a detective. A damn good one.  Sure I have to find people and sometimes those people are jews... But Jew HUNTER? Just a name that stuck&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why the change of heart?  What's happened to make him resent the nickname at that point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3736" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-10-10T05:57:08.937" LastActivityDate="2017-07-15T11:50:45.470" Title="Why did Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds change his mind about the &quot;Jew Hunter&quot; nickname?" Tags="|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9049" CreationDate="2012-12-29T06:58:07.153" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Imagine a movie as a flipbook. Higher FPS = more pages in the flipbook. More pages doesn't affect the actual quality of each page, just the motion between the pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3726" LastActivityDate="2012-12-29T06:58:07.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9054" CreationDate="2012-12-29T07:02:46.217" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is probably not a change in heart, I am afraid! In the first case you are referring to when Col. Landa said the quoted statement while talking to LaPadite. The reason behind the sudden visit to his house was to search for the unaccounted-for Jewish family in that area. To remind LaPadite about his unofficial nickname was a tactic of Landa, I believe, to mentally pressure him to admit that he has given shelter to the Jewish family members (which Col. seemed to be quite sure of) and that could result in a disaster to both of the families by the colonel himself. This is a sort of act to tactfully make the victim mentally weak so that the victim gives in easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While on the other hand, the second scene you are referring to, he wants to terrorize some terrorists (apparently they are terrorists to him) who are not Jewish. So throwing the same dialogue would not result anything fruitful. Rather he should make sure in that situation that he must speak something that would make the prisoners think. He is more capable of doing something other than merely hunting or killing Jews, so that he must make himself sound like a frightening character to his enemies. This is also a sort of cunningness to frighten the prisoners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Christian Rau's comment is valuable and worthy to be added. As he suggested in his comments, maybe Landa was preparing himself before the events to flee to the US. He also planned to make a deal with the Allies. So maybe to save himself, he started presenting himself as a good man who was just doing his &lt;em&gt;job&lt;/em&gt;. He tried to mean that it was not his intention to kill the Jews, but his employer made him do that. In the end, he wanted to portray himself as just a responsible employee and nothing more!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2017-07-15T11:50:45.470" LastActivityDate="2017-07-15T11:50:45.470" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4471" CreationDate="2012-12-29T08:17:50.460" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Borden and Julia both were trying to do something new. You see from the very first starting of the movie, Borden speaks one thing again and again in the movie that the tricks they use is becoming overly boring and that they should need a change or a break to let the viewers enjoy a new category of tricks, not the conventional tricks. The way Borden makes suggestive eye contact with Julia on the day of the accident to which Borden nodded, I believe Julia let him took the risk for both of them. They were trying to do something risky. Maybe in this way they were trying to prove to Cutter that a lit bit risky step is not that bad and might result in a good fresh trick. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-11-10T11:11:22.130" LastActivityDate="2016-11-10T11:11:22.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9043" CreationDate="2012-12-29T09:38:29.770" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nicholas J. Cull, professor of American Studies at the University of Leicester, specialist in film, media, and propaganda history, wrote an article “Great Escapes: ‘Englishness’ and the Prisoner of War Genre” (academic, peer-reviewed, published in &lt;em&gt;Film History: An International Journal&lt;/em&gt;, volume 14, pp 282-295 (2002), obtained via my university library). In it he explores evolution of genre of POW films, and its relation to the concept of “Englishness” which he defines as much a feature of English national identity, as it is an ideological construct, “English exceptionalism” so to speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Origins of the British POW genre&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Author explains how “Englishness” in context of WW II, despite the real historical complexities, became a simplified tale of resistance to tyranny where “at its heart is an emphasis on an island standing alone and the sense of community generated by a shared purpose”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The overlap between the traditional expectations of Englishness and the English version of the Second World War help to account for the national attachment to the story. From the war to the present there have been a number of stories that have been told and retold about the English at war. […] Of these maybe the most explicitly English is the prisoner of war genre. If the received version of the Second World War is the microcosm of English myth, the Prisoner of War genre is the microcosm of the Second World War.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus Cull indicates that although “the genre was all the more powerful for its claim to authenticity” (because of rather close following to actual experiences based on memoirs and involvement of former POWs in film production) it was still formulaic and familiar from story to story with ever present English ingenuity in improvisation (“muddling through”), and even “perky defiance”. It was so familiar, in fact, that by the mid-50s contemporary critics already complained. Author continues: “By the 1960s it had become possible to joke about the POW experience”. In &lt;em&gt;Very Important Person&lt;/em&gt; (1961) “the cliches of the genre were thoroughly rehearsed to comic effect”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the important section “The Appeal of the Genre” Cull explains why WW II POW stories enjoyed such success. By setting the action in the camp war was condensed to the face-to-face confrontation of archetypal “good guys” and “bad guys” characters. Issues of gender and class could be avoided. While women equally participated in the war effort, there was hardly a place for them in the POW film with rare exceptions. The fate of enlisted working class men who did not have “the responsibility to escape” as officers did, and simultaneously could be subjected to hard labour was not explored until &lt;em&gt;The Password is Courage&lt;/em&gt; in 1962. That film clumsily touched up on the topic of the Holocaust and war atrocities in general — also the first in the genre. By populating the camps with British officers, it also gave the sense of the unique British worth to the larger victory, while avoiding the fact that Soviets did most of the fighting, and Americans bankrolled the Allied effort. Author puts it eloquently:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Set the film early in the war or in an RAF only camp and there is no need to discuss the American presence at all. The POW movie became a perfect tunnel through which the British could escape from the Americans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Hollywood take on the genre in &lt;em&gt;the Great Escape&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notable POW films outside the British formula were Hollywood’s &lt;em&gt;Bridge on the River Kwai&lt;/em&gt;, and 1962 &lt;em&gt;Le Caporal Epingle&lt;/em&gt; (The Vanishing Corporal) by Jean Renoir (author of 1937 &lt;em&gt;La Grande Illusion&lt;/em&gt; incidentally depicting the POW life in WW I): films “marked by a focus on character and motivation quite alien to the tales of escape from German camps” of the British genre. Yet it was Hollywood’s big-time production of &lt;em&gt;the Great Escape&lt;/em&gt; that brought the British story to the genre’s climax with its American treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the insistence of the veteran Hollywood screenwriter W.R. Burnett who “was appalled by the lack of American characters” were created “the wise cracking characters later played by Steve McQueen and James Garner”. “The final version was a compromise between the British and American perspectives penned by the Australian writer James Clavell.” While the historical reality was quite different:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The final film elided many significant details and characters from the actual events documented in Brickhill’s book. Although Americans were involved in the early stages of the historical events depicted by Brickhill, American POWs were actually moved to an adjoining camp before the escape began.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Introduction of American characters was not done only for the sake of such, but also to provide the British v. American dynamic typical for the time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The use of British characters to symbolise “lovers of war” and Americans as reluctant but resourceful cynics was typical of the Hollywood representations of Britain at War in this era.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Author elaborates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film’s sub plot develops in ways that not only marginalise English characters in their own story, but makes their behaviour explicitly “other”. The American characters are the norm, and their attachment to things like baseball and improvised celebration of 4 July are the most obvious expressions of national culture in the film, to differentiate them from the Englishness of the camp. […] There are many moments in the film in which it becomes clear that we are watching an American depiction of Englishness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The British-engineered plan becomes futile exercise for which “participants pay a heavy price”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;…the wisdom of the plan is called into question in the final moments of the film. The down-beat ending reflected the growing willingness to engage with the scale of Nazi atrocities, and provided a reminder of the grim reality underpinning the story of the escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above lengthy summary serves to drive a point: while &lt;em&gt;The Great Escape&lt;/em&gt; injected cultural confrontation and its &lt;em&gt;down-beat&lt;/em&gt; finale provided for questioning of the whole concept, it is ultimately a derivative of “the classic &lt;em&gt;up-beat&lt;/em&gt; prisoner of war story”. The story decidedly up-beat, in which aforementioned “perky defiance” is an important feature, not an afterthought nor coincidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, categorizing &lt;em&gt;The Great Escape&lt;/em&gt; as “historical drama” can only be done at a stretch, as it is not quite historical (though indeed based on the true story), and not quite serious and dramatic. I would definitely not put it in the same row as, say, recent &lt;em&gt;Hart’s War&lt;/em&gt; when it comes to dramatism or seriousness of the action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Cull, animated &lt;em&gt;Chicken Run&lt;/em&gt; (2000) is not only the homage to &lt;em&gt;the Great Escape&lt;/em&gt; and the British POW film in general, but in some ways a profound satire of the genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By retelling the story with chickens Park and Lord’s film affectionately paid tribute to the POW genre but at some level drew a line under the stories as products of the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chicken Run&lt;/em&gt; puts the chickens in the real peril, simultaneously alluding to atrocities of war, and placing the characters under the threat of chopping block:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film also hints at the darkest aspect of the war. The chickens discover that they face not just captivity but industrial mass extermination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This elevates the conflict from some “sporting thrill” for the officers, as it had only been acknowledged within the genre in 1981’s &lt;em&gt;Escape to Victory&lt;/em&gt; by Michael Caine’s working-class character who exclaimed: “Your escaping is just some bloody upper-crust game!”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3408" LastEditorUserId="3408" LastEditDate="2013-01-01T20:02:13.397" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T20:02:13.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9049" CreationDate="2012-12-29T11:21:49.590" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/peter-jackson-the-hobbit-director-48-fps-comic-con_n_1674177.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quoting&lt;/a&gt; Peter Jackson:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;...it's like watching a movie where the flicker and the strobing and the motion blur what we've been used to seeing all of our lives -- I mean, all our lives in the cinema -- suddenly that just disappears. It goes. And you've got this incredibly vivid, realistic looking image.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And &lt;strong&gt;you've got sharpness because there's no motion blur, so everything is much sharper. And plus we're shooting with cameras that are 5K cameras, so they're super sharp.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Eliminating motion blur, even subtle motion blur we might not be consciously aware of, makes it appear sharper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also explains the &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Made for TV look&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; some people are complaining about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;    &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TbMga.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Soap Opera Effect&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ibtimes.com/soap-opera-effect-how-hd-makes-your-tv-shows-look-weird-infographic-696505&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-29T11:21:49.590" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9053" CreationDate="2012-12-29T14:43:19.883" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie has altered the plot of &lt;em&gt;One Shot&lt;/em&gt; in many significant ways. The setting, for example, is a large city not a medium sized town, which makes it more cinematic but less coherent or credible (though this is a common trade-off in movies). The plot is simpler with fewer characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The overall tone is not too far from the books, but the opportunity for cinematic additions has been taken. The slapstick scene is pure cinema invention (I'm not even sure you can do slapstick like that in prose writing). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the humorous dialogue, though, is true to Reacher's character in the book. I recall some inventive insults in the bar scene, for example, which are the sort of things he does say in the books as a result of his unshakeable confidence in dealing with people he has to fight. He really doesn't mind getting physical as he know he will win, so insulting his adversaries and goading them is a typical strategy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall the movie captures the spirit of the books reasonably well, but the slapstick scene sticks out as an anomaly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2012-12-29T14:43:19.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9049" CreationDate="2012-12-29T15:03:10.547" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two key issues with higher frame rates. One is simply that more information can be transmitted at higher frame rates (if the recording was done at the higher rate: just showing the same frame twice as some TVs do doesn't really make much difference). The second is supposed to be that double rate overcomes a major limitation of 3D which is a loss of brightness on the projected image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other things being equal, more information should be good. But there is a problem with giving more information in a medium that is primarily about creating an &lt;em&gt;illusion.&lt;/em&gt; Cinema maintains the illusion in many cases because of what it can &lt;em&gt;hide&lt;/em&gt; from the audience. We don't shoot in outer space to get special effects in star Wars but join set-based action with imaginary images shot with models, computers, paintings and so on. The illusion relies on not being able to see the join. Dodgy models and make up don't matter if the image is transient or blurred. The trouble with higher frame rate recordings is that they show more and hide less making it harder to maintain the illusion and harder to hide the join between the real and the special-effect. They even make it harder to make make-up look real. So one issue with 48fps may be that it sometimes shatters the illusion: the &lt;em&gt;image&lt;/em&gt; is better but the &lt;em&gt;illusion&lt;/em&gt; is worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other issue is more clear cut. The extra projected frames won't, if everything else is equal, make the screen brighter. The light source is the same but chopped up differently. In reality many 24fps movies are displayed with triple &quot;exposures&quot; of each 24fps frame now. Higher rates will probably compromise that a little but, even so, there isn't more light in total just because there are more frames. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mark Kermode interviews a projectionist &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/posts/The-Hobbit-and-48-Frames-Per-Second&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on his blog&lt;/a&gt; on this topic and after a humorous explanation of how things are projected gets a definitive &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt; the the question of whether higher frame-rates solve the brightness problem in 3D.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2012-12-29T15:03:10.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1702" CreationDate="2012-12-29T15:09:34.333" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Complex Danish and/or Celtic feelings of remorse for family honor/protectiveness and achievement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3738" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-12-29T15:48:54.980" LastActivityDate="2012-12-29T15:48:54.980" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9064" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-29T15:17:05.790" Score="8" ViewCount="886" Body="&lt;p&gt;The iTunes &lt;a href=&quot;http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/johndiesattheend/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;trailer&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;em&gt;John Dies at the End&lt;/em&gt; proclaims that it will be available online, &quot;everywhere&quot; from december 2012 before its cinema release in January 2013. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course by &quot;everywhere&quot; they mean the USA and nowhere else. Those of us in undeveloped parts of the word like Europe, don't yet know when we will get access to it (well, legally anyway). This seems to be standard practice for recent movies with an online release (another recent example would be &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1912398/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;God Bless America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; where Europeans waited a couple of months after Americans to get it online).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My general question is why does this still happen? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand the tangled rights issues of movies where the contracts were written before electronic distribution was invented, but these are modern movies perhaps even ones where early online distribution was part of the plan. Why not plan international release on the same date worldwide? Why piss off the entire international audience (who watch the trailers on iTunes or some other international internet site) and then make them frustrated when they can't get the movie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I notice that some content originators of TV and Movies &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; now planning to break the regional distribution model. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/25/feature_iptv_in_the_uk_after_netflix/page2.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This article from The Register&lt;/a&gt; reports:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Netflix original productions will, differently, be global from the start, effectively demolishing all the concepts of regions and release windows that the industry has been clinging on to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This reinforces my claim that international distribution doesn't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to be a mess, so why is it still not often done the Netflix way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-03T01:14:29.493" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T01:14:29.493" Title="Why is international distribution so tangled even for recent movies released first online?" Tags="|distribution|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9065" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9083" CreationDate="2012-12-29T15:22:01.533" Score="9" ViewCount="966" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason given either in the movie, or by any of its many analysts, why Abe and Aaron must make the 6 hour trip backwards themselves? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could they not have designed an intelligent device, as discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://qntm.org/coffin&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;, that would allow them to just send a piece of paper backwards in time at 2:30PM with the stock market information from the day, which they would have picked up at 8:30AM when they power up the machine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the relevant paragraph from the article I linked above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Almost immediately once they discover this, Aaron and Abe reason that if they could create a device which had some degree of intelligence, like a programmable miniature robot or something, they could program the object to measure the amount of time that has passed and then spontaneously trigger the collapse of its own waveform from inside the box, thus selectively exiting the box at point B or point A. From this they imagine a box where the robot is inserted at 12:01pm, point B, waits for one minute, climbs out of the box at point A (12:00pm), and thereby travels backwards in time.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3739" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-12-29T15:50:40.123" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T05:53:48.157" Title="In Primer, did they really need to do the time travelling themselves?" Tags="|primer|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8931" CreationDate="2012-12-29T15:45:47.690" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Close but not exactly Simon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being in the Military I have rarely heard &quot;Zero Dark Thirty&quot; it is almost always pronounced as &quot;Oh Dark Thirty,&quot; &quot;Oh Dark Hundred&quot; or mainly &quot;Oh Dark Stupid&quot;.  It refers to simply the 0 before the time in 24 hour time. Example:&#xA;0100, 0230, 0450 would all be pronounced in the above fashion and NOT by &quot;One Dark Hundred&quot; or &quot;Two Dark Thirty&quot;. It is simply military slang or humour regarding getting woken up in the dark hours of the morning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it does not specifically mean 0030.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3740" LastActivityDate="2012-12-29T15:45:47.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9067" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-29T16:31:41.673" Score="6" ViewCount="269" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please read the question before marking it as duplicate. This question maybe identical to the one below but they ask different concepts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2034/how-does-the-dream-sharing-actually-work&quot;&gt;How does the dream sharing actually work?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is how are the dreams shared correctly among the individuals? I've watched the movie twice but the only thing connected to all the dreamers are the conduits used to inject sedatives to the subjects of the dream. It hasn't been explained how the dream sharing actually work. Is it some kind of a telepathic practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T12:15:10.830" Title="How come the dreams are shared correctly among different participants?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-12-07T14:21:15.643" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2034" CreationDate="2012-12-29T18:10:44.227" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like you are asking for the working method of &lt;a href=&quot;http://inception.wikia.com/wiki/Portable_Automated_Somnacin_IntraVenous_Device&quot;&gt;PASIV&lt;/a&gt;. I am afraid it has never been explained how does the whole dream sharing works. Even not in the demo they provided i.e. in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pasivdevice.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.pasivdevice.org/&lt;/a&gt; I went through all the pages. But it merely shows how the injection of the sedatives is done and the physical outfit of the PASIV machine and procedure of dream sharing, but not the working method of the machine. In my opinion, it would never be known because in reality this type of machine does not exist. So revealing any unscientific explanation is mostly unexpected. I support &lt;a href=&quot;http://paulgude.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/how-does-inceptions-dream-machine-work-in-a-dream-within-a-dream/&quot;&gt;this theory&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Therefore the dream sharing they experience must be in some way a &lt;strong&gt;psychic&lt;/strong&gt; phenomenon facilitated by the &lt;strong&gt;drug and/or training&lt;/strong&gt;. This doesn’t get explored much in the movie. The mechanics are pretty much &lt;em&gt;glossed over&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end I can &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tomsguide.com/us/inception-dream-sharing,news-7510.html&quot;&gt;only add&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The PASIV is a concept that can potentially inspire researchers and inventors to produce real-world technology that lives up to the fiction, literally opening up possibilities limited only by our imagination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastActivityDate="2012-12-29T18:10:44.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1459" CreationDate="2012-12-29T19:00:16.577" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chuck spent 5 years with Sarah and raising him self up from a nerdy loser to the CIA's top spy. He is now currently on the same professional level, personal level (dresses with class,had a better hair cut, much more confidence ect.), and Sarah and has spent 5 years getting to know the real her and not the tuff exterior she had in episode 1. So realistically chuck knows the real Sarah better than anyone else and is perfectly &quot;in her league&quot; as of this point in terms of confidence, style, looks and physical spy ability. To Sarah chuck would be irresistible relationship partner because the personal connection they'd have established seemingly instantly to Sarah could not be matched by any other guy especially with the added help of memories returning little by little. Therefore chuck is Sarah's perfect guy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3741" LastActivityDate="2012-12-29T19:00:16.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9072" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9179" CreationDate="2012-12-29T19:39:53.023" Score="4" ViewCount="1281" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell the subjects in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; need to sleep in order to dream and for going under fast and consistent sleep they use sedatives.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my question is how did Cobb manage to just fall asleep and dream in a matter of seconds, amidst that turmoil when Mal dies by the hand of Ariadne, to go save Saito?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-26T21:01:41.890" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T21:02:58.973" Title="How did Cobb manage to go to sleep and dream to save Saito after Mal's death?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9074" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-29T21:54:04.523" Score="7" ViewCount="53754" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV show Fringe, which is completing its series run January 2013 at its 100th episode, there have been a number of mysteries revealed, and some never revealed to date. One of the mysteries outstanding is the presence of Agent Charlie Francis in episode S2E11, Unearthed, when he had been killed by the shapeshifter and his original body destroyed. Then that shifter itself was killed by Olivia Dunham in episode S2E04, Momentum Deferred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time, I remember the producers explained that this episode was a one-off, a remainder episode from Season 1, and wouldn't explain how the presence of Charlie should be interpreted post-death. The non-satisfactory answer merely heightened the theory of a conspiracy worth watching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the Fringe mavens out there, seeing that this series is about the vaguaries of time and inter-universe travel, is there evidence built into any subsequent episodes that would have healed this continuity failure that I might have missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2012-12-29T22:24:53.357" LastActivityDate="2019-01-09T07:13:43.247" Title="The Charlie Francis mystery from Fringe" Tags="|plot-explanation|fringe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9074" CreationDate="2012-12-30T00:08:17.090" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are &lt;a href=&quot;http://blastr.com/2009/04/fringe-second-season-scoo.php&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;quotes&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;em&gt;Joshua Jackson&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Jeff Pinkner&lt;/em&gt; (he was the show runner at the time)  that explain the &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Unearthed&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joshua Jackson:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;[The network] only had 22 airdates for our show this year, but they ordered 23 episodes... It's just an accounting issue.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeff Pinkner:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;It's a stand-alone [episode]...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it's supposed to be a &lt;em&gt;stand-alone&lt;/em&gt; one could argue that it's therefore not connected to other episodes. And I don't remember any following episode alluding back to this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;FOX had some fun with it, with their &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvovermind.zap2it.com/fox/fringe/a-fringe-episode-from-an-alternate-universe/16466&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;press release&lt;/a&gt; teasing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...the bewildering case in an original &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Unearthed&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; episode of FRINGE and here's another mystery: &lt;strong&gt;is it an unaired episode from Season One or is it from an alternate universe?&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So maybe this is an episode that aired in an &lt;em&gt;alternate universe&lt;/em&gt;, on an &lt;em&gt;alternate FOX network&lt;/em&gt; that somehow leaked to our universe ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fringepedia.net/wiki/Unearthed#Previously&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fringpedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; lists two oddities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When and where does this episode take place in the Fringe canon?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fringepedia.net/w/images/6/6f/Lisa_Donovan_File.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lisa Donovan's FBI file&lt;/a&gt; states her birth as 19 November 1982. Her claimed age of &amp;quot;seventeen&amp;quot; suggests the timing of this episode is around 1999 -- &lt;em&gt;Is this evidence of an alternative universe?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xfes1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Lisa&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fringepedia.net/w/images/3/35/RuskMilPhoto211.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Andrew Rusk's Military Dossier&lt;/a&gt; states his birth as 23 August 1981. His &amp;quot;twenty year&amp;quot; marriage and military rank suggests the timing of this episode is around 2019 -- &lt;em&gt;Is this evidence of an alternative universe?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KK6Sz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Rusk&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-30T00:08:17.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9037" CreationDate="2012-12-30T00:42:15.867" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Captain Stanley hadn't held Mikey (despite believing him innocent) as leverage in order to get Charlie to kill Arthur, then Mikey wouldn't have been in a position to be flogged. Further, Captain Stanley had extorted Charlie to assassinate Arthur, and if it wasn't done by  Christmas, Mikey would be hung. That makes three good reasons to kill Stanley - falsely imprisoning Mikey, threatening to kill Mikey, and trying to get Charlie to kill Arthur. Captain Stanley is ultimately responsible for everything that happened after the raid at the beginning of the movie. Besides, Arthur is a sadistic rapist murderer, so we shouldn't expect justice to come from his hands. Justice comes from Charlie, who stops the rape of Martha and kills his own brother Arthur. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/proposition.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Full synopsis of movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-12-30T00:42:15.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9078" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9082" CreationDate="2012-12-30T01:15:06.290" Score="1" ViewCount="8237" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was Anna Faris bound to a strict diet before filming 'The House Bunny'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She looked amazing in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was weight loss written into her contract when she signed up for the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2014-05-16T15:25:58.363" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T15:25:58.363" Title="Was Anna Faris bound to a strict diet before filming 'The House Bunny'?" Tags="|the-house-bunny|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="775" CreationDate="2012-12-30T07:10:30.850" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jerusalem with it's castles, forts, bricks and mortars, gold and silver and silk and everything else of material value is considered to be devoid of any true value in the eyes of salahuddin. Hence he says 'nothing'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that Balian asks the question 'what is Jerusalem worth' in the context of being bewildered as to why Salahudding fought such a long and arduous war, which cost the lives of thousands of people, in order to capture the city? Balian is portrayed in the film as someone who does not entirely understand spirituality, hence he says 'God does not speak to me'. Therefore, Balian and Salahuddin are shown to be men who are driven by two completely different things; and Balian does not entirely understand Salahuddin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to negate any possible assumption Balian might have had in his mind, that salahuddin fought for some kind of material gain, salahuddin says jerusalem is worth nothing. But then he adds, that it is worth everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, something which only carries material value cannot logically be worth more than everything else. And by everything Salahudding literally means the entire world. Thus by making this statement, Salahudding makes it clear to Balian that the true value of Jerusalem stems from the fact that it has been exalted above all other places by God.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3745" LastActivityDate="2012-12-30T07:10:30.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8212" CreationDate="2012-12-30T10:18:10.630" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your questions is vague in certain contexts. I am assuming what your question might be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1) Why did not the aliens put the shield in the altered present?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the altered timeline the shield &lt;strong&gt;does not exist&lt;/strong&gt;. Remember what O replied in response to Js asking for the shield to stop the Boglodite invasion. She said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;No K. No defense system.&lt;/code&gt; So this option is out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2) Why did the aliens not put the shield in the past(&lt;em&gt;where J traveled back&lt;/em&gt;)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be two reasons for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A) Boris changed the past. The resulting change in the present is that Earth is, in the altered timeline, now vulnerable to the attack of the Boglodite, as the shield is not present there. Now in reality Agent J was the one who was responsible for covering Earth with the shield. So he must take the responsibility again to put the shield on. Like Griff said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bitterest truth is better than the sweetest lies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has to go to Cape Canaveral.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He must deploy the Arc Net as he did before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no other way.K is the only hope in saving Earth. Can I save him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any future where I save his life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But where there is death......there will always be death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you see there was always J who was responsible (and &lt;em&gt;experienced too&lt;/em&gt;) for putting up the shield.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this is an obvious logic behind the act. But I want to add another theory of my own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;B) We know that Bogoldite has the ability to destroy each planet and their inhabitants. Now if they requested any friendly alien species to do the job, there are several harmful possibilities that arise with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i) &lt;strong&gt;Threatened or bribed by Boris&lt;/strong&gt;, the species may hand over the Shield to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ii) It may think to put up the shield on its own planet in lieu of the earth to survive from Bogoldite because &lt;strong&gt;at the end of the day that planet is their home&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;iii) The most important reason is &lt;strong&gt;Earth is home of humans and not the aliens&lt;/strong&gt;. So there may be lack of enough try from them which might cause in disaster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T15:06:14.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9078" CreationDate="2012-12-30T11:51:25.410" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anna Faris wasn't just the &lt;em&gt;leading actress&lt;/em&gt;, she also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Film-Review/the-house-bunny-anna-faris-interview&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pitched the idea&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0852713/fullcredits#producers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;served as an executive producer&lt;/a&gt;, so she certainly knew early on what she was getting herself into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.instyle.com/instyle/package/general/photos/0,,20225467_20225469_20509128,00.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;getting in the right shape&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Faris worked with her trainer and pilates instructor&lt;/strong&gt;, Nicole Stuart, six days a week, ran a minimum of three miles per day &lt;strong&gt;and maintained a very strict diet&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;“You know how you read that all of these actresses eat nothing but chicken and steamed vegetables to stay so thin, well I had to do that. I would watch the other girls loading up on fries at craft services and be snacking away on a piece of celery.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since filming wrapped, Faris has eased up on her diet and exercise routine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I could never maintain that. Nor would I want to!”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-30T12:03:22.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9065" CreationDate="2012-12-30T15:23:36.547" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several difficulties/problems come to mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the time setting of the movie (based on the type of computers and cell phones they use), they don't have the same technology we currently have. It would have been hard to design something that autonomous that still worked inside the storage unit. I don't think looking up the stock info from inside the storage unit was possible (why else would they go to the library?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they wanted to design something like that, it would need software to program all its actions. Abe and Aaron are not that skilled at programming (I remember them saying they didn't need Robert/Philip because the device didn't need software). They are better in physics and mechanical engineering so they build a bigger box instead of programming a robot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, going back in time yourself would be the next logical step because it offers so much more possibilities (like them engineering the party event). They're engineers looking for profit and publishing. They would have inevitably taken their research to the next level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2012-12-30T15:23:36.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9084" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9112" CreationDate="2012-12-30T16:35:27.873" Score="7" ViewCount="3484" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Advocate_%281997_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Devils Advocate&lt;/a&gt; tonight but could not understand why did Satan (played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Pacino&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Al Pacino&lt;/a&gt;) choose Kevin (played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanu_Reeves&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Keanu Reeves&lt;/a&gt;) to make him a conscientious person. &lt;strong&gt;Satan does not do that (&lt;em&gt;making a person good&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;. I admit in the dream he tried to make him bad, but I sensed that Satan had had a bigger plan, that is to make Kevin a good person, free from all types of &lt;em&gt;greed&lt;/em&gt;. But &lt;strong&gt;why did he want to do so?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why &lt;strong&gt;Kevin and not some other random person?&lt;/strong&gt; Is it because he &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; is his son? Given the fact the whole thing was a dream, I believe the &lt;em&gt;son thing&lt;/em&gt; was just part of the dream. So what is the actual reason then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-06-28T19:32:04.493" LastActivityDate="2016-06-28T19:32:04.493" Title="What was Satan's goal with Kevin?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-devils-advocate|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9085" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9091" CreationDate="2012-12-30T16:38:14.150" Score="5" ViewCount="36462" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quotation By Satan at the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Advocate_%281997_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Devils Advocate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vanity — definitely my favorite sin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does he mean by that? He has succeeded in transforming Kevin to a good man. So why does he make this comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2012-12-30T19:16:06.293" LastActivityDate="2013-05-15T17:19:50.493" Title="What does he mean by &quot;Vanity-definitely my favourite sin&quot;?" Tags="|dialogue|the-devils-advocate|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9086" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9099" CreationDate="2012-12-30T17:03:02.027" Score="2" ViewCount="517" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Abiding_Citizen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Law Abiding Citizen&lt;/a&gt;, I drew some conclusions about the law on bargaining with the convicted person. They are as following. Mark me if I am wrong!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If we can not prove for sure that a convicted is guilty certainly, the prosecutor can bargain with the prisoner to relieve him from the case &lt;em&gt;even before&lt;/em&gt; the court gives its &lt;strong&gt;verdict!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this law seems too much impractical. We can easily understand various problems (I don't think I need to &lt;em&gt;write them!&lt;/em&gt;) may arise related to this law, as limned in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what am I missing? Is there something more to this law which is not correctly depicted in the movie? Maybe the details of the law which is not correctly portraied can make it clear!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-12-31T06:00:58.517" LastActivityDate="2012-12-31T18:28:22.197" Title="Can bargaining be done with the convicted as shown in Law Abiding Citizen?" Tags="|law-abiding-citizen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9090" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2012-12-30T18:21:32.463" Score="1" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Duplicate:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2190/how-do-they-film-the-mirror-scenes-in-movies&quot;&gt;How do they film the mirror scenes in movies?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a lot of movies, we see, a character is standing in front of a mirror and watching him/her self. From our view, it looks like we are just standing behind the person. We can also see the subjects face in the mirror. So why can't we see the camera in the mirror? How do they cover the camera?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2012-12-31T06:32:55.983" Title="Why can't we see the camera?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2012-12-30T19:11:21.567" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9085" CreationDate="2012-12-30T19:25:03.093" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This line (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M68wcB6L0s&quot;&gt;which breaks the fourth wall as Al Pacino utters it directly at us&lt;/a&gt;) is said immediately after Kevin (Keanu Reeves) has been easily coerced by a reporter and his own wife,  Mary-Ann (Charlize Theron), into giving an interview which, it is promised, will make him a 'star'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are essentially right back where we started in the film. After getting Gettys acquitted in the beginning, Kevin rides the celebrations and adulation, ultimately accepting the offer to work at Milton's firm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the film, when he is given a second chance to morally redeem himself, we can see that, ultimately, all he craves is the same adulation - hence the 'vanity' line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, with the line being said directly to the audience, it could also just be a little in-joke on the failings of big movie stars...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-12-30T19:25:03.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8212" CreationDate="2012-12-30T20:46:31.430" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this isn't a satisfying answer, but I would say that the most likely reason is that &lt;strong&gt;this is a plot hole mistake by the filmmakers&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To tell the truth, I never realized this plot inconsistency before seeing your question, because I was always &lt;strong&gt;more bothered&lt;/strong&gt; by the fact that they want to launch the ArcNet into space, but they attempt to do so by placing it on the escape rocket, which is part of the rocket that &lt;strong&gt;never goes into outer space&lt;/strong&gt;.  The escape rocket is jettisoned once the rocket reaches a safe altitude, so if they place the ArcNet on the escape rocket, they are guaranteeing that the ArcNet will end up at the bottom of the Atlantic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, they would have been far better off asking one of their alien friends to put it in space with their own spaceships.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="753" LastActivityDate="2012-12-30T20:46:31.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9019" CreationDate="2012-12-31T03:32:34.347" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might be interested to read the work of Jennifer Ryan Tishler, a professor of Russian at Dartmouth. Below is an excerpt from her article &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/vol10is2/tishler.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Menty and the Petersburg Myth: TV Cops in Russia’s ‘Crime Capital’&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (menty is slang for cops; the show in Russian is called &lt;em&gt;Ulitsy razbitykh fonarei&lt;/em&gt; which means &lt;em&gt;Streets of Broken Streetlights&lt;/em&gt;). Her article also references a show called &lt;em&gt;Banditskii Peterburg&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although Streets of Broken Streetlights is a television series about&#xA;  the work of militsionery (police officers) in St. Petersburg, it does&#xA;  more than merely depict Petersburg as Russia’s crime capital. The&#xA;  series explores several avenues of the myth of Petersburg, including&#xA;  its celebrated architecture, its unreal and phantasmagoric quality,&#xA;  and its status as the cradle of Russian literature. Although the&#xA;  television cops seem awash in crime week after week, references to the&#xA;  enduring Petersburg myth send the implicit message that the city,&#xA;  which has endured floods, revolutions, blockades, and benign neglect,&#xA;  will also survive this infiltration by criminals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The complete article is about 14 pages long, and was published in the &lt;em&gt;Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2012-12-31T03:32:34.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9072" CreationDate="2012-12-31T06:22:13.777" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is true that one needs to fall asleep in order to dream, and for such deep, consistent sleep the extractors use sedatives. But in the scene which you are referring, where Mal dies by Ariadne, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cobb never goes to sleep&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. He is able to deduce that Saito must be dead by now and floating in limbo. Thus he takes the leap from the building, so that he dies in that dream and he too enters limbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastActivityDate="2012-12-31T06:22:13.777" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9096" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9101" CreationDate="2012-12-31T07:14:39.953" Score="9" ViewCount="3211" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://dcmovies.wikia.com/wiki/Selina_Kyle_%28Nolanverse%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikia&lt;/a&gt;, we can see the importance of Selina Kyle's role in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dark Knight Rises&lt;/a&gt;. So what are the important tasks she achieved (with respect to &lt;em&gt;the movie only&lt;/em&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only two things I can see (except the &lt;em&gt;cold kissing&lt;/em&gt; :P):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;By letting Bane catch Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;By killing Bane from behind (&lt;em&gt;what a shame&lt;/em&gt;)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the other things that she did (like attacking Dagget etc) seemed to me a forceful addition to the script adding nothing constructive to the plot, except elongating the movie. The aforementioned tasks could be made done by another character easily, I believe. Like Batman could kill the Bane himself (which he almost did) and the traitor could be anybody else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is why the director chose to include the Catwoman character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-05-29T15:50:00.717" Title="Why was Selina Kyle's character included in the Dark knight Rises?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9097" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9140" CreationDate="2012-12-31T08:10:34.200" Score="5" ViewCount="1710" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Episode 2 of the first season of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084988/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Black Adder&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RkGxo.png&quot; alt=&quot;Still of man in a cage&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2020-09-30T09:04:18.677" LastActivityDate="2020-09-30T09:04:18.677" Title="Who is this man in Black Adder?" Tags="|character|blackadder|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9086" CreationDate="2012-12-31T11:08:08.910" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well it so stands that you are wrong (&lt;em&gt;and I don't know how to mark you!&lt;/em&gt;). On a more serious note I'll explain where you are mistaken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If we can not prove for sure that a convicted is guilty certainly, the&#xA;  prosecutor can bargain with the prisoner to relieve him from the case&#xA;  even before the court gives its verdict!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not entirely correct. If a prosecutor doesn't have enough evidence to prove the defendant guilty then the defendant walks free, but it is still decided at court (or the case can be dismissed altogether by the judge). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concept you are missing out on is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plea_bargain&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Plea Bargaining;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; whereby the defendant agrees to plead guilty to a particular charge in return for some concession from the prosecutor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, Rice makes a deal with Darby that in return for pleading guilty to third-degree murder, he will provide testimony that will send Ames to death row for what is, essentially, a robbery charge. So the defendant (&lt;em&gt;Darby&lt;/em&gt;) makes a deal with the prosecutor (&lt;em&gt;Rice&lt;/em&gt;) to plead guilty for a reduced charge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2012-12-31T18:28:22.197" LastActivityDate="2012-12-31T18:28:22.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9096" CreationDate="2012-12-31T12:01:12.263" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;She stole Bruce Wayne's finger-prints, allowing Bane to manipulate the shares of Wayne Enterprises on the stock market to set up Dagget to take over Wayne Enterprises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sub-plot (which also involved Miranda) would require a master thief, hence, Catwoman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2116" LastActivityDate="2012-12-31T12:01:12.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9096" CreationDate="2012-12-31T13:04:06.287" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen Dark Knight Rises, but will try to answer it from a viewer's perspective&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Need of a female counter-part of Batman. From Batwoman,Batgirl and &#xA;  Catwoman, Catwoman is more popular among Batman Fans.(At-least in movie world)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Need of a love interest of batman, Catwoman is not only a &#xA;  counter-part of Batman but also plays as a love interest of Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Catwoman is a good character to play with, as she is a villain &#xA;  turned Antihero(or sometimes hero) in comics and who has interesting&#xA;  twists and turns.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Its third and final of trilogy and now days one hero and one villain&#xA;  is out of trend, so adding one more interesting character is always &#xA;  goood.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can say that adding Robin could be a good choice but after the box office failure of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_&amp;amp;_Robin_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman and Robin&lt;/a&gt; Film, producers might have tempted to just stick with Batman. And Robin always adds a little humor point which is not suited in Nolan's Batman Trilogy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-03-29T06:50:58.203" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T06:50:58.203" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9103" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9104" CreationDate="2012-12-31T13:22:25.900" Score="4" ViewCount="849" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 2009's film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_Me_to_Hell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Drag Me to Hell&lt;/a&gt; by Sam Raimi, as Christine never got success in beating Lamia , why was she not taken to hell on the third day(As per three day curse rule). I know that on third day San Dena was killed in fighting Lamia but that did not remove the curse and even Christine gave the wrong envelope to Dead Ganush. So she is still the owner of the button. So why did not Lamia  take Christine's soul on Third day&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why to wait for forth day morning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2012-12-31T16:06:29.957" LastActivityDate="2012-12-31T16:06:29.957" Title="Why was Christine Brown not taken to hell on the third Day?" Tags="|plot-explanation|drag-me-to-hell|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9103" CreationDate="2012-12-31T14:17:36.557" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I recall correctly, it was on the &lt;em&gt;third day&lt;/em&gt; that Christine tried to pass the curse onto the old woman by stuffing the envelope into her dead mouth. However, as we all know, it was the wrong envelope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Christine and her boyfriend are at the station the following morning when all is revealed, and Christine is dragged down into the ground between the tracks. So she was indeed taken to hell, and perhaps it is possible that three days had not expired (thinking in terms of 72 hours) when this takes place, as the curse was placed on her mid-morning on the first day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-12-31T14:17:36.557" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9020" CreationDate="2012-12-31T16:12:54.320" Score="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2012/01/five-bizarre-things-about-british-television/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BBC America - Five Bizarre Things About British Television&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Six Episode Season&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Most British drama or comedy shows have a very short season. The classic amount for comedies is just six episodes per series – &lt;em&gt;The Office&lt;/em&gt; being a prime example – and there’s one very good reason for this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;American comedy is a producer’s medium&lt;/strong&gt;, in which an idea is worked up, characters developed and early scripts written, and then the show is handed over to a larger group of writers to flesh out into actual scripts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;British comedy is a writer’s medium&lt;/strong&gt;. The scripts are almost always written and developed by one or two people, then taken to production. Graham Linehan, the writer of &lt;em&gt;Father Ted&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The IT Crowd&lt;/em&gt;, even directs his own scripts, which is a LOT of work. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://ideas.time.com/2011/12/09/what-the-u-s-can-learn-from-british-tv/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TIME Magazine - What the U.S. Can Learn from British TV&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are underlying economic reasons for the two different models. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The goal of almost any American commercial series is to air at least 100 episodes, because that’s when it can be sold into syndication and aired as reruns&lt;/strong&gt; on other stations or networks. That’s where the real money is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But the BBC is publicly financed, so not every show has to earn its investment back with a multiseason run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BritishBrevity&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TV Tropes - British Brevity&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;British shows usually have a fairly small creative team.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's not uncommon for one person to single-handedly write every episode of a show, as &lt;em&gt;Steven Moffat&lt;/em&gt; did with &lt;em&gt;Coupling&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;David Renwick&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;em&gt;Jonathan Creek&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's more pressure to succeed, and less of a chance to make a lasting impression or develop long plot arcs. Ruin two episodes and that's a third of a season down the tubes. Some American shows that start off weak can grow their beard when the show would have long been over in the UK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the other hand, British shows tend to have the entire series filmed before broadcast, so shows are rarely canceled mid-season, or affected by events like a writers' strike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing to keep in mind is that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/media_entertainment/nielsen-estimates-number-of-u-s-television-homes-to-be-114-7-million/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;US has 114 million TV households&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, whereas the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thinkbox.tv/server/show/nav.989&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UK has 26 million&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Fewer viewers means there is less money to be made. And less money means fewer episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="40263" LastEditDate="2017-01-22T06:07:50.103" LastActivityDate="2017-01-22T06:07:50.103" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9107" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9115" CreationDate="2012-12-31T17:07:46.593" Score="27" ViewCount="90476" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first part of &lt;em&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/em&gt;, Colonel Landa kills Shosanna's family and she escapes. He is known as the Jew Hunter and never lets any Jews escape him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later when he meets her under her assumed name &quot;Emmanuelle&quot;, he makes references that suggests that he does recognize her. However the conversation could also have meant nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he did actually recognize her I find it very strange that he didn't do anything about her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2020-02-16T12:34:59.963" LastActivityDate="2021-06-25T18:49:54.203" Title="Did Col. Landa actually recognize Shosanna?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9108" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9110" CreationDate="2012-12-31T17:10:27.337" Score="1" ViewCount="24460" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375670/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Grown ups&lt;/a&gt; what is the game the kids of Lenny are playing on the TV?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VEZkS.png&quot; alt=&quot;The game in the TV&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastActivityDate="2013-07-04T16:05:32.823" Title="What is the game the kids of Lenny are playing in the TV in the movie Grown Ups?" Tags="|grown-ups|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9097" CreationDate="2012-12-31T17:36:37.703" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;He is not named, but is supposed to be Edmund's &lt;em&gt;pet&lt;/em&gt; dwarf. One of the prevalent legends about the dark ages is that some noblemen kept dwarfs in cages as pets to amuse themselves with. Whether  this is historically true or not is not something I can comment on though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2012-12-31T17:36:37.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9108" CreationDate="2012-12-31T17:38:25.620" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently saw this film, and wondered the same thing.  However, after seeing more of the game as it was played, I came to the conclusion that it was a fake game, made specifically for the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect making a few basic snippets of a game is cheaper than paying for the rights to use a real game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2012-12-31T17:38:25.620" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9111" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9121" CreationDate="2012-12-31T17:45:17.187" Score="5" ViewCount="1292" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;, it is stated many times that it's 8 years after the end of &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;. This personally threw the storyline off for me. Why did it need to be 8 years after? 4 years would have surely been enough time difference for the storyline that played out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="105" LastEditDate="2012-12-31T23:57:32.473" LastActivityDate="2012-12-31T23:57:32.473" Title="What is the reason for setting the movie storyline 8 years apart?" Tags="|analysis|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9084" CreationDate="2012-12-31T17:51:18.950" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Satan's aim wasn't making Kevin a good person at all. His ultimate goal was creating the Anti-Christ, a supernatural being who would lead Satan's war against God. To do that he needed two of his children to conceive a child, that child would become the Anti-Christ. That's why he engineered that two of children, Kevin and Christabella (Connie Nielsen), get together. Kevin committing suicide put a monkey wrench in Satan's plans (cue Satan screaming his head off).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we see Kevin &lt;em&gt;wake up&lt;/em&gt; back at the courtroom. Whether the preceding was a dream, or whether Satan used his powers to &lt;em&gt;reset&lt;/em&gt; things is up to interpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; apparent is that Satan hasn't given up on corrupting Kevin. He comes to him again, this time in the guise of a reporter who is promising to make him a star for his sudden courtroom performance. While Kevin did the right thing in court (as opposed to what he did in his past &lt;em&gt;iteration&lt;/em&gt;), he is still vulnerable to his own vanity. Thus Satan's closing quote: &quot;Vanity! Definitely my favorite sin!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2012-12-31T19:14:40.630" LastActivityDate="2012-12-31T19:14:40.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9111" CreationDate="2012-12-31T18:00:59.263" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think story-wise these things needed to happen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Harvey Dent Act had to have a real effect on Gotham's crime rate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Harvey Dent himself had to become a legend.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Batman's own legend had to fade away.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Talia al Ghul had to become old enough to be part of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether 4 years would've been enough for all this to happen is debatable IMO, especially for the first part. Laws take a long time to have noticeable effects. So 8 years seemed reasonable to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2012-12-31T19:21:10.543" LastActivityDate="2012-12-31T19:21:10.543" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9114" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9155" CreationDate="2012-12-31T18:03:17.977" Score="7" ViewCount="2852" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alfred told Bruce of his hope that he had when Bruce was gone for seven years. There's this specific cafe he went to once a year when he took vacation. He would go there and look around and hope that he would see Bruce there. Bruce would be happy and with a woman, maybe even with his own family. They would see each other and then go on with their separate lives. Why wouldn't Alfred the man that raised him and thought of him as a son want to be more than just a head nod greeting in a cafe, instead of somehow becoming a part of his life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2012-12-31T18:10:11.380" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T18:02:48.563" Title="Why didn't Alfred want Bruce to acknowledge him?" Tags="|analysis|the-dark-knight-rises|plot-explanation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9107" CreationDate="2012-12-31T18:29:54.297" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it depends on the viewer whether to take it as an indication to the accident or not. When we as viewers of the movie see the whole conversation happening in every moment we feel the fear of revelation of Shosanna's original identity to the Colonel, given we are already been introduced with his cunning and cold but cruel behavior. We feel such because the whole story is shown from the start how she survives from the unnecessary chasing of the Colonel (from her point of view). So when after a long time Shosanna meets with him, we as well as her, feel fear to see the executioner of her family and if he might recognize her! So maybe the Colonel did not identify her (chances is 99%). But we (Shoshana and us) automatically feel fear. His ordering milk for her or the last sentences by him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I did have something else to ask you. But right now, for the life of me, I can't remember what it is. Oh well, must not have been important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;pushes us in the wrong direction out of this fear. As long as the conversation went on, we hold our breath with her and when he leaves, we loose it! So I think the conversation was nothing regarding him identifying her. He was just trying to dig into her individuality as a quality security officer (Though bad in nature, we can't ignore his responsibility to his work!). But the fear of blowing her cover makes us make out unnecessary meaning and that is how a winning script is!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2018-07-07T14:48:52.393" LastActivityDate="2018-07-07T14:48:52.393" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8765" CreationDate="2012-12-31T18:31:50.853" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add on to what Alenanno said:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This is the case for almost any movie.  With any of these movies you're seeing choreographed fights, not actual fights. They're more dance than fighting, there's 0 or near 0 actual physical contact, little/no improvisation, it's all heavily planned out for visual effect.  Each punch, kick, block, was planned and known to all participants, and practiced many times.&#xA;Many of these roles go to professional dancers and martial artists because they need much less training, they're physically flexible, and depending on their achievements, their renown as dancers/martial artists might bring in more viewers to such a film.  Dance and Martial Arts training generally involves a lot of memorizing long lists of movements, flexibility, and endurance, which is all that's generally required to do these fight scenes, and it requires less of the films budget in order to prepare the actors to learn/do the fight scene.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But anyone in physical shape, not just martial artists and dancers, can do these scenes with training and practice.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3394" LastActivityDate="2012-12-31T18:31:50.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9114" CreationDate="2012-12-31T18:48:04.093" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we think from Alfred's view, he always wanted Bruce to live a peaceful life. So if he gets that chance anytime in the future, he must not intervene into Bruce's life as it might make Bruce remember about him being the Batman (Alfred was the one who was there from the beginning, when Bruce became the Batman). So if he leaves Bruce, it might help him forget about the accidents of his life (including the death of his father). Remember, Alfred expressed he had never wanted that Bruce returned to Gotham as it was &quot;full of pain and tragedy&quot; for him. So he might considered himself as an emblem of it to Bruce. In this way, maybe Alfred was trying to help Bruce in making a normal life with a fresh start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-25T18:02:48.563" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T18:02:48.563" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9118" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9120" CreationDate="2012-12-31T19:44:52.333" Score="2" ViewCount="661" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I understood the story correctly Ra's was spared the Pit but his wife took his place. Why didn't he break into the Pit to save her? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="170" LastEditDate="2012-12-31T23:32:05.583" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T04:56:44.643" Title="Why didn't Ra's break into the Pit before?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9111" CreationDate="2012-12-31T20:04:35.110" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the internal plot-driven reasons in the previous answer make sense, there is another reason why the period was a long one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nolan's partial inspiration seems to have been the fantastic Frank Miller comic, &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Returns&lt;/em&gt; (which also inspired the &lt;em&gt;tone&lt;/em&gt; of the Tim Burton Batman movies and went some way to revivifying the whole Batman comic franchise) which has a long-retired Batman returning from his retirement due to serious new threats to the city. While the actual plot is very different, there are significant &lt;em&gt;thematic&lt;/em&gt; similarities, including the fact that Batman is not as capable as he used to be and is facing a lead villain who is, in many ways, his equal. Much of the thematic similarity just would not have worked if Batman had returned too soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2012-12-31T20:04:35.110" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9118" CreationDate="2012-12-31T20:06:31.557" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ra did not know his family is in the particular pit until the time, his daughter Talia informed him. When he was exiled he thought only he is punished for the love with the daughter of the warlord.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When the warlord found out...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...the mercenary was condemned to this pit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But then he exiled him instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The mercenary understood that it was&#xA;  the daughter who had secured his release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But what he could not know&#xA;  was the true price of his freedom&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She took his place in the pit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Ra was unaware of his wife's imprisonment in the pit. So there was no reason for him to come back. But later he found out what happened to his family by Talia after she escaped the pit. But as his wife was dead by then, there was no reason for him to come back except to take revenge from the prisoners for the barbarism they did to his family. This concept is clear from Talia's admittance to Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I climbed out of the pit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I found my father...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...and brought him back&#xA;  to exact terrible vengeance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-01-01T04:56:44.643" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T04:56:44.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9111" CreationDate="2012-12-31T22:45:58.037" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/GraphicCity/news/?a=64299&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Christopher Nolan's answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to the 8 year gap is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's partly about a physical and emotional toll and it's partly about being true to the end of [The Dark Knight].&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What you have at the end of 'The Dark Knight' is an ending that hangs very much on substantial sacrifice to achieve a certain end and for that to have meaning, it has to work in some sense, it has to have been successful. And &lt;strong&gt;I didn't want to just abandon that and pick up a new story with a whole new set of ideas.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So for me, that lead to the 8 year gap, it lead to the idea of Bruce Wayne, shut away in self-imposed exile because he's hung up his cape and cowl. He's living in a world, at least superficially, that doesn't need Batman but he hasn't moved on, he hasn't moved on as Alfred points out, he hasn't moved on emotionally or in a practical sense.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He reiterates this in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blastr.com/2011/12/chris-nolan-explains-that.php&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;another interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;... I think what we're saying is that &lt;strong&gt;for Batman and Commissioner Gordon, there's a big sacrifice, a big compromise, at the end of the 'The Dark Knight'&lt;/strong&gt;, and for that to mean something, that sacrifice has to work, and Gotham has to get better in a sense. They have to achieve something for the ending of that film—and the feeling at the end of that film—to have validity.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Their sacrifice has to have meaning, and it takes time to establish that and to show that, and that's the primary reason we did that.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's a time period that is not so far ahead that we would have to do crazy makeup or anything—which I think would be distracting...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last sentence sounds like he had thought about an even bigger gap, but decided against it because he wanted to avoid &lt;em&gt;'old people make-up'&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2012-12-31T22:45:58.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9123" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9132" CreationDate="2013-01-01T05:00:05.593" Score="5" ViewCount="3714" Body="&lt;p&gt;Batman could escape the pit because he got proper moral guidance from the prisoners. They made him understand what it takes to leave the pit successfully. But it seemed they never wanted to leave the pit. Why is that? If they knew the principle to success very well, why did they not try? This is obvious from the movie, they were not well in that pit!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-01-03T16:24:52.353" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T16:06:32.087" Title="Why didn't the prisoners who helped Bruce try to escape from the pit themselves?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9124" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-01T05:02:27.513" Score="8" ViewCount="1514" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the whole imprisonment of Bruce Wayne in &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;, did the prisoners know who he was, specifically that he was the Batman? I think they only knew him to be a friend of Bane. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did they have any idea that Batman and Bruce Wayne were the same person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-01-01T15:01:24.333" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T18:13:06.987" Title="Did the prisoners in the pit know who Bruce Wayne was?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9126" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9354" CreationDate="2013-01-01T08:46:51.350" Score="9" ViewCount="779" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; it's a common one - I've certainly seen it several times before. This movie has a short clip of a black and white film where a woman is seen (who may have locked herself in a laundry room - details are hazy) backing away from a furry mass with a tail, a bit like a rat/brain combination. It wiggles, she screams, and the clip ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas? The clip isn't scary at all, by the way, and I think the &quot;outer&quot; movie's a comedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3754" LastEditorUserId="3754" LastEditDate="2013-01-01T17:02:57.243" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T18:42:49.790" Title="Identify this movie where a woman is backing away from a rat-like creature?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:40:39.727" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9128" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9134" CreationDate="2013-01-01T10:21:37.760" Score="5" ViewCount="17110" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that determining copyright is not always as simple as adding &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_length&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a number of years&lt;/a&gt; to the date a movie was first released/a series was first aired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What resources are there to determine if a movie/series is still under copyright or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I have classic movies including silent movies in mind, hence the tag. I couldn't find any other applicable tags. Perhaps 'legal-status' which could in future include banned movies and other interesting tidbits?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="168" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-20T11:07:22.867" LastActivityDate="2021-09-07T12:30:28.517" Title="How can I find out if a movie/series is still restricted by copyright?" Tags="|silent-movie|copyright|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="778" CreationDate="2013-01-01T12:32:12.507" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a good interview I found which reveals how was Heath Ledger selected by Nolan. He gave this interview for an hour-long Q&amp;amp;A at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City. There he discussed about the influence James Bond films have had on him, his experience working with Heath Ledger, his passion for pioneering IMAX technology and producing next year's Superman reboot, &amp;quot;Man of Steel.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&amp;amp;id=42454&amp;amp;utm_source=zergnet.com&amp;amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;amp;utm_campaign=zergnet_38944#storyContinued&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; he shared how he chose Heathe Ledger:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On casting the late Heath Ledger as the Joker:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, in a sense, Heath chose me. I met Heath for a couple of films -- I actually met him in relation to Batman, as well, because I was meeting kind of every young actor. He very graciously came and met me for a drink and began to explain why he would never do this kind of movie. [Laughs] But he was very polite. He was really just a lovely guy, and so I thought, &amp;quot;Well, shame I can't convince you, but this is what we're trying to do with this thing.' I think when he saw &amp;quot;Batman Begins,&amp;quot; he'd probably remembered the things I'd said about what I was going to try to do, and he felt that I'd done it, so I met with him for the Joker. I didn't know whether it was something he'd be interested in, but I sat and chatted with him in my office for a couple of hours. We didn't have a script at that point, but -- my brother was writing it at the time, and we knew kind of where that was going to go, and it was very much what Heath had in mind. And he just was determined to do it. He just had a vision for something, and the way he termed it to me at the time was, he really didn't like to work too much. He liked to do a character and then stop working then let enough time go by. He wanted to be hungry for it. And when he came to me, he was clearly in that state: Very hungry. He was ready to do something like that and just own it -- which is what he did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this is how the casting of Heathe Ledger was done as the Joker. Also he shared on the &lt;strong&gt;process preparing for and the reality of Ledger's transformation into the Joker&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;on the technical (and communicative) difficulties behind Ledger's first scene as Joker&lt;/strong&gt; in the same interview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T14:13:00.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9124" CreationDate="2013-01-01T12:53:39.733" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't remember any of the prisoner making any comment about Bruce Wayne while he is kept captive in the pit. Therefore, I would think that nobody knows who he is. After all, they are prisoners with few information coming from the outside world. Furthermore, their prison is in a country far away from where Bruce Wayne's activities are famous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he escapes, the prisoners cheer up not for who he is, but for what he has done : beaten the pit and showed all the prisoners that it was possible to escape, thus giving them great hope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2089" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-12T13:37:44.960" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T13:37:44.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9123" CreationDate="2013-01-01T13:12:03.563" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that all of the prisoners had lost hope about escaping. Apart from Bruce, we never see anyone trying to climb out of the pit during his stay in prison.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I am sure that Bruce's escape inspires prisoners who will take the challenge of climbing it after.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be in resonance with one of the roles of Batman in Gotham City, which is to give hope to the &quot;small people&quot; living here.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Indeed, we see children smiling when they understand he is back, also the feats of Batman seem to inspire the character of John Blake into becoming a vigilante hero.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Bruce Wayne / Batman is an inspiration for everybody !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2089" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T13:12:03.563" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9123" CreationDate="2013-01-01T13:33:13.250" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed the other prisoners (or some of them, the younger ones maybe) still try to escape from the pit, they just don't make it. There is a scene where one tries to escape while &lt;em&gt;Bruce&lt;/em&gt; is still lying paralyzed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the doctor could tell the others the &lt;em&gt;&quot;secret&quot;&lt;/em&gt; of escaping (which I'm not sure he ever did). But in the end, just leaving away the rope is not enough, it is more of a mental stimulation. You still need the will and hope to escape and you still need the physical abilities (while &lt;em&gt;Bruce&lt;/em&gt; was getting older and had his problems physically, he wasn't one of those hopeless failed existences imprisoned for years down there).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the doctor had ever told the &lt;em&gt;&quot;secret&quot;&lt;/em&gt; to the others, they probably were just too hopeless and desparate to try the climb without the rope and risk the rest they have of their lives. And even if they did, they either didn't bring the needed physical strength or, even more probably, the needed mental strength and the will and determination to escape and survive, having their will and hope broken after such a long time in the pit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end I'm not sure the doctor was that aware of this &lt;em&gt;&quot;secret&quot;&lt;/em&gt; of escape at all. It wasn't just about leaving away the rope, you still need a will as strong and determined as that of &lt;em&gt;Bruce&lt;/em&gt;. And only when seeing such a character in &lt;em&gt;Bruce&lt;/em&gt; the doctor realizes that there is finally someone after the kid who could make it out of the pit and he gives him the final stimulation he needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-01-01T13:39:13.417" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T13:39:13.417" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9128" CreationDate="2013-01-01T14:46:34.243" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on the country and the individual factors can be complicated. But the easiest way is to check if it already appears on a list of public domain films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, Wikipedia's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;List of films in the public domain in the United States&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; has plenty of information about determining public domain status, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a film appears on the list below, there is a high probability it has lost some or all of its United States copyright protection (or in the case of U.S. government films, was never protected by copyright).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no single method for determining if a film, or parts of it, is in the public domain. There are several methods that can be used to document a film’s public domain status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Internet Archive has &lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.org/details/feature_films&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;feature films&lt;/a&gt; for download and streaming, and have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.org/about/faqs.php#234&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt; to help determine whether a film is in the public domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T14:46:34.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8856" CreationDate="2013-01-01T19:46:30.500" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prometheus did pose some interesting questions, so here goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What makes you think the holograms take a lot of energy? They're on a ship that's travelled &quot;billions of miles&quot; from Earth; running a few holographic generators (small ones at that) shouldn't pose a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shaw took David's head and used it to commandeer another ship, heading out to find more answers (presumably the Engineer's homeworld).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A single vial of the &quot;black liquid&quot; virus would probably be enough to wipe out all life on Earth. &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2748/what-was-the-motivation-behind-the-engineers-actions-in-prometheus&quot;&gt;See this answer&lt;/a&gt; for a thorough look at the Engineer's motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2116" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2013-01-02T09:19:35.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9019" CreationDate="2013-01-01T21:32:06.540" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Answer in progress&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Police Procedural and Crime Drama in Soviet Union and Russia&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Contemporary Setting&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the most popular police procedurals of the Soviet era was &lt;em&gt;Следствие ведут ЗнаТоКи&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigation_Held_by_ZnaToKi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Investigation Held by ZnaToKi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (ZnaToKi is a word play where it is an acronym consisting of first syllables of the last names of the heroes, and the word itself means “experts”) wich was a series of TV films (cases) from 1971 to 1989 (with another two films added in 2002 and 2003 featuring two of the three aged actors). This would be one closest to the description of police procedural with emphasis on gathering evidence and forensic work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking of evolution, Leonid Kanevskij — one of the lead actors from those films — hosted a documentary series in recent years called &lt;em&gt;Следствие вели…&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Investigation was held by…&lt;/em&gt;, as the reference to the Soviet series) which focused on real investigations of famous crimes in Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Historical Setting&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most popular historical periods for setting police detective stories in Soviet Union are tumultuous years during and immediately after major conflicts such as World Wars, Revolution of 1917 and subsequent Russian Civil War. These settings provide ample opportunity for more action-oriented films following the exploits of the tough lawmen who were often veterans of preceding military confrontation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two of the most notable films would be 1979 5-part mini-series &lt;em&gt;Место встречи изменить нельзя&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meeting_Place_Cannot_Be_Changed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;), and 2007 14-episode TV-series &lt;em&gt;Ликвидация&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidation_%28miniseries%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Liquidation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;). Both are immensely popular, both feature famous big-screen and stage actors and filmmakers, both set in the same post-war timeframe (Moscow for the former, and 1946 Odessa (now in Ukraine) — which is considered the time and one of the birthplaces of modern Russian organized crime — for the latter) that allowed (or tempted) for swift retribution against the bandits (much like post-war Italian authorities at times dealt with their Mafia). One of the distinguishing characteristics, however, was, perhaps, the attitude: the heroes of earlier film may have followed the mantra of “the ends justify the means” while the 2007 series emphasised the drive to definitively prove the guilt of suspects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Italian Octopus in Context of Eeastern Bloc Broadcast&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 80s one imported TV-show was allowed on Soviet TV and became very popular. It was European (chiefly Italian) production &lt;em&gt;La piovra&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_piovra&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Octopus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Спрут&lt;/em&gt; in Russian), famous amongst other things for music by Ennio Morricone. I would imagine (no sources yet) that it was put on TV to show the dark side of the glossy appearance of European life. It had very different mood from the shows like &lt;em&gt;Liquidation&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;The Meeting Place&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While those films still made social and cultural commentary (&lt;em&gt;Liquidation&lt;/em&gt; more openly so, obviously, as it did not have to tip toe around Soviet censure), ultimately good guys as the agents of people’s will prevailed against creeping criminal threat (historically as well, as organized crime largely remained underground, in direct opposition to the powers that be) akin the gunslingers of Wild West even if there were less shooting and more detective work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Octopus&lt;/em&gt;, however, presented grim picture of society so thoroughly and pervasively corrupt by the grip of Mafia’s tentacles that the scene of Michele Placido’s character beating his fist into the bloody pulp against the concrete wall in frustration after losing his loved ones could serve as a perfect metaphor of what obstacles law enforcement had (mayhaps, still have) to deal with. The show that ran from 1984 to 2001 was not only popular, but also influential. Former Italian Prime-minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, himself under investigation for involvement with the Mafia, in 2009 &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.rsf.org/italy-berlusconi-wants-to-strangle-the-09-12-2009,35298.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;threatened to strangle writers of &lt;em&gt;The Octopus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for giving Italy a bad name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3408" LastEditorUserId="3408" LastEditDate="2013-01-01T23:31:15.757" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T23:31:15.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9096" CreationDate="2013-01-01T21:37:33.147" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Selina Kyle's importance I believe that Nolan went with adding Catwoman/Selina Kyle to the movie as a way to help Bruce out of the darkness he has put himself into. After becoming injured while trying to save Gordon's son from Harvey Dent, Bruce lives away from society. This is because he cannot see a life outside of being Batman, which he has since given up; his only motivation to put away his Batman persona was to be with Rachel, and since her death, he lacks the drive to move forward. This becomes aparent in the conversation Bruce has with Alfred after Bruce investigates Selina Kyle in the Batcave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In interviews I recall from the Blu Ray in the &quot;A Girl's Gotta Eat&quot; segment, Bale and Nolan comment that Selina one of the few people who Bruce does not feel he needs to put on a mask for. She does not find him intimidating as the rich and mysterious recluse Bruce Wayne, and is not afraid of him while he is Batman. Bale himself says in the segment that Bruce finds her &quot;amusing&quot;, and Bruce feels comfortable enough to view her as an equal to himself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her importance to Bruce and their developing relationship may also play into the final scenes of the movie. Prior to being put into the prison by Bane, Bruce did not fear death. Once he realizes that he has to be, this drive helps him to make the jump to climb out of the pit. This fear of death also plays into why he is not able to die with the reactor, and instead fix the autopiolt, and in the end, be with Selina. Although it is only speculation, I think it can be fair to say that one of the reasons he had to live was to be with her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, Nolan added Selina as a character that would give Bruce the drive needed to not only become Batman again in order to later save Gotham, but also the female equal he longs for that will give him a will to live. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3757" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T21:37:33.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9097" CreationDate="2013-01-01T21:48:25.867" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5NWNHS3eM4&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;pilot&lt;/a&gt; for the series, the pet was originally a dog in the cage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uqJCn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=x9C6eIHrKE8C&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;amp;dq=blackadder&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=snTiUNr5FOTS2gWm2IGgAQ&amp;amp;ved=0CEMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=dwarf&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The True History of the Blackadder: The Unadulterated Tale of the Creation of a Comedy Legend&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (p. 107), the pilot was remade into the episode you cite. &quot;Perhaps as a response to &lt;em&gt;The Young Ones&lt;/em&gt;' surreal dimensions,&quot; the jokes were more outlandish in the series than the pilot, &quot;the dog which Edmund kept in a cage in the pilot had now become his pet dwarf, for instance.&quot; You can watch the pilot in three parts on YouTube. Edmund in the pilot is more like the Edmund of the later Blackadder series rather than the doltish fellow we see in the first season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-01-01T21:48:25.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9141" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9148" CreationDate="2013-01-01T22:51:18.733" Score="10" ViewCount="70538" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a whistled song that plays when Tate's fantasies are introduced in the first season of American Horror Story. It also accompanies the final scenes of the season finale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds painfully familiar, but I can't place it. What is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="615" LastActivityDate="2017-04-25T01:27:39.093" Title="What is the whistled tune from American Horror Story?" Tags="|american-horror-story|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2017-04-25T17:24:13.223" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9143" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16276" CreationDate="2013-01-02T00:16:43.683" Score="4" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the pilot movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070700/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;The Six Million Dollar Man&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (1973) which preceded the TV series, Steve Austin was a &quot;civilian member&quot; of NASA who had walked on the moon, which justified his role as a test pilot.  It was only in the second TV movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211121/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Wine, Women, and War&quot;&lt;/a&gt; that he was changed to have the rank of Colonel.  I have not read the Martin Caidin novels, but evidently he held the military rank and background in those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence in writings about the pilot regarding what scenarios would be possible in future TV movies, shows (if they were already pitching it as a series) if he &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; have the military background?  It seems as though they deemed it important in the initial pilot movie that Steve Austin was well-known as an astronaut, but was the cultural backdrop of the end of the Vietnam war part of their initial decision to shed the military connection? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T00:00:54.470" Title="What plot points/cultural significance would making Steve Austin a civilian member of NASA have served?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-six-million-dollar-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-02T00:54:01.373" Score="2" ViewCount="637" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1594562&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Innkeepers&lt;/a&gt;, why did the door to the room where Claire was staying in, close? What did it symbolize?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3759" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T14:32:31.363" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T18:02:30.610" Title="What happened to a door in the inn?" Tags="|the-innkeepers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9145" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9335" CreationDate="2013-01-02T01:19:51.377" Score="18" ViewCount="6142" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two things that stand out visually at the end of Dredd. When Dredd finally confronts Ma-ma in her apartment there is a display of guns and a jacket on the wall. When Anderson is laying down on the ground there is a wired figure of a tiger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Iconic Imagery Of The Jacket&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The display on the wall is interesting as the jacket is hung as if it was a shrine. There appears to be a sleeve missing and a gang insignia of a clown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RzgsT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ma-ma&amp;#39;s apartment in the film Dredd&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a close up of the jacket. I can't make out the words, but would be interested in knowing what it says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GjN1j.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wired Figure of Tiger&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During this end sequence we see a quick shot of Anderson on the floor with a wired figure standing near her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dX4dO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Anderson on the floor in film Dredd&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a scene in the film were the computer hacker guy that Ma-ma used to control the building was making a wired figure. He is only shown once in the film doing this, but it's safe to say that the figure at the end of the film was likely made by him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RgszL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Computer hacker making wire figure in film Dredd&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the significance of this imagery? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why was there a figure of a clown on the back of the jacket?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why was there a wired figure on the floor near Anderson?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-19T07:22:17.733" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T22:25:42.187" Title="What is the significance of the iconic imagery in the ending of Dredd?" Tags="|analysis|dredd|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30" CreationDate="2013-01-02T01:35:47.893" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Short version&lt;/strong&gt;:  The virus evolved from the dialogue Mazzy gave over the radio, as heard in the opening credits of the movie, and as shown visually as “typo” becomes “Pontypool”.  Mazzy is the source and the vector – who spread it over the radio to the local community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long version&lt;/strong&gt;:  In the book (originally a radio play) the name of the disease is Acquired Metastructural Pediculosis (AMPS), and is caused by a virus.  The author of Pontypool was a linguist, and threw together a bunch of known conditions: (aphasia, phonemic paraphasias, echolalia, semantic paraphasias, anomia, verbal stereotypies, etc.) and associated them with his story’s disease.  The interesting twist is that rather than a physical virus (a single strand of genetic information encased within a protein capsule, and transmitted physically) the virus is multivariate strand(s) of non-genetic information transmitted within sound waves.  (Although not explicitly mentioned, the term for this is “meme”, or “memetics”, in which the emerging study is named - a branch of metaphysics.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s more complex than a traditional virus, in that it’s not bound - there is no capsule of ‘badness’ that moves from one person to another; it’s not self-contained.  The transmitted/received trigger is only a component of the virus, and serves as a key to unlock components already contained within the host.  Further – words/sounds themselves have different meanings to different people.  So the key for one is not necessarily the key for another.  All this leads to seeming inconsistency in how the virus is transmitted and manifests (but the Dr. tells us it always ends up the same.)  The puzzle of the story is figuring out how it transmits, and then how to inoculate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The notion of it being a terrorist attack on English speaking Canadians (presumably by French speaking Canadians) is supported (at least in the minds of the characters), and it is not insignificant that the Laurel-Ann character fought in Afghanistan – but one way to look at that is to think that within the English speaking people a meme-virus may evolve itself that causes the malfunction.  So it can be taken both ways: “someone” is attacking the English speakers – or – the English speakers innately are susceptible to this virus and go crazy in a way that scales up, like an epidemic, leading to war.  (i.e. religion – itself a meme complex, and thus religious wars.  The studio is, after all, broadcast from an old church.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The kicker is that the entire story may actually be within a single infected person – a kind of daydream.  So all characters are contained within his head – the radio studio.  All the things outside (that we never see) are full abstractions.  (The story is gloriously polysemous!!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So where do physical &lt;strong&gt;viruses&lt;/strong&gt; come from?  They come from the dawn of life on earth, and in fact may predate cellular life, and have evolved along with us.  We need them to survive.  Occasionally one mutates and evolves into an epidemic.  Same with this memetic virus AMPS.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So just like SARS originated in Chinese bats, who infected civets, who made it to a Chinese food market.  I think the Pontypool virus was originated in the opening dialogue of the movie, which was recorded the day before (and played the day before) and was being rebroadcast in the car as Mazzy was driving to work in the early AM.  Out of the chaos of that speech – the memetic virus was born.  That is my simplistic understanding of &lt;em&gt;“the bigger picture”&lt;/em&gt; behind it all that you requested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: all of this is in complete agreement with @phwd‘s simple first paragraph.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="546" LastActivityDate="2013-01-02T01:35:47.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9147" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9149" CreationDate="2013-01-02T03:25:04.010" Score="8" ViewCount="3880" Body="&lt;p&gt;After J hangs up on K in a phone argument, K opens his arsenal, chooses a weapon, sits in his chair and then disappears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, K &lt;em&gt;seems&lt;/em&gt; to know what is about to happen, but arming himself appears futile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason K would do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastActivityDate="2015-02-21T04:19:59.970" Title="Why does K grab a gun before the past is changed?" Tags="|men-in-black-3|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9141" CreationDate="2013-01-02T03:35:12.293" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you are referring to &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.last.fm/music/Bernard+Herrmann/_/Twisted+Nerve&quot;&gt;Twisted Nerve&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; by Bernard Herrmann scored for the film of the same name - however, you might know it better from &lt;em&gt;Kill Bill&lt;/em&gt; (Ellie Driver whistles it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-01-02T03:35:12.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9147" CreationDate="2013-01-02T04:16:35.113" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you mean by &lt;em&gt;K knew what is about to happen&lt;/em&gt; the time traveling by Boris to kill K, I doubt it. I think K just assumed Boris might appear to kill him again, since he was pretty chafed with K. I think an agent like K should be ready for this type of attack, when the enemy is also like Boris the Animal. So he kept himself ready for an imminent attack from him. Also for your note the only trace for K to find that Boris is going to time travel to kill K in past, was the statement by Boris &lt;code&gt;You don't know it, K, but you're already dead.&lt;/code&gt; But when he said that K was down on the street and Boris was on the building talking it like a soliloquy . So it was impossible for K to hear that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastActivityDate="2013-01-02T04:16:35.113" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9144" CreationDate="2013-01-02T04:49:11.733" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;While most reviews I've read deal with the artistry and the tension of the film, two reviews I found offer similar interpretations of the film's symbolism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://thefineartdiner.blogspot.com/2012/02/bad-for-business-innkeepers.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reviewer&lt;/a&gt; contends that the door closing symbolizes Claire's being shut out of the upper class &quot;to which the inn historically catered&quot; - further symbolized by the Blue Boy painting in the room, which represents luxury. The closing of the inn itself is symbolic of the end of the American dream and the ability to change classes, something the immigrant Madeleine was also unable to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/the-innkeepers/6028&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Slant Magazine&lt;/a&gt;'s reviewer, Claire is at a crossroads, with her life not turning out as she imagined, and the hotel, stripped and empty, symbolizes &quot;vanished possibilities and remnants of a happier past.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film ends with a deep stare into one of its rooms, before the door&#xA;  slams shut one last time; deepening his brand of horror with a sense&#xA;  of studied contemplation, West depicts a world continuously impinged&#xA;  on by the past, a realm we can admire but never actually enter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-01-02T04:49:11.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9144" CreationDate="2013-01-02T06:13:38.680" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we look at the chain of events there, it seemed to me the inn has become cursed after Madeline's death. I think the unsatisfied soul of Madeline was searching to hunt another victim for a long time, but it was imprisoned efficiently by the inn-authority (&lt;em&gt;maybe followed by a ghost-satisfaction-procedure!&lt;/em&gt;). But the sudden appearance of Leanne made things unbalanced. The ghost arose again, possibly sensing someone with psychic power came! So the soul started her hunting again. She killed everybody and made it look like they committed suicide. And the dead people also become like Madeline, an unsatisfied soul trying to kill others and make it look like suicide (remember, before the injury in her head in the stairwell, she was startled by an apparition of the elderly man). So I think the last scene, where the room is closed we can also see her apparition, signifying she has also become like Madeline and the others (&lt;em&gt;ghost actually!&lt;/em&gt;) and will remain imprisoned, killing others like them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-25T18:02:30.610" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T18:02:30.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1653" CreationDate="2013-01-02T07:33:14.883" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. The wife and children are stuck in purgatory,  but he gets to go to heaven. In some Christianity and Catholicism beliefs, suicide prevents you from going to heaven. You're just stuck.  I am not 100% sure about the children, but I think their distressful death by their mother leaves them trapped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3762" LastActivityDate="2013-01-02T07:33:14.883" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9123" CreationDate="2013-01-02T11:16:56.413" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those who had the &lt;em&gt;heart&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;really willed&lt;/em&gt; to escape did try, but sans success. This is clearly shown in the scene where Bruce is bed ridden with a broken back and a man tries to escape but eventually falls, banging into the wall several times and then going limp. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, Bruce was guided and supported by two very old and frail men, none of whom could have themselves taken the leap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastActivityDate="2013-01-02T11:16:56.413" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9114" CreationDate="2013-01-02T11:38:43.590" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alfred: [to Bruce]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;em&gt;I had this fantasy,&#xA;  that I would look across the tables and I'd see you there, with a wife&#xA;  and maybe a couple of kids. You wouldn't say anything to me, nor me to&#xA;  you. But we'd both know that you'd made it, that you were happy.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, what Alfred meant was that he did not expect Bruce to acknowledge the &lt;em&gt;past&lt;/em&gt;. He just wanted him to be a happy family man with a new life, even if it meant Alfred wouldn't be a part of it. The statement had a sacrificial tone to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastActivityDate="2013-01-02T11:38:43.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9147" CreationDate="2013-01-02T13:14:06.287" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;K knew that his time was coming to see &quot;Just Boris&quot;, again. And as he stated &quot;If he had to do it again, he would have killed him the first time&quot;. He was getting ready for that by opening his arsenal, he just didn't know how he was going to be approached by Boris. This is what creates the past for K knowing J from childhood...He just couldn't ever talk to him about it until after it had happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastActivityDate="2013-01-02T13:14:06.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9157" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9369" CreationDate="2013-01-02T13:19:30.860" Score="4" ViewCount="3057" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolver_%282005_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Revolver&lt;/a&gt;. Though, An amazing movie regarding EGO, EGO and EGO...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At most times, the movie included actual animations of Andre, Liotta and several other characters. Like - when the money was stolen, Macha, Lord John, all were in cartoons. Why was such a theme introduced at that time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was that simply to cover the actual guns and blood used by the fellas? If not, why then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3675" LastEditorUserId="3675" LastEditDate="2013-01-10T06:18:36.853" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T16:10:50.987" Title="Why animation was used in several scenes of Revolver?" Tags="|film-techniques|revolver|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9162" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9167" CreationDate="2013-01-02T18:46:28.163" Score="18" ViewCount="2545" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, while Bond first meets Q in a museum they are watching the painting of a ship dragged by another ship and Q remarks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Always makes me feel a little melancholy. A grand old warship being hauled away for scrap. Inevitability of time, don't you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is rather ignored by Bond who just sees a &lt;em&gt;&quot;bloody big ship&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Given that the aging of Bond (and the political aging of the whole MI6) &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/9035/49&quot;&gt;is a major theme of the movie&lt;/a&gt;, it doesn't take much to see that this &lt;em&gt;&quot;grand old warship&quot;&lt;/em&gt; is a symbol for Bond himself (or maybe the MI6 as a whole).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now during the last scene, when Bond is in Mallory's (or rather M's) office and more ready to go on than ever you can shortly see another painting of a ship. My question is: &lt;strong&gt;What painting is that?&lt;/strong&gt;, and even more important, &lt;strong&gt;Is this related to the earlier usage of a painted ship as a symbol (maybe now emphasizing the atmoshpere of rejuvenation or something the like)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now of course I could be overinterpreting things here and it is just, well, a &lt;em&gt;&quot;bloody big ship&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, but given the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/8586/49&quot;&gt;usage of the stolen Modigliani in the assassination scene in Shanghai&lt;/a&gt; it may also be that the movie indeed has a &quot;thing&quot; for paintings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-10T00:27:41.567" LastActivityDate="2018-01-10T00:27:41.567" Title="Significance of the painting in Mallory's office" Tags="|analysis|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9064" CreationDate="2013-01-02T21:20:07.097" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The iTunes &lt;a href=&quot;http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/johndiesattheend/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;trailer&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;em&gt;John Dies at the End&lt;/em&gt; proclaims that it will be available online, &quot;everywhere&quot; from december 2012 before its cinema release in January 2013. Of course by &quot;everywhere&quot; they mean the USA and nowhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By &quot;everywhere&quot;, they're not referring to geography, they're referring to the various digital storefronts where movies can be rented/purchased from.  I.e. iTunes, Xbox, On Demand, Vudu, etc.  You'll observe that at the bottom right of &lt;a href=&quot;http://trailers.apple.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://trailers.apple.com/&lt;/a&gt; there's likely a USA flag, not a UK (or other EU country) one, which indicates the site's region is USA, so Apple's treating you like you're in the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My general question is why does this still happen? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, regional distribution rights.  When a movie is made, instead of releasing to all countries, the studio will release it in the country of origin.  They then look at other countries that have large enough markets, and offer local companies the chance to be the local distributor.  A local company buys the rights, optionally localizes the film (subtitling/dubbing), and then distributes it.  Via this path, when it is released in other countries, the film is relevant and useful to the local market.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can understand the tangled rights issues of movies where the contracts were written before electronic distribution was invented, but these are modern movies perhaps even ones where early online distribution was part of the plan. Why not plan international release on the same date worldwide?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here it's not a case of tangled rights, it's just that the original movie studio doesn't want to anger your local studios/distribution companies by cutting them out of the loop.  Selling American films in Europe directly probably works well enough, since enough people in Europe speak English.  However, for the people in those countries who do not, they depend on the local studios/distribution companies to do the translation work.  If the original studio skips localization, they're preventing these people from enjoying the film as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original studio could do the localization work themselves or partner with the local studios/distribution companies such that the localized versions are available on the same date as the original release.  However, that adds possibly unnecessary costs (if the film is unpopular in its original country, it probably would never be localized elsewhere) to the film before the studio has made any money back on it.  It would also add delays to its original release date, as the current timelines for movies are often down to the wire, to wait for the localization process to happen properly would delay the original release of the film by weeks/months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why piss off the entire international audience (who watch the trailers on iTunes or some other international internet site) and then make them frustrated when they can't get the movie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it would cost them time and money to accommodate international audiences, and to be frank, you'll end up buying it any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional reading: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aivf.org/node/298&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This article&lt;/a&gt; goes into greater detail on the nature of these regional distribution deals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-02-11T16:34:38.730" LastActivityDate="2013-02-11T16:34:38.730" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9162" CreationDate="2013-01-02T23:15:56.750" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The painting in the museum is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;J.M.W. Turner's&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fighting_Temeraire&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Fighting Temeraire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a painting of a ship that had played an important part in the Battle of Trafalgar, but 34 years later, was being towed to be broken up for scrap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ap39Z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Fighting Temeraire&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(File from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Turner,_J._M._W._-_The_Fighting_T%C3%A9m%C3%A9raire_tugged_to_her_last_Berth_to_be_broken.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia Commons&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That bit was easy to work out.  It is one of the most famous British paintings and I recognized it immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The painting from M's office is much less well known, but is picture of the Battle of Trafalgar showing with HMS Victory with other ships.  The clever part from the Writers/Director of Skyfall is that the Temeraire was the ship that closely followed HMS Victory into battle at Trafalgar where the British won convincingly against a larger force, the Temeraire capturing two &quot;prize&quot; ships.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suggestion from the appearance of this pair of paintings is that we are no longer seeing a tired old warrior any more, but same warrior is seen as if reborn, ready for action.  It is clearly no coincidence, and the director is using the pictures to symbolize Bond rejuvenated and ready to carry out the next mission for Her Majesty's Government.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a more detailed analysis in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://jibridgland.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/skyfall-and-painting-in-ms-office.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;excellent blog post&lt;/a&gt;.  Great Question, made me look into this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-01-03T01:57:26.757" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T01:57:26.757" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9169" CreationDate="2013-01-03T01:58:17.447" Score="20" ViewCount="10014" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2012 movie Dredd, rookie Anderson who is a psychic is put on an assessment mission with Dredd. At the very end of the movie, Dredd states that her assessment is over and she hands her badge over looking quite defeated as if she understands she failed. When asked by the Chief Judge if Anderson passes, Dredd says she passes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question I have is that if Anderson is psychic and can obviously read Dredd's mind, did she actually pass? Did Dredd lie to the Chief Judge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3570" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-08-30T05:30:58.663" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T16:58:59.417" Title="Did Anderson actually pass?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dredd|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9168" CreationDate="2013-01-03T03:12:49.040" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Anderson releases the computer hacker guy and lets him walk free. Dredd tells her that releasing a felon is not only a fail but a criminal offense. Anderson explains that she has already failed because she lost her side arm (an automatic failure). She says &quot;I'm not going to be a judge and I don't need to be a mind reader to know it&quot; implying that she knew the outcome of her assessment without having to read Dredd's mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So technically she did fail, and fail multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Dredd passes Anderson on grounds that she represents what the judges need. A person who wants to make a difference. There are a couple of spots in the film where Anderson demonstrates why she wanted to become a judge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When they first enter Peach Tree. Dredd makes comments about how crime infested the building is (going as far as to cite statistics). Anderson shuts him up by telling him she was raised in one of these blocks. When asked why she wanted to become a judge, Anderson responds &quot;Yes, I believe I can make a difference&quot;. Dredd responds with &quot;admirable&quot; implying a sense of hopelessness to her goals.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the scene where she releases the computer hacker. She says that &quot;I'm still a judge, and I'll still dispense justice. At least while I can maybe I'll make a difference&quot;. This is also the only time in the film where you see Dredd smile (or as close to smiling as he can).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The corrupt four judges that Ma-ma calls in to have Dredd killed represent that current state of corruption in the system. One of the judges says to Dredd that &quot;the city is a meat grinder&quot;. Implying that the law is hopeless and a lost cause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anderson doesn't read minds constantly. It's an action she has to willingly perform. When Dredd and Anderson are discussing what to do when they discover that Ma-ma is the king-pin for the slow-mo drug cartel in the city. Dredd says &quot;You gave us two options. Defend or hide. What about we attack? Head straight for Ma-ma&quot;. Anderson says &quot;Is that an option?&quot; Dredd replies &quot;Well she's guilty. We're judges.&quot; Anderson says worriedly, &quot;sir, I think we should wait for backup&quot;. Dredd just frowns. Anderson continues &quot;Wrong answer?&quot; Dredd answers &quot;You're the psychic.&quot; From this it is clear that Anderson only reads minds when she needs to, otherwise she would have said to go after Ma-ma in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to summarize:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dredd knew she failed multiple times.&#xA;Anderson knew she failed, and that's why she gave him her badge.&#xA;Dredd passed Anderson anyway cause he saw hope that she might make a difference.&#xA;Chief Judge says &quot;I knew she would&quot; because she saw it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="1125" LastEditDate="2013-07-11T16:03:18.637" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T16:03:18.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9170" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-03T04:46:23.610" Score="12" ViewCount="33842" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige_%28film%29#Plot&quot;&gt;The Prestige&lt;/a&gt;, why did Borden lead Angier to Tesla? Didn't he know that it would make him more successful? And did the other half not know about the plan, which is why he went to inspect Angier's machine and end up being accused for murder? If it really had been Borden's plan all along, then surely he could've told his twin the complete truth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3770" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-01-03T09:46:16.153" LastActivityDate="2021-01-03T09:34:11.577" Title="Why did Borden lead Angier to Tesla?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9170" CreationDate="2013-01-03T05:13:49.200" Score="19" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1) Why did Borden lead Angier to Tesla?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Borden tried to mislead Angier by giving his diary, which Olivia acted as she had stolen from Borden, on request of Borden, to make fun out of him proving he (&lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt;) was no match for Borden. Borden also succeeded by making Angier leave the town for a long time. Considering Angier was the only tough competitor in magic, it bought Borden some time to expand his business in an empty field! The diary which Borden had given was encrypted and Borden knew, misled by the story of stealing, that Angier would take a serious step in order to get the key from Borden to decrypt the diary. Angier had been to Tesla's show of Telas's discovery in a science fair. But considering the risk attached with the show, no spectator stayed there to see it, including Angier. I believe Borden encrypted the diary with a key &quot;TESLA&quot; for no specific reason (&lt;em&gt;casually&lt;/em&gt;), and also the word might be catchy for Angier as Angier knew Tesla had discovered something really special (&lt;em&gt;and he did not know what it was!&lt;/em&gt;). So Borden might have thought when Angier would see the word Tesla, he would surely think this was the discovery Tesla had made and Borden was using it. Borden's diary read as: &quot;And yes, Tesla is merely the key to my diary, not to my trick. You really think I would part with my tricks so easily after so much.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2) Didn't he know that it would make him more successful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Borden did not have any idea that Angier would take the name so seriously. Angier thought Tesla knew the way of Transported Man and made Borden one for his show. So he went to Tesla and requested him to make a similar machine he had made for Borden and surprisingly, Tesla could make such a machine for Angier! Borden had no idea what Tesla was capable of. If he knew, he did not take the risk to push Borden to such a famous scientist and would have made the key different. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;3) And did the other half not know about the plan, which is why he went to inspect Angier's machine and end up being accused for murder? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Borden (both the brothers) did not have any clue what Angier had come up with from Tesla. That is why one brother went to check the trick. Like I said if he had knew, he would not have pushed him towards Tesla. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;4) If it really had been Borden's plan all along, then surely he could've told his twin the complete truth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Angier's coming up with the new machine was not Borden's plan at all and that can be concluded from the aforementioned facts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-12-21T17:12:17.750" LastActivityDate="2018-12-21T17:12:17.750" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9178" CreationDate="2013-01-03T05:59:34.573" Score="13" ViewCount="25326" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realize of course that if Gandalf had summoned his eagle friends at the beginning of the story, and flown the entire party to Smaug's mountain, then this would not make a particularly riveting adventure. However, it did seem a bit strange that the giant birds should drop the party off and not take them all the way after their escape from the pale orc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a good reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any hidden snippets from the book(s) that can shed more light on Gandalf's reluctance to make the trip a bit easier?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tdv6w.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2016-10-15T03:08:00.070" Title="Why not make full use of the eagles in The Hobbit?" Tags="|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9173" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9174" CreationDate="2013-01-03T09:12:30.517" Score="12" ViewCount="9160" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Dark knight, except for when the Joker had to use big weapons for different reasons, we always saw him using a small knife. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does he prefer a knife?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like we know Batman does not use any gun anytime because it is his own rule. Does Joker follow such a rule? I am not aware of the comic version though! If possible explain it in the scope of the movie, otherwise if there is any special reason according to comics, don't hesitate to share it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-01-13T17:50:45.330" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T07:39:08.973" Title="Why does the Joker always use a knife?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9173" CreationDate="2013-01-03T09:35:31.433" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is in Joker's speech&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Do you want to know why I use a knife? You see, guns are too quick.&#xA;  You can't savor all of the little...emotions. In their last moments,&#xA;  people show you who they really are. So in a way...I knew your friends&#xA;  better than you ever did. Would you like to know which of them were&#xA;  cowards?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the cartoon or comics I got to know about doesn't indicate any connection between knife and Joker(may be I missed any!). But he is generally seen using guns like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3EYsY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember a cartoon film where this funny Bang rod used as a knife like substance for killing by him. In Nolan's series concern, it's Nolan's choice to use knife(for may be realistic tone!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T07:39:08.973" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T07:39:08.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9177" CreationDate="2013-01-03T10:10:39.750" Score="9" ViewCount="28787" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every time I see The Dark Knight, I am surprised when looking at the makeup of Harvey Dent (&lt;em&gt;Two Face&lt;/em&gt;). What kind of technology is used in such make ups and how are they done? The makeup was really scary. Especially the way his eyeball and jaw are shown! Here is a picture for a quick recap:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/svTa6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-01-26T09:50:00.837" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T09:50:00.837" Title="What kind of makeup is used to make Harvey Dent's horrifying face?" Tags="|character|film-techniques|the-dark-knight|make-up|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9175" CreationDate="2013-01-03T10:25:29.810" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sort answer:&lt;/strong&gt; It was a mix of make-up and CGI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For Two-Face, Nolan decided to break new ground. &quot;This character was&#xA;  one of our major vfx challenges,&quot; recalls overall Visual Effects&#xA;  Supervisor Nick Davis. &quot;Chris was not interested in going the&#xA;  traditional make-up route. He felt that it would be an additive&#xA;  effect, rather than the subtractive effect that he felt the character&#xA;  required. So, instead of adding a layer of material to the actor's&#xA;  skin, we actually removed the skin digitally. It allowed us to reveal&#xA;  the tendons, the cheeks, the eyeballs and to create unique textures.&#xA;  The challenge here was that we were dealing with one of the main&#xA;  characters, and that the digital make-up would be seen in full&#xA;  close-up, including in dialogue scenes…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Framestore's White notes that the key to the Two-Face project was to&#xA;  get enough detail into the CGI to give it realism. &quot;In doing so, we&#xA;  worked at much higher texture resolution than we normally use. We also&#xA;  rendered our CG work at 4K, even for the regular 2K anamorphic shots.&#xA;  A very large number of texture layers were needed, and displacement&#xA;  maps from Mudbox were combined with bump maps and displacement maps&#xA;  painted in Photoshop. It really took a significant amount of work to&#xA;  get it right.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The full details are explained &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.awn.com/articles/production/ithe-dark-knighti-grounding-batman-part-2&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-01-26T07:46:35.127" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T07:46:35.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9172" CreationDate="2013-01-03T10:40:17.153" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the books &lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Eagles&quot;&gt;the &lt;em&gt;Eagles&lt;/em&gt; are&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;sentient and &lt;strong&gt;capable of speech&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movies &lt;em&gt;(The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings)&lt;/em&gt; we never hear them talk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;In the book &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/hobbit/section4.rhtml&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Gandalf doesn't call for the &lt;em&gt;Eagles&lt;/em&gt; to help, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Luckily for the company, &lt;strong&gt;the Lord of the Eagles has seen the commotion from his roost high in the mountains. With a number of other eagles, he swoops down, picks up the marooned travelers, and flies them to safety.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The eagles are friends of Gandalf’s and enemies of the goblins. They are happy to provide food and rest for the weary travelers, who then continue on their journey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Although the eagles help the company tremendously, they express that hatred for goblins, rather than love for dwarves, is their main reason for helping the company.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... the eagles [don't] have any interest in the dwarves’ gold, but as representatives of pure nature, they are the sworn enemies of corrupted nature, represented by the goblins and Wargs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The eagles generally keep distant from the affairs of other races...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There has been a similar question regarding the &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Eagles#Flying_the_Ring_to_Mount_Doom&quot;&gt;Why aren't the eagles used to fly the Ring to Mount Doom?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It seems that nobody noticed this &lt;em&gt;alleged&lt;/em&gt; plot-hole during Tolkien's lifetime, as there is no surviving letter where Tolkien is inquired so. It is unknown whether Tolkien ever was aware of the issue while writing the book or later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tolkien's only relevant mention is concerning a possible adaptation of the &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; into a movie, where he simply mentions that the Eagles should be used carefully as a plot device and was self-aware whenever he used them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Eagles#Other_explanations&quot;&gt;a couple of theories&lt;/a&gt; about why the Eagles weren't used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T10:40:17.153" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9072" CreationDate="2013-01-03T10:45:01.233" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I recall correctly both Saito and Cobb are already in limbo at that point, so Cobb does not have to 'go down a level' merely go 'across'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we see him washed up on a shore before he meets Saito and there is a shore near the city he built we could assume that he has crossed the sea in some sort of imagined/constructed boat but has run into a storm or some sort of interference as he gets close to Saito.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3772" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T10:45:01.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9035" CreationDate="2013-01-03T10:49:38.217" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the ageing concepts in the Bond movie are related to the old movies so they are both a bit of an in-joke and a way of saying this was how things used to be, now they are changing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The overall theme of the movie is definitely one of change, out with the old and in with the new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3772" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T10:49:38.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8915" CreationDate="2013-01-03T11:07:24.013" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's probably &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045152/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Singin' in the Rain&lt;/a&gt; which hass the most parodied movie scene ever with Gene Kelly dancing in a rain soaked street singing the title song.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3772" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T11:07:24.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9072" CreationDate="2013-01-03T11:47:15.483" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel you want to know without using any sedatives in the dream, how could Cobb go to sleep so fast in the dream. I guess you need to &lt;strong&gt;understand several things.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Saito was already in the &lt;strong&gt;limbo state&lt;/strong&gt; due to his death in upper dream level whilst sleeping in reality. Cobb and Adraine entered the limbo state to get Fischer out of there. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As Cobb was already in limbo state, there was &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;no need for him&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to go to sleep there and dream.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can also ask how could they go to sleep in turmoil in different levels. For your information, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pasivdevice.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PASIV&lt;/a&gt; has &lt;strong&gt;inbuilt arrangement to put sedatives into the user&lt;/strong&gt; as per the requirement. You can look into &lt;a href=&quot;http://paulgude.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/how-does-inceptions-dream-machine-work-in-a-dream-within-a-dream/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article for an insight into PASIV&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-26T21:02:58.973" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T21:02:58.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9184" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9187" CreationDate="2013-01-03T12:45:44.870" Score="5" ViewCount="2263" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the Season 2 of Black Adder, in any way a continuation of the season 1? I have just finished watching the First episode of the Season 2 and not able to relate it to Season 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main character is still played by the same actor and has the same name but his characterization is very different. The body language and personality is totally changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are there these changes between seasons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-01-03T15:23:00.270" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T17:31:20.897" Title="Linking between Season 1 and Season 2 of Black Adder?" Tags="|continuity|blackadder|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3173" CreationDate="2013-01-03T13:29:25.057" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will try to answer it by my own thoughts. In one line, the answer is: &lt;strong&gt;The main reason behind his losing powers was he started to hate himself because he could not balance between his normal life and criminal-hunting life anymore&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This hate was not explicit, but it existed silently in his inner heart. He was economically weak, so he had to sell Spider-Man's pictures reluctantly. He could not attend the classes in a timely manner. He even lost his job in the pizza shop which was very necessary for him. His love life was not successful. So sometimes he felt his life was being wasted serving society, chasing criminals and in the meantime he forgot to think about himself. So he started hating his life (&lt;em&gt;again not explicitly&lt;/em&gt;). But we saw when he lost his power, he was not hurt &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;. In fact he loved his new life. There was no responsibility for others. He could give time for himself and tried to fill the blanks in his life. As in the movie, the power of throwing webs remain is in his body, so I guess he needed enthusiasm, energy and will power to produce and throw webs. But when he started hating his powers, he lost his enthusiasm, motivation and will. As a result, he lost his power. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when Octavius attacked Mary Jane, he got back his motivation. So he got his power back again. He got his love back too. He finally understood what it means: &quot;With great power, comes great responsibility!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-07-25T15:32:49.843" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T15:32:49.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9184" CreationDate="2013-01-03T13:31:58.077" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the series of Blackadder are related in the sense that the main character is meant to be a descendent of the previous Blackadder, but in each case several generations apart - they are not the same person.  Each generation is hundreds of years apart:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blackadder is set in the Middle Ages.  The Prince Edmund character lives 1461–1498.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blackadder II is set in the Elizabethan age.  Elizabeth lived 1533 - 1603 and she is young woman in the series, so we are looking at 1550-1570 period.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blackadder III is set in the English regency period.  George ruled as Prince Regent from 1811-1820.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blackadder Goes Forth is set in the First World War on the Western Front in 1914-1918&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The character differences are most striking between season 1 and 2, as the writers changed and the budget was reduced, forcing less on-location shooting and a more on-set situation comedy approach, which IMHO dramatically improves the series. The last 3 seasons were all developed by the same team, and Blackadder is substantially the same character in the different eras.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-01-03T17:31:20.897" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T17:31:20.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9184" CreationDate="2013-01-03T13:32:43.497" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each season is set in &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Blackadder?from=Main.Blackadder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a different time&lt;/a&gt;, therefore it's not the same character:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Black Adder&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;An alternate history set during the period of the Wars of the Roses&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blackadder II&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Elizabethan London&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blackadder the Third&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;During the Regency Period&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blackadder Goes Forth&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;World War I, in the trenches of the Western Front&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kAros.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are also &lt;em&gt;Blackadder Specials&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blackadder: The Cavalier Years&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Set during the English Civil War&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blackadder's Christmas Carol&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Victorian era&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blackadder Back &amp;amp; Forth&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;The 21st Century Blackadder and Baldrick trip through time in a time machine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Regarding the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder#Production&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;changes after the first season&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Due to the high cost of the first series&lt;/strong&gt;, the then controller of programming of BBC1, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Grade&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Michael Grade&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was reluctant to sign off a second series without &lt;strong&gt;major improvements and cost cutting&lt;/strong&gt; to be made to the show, leaving a gap of three years between the two series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blackadder II&lt;/em&gt; was therefore to be a studio-only production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Besides adding more jokes, new writer &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Elton&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ben Elton&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; suggested a major change in character emphasis: &lt;em&gt;Baldrick&lt;/em&gt; would become the stupid sidekick, while &lt;em&gt;Edmund Blackadder&lt;/em&gt; evolved into a cunning sycophant. This led to the familiar set-up that was maintained in the following series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T13:32:43.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9188" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-03T13:38:48.393" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blackadder is the name that encompassed four series of a BBC 1 period British sitcom, along with several one-off instalments. All television episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as anti-hero Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson as Blackadder's dogsbody, Baldrick. — &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Black Adder originally aired on the BBC between 15 June 1983 and 2 November 1989.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-10-01T14:28:36.683" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T14:28:36.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9189" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-03T13:38:48.393" Score="0" Body="Blackadder is the name that encompassed four series of a BBC 1 period British sitcom, along with several one-off instalments." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-01T14:28:36.683" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T14:28:36.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="680" CreationDate="2013-01-03T15:07:09.513" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; Because the writers wanted to give Bond style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You asked for the “science”, and the answers so far reflect that.  To me this misses the point entirely.  I’m interested in the artistic decisions, as they are more relevant to the movie series:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cocktails are all about taste and style, (not unlike print typeface.)  Bond drinks the most debonair cocktail - a Martini.  It’s the mixed drink equivalent of a black tuxedo or an Aston Martin DB5.  (Albeit a martini is a distinctly American invention.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;However, James prefers Vodka.  This implies an affiliation and taste for things Russian – not insignificant at the height of the Cold War to have a British agent prefer Russian vodka to British gin.  In the sixties that’s a big statement; and in the 60’s they didn’t have a vodka from every nation like it seems today.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;‘Shaken not stirred’ underlines further Bond’s rapscallion nature.&lt;/strong&gt;  To my mind, this is way more significant artistically than any molecular scientific understanding of the differences.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the gag was Bond wants a cold but unbruised drink, they might have just chilled the glasses and the vermouth better.  Also, looking at the YouTube link in the OP, I was surprised to see that Bond makes an uncharacteristic mistake (read: the writers – twice!)  A martini is a martini.  A vodka martini is a vodka martini.  You do not ask for, “a martini” and expect, a.) there to be vodka in it, and b.) a reputable bartender to ask you if you want vodka in it.  The correct drink request is “vodka martini”, then qualified simply “shaken, [not stirred].”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, no, a chocolate martini is not a martini – its’ a chocolate martini.  A “martini” with zero vermouth is not a martini – it’s gin.  (Hence all the whimsical jokes about minimal vermouth (by “just waving a bottle over it”) for a very dry martini – vs. just a “no vermouth please”.)  It’s a kind of unwritten but very traditional and long standing Reinheitsgebot law for martinis.  A martini is: gin, dry vermouth, an olive or lemon twist garnish.  Full-stop.  (There is nothing ‘rapscallion’ about not knowing how to order a drink correctly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Final thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I read somewhere the liquor used for Bond films was actually ginger ale for champagne, watered down coffee for whiskey, and pure water for Bond's trademarked vodka martini.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In &lt;em&gt;You Only Live Twice&lt;/em&gt;, Mr. Henderson gets the line backwards but they keep it in the film.  He says “Stirred not Shaken.”  (Also, wearing his slippers on the tatami mats is lame.  [Bond is in just socks.])&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not about drink, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHg3OoMyiG4&quot;&gt;this song&lt;/a&gt; is an all-time cine favorite (pretty great movie too!).  But when I think of Bond movies I often pine on the opportunities where that 1971 Ennio Morricone song could have been used.  (The song name is &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00000IK9U&quot;&gt;#21 - Tarantola Dal Ventre Nero&lt;/a&gt;  The connection is that the original movie called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069343/&quot;&gt;Black Belly of the Tarantula&lt;/a&gt; has two Bond girls in it.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are just hard won thoughts.  Nothing to back me up online that I know of.  Necropost.  Sorry.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="546" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2014-08-17T02:10:35.137" LastActivityDate="2014-08-17T02:10:35.137" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9172" CreationDate="2013-01-03T16:31:09.747" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using the big birds as a short cut seems like a great idea, but it short circuits the whole point of the adventure.  The party are on an adventure to reclaim their home, and in any adventure they grow along the way, Frodo especially.  What do you think would have happened to Frodo if they just showed up to the dragon's door without him going through all of the previous sticky situations?  He would have gotten scared and ran.  Instead, by not short circuting the adventure the characters get to progress, learn, and grow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T16:31:09.747" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9194" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9195" CreationDate="2013-01-03T17:24:44.610" Score="6" ViewCount="357" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 3, Episode 4 of the television series &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blackadder&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_and_Senility&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sense and Senility&lt;/a&gt;, Why should the name of the Scottish play never be said? What about the time when the Scottish play is to be performed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T01:38:09.487" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T01:38:09.487" Title="Why should the name of The Scottish play never be said?" Tags="|blackadder|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9194" CreationDate="2013-01-03T17:35:20.093" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'Scottish Play' nearly always refers to Shakespeare's Macbeth.  For some reason there is a superstition about the play, and theatre people never refer to it by name for fear of bad luck, but only referer to it as 'the scottish play'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read about the superstition on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scottish_play&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T17:35:20.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9196" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9199" CreationDate="2013-01-03T18:15:46.207" Score="23" ViewCount="72848" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, in &quot;Matrix Reloaded&quot;, we see that the agents fire on the car driven by Morpheus. We see that the bullets penetrating the body of the car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the gun is not real, how did it happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the gun is real, how did they maintain the safety of the actors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1215" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-01-14T15:08:53.770" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T05:21:21.173" Title="Are real guns used in movies?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="782" CreationDate="2013-01-03T18:23:55.653" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most movies do not try to maintain a consistent geography of real life places.  To say there are countless examples of stuff like this would be an understatement - I would guess over 90% of films have scenes where characters go down the street, turn a corner, and wind up in an entirely different part of the city.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intent is always to serve the needs of the story and the visuals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hope is the scenery is non-descript enough that even locals don't notice.  I don't think you should look for a plot-based explanation for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3736" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T18:23:55.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8431" CreationDate="2013-01-03T18:31:26.913" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's not the same character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither is &quot;Li&quot;, who is portrayed by Ken Leung (from Lost, Rush Hour, Saw, etc), and is younger than the &quot;doctor&quot; in China, and skinnier than Bishop's buddy in Vietnam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't think you are meant to think these two are the same character. The only resemblance is they are both asian.  Not to mention but the first is Vietnamese, and the second is Chinese, and if it's noticeable to me it would be noticeable to the Chinese guards they are trying to pull a fast one over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3736" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T18:31:26.913" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9196" CreationDate="2013-01-03T18:37:28.197" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ehow.com/facts_5380990_prop-guns-used-movies.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; gives a proper insight as &lt;strong&gt;how guns are used in movies.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blanks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blank-fire guns are &lt;strong&gt;real, working weapons&lt;/strong&gt; that have been minimally modified to fire blank cartridges. Blank cartridges contain &lt;em&gt;gunpowder&lt;/em&gt;, but &lt;em&gt;do not fire&lt;/em&gt; a shell or bullet. They are used for scenes that require a believable muzzle-flash and a loud report. They can be costly and dangerous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Function Guns&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Function&amp;quot; guns are essentially &lt;strong&gt;highly detailed toy, replica guns&lt;/strong&gt;. They look and feel like real guns and can be loaded with realistic looking brass bullets, but they &lt;em&gt;do not fire&lt;/em&gt;. These are typically used for scenes that require an actor to brandish and manipulate a firearm but not fire it. These are just for show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rubber Guns&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rubber guns are just that, &lt;strong&gt;fake guns made of rubber&lt;/strong&gt;. These are used for scenes that require several, non-firing weapons to be present. These are the most cost-effective props, but do not look real in closeup and do not make any noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suicide Guns&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically the same as blank guns--though not &lt;strong&gt;as realistic--but they do not create a muzzle flash&lt;/strong&gt;. The barrel is sealed and are just used for sound effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one master who is in charge of this dangerous shots. He is known as &lt;strong&gt;Weapon Master.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Weapons Master&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A weapon's master works with all the &lt;em&gt;prop guns&lt;/em&gt; on a movie set. He is in charge of maintaining, storing and ensuring the guns are safely handled and never manipulated. The weapon's master must handle each prop gun before and after each time the weapon is used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.originalprop.com/blog/2007/08/20/types-of-prop-guns-employed-in-film-television-productions/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; describes what types of guns these are (&lt;em&gt;like what are they made from, type of the gun etc&lt;/em&gt;) used in the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hard Rubber Guns/Hard Stunt Guns&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prop guns, cast from real firearms in a hard and durable, high-density urethane rubber. These prop stunt guns are characterized by their durability, inflexibility, and detailing. As a rubber casting, there are no moving parts but appear real from a distance. These hard rubber guns are used in scenes that don’t require a firing or functioning prop and that are not shot in close-up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Soft Rubber Guns/Soft Stunt Guns&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prop guns, cast from real firearms in a significantly softer rubber. These prop stunt guns are characterized by their flexibility and softer detailing. As a rubber casting, again, there are no moving parts but can act as a substitute for a real firearm under specific filming conditions. Typically, these soft rubber guns are used in scenes that involve possible injury to the subject while filming. These are most often used in true “stunt” scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Function Guns&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prop guns, constructed of metal, with moving parts. These typically feature a working slide, trigger, and hammer, and allow insertion of magazines. These prop guns have no chamber and cannot be modified to fire real “live” ammunition. These function guns are used in scenes in which a gun is manipulated by an actor during filming, but not fired. These are also used by actors not legally capable of using a true firearm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blank Fire Non Guns&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prop guns, constructed of metal, with moving parts, capable of firing blank cartridges. These typically feature a working slide, trigger, and hammer. These are designed to use proprietary, uniquely-sized blank cartridges (real “live” ammunition cannot be chambered or fired). These are characterized by a solid barrel so that no flash or blast or projectile can be fired through the muzzle. Gas pressures are vented through a slot in the slide. The prop gun will fire and the slide will cycle; the expended cartridge ejects similar to a real live firearm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blank Fire Live Guns&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Real, live fire firearms subsequently converted to fire blank ammunition. As real firearms, they are imprinted with unique serial numbers at the time of manufacture. The firearm is modified in a variety of ways (dependent on the make and model of the weapon) to fire blank ammunition, which is sized to match the real ammunition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if you want to know what shots seems to be a myth and aren't real, you can visit this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/article_18576_5-ridiculous-gun-myths-everyone-believes-thanks-to-movies.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt;. Some popular believed myths and their viability is discussed here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the Matrix Reloaded is concerned it is well known that Matrix series is &lt;em&gt;famous&lt;/em&gt; for their extensive usage of &lt;strong&gt;visual effects in filming&lt;/strong&gt;. They used &lt;strong&gt;CGI&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Bullet Time&lt;/strong&gt; filming techniques in the movie. In fact &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Matrix&lt;/a&gt; won &lt;strong&gt;Oscar&lt;/strong&gt; for visual effects. FYI, the single highway chase scene was filmed for such a long time that is more than a films total shooting period. A &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.juicycerebellum.com/200320.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;review&lt;/a&gt; elaborates it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then there's the already infamous Freeway Chase.  This scene was a potential classic.  The albino twins (Neil and Adrian Rayment) are the most compelling baddies in the picture.  The two can morph into a ghostly form to fly through walls.  Too bad their key sequence takes up nearly 10 minutes of the picture, before they hit the freeway and the much-touted road-rage truly kicks into gear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Freeway Chase suffers immensely from extensive use of CG and motion capture.  When Morpheus is fighting an agent on the top of a huge 18-wheeler, the CG causes him to look like a long-lost Tiny Toon.  To see main characters such as Morpheus converted into cartoon form distracts from the action.   The Freeway Chase isn't an absolute waste:  Trinity on her motorcycle is a wonder to behold.  Your pulse should quicken when you see her zooming through oncoming traffic at what appears to be 80-100 MPH.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are interested you can read their &lt;a href=&quot;http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/The_Matrix&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt; for more info on their effects usage!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-04T03:47:14.120" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9196" CreationDate="2013-01-03T18:40:22.547" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Define &quot;penetrating the body of the car&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you mean &quot;You see bullet impacts in the body of the car&quot;, that is achieved with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squib_%28explosive%29&quot;&gt;squibs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you mean &quot;You can see bullet trails INSIDE the cab of the car&quot;, that is almost certainly also squibs to create smoke and debris.  If you see actual bullet trails in slow motion, that would be done with CGI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, some films certainly use real guns, but never real bullets.  For almost all scenes where guns are not being fired, prop guns are usually used because real guns are much heavier than you might expect, and it's easier to act with lighter plastic guns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3736" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T18:40:22.547" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9064" CreationDate="2013-01-03T18:52:05.790" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; It costs too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simplistic analogy is a new college graduate saying, &lt;em&gt;“You know, I’m just going to buy 10 houses at the same time and sell them all on the same day and make millions”&lt;/em&gt; – vs. buying, selling, buying selling, to build equity, to learn the product/markets along the way, and to spread the insane distribution negotiation process out.  So – juggling 10 balls at once vs. 100 at once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, traditionally a release does not even open in the US all at once.  I’d be interested to see what percentage do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a.) Up-front money is the game.  It’s hard enough to secure financing for a production, AND to support local marketing which can be more than the production itself, depending on how they want to hit it.  (All those print ads, television ads, so that people know to even go see the movie – major beaucoup that.)  You have to get loaned money back ASAP!  (Look at Blade Runner.  Ridley lost rights to the picture because he could not fulfill the contractual steps to pay back the money on time.)  (See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120202/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;State &amp;amp; Main&lt;/a&gt; for parody on how tight up-front money is. [&lt;em&gt;“..So, that happened.”&lt;/em&gt;])&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b.) Each print costs like $2K.  Having every movie house (37,000 in the US) – and in &lt;strong&gt;every country&lt;/strong&gt; – open at once is fantastically expensive in both up-front cash but also logistically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;c.) Negotiating distribution is a crazy and painstaking business process.  It is said making a picture is easy compared to distributing it &lt;em&gt;even locally&lt;/em&gt;.  And foreign distributors do not want to buy what is not proven in at least one market.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see how these things are all compounding right?  A.) alone is frickin’ hard to get done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you might imagine how irksome it would be when people blithely demand a worldwide opening (and conveniently forgetting the same limitations in their own country’s film industry.)  It’s rather like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;“I don’t care.” iPhone guy&lt;/a&gt;.  (Now &lt;em&gt;there&lt;/em&gt; is a movie production that you can get worldwide distribution on the same day!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="546" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T18:52:05.790" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9205" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9206" CreationDate="2013-01-03T20:39:21.570" Score="8" ViewCount="1757" Body="&lt;p&gt;Batman has Lucius Fox man a device that monitors all of the cell phones in Gotham to give Batman an edge in his fight against the Joker. Fox is so against using this device that he says he will resign afterwards if Bruce asks him to use it. Why was this device so dangerous in the mind of Mr. Fox?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T20:47:52.697" Title="What was so dangerous about the listening device?" Tags="|analysis|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9205" CreationDate="2013-01-03T20:47:52.697" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fox believes this device, while in existence, is more evil than the Joker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is due to the nature of turning every cell phone, something we can assume every citizen in Gotham owns, into a sonar device capable of mapping the immediate area, spying on every single person in Gotham.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene shows Fox's true ideals of being a proponent for individual rights and against spying on people for information.  Bruce, however, is desperate enough to put Fox through this stress in order to catch the madman that is the Joker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is alluded to by Alfred when Bruce asked how his platoon caught the thief.  He stated that they simply &quot;Burnt the forest down&quot;.  This is Bruce's forest fire, tearing down the walls of Gotham for him to find the Joker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Fox's faith in Bruce gets rewarded, as he enters his name into the console, the machine begins to overheat and self destruct, proving to Fox that Bruce merely needed this cruel and potentially dangerous tool to find the Joker, and for nothing more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-01-03T20:47:52.697" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="328" CreationDate="2013-01-04T03:14:01.780" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;28:06:42:12 comes from the lunar year: 27d 7h 43m 11s = 27:07:43:11 add or subtract 1 from every number.. and u get 28d 06h 42m 12s&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3783" LastActivityDate="2013-01-04T03:14:01.780" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9210" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9212" CreationDate="2013-01-04T07:29:20.763" Score="18" ViewCount="22559" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2007's movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Into The Wild&lt;/a&gt;, &#xA;Chris abandons society and starts living in a forest.&#xA;In the end when he is dying his last words are&#xA;&quot;Happiness is only real when shared&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So was it a mistake to abandon society?&#xA;Was it all wrong to travel all the way to Alaska&#xA;and live a solitary life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the moral of the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-12-07T03:53:18.320" LastActivityDate="2016-12-07T03:53:18.320" Title="&quot;Happiness is only real when shared&quot;" Tags="|ending|dialogue|into-the-wild|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9210" CreationDate="2013-01-04T07:45:12.767" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is based on the real life story of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McCandless&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Christopher McCandless&lt;/a&gt; with the little exception of death by toxic substance because there is no toxic substance found in &#xA;McCandless's body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, The moral of the story is itself in the sentence &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Happiness is only real when shared&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. It's not against living solitary life or life in a nature is bad. But to say that leaving your loved one behind you to find happiness is worth of nothing or you can say you can't enjoy your happiness alone (It's human nature).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-06T23:57:38.737" LastActivityDate="2016-12-06T23:57:38.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9210" CreationDate="2013-01-04T08:01:40.867" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say the focus of the ending of the movie should not be on &lt;em&gt;Is it a mistake of the society or is it wrong to live a solitary life&lt;/em&gt;,rather on the fact what he actually said when dying i.e. &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Happiness is only real, when shared&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. By this quote he meant, if you want to find happiness in life, you can't enjoy it alone. Share it with your friends and family and it would be returned multiplied. In fact when he understood he is in grave dengar, he tried to leave the place but he could not as the river became wide and deep. However he also spoke that he was not sorry for all he had done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quotation he had written in the bus also should be considered for understanding what was going on in his head then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r7GRf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However according to the author, Jon Krakauer, the last thing that Chris wrote was &lt;strong&gt;I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD.  GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS ALL!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Krakauer, pg199)&lt;/em&gt;. What Chris learned is a difficult question given the cryptic nature of his writing and the fate that he suffered. The author also tells us that Chris highlighted the following paragraph from the book Dr Zhivago, perhaps illustrating what he learned: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness in not happiness...And this was most vexing of all.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; Chris added the note &quot;HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED.&quot; (Krakauer pg 189) He had spent much of his young life seeking solitary struggle against nature and &quot;truth&quot; and he may have discovered that he needed to share his knowledge with others in order to find real happiness. &lt;sub&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.enotes.com/into-wild/q-and-a/end-into-wild-what-does-christopher-learn-whole-20249&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reference&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;moral of the story was not that adventure is &lt;em&gt;not good&lt;/em&gt;, but at the end of the day you &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; return to home to share it with others and understand true meaning of happiness!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-01-04T08:22:51.193" LastActivityDate="2013-01-04T08:22:51.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9218" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27633" CreationDate="2013-01-04T14:38:16.167" Score="1" ViewCount="1258" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conundrum_%28Dallas%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;last episode&lt;/a&gt; of the original Dallas aired in 1991. Two reunion movies were made. The first, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas%3a_J.R._Returns&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;J.R. Returns&lt;/a&gt;, aired in 1996. The second, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas%3a_War_of_the_Ewings&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;War of the Ewings&lt;/a&gt;, aired in 1998. The series was &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_%282012_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;revived&lt;/a&gt; in 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_%282012_TV_series%29#Continuity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia says&lt;/a&gt; that the 2012 series does not include the movies in its continuity. Is that accurate? Is there, in fact, no reference at all to the events of the two reunion movies? Does the new series actually &lt;em&gt;contradict&lt;/em&gt; the movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1331" LastEditorUserId="1331" LastEditDate="2013-01-04T20:54:45.263" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T20:26:30.357" Title="How do the Dallas movies fit between the old and new shows?" Tags="|continuity|dallas|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9225" CreationDate="2013-01-04T15:17:16.183" Score="13" ViewCount="14120" Body="&lt;p&gt;In many scenes of &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;, it seems that the Joker experiences no pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When the truck is flipped by Batman, the Joker is sitting inside the truck, but after the crash he soon steps out and fires bullets on Batman&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the interrogation room Batman slams his head on table and then gives a hard punch on his hand, but nothing happens to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2023-02-16T12:47:03.857" LastActivityDate="2023-02-16T12:47:03.857" Title="In The Dark Knight why does The Joker not appear to feel any pain?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9020" CreationDate="2013-01-04T15:20:34.880" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that Oliver_C has the best answer with information to back it up, but I would like to point out that there are many long running British shows too. Are You Being Served, Last of the Summer Wine to name two. The Office wasn't a hit when it first aired. It could be described as &quot;brilliant but cancelled&quot;. Coupling aired in the U.S. and was quickly canceled. One really good thing about a writer's medium show is that the series can have an actual end instead of a sudden cancellation. If only some U.S. shows could be written like that. Heroes would have been a good series. Firefly would have had a proper ending within the series. But overall most British shows such as No Heroics are written not to become a hit but to be well liked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="16523" LastEditDate="2017-01-22T10:40:03.383" LastActivityDate="2017-01-22T10:40:03.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9221" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9223" CreationDate="2013-01-04T15:33:05.877" Score="22" ViewCount="32810" Body="&lt;p&gt;So today I was watching Grown-up again and saw the tooth of Lenny's daughter fell and we can see she had no teeth. Similarly, I remembered a scene with a missing tooth in the Hangover part 1. So I thought, how do they do toothless shots? Are the actors really toothless and they wore prop teeth for the previous scenes? So I searched for the Hangover missing tooth scene and found an &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.about.com/od/thehangover/a/ed-helms.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interesting interview with the actor Ed Helms&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The missing tooth, how did they do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ed Helms: &amp;quot;When I was 15 I lost a tooth and had an implant put in. Cut to 20 years later, I'm doing this part and the script calls for my character to lose a tooth. We did some camera tests blacking it out, we made a prosthetic with a gap in it, but that made me look like a donkey, so I vetoed that right away. And then I just finally called my dentist and said, 'You know, I've had this implant for 20 years. What's it involve in taking it out?' And he said, 'It’s actually not that big a deal. We can do that.' So we took it out and I was toothless for three months, for the run of the movie.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my question is, is it always possible to hire such an actor who has lost his/her tooth in the past? Each director/producer may not get that lucky. But there are a lot of movies where tooth picking or losing is shown. Like the girl in Grown Ups or the guy in The Tommyknockers (&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/8091/alien-invasion-movie&quot;&gt;Reference&lt;/a&gt;). So what do they do then? How are they able to show a toothless mouth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2021-01-08T15:41:29.890" Title="How do they show a tooth-less mouth?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9219" CreationDate="2013-01-04T15:41:16.577" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are no indications in the movie that the Joker is on any sort of drugs or anything else that would make him immune to physical pain.  In the jail scene he even explain to Batman to not start with the head, and when Batman punched his hand it was an example of why you don't start with the head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only real reason that I can think of is that, compared to the pain of having your mouth cut like he has, other pain might not have the same edge to it, but that's purely speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-01-04T15:41:16.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9221" CreationDate="2013-01-04T15:53:16.823" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several ways to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You would be surprised how many actors have teeth missing under those perfect veneers so, as in the case of Ed Helms, the filmmakers can just utilize those gaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there are varying degrees of concealment;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Black-out tooth paint&lt;/strong&gt; - this is a quick solution for long shots, but has to be reapplied several times over the course of a shot,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tooth wax&lt;/strong&gt; - a black wax composite that is smeared over the tooth. This can also be eroded over time however,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Specially made black tooth caps&lt;/strong&gt; - the benefit to these is that they do not require reapplication every hour,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Full denture sets&lt;/strong&gt; - these sets, made just like regular dentures, fit over the actor's own teeth (making the bite radius smaller however) and can incorporate 'gummy' gaps,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CG&lt;/strong&gt; - a bit extreme, but it can be used to more intimate shots. In some cases the actor will wear a 'green cap' in order to facilitate the compositing of a gap,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mouth double&lt;/strong&gt; - it is not uncommon for an actor to look at themselves in the mirror, cut to close up of mouth double with missing teeth, then back to actor reaction. Edited properly, this will sell the shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than the CG and full denture examples, I have utilized all of these techniques over the years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="44202" LastEditDate="2021-01-08T15:41:29.890" LastActivityDate="2021-01-08T15:41:29.890" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8795" CreationDate="2013-01-04T15:54:05.000" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though it's pure speculation, but my best guess would be Roya. She might have picked it up herself or she got it done through one of her operatives. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastActivityDate="2013-01-04T15:54:05.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9219" CreationDate="2013-01-04T16:03:50.840" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is simply part of his insanity.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to his will to be  an &lt;em&gt;agent of chaos&lt;/em&gt;, he is able to endure severe physical pain better than most humans.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not exclude him from pain however as is shown especially during the interrogation scene, the Joker is physically injured by Batman's strength, unable to fight back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also apparent during the final confrontation where Batman shoots his arm blades at the Joker, stunning him from the cuts and Batman is able to gain the upper hand for the final time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also take note that this Batman series is very light when it comes to physical injuries, a lot of them being downplayed, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-01-04T16:03:50.840" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9219" CreationDate="2013-01-04T16:04:34.863" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film The Dark Knight, &lt;a href=&quot;http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/The_Joker_%28Heath_Ledger%29#Abilities&quot;&gt;Jokers ability&lt;/a&gt; is shown as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He is also shown to be a &lt;strong&gt;skilled, fearless, and unpredictable fighter&lt;/strong&gt;, taking on mob henchmen and cops with ease, and showing how he can be lethal with many forms of weaponry; and was even capable of holding his own against Batman and trapping him near the climax of the film (although he had assistance on both occasions when fighting Batman).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason behind his enviable power is also described in the wiki beautifully:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One explanation for the Joker's fighting skills might have to do with his &lt;strong&gt;psychotic personality&lt;/strong&gt;: the Joker doesn't really fear physical damage to himself like a normal person would, and even when brutally injured laughs at his own pain. &lt;strong&gt;His casual insensitivity to pain, and his extreme fearlessness, lets him take risks that a normal person wouldn't even attempt, and so most people just don't see his attacks coming, i.e. walking into a room full of mobsters and casually using a 'magic trick' to impale a pencil into one of their heads. The Joker's obliviousness to danger makes him invulnerable to what is usually Batman's greatest weapon in combat: his ability to frighten low-level thugs.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the Joker was originally taken from the comics of Batman, we should give importance on how his character has been portrayed by the writers. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joker_%28comics%29#Powers_and_abilities&quot;&gt;Wikipedia says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joker's skills in unarmed combat vary considerably depending on the writer. Some writers have shown Joker to be a very skilled fighter, capable of holding his own against Batman. His versatility in combat is due in part to his own extensive array of hidden gadgets and weapons on his person that he often pulls out on a moment's whim (rolling a handful of explosive marbles on the ground, retractable knives attached to his spats, etc.); other writers, on the other hand, portray Joker as physically frail to the point that he can be defeated with a single punch. He is, however, consistently described as agile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the film is an adaptation of the comics, we can say it is assumable that Joker in the film also depicts his inherent ability to withstand extreme pain and return a fight. It is his innate quality and skill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-01-04T17:35:56.490" LastActivityDate="2013-01-04T17:35:56.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9227" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9438" CreationDate="2013-01-04T17:19:06.570" Score="5" ViewCount="2255" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie roughly 15 years ago, although it was in black and white.  It's about a woman(call her Molly for now, though I doubt that was her name) who lives alone, until some relative(sister or cousin, I think) comes in.  Throughout the movie, the relative is trying to convince the Molly that she's (Molly) is crazy.  If I recall, the motive was to have her committed or something so she can gain some sort of inheritance.  I vaguely remember one scene where Molly is in a room, and a decapitated head rolls across the floor.  It may have been a skull, or full head, I can't remember.  Thanks for any help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After some more discussion with the wife, we've come to the conclusion that the relative of &quot;Molly&quot; is a female, and that we THINK it takes place in a southern state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3541" LastEditorUserId="3541" LastEditDate="2013-01-07T14:07:46.803" LastActivityDate="2017-01-01T17:31:32.530" Title="Movie about driving a woman crazy to gain inheritance" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:40:53.050" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9229" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9230" CreationDate="2013-01-04T18:19:49.197" Score="3" ViewCount="536" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the english version of Dragon Ball GT was released to the US, the first 6 episodes were skipped and replaced with a composite episode.  Why were these 6 episodes skipped and compressed into one episode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T15:06:08.290" Title="Why were the first 6 episodes skipped?" Tags="|dragon-ball-gt|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9229" CreationDate="2013-01-04T18:35:56.913" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess its 16 rather than 6, From the posts I have been reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Black_Star_Dragon_Ball_Saga&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;about&lt;/a&gt; it seems that Dragon Ball GT which was set 5 years after Dragon Ball Z tried to start off in a similar tone to the original Dragon Ball  by trying to be less serious and more funny but the reception was very poor for those initial 16 episodes which forced FUNimation the company that produced GT to compress them as a recap and start off directly at the 17th episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The excerpt from the dragonball wiki&lt;/strong&gt; The Black Star Dragon Ball Saga is the introductory arc of the Dragon Ball GT series, taking place 5 (according to the Daizenshuu)/10 (according to the FUNimation Dub) years after the end of Dragon Ball Z. This is also the part of the series that tried to recapture the spirit of Dragon Ball with its more comical adventurous tone rather than the serious nature of Dragon Ball Z. Due to this, many fans were disappointed, so FUNimation had cut the first 16 episodes of this saga and began Dragon Ball GT with episode 17.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T15:06:08.290" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T15:06:08.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9239" CreationDate="2013-01-04T19:01:12.840" Score="20" ViewCount="96497" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having recently seen &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;, I was intrigued by the scenes between Gandalf and Galadriel which seemed to imply that they shared a more intimate history than previously thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not being much of a Tolkien scholar, I am curious to know if this relationship was ever alluded to in the books, or if it is a construct of Jackson et al to create a new layer for a modern demographic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So: &lt;strong&gt;do the original books (appendices and all) refer to a previous relationship between these characters, or is it merely a fabrication on the part of the filmmakers?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yScCl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-06-21T23:45:19.520" Title="Is there more to Gandalf and Galadriel's relationship than is hinted at in The Hobbit?" Tags="|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9234" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9240" CreationDate="2013-01-04T21:24:15.507" Score="4" ViewCount="552" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Special Episode of the television series Blackadder, also sometimes referred to as Season 5 Episode 1, How did Blackadder become the King of England?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is it that he must have changed in the past that made him the King of England and Baldrick the Prime Minister?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-01-05T02:17:55.533" LastActivityDate="2013-01-05T02:17:55.533" Title="How did Blackadder become the king?" Tags="|blackadder|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9235" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-04T21:26:02.097" Score="2" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 4 of the British sitcom Blackadder, is the officer's name actually &quot;Darling&quot; or is it just a nick name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &quot;Darling&quot; is just a nick name, what is his real name in the show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T03:26:22.153" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T03:26:22.153" Title="What is Darling's actual name in the show?" Tags="|blackadder|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9236" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-04T21:29:57.937" Score="5" ViewCount="761" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the four seasons of &lt;em&gt;The Black Adder&lt;/em&gt; have six episodes. I have noticed that in the second episode of every season, the Black Adder almost dies or it is at least said that he is going to die - and then - he somehow just manages to live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some kind of pattern here? Do all the first, third, fourth, fifth and sixth episodes also have something in common?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or something along those lines?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-27T03:54:01.683" LastActivityDate="2014-03-14T16:01:12.907" Title="Common patterns in each season of The Black Adder?" Tags="|blackadder|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9235" CreationDate="2013-01-04T21:44:26.720" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The character's real name is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darling_%28Blackadder%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kevin Darling&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its meant to just be a joke that his real name is also a term of endearment, setting up some good lines from the others, not that it is a nickname.  To a British ear, Darling sounds convincingly like it could be a last name of someone from the upper classes - like an officer in the British Army at the time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its worth pointing out that Darling is definitely more likely a last name than Blackadder itself. For example Darling was the last name of the family in Peter Pan, a story from the same era.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T03:23:15.143" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T03:23:15.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9249" CreationDate="2013-01-04T23:27:26.200" Score="12" ViewCount="11597" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the new Hobbit movie, the warg riding orcs attack in daylight, which according to Tolkien's books should not be possible. Any speculations how this might be explained anyway?&#xA;In the Lord of the Rings movies there were the Uruk Hai who could travel in daylight (as in the books). But these orcs seemed to be of a different kind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3706" LastEditorUserId="3706" LastEditDate="2013-01-04T23:39:23.243" LastActivityDate="2014-07-17T02:15:29.303" Title="Why could the warg riding orcs attack in daylight?" Tags="|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9231" CreationDate="2013-01-04T23:54:35.650" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes and no. No, there is not and never has been any romantic liaison between them. But it's fair enough to assume they are good friends who have fought against the same evil for many years. It was Galadriel who first summoned the White Council (one of the meetings of which we see in The Hobbit) and she would have wanted Gandalf to be the leader of the council instead of Saruman to whom the task was appointed in the end. It was also Galadriel who sent one of the eagles to seek Gandalf after he had fallen with the balrog in the Lord of the Rings, and it was she who dressed him in white after his return. They are both also Ring-bearers, bearing one of the three Elven rings each. Hers is the ring of Water (Nenya), his is the ring of Fire (Narya).  These Rings are different from the One Ring.  Nenya, Narya, and Vilya are benevolent.  They do not corrupt the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, for sure there is a connection there - a platonic one between two of the wisest beings in Middle-Earth during that time. I don't think the movie necessarily implies there being anything more either, but that is of course left for the imagination of the viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3796" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-06-21T23:45:19.520" LastActivityDate="2013-06-21T23:45:19.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9234" CreationDate="2013-01-05T00:46:30.323" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it has ever been established definitively, but here's a theory plausible enough for the TV show. It doesn't require major new historical alterations-- only Edmund's avarice and determination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first episode of the show, &lt;strong&gt;Richard III&lt;/strong&gt; is succeeded by the (fictitious) King &lt;strong&gt;Richard IV&lt;/strong&gt;, father of Edmund, the first Black Adder. What this means for the (real) King &lt;strong&gt;Henry VII&lt;/strong&gt; is unclear. However, since &lt;strong&gt;Elizabeth I&lt;/strong&gt; eventually becomes Queen, it's clear that it wasn't long before the House of Tudor took the throne from the House of York. Later houses-- Stuart, Hanover, etc, probably followed as in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how does this relate to the later (fictitious) King &lt;strong&gt;Edmund III&lt;/strong&gt;, the most recent Black Adder?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Edmund of &lt;strong&gt;Blackadder Goes Forth&lt;/strong&gt; is, as far as we know, a direct descendant of the Edmund seen in the first episode. He (or a later 20th century Edmund) may know this, or he may have discovered it by researching his own ancestry. He could make a plausible claim to be the only surviving heir of the House of York. Making an argument that this gave him a rightful claim to the throne, superior to that of the present House of Windsor, is quite a stretch-- in the real world. Probably impossible, really. But it's exactly the kind of thing any of the historical Edmunds would love to take up. He'd probably argue that the entire House of Windsor were merely pretenders to the throne and therefore not rightful monarchs. We pretty much have to assume he succeeded, based on &lt;strong&gt;Blackadder Back and Forth&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could conceivably take place at any point between the two Blackadder series. I'd guess the most likely time for it to happen would be the end of 1936 or early 1937, right after the abdication of &lt;strong&gt;Edward VIII&lt;/strong&gt;. This led to a crisis over succession and over the state of the monarchy in general-- exactly the sort of confusion where Edmund would make a move. He'd probably start by claiming that Edward VIII had discredited his entire royal house, and work his way up from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why Edmund the third? There was an &lt;strong&gt;Edmund II&lt;/strong&gt;, a thousand or so years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Prime Minister Baldrick, the Edmunds always keep the Baldricks around. Getting a Baldrick elected PM would be a natural next move for Edmund III. And anyone devious enough to argue his way to the monarchy would certainly be devious enough to manipulate parliament to serve his ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3794" LastEditorUserId="3794" LastEditDate="2013-01-05T01:36:29.600" LastActivityDate="2013-01-05T01:36:29.600" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8170" CreationDate="2013-01-05T01:24:18.643" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just finished watching it, and was completely &quot;Wtf?!?&quot; throughout the whole last 10–15 minutes, which begin exactly when you said: right after he sits down next to his Dad's wife, with the scene immediately after, which shows us the guy who told the lieutenant (over and over) that he had made a bad mistake as he was leaving his (the lieutenant's) girlfriend's place sitting patiently and waiting for the lieutenant at his desk. From that moment until the very end, I found the movie more and more incredulous with each passing minute, until I literally guffawed out loud and said &quot;Oh please......!&quot; and I was watching it alone. I usually don't react audibly to films when I'm alone, so just to say the sudden difference was pretty extreme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, right after around 4 loose ends were neatly tied up with a big bow, starting with above and ending with the lieutenant's boss saying they found the drug dealer's prints on a crack pipe at the murder scene, all within about 3 minutes time, I remember thinking &quot;Oh, I get it now... this is like a drug dream or something... they're probably gonna show him waking up pretty soon.&quot; Then like I said, it started getting worse and worse. But the worst was yet to come: that was after, after he was honored with promotion to Captain with everyone in attendance, including his girl who was (of course) pregnant, and they all had their wineless dinner and he dropped her off at home, when the camera stayed on the picturesque little house with the pretty flowers and the almost perfect symmetry of the trees bookending the whole thing, with the radiant little (expecting) woman standing in front ... &lt;strong&gt;BIG INHALE&lt;/strong&gt; ... that whole thing was just so cloyingly sweet and hokey and corny that it caused the aforementioned solitary audible &quot;oh please!&quot; moment :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gotta accelerate this, or it'll be even longer than it's turning out to be: after the end I went online, looking for the inevitable explanation, and like you, I didn't find anything, until I saw what was written here, and you provided the little thing I was missing: the exact moment when it all started, which was right after he tooted from the open bag of very pure smack, and when you tied it together by reminding me about the prior warnings about its strength, etc, and I put all that together with a few other little things, like the fact his girlfriend chose the exact moment she did to go to rehab with the dad — just as he was waving that bag in front of her face, and find the strength to turn it down not once not twice but three times, because he kept trying — I saw that you nailed it, bro. You got it. You put it together. I am certain you are right. I'm actually 100% certain, not even 99. My reason is very simple: it all ties together perfectly. It makes too much sense for it to be anything else. It can't NOT be, in other words. A good filmmaker, who proved he was before this film and during this whole film up to the last 10–15 minutes does not &quot;suddenly&quot; become a bad, laughable, cliché director for those final 10–15 minutes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm certain you are right, bro. Kudos. I'm looking forward now to watch it again — ALL of it — this time keeping in mind what I now know, so I can catch all the little clues that I'm sure are there throughout and that I'm just not remembering right now. I'm sure there are some we both missed. In many ways this is like a very scaled down version of how David Chase actually prepared us for the Sopranos ending a few years ago ... most everybody had missed it then, too :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3797" LastEditorUserId="3797" LastEditDate="2013-01-05T01:30:13.703" LastActivityDate="2013-01-05T01:30:13.703" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9210" CreationDate="2013-01-05T03:42:16.357" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Caveat: no disrespect intended to the man or his family.  All information below is personal opinion, and mostly about the artistic decisions of the movie makers.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q&lt;/strong&gt;: “In the end when he is dying his last words are ‘Happiness is only real when shared.’&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not quite.  He wrote that into some book (with “Moscow” and various Russian names in the book’s text), and then had a huge crying emotional epiphany as he looked up to the sky; as if those words were the answer to it all; as if through those words he had finally solved the mystery that was crippling him.  So there’s that.  But those were not his last words.  In voice-over we then hear him say, &lt;em&gt;”&lt;strong&gt;To call each thing by its right name.&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;/em&gt; while the camera shows his alias carved in wood, &lt;em&gt;“Alexander Supertramp”&lt;/em&gt;.  Then the voice-over continues with a repeat, &lt;em&gt;”&lt;strong&gt;..by its right name.&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;/em&gt; cutting to his handwritten card in the window (&lt;em&gt;“I have had a happy life and thank the Lord.  Goodbye and may God bless all!”&lt;/em&gt;), but then slowly zooming in to close-up of how he printed his real name, &lt;em&gt;“Christopher Johnson McCandless.”&lt;/em&gt;  So in his last moments he &lt;em&gt;became himself&lt;/em&gt; again – or was healed – a kind of secular: redemption/salvation/atonement/deliverance – however you want to think about that moment from a secular point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then they intercut between his last-gasp death mask face and an idyllic past where he’s hugging his family in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MeadowRun&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;meadow run&lt;/a&gt;; with his actual last words being - the last words of the movie that is - &lt;em&gt;“&lt;strong&gt;What if I were smiling; and running into your arms.  Would you see then what I see now?&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those were his last words.  He was smiling and looking up to the sunny cloud-filled sky in both his idyllic memory of a family huggy shot, and ALSO in his sanctified death mask shot; laying down in the bus looking upwards out the window into the Alaskan sky.  He was &lt;strong&gt;happy&lt;/strong&gt; to finally die.  Just like he imagined making his family happy by running into their arms.  He was finally able to &lt;em&gt;be happy&lt;/em&gt;; to leave his tormented life behind.  To my mind the ending was not played as an individual’s tragedy; it was played as a glorification of a lost individual’s soul - ..a martyred hippie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q&lt;/strong&gt;: “So was it a mistake to abandon society?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, sure it’s a mistake for someone to abandon society – and he had the great epiphany about that – but it wasn’t a “mistake” that he made – &lt;strong&gt;the tragedy of the story was that he didn’t have a choice&lt;/strong&gt;.  He was not able to cope with what modern life had in store for him (whether it was evolution or environment), but there was no “mistake” about it – it was methodical, planned, and consistent.  Earlier, he looked out the restaurant window and wanted to be like normal happy people he saw, but just could not be that.  He had to follow his own doomed path.  It was not a “mistake” for him – it was his destiny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q&lt;/strong&gt;: ”Was it all wrong to travel all the way to Alaska and live a solitary life?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one of those unusual movies that has a huge gap between what I think of it and what most of my close friends think.  (They loved it, I hated it.)  They seem to feel something &lt;em&gt;happened to him&lt;/em&gt;, he &lt;em&gt;got caught&lt;/em&gt; behind the river (&lt;em&gt;“..that poor boy”&lt;/em&gt;), and what he was doing by communing with nature was some kind of noble heroic journey; like an American Indian ‘vision quest’ or something.  In short, they have deep sympathy.  I don’t.  I read the book, I still don’t.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to my friends, it was NOT “all wrong”.  It was part of an individual’s natural exploration (albeit extreme) of himself and the world.  To me, it was far beyond “all wrong”.  It was idiotic and disgusting – not a redeeming damn thing about it.  As a highly advantaged and intelligent young man; and who was a poetic, self-sufficient, and beautiful young man - if you will, an abstraction of, “the best that our society produces.”  THAT is the tragedy if there is one – that the greatest and best of what we can produce as young men in our society could willfully &lt;strong&gt;dive into an empty pool&lt;/strong&gt; that is outback Alaska in winter.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;to me&lt;/strong&gt; the tragedy is not about the poor boy who got trapped, or even the stupidity of an individual or his tragic doomed destiny that he had no choice but to complete – it’s about the tragedy of a culture that can somehow produce untold numbers of people that are completely disassociated with our modern society – they want no part of it.  They go to movies and like movies that glorify people who want no part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q&lt;/strong&gt;: “What is the moral of the story?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That hippies still hate yuppies?  That children still rebel and can’t stand their conservative parents, or even the world we live in?  Blah-blah-blah.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="546" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-07T00:03:02.820" LastActivityDate="2016-12-07T00:03:02.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8642" CreationDate="2013-01-05T05:24:04.780" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're mixing up two shows. There are 2 Australian shows - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror,_Mirror_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;Mirror, Mirror&lt;/a&gt;  and 2) &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellbinder_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;Spellbinder&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3798" LastEditorUserId="3798" LastEditDate="2013-01-09T21:23:19.540" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T21:23:19.540" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9246" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9250" CreationDate="2013-01-05T07:20:56.130" Score="12" ViewCount="541" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching the Star Trek Into Darkness trailers on Apple's trailer site. I watched the Announcement in English (US) and then the UK and AU versions and I noticed that the background audio was at different levels in each of them. The most prominent example is the blond girl screaming at about the 40 second mark. When I noticed this I watched most of the other language versions as well. It's not just that the US version is louder and more pronounced than the others but in each language the scream is different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the point of this? I would have thought the same video and audio would have been used with just the voice over being different but it seems as though a separate audio track for each language was used even though there is no speaking other than the voice over. I wonder if in the released versions of the film will the scream be muted for other languages as it is in the Announcements?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="76" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2016-09-12T03:08:30.090" LastActivityDate="2016-09-12T03:08:30.090" Title="Why are there different audio levels for different languages?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9256" CreationDate="2013-01-05T08:33:39.723" Score="2" ViewCount="306" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the television series, Misfits, when the thunder stuck and everyone got their powers, why did the people get the specific powers that they got?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it what they actually wished for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-01-05T08:40:47.943" LastActivityDate="2013-02-11T13:33:56.610" Title="Why did the people get specific powers?" Tags="|plot-explanation|misfits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9238" CreationDate="2013-01-05T12:02:35.917" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those were &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Hunter_Orcs&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hunter Orcs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fast-moving and fanatical Hunter Orcs serve as the right hand of &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Azog&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Azog&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a relentless band who will stop at nought to slay his quarry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hx5to.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Hunter Orcs&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Speculation:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;One of the Hunter Orcs ,&lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Yazneg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yazneg&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, was killed by &lt;em&gt;Azog&lt;/em&gt; after he failed to capture &lt;em&gt;Thorin&lt;/em&gt;, so they were clearly under a lot of pressure. Compared to &lt;em&gt;Azog's wrath&lt;/em&gt; the Hunter Orcs possibly considerd &lt;em&gt;sunlight&lt;/em&gt; to be the lesser evil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe this breed, like the &lt;em&gt;Uruk-hai&lt;/em&gt;, can indeed withstand the sunlight better&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Because this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Non-canonical_orcs&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;'non-canon'&lt;/a&gt; there seems to be very limited information)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-05T12:02:35.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9246" CreationDate="2013-01-05T15:12:17.950" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not seen the trailers you mention, nor have I ever made a trailer, but this is my guess:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By necessity, trailers are completed before post-production is completed.  Thus, the final audio mix is not complete.  There is no baseline source (thus volumes), for say, a scream, relative to background noise.  In fact, the actual scream from the movie probably isn’t even captured.  And even if it is, it might not make the final cut.  As I understand it, a production company will outsource languages to &lt;strong&gt;different agencies&lt;/strong&gt;.  Savvy US producers do not presume they understand intimately the UK and other markets as well as local specialists do in a &lt;em&gt;right-this-second&lt;/em&gt; kind of way.  Trailers are often outsourced to these specialists who do their own thing even though it’s the same language (some might argue that.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are standards, but no integration after the fact of the different trailer products, or direct communication during their creation where various artistic decisions are being made in parallel.  There is no reason to level-set them after the fact volume wise.  These trailer artists are all about &lt;strong&gt;bang-pow&lt;/strong&gt;, and could not give a hoot about trailer consistency between countries.  (Unless technology, allowing direct head-to-head comparison, and inquisitive people like you, start to generate a problem of it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if I took &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auDv6cf2PBM&quot;&gt;Led Zeppelin’s&lt;/a&gt; first album, and recorded it to cassette on my system (wow – that’s dating me), and my brother did the same on his system, and my sister on her system – even though we had the exact same recorded source (even though trailer companies do not), our cassettes would probably sound very different played head-to-head, because of the probability of different cassette manufacturers with different tape biases, and our chosen noise reduction schemes, and equipment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However - you can pay to have it all made consistent, if you have the inkling, money, and time.  This is one of countless artistic decisions made in move creation.  It is an insane thing they do, making the magic!  Much respect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When different movie languages are being mastered to a single DVD, you can be sure there will be more consistency.  These days, that is.  Not so in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just a humble and imaginative SWAG at your question.  I’ve never opened the proverbial clock to see how it works, that’s just how I imagine it might work, in at least one imaginative case.  I would love for the trailer creators to give the real story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(No technicians were harmed in the making of this production.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="546" LastActivityDate="2013-01-05T15:12:17.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9252" CreationDate="2013-01-05T15:57:56.563" Score="40" ViewCount="27154" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout The Dark Knight, the Joker licks his lips when in conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why does the Joker do this?&lt;/em&gt; Is this a psychological affect commonly observed in sociopaths or people with mental imbalances (or however you'd choose to describe the Joker)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is this merely a product of Heath Ledger's portrayal? If this is the case, &lt;em&gt;what was his motivation to do so?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-29T10:05:20.437" LastActivityDate="2017-09-11T23:30:02.277" Title="Why did the Joker lick his lips?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9251" CreationDate="2013-01-05T16:31:21.763" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92612530&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with Christopher Nolan:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I don't really know where that came from... He actually had a sort of prosthetic appliance for the scars that wrapped over his lower lips, and the first couple of scenes where he was playing it that way, I actually had thought it was a mistake... I thought the prosthetic was coming loose on the bottom lip and he was sticking it down with his tongue or something.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And it was only after we shot a couple of scenes I realized oh no this is a thing he's found, this is a sort of... I think it's a lizard like... or serpent like elemental kind of gesture.. and I think it works... I think it's very creepy...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&amp;amp;t=1&amp;amp;islist=false&amp;amp;id=92612530&amp;amp;m=92586277&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to listen to Nolan talk about Ledger's creepy lip-smacking]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-05T16:31:21.763" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9210" CreationDate="2013-01-05T16:47:33.543" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Was it a mistake to abandon society? ...and live a solitary life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I do not think so. Every individual needs at least one moment or period in life to become aware. To explore who you are and what you want. People find this in adolescence, many find it later, some find it never. The search is bound by a journey into whatever. Into partying, into writing, into performing, buying, rebellion, drugs, travelling, and so on. Mostly, the individual undertaking the journey never realizes doing so, never realizes it most certainly will have a destination and an end date, and will lead to insights that result in a (completely) other direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to think that none of these journeys are mistakes: they define. Sure, some are rather poorly chosen and could even lead to destruction (and in that extrapolating perspective, Chris' choices could have been much worse for him), but all being part of a necessary learning path. It is my personal feeling that having learned something could all be undone by labelling it a mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assume the river was still shallow: once returned to friends and family, would Chris himself have called his journey a mistake?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is the moral of the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story is a biographical tragedy: we witness Chris finding himself and he has bad luck in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Solitude deemed not to be the joy Chris was looking for, and the moral he wants to convey is to meet and share to be able to be happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2013-01-05T16:47:33.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9251" CreationDate="2013-01-05T16:49:22.537" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion is -&#xA;Joker wore paint on his face so this might be causing dryness and hence the constant licking&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastActivityDate="2013-01-05T16:49:22.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9251" CreationDate="2013-01-05T16:57:40.983" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several options come to mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It maybe a feature of a maniac antisocial. Maniacs have several sorts of behavioral uniqueness. It might be Joker's uniqueness.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It maybe an approach like a reptile. Like they do this tongue-work before leaping into a prey, this behavior might indicate Jokers saurian satanic thought process.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Like &lt;em&gt;incognito&lt;/em&gt; said it might be due to the irritation on his skin caused by his makeup.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Might be he does it, when he becomes nervous.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A discrete feature proving he is crazy!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="282" LastEditDate="2013-01-07T14:04:25.743" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T14:04:25.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9247" CreationDate="2013-01-05T19:01:30.693" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty much. Powers are all related to what people were thinking of, or wanted. E.g. the &quot;power broker&quot; wanted to be a power broker, but not in the sense of super powers. The invisible guy wanted not to be noticed, the old lady wanted to be young again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1219" LastActivityDate="2013-01-05T19:01:30.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9257" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-05T23:30:01.720" Score="34" ViewCount="63491" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the start of recent Disney movies, there's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzYfRLMtP9c&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;short 30 second animation&lt;/a&gt; of a river with an old sailing ship, a bridge with a steam train and then the familiar Disney castle and fireworks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vq31s.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Disney Intro&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there any significance to the items in the background?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do they refer to other Disney movies?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pirates of the Caribbean for the ship, perhaps? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or am I reading too much into it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3804" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-01-06T02:52:43.030" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T22:32:25.803" Title="What's the significance of the Disney movie intro ident?" Tags="|production|disney|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9257" CreationDate="2013-01-06T04:02:48.500" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is conjecture on my part, but I believe these are idealizations of other attractions at the various Disney theme parks. (Trying to find a source to back me up.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The train is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_Railroad&quot;&gt;Disneyland Railroad&lt;/a&gt; and the ship is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_Ship_Columbia&quot;&gt;Sailing Ship Columbia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastActivityDate="2013-01-06T04:02:48.500" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9259" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9279" CreationDate="2013-01-06T04:09:21.903" Score="2" ViewCount="9358" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understood the reason behind her wearing those bands around her neck and wrist, when the director of the mental hospital revealed she had scars in her wrists and neck. She used those bands to cover those scars. But I could not understand what could be the reason behind her wearing weird dresses all the time. We saw her wearing a particular type of dresses instead of wearing casual dresses to go to school. Besides that, she all the time wore that type of dresses. I think she wears the particular type of dress for a specific reason. What could that reason be? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-01-07T06:07:52.400" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T14:28:06.357" Title="Is there any particular reason for Esther to wear the dress instead of casual dress?" Tags="|character|orphan|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3346" CreationDate="2013-01-06T04:11:15.313" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sherlock Holmes asks Molly (the coroner girl) for a favour knowing he would die, so he got her to take a dead body and put a mask of Sherlock on it. When Holmes jumps, there is a red bus parked underneath, filled with bags to soften his fall, and he had Molly dump a body when he would land. The reason why the biker pushed Watson over was so that he didn’t see the body switch. One can tell, because Sherlock jumps when there’s no one around and also because Watson checks for a pulse, which means that the body was dead, and not Sherlock knowing he would survive the fall. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3806" LastEditorUserId="3408" LastEditDate="2013-01-06T07:34:47.123" LastActivityDate="2013-01-06T07:34:47.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9261" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-06T10:29:39.763" Score="3" ViewCount="584" Body="&lt;p&gt;Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini are separated right after Holi (remember Amitabh singing Holi khele Raghubeera?). They are said to be separated for six months, ie from March to September. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within that six-month period, they celebrate Valentine's Day, which falls on February 14, and karva chauth, which is usually observed in October. There is no way these two occasions could come between March and September!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T14:16:34.203" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T19:18:24.370" Title="Why are the festivals misordered in the movie Baghban?" Tags="|plot-explanation|baghban|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9259" CreationDate="2013-01-06T18:31:09.527" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Esther's dresses all feature the Peter Pan collar, which makes her seem like a little girl, when she is actually a woman with hypopituitarism (a condition that stunts physical growth). Because she is a 33-year-old trying to pass herself off as a little girl, she wears little-girl looking clothes. Remember that she was a prostitute in Russia servicing pedophiles, so this was probably a look she cultivated. (And she's not exactly sane, so that too could have contributed to her choice.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iSNpy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3d2cx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R7pgG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2013-01-07T04:10:27.393" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T04:10:27.393" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9265" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9267" CreationDate="2013-01-06T19:26:24.137" Score="8" ViewCount="9207" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final scene of The Departed when Sullivan (played by Matt Damon)returns to his apartment he finds Dignam (Mark Wahlberg) waiting wearing gloves and hospital moccasins and pointing a gun at him. Dignam just walks off after shooting Sullivan. What was the significance of the gloves and moccasins? If Dignam was taking precautions for not leaving any evidence or sign on the murder site, then how did they help? Or is there some other reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tOaVP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3538" LastActivityDate="2013-01-06T20:26:15.020" Title="Why did Dignam wear gloves and hospital moccasins in 'The Departed' while killing Sullivan?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|the-departed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9257" CreationDate="2013-01-06T19:27:11.753" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/Walt_Disney_Pictures&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Logos wiki&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 2006, Walt Disney Pictures started using a new intro with a new CGI&#xA;  animation with a very complex depiction of the Sleepy Beauty Castle&#xA;  and its surroundings. It was a clear change from the old blue and&#xA;  white intro with its stylized castle and 2D animation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The new intro was first used on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's&#xA;  Chest, which premiered in the United States on July 7, 2006.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Starting with The Muppets, &quot;WALT&quot; and &quot;PICTURES&quot; have been removed&#xA;  from the logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2006 is the year that Disney repurchased Pixar, and the year after Robert Iger took over Disney. There is a Pixar Disney introduction but, oddly, this new intro was not created by Disney studios, but by Weta Digital in New Zealand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More information comes from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.closinglogos.com/page/Walt+Disney+Pictures&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;closinglogos.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On a night sky background, we see a star, a la Pinocchio. Then, some&#xA;  clouds appear, a la Mary Poppins, and a pirate ship, a la Peter Pan.&#xA;  We then see the castle, done in CGI, while different fireworks are&#xA;  appearing. A circular line is drawn over the castle (in the same vein&#xA;  as the previous logo), then the castle enters many dots from the&#xA;  bottom of the screen to reveal &quot;Walt Disney&quot;, in the post-1979 Disney&#xA;  script logo font, albeit slightly revised. &quot;PICTURES&quot; fades in, while&#xA;  the circular line is nearly staying visible on the logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The train could reference &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtLAdWiXz_k&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dumbo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, but I have not found confirmation of this.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sfXNF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(about 12 minutes into the film)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2015-06-26T23:59:22.963" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T23:59:22.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9265" CreationDate="2013-01-06T20:20:51.117" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You’re right.  He wore the shoe covers, gloves, and a hair net to not leave traces behind, what is called “cross-contamination”.  This just improves his chances of not getting caught.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More info and pictures via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nfstc.org/pdi/Subject01/pdi_s01_m01_03.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Biological evidence requires care to guard against the possibility of cross contamination either by the investigator or by other biological specimens at the scene. Equipment is available to crime scene investigators which aide in the prevention of cross contamination.  Types of equipment include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tyvek white paper body suit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paper mask that covers nose and mouth&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eye protection&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Latex or Nitrile gloves&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sleeve protectors&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shoe covers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hair net&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="546" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-06T20:26:15.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9269" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9270" CreationDate="2013-01-07T02:44:52.823" Score="4" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems at multiple points in the series itself, and in the opening credits for that matter, it was strongly emphasized that Steve was rebuilt &quot;better than before&quot;.  Now, certainly, it makes for stronger plot points in the show if he's more like a superhero than a man who has gone through rehabilitation from a nearly fatal injury, but it seems as if the creators of the show are going out of their way to point this fact out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did this choice of words reflect on social norms about those with physical disabilities at the time?  In other words, was there more of a social emphasis on &quot;we must make people whole again&quot; at that time, rather than seeing the person with a disability more for who they are as a person as we do now, which influenced the word choices by the producers and writers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible that the producers were emphasizing the triumph of the technology more so than the humanitarian aspect, but many other facets of the show deal with how people &quot;in the know&quot; treat Steve Austin differently because of his experience, so I'm assuming they were cognizant of the above points as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="417" LastEditDate="2013-01-07T02:51:40.577" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T03:15:17.990" Title="What was the impetus behind making Steve Austin &quot;better than before&quot;?" Tags="|character|the-six-million-dollar-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9269" CreationDate="2013-01-07T02:58:17.070" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Did this choice of words reflect on social norms about those with&#xA;  physical disabilities at the time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Before&quot; he didn't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; disabilities or injuries.  &quot;Before&quot; he was an astronaut - in perfect health.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Better than he was before&quot; is followed by &quot;Better.  Stronger.  Faster&quot;  [Queue theme music]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All it had to do with was the fact that he's got superhuman power due to the bionics, and now they have a man worthy of a superhero TV show.  The only thing it had to do with is why he stands out - where he got his abilities. It lays out the premise for the entire series.  there wouldn't be much of a series if there weren't a bionic man to do all the cool stuff he gets to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Although how he used the bionic arm without tearing it off his body is still beyond me.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was the era if Dirty Harry, of Captain Kirk getting into fistfights, Bruce Lee, and Chuck Norris. The Lone Ranger was still cool, as were Superman and even Spider-Man, who got a cheesy series in that era. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We valued gritty tough heroes (as opposed to the tough anti-heroes we often see today, or the cartoonishly tough guys played by Stallone and Ahnold in the mid-late eighties). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steve Austin was the type of man that we looked up to in that day. The ideals absolutely played a part. But not from a &quot;disabilities are weak&quot; standpoint.  The bionics gave a good guy strength and made him interesting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="698" LastEditorUserId="698" LastEditDate="2013-01-07T03:15:17.990" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T03:15:17.990" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9271" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-07T03:51:41.013" Score="2" ViewCount="2537" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the television series, Misfits, throughout the various seasons, We see the main characters killing a large number of people - many of the probation workers, cheerleaders etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we just see a casual mention of the cops. No serious enquiry ever is taken and they never find themselves in any serious trouble? Is it a plot hole or am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-07T23:39:28.833" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T00:57:53.420" Title="Killing of so many people in Misfits?" Tags="|plot-explanation|misfits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9272" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10248" CreationDate="2013-01-07T03:55:09.030" Score="3" ViewCount="732" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the television series, Misfits, S03E04, how did Adolf Hitler actually use the technology present in the cell phone to win the war?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T12:54:55.260" Title="Adolf Hitler using the technology in the phone to win a war?" Tags="|plot-explanation|misfits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8023" CreationDate="2013-01-07T04:24:15.307" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think he knew. Jim certainly wasn't a bad guy but throughout the film his character is show to be an inept and not particularly attentive police officer. He ignores the (albeit unorthodox) testimony of the neighborhood kid in the opening scene. He loses his gun in pursuit of the jaywalker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He can certainly tell Claudia is troubled, and he definitely sets himself up as the &quot;white knight&quot;, but I think he would not be able to react so restrained if he knew she had a drug problem being the &quot;proper&quot; lawman he sees himself to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3736" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T04:24:15.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9227" CreationDate="2013-01-07T04:35:17.797" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it be &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/movie?v=L-DsKGrP8ho&amp;amp;feature=mv_sr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Screaming Skull&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, a black and white film from 1958? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For reasons best known to local TV programmers, the modest shocker The&#xA;  Screaming Skull was telecast on what seemed to be a daily basis in the&#xA;  1960s. The hero-villain is Eric (played by John Hudson, who later&#xA;  billed himself as William Hudson), the husband of neurotic&#xA;  millionairess Jenni Peggy Webber. By strategically placing miniature&#xA;  skulls all over the house, Eric hopes to drive Jenni into madness so&#xA;  that he can take control of her fortune. The police suspect that&#xA;  Mickey the gardener Alex Nicol, who also directed the film) is the man&#xA;  behind the campaign of terror, but the truth finally surfaces in the&#xA;  last reel, wherein Eric gets what's coming to him-and more besides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VDGWZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T04:35:17.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9276" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-07T04:37:43.563" Score="1" ViewCount="557" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Mike and Molly&lt;/em&gt; episode “Peggy Gets a Job” (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2102880/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;season 2, episode 8&lt;/a&gt;), when Peggy, Mike’s mother, gets a job at Molly’s school, she, as a support facilities personell, quickly accustoms herself with all the gossip, while acknowledging that she learned the whole truth about affair that Rebecca (Molly’s young blonde colleague and her prime competitor for vice-principal position) is having with the principal from the janitor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, in iconic &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088847/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Breakfast Club&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1985), Carl, a school custodian, has the air of wizardly wise man, who also knows everything about everyone:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am the eyes and ears of this institution. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a direct reference, or is it a common archetype, a sort of a modern folk character? I have not attended American grade school, and not familiar with it first hand, but is it ubiquitous to think of school custodian this way? Are there other examples? Where did it originate in popular culture (film, literature, etc.)? Is it something that harkens to classic character of a lowly peasant who possesses knowledge and wisdom enough to advise the king?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3408" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2017-03-15T20:30:13.730" LastActivityDate="2017-03-15T20:30:13.730" Title="School Custodian as All-Knowing Insider" Tags="|analysis|reference|breakfast-club|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9276" CreationDate="2013-01-07T04:51:59.243" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider first that the janitor has keys to every room in the building, so he sees things that are left lying around or thrown away. He may see evidence of trysts - things out of place and people not where they are supposed to be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, culturally, the janitor stereotype is a person who is invisible to others. Because a janitor may come and go from a scene without interacting with others (he comes in, cleans up the spill, moves on), others may tend to disregard him, thinking he is not paying attention to whatever else is going on in the room. They take his silence to mean he is not listening. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T04:51:59.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9261" CreationDate="2013-01-07T06:48:55.740" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no clarification given by the movie maker about it, but I remember in the story that Karvachoth appears before Valentine, so that means Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini are not separated right after Holi (they displayed the Holi scene before their separation, but that doesn't means they separated right after it). And I also remember that there were some scenes between the Holi scene and the separation scene, which means they separated a little bit before October. Correct me if i am wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-01T19:18:24.370" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T19:18:24.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9259" CreationDate="2013-01-07T06:56:04.327" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, there is a reason for it. As I remember while watching the movie, Esther is a woman so she has well developed breasts, which she hides by wearing body wrappings. And normal child clothes will show the body wrappings easily because they have thin fabrics compared to the thick fabric dresses that she wears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-25T14:28:06.357" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T14:28:06.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9280" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10238" CreationDate="2013-01-07T07:57:12.713" Score="10" ViewCount="685" Body="&lt;p&gt;This movie dates to before 2000. It is about a heist, if I recall correctly, a diamond is the objective. The particular scene I remember is one guy using a camouflage to blend with the floor of the place. The pattern used was b&amp;amp;w diamonds. But he is detected and cut in pieces with a laser (not sure about this last part).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure the movie is well known. I have seen it several times when I was a kid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional details:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think the robbery was some sort of competence or skill demonstration, rather than a conventional robbery.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the scene of the guy with the camouflage clothes, I recall him being watched on a monitor and blending perfectly with the floor. &#xA;When he is discovered there is a part when he falls from a stair. I think mutilated or something.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The place looks like a museum rather than a bank.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional detail:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When I watched the movie it gave me the impression the guy was a clown, to be more precise a harlequin. (The movie was not Quick Change)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3659" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-07T23:40:44.043" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T00:58:12.653" Title="Heist movie where a guy uses camouflage and fails" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:40:56.170" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9282" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9285" CreationDate="2013-01-07T08:54:13.060" Score="7" ViewCount="11869" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2002 film Panic Room, directed by David Fincher, Forest Whitaker plays a burglar named Burnham that shows signs of being a good man. In the thrilling climax of the movie he is seen all set to escape with the money but comes back to save the life of Jodie Foster's character Meg Altman. This endagers his own safety as he is quickly caught by the Police thereafter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last scene we see Meg and her daughter Sarah sitting on a park bench looking for a new house in the newspaper, but there is no mention of that guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I remember, in one scene of the movie another burglar says to Burnham &quot;I want that money, but you, you need it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So after the movie was over I thought for sometime, what would have happened to Burnham?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-07-26T09:23:56.127" LastActivityDate="2016-07-26T09:23:56.127" Title="What would have happened to the character played by Forest Whitaker in Panic Room?" Tags="|ending|panic-room|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9283" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9284" CreationDate="2013-01-07T09:39:31.220" Score="4" ViewCount="2178" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mona Singh, whose name is Poonam, becomes Mona in the later part of the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Idiots&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;3 Idiots&lt;/a&gt;. After squabbling with Viru Sahasrbuddhe, Rancho suddenly starts calling 'Mona Push'.  After that everybody, including her father, starts calling her the same name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a movie mistake or was Mona her nickname in the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2016-12-12T16:44:24.520" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T16:44:24.520" Title="Why did Mona's name change in the later part of 3 idiots?" Tags="|analysis|plot-explanation|3-idiots|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9283" CreationDate="2013-01-07T10:38:32.133" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its discussed in many aritical and newspaper but There is no official clarification given for this and its seems only movie mistake or may be done purposely to use Mona's name as a parody to her original name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T10:38:32.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9282" CreationDate="2013-01-07T11:26:35.377" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd imagine that he would have been convicted on several different charges.  An accessory to murder &amp;amp; B&amp;amp;E at least.  Maybe even murder for the guy at the end, not to mention accessory to aggravated assault for the attack on the ex husband.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot would depend on how good a lawyer he got!  I'm sure he could claim  he had to kill the last guy to save Jodie Fosters Character, and that he was forced to do some of the stuff because Raoul had a gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically even though he showed some signs of being a man with conscious, he's going to jail for a long time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T11:26:35.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9286" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-07T11:27:59.683" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;David Andrew Leo Fincher is an American film and music video director who is known for his dark and stylish thrillers, such as Alien 3, Seven, The Game, Fight Club, Panic Room, and Zodiac.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="430" LastEditDate="2013-01-07T12:41:56.217" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T12:41:56.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9287" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-07T11:27:59.683" Score="0" Body="An American film and music video director." OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="430" LastEditDate="2013-01-07T12:28:11.803" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T12:28:11.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47758" CreationDate="2013-01-07T11:35:34.160" Score="20" ViewCount="46220" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Panic Room, how did the police know to come back?  The police arrive at the house the first time as a result of Stephen Altman calling them.  Meg Altman convinces them that there is nothing wrong and they leave.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, they return within minutes/seconds of Burnham smashing the back window in an attempt to escape.  Not just one/two patrol men either, but a full crew in tactical gear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there were some pistol shots, but the gun was silenced so I don't think this should account for them coming back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there something in Meg's conversation with Officer Keeney that let him know something was up, or was it something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-06-23T02:47:16.387" LastActivityDate="2016-12-07T23:51:55.983" Title="In the movie Panic Room how did the police know to come back?" Tags="|ending|panic-room|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9289" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-07T11:36:33.087" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently divorced Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah have bought a new home in New York. On their tour around the mansion, they come across the panic room. A room so secure, that no one can get in. When three burglars break in, Meg makes a move to the panic room. But all her troubles don't stop there. The criminals know where she is, and what they require the most in the house is in that very room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="430" LastEditDate="2013-01-07T12:42:02.597" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T12:42:02.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9290" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-07T11:36:33.087" Score="0" Body="A 2002 film where a woman and her teenage daughter become imprisoned in the panic room of their own house by 3 criminals." OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="430" LastEditDate="2013-01-07T12:41:46.793" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T12:41:46.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9293" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9297" CreationDate="2013-01-07T13:00:18.660" Score="13" ViewCount="2010" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460649/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Barney loses the Duckie Tie bet in October 2011 when he cannot perform the Benihana routine satisfactorily. He was to wear it for 1 year, hence October 2012. However, I was catching reruns of the episodes and saw the &lt;em&gt;Broath&lt;/em&gt; episode, where he was not wearing it, though it would have been well inside the duckie tie year. There are two possible causes: &lt;em&gt;Broath&lt;/em&gt; was one of Ted's memories outside the duckie tie year, and just broadcast here &lt;em&gt;OR&lt;/em&gt; the bet was invalidated some time later. Anyone know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T17:30:07.010" LastActivityDate="2018-10-23T06:20:10.170" Title="Why doesn't Barney wear the Duckie Tie?" Tags="|how-i-met-your-mother|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9294" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-07T13:05:43.203" Score="10" ViewCount="12781" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460649/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Barney lost the Slap Bet some time ago. Being a somewhat inconsistent viewer, I can't recall the episodes that fulfilled the bet, and in my mind, at least 1 is still due. What is the count outstanding on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T17:28:42.957" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T11:13:50.203" Title="How did the Slap Bet count develop?" Tags="|how-i-met-your-mother|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9294" CreationDate="2013-01-07T14:52:08.277" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/The_Eight_Slaps&quot;&gt;How I Met Your Mother wiki&lt;/a&gt;, the original five slaps have all been used. However, Barney offered Marshall another three as payment on a separate bet, one of which has been used. Two remain as of this date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1331" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T14:52:08.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9293" CreationDate="2013-01-07T15:26:03.347" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's an episode earlier in that season (before the &quot;Broath&quot; episode) where Barney is going to have dinner with Nora's parents, but he doesn't want to wear the tie.  He exchanges 3 slaps to get rid of the tie.  The episode is called &quot;Disaster Averted&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_Averted&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_Averted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3541" LastEditorUserId="3541" LastEditDate="2013-02-01T15:51:58.237" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T15:51:58.237" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5667" CreationDate="2013-01-07T15:50:07.643" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can only exit with Flynn's disc. Sam's disc doesn't contain the information necessary to exit the Grid. We know that because when CLU examines Sam's disc he says he was expecting more and gives Sam back his disc. If Sam's disc had the ability to let him exit CLU would have kept it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also Sam didn't have a disc when he entered the Grid. It was only given to him after he was captured as a rogue program. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="211" LastEditDate="2016-11-15T23:30:01.817" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T23:30:01.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3983" CreationDate="2013-01-07T16:22:19.703" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the problem is that there's an inconsistency due to a (small) failure on the part of the script writer(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands there can't be a resolution because the two states of being are mutually exclusive. You shouldn't be able to bleed if you are digitized and you shouldn't be able to become a real boy or girl if you started as a digital being. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the in universe answer is that it shouldn't be possible given what we have seen. Maybe further exploration of the theme will yield an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I've asked similar questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29076/is-quorra-human-now&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28875/how-does-sam-bleed&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; over on scifi.stackexchange.com&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3772" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T16:22:19.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9301" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9302" CreationDate="2013-01-07T16:46:19.967" Score="67" ViewCount="35226" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a general case, how can I find movies or TV shows similar to an existing movie or TV show that I like? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T08:45:00.913" LastActivityDate="2023-09-07T13:31:46.343" Title="How can I find tv shows/films similar to one I like?" Tags="|faq|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="6" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-01-07T18:02:31.457" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9301" CreationDate="2013-01-07T16:46:19.967" Score="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of websites that can help find similar shows or movies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you go to the TV show or movie's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikipedia.org/&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;, scroll to the bottom and you'll see a box with the Categories for that page.  Often this will contain links to various genres or classes of TV shows and movies.  Clicking on those links will take you to lists of all the works that have been put into those Categories, so they'll share that similarity with the work you enjoyed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org&quot;&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt; is a site that documents and classifies works (it covers TV shows and films, but many other things as well, such as books, manga, fanfic, etc.) based on genres as well as 'tropes' which are more specific plot/writing devices.  So you have pages that list various works that have &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnyoneCanDie&quot;&gt;casually killed off characters&lt;/a&gt;.  Similar to Wikipedia, if you head to a specific TV show or movie page, you'll get a list of tropes that this TV show or movie used.  Those trope pages will then have links to other works that are in the same genres or use the same tropes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; documents TV shows and films and the people who work on them.  So if you like a specific actor, or the writing, or the directing of a TV show or film, hit up IMDb. You can look up a specific actor/writer/director and see &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; they've worked on. Wikipedia also has some of this information, but IMDb tends to be more comprehensive as this is their specific focus. IMDb also tags shows with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Keywords/&quot;&gt;keywords&lt;/a&gt; which can be used to locate movies with similar plot elements (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/keyword/flying-car/experiment-gone-wrong/absent-mindedness/&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jinni.com/&quot;&gt;Jinni.com&lt;/a&gt; is also used to search for movies and TV shows based on your taste.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T04:51:00.097" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T04:51:00.097" CommentCount="5" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-01-07T16:46:19.967" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9303" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9306" CreationDate="2013-01-07T16:55:52.890" Score="8" ViewCount="634" Body="&lt;p&gt;A group of poor orphan boys are under care of a priest. Some of the elders of this group join the gangsters in robbing a bank and make some of wishes of the younger's true (buy them clothes, ball etc.). One of them becomes a famous gangster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The priest takes them to a school and tries to change their future. The famous young gangster gets arrested by police and is sentenced to death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The priest goes to him at jail and asks him to cry when he is going for execution because he is the hero of boys and they will follow his way unless they think he has been regretful in the last moments. Young gangster replies, pride is the last thing I have when leaving this world and denies his request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tomorrow when boys read newspapers they find that gangster was begging for his life when he was getting for execution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3781" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-23T11:59:46.360" LastActivityDate="2013-09-23T11:59:46.360" Title="Gangster movie about a group of orphans under the care of a priest" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:41:02.453" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9301" CreationDate="2013-01-07T17:31:57.533" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jinni.com/&quot;&gt;Jinni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is the way to go, and is the future!  (See &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_Genome&quot;&gt;movie genome&lt;/a&gt; info.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia was mentioned, but what was not mentioned is that they have a few stellar consolidation pages to do searches from.  This &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_films&quot;&gt;list of lists&lt;/a&gt; page is invaluable, as just one example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB was mentioned, but what was not mentioned is the unbelievably great Keyword search function.  Searching for movies by keywords is a great way to do it.  (Ahm.. I’m rather chuffed with myself for creating the first keyword for “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/keyword/female-sitting-on-a-toilet/?title_type=feature&quot;&gt;female sitting on a toilet&lt;/a&gt;” (Wow – did I just share that?) and “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/keyword/meme/?title_type=feature&quot;&gt;meme&lt;/a&gt;”.  Be sure to click on the “Movie” link on the right to refine your search to just movies or TV or whatever.  Jinni is basically generating huge amounts of keywords like this for movies so that people like us will make it to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tR4ydijURnA/S7N4gK6tYYI/AAAAAAAABnU/n_P43kpMSEk/s1600/bruce-lee.jpg&quot;&gt;next level of the pagoda&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.netflix.com/&quot;&gt;Netflix&lt;/a&gt; changed the world!&lt;/strong&gt;  (if you have a subscription.)  They have great cross references to similar shows too.  Also, you can use their central search field for your own keyword search based on movie summaries.  (e.g. “Biker” will bring up &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RQrn7wzDvA&quot;&gt;Angels from Hell (1968)&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI3fN5wvMtM&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt; again for keywords is ..key.  Type in a movie name + “trailer” and then see what other movies pop-up on the right hand side.  Love that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="546" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T17:31:57.533" CommentCount="8" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-04-16T14:33:02.570" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9303" CreationDate="2013-01-07T19:16:23.413" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029870/&quot;&gt;Angels with Dirty Faces&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the Wikipedia entry:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rocky is then captured following an elaborate shootout in a building,&#xA;  and sentenced to die. Jerry visits him just before his execution and&#xA;  asks him to do him one last favor - to die pretending to be a&#xA;  screaming, sniveling coward, which would end the boys' idolization of&#xA;  him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T19:16:23.413" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5667" CreationDate="2013-01-07T19:17:25.973" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The portal is open only from the outside, and for only a limited amount of time. Once it closes no one inside the grid can open it again. Only someone from the outside can open it. That is why Flynn was trapped inside the grid for so many years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sam doesn't know about the portal until he finds his father. At that time they realize there is very limit time left to escape the grid. They all must travel across the bad lands to get to the portal before it closes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A disk is not required to exit the grid. Any human can exit via the portal and ISO's are more like humans then programs so they could also exit, but I assume they didn't know that until Quorra actually tried to leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CLU is a program and can't exit via the portal, but there was something on Kevin Flynn's disk that solved that problem. Not only for CLU but for all programs to exit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key to stopping CLU was to get Kevin Flynn out of the grid. As long as Kevin was in the grid CLU would be hunting for him. Sam could have left the grid to come back later, but that wouldn't have solved anything. CLU would still have been hunting down his father's disk. Getting his father out of the grid was the only solution to stopping CLU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other option was for Kevin and CLU to merge again. That would have stopped/destroyed CLU, but also kill Kevin in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had Sam left the grid he would be abandoning his father to his fate at the hands of CLU. Sam had already exposed where his father was hiding. His father had no where else to go, but for them all to try and to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2013-01-07T19:17:25.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9308" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9313" CreationDate="2012-12-27T12:03:39.387" Score="37" ViewCount="4894" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What object is Harry holding in this scene from &lt;em&gt;Prisoner of Azkaban&lt;/em&gt; the film?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the scene where the Fat Lady disappears after Sirius Black tries to break into Gryffindor Tower and gouges her portrait. The scene takes place following a Hogsmeade trip, but Harry didn't sneak into Hogsmeade on this particular day. So I'm assuming the object is something that either Ron or Hermione brought back for Harry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PLnCm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;*Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban* 2003&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that it's either a Sneakoscope or a Remembrall. It's the same shape as the Remembrall from &lt;em&gt;Philosopher's Stone&lt;/em&gt; (film), but it looks like it's clear and has a black stone rolling around at the bottom while a Remembrall is filled with white smoke that turns red. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books the Remembrall is described as marble-sized and the Sneakoscope as being the shape of a top. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's definitely not one of the Quidditch balls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ron does give Harry a Sneakoscope in the book &lt;em&gt;Prisoner of Azkaban&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Harry now turned to his present and unwrapped it. Inside was what looked like a miniature glass spinning top. There was another note from Ron beneath it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Harry – this is a Pocket Sneakoscope. If there’s someone untrustworthy around, it’s supposed to light up and spin. Bill says it’s rubbish sold for wizard tourists and isn’t reliable, because it kept lighting up at dinner last night. But he didn’t realise Fred and George had put beetles in his soup.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Bye – Ron&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;Prisoner of Azkaban&lt;/em&gt; - page 13 - Bloomsbury - chapter 1, &lt;em&gt;Owl Post&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is this object?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="244" OwnerDisplayName="a Slytherin" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-01-14T15:08:03.563" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T09:11:28.100" Title="What Object Is Harry Holding In Prisoner of Azkaban (Film)?" Tags="|harry-potter|the-prisoner-of-azkaban|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9288" CreationDate="2013-01-08T00:34:13.743" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been a few years but the police officer could tell something was wrong, her mannerisms and body language were all off.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;He asked her several times about any issues, the fact that she would not say anything told him that there was a serious issue - hence he made sure that the police came back mob-handed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="2116" LastEditDate="2013-01-08T09:29:43.280" LastActivityDate="2013-01-08T09:29:43.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9282" CreationDate="2013-01-08T00:38:55.263" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact he went back to help would be offered in mitigation but he, as we saw, is guilty of several criminal acts and nothing can change that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He might claim that he complied under threat but the police rarely believe this and he would have a very hard time convincing a judge.  Maybe the girls will lie to try to help him but it is unlikely that they will fool the court much tbh. They might even get in trouble for trying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-01-08T00:38:55.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9308" CreationDate="2013-01-08T06:48:20.120" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is the sneakoscope that Ron gives to Harry; the angle in the image you display makes it look like a ball, but it's a poor perspective. It actually is a top, with the silver portion being the top's point and the clear sides tapering down towards it. The scene where Harry initially receives it from Ron was cut from the theatrical release but included on the DVD as an extra; here it is on Youtube:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/9eBE8CttgvQ?start=100&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-15T09:11:28.100" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T09:11:28.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9301" CreationDate="2013-01-08T07:19:59.630" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Google Search&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think people should be trained/ advised to use Google search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seriously, just type &quot;&lt;em&gt;movie/TV Show similar to XYZ&quot; in Google Search&lt;/em&gt;. &#xA;It will give you many link resources. Then see what you would like in different results. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.in/#hl=en&amp;amp;q=TV+shows+similar+to+Friends&quot;&gt;TV shows similar to Friends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T04:53:16.620" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T04:53:16.620" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-01-08T07:19:59.630" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2716" CreationDate="2013-01-08T07:31:02.440" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To a &lt;strong&gt;strong&lt;/strong&gt; movie fan, no, it cannot hurt - ever.  An alternate (possibly revisionist) version of a movie cannot detract from the original viewing experience, it can only add an additional positive (or negative) experience.  In the case of Ridley and Blade Runner, I have every version, and his “Final Cut” is my favorite, and I am pleased-giddy that he was able to get yet another version released.  It is my opinion that, given 4+ versions, you have the luxury of choosing the one you enjoy most.  &lt;strong&gt;You have nothing but upside!&lt;/strong&gt;  Any downside is for pessimists, or people who have undue hatred for capitalist who play their little games – while we are still free to play ours. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of his refusal to agree to a Director’s Cut of Prometheus – that is cool too.  I enjoy the fact that as an artist Ridley Scott wraps his arms fully around the meta concept of additional releases, and indeed incorporates that into the overall art – like Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, or Haystacks – as long as HE is making the decisions.  (You might argue the opposite for 99% of all other director/studio combos.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="546" LastActivityDate="2013-01-08T07:31:02.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9316" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9322" CreationDate="2013-01-08T11:43:02.493" Score="22" ViewCount="117505" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know it had gotten the better of him by the end, but the effect it had on Frodo compared to Boromir - who was driven mad by it - doesn't seem fit at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also Sam was carrying it for a very short period of time and it seemed to have an effect on him, too, in the scene where Frodo asked to take the ring back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gandalf and Aragorn were also happy to let Frodo carry the ring alone, which suggests they had great faith in him, as anyone could have been chosen to carry the ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was so special about Frodo that made him seem to resist the powers of the ring better than everyone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T06:01:57.633" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T06:04:06.663" Title="Why was Frodo so resistant to the ring?" Tags="|analysis|the-lord-of-the-rings|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9316" CreationDate="2013-01-08T12:38:20.937" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did not read the novels. I am answering from the movies (LOTR series) I saw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Elrond called the council of the races, they started fighting over what should be done to the ring. Boromir was allured by it almost instantly. It became clear to Gandalf and others within that sometimes one needs a person who is not greedy for power and who can not deterred from his aim easily. The ring had the power to corrupt a person. So taking the ring to the mountain was itself a very hard task to achieve. While fighting over the ring, Frodo was the one who stepped forward to volunteer in carrying the ring to the mountain where it was forged. Everybody then decided to let him carry the ring. There were several reasons behind giving him the responsibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Frodo had an &lt;strong&gt;innocent&lt;/strong&gt; character. The innocence made him more immune to the ill-effects of the ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Frodo did not &lt;strong&gt;lust for power&lt;/strong&gt;. Gandalf and others use power, so they can easily be deceived by it. But Frodo can not be, because he had no lust for power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Besides, Frodo was successful in &lt;strong&gt;carrying the ring from the shire to the council&lt;/strong&gt;. So he had also got some experience in carrying it. So others must have also thought that as until then Frodo was successful in carrying the ring to the council, maybe he had gained some immunity against the ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We saw that Sam could not withstand its power even for sometime, but Frodo could. This is because was Frodo's inherent nature to resist the power of ring whereas others could not. So we can say it was his nature which helped him to stand firm against the charms of the ring for longer time than others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the context is not really that relevant, but I found a nice explanation in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081117072854AAfvY0u&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;yahoo answer by some author&lt;/a&gt; about why Frodo is not affected by the ring, from the writes point of view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tolkien, who wrote LotR, filled the book with a &lt;strong&gt;lot of Christian (Catholic) images&lt;/strong&gt;. The threesome of Sam, Frodo and Gollum, who take the ring to Mordor, represent the &lt;strong&gt;three &amp;quot;parts&amp;quot; of man - spirit, soul and body.&lt;/strong&gt; The Ring represents &lt;strong&gt;sin&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frodo, who is the &lt;strong&gt;soul&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;mind&lt;/strong&gt;, is the one who carries the ring. That is because that is where all moral decisions are made. So the soul bears the responsibility of dealing with sin. Gollum, as the &lt;strong&gt;body&lt;/strong&gt;, is totally corrupted by the Ring. And in the end is destroyed by it. Sam, represents the &lt;strong&gt;spirit&lt;/strong&gt;. That is why he is able to handle the Ring, and then returns it to Frodo without being corrupted. The reborn human spirit is not tempted by evil, nor will it sin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sam and Gollum are always in conflict with each other, just as the spirit and the body of most people are in conflict with each other. Poor Frodo, the mind or soul, is caught between them. Having to make compromises to bring the &amp;quot;body/Gollum&amp;quot; along, because he can not live with it. But wanted to be free of the influence of both Gollum and the Ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, is the &amp;quot;Sword of the Spirit&amp;quot; (in Sam's hand) that cuts away the Ring, and the last of the flesh that still clung to it, and free Frodo from the influence of evil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-10-06T19:35:03.697" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4471" CreationDate="2013-01-08T13:44:07.033" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bordon's character resembles a man who wants to get ahead. He doesn't want to keep being an assistant. He wants to be a great magician himself. For this he has to learn tircks. For learning tricks he has to do experiments. In a scene we see him throwing a cage with a dead bird inside it. This proves that he is constantly trying things and failing too.&#xA;This was the case with the knot. He did an experiment, but failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2013-01-08T13:44:07.033" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2013-01-08T14:29:53.930" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The spinning top seems to serve a different purpose from the other totems as it show's Cobb whether or not he is dreaming rather than distinguishing between his dream and someone else's. So it makes sense that he would carry another one. Also because he is the best extractor it makes sense that he would be a lot more secretive with his totem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3820" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-01-08T15:06:27.270" LastActivityDate="2013-01-08T15:06:27.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9320" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9325" CreationDate="2013-01-08T15:23:27.423" Score="6" ViewCount="4723" Body="&lt;p&gt;When were the scenes with Frodo (Elijah Wood) and the older Bilbo (Ian Holm) shot for The Hobbit? Were they perhaps shot during the making of LotR?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-01-08T16:09:45.413" Title="When were the scenes with Frodo shot for The Hobbit?" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9321" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9326" CreationDate="2013-01-08T15:41:15.700" Score="12" ViewCount="1936" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene I'm referring to in &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&lt;/em&gt; takes place in Rivendell where Galadriel, Saruman, Elrond and Gandalf discuss the dwarves' quest and the Morgul blade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been a few years since I read &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; and I'm wondering if this scene took place in the book?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-19T21:47:23.260" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T21:47:23.260" Title="Does the scene with Galadriel, Saruman, Elrond and Gandalf take place in the book?" Tags="|the-hobbit|an-unexpected-journey|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9316" CreationDate="2013-01-08T15:51:11.770" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of it was hobbit nature. The hobbits weren't included as a race that Sauron tried to convert to his power with rings. They were beneath his notice. There seemed to be something exceptional in the hobbits nature that really only Gandalf seemed to notice. They had a single minded simplistic view of life. This can be seen in their constant desire to not just eat but have a set schedule of eating times. So we have a race that is uncorrupted, basically good (there seems to be no crime in the Shire) and stubborn. Every hobbit seems content to live their whole life in the Shire and never venture outside except for Bilbo and his nephew Frodo. Even then Gandalf has to basically shanghai them to make them leave. The other hobbits that adventure with Frodo are brought along simply because they know enough that they would be tortured by Sauron and his minions to get the little bit of information that they do have. So their lives are already in danger. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now Gollum was originally of a race that was very similar to the hobbits. Which helps to explain how he has lived so long and also becomes invisible when he wears the ring. The pull of the ring is not too great on the hobbits because it senses nothing remarkable or exceptional in them. The ring has a will of its own and will work itself towards evil anytime that it can. It takes a strong and stubborn mind to resist it. We see Boromir give in to the will of the ring and he's only near it. Gollum doesn't crave power. He only wants his precious. Bilbo does have cravings. He wants adventure and the ring latches onto that so that we see Bilbo has to give up his ring as well. The fact that he is able to is quite remarkable because he is the first possessor of the ring to willingly give it up. Frodo however has no real desire. He doesn't crave anything. He has what's described as a pure heart, but even he is affected by the ring. Sam is actually the only bearer of the ring that isn't affected by it. This is because he only desires to garden and help his friends. His lack of desire is displayed in his request for rope from the elves. He only debates giving Frodo back the ring because Frodo seems desperate for it as Gollum is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sam is actually considered the true hero of the story by Tolkien, and as Mistu4u pointed out, there is a lot of allegory and meaning he put into The Lord of the Rings. Peter Jackson did a lot to interpret his works as faithfully and truthfully as he could and also added elements that come from other books. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gandalf and Aragorn were wise enough to know that the Ring's will would try to subvert them. Having a part of Sauron's soul inside it, it would convince people as it had Boromir and earlier &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12799/how-could-the-one-ring-betray-isildur&quot;&gt;Isildur&lt;/a&gt; that they could defeat Sauron with it -- that they could master it. The Ring was evil, and would always lead those that sought to master it towards evil. It was tricky, very tricky and would always seek its master or create a new Sauron (kind of like Voldemort in Harry Potter with his Horcruxes). Only one pure of heart and free of desire with a strong-willed mind could have carried the Ring without giving into its will. Frodo was the only choice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sam could have, but he didn't even have a desire to carry it to be destroyed. He would have tried to find a different hobbit as a way of dealing with it, probably similar to Bilbo's and Gollum's method -- keeping it close. Except Sam wouldn't have used it at all. He would have simply buried the Ring, which would then find a way to get to someone that it could work its will on. The time had come for it to be destroyed, and only Frodo was the right amount of brave, fearful and adventurous to get the job done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T06:04:06.663" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9321" CreationDate="2013-01-08T15:52:48.980" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;No it's not. It is mentioned but not in the Hobbit. I believe it's from another book of Tolkiens though and I'll link to it if I find the reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2013-01-08T15:52:48.980" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9320" CreationDate="2013-01-08T16:04:07.753" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;They were new scenes made for The Hobbit.  Interviews with Elijah Wood show that he was excited to be back on set in New Zealand ten years after the LotR movies were shot. (I will try to find one and link to it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the fact the movie was entirely shot in 48fps 3D also indicates that these are new scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2013-01-08T16:04:07.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9320" CreationDate="2013-01-08T16:09:45.413" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scenes with Frodo, played by Elijah Wood, were filmed specifically for &lt;strong&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/strong&gt;, as in within the shooting schedule for the movie, and not during making of LOTR movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://metro.co.uk/2011/12/01/elijah-wood-shooting-the-hobbit-was-like-stepping-back-in-time-240409/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; mentions Elijah being excited to return to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Middle Earth&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastActivityDate="2013-01-08T16:09:45.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9321" CreationDate="2013-01-08T16:43:45.420" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are referred to as the White Council in the lore of LotR. This meeting does not take place in The Hobbit but is mentioned in The Lord of the Rings Appendices which were released with The Return of the King. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This meeting is mentioned in Appendix B, at least &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/White_Council&quot;&gt;according to the LotR wiki&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Information about the appendices can be &lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Appendices&quot;&gt;found here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I'd like to point out that Peter Jackson only has rights to make movies based on &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; and the LotR series. So anything in these movies will only come from these 4 books. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3821" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-22T10:06:00.423" LastActivityDate="2013-09-22T10:06:00.423" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8793" CreationDate="2013-01-08T17:13:49.993" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be a lot of things. Here are a list of drugs and toxins that can cause seizures. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://professionals.epilepsy.com/page/table_drugs_induce.html&quot;&gt;http://professionals.epilepsy.com/page/table_drugs_induce.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More than likely it was some sort of poison as that was her area of expertise. Most any substances taken orally will have a delayed effect. In this case, I don't believe it was too long after. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She most likely took too much knowing it would cause a seizure but also probably knew that they'd take her to a hospital before it killed her. At that point though I don't think she really cared if she lived or died as long as she didn't have to go to jail. At least that's what the visiting scene with Arlene made it seem like. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3821" LastActivityDate="2013-01-08T17:13:49.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="424" CreationDate="2013-01-08T19:50:44.520" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although it is true that Dong-jin is not part of the same organization (communists? terrorists?), it is worth remembering that Ryu's girlfriend, Yeong-mi, is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Dong-jin captures Yeong-mi and interrogates her to find out what happened to his daughter, Yeong-mi explains that she belongs to the same group, and that if he should harm her, the group would track him down and kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;True to her word, once Dong-jin has killed her through electrocution, the organization does indeed hunt him down and stab him to death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the connection was not through his daughter, but through Ryu's girlfriend. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-01-08T19:50:44.520" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9331" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9332" CreationDate="2013-01-09T01:46:53.667" Score="28" ViewCount="17643" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the scene chief judge introduces Dredd to rookie Anderson, this conversation ensues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chief judge: Rookie Anderson what can you tell me about the person I am with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rookie: Male, another judge. (Thinks) I can feel anger and control, but there is something else, something behind the control. Something....almost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chief judge stops her at this point, what was she about to say? Is there anything explained about this towards the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-01-29T17:58:47.677" Title="Rookie Anderson's initial evaluation of Dredd" Tags="|plot-explanation|dredd|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9331" CreationDate="2013-01-09T03:07:54.723" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;I grew up reading 2000AD and Judge Dredd, and the snippet I just procured from an IMDb user on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343727/&quot;&gt;Dredd page&lt;/a&gt; below does a good job of summing up my own theories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you know the story-line in the comics, what Anderson is sensing behind his need for control is his sense of doubt about the judicial system. In the comic this sense of doubt leads him to quit and head off into the Cursed Earth. That story-line about him questioning the Judge system was going to form part of the next sequel. Giving Anderson the pass even though she failed his usual high standards shows that he's considering that there might be limitations to his usual methods... (writer) Garland has said he intends to adhere to Dredd's origins as they are laid out in the comic.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would add that Dredd is known mostly for claiming to be '&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the law&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;'. However, it is evident from the end of the film that his stance has softened slightly - he is willing to pass Anderson despite her automatic fails during the mission. This is a step towards Joe Dredd questioning the very system he upholds and this is a theme that resonates throughout the comic books. Dredd faces an eternal struggle to enforce the law he was bred to uphold, while at the same time doubting the motives of the very law-makers he serves. It is this internal struggle that Anderson detects. A chink in the armor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T03:07:54.723" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2656" CreationDate="2013-01-09T03:24:33.490" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Heimdall, (guardian of the Bifrost aka rainbow bridge) can see all, thus he tracked down Loki's exact Location and directed Thor to Loki. Odin used dark energy to transport Thor to earth since the rainbow bridge is destroyed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you watch the scene closely when Thor and Loki are arguing a top a mountain after Thor takes Loki from the plane. You can clearly see Odin's two Ravens Huginn and Muninn flying by. So Odin is aware and present during their argument... Brilliant move by the film maker. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also Oak trees are representative of Thor in ancient Norse mythology. Which just happen to be surrounding Iron Man and Thor as they fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This movie is full of geek win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3827" LastEditorUserId="3827" LastEditDate="2013-01-09T03:37:44.087" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T03:37:44.087" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9334" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9337" CreationDate="2013-01-09T04:07:04.403" Score="41" ViewCount="8904" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've heard that when &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Bunny&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bugs Bunny&lt;/a&gt; was first shown eating a carrot, he was impersonating a popular movie of the time. People of that time got the &amp;quot;joke,&amp;quot; and he just kept eating carrots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In time, that movie has been forgotten, and now people associate carrot-eating with Bugs Bunny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the moral of the story is: rabbits don't eat/like carrots normally, but they are given them because Bugs Bunny likes them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it true that he was impersonating someone? If so, what was the movie called?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2023-08-07T10:26:52.933" LastActivityDate="2023-08-07T18:15:26.500" Title="Was Bugs Bunny impersonating someone when he ate the carrot?" Tags="|character|looney-tunes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9145" CreationDate="2013-01-09T04:25:07.430" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a theory for the jacket, I noticed that in the initial part of the movie where they make the reference to three gangs who fought for control of peach tree namely&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peyote Kings&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Red Dragon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Judged&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its shown through a bunch of sequences as Mama clan try to fight for control and the last gang they eliminate is shown to be The Judged and Mama is shown to take the jacket from the last member of the Judged clan who was shot in the back multiple times especially around the logo area. Judging from the way she looked at the jacket i would assume that it was the same jacket and there is a bunch of different logos been shown for all three gangs with the bullets taken into account at the back of the jacket. I think the clown logo could be an addition Mama added to that jacket or it could be the logo they were trying to base for themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the other 2 questions I am trying to wrap my head around those but i was unable to find anything on the extras of blu-ray pertaining to it. I will edit this post further more when i find more add on this. The only thing i can think of right now is Anderson let go of the hacker  who made that wired tiger and when she lets him go she even remarks to dredd stating that its the only difference she can make and when she looked the tiger again I think she exclaimed recollecting that tiger from the hacker guy's mind reading process earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope the theory for jackets works out ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T04:25:07.430" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9334" CreationDate="2013-01-09T05:07:56.603" Score="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;After looking into it, I found this on wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bugs Bunny's nonchalant carrot-chewing standing position, as explained by Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Bob Clampett, originated in a scene in the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Happened_One_Night&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;It Happened One Night&lt;/a&gt;, in which &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Gable&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Clark Gable&lt;/a&gt;'s character leans against a fence, eating carrots rapidly and talking with his mouth full to Claudette Colbert's character. This scene was well known while the film was popular, and viewers at the time likely recognized Bugs Bunny's behavior as satire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jDISA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Clarke Gable is bugs bunny&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastEditorUserId="855" LastEditDate="2017-05-03T08:01:32.663" LastActivityDate="2017-05-03T08:01:32.663" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9339" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9340" CreationDate="2013-01-09T07:14:17.453" Score="5" ViewCount="6142" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chandler Bing was working with a firm and then he changes his job.&#xA;Why did &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_Bing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chandler Bing&lt;/a&gt; gets into advertisement field in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Friends&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T13:27:23.107" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T13:27:23.107" Title="Why did Chandler Bing get into the advertisement field?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9339" CreationDate="2013-01-09T08:39:28.520" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because of monica, as explained here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On Christmas Day, Chandler quits his job so that he can fly home to&#xA;  New York to be with Monica. Monica helps Chandler secure a job in&#xA;  advertising through an old college friend of hers. Much to Chandler's&#xA;  dismay, the job is as an intern, which leaves him in the awkward&#xA;  position of working alongside people who are significantly younger&#xA;  than he. However, his more mature approach eventually pays off for him&#xA;  compared to the other interns, and he secures a full-time job in the&#xA;  business as a junior copywriter when he only expected to receive an&#xA;  assistant position. The company concluded that he would be better&#xA;  suited for a more senior role. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_Bing&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T08:39:28.520" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9341" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-09T11:21:38.080" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-09T11:21:38.080" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T11:21:38.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9342" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-09T11:21:38.080" Score="0" Body="Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros series consisting of famous characters like  Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-09T13:00:15.597" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T13:00:15.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8206" CreationDate="2013-01-09T12:22:27.357" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the three (Nishant,Vikram and Rajat) are working in IT industry. There are various proofs of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They all are seen coding in various scenes. Vikrant is seen coding&#xA;in NetBeans of something like that tool. Also Nishant and Rajat are&#xA;seen in there offices and doing coding.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They all are having holidays on Saturday and Sunday, which is&#xA;generally the culture in IT industries.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They all are seen discussing their salaries which is around 35,000 to&#xA;40,000 Rs which is also general salaries offered in IT.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also Vikrant's playing Guitar is totally irrelevant to his job as its just his hobby to release stress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3359" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T12:22:27.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9344" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-09T12:35:14.340" Score="4" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;Almost all TV series like &lt;em&gt;Two and a half men&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Smallville&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The big bang theory&lt;/em&gt;, etc. start in Sep/Oct and end in May/Jun with some weeks/months off in between. Their episodes are thrown at you almost every week or every two weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But with some TV Shows like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1051155/episodes?season=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Universe&lt;/a&gt; e.g. the 1st season starts in May (May 29, 2007) and ends in Sep. (Sep 4, 2007) and then the season 2 starts almost immediately in November Nov. 29, 2007 and ends in April 2008.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is. Is there any strict time interval for the term &quot;season&quot; in the movie/TV industry or is it up to the creator/broadcaster?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3504" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T03:02:12.173" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T03:07:02.700" Title="Is the &quot;season&quot; meant to be the interval from September/October to May/June or is it not strictly defined like that?" Tags="|terminology|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9345" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9351" CreationDate="2013-01-09T13:52:18.093" Score="33" ViewCount="173418" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Gandalf fights the Balrog in &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;, he is carried off by an eagle. There is a scene where he is lying down in a white room and only his head and shoulders are visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next time he is seen is in Fangorn forest. He is now recognized as &quot;Gandalf the White&quot;. When Aragorn addresses him as Gandalf, he responds with, &quot;Gandalf ... yes, that's what they used to call me. Gandalf the Grey.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also explains that he was sent back. But who sent him back? Did he die? Where did the eagle carry him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T08:27:17.070" LastActivityDate="2018-12-27T12:56:20.077" Title="What happened to Gandalf after his battle with the Balrog?" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9345" CreationDate="2013-01-09T14:01:27.890" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This excerpt is from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Gandalf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LoTR wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gandalf and the Balrog fell for a long time, and Gandalf was burned by the Balrog's fire...Then darkness took Gandalf, and he passed away. His body lay on the peak. The entire battle, from the confrontation on the Bridge of Khazad-dûm to the mutual demise of the Balrog and Gandalf, had taken eight days...Nineteen days later Gandalf returned to life, and lay in a trance...Three days later he was found by the Winglord Gwaihir, Lord of the Eagles, who had been sent by Galadriel to find him. Gandalf was carried to Caras Galadhon in Lothlórien, where he was healed, and clothed in white, and thus became Gandalf the White.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2016-12-17T18:37:38.343" LastActivityDate="2016-12-17T18:37:38.343" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9347" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-09T14:51:41.547" Score="8" ViewCount="485" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Sex and the City TV series and movies it seems that the four women spend all their time dating, shopping, meeting each other, or otherwise pursuing personal time. How do they actually earn enough to live their lifestyles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3772" LastEditorUserId="3772" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T14:12:39.980" LastActivityDate="2021-03-04T05:04:11.100" Title="In Sex and the City how do the women actually make a living?" Tags="|sex-and-the-city-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2258" CreationDate="2013-01-09T15:06:14.863" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Note: Info below is specific to the American, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061300/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Speed Racer (1967)&lt;/a&gt; TV series only.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I remember it there were multiple episodes that had a rule infraction resulting in disqualification.  However, many of the races were &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; held in a stadium, where &lt;em&gt;Race Direction&lt;/em&gt; could easily monitor the cars.  These races were &lt;em&gt;Cross Country&lt;/em&gt;, where circuits (laps) are huge county-sized affairs, or even some &lt;em&gt;Gumball Rally&lt;/em&gt; type races city-to-city.  For these open-road races perhaps this quote sums it up best:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;”You must observe Captain Terror's first and most important racing rule: Do everything to win! Stop at nothing, and if you have to break the law, break it!”&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0813774/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;via here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, in that era, racecar drivers were mostly independent amateurs, and could enter various leagues and one-off races with organizers who all had their own non-standard rules.  (I’m reminded of James Dean driving his car up to a race when he was killed.)  &lt;strong&gt;So logically, there is no standard rule-set for the entire original TV series, because it just was not indicative of the times - but there were &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; rules&lt;/strong&gt;, because some of the episodes mention them explicitly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in some episodes there are unsanctioned races where it’s recognized outright that anything-goes – no rules.  (e.g. organized by a terrorist group to settle a feud and designed to kill drivers – last man standing - blood sport.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a few things I’ve found:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speed Racer was disqualified in, &amp;quot;The Desperate Racer&amp;quot;, (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67aTUChMs6E&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;S1:E42&lt;/a&gt;) found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061300/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;via here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can find only one explicit itemization of race rules.  In, “Junk Car Grand Prix”, where the Baron Von Vondervon has them read out.  He has organized a race to find a replacement for his long lost daughter.  Trixie is entering for &lt;em&gt;Team Racer&lt;/em&gt;. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7wMENBLzHg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;S1:E48 @1:30&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The driver of each car must be 17 years old.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;She is allowed to have one assistant driver, a boy or girl of any age.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Each team must build their own car from junk.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Now for the course […a brief course is outlined.]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If any driver breaks a rule, she will be disqualified.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speed wins the race in, “The Great Plan: Part 2”, (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_sg1TEv4Lk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;S1:E2 @20:50&lt;/a&gt;) but because of rule violation &lt;em&gt;Race Direction&lt;/em&gt; canceled the results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;”Due to the tactics and interference of cars not officially entered, the results of the race have been canceled.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, &lt;a href=&quot;http://gospeedracer.homestead.com/files/episode.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; episode guide documents various references to race rules, but does not go into detail on what the rules are.  A few excerpts below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;”Slick says he'll do whatever it takes, whether it's by the rules or not, but he better be paid well.”&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5pMdK3sJKo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;S1:E3&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;”Trixie runs up just before the race starts telling Sparky that the navigator must be the same in both races. Sparky jumps out, Trixie jumps in, and the race begins. As Sparky says he doesn't remember any such rule, Trixie turns around smiling saying he's right; she made it up!”&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2WTHIaPfHs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;S1:E27&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;”In the driver's lounge, there appears to be talk about an absence of rules in the race. Two unsavory racers, Scrounge and Shade get into a discussion which leads to Speed's defending his idea of what personal honor means to him. It leads to a fight which is quickly settled. Lovelace disguises herself as a man and maintains that sports are just a more complex way of fighting.”&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu0VA0lCg-A&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;S1:E51&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is some low hanging fruit.  I’m sure there are more examples of rules in the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Mach_5_profile.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Car&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="546" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T15:06:14.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9126" CreationDate="2013-01-09T15:13:02.230" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it Terrorvision? &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092074/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092074/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The characters watch several old black and white movies during the film. Its been a while since I saw it so I'm not sure if the scene you mentioned is definitely there but it could be worth a look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T15:13:02.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9347" CreationDate="2013-01-09T15:31:32.990" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Charlotte is fortunate enough to have men who will give her money (Trey from divorce, Harry from marriage). At the start of the series, she works in a gallery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carrie is a writer for the New York Star and in later series writes for Vogue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Miranda is a successful lawyer, becoming a partner in later episodes or the first movie (can't remember which).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Samantha works in PR and is very well regarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T15:31:32.990" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9345" CreationDate="2013-01-09T16:14:44.670" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;After battling the Balrog for 8 days, Gandalf defeated it, but in so doing also died.  Something to note, Gandalf is not a normal person, he is an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istari&quot;&gt;Istari&lt;/a&gt;, a group of being sent by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_%28Middle-earth%29&quot;&gt;Valar&lt;/a&gt; to assist the peoples of Middle-earth in their battle against Sauron.  (The short version is they're supernatural beings sent by higher powers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By dying when he did, Gandalf had not completed his task of helping to defeat Sauron.  In addition, his comrade Saruman had betrayed his order. And so, he was sent back to Middle-earth as Gandalf the White by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eru_Il%FAvatar#Eru.27s_direct_interventions&quot;&gt;Eru&lt;/a&gt;, the highest power in the Middle-earth universe.  He returned &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Gandalf#Mines_of_Moria&quot;&gt;19 days&lt;/a&gt; after his death, and then he lay in a trance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandalf#Gandalf_the_White&quot;&gt;3 days later&lt;/a&gt;, the eagle found Gandalf.  Lady Galadriel had sent the eagles searching for Gandalf.  Upon finding him, the eagle took him to Lorien.  There, Gandalf's wounds were treated, and he received his shiny new white robes.  He then traveled to Fangorn Forest, where he joined up with Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2014-04-14T21:43:18.460" LastActivityDate="2014-04-14T21:43:18.460" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9353" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9355" CreationDate="2013-01-09T17:01:25.660" Score="11" ViewCount="60314" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can someone give more information about School of Rock blackboard? Who wrote it? Is there any information pertaining to this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tMKjz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3829" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2013-01-09T18:10:35.883" LastActivityDate="2022-01-25T21:11:01.980" Title="Who wrote the School of Rock blackboard?" Tags="|plot-explanation|soundtrack|school-of-rock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9126" CreationDate="2013-01-09T17:29:13.770" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This clip appears in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Came_from_Hollywood&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;It Came From Hollywood&lt;/a&gt;, as part of a montage of scenes of women being attacked by mobile brains. That was, I suppose, a trope in low-budget mid-20th-century horror/sci fi films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific movie depicted may be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiend_Without_a_Face&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fiend Without A Face&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This intelligence soon begins to multiply its numbers by claiming even&#xA;more local victims. These creatures later become visible while&#xA;continuing to feed on the higher levels of power now being generated&#xA;at the airbase. Their mutated &amp;quot;bodies&amp;quot; are revealed to be the missing,&#xA;now enlarged brains and connected spinal cords removed from their&#xA;victims; the spinal cords have become very flexible and have sprouted&#xA;feelers. These mutations allow the creatures to move quickly and even&#xA;to leap; each brain has also developed a pair of small eyes on&#xA;extended eye stalks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film climaxes with the visible creatures&#xA;attacking an isolated house where most of the film's main characters&#xA;have gathered to discuss the growing crisis. Having come armed, the&#xA;defenders discover the creatures can be easily dispatched with&#xA;well-aimed gun shots to their exposed brain-bodies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T18:42:49.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9353" CreationDate="2013-01-09T18:11:07.147" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;This diagram is based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Edward Tufte&lt;/a&gt;'s third book called &lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0961392126&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the first visually diagam how rock music has evolved over the last 50 years.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RzaUE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20170223003008/http://fakeplasticrock.com/wp-content/uploads/genealogy-of-pop-and-rock-music.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Original link for image&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This poster is $45 for an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.historyshots.com/rockmusic/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;“archival paper”&lt;/a&gt; print, but it only goes up to 1978.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The contents of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332379/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the School of Rock&lt;/a&gt; blackboard were transcribed like this;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZnspF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There’s also an interesting site &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rockfamilytree.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Family Tree of Rock and Roll&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="1992" LastEditDate="2022-01-25T21:11:01.980" LastActivityDate="2022-01-25T21:11:01.980" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9288" CreationDate="2013-01-09T19:13:56.623" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there were more than a few shots: the robbers beat up Stephen, Meg used a sledgehammer to smash cameras and knock Raoul down the stairs.  So the neighbors might have complained of the noise again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the police might have tried to check again later with Stephen, or his new wife might have called the police.  The new wife would tell them that he went over to Meg's house and never came back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't seem very realistic to me that the police would respond with such attention and force, but it is a rich neighborhood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3392" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T19:13:56.623" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9276" CreationDate="2013-01-09T20:39:02.837" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a standard reference in American culture.  The &lt;em&gt;Breakfast Club&lt;/em&gt; character is just a minor brilliant invention, as far as I know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The nearest parallel I can think of is in the movie &lt;em&gt;Gosford Park&lt;/em&gt;, where the house is full of intrigues and secrets, and the only ones who understand the whole picture are a few of the servants.  Especially Helen Mirren's character, who has an almost supernatural ability to anticipate what the upstairs people will do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3392" LastActivityDate="2013-01-09T20:39:02.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9361" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9372" CreationDate="2013-01-09T20:56:23.173" Score="5" ViewCount="37936" Body="&lt;p&gt;I absolutely love the song Snuff by Slipknot.  They have a rather interesting music video for the song, but for the life of me I don't really understand what the &quot;story&quot; of the video is.  Does anyone understand what the video is trying to portray?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-11-20T17:32:43.243" LastActivityDate="2017-11-20T17:32:43.243" Title="What story is the music video Snuff trying to portray?" Tags="|plot-explanation|music-video|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2256" CreationDate="2013-01-09T23:12:01.363" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nick Fury bet Captain America that things would get stranger. Cap responded that things could not get stranger and boy was he wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3838" LastEditorUserId="48480" LastEditDate="2017-04-17T15:34:21.817" LastActivityDate="2017-04-17T15:34:21.817" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9157" CreationDate="2013-01-10T15:22:09.547" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although many viewers felt like it was ripping off (or homaging?) the origin of O-Ren Ishii seen in &lt;em&gt;Kill Bill Vol.1&lt;/em&gt; (released two years earlier), other critics have alluded to the notion that the animation technique was used to illustrate a specific moment of 'non-reality'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, a comment made on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://filmgeeksshow.blogspot.ca/2008/04/spoiler-alert-revolver.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Film Geek Show blog&lt;/a&gt; suggests:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This was to give you hints that what Jake was seeing were not only &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; real but also what elements of Jake's subconsciousness they were.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also add that the type of animation used - the rotoscoped variety favored by Richard Linklater in &lt;em&gt;A Scanner Darkly&lt;/em&gt; which was all about augmented reality - served as an indicator to the viewer that this was unreal or dreamed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T15:22:09.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9370" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-10T15:22:52.923" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-10T15:22:52.923" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T15:22:52.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9371" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-10T15:22:52.923" Score="0" Body="The school of rock is a 2003 American comedy film staring Jack Black as the lead character who turns a bunch of prep school students into a new rock band." OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="1992" LastEditDate="2013-01-10T15:55:35.483" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T15:55:35.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9361" CreationDate="2013-01-10T15:46:10.153" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to kick off this answer with &lt;em&gt;'I think'&lt;/em&gt;, therefore it may not fall into the acceptable range as outlined by the FAQ. For that reason the question itself might be on shaky ground - but I would like to see a decent debate about it in the meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the video can be interpreted on several levels, but the main theme I took away from it was one of all-consuming love. The man in the film, initially presented as a stalker, has lost the love of his life. The woman entering the room, undressing and washing is a figment of his imagination. However, there is a point where the roles cross over and become blurred, evident by the reveal at the end that it is he who has taken on the woman's persona, clothes, make up and all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some reason I was reminded of Macbeth. For me, Macbeth was a weak character, controlled and ultimately possessed by Lady Macbeth, and in a way the woman in this story (through use of repeated voice over) is the possessing force, consuming the man's very soul. This is why we get the scenes of mental anguish as he struggles to adhere to his promise to her, &lt;em&gt;to never let her go&lt;/em&gt;. There's even a bloody hand washing shot which made me think of &lt;em&gt;&quot;Out, damned spot...&quot;&lt;/em&gt; but I might be stretching things a bit here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Malcolm McDowell's character react the way he does to the woman at the beginning and then to the man? Perhaps a time frame issue, or even another construct of the man's broken psyche.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm interested to read other interpretations for other users... but I'm also acutely aware that we are treading on thin ice here ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-01-10T18:08:10.353" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T18:08:10.353" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9157" CreationDate="2013-01-10T16:10:50.987" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20071206185445/http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=3823&amp;amp;Itemid=99&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;with director Guy Ritchie:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There's a lot of stylistic choices in Revolver, such as the animated scene. What's the idea behind them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's funny, because I wrote it before 'Kill Bill' came out so I really wanted to have a whole animated sequence in the thing and fucking 'Kill Bill' came out and people went &quot;oh, he's just copying Tarantino.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So I always wanted to integrate somehow, an animated sequence. I was always interested in 3-D/2-D. So it's the old 2-D fashion, but in 3-D. In fact, I wanted to make a movie like it so it got in there.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Actually, it was about - well, &lt;strong&gt;there's the simple version and there's the complicated version&lt;/strong&gt; - let's stick with the simple one. &lt;strong&gt;The simple one is that I just wanted to use animation in the movie.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But you think that it ties into the film's theme?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Well it does. That's the complicated version. &lt;strong&gt;The complicated version is about, sort of dual universes, parallel universes and whatnot.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-01-10T16:10:50.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9344" CreationDate="2013-01-10T20:09:22.303" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bluntly, no, there is no strict definition for a &quot;season&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, traditionally, broadcasters would start showing a season in August, and run until May -- mostly because of the belief that people watched less TV in the summer.  But this gave them the opportunity to have shows set during Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some shows would even make reference to the &quot;summer break&quot;. Castle, for instance, would end the season with a &quot;breakup&quot;, only to spend the first episode or two having the characters &quot;make-up&quot;.  But some shows, especially those ending in a cliff-hanger, might have one or two episodes set &quot;last season&quot; to wrap up the loose ends, before jumping ahead three or four months to &quot;now&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, once all the smaller networks appeared, they saw the huge &quot;rerun&quot; gap left in the summer by the broadcast networks, and quickly stepped in.  And the premium networks took a card from BBC and created shorter seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3569" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T03:07:02.700" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T03:07:02.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9381" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9383" CreationDate="2013-01-11T05:13:13.490" Score="16" ViewCount="4608" Body="&lt;p&gt;It turns out that &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9334/was-bugs-bunny-impersonating-someone-when-he-ate-the-carrot&quot;&gt;Bugs Bunny was impersonating someone when he ate the carrot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was he also impersonating a contemporary actor when he asked &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's up doc?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; or is that a Bugs Bunny original?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2023-07-29T07:47:47.063" LastActivityDate="2023-07-29T07:54:52.617" Title="&quot;What's up doc?&quot; - Is Bugs Bunny impersonating someone?" Tags="|dialogue|reference|looney-tunes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="859" CreationDate="2013-01-11T06:15:52.943" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Problem with them being in another building when it goes off, at the beginning of the movie they show the window that Tyler leans on then quickly descends to the sub levels &lt;em&gt;right below them&lt;/em&gt; where the van is. So Tyler couldn't have rearmed the bomb if it was below them. Unless I am missing something, it doesn't add up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3853" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T06:15:52.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9381" CreationDate="2013-01-11T07:51:25.250" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The first time Bugs uses the phrase is in the cartoon &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wild_Hare&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wild Hare&#xA;  1940&lt;/a&gt;. The rabbit walks up to Elmer Fudd who is hunting for him&#xA;  with a large gun and casually asks, “What’s up Doc?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's their original phrase. May be inspired from &lt;code&gt;What's up Phrase&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;which appears previously &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The phrase appears in Jack London's The Sea Wolf (1904), chapter 25&#xA;  (-- &quot;What's up?&quot; I asked Wolf Larson.--)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another referance to 'whatsup' can be found in a short story The&#xA;  Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes from the collection Sixes and Sevens&#xA;  (1911) by acclaimed American short story writer O' Henry (1862-1910).&#xA;  The character Shamrock Jolnes says, &quot;Good morning, Whatsup.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T07:44:27.243" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T07:44:27.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9384" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-11T09:47:44.480" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-11T09:47:44.480" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T09:47:44.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9385" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-11T09:47:44.480" Score="0" Body="Popular phrase from a Movie or TV series." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-11T11:21:02.590" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T11:21:02.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9386" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-11T10:03:51.623" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_the_City_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-11T11:21:04.943" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T11:21:04.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9387" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-11T10:03:51.623" Score="0" Body="Sex and the City 2 is a 2010 American romantic comedy film directed by Michael Patrick King. It is the sequel to the 2008 film Sex and the City, which is based on the HBO TV series of the same name." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-11T11:20:57.193" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T11:20:57.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9388" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-11T10:05:40.077" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-11T10:05:40.077" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T10:05:40.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9389" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-11T10:05:40.077" Score="0" Body="Sex and the City is a 2008 American comedy film based on the HBO comedy series of the same name." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-11T11:21:06.740" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T11:21:06.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9390" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-11T10:11:39.027" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-11T10:11:39.027" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T10:11:39.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9391" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-11T10:11:39.027" Score="0" Body="Sex and the City is an American television comedy-drama series which was also adopted in Two films." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-11T11:21:11.107" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T11:21:11.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9392" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9395" CreationDate="2013-01-11T10:22:49.023" Score="15" ViewCount="27816" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the major factors that lead to different release dates worldwide for a movie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. the release dates of Quentin Tarantino's &lt;em&gt;Django Unchained&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;25th Dec, 2012 in the US, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;18th Jan, 2013 in UK,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;as late as 10th April, 2013 in Phillipines.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am basically interested in Hollywood movies, but references to other foreign films too would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2017-05-09T14:23:28.150" LastActivityDate="2017-05-09T14:23:28.150" Title="What are the reasons for different Worldwide release dates of a movie?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9381" CreationDate="2013-01-11T10:29:31.640" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;The (co-)Creator of &lt;em&gt;Bugs Bunny&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Avery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tex Avery&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, once &lt;a href=&quot;http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/cmp/lineup/bugs.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We decided he was going to be a smart-aleck rabbit, but casual about it, and his opening line in the very &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWildHare&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;first one&lt;/a&gt; was &lt;code&gt;Eh, what's up, Doc?&lt;/code&gt; And, gee, it floored [the audience]!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;They expected the rabbit to scream, or anything but make a casual remark--here's a guy with a gun in his face! It got such a laugh that we said, 'Boy, we'll do that every chance we get.' It became a series of 'What's up, Docs?'.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;He was the most timid of animals, yet he had courage and brashness. &lt;strong&gt;The whole gimmick was a rabbit so cocky that he wasn't afraid of a guy with a gun who was hunting him.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The phrase &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;What's up, doc?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; was used at &lt;a href=&quot;https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2022/03/30521/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;his High School&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Remembering the &lt;em&gt;‘What’s up, Doc?’&lt;/em&gt; expression from his high-school days&lt;/strong&gt; in Texas, Avery had decided to place it in the mouth of a sharp Brooklynese rabbit who knew everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="53946" LastEditDate="2023-07-29T07:54:52.617" LastActivityDate="2023-07-29T07:54:52.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9392" CreationDate="2013-01-11T10:46:31.673" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason for difference release date in different countries is because of following reasons -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Time it takes to prepare subtitles, dubs, to get the&#xA;  film through foreign ratings boards (and possibly re-cut based on&#xA;  that), to coordinate foreign marketing, and possibly to work around&#xA;  local movie schedules. For example in India movies only release on Friday but it differs from Us where movie can also release on other&#xA;  days too.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then there's foreign distribution negotiations, which is an extremely&#xA;  complicated business. Sometimes movies have that locked down before&#xA;  they even shoot (because they're relying on that money); larger films&#xA;  may wait to prove themselves in domestic markets in order to get&#xA;  better deals overseas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, there's the physical difficulties in striking new prints&#xA;  (costly) or waiting for the old prints to finish up at home (takes a&#xA;  while) and then shipping them to the foreign markets. Print costs are is quite high and most movies can't&#xA;  afford to buy one for every theater in the world at the same time.&#xA;  Digital distribution should alleviate this problem somewhat in the&#xA;  next few decades.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All of these problems can be overcome--the largest of the blockbusters&#xA;  will sometimes have a simultaneous world-wide release date (which&#xA;  discourages piracy and allows you to take advantage of a single global&#xA;  marketing campaign), but I assume the vast majority of films don't&#xA;  have the money to take care of all of the issues before their release&#xA;  date.&lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&amp;amp;t=37963&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Spider-Man_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Release dates outside the US were moved up to June in other countries to increase first-week sales.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other reasons also explained in similar question here  &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2172/whats-with-the-trend-of-releasing-movies-outside-the-us-first&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2675/why-is-the-german-version-of-prometheus-released-2-months-after-the-world-premie&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T18:40:56.827" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9392" CreationDate="2013-01-11T12:01:51.783" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2012/02/veteran-distribution-exec-andrew-cripps-joins-imax-.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Andrew Cripps&lt;/a&gt; (former president of &lt;em&gt;Paramount Pictures International&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;United International Pictures&lt;/em&gt;) wrote an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creativeskillset.org/film/knowledge/article_5078_1.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Overview of International Film Markets and Theatrical Distribution&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Studios split the &lt;strong&gt;International market&lt;/strong&gt; into three main areas: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Europe &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Far East (including Australasia) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Latin America &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Distribution Process:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Distributors will consider their strategies from (at least) four perspectives: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Global: &lt;em&gt;where will the film work?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Regional: &lt;em&gt;how will we make it work in (say) Europe?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;National: &lt;em&gt;how should we release it in each country?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Local: &lt;em&gt;are there any particular local conditions that need to be taken into account within each country?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;... &lt;strong&gt;the distributor will prepare a &lt;em&gt;Territory Contribution Report&lt;/em&gt; identifying the revenue estimates for each market.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The views of senior studio bosses and regional and local managers will also be sought, with screenings held as early as possible to help build up a picture of the film's estimated International performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Campaigns&lt;/strong&gt; for each title are planned well in advance, &lt;strong&gt;taking into account such factors as:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;US release dates &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Competitors' release schedules &lt;em&gt;(information is generally shared between the majors to avoid clashes wherever possible)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The distributors' annual budget and the rest of their slate for the year seasonal positioning &lt;em&gt;(to take account of holiday periods, relevant awards ceremonies, other local factors)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The strategy and timing of the release will also take into account:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;censorship issues – when and how must the film be submitted for classification? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;translation for sub–titling and dubbing &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;publicity screenings &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;availability of key talent for promotional purposes &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;availability of key media in each territory &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;any promotional tie–ins and when the partners will be spending their money &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;any additional local factors &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Day and Date Distribution:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With the various exploitation windows closing, there is an increasing trend towards films being released internationally on the same day as (or close to) their North American release. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This has the advantages of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;reducing the opportunities for piracy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;enabling marketing campaigns from the US to roll over into other territories&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;and allowing earlier exploitation of other windows. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the other hand, &lt;strong&gt;day and date releasing requires new prints and means that marketing spend must be committed internationally before the studio knows how the film has played in the US.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It also reduces the time that the distributors have for sorting out dubbing, classification and other issues in each territory and makes it less likely that the talent will be available to promote it in as many markets.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all there is &lt;strong&gt;a lot to consider&lt;/strong&gt; when distributing a movie internationally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T18:40:01.383" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T18:40:01.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9276" CreationDate="2013-01-11T15:50:25.293" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cab Calliway plays a mystical all-knowing school janitor in The Blues Brothers (1980). Clearly, this trope has been around for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T15:50:25.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9397" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-11T16:57:59.157" Score="5" ViewCount="3344" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems as though when Mark released Face Smash, the site got 22,000 hits in a couple of hours. Now he said to Eduardo that he needed the Phoenix club mailing list because if he didn't get them to send it out &quot;Facebook would just bounce around the dorms&quot;. I'd say the previous 22,000 hits in 2 hours is a little more than &quot;bouncing around the dorms&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why did Mark need Eduardo's help in securing the mailing list emails?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="148" LastEditDate="2013-01-11T22:31:04.913" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T20:00:15.857" Title="In Social Network, why does Mark need the Phoenix club mailing list?" Tags="|the-social-network|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9397" CreationDate="2013-01-11T18:03:02.353" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Facebook in the early days was designed to be a website of privilege, where only Harvard students with a harvard.edu email address could get in. Mark wanted to get students of influence onto Facebook to help create the feeling of exclusiveness that the website was offering. So inviting members of the Phoenix club would mean that Phoenix club members would be the ones sending out the first friend invites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mark created a social network where the only way to get in was to be invited, and being invited by someone in the Phoenix club would have been considered an honor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T18:03:02.353" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4203" CreationDate="2013-01-11T22:16:25.773" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought that perhaps all the people had died and that the cube represented purgatory. All the &quot;inmates&quot; were having to face, and reflect on, their own selves. Rennes says at the beginning &quot;you have to escape yourselves&quot;. At the end, only the pure manage to go to heaven (the mentally handicapped guy is amoral), and the rest are condemned to death/hell/nothingness whatever. No matter what your religion, or whether you are atheist or agnostic, conclusions about moving (or not moving) on to the next life can be drawn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film-makers perhaps then decided to move the film in another direction in order to pump out a couple of sequels/prequels, but I won't watch them because I think the film itself is a masterpiece (not the acting necessarily).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or... perhaps someone just got stoned while playing with a Rubik's Cube and had an idea for a movie about a maze in the shape of a cube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3856" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T22:16:25.773" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9402" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-11T23:47:02.857" Score="10" ViewCount="2242" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are any of the other Avengers going to be in Iron Man 3? Or is he flying solo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3857" LastEditorUserId="564" LastEditDate="2019-07-08T08:50:41.580" LastActivityDate="2019-07-08T08:50:41.580" Title="Does Iron Man 3 have any other Avengers in it?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-3|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3339" CreationDate="2013-01-11T23:54:44.937" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The entire episode reminded me of the &quot;Theatre of the Absurd,&quot; which I studied with mild frustration in college: Sartre, Camus, Pinter, Ionesco, Albee.  To paraphrase:  'man is a meaning-making animal, alive in a meaningless universe; ergo, all his efforts are absurd!'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought Vince gave the main actors a chance to interact for an entire episode, like Didi and Gogo in Sartre's &quot;Waiting for Godot.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3858" LastActivityDate="2013-01-11T23:54:44.937" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9402" CreationDate="2013-01-12T01:27:25.383" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cast listed on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300854/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; doesn't have any members of the Avengers listed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2013-01-12T01:27:25.383" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9405" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9407" CreationDate="2013-01-12T02:14:56.477" Score="5" ViewCount="2025" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, what was Walter's reason for changing the poison cigarette with a mild substance and making Jesse's girlfriend's kid get sick?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is about psychological manipulation over Jesse, but it is too elaborate as a plan and it created more trouble than benefits.  I fail to see what was the expected outcome and how it would have affected the plot if it never had happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3659" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T01:06:08.867" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T01:06:08.867" Title="Question about Walter and the cigarette in Season 4 of Breaking Bad" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2226" CreationDate="2013-01-12T02:18:06.187" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The guy in the scene after the credits, is The Mad Titan, THANOS. One of the most powerful beings (villains) in the Marvel Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3838" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-01-12T09:43:11.570" LastActivityDate="2013-01-12T09:43:11.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9405" CreationDate="2013-01-12T02:31:18.340" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walter was not playing Jesse, just Gus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walter's intent was not to manipulate Jesse, but to manipulate Gus and the bodyguard into an unguarded place. Poisoning Jesse's girlfriend's son causes stress to Jesse, who believed it was the ricin from the cigarette. This heightened his stress level so he could not perform the cooking duties for Gus. Walter was forcing Gus into a conversation, at the hospital, that started as a cook responsibility conversation with Jesse, but turned into a compassionate one, since Gus relieved Jesse from cooking to stay near the boy. Walter knew Gus' attitude was &quot;family first&quot;; so does the audience. Walt used the unguarded time to bomb the car, a plan which failed because Gus luckily evaded the explosion by walking away because he &quot;sensed something&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The remainder of the &quot;situation&quot; which involved the FBI, was defused by Saul, and the eventual knowledge that ricin (which was never named, I believe) was not the cause. It had to be something else Walter created because ricin, if confirmed, would have had Jesse arrested, possibly as a terrorist, since ricin is so deadly. Hello Guantanamo!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2013-01-12T02:39:29.323" LastActivityDate="2013-01-12T02:39:29.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9408" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-12T03:17:43.697" Score="3" ViewCount="3376" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the artistic reasons to shoot &quot;Curb Your Enthusiasm&quot; in a higher frame rate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It gives me the impress I am watching an old show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3659" LastEditorUserId="5318" LastEditDate="2013-07-02T20:35:13.903" LastActivityDate="2019-06-13T11:38:02.690" Title="What are the artistic reasons to shoot &quot;Curb Your Enthusiasm&quot; in a higher frame rate?" Tags="|film-techniques|curb-your-enthusiasm|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9402" CreationDate="2013-01-12T10:02:25.367" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marvel Studios&lt;/em&gt; President &lt;strong&gt;Kevin Feige&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=70494&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;said&lt;/a&gt; in November 2012:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/em&gt; doesn't feature any of the other Avengers&lt;/strong&gt;, or Nick Fury showing up, or any of those world-blending conceits that the Phase One films had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to keep in mind that &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/em&gt; had been in the works for almost a year, year and a half before &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; was released. We're sticking to the vision for these films, and &lt;strong&gt;showing once again that these characters are just as interesting alone as they are together.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;There was &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/iron-man-3-wasp/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a rumour&lt;/a&gt; that actress &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1210895/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stephanie Szostak&lt;/a&gt; was playing &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.com/universe/Wasp&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Janet van Dyne&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(Wasp)&lt;/strong&gt; (she is a founding member of the Avengers in the comics)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;    &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uF1fW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Wasp&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/MarvelFreshman/news/?a=58840&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;According to &lt;em&gt;Joss Whedon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; early drafts of &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; included &lt;em&gt;Janet van Dyne&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-04-29T11:26:27.097" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9411" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9414" CreationDate="2013-01-12T17:39:00.450" Score="5" ViewCount="362" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1790885/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Zero Dark Thirty&lt;/a&gt; last night and I have to say, I didn't expect the movie to be nominated as one of &lt;em&gt;best pictures&lt;/em&gt; of 2012. Some of the flicks I was expecting were, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Django Unchained (nominated)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cloud Atlas (I'm quite disappointed it's not nominated)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hunger Games&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how do they decide who gets nominated or not? Because, I can't seem to understand some of the choices since there were better movies available for the choice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3861" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-13T09:19:20.193" LastActivityDate="2013-12-13T09:19:20.193" Title="How do they decide what/who gets nominated at the Oscars?" Tags="|film-industry|awards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9294" CreationDate="2013-01-12T17:48:58.127" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Slap Bet&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; (Season 2 Episode 9) Marshall was granted &lt;strong&gt;5&lt;/strong&gt; slaps to be delivered any time in the future without warning. &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;In &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Disaster Averted&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; (Season 7 Episode 9) Marshall was granted &lt;strong&gt;3&lt;/strong&gt; slaps of the same kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;5 + 3 = 8&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;out of which&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;6&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;slaps have been executed&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;1st&lt;/strong&gt; slap was executed in &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Slap_Bet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Slap Bet&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (Season 2 Episode 9) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;2nd&lt;/strong&gt; slap was executed in &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Stuff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stuff&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (Season 2 Episode 16)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;3rd&lt;/strong&gt; slap was executed in &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Slapsgiving&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Slapsgiving&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (Season 3 Episode 9)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;4th&lt;/strong&gt; slap was executed in &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Slapsgiving_2:_Revenge_of_the_Slap&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (Season 5 Episode 9)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;5th&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;6th&lt;/strong&gt; slap were executed in &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Disaster_Averted&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Disaster Averted&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (Season 7 Episode 9)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, there are &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;2 slaps remaining.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a related note, the &lt;strong&gt;7th&lt;/strong&gt; slap has a countdown at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theslapbetcountdown.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Slapbet Countdown&lt;/a&gt;! :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: Both those slaps were delivered before the ending of the show. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3862" LastEditorUserId="3862" LastEditDate="2015-02-12T11:13:50.203" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T11:13:50.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9411" CreationDate="2013-01-12T18:43:17.700" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/about/voting.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;official website&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nomination ballots are mailed to the Academy’s active members in late December&lt;/strong&gt; and are due back to &lt;em&gt;PricewaterhouseCoopers&lt;/em&gt;, an international accounting firm, in January.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Regular awards are presented for outstanding individual or collective film achievements in up to 25 categories. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Members from each of the branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories&lt;/strong&gt; – actors nominate actors, film editors nominated film editors, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However within the &lt;em&gt;Animated Feature Film&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Foreign Language Film&lt;/em&gt; categories, nominations are selected by vote of multi-branch screening committees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All voting members are eligible to select the &lt;em&gt;Best Picture&lt;/em&gt; nominees.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/academy/members/members.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are the members?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They are the more than 6,000 artists and professionals who bring the magic of the movies to life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/academy/members/members.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a short list of individuals from each branch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/academy/members/invitations.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Becoming a member&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You must be a film artist or craftsperson working in one or more of the art form’s key creative areas. And your work must represent an unusually high level of quality and distinction. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are a writer, producer, or director, you should have at least two screen credits on films that reflect the Academy’s highest standards. &#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you are an actor, you should have performed scripted roles in at least three such films.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some branches &lt;em&gt;(including Art Directors, Executives, Public Relations, Visual Effects and others)&lt;/em&gt; also expect new members to have worked in their fields for a certain number of years. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Most candidates begin their journey to membership by finding current members to sponsor them.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you win the support of two or more sponsors in your (prospective) branch, your proposal will be taken up by the appropriate committees. If approved, it would then be given a final evaluation by the &lt;em&gt;Board of Governors&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, &lt;strong&gt;you will automatically be considered for membership if you were nominated for an &lt;em&gt;Academy Award&lt;/em&gt; for the previous year. (Or even better, if you won one.)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/oscars-academy-membership-invited-176/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a list of the 176 people that got invited to be a member &lt;strong&gt;this year&lt;/strong&gt; (2012).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Category 'Actors':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eIKHt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Actors&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2013-01-12T19:38:08.577" LastActivityDate="2013-01-12T19:38:08.577" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9419" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9427" CreationDate="2013-01-12T21:37:15.497" Score="9" ViewCount="30885" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of the 7th and last season of The West Wing, we are just coming into the general election between Santos and Vinick. Unfortunately, the first episode opens three years in the future at the Bartlet Library with the regulars from the final seasons. They spoil all of the plot points left to the viewer. CJ and Danny, Will's future, Toby's future, and of course the results of the upcoming election.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why spoil all the interesting story arcs which will be resolved throughout the final season in the first five minutes of the first episode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastActivityDate="2018-06-28T15:27:10.993" Title="Why did the writers / producers of the West Wing spoil the final season in episode 1?" Tags="|the-west-wing|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9749" CreationDate="2013-01-12T22:02:48.473" Score="6" ViewCount="2968" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Dredd&lt;/em&gt; film when they show the effects of the Slo-Mo drug. There is this dramatic sound track that represents the effects of the drug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found a YouTube video of a very similar (if not the same) sound track dating back to 2010. Can anyone confirm if this was the inspiration for the sound track in the film? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/2HZAReul9IQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found the none-slowed version of this sound. This is funny how the two are so different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/dnLjr8TaE1Q?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, here is a reference from Dredd with the Slo-Mo drug music playing in the background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/UCNZ-x2Zi4s?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-10-16T09:02:35.213" LastActivityDate="2018-10-16T09:02:35.213" Title="Is this the inspiration for the music used in Dredd?" Tags="|soundtrack|dredd|sound-effects|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9420" CreationDate="2013-01-13T03:58:13.173" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The slow-mo music was apparently based on a slowed down &lt;a href=&quot;http://metronews.ca/scene/374978/dredd-3d-might-make-you-a-belieber/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Justin Bieber song&lt;/a&gt;, but I seem to recall slowing songs like this was a popular fad a few years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3817" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T18:45:37.623" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T18:45:37.623" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9397" CreationDate="2013-01-13T05:22:14.897" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;He doesn’t.  He says he does, but he doesn’t.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Facebook&lt;/em&gt;, when launched, did have a requirement, &lt;em&gt;“You must have a harvard.edu address to register”&lt;/em&gt; but it would become more about &lt;em&gt;who you know&lt;/em&gt; - just like college cliques.  (The exclusivity just to Harvard.edu idea was the &lt;em&gt;Harvard Connection&lt;/em&gt; site planned by the Winklevoss concern, and ill advisedly handed over  to Zuckerberg to leverage.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;”People came to FaceSmash in a stampede right?  But it wasn’t because they saw pictures of hot girls.  You can go anywhere on the Internet and see pictures of hot girls.  It’s because they saw pictures of girls that they know.  People want to go online and see their friends, so why not build a site that offers that….  It would be exclusive. [in the sense that] You would have to know the people on the site to get past your own page, like getting &lt;strong&gt;punched&lt;/strong&gt;. [Friended]  It’s like a Final club but we’re the president.” … “I’m talking about taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online.  That is what this site is about.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie shows Zuckerberg’s nimble transformation of his original hack FaceSmash, to include Eduardo’s algorithm, then the Winklevoss idea of exclusivity, and glomming on a bunch of other friend’s ideas (e.g. relationship status), and then leveraging Sean Parker’s business experience of losing control of his prior company to investors (but who’s leveraging who?), and snowballing all of that up into Facebook – gloriously!  That’s the whole plot structure of the movie: that most of Facebook wasn’t original, but you still have to do the work, and be the guy who is smart enough to turn that over into a profitable company.  In that sense, it really is a parable of all of business and great companies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the jaberwock12.listserv@harvard.edu email list from Eduardo (to every member of &lt;em&gt;The Phoenix – SK Club&lt;/em&gt;) was about putting a best foot forward and starting it off with the cool clique and growing page hits organically from that, vs. starting with a bunch of “dorks”.  In the movie Mark did say, &lt;em&gt;“These guys know people, and I need their emails”&lt;/em&gt;, but he was playing Eduardo to get the address. The 22,000 hits were generated by sending an email to just 3 people.  When you look at the original and current site functionality, he in fact did not need it.  The only reason he “needed” it was to stick a finger in the eye of the privileged by using them, and proving the “American dream” is still true by having nothing but intelligence and a great college education to create unimaginable wealth and success in this land.  This is contrasted &lt;em&gt;expertly&lt;/em&gt; with the tradition of the Winklevoss boys and their code of honor - that nice boys finished last.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, you don’t have to be a WASP, and a dominant alpha male to succeed in America today.  You have to be smart.  This is what our education system now promotes and what we have before us in theory and in practice.  Like Hemingway, judging the black-hat vs. white-hat thing is up to the viewer and their life experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He did not need the list to make the site successful.  He needed it as a matter of principle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="546" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-01-14T19:06:46.570" LastActivityDate="2013-01-14T19:06:46.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9424" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9425" CreationDate="2013-01-13T09:50:24.000" Score="9" ViewCount="29944" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Episode 6 of Season 5 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.abc.go.com/shows/castle&quot;&gt;Castle&lt;/a&gt; ('&lt;strong&gt;Final Frontier&lt;/strong&gt;'), there is a murder, wherein the body is placed inside a fake spaceship designed for the '&lt;strong&gt;Nebula 9&lt;/strong&gt; Fan Experience'.&#xA;I Googled &lt;em&gt;Nebula 9&lt;/em&gt; and all results are abc.com or &lt;em&gt;Memes&lt;/em&gt; released by it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty convinced that it's made-up, but just wanted to confirm it is.&#xA;And if it is made-up, was it inspired by some long-forgotten failed Sci-Fi show?&#xA;If yes, &lt;em&gt;which one&lt;/em&gt;?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3862" LastEditorUserId="3862" LastEditDate="2013-01-24T13:21:01.230" LastActivityDate="2013-07-20T00:28:40.683" Title="Is Nebula 9 a real (or maybe inspired) show?" Tags="|analysis|castle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9424" CreationDate="2013-01-13T10:38:33.050" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say &lt;em&gt;Nebula 9&lt;/em&gt; was a nod to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303461/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, but there were a lot of references to other Sci-Fi shows as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://iheartlegeek.com/2012/11/07/castle-final-frontier-geeky-references/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Le Geek&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Firefly&lt;/strong&gt; references:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nebula 9's&lt;/em&gt; Captain is called &lt;strong&gt;Max Reynard&lt;/strong&gt;, in &lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt; the name was &lt;strong&gt;Mal Reynolds&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lt. Chloe&lt;/strong&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Nebula 9&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Zoe&lt;/strong&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Creavers&lt;/strong&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Nebula 9&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Reavers&lt;/strong&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nebula 9&lt;/em&gt; was cancelled &lt;em&gt;&quot;over a decade ago, and only had 12 episodes at that&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Castle says &quot;Shiny&quot; a common phrase in Firefly for 'good' or 'cool'&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Castle &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/castle/the-final-frontier-2577968/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;also says&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;&quot;I'm a fan of good sci-fi. StarTrek, Battlestar, &lt;strong&gt;that Joss Whedon show&lt;/strong&gt;,...&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Star Trek&lt;/strong&gt; references:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000408/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jonathan Frakes&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(William T. Riker)&lt;/em&gt; not only directed the episodes, he also has a cameo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nmKza.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Frakes&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/castle-season-5-episode-5-final-frontier-recap/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001734/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Armin Shimerman&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Quark)&lt;/em&gt; also made an appearance&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e7xjw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Shimerman&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://castleconvention.com/castle-convention-guest-actor-announcement-minor-spoiler-for-mondays-episode/1326&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Castle is doing a &lt;strong&gt;Captain Kirk impersonation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Castle is doing a &lt;strong&gt;Captain Picard impersonation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Click the 'Le Geek' link for more references to other Sci-Fi shows, movies and fan culture)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-07-20T00:28:40.683" LastActivityDate="2013-07-20T00:28:40.683" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9426" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9428" CreationDate="2013-01-13T16:13:59.327" Score="11" ViewCount="4020" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter and The Order of Phoenix&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Dolores Umbridge&lt;/em&gt; always seems to be wearing pink color dresses. Is there any significance for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-08-27T06:20:34.283" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T03:38:09.987" Title="Why does Umbridge always wear pink dresses?" Tags="|character|harry-potter|the-order-of-the-phoenix|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9419" CreationDate="2013-01-13T17:12:36.517" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a huge &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200276/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The West Wing&lt;/a&gt; fan, to me the flash-forward was a pleasant surprise from the regular chronological &lt;sup&gt;(1)&lt;/sup&gt; story telling, and I did not experience it as being a spoiler. In fact, as trigger to keep watching, quite the opposite:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At the end of the sixth season, it is unclear if Toby will be caught for leaking classified information, so Bartlet to Toby &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.westwingtranscripts.com/search.php?flag=getTranscript&amp;amp;id=135&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;saying&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;&quot;Glad you could make it.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; could mean anything from Toby being free and working abroad to Toby gotten a temporary release from prison.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For six seasons long already, we are in anticipation of a growing relationship between CJ and Danny. Seeing them together in that scene answers that indeed, but it was not within expectancy anymore because Danny's last appearance was in the first episode of the fifth season, two years ago. So, now we are told they will end up together. But it actually raises the question of how they will, since in all previous episodes they were together, it did not last. (By the way, their reconciliation is worked out superbly at the end of the season.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will's &quot;future&quot; being revealed really is not that spoiling kind of exposure.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The scene clearly does not reveal who the (next) President is. Or better: clearly &lt;em&gt;intends&lt;/em&gt; not to reveal. We see his shoes getting out of a car and we see Bartlet shaking hands with... another hand, while the camera pans up till just not showing his face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Josh being there introducing the President could indeed mean Santos won, but Josh could as well be in a ceremonial function. It could also mean he works for Vinick. It is a long shot, but in three years a lot of things can happen. His patriotism could have made convince him as democrat working for a republican White House. After all, it was Josh who came with the idea to appoint republican Christopher Mulready in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Supremes_(The_West_Wing)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Supremes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, at the time this episode aired, it was not settled Santos would win the election. That was only after John Spencer's death. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/10/arts/television/10wing.html?_r=2&amp;amp;adxnnl=1&amp;amp;oref=slogin&amp;amp;adxnnlx=1144685466-MCf2l0C1+9Hqlvh+y9ZjfA&amp;amp;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;'West Wing' Writers' Novel Way of Picking the President&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Instead, Lawrence O'Donnell, an executive producer of the show, said&#xA;  he and his fellow writers had declared Santos the winner only after&#xA;  the death, in mid-December, of John Spencer, who portrayed Santos's&#xA;  running mate, Leo McGarry. At the time of Mr. Spencer's death, the&#xA;  plot for last night's episode had been set: the election was to be won&#xA;  by Alan Alda's Arnold Vinick, a maverick Republican (modeled a bit on&#xA;  Senator John McCain), whom many Democrats (including the Democrats who&#xA;  write the show) could learn to love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(1)&lt;/sup&gt; There are flash-backs in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Cathedrals&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Two Cathedrals&lt;/a&gt; and in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Khe_(The_West_Wing)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;An Khe&lt;/a&gt;. There is also a flash-forward in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inauguration,_Part_I&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inauguration, Part I&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2018-06-28T15:27:10.993" LastActivityDate="2018-06-28T15:27:10.993" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9426" CreationDate="2013-01-13T17:15:09.523" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Extremely Feminine&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dolores Umbridge&lt;/strong&gt; is depicted as an extremely girlish character.&#xA;From the Harry Potter Wiki:&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She spoke with a simpering, high-pitched voice that was girlish and breathless, and has her office decorated with kittens and other cute pink things. She had a wide, toad-like smile and would after say cruel things in a sugary, sweet voice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pink clothes &amp;amp; accessories, the kittens and the high-pitched voice are to depict girlishness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to Harry, she looked like someone's maiden aunt, and that her style of dressing would fit someone half her age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can say that the filmmakers wanted to show &lt;em&gt;irony/contrast&lt;/em&gt; in the character.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;She dresses &amp;amp; acts like a sweet maiden, but actually is a ferocious, unfair and cruel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources: &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Dolores_Umbridge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dolores Umbridge &amp;lt; Harry Potter Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3862" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T03:38:09.987" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T03:38:09.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9426" CreationDate="2013-01-13T17:17:35.883" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;A glance through official wikis and 'making of' sites does not appear to shed much light on this, other than the fact that she seems to dress like a favorite auntie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;According to Harry, &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Dolores_Umbridge&quot;&gt;she looked like someone's maiden aunt, and that her style of dressing would fit someone half her age.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think it was a conscious decision on the part of the filmmakers to dress her this way, thus making her the living embodiment of 'a wolf in sheep's clothing'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sickly sweet pink on the outside, twisted and rotten on the inside, a perfect contrast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-01-13T17:17:35.883" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3410" CreationDate="2013-01-13T21:45:33.473" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though just a short filler as many of the views have been posted but I recall that Mr. Fox stresses the hard winter ahead for the wolf yet up until this meeting with the Wolf and further is still a hard struggle for them. Therefore the fact that being animals is a hard life, but throughout the whole movie: animals act as humans but are in fact animals. Mr. Fox even stresses this fact at the dinner toast which was first rudely interrupted by humans. All I can say is what a beautiful clash between humans and animals for freedom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3868" LastActivityDate="2013-01-13T21:45:33.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3303" CreationDate="2013-01-13T23:09:11.957" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was an ex spy so kept the cyanide in that tin behind the coffee incase he needed to kill hhimself instead of giving out any information that people such as Cole would have wanted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He knew he wasn't going to get away when Cole phoned him so instead of trying to run and end up dead anyway, he got the kettle ready for his coffee, added the cyanide and committed suicide. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3871" LastActivityDate="2013-01-13T23:09:11.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9433" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9435" CreationDate="2013-01-13T23:22:07.427" Score="10" ViewCount="44784" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pitch perfect is a movie based on competitive acapella singing where the only sounds should come from the human voice. It is a great movie and a great soundtrack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But some critics (including Mark Kermode) have claimed that the movie cheats and uses some instruments, especially near the end. Is this true? Or does the movie stick to its principles and use only the voice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2017-04-30T02:03:32.463" Title="Did the soundtrack of Pitch Perfect cheat and use instruments?" Tags="|soundtrack|pitch-perfect|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8965" CreationDate="2013-01-13T23:34:35.037" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is never said where Angels go. The same with Demons but all supernatural beings except for Ghosts go to Purgatory. I'm pretty sure Ghosts go to Heaven or stop existing all together. Now, when you kill something in Purgatory, I believe it just stops existing all together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3872" LastEditorUserId="7366" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T12:49:41.317" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T12:49:41.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9433" CreationDate="2013-01-14T00:10:50.400" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to this article from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.postmagazine.com/Publications/Post-Magazine/2012/October-1-2012/Film-Sound-Pitch-Perfect.aspx&quot;&gt;Post Magazine&lt;/a&gt;, there were no instruments, but there were guitar, bass, and drum vocalizations, plus a beatbox. With the vocalization technique, apparently you are singing through an instrument, so it is still your voice rather than the instrument that is causing the sound (think Peter Frampton and his talk box).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kevin O’Connell, re-recording mixer at Universal Sound Studios,&#xA;  handled the music and dialog mix on the film. For each of the 80 songs&#xA;  delivered for the final mix, there were up to 120 tracks of a cappella&#xA;  singing and vocalizations. O’Connell said, “I would have the main&#xA;  characters on the first 10 to 12 tracks, and the secondary characters&#xA;  on the next 10 to 12 tracks. Then I’d have scads of background vocals,&#xA;  beatbox, guitar vocalizations, bass vocalizations, and drum&#xA;  vocalizations.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;O’Connell took the principle tracks and panned them around the stage&#xA;  to match where the characters were dancing while they were singing.&#xA;  Next he filled in the background characters vocals.  Then he filled&#xA;  the track in with the different instrument vocalizations of guitars,&#xA;  drums, bass, beatbox, and any other vocalized samples that came with&#xA;  the song. He said, “When you see it, you’ll find it hard to believe&#xA;  that there were actually no instruments during any of those songs.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article tells all about the recording and mixing processes for the film - very interesting!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-01-14T00:10:50.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9227" CreationDate="2013-01-14T03:10:21.437" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could this possibly be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush..._Hush,_Sweet_Charlotte&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte&lt;/a&gt;, which takes place on a plantation in Louisiana, and has a beheading and a cousin named Miriam?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastActivityDate="2013-01-14T03:10:21.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8697" CreationDate="2013-01-14T04:04:15.780" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The housemate you reference is actually Bennett's father. This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.emanuellevy.com/comment/syriana-narrative-structure-ideology-3/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;review&lt;/a&gt; from Emanuel Levy explains the significance of the relationship and also points out that there are 5 father-son relationships in the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't know if Gaghan subscribes to Freudian psychology, but one of&#xA;  the unifying structural elements of “Syriana” is intergenerational&#xA;  conflict, manifest in the troubled relationships between fathers and&#xA;  sons. There are no less than five sets of fathers and sons in the&#xA;  film...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bennett Holiday and Bennett Holiday Sr. (Jeffrey Wright and William&#xA;  Charles Mitchell). Bennett is an ambitious Washington attorney at&#xA;  Sloan Whiting law firm, in charge of the task of guiding the&#xA;  Connex-Killen merger. It's in the company and the country's interest&#xA;  that the merger goes through. It also serves his personal ambitions.&#xA;  Bennett's upward mobility is complicated by his difficult relationship&#xA;  with his father, an alcoholic who faults his son for working for the&#xA;  establishment. While he has always denounced his father as a failure,&#xA;  as Bennett is drawn deeper into the morally ambiguous world of the&#xA;  industry, he starts to doubt his own right to judge his father's&#xA;  character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gaghan was the writer and director of the film. The other father-son pairings were Bob and Robby Barnes (Bob worries about losing his son as he goes off to college), Bryan Woodman and his two young sons (one drowns in the pool), Emir Hamad Al-Subaai and his two sons, Prince Nasir and Prince Meshal (the older son is in line for the throne, but is too reform-minded), and Saleem Ahmed Khan and Wasim Ahmed Khan (migrant workers who dream of returning to Pakistan).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-01-14T04:04:15.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9441" PostTypeId="7" CreationDate="2013-01-14T08:34:24.223" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/strong&gt; is a question and answer site for movie and television enthusiasts. It's built and run &lt;em&gt;by you&lt;/em&gt; as part of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; network of Q&amp;amp;A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about Movies and Television!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="82499" LastEditDate="2021-07-13T11:26:15.020" LastActivityDate="2021-07-13T11:26:15.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9442" PostTypeId="7" CreationDate="2013-01-14T08:37:24.913" Score="0" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Analysis of content or theme of all forms of Movies/TV&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions about a Movie/TV show's production&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Questions relating to the film and TV industry&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The works of a director / an actor / a writer related to Movies/TV&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-08T17:46:47.003" LastActivityDate="2018-01-08T17:46:47.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9445" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9452" CreationDate="2013-01-14T18:56:55.733" Score="5" ViewCount="1935" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Harry Potter and the Death Hallows (Part 2), when Harry, Hermione and Ron set off to Hogsmeade to find Aberforth - how can it be that there is snow clearly visible through the village but there is no snow visible at Hogwarts, despite them being within walking distance of each other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T15:49:19.890" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T15:49:19.890" Title="Where did the snow in Hogsmeade come from?" Tags="|harry-potter|the-deathly-hallows-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9446" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-14T19:31:32.853" Score="4" ViewCount="112915" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;The Notebook&lt;/em&gt;, we see Allie and Noah dead together holding each other's hands. I think that Noah had been trying for a couple of times to let Allie remember everything permanently. But the expected &quot;miracle&quot; did not happen a single time, and every time she lost everything. Now my question is how did they die together? As this was not the first time Allie forgot everything, I don't believe it was a serious physical problem that can cause death. Apparently, Noah was also not sick, although he got a heart attack. But I believe it was out of his sorrow for again losing her. He was there to help Allie. So how come they died together? Did they commit suicide?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T03:44:15.917" LastActivityDate="2021-12-31T22:12:44.713" Title="What happened to Noah and Allie at the end?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-notebook|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9402" CreationDate="2013-01-14T20:17:14.197" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Samuel L. Jackson said none of the Avengers are gonna be in Iron Man 3.  Here is a source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whogottherole.com/movie-news/nick-fury-wont-be-needed-in-iron-man-3-24324&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.whogottherole.com/movie-news/nick-fury-wont-be-needed-in-iron-man-3-24324&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3877" LastActivityDate="2013-01-14T20:17:14.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9448" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-14T20:57:13.663" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is based upon the novel Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat. The film stars Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Omi Vaidya, Parikshit Sahni and Boman Irani.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon release, the film was the highest-grossing film in its opening weekend in India and had the highest opening day collections for an Indian film up until that point. It also held the record for the highest net collections in the first week for a Bollywood film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Idiots&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1187043/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMBD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2016-12-13T09:00:40.313" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T09:00:40.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9449" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-14T20:57:13.663" Score="0" Body="2009's Indian comedy-drama film revolves around three engineering student." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-14T21:06:33.897" LastActivityDate="2013-01-14T21:06:33.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9450" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-14T20:59:27.637" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-14T20:59:27.637" LastActivityDate="2013-01-14T20:59:27.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9451" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-14T20:59:27.637" Score="0" Body="2003 Bollywood drama film  about elderly couple who are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their children take the parents in." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-01-15T19:48:46.923" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T19:48:46.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9445" CreationDate="2013-01-14T21:31:51.710" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Hogsmeade#Behind_the_scenes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/strong&gt; Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to [the book] &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Harry_Potter_Film_Wizardry&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry Potter Film Wizardry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;the set designers made the decision that Hogsmeade is &lt;em&gt;&quot;permanently above the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_line&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;snow line&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://members.madasafish.com/~cj_whitehound/Fanfic/map_of_Hogwarts/introduction.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; you can find a map of &lt;em&gt;Hogwarts / Hogsmeade&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gxalu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Hogwarts&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a 'cleaned up' version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hp-lexicon.org/atlas/hogwarts/atlas-h-jkrmap.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a quick sketch&lt;/a&gt; JK Rowling did herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2013-01-14T21:49:00.470" LastActivityDate="2013-01-14T21:49:00.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9145" CreationDate="2013-01-14T23:55:01.600" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like the jacket kind of says &quot;prop of&quot; something or &quot;proof of&quot; something. Maybe the former. The way I hope it turns out is that's the jacket of the pimp she killed and he was one of the leaders in a gang. After she killed him she ran off to start her own thing so she could take on the rest of that gang. It would make sense since in the movie she spoke of expanding her power. For what? And she probably kept the jacket as a shrine. All speculation but yeah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Turns out the jacket belonged to the leader of the &quot;Judged&quot; gang. In the movie it shows them gunning down one of the members and its the same jacket. His should have holes so i'm guessing the one mama has is the one she took from the leader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3881" LastEditorUserId="3881" LastEditDate="2013-01-15T00:01:45.673" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T00:01:45.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9454" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-15T09:47:26.633" Score="9" ViewCount="1610" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was the Romeo + Juliet (1996) movie set in modern times? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3882" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-22T12:50:12.597" LastActivityDate="2016-09-22T12:50:12.597" Title="Why was Romeo + Juliet set in modern times?" Tags="|analysis|romeo-juliet-1996|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9454" CreationDate="2013-01-15T11:02:52.837" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It helps bring home to a modern audience what is happening in the play.  Some people find that the abstraction of setting the play in an unfamiliar time and place interferes with their understanding of the themes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By setting it in a modern day setting which is far easier to relate to it allows people to enjoy the play more easily and appreciate how timeless the themes actually are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T11:02:52.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9454" CreationDate="2013-01-15T13:58:37.150" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It helps prove the case that Shakespeare's themes and stories have a timeless quality -- especially as this version does very little to update the language. One could take the underlying story in the play and update it (a la West Side Story) but the play would not really be &quot;Shakespeare.&quot; Only an adaptation. That a play can be set in a different time or place and still retain the beauty of the language and present a comprehensible story is a testament to the playwright and the director.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3552" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T13:58:37.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9446" CreationDate="2013-01-15T13:59:01.703" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no mention of them committing suicide. The whole premise of the end of the film is that Allie remembered everything and that she and Noah died together at the same time because their love was so strong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T13:59:01.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8323" CreationDate="2013-01-15T15:14:00.687" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer&lt;/strong&gt;: If you haven't seen the movie yet, please don't read this answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there are people who like to believe the animal story. I did too, but when talking about it with someone else, I realized it's just our human side that makes us want to believe it. We don't like the other being true because it's so sad and dramatic. But as much as I loved the story with the animals, it's just a metaphor for what actually happened. Life of Pi is not a fantasy movie, it's drama, it's a dramatic story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His animal story is what his mind likes/chooses to believe over such a dramatic event that is losing his mother in a violent way and a shipwreck. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story he tells in the end is the real one, and even if it's not said clearly, we know that's what actually happened. He just elaborated that and invented the animal one to get over it. It's psychology, after all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about it: when in the end he asks the writer &quot;what story do you prefer?&quot;, the writer chooses the animal one. Perhaps because it's more interesting or less dramatic/strong, but certainly not because the writer believes the story is real. Pi knows the story is not true, and he knows his mother died in that lifeboat. He took revenge and did desperate things in a desperate situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are actually some proofs to this&lt;/strong&gt;: when seeing the movie, didn't you wonder how come the tiger didn't come out of the covered bit earlier? Why didn't the tiger fight the hyena under that tarpaulin? She came from there, so they must have... co-existed there, if it was true. The answer is simple: there was no tiger, there was no hyena, orangutan or zebra&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tiger comes out suddenly because... Pi's evil side comes out suddenly. It &quot;didn't exist before&quot;. And we all know a tiger can't come out from nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another proof is the human-shaped island, where trees are edible, but that at night, being it so welcoming, &quot;turns into&quot; acid lakes and killing trees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastEditorUserId="1319" LastEditDate="2013-03-19T23:23:39.137" LastActivityDate="2013-03-19T23:23:39.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9460" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-15T16:17:12.583" Score="2" ViewCount="683" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Blackadder Goes Forth: General Hospital&lt;/em&gt; Blackadder reveals that Nurse Mary is the spy.  She is lead away to be shot and then George reveals that he was really giving the information away by sending letters to his uncle.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Darling and Blackadder then race to the General to tell him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was she not a spy?  If not then why didn't she say so and why did she not spot that Hull was not one of the great universities?  Also, all of the evidence pointed towards her (speaking German, quizzing Blackadder over tank movements etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If she was a spy then why rush to tell the General, she would be shot anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-02-17T14:21:35.937" LastActivityDate="2018-12-07T18:13:47.940" Title="Why the rush to get to the general in Blackadder?" Tags="|plot-explanation|blackadder|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9460" CreationDate="2013-01-15T17:40:51.343" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that George's &quot;confession&quot; didn't &lt;em&gt;completely&lt;/em&gt; exonerate Nurse Mary, but it &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; cast doubt. Capital punishment (such as the firing squad) requires no shadow of a doubt. After all, speaking good German isn't completely unheard of, and asking about military movements can be a simple act of (rash) curiosity. And I'm sure the fact that Edmund more than just fancied her a bit put a bit of fire in his step :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T17:40:51.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9463" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-15T19:13:04.187" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-15T19:13:04.187" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T19:13:04.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9464" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-15T19:13:04.187" Score="0" Body="Romeo + Juliet is a 1996 romantic-drama film, Is an abridged modernization of Shakespeare's play." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-15T19:48:41.553" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T19:48:41.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9465" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-15T19:26:00.293" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-15T19:26:00.293" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T19:26:00.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9466" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-15T19:26:00.293" Score="0" Body="2004's Film based on the 1996's romantic novel The Notebook." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-15T19:48:38.747" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T19:48:38.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9467" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-15T19:29:07.243" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-15T19:29:07.243" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T19:29:07.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9468" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-15T19:29:07.243" Score="0" Body="Pitch Perfect is a 2012 musical comedy film based on Mickey Rapkin's non-fiction novel, also titled Pitch Perfect." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-15T19:48:54.723" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T19:48:54.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9469" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-15T19:30:58.537" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-15T19:30:58.537" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T19:30:58.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9470" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-15T19:30:58.537" Score="0" Body="Fifth installment of the Harry Potter film series." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-15T19:48:49.387" LastActivityDate="2013-01-15T19:48:49.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9471" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-15T19:31:38.457" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third installment in the Harry Potter film series, based on the novel of the same name, starring Daniel Radcliffe as the titular character alongside Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_(film_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Main Wikipedia Article for the Harry Potter franchise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Prisoner_of_Azkaban_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T12:48:29.393" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T12:48:29.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9472" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-15T19:31:38.457" Score="0" Body="Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third installment in the Harry Potter film series, based on the novel of the same name, starring Daniel Radcliffe as the titular character alongside Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T12:47:46.847" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T12:47:46.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9473" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9474" CreationDate="2013-01-15T22:49:42.170" Score="32" ViewCount="50580" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Simpsons episode Sunday Cruddy Sunday (S10E12), Homer, Wally and others head to the Super Bowl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Homer asks Moe if he'd be interested in going to the Super Bowl he said he'd love to as his favourite team were playing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Moe: &quot;The Atlanta Falcons&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He covers his mouth with a beer mug when he's saying this. Homer does the same when he says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Homer: &quot;The Denver Broncos&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then Wally does the same when he mentions the Clintons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there a particular reason for them covering their mouth or just to be a bit strange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/LeiCd_PQMl0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-08T19:49:27.163" LastActivityDate="2018-11-11T18:54:14.707" Title="Why did Homer, Moe and Wally cover their mouths when talking about the Super Bowl?" Tags="|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9473" CreationDate="2013-01-15T22:50:08.177" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;The episode was aired on the same day as Super Bowl XXXIII and the writers want the episode to seem current. They had already animated the scene and it would have been very awkward to re-animate the whole scene just to put the team names in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they just held up a glass over the mouth so they wouldn't have to animate their mouths to match the sound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They did the same when Wally was mentioning the Clintons as Bill was being impeached at the time so they weren't sure if he would still be President when the program aired. They were also poking fun at the fact that Hilary mightn't be his wife either when it aired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-08-07T15:45:35.953" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T15:45:35.953" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9475" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9476" CreationDate="2013-01-16T07:19:10.423" Score="23" ViewCount="92908" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I have limited knowledge about X Men Comics and that too is from watching the  movies.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any relation between the character of Victor Creed from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and Sabretooth from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120903/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;X-Men&lt;/em&gt; (2000)&lt;/a&gt;? And if yes, how come he ended up becoming a brainless henchman for Magneto?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, he should have become arch enemy or nemesis of Wolverine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3888" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-29T17:07:35.630" LastActivityDate="2016-08-30T06:20:19.030" Title="Is Victor Creed from &quot;X-men Origins: Wolverine&quot; actually Sabretooth?" Tags="|character|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-origins-wolverine|x-men|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9475" CreationDate="2013-01-16T08:33:17.073" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Liev Schreiber&lt;/em&gt; who plays &lt;em&gt;Victor Creed&lt;/em&gt; in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, is indeed essaying the role of &lt;em&gt;Sabretooth&lt;/em&gt; (as depicted in X-Men).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabretooth_%28comics%29&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Played by Tyler Mane, he was a henchman of Magneto in the first X-Men film and X-Men: The Official Game. Liev Schreiber plays him in the 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since, your awareness of the comics universe is &lt;em&gt;limited&lt;/em&gt; I'll stick to the movie for my explanation. To begin with, he &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; kind of an arch enemy to the Wolverine. Being his half-brother, he craves for his attention (&lt;em&gt;in a negative way&lt;/em&gt;). And at the same time constantly tries (&lt;em&gt;and succeeds&lt;/em&gt;) to physically &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; him to prove that he is more powerful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, he only sides with Stryker (&lt;em&gt;in X-Men Origins&lt;/em&gt;) as Stryker gives him the opportunity to hunt down Wolverine and make his life miserable. Also he expects that Stryker will transform him into &lt;em&gt;Weapon XI&lt;/em&gt; aka &lt;em&gt;Deadpool&lt;/em&gt;. But unfortunately, in X-Men he has been depicted as a mindless, growling beast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-25T20:34:45.493" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T20:34:45.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9475" CreationDate="2013-01-16T08:44:47.010" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they are the same person. Sabretooth (Victor Creed) and Wolverine (Logan) worked together for the CIA and they both were part of the Weapon X project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did he become brainless henchmen for Magneto?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comic he does not work for Magneto, with the exception of the time when Magneto becomes the leader of the X-men after the supposed death of Xavier.&#xA;At one moment, Sabretooth was hired to kill Magneto but fails.&#xA;Also, in the comic book, Sabretooth is very assertive and intelligent (he is an ex CIA) completely different to the brainless portrayals in the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you wonder how did he became evil and how his feud with Wolverine started, it is a long story but these are some key points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wolverine and Sabretooth were part of the Weapon X project, a secret project carried out by the Canadian Government with the purpose to create the perfect human weapon. As part of the project, the participants get their memories erased and altered. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One time, it was suspected that he was Wolverine's father and it really disturbed Wolverine. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Victor Creed was working for the CIA along with Logan (Wolverine) he already displayed some signs of sadism by killing civilians causing disagreement with Logan.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wolverine is manipulated into believing that Victor Creed killed his girlfriend, Silver Fox.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After CIA, Creed worked most of the time as mercenary for different criminal groups doing atrocities.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the comic, contrary to the films, he is not a big ally of Magneto. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3659" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-08-30T06:20:19.030" LastActivityDate="2016-08-30T06:20:19.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9475" CreationDate="2013-01-16T09:46:28.150" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the mainstream comics, Sabretooth and Magneto have not come together in any significant capacity. (Accept some non-mainstream comics such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_M&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;House of M&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in some media incarnations, Sabretooth was depicted as working under Magneto. Specially in the X-men Triology and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMen_Evolution&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Xmen: Evolution&lt;/a&gt; cartoon series etc. Sabretooth is one of the major characters of the X-men comics series so that may be the case to include him in X-men trilogy, but as a brainless henchman for Magneto is the director's/writer's choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;X-men origins Wolverine is actually worked as a spin-off and has too many continuity issues. So relating characteristics of Victor Creed from X-men origins: Wolverine to X-men trilogy's Sabretooth is not a good idea. (Its a different factor that it is rumored that they will try to make them in same timeline &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/8839/has-the-continuity-timeline-been-established-for-the-new-x-men-movies&quot;&gt;(reference)&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T13:29:46.237" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9480" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-16T10:32:27.710" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-16T10:32:27.710" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T10:32:27.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9481" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-16T10:32:27.710" Score="0" Body="Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological thriller film about a production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet by a prestigious New York City company. " OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-16T12:11:58.807" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T12:11:58.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9482" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9504" CreationDate="2013-01-16T10:42:45.843" Score="26" ViewCount="24466" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A total of 9 directors have been used to direct the Game of Thrones TV series till date.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was left wondering as to why use so many directors for a single plot story! Wouldn't their individual styles and approach to the story contaminate each other? And how would actors react to being directed in a different manner, each episode?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reference and justification to the studios decision regarding this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/fullcredits&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a list of the directors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2019-06-27T14:12:13.590" Title="What is the reason for the many directors used in the Game of Thrones series?" Tags="|directors|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9483" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9549" CreationDate="2013-01-16T11:09:01.730" Score="2" ViewCount="1838" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_The_Serial&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;V The Serial&lt;/a&gt; is an Indian soap opera based on the real life of Indian TV actors. How much of the show is real? Are there any non-celebrity character that are also played by the same person? How real is the show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-01-25T21:42:02.877" LastActivityDate="2019-01-25T21:42:02.877" Title="How realistic is V The Serial?" Tags="|realism|v-the-serial|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9482" CreationDate="2013-01-16T15:02:57.097" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the best answer was given here by Oliver_c: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9020/why-do-british-sitcoms-have-so-many-fewer-episodes-than-american-ones/9106#9106&quot;&gt;Why do British sitcoms have so many fewer episodes than American ones?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;American &lt;em&gt;television&lt;/em&gt; is a producer's medium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3569" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T16:10:49.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9482" CreationDate="2013-01-16T18:07:18.187" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, TV episodes aren't always shot in sequence, so having multiple directors share the responsibility makes things run smoother. Even in movies, a director doesn't always direct each and every scene. There are usually a few assistant directors who film less pivotal scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the role of a TV episode director isn't as encompassing as a movie director. TV directors usually have less leeway in the medium where producers have more power. It's the job of the producers (and writers) to keep the whole series as homogeneous as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T18:07:18.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9492" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9493" CreationDate="2013-01-16T21:21:00.403" Score="13" ViewCount="1862" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;, Selina Kyle enters the home of John Daggett to confront his henchman for a copy of software she had been promised that would erase her name and criminal record from every database in the world. They deny that the code exists and fight her off. She faces a growing crowd of armed opponents when Batman arrives to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Batman know she was there? He had placed a tracking device on a necklace she stole near the beginning of the movie, but he had already retrieved the necklace before this scene. Was it coincidence that he arrived at that moment, and if so, why was he visiting Daggett's house himself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-01-16T22:29:26.513" LastActivityDate="2018-08-07T17:28:54.340" Title="How does Batman know to rescue Selina Kyle outside the home of John Daggett?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9492" CreationDate="2013-01-16T22:31:23.577" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;He didn't know Selina was there at all and didn't come for her, but for Dagget (and ultimately Bane). So it was indeed a coincidence that he arrived just in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the question of why he was visiting Dagget's house then, this is explained in an earlier scene. When Bruce (or rather Alfred) does some investigations about Bane, he learns that he previously worked as a mercenary for one of Dagget's rather dubious projects abroad and that Dagget most probably brought him into Gotham.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bruce:&lt;/strong&gt; Did you check that name, Bane?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Alfred:&lt;/strong&gt; He's a mercenary. No other known no names. Him and his men were behind a coup in West Africa that secured mining operations for our friend John Daggett.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bruce:&lt;/strong&gt; And Daggett has brought him here?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Alfred:&lt;/strong&gt; So it seems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he concludes that Bane is likely doing some work for him and when he lost track of Bane and his men after the stock exchange robbery, Dagget was the first point to look for them and get some answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-08-07T17:28:54.340" LastActivityDate="2018-08-07T17:28:54.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9494" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-16T23:08:32.937" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-16T23:08:32.937" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T23:08:32.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9495" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-16T23:08:32.937" Score="0" Body="The Serial is an Indian soap opera based on the real life events of Indian TV actors through the eye of Rohan Shah." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-16T23:09:48.757" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T23:09:48.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9482" CreationDate="2013-01-16T23:09:12.830" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is routine in one-hour high quality television series, and is not unique to Game of Thrones.  Season One of GoT is 10 episodes long - almost 10 hours of finished material, and typically they want to have a new season every year.  It would be logistically difficult for one person to manage this in the same way as a movie director does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you compare this to the context of a movie with 1.5 to 3 hours of finished material, it is a significant increase in the amount of footage that must be planned for, shot and edited.  Even movies have second-unit directors who shoot in parallel to the named director of the movie.  Andy Sirkis was the second-unit director on The Hobbit for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a comparison there were &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ranker.com/list/list-of-breaking-bad-directors/reference&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;19 directors of episodes of Breaking Bad&lt;/a&gt;, a show with more episodes than Game of Thrones, but a similar level of critical acclaim and a consistent treatment of plot and character was achieved despite the large number of people involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As other answers have said, it is the job of the overall creative team - producers and writers to map out a season of episodes, and the directors have less power and direct as required by the creative team as a whole.  Often a there is a 'headline' director, who helps set the look and style of the season, e.g. Alan Ball wrote and directed the season opener and finale of Six Feet Under and True Blood, Martin Scorsese directed the pilot of Boardwalk Empire - a great advertisement for the series as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2019-06-27T14:12:13.590" LastActivityDate="2019-06-27T14:12:13.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9497" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-16T23:09:48.037" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a tag to identify this music video requests from users. Here users share the details they can remember about a music video and other users try to solve the question. They can share their views in comments or if they are sure about their answer, they can answer to the question. It helps users to collaborate for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-01-17T12:59:02.467" LastActivityDate="2013-01-17T12:59:02.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9498" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-16T23:09:48.037" Score="0" Body="The process of giving details about a Music Video in order to identify which Music Video the asker is trying to remember." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-16T23:09:57.713" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T23:09:57.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1807" CreationDate="2013-01-16T23:42:14.533" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;She's the first hybrid her dad was a Cylon. So she gets her own rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3892" LastActivityDate="2013-01-16T23:42:14.533" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9492" CreationDate="2013-01-17T05:42:05.473" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think he was chasing Selina Kyle all the time  to know what she had done with his fingerprints and did not know about what was Daggett up to. The only theory I can think of is the car that she stole from Bruce. Maybe it had a tracking device (which should be) that helped him to find her. I can't think of any other option. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Daggett's motivation was not clear to him and she said to him &quot;..But Daggett seemed pretty interested in that mess at the stock market&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-25T14:58:54.783" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T14:58:54.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9502" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9503" CreationDate="2013-01-17T12:00:47.093" Score="30" ViewCount="202395" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Despicable Me&lt;/em&gt;, what language(s) do the minions speak? There is a bit of English, but it seems like a combination of French with English?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user96" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T00:38:06.120" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T00:38:06.120" Title="What language do the minions speak?" Tags="|dialogue|despicable-me|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9502" CreationDate="2013-01-17T12:40:29.697" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/movies/Despicable+Me+Creating+The+Minions-9217.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Despicable Me - Creating The Minions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The [directors] subsequently designed a language for Gru’s army that &lt;strong&gt;is intended to be an indescribable vocal expression&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;The language is much more about sound than it is about any kind of meaning,&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; says [producer] Christopher Meledandri.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9903d4hE5k&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here you can watch&lt;/a&gt; a short featurette where producer &lt;em&gt;John Cohen&lt;/em&gt; explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The voices of the minions are actually done by&lt;/em&gt; Pierre Coffin &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Chris Renaud, &lt;em&gt;the directors of the movie.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And what they have done is ... created this incredibly unique language. &lt;strong&gt;A lot of times it sounds like it’s gibberish, a lot of times you hear a little bit of french. You hear all kinds of languages being incorporated into the way they speak.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And then occasionally, you hear a word or two of English, or that sounds like English, that gives you a sense of what the minions are actually saying.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-17T12:40:29.697" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9482" CreationDate="2013-01-17T15:27:30.423" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_program#Production&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some [TV-] shows have a small stable of directors, but also usually rely on outside directors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Given the time constraints of broadcasting, a single show might have two or three episodes in pre-production, one or two episodes in principal photography, and a few more in various stages of post-production.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The task of directing is complex enough that a single director can usually not work on more than one episode or show at a time, hence the need for multiple directors.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mediacollege.com/employment/television/director.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Television vs Film Directing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Film directors usually have most of the creative control, but in television this control tends to be more in the hands of the producer.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although this is not always the case, the television director can be thought of more as someone who molds the show into the package requested by the producer, as opposed to someone who stamps their own feel on the production. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showrunner&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Showrunner&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is usually the person responsible for a TV series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117990670/?refCatId=14&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TV's showrunners outrank directors&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For film directors, it's all about control. &#xA;  Realizing it will be their vision that appears on the bigscreen, and knowing they'll be judged on whether the film is successful or not, helmers fight for final cut, casting choices and answer to no one -- except, possibly, the visiting studio suit or producer -- while ruling on the set. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;With episodic television, however, directors walk a fine line between their own creative muse and the expectations of the &lt;em&gt;showrunners&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://gregbeeman.blogspot.co.at/2007/02/episode-14-distractions.html&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0844358/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeannot Szwarc&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, who has directed episodes for several TV shows (&lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Bones&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Grey's Anatomy&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Fringe&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Smallville&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Heroes&lt;/em&gt;,...):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now being a director who travels from show to show can be difficult. Always fitting in. Always having to adapt to new styles. Do you have a philosophy that helps you?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Well, yes. The philosophy is that &lt;strong&gt;you are a guest wherever you go. You want to preserve your style and sensibilities, but you must also fit into the style of the show&lt;/strong&gt; and into the group. ...&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;First thing is to try to make the show the best it can be within the parameters that are established. Try to improve the script as best you can. And to try to convince everyone to see it your way.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-01-17T15:27:30.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9505" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9507" CreationDate="2013-01-17T17:32:03.100" Score="6" ViewCount="2212" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_%282009_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;season one&lt;/a&gt; of V in the episode called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1648873/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Red Sky&lt;/a&gt;. The visitors release something into the atmosphere that turns the sky red across the entire planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What was it that they released?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What did it do to the planet?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What connection to the original series did red sky have? if any.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vaguely recall in the original series that a red powder was developed by the humans to kill the visitors. Is the red sky a twist on that original plot? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HYgUT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-01-17T18:40:53.997" LastActivityDate="2013-01-17T20:17:45.073" Title="What was the red sky in V?" Tags="|plot-explanation|v|v-2009|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9505" CreationDate="2013-01-17T20:17:45.073" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;• The visitors released a biological agent into the air in the form of vapor clouds which would then manifest as the 'Red Rain'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;• Contrary to the visitors' claims that the red rain would correct all the world's ecological problems, it was in fact an agent designed to increase the phosphorus in humans, thus making them suitable candidates for breeding with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;• I don't think there is much in the way of a connection to the original series, other than the visitors' interest in developing a human/alien hybrid. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be a nod to the red dust in the original series, but this is inconclusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Answer extrapolated from my own recollections plus &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V_%282009_TV_series%29_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this episode guide&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-01-17T20:17:45.073" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9508" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9824" CreationDate="2013-01-17T20:33:24.583" Score="31" ViewCount="184583" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.netflix.com/&quot;&gt;Netflix Streaming&lt;/a&gt; offers access to tons of TV shows and movies.  The TV shows and films they have available are constantly changing though.  Netflix trumpets new content deals every few months that indicate what new stuff will be coming to Streaming.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://instantwatcher.com/titles/expiring&quot;&gt;steady flow&lt;/a&gt; of titles that cease being available on Streaming.  Why is this?  Why doesn't the library of titles that you can stream from Netflix just increase over time?  Why do these titles get removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2017-01-16T19:13:24.857" Title="Why do TV series and films get removed from Netflix Streaming?" Tags="|netflix|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9509" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9592" CreationDate="2013-01-17T21:52:41.713" Score="9" ViewCount="686" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once I watched a movie, not sure but probably in past 7 years, it was on national TV, so certainly it was not a new movie at that time. There were 2 brothers. One of them was super intelligent. He saw that in certain area in Texas, people are less violent. He noticed that it was because of the water of that area and he decided to mix it in clouds so that it could affects everyone. Every one in the world was less violent thereafter. In a scene, it showed the war between Israel and Palestine was over, they shook hands etc. However, at the end, people were losing their intelligence and they were not even able to move their body. It ended like this. Main character recorded a video log of these events. Anyone recognize it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3897" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-04T12:28:12.900" LastActivityDate="2016-06-04T12:28:12.900" Title="Some apocalypse where every human turns into a dumb person" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:41:11.870" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9510" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="96668" CreationDate="2013-01-18T00:36:05.423" Score="3" ViewCount="17307" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the final episode of the second season of &lt;em&gt;Shameless&lt;/em&gt; (S2E12), Estefania hits Frank on the head with a frying pan and the guys carry him to the backyard. Later, he is buried in snow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at the beginning of S3E01, Frank wakes up in Mexico. How did he get there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MXoyv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-01-18T01:16:05.057" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T19:34:37.590" Title="How did Frank Gallagher end up in Mexico?" Tags="|plot-explanation|shameless|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9511" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-18T00:45:58.870" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-18T00:45:58.870" LastActivityDate="2013-01-18T00:45:58.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9512" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-18T00:45:58.870" Score="0" Body="*Shameless* is a comedy-drama which shares the same name in the American and British versions." OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-01-18T01:17:21.653" LastActivityDate="2013-01-18T01:17:21.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9513" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-18T09:58:33.467" Score="5" ViewCount="1375" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have seen several instances where Harry - or in special cases, his friends - survive several falls by using the &quot;Arrestro Momentum&quot; spell like in &lt;em&gt;Prisoner of Azkaban&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Deathly Hallows 2&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But in &lt;em&gt;Order of Phoenix&lt;/em&gt;, I observed that they survived the fall without using the charm. Here is a screenshot of that moment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vm1wO.png&quot; alt=&quot;Harry surviving the fall&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is it an unintended mistake from the producers? Or is it due to an omnipotent charm in the Hall of Mysteries?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2014-10-27T22:06:53.633" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T02:28:34.880" Title="How could Harry and his friends survive the fall without the charm?" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|the-order-of-the-phoenix|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9514" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9520" CreationDate="2013-01-18T10:08:24.507" Score="11" ViewCount="3423" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2&lt;/em&gt;, we see Harry and Ginny kissing, proving they were in love and later they married. But in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince&lt;/em&gt;, we see Harry trying to impress another girl in the hotel in the start of the movie. So were they not engaged in Half Blood Prince? There's also the whole angle of Ron getting jealous of Harry and Hermione during their trip in &lt;em&gt;Deathly Hallows: Part 1&lt;/em&gt; (even though he wasn't of a clear mind at that point). Was there any point in the movies where it was clarified that Harry and Ginny were an item before &lt;em&gt;Deathly Hallows: Part 2&lt;/em&gt; or was this just treated rather implicitly without even them realizing it themselves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-07T14:36:16.783" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T16:26:20.677" Title="Were Ginny Weasely and Harry Potter in a relationship before Deathly Hallows part 2?" Tags="|character|harry-potter|the-deathly-hallows-2|the-deathly-hallows-1|the-half-blood-prince|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9515" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9521" CreationDate="2013-01-18T10:18:41.040" Score="23" ViewCount="80348" Body="&lt;p&gt;Professor Severus Snape was a very important character throughout the Harry Potter series. He played very important roles in Harry's life as well as in Hogwarts fortune. His works were admirable and beyond expression in words. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, with all due respect to him, I could not understand why he portrayed himself as angry, ferocious, tough and mischievous toward his students? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He always treated Harry and the students in a way which cause everyone to dislike him, except for his Slytherin students.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why did he pretend to be so?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it because he could not get Lily and that Harry was the son of James, the hater of Snape?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T02:13:25.653" LastActivityDate="2018-01-12T03:57:33.463" Title="Why did Severus Snape present himself as evil to Harry?" Tags="|character|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9516" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9523" CreationDate="2013-01-18T10:23:25.383" Score="17" ViewCount="37647" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the very beginning of the movie (the airplane scene,) when Bane is about to leave the plane with the nuclear scientist, the following dialogue takes place between Bane and one of his men:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bane: No, they expect one of us at the wreckage brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Man: Have we started the fire?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bane: Yes, the fire rises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then the guy just gives up his parachute and stays behind in the plane. What is this all about? Does Bane have mind-manipulating powers of some sort, or are his men just so loyal that they are willing to kill themselves just because he asks them to nicely? And what about the word &amp;quot;brother&amp;quot;? It reminds me of cult leaders who convince people to just kill themselves so that they can be redeemed. In addition, what is Bane's ethnic background supposed to be in the movie? He clearly has an accent in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3900" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-12-23T19:57:39.133" Title="Why does Bane's henchman sacrifice himself?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9517" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9528" CreationDate="2013-01-18T10:30:12.060" Score="8" ViewCount="7402" Body="&lt;p&gt;So in that movie, when Bruce Wayne makes his public appearance at the charity ball, when he gets out of his car, cameras start flashing and he has something in his hands. He presses a button that renders all cameras useless. What is that device and how does it work? Is it like a mini EM pulse? But that would affect all electronics in its range. In the movie, it is implied that everything else like other bulbs/lights work fine. It's only the cameras that don't work all of a sudden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And is it on his motorcycle too? Because the cops complain about the lights when he's in the tunnel, and the lights seem to be going with him. As he moves away the lights come back on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3900" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T02:17:17.957" LastActivityDate="2018-01-09T09:28:01.637" Title="Bruce Wayne's device" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9518" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9524" CreationDate="2013-01-18T10:45:11.093" Score="8" ViewCount="3805" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417741/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when Professor Slughorn was showing the students the love potion &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Amortentia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Amortentia&lt;/a&gt;, the girls were more affected than the boys. But as per Hermione, it should affect everybody equally. But the girls seemed to be more affected than the boys. Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zayyX.png&quot; alt=&quot;Girls seemed more affected by Amortentia&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Girls seemed more affected by Amortentia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T02:20:58.567" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T02:20:58.567" Title="Why were only the girls attracted towards the Amortentia?" Tags="|harry-potter|the-half-blood-prince|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9519" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-18T11:00:07.467" Score="2" ViewCount="851" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did the police save the hostages in the bank in Inside Man? I did not understand the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3901" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-01-18T11:35:21.303" LastActivityDate="2019-07-24T21:13:01.553" Title="How did the police save the hostages in the bank in Inside Man?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inside-man|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9514" CreationDate="2013-01-18T11:35:44.813" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Harry Potter's earlier love interest was &lt;strong&gt;Cho Chang&lt;/strong&gt;. She was dating Cedric Diggory in &lt;em&gt;Goblet of Fire&lt;/em&gt; and later dated Harry during &lt;em&gt;Order of Phoenix&lt;/em&gt;. They also share a kiss before the Christmas break, in the &lt;em&gt;room of requirement&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, she is torn between the memory of Cedric and her emotions towards Harry and thus their relationship never stabilizes. Later in &lt;em&gt;Half Blood Prince&lt;/em&gt;, Harry starts to see Ginny, for who he always had a soft corner in his heart. &lt;em&gt;They share a kiss right after Gryffindor wins the Quidditch Cup.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T16:26:20.677" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T16:26:20.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9515" CreationDate="2013-01-18T11:48:15.880" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;Snape as a person was not very friendly or social, for that matter. His anger had a lot to do with his troubled childhood. He was a &lt;em&gt;halfblood&lt;/em&gt;, had parental issues and was thoroughly bullied by &lt;em&gt;James&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Sirius&lt;/em&gt; at Hogwarts. This led him to develop a tough exterior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Severus loved Lily deeply and had a fair share of affection for Harry too. But in Harry he saw James, a person who was used to being popular and treated as hero, and someone with utter disdain for rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, Snape sacrifices his life for a cause and for Harry. The only reason he created that friction between himself and Harry was because he &lt;strong&gt;wanted&lt;/strong&gt; Harry to be distant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-05-26T09:10:49.263" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T09:10:49.263" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9517" CreationDate="2013-01-18T11:56:33.600" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well In the motorcycyle chase he used an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.complex.com/tech/2012/07/the-50-coolest-batman-gadgets/emp-gunremote-electrical-charge-gun&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;EMP gun&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When used, Batman can take down enemies or operate electrical equipment from a distance when shot at. We don’t know of any sight more intimidating than that of Batman staring you down while brandishing a gigantic electrical rifle.&#xA;   Here is a photo of the gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QFqnc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Batman using EMP gun in Dark Knight Rises&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;- Further surfing revealed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ign.com/wikis/the-dark-knight-rises/EMP_Rifle&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;it is the same thing which is capable of turning off the cameras also.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The EMP rifle releases an elctromagnetic pulse which is capable of disabling any electronics within a given range. This includes camera feeds, security systems, cell transmissions, electric vehicles, and anything else Batman might wish to disable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So like you guessed, it might be a miniature of the EMP gun which he used to shut the cameras. Also the EMP guns can be pointed to stuffs very sharply, we have seen that in the motorcycle chase. So if there is a mini-EMP it is more easy to point it to a smaller area with cameras only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-01-18T12:20:58.277" LastActivityDate="2013-01-18T12:20:58.277" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9516" CreationDate="2013-01-18T13:19:21.780" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is exactly as you say, all of Bane's henchmen are willing to sacrifice themselves for the cause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to Bane essentially taking over the League of Shadows, being a mastermind of his own accord, and having a cause that all his followers believe in, he attracts such skilled zealots and is able to use them as he pleases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He shows no remorse for this because he believes that all the lives that are given to this cause of wiping Gotham clean will be worth it in the end, and it doesn't matter how much of his men fall, as long as the goal is reached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the short answer is &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;, he does not have any powers over one's mind.  Just a cause that they all believe is worthy of their lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as Bane's nationality, that has already been answered in the comments and on another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-01-18T13:19:21.780" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9518" CreationDate="2013-01-18T13:21:34.233" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;This scene is merely meant to be comical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Slughorn is describing the potion, the girls are not more attracted to it, they desire it more than the boys because it is a common joke that teenage girls get crushes easily and want to snag the boy of their dreams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They approach it because they want a vial to give to the guy they desire the most, in order to force this guy to love them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-01-18T13:21:34.233" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9513" CreationDate="2013-01-18T13:26:16.437" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I have not seen this movie in a while, I will try  my best to explain as this scene is fuzzy in my memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I recall correctly, this is right before they encounter the rest of the Order in the Department of Mysteries.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of a few things could have happened here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Due to the effects of the strange objects in this Department, it is possible that they stopped the fall of the group, allowing them to land safely.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the book, speechless spells are a thing, and are not mentioned as well in the movie, but  still happen.  It is also possible one of the group (possibly Hermione) used a speechless incantation of &lt;em&gt;Arresto Momentum&lt;/em&gt; to stop the groups fall.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The third reason is that since the Order members are awaiting Harry's group, they could've noticed the fall from a distance (assuming they didn't just &lt;em&gt;Apparate&lt;/em&gt; into the Department) and used the spell off screen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is a simple plot hole not thought out by the directors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-01-18T13:26:16.437" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9519" CreationDate="2013-01-18T13:36:29.157" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Man&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki page&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;em&gt;Inside Man&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The robbers detonate smoke bombs throughout the bank and release the hostages, resulting in a horde of identically dressed people exiting through the smoke in mass confusion. The police detain and interrogate everyone. However, the police are unable to distinguish the robbers from among the hostages. The police search fails to turn up Russell, but reveals the hostage execution was faked and the robbers' weapons turn out to be plastic toy replicas. As nothing appears to have been stolen, Frazier's superior orders him to bury the case, commenting &quot;What do you expect me to say?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in effect the police didn't really save the hostages themselves - the robbers released them as part of their elaborate scheme. If you'll recall, the whole point of the plan was to hide the gang leader (Clive Owen) inside the building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T04:18:52.630" LastActivityDate="2017-04-12T04:18:52.630" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8778" CreationDate="2013-01-18T17:44:51.060" Score="1" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond is shot in the right shoulder by Patrice on the train when he's driving the back hoe.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond is shot in the mid right ribs by Eve when he's knocked off the train into the river.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The fragments he sends for forensic analysis are from the shot in the right shoulder, and not Eve's&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond is shot only once in the shoulder. Eve shot him in the ribs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no clearly visible view of both injuries on Bond's body during the entire film.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is one of the most talked about issues for any Bond film!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Bond did remove the fragments from his left shoulder, then this is an error, but are you sure it was his left? Because mirrors reverse left and right. I'd have to watch the film again, but it's not out on Bluray yet (or is it?). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2013-01-18T17:44:51.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9517" CreationDate="2013-01-18T17:59:52.267" Score="6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Lasers&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many devices already on the market that can disable digital cameras via a laser. The laser over loads the digital sensor (either temporarily or permanently) and it's no longer able to take pictures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several over the counter laser devices that are strong enough to do this. Including cheap pointers used by teachers on white boards. A direct hit to the camera's lens will disable it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found an article on the subject. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.naimark.net/projects/zap/howto.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Camera Zapper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film Tron Legacy the character Sam Flynn disables a security camera in a hallway using a hand held laser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Can It Be Automated?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There already exists automated systems that can discover cameras via a flash feedback. The device uses an IR flash and any cameras pointed in it's direction will reflect back the flash. The system can then target the camera and strike the sensor with a powerful laser burst to disable it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has already been used by rich people to protect their privacy. &lt;a href=&quot;http://gizmodo.com/5364634/12-billion-russian-yacht-comes-equipped-with-laser+powered-anti+paparazzi-shield&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Yacht Comes Equipped With Laser-Powered Anti-Paparazzi Shield&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Is Batman's Device Real?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No I don't think so. He uses a small tiny hand held device to disable multiple cameras in one shot. In addition, the cameras appear to also be without power. A laser would only disable the sensor and only temporarily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, the technology is based upon things in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-01-09T09:28:01.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9516" CreationDate="2013-01-18T20:13:53.920" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bane was in the prison pit and escapes where he joins the League of Shadows. After Bruce kills the leader Bane becomes the leader for the League of Shadows. So in a way Bruce is responsible for the Bane's authority over the league.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it was mentioned in the film, that after his training by the league he returns to the prison pit and frees the prisoners. They all join him as his army to take over Gotham.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The prison pit was created to hold the most notorious criminals and the insane. So their extreme loyalty comes from his history in the prison. Where he was known as the ruthless prisoner who would kill anyone in his way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2013-01-18T20:13:53.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8778" CreationDate="2013-01-18T20:43:47.773" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The director did not miss this. The wound is consistently on the right side of Bond's body. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The apparent movement from one side to the other is caused by the camera switching between straight-on shots of Bond and shots of Bond in the mirror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2013-01-18T20:43:47.773" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9531" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9808" CreationDate="2013-01-19T01:48:49.383" Score="6" ViewCount="3653" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading the IMDb page for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190641/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190641/trivia?item=tr1134878&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;one of the bits of trivia&lt;/a&gt; states that &quot;The Japanese version has an entirely different story&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the Japanese version casts Mewtwo in a much better light, but what sort of differences do both plots have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1503" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-02-12T16:54:25.520" LastActivityDate="2019-02-12T16:54:25.520" Title="Differences in plot from the Japanese and American versions of &quot;Pokemon: The Movie&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|translation|pokemon|pokemon-the-first-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9533" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-19T03:40:38.967" Score="3" ViewCount="481" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did they make the cars fall apart, on cue, in those old comedy shorts from Hal Roach Studios? example: Blotto with Laurel and Hardy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3906" LastActivityDate="2013-01-19T06:22:36.097" Title="Props used in Hal Roach shorts" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9533" CreationDate="2013-01-19T06:17:34.467" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many of the special effects created for the Hal Roach era were created and executed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Seawright&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Roy Seawright&lt;/a&gt;, considered one of the greatest FX artists of all time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had extensive skills in all aspects of special effects, including matte paintings, optical effects and on-set practical effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seawright was responsible for some of the most memorable car gags, including the splitting car effects that you mention in your original question. These were practical gags, performed using specially constructed cars that were designed to break apart on cue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These amazing props, combined with clever cinematography (consideration of angles and lighting) resulted in the classic scenes that still delight audiences today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little more information about Roy Seawright can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://nzpetesmatteshot.blogspot.ca/2010/07/roy-seawright-hal-roach-studios.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is one of Seawright's prop cars -  a crushed model that still drove.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eOPmi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-01-19T06:22:36.097" LastActivityDate="2013-01-19T06:22:36.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9536" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9539" CreationDate="2013-01-19T10:59:12.177" Score="10" ViewCount="28793" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coupling&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Coyle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Richard Coyle&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237123/characters/nm0185404&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jeff Murdock&lt;/a&gt;) left the series before the 4th season. Does anybody know the reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237123&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_%28UK_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; pages but couldn't find any useful information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="36669" LastEditDate="2023-07-16T08:18:04.893" LastActivityDate="2023-07-16T08:18:04.893" Title="Why did Richard Coyle leave 'Coupling'?" Tags="|character|coupling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9536" CreationDate="2013-01-19T11:22:48.830" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Richard Coyle&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; himself &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/latest-news/article/item71460/the-big-interview-richard-coyle/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;said in an interview&lt;/a&gt; that he was afraid of being typecast:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I was very keen that that character didn’t stick with me.&lt;/strong&gt; It’s the kind of character that does.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I’m an actor and I want to be an actor when I’m 60. It’s a lifelong process, why cut it off by boxing yourself into a little pigeon hole early on?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It was a very difficult decision; incredibly difficult because there was something nice about the fact that I knew, for three years, once a year we all came together for three months and had an almighty laugh.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The writer/creator of the series, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steven Moffat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readjunk.com/interviews/steven-moffat-writer-creator-of-coupling/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;had this to say&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;em&gt;Richard Coyle's&lt;/em&gt; departure:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Richard didn’t want to return. Or do a goodbye episode. Or in fact talk to me. Hurtful behaviour, but it’s showbiz, these things happen. Can’t give you any insight, except these wise words, spoken by – er – a wise person: an actor will forgive you for anything but their first success.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-19T11:22:48.830" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8072" CreationDate="2013-01-19T11:40:22.090" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;”Who is the bleeding man at the train station?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way to interpret your own dreams is that all of the characters are different facets of you.  (Indeed, that is the truth of the matter, since you are creating the dream.)  But we don’t need to get philosophic with this one because Max and the hat-guy bleeding in the subway are both played by Sean Gullette. (He turns around for a few frames and you can see clearly it is Max – both have squared earlobes.)  So he is hallucinating seeing himself bleeding.  He sees this twice while he’s waiting for the subway at &lt;a href=&quot;http://subwaynut.com/ind/47b.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;47-50 Rockefeller Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;”He is most likely just imagined, as is so many other things in the movie (e.g. the brain), but I can't imagine what it means.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While hallucinating he runs around to the other side of the train tracks and follows the blood trail; it leads to the human brain you mention laying on the ground.  Further investigation reveals it is his own brain, because as he probes it he hears and feels things.  He repeats this multiple times.  (This representation of probing the brain is actually based on fact, albeit with small electric pulses.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/484292.Conversations_With_Neil_s_Brain&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is an outstanding and approachable book on the subject ..matter.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the scene is another abstraction of his picking at his head to remove the source of the migraines. Indeed he sticks a pen into the brain on the pavement to try and &lt;em&gt;kill&lt;/em&gt; the problem, which results in him being run over by a train even though he’s in the middle of the causeway and nowhere near the tracks.  (These things can happen in hallucinations.)  He also &lt;em&gt;killed&lt;/em&gt; the brain in his sink, and Sol had two strokes and ultimately died exploring deeper numerical meaning within Pi.  (Note: A &lt;em&gt;hemorrhagic&lt;/em&gt; stroke is the type where a blood vessel in the brain bursts, and blood bleeds into the brain. This type of stroke can be caused by an aneurysm - a thin or weak spot in an artery that balloons out and can burst.  This reminds me of the abstract scar that is revealed on the side of Max’s head, except external like a hernia.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the man on the other side of the tracks (Max) was reduced to just a brain (Max’s) within his own migraine induced hallucination.  (Not shown, he ends up actually getting on the train, misses Chinatown, and wakes up with a bloody nose at the final stop down at Coney Island.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To me&lt;/strong&gt; the dress of the man in the hat represents an abstract combined character of a &lt;em&gt;business suit Max&lt;/em&gt;, and a &lt;em&gt;hat wearing orthodox Jew Max&lt;/em&gt; – the two camps that are courting him.  A kind of paranoid mixed vision of him working for Marcy Dawson in the predictive strategy firm Lancet-Percy. and/or he being more like the orthodox Lenny Meyer character.  That’s how I interpret that artistic decision.  (Although it’s probably just the orthodox thing alone – but ultimately both camps want the same thing – the 216 character number.  216 being 6x6x6.  We’re told only purified priests can handle its meaning for long, and he is not that, so can’t – nor could Sol.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hat guy in the subway is bleeding from his right side - matching Max’s eventual drill hole into the right side of his own head (which would run down his right arm), and also matching the dreamed image of him sticking the pen into his own brain with his right hand.  In this sense the subway hallucination scene is a premonition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="546" LastActivityDate="2013-01-19T11:40:22.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9542" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-19T13:32:37.270" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-19T13:32:37.270" LastActivityDate="2013-01-19T13:32:37.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9543" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-19T13:32:37.270" Score="0" Body="Coupling is a British sitcom written by Steven Moffat. The shows about the dating and sexual adventures and mishaps of six friends." OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="1992" LastEditDate="2013-01-19T13:55:10.790" LastActivityDate="2013-01-19T13:55:10.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8052" CreationDate="2013-01-19T14:02:26.630" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;After World War I patriotic bulldogs draped with Union Jacks were introduced into the Royal Doulton collection, because the bulldog was a symbol for the dogged determination of British people. The statues were reintroduced during World War II.&quot; It simply urge Bond to keep doing what he does with his dogged determination &amp;amp; for the people of the British Empire. Also since he dislikes it most &amp;amp; it survived the explosion at MI6, tells him even to outlive M, to keep on going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3908" LastActivityDate="2013-01-19T14:02:26.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9483" CreationDate="2013-01-20T05:53:20.113" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's based on the real lives of the actors and get recreated. So they cast come actors to play real people, like Raj's ex girlfriend was Swati Semwal played by Peehu .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3913" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-01-20T06:47:21.680" LastActivityDate="2013-01-20T06:47:21.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9564" CreationDate="2013-01-20T21:43:41.867" Score="12" ViewCount="47902" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Real Steel&lt;/em&gt;, a boy named Max salvages an obsolete sparring robot called Atom and, with the help of his father and the father's mechanic/girlfriend, restores it to working condition. Shortly thereafter, Max goes jogging with Atom, has it pick him up, and asks &quot;Can you understand me?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The robot, though it has no audio circuitry that we know of at this point of the movie, nods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue is never mentioned again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What on earth does Atom's nod signify? Is the robot sentient? Is it psychic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Additional details&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The scene takes place at 45:43. Max asks the robot &quot;Can you understand me?&quot; It responds with an ambiguous noise and a slight nod. It does not appear as though Max has triggered this with any nod of his own. &quot;Don't worry,&quot; Max continues, &quot;your secret's safe with me.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Later in movie, during the climactic fight with the robot Zeus, it seems as though Atom responds to Max's entreaties to get off the mat, though Max was not wearing headphones or a control mic at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Atom seemed to be looking at himself in the mirror when left alone before entering to fight with league robot &quot;Twin City&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Atom's head was bent, as though in sadness, when Charlie looked him through the rear view mirror of the car after he left Max. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-26T12:27:05.010" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T18:50:39.777" Title="Why did Atom indicate that he could understand Max at the beginning of Real Steel?" Tags="|plot-explanation|real-steel|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9558" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-20T21:54:25.203" Score="11" ViewCount="9328" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, regardless of the total amount how is the budget for a US TV Season of twenty odd episodes typically broken down? What percentage goes on writing, sets, equipment, actors, etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, how does that compare to the average UK season of maybe six episodes, and in particular how does the breakdown compare in areas like writing, sets, and so on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm expecting that US TV shows spend a greater percentage on actors and sets than UK ones but have no idea if this is really so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3772" LastEditorUserId="3772" LastEditDate="2013-01-31T15:44:23.093" LastActivityDate="2017-06-12T18:55:24.463" Title="How does the budget breakdown for a US TV season compare to a UK TV Season?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9560" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9561" CreationDate="2013-01-20T23:54:04.837" Score="5" ViewCount="6679" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The Riddles&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Bilbo first meets Gollum in the cave in &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&lt;/em&gt;. He asks Gollum to lead him out of the cave, but Gollum refuses unless they play a game of riddles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The Box Of Gold&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the riddles Bilbo tells Gollum is that there is a box with gold inside, but there is no lock, no key, no hinge or lid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gullum manages to answer the riddle correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was the answer to the riddle?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EDMO3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Gollum Riddles&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T21:46:34.133" Title="What was the answer to the box riddle?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hobbit|an-unexpected-journey|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9560" CreationDate="2013-01-21T00:01:14.387" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer to this riddle is &lt;strong&gt;an egg&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gollum didn't fall for that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-01-21T00:01:14.387" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9562" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9563" CreationDate="2013-01-21T00:06:38.747" Score="11" ViewCount="9096" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The Swords&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the group kills the Trolls trying to eat them, they go to their cave where they find a collection of Elven swords. Gandalf gives Bilbo a sword that glows when Orcs are near.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vkooT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bilbo's Sword&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The Elf City&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the film, after escaping from the Orcs, the group find themselves in Rivendell. They share a dinner with the Elves, where they hear the names and histories of the swords they found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bilbo pulls out his sword, but a Dwarf sitting beside him tells him to put it away, because it was too small to have a story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was the name of Bilbo's sword, and what was its story?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T13:48:30.483" Title="What was the name of Bilbo's sword?" Tags="|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9562" CreationDate="2013-01-21T00:35:53.980" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sting was an ancient blade made by Elvish weapon-smiths in Gondolin.&#xA;  It was lost during the Fall of Gondolin, the same battle in which&#xA;  Turgon fell and Glamdring was taken. The blade was carried by Bilbo in&#xA;  The Hobbit after he found it in a Troll-hoard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Sting&quot;&gt;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Sting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Engraved on the blade are Sindarin letters that read phonetically,&#xA;  &quot;Maegnas aen estar nin dagnir in yngyl im&quot;. Translated they read,&#xA;  &quot;Sting is my name; I am the spider's bane&quot;. According to the appendix&#xA;  of The Silmarillion, the element maeg in Sindarin means 'sharp' or&#xA;  'piercing', and the Etymologies section in The Lost Road and Other&#xA;  Writings gives the meaning of the element nass as 'point', so&#xA;  &quot;Maegnas&quot; is literally translated as &quot;sharp-point&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="940" LastEditDate="2013-01-21T05:09:55.257" LastActivityDate="2013-01-21T05:09:55.257" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9557" CreationDate="2013-01-21T04:08:35.423" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Found a similar question in &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Sci-fi&lt;/a&gt;, and borrowing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10227/is-the-robot-atom-self-aware&quot;&gt;DavRob60's answer&lt;/a&gt; from there shamelessly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know for sure, and it's intentional: here is a quote from an &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/real-steel-interview-shawn-levy-steven-spielberg-rothc-134372/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Interview: ‘Real Steel’ by Director Shawn Levy.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SR: The idea of Atom’s sentience is introduced in the film, but is never fully explored, was that a conscious decision?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had three versions of the movie. One Atom is alive, confirmed, a soulful, sentient being. Two, we confirm that Atom is just a machine regardless of what this boy believes, and three, maybe. Maybe the boy is right, but maybe he isn’t and we will never know and obviously I went with version three. Because when I confirmed or denied Atom’s consciousness the movie lost a certain magic. I think it’s epitomized in the scene where Atom is alone in the locker room and he’s looking at himself in the mirror. Some people think they see him move, and some people don’t.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T18:50:39.777" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9558" CreationDate="2013-01-21T06:39:32.577" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cheapest TV shows cost around $60,000 per episode (reality shows), but the most expensive go up to $11,000,000 (all seasons of Friends). Pre-recorded broadcast shows with a host and guests cost from $55,000 to $700,000 (main evening show) which makes it difficult to give a true average to answer your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A highly-rated TV sitcom--which means the actors are getting a huge amount of cash--adding the salaries of all concerned plus the sets and other fees, has a budget of about $1,000,000 per episode. An average sitcom would be somewhat less. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most shows do not make a profit until they go into off network syndication. Popular stars of popular sitcoms can make anywhere from $500,000 to millions of dollars per episode.&#xA;It also depends on language and how popular show is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.allexperts.com/q/TV-Comedy-3166/Budgeting-sitcoms.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TV Comedy/Budgeting sitcoms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="118" LastEditDate="2013-05-28T18:43:43.333" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T18:43:43.333" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9567" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-21T08:49:22.140" Score="0" ViewCount="803" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seemed the doctor from &lt;em&gt;The Bourne Identity&lt;/em&gt; believed it would take some time for Bourne to remember everything. If he was so sure about that then why did he let Bourne leave the boat so quickly? Also where was it where Bourne left the boat? It was definitely not Switzerland. The reason being he took a train to reach Switzerland from there. Also how could he ride the train without any VISA? The train must be some trans-European train and I heard an all-Europe VISA or a country based VISA sort of thing is needed to ride such train. So how could he manage to ride it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-12-12T21:21:26.950" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T21:21:26.950" Title="Questions regarding Bourne Identity" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-bourne-identity|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-12-12T21:22:18.630" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9568" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9570" CreationDate="2013-01-21T09:23:38.553" Score="24" ViewCount="19240" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gollum finds out Bilbo's name and where he is from when they meet in the cave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't he ever go to the Shire to search for Bilbo and his &quot;precious&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2013-01-21T18:18:12.133" LastActivityDate="2015-08-08T17:57:44.380" Title="Why didn't Gollum ever go to the Shire to search for Bilbo?" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9569" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9573" CreationDate="2013-01-21T13:29:54.467" Score="-1" ViewCount="6032" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the morning after the big blackout in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hangover&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hangover&lt;/a&gt;, Dr. Stu Price realized that he was missing a tooth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Dr. Stu lose his tooth?  Did they talk about the lost tooth in a later part of  the movie? Is it shown in the movie how he lost his tooth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-01-21T17:37:27.247" LastActivityDate="2013-01-21T17:37:27.247" Title="How did Dr. Stu Price lose his tooth in The Hangover?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hangover|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2013-01-21T13:39:56.333" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Smeagol was a Stoor Hobbit before the ring corrupted him. This means he was from Gladden Fields just east of the Misty Mountains. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the link below he did go searching for the ring but he waited until 2 years after Bilbo took the ring. He spent almost the next 60 years either searching or being captured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I reckon he never went to the Shire because he didn't know where it was. Shire Hobbits didn't seem knowledgable about things outside of the Shire so I imagine Stoor Hobbits would be the same. I'd say its safe to assume that Smeagol was never west of the Misty Mountains so he'd know nothing of that land. Also I can't see Gollum asking someone for directions to the Shire so he'd have no way of knowing where it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://theshirefellowship.net/index.php?option=com_agora&amp;amp;task=viewtopic&amp;amp;id=220&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://theshirefellowship.net/index.php?option=com_agora&amp;amp;task=viewtopic&amp;amp;id=220&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The green circle is Galdden Fields and the red circle is the Shire.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/brYap.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Middle Earth map showing The Shire and Gladden Fields&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2013-01-21T17:22:46.707" LastActivityDate="2013-01-21T17:22:46.707" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9569" CreationDate="2013-01-21T13:42:21.170" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you mean how he lost it? During the night someone said he was a bad dentist and bet with him that he couldn't extract a tooth on himself, which he then tried to defend his honor as dentist, and well, he could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is told by somebody during the adventures of recollecting their memories (maybe the doctor at the hospital or &lt;em&gt;Stu&lt;/em&gt;'s &lt;em&gt;&quot;wife&quot;&lt;/em&gt;). Or maybe it was even shown as part of his wedding video.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-01-21T13:42:21.170" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="387" CreationDate="2013-01-21T14:19:26.183" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The entire Granger sub-plot is a mystery.  Why does it matter in the story that Rachel is trhreatened by her ex?  It doesn't add any value.  Also, Thomas...why does he use the box and who told him about it and why?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that Aaron builds a bigger box in France at the end of the movie.  I think that he needed money to fund this and went to Thomas.  Thomas said something like, &quot;not unless I know what the money is for&quot;.  At which point Aaron had to fess up.  Thomas didn't belive him (a time machine?).  So Aaron had no way of proving it unless he sent Thomas back in time.  The &quot;emergency&quot; discussion was a lie to Abe so that Abe wouldn't figure this out.  When we see Thomas #2 in the past, he is not addressing any kind of emergency...he's following the boys and observing what they are doing.  He's gathering information.  The &quot;Rachel being threatened&quot; thing is a red herring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3922" LastActivityDate="2013-01-21T14:19:26.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9569" CreationDate="2013-01-21T14:19:34.553" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are the snapshots I took for you to let you see the tooth plucking scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Stu plucking his tooth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h5T1G.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Stu plucked his tooth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qfeca.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These scenes are shown in the credits when they were watching the video camera of what they had recorded of that night which was discovered later. The tooth plucking happened when they were in the bar where they met Jade. After the incident Jade and Stu got married to each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-01-21T14:27:17.920" LastActivityDate="2013-01-21T14:27:17.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9568" CreationDate="2013-01-21T14:27:41.840" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Fellowship of the Ring contains a description from Gandalf about his thoughts about what happens after Bilbo takes the ring.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gollum is afraid of the light after so many years living under the misty mountains so it takes some time before he leaves them to search for the ring.  Gandalf then surmises that, because of his very long association with the ring, he is drawn by Sauron's growing power and makes his way south to Mordor and is eventually captured and tortured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All Gollum knows is that the ring was taken by 'Bagginses' from 'The Shire', but from his actions clearly doesn't know where that is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-01-21T14:56:31.767" LastActivityDate="2013-01-21T14:56:31.767" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9575" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-21T15:33:58.387" Score="3" ViewCount="918" Body="&lt;p&gt;The lead character in &lt;em&gt;A Wednesday&lt;/em&gt; does say that he won't reveal his name, but I guess there are subtle clues about his identities. Has anyone given thought in that direction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3665" LastEditorUserId="11363" LastEditDate="2015-08-04T12:51:58.253" LastActivityDate="2015-08-04T12:52:16.993" Title="Can we guess the religion or caste of Naseeruddin Shah's character in the movie &quot;A Wednesday&quot;?" Tags="|character|a-wednesday|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9575" CreationDate="2013-01-21T15:47:05.223" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO&lt;/strong&gt;. His caste is never revealed nor can be guessed. It could have been guessed by listening to his accent or his demeanor. But he spoke Urdu to terrorist which anybody from North India is capable of. His dress was normal like any normal person. He did not use any specific word or appearance that can bind him to any particular religion. His wife was wearing normal Indian apparel. So I can see nothing to make him bound to any cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="11363" LastEditDate="2015-08-04T12:52:16.993" LastActivityDate="2015-08-04T12:52:16.993" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9577" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9579" CreationDate="2013-01-21T15:52:43.737" Score="6" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout V (2009 remake) the 'Visitors' are referred to as 'Vs' and 'Visitors' - is the actual name of the visiting race ever mentioned at any point during the TV series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the name of the 'visitor' race?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-01-21T15:54:32.767" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T06:01:50.847" Title="What was the name of the 'visitor' race?" Tags="|v-2009|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9578" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9580" CreationDate="2013-01-21T16:26:56.143" Score="1" ViewCount="451" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why they used a person who doesn't have any knowledge of the Source Code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stevens is dead for two months, so they have much time to choice a candidate. Why did they keep his body for two months? Why choose only Stevens?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it not easy to use some fully alive persons with the knowledge of the Source Code who may work better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-16T10:11:05.830" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T10:11:05.830" Title="Why did they choose Stevens to go into the Source Code?" Tags="|plot-explanation|source-code|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9577" CreationDate="2013-01-21T16:31:12.810" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no name given to them rather than &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visitors_%28V%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Visitors&lt;/a&gt;, even in both the series. The &quot;Visitors&quot; are reptilian humanoids who disguise themselves to look human but prefer to eat live prey. All Visitors are given human names for the humans' convenience. They are never heard to use their home-world names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more details click &lt;a href=&quot;http://v.wikia.com/wiki/The_Visitors&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-03-29T06:01:50.847" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T06:01:50.847" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9578" CreationDate="2013-01-21T16:38:01.720" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Capt. Stevens was very much needed by the project as stated by Dr. Rutledge. There has been many trials on this project but nothing was successful. At last they had found Capt. Stevens who can be used for the successful run of the project. &lt;em&gt;So it isn't like he was the first try, but he was the &lt;strong&gt;first successful&lt;/strong&gt; try.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As no physical activity is needed for the program, Capt. Stevens was fit for it and finally he achieved the goal successfully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why they used somebody ignorant of Source code, there can be two reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) It was not a public project. So anybody who would join the project would certainly be ignorant of it until he is in the project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) The knowledge of how Source code works is not really needed for the agent to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;- Here is the part of conversation that is very useful in understanding my point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rutledge-Look, if we can get the funding,&#xA;  I guarantee we can have at least...&#xA;  Eight source code projects up and running&#xA;  by the end of the year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rutledge-Let him die? He just saved millions of lives today&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rutledge-For all we know, he &lt;strong&gt;may be the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; candidate&lt;/strong&gt; with which the system works. So,&#xA;   let's clear his memory and reinitialize source code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-01-22T09:04:20.713" LastActivityDate="2013-01-22T09:04:20.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9585" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-21T18:26:55.003" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-21T18:26:55.003" LastActivityDate="2013-01-21T18:26:55.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9586" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-21T18:26:55.003" Score="0" Body="2009's American comedy film, about four friends who travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party but the next day they lost the groom and doesn't have the memory of last night." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="29292" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T12:22:46.337" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T12:22:46.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9567" CreationDate="2013-01-21T20:58:32.830" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always assumed the &quot;doctor&quot; to be a regular member of the fisherman crew who just happens to know something about medics too. Seen in that light, the relationship between the two had little to do with a normal doctor-patient relation wherein the doctor could order the patient to stay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, Jason was eager to find out about himself and to go to Zurich. The doctor did not &quot;let&quot; him go. Jason just went, as he needed no permission nor release card.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the time spend aboard healed his physical condition. On mental health, the only thing the doctor could do was wait and observe. Something both of them would not have had much pleasure in, I imagine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On your second question, assuming the fishing boat moored somewhere in the south of France or Italy, obviously Europe's Mediterranean Sea anyway (and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258463/locations&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;filming locations&lt;/a&gt; say it is &lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.google.nl/maps/ms?hl=nl&amp;amp;gl=nl&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;oe=UTF8&amp;amp;msa=0&amp;amp;msid=209677193965552141154.0004d3d35a12a7e29d1b4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Imperia, Liguria, Italy&lt;/a&gt;): according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Schengen Agreement&lt;/a&gt;, traveling between its European member countries is without internal border controls. So all he needed was a plain train ticket that can be bought with cash money. In most European countries, there are identification requirements though, but normally you have to provoke them to get them to ask you for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without knowledge of traveling within Europe, it sure may need a little guessing on how exactly he got what he needed. The only hint the movie tells is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/b/bourne-identity-script-transcript-damon.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the doctor saying&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's not much, but it should get you to Switzerland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With Jason not asking &lt;em&gt;how to&lt;/em&gt;, but instead saying just &quot;Thank you&quot; for the money, and the resourcefulness he later on exhibits in the movie, we might simply imagine that he &lt;em&gt;just managed&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-12T21:03:12.107" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T21:03:12.107" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9509" CreationDate="2013-01-22T14:54:40.233" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a TV version of Stephen King's short story &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_the_Whole_Mess&quot;&gt;The End of The Whole Mess&lt;/a&gt; from his collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The TV version you saw sounds like it was a TNT show from 2006 (the details are in the wiki article). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1634" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-01-22T14:58:26.030" LastActivityDate="2013-01-22T14:58:26.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9593" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9600" CreationDate="2013-01-22T16:36:21.150" Score="6" ViewCount="18680" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the people run riot at General Lamarque's funeral and when the people man the barricades a few of them are waving red flags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume the flag is a symbol of the revolution. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something special about the color red? Has it anything to do with the red part of the French tricolour?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2013-01-22T16:51:23.413" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T21:16:57.123" Title="What is the meaning of the red flag in Les Miserables?" Tags="|les-miserables|musical|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9593" CreationDate="2013-01-22T16:40:54.903" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it has anything to do with the red part of the French flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general a red flag is viewed as a symbol for left wing politics and revolution&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;red flag wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In politics, a red flag is a symbol of Socialism, or Communism, or sometimes left-wing politics in general. It has been associated with left-wing politics since the French Revolution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was used before the French revolution as a symbol for revolt. Taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://revcom.us/a/045/story-red-flag.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The story of the red flag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This (the french revolution) was not the first time that the red flag was raised, representing the revolutionary aspirations of the oppressed. The red flag has historically been raised by classes in revolt. In the struggles which rocked the rule of Rome, ultimately bringing it down, the red flag was the battle standard held high by slaves who had no way out but rebellion. And in the great peasant revolts that swept across Germany—peasant armies moved from one part of the land to another raising the red flag in their midst.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="3203" LastEditDate="2013-01-23T12:25:57.130" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T12:25:57.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9595" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9596" CreationDate="2013-01-22T17:28:34.733" Score="8" ViewCount="1611" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chuck Cunningham Syndrome refers to when a character simply disappears with no explanation and is treated in later episodes as if they never existed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if there was a term, maybe &quot;Sondra Huxtable Syndrome&quot;, for characters who just appear with no explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="666" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T12:18:42.543" LastActivityDate="2017-10-02T11:56:17.757" Title="Is there a term for the opposite of the Chuck Cunningham Syndrome?" Tags="|analysis|terminology|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9595" CreationDate="2013-01-22T18:03:01.203" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, there is a term and it is known as &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Donmega60645/Chuck_Cunningham_Syndrome#.22Reverse.22_Chuck_Cunningham_Syndrome:&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reverse&amp;quot; Chuck Cunningham Syndrome&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;reverse Cunningham&lt;/strong&gt; is essentially the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;opposite of&lt;/em&gt; Chuck Cunningham syndrome&lt;/strong&gt;, in which a previously-&lt;em&gt;unknown&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;un-alluded-to&lt;/em&gt; character is introduced under the context that they had always been there, and had significantly interacted with the other characters before. This causes even more continuity problems than regular Cunningham Syndrome, as although it's easy to overlook the sudden absence of a character, it's harder to ignore the sudden appearance of a character, especially one that we are expected to believe was part of the regular cast, all along. Perhaps because it creates even more credibility problems, producers are much less likely to suddenly introduce characters whose presence should have been at least alluded to or explained earlier. But it has happened on a few occasions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A handful of examples is also given there at the end of the article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-22T18:03:01.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3693" CreationDate="2013-01-22T18:54:39.550" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not clearly shown in the movie whether Angier saw Borden moving to or behind the stage as there was no eye contact shown. One can only assume that Angier knew some how that Borden will go back stage, the cloned Angier didn't show up to place the blame on Borden. I believe this is a way in which the writer/director keeps the audience occupied in the movie. Similar questions arise in the movie named &quot;Shutter Island&quot; in which the movie ends with the saying &quot;this place makes me wonder whether it's better to live as a monster or die as a good man&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3936" LastActivityDate="2013-01-22T18:54:39.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9593" CreationDate="2013-01-22T20:02:26.417" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;A deeper explanation as to why the Red Flag became a symbol of revolution, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/fr_revol.html#red&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/fr_revol.html#red&lt;/a&gt;, which got its information from M. Pastoureau in his book &lt;em&gt;Les emblèmes de la France&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In July 1791, King Louis XVI and the Royal Family attempted to flee France, dressed as ordinary people. They were arrested in Varennes, on their way to Germany. It is often said that the son of the post house's owner recognized the king after a coin. Others said that the royal princesses were recognized because they were not able to walk correctly without a servant to assist them. Betrayal might be a more rational explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The king was brought back to Paris. A &amp;quot;Republican petition&amp;quot; requiring the overthrowing the king was deposed on Champ-de-Mars, where the Fête de la Fédération had been celebrated on 14 July 1790.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of people gathered to sign the petition. On 17 July, when the meeting turned into a riot, the Mayor of Paris, Bailly, ordered the hoisting of the red flag, which meant at that time that the mob should disperse. The National Guards shot without warning. More than 50 rioters were killed, and were immediately considered as the first martyrs of the Revolution. The red flag, &amp;quot;shed with the martyrs' blood&amp;quot; became the symbol of the Revolution by a weird inversion of its initial symbolism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Blue and Red parts of the French tricolor originates in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Paris&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Flag of Paris&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T21:16:57.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9602" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9604" CreationDate="2013-01-22T23:03:34.707" Score="5" ViewCount="1065" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ajYGz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Pink Slime&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K1WZUfvE54&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters_II&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sequel&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ghostbusters&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; discover a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;river of pink slime&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; underneath Manhattan. &lt;br&gt;The slime reacts to emotions, positive or negative, and can therefore be used for good or bad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially I thought the movie's villain, &lt;em&gt;Vigo the Carpathian&lt;/em&gt;, was somehow responsible for the slime's creation, but because of it's 'neutral' characteristics I was wondering whether it had a different origin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was &lt;em&gt;Vigo&lt;/em&gt; behind the creation of the pink slime or did it come from somewhere/someone else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2013-01-22T23:14:31.937" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T10:39:22.513" Title="Where did the river of pink slime come from?" Tags="|analysis|ghostbusters-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4305" CreationDate="2013-01-22T23:45:14.883" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;He used the watch as an option for stakes if need be, which again what the person before me stated. Obviously, you weren’t paying attention if you didn’t notice the trade that occurred after the last action motorcycle scene in which he offers the watch in exchange for a one way trip out of town. The IWC is real nice but does not hold a candle to the craftsmanship of a Rolex Daytona, especially 18k. The Rolex movement is made in house just like a Patek Phillipe, Audimar Paiguet, or a Breitling, unlike IWC which probably purchased its movement from ETA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3938" LastEditorUserId="3408" LastEditDate="2013-01-23T04:20:43.593" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T04:20:43.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9602" CreationDate="2013-01-22T23:55:37.823" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Psychomagnotheric_Slime&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ghostbusters Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The origin of the Mood Slime is tied to a juvenile &lt;strong&gt;Sloar&lt;/strong&gt;, held in Shandor's Island, beneath the Hudson River.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before his death, &lt;strong&gt;Ivo Shandor&lt;/strong&gt; and his &lt;em&gt;Cult of Gozer&lt;/em&gt; had somehow lured the young Sloar from its home hell dimension and imprisoned it in our world within a Ghostworld pocket at the heart of Shandor's island mansion. Fueled by hatred, bile and anger the creature produced a steady stream of Black Slime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ivo Shandor, through experimentation and using equipment decades ahead of it's time, converted the Black Slime into what became known as the Mood Slime, which was then pumped directly into New York's sewers and abandoned tunnels, possibly as a means to help &lt;em&gt;Gozer's&lt;/em&gt; crossing over.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This act was later used by &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vigo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; to his own advantage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T10:39:22.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9605" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9606" CreationDate="2013-01-19T04:28:34.760" Score="2" ViewCount="670" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the &quot;Khyber Dam&quot; from the 2012 BBC TV show 'Hunted' a dam in real life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13975" OwnerDisplayName="scifiaddict" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-01-23T03:26:54.693" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T03:26:54.693" Title="Was the &quot;Khyber Dam&quot; from the 2012 BBC TV show 'Hunted' a real dam?" Tags="|hunted|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9605" CreationDate="2013-01-19T16:11:47.813" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the dam referenced in the show does not (currently) exist, at least not under the name that was used (the &quot;Upper Khyber Dam&quot;), but a similar dam project could easily exist in the claimed area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Khyber is not the name of a river in Pakistan, it's the name of an entire region, so naming the dam after it wouldn't make much sense (like calling something the &quot;Whales Dam&quot; or the &quot;Texas Dam&quot;.) However, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; home to several large rivers that are prone to flooding. The Indus river, for example, famously flooded in 2010 and caused severe damage in the Khyber region. The Jhelum river is also noted for repeatedly flooding and washing out major bridges in the area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most likely, however, the dam in the show would be one on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunhar_River&quot;&gt;Kunhar River&lt;/a&gt;, which passes near or through several well-populated villages in the upper Khyber region. It flows down from the mountains in the upper part of the Khyber province, growing and shrinking seasonally as the glaciers that feed it freeze and melt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pakistan is a growing country with ever-increasing power needs, so it not be uncommon to find ongoing or proposed dam projects on any of these rivers as a means of providing hydroelectric power to the surrounding region.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" OwnerDisplayName="Michael Edenfield" LastActivityDate="2013-01-20T02:49:04.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9607" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-23T04:31:15.003" Score="4" ViewCount="1541" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashback_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cashback&lt;/a&gt;. But I am in doubt whether I understood its theme properly or not. At the end, it is a love story. But there is something I could not connect to the plot. Examples are his power to pause time (God was it &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt;?), his adolescence, et al. We saw that one person in the hotel could move in his paused world. What does it signify? Why was his adolescence shown? The film could only show his breakup with Suzy, and how he fell in love with Sharon. Why was his time-pausing ability and his adolescence shown?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I get these answers, I am sure I would be able to understand the theme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-12T21:27:16.557" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T21:27:16.557" Title="What is the theme of Cash Back?" Tags="|plot-explanation|cashback|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9608" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9615" CreationDate="2013-01-23T04:48:20.147" Score="15" ViewCount="15123" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at the map of Middle Earth (ignoring the circles)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GOJBs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;map&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see that the world suddenly ends when the map reaches the right margin. What is east of Rhûn?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorDisplayName="user34899" LastEditDate="2017-01-24T21:59:23.017" LastActivityDate="2017-01-24T21:59:23.017" Title="What is east of Rhûn?" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3693" CreationDate="2013-01-23T05:59:23.390" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;So here is my &lt;strong&gt;grand theory&lt;/strong&gt; (if I understood the question correctly):-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Angier was &lt;strong&gt;Lord Coldlow&lt;/strong&gt; from the very beginning. He just pretended to be the American Robert Angier, to spare his family the embarrassment of his theatrical career. So existence of Lord Caldlow is clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on the day of the accident, Angier called spectators to check the machine. Borden came and examined. Given the fact, they knew each other the best, we can assume Angier caught him right then when Borden was on stage to check the machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when Angier understood the right time has come, the time he has longed for a long time, &lt;strong&gt;he did not turn the machine on simply i.e. no extra copy of him was made on that day!&lt;/strong&gt; But he tried to befool the viewers by the sparks of the machine and all that, but it was not really working like other days. So the existence of Angier remained as Lord Caldlow (whom no one identified as him) and Angier could make Borden his murderer by killing a copy of himself, the then present person in the centre. Simple yet a compact plan!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-05-17T12:14:58.157" LastActivityDate="2013-05-17T12:14:58.157" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9610" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9616" CreationDate="2013-01-23T07:51:00.187" Score="6" ViewCount="18600" Body="&lt;p&gt;As all other David lynch movies &lt;em&gt;Eraserhead&lt;/em&gt; also is hard to grasp. I would like to understand what exactly the film suggests or explains. Particularly what is the significance of the &quot;&lt;em&gt;Lady in the Radiator&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-11-05T18:47:47.203" LastActivityDate="2018-11-05T18:47:47.203" Title="Significance of &quot;Lady in the Radiator&quot; in the movie Eraserhead" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|eraserhead|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="365" CreationDate="2013-01-23T08:08:39.710" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;David Lynch's 10 Clues to Unlocking This Thriller&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. This Card is Contained within the original DVD release &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The clues are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pay particular attention in the beginning of the film: At least two clues are revealed before the credits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Notice appearances of the red lampshade.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can you hear the title of the film that Adam Kesher is auditioning actresses for? Is it mentioned again?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An accident is a terrible event — notice the location of the accident.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who gives a key, and why?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Notice the robe, the ashtray, the coffee cup.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is felt, realized and gathered at the Club Silencio?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did talent alone help Camilla?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Note the occurrences surrounding the man behind Winkie's.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where is Aunt Ruth?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may not be an answer for the query, but felt that it should be shared here so that some one can pay attention to key points that lynch want us to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T08:08:39.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9612" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9614" CreationDate="2013-01-23T09:44:23.590" Score="14" ViewCount="4948" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460649/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, what do we know about Barney's &lt;strong&gt;profession&lt;/strong&gt; except the fact that he works for &lt;em&gt;GNB&lt;/em&gt;?&#xA;References to the show (eg. &quot;in Season X Episode Y,&quot;) will be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3862" LastEditorUserId="3862" LastEditDate="2017-11-18T09:02:02.953" LastActivityDate="2017-11-18T09:02:02.953" Title="What do we know of Barney's occupation?" Tags="|analysis|how-i-met-your-mother|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9608" CreationDate="2013-01-23T10:08:57.433" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is not a great amount of detail about what is east of Rhun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Rh%C3%BBn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The lord of the rings wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Of its ancient geography we can glean a little from The Silmarillion; far beyond the Sea of Rhûn was another inland sea, the Sea of Helcar, and beyond that a range of red mountains known as the Orocarni (Red Mountains). Somewhere in the lost east, too, lay Cuiviénen and Hildórien, where Elves and Men first awoke: all the Children of Ilúvatar could trace their ancestries back to the eastward regions of Middle-earth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other facts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dorwinion is situated in Rhun and this is where the easterlings reside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Four of the seven clans of the dwarves also live there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also home to lost Elves such as Avari and Úmanyar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T10:08:57.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9612" CreationDate="2013-01-23T10:11:12.137" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Barney_Stinson#Career&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HIMYM Wiki&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not much is known about Barney's career.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it is known that he works for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/AltruCell_Corporation&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;AltruCell Corporation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, then later &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Goliath_National_Bank&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Goliath National Bank&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; after &lt;em&gt;AltruCell&lt;/em&gt; acquires &lt;em&gt;GNB&lt;/em&gt; in a hostile takeover &lt;em&gt;(Episode 4x02: &lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/The_Best_Burger_in_New_York&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Best Burger in New York&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is assumed that he is a high ranking member in the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He has said that he knows so much about the company's dirty secrets, he won't ever be fired, &lt;em&gt;(Episode 4x20: &lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Mosbius_Designs&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mosbius Designs&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;, although he was almost fired in the start of 2010 because he was blamed for the failure of a big merging. &lt;em&gt;(Episode 5x14: &lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Perfect_Week&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Perfect Week&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He was head of GNB's search committee in 2008 to design the new GNB headquarters (&lt;em&gt;Episodes 4x08: &lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Woooo!&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Woooo!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;4x18: &lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Old_King_Clancy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Old King Clancy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;6x03 &lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Unfinished&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Unfinished&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;His job also entails firing potentially hostile employees (&lt;em&gt;Episode 4x18: &lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Old_King_Clancy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Old King Clancy&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's hinted that his job may include illegal activities &lt;em&gt;(Episode 3x14: &lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/The_Bracket&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Bracket&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Click the link for a few more details]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the episode &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Unpause&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Unpause&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(9x15)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Barney's job is revealed as PLEASE &lt;em&gt;(Provide Legal Exculpation And Sign Everything)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which means that the company he was working for set him up as a fall guy, as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the task legally implicated Barney in all corporate mishaps and schemes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(But Barney was well aware of that and it was part of his long term plan to get revenge on the boss of the company, who was the reason why his first girlfriend &lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Shannon&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shannon&lt;/a&gt; left him)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T15:20:10.870" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9608" CreationDate="2013-01-23T10:34:36.310" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/r/rhun.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Encyclopedia of Arda&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Even Gandalf had never explored there, and though Aragorn had travelled there, we have no report of his doings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Of its ancient geography we can glean a little from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/s/silmarillion.html&quot;&gt;Silmarillion&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;far beyond the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/s/seaofrhun.html&quot;&gt;Sea of Rhûn&lt;/a&gt; was another inland sea, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/h/helcar.html&quot;&gt;Sea of Helcar&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;and beyond that a range of red mountains known as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/o/orocarni.html&quot;&gt;Orocarni&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Somewhere in the lost east, too, lay &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/c/cuivienen.html&quot;&gt;Cuiviénen&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/h/hildorien.html&quot;&gt;Hildórien&lt;/a&gt;, where &lt;em&gt;Elves&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Men&lt;/em&gt; first awoke: all the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/c/childrenofiluvatar.html&quot;&gt;Children of Ilúvatar&lt;/a&gt; could trace their ancestries back to the eastward regions of Middle-earth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/h/helcar.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sea of Helcar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8xVwn.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Helcar&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On its eastern shoreline lay the mountains of the &lt;em&gt;Orocarni&lt;/em&gt;, and at their feet on a small bay was the land &lt;em&gt;Cuiviénen&lt;/em&gt;, where the first Elves awoke in Middle-earth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was there that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/o/orome.html&quot;&gt;Oromë&lt;/a&gt; discovered them, and ultimately led many of them on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/g/greatjourney.html&quot;&gt;Great Journey&lt;/a&gt; around the northern end of the Sea of Helcar as they set out for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/v/valinor.html&quot;&gt;Valinor&lt;/a&gt; in the distant west.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/o/orocarni.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Orocarni&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1cY3l.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Orocarni&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A lost range of mountains in the far east of Middle-earth, near &lt;em&gt;Cuiviénen&lt;/em&gt;, beneath which the first Elves awoke. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Called the Mountains of the East, the name &lt;em&gt;Orocarni&lt;/em&gt; literally translates as &lt;em&gt;'Red Mountains'&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We know little more about them, except that they were apparently the source of the many streams that ran down into &lt;em&gt;Cuiviénen&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/b/bluewizards.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blue Wizards&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After landing in Middle-earth, they travelled directly into the far east with &lt;em&gt;Curunír&lt;/em&gt; (better known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/s/saruman.html&quot;&gt;Saruman&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The mission of the Blue Wizards was to travel to eastern lands occupied by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/s/sauron.html&quot;&gt;Sauron&lt;/a&gt;, and help to foment unrest among his subject peoples. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whether they succeeded or not, even Tolkien was unsure, though he imagined that they had probably failed. It's also uncertain why they remained in the east while &lt;em&gt;Curunír&lt;/em&gt; returned&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T10:34:36.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9610" CreationDate="2013-01-23T12:18:36.947" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most widely accepted representation of the lady in the radiator is that she represents death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://classic-horror.com/reviews/eraserhead_1977&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://classic-horror.com/reviews/eraserhead_1977&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The mysterious Lady in the Radiator (Laurel Near) represents the Grim Reaper and sings to Henry an eerie song of heaven and of how &quot;everything is fine&quot; there. It can be stated that the radiator itself is representative of Henry's thoughts of self-destruction and that he sees death as a source of freedom from his living Hell. This view seems to be confirmed at the film's shocking climax when Henry kills his baby in act of release and mercy. He is then met by the Lady in the Radiator in a brilliant flash of light and dies in her arms. In this act, Henry has finally embraced Death and accepted it into his life, giving him admittance to his own personal heaven and freedom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://notcoming.com/reviews/eraserhead/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://notcoming.com/reviews/eraserhead/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This lady in the radiator is death. She intrigues Henry because she is a form of escape from his existence. To further secure this claim is her soothing anthem “in heaven everything is fine.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T12:18:36.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9617" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9618" CreationDate="2013-01-23T12:33:34.710" Score="7" ViewCount="1852" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the original Planet of the Apes, the astronauts get lost in space and crash land on what they believe is an alien planet.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when they wake up only the female counter part has turned to an ape. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did this happen? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the story line, apes eventually evolved and learned to do all the things that a human was capable of, and the human species lost their capabilities and behaved like primates, but looked a lot like humans.  But the astronaut seemingly had turned to an ape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3939" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-01-23T14:23:03.243" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T14:23:03.243" Title="How did the female astronaut turn into an ape?" Tags="|planet-of-the-apes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9617" CreationDate="2013-01-23T12:48:48.213" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maryann Stewart did not turn into an ape, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worldoflongmire.com/features/apes/planet1/planet.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;her &lt;em&gt;stasis pod&lt;/em&gt; malfunctioned&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stewart's cubicle has been damaged during the flight, and &lt;strong&gt;what's left of her is a mummified corpse.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xsG4g.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Steward&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://planetoftheapes.wikia.com/wiki/Maryann_Stewart&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T12:48:48.213" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9619" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-23T13:23:15.613" Score="12" ViewCount="9003" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, before leaving Angier behind, Cutter and Angier have this conversation &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cutter:&lt;/strong&gt; Take a minute to consider your achievement. I once told you about a sailor who described drowning to me.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Angier:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, he said it was like going home.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Cutter:&lt;/strong&gt; I was lying. He said it was agony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand why Cutter lied (to console Angier for his wife's death) But could not understand why did he need to tell the truth at the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it because he knew Borden (twin) was going to kill him and that before death Angier must know the truth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-23T08:57:51.097" LastActivityDate="2015-11-04T00:33:30.267" Title="Why did Cutter retell the sailor story?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9619" CreationDate="2013-01-23T13:59:03.453" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you say, he told the original story about the sailor to Angier to comfort him after his wife had drowned during the show, in a box very similar to that used by Angier in The Real Teleported Man 'trick'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is my interpretation that Cutter was disgusted with the lengths that Angier has gone to prove he was the better magician.  It is possible (but in my opinion not certain) that Angier had deliberately framed Borden for his murder - a thought that also probably occurred to Cutter. (Deliberately or not, the secret of how Angier was performing the trick prevented him from ever revealing to the police that Borden was innocent.  His secret would be revealed and he would probably have been tried for murder himself.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cutter understands now how Angier performed the trick and that 'copies' of him have been drowning every night, copies that are to all intents and purposes Angier himself.  Cutter just wanted to tell Angier that he has been dying every night in agony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-01-23T14:36:58.447" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T14:36:58.447" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="365" CreationDate="2013-01-23T14:49:31.170" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is a lot of metaphysical stuff going on in this movie - something akin to the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167404/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Sixth Sense&lt;/a&gt; with Haley Joel Osment and Bruce Willis. In that regard, you could say that &quot;Rita&quot; actually died in the car crash and from that point in time, all that happens is imaginary - just as in the aforementioned &quot;Willis&quot; movie. Within this post-death world that we see after the accident, there are deeper levels of it as seen in the scenes with the Cowboy.  Specifically, he is not an embodied or &quot;human&quot; person, rather, he is either an good angel or a bad one and this is further supported by the light bulb flickering on and off just prior to his showing up and again as he departs. Even the glimpse that we see of him at the pool party/engagement party, he is ethereal whereas everyone else in that scene is embodied.  Anyway, this is my take on this enigmatic movie that I saw last night for the very first time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3942" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-01-23T15:38:24.773" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T15:38:24.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9623" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9626" CreationDate="2013-01-23T16:29:08.007" Score="17" ViewCount="5175" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Dana And Marty make it into the underground complex after they leave the elevator they find themselves in room with 8 (ish..) doors and some form of control booth.  They go into the control booth and find &quot;a big red button&quot; with I believe the label Purge all or Purge system!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dana says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An army of nightmares, huh? Let's get this party started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result of pressing this button is that all the Monsters are release into the underground complex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of any reason why you might have such a button in the control booth, can anyone supply me why the button exists?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-05-02T18:34:37.723" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T21:23:18.133" Title="Purpose of the &quot;Purge All&quot; button in Cabin in the Woods" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-cabin-in-the-woods|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9623" CreationDate="2013-01-23T16:48:33.790" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only thing that I can think of is that this is designed to purge - i.e. destroy or remove all the 'nightmares' in the complex.  It would have to be used in conjunction with whatever you needed to kill everything, poison gas or whatever supernatural 'thing' you need to do the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, you would need to have this 'agent' available, plus to leave the 'big red button' active seems rather careless.  Any decent engineer would design failsafe mechanisms to prevent the button being used by unauthorized people, and in the event that it was to destroy everything, you would want it to only be active when the 'agent' was being used too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2013-01-23T16:48:33.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9625" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9649" CreationDate="2013-01-23T17:13:32.387" Score="5" ViewCount="694" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that David sensed what Elijah did at the end when they shake hands but why did it take him so long?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I recall he &quot;sensed&quot; that the man in the army jacket had a gun in his belt without coming into contact with him and while he was a good distance away from him. Why didn't he sense what Elijah had did?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it because his ability to see things increased throughout the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T15:40:23.653" Title="In unbreakable why doesn't David &quot;sense&quot; that Elijah planned the disasters sooner?" Tags="|plot-explanation|unbreakable|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9623" CreationDate="2013-01-23T17:55:03.173" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per &lt;a href=&quot;http://thecabininthewoods.wikia.com/wiki/System_Purge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Cabin in the Woods Wikia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The System Purge, also called just the Purge or the Carnage, was when&#xA;  Marty Mikalski and Dana Polk unleashed all the monsters in the glass&#xA;  rooms into The Facility. This was accomplished with a button in the&#xA;  control panel marked &quot;System Purge.&quot; During the Purge, each and every&#xA;  one of The Facilities monsters are let out in waves, eight at a time.&#xA;  The first wave of monsters includes: the werewolf, the zombies, a&#xA;  witch, the Dismemberment Goblins, the dragonbat, the Giant Snake, the&#xA;  Angry Molesting Tree and the killer robot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why the facility had the need for a System Purge is unknown, but it is&#xA;  likely that this is a reference to the eleventh-hour deus ex machina&#xA;  that is a common trope in the horror genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the button is an obvious satire of the eleventh-hour &quot;deus ex machina&quot; in horror movies. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259521/faq#.2.1.12&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;(Reference)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-12-12T21:23:18.133" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T21:23:18.133" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9629" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9632" CreationDate="2013-01-24T00:02:04.183" Score="2" ViewCount="493" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been watching the cartoon again recently, and I haven't seen anything that explains why her fire is blue.  I understand she can bend lightning.  Is the blue flames an extension of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3541" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-01-22T06:38:12.440" LastActivityDate="2019-01-22T06:38:12.440" Title="Why is Azula's fire blue?" Tags="|plot-explanation|avatar-the-last-airbender|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9634" CreationDate="2013-01-24T00:20:44.417" Score="22" ViewCount="16783" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of Django Unchained, Schultz has a flashback to the dog-mauling that Candie had ordered earlier in the movie. Soon after the flashback, Schultz takes his climactic action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the flashback represent Schultz realizing the sadistic Candie was going to kill them all, even if they paid the $12,000? Or did the flashback represent something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-25T14:11:30.890" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T18:04:19.473" Title="What was the meaning of Schultz's flashback of dogs?" Tags="|plot-explanation|django-unchained|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3038" CreationDate="2013-01-24T01:39:27.850" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This article says it is a toss-up between Urusei Yatsura and that Orange road show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article is long, and not sure if allowed to copy/paste, &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20140218034112/http://annesanimeblog.wordpress.com:80/2013/01/23/better-know-a-genre-part-3-harem-anime/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;so here's the link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3948" LastEditorUserId="71689" LastEditDate="2020-09-18T04:39:42.907" LastActivityDate="2020-09-18T04:39:42.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9629" CreationDate="2013-01-24T04:08:28.467" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10030/why-is-azulas-fire-blue&quot;&gt;cross post&lt;/a&gt; from scifi exchange , The reason here flame being blue is attributed to the fact that the blue part of the flame widely believed to be the most hottest part of it, and that blue color was also to highlight the fact that Azula was a most skilled fire bender and in terms of raw power her power is second compared to that of Fire lord Ozai.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally think that she was the primary antagonist of the second season and to showcase her power and make her a formidable match to Aang they made her flames blue to highlight her proficiency and prowess are much higher than Zuko's who was quite weak in his encounters with Aang in the first season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The excerpt from the Avatar wiki also confirm the cross post's highlighted points&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Azula's characteristic blue flames symbolized the power she possessed and constantly sought to increase. Her apathy also accounted for her ability to create and direct lightning, the &quot;cold-blooded fire&quot;. According to Iroh, the skill required complete control of all emotion, which would not prove difficult for Azula with her one-track mentality. Because of these skills, she was also an excellent tactician, regularly displaying cunning, perception, and resourcefulness that allowed her to take advantage of almost any situation. She possessed good self-control, facing down Long Feng and deceiving him when held captive and could lie with a straight face and no physical reactions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T04:08:28.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8039" CreationDate="2013-01-24T05:42:41.350" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they actually design all or may be few of the software used in Dexter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_%28TV_series%29#External_links&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt; the search engine used by Dexter can be found here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.netrangler.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;netrangler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3888" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T05:42:41.350" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9630" CreationDate="2013-01-24T06:46:35.577" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;You have slightly muddled the occurrence of events.&lt;/del&gt; Schultz has a flashback of the dog-mauling scene not right after Candie ups Broomhilda's(&lt;em&gt;Django's wife&lt;/em&gt;) price, but later when the &lt;em&gt;deal is being put to paper&lt;/em&gt;. In the violent moment where Candie threatens to bash Hilda's skull with a hammer, Schultz agrees to the raised price in a breath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, when Dr. Schultz has a moment all by himself, sitting in the arm-chair, does he begin to experience the flash-backs of the hideous episode(&lt;em&gt;dog-mauling&lt;/em&gt;). I believe he had those visions as a result of the trauma he had to undergo while witnessing the scene. The doctor was indeed a violent man, but not cruel and certainly didn't agree with slavery or Candie's methods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Excerpt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Calvin Candie:&lt;/strong&gt; Your boss looks a little green around the gills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Django:&lt;/strong&gt; He just ain't used to seein' a man ripped apart by dogs is all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The climatic scene that you mention, was the repercussion or the end result of this flashback. Candie managed to antagonize Dr. Schultz so much over Broomhilda's deal and later(&lt;em&gt;remember the insistence to shake hands&lt;/em&gt;) that he decided to pull the trigger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; IMO, Schultz never considered the possibility (&lt;em&gt;however remote or substantial&lt;/em&gt;) that Candie was going to kill them all. Rather than this being an act of premeditated self defense, this was more of an aggravated assault by Schultz not only against Candie's physical form but also against his misplaced ideals (&lt;em&gt;read slavery, penchant for killing etc.&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-02-18T08:54:08.620" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8323" CreationDate="2013-01-24T06:58:51.057" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does the writer prefer the tiger story?&#xA;For a 'flat' hearted person - the story is interesting, dramatic and worth remembering...&#xA;For a 'deep' hearted person - the story is all the above, because it is wonderful and pleasant, it makes the incident a not regretful one and a memory to cherish beyond all those cruel things that has happened... it has made the incident a beauty of his life... (thinking introspectively)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which story is the true one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking for the tiger story - &#xA;     the tiger not coming out during the hyena's time might be because it was drugged like all the animal + it was very tired from swimming, so that is not a 'proof' of anything.&#xA;     at the end Pi narrates the people-story, and his body language suggests that he is lying until he starts to narrate the tragic portions. This may be because in the tragic portions he was recollecting the incidents of hyena killing the orangutan and the zebra while he said about people.&#xA;     'so it goes with God' may mean that the same choice that the writer and the Japanese took is the one that God took... implying that the tiger story is true.&#xA;     The older Pi looks convincingly genuine with emotions when narrating the tiger-story than the younger Pi when narrating the people-story.&#xA;     None of the above a solid proof, so the other could also be the real one even if it looks unlikely&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking for the people story -&#xA;     The story looks totally unbelievable as it is easier to believe that such an inexperienced boy survived all alone than in the company of a tiger and there is no solid proof to support tiger story.&#xA;     The logical version of accepting a theory is to accept the simplest version of it that reasons with the available facts. Hence people story is the choice. &#xA;     As said the event could have evoked the 'survival' instincts of Pi which is metaphor to the tiger and it left him the moment he was safe. Tiger-story could be because the events were traumatic to him.&#xA;     'so it goes with God' means that the same reason that made the writer believe in the tiger-story is valid for him to believe in God. Because believing in God is a choice that if taken makes the life more pleasant. So the tiger-story is only as true as existence of God (so to an atheist, tiger story is a lie). This make more sense than the above explanation for the same dialogue. This answers the question what made the writer believe in God.&#xA;     Neither of the theories have a solid proof. Anyone of the two could be true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is actually true, which should I believe?&#xA;It does not matter what the truth is as anyone of the both could be true. At times like these what matters is what you believe in. And believing in the God (tiger-story) make the journey through life (or the ocean) a pleasant one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3950" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T06:58:51.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9636" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-24T08:06:18.817" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film is set in the mid-18th century, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Frontier#The_Antebellum_West&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Antebellum West&lt;/a&gt; where a black slave Django (&lt;em&gt;Foxx&lt;/em&gt;) is freed by Dr. Schultz (&lt;em&gt;Waltz&lt;/em&gt;) so that he can help the doctor find and claim a bounty over the Brittle brothers, who are known to Django.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the successful kill of the Brittle brothers Dr. Schultz offers Django to assist him in the &quot;bounty hunting business&quot; during the harsh winter. In return, Dr. Schultz promises to help Django track down his wife Broomhilda (&lt;em&gt;Washington&lt;/em&gt;) who later turns out to be under the ownership of a Calvin Candie (&lt;em&gt;Di Caprio&lt;/em&gt;) a brutal plantation owner in the south.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T21:46:01.700" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T21:46:01.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9637" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-24T08:06:18.817" Score="0" Body="Django Unchained is a 2012 film by Quentin Tarantino starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo Di Caprio, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson." OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-01-24T11:20:52.177" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T11:20:52.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9641" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9644" CreationDate="2013-01-24T10:16:31.830" Score="21" ViewCount="25608" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; Season 3 Episode 05 - Mas, there is a scene in Ted's house, in the bathroom, where Skyler puts down a towel under her feet. In earlier episode Ted speaks about how the contractor talked him into having a system that heats the floor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I see it there are 2 possible explanations to Skyler's action: &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt;, that the floor had become too hot/cold for her liking or &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt;, her current stance in which she starts to doubt her relationship with Ted and softens on what Walt has done, makes her feel guilty. So it could be her way to put a sheet (&lt;em&gt;read towel&lt;/em&gt;) between her two lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is it? Is there something I missed or am I reading too much into a simple scene? (&lt;em&gt;I sincerely doubt that. Nothing, absolutely nothing is inconsequential in Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PS:&lt;/strong&gt; I remember, moments before this particular scene Ted walking out of the shower and hugging Skyler from behind and asking her to keep back some of her things since she comes in regularly. He did not mention the floor being too hot/cold, so the first possibility looks dim!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please mention spoiler alert in-case you reference something that happens after this episode.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-23T18:31:03.110" LastActivityDate="2016-12-31T02:25:19.577" Title="Why does Skyler put down a towel underneath her feet in Ted's house?" Tags="|character|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2729" CreationDate="2013-01-24T10:20:38.823" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that a prequel, in order to be considered such, should not only take place in the same &quot;universe&quot; of the original movie/book/game but its plot should also be linked to the original plot, in some way. If a tale is simply set in the same universe of another one without having nothing to do with the original tale, I just cannot consider it a prequel.&#xA;For instance: Star Wars I, II and III are prequels because they tell us how Anakin became Darth Vader, how the Empire was created and how Luke and Leia came to life; all these elements are the core of episodes IV, V and VI.&#xA;But the events told in &quot;Knights of the Old Republic&quot; (written AFTER the movies and taking place 4000 years BEFORE the movies) are completely detached from the six episodes we all know. In my opinion that is not a prequel. Is just a story set in the same universe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3954" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T10:20:38.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9641" CreationDate="2013-01-24T11:31:06.817" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amctv.com/shows/breaking-bad/episodes/season-3/mas#episode-details-57&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AMC&lt;/strong&gt;'s own description&lt;/a&gt; of the episode explains that at first&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Skyler basks in the luxury of Ted's heated bathroom floor&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but later&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Skyler stands in Ted's bathroom, fixing her make up post-tryst... &lt;strong&gt;Suddenly aware of and uncomfortable with the luxurious surroundings, she looks down at the warm floor, grabs a towel and stands on it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Personally, I took it as Skyler feeling guilty about this whole situation with Ted. She tries to resist the temptations this &quot;new life&quot; offers, because she doesn't want to give up on her &quot;old life&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T11:31:06.817" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9630" CreationDate="2013-01-24T12:22:01.050" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In fact my answer is very similar to &lt;em&gt;KeyBrd Basher&lt;/em&gt;'s but I'm still going to post my views:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I for myself wouldn't say that with this flashback he realized &lt;em&gt;Candie&lt;/em&gt; was going to kill them all (which I'm not even sure was the case). I would rather say that this flashback just raised his anger over &lt;em&gt;Candie&lt;/em&gt;'s cruelty and increased his moral aversion against him, which then in the end led to him shooting &lt;em&gt;Candie&lt;/em&gt; when he was angered even further to shake hands with such a man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point here is &lt;em&gt;Schultz&lt;/em&gt;'s aversion against &lt;em&gt;Candie&lt;/em&gt; and slavery in general. In fact for me a much more important question was the deeper reason for this aversion. Of course slavery was a bad thing but at that time I think it still was something special to be as strongly against slavery as &lt;em&gt;Schultz&lt;/em&gt; was (but maybe there wasn't much to it and he was just supposed to be a &lt;em&gt;&quot;good guy&quot;&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So even if at first &lt;em&gt;Schultz&lt;/em&gt; seemed a bit violent or emotionless to &lt;em&gt;Django&lt;/em&gt; (when he demanded to kill that one criminal in front of his son and urging &lt;em&gt;Django&lt;/em&gt; to play that role of a black slave trader), this shifted when they finally entered &lt;em&gt;Django&lt;/em&gt;'s world and he realized that there were still things he hadn't seen yet. In the end he didn't expect the journey to be that traumatic and thought it would be a nice adventure helping &lt;em&gt;Siegfried&lt;/em&gt; to get back &lt;em&gt;Brunhilde&lt;/em&gt; and at the same time making an active statement against slavery by helping his &lt;em&gt;&quot;new black friend&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this flashback he recapitulated what evil he was really standing against there. When he was then finally urged to shake hands with a man he hated so much, he just couldn't resist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-01-24T12:30:26.613" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T12:30:26.613" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9646" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9665" CreationDate="2013-01-24T13:42:06.250" Score="8" ViewCount="733" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone recognise this film? I can only remember two scenes from it and the vague plot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched it about 20 years ago on TV in the UK.  It is an American film, set in America.  I would guess it was made in the '60s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A young girl is friends with a mute, white haired man, who is accused of murder.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over dinner the girl asks her father, who is a lawyer, to help her friend when he goes to trial as she is sure he is innocent.  When she has gone to bed the father tells his wife he is going to help - the dialog is something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Husband: &quot;We have always told her to come to us if she needs help. She has come to us so I am going to help.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It goes to court and they take the decision to place the young girl on the stand as a witness.  The prosecuting lawyer tears into her and shouts something about the man sexually abusing her. The court goes mad.  People start shouting and throwing things, the defendent charges across the room to assault the lawyer, the girl runs from the stand in tears, her father runs to pick her up, police officers are running around trying to figure out who to arrest first as the judge shouts for order and bangs his hammer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The defendant ends up on the stand but has to write all of his answers to the questions for the bailiff to read out. One question was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Did you kill &lt;em&gt;name removed from my memory&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;No, he was my friend.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it is not much to go on - does it jog anyone's memory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-02-01T18:16:35.270" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T18:16:35.270" Title="Anyone recognise this court based film about a mute man accused of murder?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:41:22.117" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9647" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-24T13:43:09.090" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-24T13:43:09.090" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T13:43:09.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9648" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-24T13:43:09.090" Score="0" Body="Films or television programs where the most of the important plot or the finale take place in a court room." OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="1501" LastEditDate="2013-01-24T14:18:37.017" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T14:18:37.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9625" CreationDate="2013-01-24T15:40:23.653" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am fairly certain he brushed up against the guy in the army jacket as he was walking up the line to his post. His ability to sense evil in others is touch dependent. It also isn't something he actively tries to develop until later in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the film he has no physical contact with Elijah until the very end. This is why he isn't able to perceive the evil things Elijah has done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T15:40:23.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9650" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9652" CreationDate="2013-01-24T15:44:05.133" Score="7" ViewCount="6184" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember seeing a movie in the late 90's to early 2000's about a video game company working on a video game.  I think lightning hits the building or something happens and the game becomes real.  People star being killed off.  In the end a woman that was new to the company ends up defeating the game and survives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is not &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441796/&quot;&gt;Stay Alive&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-01-28T15:00:18.030" Title="Movie where a videogame becomes real" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:41:25.253" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9651" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9747" CreationDate="2013-01-24T15:49:18.983" Score="5" ViewCount="3138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching a movie where a mature boy has a crush on a girl and tries to impress her. But the problem is that the girl has a dog (most probably a female dog) which creates problems that prevent them from getting together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one scene the couple is going to kiss but the dog licks the girl's face. The girl still tries to kiss the boy but the boy can't because he has seen the dog drinking toilet water from pot earlier before licking the girl's face (the girl doesn't notice this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, in another scene the boy is trying to have intercourse with the girl, but the Dog got excited and licked the boy between his legs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's most probably an American comedy film, most likely no older than 2000, but I'm not sure about the time period. I watched it on an Indian TV channel more then 4 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1319" LastEditDate="2013-01-29T17:14:06.787" LastActivityDate="2013-01-30T05:49:57.363" Title="Identify this film about a Boy, girl and Girl's Dog" Tags="|comedy|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:41:28.393" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9650" CreationDate="2013-01-24T16:10:17.150" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Make_a_Monster_%282001_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to Make a Monster&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(2001)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lwiqz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;How To Make A Monster&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A computer game company hires three eccentric programmers to complete an unfinished game called &lt;em&gt;Evilution&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a dark and stormy night, an electrical surge brings the motion-capture monster suit to life and it becomes controlled by the computer AI. The monster then begins to stalk and kill the team throughout the lab as if they were actually playing the game.   [&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.popcornpictures.co.uk/how-to-make-a-monster-2001/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbnqW0U7Zt4&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watch the trailer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T16:10:17.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9654" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9678" CreationDate="2013-01-24T17:35:08.170" Score="12" ViewCount="11123" Body="&lt;p&gt;In many movies vehicles are apparently seriously damaged. How are these stunts filmed? Are these made animated? Does it costs more to shoot these types of shots? Do these shots have retakes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples include: destroying vehicles, accidents, explosions, shooting damage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the scenes from Fast and Furious series:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UPNpx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Srgeh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A9D2k.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-01-25T22:44:47.670" LastActivityDate="2020-11-22T03:41:02.233" Title="How are stunts where vehicles are seriously damaged (such as explosions or crashes) filmed?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9655" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9656" CreationDate="2013-01-24T17:57:40.987" Score="24" ViewCount="24199" Body="&lt;p&gt;Money shown in movies or TV shows before 30-40 years was looked fake. Is there a law that prohibits was showing real money (bills and close ups of coins) in a TV commercial, show or film? How do they film now?  Having real money around makes for a real headache if (or when) it comes up missing, isn't it? Is that money belongs to production house or do they get money from any agency which looks real but it's not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-17T07:42:35.573" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T07:42:35.573" Title="How do they film money in TV or movie?" Tags="|production|props|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9655" CreationDate="2013-01-24T18:30:17.533" Score="19" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stage Money&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To create the illusion of massive wads of cash, TV and film producers&#xA;  don't take real $100 bills and put them on the front and back of a&#xA;  stack of $1 bills (or even just pieces of paper cut to size) but&#xA;  instead use fake bills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is also seen any time where the character shows a bunch of bills.&#xA;  Rather than going to the bank and getting, say $5,000 in real money,&#xA;  letting the actor use it for the scene and then putting it back in the&#xA;  bank, they use Stage Money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's actually a cottage industry that makes fake money to be used&#xA;  in films, that looks just enough like the real thing that a casual&#xA;  viewing doesn't reveal that they're fake... for one example, take a&#xA;  look &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripophily.net/autmovmon.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Users of Poser software can freely download U.S. money&#xA;  props, including various coins and four different currency styles. The&#xA;  20th century bill props are not intended to imitate genuine currency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It isn't legal for print media to use real money, to the point that&#xA;  boxers with accurately sized money on it were once seized. So the&#xA;  magazine ad would show part of a hundred dollar bill, but not all of&#xA;  it. Because the law says that only the government can print money.&#xA;  There is no law against showing it on TV or in the movies, since you&#xA;  can't cut out the bills and use them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Britain, if a TV game show has a prize draw with cash prizes and&#xA;  illustrates them, the £10, £20 or £50 notes will be shown in full but&#xA;  with something like &quot;SPECIMEN&quot; superimposed. In some other parts of&#xA;  the world, bank notes illustrated in print media (such as ads) often&#xA;  also have that SPECIMEN marking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Examples&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Doctor Who had some specially commissioned notes made with portraits&#xA;  of David Tennant and (producer) Phil Collinson on them for The&#xA;  Christmas Invasion. This was for legal reasons, though, and now these&#xA;  props go for a pretty penny on eBay.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The reason Doctor Who used fake notes may have been not so much that they weren't allowed to use real currency, but that the&#xA;  scene involved a cash machine malfunctioning and shooting banknotes&#xA;  across the street. There'd be too much risk of the notes becoming&#xA;  damaged or getting pocketed by the extras who scrabble across the&#xA;  street collecting the notes. It's not an offence to show currency on&#xA;  British TV, but it is an offence to damage or destroy it. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Notably averted in Art Attack, where Neil Buchanan made a vast portrait of the queen out of hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of&#xA;  real £10 notes, which the Bank of England lent him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Harry Enfield's early character Loadsamoney's &quot;wad&quot; used the first method described above, being two real £10 notes with lots of&#xA;  appropriately cut newspaper in between.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Real Life example: During the Victorian era, forging a banknote carried a hefty sentence, but making something that looked a bit like&#xA;  a banknote didn't. So forgers would create notes that read &quot;Bank of&#xA;  Engraving&quot; instead of &quot;Bank of England&quot;, and could try to pass these&#xA;  off as real currency.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The setting of the 2005 adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was designed to look like America to Britons and like Britain&#xA;  to Americans, made use of &quot;guinea&quot; notes that didn't look quite like&#xA;  either a $10 bill or a £10 note.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;To someone who goes to Chinatown often enough, it's obvious when someone is using Chinese Hell dollars as stand-ins for American&#xA;  dollars, but otherwise the designs are quite similar. They were used&#xA;  like that in an episode of the Australian series Pizza.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Stephen Sondheim musical Road Show involved piles of cash being literally thrown into the air until they carpeted the stage, so&#xA;  that audience members in the front few rows were able to catch loose&#xA;  bills. Needless to say, it wasn't real money.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In Making Money, the Ankh-Morpork Times broke the story of Moist von Lipwig's new invention, paper currency, by averting this trope.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;They printed true-to-scale images of the front and back of a bank&#xA;  note, which (as Vetinari observes) surely sent most of the city&#xA;  scrambling for scissors and glue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A related trick in real life: the &quot;carnie roll&quot;, a roll of what appears to be high-denomination bills. The first and last ones are&#xA;  high-denomination bills, though all of the ones in-between are $1&#xA;  bills.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;One short from The Three Stooges has them needing to get the ransom for a starlet. They resort to some bills found in a room&#xA;  marked 'Property'. It didn't say whose property, of course. Guess&#xA;  what the roll was identified by the crooks as...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;On the NBC game show Scrabble, players could earn bonus cash by placing letters in colored squares on the gameboard and then&#xA;  immediately guessing the word in play. Host Chuck Woolery would then&#xA;  pay out the bonus in pink or blue &quot;Chuck Bucks,&quot; fake bills printed&#xA;  with his picture.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StageMoney&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;(Source: TV Tropes)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-17T07:41:10.240" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T07:41:10.240" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9657" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-24T19:20:53.277" Score="5" ViewCount="2856" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Men in Black II&lt;/em&gt;, Johnny Knoxville's character Scrad, the two-headed alien henchman for Seelena leads a bunch of aline thugs to Jeebs' basement where Agent K has just been deneuralized. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the ensuing fight he disappears, never to be seen again in the film which is strange considering he played a significant role in the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened? Victim of the cutting room?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-12-12T07:24:28.323" LastActivityDate="2017-12-12T07:24:28.323" Title="What happened to Scrad?" Tags="|character|men-in-black-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9658" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-24T19:22:55.317" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-24T19:22:55.317" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T19:22:55.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9659" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-24T19:22:55.317" Score="0" Body="A period of movies ranging from the year 2000 to 2009" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-24T19:22:55.317" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T19:22:55.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9657" CreationDate="2013-01-24T19:30:42.057" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be so that because Charlie felt sick they quit working for Serleena or uncut scene Kay killed them. &lt;a href=&quot;http://meninblack.wikia.com/wiki/Scrad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(meninblack.wikia.com)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another explanation can be-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The worms tell J that some guy with 2 heads kidnapped Laura, so&#xA;  obviously it was Johnny Knoxville's character. He probably waited for&#xA;  further orders from Serleena after completing this task, but they&#xA;  never came.&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviemistakes.com/film2453/questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-24T19:52:38.157" LastActivityDate="2013-01-24T19:52:38.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9646" CreationDate="2013-01-25T04:40:12.923" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Every_Day_Was_the_Fourth_of_July&quot;&gt;When Every Day was the Fourth of July&lt;/a&gt;, a 1978 NBC made-for-TV movie about a pair of youngsters who befriend a brain-damaged veteran in 1930's Connecticut. It has a little girl whose father is an attorney, and the description of the courtroom scene matches Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-02-01T18:16:09.797" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T18:16:09.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9666" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-25T05:49:04.803" Score="27" ViewCount="220598" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many times in movies (especially Hollywood), actors and actresses are shown having intercourse (not talking about pornographic films). Do they really do this? Or fake it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That's really up to the actor and actress&lt;/strong&gt; could be an answer, like the one posted in this  similar question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/8864/do-the-actors-really-go-nude-in-the-shooting-of-the-movies&quot;&gt;Do the actors really go nude in the shooting of the movies?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my question is very personal regarding the actor and actress. Do they really have sex in mainstream movies? How do they film such shots (real or fake)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T02:59:58.377" Title="Do they really have sex in movies?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9655" CreationDate="2013-01-25T11:38:46.993" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the US the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Secret Service&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; isn't just responsible for the protection of the &lt;em&gt;President&lt;/em&gt;, it also deals with &lt;em&gt;financial crimes&lt;/em&gt;, like &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;counterfeiting money&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.secretservice.gov/money_illustrations.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;their website&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The law sharply restricts photographs or other printed reproductions of paper currency&lt;/strong&gt;, checks, bonds, revenue stamps and securities of the United States and foreign governments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Public Law 102-550&lt;/em&gt;, in &lt;em&gt;Section 411 of Title 31&lt;/em&gt; of the &lt;em&gt;Code of Federal Regulations&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;permits color illustrations of U.S. currency provided&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The illustration is of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of the item illustrated&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The illustration is one-sided&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All negatives, plates, positives, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof are destroyed and/or deleted or erased after their final use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This mean &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;prop/stage money&lt;/em&gt; needs to conform to certain restrictions&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;However, &lt;strong&gt;filming real money for use in a movie is allowed&lt;/strong&gt; under &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/504&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;18 U.S.Code § 504&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the following are permitted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(3) &lt;strong&gt;The making or importation of motion-picture films&lt;/strong&gt;, microfilms, or slides, &lt;strong&gt;for projection upon a screen or for use in telecasting&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;So, one can either use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;prop money (which, obviously, is not allowed to be a perfect copy)&lt;/em&gt;,&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b9zYR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Axel Foley&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.propstore.com/product-Axel-Foley-s--Eddie-Murphy--Kiss-My-Ass-Wonder-Dollars.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;or &lt;em&gt;real money&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-25T11:38:46.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9666" CreationDate="2013-01-25T13:54:17.647" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Most of them are not. They are just acting.&lt;/strong&gt; The only time they actually do participate in it is in porn. Unless the camera shows you that the actress or actor is trying to &quot;hide&quot; something from the camera's view then you know that it is for pretend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_Hollywood_Actresses_really_participate_sex_in_movie_scenes&quot;&gt;Wikianswers&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually they would &lt;strong&gt;use a body double for the nude parts&lt;/strong&gt; in movies. But in normal film genres, the scenes are not real. It's just clever camera takes and film direction. It could take a day to film it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scenes may appear steamy, and there may be a lot of skin contact (one could argue that this is sexual activity) but there are barriers in place. Directors do attempt to be as sensitive to the needs of the performers as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_actors_ever_really_have_sex_in_movies&quot;&gt;Wikianswers&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Actors have lessons on doing love scenes&lt;/strong&gt;. There can be serious repercussions and allegations if it were for real. Here's are some excellent in-depth answers to question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.allexperts.com/q/Careers-Acting-Performing-1479/Love-Scenes.htm&quot;&gt;http://en.allexperts.com/q/Careers-Acting-Performing-1479/Love-Scenes.htm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.smh.com.au/entertainment/archives/box_office/007549.html&quot;&gt;http://blogs.smh.com.au/entertainment/archives/box_office/007549.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070531202259AAFrRj4&amp;amp;r=w&amp;amp;pa=AptqD2bwHTHf5uCGYqgyt0CzTehzeN1R9662XU3kYRKlDA--&amp;amp;paid=voted&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; - the part where this person said he or she has worked in the motion picture industry for 20 years for question &lt;strong&gt;'How do actors not get aroused during sex scenes?'&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_actors_ever_really_have_sex_in_movies&quot;&gt;Wikianswers&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though there are rumors/facts who says some couples at movies have sex, not many do that, is usually simulation of sex.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsimulated_sex_in_film#Films_with_non-simulated_sexual_activity&quot;&gt;Wiki list of Films with non-simulated sexual activity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leung Ka-Fai or Tony Leung and Jane March at &lt;a href=&quot;http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100519025803AAVpKS8&quot;&gt;&quot;the Lover&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (1992, France), &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While filming &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_movie_do_the_actors_and_actresses_really_have_sex&quot;&gt;&quot;Boxcar Bertha&quot;&lt;/a&gt;(1972), stars Barbara Hershey and David Carradine fell in love. They have said in interviews that some of their sex scenes were real. This film is directed by Martin Scorsese.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-01-25T14:25:27.067" LastActivityDate="2013-01-25T14:25:27.067" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9316" CreationDate="2013-01-25T14:49:11.413" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Excellent answers!  One additional point is that Frodo, alone of all the ringbearers, was given the ring of free will.  He did not acquire the ring by cheating or murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frodo and Gandalf, in the chapter The Shadow of the Past, discuss how Gollum could not give up the ring, where Bilbo did:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;‘What do you mean?’ said Frodo. ‘Surely the Ring was his Precious and the only thing he cared for? But if he hated it, why didn’t he get rid of it, or go away and leave it?’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;‘You ought to begin to understand, Frodo, after all you have heard,’ said Gandalf. ‘He hated it and loved it, as he hated and loved himself. He could not get rid of it. He had no will left in the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;‘A Ring of Power looks after itself, Frodo. It may slip off treacherously, but its keeper never abandons it. At most he plays with the idea of handing it on to someone else’s care – and that only at an early stage, when it first begins to grip. But as far as I know Bilbo alone in history has ever gone beyond playing, and really done it. He needed all my help, too. And even so he would never have just forsaken it, or cast it aside. It was not Gollum, Frodo, but the Ring itself that decided things. The Ring left him.’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1068" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-25T14:49:11.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8323" CreationDate="2013-01-25T18:14:04.953" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;All of you may seem to have missed the following two scenes that suggest that first story was true:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Pi throws the swim ring in the water to save 'someone' only to find that someone to be 'Richard Parker' instead. And then he keeps saying No while NOT allowing Richard Parker in the boat. So 'Richard Parker' doesn't come out of the shed 'all of a sudden' (as thought by many that all of a sudden he emerged out of nowhere, because of Pi's anger)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just before the movie ends, it is shown that 'Richard Parker' i.e The Tiger stops and looks at 'imaginary' Pi for a moment, before he continues walking in the jungle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite possible that upon being asked for a 'true' story, he could replace animals with humans because when he saw hyena being cruel, it reminded Pi of the cruel cook. And when he saw Zebra, it reminded him of peaceful Japanese man and when he saw the (female) monkey (who seemed to have lost its baby), he saw his mom in that mother monkey?? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think, people?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3963" LastActivityDate="2013-01-25T18:14:04.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9675" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-25T18:27:54.340" Score="13" ViewCount="2850" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zD5m0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Toy Story&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://pixar.wikia.com/Andy_Davis#Trivia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Image from Toy Story 3&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using a fictional &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(telephone_number)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;'555-' phone number&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl1OAx9u1ok&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;not uncommon&lt;/a&gt; in American films and television shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which film or television show was the first to use a &lt;em&gt;'555-'&lt;/em&gt; phone number?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:41:14.227" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:41:14.227" Title="Which film or TV-Show was the first to use a '555-' phone number?" Tags="|first-appearance|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9675" CreationDate="2013-01-25T19:31:37.887" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_%28telephone_number%29&quot;&gt;wiki page for 555&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The phone companies began encouraging the producers of television shows and movies to use the 555 prefix for fictional telephone numbers, roughly during the 1960s. One of the earliest uses of a 555 number can be seen in &lt;em&gt;Panic in Year Zero!&lt;/em&gt; (1962), with &lt;strong&gt;555-2106&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 1942 film: &lt;em&gt;&quot;Eyes in the Night&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, starring Edward Arnold and Donna Reed, the telephone number, &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Rossmore 555&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; was referred to. In older television shows from the 1950s or 1960s, &quot;KLondike 5&quot; or &quot;KLamath 5&quot; was used, as at the time the telephone exchanges used letters and numbers in phone numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on your point of view, it could be Eyes in the Night or Panic in Year Zero!, but I will keep digging to see if something else turns up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-01-25T19:31:37.887" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9654" CreationDate="2013-01-25T21:19:11.110" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly it depends on the budget, then the process is decided according to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As in developed countries like US getting junk cars from junkyard and blast then doesn't cost much but in small budget movies they replace Costly car with a cheap car and then they blast it. Like in the following example of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Race 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1mUIq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where you can easily spot that two different cars are used, one for show-off and other for the Blast purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly toy cars are also used in small budget movies which looks like real car but they are not. Similarly toy cars are mixing with the real car with CGI and becomes good option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more example from cracked.com is here-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In The Dark Knight -- The Big Chase Scene&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two specific points during the insane car chase at the halfway point&#xA;of The Dark Knight are so over-the-top they seem like they would have&#xA;had to be computer-generated, if for no other reason than they would&#xA;have killed the stunt drivers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J0vLj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MEBK3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first is when the Batmobile first shows up to take out the Joker's&#xA;convoy. It speeds in ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and offers what equates to a vehicular uppercut to a garbage&#xA;truck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene ended up in the trailer and inadvertently encouraged a bloat&#xA;of fanboys to flock to their keyboards and pound out protests against&#xA;the fake-looking CGI in the movie. But as Christopher Nolan has proved&#xA;time and again, he doesn't mess with that shit if he doesn't have to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, what you are actually seeing there is a complete one-third-scale&#xA;model of the Batmobile, the garbage truck and a large section of lower&#xA;Wacker Drive in Chicago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They stuck the two vehicles on a guide and smashed those mothers&#xA;together. What you see in the film is the result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even the damn 180-degree move that the Batmobile pulls off at the end&#xA;was done by a radio-controlled model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what about the climactic moment in that scene when they flip the&#xA;Joker's 18-wheeler after Batman clotheslines it with a grappling hook?&#xA;If that was a model, it was pretty goddamned convincing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flipping of the semi was accomplished with a technique known in&#xA;Hollywood as flipping a real goddamned semi. To get the mind-boggling&#xA;amount of upward force needed to lift the big bastard head over heels,&#xA;the FX crew built a huge steam-piston mechanism in the trailer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more details click &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/article_19140_8-movie-special-effects-you-wont-believe-arent-cgi.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-10-16T08:58:11.303" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9666" CreationDate="2013-01-26T00:47:01.073" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;While standard movie technique is to suggest by clever positioning of the camera and careful scene setup that sex is taking place, there have always been rumours of more. These are hard to verify but plausible. For example, &lt;em&gt;Last Tango in Paris&lt;/em&gt; was rumoured to have some real sex as was &lt;em&gt;Don't Look Now&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But mainstream censorship rules in many countries would have prevented any possible verification of this in the released footage as, if the movie were explicit enough to see real sexual acts such as penetration, it would automatically receive a pornography classification. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But some censors have been getting a lot more relaxed recently. In 2004 the BBFC (the british film classification body) approved a mainstream release (18 certificate, so nobody can see it under the age of 18) of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411705/?ref_=sr_1&quot;&gt;9 Songs&lt;/a&gt;, a movie by the mainstream (if a bit arthouse) british director Michael Winterbottom. In 9 Songs the actors really did have sex on set and the movie is explicit enough to see this. The movie was controversial (see this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2004/may/20/cannes2004.cannesfilmfestival&quot;&gt;Guardian story&lt;/a&gt; written before release) at the time, but less so than expected. More surprisingly, it isn't very erotic as the lack of subtlety in the sex scenes seems to neutralise their effect (for example, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2005/mar/13/philipfrench&quot;&gt;this Guardian review&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What 9 Songs proves is that, sometimes, people really are having sex in the movie. But there is little correlation between the reality and the erotic power of the scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="134" LastEditDate="2014-01-11T20:57:55.157" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T20:57:55.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9680" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9748" CreationDate="2013-01-26T01:47:08.620" Score="10" ViewCount="1996" Body="&lt;p&gt;Subliminal messages in films isn't a new thing. They have taken many forms by flashing words for a single frame, using iconic images on props and product placements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also stories in the music industry where songs played backwards would reveal a hidden message, and television is no exception either. Here is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;v=2xPvYgTvr8I&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt; video a news story discussing the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the first appearance of a subliminal message in a feature film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Can you provide a sample image to support the claim there was a hidden message?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="1100" LastEditDate="2013-01-29T20:53:25.353" LastActivityDate="2018-02-08T14:30:12.827" Title="First occurrence of subliminal messages in film?" Tags="|first-appearance|analysis|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9681" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9759" CreationDate="2013-01-26T02:14:35.787" Score="12" ViewCount="1760" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Atomic Bomb Predicted Before It's Time&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Written literature that predated the atomic bomb made references to man creating a weapon that could set the sky on fire. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;H.G. Wells&lt;/a&gt; book &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Time Machine&lt;/a&gt; written in 1895 talked about the surface of the Earth being burned by man made fire. He later wrote &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Set_Free&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The World Set Free&lt;/a&gt; in 1914 and it clearly describes the atomic bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;When Did A Nuclear Bomb First Appear?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_%28nuclear_test%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trinity&lt;/a&gt; nuclear test of the first atomic bomb was conducted on July 16, 1945. What is the date of the film that first featured a destructive weapon of on this kind of scale, and did that film predate the Trinity test?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for the answer with the earliest film showing or discussing a bomb that can destroy a city.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CEGCg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Big Bang&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T15:51:21.693" LastActivityDate="2017-02-24T05:02:07.220" Title="First appearance of a weapon with the power of a nuclear bomb?" Tags="|first-appearance|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9623" CreationDate="2013-01-26T06:43:29.390" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspected that it stood as the absolute last ditch effort to kill the victims. Everyone in that facility knew their job, and that the youth must die at all costs. If all else fails, release EVERY BAD THING EVER, and hope for the best. Clean up crew can come by later to fix it up if there is still a world to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3967" LastActivityDate="2013-01-26T06:43:29.390" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9695" CreationDate="2013-01-26T08:12:59.290" Score="7" ViewCount="41232" Body="&lt;p&gt;A big difference between the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_in_film#Sam_Raimi_series&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sam Raimi's trilogy&lt;/a&gt; of Spider-Man and the new Spider-Man reboot is Uncle Ben's killer is neither found, nor killed by Peter in the new movie. Why is that? I thought they are following the comics. I am ignorant of the comic books. So what is the real story? And if there is a change in the movie's story, why is that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-29T05:46:06.343" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T06:16:39.200" Title="Why isn't the killer of Uncle Ben killed by Spider man in The Amazing Spider Man?" Tags="|the-amazing-spider-man|spider-man-trilogy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9557" CreationDate="2013-01-26T09:19:17.100" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that, at the end of the fight with Zeus and Atom when Hugh Jackman was telling Max &quot;I need you to know&quot;, it seemed like he was about to say &quot;I didn't...&quot;, but was cut off with Max's remark &quot;your secret's safe with me.&quot; My thought was he was about to say &quot;I didn't fight the last round&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just something I caught and thought could mean something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3969" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-12T18:49:00.613" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T18:49:00.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9687" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-26T10:43:42.783" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Iron Man 3 (stylized onscreen as Iron Man Three) is a 2013 superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the sequel to 2008's Iron Man and 2010's Iron Man 2, and the seventh installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shane Black directed a screenplay he co-wrote with Drew Pearce, which uses concepts from the &quot;Extremis&quot; story arc by Warren Ellis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film stars Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Stephanie Szostak, James Badge Dale, Jon Favreau, and Ben Kingsley. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Iron Man 3, Tony Stark tries to recover from post-traumatic stress disorder caused by the events of The Avengers, while investigating a terrorist organization led by the mysterious Mandarin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/iron-man&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'iron-man'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iron-man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/iron-man-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'iron-man-2'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iron-man-2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/iron-man-3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'iron-man-3'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;iron-man-3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel-cinematic-universe'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the Marvel Cinematic Universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the Marvel character, Iron Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man_3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Iron Man 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300854/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Iron Man 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T19:05:24.287" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T19:05:24.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9688" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-26T10:43:42.783" Score="0" Body="Iron Man 3 is a 2013 superhero film produced by Marvel, starring Robert Downey Jr as the titular character, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Stephanie Szostak, James Badge Dale, Jon Favreau and Ben Kingsley. It is the seventh movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe." OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T19:05:31.230" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T19:05:31.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9689" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9692" CreationDate="2013-01-26T14:52:27.337" Score="2" ViewCount="2234" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Huntsman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Snow White and the Huntsman&lt;/a&gt;, Huntsman is the major character and his addition made the story as a love triangle. But my question is that is Huntsman part of the real Snow White's fairy tale or its only this movie which changes the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that the movie changed many aspects of the story but i don't remember of any Huntsman's character in the real snow white story. So is it its first appearance for a change or i missed any point of real story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="118" LastEditDate="2013-01-27T00:29:01.897" LastActivityDate="2013-01-27T00:29:01.897" Title="Where does the huntsman come from in the story of Snow White?" Tags="|character|snow-white-and-the-huntsman|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9684" CreationDate="2013-01-26T15:03:06.017" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Amazing Spider-man, they are following the same path as the real comics accept for the wrestling part. In the real story, the events occur as -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In high school, a radioactive spider bite gave Peter superhuman&#xA;  powers. Creating the costumed identity of Spider-Man for himself,&#xA;  Peter sought first to exploit his newfound powers as a masked wrestler&#xA;  and then as a television star. Coming from a television appearance,&#xA;  Spider-Man saw a burglar being chased by a security guard. The&#xA;  guard called for Spider-Man to stop the thief, but the nascent Spidey&#xA;  refused on the grounds that catching criminals was not his job. The&#xA;  robber got away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Peter later returned home, he was informed by a police officer&#xA;  that his beloved Uncle Ben had been killed by a burglar. Outraged, he&#xA;  donned his Spider-Man costume and captured the man only to realize to&#xA;  his horror that it was the same burglar whom he could have&#xA;  effortlessly captured earlier at the studio. As a result, Peter&#xA;  considered himself morally responsible for Ben's death and resolved to&#xA;  fight crime as a superhero — realizing that with great power comes&#xA;  great responsibility — and vowing never to let another innocent person&#xA;  come to harm if he could help it. Ben Parker's death was truly&#xA;  avenged when the burglar returned for the money once more, threatening&#xA;  Aunt May. The burglar died from a heart attack upon beholding his old&#xA;  nemesis Spider-Man once again and learning that Spider-Man and Peter&#xA;  Parker were one and the same person&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Ben&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's maybe the writers choice in the Rami's trilogy to kill the burglar by the hand of spider-man but in original story events are different.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-03-29T06:16:39.200" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T06:16:39.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9689" CreationDate="2013-01-26T15:31:08.280" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, there is a &lt;em&gt;Huntsman&lt;/em&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pitt.edu/%7Edash/grimm053.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;original tale&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Then [the queen] summoned a huntsman&lt;/strong&gt; and said to him, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Take Snow-White out into the woods. I never want to see her again. Kill her, and as proof that she is dead bring her lungs and her liver back to me.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The huntsman obeyed and took Snow-White into the woods.&lt;/strong&gt; He took out his hunting knife and was about to stab it into her innocent heart when she began to cry, saying, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Oh, dear huntsman, let me live. I will run into the wild woods and never come back.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because she was so beautiful the huntsman took pity on her&lt;/strong&gt;, and he said, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Run away, you poor child.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He thought, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;The wild animals will soon devour you anyway,&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; but still it was as if a stone had fallen from his heart, for he would not have to kill her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just then a young boar came running by. He killed it, cut out its lungs and liver, and took them back to the queen as proof of Snow-White's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-26T15:31:08.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="440" CreationDate="2013-01-26T16:06:36.240" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole water scene was planned. If you watch Mark Rufalo as he goes to fill the cup, he's watching Teddy and the woman the whole time. He doesn't fill up the cup, but he pretends too. That whole scene was planned, for Leo's character. The woman writing Run, was already planned. Everything was planned for DiCaprio. The whole movie is a complex role play to help a very traumatized patient. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3973" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-25T19:14:15.577" LastActivityDate="2016-12-25T19:14:15.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9684" CreationDate="2013-01-26T17:01:40.817" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neither in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/Burglar_(Earth-616)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;comics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, nor in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sam Raimi&lt;/em&gt; movie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; does Spider-Man kill the person responsible for Uncle Ben's death &lt;em&gt;(in the comics he dies of a heart attack, in the movie he falls out of a window. Although &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_3#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spider-Man 3&lt;/a&gt; reveals that it was actually Flint Marko who shot Uncle Ben)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the important part is not the death of the culprit, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/Benjamin_Parker_%28Earth-616%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the following realization&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pdzUF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Peter Parker&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/Amazing_Fantasy_Vol_1_15&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that he could have saved his Uncle Ben’s life by taking the time to stop the burglar, demonstrated to Peter Parker that with great power there must also come great responsibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;His guilt over failing to prevent the death of Ben Parker became the motivating force behind Peter Parker's career as Spider-Man.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Peter vowed never to let harm come to an innocent person ever again if he could help&lt;/strong&gt;, and so it was that Spider-Man became the crime fighter that he remains to this day&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Spider-Man_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Peter also has this realization. When he sees the police sketch of Uncle Ben's killer he recognizes him as the thief he didn't stop earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cMgK6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;sketch&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using a &lt;em&gt;police scanner&lt;/em&gt; he hunts for his uncle's killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yrqRy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Police Scanner&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But things change when the &lt;em&gt;Lizard&lt;/em&gt; wreaks havoc on the bridge and Peter manages to save people &lt;em&gt;(including a child)&lt;/em&gt;. The next day the talks to Gwen about it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8I7SH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Gwen&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Peter:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Last night, those people on the bridge... whatever was attacking them, would have killed them. So I gotta go after it.&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gwen:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;That's not your job.&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Peter:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Maybe it is.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though he hasn't caught Uncle Ben's killer, Peter has learned that he can't just look the other way when people need help. Stopping the &lt;em&gt;Lizard&lt;/em&gt; is more important than looking for the thief who killed his uncle... at least for the moment (&lt;em&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt; is supposedly the start of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jul/06/the-amazing-spider-man-trilogy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a new trilogy&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-26T17:01:40.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9697" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11225" CreationDate="2013-01-26T17:31:38.910" Score="7" ViewCount="3192" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bob Harris gets ready to leave Japan and initially bids goodbye to Charlotte near  the elevator in the hotel.  He sees her again on the way and they share a kiss and he whispers something in her ear to which Charlotte acknowledges. I cannot wrap my head around the significance of that scene, what does it mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone explanation would be greatly helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-01-28T22:20:26.407" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T02:10:40.993" Title="Interpretation of the ending of Lost In Translation" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|lost-in-translation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9700" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11132" CreationDate="2013-01-27T00:58:25.770" Score="22" ViewCount="6169" Body="&lt;p&gt;Phoebe's character has many songs she performs throughout the series. Was there a single person dedicated to writing songs for the character to perform? Was Lisa Kudrow improvising?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Who wrote the songs Phoebe performs on Friends?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-28T01:03:47.303" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T00:51:06.703" Title="Who wrote Phoebe's songs?" Tags="|friends|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="766" CreationDate="2013-01-27T02:37:29.280" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, it's short for, &quot;Do you see a speck of 'give a shit' in my eye!&quot;  We use to say it all the time when I first went in the Air Force back in the early 80's.  Basically, he didn't care if it was cold to them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3978" LastActivityDate="2013-01-27T02:37:29.280" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9705" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-27T10:33:12.810" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-01-27T10:33:12.810" LastActivityDate="2013-01-27T10:33:12.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9706" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-27T10:33:12.810" Score="0" Body="Family Guy is an American animated sitcom which centers on the Griffin family." OwnerUserId="1992" LastEditorUserId="1992" LastEditDate="2013-01-27T11:14:00.037" LastActivityDate="2013-01-27T11:14:00.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="647" CreationDate="2013-01-27T12:18:05.013" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you recall at the beginning of the film where Exley is introduced, he has a conversation with Captain Smith. They are discussing Exley's finishing first in the Lieutenant's test. When asked what section of the police department he (Exley) would like to join, Exley states he wants to be in the detective squad. This is followed by a comment by Dudley Smith stating Exley is a smart political animal but not cut out to be a detective because he cannot answer yes to the questions of bending the law to obtain convictions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the first piece of the puzzle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the Bloody Christmas scene all the characters that were involved in beating the Mexicans were interviewed. When Exley was questioned, he came up with the idea of pinning this on some detectives that have their pensions vested and thus forcing them to retire would not be a hardship. This showed he thinks in a political manner and sees a way to protect the department from scrutiny, yet leaving an impression that the department deals harshly with its own when they transgress. It reinforces Smith's assessment of the strength of Exley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the second part or foreshadow in Exley's ability to determine the best path for his career.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at the end, Exley tells the tale of what truly happened, knowing that each accusation is burying the department deeper and deeper in the mire of corruption.  However, he understands both men who are witnessing the interview have played ball in protecting the department at his suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also would know that since this is a HUGE deal for the police department, that both of these men would be watching the interview. One might assume he saw them and for expediency they left that out. But in any event, he was speaking to them and not the interviewer when he gave the details of the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So using his skills to recognize an opportunity, and realizing that Captain Smith's death would warrant a big deal by the department, it would be logical that they would make Smith the hero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment about it requiring two heroes was a negotiating ploy by Exley to keep quiet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3980" LastActivityDate="2013-01-27T12:18:05.013" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1305" CreationDate="2013-01-27T12:33:42.750" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is never revealed, but in the discussion between Starling and Lectur after he meets the Senator, he asks her questions to get her to put together the reason Buffalo Bill is killing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now think on the exchange. He repeats the word Simplicity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simplicity was or still is a company that made patterns for women to sew at home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now she doesn't pick up on this, and it would be a leap for this to come back as a way for her to put this together. it is more a foreshadow of a sort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, Starling sees the dress on the hook on the closet door. It has areas where white material is sewn on which reminds her of Bimmel's wounds. Hence she gets he is making a girl suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moth is a direct clue and it leads her to something that reinforces the idea that Jame Gumb and John Grant are the same. If you recall when the moth fluttered and caught her attention, it acted like it was trying to land.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is was trying to land on was spools of thread. Not the wooden kind a homemaker buys at a sewing shop, but the industrial type of spool set on a commercial sewing machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely the moth was the clue most of the audience got. And in an answer to this question one person suggested this ave it away. Yet if you recall the people Starling went to for validation of what type of moth it was had to cut it open to figure out it was the death's head moth. So she may have assumed, but that was still a stretch to a degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the spools were the underline for me that this was THE clue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3980" LastActivityDate="2013-01-27T12:33:42.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9710" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-01-27T12:58:49.130" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-27T12:58:49.130" LastActivityDate="2013-01-27T12:58:49.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9711" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-01-27T12:58:49.130" Score="0" Body="The process of giving details about an episode of a TV series in order to identify it." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-27T12:58:49.130" LastActivityDate="2013-01-27T12:58:49.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8268" CreationDate="2013-01-27T19:12:05.100" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The F.B.I Knew it was unusual that Jigsaw used Amanda twice in the traps and when Danial was found he told them Amanda knew the way etc and they kept it quiet + Amanda wanted them to know that's why Danial survived + by that time Jigsaw is clever and knew police would know that a dieing man would not beable to do the traps alone. Simples!!! By Djxtra &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3985" LastActivityDate="2013-01-27T19:12:05.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="365" CreationDate="2013-01-27T21:34:05.200" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have my own interpretation of the movie, I haven't shared it with anyone yet, think is about time to do it, since it is quite different from anything I have read so far (and it's been quite some time since the movie opened). I think that what this movie/Lynch is trying to tell us is that God is something like a movie director, casting auditions after a person dies. Depending on the outcome, i.e. if the actor gets the part or not, this person is sent to hell or heaven or even gets another chance in life, the chance to play another part in a movie. In this place, you don't have any recollection of your past, you are given a clean start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The order of the events is mixed up but note that Diane pays someone to kill Camilla and then commits suicide, so both girls are dead. Camilla dies first so she goes through this &quot;audition&quot; first and apparently doesn't get the part (remember that when Betty auditions, the man there mentions something about a brunette woman that also auditioned), so she is not given another chance, unfortunately. Now recall that in the beginning of the movie, a person is trying to lead  Camilla somewhere that she doesn't want to go but then an accident happens. So instead of being put away since she fails, she is now on the loose.&#xA;Diane now is also there, since she committed suicide out of guilt, not long after Camilla was killed. The two women now meet in this place which is something like in-between the real world and hell/heaven, something that shouldn't have happened. Now recall that there was a strange woman living there, kinda spiritual, that freaked out when she saw Camilla and told that &quot;she shouldn't be there&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of the two women have any recollection of their past life, but at the end, inside the &quot;Silencio&quot; club, they remember everything, this is what the opening of the weird blue box symbolizes. Both women have failed, Diane wakes up by a freaky cowboy in cheap motel, a symbolism for hell. I haven't seen the movie in a while, but I do remember that everything weird could be explained under my assumption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3987" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-16T09:18:14.100" LastActivityDate="2013-10-16T09:18:14.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9717" CreationDate="2013-01-28T08:45:39.010" Score="3" ViewCount="1274" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last act of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229238/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Hendricks&lt;/em&gt; was still alive and was watching &lt;em&gt;Ethan&lt;/em&gt; trying to deactivate the bomb and yet does nothing and breathed his last breath once it's deactivated. Why is it so? What does this mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3939" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T15:53:08.937" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T15:53:08.937" Title="Ending of Mission Impossible 4" Tags="|plot-explanation|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-ghost-protocol|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9716" CreationDate="2013-01-28T08:59:44.790" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure he actually was able to do anything else than just lie around. If I remember correctly he fell from a huge height (or rather jumped off himself in order to nobly sacrifice himself for the cause), in order to make the detonator (or whatever it was in particular) unreachable from &lt;em&gt;Ethan&lt;/em&gt; for the few seconds that remained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm sure he wasn't able to move and was already near to death. The will to see his plan succeed was keeping him alive, but once &lt;em&gt;Ethan&lt;/em&gt; crushed this plan (&lt;em&gt;Hendricks&lt;/em&gt; surely didn't anticipate &lt;em&gt;Ethan&lt;/em&gt;'s reckless maneuvre with the car) he had no reason to stay alive anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-01-28T08:59:44.790" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9718" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9719" CreationDate="2013-01-28T10:25:50.573" Score="30" ViewCount="63089" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen horses falling down many times in war movies while running. How do they make horses fall down in war movies? Are they highly trained to know fall down at some place or some barriers are given to them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="3203" LastEditDate="2013-01-29T15:12:09.400" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T05:02:27.097" Title="How do they make horses fall down in war movies?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9718" CreationDate="2013-01-28T10:36:21.990" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nowadays, horses are trained to fall safely. Almost all animal performances are under the close supervision of the Film and TV unit of the American Humane Association. Stunt horses can be trained to fall on command safely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/7Eo6iOrhArk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some techniques used to ensure the horses safety: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each horse has its hoof in sponge rubber to soften kicks, and mouths are taped to prevent biting. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To make the scene look more action packed, it is filmed at a very slow speed then at regular speed looks fast and furious. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other preparations include digging a hole to fill with soft loose dirt to cushion the horse.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/In-war-movies-how-do-they-make-horses-fall-down-during-a-battle-scene&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.quora.com/In-war-movies-how-do-they-make-horses-fall-down-during-a-battle-scene&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Other effects (such as a horse breaking a leg in the movie Dreamer) are done with mechanical horses.  Still other movies use digital effects, such as Lord of the Rings, which had large battles scenes that were completely computer generated. Horses and other animals are treated very well on movie sets. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, in the older films they actually do the inhumane things &amp;amp; use trip wires to make the animals fall. And there were cases when the animals were killed such as in a 1940 Jesse James movie where 8 horses were killed. ref: &lt;a href=&quot;http://horsefame.tripod.com/stunts.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://horsefame.tripod.com/stunts.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-12-13T05:02:27.097" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T05:02:27.097" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9650" CreationDate="2013-01-28T15:00:18.030" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the film you are looking for is Brainscan with Edward Furlong. You may remember him from the Terminator films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109327/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109327/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furlong is a highschool student, the sort that is always in trouble. he comes into possession of a video game called Brainscan. Playing it causes events to become real and the character in the video game named The Trickster tries to control the kid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3980" LastActivityDate="2013-01-28T15:00:18.030" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2567" CreationDate="2013-01-28T15:28:50.423" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;However, if you watch it again, he did not know they were dead. His dialog about them being captured alive was the give away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scenes where they were instructing the younger commando that he would need to be able to kill gives up a bit of this. He was able to kill Saito but not the Colonel. Each of the commandos needed to have the ability to kill in close quarters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And killing the Colonel was required to save the mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was apologizing to the two women who loved those men that died. He just wasn't aware when he fired they were already dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3980" LastEditorUserId="62966" LastEditDate="2018-04-14T05:23:17.533" LastActivityDate="2018-04-14T05:23:17.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8682" CreationDate="2013-01-28T15:32:55.250" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This film is the Christ metaphor. Like the matrix and about a zillion other films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reunion was the joining of the trinity in Biblical Scripture. Her blood was the blood Christ spilled on the cross. The child is a symbol of man's soul that is saved by the blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3980" LastActivityDate="2013-01-28T15:32:55.250" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9510" CreationDate="2013-01-28T16:41:38.607" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the credits at the end of the season you see him get up and start wandering off. The 130 some odd days between are left blank intentionally most likely for two reason; firstly, frank doesn't remember either, and it leave the audience with something to think about, like you are, and second, it gives them some plot lines to possibly use in the upcoming season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3992" LastActivityDate="2013-01-28T16:41:38.607" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9724" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9726" CreationDate="2013-01-29T01:16:59.020" Score="11" ViewCount="1592" Body="&lt;p&gt;The James Bond franchise is an exceptionally long-lived one.  Every few years a new Bond film comes out, although there isn't a set schedule for when they do so.  However, looking at a chronology of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_bond#Films&quot;&gt;Bond film release years&lt;/a&gt; shows a general pattern of 2-3 years between releases if they're using the same actor as Bond.  When there's a change in actor, there are larger gaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the recent films had a 4 year gap between &lt;em&gt;Quantum of Solace&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;.  This seems particularly odd given that &lt;em&gt;Quantum of Solace&lt;/em&gt; continued a reboot of the franchise started with &lt;em&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/em&gt;, so a steady stream of frequent films is a good idea.  Indeed, between &lt;em&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Quantum of Solace&lt;/em&gt; there's only a 2 year gap.  This makes the 4 year gap between &lt;em&gt;Quantum&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt; all the stranger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the reason for the delay for making &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T04:51:47.473" Title="Why was Skyfall delayed?" Tags="|skyfall|james-bond|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3234" CreationDate="2013-01-29T03:50:30.063" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think he sees what he wants to see and doesn't see the things he doesn't.  At the end where he has the tatto, &quot; I did it.&quot;  He was really telling himself that HE killed her but he couldn't live with it so he eased everything that said he killed her with the insulin shots, etc and he can't see the tatto on his heart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3995" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T03:50:30.063" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9724" CreationDate="2013-01-29T04:51:47.473" Score="16" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Production of Skyfall was delayed for several months in 2010-11 due to&#xA;  the bankruptcy and delayed sale of studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM),&#xA;  with the production being officially suspended on 19 April 2010. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The press release from producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G.&#xA;  Wilson, for the film, then known as 'Bond 23', stated: &quot;Due to the&#xA;  continuing uncertainty surrounding the future of MGM and the failure&#xA;  to close a sale of the studio, we have suspended development on 'Bond&#xA;  23' indefinitely. We do not know when development will resume and do&#xA;  not have a date for the release of 'Bond 23'&quot;. During this period,&#xA;  some development and pre-production work continued on the film despite&#xA;  the canceled financing, with the goal to have this Bond film in&#xA;  theaters for the 50th Anniversary of the franchise. Production resumed&#xA;  in January 2011.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See Production Notes in &lt;a href=&quot;http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Skyfall&quot;&gt;http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Skyfall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why it took time to release &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/&quot;&gt;Skyfall&lt;/a&gt;. It also wriitten in Trivia of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/trivia&quot;&gt;Skyfall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T04:51:47.473" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9728" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-29T11:40:50.930" Score="8" ViewCount="1415" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hwb5p.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Invasion&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://seriable.com/fringe-5-01-transilience-thought-unifier-model-11-review/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In the year 2015, the Observers invaded from the future&lt;/strong&gt;, instituting &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Purge&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and killing many humans. &#xA;  Although humans continued to resist well into the year 2036, the Observers largely succeeded in conquering the planet. &amp;nbsp; [&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology_of_Fringe#Observers&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://fringe.wikia.com/wiki/Observers&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Observers&lt;/a&gt; traveled back in time from the year 2609, where Earth had become almost uninhabitable. But why 2015? It seems odd to choose a time where humans are technologically fairly advanced, and therefore able to fight back &lt;em&gt;(e.g. develop guns they can't dodge)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One explanation that comes to mind is that the Observers need certain resources that aren't available in earlier times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why did the Observers chose the year 2015 for their invasion?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2017-10-03T00:47:51.327" Title="Why did the Observers choose the year 2015?" Tags="|analysis|fringe|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9728" CreationDate="2013-01-29T11:55:57.253" Score="-1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because it was after the merge between the two universes! They for&#xA;  some reason needed the two universes to become one before they could&#xA;  come back. (Maybe some of them were in one universe and some in the&#xA;  other? Or maybe the merge “changes” the universe in some way again&#xA;  (Walter admits that their universe crossing has changed both&#xA;  universes) that allows them to travel through time in mass?) The&#xA;  Machine is needed for that somehow, so they needed Walter and Bell to&#xA;  build the machine (presumably for their cross-universe studies;&#xA;  remember that Nina identified the blueprints for The Machine as&#xA;  looking like Bell’s work) and then they needed Jones to implement his&#xA;  plan to merge the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It’s currently either 2011 or 2012 in the Fringeverse. Assume that&#xA;  once the merge occurs it takes a few years for the universe to&#xA;  “stabilize” or the conditions to become right for them to do their&#xA;  mass time travel and invade. So 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://14kofginafpd.com/posts/television/fringe-4-19-letters-of-transit/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://14kofginafpd.com/posts/television/fringe-4-19-letters-of-transit/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T11:55:57.253" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3440" CreationDate="2013-01-29T12:37:26.283" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ign.com/articles/2002/12/18/an-interview-with-bruce-campbell&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;em&gt;Bruce Campbell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When did you first meet the Raimis?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I was born in the same hospital as Sam Raimi – the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oaks.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I met Sam in junior high&lt;/strong&gt; – very briefly while I was with a friend of his – and he was dressed as Sherlock Holmes, playing with dolls. &lt;strong&gt;I thought he was a creepy weirdo, and I avoided him, officially, until drama class in high school, in 1975.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sam was very much into magic, and I was his assistant at a couple of magic shows.&lt;/strong&gt; Then, I think Sam made a logical transition into film being the ultimate sleight of hand.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And this is what – late '60s, early '70s?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Well, for Sam, I think he started doing home movies in the early '70s. I did them in the early '70s, and we started making – then I met other guys in our neighborhood who had been making Super-8 movies longer than us, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0818547/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scott Spiegel&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; being one of them.... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0065471/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Josh Becker&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, who was Sam's neighbor...&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;... &lt;strong&gt;so there was a weird group of about six of us, who wound up teaming up and making Super-8 movies on weekends – almost every weekend.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, around this time, is it a bit apocryphal that you also babysat for the Raimis?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Well, I took &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001646/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ted&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; [Sam Raimi's younger brother] to cello lessons occasionally, but I think they made me do that because I ate dinner over there all the time.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Just out of convenience, because you were always filming?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yeah. We'd shoot in Sam's living room, and eat dinner, and then whenever the Raimis were working and Sam was busy I'd pick up Ted at cello lessons. I think I've known Ted since he was about 9.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sam Raimi&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Bruce Campbell&lt;/em&gt; have known each other since High School&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They started making movies together in the 70's.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bruce Campbell&lt;/em&gt; visited the Raimis so often they used him as a babysitter for &lt;em&gt;Sam's&lt;/em&gt; younger brother ;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T12:37:26.283" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9732" CreationDate="2013-01-29T13:31:43.383" Score="7" ViewCount="1397" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first episode of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_%28season_7%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Season 7&lt;/a&gt;, Dexter chose to run away when he was at risk of revealing his identity to Debra. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When LaGuerta tried to frame Dexter (knowing his identity), he thought to kill her rather then run away from the situation.  Nobody believes LaGuerta and there is no need to kill her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She is an innocent, so why kill her? Its against Harry's code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the reason for this choice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2017-12-27T20:13:36.683" LastActivityDate="2017-12-27T20:13:36.683" Title="Why Dexter chose to kill rather than run in the Season 7 finale?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dexter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9731" CreationDate="2013-01-29T13:45:37.723" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dexter did not plan on killing LaGuerta at all, actually.  It was Debra that ended up striking the final blow, so to speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Dexter is getting rid of Estrada, it turns out to be a set-up by LaGuerta to catch him in the act. Hence the confrontation between the two in the police office.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While LaGuerta is technically an innocent, she is viable to the code as per the first rule of the Code:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don't get Caught&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If LaGuerta were to continue with her investigation of the GPS records of Dexter and Debra's police phones, then she would be able to link them to Travis Marshall's final resting place &lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt; the call came into dispatch.  Ultimately causing Dexter's downfall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, then, allowed Dexter the reasoning he needed to enact his plan of making it look like Estrada and LaGuerta finished each other off, if it weren't for Deb's interference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the resulting scene after the container is just them returning to the party. We have yet to see, and will not see until the show returns for it's final season, whether or not Dexter still enacted this plan.  Due to Debra contaminating the entire scene with her crying fit over her actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T13:45:37.723" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9728" CreationDate="2013-01-29T16:36:02.463" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The full Invader (i.e. the Observers who hatched the invasion plan) plan was first to send 12 Observers back in time, these 12 then (unknowingly) scout history to find suitable times to invade.  These 12 were told they were just studying history, and were the Observers we saw all over the place in the first 4 seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the scouting complete, the Invaders then analyzed history and found likely targets for when to invade.  They have the capability to predict futures, so they applied this ability to determine the best time to invade.  They found this perfect time to invade in 2015, and so they launched their attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is revealed in episode S05E11, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Must_Live&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Boy Must Live&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, when Windmark requests authorization to travel back in time in the present to catch the Fringe time at a time and place he knows they were.  He's not allowed, as they have rules about time traveling during the time of the invasion, as they fear doing so would disrupt their 99.9999% chance of succeeding in the invasion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T16:36:02.463" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9735" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-29T16:55:44.537" Score="1" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title asks, what is the Pact referred to in the 2012 Movie &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2040560/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Pact&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've watched the movie but I don't recall any reference to a pact?  Is it that the sisters agree not to talk about what happens when they were kids? Or is it something between the Mother and her Brother? Or something else entirely&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T22:44:10.083" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T22:44:10.083" Title="Which pact is being referred to?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-pact|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9736" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10262" CreationDate="2013-01-29T17:16:45.007" Score="1" ViewCount="8648" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Your_Raashee?&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What's Your Raashee?&lt;/a&gt;, why Sanjana ultimately got married to Yogesh. The whole movie is full of social messages like Child-marriage, dowry, woman exposure etc. Then why did they chose Sanjana over the other 11 girls, Why not choose honest girl like Hansa Parekh?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T14:16:02.747" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T01:01:24.783" Title="Why they showed Sanjana as the ultimate choice over all 12 girls?" Tags="|ending|whats-your-raashee|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10970" CreationDate="2013-01-29T18:11:22.370" Score="8" ViewCount="7400" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Hellboy film series (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellboy_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellboy_II:_The_Golden_Army&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;), Liz has a romantic relationship with Hellboy, becoming pregnant with his twin children. However, in the Hellboy comic books Liz and Hellboy are just friends; there is no hint of a romantic relationship between the two of them and she is more like a little sister than a girlfriend. (Source:&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Sherman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did they change this in the movie just for the sake of a love story or any other reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T07:20:15.780" LastActivityDate="2016-08-29T07:57:26.837" Title="Why did they change the relationship between Hellboy and Liz Sherman?" Tags="|character|comic-adaptation|hellboy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9735" CreationDate="2013-01-29T19:32:28.290" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had the same question after watching this film, as no specific mention is made of a pact throughout the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the risk of turning this thread into a collection of subjective speculation, I thought it referred to a pact between the mother and brother in that she knew the brother was a monster and protected him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;em&gt;'pact of silence'&lt;/em&gt; if you will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-01-29T19:32:28.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8703" CreationDate="2013-01-29T20:14:44.313" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;They cut out a lot of the lyrics of the original for the movie. The abridged one in the movie is,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Far over the misty mountains cold.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  To dungeons deep, and caverns old.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  We must away, at break of day.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  To find our long forgotten gold.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The pines were roaring on the height.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The winds were moaning in the night.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The fire was red, it flaming spread.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The trees like torches blazed&#xA;  with light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Far_over_the_Misty_Mountains_Cold&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the full lyrics&lt;/a&gt; are,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Far over the misty mountains cold&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  To dungeons deep, and caverns old&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  We must away ere break of day&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  To seek the pale enchanted gold.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  While hammers fell like ringing bells&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  In places deep, where dark things sleep,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  In hollow halls beneath the fells.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For ancient king and elvish lord,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  There many a gleaming golden hoard&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  They shaped and wrought, and light they caught&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  To hide in gems on hilt of sword.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On silver necklaces they strung&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The flowering stars, on crowns they hung&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The dragon-fire, in twisted wire&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  They meshed the light of moon and sun.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Far over the misty mountains cold&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  To dungeons deep and caverns old&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  We must away, ere break of day,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  To claim our long-forgotten gold.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Goblets they carved there for themselves&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  And harps of gold; where no man delves&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  There lay they long, and many a song&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Was sung unheard by men or elves.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The pines were roaring on the height,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The winds were moaning in the night.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The fire was red, it flaming spread;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The trees like torches blazed with light.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The bells were ringing in the dale&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  And men looked up with faces pale;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Then dragon's ire more fierce than fire&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Laid low their towers and houses frail.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The mountain smoked beneath the moon;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  They fled their hall to dying fall&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Beneath his feet, beneath the moon.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Far over the misty mountains grim&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  To dungeons deep and caverns dim&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  We must away, ere break of day,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  To win our harps and gold from him! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3999" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-06T23:43:52.883" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T23:43:52.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9741" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9744" CreationDate="2013-01-29T20:51:23.367" Score="15" ViewCount="446506" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film seems like it could easily have been based on a true story especially how detailed a lot of the story is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are any of the parts based on real-life happenings or is it all fiction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I reckon I would've heard of a plane flying upside down if it happened in real-life but I suppose you never know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastActivityDate="2017-09-16T23:11:46.407" Title="Is the film &quot;Flight&quot; based on a true story?" Tags="|flight|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9743" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10926" CreationDate="2013-01-29T21:23:48.560" Score="2" ViewCount="1059" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1226240&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Late Quartet&lt;/a&gt;, Peter (Walken) relates to his class an anecdote involving him and the cellist, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Casals&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pablo Casals&lt;/a&gt;. Is this adapted from a true story? (Please provide the complete anecdote if possible.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-26T09:53:01.813" LastActivityDate="2013-04-20T19:01:01.933" Title="In &quot;A Late Quartet&quot;, is the Pablo Casals anecdote based on a true story?" Tags="|analysis|a-late-quartet|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9741" CreationDate="2013-01-29T21:56:56.123" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope, it's purely fiction. Here's a link to an interview with the director. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ca.movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/flight-director-robert-zemeckis-talks-getting-back-live-202311201.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Interview with Robert Zemeckis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Matt McDaniel:&lt;/strong&gt; What was it about this project and the script in particular that grabbed you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Robert Zemeckis:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, whenever a really good screenplay comes across your desk, you have to do it, and that's what the situation was&#xA;  with &quot;Flight.&quot;  It was great, great screenplay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MM:&lt;/strong&gt; It's unique -- it's at least for Hollywood today -- that it's not based on a book or a comic book or TV show. Was the originality&#xA;  part of the appeal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RZ:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah, of course.  It's not, as we say, a pre-sold title.  So the fact that it's very unique and original was very appealing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MM:&lt;/strong&gt; Was it inspired by true stories, or where there elements of truth that were worked into the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RZ:&lt;/strong&gt; No, it's completely fiction. The movie draws from different incidents that involved airplane malfunctions from the last couple of&#xA;  decades, but [there is] nothing that it's based on that's a true&#xA;  story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3821" LastEditorUserId="4588" LastEditDate="2015-02-27T15:38:39.147" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T15:38:39.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9746" CreationDate="2013-01-29T22:01:59.637" Score="170" ViewCount="75857" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/&quot;&gt;Jurassic Park&lt;/a&gt; came out, and I saw that scene where Ariana Richards is sitting in front of the computer and says;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a Unix system.  I know this.  It's the files for the whole park.  It's like a phone book - -it tells you everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've always wondered. Is that silly 3D interface they show on the monitor actually real? Was there a 3D file navigator for Unix back in 1993.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VSkCU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-01-30T08:35:15.607" LastActivityDate="2022-10-06T11:32:59.283" Title="Is the Unix operating system featured in Jurassic Park real?" Tags="|realism|jurassic-park|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9745" CreationDate="2013-01-29T22:19:00.073" Score="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is absolutely a real Unix system, it was a Silicon Graphics workstation (using IRIX, the SGI System V based Unix) running the three dimensional file system browser fsn (&amp;quot;File System Navigator&amp;quot;, pronounced &amp;quot;fusion&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Silicon Graphics were early developers of hardware acceleration for 3D graphics, so they had the capability to create a 3D file system viewer in 1992, a year before Jurassic Park released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the SGI logo is visible on the monitor, makes me wonder whether this was an example of product placement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics#Entertainment_industry&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia:Silicon Graphics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia:fsn&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sgistuff.net/funstuff/hollywood/jpark.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;SGI-Stuff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2022-10-06T11:32:59.283" LastActivityDate="2022-10-06T11:32:59.283" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9651" CreationDate="2013-01-30T05:49:57.363" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie you're looking for is 2007 release, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491211/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Heavy Petting&lt;/a&gt; featuring Malin Akerman and Brendan Hines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wiki synopsis has this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In present day New York City, Charlie (Brendan Hines) meets the girl&#xA;  of his dreams, Daphne (Malin Åkerman), but he never expected he'd have&#xA;  to battle past her pet dog &quot;Babydoll&quot; to woo her. Just when it seems&#xA;  he can't beat the beast and all is lost, something unexpected happens:&#xA;  Charlie begins to fall in love with the dog himself, realizing he&#xA;  never really needed a girlfriend in the first place. Now, in order to&#xA;  keep hanging out with &quot;man's best friend&quot;, Charlie must scramble to&#xA;  keep the relationship with Daphne going at all costs - or risk losing&#xA;  them both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene you referred to, about the dog drinking toilet water and then kissing the girl is there on YouTube &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z3oGtLGlNo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;trailer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastActivityDate="2013-01-30T05:49:57.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9680" CreationDate="2013-01-30T05:56:06.323" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Subliminal messages first came screaming into American consciousness&#xA;  in the mid-1950's when American market/motivational researcher James&#xA;  Vicary demonstrated the tachistoscope, a device used to flash&#xA;  consciously invisible messages on a screen which could be seen only by&#xA;  the subconscious mind. During one six-week test in a Fort Lee, New&#xA;  Jersey movie theater, involving 45,699 patrons, messages were flashed&#xA;  on alternate days over Kim Novak's calming face: &quot;Hungry? Eat&#xA;  Popcorn,&quot; and &quot;Drink CocaCola&quot; During the six weeks, popcorn sales&#xA;  rose 57.7 percent and Coca-Cola sales rose 18.1 percent&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Experimental research in the late 1950's yielded data strongly&#xA;  emphasizing the enormous potential for the mass communications&#xA;  industry or subliminally induced print and electronic media content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By the late 1960's, subliminal messages had been exhaustively tested&#xA;  in eight areas of human behavior: dreams, memory, value norm anchor&#xA;  points, conscious perception verbal behavior, emotions, drives, and&#xA;  perceptual defenses. There is at present, no serious question that&#xA;  human behavior can be influenced by stimulation or information at&#xA;  which individuals, groups or even societies are completely unaware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Then in the late 1970's and 1980, stories leaked out to the public&#xA;  about subliminal messages reducing shoplifting losses in retail stores&#xA;  across the country, an article appeared about the use of subliminal&#xA;  messages in advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Numerous follow-up experiments in other media formats have confirmed,&#xA;  time and time again the effectiveness of this powerful communications&#xA;  tool.&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sleeplearning.com/html/subliminal_message.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some Instances of subliminal messages are listed here - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instances_of_subliminal_messages&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the list the oldest one is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Warner Brothers' 1943 animated film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wise_Quacking_Duck&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wise Quacking Duck&lt;/a&gt;, Daffy&#xA;  Duck spins a statue which is holding a shield. For one frame the words&#xA;  &quot;BUY BONDS&quot; are visible on the shield.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2013-01-30T05:56:06.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9420" CreationDate="2013-01-30T06:20:25.323" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Paul Leonard-Morgan wrote the film's industrial music score.&#xA;  Leonard-Morgan created music to suit the film's futuristic setting. He&#xA;  experimented with band-based music, but decided it sounded&#xA;  over-produced and too safe. He turned to electronic music and used&#xA;  1980s-style synthesisers and modern sound modules to create various&#xA;  combinations and applied distortion and other effects to the result.&#xA;  Leonard-Morgan said, &quot;I was looking to create a timeless score which&#xA;  couldn't be placed in any particular era. So it's ended up being a&#xA;  cross between a modern dance track and evocative soundscapes.&quot; For&#xA;  scenes conveying the effect of the Slo-Mo narcotic, he composed new&#xA;  music with real instruments and then slowed the songs down by&#xA;  thousands of percent to match the visuals, such that one second of his&#xA;  composed score could last 10 minutes. He then added additional&#xA;  real-time score to the slowed track. An unofficially altered&#xA;  Justin Bieber song served as inspiration for the Slo-Mo theme. Garland&#xA;  said that Portishead instrumentalist Geoff Barrow &quot;sent me a link to a&#xA;  Justin Bieber song slowed down 800 times and it became this stunning&#xA;  trippy choral music.&quot; Morgan then recreated the effect based on the&#xA;  modified track, which was used in the finished film. The film used&#xA;  Bieber's music as a temporary placeholder during editing before the&#xA;  score was finalized.&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dredd#Music&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From the above wiki reference&lt;/strong&gt;-&#xA;Garland&#xA; said that Portishead instrumentalist Geoff Barrow &quot;sent me a link to a&#xA; Justin Bieber song slowed down 800 times and it became this stunning&#xA; trippy choral music. That clearly says that its inspired from Biber song and even it is temporary placeholder during editing before the&#xA; score was finalized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2013-01-30T06:20:25.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9750" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9757" CreationDate="2013-01-30T06:25:10.290" Score="2" ViewCount="851" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bourne_Legacy_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Bourne Legacy&lt;/a&gt;, Aaron Cross goes to the Philippines in an effort to infect himself with a virus that will make him permanently more intelligent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His reasoning is that he wasn't the smartest kid on the block before he was genetically enhanced. However on his way to get infected at the lab he starts to zone out like a space cadet as if his brain is failing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does this happen? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't he just go back to the way he was before versus becoming a vegetable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4005" LastEditorUserId="4005" LastEditDate="2013-01-31T04:57:00.993" LastActivityDate="2013-03-02T05:31:18.823" Title="Why did Aaron Cross all of a sudden zone out?" Tags="|character|the-bourne-legacy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9288" CreationDate="2013-01-30T06:44:42.327" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, the cop tells her something along the lines of &quot;if you're in some type of danger that you can't really talk about right now, you can use a signal or something -- like maybe blink a couple of times.&quot; Throughout the whole time he talks, it is clear that he does not blink (a signal) and neither does Meg. And so, him not blinking was a signal to Meg to actually NOT blink if something was wrong.&#xA;Or maybe he's just good at body language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4006" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-07T23:51:55.983" LastActivityDate="2016-12-07T23:51:55.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9755" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9766" CreationDate="2013-01-30T12:28:43.197" Score="24" ViewCount="139128" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many times in movies and TV shows characters are showed as eating or drinking activities (water, beverages, alcohol). If a shoot takes many retakes, then the actors will not want to eat after going home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do they really drink (water, beverages, alcohol) or eat while shooting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-01-30T13:19:55.213" LastActivityDate="2017-08-23T23:36:15.173" Title="Do they really drink or eat when shooting movies?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9755" CreationDate="2013-01-30T12:56:32.533" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sometimes yes sometimes no but what they eating in reality you never know.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fake Food&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes Food has often been improved for the purpose of&#xA;shooting. Like Lettuce will always be crisp, hamburger buns&#xA;perfect and full, cake light and fluffy. Ice cream is never melting,&#xA;unless that was the point. As good as the food may be made to look,&#xA;however, actually eating that specific example is probably hazardous&#xA;to your health.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arrange the items on the plate so that (at the&#xA;angle chosen for the shot), where the view is blocked by other food,&#xA;there's nothing behind it - but people won't realize that! Cut a wedge&#xA;out of the hamburger patty, so you can spread it out a bit, making it&#xA;look wider. Use camera angles and zooms that make it look larger than it actually is - essentially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a good example of the last of those tricks, watch a Dairy Queen ad&#xA;for their Peanut Buster Parfait and compare how large it appears with&#xA;what you actually get in the restaurant. &lt;strong&gt;You will notice that you&#xA;rarely see an actor's hands in the picture to give you a sense of&#xA;scale.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ice cream sundaes are often constructed of scoops of lard or&#xA;mashed potato covered in motor oil, or other toxic-yet-pretty&#xA;trickery. Likewise, &amp;quot;steam&amp;quot; rising from &amp;quot;hot&amp;quot; food is often smoke from&#xA;a hidden cigarette, and ice cubes will really be deftly sculpted&#xA;chunks of acrylic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FakeFood&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;tvtropes&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some Examples from Films and Television are :&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Film&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Big Night was set in an Italian restaurant, and all the food was undercooked to look better on screen. &lt;strong&gt;The actors would spit it out between takes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In one notable scene in Animal House, John Belushi's character downs an entire bottle of whiskey; reportedly, &lt;strong&gt;the bottle was actually filled with tea&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the first Harry Potter movie, Chris Columbus insisted on using all real food for the Great Hall. This did not go well, as they had to replace food whenever it spoiled, essentially forcing them to churn out the Hogwarts feast over and over again. In subsequent films, much of the Great Hall &lt;strong&gt;food was cast out of resin&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Television&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Exception: in Coupling, actor Ben Miles decided that his character Patrick was a Guinness drinker. This may have had something to do with the fact that Guinness is very difficult to fake convincingly, so while his fellow actors were drinking coloured water with foam on top, &lt;strong&gt;he was drinking genuine Guinness...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The giant cup of the &amp;quot;Caf-Pow&amp;quot; soda that NCIS lab rat Abby frequently drinks is actually sugar-free cranberry juice; it was orginally Hawaiian Punch up until around the fourth season, when Pauley Perrette gave up eating or drinking anything that contained refined sugar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In an episode of Stargate SG-1 called Window of Opportunity, O'Neill and Teal'c repeat the same 10-hour period over and over again. The period started with O'Neill eating Fruit Loops, and the start of each period began with the spoonful of Fruit Loops halfway to his mouth. &lt;strong&gt;In the DVD commentary, it was revealed that the Fruit Loops were glued to the spoon, to guarantee they'd be in the same place in every shot&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Monkees episode &amp;quot;Success Story&amp;quot;, while pretending to be rich and successful, Davy is served rubber food while his grandfather gets the real stuff. Also, &lt;strong&gt;the fruit in the center of the table is plastic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When he hosted Saturday Night Live, Ron Howard talked about drinking fake beer while filming Happy Days in his openning monologue. &lt;strong&gt;He then pulled out a can, declaring it to be the real thing, then chugging it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In episode 10 of Season 17 of The Amazing Race, teams were sent to a restaurant in Japan's Kappabashi-dori district, and had to pick out the fake food from a buffet table covered with real and fake display-food items. &lt;strong&gt;The task took some teams several hours, and a couple of racers picked wrong (real food) so often that they got sick from the amount they had to eat.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Actors from the classic British television series Upstairs Downstairs have stated that, while those performers playing servants (the &amp;quot;Downstairs&amp;quot; characters) often had real, good food to eat in meal scenes, those portraying members of the family upstairs had things like &amp;quot;grouse that had gone off&amp;quot; and stuff painted or coated in glycerin and other product to make it look &amp;quot;perfect.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full details are available on &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FakeFood&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;tvtropes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T07:18:32.277" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9750" CreationDate="2013-01-30T13:27:31.187" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the catwalk, waiting for Marta to open a door, he just stared, once. That is all evidence the movie shows of him going back to his primal state. That hardly quantifies as becoming a &quot;vegetable&quot;, as you say it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2013-01-30T13:27:31.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9758" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9762" CreationDate="2013-01-30T13:43:39.437" Score="8" ViewCount="3467" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love watching Slasher movies like Saw, Final Destination etc, but always wonder that how they shoot these kind of scenes which looks too real. Scenes like where body parts get slashed, broken in two parts etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some may include CGI but most of them do not look like CGI. What techniques do they use? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-01-30T13:54:00.433" LastActivityDate="2013-01-30T16:00:13.827" Title="How slasher scenes get shot?" Tags="|film-techniques|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9681" CreationDate="2013-01-30T13:49:23.843" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;After some research, the earliest movie I could find, which features a nuclear holocaust (and the survivors) is a 1951 movie, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043539/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Five&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which means that it did not predate &lt;strong&gt;Trinity nuclear tests&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it very difficult to cross-validate this, though I referred to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_holocaust_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;List of Nuclear Holocaust Fiction&lt;/a&gt; on Wiki, to start with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/27624/Five/articles.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;movie entry&lt;/a&gt; for articles on this movie, on TCM, speaks about this movie, as being the first to depict nuclear holocaust...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is remembered today as the first film to portray life after a&#xA;  nuclear holocaust; later this theme was approached by major studios in&#xA;  big-budget films such as The World, the Flesh and the Devil and On the&#xA;  Beach (both 1959).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastActivityDate="2013-01-30T13:49:23.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9758" CreationDate="2013-01-30T16:00:13.827" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having been in the makeup FX biz for a while, I am in a good position to answer this, but I'm going to do so using personal experience and no links to external sites - so you might want to wait for a more comprehensive answer before up voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, there are several ways to approach these shots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's take a simple stabbing: If the stabbing is carried out through clothing then all that is required is a blood bag (or blood pumping knife), a retractable blade and your actors. The retractable blade goes in, the knife handle is squeezed to achieve the blood or the blood bag is burst to create the same effect. Bare skin is a little harder, but will still utilize the same retractable blade - however more often than not a cut away will edited in (reaction shot etc) so that the preceding shot can feature a prosthetic (latex, silicon, foam rubber) that simulates the wound. This prosthetic might even feature a blood tube (hidden by clothing or hairline) that can make blood seep from the gash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More complex effects (bodies ripping in half etc) will require full size fabricated torsos, made to look like the victim and loaded with fake (or real) organs and blood. Infamously, for the torso ripping scene at the climax of the original Day of the Dead, Romero loaded the actor's fake stomach cavity with real guts, which got very ripe under the lights. The zombies had their nostrils plugged, but poor Joe Pilato who played Rhodes had to suffer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These old school gore effects are still utilized today, most noticeably by KNB FX who create the effects for The Walking Dead, but even those effects are combined with CGI to show blades passing through heads. In fact, CGI has become the standard for lower budget productions (see anything on the SyFy channel) for creating these types of effects, but they are usually shoddy, fake and unbelievable (I'm an old school guy, so I may be a little prejudiced here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you require more detailed information about the entire practical effect process, I would be happy to add that to my answer. Bear in mind though it will turn into an essay :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-01-30T16:00:13.827" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9745" CreationDate="2013-01-30T16:32:21.110" Score="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;The application is fsn (pronounced Fusion). There's more information available on wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and there's an open-source clone available called FSV:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fsv.sourceforge.net/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://fsv.sourceforge.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24" LastEditorUserId="1444" LastEditDate="2017-04-05T18:01:40.270" LastActivityDate="2017-04-05T18:01:40.270" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9765" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9771" CreationDate="2013-01-30T16:58:17.807" Score="6" ViewCount="1377" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last few episodes of the third season of the television series Community, it is shown that the dean loves the study group and Jeff is his favorite student.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How and when did Jeff becomes the Dean's favorite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-01-30T17:18:55.527" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T10:44:12.853" Title="How did Jeff become the Dean's favorite?" Tags="|community|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9755" CreationDate="2013-01-30T18:49:21.780" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;They can use something called &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spit Bucket&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actor &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0644406/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nick Offerman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1266020/&quot;&gt;Parks and Recreation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/2011/11/ron_swanson_nick_offerman_park.php?page=all&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;explains&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When you consume something in a scene, you learn to be very circumspect because you may end up having to consume that amount 30 times.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you're young, you think, &lt;em&gt;&quot;Man, it would be really cool if I smoke in this scene.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; Then, on take 18, you're green and vomiting because you've been smoking for 90 minutes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So you learn with food: &lt;strong&gt;If you have to take a bite of something, don't swallow it, and get a &lt;em&gt;spit bucket&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Even if you're eating one bite of cake, you may end up eating four pieces of cake by the time you add them all up. It makes sense, especially if you're attractive. I have the good fortune of not being included in that category. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000210/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Julia Roberts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; revealed in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/07/29/cover-julia-roberts-eat-pray-love/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; about her movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0879870/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eat Pray Love&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that she doesn't like a &lt;em&gt;spit bucket:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did you have a spit bucket by your side for all of the food scenes?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Well, first of all, that grosses me out. But the truth of the matter is, there probably would have come a point when I would have used it.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you look at any of the scenes of eating, by the end of the scene, I’m done eating. Like in the scene with the pizza, by the time the scene is over, I’ve eaten the entire piece.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When we were in Naples, we started shooting at 8 in the morning, and I think by 8:45 I’d eaten 8 or 10 pieces of pizza. Pizza was what I ate all day that day.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/drugs-and-alcohol-in-movies-2012-4?op=1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What Are Actors Actually &lt;em&gt;Snorting&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Smoking&lt;/em&gt; And &lt;em&gt;Drinking&lt;/em&gt; In Films?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Most of the time, it's not the actual substances&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Regarding Alcohol:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beer:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Carbonated iced tea or &quot;near beer&quot; (less than 0.5% alcohol)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dark colored liquors:&lt;em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Weak tea&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clear liquids:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Water&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Click the link&lt;/em&gt; to learn what substitutes they use for &lt;em&gt;cocaine&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;marijuana&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;cigarettes&lt;/em&gt; (and for which movie &lt;em&gt;Nicolas Cage&lt;/em&gt; snorted real cocaine) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-01-30T18:49:21.780" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9765" CreationDate="2013-01-30T19:05:08.880" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without any specific references, this seems to have just become another running gag on the show, much like the groups disdain for Pierce or Troy and Abed having crazy antics together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The earliest I can remember at this moment is about midway through Season 1 when Jeff is dating Professor Slater, the Dean starts to quiz them on their after school 'activities' and the Dean starts going into detail, saying something along the lines of joining them, or just asking Jeff when the joke made it seem like he was quizzing the both of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll have to do some more research for specifics but this is the earliest I can remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing some more research, the first actual occurrence of favouritism towards Jeff is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football,_Feminism_and_You&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S1-E6&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; where he exploits Jeff to get Troy to join the football team.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following this, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_109&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S1-E9&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; he shows similar favouritism convincing him to join the Debate Team with Annie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episodes I referenced above were &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_%28season_1%29&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S1-E13&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, making him the chief editor of the college's magazine and after this in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretive_Dance&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S1-E14&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-01-30T19:19:02.233" LastActivityDate="2013-01-30T19:19:02.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9755" CreationDate="2013-01-30T19:09:23.770" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;To allow for maximum flexibility in editing, it is a good idea to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to consume any drinks and food.  Since scenes are shot several times from different angles, the editor wants to be able to choose which takes to put together, without worrying about having to ensure that the level of a glass of wine was not changing often radically during an edit point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One exception would be if the scene was a very long scene at a restaurant then one would have transition points where the amount of food/beverages were reduced to show the passage of time.  Even in this case there would be plates/glasses with various amount of food in them. This would normally need to be carefully monitored as the entire scene would be shot form one angle, and then reshot from an alternate angle.  It takes a lot of time to move the camera and set up the lighting, but not much time to replace the plates/glasses with different amounts in them. This would definitely be the case for large budget movies.  In sitcoms and low budge movies many short cuts could be taken to keep the costs down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, unless the complete purpose of the scene is to consume food, or in low budget movies, I'd say they don't actually eat or drink.  Doesn't mean that there won't be exceptions to the rule though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="379" LastActivityDate="2013-01-30T19:09:23.770" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9770" PostTypeId="7" CreationDate="2013-01-30T20:32:16.133" Score="0" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li&gt;Identifying or locating a Movie or TV series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li&gt;Questions that are primarily opinion-based or asking for recommendations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li&gt;Questions pertaining to specific distribution of movies, purchasing, viewing, or operation of playing a title in the home.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li&gt;TV News and current affairs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li&gt;A title's release date or rumors about a specific title.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2023-12-23T11:33:33.090" LastActivityDate="2023-12-23T11:33:33.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9765" CreationDate="2013-01-30T20:55:41.430" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;TylerShads' answer already covers pretty well where in the series we see evidence that Jeff is being favored by the Dean, so I will just add a bit of my view on the &quot;why&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the series, it becomes a running gag that the Dean is, lets say, a major oddball.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example he dresses up regularly in strange outfits without any proper reason. More than often in women's clothes too. In later episodes it also becomes apparent that he seems to have a Dalmatian fetish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also hinted at more than once that the Dean might be gay. We can see this, for example, in the interaction in his strange love/hate relationship with the rival Dean from City College.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, it is pretty clear that this is the reason why he has a soft spot for Jeff. He feels attracted to him, and regularly makes remarks about how attractive Jeff is. An example of this can be found in the episode 3x12 &quot;Contemporary Impressionists&quot; where Jeff wears Aviator sunglasses, and as soon as the Dean sees him, he falls to the ground screaming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oh my god, even his shadow! Look at his shadow!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in conclusion, I think the Dean likes Jeff so much because he is very handsome, and the Dean feels attracted to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-12-13T10:44:12.853" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T10:44:12.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9772" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-30T21:17:24.640" Score="11" ViewCount="6102" Body="&lt;p&gt;The initials in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._M._Murdock&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;H. M. Murdock&lt;/a&gt; are a backronym to &amp;quot;Howling Mad&amp;quot;. But that is clearly not his actual given name. Wikipedia (see link) only states several occasions where his name was not revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is his full name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="667" LastEditorUserId="667" LastEditDate="2022-12-27T03:01:42.493" LastActivityDate="2022-12-27T03:01:42.493" Title="What is H. M. Murdock's full name?" Tags="|the-a-team|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9772" CreationDate="2013-01-30T21:22:10.117" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;His name is never revealed, although according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://a-team.fandom.com/wiki/H.M._%22Howling_Mad%22_Murdock&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A-Team Wikia&lt;/a&gt;, the 2010 movie suggests that his first name is James. Furthermore, in S3E18 (&amp;quot;Road Games&amp;quot;), Hannibal calls Murdock 'Henry.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite these allusions to his real name, it is never definitively stated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="83431" LastEditDate="2022-12-25T23:31:57.470" LastActivityDate="2022-12-25T23:31:57.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9774" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-01-31T05:49:29.870" Score="2" ViewCount="504" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several movies feature twin characters as comedians / villains / hero / heroines.  I want to know what is the first movie which first used twin characters in it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NB&lt;/strong&gt;- In reality, they may be real-life or maybe fictional twins. It would not matter as long as they are twins in movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2022-10-31T10:35:43.527" LastActivityDate="2022-10-31T10:35:43.527" Title="First occurrence of Twin Actors/Actresses?" Tags="|character|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9774" CreationDate="2013-01-31T06:57:11.540" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The oldest I found is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Mask&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Iron Mask(1929)&lt;/a&gt;. It is part-talkie adventure film. But I couldn't find any article to justify it yet. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bakewell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;William Bakewell&lt;/a&gt; appeared as the royal twins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other one I found is  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Room_%281935_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Black Room (1935 film)&lt;/a&gt; which is a full talkie film. This movie stars Boris Karloff in a dual role as twin brothers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-01-31T08:06:41.683" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T08:06:41.683" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="365" CreationDate="2013-01-31T08:12:15.403" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of people who questioned the meaning behind the blue box. The blue box is indeed Diane waking from her dream but it is much deeper than that. The blue box in turn can actually be considered a Pandora's box, Diane/Betty's mental Pandora's box also meaning her repressed memories flooding back. If you read about those who have dealt with repressed memories you will see that when the repressed memories come back, they come back in a nauseating and extremely quick fashion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those who have gone through it know that in that moment it is horrifying, confusing, exciting and ultimately in some ways insane. All they want to do is go back to how it was the moment before the memories re-surfaced or metaphorically meaning to go back inside there own Pandora's box unopened and safe. This explains Diane's hysteria and morbid hallucinations that ultimately led her to run into her bedroom and kill herself. Her Pandora's box or repressed memories were a way for her to deal with the horrible crime she had committed and once her Pandora's box opened and reality was now staring her in the face it was in the end too much for to handle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4016" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:08:01.677" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:08:01.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9681" CreationDate="2013-01-31T09:11:34.237" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still_%281951_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Day the Earth Stood Still(1951)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;discusses&lt;/em&gt; atomic bombs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, the alien &lt;em&gt;Klaatu&lt;/em&gt; comes to earth on a goodwill mission. He has concerns that Earth might be destroyed by other alien civilizations, concerned for their own safety, in the wake of mankind inventing &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nuclear Power&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T09:11:34.237" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9779" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9787" CreationDate="2013-01-31T09:54:31.183" Score="11" ViewCount="1424" Body="&lt;p&gt;The American version (as well as the book) makes a huge fuss about Mikael Blomkvist not being able to publish the story of his findings that Gottfried and Martin Vanger tortured, raped and killed a lot of women because it was decided to cover everything up for the sake of Harriet Vanger. His problem with this is only that somebody else tells him what he is allowed to publish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it is never explained why Mikael didn't have any moral problems with covering up so many unsolved murder cases. Gottfried's victims were at least found and identified, but Martin claims that he let them disappear so that no attention was raised. This means that a lot of people don't even know what happened to their family members/friends. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Blomkvist (and the other persons that know about the whole story) never express any moral concerns with his actions? After all, he could have easily identified the murderers of dozens of women and he even had proof!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3533" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-01T14:41:25.053" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T14:41:25.053" Title="Why did Mikael Blomkvist not have any moral concerns about hiding the identities of two serial killers?" Tags="|plot-explanation|millennium-trilogy|the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3346" CreationDate="2013-01-31T09:55:03.210" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think anyone can answer this question for sure until the next episode comes out but my observations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherlock asked Molly for help but the audience didn't find out what for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moriarty actually told Sherlock he was going to fall!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherlock chose the location, not Moriarty&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could the cyclist who hit John be part of the homeless network?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T09:55:03.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9779" CreationDate="2013-01-31T11:10:19.803" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would have become more of a moral question if the culprits were still alive and out in the open. Blomkvist did not reveal these facts because that would attract stigma for the whole Vanger family. Also if things were dug up, the fact that Gottfried and Martin abused their own daughter &amp;amp; sister respectively, would become public knowledge. This could also have affected family business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in my opinion Harriet Vanger had had enough and it was better for her that these things were buried. So Blomkvist suppressed his moral concerns to protect Henrik Vanger &amp;amp; Harriet Vanger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-02-02T05:08:23.893" LastActivityDate="2013-02-02T05:08:23.893" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8508" CreationDate="2013-01-31T11:46:36.577" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's using &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_Latin&quot;&gt;Pig Latin&lt;/a&gt; and the specific word he's saying is '&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allwords.com/query.php?SearchType=3&amp;amp;Keyword=ixnay&amp;amp;goquery=Find%20it!&amp;amp;Language=ENG&quot;&gt;ixnay&lt;/a&gt;' which means 'no'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3772" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T11:46:36.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9774" CreationDate="2013-01-31T11:54:56.823" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The oldest I can find is a 1921 silent drama movie, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Tell_Everything&quot;&gt;Don't Tell Everything&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (IMDb entry &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0012117/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;De Briac twins (Charles De Briac and Raymond De Briac) starred in this movie. They also starred in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0012914/&quot;&gt;The Bachelor Daddy (1922)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0014817/&quot;&gt;Daddies (1924)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235373/&quot;&gt;Every man for himself (1924)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T11:54:56.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13" CreationDate="2013-01-31T17:58:09.823" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the initial story, the suspense novel, it was wholly intended that Daniels is crazy. I think it was Scorsese's creative input that made the film what it was. In the film, both possibilities are equally possible. Again, this is not the original intent of the story, but an artistic change in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's crazy:&#xA;(Dr. Cawley explains that patients were submerged in water until unconscious &lt;em&gt;or drowned&lt;/em&gt;)&#xA;This is an attempt of Cawley's to jar Laeddis' memory of his wife's crime&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; Rachel Solando)&#xA;This is a further projection as a part of his paranoid insanity&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Dead Chuck off of the cliff)&#xA;Yet another projection&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&amp;quot;Is it better to live as a monster or die a good man?&amp;quot;&#xA;Andrew Laeddis, now sane, telling his doctor that he is allowing himself to be neutralized to forget the horror of his actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many more, but here are just a few scenarios that are circumstantial to the interpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's not crazy:&#xA;(Dr. Cawley explains that patients were submerged in water until unconscious &lt;em&gt;or drowned&lt;/em&gt;)&#xA;This is an attempt of Cawley's to seed a portion of this false reality that they are going to impress upon Daniels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; Rachel Solando)&#xA;This can be a real discovery which is why she mentions aspects of the case that aren't later addressed, like his cigarettes. She also is very logical. It is important to realize that though the procedures she claims that the doctors are trying to perform aren't suggested to have succeeded, so they really aren't too far-fetched. She also mentions factual aspects of the case not later addressed, like the ice pick shown at the end of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Dead Chuck off of the cliff)&#xA;Another aspect of the forced insanity, Chuck Aul was always Dr. Sheehan and placing a fake dead body and removing the character is an attempt to make Daniels think he's hallucinating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&amp;quot;Is it better to live as a monster or die a good man?&amp;quot;)&#xA;This is Teddy Daniels' surrender to the tactics of the hospital, admitting defeat. But it is also a stab at Dr. Sheehan saying, &amp;quot;Yeah, you guys are going to kill me, but you have to live with yourself as a monster.&amp;quot; He is then ushered toward the lighthouse that is supposedly empty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many more two-sided hints, it really spices up the film to seek them out for yourself. But there are also undeniable clues that show that the original intent is his insanity. Clues like his projection of Laeddis being fantastic and overly-dramatic, he has two different colored eyes and his face is divided by a scar. This is a physical picture of the divided nature of his psyche. Also, the anagrams in the names are too concrete to be coincidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what we have is the struggle between a writer who intended a story about an insane man in denial, and a director who intends to force an unsolvable, parallel mystery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next time you watch the film, consider these two realities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Andrew Laeddis killed his wife because she drowned their three children. He then was sent to a mental health facility. Taking advantage of an impending storm, the head psychologist, Dr. Cawley, and Laeddis' main primary, Dr. Sheehan decide to stage a role play outlining Laeddis' false reality to prove to him that there is no fact in his suspicions. Laeddis pretends to relapse into insanity to escape living with the regret of his real past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Federal marshal Edward Daniels' pursuit of the man responsible for his wife's death has led him to stumble upon a government-funded hospital who are secretly experimenting upon their patients to build controllable soldiers (not necessarily successfully). His investigation has caught the attention of the hospital who have staged a fake prisoner-escape to get him on the island where they can make it seem as if he's gone crazy. This is a tactic they have used in the past on prying eyes like Dr. Rachel Solondo. Dr. Cowley, with the help of a fellow doctor in disguise as a federal marshal, then successfully quiet the snooping marshal and take them to their lab in a lighthouse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In neither case is the escape real or is Chuck a real marshal)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-02-23T16:30:29.663" LastActivityDate="2024-02-23T16:30:29.663" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9779" CreationDate="2013-01-31T18:32:19.787" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the book, when Dirch Frode asks him (on behalf of Henrik Vanger) not to publish his story, Blomkvist specifically notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don’t intend to hang Harriet out to dry, but somebody has to say something about the women who died in Martin’s basement. Dirch, we don’t even know how many women he tortured and slaughtered. Who is going to speak up on their behalf?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lisbeth notes his dilemma and offers the following compromise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Martin videotaped his victims. I want you to do your damnedest to identify as many as you can and see to it that their families receive suitable compensation. And then I want the Vanger Corporation to donate 2 million kronor annually and in perpetuity to the National Organisation for Women’s Crisis Centres and Girls’ Crisis Centres in Sweden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, Blomkvist did express concerns over the morality of his actions and was reluctantly mollified by Salander's compromise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this made it into the English film adaptation. But I do vaguely recall a scene along these lines in the Swedish flick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-01-31T19:51:11.503" LastActivityDate="2013-01-31T19:51:11.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9790" CreationDate="2013-01-31T20:20:44.927" Score="13" ViewCount="4896" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recall seeing a behind-the-scenes feature wherein it is explained that realistic action sequences involving moving cars are now possible with the use of a device which allows the car to be controlled by a stunt driver &lt;em&gt;sitting on the roof&lt;/em&gt;. This makes it possible for scenes where the real actors rather than stunt doubles can be pictured (with mounted cameras) seemingly driving the car with great skill and abandon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a common technique nowadays? Does this device/setup have a name? IIRC, the clip I saw might have been from &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/1947/how-do-they-film-scenes-with-the-actors-driving-in-a-car&quot;&gt;older question on this site&lt;/a&gt; covers other techniques besides this one which can be used to &quot;film scenes with actors driving in a car&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2021-06-21T11:25:30.597" Title="Rooftop contraption used to simulate realistic driving scenes" Tags="|film-techniques|stunts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9789" CreationDate="2013-01-31T21:49:47.923" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Such a &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;contraption&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; was indeed &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/2012/nov/08/business/la-fi-mo-autos-bond-skyfall-ben-collins-stunt-driver-20121108&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;used for&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skyfall&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/miOpe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Stunt Driver&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tight streets and alleyways meant the film crew couldn't tow a trailer carrying a vehicle while the actors were filmed inside.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, &lt;strong&gt;the team used what is called a &lt;em&gt;pod system&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Picture a stunt vehicle, in this case a &lt;em&gt;Land Rover Defender&lt;/em&gt;, with a one-man roll cage welded to the roof. Inside the roll cage is a steering wheel, hand brake, and gas and brake pedals and a seat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;It was also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/2748203/Stunt-drivers-the-real-heroes.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;used for&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0440963/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Bourne Ultimatum&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, although for a different reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A stunt driver couldn't be hidden in the car because he would be picked up by the 360-degree camera, which was filming almost every inch of the interior.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remote control of the vehicle was also considered, but was deemed too dangerous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there was only one thing for it: &lt;strong&gt;place a stunt driver on the roof, give him control of the steering, acceleration and brakes&lt;/strong&gt;, and leave the actor to play with his toy gun and toy steering wheel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tA5Vg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bourne Ultimatum&quot; /&gt;  &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.motortrader.com.my/news/volkswagens-also-star-in-the-bourne-ultimatum/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T00:02:34.417" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9791" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9793" CreationDate="2013-02-01T05:58:15.517" Score="10" ViewCount="15724" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some animated movies show real characters (men/women) in them like in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Avatar&lt;/a&gt;. How do they mix real characters with animated characters? Does it cost more than a purely animated movie? What is the shooting/filming process to achieve it? Which technologies are used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="16523" LastEditDate="2016-09-12T01:15:57.470" LastActivityDate="2016-09-12T01:15:57.470" Title="How do they mix real characters with animated characters?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|animation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9792" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-01T06:27:01.993" Score="1" ViewCount="399" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although Carl Allen(Jim Carrey) was saying no to everything. Why did Carl Allen decided to go show of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Man_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yes Man&lt;/a&gt;? What instance made him to go to that show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T14:58:22.157" Title="Why did Carl Allen decided to go show of Yes Man?" Tags="|plot-explanation|yes-man|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9791" CreationDate="2013-02-01T06:43:03.890" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mixing of real characters with animated characters is done in several ways (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Films_with_live_action_and_animation#Techniques&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki link&lt;/a&gt;)-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;double-printing two negatives onto the same release print.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More sophisticated techniques used optical printers or aerial image animation cameras, which enabled more exact positioning, and better interaction of actors and animated characters.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example- In the penguin sequence in Mary Poppins, they filmed the live action part first, having the actors sitting in front of a painted background. Then the penguins were added using cel overlay which was then reshot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aqJoq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more modern films like Avatar, advanced techniques in green screen and compositing technology have made this process much easier (in the right hands).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC65DdlF1zE&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this FX reel&lt;/a&gt; (skip to 3:00 mins) to see the use of green screen to combine a live action character with an animated character (in this case a sky dragony thingy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of a film like &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Films_with_live_action_and_animation#Techniques&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Who Framed Roger Rabbit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, Bob Hoskins would be playing his scenes to a prop rabbit or a tennis ball on a stick to ensure consistent eye levels. The animators (Richard Williams' team) would then go in and animate over the live action plates, with the final images rendered, shaded and composited in computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7G5MC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC65DdlF1zE&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's a great old feature&lt;/a&gt; that explains a bit about the process:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-02-02T14:44:31.907" LastActivityDate="2013-02-02T14:44:31.907" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9794" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11260" CreationDate="2013-02-01T07:14:00.967" Score="3" ViewCount="3584" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entourage_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Entourage&lt;/a&gt;, we know that Vince &amp;amp; Johnny Drama are half brothers, but it is not clear that whether they have same mother or same father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Wikipedia there are certain instances in the TV show which indicate that the exact relation between Vince &amp;amp; Drama is not clear, for example - Vince and Drama share the same last name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They appear to have the same mother in the episode &quot;Aquamom&quot; when Johnny calls himself her &quot;first born&quot;. However, Drama calls Vincent's mother &quot;your mom&quot; in the episode &quot;My Maserati Does 185&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the fans know more details and we can have more inputs on this topic to determine how Vince and Drama are actually related. How are Vince and Drama exactly related?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T17:39:41.397" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T01:19:09.150" Title="How are Vince and Drama exactly related?" Tags="|entourage|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9795" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-01T07:16:55.857" Score="11" ViewCount="23138" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/strong&gt;  Bond eventually beats &lt;strong&gt;Le Chiffre&lt;/strong&gt; in the game of poker by catching his bluff. I do not have a good knowledge of the game but I tried to read &lt;strong&gt;Le Chiffre's&lt;/strong&gt; expressions but still had no clue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the start of the movie Bond tells &lt;strong&gt;Vesper&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;in poker you never play your hand...you play the man across from you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still wondering is there any sign of &lt;strong&gt;Le Chiffre&lt;/strong&gt; bluffing in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3223" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-02-01T09:06:06.790" LastActivityDate="2015-07-25T18:30:28.847" Title="How does Bond know that Le Chiffre is bluffing?" Tags="|james-bond|casino-royale|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9792" CreationDate="2013-02-01T08:36:07.713" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though it's not clearly shown in the movie, I think Carl introspected a little bit, after Peter's intervention. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carl meets an ex-colleague, Alex, who tells him about the &quot;Yes&quot; seminar which changed his life, and urges Carl to go to this seminar once, and hands him a pamphlet for the same. Carl is not convinced at this point, but keeps the pamphlet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, when Peter comes to Carl's apartment for reprimanding him, for not turning up for his engagement party, Peter reminds Carl, that he has not dated anyone since his last breakup, he doesn't like &quot;doing things&quot;, meeting people. Peter tell Carl, that he is still a bank teller, when he should have been at some senior position. This leads Carl thinking for a moment, and then he asks Peter to leave. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, at this point, Carl thinks about all the things Peter said, and remembers what Alex told about &quot;changing his life&quot;, and he decides that he'll at least go visit the seminar once, to see what's going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T08:36:07.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9795" CreationDate="2013-02-01T09:14:29.173" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you are not aware of the nuances of the game Poker, I won't delve into it and restrict myself strictly to what was shown in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have observed, Le Chiffre used to place his left hand near his wounded eye at times during play. That was his &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_%28poker%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;physical tell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A tell in poker is a change in a player's behavior or demeanor that is claimed by some to give clues to that player's assessment of their hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bond knew he could beat Le Chiffre as he was confident that he would catch his tell and get an insight into his game and strategy (&lt;em&gt;bluffs included&lt;/em&gt;). This is what happens at the end!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-02-01T11:58:52.103" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T11:58:52.103" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8578" CreationDate="2013-02-01T10:15:15.423" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been looking for a reference to this particular film but have been unable to find one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However after watching the scene it looks plausible that a trip wire was used to bring down the horse. Trip wires were used quite a bit back in the 1940s and before. As this film was released in 1967 I was unsure if this technique was still used but after a little digging it looks like it was used as late as 1981 in the movie &quot;reds&quot; ref:&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082979/&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082979/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &quot;reds&quot; was filmed in the USA which had the American Humane Association monitoring how animals were used in film and Анна Каренина was made in 1967 in the Soviet Union it looks like the makers could have easily used a trip wire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T10:15:15.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9607" CreationDate="2013-02-01T11:01:40.200" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I agree with this particular &lt;a href=&quot;http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?slug=cashback20&amp;amp;date=20070720&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;review&lt;/a&gt; of the movie, (as far as the plot is concerned) in Seattle Times, where the reviewer says this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Cashback&quot; is a surprisingly charming hybrid of romantic comedy and&#xA;  &quot;artsy&quot; male fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The time-pausing ability of Ben is a fantasy of his, which he thinks about as a way to pass his night shift. He talks about, how time manipulation is an art, and how Sharon believes in not checking the time, to actually pass time. He stretches this fantasy of his, to connect it with his fascination and inspiration from female form as an arts student. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ben tells about a Swedish foreign student, living with his  family, when he was 6, whom he sees naked. At this point, Ben says that he was exposed to fascination and beauty of nakedness and he wanted to freeze the world so that he can live for a week in it. He still thinks that, that was the most beautiful thing he has ever seen. He fantasizes naked females in his frozen world, due to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastEditorUserId="313" LastEditDate="2013-02-01T16:45:29.933" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T16:45:29.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8532" CreationDate="2013-02-01T12:37:45.713" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you mean documentaries, when you say Long TV serials and programs (that is what I can think of, by long programs), then officially, they need to be sent to &lt;strong&gt;CBFC&lt;/strong&gt; for review. I am not sure, whether CBFC actually awards a certification for the same. Reason being, if a certification is given, then it has to be displayed before start of the film/feature/ad/documentary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per the details present in the FAQ section on CBFC site, for normal TV serials/programs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there CBFC certification for TV?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is no CBFC certification for T.V programs and serials. However, under Cable&#xA;  Television Network (Regulation) Act, 1995 content code / Advertisement&#xA;  code have been prescribed for programme and advertisements appearing&#xA;  in cable TV Network. The offences under Cable Television Network&#xA;  Regulation Act being non-cognizable, a specific complaint has to be&#xA;  made by an Officer authorised by the State Governments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, TV exhibition of a feature film, comes under purview of CBFC certification, and a film must be certified, before it is shown on TV&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Will it be illegal to screen uncertified films on the Cable TV?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes. Only certified films should be shown on the Cable TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T12:37:45.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9795" CreationDate="2013-02-01T14:42:45.453" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for how bond finds out Le Chiffre is bluffing was due to the aspect of the previous game they play (one before the game where Bond actually loses everything) where Le Chiffre simply ups the ante with nothing but wins the game at the dealing of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_poker_terms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;river&lt;/a&gt;. At the top of my hat I believe this is the dialogue which ensues between Bond, Vesper and their connection after that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bond&lt;/strong&gt;: Le chiffre is bluffing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vesper&lt;/strong&gt;: But he had the best hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bond&lt;/strong&gt;: Which he got off the last card.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I reread the question again and I completely overlooked the aspect that you didn't have much of poker knowledge I have updated the information to include some poker tips together with the actual process which lead to Bond figuring out that Le chiffre was bluffing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the card sequences mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bondmovies.com/news/161.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for the first game, Bond mucks off (he throws his card away not wiling to challenge Le Chiffre's. At that point we also don't have a glimpse of what Bond had as well) the river but if you see when the first 3 cards were dealt, Le Chiffre had nothing to raise the ante even if you include the 4th card it was just 2 pairs which was fairly quite a weak hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The point I am trying to drive at here is that Le Chiffre pretty much made a game out of it with nothing on his cards, which made Bond surmise that Le Chiffre is in desperation to get the money and he is resorting to bluffing.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Le Chiffre being a poker prodigy himself finds out that Bond has read his move and uses that move to his ploy in the next play and totally deceived him. I would say he totally beat Bond in that game because he had his fourth jack at the fourth card dealt and Bond only had his full house at the last hand. Le chiffre already knows he has a much better chance of winning before he even saw the fifth card and acts as if he is bluffing to get Bond to raise more money to call his bluff. Four of a kind is a second most rare hand next to a straight flush which Bond gets in the last game. After Le Chiffre wins he even remarks to Bond if he had thought that he was bluffing slyly after that game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the last game. I think Bond clearly had an edge on that one with him getting a straight flush right at the fourth card whereas Le Chiffre had his full house only at the last card dealt. &lt;em&gt;Le Chiffre gets owned because of the amazing sequence that is the straight flush&lt;/em&gt; but I don't think he even thought about bluffing at that point because of his confidence of beating bond earlier. &lt;em&gt;This scenario is a complete reverse of the previous game&lt;/em&gt; where Bond pretty much has the best hand possible at that point and suckered Le Chiffre to bid higher who also coupled with a really good hand he had at that point. The last poker game was a fantastic sequence for poker lovers but I think it's quite incredulous to get in a real poker play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Although I do recommend you to watch the sequences once you learn how to play poker. I think you will enjoy them more than you think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-25T18:30:28.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9807" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-01T17:54:49.933" Score="7" ViewCount="11912" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Brad Pitt film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1764234/&quot;&gt;Killing them softly&lt;/a&gt;, is an allegory of 2008's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis&quot;&gt;subprime economic crisis&lt;/a&gt;. I'd like to know who each of the characters in the film is supposed to represent in relation to the crisis. Similarly, are there particular events in the film which have corresponding events IRL?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="34317" LastEditDate="2017-08-31T08:14:41.727" LastActivityDate="2017-08-31T08:14:41.727" Title="Killing them softly: explanation of the allegory" Tags="|plot-explanation|killing-them-softly|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9531" CreationDate="2013-02-01T18:11:02.777" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doing some research on the plot summary in &lt;a href=&quot;http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/M01&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bulbapedia&lt;/a&gt;, the only key difference is the opening sequence, showing Mewtwo's interactions with Giovanni.  From what I recall, these were actually addressed in the anime only (if it even aired) in America.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other difference I found, though this may just attribute to my memory being fuzzy from not seeing it in a while, is that the American version does not have the tale of the Pokemon resurrecting humans with their tears, making the ending scene with Ash a lot more...mysterious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-02-01T18:11:02.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4585" CreationDate="2013-02-01T21:34:18.927" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no true reality per se as Morpheus mention on the movie reality is nothing but electrical signals interpreted by the mind. The Thomas living in the matrix was as real as Thomas living outside the matrix. The differences is that he conformed to the reality of the matrix since he was in ignorance. Reality is more of a contextual reality. Neo asked trinity that he had memories of the time he was inside the matrix, and what did that meant, if it was not real? She responded that the matrix cant tell him who he really was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reality IS in fact what you want it it to be. Just like the little boy at the Oracle's apartment bending the spoon tells Thomas that he can't really bend the spoon. Bending the spoon is impossible. that which bends is only one's self. since there is no actual spoon. spoon is only a concept created by the mind to aid in the mutual understanding of a tool that is used in the aid of eating. but if there are no minds to conceptualize the idea of a spoon then spoon does not truly exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The oracle never lied to Thomas, since she only reaffirmed to Thomas's self answer of him not being the &quot;one&quot;. Since he did not believe he was the one he was not the one at that point but only until he started believing in himself did he turned into the one. she did hinted though that he had the gift. The oracle would not truly had known since it depended on Thomas's choice the actual outcome of him being the one or not. Hence he started beliving he was was and changed his reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4029" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-02-02T10:04:39.363" LastActivityDate="2013-02-02T10:04:39.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9811" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-01T22:53:47.177" Score="2" ViewCount="1231" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did Bryan find the ambush his ex-wife was taken to? He remembered all the things to find the first place he and his wife were taken and suddenly he found his wife. How is that possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4031" LastEditorUserId="34594" LastEditDate="2016-09-24T19:34:39.810" LastActivityDate="2016-09-24T19:34:39.810" Title="How did Bryan find his ex-wife in Taken 2?" Tags="|plot-explanation|taken-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9812" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9816" CreationDate="2013-02-01T23:56:42.330" Score="15" ViewCount="2985" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen it since I walked out of the theater disgusted in 1996, but I've recently been wondering if the movie Independence Day was intended to be a comedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was 19 then, and I went to see Independence Day expecting a serious sci-fi-action movie. Perhaps I had been led on by the super-cool previews that showed the aliens blowing up key Earth landmarks. In any case, my fan-boy soul was pretty much crushed by the movie's sheer ridiculousness, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when Will Smith punched an alien and then got excited about it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how the plot hinged on a human computer being able to plug right in to the alien mainframe and upload &quot;jollyroger.exe&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the shameless product placement surrounding that human computer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;everything involving characters played by Brent Spiner and Randy Quaid&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zoqdH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember too many details, but I do remember thoroughly despising the movie,  cursing its makers, and casting a dismissive eye on the many people who gushed about how cool it was. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But did I miss something? Was Independence Day intended to be a comedy -- a spoof of the sci-fi-action genre? Maybe the moments that made me cringe were meant to make me laugh? Anything out there on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-02-02T10:06:04.870" LastActivityDate="2023-12-07T17:22:44.467" Title="Is Independence Day a comedy spoof?" Tags="|analysis|independence-day|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="949" CreationDate="2013-02-02T01:44:12.410" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the more annoying/irritating things about the show was how it, and presumably the writers played around with the characters ages and what grades they were in. For instance Landry it turns out was a freshman in season one, yet he apparently is old enough to have a drivers license, since he has regular access to a car from the very first episode. Honestly the ages and various grades of the students area rabbit hole that you don't go into without a heater and some smelling salts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I was never under the impression that anyone of the characters with the exception of Jason Street were seniors in season one, and in Street's case that was very clearly stated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Tyra, I seriously don't know where you get the idea that she was a senior in season one. She never talked about being a senior, not even to Mrs. T And it wasn't her (Tyra's) desire/decision to try and bring her grades up in the first season, it was Tami, who told Tyra to come by and see her at school so they could look things over and make a plan. Tyra &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, Tyra wasn't worried about college in season one  as much as she was worried about being stuck in Dillon for the rest of her life. It was Tami who started pushing the idea of college on her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for real life, my understanding is that colleges look at both your overall GPA and your grades from all four years of high school as well as extracurriculars and letters of recommendation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4032" LastActivityDate="2013-02-02T01:44:12.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9814" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9815" CreationDate="2013-02-02T04:39:22.880" Score="6" ViewCount="5012" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2011 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133152/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rise of the Planet of the Apes&lt;/a&gt;, there is a scene where Caesar escapes from the house, attacks the neighbor, and during that attack he bites the man's finger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VvMpk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During that sequence, we can clearly see that he does not lose his finger, but it is bloody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VvMnQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Was this a mistake in the film?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time I watch this film, and that scene comes up, it seems to me that Caesar bites off the mans finger. But in the next shot, he has his finger back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the film people are discussing if it's safe to continue to have Caesar in the house, and one person mentions the attack. If I remember correctly, it's stated that the neighbor lost his finger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like an important plot point, because the neighbor mentions that he's a pilot. So loosing a finger would be kind of a big deal for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the correct result of Caesar's attack? Or was there some kind of last minute change in the editing room to keep the finger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-13T03:24:23.153" LastActivityDate="2019-06-16T20:43:13.363" Title="Was Caesar supposed to have bitten off the neighbor's finger?" Tags="|plot-explanation|rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9814" CreationDate="2013-02-02T05:02:33.087" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The neighbor was shouting and pointing his finger towards the old man and that's what infuriated Caesar. He hated that gesture. Sometimes it happens with humans too and it makes us want to catch that finger and twist it hard. (But we don't do that :))&#xA;It's a natural emotion that comes to our mind, sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that Caesar did not want to bite it off, he just wanted to bite hard on that finger. Hard enough to cause bleeding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more possibility is that in his anger, he closed his jaws on the finger but when the man started crying in pain he may have controlled himself and let him go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About losing the finger - losing the finger doesn't necessarily mean getting it bitten off. Maybe Caesar chewed it in a manner that it was badly damaged and may be the doctors advice to cut it off later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2016-12-13T04:32:56.643" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T04:32:56.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9812" CreationDate="2013-02-02T05:54:33.783" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the movie was expressively designed to be &lt;em&gt;entertaining&lt;/em&gt; and break records set by Jurassic Park a couple of years earlier. You might also remember the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_%28film%29#Distribution&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;impressive marketing campaign&lt;/a&gt; and hype that preceeded the release of the film. Considering that the target audience was &lt;em&gt;everybody&lt;/em&gt;, things had to be dumbed down to be accessible to &lt;em&gt;everybody&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1996, Will Smith hadn't hit the big leagues yet and was coming off the success of &lt;em&gt;Bad Boys&lt;/em&gt;, a comedy where he plays the &quot;cool and funny&quot;. His role in ID4 isn't much different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, no. I don't think ID4 is a spoof. It's simply a commercial sci/fi film loaded with special effects and cheesy dialogue, designed to appeal to a larger audience. Much the same as &lt;em&gt;MiB&lt;/em&gt; would be a year or so later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="16523" LastEditDate="2016-09-04T08:47:34.593" LastActivityDate="2016-09-04T08:47:34.593" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9811" CreationDate="2013-02-02T05:59:53.343" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;When &lt;em&gt;he&lt;/em&gt; is kidnapped (and is busy memorising the route being taken), the Albanians first stop off at the local HQ and then take him to the second location where his wife is tortured. When his wife is moved after his escape, he guesses that the baddies would have taken her to their HQ. He is therefore able to retrace the route to it and rescue his wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-02-02T05:59:53.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9818" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9819" CreationDate="2013-02-02T06:06:48.707" Score="16" ViewCount="29135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched Pan's Labyrinth last night. The movie is really good, but I could not understand one thing - the fantasy part with Ofelia, is it happening for real or she is just imagining things?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask this because I noted two points in the movie -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Vidal pulls the mandrake root out of Ofelia's mother's bed it appears to be just a normal root. While whenever Ofelia is seen with it, it does things.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the end when Vidal follows Ofelia to the labyrinth, Ofelia is talking to the faun, but when Vidal looks at it, it appears that there is no one there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's exactly happening? Is Ofelia just dreaming things to get herself in a fairy world, out of her present surroundings or the things happening for real but visible only to Ofelia?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-04T17:00:07.187" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T17:04:27.930" Title="What is going on in Pan's Labyrinth?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pans-labyrinth|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9818" CreationDate="2013-02-02T09:08:25.793" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's deliberately ambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's &lt;strong&gt;real&lt;/strong&gt;, the inconsistencies are easily explained by Vidal's fascist belief system. These elements simply are not part of his world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's &lt;strong&gt;fantasy&lt;/strong&gt;, then of course only Ofelia can see these thing because she imagined them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think part of Del Toro's purpose in the film was to maintain the plausibility of both of these interpretations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3899" LastActivityDate="2013-02-02T09:08:25.793" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9791" CreationDate="2013-02-02T09:16:28.677" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The older style of combining animation with live-action is called &lt;em&gt;rotoscoping&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;em&gt;TylerShads&lt;/em&gt; says, the newer method is to dress the actor in a &quot;Capture Suit&quot; which tracks the 3D position (in the room) of various spots on the body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an older method of motion capture, where the actor wears a simple suit of a solid color, and the spots to be tracks are simply dots on the fabric in a contrasting color. This gives the necessary geometric information, but the graphics department must do a lot more work to manually track the points in the camera image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet another method is used in the films &lt;em&gt;This Waking Life&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;A Scanner Darkly&lt;/em&gt;. For these, the live-action was filmed normally and then animation was drawn over the top (using the computer to emulate key-frame animation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still other methods were explored for creation of the classic &lt;a href=&quot;http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/tron.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tron&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, where they employed a &lt;em&gt;black-screen&lt;/em&gt; technique more similar to photographic (darkroom) methods than the others here. Various layers of the digital environment were &lt;em&gt;burned&lt;/em&gt; into the same film during multiple passes while dodging the actors. This required the camera to be absolutely still during composite scenes with actors. All-virtual cut-scenes were naturally more dynamic by the use of flying cameras.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3899" LastEditorUserId="3899" LastEditDate="2013-04-13T08:50:27.400" LastActivityDate="2013-04-13T08:50:27.400" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9029" CreationDate="2013-02-02T09:52:08.417" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think, that he wanted handshake, because of last abasement from Schults, who felt him his nonentity: he underlined Candy's faux-gentility,  that he had many of books by Dumas but hadn't mind on its content (Schults was disgusted by Bethoven music because of this spuriousness too)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4033" LastActivityDate="2013-02-02T09:52:08.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9822" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9823" CreationDate="2013-02-02T10:10:55.833" Score="10" ViewCount="4759" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recall when I was young (in the late 1980's) I saw a snippet of this movie in full-colour, but I can not remember the entire film nor the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I am older, I wish to know what the movie was about and understand it more. Here is all I know about the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was an action movie.&#xA;It is like the latest movie &quot;The Core&quot; which has several people inside a larger drilling machine in the earth. I suspect there was sabotage or some effect from the drilling machine that knocked the driver out and it affected his path of digging into the earth. I recall seeing a dashboard next the driver showing multi-coloured layers which showed the current location where it was at.&#xA;It was a colour featured film.&#xA;I don't know if there were dinosaurs or large creatures etc.&#xA;More like the in the spirit of &lt;em&gt;Journey to the Centre of the Earth&lt;/em&gt; but not a lot of walking at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope someone can assist me here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4034" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-02-02T13:36:41.340" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T00:44:11.117" Title="Could not name the movie. Involves drilling into the earth crust but ended up somewhere else" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:41:37.993" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9822" CreationDate="2013-02-02T11:31:49.817" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a perfect match, but it could be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.erbzine.com/mag30/3031.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;At The Earth's Core&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1976):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z1bnb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.classichorrorcampaign.com/2012/06/04/an-evening-with-caroline-munro/at-the-earths-core-poster/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Victorian scientist &lt;em&gt;(Peter Cushing)&lt;/em&gt; and his young American backer &lt;em&gt;(Doug McClure)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;set off in their new earth-boring machine&lt;/strong&gt; for a short test on a Welsh mountain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unfortunately the thing tunnels out of control at ferocious speed and they end up in an enormous cavern at the centre of the earth&lt;/strong&gt; - the twilight world of pellucidar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here they find prehistoric monsters, man-eating plants and cavemen enslaved to the Meyhas (Mahars) - evil psychic, pterodactyl-type creatures with extra-sensory abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The cockpit includes a display that shows their position:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pPsAu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Cockpit&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/flTrh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Display&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG4aGjQnRAo&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yL7MTLCKgo&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watch the trailer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-02-02T11:31:49.817" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9508" CreationDate="2013-02-02T12:07:29.120" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;The offering of a show(s) (entire series or particular episodes) and movie(s) for streaming is governed by specific licensing deal (&lt;strong&gt;distribution rights&lt;/strong&gt;) with the content providers, be it a channel (in case of series) or a production house/studio (in case of movies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Netflix enters into agreement with the content providers which have specific clauses about availability of a content through different mediums (Disc/Streaming), along with time period, for which the agreement stands valid. The content providers can enter into agreements of varying nature for different content - some content might be available for short period of time, after a certain cooling period (Netflix can offer a certain content, only after &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; months, the content goes off the air).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The licensing deals are always time bound. If you happen to see certain content all the time on Netflix, it might mean that the agreement was done for a longer duration OR the agreement was renewed. Some content providers charge heavily for their content to be streamed or to provide exclusive rights to a certain vendor (there is a bidding for licensing rights for streaming, like all normal things).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, back in September 2011, &lt;strong&gt;Starz&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/starz-entertainment-issues-statement-on-status-of-netflix-affiliation-agreement-renewal-discussions-128907398.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;announced&lt;/a&gt; that they would end the licensing agreement with Netflix as the contract renewal had ended. This meant that content from Starz was no longer available to Netflix customers from midnight of 2/28/2012. Similarly, in September 2012, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/netflix-confirms-loss-of-streaming-content-from-ae-networks/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Netflix lost almost 800 hours of content from &lt;strong&gt;A&amp;amp;E&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; due to complicated negotiations, which in turn led to contract expiration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another instance was with Hulu. CW had a contract with Hulu to have their shows streamed he day after it aired. But due to Netflix bidding higher than Hulu, CW's contract with Hulu ended so now the to watch any CW shows you would have to use the CW app or Netflix. Most channels use bidding services.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Netflix would love to increase the library of streamed content. It (and its competitors) must be working hard to win more and more content deals, but at times it is limited by the value of the content license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://adage.com/article/digital/netflix-original-content-competes-hbo/231411/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reed Hastings told Advertising Age&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We need more money in the ecosystem driving money to content,&quot; he&#xA;  said. &quot;Now we are an active bidder. It drives pricing for output up --&#xA;  which is great for content producers.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastEditorUserId="40263" LastEditDate="2017-01-16T19:13:24.857" LastActivityDate="2017-01-16T19:13:24.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9826" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11418" CreationDate="2013-02-02T22:32:10.173" Score="5" ViewCount="2070" Body="&lt;p&gt;A while ago I saw a short episode about a woman waking up in a garden on a spaceship she remembers being home on earth and has no memory of what happened to her. The space ship seems to be on the fritz. She finds a man and I think he ends up dying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember what the name of the episode or trailer was... I just remember she is trying to figure out what is going on. I am sure it isn't the Syfy series Continuum. Does anyone know what I am talking about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw at trailer for it within the last two years. It may have been a web series and I only saw the first episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4037" LastEditorUserId="4037" LastEditDate="2013-04-26T04:26:13.110" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T15:52:08.820" Title="Woman wakes up on spaceship in garden, what is it from?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:41:41.127" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9829" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9830" CreationDate="2013-02-02T22:54:34.720" Score="4" ViewCount="4048" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Jonah Hex, the super-weapon that Turnball builds fires (seemingly) ordinary cannon balls, and is followed by an orange ball.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The orange ball is not only highly explosive (even more explosive than something like C4!), but they seem to send out an explosive &quot;detonation wave&quot; that explodes the &quot;ordinary&quot; cannon balls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it ever explained what the orange balls are, and how they worked, other than a plot-device?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2116" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-13T03:17:53.083" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T03:17:53.083" Title="What ammo does the Jonah Hex's super weapon fire?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jonah-hex|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9829" CreationDate="2013-02-03T02:51:31.983" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Jonah_Hex&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Internet Movie Firearms Database&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;superweapon&quot; that is the focus of the film's action is a belt-fed Gatling-style cannon (similar to an oversized, clunkier CIWS system) supposedly invented by Eli Whitney (the father of the cotton gin). The weapon is designed to blanket an area with a volley of explosive shells, which are then detonated simultaneously by firing a glowing orange &quot;trigger&quot; shell from the central barrel. Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich) mounts the weapon on an ironclad and plans to use it to level Washington, D.C. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7U2UZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the same page: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Detail of the multiple barrels. Note the design seems to assume a cannonball works the same way as a modern artillery shell; there is no system for replacing propellant charges behind the cannonballs, and nowhere for charges to actually go even if there was such a system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EHSni.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, a lot of digging hasn't turned up anything concrete other than the charges might be &lt;em&gt;'Magic Dragon Balls'&lt;/em&gt; - so I think we can chalk this one up to sloppy writing and badly thought out plot devices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-02-03T02:51:31.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5629" CreationDate="2013-02-03T04:44:07.277" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was most probably molested by his aunt and since he was only a child, those things were a bit cloudy to him. The events were apparently being reminded to him when some situations were done that by his new friends Sam and Patrick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sam told Charlie that she was molested by his dad's boss when she was 11. In that context, Charlie told her that his aunt was also molested (instead of him being molested by his aunt) and she turned out to be a nice person and that she was his favorite person. Obviously, Charlie was trying to make Sam not insecure about what happened to her. That she's not alone and everything was gonna be fine despite that event in her past. Even if Charlie changed his story, it reflected his experiences as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4039" LastActivityDate="2013-02-03T04:44:07.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9826" CreationDate="2013-02-03T06:06:15.653" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_X&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jason X&lt;/a&gt;. The frozen bodies of Jason Vorheese and his victim are found in the future on earth and they take her to their spaceship. The team of spaceship wakes up the female victim and regenerate her damaged body-parts. But Jason wakes up himself and kills everybody one by one. They manage to confuse Jason by making a fake lake seen full of greenery but not for long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-25T14:28:28.030" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T14:28:28.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9834" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-03T08:12:31.720" Score="6" ViewCount="1211" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the name of this movie: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly filmed in the 70's or 80's, sort of like the movie Silent Running in that it has a greenhouse filled with lots of plants. I only remember the ending of the movie where one man dressed in white stands alone in the spacecraft looking out through huge glass walls (I think like a dome) seeing only space and stars. I think the spacecraft is adrift, lost in space somehow. Anyway this man chooses to remain caring for the plants not really knowing where the craft is going. It is a very haunting tale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4041" LastEditorUserId="3862" LastEditDate="2013-02-03T16:57:40.190" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T05:06:37.793" Title="Strange and haunting Science Fiction Film" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:41:44.307" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9835" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-03T08:12:36.677" Score="5" ViewCount="927" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756359/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Frozen Day&lt;/a&gt;, an Israel movie where a woman survives a suicide bombing. She later visits the hospital and identified her friend who is in a coma. She started living in his apartment and soon everybody started to refer to her by the name of her hospitalized friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a series of events she revisits the club where the bombing happened and see herself in front of her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is she in the coma or is her friend?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3888" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-03-19T14:42:27.103" LastActivityDate="2013-07-20T11:32:05.657" Title="Explanation of the ending of Frozen Day" Tags="|plot-explanation|frozen-day|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9834" CreationDate="2013-02-03T15:33:31.270" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I put together the timeframe, spacesuit, and greenhouse to come up with this suggestion, a great movie - essentially &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044706/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;High Noon&lt;/a&gt; in space.&#xA;I think you might mean &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082869/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Outland&lt;/a&gt; from 1981, with Sean Connery. Connery plays a Marshall on an off-world mining colony, not a spaceship, who annoys the local company President, played by Peter Boyle. When the annoyances get too deep, since the President is involved in a conspiracy to increase profits, he hires an assassination team to deal with the marshall, Connery. The showdown scenes involve a hide-and-seek in the colony's massive glass greenhouse, which is hundreds of feet high and wide, multiple stories. Outside the glass, of course, is a starfield. The assassins are inside with Connery outside in a pressure suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, I agree you mean &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Silent Running&lt;/a&gt;, also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2013-02-03T15:51:50.057" LastActivityDate="2013-02-03T15:51:50.057" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4545" CreationDate="2013-02-03T21:12:19.453" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/mma/post/2011-08-29/warrior-director-interview/417200/1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview with Gavin O'Connor&lt;/a&gt;, the writer and director of the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Tommy character reminded me in some ways of Mark Kerr, who was the subject of one of your documentaries, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smashing_Machine:_The_Life_and_Times_of_Extreme_Fighter_Mark_Kerr&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Smashing Machine&lt;/a&gt;. How much did your experience from that production inform the sensibility of Warrior?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Smashing Machine was my introduction to the sport and the fighters in the sport. But since that film, I've met so many fighters and have been to so many fights and watched so many fights that that was just part of the DNA of what I was doing. I'm sure there's a page out of a lot of even boxers' lives, and people I know, that have sort of infiltrated the script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you're referring to the pills&lt;/strong&gt; ... now that you mention it, probably unconsciously. The whole intent with Tommy was, he was coming home to see his father -- but he was coming home to see the father that he knew when he left, which was a man who was a drunk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the documentary (linked above), the fighter, Mark Kerr, is linked to prescription painkillers (opiates). While the reference does not tell us plainly that Tommy is using painkillers, it's a reasonably good pointer in that direction. All the familial issues that Tommy has had as well as his experience in the marines might explain why/how he became addicted to them. It's useful to note that opiates, besides dulling pain, also promote a sense of well-being and euphoria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prescription painkiller abuse is quite rampant nowadays in all strata of society.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-02-03T21:12:19.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11010" CreationDate="2013-02-04T05:10:39.553" Score="4" ViewCount="1518" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I understand, since everyone in Candyland is dead, Django could theoretically roam the South without becoming an outlaw. Who would testify against him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: If there's any confusion, by &quot;who would&quot;, I didn't mean who would &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to. I meant, do you remember any specific character who knows the identity of the person who wrecked Candyland? All I can think of those three slaves in the cage, but IIRC even they were freed and might be gone by now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4049" LastEditorUserId="4049" LastEditDate="2013-02-04T20:02:59.090" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T06:07:45.080" Title="Is Django now an outlaw? Are there any witnesses left?" Tags="|django-unchained|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9741" CreationDate="2013-02-04T07:52:34.950" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;A very similar accident was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alaska Airline Flight 261&lt;/a&gt; accident in January 31, 2000 on a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 aircraft (in  the movie it was MD-88):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The CVR transcript reveals the pilots' continuous attempts for the&#xA;  duration of the dive to regain control of the aircraft. At one&#xA;  point, unable to raise the nose, they attempted to fly the aircraft&#xA;  &quot;upside-down&quot;. However the aircraft was beyond recovery; it&#xA;  descended inverted and nose-down about 18,000 feet in 81 seconds, a&#xA;  descent rate exceeding 13,300 feet per minute (approx. 151.1 mph),&#xA;  before hitting the ocean at high speed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="203" LastEditorUserId="4588" LastEditDate="2015-02-27T16:05:56.083" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T16:05:56.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9844" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10167" CreationDate="2013-02-04T08:40:16.637" Score="12" ViewCount="9092" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1977 movie &lt;em&gt;Close Encounters of the Third Kind&lt;/em&gt; is truly iconic, and one of my all time favorites. But there is one thing I am curious about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the climax, we see the aliens returning many people to the Earth. Most of them look like they are from a time far behind. Also, the other things that the aliens return during the movie are all very old things (taken a long time ago) eg.- Airplanes in Mexico, a ship in Mongolia.&#xA;However there is one exception -- the 3 year old kid -- Barry, who is taken away by the aliens and returned back soon thereafter (at the end of the movie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did this happen? What could be the reason for this exceptional behavior of aliens?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2017-09-06T08:21:16.210" LastActivityDate="2017-09-06T08:21:16.210" Title="Why did the aliens return Barry so soon, in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'?" Tags="|plot-explanation|close-encounters-of-the-third-kind|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9846" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-04T12:33:36.467" Score="1" ViewCount="2061" Body="&lt;p&gt;The hero of the movie is a good guy and always punishes those who deserve punishment. However the tattooist in the very first scene of the movie seemed to be a good man. Despite that, He killed the tattooist. I could not understand why. Anybody has any explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the tattooist:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xqohe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-02-04T13:40:28.630" LastActivityDate="2019-02-11T06:56:35.633" Title="Why was the tattooist killed at the beginning of Ninja Assassin?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ninja-assassin|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9847" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9848" CreationDate="2013-02-04T12:36:12.480" Score="9" ViewCount="7704" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the climax of the 2003 movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lost in Translation&lt;/a&gt;, the central characters, Bob &amp;amp; Charlotte share an emotional moment. During that time, Bob seems to have said something into Charlotte's ears, to which Charlotte nods. After that they separate and the movie ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Translation_(film)#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bob embraces Charlotte and whispers something (substantially inaudible to the audience) in the tearful Charlotte's ear. The two share a kiss, say goodbye and Bob departs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could it be that he said into her ears?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2020-11-23T07:55:58.690" LastActivityDate="2020-11-23T07:55:58.690" Title="What does Bob say to Charlotte at the end of &quot;Lost in Translation&quot;?" Tags="|character|ending|dialogue|lost-in-translation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9847" CreationDate="2013-02-04T12:51:41.310" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no specific answer. Pure guesses and speculations are only possible. Here are some of the surmisals from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/faq?ref_=tt_faq_1#.2.1.3&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;I'm not saying it'll be easy...but go to that man and tell him the truth. Okay?&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;I HAVE TO BE LEAVING... BUT, I WON'T LET THAT COME BETWEEN US... OK?&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively it could also be &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;I love you. Don't forget to always tell the truth... OK&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The director made it the way it should be - for each person to fill in what they feel was said. But it sounds like, &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;I love you deeply. When John gets back, tell him the truth. Okay?&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; This fits with the rest of the film in that she asked him for advice about marriage, and he was telling her not to make the same mistakes he had&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or: &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Can I say something? Go to that man and tell him the truth. Okay?&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;maybe this: &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Sometimes you have to go halfway around the world to come full circle.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T13:42:15.373" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9849" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9856" CreationDate="2013-02-04T13:36:38.447" Score="12" ViewCount="10667" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do some movies carry more than one names? Eg: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327850/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Rundown (2003)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is also known as &lt;em&gt;Welcome to the Jungle&lt;/em&gt;. Similarly, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342258/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unleashed (2005)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is also known as &lt;em&gt;Danny the Dog&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; talking about &lt;strong&gt;remakes&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;different release names&lt;/strong&gt;, as happened with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2268/why-was-the-avengers-movie-called-something-different-in-the-uk&quot;&gt;Avengers (2012)&lt;/a&gt;, but movies with (&lt;em&gt;aka&lt;/em&gt;)s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DISCLAIMER:&lt;/strong&gt; The movies listed above are merely a couple I am aware of and are in no way a conclusive list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2017-01-04T00:19:06.123" Title="Same movie but with different names" Tags="|title|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9850" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9868" CreationDate="2013-02-04T13:50:29.487" Score="8" ViewCount="412" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very long time ago, I guess more than 20 years, there was a series of shorter movies with a fiction and science fiction theme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am trying to track down a specific episode. I don't know what the running time was but I do remember some visual cues. I think it was an American production. Clothes, women's haircut, cars were 80's look. Colors were not vibrant sort of a pastel look. Not strong color contrasts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story was something like that. A woman, blonde, somewhere around 30, walks through the streets, across the streets and walks into a building into some kind of office, not so much different from dentist office only everything in much darker shade. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She has a sort of melancholic face expression. She takes off her blazer, sits on a chair, not quite unlike a dentist chair. Everything happens slowly, without words. And she starts to cry. As a tear runs down her cheek the doctor collects the tear and puts it in a bottle. And this scene repeats itself. She walks into an office, always somehow sad, sits down, cries and he collects her tears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One day he gives her the bottle, big clear glass bottle, about a gallon big. She takes it, goes out and steps onto the street. In that moment we hear car brakes and tires screeching, a car veers off and almost hits her. She drops the bottle and in slow motion it breaks on the tarmac. The driver angrily shouts at her: &quot;What was that?&quot;. She looks at him and says: &quot;All of my tears&quot;. And for the first time she smiles. And I think those were the only two lines spoken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was just a kid when I saw this so my recollection might not be 100% true. But still, I would very much like to find this episode / movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1654" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-02-04T16:40:44.947" LastActivityDate="2014-08-15T16:04:45.580" Title="Movie or episode which ends with the line, &quot;All of my tears&quot;" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:41:47.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9849" CreationDate="2013-02-04T13:58:04.893" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're not referring to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;different release names&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, then the different names are actually working titles for the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movies, usually have working titles, sometimes for secrecy (to contain leaks about the actual project), sometimes for the simple reason that a release name has not been decided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting Wiki on this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Working titles are used primarily for two reasons-the first being that&#xA;  an official title has not yet been decided upon and the working title&#xA;  is being used as a filler for naming purposes, the second being a ruse&#xA;  to intentionally disguise the production of a project. Examples of the&#xA;  former include the film Die Hard with a Vengeance, which was produced&#xA;  under the title Die Hard: New York and the James Bond films, which are&#xA;  commonly produced under titles such as Bond 22 until an official title&#xA;  is decided upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Christopher Nolan started shooting &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/?ref_=sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Inception&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; under the name of &lt;strong&gt;Oliver's Arrow&lt;/strong&gt; in 2009. Similarly, another high profile movie, which started shooting under a different name was &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/?ref_=sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Aliens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - it was shot for months as &lt;strong&gt;Star Beast&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T13:58:04.893" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9849" CreationDate="2013-02-04T14:03:11.870" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Primary Reason&lt;/strong&gt;- This is probably due to the cultural difference among the countries. There are various things in a movies title which should be understood but cultural differences make it hard to grasp for the people of other countries. So they change the title so that people from other countries can get the same message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It started when US movies started being distributed in UK. They also changed to make things sound like there was more action, or to remove subtle jokes for things far more obvious  (e.g., &lt;em&gt;Tight Little Island&lt;/em&gt; was changed to &lt;em&gt;Whiskey Galore&lt;/em&gt; for the US). Later British distributors followed the same rule. This was followed by other countries as well. I don't have, for the time being, any references for the movies you mentioned, but I guess the reason is the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g., &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098546/?ref_=sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;UHF&lt;/a&gt; (US title) is &quot;The Vidiot From UHF&quot; in other countries. They did that because people in other countries don't know what a UHF station is. As you can see, they still had that problem with this other title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another beautiful example is &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337978/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Live Free or Die Hard&lt;/a&gt;&quot; which was called &quot;Die Hard 4.0&quot; in other countries. Obviously this is a play on the state of New Hampshire's motto, but in another country it would not have any real meaning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Secondary reason&lt;/strong&gt;- Sometimes some titles work as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_title&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;working title&lt;/a&gt; for a movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343135/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Along Came Polly&lt;/a&gt; (2004) aka &quot;Untitled John Hamburg Project&quot; - USA (working title)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hallelujah I'm a Bum&lt;/em&gt; (1933) aka &quot;New York&quot; - USA (working title)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-02-04T18:04:35.513" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T18:04:35.513" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9854" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9857" CreationDate="2013-02-04T15:19:46.330" Score="8" ViewCount="2664" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2%3a_Judgment_Day&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Terminator 2&lt;/a&gt;, they break into Miles Dyson's workplace (can't remember the name of it) and begin to plant explosives in order to destroy all the work he had been doing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the police get to the scene a small team eventually break into the building and work their way upstairs. Arnie and the guys escape leaving the badly injured Miles Dyson with the detonator for the explosives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the team of police find Dyson, he is sat up against a counter of some sort holding a heavy weight above the detonator trigger. The policemen see this and after Dyson says, &quot;I don't know how much longer I can hold this&quot;, the officer in charge rather assertively says &quot;MOVE OUT! MOVE OUT!&quot; and they try and make their exit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're clearly not fast enough as the building blows up a few seconds (if that) later. So my question is: &lt;strong&gt;why did they not try and take the detonator or heavy weight off of Dyson&lt;/strong&gt;? You can tell by the size of the building that they had no chance of getting out in time and he was in no state to resist them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand they might not have been able to react fast enough to him dropping the weight, but it surely makes more sense to try and do something or at least try and talk him out of doing it. Instead they leave (&lt;em&gt;slowly I might add&lt;/em&gt;) even when it's plain that they won't make it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2164" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-06T15:10:14.907" LastActivityDate="2018-04-05T18:58:20.633" Title="Why wasn't Miles Dyson disarmed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-series|terminator-2-judgment-day|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9846" CreationDate="2013-02-04T15:26:25.593" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can not be sure if the tattooist was a good man just on the basis of one scene.&#xA;We don't know what he has done in the past to deserve that.&#xA;Also we know that the Ninja Assassin was more like a Hit-man working for the Ozunu clan. So it could also be that he killed the tattooist just because he was told to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T15:26:25.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9849" CreationDate="2013-02-04T16:13:02.237" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Setting aside &lt;em&gt;working titles&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;translated titles&lt;/em&gt;, there are other reasons why a movie might be released under an alternative title. In the case of &lt;em&gt;Unleashed&lt;/em&gt; vs. &lt;em&gt;Danny the Dog&lt;/em&gt;, one of the reasons appears to have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=2744&quot;&gt;heavy editing/censorship&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Already when the movie has been shown in European cinemas, some magazines wrote that the European version was different in some points from the U.S. version. This apparently affected all countries where the movie hadn't been released with the title &quot;Unleashed&quot;, but with the title &quot;Danny the Dog&quot;. These countries weren't just European, but also states like Hong Kong. The versions can be kept apart right at the beginning because of different titles (except in the U.S., where both versions are called &quot;Unleashed&quot; but differ as &quot;unrated&quot; and &quot;R-rated&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better example of a movie which was released under an alternative title for similar reasons is Dario Argento's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087909/&quot;&gt;Phenomena&lt;/a&gt; which was released in the US as &lt;em&gt;Creepers&lt;/em&gt;. The American version is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomena_%28film%29#Distribution&quot;&gt;shorter than the original by 30 minutes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Title changes are sometimes made because the original title might not be understood in a particular market. A famous example is &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366551/&quot;&gt;Harold and Kumar go to White Castle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; which, in the UK, was released as &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_&amp;amp;_Kumar_Go_to_White_Castle&quot;&gt;Harold and Kumar get the munchies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; as the restaurant chain does not have a presence there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some alternative titles are chosen simply for better marketing because the original title did not click with viewers. It could well be that some overpaid executive somewhere thought that &lt;em&gt;Unleashed&lt;/em&gt; sounded more like the action movie it is than &lt;em&gt;Danny the dog&lt;/em&gt; which could well be mistaken for a family movie about a dog named Danny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also some odd cases such as Jackie Chan's &lt;em&gt;Armour of God&lt;/em&gt; and its sequel, &lt;em&gt;Armour of God 2: Operation Condor&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the United States, &lt;em&gt;Armour of God&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;did not receive a theatrical release&lt;/strong&gt;. The film's sequel, &lt;em&gt;Armour of God II: Operation Condor&lt;/em&gt; (1991), was released under the simplified title Operation Condor. &lt;strong&gt;Armour of God was subsequently released&lt;/strong&gt; direct-to-video by Miramax Films, but the title was somewhat confusingly changed to &lt;em&gt;Operation Condor 2: The Armor of the Gods&lt;/em&gt;, despite being the first film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the sequel was released first and necessitated a name change in the subsequently released original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_with_different_titles_in_the_United_Kingdom_and_United_States&quot;&gt;time-sink here&lt;/a&gt; with a &lt;em&gt;list of works with different titles in the United Kingdom and United States&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T16:13:02.237" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9854" CreationDate="2013-02-04T16:17:11.990" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dyson is threatening to blow up the building with an improvised &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch&quot;&gt;dead man's switch&lt;/a&gt;.  If the police try to disarm him, he's guaranteed to drop the weight and set off the explosives.  They have no chance of success in disarming him.  He is giving them a chance of getting out of the building by telling them he doesn't know how much longer he can hold the weight.  A small chance is better than no chance, so the officer in charge gives the order to move out.  It's only obvious that they don't have enough time after the fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T16:17:11.990" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9858" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10059" CreationDate="2013-02-04T16:36:31.233" Score="4" ViewCount="3428" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096754/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Abyss&lt;/a&gt; all the characters are brought to the surface of the sea from deep below. They should suffer terrible decompression but they're all fine? It's even addressed by the characters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lindsey Brigman: We should be dead. We didn't decompress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alan &amp;quot;Hippy&amp;quot; Carnes: They musta done something to us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could the aliens have possibly done to stop the effects of decompression?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3772" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-02-18T19:28:37.030" Title="Why didn't they all explode at the end of The Abyss?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-abyss|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1459" CreationDate="2013-02-04T17:34:57.010" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I completely agree with the director's statement. Sarah maybe forgot her life with Chuck, but we can see that she is remembering slowly (Irene Demova,their dream house). Finally, she said to him &quot;kiss me&quot;, so clearly, she wants to be with him, but,they will have to fall in love again. They will be together, but it would take time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4052" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2013-02-04T18:16:19.837" LastActivityDate="2013-02-04T18:16:19.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9860" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9872" CreationDate="2013-02-04T18:48:20.313" Score="15" ViewCount="4086" Body="&lt;p&gt;I stumbled upon &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/9854/49&quot;&gt;this recent question&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Terminator 2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, in particular about the scene where &lt;em&gt;Miles Dyson&lt;/em&gt; dies after having been wounded lethally and trying to buy time for the others by detonating a grenade. He warns the upcoming SWAT team that the grenade will go off shortly and they run away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question states that the policemen didn't have enough time to escape the explosion. But I for myself always thought they made it out of the explosion radius in time, but then again, I'm not totally sure about this anymore, since this question says they surely didn't have enough time as judged by the immediate cut to the explosion destroying the building (although I vaguely remember it to only destroy a single floor).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I'm asking this is, that I think the fact of the policemen dying would bring a major inconsistency with the general moral justification of the heroes' actions throughout the movie. There are actually no real human enemies in this movie and the movie more than one time elaborates on the fact, that the heroes (and especially the supposedly good &lt;em&gt;Terminator&lt;/em&gt;) don't kill anyone, in order for the viewer to better identify with them on a moral basis. Whereas the previous movie had that touch of sweet immorality, once you decided that it is &lt;em&gt;cool&lt;/em&gt; to watch &lt;em&gt;Arnie&lt;/em&gt; run around and kill everybody, this one goes to great lengths to show him as a &lt;em&gt;&quot;good guy&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, especially in the scene more or less immediately before the questioned one. And in the end most action movies where the hero kills multiple bad guys in a row still try not to show him directly killing innocents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I see different possibilities for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The SWAT team didn't die and managed to escape in time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Their death is to be justified as kind of collateral damage (in line with all the others killed by the &lt;em&gt;T-1000&lt;/em&gt;, the &quot;evil &lt;em&gt;Terminator&lt;/em&gt;&quot;), since &lt;em&gt;Dyson&lt;/em&gt; didn't kill them completely on purpose.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Their death is merely ignored or justified with a sense of &quot;the end justifies the means&quot; (which IMHO wouldn't be in line with the movie's previous moral elaborations, though).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is left open for the viewer to decide (which in turn was a bit too &lt;em&gt;&quot;heavy&quot;&lt;/em&gt; an aspect for such a straight-to-the-point action movie).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And my question is, &lt;strong&gt;did the SWAT team die from &lt;em&gt;Miles Dyson&lt;/em&gt;'s grenade, and if yes, how is this supposed to be justified?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(disclaimer: Now it might be that this has been intentionally left open for interpretation which would make this a bit of an open discussion question. But I might also just have overlooked something (or not remebering it that well) or there is even an official statement about this from the writers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2019-12-03T19:29:22.840" Title="Did Miles Dyson kill all these policemen?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|terminator-series|terminator-2-judgment-day|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9860" CreationDate="2013-02-04T20:27:04.593" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always assumed SWAT didn't die -- that Dyson was able to hold the detonator long enough for SWAT to get to safety. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's true that the scene-cutting didn't allow enough time elapse for the SWAT escape, I have to think this was an editing decision made for visual effect -- not to indicate that the SWAT guys were killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Killing SWAT would not add value to the story, but killing SWAT &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; add conflict with rest of the movie's &quot;don't-kill-innocent-cops&quot; theme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2013-02-13T03:29:04.483" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T03:29:04.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8852" CreationDate="2013-02-05T03:22:32.380" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the island is a mental state that pi is in. Looking down at his feet he would see bones of his victims in the boat. I think that maybe he realises what he is doing especially when he sees the human tooth. I also think he stays on the raft because of the horrors on the boat ie: drying corpse. He probably ate at night because he couldn't really see what he was doing. He probably had a reality check and decided that he would keep on surviving and not be bogged down in what he couldn't change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4055" LastActivityDate="2013-02-05T03:22:32.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9807" CreationDate="2013-02-05T07:45:09.283" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on evidence like this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;This is an unrepentantly cynical take on the hope-and-change promised to the US in 2008&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/sep/20/killing-them-softly-review&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reviewer in The Guardian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;from the film's creator Andrew Dominik in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/cannes-killing-them-softly-helmer-andrew-dominik-talks-music-as-film-jesses-james-was-my-leonard-cohen-song-killing-them-softly-is-a-pop-tune-20120523&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;an interview&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;as I started adapting it, it was the story of an economic crisis, and it was an economic crisis in an economy that was funded by gambling, and the crisis occurred due to a failure in regulation.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...here's my take: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, illegal gambling has ceased in New Orleans because two heists have occurred at Ray Liotta's (Markie's) poker games, and no one knows who to trust anymore. This represents how money-lending around the world largely grinded to a halt as the housing crisis began to unfold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, the mafia was making money off the gambling, so the mafia wants gambling back -- just like how the world's investors were making money off of money-lending, so they desperately wanted a return to normalcy in lending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From there, the allegory is less clear to me, but I think Ray Liotta's Markie could be a nod to George W. Bush. The heist went down on his watch, and though he wasn't technically involved in this particular heist, everyone knows he is shady, and someone has to take a fall -- so he gets whacked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brad Pitt's Jackie might be Barack Obama, a golden-boy leading candidate to take out Markie. James Gandolfini's Mickey might be John McCain, the over-the-hill other candidate who ends up getting dissed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Richard Jenkins' Driver -- who, after the heist, recruits Jackie to kill Markie -- could be the American voters, or maybe the world's investor class. In any case, Driver chooses Jackie over Mickey, just like Obama was chosen over McCain to replace Bush.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2013-02-14T17:04:41.617" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T17:04:41.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9858" CreationDate="2013-02-05T08:41:01.527" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You quoted what I was going to reference in my answer already!  This seems to me like a perfect example of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lampshade Hanging&lt;/a&gt;  which is :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the writers' trick of dealing with any element of the story that threatens the audience's Willing Suspension of Disbelief, whether a very implausible plot development, or a particularly blatant use of a trope, by calling attention to it and simply moving on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to what the aliens could have done they could have beamed all the nitrogen out of the humans (and mouse!)  They would also have to beam out some of the other pressurized gasses. Probably a little bit at a time as they brought everyone up.  They did show themselves to have a higher level of technology than we have (example the control of water when providing a room for Virgil to breath in).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if they used &quot;beaming&quot; technology, and have nothing to back that up, but it is possible which is what the question asks. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="430" LastEditDate="2013-02-05T11:23:17.760" LastActivityDate="2013-02-05T11:23:17.760" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9850" CreationDate="2013-02-05T14:30:58.763" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was a disappointment. I cannot believe how skewed my memory was. I was fixated on a particular search phrase form my original question. &quot;Collecting tears&quot; was much more fruitful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode I was looking for was Season 1, Episode 16- &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0717002/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Tear Collector&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Darkside&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tales from the Darkside&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1654" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-15T16:04:45.580" LastActivityDate="2014-08-15T16:04:45.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9869" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9870" CreationDate="2013-02-05T16:21:51.113" Score="64" ViewCount="10281" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Star Wars Episode II, battling with Count Dooku Yoda was. Force Lightning against Yoda Dooku uses. The lightning from affecting him Yoda stops. Then Force Lightning back at Count Dooku he uses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using Force Lightning was Yoda or Count Dooku's Lightning back at him just reflecting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0bZKp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Yoda and Count Dooku&amp;#39;s battle with Force Lightning&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2013-02-05T22:24:50.850" LastActivityDate="2017-02-12T16:59:32.180" Title="Use Force Lightning can Yoda?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9869" CreationDate="2013-02-05T17:11:18.560" Score="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reflecting Dooku's Force Lightning Yoda was.  To generate his own, fall to the Dark Side he must.  Absorb and reflect he can, as a great master of the Light Side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Requested, a citation has been.  Point to &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Force_lightning&quot;&gt;Wookiepedia&lt;/a&gt; I can, for strong in the source are their articles.  The film itself, their reference is.  The novelization possibly more detail contains.  Force Lightning only Sith wield, at least in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_wars_canon&quot;&gt;G-canon&lt;/a&gt;.  Force Lightning also some Jedi wield, in lesser-canon tales.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2015-04-26T02:53:23.237" LastActivityDate="2015-04-26T02:53:23.237" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1630" CreationDate="2013-02-05T19:07:04.563" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;By &quot;the ending&quot; of this film, we can either refer to sheen's departure from the compound or the airstrike credit sequence. &#xA;Frankly, both are ambiguous, an essential ingredients to any cult film [cf &quot;bodysnatchers&quot;]&#xA;that said, it seems fairly clear that sheen, having killed brando, has assumed the identity and im/morals of the latter. He has become that which he seeks to destroy etc. &#xA;As far as i can  tell, the airstrike sequence was added, being spare footage but too valuable to waste (wastage was high on the project). It does however, suggest a futility to the entire Vietnam war , indeed the &quot;apocalypse&quot; project itself, and is in its way quite excellent.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4057" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-02-05T19:47:17.530" LastActivityDate="2013-02-05T19:47:17.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9860" CreationDate="2013-02-06T00:59:00.527" Score="17" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I stumbled upon this recent question about Terminator 2, in particular about the scene where Miles Dyson dies after having been wounded lethally and trying to buy time for the others by detonating a grenade. He warns the upcoming SWAT team that the grenade will go off shortly and they run away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are implying in the question that there was a moral line the film didn't want to cross. Where no humans are intentionally killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except, Sarah goes to Dyson's home and shoots him in front of his wife and kid. Attempted murder is just as morally wrong as murder. The terminator then cuts the flesh off his arm to show he's a machine. So violence wasn't some hidden in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the moral line is drawn in the sand as deeply as you imply, and the film was Rated R so there wasn't an issue with violence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, the question isn't the morality, but if the police survived the explosions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a couple of facts, because I happen to be watching it on Netflix when this question came up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The police enter the science lab from the stairwell, and that is the same door they leave in when they run out.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I was able to count to about 14 seconds from the time the police start moving before the bomb goes off.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sarah, Arnold and the kid are in the elevator when the bomb goes off, and have no problem surviving the explosion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The bomb doesn't destroy the floor. It only destroys the research lab on that floor (see image below). The fireball only comes out from a wide second, but clearly not the entire floor.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Arnold exists the elevator the same SWAT team is there waiting for them. They were able to get downstairs before the elevator. I was find the same actor playing a SWAT team member both before and after the bomb explosion (see image below).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Explosion Of Research Lab&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RjIlZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Explosion Of Research Lab&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;SWAT Team Member Before/After Explosion&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pjlwE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;SWAT Team Member Before/After Explosion&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's clear the SWAT team didn't die, and they actually appear again in the next scene. Sadly they are all shot in the leg by Arnold. Black guy with big explosive bomb zero points. Terminator with hand gun 10 points. You have to feel sorry to Dyson. First Sarah shoots him, then the swat team shoots him and then he blows up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to watch the rest of the film. If I see anything else that I can add, then &lt;strong&gt;I'll be back&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-12-03T19:29:22.840" LastActivityDate="2019-12-03T19:29:22.840" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9874" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9883" CreationDate="2013-02-06T06:48:55.697" Score="24" ViewCount="26877" Body="&lt;p&gt;We usually see a huge crowd in a movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In scenes in war movies having a huge crowd, where you'll have an army force with costumes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In musical shows set in a movie, games like football, cricket, or such, where they show huge numbers of fans/audience members in attendance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;During scenes where attendees are assembled for a speech from some leader&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Process question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do they gather such a huge crowd? like any agency which provides huge crowds? How do crowd are made with animation techniques now-days?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cost Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much do they generally pay to individual for being a part of the crowd(specify some countries examples)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bg0vQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3323" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-10-22T13:02:47.490" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T21:30:43.317" Title="How do they make a huge crowd in a movie?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9875" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="108827" CreationDate="2013-02-06T07:53:45.313" Score="7" ViewCount="1086" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Illusionist&lt;/em&gt;, Eisenheim (&lt;em&gt;Norton&lt;/em&gt;) is invited by Crown Prince Leopold (&lt;em&gt;Sewell&lt;/em&gt;) to perform for a private audience. Leopold has the intention of proving Eisenheim to be a charlatan with no real talent and during the show asks him to show something that doe not involve &quot;&lt;em&gt;all the gadgetry&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. In turn, Eisenheim does an act with Leopold's sword, wherein every individual other than Leopold himself fails to pull out the sword.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am at loss, as to, &lt;em&gt;why was Prince Leopold offended at the end of the show&lt;/em&gt;? Was it simply because Eisenheim pulled out an act he couldn't unravel or was it because even Leopold wasn't able to pull out the sword in his first attempt? Because &lt;em&gt;I remember him staggering a little when he does pull out the sword.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; The staggering too didn't go down well with me. Why does he stagger?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-01-05T09:18:14.543" LastActivityDate="2020-04-29T11:53:23.410" Title="Did Prince Leopold pull out the sword in a single attempt?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-illusionist|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9874" CreationDate="2013-02-06T08:32:57.650" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Modern films use CGI techniques to create digital crowds but for older movies like the one shown in the picture filmmakers either use a naturally occurring crowd, possibly from stock footage, or simply by hiring a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of extras through the normal channels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer all your subsidiary questions start &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seeing-stars.com/showbiz/BeInAMovie.shtml&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3772" LastActivityDate="2013-02-06T08:32:57.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9875" CreationDate="2013-02-06T09:12:20.060" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prince Leopold took it as a challenge to reveal the mechanisms behind Eisenheim's tricks out of his self-esteem. So he invited Eisenheim to his private party to show everyone, like you wrote, that Eisenham was a mere charlatan and nothing more. His plan was to spoil his tricks in front of the public, and this can be aptly done in his private place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the show, we saw that Leopold failed in uncovering any method of the tricks Eisenheim had shown in the party. Even Eisenheim made him request to himself through eye-contact to let the sword go with Leopold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a grave insult to Leopold. He made him look foolish in front of the public, even with no help from any gadgetry. So he felt offended. It came from both his inability to pull the sword out himself and unraveling the trick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For clarification, Leopold could not pull the sword out if Eisenheim did not let it go. If you look closely, Leopold made an eye contact with Eisenheim, to which he nodded, and only then could he pull the sword out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-13T21:38:46.767" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T21:38:46.767" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26325" CreationDate="2013-02-06T10:44:04.820" Score="31" ViewCount="18176" Body="&lt;p&gt;The BBC's &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; (July 2010-) uses a novel visual trick to show the contents of an SMS message directly on the television screen, so we can all read it without having to look at a dull phone screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a few examples (via &lt;a href=&quot;http://iheartsubtitles.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/sherlock-storytelling-through-visual-text/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;i heart subtitles&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/De7fY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VfZci.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vztAB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.micheletepper.com/blog/2011/6/14/the-case-of-the-traveling-text-message.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Michele Tepper&lt;/a&gt; explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now, we’re used to seeing &lt;em&gt;extradiegetic&lt;/em&gt; text appear on screen with the characters: titles like “Three Years Earlier” or “Lisbon” serve to orient us in a scene. Those titles even can help set the tone of the narrative - think of the snarky humor of the character introduction chyrons on &lt;em&gt;Burn Notice&lt;/em&gt;. But this is different: this is capturing the viewer’s screen as part of the narrative itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Tepper also gives some other examples of on-screen typography in &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;, and there's some more at &lt;a href=&quot;http://wearsherlock.tumblr.com/post/31338860963/a-study-in-font-typography-on-screen-in-bbc&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wear Sherlock&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The American re-make of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/house-of-cards-text-messaging-15059093&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;House of Cards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (2012) also uses this storytelling technique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TgRju.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&amp;quot;Where are you?&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently the British &lt;em&gt;Married Single Other&lt;/em&gt; (2010) pipped &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; by a few months (&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/brrdatplay/status/299055586111266816&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;ref&lt;/a&gt;), and &quot;British teen soap opera ‘&lt;em&gt;Hollyoaks&lt;/em&gt;’ has been doing it for years&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://nofilmschool.com/2013/02/house-of-cards-future-television-netflix-kevin-spacey-david-fincher/comment-page-1/#comment-315045&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;ref&lt;/a&gt;) but I couldn't find any screenshots. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the first TV programme (or film) to do this?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T14:58:21.313" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T17:17:32.163" Title="First use of on-screen text messages, like in Sherlock and House of Cards" Tags="|film-techniques|sherlock|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9675" CreationDate="2013-02-06T11:39:39.630" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's some I found from searching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.subzin.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Subzin.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.subzin.com/quotes/Eyes+in+the+Night/ROSSMORE+555.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Eyes in the Night&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (1942):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;00:20:32 ROSSMORE 555.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  00:26:01 I WANT ROSSMORE 555.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  00:26:08 HELLO, ROSSMORE 555?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.subzin.com/quotes/The+Second+Time+Around/The+number+is+555+-+3485.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Second Time Around&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (1961):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;00:29:59 The number is 555 - 3485.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  00:30:35 That's right. The number is 555 - 3485.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;KL5 and 555 can be found in a list of (presumably fake) telephone numbers in an advert by the Western Electric telephone company in &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.fi/books?id=l1MEAAAAMBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PP2&amp;amp;dq=555%20%22telephone%20number%22&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=VjgSUd-IM8Tf4QTAroDQDw&amp;amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=555%20OR%20KL5&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Life&lt;/em&gt; magazine&lt;/a&gt; (15 Dec 1961), with a KL5 number chosen as the main example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;AreaCode Telephone Number&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  214 RI1-3199&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  311 551-6123&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  918 LU5-0599&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  415 &lt;strong&gt;KL5&lt;/strong&gt;-3742&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  502 898-3499&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  516 IV5-9970&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  901 &lt;strong&gt;555&lt;/strong&gt;-6255&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  305 355-1199&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  311 579-7892&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  607 RA2-4099&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  914 M08-6098&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  404 &lt;strong&gt;KL5&lt;/strong&gt;-7722&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  606 734-9599&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  311 TW5-8242&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  405 CE6 -6690&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  212 &lt;strong&gt;555&lt;/strong&gt;-6426&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  713 JA7-4199&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  311 &lt;strong&gt;KL5&lt;/strong&gt;-2368&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  315 GR2-2399&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  512 CE4-3499&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  311 FR6-5428 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2013-02-06T11:39:39.630" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9874" CreationDate="2013-02-06T12:38:38.560" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have worked as an extra for a Nike advert, and one of scenes involved a lot of people running around.  They had us running from here to there, and then from somewhere else to there, etc. And they used editing to make it look like a huge crowd of us were there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other techniques range from hiring lots of extras (I think Lord of the Rings did this for some of their battle scenes) and, now, just using CGI and either computer generating the images or using a copy paste of the crowds with a little touch up here and there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-13T21:30:43.317" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T21:30:43.317" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9874" CreationDate="2013-02-06T15:37:45.770" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be done in various ways:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Different shots of small groups&lt;/strong&gt;- Sometimes low budget movies use the same people in different shots and combine them to make a large crowd scene.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In developing countries like India, getting a crowd is not tough. It is possible to get a large amount of people for cheap price such as 100 Rs/day. So why worry, you can afford as much as you can. In film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_One_Killed_Jessica&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;No One Killed Jessica&lt;/a&gt;, the candle light march scene is also achieve by the same method. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Using colorful low intensity lights&lt;/strong&gt;, you can make to appear less people in large crowd by using colorful light to distract audience. This is very applicable in disco/club scenes. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE ALL PURPOSE CREW&lt;/strong&gt;- Sometimes crew members are also used to fill the need of crowd for the low budget films/shows.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes props are also used in between the crowd to make it appear large.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copy paste&lt;/strong&gt; -In movies like resident evil, doing the make up of all the zombies in a crowd is not easy and even costly. In an interview they told that they made hundreds of zombies using makeup and copied and pasted their shots in a manner that they appeared like thousands.One example of copy paste technique is - The faked crowd scene for the opening of MasterChef &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/producers-digitally-fake-a-crowd-scene-due-to-poor-tunr-out-for-gordon-ramsays-masterchef/story-e6frewyr-1226081426531&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Nzfd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fake crowd&lt;/strong&gt; - sometimes movie uses the fake plastic crowd in distance shots, click &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitrebels.com/geek/fascinating-the-fake-plastic-crowds-you-see-in-movies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NjMzg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4kWhN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Self volunteers&lt;/strong&gt;- its exceptional but sometimes peoples volunteers them-self without taking money. As per example of Gandhi (1982) where About 200,000 were volunteers and 94,560 were paid a small fee (under contract).&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9912/which-movie-holds-the-record-for-using-the-highest-number-of-extras-in-a-scene&quot;&gt;(refrence)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And at the end CGI is also used for the requirement of large crowd.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T14:43:49.837" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9884" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-06T17:14:45.503" Score="29" ViewCount="1392" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Firefly, we are introduced to the Reavers; humans who were claimed to have reached the edge of space and went mad from seeing the endlessness of it all.  Causing their entire mental state to degrade into primal rage and fury that haunts the entire star system of the Firefly setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we find out in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serenity&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; they were the 0.1% of the population of Miranda that reacted inversely to the Pax gas agent, causing them to go insane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did they keep sufficient mental state to pilot starships and go on raiding parties instead of tearing each other apart?  What is it about being a Reaver that makes them immune to each other's rage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2017-08-29T21:14:14.800" LastActivityDate="2023-05-08T04:43:52.170" Title="Why did the Reavers attack other planets instead of each other?" Tags="|plot-explanation|firefly|serenity|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9885" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9886" CreationDate="2013-02-06T17:21:42.687" Score="10" ViewCount="1411" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219289/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Limitless&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, one of the initial scenes features a unique &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zqOVk9YRAo&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;zooming&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; effect that is a rare find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How was this achieved and do these scenes serve any purpose story-wise or meant as a simple mind trip to generate the feel of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-02-07T15:01:27.840" LastActivityDate="2013-02-07T15:01:27.840" Title="How were the zooming sequences performed?" Tags="|film-techniques|limitless|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9885" CreationDate="2013-02-06T17:48:49.380" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Limitless even opens with such a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techhive.com/article/223108/limitless_infinite_zoom.html&quot;&gt;seemingly endless zoom shot&lt;/a&gt; better know as &lt;strong&gt;Fractal zoom&lt;/strong&gt;, though the scene you referred to, is not endless, but is more of a fly-by zoom shot. Such effects are often rendered by processing normal footage (using cameras) using advanced video editing software (like Adobe After Effects) or customized code to render fractal zoom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techhive.com/article/223108/limitless_infinite_zoom.html&quot;&gt;interview here&lt;/a&gt; discusses in detail about the technology, technique and idea behind that opening shot for Limitless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article referred to, above says this about the software used&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;PCW: What kind of software did your team use for the effects?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comen: The primary software we used was [The Foundry] Nuke for the&#xA;  compositing, [Adobe] After Effects for the titles, and Maya for the 3D&#xA;  graphics. Our team was a crew of about 20 people, including support&#xA;  staff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example of a really long fractal zoom can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&amp;amp;v=0jGaio87u3A&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; on YouTube. This video, took 6 months to render!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastEditorUserId="313" LastEditDate="2013-02-06T18:14:26.010" LastActivityDate="2013-02-06T18:14:26.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9172" CreationDate="2013-02-06T18:45:05.333" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the book, it says that the eagles cannot fly them to erebor because men with bows would shoot them as they thought the eagles wanted to eat their sheep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4066" LastActivityDate="2013-02-06T18:45:05.333" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9884" CreationDate="2013-02-06T18:59:46.380" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personal theory-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are like a different species from humans. As other carnivorous animals, they don't eat each other. As some carnivores live in a pack they also live in a pack. They didn't even take interest in dead humans similar to some scavengers.  They are anti-social and brutal but still they show some intelligence as driving ships,so they are not dumb and they have little intelligence to know who are their one kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are similar to other Movie characters like were-wolves, vampires, Aliens, predators etc. who also exhibit similar characteristics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1064" LastEditDate="2013-04-28T02:59:33.160" LastActivityDate="2013-04-28T02:59:33.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9874" CreationDate="2013-02-06T21:36:35.517" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great question! It sort of depends on the budget, and/or the director. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many films today use special effects to duplicate a rather small number of people into a large crowd. For example, Star Wars: Episode III, on the jungle island of Kashyyk, a war ensues of magnanimous proportion. The brainiacs at LIM accomplished this by shooting a group of about five wookie performers flailing arms and shouting war cries. Then, they scrambled the performers, had them swap weapon, and repeated the process. Then they repeated the process again, and again, and again and again. They then digitally pasted different takes at different depths, shades and speeds. This gave the illusion of a million-wookie attack force. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Film makers have been using this effect even long before the digital imaging age. They would use the same shooting method, but also physically move the performers around the expanse of a large set before superimposing film upon film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lower budget films will also use the few-man crowd technique, but instead of digitally copying and pasting, they will shoot the crowd in tight frames with dummy torsos above and out of the frame. This gives the illusion of a shot portraying just a small portion of a larger group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some directors have the budget, resources, and time to create digital crowds, but as realists, choose to hire a stampede of live extras in a massive directorial feat. Christopher Nolan is one of such realists. During the Battle of Wall Street scene in the Dark Knight rises, Nolan shot an onslaught of over 1,000 performers bashing and brawling down the snowy bottleneck. (Further look up how they recorded the Rises main theme chant!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example of real-crowd display is the parade scene on Farris Bueler's Day Off. John Houghes and crew tell of sending out a mass invitation to be a part of a major feature film (impressively before Internet broadcast) and alongside a real parade, the pleasantly surprising turnout shot perfectly for this iconic scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Selena, the crowd during the Houston Astrodome concert, the bottom few rows were real people and the top few rows were cardboard cut-outs disguised by flashing cameras in the upper rows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some crowds are also shot from real concerts or events, and the film stars are cut and pasted onto the stage, which is common in musical artist biopics. Others are completely digital.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many more techniques and quite creative combinations of the ones above and I'm more than certain others will develop!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastActivityDate="2013-02-06T21:36:35.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2324" CreationDate="2013-02-06T22:08:04.910" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that we can all agree that the ending is up in the air, but were he dreaming in the end, what dream level he is in, can be one of at least two possibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1st level: Although we are introduced to the spinning totem early on in the film and further enlightened to its significance throughout, we only see it spin out once, in the hotel room before Cobb and Arthur catch the helicopter. The next time Cobb spins the top, in the restroom in Mombasa, it doesn't fall, Cobb accidentally knocks it off of the sink. So some think from his sleep in Yusef's basement on is all dream and the entire scheme never takes place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Limbo: Four levels down, in limbo, Cobb confronts his projection of Mal. This limbo is the limbo of the shared dreamers' subconscious. It is filled with what Cobb and Mal had left behind. Cobb describes this to Ariadne that he and Mal washed up on the shores of their own subconscious. When he washes upon the shores at the end, he is washing up on the shores of his and Saido's subconscious. If he and Saido kill themselves and it doesn't wake them up, but keeps them in Limbo, it is Cobb returning to his own Limbo, the otherwise unconstructed dream space that he's filled with his and Mal's house and projections of his children as he remembers them. He also brings in this image of the plane and Saido is there as well, and he follows his own path still within this vast detailed mixed-reality of Cobb's subconscious. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no real conclusion, but those are two possible levels that the conclusion may leave him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastActivityDate="2013-02-06T22:08:04.910" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9891" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-06T22:40:44.653" Score="19" ViewCount="109214" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following image is from the sitcom Cheers title sequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vxyJ8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image from title of Cheers&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/649/4328cheers23.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source: sitcomsonline.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone tell me where this image is from and why it is used in Cheers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4068" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T15:56:17.697" LastActivityDate="2017-06-23T14:01:40.903" Title="Why is this picture used in the opening titles of Cheers, and where is it from?" Tags="|credits|cheers|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9892" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-06T22:58:53.780" Score="23" ViewCount="2807" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've heard Stephen Baldwin talk about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Usual_Suspects&quot;&gt;The Usual Suspects&lt;/a&gt; fellowships who meet and try to pin the Keyser Söze identity on characters other than Verbal. I know that Verbal is the true Keyser Söze, but does anyone know any of these alleged proofs and particulars for other characters being Keyser Söze?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T17:22:17.843" LastActivityDate="2019-06-10T10:24:40.253" Title="Alternate conclusions of The Usual Suspects" Tags="|character|ending|the-usual-suspects|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6899" CreationDate="2013-02-07T04:10:24.097" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It clearly has to do with her actual name as she wouldn't have hit so snippy with him when he said that a few films ago. But I do not think her name is Emma. That's just an old geezers assumption and would he totally coincidental. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the M from Ian Flemings' short stories. Not the movies. Keep that in mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4070" LastActivityDate="2013-02-07T04:10:24.097" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9895" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-07T04:37:59.887" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based during the French Revolution, Jean Valjean is a prisoner who is given parole but he soon disappears and under an alias becomes major of a small town.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Valjean encounters an ex-employee of his, Fantine, who has had to resort to prostitution and he takes care of her. She soon dies but not without informing Valjean of her daughter, Cosette and she makes him promise to look after her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When another man is to be executed for being Jean Valjean, he comes clean and confesses. He begs to be allowed rescue Cosette but he isn't allowed by Inspector Javert. Valjean escapes and rescues Cosette before going into hiding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many years pass and Cosette is grown up. Marius is part of the Revolution and we he sees Cosette he instantly falls in love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Revilution rips through the Parisian streets causing a great loss of life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T22:04:42.503" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T22:04:42.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9896" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-07T04:37:59.887" Score="0" Body="2013 musical film based on the popular musical about the French Revolution." OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2013-02-07T05:50:38.730" LastActivityDate="2013-02-07T05:50:38.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4527" CreationDate="2013-02-07T13:14:46.743" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, Skyler was looking for a reason to stay back. A reason not to flee from this madness. Even though probably every fiber of her being told her to do so. When the entire situation was suggesting her to make a move, she came to the &lt;em&gt;Four Corners&lt;/em&gt; expecting the &quot;&lt;em&gt;Universe&lt;/em&gt;&quot; to indicate in some manner that she should stay back with her family and not run from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, she tosses the coin and lets the &quot;&lt;em&gt;Universe&lt;/em&gt;&quot; decide (&lt;em&gt;even though it was more like her asking fate to support her decision&lt;/em&gt;). But when both the tosses land up in &lt;em&gt;Colarado&lt;/em&gt;, she steels her will and pulls the coin &lt;strong&gt;back&lt;/strong&gt; to &lt;em&gt;New Mexico&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-17T01:25:04.617" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T01:25:04.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3045" CreationDate="2013-02-07T18:36:28.873" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The context and the character of the participants makes it very clear&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, as far as I recall the viewer &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; gets a glimpse inside the box, so, in one sense, the movie deliberately withholds evidence from the viewer. This might leave you doubting that Jon Doe had murdered Mills' wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the context of the scene does not. We know the characters of the individuals: John Doe is clearly capable and motivated to commit the murder and, to make his epic point, he has to commit an act capable of inciting Mills to the sin of Wrath; Somerset has a deep understanding  of human motivation and the specific pattern of Doe's crimes; Mills is in love with his wife and is not such a poorly controlled cop that he would react with vengeful wrath to many insults.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene plays out with Somerset opening the box. Somerset's reaction to seeing the contents suggests he knows immediately what Mills will do. He attempts to stop Mills obvious action by persuading him to disarm before looking in the box. What other possible content in the box could cause this reaction? Mills then looks and reacts with vengeance. What else could have persuaded him to do so? Mills has seen other atrocities committed by Doe and did not react this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only possibility here is that Doe has done what he claimed and the box contains Mills' wife's head. The fact it is not shown explicitly actually makes the climax more tense. You don't need to see everything to know what has happened (subtlety is good and treats audiences as intelligent people).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="134" LastEditDate="2018-06-10T14:19:15.080" LastActivityDate="2018-06-10T14:19:15.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9908" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9909" CreationDate="2013-02-08T00:08:24.130" Score="8" ViewCount="1956" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to know in what ways and why the concept, appearance, and manner of the zombie has changed from its original conception (early 20th century) to today's?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3902" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T11:40:40.460" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T11:40:40.460" Title="How were zombies first depicted in film?" Tags="|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9908" CreationDate="2013-02-08T00:29:59.893" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The silent film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cabinet_of_Dr._Caligari&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari&lt;/a&gt; from 1920 is thought to be the first depiction of zombies in film. While it doesn't feature the walking dead. The story is about the fantasies of an insane man who has dreams of murdering people. His walk, body motion and make up are the bases of modern day zombies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zL97g.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first appearance of the popular North American version of zombies was in the 1932 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Zombie_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;White Zombie&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fhgDR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original zombie was more of a &lt;code&gt;Frankenstein&lt;/code&gt; creation. A dead person brought back to life by intervention of either evil or science. Today's modern zombie are more born from the infection of a virus. Often the zombie was infected as a living person, and not directly brought back to life while in the grave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing that has change is the gap between death and zombie. The original zombie was often a long since dead cadaver re-animated, and today's zombie often come from the freshly dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most significant change since they first appeared is the introduction of the &lt;code&gt;zombie horde&lt;/code&gt;. The idea of zombies attacking in mass numbers was first introduced in the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Night of the Living Dead&lt;/a&gt;. This simple change had a dramatic impact on the effectiveness of scaring the audience. No longer were zombies just the fear of the dead coming back to life. It was the idea that a horde could swarm a house, town or city and eat everyone just by pure numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tyePO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So from re-animated Frankenstein zombie, to the living being turned into zombies and then the development of the zombie horde. That would be your progression in their history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2013-02-08T00:29:59.893" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3746" CreationDate="2013-02-08T01:59:01.150" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought it was because of the treatment of elephants in the circus. Time and time again these elephants are abused, beaten, and whipped, which creates an inevitable breaking point and they end up stampeding over everyone. Much in the same way, these pariahs who have been bullied far too long finally explode...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4080" LastActivityDate="2013-02-08T01:59:01.150" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3346" CreationDate="2013-02-08T04:39:31.857" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several things that you had to notice to put this together: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sherlock asks for Molly's help. With what? I'm gonna get there in a sec.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sherlock talked to the homeless network earlier in the episode for unknown reasons.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sherlock tells Watson exactly where to stand&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a truck full of garbage bags near the place where Sherlock lands. Before the truck arrive, there is an out of service bus parked in that spot to save it.  You can tell it's out of service because it's parked there for the duration of Sherlock's conversation with Moriarty, and there's even an old man banging on the door with a cane to no avail when Sherlock first stands on the ledge.   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Earlier in the episode, Sherlock is bouncing a ball in the hospital.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sherlock calls the reporter, Riley I think her name was...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherlock is on the roof of a hospital, meaning that there is no need for an ambulance.  He tells Watson exactly where to stand, and he tells Watson to keep his eyes on him the whole time so that Watson will not notice anything going on at the foot of the building.  Sherlock jumps off the building into the truck.  He could then get out of the truck and lay on the sidewalk.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bicyclist that hits Watson is part of the homeless network and hits him to disorient him, so he can't get to the body quickly. Also, the crowd of people that surround Sherlock's body are also homeless network people, because they make it impossible for Watson to see Sherlock's body right away.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watson goes to Sherlock's body, and checks the pulse.  He doesn't feel a pulse, but there is an explanation for this.  When the ball Sherlock was bouncing is squeezed between your arm and your body, it makes the feeling of a pulse disappear from your wrist.  Sherlock is rushed into the hospital, which does not let Watson accompany Sherlock, and Molly declares Sherlock dead.  Watson has to believe this because there is a funeral (for closure), and there is no other explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4081" LastEditorUserId="4174" LastEditDate="2013-09-05T04:17:23.137" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T04:17:23.137" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9913" CreationDate="2013-02-08T05:51:42.807" Score="12" ViewCount="35294" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often they make use of extras in a movie scene typically for depicting a crowd, a stadium filled with people, a rally, a procession etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to know that in which movie the highest number of extras were used for filming a scene. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-08T10:18:57.910" LastActivityDate="2017-01-31T21:25:53.770" Title="Which movie holds the record for using the highest number of extras in a scene?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9912" CreationDate="2013-02-08T06:37:30.763" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20051126142323/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=50642&quot;&gt;record&lt;/a&gt; for most extras is with 1982 classic &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083987/&quot;&gt;Gandhi&lt;/a&gt;, which used over 300,000 extras for the funeral scene. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDb Trivia snippet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;300,000 extras appeared in the funeral sequence. About 200,000 were&#xA;  volunteers and 94,560 were paid a small fee (under contract). The&#xA;  sequence was filmed on 31st Jan 1981, the 33rd anniversary of Mohandas&#xA;  K. Gandhi's funeral. 11 crews shot over 20,000 feet of film, which was&#xA;  pared down to 125 seconds in the final release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastActivityDate="2013-02-08T06:37:30.763" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9915" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9916" CreationDate="2013-02-08T09:38:26.567" Score="8" ViewCount="4602" Body="&lt;p&gt;I heard that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia%3a_The_Sands_of_Time_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Prince of Persia: The sands of time movie&lt;/a&gt; was based on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia%3a_The_Sands_of_Time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Prince of Persia: The sands of time video game&lt;/a&gt;. However in the wiki article it is said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a film loosely based on the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also found that the writers of the movie are Jordan Mechner, Boaz Yakin, Doug Miro. I am not aware of the story of the game. So is the story of the film not the same as that of the game? Also I could not see any attribute in the film to the game. So did the producers not buy the story legally from Ubisoft? What is the back story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T05:06:48.003" LastActivityDate="2017-06-15T09:43:13.603" Title="Is the story of the Prince of Persia movie purely based on the titular video game?" Tags="|production|video-game-adaptation|prince-of-persia|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9915" CreationDate="2013-02-08T13:23:41.033" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I commented, the story of the film only loosely has ideas from the game like the setting and some characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judging solely from my experience playing the game and the summary from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia:_The_Sands_of_Time_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, there are many more differences than I realized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To start, the prince is nameless in the game, and he is an actual prince, not an orphan brought into the king's court, nor does he have any siblings at all, nor does he have a princess selected out. In fact, the girl you meet in the game is but a lowly citizen that you meet during the adventure who in turn, helps you to complete the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason his father dies in the game is because, after raiding a city, they loot the Sands of Time containing the Dagger of Time. The kingdom is then betrayed by the Vizier. He tricks the prince into releasing the sands, killing almost everyone around the kingdom by turning them into fearsome sand beasts, including your father. The entire plot of the game revolves around collecting enough of the Sands of Time in order for the Prince to revert time back to the moment he released them, and to stop this action in order to save his kingdom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, the movie focuses on more of a plot of deception from within the kingdom. Dastan, who is essentially the Prince, is being betrayed by his Uncle Nizam for the throne. Nizam realizes that he can use the dagger to prevent the Prince from being the king of Persia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-14T21:50:26.120" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T21:50:26.120" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9915" CreationDate="2013-02-08T14:41:32.250" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an addition to &lt;em&gt;Tyler&lt;/em&gt;'s answer, while the story, the locations, the characters and their particular relationships are different from the game, there are still many general similarities in the story development of both the movie and the video game, apart from the obvious presence of the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Sand of Time&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, the dagger and the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Prince of Persia&quot;&lt;/em&gt; himself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar to the movie the &lt;em&gt;Vezier&lt;/em&gt; (though not being related to the &lt;em&gt;Prince&lt;/em&gt;'s family) more or less persuades the &lt;em&gt;Prince&lt;/em&gt;'s father to conquer a realm for more or less normal reasons (game: wealth and honor, movie: preemptive attack) just to secretly get his hands on the &lt;em&gt;Sand of Time&lt;/em&gt;. The &lt;em&gt;Prince&lt;/em&gt; in turn tries to impress his father, and steals the &lt;em&gt;Dagger of Time&lt;/em&gt; during this attack (not knowing what it can do), much to the dismay of the &lt;em&gt;Vezier&lt;/em&gt;'s evil plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On his way to correct things (though in the game everybody is dead/evil and in the movie he is merely banned/wanted for betrayal), he meets a girl who in the end knows much more about the &lt;em&gt;Sand&lt;/em&gt; and the &lt;em&gt;Dagger&lt;/em&gt;. She wants to get her hands on it in order to correct things, while the &lt;em&gt;Prince&lt;/em&gt; is rather stubborn, doesn't trust her and wants to do things his own way by keeping the dagger getting both into conflict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, they manage to find the source of the &lt;em&gt;Sand of Time&lt;/em&gt;, and by reuniting it with the &lt;em&gt;Dagger&lt;/em&gt;, turn back the time to the start of the adventure. The &lt;em&gt;Prince&lt;/em&gt; gets the chance to prevent all those evil things happening, and just hints at the girl (who has no memory of her adventure in the other timeline) as to what actually happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while the story is quite different, major plot elements along with the general personalities and relationships of the major characters are not that dissimilar between the movie and the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-14T21:58:16.670" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T21:58:16.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9915" CreationDate="2013-02-08T15:15:07.060" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per your production rite question, the answer is yes they brought the rights , As per &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia:_The_Sands_of_Time_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki statement&lt;/a&gt;- &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In March 2004, the production company Jerry Bruckheimer Films sought&#xA;  to acquire feature film rights to the 2003 video game Prince of&#xA;  Persia: The Sands of Time with the film to be distributed by Walt&#xA;  Disney Pictures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And giving attribute to game depends on the agreement terms and condition. And I think their is no need to give attribute if you brought the full rights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is just loosely based on the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and  Elements from Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones are also incorporated in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mechner, in writing the script, re-conceived the storyline to shift&#xA;  the perspective from the interactive one experienced by video gamers&#xA;  to the non-interactive experience by film audiences. The screenwriter&#xA;  left out elements of the Prince of Persia video games Warrior Within&#xA;  and The Two Thrones and did not anticipate including these elements in&#xA;  the film's possible sequels. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia:_The_Sands_of_Time_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather then explaining all the differences, we can only say that its story retelling by just taking some of characters but with different origin stories and little different situation. They removed the context of sand storm and monster and just made the movie full of more human rather the sand monsters. Other major differences are the death of king in different way, completely different princess story (princess  is a prisoner in the game), Vezir's have no relation to king in the game, an extra character brother of prince and different love story too. In the game prince doesn't trust the princess because of the wrong treatment to her by his own kingdom and she earned the trust later in the game. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-06-15T09:43:13.603" LastActivityDate="2017-06-15T09:43:13.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4109" CreationDate="2013-02-08T16:03:28.320" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As shown in the sequel, they are still trapped in the silent hill dimension because of the cult, which required Sharon (Now called Heather). And it's not any new dimension; they are in the same silent hill dimension. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; It's shown in the sequel that Sharon's mother transported her back to the&#xA; real world through the mirror using an amulet and she herself remains in the silent&#xA; hill to distract but things doesn't stop there...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-01T13:30:40.493" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T13:30:40.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8839" CreationDate="2013-02-08T16:30:47.000" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per the movie name says  X-Men: Days of Future Past  which it sounds similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Future_Past&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Days of Future Past&lt;/a&gt; comics storyline and as per the confirmed cast of Hugh Jackman, Ian Mckellen, Patrick Stewart, Anna Paquin, Shawn Ashmore, Ellen Page, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Jennifer Lawrence, and James McAvoy, it is clear that they are making it a midequel between X-Men new class and X-men trilogy. Its very difficult to connect it to Walvoreine &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The upcoming &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolverine_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Wolverine(2013)&lt;/a&gt; is intended to be a stand-alone film, taking place after the events of X-Men: The Last Stand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Producer Lauren Shuler Donner reported in August 2006 that&#xA;  renegotiations would be required to continue the main film series.&#xA;  Newer cast members were signed, while the older cast members,&#xA;  including Halle Berry, Rebecca Romijn, Famke Janssen, and Anna Paquin,&#xA;  were not. Donner admitted, &quot;There is forty years worth of stories.&#xA;  I’ve always wanted to do 'Days of Future Past' and there are just&#xA;  really a lot of stories yet to be told.&quot; She later pitched Bryan&#xA;  Singer on doing a fourth installment of the previously established&#xA;  X-Men franchise, following the completion of X-Men: First Class.&#xA;  In March 2011, Shuler Donner revealed that the film was in &quot;active&#xA;  development at Fox,&quot; saying, &quot;We took the treatment to Fox and they&#xA;  love it... And X4 leads into X5&quot;. In October 2012, Donner&#xA;  expressed interest in having the X-Men characters appear in Marvel&#xA;  Studios' independently produced Marvel Cinematic Universe films.&#xA;  Shuler Donner said, &quot;I would love it. I personally have close ties to&#xA;  Marvel because of Kevin Feige, because Kevin worked for me. But to&#xA;  take our characters and mingle them in the way that they were written,&#xA;  yeah, absolutely.&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_%28film_series%29#X-Men:_Days_of_Future_Past_.282014.29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To be directed by Bryan Singer, the film will feature the cast of&#xA;  X-Men: First Class along with the some of the cast from the original&#xA;  X-Men trilogy. Set in 1973, 10 years after X-Men: First Class, the&#xA;  film features a script from Simon Kinberg and is said to be&#xA;  inspired by Chris Claremont and John Byrne's X-Men comic book&#xA;  storyline, &quot;Days of Future Past&quot;. Matthew Vaughn was supposed to&#xA;  direct the film but left the director duties to focus on Mark Millar's&#xA;  The Secret Service film adaptation. Vaughn will still be attached to&#xA;  the film writing alongside Kinberg and producing. Confirmed&#xA;  cast members for the film include James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender,&#xA;  Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh&#xA;  Jackman, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, and Shawn Ashmore.&#xA;  The film is scheduled to go into production in April 2013, and is&#xA;  scheduled to be released on 18 July 2014.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;STRIKE&gt;Even Fox's upcoming reboot of the Fantastic Four film series will share continuity with the X-Men series, creating a shared universe similar to the Marvel Cinematic Universe produced by Marvel Studios.&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/STRIKE&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T07:22:13.740" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T07:22:13.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9921" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9924" CreationDate="2013-02-08T16:51:18.677" Score="12" ViewCount="630" Body="&lt;p&gt;As is widely regarded in both gaming and movie communities, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108255/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Super Mario Bros&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is considered one of the worst movies and adaptations of its time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is, what happened during production of this movie that led to the deviation of the plot from the game, thus making it a flop? (i.e. not having Peach, the Mario last name, Koopas are actually dinosaurs, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="3862" LastEditDate="2013-02-08T17:05:06.663" LastActivityDate="2013-02-08T17:47:57.723" Title="What went wrong with Super Mario Bros?" Tags="|video-game-adaptation|super-mario-bros|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9922" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9923" CreationDate="2013-02-08T17:24:45.173" Score="14" ViewCount="26247" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(Spoiler Ahead)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie Reservoir Dogs Mr Brown (played by Quentin Tarantino) is found dead after Mr White (Harvey Keitel) shoots down the cops. However before the brief shoot out he was talking to Mr Orange (Tim Roth) and complaining about blindness and blood in his eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although Brown was already injured, however his sudden death due to those injury looks a little vague to me. It is fairly possible that Orange would have shot Brown while White was shooting at the cops. Is there any pointers in the movie explaining his death in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3538" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-11T11:48:01.527" LastActivityDate="2017-11-05T14:19:00.783" Title="Who really killed Mr Brown in Reservoir Dogs?" Tags="|plot-explanation|reservoir-dogs|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9922" CreationDate="2013-02-08T17:44:51.157" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Brown was shot by the police (possibly the officers that Mr. White later fires on). He crashes the car as a result of his soon-to-be-fatal injury. Mr. Orange does not harm Mr. Brown - his shell-shocked behavior after Brown's death is due to the violence that he is witnessing, and not yet any that he has committed. He has, after all, just seen his friend Mr. White gun down two of his fellow officers. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105236/faq&quot;&gt;(Source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-26T12:36:38.327" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T12:36:38.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9921" CreationDate="2013-02-08T17:47:57.723" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Behind the scenes there were lots of problems.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/10/mario-s-film-folly-the-true-story-behind-hollywood-s-biggest-gaming-blunder.aspx?PostPageIndex=1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mario’s Film Folly: The True Story Behind Hollywood’s Biggest Gaming Blunder&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Directors &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0608084/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rocky Morton&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0417708/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Annabel Jankel&lt;/a&gt;’s vision for the film was much darker than the Nintendo game series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rocky Morton:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nintendo let us do whatever we wanted. They just put a crushing deadline on the project. &lt;strong&gt;The movie had to be made by a certain date, otherwise there were all these financial penalties, which added a lot of extra stress to the project.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[....]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the production rushed toward principal photography, &lt;strong&gt;the directors and producers struggled to agree on a script&lt;/strong&gt; to match the movie’s new direction. More rewrites were issued.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not everyone shared Morton and Jankel’s vision for the film.&lt;/strong&gt; The studio was expecting a lighthearted kids film, and most of the cast and crew had signed on with similar expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The tensions between these two visions began to tear apart the production.&lt;/strong&gt; The studio felt that the movie was too dark, pressuring Morton and Jankel to lighten the tone. Lightmotive brought in the writer from &lt;em&gt;Bill &amp;amp; Ted’s Excellent Adventure&lt;/em&gt; to write yet another version of the script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By this point, at least nine writers had worked on the film, and rewrites would continue long after the cameras started rolling.&lt;/strong&gt; The script ballooned into a rainbow of confusion as the production crew was continually handed new color-coded daily edits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-11-05/features/9204100424_1_super-mario-bros-king-koopa-video-games&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1992 &lt;em&gt;Chicago Tribune&lt;/em&gt; article&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;the crew began calling the directors derogatory names behind their back.&lt;/strong&gt; One of their favorites was “Rocky and Annabel, the Flying Squirrel Show.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone had different ways of dealing with the frustrating production schedule. &lt;strong&gt;John Leguizamo [...] started drinking. [He...] started doing shots of scotch with Hoskins between scenes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During a scene in which Leguizamo was driving a van, the actor was reportedly drunk and braked too hard, causing the sliding door to smash shut on Hoskins’ hand. During certain sequences of the film, Hoskins can briefly be seen wearing a pink cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Over budget, behind schedule, and managing a cast and crew that was either drunk, working off-script, or completely belligerent, Super Mario Bros. had run completely off rails.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;After principle photography ended, the film’s producers tried to cut Morton and Jankel out of the picture.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Click the link&lt;/em&gt; to read the full article. It has much more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001364/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bob Hoskins&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Mario)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/aug/03/2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;regrets doing&lt;/a&gt; the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The worst thing I ever did? Super Mario Brothers. &lt;strong&gt;It was a fuckin' nightmare.&lt;/strong&gt; The whole experience was a nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set! Fuckin' nightmare. Fuckin' idiots.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000491/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John Leguizamo's&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Luigi)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.armchairarcade.com/neo/node/1201&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;autobiography&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Pimps, Hos, Playas, And the Rest of my Hollywood Friends&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;[the directors] kept trying to insert new material.&lt;/strong&gt; They shot scenes with strippers and with other sexually-explicit content, which all got edited out anyway.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-02-08T17:47:57.723" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9925" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9927" CreationDate="2013-02-08T22:10:35.770" Score="7" ViewCount="5922" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_43&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Movie 43&lt;/a&gt; is a basic comedy shtick driven movie that seems to be directed at the humor level that teenage boys are supposed to have. It's not an entirely new type of movie following pretty much the basic premise of the Scary Movie's, Epic movie, &quot;Making-fun-of-genres&quot; movies that are out there today. However one of the biggest selling points for this movie as well as the main reason many will go see it is the many big name stars that are appearing in this movie. So how did this movie get so many big stars to act in it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2014-05-16T15:24:29.360" LastActivityDate="2018-10-16T09:09:53.590" Title="How did Movie 43 get so many big name stars?" Tags="|casting|movie-43|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9925" CreationDate="2013-02-08T22:41:24.723" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short most of them are Wessler's friend and second its due to Wessler's attitude of &lt;strong&gt;“Wait for them. Shoot when they want to shoot. Guilt them to death.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For long read the below mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_43#Cast&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia summary&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It took years for Wessler to recruit his actors for the film. He says&#xA;that he was turned down plenty of times because all the actors were&#xA;asked to work for scale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He says. “The truth is, I had a lot of&#xA;friends who were in this movie. And if they didn’t say yes, this movie&#xA;wouldn’t have gotten made.&amp;quot; In end, most of the actors were willing to&#xA;take part because the film only required a few days of their time and&#xA;often allowed them to play a character outside of their wheelhouse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hugh Jackman was the first actor Wessler cast. He met the star at a&#xA;wedding and then called him some time later and pitched him the short.&#xA;The actor read the script and agreed to be a part of the film. “He&#xA;called me back I think 24 hours later and said, ‘Yeah I wanna do&#xA;this,’ which I think is, quite frankly, incredibly ballsy. Because you&#xA;could be made a fool of, or you could look silly, and there will be&#xA;people who say, 'That’s crazy; he should never have done it.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After talking to the multiple agents of Kate Winslet, she eventually&#xA;agreed to take part. The Winslet-Jackman sketch, that was shot shortly&#xA;after, became the reel to attract other A-list stars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John Hodgman, who plays opposite Justin Long in one sketch, signed on&#xA;with no knowledge of the project. Hodgman said, “I got an e-mail from&#xA;Justin that said, ‘I’m going to be dressing up as Robin again. Do you&#xA;want to dress up as the Penguin?’ And I said yes. Without even&#xA;realizing cameras would be involved, or that it would be a movie.&#xA;Justin is one of the funniest people on earth.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Richard Gere,  said yes — though he wouldn’t be available for more than a year. So Wessler&#xA;waited him out. He thought the idea of his sketch was too good. Gere&#xA;eventually called Wessler and told him he was free to shoot, on just a&#xA;couple of conditions: They had to do it in four days, and they needed&#xA;to relocate the shoot from Los Angeles to New York.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It didn’t work on everyone. Colin Farrell initially agreed to be in&#xA;the Butler leprechaun sketch — as Butler’s brother, also a leprechaun&#xA;— but then he backed out and Gerard Butler did the sketch by himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Farrelly says that when he approached George Clooney about playing&#xA;himself in a sketch (the gag was that Clooney is bad at picking up&#xA;women), Clooney told him “No fucking way.” There was to be a sketch&#xA;directed by Bob Odenkirk that starred Anton Yelchin as a necrophiliac&#xA;who worked at a morgue and had sex with the dead female bodies that&#xA;was shown at a test screening of the film, but was cut out of the&#xA;final film. Producer John Penotti said that the sketch will be seen on&#xA;the DVD and Blu-ray of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-10-16T09:09:53.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9925" CreationDate="2013-02-08T22:55:59.440" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's actually an &lt;strong&gt;anthology&lt;/strong&gt;, consisting of about a dozen short sketches. It had a budget of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/the_ungodly_gross_out_epic_wood_mfCWrFl3qus9d0e1CRNWZN/1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;$6 million&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Co-director &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=98887&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Peter Farelly&lt;/strong&gt; explains&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;...it did take a few years because of the way &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0921853/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Charlie Wessler&lt;/a&gt; produced it along with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006597/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;John Penotti&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0268380/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;myself&lt;/a&gt; and from the beginning, they knew &lt;strong&gt;the only way to do this was to be able to work with the actor's schedules.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So in other words, when they call someone like Kate Winslet and Hugh Jackman and say, &amp;quot;Hey, would you want to do a short in this compilation film?&amp;quot; They might say, &amp;quot;Yeah, I'd love to but I can't do it for a year and a half&amp;quot; then they'd say, &amp;quot;Okay, we'll wait.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;That's how we did it. &lt;strong&gt;We had all different crews, all different directors&lt;/strong&gt; so it was easier to just shut down so &lt;strong&gt;we'd go sometimes a year without shooting one and then you'd do like three or four and then you'd wait six months and do a couple more. That's how we did it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the &lt;em&gt;Hugh Jackman&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Kate Winslet&lt;/em&gt; sketch &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/the_ungodly_gross_out_epic_wood_mfCWrFl3qus9d0e1CRNWZN/1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;was filmed almost 4 years ago&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charlie Wessler&lt;/strong&gt; is one of these guys, &lt;strong&gt;he's a bit of a Gatsby-like character because you might not have heard his name but everybody in Hollywood knows him.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's weird. He knows everybody. You'd be sitting in a room and no matter who comes up, he's like &amp;quot;Yeah, I worked with that guy.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;What?! What do you mean you used to work with them?&amp;quot; He was a P.A. on &amp;quot;Star Wars&amp;quot; and &lt;strong&gt;over the years, he's gotten to know everybody so pretty much everybody in the movie were acquaintances of his that he could just call personally&lt;/strong&gt; and say &amp;quot;Hey, listen do you want to do this thing? It's only going to take you one day.&amp;quot; And they'd be like, &amp;quot;Yeah, sure Charlie, I'll do that.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-02-08T23:02:58.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9929" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16472" CreationDate="2013-02-09T00:27:35.120" Score="8" ViewCount="9319" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love the parody films like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Spartans&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Meet the Spartans&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampires_Suck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vampires Suck&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_Movie_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scary Movie film series&lt;/a&gt;. I want to know which is the first film made which is parody of other film or films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-01-28T05:25:50.073" LastActivityDate="2015-04-25T12:08:35.450" Title="Which is the first parody film?" Tags="|first-appearance|parody|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9929" CreationDate="2013-02-09T01:13:59.143" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definition: &lt;b&gt;parody&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;i&gt;a musical, literary, or other composition that mimics the style of another composer, author, etc, in a humorous or satirical way.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would nominate the Laurel and Hardy movies as parodies of the originals. Movies were still in their infancy when Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy created shorts and full length feature films in the 1920s with monsters to comedic effect. I'm sure I'd do better if I knew my early 20th century film, but this is my first recognizeable case in point (from IMDB):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015763/combined&quot;&gt;Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde&lt;/a&gt; in 1925, parodies &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011130/combined&quot;&gt;Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde&lt;/a&gt; with John Barrymore (Grandfather of Drew Barrymore) in the lead roles of Jekyll and Hyde in 1920.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Abbott and Costello took up the idea in the 40's with Frankenstein, The Wolfman, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045469/&quot;&gt;Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde&lt;/a&gt; in 1953.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2013-02-09T01:55:35.880" LastActivityDate="2013-02-09T01:55:35.880" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9932" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-09T02:34:55.733" Score="3" ViewCount="441" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, Hollywood really likes to make scientists and mathematicians write on Plexiglas (or mirrors, or windows, or other transparent or reflective surfaces). Presumably it's so they can get shots like this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vIeNs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Gaussian proportions!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a face behind a wall of equations - no mathematician or scientist I have ever known has done anything even remotely like this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious to know how this got started. The oldest example I've been able to think of is the scene the image is from, in &lt;em&gt;Sneakers&lt;/em&gt; (1992), but that's still pretty recent...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheBigBoard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This TVTropes page&lt;/a&gt; is tangentially relevant (and has a few examples buried throughout).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1661" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T02:28:17.293" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T23:55:30.557" Title="What is the origin of the &quot;face behind a wall of equations&quot; shot?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9934" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9936" CreationDate="2013-02-09T14:37:05.250" Score="39" ViewCount="30646" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was always wondering how dialog between two people is filmed.&#xA;Suppose there are two people talking. The screen is switching between faces of the characters while they talk.&#xA;How it is done in reality?&#xA;Are there two cameras filming both faces simultaneously and the actors just talking as usual?&#xA;Or is the camera filming each actor separately while they say their part of text?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4089" LastEditorUserId="3265" LastEditDate="2013-02-11T15:15:47.077" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T07:26:25.187" Title="How is dialog between two people filmed?" Tags="|film-techniques|cinematography|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9929" CreationDate="2013-02-09T14:40:16.433" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Ages&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Three Ages&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Buster Keaton, 1923, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0014538/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;) is a parody of D. W. Griffith’s &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerance_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Intolerance&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1916, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006864/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Intolerance&lt;/em&gt; intercuts four parallel story lines each separated by several centuries and demonstrates mankind’s persistent intolerance throughout the ages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Three Ages&lt;/em&gt; has three plots in three different historical periods. It tells about the love of a man to a woman. Some background can be found in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article.html?isPreview=&amp;amp;id=443505%7C430493&amp;amp;name=The-Three-Ages&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TCM article&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.org/details/Silent_ThreeAges_1923&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Three Ages&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.org/details/Intolerance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Intolerance&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; are available at &lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;archive.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132" LastEditorUserId="3408" LastEditDate="2013-02-13T03:15:24.307" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T03:15:24.307" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9934" CreationDate="2013-02-09T14:56:54.543" Score="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;This will be achieved through a series of shots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's pretend you want to show a scene where two people are talking in a diner - here is the classic way to go about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First you shoot an establishing shot of the whole room - your actors can perform the whole scene and it doesn't matter if they mess up, as you will not be using the dialogue from this shot any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you would shoot a mid-shot. This would involve both actors in the frame, shot from the side (or even overhead), and they would perform the whole scene again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you would shoot a series of 'over the shoulder shots'. This is where you place the camera over the shoulder of one character while the other one speaks, then vice versa. One thing to remember is to place the camera over opposite shoulders, otherwise your line of action will be screwed up. You might even notice that actors don't look directly at each other during these shots, that's because an exaggerated eyeline (looking a few inches to the side of the other actor's head) reads better on film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next, you might want to shoot a series of 'talking head' shots, where it is just one actor in frame - you would use this for reactions and monologues, then repeat with the other actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, all the footage is edited together to create a seamless shot. The audio would generally be taken from the best take - if there is an issue with lip-sync then the editor now has plenty of coverage (extra shots) from which to cut away. Many times you might notice a long shot during a conversation, this is because the audio was perfect but the director didn't get a good shot of the actor. Watch mouths and backs of heads in these shots to see if the lips match the dialogue (not always!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've filmed in many different circumstances, and one scene which was a discussion at a dinner table involving six people once had to be shot piece-meal for time constraint reasons. I shot each actor saying their lines (I fed them each line), and then shot a series of establishing and reaction shots so that I could edit the whole thing together. It's not perfect, but that's independent film for you :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-02-09T14:56:54.543" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9937" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9938" CreationDate="2013-02-09T16:31:22.153" Score="27" ViewCount="6044" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can a movie from 1987 be better in HD than SD? Does that apply to all movies that were recorded on old-style film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4090" LastActivityDate="2013-05-16T20:59:57.227" Title="How can a movie from 1987 be better in HD than SD?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9937" CreationDate="2013-02-09T20:27:15.410" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the resolution of film is better than the resolution of standard-definition TV.  It is difficult to define the resolution of 'film' since it is not a digital, pixel based media.  But film is designed to be sharp even on much larger screens than any television.  We can however use the resolution of digital cinema projectors as a good proxy figure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to compare the resolutions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The technology used for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cinema&quot;&gt;Digital Cinema&lt;/a&gt; on large movie theatres are called '4k' projectors, and have a resolution of 4096 x 2160 pixels (8.8 megapixels).  Smaller screens can use '2k' systems 2048 x 1080 pixels (2.2 megapixels), but the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution&quot;&gt;4k&lt;/a&gt; systems are probably the closer proxy to film which can be projected onto very large screens.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Analogue &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard-definition_television&quot;&gt;SD TV&lt;/a&gt; has a vertical resolution of 480 or 576 interlaced lines.  Digital SD also varies in resolution, but the ATSD format is 720 x 480 pixels (under 0.4 megapixels).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Digital HD TV again has several formats, 720p and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p&quot;&gt;1080p&lt;/a&gt; are the most common. 1080p has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels (2.1 megapixels) - close to the lower standards of digital cinema projectors currently used.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see from the figures above, the resolution of film exceeds the resolution of SD television by some margin.  The resolution of HD TV approaches that of digital cinema.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a transfer of a movie shot on film to HD TV is going to result in a more faithful copy than than a transfer to SD TV.  So a movie shot in the 1980s (or even the 1930s) is going to look better in an HD transfer than an SD one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-05-16T20:59:57.227" LastActivityDate="2013-05-16T20:59:57.227" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9940" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9947" CreationDate="2013-02-10T01:20:41.510" Score="19" ViewCount="11854" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Netflix show &lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt; is replete with symbolism throughout. While some symbolic events are more obvious (Claire observing an older woman similar to a colleague she fired struggling at a cafe job comes to mind), others are less so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Near the end of the third episode (&quot;Chapter 3&quot;), Claire notices some young people making out in the cemetery. She pauses and smiles, but we get no further reaction. In a show laden with symbolism, and an episode reaching its conclusion, this event surely means &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What do the young people making out in the cemetery symbolize?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-12-10T08:43:41.693" LastActivityDate="2019-07-21T14:00:23.453" Title="What is the symbolism behind the young people making out in the cemetery?" Tags="|analysis|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9942" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-10T01:39:07.210" Score="7" ViewCount="1058" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first installment of the Sherlock Holmes franchisee, i.e. in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_%282009_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes&lt;/a&gt; movie, Lord Blackwood asks for an audience with Sherlock Holmes, as his 'last' request for no other purpose than to toy with him. But why would he risk Sherlock potentially foiling his plot? Does it relate to when he told Sherlock 'that you made all of this possible'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4092" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-02-10T22:40:09.730" LastActivityDate="2019-01-22T10:33:11.710" Title="Why would the villain involve Sherlock Holmes?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock-holmes-2009|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5784" CreationDate="2013-02-10T13:44:05.607" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anything to be played in theaters in India, needs CBFC certification (or rating). Let it be a movie (in any language, of any origin) or an advertisement, it needs the certificate. Playing videos directly in theaters, without certification is an offense in India. For CDs and DVDs certification is advised, but it is not needed for non-Indian movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4096" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-02-10T15:39:17.510" LastActivityDate="2013-02-10T15:39:17.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9942" CreationDate="2013-02-10T14:15:02.477" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer your question you must understand the way a criminal thinks. It is a known fact about criminal psychology that &quot;Every criminal thinks he is the best and that nobody other than him is as good as him and he would not make a single mistake like others did earlier&quot;. This is a wrong self-esteem which often leads criminals the most to their danger. Pride for oneself makes one more vulnerable in one's planning. Often the best brains of Criminals repeat this same mistake. Lord Blackwood no doubt was one of the best brains in his time. But he was no different from other criminals. He too had too much confidence in himself and considered himself undefeatable. In short, this false pride about himself made him challenge Sherlock to catch him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you observe carefully, Sherlock has been the only nail in Blackwood's road to success. He was literally the only one who caught Blackwood's tricks. When everybody was calling him Satan or black magician, Sherlock was the only one who revealed his tricks to everyone in the light of logic. So it is a fun for criminals like Blackwood to toy with a tough contender like Sherlock and make him perplexed. As a game does not seem good if the competition is not tough, the same way criminals don't get fun if the Police is not up-to-the-mark. This is the reason Blackwood wanted to involve Sherlock so that he can make Sherlock defeated to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-02-11T04:16:45.183" LastActivityDate="2013-02-11T04:16:45.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9940" CreationDate="2013-02-10T15:31:27.210" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the episode, Claire was running through the cemetery when she was berated by a woman, who said, &quot;You shouldn't run here, it's disgraceful. Have you no respect?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing the character, Claire's pride would have been dented by having been spoken down to in public in that way. She's a person used to getting her own way. My understanding of the scene with the couple making out is that it pleased Claire to see people misusing the cemetery in a way that she knew would be even more abhorent to the woman who berated her than simply running through it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put simply: it's one in the eye for the woman who dared to criticise Claire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="624" LastActivityDate="2013-02-10T15:31:27.210" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9948" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-10T15:33:22.637" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_%28U.S._TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;House of Cards&lt;/strong&gt; (U.S. TV series)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an adaption of the BBC TV series of the same name (→ &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/house-of-cards-uk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'house-of-cards-uk'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;house-of-cards-uk&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2015-03-13T19:12:13.000" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T19:12:13.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9949" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-10T15:33:22.637" Score="0" Body="&quot;House of Cards&quot;, a political drama series from 2013. &#xD;&#xA;For the original TV series from 1990, use [house-of-cards-uk]." OwnerUserId="624" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2015-03-13T20:06:14.127" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T20:06:14.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9950" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-10T17:26:31.060" Score="6" ViewCount="963" Body="&lt;p&gt;If &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangled&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tangled (2010)&lt;/a&gt; used live-action, what would have been the problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would the effect be different if Tangled was acted by real actors/actresses?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do film-makers decide which story will be produced as an animated film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1215" LastEditorUserId="8170" LastEditDate="2014-03-12T03:01:58.710" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T03:01:58.710" Title="Why are certain scripts produced as animated features instead of live-action?" Tags="|production|animation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9951" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-10T18:19:20.127" Score="3" ViewCount="3777" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since this is a question about a spoiler, I'm hoping I don't actually have to use spoiler markup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Near the end of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1686784/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Flying Swords of Dragon Gate&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; one extra twist is thrown into the mix. The &quot;maid&quot; who is said to be bearing the child of Yu Huatian (the head of the West Bureau) betrays the main characters and hopes to assist Yu Huatian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way it's presented makes it seem that this was the plan all along. But the beginning of the movie begs to differ. For instance, why would she have stayed with Ling after her life was saved? Was it because they expected Zhao to have saved her, instead of Ling? Then the &quot;maid&quot; decided that she would probably run into Zhao again if she stayed with Ling, even though there didn't seem to be any evidence that this would be the case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It comes down to two possible scenarios:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She is not a maid, was never a maid, likely not pregnant, and just set up as a trap?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She is actually a maid, and just keeps falling for Yu Huatian, which is the only reason she decides to help him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither scenarios seem very likely actually. What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1583" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-02-10T18:56:02.527" LastActivityDate="2021-10-30T18:09:25.303" Title="Understanding the final twist in Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" Tags="|plot-explanation|flying-swords-of-dragon-gate|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9950" CreationDate="2013-02-10T18:20:33.947" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Those Films Make Money&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tangled earned $559 million word wide from box office sales, not including merchandising profits. It cost $260 million to make. So doubling your investment isn't bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Riding_Hood_%282011_film%29&quot;&gt;Red Riding Hood (2011)&lt;/a&gt; was a live action story based upon a fairy tale. It cost much less $42 million, but only did $89 million. That would be counted as a success, except to a major studio $47 million in profit wouldn't cover their laundry bill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Animation is a stylized format that has a broader appeal then traditional film. So more people will watch it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2013-02-10T18:20:33.947" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9955" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-10T19:26:47.243" Score="4" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the start of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568338/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Man on a Ledge&lt;/a&gt;, Nick Cassidy goes to some lengths to make it hard for the police to discover his identity by using a false credit card and wiping his prints from the hotel room before he gets onto the ledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But some of the policemen at the scene have previous involvement with Englander, the character Cassidy is very publicly accused of stealing from. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how come they didn't recognize him sooner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-11T19:37:28.327" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T20:43:12.213" Title="Why don't more cops recognise the identity of the Man on a Ledge?" Tags="|plot-explanation|man-on-a-ledge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9961" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9962" CreationDate="2013-02-11T16:47:28.483" Score="6" ViewCount="1260" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of the movie, Vader and the storm troopers board Princess Leia's ship.  At one point Vader was holding a rebel in the air and was interrogating him, and then throws him away after he died.  I was somewhat confused as to how that rebel died.  Did he commit suicide, did Vader crush his throat, something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-02-11T16:56:45.410" LastActivityDate="2013-02-11T17:01:33.593" Title="Rebel in opening scenes of Star Wars Episode 4" Tags="|star-wars|a-new-hope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9961" CreationDate="2013-02-11T17:01:33.593" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The man that Vader is strangling is Captain Raymus Antilles.  He's the captain of the ship carrying Leia and the droids.  His death was by strangulation by Vader during that scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read about him &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Raymus_Antilles&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3541" LastActivityDate="2013-02-11T17:01:33.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2811" CreationDate="2013-02-11T21:56:38.217" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Historically accurate as compared to what? Game of Thrones is a fantasy, not based on history or any historical period, so there is no basis for comparing it to a historical event like the Battle of Hastings, for example. The story, and the style of fighting, is in the minds of the show's creators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4104" LastActivityDate="2013-02-11T21:56:38.217" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9968" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9969" CreationDate="2013-02-12T08:48:03.937" Score="19" ViewCount="13530" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched the 1992 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105695/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unforgiven&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and I liked it a lot. But how does the title of this movie relate to its story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-17T11:54:49.147" LastActivityDate="2023-12-17T22:11:16.387" Title="Why the title 'Unforgiven' in the movie Unforgiven?" Tags="|analysis|title|unforgiven|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9968" CreationDate="2013-02-12T15:25:03.087" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a good question, and sent me digging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/william_beard/Unforgiven.htm&quot;&gt;terrific essay on the film&lt;/a&gt; written by William Beard, and here is an excerpt that pertains to your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That he should get away with killing while Ned dies horribly for not&#xA;  killing creates the moral abyss into which Munny plunges in forsaking&#xA;  his “good” self and embracing again his “bad” one. Here lies a way to&#xA;  an interpretation of the film’s cryptic title. Munny’s wife Claudia,&#xA;  in attempting his regeneration, in pulling him out of the maelstrom of&#xA;  nihilistic compulsive violence and drunken self-obliteration into a&#xA;  world of principle and language and family and human self-recognition,&#xA;  forgives him. The act of forgiveness produces the (feminine)&#xA;  redemptive result of self-forgiveness. In addressing at last the&#xA;  buried consciousness of horror and guilt, the fiery cycle of&#xA;  repression and violence whose first victim is the perpetrator is&#xA;  broken, and the functional person William Munny (the “good”) is&#xA;  dredged up into view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once established in the social world of human relationships, gainful&#xA;  occupation, the code of civility and “decency,” Munny is happier than&#xA;  before. Even after the death of his wife, and despite the rather naive&#xA;  and rudimentary nature of the precepts upon which he leans, he&#xA;  continues forthrightly in the same path. The process which pushes him&#xA;  back off that path begins with a condition of economic hardship and&#xA;  the unfulfilling nature of his labour. Pig-farming is dirty,&#xA;  frustrating, humiliating, and profitless. The temptation to move into&#xA;  another form of paid work—killing for hire—is very strong, when that&#xA;  work suffers none of the drawbacks just enumerated. In drawing Ned&#xA;  Logan into the business, Munny wishes not only to provide himself with&#xA;  a dependable co-worker, but to give himself a degree of orientation in&#xA;  this strange endeavour. Ned, like Munny (and like the Eastwood persona&#xA;  too), is a former hellraiser, now a respectable freeholding family&#xA;  man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As the film proceeds Ned develops into Munny’s anchor to the world,&#xA;  his reassurance that he has forsaken the old ways (which Ned also&#xA;  witnessed), and his guarantee that his actions have some foothold in a&#xA;  worthwhile life-pattern, in decency and fellow-feeling. But Munny&#xA;  makes the mistake first of returning to killing (however different his&#xA;  motives this time) and second of pulling Ned with him. When this&#xA;  happens the results are different from what was anticipated (this too&#xA;  is morally instructive). It is Ned who is punished for the&#xA;  transgression, a transgression he did not truly commit; Munny does&#xA;  everything and goes free, and gets paid to boot. It is not just that&#xA;  any notion of a higher system of justice and moral equilibrium is&#xA;  derisorily contradicted by this development. The death of Ned is also&#xA;  Munny’s personal loss of his “good” self, his loss of Claudia’s&#xA;  forgiveness and his own self-forgiveness. &lt;strong&gt;When he walks into&#xA;  Greely’s to kill Skinny and Little Bill he is a creature who has lost&#xA;  salvation, a damned soul, “unforgiven.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that was too much to take in, in a nutshell Munny had been forgiven by his wife, society and, most importantly, by himself - but the lure of his old ways are too tempting and he regresses into the violent world he had left behind, ultimately destroying the last vestiges of his 'good' self through the death of Ned. Ultimately he realizes what he is, what he has always been; unforgiven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-02-12T15:56:36.400" LastActivityDate="2013-02-12T15:56:36.400" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9971" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-12T20:27:14.177" Score="12" ViewCount="2546" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this when I was &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; young, so my memories are spotty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot recall if this is a movie or a TV episode (older), nor whether it was color or black and white (though my memories include color, so it's entirely possible.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember aliens that were large, their bodies made up of thin tentacles (shaped kind of like &lt;em&gt;Cousin It&lt;/em&gt; from the Addam's Family) and one eye in the top center of their bodies. They disguised themselves as humans, and only one man on the show could see them. I remember this man laying on a doctor's table or something and looking up, and the guy above him was one of these aliens. I think he flipped out and no one could figure out why because no one else could see the creatures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was also a woman who I believe was... psychic or magical or something? In my memory, she looked like a genie (I do not know if this is accurate) with a high brown pony tail and poofy genie pants. She used her abilities to disguise herself as one of the creatures. You could tell the difference because her eye was a different color than the other creatures. (In my memories, hers was blue, the creatures were dark?) They discovered her, I think, and she had to flee and had trouble changing her form back into a human because her powers were weakened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember how this all ended, but this has been bothering me &lt;em&gt;forever&lt;/em&gt; and I have never found any help. Can anybody help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4114" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:16:34.507" LastActivityDate="2017-03-24T18:15:52.697" Title="One-eyed, tentacled aliens that disguise themselves as humans" Tags="|identify-this-movie|identify-this-tv-show|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:41:54.240" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9929" CreationDate="2013-02-12T20:46:09.910" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;em&gt;Parody As Film Genre: &quot;Never Give a Saga an Even Break&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (1999) by by Wes D. Gehring:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unlike other American film comedy genres such as the 1930s Depression birth of screwball comedy, or the front and center emergence of dark comedy in the 1960s, parody has been a mainstream part of American film comedy since the beginning. It was, in fact, a pivotal ingredient in the works of Mack Sennett, America's film comedy father. This comedy pioneer was at his best when spoofing the melodramatic adventure films of his mentor, D. W. Griffith. For instance, Sennett's &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Teddy at the Throttle&lt;/em&gt; (1917)&lt;/strong&gt; is a delightful takeoff on Griffith's propensity for the last-minute rescue, such as the close of his celebrated but still controversial &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Birth of a Nation&lt;/em&gt; (1915)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... Film comedy historian Gerald Mast reminds us that Sennett's &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Help! Help!&lt;/em&gt; (1912)&lt;/strong&gt; is a &quot;specific parody&quot; of Griffith's &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lonely Villa&lt;/em&gt; (1909)&lt;/strong&gt;, which Sennett had written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2013-02-12T20:46:09.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="435" CreationDate="2013-02-12T21:20:10.590" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've only seen the movie twice, but this is the impression I got from the hat. It represents composure and control. While Tom would never chase his hat through the woods, he does express a want for his hat every time he loses it. And he seems to lose it every time he loses control of a situation: someone ambushes him, he gets drunk and gambles it away, or he gets socked in the face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason he wouldn't chase his hat is because he's very worried about the impression he gives others. He values dignity and the image of keeping a cool head even when he's in very hot water. If he has his hat, he's composed, and if he's composed, he's still got some control of the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4115" LastActivityDate="2013-02-12T21:20:10.590" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9974" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10322" CreationDate="2013-02-12T22:18:53.917" Score="9" ViewCount="1288" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I saw &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; in 1977 I was lucky enough to be able to get a souvenir program about the movie, in much the same way that you commonly get for live theater. The program was 18 pages and contained cast member, plot and production details. It looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b71sX.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b71sX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Star Wars program handed as a souvenir&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Special showings of movies, such as happen in festivals, often have a printed page or brochure about the movie, but I think these used to be quite widely available for big blockbuster movies, especially when they were first shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, such souvenirs do not seem to be at all common nowadays.  What was the last movie to get a widely available program like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-06-21T20:33:47.067" LastActivityDate="2019-06-21T20:33:47.067" Title="What was the last movie to have a souvenir program available at showings?" Tags="|marketing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="9977" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-13T06:48:51.760" Score="21" ViewCount="1356" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that the production team for House of Cards knew the show would be streamed online as the only distribution method, did the directors and editors consider H.264's encoding limitations when planning shots and transitions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cross-fades, fades to/from black, and pans seem to be infrequently used. I was surprised to see scrolling credits instead of text with simple cuts, as scrolling text is more difficult to encode well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've heard that some music producers have used dynamic range compression and other mastering techniques to better accommodate MP3 and earbuds. I'm curious if there is any evidence that House of Cards might have done something similar for video encoding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3196" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-08-23T23:48:21.843" LastActivityDate="2013-08-23T23:48:21.843" Title="Did the director and editor for House of Cards make aesthetic decisions based on H.264 encoding limitations?" Tags="|directors|editing|house-of-cards|cinematography|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9981" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9983" CreationDate="2013-02-13T16:00:51.703" Score="11" ViewCount="6500" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series &lt;em&gt;Two &amp;amp; a Half Men&lt;/em&gt;, Charlie and Alan are brothers, but there is no indication as to who is the elder. Even Wikipedia doesn't say anything about this.&#xA;I have watched only season 1.&#xA;So may be it is revealed in a later season.&#xA;Who is the elder?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2018-01-16T09:35:19.257" LastActivityDate="2018-11-17T09:51:02.633" Title="Who is elder in Charlie and Alan?" Tags="|character|analysis|two-and-a-half-men|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9981" CreationDate="2013-02-13T16:07:40.473" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Charlie is the older brother. There are jokes in a number of episodes that establish this.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Also, the Two and a Half Men &lt;a href=&quot;http://twohalfmen.wikia.com/wiki/Alan_Harper&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt; does confirm this:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dr. Alan Jerome &quot;Al&quot; Harper, DC, is a character from the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men. Portrayed by Jon Cryer, Alan is the hapless and helpless biological father of Jake Harper, roommate and best friend of Walden Schmidt and the surviving &lt;b&gt;younger&lt;/b&gt; brother of Charlie Harper.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br&gt;The wiki lists the years of birth: Charlie: 1967, Alan: 1969.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2013-02-13T16:13:13.840" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T16:13:13.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9981" CreationDate="2013-02-13T16:26:53.447" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoting from Two and Half Men Wiki, in Season 7, episode 11 - &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Warning, It's Dirty&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Evelyn reminds Charlie how forty years earlier, he had asked for a&#xA;  little brother for Christmas, which in contrast puts in doubt whether&#xA;  Alan was unplanned or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, this proves that Charlie was the elder brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastActivityDate="2013-02-13T16:26:53.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1923" CreationDate="2013-02-14T01:36:35.167" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking there was something wrong with their targeting systems.  given that they basically couldn't see w/o their systems, they had to rely on them.  in the scene where the battleship turns all guns away from the alien ship and the weapons disarm, the alien controller appears frustrated.  like he knows its still a threat, but the systems don't and there is poor overrides mechanics.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4126" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T01:36:35.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2572" CreationDate="2013-02-14T02:18:02.767" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, firstly, it must be noted that this was actually not Christian Bale's overacting, but Nolan's directing. He even went as far as to push bale to growl more while filming and even more in post. There was a cut detail about the cowl housing some apparatus that disguises his voice to what it sounds like. Being that this is a Nolan move, I'm sure there is a symbolic purpose behind this voice. I would venture to say the batman voice is as different to Wayne's as the characters themselves. All Batman mythos harps on the duality of he character, or characters, rather. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T02:18:02.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9990" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10108" CreationDate="2013-02-14T05:17:37.497" Score="6" ViewCount="10739" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain the ending of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1650062/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Super 8&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to me by helping out with the following queries?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What caused all the metal to be attracted towards the water tower?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why in the world did the military leave the cubes lying around in the town even when they knew that the alien was there?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What was the Alien creating underground?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What did he need all the people for (the ones he keeps underground)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How did the alien recreate the ship?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="1111" LastEditDate="2013-02-17T06:47:25.257" LastActivityDate="2023-12-28T01:28:04.327" Title="Explanation for the ending of Super 8" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|super-8|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9992" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9993" CreationDate="2013-02-14T08:24:09.093" Score="8" ViewCount="3536" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1515091/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows&lt;/a&gt;, it is never mentioned which university Professor Moriarty teaches at. Did I miss it? Does the story have any clue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-18T11:43:05.333" LastActivityDate="2018-01-18T15:03:11.537" Title="At which university does Professor Moriarty teach?" Tags="|character|sherlock-holmes-a-game-of-shadows|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9992" CreationDate="2013-02-14T08:38:05.867" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie discusses nothing about the University, to which &lt;em&gt;Professor Moriarty&lt;/em&gt; is affiliated, neither gives any hints to ascertain that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even in the Sherlock Holmes books, Arthur Conan Doyle has not disclosed the name of the university, but only refers to him as a &lt;em&gt;mathematician&lt;/em&gt;, which makes him Professor of Mathematics. In &lt;em&gt;The Final Problem&lt;/em&gt;, Doyle, briefly refers to the university as &quot;one of our smaller universities&quot;, but never gives away the name of the university.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature&#xA;  with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. At the age of twenty-one he&#xA;  wrote a treatise upon the binomial theorem which has had a European&#xA;  vogue. On the strength of it, he won the mathematical chair at one of&#xA;  our smaller universities, and had, to all appearances, a most&#xA;  brilliant career before him. But the man had hereditary tendencies of&#xA;  the most diabolical kind. A criminal strain ran in his blood, which,&#xA;  instead of being modified, was increased and rendered infinitely more&#xA;  dangerous by his extraordinary mental powers. Dark rumors gathered&#xA;  round him in the University town, and eventually he was compelled to&#xA;  resign his chair and come down to London. He is the Napoleon of crime,&#xA;  Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all&#xA;  that is undetected in this great city... —Holmes, &quot;The Final Problem&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Moriarty#Personality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;smaller university&lt;/em&gt; was claimed to be one of the colleges, which&#xA;  later made &lt;em&gt;University of Leeds&lt;/em&gt; in an article published in 1989 in&#xA;  New Scientist. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12416962.200--james.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; needs subscription to read the entire&#xA;  content, and unfortunately the first paragraph which is free for&#xA;  access, has nothing to say about the reasoning which the author of the&#xA;  article uses to determine the aforementioned &lt;em&gt;college&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes%3a_The_Unauthorized_Biography&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, which was published in 2006, and is a  non-canonical Sherlock Holmes pastiche novel, the author refers to the University as &lt;strong&gt;Durham University&lt;/strong&gt;. Nonetheless, this is his take. Arthur Conan Doyle, never disclosed the University.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-18T13:32:03.910" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T13:32:03.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8797" CreationDate="2013-02-14T12:24:10.083" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 1 finale, when Brody and Walker meet in the tunnel, Walker tells Brody&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“We both got to the same place, Nick. I just got there quicker,”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keeping this statement, IMO, Walker was turned by Nazir and his men. There are no scenes of him, where he has been shown interacting with Nazir or any of his men, during his captivity, which masks any fact-based inference. He might or might not have needed an &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Isa&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for turning on the side of Nazir (which Brody needed). Nazir, very easily asks Brody to Kill Walker, which at least lets me ascertain that Nazir was not close to Walker, like he was with Brody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nazir nas his men, might have started with a premise, that his (Walker's) fellow countrymen, did not think twice before almost hitting him to dead, and that they (Nazir and his men) saved him. This might have acted as a starting point, from where they would have systematically brain-washed him!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, this is what I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T12:24:10.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9997" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-14T15:29:11.453" Score="1" ViewCount="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gamers%3a_Dorkness_Rising&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Gamers: Dorkness Rising&lt;/a&gt;, the character Lodge says &quot;no, you don't&quot; at one point, but he kind of stutters it.  This is the only time this character stutters in this movie.  Was this an editing issue?  Was this intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-14T15:49:04.147" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T22:19:07.567" Title="Was the stutter intentional?" Tags="|gamers-dorkness-rising|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9998" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="9999" CreationDate="2013-02-14T15:32:01.510" Score="3" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen Gamers 2 several times now, but I've never been sure which RPG they're supposed to be playing.  I believe it's supposed to be DND 3.5, but I am not sure on that.  So, are they playing 3.5?  How can you tell?  If not, what are they playing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T15:39:37.093" Title="Which RPG is being played in Gamers: Dorkness Rising?" Tags="|gamers-dorkness-rising|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="9999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9998" CreationDate="2013-02-14T15:39:37.093" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are correct in your assumption that they are playing DnD 3.5. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More specifically, they are playing the module called &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodman-games.com/50205preview.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Mask of Death&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, which is a real game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6wabH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the Mask of Death link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This module is a special limited edition produced exclusively for Gen Con Indy 2005. It presents chapter one of an adventure that chronicles the hilarious escapades of the hit film The Gamers: Dorkness Rising.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More info. can be found on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gamers:_Dorkness_Rising&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki page.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T15:39:37.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9990" CreationDate="2013-02-14T15:46:02.340" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am going to answer all of your questions per my memory and I think all of answers are in the movie itself -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Alien created a device, from the various stolen electronics, and attached it to the base of the tower, which attracts metal devices towards the water tower. The alien doesn't want to attract metal but wants to collect all his cubes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The military didn't leave the cubes around in the town but they are trying to research the cubes' technology. The train crash is the reason for the cubes to be distributed in town but most of the cubes are still with the Military. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Alien is trying to create a device which acts as a magnet to attract his cubes from all around the town.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I didn't get the 4th question, so I am not able to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The cubes are all responsible for making his ship. It's as if the alien has all of the pieces of cubes to easily make a ship.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-01T19:46:40.853" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T19:46:40.853" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10001" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10016" CreationDate="2013-02-14T16:08:15.820" Score="11" ViewCount="1098" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Hot Fuzz, they find a giant weapons cache at this old man's house.  I remember him saying something about he &quot;found&quot; them.  Do we have any idea where they came from?  If not, was this supposed to be a nod and a wink at some type of trope?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2017-09-13T21:33:02.827" LastActivityDate="2017-09-13T21:33:02.827" Title="Where did all the weapons come from?" Tags="|hot-fuzz|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10002" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-14T16:18:54.860" Score="10" ViewCount="1395" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I was watching Sherlock Holmes and The Game of Shadows. In that movie, several foreign languages like German, French etc. were used. The film itself had no translation in English despite some small elements. Some conversations were inaudible too. I do not mean those inaudible words cannot be guessed, but why is it done so? I have a feeling that they made such things (not showing translation in English, inaudible voices) intentionally and these are not errors. But I cannot understand how this technique can add value to the quality of any movie? Does anybody have explanations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-02-11T06:08:28.057" LastActivityDate="2017-03-04T07:03:10.510" Title="What is the point of making some dialogues inaudible and not showing some language translations?" Tags="|production|dialogue|translation|sherlock-holmes-a-game-of-shadows|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10002" CreationDate="2013-02-14T17:50:12.913" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't know about Sherlock Holmes case, so I am answering it in general way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is unintentional then it's movie mistake but if it's done intentionally then it can be due to various reasons&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To hide Spoiler&lt;/strong&gt;- sometimes it's done intentionally to add inaudible dialogue or foreign languages to hide the spoiler in a movie which may end up ruining the climax for the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For hilarious effect&lt;/strong&gt;- Sometimes it's for adding Humor as in the case of Luis Bunuel's The Phantom of Liberty. &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlotBasedVoiceCancellation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To reduce redundancy-&lt;/strong&gt; If the same sequence of event and dialogue is there in the movie then sometimes redundancy of dialogue is also reduced by using inaudible dialogue. &lt;strong&gt;Example-&lt;/strong&gt; About two-thirds of the way through North By Northwest, the Professor explains the whole &quot;George Kaplan&quot; scenario to Thornhill at the airport, and his voice is drowned out by the roar of plane engines. This is actually done to reduce redundancy. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In case of a foreign language, it is also used to present the events from the point of view of a certain character who doesn't speak the language, and thus does not understand it. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes some dialogues are not so important, so they may make it inaudible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it's also done to shorten the long conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some similar examples are given &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlotBasedVoiceCancellation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-03-03T09:01:49.373" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T09:01:49.373" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10004" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10005" CreationDate="2013-02-14T18:18:05.157" Score="33" ViewCount="9013" Body="&lt;p&gt;Django Unchained and Inglorius Basterds are both set in the same alternative history universe according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/quentin-tarantino-plans-inglorious-basterds-django/295888&quot;&gt;Tarantino&lt;/a&gt;. How many of the films made by Tarantino are set in the same universe? Are any of the films he's wrote or starred in but not directed set in the same universe? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="576" LastEditDate="2013-02-14T19:16:18.433" LastActivityDate="2018-04-13T03:52:45.740" Title="How many Tarantino films are set in the same universe?" Tags="|quentin-tarantino|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10004" CreationDate="2013-02-14T18:22:51.957" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tarantino is an odd figure, creating actual Universes for each of his characters that all tie into one another somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are broken up in a few categories including the &lt;strong&gt;Realer than Real Universe&lt;/strong&gt; which include his &lt;em&gt;history-altering&lt;/em&gt; pieces like &lt;em&gt;Basterds&lt;/em&gt; where these people are supposed to be living in a real world, as in the way Hitler was offed in this Universe, as far as the people in &lt;em&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/em&gt; are concerned, actually happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first evidence of this was brought on with a connection between &lt;em&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Reservoir Dogs&lt;/em&gt; where we have the &lt;strong&gt;Vega&lt;/strong&gt; brothers, Vic and Vincent.  Also, as a subtle hint, &lt;a href=&quot;http://25.media.tumblr.com/e5f26345f628a1742b15d0faff2d95a6/tumblr_mh9lfku35S1qgg5pwo1_500.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this image&lt;/a&gt; shows the connection between Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained with Captain Koons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, we have what he refers to as the &lt;strong&gt;Movie Movie Universe&lt;/strong&gt; where these movies are movies that the characters in his &lt;em&gt;Realer than Real Universe&lt;/em&gt; can go see at their local theatre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An interesting theory that has come of this is that Mia Wallace from Pulp Fiction could actually be playing The Bride - Beatrix Kiddo in Kill Bill, as she did attempt an acting career before and the &lt;em&gt;Fox Force Five&lt;/em&gt; failed pilot has a lot of similarities to &lt;em&gt;Kill Bill&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a matter to complicate things, it has been stated that he has characters than can &lt;em&gt;crossover&lt;/em&gt; these borders to be in both universes; supposedly Winston Wolf as well as a lowly guard Earl McGraw meet this criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, we have &lt;em&gt;Jackie Brown&lt;/em&gt; which apparently doesn't meet any of these criteria and is in it's own universe called the &lt;strong&gt;Elmore Leonard Universe&lt;/strong&gt;.  It seems this is set in its own universe because it was an adaptation of someone else's work, therefore it is set in its own universe entirely for this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Explained rather briefly but still effectively in this little &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.tarantino.info/index.php/Universes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki page&lt;/a&gt; it states simply that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reservoir Dogs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;True Romance&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Death Proof&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Inglorious Basterds&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Django Unchained&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are all a part of the &lt;strong&gt;Realer than Real Universe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Natural Born Killers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From Dusk 'Till Dawn&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kill Bill 1&amp;amp;2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are all a part of the &lt;strong&gt;Movie Movie Universe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This image, shows a great visual connection of all these movies...though it is a bit outdated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kRh0D.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T23:03:16.423" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10006" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-14T20:34:26.987" Score="9" ViewCount="1486" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wreck-It Ralph had it's World Premier October 29th 2012 and was released in the US a few days later on November 2nd 2012. The UK release of the film was a couple of months later on 8th February - was there any reason behind this delay? Films normally come out on the same day, or a couple of days apart rather than months. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is available online, to buy for digital download, from Feb 12th and the DVD/Blu-Ray from March 5th - when the film will still be in cinemas. Does this have something to do with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4130" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-14T21:11:59.547" LastActivityDate="2013-02-16T13:27:00.187" Title="Why was there such a large gap between the US and UK release of Wreck-It Ralph?" Tags="|distribution|wreck-it-ralph|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10007" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10013" CreationDate="2013-02-14T23:22:54.807" Score="5" ViewCount="1993" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106697/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Demolition Man&lt;/a&gt;, shortly after Spartan is thawed out, he tries to use the toilet after which he declares they have 3 shells where the toilet paper should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on in the film when Spartan finds himself knitting without thinking about it, we find out that everyone who was frozen went through a program during their sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is if they could teach prisoners new skills while they were frozen then why would they miss out something so fundamental as using the toilet properly? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first thought was that the programs were predetermined before the sentence but then I realised that Simon Phoenix's program was altered to give him access to the cities' computers and a bunch of martial arts skills along with his mission to kill Edgar Friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2164" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-02-15T13:24:13.647" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T15:06:46.570" Title="Why doesn't John Spartan know how to use the 3 shells?" Tags="|plot-explanation|demolition-man|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10008" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10009" CreationDate="2013-02-14T20:52:01.647" Score="13" ViewCount="1551" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm entertaining a dream in which I win €140,000,000 in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.euro-millions.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the EuroMillions draw&lt;/a&gt; and use it to fund the return of unfairly-cancelled shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using any available figures, how much would a third season of SGU cost to produce, to roughly the same &lt;em&gt;stellar&lt;/em&gt; level of production quality as was enjoyed by the first two seasons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind that some overheads for set construction and the like, not usually borne out per episode, or even per season, would now have to be covered for the first time since the first season premiere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4131" OwnerDisplayName="Lightness Races in Orbit" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-06T18:39:02.043" LastActivityDate="2016-11-06T18:39:02.043" Title="How much would a third season of SGU cost to produce?" Tags="|production|stargate|stargate-universe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10008" CreationDate="2013-02-14T21:21:07.267" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't seem to find a actual sourced number but most of the places I checked had a budget of between 1.5 and 3 million per episode. There was no budget jump between seasons 1 and 2 so you would need between 30 and 60 million to produce the normal 20 episode season. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your sets are normally amortized out over the course of the season as a part of the pre-filming production work. In other words, it is included in that 1.5 to 3 mil episode number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A final note: You would be unable to film single episodes for that value. The numbers presented here are the the &quot;economy of scale&quot; numbers that you would get by funding an entire season. If you tried to make a bunch of individual episodes, you would be paying some costs multiple times, resulting in a 25 to 50% increase in price (Depending on shooting schedule, your talent costs and pre and post productions cost). You would also have to pay for a license that would have to be negotiated and I have no way of determining how much that would cost you, beyond expensive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4248" OwnerDisplayName="sarge_smith" LastActivityDate="2013-02-14T21:29:27.410" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10010" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-15T00:01:29.130" Score="12" ViewCount="4083" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the basic understanding that the entire plot to Donnie Darko revolves around time traveling. As far as the ending is conceded, you may have various interpretations of what actually happened. The Director's Cut does dive into the book on time travel a bit but leaves me wanting a better explanation for what we see on screen. So what are the common theories to Donnie being dead or alive in both prior to the first plane engine crash and the second one seen in the final scene? Is that enough to understand the overall timeline (which is very complex and super confusing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4133" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-15T00:20:41.170" LastActivityDate="2021-08-17T17:56:25.530" Title="Are there any guides to the timeline of Donnie Darko?" Tags="|plot-explanation|time-travel|donnie-darko|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3198" CreationDate="2013-02-15T02:08:58.737" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well for starters, Marvin was their informant and Brett, Roger (guy on the couch) and Man #4 (hand cannon guy, guy in bathroom) were the targets. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Man #4 could have survived if he had stayed in the bathroom. Anyhow, Marvin was not purposely killed because he was ratting his fellow pencil-neck college students out so he could live. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A choice he later regretted (&lt;em&gt;as you can see when Brett is killed&lt;/em&gt;) but due to Vincent Vega's poor gun safety skills, Marvin gets his head blown off. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the reason it all happened in the first place was because Brett and his friends refused to give up the brief case for whatever reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4134" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-02-15T13:22:08.200" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T13:22:08.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9884" CreationDate="2013-02-15T04:45:21.913" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Whedon wasn't able to fully explain the back story to the Reavers. Whedon originally planed on stretching the universe of Firefly over years, including a video game. If you watch Done the Impossible (a fan documentary), Whedon says the plot of the film was intended to continue from where the show left off but also be easy for non-fans to understand. In full, I don't believe there is a way to answer this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4133" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T04:45:21.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10007" CreationDate="2013-02-15T10:26:18.317" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The prisoners &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_Man_%28film%29#Plot&quot;&gt;were exposed to&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;subconscious rehabilitation techniques&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Instead of &lt;em&gt;stealing&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;killing&lt;/em&gt;, the prisoners are &quot;brainwashed&quot; to do other, more harmless, stuff, e.g. &lt;em&gt;knitting&lt;/em&gt;. Keeping them up to date with social and technological changes is not part of the program, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_Man_%28film%29#Plot&quot;&gt;which is why&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the revived John Spartan has trouble adapting to life in the future&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_Man_%28film%29#Plot&quot;&gt;Regarding Simon Pheonix:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spartan and Huxley check prison records and determine that &lt;strong&gt;Cocteau programmed Phoenix to make him an even more dangerous criminal and assassin, with the goal of eliminating Edgar Friendly.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simon Phoenix's rehabilitation program was &quot;hijacked&quot; by Cocteau, e.g. Pheonix knows the password to open his restraints, which allows him to escape, and, as security measure, he has been programmed not to harm Cocteau &lt;em&gt;(which he circumvents by simply ordering one of his goons to kill him)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2013-02-15T10:34:58.790" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T10:34:58.790" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="830" CreationDate="2013-02-15T13:02:54.800" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was in fact a plot &lt;em&gt;device&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They also appear in a live TV broadcast talking to their wives in a normal dialogue - despite the fact that radio signals take at least several minutes to reach Earth from their location in space. The conspiracy is known to only a few officials, until &lt;strong&gt;alert technician Elliot Whitter (Robert Walden) notices that ground control receives the crew's television transmissions before the spacecraft telemetry arrives&lt;/strong&gt;. Whitter mysteriously disappears before he can finish sharing his concerns with journalist friend Robert Caulfield (Elliott Gould). (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricorn_One&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4131" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T13:02:54.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10010" CreationDate="2013-02-15T13:30:45.003" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a total of 2 timelines that we observe in Donnie Darko.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Primary Timeline&lt;/strong&gt; (Primary Universe)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Secondary Timeline&lt;/strong&gt; (Tangent Universe)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary timeline, is the one we see at the beginning of the film, starting from Donnie waking up in a random location, biking his way back home.  We continue seeing this timeline until the night he first sees Frank. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is in the next few hours after this encounter, that the &lt;strong&gt;Tangent Universe&lt;/strong&gt; is created.  This is due to Donnie not being in his bed when the jet engine hits his room.  He is meant to die in this encounter due to some unknown rules of the Universe, better explained in the book.    (I think even the book mentions that this can occur for unknown reasons).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the rest of the film, we are presented the &lt;strong&gt;Tangent Universe&lt;/strong&gt; until the end of the film, when the World is about to end.  Donnie summons a portal to lead both himself, and the jet engine &lt;em&gt;back into the Primary Universe&lt;/em&gt;, the same night that he left his bed to see Frank for the first time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is when we see him start crawling into his bed that we are back in the &lt;strong&gt;Primary Universe&lt;/strong&gt; until the end of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T13:30:45.003" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10001" CreationDate="2013-02-15T13:57:23.530" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is meant as a satire of other action films where people simply seem to have access to special force style weapon caches.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The joke (&quot;Found 'em&quot;) makes you think about where on earth all of these guns and a sea mine could possibly have come from and how the old man could have obtained them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T13:57:23.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10007" CreationDate="2013-02-15T15:06:46.570" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the most part, in the U.S. our education systems don't teach us all of the intricacies of daily living and social norms.  Sure, you can learn some basic life skills such as cooking, but using a toilet is typically taught as you grow up, by your parents.  We don't know for sure, but in their society there may have been a subtle shift from toilet paper to the three shells.  Parent swould change their teaching to match their preferences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To someone of that time it seems ridiculous that someone wouldn't know how to use the three shells &lt;strong&gt;because everyone was taught to use them at a young age&lt;/strong&gt;.  So they wouldn't think &quot;Oh, these convicts used to use toilet paper, we need to teach them to use the three shells.&quot;  It's just something you wouldn't even think about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T15:06:46.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10018" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-15T16:40:15.493" Score="3" ViewCount="2133" Body="&lt;p&gt;The classic film &quot;Friday&quot; opens with main character Craig (Ice Cube) explaining that he was fired from his job a shipping company. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;They said they got me on video, stealing boxes,&quot; Craig says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone asks if he really did it, he says &quot;I didn't steal any damn boxes,&quot; but at least to me, this denial doesn't sound very convincing. And Craig doesn't mention anything about trying to defend himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I've always wondered.. did Craig steal the boxes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T19:49:52.497" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T19:49:52.497" Title="Did Craig steal the boxes?" Tags="|friday|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10010" CreationDate="2013-02-15T17:15:22.610" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is a mistake to take the events of Donnie Darko literally, or to look for a logically consistent timeline or timelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a key extra scene on the DVD, in which Donnie is having a conversation with his father and says, &quot;Dad, I'm crazy.&quot; Not sure why this was omitted, but it strongly supports the interpretation that the film shows Donnie losing his mind -- as do all the included scenes involving Donnie's psychiatrist, who recognizes what is happening to Donnie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, Donnie's experiences in the movie are textbook symptoms of schizophrenia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;-he feels increasingly separated from family, friends, and peers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;-he thinks he can see into the future&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;-his fantasies -- like outing Patrick Swayze's criminal character, or (ahem) saving the universe -- put him in white-knight, savior-type roles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;-to him, the logic of the whole thing makes perfect sense, but to anyone else, it is beyond comprehension&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think part of the genius of Donnie Darko is that -- just like many real-life schizophrenics' hallucinations -- Donnie's fantasy almost starts to make sense if you strain to understand. But ultimately it only really makes sense to Donnie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T17:15:22.610" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10020" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10022" CreationDate="2013-02-15T18:13:58.653" Score="12" ViewCount="846" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the present, Finch shows signs of significant spinal trauma. He has a severe limp and his neck and upper back are generally held very rigidly. He'll turn his whole torso, or sometimes even his entire body, rather than just rotate his head to look at something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in most flashbacks we've seen him working fairly normally. In one scene, he's even jogging on a treadmill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has there been an explanation yet, as to what injuries Finch suffered to bring him into his present condition? I'm pretty sure I'm fully up to speed on the series, but don't recall any explanation thus far - is there something I've missed or forgotten?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="694" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-10T16:47:21.543" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T16:47:21.543" Title="Have Finch's back problems been explained?" Tags="|plot-explanation|person-of-interest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10021" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10024" CreationDate="2013-02-15T18:39:16.697" Score="11" ViewCount="4405" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is it that sometimes TV shows and movies use real operating systems (ie: Windows, Mac OS or Linux) and computers but then sometimes hide the logos or use a fake OS with an unrealistic GUI?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4138" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T11:50:07.010" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T00:48:59.803" Title="Why do they sometimes not use a real operating system in films?" Tags="|props|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10020" CreationDate="2013-02-15T18:39:55.533" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is currently known is that &lt;a href=&quot;http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/Harold_Finch#2009-2010&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;between 2009 and 2010&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finch is involved in an accident&lt;/strong&gt; and fakes his death [...] According to X-rays analyzed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/Megan_Tillman&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Megan Tillman&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Finch had a spinal fusion surgery&lt;/strong&gt; as a result of his injury during this time period, possibly due to the accident. &lt;em&gt;(Episode 1x04: &lt;a href=&quot;http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/Cura_Te_Ipsum&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cura Te Ipsum&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IsycJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;X-Ray&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As a result of [the spinal fusion surgery] and the preceding accident, Finch displays a range of physical disabilities&lt;/strong&gt; such as the inability to turn his head, rigid posture, a limp, and severe chronic pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;The season 2 finale &lt;em&gt;(Episode 2x22: &lt;a href=&quot;http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/God_Mode&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;God Mode&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt; reveals the cause for Finch's injury. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 2010 Finch was meeting with &lt;a href=&quot;http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/Nathan_Ingram&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nathan Ingram&lt;/a&gt; at a ferry dock when a nearby car bomb went off &lt;em&gt;(the bomb was meant for Ingram, because he was planning to talk to a reporter about The Machine)&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finch was, together with many other people, injured by the blast &lt;em&gt;(Nathan Ingram was killed)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2013-05-11T10:54:56.663" LastActivityDate="2013-05-11T10:54:56.663" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10023" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10027" CreationDate="2013-02-15T18:45:21.990" Score="5" ViewCount="738" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Power Rangers there have been various occasions where Rangers lose their powers. A few that stick out is the Might Morphin' Rangers when their Zords are destroyed prior to the Ninja Quest episodes, the Turbo Rangers when the Power Chamber is destroyed when the Overdrive Rangers lose their powers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Mighty Morphin' it can be interpreted that the connection between the Power Coins and the Zords are the same. However one would expect the Grid to be destroyed after Zordon's death but it was not. Lastly in Operation Overdrive the Grid is depicted like the internal parts of a computer (which may be non-cannon compared it's physical depiction in Dino Thunder).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads me to the question: is it possible to completely destroy the Morphing Grid? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4133" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T13:50:17.627" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T23:23:41.333" Title="Is it possible to destroy the Morphing Grid?" Tags="|power-rangers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10021" CreationDate="2013-02-15T18:47:54.777" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It could be for dramatization, or it may be caused by legal and/or&#xA;  financial issues. Some of the reasons are listed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;OSs and software interfaces are considered intellectual property, and are therefore copyright protected. Most of them are or also represent&#xA;  a brand. It would require a paid or unpaid agreement by the&#xA;  copyright holder or brand owner to depict them.&#xA;  In &lt;em&gt;24&lt;/em&gt; (TV series) for instance, CTU has been using Apple Displays most of the time while the software shown was proprietary. Apple&#xA;  remained uncredited. In later seasons however, &lt;em&gt;24&lt;/em&gt; made heavy use of&#xA;  &quot;Cisco Teleconference Systems&quot;, and showed their logo frequently. The&#xA;  credits revealed that there was financial support by Cisco&#xA;  accordingly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Product placement is still not legal in many countries without a &quot;proper warning&quot; (e.g. in Germany).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Most OSs or familiarly known software apps don't do as quickly and easily what a screenplay requires them to do. They also don't look as&#xA;  spectacular and certainly not lucid enough to display the necessary&#xA;  clarity and/or impressiveness for a quick cut to their interface in&#xA;  order to reveal at a glimpse what the machine is currently chewing on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;There is an image problem. It has been a strong habit for the last decade to show the good guys using Apple Macs vs. the bad guys using&#xA;  Windows PCs. It's&#xA;  certainly not a problem that the bad guys use Windows, but it is a&#xA;  problem if the good guys win, because the bad guys used Windows&#xA;  (hacked their system or something fictional that wouldn't -- or&#xA;  actually would! -- work in reality). If you look closely, you will&#xA;  often find Apple computers with the logo rendered unrecognizable,&#xA;  while the case design is obviously non-PC.&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/Why-do-movies-and-TV-shows-often-show-fake-operating-systems-and-software-interfaces&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And sometimes movies/TV shows don't show the real logo or operating system just to hide the real product because they are not getting paid for it. I mean the producer/director is not willing to do free advertisement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For more details on fake brand endorsing in movies and TV shows, refer&#xA;  to the following questions: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2418/are-fictional-trademarks-or-brand-names-used-in-movies-and-tv-legally-held&quot;&gt;1) Are fictional trademarks or brand names used in movies and TV&#xA;  legally held?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/1665/why-do-so-many-movies-tv-shows-feature-recognizable-un-branded-or-re-branded&quot;&gt;2) Why do so many movies &amp;amp; TV shows feature recognizable, un-branded&#xA;  or re-branded products?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May this answer help you in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T00:48:59.803" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9884" CreationDate="2013-02-15T20:17:41.767" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's almost like pheromones. If you don't exude a certain secretion or smell you are perceived as in this case a target. That's why they don't (assumption) attack each other. The opposite effect for zombies. The living put out a certain something that attracts the walking dead or undead as the case maybe.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4139" LastActivityDate="2013-02-15T20:17:41.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10023" CreationDate="2013-02-15T22:51:04.813" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the Operation Overdrive team-up &quot;Once A Ranger&quot;, the Morphing Grid&#xA;  was damaged by the combined powers of Thrax, Flurious, Moltor,&#xA;  Miratrix, Kamdor, Mig, and Benglo. The grid was shown to have massive&#xA;  electric surges firing off inside. When the Sentinel Knight restored&#xA;  the Veteran Rangers' powers, it was shown that the only part of the&#xA;  grid that had been damaged was the section that connected to the&#xA;  Overdrive Rangers. Andrew Hartford managed to reinforce the Grid to&#xA;  prevent further damage, but it had to be repaired from the inside,&#xA;  which Alpha 6 did.&lt;a href=&quot;http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Morphing_Grid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means the Morphing Grid is distributive, but requires a lot of effort, and it depends on the franchise owner to end the Power Ranger series or keep it going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no information on whether Operation Overdrive is not canon, so we can think it's canon too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Each team of Rangers has a specific link to the Morphing Grid&lt;a href=&quot;http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Morphing_Grid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its only Dino thunder where it is cleared that the Morphing Grid has physical significance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Season 2 of MMPR, it was mentioned by Lord Zedd that the Grid is&#xA;  maintained by a balance between the major forces of Good and the major&#xA;  forces of Evil, i.e. in that time period, Zordon and Lord Zedd.&lt;a href=&quot;http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Morphing_Grid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that means it's like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yin and Yang&lt;/a&gt;: the grid will remain nondestructive until there is balance between good and evil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-01T23:23:41.333" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T23:23:41.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10006" CreationDate="2013-02-16T13:27:00.187" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, let's clear up a misconception. Films &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; normally &quot;come out on the same day&quot;. It is more common for this to happen nowadays, but many films still have several weeks or months between American release and European/worldwide release. (10 years ago, in the UK we had to wait 6 months in most cases.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several reasons why films are released at different times, including cost, negotiating distribution rights and local sensitivities. Some of this is answered here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9064/why-is-international-distribution-so-tangled-even-for-recent-movies-released-fir&quot;&gt;Why is international distribution so tangled even for recent movies released first online?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the specific case of &lt;em&gt;Wreck-It Ralph&lt;/em&gt;, movies targeted at children are usually released to coincide with school holidays to take advantage of daytime showings. It is currently &quot;half-term week&quot; in the UK (some schools last week, some this week) so it was released last week to maximise attendance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;em&gt;Wreck-It Ralph&lt;/em&gt; was released last November in the US I suppose it could have been released in December to take advantage of the Christmas holidays, however I believe cinema attendances are lower during that period (as people prefer to stay at home or are busy visiting relatives).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2013-02-16T13:27:00.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10032" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-16T13:30:00.770" Score="4" ViewCount="3142" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the later part of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606378/?ref_=sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Good Day to Die Hard&lt;/a&gt; the two McClanes steal a car to follow the bad guys. They drive from Moscow to Chernobyl, which is in the middle of the Ukraine, a long way from Moscow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bad guys went in a helicopter as far as I can tell. So how did the McClanes get there nearly as fast as the bad guys?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2016-10-15T19:46:12.160" Title="How did the two McClanes get to Chernobyl as quickly as the bad guys?" Tags="|plot-explanation|a-good-day-to-die-hard|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10033" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10034" CreationDate="2013-02-16T17:09:37.717" Score="12" ViewCount="7293" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when &lt;em&gt;Gandalf&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Bilbo&lt;/em&gt; meet the first time, &lt;em&gt;Bilbo&lt;/em&gt; says he doesn't remember his past meeting with &lt;em&gt;Gandalf&lt;/em&gt; and only remembers him for his fireworks, but &lt;em&gt;Gandalf&lt;/em&gt; talks like &lt;em&gt;Bilbo&lt;/em&gt; is acting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do they know each other very well before? Is there any story which tells about their meeting earlier?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="937" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-02-16T18:14:31.810" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T21:11:18.747" Title="What is the past history between Gandalf and Bilbo?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10033" CreationDate="2013-02-16T18:49:58.697" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the books of the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, Gandalf is known to hobbits and to Bilbo, but Hobbits are rather insular in general.  As an outsider Gandalf is somewhat distrusted, but he is known for his fireworks which are much liked. Gandalf from his side has taken a liking to Hobbits and knows a lot about them and their history - so is known in the Shire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there is a suggestion that they did meet when Bilbo was a child, but I do not believe that Bilbo is lying or acting here - I don't think there is a personal history between him and Gandalf, I just don't think he remembers anything more than the firework displays. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2013-02-16T18:49:58.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10035" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10040" CreationDate="2013-02-16T19:19:36.267" Score="20" ViewCount="793" Body="&lt;p&gt;The legendary Kubrick comedy &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/?ref_=sr_1&quot;&gt;Dr. Strangelove&lt;/a&gt; is based on the book &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alert-RosettaBooks-into-Film-ebook/dp/B003XVYLA8/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1361041473&amp;amp;sr=1-1&quot;&gt;Red Alert&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; which is in no way comedic. At the time of release, not long after the Cuban Missile Crisis, apocalyptic pessimism was the norm. There was even another movie with a similar plot, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058083/?ref_=fn_al_nm_3a&quot;&gt;Fail Safe&lt;/a&gt; released in the same year as a serious drama/thriller.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how did a serious novel about nuclear doom turn into a comedy? Was it always intended to be a comedy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T01:27:43.307" Title="Was Dr. Strangelove originally intended to be serious?" Tags="|cinema-history|comedy|dr.-strangelove|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10036" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-16T19:25:05.040" Score="5" ViewCount="639" Body="&lt;p&gt;In BBC detective drama &lt;em&gt;Ripper Street&lt;/em&gt; there is an American character, captain Homer Jackson (played by American actor Adam Rothenberg): former U.S. Army surgeon, ex-Pinkerton agent etc. For the story set in late XIX century, his accent appeared to me as modern. Mayhaps, more articulate, but still average American speech.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am by no means a dialectologist, but it seems to me that century ago American accent was a lot closer to British. Today, perhaps, the dialects like Bostonian survive, that in some ways similar, and so it was earlier, as evidenced in MIT calculus videos form the 50s or 60s that I have seen. But listening to some examples of speech from first half of the XX century, such as F. D. Roosevelt speeches, it appears that today’s American accent is different from what it used to be: less articulate, a bit slurred, and slower, and ultimately easier to learn (I can attest, as a foreigner, that it takes less mental effort to speak American, even though I learned Queen’s English in the grade school).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is Jackson’s accent authentic, or they made it less such whether by accident (negligence), or in a deliberate attempt to more clearly differentiate that American from the rest of the Brits in the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3408" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-02-18T05:31:28.267" LastActivityDate="2018-01-04T15:54:25.143" Title="Is Captain Jackson’s accent authentic?" Tags="|realism|character|ripper-street|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10037" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10038" CreationDate="2013-02-16T20:23:30.570" Score="45" ViewCount="1373211" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I haven't read the book (shame on me). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember one of the last scenes of &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King&lt;/em&gt;  shows Frodo, Gandalf, Bilbo and some others leave by ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where are they going to, and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4146" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-02-17T02:42:36.203" LastActivityDate="2022-01-25T21:24:54.083" Title="Where are Frodo, Gandalf and the others going at the end and why?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10037" CreationDate="2013-02-16T21:04:30.307" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frodo leaves Middle-earth for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aman_(Tolkien)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Undying Lands&lt;/a&gt; with Gandalf, Bilbo, Elrond, Celeborn, and Galadriel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is considered a mystical land, home to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_%28Middle-earth%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Valar&lt;/a&gt;, 'angelic' beings, also known as the 'masters of spirits'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Undying_Lands&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;LotR wiki&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In TA 3021 (Third Age), Círdan the Shipwright accompanied Elrond, Galadriel, and Gandalf, the Keepers of the Rings, on a voyage to the Undying Lands, where they intended to remain. They were also joined by Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, Hobbits who were among the very few mortal beings to be allowed passage to the Undying Lands.&#xA;  Eventually, Samwise Gamgee, another Hobbit of the Shire, and the Dwarf Gimli along with his good friend Legolas, are also said to have made the journey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; they made the journey, there seems to only be speculation, although the most common agreement is that Tolkien chose to have his beloved characters travel there, seemingly to remain, in order for them to live forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;EDIT: It has been pointed out that, as mortals, eternal life would not be an option for the hobbits, so perhaps we should consider it more of a happy retirement.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another, more thorough, answer could be the following, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101023020002AAw4xem&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Yahoo&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;His [Frodo's] journey to Mordor had scarred him, physically and emotionally. He would never fully heal. Arwen gave him her seat on the last ship (the only thing of note she ever did in the whole danged book) so that he could find rest. All of the ring bearers left Middle-earth; Gandalf, Galadriel, Elrond, Bilbo, Frodo, and even Sam after his children were grown and Rosie passed away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="19132" LastEditDate="2016-11-30T22:08:20.910" LastActivityDate="2016-11-30T22:08:20.910" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10033" CreationDate="2013-02-16T21:34:40.403" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;That &quot;backstory&quot; is told in &lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkiengeek.blogspot.co.at/2007/03/quest-for-erebor.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Quest for Erebor&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which is one of Tolkien's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfinished_Tales&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unfinished Tales&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is Tolkien's account of the events that led up to &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; from Gandalf's point of view&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nto-ttt.ru/prtrans/erebor/er_orig.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quote&lt;/a&gt; from Gandalf:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Somehow I had been attracted by Bilbo long before, as a child, and a young hobbit: he had not quite come of age when I had last seen him. He had stayed in my mind ever since, with his eagerness and his bright eyes, and his love of tales, and his questions about the wide world outside the Shire...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;All in all &lt;a href=&quot;http://hole-intheground.blogspot.co.at/2012/09/the-hobbit-reread-3-quest-of-erebor.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the short tale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;sheds light not only on Gandalf's motivations in working with Thorin and nudging Bilbo into the quest, but also reveals the dwarves' less than admirable [sic] opinions of our hobbit hero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1548" LastEditDate="2013-03-22T21:11:18.747" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T21:11:18.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10035" CreationDate="2013-02-16T22:06:12.017" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Initially it was a intended to be a drama, but as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tcm.turner.com/this-month/article.html?isPreview=&amp;amp;id=71571%7C71595&amp;amp;name=The-Big-Idea&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kubrick started to work on the screenplay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;he began to see the absurdity and humor in many of the scenes and decided to write instead a &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;nightmare comedy.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;To &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0017.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;quote &lt;strong&gt;Kubrick&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;After all, what could be more absurd than the very idea of two mega-powers willing to wipe out all human life because of an accident, spiced up by political differeces that will seem as meaningless to people a hundred years from now as the theological conflicts of the Middle Ages appear to us today?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And it was at this point &lt;strong&gt;I decided to treat the story as a nightmare comedy&lt;/strong&gt;. Following this approach, I found it never interfered with presenting well-reasoned arguments.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In culling the incongruous, it seemed to me to be less stylized and more realistic than any so-called serious, realistic treatment, which in fact is more stylized than life itself by its careful exclusion of the banal, the absurd, and the incongrous.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In the contect of impending world destruction, hypocrisy, misunderstanding, lechery, paranoia, ambition, euphemism, patrioism, heroism, and even reasonableness can evoke a grisly laugh.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Southern#Dr._Strangelove&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Terry Southern&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tcm.turner.com/this-month/article.html?isPreview=&amp;amp;id=71571%7C71595&amp;amp;name=The-Big-Idea&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;brought in&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to punch up the humor and flesh out the comically grotesque characters&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T01:27:43.307" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2064" CreationDate="2013-02-16T22:41:05.333" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its a reference to the power of selfless action for the greater good. Martin Luther King and Gandhi both acted in similar fashion. Their deaths were a catalyst of greater social change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original act of selflessness for the salvation of humanity was that of Jesus Christ. Obiwan's death (Oh be One is a play on words referencing the union of Christ the Son and God the Father) is an homage to Christ's death and resurrection. Jesus appeared multiple times to his disciples after having risen much like Obiwan appears to LUKE as a spirit several times through out the trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4147" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T09:47:51.173" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T09:47:51.173" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10042" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11263" CreationDate="2013-02-17T00:12:53.590" Score="2" ViewCount="13872" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2013 new release Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D, the last line in the film is spoken by Heather as she takes the food upstairs from Jed and locks the door.  I couldn't make out what she said, and it's kind of crucial to the plot as I don't know if she chose to stay with him or not.  Does anyone know what it was?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1511" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T06:50:07.573" LastActivityDate="2017-03-07T02:58:59.867" Title="What is the last line spoken in Texas Chainsaw Massacre" Tags="|analysis|dialogue|texas-chainsaw-3d|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8323" CreationDate="2013-02-17T06:01:56.707" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Tiger not coming out until the hyena began to attack Pi must be the sign of the tiger being represented as the cruel/animal side of Pi which was brought on by the atrocities of the cook. So the second story was true but Pi makes up another story and ties all the human characters to their animal counterparts which is what I like to believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4151" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-04-19T06:53:01.677" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T06:53:01.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10046" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10047" CreationDate="2013-02-17T14:59:21.520" Score="19" ViewCount="3671" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the discussion between Saruman, Gandalf, Elrond and Galadriel in Rivendell, Gandalf says Radagast the Brown saw the necromancer on Dol Guldur, and that he appeared to have summoned the dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Is the Necromancer who summoned the dead actually &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sauron&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were there any plot details in the film that I might have missed which confirm the existence of Sauron?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="937" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2013-02-18T23:43:26.897" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T19:19:57.287" Title="Existence of Sauron in The Hobbit" Tags="|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10046" CreationDate="2013-02-17T15:31:39.220" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of this is original dialog written for The Hobbit movie intended to link it with The Lord of the Rings, and to give them enough story to expand the short novel to three movies.  The novel has no such scene in it, however information about The Necromancer who inhabits Dol Guldur can be found in TLOTR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of The Hobbit, it is presumed that Sauron's defeat when the ring is cut from his hand and lost 'forever' was final.  We know from TLOTR that this is not true, and by the time that Bilbo relinquishes the ring and we are first made aware of him in the story, Sauron has re-inhabited Barad Dur in Mordor and is rebuilding his army openly.  The movies of the Hobbit are going to try to bridge that gap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; It is revealed in the backstory of the novel of TLOTR that the Necromancer of Dol Guldur is Sauron, who has chosen that location because it is close to the Gladden Fields where he believes the ring was lost.  Relatively weak he has not revealed who he is, but his influence has changed Greenwood the Great, and is has become a more dangerous place renamed Mirkwood.  Gandalf sets out and discovers that the Necromancer is Sauron, and carries that information back to the White Council.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have not missed anything yet in the story.  I suspect we will see all of the above story, and what the White Council chooses to do with that information in Parts II and III of the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2013-02-17T15:31:39.220" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10046" CreationDate="2013-02-17T17:02:13.360" Score="15" Body="&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Necromancer is indeed Sauron himself, but from what I gather, he was never mentioned by name in &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In chapter seven of the book — “Queer Lodgings” — Gandalf is about to leave the party, and explains the route the rest must take. When Bilbo inquires if there was some safer indirect way, Gandalf says “There are no safe paths in this part of the world”, and proceeds to enumerate the dangers, one of which being the Necromancer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Before you could get round it [Mirkwood] in the South, you would get into the land of the Necromancer; and even you, Bilbo, won’t need me to tell you tales of that black sorcerer. I don’t advise you to go anywhere near the places overlooked by his dark tower!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; edition &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/764872.The_Annotated_Hobbit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;annotated by Douglas A. Andersen&lt;/a&gt; there is a respective note on page 188:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The reintroduction of the Necromancer here was originally quite casual; his function, as Tolkien wrote in a letter to Christopher Bretherton on July 16, 1964, was “hardly more than to provide a reason for Gandalf going away and leaving Bilbo and the Dwarves to fend for themselves, which was necessary for the tale”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And on page 57 (chapter one), in the note about Thorin’s father being imprisoned by the Necromancer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; In &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;, we learn that the Necromancer of &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; is also the Dark Lord, or Sauron…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, in the book, the Necromancer is mentioned grand total of two times, and the name Sauron never appears. I suppose, for the film adaptation they deliberately made it more obvious to better connect with the subsequent trilogy for those who are not well versed in the LotR universe, including myself. Ironically, I had missed that connection in the film (going to have to pay attention when I re-watch it), and only caught on to this, because of the marvelous book I have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3408" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-15T19:19:57.287" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T19:19:57.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10050" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10111" CreationDate="2013-02-17T17:30:16.283" Score="14" ViewCount="22793" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 6th episode of House of Cards, we see Claire have some sympathy towards a vagrant outside of her work and gives this man $20 to get some food from a deli close by  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next day, the man is still there and then flicks back the $20, now in the shape of an origami crane. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the purpose of this scene, and what does the Crane represent given the current events in Claire's life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2016-09-10T00:51:03.310" Title="What is the significance of the Origami Bum?" Tags="|analysis|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10037" CreationDate="2013-02-18T00:16:44.420" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;The characters you mention are accompanying the elves - Galadriel, et al. - back to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valinor&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Valinor&lt;/a&gt;, the Undying Lands, across the sea to the west. The reasons for the elves' departure are detailed in &lt;em&gt;The Silmarillion&lt;/em&gt;. It's a long story, which I encourage you to read, but to summarize &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; briefly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The elves once lived in Valinor with the gods&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They rebelled and were exiled to Middle Earth, but&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After thousands of years, they have been allowed to return. Gradually, many do.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandalf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gandalf&lt;/a&gt; goes with them because &lt;em&gt;that's where he's from&lt;/em&gt;. He's one of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia_(Middle-earth)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Maiar&lt;/a&gt;, essentially a minor god. He's only in Middle Earth because he was sent there on a mission, which is now complete. He could probably magic himself back but it's not his style, so he travels with the elves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Frodo, Bilbo, and eventually Sam, I don't think the reasons are explicitly stated. It seems that they have been invited to live among the gods - an unprecedented honor for anyone not an elf - as a reward for their service related to the Ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3794" LastEditorUserId="5879" LastEditDate="2017-01-24T09:15:14.560" LastActivityDate="2017-01-24T09:15:14.560" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10052" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12263" CreationDate="2013-02-18T00:51:12.240" Score="6" ViewCount="446" Body="&lt;p&gt;I may have missed how this happened, but in the scene with John and Jack captured in the ballroom, we see Jack take his knife and cut through his wrist ties, but I have no idea how John got free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can somebody fill me in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-06-29T19:08:25.757" Title="How did John McClane escape his bonds?" Tags="|a-good-day-to-die-hard|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10053" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10121" CreationDate="2013-02-18T01:25:29.717" Score="4" ViewCount="5393" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Zero Dark Thirty, the audience observes Dan playfully interacting with monkeys in a cage on the base in Pakistan. He jokes with them and feeds them ice cream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U2KQS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;dan and monkey cage&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I think this &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be character development, I'm not very confident in this theory. I think there is more to it than that. Are the monkeys meant to be a metaphor for the prisoners, suggesting Dan can be compassionate with monkeys but not them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What purpose does Dan's interaction with the monkeys serve in Zero Dark Thirty?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywood.com/news/movies/47971040/zero-dark-thirty-star-jason-clarke-on-his-special-relationship-with-army-base-monkeys?page=all&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;In this interview&lt;/a&gt;, actor Jason Clarke confirms that the monkey cages were in fact present on the base in real life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2013-09-20T06:15:16.783" Title="Why does Dan feed and play with the monkeys?" Tags="|zero-dark-thirty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10056" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-18T04:47:35.593" Score="12" ViewCount="45006" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Community season 2, episode 7, &lt;em&gt;Aerodynamics of Gender&lt;/em&gt;, Troy discovers a place of peace with a magical trampoline. What movie/television show inspired this storyline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4158" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2017-03-13T19:59:35.027" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T19:59:35.027" Title="What was the inspiration for the trampoline storyline in &quot;Aerodynamics of Gender&quot;?" Tags="|reference|community|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10056" CreationDate="2013-02-18T17:01:18.693" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Garden&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Secret Garden&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  It's a book I'm not familiar with, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/articles/aerodynamics-of-gender,47075/&quot;&gt;The Onion's AV Club says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This trampoline storyline was like something out of &lt;em&gt;Simpsons&lt;/em&gt;, almost directly. (That show also had a famous trampoline B-story.) However, &lt;em&gt;Community&lt;/em&gt; makes its own story out of this basic premise by weaving together the idea of trampolines being hideously unsafe with &lt;strong&gt;an elaborate parody of &lt;em&gt;The Secret Garden&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (complete with lush imagery out of the final season of &lt;em&gt;Lost&lt;/em&gt;) and the end of every story where people discover paradise but then ruin it by ... leading other people to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;emphasis mine&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading over the Wikipedia summary of &lt;em&gt;The Secret Garden&lt;/em&gt;, there are some obvious parallels.  The servants who introduce the protagonist to the garden, parallels the janitor in the &lt;em&gt;Community&lt;/em&gt; episode.  Both works share the lush greenery, and the gardens in both share magical properties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-02-18T19:12:57.140" LastActivityDate="2013-02-18T19:12:57.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9858" CreationDate="2013-02-18T19:28:37.030" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abyss_%28Orson_Scott_Card_novel%29&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;novelization&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card&quot;&gt;Orson Scott Card&lt;/a&gt; actually explains this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Card wrote the aliens as a colonizing species which preferentially sought high-pressure deepwater worlds to build their ships as they traveled further into the galaxy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Their knowledge of neuroanatomy and nanoscale manipulation of biochemistry was responsible for many of the deus ex machina aspects of the film; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;an NTI saved a diver's life after a breathing mixture accident, &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;prevented permanent brain damage during Bud's 2 mile dive, which allowed him to properly disarm the warhead, &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a number of NTIs microscopically infiltrated the crew upon their rise to the surface to prevent decompression sickness&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(NTI = non-terrestrial intelligence)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was James Cameron himself who wanted Orson Scott Card to write the novelization, because &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jamescamerononline.com/OrsonScottCardQA.htm&quot;&gt;he wanted it to be&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;not just a “book of the script,” but a real science fiction novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Orson Scott Card was given the opportunity to visit the set, talk to the people involved in the production, and was even able to watch a rough cut of the film instead of just working off the script alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jamescamerononline.com/OrsonScottCardQA.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Orson Scott Card:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I also had a few chances to work with (producer) &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Ann_Hurd&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gale Anne Hurd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, who was incredibly supportive during some key decisions, most notably &lt;strong&gt;the need for me to completely explain the NTIs.&lt;/strong&gt; As a science fiction writer, I knew that this would be essential to making the novel a good novel by sci-fi standards.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So Mr. Cameron’s desire to leave them quite mysterious in the film could not be carried over into the novel; on the contrary, &lt;strong&gt;the whole point of a novelization is to be able to tell the readers things that can’t be shown in the film.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-02-18T19:28:37.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10061" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11091" CreationDate="2013-02-18T19:52:21.377" Score="2" ViewCount="495" Body="&lt;p&gt;After R eats Perry's brains, he falls for Julie.  He then takes her back to the airport, and she was in the group of zombies that went back to the airport.  Why didn't the other zombies attack and eat her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="4604" LastEditDate="2013-04-16T10:35:05.447" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T14:05:08.223" Title="Why didn't the zombies eat her initially?" Tags="|plot-explanation|warm-bodies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10062" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10066" CreationDate="2013-02-18T20:54:05.350" Score="2" ViewCount="562" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;The Shield&quot; there is an episode in Season 2 that does not fit into the timeline of the other episodes: Episode 2x09 &quot;The Co-Pilot&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It plays during the time of the opening of the Barn, so even before the first season and introduces the main characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no explanation why this &lt;em&gt;flashback&lt;/em&gt; is occurring and it does not really seem to fit in there. There is nothing revealed that advances the plot of Season 2 somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name of the episode, the way it looks older than the other ones in the season and the somewhat forced discontinuity made me think that this might have been a pilot that maybe was disapproved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the story behind this episode? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was it filmed prior to season 1? Was it supposed to be the original pilot? If so, why did it not get aired?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it was indeed a cancelled pilot, why did it get aired in season 2?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-29T18:23:47.990" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T07:27:35.700" Title="Was the episode &quot;The Co-Pilot&quot; in Season 2 supposed to be the pilot?" Tags="|production|the-shield|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10062" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:06:33.790" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's not the Original Pilot. It didn't film prior to season 1. It's a flashback episode whose story takes place before S1E1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The title is a wordplay on the term &quot;pilot&quot; used to refer to the first&#xA;  episode in a television series. Since this whole episode is a&#xA;  flashback to events preceding the series pilot, it was coined as&#xA;  &quot;Co-Pilot&quot;.&lt;a href=&quot;http://theshield.wikia.com/wiki/Co-Pilot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the reasons for this flashback show in the middle of the season&#xA;  was to allow the make-up team time to figure out to depict Ronnie's&#xA;  facial disfigurement, following an act of violence that had occurred&#xA;  to him in episode 2x7 &quot;Barnstormers&quot;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0699500/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-03-29T07:27:35.700" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T07:27:35.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10067" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:26:55.130" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions related to the actor working in a film or TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Actor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:16:18.593" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:16:18.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10068" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:26:55.130" Score="0" Body="For questions related to the actor working in a film or TV show." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T06:26:55.130" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T06:26:55.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10069" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:29:03.957" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T06:29:03.957" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T06:29:03.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10070" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:29:03.957" Score="0" Body="Question regarding order of occurrence in a film or TV series." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T06:29:03.957" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T06:29:03.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10071" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:33:01.380" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This tag has been removed as part of Movies &amp;amp; TV's tag cleanup - please do not use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T16:03:03.147" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T16:03:03.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10072" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:33:01.380" Score="0" Body="This tag has been removed as part of Movies &amp; TV's tag cleanup - please do not use." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T16:02:42.137" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T16:02:42.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10073" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:34:11.270" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T06:34:11.270" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T06:34:11.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10074" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:34:11.270" Score="0" Body="2012 American comedy horror film in an attempt to &quot;revitalize&quot; the slasher film genre" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T06:34:11.270" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T06:34:11.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10075" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:37:17.493" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T06:37:17.493" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T06:37:17.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10076" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:37:17.493" Score="0" Body="Question regarding the co-actors of a film or TV series." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T06:37:17.493" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T06:37:17.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10077" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:38:47.287" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions regarding the process of adapting a comic into a movie or TV-show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-13T17:31:59.410" LastActivityDate="2014-09-13T17:31:59.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10078" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:38:47.287" Score="0" Body="Questions regarding the process of adapting a comic into a movie or TV-show." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-13T17:31:59.410" LastActivityDate="2014-09-13T17:31:59.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10079" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:40:51.983" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T06:40:51.983" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T06:40:51.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10080" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:40:51.983" Score="0" Body="Question regarding the continuity of events in a film or TV series." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T06:40:51.983" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T06:40:51.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10081" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:44:58.110" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T06:44:58.110" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T06:44:58.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10082" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:44:58.110" Score="0" Body="1997 Canadian science fiction horror film." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T06:44:58.110" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T06:44:58.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10083" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:47:39.900" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T06:47:39.900" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T06:47:39.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10084" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:47:39.900" Score="0" Body="Serenity is a 2005 space western film which is a continuation to the 2002 Fox science fiction television series Firefly." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="74886" LastEditDate="2020-11-08T11:37:39.407" LastActivityDate="2020-11-08T11:37:39.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10085" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:48:48.980" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T06:48:48.980" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T06:48:48.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10086" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-19T06:48:48.980" Score="0" Body="Final Destination 5 is a 2011 American supernatural horror film and it is the fifth installment in the Final Destination film franchise." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T06:48:48.980" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T06:48:48.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10087" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-19T07:27:42.723" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T07:27:42.723" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T07:27:42.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10088" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-19T07:27:42.723" Score="0" Body="The Shield is an American drama television series starring premiered on March 12, 2002 on FX. show's Strike Team was loosely based on  Rampart Division police scandal." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T07:27:42.723" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T07:27:42.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10089" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-19T07:28:28.887" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Warm Bodies&lt;/strong&gt; is a 2013 American paranormal romantic zombie comedy film based on Isaac Marion's novel of the same name. Directed and written by Jonathan Levine, the film stars Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer and Analeigh Tipton.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film focuses on the development of the relationship between Julie, a young woman, and &quot;R&quot;, a zombie, and how their eventual romance develops throughout. The film is noted for displaying human characteristics in zombie characters, and for being told from a zombie's perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="5941" LastEditDate="2013-09-28T10:29:47.927" LastActivityDate="2013-09-28T10:29:47.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10090" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-19T07:28:28.887" Score="0" Body="Warm Bodies is a 2013 zombie comedy film based on Isaac Marion's novel." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T07:28:28.887" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T07:28:28.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10091" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-19T07:30:18.247" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T07:30:18.247" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T07:30:18.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10092" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-19T07:30:18.247" Score="0" Body="Community is an American television comedy series which follows a group of students at a community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T07:30:18.247" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T07:30:18.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10093" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-19T07:34:25.673" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T07:34:25.673" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T07:34:25.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10094" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-19T07:34:25.673" Score="0" Body="Texas Chainsaw 3D is a 2013 American slasher and as a direct sequel to the original 1974 film." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T07:34:25.673" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T07:34:25.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10095" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-19T07:35:55.890" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T07:35:55.890" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T07:35:55.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10096" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-19T07:35:55.890" Score="0" Body="Zero Dark Thirty is a 2012 American historical drama film  as the story of history's greatest manhunt for the world's most dangerous man Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T07:35:55.890" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T07:35:55.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10097" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-19T07:36:44.097" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T07:36:44.097" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T07:36:44.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10098" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-19T07:36:44.097" Score="0" Body="2013's American action film. It is the fifth installment in the Die Hard film series." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T07:36:44.097" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T07:36:44.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10099" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-19T07:39:11.987" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T07:39:11.987" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T07:39:11.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10100" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-19T07:39:11.987" Score="0" Body="Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 black comedy film which satirizes the nuclear scare. Also known as Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T07:39:11.987" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T07:39:11.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10101" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-19T07:40:31.160" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T07:40:31.160" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T07:40:31.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10102" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-19T07:40:31.160" Score="0" Body="Power Rangers is a long-running American entertainment franchise built around a live action children's television series featuring teams of costumed heroes. It uses dubbed Japanese costumed action scenes intercut with new American footage. Questions using this tag should focus on the American continuity." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-06-12T22:38:33.497" LastActivityDate="2016-06-12T22:38:33.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10103" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-19T07:42:54.950" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Source : &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_Man_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T07:42:54.950" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T07:42:54.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10104" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-19T07:42:54.950" Score="0" Body="1993 American science fiction action film tells the story of two men—one, an evil crime lord; the other, a risk-taking police officer—who are cryogenically frozen in the year 1996 and reawakened in 2032." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-19T07:42:54.950" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T07:42:54.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4517" CreationDate="2013-02-19T09:10:46.820" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understood it to be that they didn't know that sending the nuke through the portal would actually affect the Chitauri or even stop them as it did. Therefore they only thought that closing the portal would make the difference. Tony didn't know that when he flew the nuke through there and neither did Black Widow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T09:10:46.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9891" CreationDate="2013-02-19T11:17:46.183" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviemistakes.com/tv3514/questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;moviemistakes.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some say it refers to the Boston Red Sox winning the World Series in&#xA;  1918, others say it refers to winning World War II (refering to the &quot;We win!&quot; headline of newspapers), and there are more random suggestions too. But there is no definite answer to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083399/faq?ref_=tt_faq_2#.2.1.2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The images were taken from old archives of photographs, and then&#xA;  treated to look older. The entire sequence was created by&#xA;  Castle/Bryant/Johnsen, Inc. An original, untreated photograph can be&#xA;  seen here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shorpy.com/node/7798&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.shorpy.com/node/7798&lt;/a&gt;. The newspaper headline &quot;We&#xA;  win!&quot; refers to the ending of prohibition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many similar questions all around the Internet, but there is no answer provided by the officials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-06-23T14:01:40.903" LastActivityDate="2017-06-23T14:01:40.903" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9990" CreationDate="2013-02-19T12:22:03.570" Score="4" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He might have built some sort of a large electromagnet in order to attract all the cubes, although I doubt that the child's necklace was entirely made of iron). The engines he stole from the cars were supposed to provide the needed power(maybe a giant electric current generator).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This probably happened because of their ignorance and self confidence: they always underestimate the alien and think of it more as a beast(remember they are soldiers, not scientists and they seem to be of the shoot-first-ask-questions-later type).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The alien was trying to rebuild it's ship in order to go back home.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was eating them. He was not eating humans at first, but after so many years of imprisonment and torture, he began hating the whole human race. By eating people he fed himself and also got a feeling of revenge.(This is somehow stated by the children when they get into the lair).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He probably knew a few things about the way the ship was working. What is more, those cubes seemed to be like pieces from a puzzle, the alien only lacked the &quot;glue&quot; to piece them all together. Probably it was some kind of magnetic field, hence the answer to question 1.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="418" LastActivityDate="2013-02-19T12:22:03.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10110" CreationDate="2013-02-19T21:12:24.963" Score="5" ViewCount="467" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie was old and about a family who were living in a coastal village (probably Italy). The traditional occupation of villagers was fishing. There were masters who owned boats and workers. Business cycle was working in warm seasons, and keep fishes in salt for cold seasons were the prices was high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This family has three sons and at least one daughter. Although the family was poor like other worker families one of the sons was educated and started to thinking why we should not be master. He convinced family to loan from bank and buy a boat and after debt payback they have the house and boat and become master of their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything went good until a day which seems to be stormy. They was under pressure for loan and despite other workers warning they went fishing. They lost the boat and problem begun. They started by selling stored fish in wrong season under the price. They lost their house. The junior brother started working with a criminal and the daughter became a whore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moral:&lt;/strong&gt; Incomplete knowledge is much more dangerous than complete lack of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3781" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-02-20T01:56:03.023" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T19:54:37.237" Title="Movie about fishing family who buy their own boat and end up losing everything" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:42:03.760" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10109" CreationDate="2013-02-20T01:52:08.283" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, a bit of online research makes me think it might be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040866/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;La Terra Trema (The Earth Trembles)&lt;/a&gt;, a Luchino Visconti movie from 1948.  A good description is also found on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Terra_Trema&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has many of the plot elements above.  It is based in Sicily.  A family takes a mortgage on their house to catch and sell fish and avoid selling via wholesalers.  It is all going well until a storm ruins the boat, and as a result they lose the house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-15T19:54:37.237" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T19:54:37.237" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10050" CreationDate="2013-02-20T03:55:13.483" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some interesting references to paper, origami, cards, etc. in House of Cards. Perhaps for Claire, it's a reference to two things - one being her suppressed creativity and how that ties in to her longing for Adam. We don't know that much about her past, except that which has been revealed through her conversations with Adam. We also learn a little about her choices when she sat by Steve's bedside as she discusses the conscious decision she made to be with Frank, not necessarily for love, but for the respect and freedom he would give her. Ironically, though Claire is not locked into a life of being the trophy wife, she is seemingly trapped in a marriage of partnership and reason. Adam (and the origami) represent freedom, art, and impermanence. All that which she does not possess.&#xA;The second reference may be to the constant folding and unfolding of events in her life. As close as she may be to Frank, he is still able to use her as a pawn to further his own goals. She makes decisive efforts to curtail this when she sabotages the water bill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paper is temporary; it does not provide real shelter, as was mentioned by one of the workers at the shipyard meeting Peter Russo held. Nor does it protect us from the elements. It can all collapse in a moment, just as a structure made of cards will do. Money, made of paper, can be easily burned, destroyed or lost. His kids also do origami - a foreshadowing of the two tiny victims who will pay a huge price for Frank's lust for power.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The homeless guy took a bill - a physical representation of what our society deems to be worth something, folded it, and turned it into a piece of art for Claire. It wasn't a small amount for a homeless person - it was $20! A blatant reminder that those things which are valuable to some, may mean nothing to others. It was an eerie reminder that her life and everything she values can quickly fall apart. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, Frank in his speech when he was honored at his alma mater talks about harmony, and how &quot;it is not about what's lasting or permanent, it's about individual voices coming together for a moment.&quot; This is so contradictory to everything Frank truly stands for. The reality is, he backstabs, manipulates, and deceives everyone around him, especially those who are near him. The only one he does not deceive is Stamper (which should be discussed on a separate thread as that is an interesting theme as well) Frank is fully driven by the hunger to establish legacy, permanence, and power - basically the opposite of what origami represents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love to hear more feedback from others - I think this is a really interesting concept and there is so much room to dig deeper.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4169" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T03:55:13.483" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10113" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10119" CreationDate="2013-02-20T08:13:01.683" Score="12" ViewCount="43655" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_Man_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Demolition Man&lt;/a&gt; is it revealed what happened to John Spartan's (Sylvester Stallone) daughter? I know his wife died while he is frozen. But what happened to his daughter? Is she Lenina Huxley (Sandra Bullock) or someone else? Did I miss something or is it kept unrevealed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-28T08:01:30.540" LastActivityDate="2016-04-26T15:24:52.420" Title="Who is the daughter of John Spartan in Demolition Man?" Tags="|character|demolition-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10114" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10118" CreationDate="2013-02-20T08:38:33.617" Score="12" ViewCount="898" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Reichenbach fall: John tells Sherlock that everyone gets a tabloid nickname. Then he says &quot;Subo (or Soobo), nasty nick&quot;. I assume he's referring to some other tabloid frequenter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is Subo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastEditorUserId="1111" LastEditDate="2013-02-20T10:00:12.000" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T10:05:43.630" Title="Sherlock: Who is John Talking About?" Tags="|character|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10115" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-20T09:26:22.470" Score="8" ViewCount="360" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_%282009_film%29&quot;&gt;Up&lt;/a&gt;, it is shown that  80-year-old Carl Fredericksen is using a zimmer frame to aid in his walking. However, later in the movie he runs and even jumps around - how is this possible when earlier in the film he was shown using a stair lift as he could not climb the stairs?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it made clear in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-02-20T15:14:51.137" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T15:55:39.217" Title="How could Carl run or jump when he is using apparatus for his walking?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|up|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10116" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-20T09:43:53.240" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-20T09:43:53.240" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T09:43:53.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10117" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-20T09:43:53.240" Score="0" Body=" Up is Pixar's 2009 American animated comedy film about a 78-year-old Carl sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-20T09:43:53.240" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T09:43:53.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10114" CreationDate="2013-02-20T10:05:43.630" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SuBo&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Boyle&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Susan Boyle&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a Scottish singer who came to international public attention when she appeared as a contestant on the TV programme &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain%27s_Got_Talent_%28series_3%29&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Britain's Got Talent&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on 11 April 2009, singing &lt;em&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dreamed_a_Dream&quot;&gt;I Dreamed a Dream&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_%28musical%29&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Les Misérables&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Examples:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2056477/Susan-Boyle-From-hobo-SuBo-singer-unveils-new-glam-look-New-York.html&quot;&gt;Daily Mail - From hobo to SuBo: Susan Boyle unveils new glam look&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2013/01/subo-the-movie-takes-a-step-nearer-becoming-a-thing/&quot;&gt;BBC America - ‘SuBo: The Movie’ Takes A Step Nearer Becoming A Thing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/arts-books/subo-story-set-for-dream-run/story-fn7euh6j-1226510506300&quot;&gt;Herald Sun - SuBo story set for dream run&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T10:05:43.630" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10113" CreationDate="2013-02-20T10:55:42.130" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0104193/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marco Brambilla&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the director, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kqek.com/dvd_reviews/d/3918_DemolitionMan.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;mentions&lt;/a&gt; in the DVD audio commentary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... &lt;strong&gt;a number of small scenes and a subplot involving Stallone’s character meeting his daughter, now considerably aged since his freezing, that were trimmed or entirely deleted&lt;/strong&gt;, as well as a scene initially shot with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001614/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lori Petty&lt;/a&gt; playing Stallone’s female sidekick and love interest before she was replaced by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000113/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sandra Bullock&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106697/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb Trivia page&lt;/a&gt; also mentions this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to the commentary found on the RC1 DVD, &lt;strong&gt;there were some scenes deleted from the movie including a subplot involving Spartan's daughter&lt;/strong&gt; and the murder of Zachary Lamb by Phoenix. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;According &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNhs99lO9dE&amp;amp;t=3m20s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;to this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sq0XJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Kate&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the woman on the far right is John's daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T10:55:42.130" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1925" CreationDate="2013-02-20T12:54:24.467" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wQezk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;That's not earth that they're on during the body of the film. There are 2 moons in the sky above the ape encampment at the 1:01:15 marker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4172" LastEditorUserId="8422" LastEditDate="2014-03-07T10:14:54.953" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T10:14:54.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10053" CreationDate="2013-02-20T13:34:49.707" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, the monkeys at the Army base were a very important plot-device. They are used to portray that the CIA operatives, especially those involved with interrogating the prisoners (like Dan), are not inhumane. The audience may be carried away to believe that these operatives are cruel, heartless beasts inclined towards extracting the info from the prisoners at any cost(&lt;em&gt;say water-boarding, chaining, sleep deprivation&lt;/em&gt;) and after a while grow into these monsters that enjoy torturing captives(&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The presence of the monkeys and their interactions with Dan throws light to the compassionate side of these operatives. It depicts that while their methods may be cruel, they do not enjoy it and certainly wouldn't subject innocent people to it, even if they are under captivity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incorporating dialogues to emphasize this point would had made it only more meaningless and phoney. Thus, the director conveys this sensitive message by using the interaction between Dan and the monkeys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-09-20T06:15:16.783" LastActivityDate="2013-09-20T06:15:16.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10115" CreationDate="2013-02-20T15:26:20.580" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't found an official answer for this - however, my own interpretation of this is that Carl has been 'revitalized' by his experience with Russell in the wilderness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of the film it seems that Carl has essentially given up on life; his beloved partner is dead and he is being forced to leave the one place that has any meaning to him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By choosing to follow his dreams (by uprooting and flying his house to South America), Carl has taken the first step towards a form of spiritual rebirth. As the story progresses we see Carl change as his attitude softens towards Russell, the dog and the bird, and then his sense of adventure is finally reawakened when he encounters Muntz and his nefarious scheming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;True, his body may still be weaker than it once was, but this new-found sense of derring-do (adventurism) plus the adrenaline coursing through his old system, must have been a potent enough combination for him to carry out feats that would otherwise have been unthinkable to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T15:26:20.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10115" CreationDate="2013-02-20T15:55:39.217" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Allow me to present, a rather possibly crazy theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Paradise Falls is the Fountain of Youth.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To consider evidence, we shall bring in a lot of plot elements from the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all is Muntz.  This man seems to be at least 50 years old during the film being shown to the young Carl.  Shown heading for the Falls all that time ago, supposedly never to be heard from again.  However, when we see him again later on in the movie, it appears that he has aged possibly 10 years at the most.  Let us assume that is how long it took for him to actually find Paradise Falls, and the rest of the time, establishing his hold on the island, looking for the Snipe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Enter Carl ~50 years later.  He is depressed, cranky, old, and weak.  Upon reaching the Island of Paradise Falls, he seems fully revitalized.  Not requiring his cane, able to move and pull the house over a long distance, as well as running and keeping up with Russell rather well, seemingly surpassing his endurance easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then we have the dogs. It is no secret that dogs have a much shorter lifespan than humans.  But in order for Muntz to have as many dogs as he does, one can assume that because the Island has Fountain of Youth properties, it is possible the dogs are affected as well, preserving their life during the long stay before Carl arrives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes the theory does seem crazy, but it offers an interesting take on the movie, if they somehow traveled to the same, or similar, Island as Lost, which was shown to have healing/slow aging properties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T15:55:39.217" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10153" CreationDate="2013-02-20T17:43:18.127" Score="26" ViewCount="32259" Body="&lt;p&gt;The logo for Netflix's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856010/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;House of Cards&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; shows an upside-down &amp;amp; mirrored American Flag with 0 stars on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this logo represent in terms of the show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it meant to be symbolism with the themes of the show, or just simple dramatic flair?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HlVei.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T20:00:08.287" Title="What does the Flag symbolize?" Tags="|title|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10126" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10337" CreationDate="2013-02-20T17:46:43.633" Score="7" ViewCount="10226" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main promotional image of Netflix's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856010/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;House of Cards&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; shows Kevin Spacy's character of Frank Underwood sitting in place of Lincoln on the Lincoln Monument against a silvery background:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mni4r.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What kind of message is this image trying to portray about Underwood and the series as a whole?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-10T11:05:08.053" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T08:08:15.503" Title="What is the main promotional image of House of Cards trying to portray?" Tags="|analysis|house-of-cards|marketing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9251" CreationDate="2013-02-20T17:54:15.183" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was actually an honest bad habit of Ledger's. He would often lick his lips and it fit in with the character. The joker is symbolically described as a dog in the film and there is many references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is a self proclaimed &quot;dog chasing cars&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is the unloyal hungry dog as compared to Chechen, the Russian's, pets/protection&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a scene where he is hanging out the window of a GCPD patrol cruiser and licking his lips as wind blows his hair much like a dog would.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is often seen licking his lips.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, it began as just Heath's bad habit and personality&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The symbolism is he is an animal that can play tame but, much, like a pitbull, he is raw power and wilderness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T17:54:15.183" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7925" CreationDate="2013-02-20T17:58:23.043" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's also because the board wants Wayne Enterprises to go public, and Fox doesn't believe in breaking up Thomas Wayne's legacy. They successfully do this, but then, Fox is heavily involved in keeping Bruce in the loop, keeping him well informed and well guarded. This is bad news for the board having control of the majority shares. Fox rattles cages and it is messing up their plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T17:58:23.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3927" CreationDate="2013-02-20T18:01:16.833" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is just a devise to show Bruce's detective skills. As much as it is a hallucination, it is still Bruce's problem solving. Notice that the hallucination doesn't get every detail accurately. It's because Bruce has it right that it is Rah's' legacy returning, but the hallucination doesn't correct him when he says Bane is his &quot;heir&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T18:01:16.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3646" CreationDate="2013-02-20T21:06:14.667" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not exactly the same, but it is very similar to the markings Bane bears on his head (not the ones on the back of his neck, but on his right side of his head toward the back). It's a clue toward their common allegiance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T21:06:14.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3796" CreationDate="2013-02-20T21:20:50.490" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blackgate has always been in the comic but Batman's main foes aren't mainly criminals, but criminally insane. The criminally insane go to Arkham Asylum, the criminally guilty go to Blackgate. Blackgate is a prison; not a county jail, so Gordon isn't talking about Lau being held there. However, it is likely where Rachel was hoping Falcone would end up in &quot;Begins&quot;, instead Scarecrow drives him insane and he's sent to Arkham instead. Rachel also mentions that Joe Chill and Falcone did time together, this (as long as it is in Gotham) would have to be in Prison as neither were declared insane at the time. So, by implication, they served time together in Blackgate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said, Blackgate is in the comics, you can find it in No Man's Land(upon which much of TDKR is based), and I believe Moroni, the Falcones, and some of their hitmen are sent there in The Long Halloween (upon which much of TDK is based).&#xA;The introduction of this facility is just an expansion of the adaptation, much like more X men appearing in each sequel who weren't mentioned in prior installments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Blackgate is important to the plot of Rises in that it is a stark contrast to Arkham. Blackgate is meant for the imprisonment of criminals, versus the treatment of the ill as in Arkham. This is important to enforce the Dent Act's patching of the holes in the Gotham Justice System as evidently displayed in Batman Begins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T21:20:50.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3581" CreationDate="2013-02-20T21:34:37.217" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alfred, in the stairwell, mentions something along the lines of: &quot;leaving is all I have left...&quot;. He is trying to get Bruce to stop being Batman, as others have said, because he believes Bruce is too old and not strong enough to survive the life anymore. He tries to talk Bruce out of getting back in the Cowl, then tries to scare him out of it by telling him of Bane's legend, he even confesses the truth about Rachel to get Bruce to move on from his past. When Bruce still won't stop, Alfred desperately tries the one thing he hasn't tried yet, leaving. He doesn't want to do this, because it will make Bruce hate him and it will make him lose Bruce. &quot;I know what this means, it means your hatred, and me losing someone I've cared for since I first heard his cries echo through these very halls&quot;(this is me paraphrasing from memory as best as I can). He follows this ith saying essentially that if he does indeed leave, maybe it will make Bruce see that he should quit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is that Batman and Alfred's relationship is based on an almost parental love and Alfred wants to show that his love is now leading him to remove his support and declare his disapproval even to the extent mentioned above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T21:34:37.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3453" CreationDate="2013-02-20T21:57:45.763" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a reference to Gotham: No Man's Land. In this story arc, Gotham has been cut off from the rest of the United States because of a great Earthquake, it is a very similar alienation as in TDKR under Bane's Rule. Gotham is overrun by gangs who tag their territories. Long before Batman is publicly seen, Bat Tags begin to show up. The symbol is of hope and a reminder that Batman rules, ie justice rules. In TDKR, there aren't any gangs or tags, but it's a similar message. The captain advises Blake to put his faith in something more realistic, but Blake continues to mark the city. It is intended to give the people hope and remind them that justice is just lying dormant; not dead. It still exists, and will return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastActivityDate="2013-02-20T21:57:45.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3409" CreationDate="2013-02-20T22:18:32.453" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We find that the plan is to destroy Gotham, it doesn't matter who is carrying this out, whoever they are, they are upholding and executing a plan. Well, in order to see the plan in its purest form, we have to ask &quot;Whose plan was it originally, it doesn't matter who is pursuing it now, but what was the original plan?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer this, we have to go all the way back to Batman Begins, it is Ra's Al Gul's plan. So the question isn't really &quot;Why does Bane want to destroy Gotham?&quot; but &quot;Why does Ra's Al Gul want to destroy Gotham?&quot; He explains in the League of Shadows' Temple while training Bruce (albeit, Ducard rather than Ra's). He says that Gotham is the epitome of corruption and injustice and has to be taken out to restore balance and justice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, sure, Bane and Thalia have their own reasons for wanting to uphold this plan. Talia wants to simultaneously punish her father's murderer and accomplish his incomplete work. Bane wants to support Thalia as he sees her as purity and redemption, he maybe even has romantic feelings toward her (which is more literarily ambiguous than commonly thought). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BUT THE WHY IS TRACED ALL THE WAY BEYOND BANE AND TALIA!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of that theory and reconsider the line &quot;it doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-02-21T15:41:52.493" LastActivityDate="2013-02-21T15:41:52.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2789" CreationDate="2013-02-21T01:54:12.737" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the Joker's plan does turn out, but not in Batman killing Harvey; but Rachel. Joker says &quot;killing is making a choice. Choosing one life over another.&quot; he tells Batman that his (Batman's) rules won't save him. The Joker says Batman's one rule will have to be broken; he'll have to play the Joker's &quot;little game&quot;. The Joker tricked Batman into inadvertently killing Rachel by accidentally choosing Dent's life over Rachel's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastActivityDate="2013-02-21T01:54:12.737" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10139" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-21T08:26:24.627" Score="24" ViewCount="4159" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who was the blue eyed women in the blue mask, seen twice in the &lt;em&gt;Django Unchained&lt;/em&gt;; once when they rode into Candyland and the other when it is night and she is looking through a magnifying glass at a photo of a black girl? There is no reference to her in the movie at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4177" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-29T21:43:48.033" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T21:43:48.033" Title="Who was the girl in Django unchained?" Tags="|character|django-unchained|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10139" CreationDate="2013-02-21T17:03:24.510" Score="24" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Zoe Bell, who starred for Tarantino in &quot;Death Proof,&quot; played another&#xA;  character that was seemingly cut down -- one of the plantation&#xA;  enforcers who wears a bandana over her face and earns a third-act&#xA;  close-up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Yeah, you don’t really get anything from her character,” Goggins&#xA;  said. “But she’s lethal. And you know, I should probably just stick to&#xA;  myself and my character.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Speaking to E! on the red carpet at the premiere of &quot;Hansel And&#xA;  Gretel: Witch Hunters,&quot; Bell revealed what happened with her role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;There was backstory and there was to be a fight sequence,&quot; she said.&#xA;  &quot;I don't know how much Quentin wants me to say, but yes, there was&#xA;  originally more than that.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to Bell, her scenes weren't even shot. Which is too bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;There was a little sneaky secret under the mask: part of my face was&#xA;  missing.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/28/django-unchained-script-zoe-bell_n_2567640.html&quot;&gt;Interview with Zoe Bell about her role in Django Unchained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3821" LastActivityDate="2013-02-21T17:03:24.510" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1807" CreationDate="2013-02-21T17:51:47.290" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that when her ship was destroyed near that black storm of some sort, which I'm assuming was a black hole she did die.  However, the fact that she died near/in a black hole can account for her dead body and busted up ship being on the 1st earth planet.  As we all know that in any sci-fi show, black holes can bring you to any place and or time in space.  That black hole took her there and it duplicated her body AND ship, which would explain why it was brand spanking new when she came back with it.  I stand by all of this as my theory, however I’ve never seen the original series, just the remake, so maybe there’s something else that explains it all.  I don’t like how she just disappeared in the end.  I’m going to go with when she came back, she was basically an angel, but not an angel for the whole series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4179" LastActivityDate="2013-02-21T17:51:47.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10148" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10152" CreationDate="2013-02-21T19:12:13.490" Score="2" ViewCount="635" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie 'The Social Network', in the scene after Fashmash has been created but the algorithm has not yet been coded, where Eduardo Saverin gets back to the dorm and talks to Mark about how he and Erica broke up, Mark asks him how he already knows and Eduardo responds &quot;it's on your blog&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it then that even though Eduardo has been on Mark's blog that he is unaware of the fact that Mark has hacked the facebooks for the other houses on campus, or that he's in the process of creating a website to compare women even though Mark has been blogging about his progress?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-21T19:56:35.470" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T00:42:22.460" Title="How is Eduardo unaware of the progress on Face Mash?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-social-network|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10149" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10150" CreationDate="2013-02-21T19:38:47.713" Score="68" ViewCount="75899" Body="&lt;h2&gt;© Time Warner Studios MCMXCVIII&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like this is almost always used at the very end of the credits creep in movies (and TV shows). But why the cumbersome use of Roman numerals? Why not just say 1998 and be done with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="4476" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T23:14:17.583" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T21:11:25.853" Title="Why do studios use Roman numerals in the copyright notice in the end credits?" Tags="|credits|copyright|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10149" CreationDate="2013-02-21T20:27:10.420" Score="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;David Feldman's&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; book &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~aahobor/Lucy-Day/Authors/Feldman.shtml&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Imponderables: The Solution to the Mysteries of Everyday Life&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://newsblaze.com/story/20120820063820ssid.nb/topstory.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why are copyrighted dates on movies and television shows written in Roman numerals?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The general consensus is the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;deception theory&quot;:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;make it difficult for viewers to determine exactly how old the show is&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the reason being the older the date the &quot;staler&quot; the material may seem to the audience.&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then there's the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;inertia theory&quot;:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That's just the way it's always been done.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1934990.stm&quot;&gt;BBC article&lt;/a&gt; says something similar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Perhaps one of the most notable areas where people are likely to come across Roman numerals is in TV and film credits, where the convention is not to spell out what year something was made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The practice is believed to have started in an attempt to disguise the age of films or television programmes.&lt;/strong&gt; In other words, the opposite of claiming an undeserved antiquity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1507" LastEditDate="2013-11-20T09:04:34.220" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T09:04:34.220" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10149" CreationDate="2013-02-21T20:56:51.320" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Readability and Internationalization&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movies are mostly produced on reels of film (few are digital). Physical film can degrade over time making it difficult to read numeric values. Some numbers will look exactly the same, for example the number 6 will become 5 when the film becomes old. Where as, roman numerals are easier to read when the film degrades. A lot of television shows are also shot with film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other problem is languages. Arabic numbers are hard to distinguish in fine print. Two and three look very similar. So the film industry started using roman numerals to ensure the copyright date was always readable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IAlBc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2013-02-21T20:56:51.320" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10148" CreationDate="2013-02-21T21:54:52.620" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it's because the breakup was one of the first things Mark blogged about, and it was only later in the night that he blogged about how he was creating Face Mash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if Eduardo had only seen his first posts before heading to his dorm he may have been unaware of Mark's hacking later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="753" LastActivityDate="2013-02-21T21:54:52.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10125" CreationDate="2013-02-21T22:10:27.333" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;A flag being flown upside down is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usflag.org/uscode36.html#176&quot;&gt;a symbol for distress&lt;/a&gt;. As far as the no stars I'm looking into that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2013-02-22T11:32:33.260" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T11:32:33.260" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10032" CreationDate="2013-02-21T23:01:32.633" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw the film. According to a website the two places are 430 miles apart. Even if they averaged 60mph (unlikely) it would have taken over 7 hours. When they get there and are loading up with weapons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4181" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-02-22T02:02:36.883" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T02:02:36.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10156" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-22T00:52:15.707" Score="23" ViewCount="5769" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many successful (broadcast, United States) TV shows last about 5-7 seasons. Somehow I'd gotten this story in my head in which this was a combination of two factors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TV shows become more attractive candidates for syndication once they've aired about 100 episodes, which usually means 5 seasons.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The SAG pay scale for series regulars increases as the series goes on, and generally becomes unsustainable somewhere around season 6 or 7. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can find a ton of references for the first bullet point (starting with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_episodes&quot;&gt;this Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;), so I'm reasonably convinced it's true. On the other hand, I'm having trouble finding any evidence for the second one. I've poked through the SAG rate sheets and haven't found anything that varies by season, but they're complicated enough that I could believe I'd missed something (and in any case they only give the current pay scale and not its history, and won't tell me much about how affordable the pay increases are).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is something like the second bullet point actually true? If so, is there a good reference I can use to convince myself of it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1661" LastActivityDate="2017-07-06T19:49:10.857" Title="What happens to actor salaries around seasons 6-7 of a show?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10159" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10163" CreationDate="2013-02-22T07:25:12.170" Score="13" ViewCount="49898" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_&amp;amp;_Demons_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Angels &amp;amp; Demons&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Da Vinci Code&lt;/a&gt;, movies, the character Robert Langdon (&lt;em&gt;Tom Hanks&lt;/em&gt;) wears a Mickey Mouse watch and when somebody asks about it he never answers (or did I miss it?). The watch doesn't suit his personality. What is the significance of the watch? Is it explained in the novels?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-09-29T08:30:02.820" LastActivityDate="2018-04-23T05:09:06.643" Title="What is the story behind Robert Langdon's Mickey Mouse watch?" Tags="|character|analysis|props|angels-and-demons|the-da-vinci-code|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10160" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-22T07:30:00.417" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-22T07:30:00.417" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T07:30:00.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10161" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-22T07:30:00.417" Score="0" Body="Main protagonist from the film The Da Vinci Code and Angels &amp; Demons and created by Dan Brown for the novels Angels &amp; Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003) and The Lost Symbol (2009)." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-22T07:30:00.417" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T07:30:00.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10159" CreationDate="2013-02-22T08:53:54.643" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;The vintage, collectors edition Mickey Mouse watch was a gift from Langdon's parents on his 10th Birthday. As per the book, Langdon has not owned any other watch after that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting directly from the book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although its juvenile dial often drew odd looks, Langdon had never owned any other  watch; Disney animations had been his first introduction to the magic of form and color, and Mickey now served as Langdon's daily reminder to stay young at heart&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Growing up after his &lt;strong&gt;introduction to the magic of form and color&lt;/strong&gt;, when he started taking interest into symbols and like, he would have figured more about Walt Disney, who, he says that, was doing his best to pass on the Grail story to future generations, during a conversation with Sophie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again quoting from the book, about the further details he gave to Sophie about Walt Disney&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Throughout his entire life, Disney had been hailed as &quot;the Modern-Day&#xA;  Leonardo da Vinci.&quot; Both men were generations ahead of their times,&#xA;  uniquely gifted artists, members of  secret societies, and, most&#xA;  notably, avid pranksters. Like Leonardo, Walt Disney loved infusing&#xA;  hidden messages and symbolism in his art. For the trained symbologist,&#xA;  watching an early Disney movie was like being barraged by an avalanche&#xA;  of allusion and metaphor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would have ensured that &lt;strong&gt;Walt Disney&lt;/strong&gt; was and will always be a hero for Robert, and especially this watch would have been holding a very special place in his heart, which he said that introduced him to the world of magic, in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2018-04-23T05:09:06.643" LastActivityDate="2018-04-23T05:09:06.643" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10164" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10556" CreationDate="2013-02-22T10:13:26.080" Score="6" ViewCount="761" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching this movie a long time ago, sometime in the 90s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I can remember clearly about it is that this guy is an insomniac and never sleeps but at night he goes out and fights crime in some way or form. I clearly remember something about a trenchcoat he wears that is bullet proof and he used it to protect a child at one point. He also swapped it for a new one at a shop in one scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody know what film this might be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-16T13:43:10.717" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T18:44:08.510" Title="Crime-fighting insomniac who wears a bullet-proof trenchcoat" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:42:10.030" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10164" CreationDate="2013-02-22T11:30:16.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075314/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Taxi Driver&lt;/a&gt;. Travis Bickle works at night. Fantasizes about cleaning up the streets. He protects Jodie Foster's character. However The bullet proof coat doesn't fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-16T13:44:25.740" LastActivityDate="2013-09-16T13:44:25.740" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10166" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-22T12:59:39.023" Score="16" ViewCount="3172" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Unchained&quot;&gt;Django Unchained&lt;/a&gt;, there is a part where Django is in a big gunfight in Candy's House, he stands up and pulls his coat off and it looks like bullets fall to the ground, couldn't quite tell, and I've only seen it once. Does this mean he's bullet-proof, or immortal?! He's never seen wearing anything that could stop bullets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-22T13:07:33.197" LastActivityDate="2020-05-03T09:36:36.323" Title="Is Django bullet-proof or immortal?" Tags="|analysis|django-unchained|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9844" CreationDate="2013-02-22T16:15:27.947" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, this makes perfect sense.  Given that we never know where the Aliens come from, how long the trip takes, or what happens to the people on the ship, I assume that the return of missing vehicles and such corresponds with the overall plot of the film.  The aliens are returning stuff in an attempt to progress contact with humans.  It is all stuff they took in an inquisitive manner (or maybe just to show they could).  The reason Barry is returned so soon is that his abduction corresponds close in time with that final interaction.  If nothing came of all that interaction, I would assume child Barry would show up years later during the next attempted contact.  But this is all just speculation and opinion.  Realistically, it is probably just an emotional tie that Spielberg wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3349" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T16:15:27.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2308" CreationDate="2013-02-22T20:43:23.877" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is said that the eyes are the window to ones soul. So by the Other Mother taking the childrens eyes and sewing buttons there instead is a way for her to keep their souls with her and therefore trapped in the other world. this is why they are suddenly released when the &quot;eyes&quot; are taken out of the Other World.&#xA;The Other Mother eats them because they are her prey. The buttons are just a way to give the children &quot;New&quot; eyes and are a way for her to entrap them and enslave them for all of eternity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4194" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T20:43:23.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10166" CreationDate="2013-02-22T23:56:47.187" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Short answer: No&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most obvious explanation of that scene is that the shells were casings from his own bullets or spare ammunition he hadn't been able to load before Stephen (the black estate manager) captured Broomhilda and threatened to shoot her. His action preceding that scene involved sheltering from hostile fire, which he wouldn't need to do if he were bullet or injury proof. And he cast off his coat because he wanted to show he was unarmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier scenes also suggest he is not in any way proof against injury. In the early scenes he shows the scars from being in leg irons. In the scenes after he is captured he fears being branded or castrated. His fear certainly suggests he doesn't think he is immune to pain or injury in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there doesn't appear to be any other hint that he is &lt;em&gt;special&lt;/em&gt; elsewhere except that he is both intelligent and a very fast and accurate shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2013-02-22T23:56:47.187" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3369" CreationDate="2013-02-23T03:10:29.587" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe because Bane is not evil by nature, the Pit made him ruthless. By birth, Bane may be like Bruce, good and kind. That's why when all the prisoners attacked the young innocent Talia without mercy, Bane is the only one, among the evil prisoners, who showed compassion and protected her. He is willing to risk himself for the safety of the girl. I also doubt that that's the reason why Ra's excommunicated Bane, because he shows compassion to people. The same morality Bruce showed in Batman Begins that made Ra's angry (The scene where Bruce refused to kill a theif Ra's captured). Maybe Bane is similar. After all Bane's attack to Gotham was only loyalty or to settle a debt he owed to both Talia and Ra's who helped him from the horrible Pit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4196" LastEditorUserId="96009" LastEditDate="2022-06-05T14:56:35.443" LastActivityDate="2022-06-05T14:56:35.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10175" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-23T04:08:36.703" Score="9" ViewCount="37728" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought that in &lt;em&gt;The Prestige&lt;/em&gt; Angier, like Borden, cloned himself just once, and then, for his 100 performances, again like Borden, used that one clone for the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not think that he cloned himself every time, because if he did, there would be 101 Angiers at the end of the shows. So when Angier drowned, I also did not think about him setting up Borden, I actually never thought about that.  I just thought that he, the real Angier, had set up the show so that there would only be one Angier in the end (not just end of the show, but end like during his retirement).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also do not know how many shows there were out of the 100 before Angier died, so did Angier want to go through with all of his shows, or just some, until he could get Borden? I thought that he would be the one appearing at the prestige, and his clone would drown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he used just one clone every time he performed, did he use the machine every time? What machine would he have used? If he didn't and used the machine every time to clone himself every time, how did he know that it would work every time? Like Tesla said, &quot;An exact science is not an exact science.&quot; How did he know it wouldn't stop working on him like it did for Tesla? But some things are made clear when I think about what Angier said,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every night, I did not know if I would be the one in the box, or the one at the prestige.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4197" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-09-07T17:17:32.640" LastActivityDate="2021-03-17T10:34:35.467" Title="How did Angier perform The Real Transported Man?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10175" CreationDate="2013-02-23T07:46:27.077" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite a few questions but here it goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie clearly shows one Angier always drowning. He used the machine each time he performed the show to clone himself and then killed the Angiers that stayed on the stage to prevent multiple Angiers from walking around at the same time. This is part of his vanity as he wanted to get all credit. He could have cloned himself once and done something like Borden but that's not in his nature. In the last scenes of the movie, you can also see the past dead clones in their tanks at the storage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the revenge part, framing Borden for murder was clearly part of the plan all along. He still hates him for the death of his wife, and is very keen on being the best magician. The two go to extremes to get the credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the exact science remark: I don't think that was a comment on the fact that it might stop working one day. It had to do with the progress and functionality of the machine at that point in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2021-03-17T10:29:03.247" LastActivityDate="2021-03-17T10:29:03.247" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3775" CreationDate="2013-02-23T12:31:45.910" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My take on the 1990 version is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quaid was working for Cohagen. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quaid agreed to be brainwashed to think he switched to the rebel side.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While with the rebels, Quaid fell in love and his sympathy for the rebels became more innate.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quaid, worried that he might be captured, made the video for himself telling him how to remove the tracker, etc.  Whether he knew then that he was a double agent is hard to say.  Maybe his inner training just took over and he did not know.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As Quaid feared, Cohagen decided to pull him out, but loved him like a son, so he had him brainwashed again instead of killing him.  He placed people close by to keep an eye on him.  In short, he didn't serve any purpose as &quot;average joe&quot; except Cohagen didn't have to kill him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Rekall thing was just really bad luck for everyone, except that clearly his fascination with Mars had some basis in his inner mind.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So the effort to get back and rejoin the rebels was genuine, and so was Cohagen's attempts to stop him, but once again he did not want him killed.  Maybe because he loved him, and maybe because he was already thinking he might be able to use him, but what he SAYS is he wants him reimplanted and put back into the same cover situation.  I think Cohagen just cared about him.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;But once Quaid made it to Mars, Cohagen also put someone (taxi driver) on Quaid to try and follow him into the rebel center, and it worked.  This was never the master plan, but a way to salvage the original goal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Quaid learns of his original identity and goal, he rejects it, even though there is yet another video he made for himself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4200" LastActivityDate="2013-02-23T12:31:45.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10181" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17646" CreationDate="2013-02-23T22:26:44.160" Score="3" ViewCount="1183" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched Black Swan on TV. I've seen the movie in the theatre as well. I was surprised to discover that the nail skin peel scene wasn't in the TV broadcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible I watched a 'toned down' version of the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4201" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-01-22T17:06:43.213" LastActivityDate="2017-01-22T17:06:43.213" Title="Are there different versions of Aronovsky's Black Swan?" Tags="|alternate-version|black-swan|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10184" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10185" CreationDate="2013-02-24T01:36:08.470" Score="4" ViewCount="341" Body="&lt;p&gt;Going through the entire series 'Lost' again with my brother who hasn't seen it.  One of the biggest aspects to the show was the week to week community and analysis of each episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if there's any online resource we can refer to in a 'follow along' type of way to somewhat recreate that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if we watch S01E10, after watching it we'd like to go and read a bit of analysis for that episode, without spoilers.  Then do that for each episode as we go along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or if you have a better idea of how to enhance our experience, let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4203" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2013-11-04T04:03:59.067" LastActivityDate="2013-11-04T04:03:59.067" Title="'Lost' follow along resources?" Tags="|lost|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10184" CreationDate="2013-02-24T01:44:53.883" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;em&gt;Lostpedia&lt;/em&gt; is probably your best bet (as long as you stick to the episode descriptions without clicking on any of the links).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, can read the summary of episode 10 here:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Raised_by_Another&quot;&gt;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Raised_by_Another&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4204" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T01:44:53.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8431" CreationDate="2013-02-24T02:48:35.680" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the same character, Tran, in Vietnam and in China.  The connection is easy to miss - I've watched this film a million times and just caught this for the first time today.  Near the end of the film, when Muir is arranging the rescue with Duncan, he mentions to Duncan that Bishop had an old friend on the &quot;Sideshow&quot; op (Commander Wiley's op) going on near Su Chou prision -- and he explicitly names Tran.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4205" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T02:48:35.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3701" CreationDate="2013-02-24T02:57:01.133" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There may be something to Folger's and Muir's history -- maybe Muir's &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; read the NDA's and this is a departure.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But regardless of that, here's my theory:  Non-disclosure agreements often bind both parties.  Muir can't talk without violating the agreement, but neither can the CIA. And if they do break the agreement, all bets are off.  So if that's the case, Muir may realize that he's actually protecting himself and his fake op by signing the agreement.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4205" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T02:57:01.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10189" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-24T06:32:39.343" Score="1" ViewCount="343" Body="&lt;p&gt;Machinama has finally released a trailer for Season 2 of Kevin Tancharoen's hit web series &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mortal Kombat: Legacy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. It seems from the trailer that Shang Tsung recruits Kang to fight alongside the Outerworld contestants against the humans. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this based on some new development in the MK franchise story line or is it an original serial story arc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T05:15:46.133" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T08:12:08.313" Title="Is this character development with Lui Kang accurate to the source material?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|mortal-kombat-legacy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10190" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-24T07:23:53.723" Score="6" ViewCount="21491" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Roman Polanski's classic &lt;em&gt;Rosemary's Baby&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Terry Gionoffrio&lt;/em&gt; throws herself from a window. Is it ever explained why she killed herself? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was she under some kind of spell or is it just a plot advancement for the &lt;em&gt;Castevets&lt;/em&gt; to mingle with their new neighbors? It doesn't seem like she was part of the coven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-11-09T22:30:35.253" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T22:30:35.253" Title="Why was Terry killed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|rosemarys-baby|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10193" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-24T08:03:23.580" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Roman Polanski  is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, the United Kingdom, France and the United States, he is considered one of the few &quot;truly international filmmakers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia profile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="111" LastEditorUserId="111" LastEditDate="2013-02-24T11:39:40.230" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T11:39:40.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10194" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-24T08:03:23.580" Score="0" Body="Roman Polanskiis a Polish-French film director, producer, writer and actor. He is considered one of the few &quot;truly international filmmakers&quot;" OwnerUserId="111" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-02-24T14:48:21.920" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T14:48:21.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8043" CreationDate="2013-02-24T09:58:13.860" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like the end of the movie might be alluding to a more whimsical answer.  Maybe Freddy is waking up from a self induced hypnosis where he experienced a possible future for himself in one of his alternate life paths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4209" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T09:58:13.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10199" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10201" CreationDate="2013-02-24T17:35:47.463" Score="5" ViewCount="1626" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a movie. It is a western, the main character is blind and it's a really good shooter. The man is in his 50s and is dressed in black. His finally battle is in a church with the noise of the bells and dynamite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It is not the &quot;Blindman&quot; with Ringo Star.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1414" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-02-24T18:31:42.913" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T18:31:42.913" Title="Spaghetti Western with a blind man" Tags="|identify-this-movie|western|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:42:22.573" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10200" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-24T18:14:14.313" Score="3" ViewCount="465" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was left puzzled by the end of &lt;strong&gt;Cube 2: Hypercube&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was she undercover?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why was she shot?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Me wonders if there is some explanation I missed, or if it was just deliberate &lt;strike&gt;non-sense&lt;/strike&gt; mindfuck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastEditorUserId="105" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T09:34:08.820" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T19:09:55.807" Title="Who is the lady in Cube 2?" Tags="|cube-2-hypercube|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10199" CreationDate="2013-02-24T18:21:31.780" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109294/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blind Justice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(1994)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qomkl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;VHS&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-445067281-furor-ciego-blind-justice-armand-assante-robert-davi-vhs-_JM&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... &lt;strong&gt;a western about a blind gunfighter roaming the range with a baby in tow.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The enigmatic Canaan &lt;em&gt;(Armand Assante)&lt;/em&gt; is a serape-clad vision in black, first glimpsed carrying a swaddled infant through Monument Valley&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He gets sidetracked in a one-horse town, where a small band of federal cavalry is holed up guarding a ton of silver bullion. Meanwhile, evil bandit leader Alacran &lt;em&gt;(Robert Davi)&lt;/em&gt; controls the only road out of town, , and has so far foiled all their attempts to send for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;Canaan surreptitiously outfits the casket with explosives, and manages to blow casket, church, and outlaw crew sky-high.&lt;/strong&gt; Canaan loses his hearing in the blast, but he's able to identify Alacran by smell, and dispatches him in a final showdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;  [&lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.tvguide.com/blind-justice/review/130360&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.videodetective.com/movies/blind-justice/5155&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Watch the trailer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T18:21:31.780" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10202" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26634" CreationDate="2013-02-24T19:46:19.593" Score="24" ViewCount="43149" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, my buddies and I were watching the movie &lt;em&gt;UP&lt;/em&gt;, and in the scene where Mr. Frederickson hits the worker for moving his mailbox, the worker moves his hand to reveal blood on his head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of my friends then commented saying &quot;I think this is the first Disney movie to have blood.&quot;, but I waved him off, sure there was another one older than that that has featured blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there? Or have I gone crazy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4211" LastEditorUserId="4211" LastEditDate="2014-10-26T21:24:22.467" LastActivityDate="2014-10-26T22:33:06.803" Title="What Disney animated film was the first to feature blood?" Tags="|first-appearance|disney|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10202" CreationDate="2013-02-24T22:11:13.393" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;The earliest Disney animated movie I can find is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053285/?ref_=sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sleeping Beauty&lt;/a&gt;, from 1959, which shows the Dragon being slain by a sword, showing some blood. I found this picture, I see no reason why this picture is not genuine...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y3YbW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In live action movies, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046672/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954)&lt;/a&gt;, Captain Nemo (played by James Mason) is shot whilst boarding the Nautilus.  He is seen climbing stairs, and there is a big patch of blood on his jacket.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;amp;v=nVk2qGmKQH0#t=435&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Youtube hosted copy of the scene&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-02-24T22:29:07.047" LastActivityDate="2013-02-24T22:29:07.047" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10209" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10212" CreationDate="2013-02-25T04:33:40.297" Score="20" ViewCount="13555" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to know James Bond's age window. He's been played by a wide variety of actors.  What is the youngest and oldest Agent 007 has been portrayed to be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-17T07:24:13.523" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T10:25:23.320" Title="How old is James Bond?" Tags="|character|james-bond|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="900" CreationDate="2013-02-25T04:57:58.943" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Rose is her mom.  That's why she and Rose are together in the same house in two instances when Mary is a child, why you never see Mary's mom in the present, why only Rose and Mary's mom ever call her on that phone.  Also, listen to the lyrics Mary sings as she puts her ex-husband in the grave; I think she's singing about &quot;Mommy.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4215" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T04:57:58.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10209" CreationDate="2013-02-25T07:03:07.583" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe Bond's age has ever been specified in any of the movies, but as far as the actors go:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Youngest: George Lazenby was 29 when he portrayed Bond in &lt;em&gt;On Her Majesty's Secret Service&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oldest: Roger Moore was 58 when he played Bond in &lt;em&gt;A View to A Kill&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3430" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T07:03:07.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10209" CreationDate="2013-02-25T10:34:56.763" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/James_Bond&quot;&gt;jamesbond.wikia.com&lt;/a&gt; states&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because the James Bond Film Franchise has lasted nearly sixty years, the characters do not age in relation to release of the first film. Rather, Bond is always mid-aged. Likewise, in Ian Fleming's stories, James Bond is in his mid-to-late thirties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means he always aged from mid-to-late thirties. With an exception of &lt;em&gt;Moonraker&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonraker_%28novel%29&quot;&gt;Moonraker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, he admits to being eight years shy of mandatory retirement age from the &lt;code&gt;00&lt;/code&gt; section—45—which would mean he was 37 at the time.&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_%28literary_character%29&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's the case for the novel, I am not sure about the movie, because I didn't watch it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you go with the actors age, George Lazenby was the youngest Bond at 29 years when he was hired for &lt;em&gt;On Her Majesty's Secret Service&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moore is the longest-serving James Bond actor, having spent 12 years in the role (from his debut in 1973, to his retirement from the role in 1985), and having made seven official films in a row. Moore is the oldest actor to have played Bond:  he was 45 in &lt;em&gt;Live and Let Die&lt;/em&gt; (1973), and 58 when he announced his retirement on 3 December 1985.&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Moore&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-05-02T16:17:58.360" LastActivityDate="2013-05-02T16:17:58.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10209" CreationDate="2013-02-25T11:27:28.370" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking of the literary character, James Bond, Ian Fleming (creator) did not provide a date of birth, though James Bond is supposed to be in mid to late thirties. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Moonraker, he admits to being eight years shy of mandatory retirement age from the 00 section—45—which would mean he was 37 at the time. John Pearson's fictional biography of Bond, James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, gives him a birth date of 11 November 1920, while a study by Bond scholar John Griswold puts the date at 11 November 1921. According to Griswold, the Fleming novels take place between around May 1951, to February 1964, by which time Bond was aged 42.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-01-23T10:25:23.320" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T10:25:23.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10217" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10218" CreationDate="2013-02-25T14:14:15.280" Score="8" ViewCount="9058" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2009 movie &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988045/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; during the bare fist fight scene early on in the movie, Sherlock tries to leave the fight after but is then humiliated by his opponent who spits at him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then seemingly breaks the fourth wall and tells us &quot;This mustn't register on an emotional level&quot;... before proceeding to detail how he is going to counter attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of the line &quot;This mustn't register on an emotional level&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/rPIk3iPDcvk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-09-13T20:01:38.253" LastActivityDate="2019-10-23T10:59:09.320" Title="What is the meaning of the line &quot;This mustn't register on an emotional level&quot;?" Tags="|dialogue|sherlock-holmes-2009|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10217" CreationDate="2013-02-25T14:19:52.580" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching that clip, I have one more theory.  Since it was Irene that calls Holmes away from the fight, it is possible that he is reminding himself to not let his feelings/emotions for Irene get the best of him and allow him to make a mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He says this before plotting out his attack pattern on his target to clear his mind and focus on taking this guy out before going after Irene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming I'm wrong, another reason could be a reminder Holmes gives himself before planning a fight out to not feel bad for the amount of pain he is about to inflict upon his opponent(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This explanation is wrong, but I'm leaving it in anyway as why not?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible he wasn't breaking the fourth-wall, but rather speaking to his opponent who wouldn't let him go.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The man was about to attack Holmes, and Holmes essentially warns him to not let his pride get the best of him &quot;Mustn't register on an emotional level&quot; referring to the man's pride of losing the fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T14:27:10.943" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T14:27:10.943" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8852" CreationDate="2013-02-25T14:29:02.850" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, assuming the 2nd story is the true one, then we analyze the symbolism in the first story and accept the assignment of the animals to people given by the author/narrator, which concludes with &quot;...and you are the tiger.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that Pi (tiger) killed (and possibly ate) the cook (hyena). We also know that Pi coexisted with the tiger, as though Pi and the tiger are not one &amp;amp; the same - demonstrating Pi's inner struggle - peaceful vegetarian vs killer/carnivore/(cannibal). He &quot;needed the tiger in order to survive&quot;. But he needed to tame it to keep himself alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The island (cook) is teeming with life. The thousands of meercats represent the life-giving flesh of the island. But we see it's shape is that of a sarcophagus, or mummy, or dead man ... the cook. Pi eats the roots and seeds while Richard Parker eats the flesh of the island.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But ultimately, Pi sees that the dark side of this will eventually consume him and he must move on. (perhaps the dark side of the island is the decaying, rotting flesh of the cook.) But before he does, he stuffs himself &quot;til his stomach can hold no more&quot; and gathers as many meercats as he can as &quot;sustenance for Richard Parker&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pi has eaten the cook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4216" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T14:32:16.187" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T14:32:16.187" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10217" CreationDate="2013-02-25T14:46:48.710" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;We all know that Sherlock was trying to leave the fight and walk out of the PUB. But after being provoked he takes a brief pause before he says the following line &quot;This mustn't register on an emotional level&quot;... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to me he said so because he did not want this humiliation to blind his judgement.... so that by mistake.... instead of just replying to the humiliation and injuring the opponent he does not end up killing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is why in the end of the counter attack explanation he also tells the physical recovery time and mental recovery time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To Summarize.... He just says so... so that he does not take it too personally and end up killing the guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4217" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T14:46:48.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10221" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10234" CreationDate="2013-02-25T15:43:21.260" Score="2" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not remember the in-story locale of Lost Girl ever being mentioned in the show, it is filmed in Toronto however, and in many scenes notable landmarks (such as the CN tower) can be seen which are never mentioned in and do not play any part in the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, various colloquialisms differentiate the show from many American written shows (such as not referring to the police station that Dyson and Tamsin are officers at as 'precincts'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do any of the characters ever make mention to where they're located, are the events in Lost Girl based in any real world city?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T06:20:28.063" Title="Where is Lost Girl supposed to be based?" Tags="|lost-girl|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10222" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-25T17:01:21.583" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;NCIS is an American police drama series about a team from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which is responsible for investigating criminal cases relating to the US Navy and Marine Corps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Starring&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;Mark Harmon as &lt;em&gt;Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;Michael Weatherly as &lt;em&gt;Special Agent Tony DiNozzo&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;Sean Murray as &lt;em&gt;Special Agent Timothy McGee&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;Cote de Pablo as &lt;em&gt;Special Agent Ziva David&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;Pauley Perrette as &lt;em&gt;Abby Sciuto&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;David McCallum as &lt;em&gt;Dr. Donald &quot;Ducky&quot; Mallard&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T07:02:59.837" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T07:02:59.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10223" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-25T17:01:21.583" Score="0" Body="NCIS is an American police drama series about a team from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which is responsible for investigating criminal cases relating to the US Navy and Marine Corps." OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T07:03:08.397" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T07:03:08.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10224" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-25T17:09:07.663" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firefly is an American space &quot;western&quot; drama created by Joss Whedon, who directed and wrote the scripts for the show, in addition to serving as the executive producer for the show. The show revolves around the crew of the spaceship &quot;Serenity&quot; - a &quot;Firefly&quot; class ship from which the show takes its name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show was cancelled after its first season, but a follow up movie was created - &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/serenity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'serenity'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;serenity&lt;/a&gt; which continued the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Starring&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;Nathan Fillion as Malcolm &quot;Mal&quot; Reynolds&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;Alan Tudyk as Hoban &quot;Wash&quot; Washburne&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;Gina Torres as Zoe Alleyne Washburne&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;Jewel Staite as Kaywinnet Lee &quot;Kaylee&quot; Frye&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;Adam Baldwin as Jayne Cobb&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;Morena Baccarin as Inara Serra&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;Ron Glass as Derrial Book&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;Sean Maher as Dr. Simon Tam&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;Summer Glau as River Tam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T17:25:08.673" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T17:25:08.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10225" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-25T17:09:07.663" Score="0" Body="Firefly is an American space &quot;western&quot; drama created by Joss Whedon. The show revolves around the crew of the spaceship &quot;Serenity&quot; - a &quot;Firefly&quot; class ship from which the show takes its name." OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-25T17:24:08.237" LastActivityDate="2013-02-25T17:24:08.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10221" CreationDate="2013-02-26T02:04:26.820" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one episode Kenzi does refer to a minor character being &quot;across the border&quot; where she is on death row. IIRC Canada doesn't have a death penalty so it's a sort of admission that they aren't in the US. But other than that, no, I don't believe any character ever specifically says Toronto. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4224" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T02:04:26.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10231" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-26T03:07:05.423" Score="14" ViewCount="66896" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the very last scene of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210166/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Moneyball (2011)&lt;/a&gt;, Billy listens to song that his daughter recorded for him while driving in his car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She changed the lyrics in the end, singing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You're such a loser, dad,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  you're such a loser dad,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  just enjoy the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't quite understand what her motivation here is for calling him that. He achieved what he wanted, to change the game. He also did not accept the high priced offer to change teams, so he was staying in town (what she wanted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess she is meaning it in some sort of ironic way? Can anyone shed some light on her motivation to change the lyrics in this way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is the last thing you hear before the movie goes dark, I guess its supposed to have some meaning I don't get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/BUY3o6UuRz4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-01-17T22:47:46.033" LastActivityDate="2016-04-14T14:04:02.080" Title="Why is she calling him a loser?" Tags="|analysis|moneyball|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8521" CreationDate="2013-02-26T04:48:34.250" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The key clue for me was that, after the scene ends, the cut is to fireworks going off in the night sky.  That is a classic Bond style touch, cutting to an image that is full of sexual symbolism, like a train going through a tunnel, to hint at what they can't show on camera.  That's something that is an intentional choice by the writer/director, and they knew exactly what they were trying to convey to the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another subtler clue was the dialogue between Bond and Eve later, when they are joking about what you can do with two hands.  This is reminiscent of the dialogue in Casino Royale between Bond and Vespa about what he can do with his pinky, and Eve's response seems less like flirting and more like a genuine response.  So, I read that as a confirmation that something did happen between them, besides a close shave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4226" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T04:48:34.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10221" CreationDate="2013-02-26T06:20:28.063" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 2 episode 18, &quot;The Falls&quot; are mentioned as the location of Bo &amp;amp; Ryan's almost-wedding, and in season 3 episode 5, Kenzi suggests she &amp;amp; Bo go to &quot;the casino at Niagara&quot;. Various maps used on the show are of the Toronto area as well. So while they haven't yet specifically stated that &quot;Faetown&quot; is Toronto, they're leaving less and less doubt as time goes on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4228" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T06:20:28.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9700" CreationDate="2013-02-26T08:32:53.940" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure, and may be wrong.... But I think it was Lisa Kudrow herself who wrote the songs she sang in FRIENDS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Reason I say so.... is because I read somewhere, a long time back, that the characters dressed in whatever they wanted to, and the director gave them a lot of space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4217" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-13T00:51:06.703" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T00:51:06.703" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9280" CreationDate="2013-02-26T08:47:27.313" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This movie is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078241/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shalimar&lt;/em&gt; (1978)&lt;/a&gt;, a Hindi film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was also released in the US in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen this film and it has the exact same things described above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pattern... and the museum look of the place... The person challenges a group gathered to steal the diamond/artifact which is kept in a room full of laser detectors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4217" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T00:58:12.653" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T00:58:12.653" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9700" CreationDate="2013-02-26T09:06:54.473" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It must have been the scriptwriter. The songs are witty &amp;amp; funny. It is less likely that some naive person would have written them. In my opinion, Pheobe's songs were  very smartly written, so it is more likely that a professional i.e. the scriptwriter must have wrote them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T09:06:54.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1032" CreationDate="2013-02-26T09:30:04.000" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you're referring to 1992 TV movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103955/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Child of rage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4230" LastEditorUserId="313" LastEditDate="2013-02-26T11:10:18.487" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T11:10:18.487" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10241" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-26T09:57:07.433" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions relating to the soundtrack of a movie, use this tag for questions regarding the musical score or other music that appears in a movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-26T11:38:52.327" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T11:38:52.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10242" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-26T09:57:07.433" Score="0" Body="For questions relating to the soundtrack of a movie, use this tag for questions regarding the musical score or other music that appears in a movie." OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-26T11:39:17.847" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T11:39:17.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10243" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-26T10:04:12.457" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions relating to the location of filming, rather than the location depicted in the final show. Use for questions trying to determine where a film was shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-26T11:39:33.353" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T11:39:33.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10244" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-26T10:04:12.457" Score="0" Body="For questions relating to the location of filming, rather than the location depicted in the final show. Use for questions trying to determine where a film was shot." OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-02-26T11:39:25.867" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T11:39:25.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10246" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-26T10:24:00.640" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-26T10:24:00.640" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T10:24:00.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10247" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-26T10:24:00.640" Score="0" Body="Film adaptation of the Michael Lewis's 2003 book of the same name,based on Oakland Athletics baseball team's 2002 season and their general manager Billy Beane's." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-26T14:48:47.057" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T14:48:47.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9272" CreationDate="2013-02-26T12:11:46.780" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was never made clear in the episode, as to which specific technology found in a cell phone, was used by Nazis to win the war, I would like to believe that they exploited cell phones for better communication, which would have helped them in efficient diversion of resources to the places they need. It's pure speculation on my part, since nothing conclusive has been presented in the concerned episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T12:11:46.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10217" CreationDate="2013-02-26T13:58:34.190" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Holmes works on pure logic and reasoning - it is a very important aspect of his efficiency,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being spat at made him angry and he had to resist the urge to let his anger cloud his judgement.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He must not let it register on an emotional level and simply react scientifically to the situation, hence the plotting of attacks was based on damage caused and potential openings rather than just &quot;I KEEEL YOU!!!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T13:58:34.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10252" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10253" CreationDate="2013-02-26T17:45:22.347" Score="17" ViewCount="10103" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of the title &quot;The Naked Gun&quot; in the series of detective-spoof movies starring Leslie Nielsen? Is it a joke based on an existing detective movie with a similar name? Or perhaps a play on a phrase like &quot;the naked eye&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-02-19T01:16:02.847" LastActivityDate="2020-12-08T12:47:15.117" Title="What is meaning of movie title &quot;The Naked Gun&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|title|the-naked-gun|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10252" CreationDate="2013-02-26T18:44:43.313" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Naked Gun&lt;/em&gt; is a fabricated title designed to evoke the old police thrillers of yesteryear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is an offshoot of a short-running TV series, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Squad!&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Police Squad! (1982)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, which starred Leslie Nielsen in the same role and which itself is a pastiche on an older series from the 50s called &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050035/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;M Squad (1957)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; - even going so far as to emulate the theme tune and keep the main character's christian name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title might also be an homage to &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051297/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_10&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Naked City (1958-1963)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, another TV show from the 50s and 60s that dealt with the day to day lives of homicide detectives in New York's 65th Precinct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="44202" LastEditDate="2020-12-08T10:04:59.090" LastActivityDate="2020-12-08T10:04:59.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10255" CreationDate="2013-02-26T20:56:59.620" Score="11" ViewCount="1046" Body="&lt;p&gt;At some point in the last year, I saw a preview for a movie at the theater.  What I remember is a person dressed in a hoodie walking into a private bathroom at a gas station or something.  The impression is that this person is on the lam, hiding.  After our hero gets in the bathroom, the hood goes back and it's clearly not human, but behaving like one.  We hear heavy breathing and the android is looking at its arms and body, clearly suffering from severe dysmorphia (human woken up in a robot body.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot for the life of me remember the movie title nor find it in any upcoming movies list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4235" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-02-27T23:15:30.020" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T10:54:30.097" Title="Upcoming movie about an android" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:42:32.090" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10254" CreationDate="2013-02-26T21:09:31.790" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2223842/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Prototype&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KGT5p.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Prototype&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://newblockbusters.com/the-prototype-2013-official-teaser-trailer/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The military tries to track down a humanoid drone that escapes from a government facility&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1p0_R8ZLB0&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watch the trailer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-02-26T21:09:31.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8668" CreationDate="2013-02-26T21:54:15.147" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It probably has nothing to do with the movies, but she had the bug on her chest in the games too, and there's a definite answer for that in the Resident Evil games (mostly Resident Evil 5).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jill and Chris were on a mission together to apprehend Wesker, and while fighting Wesker at the top floor of a mansion in Europe, Wesker was about to kill Chris, but Jill sacrificed herself to save Chris by tackling Wesker out the window. Their bodies were never found,and Jill and Wesker were presumed dead. Nearing the end of the game you find out that Wesker had survived the fall, and in doing so, kidnapped Jill and put the red bug on her, keeping her as his slave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the experiences Chris, Jill, and Claire have had with Wesker are almost not hinted at all in the movies, so it's probably different, especially considering she was under Umbrella's control in the movie and not Wesker's. (Unless Umbrella took Jill from Wesker at some point.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4236" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-11-16T13:28:45.947" LastActivityDate="2018-11-16T13:28:45.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10259" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-26T23:46:30.040" Score="5" ViewCount="1851" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118571/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Air Force One&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the terrorists use the help of a traitor from inside the crew/staff. But what was his motivation for helping the terrorists?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is really a key development in the movie. It's the only way they could get weapons on the plane like that and it is not explained AT ALL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4239" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-02-27T12:04:43.913" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T20:44:59.813" Title="What is the Traitor's Motive?" Tags="|plot-explanation|air-force-one|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10260" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10261" CreationDate="2013-02-27T00:58:21.637" Score="10" ViewCount="13260" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; episode &quot;...And the bag's in the river&quot; (episode 3 of the first season):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Walt kills Krazy 8&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we're not shown what happens to the body? Did Walt use the acid trick again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-07-02T18:06:40.073" LastActivityDate="2016-07-02T18:06:40.073" Title="Where did this guy's body go?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10260" CreationDate="2013-02-27T02:53:32.347" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Domingo_Molina&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is then heavily implied by Jesse that he was dissolved in hydrofluoric acid like his cousin Emilio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jesse says in Season 1 Episode 7:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;I got two dudes that turned into raspberry slushie then flushed down my toilet. I can't even take a proper dump in there. I mean, the whole damn house has got to be haunted by now.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a pretty clear indication that the acid trick was used with Krazy 8 and his remains were flushed down the toilet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2013-02-28T02:26:06.050" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T02:26:06.050" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9736" CreationDate="2013-02-27T09:27:52.513" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well according to me, among all the girls, Sanjana was the only one who was normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By normal I mean she was not representing any social message, and was going through simple day to day problems that a normal girl goes through. Neither was she pampered nor was she too open or too shy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She was kind of the girl next door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus they both had a lot in common, and had built up attraction towards each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The family also approved of Sanjana during the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the movie was about how people belonging to different sun signs had different personalities and characteristics. Many people believe that some sun signs are more compatible with each other then the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So maybe she was the right girl for him in this respect as well.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4217" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-13T01:01:24.783" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T01:01:24.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8582" CreationDate="2013-02-27T10:04:18.830" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was murder.  However, it had to be done in way that those involved could not be blamed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sévérine could simply cry to the police whilst providing no useful information and the physical evidence clearly showing she was not the killer, if she had just shot the victim in the back of the head herself from a metre away she would most likely be caught.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone else had shot him from 1 metre away in the room then the police would ask how he got in, his description, the victim might react and cause a problem etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assumed that she had no idea when or how the assassination would be carried out merely that it would be done by an expert.  There is a chance things can go wrong but this guy is a multi million pound professional, he knows what he is doing.  Even if something had gone wrong and Patrice got caught by the police or something then it would not matter, they would just send other assassins until the job was done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="1501" LastEditDate="2013-02-27T12:45:43.667" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T12:45:43.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10264" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10265" CreationDate="2013-02-27T11:23:56.703" Score="3" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Still going through Season 1, so please bear with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Nikki looks the video camera which was running when she had killed the thugs in Episode 1, all she sees is static. However, when she spends the night with Nathan, the camera footage is fine. Is the static phenomenon explained later in the series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4242" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T12:30:49.680" Title="Video of Nikki killing thugs in Episode 1" Tags="|heroes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10264" CreationDate="2013-02-27T12:30:49.680" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been a while since I've seen it I believe the video was actually fine but her memory/interpretation of the video was at fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was because her alternative personality removed the vision of the video in the same way as the memory - to protect her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T12:30:49.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10270" CreationDate="2013-02-27T19:00:31.260" Score="2" ViewCount="386" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV show 'Lost Girl', Bo is a succubus, and succubi survive by feeding off the sexual energy of others, which can lead to death of the 'food' during the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Up until recently, Bo went a period of time without 'feeding' while in a monogamous relationship with Lauren, a human doctor who is aware of what Bo is and aware of the Fae. During which time, Bo started getting weaker - did Lauren not get harmed because Bo wasn't feeding at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T19:35:36.957" Title="How come Lauren isn't harmed during her relationship with Bo?" Tags="|lost-girl|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10267" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10271" CreationDate="2013-02-27T19:01:09.777" Score="14" ViewCount="1421" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone knows that the cute, fuzzy critters from &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt; are called the Ewoks... but how does everyone know that?  If you watch the movie carefully, you'll notice that they never use the name anywhere.  So where does the name come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2023" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-09T07:18:29.683" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T07:18:29.683" Title="Where does the name &quot;Ewoks&quot; come from?" Tags="|star-wars|return-of-the-jedi|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10267" CreationDate="2013-02-27T19:08:31.777" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No idea when they first appeared but there were two movies that featured Ewoks in them that came out shortly after the movie did. Here are some links. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravan_of_Courage%3a_An_Ewok_Adventure&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewoks%3a_The_Battle_for_Endor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ewoks: The Battle for Endor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also according to wikipedia,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the film, the name &quot;Ewok&quot; is never actually spoken, but it appears in both the script and the closing credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3821" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T19:08:31.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10266" CreationDate="2013-02-27T19:35:36.957" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;By the time Bo and Lauren actually hook up in the series, Bo has developed a significant amount of control over her powers.  She still doesn't have complete control or know all of what she can do, but she can control how much she feeds and when.  If I recall correctly, Bo rarely, if ever, actually feeds on Lauren.  If she did feed on her, she had enough control over herself to prevent any harm coming to Lauren.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it's implied in the series that as long as she doesn't take all of a person's essence, they heal over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T19:35:36.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10267" CreationDate="2013-02-27T20:24:57.200" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;George Lucas&lt;/strong&gt; was sued by a guy named &lt;strong&gt;Dean Preston&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/1990-01-19/entertainment/ca-189_1_george-lucas&quot;&gt;who claimed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;he invented the Ewoks in a script called &lt;em&gt;&quot;Space Pets&quot;&lt;/em&gt; that he wrote in 1977 and mailed to Lucas in 1978. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lucas testified in court that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;he created the Ewoks in his original 1974 draft of &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Star Wars&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;came up with the name by reversing the syllables of the character he called &lt;em&gt;Wookie&lt;/em&gt; and rhyming it with the Northern California Indian tribe known as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miwok_people&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Miwok&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(pronounced: mee-walk)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ewok#Behind_the_scenes&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wookiepedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The name &lt;em&gt;&quot;Ewok&quot;&lt;/em&gt; only appeared in the script directions, the novelization, the movie's credits, and other spin-off and promotional materials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T20:24:57.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10272" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-27T21:55:40.003" Score="2" ViewCount="234" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the first film to use flaming/on fire swords? I'm most interested in when they're used in an offensive manner.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3821" LastEditorUserId="3821" LastEditDate="2013-02-28T15:08:31.563" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T15:08:31.563" Title="Flaming swords/on fire swords" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10272" CreationDate="2013-02-27T22:53:33.413" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far most of the film references I've found were to more recent fare (Scott Pilgrim for example) so I'm not sure what film is the first to have fire swords. However, I believe that I can answer your first question, the one about who started this crazy idea. In Genesis 3:24 after driving the humans out, God places a Cherubim with a flaming sword on the path to Tree of Life to guard it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2013-02-27T22:53:33.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10274" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10277" CreationDate="2013-02-27T23:33:45.010" Score="1" ViewCount="1034" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;The Mighty Boosh&quot;, Vince Noir (Noel Fielding) and Howard Moon (Julian Barratt) have developed a kind of vocal play in which they seemingly talk rhythmic gibberish in an a cappella style. I'm not understanding how they're building up the structure of these &quot;crimps&quot; nor what the subjects of most these individual crimps is meant to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What exactly is &quot;crimping&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T02:52:41.560" Title="What is &quot;crimping&quot;?" Tags="|mighty-boosh|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10275" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-02-28T00:03:56.537" Score="6" ViewCount="5246" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like this is the only movie remnant from my childhood that I haven't been able to pin down. I have only vague memories from the movie, but what I recall is that it centers around a new technology that takes the form of a special gun that makes people freeze in place for several minutes, though if you're wearing mirror sunglasses then it won't work on you. There's a &quot;good guy&quot; and &quot;bad guy&quot; in the movie, the latter of whom is a burly guy with a mustache. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other thing I'm remembering about the movie is a scene where the good guy turns on a sink to wash his hands or something when the burly guy comes in, catching him off-guard and shooting him with the gun. The good guy then looks down and realizes that the sink is overflowing because it's been running while he was stunned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4246" LastActivityDate="2014-03-27T21:25:36.920" Title="Identify an 80's movie about a gun that makes people freeze in place" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:42:35.243" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10274" CreationDate="2013-02-28T02:52:41.560" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crimping&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Urban Dictionary&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A form of scat singing usually performed as a duo. First invented and developed by Vince Noir and Howard Moon. Often Characterized by lines of interconnecting verse usually referencing abstract imagery, concepts and characters.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Crimping refers to a fictional type of song which usually contains no particular musical element but is instead sung acapella, does not follow any single tune and contains surreal lyrics that often make little sense. Other common characteristics of crimping are unusual subject matter such as soup or jackets, repetition of vocal lines and dance gestures to accompany the songs. The style is reminiscent of scat singing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Crimping originated in the British BBC Three series &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Mighty Boosh&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; where the two main characters, Howard Moon (Julian Barratt) and Vince Noir (Noel Fielding) sing a song with each other, often for nostalgic purposes. The most obvious of these is &quot;The Soup Song&quot;, with &quot;Calm A Llama Down&quot; and &quot;Jean-Claude Jaquettie&quot; also being prominent examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These small tunes were not known as crimping until the third episode of the third series, &quot;The Power of the Crimp&quot;, in which the main characters stage a &quot;crimp-off&quot; against their doppelgänger rivals, The Flighty Zeus. The match culminates in a four-way crimp to which both Bollo and Naboo contribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T02:52:41.560" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10278" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10285" CreationDate="2013-02-28T03:00:58.157" Score="8" ViewCount="17383" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the finale of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491738/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Psych&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; season 6, called &lt;em&gt;&quot;Santabarbaratown&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, Gus and Shawn have an exchange wherein Shawn says, referring to Dahlia Twon, &lt;em&gt;&quot;his sister, his girlfriend, his girlfriend, his sister&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, to which Gus responds, &lt;em&gt;&quot;...It's just Santa Barbara&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. I know that many &lt;em&gt;Psych&lt;/em&gt; episodes (especially those of season 6) often parody or reference other works. It seams like this is what they were doing here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What were they referring to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-10-26T12:27:55.443" LastActivityDate="2018-10-26T12:27:55.443" Title="What film or TV show is being referenced in Psych episode Santabarbaratown?" Tags="|reference|psych|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10281" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10283" CreationDate="2013-02-28T05:29:27.537" Score="12" ViewCount="96068" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer_Cake_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Layer Cake&lt;/a&gt;, Daniel Craig stars as a drug dealer. His name is not mentioned throughout the movie. He was even credited as &quot;XXXX&quot;, he also said near the end, that if you knew his name, you would be as smart as him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anybody here has any idea about what his name was in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4249" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T19:52:26.710" LastActivityDate="2014-11-20T18:43:27.087" Title="What was Daniel Craig's character's name?" Tags="|character|layer-cake|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10282" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10399" CreationDate="2013-02-28T06:49:06.600" Score="3" ViewCount="571" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Season 3 Christmas Special of Downton Abbey, after Daisy wins the gold sovereign in the ring toss, the carnie running the ring toss says something to his assistant that I couldn't understand. What does he say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched it several times, and tried turning subtitles on, but this line didn't have subtitles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4252" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-28T07:24:06.540" LastActivityDate="2013-03-09T01:19:32.327" Title="What does the carnie say?" Tags="|dialogue|downton-abbey|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10281" CreationDate="2013-02-28T08:52:57.443" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The character played by Daniel Craig, had no name in the movie. The movie, is based on a book of the same name &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer_Cake_%28novel%29&quot;&gt;Layer Cake&lt;/a&gt;, and the protagonist (character played by Daniel Craig) has no name there too. He is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Anonymous&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you read this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2004/09/17/matthew_vaughn_layer_cake_interview.shtml&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; of the director, Matthew Vaughan, you would know that they gave a name to this &lt;em&gt;anonymous&lt;/em&gt; character, for the movie. Quoting the below part from that interview&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's an interesting character for him to play, isn't it? This man with&#xA;  no name...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the book he's just anonymous. But in the script it's really weird.&#xA;  We didn't want to give him a name, but you have to call him something&#xA;  in the script, so he became &quot;XXXX&quot;. The last line of the book is the&#xA;  last line of the movie. The studio wanted to cut it, but I told them&#xA;  it was really important. The fact that he doesn't have a name is what&#xA;  makes him so different. He's Clint Eastwood, riding in on a horse, he&#xA;  doesn't give anything away. He's a chameleon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T08:52:57.443" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10278" CreationDate="2013-02-28T10:16:54.343" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Santabarbaratow episode, following are the references mentioned by IMDb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shawn refers to Gus as the &quot;candy man,&quot; and he replies, &quot;I make the&#xA;  world taste good.&quot; Refers to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Wonka_&amp;amp;_the_Chocolate_Factory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Willy Wonka &amp;amp; the Chocolate Factory&#xA;  (1971).&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thea tells Shawn and Gus that she and Jordan watched &quot;Summer School&quot;&#xA;  the night before. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Wonka_&amp;amp;_the_Chocolate_Factory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Summer School (1987)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shawn asks Thea if she watched &quot;Ski School&quot; the night before.- &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_School_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ski&#xA;  School (1990)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shawn refers to Henry as &quot;Sipowicz.&quot; -Refers to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYPD_Blue&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;NYPD Blue&lt;/a&gt; (1993) (TV&#xA;  Series)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shawn asks Chief Vick: &quot;Did you see the season finale of 'The&#xA;  Bachelorette'?&quot;- refers to The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348894/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bachelorette (2003) (TV Series)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shawn and Gus discuss the  movie.-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1189340/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As Thea is carried away, Gus says, &quot;Forget about it, Shawn; it's just&#xA;  Santa Barbara.&quot; Refers to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chinatown (1974)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Source:&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2092746/trivia?tab=mc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-10-26T12:27:41.377" LastActivityDate="2018-10-26T12:27:41.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10278" CreationDate="2013-02-28T10:32:01.137" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is reference to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chinatown&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a scene between&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Jake Gittes&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Jack Nicholson)&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Evelyn Mulwray&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Faye Dunaway)&lt;/em&gt; that goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Evelyn Mulwray:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;She's my daughter.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Gittes slaps Evelyn] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jake Gittes:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I said I want the truth!&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Evelyn Mulwray:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;She's my sister...&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[slap] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Evelyn Mulwray:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;She's my daughter...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[slap] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Evelyn Mulwray:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;My sister, my daughter.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[More slaps] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jake Gittes:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I said I want the truth!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Evelyn Mulwray:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;She's my sister AND my daughter!&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnrdetFAo1o#t=01m11s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watch the scene on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;strong&gt;American Film Institute&lt;/strong&gt;'s list &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Movie_Quotes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the line&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is listed as #74.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uSz0mEtEsQ#t=01m02s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watch the scene on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;em&gt;&quot;Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown,&quot;&lt;/em&gt; another line of the film's dialogue that has become famous is &lt;em&gt;&quot;She's my daughter. She's my sister...She's my sister and my daughter,&quot;&lt;/em&gt; spoken by Dunaway ... &amp;nbsp; [&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&amp;amp;Movie=54409&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2013-02-28T14:25:51.293" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T14:25:51.293" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10286" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10896" CreationDate="2013-02-28T12:25:34.867" Score="6" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of the famous Indian movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_Thief&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jewel Thief (1967)&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;Vinay (Dev Anand) is seen going to a jewelry shop and talking to the owner about employment. After being rejected, he steps out of the shop, and at the same time, the owner's daughter -- Anjali(Tanuja) -- is seen entering the shop. After this, there is a song sequence where Dev Anand encounters a group of girls (including Anjali) on a country side road. The song sequence suggests that Dev Anand was intentionally walking in front of the car to tease girls. After a little hustle, they are acquainted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, when Dev Anand is finally employed at the same jewelry shop,&#xA;Tanuja pays a visit, and Dev Anand tries to sell necklaces to her. However, after a little playing she reveals that she is the owner's daughter, and Dev Anand shows as if he did not know this, and is completely surprised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the surprise true or false? &#xA;Did he know her well and that is why he followed her after being rejected by his father? Was he looking for another way to get in, and then he tried to play it smart by pretending that he did not know who she really was? &#xA;Or was it a mere coincidence that Dev Anand happened to be on the same road as Tanuja, and teasing some random girls soon after he was denied a job at her father's shop?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-12-16T12:52:56.740" LastActivityDate="2016-12-16T12:52:56.740" Title="Does Vinay know Anjali before meeting her at the jewelry shop?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jewel-thief|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10287" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-02-28T12:46:39.730" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-28T12:46:39.730" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T12:46:39.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10288" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-02-28T12:46:39.730" Score="0" Body="1967's Crime thriller Bollywood film produced by Dev Anand which is also in the main lead with Vyjayantimala." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-02-28T12:46:39.730" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T12:46:39.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10275" CreationDate="2013-02-28T15:37:21.310" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Looker&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(1981)&lt;/em&gt;, written and directed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael Crichton&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looker’s most science-fiction invention is the &lt;strong&gt;L.O.O.K.E.R. device&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(short for &lt;strong&gt;Light Ocular-Oriented Kinetic Emotive Responses&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;, a “light gun” that stuns and paralyzes the target using light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anyone exposed to this weapon experiences a sort of “missing time” as they stand paralyzed&lt;/strong&gt;, allowing the weapon’s user to move around, invisible and undetected, for short periods.   [&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/movie/decade/1980-1989/looker/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Overflowing sink:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ULHGH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sink&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mcgcu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sink&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mirror sunglasses:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6xcme.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Glasses&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4dTDm47Lms&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;trailer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; doesn't feature the gun, but you can see it in action in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J8LYi16QIQ#t=00m22s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this scene&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T15:37:21.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10050" CreationDate="2013-02-28T23:27:58.247" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another aspect to origami is that it requires precise, painstaking execution, which seems to come naturally to Claire. Like origami, she is beautiful, complicated, and controlled; given the way the plot unfolds, she may be crushable. Also, the folds and doubling-back suggests to me complexity and double-dealing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find her very intriguing. Although I am associating the origami with negative connotations, I started liking her when she took up the origami, and found myself falling under her sway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DRJ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4257" LastActivityDate="2013-02-28T23:27:58.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10292" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10294" CreationDate="2013-03-01T00:50:33.510" Score="11" ViewCount="8793" Body="&lt;p&gt;While watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414982/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Final Destination 3&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I noticed a very characteristic camera shot. At a scene where the main character, Wendy, sits in her room at the computer (watching the supposedly foretelling fotos), her sister talks to her from the outside (asking if she can have the camera/fotos). There is a certain camera shot, where on the left side a frontal close-up of Wendy's face is shown, while on the right side you see her sister standing in full height inside the open door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/n8iE7.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/n8iE7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This shot immediately struck me as being somehow characteristic and out of place and infused feelings to me of some kind of older Hitchcock or Brian De Palma thriller or something the like. I also think to remember of having seen this kind of shot or something similar used in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101540/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cape Fear&lt;/em&gt; (Scorsese's 1991 version)&lt;/a&gt;, where Jessica Lange is shown in front of the dresser talking to Nick Nolte who stands in the door or father away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know if &lt;strong&gt;this technique has a certain name or theory behind it and where its origins lie&lt;/strong&gt;, or if there is any particular &lt;strong&gt;director or movie who made this famous&lt;/strong&gt;. It may be even that &lt;em&gt;Final Destination 3&lt;/em&gt; uses this especially &lt;strong&gt;in reference to some director or movie&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-11T19:51:10.860" LastActivityDate="2016-11-11T19:51:10.860" Title="Camera shot with close-up next to farther away standing person" Tags="|film-techniques|cinematography|final-destination-3|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10293" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10303" CreationDate="2013-03-01T01:48:25.860" Score="8" ViewCount="1186" Body="&lt;p&gt;Zachry (Tom Hanks) and Meronym (Halle Berry) meet in some possibly post-apocalyptic forest. And Meronym uses some kind of satellite dish to contact someone in space. Later they are shown not on earth, Zachry points out earth in the night sky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1RAdz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Zachry and Meronym&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were they on earth when they met?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2013-10-27T16:56:00.490" LastActivityDate="2013-10-27T16:56:00.490" Title="Do Tom Hanks and Halle Berry meet on earth in Cloud Atlas?" Tags="|cloud-atlas|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10292" CreationDate="2013-03-01T01:59:16.370" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This type of shot is most commonly known as a &lt;strong&gt;Deep Focus Shot&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_focus&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From the wiki page:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deep focus is a photographic and cinematographic technique using a large depth of field. Depth of field is the front-to-back range of focus in an image — that is, how much of it appears sharp and clear. Consequently, in deep focus the foreground, middle-ground and background are all in focus. This can be achieved through use of the hyperfocal distance of the camera lens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When deep focus is used, filmmakers often combine it with deep space (also called deep staging). Deep space is a part of mise-en-scene, placing significant actors and props in different planes of the picture. Directors and cinematographers often use deep space without using deep focus, being either an artistic choice or because they don't have resources to create a deep focus look, or both&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the cinema Orson Welles and his cinematographer Gregg Toland were most responsible for popularizing deep focus. Their film Citizen Kane (1941) is a veritable textbook of possible uses of the technique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MNLrR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 70s, directors made frequent use of the split-focus diopter. With this invention it was possible to have one plane in focus in one part of the picture and a different plane in focus in the other half of the picture. This was and still is very useful for the anamorphic widescreen format, which has more depth of field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A split diopter is half convex glass that attaches in front of the camera's main lens to make half the lens nearsighted. The lens can focus on a plane in the background and the diopter on a foreground. A split diopter does not create real deep focus, only the illusion of this. *&#xA;(Nobby adds: this is why you sometimes see a thin, blurred line separating the foreground from the background)*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nobby also adds:&lt;/em&gt; You rarely see deep focus shots being used in modern films as the advent of hand-held cinematography, along with the abandonment of established filming 'rules', has led to a desire for newer films to represent our way of seeing. We can't focus on two planes at once (unless from a great distance) and this is why 'shallow focus' (blurred backgrounds) are more prevalent. That said, the use of crash zooms has been creeping into shots lately, and this serves to draw the viewer out of the scene, as a zoom is the one thing the human eye cannot do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-03-01T02:04:55.577" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T02:04:55.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10295" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10298" CreationDate="2013-03-01T02:17:05.887" Score="23" ViewCount="6995" Body="&lt;p&gt;Terrence Howard played Rhodey in Iron Man but Don Cheadle played the character in Iron Man 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there any particular reason why Terrence Howard didn't continue on in the role?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T08:53:21.600" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T08:10:43.277" Title="Why didn't Terrence Howard play Jim Rhodes (Rhodey) in Iron Man 2?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|casting|iron-man|iron-man-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10295" CreationDate="2013-03-01T06:37:20.990" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no official word on the actual reason for replacing &lt;strong&gt;Terrence Howard&lt;/strong&gt; from the second installment of the movie. Nonetheless, there are some speculative reasons, which were doing rounds in the industry about his departure or better say eviction from Iron Man 2 and the main thing which kept coming was..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contract Negotiation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20236884,00.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Entertainment Weekly&lt;/a&gt;, Howard was the most paid actor in the first movie, and Marvel was finding it hard to renegotiate the deal with him for Iron Man 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Howard was the first actor signed to the film and, on top of that,&#xA;was the highest-paid. That’s right: more than Gwyneth Paltrow. More&#xA;than Jeff Bridges. More than Robert Downey Jr. And once the project&#xA;fully came together, it was too late to renegotiate his deal.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was also reported that, director Jon Favreau was not happy with Howard's work. Quoting from the same article, referenced above&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Favreau and his producers were ultimately unhappy with Howard's&#xA;performance, and spent a lot of time cutting and reshooting his scenes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The unhappiness with Howard's work led Favreau and his screenwriter to trim down the role of Howard's character in the next installment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, when Favreau and screenwriter Justin Theroux went to map out&#xA;the sequel they found themselves minimizing Howard's story line. Once&#xA;Marvel learned that Favreau was thinking of curtailing the role, the&#xA;studio went to the actor's agents with a new and drastically reduced&#xA;offer — a number that's similar to what supporting cast members were&#xA;paid for the first movie. The agents, according to sources, were so&#xA;taken aback by this new figure — estimated at somewhere between a 50&#xA;and 80 percent pay cut — that they questioned it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marvel never commented on the above speculations officially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T06:37:20.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10295" CreationDate="2013-03-01T06:56:15.423" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's due to huge pay cut as rumor suggests and even due to role cut as indicated in @Incognito's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are Howard's reaction on the removal from Iron Man 2-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Marvel made a choice, and it was a very, very bad choice. They didn't keep their word. They didn't honor my contract,&quot; Howard tells Parade magazine. &quot;They produced a great bounty with the first one but they put it all in the storehouse and you were not allowed in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;They did the same thing with Gwyneth Paltrow, from what I've been told. They did with almost everyone except Robert Downey. One of the things that actors need to learn to do is always stick together, one for all and all for one.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I've seen the Iron Man 2 script, I know what's going to happen, but I'm not revealing anything. I believe in karma. When someone does something wrong, you don't have to get them back. Everything right will return the favor for you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I'm definitely looking forward to seeing the movie,&quot; says Howard. &quot;I want to see Don Cheadle become me. No, I want him to do better than me. That's what I really want to see. Don Cheadle was the reason I got Crash, so I have a lot of love for him.&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eonline.com/news/120220/terrence-howard-to-iron-man-2-karma-s-a-bitch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-03-29T08:10:43.277" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T08:10:43.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10301" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10302" CreationDate="2013-03-01T15:38:26.337" Score="15" ViewCount="784" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Seinfeld, Jerry and his friend George proposed a show to NBC executives about 'nothing,' featuring his friends and people he knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How close was the experience of Jerry and George getting 'Jerry' on the air to that of Jerry Seinfeld getting the actual show 'Seinfeld' produced?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2013-03-04T23:18:36.743" Title="Did the show Seinfeld come about in a manner similar to the way it was depicted in the show?" Tags="|seinfeld|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10301" CreationDate="2013-03-01T16:43:11.847" Score="15" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;NBC asked if I had any ideas for a show, and I said no. They sent me away to think about it. Then, a month or two later, I bumped into Larry David (co-creator/executive producer/writer) at one of the clubs in New York and I was telling him about the meeting. We were walking around near one of those little Korean fruit stands that they have in New York, buying some late night groceries, and we were making fun of some of the products there. Larry said, &quot;You know, this is what the show should be: just two comedians making fun of stuff, walking around talking. That was the premise we started with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seinfeld-fan.net/aboutseinfeld.php&quot;&gt;Seinfeld&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3821" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2013-03-04T23:18:36.743" LastActivityDate="2013-03-04T23:18:36.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10293" CreationDate="2013-03-01T17:39:58.157" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;That story &lt;a href=&quot;http://cloudatlas.wikia.com/wiki/Sloosha%27s_Crossin%27_an%27_Ev%27rythin%27_After&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;takes place&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the distant future, in a world following a nuclear holocaust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cities destroyed, humans now live in small tribes, including &lt;em&gt;Zachry's&lt;/em&gt; Valleymen tribe &lt;strong&gt;on the island of Ha-why (Hawaii)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The last scene is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_%28film%29#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an epilogue&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zachry is revealed to have been telling these stories to his numerous grandchildren on one of Earth's colonies&lt;/strong&gt;, a planet with two moons, revealing that they had succeeded in sending a message to the colonies and were rescued.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-03-01T17:39:58.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10304" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10310" CreationDate="2013-03-01T19:02:37.163" Score="3" ViewCount="2403" Body="&lt;p&gt;I loved The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Orbots&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mighty Orbots&lt;/a&gt; show when it was broadcast decades ago. It lasted only one season and ended with a finale episode, which is unusual for cartoons. Was it always planned as a one-season show? It doesn't appear to have ever been released on DVD - why did it just disappear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2013-05-28T16:32:30.410" LastActivityDate="2016-09-11T02:48:06.413" Title="What happened to the Mighty Orbots cartoon series?" Tags="|mighty-orbots|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10305" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-01T19:11:11.250" Score="22" ViewCount="11046" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cartoon &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;The Tick&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; had two Region 1 DVD releases: &lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/B000FS9MVK&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Tick vs. Season One&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/B000Q6775O&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Tick vs. Season Two&lt;/a&gt;, but&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season One is missing the episode &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Tick vs. The Mole Men&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season Two is missing the episode &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Alone Together&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season Three never had a Region 1 release, but was distributed overseas.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tick_%281994_TV_series%29#DVD_releases&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, the entire unedited series with all episodes was released to the UK, so &lt;strong&gt;why were those 2 episodes missing from the American releases, and why was the third season never released to the US?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Research : Season One&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the missing episode &amp;quot;Tick vs. The Mole Men&amp;quot;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aoltv.com/2006/06/05/about-that-missing-episode-of-the-tick/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Huffington Post&lt;/a&gt; says Disney released the following statement: &lt;i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Due to creative considerations episode 11 ('The Tick vs. The Mole Men') is not included. However, we hope to include it in future Tick releases.&amp;quot; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The statement does not further define the &amp;quot;creative considerations&amp;quot;.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060904221331AA8Iurk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Yahoo Answers&lt;/a&gt; speculates one or more of the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some (unsubstantiated) rights to the episode are unavailable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there was a potential lawsuit regarding an unflattering caricature of Cindy Crawford (and her mole) used in the episode.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DVD space constraints restricted size. Disney wanted to fit Season One on 2 DVDs and couldn't unless an episode was thrown out; &amp;quot;Mole Men&amp;quot; drew the short straw.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The author of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Tick/6266&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a 2006 article from the website &amp;quot;TV Shows on DVD&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; purported to have been in contact with Disney / Buena Vista, and had been told the actual reason, but withheld it at the time; he also debunked the Crawford lawsuit rumor. From the article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...] the studio stands by their previous statement that they are working hard to clear &amp;quot;The Tick vs. The Mole-Men&amp;quot; for release on a future DVD set of The Tick [...] there's just an issue with a single episode, and they are dedicated to clearing that matter up, if at all possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What IS that issue? We frankly don't want to share it with the world, because it may jeopardize the situation, and put extra pressure on the parties working it out. [...] One thing we WILL say about it, though: we've heard ridiculous rumors around the 'net that the hold-up is Cindy Crawford, who supposedly objects to a satire of herself in that episode, called &amp;quot;Mindy Moleford.&amp;quot; [...] It has nothing to do with her, or that character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The studio feels pretty good that this will get cleared up in time to be included on a future Tick DVD release as &amp;quot;the missing episode,&amp;quot; or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Private e-mail follow-up with &amp;quot;TV Shows on DVD&amp;quot; revealed they no longer recall what the actual reason was behind the &amp;quot;creative considerations&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;QUESTION: What were the details of the &amp;quot;creative considerations&amp;quot; which ultimately led to the episode not being included in the Season One DVD release or subsequent releases?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Research : Season Two&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No explanation has detailed why &amp;quot;Alone Together&amp;quot; isn't included with the second season.&#xA;The episode adapts a story from The Tick comic book, which relates a parody of Marvel Comics character Galactus. It could not be due to the Galactus parody, as parodies of other Marvel characters (notably, The Punisher) were spoofed in other episodes collected to DVD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Wikipedia article cites a 2006 blog entry by the writer of both omitted episodes, Christopher McCulloch (aka &amp;quot;Jackson Publick&amp;quot;, co-creator of The Venture Brothers), stating he has no idea why they are missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;QUESTION: What is the specific reason why &amp;quot;Alone Together&amp;quot; was not included in the Season Two DVD release?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Research : Season Three&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I speculate season three was never released to the US due to low sales of the earlier seasons, but I have no evidence to back up this statement. I know &lt;b&gt;I&lt;/b&gt; did not purchase either of the first two season sets due to the missing episodes.  The third season was released to DVD in the UK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;QUESTION: Considering it was released in the UK, why was Season Three never released on DVD to Region 1 (US, Canada, etc.)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;2021 Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Amazon Prime released all episodes of The Tick cartoon, apparently unedited, to US streaming for viewing during 2020-21.  This still does not explain the missing episodes from the DVDs.  As of this 2022 update, they moved to Hulu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2022-01-17T14:04:02.743" LastActivityDate="2022-01-17T14:04:02.743" Title="Why were 2 episodes omitted from the &quot;The Tick&quot; DVD releases, and why was Season 3 never released to Region 1?" Tags="|distribution|the-tick|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10306" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10309" CreationDate="2013-03-01T20:21:37.113" Score="9" ViewCount="1239" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see that regeneration is like an energy pool, where you get power from a limited source to regenerate your or someone else's body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, is the limit the same for all Time lords/ladies? Is there a way to recover this power somehow? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4267" LastEditorUserId="3899" LastEditDate="2013-03-02T10:13:37.397" LastActivityDate="2015-01-18T00:04:39.130" Title="How does regeneration work?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10306" CreationDate="2013-03-02T00:51:53.060" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is quite some information on this (mostly from the old series) if you google it so I won't give a full explanation but only my own interpretation. The regeneration process is a natural ability of the Time Lord race to regenerate completely when mortally wounded. Once the process starts, the cells of the Time Lord produce energy that can completely transform the body of the Time Lord. The energy production cannot be stopped but the tenth Doctor is shown to be able to guide it somewhat as he heals himself and direct the surplus of energy to his severed hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the series, the limit of 13 incarnations of a single Time Lord is mentioned but  this limit should not be taken so strictly. There are several episodes in which exceptions to this limit have been shown (the most recent being the regeneration of the Master). As far as I know, there have been no elaborate examples as to what would happen if a Time Lord were to regenerate over the limit. This could be a simple rule in their society (to avoid overpopulation) or really be a biological limit (cell deterioration after too many regenerations) but this is speculation. As the Doctor is nearing the limit, I believe that we will see more on this rule in the following season(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2013-03-02T00:51:53.060" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10306" CreationDate="2013-03-02T01:29:31.853" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although regeneration &lt;em&gt;usually&lt;/em&gt; appears as an involuntary, biological process that occurs when death would otherwise be imminent, the nature of regeneration has not always been consistently represented. It has been most fully explored over the years in the case of the Master:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's possible to reset the counter on regenerations-- as in &lt;strong&gt;The Five Doctors&lt;/strong&gt; (1983), when the Timelords offer the Master a new set of regenerations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Regenerations can be transferred from one Timelord to another-- as in the 1996 TV movie, when the Master attempts to &lt;em&gt;steal&lt;/em&gt; the Doctor's remaining regenerations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Timelord can decide whether to regenerate-- as in &lt;strong&gt;Last of the Timelords&lt;/strong&gt; (2007), when the Master refuses to regenerate and (apparently) dies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The source of regenerative power is on Galifrey, and is associated with (possibly originates in) the Eye of Harmony-- as in &lt;strong&gt;The Deadly Assassin&lt;/strong&gt; (1976) where the Master schemes to become Timelord president specifically to gain access to the Eye and avoid death at the end of his last regeneration.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However in all of these cases, the question of &quot;how would that work, exactly?&quot; is never answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While regeneration is commonly something that happens when death might be expected, it doesn't have to be this way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Romana regenerates in &lt;strong&gt;Destiny of the Daleks&lt;/strong&gt; (1979) at will, just because she wants to do so. In the opening scene she apparently regenerates several times until she finds a look that she likes-- as if she were trying on new clothes. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Doctor's second regeneration (&lt;strong&gt;The War Games&lt;/strong&gt;, 1969) was forced on him by the Timelords. They don't do anything that would be expected to kill the Doctor-- they just make him regenerate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Romana's regeneration also suggests pretty strongly that the regeneration limit is not a major concern, since otherwise the repeated regenerations would be nearly suicidal. Whether this is because she thinks she can reset the count, or because the limit doesn't apply to her, or for some other reason is not stated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From past evidence it therefore appears that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Regeneration is an inherent capability but one that can only be done a fixed number of times.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The process involves some undefined energy carried by the individual which can be transferred or restored.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Timelords possess the power to transfer this energy (probably from the Eye of Harmony on Galifrey) and can therefore restore regenerative power.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Timelords in good standing (like Romana) can get their &quot;regeneration energy&quot; replenished on request, or may simply be allowed to access the energy source and do so themselves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Timelords not in good standing (the Master and... sometimes.. the Doctor) may have this request refused (e.g. by being denied access to the Eye of Harmony).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you know what you're doing, you could transfer this energy from one individual to another, effectively giving one person the other's remaining regenerations. This was half confirmed in &lt;strong&gt;Let's Kill Hitler&lt;/strong&gt;(2011) when River Song gave up her remaining regenerations to stop the Doctor from dying.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3794" LastEditorUserId="9145" LastEditDate="2014-05-28T10:24:42.523" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T10:24:42.523" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10304" CreationDate="2013-03-02T02:16:44.227" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Orbots&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, the 13-episode series was never released on DVD. It ended early &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;due to a lawsuit between the show's creators and toymaker Tonka, who&#xA;  accused them of basing the cartoon on their GoBots franchise (which&#xA;  was adapted from Bandai's Machine Robo line). The robot depicted in&#xA;  the show was virtually identical to the robot in the anime for&#xA;  Bandai's Godmars toy, although the colors were changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may have affected its release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to a rather informative review &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.anime-games.co.uk/VHS/anime/orbots1.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, poor ratings were its downfall, though its release in other markets on VHS developed a small cult following. T M S Entertainment, Inc./M G M/U A Entertainment Company is the copyright holder according to US Copyright office. If you have access to a VCR, there are a couple of libraries in the US that apparently have it in their collections (set of 13 tapes). You might be able to get your local library to do an inter-library loan for you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2013-03-03T01:44:25.327" LastActivityDate="2013-03-03T01:44:25.327" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10311" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10312" CreationDate="2013-03-02T03:13:37.333" Score="6" ViewCount="4962" Body="&lt;p&gt;Klaus Schmidt is the main villain in the film X-Men: First Class and Johann Schmidt is the main villain in the film Captain America: The First Avenger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are both seen to be Nazis during World War II so they are of similar age meaning they could possibly be brothers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know Schmidt is a common name but it's seems strange that two characters in the Marvel universe would have the same second name and not have a connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-29T17:23:23.780" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T08:25:58.780" Title="Is there any relation between Johann Schmidt and Klaus Schmidt?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|x-men-cinematic-universe|captain-america-the-first-avenger|x-men-first-class|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10311" CreationDate="2013-03-02T07:36:08.303" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Klaus Schmidt is just an alias not a real name. His real name is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Shaw_%28comics%29#In_other_media&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sebastian Shaw&lt;/a&gt;. In movie universe, they have no relation and as per my comics knowledge they are not in any blood relation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Klaus Schmidt name is just used for the film purpose only it doesn't exist in comics universe and even his Nazi relation is also shown in movie only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-03-03T08:25:58.780" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T08:25:58.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5809" CreationDate="2013-03-02T10:22:34.560" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Special Features for &quot;You Only Live Twice&quot; in the Bond 50 collection they showed the original end credits for &quot;Thunderball&quot; that said &quot;James Bond will return in &quot;On Her Majesty's Secret Service&quot; and they explained that they would have had to delay shooting on the next Bond film because of all the snow scenes for OHMSS so they shot &quot;You Only Live Twice&quot; first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder what OHMSS would have been like with Connery instead of Lazenby?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4270" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-02T07:55:35.850" LastActivityDate="2013-05-02T07:55:35.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10314" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-02T13:05:52.343" Score="8" ViewCount="2401" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just recently watched &lt;em&gt;The Machinist&lt;/em&gt; and in the whole movie only once I heard that &lt;em&gt;Trevor Reznik&lt;/em&gt; said he hasn't slept for a year. Was this really the case or he just imagined he hasn't slept in a year like everything else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="139" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-12-15T10:28:18.127" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T10:28:18.127" Title="Was Trevor really insomniac for a year?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-machinist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10315" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10316" CreationDate="2013-03-02T15:50:41.740" Score="11" ViewCount="8064" Body="&lt;p&gt;The CBI in the mentalist stands for California Bureau of Investigation, initially I thought this was a regional office of the FBI, but it doesn't seem to be (no FBI-labelled jackets/body-armour etc...), it also seems only to be state-wide (California) and fairly small.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a made-up/based-on police agency with state-wide powers or is there a CBI?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Apologies for any incorrect assumptions, I'm from the UK, not the US.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2116" LastActivityDate="2013-03-02T16:06:51.613" Title="What is the CBI in the Mentalist?" Tags="|the-mentalist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10315" CreationDate="2013-03-02T16:06:51.613" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This group is based off an existing one that works in California.  The current name for the group is the Bureau of Investigation (BI).  CBI was its former name that is used by the show.  This is not the only group of its kind, I know my home state of North Carolina has a similar group (State Bureau of Investigation) whose purpose is similar to that of the FBI but on the State level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like the US government system the police system breaks out into many levels to ensure co-operation between states or local government.  I believe the current police structure is:  Local PD, County Sheriff, State Investigators (SBI, BI, etc), Federal Investigators (FBI).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I received my facts about the CBI from the article below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Bureau_of_Investigation&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Bureau_of_Investigation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="567" LastActivityDate="2013-03-02T16:06:51.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10317" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18038" CreationDate="2013-03-02T19:20:32.960" Score="3" ViewCount="1036" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the German silent film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013442/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nosferatu&lt;/em&gt; (1922)&lt;/a&gt;, the vampire &lt;em&gt;Count Orlok&lt;/em&gt; bites the guy &lt;em&gt;Hutter&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then how come he alone survives while all the other people who have been bitten by that vampire die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1338" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-24T19:52:03.440" LastActivityDate="2014-03-16T00:35:16.057" Title="Why does Hutter alone survive the vampire bite?" Tags="|plot-explanation|nosferatu|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10320" CreationDate="2013-03-02T19:34:05.137" Score="2" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;I liked the film 'The Reaping'. However, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-reaping-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-mw0000746656&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John Frizell soundtrack&lt;/a&gt; seemed a safe choice compared to the usually suspenseful work of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reaping#Score&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Philip Glass&lt;/a&gt; which was rejected for some reason. Why was the original soundtrack rejected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3368" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-30T15:42:09.090" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T12:46:11.660" Title="The Reaping alternate soundtrack" Tags="|soundtrack|the-reaping|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10318" CreationDate="2013-03-03T02:54:29.807" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.soundtrack.net/content/article/?id=216&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with Philip Glass regarding &lt;em&gt;The Reaping&lt;/em&gt; suggests reasons that the soundtrack may have been rejected (his expertise was in character films rather than action, and the direction of the film kept changing):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What was your musical approach to this film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oh it was quite different. These kinds of films are more about action&#xA;  instead of character, if I can put it that way. With Notes on a&#xA;  Scandal, you're talking about interpersonal dynamics - they're very&#xA;  delicate, and profoundly dramatic and challenging and exhausting in a&#xA;  way. With The Reaping and Candyman, for that matter, you're talking&#xA;  about events which you can't really explain, and can't be explained by&#xA;  character - they have nothing to do with character! You're talking&#xA;  about music that works more with the surface of the action than with&#xA;  the depths of the character. It's a very different way of working, and&#xA;  I had to learn how to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When I was doing more abstract theater pieces, there are similarities&#xA;  with working on those and horror films. Wouldn't it be funny to&#xA;  compare doing a Beckett play and doing a slasher film? But it's true!&#xA;  You're working with more abstract ideas with these kinds of films. I'm&#xA;  putting it the way I experience working on it, and I've found that&#xA;  horror movies are more difficult to do. They're more challenging for&#xA;  me, and I find them very interesting. So I enjoyed working on Taking&#xA;  Lives. I liked the director, and I liked the performances and it was a&#xA;  very interesting film to work on. I felt that was true of The Reaping&#xA;  too. It was a long process because, again, it was a film where the&#xA;  director (Stephen Hopkins) really began to understand the film as they&#xA;  were making it. There were whole sections re-shot, people re-cast, and&#xA;  things were being changed all along. It was a film that was a voyage&#xA;  of discovery, there's no question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Glass is known for self-plagiarizing, and I have found a &lt;a href=&quot;http://philipglass.typepad.com/glass_notes/2010/03/a-premiere-and-an-homage.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;review&lt;/a&gt; suggesting that he used some of the rejected material in his 2007 opera &lt;em&gt;Appomattox&lt;/em&gt;, which might explain why we are not finding recordings of the score or copies of the film with that score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-03-03T02:54:29.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8615" CreationDate="2013-03-03T06:19:17.050" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Moonraker&lt;/em&gt; came out two years before the first shuttle flight and only shortly after the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19780070083_1978070083.pdf&quot;&gt;first shuttle ferry&lt;/a&gt;, so some of the logistics of ferrying would have been surmised by the writers given information available at the time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the Wikipedia article you helpfully cite, the SCA, when loaded with the Orbiter, can only fly about 1000 nautical miles before needing to refuel. Initial testing was done at 450 mph and at a maximum of 26,000 feet, and a trip from Edwards Air Force Base in California to Kennedy in Florida would have been done in two or three legs, depending on weather. Eventually NASA would test and reject aerial refueling as an unnecessary risk, but this was done post-&lt;em&gt;Moonraker&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NASA analyzed 11 years worth of weather data from a multitude of locations, then ran &lt;a href=&quot;http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19740009429_1974009429.pdf&quot;&gt;probability analyses&lt;/a&gt; that took into account fronts, squall lines, thunderstorms, precipitation and the possibility of VFR flight - and remember this was in the days of punch cards and magnetic storage tapes - to plan the safest flight route with the least turbulence possible. This information and those first tests would have been about all the writers of &lt;em&gt;Moonraker&lt;/em&gt; had to draw from, though I have not done an exhaustive search of literature at the time, and other scientific publications may have made applicable predictions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way across the Atlantic in a short or medium-range aircraft is a North Atlantic route that refuels in Iceland (in fact, when the Endeavour did its trip to the Paris Airshow, it did just that, leaving from Goose Bay, Canada and stopping in Iceland and the UK on its way). So any eastward flight the writers might have concocted would include a Canadian stop unless they assumed aerial refueling was possible. Since the pilots were predicting an early arrival to England, it seems they were not expecting to make any stops. Perhaps they considered aerial refueling over Canada (less populous, less crowded air space) and a route that was over land as much as possible (the Canada - Iceland route). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This still doesn't fully explain the Yukon, though we quickly jump from the Orbiter exiting the SCA to Bond frolicking on another aircraft, so perhaps something happens to the trajectory of the SCA once the orbiter exits. The SCA cannot fly properly without the Orbiter unless it has 8000 pounds of ballast, so a wayward crash landing is perhaps conceivable. As much of this film is a stretch, is this one stretch too many?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-03-03T06:19:17.050" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9974" CreationDate="2013-03-03T08:44:21.323" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't know how you define widely available or whether you differentiate between a program and a magazine (usually longer), but there was a program produced for &lt;em&gt;Shrek 2&lt;/em&gt; in 2004. There was a 65-page &lt;em&gt;Spiderman Official Movie Souvenir Magazine&lt;/em&gt; in 2002. The &lt;em&gt;Fantasia 2000&lt;/em&gt; premiere had a program. Before that was a 12-page book for &lt;em&gt;The Thin Red Line&lt;/em&gt; (1998) with Sean Penn and George Clooney, and &lt;em&gt;Godzilla&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Lost in Space&lt;/em&gt; had souvenir magazines that year as well. Disney sometimes produces programs for premieres.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This information comes from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worldcat.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;World Catalog&lt;/a&gt;, searching for subject = Motion Picture Program, and sorting by date, descending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2013-04-17T22:47:18.670" LastActivityDate="2013-04-17T22:47:18.670" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10231" CreationDate="2013-03-03T19:00:22.033" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most reviewers are referring to it as something akin to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://seattletimes.com/html/matsononmusic/2016655928_moneyball_and_the_myth_of_the.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;loving, teasing tweak.&quot;&lt;/a&gt; Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/9/26/2448613/moneyball-movie-review&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;take&lt;/a&gt; from a reviewer at &lt;em&gt;Baseball Nation&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In professional sports, there's no epithet worse than loser ... but of&#xA;  course, in this context -- the context of a loving relationship within&#xA;  a movie that's less about winning than thinking -- it's not an epithet&#xA;  at all. It's a term of endearment, a message of love from a daughter&#xA;  to her father and also from the filmmakers to us ... It doesn't matter&#xA;  if the A's didn't win the World Series. It didn't matter if Billy&#xA;  Beane was, and still is, a &quot;loser&quot; according to the traditional&#xA;  standard. He's a winner because he fought the good fight and because&#xA;  his daughter loves him enough to sing him a song, and tease him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This review compares the movie to the book, with nods to the movie humanizing Billy Beane in a way the book did not. I have read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scribd.com/doc/17261058/Moneyball-Screenplay&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;screenplay&lt;/a&gt; for the movie, and it doesn't end the way the movie does, which is interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-03-03T19:00:22.033" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1825" CreationDate="2013-03-03T21:19:24.273" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this scene has two meanings, one for Cobb and the other for Ariadne- one inside another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine that seeing the self in the infinite mirror and witnessing a breaking mirror could presents the conscious and subconscious to confront itself and change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will notice that they are completely alone in the scene between the mirrors and prior to the enclosure Cobb's subconscious was beginning to feel uneasy and threatened by the sudden changes to the dream world. Perhaps this paradox provided a solution.&#xA;After the mirrors shattered the ease is restored and subconscious resumes it's existence. In a sense she forces his subconscious to change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it is clear that Ariadne posses a formative imagination and this is a display of that and her control. Mirrors in dreams are said to suggest a link or connection between the conscious and subconscious mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4277" LastActivityDate="2013-03-03T21:19:24.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9974" CreationDate="2013-03-04T00:22:27.263" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In most of Tokyo's big cinemas you can usually buy souvenirs for the main stream movies that are currently playing (magazines, postcards, toys.. it depends on the movie).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;So there definitely still are cinemas in the world where you can get a souvenir program for the movie you just watched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2089" LastEditorUserId="2089" LastEditDate="2013-03-04T00:37:06.620" LastActivityDate="2013-03-04T00:37:06.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8852" CreationDate="2013-03-04T13:34:16.480" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The shot taken where Pi sees the rotting/dissolving fish in the pond below, it symbolizes an eye..does it mean that Pi sees the rot in the cook's body? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually thought that the island looked like a woman. But I need to take a look again. So it's quite possible that Pi eats his own mother in order to survive and then cannot bear it and leaves the island. I think this because, in the end, when he is famished, he has hallucinations where he only sees his mom's face amongst other things and not that of his father or brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't read the book. So I might have missed out on some details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4282" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-03T17:25:24.340" LastActivityDate="2013-11-03T17:25:24.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1494" CreationDate="2013-03-04T14:12:33.080" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although there's some dialog, Pixar's &lt;em&gt;Wall-E&lt;/em&gt; (2008, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb 8.5&lt;/a&gt;) is virtually a silent film and would work well with the dialog replaced with intertitles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://walleandeveforever.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/analysis-of-wall-e-and-silent-films/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Analysis of Wall-E and Silent Films&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This movie, just like all silent movies, consisted of body language, music, and other sounds for providing the setting of the movie, and even the personalities of the two characters.  Yet, without dialogue throughout most of the movie, Andrew Stanton, writer and director of Wall-E, does a great job of setting the mood, as well as the entire setting of the movie.  He is able to give us this futuristic world that has no hope of survival; and through Wall-E’s existence, Stanton is able to convey a sense of loneliness, especially at the beginning of the movie, but also his lovable personality to the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A writer for the National Public Radio, Bob Mondello, best compares Wall-E to original silent films by saying, “Wall-E is a crazily inventive, deliriously engaging and almost wordless silent comedy of the sort that Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton used to make.”  In other words, this movie is as close as anyone has gotten to producing a silent film as good as the ones Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton used to perform in, which is a reasonably good feat considering they were two of the most influential actors during the time of silent films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-03-04T14:12:33.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8852" CreationDate="2013-03-04T18:27:22.327" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The island, a place for rest and regaining strength for Pi after his lost all his hope (or rationality), has been suggested by some Taiwanese blogger as being a symbol of the difficult moment that he consumed the remaining of his own MOTHER. A few clues suggested this link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the lotus shaped flower (his mother draw a lotus graph in an early stage of the film)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the shape of the island shot from sea (female body), and &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;that he tied the hand lace on a tree root when he landed on the island (one&#xA;act his girl friend did to say goodbye)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second story told to the Japanese pari of investigators, Pi said that he dispose his mother in the ocean after she was killed. But do remember that this was just a second version of STORY- it may not be entirely true neither.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically the film has three layers of stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first, the surreal 'animal story' that occupied the most of the film&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The second, a more brutal 'cook kill sailor and mother' story he told in the end, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The third, most discreet 'eating his own mother' story only hinted by metaphors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OF course, Ang Lee deliberately do not tell which is TRUE. This is, after all, a film about story-telling and faith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4285" LastEditorUserId="4285" LastEditDate="2013-03-04T19:15:17.123" LastActivityDate="2013-03-04T19:15:17.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10126" CreationDate="2013-03-04T19:47:49.617" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From dear &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_%28U.S._TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey), a Democrat from South Carolina's 5th congressional district and the House Majority Whip, who, after getting passed over for promotion to Secretary of State, decides to exact his revenge on those who betrayed him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Lincoln monument helps convey the political subject matter and the Washington DC setting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spacey's knuckles are bloody, as if he has been punching people -- helping the image tie in with the &quot;exact his revenge&quot; bit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The upside-down US flag perhaps suggests the show is set at a time of crisis (upside-down flag is a sign for distress at sea, as troubled boats turn their flags upside-down) -- or perhaps that Spacey's character is using his position in US government toward twisted ends.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-04T01:59:29.550" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T01:59:29.550" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3052" CreationDate="2013-03-04T22:01:36.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Betty's hands were shaking because she was repressing her feelings. Notice that Betty was unhappy being a housewife. Also notice that she never talked about her problems with Don. When he asked her if she was unhappy, she lied and said no straight to his face. Don also has this problem but instead if repressing it, he sees his mistress. Betty's hands stop shaking because she starts voicing her opinions more after she finds out that Don has being cheating on her with Bobbie. I thought her hands woul start shaking again when her father dies but instead she tarts having an affair with Henry to deal with it. I hope this makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4287" LastActivityDate="2013-03-04T22:01:36.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10339" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10348" CreationDate="2013-03-04T23:15:51.283" Score="14" ViewCount="75393" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first season of &lt;em&gt;Mad Men&lt;/em&gt;, it is revealed that Don Draper was born Richard Whitman, but stole the identity &quot;Don Draper&quot; from a fellow soldier who died in Korea. The other soldier's body was not recognizable, so Whitman switched dog-tags with the dead man, and acted as if he was Don Draper from then on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was the motive for switching identities?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it just to cause his family to think he was dead? I understand he was ashamed of his roots, but it seems like he could just end contact and never go back. Why risk all of the hassle from stealing another guy's identity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, was there something about assuming the higher rank of the other soldier, perhaps to go home from the war? I believe there was an episode where Don justified the identity theft by saying something like &quot;I had to get out of there&quot;, but even that comment seems ambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-03-09T20:22:52.480" LastActivityDate="2017-06-05T15:28:48.897" Title="Why did Don Draper steal the identity of his fellow soldier?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|mad-men|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10341" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-03-05T06:28:04.193" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-05T06:28:04.193" LastActivityDate="2013-03-05T06:28:04.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10342" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-03-05T06:28:04.193" Score="0" Body="Refers to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) American fantasy horror film based on the mashup's novel of the same name. " OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-18T21:26:27.083" LastActivityDate="2013-04-18T21:26:27.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10343" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10345" CreationDate="2013-03-05T07:22:43.657" Score="59" ViewCount="161885" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Breaking Bad S04E12 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683087/&quot;&gt;End Times&lt;/a&gt;, at the end Gus walks towards his car at the hospital parking with his two bodyguards, with Walt watching from an adjacent rooftop. As Gus is approaching the car he stops dead in his track with a doomed look on his face and heads over to the railing. He looks around but is not able to see Walt or sense anything out of place (&lt;em&gt;as far as the viewers can tell&lt;/em&gt;). But he still walks away from the rigged car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does Gus sense that there's something wrong with the car? Moreover, Gus is never shown to be paranoid or doing things over a hunch, so how is this explainable?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-17T01:43:24.307" LastActivityDate="2017-10-29T14:37:11.543" Title="Why does Gus walk away from his car?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10343" CreationDate="2013-03-05T16:21:16.770" Score="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;From this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pajiba.com/tv_reviews/breaking-bad-end-times-the-hard-part-about-playing-chicken-is-knowing-when-to-flinch.php&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Walt was right when he said that Gus is always 10 moves ahead. Gus didn't need to be right about his car being sabotaged; he was just smart enough to know that he was walking into what would be a perfect trap, and one he’d happily spring if the tables were turned. So he walked away.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically Gus wasn't sure if his car had been rigged to blow, but he knew if he was trying to kill someone it would have been a perfect way of achieving this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is clearly very good at reading situations and this lead to him being so successful in such a dangerous industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2013-10-31T10:07:31.897" LastActivityDate="2013-10-31T10:07:31.897" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10346" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10347" CreationDate="2013-03-05T20:23:41.687" Score="13" ViewCount="32728" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a variation of the Gilligan's Island theme song between seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first season, the theme song lists the castaways as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{...} Gilligan, the Skipper too; the millionaire and his wife; the movie star, &lt;strong&gt;and the rest&lt;/strong&gt; {...}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In subsequent seasons, the theme song was changed to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{...} Gilligan, the Skipper too; the millionaire and his wife; the movie star; &lt;strong&gt;the Professor and Mary Ann&lt;/strong&gt; {...}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did the song change, and were there other variations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2014-06-03T20:02:12.277" LastActivityDate="2018-04-15T21:40:12.640" Title="Why did the Gilligan's Island theme song change between seasons?" Tags="|soundtrack|gilligans-island|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10346" CreationDate="2013-03-05T20:23:41.687" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/gilligans-island-theme-song-14922/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Series Finale&lt;/a&gt;, there was a stipulation in Tina &quot;Ginger, the movie star&quot; Louise's contract stating that she was to be the last person billed in the opening credits.  After Louise's contract was signed, the parts now known as &quot;Mary Ann&quot; and &quot;The Professor&quot; were recast to Dawn Wells and Russell Johnson respectively.  This casting change, combined with Tina's contract, required them to be placed in the end credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nHtvV_2-w0&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Today Show interview (YouTube, @ 3m 30s)&lt;/a&gt; with Dawn Wells and Bob &quot;Gilligan&quot; Denver, Denver explains how his own contract stipulated that he could choose his own billing.  Before season two began, he declared to the powers-that-be that unless Wells and Johnson were added to the beginning credits for season two, he would move himself to the end credits.  The change was made; either Tina Louise agreed to the credit sequence alteration, or her contract was reworked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, this interview was the first time Wells was made aware that Denver's demands were the reason the theme song was changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also witnessed a second variation of the song, which only took place during re-runs.  Some syndicates re-running the show manipulated the second half of the theme song, which ran during the end credits.  These broadcasts silenced the audio when the words &lt;i&gt;&quot;each week&quot;&lt;/i&gt; were sung, transforming &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{...} so join us here each week my friends {...}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;into &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{...} so join us here {SILENCE FOR TWO BEATS} my friends {...}&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I presume this was done since the re-runs were broadcast on more frequent intervals than weekly, and the associated networks questioned the intelligence of the viewership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gilligansisle.com/theme.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Gilligan's Island fan site&lt;/a&gt; hosts an alternate theme song played during the pilot episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know of no other variants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2017-06-14T18:57:43.987" LastActivityDate="2017-06-14T18:57:43.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10339" CreationDate="2013-03-05T20:47:27.977" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;What was the motive for switching identities?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was both to get a clean break from his past, and to escape the war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Richard &quot;Dick&quot; Whitman took the identity of &quot;Don Draper&quot; (synonymous with &quot;Wear Disguise&quot;) as soon as he realized the opportunity existed.  By performing this transformation/exchange, Richard escaped his prior life with seemingly no chance of ever being discovered.  This allowed Richard a free pass to follow a completely different life path, unburdened by his past.  It has absolutely nothing to do with trying to assume the original Don Draper's actual past; Richard wanted nothing to do with Draper's prior life.  He simply wanted a clean slate; a fresh start. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The death of Don Draper took place towards the end of his tour of duty, but near the start of Richard's own tour.  By adopting Don's identity, Richard left Korea much earlier than he was supposed to, saving himself from the war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By giving his family Don's body identified as his own, he provided them with a dead end, and Richard assumed that by disappearing, it would be easier to deal with Draper's family than it would be to deal with Whitman's family, if it ever came to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don was never revealed to be Richard until (1) Anna Draper tracked him down privately, and (2) his younger half-brother found him during Season 1, having originally spotted Richard hiding when his parents received the casket containing the body of Don Draper, but being too young and powerless at the time to do anything about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2016-03-09T17:05:05.110" LastActivityDate="2016-03-09T17:05:05.110" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10349" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-03-05T22:24:55.950" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip that started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship. First mate was a mighty sailing man; the skipper, brave and sure. Five passengers set sail that day on a three hour tour.  The weather started getting rough; the tiny ship was tossed. If not for the courage of the fearless crew, The Minnow would be lost. The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle with Gilligan, the skipper too, the millionaire and his wife, the movie star, the professor and Mary Ann.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that was the tale of our castaways, they're there for a long, long time. They'll have to make the best of things, it's an uphill climb. The first mate, and his skipper too, will do their very best to make the others comfortable on their tropic island nest.  No phones, no lights, no motorcars, not a single luxury; like Robinson Crusoe it's as primitive as can be. So join them there each week my friends, you're sure to get a smile from seven stranded castaways, there on Gilligan's Isle!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2013-03-05T22:39:42.767" LastActivityDate="2013-03-05T22:39:42.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10350" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-03-05T22:24:55.950" Score="0" Body="Refers to Gilligan's Island, an American sitcom featuring seven castaways (Gilligan, the Skipper, the Millionaire and his Wife, the Movie Star, the Professor and Mary Ann) shipwrecked on an island where they must survive.  Followed by three movies and a sci-fi cartoon.&#xD;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2013-03-05T22:39:31.503" LastActivityDate="2013-03-05T22:39:31.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10351" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10975" CreationDate="2013-03-05T23:43:16.707" Score="10" ViewCount="43846" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Mr. Nobody, the concept of time-travel is blended with the butterfly effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, when the old man tells his story as a child, he says that he chose his mommy and daddy because they would tell him about the butterfly effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, the child says he can predict future. So, did he really have the butterfly effect?&#xA;And if he had it, then why is it shown that he will be in a future where he will be dying at the instant the universe will reverse??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4293" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-06-01T12:44:55.487" LastActivityDate="2017-03-22T16:19:24.257" Title="What is the Butterfly-Effect in Mr. Nobody?" Tags="|plot-explanation|time-travel|mr-nobody|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10352" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10355" CreationDate="2013-03-06T01:03:12.503" Score="32" ViewCount="80440" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt;, we see Thor holding onto Odin and Loki holding onto Thor. Loki lets go and falls into the wormhole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know he survived because he's the main villain in the Avengers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did he survive falling into wormhole? If he was just teleported and not killed, would he not have ended up in Jotunheim which was being destroyed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T09:20:58.733" LastActivityDate="2022-07-09T23:43:08.993" Title="How did Loki survive at the end of Thor?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|thor|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="883" CreationDate="2013-03-06T02:23:29.670" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Robert Porter's body was being inhabited by an alien that traveled far faster than the speed of light, which no human body could withstand, how was Prot traveling on earth for 5 years in Robert Porter's body? In the movie he went up north and was missing from the psych ward for three days. How did he travel in Robert's body? Robert Porter's body just appeared in the train station. How? The movie leaves this unanswered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4295" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-10T18:08:06.890" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T18:08:06.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10352" CreationDate="2013-03-06T03:41:16.270" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is never said explicitly how exactly he survived, but in &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; it is hinted that he was saved by the  Chitauri and their leader. A mysterious character by the name &quot;The Other&quot; tells Loki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Other: You question us? You question HIM? He, who put the scepter in your hand, who gave you ancient knowledge and new purpose when you were cast out, defeated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/quotes?qt=qt1698722&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2013-03-06T03:41:16.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10357" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10365" CreationDate="2013-03-06T04:22:28.813" Score="4" ViewCount="3120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember having VHS tapes of it back when i was a kid (before i learned that VHS was a scam cause the players almost always destroyed the tapes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what i remember, there was this Baron guy who looked like his head was positioned bellow his solders and he lived in a castle which had this weird black and white gradient pattern and he hated nature or something like that and was always trying to destroy this forest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the episodes i remember had the animals thinking that the baron hated the colour green and that's why he wanted to destroy nature so the bear though about repainting the entire forest (starting with single petals on a flour) but then the animals sneak into the baron's castle to steal these drums of paint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode ends with the animals coming up with a better idea by dropping a red paint ball into the baron while he is looking though his telescope to which it works cause he thinks the forest has turned brown and calls off his machines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some reason i have no memories from before i was 5 (seriously none, my first memory is me waking up from a bad headache on the floor with a Percy toy from Thomas the Tank Engine) so it must have been out around 1996 and i know it was a series cause i do remember seeing the intro a few times in one sitting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4297" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-06T07:31:35.913" LastActivityDate="2013-03-06T21:57:36.800" Title="What was the name of the cartoon that had talking animals protecting their forest" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|animation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:53:16.323" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10359" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10394" CreationDate="2013-03-06T14:18:56.343" Score="11" ViewCount="31296" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; episode Fifty-One (Season 5, Episode 4) Walt takes out a lease on a pair of cars for himself and Junior and sells the Pontiac Aztek for $50.  I don't understand Walt's motivation to sell the car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why sell the car when the garage owner/mechanic made it clear that the car was good for at least another 200,000 miles?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, he proceeds to sell the car for $50, in front of his son.  Why sell a car that was in perfect road condition for the low, low price of $50?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't selling the car at such a throw-away price (if not outright &lt;em&gt;ludicrous&lt;/em&gt;) be bound to attract undue attention, not to mention the two new cars Walt leased that day? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that this is meant to portray the callous nature and swagger Walt has developed after eliminating Gus Fring, but this action seems to be stretching it a little too far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-10-20T13:30:01.413" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T13:30:01.413" Title="Why does Walt sell the Aztek for a mere $50?" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10359" CreationDate="2013-03-06T17:17:33.610" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;At this point in the show, Walt makes more money than he could possibly safely unload.  He must find ways to dispose of the funds beyond simply setting the cash on fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that in mind, dropping his current car for only $50 makes fiscal sense.  I believe the Aztec is currently owned by Walter, making it an asset and therefore adds to the current overflow of cash he has.  By getting rid of it, he is no longer fiscally accountable for the car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt Jr., who has no experience buying or selling cars, wouldn't know to question his father's actions, and having been given a new car, he is too excited to care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The buyer of the older car for $50 would apparently rather take the presumably unethical deal quietly and get a great car for practically no money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By leasing the two new cars instead of owning them, Walt presumably spends more money than he would buying the cars.  Leasing is usually a more expensive proposition than buying a car outright, and after a lease ends, it does not result in you owning the car.  Leasing these cars creates a financial drain, which Walt needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering his financial and legal state, Walter made good business decisions here.  Also it's his birthday and he presumably freed himself from a horrible situation; he's rewarding himself for a job well done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2013-03-06T21:36:05.413" LastActivityDate="2013-03-06T21:36:05.413" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10361" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10362" CreationDate="2013-03-06T17:53:36.697" Score="28" ViewCount="27134" Body="&lt;p&gt;While looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800080/fullcredits&quot;&gt;cast&lt;/a&gt; of The Incredible Hulk I say Stan Lee was cast as: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Milwaukee Man Drinking From Bottle&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed he plays an extra in the Iron Man, X-Men, Spider Man films as well as other Marvel films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does he cast himself as an extra in a lot of his films he's involved with producing? Is it just a bit of joke just to see do people notice him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-12T13:13:41.600" LastActivityDate="2017-04-29T22:32:23.517" Title="Why does Stan Lee play random extras in Marvel films?" Tags="|cameo|stan-lee|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10361" CreationDate="2013-03-06T19:05:35.523" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stan Lee isn't casting himself in these cameos - it's a tradition which started back in 1989 with one of the original TV Hulk spin-off movies, one that has endured ever since.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OcYKc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;em&gt;The Trial of the Incredible Hulk&lt;/em&gt; - 1989&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He may have a producer credit on the Marvel movies, but his involvement doesn't go any deeper than just being a beloved figurehead - these cameos are homages by the filmmakers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A comprehensive list of his cameo appearances, plus images, can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listal.com/list/stan-lees-marvel-movie-cameos&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting Lee himself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;It’s almost scary ‘cause they just give me a date. They’ll say, &quot;Stan, come over next Thursday for your cameo,&quot; but they don’t tell me what it is. So, I show up and they say, &quot;Go to wardrobe.&quot; In wardrobe, they say, &quot;We want to get you a white shirt and a green sweater and a black zippered jacket,&quot; and I’ll say, &quot;Don’t bother, I’m wearing one.&quot; And then, they say, &quot;But, you can’t wear yours!,&quot; and they look around and get me the exact same thing, but I’m not allowed to wear my own. And I still don’t know what my role will be. I go on the set and one minute before we’re gonna shoot, the director says, &quot;Okay, Stan, this is what I want you to do. So, I don’t know what is expected of me, until I get there, but of course, I do it magnificently.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unconfirmed reports suggest that he will be a beauty contest Judge in Iron Man 3 and a London bus driver in Thor: The Dark World.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2017-04-29T22:32:23.517" LastActivityDate="2017-04-29T22:32:23.517" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2013-03-06T21:19:35.517" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;the top isnt his totem, it was hers. he would have had a totem if his wife suggested it . . of course not being the top. The top helps him decipher real and dream, but kept it has a mememto of his wife as he had to break the secret of his wife ie the safe, he didnt know what it was until he found it then planted his idea all the while knowing what his real totem and state was. it doesnt matter what his totem was (to us) so as long as we know that the actions of the top tell us that he suspects he is not in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4299" LastActivityDate="2013-03-06T21:19:35.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10357" CreationDate="2013-03-06T21:57:36.800" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3lpbL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm fairly certain that the cartoon you're talking about is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bluffers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Bluffers&lt;/a&gt;. In this show, a bunch of talking animals defend their forest from Clandestino, an evil hunchbacked human. Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QY13D-NsgU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the into from Youtube&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-03-06T21:57:36.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="641" CreationDate="2013-03-07T04:26:26.680" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jamie tracks Aurelia down in an area that is probably inside of (or near) Marseille. There are a lot of Portuguese-heritage folks in that area of France, partly due to immigration by Portuguese sailors. According to a Wikipedia entry on the demographics of France, &quot;As at January 2006, INSEE estimates that the number of foreigners living in metropolitan France amounted to 3.5 million people. Two out of five foreigners are from Portugal, Algeria or Morocco. It is interesting to note that immigrants are concentrated in the Île-de-France, Rhone-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (Marseille) regions, accounting for 60% of the total immigrant population.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article estimates that there are more than a 1/2 million Portuguese immigrants in France.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4302" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T04:26:26.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10368" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-07T04:47:29.227" Score="4" ViewCount="1765" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Arrested Development, which is set in Orange County, CA, the model home is shown visibly in a undeveloped area. This area specifically a residential development called Sudden Valley. Where in O.C. is the model home located? From the locations listed on the show the family appears to be somewhere in Irvine or Newport Beach but the location of the model home doesn't seem to be stated on screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4133" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T16:45:10.267" Title="Where is the Bluth Company model home located?" Tags="|arrested-development|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9971" CreationDate="2013-03-07T06:01:18.003" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;That sounds like the two-part &lt;strong&gt;Space 1999&lt;/strong&gt; episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bringers_of_Wonder,_Part_One&quot;&gt;The Bringers of Wonder&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HvyM2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-03-30T15:39:16.183" LastActivityDate="2013-03-30T15:39:16.183" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10370" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10712" CreationDate="2013-03-07T06:36:20.617" Score="28" ViewCount="49429" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stan Lee always make a cameo appearance in the Marvel films based on the characters he helped in re-creating. With this in mind, was there any particular reason why he missed &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X2_%28film%29&quot;&gt;X2: X-Men United&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_Origins%3a_Wolverine&quot;&gt;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men%3a_First_Class&quot;&gt;X-Men: First Class&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that he was in X-Men and X-Men: The Last Stand so why skip X2?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-12T13:13:32.540" LastActivityDate="2019-12-30T04:47:15.053" Title="Why doesn't Stan Lee make a cameo appearance in X2?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|cameo|stan-lee|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10371" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-03-07T07:11:45.093" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-07T07:11:45.093" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T07:11:45.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10372" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-03-07T07:11:45.093" Score="0" Body="Stan Lee is an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. Well known for his re-creation of some marvel characters like Spider-Man, Hulk and the X-Men etc. He even made several cameos in the marvel films." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T12:47:57.117" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T12:47:57.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1547" CreationDate="2013-03-07T07:18:34.203" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Magical performances comprising of spirits being summoned on stage where pretty common even in the 19th century. The effect was achieved indeed with the use of &lt;em&gt;smoke and mirror&lt;/em&gt;. However, a typical tool in usage was the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_lantern&quot;&gt;Fantascope aka Magic Lantern&lt;/a&gt;. This apparatus is also seen in the movie but can be easily overlooked as normal lanterns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found this interesting piece of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443543/trivia?tab=tr&amp;amp;item=tr1865795&quot;&gt;trivia&lt;/a&gt; on IMDB:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The method for creating the ghosts as shown to inspector Uhl involved the projection of a pre-recorded image into a hazy background. Since the ghosts Eisenheim conjured could speak to and interact with the audience, he most likely used a different method popular among magicians at that time. A fantascope was used to illuminate a real person off stage. The image was reflected off of a mirror or glassplate, creating a ghosted image. The lanterns that Eisenheim tells his assistants to leave behind when they are packing up the workshop bear a strong resemblance to fantascopes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-03-07T08:53:55.747" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T08:53:55.747" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10374" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="72439" CreationDate="2013-03-07T07:33:09.933" Score="4" ViewCount="5199" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stan Lee's cameo in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marvel Cinematic Universe&lt;/a&gt; are as follows -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Iron Man (2008) Stan Lee appears with three blonds to resemble &#xA;  Hugh Hefner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In The Incredible Hulk (2008), Lee is seen drinking a soft drink&#xA;  mixed with Bruce Banner's blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Iron Man 2 (2010), Lee is greeted by Tony Stark as &quot;Larry King&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Thor (2011), Lee appears among many people at the site where Thor's&#xA;  hammer Mjolnir lands on Earth. He tears the back off his pickup truck&#xA;  in an attempt to pull Mjolnir out of the ground with a chain and&#xA;  causes everyone to laugh by asking, &quot;Did it work?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Lee portrayed a general&#xA;  in World War II, who mistakes another man for Captain America/Steve&#xA;  Rogers, commenting, &quot;I thought he'd be taller.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In The Avengers (2012), Lee makes a cameo appearance as a random&#xA;  citizen in the park asked about the Avengers saving Manhattan. Lee's&#xA;  character responds, &quot;Superheroes in New York? Give me a break&quot;, and&#xA;  then returns to his game of chess. He also appears in a deleted scene,&#xA;  apparently as the same character: when a waitress flirts with Steve&#xA;  Rogers, he says to him, &quot;Ask for her number, you moron!&quot; &#xA;  (Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee#Marvel_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So these random appearances conflict with the shared universe, especially for the case of Captain America: The First Avenger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how do Stan Lee's random appearances work in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-21T01:15:59.623" LastActivityDate="2017-04-29T19:10:42.973" Title="How do Stan Lee's random appearances work in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|cameo|stan-lee|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10375" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10377" CreationDate="2013-03-07T08:45:55.947" Score="10" ViewCount="4656" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie on an American PBS station, I think in the late '70s or early '80s.  &lt;em&gt;The premise was &lt;strong&gt;very similar&lt;/strong&gt; to the Justin Timberlake film &quot;In Time&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.  Time is used as currency, and people die when they run out.  I thought the title was &quot;Time is Money&quot;, or &quot;If Time were Money&quot;, but could not find anything by either name online.  Some things I remember from the movie are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An irresponsible girl spends all of her currency living the high&#xA;life, and then at a party realizes she has only seconds of life&#xA;remaining.  In a panic, she starts begging those around her for some&#xA;more time, but dies when nobody helps her. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A financial genius has a&#xA;plan for accruing a fortune in time.  The rest of his family are&#xA;somewhat dim-witted. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a scene where a wealthy woman gives her&#xA;necklace to two people so they can sell it for more time, but they&#xA;fight over it.  The necklace breaks and the pearls are scattered on&#xA;the ground.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T12:24:57.260" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T12:24:57.260" Title="Movie in which time is money" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:42:44.630" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10375" CreationDate="2013-03-07T09:13:52.883" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie that you are trying to identify is probably the short film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366919/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Price of Life&lt;/a&gt; (1987). An article on Yahoo notes the obvious plot similarities to &lt;em&gt;In Time&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1987, Stephen Tolkin co-wrote and directed &amp;quot;The Price of Life,&amp;quot; a brilliant short film that appeared as part of the &lt;strong&gt;PBS series&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;American Playhouse.&amp;quot; The short also popped up on at least one premium cable station in the early 1990s as between movie filler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Tolkin's film, &lt;strong&gt;each newborn is issued a credit card with a set number of years&lt;/strong&gt; on it. The card can be used for any transaction, but &lt;strong&gt;when the balance hits zero, the cardholder dies&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jim Youngs plays Zachary, a young man who learns how to wheel and deal at a very early age. Unlike his spendthrift sister, Zachary banks over 300 years in his personal account before a crisis of conscience forces him to make a life or death choice regarding his family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-03-07T09:13:52.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10374" CreationDate="2013-03-07T14:06:10.170" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stan's appearances are a sort of wink to the screen, an in-joke to those that know who he is.  All of the characters that he's appeared as have had no material significance to the universe, they're just there for on-screen fluff.  There's no need to try and retcon these characters, they're all different characters played by Stan with no real story purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-21T01:04:13.060" LastActivityDate="2016-12-21T01:04:13.060" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10385" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10388" CreationDate="2013-03-07T21:58:37.783" Score="11" ViewCount="4426" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end of &lt;i&gt;Life of Pi&lt;/i&gt; there are two possible stories that happened. But in the last scene where the writer views the &lt;em&gt;Chinese insurance report&lt;/em&gt;, he reads this sentence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But didn't the Chinese use the different story where no tiger is involved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4312" OwnerDisplayName="juergen d" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-08T02:31:11.493" LastActivityDate="2023-01-21T00:04:32.260" Title="&quot;Life of Pi&quot; Final Insurance Report" Tags="|life-of-pi|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="63" CreationDate="2013-03-08T03:12:42.327" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought it was a humorously heavy-handed ploy to evoke Clint Eastwood's &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_with_No_Name&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Man with No Name&lt;/a&gt;&quot; character in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastEditorUserId="4304" LastEditDate="2013-03-09T03:20:01.317" LastActivityDate="2013-03-09T03:20:01.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10385" CreationDate="2013-03-08T05:18:05.793" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I haven't read the book.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, the agents were Japanese. From WP's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Pi_%28film%29#Plot&quot;&gt;page for the film&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the present day, the novelist notes the parallels between the two stories: the orangutan was Pi's mother, the zebra was the sailor, the hyena was the cook, and Richard Parker, the tiger, was Pi himself. Pi asks him which story the writer prefers, and the writer chooses the one with the tiger because it &quot;is the better story&quot;, to which Pi responds, &quot;And so it goes with God&quot;. Glancing at a copy of the insurance report, the writer sees the &lt;strong&gt;agents wrote that Pi somehow survived 227 days at sea with a tiger: the insurance agents had also chosen the more fantastic story.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WP's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Pi#Plot&quot;&gt;page for the novel&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After giving all the relevant information, Pi asks which of the two stories they prefer. &lt;strong&gt;Since the officials cannot prove which story is true and neither is relevant to the reasons behind the shipwreck, they choose the story with the animals.&lt;/strong&gt; Pi thanks them and says, &quot;and so it goes with God.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the Japanese agents did not use the true story (and similarly, the writer didn't prefer it either) which is essentially the whole point of the tale. The line &lt;em&gt;&quot;and so it goes with God.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; suggests that, just as the agents (and the writer) prefer the sweet story of the boy and the Royal Bengal Tiger to that of the once-innocent boy and the murderous cook, so too does humanity which prefers the comfortable cloak of religion to the harsh realities of life (or the lonely desolation of atheism, if you like). Of course, this is not what Pi (and presumably, Martel) is trying to convey as he tells the writer right at the beginning that the story will make him believe in God.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-03-08T05:18:05.793" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10389" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="67103" CreationDate="2013-03-08T06:00:09.090" Score="19" ViewCount="1604" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_4&quot;&gt;Scre4m&lt;/a&gt; (or Scream 4) opening scene,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We see two girls get killed by two ghostfaces, but it turns out to be a movie scene from Stab 6 which is being watched by two girls. Then one of them kills the other. It turns out to be a Stab 7 movie scene, which is also being watched by two girls, and they're also killed by a ghostface, but that's the real scene of Scre4m film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/AAAq7E573OI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the above scene shows a  film within a film within a film. If I am not wrong then this kind of scene is not new and I have seen it before. So I want to know which film or TV series is the first to show this kind of scene? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-08-20T18:39:15.307" LastActivityDate="2017-01-18T17:42:51.987" Title="What is the first occurence of film within a film within a film?" Tags="|film-techniques|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10392" CreationDate="2013-03-08T06:43:09.367" Score="6" ViewCount="1188" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genres&lt;/strong&gt;- horror,slasher&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Story&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Start&lt;/strong&gt;- The movie starts with a priest trying to kill two vampire girls but before he kills them, they cut him in the neck. Before turning into a bloodsucking vampire, the priest faces direct sunlight and it cures him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Middle-&lt;/strong&gt; The priest continued his vampire hunting but one day, when he killed a vampire, a team of doctors(a girl and boy) get away with the body before the priest can fully kill him. It is later revealed that a wheelchair guy used this girl to get a dead vampire body for his experiment to get his legs back.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Climax -&lt;/strong&gt; They tortured the vampire in many ways, just giving him little blood to keep him alive and taking his blood for injections for testing purposes. However, during the experiments, the vampire get fully resurrected. Fights ensue in which one by one the whole group is made vampire or killed by the vampire or the priest. In the end only the girl and a funny guy, the priest and the vampire are left. The girl is turned into a vampire and the priest technique of facing sunlight to cure the girl failed because its too late.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;End-&lt;/strong&gt; Vampire beats the priest and runs away with the girl (who is now a full vampire). The Priest teams up with the funny guy and the movie ends.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sequels-&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, not sure if it has prequel or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Release year-&lt;/strong&gt; May be 90s&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to know the movie name because I want to see its sequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-15T12:29:05.643" LastActivityDate="2017-02-13T10:14:54.513" Title="Priest avoids turning into a vampire by exposing himself to sunlight" Tags="|horror|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:42:47.757" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10390" CreationDate="2013-03-08T13:09:14.363" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The name of the movie described above is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_II:_Ascension&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dracula II: Ascension&lt;/a&gt; made in 2003.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0336325/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Horror following a group of medical students who come across the body of the world's most notorious vampire, Dracula (Stephen Billington). When a mysterious stranger appears and offers the students $30 million to harvest the body and steal its blood for auction, it's an offer they can't refuse. But as the lure of riches collides with unimaginable terror, the students also find themselves relentlessly pursued by a vampire killer from the Vatican.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/FrvigKDD3so?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4217" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-02-13T10:14:54.513" LastActivityDate="2017-02-13T10:14:54.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10359" CreationDate="2013-03-08T14:19:05.083" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Missed in my question as well as from my memory was a character of significance. A character whose presence precipitates in Walter &lt;em&gt;giving away&lt;/em&gt; his reliable Aztek. The character is &lt;strong&gt;Walt's porkpie hat&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just as the mechanic says that the Aztek is good to go for at least another 200,000 miles, Walt has a sense of foreboding that he isn't going to be around to drive it another 200,000 miles. At the very next instance he looks at his new hat (&lt;em&gt;which IMO is a clever device to fadeout Walt's old persona and introduce this new fearless Walt&lt;/em&gt;) and is reminded that the Aztek is a reminiscent of his old life. A life where he was afraid of people like &lt;em&gt;Gus and Tuco&lt;/em&gt;. But no more he considers himself in danger, and rather considers himself &lt;strong&gt;the danger&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, him selling his car for such a ridiculous amount is the action of kicking away his old lifestyle and buying himself a new one (&lt;em&gt;the Chrysler 300&lt;/em&gt;). Somehow, now he has become reckless with his decisions and doesn't consider any problem too big for &lt;em&gt;Heisenberg&lt;/em&gt; to overcome. This and the swagger that comes with becoming filthy rich leads him to &quot;&lt;em&gt;selling&lt;/em&gt;&quot; off the old car and getting a new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;P.S.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;These sources: &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvrecaps.ew.com/recap/breaking-bad-season-5-episode-4-2/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty-One&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; further elucidate the point.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T00:59:29.257" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T00:59:29.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10282" CreationDate="2013-03-09T01:19:32.327" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The full episodes are gone from the Masterpiece website so I can't check the exact wording, but it was something like &quot;I told you to set the expensive prizes up higher.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-03-09T01:19:32.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1292" CreationDate="2013-03-09T05:13:46.187" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are not zombies, therefore who's to question their level of intellegence? It is a hybrid disease of measles and rabies, therefore I believe they set the trap in retaliation after he trapped the female &quot;dark seeker&quot; and left all of the evidence of his trap behind, and they just copied it to their favour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4316" LastEditorUserId="7390" LastEditDate="2014-03-04T16:49:36.423" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T16:49:36.423" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10401" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10402" CreationDate="2013-03-09T07:10:02.150" Score="5" ViewCount="26999" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does the Two-Face die in the final scene of the Dark Knight? If he does, then how does he become one of the long lasting rival of Batman? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3502" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-16T13:58:16.947" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T13:58:16.947" Title="Does Two-Face die at the end of The Dark Knight?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10401" CreationDate="2013-03-09T09:45:24.340" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, he dies at the end of TDK. Two-Face is definitely one of Batman's long-lasting rivals, but not in Nolan's story arc. The films, like different comic book incarnations, follow their own timeline and this includes the origins, chronological appearances, and even deaths of villains. In the comic, Two-Face has been around since the forties or fifties, yet he was also birthed in the Long Halloween, which came out in the eighties. Though Harvey Dent is cured in the comic book story Hush, he is also a villain in other stories that are supposed to take place long after that arc. So, you see, different series' follow different time lines. Nolan made an executive, creative decision to only give Two-Face fifteen minutes of fame in his version of the story. He defended this decision, saying that an entire film about Two-Face would be boring because Two-Face isn't a very interesting character and doesn't have much depth. Some viewers thought that he just forced Two-Face (who he allegedly meant for the series' third installment) into an unfinished TDK because of Heath Ledger's untimely death, but he has said countless times that he had made the decision to include both villains in TDK early on in the writing process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*When you watch the Batman Begins series, you have to accept the timeline as if no other incarnation exists. IE there are no villains beside Ras Al Ghul, Scarecrow, Joker, Two-Face, Talia Al Ghul and Bane. There is no Poison Ivy, Ventriloquist, Mr. Freeze, Deadshot, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastActivityDate="2013-03-09T09:45:24.340" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3030" CreationDate="2013-03-09T17:38:34.640" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As noted by the OP, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032762/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Basil Rathbone scene from 1940&lt;/a&gt; could well be the earliest example of a candle being sliced in two by a sword purely to showcase his prowess. The 1925 movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015758/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Don Q, Son of Zorro&lt;/a&gt;, starring Douglas Fairbanks also features candle slicing, albeit with a whip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I have not seen it, &lt;a href=&quot;http://duncanmhamilton.com/my-favourite-swashbucklers-part-iii/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this blog&lt;/a&gt; notes that the Errol Flynn swashbuckler, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033028/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Sea Hawk&lt;/a&gt;, also features a scene where: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Flynn slices through the candle sticks, quite why I couldn't say for sure, but it looks pretty cool!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was released in July, 1940 while &lt;em&gt;The Mark of Zorro&lt;/em&gt; was released in November of the same year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="19762" LastEditDate="2017-06-16T13:26:01.257" LastActivityDate="2017-06-16T13:26:01.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10405" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10437" CreationDate="2013-03-09T21:27:43.393" Score="8" ViewCount="318" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this movie is about 10 years old and has a US military base whose commander is conducting some form of medical experiments on soldiers believed dead or missing in action during the Vietnam era. A new soldier assigned here finds the hidden men and befriends one of them. When he questions the others stationed here, he is believed to be making it up or crazy because of the station's solitude. The solitude helps isolate the experiment from discovery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mention of the Vietnam era experimentation will conjure ideas of Jacob's Ladder. It is not. This movie was not horror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T18:40:25.443" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T18:40:25.443" Title="New soldier joins isolated base experimenting on dead Vietnam soldiers" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:42:54.013" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10406" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-03-10T03:38:05.397" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The series features a sprawling ensemble cast of characters, many of whom are based on real figures from historical records, but the lead protagonists are ultimately two soldiers, Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, who find their lives intertwined with key historical events. Rome was a ratings success for HBO and the BBC. The series received much media attention from the start, and was honored with numerous awards and nominations in its two-season run. Co-creator Heller stated in December 2008 that a Rome movie was in development. The series was filmed in various locations, but most notably in the Cinecittà studios in Italy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384766/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rome at IMDB&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1598" LastEditorUserId="1598" LastEditDate="2013-03-10T12:32:46.493" LastActivityDate="2013-03-10T12:32:46.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10407" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-03-10T03:38:05.397" Score="0" Body="Rome is a British-American historical drama television series created by Bruno Heller, John Milius and William J. MacDonald. The show's two seasons premiered in 2005 and 2007. Rome is set in the 1st century BC, during Ancient Rome's transition from Republic to Empire. The series begins with Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul, and the first season concludes with the assassination of Caesar followed by the rise of the first Emperor Augustus." OwnerUserId="1598" LastEditorUserId="1598" LastEditDate="2013-03-10T13:04:30.170" LastActivityDate="2013-03-10T13:04:30.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10408" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10412" CreationDate="2013-03-10T06:55:22.113" Score="6" ViewCount="1056" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the series Spartacus, season 3 episode 6, it appears that a small group of 3-4 gladiators (with just swords) manages to break a tight wall formation of 6-8 Romans attacking them with roman shields, and slay many of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this appears to me to look greatly unrealistic since the roman shield wall seems to be incredibly dense and massive. Would it be likely that a few top champion gladiators could break a roman formation in real world history? Or am I overestimating the shield wall formation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4322" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-01-17T14:26:18.900" LastActivityDate="2017-01-17T16:41:33.133" Title="In Spartacus, can gladiators break a Roman formation?" Tags="|realism|spartacus-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10389" CreationDate="2013-03-10T10:09:23.707" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;One example is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Powers_in_Goldmember&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Austin Powers in Goldmember&lt;/a&gt; (2002):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a self-parody of the Austin Powers series, there&#xA;  is a film within the film in the opening. Austin&#xA;  Powers is featured in a bio-pic called Austinpussy (a parody of the James Bond film Octopussy) directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise as Austin Powers, Gwyneth Paltrow as Dixie Normous, Kevin Spacey as Dr. Evil, Danny DeVito as Mini-Me, and John Travolta as Goldmember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And at the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The heroes arrest Goldmember, who turns&#xA;  to the camera to reveal the entire string of events was adapted into a film by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Cruise as Austin, Kevin Spacey as Dr. Evil, Danny DeVito as Mini-Me, and John Travolta as Goldmember. Austin, Foxxy, Dr. Evil, Mini-Me and&#xA;  Nigel are in the audience of a Hollywood theater&#xA;  watching the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also be thinking of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_within_a_story&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scream 2 and 3&lt;/a&gt; (1997 and 2000), which although weren't examples of a film-within-a-film-within-a-film, each had a film-within-a-film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the latter two films of the Scream horror trilogy, a film-within-a-film format is used when the&#xA;  events of the first film spawn their own horror&#xA;  trilogy within the films themselves. In Scream 2, characters get killed while watching a film version&#xA;  of the events in the first Scream film, while in Scream 3 the actors playing the trilogy's characters end up getting killed, much in the&#xA;  same way as the characters they are playing on&#xA;  screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2013-03-10T10:09:23.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10389" CreationDate="2013-03-10T15:19:51.220" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably not the first, but it definitely precedes &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scream 4:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100519/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rosencrantz &amp;amp; Guildenstern Are Dead&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(1990)&lt;/em&gt;, by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stoppard&quot;&gt;Tom Stoppard&lt;/a&gt;, based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosencrantz_and_Guildenstern_Are_Dead&quot;&gt;his own play&lt;/a&gt; from 1966.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bardfilm.blogspot.co.at/2010/02/dumbshow-within-dumbshow-in-rosencrantz.html&quot;&gt;In one scene&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rosencrantz and Guildenstern come upon &lt;em&gt;The Player&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Tragedians&lt;/em&gt; as they rehearse the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbshow&quot;&gt;dumbshow&lt;/a&gt; for their production of &lt;em&gt;The Murder of Gongazo&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we eventually see is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a film version of a puppet show within a dumbshow within a rehearsal for a play-within-a-play that is made up primarily of the backstage parts of another play.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;or, to &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead?from=Main.RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead&quot;&gt;say it differently&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's basically &lt;em&gt;'Hamlet'&lt;/em&gt; within &lt;em&gt;'Hamlet'&lt;/em&gt; within &lt;em&gt;'Hamlet'&lt;/em&gt;... within &lt;em&gt;'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead'&lt;/em&gt;... which is within &lt;em&gt;'Hamlet'&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-03-10T15:19:51.220" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10389" CreationDate="2013-03-10T15:34:34.223" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spaceballs&lt;/em&gt; (1987) has &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeZ9HhHU86o&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; scene, in which the villains watch... &lt;em&gt;Spaceballs&lt;/em&gt;, including the scene they're currently in. Even at YouTube image quality, you can see at least three levels on the screen &amp;mdash; and, of course, the number of implied levels is infinite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The two-level version shows up as early as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Jr.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Buster Keaton's &lt;em&gt;Sherlock, Jr.&lt;/em&gt; (1924)&lt;/a&gt;, so I'm sure there's a three-level example earlier than this, but it's the best I've been able to think of so far...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1661" LastEditorUserId="40263" LastEditDate="2017-01-18T16:14:37.403" LastActivityDate="2017-01-18T16:14:37.403" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10408" CreationDate="2013-03-11T02:26:39.270" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually it &lt;strong&gt;would be possible&lt;/strong&gt; for pretty much any soldiers to win in that situation not only the gladiator champions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Roman shields look flawless against arrows or such but in close combat against mobile soldiers they make you just a dead weight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all for a functional shield wall 5 sides of a box formation must be tightly connected(some later shields actually had hooks on them for that purpose)...in this case 8 people are just too few making them very &lt;strong&gt;unstable&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;secondly big square shields &lt;strong&gt;diminish your offensive&lt;/strong&gt; capabilities a lot,it leaves you a small space to hit with your sword and you can't see much.In large battles you just stab directly in front of you and hope you will hit something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now imagine yourself holding large heavy shield with your left forearm,you put the &lt;strong&gt;pivot point&lt;/strong&gt; in the middle of the shield,if someone kicks on the upper part of the shield you will get hit in the head by our own shield xD&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now imagine if someone jumps on it,you will be lying on the floor under your own shield...if you are lucky enough and they are badly connected you get the domino effect for extra fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if 4 gladiators just jump on the shields you instantly disable 4 Romans, leaving 4 of them standing...now if those 4 keep their formation looking forward they are dead because their left sides are defenseless,if they do turn you can now jump on them too...now you have 8 Romans lying on the floor squirming like the turtles in less than 10 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In similar way that's why Rome lost so many small battles against unpredictable &quot;guerrilla&quot; armies and won so much in large battles and sieges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-01-17T07:35:52.067" LastActivityDate="2017-01-17T07:35:52.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10413" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-11T02:27:01.033" Score="3" ViewCount="3000" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did the horses calm down after John died? What was the director trying to convey?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4325" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-29T20:10:08.483" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T20:10:08.483" Title="Why did the horses calm down in Melancholia?" Tags="|analysis|melancholia|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10413" CreationDate="2013-03-11T04:17:40.990" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;IIRC the horses were upset because they could tell John was not well. The horses calmed because his wife -- who was in a much more normal condition -- arrived on the scene to help John and/or take him away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2013-03-11T04:17:40.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10415" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10418" CreationDate="2013-03-11T10:59:02.090" Score="6" ViewCount="785" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching a Hollywood comedy movie in 2001 on Star Movies channel in India.  The movie was from the 1990's.  I have forgotten the name of the movie, but here is the plot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a detective and three ladies.&#xA;The first lady is the detective's wife, who is cheating on him and is planning with her boyfriend to kill him. The second lady is the Detective's assistant who is kind of cute and has a crush on the detective. The third lady is rich, wild, and highly sexual. She becomes obsessed with the detective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story revolves around these characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please help me to identify this movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-03-11T14:41:09.160" LastActivityDate="2013-03-11T14:41:09.160" Title="A comedy movie about a detective and three women" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:42:57.143" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10415" CreationDate="2013-03-11T12:22:15.427" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty certain you mean the parody thriller &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106873/combined&quot;&gt;Fatal Instinct&lt;/a&gt; with Armand Assante as the Private Investigator, Sherilyn Fenn from Twin Peaks as the secretary in love with him. The wife is played by Kate Nelligan, and the client by Sean Young, looking every bit as hot as she was in Dune and Blade Runner. This is a parody of detective thrillers by Hitchcock and Brian DePalma.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Here's the synopsis from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106873/plotsummary&quot;&gt;imdb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;A spoof of the late 80s and early 90s suspense thrillers and murder mysteries, including Basic Instinct, Sleeping With The Enemy, Cape Fear and others. A cop/attorney (yes he's both) is seduced by a woman while his wife is having an affair with a mechanic. Lots of other sublots and visual gags in the style of Naked Gun.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2013-03-11T12:22:15.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8043" CreationDate="2013-03-11T13:08:38.657" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As with most artists and writer/director auteurs such as Paul Thomas Anderson, I think he wishes the ending to be interpreted differently for each viewer. Movie interpretations can always be subjective, and often have no right answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the easiest and most literal interpretation one can assume is that Freddie took this journey to find himself, got caught up in a cult, but still had the presence of mind (despite seeming like he wasn't capable of much) to pull himself out from under it's grip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4327" LastActivityDate="2013-03-11T13:08:38.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10421" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-11T16:53:45.193" Score="62" ViewCount="123976" Body="&lt;p&gt;After reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.wekeroad.com/movies/marla-singer-didnt-exist&quot;&gt;this article on the existence of Marla Singer&lt;/a&gt;, I am fairly convinced she represents his guilt and remorse. It seems entirely plausible Marla Singer materializes to remind Jack he is exploiting these therapy groups. In fact, even when Marla enters she says, &quot;This is cancer, right?&quot; nobody responds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the blog, there are three examples of where I can think Marla Singer's presence is suggested but not required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Tyler's confrontation to Marla, he follows her to the laundromat where she removes the clothes from the dryer and proceeds next-door to sell them at a thrift shop. Even though the two are having a conversation in front of the thrift-shop attendant, she does not interject and instead only remains silent with a puzzled look on her face about the talk of bowel cancer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this suggest that overly-civilized and feminized Jack invents Marla, a symbol of his guilt, and steers her toward outlet for his disdain of the order of society? Marla is self-destructive, manipulative, and a kleptomaniac. Whereas later on, Jack invents a hyper-masculine Tyler who is outwardly destructive, blatantly honest and disdains materialism and thus has no need to steal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Jack's boss finds some Fight Club paraphernalia on the Xerox machine, Jack says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'd be very careful who I talked to about this.  It sounds like someone dangerous wrote it... someone who might snap at any moment, stalking from office to office with an Armalite AR-10 Carbine-gas semiautomatic, bitterly pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. Might be someone you've known for years... somebody very close to you. Or, maybe you shouldn't be bringing me every little piece of trash you pick up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the phone rings, and it's Marla. Since we already know Jack invents Tyler as a way for him to cope with his repression from civilization, it seems like picking up the phone and talking to an imaginary person would use the same set of coping skills that led him to invent Tyler. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the diner after not having seen Marla for an extended period of time, she orders food: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I'll have the clam chowder, the fried chicken with the baked potato with everything, and a chocolate chiffon pie.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Marla isn't real, the waiter only responds to Jack's subsequent request for &lt;em&gt;Clean food, please.&lt;/em&gt;, by saying,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In that case, sir, may I advise against the lady eating the clam chowder?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know the clam chowder at any of the restaurants is arguably the most contaminated food item. So, it would be logical for the waiter to recommend not eating clam chowder to anybody requesting clean food.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many possibilities as to why the waiter says the &quot;&lt;strong&gt;lady&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; but it seems like this is the most damning to the theory of Marla's non-existence. The waiter may be attempting to allude to the fact that Jack isn't the same person as he is during Fight Club. But it may not be as bad as it seems at first glance, because the waiter doesn't use the pronoun &lt;strong&gt;she&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;her&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also acceptable to refer to a high-ranking woman to their face as &quot;&lt;em&gt;the lady&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Jack even thought to himself --&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Even if I could tell someone they had a good fight, I wouldn't be talking to the same man. Who you were in fight club is not who you were in the rest of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this is a play on Jack's lack of masculinity outside of Fight Club, the same way drill sergeants call their recruits ladies. After all, Jack does not want to be a celebrity, he wants to be one of the masses along with his followers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any more evidence or counter evidence to the claim?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4328" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-03-11T18:43:44.430" LastActivityDate="2018-12-29T06:35:27.033" Title="In Fight Club is Marla Singer a second figment of Jack's imagination?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|fight-club|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10421" CreationDate="2013-03-11T17:38:14.290" Score="58" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Marla Singer is real.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here is why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the movie, she does have a certain ring about her that would allude her to the same appearance as Tyler. A mechanism to cope with him exploiting the groups by introducing a woman into the mix.  She is inherently, a real person in terms of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Restaurant.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably the most obvious reference to her reality is this scene where the waiter acknowledges both the existence of The Narrator (Jack from here on out) and Marla sitting together at the table &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In that case sir may I advise against the lady eating the clam chowder...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That article does reference a great counterpoint, stating that they know he is insane and compensate for it by making sure to continue Project Mayhem on their own even with a direct &quot;Stop&quot; order from him.  But I counter with a fact of &lt;strong&gt;how does the waiter know this is another personality, let alone female in nature?&lt;/strong&gt;  The answer is, her physical existence.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Support Group&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her existence is acknowledged more than most people take into consideration.  If it was really Jack approaching the group after several meetings just asking &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is cancer, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They would approach with more smiles and laughter on their face than surprise and disgust that a &lt;em&gt;woman&lt;/em&gt; is joining their &lt;em&gt;male&lt;/em&gt; support group.  Not to mention the fact that Bob would recognize &quot;Cornelius&quot; instantly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the other scene where they are embracing each other the proctor (leader?) of the group would have said something about Jack being alone hugging the air and hug him herself or some cheesy thing like that.  It is nigh on impossible that she would let him stand there alone (assuming Marla's non-existence) in a group that helps others cope with such strong emotions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Thrift Store&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quick point here that if Marla is selling the clothes and she looks at &lt;em&gt;Jack&lt;/em&gt; when Bowel Cancer is involved, why wouldn't she just look at Marla instead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Ending&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also the point that the article doesn't bring up in any great detail as it drives a train through this theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The simple premise of Project Mayhem members actively tracking down Marla and bringing her to Jack is shown as the ultimate proof of her existence.  It is one thing to allow your leader to have his little insane quirks of talking to himself, contradicting himself, even fighting himself.  But to bring his actual &lt;em&gt;alter ego&lt;/em&gt; to him is quite impossible.  Let alone finding who she is if they have &lt;em&gt;seen her before and know her exact description&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ladies and gentleman of the Jury, I submit with the aforementioned evidence, that Marla Singer is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;REAL&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An aside:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The book itself reveals a bit more to her existence than the movie does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Marla is a real person as it is because he sees her with a support group he decided to erase Tyler from existence in order to prevent him from ruining Marla's life further and then shoots himself when he thinks everything else is hopeless after the bomb fails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The restaurant scene is also there but with more interaction between her and the waiter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I applaud the movie in that it allows one to have this theory of Marla, vs her portrayal in the book where it is &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; more obvious that she is a real person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another aside that struck my mind reading that article is how the house is actually a physical representation of Jack's psyche.  I disagree in the physical part because then it can be argued that &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; that joined Fight Club and later PM is just &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt;  alternate personality of his.  I do like thinking it is more of a symbolic representation, however, which fits a lot better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-08-29T18:07:06.437" LastActivityDate="2014-08-29T18:07:06.437" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8052" CreationDate="2013-03-11T23:27:14.137" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bond doesn't like the dog, we know that from the scene in the film. M leaves Bond the dog because she knows he doesn't like it. Bond then says something along the lines of, it means the opposite of get a desk job. My thought on this if he got a desk job he'd have to look at the dog all day!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4330" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2013-03-12T01:05:49.830" LastActivityDate="2013-03-12T01:05:49.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9955" CreationDate="2013-03-12T08:07:26.687" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what I think...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cassidy goes to such lengths to destroy his prints, because he knew that his identity would become public as sooner or later he will be recognized, thus this will buy him some time and his brother could work in the other building easily. This can be proven in the scene when cops are able to identify him, they immediately send men in the building where Cassidy's brother is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More cops didn't recognize him sooner despite the fact that he was well known for the robbery is because that robbery happened 2 years before he stood up on the ledge. Plus till the helicopter comes around and shows his face on camera, not many were able to see his face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to me its not an inconsistency but shows the human tendency to forget things as time goes by...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4217" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-12T20:43:12.213" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T20:43:12.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10429" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10431" CreationDate="2013-03-12T08:35:22.543" Score="10" ViewCount="3376" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many have wondered about this and this may be the silliest question asked regarding the movie &lt;em&gt;INCEPTION&lt;/em&gt; but here it is....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When did the Inception start? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could it be that the whole movie was a dream from start to finish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4217" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2013-03-13T18:48:11.080" LastActivityDate="2019-02-03T00:12:57.317" Title="When did the Inception start?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8852" CreationDate="2013-03-12T13:27:45.840" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a quote from &lt;a href=&quot;http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Books/story?id=124838&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;singlePage=true&quot;&gt;an interview with Yann Martel&lt;/a&gt;, 'Life of Pi' Author (Empasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] The island, ah, the island. The most frequently asked question: What does the island mean? It means what you choose to see in it. &lt;strong&gt;My narrative strategy in writting this book was to write a story that was progressively harder to believe.&lt;/strong&gt; Will you believe that a boy could survive with a tiger? Yes? Good. Will you believe that the boy could go blind, the tiger could go blind and they could meet another blind man in another lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific? Yes? Great. &lt;strong&gt;Now will you believe in this crazy carnivorous island? I figure most readers will not believe it. Their suspension of disbelief will break down and readers will start making excuses for Pi&lt;/strong&gt;: He's starving and hallucinating. In other words, reason will kick in. That's fine with me. But I hope that when readers get to Part Three of the novel and read the other story, the one without animals, that their revulsion at that story will be such that they, like the investigators, will choose the first story as the BETTER story. But I wanted that better story to have something unbelievable about it. &lt;strong&gt;I wanted it to get beyond the reasonable and the plausible. BECAUSE every great thing in life — be it religion, love, any ideal — has an element of the unreasonable to it.&lt;/strong&gt; We are not computers. We need the pull of the unreasonable to get us through life. &lt;strong&gt;The island represents that unreasonable element in the first story.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="858" LastActivityDate="2013-03-12T13:27:45.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10429" CreationDate="2013-03-12T14:46:31.797" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for the whole movie is a dream thing. I found this interview of Nolan where he refuses to divulge any information pertaining to that specific question. We can make multiple hypotheses on that, but I think that Nolan was aiming it to create the ambiguity and I also think that's what made inception tick more than many movies which had relatively similar concepts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quote from the interview goes like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What’s happening in the movie:&lt;/strong&gt; Saito says he’ll clear Cobb’s name if he takes the job.  He asks Cobb to take “a leap of faith.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“&lt;strong&gt;The Entire Movie Is a Dream” Argument&lt;/strong&gt;: The phrase “leap of faith” occurs over and over.  It’s an artifact of Cobb’s subconscious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nolan’s Comment&lt;/strong&gt;: “I don’t think I’m going to tell you about this.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/inception-christopher-nolan-explains/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-07-16T02:18:30.673" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10432" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-12T17:19:56.083" Score="21" ViewCount="197001" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1665071/&quot;&gt;Sherlock season 1 episode 1&lt;/a&gt; the serial killer asks Sherlock to take one of two bottles. 1 bottle is ok other is bad (poisonous). Whatever bottle Sherlock takes the serial killer takes the other one. That is same way the serial killer murdered his other victims. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the episode doesn't say  how exactly serial killer achieved this. Before Sherlock can take one of the bottles the serial killer is murdered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody know how the serial killer achieved this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3559" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-03-13T09:01:14.607" LastActivityDate="2019-03-22T00:50:15.017" Title="In Sherlock: Study in Pink how does the choice of bottles work?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10432" CreationDate="2013-03-12T17:39:16.290" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The killer was terminally ill with a brain aneurism and could die at any moment.  He was using the 'scheme' to raise money.  He was earning money from Moriarty, who was essentially sponsoring the cabbie to murder people in this manner. Moriarty's motive is unclear, perhaps just to cause chaos, but more likely to get his name in front of Sherlock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially the cabbie had nothing to lose - so it was purely random which pill was poison.  On each occasion he had a 50% chance of winning.  As the only repeat player, the odds are that he would die within a few rounds, but a fairly good chance he would kill one or two in the process - raising money for his family.  He viewed himself as being expendable, likely to die at any moment anyway - an intelligent man, he viewed it as a risk worth taking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Alternative (not very serious theory): Perhaps he has built up an immunity to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s0UURBihH8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Iocaine powder&lt;/a&gt;?]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2018-08-04T16:51:19.130" LastActivityDate="2018-08-04T16:51:19.130" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10434" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-12T18:08:18.487" Score="2" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a term for when a movie intentionally includes a bit of a sound track from another movie solely as a tribute to the original movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4334" LastActivityDate="2013-05-26T18:29:08.450" Title="What is including a sound from another movie as a tribute called?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10435" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10445" CreationDate="2013-03-12T19:06:37.957" Score="10" ViewCount="35256" Body="&lt;p&gt;While changes as a TV series progresses in normal, there seems to have been an inordinate amount of change between Red Dwarf's season 2 and 3. To list a few:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The title sequence changed from the 2001-esque sequence to a more generic sitcomish sequence (boo!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The whole plotline with the alternate universe pregnancy was completely dropped and hand waved away.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kryten becomes a regular cast member.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Holly undergoes a sex change.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A new Red Dwarf logo is introduced.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Much higher production values overall.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what happened in between seasons 2 &amp;amp; 3 that sparked so much change? Getting a higher budget due to success explains some of it, but not all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2020-08-15T05:59:00.667" Title="Why the change in style between seasons 2 and 3 in Red Dwarf?" Tags="|red-dwarf|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10421" CreationDate="2013-03-12T21:26:01.277" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have never heard of this theory before but it does make sense from the movie perspective only though the book does make it clearer that she exists. Just to play Devil's Advocate to TylerShads I'm going to say that Marla is another one of Tyler Durden's personalities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's take it from the top. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She walks into a testicular cancer group smoking and asks &quot;This is cancer right?&quot; Everyone stares at her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She shows up at all of the groups smoking and no one says anything to her about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She invades the penguin dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She finds him when he thought he was done with ever having seen her again. &quot;You stopped coming to group.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tyler rescues her from her suicide attempt, shes yells things to the emergency crew which they ignore. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ed Norton sees Project Mayhem grab her on a bus that he just put her on when it seems highly unlikely that so many members would have been on the bus or any for that matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;We see her again at the end brought to him by Project Mayhem.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay so we have Marla Singer this mysterious woman who seems to be on a very similar path to Tyler Durden or whoever he was before this movie begins. She has troubles and gets through them by pretending to need group therapy for her own cathartic reasons. She first appears when he has finally gotten some release from his insomnia by lying at therapy groups. She stops this release by merely existing. She is a reflection of his lies. Pretty and obnoxious. She is very much like Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) yet she dwells on misery and isn't as honest. It is telling that she appears when he summons his spirit animal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why would she be addressed as a Lady by the waiter and why did the testicular group stare at her. I think the answer is quite simple. We see that Tyler Durden sometimes dresses as Ed Norton and sometimes more like his ideal self Brad Pitt I think he also dresses as Marla Singer if she is indeed him. I think it's shown by one of my previous &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2691/when-grabbing-the-commisoner-what-is-tyler-durden-actually-doing&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt; that Tyler Durden sometimes sees himself in more places then one at the same time since he has split his personalty into doing two different actions sometimes. In the goup seen he's being hugged by Bob but then Marla walks in. I think the reaction is one he received when he had walked in as &quot;Marla&quot; before. After all man in drag could have as much reason to be in a group as any other man but a woman might very well be asked to leave. I think his groups are used to him switching between Marla and whatever other name he chooses. Project Mayhem would likewise be used to Tyler Durden switching and would address him as Lady if they saw him dressed as one. They are his soldiers and conform to his rules which are pretty much destroy all the rules. Also Marla is constantly trying to make Tyler aware of who Tyler Durden is. Her interaction with everyone else is on the same level as Tyler (Brad) and even Tyler (Ed) when he is watching Tyler(Brad) interact with others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more thing Marla never talks about a job yet she has an apartment. She is always reachable by Tyler and she eats by stealing meals on wheels. My guess is that Tyler was helping the elderly as one of his part-time jobs. Those that would be close to death. When one of them died and no one noticed then Marla got an apartment which is probably paid for by a SS Check still coming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2013-03-12T21:26:01.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10405" CreationDate="2013-03-12T21:35:51.090" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408828/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Guy X&lt;/a&gt; starring Jason Biggs of American Pie fame. The description on IMDB isn't great the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_X&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wiki entry&lt;/a&gt; has a slightly better one. He is accidentally stationed at nowhere base that has secret Vietnam war soldiers being kept at it. It's a black comedy similar in tone to Catch-22. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2013-03-12T21:35:51.090" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3173" CreationDate="2013-03-13T00:25:54.987" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early on in the film, before he's turned into a supervillain, Octavius has Peter over for dinner. His wife, Rosie, asks Peter if he has a girlfriend, to which he answers he doesn't know, prompting Octavius to advise, &quot;Love should never be kept secret. If you keep something as complicated as love stored up inside, &lt;strong&gt;it could make you sick.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peter first shows signs of losing his powers after missing Mary Jane's play and learning that she's seeing someone else. For the rest of the second act, he struggles with both the idea that he shouldn't be Spider-Man anymore and trying to convince himself that he's over Mary Jane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, at the end of the second act, Doc Ock kidnaps Mary Jane. Peter, knowing now that he has to save her, realizes that he cares about her and his powers return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4335" LastActivityDate="2013-03-13T00:25:54.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10442" CreationDate="2013-03-13T07:38:13.047" Score="8" ViewCount="17611" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of movies these days with multiple interrelated plots. There are huge number of examples like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375679/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;Crash&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245712/?ref_=sr_1&quot;&gt;Amores Perros&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449467/&quot;&gt;Babel&lt;/a&gt; and many others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a specific name given or applicable to such genre of movies ?How do you otherwise search for such movies ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3559" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2013-03-13T13:23:31.710" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T09:35:23.900" Title="What is the genre of movies with multiple interrelated plots called?" Tags="|genre|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10440" CreationDate="2013-03-13T07:49:05.467" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;These kind of films are called &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthology_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anthology film&lt;/a&gt;. From Wikipedia: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An anthology film (also known as an omnibus film, package film, or portmanteau film) is a subgenre of films consisting of several different short films, often tied together by only a single theme, premise, or brief interlocking event (often a turning point). Sometimes each one is directed by a different director. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-03-29T09:35:23.900" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T09:35:23.900" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10440" CreationDate="2013-03-13T08:14:20.603" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink_cinema&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;hyperlink cinema&lt;/a&gt; . Here is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/list/ITT0m4IvmlY/?start=1&amp;amp;view=detail&amp;amp;sort=release_date_us:desc&amp;amp;defaults=1&amp;amp;lists=ITT0m4IvmlY&amp;amp;scb=0.17880748910829425&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;link of movies at imdb &lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is exactly defined as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;hyperlink cinema as films where the characters or action reside in separate stories, but a connection or influence between those disparate stories is slowly revealed to the audience&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got the answer from &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/10441/3559&quot;&gt;ankit's link though&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3559" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2013-03-13T08:14:20.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10432" CreationDate="2013-03-13T08:38:53.540" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cabbie is indeed shown to be terminally ill and wants to raise money for his family. However, this only explains why he resorts to killing people (=earn money fast). Motives of Moriarty are part of the bigger overall story arc in the Sherlock Holmes universe as Moriarty is the arch-nemesis of Sherlock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The poison pill trick is not random. The cabbie is skilled in reading and manipulating people. He has analyzed what drives his victims and acts accordingly. He knew Sherlock would get in his cab instead of calling the police. The poison pill trick is his way of showing he has control through his skill. His victims can make the choice but as they are choosing, the cabbie manipulates them. He knows which of the bottles is poisonous and will manipulate his victims into taking the bad bottle. If they take the good one, he will convince them to change their mind. This shows of how good the cabbie is in reading people, predicting their train of thought and knowing what to say to mislead them. It takes great skill to manipulate people that know you are trying to kill them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His confrontation with Sherlock is a battle in the understanding of human behavior. It is a match to decide who can better see through the other's act. They have layers and layers of bluff/misdirection in all the small details of their actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2013-03-13T08:38:53.540" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10435" CreationDate="2013-03-13T12:27:39.163" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of this was due to the network realising how well the show was working and providing a bigger budget (higher production values, change in intro sequence).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They dropped the previous pregnancy plotline now that they had the budget to write more ambitious plots.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They needed an additional crew member to allow these to work for the script dynamic and also, as they were going into more of a sci fi direction, they needed an information source which could explain new cultures and technologies to the crew (and therefore the audience). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Holly's sex change was caused by the previous actor being unhappy with the commute involved as he had to drive for hours to get to the studio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-13T12:27:39.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10432" CreationDate="2013-03-13T12:32:29.050" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is covered in the episode, Holmes mentions it to the cabbie and the cabbie replies something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Four games and four wins, that's not random&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want an excellent, explained example of this in action - watch The Princess Bride:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_eZmEiyTo0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_eZmEiyTo0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The man in black's intelligence test. He provides two vials, one of which is poisoned.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vizzini explains his chain of thought thus expressing how he feels that the placement of the poisons is not random but is a psychological trick. In the same way the taxi driver feels that there is psychology in the way he plays his 'game' and that it is not random - whether either if them are right or wrong is not the point, the point is that they feel there is more to it than random chance&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: the twist in the Princess Bride's version about immunities is not relevant to the Holmes's version.  I only included this as it explained the chain of thought as to which glass should be drunk from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="1501" LastEditDate="2013-04-10T22:50:39.790" LastActivityDate="2013-04-10T22:50:39.790" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10451" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10483" CreationDate="2013-03-13T18:11:11.170" Score="10" ViewCount="3395" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the underground tunnel scene where Bane and Batman fight, Bane has some odd texture covering the skin of his arms, mostly around the shoulders and upper arms. It almost looks like dry and cracked clay, or perhaps like fake skin that's peeling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My best guess is that it's dirt or filth caked-on from the sewers. But it seems like such an odd and distracting prosthetic to add (IMHO), I wonder if there's more plot-like reason to it than meets the eye. I can't imagine Nolan would let a misapplied prosthetic slip by so noticeably, and at such a pivotal scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, maybe it's intentionally supposed to add to the unsettling &quot;grittiness&quot; of the scene, like the harsh lighting of the scene (as explained in the extras).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/boSBD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;bane&amp;#39;s arm&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3471" LastEditorUserId="3471" LastEditDate="2013-03-29T20:51:22.350" LastActivityDate="2017-05-22T19:55:17.163" Title="What's on Bane's arms in Dark Knight Rises?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight-rises|plot-explanation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10452" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-13T18:50:47.140" Score="18" ViewCount="12246" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a part in The Dark Knight Rises that's stumped me, where it sounds like Bane's voice is suddenly and significantly changed -- beyond his normal post-production mask-speak. It sticks out so starkly, I can't help but feel that it was intentional, for effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I saw it in theaters, I initially thought it was perhaps an allusion to the &quot;spirit&quot; of Ra's speaking through Bane, or similarly, that perhaps it was the League of Shadows as a whole -- a legion of spirits speaking through the League of Shadows-&quot;incarnate&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the movie, when discovering that others hadn't heard or noticed it, I wondered if it was just coincidental, or perhaps just some fluctuation or mismatch of Bane's voice processing in post-production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Where it is:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the underground sewer scene, when Bane and Batman are fighting, listen to Bane's lines right after Batman throws the smoke bombs in front of Bane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;BANE: &quot;Theatricality and deception, powerful agents to the uninitiated.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;BANE: &quot;...But we are initiated, aren't we, Bruce?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BANE (voice change): &quot;&lt;em&gt;Members&lt;/em&gt; of the League of Shadows. And you betrayed &lt;em&gt;us&lt;/em&gt;.&quot;*&lt;/strong&gt;  (emphasis mine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;BATMAN: &quot;...&quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Us&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;? &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;You&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; were excommunicated... by a gang of psychopaths.&quot; (*See EDIT)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BANE: &quot;I am the League of Shadows...&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; (switches to normal voice) &quot;And I'm here to fulfill Ra's Al Ghul's destiny!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;++ The YouTube clip is no longer available ++&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds so distinct to me, it sounds like a different actor's voice entirely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Batman calls out Bane on his &quot;altered&quot;-voice statement where Bane infers that he's still in full fellowship with the League of Shadows. This could lend credence to Bane actually changing his voice as if it were the League speaking through him, like a legion, or as a spokesperson. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be an intentional alteration by Bane himself, or it could perhaps be an &quot;audience-only&quot; subtext or view -- subtly foreshadowing the coming resurgence and &quot;reincarnation&quot; of the League of Shadows through both Ra's' appearance and Talia's (eventual) unmasking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It definitely doesn't sound like Ra's' voice (Liam Neeson), though, which could've made plausible sense (plot-wise) as a foreshadowing or reminder of Ra's' &quot;eternal&quot; nature. Although this voice change could similarly be alluding or foreshadowing to a wider scale of the League of Shadows as a whole (if intentional, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After rereading and rewatching the scene, it's now my opinion that the voice change here very likely &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; intentional, whether in a &quot;conscious&quot; or &quot;subconscious&quot; theatrical vein. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I lean toward it being a subtle, subconscious form of directorial foreshadowing, where it's not intended for the audience to be consciously aware of or focused on it -- much like the similar &quot;subconscious&quot; foreshadowing of when we first see Miranda and Bruce meet (at the charity ball) -- &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Miranda enters the scene covering her face with a masquerade mask (alluding/foreshadowing her deception as &quot;Talia&quot;), as Bruce asks her, &quot;Miss Tate, ...isn't it?&quot; (she doesn't answer him, only puts down the mask):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yIJjV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Talia&amp;#39;s Foreshadowing&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes Bane's voice change seem too unlikely to be coincidental is that the pairing of the voice change coincides with the &lt;em&gt;precise&lt;/em&gt; instance of his dialog where he no longer refers to himself as a &lt;em&gt;singular&lt;/em&gt; individual, but rather, as &lt;em&gt;multiple&lt;/em&gt; people, a group -- &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Members&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of the League of Shadows.... you betrayed &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;us&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even Batman doesn't let this slip past unnoticed, calling Bane out on it -- &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;...'&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Us&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;'? &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;You&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; were excommunicated...&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Which Bane then responds by reversing his reference of himself as a singular individual rather than many -- while also coinciding with the &quot;altered&quot; voice suddenly disappearing into the shadows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, I think I'll put my money on this being a subtle, &quot;unconscious&quot; foreshadowing for the audience that the League of Shadows is still alive, that it's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; just Bane acting solo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, I'm going to try to reach out to someone involved in the production process, in the hopes of shedding some definitive light on this -- (just for fun, of course) :) I'll post back any information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3471" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2014-03-25T20:32:31.220" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T20:06:38.473" Title="Does Bane's voice change in this scene because of plot?" 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  <row Id="10456" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10461" CreationDate="2013-03-13T21:41:16.183" Score="20" ViewCount="1589" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;Prometheus&quot; the android David flawlessly executes a seemingly endless range of tasks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;learns to read and speak an alien language&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;shoots a basketball with precision&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;keeps the spaceship tidy&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;spelunks in a cave&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;performs medical evaluations&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;conducts scientific analysis&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;pilots alien spacecraft&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;makes witty remarks&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;follows orders reliably, even with his head cut off&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all this in mind, &lt;strong&gt;why bring anyone but David (or perhaps multiple Davids) on the mission?&lt;/strong&gt; Wouldn't it be obvious that humans, with all their flaws, would only reduce the odds of success?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2013-03-13T22:41:53.637" LastActivityDate="2014-11-08T19:20:48.443" Title="In &quot;Prometheus&quot; why bring anyone but David-type androids?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10462" CreationDate="2013-03-14T04:22:25.493" Score="3" ViewCount="442" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie version of Les Miserables, the final scene is the very upper class and opulent wedding of Marius and Cosette.  Is Marius completely selling out the revolutionary cause and abandoning all his friends who have died?  This point seems to be glossed over in the movie and Marius isn't portrayed in any negative way for this, but in my mind should be very damning of him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3619" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T18:33:41.130" Title="Does Marius sell out the revolutionary cause at the end in Les Miserables?" Tags="|les-miserables|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="977" CreationDate="2013-03-14T06:26:32.867" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no key, after carving IOU into the apple in Sherlock's apartment Moriarty tapped a sequence out onto his knee with his fingers. It translates as:&quot;There is no key&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4351" LastActivityDate="2013-03-14T06:26:32.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10456" CreationDate="2013-03-14T13:23:27.970" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;One take as to why a scientific exploration wouldn't have just androids is the concept of whether androuds can own anything or not.  In the world of science, usually the first person to discover something gets to name it.  This can be taken as a sort of ownership.  Can an inanimate object own something?  Would the object's owner own what it discovers?  It's a tricky philosophical concept when it comes to sapient non-organic objects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-03-14T13:23:27.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10456" CreationDate="2013-03-14T14:33:14.123" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;An in-universe explanation would simply be that the people want to go there themselves. After all, Weyland wanted to travel himself when we could have simply sent a team of humans!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While a ship full of androids could probably complete tasks there'd be no one there making sure the tasks were done as they wished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a filmmaker's perspective a single android character creates a much more interesting story and set of interactions than humans and an android.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="8496" LastEditDate="2014-11-08T19:20:36.310" LastActivityDate="2014-11-08T19:20:36.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10458" CreationDate="2013-03-14T14:38:05.373" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest he's moved on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The revolution has been crushed and his friends are dead.  No one's going to rise up for a long time.  He can dwell in unhappiness, rebel again (probably by himself and die) or carry on with his life with Cosette.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He chose the latter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="32199" LastEditDate="2017-05-01T18:33:41.130" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T18:33:41.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10456" CreationDate="2013-03-14T15:21:16.353" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without the guidance of a master, androids would ultimately fail on such a long and remote mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite David's wide range of abilities that he demonstrates through out the film, he fails repeatedly to make his own unique decisions, and when he does make his own decisions he makes poor ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;David monitors the dreaming of Elizabeth Shaw and invades her privacy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ignoring commands to stop, David opens the chamber to the large human head which sets a chain of events into motion that ultimately gets the crew killed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;David must report his progress to Peter Weyland and seek further instructions. Weyland orders him to &quot;try harder&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;David infects Charlie Holloway and gets him killed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David's are designed to do tasks that humans don't like to do. Not specifically tasks that they can not do. As mechanical servants they lack the free will to make their own decisions and as such are incapable of completing such a mission on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At best, androids could travel to the planet, record data, conduct tests and report back. Much like a mechanical probe would do. You still need humans there who can ask questions like, &quot;why did the engineers create humans?&quot; or &quot;why do they now want to kill us?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That Answers Why They Didn't Send All Androids&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other reason is that Wayland was on board the Prometheus, and the only reason David was there was because Wayland trusted him. He thought of him as his son and did not trust his own daughter. The only people on the ship that knew Wayland was there were the security guards, David and Meredith Vickers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elizabeth Shaw thought they were on a mission to make a great discovery for mankind, but Wayland had other plans - to contact the engineers and convince them to extend his life. While Wayland could build androids that would never grow old, he himself could not overcome the fact of life - that we all will one day grow old and die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="8496" LastEditDate="2014-11-08T19:20:48.443" LastActivityDate="2014-11-08T19:20:48.443" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8856" CreationDate="2013-03-14T15:29:29.617" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There were some scenes that picture holographic images. I don't get from where they were getting that much energy to create holographs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LXXvQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David inspects writing on the wall, and rubs off some kind of gel with his fingers. When he inspects the gel he sees glowing specks of organic life in the gel. A kind of living digital storage that lines the walls of the cave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He activates the writing on the wall and the specks in the gel turn on to play back the old recording that we see as the &lt;em&gt;hologram&lt;/em&gt;. It's not really a holographic image as much as it is a recording saved into the living gel that lines the walls. This is why the images are made up on glowing dots that look a lot like the dots in the gel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OQihB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2013-03-14T15:29:29.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10465" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10472" CreationDate="2013-03-14T17:44:09.993" Score="13" ViewCount="23258" Body="&lt;p&gt;Robin is part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_animated_universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DC animated universe&lt;/a&gt;, so why doesn't he appear in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Justice League&lt;/a&gt; or the follow-up &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League_Unlimited&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Justice League Unlimited&lt;/a&gt; series?  What is the reason behind not including any Robin or Nightwing character in the Justice League series; not even as a special appearance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T13:06:32.807" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T13:06:32.807" Title="Why doesn't Robin appear in the Justice League and Justice League Unlimited animated series?" Tags="|character|dc-animated-universe|justice-league-unlimited|justice-league-tv|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10465" CreationDate="2013-03-14T18:24:58.913" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the time Warner Bros., owners of DC Comics and makers of these shows, had a newly-successful &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_begins&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Batman film franchise&lt;/a&gt;.  As a result, they &lt;a href=&quot;http://dcanimated.wikia.com/wiki/Bat-embargo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;essentially reserved&lt;/a&gt; the Batman &quot;universe&quot; (i.e. his settings, friends, and foes) for those films and for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Batman_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Batman-specific TV series&lt;/a&gt;.  The end result was that both the &lt;em&gt;Justice League&lt;/em&gt; series and &lt;em&gt;Smallville&lt;/em&gt; couldn't make extensive use of Batman, Gotham, Robin, Nightwing, etc.  Other Justice League members didn't have such a limitation, and so the series saw significant use of their rogues galleries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-03-14T21:09:57.980" LastActivityDate="2013-03-14T21:09:57.980" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10468" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-14T18:51:26.467" Score="8" ViewCount="4448" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the ending of the movie Andrew talks to Chuck about how he thinks something 'bad' is going on on the Island, and he wants to leave it. He appears to be getting back in his old crazy character (Teddy), as explained in the previous scene ('like a tape').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This made me think he does not know he's fallen back into his old habits, and that he's crazy. Chuck notices this, and signs to the shrink that he's teddy again, and that he should get the lobotomy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However when Andrew walks away he says the &quot;die as a good person&quot; line, which suggests he knows he's actually crazy, and thinks he should just die. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So which one is it, does he know he's crazy or doesn't he?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3278" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T01:50:43.503" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T01:50:43.503" Title="Is Teddy aware that he's crazy?" Tags="|analysis|shutter-island|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10468" CreationDate="2013-03-14T18:57:58.493" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;After understanding his last statement &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Which would be worse? To live as a monster, or die as a good man?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is clear that he knows his true identity now but he thinks he live like a monster and now wanted to be free of it and to get lobotomize. So he faked his craziness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-11T23:48:58.373" LastActivityDate="2013-11-11T23:48:58.373" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8278" CreationDate="2013-03-14T20:27:04.100" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Craig series is a new continuity that merely pays homage to the old one. The 1964 Astin Martin is won by Bond in &lt;em&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/em&gt;, tricked out with guns and gadgets sometime after, and makes another appearance in &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only truly confusing link to the previous series-- which is a different continuity-- is the use of Dame Judy Dench as M. Otherwise, no actors cross from one series to another. Either way, the M of the Craig run is not the same M as in the previous Bond series, despite being the same actress from the later films in the previous series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Felix and Moneypenny are also both obviously not the same people as the ones in the previous series. This continuity's Bond doesn't even meet Moneypenny until &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, James Bond is the man's ACTUAL NAME. It's not a code name. He is not a timelord, but a man who became 007 in the reboot &lt;em&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/em&gt;, continued that adventure in &lt;em&gt;Quantum of Solace&lt;/em&gt;, and then reached a later point in his career in &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The previous, other continuity's Bond (Connery, Moore, et al) was also not a timelord, but an agent who was with MI6 from the 1960s until 2002 in &lt;em&gt;Die Another Day&lt;/em&gt;. There was always a science fiction element to Bond films (look at all the gadgets and the schemes of the villains!) so it's not an amazing stretch of the imagination to believe that he was the recipient of some sort of &quot;super soldier&quot; serum that slowed his aging and made him a bit more durable than a man who took those kinds of bumps should have been for so many decades. Either that, or you can assume that Brosnan's Bond was really supposed to be an elderly man in his late 70s or 80s, but was poorly cast. And why did he look different from time to time? If you really need an in-continuity explanation, think &quot;plastic surgery&quot;-- He's a spy. He needs to change his look after a while, and MI6 has top specialists who can re-sculpt a man's face (and figure!) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But make no mistake: Daniel Craig's James Bond is &lt;em&gt;NOT&lt;/em&gt; in the same continuity as the previous James Bond films.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4269" LastActivityDate="2013-03-14T20:27:04.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10465" CreationDate="2013-03-14T21:24:27.887" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275137/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMDb&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When the series was expanded from Justice League to Justice League Unlimited, producers considered adding Batman's sidekicks, &lt;em&gt;Robin&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Batgirl&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Nightwing&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, DC Comics turned them down, because &lt;strong&gt;the &lt;em&gt;Robin/Dick Grayson&lt;/em&gt; role was being used on&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Titans_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Teen Titans&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was/is something called &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/WF/sections/faq/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;(Bat)-Embargo&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a decision to keep certain DC characters exclusive to certain shows across the television and film medium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bruce Timm&lt;/strong&gt;, the man behind &lt;em&gt;Justice League&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Justice League Unlimited&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://jl.toonzone.net/004/004.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;said about the &lt;em&gt;Bat-Embargo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;... to tell you the truth, as much as I […] love those characters, I don’t really miss [them] all that much.  It’s not like we don’t have tons of other interesting characters to play with.&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If I were doing an actual Batman show, and not allowed to use those characters, yeah, that’d be pretty galling, but &lt;strong&gt;Batman’s only one ingredient in the Justice League’s brew.  The Bat-clan aren’t really essential in any way to the current show&lt;/strong&gt; ...&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dcanimated.wikia.com/wiki/Batgirl#Trivia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;although&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At one point during the later series &lt;em&gt;Justice League Unlimited&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;an episode featuring &lt;em&gt;Batgirl&lt;/em&gt; was discussed&lt;/strong&gt;. ... The episode was never produced as the rights to the Batgirl character were not held over and were being used by the team on &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Batman_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Batman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; at the time&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;However, in the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://dcanimated.wikia.com/wiki/Grudge_Match&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Grudge Match&lt;/a&gt; they sidestepped the &lt;em&gt;Bat-Embargo&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dick Grayson&lt;/em&gt; has a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo as &lt;em&gt;Nightwing&lt;/em&gt;, shown watching from a rooftop as &lt;em&gt;Canary&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Huntress&lt;/em&gt; drive their way into Blüdhaven. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dqd9U.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Nightwing&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6cVOIVLc_8&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watch the scene on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-01-03T08:02:35.807" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T08:02:35.807" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10473" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-03-14T23:42:28.397" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Justice League&lt;/em&gt; is a 2017 American superhero movie about the team of comic superheroes of the same name as part of the DC Extended Universe (to be tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/dc-extended-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dc-extended-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dc-extended-universe&lt;/a&gt; accordingly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T13:08:05.850" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T13:08:05.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10474" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-03-14T23:42:28.397" Score="0" Body="2017 American superhero movie about the team of comic superheroes of the same name as part of the DC Extended Universe (to be tagged with [dc-extended-universe] accordingly). For the animated television series, use the [justice-league-tv] tag." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2020-03-15T19:54:44.317" LastActivityDate="2020-03-15T19:54:44.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10475" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-03-14T23:44:40.847" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-14T23:44:40.847" LastActivityDate="2013-03-14T23:44:40.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10476" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-03-14T23:44:40.847" Score="0" Body="Is a direct sequel to the Cartoon Network's Justice League animated series which feature team of DC's superheros." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-14T23:44:40.847" LastActivityDate="2013-03-14T23:44:40.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10477" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-03-14T23:53:35.210" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-14T23:53:35.210" LastActivityDate="2013-03-14T23:53:35.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10478" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-03-14T23:53:35.210" Score="0" Body="2012's comedy horror film and sequel to the film Piranha 3D(2010)." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-14T23:53:35.210" LastActivityDate="2013-03-14T23:53:35.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10479" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-03-14T23:55:11.467" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-14T23:55:11.467" LastActivityDate="2013-03-14T23:55:11.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10480" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-03-14T23:55:11.467" Score="0" Body="2007's American psychological horror film starring Lindsay Lohan in twins role." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-14T23:55:11.467" LastActivityDate="2013-03-14T23:55:11.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10481" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-03-14T23:59:11.197" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Use this tag for questions that are related to the fictional universe in which all films and TV shows independently produced by Marvel Studios take place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Related Movie Tags:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Phase 1&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/iron-man&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;iron-man&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;iron-man&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-iron-man-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;iron-man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-incredible-hulk&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-incredible-hulk&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-incredible-hulk&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-the-incredible-hulk-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;the-incredible-hulk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/iron-man-2&quot; 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title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-one-shots&amp;#39;&quot; aria-label=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-one-shots&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot; aria-labelledby=&quot;tag-marvel-one-shots-tooltip-container&quot;&gt;marvel-one-shots&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Consultant (2011)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer (2011)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Item 47 (2012)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Agent Carter (2013)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All Hail the King (2014)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Related Reading:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Comics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marvel Comics on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marvel Cinematic Universe on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marvel_Cinematic_Universe_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marvel Cinematic Universe: Films on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marvel_Cinematic_Universe_television_series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marvel Cinematic Universe: TV on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="94442" LastEditDate="2023-04-02T12:17:30.677" LastActivityDate="2023-04-02T12:17:30.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10482" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-03-14T23:59:11.197" Score="0" Body="Use this tag for questions that are related to the fictional universe in which all films and TV shows independently produced by Marvel Studios take place." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T13:57:50.187" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T13:57:50.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10451" CreationDate="2013-03-15T07:06:12.847" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know what it is. Tom Hardy has full arm sleeves (tattoos). It is a revealing goof, he had to wear a thick application of flesh tone makeup on each arm to cover the artwork in scenes where Bane wears no coat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-03-15T12:00:37.997" LastActivityDate="2013-03-15T12:00:37.997" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10468" CreationDate="2013-03-15T14:03:46.537" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a very deep level he might know he is crazy and know what really happened but he has convinced himself that his alternate story is real.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He cannot face what actually happened and would rather live his life in the different story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the end of the film it is clear that he is unable/unwilling to comprehend reality no matter how hard the doctors try to reach him and therefore needs to be lobotomised (according the medical experts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-15T14:03:46.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10486" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10492" CreationDate="2013-03-15T16:16:25.380" Score="6" ViewCount="1449" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always wanted to know how &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;holi&lt;/a&gt; scenes with slow motion get captured. Is it purely a slow motion or is it CGI or any other technique?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below are some screenshots to demonstrate the effect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bqBap.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OTxfV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(These pictures may not belong to any movie)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They not only use slow motion for liquid colour but also for powdered colour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-05-15T11:28:11.903" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T11:28:11.903" Title="How are slow motion Holi scenes shot?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10487" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17645" CreationDate="2013-03-15T16:49:54.220" Score="2" ViewCount="1073" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1156398/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Zombieland&lt;/a&gt; (2009) score, there is a track &quot;Estasi Dell Anima&quot;, from when Tallahassee locks himself in the booth at Pacific Playland to distract all the zombies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know, is this piece based on a classical piece, or some other piece? &#xA;It is a musically gorgeous track, but it is all of 1m54s long. &#xA;I'd love to get a longer or extended version of this song. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or was it a new piece composed for the movie, and no longer rendition exists?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1904" LastEditorUserId="55668" LastEditDate="2019-02-28T18:14:06.830" LastActivityDate="2019-03-02T04:23:14.280" Title="Was the track &quot;Estasi Dell Anima&quot; newly composed for &quot;Zombieland&quot;?" Tags="|soundtrack|zombieland|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10491" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-15T20:08:36.727" Score="3" ViewCount="4503" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Drive, how did Cook plan to double cross the driver? And why didn't the pawn shop owner admit anything was stolen? And how did driver come to know from the news clip that he was setup?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4364" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-15T20:39:42.120" LastActivityDate="2013-07-13T01:59:50.773" Title="What exactly was Cook's plan and from whom did he get the money?" Tags="|plot-explanation|drive|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10486" CreationDate="2013-03-15T20:40:30.827" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;These types of shots are achieved using a high-speed camera, as alluded to in the comments preceding your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Newer technology has allowed filmmakers to shoot with digital cameras that can record between 2,000 to 5,000 frames per second - subsequently when the film is played back at a standard 24 FPS or 30 FPS the result is super slow-motion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a number of films that utilize this technique, and a handful of TV shows including &lt;em&gt;Spartacus&lt;/em&gt;, but the best examples of the filming technique can be found on the show &lt;em&gt;Time Warp&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out this &lt;a href=&quot;http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/other-shows/videos/other-shows-time-warp-videos.htm&quot;&gt;link to the Time Warp site&lt;/a&gt; for some amazing video examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-03-15T20:40:30.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10493" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10502" CreationDate="2013-03-15T20:58:05.927" Score="10" ViewCount="3323" Body="&lt;p&gt;Star Trek's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Tribble&quot;&gt;Tribbles&lt;/a&gt; are known for two distinctive sounds they make: a soothing coo/purr noise when they're petted, and a harsh, grinding shriek to express their dislike of Klingons.  Have the cast or crew ever talked about where those sounds came from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2023" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T23:08:09.083" Title="Where did the Tribble noises come from?" Tags="|star-trek|foley|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10494" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-03-15T21:00:02.700" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Source&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_%28filmmaking%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;:Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2023" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-15T21:28:20.427" LastActivityDate="2013-03-15T21:28:20.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10495" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-03-15T21:00:02.700" Score="0" Body="Foley is a term that refers to creating sound effects, generally for movies, TV or video games." OwnerUserId="2023" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-15T21:28:20.427" LastActivityDate="2013-03-15T21:28:20.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10496" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-03-15T21:33:13.140" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-15T21:33:13.140" LastActivityDate="2013-03-15T21:33:13.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10497" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-03-15T21:33:13.140" Score="0" Body="2011's American crime drama film adaption from the 2005 James Sallis novel of the same name." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-15T21:33:13.140" LastActivityDate="2013-03-15T21:33:13.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10498" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-03-15T21:35:13.513" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Source : &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombieland&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-15T21:35:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-03-15T21:35:13.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10499" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-03-15T21:35:13.513" Score="0" Body="2009's American zombie comedy film  stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin as survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Together, they take an extended road trip across Southwestern United States in an attempt to find a sanctuary free from zombies." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-15T21:35:13.513" LastActivityDate="2013-03-15T21:35:13.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10500" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-03-15T21:38:00.983" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-15T21:38:00.983" LastActivityDate="2013-03-15T21:38:00.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10501" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-03-15T21:38:00.983" Score="0" Body="Analysis regarding a character from a film or TV show." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-15T21:38:00.983" LastActivityDate="2013-03-15T21:38:00.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10493" CreationDate="2013-03-16T04:04:47.860" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Tribbles_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Memory Alpha article for the episode &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Trouble with Tribbles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sound effects editor Douglas Grindstaff combined altered dove coos, screech owl cries and emptying balloons to create the tribble sounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="969" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-01-02T15:14:19.517" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T15:14:19.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10503" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-16T11:45:33.163" Score="17" ViewCount="18525" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will there be any version of &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&lt;/em&gt; that you can watch at home at 48 or 50 frames or fields per second?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be easy to do. When a standard 24 FPS movie is converted for DVD or TV broadcast in PAL or SECAM regions, it is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine#2:2_pulldown&quot;&gt;sped up by about 4%&lt;/a&gt; to bring the frame rate to 25. The same speedup would make &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; 50 FPS, which is the field rate in these regions. Even VHS supported 50 fields per second interlaced video, as does DVD. Blu-ray supports 50 frames per second at 1280×720, or 50 interlaced fields per second at 1920×1080. There are also digital downloads on various platforms which I am less familiar with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4367" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T18:34:10.860" LastActivityDate="2013-09-07T03:59:59.113" Title="Will The Hobbit be released to video with the High Frame Rate?" Tags="|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10503" CreationDate="2013-03-16T13:07:51.427" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I can ascertain there are no plans to release a 48fps version of the film due to the fact that this would require a complete overhaul of players, most TV sets and even the disc encoding itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only potential way to do this today would be to download 48fps content to watch, but there are currently no plans to accommodate this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many excellent online discussions going on regarding this, and here is one of my favourites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;48fps discussion on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avsforum.com/t/1455389/the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-blu-ray-and-blu-ray-3d-up-for-pre-order&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;avsforum&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-03-16T13:07:51.427" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1745" CreationDate="2013-03-16T13:26:20.527" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the train crash not a symbolic reference to the first movie that Méliès sees in the fair ground of a train arriving at a station? People are so startled by the train approaching the camera that they think it is going to crash into them. Méliès, at that time a magician, is so intrigued by the ability of the movies to 'trick' the eye that he gives up magic and moves into film making. It is only later that he discovers that film is also a fantastic storytelling medium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The train is thus a symbol of the power of film to both 'trick' the eye and to tell a story. The two themes that Méliès is most intrigued by in his own film making. And by extension I assume Scorsese too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4365" LastActivityDate="2013-03-16T13:26:20.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10507" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-16T14:37:05.513" Score="2" ViewCount="299" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just started watching Season 2. Claire and Takedo Kensei can both heal. West and Nathan Petrelli can both fly. So does a power manifest only once within a generation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4242" LastEditorUserId="4242" LastEditDate="2013-03-16T16:57:55.667" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T12:02:29.487" Title="Do the powers in Heroes manifest only once a generation?" Tags="|heroes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10510" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10763" CreationDate="2013-03-16T16:45:35.900" Score="1" ViewCount="610" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2008 film, Jumper, the Paladins use an electrified cable weapon to incapacitate jumpers, was this weapon ever given a name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2116" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T16:13:01.587" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T16:13:01.587" Title="Name of the Paladins' weapons?" Tags="|jumper|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10511" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16274" CreationDate="2013-03-16T17:43:30.680" Score="7" ViewCount="73174" Body="&lt;p&gt;Verbal Kint (aka Keyser Soze?!) narrates 'the story' of what happened after their police lineup, few weeks back, that ultimately leads up to the finale at the ship. Verbal uses a lot of information from the pinups in the room where he is interrogated and forges his story. Like in the first heist pulled, they must have actually pulled the heist. But Verbal reads 'Redfoot' somewhere from the pinups and creates a fence with that character. So my question is which parts of that story actually happened and which were the parts he made up? How far is the story told by Kint to David Kujan true? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4314" LastEditorUserId="4314" LastEditDate="2015-05-27T11:05:55.307" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T20:04:52.367" Title="The Usual Suspects - Truth in Verbal Kint's Story" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-usual-suspects|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10513" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10520" CreationDate="2013-03-16T22:47:54.693" Score="13" ViewCount="45547" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have seen it hundreds of times in movies. Someone dies and the doctor, priest, cop or someone else, moves their hands over the dead person's eyes and the eyes magically close. It's as if the eyes were somehow magnetic. I'm sure in reality it takes an undertaker to sew them down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only conclusion I can come to is it's the best way to ensure you don't see the actor blink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it some ritual that goes back thousands of years? I'm not sure, seems odd as I have seen it so often in film and it always makes me think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what do you think is the reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4371" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-03-17T16:13:49.020" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T07:40:12.043" Title="Why do they always close the eyelids of dead people?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10513" CreationDate="2013-03-16T23:07:06.587" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it is a combination of both of your thoughts.  In ancient times, Greece and Rome specifically, people would bury their dead with two coins, one over each eye, as a payment to the ferryman to speed them on the way to the underworld.  As a film technique since directors can't truly kill their stars they close the eyelids to prevent the audience from notice the subtle twitches a human has even while remaining still.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There might be one more reason for doing this.  I have heard that the eyes of the dead are extremely creepy and are often compared to that of a doll's eye.  Due to the fact this was a person you knew in life you might feel uncomfortable about leaving the deceased just starring into space or into you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="567" LastActivityDate="2013-03-16T23:07:06.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2971" CreationDate="2013-03-16T23:15:40.220" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The trademark fan image is done differently in Prometheus, so you have to look closely. Notice the radiating scanning lasers when the mapping drones fly through the tunnels of the pyramid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4372" LastActivityDate="2013-03-16T23:15:40.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10435" CreationDate="2013-03-17T00:02:35.023" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a show is a hit new creative people get involved, actors get big heads and make demands on the producers. But mostly the tension that probably manifested in the writing team. Where one of the writer left in 1988. After season 4 the writing was never the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, as to Holly...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The original actor to play Holly, Norman Lovett, left the series after&#xA;  a dispute over his salary. In an interview with Red Dwarf Smegazine&#xA;  (issue 9, November 1992), Lovett said that he asked to be paid the&#xA;  same as the other actors on the series, but his request was turned&#xA;  down. Hattie Hayridge had appeared in &quot;Parallel Universe&quot; as Hilly,&#xA;  Holly's female counterpart. &quot;When Norman said he wasn't doing another&#xA;  series, I auditioned,&quot; she recalls. The character of Holly kept the&#xA;  same name and personality despite the recasting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.faqs.org/faqs/tv/red-dwarf/faq/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.faqs.org/faqs/tv/red-dwarf/faq/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4371" LastActivityDate="2013-03-17T00:02:35.023" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10518" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21891" CreationDate="2013-03-17T02:53:56.573" Score="4" ViewCount="6067" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Saw 3, during the end and the parallell Saw 4 movie, John told Jeff that the reason he could kill him was because he (John Kramer or Jigsaw) was the one responsible for his child's death. Is he referring to Jeff's son Dylan or that he would soon be responsible for his daughter's death?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was the med student Timothy young who drove drunk into Dylan and Hoffman freed Jeff's daughter. What child does he mean? Was it because Jigsaw had another game and that game might have been to find the door Strahm found, shoot Strahm or wait for cops to find him and Jigsaw knew that wouldn't happen so he would never see her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3709" LastEditorUserId="104066" LastEditDate="2024-03-30T18:52:03.413" LastActivityDate="2024-03-30T18:52:03.413" Title="Explanation for why John Kramer says he is responsible for Jeff's kid's death" Tags="|saw-3|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10513" CreationDate="2013-03-17T07:02:35.297" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is done to give the dead body dignity and show that they are sleeping (peacefully). Everybody does it when their loved ones pass away. Whether they &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; is a different matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is soon after death occurs, you should be able to close the eyelids quite easily. After a while, once &lt;em&gt;rigor mortis&lt;/em&gt; sets in, it can become difficult. I'm not sure about sewing them shut nowadays, but undertakers do &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ehow.com/how-does_5510382_funeral-home-human-body-preparation.html&quot;&gt;glue them together&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the natural decomposition process, the softer, membranous tissue in the face dries out, causing the eyes to sink into the ocular cavity (a.k.a. &quot;eye socket&quot;) and the lips and cheeks to contract. To prevent this, the mortician places a semispherical plastic cone with a grated surface over each eye, behind the eyelids. A potent moisture-capturing cream is the applied between the plastic and the inside of the eyelid to keep the outer skin hydrated and soft-looking. &lt;strong&gt;To keep the eyes closed, a thin trail of adhesive gel is carefully applied to the edge of the eyelids.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-03-17T07:02:35.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10957" CreationDate="2013-03-17T07:10:45.193" Score="4" ViewCount="2488" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching &lt;em&gt;Pitch Perfect&lt;/em&gt; again, and through the riff-off, and it seems like the Trebles broke the rule of &quot;stealing the song by picking off a word that they are singing and making it your first word.&quot; In the &quot;Songs about Sex&quot; section, the Bella's are singing &quot;Cause I may be bad, but I'm perfectly good at it&quot;, to which a Treble broke in with &quot;Sex, baby. Let's talk about you and me.&quot;  Is it Treble favoritism, or am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3541" LastActivityDate="2013-04-15T18:46:51.457" Title="Should the Trebles have been &quot;cut off&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pitch-perfect|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10521" CreationDate="2013-03-17T15:47:30.140" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The lyrics for song being sung by the Bellas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'Cause I may be bad, but I'm perfectly good at it&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Sex&lt;/strong&gt; in the air, I don't care, I love the smell of it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and by the Trebles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sex&lt;/strong&gt;, baby. Let's talk about you and me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it looks kosher to me as the guy riffed off the next word, &lt;em&gt;sex&lt;/em&gt;, which was just about to be sung.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-03-17T15:47:30.140" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10526" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10537" CreationDate="2013-03-17T19:13:47.280" Score="8" ViewCount="40509" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Leonard Shelby have a &quot;Remember Sammy Jenkins&quot; tattoo? Why did he need this tattoo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ffq6w.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leonard has anterograde amnesia, that means he can have his past memories before the accident but not new memories. So what is the significance of having a tattoo of a person's name which he can remember?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-03-18T03:24:50.560" LastActivityDate="2017-04-22T15:20:53.290" Title="What is the significance of the &quot;Remember Sammy Jenkins&quot; tattoo?" Tags="|memento|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10527" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10651" CreationDate="2013-03-17T19:24:07.140" Score="2" ViewCount="272" Body="&lt;p&gt;In some movies, sometimes medical conditions are shown inaccurately. For example, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghajini_(2008_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ghajini (2008 film)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;anterograde amnesia&lt;/a&gt; is shown wrongly. The main protagonist has anterograde amnesia, but he sometimes doesn't even remember his past, which is medically inaccurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, are there any rules regarding the usage of medical terms/conditions/diseases in an inaccurate manner? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2019-05-28T00:06:56.797" LastActivityDate="2019-05-28T00:06:56.797" Title="Are there any rules regarding the usage of a medical condition in movies?" Tags="|legal|ghajini|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6895" CreationDate="2013-03-17T19:37:25.190" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think she is a Minor Boss-thing Lady from Zelda....one of the old versions. Her minions tried to kidnap Zelda from Link..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4377" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-03-18T03:19:48.907" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T03:19:48.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10529" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10553" CreationDate="2013-03-17T19:51:58.570" Score="6" ViewCount="1124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw a couple of snippets of this movie a couple of years ago but it seemed interesting. A little like 'Home Alone' but with a mean streak. This expressionless faced teen was actually trying to kill the mob bad guys. There's a place for it in my video library I think; somewhere between 'Home Alone' and 'The Exorcist'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I remember, the kid never says anything and is/was some kind of psychiatric patient. His parents are killed by the bad guys in a home invasion type robbery looking for money.  It's filmed in a rural wooded setting with a farm type house with some outbuildings and the kid sets different wicked traps for the bad guys as they chase him around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4373" LastEditorUserId="4373" LastEditDate="2013-03-18T16:04:14.840" LastActivityDate="2015-08-15T05:51:50.110" Title="Trying to find a movie about a crazy kid hunting down killer mobsters" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:43:15.890" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10526" CreationDate="2013-03-17T20:08:48.217" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a trigger to condition the false memory. It's true he remembered Sammy, but every time he looked at the tattoo, he wasn't remembering the real story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sammy was actually a fraud, but the story that Leonard's tattoo was conditioning him to believe was that Sammy was telling the truth and that he killed his wife, when in reality that was Leonard's own life story.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to his research while investigating Sammy Jenkins' claim was that amnesia patients should be able to learn new behaviors based upon instinct vs memory; that nesting can be conditioned versus remembered. The electrically charged figure test tried that tendency on Sammy and he failed the test which costed him his claim. Leonard's &quot;remember Sammy Jenkins&quot; tattoo did that for him so he could successfully deceive himself and alter his true past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastActivityDate="2013-03-17T20:08:48.217" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10511" CreationDate="2013-03-17T20:24:02.243" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's kind of the point and charm of the film that your narrator is unreliable. All we can know for sure is that a boat was blown up, all of it's passengers were killed and that they were trading people when Keyser Soze was killing many men. Other than that, no other points of the story were qualified as true. There weren't even police reports for the New York's Finest Taxi Service heist. This is a great question. I would even venture to say that it is THE question. But it is totally unsolvable, I'm afraid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastActivityDate="2013-03-17T20:24:02.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10534" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-17T21:17:47.180" Score="3" ViewCount="136" Body="&lt;p&gt;Patents are received when there is no prior art. That is, you cannot patent things that are already in the public domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, take the iPad, I'd swear that Star Trek Next Generation uses iPads. Its the size of an iPad and they use it like an iPad. So how did Apple get a patent on it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are other things in film that exist in film before they do in real life but they still get patented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4371" LastActivityDate="2013-03-17T22:11:57.347" Title="Can SciFi gadget be considered prior art?" Tags="|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10534" CreationDate="2013-03-17T22:11:57.347" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, that's the trouble with science fiction. You see, it's fictional. You can imagine all sorts of devices but they are not an actual technology because they wouldn't actually work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not a lawyer, but from the technical standpoint there would be two components to such a device; First, the engineering and scientific effort you require to actually implement and test it; And Second proper user interaction studies to make it usable. Neither of these points are fulfilled in your example. The Star Trek pads magically always do exactly what their users intended them to do (or rather what the plot intends them to do) so there is no innovative aspect regarding the usability of the interface (Second point). For the First point, you have even less specifics.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The only thing you see is that (a) ubiquitous computing seems to be useful and (b) wireless connections seem to be useful (although they are not executed thoroughly since you see people carrying pads around when they want to get information to a different location on the ship). You are however given no insight into how these technologies actually work. And the bits that you &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; given, like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Library_Computer_Access_and_Retrieval_System&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LCARS&lt;/a&gt; interface, are horrible from a user-interface design point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, regardless of personal views regarding patents or Apple in particular, the effort invested in creating that technology is not at all trivial and the fact that a science fiction show featured devices that &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; roughly approximate an actual product has nothing to do with how that product really works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the dominating part of society has decided that innovation should be patent-able, patenting the realisation of innovation that makes fictional devices work in reality is legitimate. Whether or not society's decision is correct is a different (subjective) question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="667" LastActivityDate="2013-03-17T22:11:57.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10526" CreationDate="2013-03-17T23:56:09.207" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;When he wakes up every morning, he doesn't remember that he has amnesia, and doesn't know that he can't form new memories.  The &quot;Remember Sammy Jankis&quot; tattoo is a concise way of telling himself that he has the condition that Sammy Jankis claimed to have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-03-17T23:56:09.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10538" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11625" CreationDate="2013-03-18T02:19:28.013" Score="5" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of the 1976 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074559/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Futureworld&lt;/a&gt; Tracy Ballard, the female reporter, is in a stand-off with her android double, each holding a gun. The android was made as an exact duplicate, and they exchange words along the lines of &quot;I know what you are thinking, because I am you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the dialogue between the two the android talks about Tracy's childhood, and her father teaching her how to use a gun. The android exclaims that she too knows how to use a gun now as well, because what Tracy knows she knows....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a few moments' pause they both fire at each other, but only the android is hit. Tracy the human survives the stand off, while her android double is shot dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it possible that Tracy was able to out-gun her android duplicate? It's stated in the film a few times that the androids are stronger and faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qzl6P.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="4468" LastEditDate="2013-03-28T18:55:42.207" LastActivityDate="2013-05-25T16:12:43.450" Title="How did Tracy win the gun battle with her android duplicate?" Tags="|plot-explanation|futureworld|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10507" CreationDate="2013-03-18T03:37:46.207" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The complicated dynamics of who gets what powers is never fully explained.  For example, Nathan was the son of two people with powers, but was born without powers, they were granted to him synthetically.  Peter's powers, however, came to him naturally.  Peter has a variation of his dad's powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Claire's powers are also interesting to note.  Her mom (and we also find her uncle) can control fire.  Her father, Nathan, was synthetically given powers.  She was born with the ability to heal quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only person that has a clear line of inheritance that I can recall is Syler, since his real father was exactly like him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T03:37:46.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3006" CreationDate="2013-03-18T04:03:12.083" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There can be a myriad of different reasons why names can be mispronounced, or said in a way that contradicts what some people are expecting.  For example, there are so many different types of accents in the world, even with those that are native English speakers.  A lot of them will say the same name differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reason, if there are different cannon ways to say a name, is that a director decided they liked one way over the other, or like one cannon over the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another, rather important reason to change the name, is appealing to the major demographic that a movie is made for.  The large American audience could understand and sympathize (or the other way around) depending on how the name sounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T04:03:12.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10541" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10548" CreationDate="2013-03-18T05:34:06.803" Score="16" ViewCount="6440" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often in movies we see moving vehicles from above. Personally, I think they are shot using helicopters. But if so, why can't we hear the noise of the helicopter? It can't be a balloon, can it? Because balloon can not fly as fast as a vehicle. So how are those shots done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sM3tY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The camera at first starts from behind the SUV and then accelerates and finally surpasses the car. How are these kinds of shots done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T17:23:21.740" Title="Is a helicopter used to shoot such scenes?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9951" CreationDate="2013-03-18T06:56:08.120" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The maid was a bit confused about which side she should choose, thus in the end she acts like she's not pregnant and fights whoever she encounters in the dragon temple. She actually loses her mind because there is no hope for them, she thought they would not survive the sand storm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4380" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T20:44:32.233" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T20:44:32.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10541" CreationDate="2013-03-18T07:01:27.380" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's shot from a helicopter, and the reason you can't hear the noise is because the video and the audio are recorded separately :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastEditorUserId="4356" LastEditDate="2013-03-18T07:54:56.033" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T07:54:56.033" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10541" CreationDate="2013-03-18T11:33:08.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Aerial Shot&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An exciting variation of a crane shot, usually taken from a helicopter. This is often used at the beginning of a film, in order to establish setting and movement. A helicopter is like a particularly flexible sort of crane - it can go anywhere, keep up with anything, move in and out of a scene, and convey real drama and exhilaration — so long as you don't need to get too close to your actors or use location sound with the shots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following link will give you a complete detail about camera angles and shots&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mediaknowall.com/camangles.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.mediaknowall.com/camangles.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3201" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T11:33:08.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10507" CreationDate="2013-03-18T12:02:29.487" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xHMgB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Mendez&quot;&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wYKNX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Usutu&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://heroeswiki.com/Isaac_Mendez&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Isaac Mendez&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://heroeswiki.com/Usutu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Usutu&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; could both &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;paint the future&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xkEKr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Meredith&quot;&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JomlQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Flint&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://heroeswiki.com/Meredith_Gordon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meredith Gordon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and her brother &lt;a href=&quot;http://heroeswiki.com/Flint_Gordon,_Jr.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flint&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; could both &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;create and manipulate fire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XfpYv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Linderman&quot;&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rMx9z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ishi&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://heroeswiki.com/Daniel_Linderman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Daniel Linderman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://heroeswiki.com/Ishi_Nakamura&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ishi Nakamura&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; could both &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;heal others through physical contact&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Ishi Nakamura died in the early 1990s and is therefore only seen in flashbacks, which is why she doesn't look the same age as Daniel Linderman, even though they are arguably the same generation)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T12:02:29.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10541" CreationDate="2013-03-18T13:39:36.180" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aerial shots don't necessarily require a full-size helicopter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/srlNG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Helicam&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://helicam.aero/blog/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicam&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Helicam&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... used to obtain aerial pictures or motion images using video, still or motion film cameras. The remote controlled camera mount system allows pan, tilt and roll movements. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/320DI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Spidercam&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spidercam.tv/de/bowcam&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spidercam&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spidercam&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skycam&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skycam&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... a system which enables film and television cameras to move both vertically and horizontally over a predetermined area&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Art of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_%28filmmaking%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Foley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Foley is the reproduction of everyday sound effects which are added in post production to enhance the quality of audio&lt;/strong&gt; for films, television, video, video games and radio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though it started in the silent movie era it is still done today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Today, sounds do not have to be recorded live on a single track of audio. They can be captured separately on individual tracks and carefully synced with their visual counterpart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The purpose of Foley is to complement or replace sound recorded on set at the time of the filming&lt;/strong&gt; (known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_recording&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;field recording&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The need for replacing or enhancing sounds in a film production arises from the fact that, very often, the original sounds captured during shooting are obstructed by noise or are not convincing enough to underscore the visual effect or action.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;Watch on YouTube:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHa98mDfOR4&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;How movie sound effects are made&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNvKhe2npMM&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Foley Artist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OONaPcZ4EAs&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;What is Foley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp7aJ6zoLXY&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Foley for &lt;em&gt;Jurassic Park&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T13:39:36.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10541" CreationDate="2013-03-18T20:57:52.423" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The aerial shot at the start of Stanley Kubrick's &lt;strong&gt;The Shining&lt;/strong&gt; was definitely shot with a helicopter.  For a few seconds, the helicopter's shadow is visible.  Here's a photo from &lt;a href=&quot;http://awesomenator.com/movies/top-10-movie-crew-fails/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;awesomenator.com's top-10 list of movie crew fails&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d0w7e.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Helicopter Shadow at lower right&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first question in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/faq/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Kubrick FAQ&lt;/a&gt; explains how the mistake got into the finished product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-03-18T20:57:52.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10529" CreationDate="2013-03-18T21:08:12.487" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1816597/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Aggression Scale&lt;/a&gt;? The Storyline seems pretty similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This movie is about a newly bailed mob boss named Bellavance (Ray Wise) and his band of hit men (including Derek Mears- 'Jason Voorhees') who head off to find $500,000 that has gone missing. They take out anybody that has come in contact with the money, but they eventually track down a family that they believe have the money. They don't realize that the son (Owen) has been involved in some unsavory incidents as a result of his &quot;Aggression&quot;. They are soon to find out just who and what they're up against. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/6By0gqi_Vxo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-08-15T05:51:50.110" LastActivityDate="2015-08-15T05:51:50.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10555" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33680" CreationDate="2013-03-18T22:29:19.560" Score="45" ViewCount="114462" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got into a semi-argument with a friend recently regarding how much credit to give George Lucas for Star Wars. She was commenting how he's an awful director and that's why the new Star Wars trilogy was so terrible and I countered &lt;em&gt;Well I've read the script to the original Star Wars and that at least was spectacular, he's a great writer,&lt;/em&gt; to which she replied that they had done a major rewrite of his original script for &lt;em&gt;A New Hope&lt;/em&gt; because the original script was so bad. Is that true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I already know other people wrote the screenplays to &lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt;, so now I'm starting to wonder how much of it Lucas himself actually came up with? I want to believe in Lucas but I need to see some evidence!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1062" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-09T13:02:37.917" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T02:29:58.403" Title="How much of Star Wars did George Lucas actually write?" Tags="|star-wars|george-lucas|screenplay|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10164" CreationDate="2013-03-18T23:35:48.233" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102618/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;The Owl&quot;&lt;/a&gt; from 1991 stars Adrian Paul as an insomniac vigilante wearing a kevlar trench coat. Basically an unpicked TV pilot, it was also called &quot;Night Owl&quot;. From IMDb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alex L'Hiboux, a ruthless mercenary-cum-vigilante, is known as 'the Owl' because he never sleeps. His insomnia comes from a combination of a medical disorder and recurring nightmares of the murder of his wife and daughter. Alex is approached by Lisa, a young girl whose father is missing. She awakens painful memories of his own child, but after some persuasion from a policewoman friend, he agrees to help her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C1AUW.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C1AUW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-01-01T18:44:08.510" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T18:44:08.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10558" CreationDate="2013-03-18T23:43:48.903" Score="11" ViewCount="3235" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen this in movies and in TV. They are either already eating, un wrapping their lunch or offering food to the cop that wants info on the body. I would have though food within range of a dead body is a deadly mix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen this in &quot;Night Stalker&quot; and &quot;Alien Nation&quot;, I'm sure you can name one too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does this occur, I don't see the connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4371" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T21:56:17.837" LastActivityDate="2016-06-17T11:35:57.717" Title="Why do movie coroners eat while they do an autopsy?" Tags="|analysis|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10557" CreationDate="2013-03-18T23:50:02.497" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most people (including you, and most of the cops visiting the coroner) wouldn't eat something while examining a dead body, be it for hygienic reasons or because they're disgusted of dead bodies. So first of all seeing him eat something while examining a corpse infuses some kind of awkward feeling, making the coroner stick out from us normal persons as kind of living in his own world of dead people. In contrast to you and me (and the cops) he is used to hanging around with dead bodies and finds them so normal to not shy away from eating in their presence, which in turn makes &lt;em&gt;him&lt;/em&gt; look non-normal to the average audience and the cops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What this in turn means for the characterization of the coroner and this situation probably depends on the overall tone of the movie or situation. This awkward or unique image of the coroner can be either somehow scary, or rather comedic, or just depicting him as belonging to a professional elite, being a pro at what he does and different from the average cop (a &lt;em&gt;&quot;squint&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, so to say).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-03-20T11:54:07.193" LastActivityDate="2013-03-20T11:54:07.193" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10555" CreationDate="2013-03-19T03:18:18.613" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;George Lucas wrote the story treatment for the entire saga alone and the script for the first film (relabeled &lt;em&gt;A New Hope&lt;/em&gt;) was a solo effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will find &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_IV%3a_A_New_Hope&quot;&gt;Wookieepedia&lt;/a&gt;a far more reliable source than other wiki pages, as the information is highly scrutinized and verified by reliable sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the New Hope page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;• In January 1973 Lucas began work on (&lt;em&gt;The Adventures of Luke Starkiller&lt;/em&gt;), and by May had prepared a 14-page story outline for distribution among film studios.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;• Lucas finished a draft of the screenplay in May 1974. As the draft developed, the characters evolved significantly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;• The completed script was too long for one movie; however, Lucas refused to condense it. Instead, he expanded the first third of it into one movie and left the rest for two future films, effectively creating the original Star Wars trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regarding &lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;• Lucas hired screenwriter Leigh Brackett to write a screenplay based on his story treatment. Brackett finished the first draft on February 23, 1978 but she died soon afterward. According to Lucas, he didn't like the direction in which her screenplay went. Without a writer to fix it, he was forced to write the second draft himself throughout March. Major plot changes were made compared to the first draft and the storyline that is in the film was formed in this draft. One of the most notable changes was making Vader Luke's father. When Lawrence Kasdan finished writing the screenplay for Raiders of the Lost Ark he was hired to rewrite and improve Lucas' draft. He wrote a few more drafts before the script conference was held in November between George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan, Irvin Kershner and Gary Kurtz. After some additional input, the shooting script was finally formed. Minor changes to dialogues came from Kershner and actors throughout the filming and were mostly approved by Lucas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;• For &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt;, the screenplay was written by Lawrence Kasdan and Lucas (with uncredited contributions by David Webb Peoples), based on Lucas's story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-03-19T03:37:14.113" LastActivityDate="2013-03-19T03:37:14.113" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10562" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10568" CreationDate="2013-03-19T14:49:15.357" Score="9" ViewCount="2538" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the finale of the first season of the revamped Dr. Who, we see Rose absorb the Time Vortex of the TARDIS and uses this power to not only evaporate the Daleks, but revive Jack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to this process, Jack becomes immortal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is, what was it about this resurrection that allowed him to be immortal rather than just giving him another chance at life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2023-01-20T00:45:21.583" Title="How did Rose make Jack immortal?" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10563" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10567" CreationDate="2013-03-19T14:55:07.993" Score="14" ViewCount="2430" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the third season finale of the revamped Dr. Who, The Doctor gets aged about 900 years into a small little creature of a Time Lord.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Martha is able to help him counteract this process by convincing all of the humans on Earth to think of the word &quot;Doctor&quot; at the same time before The Master's countdown reaches 0.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is, how exactly does the collective subconscious of the world thinking of a single word that happens to relate to a specific Time Lord allow him to reverse his aging process?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2017-01-16T08:55:34.997" Title="How did The Doctor revert his aging?" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10563" CreationDate="2013-03-19T15:25:03.367" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you're ever going to get a clear answer to this one but I'll do my best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Doctor has already proven he has telepathic abilities (The Girl in the Fireplace).  The Master has linked together the entire human race using the Archangel network, this is designed to subdue them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During his year as a captive The Doctor integrates with this network so he can use it's psychic energy.  When the countdown ends the entire human race thinks of The Doctor effectively supplying him with energy.  With this energy his own natural abilities are boosted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He can reverse his age (this could be considered a type of regeneration - after all in Let's Kill Hitler River Song mentions she's going to throw in a little reverse aging!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He can protect himself from the Laser Screwdriver&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He can float onto the steps&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also doesn't have to physically do anything to defeat The Master, who recognises that The Doctor not himself now control the population.  Instead of fear of The Master they're full of hope for The Doctor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer the direct question - I'd say he uses the energy of the network to reduce his age in the same way River Song will.  This is most likely a natural timelord ability which he is able to use to the extreme because of the energy he has access to.  The other parts are harder to explain and I'd write them off as fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-11-11T15:08:30.430" LastActivityDate="2013-11-11T15:08:30.430" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10562" CreationDate="2013-03-19T15:29:16.287" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that Jack's life becomes a fixed point in time and space (much like Pompeii/Mars/Lake Silencio - these are events which will always happen and can never be avoided (we'll ignore the Waters of Mars example for now).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Rose brought him back she didn't resurrect him she made altered time so that his life is simply fixed.  No matter what happens, now much time passes he will always go on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you go down the whole Jack/Face of Boe line of thinking things get a little harder to answer!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-03-19T15:29:16.287" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2273" CreationDate="2013-03-19T15:42:06.053" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's just a bit of character development actually. They want people to like Hulk so they're showing that he actually has a personality and a sense of humor (though a wicked one) and can show respect to a compatriot, in his own unique way of course. Gleefully arm-punching a buddy he's learned to respect and just fought shoulder to shoulder with shows that he's growing as a person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4373" LastEditorUserId="4373" LastEditDate="2014-04-25T03:44:42.920" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T03:44:42.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10563" CreationDate="2013-03-19T18:20:14.520" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the time, all events in the world were only possible because the Tardis was being used to power a paradox machine, allowing past and future to coexist and destroy each other without affecting the natural progression of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both the Doctor and the Tardis have telepathic abilities, and everyone on the planet was linked by a group of satellites that connected them in a telepathic field. Everyone concentrated on the stories and said that word, envisioning in their heads what the stories meant to them. Those feelings raged across the planet as a primal force, enabled only by the satellite network and so many minds thinking the exact same thing - a saviour, the Doctor rather than their previous controlled state of fear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Tardis and the Doctor are linked so, when that energy entered him it entered the Tardis in a way too. The paradox engine combined with his knowledge of fluid time and a physiology built around regeneration, allowed him to use that energy to undo the unnatural passage of time on his body as if it had never happened (much the way that the year ended up not ever having happened). The psychic energy of the people doesn't need to know what he looks like to fix him, he only had to have the time to access the network and imprint his own self-image upon it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4391" LastActivityDate="2013-03-19T18:20:14.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10562" CreationDate="2013-03-19T18:32:11.963" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem wasn't so much that she resurrected him, as how she did it. She controlled time itself and wrapped it around him, giving him life with a power that she didn't understand. Imagine it as someone who has a prosthetic limb and needs to learn to control it. She tried to place something (his life) gently back into time and instead punched out violently. Time around him solidified as if it were that paste that goes solid with kinetic energy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She made it so that his death was something that just couldn't happen, wrapping him in time energy that jumpstarts his system whenever he dies, almost like an antivirus seeking out a problem with a program and fixing it. Of course, over time that energy would wear down and eventually dissipate, in this case by his own choice which allowed him to finally die. Exposure to time travellers would likely drain some of the energy too, as would the vortex he guarded in Torchwood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It never got explained but I like to think that the whole Face of Boe thing came about due to cellular mutations introduced in his system over the course of millions of reconstitutions over the years. Having the effect turn off (like it did in Miracle Day, for example) every so often would allow him to be mutated from radiation enough that over centuries he could become as he was when he died. That's my personal view on things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4391" LastActivityDate="2013-03-19T18:32:11.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10569" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10571" CreationDate="2013-03-19T18:51:59.227" Score="5" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched it as a young kid so it had to be an early or mid 80's movie. World War I era. North Africans fighting for freedom from a European power. An older man leads the North Africans and I think he dies in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one scene I really remember is the European power is sending an armed force across a iron/steel bridge and the freedom fighters are camped out above in caves. They attack the forces on the bridge. I can not remember if they blow up the bridge or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4392" LastActivityDate="2013-03-19T19:40:41.253" Title="Trying to remember a movie about North African freedom fighters battling a European power" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:43:19.013" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2263" CreationDate="2013-03-19T19:39:03.900" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It also indicates how long they've been in service, because they would have made their aprons when they started working, and followed the fashions of that time. Look at Anna, who's head housemaid. Her apron is older, and therefore more old-fashioned (it looks like something from the very turn of the century rather than 1912), because she's been working there longer, so she made her apron earlier than Gwen made hers. The design of Gwen's apron only looks a few years old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;O'Brien doesn't wear an apron because she's a lady's maid, and lady's maids didn't do any kind of work that required an apron to keep clean. They dressed the lady they worked for, did her hair, altered and mended her clothing, and sometimes made simple pieces (especially underwear, for some reason).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mrs. Hughes doesn't wear an apron because she's the housekeeper, which is a management role. So she's not scrubbing pots or dusting the sitting room. Housekeepers directed the housemaids, consulted with the lady of the house about events (guests, dinners, etc.), hired and fired female staff, and kept household accounts. She might have donned an apron to make jams, cordials, and herbal medicines (for the staff) a few times a year , but she didn't wear one as part of her day-to-day wardrobe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out my blog (www.bloodonthetongue.blogspot.com) for more Downton Abbey costuming notes and analysis!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4393" LastActivityDate="2013-03-19T19:39:03.900" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10569" CreationDate="2013-03-19T19:40:41.253" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the movie you want is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_of_the_Desert&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lion of the Desert&lt;/a&gt;, which is about Libyan freedom fighter &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Mukhtar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Omar Mukhtar&lt;/a&gt;'s fight against the Italian army which was occupying Libya at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z0YgP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Lion of the Desert&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-03-19T19:40:41.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10572" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10639" CreationDate="2013-03-19T19:48:35.657" Score="36" ViewCount="151824" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm fairly certain I've been saying that line for at least ten years, don't know where I heard it, but now someone pointed out I was referencing &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_%28film%29&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/a&gt; and I honestly couldn't believe it when I googled the phrase and found nothing but Dark Knight sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That expression must be older than 2008. Right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1062" LastEditorUserId="1062" LastEditDate="2013-03-19T20:22:09.330" LastActivityDate="2022-01-20T14:31:12.757" Title="Is this quote originally from The Dark Knight?" Tags="|the-dark-knight|dialogue|origin|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3765" CreationDate="2013-03-19T22:51:27.323" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_on_7th_Street&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Paul reveals that he had been taken by the darkness, but the headlight that he had on had activated and he had found himself in the street three days later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1452628/synopsis&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; gives a little more detail:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Paul (John Leguizamo) says that his light went off, and that he was hit by somebody from the darkness. He was taken somewhere else when suddenly his light went on again, so that he doesn't even know how he ended up at that bus shelter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4392" LastActivityDate="2013-03-19T22:51:27.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10574" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10576" CreationDate="2013-03-19T23:50:04.193" Score="18" ViewCount="30347" Body="&lt;p&gt;I enjoy most animations but the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338348&quot;&gt;Polar Express&lt;/a&gt; just made me so uncomfortable that I couldn't get past the first 10 minutes. It's just plain creepy. I have no issues with Shrek, Toy Story, Robots Sharks Tale and other animations. But this film just made me feel out of place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4371" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-12-25T03:01:27.703" LastActivityDate="2016-12-25T20:15:53.667" Title="Why did Polar Express make me feel queasy?" Tags="|animation|the-polar-express|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10574" CreationDate="2013-03-20T00:02:31.527" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;That may be the case because Polar Express is made using &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_capture&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;motion capture&lt;/a&gt; Technique, Which is not used in Shrek, Toy story etc. Motion capture techniques are generally used to present real emotions or live movements. Or may be the case that its animation is not made that playful as Toy Story or Shrek to make it more realistic. In general, Polar Express got good appreciation with mixed reviews but it received a cult following.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it made this way on purpose and I think it's done to make it feel realistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T15:05:03.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10574" CreationDate="2013-03-20T00:16:23.533" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may be that you have fallen for the classic effect called the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Uncanny Valley&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason those humans seem creepy to you is that they indeed look pretty much like real humans and not like exaggerated caricatures of humans usually seen in other animated movies. This first sounds rather paradox, but when looking at arbitrary animated creatures (like toys, talking animals or even artistically distorted humans) you don't care if they don't behave &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; like humans. But because the figures in the &lt;em&gt;Polar Express&lt;/em&gt; look so much like real humans you realize even slight divergence from human behaviour much more. So the more realistic and human-like a figure looks, the more you expect it to behave &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; like a real human, and if it then doesn't, it feels kind of creepy to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is kind of a subconcious process. You first see some pretty well visualized humans and instinctively think they are humans but then you realize they behave somehow strangely and &lt;em&gt;inhuman&lt;/em&gt; and that difference in realism between visual appearance and animated behaviour is what makes you feel creepy. The linked Wikipedia article may provide some more theoretical insight into this effect (in fact it even lists the &lt;em&gt;Polar Express&lt;/em&gt; as an example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-03-20T00:21:47.847" LastActivityDate="2013-03-20T00:21:47.847" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10503" CreationDate="2013-03-20T01:01:20.577" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. This is not possible with current televisions or DVDs - In PAL and SECAM (and even NTSC), a field is half a frame, consisting of every other line of that frame. The fact that PAL and SECOM have 50 fields per second is irrelevant, since each field contains only half of a frame, and the television displays a complete frame lasting 1/25 of a second. The bandwidth doesn't come close to what you appear to think it is, so the suggested speed-up trick cannot work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit (much later)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it is possible to have just about the same framerate as was used during the theatrical release, this obviously requires a trade-off (although it's taken me a couple of months to figure out how to describe it): smoother motion vs image resolution. For a sports broadcast, the image richness is arguably less important than smoothness of motion, but it just doesn't seem likely that a director would sacrifice image richness for smoother motion, and it is not possible to have both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastEditorUserId="872" LastEditDate="2013-06-06T03:15:03.370" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T03:15:03.370" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8323" CreationDate="2013-03-20T01:05:45.487" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my perspective there were no animals involved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cook (hyena) killed and partially ate the buddhist with the broken leg (zebra) and then turned on Pi's mother (orangutan), killing her. This brought out Pi's rage (Richard Parker) and he killed the cook. To survive at sea he partially ate the cook, and then I believe he ate his mother. That is what the island (human-shaped) represents, with its lotus flower motif and feeding him until he was engorged. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He created the animal story to deal with his traumatic memories, and the film offers the audience the same option - believe the true (humanist) story, or a more fantastic, 'happier' tale with no concrete evidence which, ultimately, is what religious belief boils down to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-03-20T01:05:45.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10581" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10593" CreationDate="2013-03-20T05:51:19.240" Score="51" ViewCount="749621" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the movie, we see &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Bateman&quot;&gt;Patrick Bateman&lt;/a&gt; in an apartment full of dead bodies. He ends up confessing what he's done to his lawyer. Later he goes back to the apartment, only to find the bodies are all gone. What happened to the bodies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="8496" LastEditDate="2014-07-26T15:27:24.013" LastActivityDate="2021-02-03T22:04:45.433" Title="What happened to the bodies in American Psycho?" Tags="|plot-explanation|american-psycho|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10587" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10606" CreationDate="2013-03-20T10:52:53.780" Score="8" ViewCount="2874" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 4, episode 6 -- &quot;The Doctors' Daughter&quot; -- there is a war going on between the Hath and Humans, and Martha ends up in the base of the Hath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally the Tardis would translate the language into English, but with the Hath this was not the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did the Tardis not translate the language of the Hath?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4390" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2017-01-20T17:38:31.967" LastActivityDate="2017-01-20T17:42:36.990" Title="Why could nobody understand what the Hath were saying?" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10589" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-20T16:14:13.587" Score="3" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently saw, 30+ years after my first viewing, the 1968 Truffaut classic &lt;em&gt;La mariée était en noir&lt;/em&gt;, starring Jeanne Moreau as the avenging bride Julie Kohler. There's something in the plot that I don't get. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were the five men that Julie was chasing indicted for killer her husband?  If not, how did Julie track them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1889" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-03-20T18:07:16.797" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T21:51:45.850" Title="Were the 5 men indicted for murder?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-bride-wore-black|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10581" CreationDate="2013-03-20T16:55:47.500" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually have never seen this film, but I've heard a lot about the book as well as the film adaptation and it is my understanding that there is a proposed question as to whether or not any of the events in the story really took place at all. I believe that Bateman is a proposed schizophrenic and being that the story follows according to his perspective, there is the possible mental projection of the crimes. This uncertainty of reality is probably the reason for the missing bodies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8m5rv_christian-bale-a-conversation-about_shortfilms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastEditorUserId="21580" LastEditDate="2015-05-28T04:15:49.977" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T04:15:49.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9475" CreationDate="2013-03-20T17:09:01.200" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although Origins is accurate in naming Sabretooth Victor Creed, it is inaccurate that he be declared Logan's brother. X Men Origins: Wolverine is based much on the comic book series Wolverine Origins. The entire opening scene is a spin of the comic series' events. However, they add that Victor's dad is actually James' (Logan) as well. In fact, in that story Creed isn't even around for these events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the path in the film is a little off. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question a little more directly though. As Victor and Logan both work for Weapon X, they both have swiped memories. In the film, Logan loses his memory when he's shot in the head, this is just a creative addition to the original mythos. Although Sabretooth, in the comics rarely (if ever) worked with Magneto, I suppose in the first film, they were trying to portray him more beastly and less cunning as if his mind was swiped like logans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastActivityDate="2013-03-20T17:09:01.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10581" CreationDate="2013-03-20T17:59:25.297" Score="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bateman is a psychotic schizophrenic and &lt;em&gt;none&lt;/em&gt; of the events depicted actually happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the evidence presented by the movie, we see Batemen commit acts that anyone as high profile as him could not have done without raising at least some questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the film we are presented his crazy subconscious mind that allows him to easily obtain a threesome with two prostitutes while physically beating them, going into what seems to be murderous rampages over business cards as well as seeing an ATM that tells him to insert a kitten instead of a card.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these events can be explained as happening inside Bateman's mind rather than in real life. In reality, one could argue the only true act that happened during the film was breaking off his engagement with Evelyn due to his realization of his psychotic visions becoming more and more intense as the film goes on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, Bateman seemingly kills dozens of police officers, something that would not easily be forgiven, forgotten, nor without being the talk of the town and also among his socialite 'friends'. Even his 'confession' is aluded to by his lawyer as a laugh as they believe Bateman is too reserved to commit such acts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This further portrays him as actually battling inside his head most of the time, instead of a physical representation of his acts. It can be argued that while his psychotic visions are occurring, he is actually just sitting, silently, slightly catatonic while these play out inside his thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="8496" LastEditDate="2014-07-26T15:27:42.307" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T15:27:42.307" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10596" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-20T20:34:00.177" Score="5" ViewCount="4049" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kinda childish question... but I'm pretty interested in what daabase is used in the FBI TV drama &lt;em&gt;Criminal Minds&lt;/em&gt;? They use query language with tabs to form a request that looks something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;gt;%database%&#xA;    &amp;gt;%parameter_1%&#xA;    &amp;gt;%parameter_2%&#xA;        &amp;gt;%param_to_search_deeper_in_first_two_params_return%&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and so on. without % actually. Is it a real db or just filmmakers' trick to show 'real hackers' at work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15531726/what-database-is-used-in-movies&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; but still no answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4403" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T12:41:55.557" LastActivityDate="2013-03-21T13:04:28.847" Title="Is it a real database or a directors' fantasy in &quot;criminal minds&quot;?" Tags="|criminal-minds|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10596" CreationDate="2013-03-20T21:28:44.340" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The technical analyst, Garcia, is so gifted as to very nearly be an archetype, the penultimate tech geek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such a person would have custom built tools that allowed her to query resources with a minimum amount of typing. She would have developed and customized these tools to fit her particular style of thinking and optimized to most quickly access those resources that she used the most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During breaks between cases, she would go back and review and update her tools so that they would be current with respect to updates to any of the resources she used as well as any new resources that became available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, while the query language shown in the TV show does not actually exist, there could be similar tools created by and for people whose jobs are like those performed by Garcia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1357" LastActivityDate="2013-03-20T21:28:44.340" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10602" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10603" CreationDate="2013-03-20T22:33:10.550" Score="6" ViewCount="2381" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried googling this movie but couldn't find it out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw it originally around 2007 if I recall correctly, it's a horror movie taking place in a psychiatric hospital. The plot starts when a new male psychiatrist arrives (he was white and I think he had a beard). Along the movie some of the patients and staff members are murdered, there are various suspects and also there's some kind of basement where the most dangerous patients are locked. In the end it turns out the psychiatrist was fake and was the murderer all along...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody know which movie this is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4406" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-20T22:47:25.293" LastActivityDate="2017-05-27T14:50:25.203" Title="Identify horror movie taking place in a psychiatric hospital" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:43:22.137" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10602" CreationDate="2013-03-20T22:40:44.190" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhouse_%282004_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Madhouse (2004 film)&lt;/a&gt;. It matches your description. In the movie main protagonist is an psychiatric intern comes to Madhouse where mysterious murders take place and has an unexpected twisted ending as psychiatric intern turns out to be a split-personality-disordered person with a killer second personality. Movie also has some cell for the most dangerous psychopaths. I don't remember whether the cell is in the basement or not but is too dark. The male lead has a beard too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Iw6ep.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-05-27T14:50:25.203" LastActivityDate="2017-05-27T14:50:25.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10587" CreationDate="2013-03-21T08:50:48.190" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In-movie explanation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A combination of these three:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The TARDIS' translation systems are linked to the doctor (see 'The Christmas Invasion'). The doctor does not interact much with the Hath (except at the end of the episode), so the TARDIS doesn't make translating a priority.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The TARDIS' translation systems can take a while to warm up/kick in/learn the new language. Maybe the communication of the Hath is not done via sound waves but rather by the size of the bubbles in their breather. The TARDIS could have trouble interpreting other-than-sound-waves-communication.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Martha Jones seems to understand them later on in the episode. It could be that the TARDIS' telepathic field has only established a connection through Martha (and not the others), as she has been in contact with them more. And so the TARDIS could be translating only for her (the telephatic field excludes us viewers) as it learns through her.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A different hypothesis to consider is that the whole episode revolves around the paradox of creating Jenny. The TARDIS goes to the planet on its own because it senses something like the doctor, the translation systems could be affected by the same paradox. It's a ball of timey-whimey...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;other explanation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The creators could have put it there as a dramatic/humorous effect. They could have also put it there to make us understand the Hath through their actions. If we got the correct translation, we would have seen both sides as equal, from the start, rather than favoring the humans over the aliens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2017-01-20T17:42:36.990" LastActivityDate="2017-01-20T17:42:36.990" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10596" CreationDate="2013-03-21T09:37:09.077" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Such database tools do exist - I work with them.  However, they are no where near as fast, powerful or reliable as they are on TV.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of it as interlectual karate - karate masters in films routinely take multiple opponents and demolish them with one strike, ask a nightclub bouncer how he would feel about fighting 4 guys, all bigger than him, at the same and only being allowed to strike each one of them once!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On TV computer experts also have their abilities exagerated to speed the plot up and for dramatic licence hence they routinely hack into secure systems, gather information in a few seconds which would take days to refine for real etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-03-21T09:37:09.077" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3137" CreationDate="2013-03-21T23:17:00.927" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460742/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chain Reaction&lt;/a&gt; (AKA &lt;em&gt;House of Blood&lt;/em&gt; AKA &lt;em&gt;House of Horrors&lt;/em&gt;) from 2006 contains most of these elements, right up to the vague demonic nature of the cannibal family attacking the escaped convicts in the cabin. They seem to be more like zombies, or vampires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A group of convicts and a doctor seek refuge from the authorities in a lodge deep in the wood, but the weird inhabitants are not friendly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rsTl2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rsTl2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-01-01T19:06:57.697" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T19:06:57.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10618" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10622" CreationDate="2013-03-22T03:05:37.277" Score="6" ViewCount="2870" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I first got Cable TV I noted that most programs had an intrusive logo on the top or bottom corners that distract from the movie watching. In time I canceled my subscription as I didn't see why I should pay for programming when I can see it logo free on TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About 10 or so years ago, well at least in my country, TV stations started doing the same thing by adding these intrusive logos to the programming. To me its a form of vandalism and can spoil a movie. Especially when there is a dark scene and you see their logo blaring on the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For paid TV I cannot understand, for TV I can sort of see a reason as we started to get DVD recorders and the resolution of the programming the TV stations were sending are at a fairly high quality, so piracy was a possibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for a paid service like Foxtel (Australian Cable Provider) to charge $100 a month with this on the screen I think is loosing them business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question I have, is there some rule/regulation from the content providers that say when broadcasting on TV they have to add a station logo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4371" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T04:52:58.573" Title="Why do cable and TV have watermarks on their programming?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10620" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10624" CreationDate="2013-03-22T03:41:01.743" Score="18" ViewCount="1622" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Dr. Who was started back up, they cast Christopher Eccleston as the doctor.  However, he was only kept for one season.  I quite like him as an actor and thought he did a good job.  Why was he the doctor for only one season?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-12-14T08:41:03.023" Title="Why was Christopher Eccleston the doctor for only one season?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10618" CreationDate="2013-03-22T04:52:58.573" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there some rule/regulation from the content providers that say when broadcasting on TV they have to add a station logo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only because they've bought / recorded / invested their own money for the broadcasting program. It's a copyright. What will they do, if you record their program and broadcast on your own, or just sell it somewhere? (&lt;em&gt;similar to plagiarizing&lt;/em&gt;). Other than their logo, the stations also use some kind of watermark in their channels that can be easily noted if you closely look into it. It is much visible if you record the event. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_on-screen_graphic&quot;&gt;This wiki article&lt;/a&gt; is good. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3675" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T04:52:58.573" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3567" CreationDate="2013-03-22T07:05:58.163" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The plot of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0174446/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nightworld: 30 Years to Life&lt;/a&gt; from 1998 sounds very much like it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the near future, instead of being sent to prison criminals are aged for the number of years the system feels is adequate to the crime they committed. Vincent Dawson is a 15 year old, whose late father was a musician who didn't exactly make it and died tragically. Vinnie hopes to be a musician too but his step-father is not very supportive, and when they have a violent argument, his step-father is killed and he is the prime suspect and evidence is found against him. He is sentenced to be aged 30 years. Now, as a 15 year old trapped in a 45 year old body, he sets to prove his innocence and hopefully the procedure could be reversed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CiFuj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-10-23T23:43:51.983" LastActivityDate="2016-10-23T23:43:51.983" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10620" CreationDate="2013-03-22T07:56:19.863" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Initially, he stated that he wanted to avoid being typecast so he quit to move on with his career. However, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://badwilf.co.uk/?p=820&quot;&gt;this statement in an acting class&lt;/a&gt;, he tells a rather different story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I left Doctor Who because I could not get along with the senior&#xA;  people. I left because of politics. I did not see eye-to-eye with&#xA;  them. I didn’t agree with the way things were being run. I didn’t like&#xA;  the culture that had grown up, around the series. So I left, I felt,&#xA;  over a principle&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has always adamantly refused to come back for the 50th anniversary so the chances of more elaborate stories about the 9th doctor's adventures are very small. However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.airlockalpha.com/node/9506/report-christopher-eccleston-returns-for-doctor-who-anniversary.html&quot;&gt;there're some rumours&lt;/a&gt; he might come back for an all time special featuring all previous doctors so fingers crossed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: The anniversary special did not feature Ecclestone&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="2155" LastEditDate="2013-12-14T08:41:03.023" LastActivityDate="2013-12-14T08:41:03.023" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10625" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10635" CreationDate="2013-03-22T09:35:53.607" Score="9" ViewCount="10498" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brown_%28actor%29&quot;&gt;Eric Brown&lt;/a&gt; was only fifteen years of age when he acted in the erotic film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Lessons_%281981_film%29&quot;&gt;&quot;Private Lessons&quot;(1981)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How was he allowed to act in that film when he was only 15?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the opinion of Eric Brown's parents? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1215" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-11-16T13:20:26.923" LastActivityDate="2018-11-16T13:20:26.923" Title="How was Eric Brown allowed to act in the movie &quot;Private Lessons&quot;(1981)?" Tags="|casting|private-lessons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10627" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-22T11:54:46.227" Score="4" ViewCount="1506" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &quot;There Will Be Blood&quot; (&lt;em&gt;The Mentalist&lt;/em&gt;, S05E16), Lorelei tracks down the people she believes to be behind her sister's abduction and murder, and exacts revenge. The second culprit (&lt;em&gt;Jason&lt;/em&gt;) admits to being an accomplice of Red John, confirming that it was actually Red John who killed her sister. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After her worst fear comes true, Jane asks Lorelei to give up Red John's real identity, as was their deal. Lorelei, in turn, refuses to do so and asks Jane to get that name from Jason. She says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He'll talk. He's weak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and later shoots Jason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fail to get her motivation to kill Jason there. Why does she do this? Moreover, after she has shot Jason, there is no emotional outburst on Jane's part. Shouldn't he go berserk now that Lorelei has refused to give him Red John and also shot his solid lead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="42655" LastEditDate="2017-08-20T19:28:22.167" LastActivityDate="2019-09-03T14:02:45.417" Title="Why does Lorelei shoot Jason Lennon in S05E16?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-mentalist|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10628" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-03-22T12:14:10.380" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Patric Jane is a successful, self-proclaimed psychic who cons people by using his ability to read people and their behavior. One night on a TV talk-show he trash-talks Red John, a dangerous serial-killer on prowl who kills and draws a smilie face using the victim's blood in such a manner that the smilie is discovered before the dead-body inducing a sense of dread for the killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That night Jane returns home to the smilie face drawn in his home and finds his wife and daughter murdered. This brings about a sense of immense guilt and eventual change in Jane who makes it his life's purpose to catch Red John. He sheds his life as a psychic and frequently asserts that &quot;&lt;em&gt;there is no such thing as pyschics&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Patrick Jane joins the team of CBI agent Lisbon and helps them close an astounding number of cases using his skills while constantly working towards finding who Red John is.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-03-22T13:19:13.360" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T13:19:13.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10629" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-03-22T12:14:10.380" Score="0" Body="The Mentalist is a TV show which airs on CBS and was launched on 23rd September, 2008. It is about a self-proclaimed psychic turned investigator(Simon Baker) who helps the CBI in solving cases in a rather unorthodox and questionable manner using his ability to read people, their behavior and manipulate them. His goal is to catch the serial-killer &quot;**Red John**&quot; who is his nemesis and responsible for killing his wife and daughter." OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-03-22T13:24:26.897" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T13:24:26.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4320" CreationDate="2013-03-22T15:45:46.840" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the film you were looking for is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088830/&quot;&gt;Eternal Evil&lt;/a&gt; (AKA The Blue Man) from 1985, starring Winston Rekert and Karen Black. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://horrornews.net/68588/film-review-eternal-evil-1985/&quot;&gt;an online synopsis&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The plot focuses on Paul (Winston Rekert), a filmmaker whose last documentary explored a couple’s use of astral projection and their continual survival by possessing the bodies of those whose spirits have been expelled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the ending, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weirdwildrealm.com/f-eternalevil.html&quot;&gt;another online synopsis&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Paul has been selected for Janus's new body, as the Amelia body is tubercular &amp;amp; worn out. Before a resident soul can be cast out, however, that person must become isolated &amp;amp; in despair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're after some visual confirmation, search for &quot;Eternal Evil&quot; on Youtube. The entire film is there (and the sinister couple in question is indeed old).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T15:45:46.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10503" CreationDate="2013-03-22T17:46:42.633" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any 1080p50 capable TV will be able to play a 1080p50 HDMI signal from a 1080p50 Blu Ray disc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there is no technical reason not to release a high frame rate Hobbit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Speeding the film up&quot; is not a relevant technique for digital formats. It is exactly how films used to be transmitted for TV but that was all about aliasing. If the TV station played the film at 24 fps then the 50 field per second cameras would introduce stobing effects, so speeding the projector's motor up and locking it to the field rate made sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the digital domain one has to resample the frames. For 24fps to 25fps a common standard is 3:2 pulldown: &quot;Converting a slower frame rate to a faster one requires duplicating frames or fields. People have been transferring film to video for a long time. For NTSC the film is slowed down to 23.98, and then every other film frame is held for one extra field. (see diagram) This is called 3:2 pulldown. Some of the original film frames now begin on the second field of the video frame. This looks fine while being played, and can easily be removed for conversion to 25 frame PAL or 24 fps for DVD compression. However, if this material is edited without attention to keeping a steady 3:2:3:2:3:2 cadence, a clean frame rate conversion becomes nearly impossible.&quot;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://digitalcinemasociety.org/downloads/FrameRateConversionSimplified-N.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://digitalcinemasociety.org/downloads/FrameRateConversionSimplified-N.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This same approach would be used to resample 48 to 50.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The audio is not normally sampled at the same rate as the video and is typically at 48kHz even when the video is at another rate. The audio and the video are separately multiplexed into the MPEG transport stream and kept in sync using timestamps. Therefore there is no need to resample the audio when resampling the video. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1219" LastEditorUserId="1219" LastEditDate="2013-03-24T09:59:17.810" LastActivityDate="2013-03-24T09:59:17.810" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9251" CreationDate="2013-03-22T17:57:29.270" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Joker in &lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/strong&gt; had a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_smile&quot;&gt;Glasgow smile&lt;/a&gt;.  There would have been scars on the &lt;em&gt;insides&lt;/em&gt; of his cheeks as well as on the outsides.  I thought Heath Ledger was acting out the behavior of someone who had never gotten used to their presence, and was constantly poking and worrying at them with his tongue, especially right at the corners of his mouth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T17:57:29.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10625" CreationDate="2013-03-22T19:34:10.240" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a partial answer present through Imdb source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While most of the movie was filmed in the Phoenix, Arizona area the&#xA;  production had to cross the border into New Mexico to film the love&#xA;  scenes as the age of consent in Arizona is 18 and in New Mexico it is&#xA;  16. (Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082948/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Imdb&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2017-01-24T23:40:29.407" LastActivityDate="2017-01-24T23:40:29.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10562" CreationDate="2013-03-22T21:01:08.690" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Rose looked into the time vortex itself and gained the energy time she had infinite energy and endless power, so when she wrapped this energy around Jack i guess she couldn't controlled it and gave him too much enough to be as you say &quot;Inmortal&quot; however if you remember the episodes of The Face of Boe he says that his energy is running out.In the episode of Torchwood &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_Days_%28Torchwood%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;End of Days&lt;/a&gt; when the Big demon is about to destroy the world, Jack decides to sacrifice himself by letting the Demon absorb his energy and that the beast won't take it and die. Nearly at the end of the episode Jack survives saying that he was about to ran out of energy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;what was it about this resurrection that allowed him to be immortal rather than just giving him another chance at life?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say he was more than resurrected he was filled with a inmense amount of energy that allowed him to revive everytime he died. However he would die eventually when the energy rans out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4425" LastActivityDate="2013-03-22T21:01:08.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10637" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-22T23:16:12.450" Score="4" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Porter manages to beat up Carter's bodyguards. Shortly, he hands over some cigar-shaped object to Carter. What is it? What is its significance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T00:30:45.313" Title="What is the object Porter hands to Carter?" Tags="|payback|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10637" CreationDate="2013-03-22T23:53:31.860" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a roll of pennies. It is used in a fashion like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ehow.com/how_2157575_use-roll-quarters-self-defense.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this.&lt;/a&gt; You can see that it is a roll of pennies around the 1:03:49 mark when the guard is searching him and asks what is in his left pocket.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4392" LastEditorUserId="4392" LastEditDate="2013-03-23T00:30:45.313" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T00:30:45.313" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10572" CreationDate="2013-03-22T23:56:30.863" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's highly likely that the quote originated from &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; movie. Apparently, Batman (and other super-heroes) was inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher. A lot of aspects of Batman are inspired by Nietzsche's beliefs which would explain why the movies seem very philosophical at times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Along with the fact that there seem to be no references to this quote prior to the movie release (or any variation of it), I conclude that it did in fact originate (at least main stream) from the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/HeroesInSociety/news/?a=5571&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nietzsche and the Superhero&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://fabiusmaximus.com/2008/07/23/batman/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;A philosophical basis for the Batman saga&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search: Batman + philosophy (tried to add as a link but wouldn't let&#xA;me) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Search: Batman + Nietzsche (tried to add as a link but wouldn't&#xA;let me)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also more proof of this in the book, &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0470270306&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman and Philosophy: The Dark Knight of the Soul&lt;/a&gt;. While it doesn't specify the quote, it does discuss the connection between Batman and Nietzsche.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2017-01-16T22:09:59.893" LastActivityDate="2017-01-16T22:09:59.893" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10640" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10645" CreationDate="2013-03-23T01:37:34.200" Score="30" ViewCount="8112" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;20 years&quot; is an arbitrary figure but I have noticed that films tend to have way more cuts than they did in earlier days of film making. Sometimes there will be a conversation in the room and there is a cut for every person talking,the reaction shot and it starts to get difficult to watch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ultimate cuts tend to be on fight sequences. There are so many cuts that it is sometimes difficult to appreciate the fight for a fight as opposed to an exercise in how many times can the director/editor cut the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hitchcock did the ultimate 40 odd take cut scene for the shower sequence in Psycho but that was so natural it seemed like one scene. Yet movies today just seem to be one big MTV fest of cutting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it simply because film is digital and it easy to do so they do it. Whereas in the &quot;olden&quot; days every cut meant a splice of a physical piece of film that took ages to do so the cuts where more thought through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to have a scene, where there is a fixed shot, a long conversion, where the actor gets to exercise their craft in getting you involved in the story as opposed to telling the story with a cut every 5 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do they do it? It takes longer to make the film, and it really adds very little value. What caused this trend?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4371" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T18:21:46.707" Title="Why do films have more cuts than they did 20 years ago?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10648" CreationDate="2013-03-23T05:50:07.547" Score="21" ViewCount="169966" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movie identification questions with only a screen shot are not considered high quality questions, but they are indeed questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know what steps can be taken to identify a movie from a screen shot on my own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I found this screen shot &lt;strong&gt;(warning: graphic imagery)&lt;/strong&gt; while browsing some Facebook pages and I would like to know what movie it's from. How do I identify this movie on my own? Is it even possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2CMuL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-10-11T14:34:07.823" LastActivityDate="2016-10-11T14:34:07.823" Title="How to identify a movie from a screen shot?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|faq|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:43:34.647" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-05-17T12:16:13.133" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10640" CreationDate="2013-03-23T06:02:48.647" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a mix of a few things.  The main two that come to mind is style preferences and technology.  Taste and style change over time.  Some directors are known for long single cuts (Quentin Tarantino for example), others known for many (Paul Greengrass).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the technology realm, things have evolved quite a lot since the old days.  Now most, if not almost all, film is digital and edited digital.  It's cheaper and easier to record with a digital medium, allowing many takes to be done relatively quickly.  With computers we can easily manipulate these takes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T06:02:48.647" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10647" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-23T07:42:45.193" Score="9" ViewCount="876" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Reichenbach Fall, during the scene where Moriarty visits 221 B, he and Sherlock are wearing the iconic colors of heros and villains. The interesting spin on this is that Sherlock is wearing a jet black coat and Moriarty is wearing a very light grey jacket over a white shirt. Much like in a western face off scene, these colors oppose each other quite clearly, but one would expect the roles reversed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would Moriarty be dressed in white and Sherlock in Black? Moral ambiguity? Antiheroicism? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not looking for a forum discussion, I really want to hear an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastActivityDate="2013-04-16T08:22:00.770" Title="Sherlock Villain, Moriarty Hero?" Tags="|character|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10644" CreationDate="2013-03-23T07:48:56.643" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably the best start to identifying a movie from a screenshot, is opening &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/imghp&quot;&gt;Google Image Search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and dragging the screenshot into the search box. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4356" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-06-27T18:25:45.960" LastActivityDate="2014-06-27T18:25:45.960" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-05-17T12:16:13.133" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1305" CreationDate="2013-03-23T14:32:14.543" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Starling and her friend, Ardelia Mapp, have a conversation (after the scene where Lecter escapes from custody). Staling notes that Lecter said that &quot;everything we need to catch him is right here in these pages&quot;. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/trivia?tab=qt&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;subsequent dialogue&lt;/a&gt; goes like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ardelia Mapp&lt;/strong&gt;: Is this Lecter's handwriting? &quot;Clarice, doesn't this random scattering of sites seem desperately random - like the elaborations of a bad liar? Ta, Hannibal Lecter.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Clarice Starling&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot;Desperately random.&quot; What does he mean?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ardelia Mapp&lt;/strong&gt;: Not random at all, maybe. Like there's some pattern here...?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Clarice Starling&lt;/strong&gt;: But there is no pattern or the computers would've nailed it. They're even found in random order.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ardelia Mapp&lt;/strong&gt;: Random because of the one girl. The one he weighted down.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Clarice Starling&lt;/strong&gt;: Oh, Fredrica Bimmel, from... Belvedere, Ohio. First girl taken, third body found. Why?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ardelia Mapp&lt;/strong&gt;: 'Cause she didn't drift. He weighted her down.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Clarice Starling&lt;/strong&gt;: What did Lecter say about...?First principles&quot;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ardelia Mapp&lt;/strong&gt;: Simplicity...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Clarice Starling&lt;/strong&gt;: What does this guy do, he &quot;covets&quot;. How do we first start to covet?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ardelia Mapp&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot;We covet what we see -&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Clarice Starling&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot; - every day.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ardelia Mapp&lt;/strong&gt;: Hot damn, Clarice.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Clarice Starling&lt;/strong&gt;: He knew her.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how Starling knows that Bimmel is the key and that the killer is very likely a local. She proceeds to Belvedere, Ohio to Bimmel's home where she investigates the girl's room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/faq#.2.1.13&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb FAQ&lt;/a&gt; concisely outlines the ensuing events:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Following Lecter's advice -- that Bill covets that which he sees everyday -- Clarice drives to Belvedere, Ohio to talk with the parents and friends of the first victim, Frederika Bimmel. In looking over Frederika's bedroom, Clarice notices the the triangular gussets on Frederika's dresses match the pieces of skin Bill cut from one of his victims. Clarice calls Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) to inform him that Bill is making a &quot;woman suit&quot; of real skin. Crawford is already in route to Chicago, having identified Bill as Jame Gumb, but they find that the house where he's supposedly living has been abandoned. Clarice continues to poke around in Belvedere and is eventually led to the house of &quot;old Mrs Littman.&quot; Mrs Littman doesn't live there any more, but the current resident, who calls himself Jack Gordon, offers to give her Mrs Littman's son's business card and invites Clarice inside to wait. When she notices spools of thread and a Death's-Head moth, she realizes that Jack Gordon is really Jame &quot;Buffalo Bill&quot; Gumb. She pulls her gun on him, but Gumb leads her on a wild goose chase into the basement, where he has Catherine Martin imprisoned in a well. Gumb dons a night vision mask and turns out the lights, leaving Clarice to feel around in the dark. When he makes the mistake of cocking his gun, Clarice shoots him. Catherine is subsequently rescued. In the final scenes, Clarice is shown graduating from the Academy. At the party that follows, she receives a phone call from Lecter, calling from the airport on the island of Bimini in the Bahamas. He assures her that he's not about to come looking for her and requests that she extend him the same courtesy, which Clarice cannot do, of course. He then says that he must hang up because &quot;I'm having an old friend for dinner,&quot; as he watches Dr. Frederick Chilton deplane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;While the characters in the movie &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have been saying Mrs. Littman, the subtitles and the book both use Mrs. Lippman.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarise further, when Starling gets to the killer's house, she already knows a few things about him besides his psychological profile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is a tailor/dressmaker.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has a thing for butterflies/moths and is known to have raised a Death's-head moth.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has a thing for &quot;great big fat&quot; people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He uses aliases using the same initials (J and G).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each of these checkboxes are ticked during her meeting with the killer leading to her epiphany.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T14:32:14.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10527" CreationDate="2013-03-23T14:56:26.947" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There exist no rules because movies are made for entertainment, and don't have any problem if they show a disease the way it is not. The main problem would be a complete rejection to the movie from the audience because it is showing something incorrectly. After some google research, I haven't found any case of movies being sued for this kind of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4425" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2017-01-02T19:14:20.460" LastActivityDate="2017-01-02T19:14:20.460" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10653" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10660" CreationDate="2013-03-23T15:52:21.130" Score="7" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn - Part 2, after Bella is turned into a vampire, it's discovered she is a &lt;strong&gt;&quot;shield&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, able to nullify other vampires' abilities.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Edward realises that this is why he couldn't read Bella's mind when she was human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't understand this, a human exhibiting part of their vampire talent, (albeit a small part).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is this explained at all, is it all humans or is Bella a special case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2116" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-24T15:09:17.157" LastActivityDate="2016-06-24T15:09:17.157" Title="Humans have latent vampire abilities?" Tags="|the-twilight-saga|breaking-dawn-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10654" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10657" CreationDate="2013-03-23T15:58:59.867" Score="2" ViewCount="469" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I saw film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106912/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fire in the Sky&lt;/a&gt;. At the beginning it was written: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Based On a True Story&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it mean that Travis Walton was really abducted by aliens?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1598" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-03-23T16:14:48.680" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T11:44:18.810" Title="Based on true story?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fire-in-the-sky|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10655" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-03-23T16:11:31.930" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-03-23T16:11:31.930" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T16:11:31.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10656" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-03-23T16:11:31.930" Score="0" Body="Fire in the Sky is a 1993 science fiction horror drama film based on an alleged extraterrestrial encounter, directed by Robert Lieberman, and written by Tracy Tormé based on Travis Walton's book The Walton Experience. The film stars Robert Patrick in the leading role as Walton's best friend and future brother-in-law, Mike Rogers, and D. B. Sweeney as Walton himself. James Garner, Craig Sheffer, Scott MacDonald, Henry Thomas, and Peter Berg also star." OwnerUserId="1598" LastEditorUserId="1598" LastEditDate="2013-03-23T16:47:54.983" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T16:47:54.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10654" CreationDate="2013-03-23T16:26:32.723" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is based on the claims of Travis Walton that he was abducted. Whether the story is &quot;true&quot; or not is dependent upon whether you believe the story or not. Some do not &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Walton#Suppressed_polygraph_exam_and_controversy&quot;&gt;believe it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Travis Walton is an American logger who claims to have been abducted by a UFO on November 5, 1975, while working with a logging crew in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona. Walton could not be found, but reappeared after a five-day search. The Walton case received mainstream publicity and remains one of the best-known instances of alleged alien abduction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4392" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T16:26:32.723" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10314" CreationDate="2013-03-23T17:18:18.253" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think he had awake for a year, but there's two possibilities depending on the intended realism:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had been awake for a year (artistic licence):&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Trevor would (roughly) know how long it'd been (perhaps estimating or rounding).&#xA;Severe sleep deprivation can lead to many kinds of physical and mental problems including: paranoia, weight loss, hallucinations and moodiness.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The rest of the film (Trevor's physical condition, no other duration suggested) would support this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He imagined it (more realistic):&lt;br&gt;&#xA;He'd been awake for a long time but nowhere near a year, perhaps with unnoticed &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsleep&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;microsleeps&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Records for healthy individuals staying awake without stimulants is around &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_%28record_holder%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;11 days&lt;/a&gt;, however patients with a sleeping disorder may stay awake far longer, the longest on record is a man with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FFI (a brain disorder)&lt;/a&gt; at 6 months (still far shorter than Trevor).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2116" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T17:18:18.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10659" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10764" CreationDate="2013-03-23T17:41:20.373" Score="5" ViewCount="3625" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Jumpers, we learn that the Paladins have been chasing and killing Jumpers &quot;since medieval times&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paladins' weapons use electricity to disrupt the ability of Jumpers to jump, how did they manage to catch Jumpers before the discovery of electricity (killing them is the easy part as the early part of the film demonstrates)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2116" LastEditorUserId="2116" LastEditDate="2013-03-24T14:26:16.423" LastActivityDate="2016-08-12T23:35:48.743" Title="How did the Paladins catch Jumpers before the discovery of electricity?" Tags="|jumper|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10653" CreationDate="2013-03-23T18:27:35.710" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Certain humans do, when Aro meets Bella he realizes he's unable to read her mind, and immediately is interested in what's she'll be like when turned to a vampire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the same with other's like Alice who had her visions before being a vampire and thus was inside a mental institution; or Benjamin as it's stated on the books that Amun (leader of the Egyptian coven) met him prior to turning him into a vampire and realized his potential, therefore deciding to turn him into a vampire for that very same reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So overall &lt;strong&gt;some&lt;/strong&gt; humans have latent abilities that manifest in it's fullest when becoming a vampire...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4406" LastEditorUserId="4406" LastEditDate="2013-03-24T00:06:58.107" LastActivityDate="2013-03-24T00:06:58.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10644" CreationDate="2013-03-23T18:40:14.443" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another good option is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tineye.com/&quot;&gt;TinEye&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which is a reverse image search service, and it's quite useful for finding an image online in different sites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4406" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2013-03-24T05:42:48.020" LastActivityDate="2013-03-24T05:42:48.020" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-05-17T12:16:13.133" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10659" CreationDate="2013-03-23T18:45:56.973" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The instrument that they use is relatively new. It's understood that not all methods have existed as long as the Paladin fellowship. Their sole purpose is not to stop jumpers using that machine, but just to catch them and kill them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T18:45:56.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10050" CreationDate="2013-03-23T23:52:20.640" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a stork. I think it foreshadows her interest in having kids. Note that she exchanges it with Russo's kids, whom she dreams about just before she shows overt interest in pregnancy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4435" LastActivityDate="2013-03-23T23:52:20.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10668" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10677" CreationDate="2013-03-24T03:12:54.597" Score="4" ViewCount="3005" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;em&gt;Stoker&lt;/em&gt; is full of symbolism (it at least feels that way). A few times we observe India playing a song on the piano, and in a pivotal scene, she is joined by her Uncle Charlie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of the deliberate feel of much of the movie, from shooting angles to clothing, it seems logical to deduce that the music is just as deliberate. So: &lt;em&gt;What is the song played by India?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2024-02-21T05:49:32.250" LastActivityDate="2024-02-21T05:49:32.250" Title="What is the song played by India throughout the movie?" Tags="|soundtrack|stoker|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10572" CreationDate="2013-03-24T04:11:18.847" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This quote does originally come from the film. Harvey coins the phrase (no pun intended) in response to Rachel's comment abot Caesar. He isn't using a common expression, but it does come off quite eloquently. Still it is very similar to the philosophy of  Michael Foucault who criticized political and social figures who turn to abusing power for indulgent convenience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastActivityDate="2013-03-24T04:11:18.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10671" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10673" CreationDate="2013-03-24T06:38:14.993" Score="13" ViewCount="14072" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1982 classic E.T., when Elliot and Mike take E.T. out on Halloween, E.T. sees people dressed up in bizarre costumes, but when a kid dressed up like Yoda walks aside, E.T is seen rushing towards him saying &amp;quot;Home Home&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Now Yoda is a fictional character for people on earth. How come E.T. recognizes him and relates to him?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Did Steven Spielberg want to suggest by this scene that Yoda maybe actually exists?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;What's the meaning behind this scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="67810" LastEditDate="2020-09-06T08:01:45.817" LastActivityDate="2020-09-06T08:01:45.817" Title="Why does E.T. move towards the Yoda-like kid while calling &quot;Home Home&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|star-wars|et-the-extra-terrestrial|steven-spielberg|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10671" CreationDate="2013-03-24T10:05:49.740" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just a gag/joke or just a promise between Spielberg  and Lucas (who knew each other from film school) started from E.T. and ended on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Grebleips' species are a cameo appearance of the famous aliens of&#xA;Steven Spielberg's 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. These&#xA;creatures were inserted in the movie to make good on a promise—after&#xA;Steven Spielberg included a Yoda cameo and Star Wars toys in E.T.,&#xA;George Lucas promised to include an E.T. cameo in the next Star Wars&#xA;film he made—The Phantom Menace. While this is primarily an easter&#xA;egg, and E.T. is probably not meant to be taken as part of Star Wars&#xA;canon, some Star Wars references in E.T. can be reinterpreted in light&#xA;of the E.T. references in Star Wars.(source:&lt;a href=&quot;https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Asogian/Legends&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;starwars.fandom.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's a promise between Spielberg and Lucas that both allow to use each others character in their films like gag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their is a good link to read on this &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.liveabout.com/does-earth-exist-star-wars-universe-2958000&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Does Earth Exist In The Star Wars Universe?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even a similar question present on Scifi as &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6555/are-e-t-and-star-wars-in-the-same-universe&quot;&gt;Are E.T. and Star Wars in the same universe?&lt;/a&gt; with a good analytic answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="83431" LastEditDate="2020-09-05T09:17:34.043" LastActivityDate="2020-09-05T09:17:34.043" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10671" CreationDate="2013-03-24T10:14:17.820" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Asogian/Legends&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wookieepedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grebleips&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;' [&lt;em&gt;Spielberg&lt;/em&gt; spelled backwards] species are a cameo appearance of the famous aliens of Steven Spielberg's 1982 film &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QLksQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;E.T.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;These creatures were inserted in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120915/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to make good on a promise—after Steven Spielberg included a &lt;em&gt;Yoda&lt;/em&gt; cameo and &lt;em&gt;Star Wars toys&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;em&gt;E.T.&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/M2K3U.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Yoda in E.T.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;George Lucas promised to include an &lt;em&gt;E.T.&lt;/em&gt; cameo in the next &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; film he made —&lt;em&gt;The Phantom Menace&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this &lt;strong&gt;is primarily an easter egg,&lt;/strong&gt; and E.T. is probably not meant to be taken as part of Star Wars canon, some Star Wars references in E.T. can be reinterpreted in light of the E.T. references in Star Wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="83431" LastEditDate="2020-09-05T09:17:36.877" LastActivityDate="2020-09-05T09:17:36.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10676" CreationDate="2013-03-24T10:20:06.350" Score="6" ViewCount="22916" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Karate_Kid_%282010_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Karate Kid (2010)&lt;/a&gt;,  Jackie Chan uses some fire technique for healing Dre's wounds. I want to know if that technique is real or complete fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-09T17:33:05.557" LastActivityDate="2022-08-21T04:52:05.020" Title="Is the healing technique of Karate Kid practically possible?" Tags="|realism|karate-kid-2010|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10675" CreationDate="2013-03-24T10:29:30.817" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The method is called &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupping_therapy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cupping therapy&lt;/a&gt; and is a form of alternative medicine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A partial vacuum is created in cups placed on the skin either by means of heat or suction. According to the American Cancer Society, &amp;quot;[a]vailable scientific evidence does not support cupping as a cure for cancer or any other disease&amp;quot;. It can leave temporary bruised painful marks on the skin and there is also a small risk of burns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being that it is an alternative medicine, some people will say it really works and some people will call it &amp;quot;fiction&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4392" LastEditorUserId="83431" LastEditDate="2022-08-21T04:52:05.020" LastActivityDate="2022-08-21T04:52:05.020" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10668" CreationDate="2013-03-24T10:41:20.497" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The song is called &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuuxnziJJS4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Duet by Phillip Glass&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://film.list.co.uk/article/48293-interview-park-chan-wook-korean-director-on-his-hitchcockian-thriller-stoker/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview with director&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;‘The piano scene was in the original script, but I could immediately see an opportunity for me. Rather than take a written piece of music from an old master, I wanted to do something entirely new, so I approached Phillip Glass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4392" LastEditorUserId="7482" LastEditDate="2014-05-28T03:42:19.583" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T03:42:19.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10678" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10680" CreationDate="2013-03-24T10:45:30.987" Score="4" ViewCount="1118" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Saga%3a_Breaking_Dawn_%E2%80%93_Part_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2&lt;/a&gt; Alice's vision shows the  grown up Renesmee. So how this scene got achieved? How they managed to show a young Renesmee to a mature Renesmee?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-24T14:44:35.173" LastActivityDate="2016-06-24T14:44:35.173" Title="Which technique is used to show the grown up Renesmee?" Tags="|film-techniques|breaking-dawn-2|the-twilight-saga|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8704" CreationDate="2013-03-24T13:42:51.170" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Orcs are pale white creatures that are tall and are an enemy of the dwarves; goblins are greedy nasty creatures that are very cruel and live in the side of the Misty Mountains and in the Mines of Moira. Orcs destroyed Moira and beheaded the King Under the Mountain (Thorin’s grandfather).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4439" LastEditorUserId="607" LastEditDate="2019-03-10T21:03:59.640" LastActivityDate="2019-03-10T21:03:59.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10678" CreationDate="2013-03-24T14:21:30.077" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1673434/combined&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;, there are a number of actresses listed as playing Renesmee at various points in her growth including one credit for &quot;Christie Burke   ...    Renesmee (Young Woman)&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems unlikely that any special effects were used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1357" LastActivityDate="2013-03-24T14:21:30.077" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10681" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-24T14:52:19.893" Score="3" ViewCount="1798" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sandra, the manager, and several employees went along with a man on the phone and put Becky through a strip search ordeal.  Why was the maintenance man, Harold, who came in later in the day, the only one who saw that what they were doing was wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3765" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2013-03-24T18:01:46.300" LastActivityDate="2013-03-25T04:18:04.327" Title="In the 2012 movie Compliance why was the maintenance man the only one with sense?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|compliance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="883" CreationDate="2013-03-24T17:07:52.370" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prot was a spirit who was Robert porters guardian Angel over the course of his life . Robert porter over his years would pray and ask for guidance and help when in need and prot would come to take care of him and offer him guidance &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Proat loved fruit  and was especially interested in the red delicious apple in the psycologist office because where he is from someone ate an apple in the garden of eden and got in big trouble (eve) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prots report was some of the mistakes he made in his life on earth that he had to fix &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He traveled by light , the same thing it is said that we see and walk towards when our spirits pass on after our death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one patient was cured of his problem of not going outside wearing a mask for protection etc when prot instructed the other patient with the glasses to strangle him so he would die and be brought back , showing him that there is something great that happens after death and not to waste his time being afraid of dying &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mental patients saw prot as the Angel he was,   not robert ,  because there minds were more open to seeing things that you cant really explain .. this explains there comments of &quot;whos that guy &quot; thats definitely not prot  when Roberts body was taken out of thre room after prot left him .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last comments on the movie about the world expanding and contracting refer to birth and death&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having to repeat youre journey over and over untill you get all your mistakes right is reffering to the journey we all are on untill we serve gods purpose here ,  and get invited back to our home  heaven. &#xA;If  we get it right the first time ...we dont have to keep coming back like he did untill  we get it right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;K PAX was inference to  heaven  not a planet &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4441" LastEditorUserId="4441" LastEditDate="2013-03-24T21:13:46.800" LastActivityDate="2013-03-24T21:13:46.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15463" CreationDate="2013-03-24T21:51:29.390" Score="4" ViewCount="1984" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think she was one of the eleven who were killed on the black hawk helicopter. Later, when Mike goes to find Kang and Asher, he kills a couple of people, but I didn't see Lim getting killed at that point. Did I miss something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1534" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2013-03-24T23:04:53.957" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T16:39:02.700" Title="What happens to Lim (hacker) in Olympus Has Fallen?" Tags="|plot-explanation|olympus-has-fallen|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10686" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10687" CreationDate="2013-03-25T00:14:31.563" Score="9" ViewCount="657" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to remember this movie.  Hopefully someone can help me out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's this guy who had severe memory loss, but somehow he knew it was going to happen ahead of time, and he had planted clues for himself so he could go through and investigate and figure out, afterwards, what it was that had happened that led to him losing his memory.  I think it was related to something he had been working on that was too secret for even the employees to know about, but I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And before anyone says &quot;Memento,&quot; it's not Memento.)  Sorry I don't have much more to go by.  Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2023" LastActivityDate="2013-03-25T00:44:35.047" Title="Identify a mystery movie about foreknowledge of memory loss" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:43:40.887" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10686" CreationDate="2013-03-25T00:44:35.047" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Paycheck&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ben Affleck plays an engineer who is hired to work on a top-secret project with the understanding that his memory will be erased after he completes the job. He completes the job, and he gives up millions of dollars to receive an envelope, which contains several items such as a key, a pack of cigarettes, sunglasses, a bullet, etc. Ben uses these items to regain his memory while his old employer is trying to kill him, and the government is trying to put him in jail for something he doesn't remember doing. Every item plays a part in saving his life, his memory, and our future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4392" LastActivityDate="2013-03-25T00:44:35.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10681" CreationDate="2013-03-25T04:07:50.120" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not entirely sure this is the right place to answer those questions.  The movie is apparently based on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam#Mount_Washington.2C_Kentucky.2C_incident&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;true story&lt;/a&gt;, about a prank caller who it is believed made a number of similar calls to fast-food restaurants over a number of years, the most significant incident of which appears to be the source material for the movie.  Some of the people involved in this true life event ended up with criminal convictions from the actions they took that day.  The victim and at least one of the members of staff subsequently sued the restaurant chain - making claims such as adequate staff training, and that they had not warned staff about prior incidents of hoax calls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is simply the fact from this incident that the Maintenance Man was the first person to refuse what the caller was demanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question is why?  Its hard to be specific about the people here.  Unfortunately it boils down to the fact that even when put in a stressful situation, psychologists have demonstrated in experiments that when being ordered by someone in authority a majority of people will do as they are told - to the point of believing they have caused significant pain, even harm to another.  They key example is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Milgram Experiment&lt;/a&gt; from the early 1960's where subjects believed they were administering increasingly large electric shocks to someone else in an experiment about learning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result from this experiment and others performed shows that as many as 66% of people would follow orders to inflict what would be fatal voltages on others when ordered and/or reassured by someone in authority - &lt;em&gt;even&lt;/em&gt; if simultaneously they are clearly stressed by the actions they are being asked to take.  Amazingly in the Miligram Experiment even when the subject loses communication with the person they believe they are shocking, apparently unconscious, many still administered the final (fake) 450 volt shock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-03-25T04:18:04.327" LastActivityDate="2013-03-25T04:18:04.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4026" CreationDate="2013-03-25T05:21:08.617" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Total Recall 2012: The answer relies on the kid he traded his phone with.  The &quot;wife&quot; makes him tell her what he knows. How does he know? He heard the open phone call while Quaid was talking in plain sight of everyone. After that I'm not sure...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4444" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-03-25T17:35:20.333" LastActivityDate="2013-03-25T17:35:20.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10695" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10696" CreationDate="2013-03-25T16:13:33.757" Score="4" ViewCount="4429" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a movie about hacking, technology, terrorism and patriotism, why in the world does Ginger use DEA as her cover when talking to Stan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DEA - Drug Enforcement Agency. The movie never once mentions drugs. While I understand that Stan has no knowledge of Gabriel, the story could hold up but Stan comes to learn all about Gabriel and his plans which don't include drugs. Plus, when Stan first meets Gabriel in the club, he wants him to hack into the DoD (department of defense). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end when Gabriel shoots Ginger, he tells Stan, &quot;She was DEA&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this explained somewhere in maybe a directors cut or a book? Homeland security, FBI, CIA, ATF - those all make more sense. So why DEA?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-03-26T05:12:04.120" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T05:12:04.120" Title="Why does Ginger use DEA as her cover in Swordfish?" Tags="|plot-explanation|swordfish|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10695" CreationDate="2013-03-25T18:19:14.717" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The money they are stealing is the DEA's. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244244/plotsummary&quot;&gt;IMDb's summary&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When the &lt;strong&gt;DEA&lt;/strong&gt; shut down its dummy corporation &lt;strong&gt;operation codenamed SWORDFISH&lt;/strong&gt; in 1986, they had generated $400 million which they let sit around; fifteen years of compound interest has swelled it to $9.5 billion. A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell, headed by the duplicitious and suave Gabriel Shear, wants the money to help finance their raise-the-stakes vengeance war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away behind super-encryption. He brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson, who only wants to see his daughter Holly again but can't afford the legal fees, to slice into the government mainframes and get the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-03-25T18:19:14.717" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10697" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-25T20:02:27.493" Score="6" ViewCount="737" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Les Miserables, I understand all music numbers (every scene, that is) were recorded live on set with the actors leading an accompanying pianist off-site. How then could they shoot the One Day More number? This piece consists of many locations and many intersecting melodic lines from many different characters. Is it possible they shot all scenes simultaneously on separate portions of the stage and all vocal performances were monitored through every performers' in-ear system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastEditorUserId="4020" LastEditDate="2013-03-26T00:04:29.643" LastActivityDate="2013-12-01T13:52:47.183" Title="How did they shoot/record the One Day More scene?" Tags="|film-techniques|les-miserables|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1886" CreationDate="2013-03-25T22:17:02.220" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't look like it explains the lab&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After time passes the shelter's door is broken open and the shelter is&#xA;  invaded by armed soldiers in biohazard suits; the men's speech is&#xA;  unintelligible and &lt;strong&gt;their allegiance remains ambiguous&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After exploring the lab, Josh runs back into the shelter after being identified at which point the door is welded shut. This leads me to believe that the lab was setup there for some other purpose other than the occupants of the shelter and may have originally burst in because they intended to occupy it for themselves but after finding resistance they retreated, but not without first taking a test subject. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Josh's outfit allows him to explore the lab where he discovers several&#xA;  unconscious children—including Wendi—in stasis units; their hair&#xA;  shaved off and their eyes bandaged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being in a post-apocalyptic setting, it's possible that the lab was setup to prevent contamination and the children may have been shaved to get rid of radioactive contamination and placed in the stasis tanks to be protected or cleansed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, the lab was setup to perform experiments on people and that's why suits broke into the shelter to begin with. Who knows. But with the reaction to Josh when they see he isn't supposed to be there, they were either there to do harm or he was just mad about his buddies getting attacked in the previous encounter with the shelter inhabitants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you examine the final scene after Eva escapes, she finds the city in ruin. So it doesn't seem as if the lab was actually there for malicious purposes or containment (like in Quarantine).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the real reason is not revealed to us and is just there to add an element of terror and explain why they just can't walk out the door. It has even less significance when you consider that once the door was welded shut, the lab and suits were forgotten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a lot of ambiguity and confusion as to the purpose of the lab which suggests it wasn't meant to be explained as part of the story line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2013-03-25T22:17:02.220" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10700" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10724" CreationDate="2013-03-26T00:12:25.380" Score="2" ViewCount="316" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Walking Dead episode &quot;This Sorrowful Life,&quot; Merle hot-wires what looks to be an older car.  The car had a car alarm that caused a walker attack.  I don't recall there being car alarms on older cars such as this car.  Would it have been a reasonable expectation for Merle to think the car might have an alarm?  Did cars like the one he hot-wired come with an alarm?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="971" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-03-26T16:16:58.730" LastActivityDate="2015-10-11T01:42:55.627" Title="This Sorrowful Life car" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10701" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10713" CreationDate="2013-03-26T02:41:34.373" Score="13" ViewCount="108002" Body="&lt;p&gt;A large portion of the current season (I think it's season 9), Andy (Ed Helms) was sailing a boat to the Bahamas. He was out of the show for a number of episodes (around 8) which is unusual for The Office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the reason for Ed Helms' absence from the show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastEditorUserId="1410" LastEditDate="2020-01-10T16:07:51.683" LastActivityDate="2020-01-10T16:07:51.683" Title="What was the reason for Andy's absence in The Office" Tags="|character|production|the-office|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10684" CreationDate="2013-03-26T02:59:34.143" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Mike started to gun down the terrorists he does an epic slide and grabs Lim's gun. He guns down a few more and snaps Lim's neck. It happened really fast and Lim was wearing a hood so a lot people probably missed her death scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4448" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T02:59:34.143" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10705" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-26T03:50:59.183" Score="7" ViewCount="2015" Body="&lt;p&gt;In MIB3, the proposed explanation for K's lack of emotion and human interaction can be traced to the happening at Cape Canaveral. When J goes back to change the otherwise altered past, K comes out more lively and joyful. As far as I know, though, the only thing that changed was that he killed Boris the Animal rather than arresting him, so what changed him so much for the better?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;J's dad still died, if that isn't what devastated him, what did?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-03-26T05:11:20.243" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T22:19:07.387" Title="What changed K's experience?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|men-in-black-3|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10706" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10725" CreationDate="2013-03-26T04:00:00.633" Score="1" ViewCount="655" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Brick&lt;/a&gt;, when Brendan lays out several words Emily said that he didn't understand, Brain guesses that Tug might be a drink made of a mixture of milk and vodka, but Tug is actually the name of a character. Is there any symbolism to this? Can it be a commentary on Tug's duality of violence and immaturity? Am I just reading too much into it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-03-26T06:28:25.210" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T20:13:06.283" Title="Tug could be milk and vodka?" Tags="|character|brick|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10707" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10708" CreationDate="2013-03-26T04:07:12.943" Score="10" ViewCount="2289" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Prestige, when the identity of Lord Caldlow is revealed to be Angier, he speaks with a British accent instead of the American accent he's used all film. Which is the real voice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4020" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-03-26T05:13:09.470" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T05:13:09.470" Title="Angier actually British?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10707" CreationDate="2013-03-26T04:28:12.670" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real voice of the character is the British one.  Lord Caldlow is a British Aristocrat who changed his name and accent to hide his true origin, in order to pursue his dream of being a stage magician.  This choice of this career, effectively in showbusiness, would have severely embarrassed his family.  So he pretends to be the American Robert Angier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CUTTER: Dear God.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ANGIER: Hello, Cutter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CUTTER: You're alive. (Angier nods) You're Lord Caldlow. (Angier nods again) How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ANGIER: (shrugs) I learned an American accent from...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CUTTER: (Angry) How are you alive, Robert?! I saw  you on the slab, for God's sake&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Angier fixes Cutter with a steady gaze.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ANGIER: I magician never reveals his secrets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: I've not confirmed this is the exact wording used in the movie, sometimes scripts found on the internet are not the final versions used.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the major themes of the movie, illustrated by the Chinese magician near the start of the story is 'how far would you go to be the best'.  Borden hides a huge secret to the point of ruining his relationships and losing fingers.  Angier / Caldlow has lived a secret life as well as using 'the machine'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T04:33:19.047" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10705" CreationDate="2013-03-26T04:38:56.130" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me it didn't seem too much as he changed, he always cared about J and secretly took care of him like a father, K was there while J grew up and that's another reason he made sure the chosen agent in MIB1 was him. So it's more like when he finds out J discovered the truth he gets in a good mood (for being a quite stoic dude, he has his moments, specially with J) and they have a pie at the end of the film...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4406" LastEditorUserId="4406" LastEditDate="2014-08-28T22:19:07.387" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T22:19:07.387" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10370" CreationDate="2013-03-26T11:08:03.813" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the case of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_First_Class&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;X-Men: First Class&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/#!/therealstanlee&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;lee's Twitter page&lt;/a&gt;, due to the filming taking place&#xA;  to far away he won't have a cameo in it. (Source:&lt;a href=&quot;http://marvelousnews.com/index.php?catid=23&amp;amp;itemid=14103&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;marvelousnews.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the case of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X2_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt; X2: X-Men United&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Scooper 'Kailem' tells us that Stan Lee was interviewed on the&#xA;  &quot;Filmfreak&quot; radio station when he mentioned he will not have a cameo&#xA;  in X2...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It seems that unlike the original movie, he isn't going to be turning&#xA;  up anywhere in X2. When asked if he had a cameo in the sequel he&#xA;  replied &quot;No, no I don't, I don't think I'm gonna have cameos in the&#xA;  sequels 'cause I think that gets to be a little much. I'm hoping I can&#xA;  have a cameo in the first movie of each character.&quot; (Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookmovie.com/x-men_movies/news/?a=184&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;comicbookmovie.com)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_Origins:_Wolverine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&lt;/a&gt; case, Wolverine is one of the few characters not written by Lee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that's all I was able to find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2019-12-30T04:47:15.053" LastActivityDate="2019-12-30T04:47:15.053" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10701" CreationDate="2013-03-26T11:34:11.393" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ed Helms took time off to shoot Hangover 3. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The reason for his absence, which is explained on the show as Andy and his brother taking a boat trip to find themselves, is that the actor has been hard at work on some film projects including “The Hangover Part III.” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cartermatt.com/45401/nbcs-the-office-season-9-spoilers-more-on-ed-helms-return-documentary-crew/&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or even &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ed Helms...has been noticeably absent now for weeks while off shooting The Hangover 3;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/66608/nbc-comedy-recap-two-shows-nearing-the-end-give-us-what-we-want-and-what-we-desperately-dont-want&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1481" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T11:34:11.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11325" CreationDate="2013-03-26T12:43:33.413" Score="6" ViewCount="679" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Stolen Earth&lt;/em&gt; we witness The Doctor get fatally wounded by a Dalek's blast while reuniting with some of his companions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They bring him into the TARDIS where he starts to regenerate.  However, after he has healed himself, he fires his regenerative energy into his severed hand to prevent changing his appearence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, it has been said that Time Lords only have 12 regenerations (13 lives, currently the doctor is on his 11th, looking back &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deadly_Assassin&quot;&gt;this episode&lt;/a&gt; states that limit)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would this act of using the regenerative energy but not transforming count towards his 12 limit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-12-29T18:06:24.660" Title="Did The Doctor use a full regeneration cycle?" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10717" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10736" CreationDate="2013-03-26T12:59:55.257" Score="8" ViewCount="1199" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;Turn Left&lt;/strong&gt; we see what the world would be like if Donna never met the Doctor and he perished beating the Racnoss. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this timeline, we cryptically see Rose all over the place using the companions to prevent the other earthly disasters before the final disaster comes in the blotting out of the stars.  Which Rose explains is happening to all the other parallel universes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We learn by the end of the season this was caused by the Dalek's Crucible, using Davros' Reality Bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in order for the Crucible to work in the first place, the Earth must be present in the &quot;Planetary engine&quot; alignment.  During Donna's alternate reality the Earth wasn't taken for this purpose and merely witnessed as the end came about, before Donna shattered that reality and went back to the true reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question then becomes, how could the Dalek's accomplish this in this reality if the Earth is still in place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T21:51:06.993" Title="How could the stars be going out in the alternate universe?" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10721" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10722" CreationDate="2013-03-26T13:54:31.953" Score="9" ViewCount="3098" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is where a young woman has an emotional crisis in her life, with her cheating boyfriend and controlling mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And her imaginary friend from when she was little comes back and causes more chaos for her and nobody else can see him? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's from the 1990's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone identify this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4405" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-18T20:22:46.893" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T20:22:46.893" Title="Imaginary friend from childhood returns when a young woman is in trouble" Tags="|identify-this-movie|comedy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:43:50.870" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10721" CreationDate="2013-03-26T14:20:41.253" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;After some Googling I found one movie that seems to be pretty much like you described it: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101775/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Drop Dead Fred&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;A young woman finds her already unstable life rocked by the presence&#xA;  of a rambunctious imaginary friend from childhood.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The imaginary friend here is played by comedy actor Rik Mayall, wearing a green suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GA7sP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="461" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-03-26T15:30:03.847" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T15:30:03.847" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10700" CreationDate="2013-03-26T16:44:07.550" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Older model vehicles such as the one Merel hot wires did not come stock with alarms but if you look at the upgraded wheels (22&quot;?) and upgraded stereo then it's safe to assume the owner also installed an alarm. I'd imagine he didn't think there would be an alarm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the whole idea of this car sitting for 1yr+ and still starting is ridiculous. It would be unreasonable for Merel to think that that the car would even start. It's even harder to believe that he was able to hot wire it with a single hand (cutting the wire, stripping both ends and shorting them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, aftermarket alarms usually do not draw power from inside of the cabin so he would have needed to cut the power from under the hood. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2013-03-26T16:49:07.610" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T16:49:07.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10706" CreationDate="2013-03-26T20:13:06.283" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oddly enough, the writer has a website, and a forum which he posts on... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oh man, if Lebowski had been made when I wrote the script I would take credit for this in a HEARTBEAT. Unfortunately it wasn't. I think it's more a comment on now the Brain obviously has never had a drink in his life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rcjohnso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=338&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rian Johnson's forum post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking through the forum this is the only time he directly makes a comment about this line. And people who I imagine frequented the forums long ago also mention this is the only time he really gives any sort of explanation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3821" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T20:13:06.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10727" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10739" CreationDate="2013-03-26T20:23:48.517" Score="9" ViewCount="14866" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was shown in season 1 by Rick and Glenn, and in season 3 by Michonne, that covering yourself in zombie guts is a pretty effective way of avoiding walkers. Sure it wasn't foolproof, but it was still better than trying to manouever your way around a herd of ravenous walkers without it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why haven't the survivors used this technique more often?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T10:41:35.507" Title="Why don't they cover themselves in zombie guts more often?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10734" CreationDate="2013-03-26T21:09:18.563" Score="3" ViewCount="3063" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a follow up question to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/10695/why-does-ginger-use-dea-as-her-cover-in-swordfish&quot;&gt;Why does Ginger use DEA as her cover in Swordfish?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is Ginger wearing a wire when Stan walks in on her getting dressed? The scene is played out to where it doesn't look like it was to setup Stan and get him to participate by feeding him the DEA story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, because I missed the DEA story in my previous question, I may be missing something here as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why is Ginger wearing a wire?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T16:17:08.290" Title="Why is Ginger wearing a wire in Swordfish?" Tags="|swordfish|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10037" CreationDate="2013-03-26T23:17:34.727" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are traveling to Valinor, the Undying Lands, which exist outside the human world. Men cannot go there. The ending of LOTR ties back to material from the Silmarillion. The Appendices to &lt;em&gt;The Return of the King&lt;/em&gt; provide added detail. As noted, many of the elves, Galadriel included, returned to Middle-earth in rebellion against the Vala to wage war on Morgoth, who stole the Silmarils (gems). The Vala are not &quot;gods&quot;. There is but one creator-God in Tolkien's mythology. The Vala are created and participate with Illuvatar in fashioning the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frodo, Bilbo and even Sam have been altered by their contact with the One Ring. They have also performed great deeds. Frodo is specifically given leave to travel to Valinor because of the unhealable wound from the Morgul knife. It is a grace of the Vala to permit them to come to the Undying Lands. Gimli, by the intercession of Galadriel, is also given leave to come to Valinor. Like the elves, and unlike men, the dwarves are tied to the world. Elves and dwarves go to the Halls of Mandos (a Vala) when they die.  Men pass beyond the world - the &quot;gift&quot; of Illuvatar, but subverted by Morgoth.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Silmarillion&lt;/em&gt; details the creation of the world by Illuvatar (a variant of the term &quot;All-Father&quot; - JRR Tolkien was a philologist and there are cognates to English, German and other languages in those spoken in Middle Earth). The &lt;em&gt;Valar&lt;/em&gt; are created beings - created by Illuvatar in the long past. The Maiar are another angelic order of beings, below the Valar.  Saruman and Radagast are of the same order as Gandalf. Sauron is also a Maia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4457" LastEditorUserId="19132" LastEditDate="2016-11-30T22:33:25.937" LastActivityDate="2016-11-30T22:33:25.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10727" CreationDate="2013-03-26T23:52:33.033" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;For one, they couldn't touch the intestants or blood with their skin, or they'd get infected. So it wasn't an easy thing to do, time consuming, and tricky as well. They did it at that point, if I remember correctly, because they had no other options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; it wasn't fool-proof, it's probably too tricky. Better to move around freely than to walk slowly amongst the real zombies, I'd think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="461" LastActivityDate="2013-03-26T23:52:33.033" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5620" CreationDate="2013-03-27T00:14:26.130" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a mere writing standpoint it could just have been a shortcut, so that Joe doesn't get a hard time explaining to her all the things she surely wouldn't believe, which wouldn't bring the story much further (Ok, maybe it could have opened other interresting conflicts and sub-stories, but well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in fact when he started &lt;em&gt;&quot;time travel is not possible, but in thirty years...&quot;&lt;/em&gt; I found myself thinking nerved &quot;Whoa man, stop it, she's never gonna buy that&quot; only to be relieved when she said &lt;em&gt;&quot;You're a looper&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, thinking &quot;thanks, not a hard long mistrustful explanation session&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not saying that's the only reason (or that everybody would have felt like me and explaining it to her couldn't have been a good story arc, too) and there is no in-story explanation. But seeing that not everything in &lt;em&gt;Looper&lt;/em&gt; was that thought out well, it's a possibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T00:14:26.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10728" CreationDate="2013-03-27T04:33:25.443" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Undercover DEA agents will certainly not bother locking the door whilst undressing, right? :) Of course it was planned and was a push to convince Stanley Jobson to give Gabriel the &quot;worm&quot; and not derail the plan in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Of4Ne.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ginger Knowles wearing the wire.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ginger&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(while undressed)&lt;/em&gt;: But it's not you we're after. It's Gabriel. So just give him the worm, take the money, and get the hell out of here. That's all you gotta do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There really was no way for Gabriel to verify that the worm was actually genuine as he would have needed another hacker of Stan's calibre to do so. Ginger's wire play was therefore a psychological ploy to improve the odds in his favour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;You ought to watch the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordfish_%28film%29#Alternate_endings&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;alternate endings&lt;/a&gt; on the DVD.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-03-27T16:17:08.290" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T16:17:08.290" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10735" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10738" CreationDate="2013-03-27T07:08:44.413" Score="43" ViewCount="44713" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the early days of TV people used to go to theaters and enjoy vaudeville where there was a live audience. TV programs in the early days were mostly recorded in front of a live audience so the reactions and laughter were genuine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then at some point TV producers decided to &quot;sweeten&quot; comedy shows because people were not laughing at the right places so they added artificial laugh tracks. I was lucky enough to get a DVD boxed set of MASH without the laugh track and the show is totally different. The harsh reality of war was not hidden and the contrast of laughter was set against the war theme made the show much more interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other shows in recent years like &quot;My name is Earl&quot; were brilliant and they have no laugh track. In fact a lot of shows are not even recorded in front of a live audience anymore and they still ADD a laugh track.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the reasoning behind adding a laugh track when we are in a living room, not in an audience, we ALL know the laugh track is fake and we don't need to be told when to laugh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet they still add it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4371" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T17:26:29.770" LastActivityDate="2018-11-19T10:44:31.423" Title="Why do TV comedy programs have laugh tracks?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10717" CreationDate="2013-03-27T08:20:56.097" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode turn left Donna creates two parallel universes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 Where the doctor never meets Donna and where he dies. and therefore cannot prevent the Daleks stealing the earth and using the reality bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And another universe where the earth is never stolen, but where the blast of the reality bomb (from the first universe) still reaches them and destroys the stars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Dalek only needed one earth to exterminate everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope it makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4390" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T21:51:06.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10735" CreationDate="2013-03-27T10:13:05.727" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because hearing laughter when watching comic shows makes people inclined to regard them as funnier than they would normally. Really. Even when they are intelligent. Even when they &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; it's fake, canned laughter. I know this is hard to believe, but behavioural psychologists have run the tests, and the results are unambiguous: laugh tracks work, no matter how informed or intelligent the audience is. (Only have pop-sci books as sources for that, ask on &lt;a href=&quot;http://cogsci.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Cognitive Science&lt;/a&gt; if you want the primary sources.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why some shows do it and others don't: fundamentally, people who find a program funnier are more likely to keep watching, ergo more ad dollars. The downside is that some people might find the laugh track offensive and not watch out of spite. Clearly different producers have different expectations of which effect will predominate, which leads to different choices; the production cost of adding laugh tracks is rather small, and probably not decisive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3265" LastEditorUserId="3265" LastEditDate="2013-03-28T12:22:33.263" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T12:22:33.263" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10727" CreationDate="2013-03-27T16:07:48.730" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to convert my comment into a better answer. Unless it's explained in the comic series, there is no explanation. But, if we look at certain facts from the show we can speculate as to the reason to a point that could make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first attempt failed (started to rain)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That type of scene may have been too much for audiences. It was pretty grotesque.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The group encountered a herd while on the freeway and hid under cars. They were left alone meaning that covering themselves with guts isn't necessary. More on this below. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once they reached the farm, there was no reason to use this technique as they only encountered one or two stragglers until the very end but at that point, they could only run.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In season 3, they reached the prison and again, there wasn't any reason to use this technique. They wanted to clear the zombies from the yard, not sneak past them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In season 3, Michonne shows us that you can &quot;disarm&quot; a zombie and use them to protect yourself. It's long lasting and effective without requiring you get all gooey.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show has a set of rules for Zombies but there are several articles that point out that the show doesn't follow the rules at all times. In this article &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/news/are-the-walking-deads-zombies-following-the-shows-own-rules-27028/&quot;&gt;Are The Walking Dead's Zombies Following the Show's Own Rules?&lt;/a&gt; the author specifically points out the guts scene with contrast to the freeway scene. Rule #6 says &quot;Zombies have poor eyesight but they do have a strong sense of smell.&quot; If that's the case why were they able to get by just hiding under cars? The response was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The smell thing that we saw in the first season is really just a&#xA;  rudimentary sense [the zombies have] that we don't smell like a dead&#xA;  person in some way, so they have some sense of smell that enables them&#xA;  to differentiate people from zombies. But they're not bloodhounds, you&#xA;  don't see them walking around and sniffing, following their nose or&#xA;  something. So hiding under a car is going to work.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which seems to contradict rule #6. I bring this up because if we examine the way the story is going, the show is no longer about zombies, but human interaction and society in a post-apocalyptic world. So it's ok if the rules are broken because zombies are just there every now and then to remind us how scary the world is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another question would be, why not wear zombie guts when going on runs? It would make runs far safer. If we go back to rule #6 and it's contradiction, it would suggest that only a small amount of guts should be sufficient to deter the walkers. But, this isn't a 2hr movie, it's an ongoing series so making every scene safe would be boring. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, I say 3 points to consider an answer are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There wasn't another reason to do this&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Zombies don't matter as much as they did in the first few episodes of season 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fear factor for audience&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this is only speculation on my part. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Thinking about the contradiction to rule #6 again, even if it did start to rain on their first attempt, if they were able to hide under cars, why would a little rain cause them to become noticeable. A little guts should have been enough for them to get by. Food for thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit 2: Having reread the response to rule #6 contradiction, proximity could be a factor here. Covering yourself in guts may only be necessary when in very close proximity as they were in that scene, but hiding under cars and using disarmed zombies at a distance will keep them away. But, if proximity is the answer, why did Andrea get followed when walking back to Woodbury? She was further away from them than the group when they were under the cars AND with the noise of the truck, they should have been distracted away from her. We've seen members of the gorup walk past a single walker and not have any trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2013-03-27T16:19:36.567" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T16:19:36.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10434" CreationDate="2013-03-27T17:49:01.137" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Such a gesture could be called a &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Homage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;homage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; or a &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShoutOut&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;shout-out&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; depending, as TV Tropes notes, on how elaborate it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Homage&lt;/em&gt; (literally, an honor or tribute) is the deliberate, but respectful, recreation of one work of fiction within the context of another. Usually this is done for comedic effect, but occasionally it is serious. Sometimes it's both. A &lt;em&gt;Homage&lt;/em&gt; is an extended sequence, significantly more than a simple &lt;em&gt;Shout Out&lt;/em&gt;, but does not actually constitute a &lt;em&gt;Cross Over&lt;/em&gt; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm unaware of anything used specifically for homages involving soundtracks in films. Besides &lt;em&gt;tribute&lt;/em&gt; and the above-mentioned terms, I've also come &lt;em&gt;hat-tip&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;tipping one's hat&lt;/em&gt; used with similar connotations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-03-27T17:49:01.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10741" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10870" CreationDate="2013-03-27T18:52:42.890" Score="14" ViewCount="638" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is widely accepted that &quot;Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?&quot; is a modern retelling of Homer's &quot;Odyssey.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see some allusions to the Inferno chapters from Dante Alighieri's &quot;Divine Comedy&quot; in the film &quot;Barton Fink&quot;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Fink#Sources.2C_inspirations.2C_and_allusions&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt; also cites it as a possible influence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Are these allusions always deliberate? Do the Coen brothers set out to make modern interpretations or homages to classic literature in all, or at least most, of their films?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1414" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-03-27T22:15:42.423" LastActivityDate="2013-04-08T04:11:33.860" Title="Is classic literature a common and intentional inspiration for the Coen Brothers?" Tags="|analysis|coen-brothers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="790" CreationDate="2013-03-28T12:23:46.253" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw it as a test to see how upset he was about Irene. When he took it and Mycroft spoke to John, he was worried about it being a 'danger night' and Sherlock taking the cigarette provided him with the proof that that night could potentially be one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4465" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T12:23:46.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10747" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-03-28T15:51:54.097" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-28T15:51:54.097" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T15:51:54.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10748" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-03-28T15:51:54.097" Score="0" Body="Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online website of information related to films, television programs, and video games." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-03-28T15:51:54.097" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T15:51:54.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10749" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13938" CreationDate="2013-03-28T16:09:39.817" Score="2" ViewCount="806" Body="&lt;p&gt;While watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615065/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Savages (2012)&lt;/a&gt;, I couldn't figure out if Ben and Chon both knew about each other sleeping with O. I'm suspecting that Chon knew about Ben since I believe they explained it as O was his girl?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did they know they were sharing her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-03-28T19:11:57.580" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T12:48:21.617" Title="Did Ben and Chon know about each other sleeping with O?" Tags="|savages|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10750" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10752" CreationDate="2013-03-28T17:06:32.530" Score="7" ViewCount="1125" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is B Movie a genre of it's own? Are there requirements that get a movie thrown into that category or do the producers specifically set out to make it a B movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Netflex will list B horror as one of the genres and I know there is a cult following of B movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T18:25:31.193" Title="Is B Movie a genre?" Tags="|genre|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10750" CreationDate="2013-03-28T18:25:31.193" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I would not classify B-Movie as a genre.  The name came from the fact that it used to be the second movie of a double-bill, and was usually low budget and shorter than the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowadays we think of a B-Movie in a broader sense of being a low budget commercial movie, and has some overlap with Exploitation movies, but they can cover multiple genres including Horror as you mention. Science Fiction &amp;amp; Westerns are genres that have produced many B-Movies. The Italians were famous for producing 'Peplum' movies - also known as 'Swords and Sandals' movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is true that there was a 'golden age' of B-Movies and that there are certain traits that might make you think 'this is a b-movie', but I do not think they would form a recognized genre in their own right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, director's would often know they were making a B-Movie - explicitly because it had a low budget and was destined to accompany a main feature.  This might impart some of the characteristics that people love or hate about B-Movies, but it doesn't make it a genre IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T18:25:31.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10753" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10755" CreationDate="2013-03-28T19:02:46.303" Score="5" ViewCount="1294" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; season 3 episode 12 &quot;Clear&quot;, Carl risks his life to get a picture of his deceased mother from the local watering hole. He describes it as the last surviving picture of Lori, and he wants his sister Judith to know what her mom looked like. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back in season 1, we know that Lori took her family photos with her when she was evacuated. In fact, Rick knew that his family left their house safely because all of their family albums were missing. When Rick and Lori are reunited again, they share a moment where they browse through those photos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So sometime between these two incidents the photos were either destroyed or misplaced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't remember, but were we ever shown what happened to the old Grimes family albums?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T13:51:23.293" Title="What happened to the family photos?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10200" CreationDate="2013-03-28T19:09:55.807" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The character was an agent for the government (as revealed in one of the alternate endings). Presumably she was shot once she was no longer needed after retrieving the information on the necklace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4468" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T19:09:55.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10753" CreationDate="2013-03-28T19:35:49.570" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming they were destroyed in Herschel's farmhouse fire that terminated the last season. Rick and Lorie were living there with Carl. They would not have been able to be retrieved as that season finale was devoted to escaping the zombie swarm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2013-03-28T19:35:49.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10756" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11247" CreationDate="2013-03-29T05:52:07.073" Score="15" ViewCount="58051" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory&quot;&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/a&gt;, do they shoot the show in front of a live studio audience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4469" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-03-29T13:36:02.037" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T21:06:27.437" Title="Is The Big Bang Theory shot in front of an audience?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10756" CreationDate="2013-03-29T08:53:18.873" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. While investigating anything regarding &quot;anything&quot;, you should have some look at the reviews or plot in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_big_bang_theory#Production&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;. I think a single quote is very much enough...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The show is filmed in front of a live audience&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the reference (23rd one) for your tickets: &lt;a href=&quot;http://the-big-bang-theory.com/tickets&quot;&gt;http://the-big-bang-theory.com/tickets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3675" LastActivityDate="2013-03-29T08:53:18.873" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10510" CreationDate="2013-03-29T21:49:19.660" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://jumperverse.wikia.com/wiki/Paladin#Power_Stick&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jumper Wiki&lt;/a&gt; describes the weapon as a &quot;Powerstick&quot;, probably not canon, but it's better than referring to it as &quot;that electricity weapon&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same wiki page describes the Paladin's (unnamed) jump-scar-opening machine as a &quot;Scar Ripper&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2116" LastActivityDate="2013-03-29T21:49:19.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10659" CreationDate="2013-03-29T21:59:25.553" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 3rd book: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2008/02/review_jumper_and_griffins_story_by_steven_gould/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jumper: Griffin's Story, reviewed here&lt;/a&gt;, released just before the film, incorporates more of the film's elements, most notably the Paladins (who weren't in the first 2 books).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This reveals that some Paladins can sense Jumpers if they're nearby when they jump.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In medieval times when towns, villages and populations were a lot smaller and without modern technology, this ability would have been crucial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2116" LastEditorUserId="2116" LastEditDate="2013-03-31T16:48:03.730" LastActivityDate="2013-03-31T16:48:03.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2306" CreationDate="2013-03-29T23:37:55.290" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is rather interesting. In the Brothers' Grimm, starring Matt Damon and Heath Ledger, the queen/witch ends up cracking, too, when her vanity mirror is smashed- she falls away just like her mirror. So when I saw Dark Shadows, I immediately thought of this movie, and I was curious as to why witches are viewed so differently in every tale. They always have a different aspect- some are immortal, some have eternal youth, some melt in water, some need to use spells, others just wave their hands, some are made of glass, some use wands, some ride on brooms, others just fly.... The list goes on. So I agree that there is a mythological license to be had when it comes to witches, and I think Burton did a brilliant job. In order to expose Angelique as a witch, Collins had to crack her neck, and show that she didn't die, but was instead made of glass and a hollow exterior. It was a very dramatic moment in the movie, and worked rather well to build up to the ultimate fight they had. It also supported the idea that she didn't have a heart- until she pulled it out and watched it shatter as she died. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My only question to add to this is that if she were hollow and made of glass, how is it that Collins didn't recognize it right away when he met her? Would her flesh really have been warm like a human's? Would she have a pulse? If one knocked on her, would she sound hollow? It doesn't really matter to the overall plot, but I am rather curious. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4477" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-08-26T07:49:06.110" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T07:49:06.110" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10767" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-30T03:35:23.150" Score="2" ViewCount="731" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jessica Rabbit sings &quot;Why Don't You Do Right?&quot; in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, who are the actual people who recorded the trio part (bass, drums, piano)? I've transcribed the piano fills and would love to be able to credit them to someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3726" LastActivityDate="2016-07-22T09:28:53.863" Title="Who/what band plays in Who Framed Roger Rabbit" Tags="|who-framed-roger-rabbit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3552" CreationDate="2013-03-30T11:44:00.633" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I too had this doubt and just realised this: the bat shown in the film ending is not black in colour...so it should have probably been synced with the other one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4479" LastActivityDate="2013-03-30T11:44:00.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10259" CreationDate="2013-03-30T13:44:52.220" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;em&gt;Dan&lt;/em&gt; provided a very good answer in his comment but refused to add it as a proper answer, I'll post it for that sake of completeness:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118571/faq?ref_=tt_faq_1#.2.1.2&quot;&gt;IMDB FAQ&lt;/a&gt; for the movie gives a good explanation for his motivation (and the reason it wasn't actually shown):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why did Agent Gibbs turn rogue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the script, Agent Gibbs was a CIA spook who was angry at his&#xA;  country. He knew the terrorists from his CIA days, so they included&#xA;  him in their operation. This scene was considered too long to tell, so&#xA;  it was cut from the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-03-30T13:44:52.220" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10771" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-30T19:23:22.327" Score="3" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen so far: Menace II Society (1993) and The Book of Eli (2010) by Hughes brothers. Both of the movies have strong references to religion. In case of Menace II Society it's Christianity and Islam, in case of The Book of Eli it's only the Christianity (I would even argue, that those references are very important for understanding the whole movie). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do all of the Hughes brothers' movies have religion references?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="925" LastActivityDate="2013-07-16T21:16:30.947" Title="Do all of the Hughes brothers' movies have religion references?" Tags="|reference|analysis|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10772" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-30T22:12:51.080" Score="15" ViewCount="13619" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I was watching The Sopranos S03E02. As you all know, &quot;Big Pussy&quot; Bonpensiero was killed somewhere in the end of season 2, but in season 3, I saw a really strange thing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C87Fx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Tony's mom's funeral, Tony, Christopher and Furio were talking at Tony's house and then we see Big Pussy in the mirror. He's dead and now I can see him in the mirror. Could anyone explain me what this means?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4481" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-06-30T00:14:15.383" LastActivityDate="2016-06-30T00:14:15.383" Title="Explain Bonpensiero's appearance in this scene?" Tags="|the-sopranos|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10775" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10778" CreationDate="2013-03-30T23:47:55.353" Score="10" ViewCount="2058" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm watching Lost for the second time and every time I watch an episode with the entire plot in mind I can see how the purgatory theory is one of the ones that most fits in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic idea is the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everybody died in the plain crash and they were &lt;em&gt;brought&lt;/em&gt; to the island because they all had something to complete before &lt;em&gt;moving on&lt;/em&gt;. The Dharma Initiative was a group of scientist that somehow made it to the purgatory to be able to exploit its &lt;em&gt;magic&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are few things that matches with this theory, the main ones, I can come up with, are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People gets &lt;em&gt;sick&lt;/em&gt; (like Ben) because that's not the place where they are supposed to be since they are &lt;em&gt;alive&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The healing capacities of the island (that healed John) is a metaphor of the fact that in a &lt;em&gt;soul trip&lt;/em&gt; the body doesn't have to weight.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the main proofs of this theory and what are the main against it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="751" LastEditorUserId="751" LastEditDate="2013-03-31T06:37:00.487" LastActivityDate="2016-06-11T21:26:31.820" Title="Lost purgatory theory" Tags="|lost|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10775" CreationDate="2013-03-31T08:37:59.253" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're looking for more definitive proof of your purgatory theory being valid. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say that it is a type of purgatory because in the finale, they all converge to a building and attend their own funeral. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Wikipedia (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purgatory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purgatory&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Purgatory is, according to Roman Catholic teaching, the state or place&#xA;  of purification or temporary punishment[1] by which those who die in a&#xA;  state of grace are believed to be made ready for the Beatific Vision&#xA;  in Heaven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looked to me as if they were all going to heaven. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found quite a few articles to support the purgatory. This one here &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.losttvfans.com/page/Purgatory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.losttvfans.com/page/Purgatory&lt;/a&gt; has some good points to support it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Purgatory would explains why women cannot give birth to children conceived on the island.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the episode “The Brig” when Sawyer asks John’s father, Anthony Cooper, how he got to the island, he explains that he was in a car accident and the next thing he knew, he was tied to a chair and gagged and looking at his “dead son”: John Locke. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sawyer asks if he thought Locke was dead because he threw him out of a window and Cooper replies: “He’s dead because a plane he was flying on crashed in the pacific.” Sawyer doesn’t believe him, then Cooper says: “If this isn’t hell, friend…then where are we?” &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In “A Man Behind The Curtain”, there are a few things that support the purgatory theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One is when Young Ben sees his mother, who died when he was born, on the island. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another is that when we see Richard in Ben’s flashbacks, he appears to be the same age then as he is now. Maybe he's not supposed to seem the same age but could it be because he is already dead? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Also, Jack sees his dead father. Kate sees a dead horse.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2013-03-31T08:37:59.253" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10627" CreationDate="2013-03-31T09:43:28.113" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that Lorelei wants to kill Red John herself before Jane gets his hand on Red John.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4485" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2013-04-01T00:38:10.127" LastActivityDate="2013-04-01T00:38:10.127" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10781" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-31T11:36:57.140" Score="9" ViewCount="1957" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454876/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Life of Pi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Pi wanted to believe in three religions (Hinduism, Christianity and Islam). But he is not aware of Buddhism. As I guess, in the movie the Buddhism is represented by the Buddhist Sailor (Zebra). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does that mean? Why Buddhism is kept away from Pi's knowledge (even though Buddhism originated in India)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="87" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-05-25T12:39:26.427" LastActivityDate="2017-05-25T12:39:26.427" Title="Religions mentioned in the &quot;Life of Pi&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|life-of-pi|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10781" CreationDate="2013-03-31T15:08:31.360" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not only Buddhism but there are many more religions left, too. Especially Sikhism which is far more famous religion. Even Jainism, as in India there are more followers of Jainism than Buddhism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fact is that India is too rich in religions, so it's harder to include them all in one single movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reason may be that the film was shot in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puducherry&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Puducherry&lt;/a&gt; (Pi's House) where Hinduism, Christianity and Islam are the prevalent religions. Showing Buddhism in Puducherry is going to be unrealistic as in Puducherry, as I know, Buddhism is not that popular.(&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.journeymart.com/de/india/puducherry/religion.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-05-25T12:39:13.197" LastActivityDate="2017-05-25T12:39:13.197" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="509" CreationDate="2013-03-31T15:37:06.967" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I think is that the &quot;good Jess&quot; is the only surviving Jess, at both the beginning, the &quot;exactly the same&quot; Jess mentioned that her kid was in school, which means, her son died. Therefore, at the first part of the movie (before the storm), there are actually two Jesses, one who was killed, and the one who killed. Therefore, the one who go on board at both the beginning and end was actually the same Jess. And no matter what, Jess from the other dimension goes onto the large ship died because of the &quot;good Jess&quot; (you can consider as the prime evil). But it also seems like, when the loop of the &quot;good Jess&quot; repeated, she lost some part of the memory, what I think the moment she lost the memory was after the dream on the boat Triangle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4488" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-30T18:41:51.433" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T18:41:51.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10784" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-03-31T16:23:48.047" Score="2" ViewCount="1886" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to find the script of D. W. Griffith's &lt;code&gt;Birth of a Nation&lt;/code&gt;, and it seems that nobody has it on the internet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a movie database out there from which I can get the text of old movies (silent movies)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually the technique is to show some text between scenes, but I need to find texts (analytical purposes) and I can't watch all of them, trying to extract the screenplay out of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="288" LastActivityDate="2013-03-31T20:23:53.937" Title="How to find the script (screenplay) of old silent movies?" Tags="|silent-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-11-26T08:03:10.663" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10784" CreationDate="2013-03-31T20:23:53.937" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer the first part of your question, there are a couple of decent resources for old movie scripts, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simplyscripts.com/genre/silent-movie-scripts.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Simply Scripts&lt;/a&gt; being a good one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Birth of a Nation, it was my understanding that Griffith did not commit a script &lt;em&gt;Per Se&lt;/em&gt; to paper, but rather had the whole film in his head at the time of shooting. The interstitial cards were added in retrospect to convey emotional moments, inner thoughts and extra exposition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-03-31T20:23:53.937" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10772" CreationDate="2013-03-31T20:37:52.197" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Big Pussy was killed by Tony, Pauli and Silvio for being an FBI informer - however he had been a very close friend to all of them, and it is hinted in the series that they are all bothered by their involvement in their killing of a friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pussy's appearance in the mirror is after Tony's mother's funeral, when clearly he would be thinking about the past and about death.  Throughout The Sopranos the importance of dreams and daydreams is explored - indeed Tony's final acceptance that Pussy might be an informer comes after a dream that he has where he has a conversation with Pussy as a fish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo6cNQwN6LQ&quot;&gt;Clip from YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is my interpretation of this appearance of Pussy, is that he is thinking / daydreaming about his old friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2013-03-31T20:37:52.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10781" CreationDate="2013-04-01T05:55:48.973" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the movie about capturing every single religion in India, you can bet that it would be lengthier than four hours. We are too diverse to be in one movie. Either way, it wouldn't be too logical that Pi would get impressed by Buddhist traditions since we have a very minor proportion of Buddhists. I guess the writer was being a realist and his intention was never to show every religion in India.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4431" LastActivityDate="2013-04-01T05:55:48.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3552" CreationDate="2013-04-01T06:10:24.353" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was never a &lt;strong&gt;single&lt;/strong&gt; bat. The armory had more than one and we can see that Bane uses them for city patrol. When the techs check the other bat, we see that it has been patched in the auto-pilot issue. But the thing is, Bruce Wayne wouldn't have a favorite Bat and use it every night. Being realistic, it's quite possible, damages occur and that he keeps switching between them, Hence he needs the auto-pilot fixed on all of them. And I don't think he was &lt;strong&gt;planning&lt;/strong&gt; on using it to destroy the bomb. It was fixed &lt;em&gt;six&lt;/em&gt; months ago, like the tech says. It was a spur-of-the-moment thing when Bruce saw his out and decided to take it. He saw Blake stand up to the bad guys and that's when he gave the co-ordinates of the cave to him. Then he just lies to Gordon ( or Catwoman ) about the auto-pilot and takes his way out of the crime-fighting business. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the bomb explosion being huge, so what? He just got off way ahead near the bay. They never did show the last few seconds ticking and Batman's face together. He had enough time (close to 40 seconds). And the speed with which Bat travels, say 250 m/s ( it's a futuristic plane, it could even be supersonic but we never saw the sonic-boom ), so 40 seconds counts for 10 km. Now that's pretty safe and far off. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4431" LastActivityDate="2013-04-01T06:10:24.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4426" CreationDate="2013-04-01T06:20:15.647" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Sam is struck by lighting, there is a double meaning. First, it is in reference to the &quot;electro-shock therapy&quot; which is mentioned several times earlier in the film. Secondly, it is to open the ending up for interpretation for the wide range of the intended audience; for the younger viewers, Sam survives and lives happily ever after, and for the more intellectual viewer, cinematic devices suggest that Sam is killed by the lightning and the rest of the film following the lightning strike is an 'out of body' experience or 'near to death' experience. (Often associated with a triggered release of chemicals in the pineal gland.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4493" LastActivityDate="2013-04-01T06:20:15.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10794" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10795" CreationDate="2013-04-01T11:00:37.543" Score="8" ViewCount="6910" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is that Sofia Vergara's original accent or is she doing it for the sake of playing the &lt;em&gt;Colombian&lt;/em&gt; character Gloria?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4450" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-04-02T05:14:26.700" LastActivityDate="2013-04-02T09:19:57.083" Title="Why does Sofia Vergara have an accent?" Tags="|analysis|modern-family|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10794" CreationDate="2013-04-01T11:23:44.040" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;To &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20317432,00.html&quot;&gt;quote &lt;strong&gt;Sofia Vergara&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; herself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;I go out to a mall or restaurant and when somebody hears me they'll go, 'Oh my God, it's your real accent'. I tell them, 'Yeah, I guess I'm not that good an actress!'&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Still, she admits, her comedic instincts may, at times, cause her to emphasize certain pronunciations &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;I do make the accent a little stronger.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/news/ni25843122/&quot;&gt;and:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;When I moved to L.A. and I wanted to act I did want to work on my accent... so I hired a speech coach. He was super-expensive.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;(I spent) hours and hours, because it's not like you can do it one time a week; you have to do it, like, five times a week, three hours a day... It was the money most thrown away (sic). I got worse. Look at me now.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Just like &lt;em&gt;Gloria&lt;/em&gt;, the character she plays, &lt;em&gt;Sofia Vergara&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005527/bio&quot;&gt;was born and raised&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;strong&gt;Colombia&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2013-04-02T09:19:57.083" LastActivityDate="2013-04-02T09:19:57.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5621" CreationDate="2013-04-01T13:10:33.857" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it might be a carbon capture system.  However, that could be contradicted by the clear lack of any sort of regulatory infrastructure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4495" LastActivityDate="2013-04-01T13:10:33.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10797" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-01T13:56:55.297" Score="2" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was this, one of the shows which had the best sci-fi plots, cancelled over 'V'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's even rated &lt;code&gt;7.5&lt;/code&gt; on IMDB, while we see many other lower-rated shows run for a long time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a chance that another network might bring this show back?  Has any other network mention the possibility?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4496" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T16:18:09.097" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T16:18:09.097" Title="Why was FlashForward Cancelled?" Tags="|flash-forward|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10797" CreationDate="2013-04-01T15:17:17.107" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show was cancelled due to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashForward#Reception&quot;&gt;plummeting ratings&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although launching to large audiences of 12.47 million viewers in the U.S., the show's ratings rapidly declined to ratings about one-third that figure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, &lt;em&gt;V&lt;/em&gt; managed to premiere with lower ratings, but they &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/flashforward-canceled-v-renewed-season-two-15478/&quot;&gt;lost less of their audience&lt;/a&gt; over time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On Tuesday, ABC Entertainment President Steve McPherson explained the difficult decision this way, “It was a ‘Sophie’s Choice.’ In the end, FlashForward didn’t engage audiences like we hoped. For V, I get more anecdotal calls and emails than any other show on the schedule. A huge part of rebuilding the network is about taking chances. Some shows just don’t work out.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that all of this happened 3 years ago, and there's been no news of a resurrection of the show, it's safe to assume it's not coming back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-04-01T15:17:17.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10799" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-01T19:48:19.820" Score="2" ViewCount="227" Body="&lt;p&gt;In movies, there are certain types of scenes where an actor/actress is standing facing the camera, in a hallway for example, and the hallway (or environment) is extruded or seems to get longer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to use LOTR as an example, when Frodo, Sam and the other two just got finished running from the farmer and they landed on the road. Frodo got spooked and when he looked down the road, it seemed to grow longer. He yelled at them and they hid under the tree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the name of this effect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-04-01T20:05:46.553" LastActivityDate="2013-04-01T20:18:10.923" Title="Name of special effect" Tags="|effects|cinematography|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-04-02T03:38:30.083" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1041" CreationDate="2013-04-01T20:02:57.993" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;NO, well I am not surprised by your question, it sure looks like a comedy when you watch it today but it was supposed to be a horror movie and it really was at the time.  Horror movies were not as realistic in 1981 as they are now. Today horror movies do not show ghost's face  directly they just create an ambiance where you would get sucked into the movie and get scared.&#xA;Coming back to your question, Evil Dead 1981 was a horror movie it was the first horror movie I watched as a kid in mid 90's when I was like 5-6 (had trouble sleeping for months). &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083907/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The IMDB&lt;/a&gt; mentions only one genere for this movie and that is &quot;Horror&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4498" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T06:49:28.550" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T06:49:28.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5687" CreationDate="2013-04-01T20:05:35.660" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's called a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_zoom&quot;&gt;Dolly zoom&lt;/a&gt;/Hitchcock zoom/Vertigo effect.  It's accomplished by zooming while moving the camera towards/away from the actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The dolly zoom is commonly used by filmmakers to represent the sensation of vertigo, a &quot;falling-away-from-oneself feeling&quot; or a feeling of unreality, or to suggest that a character is undergoing a realization that causes him or her to reassess everything he or she had previously believed. After Hitchcock popularized the effect (he used it again for a climactic revelation in Marnie), the technique was used by many other filmmakers, and eventually became regarded as a gimmick or cliché. This was especially true after director Steven Spielberg repopularized the effect in his highly regarded film Jaws, in a memorable shot of a dolly zoom into Police Chief Brody's (Roy Scheider) stunned reaction at the climax of a shark attack on a beach (after a suspenseful build-up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-04-01T20:18:10.923" LastActivityDate="2013-04-01T20:18:10.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10807" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-02T15:48:30.090" Score="12" ViewCount="2761" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for the name of a movie I vaguely remember watching around 1997.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot was about a man being washed up on a beach with memory loss. He's taken in by a woman  who is a psychology student/enthusiast and trying to analyze him and help him get his memory back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: &#xA;I think the movie was taking place in the UK, but I'm not 100% sure about that. The movie wasn't based on real events, and he gets his memory back in the end. The sea theme is very prominent in the movie, and I think the last shot of the movie is an empty, stormy beach. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the name of the movie might have included 'sea' or 'memory' but so far I haven't found anything in that direction.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4504" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T18:20:38.117" LastActivityDate="2017-03-17T01:06:03.803" Title="Man washes up on a beach without memory" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:43:54.010" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10816" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10817" CreationDate="2013-04-03T14:51:42.103" Score="9" ViewCount="889" Body="&lt;p&gt;Season 7 started on September 1, 2012 and ran for 5 weeks. They didn't start the season again for 6 months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All previous seasons ran in sequence without a large gap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any reason why they broke up season 7?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T05:41:44.330" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T05:41:44.330" Title="Why did Doctor Who (2005) Season 7 go off air for 6 months?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10816" CreationDate="2013-04-03T15:19:32.817" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Budget issues.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digitalspy.com/british-tv/s7/doctor-who/news/a210201/doctor-who-cuts-force-creativity.html&quot;&gt;Since&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/04/15/the-doctor-who-budget-scandal-of-2010/&quot;&gt;2010&lt;/a&gt;, BBC's budget for &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; has been shrinking, causing issues for the series.  One of the efforts to deal with the issue is to spread out production and airing of the show, decreasing the number of episodes made each year.  This is why &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doctor_who_episodes#Eleventh_Doctor&quot;&gt;Series 6 and 7&lt;/a&gt; have done the 'split season' thing, airing half a season, then airing the rest a few months later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-04-03T15:25:06.543" LastActivityDate="2013-04-03T15:25:06.543" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10818" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10820" CreationDate="2013-04-03T15:25:02.820" Score="7" ViewCount="448" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Doctor Who, season three episode one, the episode titled &quot;Smith and Jones&quot;, the doctor lets the plasmavore suck out his blood in order for it to be captured, and passes out from the blood loss.  Martha comes to his rescue and performs cpr, but in the middle of it she somehow realized that he had two hears, and starts pumping his chest in two locations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was confused as to how she knew he had two hearts.  How did she know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="41652" LastEditDate="2016-11-07T05:05:41.167" LastActivityDate="2016-11-07T05:05:41.167" Title="How did Martha Jones know he had two hearts?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10816" CreationDate="2013-04-03T15:31:39.600" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s7/doctor-who/news/a382427/steven-moffat-on-doctor-who-sherlock-and-his-bafta-special-award.html&quot;&gt;interview with &lt;strong&gt;Steven Moffat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(May 2012)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are going to be five Doctor Who episodes in the autumn, then a Christmas special, then eight more in 2013 - what was the thinking behind that structure?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I don't know, on this occasion, that the thinking particularly came from me, actually. I've always been open to anything that shakes [the series] up. I think that decision actually came from the BBC.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;I've been well up for anything that we can do to shake up the transmission pattern, the way we deliver it to the audience and how long we make the audience wait, simply because that makes 'Doctor Who' an event piece.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The more 'Doctor Who' becomes a perennial, the faster it starts to die. ''You've got to shake it up, you've got to keep people on edge and wondering when it will come back.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;'Sherlock' is the prime example, as far as that goes. 'Sherlock' almost exists on starving its audience. By the time it came back this year, 'Sherlock' was like a rock star re-entering the building!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So keeping 'Doctor Who' as an event, and never making people feel, 'Oh, it's lovely, reliable old Doctor Who - it'll be on about this time, at that time of year'. Once you start to do that, just slowly, it becomes like any much-loved ornament in your house - ultimately invisible. And I don't want that to ever be the case.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-04-03T15:31:39.600" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10818" CreationDate="2013-04-03T15:36:37.850" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of the episode when The Doctor was &quot;admitted&quot; in the hospital and Martha's class group was making their rounds, Martha volunteered to do the assessment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Martha came under ridicule because when she went to listen for a heartbeat, she discovered one on both sides of The Doctor's chest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During this final scene, Martha remembers this and performs CPR properly on the Time Lord.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-04-03T15:36:37.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10807" CreationDate="2013-04-03T20:16:46.543" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112904/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Driftwood&lt;/a&gt; (1997)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Sarah walks alone along the desolate beach one day she find an&#xA;unconscious man, who has been brought to land by the waves. When he&#xA;awakens he doesn't remember anything. He has no name and no past. His&#xA;dependence lies on Sarah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its also set in Northern Ireland which jibes with what you're remembering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="576" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-04-03T20:16:46.543" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3473" CreationDate="2013-04-04T05:47:04.513" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other answers haven't mentioned the exact scene in which Fox tells Batman about the Kevlar. It's pretty much self-explanatory. In Batman Begins, this is this exchange;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fox&lt;/strong&gt;: Nomex survival suit for advanced infantry. Kevlar bi-weave, reinforced joints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bruce&lt;/strong&gt;: Tear-resistant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fox&lt;/strong&gt;: This sucker will stop a knife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bruce&lt;/strong&gt;: Bulletproof?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fox&lt;/strong&gt;: Anything but a straight shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's almost like Nolan was indicating something about Batman getting stabbed later in the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4431" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T23:03:47.530" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="387" CreationDate="2013-04-04T05:50:27.880" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Abe and Aaron first exit the box together, they get into the vehicle to talk about it. The audience is left wondering &quot;where did Abe get the funding to build such a thing?&quot;. At that moment, Abe's Cellphone rings, he picks up and says &quot;Hi Rachel&quot;. At this point, we dont know how many times the box has been used (once at least, as we saw an Abe clone entering), but I wonder if Abe already went to Granger, got his approval, ran a few tests, and got the funding, thus showing Aaron the results?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4513" LastActivityDate="2013-04-04T05:50:27.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10831" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10839" CreationDate="2013-04-05T12:30:59.827" Score="16" ViewCount="7312" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where I am (which I won't specify), there are a couple of free-to-air movie channels. However, almost every movie I watch has the boring bit of the credits cut off. That is, if there are bloopers with the credits (like in Rush Hour), or the first couple of credits are done in a creative/interesting way (like in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, with the burnt paper), they do show those credits. But they cut it off when it comes to the black background and white text credits roll, either by editing it to skip to the end, or just abruptly ending it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand that most people ignore credits anyway, and they're cutting it off to save time (although personally I sometimes like listening to the credits music). However, I wanted to know, is it legal? From my point of view, everybody who worked on the film has a right to have their name shown at the end, and whether they're acknowledged by the viewer or not should be the viewer's choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, now that I think about it, the cinema a go to occasionally also cuts off the credits in the same way. This surely isn't legal, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4522" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-04-26T16:34:41.560" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T16:34:41.560" Title="Is it legal to cut off the credits when showing a movie on TV?" Tags="|credits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2903" CreationDate="2013-04-05T12:31:36.987" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to add a bit to TylerShads answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another difference is Tara, in the books she is wealthy and owns a clothes-store.  Bill is very far from King or a Vampire-leader in the books (unlike Eric, who is at least Sheriff in both).  Other characters too are quite different in the books than in the show - or at lest diverges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series have taken elements and scenes from the books - along with more or less the overall arch (like Sookie ending up with Eric) - but the books are more self-contained.  E.g in one book Sookie is at a vampire-convention and meets someone who can also read minds... in another, she gets involved with werewolfs...  In the books things are resolved once and for all and the characters are not heard from again, while in the show the characters lingers and new issues pops-up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4521" LastActivityDate="2013-04-05T12:31:36.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10767" CreationDate="2013-04-05T14:36:56.530" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096438/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the film's page on IMDB&lt;/a&gt;, the following musicians are credited:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James Thatcher  ....    musician: French horn&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chuck Domanico  ....    musician: bass (uncredited)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Greg Fulginiti  ....    music engineer (uncredited)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tom Scott   ....    musician: saxaphone (uncredited)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tommy Tedesco   ....    musician: guitar (uncredited) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allmusic.com/album/who-framed-roger-rabbit-original-soundtrack-mw0000199720&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Allmusic.com&lt;/a&gt; credits the London Symphony Orchestra with all of the tracks in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4523" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-07-22T09:28:53.863" LastActivityDate="2016-07-22T09:28:53.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10831" CreationDate="2013-04-05T16:06:32.527" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any movie (or TV show) broadcast on TV (or in a cinema for that matter) will be subject to whatever provisions the copyright holder decided in the contract.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many movies are censored or edited when shown on TV so clearly it isn't illegal in general to cut credits. The studios most likely have a standard contract that allows for some basic cuts. Technically they could decide any conditions they felt like, but they would be much less likely to get any &quot;buyers&quot; for the broadcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastActivityDate="2013-04-05T16:06:32.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10831" CreationDate="2013-04-06T00:50:24.733" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally speaking it is not legal to cut any part of a film for broadcasting, but it is done when a legal contract states it's allowed. Most broadcast companies seek permission to do the following.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Edit the film to adjust the viewing aspect ratio (example; &quot;This film has been formatted to fit your television screen&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They can bleep or cut out scenes that don't meet the networks viewer rating (example; remove scenes from a horror film to make it PG rated).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They can speed up the end credits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They can show credits in a picture-in-picture format.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you see a film shown on television without the end credits. Often you can find that information on the network's website or in the printed television guide. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2013-04-06T00:50:24.733" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1319" CreationDate="2013-04-06T02:09:02.960" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;searching key words &quot;wwe real steel&quot; brought me here.  i was curious about the exact same thing, but the reference that really got me marking out was the reference to where Atom hails from, and it was cited as &quot;parts unknown&quot;, which is exactly how The Ultimate Warrior and Kane (half-brother of The Undertaker) are billed in the WWE.  Chris Jericho, at one point, even referenced it and said he's terrified of wrestlers who hail from &quot;Parts Unknown.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'm pretty convinced that taking elements from prowrestling/WWE was intentional.  I want to make it clear that I'm completely aware that the movie is about robot that uses a &quot;boxing&quot; style of fighting, but the element of gimmicks (dancing robot), baby face/heel competitors (Atom is cheered, Zeus is booed), the use of a femme fatale authority figure/valet, the father (money)/daughter(brains)/fighter(brawn) combo as dictating the shots in the league is like a reference to vince/stephanie/hhh management.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the technical parts are expressly based on wrestling, but the &quot;drama&quot;, &quot;entertainment&quot; and &quot;exhibition&quot;/&quot;showmanship&quot; elements are all implicitly prowrestling.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4527" LastEditorUserId="4527" LastEditDate="2013-04-06T02:17:21.423" LastActivityDate="2013-04-06T02:17:21.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1166" CreationDate="2013-04-06T02:14:07.493" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's possible the that the mask Louis received was from the prison -- they sent it to him so he would know his brother is dead. This is why there is ash (or something like it) on the mask when Louis picks it up, it was from when the corpse was burned. Anne is crying afterwards because she thinks her son is dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still though, there was no charring on the mask and it all seems a bit out of place... that's why I'm here I suppose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4528" LastActivityDate="2013-04-06T02:14:07.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7940" CreationDate="2013-04-06T05:29:44.263" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;He needed James Bond to come after him so he could be &quot;captured“. This allows him to be close enough to kill M during her hearing. This is why he had someone steal the hard drive which led Bond to the poor, helpless woman. It was all a trap for Bond and ultimately M, from the beginning. It had nothing to do with the ease or difficulty of getting a list of names and locations of deep cover agents. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3209" LastActivityDate="2013-04-06T05:29:44.263" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="142" CreationDate="2013-04-06T08:04:05.317" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This ending was unacceptable because Cruise clearly showed he was a top notch hitman. I'm not gonna believe for one second that he can take out like at least 5 trained Federal agents in the club scene and then get killed by a taxi driver. The transformation of the Jamie Foxx in the movie from an everyday guy to a badass in one night is completely unrealistic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4529" LastEditorUserId="105" LastEditDate="2013-04-06T09:07:57.703" LastActivityDate="2013-04-06T09:07:57.703" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10845" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-06T16:29:02.760" Score="7" ViewCount="8048" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could not understand the significance of the last scene in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1068680/&quot;&gt;Yes Man&lt;/a&gt; where we see spectators to the show came to attend the show nudely. Is there any meaning of this scene? Did Carl do it to humiliate in someway Terrace, the host of the show, to make him understand his philosophy is only half-true? I did not understand this part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastActivityDate="2013-04-06T21:33:53.357" Title="Significance of the last scene of &quot;Yes Man&quot;" Tags="|yes-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9792" CreationDate="2013-04-06T16:50:02.053" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sees from the movie that at first Carl was like other people, natural. But his break up with his girlfriend left him wounded. He decided to somehow punish himself by locking himself up from everybody. Thus he was becoming antisocial day-by-day. It was not like he was doing this unknowingly. Rather this part of him was being made by himself intentionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was so busy keeping himself from others that he even forgot to attend Pete's engagement party. So when Pete visited him and rebuked him on his deliberated ignorance to others, it shook his mind. Later he also had a nightmare in this depicting nobody would regret even his death if he continues to be such a jerk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he thought to give the show a shot because his friend Nick earlier that day described him how the show changed his life and filled it with excitement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it was not like he was ready to accept its philosophy, but the visit was on a check-only basis merely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-25T14:58:22.157" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T14:58:22.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8052" CreationDate="2013-04-06T18:52:58.200" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the bulldog could be a reference to the world war days and the determination of the Brits, especially with the mention of Churchill's tunnels; however, the overall underline reason for the dog is because M and Bond are both old dogs in a new world. Bond doesn't like the dog because it reminds him of this. When Bond first returns after his death, M and him have the dialog, &quot;You know the rules of the game; we've both been playing long enough.&quot; To which bond replies, &quot;So this is it; we're both played out.&quot; Bond and M are cut from the same cloth, kindred spirits, a throw back to an earlier time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is echoed when Eve gives Bond a close shave and says, &quot;Old dog, new tricks.&quot; This is also a reference to the reboot of the Bond series: an old character being presented in a new way. Which is further explored in the introduction of a new pimple faced Q. Exploding pens, &quot;We don't really go in for that anymore.&quot; &quot;A brave new world,&quot; Bond replies. And then when Bond goes old school with his gadget car, he return briefly to the old Bond ways (but still done in an updated way). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4531" LastActivityDate="2013-04-06T18:52:58.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10849" CreationDate="2013-04-06T20:05:17.767" Score="7" ViewCount="2868" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Parks and Recreation episode 'Halloween Surprise' (season 5, episode 5), Leslie and Ann don two distinctive costumes (see screen grabs), Is Leslie supposed to be from some wartime effort poster or Lucille Ball, and who is Ann supposed to represent as she looks like an Olympic Gold medalist?&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/brkkI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Leslie&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9WXiG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ann&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2013-04-07T19:25:01.243" LastActivityDate="2013-04-07T19:25:01.243" Title="What were the Halloween costumes that Leslie and Ann used in Parks &amp; Rec episode 'Halloween Surprise'?" Tags="|character|parks-and-recreation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10848" CreationDate="2013-04-06T20:22:01.473" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leslie is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_the_Riveter&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rosie the Riveter&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/664iM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Rosie&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ann is (&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/iamrashidajones/status/261645896343773184&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;according to Rashida Jones&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;dressed as gold medalist and powerhouse &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabby_Douglas&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gabby Douglas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pkOnJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Gabby&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-04-06T20:22:01.473" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9826" CreationDate="2013-04-06T20:25:56.940" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might be the opening scenes of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Solaris&lt;/em&gt; (1972)&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;em&gt;Andrei Tarkovsky&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4533" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-07T00:20:24.117" LastActivityDate="2013-04-07T00:20:24.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10845" CreationDate="2013-04-06T21:33:53.357" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You see him just before that scene donating a large amount of clothing to a charity. It's his way of taking revenge on the philosophy/person that nearly destroyed his life (but also kind of made it). He just used the blind obedience of the Yes-people to have them donating to the charity. It shows Terrance that he should mention to his followers the stuff he said to Carl in the hospital. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2013-04-06T21:33:53.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8278" CreationDate="2013-04-06T21:38:07.230" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ever since hearing this theory a couple years back, I've been quite fond and supportive of it: while there are definite instances of supposed continuity, I was presented with the theory that &quot;James Bond,&quot; much like 007, is just a code name. I believe it was actually an article on cracked.com. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/article/18367_6-insane-fan-theories-that-actually-make-great-movies-better/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yes, here it is:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When the 007 franchise launched in 1962, Sean Connery was 32 when he&#xA;  received his license to kill. That was almost 50-years ago, and James&#xA;  Bond has aged like a fine Beaujolais spiked with antifreeze. How is&#xA;  the same 30-something special agent who fought the Cold War-era&#xA;  Russians now taking on post-9/11 terrorism? The Theory: There has been&#xA;  a theory among fans that there is no one single James Bond, but that&#xA;  &quot;James Bond&quot; is a codename passed on from one agent to the next as&#xA;  each retires (just as the titles of M and Q pinball from agent to&#xA;  agent). The theory explains the agelessness of Bond--note that Daniel&#xA;  Craig's Bond became 11 years younger whereas Judi Dench's M aged by&#xA;  four years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This also explains how James Bond's personality changes dramatically&#xA;  from actor to actor. For example, in one film you have Timothy&#xA;  Dalton's Bond burning a man alive (around the 9:00 mark). Pop in&#xA;  another DVD and you see Roger Moore's Bond is doddering around in a&#xA;  clown costume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The more you look into it, the more it makes sense. George Lazenby's&#xA;  Bond had his wife murdered in the last film he appeared in, so fans&#xA;  could assume that his 007 retired out of grief. Timothy Dalton's Bond&#xA;  went rogue and was kicked out of MI6. Pierce Brosnan's final outing&#xA;  ended with Bond being abandoned by British intelligence. Next movie,&#xA;  there's a new Bond in the tuxedo and the old one is presumably on a&#xA;  beach somewhere collecting a government pension. Hell, even the guy&#xA;  who directed Die Another Day believed this theory. Wait, that was the&#xA;  Bond movie with the invisible car, right? Fuck that guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why Does it Make the Film Better? We like the realism that this theory&#xA;  gives the Bond franchise, particularly since 007 movies have the&#xA;  propensity to fly off the rails every few years (see: Moonraker,&#xA;  Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist, that invisible fucking car).&#xA;  On the downside, it throws a real monkey wrench in Cracked's patent&#xA;  pending &quot;James Bond Immortality Diet,&quot; in which we advise you to&#xA;  hydrate solely with Gordon's and Lillet and to bed at least three&#xA;  secretaries daily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While clearly from a comedy site of less than mature writing practices, this is definitely a reasonable theory with the support presented.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4534" LastEditorUserId="28201" LastEditDate="2015-11-28T06:35:23.643" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T06:35:23.643" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10855" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10859" CreationDate="2013-04-07T02:50:13.343" Score="9" ViewCount="5297" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw part of a show sometime in the 80s (early or late, I couldn't say) that I have been trying to remember for some time.  Figured I never would, because no Google search I ever tried had ever turned up anything, but then the other day a friend mentioned the same show that he had been trying to remember, which rekindled my interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what I remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A family is going somewhere with a pyramid (Egypt, museum, etc) and in the process they get lost and come out in an alternate world.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When they come out, they are lined up with others who are &quot;just starting out&quot; as well.  The dad asks one of the people in charge if they all came through the pyramid but does not get a real answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We learn later that the other people are actually robots/androids.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a teenage boy in the family who starts to fall for one of the other &quot;people&quot; but gets upset when he finds out she is not really human.  During their &quot;breakup&quot;, she makes a comment like, &quot;If you prick us do we not bleed?&quot; and he responds, &quot;Yeah, battery acid!&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The real human family ends up escaping the town, narrowly avoiding the &quot;robot police&quot; who want to &quot;dismantle&quot; them.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's about all that I remember.  I'm pretty sure it was TV, not movie, and that is where the episode ended.  I think it was supposed to be part of a new series at the time, something like a Twilight Zone, but I don't know if it continued much beyond that episode.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4525" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T08:58:38.240" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T08:58:38.240" Title="1980s sci-fi show about a family transported through a pyramid?" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:53:35.487" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10857" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10861" CreationDate="2013-04-07T06:09:49.087" Score="4" ViewCount="671" Body="&lt;p&gt;While talking to my daughter about the Doctor Series, in general, I made an observation that made me wonder if anyone noticed that the Doctors of the Doctor Who series, past and present, made a bold identification of themselves as the Doctor who is an alien.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do know that David Tenant version, he made a clearer picture of how old he is and all the extra meaning needed to identify himself as a timelord.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4034" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2013-04-07T19:22:37.407" LastActivityDate="2017-03-11T03:27:39.607" Title="Do the Doctors in the Doctor Who series identified themselves well?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2022-04-28T08:35:06.000" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2308" CreationDate="2013-04-07T09:03:06.700" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Button eyes are most often used on dolls, just as is shown in the introduction to the film.  The Other Mother is a being who derives most of her power to &quot;spin&quot; the other world as she pleases from the domination of other living things; she primarily sees human beings as playthings when they're not nourishment.  Allowing her to sew buttons into your eyes is another way of saying you allow her to take control of you and make you into an object for her amusement, eventually to be used up and discarded when she tires of you just as a child tires of a toy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4538" LastActivityDate="2013-04-07T09:03:06.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10855" CreationDate="2013-04-07T10:54:04.677" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherworld_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Otherworld&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1985):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LTEAU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Otherworld&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.losttv-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=3184051&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... &lt;strong&gt;the Sterling family take a tour of the interior of the Great Pyramid of Giza&lt;/strong&gt; at the same time as a once-in-ten-thousand-years conjunction of the planets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inside, they are abandoned by their guide, and as they try to get out, &lt;strong&gt;they are mysteriously transported to another planet which may or may not be in a parallel universe&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is mention in the first episode of a race of humans that created primitive robots and then died out. Eventually &lt;strong&gt;the robots became bored and evolved themselves through continued upgrades and modifications until they created what is known as a plasmoid being: an android that was a biomechanical equivalent of a true human in almost every aspect.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NskxBVKpUYc&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watch a few clips and the &lt;em&gt;Intro&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-04-07T10:54:04.677" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8052" CreationDate="2013-04-07T16:59:19.460" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The dog represents Bond and the hate/love relationship between him and M.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;M feels responsible for turning Bond into the cold, detached (ugly) agent that he's become, and that, combined with the fact that he's so good at it, is why she refuses to let him go. Hence, why the dog is so ugly and why she insists on keeping it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bond, on the other hand, would rather be somewhere else, but, at the same time he feels that it's his responsibility to protect M (which is the reason why he returned from being &quot;dead&quot;). This is why he hates the dog, and why he'd rather her threw it out. This is also the likely reason why the figurine is a dog and not something else. Just like a dog, Bond will stay by M's side until the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dog surviving the explosion makes this even more obvious. It, just like Bond (and his relationship with M), seems to survive pretty much anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving the dog for Bond is M's way of not only getting the last word in their never-ending quarrel, but also to remind him that, while he might be an ugly dog, he's UK's ugly dog (the fact that the dog is an &lt;em&gt;English Bulldog&lt;/em&gt; draped in a UK flag indicates that it's not just about M, but the entire country), and they still need him despite that she's now gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2014-12-12T16:26:12.607" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T16:26:12.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10857" CreationDate="2013-04-07T17:04:23.617" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; refers to how characters identify the David Tenant character and past actors who have played the time lord.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Doctor&lt;/em&gt; is the &lt;em&gt;title&lt;/em&gt; that the time lord uses to identify himself, and this started way back in the first Doctor Who film back in 1965 called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Who_and_the_Daleks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dr. Who and the Daleks&lt;/a&gt;. In the beginning, the &lt;em&gt;Doctor&lt;/em&gt; reference was regarded as a &lt;em&gt;Ph.D.&lt;/em&gt; title since the time traveler was an inventor who invented a time machine, and went on an adventure with his family. In the film his last name was actually &quot;Who&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film versions are slightly different from the original 1963 television shows that introduced the time lord. There he is referred to as &quot;The Doctor&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's only later that the BBC combined the two to create the name &quot;Doctor Who&quot; as the main character, rather than a show title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Lord&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;time lord&lt;/a&gt; to be featured in the series is the &lt;em&gt;The Master&lt;/em&gt;. So they are not referred to as &quot;Doctors&quot;. Only the main character is &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To refer to multiple time lords you would call them &lt;em&gt;Gallifreyans&lt;/em&gt;, since they come from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallifrey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gallifrey&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Doctor does have a real name, but it's never been revealed in the show. That's part of the mystery of the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="2155" LastEditDate="2013-04-07T18:40:34.303" LastActivityDate="2013-04-07T18:40:34.303" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2013-04-07T19:15:47.180" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that you are not supposed to interpret a director's work as their autobiography, but if you read a little about Terrence Malick I think it becomes clear that he has included many elements of his own life. His brother was a creative, sensitive guitar player who committed suicide at about 19 or 20. The movie often shows a young boy with significant burns on the side of his head, and Terrence Malick's other brother was also burned. There is also a suggestion of a noose in the beginning of the movie. Because of the evidence, I think it is reasonable to assume that R.L. committed suicide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4542" LastActivityDate="2013-04-07T19:15:47.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10866" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10885" CreationDate="2013-04-07T21:02:23.110" Score="3" ViewCount="5479" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have gone through 1 1/4 seasons of Mad Men. I saw the nurse take the baby away from a disinterested Peggy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not asking for a spoiler. I would like to know if they had simply let the future of the baby hang as a mystery, or if the child would emerge in later seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1627" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-04-15T20:53:47.583" LastActivityDate="2013-04-15T21:01:08.117" Title="What happens to Peggy Olsen's baby?" Tags="|mad-men|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10741" CreationDate="2013-04-08T04:11:33.860" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This took some hunting, since the Coen Brothers are notoriously interview-shy, but the answer to your question would be No. The Coen Brothers find inspiration from a wide range of sources, more often classic movies than classic literature. From a variety of web-based reviews and sources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blood Simple - the works of crime fiction writer James M McCain&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Crimewave - the Three Stooges&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Raising Arizona - combining influences from Tex Avery cartoons, Sam&#xA;Raimi horror movies and 1940s B-movies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Miller's Crossing - loosely inspried by Dashiell Hammett's &lt;em&gt;The Glass Key&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Barton Fink - Clifford Odets, William Faulkner&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Hudsucker Proxy - the films of Preston Sturges like &lt;em&gt;Christmas in July&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Sullivan's Travels&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fargo - a 1986 murder of Helle Crafts whose husband disposed of her&#xA;body through a wood chipper&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Big Lebowski - loosely based on the work of Raymond Chandler&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Naked Man - none found&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;O Brother, Where Art Thou? Homer's &lt;em&gt;Odyssey&lt;/em&gt;, though they admit to having never read it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Man Who Wasn't There - inspired by a poster the Coen Brothers saw&#xA;depicting haircuts of the 40s, and the work of James M Cain and&#xA;possibly Albert Camus' &lt;em&gt;The Stranger&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Intolerable Cruelty - inspired by screwball comedies fo the 40s&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Ladykillers - inspired by the 1955 British comedy with Alec Guinness&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No Country for Old Men - a 2005 novel by Cormac McCarthy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Burn After Reading - inspired by Stansfield Turner's book of the same&#xA;name&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Serious Man - the Book of Job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;True Grit - &lt;em&gt;True Grit&lt;/em&gt;, the book and the movie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gambit - remake of 1966 film&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Inside Llewyn Davis - loosely based on Dave von Ronk's posthumous&#xA;memoir &lt;em&gt;The Mayor of McDougal Street&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-04-08T04:11:33.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10871" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-08T05:18:36.323" Score="1" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;The Hobbit&quot;, the party finds a troll's cave with a stash in it. They find a few swords of elvish make, and on the way out Gandolf finds a short sword to give to Bilbo. When he hands it to Bilbo, he tells him, &quot;it's made from elvish steel which means it will glow when orcs and goblins are near by&quot;. His statement was broad, not specific to the sword that he was giving Bilbo, yet the other swords (the one Gandolf had as well as the goblin cleaver) did not glow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What gives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2013-04-08T05:18:36.323" Title="Why did only Bilbo's sword glow?" Tags="|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2013-04-08T13:18:45.620" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8694" CreationDate="2013-04-08T17:59:45.213" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The basis for Jeanie not giving up Ferris is quite simple, if maybe 2-part:&#xA;  You have a person in your group not well liked and it shows. Some outside your group wants to abuse that person. It becomes territorial. &quot;He maybe a jerk, but he's our jerk&quot;.&#xA;Mixed in with that a bit of the enemy of my enemy is my friend.  Basic? No doubt. Simple? Yes indeed, as are most truths in life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4553" LastActivityDate="2013-04-08T17:59:45.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8936" CreationDate="2013-04-08T21:04:47.917" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming we're talking about the 2012 Total Recall. The SWAT team arrives because Lori---constantly surveilling Quaid---knew that Quaid participating in Rekall would &quot;pop his memory cap&quot; and reveal that his implanted memories were fakes.  Remember that Lori has absolutely no idea why she's handling Quaid or what his purpose is.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yeah, while Quaid going rogue and attempting to contact the resistance was Cohagen's (and, I guess, pre-memory screwery Quaid's) plan, Lori had no knowledge of any of this.  So she sicked the SWAT team on Rekall.  One assumes, to stop the memory implanting procedure before it happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4554" LastActivityDate="2013-04-08T21:04:47.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10878" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-08T21:35:58.663" Score="8" ViewCount="9950" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dragon_Ball_Z_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dragon Ball Z&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has been telecasting on Cartoon Network India for many years. Previously, it stopped telecasting in the middle of Season 1. Then, it disappeared for years and then repeated the telecast up until the middle of the Frieza saga. The same happened with the Cell saga, up to the last run, where it stops before the Kid Buu episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the reason for the disappearance of the show midseason every time? Why not complete the full run of a season, even when the remaining episodes are easily available on the internet? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some rumors that it's because of the violent content or promotion of Indian made cartoons. But I am searching for true reason behind it .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="42655" LastEditDate="2017-08-20T19:34:05.430" LastActivityDate="2017-08-20T19:34:05.430" Title="Why do Dragon Ball Z episodes always stop mid-season in India?" Tags="|dragon-ball-z|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12895" CreationDate="2013-04-09T03:57:33.627" Score="10" ViewCount="3025" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched &lt;em&gt;The Cloud Atlas&lt;/em&gt; many times, but still am completely perplexed as to why Sonmi is considered at all important to either the Union or Unanimity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point her love interest mentions something about Free Will, but even if the other fabricant were designed without this I do not see how this would make her important to the Purebloods. Sure, she becomes some sort of philosopher, but she was not before, and why would they need one anyways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was her creation somehow tampered with by the union to create whatever was unique about her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://cloudatlas.wikia.com/wiki/Sonmi-451&quot;&gt;It appears&lt;/a&gt; that the novel version of her story has her play a far lower key role, and does not portray her as some key piece in some underground resistance. This summary describes her uniqueness as being simply the only replicant that is capable of learning and remembering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4556" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-05-04T03:04:04.403" LastActivityDate="2013-08-02T03:24:08.963" Title="Why was Sonmi important?" Tags="|plot-explanation|cloud-atlas|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10880" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10893" CreationDate="2013-04-09T06:17:03.483" Score="6" ViewCount="349" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 6, Episode 1 of Mad Men, Don is observed watching something on the television.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TcsY6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a symbolic importance to what is on the television? Given that we're shown what it is, I doubt it is just casually thrown on the TV for no reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2013-04-10T03:06:09.410" Title="What movie is Don watching?" Tags="|mad-men|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10882" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10892" CreationDate="2013-04-09T10:17:56.017" Score="0" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to remember a quote from the Australian crime movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1313092/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Animal Kingdom&lt;/a&gt;, which I don't have a copy of to hand. It's where the narrator (Joshua) is describing/introducing Craig - he says something to the effect of 'He lived like there was always something just in front of him, just out of reach.' I'm trying to find out exactly what it was because it's a brilliant quote - if anyone could help me out with the wording, and maybe point me in the direction of a source, I would be very grateful! Cheers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4557" LastEditorUserId="55668" LastEditDate="2019-01-23T18:14:01.890" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T18:14:01.890" Title="Narration from 'Animal Kingdom'" Tags="|dialogue|animal-kingdom-2010|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10883" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-09T11:37:42.013" Score="5" ViewCount="311" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2046090/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The End&lt;/em&gt; (2012)&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;Fin&lt;/em&gt; (original title), the main characters see a person standing at the top of a mountain. They shout and wave at the person, but the person doesn't react and leaves a few seconds later. We know it's not Angel, and there are apparently no other survivors, except for the girl near the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is that person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2021-01-21T14:33:12.603" LastActivityDate="2024-02-05T20:04:05.487" Title="Who stands at the top of the mountain in The End (Fin)?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-end|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10866" CreationDate="2013-04-09T13:23:44.067" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The baby does not disappear from the series. All I can tell you. No point in writing any spoilers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastActivityDate="2013-04-09T13:23:44.067" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10879" CreationDate="2013-04-09T14:19:54.083" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on how the novel handles it, I think I am capable of making a guess.&#xA;The Union view the fabricant system as some sort of slavery, and getting rid of this is their only/most important goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Theoretically, they modify Sonmi in some way to give her the ability to learn (they only mention &quot;free will&quot; in the film). Because, for some reason, they believe that only a fabricant should be able to philosophize about fabricant rights. They do not seem to show any of these fabricant rights in the film, but in the novel apparently her only major achievement is writing a fabricant bill of rights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does not really make any sense. The fabricant system has many similarities to modern animal husbandry, but no one would suggest that we would need to make a super intelligent cow to create a cow bill of rights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4556" LastActivityDate="2013-04-09T14:19:54.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10888" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-09T17:34:31.117" Score="6" ViewCount="13714" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a database or any other source that has a set of past &quot;Who wants to be millionaire&quot; questions?. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would prefer one that is update frequently and that also has answers to the questions. Language-wise I'm open to questions in English and/or German.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any database available? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4559" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T17:22:27.740" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T17:22:27.740" Title="Is there a database for &quot;Who wants to be millionaire?&quot; questions?" Tags="|who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10889" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10900" CreationDate="2013-04-09T18:37:24.790" Score="15" ViewCount="2861" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Back to the Future&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Doc invented a time machine in 1985 and he was really excited and a little surprised that it worked. But later in the movie, Marty goes back and tells young Doc about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was Doc so surprised about it, when he knew he would be inventing it in 1985 since 1955?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a more serious question, if he knew it since 1955, wouldn't this knowledge change the date of the first time travel (make it sooner, because he had lots of information from the future, or even make it later, because he &amp;quot;knew&amp;quot; he would invent it so he could stop trying)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or why didn't he change the place of the meeting with Marty, to prevent the attack from the Libyans (any events in the past could change that moment, when Marty escaped only because the gun has jammed). Is it because he did not want to ruin the time-space-continuum?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is not one specific question, rather a few confused questions, but I hope you understand what to me is vague about this movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4560" LastEditorUserId="67810" LastEditDate="2023-05-30T17:24:19.663" LastActivityDate="2023-06-01T08:28:12.877" Title="Doc knows he will invent a time machine 30 years ahead and it doesn't change the future" Tags="|plot-explanation|time-travel|back-to-the-future|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10888" CreationDate="2013-04-10T02:07:20.603" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's one &lt;a href=&quot;http://who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-question-d.software.informer.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.catandmouse.tv/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cat and Mouse&lt;/a&gt;, which is a company that does live studio graphics for the entertainment industry. I have not tested the database. They have many game shows to their credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2013-04-10T15:02:59.763" LastActivityDate="2013-04-10T15:02:59.763" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10882" CreationDate="2013-04-10T02:53:14.287" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;My Uncle Craig moved really fast, Like... he was tryin' to stay in front of somthin'&quot;  - according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1313092/trivia?tab=qt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;imdb quotes&lt;/a&gt;. Part of this longer quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mum kept me away from her family because she was scared. I didn't&#xA;  realise it at the time - but they were all scared, Even if they didn't&#xA;  show it. I think even Barry Brown was scared - even though he never&#xA;  showed it, Everyone felt safe around Baz', He'd punch your head off if&#xA;  ya got in the way, If he was in the middle of an armed robbin', He'd&#xA;  put you on the floor and not think twice about it, But he was good to&#xA;  me - and to everyone else, Darren was only a couple of years older&#xA;  than me, When we were little kids, he was like, my best friend, We&#xA;  used to throw rocks at cars 'n' that, He had a way better BMX than me&#xA;  - my bike was shit. My Uncle Craig moved really fast, Like... he was tryin' to stay in front of somthin', And Gramda Smurf, She just seemed&#xA;  to wanna be where ever the boys were, And she just wanted to be around&#xA;  what ever the boys were doing. But they were all scared, Even if they&#xA;  didn't show it, Even if they didn't know it exactly, Even if they were&#xA;  having to do what - crooks do all the time which is, Block out the&#xA;  thing they must know, They must know it, Which is why crooks always&#xA;  come undone, Always, One way or another, In Melbourne at this time,&#xA;  This is a while ago now, The armed robbery mob was out of control,&#xA;  They were shooting guys willy-nilly and gettin' away with it, And,&#xA;  they'd been after Baz and my family for months, But the guy they&#xA;  really wanted, The guy they really hated, Was my other Uncle - Uncle&#xA;  Andrew, But everyone just called him 'Pope', He was hiding in a motel&#xA;  room somewhere 'cause, He heard he was next, Craig was sellin' drugs,&#xA;  He was sellin' lots of 'em, He had a detective in the drug squad&#xA;  helpin' him do it, A guy called 'Randall Roach', They meet in a fish&#xA;  shop in Footsgray, 'Cause Craig loved fish, An' I dunno - all this&#xA;  seemed strange to me, but not strange either, You know what I mean?&#xA;  Kids just are where ever they are, And they just do what ever they're&#xA;  doin', You know? this is where I was, And this is what I was doin',&#xA;  After my mum died, this is just the world I got thrown into.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-04-10T02:53:14.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10880" CreationDate="2013-04-10T03:06:09.410" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Donna_Reed_Show&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Donna Reed Show&lt;/a&gt;, which ran from 1958 to 1966 and depicted the perfect American family, which is what Don had tried to create with Betty, but failed. If this episode is an indication of things to come, he seems to be heading into a downward spiral.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TuBeH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-04-10T03:06:09.410" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10894" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10914" CreationDate="2013-04-10T06:36:46.327" Score="12" ViewCount="6247" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Dark Knight's fundraiser scene where Bruce Wayne invites many people for Harvey's fundraiser, Joker attacks the place with his goons, looking for Harvey. When Bruce sees this, he catches Harvey from the back and locks him up in a safe room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he is dragging Harvey, Rachel says in a surprising manner &quot;What are you doing?&quot; and Harvey was not unconcious at that time. So clearly Harvey knows that Rachel knows, who locked him up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this we don't get to know how Harvey felt about the incident.&#xA;What was he told? Did he know that it was Bruce who locked him up or did he think that it was Batman? If he knew that it was Bruce Wayne, how come he had no questions about that, because it was a very unusual act from Bruce Wayne.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-08-06T15:32:53.573" LastActivityDate="2018-08-06T15:32:53.573" Title="Did Harvey Dent know that it was Bruce Wayne who locked him up?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10286" CreationDate="2013-04-10T09:26:15.687" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that Vinay did not know Anjali before their meeting at the jewelry shop.&#xA;I infer this from analyzing the character of Vinay. He doesn't appear like someone who will use crooked methods. Also, regarding the sog sequence, I think it was a mere coincidence, intentionally plotted by the director to create mystery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4564" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-16T02:57:32.080" LastActivityDate="2016-12-16T02:57:32.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10897" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10899" CreationDate="2013-04-10T12:50:59.843" Score="4" ViewCount="777" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the rings of Akhaten Clara and the Doctor spend some time walking around and talking to aliens.  There were a couple of scenes where Clara didn't understand what the aliens were saying (and some where she did - the child for example).  The Doctor could talk to them (after all he speaks every language) he then translated for Clara.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In previous episodes the Tardis translates spoken language for the companions.  Why didn't this happen there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T18:20:44.603" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T18:20:44.603" Title="Why couldn't Clara understand the aliens?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10898" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10902" CreationDate="2013-04-10T13:08:51.913" Score="16" ViewCount="5446" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Django Unchained, Calvin Candie tells Django and Dr. Shultz a theory about the dimples in the skull of human beings. He says that due to the location of these very dimples which is different in case of Whites and African Americans, their behavior is different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this theory, purely imaginary and used just for making a good story or does it hold any scientific weight?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-04-12T05:26:53.567" LastActivityDate="2014-04-19T02:08:02.637" Title="Calvin Candie's &quot;dimples in the skull&quot; theory" Tags="|realism|django-unchained|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10897" CreationDate="2013-04-10T13:13:39.117" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The translation systems of the Tardis are not always easy to understand (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/10587/why-could-nobody-understand-what-the-hath-where-saying&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In-movie explanations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clara has only recently started traveling with the Doctor, so the translation systems might not be tuned to her brain.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They landed right in the middle of a crowded space, with lots of different languages. The Tardis can have difficulties coping with it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Tardis takes into account the current state of mind/intentions of the companion. It could have sensed that Clara was surprised by the planet full of new things and ruled that it would be better for her to hear the foreign languages as part of the whole wonder. Likewise, it could have sensed the Doctor's intent of surprising her and not translate it for her.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;other explanation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It adds more realism to the market and is funnier/cooler to hear the different voices&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2013-04-10T13:13:39.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10889" CreationDate="2013-04-10T14:14:21.067" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically, in 1955, Doc Brown didn't invent time travel, he got the idea for the flux capacitor &amp;quot;which makes time travel possible.&amp;quot; Doc Brown would first need to actually build a flux capacitor, and then he would need to work out how to use it to build a time machine. Just knowing that something is possible or that it will work, does not tell you how to actually make it work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the rest of your question, there are many different theories of time travel and how it can affect the time line. One of the areas of contention (for which we do not have an answer) is the overall stability of the time line. Some theories say that even a minute change will cause a magnified ripple effect of larger and larger side effects - this is commonly known as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;butterfly effect&lt;/a&gt;. At the opposite end of the spectrum, some science fiction folks speculate that a time stream is inherently stable and events and circumstances will tend to stay, as closely as possible, to what they were originally. Some theories even hold that the time stream will constantly work to repair itself and, eventually, only the largest and most significant changes will have any lasting effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that, for &lt;em&gt;Back to the Future&lt;/em&gt;, the theory of time travel in operation is more towards the stable time-line end of the continuum, though definitely not self-repairing. For the most part, things will tend to be very much like they were before the changes introduced by Marty's time traveling. As a result, the completion of the time machine, and the first trip will end up on the same day and in the same place, and probably not as a result of any conscious decision by Doc Brown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1357" LastEditorUserId="67810" LastEditDate="2023-06-01T08:28:12.877" LastActivityDate="2023-06-01T08:28:12.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10898" CreationDate="2013-04-10T14:50:08.493" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Calvin's just a follower of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology&quot;&gt;phrenology&lt;/a&gt; which is essentially an out-dated and discredited 'science' of analyzing bumps on people's heads to determine the attributes of the brain within.  The idea being that the different parts of the brain have various specialized jobs.  So a lump in an area associated with laziness means that person is lazy because their brain (and so their skull) was shaped that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-04-10T14:50:08.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9826" CreationDate="2013-04-10T19:57:10.923" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://imdb.com/title/tt0448134/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sunshine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; maybe? It's got the abandoned spaceship, garden, dead and dying, etc.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4567" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-04-11T20:14:52.550" LastActivityDate="2013-04-11T20:14:52.550" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10907" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-11T00:32:31.597" Score="9" ViewCount="5939" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this science fiction a long time ago.  I recall a light plane having to land.  The pilot and a woman struggling to survive in a town that has had some kind of dome placed over it.  I recall scenes where they are hiding out in a cabin in the woods near the edge of the dome, and he is trying to tunnel under it.  I also recall some kind of &quot;feeding centers&quot; in town and people being abducted slowly by the aliens.  Strike any bells?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4569" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T17:24:04.317" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T17:24:04.317" Title="Black and white science fiction movie with aliens and dome" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|black-and-white|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:44:03.423" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10907" CreationDate="2013-04-11T01:26:05.253" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't remember &quot;feeding centers&quot;, but the dome and the light plane and the aliens bring to mind &lt;strong&gt;The Slime People&lt;/strong&gt; (1963).  Does &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfHJZxVK00g&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this trailer&lt;/a&gt; look familiar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slime_People&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia entry&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film concerns a race of subterranean reptile-men (dubbed &quot;slime&#xA;  people&quot; due to their slime-covered skin) who create a wall of&#xA;  &quot;solidified fog&quot; around Los Angeles and proceed to invade the city.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-04-11T01:26:05.253" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10911" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-11T16:49:59.307" Score="6" ViewCount="809" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking for an older most likely 1990's science fiction movie that has a female lead who learns martial arts from an android.  I remember the movie was set in post apocalyptic world and had a bit of a &lt;em&gt;Highlander&lt;/em&gt; feel to it.  Also at one point an android who had no legs attached the legs of a dead android after the main character cut them off at the torso.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind I last saw this movie when I was like 10 years old or so... yeah.. not the best description I know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4576" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T20:34:00.407" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T20:34:00.407" Title="Female lead learns martial arts from an android" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|action|martial-arts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:44:06.633" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10911" CreationDate="2013-04-11T19:59:47.000" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the movie you are thinking of is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107333/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Knights&lt;/a&gt;, circa 1993. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cyborg Gabriel (Kris Kristofferson) was created to destroy all other cyborgs. He later rescues Nea (Kathy Long) by killing Simon (Scott Paulin), one of the other cyborgs. Gabriel trains Nea to become a cyborg killer and help him. They continue to kill cyborgs until &lt;strong&gt;Gabriel is torn in half by one of his targets&lt;/strong&gt; and taken to the cyborg camp. Nea follows Jacob and challenges the cyborg leader Job (Lance Henriksen) to a fight. She ends up killing most of the cyborgs in the camp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She finds Gabriel and straps him to her back.&lt;/strong&gt; Together, they battle the cyborgs until Gabriel has her put him down so he can attach a dead cyborg's legs to himself. They then pursue a fleeing Job, but before they can catch him the Master Builder captures Nea's brother, taking him to Cyborg City. Meanwhile, Gabriel is battling Job and hits him in the face, causing it to explode. Job tells Gabriel that the cyborg population can't be stopped. Job dies moments later. Gabriel and Nea ride off into the sunset, in search of her brother and Cyborg CityCleaned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Side note: At first I thought your movie was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099271/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Circuitry Man&lt;/a&gt;, since it also has a woman and robot traveling around in a post apocalyptic world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-04-11T19:59:47.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10894" CreationDate="2013-04-11T21:45:59.470" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being choked unconscious can result in short term memory loss. It is likely that Harvey Dent may not remember Rachel asking or the question. Or the assault. Choking someone out doesn't knock them out for very long either. It is possible Batman drugged Dent inside the panic room and then took him home later and he woke up in his own bed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastActivityDate="2013-04-11T21:45:59.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10915" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10924" CreationDate="2013-04-11T22:21:22.037" Score="10" ViewCount="156042" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101921/?ref_=sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fried Green Tomatoes&lt;/a&gt; a story is told to an unhappy house wife about two women (Idgie and Ruth) and their adventures. The elderly woman telling the story is named Ninny Threadgoode. One of the principal characters is named Idgie Threadgoode. Are they the same person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastActivityDate="2021-07-25T00:00:26.973" Title="Were Ninny and Idgie the same person?" Tags="|fried-green-tomatoes|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10918" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10919" CreationDate="2013-04-12T04:54:50.873" Score="46" ViewCount="63549" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing bugged me after watching the highly acclaimed movie &quot;No Country for Old Men&quot; -&#xA;Why is it called so? I tried to analyze the plot and the sequences and the climax, but I could not understand the significance of the title.&#xA;How is the title related to the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-12T11:24:56.963" LastActivityDate="2016-09-29T07:46:40.150" Title="&quot;No Country for Old Men&quot;, why is it called so?" Tags="|analysis|no-country-for-old-men|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10918" CreationDate="2013-04-12T10:19:17.467" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, the movie is based on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Country_for_Old_Men&quot;&gt;novel of the same name&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;strong&gt;Cormac McCarthy&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Numerous times in the course of the movie you can see Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) expressing his thoughts on a moral corruption in society nowadays and often compares it to the time of his predecessors (&quot;&lt;em&gt;oldtimers&lt;/em&gt;&quot;). One example quote taken from IMDB:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was sheriff of this county when I was twenty-five years old. Hard to believe. My grandfather was a lawman; father too. Me and him was sheriffs at the same time; him up in Plano and me out here. I think he's pretty proud of that. I know I was. &lt;strong&gt;Some of the old time sheriffs never even wore a gun&lt;/strong&gt;. A lotta folks find that hard to believe. Jim Scarborough'd never carried one; that's the younger Jim. Gaston Boykins wouldn't wear one up in Comanche County. I always liked to hear about the oldtimers. Never missed a chance to do so. You can't help but compare yourself against the oldtimers. Can't help but wonder how they would have operated these times. There was this boy I sent to the 'lectric chair at Huntsville Hill here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killt a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell. &quot;Be there in about fifteen minutes&quot;. I don't know what to make of that. I sure don't. The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure. It's not that I'm afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job. But, I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say, &quot;O.K., I'll be part of this world.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though Sheriff Ed Tom Bell doesn't appear on screen very often (compared to Chigur and Moss), he is the narrator and the protagonist of the movie. &lt;em&gt;So, the title refers to the moral decline that gave birth to evil (Chigur) and depraved (Moss) individuals and made modern society unsuitable for &quot;oldtimers&quot;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some links:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themes_and_analysis_of_No_Country_for_Old_Men_%28film%29#Degenerate_times.2C_evolving_evil.2C_and_aging_anxieties&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page on themes and analysis of the movie&lt;/a&gt; has a nice set of references&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The novel itself took the title from a poem &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_to_Byzantium&quot;&gt;Sailing to Byzantium&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;code&gt;That is no country for old men...&lt;/code&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="564" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-04-15T04:45:02.310" LastActivityDate="2013-04-15T04:45:02.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10918" CreationDate="2013-04-12T16:16:05.707" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The title refers to the idea that the nature of evil has changed, and old value systems no longer apply.&lt;/strong&gt; Both the movie and the book versions of &lt;em&gt;No Country For Old Men&lt;/em&gt; repeatedly touch on how the aging-sheriff protagonist feels he's no longer a match for modern criminals. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going a little deeper, I believe the title is a commentary on geopolitics in the post-9/11 era. IMHO, evidence suggests Cormac McCarthy wrote the book as a support of the US occupation of Iraq:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;-book published in 2005, approximately two years into US's occupation of Iraq, at a time when many critics wanted to bring the troops home&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;-in book, sheriff tells a shameful story from World War II, when he &quot;cut and ran&quot; from a battle -- the exact terminology &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.defense.gov/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=26829&quot;&gt;used by George W. Bush and others beginning in 2004&lt;/a&gt; to disparage the idea of ending the occupation prematurely&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;-Sheriff Bell's character was competent in his prime, during the Cold War period leading in to the 1980s -- which could represent how the US policy of peaceful brinksmanship kept the country safe when the opponent was the USSR&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;-Chigur's character would represent America's opponents post-9/11, which supporters of the Iraq occupation often described as a more-aggressive type of evil, necessitating a more-aggressive defense&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;-Perhaps significantly, the &quot;cut and run&quot; quote was not included in the movie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2013-04-12T16:16:05.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10918" CreationDate="2013-04-12T20:32:44.923" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title implies that the sheriff is old and outdated. Unable to handle the crimes of today's crazy criminals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Llewelyn Moss represents the modern day worker. Who gets caught up in the criminal world. Llewelyn should have been able to make his escape with the money, because he demonstrates a coolness under pressure and modern cleverness. He represents the opposite of the movie's title. His choice to take the money ultimately costs him and his wife their lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anton Chigurh represents the extreme spectrum of criminals. Not even his clients or other hit man can survive his insanity. He kills for reasons that old men would find hard to understand, and the FBI is unable to catch this guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ed Tom Bell the sheriff tracks the killer across country with a calm, collected smooth style where at times it seems nothing can rattle him. At the end of the movie despite the efforts of the FBI to catch the killer. He returns to the last crime scene, and enters the hotel room by himself.  Both him and the killer are in the same room, and the killer had the upper hand. Still, Ed is the only character to walk away unscathed into retirement. Why didn't Anton kill the sheriff when he had the chance? because Ed was the only person he actually feared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end Anton is in a car crash and breaks his arm. I'm not sure what the meaning of the event was, but I think it was to present the message that the sheriff was the only one who survived unharmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the sheriff ends up being the best person for the case. Had Llewelyn Moss listen to him to start with he'd still be alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2013-04-12T20:32:44.923" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10922" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10925" CreationDate="2013-04-12T21:05:18.900" Score="5" ViewCount="1104" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid i cant be very helpful here but when i was much younger i watched an episode of a tv series which i remember being Sliders but cant seem to find any episode of that show with this description. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The part i remember is the end of an episode where there is a preview of the next episode. The preview involved the protagonists (cant remember anything about them) finding themselves in a city where the surround horizon contained a wave larger than all of the buildings in the city which was closing in upon them. I remember the city being empty apart from just them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this isn't much to go on, I remembered this for some reason the other day and was hoping to watch the full episode but browsing the descriptions for the episodes of sliders (which i was sure it was) i couldn't find anything of that description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1499" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-08-31T16:53:14.940" LastActivityDate="2013-08-31T16:53:14.940" Title="Sliders episode: City surrounded by huge wave" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:53:38.683" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10915" CreationDate="2013-04-12T21:40:00.193" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a fairly common misconception with the movie. In the book, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, it is absolutely clear that the two are separate characters. In fact, if I remember correctly, they are even in some of the same scenes. In the movie however, it is not as apparent. According to the film synopsis on Wikipedia, Ninny describes Idgie as her sister in law. Which would fit with the book, however I don't recall it ever being that specific in the movie. Another large part of the book that was played down in the film is the romantic relationship between Idgie and Ruth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2013-04-12T21:40:00.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10922" CreationDate="2013-04-12T22:22:08.037" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;Sliders&lt;/strong&gt; episode that matches the description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://sliders.wikia.com/wiki/Summer_of_Love&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summer of Love&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; they slide to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://sliders.wikia.com/wiki/Tsunami_World&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tsunami World&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The divergence point of this world is unkown but whatever caused this tragedy was forseen early enough for the citizens of San Francisco to evacuate...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NUN9n.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tsunami World&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;   &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h3tik.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tsunami World&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sliders-dimension.de/Episoden/1/06ReiseDurchDasZeitloch.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The story continues at the beginning of the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://sliders.wikia.com/wiki/The_Prince_of_Wails&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Prince of Wails&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite being originally aired before hand, the presence of the &lt;em&gt;Tsunami World&lt;/em&gt; suggests the events of this episode begin roughly fourty-eight minutes after the events of &lt;em&gt;Summer of Love&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jYope.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Prince of Wails&quot; /&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sliders-dimension.de/Episoden/1/05DerKorrupteSheriff.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-04-12T22:22:08.037" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9743" CreationDate="2013-04-13T02:18:49.273" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cello.org/heaven/cellist/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;autobiography of Gregor Piatigorsky&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;quot;Cellist&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Mr. Casals.&amp;quot; I was introduced to a little bald man with a pipe. He said that he was pleased to meet young musicians such as Serkin and me. Rudolf Serkin, who stood stiffly next to me, seemed like myself, to be fighting his diffidence. Rudi had played before my arrival, and Casals now wanted to hear us together. Beethoven's D-Major Sonata was on the piano. &amp;quot;Why don't you play it?&amp;quot; asked Casals. Both nervous and barely knowing each other, we gave a poor performance that terminated somewhere in the middle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Bravo! Bravo! Wonderful!&amp;quot; Casals applauded. Francesco brought the Schumann Cello Concerto, which Casals wanted to hear. I never played worse. Casals asked for Bach. Exasperated, I obliged with a performance matching the Beethoven and Schumann.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Splendid! Magnifique!&amp;quot; said Casals, embracing me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bewildered, I left the house. I knew how badly I had played, but why did he, the master, have to praise and embrace me? This apparent insincerity pained me more than anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The greater was my shame and delight when, a few years later, I met Casals in Paris. We had dinner together and played duets for two cellos, and I played for him until late at night. Spurred by his great warmth, and happy, I confessed what I had thought of his praising me in Berlin. He reacted with sudden anger. He rushed to the cello, &amp;quot;Listen!&amp;quot; He played a phrase from the Beethoven sonata. &amp;quot;Didn't you play this fingering? Ah, you did! It was novel to me...it was good... and here, didn't you attack that passage with up-bow, like this?&amp;quot; he demonstrated. He went through Schumann and Bach, always emphasizing all he like that I had done. &amp;quot;And for the rest,&amp;quot; he said passionately, &amp;quot;leave it to the ignorant and stupid who judge by counting only the faults. I can be grateful, and so must you be, for even one note, one wonderful phrase,&amp;quot; I left with the feeling of having been with a great artist and a friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4583" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-04-20T19:01:01.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8276" CreationDate="2013-04-13T16:32:40.133" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no clear answer to that. Ive researched it myself and even the original french characters are never defined as male or female. Toopy most often comes across as a male, but in more than one episode has dressed up as a girl and talked about kissing princes or being beautiful in dresses etc. The voice is a male for sure, but as far as I can tell, the actual orientation of the character is undefined. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4586" LastActivityDate="2013-04-13T16:32:40.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10929" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-13T19:38:31.970" Score="6" ViewCount="345" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the David Mamet movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093223/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;House of Games&lt;/a&gt;, Mike (Joe Mantegna) lures Margaret Ford (Lindsay Crouse) into their circle by proving a small con at the Western Union Office. He explains that the basic idea of confidence games is that the con man gives his confidence to the victim, such that the victim will hand over his money to him, a total stranger.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;William H. Macy, playing a Marine headed back to Camp Pendelton, promises some money to Mike, who he thinks is a stranded former Marine and wife waiting for emergency cash because they had been robbed. However, I wonder if the scene was pre-arranged, acted out just for Margaret's benefit.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;It would give Margaret the idea we were allowing her to have inside information from the start - enough to make her confident she was leading the confidence game rather than losing her fortune. For this to be true, Macy's character had to be a bit player in the con. Mike refuses the money offer from Macy, and then walks Margaret to the hotel for sex, followed by his next &quot;bit&quot; of the night. The timing of the Marines in conversation, followed by the walk to the hotel, seems timed precisely to arrive at the hotel just as Mike's partner con man descends from the elevator.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;So, was the Macy character part of the con?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2017-05-17T06:30:01.087" Title="Was the William H. Macy character part of the con?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|house-of-games|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10930" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11411" CreationDate="2013-04-14T00:39:01.343" Score="13" ViewCount="735" Body="&lt;p&gt;This horror movie was probably released around the same time as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_(1997_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Titanic&lt;/a&gt;, but not very sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A young waitress was serving in a bar/night club and some drunk men put her on the table and asked her to dance. Then someone pulled her skirt off. Later she was being chased and then she  was murdered. After the waitress is murdered, her spirit comes back and lures other men into sex and then kills them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, many houses get on fire and some people are leaving/fleeing that area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which movie is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4588" LastEditorUserId="4588" LastEditDate="2014-12-09T01:10:39.110" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T01:10:39.110" Title="Spirit of murdered waitress seeks revenge" Tags="|horror|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:44:09.753" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10932" CreationDate="2013-04-14T10:05:23.987" Score="13" ViewCount="4251" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the Engineers' language in Prometheus similar to any human language? Was this language developed further in any website or promotional material?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1738" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-14T16:22:15.153" LastActivityDate="2023-09-20T14:34:10.390" Title="Is the Engineers' language in Prometheus similar to any human language?" Tags="|prometheus|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10931" CreationDate="2013-04-14T11:31:32.377" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The language &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/trivia/?tab=tr&amp;amp;item=tr1707255&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;was developed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAS_University_of_London&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SOAS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(School of Oriental and African Studies)&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;University of London&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20081016020305/http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff41059.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dr. Anil Biltoo&lt;/a&gt;, one of the linguists who worked on the language, &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20121015043938/http://thebioscopist.com/2012/10/13/the-mysteries-behined-the-prometheus-deleted-scenes-a-discussion-with-dr-biltoo/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;explains&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the influence behind this language is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Proto-Indo-European&lt;/a&gt; (PIE)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;a hypothesized spoken language that pre-dates (and is the ancestor of) ancient languages such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sanskrit&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittite_language&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hittite&lt;/a&gt; and Greek.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It is not, however, an attempt to be academically rigorous and to reconstruct the language according to the most persuasive arguments from scholars working in this field.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20130530051942/http://malakak.com/engineers/2012/09/first-things-first-prometheus-and-the-engineers-language-and-script/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;and&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The language of the engineers in Prometheus is not 'pure PIE'&lt;/strong&gt; (whatever that's supposed to be, given that all reconstructions are hypothetical).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any dialogue intended to be learned by actors has to be capable of being pronounced&lt;/strong&gt;, which does not appear to be a quality discernible in reconstructions proposed thus far.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If the dialogue in Prometheus appears to contain words that have an immediate resonance with languages known to the viewer, that is all to the good since it is intended (The use of Proto-Afroasiatic would likely have yielded no such result).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The emphasis was less on authenticity&lt;/strong&gt; with respect to what is generally agreed upon vis-a-vis PIE phonology and roots, and &lt;strong&gt;more on ease of articulation, sonorousness and the suggestion of a possible connection of 'Engineer' with terrestrial speech.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20141127173047/http://malakak.com/engineers/category/malakak-language/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This website&lt;/a&gt; takes a closer look at the language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2023-09-20T14:34:10.390" LastActivityDate="2023-09-20T14:34:10.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10934" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10935" CreationDate="2013-04-14T17:51:01.643" Score="6" ViewCount="1383" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Life of Pi, we can see the changes in Pi's physique like being slim, lengthening of his hair etc. But surprisingly he is clean shaved in that state too. How is that possible? In his age, as shown, he should have facial hairs i.e. moustache and beard. Is there any explanation for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-03-09T11:39:13.007" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T11:39:13.007" Title="Why is there no sign of facial hair in Pi's face?" Tags="|character|life-of-pi|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10934" CreationDate="2013-04-14T19:18:56.630" Score="14" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Men typically start developing facial hair in the later years of&#xA;  puberty or adolescence, between seventeen and twenty years of age, and&#xA;  most do not finish developing a fully adult beard until their early&#xA;  twenties or later. This varies, as boys may first develop facial&#xA;  hair between fourteen and sixteen years of age, and boys as young as&#xA;  eleven have been known to develop facial hair.(source : &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_hair&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pi is only 16 years old during the course of the story, and not every 16 year old boy has facial hair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-04-15T05:58:53.447" LastActivityDate="2013-04-15T05:58:53.447" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10936" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14013" CreationDate="2013-04-14T22:46:25.220" Score="4" ViewCount="596" Body="&lt;p&gt;In House of 1000 Corpses, there is a scene where Mary is dressed in a doll dress and has her face painted up. She is tied to Tiny's bed. When Tiny comes in, she says, &quot;Please let me go&quot; and Tiny reaches over and unties her. Why does he do this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2013-09-22T09:34:36.970" Title="Why did Tiny untie Mary and let her go?" Tags="|house-of-1000-corpses|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10937" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10950" CreationDate="2013-04-14T22:48:48.497" Score="2" ViewCount="15876" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;House of 1000 Corpses&lt;/em&gt; (2003), one of the final scenes is the firefly clan making Denise and Jerry get into a coffin, which they then lower into a pit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otis has a tape recorder that he starts playing that sounds like an incantation of sorts, and it's lowered into the pit as well. What is this recording and what is it's significance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2019-03-05T15:50:23.203" LastActivityDate="2019-03-05T15:50:23.203" Title="What is the significance of the recording played during the coffin scene?" Tags="|plot-explanation|house-of-1000-corpses|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10939" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-14T23:46:28.260" Score="6" ViewCount="572" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1950 Walt Disney version of Treasure Island ends with John Silver in a small boat, escaping treasure island alone with a chest full of treasure. The Squire, Jim Hawkins, Dr. Livesy, and the other protagonists watch him escape with what seems to be a mixture of respect and amusement. It's all very odd. Are we to understand that they didn't care for the treasure very much, or that they had more elsewhere? (In the original book, Silver escapes with a small bag out of a large cache, but in the 1950 movie it does look as though he takes the whole thing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="4476" LastEditDate="2013-08-23T23:48:59.533" LastActivityDate="2013-11-22T05:13:01.750" Title="Does John Silver escape with *all* the gold at the end of the 1950 version of Treasure Island?" Tags="|plot-explanation|book-adaptation|treasure-island|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10943" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-15T11:47:23.597" Score="18" ViewCount="84481" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have loved the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365686/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Revolver&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and I cannot control my urge of fully understand it. From what I could make out of the movie, it is purely an analogy to chess. The characters of the movie are all pieces of the chessboard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So who is Mr. Gold?&lt;/strong&gt; Please give valid explanations to your theory!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4381" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-15T12:04:35.710" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T21:29:37.797" Title="Who is Mr. Gold in the movie Revolver?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|revolver|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10943" CreationDate="2013-04-15T13:35:33.147" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolver_%282005_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; on the movie: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sam Gold is seen to be the 'king' in this chess game of gang warfare.&#xA;  He is the ultimate figure that all men are supposedly aspiring to be.&#xA;  Sam Gold is revealed to be an ultimately powerless cipher, whose power&#xA;  is granted only by those who invest in him. He represents ego and&#xA;  self-investment. He is the personification of greed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4128" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-25T06:26:07.147" LastActivityDate="2016-06-25T06:26:07.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10945" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28145" CreationDate="2013-04-15T14:52:07.190" Score="3" ViewCount="673" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Lucretia help Gannicus in the kidnapping of Ilithyia by giving him information about her departure? Lucretia hates Ilithyia, but still why does she help Gannicus? She is even telling Gaius Claudius Glaber to find out Ilithyia when he shows dis-interest. What is the reason for her conflicting steps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-01-18T14:08:09.147" LastActivityDate="2017-01-18T14:08:09.147" Title="Why did Lucretia help Gannicus by giving him Ilithyia's information?" Tags="|character|spartacus-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10946" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26681" CreationDate="2013-04-15T15:04:50.403" Score="1" ViewCount="591" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Ashur take such a foolish risk facing Spartacus's army all alone, resulting in his death at the hands of Naevia? It should have been so easy for him to run away. Why follow Glaber's commands and risk his own life when Nobody was watching him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had shown himself to be a clever and selfish person up to this point, yet he acted so stupidly in this case. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1548" LastEditDate="2013-04-19T23:13:43.070" LastActivityDate="2018-12-13T14:29:16.343" Title="Why did Ashur face Spartacus's gladiator army alone?" Tags="|character|spartacus-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4470" CreationDate="2013-04-15T15:07:07.163" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is one way to differentiate between the two. If you look at his left eyebrow the style changes between the two. Fallon has a slight line cut out of the side of his eyebrow where as Borden's is just short. It is hard to notice but it is there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6JbJO.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6JbJO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;scar&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dzvn9.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dzvn9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;no scar&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4594" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-11-08T13:03:24.663" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T13:03:24.663" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10948" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10963" CreationDate="2013-04-15T16:04:11.783" Score="8" ViewCount="1625" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Family Guy episode 113, Road to Germany, there is a scene where Stewie, Brian and Mort are in a bomber plane fighting nazi planes. They look to be out numbered, but then Stewie says something along the lines of, &quot;No, we're going to make it&quot; and it pans out to show a bunch of valkyrie type of warriors shooting laser weapons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are they referencing with the valkyrie warriors? Is it a movie? If so, which one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2013-04-15T16:16:05.200" LastActivityDate="2013-04-15T23:16:42.090" Title="Family Guy ep 113 (Road to Germany) scene explanation" Tags="|family-guy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10949" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10951" CreationDate="2013-04-15T16:40:57.603" Score="18" ViewCount="937" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Breaking Bad, one of the iconic items is Walt's original car, the Pontiac Aztek.  It is featured a lot in the series and can be argued as a slight companion to Walt, accompanying him on his journey of greed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, why did the creators choose this vehicle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T16:13:05.483" Title="Why choose an Aztek?" Tags="|production|props|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10937" CreationDate="2013-04-15T16:41:32.243" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to IMDB &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251736/trivia?item=tr0766954&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251736/trivia?item=tr0766954&lt;/a&gt; it is one line from Aleister Crowley's poem &quot;The Poet&quot; (as recorded by Crowley himself) repeated over and over (and also slowed down). The line is &quot;Bury me in a nameless grave&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Captain Spaulding's establishment, there are reproductions of some of Crowley's paintings as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the significance, it's hard to say. Crowley had a strange sense of humor (for example, he referred to masturbation as &quot;human sacrifice&quot;) and many of his writings can be taken in a variety of ways. He is often linked with satanism, though I believe that had more do with the fact that he was an anti-christian, occultist drug addict that was openly promiscuous and called himself &quot;the Beast,&quot; all in the early 1900s. My guess is that Rob Zombie just thought it sounded creepy as hell and it worked in the scene. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2013-04-15T16:41:32.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10949" CreationDate="2013-04-15T17:26:47.830" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Pontiac Aztek has something of a reputation. A bad one. It was Pontiac's failed attempt at making a crossover model: a midway model between a minivan, a pickup truck, and a full SUV. The public hated it, and it sold poorly. To add insult to injury, it consistently finds itself included in lists of the world's ugliest cars. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it was the perfect car to symbolize Walt's own situation. An unappreciated genius, who is stuck doing a thankless job, working with kids who couldn't care less about his passion, and struggling with paying the bills. He is tired, demoralized, and too mired in his own self pity to do anything about it. To symbolize this even further, the Aztek was painted a washed out shade of beige (that was never an option in the actual Azteks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Walt finally comes into his own in season 5, and becomes his own man, more assertive and aggressive, he ditches the Aztek for a sleeker and sexier Chrysler 300. His transformation into a drug lord complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2013-04-19T16:13:05.483" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T16:13:05.483" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10952" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16302" CreationDate="2013-04-15T17:27:54.703" Score="15" ViewCount="46629" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie we see Sheriff Ed Tom enter the hotel room where Llewelyn Moss was killed. He sees that the lock was &quot;punched&quot; out similar to the lock on Llewelyn's trailer. So, we can assume that Chigurh had entered the room at some point (there is further evidence by the opened vent). But what evidence is there that Chigurh is in the room at the moment that Ed Tom enters the room?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1396" LastActivityDate="2022-10-12T17:57:41.817" Title="Was Chigurh in the hotel room when Sheriff Ed Tom entered?" Tags="|no-country-for-old-men|" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1887" CreationDate="2013-04-15T17:30:38.363" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a conversation between Delvin and Eva (while they were trying to make contact using the radio), it was mentioned by either of them that they heard soldiers (in hazmat suits) speaking in english...  with local accents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a purely deliberate act by the government, perhaps for the purpose of keeping the world's population in check. The kidnapping of Marilyn's daughter and her being kept under stasis, is testament that they are also practising natural selection. The movie presents to us a glimpse of how a shift into a new world order (perhaps under a one world government) might have been put into motion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4596" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-04-15T21:09:55.503" LastActivityDate="2013-04-15T21:09:55.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10954" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10955" CreationDate="2013-04-15T17:33:56.690" Score="8" ViewCount="3844" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming they're a pure screenwriter, and not also a producer or director, do screenwriters get to do anything after handing in the script? Can they be present on the set? Do they have any say in production decisions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1062" LastActivityDate="2017-07-02T18:26:13.770" Title="What role do screenwriters play, after handing in the script?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10954" CreationDate="2013-04-15T17:57:20.243" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very little, though it really depends on their relationship with the director and producer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The screenwriter could be unwanted, seen as a threat to the director's authority. On another set, the director and writer could be good friends, with the director asking for the writers' opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are generally not guaranteed any say in any production decisions though, as a general rule of thumb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user35" LastEditorDisplayName="user35" LastEditDate="2017-07-02T18:26:13.770" LastActivityDate="2017-07-02T18:26:13.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10954" CreationDate="2013-04-15T18:09:05.227" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've never seen the Jay Mohr TV series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206467/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Action&lt;/a&gt;, I highly recommend it. Catch it in repeats on IFC, or probably on Netflix. You can even catch some clips on youtube. Definitely worth a viewing. Peter Dragon's (Jay Mohr) treatment of the screenwriter, Adam Rafkin, shows the audience that once the script is in, the screenwriter is essentially nothing. UNTIL he becomes a slave to the 2-cent suggestions of the director, the actors, the producers; essentially anyone who, on a whim, wants a revision gets it. The vision of what's on the page is irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2013-04-15T18:09:05.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10521" CreationDate="2013-04-15T18:46:51.457" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;After listening to the soundtrack for this movie, I firmly believe now that this may have been a directorial mistake. In the soundtrack, the Treble's steal the song at the appropriate time. However, as stated, in the movie, it's about 4 or 5 words too late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3541" LastActivityDate="2013-04-15T18:46:51.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10866" CreationDate="2013-04-15T20:53:10.173" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's some misdirection that implies the fate of the baby, which you'll get to later on as you progress through the show.  This makes it a little hard to give a straight yes/no answer to your question, since you request no spoilers.  If you do want it spoiled:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2008/10/mad-men-peggy-b.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This interview&lt;/a&gt; with the show's creator explains the baby's fate.  It's implied that Peggy's sister maybe takes the baby to raise it.  But that's not the case, the baby is put up for adoption, and we never see it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is some dialogue later on that does discuss the baby and what happened to it.  So, this plot thread didn't just get dropped, it does return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-04-15T21:01:08.117" LastActivityDate="2013-04-15T21:01:08.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10959" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11004" CreationDate="2013-04-15T21:29:30.943" Score="11" ViewCount="1515" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143145/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The World Is Not Enough&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; there is a scene where &lt;em&gt;Electra King&lt;/em&gt;, against &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt;'s warnings, visits &lt;em&gt;Zukovsky&lt;/em&gt;'s casino and loses 1 million dollars against him in a simple game of cards (on purpose as we learn later). On their way out of the casino there is the following dialogue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Electra&lt;/em&gt;: Shall we?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;James&lt;/em&gt;: Electra, this is a game I can't afford to play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Electra&lt;/em&gt;: I know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I don't really think he's talking about the actual game they just played, even in light of the high amount of money she just lost, which he probably indeed can't literally &lt;em&gt;afford&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But until that moment there are already some conflicts between the two. On the one hand &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; wants to protect her and keep her out of danger while &lt;em&gt;Electra&lt;/em&gt; doesn't pay attention to his warnings and brings herself in danger. On the other hand &lt;em&gt;Electra&lt;/em&gt; constantly tries to seduce him, while he, being her bodyguard, wants to keep it professional and withstand her, and, even more than that, doesn't really know if he can trust her (and in fact after this casino visit her seduction attempts are indeed successful).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even in light (or because?) of those conflicts and tension, I'm not really sure what to make of this particular dialogue between the two. He could be referring to her seduction attempts, but during that specific scene &lt;em&gt;Electra&lt;/em&gt; doesn't really make one of those obvious seduction attempts she tried before (at least not to my notice, but I could just be blind to subtext ;)). &lt;strong&gt;So what is the meaning of this conversation and what really is the game &lt;em&gt;James&lt;/em&gt; can't afford to play?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T13:16:03.690" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T13:16:03.690" Title="What game is it Bond can't afford to play?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|james-bond|the-world-is-not-enough|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10954" CreationDate="2013-04-15T22:43:36.523" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ocasionally scripts need to get altered. Actors may die, get sick, or breach their contracts mid-production. Maybe money runs out, and the last half of the movie needs to be compressed to 10 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not a movie example, but Babylon 5 got its last season canceled and later reinstated, which led to much re-writing to condense the canceled season into the previous one, and then expanding the remaining story which hadn't already been filmed back into a full season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4598" LastActivityDate="2013-04-15T22:43:36.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10948" CreationDate="2013-04-15T23:16:42.090" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a reference to a scene from the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080745/?ref_=sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Flash Gordon&lt;/a&gt;. You can see the scene &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnTHypbLlkE&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4392" LastActivityDate="2013-04-15T23:16:42.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9035" CreationDate="2013-04-15T23:21:18.300" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are somehow right while otherwise not. It is true that in the first two &lt;em&gt;Craig&lt;/em&gt;-movies we see a fresh and new &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt;, who is eager to get into the action and is maybe also driven by a bit of a juvenile arrogance (and passionate vengeance in &lt;em&gt;Quantum of Solace&lt;/em&gt;). And yet in &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt; we see a mature &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; who might still not be really grown up emotionally but who maybe has found the routine in his job (and is even a bit fed up with it), and we don't have to forget that it really is an exhausting job that might let you get old quite fast (and &lt;em&gt;&quot;00s have a very short life expectancy&quot;&lt;/em&gt; anyway). And in the end he already had to make a carreer before becoming a 00, but I think it was rather the 90s when &lt;em&gt;Silva&lt;/em&gt; worked for &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Hong Kong&lt;/em&gt; (though not with &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt;, they didn't really know each other before).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, &lt;strong&gt;he indeed shows some signs of aging and boredom (for lack of a better term), yet this doesn't necessarily mean retirement but merely maturity and getting used to his job&lt;/strong&gt;. It thus prepares the ground not for the 3rd, but the 2nd act of his carreer, as the last scene of the movie emphasizes, when he is more ready to go on than ever before, actually strengthened by his past experiences (which also suggests that maybe &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt;, being kind of a mother figure for &lt;em&gt;James&lt;/em&gt;, actually &lt;em&gt;had&lt;/em&gt; to die to further his development). The &lt;em&gt;beginning&lt;/em&gt; of his carreer might be gone by the third movie, but this certainly doesn't mean that the &lt;em&gt;end&lt;/em&gt; is immediately near. &lt;strong&gt;The ageing theme of the movie doesn't contradict the rebooting, but just extends it by a more dynamic development of its main character, more so than all the previous movies of the whole franchise did.&lt;/strong&gt; We're thus not going to see an old &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; in the future movies, but a &lt;strong&gt;grownup&lt;/strong&gt; one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This also fits together with &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;'s ambivalence of on the one hand continuing the modern rebooted line of the first two &lt;em&gt;Craig&lt;/em&gt;-movies, while still going more into traditional &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; directions.&lt;/strong&gt; It introduces classical characters, like &lt;em&gt;Q&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Moneypenny&lt;/em&gt;, while at the same time adapting them to the modernized line of the reboot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same way &lt;em&gt;MI6&lt;/em&gt; is constantly depicted as (or accused of) getting old and useless now the cold war is over and &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt; being relics of the past. &lt;strong&gt;But it are those old strengths that are needed to win against &lt;em&gt;Silva&lt;/em&gt; who comes, like &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt;, from the &lt;em&gt;&quot;shadows&quot;&lt;/em&gt; of the past&lt;/strong&gt; and is, with his madness, his desolate island he just &quot;took over&quot; and his whole attitude, more of a good old &lt;em&gt;Bond-supervillain&lt;/em&gt; than anyone before him in the reboot. And indeed this is even emphasized by &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt; in her speech before the court, when she says that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Our enemies [...] do not exist on a map, they're not nations, they're individuals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And those individuals come from the good old times, like &lt;em&gt;Silva&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt;. And this whole theme of reinvention of past virtues is both emphaszed by &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; travelling back to his own past in order to fight &lt;em&gt;Silva&lt;/em&gt; on his &lt;em&gt;own&lt;/em&gt; territory (and what could be older and more conservative than an old mansion in the Highlands) and this with the goold old &lt;em&gt;DB5&lt;/em&gt;, an obvious nod to the old movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at the bottom of the line you are right in that &lt;strong&gt;there is an obvious theme of aging of &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (as a character but also his movie-franchise), while &lt;strong&gt;it is on the other hand emphasized that this old-fashionedness is what makes him different and thus a chance to use at his advantage&lt;/strong&gt; and that &lt;strong&gt;both &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; and his movies should, while keeping at pace with modern developments, still not hesitate to remember their traditions.&lt;/strong&gt; And what could emphasize this more than the overly nostalgic ending scene, which is both new in light of the reboot, but more old-fashioned than ever before when seen in light of the whole franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-04T19:27:16.193" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T19:27:16.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3023" CreationDate="2013-04-15T23:50:18.930" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My theory is that Andy's parents were going through a divorce that's why you never see him or gets mentioned. The toys were Andy's way to deal with the divorce. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4600" LastActivityDate="2013-04-15T23:50:18.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10647" CreationDate="2013-04-16T08:22:00.770" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Besides @Oliver_C's comment, of Holmes wearing black in every episode, this episode is most about subverting perceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The writers and Moriarty want to emphasize this Western idea of &quot;white good/black evil&quot;, remember; Moriarty is claiming innocence throughout this episode, how better to do that than be dressed all in white?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we first see Jim, he is wearing a white coat over a white tee and for the rest of the episode he is wearing light &quot;innocent&quot; colors; that is, until the Fall scene where Moriarty takes off his false colors and dresses in black once more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that same thought, during the episode DI Greg Lestrade (who believes in Sherlock and is punished by his boss for it) is wearing black while Sergeant Sally Donovan (whom is just doing what she thinks is &quot;right&quot;, and playing into Moriarty's hands) is wearing light colors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shown here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://reasoningbackwards.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/lestrade.jpg&quot;&gt;http://reasoningbackwards.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/lestrade.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply put, it is all about good and evil here, but as they are perceived by the public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4604" LastActivityDate="2013-04-16T08:22:00.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9408" CreationDate="2013-04-16T08:44:12.540" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like an old soap opera?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're actually referring to a change in &lt;strong&gt;Frame Resolution&lt;/strong&gt; not frame rate, increased frame rate is that horribly obnoxious thing they did with some versions of The Hobbit, made it look like a video game cut scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question though, the reason why they did change from 480i to 1080i is simply because of the demand and pressure for it, with most other programs offering 1080i to their customers, to not do it would be to fall behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there might be a setting somewhere in your tv to adjust motion blur. Turn it down, that might help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4604" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T18:43:45.243" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T18:43:45.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9271" CreationDate="2013-04-16T09:07:49.663" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's definitely not a plot hole, but you are definitely not missing anything; it is simply a modified version of the &lt;strong&gt;reset button&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the season 2 premiere, Nathan addresses the body count, &quot;Can we please stop killing our probation workers?&quot; as a joke, and then nothing happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's South Park syndrome: while main characters can change (Mr/s Garrison) and people can leave and enter the cast (Tweak, Pip, Chef), there could be a massive body count and police would never notice save for maybe that episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4604" LastActivityDate="2013-04-16T09:07:49.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9737" CreationDate="2013-04-16T09:16:43.980" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the Hellboy comics, the writers have the advantage of having (as of now) 10 years to be able to write a compelling story with believable characters; with the Movie, the writers are limited to two hours, they have to make you believe that these people are real people with emotions and feelings similar to ours. And it is easier for most people to understand a romantic relationship existing between male and female characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is another advantage with comic book writers, they know exactly what there audience is, and are able to tailor their story to their audience; whereas movie writers (generally) try to make their movies to be accessible to all people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4604" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T07:19:21.917" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T07:19:21.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9301" CreationDate="2013-04-16T11:13:38.610" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know I'm late, but in addition to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jinni.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;jinni.com&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themoviespoiler.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;moviespoiler.com&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tastekid.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tastekid.com&lt;/a&gt; is really useful and along a similar vein.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as a bonus, it also allows the user to get similar for Books, Music, and Video Games. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4604" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T12:36:26.083" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T12:36:26.083" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-04-16T11:13:38.610" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10351" CreationDate="2013-04-16T11:43:19.713" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the movie has nothing to do with time travel and, as Oliver_C mentioned in a comment, the butterfly effect is not an ability, it is just cause-effect gone to extremes (&quot;Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following lines are solely based on my own interpretation of the movie, hence no external links or proof will be provided. It is no need to say that spoilers will follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole movie is about the tough decision a child is facing when having to decide whether to live with his mother or with his father. It is not easy to choose something like this, especially when you're a child. This is about 90% of the movie: the child is actually standing between his parents trying very hard to make the best decision. In his mind, there are a lot of possibilities. THIS is what we actually see: it is not time travel, nor seeing the future, but the child's imagination. He tries to picture his whole life with each of the parents in order to be able to choose whatever should seem better. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We cannot be sure whether one of the stories actually occur. Absolutely nothing is certain - everything is pure imagination. It is like day-dreaming: you picture something and then one thing leads to another and you find yourself wondering what's it like to be old and having grandchildren. Still, in the movie, this &quot;daydreaming&quot; part is not as pleasant as it should be, it happens under a lot of stress and all this thoughts probably occur in just a few minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my mind, this is the movie's theme: the toughest decision a child has to make - choosing only one of his parents, that is deciding his own future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, after being asked which story is the true one, the old man refuses to pick one. He states that all of them are equally true and that is no right, nor wrong answer. This has multiple meanings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first place, I don't think his intention was to actually tell the story of his life. When you are the eldest person in the world and dying, I don't believe that your main intention is to tell the people how your life has been. It seems a better decision to tell the whole world a message. After so many years of experience, the question shouldn't be &quot;What have you done so far?&quot; but &quot;What have you learned? What would you tell to all the young people?&quot;. Nobody should actually care about the ups and downs in another person's life. The title is Mr Nobody, meaning that he was no extraordinary person, he was just nobody, like everybody else. Returning to the original question and it's interesting answer, I believe that the message is the following: we shouldn't consume ourselves trying to figure out what is the correct decision in life. Life is about living, one thing will lead to the other and you cannot predict what will follow. As you have seen in the movie, apparently bad decisions have led to happy moments, while doing always the right thing might get you bored, dissatisfied and maybe finally killed. That is why there is no right, nor wrong decision in life. They are all just options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second place, there might be a reference to quantum mechanics. You can read more about various theories &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here about the many-worlds interpretation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here about the Copenhagen interpretation&lt;/a&gt;. The very popular experiment with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Schroedinger's cat&lt;/a&gt; might also be a good example. To sum the theories up: when facing multiple possibilities, before making a choice/some sort of measurement, every possible outcome is actually an alternate universe. Now, one theory states that every time a decision/measurement is made, many other parallel universes are created. This way every possibility actually gets materialized, only it happens in parallel universes. Other theories state that upon deciding/measuring results, all parallel universes collapse into a single one, but before measurement everything is equally real. Hopefully I haven't mixed them up and understood this ideas good enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, it is my opinion that all the tiny actions with unexpected huge reactions are not necessarily true. Everything is narrated by the main character and he couldn't have known what was happening in other parts of the world (see the episode with the guy working at a shoe factory being fired). What is more, all the possible lives are made of various decisions that have interesting effects in time. All these are references to the butterfly effect but, as I have said earlier, nothing is necessarily true. Everything is possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="418" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-12T00:47:50.033" LastActivityDate="2015-07-12T00:47:50.033" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10977" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10988" CreationDate="2013-04-16T15:57:03.977" Score="9" ViewCount="9326" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Jurassic Park, Dennis Nedry uses his programming abilities to mess up the whole park while he makes his escape. My question is, &lt;strong&gt;why did he turn off the fences?&lt;/strong&gt;  The whole disaster could have been avoided if he had just left those alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="850" LastEditDate="2013-04-16T19:52:20.097" LastActivityDate="2013-04-16T20:23:40.413" Title="What was the reasoning for turning off the fences?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jurassic-park|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10978" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-16T16:08:39.700" Score="8" ViewCount="791" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one scene, we are clearly told that the dinosaurs couldn't breed on their own because they are all female.  We later find that, in fact, since they used frog dna to create the dinosaurs, they can in fact breed.  Why was so much importance put on this aspect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-16T17:16:50.463" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T16:37:46.747" Title="Why is the breeding aspect important?" Tags="|analysis|jurassic-park|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10979" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10990" CreationDate="2013-04-16T16:24:16.030" Score="14" ViewCount="5118" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 2&lt;/em&gt;, the Stark Expo is pretty clearly modeled on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing_Meadows&quot;&gt;New York World's Fair grounds&lt;/a&gt;. Tony and Happy are able to drive from Stark Expo to Washington D.C. in a few hours (at most, overnight). And late in the film, when tracing Vanko's phone call to Stark, the trace shows the call get traced to Hammer Industries in New York City.  Meanwhile, it's already established that Stark lives in Malibu, and much of the film occurs at his house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no indication that there's a large distance between Stark Expo, Hammer Industries, and Stark's home. But there are &lt;em&gt;implied&lt;/em&gt; vast distances between some of these locations.  Where did the film take place?  Is it supposed to have taken place on both the East and West coasts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="19074" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2017-12-23T10:36:22.563" LastActivityDate="2024-02-01T01:55:41.693" Title="Where did Iron Man 2 take place?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10978" CreationDate="2013-04-16T16:24:19.407" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is one instance that explains everything that happens throughout the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the dinosaurs escaping to the dinosaurs breeding, much of the events that happen throughout Jurassic Park are meant to prove Dr. Malcolm right when he said &quot;life finds a way.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this specific example, the Jurassic Park scientists are &quot;spared no expense&quot; and years of research was conducted whereby they did &quot;...things which nobody's ever done before.&quot; But we learn that in spite of this massive biologic and engineering feat, where so much deliberate science was conducted to prevent pretty much everything bad that happened in the film, life found a way anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2013-04-16T16:24:19.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1254" CreationDate="2013-04-16T16:49:22.837" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, when the camera pans to the t-rex, if you look in the background there's a large door or opening in the background that it looks like the t-rex came through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-04-16T16:49:22.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10978" CreationDate="2013-04-16T17:13:18.580" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the original novel, Alan Grant make a big issue about how insanely irresponsible and dangerous it was to introduce dinosaurs back into the world.  John Hammond dismissed his concerns, saying the dinosaurs couldn't escape from the island, couldn't breed, and couldn't even survive without a special diet fortified with amino acids.  So when it was revealed that the dinosaurs actually &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; breed, it wasn't so much a &quot;behold the miracle of life&quot; moment as it was a major &quot;how could we have fucked up so bad?&quot; moment.  I seem to remember that they were going to stop everything else until they could get an accurate count of the dinosaurs, and an accurate count of every eggshell on the island to make sure there were no hatchlings unaccounted for.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was all pretty much dropped in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-04-16T17:13:18.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10983" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-16T17:14:21.123" Score="5" ViewCount="1049" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rqchz&quot;&gt;The Clue of the Savant's Thumb&lt;/a&gt; Jonathan Creek, using a specially constructed chainsaw, appears to cut straight through Joey Ross (Sheridan Smith) at the waist, while she in fact remains completely unharmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this an actual magic trick? If so how does this trick work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4611" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-16T18:22:26.227" LastActivityDate="2013-04-17T14:12:02.913" Title="How does the chainsaw trick at the end of &quot;The Clue of the Savant's Thumb&quot; work?" Tags="|jonathan-creek|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10977" CreationDate="2013-04-16T17:30:01.097" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Still it wasn't his goal to avoid any disaster, rather on the contrary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end &lt;em&gt;Dennis Nedry&lt;/em&gt; was hired by a competiting organization/company for industrial espionage, to steal the embryos. So producing some disaster by turning off the fences could on the one hand help him escape unnoticed or at least unbothered. And on the other hand sabotaging the park could only be in the best interrests of his real employers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course he didn't anticipate that it could also make it much more difficult for &lt;em&gt;him&lt;/em&gt; to escape either. Maybe he didn't even anticipate anybody getting seriously injured (or he just didn't care, but &lt;em&gt;&quot;even Nedry knew to keep his fingers off the raptor fences&quot;&lt;/em&gt;). From his point of view a little chaos could only work to his advantages (even if he was wrong in the end).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-04-16T17:30:01.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10985" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-16T19:21:51.283" Score="11" ViewCount="5125" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently reread the book Dracula by Bram Stoker and I am searching for a movie that resembles the book closest. The 1992 film Dracula seems to have gotten only decent reviews and the love story kills it for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the most faithful adaptation of the book?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS- I don't mind watching a movie in a language other than english if it has subtitles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4612" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-02-16T16:00:37.743" LastActivityDate="2020-06-23T22:31:00.803" Title="Most faithful Dracula book adaptation (motion film /animation)" Tags="|book-adaptation|dracula|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5615" CreationDate="2013-04-16T20:18:38.253" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree I believe the ending is meant to leave your imagination to do the work. A.) you can believe he finally gave up on idealism and just played the game better than anyone or B.) you leave believing he used his knowledge of Molly to leverage into a position to finally do the right thing and tell the truth. The speech by George colony about integrity and honesty could be taken as foreshadowing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4613" LastActivityDate="2013-04-16T20:18:38.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10977" CreationDate="2013-04-16T20:23:40.413" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right after Hammond wonders why Nedry would turn off the fences it cuts to this scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JKhu0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Dennis Nedry&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4eGZp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Dennis Nedry&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJwbRUq8wVw&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/jurassicpark_script_final_12_92.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the script&lt;/a&gt; the latter sign says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DANGER!&lt;br&gt; &#xA;   ELECTRIFIED FENCE!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;This Door Cannot Be Opened&#xA;   When Fence is Armed!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-04-16T20:23:40.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10979" CreationDate="2013-04-17T00:01:03.533" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stark Expo occurs in Flushing Meadows, New York which you could drive to D.C. in a few hours. Tony does live in Malibu as displayed in the movie as well as for Hammer Industries which is in Queens, NY.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20141231043212/http://www.starkexpo2010.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.starkexpo2010.com/&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/Stark_Expo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/Stark_Expo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stark Expo was filmed in L.A. Live, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228705/locations&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB locations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-02-01T01:55:41.693" LastActivityDate="2024-02-01T01:55:41.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="10991" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-17T05:55:06.843" Score="10" ViewCount="7498" Body="&lt;p&gt;Internet says &quot;Black comedy is a form of comedy in which serious issues such as cannibalism, rape, genocide, terminal illnesses, etc. are treated humorously&quot;. But I don't see any comedy scenes in American psycho and all. Can someone explain me what is black comedy please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4616" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-08-25T07:45:31.157" LastActivityDate="2017-05-12T14:29:25.527" Title="How come films like American Psycho, Fight club, In Bruges are black comedy?" Tags="|genre|fight-club|american-psycho|in-bruges|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10581" CreationDate="2013-04-17T06:52:35.547" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been a while since I saw the movie, but my impression was that the events in the move are &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; meant to be imaginary.  I remember Bateman kills someone and then pretends the apartment is his own.  That is where he leaves the bodies of his victims.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bateman at some point spray-paints &quot;Die Yuppie Scum!&quot; on the wall.  One of the conceits of the film is that yuppies really are scum.  They are worthless and interchangeable, so people can't tell one from the other, and nobody cares or even realizes when one is murdered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Toward the end of the movie Bateman comes back to the apartment and the bodies are gone.  A realtor is there, getting ready to show the apartment.  (Apparently Bateman hasn't kept up the rent payments.)  &lt;strong&gt;It is the realtor who has disposed of the bodies.&lt;/strong&gt;  She hasn't even bothered to call the police because the victims were only worthless yuppies.  She knows Bateman murdered them, but doesn't care.  She treats him with disdain, though, because he left a mess for her to clean up, and because he is a yuppie too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-04-17T06:52:35.547" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10983" CreationDate="2013-04-17T14:12:02.913" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty much everything you would ever need to know is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawing_a_woman_in_half&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the specific trick shown it is a variation on the 'Jigsaw' or Bow Saw' method. Basically the saw blade is not as solid as it seems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3772" LastActivityDate="2013-04-17T14:12:02.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10995" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="10996" CreationDate="2013-04-17T15:24:33.803" Score="24" ViewCount="2811" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does the number &quot;21&quot; on this Rekall ad stand for? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zsL3Y.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot of Rekall ad&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4620" LastEditorUserId="31" LastEditDate="2013-05-03T19:18:13.867" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T15:54:03.220" Title="In the end of Total Recall (2012), what does this number stand for?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|total-recall-2012|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10995" CreationDate="2013-04-17T15:55:13.837" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's not a 21, that's another language.  It's a Korean transliteration of the name 'Rekall' so people who read Hangul (the written Korean language) and not English can understand the ad.  Fortunately, Hangul is relatively easy to read, and is well-documented online.  After some googling, I found a &lt;a href=&quot;http://modernseoul.org/2012/04/16/korean-alphabet-basics-how-to-read-hangul-part-1/&quot;&gt;few tutorials&lt;/a&gt;, and a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul_consonant_and_vowel_tables&quot;&gt;handy Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; reference.  Hangul has each 'letter' be a syllable, which combine more fundamental vowel and consonant symbols.  Here that means we have 2 syllables - &quot;Re&quot; and &quot;kall&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Re&quot; would be turned into a syllable combining the &quot;r/l&quot; symbol &quot;ㄹ&quot; with the &quot;i&quot; or &quot;ee&quot; symbol &quot;ㅣ&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;kall&quot; is a bit more complex.  This uses 3 symbols, which I had to do &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linguanaut.com/korean_alphabet.htm&quot;&gt;more googling&lt;/a&gt; to get an explanation for.  The syllable starts with the &quot;k&quot; symbol &quot;ᄏ&quot; with the vowel &quot;oh&quot; symbol &quot;ᅩ&quot;.  The tricky part is that the syllable ends with an &quot;r/l&quot; symbol &quot;ᆯ&quot;, which is denoted by being on the bottom of the combined syllable symbol.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore it's &quot;re&quot;-&gt;리 + &quot;kall&quot;-&gt;콜 = 리콜&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-04-17T18:11:39.023" LastActivityDate="2013-04-17T18:11:39.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10991" CreationDate="2013-04-17T19:26:20.210" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy&quot;&gt;Black Comedy&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire&quot;&gt;Satire&lt;/a&gt; are not quite two forms of the same thing.  Satire is not always funny and is used to convey a message on a topic, while Black Comedy can be a part of a Satirical message.  If you are familiar at all with the movie M*A*S*H, it is a black comedy about the Korean War.  The Television series of the same name that spawned from that movie was a Satire that contained many of the same elements of Black Comedy, while in the later years took on and presented messages on more modern issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, as was pointed out in the comments, you need to examine the individual scenes and elements of each movie to understand why they are Black Comedies.  The overall message of &lt;em&gt;Life and Times of a Serial Killer&lt;/em&gt; may not be a funny one when you watch American Psycho, but as pointed out the business card scene, monologues, chainsaw dropped down the center of the staircase scene, and others are all Black Comedic scenes; humorous views on darker subjects.  In Bruges had multiple darkly funny scenes... remember the hitman who chances his mind when his target is about to commit suicide, and the interaction immediately following it?  The local girl's boyfriend who gets shot with the blank?  The dwarf shot with the dum-dum bullet so the fact that his head is completely gone leads to the incorrect assumption that he is a child?  All black comedic moments in a movie that itself is about death and tragedy.  Fight Club... too many funny scenes to list, and all of them black.  Learning later that the whole idea of the fight club was started by one guy beating the crap out of himself in a parking lot.  Being beaten bloody itself isn't necessarily funny, but in this context you can laugh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Black Comedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is getting shot funny?  No.  in Pineapple Express, Danny McBride's character being shot multiple times, as well as the &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; he is shot, and still surviving?  Funny.  Black Comedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2013-04-17T19:26:20.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="10998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10771" CreationDate="2013-04-17T20:08:34.730" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112819/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dead Presidents&lt;/a&gt; doesn't contain strong religious references.  It deals with a heist as well as social and civil problems Black Americans have faced.  That said, they've produced two movies and five episodes of a Television series called Touching Evil.  They were executive producers on From Hell, and produced two documentaries.  They've pretty much directed everything they produced.  So, of the 4 movies they produced/directed, one had no religious overtones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2013-04-17T20:08:34.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10959" CreationDate="2013-04-18T15:36:58.487" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;My interpretation was that he was responding to her flirting rather than the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's been sent to protect her&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His boss is a mother figure to her&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Her father has just been killed in a terrorist attack&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very unusually for Bond he resists her attempts to seduce him (admittedly not for too long).  They could both be killed if he lets his guard down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-04-18T15:36:58.487" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11005" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11186" CreationDate="2013-04-18T15:47:47.530" Score="8" ViewCount="4460" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometime after the Battle Royale started, either Kitano or Noriko (not entirely sure) have a dream. They are both walking casually by a river, eating popsicles, and talking to each other. We do not hear what is being said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hcsAy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a dream or a flashback of some sort? And what does it mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T17:07:21.110" Title="What is the meaning behind the silent dream scene in Battle Royale?" Tags="|analysis|battle-royale|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11006" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-04-18T15:48:51.357" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-04-18T15:48:51.357" LastActivityDate="2013-04-18T15:48:51.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11007" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-04-18T15:48:51.357" Score="0" Body="Battle Royale (バトル・ロワイアル Batoru Rowaiaru) is a 2000 Japanese action thriller film adapted from the 1999 novel of the same name by Koushun Takami." OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2013-04-18T15:49:49.337" LastActivityDate="2013-04-18T15:49:49.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8318" CreationDate="2013-04-18T16:19:20.770" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two types of pills in that movie. The green ones are the pills that enhance his  physical abilities.  Aaron Cross' physical abilities were now permanent and he didn't need the green pills anymore.  The blue pills give him the enhancement in intelligence.  He still needs the blue pills in order to preserve his superior intelligence.  He meets Rachel Weisz's character who can help him viral off the blue pills.  What does viraling off mean?  It means you don't need to take the green pills or the blue pills everyday in order to retain your superhuman abilities.  That is why he goes to the Philipines, because he won't have to rely on the blue pills anymore.     &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4629" LastActivityDate="2013-04-18T16:19:20.770" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4389" CreationDate="2013-04-19T03:39:10.590" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not a movie writer but I must say when watching the Prometheus movie I thought I seen a connection to Predator and Alien as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you remember back to the part were the one crew member was infected and then started to feel sick and started to change and then they torched him out side the ship. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well if you recall after that when they went to check because they thought he was still alive but by then he had changed completely and looked more humanoid like how the Predator looks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you recall his facial features and the beyond normal human strength just wanted to throw that thought out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4630" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-04-19T13:27:21.487" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T13:27:21.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9842" CreationDate="2013-04-19T06:07:45.080" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were certainly plenty of witnesses to the event. The household help who were allowed to escape still continue to be slaves of the Candies. IMO, both the housekeeper and Candie's mistress, Sheba (?), would, perhaps with a little persuasion, be happy to cooperate with any investigators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And investigation there will be, considering the nature of the incident and the personage involved. Moreover, considering Dr.Schulz's body at Candieland as well as the trail left behind at Greenville, plenty of people are aware of Django's existence. Schulz and Django have also had previous dealings with lawmen during their bounty hunting; Django's name and identification would therefore also be widely available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether Django will be branded an outlaw depends on the testimony of the Candieland employees. But he'll certainly be wanted for questioning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T06:07:45.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11011" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-19T06:22:10.477" Score="0" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;A possible interpretation of that island in movie (Life Of A Pie)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;may be he was dreaming about that island ...... before this scene he mentions that he was unable to distinguish between reality and his dream ......maybe this island is one of the creations of his own dream .....as he believed lord vishnu - the supreme soul , the source of everything - sleeps floating on the cosmic ocean .....so he was dreaming about an island , of the shape of lord vishnu ,is there to save him from all the pain and agony he is going through .....thats how he was raised in his childhood that GOD is always there to help you .....maybe his sub conscious mind was playing with him by fantasizing all these and giving him a hope to live&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4631" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T06:22:10.477" Title="A possible interpretation of that island in movie" Tags="|life-of-pi|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2013-04-19T13:21:33.073" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3416" CreationDate="2013-04-19T10:12:23.153" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the scene where Blake visits Bruce Wayne he tells Bruce about what Gordon had told him, the underground army and the masked man.  Blake tells Bruce that the city needs Batman, and that he knows Bruce is Batman, he goes on to tell Bruce about his childhood as an orphan and seeing Bruce and recognizing himself in Bruce.  In many different renditions of the Batman story the character of Robin (Blake in this case) will discover that Bruce Wayne is Batman and become his sidekick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4633" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-19T10:50:09.877" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T10:50:09.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11013" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11016" CreationDate="2013-04-19T13:31:11.347" Score="23" ViewCount="102600" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Breaking Bad, it is seen in a mass sense that Marie has the entire home decorated in as much purple as possible:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cPLwH.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cPLwH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the significance with this colour in connection to her behaviour or even in relation to Hank's personality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-07-27T10:40:21.927" LastActivityDate="2018-07-27T10:40:21.927" Title="Why is the connection between Hank and Marie and the colour purple?" Tags="|breaking-bad|analysis|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11014" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-19T13:37:26.590" Score="51" ViewCount="104202" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early on in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, it is revealed that Walt and Gretchen had a history together with Elliot in the construction of their company &quot;Gray Matter&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, one day while on vacation with Gretchen, Walt started packing and abandoned everything to do with that life, including Gretchen, his significant other at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What caused this sudden change in personality to give up everything that he loved in exchange for seemingly nothing at the time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-03-19T14:19:30.170" LastActivityDate="2022-08-16T06:51:19.720" Title="Why exactly did Walt leave Gray Matter?" Tags="|breaking-bad|analysis|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11014" CreationDate="2013-04-19T13:59:59.763" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;The exact reasons surrounding Walter leaving Gray Matter were never covered during show's run.  The only in-show information to go on is from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Gray_Matter_Technologies&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Breaking Bad Wikia page for Grey Matter&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...he [Walter] was dating his female lab assistant, Gretchen (&quot;...and the Bag's in the River&quot;). For reasons not yet explained, Walter suddenly left Gretchen during a vacation with her family, leaving her and his research behind (&quot;Peekaboo&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further details were then hinted at during the season 5 episode (&quot;Buyout&quot;), when Walter discussed leaving Gray Matter with Jesse. He shares his story about how he sold his stake in the company for $5000 while trying to justify why they shouldn't be selling out their current operation. This scene showcases his embarrassment over leaving his ideas and his creations behind and clearly demonstrates his regret in leaving but doesn't allude further into the details of &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2016-03-19T15:06:45.210" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T15:06:45.210" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11013" CreationDate="2013-04-19T14:09:41.643" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are indeed right that Marie appears to have an obsession with purple, which is very clear in the earlier seasons (she's always wearing something purple) and as you've shown in your screencap her home is very much covered in purple furnishings. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The origins of this obsession are covered in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/articles/breaking-bads-betsy-brandt-on-the-evolution-of-her,84423/&quot;&gt;an interview with Betsy Brandt (the actress who plays Marie) by AV Club&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the beginning, my character… I didn’t have a lot of text, so I didn’t have a lot to go on, so I went with what I had. We were all assigned a color—mine was purple—and I said, “Well if her color is purple, then I think she just loves purple. She is really, really into purple.” She’s that kind of person. She doesn’t do anything half-assed. And Vince said, “Great!” And now everybody’s color has changed except for mine. I’m like, “How come everybody else’s color is changing, and mine’s not?” And [costume designer] Kathleen Detoro said, “Vince likes you in purple.” [Laughs.] So I’ve kept the purple, but then they’ve added in yellow, and this season I’ve had maybe one or two things that were black. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T14:09:41.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11018" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11019" CreationDate="2013-04-19T16:23:06.603" Score="16" ViewCount="2506" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering around the internet and I came across a wonderful image that made me laugh for half an hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cDy8t.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cDy8t.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cDy8t.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The joke was funny, but it rose a doubt in my head. What is the real job of a &lt;em&gt;dinosaur supervisor&lt;/em&gt; in a movie like Jurassic Park?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="751" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T23:25:37.993" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T23:25:37.993" Title="What was the &quot;Dinosaur Supervisor&quot; actually supposed to do in Jurassic Park?" Tags="|jurassic-park|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11018" CreationDate="2013-04-19T16:42:26.030" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Tippett&quot;&gt;Phil Tippett's&lt;/a&gt; background in animation, he appears to have been given a lead technical/animator role, supervising how the CGI dinosaurs looked/moved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, the wikipedia makes mention of this very meme...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="524" LastActivityDate="2013-04-19T16:42:26.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11023" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-20T04:15:18.820" Score="12" ViewCount="33131" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0316650/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Django's wife&lt;/a&gt;'s name spelt &lt;em&gt;Broomhilda&lt;/em&gt; rather than &lt;em&gt;Brunhilda&lt;/em&gt; (or &lt;em&gt;Broonhilda&lt;/em&gt;)? I have only come across the latter spelling (and variants such as &lt;em&gt;Brunhilde&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Brünnhilde&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Brynhilde&lt;/em&gt;) in the mythological story. I didn't actually notice that Django was pronouncing his wife's name with an &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt;. But I do seem to distinctly remember Dr. Schultz pronouncing her name (in his German accent) more like &lt;em&gt;Brünnhilde&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see that there's a 1970s newspaper comic strip named &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broom-Hilda&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Broom-Hilda&lt;/a&gt; where the titular character is a witch. The name is therefore a pun on &lt;em&gt;Brunhilda&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hY0Hs.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Broom-Hilda&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what gives? Is Tarantino tipping his hat towards the comic? If not, is he suggesting that the German plantation owners spelt her name so? Do the characters in the movie pronounce her name with an &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt;? I don't remember if there's a shot where her name is displayed—perhaps in Greenville, or when the contracts are signed in Candieland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I don't believe that it is suggested anywhere that Broomhilda was also taught how to read and write by her mistress. Django only learns to do so midway through the film.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-04-20T04:41:27.077" LastActivityDate="2015-01-10T12:27:30.617" Title="Why Broomhilda rather than Brunhilda?" Tags="|django-unchained|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11023" CreationDate="2013-04-20T09:03:05.193" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, she is indeed spelled &lt;em&gt;Broomhilda&lt;/em&gt; (with an &lt;em&gt;&quot;M&quot;&lt;/em&gt;) both in the credits and throughout the movie. I think it's only &lt;em&gt;Schultz&lt;/em&gt; who calls her &lt;em&gt;Brunhilda&lt;/em&gt; due to his habits. I just understood that as a parody of the original name, emphasizing her status as a slave, since she's supposed to carry a &lt;em&gt;broom&lt;/em&gt; when cleaning up behind her masters, something along those lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just thought it has always been her name. But given that her original plantation owners were Germans it may also be that her original name was indeed &lt;em&gt;Brunhilda&lt;/em&gt; and the parody name was only developed later by other plantation owners, overseers, or co-slaves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it might also have another meaning, given that comic-strip and &lt;em&gt;Tarantino&lt;/em&gt;'s fondness for the 70s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-20T09:08:18.160" LastActivityDate="2013-04-20T09:08:18.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11048" CreationDate="2013-04-20T20:56:03.847" Score="6" ViewCount="4548" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of Oblivion when Jack is having flashbacks to being an astronaut. He remembers piloting the spacecraft towards the alien ship. My understanding was that Jack and Victoria were both asleep in the pods, and that mission control awoke them when intercepting the unknown artifact (the alien ship).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While on route to intercept the artifact Jack is in constant contact with mission control. The woman in the video screen is the same as the woman seen earlier in the film. So it seems that Jack was following orders made by the alien, and not actually mission control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is who woke up Jack and Victoria? Were they awoken by the alien and tricked into thinking they were communicating with mission control. Or, was the woman on the screen a real person back in mission control and not the alien?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-07-25T15:45:36.953" LastActivityDate="2016-06-20T16:15:52.483" Title="Who woke up the astronauts in Oblivion?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oblivion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11030" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-21T02:51:19.990" Score="32" ViewCount="944" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S1E4 (&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrath_of_Con&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wrath of Con&lt;/a&gt;&quot;) of Veronica Mars, a memorial fountain is dedicated to Lilly Kane. Logan, her ex-boyfriend, is assigned the task of creating a video montage as a tribute to be viewed during the ceremony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The video itself pulls largely from events of the characters in their teenage years, but the video begins with shots of Lilly as a child. There is one specific shot that is clearly Amanda Seyfried as a child, but what about the rest?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Video reference &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l04tl6BWRf4&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definite shot of Seyfried here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ckpeS.png&quot; alt=&quot;OHITBESEYFRIED&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="43257" LastEditDate="2017-09-22T05:26:40.043" LastActivityDate="2017-09-22T05:26:40.043" Title="How much of the video compilation made for Lilly's memorial was actually Amanda Seyfried?" Tags="|veronica-mars|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11031" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11032" CreationDate="2013-04-21T12:23:50.847" Score="5" ViewCount="1567" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please help me to identify the movie those pictures belong to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0MxP3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZUVp8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4646" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-08-31T16:38:54.523" LastActivityDate="2013-08-31T16:38:54.523" Title="Movie about a giant robot" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:44:12.873" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11031" CreationDate="2013-04-21T12:28:19.780" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like the giant robot from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Day the Earth Stood Still&lt;/a&gt;, a remake of the 1951 film with the same name. The 2008 remake stars Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ap8jh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster The Day The Eart Stood Still (Wikipedia)&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The robot's name is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gort_%28The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GORT, which is short for Genetically Organised Robotic Technology&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/scAgM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;image of GORT&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-04-24T00:04:59.613" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T00:04:59.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11033" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11035" CreationDate="2013-04-21T12:44:01.063" Score="6" ViewCount="17809" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1197624/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Law Abiding Citizen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I can't quite figure out what weapon &lt;em&gt;Clyde&lt;/em&gt; uses to kill his cell mate. It didn't look like a knife. And whatever it was, where did he get that from in a cell? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4498" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-21T14:44:06.643" LastActivityDate="2020-03-03T11:30:33.130" Title="What weapon does Clyde use to kill his cell mate?" Tags="|plot-explanation|law-abiding-citizen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10985" CreationDate="2013-04-21T13:07:45.623" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Dracula_%281977%29&quot;&gt;Count Dracula&lt;/a&gt; A TV movie made by BBC in 1977 is one of the adaptations which can be called more faithful adaptation of the book. Wikipedia says - &quot;1977 saw a solid BBC version titled Count Dracula. It was made for television and starred Louis Jourdan as the Count and Frank Finlay as Van Helsing. It was directed by Philip Saville. This version is one of the more faithful adaptations of the book. It includes all of the main characters (only blending together Arthur and Quincey) and has scenes of Jonathan recording events in his diary and Dr. Seward speaking into his dictaphone.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2013-04-21T13:07:45.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11033" CreationDate="2013-04-21T15:57:00.037" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clyde Shelton bargains with Nick Rice to give the location of Bill Reynolds, (Darby's attorney) in return for a 20 ounce Porterhouse steak (medium rare with all the trimmings) from Del Frisco's to be delivered at precisely 1 p.m., along with his iPod. Warden Inger demands multiple delays, resulting in the food arriving at Shelton's cell eight minutes late. Rice and Detective Dunnigan find Reynolds buried alive and only minutes dead, with Inger's delay causing him to suffocate, his oxygen tank having been set to shut down at 1:15. Dunnigan explains that because Shelton received his lunch at 1:08, they were 7 minutes late instead of getting to Reynolds in time to save him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile Shelton shares the steak dinner with his cellmate. Shelton palms the steak's T-bone and while distracting his cellmate with the iPod, murders him by using the T-bone as a push-knife. It gets messy and the Duxiana bed gets wrecked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit to add information: The 'T-bone', including 'Porterhouse', is cut from the Short loin (top of the back). To cut a T-bone from butchered cattle, a lumbar vertebra is sawn in half through the vertebral column. The downward prong of the 'T' is a transverse process of the vertebra, and the flesh surrounding it is the spinal muscles. The small semicircle at the top of the 'T' is half of the vertebral foramen. This is a very strong bone and would make a very effective push-knife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4373" LastEditorUserId="4373" LastEditDate="2013-04-22T02:35:54.743" LastActivityDate="2013-04-22T02:35:54.743" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11036" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11037" CreationDate="2013-04-21T16:02:14.030" Score="7" ViewCount="13066" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of Rear Window, we find out Thorwald dug up what was buried beneath the flowers, as the neighbors' dog got too inquisitive. He moved what he dug up to a hat box in his apartment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did he dig up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="32006" LastEditDate="2016-06-19T23:54:01.647" LastActivityDate="2016-06-19T23:54:01.647" Title="What is in the box in Rear Window?" Tags="|rear-window|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11036" CreationDate="2013-04-21T16:33:50.017" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&amp;amp;Movie=51318&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;American Film Institute&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has a synopsis that explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The police apprehend Thorwald, who confesses that &lt;strong&gt;he deposited most of his wife’s body in the East River, except for her head, which he first buried in the garden and then packed in a hatbox.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-04-21T16:33:50.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11039" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-21T20:40:29.517" Score="25" ViewCount="81084" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the &lt;strike&gt;Camaro&lt;/strike&gt; Chevelle chase scene, Reacher simply walks out of his moving car and joins a crowd waiting for a bus (or possibly a tram) while the police converge on the still moving vehicle. Why does everyone of the bunch of random people also waiting for the bus help him out by not alerting the police nearby? Two of them (one African American, the other Caucasian) shield him from view, while one (African American) hands him his baseball cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once he escapes, Reacher returns the cap to its owner who smiles to himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the rationale behind this supposed to be? Does a similar scene also occur in the book, &lt;em&gt;One Shot&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-11T14:41:55.770" LastActivityDate="2016-10-14T17:04:38.623" Title="Random bystanders helping Reacher out" Tags="|plot-explanation|jack-reacher|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11047" CreationDate="2013-04-21T21:56:27.757" Score="16" ViewCount="29165" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never entirely understood the scene where Bruce and Alfred shoot bullets into bricks and they figure out a finger print from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does that technology work exactly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1969" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-07-22T09:42:49.430" LastActivityDate="2016-07-22T09:42:49.430" Title="How does the fingerprint on the bullet work in Dark Knight?" Tags="|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11042" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12733" CreationDate="2013-04-22T02:01:46.660" Score="10" ViewCount="1935" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Trying to avoid spoilers with my wording)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like a lot of work to have humans repair the drones in Oblivion. If the TET is advanced enough to make intelligent drones, why not some sort of repair drone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;  Especially given the space required to produce the humans and the possibility that they may rebel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just to make the movie possible? Or is there some deeper reason? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-09-02T11:01:08.263" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T11:01:08.263" Title="Why not use drones to repair attack drones in Oblivion?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oblivion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11043" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17835" CreationDate="2013-04-22T04:52:35.667" Score="2" ViewCount="6757" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Paranormal Activity 3 (maybe it was PA 2?) Katie kidnaps Hunter when he was a baby. In Paranormal Activity 4 we find out that Wyatt is actually Hunter. How is this so? If Katie took him, why did she give him up only to come back after him? Is there a back story to explain this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further more, who is Robby? Was he just there to help prepare Wyatt to convert back into Hunter and &quot;be with his family&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-09T22:03:41.977" LastActivityDate="2017-05-30T07:49:02.513" Title="How is Hunter adopted?" Tags="|plot-explanation|paranormal-activity|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2200" CreationDate="2013-04-22T07:18:03.133" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's surely the &quot;show, don't tell&quot; aspect of his ingenuity and hobby. It shows us his probable rebellious past, maybe his first car. And since he's so mechanically inclined, the car probabbly portrays this side of Stark in a raw unrefined form of his past self. Hot Rodders are always tinkering with their cars and the deep cultural history behind Hot Rodding and post WW2 American culture has a very improvisational engineering pioneer aspect to it. So I'm sure this all comes into play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-22T07:32:48.707" LastActivityDate="2013-04-22T07:32:48.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11046" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11049" CreationDate="2013-04-22T08:30:07.443" Score="3" ViewCount="405" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280269/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;So What Now&lt;/a&gt; a few years ago. I think it's probably one of the most underrated sitcoms I've seen and that it was well made and funny but it only ran for one series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was this cancelled? Was this Lee Evans decision or the BBC's? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2164" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T16:20:05.127" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T16:20:05.127" Title="Why was 'Lee Evans: So what now?' cancelled?" Tags="|so-what-now|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11041" CreationDate="2013-04-22T12:55:16.157" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're looking for a real-life application of this scene, I can't say with any certainty if this technology exists or is merely a plot device.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I can tell you are the mechanics of this scene, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon arriving at the crime scene, Bruce sees a bullet hole fired into the brick of the apartment. While obtaining this evidence, he says to Gordon that he's going to obtain fingerprints off of the shattered bullet in the wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then returns to the batcave to use a minigun filled with different ammo sizes in order to gauge what kind of bullet he loaded into the chamber, matching the impact of a control brick with the brick he obtained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the information of the size of the bullet, he is able to digitally reconstruct the bullet, and run an analysis on it for fingerprints (The real stretch of this whole scene).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the fingerprint information, he is able to compare it to a criminal database of Gotham in order to determine the name of Melvin White (a known Joker alias for comic readers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-04-22T12:55:16.157" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11029" CreationDate="2013-04-22T13:00:15.460" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;They were woken by Sally from mission control she was the woman on the screen and is a real person back in mission control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The  woman that we see earlier in the film is a copy of the real Sally from mission control.  The TET mimics the interaction between Sally and Jack/Victoria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing I can use to prove this is the quality of video feed. When the TET is using Sally the video quality is poor and it also jumps a bit, while during the scenes from inside the Odyssey it was much better. If the TET didn't edit and reuse an old video you would expect it to be better quality given its advanced technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastEditorUserId="430" LastEditDate="2016-06-20T16:15:52.483" LastActivityDate="2016-06-20T16:15:52.483" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11046" CreationDate="2013-04-22T15:54:22.990" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;After some digging around I found this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2299933/Lee-Evans-I-bullied-I-went-kids-teachers--I-easy-target.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with Lee where he says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;‘I was writing the scripts and then I’d get on set and I’d be given a script with someone else’s name on it. It was like being punched in the stomach and you’d have to start performing feeling like that. &#xA;  ‘The show turned into something completely different from what I intended it to be. It was as if they didn’t trust me, as if they didn’t think I was good enough a writer, but it didn’t work. I had to walk away from doing any more series. I just went home.’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it was Lee himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2164" LastActivityDate="2013-04-22T15:54:22.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11053" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12734" CreationDate="2013-04-22T20:08:46.323" Score="11" ViewCount="7060" Body="&lt;p&gt;The major plot twist in the 2013 movie &lt;em&gt;Oblivion&lt;/em&gt; is virtually identical to the major plot twist in 2009's &lt;em&gt;Moon&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Oblivion&lt;/em&gt; also seems to borrow other details from &lt;em&gt;Moon&lt;/em&gt;, such as the phony mission-control and the layout of the scene with the big &quot;reveal.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any formal link between &lt;em&gt;Oblivion&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Moon&lt;/em&gt;? For example, have the creators of &lt;em&gt;Oblivion&lt;/em&gt; in any way indicated that they were inspired by &lt;em&gt;Moon&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T06:25:24.387" Title="Is &quot;Oblivion&quot; somehow linked to &quot;Moon&quot;?" Tags="|oblivion|moon|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9029" CreationDate="2013-04-22T20:26:56.070" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anybody think Schultz poisoned Dicaprio? He walks off scene after asking for a pen and then comes back and give Dicaprio the pen when Dr Schultz takes the pen you'll notice he grabs it in a certain spot, as apposed to Dicaprio grabbed it full fisted. I think he poisoned him and was gonna leave but by shaking his hand he would've been poisoned as well. Back against a wall he shot him unexpectedly to end it all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4655" LastEditorUserId="1799" LastEditDate="2017-02-06T15:38:41.163" LastActivityDate="2017-02-06T15:38:41.163" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11039" CreationDate="2013-04-22T20:51:07.850" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say that whoever added this scene, may it be the screenwriter, producer, director, &lt;strike&gt;author of the book&lt;/strike&gt; or someone else, was just looking for a more or less original and clever way of ending the car chase and letting Jack Reacher get away. And, by having him jump out of the car when no one sees and then just letting it continue down the road while he's heading in some other direction by foot (in this case to a crowded bus stop) they managed to do just that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I have actually read the book now and there are no car chases at all in it, so the chase and the scene(s) right after were definitely added afterwards.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Fun Fact: The notable bathroom fighting scene was also just a movie addition.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to the reactions of the people already at the bus stop, I don't think there's anything out of the ordinary. Sure, they could've had some people run off, but, when you see some guy getting chased by a dozen police cars and he walks over and stands right next to you, I think most people would just stand there quietly and hope that the police sees him. Not many people would try to get the attention of the police since that would most likely also get the attention of the perpetrator, possibly leading to them getting hurt or maybe even killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two men who hid Jack from the police are just there as comedic relief. But, I wouldn't say that it's totally unrealistic. Without having any kind of statistics backing me up on this, I'd say that people who have been arrested before, and especially people that have been unjustifiably arrested (which, sadly, happens sometimes, and especially to non-Caucasian citizens like the two gentlemen in the movie) would help others hide from the police, as long as it's not too much trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="8366" LastEditDate="2015-07-07T07:41:46.553" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T07:41:46.553" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11056" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37523" CreationDate="2013-04-23T03:19:21.050" Score="-4" ViewCount="2814" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to know if the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386703/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2012 &lt;em&gt;Total Recall&lt;/em&gt; remake&lt;/a&gt; captures some of the most significant and memorable scenes and effects from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100802/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1990 original&lt;/a&gt;. The particular ones I'm interested in are: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Arnold low-gravity buggy eyeballs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The three-breasted woman.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The mini Siamese twin alien.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The full-body disguise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were these included in the remake, and, if so, how were they presented?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-01-04T16:52:14.447" LastActivityDate="2018-01-07T14:59:24.183" Title="4 scenes from Total Recall: original vs. remake" Tags="|effects|total-recall-2012|remake|total-recall|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11056" CreationDate="2013-04-23T04:24:23.277" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it was a stand-alone, and wasn't judged by subjective viewers comparing it to the original: it's not &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First-off, the jpeg you're looking for (and answer to #2: '&lt;em&gt;yes&lt;/em&gt;', but less-featured):&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/saj1e.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, #1- no time spent on Mars/lacking-atmosphere- no.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For #3, Quatro- yes:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/50goK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3688" LastActivityDate="2013-04-23T04:24:23.277" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11058" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-23T13:29:14.777" Score="10" ViewCount="2830" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Fight Club,  before we see the scene of the Narrator (Ed Norton) meeting Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) for the first time on the airplane, we see another scene - here the narrator is passing on an automated walkway and Brad Pitt (Tyler Durden) crosses him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dont have the screenshot but here are some more details for recognising the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The narrator is saying this dialogue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And at that very time we see the narrator going by on a automated walkway and Brad Pitt dressed up like Tyler Durden is passing in front of him, going the opposite way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So who is this guy? Is he the narrator's imagination i.e. Tyler Durden? Because this means that the narrator was already imagining 'Tyler Durden', before he starts speaking with him for the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is he a real person who happened to pass the narrator just by chance.&#xA;This can also mean that there really was a guy who looked like Tyler Durden and he inspired the narrator to model his own imagination on him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean Tyler Durden looks exactly like the guy who crosses the narrator on the walkway. So was Tyler Durden modeled on this real guy or was that Tyler Durden itself (of course it is the narrator's figment of imagination)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-23T22:36:08.307" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T05:49:42.953" Title="Who is the person who passes in front of the narrator on the automated walkway?" Tags="|analysis|fight-club|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11058" CreationDate="2013-04-23T14:09:09.843" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;A model for destruction?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is entirely possible that in the Narrator's lucid state, he was scanning the crowd subconsciously, looking for the image that would become Tyler Durden.  Peering upon person to person to find the right image that would become his 'perfect' personality, the basis for his rebirth, the basis of &lt;em&gt;What a man is supposed to look like&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon seeing this man, he was infatuated, &lt;em&gt;This is Tyler&lt;/em&gt;, he said to himself, subconsciously.  And his mind ran with it from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to think of it in an even more &lt;em&gt;meta&lt;/em&gt; sense, it's entirely possible the Narrator passed &lt;em&gt;Brad Pitt himself&lt;/em&gt; and based Tyler off of Brad Pitt's image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Sleepwalker&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other, more accepted theory is that, as explained by Tyler towards the end, sometimes he imagines himself watching Tyler, when it is really him committing the action, speaking, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible that the Narrator 'thinks' he is just going his own way to the next monotonous action of his daily job ritual. But his lighter personality is actually 'asleep' and Tyler is awake and ready to start his night of mischief, mayhem, and soap-making.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is implied that Tyler's soap business is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; abundant and been running for a long time when the Narrator first 'meets' Tyler (about a year in the timeline).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also implied that the first time the Narrator got some sleep was when he started going to the support groups, a year later, Marla Singer crashes his party and sends him into the downward spiral into Project Mayhem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;To Sum it up&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both theories are very possible, but the more accepted one is the second. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way it is handled in the book is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; different, having the two meet on a beach, never really implying seeing any man as a 'model' for Tyler.  This would imply, again, that the second is the actual explanation.  Though the first does make for an interesting discussion piece.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-04-23T14:09:09.843" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11058" CreationDate="2013-04-23T17:43:00.860" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are actually &lt;strong&gt;six&lt;/strong&gt; scenes/flashes where we see Brad Pitt before &lt;em&gt;The Narrator&lt;/em&gt; meets him on the plane. A list of them has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.11points.com/Movies/11_Hidden_Secrets_in_Fight_Club&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;compiled here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasoning behind this is covered well in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/faq#.2.1.14&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As astute viewers will have observed, Tyler Durden appears in the film six times prior to the scene where The Narrator meets him on the plane. Four of these appearances are single-frame flashes, which &lt;strong&gt;director David Fincher refers to on his DVD commentary as &amp;quot;subliminal Brads&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; (a single frame is 1/24 of a second in duration, just slow enough for the human eye to register). The first subliminal Brad appears while The Narrator is standing at the photocopier at work, trying to stay awake; the second appears as the doctor (Richmond Arquette) tells The Narrator that to see what real pain is, he needs to attend the testicular cancer support group; the third as the support group leader (George Maguire) makes his opening remarks; and the fourth as The Narrator watches Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) walk down an alley. Durden's fifth and sixth appearances are not single-frame flashes but cameo appearances: he is the furthest waiter on the right in the hotel welcome video and &lt;strong&gt;a passerby on a walkway in an airport&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On his DVD commentary track, David Fincher explains that the idea behind the subliminal Brads was to convey a sense of exasperation on the part of Tyler Durden; &lt;strong&gt;it is as if The Narrator has already created Tyler, but is hesitating to release him.&lt;/strong&gt; The subliminal Brads are an attempt to illustrate Tyler's frustration with The Narrator -- &lt;strong&gt;if The Narrator would simply allow him free reign, Tyler could tackle many of the problems holding The Narrator back&lt;/strong&gt;. Significantly, all four subliminal Brads appear at times of stress, as if Tyler is choosing these precise moments to remind The Narrator that a solution is within his grasp, he just needs to follow through with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Response to a comment: As for why Tyler is the way he is, consider the following dialogue from the movie in a conversation between Durden and The Narrator:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tyler Durden&lt;/strong&gt;: You were looking for a way to change your life. You could not do this on your own. All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. &lt;strong&gt;I look like you wanna look&lt;/strong&gt;, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, Durden is The Narrator's ideal, an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Übermensch&lt;/a&gt;, a figment drawn from the latter's experiences, fantasies, and the people around him. Durden's appearance might well be similar to someone real (or it could be modelled on an actor like Brad Pitt himself who some would consider an ideal).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T05:49:42.953" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11061" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11082" CreationDate="2013-04-23T18:23:48.077" Score="4" ViewCount="27406" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per &lt;a href=&quot;http://movieweb.com/exclusive-tom-six-reveals-more-on-the-human-centipede-ii-full-sequence/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tom Six's claim&lt;/a&gt; for Human Centipede 2 to make it more graphic and disturbing, making the first film seem like &quot;My Little Pony compared with part two.&quot; So why make it in black and white? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the reason for making it in B&amp;amp;W, is it for censorship issues or for achieving a cheap torture porn effect or is it for any other reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T20:59:46.557" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T20:59:46.557" Title="What is the reason for making &quot;Human Centipede 2&quot; in black and white?" Tags="|black-and-white|human-centipede-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11064" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-04-23T21:40:27.140" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Continuum is a science fiction television series in which a group of terrorists, known as Liber8, escape their planned execution in the year 2077 and return to the year 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show stars Rachel Nichols as Kiera, a City Protective Services (CPS) law enforcement officer from the year 2077 who was caught in the attempted escape by Liber8 members and sent back to the past with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.showcase.ca/continuum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Official Continuum site on Showcase&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954347/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://liber8.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Liber8 website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Created By: Simon Barry&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Starring: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629697/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rachel Nichols&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461712/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Victor Webster&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005543/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Erik Knudsen&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1683808/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stephen Lobo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Genre: Science Fiction, Drama, Action&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-04-23T22:02:29.313" LastActivityDate="2013-04-23T22:02:29.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11065" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-04-23T21:40:27.140" Score="0" Body="Continuum is a science fiction television series in which a group of terrorists, known as Liber8, escape their planned execution in the year 2077 and return to the year 2012." OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-04-23T22:02:35.860" LastActivityDate="2013-04-23T22:02:35.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11067" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11111" CreationDate="2013-04-23T22:15:50.023" Score="5" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alec Saddler is a boy genius, in fact in the future he goes on to revolutionise technology with various inventions including 'liquid chip' technology, amongst other things, that he created both from his own knowledge and that left to him by his father. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He &lt;em&gt;knows&lt;/em&gt; that he is clever and takes pleasure in reminding Kiera about it many times throughout the first season. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why is it that at the start of the second season he has decided to get a job at an electronics store? Even mediocre programmers can make better money than he'd earn from selling electronics to consumers so it doesn't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T21:40:54.150" Title="Why is Alec trying to get a job in an Electronics Store?" Tags="|continuum|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11068" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11070" CreationDate="2013-04-24T01:56:23.290" Score="4" ViewCount="4958" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Continuum S0E10, Agent Gardiner is introduced and is very suspicious of Kiera, and begins performing a variety of background checks on her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just before the major explosion near the end of the episode, he gets a call from 'his superior' who advises him that a Mr Escher from Section Six has informed his agency to cooperate fully with Kiera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the episode, it is clarified that Mr Escher is neither Kellog or Alec. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is Mr Escher?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-10-17T10:33:06.977" LastActivityDate="2018-10-17T10:33:06.977" Title="Who is Mr Escher?" Tags="|character|continuum|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10991" CreationDate="2013-04-24T03:25:03.290" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might help to not think of black comedy as being defined as being humor about &quot;cannibalism, rape, genocide, terminal illnesses,&quot; but rather to think of it as gallows humor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gallows humor is, loosely, defined as humor in the face of impossible situations. The most famous historical example is probably Oscar Wilde, on his death bed, saying &quot;either that wallpaper goes, or I do.&quot; In other words, it's not so much jokes ABOUT eating people or cancer or anything likewise unpleasant, but about finding some humor within those situations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before we get too uplifting here, remember that the humor can be seen from either side in an &quot;impossible situation&quot; with an agressor/victim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;American Psycho has a number of scenes like this. Remember when Bateman is about to kill his buddy and yet instead of threatening him, all he can think to do is wax poetic about Huey Lewis and the News. It's hip to be square, isn't it? Even with an axe in your hand? Another famous movie example is the bit about chianti and fava beans from Silence of the Lambs. Joking around in a very, very dangerous situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flip, and actually perhaps the more classic side, is one in which humor is found in the the face of the seemingly endless or impossible to escape misfortune of the protaganist. The best (well, I say best, but usually when I say that I just mean my favorite so... :) ) example in film might be After Hours, a movie in which our increasingly desperate hero consistently finds himself in what are (fairly, if lightly) terrifying situations that are also increasingly funny. There's not too much to do but laugh as he tries, and keeps on failing, to escape SoHo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Bon makes the other point I would have liked to, but probably more eloquently than I could have, which is, of course, always, always context!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4658" LastEditorUserId="4658" LastEditDate="2013-04-24T04:06:42.030" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T04:06:42.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11068" CreationDate="2013-04-24T08:09:45.100" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://continuum.wikia.com/wiki/Escher&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;continuum.wikia.com&lt;/a&gt; -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr. Escher is the head of Piron Corporation, one of the top corporations in the future. He traveled back in time to ensure that the future stays on track. He also seems to be planting his roots earlier in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;http://continuum.wikia.com/wiki/End_Time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;End&#xA;times&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://continuum.wikia.com/wiki/Jason&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jason&lt;/a&gt; says Mr. Escher is a privateer, or a freelancer.&#xA;A Mr. Escher then vouches for &lt;a href=&quot;http://continuum.wikia.com/wiki/Kiera&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kiera&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://continuum.wikia.com/wiki/Section_Six&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Section Six&lt;/a&gt; cover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr Escher's first appearance on screen in the show is in the episode &amp;quot;Second Truths&amp;quot;. He is the head of Piron Corporation, which turns out to be one of the top corporations in 2077. He travelled back in time to ensure that the actions of Liber8 to not change the course of the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T10:06:39.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8987" CreationDate="2013-04-24T10:11:16.580" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found a few things on the net about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305227/Last-Summer-Wine-repeated-TV-year-far-nearly-FIVE-HUNDRED-epsiodes-screened-months.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Last of the Summer Wine&lt;/a&gt; is currently the most repeated show of since the beginning of 2013 in the UK (483 episodes shown).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of the list is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My Family - 233 repeats&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;QI - One of only    two current shows on list 179 times &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only Fools and Horses - Classic    repeated 161 times &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Good Life - Starring Richard Briers, 132    repeats&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My Parents Are Aliens - ITV show repeated 157 times &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have I    Got News for You - Ongoing show, 126 repeats &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Upper Hand - Another    ITV series, 110 repeats &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;'Allo 'Allo - French-themed classic, repeated    108 times&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.multemusic.com/frequently-repeated-tv-programme/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dinner for One&lt;/a&gt; however is the most repeated of all time the world over. Despite it being a British comedy sketch it's almost never shown here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2164" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T10:11:16.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11072" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-24T10:40:24.900" Score="26" ViewCount="18963" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_(film)&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/a&gt; , when The Joker plans to kill the Mayor at a public gathering. His attempt to shoot the Mayor is foiled by Gordon. After this we see Joker's face in frustration. This is the only time we see Joker without his make up, but the scars on his face are clearly visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it that no one noticed this highly unusual man dressed up in a police uniform at this function?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T19:23:10.113" LastActivityDate="2017-01-11T04:15:10.833" Title="Why does no one notice the Joker's presence as a policeman during the mayor's speech?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11073" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-24T13:11:16.343" Score="8" ViewCount="3842" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Skyfall movie Bond fights an assassin and captures a casino token in the assassin's stuff which he later cashes out. Clearly the token is used as payment for the assassination. Note that assassination fare is likely very high so it's a token that yields some really huge sum of money, not a regular casino token that yields several dozen to several hundred USD (or equivalent thereof).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it done this way? What's the significance of using a casino token except that it leads Bond to the casino and that lets the plot progress?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3707" LastActivityDate="2013-05-21T05:02:26.410" Title="Why is a casino token used as payment in Skyfall?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11073" CreationDate="2013-04-24T14:24:48.223" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, let's clarify the amount. In the casino, when Bond cashes in the chip, he receives a case that is stuffed full of packets of large bills. I would estimate that the amount was at least a million USD, but probably much more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that the point of using the casino chip is that it offers both sides several advantages. For the assassin, it offers greater flexibility in how and when he collects his fee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For both sides, it carefully decouples the crime itself from the payment for the crime. The chip also allows the customer to ensure that the job has been completed properly before paying out, and simultaneously giving the assassin a more meaningful form of IOU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the customer, it allows him to make the payment using an existing system for paying out large amounts of money. &quot;This guy came in and won a whole bunch of money gambling.&quot; It also gives the client an opportunity to kill the assassin and so avoid paying the fee at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1357" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T14:24:48.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10978" CreationDate="2013-04-24T16:19:36.093" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly from the novel the computer system managing the park were designed to count the number of animals of each type in the park, and to report if that number ever dropped unexpectedly (presumably denoting an escape).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point in the novel I believe Dr. Malcolm asks them to run a scan for &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; animals than expected rather than less. This is when they discover an increased number and so learn that the dinosaurs have been breeding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember that element actually being in the film, but it's been some time since I've seen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1392" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-24T16:37:46.747" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T16:37:46.747" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11073" CreationDate="2013-04-24T16:39:50.233" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I might add that it's also non-interactive.  The client could leave the chip anywhere in an envelope where the assassin could get it.  The assain then picks ups his payment after the job, and the client and assassin NEVER have to meet face to face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T16:39:50.233" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11078" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11079" CreationDate="2013-04-24T17:36:50.980" Score="10" ViewCount="4424" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Broken City&lt;/em&gt;, there's a scene where the character, Jack Valliant, breaks his whiskey glass by squeezing it with his bare hands. I'd first like to know if this is actually physically possible. Second, I'd like to know how this might have been done in the movie especially from a safety POV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a couple of screenshots of the event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CDQLK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hJvgd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume that the glass is a prop (that he actually drinks out of) which shatters very easily. However, won't it still be a safety hazard? While the actor appears to have mitigated some of the risk by cleverly concealing his face behind his arm, it appears to only be partial. Moreover, the bald guy (commissioner) is unprotected and has shards even falling behind him. These two are clearly not stuntmen either. How would this situation have been handled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T17:40:16.590" Title="Breaking a whiskey glass with your bare hands: how would this have been done?" Tags="|film-techniques|props|stunts|broken-city|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11078" CreationDate="2013-04-24T17:40:16.590" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's probably made from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_glass&quot;&gt;sugar glass&lt;/a&gt;, which is a very brittle glass like material made from sugar. It's easier to break safely than real glass. It is also commonly used to make windows that people crash through during movie fights and the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T17:40:16.590" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11080" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11094" CreationDate="2013-04-24T21:03:37.863" Score="8" ViewCount="12319" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483013/&quot;&gt;film&lt;/a&gt;, after &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0380361/?ref_=tt_cl_t2&quot;&gt;Beech&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0380358/?ref_=tt_cl_t1&quot;&gt;Tech 49 Jack&lt;/a&gt; sacrifice themselves and destroy the ship &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0380359/?ref_=tt_cl_t3&quot;&gt;Julia&lt;/a&gt; is then seen with a child (who looks about 3 years old). She is then re-introduced to Tech 52 Jack and the way I perceived this was Tech 49 Jacks child but how is this possible if he is dead and there was nothing more than a kiss shown to happen between them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2164" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:36:19.003" Title="In Oblivion how does Julia get pregnant?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oblivion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5621" CreationDate="2013-04-24T21:09:02.583" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is supposed to be compressed air, like in a compressor.&#xA;The first cars using compressed air are here already, shown in the last car shows in Europe.&#xA;The cars run on air, which is sucked up in front of the car, then compressed, which gives the energy.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_car&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_car&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4661" LastActivityDate="2013-04-24T21:09:02.583" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11061" CreationDate="2013-04-25T04:51:18.243" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes filmmakers use black &amp;amp; white for showing the darker aspects of story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example in the 1998 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_History_X&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;American History X&lt;/a&gt;, the parts of the movie where Edward Norton's character is a racist, are shown in Black &amp;amp; White, whereas the part of the movie where Edward Norton is no longer a racist and is seen repenting are shot in color. Take a look &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.studymode.com/essays/American-History-x-Analysis-Lighting-Color-85532.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my point is that use of 'Black &amp;amp; White' in contemporary movies do deal with darker aspects of the story. Or let's say the use of 'Black &amp;amp; White' adds to the dark nature of a scene or a whole movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding to that, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Centipede_2_%28Full_Sequence%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia entry of the movie&lt;/a&gt; says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;According to Six, he intentionally made Full Sequence very different&#xA;  from First Sequence, due to two reasons. First, back when he was&#xA;  writing the script of First Sequence, he knew people would want more&#xA;  &quot;blood and shit&quot; than is shown, and second, the two parts reflect the&#xA;  two different characters of their antagonists: the coloured First&#xA;  Sequence, with a slow-moving camera, fit the story of Dr. Heiter,&#xA;  while Martin Lomax's character required a &quot;dark and dirty&quot; film. &lt;strong&gt;Six&#xA;  shot Full Sequence in colour, but &quot;was always thinking about black and&#xA;  white&quot; and realized while editing that it was &quot;much scarier&quot; in black&#xA;  and white&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess, we have an idea now why it was made in Black &amp;amp; White.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T17:42:32.240" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T17:42:32.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="711" CreationDate="2013-04-25T06:01:34.400" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I too also pondered this, I even found this website looking for the answer. However, I think I've solved it. Jacob describes his parents at one point in the evening with Hannah, he says his mother was cold and vain and his father couldn't handle her. It makes for a strong argument that Jacob's parents got a divorce, and his father either died shortly after from that broken heart syndrome, or committed suicide. Realistically Jacob in this movie can't be older then early thirties. So for him to have had all this wealth and time to &quot;try and buy happiness&quot; his father must have died some time ago. id say at least a few years, if not more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4665" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-24T20:45:07.697" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T20:45:07.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11086" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11093" CreationDate="2013-04-25T08:42:23.513" Score="2" ViewCount="3249" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483013/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Oblivion&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0380358/?ref_=tt_cl_t1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jack&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0380360/?ref_=tt_cl_t4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Victoria&lt;/a&gt; live in some sort of flying/floating house which as far as i could tell was positioned very high up above the clouds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then later on in the film Victoria goes skinny dipping in the pool. This turns out to be a dream but it still raises the question that with no equipment would they really be able to live that high in the atmosphere? and use the pool without getting hypothermia?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2164" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T10:09:25.897" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T23:22:54.837" Title="In Oblivion how can Jack and Victoria live in the sky?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oblivion|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11088" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11089" CreationDate="2013-04-25T12:11:47.043" Score="3" ViewCount="2902" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a very big fan of  &lt;code&gt;Supernatural&lt;/code&gt;. I have watched all seasons of it, but I am confused as to what happened to Lucifer.  The last time we see his is with Sam having hallucinations of Lucifer and then Castile the hallucinations into his mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So where is Lucifer now in Supernatural?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4667" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T13:05:54.387" LastActivityDate="2015-06-06T16:56:24.947" Title="Where is Lucifer in Supernatural Season 8?" Tags="|supernatural|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11088" CreationDate="2013-04-25T13:03:21.267" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lucifer is still in the hole with Michael the Arch Angel.  What you see of Lucifer in Season 7 are Sam's hallucinations due to the torture his soul took while being in the hole with Lucifer and Michael.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sam was cured of his madness because the reborn Castiel took it into himself, healing Sam but causing himself great harm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T13:03:21.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2013-04-25T14:02:04.243" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It makes the most sense, if one assumes suicide. That better explains why the eldest son blames the father; in other words, formative moments in the middle son's life, and a lack of affection from the father towards his sons, are suggested as being contributors to the death...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following, lifted from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thepointmag.com/2011/reviews/terrence-malicks-song-of-himself&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;thepointmag.com&lt;/a&gt;, is poignant and insightful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We cannot leave alone the question of R.L.’s death, though. As a&#xA;  suicide, it is much more significant than random death in military&#xA;  combat, since it relates to the sorrow and meaninglessness of&#xA;  existence... I think Jack’s memory of R.L., his playmate and childhood&#xA;  companion, coupled with the reality of his suicide, provokes his own&#xA;  existential quandaries, just as Larry Malick’s suicide is a ghost&#xA;  haunting Malick’s thoughts on meaning in his films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4668" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-15T00:49:44.570" LastActivityDate="2014-01-15T00:49:44.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10061" CreationDate="2013-04-25T14:05:08.223" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other zombies didn't eat Julie because R put some of his blood on her which covered up her scent.  He repeats this at least one other time to protect her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T14:05:08.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11092" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-25T14:06:29.087" Score="4" ViewCount="488" Body="&lt;p&gt;During some scenes it show helicopter and near the end when Old Joe goes into the mob boss base you see police cars ready to move out. If it's organised crime gang why would they help kill Joe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4669" LastActivityDate="2017-07-03T13:19:25.590" Title="Why is it that the police are helping track down Joe in Looper (2012)" Tags="|looper|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11086" CreationDate="2013-04-25T14:23:04.860" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like the &lt;strong&gt;Jetsons&lt;/strong&gt;, their homes were still attached to earth, it shows this at one point when one of the &quot;Aliens&quot;, of the movie is looking at it from the ground, you see a giant tripod or stand at the base, that has a pole extending into the sky. The loss of the moon particularly creates properties on earth that we're not aware of such as cloud layer level changes, new gravitational properties, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastEditorUserId="3582" LastEditDate="2013-04-26T13:56:27.003" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T13:56:27.003" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11080" CreationDate="2013-04-25T14:32:47.283" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Jack&quot; who found Julia and saved her from her ship wreckage, slept with her at the hideaway, this is when she got pregnant.  A year or two later, the other &quot;Jack&quot; was found and brought to her. All of the &quot;Jacks&quot;, had the same memory of Julia...thus, they still loved each other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T14:32:47.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11095" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11222" CreationDate="2013-04-25T14:46:38.633" Score="7" ViewCount="332" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an injury occurs to a stuntman during filming (in Hollywood), who typically covers the bill? Do stuntmen (stuntpersons) perhaps have special contracts or insurance policies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-04-26T05:09:26.630" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T00:01:49.667" Title="Injuries to stuntmen during filming" Tags="|stunts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11092" CreationDate="2013-04-25T14:47:03.027" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is unknown in the future exactly the level of police corruption the Mob will attain, but they may have their hands in how law enforcement is run, i.e. payoffs, kick-backs, etc, due to the ever-suffering/impoverished people in the future as the movie depicts. All they (the Mob) would have to do is put the word out on &quot;Old Joe&quot;, that he's a deadly criminal...and game-on for the cops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T14:47:03.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11042" CreationDate="2013-04-25T14:55:29.933" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would assume that since it was nothing to replace Jack...they needed the Human factor to get the job done since other limitations could arise. Also, because Cruz lends to making this a great story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T14:55:29.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11098" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11104" CreationDate="2013-04-25T15:48:05.477" Score="5" ViewCount="490" Body="&lt;p&gt;Presumably, soon after the events of the &quot;The Doctor's Wife,&quot; the TARDIS gained a holographic interface.  We've seen (&quot;Let's Kill Hitler&quot;) that it can change its appearance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does the TARDIS choose to mirror Clara when it speaks to her in &quot;Hide&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T20:02:43.350" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T20:02:43.350" Title="In the episode &quot;Hide,&quot; why does the TARDIS mimic Clara?" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11099" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-04-25T15:53:29.353" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Computers, gadgets, and other pieces of technology shown in movies.  Does not include technology used to make movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T15:53:29.353" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T15:53:29.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11100" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-04-25T15:53:29.353" Score="0" Body="Computers, gadgets, and other pieces of technology shown in movies.  Does not include technology used to make movies." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T15:53:29.353" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T15:53:29.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8960" CreationDate="2013-04-25T15:53:33.060" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think of the &quot;possession&quot; either demonic or angelic as a very intimate thing.  To have them inside your body and mind with access to your memories and thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such a demonic possession is almost a form of rape, whereas the angels have a much more loving relationships with their hosts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not to say that an angel can't attempt to manipulate the vessel in order to gain their consent (Lucifer and Sam/Michael and Dean).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T15:53:33.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11102" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11107" CreationDate="2013-04-25T15:55:44.640" Score="1" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's implied that Hila Tukurian became trapped in the pocket universe while exploring time travel.  If that's the case how did the other creature get there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T17:35:32.820" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T17:35:32.820" Title="In the Doctor Who episode Hide how does the Alien become trapped?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5636" CreationDate="2013-04-25T16:28:51.150" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the 12/5/2012 Slate article &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/12/alan_sepinwall_s_the_revolution_was_televised_excerpt_david_chase_and_the.single.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;David Chase Doesn’t Care About the Russian&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Who gives a shit about this Russian?” David Chase says. The creator&#xA;of The Sopranos has never understood his audience’s fascination with&#xA;Valery, the Russian mobster who disappeared in the legendary “Pine&#xA;Barrens” episode. It was a one-off story that needed no closure, Chase&#xA;says now. He recalls thinking, “We did that show! I don’t know where&#xA;he is! Now we’ve got to go and figure that out?!?!”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Terence Winter,&#xA;who wrote “Pine Barrens” and many of the series’ other memorable&#xA;outings, agreed with the fans on this one, much to Chase’s&#xA;frustration, and kept pushing his boss to add a coda to that story in&#xA;The Sopranos’ final season. They finally hit on an idea everyone would&#xA;be happy with: Tony and Christopher pay a visit to the local Russian&#xA;mob boss, where they find Valery sweeping the floor, not recognizing&#xA;Christopher thanks to a traumatic brain injury suffered when Chris and&#xA;Paulie were shooting at him. (It would be explained that &lt;strong&gt;a local Boy&#xA;Scout troop found him with part of his skull missing, and saved his&#xA;life.&lt;/strong&gt;) At the last minute, Chase changed his mind, and he recalls a&#xA;despondent Winter insisting, “God, you’re making a huge mistake&#xA;leaving that on the table!”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's non-canonical, sure, but we'll take what we can get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T16:28:51.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11098" CreationDate="2013-04-25T17:25:20.260" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The visual interface states &quot;I am programmed to select the image of a person you esteem&quot;. Clara has also stated that she feels that the TARDIS doesn't like her. It might be that the TARDIS wants to annoy her by saying that, of all people in the world, Clara only holds herself in high esteem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T17:25:20.260" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11105" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-04-25T17:25:56.567" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who Wants To be a Millionaire is a trivia game show where contestants answer trivia questions for the chance to win a million dollars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T17:25:56.567" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T17:25:56.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11106" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-04-25T17:25:56.567" Score="0" Body="Who Wants To be a Millionaire is a trivia game show where contestants answer trivia questions for the chance to win a million dollars." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T17:25:56.567" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T17:25:56.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11102" CreationDate="2013-04-25T17:33:07.730" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Time travel is not restricted to humanoid species (take the dalek for example) so the creature could have ended up there the same way Hila Tukurian got trapped there. It could also be a side effect of the experiments Hila was doing or some completely unrelated experiment of the alien itself. The Doctor only said they got separated by events, war, politics or other things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T17:33:07.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11108" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-04-25T18:22:13.733" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T18:22:13.733" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T18:22:13.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11109" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-04-25T18:22:13.733" Score="0" Body="Determining what characters say or write, or transference of a story from one language to another." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T00:52:59.120" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T00:52:59.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11067" CreationDate="2013-04-25T20:32:29.347" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;We now know what the message from the future contained, a warning about the path he would walk down and how it pretty much destroyed the world.  In that light, no wonder he tried to distance himself from both Keira and all the advanced stuff - including advanced programming - and seek a job way under his abilities.  He may also have feared that getting a more suitable job to his talents - eg. as a programmer - was the first step he took... got job, advanced programming, got noticed, got power, ended up leading the company and taking humanity down the wrong path.  Besides, even if he is a good programmer, it's hardly easy for teenager to get a posh job without formal education and practice in the field; and he probably needed money as quickly as possible (rent and such).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4521" LastActivityDate="2013-04-25T20:32:29.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11112" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11115" CreationDate="2013-04-25T21:04:21.717" Score="5" ViewCount="784" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2149175/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Americans&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; S01E12 what sort of pin did the KGB-resident give Nina after she swore the oath?  What was it's significance and meaning (rank-insignia?  &quot;shield&quot;?  medal/order?)?  Was it the KGB-symbol?  It looked like a star with a through/behind...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4521" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-25T21:28:19.587" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T03:24:39.527" Title="What is the meaning of pin the KGB-resident gave Nina?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-americans|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11112" CreationDate="2013-04-26T03:24:39.527" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's definitely the KGB logo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BfmFE.png&quot; alt=&quot;side by side comparision of pin and KGB logo&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That little picture on the left is the pin, on the right is the KGB logo from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.  During the scene, she's being inducted into Directorate S.  Some Googling lead me to &lt;a href=&quot;http://cryptome.org/spy-illegal.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this paper&lt;/a&gt;, part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication-series/cwihp-working-paper-series&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cold War International History Project Working Paper series&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Directorate S was the most important branch of intelligence, namely the Illegal branch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Rezident&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This handy page&lt;/a&gt; helps explain some of the terminology.  &quot;Illegal&quot; here sort of refers to the 'legality' of the spy.  In the show, the protagonists are undercover agents, and illegals, as if they're caught, then they're going to be convicted of breaking laws.  Nina, and the staff at the embassy, are &quot;legal&quot; as should they be caught, their official cover provides diplomatic immunity, which prevents them from being arrested and convicted by the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the show, the dialogue, and the 'Directorate S' terminology provide us with the understanding that now Nina is a higher up in the KGB section that deals with Illegals (i.e. the Jennings).  So this puts the Jennings in greater danger, given Nina's double-agent status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T03:24:39.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11116" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11119" CreationDate="2013-04-26T08:54:12.230" Score="6" ViewCount="1957" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Hal first reveals to his friend Tom that he is a superhero i.e. The Green Lantern, he is pushed by Tom to show how it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hal puts on the ring and tries to turn into Green Lantern but is unable to do so because apparently, the ring is out of power and thus proceeds to re-charge it with the Lantern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, what happens if Green Lantern's ring looses its power/charge/juice when he is mid-flight or in-action? Though this didn't happen in the movie but it sounds like a perfectly plausible scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;P.S.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I don't have any background from the comics universe which might be useful in answering the question.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastActivityDate="2013-05-01T17:34:06.677" Title="What happens when Green Lantern's ring runs out of 'juice'?" Tags="|plot-explanation|green-lantern|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11116" CreationDate="2013-04-26T16:03:35.623" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This answer is from the comics, as they don't show it in the movie.  In the comics, classic Green Lantern had to recharge the ring every 24 hours.  This (and a weakness to yellow objects) was his kryptonite; that crucial weakness that prevents him from being an invincible god.  So, it would be common for fights to go longer than Hal expected, resulting in him running out of charge mid-fight.  Then Hal is just a regular guy (but the uniform would stay, even though it's generated by the ring...), and had to use his wits and environment to defeat his foe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Modern Green Lantern (since roughly the year 2000), instead has the ring be more like an electronic gadget.  He charges the ring, and the more he uses it, the faster it drains, until it runs out of power.  When he charges it off the lantern, it returns it to maximum charge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the rings are capable of providing their charge level upon request.  So during long battles, you'll see Green Lanterns checking their rings' charge.  The modern rings also result in situations where a stranded Lantern will set things up so they're in a low-power-usage state.  For example, if they're in space and unable to reach their lantern in time to recharge, they can have the ring put themselves into hibernation, provide a life support bubble, and just drift toward their destination while sending an occasional distress signal.  This then helps the Lantern survive until they can be rescued and get back to a lantern to charge their ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T16:03:35.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11120" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-26T16:07:58.507" Score="3" ViewCount="3063" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did Troy quit the AC Repair school at the ending of Season 3, or did he continue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is unclear, as in Season 4 it is never mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, at the end of Season 3, Troy only states that he ordered the AC repair school to behave like a normal school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4677" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-14T19:11:07.917" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T19:32:20.280" Title="Did Troy quit the Air Conditioning Repair School?" Tags="|plot-explanation|community|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11120" CreationDate="2013-04-26T16:16:50.393" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since he was their &lt;em&gt;chosen one&lt;/em&gt;, they would follow his orders.  So he ordered them to act like a normal school, and then he quit.  This why in season 4 it hasn't been mentioned, as now the AC Repair School isn't pestering him anymore to join them.  They're now normal, so they're not going to chase after Troy, since they don't believe in weird stuff like &lt;em&gt;chosen ones&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T16:16:50.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11042" CreationDate="2013-04-26T20:31:18.047" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;They did have the technology but then who would fix the repair drones?...It could be that the 'scavs' would just shoot down a drone and bait a repair drone so they can ambush it and shoot that down...and so on.  If you have a human being, he can get killed and replaced much more easily I think than building a new repair drone (genetics takes care of engineering and growth as opposed to getting supplies and manufacturing each drone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, humans can heal over time if they are injured. They can reason and make plans and use tactics to engage the enemy instead of just flying in guns blazing.  And they don't need to 'scan' a location to know somebody's there, their recognition of hostiles is instantaneous and doesn't blatantly give them away in their environment (like the drone's bright scanning light). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4567" LastActivityDate="2013-04-26T20:31:18.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11125" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-26T21:04:20.530" Score="8" ViewCount="2181" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Tony Stark was caught in debris under the sea, Jarvis detaches the glove from the suit and takes the hand of Tony (by controlling the glove), pulling him out of his death trap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this explained? We can assume the glove has a thruster on its back end (to be able to fly to Tony when needed), but how it can fly in reverse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="290" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-09-03T14:16:56.387" LastActivityDate="2016-09-03T14:17:25.060" Title="How did the glove save Tony Stark?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-3|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11125" CreationDate="2013-04-27T06:06:41.933" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;All parts of Iron Man's suit can act like an independent robot. So it's possible for Jarvis to control one body part (glove) to act differently than the other Iron Man parts. And it is never mentioned that the new Iron Man suit can only be summoned to/by Tony. If you remember, he sent the suit to Pepper to protect her. So it seems possible to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-09-03T14:17:25.060" LastActivityDate="2016-09-03T14:17:25.060" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9402" CreationDate="2013-04-27T06:30:15.630" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is no. There is no new avengers in Iron Man 3. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rumors about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1210895/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stephanie Szostak&lt;/a&gt; playing &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp_%28comics%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Janet van Dyne (Wasp)&lt;/a&gt; proved wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She is playing &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/Ellen_Brandt_%28Earth-616%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ellen Brandt&lt;/a&gt; not completely like her comics part and she is given with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremis_%28comics%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Extremis&lt;/a&gt; virus. Which made her powerful villain not an Avenger. If Ellen Brandt survived somehow(shown killed) then she can be used in Marvel Universe for her connection to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-Thing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Man-Thing&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Strange&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dr Strange&lt;/a&gt; but that's all rumor at the moment. For now there is no new Avenger in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce Banner's appearance is there after credit but he is not the part of the main story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-03-29T10:44:30.387" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T10:44:30.387" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="869" CreationDate="2013-04-27T12:15:48.797" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blackwood needed to be arrested and 'killed' so that the public would be aware and afraid of him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the public found out about it, his reputation would go before him and others, including senior members of the Houses of Parliament, would be more susceptible to blackmail. To be publicly executed, he would need to commit a crime to go with his air of magic so what better way than asking members of his cult to commit suicide and making it look like he had control over them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, the girl was an actress and it was all a big publicity stunt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4682" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-02-27T17:00:52.930" LastActivityDate="2019-02-27T17:00:52.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11130" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11135" CreationDate="2013-04-27T13:31:26.807" Score="66" ViewCount="358640" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; season 4 episode 1 &quot;Box cutter&quot;, Gus kills Victor. Why does he do this? What does he gain from it other than scaring Walt and Jessie? Or is making them fear him his only motive? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-16T12:07:47.217" LastActivityDate="2020-11-12T03:40:00.443" Title="Why did Victor die?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11130" CreationDate="2013-04-27T15:35:19.210" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just before Gus kills Victor, Walt monologues about how Victor is not as good of a cook, how he needs Jesse alive to help him cook, etc &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gus's subsequent actions act as a punishment to Victor for being substandard, while simultaneously yet silently &quot;accepting&quot; Walt's request to leave Jesse alive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The act of Gus slicing Victor's throat demonstrates his ruthlessness and willingness to &quot;just get the job done&quot;, which serves as a message for Walt and Jesse, that he won't accept excuses or messing around. Gus eyes them both up afterwards to ensure they understand their place and then leaves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-04-27T15:35:19.210" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9700" CreationDate="2013-04-27T20:28:34.563" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The lyrics are most likely written by the team of screenwriters that were involved in the show, but that's just my guess. I don't think you'll be able to get a definite answer without actually asking someone on the show since there doesn't seem to be any information about this online, and I can't recall hearing, or seeing anything about it on the &quot;behind the scenes&quot; footage or in the interviews that comes with the DVD box set. Though, the fact that most songs are about or at least related to things that happens in the episodes in which they're performed strengthens this theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is mentioned in the DVD extras, though, is that the melodies and the chords are all, or at least partly made up by Lisa Kudrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having done some digging, I managed to find these two Friends CDs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.discogs.com/Various-Friends/release/1287997&quot;&gt;Album: Friends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Snowman/Ashes/Dead Mother medley&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lyrics by Adam Chase &lt;em&gt;(Friends Producer/Writer)&lt;/em&gt;, Ira Ungerleider &lt;em&gt;(Friends Producer/Writer)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Music by Lisa Kudrow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.discogs.com/Various-Friends-Again/release/1986782&quot;&gt;Album: Friends - Again&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Smelly Cat&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Written by Adam Chase, Betsy Borns &lt;em&gt;(Friends Writer)&lt;/em&gt;, Chrissy Hynde, Lisa Kudrow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The song credits posted above proves that the producers/writers of Friends were the ones writing Phoebe Buffay's songs, with the exception of &quot;Smelly Cat&quot; which Lisa Kudrow and Chrissy Hynde (the frontwoman of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pretenders&quot;&gt;The Pretenders&lt;/a&gt;) seems to have been at least partly responsible for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, these are only two songs, but I see no reason why the rest would be any different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2014-12-29T17:42:47.197" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T17:42:47.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11130" CreationDate="2013-04-28T04:48:57.190" Score="76" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always assumed it's because Gus knows that Victor was seen at the house (the house where Gale Boetticher was murdered by Jesse Pinkman) -- remember that Victor and Mike had a conversation about the fact that he'd been seen (Mike was upset at it, and Victor didn't think it was that big of a deal). Gus isn't one to leave any possibility that he could be discovered by Victor's carelessness, so he knows it has to be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, he does it in the way that he does as a power play, hoping that the shock of it will convince Walt and Jesse to fall in line (i.e. &quot;Hey guys, if I'm willing to kill my trusted assistant because he screwed up, do you really think I won't do it to you if it comes to that?&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastEditorUserId="2185" LastEditDate="2013-10-02T23:34:22.783" LastActivityDate="2013-10-02T23:34:22.783" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8318" CreationDate="2013-04-28T07:22:21.847" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;we see him &quot;chem&quot; twice on his journey so it seems he is double dosing so he hides his pack so he can say he lost them in order to get more, &#xA;So when Cross he virals off them,  as he has no way of getting more pills detox was inevitable, and to detox with out the stem injections would have taken days/weeks  the injection sends him in to rapid detox which clears his system in a much quicker time than naturally detoxing  would,&#xA;Once his system has beaten the virus the addiction is gone and the after effects of the pills are gone along with the added ability's to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4688" LastActivityDate="2013-04-28T07:22:21.847" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11138" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11141" CreationDate="2013-04-28T07:55:11.753" Score="19" ViewCount="9099" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; season 4, Walt destroyed super Meth Lab of Gus. Walt already killed Gus, so what's the necessity of destroying the Meth Lab. It brought more DEA attention and some evidence collected from the Meth lab may leads to arrest of Walt and Jesse. So what is the purpose of destroying the lab?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="324" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-17T01:16:07.083" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T01:16:07.083" Title="Why did Walt destroy the Meth Lab?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9402" CreationDate="2013-04-28T12:34:36.450" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just returned from the showing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no Avengers in the film, but hang around until after the credits if you really want to see another member of the team...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-04-28T12:34:36.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11138" CreationDate="2013-04-28T12:55:28.930" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier on in the episode it was detailed that the DEA were already on to the Laundry place (the scene with Hank discussing why a laundry place would need two 1700 amp power panels, and how a laundry of that size would need less than half of that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While destroying the lab focused the attention of the DEA, they were already hot on the trail anyway. Furthermore, Gus had just been killed, which would have bought additional heat down on the laundry place. Leaving it in tact would have left more evidence behind than what they actually found and clearly demonstrated the scale of the current operation. I'm not sure that blowing it up would have left much evidence tying Jesse and Walter to the scene though, since the vast majority of their work in the lab was done in protective clothing with gloves on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2014-09-14T17:32:02.563" LastActivityDate="2014-09-14T17:32:02.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11143" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11158" CreationDate="2013-04-28T18:01:55.073" Score="16" ViewCount="10423" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;End Times&quot; (Season 4 Episode 12) of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, there is a scene of Walt sitting near the pool. He places his gun on a table and spins it. The gun ends up pointing at him. He spins it again, and it points at him again. The third spin ends up with the gun pointing at a potted Lily of the Valley plant (awesome Chekhov Gun scene!). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_rzjS4hzR8E?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the spinning and the stopping of the gun are all done in one shot (the first two spins are &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; in one shot). So how did they manage to get the gun to point at the desired locations like that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2017-12-30T18:52:22.953" LastActivityDate="2022-07-29T21:14:36.183" Title="How did they film the gun spinning scene?" Tags="|film-techniques|breaking-bad|effects|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8392" CreationDate="2013-04-28T19:19:42.843" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Other. This virus implanted by the laptop &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The secure floor panels started popping up and Q said, &quot;Why are those opening?&quot; We were supposed to figure out, like Bond, that it also meant Silva's cell door was opening. Apparently since Silva knew it was going to happen it gave him the edge to use his mad skills and take out two armed guards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4692" LastEditorUserId="4692" LastEditDate="2013-04-28T21:03:57.547" LastActivityDate="2013-04-28T21:03:57.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11145" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11146" CreationDate="2013-04-28T19:35:49.827" Score="9" ViewCount="503" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title might have been vague so let me clarify. I have see this in many movies and television series over the years, &lt;em&gt;even cartoons&lt;/em&gt;. Let me create a scenario since I can't visually remember one to link to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Say Tom is looking through a telescope for Pam. He is looking and gradually moving vertically to the left.. he passes Pam.. &lt;em&gt;'he realizes'&lt;/em&gt; and sharply jerks back to Pam bringing her into view.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Not to answer my own question&lt;/em&gt;, but I get that this is trying to show that the person is actually looking for someone and might be in such a hurry that they pass them quickly or overlook them etc, but after possibly decades of its usage hasn't it become extremely obvious to viewers? Why is it still such a common trend?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4693" LastActivityDate="2013-04-29T06:18:31.590" Title="Why is it a common trend to pan the camera past an object then back to it?" Tags="|film-techniques|cinematography|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11145" CreationDate="2013-04-28T20:01:28.407" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has to do with communicating to the viewer what the intended subject is, when the subject may be ambiguous among other things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A hunter is searching for his prey. A red bird sitting in an apple tree. He pans past several apples, then the bird and then returns to the bird. It's now clear that the red bird is not a  red apple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While some viewers may identify immediately that the bird is not like the others. There are still some who missed the difference. Panning back allows that item to be reevaluated by the viewer a second time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's based upon the idea that people sometimes have difficulty identifying slight differences in subjects. Sesame Street made a popular game for it called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueZ6tvqhk8U&quot;&gt;One of these things is not like the other&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the technique has become over used. It is just a simple way for the film to highlight a subject. It's similar to techniques such as lighting an object separately from the rest of the scene, or suddenly changing the music when an object appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a &lt;code&gt;mark&lt;/code&gt; or &lt;code&gt;queue&lt;/code&gt; to the viewer that something is important. In this case, it's done with the camera movement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2013-04-28T20:01:28.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11145" CreationDate="2013-04-28T21:16:43.837" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;em&gt;Mathew&lt;/em&gt;'s answer, it might also be to emphasize that the searching person is indeed, well, searching and doesn't initially know where to look exactly. Directly moving its view to the target might on the other hand seem like he knew where to look all the time. So introducing this slight delay of recognition emphasizes the searching process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in addition to that this particular effect is indeed usually used in cartoons, which are in the end famous for exaggerating and over-generalizing things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-04-28T21:16:43.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2632" CreationDate="2013-04-29T02:51:19.957" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Laroche's Tupperware box is the tongue of the man who raped his mother for 2 hours straight, Scott Sanay(sp). The day before his trial, Laroche broke into his apartment while he slept, injected him with a sedative and cut out his tongue. According to the rapists mother Judith Sanay, &quot;they never found his tongue.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Viewers find out in 21st episode of the 5th season (S05E21), &quot;Red and Itchy.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4696" LastEditorUserId="4712" LastEditDate="2013-04-30T02:38:16.420" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T02:38:16.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11153" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11169" CreationDate="2013-04-29T02:52:08.103" Score="22" ViewCount="5619" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 3 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Daenerys Targaryen buys Unsullied in exchange for one of her dragons. After turning over the dragon's leash, she is handed a decorated whip as a symbol of ownership. She then orders the Unsullied to &lt;em&gt;&quot;Slay the masters,... slay every man who holds a whip...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Unsullied stand motionless as Kraznys mo Nakloz, the seller, screams back at them to kill Daenerys. She then commands the dragon to incinerate Kraznys, after which the Unsullied sack the city.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the delay before the initial attack simply for cinematic effect? Or did Kraznys train the warriors with a fail-safe, to refuse any order to kill him, which required him to be dispatched first?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the whip gives command, how can Daenerys order them to kill other whip holders? Couldn't one of them countermand the order? Or are they motivated by revenge against their former masters?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user35" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-15T00:10:59.853" LastActivityDate="2014-06-15T00:14:44.530" Title="How do the Unsullied prioritize their orders?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11145" CreationDate="2013-04-29T06:18:31.590" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to Matthew's and Christian's answers, I would add that this is a specific form of the old &quot;double take&quot; trope; in this case the second take is being shown through the observer's eyes, as opposed to it being shown from an external POV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4700" LastActivityDate="2013-04-29T06:18:31.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11159" CreationDate="2013-04-29T06:24:28.117" Score="18" ViewCount="22676" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Spartacus&lt;/em&gt; series there are some African actors playing gladiators, especially &lt;em&gt;Peter Mensah&lt;/em&gt; as &lt;em&gt;Oenomaus&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Batiatus&lt;/em&gt;' doctore). He has done a great job but my question is, were African people that common in Rome in that era?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="3772" LastEditDate="2013-04-29T08:10:09.493" LastActivityDate="2016-09-01T06:01:05.063" Title="Were African people common in Rome during gladiator fights?" Tags="|historical-accuracy|spartacus-tv|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11157" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11165" CreationDate="2013-04-29T07:08:52.590" Score="11" ViewCount="3693" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched Iron Man 3. The whole story takes place during Christmas.&#xA;It gives a feeling that we are watching a movie in the holiday season.&#xA;I found it a little awkward because I was watching a Summer movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what was the original plan?&#xA;Was it planned as a summer movie or a holiday season movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T08:16:44.520" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T08:16:44.520" Title="Was Iron Man 3 originally planned to be released around Christmas?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-3|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11143" CreationDate="2013-04-29T07:51:36.923" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a bunch of ways to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most likely: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They took 130 takes to get it right&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Less likely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's an invisible turn table under the gun&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They used an electromagnet to stop the gun&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The gun is on a clear plastic stick and someone out of sight is turning it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3772" LastActivityDate="2013-04-29T07:51:36.923" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11156" CreationDate="2013-04-29T08:12:09.753" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator&quot;&gt;Gladiator fights&lt;/a&gt; have a long cultural and political history. Originally they were held on a smaller scale (than the Colosseum) and often for the purpose of honoring a deceased. Their popularity grew as the rich began to see how they could further their standing with the people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The gladiators themselves were often killed or severely injured, making it less suited as a long-term career for normal, free people (although there were free men doing it to rapidly rise on the social ladder). Most gladiators were slaves, forced to fight to win their right to life. As Rome had a lot of military success, a lot of slaves were either captured soldiers or just foreign prisoners. Rome waged war in most of Europe and around the Mediterranean sea, giving it a steady supply of prisoners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time, the notion of 'race' wasn't as prominent as it later became (during American slavery for example). Slaves were branded by their originating countries and less on their ancestry. Being African wasn't a problem in ancient Rome as they were accustomed to and respected foreign African traders. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For slaves, this meant that their skin tone was less important than their originating countries and their numbers in the capital was more related to the most recent war. The only reasons for a higher number of African slaves are genetics and perhaps the exotic taste of the Romans. As the slaves were allowed to have children, which were then born into slavery, their genetic features could have slightly skewed the demographics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, the slaves ethnicity was more used to denote their origin and enhance their stereotypical capacities. The barbaric tribes (north of Rome) were typically associated with their physical strength while Greeks were preferred for their cultural refinement (acquired in their life before enslavement). Africans were typically more used for household tasks rather than for their physical strength but again this is only a stereotype and an individual assessment was made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some links: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.be/books?id=FF-uCZRXiO4C&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;amp;hl=nl#v=onepage&amp;amp;q&amp;amp;f=false&quot;&gt;The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity&lt;/a&gt; gives a lot of background information on slavery,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/scheidel/050704.pdf&quot;&gt;The Roman slave supply&lt;/a&gt; gives some numbers on the slave population and the means of acquiring them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blackpast.org/?q=perspectives/roman-slavery-and-question-race&quot;&gt;This link&lt;/a&gt; talks a bit more on ethnicity and related sources&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="2155" LastEditDate="2013-04-29T11:21:13.363" LastActivityDate="2013-04-29T11:21:13.363" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11157" CreationDate="2013-04-29T08:37:17.263" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;A press release reported on by &lt;a href=&quot;http://news-briefs.ew.com/2010/10/18/iron-man-3-to-come-to-theaters-2013/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;EW.com on October 18, 2010&lt;/a&gt; states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disney, Paramount Pictures, and Marvel Studios have announced via press release that Iron Man 3 will be released in on May 3, 2013.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suggests that &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/em&gt; was always intended to be a late spring tent-pole picture in keeping with the previous releases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can only speculate the reason behind the Christmas theme, but in my opinion the sense of conclusion to an over all arc spanning three films fits well with a story set at the end of the year; 'out with the old, in with the new' you might say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I believe that the events in The &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt; occurred in the summer, which would be recent enough for Tony's PTSD to be so crippling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&#xA;I was planning to add a whole lot about Shane Black's predeliction for xmas in his stories - but Oliver C. has done the grunt work for me - see his answer above.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-04-29T20:13:10.880" LastActivityDate="2013-04-29T20:13:10.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11163" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11170" CreationDate="2013-04-29T10:52:08.723" Score="2" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1176740/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Away We Go&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the couple travels all around the US, and finally they find a home that they feel suits them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They pass a tree with strange fruit on it, like in her story of her childhood home. However, when they go inside, she seems to behave like she's never been inside the house before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where is the viewer supposed to understand they have ended up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4573" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-04-29T21:22:17.857" LastActivityDate="2013-04-29T21:22:17.857" Title="Where exactly do they move to in the end?" Tags="|plot-explanation|away-we-go|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11157" CreationDate="2013-04-29T11:18:08.890" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Director/writer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000948/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shane Black&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has a thing for &lt;em&gt;Christmas&lt;/em&gt;, e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093409/&quot;&gt;Lethal Weapon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102266/&quot;&gt;The Last Boy Scout&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116908/&quot;&gt;The Long Kiss Goodnight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373469/&quot;&gt;Kiss Kiss Bang Bang&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;take place during the Christmas season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://veryaware.com/2013/04/interview-robert-downey-jr-ben-kingsley-gwyneth-paltrow-don-cheadle-guy-pearce-rebecca-hall-shane-black-drew-pearce-talk-iron-man-3/&quot;&gt;this inteview&lt;/a&gt; he explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you're doing something on an interesting scale that involves a whole universe of characters, one way to unite them is to have them all undergo a common experience, and there's something in Christmas that unites everybody&lt;/strong&gt;, it sets a stage within a stage.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Also, there's something just pleasing about it to me. We did 'Lethal Weapon' back in ’87 at Christmas and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005428/&quot;&gt;Joel Silver&lt;/a&gt; liked it so much he put &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095016/&quot;&gt;'Die Hard'&lt;/a&gt; at Christmas. There’s fun to that. It’s a time of reckoning for people.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wow247.co.uk/blog/2013/04/25/shane-black-iron-man-3-interview-5561/&quot;&gt;and&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I think it’s just a universal leveler. An almost magical backdrop that invites a hush, momentary time-out in people’s lives.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;To have to dig for bits of Christmas, and find that magic in the midst of the tumult of an action film, has a real psychological resonance for me.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We actually started talking about this as ‘&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol&quot;&gt;A Christmas Carol&lt;/a&gt;’ episode of Iron Man. Certain characters in Iron Man 3 are analogous to different ghosts from the Dickens tale.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;So, setting &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/em&gt; at Christmas time wasn't tied to the release date. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-04-29T11:18:08.890" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11143" CreationDate="2013-04-29T13:59:10.230" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know for certain but given computer technology in the 2010s and the cost of computing power vs the crew cost of filming many times, it seems likely that the gun was rendered.  The fact that a rectangle can be drawn around the gun spinning, completely separating it from the rest of the frame makes it even more likely that it was isolated and done by computer.  If the CG element doesn't actually interact with the rest of the scene it's going to be easier and cheaper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if--on the other hand--Walt were shooting the scene, he could easily hide a small electromagnet (perhaps removed from a toaster with an electric release?) that he triggers remotely from a button in his hand (modified garage door opener?) as the gun slows down.  He'd need two for the two stopping positions, and he'd have to push the button at just the right moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="538" LastActivityDate="2013-04-29T13:59:10.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6899" CreationDate="2013-04-29T16:05:15.913" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only fact I would add to the answers above is that in the books (Moonraker and The Man with the Golden Gun) one of the M characters is named as Sir Miles Messervy.  M was his initial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that the character M was carried over into the films, Judi Dench was cast and the initial continued.  A name through evolution rather than because every person who held the position of 'M' had a name beginning with M!  The line is most likely a throwback to this relationship (after all Casino Royal was Bond's first double-O assignment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe we can know for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-04-29T16:05:15.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11172" CreationDate="2013-04-29T17:07:40.453" Score="15" ViewCount="6819" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched Iron Man 3 and something confused me about the demise of the bad guy, Killian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the movie Tony Stark pinned Killian to the wall with his Iron Man suit and it self destructs. But that doesn't kill him and he comes back, at which point Pepper Potts fights him and basically pushes him into a fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why/how does he get killed the second time but not the first?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T08:16:35.733" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T08:16:35.733" Title="How did the bad guy actually die in Iron Man 3?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-3|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11153" CreationDate="2013-04-29T17:17:32.870" Score="17" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Why the delay?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably for cinematic effect. The Unsullied are trained to follow orders without question. They have been known to selflessly sacrifice their life without hesitation if that is what was ordered. In the books the Unsullied attack and the dragon attack happened almost simultaneously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Whip?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whip that was given to Dany was a special one. It told the Unsullied who their new master was. So they followed the holder of that whip, and that whip alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-04-29T17:17:32.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11163" CreationDate="2013-04-29T17:36:30.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They ended up in Verona's childhood home. As they drive up I believe she even says that it's as beautiful as she remembers it. I think when she goes inside, she's supposed to be behaving as if she hasn't been there in years (as her parents died when she was 22 and hasn't been there in a long time). Perhaps the the choices the actress made to portray that were confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2013-04-29T17:36:30.933" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11153" CreationDate="2013-04-29T17:38:40.293" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an example of the book explaining it better. Though there are differences between the show and the books they are based on, this scene is close enough that I can answer your question better because of what I read and the detail it went into that the show didn't have the time to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Unsullied are trained in a way to be mindless and abject of desire or care. They are given special narcotics which desensitize them to feeling physical pain or pleasure and are trained to obey any command they are given by breaking their spirits by having them kill a baby while the mother watches and by killing their puppy that they have raised. The symbol of their obedience is the whip that Daenerys receives from Kraznys. There is no other training given to the Unsullied they must obey whoever holds the whip and is proclaimed their master.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with Kraznys and his people is that as slavers they assume that everyone needs their services and that no one would ever fight them because they make the Unsullied. Daenerys however is so sickened by what they have done and what they will continue to do that she buys the Unsullied because she is in need of an army and because she wants to end the practice of making them. All of the other slavers do have whips but they are not whips that symbolize control over the Unsullied. Think of the whip as a key. It doesn't matter to the Unsullied who has the key just that the are controlled by the owner of that particular key. Daenerys orders them to kill all of the slavers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-15T00:14:44.530" LastActivityDate="2014-06-15T00:14:44.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11168" CreationDate="2013-04-29T20:05:08.473" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, the second time Pepper kicks a missile, possibly the &quot;ex-wife&quot;, to Killians face. Adding that to the damage he took when the armor self-destructed, suposedly overloads his healing factor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4710" LastActivityDate="2013-04-29T20:05:08.473" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1012" CreationDate="2013-04-30T02:06:33.293" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always had the sense, particularly from Bill Zehme's wonderful book on Andy (&quot;Lost in the Funhouse&quot;) that even if Richards was in on it, like much of Kaufman's antics, being in on it never meant you truly knew what to expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that book, Richards is quoted as saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He just shut down and sat there. And I could just feel that he was just gonna' keep on sitting there and let everybody squirm and stink. I realized that he now wanted me to push it to the next level.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, perhaps Richards did feel embarrassed about it and perhaps he felt that Andy pushed the whole thing too far (as he was, of course, known to do). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4658" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T02:06:33.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11183" CreationDate="2013-04-30T04:29:17.527" Score="10" ViewCount="4146" Body="&lt;p&gt;They have imposed that the &lt;strong&gt;Man in Black is the villain&lt;/strong&gt; whereas I feel he is more of a &lt;strong&gt;victim of circumstances&lt;/strong&gt; created by Jacob and the old lady who brings them up! Jacob on the other hand causes everyone on the flight lead miserable lives throughout by visiting them in their pasts and helping them make wrong decisions plus it is Jacob who always brings (other) people on the island despite knowing that they will end badly!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I miss something about the whole setup due to which I have the &lt;strong&gt;wrong impression&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1495" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T14:06:42.857" Title="Who is the real villain in the TV series LOST?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lost|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11168" CreationDate="2013-04-30T05:07:14.477" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extremis is a super-soldier solution. It's a bio-electronics package,&#xA;fitted into a few billion graphite nanotubes and suspended in a&#xA;carrier fluid. A magic bullet, like the original super-soldier&#xA;serum—all fitted into a single injection. It hacks the body's repair&#xA;center—the part of the brain that keeps a complete blue print of the&#xA;human body. When we're injured, we refer to that area of the brain to&#xA;heal properly. Extremis rewrites the repair center. In the first&#xA;stage, the body essentially becomes an open wound. The normal human&#xA;blueprint is being replaced with the Extremis blueprint, you see? The&#xA;brain is being told the body is wrong. Extremis protocol dictates that&#xA;the subject be placed on life support and intravenously fed nutrients&#xA;at this point. For the next two or three days, the patient remains&#xA;unconscious within a cocoon of scabs. (...) Extremis uses the&#xA;nutrients and body mass to grow new organs. Better ones..(source:&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremis_%28comics%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it may be the case that during armor self destruction Killian 's brain doesn't got damaged and made him able to heal and regenrate his damaged organs. But second time his whole body got destroyed even brain (head) too. Without brain extremis virus is of no use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-05-15T20:54:54.127" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11177" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-30T07:38:01.150" Score="14" ViewCount="2520" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the significance of the artwork (that shows a woman lying in a field reaching/looking across a field of grain toward a farmhouse--the implication, perhaps, is a painting of Julia Harper)? Is that particular piece of art a familiar work already in existence? (For me, it was either a case of deja vu or I actually saw the picture from that scene within a week prior to seeing the movie.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4713" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-08-08T17:45:59.837" LastActivityDate="2015-07-11T14:59:04.080" Title="What is the significance of the artwork?" Tags="|analysis|ending|oblivion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11178" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-30T09:17:31.197" Score="24" ViewCount="14543" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Inglorious Basterds&lt;/em&gt;, Lt. Hicox is an English officer who speaks German fluently yet with a mild accent. Speaking a language fluently requires a lot of practice with native speakers and so spending a lot of time with them. So I'd expect that he should know German culture well enough to not order &quot;three glasses&quot; with a wrong gesture (which was the key to the failure of his covert operation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it possible that he speaks German fluently (and so had exposure to native German speakers) and then gives himself away by using the wrong gesture?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3707" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-11-24T08:03:52.320" LastActivityDate="2020-08-11T11:36:21.467" Title="How could Lt. Hicox fluently speak German and then give himself away by using the wrong gesture?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11178" CreationDate="2013-04-30T10:01:32.377" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say this gesture was something so subtle and unconcious that it just falls below any cultural assimilation. He has &quot;counted to three&quot; in the &quot;British way&quot; all over his life and even excessive exposure to German native speakers and culture probably won't change such a highly non-descript and intuitive gesture. You can speak fluently in a language and be acquainted with many of its cultural subtleties and might still not be aware of the most subtle an non-descript differences. It's not that if you do it the &quot;wrong&quot; way among a bunch of natives everybody will shout &lt;em&gt;&quot;hey, you're counting wrong&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. In most situations nobody will notice and thus nobody would have ever told him how to do it &quot;properly&quot;. That's because in all but this particular covert operation nobody would have cared about how he counts to three.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add to this that &lt;em&gt;Hicox&lt;/em&gt; actually wasn't a professional spy trained for such situations. He was really only a British soldier who happened to have good knowledge about German movies and language (maybe even mainly from movies). It is true that they would have to face a situation amongst many German officers sooner or later (yet on a film fest, a métier &lt;em&gt;Hicox&lt;/em&gt; would be much more familiar with). But in this particular situation they weren't prepared for any German soldiers at all, let alone such a cunning officer like &lt;em&gt;Major Hellstrom&lt;/em&gt;, who continuously needled them and tried to bring them into revealing situations. &lt;em&gt;Lt. Hicox&lt;/em&gt; just wasn't prepared well enough for this battle of wits and espionage where even the slightest misbehaviour counts (The situation may not even have gotten that far hadn't he spoken with such an Irish accent, which actually aroused &lt;em&gt;Hellstrom&lt;/em&gt;'s attention in the first place).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As a counter example, I for myself think to speak English pretty fluently, even if maybe with a slight accent (though not stronger than &lt;em&gt;Michael Fassbender&lt;/em&gt;'s either), and have quite a bit of knowledge about Hollywood movies. This might even be sufficient to play an American film expert on a quest to bomb the &lt;em&gt;Academy Awards&lt;/em&gt;. Yet I never ever heard about this difference in counting to three until this movie and would indeed intuitively order my drinks in the &quot;German way&quot; even when sitting in a bar full of U.S. officers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-30T22:47:47.340" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T22:47:47.340" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11175" CreationDate="2013-04-30T12:53:10.263" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been quite a while since I have watched Lost so what I say may have holes. I believe the island is a sort of Limbo. So one can argue that Jacob could have been a god or deity and the Man in Black could have been his opposite, or at least they may have represented this. Dont think in terms of the traditional religion but think of in terms of religion in general so just because they had a mother should not debunk this opinion. I think Jacob was testing everyone like a god and you notice not everyone left the island in the finale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Writing this makes me want to watch the entire series again because it seems like there is so much I have forgotten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4716" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T12:53:10.263" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9402" CreationDate="2013-04-30T12:54:17.927" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes - if you wait &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; until the very end of the credits, there's a sequence involving Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner. It's just a little joke though and not part of the main plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, no other Avengers appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="314" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T12:54:17.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11178" CreationDate="2013-04-30T14:29:45.777" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;My wife and I both took German in high school and were taught by a native German. He told us the way that Germans count one with their thumb instead of with their fore finger. I always remembered this and she didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While watching &lt;em&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/em&gt; I noticed the slip up right away she had no idea until after the shooting stopped and it was explained  on screen. As Christian Rau it's one of those small cultural differences that aren't always noticed or commented on even when surrounded another culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's stranger to me in that scene is the Nazi jumps automatically to these are enemy soldiers due to such a small cue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2020-08-11T11:14:54.063" LastActivityDate="2020-08-11T11:14:54.063" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11175" CreationDate="2013-04-30T15:24:43.373" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the plot can be boiled down to simple hero/villain roles.  The Man In Black broke the rules, and received a sort of punishment for that.  Unfortunately, it was an eternal damnation sort of punishment, which is pretty disproportionate given his offense.  But using his powers, he spent the millennia manipulating and killing people, so he's not an entirely sympathetic character.  If we take Jacob at face value, allowing the Man In Black to escape the island would be a horrible thing.  So the Man In Black must be stopped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jacob meanwhile, sought a way to be released from his role as the island's protector, and to prevent the Man In Black's escape.  So he manipulated the Candidates' lives to get them to the island, while also manipulating their lives so they would be prepared to fulfill the roles he needed them to have.  In the process, he was willing to let many people die, both in the plane crash, and in conflict on the island.  His desire to stop the Man In Black is noble, but his methods are not.  So Jacob is &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; not entirely sympathetic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Flight 815 survivors similarly show a history of good and evil actions.  This seems to be part of the show's writers' plans.  No one on the show (except maybe Walt and Hurley) is entirely good or evil.  No pure black and white, only shades of grey.  In conclusion, the villain of &lt;em&gt;Lost&lt;/em&gt; is the nature of humans to be evil.  The hero is the nature of humans to be good.  The show is about this dual nature of humanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-04-30T17:49:44.913" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T17:49:44.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11185" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-04-30T16:35:21.540" Score="6" ViewCount="287" Body="&lt;p&gt;An American made for TV movie shown over several nights in, I think, the 90's, that featured a spaceship resembling an upside down ziggurat hovering just above ground that was later discovered to have been involved in previous human evolution and threatens to destroy the current manifestation by reterraforming the planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My memory of this movie is very sketchy, but the first group of soldiers sent inside were killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've looked all over the place and can't find any description that fits the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4718" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-04-30T17:21:08.240" LastActivityDate="2017-04-06T06:10:33.973" Title="Miniseries featuring an upside down ziggurat-shaped spaceship" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:53:45.260" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11005" CreationDate="2013-04-30T17:07:21.110" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears to set up their relationship in the film. I haven't watched the film in a very long while, so I looked at the Wikipedia article that lists and explains the characters and their relationships, and it appears to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Battle_Royale_characters#Noriko_Nakagawa&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;confirm it.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is most likely a flashback seeing as their relationship exists in the film and is not just a fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3887" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T17:07:21.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6899" CreationDate="2013-04-30T17:17:02.450" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;As noted in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_%28James_Bond%29#Judi_Dench:_1995.E2.80.932012&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, (the Judi Dench) &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt;'s real name is very likely &lt;em&gt;Olivia Mansfield&lt;/em&gt;. The source for this entry is this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=100663#csUxdLc5I5z6YfOp.99&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;article on comingsoon.net&lt;/a&gt; which reveals:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There was also something else that cropped up while we were looking through the archive, something that may be of even more interest to Bond fans. As we looked at the porcelain bulldog M bequeaths Bond, the archive assistant read the inscription on the box it is presented to him in - &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Olivia Mansfield bequeaths James Bond.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; We've searched around, and as far as we can see this is the first and only time anyone's ever revealed M's 'real name.' It may not have been spoken, but if you were watching on a big enough screen it could have been visible, so we'd argue it's now canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://badassdigest.com/2013/02/21/ms-real-name-proves-she-really-was-a-bond-girl/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This site&lt;/a&gt; also provides a screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Op0N.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Op0Ns.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides the use of a single letter to represent the head of MI6, this might be a further homage to its very first director who was—as noted by &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/6905/3650&quot;&gt;Steve Melnikoff&lt;/a&gt;—named &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansfield_Smith-Cumming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mansfield&lt;/strong&gt; Smith-Cumming&lt;/a&gt; (or &lt;strong&gt;C&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2013-05-02T07:04:32.887" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11185" CreationDate="2013-04-30T18:31:54.000" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was this the spaceship?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BmM03.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Epoch poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is, the movie is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Epoch&lt;/a&gt; (2001).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T18:31:54.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11178" CreationDate="2013-04-30T20:09:38.620" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have any references to point to, but my original thought was that a large part of Lt. Hicox's German had come from watching German films.  The gaps in his cultural knowledge were the result of his lack of exposure to native speakers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-04-30T20:09:38.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11192" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11194" CreationDate="2013-05-01T02:21:04.557" Score="21" ViewCount="4046" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Alfred Borden's first date with Sarah, he asks her if he could come into her apartment for a cup of tea. When she says that the landlord would not allow it, Borden jokes that a small lock is not enough to keep him out and leaves for the stairs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a couple of seconds that Sarah closes the door and turns around, Borden is already in her apartment with milk and sugar in his hand. How does he do it? Apartments don't generally have a back door for Borden to have slipped in. There is also no indication that the guy inside the apartment is the other twin. It surely cannot be the other twin as there is no way that they would have known how the date would have gone or where they would go later or if Sarah would let Borden inside her apartment at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how does Borden exactly do this initial Transported man trick at Sarah's apartment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3841" LastActivityDate="2013-08-25T03:03:01.107" Title="How does Borden do The Transported Man after his date with Sarah?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11192" CreationDate="2013-05-01T05:27:42.663" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Excellent question, you raise here. The only trick Borden knew was using his other twin brother. So it is expected that he used his brother. But it is possible that Borden wanted to pick that girl and so after his performance was over, he instructed his brother to enter her house. But again one can argue then how did he know that heir conversation was regarding a cup of tea. In that case, I would say the brother inside the room was probably eavesdropping what the duo was talking with each other, so that he might not fall into embarassment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-05-01T08:53:22.207" LastActivityDate="2013-05-01T08:53:22.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11177" CreationDate="2013-05-01T08:15:55.360" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Painting is Christina's World by the American painter Andrew Wyeth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is supposed to be one of the works of art saved by the survivors, Why Julia had it at the end (I think Jack put it in her sleep capsule, but can't recall 100%) is that Julia said it reminded her of home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastActivityDate="2013-05-01T08:15:55.360" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11198" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12459" CreationDate="2013-05-01T09:28:27.410" Score="63" ViewCount="290616" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a huge fan of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; and I am currently watching season 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that I have noticed is that there are several scenes where characters speak in Spanish - some of these scenes are quite important for following the story - but they never show language translations or subtitles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the reason for not translating the Spanish dialogue for the viewers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T19:09:32.693" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T22:20:45.410" Title="Why don't they show subtitles for the Spanish dialogue?" Tags="|breaking-bad|subtitles|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11199" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11205" CreationDate="2013-05-01T11:12:21.683" Score="5" ViewCount="454" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've not watched all the doctors (mostly just the last three) however of those I have each incarnation seems to have a phrase (or several) which they use very frequently.  These are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;9 - Fantastic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10 - Allons Y&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;11 - Geronimo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this just a pattern of the modern series or does it go back through most of the doctors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2017-12-19T06:51:56.253" Title="Do all the Doctors have catchphrases?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11192" CreationDate="2013-05-01T11:33:46.070" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assumed that he had arranged with his brother ahead of time that he would walk her home and ask to come in for tea and to then find an excuse not to in order to 'appear' inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either she would decline or he would adlib a different reason not to go in through the door with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Magicians are usually very good at adlibbing under pressure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-05-01T11:33:46.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11116" CreationDate="2013-05-01T17:34:06.677" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back when the rings needed to be charged every 24 hours, the rings had an emergency power reserve specifically to protect the bearer from mortal harm when their ring's regular charge ran out. (See &lt;a href=&quot;http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Lantern_Vol_2_46&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Green Lantern v2 #46 (1966)&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1492" LastActivityDate="2013-05-01T17:34:06.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11202" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-01T18:01:30.740" Score="2" ViewCount="376" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Community episode S03E19 Curriculum Unavailable, when the study group is talking about what a crazy year they have had, they show an incident in which Troy slams his hand against the table.(This incident could not have happened after they were expelled, for obvious reasons)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happened 2 months after they were expelled(according to Shirley's words at the start of the episode)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After they finish telling the Doctor about these incidents we see that Britta squeezes Troy's hand and he cries out in pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I guess there has been a mistake because I think even a broken hand will be repaired in two months &#xA;So is there a problem with the Community Timeline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4677" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-16T17:48:08.957" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T17:48:08.957" Title="Why did Troy's arm still hurt after two months?" Tags="|plot-explanation|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8400" CreationDate="2013-05-02T04:50:33.073" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, this happens in the episode - One Minute. When Walt's wife pursuades him to help Hank, Walt hatches up this plan to replace Gale with Jessie. Walt knew that Jessie was furious over what happened to him and a really big offer was needed to pacify him and let Hank go. Plus if Jessie works with him there is also lesser chances of him getting caught and hence lesser chanes of him giving details about Heisenberg to the police. So this was exactly Walt wanted. This deal served two purposes and hence that was the motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2013-05-02T04:50:33.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11199" CreationDate="2013-05-02T05:14:54.453" Score="5" Body="&lt;h2&gt;List by Doctor Number:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(William Hartnell): Hmmn. Hmmn. Hmmn.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Patrick Troughton): When I say run.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Jon Pertwee): Nothing comes to mind except Whomobile&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Tom Baker): Care for a Jelly baby&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Peter Davison): Nothing again except for Cricket &amp;amp; Celery&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Colin Baker): Got nothing &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Sylvester McCoy): Nothing again&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Paul McGann): Who am I? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Christopher Eccleston): Fantastic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(David Tennant):&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    - I'm sorry, I'm so sorry&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    - Allons-y!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Matt Smith):&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    - &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt; is/are cool&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    - Geronimo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Peter Capaldi):&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    -  Shut up. Shutity shut up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For better explained answer read &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12685/does-every-doctor-have-a-catchphrase-if-so-what-are-they&quot;&gt;Does every Doctor have a catchphrase? If so what are they?&lt;/a&gt; or click &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2012/04/ten-of-the-doctors-most-memorable-catchphrases/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-12-19T06:51:56.253" LastActivityDate="2017-12-19T06:51:56.253" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11206" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11207" CreationDate="2013-05-02T10:24:48.540" Score="128" ViewCount="29167" Body="&lt;p&gt;They’re not related, they’re not neighbors, and they’re separated in age by at least five decades: So how did Marty McFly and “Doc” Brown first meet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has been bugging me from the moment I finished watching the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3201" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-05-02T14:12:04.730" LastActivityDate="2022-04-24T00:56:50.143" Title="How did Marty McFly and “Doc” Brown first meet?" Tags="|character|back-to-the-future|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11206" CreationDate="2013-05-02T10:41:36.810" Score="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mentalfloss.com/article/28526/back-future-co-creator-bob-gale-explains-how-marty-and-doc-became-friends&quot;&gt;According&lt;/a&gt; to co-writer/producer &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Gale&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bob Gale&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We never explained it in the movie. But the history of the characters that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zemeckis&quot;&gt;Bob Zemeckis&lt;/a&gt; and I created is this:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;For years, Marty was told that Doc Brown was dangerous, a crackpot, a lunatic. So, being a red-blooded American teenage boy, age 13 or 14, he decided to find out just why this guy was so dangerous. &lt;strong&gt;Marty snuck into Doc’s lab, and was fascinated by all the cool stuff that was there. when Doc found him there, he was delighted to find that Marty thought he was cool and accepted him for what he was.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Both of them were the black sheep in their respective environments. &lt;strong&gt;Doc gave Marty a part-time job to help with experiments, tend to the lab, tend to the dog, etc.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And that’s the origin of their relationship.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-05-02T10:41:36.810" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11208" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11211" CreationDate="2013-05-02T14:55:09.967" Score="24" ViewCount="171613" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1980 movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/&quot;&gt;Airplane&lt;/a&gt;, there are two memorable scenes in which two guys (and in the later scene, an older woman) speak &quot;Jive&quot; to each other. The transcripts of the scenes in question are below, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/quotes&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;scene one&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First Jive Dude: Shiiiiit, maaaaan. That honky muf' be messin' mah old lady... got to be runnin' cold upside down his head, you know?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Second Jive Dude: Hey home', I can dig it. Know ain't gonna lay no mo' big rap up on you, man!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  First Jive Dude: I say hey, sky... subba say I wan' see...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Second Jive Dude: Uh-huh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  First Jive Dude: ...pray to J I did the same-ol', same-ol'!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Second Jive Dude: Hey... knock a self a pro, Slick! That gray matter backlot perform us DOWN, I take TCB-in', man!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  First Jive Dude: Hey, you know what they say: see a broad to get dat booty yak 'em...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  First Jive Dude, Second Jive Dude: ...leg 'er down a smack 'em yak 'em!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  First Jive Dude: COL' got to be! Y'know? Shiiiiit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;scene two&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Randy: Can I get you something?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Second Jive Dude: 'S'mofo butter layin' me to da' BONE! Jackin' me up... tight me!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Randy: I'm sorry, I don't understand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  First Jive Dude: Cutty say 'e can't HANG!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Jive Lady: Oh, stewardess! I speak jive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Randy: Oh, good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Jive Lady: He said that he's in great pain and he wants to know if you can help him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Randy: All right. Would you tell him to just relax and I'll be back as soon as I can with some medicine?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Jive Lady: [to the Second Jive Dude] Jus' hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da rebound on da med side.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Second Jive Dude: What it is, big mama? My mama no raise no dummies. I dug her rap!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Jive Lady: Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump don' want no help, chump don't GET da help!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  First Jive Dude: Say 'e can't hang, say seven up!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Jive Lady: Jive-ass dude don't got no brains anyhow! Shiiiiit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody here speak Jive? What is actually being said during these scenes? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T16:25:43.517" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T16:25:43.517" Title="Translating the Jive dialogue" Tags="|dialogue|airplane|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11209" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-02T14:57:43.353" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Airplane!&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1980 movie about an ordinary flight which becomes endangered when the crew and most of the passengers suffer food poisoning, leaving their hopes for survival in the shaky hands of an ex-pilot crippled by a fear of flying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page for &lt;strong&gt;Airplane!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane!&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page for &lt;strong&gt;Airplane!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="43924" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2017-01-18T06:35:14.660" LastActivityDate="2017-01-18T06:35:14.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11210" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-02T14:57:43.353" Score="0" Body="&quot;Airplane!&quot; is an iconic 1980 comedy which sends up &quot;Airport&quot;-style disaster movies (among other Hollywood tropes) in the tale of a routine flight that runs into trouble when its crew becomes disabled by illness." OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="43924" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2017-01-18T06:58:06.420" LastActivityDate="2017-01-18T06:58:06.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11208" CreationDate="2013-05-02T15:34:08.377" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is important to note a few things. &lt;em&gt;Airplane!&lt;/em&gt; is a satirical comedy, and the writers were making a joke about language. Jive shares traits with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vernacular_English&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;African American Vernacular English&lt;/a&gt; (AAVE), but it is not the same. The writers and actors have said that Jive was fabricated, which can be seen in the video &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/02/30th-anniversary-of-airpl_n_633859.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. All of what the Jivemen said was a fabrication of the writers and actors, so trying to translate it without their help would be impossible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, they included subtitles for the first scene, which can be found in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://sfy.ru/?script=airplane_ts&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;full script&lt;/a&gt; (subtitles emphasized by me):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jiveman1: Sheeeet, man, that honkey mus' be messin' my old lady&#xA;  got to be runnin' col' upsihd down his head!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Subtitle: GOLLY, THAT WHITE FELLOW SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM MY WIFE&#xA;  OR I WILL PUNCH HIM.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Jiveman2: Hey Holm, I can dig it! You know he ain't gonna lay no&#xA;  mo' big rap upon you man!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Subtitle: YES, HE IS WRONG FOR DOING THAT.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Jiveman1: I say hey sky, s'other say I won say I pray to J I get&#xA;  the same ol' same ol.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Subtitle: I KNEW A MAN IN A SIMILAR PREDICAMENT, AND HE ENDED UP&#xA;  BEING SORRY.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Jiveman2: Knock yourself a pro slick. Gray matter back got&#xA;  perform' us' down I take TCBin, man'.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Subtitle: DON'T BE NAIVE ARTHUR. EACH OF US FACES A CLEAR MORAL&#xA;  CHOICE.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Jiveman1: You know wha' they say: See a broad to get that bodiac&#xA;  lay'er down an' smack 'em yack 'em.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Subtitle: EARLY TO BED, EARLY TO RISE, MAKES A MAN HEALTHY,&#xA;  WEALTHY AND WISE.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Together: Col' got to be! Yo!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Subtitle: HOW TRUE!&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Together: Sheeeeeeet!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Subtitle: GOLLY.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to the second scene you've transposed, the joke is that the older white woman can translate Jive for the stewardess. It doesn't need subtitles for the first part because that would ruin the joke. As Shane Finneran pointed out, there were subtitles for the later part of that interaction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Second Jive Dude: What it is, big mama? My mama no raise no dummies. I dug her rap!&lt;br&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Subtitle: Ma'am, I'm not stupid. I understand what she just said.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Jive Lady: Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump don' want no help, chump don't GET da help!&lt;br&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Subtitle: Give me a break! If you don't want help, I won't help you!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  First Jive Dude: Say 'e can't hang, say seven up!&lt;br&gt; &#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Subtitle: Damn, she implied that he didn't understand!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Jive Lady: Jive-ass dude don't got no brains anyhow! Shiiiiit.&lt;br&gt; &#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Subtitle: Nevermind. He's stupid, anyway.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2084" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T05:01:41.827" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T05:01:41.827" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11212" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11213" CreationDate="2013-05-02T16:16:39.433" Score="7" ViewCount="941" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;released in 2010&lt;/a&gt; and had to have started being planned for at least 1-2 years before that.  It seems this was incredibly fast after Facebook was released to the whole world and took off. What is the reason for this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4742" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-02T20:06:09.600" LastActivityDate="2013-05-12T04:26:59.513" Title="Why was &quot;The Social Network&quot; made so quickly after Facebook took off?" Tags="|production|the-social-network|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11212" CreationDate="2013-05-02T16:30:41.730" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In some ways, asking &quot;what's the reason for this&quot; might be a non-starter of a question, because the ultimate reason for why any movie is made is that a producer thinks it's a good idea. And certainly, the fact that Facebook was made open to everyone late in 2006 makes it seem like the time frame is pretty compressed to get the movie out, but it's important to remember that Facebook had been around for several years before that -- every college kid in the US knew about it by late 2004. So even if Sorkin started his research in 2008, that's 4 years after it became clear that this could be a good story, far less time than it took for &lt;em&gt;Zero Dark Thirty&lt;/em&gt; to be released and pretty comparable to &lt;em&gt;United 93&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's also important to note that Sorkin (and Sony Pictures who produced it) didn't come up with the idea; rather, the publisher of the book &lt;em&gt;The Accidental Billionaires&lt;/em&gt; was actively selling the film rights before the book ever came out. According to an interview that Sorkin gave:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You still have to find Waldo in there somewhere. Here’s how it&#xA;  started: I got a 14-page book proposal that Ben Mezrich had written&#xA;  for his publisher for a book he was going to call The Accidental&#xA;  Billionaires. The publisher was simultaneously shopping it around for&#xA;  a film sale. That’s how it wound up in my hands. I was reading it and&#xA;  somewhere on page three I said yes. It was the fastest I said yes to&#xA;  anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But Ben hadn’t written the book yet, and I assumed that Sony was going&#xA;  to want me to wait for Ben to write the book, and I would start a year&#xA;  from now. They wanted me to start right away. Ben and I were kind of&#xA;  doing our research at the same time, sort of along parallel lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;( from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=4348&quot;&gt;http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=4348&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2013-05-02T16:30:41.730" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9623" CreationDate="2013-05-02T17:12:03.483" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just as the ritual is rigged against the kids (they're forced into playing archetypal roles and making fatal decisions via drugs and subliminals), it's rigged against the facility workers. I think the button only exists for a survivor to push; if they make it that far, they must choose between self-sacrifice or self-interest (which dooms humanity). When the facility worker observes Dana on the monitor and says he's almost rooting for her, I think he has this outcome in mind. The gods need blood -- whether they get a little at a time or all at once is up to us. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4752" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-12T21:20:57.660" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T21:20:57.660" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11216" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11271" CreationDate="2013-05-02T17:43:12.753" Score="10" ViewCount="2605" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it ever mentioned in the Star Wars movies why a sphere-shape was chosen? It would seem that sphere would be unreasonably hard to make as molding all the outer plates perfectly requires every plate to be unique... Also, wouldn't the size of the space station generate some kind of gravitation field towards the center? This doesn't seem to apply, though, as the people inside seems to be affected by some kind of fake gravity towards the floor. Wouldn't it be better if it was just shaped like most other space ships?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4742" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-09-15T20:19:21.720" LastActivityDate="2013-09-15T20:19:21.720" Title="Why is the Death Star shaped like a sphere?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11216" CreationDate="2013-05-02T18:13:59.217" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first movie, Luke mistakes the Death Star for a small moon the first time he sees it, as shown in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVekNsgUqn4&quot;&gt;this clip&lt;/a&gt;.  There isn't any further implication that the Death Star was MEANT to resemble a moon.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the novelization, however, there was a passage about the Death Star being covered in lights that could be turned on and off to mimic the phases of the moon.  That's really kind of ridiculous, though, since when it comes close to a sun, it would show the phases of a moon naturally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the Death Star was sufficiently massive to generate a gravity field, as seems likely, the artificial gravity system would probably have been designed to counteract it.  The Earth's moon has gravity one sixth that of the Earth.  A &quot;small moon&quot; would have less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-05-02T18:13:59.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2190" CreationDate="2013-05-02T18:58:08.483" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Black Swan featured several shots in mirrored dance rehearsal studios where the crew were digitally removed - see below &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/4n71sjmd-bM?start=25&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4753" LastEditorUserId="12783" LastEditDate="2016-07-29T18:14:02.003" LastActivityDate="2016-07-29T18:14:02.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11220" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11223" CreationDate="2013-05-02T23:02:02.107" Score="6" ViewCount="313" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw part of this film on television long ago; probably in the late 1970s.  It was a live-action, action-genre film in which the protagonist participated in an international game like &quot;Assassin&quot;--that is, he advanced in the game by killing another participant before being killed himself.  The eventual survivor/winner was to receive a substantial prize.  The setting was an overpopulated near future.  It seems that the game was mostly accepted as voluntary way of reducing the population, but was condemned by the Vatican.  No idea who the lead actor was, but I think he was a typical square-jawed action hero type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T00:04:26.100" Title="What was this movie with a real-life Assassin game?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|action|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:44:25.377" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11095" CreationDate="2013-05-03T00:01:49.667" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The description of sample stunt performer contracts on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.independentfilmmakercontracts.com/products-page/stunt-performer-insurance-carried-by-stunt-performer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this web page&lt;/a&gt; describes two versions: one in which the performer is required to purchase all necessary insurance, and one in which the producer pays for the insurance.  So the answer seems to be that there is no fixed way of handling this; it may go one way or the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ehow.com/list_7308954_types-insurance-stunt-artists.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Another web page&lt;/a&gt; mentions the same two possibilities, but suggests that it is more common for the performers to carry their own insurance, often obtained through the Screen Actors Guild.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T00:01:49.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11220" CreationDate="2013-05-03T00:04:26.100" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_10th_Victim&quot;&gt;The Tenth Victim&lt;/a&gt; (1965), starring Marcello Mastroianni, though I think the game was supposed to prevent war rather than to relieve overpopulation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the near future, big wars are avoided by giving individuals with&#xA;  violent tendencies a chance to kill in the Big Hunt. The Hunt is the most &#xA;  popular form of entertainment in the world and also attracts&#xA;  participants who are looking for fame and fortune. It includes ten&#xA;  rounds for each competitor, five as the hunter and five as the victim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://w.videogametalk.com/reviews/50097/10th-victim/&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pains are taken to establish that the Vatican is still in full&#xA;  operation and does not condone 'the Hunt.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T00:04:26.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9697" CreationDate="2013-05-03T02:10:40.993" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Roger Ebert made the following two comments.  This is from his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/lost-in-translation-2003&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;original review&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I loved the moment near the end when Bob runs after Charlotte and says something in her ear, and we're not allowed to hear it.&#xA;  We shouldn't be allowed to hear it. It's between them, and by this point in the movie, they've become real enough to deserve their privacy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is from his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-lost-in-translation-2003&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;second review&lt;/a&gt;, when he included &lt;em&gt;Lost in Translation&lt;/em&gt; in his list of &quot;great movies&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We get all we need in simply knowing they share a moment private to them, and &lt;em&gt;seeing&lt;/em&gt; that it contains something true before they part forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the significance is that they get some closure, even if we don't know exactly how.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T02:10:40.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11226" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11230" CreationDate="2013-05-03T04:39:18.320" Score="8" ViewCount="10749" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Exorcist, why does the demon that possesses Regan react to the “fake” holy water sprinkled by Father Karras?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s hard to believe that the demon mistakes the tap water for water blessed by a priest. It certainly makes the entity that much less frightening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3201" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-03-30T03:52:51.367" LastActivityDate="2023-09-14T15:59:50.927" Title="Why does the demon that possesses Regan react to the “fake” holy water?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-exorcist|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11227" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11228" CreationDate="2013-05-03T04:42:36.897" Score="17" ViewCount="4149" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why don’t Bruce Banner’s pants rip open when he turns into the Hulk?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3201" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T09:12:48.093" LastActivityDate="2017-04-05T06:26:03.910" Title="Why don’t Bruce Banner’s pants rip open when he turns into the Hulk?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|the-incredible-hulk|hulk|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11227" CreationDate="2013-05-03T04:59:33.933" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason is that the Hulk Comics/Cartoons/Movies are all made in focusing children, so they don't want to show Green porn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyways below are Lee's funny answer on the same topic - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; If it weren’t for the Comics Code, would the Hulk’s pants have ripped&#xA;  off like his shirt?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stan Lee:&lt;/strong&gt; I guess it probably would have. So occasionally the Code did&#xA;  some good things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; Did you ever try to make sense of the Hulk’s magical purple pants? Why&#xA;  did they always conveniently remain intact while the rest of his&#xA;  clothes were ripped to shreds?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stan Lee:&lt;/strong&gt; I just figured that Bruce Banner had probably been a friend&#xA;  of Reed Richards [Mr. Fantastic from the Fantastic Four], and Reed had&#xA;  given him some elastic trousers. There’s an explanation for&#xA;  everything, but you may not be technically advanced enough to follow&#xA;  me on all of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookmovie.com&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;comicbookmovie.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-03-29T11:12:24.890" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T11:12:24.890" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11226" CreationDate="2013-05-03T05:08:36.780" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may be the case that the demon is cunning and wanted to make a doubt in the mind of Karras, already having a lack of faith in demons and ghosts. As we have seen that demon plays with Karras' emotions related to his mother too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The demon reads on mind and emotions so it's not possible that he got fooled by tap water at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-03-11T00:29:46.680" LastActivityDate="2019-03-11T00:29:46.680" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11212" CreationDate="2013-05-03T08:38:02.883" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we already know that 'The Social Network' was based on a book called 'The Accidental Billionaires' by Ben Mezrich. Now if you check the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Network#Screenplay&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia entry&lt;/a&gt; it tells us something about the production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin said, &amp;quot;What attracted me to [the film&#xA;project] had nothing to do with Facebook. The invention itself is as&#xA;modern as it gets, but the story is as old as storytelling; the themes&#xA;of friendship, loyalty, jealousy, class and power.  I got a 14-page&#xA;book proposal that Ben Mezrich had written for his publisher for a&#xA;book he was going to call The Accidental Billionaires. The publisher&#xA;was simultaneously shopping it around for a film sale. That's how it&#xA;wound up in my hands. I was reading it and somewhere on page three I&#xA;said yes. It was the fastest I said yes to anything. But Ben hadn't&#xA;written the book yet, and I assumed that Sony was going to want me to&#xA;wait for Ben to write the book, and I would start a year from now.&#xA;They wanted me to start right away. Ben and I were kind of doing our&#xA;research at the same time, sort of along parallel lines.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, according to Sorkin, Mezrich did not send him material from&#xA;his book as he wrote it: &amp;quot;Two or three times we'd get together. I'd go&#xA;to Boston, or we'd meet in New York and kind of compare notes and&#xA;share information, but I didn't see the book until he was done with&#xA;it. By the time I saw the book, I was probably 80 percent done with&#xA;the screenplay.&amp;quot; Sorkin elaborated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's like the book and the screenplay for this movie were almost written in parallel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when the book was released in 2009, pretty soon the movie als got released in 2010.&#xA;So my point is - The Social Network's production just followed the production of the book - The Accidental Billionaires. And the book followed what was an interesting story at that time. So it is only coincidental that the movie's release and facebook's boom occured at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T08:38:02.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11232" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11235" CreationDate="2013-05-03T11:21:26.193" Score="3" ViewCount="25004" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Michael Scofield&lt;/em&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Break&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Prision Break&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothalamic_hamartoma&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hypothalamic hamartoma&lt;/a&gt; as his mother, who they think died from that in age of 30 (as I remember). It's a hereditary disease. In later seasons we see his mother alive. She just left them to work in secret organization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if his mother didn't die from that hereditary disease, how he got it then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could it the be most powerful self-hypnosis in the world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4768" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-05-03T13:15:24.120" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T15:01:37.960" Title="Does Michael Scofield have same problem with health as his mother?" Tags="|prison-break|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11233" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11234" CreationDate="2013-05-03T11:32:50.163" Score="12" ViewCount="6918" Body="&lt;p&gt;Almost every ship (excluding speeders and small fighters) in the Star Wars universe can travel at light speed.  As far as I'm aware most space stations can't (Bespin certainly doesn't seem to).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Death Star is shown to move very slowly (at least it gives them plenty of time while orbiting Yavin).  However it also appears to move between star systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can the Death Star travel faster than light?  If so is this common in the Star Wars universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2018-08-02T18:58:24.733" Title="Could the Death Star travel faster than light?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11233" CreationDate="2013-05-03T12:06:51.557" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, of course! If it could not travel faster than light, interstellar travel would be impossible and battle station restricted to a single star-system would be pretty useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Star Wars &lt;em&gt;Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope&lt;/em&gt;, the Death Star travels from &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Alderaan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alderaan&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Yavin_4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Yavin IV&lt;/a&gt;, which are not in the same stellar system. Without faster than light capacity, that journey would have taken years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is what the &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/DS-1_Orbital_Battle_Station&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;first Death Star Wookiepedia article&lt;/a&gt; says about it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The battle station also included two massive sublight engines in the midsection, as well as a formidable hyperdrive system. Driven by 123 individual generators tied to one navigational matrix, the class 4 hyperdrive was fast enough to allow the Death Star to travel thousands of light years from Alderaan to Yavin IV in only a few hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="858" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2018-08-02T18:58:24.733" LastActivityDate="2018-08-02T18:58:24.733" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11232" CreationDate="2013-05-03T15:01:37.960" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, Michael Scofield had the same thing as his mother and his mother did not die because she had the experimental procedure done on her that was developed by &lt;em&gt;The company&lt;/em&gt; and it was successful on her.&#xA;But when Michael had undergone the same procedure he wasn't completely cured. This may be because of two reasons:&#xA; 1. The company wanted him to do something for them and just as a insurance they had not cured him completely on purpose.&#xA; 2. Michael's condition was beyond saving&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as for it being a hypnosis technique, there has not been a mention of the illness as a hypnosis thus it wouldn't be fair for us to assume it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4217" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T15:01:37.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1005" CreationDate="2013-05-03T16:36:29.217" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The is no threat in the cave.   remember the dark side is fueled by anger, fear and hate.   The imagery of the cave is the darkness within the force sensitives own heart.  Luke Skywalker, son of Anakin, has the potential to become as evil and twisted as his father had become.   Luke in fact sees many images of this later in the series (for those who have read the novels) when he plunges too close to the dark side.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a similar cave incident with one of Lukes first apprentices, Kip Durran.   Go back and read that.  You will understand more clearly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4770" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T16:36:29.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11237" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11240" CreationDate="2013-05-03T17:14:49.303" Score="6" ViewCount="1627" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title says, what actually defines a &lt;strong&gt;cult classic&lt;/strong&gt; film? As an example, the Cube series (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123755/&quot;&gt;Cube&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285492/&quot;&gt;Cube 2 Hypbercube&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377713/&quot;&gt;Cube Zero&lt;/a&gt;) are labeled as Cult Classics, but it does not seem like it is about a cult in any manner&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="77" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T17:38:18.670" Title="What makes a movie a &quot;cult classic&quot;?" Tags="|genre|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11239" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11244" CreationDate="2013-05-03T17:34:30.937" Score="7" ViewCount="3950" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suffer from a severe level of arachnophobia. in the description of the movie it says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands&#xA;  swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and &lt;strong&gt;Giant Spiders&lt;/strong&gt;,&#xA;  Shapeshifters and Sorcerers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked a friend of mine who watched the movie and he couldn't remember seeing any spider. so I wonder if anyone can confirm or deny that there are no visible spiders in this movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4771" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-19T21:47:53.033" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T21:47:53.033" Title="Are there any spiders in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hobbit|an-unexpected-journey|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11237" CreationDate="2013-05-03T17:38:18.670" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;A cult film has cult following, and a film will be said to have a cult following when it has a small but very passionate fan base. eg.- &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club&quot;&gt;Fight Club&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Memento&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounders_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Rounders&lt;/a&gt; etc.&#xA;These movies were not commercial success, but their fan base is very passionate about them.&#xA; Though it is not necessary for a cult movie to receive critical and commercial acclaim, sometimes a cult movie achieves it eg. - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction&quot;&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/a&gt;, the 1975 indian movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholay&quot;&gt;Sholay&lt;/a&gt; etc. These movies not only have a cult folllowing they also had commercial and critical success. This when a cult movie becomes a &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cult Classic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T17:38:18.670" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11239" CreationDate="2013-05-03T17:43:43.653" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I remember, no you don't actually see the spiders, they're just alluded to via shadows and such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T17:43:43.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11239" CreationDate="2013-05-03T17:46:14.887" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first part of &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; trilogy, &lt;em&gt;An Unexpected Journey&lt;/em&gt;, does not involve the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Giant_Spiders&quot;&gt;Giant Spiders&lt;/a&gt;. Going by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit&quot;&gt;the book&lt;/a&gt;, the second part, &lt;em&gt;The Desolation of Smaug&lt;/em&gt;, very likely will. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T17:46:14.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11239" CreationDate="2013-05-03T18:18:33.260" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;From inside Radagast's house you see shadows of spider attack, you see the legs of a spider break into the house before Radagast's magic seems to scare them off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He emerges from the house and you clearly see giant spiders running away from the house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, contrary to the previous answers, I would say &quot;yes&quot; but it is brief and you don't see them fully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2013-05-03T18:18:33.260" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10756" CreationDate="2013-05-04T00:59:14.613" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the most part, &lt;strong&gt;yes&lt;/strong&gt; it seems, for proof, here is one of Chuck Lorre's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chucklorre.com/index-bbt.php?p=282&quot;&gt;vanity cards&lt;/a&gt; I remember seeing sometime back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/soYC0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4693" LastActivityDate="2013-05-04T00:59:14.613" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11255" CreationDate="2013-05-04T10:29:12.663" Score="1" ViewCount="1404" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the television series &quot;Arrow&quot;, how come Oliver Queen doesn't rescue Walter sooner than he did?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-19T07:31:21.623" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T07:31:21.623" Title="Why didn't Oliver Queen rescue Walter sooner than he did?" Tags="|character|arrowverse|arrow|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11253" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-04T11:48:25.223" Score="10" ViewCount="1539" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bond is 007. WE have seen 006 and 008 in Bond movies. My question is how is this naming done to the agents in MI6? Does the number signify the serial no of an agent or the aptitude or the seniority? What is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastActivityDate="2019-07-16T13:23:11.340" Title="How is naming done in MI6?" Tags="|character|james-bond|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11251" CreationDate="2013-05-04T15:56:56.340" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;He didn't have any solid leads to go on. He didn't know where he was being kept before he eavesdropped on Malcolm and he only did that because he was following his mother after she reacted strangely on the news Walter was dead. He only got that news after his last act of cleaning up the neighbourhood got him the clue he needed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he knew where he was in the first place, he wouldn't of believed the mob guy (saying Walter was dead).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2013-05-04T15:56:56.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11253" CreationDate="2013-05-04T17:10:41.113" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bond's number—007—comes from the English spy and polymath &lt;em&gt;John Dee&lt;/em&gt;,&#xA;who signed his letters to Elizabeth I with 00 and an elongated 7, to&#xA;signify they were for her eyes only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YuKPh.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YuKPh.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number was also assigned by Fleming in reference to one of British&#xA;naval intelligence's key achievements of World War I: the breaking of&#xA;the German diplomatic code. One of the German documents cracked and&#xA;read by the British was the Zimmermann Telegram, which was coded 0075,&#xA;and which was one of the factors that led the US entering the war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_%28character%29#Origins_of_the_name&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Origin of the name 007&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4781" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2019-07-16T13:23:11.340" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9288" CreationDate="2013-05-04T21:42:21.180" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the lead officer the way that he kept looking at her throughout the conversation, I think he always knew something was wrong because of the previous 911 calls and the odd way she was acting. Also, after he told her about the blinking twice, she said something about  if there was someone in the house or something? And then a moment later ran her hand through  her hair, which I always was supposed to be a clue to the officer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4782" LastActivityDate="2013-05-04T21:42:21.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9794" CreationDate="2013-05-04T22:39:45.660" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quotes from the show indicates that they are, just like you said, half-brothers. But, whether they have the same mother, or father is unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following quote by &quot;Drama&quot; implies that they have the same father&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You have &lt;strong&gt;your&lt;/strong&gt; mom's legs but I got dad's calves&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the first episode of the third season when their &lt;em&gt;(?)&lt;/em&gt; mother is hugging Vince, &quot;Drama&quot; says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Always hugs him first... I am your firstborn!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...which implies the opposite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No definite answer has been provided in the show, and, as far as I know, no producer or actor have commented on it either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The character bios on the official site at HBO says that they are &lt;strong&gt;brothers&lt;/strong&gt;, though. Not half-brothers. So, even though the show is a little fuzzy when it comes to how these two are related, I would go with &quot;full brothers&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T11:01:09.993" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T11:01:09.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11262" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-05T05:25:49.340" Score="11" ViewCount="49147" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Scarface&quot; with Al Pacino as Tony Montana features a scene where Bolivian kingpin Sosa kills Tony's colleague Omar, saying Omar was an informant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, back in Miami, an angry Frank Lopez tells Tony that Sosa was lying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the truth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-17T12:50:59.487" LastActivityDate="2017-04-07T21:49:48.803" Title="Was Omar really an informant?" Tags="|plot-explanation|scarface|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10042" CreationDate="2013-05-05T09:16:26.900" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure exactly what she says, but in the post credits scene, her adoptive parents come to visit. As they knock on the door, her &quot;mother&quot; tells her &quot;father&quot; to say he loves Heather. He replies by saying that for that kind of money, he almost does. Then they hear a weird noise as Leather-face opens the door wielding a chainsaw at them. So basically she does stay with him. Hope that helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4783" LastActivityDate="2013-05-05T09:16:26.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11265" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-05T13:22:43.053" Score="2" ViewCount="9891" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 5, why does Nurse Jackie keep calling Charlie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Charlie died of a drug overdose in the final episode of Season 4, so this doesn't make any sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-05T15:29:17.820" LastActivityDate="2016-07-11T09:12:15.967" Title="Season 5: Why does Nurse Jackie keep calling Charlie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|nurse-jackie|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11268" CreationDate="2013-05-05T14:16:30.343" Score="1" ViewCount="917" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1980209/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pain &amp;amp; Gain&lt;/a&gt;, How was Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) able to reach the Bahamas using only a boat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can see clearly in the scene where the cops chase Lugo that he jumps into his boat and makes a run for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it that easy to travel between countries using only a boat with no passports? Is the distance between Miami and the Bahamas really that short?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2056" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T01:10:14.573" Title="How was Daniel Lugo able to go to the Bahamas on a boat?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pain-and-gain|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11267" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-05T14:45:14.140" Score="1" ViewCount="896" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1980209/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pain &amp;amp; Gain&lt;/a&gt;, How was Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) able to impersonate Victor Kershaw personality when he went into the bank in the Bahamas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it hard to believe that any bank would let someone claim that he is the owner of the account without any identification.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2056" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-05T15:28:42.710" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T19:34:55.190" Title="How was Daniel Lugo able to withdraw Victor Kershaw money from the bank?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pain-and-gain|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11266" CreationDate="2013-05-05T17:01:53.313" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The distance from Miami to the Bahamas is 187 miles.  There are at least two companies that currently offer day trip excursions to the Bahamas by boat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the passport question; since the movie is supposed to take place in 1995 it was perfectly okay to travel to the Bahamas from the USA without a passport at that time.  The rules requiring entry with a passport, trusted traveler card such as NEXUS, SENTRI, or FAST, or an enhanced driver's license weren't put into place until June 1, 2009.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="789" LastActivityDate="2013-05-05T17:01:53.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11253" CreationDate="2013-05-05T17:18:18.417" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/00_Agent&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although pronounced &quot;Double-O&quot;, the O refers to&#xA;  zeros. In the British and Commonwealth armed&#xA;  forces, soldiers and officers are assigned identity&#xA;  numbers; the United States military does likewise.&#xA;  During Ian Fleming's work in Vichy France, an agent's anonymity was imperative, and, when the&#xA;  agent was military, it was convenient to use the&#xA;  last three digits of the agent's number as&#xA;  identification. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In World War II, Britain's Special Operations Executive agents did not have identifiers assigned to them such as the 00 or related 'systems' of&#xA;  nomenclature. Specific agents would be known to&#xA;  high command by their own names, and when deniability was at stake, their service numbers in long form, or else by invented codenames. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For the sake of romance and memorability,&#xA;  Fleming used the 00 and mystical number 7 for&#xA;  James Bond – himself a shell for the reader to inhabit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2013-05-05T17:18:18.417" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11270" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11272" CreationDate="2013-05-05T19:11:39.960" Score="7" ViewCount="7081" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Band of Brothers&lt;/em&gt;, Episode 5 &lt;em&gt;&quot;Crossroads&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, shortly before the Battalion is called to the Ardennes, there is a scene where the soldiers are sitting a tent watching a movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cpt. Winters enters and finds Buck, who apparently returned to his unit after recovering from his injury. He tries to talk to him without getting any response at first. Buck seems completely apathetic and unable to participate in a proper conversation. He keeps sitting there after the others left when they were called to report to their leaders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I missed something before, but neither did I understand what is the reason for his behaviour nor what the scene is supposed to tell me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone maybe shed some light on what is wrong with Buck in the scene and what meaning it may have to the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sIepJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Buck&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2013-06-19T14:27:20.750" Title="What was wrong with Buck after his return?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|character|band-of-brothers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11216" CreationDate="2013-05-05T20:46:53.337" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything with mass has gravity between it and each other thing with mass. There's gravity between you and your computer, but it's too small to have any noticeable effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the effect to be noticeable, at least one of the bodies needs to be big, and not too far away. For example, the earth is big enough to keep us on it unless you have a big, powerful rocket. The moon is big enough and not so far away that it causes tides. The sun is big enough to keep the earth in orbit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gravity can be calculated as a tiny constant multipled by the mass of one object multiplied by the mass of the second object divided by the square of their distance. F = G * m1 * m2 / r^2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the Death Star: &quot;It's colossal, the size of a class-four moon&quot;. But how big exactly? &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Star&quot;&gt;Wookiepeedia&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The first Death Star was 160 kilometers in diameter, while the second Death Star was 900 kilometers in diameter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recent Reddit post puts this into context:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Death Star is not nearly as massive as you seem to think it is. In another recent Star Wars thread, I calculated a rough estimate of 6.777x10^17 kg, which is roughly 1 / 108,395 the mass of the Moon or 1 / 19,389 the mass of Pluto.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it still has &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; effect on other astronomical bodies, but not a significant one. To give you some idea, given the mass I calculated above and a radius of 80km, it would have a &quot;surface gravity&quot; of 0.7067 cm/s^2 which is 1 / 1388 the gravity of Earth. If you weighed 180lbs on Earth and were to &quot;stand&quot; on the hull of the Death Star, you would exert a force of about 2oz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others point out that the ship had artificial gravity generators, it's mostly all aligned up-down decks, so the ship's own natural gravity wouldn't make any noticeable difference. Wookieepedia again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Death Star's interior followed two orientations. Those areas closest to the surface were built with concentric decks with gravity oriented towards the Death Star's core. Past this shell of surface &quot;sprawls&quot;, the Death Star's interior had stacked decks with gravity pointing toward the station's southern pole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also from Reddit: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Death Star uses massive inertial compensators in order to allow it's massive bulk to be moved about easily. Since inertial mass is equivalent to gravitational mass, the Death Star exerts a much smaller gravitational field than it otherwise might. It's still very heavy even with it's inertial compensators up, it just won't [knock] planets out of orbit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, for something travelling in the vacuum of space, shape doesn't matter as there's no wind resistance. Other ships need to land on planets and fly in their atmospheres, but not the Death Star which was constructed in space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2013-05-05T20:46:53.337" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11270" CreationDate="2013-05-05T21:25:24.877" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This scene is illustrating that Buck &quot;Rogers&quot; Compton is shell-shocked. This is now known as PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Since I don't know Compton personally, I can only guess that his trauma relates to his experiences from D-Day through Carentan. This scene to me is meant to convey that the cost of war isn't measured in dollars. It also conveys that war changes a man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-06-19T14:27:20.750" LastActivityDate="2013-06-19T14:27:20.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11273" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11279" CreationDate="2013-05-05T21:51:40.353" Score="4" ViewCount="6775" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244244/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Swordfish&lt;/a&gt;, the antagonist Gabriel Shear states to Senator James Reisman just before executing him that &quot;Thomas Jefferson once shot a man on the White House lawn for Treason&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this actually based on facts or is this fabrication by the scriptwriters for dramatic effect? Did Thomas Jefferson really shoot a man for treason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-05-06T09:02:03.267" Title="Did Thomas Jefferson really shoot a man for treason?" Tags="|swordfish|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11274" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-05T21:57:46.587" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Swordfish is a 2001 action movie directed by Dominic Sena and starring John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, and Halle Berry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hugh Jackman is Stanley Jobson, the world's greatest computer hacker, blackmailed into helping a supposed 'counter-terrorist group' into hacking into old DEA accounts to extract nine billion dollars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244244/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB states&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A secretive renegade counter-terrorist co-opts the world's greatest hacker (who is trying to stay clean) to steal billions in US Government dirty money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordfish_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia states&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Swordfish is a 2001 American thriller film directed by Dominic Sena and starring John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle and Vinnie Jones. The film is an action thriller that was also notable for Halle Berry's first topless scene.&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordfish_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; The film centers around Stanley Jobson, an ex-con computer hacker who is targeted for recruitment into a bank robbery conspiracy because of his formidable hacking skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;on the web&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www2.warnerbros.com/operationswordfish/ms/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244244/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordfish_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-06T00:40:38.670" LastActivityDate="2013-05-06T00:40:38.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11275" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-05T21:57:46.587" Score="0" Body="Swordfish is a 2001 action movie directed by Dominic Sena and starring John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, and Halle Berry." OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-06T00:40:43.560" LastActivityDate="2013-05-06T00:40:43.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11276" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11959" CreationDate="2013-05-06T01:42:13.433" Score="7" ViewCount="1664" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am remembering a sci fi TV show from probably around the 90s in which the enemies had strange eyes. The eyes were dull and had either a cross or a line through them. &#xA;Weaponry was like assault rifles, maybe energy based, maybe bullets, but looking basically along the lines of special forces assault teams (along the lines of SG-1 type weaponry).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think humans could be converted some how, similar to the Borg of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; and the eyes were the way to tell if someone was human or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to say it was titled something like &lt;em&gt;EarthX&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Earth3000&lt;/em&gt; or something like that, but I've tried Googling those with no results, so that is probably wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDITS:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This was in the US. I'm not sure of the channel or syndication, but at the time I know we only had ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX and PBS. I'm pretty sure it wasn't on PBS.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm not sure of any 'in universe' planet names.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This was live-action, not anime.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Aliens were humanoid and looked normal, except for the eyes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Overall 'look' of the show was dark and industrial futuristic, not the clean, white futuristic look.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Few, if any, special effects&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seemed aimed at adults, no comic 'barney the dinosaur' style characters or similar. Definitely more like SG-1 than anything else I can think of (minus the actual Stargate of course)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4787" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-11-23T06:54:01.553" LastActivityDate="2017-11-23T06:55:56.483" Title="1990s sci-fi tv show with invading humanoids and dull crosshatched eyes" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:53:51.657" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10042" CreationDate="2013-05-06T04:47:53.653" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;i think she says &quot;now its your time&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4789" LastActivityDate="2013-05-06T04:47:53.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11273" CreationDate="2013-05-06T08:50:44.307" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the Jefferson experts at Monticello, no.  You can read their response to the claim &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/execution-white-house-lawn&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  Apart from &lt;em&gt;Swordfish&lt;/em&gt;, the only supporting evidence seems to be an Internet post from an untraceable &quot;history professor&quot; who appropriated the name of famous novelist Robert Ludlum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Realistically, if an American president had ever done such a thing, don't you think you would have heard about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The site that held the &quot;Ludlum&quot; post is gone, but here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20120219085743/http://classicals.com/federalist/ThomasJeffersonhall/messages/780.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;copy&lt;/a&gt; courtesy of the Internet archive.  Note that no supporting documentation at all is provided, which is not good practice for a historian.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastEditorUserId="4761" LastEditDate="2013-05-06T09:02:03.267" LastActivityDate="2013-05-06T09:02:03.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11276" CreationDate="2013-05-06T15:27:57.160" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it must be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123816/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Earth: Final Conflict&lt;/a&gt; from 1997, this is the plot summary from IMDb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An androgynous alien species called the Taelons arrive on earth,&#xA;  claiming to be companions of humanity, putting an end to crime,&#xA;  illness, and famine. Some are suspicious of the Taleons, and form a&#xA;  resistance movement. The resistance soon learned that the force that&#xA;  sustains the Taelons are breaking down, and they are using humans as&#xA;  test subjects in experiments to help save their species. The initial&#xA;  focus of the show was Commander William Boone and his partner, Captain&#xA;  Lili Marquette, who worked for both the Taelons and the resistance.&#xA;  After Boone was killed, the show introduced a new protagonist, Major&#xA;  Liam Kincaid, and began to play on the strengths of it's ensemble&#xA;  cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4406" LastActivityDate="2013-05-06T15:27:57.160" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11281" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11282" CreationDate="2013-05-06T15:40:53.527" Score="10" ViewCount="1819" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched the first movie of the trilogy (Back to the Future), and now I wondered, why does the Clock Tower still not work in 2015? From what I understand, in 1955 Doc and Marty pretty much built a lightning rod, so the clock should not be halted at the 10.04pm&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this explained at any point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4791" LastActivityDate="2016-10-26T15:24:08.473" Title="Why doesn't the Clock in Hill Valley work in BTTF2?" Tags="|back-to-the-future|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11281" CreationDate="2013-05-06T15:52:42.930" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite simply, it was never fixed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lightning from an electrical storm struck the lightning rod above the clock tower and travelled down a cable which was wrapped around the metal hands on the clock face at precisely 10:04pm on November 12, 1955. The sudden jolt of electricity damaged the clock mechanism and it has never worked since. &lt;a href=&quot;http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Hill_Valley_Courthouse&quot;&gt;The Hill Valley Preservation Society kept it in this condition as part of the town's history and heritage&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-05-06T15:52:42.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11216" CreationDate="2013-05-06T16:31:12.603" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there any mention in the Star Wars movies about why a sphere-shape was chosen? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The triangle, letter X and square had already been used. Only the blueprints were smuggled out of the Empire, but many Bothans died to smuggle those blueprints. I fear the answer died with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It would seem that the shape is unreasonably hard to make. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agreed. This is why they had to double their efforts to finish the Death Star before the Emperor arrives in Episode 3. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Molding perfectly all the outer plates does seem to require every plate to be unique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can make a perfect sphere out of small hexagon shaped panels that are all of the same size. You would only need uniquely shaped panels if it was &lt;code&gt;not&lt;/code&gt; spherical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And the size of the craft maybe generates some kind of gravitation field towards the center?  But people inside seem to be walking with some kind of fake gravity towards the floor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;True, but the Death Star is mostly hollow. At it's center is a large empty chamber that contains the reactor code, and then the structure is made up mostly of rooms and hallways. It would not weigh the same as an asteroid the same size. Also, if you were to stand near the center of the Earth, then which way is gravity? It's pulling you in all directions. So people &lt;code&gt;inside&lt;/code&gt; the Death Star need gravity plating to pull them towards the floors, but people walking on the surface of the Death Star would be pulled towards the center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you made all the rooms and hallways curved around the shape of the sphere, then rooms near the center would not have flat floors. You would not be able to see the end of a long hallway, and stacking cargo would not rise upwards in parallel to each other. It would be more trouble and have no benefit. So creating flat floors that run parallel to the equator is more effective, and if all the floors are parallel to the equator then you need gravity plating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be better if it was shaped like any other space ship in most other Sci-fi's?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some good reasons to make a large space station the shape of a sphere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A sphere is the most effective shape for containing energy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A sphere is the smallest volumn that will fit in a box of the same width and height, and therefore requires the least amount of materials to make.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To travel from one point to another point in the sphere is never greater than the diameter of the sphere.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Energy from the center core reactor can be distributed evenly to all points in the sphere.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A sphere is what nature would create (i.e. the moon).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2013-05-06T16:31:12.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11276" CreationDate="2013-05-07T19:30:21.740" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140743/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Invasion Earth&lt;/a&gt; (1998) TV series. The alien was humanoid with dark cat like eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2013-05-07T19:30:21.740" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11265" CreationDate="2013-05-07T19:52:17.263" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to figure out the same thing.  Maybe it is a sort of &quot;therapy&quot; for her.  The only explanation is that his father didn't close Charlie's phone account; therefore, she is still able to call Charlie.  Charlie definitely died last season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4803" LastActivityDate="2013-05-07T19:52:17.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11292" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11300" CreationDate="2013-05-07T20:02:26.860" Score="26" ViewCount="411215" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the third Fast and Furious movie - Tokyo Drift, one of the main characters in the story is Han Lue. Near the conclusion of the movie, he dies when his car explodes in a huge fireball after being hit by traffic and flipping over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of this movie, there is a cameo appearance by Vin Diesel as Torreto who claims he is an old friend of Han's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the fifth Fast and Furious movie - Fast Five, Han appears as the 'chameleon' - very much alive. At the end of this movie, Gisele and Han are &quot;driving off into the sunset&quot; and it is mentioned that he wants to go to Tokyo, and that he'll get there eventually after a variety of stops in other countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also appears in the sixth Fast and Furious movie as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does Tokyo Drift fit into the Fast and Furious time line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-06-28T17:30:05.067" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T12:29:43.040" Title="How does Tokyo Drift fit into the time line?" Tags="|chronology|fast-and-furious-franchise|tokyo-drift|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11293" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-07T20:05:17.330" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift is the third movie in the franchise, departing from the established characters and featuring a whole new cast. Sean Boswell is given a choice between jail or moving in with his Navy father who lives in Tokyo, Japan, where he rises to the top of the drifting scene after a run in with the local Yakuza.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;on the web&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463985/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Tokyo Drift&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fast_and_the_Furious%3a_Tokyo_Drift&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-07T20:10:34.850" LastActivityDate="2013-05-07T20:10:34.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11294" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-07T20:05:17.330" Score="0" Body="Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift is the third movie in the franchise, departing from the established characters and featuring a whole new cast. Sean Boswell is given a choice between jail or moving in with his Navy father who lives in Tokyo, Japan, where he rises to the top of the drifting scene after a run in with the local Yakuza." OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-07T20:10:21.567" LastActivityDate="2013-05-07T20:10:21.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11295" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-07T20:07:25.840" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fast Five is a 2011 American action movie which sees Dominic Torreto and a crack team of street racers plan and execute a heist to restore their freedom while relieving a Brazilian drug lord of his assets. Fast Five is the fifth movie in the Fast and Furious franchise and the fourth movie in the overall chronology. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other movies in the franchise&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-fast-and-the-furious&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'the-fast-and-the-furious'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-fast-and-the-furious&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/2-fast-2-furious&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged '2-fast-2-furious'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;2-fast-2-furious&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tokyo-drift&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'tokyo-drift'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tokyo-drift&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/fast-and-furious&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'fast-and-furious'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fast-and-furious&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/fast-five&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'fast-five'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fast-five&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/fast-and-furious-6&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'fast-and-furious-6'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fast-and-furious-6&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/furious-7&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'furious-7'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;furious-7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596343/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Fast Five&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Five&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T08:29:03.750" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:29:03.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11296" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-07T20:07:25.840" Score="0" Body="A 2011 American action movie in which we see Dominic Torreto and a crack team of street racers plan and execute a heist to restore their freedom while relieving a Brazilian drug lord of his assets. Fast Five is the fifth movie in the Fast and Furious franchise and the fourth movie in the overall chronology. " OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T08:29:11.633" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:29:11.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11297" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-07T20:09:38.037" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fast and Furious 6 is the sixth movie in the Fast and Furious franchise, and sees Dominic Torreto has his crew fighting alongside Agent Hobbs to bring a rival gang to justice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;on the web&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1905041/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Fast and Furious 6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_%26_Furious_6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-07T20:10:38.583" LastActivityDate="2013-05-07T20:10:38.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11298" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-07T20:09:38.037" Score="0" Body="Fast and Furious 6 is the sixth movie in the Fast and Furious franchise, and sees Dominic Torreto has his crew fighting alongside Agent Hobbs to bring a rival gang to justice." OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-07T20:10:25.553" LastActivityDate="2013-05-07T20:10:25.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11292" CreationDate="2013-05-07T20:32:38.780" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simply put, the story of Fast and Furious is not in the order that the movies are released. A bit of this post is a little speculative since one of the movies is in pre-production, but the cast has already been confirmed. Obviously there are some spoilers below tying it all together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first movie - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0232500/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Fast and The Furious (2001)&lt;/a&gt;, ends with Brian O'Conner letting Dominic Torreto make a run for it. For this, Brian also damages his career but he has got a taste for street racing and pursues this, moving from Los Angeles (the location of the first movie) to Miami (the location of the second movie) and continuing with street racing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second movie - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0322259/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)&lt;/a&gt;, ends with Brian O'Conner and Roman Pearce successfully completing their undercover work, resulting in the antagonist Carter Verone being arrested and their names being cleared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This then leads onto &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013752/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fast and Furious (2009)&lt;/a&gt;, in which Brian O'Conner is now back with law enforcement and is now a detective, working with Torreto to bring down a Mexican drug cartel leader, Braga. By the end of this movie, there is a clear established trust between Torreto and O'Conner, which culminates when Torreto is sentenced to prison and O'Conner and Mia Torreto breaking him out and going on the run. This leads directly into the fifth movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596343/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fast Five (2011)&lt;/a&gt; starts off with the closing scene of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013752/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fast and Furious&lt;/a&gt;, and results in the crew attracting the attention of Agent Hobbs, &quot;the guy that the FBI call in when they need to get their man&quot;. Due to events in the movie, Hobbs and Torreto's crew briefly align to take down a Brazilian drug lord and the movie ends with Hobbs giving Torreto 24 hours before he comes after them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1905041/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fast and Furious 6 (2013)&lt;/a&gt; takes place sometime after &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596343/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fast Five&lt;/a&gt; with Hobbs asking for Torreto's help in bringing a rival gang to justice, using Letty's presence in the gang to peak his interest and ends with Han returning to Tokyo after Gisele is killed saving his life as this is where they were going to settle down after stopping Shaw's crew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2820852/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Furious 7&lt;/a&gt; ties the entire franchise together, starting part way through 2006's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463985/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift&lt;/a&gt; and featuring scenes that take place during the ending cameo from Tokyo Drift. The seventh Fast and Furious and Tokyo Drift occur after Fast and Furious 6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T09:45:14.113" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T09:45:14.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11292" CreationDate="2013-05-07T20:57:34.147" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a full Fast and Furious Timeline as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fast_and_the_Furious_%282001_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Fast and the Furious (2001)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo-Charged_Prelude&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Turbo Charged Prelude (2003 Video)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Fast_2_Furious&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Bandoleros_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Los Bandoleros (2009 Short Film)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_&amp;amp;_Furious&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fast &amp;amp; Furious (2009)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Five&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fast Five (2011)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_&amp;amp;_Furious_6&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fast &amp;amp; Furious 6 (2013)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fast_and_the_Furious:_Tokyo_Drift&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furious_7&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Furious Seven (2015)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fate_of_the_Furious&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Fate of the Furious&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Source:&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fast_and_the_Furious#Storyline_chronology&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For knowing how and why this happened refer related question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/33564/1190&quot;&gt;Why does the Fast &amp;amp; Furious franchise have a chronological order different from the release order?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-06-29T12:29:43.040" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T12:29:43.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11281" CreationDate="2013-05-07T22:42:46.537" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; the clock had been fixed, it would greatly diminish the significance of the story, as though Marty and Doc's activities had no lasting effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, a real community with such clock tower would naturally go to some trouble to fix it, probably even replacing the (presumably) melted mechanism.  Otherwise such neglect would tend to attract vandalism and decrease morale generally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(afterthought)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the civic minded lady in 1985 is soliciting support to fix the clock, but no one seemed interested&amp;mdash;when she shakes her coin box, it sounds like only 50 cents is in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-06-08T16:58:25.847" LastActivityDate="2013-06-08T16:58:25.847" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11302" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-07T22:44:22.563" Score="6" ViewCount="380" Body="&lt;p&gt;The pivotal airplane voyage in the movie &lt;em&gt;Flight&lt;/em&gt; includes an early interlude in which the airplane encounters some extreme turbulence. To get out of the turbulence, the senior pilot (played by Denzel Washington) makes some maneuvers that -- judging by the reaction of his junior co-pilot -- are risky and unusual, and seem to strain the plane. But the maneuvers appear to work, as the airplane clears the turbulence and begins flying smoothly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like 30 minutes later, after the airplane has been flying normally for awhile, it suffers equipment failure near its tail, causing it to crash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the investigation that takes up the rest of the movie, no one seems to mention the early turbulence or those risky and unusual turbulence-avoiding maneuvers as a potential cause of the equipment failure. Was there some reason why the turbulence or the maneuvers wouldn't have played a role in the eventual failure and crash?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2013-05-07T22:58:47.993" LastActivityDate="2018-11-25T18:27:02.033" Title="In &quot;Flight&quot; could the early trouble with turbulence have led to the crash?" Tags="|plot-explanation|flight|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11253" CreationDate="2013-05-07T22:47:25.053" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is little doubt that the intent of Fleming and the Bond producers in using &lt;code&gt;00&lt;/code&gt; is to emphasize the exclusivity of the agent number and it is explicit that his category is &quot;licensed to kill&quot;, certainly a rarity in government agents.  There can't be more than ten of them (presumably), though often he interacts with special forces with dozens of members on a single team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific choice of &lt;code&gt;7&lt;/code&gt; almost certainly relates to his incredibly good luck:  lucky at games of chance, women, and getting out of tight squeezes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-05-07T22:47:25.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11302" CreationDate="2013-05-07T22:54:03.690" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the movie, but I am a pilot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the severe turbulence is caused by a lightning cell, no aircraft can withstand its severe alternating updrafts and downdrafts which typically break off wings, rudder, tail, and probably bust up the fuselage.  Any maneuver which can be done to exit it soon is sensible&amp;mdash;especially considering the alternative.  This is definitely a situation when the pilot doesn't care if the passengers are comfortable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More than likely&amp;mdash;and if the script is based on aviation science&amp;mdash;it wasn't the maneuvers which broke the plane:  it was the storm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-05-07T23:42:35.547" LastActivityDate="2013-05-07T23:42:35.547" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11305" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11328" CreationDate="2013-05-07T23:43:56.657" Score="6" ViewCount="4084" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1931533/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Seven Psychopaths&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in the night &lt;em&gt;Hans&lt;/em&gt; is high on peyote he has a vision of his late wife &lt;em&gt;Myra&lt;/em&gt; telling him that there is no heaven and that she's just sitting in a completely grey room, which let's &lt;em&gt;Hans&lt;/em&gt; doubt his believes on the afterlife. He tells this to &lt;em&gt;Marty&lt;/em&gt; on the next day (or the same night?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later that day after &lt;em&gt;Billy&lt;/em&gt; called &lt;em&gt;Charlie&lt;/em&gt; to come after them he gets notice of &lt;em&gt;Hans&lt;/em&gt;'s doubts and in order to reassure him that it wasn't an actual vision of his wife, he says that he was just immitating &lt;em&gt;Myra&lt;/em&gt;'s voice to play a trick on him. This of course just sounds like a lame excuse in order to get &lt;em&gt;Hans&lt;/em&gt; back on track (and participate in &lt;em&gt;Billy&lt;/em&gt;'s planned shootout). But when asked what he said in particular, &lt;em&gt;Billy&lt;/em&gt; indeed says that he (playing &lt;em&gt;Myra&lt;/em&gt;) told him everything was grey there. After that &lt;em&gt;Hans&lt;/em&gt; leaves the group kind of disillusioned or disappointed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to cut it short I've got two connected questions regarding this incident:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did &lt;em&gt;Billy&lt;/em&gt; really play &lt;em&gt;Myra&lt;/em&gt; that night or was it &lt;em&gt;Hans&lt;/em&gt;'s own vision and &lt;em&gt;Billy&lt;/em&gt; just told that to get him back on track?&lt;/strong&gt; If he wasn't impersonating &lt;em&gt;Myra&lt;/em&gt; then how could he know about what she said to him, could &lt;em&gt;Marty&lt;/em&gt; have told this to him, maybe even on purpose for &lt;em&gt;Billy&lt;/em&gt; to make up that story (or maybe just when he was drunk again)?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And why did &lt;em&gt;Hans&lt;/em&gt; leave then?&lt;/strong&gt; Was it because he was disappointed by &lt;em&gt;Billy&lt;/em&gt; playing such an evil trick on him, or was he disappointed by &lt;em&gt;Marty&lt;/em&gt; (and &lt;em&gt;Billy&lt;/em&gt;) misusing against him what he told him in trust? Or did he just not believe &lt;em&gt;Billy&lt;/em&gt; (or didn't care) and left for the same reason he initially wanted to leave, because he was fed up with the situation and lost his faith?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T01:51:57.860" Title="Did Billy really play Myra in Hans's vision?" Tags="|plot-explanation|seven-psychopaths|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11307" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11326" CreationDate="2013-05-08T07:28:35.103" Score="47" ViewCount="18544" Body="&lt;p&gt;The machines are keeping humans alive for their body heat, right? But they also have nuclear fusion reactors, and (while I haven't run the numbers) I'd be willing to bet that a single fusion reactor would generate more net energy in an hour than all the humans on today’s Earth would in a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have one more additional doubt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why people, instead of animals that don't need a computer simulation to keep their brains entertained?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do the machines keep humans alive if they have nuclear reactors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3201" LastEditorUserId="3201" LastEditDate="2013-09-04T12:48:37.447" LastActivityDate="2022-11-27T11:10:54.137" Title="Why do the machines keep humans alive if they have nuclear reactors?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11308" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11310" CreationDate="2013-05-08T07:45:05.153" Score="6" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Sherlock  blocks the chimney in Lord Coward's office in order to hide in the smoke, he decides to continue talking to Lord Coward who could have simply spotted the origin of the sound and shoot him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't it happened so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3201" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-26T12:45:55.580" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T12:45:55.580" Title="Why didn't Lord Coward spot the origin of the sound while Sherlock was hiding in the smoke?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock-holmes-2009|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11308" CreationDate="2013-05-08T11:02:58.560" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main reason is that he had not spotted that the open window gave Holmes an escape route and was therefore not in any kind of rush. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voices tend to echo slightly in rooms and the smoke was disorientating.  Too many gun shots would have raised attention which might cause issues so he wanted to wait until he was sure he had a clean shot.  It was only a matter of time before the smoke dispersed, so why not wait?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-05-08T12:36:13.647" LastActivityDate="2013-05-08T12:36:13.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11307" CreationDate="2013-05-08T11:09:38.853" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think, within the movie's logic, it is because humans reproduce and therefore continually provide energy (ISTR that humans are even fed on human corpses) whereas nuclear reactors use finite energy sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-05-08T11:09:38.853" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9854" CreationDate="2013-05-08T12:43:44.757" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The situation that they were in was that he was clearly dying, and struggling to hold the weight up.  He was resigned to dying there.  Therefore, it is unlikely that they could reason with him before he tripped the explosive either intentionally or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, they have two choices which are either attempt to take the detonator off him and make the IED safe themselves or run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The police captain would have looked at the distance between him and Miles, and determined that he would not be able to reach him before detonation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, he chose to move outside, and hope that Miles lived long enough for at least some of his men to escape.  For all he knew, Miles might be able to hold it for another 30 seconds, or the explosives might not be as powerful as they looked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-13T03:39:30.350" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T03:39:30.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11314" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-08T12:58:15.897" Score="11" ViewCount="19573" Body="&lt;p&gt;Below we can see Bellatrix Lestrange stood on the edge of Azkaban prison. Now, in the book, if I can remember, it's explicitly said that it was the Dementors that broke the Death Eaters out of Azkaban. However, in the film, its implied that it was the Dementors, but how is this possible? Did the Dementors blow the large hole in the side of Azkaban? How did they prisoners &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; escape?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xxk3H.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastActivityDate="2017-06-09T07:49:13.960" Title="How did the Death Eaters physically escape from Azkaban?" Tags="|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11315" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11321" CreationDate="2013-05-08T13:56:12.003" Score="9" ViewCount="34243" Body="&lt;p&gt;The kid Harley Keener played a pretty important role in Iron Man 3.  To me it sort of seemed that the movie was hinting that he was going to be another hero, maybe from the Iron Man universe, maybe from the general Marvel universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I reading too much into this, or is the kid suposed to be important outside just this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-17T09:48:12.573" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T11:04:42.050" Title="Is the kid a reference to another Marvel hero?" Tags="|iron-man-3|marvel-cinematic-universe|comic-adaptation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11316" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11324" CreationDate="2013-05-08T14:04:51.400" Score="3" ViewCount="760" Body="&lt;p&gt;In several episodes of Doctor Who (The Runaway Bride and the Wedding of River Song spring to mind) the Doctor says that he cannot cross his own timeline for fear of creating a paradox... it's obviously a mechanism so the writers can limit him and stop him always &quot;going back and fixing things&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The spoilers below refer to &quot;The Wedding of River Song&quot; and the end of the Impossible Astronaut arc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; However in The Wedding of River Song river is both on the beach and in the space suit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Good Man Goes to War Spoiler&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; In fact Amy's actually pregnant with her too so she's there a third time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back to tWoRS spoilers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; What's more the Doctor actually invited her to do it.  Knowing that she was going to kill him he sent the blue envelope so she'd see her do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case isn't River crossing her own timeline?  Why can she do it and the doctor can't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-05-08T20:53:38.147" Title="Wasn't River crossing her own timeline?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11168" CreationDate="2013-05-08T14:07:13.070" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;We were previously shown that those altered by Extremis aren't immortal.  Tony killed one on the airplane by blasting out his heart.  I think the assumption in that situation is that without a heart to feed blood to the rest of your body you'll die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Killian was blown up the first time, he took a lot of damage, but it seems that his body mostly stayed in tact.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second explosion by Pepper, as Elfangor states, was probably too much for Killian's body to handle, and he died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-05-08T16:02:17.503" LastActivityDate="2013-05-08T16:02:17.503" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11307" CreationDate="2013-05-08T14:29:38.393" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's part of the allegorical elements of the film.  By being powered by people, the machines are &lt;em&gt;literally&lt;/em&gt; taking the power from the people (i.e. the opposite of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_to_the_people_%28slogan%29&quot;&gt;'power to the people'&lt;/a&gt;).  So the machines are only existing because of the people's power, the people having sort of surrendered it to the machines.  This is in addition to the in-Matrix subjugation humans also suffer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-05-08T14:29:38.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11315" CreationDate="2013-05-08T16:41:19.403" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Harley's entry is just like Marvel's trend of copying from DC. As in &lt;em&gt;Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt; there is a new sidekick (new Robin), similarly Harley can be a future Iron-Man (or a mechanic :P). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per my knowledge and Google search there is no Marvel's Character which matches with the movie's Harley. But as per &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Simpkins&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ty Simpkins has signed a 3 picture deal for Marvel Studios in an&#xA;  unspecified role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes the possibility for expedition of character in Marvel cinematic universe. So we could wait and see if something else hidden in the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-12T19:04:38.027" LastActivityDate="2013-10-12T19:04:38.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11322" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-08T16:58:58.217" Score="22" ViewCount="9243" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dexter dresses in this outfit every time he commits a killing. Why does he use the same clothes? Is it some kind of signature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TE68e.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="324" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-05-09T13:32:22.537" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T18:23:20.427" Title="Why does Dexter use the same outfit for killing?" Tags="|dexter|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11316" CreationDate="2013-05-08T20:53:38.147" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rule #1: The Doctor lies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the time, when the Doctor says, &quot;I can't...&quot;, he's eventually shown to really mean, &quot;I really, really, really shouldn't, but if I really had to, or really wanted to, I could.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most clear example of this is the 1964 story, &lt;em&gt;The Aztecs&lt;/em&gt;. The Doctor spends most of that story adamant that time &lt;strong&gt;cannot&lt;/strong&gt; be changed. This notion is quietly dropped as too limiting for the writers, with the in-universe result that the Doctor is basically caught by we the audience in a lie which he's never directly called on by his companions. Since then, he never makes this claim; indeed, he's more likely to admonish the opposite when confronted by a companion saying something like, &quot;But the world didn't end in 1980!&quot; (Sarah Jane Smith, &lt;em&gt;Pyramid of Mars&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Of course, keep in mind that, in the days the Classic Series was being made, television was seen as an ephemeral medium. The BBC rarely reran anything, there was no home video, and no notion there ever would be. Hence, continuity was really just not seriously considered!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, we see in &quot;The Waters of Mars&quot; that even supposedly &quot;fixed points&quot; can be changed. It just doesn't necessarily turn out very well when they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, there are three canonical occasions in the Classic Series in which the Doctor not only crossed his own time stream but actually shook hands with himself, aptly named &lt;em&gt;The Three Doctors&lt;/em&gt; (1973), &lt;em&gt;The Five Doctors&lt;/em&gt; (1983) and &lt;em&gt;The Two Doctors&lt;/em&gt; (1985); and one semi-canonical occasion so far in the Modern Series, the short &quot;Time Crash&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, there's some reason to infer that River Song's tangled timeline is, in fact, laden with paradoxes (thus not really giving the lie to the Doctor's statements). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastActivityDate="2013-05-08T20:53:38.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10716" CreationDate="2013-05-08T21:08:57.860" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Deadly Assassin&lt;/em&gt; (1976) is the first time any limitation on the process is mentioned, and it becomes a major plot point in almost all stories dealing with The Master from that point forward, including in the 1996 attempt to revive the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However...all of that predates the Last Great Time War.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The modern series has yet to nail down &lt;strong&gt;any&lt;/strong&gt; limitation on the process, although it's more or less stated in &quot;Let's Kill Hitler&quot; that River has used up all her remaining regeneration energy, implying that there is &lt;strong&gt;some&lt;/strong&gt; limitation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If The Master can be entirely reincarnated (twice; once off-screen by the Time Lords in hopes he would help fight the Time War; once in &quot;The End of Time&quot;), then it seems feasible to assume that any prior limitations on regeneration might have been altered or even lifted entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The upshot, therefore, is that @FredH's comment above is pretty much spot on: if the writers choose, then the Doctor can go on regenerating indefinitely. They could choose to explain the change as an artifact of the Time War; or something the Doctor figured out afterward without the Time Lords looking over his shoulder to stop him; or simply decide not to say anything at all, on the grounds that &lt;strong&gt;most&lt;/strong&gt; of their viewership are not familiar with the Classic Series and won't necessarily care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastActivityDate="2013-05-08T21:08:57.860" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11307" CreationDate="2013-05-08T22:02:47.967" Score="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, whatever the reason machines keep humans alive, it is definitely NOT because of humans' excellence in the role of batteries. However it is possible that the machines themselves are spreading that myth. (For example Morpheus would believe anything the Oracle says). That machines don't really need humans for power is revealed in the last part, when the Architect agrees to free all humans from the Matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual reasons may be much more complicated, and much more humane. The machines just don't want humans to become extinct, just like we humans are trying to protect Siberian tigers, as well as other endangered species. Even though a tiger may kill a human given the chance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However protecting humans is much harder than the tigers. You can't put them in a cage, because then their minds will degrade. You can't let them roam free, because they probably won't survive in the new world, or because they will probably keep trying to fight the machines until they kill themselves. Humans aren't very rational, you see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a solution, the tandem Matrix - Zion was created. The Matrix is conveniently situated right next to the Zion so that people in Zion can focus the majority of their energy in &quot;freeing&quot; others from the Matrix. Also, quite conveniently, the Matrix lacks any real defense mechanisms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there was just Zion without the Matrix, the humans would be trying to develop nuclear weapons or EMP bombs in order to launch the assault on the machines. Obviously they would fail, but they will also kill themselves in the attempt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there was just Matrix without Zion, then such system would run a risk of collapsing and destroying the humankind if some unforeseen catastrophe occurs. The machines aren't really good at adapting to sudden changes. And they are vulnerable to other unpredictable factors (such as Agent Smith). The machines know that, but they can't do much about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now why do they need to destroy Zion every now and then? Well, first of all they probably don't see it as much of a big deal -- the population of Zion is comparatively low. Plus they want to keep them from acquiring too dangerous technologies. Plus in most cases the goal is not really destruction, but rather the threat of destruction. For example in the last movie, several EMP charges could have destroyed the majority of attackers. The machines know that, and they probably launched the attack with the goal of failing, but making humans more scared. The machines didn't foresee however that Agent Smith would be able to interfere and stop those EMPs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in summary, it's all a well-orchestrated plan to keep humans busy, and alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4811" LastActivityDate="2013-05-08T22:02:47.967" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11331" CreationDate="2013-05-08T23:31:01.007" Score="5" ViewCount="1145" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the sequence set to the Blue Danube Waltz, we see a Pan Am orbital shuttle docking with a partially-completed space station.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3oHmVhviO8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a clip from that sequence on YouTube.  There are good views of the space station at 0:02-0:28 and 1:28-1:46 in that clip that keep the camera at a respectful distance, as would be expected given late 1960s technology:  models (since no CGI yet) and large cameras guided on rails (no motion control, either).  But the final shot (1:56-2:17) has the camera viewpoint go through the structure of the space station!  How was this accomplished?  Was the model the size of a house, or did Kubrick have something else up his sleeve?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-05T11:31:44.383" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T11:31:44.383" Title="How was the space station fly-through in 2001: A Space Odyssey filmed?" Tags="|effects|stanley-kubrick|2001-a-space-odyssey|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11305" CreationDate="2013-05-08T23:50:23.453" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hans&lt;/em&gt;: My wife is sitting on a chair someplace. Some gray place. I&#xA;  thought she'd be in Heaven, but she's sitting on a chair with a bullet&#xA;  in her head. I thought they'd have cleaned that kind of stuff up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marty&lt;/em&gt;: Maybe you've just eaten too many hallucinogenic cactuses&#xA;  tonight, Hans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hans&lt;/em&gt;: Nothing to do with the hallucinogens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marty&lt;/em&gt;: But you've just seen Myra on a chair with a bullet through her&#xA;  head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hans&lt;/em&gt;: In some gray place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marty&lt;/em&gt;: England?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hans&lt;/em&gt;: It seemed a lot worse than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marty&lt;/em&gt;: Wow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Then, later on:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Billy&lt;/em&gt;: Whoa. Whoa. Time out. What's all this about doubting a lifelong belief in the afterlife because of a psychedelic cactus you&#xA;  just ate? Hans, what the heck?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hans&lt;/em&gt;: I met Myra. On the ridge. She had some things to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Billy&lt;/em&gt;: About the afterlife being non-existent or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hans&lt;/em&gt;: That was the gist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Billy&lt;/em&gt;: No, no, it might have sounded like Myra. But you know why? Now don't get mad, but you know I can do Myra's voice pretty good.&#xA;  Yeah, I snuck up there a little while ago and I pretended to be her. I&#xA;  started saying all kinds of crazy stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hans&lt;/em&gt;: Hmm? But what specifically did you say? About the place you were in? The place Myra was in. Huh? How did you describe it,&#xA;  specifically?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Billy&lt;/em&gt;: You mean specifically?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hans&lt;/em&gt;: Yeah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Billy&lt;/em&gt;: I just kind of said it was all kind of... I just kind of said it was all kind of gray and shit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hans&lt;/em&gt;: No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going by this, and my initial impression upon watching the film, I got the feeling that Billy was telling Hans what he thought he wanted to hear in order to make him stay. The whole idea of him impersonating his dead wife is B.S. (there's no reason to think that Billy didn't hear his earlier description of the vision) and, as you have already suggested, this is Billy's desperate attempt to make Hans stick around for the inevitable showdown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that Hans says 'no' and leaves suggests that he has had a cactus-fueled epiphany, and he chooses to wander off to face his fate alone. He is lost without Myra and ready to join her, wherever she is, as is evident by his flippancy when faced with being shot by Paulo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-09T08:01:44.217" LastActivityDate="2013-05-09T08:01:44.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11327" CreationDate="2013-05-09T03:20:53.057" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;At first I thought it might have been a breakaway model, used by the likes of Orsen Welles to make a camera appear to pass through a neon sign or window in Citizen Kane, but then I watched the clip and realized this could not be the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have had some experience with motion control cameras, and this certainly seems to have been produced using a track system and large model. Some further digging &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starshipmodeler.com/2001/2001ref.htm&quot;&gt;revealed&lt;/a&gt; that the studio model was approximately 8 feet in diameter, which accounts for the astonishing level of detail and the fact that a camera can pass right through it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-05-09T03:20:53.057" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11322" CreationDate="2013-05-09T11:01:41.953" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you’ve got plans for the night, you better dress to kill. Literally. We’re not really sure why Dexter always wears the same long sleeve brown henley shirt. It could be because it helps him keep a low profile, it’s easier to keep track of which shirt might have traces of evidence on it or it could just be because he thinks it looks cool. Get the official Dexter Kill Uniform with Dexter embroidered on the sleeve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The executive producer said in an interview that dexter buys them in bulk and throws them out each time, along with the bodies. they're army fatigues that he can buy in bulk, anonymously. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4814" LastActivityDate="2013-05-09T11:01:41.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="217" CreationDate="2013-05-09T20:07:38.270" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A Raban can only be activated by its owner; Shunack said he had lost his years ago. The ones he wore were no good to him or he would have activated the E.S.T.O.C. without Toola.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say there are others out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4816" LastEditorUserId="4761" LastEditDate="2013-05-10T01:17:16.943" LastActivityDate="2013-05-10T01:17:16.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11337" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-09T21:05:40.247" Score="3" ViewCount="1469" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;Robot and Frank,&quot; Frank steals valuable jewelry with the help of a household robot. He hides the loot well enough that the police can not find it and he escapes punishment. At the end of the movie, he passes a note to his son saying that the jewelry was buried in a garden, but the son clearly does not take this seriously, though he knows his father was a thief. Presumably, the son believes that the father, whose dementia was well established by this point in the movie, does not know where the jewelry is. It was, after all, hidden by a robot whose memory was later wiped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, where is the loot? Was there some explicit clue earlier in the movie that I missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-05-10T14:28:35.820" LastActivityDate="2013-07-24T02:52:35.813" Title="Where did the jewelry go?" Tags="|plot-explanation|robot-and-frank|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="883" CreationDate="2013-05-09T22:47:40.727" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way the director wants to present it is that this really could be happening and the hinges that he is a human is just the stuff that the sceptics (most of us) feed off as an excuse that it's just a scam. The way I see it though is that he really is a K-PAXian and posseses a body in order to live and travel to/from earth (Robert's body on the way to earth and leaving with Bess' body). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4818" LastActivityDate="2013-05-09T22:47:40.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11344" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17676" CreationDate="2013-05-10T10:12:25.647" Score="13" ViewCount="2849" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Breaking Bad season 3, Hank gets shot after encounter with two Mexicans.&#xA;A few days earlier, he was summoned for his actions against Jesse and his badge and gun were taken. Following the attack incident, everyone concedes that it was a mistake and Hank's pursuit of Jesse was not a witch hunt. They also relate the attack with Jesse's incident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In spite of all we see that Jesse is going everyday to cook meth with Walt.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;How does this not come under the radar of the Police Department?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Why are they not keeping an eye on him after Hank is attacked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-16T10:49:09.973" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T09:37:59.810" Title="Why the police do not keep an eye on Jesse after Hank is attacked?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11345" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11450" CreationDate="2013-05-10T13:38:49.653" Score="14" ViewCount="1817" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the Enterprise is on it's way to Kronos it drops out of warp because of some unknown leak in the core.  At first it's implied that it's the torpedoes (which it wasn't because they were not even weapons), then it's suggested that Carol Marcus was somehow responsible (she was later cleared).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How then did the warp drive fail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T14:02:39.573" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T14:02:39.573" Title="In Star Trek Into Darkness who was the saboteur?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-trek|star-trek-into-darkness|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4433" CreationDate="2013-05-10T13:41:03.493" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the answers above Robert Picardo played several different EMH characters (ST First Contact, ST Voyager).  He also played the maintenance hologram for the EMH and Lewis Zimmerman on occasion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While you could argue the EMH programs are the same character Zimmerman is very different!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/W._Morgan_Sheppard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;W. Morgan Sheppard&lt;/a&gt; also played four minor characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T08:26:55.650" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T08:26:55.650" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4433" CreationDate="2013-05-10T14:24:55.763" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Majel Barrett played Nurse Christine Chapel throughout the original series and &quot;Number One&quot; in its first pilot called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cage_%28Star_Trek%3a_The_Original_Series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Cage&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which was subsequently repackaged into &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Menagerie_%28Star_Trek%3a_The_Original_Series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Menagerie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  She also was the voice of the computer on &lt;em&gt;Next Generation&lt;/em&gt;&amp;mdash;a triple role.  Simultaneously, she was the computer voice and Deanna Troi's mother Lwaxana Troi on &lt;em&gt;TNG&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;George Takei played Lt. Sulu the ship's physicist in the second original series pilot &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_No_Man_Has_Gone_Before&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Where No Man Has Gone Before&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, whose character became helmsman in subsequent episodes.  Arguably, this is only one character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-05-11T00:46:43.803" LastActivityDate="2013-05-11T00:46:43.803" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11348" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11349" CreationDate="2013-05-10T14:27:48.053" Score="18" ViewCount="36903" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Pulp Fiction, Jules and Vincent discuss the rumour that Marcellus Wallace has thrown Tony Rocky Horror out of a window (causing Tony to develop a speech impediment). It's rumoured that Marcellus did this becuase Tony gave Marcellus' wife a foot massage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, Vincent asks Mia Wallace about this. She claims only to have met Tony once, at her wedding. &lt;strong&gt;So why did Marcellus throw Tony out the window?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastActivityDate="2023-03-10T03:47:31.250" Title="Why did Marcellus Wallace throw Tony Rocky Horror out of a window?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11348" CreationDate="2013-05-10T15:21:27.897" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie does not provide an answer to this question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Vincent Vega asks Mia Wallace what really happened, she says something to the effect of &quot;that's between Marcellus and Tony Rocky Horror,&quot; and leaves it at that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2013-05-10T15:21:27.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11350" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-10T17:50:36.970" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2002 adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's book of the same name, directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce and Richard Harris.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;on the web&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245844/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_%282002_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page for the 2002 movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page for the book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-10T18:01:42.547" LastActivityDate="2013-05-10T18:01:42.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11351" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-10T17:50:36.970" Score="0" Body="For questions about the 2002 adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's book of the same name, directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce and Richard Harris." OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-10T18:01:37.687" LastActivityDate="2013-05-10T18:01:37.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11352" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-10T18:41:00.370" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-05-10T18:41:00.370" LastActivityDate="2013-05-10T18:41:00.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11353" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-10T18:41:00.370" Score="0" Body="1954 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The characters observe suspicious behavior by a neighbor and subsequently spy on him to figure out just what happened. Starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly." OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="850" LastEditDate="2013-05-10T19:21:46.980" LastActivityDate="2013-05-10T19:21:46.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11305" CreationDate="2013-05-10T20:23:27.693" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Billy is lying. There is a chance that he did say somethings to Hans while doing a Myra impression but Hans described a vision not just a conversation. So I don't think that Billy ever said anything to him. Billy has one good trait. He is a good friend. When seeing Hans in turmoil and doubting his lifelong faith he lies to Hans. Another clue that he is definitely lying is that he says &quot;You mean specifically?&quot; after Hans has asked him to say what he as Myra specifically said to him. Billy probably just says what he actually thinks the afterlife looks like, &quot;Just gray and shit&quot;. I don't think Billy says this to keep Hans with them for the shootout but rather to help Hans keep his faith. Much like he knows that script writing helps Marty he knows Hans faith helps him and he actually wants his friends to be happy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Hans go off into the desert on his own though? It's because he was in a no win situation of his own. Either he doesn't believe Billy has a loss of faith and is insulted that his friend lied to him, or he does believe him and is mad that his friend played a joke on him using his murdered wife for his choice of prank. Either way he no longer wants to be around Billy. Billy probably knows this before he lies too but sets himself up to be one to blame on purpose so that Hans crisis of faith is adverted. He'd rather have his friend hate him but continue to keep his faith, even though Billy doesn't believe it, because to billy Hans faith makes him happy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2013-05-10T20:23:27.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11358" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-11T00:32:39.970" Score="5" ViewCount="8534" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene depicts a father, who I believe has a shotgun slung around his back, searching for his son in what I believe is a house.  He hears his son calling for him, shouting for help.  The son's shouts for help sounded weird, as if he were a ghost.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The father hears his son through a bathroom mirror.  The father opens the mirror cabinet and closes it, to no avail.  He then sees a nearby painting, depicting his son stuck and shouting in horror in the same bathroom mirror.  A window is beside this painted mirror, through which he frantically reaches behind the mirror and feels nothing but the outside wall. The father has an idea and breaks the mirror, revealing another world full of darkness, except for a small light emitting from a pool of water and a cage with his son in it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This location is a few stories down, and the father climbs down with rope.  My memory fails here and I only remember that he jumps into the pool with his son, being chased by a humanoid monster.  He swims down and then back up, where he ends up in the &quot;real world&quot; swimming pool.  The monster then slowly comes up out of the water behind them...this is where my memory ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may very well be a network movie and I believe this movie was on cable before the year 2000.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4831" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-10-23T15:28:40.730" LastActivityDate="2017-10-23T15:28:40.730" Title="Horror movie, father rescuing son from world found behind a mirror" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|thriller|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:44:31.613" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11358" CreationDate="2013-05-11T02:39:10.163" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your recollection matches a section of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091223/synopsis&quot;&gt;IMDb synopsis&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;em&gt;House&lt;/em&gt; (1986).  There are too many details to quote it all, but it mentions the father seeing his son behind a mirror in a painting, breaking the real mirror, entering &quot;another dimension&quot; where there is water, rescuing his son from monsters and emerging through a swimming pool.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-05-11T02:39:10.163" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1599" CreationDate="2013-05-11T14:46:26.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;English Bob alludes to the fact that Little Bill was a drunkard and (by implication) an outlaw. They definitely crossed paths before but it is not indicated whether it was adversarial.  Little Bill refers to Bob and himself as rare examples of &quot;dangerous men&quot; - men who can remain cool under pressure and kill without hesitation or remorse.  These two and William Money contrast starkly with everyone else who either are incapable of killing, panic during fights or are consumed with guilt for their actions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To punctuate the last point, the kid who kills one of the cowboys in an outhouse swears off violence immediately afterward.  Both Little Bill and William Money murder unarmed men and go on with their business, so does English Bob who shoots defenseless chinamen for the railroad and drunkenly murders a guy who hooked up with his crush.  Whatever their past, Little Bill knows Bob is the real deal and he treats him much more seriously than the unfamiliar William Money who is beaten but not jailed or run out on a rail. Bill's biggest mistake was not realizing Money is a &quot;dangerous man&quot; until after the assassinations.        &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4834" LastActivityDate="2013-05-11T14:46:26.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11363" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-11T18:41:26.017" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-05-11T18:41:26.017" LastActivityDate="2013-05-11T18:41:26.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11364" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-11T18:41:26.017" Score="0" Body="Questions relating to the 2011 American romantic comedy directed by Woody Allen and starring Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams." OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T02:00:34.597" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T02:00:34.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11365" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12097" CreationDate="2013-05-11T20:59:41.397" Score="5" ViewCount="463" Body="&lt;p&gt;This year seems to have a significant meaning in Super 8, as this is the year the humans made contact with the alien in the experiments.  During the flashback sequence in the lab, the file folder containing the experimental data has the year prominently displayed in bold writing, so it doesn't seem like this is just a piece of trivia for the viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems as though the placement of a prominent African-American scientist in a lead role in this important experiment, who is then stifled, shamed, and silenced, amidst an America steeped in racial inequality and the nascent civil rights movement is more than an coincidence.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any other evidence of inequality being a theme in the film, and does this relate to the &quot;alien&quot; aspect? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-11T21:17:03.323" LastActivityDate="2013-06-19T20:48:22.390" Title="Significance of 1958 and its cultural backdrop as the year for the Alien's landing?" Tags="|analysis|super-8|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11366" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-11T22:54:35.553" Score="8" ViewCount="1506" Body="&lt;p&gt;The emotion, verb tense, and wardrobe of the interviewees suggest that the &quot;confession room&quot; interviews are held simultaneously to the events in the competition. This would seem disruptive to the competition itself as well as the production. When are these scenes shot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3196" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T10:36:38.937" Title="When are the confessional interviews on MasterChef held during production?" Tags="|masterchef|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11367" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-11T23:40:20.257" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Hurt Locker premiered at the Venice Film Festival in Italy during 2008. After being shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, it was picked up for distribution in the United States by Summit Entertainment. The film was released in the United States on June 26, 2009 but received a more widespread theatrical release on July 24, 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because the film was not released in the United States until 2009, it was eligible for the 82nd Academy Awards, where it was nominated for nine Academy Awards. It won six Oscars, including Best Director for Bigelow, the first woman to win this award, and Best Picture. Boal won for Best Original Screenplay. The Hurt Locker earned numerous awards and honors from critics' organizations, festivals and groups, including six BAFTA Awards. However it received criticism by some in the military for various inaccuracies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1598" LastEditorUserId="1598" LastEditDate="2013-05-12T00:48:41.883" LastActivityDate="2013-05-12T00:48:41.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11368" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-11T23:40:20.257" Score="0" Body="The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war film about a three-man Explosive Ordnance Disposal (bomb disposal) team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer. He was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with an U.S. Army EOD team in Iraq. It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Brian Geraghty." OwnerUserId="1598" LastEditorUserId="1598" LastEditDate="2013-05-12T00:26:18.087" LastActivityDate="2013-05-12T00:26:18.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="261" CreationDate="2013-05-12T00:00:04.360" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should pay more attention! :-P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see, John Doe explaining each of the sins he's done up until now in the car, in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS4EJGh9mIg#t=0m30s&quot;&gt;video.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PRIDE:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The model is given a choice after having her face mutilated. Phone an ambulance or take an overdose. Her pride makes her take an overdose.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has two left by that time, Envy and Wrath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ENVY:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;John Doe tells Detective Mills how much he admires him and his wife for the life they've made for themselves&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1giVzxyoclE#t=1m06s&quot;&gt;Watch video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WRATH:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Detective Mills shoots John Doe for mailing him his wife's head.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1giVzxyoclE#t=4m00s&quot;&gt;Watch Video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're not the strongest cases, but then, John Doe was pretty nuts!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3430" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-03-27T06:25:48.107" LastActivityDate="2014-03-27T06:25:48.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10907" CreationDate="2013-05-12T23:24:02.140" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Might it be &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060396/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Bubble&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (1966) (AKA &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Invasion of Planet Earth&lt;/em&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a plot description from an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060396/reviews&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb user review&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A small prop plane flying through a rainstorm must land because one of the two passengers is about to have a baby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the young couple and the pilot put down in the small American town, they find all the townspeople are in a near-catatonic state. The three explore and find fallen Roman columns. They try to drive out of the town but run into an invisible barrier surrounding it. Is there anything left alive on the outside, or is this the last town on Earth? The pilot is plucked from above, is a giant alien collecting specimens? The couple find a small factory producing alien food for the townspeople. Will the baby survive if the food source is destroyed? Is there a limit to the barrier, and can it be surmounted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-05-12T23:24:02.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11381" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-13T03:36:25.793" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T03:36:25.793" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T03:36:25.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11382" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-13T03:36:25.793" Score="0" Body="Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and Martin Sheen. The film follows the central character, U.S. Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Sheen) on a mission to kill the renegade and presumed insane U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Brando)." OwnerUserId="1598" LastEditorUserId="1598" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T03:46:30.390" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T03:46:30.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11383" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11396" CreationDate="2013-05-13T07:52:38.113" Score="1" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have only limited knowledge of Stock Trading, and I have recently watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131566&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rogue Trader&lt;/a&gt;. It's the story of Nick Leeson, an investment trader who single-handedly bankrupted Barings Bank in the 90s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot is that Nick Leeson trades futures on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SIMEX&lt;/a&gt;. He should only trade for customers, however, he starts trading for the bank itself, pretending to do trades for an anonymous customer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For future contracts, it's customary to pay a margin, depending on the volatility of the future traded. This margin is usually paid by the customer trading the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the movie the margin payments are done by Barings. The whole movie plot depends on this, as it is what ultimately bankrupts Barings. I'd not give it a second thought, because it's Hollywood, and we should be used to plot holes. However, as the movie reflects an actual event, and Barings actually did collapse, I'm not sure what is going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the margin really paid by Barings? Why? Did this change in legislation after (or as a result of) Barings, and nowadays margin is paid by the customer himself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4846" LastEditorUserId="4846" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T08:05:31.703" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T21:08:23.253" Title="Was the margin really paid by Barings? But Why?" Tags="|plot-explanation|rogue-trader|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11384" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11451" CreationDate="2013-05-13T09:18:01.247" Score="52" ViewCount="21220" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the James Bond universe most characters go by a code name M, Q, the various 00s, In Skyfall Silva is a made up name.  Others such as Tanner, Robinson and Moneypenny, Trevelyan we're not so sure but we've got no reason to believe they're real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However Bond uses his own name - we've even seen the grave of his parents to confirm this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Bond use his real name and (as far as we know) no one else does?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="1111" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T08:00:20.617" LastActivityDate="2016-05-14T17:48:10.347" Title="Why does James Bond use his real name?" Tags="|james-bond|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11384" CreationDate="2013-05-13T12:52:48.630" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to throw out my own thoughts.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_%28character%29#Origins_of_the_name&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; states that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the first draft of Casino Royale he decided to use the name James Secretan as Bond's cover name while on missions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This approach was clearly discarded and for several books he keeps the name Bond.  If memory serves however his identity as James Bond and 007 are kept separate so for the most part only a few key members of the secret service are aware of his position within the organisation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the early films this trend is continued although he introduces himself as &quot;Bond, James Bond&quot; it's very rare that villains are aware of his job.  After Sean Connery's line in the Doctor No (1962) the character was never going to introduce himself any other way!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The franchise is the &quot;James Bond&quot; series.  To have the main character introducing himself using a variety of names in each film (with different actors) would be extremely confusing to first time and casual viewers and watchers.  In order to keep the films simple and avoid confusing viewers this approach of keeping his position in MI6 secret rather than his name has been maintained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short - James Bond uses his real name because the filmmakers want to maintain the famous name of the character on screen.  His safety comes from the fact that the people he encounters on his adventures are unaware (except for a few exceptional villains) that he is 007.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-05-16T15:53:19.600" LastActivityDate="2013-05-16T15:53:19.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11387" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-13T14:54:25.610" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is a 1962 movie about a southern American escaping execution after he attempted to sabotage Owl Creek Bridge, and is about his journey home. It is based upon a short story by American author Ambrose Bierce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;on the web&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056300/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T15:14:02.327" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T15:14:02.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11388" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-13T14:54:25.610" Score="0" Body="An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is a 1962 movie about a southern American escaping execution after he attempted to sabotage Owl Creek Bridge, and is about his journey home." OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T15:14:12.053" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T15:14:12.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11389" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-13T15:10:29.757" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A.I. Artificial Intelligence is a story about a robotic boy, programmed to be able to &quot;feel&quot; love, who longs to be &quot;real&quot; after being rejected by his adopted human family. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;on the web&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.I._Artificial_Intelligence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metacritic.com/movie/artificial-intelligence-ai&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Metacritic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T15:13:56.093" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T15:13:56.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11390" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-13T15:10:29.757" Score="0" Body="A.I. Artificial Intelligence is a story about a robotic boy, programmed to be able to &quot;feel&quot; love, who longs to be &quot;real&quot; after being rejected by his adopted human family. " OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T15:14:09.540" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T15:14:09.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11391" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11394" CreationDate="2013-05-13T15:21:55.047" Score="4" ViewCount="2616" Body="&lt;p&gt;Later in the series, Peter visits Syler to learn his ability, but Peter comes into contact with Syler on multiple occassions in the first season, but never picked up his ability.  Is there something different about how Syler works that prevented Peter from picking it up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T15:24:46.097" LastActivityDate="2015-04-02T02:13:35.860" Title="Why didn't Peter pick up Syler's ability earlier?" Tags="|plot-explanation|heroes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11392" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-13T15:26:14.633" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Law and Order: Criminal Intent is a police procedural crime/drama based in New York City which follows the Major Case Squad as they investigate high profile crimes (mainly murders).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;on the web&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usanetwork.com/series/criminalintent/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Official site on USA Network&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275140/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_%26_Order%3a_Criminal_Intent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T16:02:06.407" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T16:02:06.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11393" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-13T15:26:14.633" Score="0" Body="Law and Order: Criminal Intent is a police procedural crime/drama based in New York City which follows the Major Case Squad as they investigate high profile crimes (mainly murders)." OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T16:02:02.983" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T16:02:02.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11391" CreationDate="2013-05-13T16:09:02.403" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The key to Peter's ability is that he must be &lt;em&gt;empathetic&lt;/em&gt; to the person in order to access their ability.  Hence the powers name of &lt;a href=&quot;http://heroeswiki.com/Empathic_mimicry&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Empathic Mimicry&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing as Peter never had anything in common with Sylar and actually rued his existence, he could never be empathetic with him enough to absorb his ability.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wasn't until Peter was desperate enough to need Sylar's &lt;a href=&quot;http://heroeswiki.com/Intuitive_aptitude&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Intuitive Aptitude&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to understand a solution to his current situation.  He then obtained it from a different version of Sylar from a different timeline, one that had grown softer due to his connection with the child and helped explain to Peter what this ability truly can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Peter's &lt;a href=&quot;http://heroeswiki.com/Peter_Petrelli#Abilities_Exposed_To&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;wiki&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; page on the Heroes Wiki, you can see that he comes in contact with all kinds of abilities but never displayed them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T16:09:02.403" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11383" CreationDate="2013-05-13T21:08:23.253" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Someone&lt;/em&gt; has to pay the margin; an exchange isn't going to let you buy and sell without putting up some money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, Barings would take this money from the customer and (if an actual purchase was&#xA;to be made, instead of balancing it internally with another customer's sale) pay it to&#xA;the exchange where the contract was being traded.  Since Barings didn't have actually have a customer paying to have these trades made, then Barings had to pay for the margin on the futures contracts itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T21:08:23.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10781" CreationDate="2013-05-13T21:48:09.687" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read the book, though I haven't seen the movie.  The book pretends to be based on a true story with a scene where the author goes to interview the grown up Pi. An amazing job is done with the characterization in the book, so much that it is my favorite part-more than any of the dramatic events.  Because of this, I don't think that it's about representing all the religions in India, it's about Pi's personal beliefs.  He's surely aware of Buddhism, just doesn't believe it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4850" LastEditorUserId="4850" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T22:02:03.337" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T22:02:03.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11398" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-13T22:50:20.653" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 is the follow up to The Blair Witch Project, in which a group of students, fascinated by the events of the first movie, travel to the same location to find out what really happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;on the web&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0229260/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Shadows%3a_Blair_Witch_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-14T00:26:27.917" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T00:26:27.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11399" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-13T22:50:20.653" Score="0" Body="Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 is the follow up to The Blair Witch Project, in which a group of students, fascinated by the events of the first movie, travel to the same location to find out what really happened." OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-13T23:49:30.810" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T23:49:30.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11400" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11401" CreationDate="2013-05-14T07:57:40.620" Score="13" ViewCount="3966" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the Avengers, Tony Stark drives off with the Hulk, hinting at them working together. There were references in between the movie where Stark offers Bruce Banner a chance to work with him. Also the post credit scene in Iron Man 3 shows them talking to each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is: where was the Hulk during the events of Iron Man 3?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-13T20:57:57.257" LastActivityDate="2016-07-04T22:46:00.647" Title="Where was the Hulk during the events of Iron Man 3?" Tags="|plot-explanation|iron-man-3|marvel-cinematic-universe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11400" CreationDate="2013-05-14T09:37:59.227" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post credits scene just suggests that Tony is telling the whole story to Bruce. And Bruce is not present in the story and it's a stand-alone Iron man film, so showing other Avengers in it kills off its stand-alone feel. As for Tony's offer to work with Bruce, it seems rejected as he is not with Tony in the whole story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are Kevin Feige's words on the question &lt;strong&gt;“Why wouldn’t Tony Stark just call The Avengers if he’s having a problem in Iron Man 3?”&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Journalist:&lt;/strong&gt; After cell phones came out horror directors had to come up&#xA;  with elaborate ways to explain why people wouldn’t call someone on a&#xA;  cell phone for help, now that all The Avengers know each other do you&#xA;  have to come up with excuses for why Tony Stark wouldn’t reach out&#xA;  when he needs a hand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feige:&lt;/strong&gt; It’s a good question, and it’s sort of half and half. I am&#xA;  betting that like the comics you don’t have to keep – if you are&#xA;  reading a standalone “Iron Man” comic, they don’t spend every page&#xA;  explaining where every other Marvel hero is. The audience kind of&#xA;  accepts that there are times when they’re on their own and there are&#xA;  times when they are together. I’m betting that movie audiences will&#xA;  feel the same way. That being said, there is a little bit of lip&#xA;  service here and there to that. There is also just the very nature of&#xA;  Tony wants to, once he barely survives that house attack you saw&#xA;  today, and even you saw it in the message he left for Pepper, he’s&#xA;  basically saying “I’m going off the grid to try to figure something&#xA;  out.” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/kevin-feige-says-iron-man-3-will-explain-why-tony-stark-doesnt-call-the-avengers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SlashFilm&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-07-04T22:46:00.647" LastActivityDate="2016-07-04T22:46:00.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9145" CreationDate="2013-05-14T10:29:30.757" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;That whole wall seems to be an imitation of judge's gear. Helmet, jacket, assortment of weapons. You'll remember the movie starts with Dredd putting on his gear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The imagery hints that Ma-Ma is no different from the judges (a running theme in the movie) and given that judges aren't even around most of the time she's a more legitimate authority. The clown just underlines it: The justice system in Mega City 1 is a joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm reading the text as &quot;Proof of Liberty&quot; but could be something else, too. &quot;Price of Liberty&quot; ? That'd make sense thematically.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4854" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T10:29:30.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11403" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11404" CreationDate="2013-05-13T18:47:17.103" Score="34" ViewCount="37729" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't know if this is the right place to ask this, but I'm wondering how they created the hole in Robert Downey Jr.'s chest so they can put the reactor there? Here is the video &quot;Iron Man: Behind the Scenes&quot; where you can see the actual hole; this is behind the scenes so no CG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SxuAT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/CoMnHpg198I#t=120s?start=120&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4903" OwnerDisplayName="jcubic" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-16T07:46:01.647" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T16:55:26.893" Title="How did they create the hole in Robert Downey Jr.'s chest for the Iron Man movie?" Tags="|film-techniques|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11403" CreationDate="2013-05-13T19:31:17.357" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was done using a prosthetic chest on his real chest (make sure to sing that to the tune of &quot;We Want A Rock&quot; by They Might Be Giants).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/s-admz4bNq4#t=01m55s?start=115&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skip to 2 minutes in for an explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to sum up: RDJ is actually sitting &lt;em&gt;inside&lt;/em&gt; the chair you see. The chest is a sculpted prosthetic laying above him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1046" OwnerDisplayName="phantom42" LastActivityDate="2013-05-13T20:15:05.360" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11405" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11416" CreationDate="2013-05-14T10:44:35.820" Score="5" ViewCount="353" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of the people who were sent to the past, three to date have been shown as having CMR implants. These three are;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keira Cameron, the CPS agent protagonist, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Elena, the CPS agent that was sent back to 1975, revealed in &quot;Second Skin&quot;,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Travis Berta, a member of Liber8&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is revealed that Travis has the CMR implant in an earlier episode, in which Sonya Valentine is instructed to &quot;terminate&quot; the project (him) and shut down the operation she has been working on. This is shown as the point in which Sonya and Travis swapped sides. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a particular plot point in the episode &quot;Second Skin&quot;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; While trying to locate the second suit, which Elena had been wearing when she was sent back to 1975, Alec &quot;power cycles&quot; all &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; CMRs connected to the network (excluding Keira). This causes Elena's CMR to power up, and Travis to experience a sudden and intense pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the plot point from Second Skin, there is an earlier episode - &quot;Playtime&quot; - in which;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Lucas Ingram hacks into Keira's CMR to take control of her and force her to take actions that she would not normally take, against her will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With these two instances being revealed as something that can happen as a result of having the CMR implants, what is stopping the protagonist from utilising these methods to control the threat that Travis Berta obviously is to the security of the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="34594" LastEditDate="2016-09-24T18:31:43.207" LastActivityDate="2016-09-24T18:31:43.207" Title="If Liber8 can hack Keira, why doesn't Keira or Alec hack them back?" Tags="|plot-explanation|continuum|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11406" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11408" CreationDate="2013-05-14T13:27:34.420" Score="9" ViewCount="3409" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen all parts of &lt;em&gt;Transformers&lt;/em&gt;. But every time the &lt;em&gt;Decepticons&lt;/em&gt; get the best weapons and more advanced technologies than the &lt;em&gt;Autobots&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. in the first part &lt;em&gt;Megatron&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Starscream&lt;/em&gt; can transform into airplanes. This repeats in all following parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this difference between them?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4667" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-14T14:57:19.660" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T22:09:53.877" Title="Why do the evil Decepticons get the best weapons?" Tags="|transformers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11406" CreationDate="2013-05-14T14:08:21.827" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It goes back to the ideological differences between the Autobots and the Decepticons. Both sides are Transformers who can modify their bodies. The Autobots believe in peaceful coexistence with the rest of the universe, so their alt modes (the alternate shape they transform into) mirror that: cars and trucks so that they can exist among people without being noticed. The Decepticons on the other hand believe that they are destined to conquer the universe, so their alt modes are weapons of war: jet fighters and tanks ... etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T14:08:21.827" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10930" CreationDate="2013-05-14T18:08:42.583" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds somewhat like &lt;em&gt;Jennifer's Body&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1131734/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB link&lt;/a&gt;), notable as the first screenplay by Diablo Cody (&lt;em&gt;Juno&lt;/em&gt;).  However, &lt;em&gt;Jennifer's Body&lt;/em&gt; was released in 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4858" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T18:08:42.583" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10930" CreationDate="2013-05-14T18:50:39.853" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097498/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hellgate&lt;/a&gt; from 1990?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the IMDb synopsis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A motorcycle gang kidnaps a young woman, Josie, from a diner and brutally kills her. Many years later, the girl's father finds a magic crystal that can bring the life back to dead objects. He uses it to re-animate his daughter. He lets her seduce any young man that comes to visit the small town and then kills them.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PFUpR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's my best guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T18:50:39.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9168" CreationDate="2013-05-14T20:29:31.067" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, my take on it was that while she acknowledged she technically failed, she ultimately turned in her badge because she couldn't handle the questionable ethics and the emotional intensity of the job.  Case in point: she executes one of the Ma-Ma clan members who was begging for his life, then later discovers he was the husband and father of a Peach Trees block wife and kid. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When she releases the hacker, she also says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I'm not going to be a Judge and I don't have to be a mind reader to&#xA;  know it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She goes on, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;He's a victim not a perp and until my assessment is formally over I'm&#xA;  still entitled to dispense justice and that's what I just did, by&#xA;  letting him go.  Maybe that will be the one difference I do make. The&#xA;  code to Ma-Ma's chambers is 49436.  Let's finish this.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it gets any clearer than this as to why she turned in her badge.  A Judge must be strict, no mercy, the law is black and white, but because she's a psychic she sees the grey areas.  &quot;Let's finish this&quot; is another reflection of her realization that she is not cut out for the harsh code of being a Judge.  Her spirit is too kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, when Dredd says, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Your assessment is now over.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is far from an answer on whether she passed or failed and she knows it.  The fact that she didn't even wait for the official answer suggests that she had already made up her mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4860" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-08-30T09:48:48.230" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T09:48:48.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9331" CreationDate="2013-05-14T21:39:04.980" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's angry because he's conflicted and he's conflicted because he lives in a &quot;Cursed City&quot; on a &quot;Cursed Earth,&quot; festering with savages and animals and he is tasked with judging and sentencing them all, which he does to the T, even for minor infractions like placing a vagrant in an iso-cube for 3 weeks (even though he never gets around to doing it). Deep down, he senses the lopsidedness of the Law, yet he adheres to it anyway at an almost unbelievable level of dedication. But the cost is a fierce internal struggle.  It's like he's also fighting a war within himself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like Nobby said, Anderson senses the conflict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe he just needs to get laid.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4860" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T21:39:04.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9145" CreationDate="2013-05-14T21:54:30.057" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343727/trivia?item=tr1848604&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB-Trivia&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Ma-Ma's penthouse there is a Judge's helmet hanging on her wall with a length of gold chain attached to it, a nod to the comic design of Judge Dredd where the gold chain would link the badge to the uniform collar &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4860" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-19T06:45:55.483" LastActivityDate="2013-09-19T06:45:55.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11415" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11420" CreationDate="2013-05-14T21:59:05.620" Score="16" ViewCount="92873" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gattaca&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the dialog is pretty clear that Dr. Lamar, who does all the urine-based genetic verification, has a son who admires Vincent's persona as Jerome and that clearly is the reason he does nothing to stop Vincent; indeed, he urges him to board his flight:  a dream come true for all of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when Vincent first adopts Jerome's identity and &quot;interviews&quot; (a standard genetic test) with Gattaca Corporation, it is with Dr. Lamar who probably is not aware of the deception.  But in their seemingly daily interaction of &quot;Jerome&quot; peeing a sample for the doctor, at some point the doctor becomes aware that Jerome is a fraud, but never says a thing.  It isn't until the surprise genetic test seconds before boarding the rocket that the doctor says &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gattaca#Dialogue&quot;&gt;For future reference, right-handed men don't hold it with their left.&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems implicit that those enforcing genetic purity would view Vincent as a criminal.  But certainly Irene (Uma Thurman) abandons such thinking by the end of the story.  Why does the Doctor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this hints that many (maybe everyone) in this genome-driven world are sick of the science-enhanced discrimination?  Especially those apparently in charge of enforcement.  If so, then who is really fostering and promoting the discrimination?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-05-14T23:39:22.797" LastActivityDate="2019-08-19T21:16:42.673" Title="Why does Dr. Lamar go along with Vincent's deception" Tags="|gattaca|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11405" CreationDate="2013-05-14T21:59:12.090" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The CMR Travis has is a militairy version of the CMR. It could be of a higher security level than that of Keira. Based on the same technology, but better/different security/firewall to avoid having the supersoldier hacked (which is more dangerous than having a normal officer hacked)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that Travis got the intense pain reaction while Keira's partner did not could be because it was off but it could also hint at a difference in CMR soft/hardware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that they have not tried to access his CMR is still left unresolved. Unless I missed something, it could be that Keira is unaware of Travis' CMR. In the last episode, Alec says that 'someone else was accessing the network'. They do not assume it is Travis, which is a valid reasoning if they would know about the CMR. As the supersoldier project was terminated quickly and highly confidential, Keira might not know all the details about Travis' upgrades. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T21:59:12.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11406" CreationDate="2013-05-14T22:09:53.877" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't disagree with System Down's answer; it's a good in-universe response.  But there is also a real-world answer:  If the Decepticons didn't have some kind of advantage, there wouldn't be a story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before any Transformers movie is made (or, indeed, virtually any Hollywood action movie), there are some guidelines the story is expected to follow:  the heroes must be placed in jeopardy, they must appear to be on the verge of defeat, but they must somehow emerge victorious.  You can see this structure clearly in sports movies: they are nearly always&#xA;about underdogs who somehow achieve an unexpected victory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how are you going to set up the next Transformers movie?  The Decepticons need to&#xA;seem more powerful and dangerous than the Autobots, so they had better start off with&#xA;better weaponry.  (But it will turn out all right in the end.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T22:09:53.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9826" CreationDate="2013-05-14T22:24:42.273" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie you are looking for is &lt;em&gt;Ark&lt;/em&gt;; it is a short story by Sachs/Judah Productions. Here are the links to both Hulu and IMDb. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hulu.com/#!ark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.hulu.com/#!ark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345784/companycredits?ref_=tt_dt_co&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345784/companycredits?ref_=tt_dt_co&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4861" LastEditorUserId="4761" LastEditDate="2013-05-14T23:15:33.067" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T23:15:33.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11419" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-14T23:25:22.943" Score="13" ViewCount="4678" Body="&lt;p&gt;While watching another &lt;em&gt;Stanley Kubrick&lt;/em&gt; movie, this question about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Clockwork Orange&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; popped up and has puzzled me since then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that after Alex was released (or even during the treatment) he was only faking about being non-violent? Could it be only an act by him just to get out of the prison?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, the last time I saw the movie was years ago and even more sadly, I don't have access to the film right now so I can't watch it to see if there are some signs to support this idea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4781" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-15T07:49:20.660" LastActivityDate="2015-05-30T23:44:17.547" Title="Did the Ludovico technique work on Alex or was he just faking all the time?" Tags="|stanley-kubrick|a-clockwork-orange|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11415" CreationDate="2013-05-14T23:41:00.540" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the fullness of that scene at the end, Dr. Lamar asks Vincent if he'd ever told Vincent the story of his son. This is something that Lamar has asked Vincent many times, without ever telling Vincent the story. It is only at the final test that the doctor tells Vincent that his son admires him (Vincent) and wants to be an &lt;em&gt;astronaut despite a genetic defect that will bar him from doing so&lt;/em&gt;. So basically, the doctor's son is exactly in the same predicament as Vincent. This is why the doctor does what does. You mention Irene, who has a heart defect that limits what missions she will be picked for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I don't know that either of those hint that &quot;many&quot; in their society are &quot;sick&quot; of the discrimination. I'm sure that the people who are affected by it in some way are. So who is &quot;fostering and promoting&quot; the discrimination? The same people who always do (often by inaction or ignorance of the situation) - the ones who are not affected by it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T23:41:00.540" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11419" CreationDate="2013-05-14T23:48:42.743" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;After being released, he is attacked by vagrants. I believe that if he was faking, he would have defended himself. Instead, two bobbies come along and save him. They turn out to be his old &quot;droogs&quot; Dim and Georgie who then also beat him up. I believe that if he was faking then he would have tried to protect himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2013-05-14T23:48:42.743" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11419" CreationDate="2013-05-15T01:06:06.067" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm of the opinion Kubrick changed the story so that in the movie, Alex was faking that the conditioning worked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically I was convinced by the case made by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.collativelearning.com/ACO%20chapter%2011%20.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this analysis&lt;/a&gt; from a guy named Rob Ager. Here's a key excerpt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the book Alex spouts his own objection as the preacher and Minister&#xA;  debate the morality of the Ludovico technique, “Me, me, me. How about&#xA;  me? Where do I come into all this? Am I just like some animal or dog?&#xA;  … Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?” The last line in&#xA;  particular is crucial to the book’s themes, but Kubrick omitted it&#xA;  entirely. In Kubrick’s rewrite Alex fakes his sickness response, burps&#xA;  as he sits up (which he can do at will, as demonstrated during the&#xA;  police interrogation scene) then asks “Was it alright? Did I do well&#xA;  sir?” He knew perfectly well what was expected of him and he acted his&#xA;  part accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This indirect mutual agreement between Alex and the Minister was also&#xA;  communicated through a short verbal interraction in the prison&#xA;  courtyard. In the book Alex objects to the minister's statements and&#xA;  is in turn chosen for the Ludovico treatment. Kubrick drastically&#xA;  alters this interraction by having Alex lie that he was imprisoned for&#xA;  &quot;the accidental killing of a person&quot;. The Minister is impressed with&#xA;  his ability to lie outright and responds &quot;Excellent. He's&#xA;  enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, bold, viscious. He'll do.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why would the Minister need a criminal who is &quot;enterprising&quot;? Because&#xA;  Alex is the type of lying opportunist who will pretend to go along&#xA;  with the Ludovico program, which will mutually benefit the Minister's&#xA;  aim of clearing out prisons to make space for political offenders.&#xA;  Cutting down crime is merely an illusion he needs to fabricate to&#xA;  justify this policy and Ludovico is the propaganda tool he needs. Alex&#xA;  then responds by thanking the Minister for choosing him (this didn't&#xA;  happen in the book). The Minister responds &quot;Let's hope you make the&#xA;  most of it my boy.&quot; He's basically telling Alex to put on the best act&#xA;  he can for the doctors and the press.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once released Alex finds that his old, comfortable life is no longer&#xA;  available to him. In his parents’ flat he is unphased by the erotic&#xA;  female portraits on the walls - shouldn't he be feeling ill as he did&#xA;  with the woman on the stage? And he gives away his unchanged&#xA;  aggression by swinging a fake punch near his father’s face, “Keeping&#xA;  fit?” he asks. Where is his Ludovico aversion to violent impulse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-15T07:50:29.960" LastActivityDate="2013-05-15T07:50:29.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11080" CreationDate="2013-05-15T04:18:11.243" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Julia was in Delta sleep for 60 years. She might have been pregnant before Delta sleep. Delta sleep apparently halts aging and embryonic growth, until the person wakes up again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4865" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:36:19.003" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:36:19.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11424" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11425" CreationDate="2013-05-15T13:40:36.153" Score="28" ViewCount="96598" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tony had a shrapnel in him which the electromagnet in his chest (powered by the miniature arc reactor) kept from reaching his heart. Tony never took any attempts to remove that shrapnel in Iron Man 1 or 2. Nor was it ever implied that it was possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What enabled him to do so now, at the end of the 3rd movie? Is it possible that Tony corrected the &lt;strong&gt;Extremis Virus&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;which in fact he claimed he had done 20 yrs ago in a drunken stupor&lt;/em&gt;) and used it to heal himself from and during the surgery?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T10:59:57.063" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T10:59:57.063" Title="How did Tony fix himself by the end of Iron Man 3?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-3|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11424" CreationDate="2013-05-15T13:58:35.767" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;My theory goes with the assumption that &lt;em&gt;He could have removed the shrapnel at any time after coming back to the States&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine, you're Tony Stark.  You're told by a genius scientist that he can't remove a piece of shrapnel due to sterilization and equipment purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You become dependent upon the mini-arc reactor that you put inside your chest to power your escape.  You then use this same reactor to become the most famous man and renowned &quot;Super Hero&quot; to the people, absolving you of years of weapon making and death that you yourself engineered and sold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you want to remove that piece of yourself that reminds you everyday to keep being that crime-fighting badass that everyone loves.  To keep being awesome and not fall back into old habits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of this, it turned from a partially inoperable piece of shrapnel into a mental dependency on his mini arc reactor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after dealing with his apparent PTSD from NY, dealing with trying to make things work with Pepper, and dealing with the tragedy that befell Happy.  Combined with perfecting suits that are autonomous (do not need him to pilot or power them) he finally realizes that he does not need &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; of it to continue being who he is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Killian's apparent death, he was able to finally accept that he needs to move on, start hanging up his suit (his &lt;strong&gt;Clean Slate&lt;/strong&gt; protocol), stop depending on the arc reactor, and start living his life in true happiness instead of fear of what happened in NY and instead of whatever apathy he was feeling being a playboy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In essence, it is a symbolic representation of Stark's growth over the movies.  Coming from another rich genius to someone dependent upon everyone loving him for being Iron Man, to now just wanting Pepper to love him for who he is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-15T17:33:00.047" LastActivityDate="2013-05-15T17:33:00.047" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11426" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-15T15:39:56.427" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;2003 South Korean movie about a man kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-05-15T15:39:56.427" LastActivityDate="2013-05-15T15:39:56.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11427" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-15T15:39:56.427" Score="0" Body="2003 South Korean movie about a man kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-05-15T15:39:56.427" LastActivityDate="2013-05-15T15:39:56.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11428" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-15T15:41:56.543" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oblivion is a 2013 American post-apocalyptic science fiction film based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kosinski&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joseph Kosinski's&lt;/a&gt; Radical Comics-edited unpublished graphic novel of the same name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was co-written, produced and directed by Kosinski. It stars &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cruise&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tom Cruise&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Kurylenko&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Olga Kurylenko&lt;/a&gt;. The film was released in the U.S. on April 19, 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483013/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Oblivion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblivion_%282013_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Oblivion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:14:33.327" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:14:33.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11429" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-15T15:41:56.543" Score="0" Body="A 2013 American post-apocalyptic science fiction film based on Joseph Kosinski's graphic novel of the same name." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:14:33.327" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:14:33.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11430" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-15T15:44:15.473" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;2011 Scifi movie starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford.  In 1873 Arizona an alien invasion must be stopped by the local cowboys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="6767" LastEditDate="2014-07-07T00:13:30.803" LastActivityDate="2014-07-07T00:13:30.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11431" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-15T15:44:15.473" Score="0" Body="2011 Scifi movie starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford.  In 1873 Arizona an alien invasion must be stopped by the local cowboys." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="6767" LastEditDate="2014-07-07T00:27:56.253" LastActivityDate="2014-07-07T00:27:56.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11432" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-15T16:41:17.327" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gattaca also stars Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, and Alan Arkin.  Written and directed by Andrew Niccol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Critical reception&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite critical acclaim, Gattaca was not a box office success but it is said to have crystallized the debate over tampering with human genetics.  The film's dystopian depiction of &quot;genoism&quot; has been cited by many bioethicists and laymen in support of their hesitancy about, or opposition to, liberal eugenics and the societal acceptance of the genetic-determinist ideology that may frame it. In a 1997 review of the film for the journal Nature Genetics, molecular biologist Lee M. Silver stated that &quot;Gattaca is a film that all geneticists should see if for no other reason than to understand the perception of our trade held by so many of the public-at-large.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was nominated for the AMPAS Academy Award in Best Art Direction, and nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Links&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gattaca&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikiquotes&lt;/a&gt; from the film&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; for Gattaca&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-05-15T17:25:34.580" LastActivityDate="2013-05-15T17:25:34.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11433" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-15T16:41:17.327" Score="0" Body="Gattaca is a 1997 science fiction film starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, and Jude Law about a future society obsessed with human genetics.  Protoembryos are screened to select only the best of the parents' traits.  Each individual's genetics determine their profession and opportunities; those born without screening are expected to be troublesome and relegated to menial careers.  The story deals with the power of the human spirit to exceed expectations." OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-05-15T17:14:43.707" LastActivityDate="2013-05-15T17:14:43.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="756" CreationDate="2013-05-15T16:54:13.000" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think so, because the only reason why he killed the wives too in certain scenarios is just because he had to.  If jimmy wanted to kill henry and karen it would have been very very easy, he wouldn't have needed karen to walk into a dark alley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4870" LastActivityDate="2013-05-15T16:54:13.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11424" CreationDate="2013-05-15T17:33:04.890" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the scene where Tony has the surgery, you can see a miniature ARC reactor and some gadgets above Tony.  As the surgeon removes a piece of shrapnel, he releases it and it flies up to the gadget.  So Tony and the surgeon built an electromagnetic device to help out with the surgery.  The eagle-eyed will also notice that when they show Pepper and Rhodey watching the surgery, the signs on the doors in front of them are in Chinese.  Shortly afterwards, Tony gives Pepper a necklace, and behind them is Shanghai's skyline.  He went to China for his surgery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the credits, you'll see there were several movie studios involved in making the film.  Marvel Studios and Paramount are familiar names to people who watch Hollywood films.  DMG Entertainment was another one, which may be more familiar to fans of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dmg-entertainment.com/&quot;&gt;Chinese cinema&lt;/a&gt;.  They're a Chinese company that in recent years has been investing in Hollywood movies.  They do this, and Hollywood movie studios agree to this, because by working with a Chinese company, the film then isn't treated like a foreign film.  There are limits on the number of foreign films that can be released each year in China, this sidesteps that.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://kotaku.com/iron-man-3-to-get-china-oriented-prologue-504382051&quot;&gt;In return&lt;/a&gt; though, DMG has extra China-centric scenes filmed that are then included in a China-only cut of the film (this happened for both &lt;em&gt;Looper&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://kotaku.com/why-many-in-china-hate-iron-man-3s-chinese-version-486840429&quot;&gt;the China-only scenes explain&lt;/a&gt; why Tony went to China for his surgery.  At the start of the film, in Switzerland, Tony briefly meets Ho Yinsen and Dr. Wu, a cardiologist.  Dr. Wu is the one who performs his surgery.  In the non-China cut of the film, this isn't really explained.  During the China-only scenes, it's stated that Dr. Wu is the only one who can remove the shrapnel from Tony's chest.  So Tony goes to China and gets the shrapnel removed, which is something he couldn't do before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-09-15T16:23:49.627" LastActivityDate="2013-09-15T16:23:49.627" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11437" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11438" CreationDate="2013-05-15T21:08:48.633" Score="12" ViewCount="809" Body="&lt;p&gt;When talking of the upcoming S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series, ABC Entertainment Group President Paul Lee &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/14/abc-announces-2013-14-schedule-marvel-s-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-gets-tuesday-berth-once-upon-a-time-spin-off-to-thursdays.html&quot;&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“We don’t normally talk about testing, but [Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.] tested so well in all four quadrants,&quot; Lee said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the four quadrants he's referring to?  It sounds like they're splitting up demographics into four groups, and I'm looking to find out what that split is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T12:32:27.017" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T00:42:25.507" Title="What are the 'quadrants' in TV testing?" Tags="|terminology|audience-measurement|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11437" CreationDate="2013-05-15T21:14:30.880" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to an article from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvguide.com/celebrity-blogs/Four-quadrant-Television-19631.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Guide&lt;/a&gt;, the four quadrants are split according to male or female and old or young.  From another &lt;a href=&quot;http://indiesunchained.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/his-and-hers-demos/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;site&lt;/a&gt; about audience demographics, it appears the the old-young split is made at age 25.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:  Here's an image I found on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indietalk.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;site for independent filmmakers&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Y0RK.png&quot; alt=&quot;four quadrants&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-09T00:42:25.507" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T00:42:25.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11448" CreationDate="2013-05-16T02:42:18.517" Score="6" ViewCount="17711" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;code&gt;Pi&lt;/code&gt;, there is a 216-digit number that the protagonist, Max Cohen, is searching for, which in Kabbalah numerology corresponds to the name of God. What is the actual number used in the film shown on the computer display (Euclid)? (This, of course assumes it is constant every time it appears)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4060" LastActivityDate="2015-03-08T00:03:24.080" Title="What is the 216 digit number in Pi?" Tags="|pi|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11442" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11443" CreationDate="2013-05-16T04:18:13.200" Score="8" ViewCount="3146" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Season 3 of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, I didn't understand that how the Stark family got two little children of the Lannister family as prisoners? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4699" LastEditorUserId="28011" LastEditDate="2017-11-13T18:48:36.560" LastActivityDate="2017-11-13T18:59:37.910" Title="How did the Stark family capture the Lannister family's children?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11442" CreationDate="2013-05-16T04:56:33.467" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 3rd episode of season 3 &quot;Walk of Punishment&quot; it was revealed that Edmure Tully (the uncle of King Robb Stark) disobeyed orders and attacked Gregor Clegane. Edumre won the battle and Gregor fled, but Edmure was able to capture some hostages including Willem and Martyn Lannister. We never see the battle, but it is discussed when King Robb chastises his uncle after the funeral.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2013-05-16T05:04:02.740" LastActivityDate="2013-05-16T05:04:02.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11444" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-16T04:59:42.490" Score="12" ViewCount="3524" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently rewatched &lt;em&gt;The Prestige&lt;/em&gt; and find this question to be central to understanding the plot. In the final narration Cutter seems to be challenging the audience to discover a further, hidden secret. This secret would necessarily not be made explicit in the movie, but nevertheless be key to understanding the entire plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is possible that Angier did not know that Borden was backstage. Angier had planned all along to stage his death after 100 shows, so that he could return to being the Lord full-time. Perhaps he also realized that he could not go on murdering himself indefinitely, so he put a hard limit on the practice. Borden's presence backstage was therefore a coincidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility is that Angier did know Borden was there spying, because Fallon had told him. After Sarah's suicide, Fallon secretly wanted his twin brother dead. Possibly he involved Cutter in the scheme at some point. Then Fallon killed the Lord in order to retrieve his daughter, whom Angier did not realize was actually Fallon's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4878" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-08-29T17:25:44.220" LastActivityDate="2016-11-09T12:59:22.100" Title="Did Angier know that Borden was backstage at his final magic show?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11441" CreationDate="2013-05-16T05:08:20.907" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The number 216 is very significant when one multiplies 6x6x6 and&#xA;  receives the result of 216. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The connection to 666 is amplified by its presence in the Darren&#xA;  Aronofsky's film &lt;em&gt;Pi&lt;/em&gt; where the protagonist stumbles upon a hidden code&#xA;  in the universe, a 216 digit number, which a group of zealous Jews&#xA;  believe to be the true name of god.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the printout of the 216 digit number, the number 6 can be seen in&#xA;  the beginning of the second, third and fourth rows, forming a vertical&#xA;  666.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The idea of a 216-letter name of god is actually taken from real&#xA;  Jewish history and belief. The 216-letter name of god (the&#xA;  Schemhamphoras) is derived from three verses in Exodus&#xA;  (verses 19, 20, &amp;amp; 21), each being 72 letters long (72x3=216).  Each was&#xA;  written out as a string of letters: verse 19 on top, then 20&#xA;  underneath and in reverse order, and then 21 under that. Reading top to&#xA;  bottom and right to left, the 3 lines of 72 letters yielded 72&#xA;  individual 3 letter names.&lt;a href=&quot;http://synchromystic.wikia.com/wiki/216&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The number 72 connects to 216 again in the time frames involved with&#xA;  the precession for the equinox. Each of the 12 Ages lasts for 2,160&#xA;  years, and the earth takes 72 years to move one degree in the Great&#xA;  Year. The connection to 12 continues beyond there being 12 Ages, in&#xA;  that the entire cycle lasts about 25,920 years which is 216x120.&#xA;  (Source:&lt;a href=&quot;http://synchromystic.wikia.com/wiki/216&quot;&gt;synchromystic.wikia.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-05-16T07:04:28.237" LastActivityDate="2013-05-16T07:04:28.237" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11441" CreationDate="2013-05-16T09:26:25.387" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/trivia&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;, the number displayed by Euclid actually contains 218 digits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;941432434315126593210548723904868285129134748760 2767195923460&lt;b&gt;23&lt;/b&gt;858295830472501652325259296925727655364363462727 184012012643147546329450127847264841075622347896267285928582953 47502772262646456217613984829519475412398501&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number that Max Cohen writes on paper does have 216 digits (and is completely different); see the link for the digits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A careful analysis on &lt;a href=&quot;http://mike.passwall.com/uselesstrivia/pi.html&quot;&gt;another site&lt;/a&gt; says that one of the 216 digits is illegible, but is given as a '9' by IMDb.  It also points out that two digits of the 218-digit number (in bold above) are reversed when they appear on the paper found with Sol Robeson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-05-16T09:26:25.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11449" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-16T15:23:23.787" Score="7" ViewCount="5504" Body="&lt;p&gt;A standard sign of death on TV and film seems to be someone's heart rate machine flatlining with a long, drawn out BEEEEEEEEEEP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this is not what actually happens - apparently this noise just means the machine is unplugged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know when this 'movie fact' first started?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2013-05-16T23:03:16.120" LastActivityDate="2013-05-16T23:03:16.120" Title="Where did flatlining come from?" Tags="|film-techniques|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11345" CreationDate="2013-05-16T16:17:44.700" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;At a high level, Admiral Marcus was the saboteur.  How he had the Enterprise sabotaged isn't explained in the film, but Marcus and Section 31 have &lt;em&gt;plenty&lt;/em&gt; of access to sabotage the Enterprise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could have been done in advance, installing a faulty piece of equipment prior to the Enterprise leaving, designing it so that it would fail after the Enterprise had been at warp long enough to have reached the edge of Klingon space.  Or there could be Section 31 operatives on board who sabotaged the ship at the right moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-05-16T16:17:44.700" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11384" CreationDate="2013-05-16T16:55:41.703" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The use of monikers such as M and Q is, IMO, more to do with tradition and traditional anonymity than secrecy. (See &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/11187/3650&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; to another Bond question for more on this.) You can see colleagues mingling socially (the opening scenes of &lt;em&gt;Licence to Kill&lt;/em&gt; come to mind) and Bond pops up to M's flat on a couple of occasions. M, Q, and Miss Moneypenny are all invited to Bond's wedding in OHMSS, and the scene, IIRC, begins with &quot;Your Royal Highnesses&quot;. I'd say that this out-of-office mingling isn't done without knowledge of their real names. Furthermore, M is often a well known political appointee just like the head of the real MI6. The first M was a Sir Miles Messervy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James Bond too has an alias within MI6—he is 007. I don't think/consider &lt;em&gt;Moneypenny&lt;/em&gt; to be a codename.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(The question of why Bond does not use an alias &lt;em&gt;outside&lt;/em&gt; MI6 is a good one. While the correct answer to this is, of course, &quot;because it's the movies&quot;, there is a rather feeble in-universe explanation for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James Bond's front when he is out on the job is that he is an employee of Universal Exports, a shell company created by MI6. Presumably, this also explains his frequent travels abroad and general worldliness. However, when this alias does not suit his purposes, he happily takes on other personae such as that of Sir Hilary Bray (OHMSS), James St. John Smythe (aVtaK), et al.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2013-05-16T16:55:41.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11384" CreationDate="2013-05-16T20:02:41.627" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;While one would expect a &quot;secret agent&quot; to always use a cover, James Bond is not a secret agent:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Intelligence organizations have complete and detailed files on him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most bad guys know who he is, what kind of firearm he carries, and how he likes his drinks.  The bad guy usually tries to kill Bond as he arrives in town.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When he investigates someone, he almost always meets them socially first&amp;mdash;a gentlemanly introduction perhaps to learn the other side of their persona, or gather information useful to plot later espionage.  But they always know he is 007 James Bond.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Apparently his actions are reported worldwide in mass media, like when he was &quot;killed&quot; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_%28film%29&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;You Only Live Twice&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he is any kind of secret agent at all, he is an &quot;open secret agent&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-05-16T20:02:41.627" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11449" CreationDate="2013-05-16T20:26:25.577" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a medical products company video of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UdWFIv8Gxw&quot;&gt;Siemens SC 7000 patient monitor&lt;/a&gt; which starts off with the flat-lining sound.  If you watch and inspect the configuration menus, you'll see that a wide variety of sounds can be configured for any of several conditions:  high and/or low heart rate, high/low partial-pressure of oxygen saturation, high/low partial-pressure of carbon dioxide, high/low arterial pressure, high/low breathing rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With an old-fashioned single purpose cardiac monitor like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btNmEdoxkqQ&quot;&gt;Graseby PM 3&lt;/a&gt;, those beep on every heartbeat, and are quiet at first when there is no heartbeat, but then gives the flat line sound after a few seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do you think the sound is not genuine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-05-16T20:26:25.577" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11455" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11459" CreationDate="2013-05-17T08:59:04.623" Score="0" ViewCount="876" Body="&lt;p&gt;Were the movies &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baadshah_%281999_film%29#Reception&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Baadshah&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phir_Bhi_Dil_Hai_Hindustani&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani&lt;/a&gt;&quot; well received upon release? I have heard that both of these movies were flops, however many people love both of these movies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were these movies successful movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4699" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T00:53:02.560" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T00:53:02.560" Title="Were &quot;Baadshah&quot; and &quot;Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani&quot; well received upon release?" Tags="|reception|indian-cinema|baadshah|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-09-30T11:46:09.607" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2013-05-17T09:10:41.580" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for the antagonist, like the person before said; he had had his revenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the protagonist, it's all in the smile. Only was he a monster when he smiled. The fact that he smiled at the end meant he still knew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's my take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4886" LastActivityDate="2013-05-17T09:10:41.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11457" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11458" CreationDate="2013-05-17T10:55:28.140" Score="7" ViewCount="1183" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adam D'Angelo met Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg while the two were still teenagers attending &quot;uber&quot; preppy prep school, Phillips Exeter Academy. Initially, D'Angelo worked on the first &quot;app&quot; for Facebook called Wirehog, a peer-to-peer file sharing program. He later went on to become Chief Technology Officer where he led the Platform Development and Data teams, and oversaw new product design and architecture. D'Angelo maintained the CTO position for two years before leaving in June 2009 to co-found Quora, an online database of information organized by questions and answers created by users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So given that he's an important person in the history of Facebook, why wasn't he present in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Social Network&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-17T07:25:07.247" LastActivityDate="2018-10-26T12:31:11.433" Title="Why is Adam D'Angelo's character not in the movie?" Tags="|character|the-social-network|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11457" CreationDate="2013-05-17T11:24:47.030" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the words of Adam D'Angelo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The movie was largely based on Eduardo Saverin's account of early&#xA;  Facebook history. I never met him, and I only really got involved in&#xA;  Facebook in 2005, about a year after he had stopped working for the&#xA;  company.-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/Adam-DAngelo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Adam-DAngelo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/Adam-DAngelo-1/Why-is-Adam-DAngelos-character-not-shown-in-the-movie-The-Social-Network#&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quora&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-10-26T12:31:11.433" LastActivityDate="2018-10-26T12:31:11.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11455" CreationDate="2013-05-17T11:38:34.190" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie Baadshah was not really what you would call a &quot;flop&quot; - the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baadshah_%281999_film%29#Reception&quot;&gt;movie opened very well&lt;/a&gt;, netting US$2.6 million but went on to gross US$4.6 million. This makes it the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=205&amp;amp;catName=MTk5OQ==&quot;&gt;#6 movie of 1999&lt;/a&gt; in the Indian Box Office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These numbers are, however, below average in the world wide market in comparison to many of the other movies released in 1999.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, on the other hand, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phir_Bhi_Dil_Hai_Hindustani&quot;&gt;was declared a flop by the Indian Box Office&lt;/a&gt;, and it went on to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=206&amp;amp;catName=MjAwMA==&quot;&gt;rank #16 in the Indian Box Office for 2000&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-05-17T11:38:34.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11419" CreationDate="2013-05-17T13:03:06.530" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;If he was faking about being &quot;cured&quot; and being non-violent, was he also faking about Beethoven music making him ill?  Because that drove him so mad he attempted suicide by jumping out a window, seriously injuring himself.  I think if he had been faking his cure he would not have gone to such extreme lengths to prove it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as I mentioned in commenting on djmadscribbler's answer, he was nearly drowned by his old friends Dim &amp;amp; Georgie because he was unable to fight back.  So there were 2 instances where Alex would have put his life in jeopardy just to fake the effectiveness of the treatment.  For that reason, I think the treatment really did effect him and he wasn't faking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="753" LastActivityDate="2013-05-17T13:03:06.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11461" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11462" CreationDate="2013-05-17T13:46:23.877" Score="8" ViewCount="72285" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched a movie a few months back. The movie starts with four people &lt;em&gt;hanging by their necks&lt;/em&gt; on a tree. The hero is a writer of horror stories. He comes to a house along with his family. He finds a projector with several film rolls on the attic. He watches those films everyday. All films were based on a murder case. The movie's investigation goes like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A child in the house gets haunted. He kills the family members. Well, they say something that the children do that as a devotion to some god. The interesting link between every murders is that the &lt;em&gt;murdered&lt;/em&gt; family had stayed for a while in a house where people were previously murdered. The story goes on like the next family stay in this house and go to another house where they get murdered by their children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3675" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-07-01T08:19:25.233" LastActivityDate="2016-04-06T05:37:47.660" Title="Horror story writer moves with his family into a house where the previous family was murderered" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:44:34.747" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11461" CreationDate="2013-05-17T13:59:58.923" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinister_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sinister&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I am 100% certain this is what you're looking for!! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sinister&lt;/em&gt; is the story of Ellison Oswalt &lt;em&gt;(Ethan Hawke)&lt;/em&gt;, a true crime writer. The events unfold when he moves into a house where grizzly murders had taken place. He finds a box of home movies which, unknown to him, puts his family in grave danger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-06-27T09:08:55.927" LastActivityDate="2014-06-27T09:08:55.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3761" CreationDate="2013-05-17T20:20:01.180" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything Shane said is correct, but I believe the true meaning of the birth is an answer to one of the biggest questions of the movie; what caused the chaos on LV-223 that occurred 2000 years prior to the Prometheus expedition? We know it had something to do with the black goo because of how the engineer's decapitated-head reacted when its nervous system was revived by Ford (The head shows symptoms similar to the ones experienced by Holloway after being infected with the goo). &#xA;Well remember when David first activates the engineer holo-record-log-thingy? If you listen closely during the opening moments of the log, you can hear a faint screech right before the engineers appear fleeing from an unknown threat. I noticed that the screech is extremely similar to the screech of the new-born xenomorph at the end of the film. So it is possible that the problem that led to the disruption of the engineer's plan to exterminate humanity was caused by an engineer-born xenomorph. If my thesis is correct then the writers of Prometheus outdid themselves in a very odd way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4893" LastEditorUserId="4893" LastEditDate="2013-05-17T20:51:36.137" LastActivityDate="2013-05-17T20:51:36.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11227" CreationDate="2013-05-17T22:54:59.797" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;They show us Bruce Banner buying some really &quot;elastic&quot; pants in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Hulk_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Incredible Hulk&lt;/a&gt;. That's why they don't tear off I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4894" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-04-05T06:26:03.910" LastActivityDate="2017-04-05T06:26:03.910" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10644" CreationDate="2013-05-17T23:00:54.863" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Download the &lt;em&gt;gophoto.it&lt;/em&gt; extension for chrome, and whenever you right-click any image you get an extra option labelled &quot;Search for similar images&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4894" LastEditorUserId="4468" LastEditDate="2013-05-17T23:49:51.310" LastActivityDate="2013-05-17T23:49:51.310" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-05-17T23:00:54.863" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11466" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-17T23:27:32.580" Score="4" ViewCount="15356" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of the final scene of Being There, where Chance walks on the pond's surface?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_There&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; says something about a metaphor of Chance being seen as a messiah, but I don't find that too convincing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1889" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-17T23:54:30.673" LastActivityDate="2023-11-26T14:07:19.247" Title="Interpretation of the ending of Being There" Tags="|analysis|being-there|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11466" CreationDate="2013-05-17T23:43:12.243" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The metaphor is pretty strong:  he literally &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus%27_walk_on_water&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;walks on water&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It means he is tremendously blessed, always ending up on the right side of whatever situation he falls into.  In a very short time (less than a week?) he goes from homeless pauper to national celebrity and presidential adviser.  Lucky in love and whatever he wants to do.  All without (apparently) a clue about how life really works.  All he knows is the superficial&amp;mdash;which he has apparently studied intently via watching television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-05-17T23:43:12.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11468" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11473" CreationDate="2013-05-18T02:32:36.197" Score="6" ViewCount="1013" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Winston Wolfe says about himself: &lt;em&gt;&quot;I'm Winston Wolfe. I solve problems.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. But what does he mean with that and what really was his role?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-18T09:06:02.093" LastActivityDate="2013-11-29T18:48:06.760" Title="What is the role of Winston Wolfe?" Tags="|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11469" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11483" CreationDate="2013-05-18T02:39:30.363" Score="13" ViewCount="1216" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Shouldn't &lt;em&gt;Q&lt;/em&gt; like connect &lt;em&gt;Silva&lt;/em&gt;'s computer to a secure line or something, considering that he was a known cyberterrorist? Isn't there any sort of internal protocols for the networking system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-18T09:09:35.220" LastActivityDate="2013-05-18T18:02:38.290" Title="Why would Q attach the computer of a known cyberterrorist to the MI6 computer network?" Tags="|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11470" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11471" CreationDate="2013-05-18T03:42:18.687" Score="6" ViewCount="63601" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early on in the first season of NCIS, many episodes end with Agent Gibbs being picked up by a red haired woman in a silver Mercedes;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wcnDe.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0wdLi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is mentioned frequently that Gibbs is into red haired women, but during this period of time it's also established that he's just broken up with his latest wife and I don't remember there being any mention of who this woman is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is the woman in the silver Mercedes? Is this ever explained?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2016-02-27T14:45:29.983" LastActivityDate="2021-09-14T21:29:21.367" Title="Who is the woman in the silver Mercedes?" Tags="|character|ncis|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11470" CreationDate="2013-05-18T03:50:52.380" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ncis.wikia.com/wiki/Mysterious_Red-Head&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;NCIS wiki&lt;/a&gt;, she is known as the &amp;quot;Mysterious Red-Head&amp;quot;.  She was never identified in the show.  The&#xA;role was played by Vivienne Bellisario, the fourth wife of NCIS producer Donald P. Bellisario and mother of Sean Murray, who played McGee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2021-09-14T21:29:21.367" LastActivityDate="2021-09-14T21:29:21.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11472" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11532" CreationDate="2013-05-18T03:59:02.303" Score="3" ViewCount="50571" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season two of NCIS, there seems to be a &quot;thing&quot; between Abby and McGee although this is never specifically stated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the season two episode &quot;Twilight&quot;, Abby says that &quot;McGee didn't just sleep in the coffin&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is later followed up in the season 3 episode &quot;Mind Games&quot;, Abby states &quot;I am a scientist, McGee. Luck has nothing to do with it and/or us.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did McGee and Abby ever get into a relationship? Is this ever covered anywhere during NCIS?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2016-12-21T03:04:28.743" Title="Did McGee and Abby ever get into a relationship?" Tags="|ncis|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11468" CreationDate="2013-05-18T03:59:39.830" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wolfe is what is known as a cleaner - someone who cleans up crime scenes for the mob. He is a fixer and facilitator - he knows how to dispose of bodies and how to create alibis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleaner_%28crime%29&quot;&gt;'cleaner' page on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-05-18T03:59:39.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11403" CreationDate="2013-05-18T07:33:20.553" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is easy, they showed it on youtube. They first created a prosthetic chest over his real chest and spray tanned it to match his original skin tone. Then they put in his &quot;heart&quot; so it would look like it's actually a hole in his chest while his actual chest is underneath it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4895" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-18T09:01:36.383" LastActivityDate="2013-05-18T09:01:36.383" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11476" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-18T07:43:33.700" Score="0" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, at the end, the spinning top is shown to be spinning at the end just before the screen goes blank. But another person told me that the top wasnt even &lt;em&gt;Cobb&lt;/em&gt;'s totem, it is his wife's (&lt;em&gt;Mal&lt;/em&gt;'s) so he is not in the dream world. Is he?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4895" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-18T08:58:22.617" LastActivityDate="2013-05-18T08:58:22.617" Title="Was Cobb really stuck in the dream world at the end?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2013-05-18T13:02:35.593" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11366" CreationDate="2013-05-18T07:51:00.880" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they are shot in a separate room after the episodes are over to describe their emotions at a particular point of time. However, there is some ambiguity over this as if a person knows they are eliminated, why would they say they &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; scared to go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4895" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-18T09:00:00.610" LastActivityDate="2013-05-18T09:00:00.610" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11314" CreationDate="2013-05-18T07:54:16.767" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think that the Dementors did it, as they were not on Voldemort's side at the time. Another theory is that the storm was created by his followers who were still at large and the storm blew a hole in the wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: Harry Potter enthusiast, Pottermore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4895" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-09-16T18:31:16.357" LastActivityDate="2016-09-16T18:31:16.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11384" CreationDate="2013-05-18T12:36:19.810" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bond does use an alias in several of the Bond films as detailed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bondmovies.com/alias.shtml&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   Movie                             Alias&#xA;From Russia with Love              David Somerset&#xA;You Only Live Twice                Mr. Fisher&#xA;On Her Majesty's Secret Service    Sir Hilary Bray&#xA;Diamonds Are Forever               Peter Franks&#xA;Diamonds Are Forever               Mr. Jones&#xA;Diamonds Are Forever               Klaus Hergescheimer&#xA;Diamonds Are Forever               Burt Saxby&#xA;The Man With The Golden Gun        Fransisco Scaramanga&#xA;The Spy Who Loved Me               Robert Sterling&#xA;A View to a Kill                   James St. John Smythe&#xA;A View to a Kill                   James Stock&#xA;The Living Daylights               Jerzy Bondov&#xA;The World Is Not Enough            Dr. Mikhal Arkov&#xA;Die Another Day                    Van Bierk&#xA;Casino Royale                      Arlington Beech&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4888" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T11:11:42.523" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T11:11:42.523" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11480" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11482" CreationDate="2013-05-18T13:55:34.593" Score="13" ViewCount="19035" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I've watched DVDs of Sergio Leone's &quot;Spaghetti Westerns&quot;, such as &lt;em&gt;A Fistful of Dollars&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly&lt;/em&gt;, I've had the option to choose soundtracks in either English or Italian.  Both soundtracks seem to have been recorded by the original cast, and it isn't clear whether one or the other matches the actors' lips.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which language is preferred for these films?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Leone consider one of the soundtracks to be the &quot;official&quot; dialogue and the other merely a translation?  Did he supervise one of the recordings more closely?  Have critics expressed a preference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't speak Italian, but I'd rather hear the Italian dialogue with subtitles if it's closer to the director's intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4897" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T21:43:03.763" Title="Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns: English or Italian?" Tags="|dialogue|translation|sergio-leone|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11480" CreationDate="2013-05-18T17:22:16.527" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid there is no &quot;single original language&quot;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058461/faq?ref_=tt_faq_sm#.2.1.1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Actors performed using each one their own original language&lt;/a&gt; and then the movie was dubbed in the countries as necessary: in Italy, the English and Spanish actors, in the U.S. the Spanish actors and so on. Not even in the Italian version the lips are always synced so it's the same situation for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can just watch it both in English and Italian. As far as the director's intent is concerned, so far I've found nothing that has been explicitly said by Sergio himself about this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastEditorUserId="7454" LastEditDate="2015-04-05T21:43:03.763" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T21:43:03.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11469" CreationDate="2013-05-18T18:02:38.290" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;strong&gt;no proper reason whatsoever&lt;/strong&gt; for him to link the unsecure device retrieved from an enemy to the network of MI6. The usual approach would be to treat it with the highest level of suspicion and analyze the hardware and contained data in a secure isolated environment, and Q should have known that, considering that he is supposed to be a genius IT specialist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a trope called the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IdiotBall&quot;&gt;Idiot Ball&lt;/a&gt; (warning: TvTropes link!):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A moment where a character's stupidity fuels an episode, or a small plot line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are looking for a reasonable in-world explanation, one could come up with the following reasons for his mistake:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They had Silva captured and detained. They did not knew that this was part of his plan, so they may have had a false sense of security.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There was highly encrypted data on the device which he could probably decrypt faster by using the networks ressources.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Q is young and very sure of himself. He probably thought that the security measures he set in place were enough to protect the network from any kind of attack.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, that was a very stupid thing to do and for me was one of the biggest facepalm moments in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2013-05-18T18:02:38.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11484" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-18T21:35:39.137" Score="7" ViewCount="398" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Ghost,&quot; we see that Sam has learned how to manipulate objects in the physical world.  But near the end, when Oda Mae comes to Molly's apartment to run from Carl, we see her begging Molly to unlock and open the door, even though Sam is right there in the apartment at the door with Molly.  He could have just used his powers to unlock it, but instead asks Oda Mae for a penny to demonstrate to Molly that he is there and get her to open the door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always thought he didn't unlock it because he didn't want to overwhelm her or freak her out, but the penny does that anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts are welcome, and please feel free to correct any etiquette mistakes I make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4900" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-19T09:27:29.077" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T00:54:05.177" Title="Why doesn't Sam use his ability to move things to open the door?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ghost|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11486" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11487" CreationDate="2013-05-19T06:28:18.000" Score="9" ViewCount="4065" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; why was &lt;em&gt;Aragorn&lt;/em&gt; an exile at the beginning? Did a certain event cause him to become an exile?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-19T09:22:06.423" LastActivityDate="2013-05-19T16:41:11.193" Title="What is the history of Aragorn?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11486" CreationDate="2013-05-19T06:51:21.587" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoting from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragorn#History&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The son of Arathorn II and his wife Gilraen, Aragorn was born on 1 March, T.A. 2931.&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragorn#History&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; Through his ancestor Elendil (whom he closely resembled)[2] Aragorn was a descendant of the first king of Númenor, Elros Tar-Minyatur; the twin brother of Elrond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Aragorn was two years old, his father was killed while pursuing orcs. Aragorn was afterwards fostered in Rivendell by Elrond. At the request of his mother, his lineage was kept secret, as she feared he would be killed like his father and grandfather if his true identity as Isildur's heir became known. Aragorn was renamed Estel (&amp;quot;hope&amp;quot; in Tolkien's invented language of Sindarin) to hide his existence from Sauron and his servants. He was not told about his heritage until he came of age in 2951.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elrond revealed to Aragorn his true name and ancestry, and delivered to him the shards of Elendil's sword Narsil, and also the Ring of Barahir. He withheld the Sceptre of Annúminas from him until he &amp;quot;came of the right&amp;quot; to possess it. Aragorn met and fell in love with Arwen, Elrond's daughter (whom he mistook for Tinúviel), when she had returned from Lórien, her mother's homeland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aragorn thereafter assumed his role as the sixteenth Chieftain of the Dúnedain, the Rangers of the North, and went into the wild, living with the remnants of his people, whose kingdom had been destroyed through civil and regional wars centuries before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe there is no need to explain more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-05-19T06:51:21.587" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="203" CreationDate="2013-05-19T08:15:06.023" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667945/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sandkings&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The scientist and family man Dr. Simon Kress has been researching the&#xA;  development of a species using eggs found in a sample of Martian soil.&#xA;  When one bug escapes from the laboratory breaking the security of the&#xA;  facility, the project is shut-down by the government due to its hazard&#xA;  and Dr. Simon is fired. Dr. Simon expected to win the Nobel Prize and&#xA;  steals 275 g of the sample ground, bringing it to the barn of his&#xA;  property and developing new species. He hides the truth from his wife&#xA;  Cathy and shares the secret with his smart son Josh. Along the days,&#xA;  Simon realizes how intelligent the creatures are and feels like a god&#xA;  since they seem to worship him. However, when Simon is bitten by one&#xA;  subject, his irresponsible behavior changes to insanity, jeopardizing&#xA;  his family, his friend and mankind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4902" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-03-26T09:40:48.477" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T09:40:48.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11489" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11519" CreationDate="2013-05-19T09:46:31.117" Score="7" ViewCount="1506" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the fields of Trenzalore, at the fall of the Eleventh, when no&#xA;living creature may speak falsely or fail to give answer, a question&#xA;will be asked. A question that must never, ever be answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doctor Who?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In The Name of the Doctor the Doctor and Clara went to Trenzalore and it was revealed to be his grave.  Was this the fulfilment of the prophecy which the Silence wanted to avoid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the fields of Trenzalore&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I wouldn't describe it as a field - Check&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;at the fall of the Eleventh&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, the Doctor didn't die - we also weren't given a reason to believe he wouldn't have any more regenerations.  So was this where the 11th will fall?  He did technically fall to the ground? You could also say he was defeated... Unsure&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;when no living creature may speak falsely or fail to give answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But he did fail to answer - sure River answered but he didn't?  However there was the spoiler at the end which implied River was with the Doctor, did she answer for him?  Again, unsure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a question will be asked. A question that must never, ever be answered&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, this is the kicker.  The Doctor's name was asked, however I suspect the question is actually slightly different... who was the &amp;quot;Doctor&amp;quot; we saw at the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final point is idle speculation as we can't know until the the writers reveal it.  However my question is this, was this the the fulfilment of the prophecy or are they going back to Trenzalore at some point in the future (before he dies)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T15:02:44.413" Title="Was the Silence Prophecy fulfilled in The Name of the Doctor?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10042" CreationDate="2013-05-19T10:43:22.830" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's actually the grandmother saying it in the letter and yeah, it says, &quot;Now it's your time.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4905" LastActivityDate="2013-05-19T10:43:22.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11486" CreationDate="2013-05-19T16:35:15.840" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can think of two different reasons why Aragorn was called an Exile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A King without a Kingdom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aragorn's forebear &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elendil&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Elendil&lt;/a&gt; founded the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnor&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kingdom of Arnor&lt;/a&gt; in the North.  Arnor was the sister realm of Gondor in the South.  When Elendil died, the Crown of Arnor passed to Isildur, his son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arnor eventually suffered from civil war and split up in smaller Kingdoms.  All of the smaller Kingdoms were defeated by the Witch King.  The Fall of Arnor left the House of Isildur without a Kingdom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of the War of the Ring, Aragorn was the heir of the House of Isildur.  Because he was a King without a Kingdom, he may have been called an Exile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An Exile from Númenor&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Kingdom of Númenor was an island raised by the One God as a reward for the faithful men who fought in the War against Morgoth.  As years went on, the Kings of Númenor became ever more arrogant.  In the end, they sent a large Armada against the Mayor Gods, hoping to wrest immortality from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Mayor Gods called for help of the One God, and he destroyed the Armada and sunk the island of Númenor.  Just before that, a few of the remaining faithful men had fled Númenor.  Their leader was Elendil (the same as above.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because Aragorn was a descendant of Elendil, he could be said to be a Númenorean in Exile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1068" LastEditorUserId="1068" LastEditDate="2013-05-19T16:41:11.193" LastActivityDate="2013-05-19T16:41:11.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11495" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18037" CreationDate="2013-05-19T16:46:56.447" Score="9" ViewCount="75489" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Finale episode of The Office, we learn that one reason Kevin was fired, was for using his made-up number &quot;kelevin&quot; to correct accounting errors.  His replacement is seen asking Oscar about this &quot;strange symbol.&quot;  Do we have any way of knowing what this symbol looks like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastActivityDate="2017-04-18T19:42:44.663" Title="What does the &quot;keleven&quot; digit look like?" Tags="|the-office|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11496" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19428" CreationDate="2013-05-19T16:53:06.453" Score="7" ViewCount="6331" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Finale episode of The Office, the Scranton Cultural Center hosts a public Q&amp;amp;A panel of the employees of Dunder Mifflin.  Most of the regular characters return for this after several months, even Kevin, who was fired, and Stanley, who had retired.  Yet no mention is made at all of Michael Scott.  Why wasn't Michael Scott invited?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also curious for an out-of-universe explanation; was Steve Carrel invited to appear one last time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T00:37:12.540" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T21:14:30.510" Title="Why didn't Michael Scott appear in the Q&amp;A panel in the Finale episode of The Office?" Tags="|the-office|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11501" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11509" CreationDate="2013-05-20T00:49:32.923" Score="4" ViewCount="5339" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Fellowship of the Ring&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the group meets the Lady of the Woods during their trip. But who is she and what's her relationship with the rest of the elves. For example Legolas didn't look like he knew anyone when they encountered the Lady's henchmen in the wood, so I'm confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/In-Fellowship-of-the-Ring-who-is-the-Lady-of-the-Wood-and-whats-her-relationship-to-the-rest-of-the-elves&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Also asked on Quora.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-02T15:41:07.793" LastActivityDate="2021-08-29T23:29:40.903" Title="Who is the Lady of the Wood, and what's her relationship to the rest of the elves?" Tags="|character|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-fellowship-of-the-ring|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4433" CreationDate="2013-05-20T00:50:22.997" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708669/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Fist Full of Datas&lt;/a&gt;, Brent Spiner plays Data, and multiple holodeck replicas of himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T08:26:07.510" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T08:26:07.510" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11503" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11508" CreationDate="2013-05-20T00:59:35.633" Score="13" ViewCount="11180" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does Frodo have to fly solo without the others at the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Fellowship of the Ring&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? Especially &lt;em&gt;Aragorn&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Legolas&lt;/em&gt; both seem like incredible assassins/bodyguards and basically immune to the draw of the ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="4174" LastEditDate="2013-08-25T13:11:31.040" LastActivityDate="2013-08-25T13:11:31.040" Title="Why did Frodo need to go it alone, leaving Aragorn and Legolas behind?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-fellowship-of-the-ring|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11507" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11514" CreationDate="2013-05-20T02:16:44.373" Score="11" ViewCount="46688" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first two movies of the rebooted &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt;-franchise were at the start of Bond's career (when he was likely in his late twenties/thirties), but when does &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; take place in relation to other things going on with Bond?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T09:00:03.940" LastActivityDate="2014-08-17T17:03:01.273" Title="Where does Skyfall take place in the Bond timeline?" Tags="|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11503" CreationDate="2013-05-20T04:54:42.250" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frodo saw the effect the ring had on Boromir (Sean Bean), and knew that eventually it would corrupt the rest of the Fellowship. &lt;em&gt;No one&lt;/em&gt; is immune to the ring. Even, Gandalf and Galadriel refused to touch it. Frodo as a hobbit, is a bit resistant to the ring, but not completely impervious to it's influence. This is something that Lady Galadriel had foretold (emphasis mine).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Galadriel:&lt;/strong&gt; It is what will come to pass, If you should fail. The&#xA;  Fellowship is breaking, it has already begun. He will try to take the&#xA;  Ring, you know of whom I speak. One by one, it will destroy &lt;strong&gt;them&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Frodo knew that if he was to have a real chance at destroying the ring he would need to do this by himself and carry the burden alone. Of course Sam had other ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Galadriel&lt;/strong&gt;: You are a Ring-bearer, Frodo. To bear a Ring of Power is to be alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2013-05-20T05:03:13.090" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T05:03:13.090" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11501" CreationDate="2013-05-20T04:58:26.277" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The elves in the woods were the elves of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothl%C3%B3rien&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lothlorien&lt;/a&gt;, ruled by Celeborn and Galadriel (also known as the Lady of the Wood).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Legolas on the other hand is a prince of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirkwood&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mirkwood&lt;/a&gt;, a completely different forest realm. So it's not that surprising that Legolas doesn't know anyone there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-13T13:37:48.973" LastActivityDate="2016-11-13T13:37:48.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4470" CreationDate="2013-05-20T05:42:27.880" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think one Borden is primarily the ingenieur, and the other is primarily the performer. In this way they have a similar relationship to Cutter and Angier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a scene where Borden is yelling at Fallon, &quot;Why can't you outthink him!?&quot; I think this is Borden the Performer, who is obsessed with figuring out Angier's secret, taking out his frustration on Borden the Ingenieur. Subsequently the Performer notices the blind stagehands removing Angier's water tanks each night, and he informs the Ingenieur, who then goes to investigate for himself. But upon returning says that he still cannot figure it out, and tells the other Borden to drop it and leave Angier alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the Ingenieur is not obsessed with Angier the way the Performer is. I think this subtlety could be detected in other scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the Performer seems more prone to emotion-based behavior, while the Ingenieur is typically calm and reasonable. It's the Performer who is obsessed with competing against Angier, who treats Sarah poorly, and yells at Fallon. The Ingenieur is the one who appears first as Fallon, tries to convince his brother to leave Angier alone, and genuinely loves Sarah (who can sense the difference and in one scene actually tells the Performer to &quot;stop performing!&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4878" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T05:42:27.880" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11511" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11513" CreationDate="2013-05-20T05:49:35.010" Score="27" ViewCount="47615" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the early days of the Big Bang Theory, Penny's character (and later Bernadette for a time) has worked at The Cheesecake Factory.  Clearly, this chain of restaurants has some sort of advertising agreement with the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, their &quot;Cheesecake Factory&quot; looks nothing like the interior of any of their restaurants that I have been in, and reflects a generic color scheme and decor.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, has The Cheesecake Factory just not put up enough sponsorship over the years to get full coverage, or is there some sort of legislation that prevents the producers from showing the inside of an actual restaurant?  Or is it just practical concerns that if the sponsorship is dropped, there wouldn't be a need to redesign the sets?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-10T11:05:53.927" LastActivityDate="2016-11-29T08:39:06.727" Title="Why doesn't the restaurant resemble an actual Cheesecake Factory?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11511" CreationDate="2013-05-20T07:53:10.730" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/11511/why-doesnt-the-restaurant-on-the-bbt-resemble-an-actual-cheesecake-factory?noredirect=1#comment12970_11511&quot;&gt;OP's suggestion&lt;/a&gt;  I am expanding my comment to an answer. (Of course, it will be nice if someone is able to find some additional information and sources.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following is mentioned in Wikipedia article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheesecake_Factory#In_popular_culture&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Cheesecake Factory&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A fictional version of The Cheesecake Factory is used as a setting in the U.S. sitcom The Big Bang Theory. The show's portrayal of the restaurant, however, is not visually accurate to the real Cheesecake Factory. According to the company, it &quot;does not have any sort of arrangements with the show. The Cheesecake Factory is really pleased to be featured in such a funny and wildly popular show&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Cheesecake_Factory&amp;amp;oldid=552471334#In_popular_culture&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a link to the current revision of the Wikipedia article - in the case this information is changed by editing of the article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia gives as a source &lt;a href=&quot;http://communityvoices.post-gazette.com/arts-entertainment-living/tuned-in/31514-tv-qaa-abc-news-storage-wars-and-the-big-bang-theory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Q&amp;amp;A: ABC News, 'Storage Wars' and 'The Big Bang Theory.'&lt;/a&gt; I quote from there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q: On “The Big Bang Theory,” Penny works for the Cheesecake Factory, but clearly their version of the Cheesecake Factory is nothing like what it is in real [life] (at least here in Pittsburgh.) At best, I would liken Penny's place of employment to a Denny's.  So, my question is, does the show have to pay to use the Cheesecake Factory name? Or better yet, why hasn't the Cheesecake Factory sued the producers for defamation?&#xA;  - Linda, 39, Castle Shannon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rob: I've had a similar thought and last night I was at dinner with a friend who brought up how much it bugs her that the Cheesecake Factory on &quot;Big Bang&quot; looks like a Denny's without any prompting from me. There’s no mention of “promotional consideration” paid by Cheesecake Factory in the “Big Bang Theory” end credits so Cheesecake is not paying Warner Bros., which produces “BBT.” And why would Warner Bros. pay Cheesecake when “BBT” gives the chain a ton of free publicity every time it mentions the restaurant by name? True, the Cheesecake Factory restaurant set on “BBT” is smaller and not as spacious as the restaurant but if you adhere to the motto “any publicity is good publicity,” then this is great exposure even if it’s not 100 percent authentic in its presentation.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  A spokeswoman for the restaurant chain says, “The Cheesecake Factory does not have any sort of arrangements with the show. The Cheesecake Factory is really pleased to be featured in such a funny &amp;amp; wildly popular show.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1539" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T08:39:28.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11507" CreationDate="2013-05-20T09:46:52.100" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Timelines and James Bond don't go hand in hand, he's an ageless character and will always continue to be up to date regardless of when the stories are set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that if you're determined to answer the question, there are a few clues we can divine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has acquired the Aston Martin, therefore it must be after Casino Royal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Aston has an ejector seat and machine guns which were fitted for GoldFinger&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's Judi Dench's M character final mission therefore it must be after all of the Brosnan Bonds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Q mentions the exploding pen which was last seen in GoldenEye&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you put these facts together Bond has most likely completed the missions in all the other films, however as I suggested at the start Bond and chronology questions are always going to be very hard because of the nature of the franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example in GoldenEye M is the new head of MI6 and meets an experienced 007, in Casino Royale that same M promotes him to the 00 section!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T09:46:52.100" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1354" CreationDate="2013-05-20T09:54:31.823" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Horcruxes were destroyed as follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tom Riddle's Diary: by &lt;strong&gt;Harry&lt;/strong&gt; inside the Chamber of Secrets using the basilisk fang in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Marvolo Gaunt's ring: by &lt;strong&gt;Dumbledore&lt;/strong&gt; using Gryffindor's sword in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Salazar Slytherin's locket: by &lt;strong&gt;Ron&lt;/strong&gt; using Gryffindor's sword in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Helga Hufflepuff's cup: by &lt;strong&gt;Hermione&lt;/strong&gt; using the basilisk fang in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem: by &lt;strong&gt;Crabbe&lt;/strong&gt; accidentally by a &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Fiendfyre&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fiendfyre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Harry Potter (specifically the soul fragment within him): by &lt;strong&gt;Voldemort&lt;/strong&gt; using a Avada Kedavra in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nagini the snake: by &lt;strong&gt;Neville&lt;/strong&gt; using Gryffindor's sword in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4914" LastEditorUserId="65183" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2021-06-25T13:38:13.633" LastActivityDate="2021-06-25T13:38:13.633" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11516" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-20T10:01:16.863" Score="7" ViewCount="92719" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 19's Africa Special, the Top Gear presenters go on to find the true source of the River Nile, theorizing that Lake Victoria isn't the actual source as experts suggest, but even farther east somewhere in Tanzania.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this true? Did they really find the Nile's true source?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4496" LastEditorUserId="46980" LastEditDate="2021-12-13T11:01:59.950" LastActivityDate="2021-12-13T11:01:59.950" Title="Did the Top Gear presenters really find the source of the river Nile?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|top-gear|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11516" CreationDate="2013-05-20T10:41:03.030" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many discussions of this on the web (Google: &quot;Top Gear&quot; source Nile), but I think the one on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1a3bm0/did_top_gear_really_find_the_source_of_the_nile/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reddit&lt;/a&gt; covers the main points solidly.  In short, the &quot;Top Gear&quot; team redefined the phrase &quot;source of the Nile&quot; by first redefining &quot;Nile&quot; to include the Mediterranean Sea, thus moving the mouth of the Nile from Egypt to the Strait of Gibraltar.  That resulted in the new source being in a location one could drive to (unlike the source recognized by everyone else).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, no, they didn't, unless you want to use some very non-standard geographical definitions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(By the way, most people agree Lake Victoria isn't the source since it has many feeders; the question is which of those starts furthest from the Nile's mouth.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T10:41:03.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11489" CreationDate="2013-05-20T14:28:00.500" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe so.  It sounds to me like the prophecy is about the battle that resulted in the graveyard we see in &lt;em&gt;The Name of the Doctor&lt;/em&gt;.  During that battle, Silence fell.  The main reason I think this is the case, is because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;when no living creature may speak falsely or fail to give answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;wasn't really part of the events of that episode.  The Doctor clearly failed to give an answer, River was the one who provided the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see the events of the prophesy play out in the recent Christmas Special episode, &lt;em&gt;The Time of the Doctor&lt;/em&gt;.  In it, The Doctor and Clara go to a world revealed to be Trenzalore.  The crack from Series 5 is in a building on the planet, in a small town.  It is emanating a 'truth field', which prevents people from 'speaking falsely' (see above prophecy).  A signal is coming from the crack, which contains an encrypted message asking a question over and over:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Doctor &lt;em&gt;Who?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They come to the planet, and find many ships from various races.  Each race sent one ship to investigate the signal, which is being transmitted throughout time and space.  The Church got there first.  To protect the planet, they setup a shield to prevent anyone from going to the planet or attacking it.  When the Doctor arrived, The Church sent him down to investigate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The signal is coming from Gallifrey, outside the universe after the events of &lt;em&gt;Day of the Doctor&lt;/em&gt;.  If the Doctor speaks his name they'll return, but in so doing, will restart the Time War.  Upon learning this, The Church dedicates themselves to Silence, the silence of the Doctor, as they do not want the Time War to return.  As The Church's leader proclaims:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Silence must fall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A repeating theme of the 11th Doctor's run, and something related to the prophecy, &quot;Silence will fall when the Question is asked&quot; (&lt;em&gt;Let's Kill Hitler&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So The Church helps maintain a truce, they help the Doctor prevent any of the races from invading the planet, and he does not answer the question.  Then time passes as they maintain the truce.  Centuries pass, the Doctor grows old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the episode, the Daleks break the truce and invade the planet.  Clara argues into the crack that the Time Lords don't need to hear the Doctor's true name, they just need to help him.  They do so by providing him with a new set of regenerations.  The 11th Doctor dies of old age, blasting the Daleks with his regeneration energy, saving the planet as his regeneration begins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so the Eleventh falls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-12-26T18:24:39.193" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T18:24:39.193" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9807" CreationDate="2013-05-20T14:29:16.633" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Liotta is Jimmy Cayne, former CEO of Bear Stearns, who refused to participate in the bailout of LTCM years ago (heist #1 when Liotta really did do it), and so was allowed to die by the other bosses(Bear was the first to go down, before Lehman). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The card games are the financial system itself - trading and investing being gambling in this case. Once confidence is shaken,  the entire system freezes up as it did in 2008.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gandolfini and Pitt are the financial regulators at the time, Paulson, Geitner, Bair, Bernanke - who are all on the banks payroll, but are meant to be keeping order - hence the misguided mortality of the Brad Pitt character, and the washed up ground into meat nature of the Gandolfini character. They know they have moral obligations, but they also know it is the banks, and not the government, who ultimately pay them. They eventually &quot; bail out &quot; the Jenkins' Driver character (bank CEO's) by solving their crisis of confidence problem for Driver, through in this case killing some of the responsible parties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Frankie character represents the rogue traders who participated in the financial collapse and were summarily either socially executed or arrested during the collapse and blame was assigned to them even though they were mere bit players. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jenkins' Driver represents the surviving banks' CEO's- Goldman's Blankfein, JP Morgan's Dimon - who emerged unscathed and even more powerful from the crisis. so powerful that he could refuse to pay Pitt (the financial regulator) the full amount he was owed at the end - that amount being representative of the bank bailouts, the money from which was never fully paid back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4917" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T14:29:16.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2137" CreationDate="2013-05-20T15:16:20.950" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a video on the Discovery Channel where a Doctor was performing hip surgery. He used a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dewalt.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DeWalt&lt;/a&gt; battery powered drill during the operation. I don't remember if it was wrapped in plastic or not, but I think the idea that a power tool is off limits simply because it's a power tool isn't right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the Doctor is doing something like screw a 4&quot; medical bolt into your leg, then the standard equipment might not have the torque. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can take a look at medial power tools at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alibaba.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alibaba.com&lt;/a&gt; to see what they look like. Some of the drills look a lot like regular drills you'd find in a store.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, a Doctor would never use a circular saw in surgery, but they would use a &lt;a href=&quot;http://dewalt.com/tools/cordless-saws-reciprocating-saws-dcs380b.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reciprocating saw&lt;/a&gt; or a &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B004L3UDV8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;oscillating cutter&lt;/a&gt;. I'm sure there are medical grade versions of those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T15:16:20.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2171" CreationDate="2013-05-20T15:25:50.197" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Social Network, Armie Hammer plays both of the Winklevoss twins utilising a method that allowed the on screen presence to be recorded with a body double (Josh Pence) with Armie's face subsequently digitally replaced over the top for scenes with both twins present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://videos.nymag.com/video/Vulture-Exclusive-The-Winklevii&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here is a video detailing the process a little bit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Director David Fincher &lt;a href=&quot;http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/10/04/social-network-twins-winklevoss/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;further explains&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hammer played the main twin in each shot. For shots that included both twins at the same time, Pence stood in for the second twin; Hammer later went into a studio, where he strapped his head into a harness to film that twin’s face and voice, which was then digitally superimposed over Pence’s face in the film. The result is a sort of hybrid actor with Hammer’s head and Pence’s body. Intricate split-screens and rotoscoping were also used for some shots. Piece of cake, right? “After Benjamin Button, you go, ‘It can be done,’” says Fincher. “Give us a case of Red Bull and a weekend, and we’ll figure this out.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T15:25:50.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11507" CreationDate="2013-05-20T16:12:16.567" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, the &lt;em&gt;James Bond&lt;/em&gt; movies (or rather the pre-&lt;em&gt;Craig&lt;/em&gt; movies) don't adhere to an actual realistic timeline that goes through all of the movies. Without some small exceptions (&lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt;'s wife and her death) there aren't any major cross-movie story developments and any &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; movie can be seen as rather stand-alone, even if some small comments and allusions to previous movies are made here and there (e.g. at the scale of &lt;em&gt;Brosnan&lt;/em&gt; making a small remark about the jet-pack from &lt;em&gt;Thunderball&lt;/em&gt;, but nothing serious or story-relevant).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this is slightly different for the &lt;em&gt;Craig&lt;/em&gt;-movies. First of all they're actually a reboot. Whereas all the previous movies didn't really care that much about their respective prequels, &lt;em&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/em&gt; was the first to actively reboot the whole franchise and introduce &lt;em&gt;James Bond&lt;/em&gt; as a completely new character recently promoted to 00-status. This means that any previous movies, in contrast to merely being ignored, &lt;em&gt;don't actually exist&lt;/em&gt; in the world of this rebooted franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand this new rebooted franchise comes with a much tighter cross-movie development and the individual movies' stories are interweaved much more tightly (especially noticable with &lt;em&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Quantum of Solace&lt;/em&gt;, though less with &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;). So while it is rather pointless to come up with an actual timeline for the pre-&lt;em&gt;Craig&lt;/em&gt; movies, the &lt;em&gt;Craig&lt;/em&gt;-franchise indeed has a sequential timeline with the movies happening in the order they came out and roughly at the timescales they are released. It has to be seen how far this is kept on with future &lt;em&gt;Craig&lt;/em&gt;-movies, but since rather important story developments happened to major characters in &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt; (especially &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt;), I'm pretty sure the next movie will not just ignore those but rather reference them, be it only slightly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer your actual question, &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt; likely takes place a couple of years after &lt;em&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Quantum of Solace&lt;/em&gt; and any other &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; adventures known from other movies didn't actually happen in this rebooted universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-28T10:46:29.077" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T10:46:29.077" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11524" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11525" CreationDate="2013-05-20T16:42:46.097" Score="16" ViewCount="3031" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300854/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; felt a little odd without any presence from S.H.I.E.L.D. (Director Nick Fury and company). The US President is kidnapped and they're not concerned? So why didn't they appear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-11-01T19:10:00.227" LastActivityDate="2016-11-19T18:50:47.297" Title="Why was S.H.I.E.L.D. noticeably missing from Iron Man 3?" Tags="|iron-man-3|marvel-cinematic-universe|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11524" CreationDate="2013-05-20T17:21:20.620" Score="14" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feige recently took to Twitter to engage with fans, touching upon&#xA;S.H.I.E.L.D.’s absence in IM3, amongst other things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S.H.I.E.L.D. was very busy, as will be revealed in future films.&lt;/strong&gt; - Kevin Feige&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s hard to tell from that tweet whether there was a plan from the&#xA;start for this ‘revelation’ about S.H.I.E.L.D.’s absence, or whether&#xA;Feige and Co. are now doing damage control to appease the many fans&#xA;who were none too pleased about the narrative island IM3 seemed to be&#xA;living on.&#xA;(Source- &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/iron-man-3-shield-extremis-discussion-kevin-feige/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;screenrant.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there is no in-universe explanation yet but it may come in future films as Kevin Feige suggested in his tweet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T19:11:43.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9065" CreationDate="2013-05-20T18:12:40.367" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Along with the answer given by another, it would create a paradox given the way that time travel works in Primer. The alteration of one's past self creates a paradox self, which is why, later in the film, one pair of Abe and Aaron lose the ability to write. With them going back in time, it allows them to take the full benefit of time travel without the risk of altering their past selves and creating a paradox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4920" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T18:12:40.367" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1821" CreationDate="2013-05-20T20:11:08.927" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I worked in underground utlities and sewage.  There is no reason.  The pipe diameter was not large enough for the fountain, so to speak.  The only way that the pipe would have produced this would be by a pump, and the pipe was breeched when the pump was working to release accumulated waste in some sort of tank.  I also think it was just for effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4921" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T20:11:08.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11130" CreationDate="2013-05-20T20:21:36.347" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no need for Victor to be killed. In fact for a person who takes fastidious care of his employees it is a very bad move. Victor being seen was not that big a deal. He might even have been able to manufacture Meth. At least he would have been useful as a reminder that Walter is not indispensable. There is absolutely no need for him to be killed. However, if you were writing the scene, how would you have it resolved? Gus comes in and just tells Walter to go back to work? Just admitting that he had been outsmarted? Gus picks up a cutter but then does not actually does anything with it? The writers went with the shock and drama that the sudden killing of Victor produced. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4923" LastActivityDate="2013-05-20T20:21:36.347" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2621" CreationDate="2013-05-20T20:31:02.297" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sydnor, as you see in the final episode, turns into McNulty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sydnor was meant to be seen as Jimmy McNulty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember the final episode showed the &quot;origin&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Michael - The new Omar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dukwon - The new Bubbles&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sydnor - The new McNulty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Carver - Any middle management (Burell etc...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kima - the new Daniels (I'm not totally sure about this, but that's how I see it)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="274" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-05T23:36:33.883" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T23:36:33.883" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11530" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11577" CreationDate="2013-05-20T23:26:14.717" Score="6" ViewCount="12751" Body="&lt;p&gt;I distinctly remember at least 2 episodes of Scrubs where Dr. Cox insults Hugh Jackman (implied that Hugh is a bad actor) and does anyone know the reason why?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I haven't been able to find a clear answer on this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4911" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-21T12:11:56.567" LastActivityDate="2013-11-11T21:53:00.720" Title="Why does Dr. Cox from Scrubs hate Hugh Jackman?" Tags="|scrubs|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11524" CreationDate="2013-05-20T23:55:48.573" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only thing I would add is that the movie is about Iron Man not the adventures of Iron Man AND S.H.I.E.L.D. AND a few Avengers thrown in for good measure. Who goes to an Iron Man movie in order to see S.H.I.E.L.D.? &#xA;It would greatly diminish the drama having S.H.I.E.L.D. as Tony's safety blanket. Therefore, they took away all his support (including his house) to &quot;up the ante&quot; so to speak.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, S.H.I.E.L.D. is off fighting battles of it's own (natural disasters, super villains and keeping the villains in prison.We'll find out exactly what eventually) This happens in the comics all the time; hero asks for help but no one is around and they must go it alone.  Or they refuse to ask for help out of stubbornness, pride, honor etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; This is a standard trope for heroes; i.e. &quot;the hero stands alone&quot;. You can read all about it on TV Tropes. This trope is as at least as old as comic books and IM3 paid homage to it here. Doing this greatly increases both the drama and Tony's status as a BA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4911" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-11-19T18:50:47.297" LastActivityDate="2016-11-19T18:50:47.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11472" CreationDate="2013-05-21T03:36:45.250" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;They were never actually in a relationship! They started dating after Sub Rosa (Season 1) then things went pearshaped after McGee asked were their relationship was going and Abby was happy just to leave things as they were! They only dated for half of the season!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of Season 8, however there is a very tender moment between the two of them and McGee tells Abby 'If something ever happened to you I would...&quot; which indicates that he still has feelings for Abby and worries about her while also giving the hint that he cares and wants to protect her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4910" LastActivityDate="2013-05-21T03:36:45.250" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11073" CreationDate="2013-05-21T04:22:08.250" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Contrary to other answers, I believe the high-value chip from the exclusive casino would not be a &quot;safe&quot; way to compensate a hit man. If the police found the chip on the hit man, they would know to investigate the casino.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, as soon as Bond found the chip, he went to the casino, to try to find out who ordered the hit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, in Skyfall, it turns out that the person who ordered the hit was Silva, who WANTED to leave a clue to entice Bond. &lt;strong&gt;The chip was meant to serve as a clue that would lead Bond into Silva's trap.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2013-05-21T05:02:26.410" LastActivityDate="2013-05-21T05:02:26.410" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11534" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11537" CreationDate="2013-05-21T05:28:54.497" Score="15" ViewCount="920" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Star Trek: Generations, it was this very thing that destroyed the stardrive section of the Enterprise-D. As soon as LaForge recognized that a coolant leak had occurred, he evacuated Engineering immediately and reported to the bridge that a warp core overload was inevitable and irreparable. Yet in the very next film, &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: First Contact&lt;/em&gt;, Picard suggests (and Data supports) causing a massive coolant leak in order to eradicate the Borg infestation there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user4840" LastEditDate="2015-11-22T22:46:42.297" LastActivityDate="2020-10-07T17:57:10.080" Title="Why does deliberately causing a coolant leak in main engineering NOT result in catastrophic destruction of the ship?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-trek|star-trek-first-contact|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11535" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11564" CreationDate="2013-05-21T05:29:49.220" Score="7" ViewCount="33635" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mystic River is set in a Boston community which is rocked by the fatal shooting of a young woman. Everyone begins to suspect Dave, who was seen with the victim before the murder and then came home later with an injured hand and blood on his clothes, supposedly from a mugging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the cops investigate the murder, several days go by. Eventually the young woman's grief-stricken father confronts Dave, who then says he got the injury and blood from killing a child molester who he saw with an under-age prostitute. The story seems unbelievable, and the grief-stricken father kills Dave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the very next day, the cops announce that they caught someone else who confessed to killing the young woman -- and by the way, in an unrelated case, a child molester had been killed that same night, and the cops suspect Dave did it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why hadn't anyone in the entire movie -- particularly the cops -- mentioned that there had been a second murder (the child molester) on the same night as the young woman was killed, presumably in the same vicinity where Dave had been?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2019-03-25T13:26:18.187" Title="In &quot;Mystic River&quot; how come no one mentioned the second murder?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mystic-river|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11536" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11546" CreationDate="2013-05-21T05:33:37.530" Score="32" ViewCount="3863" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086190/&quot;&gt;Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000273/?ref_=tt_cl_t1&quot;&gt;Luke Skywalker&lt;/a&gt; asks &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000008/?ref_=tt_cl_t3&quot;&gt;Leia&lt;/a&gt; what she remembers of her real mother. She tells that she only remembers a little bit about her ,as a kind person - 'images, mostly'.&#xA;Is there a explanation for this, or is it just a retroactive continuity in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121766/&quot;&gt;Revenge of the Sith&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditorDisplayName="user4840" LastEditDate="2016-05-09T07:17:12.067" LastActivityDate="2018-07-26T23:55:05.610" Title="How could Princess Leia remember her &quot;real mother&quot; a &quot;little bit,&quot; when Padmé Amidala died in childbirth?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|return-of-the-jedi|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11534" CreationDate="2013-05-21T07:06:32.043" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two reasons come to mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Generations&lt;/em&gt;, the engines were hot because of the just completed Battle of Veridian III.  In &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: First Contact&lt;/em&gt;, the Enterprise had been quietly orbiting Earth for some time.  Cold engines are presumably in less need of coolant.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Enterprise-E was an upgraded ship compared to the Enterprise-D; it is not unlikely that some of the changes were intended to mitigate the warp core breach problem that had destroyed the Enterprise-D.  In fact, we can see that the Enterprise-E has &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; plasma coolant tanks in main engineering.  Only one was damaged; perhaps that redundancy prevented any core breach.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is reassuring that my thoughts are echoed by the article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Plasma_coolant&quot;&gt;plasma coolant&lt;/a&gt; in the Memory Alpha wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-05-21T07:06:32.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9835" CreationDate="2013-05-21T07:35:06.153" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the last scene seems to me clear that she is in coma and all what happened after the bombing was in her imagination or a dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4924" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-05-21T10:36:36.650" LastActivityDate="2013-05-21T10:36:36.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10452" CreationDate="2013-05-21T07:52:11.957" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are looking too deep into it. It's definitely not intentional. Now that you have told me there is a voice change, I keep hearing it, which is pretty freaky. I watched the movie twice in the theatre with digital surround and I didn't think it was out of place. I don't think it has anything to do with the plot or contains any subtext but that's just me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4431" LastActivityDate="2013-05-21T07:52:11.957" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11536" CreationDate="2013-05-21T07:55:27.377" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably she saw a few family heirloom holograms and photos.  Or maybe stories were told to her when she was little and, as the mind tends to do, internalizes them into memories of the original without the storyteller in between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-05-21T07:55:27.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11542" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11544" CreationDate="2013-05-21T09:07:55.390" Score="8" ViewCount="7403" Body="&lt;p&gt;After seeing Men in Black III, I still don't understand why K became such a cranky, stoical figure. It is a question even Agent J was puzzled about!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-05-21T13:43:40.053" LastActivityDate="2013-05-21T13:43:40.053" Title="What happened to Agent K to make him so grumpy and emotionless?" Tags="|men-in-black-3|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11543" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11553" CreationDate="2013-05-21T09:18:19.070" Score="3" ViewCount="416" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Snow White and the Huntsman&lt;/em&gt; (2012), I wonder, who was Ravenna's mother was and why she dies? It seems like with all that power, she should be in a better shape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-02T15:54:37.563" LastActivityDate="2016-09-02T15:54:37.563" Title="How did Ravenna's mom end up with such insane powers?" Tags="|character|snow-white-and-the-huntsman|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11542" CreationDate="2013-05-21T10:27:30.620" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) witnessed the death of Agent J's (Will Smith) father, who was killed by an alien in an act that could have been prevented by Agent K. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the time travel elements of the third movie, and the fact that Agent K from the past was aware of his future after Agent J told him, he has essentially lived with the fact that the father of one of his only friends in the universe died because of his own failures. Since the &quot;past&quot; elements of the movie took place in 1969, this means he's lived with this memory for some 40 years. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-05-21T10:27:30.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11545" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11547" CreationDate="2013-05-21T11:34:56.123" Score="15" ViewCount="7989" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read somewhere that the character of the Janitor was originally only going to be a character in JD's daydream and that for the first season he didn't interact with anyone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this true?&#xA;If so What made them change this approach?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T10:35:01.153" Title="Was the Janitor real?" Tags="|scrubs|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11536" CreationDate="2013-05-21T11:39:01.753" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always put this down to the fact that the story for episode three changed slightly between 1983 and 2005.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In world explanation? Leia's ability with the force has been described as being more empathic allowing her to be a better diplomat. The complete line is &quot;Just...images, really. Feelings.&quot; perhaps her early Force abilities helped her to hold onto the few moments of contact she had?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-05-23T18:35:16.440" LastActivityDate="2013-05-23T18:35:16.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11545" CreationDate="2013-05-21T12:43:41.110" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janitor_%28Scrubs%29&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The role of Janitor was originally devised as a one-time gag in the series' pilot episode, Lawrence admitted: &quot;When we watched the pilot, we knew instantly we had to keep this guy around.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so he wasn't even meant to be on the whole first season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In season two he is also shown in the extended opening video credit. But that had to return to the short intro on request of NBC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4390" LastEditorUserId="4390" LastEditDate="2013-05-21T13:38:12.840" LastActivityDate="2013-05-21T13:38:12.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11548" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11557" CreationDate="2013-05-21T14:16:50.873" Score="6" ViewCount="38902" Body="&lt;p&gt;Call me ignorant to history but after another viewing of Django, it made me question how and why, did these Australians get mixed up in pre-civil war era America?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just going by the geography itself, its a bit of a far stretch as they would have to land essentially in Mexico or California at the time and then traveled across the south to Mississippi to start their company (assuming, of course, it is in Mississippi as that is where the last bit of the movie occurs). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T23:58:05.053" Title="Why are the LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. workers Australian?" Tags="|django-unchained|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11550" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11558" CreationDate="2013-05-21T14:30:39.353" Score="4" ViewCount="12087" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice this more when watching American shows - but for example, the Canadian show &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Continuum&lt;/a&gt;&quot; skipped a week after only four episodes in the current season. This is something I have seen frequently and can cite a variety of other examples using the list of shows that I usually watch, namely NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Lost Girl, Dexter, Breaking Bad, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCIS_%28season_10%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NCIS Season 10&lt;/a&gt; as a pertinent example;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;break after episode 3, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;break after episode 5, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;break after episode 10 (this one is presumably for Christmas),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;break after episode 14, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;break after episode 20&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have mentioned Breaking Bad, but I am excluding the long term break in the middle of season five, as that isn't an example of the kind of breaks I am querying. Specifically, my question is in relation to the seemingly sporadic one week breaks that occur in the &quot;current&quot; season being broadcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do TV shows take frequent breaks during a season?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:56:23.130" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:56:23.130" Title="Why do TV shows take frequent breaks during a season?" Tags="|scheduling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11545" CreationDate="2013-05-21T15:07:58.213" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they purposefully set this up.  If you watch the first season of the show, the Janitor never interacts with anyone except for JD.  There are a few occasions when &lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt; janitor is interacting minimally with others, but if you examine those scenes, it's not clear that anyone else sees &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; Janitor there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In season 2 and onward, they drop this shtick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janitor_%28Scrubs%29#Figment_of_J.D..27s_imagination&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia states:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As revealed in the DVD commentary on several episodes, the Janitor character was initially to be used as a figment of J.D.'s imagination if the show had been canceled during the first season or the first half of the second. This would have been revealed to the audience in the finale. ... Since the start of season two, Janitor has had encounters with most of the other regular characters. He has even had an entire episode (&quot;His Story III&quot;) devoted mostly to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-05-22T19:58:56.387" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T19:58:56.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11552" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11569" CreationDate="2013-05-21T16:03:14.130" Score="3" ViewCount="597" Body="&lt;p&gt;Really hope someone can help with this as it's bugging me to death. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one specific episode (no idea which season, sorry), either a captured enemy or a person of interest who I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; was an arms dealer is brought in to CTU headquarters for questioning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically Jack is impatient, and this quickly turns in to a bizarre torture scene (although I can't remember how) where the guy ends up dead on the floor of CTU, leading Jack using a couple of power cables to jump start the guy back to life. The power cables part is what I seem to remember the most. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that's a really sketchy outline of the plot, but I can barely remember it. If this sparks memory in anyone, can you tell me &lt;em&gt;who&lt;/em&gt; this 'arms dealer' was that Jack was torturing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4927" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T12:30:29.893" Title="24 - Trying to remember a specific character that Jack Bauer tortured" Tags="|24|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11543" CreationDate="2013-05-21T16:35:49.047" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ravenna's mother was supposedly a sorceress, and brought that trait to Ravenna. I am guessing that Finn (Ravenna's brother) did not get that lucky. She probably got the insane powers, one, because she was taught sorcery, and two from her mother. She also could have gotten it from the potion she drank, given to her from her mother before she was taken. I believe Ravenna's mother died because back then, people feared sorcery. They took Ravenna and Finn, thinking the mothers loss of children would make her grow weaker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4928" LastActivityDate="2013-05-21T16:35:49.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11554" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-21T16:36:59.003" Score="1" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;They really wrote her off rather thoughtlessly, no? Why not work hard to figure out for sure that she's dead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4928" LastEditorDisplayName="user4840" LastEditDate="2013-05-21T16:42:51.613" LastActivityDate="2013-05-21T16:42:51.613" Title="At the beginning of the movie, why did little William and Duke Hammond assume that Snow White was dead?" Tags="|plot-explanation|snow-white-and-the-huntsman|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11554" CreationDate="2013-05-21T16:40:31.570" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Firstly, they left her behind in the middle of a battle&lt;/strong&gt;. There's a chance that in the midst of the chaos, Snow White will get hurt - whether it's deliberate or accidental. Being a child, it wouldn't take much to deal her a fatal blow. Think about it - someone shoves her out of the way, her head hits a rock and she's probably dead. I'd say the immediate odds are not in her favor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming she makes it out of the battle, Snow White will inevitably come before Ravenna. She's really too young to escape on her own; her odds of survival alone would not be good. Knowing that Ravenna has just killed the king, it seems very reasonable to assume that she might just kill Snow White then and there. Why she does not is an entirely different question, but again, the odds are not in Snow White's favor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Barring the immediate threats that would make William and Hammond assume Snow White dead&lt;/strong&gt;, we have to consider the period of years during her imprisonment. The movie makes it clear that Hammond's castle is a journey of several days away, through some rather nasty territory. We also learn that they are raiding Ravenna, but cannot confront her outright - suggesting that they have rarely been inside Ravenna's castle. Even the two men that get captured and taken inside would never have seen or heard about Snow White - except that she escapes right as the elder man is leaving. Moreover, that man's son was killed as punishment; again, it's not unreasonable to assume that any other men of Hammond's that made it into the castle never came out again alive. Getting news of Snow White out of the castle seems unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a further note, Snow White was imprisoned up in a tower. The only people she saw were the occasional other captive put in a cell nearby (like Greta) and her guards. I have a strong suspicion that her guards do not know who she is, a suspicion reinforced by the fact that when Ravenna decides to kill Snow White, she sends her brother personally instead of a guard (remember - the men Ravenna brought in to take over the castle were hers, and would not have known Snow White). If this is true, it would make it even harder for news of Snow White's continued existence to escape the castle. William and Hammond's surprise is not entirely unbelievable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastActivityDate="2013-05-21T16:40:31.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11548" CreationDate="2013-05-21T17:08:24.070" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pedestrian.tv/news/entertainment/tarantino-talks-about-playing-an-aussie-in-django-/acc7caef-70cc-4967-ad5c-91cbff27984c.htm&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt;  Tarantino is a big fan of Australian exploitation cinema and wanted to work with actors from 70s Australian cinema because he thought it would be &quot;cool.&quot; The characters were written as indentured servants - the mining company payed their way over from Australia years before and they are working for the mining company to &quot;pay off&quot; their passage. You can find more about how the scene worked before being edited out &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/from-script-to-screen-the-12-biggest-deleted-unfilmed-scenes-from-django-unchained-20130417?page=2#&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2013-05-21T17:08:24.070" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11550" CreationDate="2013-05-21T17:28:12.090" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As FredH mentioned in his comment, in this particular case most of the gaps in NCIS correspond to political pre-emptions. However, even when there aren't these kinds of special things going on, most shows on the big networks have these kind of breaks. The reason is they are trying to  make sure that they have shows for as many sweep periods as possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is a &quot;sweep period?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nielsen.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nielsen ratings system&lt;/a&gt;, there are four periods per year (November, February, May and July) when Nielsen does intensive viewer diaries in addition to the electronic metering. These diaries have a lot of impact on a shows ratings. Thus, networks want to make sure they have shows during these times. However, there are 34-35 weeks between late September (the traditional start of the network &quot;season&quot;) and the end of May (to make sure that the May sweep is covered). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the average TV show only runs about 24 episodes these days (in the early days of TV it was closer to 30 but to save on costs most big 3 network series are only 22-24 today) that means that there are 10-11 weeks difference between the time they are trying to cover and the number of episodes they have to use. This is why there are breaks over the season. They usually group the episodes around the sweeps period and either fill in with other shows, movies, holiday specials, events, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:56:01.490" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:56:01.490" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11536" CreationDate="2013-05-21T20:17:23.403" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always worked on the assumption that Leia didn't know she wasn't an Organa for real. She never knew she had a &quot;real&quot; mother because Breha was her mother. Breha also died while Leia was between 12-16. This is roughly 10-15 years before &quot;New Hope&quot;(my guess). Things happen, and that could be why her memories of her mother are fading. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is, however, no evidence that she knew or didn't know she was adopted. The only thing we have to go on is Luke's choice of words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LUKE: Do you remember your mother? Your real mother?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This COULD lead us to believe that not only did Leia know, but others knew as well. If you go off that, then the only explanation of how she remembered Padme is with the help of the Force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3541" LastActivityDate="2013-05-21T20:17:23.403" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11561" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-21T21:36:36.950" Score="27" ViewCount="4299" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think I've ever heard &lt;em&gt;Brody&lt;/em&gt;'s wife call him &lt;em&gt;&quot;Nicholas&quot;&lt;/em&gt; throughout the first two seasons of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1796960/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Homeland&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Why does she always call him by his surname?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4932" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-10-26T12:22:56.400" LastActivityDate="2018-10-26T12:24:04.617" Title="Why does Brody's wife call him by his surname?" Tags="|character|homeland|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11561" CreationDate="2013-05-21T22:22:00.850" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is Nicolas Brody's (Damian Lewis) answer on it -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q. Why does the wife call him Brody?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A. [Laughs] Morena’s been asking that all season. “Why don’t I call&#xA;him Nick?” I’m a boarding-school-educated Brit so people have been&#xA;calling me by my last name forever. So it doesn’t seem that weird to&#xA;me. I think the writers see it as a term of endearment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/arts/television/damian-lewis-of-homeland-on-showtime.html?pagewanted=all&amp;amp;_r=0&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;www.nytimes.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, it's very common for military wives to call their husband by their last  name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-10-26T12:24:04.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11563" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11566" CreationDate="2013-05-21T22:32:10.000" Score="2" ViewCount="5710" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 1997, two volcano movies were released with big-name actors, &lt;em&gt;Volcano&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Dante's Peak&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both movies were fun to watch, but I'm curious, of the two gems of moviemaking, which were more scientifically accurate in their depiction of what would happen?  Do both score relatively well?  Were there glaringly obvious problems with both plotlines?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4933" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-05-21T23:44:42.583" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T03:38:48.933" Title="Of the movies 'Volcano' and 'Dante's Peak', which is more scientifically accurate?" Tags="|realism|dantes-peak|volcano|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11535" CreationDate="2013-05-22T01:03:40.937" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;They hadn't mentioned it before because they didn't know about it. The molester's body wasn't found until the morning that Sean went to talk to Jimmy. Sean says &quot;Look at me. I got a call from Celeste Boyle. She was hysterical. She said Dave's missing. Said you might know where he is. We need to talk to him. Boston police found the body of a guy this morning. In the woods behind McGill's.&quot; Since the body was just found that morning, it makes sense that only Dave mentions it before - he's the only one who knows that they guy is dead. You can read the scene &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lexwilliford.com/Workshops/Screenwriting/Mystic%20River%20Screenplay%20%28Cole%20and%20Haag%29.pdf&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; - it starts on page 114 but Sean's quote is on 116.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T01:03:40.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11563" CreationDate="2013-05-22T03:44:38.997" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;A quick survey of reviews by non-scientists suggests overwhelming agreement with the statement in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante%27s_peak#Reception&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;em&gt;Dante's Peak&lt;/em&gt; is more scientifically accurate than &lt;em&gt;Volcano&lt;/em&gt;, although Wikipedia only says &quot;slightly&quot;.  The impression is strengthened&#xA;by the careful discussions of the science of&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Dante's Peak&lt;/em&gt; that have been published by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/LivingWith/PopCulture/DantesPeak/dantes_peak.html&quot;&gt;USGS&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geol.umd.edu/facilities/lmdr/dante/dante.htm&quot;&gt;UMD Geology department&lt;/a&gt; without bothering to mention &lt;em&gt;Volcano&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the only side-by-side comparison between the two movies that I could find made by an actual geologist comes out differently.  Erik Klemetti's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/11/your-guide-to-volcanoes-in-movies/&quot;&gt;guide to volcano movies&lt;/a&gt; has heavy criticism for both; on scientific accuracy, &lt;em&gt;Volcano&lt;/em&gt; scores 4 out of 9 but &lt;em&gt;Dante's Peak&lt;/em&gt; gets only 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, most of the volcano movies he discusses score the minimum 1 out of 9 for science; the notable exception is the made-for-TV &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419372/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Supervolcano&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2005), which gets 6 out of 9.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T03:44:38.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8694" CreationDate="2013-05-22T08:47:47.930" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought the motivation to switch to Ferris' side was pretty clear.  Her mind was changed while she was in the police station chatting with the cool and laid back character played by Charlie Sheen (see it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H19uKs99vIw&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). He professes a philosophy of live and let live and tells her that she is the problem&amp;mdash;not Ferris.  She rejects the advice several times, but eventually embraces it when she falls for Sheen's character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T08:47:47.930" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2621" CreationDate="2013-05-22T11:31:33.327" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really liked Sydnor, so perhaps I am a bit biased. David Simon confirmed that Sydnor represented the few hardworking, talented, and dedicated members of the force. He was an actual good guy, and in ordinary circumstances (i.e. without a self-involved, glory seeking, corrupt group of individuals more concerned about their own career progression who keep the dirty secrets of incompetent fools) Sydnor is someone who should've had his talents recognized and he should been promoted to a position of authority and influence so that his good deeds were passed on to up and coming officers and lieutenants. Therefore. Sydnor was a symbol for what the police force in Baltimore could've been if the right people were around him, and the right things were being done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4937" LastEditorUserId="1410" LastEditDate="2016-11-15T16:11:42.013" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T16:11:42.013" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11552" CreationDate="2013-05-22T12:30:29.893" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a complete list of interrogation scenes in 24 &lt;a href=&quot;http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Interrogation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. None of them seem to match your description exactly, but this seems reasonably close:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paul Raines&lt;/strong&gt;: After CTU discovered Paul's name on the lease of the building where the terrorist attacks had been planned, Jack tortured him by electrocuting him with wires from a lamp, despite Paul's (truthful) insistence of innocence&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T12:30:29.893" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11572" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11573" CreationDate="2013-05-22T17:25:32.783" Score="3" ViewCount="1883" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode of Doctor Who &quot;Utopia&quot; there's a message broadcast from it.  The last thing we see is the rocket leaving and the Doctor running off back to Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; We know that the humans came back as the 'toclafane' to attack Earth&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but what happened to them once they left in the rocket&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; and how did they end up as the spheres?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T17:33:08.053" Title="What was at Utopia?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11572" CreationDate="2013-05-22T17:27:56.320" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Toclafane were a creation of The Master. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that rocket left, the Utopia did not exist, just a barren wasteland at the edge of space at the end of time.  So in order to essentially &quot;make a living&quot; the humans linked themselves into a single child-like consciousness in order to prevent their further suffering.  In order to do this, they evolved around these machines, becoming cyborgs and jamming their own  essence (and heads) into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Master found these beings using the TARDIS and influenced them enough to bring them under his own control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of it is never really shown/explain in great detail but this is the gist of what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as where the signal came from, research isn't turning anything up but that Utopia itself was a rumour and that the signal was confirmed as non-automatic, therefore being manually sent out by...something.  I'll keep digging if I find anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Toclafane&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;source&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-05-22T17:33:08.053" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T17:33:08.053" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11530" CreationDate="2013-05-22T20:06:42.550" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Cox#Character_profile&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; has surprisingly thorough articles on &lt;em&gt;Scrubs&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cox harbors an intense hatred for Hugh Jackman, even going so far as to mention him frequently in his rants about things he hates throughout the series. According to a 2006 interview with McGinley, Cox's reason for hating Jackman may be because Bill Lawrence envies the actor's talent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This section is sourced as coming from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aoltv.com/2006/05/16/john-c-mcginley-the-tv-squad-interview/&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt;.  Bill Lawrence is the creator and show-runner of &lt;em&gt;Scrubs&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T20:06:42.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1468" CreationDate="2013-05-22T21:47:59.447" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is mostly a contractual issue, so there is not much sense to make out of it.  Oftentimes an actor will negotiate with the producer specifically about how big their name appears and in what order in the credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most vivid example which comes to mind is Andy Kaufman in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_%28TV_series%29#Main_cast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Taxi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; getting a lead credit, which was negotiated by his talent agent.  The credit was very weird considering his small role in the series and obscurity at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-05-22T21:47:59.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11580" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11581" CreationDate="2013-05-22T22:45:36.847" Score="10" ViewCount="1983" Body="&lt;p&gt;In ID4 (Independence Day), there are 3 helicopters sent up to greet the alien craft. One of the copters is fitted with a set of light panels that flash the lights in a specific pattern/sequence. What is the significance of this? Is this something made up for the movie or is the light pattern/sequence meaningful in real life? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for an answer on why would they choose to do such a thing and not expect to be received as hostile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T10:59:01.617" Title="What is the significance of the flashing lights?" Tags="|independence-day|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11580" CreationDate="2013-05-23T00:12:33.843" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that it was a reference to the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In that film (the scene is on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4PYI6TzqYk&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;) humans use a board with flashing lights (similar to the lights on the helicopters) and music to communicate with Aliens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2013-05-23T00:12:33.843" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11582" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12066" CreationDate="2013-05-23T01:51:03.553" Score="14" ViewCount="20329" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/&quot;&gt;Fargo&lt;/a&gt; two killers kidnap the wife of a car salesman in a deal that all goes wrong. While one of the killers is away at Twin Cities picking up the ransom, his partner stays at the cottage to watch the kidnapped wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the guy returns with the ransom money to the cottage, he walks through the front door and sees the wife dead on the floor. He asks what happened and his partner says &quot;She started screaming.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the only murder in the entire film that wasn't shown. All the other murders were graphic so I don't think it was censored. I'm left wondering if the scene of her death was a deleted scene, or is there a reason it wasn't shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-05-23T08:18:28.857" LastActivityDate="2019-07-11T17:35:01.690" Title="Is the wife's murder in Fargo a deleted scene?" Tags="|fargo|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11584" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11586" CreationDate="2013-05-23T07:10:04.250" Score="23" ViewCount="19256" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane abandon King's Landing in the middle of the siege from Stannis during &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; S02E09?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If behaviour of Joffrey is reason behind his action then he should have left earlier. But he left when they needed him the most. It's like he ran away believing King's Landing is going to fall and he is going to die. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3888" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2017-11-13T23:04:16.523" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T22:46:28.097" Title="Why did Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane abandon King's Landing in the middle of battle?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11585" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11593" CreationDate="2013-05-23T08:07:38.110" Score="8" ViewCount="534" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Television series, How I met your mother, Season 8, Episode 23 - Something Old, why are Lily and Marshall throughing all the stuff they are unable to take in the bermudda triangle and not selling it? Like a yard sale or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastActivityDate="2013-05-23T13:42:07.650" Title="Why not sell the stuff instead of throwing away?" Tags="|how-i-met-your-mother|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11584" CreationDate="2013-05-23T08:41:14.873" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sandor was basically a good man and he was obeying Joffrey only because he was bound by duty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sandor had a past with fire. In one of the episodes from Season 1, we learn that when Sandor was a kid, his elder brother Gregor (&quot;the Mountain&quot;) shoved his face into brazier over a trivial incident, resulting in Sandor's horrific scars.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the Battle of the Blackwater, he initially comports himself bravely, but the fire really shakes him.  It's possible his memories of childhood flooded back, which is why he became &lt;strong&gt;disillusioned&lt;/strong&gt; in regards to knighthood and duty. (He often speaks of his disdain for knights and their supposed nobility, citing his monstrous brother as an example.  Sandor never accepts knighthood for this reason.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The combination of his personal dread, and the realization that he's facing death by fire for King he does not love or respect (Joffrey's treatment of Sansa, who Sandor has great sympathy for is a major factor), led Sandor to abandon his post and his king.  That's why he turns back, gets drunk, and abandons King's Landing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-03-07T22:45:47.867" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T22:45:47.867" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11563" CreationDate="2013-05-23T09:52:56.697" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I havent' seen a movie with real 100% science facts. I guess it's boring to tell something &quot;possible&quot; instead of smething impossible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, you can read some interesting facts about how the volcano wouldn't make in short amount of time all the acid needed to dissolve the aluminium boat, neither to make the lake acid. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/science/chemistry/dantes-peak&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Would an acid-filled lake really not float Pierce Brosnan's boat, or is the science of Dante's Peak off-kilter? &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4942" LastActivityDate="2013-05-23T09:52:56.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11588" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11595" CreationDate="2013-05-23T10:01:37.727" Score="12" ViewCount="6184" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good music in a movie is not only good music but also music that is in sync with what happens on the screen. I can imagine it's not a trivial job to achieve this. So it made me wonder what generally comes first. Is the music written first and are the takes and cuts &quot;choreographed&quot; around it, or is the music written afterwards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make this an answerable question I'd like to focus on feature films, not musical films. And I'd like to know the general trend, because obviously there will always be exceptions to the rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="297" LastActivityDate="2017-11-30T20:43:25.900" Title="What comes first, the music or the take?" Tags="|production|soundtrack|editing|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11589" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-23T10:46:09.197" Score="12" ViewCount="2802" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've watched &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Into Darkness&lt;/em&gt; recently and couldn't help but notice that Benedict Cumberbatch's character is not really that bad as they make it seem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure in another dimension he was one of Kirk's greatest enemies, but in this space &amp;amp; time he is starting from the beginning. He was ordered by the Admiral who held his crew to orchestrate a terrorist attack, and yes he even mentioned something about superiority but these don't make him a true villain. The only thing that makes him the villain is ourselves who already know who he is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually the way I remember, he even helped the Enterprise to help stop the Klingon war and for that he got &quot;stabbed in the back&quot; by Kirk just because he didn't trust him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I am concerned, what this character did in another time line is not important and should not be the reason to judge this character, and in this timeline he really is not that bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything I have missed while watching the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4938" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-10-28T13:06:25.190" LastActivityDate="2016-10-28T13:06:25.190" Title="Is Harrison really a bad guy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|star-trek|star-trek-into-darkness|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11589" CreationDate="2013-05-23T11:33:30.467" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well even in this version, he was banished from earth for leading an uprising during the Eugenics war. So he was a bad guy to begin with. (well it depends on whose side you are on in a supermen vs normal us war).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, remember the conversation with the older Spock when he says that Harrison is the biggest adversary that the Enterprise would ever face? So he might have been OK in the movie but even in this timeline he means trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="4476" LastEditDate="2013-09-11T22:33:01.310" LastActivityDate="2013-09-11T22:33:01.310" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11589" CreationDate="2013-05-23T12:29:34.797" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;While he may not be the &lt;strong&gt;main&lt;/strong&gt; antagonist in the scheme of the film.  That role belongs to the Admiral for all his misdeeds during the flow of events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Khan is still an antagonist no matter how you look at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back in the 1990's, the Eugenics War occurred where it was a battle for superiority of normal humans vs these seemingly indestructible genetically modified super-humans.  In the end, the super-humans lost and because of their rebellion, were sentence to float about space for the rest of their time in a cryogenic state, including their leader of the rebellion, Khan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the Admiral released Khan, his intention was for Khan to help ignite the Klingon war using his designs for warships like the &lt;em&gt;Vengence&lt;/em&gt;.  Meanwhile, Khan only agreed to the Admiral's demands because he knew the Admiral would kill the remaining super-humans if he didn't comply.  All the meanwhile, Khan is putting his plan into place to get his comrades free and re-ignite the Eugenics Wars using this new technology of the era.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason Khan complies with Kirk's demands is because he learns that his comrades will be destroyed when these missiles detonate upon impact.  Which is also the only reason he saves Kirk as the warning was sent out to him long before the land party departed, alerting Khan to the fact that his old friends might be in danger.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From then on it becomes Khan using the crew of the &lt;em&gt;Enterprise&lt;/em&gt; and make them sympathetic and curious as to the situation at hand, which is why the Admiral wanted Kirk to just fire the torpedoes and be done with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Khan then uses Kirk to get aboard the powerful war vessel that he helped the Federation design and once he is able to subdue everyone on board, unleashes literal hell up on the crew of the &lt;em&gt;Enterprise&lt;/em&gt; with his intended target Earth, after getting his comrades.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-05-23T14:10:22.017" LastActivityDate="2013-05-23T14:10:22.017" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11588" CreationDate="2013-05-23T13:18:19.220" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a filmmaker, I can provide some insight into this, however there are always going to be exceptions to the rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, a film is scored after editing&amp;mdash;a notable exception to this would be the specific use of a particular piece of established music, in which case the editor may well be asked to edit to the beats of that music.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a scored film, it is important to get the edited film to a 'lock', which means the visual elements (SFX finished or not) are in place and edited. There is a sense of visual 'timing' that an editor can employ, and this might well affect the composer's decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the picture is locked, the composer can then go in and create the music, whether it be sweeping themes, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitmotif&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;leitmotifs&lt;/a&gt;, or short snippets to emphasize a scene. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to stay on budget, the producers do not want the composer having to rework pieces to fit re-edited sections, which is why the picture lock is so important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'll add more to this answer in a few hours: on the road right now ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-05-23T18:11:24.213" LastActivityDate="2013-05-23T18:11:24.213" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11585" CreationDate="2013-05-23T13:42:07.650" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;They appeared to be short on time, and were trying to get rid of things they had grown attached too. So throwing it out was likely easier than trying to sell, but I had the same thought. Why not sell it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2013-05-23T13:42:07.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11589" CreationDate="2013-05-23T13:47:32.387" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Khan's character was cool, collected and methodical throughout the entire film, until he captured the new battleship built by the admiral. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once that happen his true personality appears. He no longer needs Kirk's help to save his frozen crew. He starts by crushing the admiral's head with his bare hands, he breaks the leg of the admiral's daughter and then he transports everyone to the Enterprise to die with their crew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is any doubt that Khan was a dangerous enemy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="1100" LastEditDate="2013-05-23T15:54:47.090" LastActivityDate="2013-05-23T15:54:47.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11588" CreationDate="2013-05-23T14:16:24.727" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/film-composer1.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Film Composers Work&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film music composer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meets with the director and movie producers, when the film has been shot and is being edited&lt;/strong&gt;, to discuss music needs for the film.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Takes part in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_score#Spotting&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;spotting session&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, in which the film composer, director and others watch the movie&lt;/strong&gt; and decide where each segment of music should start and stop in the film, why it's being included and how it should sound.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Writes the score, a compilation of all the musical sections needed for the film. The score for a feature film is usually about half the length of the film, so a composer would probably have to write about 50 minutes of music for a 100-minute movie.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Prepares scores for the musicians, or gives notes and a rough score to the arrangers and copyists so that they can provide a complete musicians' score&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sonypicturesmuseum.com/filmmaking/postproduction/scoring&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sony Pictures Entertainment Museum - Scoring&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The composer is involved in the very beginning of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-production&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;post-production&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; process in order to create the perfect melodic theme for a score.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some composers get their inspiration by viewing dailies or rough cuts of the film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A director usually has musical ideas for certain scenes, so the composer and director watch the film during a &quot;spotting session&quot; to spot-check the places in the film where music should be heard.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The music editor generally attends the spotting session and is also responsible for integrating source music (songs not created for the film) with the score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;But as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_score&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; points out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In some circumstances, a composer will be asked to write music based on his or her impressions of the script or storyboards, without seeing the film itself&lt;/strong&gt;, and is given more freedom to create music without the need to adhere to specific cue lengths or mirror the emotional arc of a particular scene. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An example of this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001877/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hans Zimmer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and his score for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inception&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, as he notes in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/128323-we-built-our-own-world-hans-zimmer-and-the-music-of-inception/&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;... &lt;strong&gt;usually films are being made in bits and pieces and there’s a structure of how you work it: the composer sees the movie and discusses the themes with the director and he goes off and he writes the theme&lt;/strong&gt; — we didn’t do any of that on [Inception].&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;... The score was really coming together in my head after I read the script and just in talking to Chris [Nolan] ... Then Chris went off and shot the movie, and I went to the set, saw the designs, saw actors doing their thing, etc.; but when it actually came time for Chris to edit the movie, he wouldn’t show it to me anymore.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-05-23T14:16:24.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11596" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-23T16:05:44.537" Score="24" ViewCount="3625" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300854/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Tony Stark seems to display what can be assumed as PTSD due to his dealings with the chitauri and the events surrounding New York that took place during &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Avengers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, is this really &lt;em&gt;Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder&lt;/em&gt;, or could this be Tony's own personal fear of things that could start coming their way now that the Tesseract is shown as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... a signal to the Realm that Earth is ready for a higher form of war!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as Thor put it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason this comes into question is that why wouldn't this condition be present after his ordeal in the desert, saving those people when he first donned the suit, fought Iron Monger, or all the other dangerous acts he has committed in the past as Iron Man?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T08:16:32.847" LastActivityDate="2018-05-10T00:27:18.583" Title="Does Tony Stark really have PTSD or just a fear of things to come?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-3|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11596" CreationDate="2013-05-23T17:00:50.807" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since Tony doesn't ever go and get actual treatment in the film, there isn't a clear-cut yes/no answer to this.  You can read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders&quot;&gt;DSM's&lt;/a&gt; criteria for PTSD &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/pages/dsm-iv-tr-ptsd.asp&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and see that Tony definitely shows many of the symptoms of PTSD during the film.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/iron-man-3-does-tony-520868&quot;&gt;This article&lt;/a&gt; (despite frequent formatting issues) does an excellent job of discussing Tony's arc through the 4 films, and how they relate to PTSD.  The article doesn't try to straight-up diagnose Tony, but does make several good points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With fictional patients, labels can normalize the experience of disorders and destigmatize mental illness. But the brilliance of the third Iron Man installment rests in the complexity of Tony’s psychology. Iron Man doesn’t work in absolutes either. The movie seems to intentionally depict mental illness with a sophisticated level of ambiguity and dimension, emphasizing the realistic point that the course of mental illness has no clear-cut causes, cures, beginnings, or ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This praise for a complex, realistic portrayal of Tony's issues matches the praise I've seen elsewhere for &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 3's&lt;/em&gt; inclusion of mental health issues.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/blog/post.cfm/mind-over-pop-culture-iron-man-3&quot;&gt;For example:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was amazing to see the number one movie in the world, a huge summer blockbuster, handle a mental health condition so calmly and rationally. Everyone in Tony’s life knows he’s sick, and they try to help him. He does what he can to mitigate his illness (though he never gets treatment, as far as I could tell), and to get better. No one questions his ability to be a superhero or a genius or even a functioning person. The illness itself was shown as life-disrupting and scary for him, but not so over the top that it was cartoony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether he does or doesn't have PTSD &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt;, he has some severe mental health issues, and one of the film's arcs is his coming to grips with it.  The way he talks though, I think makes it clear that his issues stem from what happened in New York during &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;, and not the future threat we the audience know will come from Thanos.  Tony telling Pepper that he can't sleep because of an imminent threat sounded to me like deflection.  He knows that thinking about and talking about New York is a trigger for his anxiety attacks, by saying he's building the suits for some vague future threat he sidesteps discussing New York and the pain that comes with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-05-23T17:00:50.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11598" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11600" CreationDate="2013-05-23T18:40:22.187" Score="20" ViewCount="28846" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen it many times. Very young identical twins cast for the same role. Off the top of my head:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen in &lt;em&gt;Full House&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dylan Thomas Sprouse and Cole Mitchell Sprouse in &lt;em&gt;Big Daddy&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Saunders triplets in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter &amp;amp; the Philosopher's Stone&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that? Is it to comply with child labor laws?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="7302" LastEditDate="2015-02-11T15:10:39.600" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T15:10:39.600" Title="Why are twins often cast for young roles?" Tags="|film-techniques|casting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11598" CreationDate="2013-05-23T18:53:11.367" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most important reason is that the number of hours a child actor can work is strictly limited by law.  Movie shoots often have long days, longer than a single child actor is legally allowed to be on the set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bizparentz.org/gettingstarted/babybiz.html&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt; for would-be stage parents, children aged 2 to 5 are only allowed to work three hours per day in California.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastEditorUserId="4761" LastEditDate="2013-05-23T19:00:13.537" LastActivityDate="2013-05-23T19:00:13.537" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11601" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11634" CreationDate="2013-05-23T22:39:33.100" Score="29" ViewCount="21621" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed during the credit sequence at the end of Star Trek Into Darkness that Chris Hemsworth and Jennifer Morrison were credited as Kirk's parents (whom they portrayed in the previous film).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot recall seeing them, either as a flashback or as an audio bite, in this new film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone shed any light on this? A deleted scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T14:02:47.067" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T14:02:47.067" Title="Why these credits for Star Trek Into Darkness?" Tags="|character|credits|star-trek|star-trek-into-darkness|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11602" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11603" CreationDate="2013-05-23T23:53:37.493" Score="14" ViewCount="491" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last two years there have seemed to be an unusual amount of movies about Abraham Lincoln:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2299248/?ref_=fn_al_tt_8&quot;&gt;Killing Lincoln&lt;/a&gt; (2013)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443272/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;Lincoln&lt;/a&gt; (2012)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611224/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4&quot;&gt;Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter&lt;/a&gt; (2012)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2246549/?ref_=fn_al_tt_9&quot;&gt;Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies&lt;/a&gt; (2012)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last one certainly is not as big a movie as the other three. Still, compared to how many Lincoln movies have been made before 2012 (I could count 4 and 1 mini series, all spread over more than 60 years of movie history), that seems like a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this just a random coincidence or is there some reason why making movies about Abe Lincoln is currently 'in'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-11-22T23:50:26.447" LastActivityDate="2019-11-22T23:50:26.447" Title="Was there a particular reason for 2012/2013's rise in movies about Abraham Lincoln?" Tags="|abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter|killing-lincoln|lincoln|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11602" CreationDate="2013-05-24T00:38:45.073" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, Abe Lincoln's war was the U.S. Civil War, and his greatest speech is undeniably the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gettysburg Address&lt;/a&gt;, about &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the most costly battle&lt;/a&gt;, in casualties, of that war. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania is currently memorializing the battle, which occured June 30 - July 3, 1863, the 150th anniversary of the National Cemetery, and Lincoln's speech of November 19, 1863. If any treatment deserves to be made about Lincoln, it's got to be now - 2013. This includes books, movies, television, plays, virtually anything. I expect there to be other treatments right through 2015 - the 150th anniversary of his assassination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will flesh out this answer to provide a broader reason for Lincoln-mania in the current timeframe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lincoln's birth year was 1809, his 200th birthday would have been February 12, 2009. A new Lincoln Presidential Library was opened to commemorate in 2009.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lincoln's first term as President started in 1861, its 150th anniversary of inauguration would have been March (inaugurations began in January much later), 2011.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Confederacy of Southern States was formed, indicating their intention to secede from the United States, in 1861, between the time of Lincoln's election, but before his occupancy of the White House. This move was found to be illegal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Confederacy started the Civil War by attacking Fort Sumter in April 1861, and the war lasted throughout Lincoln's terms of office until his assassination, then through into the first month of Ulysses Grant's administration, to end in May 1865. The 150th anniversary of the war's battles encompass the years 2011 - 2015. Many current memorial events are happening throughout the battlefields in the United States.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was declared on September 22, 1862, to free the slaves effective January 1, 1863. The 150th anniversary of its enactment just occured in January 2013.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Battle of Gettysburg, PA, June 30 - July 3, 1863, the most deadly of the war, and the northernmost battle (occuring deep within Union territory).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in November, 1863 to dedicate the new National Cemetery there, is considered one of the greatest political speeches.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lincoln was re-elected in a landslide in 1864, and was inaugurated for his second term March, 1865.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In early April, 1865, Lincoln declares his intention to give voting rights to black people, inciting John Wilkes Booth to plan his assassination.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lincoln's assassination occured one month after his second term commenced, the night of April 14, 1865, his death declared in the early morning hours of April 15th. The 150th anniversary of this event will occur in 2015.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-11-22T20:38:17.680" LastActivityDate="2019-11-22T20:38:17.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11609" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-24T15:53:14.693" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Transformers: Dark of the Moon is a 2011 American science fiction action film based on the Transformers toy line. First released on June 23, 2011, it is the third installment of the live-action Transformers film series&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorDisplayName="user4840" LastEditDate="2013-05-24T16:02:57.257" LastActivityDate="2013-05-24T16:02:57.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11610" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-24T15:53:14.693" Score="0" Body="Transformers: Dark of the Moon is a 2011 American science fiction action film" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorDisplayName="user4840" LastEditDate="2013-05-24T16:02:12.310" LastActivityDate="2013-05-24T16:02:12.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11611" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-24T15:54:07.850" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dante's Peak is a 1997 action/adventure thriller directed by Roger Donaldson and starring Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, Charles Hallahan, Elizabeth Hoffman, Jamie Renée Smith, Jeremy Foley, and Grant Heslov&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorDisplayName="user4840" LastEditDate="2013-05-24T16:03:08.567" LastActivityDate="2013-05-24T16:03:08.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11612" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-24T15:54:07.850" Score="0" Body="Dante's Peak is a 1997 action/adventure thriller directed by Roger Donaldson." OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorDisplayName="user4840" LastEditDate="2013-05-24T16:03:20.340" LastActivityDate="2013-05-24T16:03:20.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11613" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-24T15:55:19.480" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship USS &lt;em&gt;Enterprise&lt;/em&gt; and its crew. The show is set in the Milky Way galaxy, roughly during the 2260s. This series' original run lasted for three seasons from 1966-69 and is commonly dubbed &quot;The Original Series&quot; (TOS) to distinguish it from the numerous series and films that have since followed in the franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="40011" LastEditorDisplayName="user4840" LastEditDate="2018-04-09T11:38:06.950" LastActivityDate="2018-04-09T11:38:06.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11614" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-24T15:55:19.480" Score="0" Body="Star Trek is an American science fiction television series. Use this tag for questions pertaining to the original series (abbreviated TOS) from the late 1960s." OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="40011" LastEditorDisplayName="user4840" LastEditDate="2018-04-09T11:38:14.550" LastActivityDate="2018-04-09T11:38:14.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11615" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-24T15:56:11.110" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Star Trek: First Contact is a 1996 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the eighth feature film in the Star Trek science fiction franchise and the first film to feature no cast members from the original Star Trek television series of the 1960s. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorDisplayName="user4840" LastEditDate="2013-05-24T16:02:36.720" LastActivityDate="2013-05-24T16:02:36.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11616" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-24T15:56:11.110" Score="0" Body="Star Trek: First Contact is a 1996 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. " OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorDisplayName="user4840" LastEditDate="2013-05-24T16:02:45.390" LastActivityDate="2013-05-24T16:02:45.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11617" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11620" CreationDate="2013-05-24T16:02:54.303" Score="29" ViewCount="89615" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/Star-Wars-Movies-Does-Princess-Leia-ever-learn-that-Darth-Vader-is-her-father&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;asked on Quora&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Luke learns that he is Vader's son privately and finds out Leia is his sister in a separate revelation. Are these 2 points ever revealed to Leia, and what is her reaction to learning that the person who imprisoned her, tortured her, and destroyed her home planet is her father?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-02T15:43:11.997" LastActivityDate="2016-09-02T15:43:11.997" Title="Does Princess Leia ever learn that Darth Vader is her father?" Tags="|character|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11589" CreationDate="2013-05-24T16:17:11.390" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a more definitive answer to your question I suggest you view the Original Star Trek Series, more specifically &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708447/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Season 1, Episode 22: &quot;Space Seed&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. In this episode you will see that the &quot;Bad Guy&quot; isn't as much a bad guy as he is self-serving, but becomes a &quot;Bad Guy&quot; in the Original &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084726/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Trek 2&lt;/a&gt; movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, the character &quot;Harrison&quot; (in STID) follows the same path. His &quot;Terrorism&quot; is explained as a retaliation for actions he thought were done by the real villain in the movie. But, that said, &quot;Harrison's&quot; abilities and sociopathic tendencies make him a dangerous adversary to the Enterprise crew as well as the United Federation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4476" LastActivityDate="2013-05-24T16:17:11.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11617" CreationDate="2013-05-24T16:37:49.270" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, Luke tells her in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blueharvest.net/scoops/rotj-script.shtml&quot;&gt;The Return of the Jedi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, on a footbridge in the Ewoks village.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, he tell her that Vader is his father:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LEIA&#xA;  Luke, tell me. What's troubling you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LUKE&#xA;  Vader is here...now, on this moon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LEIA (alarmed)&#xA;  How do you know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LUKE&#xA;  I felt his presence. He's come for me. He can&#xA;  feel when I'm near. That's why I have to go.&#xA;  (facing her) As long as I stay, I'm&#xA;  endangering the group and our mission here.&#xA;  (beat) I have to face him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leia is distraught, confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LEIA&#xA;  Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Luke moves close and his manner is gentle. And very calm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LUKE&#xA;  He's my father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LEIA&#xA;  Your father?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Immediately after, he tells her that she is his sister (and thus Vader's daughter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LUKE&#xA;  There's more. It won't be easy for you to&#xA;  hear it, but you must. If I don't make it&#xA;  back, you're the only hope for the Alliance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leia is very disturbed by this. She moves away, as if to deny it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LEIA&#xA;  Luke, don't talk that way. You have a power&#xA;  I--I don't understand and could never have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LUKE&#xA;  You're wrong, Leia. You have that power too.&#xA;  In time you'll learn to use it as I have. The&#xA;  Force is strong in my family. My father has&#xA;  it...I have it...and...my sister has it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leia stares into his eyes. What she sees there frightens her. But&#xA;  she doesn't draw away. She begins to understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LUKE&#xA;  Yes. It's you Leia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LEIA&#xA;  I know. Somehow...I've always known.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="858" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2013-05-24T20:25:41.710" LastActivityDate="2013-05-24T20:25:41.710" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11345" CreationDate="2013-05-24T17:13:49.480" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;They never implicated Carol Marcus during the film. She had the full trust of Spock, because she was the Admiral's daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kirk knew before anyone else that it was sabotage. When they are about to regain warp power and Chekov says &quot;I take full responsibility for the failure&quot;. Kirk says &quot;I don't think it was your fault.&quot; Or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film states &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; that it was the Admiral. We could assume that he had someone do it for him, but his name is used to identify who did it. This is mentioned twice during the film. Once by Spock when he's talking to Kirk, and once by the Admiral when he's talking ship-to-ship with Kirk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Admiral's plan went wrong. The Enterprise was support to fire the torpedoes first before the ship broke down stranding them in Klingon space. Because it broke down first, Kirk takes a landing party to capture Khan. Kirk never intended to fire the torpedoes anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They try to report back to Earth that they captured Khan alive, but they never get a response. Uhura says someone is blocking the signal, then the Admiral appears in his new ship to destroy the Enterprise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Admiral assumed the torpedoes would start a war, the stranded Enterprise would be destroyed by Klingon's covering up what the Admiral did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="1100" LastEditDate="2013-05-25T15:43:08.250" LastActivityDate="2013-05-25T15:43:08.250" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10538" CreationDate="2013-05-25T01:33:52.150" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had the same question when I watched the movie. I guess they copied her and Chuck (the other reporter) a little &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; well.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;They each knew the others thoughts simultaneously. They both admitted that they were lousy shots. (Chuck and his robot had a similar conversation)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;From the book:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Then the real Tracy suddenly realized something: no duplicate, no&#xA;  clone, no look-alike could could possibly be better than the&#xA;  original...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then they both drew at the same time. So fake Tracy had to be thinking the same thing and defeated herself (bowing to the real Tracy's logic). Either that or the real Tracy just got lucky since they were both bad at shooting. Again, they copied her too well.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I agree with you, the robot should have won since it had superior strength and speed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I forgot to add that Tracy was also extremely reluctant to kill. As evidence, look to the earlier scene where she and Chuck were fighting the android in the hotel room. She could barely bring herself to shoot even though it was defending Chuck's life.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;That extreme reluctance could have factored into the fake Tracy missing.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The real Tracy already got over her reluctance and had no problem shooting a fake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4911" LastEditorUserId="4911" LastEditDate="2013-05-25T16:12:43.450" LastActivityDate="2013-05-25T16:12:43.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11626" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-25T01:55:38.640" Score="6" ViewCount="5536" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the numerous gangs with their specific outfits and mannerisms, to the way they interacted and the meetings were arranged, &lt;em&gt;was The Warriors an accurate depiction of 1970s gang relations in New York City?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T03:19:03.253" Title="Is The Warriors an accurate depiction of gang relations in 1970s New York City?" Tags="|historical-accuracy|the-warriors|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11627" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11628" CreationDate="2013-05-25T07:11:00.600" Score="13" ViewCount="2734" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first episode of season 5 of Breaking Bad, a large electromagnet is rigged up in a truck, and placed next to a building.  The camera shows the contents of the building flying across the room and clinging to the wall nearest the electromagnet. Light fixtures are seen swaying toward the magnet, and shelves are seen toppling, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How was this scene filmed?  Did they really rig a large electromagnet on the set?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-16T10:51:15.127" LastActivityDate="2014-01-16T10:51:15.127" Title="How was the electromagnet scene filmed?" Tags="|film-techniques|breaking-bad|effects|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11627" CreationDate="2013-05-25T09:23:46.637" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/arts/television/breaking-bad-creating-magnetic-attraction.html&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt; gives quite a few details from creator Vince Gilligan.  In short:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;No, they didn't move a big electromagnet around.  The real one weighed 3.5 tons, so they made a foam model.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The jumping objects were attached to cables pulled by crew members.  The cables were then digitally erased.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also doubtful that such a scheme would really work, since magnetic fields drop off very quickly with distance.  Unfortunately, various physicists writing on the web give estimates of the required current that vary from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.idigitaltimes.com/articles/10318/20120718/breaking-bad-science-explained-magnet-vs-laptop.htm&quot;&gt;tens&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/breaking-bad-magnets-how-do-they-work/&quot;&gt;millions&lt;/a&gt; of amps, so it's hard to be sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-05-25T09:23:46.637" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11629" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-25T13:21:20.780" Score="5" ViewCount="668" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final episode of season 1 (EP24 &quot;Heroine&quot;) of the tv series Elementary, Holmes finds a coded message on a murdered thug that read;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;BN23MACEDONIANSUN&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the message they find a Greek smuggler with the nickname &quot;The Narwhal&quot; who was about to smuggle 2 lemurs into the country on a ship called &quot;Macedonian Sun&quot;. This eventually lead Holmes to discover that the Narwhal's daughter had been kidnapped by Moriarty in order to blackmail him into murdering a Macedonian diplomat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the point of that? Why would Moriarty send coded messages about the smuggling when they only care about the Narwhal as an assassin? The certainly did not kidnap his daughter for the lemurs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why would the Narwhal get lemurs for his kidnapped daughter? A welcome gift for her eventual release?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can hardly be a way to secretly notify the police about his daughter.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If he is afraid of Moriarty finding out about him contacting the police, about the most suspicious way is being arrested for getting a gift for your kidnapped daughter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The police would not have found the smuggling without the coded message.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He doesn't use his chance to slip someone a note or whisper a plea for help.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Moriarty seems entirely unconcerned about his arrest when they later meet and does not mention it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the Narwhal had ordered the lemurs before his daughter was kidnapped, that still does not explain Moriartys involvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4955" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-16T19:13:04.957" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T23:02:08.463" Title="Why did &quot;The Narwhal&quot; smuggle lemurs?" Tags="|plot-explanation|elementary|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11631" CreationDate="2013-05-25T16:19:18.047" Score="1" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S3E12 of Arrested Development (&quot;Exit Strategy&quot;), Lindsay and Lucille tell Michael they're checking into rehab, while they actually go to a spa instead. In their place, they send two other people to rehab in their place:&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yxHe2.png&quot; alt=&quot;rehab&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The woman on the right, pretending to be Lucille, is clearly her housekeeper Lupe. But &lt;em&gt;who is the woman on the left pretending to be Lindsay?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2013-05-25T16:37:14.990" Title="Who is the person checking into rehab as Lindsay?" Tags="|arrested-development|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11630" CreationDate="2013-05-25T16:37:14.990" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Arrested Development&lt;/em&gt; wiki has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://arresteddevelopment.wikia.com/wiki/Exit_Strategy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;page for this episode&lt;/a&gt; that describes her as &quot;a younger Latino woman, possibly Lupe's daughter&quot;.  This exact wording is repeated in the Wikipedia article for the episode and in many other pages presumably from the same source.  However, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://apps.npr.org/arrested-development/episode-s03e12.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NPR page&lt;/a&gt; for this episode describes her simply as &quot;Lupe's daughter&quot;, without any hint of uncertainty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-05-25T16:37:14.990" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11302" CreationDate="2013-05-25T19:23:06.663" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just saw the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly after takeoff from Orlando, the aircraft faces two lines of heavy rainstorms and is inside the first.  Whip doesn't do anything particularly unusual except for not climbing for a few seconds when most pilots would be trying to get over the disturbance as soon as possible.  He spots a small weak slot in the storm on the plane's weather radar, turns 30&amp;deg; right for it and then resumes climbing.  Other than misrepresenting the reason for temporarily leveling out to ATC, he doesn't actually do anything wrong.  He does accelerate to the limit of maneuvering speed which bothers the copilot (as does almost everything Whip), but has a reasonable rationale for it.  Why he doesn't continue to climb is a mystery, but I thought I caught some dialog suggesting he has deep knowledge about the structure of the formation.  Such decisions are the pilot's prerogative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The maneuvers in heavy weather certainly put more stress on the elevator (the movable horizontal portion of the tail) and could have caused even more stripping seen on the jack screw shown in the NTSB hearing, though that photo was taken more than a year before the accident and the jack screw was way overdue for replacement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The precise failure was the jack screw jamming in a steep dive pitch position.  The photo shows an already seriously deficient part which no sane mechanic would allow.  It would not need to be further stressed for it to fail as portrayed.  The rest of the damage logically follows:  hydraulic failure from the jammed jack screw, inverted flight burning out the engines, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-05-28T18:31:47.950" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T18:31:47.950" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11601" CreationDate="2013-05-25T21:09:44.227" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to an &lt;a href=&quot;http://trekmovie.com/2013/05/18/snls-bill-hader-has-star-trek-into-darkness-voice-cameo-more-tidbits-from-cast-credits/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; about the credits for the movie at TrekMovie.com,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;although they [Hemsworth and Morrison] don’t appear in the film, some of their dialog from the 2009 movie can be briefly heard during a dream sequence/flashback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably that counts as a speaking part, so they have to be in the credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-05-25T21:09:44.227" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11629" CreationDate="2013-05-26T02:14:54.347" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the Narwhal's explanation for the lemurs: his daughter saves endangered animals and runs a shelter for them. While eccentric, it didn't seem outside the bounds of reality for a TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I forget exactly how it came out, but Moriarty arranged for the clue to keep the game with Holmes going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1548" LastActivityDate="2013-05-26T02:14:54.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11639" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17691" CreationDate="2013-05-26T07:40:04.037" Score="3" ViewCount="35323" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched the latest &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1572315/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2013)&lt;/a&gt; and I don't understand where the name Sawyer came in. In the original as well as the version with Jessica Beil, the name was Hewitt. &quot;Footage taken from the Hewitt residence&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was the last name Sawyer in the recent version? Also, why rename Leather face from Thomas Hewitt to &quot;Jed Sawyer&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2014-03-04T16:35:25.390" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T05:03:28.757" Title="Why the name change from Hewitt to Sawyer?" Tags="|analysis|texas-chainsaw-3d|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11640" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-26T08:48:02.397" Score="6" ViewCount="20908" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090728/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Big Trouble In Little China (1986)&lt;/a&gt; again today and during the fight scene in the beginning of the movie. I noticed this guy who [to me] looks exactly like Jackie Chan. I looked through the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090728/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;list of cast and crew&lt;/a&gt; on IMDB, but didn't see him listed anywhere. I also searched Google and didn't come up with anything conclusive. I did, however, find a question on Yahoo Answers &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090521112909AAC8mXv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;asking the same thing&lt;/a&gt;, and a commentor confirms it is Jackie Chan, and uses the same snapshot I've posted below, but he offers nothing but his word that it is in-fact Jackie Chan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this indeed Jackie Chan? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If not, who is it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it is, why wasn't he listed in the credits?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PCgV9l.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2014-05-16T15:23:33.607" LastActivityDate="2019-02-16T23:48:01.273" Title="Was Jackie Chan In Big Trouble In Little China?" Tags="|casting|big-trouble-in-little-china|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11641" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11655" CreationDate="2013-05-26T10:42:53.863" Score="5" ViewCount="7692" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglourious_Basterds#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the premiere, Landa, who can speak Italian, is not fooled and sees von Hammersmark privately. He makes her wear the shoe, which fits, and strangles her to death, &lt;strong&gt;then orders Raine and Utivich's (B. J. Novak) capture&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is shown how Raine is captured. He was still in the entrance hall of the cinema.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how is Utivich captured? He is not in the cinema. How does Landa know where Utivich is staying? And how does Landa know that Utivich is a member of the Inglourious Basterds at all? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2013-05-26T11:37:35.950" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T08:25:42.860" Title="How was Utivich captured?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11642" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11656" CreationDate="2013-05-26T11:36:32.807" Score="5" ViewCount="5560" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Shosanna (as Emmanuelle) shot Fredrick down, she takes a quick look at the screen where she can see a scene with Fredrick (the actor). When she looks back at Fredrick, she recognizes that he still seems to be alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She then approaches him, but without any caution. As if she is concerned for his health.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She could have easily shot him again. Or did she run out of bullets? But even then she could have tried to smash his head with something lying around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T10:19:32.117" LastActivityDate="2018-07-16T13:45:42.080" Title="Why doesn’t Shosanna try to kill Fredrick?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16281" CreationDate="2013-05-26T12:08:59.390" Score="3" ViewCount="624" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to find out the reason why cartoons are not consistent with their airing times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. I've gotten used to TMNT on a specific day, but then they started to skip a week, sometimes more - all in one season (as opposed to the gaps being between seasons which I would understand)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_(2012_TV_series)_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_(2012_TV_series)_episodes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas with more adult series the scheduling is more consistent - every week for e.g. 12 episodes the show will air at the time it is expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this only applicable to specific networks? Is this only for cartoons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1960" LastEditorUserId="22662" LastEditDate="2015-07-03T06:13:17.897" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T06:13:17.897" Title="Why are cartoons inconsistent with airing times? E.g. Show is on Saturdays,but often skip a week?" Tags="|animation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5649" CreationDate="2013-05-26T16:09:54.590" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, it seems that the lyrics to Song Of Freedom are not the same as those of Vale Decem. The lyrics to Song of Freedom seem to be the same as the lyrics to Songs of Captivity and Freedom, both of which begin with &quot;Cum Tacent Clament.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vale Decem is still an absolutely beautiful song, though, so thanks for posting those lyrics! They just happen to be completely different lyrics than those in Song of Freedom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4961" LastActivityDate="2013-05-26T16:09:54.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11642" CreationDate="2013-05-26T22:34:42.893" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think she felt pity for him. As if she regretted what she did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you said, even running out of bullets wouldn't stop her from killing him another way, but that is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; she definitely wanted to and I think that the answer here is no, at least later. She shot him at first because of her mission but she definitely felt something that stopped her from finishing the job and instead made her go there to help Fredrick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastActivityDate="2013-05-26T22:34:42.893" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11648" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11650" CreationDate="2013-05-26T23:57:29.537" Score="5" ViewCount="527" Body="&lt;p&gt;While watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790724/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jack Reacher&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I realized that &lt;em&gt;Werner Herzog&lt;/em&gt; was playing the role of &lt;em&gt;Zec&lt;/em&gt;. But why would such a famous arthouse director (whom I remember of not being particularly fond of mainstream Hollywood cinema) play a supporting role in a movie like that. Is there some interesting backstory behind this (maybe he is a fan of the books?) or was it just the usual business?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-08T15:50:50.180" LastActivityDate="2015-02-08T15:50:50.180" Title="Why did Werner Herzog play Zec?" Tags="|production|casting|jack-reacher|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11484" CreationDate="2013-05-27T00:54:05.177" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Funny enough, I watched this movie today and had similar questions. Imagine my surprise seeing this when I logged in to type out a similar question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well my take on it is this, the concept was that Sam's manipulation focuses on being able to &lt;strong&gt;PUSH&lt;/strong&gt; objects without the need for coordination or combination of things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt; when the coin begins to float to suggest he is actually holding an object the thought strikes me as an opportunity to play on the intense love he has for Molly allowing him to grab that lucky coin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4862" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T00:54:05.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11648" CreationDate="2013-05-27T02:11:33.660" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/dec/20/werner-herzog-jack-reacher&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with Werner Herzog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was approached by the director and Tom Cruise. They wanted me. I&#xA;  think it's a logical idea because I've done parts before where I&#xA;  played really dysfunctional and outrageous and dangerous characters,&#xA;  like in Harmony Korine's Julien Donkey Boy, and because of that and&#xA;  other films they were interested in me. And I liked them for their&#xA;  professionalism and commitment – things that I prize myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T02:11:33.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11652" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11654" CreationDate="2013-05-27T04:47:07.237" Score="8" ViewCount="4968" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Minority Report&lt;/em&gt; (2002)&lt;/a&gt;, the Precogs foresee any murder that is going to be happened in the city. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anderton's superior, Lamar Burgess (Max von Sydow) shoots agent Danny Witwer (Colin Farrell). This is absolutely a murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't the Precogs foresee this murder?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4925" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2020-01-24T18:24:51.117" LastActivityDate="2023-03-07T16:52:12.467" Title="Why can't the Precogs foresee the murder of Agent Danny Witwer?" Tags="|plot-explanation|minority-report|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10175" CreationDate="2013-05-27T05:44:57.483" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Cutter first goes to the address on the back of the card and sees it's Robert, Robert makes a comment that the show has to be huge because Borden 'must come to see it' and try to figure it out; in other words, he's already planning to set Borden up for his 'murder'.  The original machine does not have a trap door; Angiers has installed that for 3 reasons; primarily to kill the original (the clone is created away from the machine), but also to provide a gaff that allows a bit of doubt to enter the audience's mind, and finally to steer Borden downstairs thinking he'll catch Angier's secret again; don't forget that's how Angiers broke his leg, when Borden removed the cushioning, and then rode up the other side to spoil Angiers' reputation.  Angiers is standing there when Borden not only goes onstage lightly disguised, but walks into the machine and stomps on the floor looking for traps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the bird in the cage metaphor to be considered, that of getting your hands dirty to do good magic, like the spring box that kills the canary, though the magician produces a second one pretending it's the same bird; there's a murder in the trick, since Angiers has decided he can't be in two places at the same time for whatever reason (me, I'd like to be able to do that).  A &amp;quot;person&amp;quot; is drowning each night even though his clone is being recreated, and it's the original Angiers who's dying and knows he's walking to his death each time.  That's why the stage hands are blind, Cutter's not allowed, and the box (covered) is quietly taken from the performance house to the derelict stage each night; there's a dead body in every box though the blind stagehands don't know it, created while waiting to lure Borden, and you see at least 8, probably more, surrounding the two men at the end when the surviving Borden shoots Angiers/lord whosis.  The very last shot of the film is a pan to one of the cadavers, still in his  drowning box, off to the left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The machine itself never needed a trap door; recall that the hat never seemed to leave, and the cat just walked away; it wasn't until Robert was in the woods that he saw there had been dozens of hats and at least one other cat replicated; nobody until then realized the machine was doing something.  However, instead of teleportation, it was a replicator.  So the film makers are suggesting that this machine actually worked, was not a stage prop, and the magician (being who he was) shaped its capabilities into a magic trick (as opposed to, say, a doctor maybe could clone a spare body for a rich person to have as parts in a medical thriller, or a Star Wars villain could clone an army).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The part I didn't understand (lots going on in the end) was how Cutter came to have custody of the child to turn her over to Borden, and what the knowing head-nods were between the two of them, unless I assume an unseen alliance formed between Borden and Cutter after Cutter found out Angiers was still alive, maybe out of Cutter's guilt at having testified against Borden when Angiers hadn't really died.  There was a certain betrayal involved in that, since Cutter was the eyewitness to Borden being under the stage, and made the assumption that Borden had sabotaged the drowning box lock to not open; however, Cutter was also stooged into providing that testimony by not knowing about all the previous murders.  But that still doesn't explain how the child was with him when Borden came for her; he was doing magic tricks for her from the beginning of the film, amusing her while they were waiting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to how the clone knew to appear or not; the front apron of the stage was so flimsy, when they were under it in previous scenes you could see the stage lighting through many cracks between the boards.  The audience would have been able to hear Borden screaming for help (Borden was down there before the trap opened and started screaming immediately_) and the banging of the axe on the glass while he was trying to break Angiers out.  That would be enough noise to alert the clone that he/they had finally trapped Borden and not to come out; no further cues to the clone would be needed.  The previous nights, he waited long enough to NOT hear any ruckus and knew to complete the Prestige, but I suppose the ultimate Prestige was presenting the trick in a way that got his rival hung for a murder he didn't commit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4965" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2021-03-17T10:34:35.467" LastActivityDate="2021-03-17T10:34:35.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11652" CreationDate="2013-05-27T06:41:02.180" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because, at that point in time, the precogs are offline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that, after finding out that Agatha was the precog who yielded minority reports, Anderton kidnapped her.  Agatha is the strongest, and the other two precogs aren't able to function without her, bringing the system offline.  Burgess took the opportunity while the precogs were offline to kill Witwer.  His dialogue in the scene, just before he fires, calls attention to this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Shh. Do you know what I hear? Nothing. No footsteps up the stairs, no hovercraft out the window, no clickety-click of little spiders. Do you know why I can't hear any of those things, Danny? Because right now, the precogs can't see a thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1064" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T06:41:02.180" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11641" CreationDate="2013-05-27T08:25:42.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Utivich being captured is not shown in the film, but it's quite reasonable to expect. There're numerous high rank Germans in the theater, Hitler included, so it's only reasonable that SS, Gestapo and other Germans' services pay extra attention to anything around the theater and expect some kind of subversive act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now when Utivich and Raine are later interrogated by Landa the latter explains that he has thoroughly interrogated all the people whom Basterds have labeled with swastica and released and so he knows all the names and looks (to some degree of precision). Recall that near the beginning of the film - when Donny smacks one of the captures German soldiers - Raine calls several of the Basterds by names and so the surviving German soldier has chances to remember those. The German soldier is also not blindfolded and it's not dark around and the Basterds stay all around him and so he has good chances to see how they look like. There's good chance that the same setup repeated numerous times with different German soldiers and so Landa could have obtained enough details by interrogating them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3707" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T08:25:42.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11642" CreationDate="2013-05-27T09:22:45.010" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shosanna shot Fredrick &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; because he became a hindrance to her plot. Under different circumstances she wouldn't need to shoot Fredrick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fredrick is evidently quite besotted with Shosanna and time and again tries to vie for her attention. Even though Shosanna herself doesn't reciprocate those feelings, she nevertheless has a soft corner for him. So when Fredrick is on the floor, bleeding out from the bullet injuries she inflicted, she can't help but feel sorry for a &lt;em&gt;nice guy&lt;/em&gt; who winds up in this unfortunate position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I call Fredrick a nice guy because he was a compassionate human being. Notice that when his heroic act was made into a barbaric movie, it disturbed him so much that he walked out of the theater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2018-07-16T13:45:42.080" LastActivityDate="2018-07-16T13:45:42.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11640" CreationDate="2013-05-27T18:24:01.767" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, Jackie Chan was not in this film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This character in your photo is indeed Chang Sing (or at least one of them) but Jackie Chan is not credited as any of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The credit list for this role (from IMDb) is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James Lew - Chang Sing #1&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Jim Lau -Chang Sing #2&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Kenny Endoso - Chang Sing #3 (as Ken Endoso)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Stuart Quan - Chang Sing #4&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Gary Toy - Chang Sing #5&lt;br&gt;&#xA;George Cheung - Chang Sing #6&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Jimmy Jue - Wounded Chang Sing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-05-28T04:02:11.020" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T04:02:11.020" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11660" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-27T19:43:51.327" Score="6" ViewCount="2005" Body="&lt;p&gt;All I remember is that it's about some group of people traveling in a submarine in the sea (i think), they see something in the sea and after they're returning home their dreams starting to come true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also remember that one of them is reading a book that doesn't have an ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, can't remember anything else.&#xA;Very appreciate your help!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4970" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-23T12:05:06.793" LastActivityDate="2013-09-23T12:05:06.793" Title="Sci-fi movie where people in a submarine see something that starts making their dreams come true" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:44:50.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11660" CreationDate="2013-05-27T19:58:58.933" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;The plot you've outlined reminds me of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120184/&quot;&gt;Sphere&lt;/a&gt;, a 1998 Sci-Fi psychological thriller film adapted from a Michael Chrichton novel — although they don't return &quot;home&quot;, they return back to their underwater habitat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Synopsis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the middle of the southern Pacific Ocean, a thousand feet below the surface, what is believed to be an alien spacecraft is discovered after a ship laying transoceanic cable has its cable cut and the United States Navy investigates the cause. The thickness of coral growth on the spaceship suggests that it has been there for almost 300 years. A team made up of marine biologist Dr. Beth Halperin (Sharon Stone), mathematician Dr. Harry Adams (Samuel L. Jackson), astrophysicist Dr. Ted Fielding (Liev Schreiber), psychologist Dr. Norman Goodman (Dustin Hoffman), and U.S. Navy Capt. Harold Barnes (Peter Coyote) are tasked with investigating the spaceship. The team (along with two navy technicians) are housed in a state-of-the-art underwater living environment called the Habitat during their stay on the ocean floor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eventually, only Harry, Norman, and Beth remain. At this point, they realize that they have all entered the world of the perfect sphere. The Sphere has given them the power to manifest their thoughts into reality. As such, all of the disasters that had been plaguing them are the result of manifestations of the worst parts of their own minds.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; It's been a while since I saw the film so I didn't want to confirm the last part of your question, as I thought I remembered an unfinished book but was unsure… this &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlankBook&quot;&gt;TV Tropes article&lt;/a&gt; confirms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This happened with Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea in the film version of Sphere. It wasn't completely blank, but just stopped where the reader was too scared to read past that page while he was a child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastEditorUserId="12" LastEditDate="2013-05-27T20:15:51.670" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T20:15:51.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4121" CreationDate="2013-05-27T23:04:35.100" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are devices like this that do exist in real life, actually. I myself have a knee brace that, although not having servo-motors that assist in forward movement/strength, is fastened by hand with Velcro and has metal joints in it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't take too much engineering (and from what I read, it isn't, because it's being done) to make a knee brace with servo-motorized joints that open and close to the normal range of the leg (so as not to hyper-extend it). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as for Batman's stiff-kick that knocks the bricks out of the archway in the cave...I'm not sure how a motorized knee brace would help that. Kicks are thrown with the full body-weight behind it, having very little to do with the actual leg (although front kicks utilize some leg-strength, even those are about thrusting your hips behind the kick). Obviously, you need the leg to be strong enough so as not to buckle...but a brace would have probably been more effective on the leg he posted on, since it would have knocked him off his feet. If you've never kicked something hard, like a door, you have to kick it hard enough that it knocks you back, similar to how Bane's kick on Batman in their first fight did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My feeling is, the leg brace brought him back to his previous ability, to where he could have kicked those bricks out regardless (of logic). He then used the assisted stability to workout and rebuild strength in the leg, to the point that he wouldn't need the brace anymore. Makes sense with the prison plot and also makes sense with Wayne having been docile &quot;peeing in mason jars&quot; inside of his mansion for several years, not getting enough exercise to keep his previously damaged leg (that he still could run on, after killing Dent, when he was in peak condition) capable of function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4972" LastActivityDate="2013-05-27T23:04:35.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9446" CreationDate="2013-05-28T00:02:33.940" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do think that suicide is implied at the end. There is Allie's question to Noah if they can die together and his answer is that he believes they can do whatever they want to do...so just like Romeo and Juliet...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4973" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T03:40:07.873" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T03:40:07.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11669" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11671" CreationDate="2013-05-28T00:34:10.453" Score="4" ViewCount="1573" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season one episode 12 - &quot;Martha Complex&quot; - Tobias mentions that he and Lindsay were unable to conceive, yet they have a daughter - Maeby. Since Tobias and Lindsay were apparently unable to conceive, does this mean that Maeby is adopted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2015-09-13T20:04:21.690" Title="Is Maeby adopted?" Tags="|arrested-development|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11669" CreationDate="2013-05-28T01:26:50.703" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;All is revealed in the next episode, &quot;Beef Consommé&quot;.  George Michael wonders about Maeby's paternity, and is told by Lucille that the family spent $130,000 in fertility treatments that eventually enabled Lindsay to conceive Maeby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://arresteddevelopment.wikia.com/wiki/Beef_Consomm%C3%A9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Arrested Development wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-09-13T20:04:21.690" LastActivityDate="2015-09-13T20:04:21.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11672" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11685" CreationDate="2013-05-28T01:55:05.787" Score="6" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this short film on American television some time in the late '70s or early '80s.  It pretended to be a low-budget homage to Alfred Hitchcock, with scenes and techniques based on Hitchcock's, only much more gratuitous and heavy-handed.  It had a voice-over/commentary that was supposedly the nerdy, overly enthusiastic student director explaining each scene to Hitchcock himself, with Hitchcock responding in a deadpan, unimpressed manner.  (I don't think it was really him, but it sounded like him.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There was a shower scene similar to the one in Psycho.  In the&#xA;voice over, Hitchcock asks where the bathroom is, and the director&#xA;starts to go into detail about where they filmed the scene.  Hitchcock interrupts&#xA;him with &quot;No, no.  WHERE is the BATHROOM?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is a scene where someone is trying to hide among the spectators at a&#xA;tennis match.  As the hand-held camera slowly approaches the stands, every head is turning back and forth in time with the sound of the ball being hit, except for the one guy in the center of the frame, who is staring straight ahead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T16:43:28.643" Title="Help identify funny Alfred Hitchcock homage" Tags="|identify-this-movie|alfred-hitchcock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:44:56.590" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11674" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-05-28T05:26:21.067" Score="3" ViewCount="13189" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28500%29_Days_of_Summer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;'500 Days of Summer'&lt;/a&gt;, we see that Tom &amp;amp; Summer are having good time together, until one day they go to see the movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Graduate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;'The Graduate'&lt;/a&gt;. During the movie we see that Summer cries profusely. After that everything changes. She tells Toms right away that they should stop seeing each other. And after that it is evident that she left the office ended all connections with Tom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what exactly happened that day? I have not seen the movie, 'The Graduate'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-05-28T05:36:25.090" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T07:13:11.173" Title="Why exactly did Summer break up with Tom?" Tags="|plot-explanation|500-days-of-summer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11680" CreationDate="2013-05-28T10:14:00.487" Score="10" ViewCount="1135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that in Star Trek: Into Darkness when the Enterprise warps out it leaves a trail of what I can only describe as pixie dust. Previously the Enterprise left only a visual after image which could be explained as a purely optical effect like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_of_vision&quot;&gt;persistence of vision&lt;/a&gt; but now there appear to be actual particles left floating around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realise that it's a new special effect but is there any in universe explanation for what these glowing particles might be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3772" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T14:02:55.353" LastActivityDate="2022-04-22T20:21:23.497" Title="What is this trail of 'pixie dust' left when the Enterprise warps out?" Tags="|star-trek|star-trek-into-darkness|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11677" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11827" CreationDate="2013-05-28T10:39:28.707" Score="15" ViewCount="27891" Body="&lt;p&gt;The novel &quot;A Clash Of Kings&quot; has &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Robb Stark paired alongside Jeyne Westerling, and we also notice a large part of the House Westerling become an integral component of Robb Stark's court and council &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;whereas nothing as such is seen in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with the inclusion of Lady Talisa. What are the reasons for such a change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4083" LastEditorUserId="4083" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2016-10-21T15:34:41.613" LastActivityDate="2016-10-21T15:34:41.613" Title="Why was Jeyne Westerling replaced by Talisa Maegyr in Game of Thrones?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|book-adaptation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11675" CreationDate="2013-05-28T13:20:18.163" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This could well be plasma residue which is a byproduct of warp drive engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In previous incarnations of the star ships from the films and TV shows, it was revealed that the plasma residue needed to be purged from the ships' warp nacelles on a regular basis to avoid dangerous build-ups of the substance in the warp engines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the plasma residue has always been portrayed as blue matter, the same color as the 'pixie dust' seen in the latest film, I think it is safe to assume that the plasma residue is being purged simultaneously with the activation of the warp drive - resulting in those lovely trails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Information disseminated from Memory Alpha - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Plasma_residue&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Warp_drive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2022-04-22T20:21:23.497" LastActivityDate="2022-04-22T20:21:23.497" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="641" CreationDate="2013-05-28T13:23:55.953" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that restaurant, it's located in Porto, Portugal, I know he arrives to Marseille Airport but I was in that same restaurant some years ago, I'm trying to remember the name of it, and I'm definitely looking for it in google maps, it's located in the riviera, (next to do Ouro river)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4976" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T13:23:55.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11682" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-05-28T13:44:24.940" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek Into Darkness&lt;/em&gt; is J.J. Abrams second &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; film that once again shuffles franchise canon. Full of the well known characters introduced in the TV series, the latest movie plot diverges from the Gene Roddenberry established storylines via a parallel time-frame premise while maintaining the characters camaraderie as Kirk and the rest of the Enterprise crew attempts to save Earth from evil doers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3369" LastEditorUserId="3369" LastEditDate="2013-05-28T13:57:53.053" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T13:57:53.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11683" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-05-28T13:44:24.940" Score="0" Body="The 2013 sequel to the J.J. Abrams directed 2009 &quot;Star Trek&quot; film and the 12th movie based on the franchise created by Gene Roddenberry." OwnerUserId="3369" LastEditorUserId="3369" LastEditDate="2013-05-28T13:57:50.477" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T13:57:50.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12422" CreationDate="2013-05-28T16:27:09.907" Score="14" ViewCount="50722" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2012 adaptation of David Wong's &quot;John Dies at the End&quot; ends without John dying at the end at all. While the core of the film espouses the belief that time is not linear, the word &quot;end&quot; suggests there is a beginning and an end to things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why is the movie called John Dies at the End?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="4476" LastEditDate="2013-05-29T15:26:51.257" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T12:48:00.273" Title="Why is it called John Dies at the End?" Tags="|plot-explanation|john-dies-at-the-end|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11672" CreationDate="2013-05-28T16:43:28.643" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this is a short from 1973 called Norman Nurdelpick's Suspension: A Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock. I can't seem to find a clip of it anywhere. However, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science (e.g.  the Oscars, The Academy Awards, etc) started a Student Academy Awards in 1973. A full list of winners can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/saa/winners/winners.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Student Academy Award Winners&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and Norman Nurdelpick's Suspension: A Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock won the Special Jury (Dramatic) prize that year. The synopsis of the film as stated on that list of winners is &quot;A dual-edged parody, the film satirizes Hitchcock's most famous scenes while also poking fun at a young auteur's slavish homage to the master&quot; which sounds to me like what you are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2013-05-28T16:43:28.643" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11684" CreationDate="2013-05-29T01:51:16.010" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a link to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dies_at_the_End_%28film%29&quot;&gt;film&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dies_at_the_End&quot;&gt;book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In the film it's implied that John and Dave will not be coming back from their last mission.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The book ends on a similar note.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;However, John is in the sequel which is called This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously Dude, Don't Touch It.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Finally, the genre of the story is billed as horror-comedy-parody so I guess the author is just messing with us by keeping John's status ambiguous and surreal.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I'm leaning towards the title just being ironic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4911" LastActivityDate="2013-05-29T01:51:16.010" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11674" CreationDate="2013-05-29T08:30:41.203" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the links to the wiki you gave it tries to explain this in the following paragraphs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During the next few months Summer and Tom grow closer, despite Summer's telling Tom that she does not believe in true love, and does not want a boyfriend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly followed by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On day 290, Summer and Tom end their relationship after they see The Graduate, a film which Tom thinks shows true love&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flipping over to the wiki for the graduate shows that this potentially ties in, though it is hard to take a quote which shows 'true love' I think this bit sums it up best:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With some hesitation, Elaine returns a cry of &quot;Ben!&quot; and rushes toward Benjamin. A brawl breaks out as everyone tries to stop her and Benjamin from leaving. Elaine manages to break free from her mother, who claims &quot;It's too late!&quot;, to which Elaine replies, &quot;Not for me!&quot; Benjamin and Elaine escape the chapel by barring the chapel's double doors with a wooden cross, trapping the attendees inside&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4741" LastActivityDate="2013-05-29T08:30:41.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11699" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11707" CreationDate="2013-05-30T02:20:37.033" Score="10" ViewCount="1960" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/Star-Trek-The-Next-Generation-TV-series-Why-didnt-the-Federation-use-swords-against-the-Borg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;asked on Quora&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If energy weapons are useless on the Borg after they've adapted, but Worf is still able to chop one up with his Mek'leth during &quot;First Contact,&quot; why don't all the Federation troops just replicate some Samurai swords and go to town whenever the Borg attacks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-02T15:46:57.493" LastActivityDate="2016-09-02T15:46:57.493" Title="Why didn't the Federation use swords against the Borg?" Tags="|star-trek|star-trek-the-next-generation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11700" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11703" CreationDate="2013-05-30T02:30:17.873" Score="10" ViewCount="10757" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King&lt;/em&gt; the Witch King of the Nazgul says that he can't be killed by a man, and then Eowyn says &quot;I am no man&quot; right before killing him. Why is he able to be killed by a woman?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T09:03:40.553" LastActivityDate="2021-07-27T14:11:52.193" Title="Why is the Witch King of the Nazgul able to be killed by a woman?" Tags="|character|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-return-of-the-king|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2303" CreationDate="2013-05-30T02:41:16.593" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay -- this is just a guess, I do not really know what I'm talking about, but my guess is that they portrayed some of the characters in the movie as being less than ideal people.  THUS, it is possible that someone could claim their character was defamed.  SO, to give themselves legal wiggle room &quot; ... characters, names, businesses and certain locations and events have been fictionalized for dramatic purposes.&quot; This way, SHOULD they ever end up in court over something in the movie, they could say, &quot;We weren't talking about you ... WE were talking about a FICTIONAL character.&quot; (i.e., the disclaimer at the end of the credits).  Net: Every component, such as the actual # of birds, would go to the defense of that concept, in such a situation.   (Note, as they say, even the names of the real people were changed to protect the guilty.)  But that is just my guess. Does that make sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4992" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2013-05-30T10:23:20.980" LastActivityDate="2013-05-30T10:23:20.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11702" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11736" CreationDate="2013-05-30T02:52:31.710" Score="25" ViewCount="44725" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Gandalf only use his magic powers against the Balrog in &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring&lt;/em&gt;? Why not before? Could he have used that kind of firepower earlier to the Fellowship's benefit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4928" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-10-31T21:28:41.217" LastActivityDate="2019-10-31T21:28:41.217" Title="Why did Gandalf only use his magic powers against the Balrog? Why not before?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-fellowship-of-the-ring|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11700" CreationDate="2013-05-30T03:42:51.297" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the book of &lt;em&gt;The Return of the King&lt;/em&gt;, an appendix relates that during the Third Age the elf Glorfindel prophesied that the Witch-king of Angmar (Lord of the Nazgûl) would eventually fall, but not by &quot;the hand of man&quot;.  By the time of the Battle of Pelennor Fields, word of the prophecy had apparently reached the Witch-king himself.  Like so many seemingly favorable prophecies in literature, this one turned out to be very literal and limited and thus led him to be fatally overconfident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: Wikipedia article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorfindel&quot;&gt;Glorfindel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-05-30T03:42:51.297" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11704" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11706" CreationDate="2013-05-30T06:56:14.327" Score="22" ViewCount="3895" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once Batman dives into the ocean with the bomb and &quot;The Bat&quot;, and after Bruce Wayne's obituaries are read and Robin discovers what Mr. Wayne left back for him, &#xA;what is the significance of the final scene with Alfred meeting Bruce Wayne and Selina at the cafe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it Alfred's rendition of what &quot;the end&quot; should have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4083" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-28T10:21:06.333" LastActivityDate="2018-06-03T10:02:33.983" Title="Why does Christopher Nolan end the Dark Knight Trilogy this way?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|directors|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11704" CreationDate="2013-05-30T09:21:22.277" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not &quot;Alfred's rendition of what &quot;the end&quot; should have been&quot;.&#xA;It's what actually happened. Everyone thinks that Bruce Wayne is dead and so is Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was Bruce Wayne's ploy. During the final 5 minutes it is revealed that &quot;The Bat&quot; had an auto pilot system. This proves that it is not necessary that Batman destroyed himself with the plane and the bomb. He could have easily escaped the plane leaving it on Auto Pilot, thus saving the city and himself too.&#xA;This theory is verified when we see that Alfred sees Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle in a cafe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is similar to the scene (imaginative), which Alfred had narrated to Bruce earlier in the movie - 'When Bruce was in China (Batman Begins) everyone thought that he was dead. When Alfred used to go to a restaurant/cafe, he always expected that one day Bruce would suddenly appear before him'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end it just happens like that - &quot;Everyone thinks that Bruce is dead but he suddenly appears before Alfred&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the significance of ending scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-02-04T21:49:27.720" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T21:49:27.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11704" CreationDate="2013-05-30T09:47:44.063" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all it is an allusion to Alfred's previous story: When Bruce was away for many years during the events of &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt; (when he was an outlaw and later trained by the League of Shadows), Alfred was every years on vacation in that restaurant and hoped for seeing Bruce sitting there happily. He just hoped that he would finally have found a way to escape all the sorrow that Gotham meant for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we learn in one of the ending scenes, the autopilot has been secretly repaired by Bruce a long time ago, which already suggests that there was something going on with the Bat. So Bruce really got out of it alive. And this is in line with the movie's earlier motive of Bruce rediscovering his will to live (think of the pit scene as a good example). After all his sorrows and secretly hoping to die for the sake of Gotham, he finally managed to find back to himself and discovered that there could be a Bruce Wayne without a Batman. He managed the &quot;symbol&quot; to bring the ultimate sacrifice for Gotham and remain in the minds of the people forever, while still not sacrificing the &quot;person&quot; and found a way to finally separate Batman from Bruce Wayne.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this leaving behind of Gotham and all its sorrows is what Alfred always hoped for Bruce and in this last scene he (and the audience) finally found it. So what Christopher Nolan gave there was not only a happy ending for Alfred (and the audience) but the culmination of Bruce's struggle to get out of the pit he was in since the death of his parents (and to show that final conclusion for the main character is a strength only a completed trilogy can play out). After all, this path of Bruce to leave behind his sorrows and to finally cope with all the emotional trauma without just supressing it into the Batman was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/34185/49&quot;&gt;major point of the the whole trilogy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There might be a few people that are going to tell you that the ending scene was just a dream by Alfred and he just wished for Bruce to not have died, I for myself am pretty sure that Alfred indeed saw Bruce there at the end in reality, because of the above mentioned reasons. Still one could just see this whole 3-movie-struggle for peace of mind as unsuccessful and fruitless with Bruce's death as the only viable solution, but I refuse to do so for the reason that &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;'s whole motive of rediscovering his will to live suggests otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="38208" LastEditDate="2018-06-03T10:02:33.983" LastActivityDate="2018-06-03T10:02:33.983" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11699" CreationDate="2013-05-30T10:00:16.400" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well first if we discount the Borg updating their shields to stop swords (and I'm not suggesting they couldn't do this!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the if we discount them just shooting their attackers with energy weapons before they get close enough to use swords (which I don't see any reason we should!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then as soon as they start allowing themselves to get attacked by an enemy with swords they could start carrying swords of their own learn about swordsmanship from their attacker and soon become as good if not better than the attackers with swords&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastActivityDate="2013-05-30T10:00:16.400" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11702" CreationDate="2013-05-30T11:15:45.540" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Balrog was a powerful magical creature and was a &quot;foe beyond any of [them]&quot;.  In this situation Gandalf had to turn his dials up as it was the only option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His mission was to inspire and assist, he was not permitted to take over and fight everyone's battles for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-05-30T11:15:45.540" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11699" CreationDate="2013-05-30T11:23:02.260" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Worf is a very strong, experienced melee combatant with years of training with melee weapons.  His weapon is heavier than a sword and seems to work almost by percussive smashing and piecing rather than slashing, however let us assume they replicate weapons which have the same physical characteristics for our humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine what would happen if there was a dozen scared, almost panicing, completely untrained people swinging swords around in a confined area.  It would be a nightmare of friendly fire (even without the Borg shooting at people).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have fought on a re-enactment battlefield and had my face opened by a backswing on someone on my side and both of us had had years of training.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the swords got through the Borg armour.  It would have been hightly dangerous as close as that as one touch from a Borg means BIG trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Worf is stronger (than most humans), better trained (at melee combat) and has his chosen weapon at hand - the humans will not be anywhere near as efficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-05-30T11:23:02.260" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11702" CreationDate="2013-05-30T17:51:30.110" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gandalf is both meddeling and hands-off, this is part of what makes him an interesting character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, for as powerful as he is, don't you think he could have devised a better way to get to Mt. Doom rather than just walking/horse back?  Sure, but the journey wasn't up for him to decide, it was for the rest of Middle Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Balrog, if you look into Middle Earth's back history, is actually more related to Gandalf than the rest of the beings on Middle Earth, both having been angelic beings at one point.  Since this balrog was going to interrupt the happenings of Middle Earth Gandalf had to seriously intervene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gandalf has always been powerful, but he only expresses that power when absolutely necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-05-30T19:55:29.463" LastActivityDate="2013-05-30T19:55:29.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11718" CreationDate="2013-05-30T18:42:58.693" Score="5" ViewCount="433" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the season two episode &quot;Spring Breakout&quot; it is discovered that there were 250ccs of &quot;frozen goods&quot; stored in the freezer at the Blueth banana stand dating back to before the timeline of the TV show. However, in season one there was a fire that destroyed the banana stand and in season two there was a car drive over the banana stand, amongst other calamities. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did the frozen goods survive the the banana stand being destroyed multiple times?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-09-12T19:24:48.110" Title="How do the 'frozen goods' survive the banana stand fire?" Tags="|plot-explanation|arrested-development|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11717" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11719" CreationDate="2013-05-30T18:45:38.957" Score="8" ViewCount="6451" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of each episode of Arrested Development, there is always a segment which is introduced by the narrator as &quot;in the next episode of Arrested Development...&quot;, however the scenes shown during this segment very rarely actually appear in the next episode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first I thought that perhaps some of these scenes were cut out of the next episode during subsequent editing, but as the seasons progress it becomes apparent that very few of the scenes shown in this segment actually appear in the next episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is going on? What is the purpose of introducing these plot elements in this way if they're not actually shown in the next episode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-05-30T19:23:01.540" Title="&quot;In the next episode...&quot; plot points don't appear in the next episode?" Tags="|arrested-development|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11716" CreationDate="2013-05-30T19:22:46.133" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately for the finest-show-that-has-ever-aired-on-television, I believe these to be plot holes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated in season two, an &lt;strong&gt;annual&lt;/strong&gt; Christmas tradition by Newport Beach youths is to destroy the banana stand by throwing it into the ocean. Seeing as how this occurs &lt;em&gt;each year&lt;/em&gt;, there is no rational explanation for &quot;250 cc's of [Michael's] father&quot; to be stored there, nor is it a prudent place to store $250,000 lined within its walls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it is true that both a drink cooler and (presumably) cellophane-wrapped quarter of a million dollars can withstand being dumped into the ocean, it definitely couldn't have survived a fire nor go unnoticed when run over and be rebuilt; it still seems more likely that it was a writing oversight than a calculated decision by Lucille and George Sr. to keep these things there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;....&lt;em&gt;then again&lt;/em&gt;, how did Michael not look inside the decoy cooler before giving it away, too!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1125" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-05-30T20:42:29.687" LastActivityDate="2013-05-30T20:42:29.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11717" CreationDate="2013-05-30T19:23:01.540" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's part of the show's 4th-wall breaking.  In pretty much every TV show, they'll show what will happen in the next episode as a teaser to get you to tune in during the next episode.  &lt;em&gt;Arrested Development&lt;/em&gt; subverts this by instead showing some absurd additional development of the plot lines in the current episode during the 'In the next episode' segment.  They're purposefully not showing what will happen on the next episode, and instead using that time to tell additional jokes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-05-30T19:23:01.540" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11716" CreationDate="2013-05-30T19:31:03.597" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The frozen goods obviously could not survive.  It's absurd.  It's &lt;em&gt;intended&lt;/em&gt; to be absurd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arrested Development&lt;/em&gt; consists entirely of absurd, unrealistic situations--that's the wellspring of its humor.  If any portion of the story ever turns out to be realistic, that would probably indicate a mistake on the writers' part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-05-30T19:31:03.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11725" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11743" CreationDate="2013-05-31T11:10:10.837" Score="3" ViewCount="1908" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a die hard fan of Ingmar Bergman's Films. I have just read &lt;a href=&quot;http://voices.yahoo.com/the-virgin-spring-movie-review-6379686.html?cat=40&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a review&lt;/a&gt; on The Virgin Spring, quite charming and was simply pleased and delighted to read it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a question on a particular scene in the movie, quoting from the review:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The whole household then marches off sorrowfully to retrieve the body&#xA;  of Karin. The father calls out to God in lamentation, declaring that&#xA;  he cannot understand how God can allow such things to happen, but&#xA;  pledging to build a church on this spot to atone for his role in the&#xA;  tragic events. The grieving mother lifts her daughter's corpse, and&#xA;  spring water bubbles out from the ground where it lay, as all look on&#xA;  in wonder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the significance of water flow and Karin's dead body or death? In a short I want to know the philosophical significance (if there is any) why Bergman shows water flowing when her mother lifted the dead body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5002" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2013-06-01T02:12:27.483" LastActivityDate="2016-08-07T13:00:07.143" Title="What is the significance of the water in Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring?" Tags="|analysis|plot-explanation|the-virgin-spring|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11726" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11830" CreationDate="2013-05-31T11:14:22.163" Score="11" ViewCount="10018" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the last scene of Django Unchained, when Django and Broomhilda are on their horses, after Django has destroyed everything, we suddenly see a scene where Django and Dr. Schultz are somewhere in the snow. Django is practicing shooting and Shultz tells him &lt;em&gt;&quot;You know what they are going to call you? The Gun of the South.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;After that Django and Broomhilda take off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found it a little unusual.&#xA;Is there anything that the director wanted to tell through that scene at the end.&#xA;What was the significance of this scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-05-31T14:42:48.497" LastActivityDate="2017-07-01T17:19:57.587" Title="Last scene in Django Unchained where Django &amp; Shultz are practicing in the snow?" Tags="|analysis|plot-explanation|django-unchained|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11727" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11729" CreationDate="2013-05-31T15:06:22.730" Score="6" ViewCount="7912" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the tiger, hyena, zebra etc animated? They look quite real. Are they trained animals?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4982" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T09:19:25.957" Title="How did they shoot the animal scenes in Life of Pi?" Tags="|effects|life-of-pi|production|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11727" CreationDate="2013-05-31T15:11:26.780" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is that both real animals and Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) were used.  Clearly in situations which will put an animal or an actor in danger, they will use CGI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nextmovie.com/blog/life-of-pi-tiger-cgi-or-real/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-05-31T17:47:32.090" LastActivityDate="2013-05-31T17:47:32.090" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11727" CreationDate="2013-05-31T15:13:32.537" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects largely because that tiger looked so real.  Special effects supervisor Bill Westenhofer wrote in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/oscar-effects-how-life-of-pi-caught-a-digital-tiger-by-the-tail/&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; for Digital Trends&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“We used [real tigers] for single shots, where it was just the tiger in the frame, and they’re doing something that didn’t have to be all that specific in the action that we were after,” Westenhofer told The New York Times. “By doing that, it set our bar high for CGI. We couldn’t cheat at all. It pushed the artists to go and deliver something that’s never been done before, something as photo-real as anyone has ever done with an animal.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-05-31T15:13:32.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11732" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11738" CreationDate="2013-05-31T18:05:47.740" Score="30" ViewCount="18093" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 2, Episode 8, Jaime says that there are only three men in Westeros who stood a chance of beating him in a fair fight. Who is this referring to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T22:46:38.317" Title="Who are the three people who could match Jaime Lannister?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11733" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11752" CreationDate="2013-05-31T18:11:13.213" Score="25" ViewCount="25587" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898266/&quot;&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, How can &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0034106/?ref_=tt_cl_t1&quot;&gt;Penny&lt;/a&gt; afford a &lt;a href=&quot;http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/Apartment_4B&quot;&gt;one bedroom apartment&lt;/a&gt; on a waitresses' salary? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She doesn't seem poor and lives off with free food and WiFi, right?&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JgInN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorDisplayName="user4840" LastEditDate="2013-09-06T06:08:41.127" LastActivityDate="2017-04-18T00:45:48.100" Title="How can Penny afford a one bedroom apartment on a waitress salary?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11733" CreationDate="2013-05-31T18:11:13.213" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/The-Big-Bang-Theory-TV-series/How-can-Penny-who-works-as-a-waitress-afford-to-drink-wine-everyday/answer/Robert-Frost-1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;potential answer to how Penny gets by here&lt;/a&gt; which explains a bit about California labour law and factors in the tips she would earn while working at the Cheesecake Factory:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because she is a waitress doesn't mean she doesn't make a decent income. I know a waitress at an upscale restaurant that makes considerably more than I do as an engineer. Let's do a little back of the envelope math:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Penny works at the Cheesecake Factory.  At the Cheesecake Factory, appetizers are around $9, entrees around $15-$20, desserts around $9 and drinks around $6.  I'm there periodically and for two people the bill is easily $50-$60, often more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, let's pretend Penny serves 2 person tables (3-4 is probably a more accurate number).  Let's say she serves 5 tables an hour (I think average is 6).  If her Cheesecake Factory is anything like the ones here, it is busy all day. The Cheesecake Factory is very high volume.  Let's say she works full time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;($50 per table)*(15% tip)*(5 tables per hour)*(8 hours per shift)*(5 shifts per week)*(50 weeks per year) = $75,000 per year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that California requires a minimum salary for tipped employees of $8 an hour. That's an extra $16,000 per year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, at a gross income of up to $91,000 per year, Penny would be making more than Howard does. Now, to be fair, we know that Penny is not very good at her job, so she is probably not doing that well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-04-18T00:45:48.100" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11735" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11740" CreationDate="2013-05-31T18:17:08.937" Score="10" ViewCount="2164" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shaw was a terrible person with incredible powers who had done a lot of bad things. Why was it so bad that Magneto wanted to kill him, even out of revenge? Why did that issue have to be such a relationship-divider between Magneto and Xavier?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2016-05-29T17:23:30.797" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T17:23:30.797" Title="Why was it such a big deal to Professor Xavier that Magneto not kill Sebastian Shaw?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-first-class|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11702" CreationDate="2013-05-31T18:22:42.423" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of Tolkien's themes is the &lt;strong&gt;appropriate use of power&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;and in his universe, power comes from your inner nature&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. You cannot—or should not—obtain more power through any artificial system, because that just distorts your nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, we have Aragorn who usually prevails just by showing up and being all Aragorny. He doesn't make speeches, he just exudes this natural authority (or even semi-supernatural powers) that make people want to follow him. This is nobility, in Tolkien's view—some people are just born better. Others, like lesser men and Hobbits, have a lower status, but can play their roles with equal faithfulness to this principle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what about Gandalf's power? If you read the supporting materials, you learn that he is really an angelic being clothed as a mortal. The Balrog is a being of the same order. So, in Tolkien's morality, Gandalf can reveal all of his power when in battle with an equal—the Balrog, or Saruman. In fact, when Gandalf gets his promotion to being the White, he has the natural authority to even cancel Saruman's power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be immoral for Gandalf to use his power directly against lesser beings, even when that would do good. Instead, he must use his power more indirectly, to convince the people of Middle-Earth to unite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saruman is depicted as having succumbed to this temptation. Frustrated with the disunity among the peoples of Middle-Earth, he decided to create an artificial system that would be strong enough to defeat Sauron, namely his industrial revolution around Orthanc, yielding the abomination of the Uruk-Hai. And as he became interested in power for its own sake, he became a tool of Sauron.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happened to read this here - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/In-The-Fellowship-of-the-Ring-why-did-Gandalf-only-pull-out-the-bigtime-magic-against-the-Balrog-Could-he-have-used-that-kind-of-firepower-earlier-to-the-Fellowships-benefit/answer/Neil-Kandalgaonkar&quot;&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorDisplayName="user4840" LastEditDate="2013-06-01T08:58:42.207" LastActivityDate="2013-06-01T08:58:42.207" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11732" CreationDate="2013-05-31T18:46:17.247" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Since Jaime himself has yet to reveal who those three are, we simply don't know.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books Jaime idolized &lt;strong&gt;Ser Barristan &quot;The Bold&quot; Selmy&lt;/strong&gt; (the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard at the beginning of the series) and has always spoke in admiration of his swordsmanship, so it's safe to assume that he's on the list. Other than that it's pure speculation. Among the living the &lt;strong&gt;Clegane brothers (Sandor the Hound and Gregor the Mountain)&lt;/strong&gt; are often described as powerful warriors even by Jaime, so they might be the other two. There are many others, but they are either dead (Ser Arthur &quot;Sword of the Morning&quot; Dayne), not included in the series (Ser Garlan Tyrell), or haven't appeared yet (Oberyn &quot;The Red Viper&quot; Martell).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-05-31T18:46:17.247" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11735" CreationDate="2013-05-31T22:00:05.590" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The dialogue in question (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270798/quotes&quot;&gt;thanks IMDb&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Professor Charles Xavier: Shaw's declared war on mankind on all of us, he has to be stopped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Erik Lehnsherr: I am not gonna stop Shaw, I am gonna kill him. Do you have it in you to allow that?&#xA;  [Erik pauses while Charles shifts in his chair uneasy]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Erik Lehnsherr: You known all along why I was here Charles, but things have changed. What started as a covert of mission, tomorrow mankind will know mutants exist. Shaw, us, they won't differentiate. They'll fear us. And that fear will turn to hatred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Professor Charles Xavier: Not if we stop a war, not if we can prevent Shaw, not if we risk our lives doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Erik Lehnsherr: Would they do the same for us?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Professor Charles Xavier: We have it in us to be the better man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Erik Lehnsherr: We already are! We are the next stage of human evolution, you said it yourself...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Professor Charles Xavier: [cuts in] No, no...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Erik Lehnsherr: Are you really so naive as to think that they won't battle their own extinction? Or is it arrogance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Professor Charles Xavier: [looks at Erik in disagreement] I am sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Erik Lehnsherr: After tomorrow, they are gonna turn on us. But you are blinded because you believe they are all like Moira.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Professor Charles Xavier: And you believe they are all like Shaw.&#xA;  [leans forward]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Professor Charles Xavier: Listen to me very carefully, my friend: killing Shaw will not bring you peace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Erik Lehnsherr: Peace was never an option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how the movie could have made it any more clear. Xavier is on the path wanting to forge peace and understanding between mutants and humans. Magneto believes peace is not an option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Killing Shaw cements Magneto's position: it demonstrates that Professor X's and Magneto's philosophies are irreconcilable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-01T02:17:42.990" LastActivityDate="2013-06-01T02:17:42.990" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9145" CreationDate="2013-06-01T01:34:26.817" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed the wire tiger on my second viewing, I've just watched it again for the fourth time (I do love it!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,36793.msg706753.html#msg706753&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;According to Alex Garland&lt;/a&gt; one of the crew made models from wire and he made the tiger; it does seem far too haphazard to put someone's little model in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had jumped to the conclusion that it was like the origami at the end of Blade Runner, but Anderson had no secrets to hide. Mind you Kay who was sent to execute Anderson could still be around, although injured we didn't see him die, and the film seldom spared us the gore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5007" LastActivityDate="2013-06-01T01:34:26.817" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11725" CreationDate="2013-06-01T01:53:19.963" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=gtUaSx_hiGwC&amp;amp;pg=PA54&amp;amp;dq=ingmar%20bergman%20%22virgin%20spring%22&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=HkypUaLxNuS7iwK_8oDgDQ&amp;amp;ved=0CF4Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=ingmar%20bergman%20%22virgin%20spring%22&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; by Irving Singer (p 55-56):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The miracle of the gushing water in the Virgin Spring alerts us to the&#xA;  fact that everything we have seen is a reflection strictly controlled&#xA;  by the aesthetic parameters of a religious legend. From the very first&#xA;  shots of the movie…each scene and every event in the narrative has&#xA;  beguiled us with its surface realism…Only later, when the couple finds&#xA;  the body of the dead daughter and the father eventually repents his&#xA;  violence, does the tone transcend the neorealism that has been&#xA;  dominant until this point. Bergman establishes through the miraculous&#xA;  spring the reflective import of the realistic images we have been&#xA;  watching. We recognize then that they were more than merely realistic…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When he had finished murdering [the brothers and the boy], the father&#xA;  looked at his two hands with dazed astonishment at what he had done.&#xA;  After the miracle, he holds up his hand as the offending member that&#xA;  performed the deed, and that he will now use to build the chapel. This&#xA;  alerts us to the fact that we have perceived the unfolding of a fable&#xA;  that is partly realistic but also designed to provide an explanation&#xA;  of how our body, and specifically that much of it with which we&#xA;  identify ourselves, can play its roles in a universal search for moral&#xA;  and spiritual redemption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the spring is our cue to look deeper at the story. It also marks the point where redemption is possible and suggests that in our own lives, we should look beyond the events for the spiritual lesson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Singer is a philosophy professor at MIT who has studied and written on the works of Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir, and Orson Welles. &lt;em&gt;The Virgin Spring&lt;/em&gt; won the best foreign film Oscar for 1960.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-06-01T01:53:19.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11744" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-06-01T02:21:20.847" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;X-Men: First Class is a 2011 X-Men movie. It takes place in 1962 and acts as a prequel to the original X-Men series (not the trilogy). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;on the web&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270798&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men%3a_First_Class&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-01T07:00:54.253" LastActivityDate="2013-06-01T07:00:54.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11745" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-06-01T02:21:20.847" Score="0" Body="X-Men: First Class is a 2011 X-Men movie. It takes place in 1962 and acts as a prequel to the original X-Men series (not the trilogy). " OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-01T07:00:57.050" LastActivityDate="2013-06-01T07:00:57.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11746" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11755" CreationDate="2013-06-01T07:46:54.527" Score="4" ViewCount="556" Body="&lt;p&gt;This particular plot device is now commonplace in today's movies and TV shows.  For example, we have a character like Penelope Garcia in Criminal Minds, who has access to all kinds of government databases, and who can (normally) find the perfect link between the pieces of information that she is given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious about the first movie or TV show to illustrate the use a database to help the law enforcement professionals or a private detective find the criminal more quickly than had he/she only had the raw clues of the case to go on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T09:09:27.147" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T09:09:27.147" Title="What was the first movie or TV show to employ a &quot;crime computer&quot; to move the plot along?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8979" CreationDate="2013-06-01T10:00:07.410" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jesse sang &quot;it feels like the first time&quot; and Beca's song started off with &quot;it's going down...&quot;, deeming it invalid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5010" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-06-03T14:52:47.957" LastActivityDate="2013-06-03T14:52:47.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9005" CreationDate="2013-06-01T20:40:35.290" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In many parts of the country, thunderstorms are common&amp;mdash;even predictable some days in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was where storms are random, or if a storm hadn't materialized, presumably he wouldn't have smashed his way in, but instead broke it less noisily:  perhaps weakening the pipe with grinding and scratching and then breaking the remainder with some sound insulation like towels, blankets, etc.  Whatever he did, there is great strategic significance to making noise during instants when it is masked by other noises:  showers running, garbage truck activity, sirens going off, riots, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the explosion, I always assumed that was due to concentrated sewage methane.  Maybe I should look at the other question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-06-01T20:40:35.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11733" CreationDate="2013-06-01T21:36:06.153" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Internet searches for Cheesecake Factory waitress salaries range from $27,000-$33000. This may or may not include tips, but tips are shared with the kitchen. As you note, Penny freeloads quite a bit. Her car has had the engine-check light on forever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her apartment is not flashy - the elevator hasn't worked in 7 years. The PhDs across the hall are researchers, not professors, so their salaries may be quite average, and Sheldon keeps a roommate because he needs a driver. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely there are plenty of waitresses renting average apartments in California.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Additional Info&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;9/23/13&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the episode entitled &quot;The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification,&quot; Penny owes Leonard for several takeout dinners plus a month's rent which comes to &quot;a little over $1400.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-23T18:48:54.740" LastActivityDate="2013-09-23T18:48:54.740" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11754" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11766" CreationDate="2013-06-02T02:45:45.387" Score="10" ViewCount="2625" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the final fight sequence between Spock and Khan. Spock applies the Vulcan nerve pinch to Khan, who lets out a scream of pain but doesn't collapse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't the nerve pinch work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T14:03:01.880" LastActivityDate="2017-04-06T22:47:04.830" Title="Why didn't the Vulcan nerve pinch work?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-trek|star-trek-into-darkness|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11746" CreationDate="2013-06-02T05:11:50.327" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Approaching this from a real-life perspective, one of the earliest crime databases was that of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ncic/ncic_history&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;NCIC&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Crime_Information_Center&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;National Crime Information Center&lt;/a&gt;) which was set up in 1967.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On January 27, &lt;strong&gt;1967&lt;/strong&gt;, the system was launched on 15 state and city computers that were tied into the FBI's central computer in Washington, D.C.—which at that time contained five files and 356,784 records on things like stolen autos, stolen license plates, stolen/missing guns, and wanted persons/fugitives. In its first year of operation, NCIC processed approximately 2.4 million transactions, an average of 5,479 transactions daily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The first hit came in May 1967&lt;/strong&gt;, when a New York City police officer—suspicious of a parked car—radioed in a request for an NCIC search of the license plate. Within 90 seconds, he was informed that the car had been stolen a month earlier in Boston. We got a report that the patrolman exclaimed, &amp;quot;It works! It works!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A police drama named &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam-12&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Adam-12&lt;/a&gt; which ran between 1968 and 1975 appears to have been the first to incorporate NCIC checks in its plot. IMDb's blurb for the eighteenth episode of the first season, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0505291/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Log 112: You Blew It&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;broadcast on 8 Feb. 1969&lt;/strong&gt;) reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Malloy and Reed conduct a traffic stop, but decide to let the man off with a warning &lt;strong&gt;before the NCIC check is completed&lt;/strong&gt;. In their haste, they let a man wanted on armed robbery and weapons charges go free. The lieutenant calls the officers in to scold them for not going &amp;quot;by the book,&amp;quot; particularly since another officer could have responded to the scene of what turned out to be a routine domestic dispute. Malloy and Reed must then put their being scolded behind them as they come up with a plan to nab the wanted criminal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-06-02T05:11:50.327" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11757" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11759" CreationDate="2013-06-02T10:44:08.957" Score="4" ViewCount="16898" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Smallville Lex Luthor and Clark Kent begin as friends, I watched most of the series a few years ago and watched the friendship dissolve into distrust but I could never understand why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My overriding memory was that Lex was (rightfully) curious about all the secrets surrounding his friend and Clark was became more and more resentful that he was being scrutinised and pushed Lex futher and further away (in fact I was left with the feeling that Clark was simply being childish and he actually created the rift!).  Was there any more to it than this?  What were the steps which turned friends into enemies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T11:34:41.290" Title="Why did Clark and Lex fall out?" Tags="|smallville|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11757" CreationDate="2013-06-02T11:29:03.470" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Smallvillw Wiki &lt;a href=&quot;http://smallville.wikia.com/wiki/Clark_and_Lex&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://smallville.wikia.com/wiki/Clark_and_Lex&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although Lex did not exactly know the entire story behind Clark's alien origins, he knew there was something odd about his friend from the moment that Clark saved him by pulling him from Elbow River following a car accident. Lex was sure his car had hit Clark, and was immediately doubtful of Clark's claim that he dove after him. Lex gave Clark the opportunity to share his secret on his own terms as their friendship grew, but often could not resist asking Clark prying questions. Clark used a temporary loss of his powers to &quot;prove&quot; his vulnerability. Nevertheless, Lex's curiosity was not that easily satisfied.&#xA;Lex financed Dr. Steven Hamilton's excavation of Miller's Field, where Clark's ship had landed years ago, and unearthed the key to the ship. Although Lex knew that this was of alien origin, he never connected it with Clark. Lex blackmailed Roger Nixon into investigating the car crash. However, when Nixon's investigation violated the Kents' privacy, Lex demonstrated that he was not ready to trade Nixon's secrets for the Kents' lives, and thus shot and killed him. Nevertheless, Lex continued to research Clark and even stole a vial of Clark's blood from his fiancé Dr. Helen Bryce. Lex also suspected a connection between Clark and the Kawatche Caves, causing Clark to continually deny that he could read the Kryptonian symbols.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lex eventually witnessed Clark's superpowers while in a drug-induced psychosis, confirming his beliefs. Nevertheless, the memory was lost after intense shock treatment. Not knowing what memories had been lost, Lex became desperate to recover them, which made Clark nervous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 2004, Lionel sent Clark a key to a secret room in the Luthor Mansion that compiled all the information Lex had gathered on Clark over the years. Three months after the fact, Lex had the room cleared out and told Clark that he was done obsessing over him and asked for his forgiveness. Lex kept his promise and did not investigate Clark for almost a year. However, he did question Clark's immunity to an airborne toxin and took advantage of Clark's temporary amnesia to ask him questions about the caves. He again &quot;tested&quot; Clark and was confused that his suspicions were proved wrong when he saw a video of Clark getting burned by a security laser, a subsequent brief exchange of punches leaving Clark with a bruised and bloody lip. Nevertheless, his suspicions were re-awakened when Clark came back from the dead after being shot. Lex assumed that Clark was the fast-moving blur in a security camera photo when a LuthorCorp facility was attacked. However, Lionel prevented Lex from discovering the truth by giving Clark an alibi.&#xA;Clark and Lex's growing animosity towards each other made it unlikely that Clark would ever willingly tell Lex the truth about his origins and powers, but also invited the possibility that Lex would do anything to discover it. After Clark was injured by meteor rocks and trapped in a cave-in with Lex, Lex confronted Clark about his suspected powers. Lex admitted that he had seen a chisel bend after he stabbed Clark with it. Having survived that, Lex was confused that Clark was now injured, but Clark didn't answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the sudden arrival of Clark's Kryptonian cousin Kara Kent, Lex extended his curiosity towards her as well, intending to use her to reveal Clark's secret. Eventually, Brainiac, disguised as Kara, confirmed to Lex that she was an alien, insinuating that Clark was too. Lex received confirmation of this when he visited the Arctic Circle. Having come across violent aliens in the past, Lex was convinced that Clark was on Earth to destroy it and, in order to save the world, he must kill Clark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lex's realization left him bitter and betrayed. He told Clark that they could have accomplished anything together and that, if Clark had trusted him, he could have helped him become a hero. Clark's fear of Lex discovering his secret proved justified, as Lex then de-powered Clark and destroyed the Fortress of Solitude with the Orb, despite this attack leaving him critically injured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5018" LastEditorDisplayName="user5018" LastEditDate="2013-06-02T13:18:24.637" LastActivityDate="2013-06-02T13:18:24.637" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11754" CreationDate="2013-06-02T14:48:50.333" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spock's Vulcan Nerve Pinch was much less effective on Khan, due to his superior genetic engineering. Although, it had a temporary painful effect, Khan, as stated in the film, was the most dangerous adversary they have/had ever faced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastEditorUserId="3582" LastEditDate="2013-06-03T12:57:59.767" LastActivityDate="2013-06-03T12:57:59.767" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9210" CreationDate="2013-06-02T16:57:41.717" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the moral of the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it significant that everyone who reads the book or watches the movie has a hard time agreeing with anyone else on the most important lesson of the story.  Perhaps the lasting message of Christopher J. McCandless is the importance of questioning what the purpose and best uses of life are.  Undoubtedly the &quot;correct&quot; answer is different for each of us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the people Chris is most drawn to (Jan &amp;amp; Rainey and Ron Franz) have lost contact with their children and suffer from the loss.  Those people significantly ask Chris &quot;do your parents know where you are?&quot; to which he responds in a way suggesting he doesn't think it important&amp;mdash;typical of abused children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Twenty years later, people are still divided about the fundamental question:  Was he a visionary, or just behaving stupidly.  For example, one Denali National Park ranger (who arrived in Alaska at the same time and at the same age) &lt;a href=&quot;http://nmge.gmu.edu/textandcommunity/2006/Peter_Christian_Response.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;writes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So what made the difference between McCandless and I fourteen years ago?  Why am I alive and he is dead?  Essentially, Chris McCandless committed suicide while I&#xA;  apprenticed myself to a career and a life that I wanted more badly than I can possibly describe in so short an essay.  In the end I believe that the difference between us was that I wanted to live and Chris McCandless wanted to die (whether he realized it or not).  The fact that he died in a compelling way doesn’t change that outcome.  He might have made it work if he had respected the wilderness he was purported to have loved.  But it is my belief that surviving in the wilderness is not what he had in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, hundreds of people visit the Magic Bus site, most of them young males from good backgrounds.  One of them &lt;a href=&quot;https://plus.google.com/108116659270600414691/about?gl=us&amp;amp;hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wrote&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He followed his dream and those who call him stupid or foolish are scared to follow their dreams and don't have the guts to recognize his brilliance and sadly something went [wrong]. But I think it was wrong for a book and movie to be made about him:  all he wanted to do was get away from everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the question &lt;em&gt;What is the moral of the story?&lt;/em&gt;, the answer is &lt;em&gt;We will never know&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-06-02T16:57:41.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11754" CreationDate="2013-06-02T17:57:26.970" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the original series &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment%3a_Earth&quot;&gt;&quot;Assignment: Earth&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, the human derived from a hidden planet, Gary Seven, shrugs off a Vulcan nerve pinch without any discomfort at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Khan is not incapacitated by it, but does create much pain for him&amp;mdash;so presumably it would be worse for anyone else.  We don't know if his superior muscularity guards the nerves or if his genetically engineered nervous system is better able to cope with the paralysis effects normal to humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably then, the maneuver is most effective on more weakly engineered humans.  The most advanced are less affected by it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-06-02T17:57:26.970" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11769" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11771" CreationDate="2013-06-02T22:51:30.777" Score="8" ViewCount="1101" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, I'm looking for this movie for a long time now but I don't remember much of it, I've seen it when I was a kid and it's stuck in my brain ever since. Now, here is what I remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A family (I know they were husband and wife, but I'm not sure if they had kids) is transported underground or some kind of other dimension where they were forced to compete in some kind of TV show. I remember that they were sitting in chairs that got higher every time they did something correct and eventually they've gone high enough to get back on surface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it's not much, but that's everything I remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5025" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-06-03T03:55:46.217" LastActivityDate="2013-06-03T03:55:46.217" Title="Family trapped underground/another dimension and forced to play a game show" Tags="|science-fiction|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:45:05.953" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8318" CreationDate="2013-06-03T02:25:01.580" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason that Aaron Cross lied to the Outcome agent in the cabin to get more pills is that he was already being punished, thats why he was in Alaska on a &quot;training Mission&quot;. He had gone off the grid for 4 days because he killed some innocent people due to bad intel on an assignment. Thats in the flashback with Erick Beyer So Aaron thought that it was likely that he would have to run even before the Jason Bourne fiasco made Outcome a liability. He was trying to get some pills so he could have a chance to escape. Also he probably didn't like being on a such a short leash. Of course he fears a cognitive downgrade to 12 Iq points past normal, as that would put him in the mentally retarded category and he would need to live in a group home. Most people would do anything to prevent such a fate. Its not an addiction to simply want to be a functioning human being capable of independent living. I find that analogy very upsetting myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5024" LastActivityDate="2013-06-03T02:25:01.580" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11769" CreationDate="2013-06-03T03:21:22.527" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are thinking of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105466/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stay Tuned&lt;/a&gt;, with John Ritter and Paw Dawber, which came out in 1992.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to IMDB, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A husband and wife are sucked into a hellish TV and have to survive a gauntlet of twisted versions of TV shows they find themselves in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I saw it in the theater. I don't remember if it had the game show theme throughout, but they certainly had to live a lot of TV experiences before returning home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastActivityDate="2013-06-03T03:21:22.527" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11775" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-03T07:04:44.833" Score="6" ViewCount="2431" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just finished the pilot of Hannibal. My question is: Is Hannibal the copycat? Did he call the killer of empathy or what? Was the killer a cannibal too, given that he returned the victim because of the liver cancer? Or is Hannibal the first killer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5028" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-10T08:26:58.010" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T08:26:58.010" Title="Who is the copycat in the Hannibal series?" Tags="|plot-explanation|hannibal-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11778" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="97103" CreationDate="2013-06-03T14:27:51.200" Score="8" ViewCount="521" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149361/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Micmacs&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Micmacs à tire-larigot&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/a&gt; while &lt;em&gt;Bazil&lt;/em&gt; is scavenging for scrap (right before coming across the two weapon companies) he is talking in some strange language which I couldn't bring in connection to him or the plot. Later I think the whole group is speaking that same language while eating inside the hideout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was that some real language or was it made up somehow and what was the significance of them speaking this way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It might be relevant that I actually watched the dubbed German version of the movie, but while any other dialogue was translated those particular scenes weren't. And the words also didn't sound like actual French, but some weirdly distorted French-Norwegian-hybrid, so I guess this question applies to the original or the dubbed English version in the same or a similar way.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-17T09:54:56.213" LastActivityDate="2019-02-14T01:51:31.577" Title="What was the language Bazil and the others were occasionally speaking?" Tags="|analysis|dialogue|micmacs|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11130" CreationDate="2013-06-03T14:51:15.183" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gus kills Victor because Victor has shown himself to be irresponsible and untrustworthy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Victor has created loose ends, and in many ways his actions exacerbated a bad situation to the point that Walt and Jesse had to kill Gale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure that the manner of his death is also meant as a warning to Walt and Jesse, and I'm also sure that Gus' anger at Victor wasn't a show.  But either way Victor had to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5032" LastActivityDate="2013-06-03T14:51:15.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11775" CreationDate="2013-06-03T17:24:40.063" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, Hannibal is the copycat.  This becomes more explicit later in the series, as it becomes clear that Hannibal is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; taking details of existing cases from his access to FBI agents, and is committing further copycat kills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cinematography shows that this is what's happening.  However in S1E10, &lt;em&gt;Buffet Froid&lt;/em&gt;, we see Hannibal doing this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-06-03T20:22:27.177" LastActivityDate="2013-06-03T20:22:27.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11785" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12613" CreationDate="2013-06-03T19:21:01.873" Score="18" ViewCount="3597" Body="&lt;p&gt;Admiral Kirk arrives aboard the Enterprise for an inspection of the training crew. While inspecting the crew as they stand in line. He comes to Scotty and says the following.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;From The Script&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                                       KIRK&#xA;                                 (continuing to Scotty)&#xA;                         Mr. Scott, you old space dog. You're&#xA;                         well?&#xA;&#xA;                                       SCOTTY&#xA;                         I had me a wee bout -- but Dr. McCoy&#xA;                         pulled me through.&#xA;&#xA;                                       KIRK&#xA;                         Oh? A wee bout of what, Mr. Scott?&#xA;&#xA;               Uncomfortable, Scotty exchanges a glance with Bones --&#xA;&#xA;                                       BONES&#xA;                         Shore leave, Admiral.&#xA;&#xA;                                       KIRK&#xA;                         Ah.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wx3RK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've have seen this film a number of times, and always wondered. What was wrong with Scotty. It's clear that he went to Dr. McCoy for treatment of something, but that it was a personal thing so McCoy says &quot;Shore leave&quot; to the Admiral.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember anything happening to Scotty in the first Star Trek film that could be related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-21T23:09:49.947" LastActivityDate="2023-12-05T22:05:46.807" Title="What illness did Scotty have that was treated by Dr. McCoy?" Tags="|star-trek|star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11785" CreationDate="2013-06-03T20:38:19.757" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Motion Picture&lt;/em&gt; took place almost a decade earlier than &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan&lt;/em&gt;, despite there being only three years between their production; so this is definitely not a reference to anything in ST:TMP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@TylerShads answer in comments above is one strong possibility -- that this is an oblique reference to Scotty having acquired an STI. It could be something more innocent, like a significant stomach bug brought on by too much drink and rich food.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is, however, no canonical answer to the question. Even the novelizations do not provide details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1235" LastActivityDate="2013-06-03T20:38:19.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3369" CreationDate="2013-06-03T21:54:55.960" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's stated in the move that the &quot;protector&quot; saves the child due to a feeling that the innocence of the child needs to be preserved. In all likelyhood, Bane could sympathize with Talia, having himself grown up in prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5036" LastActivityDate="2013-06-03T21:54:55.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11785" CreationDate="2013-06-03T21:55:31.413" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that Kirk is the only one apparently having sex in the Star Trek universe, it seems more likely that Scotty had some malaise actually from shore leave, like a hangover, dysentery, a broken limb, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that world, each impairment would be cause for not being on duty, but also trivially and nearly instantly cured by medicine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-06-03T21:55:31.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11677" CreationDate="2013-06-04T00:52:40.687" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The character went through many re-writes, George R. R. Martin suggested changing the character all together, including name. I know a lot of people didn't like it, but I felt she acted as a foil for Robb and actually enjoyed Talisa more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5038" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:02:39.387" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:02:39.387" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11795" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11797" CreationDate="2013-06-04T06:03:31.303" Score="8" ViewCount="3723" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were a few things which Andy Dufresne was shown putting into the package which he tied to his foot while escaping. Some of the items were his chess pieces and the account books of the warden. However, during the cell-search the next morning, besides the prison clothes, &lt;strong&gt;a rock hammer and a bar of soap&lt;/strong&gt; were discovered to be missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The use of account books and rock hammer are apparent but what were the other things that Andy carried and for what purpose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3538" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-06-04T14:58:18.290" LastActivityDate="2016-08-22T17:53:20.830" Title="What other things did Andy Dufresne carry while escaping from Shawshank Prison?" Tags="|the-shawshank-redemption|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11639" CreationDate="2013-06-04T07:50:34.660" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In fact Sawyer is the original name of leatherface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherface&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherface&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5042" LastActivityDate="2013-06-04T07:50:34.660" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11795" CreationDate="2013-06-04T13:23:45.837" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bar of soap - to wash after he had gotten through the 'tunnel of sh*t'. Rock hammer he had in case he needed to hammer through anything I guess. Clothes were what he was wearing (I'm assuming you mean clothes not cloths)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastActivityDate="2013-06-04T13:23:45.837" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11746" CreationDate="2013-06-04T15:23:37.370" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1967 German film &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_M%C3%B6rderclub_von_Brooklyn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Der Mörderclub von Brooklyn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (English title: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murderers_Club_of_Brooklyn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Murderers Club of Brooklyn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;) appears to contain the following lines in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.subzin.com/quotes/M%C3%B6rderclub+von+Brooklyn,+Der/Those+three+already+have+a+criminal.%0D%0A+record.+We+found+them+in+our+database.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;English subtitles&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;00:03:31 You don't really believe that by yourself, do you?.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;00:03:34 Start talking! - I'm sorry, but all of a sudden I seem to suffer from amnesia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;00:05:46 Those three already have a criminal record. &lt;strong&gt;We found them in our database.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;00:05:50 They insist that they picked the wrong appartment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;00:05:54 They were ordered to be here, that's evident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-06-04T15:23:37.370" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11795" CreationDate="2013-06-04T18:54:34.377" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the bar of soap, chess pieces, plus the financial paperwork (not just account books, but also social security card, drivers license etc) and letter to the newspaper, he was also carrying his rock hammer and a change of clothes (suit and white shirt plus dress shoes, &quot;borrowed&quot; from the warden).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1357" LastActivityDate="2013-06-04T18:54:34.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11733" CreationDate="2013-06-04T21:48:32.610" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a very old TV sitcom question. In multiple shows the protagonists live in apartments that are way beyond their means. Often, the apartments are huge or luxurious and in neighborhoods (mainly Manhattan) where the rents are astronomical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sitcoms are farce, not real life. The producers create spaces that are visually striking and easy to film around from one point of view; the camera never moves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She lives beyond her means because theproducers want her to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that the Cheesecake Factory where she works is far more low rent than the restaurant is in real life; because the producers want it that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5046" LastActivityDate="2013-06-04T21:48:32.610" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11732" CreationDate="2013-06-04T22:03:00.757" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ned Stark was holding his own against Jaime. That lead a Lannister minion to attack Ned and thus embarrass Jaime because it seemed that he needed help to defeat the older man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brienne was actually trying not to hurt Jaime in their fight. Jaime blamed his performance on being rusty and shackled. That is certainly true, but it seems that Jaime brags (used to) a bit much about his swordsmanship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5046" LastActivityDate="2013-06-04T22:03:00.757" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="387" CreationDate="2013-06-05T02:38:45.360" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think he came back to stop them from creating a paradox (and some &quot;emergency&quot;) by punching the guy in the face and then telling themselves not to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He does stop them but ends up in a coma when he comes into contact with them. Maybe because that created a paradox itself? Either that or he didn't wait for the machine to be low-functioning when he exited (too early or too late) and was suffering physical illness because of it (and maybe why they thought he was drunk).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5047" LastActivityDate="2013-06-05T02:38:45.360" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="762" CreationDate="2013-06-05T03:55:40.233" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't have 3:2 pulldown - the film (audio and all) is simply sped up by (25/24) or about 4 percent. Same thing that is done for Television then 2:2 pulldown is applied to convert it to interlaced TV format. At least that is how things are done in Australia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for the frame rates is a historical one, Basically it is easier to rely on the AC supply to provide a timing source than create your own. The US uses 60Hz AC supply, so it is easier for them to use multiples of 6 for their timing (hence 24, 48, 60 fps).&#xA;Countries which followed the European electrical standards use 50Hz AC supply, so it is easier to use (25, 50, 100 fps) Because of this, film and television standards developed in both areas around what was easiest to display (and thus made TVs and Projectors cheapest to build).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a second reason why 25fps is preferred - the light globe in the projector may have 100Hz flicker and running at 24fps would produce a noticeable variation in image brightness. 25 fps allows synchronising with the AC supply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would only apply to older film projectors though, as new stuff can use high-frequency drivers for the light source, as well as stepper motors and microprocessors for control, thus allowing for any frame rate you want. Digital projectors are only restricted by the response time of their base media (DLP or LCD panel) and data processing capability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5048" LastActivityDate="2013-06-05T03:55:40.233" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4429" CreationDate="2013-06-05T06:58:43.497" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are not really told &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; why Frost went rogue. But we can infer that this was because he was made a scapegoat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0233112/quotes&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tobin Frost: I already am in your head. They're going to isolate you, Matt. They're going to be real nice to you at first. They're going to put their arm around you and tell you things like, &lt;strong&gt;&quot;You did a decent job, son. We'll take it from here.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; That's when you know you're screwed. Forget about me, they're going to focus on you. They're going to try and make a connection between you and I. So that if this all goes wrong, they'll have something to fall back on in their little Senate hearings. I'm not your only enemy tonight. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Weston asks Frost why he went rogue, he replies that it was because of all the lies. He mentions a specific case where (I don't remember exactly) someone in his charge is killed as he was about to reveal information about corruption in the CIA. Rather than doing something about it, Frost chose to keep quiet and thereby compromises his own integrity. He now wants Weston to do better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the epilogue, Weston tells his CIA boss (Sam Shepard) that he doesn't have any list. When he leaves, he tells Shepard that &lt;strong&gt;he'll take it from there&lt;/strong&gt; and subsequently, releases the list to the press. Shepard is one of those on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really squint your eyes, you might be able to see a glimmer of an argument for Frost also referring to Weston's private life with his French girlfriend. He wanted Weston to not compromise his personal life for the sake of the CIA. In the final scene, the couple are reunited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-06-05T06:58:43.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11810" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13745" CreationDate="2013-06-05T14:50:53.537" Score="60" ViewCount="330497" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;S02E10&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Samwell_Tarly&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sam&lt;/a&gt; hides behind a rock when the White Walkers walk by.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One mounted White Walker seems to look directly into Sam’s eyes. After that the White Walker screams and all of them seem to go on, leaving Sam there. The scene (and season) ends here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jA8AO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of &lt;strong&gt;S03E01&lt;/strong&gt; we see Sam running. He stops by a dead man and then a White Walker attacks him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What happened in the meantime?&lt;/strong&gt; Did the White Walker &quot;army&quot; spare him? Why? Or did Sam really manage to escape (and we see him still running from that escape in the beginning of season 3)? It would seem rather hard to escape, as there are many White Walkers and Sam is not really fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-14T18:16:26.523" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T03:16:08.640" Title="Did the White Walkers spare Sam?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2013-06-05T19:15:47.733" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The owl scene is much more subtle, it is introduced right at the beginning of the book. At the end, it is never explicitly revealed who killed Bill Haydon but it is strongly implied &quot;Stooping over him, he caught the smell of alcohol - he guessed gin or vodka - (Prideaux drank vodka) ... It wasn't till he tried to lift him that his head flopped over, and the rest of him followed as dead weight&quot; (Prideaux had wrung the owl's neck). QED it must've been Prideaux wot dun it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5054" LastActivityDate="2013-06-05T19:15:47.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11812" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11818" CreationDate="2013-06-05T20:21:33.683" Score="18" ViewCount="5880" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 2, Cersei Lannister captures &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Ros&quot;&gt;Ros&lt;/a&gt;. Cersei mistakenly thinks that her brother Tyrion is secretly in love with Ros, because Ros wears a Lannister pendant. This mistake probably saved his real love, Shae, from Cersei.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read that Tyrion gave this pendant to Ros when they were still in Winterfell. Is this true? Was this shown in the TV show? I can’t remember it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it’s true, why did Tyrion make this present? Could it be him foreseeing such a situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T06:23:44.503" Title="Why did Tyrion give the Lannister pendant to Ros?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11815" CreationDate="2013-06-06T00:22:55.583" Score="7" ViewCount="6071" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Terry Gilliam's epically dystopian film, &lt;em&gt;Brazil&lt;/em&gt;, the character of Frank Tuttle (played by Robert De Niro) makes a mysterious getaway after fixing Sam Lowry's air-conditioning unit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U99Ya.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After zip-lining from Lowry's apartment, Tuttle gives a cheery salute but is then suddenly engulfed by flying newspapers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He battles against them but is ultimately swamped by them and falls the floor in a writhing mass of newsprint. Then, as the wind picks up, the newspapers fly apart to reveal Tuttle has vanished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any explanation for this disappearing act?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had he intended to vanish in this way, or is something else at work? What is Gilliam hinting at here (considering the film is thick with sub-text)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I welcome personal theories but will be signing off on any &lt;em&gt;official&lt;/em&gt; explanation ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2016-05-05T02:59:58.430" Title="How does Tuttle actually disappear?" Tags="|brazil|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11813" CreationDate="2013-06-06T01:45:27.137" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tuttle wasn't engulfed by flying newspapers immediately after repairing the air conditioning and taking the zip-line away (at 34:27).  It was much later in the film that he was engulfed by refuse papers and vanished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you return and watch the film, after Sam goes back to his work and deletes his girlfriend from the system, he is captured after showing her the deletion paper (at 1:59:22) and brought to his friend for torture.  During the interrogation process, he loses his mind, and imagines that he is rescued by Tuttle.  It is during this escape (in his mind only) that Tuttle is engulfed by paper and vanishes (at 2:12:35).  This is possible because he is only hallucinating it.  In point of fact, Sam is still in the chair during this whole episode, as shown at the end (at 2:18:46).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="4621" LastEditDate="2013-06-06T01:53:08.200" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T01:53:08.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11813" CreationDate="2013-06-06T01:48:50.847" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The flying newspaper scene does not immediately follow Tuttle's service-call.  It takes place near the end, after Tuttle (aided by Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny) rescue Lowry from Jack the torturer.  However, Lowry's rescue and everything afterward, up to the final scene in the film, turns out to be an extended dream sequence, (as foreshadowed by the presence of Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.)  The final scene in the movie is of Jack and Mr. Helpmann leaning into Lowry's view, blocking out his image of living happily-ever-after with Jill, and remarking that he has escaped into his imagination.  From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_%281985_film%29&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Realising that Sam has grown catatonic, with a smile on his face and&#xA;  humming &quot;Brazil&quot;, the two declare Sam a lost cause, and exit the room&#xA;  as the film ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/alternateversions&quot;&gt;edited version without this final reveal&lt;/a&gt; may have been shown on television at some point.  From Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Universal executives thought the ending tested poorly, and Universal&#xA;  chairman Sid Sheinberg insisted on dramatically re-editing the film to&#xA;  give it a happy ending, a decision that Gilliam resisted&#xA;  vigorously. As with the cult science fiction film Blade Runner&#xA;  (1982), which had been released three years earlier, a version of&#xA;  Brazil was created by the movie studio with a more consumer-friendly&#xA;  ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastEditorUserId="4304" LastEditDate="2013-06-06T02:51:01.373" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T02:51:01.373" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11785" CreationDate="2013-06-06T01:59:36.040" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;As pointed out, there doesn't appear to be an official explanation for this.  However, due to several television episodes that show Scotty's penchant for drink (alcohol), plus the habit sailors have for getting very drunk on shore leave, it is quite possible that Scotty was simply talking about a hangover that Bones assisted him in shortening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T01:59:36.040" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6" CreationDate="2013-06-06T02:41:36.673" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My interpretation is that we have to take into consideration the other symbols that the director had been placing before us throughout the movie: the forces of such grand scale that dwarf our lives and our attempts to make sense of them. The beach is the connection between the water, the earth, and the heavens, and what we're seeing is a visual interpretation of the meeting point where our lives are intersecting with these greater forces, showing us and how we fit in the bigger picture. To me, it's a very naturalist, non-religious vision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5055" LastEditorUserId="5055" LastEditDate="2013-06-06T20:02:04.800" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T20:02:04.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11812" CreationDate="2013-06-06T03:59:00.630" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tyrion did give the necklace to Ros, but we never actually see him do it. We know about it from another scene. When Ros and Theon Greyjoy are together she's wearing the necklace and tells him that it was a gift from Tyrion. As for why, Tyrion is usually very generous to the whores he beds, and he is extremely wealthy. A necklace of that sort wouldn't have meant much to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T03:59:00.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11130" CreationDate="2013-06-06T06:07:29.847" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe he did it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to scare Walt and Jesse and &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;because he was cooking below Walt's standards and &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;because he failed to stop Jesse from killing Gale.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5056" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-08-10T21:08:17.163" LastActivityDate="2019-08-10T21:08:17.163" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11820" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-06T11:17:18.613" Score="4" ViewCount="6035" Body="&lt;p&gt;While watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083851/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Draughtsman's Contract&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; written and directed by Peter Greenaway, I was surprised to see a naked guy that appears on and off in the film mostly in the garden. One particular scene is when the Talman's, Mr. Neville, Mrs. Herbet and company, that naked guy removes the monument, stands with torch, and pees. I find it rather perplexing and shocking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1674" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-06-06T17:53:20.697" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T12:16:34.087" Title="What does the naked man signify?" Tags="|analysis|the-draughtsmans-contract|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11821" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-06-06T11:31:32.773" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Prestige&lt;/em&gt; is a 2006 British-American mystery thriller film written, directed and co-produced by Christopher Nolan &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/christopher-nolan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;christopher-nolan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;christopher-nolan&lt;/a&gt;, with a screenplay adapted from Christopher Priest's 1995 novel of the same name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Links&lt;/h3&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Poster&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q2C2w.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q2C2w.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;THe prestige&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34492" LastEditorUserId="34492" LastEditDate="2017-01-24T18:18:58.563" LastActivityDate="2017-01-24T18:18:58.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11822" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-06-06T11:31:32.773" Score="0" Body="a 2006 British-American mystery thriller film written, directed and co-produced by Christopher Nolan, with a screenplay adapted from Christopher Priest's 1995 novel of the same name." OwnerUserId="1674" LastEditorUserId="1674" LastEditDate="2013-06-06T11:35:30.567" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T11:35:30.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11823" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-06-06T11:55:11.473" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-06-06T11:55:11.473" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T11:55:11.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11824" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-06-06T11:55:11.473" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-06-06T11:55:11.473" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T11:55:11.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11825" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11826" CreationDate="2013-06-06T13:17:25.253" Score="13" ViewCount="41982" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any special meaning or occasion associated with the song &quot;Rains of Castamere&quot; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? In the eponymous 9th episode of the 3rd season I noticed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; that as soon as most of the guests had left along with&#xA; &lt;em&gt;Edmure&lt;/em&gt; and his bride for the bedding ceremony, the gates were closed and the band began playing a different tune which happens to be the&#xA; &lt;em&gt;Rains of Castamere&lt;/em&gt;. As soon as the band started playing it, there was a sudden look of dread on Catelyn's face. IMO that set the gears&#xA; in her mind in motion and she started to put together that this was a&#xA; trap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I am beginning to assume there's some background involved with this song. Is there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-15T15:47:24.753" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T07:37:21.313" Title="What does the song &quot;Rains Of Castamere&quot; signify?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11825" CreationDate="2013-06-06T13:32:42.023" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The big ploy about this song is that it is associated with the Lannister family line as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The look of horror that appears on her face is that of dread as the presence of this song means that the Frey's aren't their ally, but actually are with the Lannisters.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated and shown, it is truly a trap and one of the most shocking events in the whole book, dubbed &lt;em&gt;The Red Wedding&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Rains_of_Castamere_%28song%29&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GoT Wiki&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for a better explanation of the origin of the song:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Rains of Castamere immortalized the destruction of House Reyne by Tywin Lannister. House Reyne was obliterated after they rebelled against their liege lord, Tytos Lannister, who was perceived as weak by his own vassals. To restore Lannister dominance, Tytos' son, Tywin, marched against the upstart Lord Reyne. By the end of the rebellion, Castamere had been put to the torch and all members of House Reyne executed. The title is thus a play on words, as the &quot;rains&quot; fall over the empty halls of the &quot;Reynes&quot; who have been killed to the last man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one remembers, Cersi describes this act to Margaery before Sansa's wedding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-06-06T13:50:29.293" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T13:50:29.293" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11677" CreationDate="2013-06-06T14:55:07.070" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/04/game-of-thrones-season-3-characters_n_1854918.html&quot;&gt;interview panel&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://chicon.org/&quot;&gt;Chicon7&lt;/a&gt;, George R. R. Martin explains the name change. At about the 55 minute mark in the podcast he starts talking about character changes between the books and the show, and ends up talking about the process of how Jeyne Westerling became Talisa Maegyr.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Briefly, the show writers wanted to flesh out the relationship between Robb and Jeyne, which in the books happened mostly off panel due to the POV writing style of the books. So after several rewrites Jeyne became a noblewoman from Volantis who is also a nurse. At that point George realized that she was now a completely different character and that &quot;Jeyne&quot; wasn't a Volantine name, so he advised that they change her name also. Thus we have Talisa Magyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-14T15:34:14.097" LastActivityDate="2014-06-14T15:34:14.097" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11810" CreationDate="2013-06-06T14:58:09.613" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at all the things individually then&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sam is slow and not a good warrior (This is something anyone can make out through previous episodes)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are too.. many White Walkers to escape from.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;White Walkers are not forgiving or sparing (Can be seen in previous episodes)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the above three things if added up will surely guarantee that Sam would definitely be killed by the White Walkers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But on the contrary He does manage to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only conclusion that comes out, that how Sam managed to do this is.... is through the courtesy of the script writers of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible reasons:&#xA;1. This can be considered a technical error on the makers part.&#xA;2. They had to keep Sam alive as he may come of use in the future episodes.&#xA;3. He may be important for the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be some other reason that may be revealed in the future episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One other possibility is that through some miracle Sam manages to outsmart the White Walkers and walks away from certain death.&#xA;This may easily be true as Sam as shown in previous episodes has been a book worm and has read many books related to their history. thus he may have come across some method in the books to escape from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this answers your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4217" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T14:58:09.613" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11726" CreationDate="2013-06-06T15:15:59.393" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with RhysW - they may have planned for a sequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reason is that this movie is from the Slave period and... you will understand in a moment that why I have mentioned this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have heard this phrase &quot;Fastest Gun in....&quot; in a lot of cartoons and movies but none have seemed to be from such old times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus the directors may be trying to convey that this phrase has come from DJANGO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4217" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:17:19.717" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:17:19.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11726" CreationDate="2013-06-06T16:42:34.970" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't catch any reference to future sequels — also because sequels are not decided by open endings or similar stuff, they are decided by the money the film managed to make and the likelihood of a sequel having a similar success (and revenue) —, rather a reference and play on the popular and fixed expression &lt;em&gt;fastest gun in the west&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't find an official script to quote from but I guess he does mention the &quot;fastest/quickest&quot; part too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, considering most Western movies are set in... the Western part of the North American continent (with exceptions, some of which quite notable), I think that here what Tarantino was trying to convey was the fact that Django was among the best, if not the best, man with a gun in the South.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the only explanation I can think of and I couldn't see anything else on the internet that would suggest otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T16:42:34.970" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11820" CreationDate="2013-06-06T17:52:55.280" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As with all of Greenaway's movies there's layer upon layer of symbolism and structure going on in &lt;em&gt;TDC&lt;/em&gt;.  My take on most of his films, though, is grounded in the general idea that Greenaway's attitude towards filmmaking is a &lt;strong&gt;painterly&lt;/strong&gt; one.  He favors carefully composed imagery over plot; there's plenty of the latter, but it's usually through the former that the real meaning of his films comes forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Draughtsman is an idealist who believes that he can impose an order on his surroundings both directly through his work (he claims that his drawings reproduce &lt;strong&gt;exactly&lt;/strong&gt; what he sees) and through the contract with Mrs. Herbert (whereby he's allowed regular access to her entirely on his own terms).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the goal of perfectly representing reality on a piece of paper is fruitless; the Draughtsman's output is static, orderly, and enclosed, while real life is messy and complicated (and ultimately inflicts itself on the Draughtsman as a messy death).  The appearance and disappearance of objects like the ladder and washing from day to day frustrate Mr. Neville's goals, and I believe the &quot;living statue&quot; is a similar symbol of the unpredictability of the real world.  A classical statue should be a prime example of the Draughtsman's attitude towards reality and art---the statue captures an ideal form, a fixed reproduction of humanity with none of humanity's imperfection and unpredictability---but Greenaway instead plays a joke on the Draughtsman and the viewer by having the &quot;statue&quot; live, breathe, move around, and amuse itself with juvenile bathroom humor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4858" LastEditorUserId="4858" LastEditDate="2013-06-06T18:00:28.503" LastActivityDate="2013-06-06T18:00:28.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11810" CreationDate="2013-06-06T21:12:10.737" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm gonna answer based on what happened on the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene didn't happen at all in the book, not like this at least. This was just a cliffhanger for the final season, hence wasn't necessary to be explained in detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book, the night's watch group was attacked when camping, and Sam escaped using the Dragonglass (Obsidian) knife (BTW in the series they never tell what Dragonglass is in detail, and where did Jon and Sam found this knifes/dagger), just like when he used in the series to protect the baby boy from the white walker...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe there are big gaps between scenes in the TV show, and of course turn out to be confusing for people who haven't read the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I apologize for my english grammar :D)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4942" LastEditorUserId="5318" LastEditDate="2013-07-06T15:56:48.787" LastActivityDate="2013-07-06T15:56:48.787" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="960" CreationDate="2013-06-07T03:52:54.667" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is something LVT has in a majority of his films -- these kind of closed off worlds. Dancer In The Dark was very closed off: Work, Selma's house, The Prison.... Dogville speaks for itself (a chalk outlined set).... and then in Melancholia -- there is NO outside world. We don't see the panic of the rest of society. They are closed off stories. There is no need for that information. It is distracting to the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;II think it is an artistic decisions... Just like in David Lynch movies how freaks always appear 2/3 of the way through the film with some type of mind-blowing information and advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5059" LastActivityDate="2013-06-07T03:52:54.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11835" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11837" CreationDate="2013-06-07T11:11:12.950" Score="5" ViewCount="2751" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm very new to GoT and I'm still struggling to put the characters together.  When her handmaiden is teaching Daenerys how to please her hew husband she called her something - &quot;Ceici&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where does this name come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T14:08:07.297" Title="What did the handmaiden call Daenerys Targaryen?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11835" CreationDate="2013-06-07T14:03:56.610" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doreah and the rest of the hand maidens and Dothraki call Daenerys &quot;Khaleesi&quot;, since she is the wife of &lt;em&gt;Khal&lt;/em&gt; Drogo. It roughly means queen in the Dothraki language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-06-07T14:03:56.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11292" CreationDate="2013-06-07T21:46:43.123" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Fast 6 they show the same clip from Han dieing in Tokyo Drift, but you see Jason Statham get out of the car that hit Han's. So seven will take place with Dom going to Tokyo (assuming) since he shows up in the end of Tokyo drift&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5067" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-30T08:06:04.197" LastActivityDate="2013-07-30T08:06:04.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11875" CreationDate="2013-06-08T10:21:03.610" Score="8" ViewCount="3807" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode 'A Study in Pink' of the first season of &lt;strong&gt;Sherlock&lt;/strong&gt; the victims are poisoned when forced to choose a pill from the two bottles as confessed by the cab driver. However in the earlier scenes the victims are shown to be picking a pill from the bottle which had multiple pills (3-4 pills). But when the cabbie forces Sherlock Holmes to choose from one of the bottles then each of the bottles had 1 pill only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rMzDo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the serial killer played different games with all his victims and Sherlock or the victims did not really have a choice as all the pills may have been poisonous. Why the number of pills were different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3538" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-04T15:52:47.177" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T08:54:56.320" Title="Why is the number of pills in the bottle not consistent in 'A Study in Pink'?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11843" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11844" CreationDate="2013-06-08T13:45:45.733" Score="2" ViewCount="8747" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046911/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Les diaboliques&lt;/a&gt; (1955), it is very likely that Christina is still alive: she was seen by one of the children and even gave him back his toy. This means she simulated her dying of a heart attack in front of her husband Michel. However, Michel took her pulse and seemed confident in her death, right before he and his mistress Nicole got arrested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Christina so convincingly feign death?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-08T14:15:31.267" LastActivityDate="2021-12-16T07:35:09.060" Title="In &quot;Les diaboliques&quot;, how does Christina feign death?" Tags="|plot-explanation|les-diaboliques|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11843" CreationDate="2013-06-08T16:59:43.877" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ending of &lt;em&gt;Les diaboliques&lt;/em&gt; is ambiguous, and people have interpreted it in different ways.  However, some of these interpretations fit better with the mood of the movie and suggestions it provides than others.  I will suggest that the best explanation is that Christina does not feign her death:  she really does die, as indeed she must to atone for willingness to commit a murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This raises the question of the child's story.  Again, there are multiple possibilities; the simplest being the one adopted by the adults in the film:  he lied about seeing Christina.  But it is perhaps better, thematically, to see Christina as having been a persecuted soul who, after her physical death, continues on spiritually.  One &lt;a href=&quot;http://virtualvirago.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-good-bad-and-ending-of-les.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog entry&lt;/a&gt; I encountered puts it like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is no reason to think that Christina is physically alive at the end of the movie – that would merely be a stay of execution for her, and nothing in the film implies that she stages her death as Michel had staged his. Instead, the story of her reappearance and kindness to the boy convey an idea of Christina’s soul being preserved; she is free now from her own ruined body and her antagonists’ cruelty. For a religious martyr, that’s as good an ending as one is going to get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A very thoughtful discussion of the meaning of the film can be found on &lt;a href=&quot;http://grunes.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/les-diaboliques-henri-georges-clouzot-1954/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dennis Grunes' blog&lt;/a&gt;; he also believes that Christina dies.  On the boy, he says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;one must note at least in passing the symbolic weight of Christina’s name; sacrificial and redemptive for Michel and Nicole, Christina stores a bit of magic for the schoolboy whose vision of her “risen” is a deeply touching chord on which to close the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-06-08T16:59:43.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1170" CreationDate="2013-06-08T18:05:09.567" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hanna Smitchz was, in a way, responsible for the the death of the 300 people. Her illiteracy does not omit her from the wrongs she had committed when she sent several people to die. Illiteracy is simply an academic disadvantage that may result to social difficulties, but would not necessarily blind her moral capabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She was, unfortunately, framed by her colleagues as the master mind behind the deed. Being the 'master mind' behind the crime would ultimately lead to more years in jail, and indeed she did- she received a life sentence in jail (she got out at 18 years) whereas her colleagues received far less. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The important part is, however, in legal scholarship you can be held responsible for a crime if you were simply a part of the scheme. Your role in the crime will be a factor when the judge issues a sentence, but she is not entirely innocent. Even if Michael Berg did disclose the details on her illiteracy to the judge, she would not be without a life sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5071" LastActivityDate="2013-06-08T18:05:09.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11778" CreationDate="2013-06-08T20:02:52.380" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have found four reviews that suggest it was just gibberish:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jaredmobarak.com/2011/01/22/micmacs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.jaredmobarak.com/2011/01/22/micmacs/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thefilmyap.com/2010/07/07/micmacs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.thefilmyap.com/2010/07/07/micmacs/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listal.com/viewentry/1339922&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.listal.com/viewentry/1339922&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.beyondhollywood.com/micmacs-2009-movie-review-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.beyondhollywood.com/micmacs-2009-movie-review-2/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still looking for interviews that address it directly...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2013-06-08T21:11:07.027" LastActivityDate="2013-06-08T21:11:07.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11847" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="62025" CreationDate="2013-06-08T23:36:34.323" Score="-2" ViewCount="524" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 'Superbad', Evan, Seth, and Fogell got kicked off the bus after a bottle of Goldslick broke and spilled on the floor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But after they got kicked off the bus, they walked in the &lt;strong&gt;opposite&lt;/strong&gt; direction that the bus was traveling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing that they got kicked off the bus before they arrived at their intended destination, shouldn't they have been walking in the &lt;strong&gt;same&lt;/strong&gt; direction as the bus (in order to get to the party)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-09T17:12:30.720" LastActivityDate="2016-10-17T15:32:33.497" Title="Superbad Mistake?" Tags="|plot-explanation|superbad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12278" CreationDate="2013-06-09T02:11:30.520" Score="4" ViewCount="358" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;The Lady Vanishes&quot; (1938), the character of Dr. Hartz is a mysterious Continental brain surgeon, who is cunningly in charge of the ruse that takes place in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Lashley&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Karl Lashley&lt;/a&gt; was a well-known psychological scientist at the time of the movie, and was largely responsible for determining different areas of the brain responsible for learning and memory from the 1920s onward, and would likely have been one of the academic figures cited in the popular press at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have never read the book that the film was based on, so I don't know to what extent this Dr. Hartz character was emphasized in the plot (which changed significantly in the movie, anyway, according to Wikipedia).  Did Hitchcock emphasize this character and his role in society to explore some of his own fascination with the burgeoning brain science in that era (and figures like Karl Lashley)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-09T17:10:43.117" LastActivityDate="2013-07-04T17:05:03.167" Title="Was Hitchcock fascinated by the nascent field of brain science while filming &quot;The Lady Vanishes&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|alfred-hitchcock|the-lady-vanishes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11847" CreationDate="2013-06-09T08:49:54.990" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been a while since I've seen the movie but I think the reason is pretty simple: we don't really know where the house is located. We know it's really close, so close that the trio gets to reach it on foot after they get kicked off the bus, but I doubt the house is directly in front of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are multiple reasons why this is likely not a mistake:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The bus rarely goes directly straight on to the place you're going to. It goes to bus stops that might be close to the point you want to go to, but it's not a given. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The bus needs to use not only the streets that might not go directly to that point, but also the streets it can use because of city conformation, streets with a single marching direction, etc. So, a smaller number of streets might be available to reach a certain point, causing you to take long turns or weird paths to get to a relatively easy and close point.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The place where the bus stopped in the movie is on the side of the house they want to go to and maybe slightly off. For all I (we) know, as stated in the reason 2, the bus could have taken a turn some distance after that unexpected stop and they would have gotten closer. The bus path is unknown to us viewers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that speaking from the &lt;strong&gt;point of view of a vehicle&lt;/strong&gt;, the bus was taking there sooner, not because it chose the most direct path, but because it's faster than a human on foot, and even taking turns and traffic lights it would get you there sooner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On foot&lt;/strong&gt; they take another route that is faster because you use paths that are unusable by vehicles: back alleys, stairs, parks, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastEditorUserId="1319" LastEditDate="2016-10-17T13:23:11.133" LastActivityDate="2016-10-17T13:23:11.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8599" CreationDate="2013-06-09T08:49:57.223" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding to Oliver_c answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's inevitable to change things&lt;/strong&gt; (plot, personal stories, characters) when adapting novels to screenplays, why? Because usually when you read a novel you are reading feelings, thoughts, internal perspectives that the characters have, those things are quite difficult to adapt to film, because in film you are &lt;strong&gt;seeing&lt;/strong&gt; the character from the outside and those feelings, thoughts, etc. must be portrayed with actions. Unless the character narrates what he/she is feeling, you wouldn't know exactly what he/she is thinking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's all about action and, of course, screen time which can be translated to: &quot;how much we can show in a short  amount of time using XXXX money?&quot; :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Field&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Syd Field&lt;/a&gt; explains the art behind adaptation in his book &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.conspirazzi.com/e-books/film/screenplay-the-foundations.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Screenplay: the foundation of screenwriting&quot;&lt;/a&gt; if you are curious about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from Wikipedia: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_adaptation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_adaptation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Change in adaptation is essential and practically unavoidable, mandated both by the constraints of time and medium, but how much is always a balance. Some film theorists have argued that a director should be entirely unconcerned with the source, as a novel is a novel, while a film is a film, and the two works of art must be seen as separate entities. Since a transcription of a novel into film is impossible, even holding up a goal of &quot;accuracy&quot; is absurd. Others argue that what a film adaptation does is change to fit (literally, adapt), and the film must be accurate to either the effect (aesthetics) of a novel or the theme of the novel or the message of the novel and that the film maker must introduce changes where necessary to fit the demands of time and to maximize faithfulness along one of these axes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I have read the books, I can say, yes, there have been changes in characters, situations, events, etc. But aren't too distant from the original plot / story. They maintain the principal story arch and have made a great work adapting the story to screen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps a little. And forget my english grammar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4942" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-02-21T22:03:05.993" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T22:03:05.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11853" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11859" CreationDate="2013-06-09T14:20:22.923" Score="9" ViewCount="10548" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question always kept coming to my mind. Why don't they use double light saber to their advantage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zzbh4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;*Double light saber or Double Blade light saber*&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-11-17T12:40:30.243" LastActivityDate="2019-11-25T14:19:29.007" Title="In Star Wars, why didn't all the Jedi use the double lightsaber like Darth Maul?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11854" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11856" CreationDate="2013-06-09T14:25:08.367" Score="9" ViewCount="1451" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why didn't Yoda train Leia as well as Luke? He said that the &quot;force was strong with her&quot; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-09T07:14:51.023" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T07:14:51.023" Title="Why didn't Yoda train Princess Leia as a Jedi?" Tags="|character|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11855" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11858" CreationDate="2013-06-09T14:26:50.750" Score="10" ViewCount="1705" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; it seems like a weird choice for &lt;em&gt;Yoda&lt;/em&gt; to live on such a lonely and remote planet, considering how social Yoda actually is. Why does he choose to live there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-02T15:50:42.293" LastActivityDate="2016-09-02T15:50:42.293" Title="Why is Yoda living on that lonely, remote planet?" Tags="|character|star-wars|the-empire-strikes-back|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11854" CreationDate="2013-06-09T15:17:39.720" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Luke had discovered that his father was a Jedi and that he had some skill with the force from his time with Obi-Wan.  He was advised by Ghost Obi-Wan to seek out Yoda to further his training.  So he seeks out Yoda for training.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leia on the other hand does not know of her parentage, had not experimented with any Force training and had no time with Obi-Wan at all.  She does not even really understand the Force, never mind seeking out a master for her training.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is also clear that Leia is not as inherently strong with the force as Luke.  Vader has her in captivity, even tortures her and doesn't seem to sense her latent abilities.  Luke, despite very brief training on the flight to Alderaan, is quickly identified by Vader as being strong, even when he is just another pilot in the battle over the Death Star.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Yoda and Obi-Wan view Leia as a backup, to be used if Luke failed, and that to keep her parentage secret from her, Vader and the Emperor was the best way to keep her safe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-06-10T04:36:14.220" LastActivityDate="2013-06-10T04:36:14.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11855" CreationDate="2013-06-09T15:43:45.617" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are parts of Dagobah that are &quot;strong with the Dark Side.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Emperor Palpatine came into power and there was a purge of the Jedi, the few Jedi remaning alive hid, hoping to be able to do something more in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because Yoda was a powerful Jedi, he hid near a source of darkness that would hide his presence so any Sith looking for him would not be able to sense his presence easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Much of this comes out in &lt;em&gt;Revenge of the Sith&lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2013-06-09T15:43:45.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11853" CreationDate="2013-06-09T15:54:45.000" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each Jedi uses a lightsaber that works for their own preferences.  For instance, Asoka Tano (in &lt;em&gt;The Clone Wars&lt;/em&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ahsoka_Tano%27s_lightsaber&quot;&gt;handled a lightsaber differently than most Jedi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She originally used &quot;a reverse Shien style grip.&quot;  And later &quot;she crafted a shoto&quot; to use with it.  (The &quot;Shien&quot; grip is holding the lightsaber so the blade is on the side of the hand with the little finger, instead of with the thumb, as is usually seen.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Jedi recognize &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lightsaber_combat&quot;&gt;a number of types of lightsaber combat&lt;/a&gt; and each Jedi will work with a style and grip and lightsaber that works best for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastActivityDate="2013-06-09T15:54:45.000" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11861" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11862" CreationDate="2013-06-09T17:03:21.067" Score="27" ViewCount="12964" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does the average green screen, such as one on the local news station, or some video on YouTube, leave an outline and is obviously fake, but in some movies these effects look totally real. I was just watching behind the scenes clips of The Amazing Spider-Man, and the green (or blue) screen effects looked so realistic when I saw the movie that I wouldn't have ever thought it was filmed in a studio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it the quality of the camera that produces this effect, lighting, editing software, or a combination?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5077" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-07-10T10:06:04.917" LastActivityDate="2017-07-10T10:06:04.917" Title="Why do professional green screens look so much better?" Tags="|film-techniques|effects|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11861" CreationDate="2013-06-09T17:36:03.190" Score="33" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A movie production can do another take if it doesn't look good.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Typically, a quality TV series or movie spends $100,000s per finished minute in post production cleaning up green screen shots.  The commentary in the updated &lt;em&gt;Battlestar Galactica&lt;/em&gt; mentioned how one can tell there was money left over on an episode when there is more than a few seconds of the hangar bay background in the shot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The weather is usually aired live with little chance to adapt to last minute changes in wardrobe, lighting, and camera angle.  Ultimately, they don't deeply care if there is fringing, bleeding, or an &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzKB0OV2oqo&quot;&gt;unintended region affected by chromakey&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The most common mistake of green screen use is over-lighting the green screen.  Its reflection on the back of the subject causes artifacts at the fringe&amp;mdash;especially behind hair or fibers&amp;mdash;which are hard to fix even in post production.  (I know this because I once did such clean up on an art house production.)  The green screen should be lit with pure green light only to improve saturation, not brightness.  The effect seen in person is a very dark looking green.  (I saw the set up in &lt;em&gt;Untraceable&lt;/em&gt;, it is flawless&amp;mdash;a scene where Diane Lane comes out of an elevator into the FBI lobby, seen from over her shoulder.  The lobby was added in post.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2015-07-09T18:43:53.940" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T18:43:53.940" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11853" CreationDate="2013-06-09T17:41:31.147" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every difference in the configuration&amp;mdash;even the length of the saber&amp;mdash;produces a different set of advantages and disadvantages.  A double light saber has the distinct tradeoff that pointing one end toward the opponent risks the other end hitting yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, a single saber of say 20 feet length instead of the usual five or so would be a disadvantage in close quarters:  striking the ceiling, walls, etc., causing structure side effects as well as draining energy from the weapon as well as the user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-06-09T17:41:31.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11855" CreationDate="2013-06-09T19:55:21.927" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dagobah is hardly lonely.  It is filled with layer upon layer of life.  Perhaps all that life helps hiding Yoda's powerful force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yoda does not seem very social to me.  He seems to be nearly 100% instructor, even during Jedi council meetings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Yoda does not fit the description of &quot;bad ass&quot;.  He can certainly kick ass, but he doesn't do it for fun or pleasure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-06-09T19:55:21.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11848" CreationDate="2013-06-10T03:28:18.633" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While Hartz may have been a construct based on Lashley, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1209%7C0/The-Lady-Vanishes.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TCM&lt;/a&gt;, with small changes to the beginning and ending, Hitchcock directed the film as it had been written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder. Any construct would have been theirs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hitchcock was trying to find a film to end his contract with [Edward] Black so&#xA;  he could sign a deal with Charles Laughton's production company and&#xA;  pursue offers from America following the success of &lt;em&gt;The 39 Steps&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;  (1935). For once, he couldn't come up with a property. Knowing&#xA;  Hitchcock was desperate to get on with his career, Black dusted off&#xA;  the script to &lt;em&gt;The Lady Vanishes&lt;/em&gt; and the director immediately agreed to&#xA;  the production. He suggested some changes to Launder and Gilliat that&#xA;  tightened the film's opening and made the finale more exciting, but&#xA;  basically shot the film as written, although he insisted on a&#xA;  screenplay credit for his wife, Alma Reville.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-06-10T03:28:18.633" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11842" CreationDate="2013-06-10T12:07:30.607" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been awhile since I watched the episode, but I believe the simple answer comes down to the viewer not seeing the two bottles of pills side by side. The way the cabbie played the 'game', he presented two bottles of pills to each victim, with the idea that he'd take a pill from the other bottle (this was how he was playing the game with Sherlock). So while we see the victim take a pill from A bottle, we don't see what happens to the other pill bottle. The cabbie would take the pill from the other pill bottle, resulting in one pill remaining for his test with Sherlock (I'm presuming that if the cabbie had succeeded in killing Sherlock, he'd have simply kept going with a new set of pills - most likely provided for by Moriarty, seeing as how Moriarty was bankrolling him).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2013-06-10T12:07:30.607" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11876" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-10T14:06:47.377" Score="11" ViewCount="441" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie the interns have several tasks revolving around code, but this doesn't make a lot of sense to me.  It confuses me because the internship, and ultimately the jobs they're trying to get, are for Sales.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the necessity to know the Google software ins and outs, but coding?  That makes no sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did they need to know how to code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T06:33:28.820" Title="Why did they need to know how to code?" Tags="|the-internship|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11877" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11881" CreationDate="2013-06-10T14:07:57.600" Score="5" ViewCount="2291" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering that the movie heavily revolves around the company, was Google involved with the making of the movie?  Is the intership problem anything like what they actually do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-06-10T19:06:15.760" Title="Was Google involved in the making of The Internship?" Tags="|the-internship|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11878" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-06-10T14:55:32.387" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A 2013 film staring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as a pair of salesmen who talk their way onto an internship at Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-06-10T15:01:09.897" LastActivityDate="2013-06-10T15:01:09.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11879" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-06-10T14:55:32.387" Score="0" Body="A 2013 film staring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as a pair of salesmen who talk their way onto an internship at Google." OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-06-10T15:01:26.603" LastActivityDate="2013-06-10T15:01:26.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11877" CreationDate="2013-06-10T19:06:15.760" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movieweb.com/news/exclusive-director-shawn-levy-talks-google-and-the-internship&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with director &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0506613/&quot;&gt;Shawn Levy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You talked about how one of your first objectives was to lock down Google, but were they reluctant to come on board at all? They're never really been out there like this.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You know, this was a big risk, and, in retrospect, I'm still kind of amazed. I wouldn't say that they were reluctant, but they were definitely not like, &lt;em&gt;'Choose us, choose us!'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] &lt;strong&gt;They were open to the idea.&lt;/strong&gt; I told them straight up, &lt;em&gt;'The movie might be R rated. It might be a very dicey PG-13.'&lt;/em&gt; Whatever it's rating, it needed to be irreverent, there was certainly going to be a major sequence in a strip club, it's going to have to have enough audacity to be funny. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To their credit, they said, &lt;em&gt;'Just make it funny, and make it good-hearted.'&lt;/em&gt; [...] Those were the ground rules and, beyond that, &lt;strong&gt;they were really, impressively, cool with me calling the shots, and me making the movie in the way I saw fit.&lt;/strong&gt; [...]&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How close would you say that the real Google internship program is to the version you have in the movie?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here's what is real, and here's what is completely not real. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is real is that only something like 10% or less of the interns get jobs. It is real that they are put in teams, and that they spend their internship doing tasks that mirror the jobs of real Googlers. It is real that they wear those crazy beanies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is not real, is it is not a hyper-competitive, team vs. team structure. The interns are observed as individuals, and they don't compete in this mental &lt;em&gt;Hunger Games&lt;/em&gt;-like war.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-06-10T19:06:15.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9210" CreationDate="2013-06-10T19:32:46.287" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, the final quote meant that if he goes back to his old life, people (like his parents, because he said &quot;if I were smiling and running into your arms?&quot; and we saw him running to his parents) they couldn't understand the meaning of : Happiness is only real when shared, because they didn't go through what he lived, and met incredible people like Supertramp did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think he doesn't regret his journey, except the ending (his death).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5084" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2013-06-11T09:55:46.893" LastActivityDate="2013-06-11T09:55:46.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11883" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30050" CreationDate="2013-06-10T19:56:51.447" Score="4" ViewCount="8940" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season two, Episode one of Downton Abbey, after having spent two years on the battlefront, Thomas deliberately gets shot in the hand by holding up a lighter and inviting the enemy's bullet.  However, different synopses frame the motivation of this event differently:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Downton_Abbey_episodes#Series_Two_.282011.29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Matthew and Thomas share tea in the midst of the fighting, and when&#xA;Thomas expresses the irony that the footman is sharing tea with the&#xA;lord he once served, Matthew tells him that &amp;quot;War has a way of&#xA;distinguishing between the things that matter and the things that&#xA;don't.&amp;quot; Thomas, who was already clearly sick of the war, takes these&#xA;words to heart and purposely gets himself wounded so that he no longer&#xA;has to fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another comes from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/downtonabbey/season2_characters_thomas.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PBS.org's page for Masterpiece Theatre&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But after two years in the trenches, [...], he must use his scheming&#xA;ability to devise a plan to escape the Battle of the Somme. Should he&#xA;survive, he won't return unchanged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My questions are thus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was Thomas' plan to get injured/leave the battlefront suggested in any way prior to his meeting with Matthew?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How does Thomas' conversation with Matthew compel him to act, whether a pre-mediated plan or an impulsive one?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, are we to believe that he may not have done this (that moment or at all)   if not for the happenstance of reminiscing with Matthew?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1125" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T17:08:26.260" Title="Was Thomas' hand injury in the trenches impulsive or premeditated?" Tags="|downton-abbey|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11884" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15061" CreationDate="2013-06-10T23:39:31.377" Score="14" ViewCount="1838" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's just me, but I was watching &lt;em&gt;Top Secret&lt;/em&gt; for the first time today, and I realized that the scene where Nick (Val Kilmer) sings &lt;em&gt;Tutti Frutti&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;em&gt;Little Richard&lt;/em&gt; felt a lot similar to the scene in &lt;em&gt;Back to The Future&lt;/em&gt; where Marty (Michael J. Fox) sings &lt;em&gt;Johnny B. Goode&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;em&gt;Chuck Berry&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In both movies, neither character was supposed to be singing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both songs were written by African Americans in the late 1950's&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both songs were written in the future compared to the time the scenes were set in (the scene from &lt;em&gt;Back to The Future&lt;/em&gt; was set in 1955, and as far as I can tell &lt;em&gt;Top Secret&lt;/em&gt; was set during WWII)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both songs were clearly unexpected by both the listeners and the band&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most of the listeners in both movies gradually liked the song more and more (except until the end in &lt;em&gt;Back to The Future&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both movies had a lot of focus on a red electric guitar at the end of the song&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible similarity:&lt;/strong&gt; In &lt;em&gt;Back to The Future&lt;/em&gt;, Marty tells the band &quot;this is a blues riff in 'B',&quot; and in &lt;em&gt;Top Secret&lt;/em&gt;, Nick also tells the band something, but I couldn't make out what he said. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first thought was that since &lt;em&gt;Top Secret&lt;/em&gt; is a parody film, that they got the idea from &lt;em&gt;Back to The Future&lt;/em&gt;, but according to IMDB, &lt;em&gt;Top Secret&lt;/em&gt; was released a year before &lt;em&gt;Back to The Future&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is: did the makers of &lt;em&gt;Back to The Future&lt;/em&gt; get the idea from &lt;em&gt;Top Secret&lt;/em&gt;? Is it possible that the makers of &lt;em&gt;Top Secret&lt;/em&gt; got the idea from &lt;em&gt;Back to The Future&lt;/em&gt; before it was released? or are the similarities I see between to the two scenes merely coincidental?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-11T02:30:22.263" LastActivityDate="2013-11-11T02:30:22.263" Title="Was the Johnny B. Goode scene from Back to The Future inspired from Top Secret?" Tags="|reference|back-to-the-future|top-secret|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11889" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11952" CreationDate="2013-06-11T05:02:44.373" Score="1" ViewCount="440" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Blitz&lt;/em&gt; there is a police informant by the name of Radnor (played by Ned Dennehy) who seems 'too dumb to live'&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are two snaps of him casing the premises of the guy he knows has killed one police officer, and who intends to kill more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9XLHF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Close up&quot;&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0F8e0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;In his &amp;#39;plain as a flag&amp;#39; undercover clothes&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Way to look inconspicuous, dude..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was convinced that this character was supposed to be (a - monumentally - stereotypically dumb) Irishman, and it was one &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; reason not to like the movie.  But while watching the movie again recently with a friend, I made a comment to the effect 'here comes the dumb Irishman' to which my friend expressed surprise, presuming him to be English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His accent made me think he was Irish.  Was I wrong?  Was he supposed to be seen as English?  His accent did not seem the same as the other people in the movie (even the actual killer, who is ironically played by an Irish actor).  If wrong, where does that accent originate from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TV Tropes warning:&lt;/strong&gt;  I've expanded on that in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TooDumbToLive/Film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TDTL: Film&lt;/a&gt; page&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2013-06-13T19:49:33.867" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T20:09:36.393" Title="Locational origins of Radnor" Tags="|character|blitz|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11890" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11894" CreationDate="2013-06-11T06:46:43.740" Score="12" ViewCount="1158" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Season 3 Episode 8, we see the prostitute Ros tied to the bedpost, her body riddled with arrows and Joffrey seated on a couch holding the long-bow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although we are well aware of Joffrey's maniacal and pyschopathic tendencies but I fail to understand what transpired in him killing her like that? And whatever happened to Ros being under the protection of Little Finger?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-06-11T13:17:30.923" LastActivityDate="2014-03-27T06:30:05.187" Title="Plot behind Ros and Joffrey" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1424" CreationDate="2013-06-11T09:28:04.327" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The typical big budget movie has 50&amp;ndash;150 people standing just outside but close to the shot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;actors not in the shot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;stand ins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;stunt performers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;extras&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cinematographer, camera crew, dolly crew&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;script supervision&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lighting crew, grips, electricians, light controller&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;hair and makeup&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;wardrobe and assistants&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;props&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;greenery&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;set supervisor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;continuity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;capturing sound (!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;stunt supervision&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;assistant directors:  1st, 2nd, and 3rd&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;production assistants&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;behind-the-scenes photographers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;still photographer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;runners&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;producers and studio execs&amp;mdash;usually by the director at the video tap monitors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc., etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further away are tradesman who do&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;set construction:  carpenters, finish, set construction supervision&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;set painting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;riggers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;equipment movers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;more electricians and a generator operator&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;plumbers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;drivers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and a huge set of electrical generators&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someway into &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant_director#Calling_the_roll&quot;&gt;calling the roll&lt;/a&gt;, there will be a call for quiet&amp;mdash;possibly including briefly ringing bells and/or flashing red lights coming on around the sound stage&amp;mdash;at which time all hammering, drilling, pounding, sawing, etc., air compressors, and air conditioning are silenced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The transition is profound&amp;mdash;from total bedlam to near silence&amp;mdash;but there are still dozens and dozens of people breathing, drinking, chewing, or moving&amp;mdash;much more slowly than normal&amp;mdash;and further away talking quietly (if they dare).  All that activity adds up to background noise that even the most directional microphone can't help but capture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there is the inevitable unavoidable sounds:  actors (or the camera) on turntables for revolving shots:  the turntable always makes some creaking and grinding noises.  Or fake elevator doors have the wrong sound.  Or the subfloor on a sound stage is always two layers of 3/4 inch plywood over a frame 4 feet above the floor.  Even if the flooring is granite, an actor walking over that just doesn't sound right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general acoustics of a sound stage also aren't conducive.  A conference room won't really have a ceiling:  it is open or missing for lighting and perhaps so the boom folks can reach in to get a good microphone angle on an actor.  The windows aren't really there&amp;mdash;to avoid troublesome reflections, and so the acoustic ambiance of almost any onset room will sound slightly wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For comedy, most directors and actors prefer capturing the sound live for its more spontaneous and natural effect.  But for drama, it is easier and more compelling to ADR and/or foley in a soundproof room with only one or two people present to eliminate all the subliminal distractions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, films which are dubbed into other languages need to have the set's apparent acoustic ambiance separate so that its sound can be layered with the dubbed audio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-06-12T20:13:21.797" LastActivityDate="2013-06-12T20:13:21.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11892" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11920" CreationDate="2013-06-11T10:20:59.313" Score="7" ViewCount="779" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Zero Dark Thirty, surveillance of the compound where the courier lives shows that there are two men and three women. The CIA analysts discuss that there must be a third man living there, guessing that that man must be Osama bin Laden:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;George:&lt;/em&gt; If there are three females, there ought to be three males.&#xA;  Observant Muslim women either live with parents or with their&#xA;  husbands. We think there's a third family living in the house.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;National Security Advisor:&lt;/em&gt; So this third male that you've identified&#xA;  as possibly being bin Laden [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can this work if &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygyny_in_Islam&quot;&gt;Polygyny&lt;/a&gt; is allowed and practised in Islam? Even the movie contradicts itself later: During the attack on the compound, several more women are seen, and the credits list four wives for Osama bin Laden. How could they know that the courier didn't have two wives, for example?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="353" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-11T10:50:23.410" LastActivityDate="2013-06-12T06:59:55.440" Title="Why did Maya know that Osama bin Laden was in the compound?" Tags="|plot-explanation|zero-dark-thirty|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11890" CreationDate="2013-06-11T13:19:02.477" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ros was never really under Baelish's protection, merely another of his workers.  Towards the end of season 2, Varys employs Ros as a spy for him in order to follow Baelish's acts around King's Landing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the time of this episode, Baelish finds out who this traitor is and gives her back to Joffery for a little...fun as one may call it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The conversation between Baelish and Varys which unravels the plot is as follows:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Varys:&lt;/strong&gt; Thwarting you has never&#xA;  been my primary ambition, I promise you. Although who doesn't like to see&#xA;  their friends fail now and then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Baelish&lt;/strong&gt;: You're so right. For instance, when I thwarted your plan to give Sansa Stark to the Tyrells.&#xA;  If I'm going to be honest, I did feel an unmistakable sense of enjoyment here.&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;But your confidant, the one who fed you information about my plans, the one you swore to protect...you didn't bring her any enjoyment. And she didn't bring me any enjoyment. She was a bad investment on my part. Luckily, I have a friend who wanted to try something new. Something daring. And he was so grateful to me for providing this fresh experience.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The confidant here being Ros and the friend being Joffrey .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-03-27T06:30:05.187" LastActivityDate="2014-03-27T06:30:05.187" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11895" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11896" CreationDate="2013-06-11T14:19:53.147" Score="13" ViewCount="11607" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode 6 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; season 1 Tyrion requests a trial by combat and asks for a champion.  Some guy that I have no idea who he was volunteered and won.  Who was that and where did he come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-12T21:25:53.337" LastActivityDate="2023-09-15T04:31:15.163" Title="Who was Tyrion Lannister's champion in Ep. 6?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11895" CreationDate="2013-06-11T14:24:28.730" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The champion was &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Bronn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bronn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, he was in the tavern when lady Catelyn abducted him on behalf of all the bannerman and he was a mercenary in those troops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the ride to the Eyrie, they have a slight bonding moment and Bronn decides that allying himself with Tyrion would be more profitable due to him being a Lannister, and, I believe in secret, respect Tyrion's attitude towards life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="19132" LastEditDate="2023-09-15T04:31:15.163" LastActivityDate="2023-09-15T04:31:15.163" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11897" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11898" CreationDate="2013-06-11T14:31:47.067" Score="19" ViewCount="6276" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first episode of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the Stark family ends up with a pack of dire wolf cubs.  It's state that there are five, one for each stark child, but then John Snow found another one?  Were there five, or six, wolves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is made a bit confusing because you rarely see any more than one or two of the wolves at a time on screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-12T08:37:28.927" LastActivityDate="2024-01-30T08:57:18.643" Title="How many wolves were there in the first episode?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11897" CreationDate="2013-06-11T14:35:27.503" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Initially they found 5 wolf pups suckling on the mother, one for each legitimate Stark child&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Robb -&gt; Greywind&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sansa -&gt; Lady&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Arya -&gt; Nymeria&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bran -&gt; Summer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rickon -&gt; Shaggydog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Afterwords, Jon Snow finds a 6th albino pup, allowing him, the illegitimate child of Eddard Stark, to have one of his own&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon Snow -&gt; Ghost&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-06-11T14:35:27.503" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11899" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11901" CreationDate="2013-06-11T14:46:30.070" Score="24" ViewCount="2295" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's my understanding that the phrase &quot;Winter is Coming&quot; is the motto of the Stark house, when the story first reaches the wall it's implied that the winter is not a periodic season like it is in our world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the winter refer to a particularly severe season or does a winter only occur every few years?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-05-28T07:43:33.723" LastActivityDate="2018-10-17T19:57:07.897" Title="Winter is Coming" Tags="|analysis|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11899" CreationDate="2013-06-11T14:52:44.617" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I've gathered of what I've seen of the first season so far, their world has a &quot;summer&quot; and &quot;winter&quot; periods. The summer being long periods of good light and warmer weather and the winder being long period of no light and colder weather.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's implied that the current &quot;summer&quot; has lasted about nine years, maybe more. It's hinted that the next winter will be a long, cold, and dark winter and that it'll bring a lot of bad things with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-05-28T07:43:11.547" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T07:43:11.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11899" CreationDate="2013-06-11T14:57:29.237" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Winter in the world of &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt; works very differently than a real-world winter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;seasons&quot; are broken up into a binary system, &lt;em&gt;Summer&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Winter&lt;/em&gt;.  It is implied that in the times of &lt;em&gt;Winter&lt;/em&gt; snow creeps up as high as castle walls and the cold is unbearable.  These &lt;em&gt;Winters&lt;/em&gt; can last decades sort of like an Ice Age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These words are the motto of House Stark, presumably because of their close proximity to the Wall and the &lt;em&gt;Lands of Always Winter&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently, the shows events are taking place during a ~10yr Summer that started shortly before Brandon was born.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="25773" LastEditDate="2018-02-28T12:46:38.813" LastActivityDate="2018-02-28T12:46:38.813" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11902" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11958" CreationDate="2013-06-11T15:56:56.180" Score="2" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the climax of Dark Skies, the aliens came down to the house to take their subject. The house was boarded up so the aliens couldn't get in and you could see very bright light coming from outside, an obvious alien intrusion. So how come none of the neighbors, who already knew something weird was happening with the family, didn't see anything? Furthermore, why did no one hear the shotgun blast?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T18:27:45.440" Title="How is it that none of the neighbors saw the lights?" Tags="|dark-skies|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11892" CreationDate="2013-06-11T18:49:24.607" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Polygamy is no longer widely practiced or accepted within Islam (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-islam.org/womanrights/11.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;).  As for the excess women, I thought it was obvious they were maids and servants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought the most convincing evidence presented in the movie was that there was an unusually tall, thin, bearded male who wandered around apparently without any responsibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-06-11T18:49:24.607" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8616" CreationDate="2013-06-11T19:05:04.477" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a reference to them in the book but they were having a game in the book so only the screenwriters/Peter Jackson will be able to explain why they were feuding so violently in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think its a change for dramatization, being that it would be a bit anticlimactic to have them merely frolicking. It just wouldn't have suited the mood of the movie. That's my assumption.  It'd be nice to have there be an explanation of some sort in a DVD extra or something or maybe a mini film based off of Tom Bombadil's adventures adding in a moment where Tom sets off these giants to feuding to the death. Or perhaps as my girlfriend brilliantly suggests they are blaming each other for lightning strikes, and the feud just reaches a deadly climax during the unexpected journey!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5091" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-06-12T07:19:48.450" LastActivityDate="2013-06-12T07:19:48.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11892" CreationDate="2013-06-12T06:59:55.440" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The CIA along with the NGA was able to generate 3D representations of the entire compound. By constant observations they even correctly deduced the number of people, gender and their occupation. The construction of the house and the fact that no one other than the courier mr al - kuwaiti went outside implies that the compound is indeed a  hideout for some fugitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They understood that inspite of the wonderful weather outside everyone got out together in the inner courtyard to have fun a certain individual always remained under the shade never venturing out into the open. The unusual behaviour of the mystery person coupled with the apparent closedness of the compound gives the identity of the person as a high value target. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This coupled with the notion that polygamy is no longer islamic and that the family is observant muslim seals laden's identity. Hats off to the CIA...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5098" LastActivityDate="2013-06-12T06:59:55.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11921" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11923" CreationDate="2013-06-12T07:46:20.967" Score="19" ViewCount="18006" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just finished watching season three of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;. In this season, many characters are seen referring to the ongoing war as the war of five kings. I haven't read any of the books, only watched the TV series.&#xA;As per the TV series these kings IMO are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;King &lt;strong&gt;Joffrey&lt;/strong&gt; who take over iron throne after his father King Robert Baratheon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;King &lt;strong&gt;Robb Stark&lt;/strong&gt; - King of the North&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;King &lt;strong&gt;Stannis Baratheon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I failed to determine who the other two kings are. Who are they and what are their claims?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3888" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2016-12-21T21:59:46.790" LastActivityDate="2017-09-30T12:41:04.407" Title="Who are the Five kings in GOT-War of Five Kings?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="883" CreationDate="2013-06-12T08:38:58.487" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prot is Robert's guardian angel. He clearly says he comes when he needs help and he leaves him with Dr. Powell and takes Bess's body because she needs his help now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5100" LastEditorUserId="4468" LastEditDate="2013-06-12T10:06:40.840" LastActivityDate="2013-06-12T10:06:40.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11921" CreationDate="2013-06-12T09:05:01.457" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;War of 5 Kings&lt;/strong&gt; is a reference to the power struggle for Iron Throne of Westeros (Seven Kingdoms), after the death of Robert Baratheon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The five kings referred to are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joffrey Baratheon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Balon Greyjoy (He establishes independent kingdom - Iron Islands)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Robb Stark (He is proclaimed king of the North, after death of his father)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stannis Baratheon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Renly Baratheon (Renly also stakes a claim for the throne after winning support from Baratheon Bannermen)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a snippet from the Wiki page for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Five_Kings&quot;&gt;novel series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The main story chronicles a power struggle for the Iron Throne of&#xA;  Westeros after King Robert's death in the first book, A Game of&#xA;  Thrones. King Robert's son Joffrey immediately claims the throne with&#xA;  the support of his mother's powerful, immensely wealthy Lannister&#xA;  family. When Lord Eddard Stark, King Robert's &quot;Hand&quot; (chief advisor)&#xA;  finds out Joffrey and his siblings were not sired by Robert, Robert's&#xA;  brothers Stannis and Renly individually lay claim to the throne.&#xA;  Meanwhile, several regions of Westeros seek to return to self-rule:&#xA;  Eddard Stark's eldest son Robb is proclaimed King in the North, while&#xA;  Balon Greyjoy re-establishes an independent Kingdom in his region, the&#xA;  Iron Islands. This so-called War of the Five Kings is in full progress&#xA;  by the middle of the second book, A Clash of Kings, with more people&#xA;  gradually joining the struggle for power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-02-23T17:07:46.877" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T17:07:46.877" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11902" CreationDate="2013-06-12T18:11:29.057" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's hard to say because there weren't any neighbours to be seen in the scenes after the abduction scene. The first scene after it shows an article in the newspaper about the parents being suspected from making their son disppear, but that's all we get. It is possible that neighbours heard the shotgun blast, though, but that wouldn't indicate aliens being involved. Not for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the writers didn't put too much effort in covering this part, leaving it open to our imagination. It could be that the aliens somehow kept the neighbours in their sleep, after all they did have some supernatural powers. (And, they presented themselves as the 'Sandman' :p) Of course, this is just speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="461" LastActivityDate="2013-06-12T18:11:29.057" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11853" CreationDate="2013-06-12T19:44:34.530" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;An additional thing to the answers above mine, a double lightsaber has less control and requires a lot of spinning. If handled correctly, it is fierce and offensive, and can be hard to defend against. But the downside of this fighting style is that there are less options/moves to manoeuver with; since you don't wanna hit yourself with the other end (like wallyk said). With that also comes the fact that when spinning, there are also gaps/openings in your defence that a fast enough opponent can use to his advantage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="461" LastActivityDate="2013-06-12T19:44:34.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11936" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-12T20:01:49.350" Score="2" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_One_Lives&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;No One Lives&lt;/a&gt;, there's a scene where the &quot;Driver&quot; plays a &quot;sociopathic game&quot; with his victim, Emma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; He slits his own throat and later appears to have healed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How exactly did this happen? How did she &quot;save&quot; him (as he claims)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T00:20:04.450" Title="How does she apparently save him?" Tags="|no-one-lives|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11940" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11945" CreationDate="2013-06-13T13:40:00.427" Score="3" ViewCount="2444" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the series, we find that Sarah doesn't like discussing her past. This arc really comes into play during the episode where she meets up with an old college friend in the Orange Orange and her name during college is revealed to have been Jennifer Burton. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometime later, Daniel Shaw starts calling Sarah by the name &quot;Sam&quot;, stating this to be her real name, and judging by the reaction he consistently gets from Sarah when he calls her this, this is probably her actual real name. However, her surname doesn't ever seem to get mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did we ever actually find out Sarah's full real name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T16:18:41.323" Title="Did we ever actually find out Sarah's full real name?" Tags="|chuck|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11941" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11985" CreationDate="2013-06-13T13:42:37.263" Score="4" ViewCount="1027" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last episode of season 4 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1868345/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;S04E24, &quot;Chuck Versus the Cliffhanger&quot;&lt;/a&gt;), Chuck has the &quot;Intersect&quot; suppressed from his memory. Later on, in the dying moments of the episode, Morgan Grimes puts on a pair of what he believes to be regular sunglasses and, of course, gets programmed with the Intersect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there were a pair of glasses ready to reprogram the Intersect, why didn't Chuck just use those glasses to regain access to the Intersect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-11-17T22:46:03.170" LastActivityDate="2013-11-17T22:46:03.170" Title="Why didn't Chuck use the glasses after Morgan at the end of season 4?" Tags="|plot-explanation|chuck|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11942" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11994" CreationDate="2013-06-13T13:46:57.797" Score="6" ViewCount="284" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the Gretas, Agent Richard Noble and Agent Victoria Dunwoody, had the intersect uploaded to them, they turned into mindless killers only able to follow protocol, which turned them into a serious liability, as demonstrated in &quot;Chuck Versus the A-Team&quot; when they're unable to make a choice beyond &quot;killing less people&quot; by flying the bomb out of the city when information on the bomb in the episode did not exist in the intersect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the intersect was removed from both agents, they immediately smiled and were thankful that it had been removed from them. Considering that the intersect never had the same effect on Chuck, even though they were obviously running the same software (as demonstrated during the Kung Fu scene), why did the intersect turn the Gretas into emotionless killers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T12:04:25.120" Title="Why did the intersect turn the Gretas into emotionless killers?" Tags="|chuck|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2013-06-13T14:24:25.490" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just my thought on the end - &#xA;I would say the suggestion is that the hypnosis didn't work. Because in the hypnosis sequence &quot;the monster&quot; walked away and he woke up having walked from where he sat at the chairs, ie he's the monster with the memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5112" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T14:24:25.490" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11940" CreationDate="2013-06-13T16:18:41.323" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;We never quite find out.  She first revealed that her actual middle name is Lisa in &quot;Chuck versus the Wookiee&quot; (Season 1, Episode 4).  In &quot;Chuck versus the Fake Name&quot; (Season 3, Episode 8), she tells Agent Shaw that her real first name is Sam (presumably short for Samantha).  But the only suggestion we have for a last name is that her father used the alias &quot;Jack Burton&quot; and that she attended high school as &quot;Jenny Burton&quot; (&quot;Chuck versus the Cougars&quot;, Season 2, Episode 4).  So she may have been born Samantha Lisa Burton, but it seems more likely that she and her father simply had pseudonyms that plausibly matched rather than using their real last name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T16:18:41.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11947" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-13T17:13:48.813" Score="1" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;While going to download movies, I always feel at a loss when I see multiple versions of a single film are uploaded in a single website. I can see theatrical version, directors cut version and extended version of a single movie. So what are the basic differences among them? I searched Google, but it gave web result of different links describing difference among different versions regarding story a particular movie. So isn't there any general difference? If I am going to see the movie for the first time, which version should I download?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T17:59:03.957" Title="What are the differences among different versions of a movie?" Tags="|film-industry|alternate-version|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-06-13T18:01:58.200" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11948" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11967" CreationDate="2013-06-13T17:50:10.930" Score="19" ViewCount="20864" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;S03E10&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, we can see a fight outside of the Twins. The men of House Frey are killing Robb Stark’s army.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NhkBn.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did his complete army come to the wedding, which would mean that &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of his bannermen  are dead now? Or was this only a part of his army out there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Roose_Bolton&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Roose Bolton&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Lord_Walder_Frey&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lord Walder Frey&lt;/a&gt; talk about the happenings of the &lt;em&gt;Red Wedding&lt;/em&gt;, Bolton mentions that the &lt;em&gt;Blackfish&lt;/em&gt; could escape. I guess he refers to &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Brynden_Tully&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brynden Tully&lt;/a&gt;. As Brynden Tully left the room shortly before the massacre (&quot;I need to find a tree to piss on.&quot;), he probably only managed to escape alone, not with any men.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Roose Bolton had any men with him as part of Robb Stark’s army? If so, were they inducted (and did they help the Frey’s killing outside) or were they killed by the Frey’s, too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-15T15:34:29.763" LastActivityDate="2016-08-27T16:01:19.630" Title="Did all of Robb's army come to the wedding?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1614" CreationDate="2013-06-13T17:59:03.957" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;theatrical version&lt;/strong&gt; of a movie is the one that was originally shown in theaters.  Thus it is the cut of the movie that the studio thought would be best for the most moviegoers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;strong&gt;extended version&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;uncut version&lt;/strong&gt; has scenes added that were filmed but cut out of the theatrical version.  Most often, it is created to entice people have already been to the movie to purchase a DVD since it will contain something extra that they haven't already seen.  Since scenes are often deleted because they slow the pace of a film or are redundant, the extended version may be a longer but less impressive experience.  On the other hand, the extra scenes may have been omitted to preserve the film's rating; in this case, the longer version may involve significantly more violence or sexuality.  Such a version may also be called an &lt;strong&gt;international&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;European&lt;/strong&gt; version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;director's cut&lt;/strong&gt; is often nothing more than an extended version, created to sell more DVDs.  However, there are instances in which the director had a vision for the film which was significantly different than the studio's, in which case the director's cut may leave out some scenes from the theatrical version, reorder scenes or have other changes.  A well-known example is the director's cut of &lt;em&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt;, in which the voice-over narration is omitted and the ending is different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;special edition&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;remastered&lt;/strong&gt; version of a film is typically a version of an older film created using newer technologies to enhance picture or sound quality or to improve special effects.  Other changes can be made as well; a notorious example is the special editions of the original &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; trilogy (&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_shot_first&quot;&gt;Han shot first&lt;/a&gt;&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T17:59:03.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11948" CreationDate="2013-06-13T18:00:30.727" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can safely assume that any &lt;em&gt;major&lt;/em&gt; army of Robb's is effectively dead at this point.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With his murder and the murder of his bannermen present at the wedding, combined with Eddard's death, Catelyn's death, the (false) common knowledge that Bran and Rickon are dead the Lannisters have now &quot;won&quot; the &lt;strong&gt;War of the Five Kings&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's safe to say Robb's entire army did not come to the wedding, they may find it pointless to continue on without leadership and fear for their lives now that such a sacred oath (Guest Right) has been broken and shown that the enemies of the Starks will cross any line to defeat their enemies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T18:00:30.727" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11889" CreationDate="2013-06-13T20:09:36.393" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two lines of dialogue from the movie (about twenty minutes in) are suggestive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt you have any real Irish blood in you, Radnor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Me, I'm a wild streak and a Celt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first suggests that Radnor has at least claimed to be Irish, even if the other speaker doubts it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second, Radnor claims to be a &amp;quot;Celt&amp;quot;.  In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts_%28modern%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;modern usage&lt;/a&gt;, this would refer to someone from Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Cornwall, Isle of Man or Brittany; while Cornwall is technically part of England, none of these could be called characteristically &amp;quot;English&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Dennehy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ned Dennehy&lt;/a&gt; is in fact an Irish actor, that would seem the best bet for his character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T20:09:36.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11953" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-13T20:26:15.307" Score="4" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;How come you can't do the things from your memories in Total Recall?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean hypothetically speaking if your mind can remember how and what your body has done shouldn't you body be able to do those things again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5117" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-06-13T20:36:48.570" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T10:34:18.180" Title="Why can't you perform the things you do from your (fake) memories?" Tags="|total-recall-2012|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1309" CreationDate="2013-06-13T20:50:32.257" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, an older Alba met the younger one.  She appeared to to be explaining about death (looking at the dead bird), and possibly explaining about Henry impending demise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5119" LastActivityDate="2013-06-13T20:50:32.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11902" CreationDate="2013-06-13T22:46:35.187" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The aliens could appear and disappear at will, enter the home without coming through any opening, open every door simultaneously, and control their sons mind to lure him out of the bedroom where they were making their last stand. So showing visuals and sounds that only the occupants of the house could see and hear has been established throughout the film.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the real question/flaw is with them all huddled in the master bedroom at the end why would they let the son wander over to the door, open it, and casually stroll straight to the aliens?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In retro-spec, my second paragraph is answered by my first, ironic. Any application of normal logic to this film given the writers carte blanche of &quot;anything goes&quot; is the actual flaw. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5121" LastEditorUserId="5121" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T18:27:45.440" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T18:27:45.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11276" CreationDate="2013-06-14T01:05:21.740" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112173/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Space: Above and Beyond&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Earth is embroiled in a desperate war against alien invaders, and this series focuses on one squadron of Marine pilots involved in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David Duchovny played such a character called Handsome Al who was a silicate (an artificial humanoid that was designed to fight in a war but turned on the humans)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5122" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-11-23T06:55:56.483" LastActivityDate="2017-11-23T06:55:56.483" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11961" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12370" CreationDate="2013-06-14T03:43:53.577" Score="7" ViewCount="1925" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Castle season 5 episode 23, Beckett and Castle investigate a case alongside a Special Agent who works for the Attorney General's Office. I did a bit of searching and from what I found, it seems that there are Special Agents employed under the various departments of the state and federal governments but there are no Special Agents that are employed directly under the Attorney General in the USA. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The season 5 finale ends on a cliffhanger which is also based on this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is the Attorney General's Special Agent a real thing? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5123" LastEditorUserId="5123" LastEditDate="2013-06-22T10:48:29.870" LastActivityDate="2013-08-05T16:04:43.173" Title="Are Attorney General Special Agents real?" Tags="|castle|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3081" CreationDate="2013-06-14T09:36:49.160" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a hebrew newspaper but a yiddish newspaper &quot;Yiddishe Velt&quot;, (Yiddish World).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yiddish can be written in either hebrew or latin characters.  In the first half of the 20th Century there were many yiddish newspapers in the USA catering to the large jewish immigrant community.  There was also a very active yiddish film industry in the USA and Europe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be an 'in joke' between the cast and crew, or just an interesting accident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, Laurel and Hardy were (and are) very popular with jewish audiences; in hebrew they are known as &quot;Hashamen v' he razeh&quot;, literally &quot;the fat one and the thin one&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5125" LastActivityDate="2013-06-14T09:36:49.160" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11953" CreationDate="2013-06-14T11:30:26.170" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why can't you fly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously.  Why can't you just lift yourself off the ground and fly around in the air?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Haven't you ever had a dream where you were flying without the assistance of some mechanical device?  I know I have.  More importantly, I remember having those dreams, and I remember some of the content of those dreams.  So... since I &lt;em&gt;remember&lt;/em&gt; (a key point to your question) flying, why can't I fly now?  If, as you postulate, my mind can remember how and what my body has done, shouldn't I be able to do that again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with that postulate, is the following assumption:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if your mind can remember how and what your body has done&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is absolutely NO PROOF or even speculation within the Total Recall canon that the memory of &lt;strong&gt;how&lt;/strong&gt; you did what you did was implanted in your memory.  You were simply given the memories of &lt;strong&gt;having done&lt;/strong&gt; those things.  You are not given the memories of the years of training and the years of experience a spy received in addition to the two weeks of the life of a spy that you paid for, when you purchase a two week &quot;Life of a Spy&quot; vacation package.  You are only given those two weeks.  So, you were never given the memory of &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; something was done, just that it was done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are countless real world examples of people looking back at personal experiences, and not being able to recall &lt;strong&gt;how&lt;/strong&gt; they did something even immediately after doing it.  Those are people who actually &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; do something, and still can't remember how or actually be able to repeat the action.  On a related note, there are also a large number of people who can repeat actions without being able to explain how they do them, because of their training.  They can respond almost instinctively without applying conscious thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2013-06-14T11:30:26.170" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11601" CreationDate="2013-06-14T14:46:58.843" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the film, Kirk is slowly regaining consciousness.  During this scene, some audio from &lt;em&gt;Star Trek (2009)&lt;/em&gt; plays.  It's from the opening sequence of that film, when his parents were discussing naming him.  You hear both Chris Hemsworth's and Jennifer Morrison's voices, and so that's why they're credited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it doesn't make sense that he'd be hearing this, he was just born in that scene, so he couldn't possibly remember this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-06-14T14:46:58.843" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1497" CreationDate="2013-06-14T17:28:36.217" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I honestly thought it was a pun on the while black market thing you know like a botched surgery but in this case a botched headlight , windshield replacement, like maybe she was having eye problems and got ' eye surgery' and they offered to replace the head lights as a nice gesture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5128" LastActivityDate="2013-06-14T17:28:36.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11948" CreationDate="2013-06-14T19:19:50.493" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Robb's plan was to finish with the wedding business, get Walder Frey's men, and attack Casterly Rock as quickly as possible to undermine the Lannister's power (the plan he hammered out with his mother earlier). For that reason Robb brought the majority of his fighting force with him to the Twins. He still has several bannermen strewn across the North and the Riverlands with their own pockets of fighting men, but Robb's major standing army died with him in the Red Wedding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned above, Brynden &quot;The Black Fish&quot; Tully is still at large and you can assume he has command of what remains of the Tully levies in Riverrun. In the books we see a few more. Up North, elderly Lord Manderly still sits in White Harbor, and the Umbers and several other noble houses may have lost their lords in the Red Wedding but they are still loyal to the Starks. In the Riverlands, several houses are still loyal to the Tullys chief among them House Blackwood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the second question, in the books it is explicitly shown that Bolton did indeed have his men with him. They joined the Freys in massacring Robb's men. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2013-06-16T08:59:02.583" LastActivityDate="2013-06-16T08:59:02.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3408" CreationDate="2013-06-14T20:15:24.883" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually it is Albert that insists upon knowing his granddaughters name, not the other way around. I think Albert wants to know her name because he wants to show the old man that he actually cares- and he isn't just using him for getting Joey. He is just trying to honour the little girl's memory a bit by taking interest in her. And Albert's probably thankful to the little girl for her taking care of Joey. He's just asking for her name so she can be remembered when the old man is dead &lt;em&gt;because Albert probably knows that won't be long, since the old man will either die soon of old age or kill himself because he has nothing now&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5129" LastActivityDate="2013-06-14T20:15:24.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10581" CreationDate="2013-06-15T00:45:08.373" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, everything happened in his mind all and the acts of murder were fantasized and drawn out on paper. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he killed the blonde hooker with the chainsaw (it was actually a metaphor of breaking up with his girl friend who is also blonde) the murder took place in his mind and was drawn out on the table at the restaurant during the break up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe all of this was revealed at the end of the movie when his secretary went though his desk and found all the drawings in his daily planner. Every time he murders someone, it gets drawn out on paper. It never really happens, but he thinks it does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there aren't any bodies because there were no murders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5131" LastActivityDate="2013-06-15T00:45:08.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11975" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11976" CreationDate="2013-06-15T03:34:30.067" Score="15" ViewCount="7717" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is never made clear if the ships in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; universe are capable of traveling at or above light speed. Wouldn't robotic or automated ships have been better-suited for such a long journey through space with cargo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-13T11:49:15.140" LastActivityDate="2019-04-07T01:47:47.787" Title="In the film universe of Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986), are the ships light speed capable?" Tags="|alien|aliens|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11975" CreationDate="2013-06-15T04:56:42.970" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the ships are capable of speeds significantly above the speed of light.  From in-movie clues this is fairly clear, e.g. from Alien dialog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DALLAS: How far to Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LAMBERT: Ten months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then later in the meeting they have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DALLAS: Well, some of you may have figured out we're not home yet.  We're only halfway there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the journey they are making is expected to take 20 months.  A journey between stars below light speed would be years, decades or even longer.  This isn't their 'local time' due to some &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;relativistic effect&lt;/a&gt; of going at high sub light speeds, as Ellen Ripley is shocked when she finds that she slept for over 50 years between Alien and Aliens, and that her daughter had grown old and died. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Aliens the Sulaco is dispatched LV-426 to investigate why the colonists had stopped communicating.  Its clear its its to investigate and potentially rescue them (&quot;its a bug hunt&quot;) and they find cocooned colonists, so its clear this is a fairly fast military ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know where the information comes from, but the &lt;a href=&quot;http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/USCSS_Nostromo&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alien v Preditor Wiki&lt;/a&gt; states that the speed of the Nostromo is 0.12 light years per day with its cargo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the issue of automated ships being superior for such long voyages - this might be true, except that people are more adaptable and creative problem solvers - and putting your trust in people when you are ferrying huge quantities of (presumably expensive) mineral ore might be seen as &#xA;a good investment, even if they require more infrastructure to keep them alive than automation or androids.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="10006" LastEditDate="2018-01-24T02:17:03.763" LastActivityDate="2018-01-24T02:17:03.763" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11978" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-15T17:14:25.543" Score="25" ViewCount="6862" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Man of Steel (2013), when Zod and his subordinates come to take Superman, they ask for Lois Lane too. But when they take her, they don't ask her anything. They just put her in some kind of prison, from which she escapes with the help of Jor-El. I could not understand why they took her in the first place. Can you explain that to me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T20:03:33.973" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T20:03:33.973" Title="Why did Zod ask for Lois Lane to come on their spaceship?" Tags="|plot-explanation|man-of-steel|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11979" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-15T18:09:04.937" Score="7" ViewCount="670" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way to determine whether or not a film has been broadcast on a TV station (particularly in the UK)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5134" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T13:20:21.200" Title="How can I tell whether or not a film has been broadcast on TV?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11980" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="11981" CreationDate="2013-06-15T18:34:04.163" Score="7" ViewCount="2167" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie as a kid in the 80s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A terror / paramilitary group runs a training camp, where they kidnap men and leave them in the forest, and then get the trainees to hunt and kill them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By mistake, they kidnap a commando, and he starts killing them off instead. The bad guys are the ones running for their life now. Other salient details:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was a real B grade movie, but with a good music score. The hero was really buff, though I didn't see him in any other movie.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once the hero starts killing them off, they kidnap his wife and kill her. The hero catches the guy who killed his wife, cuts off his arm, and beats him to death with it. He then scalps him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the end, he captures the head of the training camp, strips him, and forces him to run in the forest. The movie ends with the hero then hunting him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5133" LastActivityDate="2017-07-02T00:25:51.143" Title="B grade 80's movie about a commando hunted like an animal" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:45:34.167" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11980" CreationDate="2013-06-15T18:49:59.173" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure your thinking of Deadly Prey from 1986. The plot, as taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_Prey&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Colonel Hogan rents his mercenaries out to anyone with the right&#xA;  price. This time it's businessman Michaelson. A deal is struck, and&#xA;  Hogan recruits new troops. For training, he orders his troops to&#xA;  kidnap innocent people, take them to the forest and hunt them.&#xA;  Unfortunately this time, they picked the wrong guy, Mike Danton.&#xA;  Danton, a Vietnam veteran, is ambushed while taking out the trash.&#xA;  Taken to the forest, he is stripped to his shorts, greased up and told&#xA;  to run. The mercenaries hunt Danton, but are meticulously picked off&#xA;  one by one. The troops report this to Colonel Hogan, who sends a task&#xA;  force with his best man, Lieutenant Thornton. One of this elite combat&#xA;  unit is Jack Cooper. Cooper and Danton realize who each other are&#xA;  while trying to kill each other. Cooper has not seen Danton since he&#xA;  took a bullet for him in 'Nam. With his new-found friend, Danton&#xA;  continues to punish the mercenaries, and get back to his wife Jaimey.&#xA;  Like all good villains, Hogan uses Danton's family against him, but&#xA;  this angers Danton. After storming the military training camp Danton&#xA;  arms himself up, and destroys all traces of Hogan's mercenaries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an extended trailer on YouTube &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQySDbFb97s&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. At the 5:50 mark you can see the scene where Denton cuts of the guys arm and beats him with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2013-06-15T18:49:59.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11978" CreationDate="2013-06-15T19:51:59.860" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a throwaway line that Zod had scanned her mind (along with Clark's) however not a lot is made of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect the real reason she was there was so she could meet Jor El, so that they could find out how to defeat Zod and to give Clark the opportunity to save her life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-06-15T19:51:59.860" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11941" CreationDate="2013-06-15T20:38:43.987" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Intersect&quot; program is coded such as it deletes itself either during, or after run-time. As we have seen on several occasions when Chuck, or someone else (e.g. Shaw), has used Intersect computers or glasses, the monitors/glasses have been left in a state where they have either been black (disabled or just inactivated) or displayed the text &quot;Upload Complete&quot;. This combined with the fact that everyone have treated the equipment as nonfunctional after it has been used hints that the program is only good for one upload.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is actually confirmed later on in the show (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1977181/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;S05E01, &quot;Chuck Versus the Zoom&quot;&lt;/a&gt;) when Chuck and Ellie are standing down in &quot;Castle&quot;, looking at a pair of glasses;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CHUCK&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How certain are you that these glasses only had one reload left in them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;ELLIE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like, very certain... I tried to access the program, but, there's no way to update it. This version of the Intersect is a one-time deal. I'm sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-11-17T22:30:59.747" LastActivityDate="2013-11-17T22:30:59.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11989" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-16T02:38:48.527" Score="6" ViewCount="3503" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377713/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;Cube Zero&lt;/a&gt;, when Wynn finally catches up to Rains, he overhears the following conversation between Haskell and Rains. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rains:&lt;/strong&gt; Don't come near me. &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Haskell:&lt;/strong&gt; I was protecting us. &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Rains:&lt;/strong&gt; You murdered him. &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Haskell:&lt;/strong&gt; He was infected, you saw it, it was spreading, we'd be dead by now. &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Rains:&lt;/strong&gt; You don't know that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then says...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Uh, actually, he's right. It's a highly contagious form of necrotizing fasciitis, flesh eating disease. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the next scene, where Wynn is telling Rains and Haskell what he knows, he tells them &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They collect data and run tests; all kinds of tests; testing chemicals, biolical agents, measuring brain activity, endurance... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is: How did he &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; know that's what happened to Meyerhold (the chubby guy)? I mean how could he know it was necrotizing fasciitis if they were testing all kinds of biological agents? Is there some sort of detail that I overlooked that might explain how he knew?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was already inside the Cube by the time Meyerhold contracted the disease, so he couldn't have saw it on the monitor. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He had no communication with Dodd, so Dodd couldn't have told him. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the shot where Rains finally gets the bottom door open to check on Meyerhold, you can see the top door is closed in the background, so he couldn't have been watching.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It seems logical to me that the rooms are sound proof since it was high frequency sound that killed Meyerhold. So, it should be safe to assume Wynn couldn't have heard them from the other Cube. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the previous point is not valid, then why didn't he introduce himself sooner? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-06-16T02:50:27.443" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T01:53:49.183" Title="How did Wynn know what happened to Meyerhold in Cube Zero?" Tags="|plot-explanation|cube|cube-zero|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11990" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-06-16T02:53:01.763" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377713/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A young man whose job is to watch over the Cube endeavours to rescue an innocent woman trapped in one of its rooms. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-06-16T05:24:45.363" LastActivityDate="2013-06-16T05:24:45.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11991" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-06-16T02:53:01.763" Score="0" Body="A young man whose job is to watch over the Cube endeavours to rescue an innocent woman trapped in one of its rooms." OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-06-16T05:31:59.853" LastActivityDate="2013-06-16T05:31:59.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11992" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12711" CreationDate="2013-06-16T06:22:05.023" Score="13" ViewCount="56212" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a big fan of the Kung Fu Panda movies and I just finished watching the second part. I noticed that there are a lot of scenes where the director was hinting at some kind of special bond between Po and Tigress, especially the last scene where Po hugs Tigress and all the others watch in awe. So I wanted to ask, is there any romantic angle being suggested between Po &amp;amp; Tigress ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-08-29T06:18:12.590" LastActivityDate="2021-02-08T23:30:37.240" Title="Is there any romantic angle suggested between Po and Tigeress?" Tags="|kung-fu-panda|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11993" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12013" CreationDate="2013-06-16T10:54:18.847" Score="1" ViewCount="675" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm struggling to understand how Kryptonian powers develop as they spend time on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It took Clark years to discover his powers, yet when he's fighting the two Kryptonian warriors, they appear just as strong and fast (if not more so) than he is.  In the final battle, against General Zod has to breath the atmosphere (and get used to it) before he can match Superman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Krypton, neither Jor-El nor Zod have any special powers, this implies that  the speed and strength of the two Kryptonian warriors was due to being on Earth.  However if this is the case, then why did Zod have to expose himself to Earth's atmosphere to gain these powers and why would Clark lose his strength when he wasn't breathing Earth's atmosphere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer I'm looking needs to explain why the powers took different amounts of time to develop and which came from the atmosphere and which came from the Sun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="18480" LastEditDate="2019-04-25T04:30:20.903" LastActivityDate="2019-04-25T04:30:20.903" Title="What influences the power growth rate of a Kryptonian on Earth?" Tags="|plot-explanation|man-of-steel|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="11994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11942" CreationDate="2013-06-16T11:24:24.130" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason why the Gretas turned into vicious killing machines is because the program was tampered with. The NCS (lead by Director Jane Bentley) made several &quot;corrections&quot; to the software in an attempt to create a perfect version of it, successfully suppressing everything that could be a liability to an agent. This is hinted at later in that same scene when Chuck tries to walk away with his dad's laptop and gets stopped by Greta (agent Dunwoody). After first refusing to give it up he changes his mind when Director Bentley walks in and says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'd do as she says, Mr. Bartowski. Unlike you, my Intersects aren't afraid to pull the trigger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This is then confirmed and explained in the very next scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;BENTLEY&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(to Chuck)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We've been studying you, as well. &lt;strong&gt;Correcting your father's software&lt;/strong&gt; for your various... limitations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SARAH&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What limitations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;BENTLEY&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;His emotional sensitivity, his overreliance on his handlers, his inability to terminate targets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-12-05T12:04:25.120" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T12:04:25.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11785" CreationDate="2013-06-16T13:50:51.070" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought it was just a joke in reference to the fact that Scotty had been persuaded to take vacation time. Maybe it seems more that way in British English but definitely to me the exchange like this made sense:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;You're well?&quot; - just means &quot;how are you doing&quot;, seems like Kirk hasn't seen him in a while, which would make sense if Kirk is an admiral now and Scotty is still active on board a ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Wee bout&quot; - Scotty lining up his joke&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Oh? A wee bout of what, Mr. Scott?&quot; - Kirk seems surprised Scotty is saying he had some illness&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;shore leave&quot; - ahh he wasn't ill, but taking time off is like an illness to Scotty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3441" LastActivityDate="2013-06-16T13:50:51.070" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1545" CreationDate="2013-06-16T14:30:48.267" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This symbol is being over thought. It symbolizes role reversal of &quot;the hunter becoming the hunted&quot;. They were hunting rabbit, but failing at it bringing a sort of comic sense to their hunt. But when his past starts to catch up with him, Gal is being hunted by the Rabbit Man. Also note that a majority of time Gal is eating, much like the rabbits they were trying to hunt were grazing/eating at the time, symbolizing a state of vulnerability. Also, the machine gun the Rabbit Man wields (very sleak, efficient) compared to the weapons they used during their rabbit hunt that failed to fire is also relevant and points to the very real threat of the events that unfold. Also, the fact the Rabbit Man is riding a Donkey symbolizes the burden of the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5142" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-17T10:54:50.450" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T10:54:50.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11899" CreationDate="2013-06-16T19:33:55.083" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this series their seasons take years long not as normal to us so they mean that years of winter are coming and they are afraid of the horrible things that happen during it and especially the white walkers when happened exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5143" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-17T10:52:59.990" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T10:52:59.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="11999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11953" CreationDate="2013-06-16T22:11:58.150" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because you do not actually get the training, practice and experience which are required to actually build these skills.  You simply have the memory of having had this training and the memory of having applied it.  Hence you do not really know if, you simply have a recollection of having known it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I vividly remember fighting 3 people at the same time when I was 18 to pass a martial art grading (that actually happened) - that does not mean I can walk up to any three people and fight them all at the same time and expect to win.  Even if you have a memory of something real, it was specific to that exact situation at that exact time and does not mean that those skills will work in the same way the next time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-06-16T22:11:58.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8318" CreationDate="2013-06-17T04:32:18.750" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's explained in a deleted scene.  ALL the agents were suffering from paranoia.  They were each stashing extra pills, money and false IDs.  That's why Aaron had that huge stash of money and IDs conveniently tucked away.  If they'd kept the scene it would have explained a lot.  There's actually a few deleted scenes that fans of the movie should watch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5147" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T04:32:18.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12004" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12636" CreationDate="2013-06-17T05:08:16.823" Score="24" ViewCount="38175" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770828/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Superman somehow finds his iconic costume in the 20,000 year old ship, which looks more modern than the dress that Jor-El wore. And it bears the symbol of his House. Can anyone explain what such a modern dress (by Krypton's standards) is doing in a 20,000 year old ship?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5148" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T20:03:08.793" LastActivityDate="2016-06-30T10:23:00.090" Title="What is Superman's costume doing in a 20,000 year old ship?" Tags="|plot-explanation|man-of-steel|costume|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12004" CreationDate="2013-06-17T08:45:35.527" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jor-El jumped to retrieve the codex he stripped off his outer clothes and wore a black &quot;activity suit&quot;.  My impression was that the SuperSuit was a customised version of this design (notice that many of the Kryptonians did indeed have cloaks).  As to whether it's more modern - that's difficult to answer without knowing the details of Krypton's fashion, there's no reason why it couldn't have been an amalgamation of Krypton/Earth styles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to how it appeared on a ship 18,000 years before Clark arrived on earth.  Jor-El's consciousness ran the ship, given this was a seeding ship (and could so grow Kryptonians) it's not unreasonable to assume that it could clothe, feed and supply them too!  My assumption was that the ship made the suit to Jor-El's specifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-04-19T09:53:07.497" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T09:53:07.497" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12009" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12015" CreationDate="2013-06-17T11:11:35.733" Score="38" ViewCount="7213" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/strong&gt; there are some creatures who are found north of the wall called &lt;em&gt;White Walkers&lt;/em&gt;. Who are these White Walkers and what do they actually do to their prey or victims? Are they evil spirits (&lt;em&gt;as they move very fast&lt;/em&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5150" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-17T13:49:52.737" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T04:31:27.860" Title="Who or what are White Walkers?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11979" CreationDate="2013-06-17T13:20:21.200" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For the UK:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The BUFVC has an &lt;a href=&quot;http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/trilt/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;archive of UK TV listings&lt;/a&gt; back to 2001. You need to be a member to access the full archive, but you can search the previous 2 weeks for free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, you can try &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvlistings.guardian.co.uk/default.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Guardian's TV Guide&lt;/a&gt; it's a bit hit and miss and it only tells you what channel the film was last broadcast on. For example it will tell me that &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvlistings.guardian.co.uk/search/?tvgSearchPhrase=The%20Shawshank%20Redemption&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Shawshank Redemption&lt;/a&gt; was on ITV2, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvlistings.guardian.co.uk/search/?tvgSearchPhrase=%2212%20Angry%20Men%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;12 Angry Men&lt;/a&gt; was on Sky movies crime &amp;amp; horror and that &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvlistings.guardian.co.uk/search/?tvgSearchPhrase=Rollerball&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rollerball&lt;/a&gt; was on TCM2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T13:20:21.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12011" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12014" CreationDate="2013-06-17T13:34:58.263" Score="10" ViewCount="44672" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first &quot;new&quot; season of Dr Who, &quot;Bad Wolf&quot; is a recurring theme throughout the season and often appears as graffiti as follows;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4EM8r.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ICHBs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of this theme? How does this name or message appear throughout the season? Who or what is the bad wolf? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2018-09-14T02:45:01.070" Title="What is the meaning of &quot;Bad Wolf&quot;?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12009" CreationDate="2013-06-17T13:45:43.460" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In terms of the series itself there really hasn't been much explained about these White Walkers other than their appearence of being undead Wights, immune to normal blades, vulnerable to Dragon Glass (Obsidian), that their touch can turn their victims into more White Walkers, and that they seem to be the ultimate threat to the realm and the main reason that The Wall was built.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The huge point behind the White Walkers in the series as well is to give the audience an idea of how dire the situation of the entire Realm is, rather than have the conflict between kings is and how insignificant of who is sitting on the Iron Throne when the Walkers come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as a book explanation, the best I can give you is a quick summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to legend, the Others first appeared approximately 8,000 years before War of Conquest, during a winter that lasted a generation and a period of darkness known as the Long Night. Eventually they were defeated, supposedly by the Night's Watch and The Wall may have been raised as a defense against them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Others' first appearance in the saga is in the Prologue of the first book, killing two rangers of the Night's Watch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While not much, this is currently all the known information we have on the White Walkers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T13:45:43.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11993" CreationDate="2013-06-17T13:58:56.280" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My answer draws on the ideas that Zod is a trained entity vs Kal'el who is an untrained entity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, a bit of history.  Krypton is a planet with a Red star, because of this, the Kryptonians act and have the physique and abilities of normal humans. This is explained due to the level of radiation the star is giving off.  Jor'El knew this about the planet and also knew that Earth has a Yellow star, signifying a different radiation level on the planet.  He theorized (or even knew) that his son would be  'like a god' to humans due to his exposure to the different radiation of our Sun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judging by the school scene where his x-ray vision starts bugging out that Clark had always had these powers since arriving and has regular freak-outs controlling his abilities and his 'parents' are used to this, signified by his 'mother' knowing how to quickly calm him down enough.  This event also appears to have happened to him around age 8, signifying one of the earliest scenes in the timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shoot ahead 30 years, Clark has obvious control over his abilities, using them without strain and never losing control of his hearing/x-ray vision/etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now we reach Zod and his gang.  Assuming Jor'El's knowledge of yellow stars causing Kryptonians to have immense strength and speed was available to military types like Zod, this would explain why they had a bit of a handle on the strength aspect of the abilities.  Also the important fact here is that they are trained military personnel meaning they would be able to easily deal with a rapid change in their body in a better state of mind than a scared child would.  Remember that in this continuity, Kryptonians were bred for a specific purpose and all 3 of these Kryptonians were bred for war and combat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it also seems that the x-ray vision and eye-beams comes from direct exposure to the atmosphere instead of just being within the radiation. We can only assume that it requires the eyes themselves to become exposed to the open air in order to trigger this change.  Clark notices this slight weakness and exploits it in the battle.  The only other explanation is that it could be a reaction caused from breathing in unfiltered Earth-air when it reaches their lungs that causes this direct change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If memory serves, Zod did also have the strength and speed of the other warriors, just got exposed first to the air and retreated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR:&lt;/strong&gt; Earth's sun causes Super Strength and Speed, Earth's Atmosphere causes X-ray vision and laser eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T13:58:56.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12011" CreationDate="2013-06-17T14:00:31.507" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a major spoiler:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the first season, it's discovered that the daleks have been controling the human race through the TV games. Rose looked at the heart of the Tardis and was imbued with the power of time. She used it to return to where the doctor was and scattered the message across time. It's a message to herself from the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T02:59:18.727" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T02:59:18.727" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12009" CreationDate="2013-06-17T14:28:51.010" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;White Walkers (or Others as they are also called in the books) are magical beings that live in the freezing lands north of the Wall. The last time they were seen by humanity was 8000 years before the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/War_of_Conquest&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Conquest&lt;/a&gt;. What little is known of them is mixed up with legends and half forgotten stories. Most people still believe that they are a myth and are just scary stories used to frighten little children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are (for unknown reasons) antagonistic to humanity, and brought a long period of darkness when they first attacked that legend calls The Long Night. Legend has it that they were finally defeated by the Night's Watch, and the Wall was then raised to stop any further attacks (not to stop Wildlings as most people think). Prophecies of their return and their defeat exist both in Westeros and the East. The followers of R'hllor the Lord of Light (like Melisandre) believe that the White Walkers are a manifestation of The Great Other, who is the chief antagonist of their god.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far (in the TV series) this is what is known of them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are inhumanely strong and can freeze things by their very touch.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They accept gifts of newborn boys. What they do with these babies is unknown. In return, it is assumed that the gifter is safe from their attacks. In the TV show however:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; White Walkers are seen to apparently transform one of Craster's baby boys into a new White Walker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of S05E08 we know they are vulnerable to: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; blades made of obsidian (also called Dragon glass) and Valyrian steel (dragon steel) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They have the ability to raise the dead to become Wights (&lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; new White Walkers) who are undead zombie like creatures that follow the commands of the White Walkers and can only be killed with fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bit further in the books (minor spoiler ahead):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Sam researches ancient books about the White Walkers and discovers that they are also vulnerable to something called &lt;em&gt;dragonsteel&lt;/em&gt;. It's nature is unknown, but it is theorized to be Valyrian steel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;New Edit&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In what &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; (or may not) be a deviation from the books, the sixth season episode &quot;The Door&quot; on the TV show revealed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; That the White Walkers were originally created by the Children of the Forest as a weapon to be used against the invading First Men, but the Children somehow lost control of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="20458" LastEditDate="2017-08-16T17:54:17.427" LastActivityDate="2017-08-16T17:54:17.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8719" CreationDate="2013-06-17T16:27:39.840" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's called a curse because the original witch (his mother) did a spell on him to suppress his  werewolf part. At the end of season 2, he broke the curse. He could turn freely thereafter and the the curse no longer exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5154" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T16:27:39.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2022" CreationDate="2013-06-17T17:00:07.323" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Red finally got paroled because the parole board wanted to prove that&#xA;parole does exist, and is not just a &quot;made up B.S.&quot; word. Basically they showed him that&#xA;there is integrity in the system. Another speech he could have made is &quot;What is the point of these hearings? I already know how you are going to stamp the forms&quot; Finally, this is a unique answer, which they have never heard before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5155" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T17:00:07.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12018" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12019" CreationDate="2013-06-17T17:24:38.497" Score="8" ViewCount="1151" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the course of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120667/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Victor von Doom&lt;/em&gt; slowly mutates into some kind of metallic creature being able to shoot lightnings (and thus becomes &lt;em&gt;Dr. Doom&lt;/em&gt;), a transformation that is completed at the end of the movie, when he seems to be completely made out of metal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yet in the sequel &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486576/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; he suddenly is back the old human &lt;em&gt;Victor&lt;/em&gt; (while still being able to shoot lightnings) and his metal outfit is just a suit/mask. So &lt;strong&gt;how come this change?&lt;/strong&gt; Is he now able to control his mutation, did I overlook something in the story (or maybe not in the movies but the comics, which I'm completely ignorant of), or is this just an inconsistency (and which version is then more true to the comics)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-03T13:01:22.700" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T13:01:22.700" Title="Why can Victor suddenly control his transformation?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fantastic-four|fantastic-four-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12018" CreationDate="2013-06-17T17:42:22.707" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been a while since I've watched this movie, but I vaguely remember him having contact with the Silver Surfer, and that contact &quot;healed&quot; him.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, if I remember correctly, the radition the Silver Surfer uses is similer to what transformed the whole team, leading to Victor's cure and to the team having power swapping issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-06-17T17:51:31.490" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T17:51:31.490" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12020" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-17T18:30:37.923" Score="10" ViewCount="605" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't quite understand the breathing issues Superman had on Zod's ship.  Specifically in the context of the fact that he doesn't strictly need to breath to stay alive.  This is shown when they were at the satellite, or Superman staying submerged under water for an undetermined amount of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why then did he have problems on Zod's ship, when in these other cases he didn't need to breath at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-13T10:45:52.453" LastActivityDate="2018-05-05T00:55:32.887" Title="Breathing issues?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dc-extended-universe|man-of-steel|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12020" CreationDate="2013-06-17T18:38:01.997" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;One explanation can be stated as a matter of adaptivity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can assume that Superman has been in space a few times before this fight.  Even though he just 'gained' his flight ability, he was still used to the lack of atmosphere in space before the fights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flash ahead to Zod's ship where the atmosphere is the exact replica of Krypton's, something Kal'El is obviously not used to at all and is apparently very hindering to the physiology of the Kryptonians.  Kal, not being used to this atmosphere as well as its sudden hindering effect on him causes a slight reaction that doesn't mix well for some time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T00:23:21.123" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T00:23:21.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3413" CreationDate="2013-06-17T21:15:00.390" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bruce was trained at the League of Shadows by Ra's al Ghul.  Bruce Wayne being a member of the League was probably public knowledge, and Ra's most likely put together that Batman=Bruce Wayne since he used most of the same techniques the League used.  This knowledge was confrimed in Batman Begins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ra's probably didn't keep the relationship of Batman and Bruce Wayne a secret from the League, hence how Talia knew that Bruce Wayne was Batman.  This allowed her to infiltrate Wayne Enterprises without Wayne suspecting a thing.  Also, since Bane was a part of the League, he too knew of Wayne's &quot;secret&quot; identitiy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T21:15:00.390" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12024" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-17T21:18:01.503" Score="1" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never picked up on this before, but as a Magic: the Gathering player, I saw that Inara's last name was Serra, and it immediately reminded me of &lt;a href=&quot;http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=270376&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Serra Angel&lt;/a&gt;, a card that's been printed almost every core set Magic has ever made. Considering that Inara is of Arabic origin and means &quot;heaven sent&quot; it makes even more compelling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any where this might have been documented or discussed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="326" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T23:04:28.893" Title="Did Inara Serra get her name from a Magic: the Gathering card?" Tags="|firefly|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12025" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12026" CreationDate="2013-06-17T21:18:23.340" Score="3" ViewCount="759" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Wolf_%282011_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Teen Wolf (TV Series)&lt;/a&gt;, in one episode probably in Season 1 , there is&#xA;slogan written on the back of Adrian Harris's car, states like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Imagination is more important then knowledge&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this slogan implies here. I mean what is its significance in the show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-10T08:46:43.417" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T08:46:43.417" Title="Significance of slogan written on the backside of Adrian Harris's car?" Tags="|analysis|teen-wolf-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12025" CreationDate="2013-06-17T21:26:12.230" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's an &lt;a href=&quot;http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20417/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Albert Einstein quote&lt;/a&gt;. The quote signifies the importance of thinking of all possibilities in the world rather than the limited known knowledge. As to the significance, it could just be a cool quote to put on the car to show he's a deep thinker&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T21:26:12.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12024" CreationDate="2013-06-17T21:31:32.047" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serra_%28surname%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Serra&lt;/a&gt; is a surname.  I don't have any references, but I'm fairly certain it was just a name that Joss Whedon picked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-06-17T23:04:28.893" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T23:04:28.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12024" CreationDate="2013-06-17T21:39:01.473" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;She might just as well have been named for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun%C3%ADpero_Serra&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Father Junípero Serra&lt;/a&gt;, a founder of missions well known to most people living in California.  But perhaps there is an angelic connection after all:  &lt;em&gt;The Encyclopedia of Buffy Studies&lt;/em&gt; has an &lt;a href=&quot;http://slayageonline.com/EBS/firefly/episodes/serenity.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; that claims (without any references, unfortunately) that &quot;Serra&quot; is short for &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraphim&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;seraphim&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-06-17T21:39:01.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12029" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-17T21:44:02.703" Score="5" ViewCount="1585" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would have been 10 years old when I first saw it in a theater. In it, Lt. Harris (GW Bailey) is stuck in a traffic jam and commandeers a moped or motorbike and tries to speed through traffic. Someone opens a door to block his path, and he is launched into the air towards a horse trailer. Mahoney (Gutenberg) makes a one-liner joke insinuating that Harris's head has penetrated the rectum of the horse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That portion still exists in every version of the movie (save maybe some 1980s network television edits for FCC obscenity reasons).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I also remember a 1-to-2 second shot of an actual depiction of this. I would expect that some simple animatronic sculptures were used for it (as movies tended to use in the 1980s), supposing of course I didn't just imagine it in my perverted 10 yr old mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not difficult to imagine why it might have been removed from later videotape and DVD copies, though it's a bit hard to reconcile this even with an R rating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, do some scenes in movies disappear, so much that no evidence can be found on the internet that they ever existed, and in particular is there any evidence that such a scene as this existed and was then purged?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T21:56:12.057" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T21:56:12.057" Title="Was this scene ever filmed in Police Academy (1984) or am I just imagining it?" Tags="|alternate-version|police-academy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12029" CreationDate="2013-06-17T22:42:39.593" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed such tweaks are commonly made to movies.  I distinctly remember Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio's bare breasts in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096754/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Abyss&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; during the CPR scene of the original theatrical release.  No doubt that was eliminated from every version since because they greatly distracted from the seriousness of the situation&amp;mdash;her breasts were very attractive, but the shot was about her probably being dead.  Possibly that edit would not have occurred for a European edition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one of the DVD re-releases of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars IV&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the commentary by George Lucas has him remark to one of the DVD release crew that Lucas adjusted some special effect in the movie the day before and was surprised to see it on the DVD master already.  This was a very minor change, but the accumulation of tweaks from 1977 to 1990-something presented a very different looking Mos Isley:  the city was a tiny desert oasis in 1977, but by 1995 it had become a bustling medium-sized city.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091653/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nothing in Common&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Jackie Gleason's character's line &quot;go to hell&quot; to his wife trying to support him at the hospital was present in the original theatrical release, but disappeared from every subsequent edition.  It is only a 1.5 second difference, but its absence greatly alters his character toward a more ambiguous one, potentially worthy of sympathy.  I really resented the movie when the line was there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene described in &lt;em&gt;Police Academy&lt;/em&gt; seems like it is so disgusting, the director or producer might have decided to drop it to avoid alienating the majority of the intended audience.  Perhaps a special DVD edition (&quot;disgusting edit&quot;?) would allow viewing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T07:07:55.120" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T07:07:55.120" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12032" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-17T23:51:14.677" Score="13" ViewCount="15676" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/em&gt;, Superman breaks the neck of General Zod. My question is, how could he do that so easily? And why did none of the Kryptonians think about doing that to him? Especially, considering that they are a lot more ruthless and don't pay attention to morality, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I was a little confused when Superman broke Zod's neck because I thought it is not possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5159" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T17:35:55.863" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T18:17:24.267" Title="How did the final confrontation in Man of Steel get resolved?" Tags="|plot-explanation|man-of-steel|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2804" CreationDate="2013-06-18T01:26:54.417" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is clearly stated in the movie that Jeffrey Goines was not part of the Virus plot. The sole culprit involved with the Virus plot was Dr. Peters (played by David Morse).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you watch the film again you might note that Dr. Peters has an apocalyptic view of things and when he gets Kathryn Railly to sign her book he makes a comment that causes her to remember his face. This is evidenced by her recognising him from a photo where he is pictured with Dr. Leland Goines.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Manaj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Dr. Peters and Dr. Goines&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeffrey's rant about &quot;germs&quot; when he first meets James Cole and the fact that his father runs a facility that creates (and studies) viruses can easily be taken as reasons why James assumes that it was Jeffrey who released the viruses on mankind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scientists, that send James Cole into the past, believe that the Army of the Twelve Monkeys is responsible for the virus release because of the &quot;We did it&quot; claim made in the city where the initial virus release has been determined, but this is just coincidence as the claim was related to their releasing of the zoo's animals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vtkul.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;We Did It&quot;&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two links are video clips that support my answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HigxGvmHEdQ&amp;amp;list=PL543BA814FB773687&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Army of the Twelve Monkey Morning&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-BHGjtnJuth2nJ/twelve_monkeys_1995_coles_phonecall_part_2/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Forget about the Army of the Twelve Monkeys&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4476" LastEditorUserId="4476" LastEditDate="2013-06-19T14:51:13.837" LastActivityDate="2013-06-19T14:51:13.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12032" CreationDate="2013-06-18T06:01:04.170" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Superman was more powerful than Zod. In one scene Zor-El says to Zod that his son was twice the man he is. He also states that due to living on Earth, adapting to Earth's environment, his son has become more powerful. So Superman had the strength which other Kryptonians didn't have and that is why he could break Zod's neck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T09:48:29.390" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T09:48:29.390" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9977" CreationDate="2013-06-18T07:44:42.703" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cross fades and pans are more common in (low budget) television for some reason, and even more common in home video&amp;mdash;I have my theories about the causes, but that does not affect this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;View any quality movie and you'll see that almost every cut (99+%) is a classic straight cut.  For extra effect, maybe there is a fade to black or fade from black.  The standard advice for editing is (paraphrasing) a &quot;straight cut keeps the viewer's attention on the story....  A spiffy transition shifts attention to the editing or director and away from the story.&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://diyvideoeditor.com/video-transitions/&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the production of &lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;, there probably was no reason to assume exclusion of Blu-ray and DVD releases&amp;mdash;though Blu-ray uses H.264 too.  Anyway, what limitation of H.264 would be a problem with cross fades or dissolves?  H.264's &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Features&quot;&gt;weighted prediction feature&lt;/a&gt; was specifically designed to optimize cross fades.  Even the messiest dissolve simply uses a little more bandwidth for a second or two, just like a straight cut to an image with little in common with the prior image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, it seemed like they were producing the show to medium or greater budget movie standards (aside from Spacey's narration and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall&quot;&gt;breaking the fourth wall&lt;/a&gt;) rather than avoiding any particular technical issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T07:44:42.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3448" CreationDate="2013-06-18T08:15:53.130" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what happened. At the end, Alfred is in Italy right? In the movie, there's a program called the &quot;Clean Slate&quot;. This program has the ability to give you a new life, and a new start. Batman (Bruce) used this program. And where does he end up? Italy. Alfred is not dreaming. Batman will no longer be a hero. But, Robin will. Robin will take Batman's spot. They were in contact, clearly. This though, is my theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5162" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T08:15:53.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12040" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-18T08:45:56.537" Score="8" ViewCount="722" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Monsters Inc.  Boo fights back against Randall and gives Sulley a chance to grab him by the throat and restrain him.  Boo roars at Randall as Sulley holds him and Sulley says something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She's not a afraid of you anymore.  Looks like you're out of a job,&#xA;  pal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Randall then gulps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They had a case earlier of a child not being afraid of a monster and they just shredded that particular door.  Each monster has a stack of children they work with so why would Randall be out of a job because one child is not afraid of him?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T12:16:36.980" LastActivityDate="2013-07-16T01:43:31.597" Title="Why would Randall be out of a job?" Tags="|plot-explanation|monsters-inc|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12032" CreationDate="2013-06-18T09:17:18.130" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just the case of adaptability to earths environment and also evolution. It made Superman powerful as his skin soaks in the sun's radiation unlike Zod's. Also, a human can break a fellow human's neck but not a dinosaur's, similarly a Kryptonian breaks another Kryptonian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5163" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T13:21:25.367" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T13:21:25.367" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12042" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-18T09:35:23.203" Score="35" ViewCount="61944" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;The Shawshank Redemption&lt;/em&gt;, Andy Dufresne escapes from the prison in the night, then during the next day he uses his fake identity and runs several banks, gets a convertible car and makes a cache in some remote quiet place that Red later finds, then he flees to Mexico.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now banks don't open earlier than at 8 in the morning, more likely 9 in the morning. Just visiting each bank takes perhaps 20 minutes plus, also Andy was withdrawing large sums of money and it's quite common for banks to require a notice in advance in such cases so that the bank surely has enough cash. Those were different banks and they were likely not on the same square of the same town, so he also had to travel between them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the money he could get a car but that also takes some time. Finally he goes to the remote quiet place to make a cache.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this takes time and even though Andy acts under his fake identity he acts in open, his face is not concealed so he could have been identified if he was searched for anywhere near the banks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet no one searches for him except near the prison and he escapes easily. How is that possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3707" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-07T11:09:01.293" LastActivityDate="2019-08-27T13:52:01.223" Title="How could Andy Dufresne do so much after his escape without being caught?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-shawshank-redemption|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12020" CreationDate="2013-06-18T09:52:35.940" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I imagined this very simply, if the atmosphere on Earth is much richer than that of Kryton (and grants him his powers) he's adapted to be used to it.  However, if you take him and put him back on Krypton then he wouldn't be used to having such little sustenance from the air.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider it like altitude sickness, many athletes train at high altitudes so they can exploit the extra oxygen when they race at sea level.  Superman is used to training at sea level so if you take him to the top of a mountain there's much less oxygen (or whatever he's drawing power from) than he's used to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually does adapt but it takes a little time and he's not got his powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T09:52:35.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12042" CreationDate="2013-06-18T10:17:33.977" Score="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're forgetting a few important points;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Andy Dufresne escaped Shawshank in 1966 - around this time many of the modern security measures in place in the banking industry did not exist&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Andy Dufresne had all of the valid identification and signatures, matching up with the account holders, as he had set up the accounts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Banks open at around 8am&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he also ask for cashier’s check not cash&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Let's not forget, Andy was an exceptionally intelligent banker, he knew exactly what he needed to say in order to withdraw the contents of each of these accounts with the least amount of friction&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Considering his intelligence, it makes sense he would have planned which order to visit each bank, to ensure that he went to the closest ones first and travelled out to the furthest one last&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you consider that lights on had been at 8am, there was a 30-60 minute period while the warden investigated how he had escaped, it would have taken the prison guards at least another hour or so to follow Andy's route out of prison, and in the scene where the guards and dogs are following the sewage route out of the prison, the sun is high in the sky&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Andy would have purchased the car with cash, and again many of the fraud methods used today did not exist back then&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, in regards to Andy acting out in the open - CCTV wasn't around back then, the only way the banks would have known is if the police had been in with a picture. Considering the timeframe highlighted above of &quot;several hours&quot; - Andy would have already been in the car by this point. By the time Andy has got in the convertible, he is going to be uncatchable short of some very bad luck. He heads out into a field in the middle of nowhere to hide his cache for Red to later find, and then heads off to Mexico, which is outside of the jurisdiction of the USA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user1887" LastEditDate="2019-02-19T02:39:52.293" LastActivityDate="2019-02-19T02:39:52.293" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12032" CreationDate="2013-06-18T12:05:49.493" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Superman is not a killer, however capable he is of the deed, it's never his intention. In general Zod's case, he knew no other way to stop him but to kill him once he had him in the position to break his neck. Superman's evolution on earth had rendered him more powerful than Zod, but not as skilled of a fighter. After seeing no end to the constant bludgeoning between them, it left him with no other choice...and this is why he cried out after doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastEditorUserId="3582" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T13:43:09.150" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T13:43:09.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12046" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-06-18T12:51:21.347" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T12:51:21.347" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T12:51:21.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12047" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-06-18T12:51:21.347" Score="0" Body="Sex and the City is an American television comedy-drama series which was also adopted in Two films." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T12:51:21.347" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T12:51:21.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12048" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-06-18T12:51:55.490" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T12:51:55.490" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T12:51:55.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12049" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-06-18T12:51:55.490" Score="0" Body="Sex and the City is a 2008 American comedy film based on the HBO comedy series of the same name." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T12:51:55.490" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T12:51:55.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12050" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-06-18T12:52:24.963" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_the_City_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T12:52:24.963" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T12:52:24.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12051" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-06-18T12:52:24.963" Score="0" Body="Sex and the City 2 is a 2010 American romantic comedy film directed by Michael Patrick King. It is the sequel to the 2008 film Sex and the City, which is based on the HBO TV series of the same name." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T12:52:24.963" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T12:52:24.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12052" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12063" CreationDate="2013-06-18T13:09:51.257" Score="45" ViewCount="131251" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 1 of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, Lord Baelish sets up Lord Stark when he helps set up the fake coup.  After watching season 1 and most of season 2, I still don't understand why Lord Baelish did this.  What was his reasoning for setting up Eddard Stark instead of helping him protect the throne?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="19762" LastEditDate="2016-01-19T15:23:05.600" LastActivityDate="2019-07-19T12:32:59.410" Title="Why did Lord Baelish betray Eddard Stark?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="387" CreationDate="2013-06-18T13:17:38.970" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the original timeline, Rachel is injured or killed at the party. The first Aaron to emerge from the original failsafe box (hooded Aaron who drugs his &quot;innocent&quot; pre-time-travel self) knows this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he is challenged by the later version of himself, he agrees to leave because the newer copy of himself has already done what he intended (record the conversations, then come back again to prevent the incident). So he knows that saving Rachel's life should eventually be successful &lt;em&gt;but not in this timeline&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before she is killed in this timeline, he explains to Granger that he can save her and how (probably proving to Granger that he has already live through these days using his knowledge of the March Madness sports events). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granger gives him money as a reward (or agrees to release it when Rachel is saved), and he shows Granger how to go back in the latest failsafe box, with another box inside to re-set as the failsafe box (so that neither Aaron nor Abe will know he came back), so that Granger can follow them around and make sure they do the right things to save Rachel (because Hooded Aaron already knows that even though he's met the later copy of himself, events may play out differently). Aaron is the most money-oriented character, and he knows that he is a quantum-copy and therefore will have to leave his life, so figures he may as well cash in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granger goes back to the start of the week and is following the around boys all week (although this isn't seen in the movie). He probably collapses because of the long journey through the box (we saw Abe's fatigue and Granger is older), plus the added stress of worrying about his daughter, plus being awake a lot so he doesn't miss anything (hinted at by the several days' beard growth). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, Hooded Aaron is starting to build in a much bigger space - this may be a larger box or a facility of multiple boxes. He has said &quot;you won't find me&quot;, so he may be setting up multiple failsafes to always allow him to come back to this point and prevent himself being discovered later. Plus he can make it more comfortable, in case he needs to be in there for a long time - e.g. watch the stock market over three months, then travel back and make a real killing (with more chance of avoiding the insider-trading investigation that the original timeline versions would have been hit with if they had placed individual trades on the top-performing stock 5 days in a row), then six months later travel back another three months, etc. [Remember that this version of Aaron hasn't seen the physiological effects the others are starting to suffer].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or it may be more sinister - know he knows timeline change is possible, he could be planning to use his multi-box facility to give himself the option of going back and tweaking history to his liking. This may involve more interference with his other selves -or at least, the other Abe (the copy from the airport who was going to sabotage the boxes, so the original them wouldn't know time-travel worked meaning the Abe-copy would be the only other person who knew how to build one - perhaps Aaron is making plans to tie up that loose end at a later stage.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe there's enough potential for an even more confusing sequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5167" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T13:17:38.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12052" CreationDate="2013-06-18T13:18:27.260" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Baelish betrays Stark because Eddard was going to go against his wishes to have Joffery be the successor.  While as insane a plan as it seemed, it was Littlefinger's best chance to retain what power he had as Head of Coin.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should Joffery be proven to be an illegitimate child and not heir to the throne, Littlefinger has a high chance that he'd lose his position and could not allow Eddard, the man of honour, take that away from him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This resulted in turning the City Guard against Ned, instead of in his favour. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T13:18:27.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11978" CreationDate="2013-06-18T13:54:05.037" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that they were still in search of the codex, and Zod knew that she was the only one close enough to Kal-El to possibly have this information. This is why they scanned her brain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T13:54:05.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11835" CreationDate="2013-06-18T14:08:07.297" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;khaleesi&lt;/strong&gt; is a wife of the &lt;strong&gt;khal&lt;/strong&gt;. This does not roughly translate to queen, since the &lt;em&gt;khal&lt;/em&gt; is a warlord or a commander. The title is an act of respect, as is &lt;em&gt;ser&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;lady&lt;/em&gt; in westeros. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T14:08:07.297" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11895" CreationDate="2013-06-18T14:12:26.313" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Bronn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bronn&lt;/a&gt;, a sellsword who took up as the Imp's champion for wealth. He met the Imp when Lady Catelyn was at The Inn at the Crossroads and called forth men to seize Tyrion. He fell in with the other Vale men for rewards, but grew close to the Imp during the journey to Eyrie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-02-21T22:03:50.893" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T22:03:50.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11897" CreationDate="2013-06-18T14:35:20.523" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The wolves that were found were 6 in number, 5 sucking milk and one albino pup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;s-table-container&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;table class=&quot;s-table&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Master&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Direwolf&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Sex&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Fur&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Eyes&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;th&gt;Notes&lt;/th&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/thead&gt;&#xA;&lt;tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Robb&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Greywind&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Male&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Smoke grey&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Yellow&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Fierce and manhunter&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Sansa&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Lady&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Female&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Smoke grey&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Yellow&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Smallest&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Arya&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Nymeria&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Female&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Brownish grey&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Yellow&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Leader of wolf-pack&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Bran&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Summer&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Male&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Silver grey&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Yellow&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Bonded with Bran&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Rickon&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Shaggydog&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Male&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Black or dark&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Green&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Fierce and uncontrolled&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Jon Snow&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Ghost&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Male&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;White albino&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Red&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;td&gt;Bonded with Jon&lt;/td&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tr&gt;&#xA;&lt;/tbody&gt;&#xA;&lt;/table&gt;&#xA;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each direwolf embodies one of the children of Ned Stark, with each having the personalities and traits of their assigned masters. &lt;em&gt;Jon Snow&lt;/em&gt; got the albino (snow like) pup as he was the bastard of Ned Stark, and not a true Stark himself. Thus, all true Starks of Winterfell come to have a direwolf of their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="102842" LastEditDate="2024-01-30T08:57:18.643" LastActivityDate="2024-01-30T08:57:18.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12052" CreationDate="2013-06-18T15:11:43.560" Score="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;Petyr Baelish wants one thing: power. He is the son of a very minor lord with very poor holdings. He grew up seeing the love of his life get married to someone else with a more powerful family name. He knows that he can never actually rule in name, but he wants to be at least the real power behind the throne. For that to happen he needs to setup a puppet king that he can control. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Lord Baelish's plan was to back Joffrey's claim to the throne and isolate him from his mother (and the Lannisters) with Lord Stark serving as Joffrey's regent since he is under-aged. In return for this he expected to become Lord Stark's right hand man, giving him a great amount of power especially given Stark's limited political skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Lord Stark had other ideas. He wanted to expose Joffrey's parentage and install Stannis Baratheon and the new king of Westeros. Lord Baelish knew Stannis very well from serving with him in the Small Council. Stannis is a humorless man who had no patience for his scheming and was someone he could not easily manipulate, thus costing him a great amount of power and influence. This was, to him, unacceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Lord Baelish sided with the Lannisters and helped them foil Stark's plan. Now he has the trust of the Lannisters with all the influence that gives him. The Lannisters are nothing if not generous to those loyal to them, and through further services to the Lannisters he is awarded with the lordship of Harrenhal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2017-04-18T00:24:49.367" LastActivityDate="2017-04-18T00:24:49.367" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11582" CreationDate="2013-06-18T17:47:38.840" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The depiction of the other murders has a direct storytelling part in the plot or in the personality of each character.  The character of the two stupid guys (Carl and Grimsrud) are well established by that point&amp;mdash;as is Jean (Jerry's wife)&amp;mdash;so depicting the exact situation and murder is pointless.  It would be gratuitous and redundant.  By leaving it unseen, the audience is more engaged to contemplate:  &lt;em&gt;Would she have screamed?  What would the numbskulls have done?  Is this a likely, but stupid thing they would do?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By not showing Jean's murder, the audience gets an emotional recess which can then be used to build the tension further and better for the subsequent grisly wood chipper scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The script does not contain her murder&amp;mdash;only the aftermath, though I don't know if that's because the posted script was retroactively matched to the print or if it was shot to match this script.  Search for &quot;Jean sits&quot; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Fargo.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the script&lt;/a&gt; to see for yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2019-07-11T17:35:01.690" LastActivityDate="2019-07-11T17:35:01.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12032" CreationDate="2013-06-18T18:12:34.603" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Zod does say at one point - &quot;I was born a warrior. I have had a life of training and adapting&quot; and he proceeds to hover. But the point is that, he was still learning to function in Earth's environment whereas Kal has 33 years to do the same thing. I think it is very safe to say Kal was more powerful than Zod.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may ask, how come the last fight took so long then? Again, this is the first time Kal is engaging in battle whereas Zod has probably been in numerous battles. So it was a good match but in the end, adaptability won. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4431" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T18:12:34.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12020" CreationDate="2013-06-18T18:14:39.703" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is Nolan's way of including Superman's weakness - Kryptonite. Instead of saying that one material from Krypton affects him, this is a better explanation or design. The planet itself is alien to Kal since he has been inhibiting Earth for 33 years. So when the environment changes he gets affected by it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Breathing was not the issue at all, pretty much everything is. The visual way of showing it was his loss in strength, coughing and stumbling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4431" LastEditorDisplayName="user4431" LastEditDate="2013-06-19T00:58:11.547" LastActivityDate="2013-06-19T00:58:11.547" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11978" CreationDate="2013-06-18T18:19:37.507" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two people know where Kal'El lived. Kal'El himself and of course, Lois. The ship in which he came to Earth was suspected to contain the codex and Zod needed to pinpoint the location. So when you need a piece of information, you collect all possible sources of it. Both of them gave away the location making it clear and credible to Zod where Clark lived. Zod is no fool, he is a war veteran. He is a general. Of course, it's not difficult for him to find Lois again but what's the point when she is available right in from of him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it was the only way for the story to progress and for Jor'El to instruct her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4431" LastEditorDisplayName="user4431" LastEditDate="2013-06-19T01:11:21.120" LastActivityDate="2013-06-19T01:11:21.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12071" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12073" CreationDate="2013-06-18T18:19:52.813" Score="11" ViewCount="30946" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking for the name of this movie that I believe is from the 1980s. There is an abandoned quarry that is filled with water. A couple of kids are playing around it and discover there is something in the water. One of them may have even drowned by the supposed creature? (Can't remember.) The big reveal is that it is an excavator under the water and the scoop rises up every now and then due to gases rising from the quarry floor and collecting in the scoop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5121" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-03-23T22:15:26.993" LastActivityDate="2017-03-23T16:44:34.783" Title="Flooded quarry monster revealed to be excavator" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:45:43.540" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12071" CreationDate="2013-06-18T18:29:38.030" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_Dreaming&quot;&gt;Frog dreaming?&lt;/a&gt; It's also called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091810/&quot;&gt;The Quest&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;14 year-old American kid Cody Walpole has been forced to go and live&#xA;  in the Australian Outback with his father’s best friend following the&#xA;  death of his parents. Cody is an enterprising inventor. He and two&#xA;  local sisters trek up to the lake near an old disused mine, which is&#xA;  said to contain the Donkejin or Bunyip, a creature from Aboriginal&#xA;  legend. When the girls drift out onto the lake on a raft, Cody jumps&#xA;  in to save them but they are attacked by a saurian monster that rises&#xA;  to the surface. Escaping and returning to town, Cody starts to&#xA;  research into ‘kadaicha’ or Aboriginal magic, and determines to return&#xA;  and confront the ‘Donkejin’. When he successfully makes a suit, he dives in &#xA;  to explore and find the creature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In reality the creature is an old piece of mining equipment called a&#xA;  Donkey Engine.  It’s basically an huge excavation crane that has had&#xA;  air trapped under it causing it to life to release some of the&#xA;  pressure from time to time.  Cody managed to find his way into the air&#xA;  pocket underwater, and as the “creature” lift’s its head out of the&#xA;  water he finally manages to escape to freedom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4431" LastEditorDisplayName="user4431" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T20:47:34.073" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T20:47:34.073" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12075" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12076" CreationDate="2013-06-18T18:39:56.610" Score="24" ViewCount="5369" Body="&lt;p&gt;In planning the heist, Rusty names a number of roles that are going to be needed to pull off the job. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Off the top of my head, I'd say you're looking at a &lt;strong&gt;Boesky&lt;/strong&gt;, a &lt;strong&gt;Jim Brown&lt;/strong&gt;, a &lt;strong&gt;Miss Daisy&lt;/strong&gt;, two &lt;strong&gt;Jethros&lt;/strong&gt;, and a &lt;strong&gt;Leon Spinks.&lt;/strong&gt; Not to mention the biggest &lt;strong&gt;Ella Fitzgerald&lt;/strong&gt; ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which characters in the film lined up with these named roles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-03-26T18:04:38.660" LastActivityDate="2016-03-26T18:04:38.660" Title="Which characters played the parts of the lineup discussed by Rusty and Daniel?" Tags="|oceans-eleven|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12075" CreationDate="2013-06-18T18:48:12.107" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://adels-littlethings.blogspot.in/2010/03/oceans-11-cons-decryption.html&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Boesky&lt;/strong&gt;: Saul playing Lymon Zherga, the whale who asks Benedict to&#xA;  put his jewels, which are actually TNT, in the vault. if you've seen&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Wall Street&lt;/em&gt; (with Michael Douglas), you'll know about Gordon Gekko, who was loosely based&#xA;  on Ivan Boesky, a wall street trader who was involved in securities&#xA;  fraud. That's where they got the idea of Lymon Zherga, an uber-rich&#xA;  bankroller with insider information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jim Brown&lt;/strong&gt;: the fight between Frank Catton, who's impersonating a&#xA;  blackjack dealer, and Linus Caldwell, who's impersonating a&#xA;  representative from the Nevada Gaming Commission, a fight meant to&#xA;  distract Benedict so Linus could pick Benedict's pocket, getting the&#xA;  security codes to the vault. after watching enough ESPN classic games&#xA;  with my dad, I learned all about Jim brown, who many people hail as&#xA;  the greatest football player of all time. the fight between two&#xA;  characters is called a Jim Brown because it's a physical&#xA;  confrontation, one of the cornerstones upon which the sport of&#xA;  football is built.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Miss Daisy&lt;/strong&gt;: references the SWAT truck the con men used as their&#xA;  getaway car. &lt;em&gt;Driving Miss Daisy&lt;/em&gt; (with Morgan Freeman) is a movie about a woman who has to&#xA;  get a chauffeur to drive her around. Under the guise of the SWAT&#xA;  truck, George, Brad, and the gang can escape without a hitch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Two Jethros&lt;/strong&gt;: refers to the Malloy Brothers, Turk and Virgil,&#xA;  the hillbilly, gear-headed types who are hired to&#xA;  look after Miss Daisy. In the movie, they provide general two man work&#xA;  like the distraction they pull with the balloons covering the security&#xA;  camera on the casino floor so Livingston can get into the video&#xA;  surveillance room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leon Spinks&lt;/strong&gt;: the distraction in the form of disrupting the boxing&#xA;  match. An episode of &lt;em&gt;NCIS&lt;/em&gt; had the director going&#xA;  home to Chicago to investigate the death of his boxer friend. In the&#xA;  episode, they mentioned this boxing match where Leon Spinks beat&#xA;  Muhammad Ali, and it was a total upset that no one expected. No one&#xA;  expected the power to go out in the middle of the match in the movie,&#xA;  either, and it created absolute chaos, which was great for our con&#xA;  artists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ella Fitzgerald&lt;/strong&gt;: the idea to loop a tape of a robbery over&#xA;  Benedict's security system, a robbery which had actually been staged&#xA;  the previous night as a distraction while the real robbery takes&#xA;  place. It comes from a 1970s commercial for Memorex where a recording of Ella Fitzgerald's&#xA;  voice breaks a glass, then the voice over says, &quot;Is it live or is it&#xA;  Memorex?&quot;. The concept is that Benedict doesn't know if the robbery&#xA;  he's seeing is the robbery that's actually happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more post regarding this on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.moviefone.com/2011/12/07/25-things-you-didnt-know-about-oceans-11/&quot;&gt;webz&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Danny and Rusty (Pitt) first discuss the personnel they'll need to pull off the elaborate robbery, Rusty says, &quot;Off the top of my&#xA;  head, I'd say you're looking at a Boesky, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy,&#xA;  two Jethros and a Leon Spinks, not to mention the biggest Ella&#xA;  Fitzgerald ever!&quot; The references don't become clear until much later,&#xA;  when each conspirator's role is revealed. &quot;Boesky,&quot; as in Wall Street&#xA;  fraudster Ivan Boesky, is an apparent reference to Reiner's con man&#xA;  Saul. &quot;Jim Brown&quot; (as in the 'Dirty Dozen' star) seems to refer to the&#xA;  confrontational distraction provided by blacklisted blackjack dealer&#xA;  Bernie Mac. &quot;Miss Daisy&quot; seems to be the getaway vehicle. The &quot;two&#xA;  Jethros&quot; are the hillbilly-like gearheads played by Caan and Affleck.&#xA;  &quot;Leon Spinks&quot; refers to the boxing match upset, caused in this case by&#xA;  a power blackout. And &quot;Ella Fitzgerald&quot;? It has to do with the&#xA;  videotaped robbery passed off as the real thing, a reference to&#xA;  Fitzgerald's famous audiotape commercials in the 1970s in which a mere&#xA;  recording of the jazz singer's high notes was enough to shatter a&#xA;  glass, prompting the slogan, &quot;Is it live, or is it Memorex?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this was confirmed by Steven Soderbergh&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;First of all, [screenwriter] Ted Griffin and I completely made the&#xA;  terms up. We felt we had to come up with some funny, Damon&#xA;  Runyon-esque turns of phrase that weren't arbitrary we did sit down&#xA;  and think them out. So, Carl Reiner is the Boesky, as in Ivan, the&#xA;  powerful, rich magnate, inside kind of guy. Jim Brown is the&#xA;  confrontation Bernie Mac has with Matt Damon the 'don't mess with me&#xA;  or you're in for it' moment. The two Jethros are Casey Affleck and&#xA;  Scott Caan, the idea being 'we're going to need gear heads, car&#xA;  fanatics...some people who are total hillbilly under-the-hood guys.' A&#xA;  Leon Spinks is the disruption of the boxing match: A sporting event&#xA;  with some controversy to it that's what Leon Spinks means to me. The&#xA;  Miss Daisy association is driving; that was the SWAT van, a ruse&#xA;  involving transportation. The Ella Fitzgerald is the tape of the fake&#xA;  vault, which they're going to play back and have [Andy Garcia's&#xA;  character] Benedict think it's live. 'Is it live, or is it Memorex?'&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4431" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T19:59:13.543" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T19:59:13.543" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12077" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16245" CreationDate="2013-06-18T19:05:16.240" Score="2" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of season 2 in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Wolf_%282011_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Teen Wolf (TV Series)&lt;/a&gt;, Stiles shared the story of his friends with Ms. Morrell, even the secrets he never told to anyone else. So why did he share it with a person like Morrell,  who is unknown and not trustful yet. Even though he doesn't previously know about Ms. Morrell's awareness to the supernatural things. So why did he reveal this to her? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-10T08:46:58.590" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T19:00:29.550" Title="Why did Stiles share his secret with Ms. Morrell in season 2?" Tags="|plot-explanation|teen-wolf-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12079" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-06-18T19:40:09.843" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T19:40:09.843" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T19:40:09.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12080" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-06-18T19:40:09.843" Score="0" Body="American television series of Mtv, which is loosely based on the 1985 film Teen Wolf." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-06-27T16:40:28.837" LastActivityDate="2013-06-27T16:40:28.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12042" CreationDate="2013-06-18T20:05:53.130" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe there was enough time for Andy to have completed his tasks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Andy misses roll call and the guard discovers his cell is empty. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At the same time the Warden discovers Andy left his old shoes in the shoe box.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The warden travels down and discovers Andy is the one missing. He orders everyone on the cell block questioned, starting with Red. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The warden orders Hadley to find him. Because Andy was in his cell the previous night they probably think he should be close by. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A few minutes later they discover the hole in the wall. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They had to take time to send someone in the hole to the sewer line, and then to either go through the sewer line (which Andy may still be in) or discover its outlet. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the interviewing of the other prisoners, going through the escape route and the initial search of the surrounding area, I think it would be hours before they verified he wasn't in the area and they had to broaden their search. By the early afternoon Andy was likely leaving the state. Manhunts are slow. You establish some perceived parameter and then get people in lines walking all through it with dogs hoping to stumble upon the perp. It takes forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally the warden didn't have any reason to think Andy would head to a bank, because he didn't discover Andy had stolen his ledgers until after Andy's story hit the papers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Andy on the other hand had the following tasks that day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometime through the middle of the night he had to get cleaned up and walk to town. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He had to go to a bank (presumably the closest one) to get cash.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then he would have likely bought the car, thus making it faster for him to hit all the other banks. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Red says he visited &lt;code&gt;nearly a dozen banks that morning.&lt;/code&gt; I guess either these banks were very close to each other and/or closing the accounts took less than 20 minutes on average per bank. That is pretty fast, but Andy was a banker, and probably knew just what to say to expedite the process. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Buxton, Maine is only 15 miles from Portland, Maine. It would have only taken Andy 30 minutes to drive there and maybe 30-60 minutes to plant the box for Red. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From there Andy had to drive to Texas, which Google Maps estimates taking 36 hours on modern roads. In the 1960s it would have taken longer. Maybe 3-4 days. Because the police had no reason to suspect Andy had such vast resources, their initial search wouldn't have warranted a nationwide APB (if such a thing existed back then). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the time they figured out what had happened Andy was probably several states away, and was able to cross the border a couple of days later. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="211" LastEditDate="2013-06-18T20:13:22.987" LastActivityDate="2013-06-18T20:13:22.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12083" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12110" CreationDate="2013-06-18T23:33:36.730" Score="3" ViewCount="922" Body="&lt;p&gt;I need to settle an argument! I want to know if there is a TV series which 1) was completely written before filming started, and 2) was &quot;short&quot; - 1-2 seasons or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I am interested in things which were written solely for television; so adaptations of Shakespeare or Dickens would not apply. The argument is actually about the attitude of network executives, who might not be interested in running something which wouldn't have the potential to last forever - regardless of the quality of the show under consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a TV series which was totally written after the pilot or something might be ok too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone have an example?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5178" LastEditorUserId="5178" LastEditDate="2013-06-20T14:12:51.430" LastActivityDate="2013-10-26T02:08:34.167" Title="A TV series which was totally written before filming began" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12084" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-18T23:56:07.210" Score="14" ViewCount="7305" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/em&gt;, it was made clear that Zod was born to be a great warrior, while Jor-El was the planet's foremost scientist.  How then did Jor-El completely demolish Zod in hand-to-hand combat in the opening sequence during the birth of Kal-El?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5179" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-18T10:10:55.713" LastActivityDate="2019-09-05T08:21:28.513" Title="How did Jor-El stand a chance against Zod?" Tags="|plot-explanation|man-of-steel|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12084" CreationDate="2013-06-19T00:54:33.560" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just because Jor-El was a nerd doesn't mean he is a weakling. Jor-El is a skilled fighter and pilot in the comics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter what skills they possess, because in that scene you can see that Zod was surprised to see Jor-El do something so drastic. Zod was naive, in my opinion, even until the climax. He actually thought Kal-El would somehow give up on the earthlings. He says during the climax fights that his entire race is all gone, quite emotionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point is, when he sees that Jor-El is ready to go the distance, he is surprised and that's when Jor-El gets him - while Zod is off-balance. He wouldn't be able to do that in an open situation, granted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what about the other scene when Jor-El escaped while being captive. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;v=K-qckSA_Bg0#!&quot;&gt;He takes three guys using only a flash as the distraction&lt;/a&gt;. Jor-El is pretty bad-ass and this scene was kept for a reason - to clear your specific doubt. Jor-El was very skilled at fighting but not as good as Zod. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't agree with you, he did not completely demolish Zod. Zod was just down for a minute and the launch was done. It was unfair really. Two against one. One working the launch and one fighting Zod.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4431" LastEditorDisplayName="user4431" LastEditDate="2013-06-19T01:09:33.143" LastActivityDate="2013-06-19T01:09:33.143" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12088" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12095" CreationDate="2013-06-19T05:28:27.243" Score="25" ViewCount="22894" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane!&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, the movie &lt;em&gt;Airplane!&lt;/em&gt; is called &lt;em&gt;Flying High!&lt;/em&gt; in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, and the Philippines. At the same time, Netflix in Australia calls this movie &lt;em&gt;Airplane!&lt;/em&gt; and not &lt;em&gt;Flying High!&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have looked online for some reasonable explanations as to why this is so, but nothing seems like a reasonable explanation.  One explanation is that the word &quot;airplane&quot; is actually &quot;aeroplane&quot; in some of those countries.  However, this doesn't explain why it isn't called &lt;em&gt;Flying High!&lt;/em&gt; in Britain.  Another explanation is that before the movie was officially released, it was tested for audiences under the name &lt;em&gt;Flying High!&lt;/em&gt; in those countries.  Apparently, it stuck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know if either of those explanations is correct?  Or is there another reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5182" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2020-05-22T13:11:46.430" LastActivityDate="2020-05-22T13:11:46.430" Title="Why is &quot;Airplane!&quot; called &quot;Flying High!&quot; in some countries?" Tags="|title|airplane|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12090" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12092" CreationDate="2013-06-19T07:38:40.317" Score="10" ViewCount="3781" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 1, Peter Campbell tries to blackmail Draper into giving him the job of head of accounts by using his secret past against him. Draper refuses to budge, and Peter's plan backfires when their boss Cooper doesn't seem to care about Draper's past. When Peter leaves, Cooper gives Draper his blessing to fire Peter (in contrast with him protecting Peter the last time Draper wanted to fire Peter). Yet Draper doesn't. I've never understood his reasoning for it. Why didn't Draper fire this person who is so openly antagonistic to him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I've only seen season 1 and part of 2 so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-06-19T14:05:05.803" Title="Why didn't Draper fire Peter?" Tags="|mad-men|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2572" CreationDate="2013-06-19T11:35:23.387" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do agree that disguise is one reason. But this is Nolan, there's always more. In Batman Begins, Bruce tells Alfred:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bruce Wayne&lt;/strong&gt;: People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy&#xA;and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne, as a man I'm flesh and blood I can&#xA;be ignored I can be destroyed but as a symbol, as a symbol I can be&#xA;incorruptible, I can be everlasting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alfred Pennyworth&lt;/strong&gt;: What symbol?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bruce Wayne&lt;/strong&gt;: Something elemental, something terrifying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, the consequent scenes do not talk much about the symbol part and everybody pretty much forgets Bruce's original idea of Batman. We start thinking of Batman as Bruce with a costume on and fighting the bad guys. Which is true but to Bruce it's something more, like he says to Alfred. It's a symbol to terrify people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were a villain it wouldn't be easy for you to think that Batman is just a guy with a mask on. That makes it more terrifying. The idea of someone powerful than the ordinary human. And Bruce takes every possibility to make the idea a very real and unshakable threat to the bad guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voice, the bat ears, the dramatic entrances and exits - all these are trivial to the plot. Either way it's not going to change the output of a scene if Batman enters sneakily with a very chilly line or just through the door. But Bruce takes the extra step to go through all the mumbo-jumbo just to keep the idea real. The idea of a legend. The idea of a permanent warrior who is going to fight the bad guys every turn and forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It all makes sense. Come to think of it. Joker says something similar to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;You'll be outcast too. They'll see you as a freak when they are done.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joker is a schizophrenic villain who wears face paint all day long and he empathizes with Bruce. He actually identifies himself with Batman. You can understand the similarities - Bruce goes to great extents to protect the man behind the mask. Same thing goes for Joker - he wears face paint 24x7. Without it, he wouldn't be as scary. And scary is important to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Bruce takes the &lt;em&gt;idea&lt;/em&gt; of Batman more seriously than the audience are led to believe. The outcome of it is one thing - crimefighting. He does take that seriously. But he also takes the very idea of Batman personally and he is proud of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4431" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user4431" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-06-19T12:17:28.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12090" CreationDate="2013-06-19T14:05:05.803" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pete makes good on the threat of exposing Don's true identity to Bert Cooper but Bert says &lt;em&gt;Who cares?&lt;/em&gt;, neutralizing the threat.  This is presumably because Don is such an effective idea man that Bert doesn't care what Don's name really is.  In addition, Bert gives Don the option of keeping him or firing him&amp;mdash;whichever he thinks best.  As a WW I soldier, he knows that decision gives Don his best advantage.  But Bert later uses this knowledge to pressure Don into signing a contract Don is not inclined to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand, Don can fire and replace him, but Don would be starting off effectively fresh with someone new and not know the balance of skills and ambition.  On the other hand, Don has the advantage over Pete and Pete has played his most effective strategy and lost.  As a result, they both then know that Don is the alpha male&amp;mdash;Pete won't cross Don again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-06-19T14:05:05.803" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12088" CreationDate="2013-06-19T17:12:39.773" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect the primary reason that &lt;em&gt;Airplane!&lt;/em&gt; (1980) has so many aliases is because other countries did not have a series of popular disaster movies like &lt;em&gt;Airport&lt;/em&gt; (1970), &lt;em&gt;The Poseidon Adventure&lt;/em&gt; (1972), &lt;em&gt;Earthquake&lt;/em&gt; (1974), &lt;em&gt;Towering Inferno&lt;/em&gt; (1974), &lt;em&gt;Heat Wave!&lt;/em&gt; (1974), &lt;em&gt;Airport 75&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Jaws&lt;/em&gt; (1975), &lt;em&gt;The Deep&lt;/em&gt; (1977), &lt;em&gt;The Concorde... Airport 79&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Plague&lt;/em&gt; (1979), etc. to provide the same context to the title we have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the non-domestic audiences knew the Hollywood movies by the U.S. title, those audiences did not experience the onslaught of &quot;me too&quot; television disaster movies inspired by the 1970s movies.  See IMDB's list of 1970s disaster movies &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/keyword/disaster/?sort=release_date&amp;amp;start=129&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  Notice the great number of U.S. television movies made in response to the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is rare to talk to a Brit who doesn't &quot;correct&quot; me when I say &lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/british/airplane?q=airplane&quot;&gt;&quot;airplane&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.  No doubt that nuisance distraction is at least of part why some English speaking countries avoid the word completely.  &lt;em&gt;Flying High!&lt;/em&gt; is a much more apt title if one doesn't know the context of U.S. disaster movie titles, and is a nice double entendre with being high off the ground &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; stoned&amp;mdash;or just being disastrously crazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-06-19T17:49:18.600" LastActivityDate="2013-06-19T17:49:18.600" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11365" CreationDate="2013-06-19T19:55:04.457" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;1958 was heavily affected by the first artificial satellite launch of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sputnik&lt;/a&gt;, which was launched October 1957:  the satellite was visible around the world due to its low orbit and its radio emissions were easily detectable by any electronics hobbyist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cold war was already in force, but Sputnik caused a huge psychological shift called by some the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_crisis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sputnik Crisis&lt;/a&gt;:  fear of the Soviet Union now being superior rekindled much the same kind of fear and insecurity as Orson Welle's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_%28radio_drama%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1938 radio broadcast&lt;/a&gt; did.  Grade school curricula were significantly altered to emphasize science and math.  The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Space Race&lt;/a&gt; was immediately kicked off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not aware of any significant African-American associations with 1958 as it precedes the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Martin Luther King protests&lt;/a&gt; of 1962 and 1963, which largely heralded the civil rights movement.  Perhaps repression of the black scientist is symbolism for lost and wasted opportunities for improvement:  the scientist loses out on contributing and recognition, and the world loses out for not sharing his gifts, racial prejudice being a deeply lose-lose situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-06-19T19:55:04.457" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11365" CreationDate="2013-06-19T20:48:22.390" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The civil rights context in 1958 was marked by sharp division and the beginnings of a greater activism.  I summarize some of the important events in the preceding few years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The modern era of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States began with the Supreme Court's 1954 decision in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Brown v. Board of Education&lt;/a&gt;, requiring desegregation in public schools.  Most of the events in the following years resulted from attempts to achieve desegregation in other realms or to resist it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1955, fourteen-year-old &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Emmett Till&lt;/a&gt; was lynched in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman.  News coverage sparked national outrage, but two men accused of the crime were acquitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Bus_Boycott&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Montgomery Bus boycott&lt;/a&gt; of 1955–1956 began when Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat to a white passenger.  The boycott lasted just over a year until a court ordered the desegregation of the buses in Montgomery.  The boycott was organized by the Montgomery Improvement Association, under the leader ship of Martin Luther King, Jr.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1957, a crisis occurred when the governor of Arkansas called out the National Guard to prevent the admission of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;nine black students&lt;/a&gt; to Little Rock Central High School.  It was resolved when President Eisenhower took control of the National Guard in Arkansas and ordered them to return to barracks and used troops from the 101st Airborne Division to protect the students.  In 1958, at the end of the school year, Little Rock and other school systems in the south closed their schools completely rather than continue with integration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit-in#Civil_Rights_Movement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sit-ins&lt;/a&gt;&quot; had occurred as early as 1939, but in 1958, their use expanded greatly.  During the year, sit-ins at lunch counters in Kansas and Oklahoma led two the successful integration of two chains of drug stores.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the presence of a sympathetic African-American scientist in the film, it has received little critical appreciation for how it addresses racial issues. Even a &lt;a href=&quot;http://sites.williams.edu/cthorne/tag/super-8/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;comparatively favorable examination&lt;/a&gt; finds that it essentially calls for a &quot;separate but equal&quot; solution to race issues; others accuse it of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bvblackspin.com/2011/06/09/abrams-super-8-and-black-science-fiction/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;avoiding the issue&lt;/a&gt; or of simply &lt;a href=&quot;http://sbpdl.net/2011/06/13/super-8-is-racist-the-three-black-characters-die/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;being racist&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-06-19T20:48:22.390" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2804" CreationDate="2013-06-19T22:53:12.663" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;After pondering this question obsessively, I agree with the conclusion that the other respondents find obvious: &lt;strong&gt;Jeffrey was not involved in the virus plot&lt;/strong&gt;. However, my conclusion is based on two pieces of evidence not yet mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First is a seemingly throw-away line uttered by one of Jeffrey's henchmen in the pivotal scene where Leland Goines has been kidnapped. The henchman jokingly says &amp;quot;if you guys get caught... I've never seen you before in my life.&amp;quot; This line feels unnecessary at first, and probably wouldn't fit at all if the henchman was involved in a plot as serious as killing humanity with a virus. But the line would make sense as a way to show the audience that Jeffrey's plot is the much-more-mundane releasing of zoo animals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second piece of evidence comes from the following excerpt from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/twelve_monkeys.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the production draft of the script&lt;/a&gt;, which made it obvious that Jeffrey did not know of the virus. Of course, in the actual movie, this dialogue is significantly different. But after much deliberation, I'd guess the revision was not intended to change Jeffrey's role, but just to make the reveal less blatantly obvious than originally written here (and that his revised comment &amp;quot;Too late!&amp;quot; was just his insane mind not understanding what his father was talking about):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Kidnapping Leland Goines&amp;quot; scene as written in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/twelve_monkeys.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;production draft of script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;LELAND:&lt;/em&gt; I took myself out of the loop! I don't have the code anymore. I don't have access to the virus. So, go ahead -- torture me, but you can't extract anything of use to yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The ACTIVISTS are all exchanging puzzled looks.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;JEFFREY:&lt;/em&gt; What...virus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;LELAND:&lt;/em&gt; She knew about it, Jeffrey.  She knew you were going to try this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;JEFFREY:&lt;/em&gt; What virus are we talking about, Dad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;LELAND:&lt;/em&gt; You're insane, Jeffrey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;JEFFREY:&lt;/em&gt; You &amp;quot;develop&amp;quot; viruses and you're calling me insane?  Typical.  What does this virus attack?  Don't tell me, you sick fuck, it doesn't matter. (to the others) Have I ever &amp;quot;developed&amp;quot; a virus?  Do I put helpless animals in cages and measure their reactions to electrical stimuli? Do I inject radioactive substances into living creatures and examine their bowel movements?  Wow!  And I'm crazy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;LELAND:&lt;/em&gt; Please tell me, Jeffrey, what exactly are you going to do?  I don't have to tell you I'm afraid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;JEFFREY:&lt;/em&gt; THIS IS A FUCKING EXPERIMENT!  YOU'RE OUR HELPLESS LITTLE TEST ANIMAL, DADDY. GOT THAT?  NOW -- WHAT FUCKING VIRUS HAVE YOU COME UP WITH, YOU DEMENTED FUCKING MANIAC?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[end of scene]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T16:30:41.733" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12100" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12102" CreationDate="2013-06-19T23:18:32.173" Score="7" ViewCount="4506" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last scene of the  movie &quot;A Clockwork Orange&quot; By Stanley Kubrick,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fred&lt;/em&gt;: Do you understand, Alex? Have I made myself clear? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alex&lt;/em&gt;: As an unmuddied lake, Fred. As clear as an azure sky of deepest&#xA;  summer. You can rely on me, Fred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just want to know why the word deepest is used to denote summer? generally summer is hot, may be the question is on use of word in proper sense related. I shall be happy if someone just make me understand that why  the word deepest is used  to signify summer. I am not good in English! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5002" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-19T23:27:20.143" LastActivityDate="2013-07-17T00:42:25.100" Title="In the last scene of the movie &quot;A Clockwork Orange&quot; By Stanley Kubrick" Tags="|analysis|a-clockwork-orange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12100" CreationDate="2013-06-20T00:00:53.250" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this context, the phrase &quot;of deepest summer&quot; means something like &quot;in the middle of summer&quot;... in other words, a time when the weather is as summery as possible, and as far as possible from the other seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2013-07-17T00:42:25.100" LastActivityDate="2013-07-17T00:42:25.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12083" CreationDate="2013-06-20T11:24:08.630" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The BBC recorded and broadcast a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/bbc-television-shakespeare/episodes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;series of 37 Shakespeare plays&lt;/a&gt;. So that's a series which was completely written (hundreds of years) before filming began.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if you'd consider 37 episodes to be &lt;em&gt;short&lt;/em&gt;. I'd say it's long compared to most UK TV series, but perhaps fairly short compared to most US TV series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have also been various adaptations of books that would probably qualify (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre_%281983_TV_serial%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jane Eyre&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112130/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pride And Prejudice&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123351/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tom Jones&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastActivityDate="2013-06-20T11:24:08.630" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8311" CreationDate="2013-06-20T12:17:48.807" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reasons for this are quite simple:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Silva's vendetta is personally against M, who he felt betrayed her. &#xA;Bond is M's loyal protector (the British bulldog shown by the&#xA;figure), who by this point has enough personally against Silva to be&#xA;part of the party.  M doesn't want anyone else involved as enough&#xA;people have died (remember the flag strewn coffins) due to HER&#xA;actions&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Q isn't aware of where Bond/M are going, he is only asked to buy&#xA;them time by laying a false trail (which is designed to be too&#xA;complicated for anyone else to work out to again protect the&#xA;innocent).  The implication is that given how far ahead Silva has&#xA;been so far he WILL work out what where they have gone, this is&#xA;purely a stalling exercise (so they don't get set upon in the mid&#xA;journey, possibly in a built up area)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bond didn't have any confidence in his colleagues (remember he'd&#xA;just been &quot;dead&quot; for a while after being shot by one on his last&#xA;operation)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The choice of Skyfall was to simple, Bond had spent his childhood&#xA;there, and knew the place (and all its secrets) intimately.  It is&#xA;the one place he could be sure to have an advantage over Silva&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bond was also experienced enough to know that for all his henchmen,&#xA;this would become one-on-one between Silva and him, might as well&#xA;have the home advantage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastActivityDate="2013-06-20T12:17:48.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12107" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19982" CreationDate="2013-06-20T13:41:23.393" Score="7" ViewCount="925" Body="&lt;p&gt;I loved The Reader, but there are some things I didn't understand about Hanna's character:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is she so snappish and rude to Michael at times? For instance on his birthday, as well as the fight after the time he comes to see her in the bus. She seems a little cold when Michael asks &quot;Do you love me?&quot;, when she is in the bathtub and says yes somewhat reluctantly (I felt). Are all these things just general traits or is there some explanation? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest question of all: why does she not tell Michael when she gets a new job and leaves?! She seemed to be in love with him before she left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4982" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-27T03:36:15.183" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T23:08:43.477" Title="Why is Hanna so snappish and rude to Michael at times?" Tags="|analysis|character|the-reader|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12083" CreationDate="2013-06-20T18:27:54.747" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Arnold Kane's autobiography, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=DRXgHQBqdNUC&amp;amp;pg=PA66&amp;amp;lpg=PA66&quot;&gt;My Meteoric Rise to Obscurity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, he fondly remembers his involvement with the production of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0263694/&quot;&gt;Make Your own Kind of Music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, a one-hour music/variety program that aired in 1971.  He says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We wrote all the scripts before production started&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was only an eight-episode summer-replacement series, but it seems to meet the requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-06-20T18:27:54.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2072" CreationDate="2013-06-20T22:27:50.983" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I remember, I think that their reasoning came from the fact that those two universes were the closest. Those were the two overlapping. To get to a farther universe would be theoretically and fictionally, impossible&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5199" LastEditorUserId="7390" LastEditDate="2014-03-04T17:42:47.583" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T17:42:47.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2072" CreationDate="2013-06-21T04:26:46.540" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, my opinion is a bit anthropic; it's how it is because this is how it happened. Walter opened a door between two universes. Most doors only go to two places. Thus, these two universes are linked because of the door. One could try to make another door go to another universe, but they never try that; they are pretty much focused on the universe that Peter came from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5178" LastActivityDate="2013-06-21T04:26:46.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12116" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-21T13:56:10.697" Score="9" ViewCount="1176" Body="&lt;p&gt;That tiny little arc-reactor, that damage to his body, that was as much a part of him being Iron Man as his motivations to escape his prison. Yet, it was simply just thrown-in like some sort of additional info, which seemed to bother me. I would have liked to see more development that just &quot;op, i'm gonna get fixed too!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this an honest &quot;why would you do this?&quot; question or do I simply care more than most?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&#xA;This is a question of why if was barely covered in the film, not why it happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5203" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T08:16:38.670" LastActivityDate="2017-06-08T06:07:58.253" Title="Why was the removal of the shrapnel just &quot;thrown-in&quot; at the end?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-3|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12116" CreationDate="2013-06-21T14:27:01.010" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea is that Iron Man 3 closes a major chapter, or set of chapters, of Tony Starks life.  This chapter started when he was first taken hostage and the shrapnel was embedded in his body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the themes of this movie is dependence.  Tony has been dependent on the suit, on the reactor in his chest, for a long time.  After all of the events in IM1, 2, Avengers, and IM3, Tony has finally learned that he's no longer dependent on the suits.  To show this to Pepper he destroyed all of the suits he created.  He also finally had the peace of mind to remove the shrapnel, the one thing that made him dependent on the core in his chest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-06-21T14:27:01.010" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12119" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12120" CreationDate="2013-06-21T14:46:50.487" Score="15" ViewCount="10342" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Despicable Me&lt;/em&gt;, Gru has an army of minions who do everything from looking after the girls to assist him in his attempts to become a super villain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what are they? Are they aliens? Are they modeled on some sort of creatures?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-06-24T06:42:41.743" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T10:01:31.700" Title="What species are the Minions?" Tags="|despicable-me|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12119" CreationDate="2013-06-21T16:19:40.730" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may be explored in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minions_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Minions (film)&lt;/a&gt;  which would act as a prequel or spin off to the &lt;em&gt;Despicable Me franchise&lt;/em&gt; coming in 2014. The movie description in Wikipedia it states - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Minions are yellow henchmen who have existed since the beginning of&#xA;  time, serving history's most ambitious villains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for now they are just servants/followers etc etc. If they are alien, humanoid, or some different species any guess is still just speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; As per then &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minions_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Minions (film)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Minions are small, yellow creatures who have existed since the&#xA;  beginning of time, evolving from single-celled organisms into beings&#xA;  who exist only to serve history's most despicable masters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-02-04T10:01:31.700" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T10:01:31.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12004" CreationDate="2013-06-22T00:57:55.690" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jor-El is talking to Kal-El in the ships control deck. Remember, the scene where he's explaining Kryptonian history in 2 minutes or less? He explains to Kal-El that several ships, &quot;like this one&quot; were sent out to explore the stars. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kryptonian civilization has been around and intact for 1000s of years. The ship was a colonization ship from a time when they aspired to live among the stars beyond the bounds of Krypton. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope that answered your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5211" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-06-22T04:33:26.950" LastActivityDate="2013-06-22T04:33:26.950" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12126" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-22T07:34:58.713" Score="7" ViewCount="31376" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After the credits, the scene shifts to a radically different view: a stylized black-and-white version of Grant and Sydney in what looks like a far-eastern atmosphere. As Grant describes his plan to &quot;get out of here&quot;, the picture gradually shifts into color. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;- Wikipedia's description of the post-credits scene in its &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontypool_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pontypool&lt;/a&gt;&quot; article&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KvDQf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot of the post-credits scene&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Youtube video of the after-credits scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/JfNYh4OfE_I?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the post-credits scene's significance? What is the scene's connection to the plot of the movie?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2013-06-22T07:50:36.933" LastActivityDate="2024-01-29T00:30:01.633" Title="What is the significance of the post-credits scene in Pontypool?" Tags="|ending|plot-explanation|pontypool|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10202" CreationDate="2013-06-22T14:04:34.960" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Tarzan (1999), where the mother gorilla finds baby Tarzan, there are bloody jaguar footprints on the floor in the Treehouse!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5216" LastEditorUserId="4211" LastEditDate="2014-08-19T02:59:04.187" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T02:59:04.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12004" CreationDate="2013-06-22T16:57:19.093" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, Krypton, the invasion on earth, and the archive history all show a similar design in terms of costume. Many of them have cloaks, as well as symbols and runes prominently displayed. Being a colonial ship, the Kryptonian craft was shown to be highly developed in terms of provisions and functioning. Further, Jor-El's consciousness was the one controlling the ship. Thus, it can be fairly assumed that the suit was 'constructed' by the ship as per Jor-El's programming, which he then presented to Kal-El. It was Jor-El's key that contained all the coding and consciousness that gave the design to the suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might just be an assumption, but since the Kryptonian technology gave out the idea of simple mechanisms and entities giving rise to complex implementations (the 3D faces or projections etc.) the ship created a suit as per the programmed instructions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also can provide the simple answer to why the suit perfectly fit Kal-El.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-17T07:09:44.003" LastActivityDate="2013-10-17T07:09:44.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12084" CreationDate="2013-06-22T17:08:07.313" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreed, Zod was born and raised to be a warrior. While Jor-El was an intellectual. No matter what one is born to be, a drastic situation creates a warrior out of every being. Jor-El required drastic measures to evade capture and fight the general. While Zod was reluctant and more focused on the retrieval of the codex. He had respect for Jor-El and did not want to defeat or kill him. His purpose was to try and persuade Jor-El to agree with his vision. At the end, when the codex was sent to Earth, Zod finally killed Jor-El. Just because Zod was beaten a few times, it does not make him weak. Zod could easily have sent a few soldiers to retrieve, or taken some support with him. But he went in alone knowing the risk and the requirement of the situation for some tact. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-06-22T17:08:07.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12032" CreationDate="2013-06-22T17:14:30.857" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kryptonians on earth are immensely powerful, not invincible, not immortal. Kal-El was able to snap Zod's neck because he alone had the power to do so. As to why Zod could not do it- It requires great skill and power to twist someone's neck. This cannot be done easily and requires some sort of a lock on the opponent. Kal-El never had any fight experience, while Zod was a veteran. Though their powers were on a similar level, Kal-El would always be more powerful due to the long exposure of sun on his body. Zod was barely granted powers and he could take on Superman. While Kal-El always refrained from his powers at a mental level. The scene where Zod tries to kill those people with his eye-lasers, sent Kal-El into a mental desperation to stop him. Not wanting to be a repeat of the situation where Uncle Kent died, Kal-El used all he had to try and stop Zod.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-06-22T17:14:30.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12020" CreationDate="2013-06-22T17:21:02.543" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per Jor-El's comparison of Kryptonian and Earth conditions, Earth was more welcoming to life and was said to nourish and ecourage it. While Krypton was &quot;hard&quot; on life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Breathing is a part of the process where the body gets power to sustain itself. In case of Kal-El, he also has the sun. So he &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; survive for some time outside of an atmosphere where the sun is present. Whereas on the craft, the kryptonian atmosphere acted like a poison to his body, because of it's harsh nature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Kal-El was barely able to accept and comprehend the immense power he posses due to being on Earth. So also at a mental level, this is something totally new to his body. On earth, he lived as a superbeing, not being affected by sickness, tiredness and other ailments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-06-22T17:21:02.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12135" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42791" CreationDate="2013-06-22T19:02:29.817" Score="7" ViewCount="13750" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is Monsters University modeled after a specific university, and if so, what university? After watching the movie, the campus seems familiar to me, but I can't pick out exactly what it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4211" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-04-21T07:30:16.017" LastActivityDate="2020-05-16T04:09:26.647" Title="What university is Monsters University modeled after?" Tags="|monsters-university|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12135" CreationDate="2013-06-22T21:10:04.503" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20130615024238/http://calibermag.org/articles/monsters-university-vs-uc-berkeley/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;, Monsters University is at least partly modeled on UC Berkeley.  The article has several illustrations showing how familiar Berkeley landmarks such as Sather Gate and the Campanile are copied in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastEditorUserId="4761" LastEditDate="2020-05-16T04:09:26.647" LastActivityDate="2020-05-16T04:09:26.647" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12137" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12350" CreationDate="2013-06-22T23:22:19.797" Score="7" ViewCount="22421" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nearing the end of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134119/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Talented Mr. Ripley&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Tom Ripley is told by MacCarron that he has digged into Tom's past and found out that he never was in Princeton with Dickie, thus exposing him as an impostor exploiting Mr. Greenleaf's money. Yet he also tells him that Mr. Greenleaf is taking Dickie's supposed suicide letter seriously and going to pay Tom further money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't completely know what to make out of this conversation, though. Did MacCarron not tell his client Mr. Greenleaf about Tom's lies? If not, then why not? And if he told it, why is Mr. Greenleaf willing to continue Tom's payment and didn't even consider the possibility of Tom being Dickie's murderer, given that Marge is so convinced of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-03-31T18:21:28.377" LastActivityDate="2018-03-31T18:21:28.377" Title="Does Mr. Greenleaf know about Tom's true personality and why does he pay him the money?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-talented-mr-ripley|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12032" CreationDate="2013-06-22T23:34:04.040" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think them being indoors could be significant, in direct sunlight they seem evenly matched but out of the sun Superman would retain his powers whereas Zod would diminish slightly and become vulnerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what I'm hoping, otherwise he should've snapped all their necks before they made a real mess of Earth!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5220" LastActivityDate="2013-06-22T23:34:04.040" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10421" CreationDate="2013-06-23T02:44:35.013" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene in which Marla is asking whom Jack is speaking to while Tyler is in the basement is interesting. Why would she ask if she was also another split personality? Tyler manages to avoid being in the same room with her throughout the movie. Why? Also, why else would Tyler demand Jack to never talk about Tyler or what goes on in the house to Marla. One would assume, that Tyler viewed her as a threat, therefore as a real person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Marla had paramedics outside her door. A split personality that manages to actually get a suicide response team outside their door, then jet off with another spilt personality, has to be a record as spilt personalities go. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are just a few things I noticed while watching it last. Open to critique. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5221" LastActivityDate="2013-06-23T02:44:35.013" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12142" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12146" CreationDate="2013-06-23T12:47:10.433" Score="12" ViewCount="2354" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I was watching the old Columbo series, and saw a pattern again and again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many times, there were no clues against a certain suspect, but still Columbo zoomed in on him/her, and kept asking questions till he found the proof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, in several episodes, you do see clues which hint at the killer, but in others, Columbo identifies the killer in minutes, and only focuses on them from then on, like he is a psychic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is Columbo really psychic, or is it just an example lazy plotting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5133" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-06-23T14:58:03.987" LastActivityDate="2019-12-29T05:51:11.663" Title="Is Lt. Columbo psychic?" Tags="|analysis|columbo|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12143" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12145" CreationDate="2013-06-23T12:54:45.400" Score="34" ViewCount="18458" Body="&lt;p&gt;In several episodes of Columbo, he talks about his wife, but we never see her. In one episode based in Mexico, she is even invited to lunch, but leaves at the last moment. This seems to happen a lot - Columbo keeps talking about her, but we never see her, and she is always busy, or she just left, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Mrs Columbo a real person, or just imaginary? Maybe Columbo created her because he is lonely from working too hard?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone (even another character in the show) actually seen her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5133" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-06-23T15:08:10.723" LastActivityDate="2018-10-16T15:04:56.317" Title="Does Lt. Columbo have an imaginary wife?" Tags="|analysis|columbo|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12142" CreationDate="2013-06-23T14:26:55.160" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Columbo is by no means psychic. Did you watch the end of the episode? At the end of each episode Columbo always explains to the killer when he goes to arrest them what they did to tip him off, and why he kept pestering them. Something else you'll notice about all of the killers as you watch the episodes is that the killer always starts out trying to make excuses to get away from Columbo. You could probably say this is his first clue in all of the cases. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another explanation might be that Columbo does in fact pester all of the other people involved, but the series just doesn't show him pestering those people too. I mean the episodes are already an hour long as it is. Can you imagine how long each episode would be if it showed Columbo pestering everyone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-06-23T14:32:20.997" LastActivityDate="2013-06-23T14:32:20.997" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12143" CreationDate="2013-06-23T14:43:46.903" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.columbo-site.freeuk.com/mrsc.htm&quot;&gt;whole page&lt;/a&gt; devoted to answering this question on one of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.columbo-site.freeuk.com/&quot;&gt;fan sites&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It lists at least three characters who say they have seen/interacted with Mrs. Columbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Troubled Waters&lt;/em&gt;, the ship's captain assures Columbo that he saw Mrs. Columbo get on board.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous To Your Health&lt;/em&gt;, the dog groomer got instructions directly from Mrs. Columbo.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In &lt;em&gt;No Time To Die&lt;/em&gt;, Columbo is at the wedding of a close family member, and is asked about his wife.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these are really concrete evidence she exists, but I think together they should be sufficient enough to say Mrs. Columbo is in fact a real person. Also, in several episodes, Columbo is seen talking to his wife on the phone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-08-25T14:41:50.927" LastActivityDate="2013-08-25T14:41:50.927" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12142" CreationDate="2013-06-23T15:50:28.890" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the first answer very much but I thought I'd provide my own take on the question with some of the cases in the show I could remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best example off the top of my head is the episode &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Murder Under the Glass&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; where the killer, who is also a renowned cook, poisons his victim when he dines with him. Columbo, after busting him at the end, tells to him that he figured out he is the killer as soon as he met him because he was surprised to see him arrive at the death scene immediately and not to see him go to the doctor after the person with whom he had dined died of food poisoning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In another episode, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Death Lends a Hand&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; from Season 1, when Columbo investigates the body of the victim he finds the cut on her lip from a slap (and also the first person on the police team to notice that) and in the first scene where he is introduced to the killer by the victim's husband he says to him he can read palms and by that I think was able to make the deduction by looking at his big ring on his hand as soon as he meets him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were other instances like the episode &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Negative Reaction&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; where the killer kills his wife and tries to frame another person by killing him in a ransom exchange which he schemed, but Columbo gets the facts from the scene of murder where he investigates a witness who claims to have heard the shots when he stated that there was a considerable time lapse between the shots and when he asks about it to the killer his justification pretty much isolates him as the prime suspect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the case with &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Art Collector&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; where he was so focused on setting up his alibi at an art show after he kills his uncle by asking time from almost every key person in the art gallery which immediately puts Columbo right onto him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at all the Villains in Columbo they are mostly successful people in their profession, celebrities and most importantly incredibly intelligent that they cover up all the major loose ends and their alibis, but they get caught on a much simpler detail they might have overlooked which was exploited by Columbo and his dogged persistence.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best quote I could think of coming from Columbo about himself its from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bye Bye Sky High IQ&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; case where he says to the killer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All my life I kept running into smart people. I don't just mean smart like you and the people in this house. You know what I mean... I could tell right away that it wasn't gonna be easy making detective as long as they were around by working harder than any of them, reading all of the required books and paying attention to every detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T09:07:47.810" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T09:07:47.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2938" CreationDate="2013-06-23T16:34:31.497" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the idea is that they need tranquilizers on drip to be able to maintain such a complex hierarchy of dreams, and while this is pumping into them, you need two kicks to wake you from a dream. One in the dream, one on the layer above. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: in the hotel. Arthur kicks the rest of the group (and himself) using the elevator, and simultaneously the van hits the water. &#xA;In the snowy mountains, Ermes kicks everyone by dropping the whole building, and simultaneously the elevator kick happens. Given how dangerous it is to hang around in the lower layers of dreams, it makes sense to kill two birds with one stone, and use the 'wake people from the lower level' kick as the 'wake us up in the layer above' kick by synchronizing them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This simple plan is complicated by them missing the first drop from above (the van going off the bridge) meaning gravity was lost in the hotel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also important to note that the dreamers have no way to communicate with the layer above, and no way to impart the kick in the the above dream. so once they've agreed to this schedule, they have to follow it. As far as they know, the dreamer of the above dream will wake up on schedule, and of they aren't awake (/waking up) in that dream when the time comes to wake up in the above dream, they'll fall into limbo - hence all the rushing around to stick to the schedule. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5226" LastActivityDate="2013-06-23T16:34:31.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12151" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-24T01:14:04.160" Score="19" ViewCount="31643" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at boxofficemojo's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=superman.htm&quot;&gt;stats on the Superman series&lt;/a&gt; and observing that with inflation, the first Superman movie was huge for its time, and probably why it spawned some sequels - rare for that period in movie history, compared to the barrage of sequels we see these days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then it occurred to me to ask - what was the very first movie feature film sequel (not a reboot or prequel)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="366" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-06-24T06:01:53.347" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T05:20:19.467" Title="What was the first movie sequel?" Tags="|first-appearance|movie-franchise|sequels|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12153" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12155" CreationDate="2013-06-24T07:03:16.290" Score="17" ViewCount="16056" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per the storyline of &lt;em&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/em&gt;, it is said that Superman is able to fly because of earth's low gravity. But how is he able to control the speed at which he flies? How can he hover or accelerate at any given time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5233" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T17:35:20.373" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T17:35:20.373" Title="How does Superman accelerate when he flies in Man of Steel?" Tags="|man-of-steel|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4071" CreationDate="2013-06-24T07:44:30.573" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;When my dad was drafted into the Army during WWII, he said the only requirements for enlistment were that you could &quot;Hear thunder, see lightning, and eat oatmeal.&quot; So I gather that oats were rather an overused staple in the Army diet and perhaps TV viewers in the 50s might be expected to know this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's aside from the plot elements in the episode in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5232" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T07:44:30.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12153" CreationDate="2013-06-24T09:23:21.167" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/10623/7957&quot;&gt;(Shamelessly copied) from Kevin Howell's answer for the &quot;How Does Superman Propel Himself?&quot; question at SF&amp;amp;F SE&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I think the best explanation for all of Superman's powers is explained by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.qwantz.com/fanart/superman.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Unified Theory of Superman's Powers&lt;/a&gt;.  It basically says that all of powers Superman has are possible if his power is the ability to manipulate, from atomic to kilometer length scales, the inertia of his own and any matter with which he is in contact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as far as applying real world physics there is also a great article that describes it on i09 called &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5810945/the-physics-of-superman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The physics of Superman&lt;/a&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the excerpt: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;Negative mass and positive mass are supposed to fall towards each other, so he feels gravity the same way everyone else does. However, he also feels air molecules all over his body. If he turned them to negative mass, they would push his body upwards. By contrast, if he turned the outer skin of his body to negative mass (or his aura), the air pressing back against it would cause it to push him forward. So Superman uses air pressure and negative mass to fly around planets with atmosphere.&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T09:23:21.167" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12156" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-06-24T09:45:27.887" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Man of Steel is a 2013 American superhero film directed by Zack Snyder, produced by Christopher Nolan, and written by David S. Goyer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the DC Comics character Superman, the film is a reboot of the Superman film series that portrays the character's origin story&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770828/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Steel_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:00:58.103" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:00:58.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12157" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-06-24T09:45:27.887" Score="0" Body="A 2013 American superhero film based on DC Comics character Superman, directed by Zack Snyder." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:00:58.103" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:00:58.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12052" CreationDate="2013-06-24T09:49:35.123" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Littlefinger cares about Littlefinger and absolutely nothing else.  There is a conversation he has with Ned Stark about their plan.  Ned insists on bringing in Robert's brother once Joffrey is dethroned.  Littlefinger points out that the new king would probably replace everyone at court but Ned does not care.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is where Littlefinger tipped the other way.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he had supported Ned he would have done himself out of a very nice job with little chance of progression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2017-04-18T00:24:21.980" LastActivityDate="2017-04-18T00:24:21.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12142" CreationDate="2013-06-24T10:46:46.013" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to add to Dredd's answer, this quote from the original TV movie that started the series, &quot;Prescription: Murder&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lt. Columbo: Tell me, Doctor, how do you catch a man like that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dr. Ray Flemming: You don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lt. Columbo: You're probably right. He sounds just too clever for us.&#xA;  What I mean is, you know, cops, we're not the brightest guys in the&#xA;  world. Of course, we got one thing going for us: we're professionals.&#xA;  I mean, you take our friend here, the murderer. He's very smart, but&#xA;  he's an amateur. I mean, he's got just one time to learn. Just one.&#xA;  And with us, well, with us, it's - it's a business. You see, we do&#xA;  this a hundred times a year. I'll tell ya, Doc. That's a lot of&#xA;  practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5232" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T10:46:46.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12164" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-24T14:43:02.680" Score="2" ViewCount="2158" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;In Madagascar, a group of talking animals living comfortable lives in the Central Park Zoo are sent to a nature preserve in Kenya under pressure from animal rights activists, which results in them becoming stranded in the wilderness along with dangerous predators and, even worse, annoying dancing lemurs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the boat ride to Kenya, the crew of the ship carrying the animals is overrun by a group of sociopathic penguins, who take over the vessel and set sail toward Antarctica. Amid the confusion, the main characters are washed overboard and drift to Madagascar, where they learn important lessons about friendship and being true to their own nature, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what we want to focus on is the penguins hijacking the boat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the boat was not piloted by animals (that would have been unrealistic), so taking over meant subduing the humans. The next time we see the penguins (after returning from Antarctica), the humans are nowhere to be found. A penguin quips that the people are &lt;em&gt;&quot;on a slow boat to China.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What Happened to the Ship's Crew In Madagascar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5230" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-06-24T16:56:00.720" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T17:30:05.940" Title="What Happened to the Ship's Crew In Madagascar?" Tags="|plot-explanation|madagascar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12165" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12166" CreationDate="2013-06-24T14:55:31.270" Score="2" ViewCount="2202" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the classic Maclean flick, &lt;em&gt;Where Eagles Dare&lt;/em&gt;, what are the pieces of music that the radio operator is listening to before/when Clint Eastwood tries to kill him with a knife? I've been informed that one of them was composed by a Jewish composer and am rather sceptical of the claim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RXkEA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-06-24T20:40:40.593" LastActivityDate="2019-11-11T12:13:25.467" Title="Pieces of music playing when Eastwood attempts to kill the radio officer" Tags="|soundtrack|where-eagles-dare|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12165" CreationDate="2013-06-24T15:15:45.710" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whereeaglesdare.com/movie/index.php?page=soundtrack&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fan site&lt;/a&gt;, the soundtrack has a 2 minute 5 second clip of &lt;em&gt;Fox Trot&lt;/em&gt; which is &quot;the piece that the German Radio operator listens to just before he switches [off] the radio&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B004TZDBIK&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a previewable soundtrack album in which nothing is listed as &lt;em&gt;Fox Trot&lt;/em&gt;, but track 7 is &quot;Death Of Radio Engineer And Helicopter Pilot&quot; which sounds like score, not something a character would listen to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-06-24T15:22:18.440" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T15:22:18.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12164" CreationDate="2013-06-24T17:30:05.940" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a pod of penguins boards a cargo ship, overruns its human crew, and then sails away, why is it &quot;unrealistic&quot; to imagine that penguins cannot pilot a ship?  At what exact point did the reality get too thin?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one doubts a penguin's navigational abilities.  They have arms and eyes and great sea sense (ability to read the weather and seas).  And each is their own lifeboat in case the ship sinks.  At feeding time, they can jump overboard, catch something, and then come back aboard.  (I am not sure, but I don't think they need fresh drinking water.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am pretty sure the crew was left on an unpowered craft slowly making its way along the dominant currents and winds.  China is probably where it will go:  maybe not directly.  Maybe international pirates will help get it past the equator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-06-24T17:30:05.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12169" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-24T19:59:21.643" Score="2" ViewCount="21480" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1911644/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Call (2013)&lt;/a&gt;, Casey tries to lock herself in a room to escape from Michael. Michael says something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You don't wanna see this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Casey turns around, she seems horrified. Michael then says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I told you you wouldn't wanna see this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What horrible thing does Casey see in that room?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T12:47:34.850" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T12:47:34.850" Title="What horrible thing does Casey see?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-call|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30" CreationDate="2013-06-24T21:38:09.053" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;'The &lt;code&gt;Other Half&lt;/code&gt; is the word. The &lt;code&gt;Other Half&lt;/code&gt; is an organism. Word is an organism. The presence of the &lt;code&gt;Other Half&lt;/code&gt; is a separate organism attached to your nervous system on an air line of words can now be demonstrated experimentally. One of the most common &lt;code&gt;hallucinations&lt;/code&gt; of subject during sense withdrawal is the feeling of another body sprawled through the subject's body at an angle... yes quite an angle it is the &lt;code&gt;Other Half&lt;/code&gt; worked quite some years on a symbiotic basis. From symbiosis to parasitism is a short step. &lt;strong&gt;The word is now a virus.&lt;/strong&gt; The flu virus may have once been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try halting sub-vocal speech. Try to achieve even ten seconds of inner silence. You will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk. That organism is the word.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5235" LastEditorUserId="1547" LastEditDate="2013-06-25T14:37:04.693" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T14:37:04.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12173" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12174" CreationDate="2013-06-25T04:41:57.203" Score="12" ViewCount="31341" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;strong&gt;Iron Man&lt;/strong&gt;, why does Iron Man name his suits as &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Mark 1, Mark 2, Mark 3&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; and so on. How did he came up with that naming pattern?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5238" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2019-06-09T06:20:21.733" LastActivityDate="2019-06-09T06:20:21.733" Title="Why does Iron Man/Tony Stark name his suits as &quot;Mark 1, Mark 2, Mark 3&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12173" CreationDate="2013-06-25T04:57:18.490" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Mark&quot; used in this way isn't a name; it's a synonym for &quot;model&quot; or &quot;version&quot;.  According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mark&quot;&gt;Wiktionary&lt;/a&gt;, the relevant definition is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral). [from 15th c.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A famous usage of this nomenclature was in the naming of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer&quot;&gt;Colossus&lt;/a&gt; Mark I and Mark II computers, used in code-breaking during World War II.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T04:57:18.490" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10156" CreationDate="2013-06-25T07:35:30.470" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It mainly depends on how a show does, especially after the first season. Some shows like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheers_%28season_1%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cheers&lt;/a&gt; managed to get through their first season without great ratings, and the risk paid off over the long term (almost no non-cable show would be able to get away with that nowadays). Most shows that run on terrestrial TV (i.e. non-cable channels), do indeed strive for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;100 episode benchmark&lt;/a&gt; (which is not a set-in-stone rule: The A-Team didn't quite make the threshold, but still runs occasionally on reruns; other shows like Grace Under Fire do make over 100 episodes and wind up either sitting in a vault somewhere or fill up time on Lifetime). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/2013/03/12/tv-star-salaries-from-honey-boo-boo-to-mark-harmon-who-makes-what/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; points out in the opening paragraph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There’s star power and then there’s bankability. And if you have both, you’re really golden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why someone like Charlie Sheen was able to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/celebrity/how-charlie-sheen-made-100-million/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;negotiate a deal where he'd make 100 episodes of Anger Management&lt;/a&gt;. Charlie was wildly popular from Two and a Half Men, and although he went through a public meltdown, he was embraced soon afterwards as someone who seemed to be really likeable (though tell that to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tmz.com/2013/06/18/charlie-sheen-selma-blair-angermanagement-threat-quit-fx/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Selma Blair&lt;/a&gt;). Charlie's contract means he's getting far less per episode than he could be getting if he continued on Anger Management and the show becomes extremely popular, but he's getting far more in the long run if the show works out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bottom line is that there is no hard-set rule about when a star's salary becomes so high people start talking about it - it has a lot to do with the star themselves and how popular the show is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2017-07-06T19:49:10.857" LastActivityDate="2017-07-06T19:49:10.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12176" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12179" CreationDate="2013-06-25T09:33:58.583" Score="8" ViewCount="17637" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Game of thrones, each house seems to have a common trait among the family, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Does Lannister imply intelligence?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They show Tyrion and Ceresi thinking intelligently and taking intelligent measures&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Does Stark mean honour and loyalty?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;eg: Eddard and Robb &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Does Baratheon mean foolish and incapable?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;eg: Stannis and Robert&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Does Targaryen mean power and potential?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;eg: The Khaleesi&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that True? or What does each group mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5240" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-11T23:11:14.757" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T15:55:15.507" Title="What is the main trait between each major house?" Tags="|analysis|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1546" CreationDate="2013-06-25T11:12:12.117" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the other interesting answers, I'd like to emphasize the meaning of &lt;em&gt;&quot;Chinatown&quot;&lt;/em&gt; in that quote a bit more. The impression I got, especially when &lt;em&gt;Jake&lt;/em&gt;'s past as a &lt;em&gt;Chinatown&lt;/em&gt; cop is mentioned, is that &lt;em&gt;Chinatown&lt;/em&gt; was a particularly tough area of the city, full of organized crime and corruption (maybe &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; nobody cared for it) and as a &lt;em&gt;Chinatown&lt;/em&gt; cop you just &lt;em&gt;had&lt;/em&gt; to develop kind of a cynical view and that you maybe also couldn't resist being slowly dragged into that swamp of corruption and violence when working there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I understood this quote to mean that in &lt;em&gt;Chinatown&lt;/em&gt; bad things happen all the time and the good guys can't win anyway and &lt;em&gt;Jake&lt;/em&gt;, who should know this from the past, should rather just accept this fact and get over it in order to not make things any worse, since he cannot change it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the end it probably was a kind of a vicous circle. Nobody cared for &lt;em&gt;Chinatown&lt;/em&gt; and therefore it developed into that kind of criminal hell, and for this reason in turn nobdy cares for this place. And if I remember correctly this quote came from one of those slightly corrupt or at least cynical policemen that don't care about &lt;em&gt;Chinatown&lt;/em&gt; at all. So it might also just have meant that they (the police) didn't have any interrest in clearing this case when they could just put it into the shelf as another of those usual &lt;em&gt;Chinatown&lt;/em&gt; incidents, so &lt;em&gt;Jake&lt;/em&gt; shouldn't care or hope for anything either. So I'd agree with both your own explanations and it was probably a bit of both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-06-25T20:13:01.253" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T20:13:01.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12178" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12180" CreationDate="2013-06-25T13:10:31.453" Score="13" ViewCount="4255" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right before the Night's Watch left the house in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; S02E03, Sam gave Gilly something, but I'm not entirely sure what it was.  It was something his mom gave to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did he give to Gilly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-06-14T01:19:07.340" LastActivityDate="2014-06-14T01:19:07.340" Title="What did Sam give Gilly?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12176" CreationDate="2013-06-25T13:22:53.167" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting question. I'm not sure how satisfactory the answer will be though. The series (and to a larger extent the books) tend to shy away from black and white characterization. There are however a few common &lt;em&gt;stereotypes&lt;/em&gt; among houses. Things that are talked about in-world but aren't necessarily true. Think blonde jokes. Anyway, here are my thoughts on the four major houses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;House Stark&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They have been the Winter Kings since antiquity, until King Torrhen Stark surrendered his crown to Aegon I Targaryen rather than plunge his people into a costly and bloody war. Stereotyped to be honorable to a fault. Their family words &quot;Winter is Coming&quot; has earned them the reputation of a grim and humorless people, who are always on the defensive. The fact that they seem to be the only major house to take the Night's Watch seriously only reinforces that stereotype. Like most Northerners, they also give the impression of being aloof and distant from the day to day political maneuvering so common in the South.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;House Lannister&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Legend has it that they are descended from Lann the Clever, and this has shaped the public conscience to think of them as &lt;em&gt;clever&lt;/em&gt;. Their lands are rich with gold mines which has made them the richest house in Westeros and those riches are also now part of their image. Their unofficial motto &quot;A Lannister Alway Pays His Debts&quot; plays on the image of the clever rich bastard that you don't want to cross. An exception seems to be King Joffrey who seems to be straight as an arrow in regards to what he wants. But he does, however, share their other most known trait: pride. Their sigil of a lion and their official words: &quot;Hear Me Roar!&quot; is indicative of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;House Baratheon&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few traits seem to have followed them throughout the ages. The Baratheons are large, muscular men, and they tend to have a love for war and life in general that they do not care to hide, and are terrible foes when angered and they are angered quickly. &quot;Ours is the Fury!&quot; are their family words. Both Robert and Renly (in the books at least) are large men who dwarfed those around them, and they both had a martial flair and loved laughter, feasts, and tourneys. Ned feared Robert's anger even though he was his closest friend. Stannis, however, seems to be the exception, and it probably explains why he was so distant from his brothers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;House Targaryen&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first trait that comes to mind is: foreign and otherworldly. The Targaryens are not native to the land of Westeros. They arrived only about three hundred years before the start of the story, fleeing the doom of their own homeland Valyria. While they have taken up a few of the customs of their conquered people like speaking Westerosi and adapting the Faith of the Seven, they still clung to their Valyrian roots. They continued to at least learn High Valyrian speech, they have for the most part very distinctive coloring (white-blonde hair and purple eyes), they raised dragons, and they (for the most part) married brother to sister to keep the bloodline clean. This tendency to incestuous marriage has made madness a common trait in the Targaryens. King Jaehaerys II Targaryen once said: &quot;Madness and greatness were two sides of the same coin and every time a new Targaryen was born, the gods would toss the coin in the air and the world would hold its breath to see how it would land&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-03-08T15:55:15.507" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T15:55:15.507" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12178" CreationDate="2013-06-25T13:26:13.163" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;He gave Gilly a thimble that once belonged to his mother. It's the only thing of his mother's that he currently possesses. When Gilly refuses to take it since it's such a precious item, Sam insists that she's only keeping it safe until he returns from the ranging. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T13:26:13.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12181" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12183" CreationDate="2013-06-25T14:44:46.363" Score="6" ViewCount="6699" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/Why-does-General-Zod-need-armor-in-the-Man-of-Steel-film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;asked on Quora&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;General Zod seems like he's wearing substantial armor in the Man of Steel trailers. Is that something that rips off when he receives the first Kryptonian punch, is it tougher than human armor because it's Kryptonian or is there some other reason wearing armor would be helpful to him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AZ23E.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-02T15:52:01.540" LastActivityDate="2019-09-29T20:02:47.897" Title="Why does General Zod need armor in the Man of Steel film?" Tags="|man-of-steel|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12182" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13755" CreationDate="2013-06-25T14:45:55.303" Score="10" ViewCount="4055" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770828/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/a&gt;, After Krypton's explosion freed General Zod and his crew, they searched for Superman for 33 years. Shouldn't they be look 33 years older than they did when they were sentenced? Most of General Zod's crew never seem to age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-12T07:20:42.583" LastActivityDate="2019-01-09T02:58:43.557" Title="Why don't General Zod's people seem to age?" Tags="|plot-explanation|man-of-steel|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12181" CreationDate="2013-06-25T15:01:18.927" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering that Kryptonians do not have any actual power unless they're under a yellow sun, and also considering Zod and his gang are part of the Kryptonian army, it seems rather traditional and normal for these folks to be wearing armour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the movie, Zod gets rid of his armour in order to face Kal'el in their final battle, realizing that due to his new powers, he doesn't need this armour any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-06-25T15:05:36.560" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T15:05:36.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12181" CreationDate="2013-06-25T15:10:26.580" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Zod is a Kryptonian general, and the others in the picture are his fighters, who generally wear armor (bulletproof jackets in this era). Armor is tough but not for Superman's punch; it doesn't get torn apart easily, but doesn't save them from every punch. Even Zod removes his armor after realizing his powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-01T18:46:27.533" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T18:46:27.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12169" CreationDate="2013-06-25T15:53:12.270" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't know exactly. My guess is that this will be revealed in a deleted scene. However, one can attempt to surmise what it could have been:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The bed with the bloody sheets. The walls too have some spatter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perhaps one of the scalps (not necessarily on a mannequin's head).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Perhaps a scalped corpse on the bed. It is possible that Foster rapes the girls (dead or alive) too which would explain the bloody sheets.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T15:53:12.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12181" CreationDate="2013-06-25T16:21:46.407" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other answers are great, the only thing I'd add (beyond the fact that he will indeed need armour on Krypton) is that armour is about more than defense.  It's very ornamental!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's the head of the Kryptonian military, his armour is about more than defense (clearly shown by the symbol of his house on his chest).  It's for decoration and rank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T16:21:46.407" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12188" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12190" CreationDate="2013-06-25T16:26:32.380" Score="13" ViewCount="1899" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the start of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: First Contact&lt;/em&gt;, the Enterprise follows a Borg sphere into the past to stop them from changing history - preventing first contact with the Vulcans and assimilating Earth. It is made clear that the Enterprise itself does not possess the technology to travel through time and with this in mind it is unlikely that the people of Earth from a time pre-dating the Federation had time travel capabilities either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, once first contact has been made, how did the Enterprise return to their own timeline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-22T22:46:19.367" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T22:46:19.367" Title="How did the Enterprise return to their own timeline at the end of First Contact?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-trek|star-trek-first-contact|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12188" CreationDate="2013-06-25T17:52:55.023" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Enterprise recreates the temporal vortex that the Borg created and get back to their own timeline. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Temporal_vortex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Memory Alpha&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Scanning Earth, the Enterprise crew found that, in the new timeline, humanity had been assimilated, and realized that they had to follow the sphere through the rift in order to correct the damage done to history. Later, after having successfully restored the timeline, &lt;strong&gt;Commander Geordi La Forge was able to reconfigure the Enterprise's warp field to match the chronometric readings of the sphere, thereby recreating the vortex and allowing the ship to return to its own time.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also be interested in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14908/st-first-contact-how-did-the-crew-get-back-to-the-future-having-destroyed-the&quot;&gt;similar question on SFF&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T17:52:55.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12188" CreationDate="2013-06-25T17:53:48.877" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Borg sphere's approach to time travel is described in two lines of the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DATA:  Sensors show chronometric particles emanating from the sphere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;PICARD:  They're creating a temporal vortex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The troublesome question of how the Enterprise returns is dealt with just as abruptly&#xA;at the end of the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LAFORGE:  Captain.  I've reconfigured our warp field to match the chronometric&#xA;  readings of the Borg sphere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;PICARD:  Re-create the vortex, commander.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the Federation may not have the knowledge to make their own custom time vortex, but they can at least copy what the Borg have done.  A case of &quot;monkey see, monkey do&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T17:53:48.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12191" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-25T19:48:50.513" Score="8" ViewCount="1866" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a movie about a boy/child that grows up thinking he is in the real world, but actually he is living between walls of a tv-studio.&#xA;The world saw him grow up and stuff. I think later on he finds out that this is not the real world. I think this happened when he was sailing on his boat and bumped against a wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What movie is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5242" LastEditorUserId="1319" LastEditDate="2013-06-25T20:07:34.977" LastActivityDate="2016-05-05T06:43:57.493" Title="A movie about a boy growing up in a TV studio" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:45:49.800" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12191" CreationDate="2013-06-25T20:05:03.777" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're thinking of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/&quot;&gt;The Truman Show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (1998), starring Jim Carrey.  He actually learns that he is the subject of a television program earlier; he uses the sailboat to reach the&#xA;dome surrounding his &quot;world&quot; at the end of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-06-25T20:05:03.777" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12193" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-26T00:34:10.013" Score="1" ViewCount="772" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched this Russian film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314471/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Secret Agent's Blunder&lt;/em&gt; (1968)&lt;/a&gt;, with English subtitles, but I found it hard to distinguish between the different characters.  Thus, I still don't really understand what was going on.  I can't find much in the way of summaries, synopses, or explanations about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have a good explanation for what went on, or maybe even an explanation of the characters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="425" LastEditorUserId="42655" LastEditDate="2017-08-20T19:39:41.083" LastActivityDate="2017-08-20T19:39:41.083" Title="Can someone explain The Secret Agent's Blunder / Oshibka rezidenta?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oshibka-rezidenta|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12182" CreationDate="2013-06-26T07:30:01.997" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;theory:&lt;/strong&gt; Kryptonians used artifical child births and created each individual specifically for a particular task. Seen as advanced they are at genetic modeling, they might also have overcome the aging and other problems through genetic means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit:&lt;/strong&gt; also, you can clearly see the change in Zod's appearance, especially in his white hair and goatee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="1461" LastEditDate="2013-08-09T09:36:25.947" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T09:36:25.947" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12195" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12196" CreationDate="2013-06-26T07:54:47.610" Score="5" ViewCount="828" Body="&lt;p&gt;The story of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Steel_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/a&gt;, the new Superman movie, is much different from existing live action and animated films and shows. Was it all made as a fresh idea or was it inspired by some existing Superman storyline, especially the new origin story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T18:14:04.733" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T18:14:04.733" Title="Is the story of 'Man of Steel' a fresh idea or is it inspired by any existing work?" Tags="|man-of-steel|comic-adaptation|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12195" CreationDate="2013-06-26T08:23:51.563" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/zack-snyder-superman-reboot-story-comics-rob-83061/&quot;&gt;Screen Rant article&lt;/a&gt; with the title &quot;Zack Snyder’s ‘Superman’ Not Based on&#xA;Comics&quot;, Rob Keyes noted that director Zack Snyder has previously been known for making&#xA;quite literal adaptations of his source material.  But this film is different:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With the Superman reboot however, Snyder will take a different route and will instead deliver a new origin story not based on any specific origin story or mini-series from the DC comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same point is made more recently in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.examiner.com/review/movie-review-man-of-steel-boldly-reinvents-an-icon&quot;&gt;review&lt;/a&gt; from Examiner.com:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Snyder, Nolan, and Goyer have each gone to great lengths to explain that their picture is an all-new approach and interpretation not based on any particular comic book story and not connected in any way to anything Donner or Reeve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T08:23:51.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12197" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12198" CreationDate="2013-06-26T09:08:08.773" Score="8" ViewCount="10007" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/a&gt; Fox told Batman that spying on people wasn't part of his job description. And then he asked Batman to consider this his resignation. Batman said &quot;When you are done type in your name&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/?ref_=tt_rec_tt&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/a&gt; we see Fox as part of Wayne Enterprises as usual. Why? What happened? Is this just a mistake?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3559" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-26T09:39:03.580" LastActivityDate="2013-06-27T13:22:29.547" Title="Why was Lucius Fox still a part of Wayne Enterprises in Dark Knight Rises?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12197" CreationDate="2013-06-26T09:10:29.057" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the phrasing was that &quot;while this machine is at Wayne Enterprises I won't be&quot;.  In the scene you're referring to he typed in his name to delete the software and destroy the machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The machine is no longer there so Lucius Fox was happy to remain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-26T09:39:24.067" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T09:39:24.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12199" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12200" CreationDate="2013-06-26T09:48:43.400" Score="10" ViewCount="3668" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a kid I watched a movie that was my dads. All I remember from it was there was some kind of (potentially reluctant) hero / anti hero. He's trying to shoot an (Asian?) guy who could dodge the bullets. This guy ends up training him up (perhaps) and then this hero / anti hero has the same ability. Ability in the ninja sense I think. One of these powers was the ability to run across liquid surfaces I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm pretty sure on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Western cop / hero / anti hero tries to shoot an Asian fella who can dodge bullets&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At some point after the training he is being chased and he runs across wet concrete (or similar) whereas the bad guy falls straight in.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a feeling it was Charles Bronson or someone like that, and could have been quite b movie like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3441" LastEditorUserId="40263" LastEditDate="2017-06-16T19:51:49.200" LastActivityDate="2017-06-16T19:51:49.200" Title="What is this bullet-dodging martial arts movie?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|martial-arts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:45:52.927" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12199" CreationDate="2013-06-26T10:06:12.217" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089901/&quot;&gt;Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;where An officially &quot;dead&quot; cop is trained to become an extraordinarily&#xA;  unique assassin in service of the US president.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given answer by reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090325075903AATi5nT&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; Yahoo question and its selected answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-06-26T10:17:13.437" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T10:17:13.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12199" CreationDate="2013-06-26T10:11:20.470" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_lKShbp3nw&quot;&gt;Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins&lt;/a&gt;.&quot; The cheesy dodging of bullets is a component of the fictional martial art Shinanju.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastEditorUserId="872" LastEditDate="2013-06-26T10:40:16.643" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T10:40:16.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12203" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12205" CreationDate="2013-06-26T12:35:26.333" Score="24" ViewCount="3436" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always wondered who is responsible for movie titles in foreign countries.  Specifically, for movies made in the USA and distributed internationally.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Sometimes they only change a little, sometimes I have the impression I am watching a whole new movie. They have nothing to do with the original. Sometimes it is English as well but a completely different title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do we need them at all? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples for Germany:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Original Title (USA)             │ German Title (and my personal translation &#xA;                                 │                word-by-word back to english)&#xA;━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╈━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━&#xA;&quot;Made in Dagenham&quot;               │ &quot;We Want Sex&quot; (no kidding!)&#xA;                                 │&#xA;&quot;Finding Neverland&quot;              │ &quot;Wenn Träume fliegen lernen&quot; (&quot;When dreams learn to fly&quot;)&#xA;                                 │&#xA;&quot;North by Northwest&quot;             │ &quot;Der unsichtbare Dritte&quot; (&quot;The invisible third&quot;)&#xA;                                 │&#xA;&quot;Cradle 2 the grave&quot;             | &quot;Born 2 Die&quot;&#xA;                                 │&#xA;&quot;Monty Python and the holy grail&quot;| &quot;Die Ritter der Kokosnuss&quot; (&quot;the knights of the coconut&quot;)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could continue a long time but I think these few examples give an expression what I am talking about. This is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviepilot.de/news/top-7-deutsche-filmtitel-die-uns-fuer-bloed-halten-109320&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;homepage&lt;/a&gt; with lots of other examples for all german-speakers out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similiar question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2272/why-do-many-movie-titles-differ-between-the-U.S.-and-the-U.K.?rq=1&quot;&gt;Why do many movie titles differ between the us and uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5248" LastEditorUserId="43751" LastEditDate="2017-06-05T09:40:59.660" LastActivityDate="2017-06-05T09:40:59.660" Title="Who is responsible for movie titles in foreign countries?" Tags="|title|translation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12204" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12206" CreationDate="2013-06-26T14:00:23.507" Score="9" ViewCount="735" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie when I was a kid and have tried to track it down several times, but never was able to figure out the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I remember, the movie has a male and female main characters and broadly followed a &quot;Journey to the Center of the Earth&quot; plot.  The characters were part of a military operation and at some point find themselves in a hidden land filled with dinosaurs.  I clearly remember a few scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A large-scale bombardment of the land when the dinosaurs are discovered.  I think that there is a bit where the top of a triceratops's head plate is blown off by one of the mortars. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One of the military people remarks that they need to keep moving further North to find food.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The movie ends with the two main characters walking together in a snow storm wearing fur outfits (presumably representing that they are in the Ice Age era).  The male character's voice narrates that they have to keep moving, &quot;North. Always North&quot;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5249" LastActivityDate="2016-03-25T22:53:32.330" Title="Name of an old movie that ends with the main characters traveling &quot;North, always North&quot;" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:45:56.050" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12203" CreationDate="2013-06-26T14:11:51.583" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie's producers are responsible for each title.  There are several considerations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How well they believe a title will attract an audience&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whether the title resembles any title ever used before in that region&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How well the title matches the movie's content based on cultural traditions in that market&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title is one of the most important aspects of marketing.  The big studios have offices&amp;mdash;mostly for marketing&amp;mdash;in major centers around the world.  Some people in each office are responsible to assist selecting a title with proper considerations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T14:11:51.583" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12204" CreationDate="2013-06-26T15:10:46.637" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_That_Time_Forgot_(1975_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Land That Time Forgot&lt;/a&gt; (1975).  The movie has a WWI German U-Boat with the survivors of a sunken British ship which&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;happen across an uncharted sub-continent called Caprona, a fantastical&#xA;  land of lush vegetation where dinosaurs still roam, co-existing with&#xA;  primitive man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember the scene with the U-Boat firing on the Styracosaurs (not Triceratops actually). Also from Wikipedia, the movie ends with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bowen Tyler and Miss Lisa are stranded, and forced to move northwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastEditorDisplayName="user20086" LastEditDate="2016-03-25T22:53:32.330" LastActivityDate="2016-03-25T22:53:32.330" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12195" CreationDate="2013-06-26T18:47:28.520" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;They may have forged a new approach not based specifically on one book, but as the article &lt;a href=&quot;http://thisisinfamous.com/forging-man-of-steel-looking-at-the-works-that-influenced-the-superman-relaunch/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; notes, some dialogue and scenes were adapted from &quot;Superman: Earth One&quot;, John Byrne's Superman run, &quot;Superman: Birthright&quot; and &quot;All-Star Superman&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1492" LastActivityDate="2013-06-26T18:47:28.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12211" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12222" CreationDate="2013-06-27T02:53:41.703" Score="9" ViewCount="45411" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hangover_Part_II&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hangover 2&lt;/a&gt;, when Teddy was lost, the people they met (even the  Interpol police officer) kept saying &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Bangkok has him now&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. What did they actually mean by that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5238" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-10-26T12:19:29.500" LastActivityDate="2022-02-03T06:10:20.300" Title="What does the line &quot;Bangkok has him now&quot; mean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|the-hangover-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12004" CreationDate="2013-06-27T05:18:30.520" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jor-El's consciousness was uploaded into the ship's computer by Kal-El's command key. The AI-that-was-Jor-El used the ship's systems and resources to fabricate the suit while they were walking around talking, at which point he gave it to Kal-El. The ship was old but functional; Jor-El was not, neither was the AI based on his mind, and the suit was brand-new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5255" LastActivityDate="2013-06-27T05:18:30.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12211" CreationDate="2013-06-27T07:57:20.037" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching that movie I think it's just a complimentary dialogue for &lt;strong&gt;what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas&lt;/strong&gt; of the previous film. They need a strong dialogue which compliments Bangkok and should be catchy. And I think it's not a new phrase/dialogue and it means somebody is lost in the glimpses of Bangkok. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-27T08:08:09.890" LastActivityDate="2013-06-27T08:08:09.890" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12203" CreationDate="2013-06-27T12:24:25.407" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Poland, my home country, that problem exists too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are lots of &lt;strong&gt;bad&lt;/strong&gt; translations, the best known example is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070735/&quot;&gt;The Sting&lt;/a&gt; which was translated literally to &quot;Żądło&quot;, as it is the organ of some insects. The English meaning for &quot;trick&quot; was lost, making no sense in the Polish title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other example (closer to your question) is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095016/&quot;&gt;Die hard&lt;/a&gt;, translated to &quot;Szklana pułapka&quot;, which means &quot;Trap of glass&quot;. This could make sense for the first movie of the series, but gets no in others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case of old movies (before 1989) this could have been translator's idea, as no copyrights were there in Poland. But now this still sometimes is strange, eg. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758766/&quot;&gt;Music and Lyrics&lt;/a&gt;&quot; translated to &quot;Prosto w serce&quot; which could be somehow (very loosely) related to &quot;pop! goes my heart&quot;, but it directly means &quot;directly to the heart&quot; and this connection is not clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how it is in Germany, but might be that marketers said that changing title will attract more audience. I remember the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092890/&quot;&gt;Dirty Dancing&lt;/a&gt;&quot; as it was translated to &quot;Wirujący seks&quot; (Whirling sex), I was 14 or something like that, so I was very interested to watch this, and I know I am not the one who was much disappointed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the title should not only match the meaning, but sound also in similar way. If it is short, it should not be long in translation. If it is some idiom, another idiom should be used, etc. This might be issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, when &quot;Dirty Dancing&quot; is aired on tv, the title is not translated, which makes some sense, as this is hard to translate. It would require to use more words and the Polish title would not be so compact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(PS. Greetings to everyone as this is my first post here)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5258" LastActivityDate="2013-06-27T12:24:25.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12215" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12217" CreationDate="2013-06-27T12:44:18.417" Score="17" ViewCount="45577" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the significance of the phrase '&lt;em&gt;Argo fuck yourself&lt;/em&gt;'? It is first uttered by Siegel (&lt;em&gt;Arkin&lt;/em&gt;) when asked by a reporter at the reading of the &lt;em&gt;fake&lt;/em&gt; movie, as to what Argo meant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is later repeatedly said by other casts throughout the movie as a joke and once even as a good-luck message. What is the reason behind the frequent usage of the said phrase?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick Google search had led me to the finding that &lt;em&gt;Argo fuck yourself&lt;/em&gt; is considered as a &lt;em&gt;knock-knock joke&lt;/em&gt;. But I couldn't make a connection. This further muddled my understanding of the quote. Also it makes far less sense than &lt;code&gt;Argo fuck yourself&lt;/code&gt; being a bowdlerization of &lt;code&gt;Ah go fuck yourself&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-15T03:08:04.977" LastActivityDate="2018-01-03T09:35:45.060" Title="What is the significance of the &quot;Argo fuck yourself&quot; phrase?" Tags="|dialogue|argo|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12032" CreationDate="2013-06-27T13:05:18.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Superman doesn't kill anyone. DC Comics and Christopher Nolan were not convinced with what Goyer and Snyder had come up with but later they approved of that move. &#xA;Superman is powerful on Earth than Zod but in many ways Zod is stronger than him. Superman did not want to kill him because he just wanted to stop him from doing what he wanted to and both of them wanted Krypton to be build but Zod wanted to do it on Earth, killing all humans which Kal-El disapproved of.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5259" LastActivityDate="2013-06-27T13:05:18.757" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12215" CreationDate="2013-06-27T13:06:11.660" Score="20" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The script used for the fake film project was based on the 1967&#xA;  science fiction novel &quot;Lord of Light&quot; by Roger Zelazny. In real life,&#xA;  makeup artist John Chambers (played by John Goodman) came up with the&#xA;  title &quot;Argo&quot; because he loved knock-knock jokes. &#xA;  In the film, the&#xA;  title becomes an off-color joke. - (Source:&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024648/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=argo&quot;&gt;urbandictionary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Argo-&lt;/strong&gt;      Term used by Outlaw Bikers meaning &quot;Oh go.....&quot; as in Oh go fuck yourself. Also added to that would be &quot;NUNYA&quot; Argo Nunya means Oh&#xA;  go fuck yourself, nunya bizness! When someone asks you a personal&#xA;  question and you don't want to speak to him (as in the police) you&#xA;  would answer with argo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So its just a slang phrase used as a knock-knock joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e.g: &lt;em&gt;Knock, knock, Who's there? Argo. Argo who? Argo fuck yourself.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-06-29T00:13:56.307" LastActivityDate="2013-06-29T00:13:56.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11704" CreationDate="2013-06-27T13:11:23.690" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bruce Wayne wanted somebody to take his mantle and protect the city. Robin was the best choice for him who gets the cave and all the gadgets to protect Gotham after Batman. Alfred dreamt about meeting Mr. Wayne with a girl at a cafe, they don't speak to each other but they just nod. This is the exactly the ending scene, like a dream come true. &#xA;Films don't end at Climax, they must have conclusions. TDKR gave the epic conclusion to the trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5259" LastActivityDate="2013-06-27T13:11:23.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12197" CreationDate="2013-06-27T13:22:29.547" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of The Dark Knight, Batman says &quot;Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded&quot; and at that very scene Lucius types in his name which destroys that machine. So he appears in TDKR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5259" LastActivityDate="2013-06-27T13:22:29.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12221" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12245" CreationDate="2013-06-27T14:25:48.290" Score="2" ViewCount="9216" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Ending of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Place_Beyond_the_Pines&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Place Beyond the Pines&lt;/a&gt;, did the kid run away from home because of he assaulted and kidnapped Avery or did he run away because he felt a connection with his father and the image of taking to the road on a motorbike?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or was it a bit of both?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-06-27T15:00:06.990" LastActivityDate="2013-06-28T17:05:10.810" Title="Ending of The Place Beyond the Pines" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|the-place-beyond-the-pines|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12211" CreationDate="2013-06-27T14:39:02.813" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;They were anthropomorphing the city of Bangkok for effect. In other words they were talking about the city as if it was a person. Bangkok has a certain reputation for lawlessness (true or not). So when Teddy was lost in Bangkok, some people thought that he was lost for good and that his friends will never find him again. Bangkok has caught Teddy, and is not going to let him go. Bangkok has him now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-06-27T14:39:02.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12223" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-27T15:35:52.580" Score="6" ViewCount="6774" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Les Miserables (2012)&lt;/a&gt;, when Jean Valjean is confronted by Javert in the hospital, he says that if he is allowed to ensure Cosette's safety he will turn himself in in 3 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JVJ: Before you say another word Javer, listen to me, there is something I must do.  This one leave behind a suffering child. There is none but me who can intercede. Three days are all I need.  Then I'll return. I pledge my word. Then I'll return...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JAV: You must think me mad. I've hunted you across the years, men like you can never change. A man such as you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jean Valjean then defeats Javert and escapes to find Cosette.  After securing her safety, however, he does not turn himself in but continues to run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Jean Valjean lying about his intentions or did he change his plans when Javert didn't believe him, and if so, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1326" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T00:45:22.587" Title="Is Jean Valjean lying when he tells Javert that he will turn himself in after 3 days?" Tags="|character|les-miserables|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12224" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12228" CreationDate="2013-06-27T16:19:37.337" Score="4" ViewCount="54830" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Wolf_%28season_2%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Teen Wolf Season 2&lt;/a&gt;, a new creature called a Kanima appears, which is a part of the major plot line. My question is, is this Kanima creature all made up for the &lt;em&gt;Teen wolf&lt;/em&gt; series, or is it inspired by any existing fictional work or historical story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-12T05:00:23.007" LastActivityDate="2016-04-14T20:31:41.947" Title="Does Kanima's mythology match any historical stories/works or is it only written for Teen Wolf?" Tags="|origin|teen-wolf-tv|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12223" CreationDate="2013-06-27T16:28:03.310" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has always bothered me.  My impression here was that he was begging Javer for a chance, he made an offer which he would have stuck to (remember Valjean is not only a reformed man but believes his soul belongs to God).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However when Javer refuses his offer and pursues him he is no longer obliged to return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A second theory is that when he met Cosette and took her away he realised that she needed him and prioritised her over his promise.  Personally I think this is less likely as he's portrayed to be honourable and to keep his promises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-06-27T16:28:03.310" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12226" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12239" CreationDate="2013-06-27T19:35:55.023" Score="6" ViewCount="805" Body="&lt;p&gt;While reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/scifi/star-wars-stars-told-lose-weight-episode-vii.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;, I noticed the throw-away line at the end which states that the new Star Wars film due for release in 2015 will be in 3D.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, I understand that most of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tent-pole_%28entertainment%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tent-pole films&lt;/a&gt; these days are released simultaneously in 2D and 3D, but I am wondering if there has been any &lt;strong&gt;official confirmation of Star Wars Ep VII being shot and presented in 3D.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T15:37:06.607" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T19:26:17.140" Title="Has it been officially announced that Star Wars Ep VII will be in 3D?" Tags="|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2013-06-27T21:35:37.260" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.assignmentx.com/2012/exclusive-interview-teen-wolf-showrunner-jeff-davis-talks-season-2-finale-and-season-3/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;em&gt;Teen Wolf&lt;/em&gt; creator Jeff Davis, the Kanima is, at least loosely, based on South American mythology.  He says the original Kanima was a &quot;were-jaguar&quot; (that is, half-man, half-jaguar; named in analogy with &quot;werewolf&quot;).  The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Were-jaguar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; on the were-jaguar suggests that it may have been inspired by a venomous toad thought to resemble a jaguar.  However, the &lt;em&gt;Teen Wolf&lt;/em&gt; version is more like a reptile.  Davis says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I ... saw CONAN THE BARBARIAN. And one indelible image that was left in my mind was the scene where James Earl Jones starts to transform into a gigantic snake.  That look stuck with me and that’s what we went for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the name may come from South American mythology, but the appearance has a more modern origin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-06-27T21:35:37.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12229" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-27T23:29:58.280" Score="4" ViewCount="737" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181960/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;After the Rain&lt;/em&gt; (1999)&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;Ame agaru&lt;/em&gt; (original title), and I don't really understand the end of the film. The Lord of the fief was supposed to catch Misawa, to accept him as Master-of-Arms. But he didn't! The film ended just before that. How should I understand that? Do you have any explanations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5251" LastEditorUserId="5251" LastEditDate="2017-08-30T05:47:55.910" LastActivityDate="2017-08-30T05:47:55.910" Title="End of Ame Agaru" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|after-the-rain|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12233" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12246" CreationDate="2013-06-28T00:59:11.973" Score="4" ViewCount="785" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first part of the movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_the_Great_and_Powerful&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oz: The Great and Powerful&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Oz's personality with his assistant was kinda mean, he even said to his assistant that &quot;You're just a trained monkey.&quot; Also he said &quot;You're not my friend&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also noticed about deceiving women with his &quot;Grandmother's Music Box&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then during a Tornado/Whirlwind he was about to die but shouted &quot;I'm Going to change, I promise etc.....&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then when he arrived in the land of Oz he still had the same mean attitude with the monkey and in deceiving women with the witches. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: Did Oz actually change? (except for the greed of gold). I thought the movie was also pointing out about Changing his attitude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5238" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-28T10:30:43.487" LastActivityDate="2013-06-28T19:45:53.967" Title="Oz's Personality in &quot;Oz the Great and Powerful&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|character|oz-the-great-and-powerful|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12237" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12253" CreationDate="2013-06-28T10:38:18.840" Score="3" ViewCount="4042" Body="&lt;p&gt;In good old &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dempsey_and_Makepeace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dempsey and Makepeace&lt;/a&gt; , there was excellent tension between them during the whole series. Dempsey wanted to win her over, but Makepeace was cooling him down all the time ;-). Did they finally managed to have some intimacy together? Or did they even sleep together?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5251" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-06-29T02:13:37.393" LastActivityDate="2013-06-29T02:13:37.393" Title="Did Dempsey and Makepeace have some intimacy together?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|dempsey-and-makepeace|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12226" CreationDate="2013-06-28T11:59:28.610" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it has not been officially confirmed, not has any such indication been given.&#xA;I've gone through press releases, fan sites, wikipedia, official sites and such, and there is nothing other than production dates. But I suppose personally, they would certainly release it in 3D as most big budget films are these days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-28T13:44:58.587" LastActivityDate="2013-06-28T13:44:58.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2008" CreationDate="2013-06-28T12:09:06.773" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although this answer is late I asked myself the same question just now. I wanted to look at a movie called Alien Armageddon and decided to see what imdb said before I did. Most people gave it a low rating. I was curious about the few persons giving high ratings to a movie that was overall rated very low. I found this strange. So I looked one up and saw the reviews. I am not sure if I am allowed to tell but the person is called info-10912. He or she has rated four movies high. All of these movies are rated low overall. So I looked at what combined those movies and voila: three of them are from the same production company: Halcyon International Pictures. And that one has made only thirteen movies, of which three are thus given high ratings by the same person while overall their ratings are low.The odd one out is Chrysalis as it doesn't seem to be from the same company. But maybe some people know what the link is.&#xA;Seems to me that could be a paid reviewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5265" LastEditorUserId="5265" LastEditDate="2013-06-28T12:14:31.817" LastActivityDate="2013-06-28T12:14:31.817" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12244" CreationDate="2013-06-28T13:14:38.727" Score="20" ViewCount="2012" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Independence Day&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Captain Hiller (&lt;em&gt;Smith&lt;/em&gt;) and David (&lt;em&gt;Goldblum&lt;/em&gt;) fly an alien-ship that had been in our possession since the 1950s (&lt;em&gt;explicitly mentioned more than once in the movie&lt;/em&gt;) into the Mothership to upload the virus, nuke the ship, and fly out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they near the alien Mothership, the smaller ship's pilot is overridden and David says something along the lines &lt;em&gt;&quot;I was counting on it&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how is it possible that the aliens did not notice that the ship coming back was a much older one and arguably of a different make too. And, if they indeed had noticed, why did they &lt;em&gt;take it in&lt;/em&gt;? Wouldn't a ship lost 50 years ago coming back seem suspicious?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-07-01T06:23:07.947" LastActivityDate="2013-07-12T19:49:04.260" Title="Why did the aliens let a 50 year old ship into the Mothership?" Tags="|plot-explanation|independence-day|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12241" CreationDate="2013-06-28T13:52:17.980" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Advanced civilizations (space-faring) probably wouldn't feel compelled to re-design things every 5 years, (especially if their technological progression had slowed).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The aliens in Independence Day would be even less likely to do this since their whole reason for moving from planet to planet is a lack of resources, one of those mother-ships would require a lot of raw material, so a single old fighter might not raise suspicions (or even noticed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this doesn't address the authentication issue, the aliens could be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Overworked, it was a big fleet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Arrogant, so haven't taken any precautions against having their tech co-opted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Expected, many fighters from that era might exist for the reasons above.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2116" LastActivityDate="2013-06-28T13:52:17.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12241" CreationDate="2013-06-28T14:07:15.307" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course a possible out-of-universe explanation is that this inconsistency was just ignored by the filmmakers (since &lt;em&gt;Independence Day&lt;/em&gt; is not that famous for its realistic plot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But one could also come up with some possible in-universe explanations for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I didn't get the impression that the ship was really different from all those others, maybe they didn't change it in 50 years. Likewise they might just not have checked some kind of electronic identification number or whatever to realize that this particular ship was lost some years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility is, that &lt;em&gt;Dan&lt;/em&gt; wasn't so far with the &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt; reference from his comment. Maybe they really sensed something strange going on with that ship. Which might even be the reason for the tractor beam (or why they tried to open the windows to see who's in there). So they let it in to check what was going on, or what this old ship was doing here. They just didn't anticipate the humans waging such an ingenious attack that could bring down their whole mothership (maybe out of their success-induced arrogance) and before nuking this small ship just out of fear, they wanted to know what was going on with it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-06-28T17:40:48.713" LastActivityDate="2013-06-28T17:40:48.713" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12241" CreationDate="2013-06-28T15:56:13.410" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another explaination would be that space travel would have to be at light speed or greater to make it even feasible to get anywhere in a reasonable amount of time. This is where the theory of Relativity comes into play. When traveling at light speed or above, time speeds up for non-moving objects and stays the same for those traveling at those speeds and beyond. Therefore, to the Aliens, this long lost fighter ship that comes back to them, like a Trojan Horse, may have only been gone for a short time or a fraction of the 50 years it had been left on earth for, in our observation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastEditorUserId="3582" LastEditDate="2013-07-12T19:49:04.260" LastActivityDate="2013-07-12T19:49:04.260" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12221" CreationDate="2013-06-28T17:05:10.810" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe his motivation for beginning a life as a traveler can be significantly attributed to the absence of his father in his life, and the connection the motorcycle will provide to him. It is seen as a symbol of his late father - one that can provide guidance in his life like a father who is present normally would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the dramatic events that took place certainly were a factor in his decision to leave. The act of leaving Cross unharmed, at the peak of the escalating conflict, implies a desire to forgive and forget, and leave his life behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5096" LastActivityDate="2013-06-28T17:05:10.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12233" CreationDate="2013-06-28T17:16:13.323" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I believe Oz did change. This is most evident through the final scene in which he begins the tradition of presenting gifts to others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To Finley (the monkey), Oz says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You stood by me when other monkeys would have flown away. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then declares him a friend of Oz. To me, this is a sincere appreciation of Finley's companionship and a positive personality shift.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, using his deceitfulness and sleight of hand techniques to thwart the witches provides a realization for Oz that his talents can be used for the good of others, an endeavor that it is implied he intends to pursue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5096" LastEditorUserId="5096" LastEditDate="2013-06-28T19:45:53.967" LastActivityDate="2013-06-28T19:45:53.967" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12248" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12251" CreationDate="2013-06-28T20:20:38.673" Score="8" ViewCount="8395" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Voyager&lt;/em&gt;'s &quot;Death Wish&quot; Q has blue lips. Is this in all appearances in Star Trek (TNG, Voyager,...) the case? Also, why are the lips blue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3706" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-10-03T07:46:03.363" LastActivityDate="2018-07-11T16:39:04.117" Title="Does Q in Star Trek always have blue lips?" Tags="|star-trek|star-trek-voyager|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12248" CreationDate="2013-06-28T20:36:51.943" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never noticed his lip color:  The specifics of skin, hair, and eye color are especially superficial in the &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect any unusual coloration is to reinforce a being's other-worldliness.  Q is definitely not human and should not be confused as such.  He may as well have a diagonal purple mohawk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-06-28T20:36:51.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12248" CreationDate="2013-06-29T00:11:51.000" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;A quick search of Q images reveals that he doesn't always have blue lips. It appears he tends to change his complexion depending on the role he is assuming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the picture below with the blue lips might be considered Q in his natural state, so perhaps they are indeed blue. As to why, I have no idea other than the fact that he is an omnipotent alien, and perhaps that is one of their features :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A26eg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kgzKA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nFR0u.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-06-29T00:11:51.000" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12237" CreationDate="2013-06-29T00:40:43.400" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dempsey_and_Makepeace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; cited in the question says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Much of the show's draw came from the good natured &quot;will they or won't they&quot; interplay and a suspected slowly evolving romance between the main protagonists, made possible by the obvious chemistry between the two lead actors. The show ended with an episode directed by Michael Brandon himself where Dempsey and Makepeace are forced to confront at least some of their feelings for one another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That sounds like the answer is no; but to make it explicit, we have the following from an&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088503/reviews-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb user review&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My only complaint is that they never got together romatically and I think that they should have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is a kicker to this story (described nicely on this &lt;a href=&quot;http://strony.aster.pl/dempsey/actors.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fan page&lt;/a&gt;):  As&#xA;mentioned, there was &quot;chemistry&quot; between the&#xA;lead actors, Michael Brandon (Dempsey) and Glynis Barber (Makepeace).  A year after the&#xA;show ended, having been separated by work at various locations, they decided to renew&#xA;their partnership and make it permanent in real life.  They married on 19 November 1989,&#xA;and are still together after more than twenty-three years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-06-29T00:40:43.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10052" CreationDate="2013-06-29T13:12:49.183" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a continuity error (or movie-plot-magic).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It's even listed on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviemistakes.com/film9550&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;moviemistakes&lt;/a&gt; (along with 23 other errors).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's plausible that the producers cut the bit where Jack passes the knife to John, the scene may have originally been longer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;However, There's roughly 6 seconds between seeing Jack trying to free himself and a freed John lunging for one of the guards.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Though the chances of both of them freeing themselves in that timeframe (&amp;amp; passing the knife from Jack to John, unnoticed) while surrounded by armed men are not good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2116" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-06-29T19:08:25.757" LastActivityDate="2013-06-29T19:08:25.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12266" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-29T15:31:07.557" Score="11" ViewCount="4158" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this American movie on TV 1 or 2 years ago. I got halfway through then the recording stopped. A brief description follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A family orders Pizza for home delivery. The doorbell rings. The wife thinks it's the pizza delivery. She opens the door. Thugs burst in, rape and murder the wife and daughter. The husband arrives home and finds his family murdered. The thugs are arrested. There is a court case but they get off on a technicality. The thug steps outside of court and walks down the steps. The husband, waiting outside, snatches a gun from a policeman and shoots the thug dead. The husband is then arrested, put on trial and sent to prison for murder. In prison he befriends others who devise a breakout. A group of prisoners escape on a work bus, kill the driver and eventually escape by train.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's as far as I can remember. Please help with the title or name of actors in movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5281" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-29T20:12:43.627" LastActivityDate="2016-03-22T07:19:57.773" Title="Movie about a man who goes to prison for shooting one of his family's murderers" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:46:02.290" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12267" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12269" CreationDate="2013-06-29T18:13:31.943" Score="34" ViewCount="92168" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of S2E5 of Breaking Bad (&quot;Breakage&quot;), Hank throws Tuco's 'grill' he claimed as a trophy upon killing him, into a river.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eboYv.png&quot; alt=&quot;tuco_parilla&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What motivated him to do this?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This episode shows Hank: get a promotion and have some sort of an episode shortly thereafter in an elevator; injure himself while bottling beer; get frightened by loud bangs that turn out to be beer bottles exploding. Is this all interconnected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2023-05-14T00:11:01.493" Title="Why does Hank throw Tuco's 'grill' into the river?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12266" CreationDate="2013-06-29T18:30:00.360" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds a bit like &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1197624/synopsis?ref_=tt_stry_pl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Law Abiding Citizen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, which came out in 2009. The film includes a man whose wife and daughter are raped and murdered, one of the thugs gets off light with a plea deal, and the man exacts his revenge on both thugs. He ends up in prison, where he tunnels out...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trailer is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJlTR-Cygcw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-06-29T18:30:00.360" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12267" CreationDate="2013-06-29T18:31:40.290" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes they are all connected. Despite Hank's outward appearance of nonchalance, the incident with Tuco shook him a lot. It was probably Hank's first really violent fire fight and that left him suffering from a form of post traumatic stress disorder. He becomes more fearful and more fearful of further violence. Tuco's grill was a grisly reminder of all the fear he went through, which was something he didn't want to relive anymore. But fearful for his reputation as a tough cop, he outwardly accepts the souvenir only to dispose of it in secret later on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hank's secret reluctance to take up the position in the Mexican border is also another indication of this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-06-29T18:31:40.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12270" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-06-29T19:25:15.357" Score="3" ViewCount="1629" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder if there is such a system where by people can enjoy movies sitting at their homes.This is can prove beneficial for both movie makers and their team as a business point of view as well as people can enjoy new movie at homes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose a movie released in United States makes $25 Million on the day of release,they can make up to $75 Million on the day of release even if people are charged half the ticket price when released at home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope you understand what I want to say&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="279" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T19:59:52.023" Title="Why can't movies be released in homes?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-07-31T12:34:02.840" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12271" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12282" CreationDate="2013-06-29T19:31:13.480" Score="9" ViewCount="25458" Body="&lt;p&gt;I loved Monsters University, but it was such a complex movie that I had trouble catching all of the characters from Monsters Inc. For instance, George Sanderson, the 'sock' guy from the first film, is in the JOX fraternity. We had hoped Jennifer Tilly would reprise her role as Celia, but we didn't find her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a canonical list of characters appearing in both films?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5283" LastEditorUserId="36" LastEditDate="2013-06-30T08:42:35.067" LastActivityDate="2014-03-30T00:22:12.673" Title="What characters in Monsters Inc. have cameos in Monsters University?" Tags="|monsters-inc|monsters-university|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12004" CreationDate="2013-06-29T19:40:42.057" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple.  Like Sirithil stated, but simply put; when Clark placed his key that came with to earth, inside the ship that was already there it uploaded Jor-El's AI and the AI had the ship to make the suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5284" LastActivityDate="2013-06-29T19:40:42.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12270" CreationDate="2013-06-29T19:44:16.707" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Netflix has done the next best thing to what you suggest with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856010/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (which cost $100 million to produce) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1958961/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lillyhammer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by releasing these episodic series directly along with their other online features.  You &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; see them in a theatre.  There was an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/andy-and-lana-wachowski-to-produce-sci-fi-drama-for-netflix-20130327&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;announcement&lt;/a&gt; of another series, this one science fiction, coming in late 2014.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I heard an interview of the founder of Netflix on PBS radio about a month ago:  he basically says he doesn't care what the industry does.  He's going to do what he thinks audiences will like.  I would not be at all surprised if a movie or two shows up, though I have found no indication of any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://money.msn.com/technology-investment/post.aspx?post=1ea57bda-34a1-4f9e-b6b7-4d0ed2f0f299&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This article&lt;/a&gt; suggests Netflix won't do movie production because a) TV series are 70% of their online usage, b) Movies do not have the same cultural cross pollination as series, c) A Netflix movie would compete with movie studios on which they greatly depend for most of their content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Amazon is known to be doing something.  The next few years should prove to be quite interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-07-26T19:59:52.023" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T19:59:52.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12274" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12276" CreationDate="2013-06-29T20:49:30.180" Score="8" ViewCount="9629" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://firefly.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;timeline&lt;/a&gt; page on wikia for Firefly seems to indicate that Serenity takes place sometime after the TV series, but having watched the TV series and the movie, this doesn't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Serenity (the movie) opens up with River Tam being sprung from the Alliance facility. I can accept this as a &quot;flashback&quot; but this obviously takes place before the story that takes place during the TV series. However, after the opening sequence during the landing scenes leading up to the first job, the interactions between Simon and Mal do not match up with those at the end of the TV series. It was well established at the end of the TV series that Simon and River had earned their place on the crew of the Serenity - this is stated pretty much in these words by Mal to each of them on multiple occasions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, during the first job, River's mind reading abilities are well developed and controlled, which follows on well from the last episode of the TV series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore to add more confusion, Wash dies at the end of the movie - so this portion of the movie obviously takes place after the TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this in mind, where exactly does &quot;Serenity&quot; (the movie) take place during the Firefly timeline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-06-29T21:52:24.313" Title="When does &quot;Serenity&quot; take place during the timeline?" Tags="|firefly|serenity|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3459" CreationDate="2013-06-29T21:16:04.710" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the scene at the funeral the camera panes away from Bruce's headstone to the headstones of the wayne parents as Alfred is crying and apologizing. However, he is apologizing specifically to the parents for having failed them for not somehow protecting them from their fate, not for failing Bruce--as Bruce is still alive and he knows it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5285" LastActivityDate="2013-06-29T21:16:04.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12274" CreationDate="2013-06-29T21:19:31.147" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Serenity film was made to wrap up the story. They included the opening flashback scenes to explain what happened at the planet. They further wrap up the story with the crew from the last episode having worked together for some time (since the last episode).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from the flashbacks, the movie is set completely after the series. I'm not sure which interactions Simon-Mal you are talking about. They have a clear conversation in the beginning in which Simon states that he has done enough (by being a doctor on board the ship). Their discussion is more to show the authority of Mal still conflicting with the protective nature of Simon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2155" LastEditorUserId="2155" LastEditDate="2013-06-29T21:52:24.313" LastActivityDate="2013-06-29T21:52:24.313" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12277" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12279" CreationDate="2013-06-29T21:57:12.030" Score="5" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this on TV in, I believe, the early 80s. It's about a group of people that are being held hostage by kidnappers and among them is an Air Force officer that is acting as a secret courier for a deadly biological agent. I can't remember most of the details, but the ending is that the lead kidnapper forces the Air Force officer to help him escape in a small plane. In the process, the hijacker finds the cigar case, and believing it to be a cigar, opens it to find the deadly agent. Rather than having this agent escape, the officer crashes the plane, sacrificing himself and his abductor. I've search all over IMDb for this to no avail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: A few additional details: there was a girl and her mother being held hostage and the girl ended up sleeping with one of the hijackers to save the rest of the hostages (this part is fuzzy and I think most of it was inferred). Also, I believe this movie may have come out in the 70s (but not 100% certain).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5286" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-08T15:12:36.570" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T15:12:36.570" Title="Air Force courier with deadly biological agent caught in hostage drama" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:46:05.467" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11848" CreationDate="2013-06-30T01:00:40.833" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched &lt;em&gt;The Lady Vanishes&lt;/em&gt; this afternoon, followed by several hours of perusing databases and books about Hitchcock, and it is difficult to answer your question with any sense of definition because 1) Hitchcock never gave an interview about the film, and 2) he shot it as written, so the result is a mix of his influence with the writers' influence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HOWEVER, there is a wealth of information (books, reviews, articles), chronicling Hitchcock's interest in Freud. Freud's name actually comes up in this movie (Iris thinks Miss Froy's name is Freud, until she spells it for her) as well as in &lt;em&gt;Marnie&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Rope&lt;/em&gt;. His work is rife with Freudian symbolism (&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&amp;amp;query=rid:12883&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hitchcock's Motifs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; by Michael Walker): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;home movies - repressed memories&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cigarette lighters or cases - a gift from a woman to a man, symbolizing desire&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;milk - a symbol of faith in the future, optimism - Hitchcock tended to desecrate milk with references to it being poisoned&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bed scene - a site of disturbance associated with pain, suffering, feuding or death&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;confined spaces, cages or bars - in hiding or in prison&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;dogs - a moral touchstone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;doubles - a projection of negative (murderous) feelings so that one can feel innocent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;entry through a window - windows stand for openings in the body; sexual &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;exhibitionism/voyeurism - feminine humiliation or vulnerability/ masculine power&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;heights and falling - a sense of the abyss, chaos; childhood fears; guilt&#xA;keys - tension in a marriage&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;trains - condense chaos into a specific set of threats&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;water - a source of threat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;rain - inner turmoil&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is uncertain whether Hitchcock was an adherent to Freud's ideas (I have read that he was not, but cannot locate an authoritative source for that at the moment), simply amused by him, or just interested in exploring his visual vocabulary. Perhaps his view of Freud was mixed - one &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.letterafilms.com/hitchcock-psychology/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;review&lt;/a&gt; I read suggested &quot;In &lt;em&gt;The Lady Vanishes&lt;/em&gt;, we see that Hitchcock places psychoanalysis on both sides of the plot. Freud is both the hero and the villain, both Miss Froy and the evil brain specialist. He’s a helpful resource for triumphant do-gooders and the pushy brute who wishes to subvert and deceive his patient through his position of power.&quot; (Arne Strout, &quot;The Psychology of Hitchcock&quot;). There are a number of reviews out there citing Oedipal overtones in the film, but also a few connecting the Hartz character to fears of what was happening in Germany at the time (the character was officially Bandrikan because UK censors did not want the film to specify a real country).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are a fan of Hitchcock in general, I highly recommend the Michael Walker book. It  devotes whole chapters to the symbolism of blondes and brunettes, food, hands, homosexuality, staircases, and the MacGuffin (a secret or documents that are important to the characters but irrelevant to the audience) - fascinating read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-06-30T01:00:40.833" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12277" CreationDate="2013-06-30T01:25:33.877" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like it could be &lt;em&gt;The Night They Took Miss Beautiful&lt;/em&gt; (1977), a TV movie.  Most of your description is echoed in this excerpt from an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076458/reviews-5&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb user review&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phil Silvers, in a rare departure from Bilko, plays the host of a beauty pageant. Him along with 5 beauty queens and one overbearing Mother all get kidnapped and put up for ransom by a group of terrorists. What the terrorists do not know is one of the pilots is carrying a deadly highly contagious biological nerve agent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It all gets rather dumb and the Mother urges her daughter to give herself to one of the terrorists to help them escape. In a thoroughly predictable ending all the terrorists and one of the pilots die and the beauty queen gets away from her overbearing mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-06-30T01:25:33.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12271" CreationDate="2013-06-30T06:37:30.913" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;No canonical list that I'm aware of (yet). But here's a list of the monsters that I've been able to cobble up. Feel free to edit and add more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wZvlT.png&quot; alt=&quot;Sulley&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;James P. Sullivan AKA Sulley: Main character.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5QDmR.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mike&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mike Wazowski: Main character.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vwz3K.png&quot; alt=&quot;Randall&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Randall Boggs: Supporting character.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LiODn.png&quot; alt=&quot;Yeti&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Abominable Snowman: Mail room supervisor at Sulley's and Mike's first job.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BhRLJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Roz&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Roz: Number 0001 of the CDA clean up team.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Non-speaking cameos:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/reWUY.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mr. Waternoose&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Waternoose: In one of the pictures in Mike's locker.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xZg1K.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;George Sanderson&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;George Sanderson: Member of the Jaws Theta Chi (AKA JOX) fraternity, and in the Scarer card collection in the end of the film.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CdIyt.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ricky&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ricky Plesuski: One of the students, and in the Scarer card collection in the end of the filme.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/faIsK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Flint&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flint: Teaching Sully and Mike on the scaring simulator in Monsters Inc. during their Scarer tryouts near the end.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Iwpy.png&quot; alt=&quot;Charlie&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Charlie: On the Scare Floor when Sulley and Mike start their first day as Scarers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3WFZf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Waxford&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Waxford: On the Scare Floor during Mike's school field trip, and during Team OK's sneak visit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-06-30T06:37:30.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="222" CreationDate="2013-06-30T08:03:12.447" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it concern with the goriness of the scene... If we see the fight the color comes back when Uma Thurman blinks her eye and immediately owner of that place shuts the main power and the color changes to dark blue to minimize the red color of blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5290" LastEditorUserId="1547" LastEditDate="2013-06-30T13:17:53.583" LastActivityDate="2013-06-30T13:17:53.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="509" CreationDate="2013-06-30T08:37:06.180" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my view point, Jess is being punished just as the Gods punished the person related to the boats name with the infinite task of moving the rock to see it fall back to its starting point. I feel that the actions taken to save her son are the cause of this punishment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Jess sees the car crash, the taxi driver comes along, telling her that there is no way to save her son. Jess, instead of taking this on board, is tasked with killing everyone to save her Son. Perhaps this is the instance of cheating death which results in her punishment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the taxi driver may represent the fabled &quot;ferry man&quot; which you have to pay to get to &quot;the other side&quot;. Jess promises this man such payment, but breaks that promise. This could also be a reason for her punishment, meaning she is stuck in a time loop as she didn't pay to reach the other side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to these points, something else strikes me as unusual about this plot. When the car crashes at the end of the film, a boy is seen as part of a matching band. He holds a drum with the same band marking/logo as the one on board the cruise ship. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, upon the incident of the car crash, a single copy of Jess lies on the road beside her son with another Jess watching these events. The dead mother, due to her clothing is clearly the abusive Jess. The observing Jess is obviously her before the boat, yet the Jess driving the car (that came from the boat) is nowhere to be seen. Perhaps her son dying frees her from the loop, or perhaps she lives on, escaping the scene. These actions are not explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5291" LastActivityDate="2013-06-30T08:37:06.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12169" CreationDate="2013-06-30T08:54:31.617" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it might be the decomposed body of his deceased sister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5292" LastActivityDate="2013-06-30T08:54:31.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12270" CreationDate="2013-06-30T16:19:45.490" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an entire genre/category of movies called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-video&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Direct-to-video&lt;/a&gt;&quot; that frequently skips the movie theater, but sometimes are &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-video#Direct-to-video_films_screened_theatrically&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;joint releases&lt;/a&gt;.  So, what you're asking about is already occasionally done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5293" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-04T21:22:10.097" LastActivityDate="2013-07-04T21:22:10.097" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3410" CreationDate="2013-06-30T17:36:13.990" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is being forgotten is that Mr. Fox et al are not animals. They are human beings presented as animals, they talk wear clothes have neuroses they are clearly human and possess uniquely human attributes. So the meeting with the wolf is between a human and something related to humanity. This something understands no earthly language and is beyond a seemingly impassable barrier, it responds to only the most basic yet profound symbolism. It struck me as a communication between the mundane aspects of humanity and the deepest mysterious origins of consciousness...... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5296" LastActivityDate="2013-06-30T17:36:13.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12270" CreationDate="2013-06-30T17:40:23.540" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I understand the question correctly you are asking if there is a service that lets you watch new movies in your home at the same time as they are released in the theater.  If this is what you are asking then the answer is yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://primacinema.com/&quot;&gt;Prima Cinema&lt;/a&gt; offers at home viewing of movies at the same time they are released at the box office.  However, convenience comes at a price and in this case it is $35,000 for the player and $500 per viewing.  You can read more about the viewer and its security features in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/730005/prima-cinema-brings-new-movie-releases-to-your-home-for-a-price/&quot;&gt;G4 article from January.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="789" LastActivityDate="2013-06-30T17:40:23.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2115" CreationDate="2013-06-30T22:47:05.480" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The restaurant scene is extremely similar in both moves.  The parade scene in Ferris brings to thought the dancing scene in Blues Brothers, especially the song and the dancing group.  Watch them closely, they mimic the Blues Brothers movie on every level, including the church dancing number where they flip in the air. I'd say it was an homage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5298" LastActivityDate="2013-06-30T22:47:05.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12298" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-01T05:40:03.370" Score="1" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_%28U.S._TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thriller&lt;/a&gt; episode, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0723128/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (S01E28, 11 Apr. 1961), was that Julie Newmar as one of the victims? I looked up Pamela Curran and Jill Livesey and they don't look like her, but she is not mentioned in the credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-10T08:27:18.730" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T08:27:18.730" Title="Was that Julie Newmar on Thriller's S01E28?" Tags="|thriller-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3454" CreationDate="2013-07-01T06:24:49.990" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The prison is located near the Mehrangarh fort of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. I have visited this fort a couple of times as my maternal uncle resides there. Actually, if you look closely to the frame when Bruce Wayne comes out of the pit you can see blue houses beside the fort. That's because many of the houses in the city of Jodhpur are colored with blue lime. That's the reason why Jodhpur is also known as 'The Blue City'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that clears your doubt and answers your question as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5302" LastEditorUserId="1501" LastEditDate="2013-07-01T11:27:10.153" LastActivityDate="2013-07-01T11:27:10.153" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12303" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12316" CreationDate="2013-07-01T08:44:37.553" Score="9" ViewCount="3601" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I watched almost all episodes of &lt;em&gt;The X-Files&lt;/em&gt; and both movies I couldn't understand one thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Mulder was so dangerous to the Syndicate, why did they not just kill him? The Syndicate could be so powerful to do this with minimal effort. Ok, they did not want to make him a martyr, but he could have a car accident or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only imagine that the Cigarette Smoking Man wanted him, as his probable son, to be on his place, but I'm not sure about this. But he was able to kill Jeffrey Spender, his other son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then in the 9th season Mulder (as maybe David Duchovny was not wanting to star more) is hiding because they are after them. Why didn't the Syndicate (or Aliens) kill him before?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5258" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-31T16:30:54.667" LastActivityDate="2015-07-31T16:30:54.667" Title="Why did the Syndicate not kill Mulder before the 9th season of The X-Files?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-x-files|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9145" CreationDate="2013-07-01T09:18:00.237" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a thought...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the interpretations of the paper unicon at the end of Blade Runner is evidence that Deckard is a replicant or synthetic human created for a purpose.  Is it possible that Dredd is synthetic, created to bring the law to Megacity One.  The film mentions that Judge numbers are so low they can only respond to 6% of crimes - synthetic Judges would be necessary.  Also when Anderson is reading Dredd she says something like &quot;and there's something else too...&quot; and gets cut off by the Head Judge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said, just a thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5303" LastActivityDate="2013-07-01T09:18:00.237" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12223" CreationDate="2013-07-01T11:41:28.407" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is likely that Valjean would have turned himself in.  He struggles with this issue in the solo &quot;Who am I?&quot; and resolves that he is tired of lying and running and he should accept his punishment on earth as he will be rewarded in heaven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Javert does not accept the offer hence Valjean is under no obligation to do carry out his end of it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;SPECULATION&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once he took on paternal responsibility for Cossete and began providing a loving homelife for her it would not have been in her interests for him to turn himself in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-07-01T11:41:28.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12169" CreationDate="2013-07-01T15:32:09.757" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think when Halle Berry sneak in and she went to that room, that is the room where he would dress up the abducted girl and make her look like her sister. I don't understand that why Halle Berry and the abducted girl tangled the guy and they left him? Why dont they killed that SOB in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5307" LastActivityDate="2013-07-01T15:32:09.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12311" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12314" CreationDate="2013-07-01T19:48:10.523" Score="10" ViewCount="11809" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079501/&quot;&gt;Mad Max&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082694/&quot;&gt;Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior)&lt;/a&gt;, there are several scenes (often fast scenes, like car chases), where the film seems to be running on &quot;fast forward&quot;. The characters move very quick and it looks very unnatural.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did they do this on purpose? Or is this just a byproduct of trying to make an action scene seem &quot;faster&quot; than it actually is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also heard that many car chases (in general) are filmed very slowly and then speed up afterwards, to make it seem real. Was the movie attempting to do so, too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5309" LastEditorDisplayName="user4840" LastEditDate="2013-07-02T02:11:09.697" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T13:42:21.367" Title="&quot;Fast forward effect&quot; in Mad Max" Tags="|effects|mad-max|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1863" CreationDate="2013-07-01T23:26:12.020" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gemma Arterton could not reprise her role as Io because she was filming Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5311" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-07-02T00:20:12.673" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T00:20:12.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12311" CreationDate="2013-07-02T02:54:54.403" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, George Miller used sped up footage a great deal when filming his trilogy, especially during the first film (to a lesser extent in the third).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is indeed a standard trick used by filmmakers to make the action seem faster-paced, and is used primarily during chases and stunt work which could result in serious injury should the stunt performer fall from the car at a greater speed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While watching Mad Max (and The Road Warrior), I am always struck by the length of some of the sequences Miller uses in his car scenes, including many extended cuts. When ramped up (sped up) footage is used in these instances it is easier for the viewer to spot unnatural movements from the humans in the vehicles, thus resulting in the 'fast forward' effect that you have noticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T02:54:54.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12298" CreationDate="2013-07-02T03:08:46.843" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pamela Curran in the episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MBliw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nancy Valentine in the episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dEHFS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nancy Valentine is not listed as a victim on imdb, but she does become one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is Julie Newmar from the same era. She looks similar, but not the same (she did not always wear her eyebrows that arched, and she was not always blond):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YGc3f.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2013-07-04T03:47:23.833" LastActivityDate="2013-07-04T03:47:23.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12303" CreationDate="2013-07-02T05:24:18.717" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;They obviously wanted him dead; they don't kill him outright because of the &quot;Martyr effect&quot;, which it sounds like you are on board with. So what about the accident you propose...Imagine the Syndicate kills Mulder in a car accident. Or in a plane, or even a carbon monoxide leak. What are the conspiracy theorists going to think? They are going to think that the Syndicate killed him! Even if he really DID die via accident, that's what they are going to think. That's the hallmark of a conspiracy theory! Holds up the narrative but for which there exists only circumstantial evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now the Syndicate knows this; they can't do ANYTHING to kill Mulder. Even if he dies outside of their own hands, he will essentially be Martyred. What is their only solution? Discredit him. So they send him on wild goose chases in an effort to make his life's work meaningless. Of course, as our fearless hero he always gets 2 steps forwards before going 1 step back, but it's the only thing they can really do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5178" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T05:24:18.717" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12317" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12326" CreationDate="2013-07-02T07:35:36.503" Score="4" ViewCount="540" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am referring to the scene in season 1's episode 2 where Sean Bean has to kill the wolf because of the Queen's order. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they at the King's Landing or somewhere on the way? Why are his children with him? Are they going to King's landing as well? If so, why isn't his wife going with him? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am having difficulty figuring out &lt;strong&gt;where&lt;/strong&gt; exactly the scene beginning with the wolf attacking the prince is happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-07-02T19:25:45.950" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T19:25:45.950" Title="Where is this scene happening in season 1's episode 2?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12323" CreationDate="2013-07-02T07:39:52.207" Score="5" ViewCount="8911" Body="&lt;p&gt;From Season 4, House has three new doctors as part of his team and the previous three just appear off an on. Why didn't the show's creators update the intro to show the new team? It always shows Cameron, Chase and Foreman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T12:48:05.560" Title="Why didn't they change the intro in House MD from season 4 to reflect the new doctors?" Tags="|house|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11405" CreationDate="2013-07-02T08:39:47.720" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Origin pointing out that Travis's CMR is super-soldier version with more advanced firewalls in place and also the lack of knowledge about his CMR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To add to that, remember Keira's CMR was hacked physically using that head gear when she was playing that game. The code to hack was built into the game. In a way, she voluntary allowed to be hacked. No matter how good computer security gets, it remains vulnerable in real-world situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5313" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T08:39:47.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12321" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12322" CreationDate="2013-07-02T08:50:40.590" Score="3" ViewCount="575" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to know the actual facts from the TV-show. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How come Alec Sadler immediately 'tunes in' to Keira's CMR? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was he always listening? If so what wireless medium (in the spectrum) and technology/protocol (was this described in the show)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can Keira talk to Alec by thoughts rather than speech? He also seems to be connected on the go, is that his phone or computer?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5313" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-27T15:13:10.890" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T15:13:10.890" Title="How does CMR work exactly?" Tags="|continuum|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12321" CreationDate="2013-07-02T09:09:39.310" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason Alec Sadler was able to &quot;immediately tune into Keira's CMR&quot; was because he was already listening on that frequency. It is explained in &quot;A Stitch In Time&quot; that as the inventor of the technology he was already actively listening and testing communications on the experimental frequency which was later used for CMR communications. While all of the functionality wasn't available at the start of this episode (for example, when Keira uploads her daily activity in the middle of the first episode, it appears as white noise at first on Alec's equipment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exact protocol and methods of communication was not described in the show, it's obviously some form of wireless communication but information about protocols and technologies used is not stated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At no point during the series to date has Keira been able to communicate with Alec by thoughts, in all instances she has had to speak although communication by thought hasn't ever been ruled out as a possibility. There are a few instances where Keira actually uses a cellular device to call Alec and while these make up many of the instances where Keira contacts Alec while he is on the move, when he is &quot;out&quot; but &quot;stationary&quot; (for example one of the many scenes where he is sat in a coffee shop or similar) his laptop is clearly visible so he likely has a copy of whatever software is used by his technology present on his laptop or a direct link to his home machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information about the Cellular Memory Review technology you can use the following resources;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://continuum.wikia.com/wiki/Cellular_Memory_Review&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Continuum Wikia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://moa.omnimulti.com/Cellular_Memory_Review_%28Continuum%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Continuum Omnipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" OwnerDisplayName="user1887" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T09:09:39.310" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12318" CreationDate="2013-07-02T12:48:05.560" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Season 4 takes place after House fires his entire team and must start playing his game to find a new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During this season however, the production crew knew that the old team members would still be a part of the show in some capacity.  Foreman eventually rejoined the team, Chase became the head of Surgery, and Cameron became the head of the ER.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that spoiler out of the way, the crew themselves did not know who was going to be voted off House's Game of Jobs.  This combined with the Writer's Strike at the time made the series as chaotic as possible.  This is what adds to the fact that the opening sequence did not change to reflect the new cast members, merely putting them in the credits at the start of the actual episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, if memory serves this continues until at least season 7 where the intro completely changed to reflect Jennifer Morrison's departure from the series and features brand new sequences in the intro including spots for Peter Jacobson and Olivia Wilde in the intro who were upgraded to full cast members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T12:48:05.560" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12317" CreationDate="2013-07-02T13:03:57.887" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ned Stark is travelling to King's Landing with his daughters Arya and Sansa, and the royal family. They have stopped at an inn along the way and the children are out playing near the river.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Catelyn (Ned's wife) is not there because she has stayed at Winterfell to look after Bran, who is paralysed after being pushed out of a window by Jaime Lannister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5318" LastEditorUserId="5318" LastEditDate="2013-07-02T16:08:50.040" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T16:08:50.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12317" CreationDate="2013-07-02T13:22:32.427" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When this is happening - are they at King's Landing or somewhere on the way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are &lt;em&gt;on the way&lt;/em&gt; to the King's Landing. To be more precise, they are near the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Inn_at_the_Crossroads&quot;&gt;Inn at the Crossroads&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why are his children with him? Are they going to King's landing as well? If so, why isn't his wife going with him? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ned had recently been asked by Robert to be the &lt;em&gt;King's Hand&lt;/em&gt;. He is accompanied by his two daughters Arya and Sansa. &#xA;His wife is back at Winterfell, where she is nursing back their son Bran to health. He went into a state of coma after being pushed off a window by Jamie Lannister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As for your last statement, the entire incident of Nymeria biting Joffrey happened by a riverside which is somewhere near the Crossroads Inn.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-07-02T14:40:56.090" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T14:40:56.090" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12327" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-02T17:49:42.347" Score="1" ViewCount="486" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each episode of Extreme Weight Loss cover about a year.  There are currently four episodes released for the current season.  For this show to not take forever to release they must be overlapping the filming of the episodes somehow.  How are they filming this show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2023-09-04T06:43:05.850" Title="How is Extreme Weight Loss filmed?" Tags="|extreme-weight-loss|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12329" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12336" CreationDate="2013-07-02T19:27:37.583" Score="5" ViewCount="7848" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 2011's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615147/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Margin Call&lt;/a&gt;, what is the significance of the recurring references to Sam Roger's (Kevin Spacey) dog?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit (fleshing out question): Does he have the dog put down? He does mention that it is costing him 1000 dollars a day to keep her alive and they show him comforting her on what looks like a table at a veterinary hospital. There's also the point about burying her in the lawn of his ex-wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-07-03T05:35:48.917" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T12:48:32.063" Title="Significance of Sam Roger's dog references?" Tags="|reference|margin-call|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6895" CreationDate="2013-07-02T19:41:29.157" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;She is probably Morag from dragon quest 9. She is the boss who loved the knight&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5324" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T19:41:29.157" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12331" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12349" CreationDate="2013-07-02T20:05:59.310" Score="1" ViewCount="11693" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the season 3 episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://curb-your-enthusiasm.wikia.com/wiki/The_Nanny_From_Hell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nanny From Hell&lt;/a&gt;, Jeff tells Larry that Susie is pregnant, so Larry tries to persuade the Greenes to hire a nanny that he knows. The pregnancy never gets mentioned after that episode, as far as I can tell. Did I miss something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5318" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-07-02T20:13:06.530" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T14:54:03.073" Title="Did Susie Greene's pregnancy ever get resolved?" Tags="|character|plot-explanation|curb-your-enthusiasm|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11143" CreationDate="2013-07-02T20:19:38.487" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any answer given is likely to be speculation, but if it were me I would just do one long take until I had all the material I needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a cutaway to Walt's face in the middle of the sequence, splitting it into two shots. This provides a convenient edit point so all the editor needs is one shot of the gun pointing at the plant, and one shot of the gun pointing at Walt twice in a row. Then take the two bits of film and edit them together so it looks like they happen in sequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5318" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T20:19:38.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12333" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-07-02T20:26:05.403" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-07-02T20:26:05.403" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T20:26:05.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12334" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-07-02T20:26:05.403" Score="0" Body="Sitcom broadcast by HBO, created by and starring Larry David as a fictionalised version of himself." OwnerUserId="5318" LastEditorUserId="5318" LastEditDate="2013-07-02T20:35:17.153" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T20:35:17.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12004" CreationDate="2013-07-02T21:16:44.997" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally don't believe the ship created the suit....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Jor-El's death, Lara places his clothes (including the family crest or 'S' symbol)&#xA;in a display case that closes up...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to think the superman suit on the 18,000+ year old ship, was the clothing of one of the El family ancestors, that was part of the exploration into the stars and died in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the suit was just the clothing at the time and was possibly placed into a display/storage case like Jor's was by Lara. Maybe Kryptonian ceremony of remembrance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the Consciousness of Jor-El simply 'presented' the suit to Kal rather than creating it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seemed better to me, as it shows how proud Jor-El is of Kal, to pass the suit down...and how the family crest of 'hope' would mean something worn on Kal...a badass protector of earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5325" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T21:16:44.997" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12329" CreationDate="2013-07-02T21:48:15.897" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;His dying dog is a metaphor for his compassion to those negatively affected by the economic crisis. The dog is used as a device to portray his empathy; the death of the dog reflects his lost moral sense, evident in his decision to stay at the firm and profit on the losses of others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5096" LastActivityDate="2013-07-02T21:48:15.897" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12337" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12343" CreationDate="2013-07-03T00:14:08.953" Score="8" ViewCount="37634" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2302755/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Olympus Has Fallen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the terrorist leader &lt;em&gt;Kang&lt;/em&gt; repeatedly threatens staff members to get their &lt;em&gt;Cerberus&lt;/em&gt; access codes. After torturing them too much the president always gives in and instructs them to give him their code. He justifies this by saying that they won't get his code anyway, which is even more believable once &lt;em&gt;Connor&lt;/em&gt;, his son, is out of the terrorists' grasp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet at the end when there's only &lt;em&gt;Kang&lt;/em&gt; and the president left he suddenly has all the neccessary codes. &lt;strong&gt;But how did he get the last required code?&lt;/strong&gt; It's not very likely that the president just gave in, since he wasn't even tortured. Neither does it make much sense that he didn't need the codes from everybody, since in this case the president's apology of not giving away his own code wouldn't make much sense. But maybe I have overlooked something in the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-10-09T15:50:19.580" Title="How did Kang get the last Cerberus code?" Tags="|plot-explanation|olympus-has-fallen|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12339" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12340" CreationDate="2013-07-03T03:49:10.730" Score="8" ViewCount="19707" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does &quot;Central Perk&quot; cafe exist in reality? Or did it ever exist in reality? I am guessing they used a set for that cafe but is there a real one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-07-03T05:13:09.853" LastActivityDate="2014-11-05T07:20:56.340" Title="Does &quot;Central Perk&quot; cafe exist?" Tags="|friends|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12339" CreationDate="2013-07-03T04:00:35.627" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends#Cultural_impact&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, Central Perk was a set at Warner Brothers Studios, so it wasn't real at the time the show was filmed.  Reality, however, has caught up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 2006, Iranian businessman Mojtaba Asadian started a Central Perk franchise, registering the name in 32 countries. The decor of the coffee houses is inspired by Friends, featuring replica couches, counters, neon signage and bricks... Central Perk was rebuilt as part of a museum exhibit at Warner Bros. Studios, and was shown on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in October 2008... From September 24 to October 7, 2009, a Central Perk replica was based at Broadwick Street, Soho, London... In Beijing, business owner Du Xin opened a coffee shop named Central Perk in March 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now Central Perk not only exists, but does so in many locations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T04:00:35.627" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12339" CreationDate="2013-07-03T04:12:22.563" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I'm able to learn, there was no single inspiration for Central Perk (ie. that existed before the show was created). The exterior shots of Central Perk were filmed in Greenwich Village, but there's no record of what that particular building is or was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of the show was filmed at Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles, so there wouldn't have been any interior location shots of Central Perk in New York.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the show ended, there have been a number of cafés opened around the world based on or inspired by Central Perk. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends#Cultural_impact&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; has a list of these. There was also a café in New York called the DownTown UpTown Cafe Lounge that claimed to offer a 'Central Perk experience' but this has since closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in short: no. Central Perk never really existed, but has since been imitated countless times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5318" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T04:12:22.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12337" CreationDate="2013-07-03T06:27:05.237" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was mentioned in the movie that a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_attack&quot;&gt;brute-force attack&lt;/a&gt; to crack all 3 Cerberus codes would take an awful long time (&lt;em&gt;not sure about the exact time-period&lt;/em&gt;). So Kang could not employ a brute-force attack to get the codes. However, once he had 2 codes, it was just a matter of time (&lt;em&gt;forgive the pun&lt;/em&gt;) before he was able to break through, without essentially having the 3rd access code as the system's security was compromised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is safe to assume that Kang knew from the beginning that he would be able to access Cerberus once he had at least 2 access codes. His entire play was to make &lt;em&gt;President Asher&lt;/em&gt; believe that he needed all 3 codes and it would all come down to the President at the end. This made the President give away the first 2 codes rather easily since &lt;em&gt;he was confident that there was nothing Kang could do that would make him give up the 3rd code&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Kang's &lt;strong&gt;Plan A&lt;/strong&gt; was to get all 3 access codes, using Connor (the President's son) as the leverage for the President's code. His &lt;strong&gt;contingency plan&lt;/strong&gt; was to acquire the other 2 codes and &lt;strong&gt;then&lt;/strong&gt; attack the already compromised Cerberus.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-08-21T06:15:12.107" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T06:15:12.107" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9515" CreationDate="2013-07-03T10:28:01.300" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;From Snape's point of view James Potter had everything easily.  He was rich, popular, clever, charismatic and he had Lilly and he made sure he rubbed Snape's face in it.&#xA;The girl who Snape deeply loved had loved the man whom he hated after suffering years of persecution by him,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Snape was torn.  He 'loved' Harry in a way due to Lilly but every time he saw him he was reminded of his feelings for Lilly and Lilly's feelings for James.  He also seemed to find Harry reminded him of his father whom was someone Snape hated.  Hence he probably did not like Harry either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every second he spent dealing with Harry or with Harry on his mind was deeply emotionally wounding.  It is impressive he remained as composed as he did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T10:28:01.300" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9641" CreationDate="2013-07-03T10:31:43.460" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think she just misses her own house/family, and is getting tired of the affair. In a previous episode, if I recall correctly, she mentions the heated floor and she seems impressed by the luxury and enjoys it. But by this episode she's just going through the motions in the affair and is reconsidering continuing the affair. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5328" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T10:31:43.460" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12347" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-07-03T13:49:56.363" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-07-03T13:49:56.363" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T13:49:56.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12348" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-07-03T13:49:56.363" Score="0" Body="The 1979 action thriller directed by George Miller and starring Mel Gibson." OwnerUserId="4476" LastEditorUserId="4476" LastEditDate="2013-07-03T14:14:30.680" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T14:14:30.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12331" CreationDate="2013-07-03T14:54:03.073" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Susie Greene's pregnancy is referred to, obliquely, in just one subsequent episode.  The actress, Susie Essman, described the situation in an interview for &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/2404_susie_essman_intervi.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Something Jewish&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In series two, we're told Susie is pregnant but we never see a baby – what happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was never mentioned again. There are so many inconsistences in the show. The only reason he had me pregnant was because of the episode where I fall out of a window on to a pile of sponge cakes. Then it was never mentioned again. The next season we make one little reference to it, in the episode with the studded sweatshirts, I made a reference to the fact that I loved designing clothes out of my own home because it was easy with the new baby. But it has never been discussed since.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The studded shirts episode was &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=curb-your-enthusiasm&amp;amp;episode=s04e02&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ben's Birthday Party&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; from season 4 (since the pregnancy was mentioned in season 3, not season 2 as the interviewer thought).  Her line was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing that's so great about these shirts is that I've got the business from the house and I can take care of the baby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T14:54:03.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12137" CreationDate="2013-07-03T15:31:27.367" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the film.  But looking over the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/mr-ripley_shooting.html&quot;&gt;shooting script&lt;/a&gt;, I note these points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mr. Greenleaf doesn't believe Marge.  After she says she &quot;just knows&quot;, he replies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Marge, there's female intuition, and&#xA;             then there are facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dickie had many dark secrets that he kept from Marge.  MacCarron mentions an assault at&#xA;Princeton, a pregnant girl who committed suicide and possible involvement in the&#xA;disappearance of Freddie Miles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;MacCarron knows Ripley wasn't a &lt;em&gt;student&lt;/em&gt; at Princeton, but does believe that he was there in another capacity:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nor did they think to check whether a&#xA;             Thomas Ripley had ever been a student at&#xA;             Princeton University. I turned up a Tom&#xA;             Ripley who'd been a piano tuner in the&#xA;             music department.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;MacCarron and Mr. Greenleaf believe that Ripley&#xA;was close enough to Dickie to know some of these secrets and are glad he hasn't revealed them to Marge.  McCarron says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mr Greenleaf appreciates your loyalty.&#xA;             He really does. Marge, she's got a&#xA;             hundred theories, but there are a few&#xA;             things she doesn't know. We hope she&#xA;             never knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The money is partly because of the friendship they believe Ripley had with Dickie, and partly a bribe to keep him quiet about Dickie's past:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mr Greenleaf also feels there was a&#xA;             silent promise in Dickie's letter to you&#xA;             which he intends to honor. He intends to&#xA;             transfer a good part of Dickie's income&#xA;             from his trust into your name. He doesn't&#xA;             intend to give the Italian police any&#xA;             information about Dickie's past. He's&#xA;             rather hoping you'll feel the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So MacCarron knows that Ripley lied about Princeton, but doesn't realize that he is a complete fraud.  I would guess that he supposes that Ripley is an actual friend of Dickie who wanted to make himself appear to have a higher social status than he actually does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this is an accurate reflection of the dialogue that actually appeared in the film.  But even if it isn't, it explains how the issue was dealt with in a late version of the script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4761" LastActivityDate="2013-07-03T15:31:27.367" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12353" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12358" CreationDate="2013-07-03T20:09:10.390" Score="5" ViewCount="371" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering that both &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Breakers&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2101441/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; have classified &lt;em&gt;Spring Breakers&lt;/em&gt; as a &lt;em&gt;comedy-drama&lt;/em&gt;, I'd like to know what exactly are the comic elements of the movie? The Britney Spears references? James Franco's (perhaps satirical) character? While weird and a li'l surreal, neither of them struck me as particularly funny. What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-07-04T14:23:11.463" Title="How exactly is the movie a comedy?" Tags="|genre|spring-breakers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12354" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12363" CreationDate="2013-07-03T20:15:49.013" Score="5" ViewCount="8615" Body="&lt;p&gt;Taking into account the ending of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2101441/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spring Breakers&lt;/a&gt;, what is the larger message that the viewer is supposed to take away from the movie? Is there one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-07-04T05:36:59.100" LastActivityDate="2013-07-04T20:46:47.267" Title="What is the message of the movie Spring Breakers?" Tags="|spring-breakers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12357" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-04T07:56:12.337" Score="8" ViewCount="950" Body="&lt;p&gt;While &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2302755/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Olympus Has Fallen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was in its main theme and overall plot quite similar to many action movies of that kind, there were two particular scenes that I understood as direct references to two genre classics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The scene where &lt;em&gt;Banning&lt;/em&gt; meets the traitor &lt;em&gt;Forbes&lt;/em&gt; reminded me very much of the scene in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095016/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Die Hard&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; where &lt;em&gt;McClane&lt;/em&gt; meets &lt;em&gt;&quot;Bill Clay&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The finale was very similar to the ending of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105690/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Under Siege&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, from the knife fight with the bad guy to the following scene with &lt;em&gt;Banning&lt;/em&gt; being instructed how to enter the abort code while the whole command center is listening in suspense.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now of course there were other similarities and such movies usually follow rather characteristic formulas. But those two similarities struck me as just too obvious and direct references to be just dismissed as the usual genre ingredients. &lt;strong&gt;So is there any other evidence or even word from the filmmakers that those two references were actually made &lt;em&gt;on purpose&lt;/em&gt; or that they were &lt;em&gt;directly&lt;/em&gt; influenced by those other movies&lt;/strong&gt; or am I just overinterpreting things here (given that I've seen said movies a million times)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2017-11-10T03:04:53.780" Title="Were the direct references to Die Hard and Under Siege made on purpose?" Tags="|analysis|reference|die-hard|olympus-has-fallen|under-siege|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12353" CreationDate="2013-07-04T14:23:11.463" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many reviews are calling this a black comedy or dark comedy, which is comedy that makes light of a serious subject or a comedy with gloomy or disturbing elements. If this film was just a drama, it would be a serious depiction of four girls going on spring break and the tragedy that unfolded when they got mixed up with a gangster. Instead, there are pink ski masks, bikinis in court, lots of sex, references to Britney Spears, the mere existence of a drug dealer named Alien who shows up to bail the girls out of jail... The basic premise is ridiculous, and the way that violence is interspersed with this ridiculousness sets up an uncomfortable edge that seems to keep audiences talking about this movie. Mostly the characters are flat and the story is not that gripping, but the edge that Harmony Korinne keeps the audience on  - never knowing which direction it would go - seems to keep viewers engaged, whether they are engrossed or repelled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-07-04T14:23:11.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12361" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12421" CreationDate="2013-07-04T18:03:33.173" Score="6" ViewCount="43537" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914798/&quot;&gt;Boy in the Striped Pyjamas&lt;/a&gt; (2008), the young protagonist Bruno befriends a Jewish prisoner, Shmuel, at a concentration camp near his home. At the end of the movie, Bruno sneaks away from home, breaks &lt;em&gt;in&lt;/em&gt; to the camp in order to help Shmuel find his father, and subsequently is taken to a gas chamber to be executed, as he is mistaken for an actual prisoner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His parents quickly discover he is missing, track him to the camp, and Bruno's father sees an empty barracks, indicating a gassing has taken place. However, they spend very little time searching the camp, and his mother breaks down in tears outside the fence without even seeing the empty barracks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do they assume he has been killed so quickly, without a more extensive search of the area? Is this a case of the viewer knowing Bruno has been killed and they will find evidence eventually?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5096" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-07-04T18:37:54.647" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T13:46:47.197" Title="Why did Bruno's parents assume he was killed so quickly?" Tags="|ending|plot-explanation|the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12354" CreationDate="2013-07-04T20:46:47.267" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From interviews with writer/director Harmony Korine about *Spring Breaker*s, it appears ambiguity and reaction were the goals rather than the delivery of a message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I make films so there is a reaction and the reactions are extreme,&quot;&#xA;  says Korine, sucking on a strawberry in the London office of the&#xA;  film's PR agency. &quot;But this one is just amped up to ten.&quot;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2013-04/05/harmony-korine-interview-spring-breakers-film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But that's why you make films; to provoke some kind of discourse. Or&#xA;  you hope that it has something that is emotionally confusing to&#xA;  people. I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where&#xA;  things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible&#xA;  things and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and&#xA;  horror in beauty. Very rarely are things so clearly defined.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2013-04/05/harmony-korine-interview-spring-breakers-film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... it was never meant to be a kind of documentary or an exposé on&#xA;  something. And it is more like a reinterpretation of those things.&#xA;  It’s something that’s more like a pop poem, or almost like the real&#xA;  world but pushed into something more kind of — I don’t know —&#xA;  hyper-poetic. And […] it works on its own logic. So I would say […]&#xA;  it’s connected to the culture, and maybe there’s a zeitgeist in some&#xA;  way. But it’s also something separate. &lt;a href=&quot;http://dailyfreepress.com/2013/04/07/interview-spring-breakers-harmony-korine-and-ashley-benson/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Daily Free Press&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yeah, I mean … it was never meant to be a documentary or an essay. It&#xA;  was meant to be kind of a pop poem, or an impressionistic&#xA;  reinterpretation. It was more of this idea of something that was more&#xA;  experiential, like a ride or a video game that was more manic and&#xA;  physical. So once we got into the edit room — as I started to develop&#xA;  it — the movie had this really liquid narrative and this energy. This&#xA;  film that was closer to a sort of drug trip, more hallucinatory, with&#xA;  a kind of peak, a transcendence, you just disappear for a little while&#xA;  … and then you’re back. So once I started to figure that out, it kind&#xA;  of led itself. But I was never interested in being ironic or making&#xA;  these characters seem like a joke. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stereogum.com/1298072/harmony-korine-on-skrillex-gucci-mane-spring-breakers-and-why-florida-is-like-a-whole-other-country/interview/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stereogum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I liked spring break. I like it as a backdrop for the beginning of the&#xA;  film. I liked that it was kind of over the top … and that people would&#xA;  see it as a completely base and vile rite of passage for young people.&#xA;  But while I was collecting imagery and photographs of that time, there&#xA;  was all this hyper-violent and hyper-sexualized imagery with all these&#xA;  innocent, childlike details … like in the nail polish, in the book&#xA;  bags, the bikinis, in the beer bongs, on the Mountain Dew bottles. I&#xA;  started to like that there was this kind of coded inner vernacular. I&#xA;  kind of thought of spring break as a metaphor for what happens in the&#xA;  rest of the film. What I most wanted to explore was Alien’s world —&#xA;  the trap houses, that kind of beach noir, the violence, the&#xA;  dilapidated rotting yachts in the backyards of these houses in&#xA;  Florida. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stereogum.com/1298072/harmony-korine-on-skrillex-gucci-mane-spring-breakers-and-why-florida-is-like-a-whole-other-country/interview/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stereogum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;People get pissed at the film and stuff, and it’s like why does&#xA;  everybody need it to deliver a message about really obvious things …&#xA;  don’t you know that killing is bad? Why do you need me to tell you&#xA;  what to think all the time? Why can’t you just dream on it? Why are&#xA;  people so scared of going to places where they’re forced to reconcile&#xA;  what they know or come up with their own feelings or forge their own&#xA;  connections? People get pissed when it’s not all one way, when&#xA;  someone’s not all bad or all good. But that is not interesting to me.&#xA;  It’s too easy to judge people and condemn people.&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stereogum.com/1298072/harmony-korine-on-skrillex-gucci-mane-spring-breakers-and-why-florida-is-like-a-whole-other-country/interview/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stereogum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-07-04T20:46:47.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11961" CreationDate="2013-07-05T04:44:33.860" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_agent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, most branches of the United States government have &quot;special agents,&quot; including the Department of Justice (DOJ), which is headed by the Attorney General. Thus, having a special agent for, or from, the Attorney General is real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a page directly for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ag.ca.gov/monthly_feature/about.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;State of California's DOJ Special Agents&lt;/a&gt; that give an overview of what they do, at least for their state.  In fact, there's many more links for individual states as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5322" LastActivityDate="2013-07-05T04:44:33.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12371" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-05T05:08:14.313" Score="14" ViewCount="17273" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movie super-heroes are commonly shown to be fearless. In &lt;em&gt;Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;, fearlessness is discussed directly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Blind Prisoner: You do not fear death. You think this makes you strong. It makes you weak.&#xA;Bruce Wayne:    Why?&#xA;Blind Prisoner: How can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible &#xA;                without the most powerful impulse of the spirit: the fear of death.&#xA;Bruce Wayne:    I do fear death. I fear dying in here, while my city burns, &#xA;                and there's no one there to save it.&#xA;Blind Prisoner: Then make the climb.&#xA;Bruce Wayne:    How?&#xA;Blind Prisoner: As the child did. Without the rope. Then fear will find you again.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the fear of death the most powerful impulse of the spirit for Batman in &lt;em&gt;Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;, or superheroes in other films? Is there a philosophical understanding of fear and in particular fear of death that supports the idea and development of the superhero?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="850" LastEditDate="2013-07-06T23:34:54.570" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T08:08:04.630" Title="Is the “fear of death” the most powerful impulse of the spirit for Batman?" Tags="|analysis|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12372" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12383" CreationDate="2013-07-05T09:59:42.627" Score="4" ViewCount="2294" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that there're more than 500 movies released every year in US. But very few of them can be really successful. How do those worse ones make money? What is their business model?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5346" LastActivityDate="2013-07-06T02:39:54.667" Title="Is there any common/regular business model for film production companies?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12373" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12374" CreationDate="2013-07-05T15:04:49.197" Score="8" ViewCount="2665" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the tributes are selected at the start of the film is the selection process rigged? It's implied during the film that the selection process is random, but there are a few indicators that it might not be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;During the start of the film Katniss Everdeen is talking with a boy on the hill, and he says he's entered the contest 42 times. That number seems unusually high to me.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the announcer woman is selecting names from the large fish bowl. She hand picked them without mixing the cards. She could easily grab pre-selected cards.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;During the hunger games the controllers use fire to redirect Katniss back into the action of the game. If they're willing to cheat to get people killed, then why not rig the selection?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Later in the film President Coriolanus Snow talks to Seneca Crane about controlling &lt;code&gt;hope&lt;/code&gt; and how they created the games to control sectors, by limiting how much &lt;code&gt;hope&lt;/code&gt; they have of winning. He implies that Seneca should try to get Katniss killed, and this makes me think she wasn't intended to enter the games.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything in the film or book that confirms the selection process is rigged? and if it is rigged, then why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="1100" LastEditDate="2013-07-05T22:46:30.150" LastActivityDate="2013-07-06T03:17:09.980" Title="Is the Tribute selection in The Hunger Games rigged?" Tags="|the-hunger-games|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2013-07-05T15:37:48.890" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't recall anything in the first book suggesting that the selection process is rigged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is a suggestion that the theme for the 75th Hunger Games was altered by President Snow as revenge on Katniss though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Children were allowed to receive extra food rations in exchange for entering their name extra times into the Tribute drawing, so it was possible for some peoples names to be more likely than others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1392" LastEditorUserId="1100" LastEditDate="2013-07-05T22:34:06.740" LastActivityDate="2013-07-05T22:34:06.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1879" CreationDate="2013-07-05T15:45:19.163" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It basically crushed him. The fresh cowhide would have shrunk in the same way headhunters shrink heads by pulling out the skull and roasting it. If the smoke or heat had have killed him he wouldn't have been screaming long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5347" LastActivityDate="2013-07-05T15:45:19.163" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12376" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-05T15:50:08.383" Score="5" ViewCount="10474" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is well known that for many years, Pixar and Dreamworks released very similar movies at the same time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Finding Nemo&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Shark Tale&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wall-E&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Robots&lt;/em&gt; (see comments)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wild&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Madagascar&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ratatouille&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Flushed Away&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Monsters Inc.&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Shrek&lt;/em&gt; (monsters with wise-cracking sidekicks falling in love with a human girl)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Bug's Life&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Ants&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The similarities seem to have ended recently (&lt;em&gt;Kung Fu Panda&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Cars&lt;/em&gt; don't seem to have any analogs).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any published interview where an employee of either company explains why these similarities happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5283" LastEditorUserId="5283" LastEditDate="2013-07-06T02:30:44.573" LastActivityDate="2015-06-03T01:17:52.577" Title="Similarities of Pixar and Dreamworks: any published explanation?" Tags="|animation|pixar|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12376" CreationDate="2013-07-05T15:59:24.483" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot provide you with any interview, but only common sense. Those similarities are observable quite often and even more than the movies using similar concepts, they are usually also released in close succession (that's why I don't think the example &lt;em&gt;Wall-E - Robots&lt;/em&gt; is a good one, given how far both movies are apart in their premises and release dates, but there are indeed many good examples).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why I have always interpreted this as a mere competition between two major companies. One of them releases a movie and immediately the other one has to release a similar movie to compete with them or to use the success of the previous movie for driving the success of their one movie. Or maybe one of them hears that the other one is working on a movie about something and immediately steals the idea to release a similar movie at the same time. The industry is full of such examples of companies competing in this way and the usual similarities between &lt;em&gt;Pixar&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Dreamworks&lt;/em&gt; movies released at roughly the same time is a very prominent one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-07-05T15:59:24.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12376" CreationDate="2013-07-05T16:05:21.180" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding to Christian Rau's excellent answer, I would also like to say that  modern feature films are rarely the creative brainchild of a single person, but rather created with a lot of corporate input, often from marketing departments backed by data from polls and focus groups. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Robots are going to be hot this year!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, they'll exclaim. &lt;em&gt;&quot;Make us a flick about robots!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. And perhaps a preliminary script about a robot in a post-industrial wasteland gets taken out of the pile and prioritized at Pixar, while a similar premise that was on the backburner at Dreamworks gets similarly pushed ahead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All movie studios, and especially ones like Pixar and Dreamworks that share a market, are affected by that market, often in similar ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1507" LastActivityDate="2013-07-05T16:05:21.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4447" CreationDate="2013-07-05T22:43:26.107" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, Mr. M instructs the student to perform the count for president first. That why there is two stacks, one for Tracy and one for Paul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5350" LastActivityDate="2013-07-05T22:43:26.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="604" CreationDate="2013-07-06T02:07:03.020" Score="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have also worked on film sets and I concur with @Nobby. I think a larger point, though, is that situations are generally only “scary” when actors are in character. For example consider Halloween. An adult dressed like a corpse and covered in bruise makeup and fake blood isn’t scary to most children if she’s chatting and laughing and walking around as if nothing was wrong. It’s only when she gets in character, acting as if in pain etc., that it begins to seem scary. Then consider that on a typical film set, the mantra is “hurry up and wait”—the camera &lt;em&gt;isn’t&lt;/em&gt; rolling for the majority of the shooting day. Even on the 10% or 20% of the time that the camera is rolling and the actors are in character and so on, there are still constant interruptions (between takes) when everyone resets and breaks character again. If anything, it’s harder to get kids to actually act scared than the other way around, when they’re surrounded by dozens of adults (the crew) who are completely at ease the entire time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this only really applies to people. Professional prosthetic makeup these days can be incredible (think &lt;em&gt;Star Trek)&lt;/em&gt; and can look completely real even in real life inches away—but monsters and other entirely fake things often look laughably fake in real life. Just think of what a demon mask looks like in a costume store; that’s what movie monsters look like in real life. They only become scary on screen due to lighting and movement and sound effects. And non-computer-generated ones are either very still or operated by puppeteers, which makes them even harder to get scared by.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5352" LastEditorUserId="5352" LastEditDate="2024-04-02T23:19:26.197" LastActivityDate="2024-04-02T23:19:26.197" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12382" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12391" CreationDate="2013-07-06T02:29:18.410" Score="24" ViewCount="152203" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was recently having a discussion about Pokémon, and it came up that none of us were sure whether Ash's Pikachu in the series was male or female. Some (myself included) always thought it was male, whereas others could've sworn it was female.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there ever any canon evidence to point in one direction or another?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4174" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-06T07:20:35.353" LastActivityDate="2016-07-19T18:18:31.167" Title="Is Pikachu's gender ever confirmed?" Tags="|character|pokemon|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12372" CreationDate="2013-07-06T02:39:54.667" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of those 500 movies have much smaller budgets. In general, the budget is relative to the expected profitability of a given project. A superhero movie that can hopefully gross a billion dollars can be made for $250 million and still earn a profit; whereas a small indie film with no stars can’t be expected to earn very much, and will therefore be made for as little as possible. An entire parallel distribution network exists for these smaller films, in “art house” movie theaters and indie TV channels. The margins are lower but profit is possible, or else none of these smaller films would get made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the bigger point is that it’s not like each film that’s released is a separate company with its own business model that either profits or goes bankrupt. A better metaphor would be that movies are products, and studios/production companies/investors are the company that produces those products. The business model of the company is to have enough profit across all of its products such that overall the company is profitable. McDonald’s doesn’t need its salads to be individually profitable, as long as it sells enough Big Macs to cover the salads’ losses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movies in general are a terrible investment; many if not &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; of the movies released every year will lose money. The flip side to that, though, is that the few films that make money often make a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of money. The big Hollywood studios have the best batting average in terms of profitability, but even they have years where one or more of the studios will come out net negative for the year across all of their films. Smaller companies and investors try to release “slates” of films to better their odds that one will be so profitable as to cover the losses of the others. Unfortunately (for the companies, at least) there’s no way to know ahead of time whether a movie will be profitable or not, so many get made in the hope that a few will be loved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5352" LastActivityDate="2013-07-06T02:39:54.667" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12373" CreationDate="2013-07-06T03:17:09.980" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As @Mathew notes, certainly the second book/movie was rigged, inasmuch as the rules were changed so as to ensure that Katniss’ name would be the only name in the girls’ bowl. The &lt;em&gt;Catching Fire&lt;/em&gt; trailer confirms as much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the first book, though, no, there’s nothing in the book or movie to imply that the selections were rigged. Not that this means that they weren’t, but it’s just one of the many details that the book and film leave ambiguous. You could argue that the quasi-rigged nature of the second book’s selection implies that the selection in the first book was likely rigged as well. But I would counter, for what purpose would the authorities have deliberately selected the original choices of Peeta and Prim? Neither one seemed to pose any threat to the state to make them worth eliminating, nor did either one seem to present much opportunity for juicy television. It’s even more of a stretch to assume that Prim was chosen to entice Katniss to volunteer in her place, as volunteers in District 12 are said to be rare; and at that point in the story, it’s unclear that the authorities would have had anything against Katniss either (or known about the potential love angle with Peeta). If the authorities had wanted Katniss in the Games, presumably they would have simply chosen her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5352" LastActivityDate="2013-07-06T03:17:09.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12386" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35393" CreationDate="2013-07-06T10:08:50.730" Score="13" ViewCount="36718" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is an iconic dialogue from the movie &quot;&lt;strong&gt;A Few Good Men&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lt. Kafee: Did you order the CODE RED?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Col. Jessup: YOU GODDAMN RIGHT I DID!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is whether the evidence against Colonel Nathan Jessup was sufficient and compact to prosecute him and acquit the two marines?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the course of the hearing, it is sufficiently proved that &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Code Red&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; is an unofficial disciplinary action conducted at Gitmo. So Col. Jessup says he ordered it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the confrontation between Kaffee and Jessup leading up to the above dialogue, Jessup froth about the rigid chain of command within the Armed Forces with &quot;&lt;strong&gt;We follow orders or PEOPLE DIE&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. That a Marine officer will not and cannot ignore his superiors' orders under any circumstances.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, the court takes this bit of information (I will not call this confession) and combines it with Code Red confession in order to prosecute Jessup. The Code Red practice is confirmed by many witnesses, but this &lt;strong&gt;&quot;rigid chain of command&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; is not proved or endorsed by anybody other than Jessup. So it must stand as his interpretation that a superiors officer's orders will never be ignored and will always be followed and not a fact and therefore not a confession.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So even though I as a viewer in a theater want to &quot;Punch in the face&quot; Jack Nicholson for his amazing portrayal of Colonel Nathan Jessup, how can an unbiased court in the film prosecute him with the evidence at hand?    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Code Red doesn't mean an order to kill&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, what kind of punishment was he likely to get after his conviction?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not looking for opinionated answers but plot explanations/inconsistencies/holes if any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T23:22:52.960" LastActivityDate="2021-03-24T20:32:48.307" Title="How did the Court prosecute Col. Jessup in A Few Good Men" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|a-few-good-men|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12376" CreationDate="2013-07-06T12:06:08.343" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest I don't think there is any real issue here regarding similar films from the two animation stables and disagree with anyone who thinks there are more than two comparable sets of films in the original question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, we can eliminate two of your examples, as Dreamworks were not involved (&lt;em&gt;The Wild, Robots&lt;/em&gt;), so perhaps the question could be made more general - this then negates the alleged 'conflict'.&#xA;Also, &lt;em&gt;Flushed Away&lt;/em&gt; was an Aardman production before Dreamworks came on board as a distribution partner. &#xA;In fact, the only films that show any resemblance to each other are &lt;em&gt;A Bug's Life&lt;/em&gt; (which was a remake of &lt;em&gt;Seven Samurai&lt;/em&gt;) and &lt;em&gt;Antz&lt;/em&gt; (which was an semi-original story), and &lt;em&gt;Finding Nemo&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Shark Tale&lt;/em&gt;, which share nothing else other than being set under the sea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it well known that there are occasional years when live action releases seem to follow a similar theme (&lt;em&gt;Armageddon/Deep Impact, Volcano/Devil's Peak, Snow White and the Huntsman/Mirror, Mirror&lt;/em&gt;, even this year with &lt;em&gt;Olympus has Fallen/White House Down&lt;/em&gt;). In most cases this is down to coincidence, or one production company rushing to get their version out before the other, thus affecting the release dates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pixar and Dreamworks have no reason to copy each other. The amount of time and money invested in any given animated feature is phenomenal and both companies know that merely copying the other (or even entertaining the fake notion that there is a rivalry between the two houses) does them no favors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, Pixar went so far as to scrap one of their future releases, &lt;em&gt;Newt&lt;/em&gt;, due to possible conflicts with other productions. Some industry insiders believe it was the similarity of the story to Blue Sky's &lt;em&gt;Rio&lt;/em&gt;, others attribute it to the success of &lt;em&gt;Rango&lt;/em&gt; (ILM) with Pixar not wanting to turn out 'another' lizard/amphibian flick. &#xA;You can see some of the concept art for Newt at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://pixar.wikia.com/Newt&quot;&gt;Pixar Wiki&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line: the similarities are few and far between and these can be put down to coincidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-07-06T13:49:36.550" LastActivityDate="2013-07-06T13:49:36.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12388" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21538" CreationDate="2013-07-06T17:26:25.243" Score="34" ViewCount="78844" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always wondered about this exchange of dialogue in &quot;Pulp Fiction&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Butch:&lt;/strong&gt; You lookin' at something, friend?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vincent:&lt;/strong&gt; You ain't my friend, Palooka.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Butch:&lt;/strong&gt; What's that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vincent:&lt;/strong&gt; I think you heard me just fine, Punchy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is Vincent's problem with Butch?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this just foreshadowing -- in other words, a set-up for the scene later in which Butch kills Vincent? Is it demonstration of Vincent's lousy personality? Or is there some plot element I'm missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;side note: While searching Google, I came across the intriguing idea that after the dialogue above, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pulpfiction.com/news-who-keyed-vicents-car.html&quot;&gt;Butch keyed Vincent's car&lt;/a&gt; (something Vincent complains about in another part of the movie)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-21T08:44:12.863" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T00:36:21.557" Title="Why did Vincent Vega diss Butch?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12386" CreationDate="2013-07-06T18:09:10.073" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I understand your amply lengthy question correctly, you want to know how the court can punish him without sufficient proof against him. Actually Kaffee had a strong witness, i.e. Col. Markinson, whose testimony was sufficient to punish Col. Jessup. But due to his sad and sudden death, Kaffee felt lost. So the only thing Kaffee could think of was to produce Col. Jessup and to compel him to admit that he had ordered the Code Red. So he summoned Jessup in the court, questioned him wittingly, trapped him by exploiting his intolerant nature and finally made him admit that he had ordered Code Red himself. Now a self-admittance or confession is no doubt above all proofs. If somebody confesses his own misdeed, what else proof is needed for? So the court found him guilty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-26T01:51:53.937" LastActivityDate="2016-07-26T01:51:53.937" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12388" CreationDate="2013-07-06T18:14:05.687" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Urban Dictionary defines &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=palooka&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;palooka&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as &quot;A fighter who isn't any good, or takes a dive.&quot;  Marsellus had summoned Butch to tell him to throw the upcoming fight.  That's when he told him &quot;The night of the fight, you may feel a slight sting. That's pride fucking with you.  &lt;em&gt;Fuck pride.&lt;/em&gt; Pride only hurts. It never helps.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vincent was showing his disdain for a fighter who takes a dive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastEditorUserId="564" LastEditDate="2013-08-21T10:30:01.430" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T10:30:01.430" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12382" CreationDate="2013-07-06T19:29:01.960" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachu&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, there are male and female Pikachu:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Standing 1.04 ft (0.4m) tall, Pikachu are mouse-like creatures, and&#xA;  were the first &quot;Electric-type&quot; Pokémon created, their design intended&#xA;  to revolve around the concept of electricity. They appear as&#xA;  mouse-like creatures that have short, yellow fur with brown markings&#xA;  covering their backs and parts of their lightning bolt shaped tails.&#xA;  They have black-tipped, pointed ears and red circular pouches on their&#xA;  cheeks, which can spark with electricity. In &lt;em&gt;Pokémon Diamond and&#xA;  Pearl&lt;/em&gt;, gender differences were introduced; a female Pikachu now has an&#xA;  indent at the end of its tail, giving it a heart-shaped appearance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This evidence comes from the game. I cannot find evidence of a female Pikachu in the television series, but presumably since they are from the same franchise, it would hold that Ash's Pikachu is male.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-07-06T19:29:01.960" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12392" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-06T20:46:29.473" Score="14" ViewCount="7412" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Godfather, Part II&lt;/em&gt;, it is shown that Vito Corleone's olive oil business is called &quot;Genco Import Co.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oxnwn.png&quot; alt=&quot;Genco Import Co.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, near the end of &lt;em&gt;The Godfather&lt;/em&gt;, there is a sign outside his house as the family is packing up to move to Las Vegas that says &quot;Genco Land Co.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2ZfSu.png&quot; alt=&quot;Genco Land Co.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, it's strange that there would be a sign for &quot;Future Commercial Development&quot; outside this house in the first place, because as we know the house passed down to Frank Pentangeli.  What's more interesting to me, though, is that these two companies have the same name.  I thought it might just be a Hollywood stand-in for &quot;Generic Company&quot;, except that the name has a real background to it -- it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genco_Abbandando&quot;&gt;the first name of an old Corleone family friend&lt;/a&gt;.  Did the Corleone family have interests in real estate as well as in olive oil?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastActivityDate="2019-09-08T23:27:52.397" Title="The sign outside Vito Corleone's house" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12382" CreationDate="2013-07-07T02:41:14.547" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is officially male!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reading through the entirety of the Bulbapedia Article on Ash's Pikachu, specifically the &lt;a href=&quot;http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ash%27s_Pikachu#Personality_and_characteristics&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trivia section&lt;/a&gt;, it is confirmed that Ash's Pikachu is in fact male:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/DP142&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Where No Togepi Has Gone Before!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; it was confirmed that Pikachu is&#xA;  male. His physical appearance could not be used as proof, since gender&#xA;  differences were not implemented until after he had debuted in the&#xA;  anime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further to Mary Jo Finch's answer, there is another recent episode (&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/BW098&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Beauties Battling for Pride and Prestige!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;) where Pikachu disguises himself as a female, seen here:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1XKFS.png&quot; alt=&quot;Pikachu and Pansage&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pokémon the anime started in 1997. Gender differences in a pokémon species was added in 1999, in Generation 2 of the games. The Togepi episode was 2009, the Beauties episode was 2012. 12 years to find out Pikachu is male.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4174" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-07-19T18:18:31.167" LastActivityDate="2016-07-19T18:18:31.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6844" CreationDate="2013-07-07T03:04:53.427" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't forget who we're talking about here - &quot;James Bond&quot; - highly-intelligent and a very fast thinker -  Skyfall has the implied meaning, &quot;The Sky is Falling&quot; - so his answer was actually 100% correct.  The term &quot;Skyfall&quot; is associated with something - civilization, for example - and/or the test - and the villain - being &quot;done.&quot;  ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5355" LastActivityDate="2013-07-07T03:04:53.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12371" CreationDate="2013-07-07T03:09:25.400" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would argue the answer to this is no; fear of death may be a powerful impulse of the spirit but to say it is the &lt;strong&gt;MOST&lt;/strong&gt; powerful does not satisfy reason (which is the basis of philosophy), and facing the fear of death is not enough to explain the power of the superhero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A bit of logic…&lt;/strong&gt; When faced with a statement of absolute (MOST&#xA;powerful impulse), one only has to find an example where this is not&#xA;true to disprove it. In the news we hear stories of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/19479052/army-hero-dies-after-taking-bullets-for-girl&quot;&gt;people who gave&#xA;their life for others&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/5146667/Taliban-shoot-dead-female-politician-who-fought-for-womens-rights.html&quot;&gt;for a greater cause&lt;/a&gt;. History records the&#xA;stories of &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/129587.stm&quot;&gt;martyrs&lt;/a&gt; who put a cause above their own lives.  Armies&#xA;are full of soldiers prepared to give their own life in service for&#xA;their country. We can conclude from this that sometimes other&#xA;impulses outweigh the impulse to save oneself. In fact, Bruce Wayne&#xA;is arguably less motivated by fear of his own death than he is by&#xA;his belief that he is the only one who can save the city.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nolan’s scene seems to support the statement, but…&lt;/strong&gt;   In this scene,&#xA;Bruce Wayne increases his fear of death by removing the safety net&#xA;of the rope, and draws strength from the increased fear, which&#xA;allows him to succeed (audience cheers and walks away convinced that&#xA;the prisoner was right). Indeed, if you know you have only one&#xA;chance to succeed at something, and you believe absolutely in the&#xA;need to succeed (Wayne felt he was the only one who could save the&#xA;city, so his survival was imperative), then that fear &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; increase&#xA;focus and success. If we follow this to its logical conclusion,&#xA;however, it suggests that whenever Bruce Wayne/ Batman faces a&#xA;challenge, he can increase his power by removing his safety nets –&#xA;weapons, tools, protection. If the fear of one’s death is the most&#xA;powerful impulse of the spirit, does it follow that increasing the&#xA;fear increases one’s resolve/strength/power? Would a naked Batman,&#xA;whose fear would be the greatest, be most powerful?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The philosophical view of fear of death…&lt;/strong&gt; Ancient philosophers such&#xA;as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ancientl.com/philosophy/fear-of-death-and-epicurean-philosophy/&quot;&gt;Epicurus&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=6848&quot;&gt;Socrates&lt;/a&gt; argued that death is nothing and fear of it&#xA;is illogical (Socrates you may remember was sentenced to death and&#xA;chose not to escape prison when given the opportunity, instead&#xA;facing death in line with his views). Nolan’s view is probably closest to&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/191224?uid=3739920&amp;amp;uid=2129&amp;amp;uid=2&amp;amp;uid=70&amp;amp;uid=4&amp;amp;uid=3739256&amp;amp;sid=21102510017727&quot;&gt;Thomas Hobbes&lt;/a&gt;, who argued that the fear of a &lt;em&gt;violent&lt;/em&gt; death was the&#xA;most powerful force in human life. This isn’t quite the same as just&#xA;fearing the end of life. (I am not finding writings&#xA;by other philosophers that differ much from these views – perhaps someone else will add&#xA;some other research.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Philosophy as applied to Batman and superheroes…&lt;/strong&gt; If fear of death is&#xA;not the greatest impulse for Bruce Wayne, what is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his book, &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=efpm5Wcb_OgC&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;amp;dq=Superheroes%20and%20Philosophy%3a%20Truth,%20Justice,%20and%20the%20Socratic%20Way&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=nf_WUY2DPYm49QSbuoDADQ&amp;amp;ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Superheroes and Philosophy: Truth, Justice, and the&#xA;Socratic Way&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Tom Morris theorizes that rather than fear of death,&#xA;our deepest fear is fear of our own power. The superhero faces the fear of embracing&#xA;his power, and when we humans look up to the superhero, it is not&#xA;fearlessness in the face of death that we seek to emulate, it is the&#xA;courage to embrace our own power to achieve the most noble pursuit&#xA;we are capable of in any given moment. It is the fear of embracing&#xA;an ideal so absolutely that we would willingly risk our life for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another interesting read on the subject is &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=hf5f3r38P1cC&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;amp;dq=Batman%20and%20Philosophy%3a%20The%20Dark%20Knight%20of%20the%20Soul&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=av_WUcCvH4r29gT034GwDg&amp;amp;ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Batman and Philosophy:&#xA;The Dark Knight of the Soul&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Mark D White and Robert Arp).  It&#xA;posits that Batman’s primary motivation is deontological – Bruce&#xA;Wayne does what he does in promise to his parents. He always keeps&#xA;his promise, and it is his resolve that his enemies fear most. It is&#xA;his resolve that is the source of his strength, not his fears. It&#xA;his resolve that allowed him to climb out of the pit. The book&#xA;offers a fairly thorough discussion of Batman, his virtuous hatred,&#xA;his role in the process of justice, his origins and ethics, issues&#xA;of identity, and his connection to existentialism and Taoism.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-07-07T03:09:25.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12400" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12403" CreationDate="2013-07-07T13:16:01.490" Score="63" ViewCount="15799" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Prestige&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, it's revealed that Borden accomplishes his Transported Man trick by using his twin brother, Fallon, as a double. It then becomes clear that he has been doing this in his personal life as well as on stage - each brother leads 'half a life', sometimes appearing as Borden and sometimes as Fallon. This is how he completes the illusion: one Borden goes into the first door, the other Borden emerges from the second door a moment later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Angier doesn't know how Borden does the trick, and doesn't believe Borden uses a double despite being told as much by Cutter. He follows what he believes to be a clue in Borden's notebook and travels to Colorado to meet Nikola Tesla, who Angier believes can build a machine that can help him perform the trick. Angier believes that Tesla built a similar machine for Borden. However, the final pages of the notebook reveal that Tesla was merely a red herring, designed to get Angier out of Borden's way for a long time. Tesla, it turns out, had never built such a machine before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, Tesla agrees to build Angier's machine anyway. Instead of building a machine that transports matter, he builds one that duplicates it. Angier uses this machine in his act, but in order to avoid having to deal with multiple clones (the &amp;quot;prestige materials&amp;quot;), one of them must die as part of the act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This all makes sense, so far, but I find it hard to believe that Borden's use of the word 'Tesla' as the key to his cipher is random. It's too coincidental that he sends Angier on a wild goose chase, but Angier returns with a working machine. A film that is otherwise so tightly plotted shouldn't rely on coincidence to move the narrative forward, so there must be something else going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that Borden cloned himself using Tesla's machine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5318" LastEditorUserId="5318" LastEditDate="2020-10-28T22:41:31.983" LastActivityDate="2020-10-28T22:41:31.983" Title="Is Borden's true identity real, or another ruse?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="750" CreationDate="2013-07-07T15:09:28.737" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, from memory, Liz Gold (or &quot;Nan&quot; if that's what she was called in the movie) hadn't actually committed any crime so there's no reason for Mundt to have her in gaol to start with, let alone execute her. In fact, she was the key witness on HIS side of the case. However, she is a loose end so if she tries to climb over the Berlin Wall, he can have her killed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5360" LastActivityDate="2013-07-07T15:09:28.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12392" CreationDate="2013-07-07T16:07:09.593" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the appearance of the name &quot;Genco Land Co.&quot; is meant to show how the legitimate-business front for the Corleone crime empire has grown from its relatively simple beginning as the olive-oil import company to a diverse web of businesses under the Genco name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So IMHO, the answer is yes: at the time of the move-out depicted above, the Corleone family's Genco operations include interests in real estate as well as in olive oil -- and presumably in other businesses, too. This parallels Vito Corleone's rise from a young man with nothing to a powerful player rich enough to own things like the mansion seen above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2013-07-08T19:36:22.733" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T19:36:22.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12400" CreationDate="2013-07-07T17:31:57.467" Score="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this is an interesting idea (and one which others have brought up on this site before, but I'm glad someone finally turned this into a proper question), I think &lt;strong&gt;it contradicts both the movie's plot and its overall themes&lt;/strong&gt;. So no, I don't think there is much evidence in favor of this theory, but there is IMHO very well evidence against it, even if not so hard an evidence (and interpretation is still a free good).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you yourself stated in your question, &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt; and his twin both lived half a life for their entire life. And in turn this is &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;their real trick and shows true dedication to their art&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. This is what actually distinguishes &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt; from &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt;, who always tried to go the easy way and couldn't even imagine devoting his entire life to &amp;quot;just a magic trick&amp;quot;. That is why &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; doesn't get behind the old Chinese magician's trick and &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt; immediately realizes it, because the Chinese magician also devoted his entire non-stage life to keeping up the actual trick, like &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt; did. And this is also the reason why &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; cannot believe &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt; to just use a double for his &lt;em&gt;Transported Man&lt;/em&gt;, since his own attempts with a double were not that fruitful and didn't work that well in the end, since he just wanted to do it the fast and easy way. So he thought there must be more to it than such a simple secret, but &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;The secret impresses no one, the trick you use it for is everything&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; (which might in the end even be the reason why you yourself think there to be more to &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt;'s trick, he achieved to deceive you, too ;-)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So given this &lt;strong&gt;major theme of dedicating his whole life to his art&lt;/strong&gt; in contrast to going the  fast and easy way to just to do a good show, &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt; also using a cloning machine wouldn't really fit that well. And in the end &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tesla&lt;/em&gt; himself said he never built such a thing&lt;/strong&gt;, and while we might not believe him, he didn't have so much reason to lie at this point (having previously claimed to have built it until &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; finds out he didn't). And even more important, what would be the reason for &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt; to send  &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;Tesla&lt;/em&gt; if he knew he could build such a thing, since &lt;strong&gt;it was always planned as a distraction for &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;? While the coincidence might strike you as too coincidental, &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt; sending him to the actual goal and just &lt;em&gt;pretending&lt;/em&gt; it to be a wild goose chase would be much more of a plot-inconsistency. This also &lt;strong&gt;doesn't fit to &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt;'s reaction&lt;/strong&gt; on this whole setup. He was as surprised as you and me that &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; actually &amp;quot;survived&amp;quot; the supposed murder, so &lt;strong&gt;he had absolutely no idea that &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; had a machine for cloning himself&lt;/strong&gt;, which wouldn't be the case had he known that &lt;em&gt;Tesla&lt;/em&gt; could construct such a device.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that being said let's take a look at &lt;em&gt;Tesla&lt;/em&gt;'s significance as keyword and the supposed coincidence. There is still a reason for &lt;em&gt;Tesla&lt;/em&gt; being used as keyword while coincidentally being able to build that machine, even if not as impressive a reason. In the movie he once was at a science fair or something similar in &lt;em&gt;London&lt;/em&gt;, which both &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt; attended as spectators. &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt; might very well have seen &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; there and might have seen that &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; was impressed by &lt;em&gt;Tesla&lt;/em&gt;'s rather innovative science (that might have seemed like magic at that time), while all the others literally ran away in fear. So &lt;strong&gt;he thought &lt;em&gt;Tesla&lt;/em&gt; might be someone that &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; could really believe to have built such a &amp;quot;magic&amp;quot; machine&lt;/strong&gt;, which made him a reasonable keyword, given that he lived so far away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that &lt;em&gt;Tesla&lt;/em&gt; could in the end really build such a thing was &lt;strong&gt;a coincidence &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt; did not anticipate&lt;/strong&gt;, and was actually &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/36460/49&quot;&gt;an homage to &lt;em&gt;Nikola Tesla&lt;/em&gt;'s genius&lt;/a&gt;, using a bit of an overfictionalized version of the actual historical person.&lt;/strong&gt; While not being an expert in this topic I know that even the real &lt;em&gt;Tesla&lt;/em&gt; has a reputation for being quite an innovative person who had ideas that didn't get the respect or appreciation they deserved at their time (even if a duplication machine was maybe a bit over the top even for him), which also fits to his mythical introduction in the movie and his overall impressing presence (amazingly incarnated by noone else than &lt;em&gt;David Bowie&lt;/em&gt;). So if anyone could have built such a machine at this time it would be &lt;em&gt;Tesla&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt; might have been aware of this fact (even if he underestimated him and didn't really deem it possible) and assumed that &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; thought the same. So the writer of the script (or rather the novel it was based on) &lt;strong&gt;payed his tribute to the real &lt;em&gt;Nicola Tesla&lt;/em&gt; by letting his fictional version achieve true scientific magic&lt;/strong&gt;, while presenting quite a surprising, well yeah, coincidence to the audience. &lt;strong&gt;It wasn't so much a coincidence more than &lt;em&gt;Borden&lt;/em&gt; and all of us just underestimating the genius of &lt;em&gt;Nikola Tesla&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, like real history might have done, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="25920" LastEditDate="2020-10-28T09:55:21.350" LastActivityDate="2020-10-28T09:55:21.350" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10148" CreationDate="2013-07-08T00:42:22.460" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the script from the movie: (&lt;a href=&quot;http://flash.sonypictures.com/video/movies/thesocialnetwork/awards/thesocialnetwork_screenplay.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDUARDO:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  What’s going on?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MARK (narration):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Perfect timing. Eduardo’s here and he’s going to have the key ingredient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDUARDO:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Mark.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MARK:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Wardo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDUARDO:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;You and Erica split up?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MARK:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;How did you know that?&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDUARDO:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;It’s on your blog.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emphasised how Eduardo knew about Mark and Erica breaking up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the narration of Mark's blog for the night:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MARK (narration):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I'm a little intoxicated, I'm not gonna lie. So what if it’s not even 10PM and it’s a Tuesday night? The Kirkland facebook is open on my desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendous facebook pics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Billy Olson’s sitting here and had the idea of putting some of these next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on who’s hotter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yea, it’s on. &lt;em&gt;I’m not gonna do the farm animals but I like the idea of comparing two people together&lt;/em&gt;. It gives the whole thing a very “Turing” feel since people’s ratings of the pictures will be more implicit than, say, choosing a number to represent each person’s hotness like they do on hotornot.com. The first thing we're going to need is a lot of pictures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, Harvard doesn’t keep a public centralized facebook so I’m going &#xA;  to have to get all the images from the individual houses that people are in. &lt;em&gt;Let the hacking begin&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emphasised on what he was &quot;planning&quot; to do, but didn't actually state in his blog (at least in the voice over) that he was in progress of creating the ranking website. Only that he had an idea he liked of &quot;comparing two people together&quot; and that he was hacking the Harvard facebook websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe Eduardo read that part, but simply ignored it as Mark seemed to be a person who is outspoken on his emotions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T00:42:22.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12405" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12408" CreationDate="2013-07-08T07:23:11.140" Score="15" ViewCount="83571" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;strong&gt;Kung Fu Panda&lt;/strong&gt;, in the final fight scene between Po &amp;amp; Tai Lung, Po defeats Tai Lung using Wuxi Finger hold. All we see in the movie is a release of energy &amp;amp; puff of dust moving radially outward. What exactly happens to Tai Lung? Does he die/vaporize/incapacitated?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, is this Wuxi Finger hold a script-writer's creation or does it exist in reality or in mythical KungFu scriptures?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastActivityDate="2016-11-16T18:38:36.447" Title="What is the Wuxi Finger hold with which Po defeats Tai Lung in Kung Fu Panda" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|kung-fu-panda|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12405" CreationDate="2013-07-08T11:52:39.453" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Wuxi Finger hold  does not exist in reality or even in mythical Kung fu scriptures.&#xA;It's a script writer's creation. But it is inspired by some real stuff like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_of_Death&quot;&gt;Touch of Death&lt;/a&gt;. It says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The 2008 animated Wuxia parody Kung Fu Panda depicts a &quot;Wuxi Finger Hold&quot;, in which holding an opponent by one finger produces an enormous shockwave of energy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if you look into the &lt;a href=&quot;http://kungfupanda.wikia.com/wiki/Wuxi_Finger_Hold&quot;&gt;Kunfu Panda wikia&lt;/a&gt; you will find this - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a Scholastic News Online interview with &quot;Po&quot;, when asked about the hardest move for him to learn, Po answered it was the Wuxi Finger Hold and states that Shifu told him (after having defeated Tai Lung with it) that there actually is no such move; it was just a story that masters made up to scare their students. Po added that he can't recall exactly how he did it, but he feels he must practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-07-08T11:53:24.313" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T11:53:24.313" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12388" CreationDate="2013-07-08T13:45:21.010" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that Butch was just in the wrong place at the wrong time for Vince.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vince had had a exchange with about what he was going to do with Marsellus's wife which had angered him, the barman realised this and quickly walked away.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vince was angry and took it out on Butch, he would have had a go at anyone else who caught his eye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T13:45:21.010" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12371" CreationDate="2013-07-08T13:57:53.710" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is the fear of death the most powerful impulse of the spirit for Batman in &lt;em&gt;Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.  Bruce Wayne ends up showing us his humanity in many ways, including a few of his fears, in this movie.  However, considering that he fights and puts himself in harm's way as he does, a fear of death is not one of his fears.  Although he trusts the technology behind his gear, and the design behind the technology, a fear of death would hamper his ability to perform his death-defying stunts and acrobatics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is the fear of death the most powerful impulse of the spirit superheroes in other films&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose that one could argue that Tony Stark is kept alive by the magnet in his chest that he improved and maintains because he has a fear of death, and that the creation of his suit in the first Iron Man movie was also because he feared dying (being killed) in that cave.  Of course, he wanted to do a lot of damage on the way out, and he feared that Stark Industry weapons would continue to be used against American troops and innocent civilians... but that's a different fear.  However, I don't believe that the Green Lantern is motivated by a fear of death at all.  I don't believe Superman in any of his movie incarnations is motivated by a fear of death.  I &lt;strong&gt;know&lt;/strong&gt; the Hulk isn't motivated by a fear of death.  I suspect that a fear of losing his sense of humor is the most powerful motivating factor in Spiderman's life.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I believe that motivations, or what drives the Individual Superheroes, are as different and individual to each Hero as the Heroes are themselves.  I mean, X-Men aren't quite Superheroes in the same sense that Batman, Superman, and Spiderman... but you can definitely say that a fear of death is not in Wolverine's mental bag of tricks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there a philosophical understanding of fear and in particular fear of death that supports the idea and development of the superhero?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, it depends on the Superhero.  In the case of Green Lantern, the understanding and study of fear is &lt;strong&gt;integral&lt;/strong&gt; to the development of the entire Green Lantern Corps.  Fear had it's own color (Yellow) and got a ring, was the motivation behind a Supervillan, etc.  Fear in general, and specific fears, don't play as much of a part in many of the Superman movies... although Superman giving up his power to settle down with Lois Lane &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have been out of fear of turning her to mush during some Supersex.  Probably not though.  The development of Doctor Manhattan was not born of a fear of death.  He pretty much started out as dead, or believing himself dead.  As he once said, reconstituting himself from scattered atoms was the first thing he figured out how to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can say that there is typically a &lt;em&gt;moral&lt;/em&gt; message in each Superhero storyline, and that there is a moral struggle each Superhero faces.  However, you can't globally say that all superheroes struggle with a fear of death.  Some would welcome it at one time or another.  I'm sure Bruce Banner wished more than a few times early on that he could die rather than become the Hulk... until he got some kind of handle on it.  But with the Hulk, the story is definitely more about Rage and dealing with it properly, than it is about fear and the fear of death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; It is important to note that Bruce Wayne's statement...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I do fear death. I fear dying in here, while my city burns, and there's no one there to save it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... is more a fear of being impotent (in being able to save Gotham) than an actual fear of death.  I mean, I realize he says the words &quot;I do fear death, I fear dying here&quot; but taken alone out of context, you miss what it is he actually fears, which is the death of Gotham, not the death of Bruce Wayne or the death of Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="4621" LastEditDate="2013-07-08T14:19:49.757" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T14:19:49.757" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12400" CreationDate="2013-07-08T16:43:18.387" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should be noted that while Tesla was not responsible for Borden's trick, he did in fact make a machine for Borden, who in one scene uses a Tesla Coil on stage during a performance. So clearly Borden took a real interest in Tesla, enough to purchase one of the man's electrical devices. Thus, we have further evidence that Borden's use of Tesla as the keyword to his notebook was perhaps genuine and not merely a ruse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4878" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T16:43:18.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12417" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12418" CreationDate="2013-07-08T20:10:47.310" Score="13" ViewCount="3381" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Season 3 Episode 6&lt;/em&gt; Sansa is dragged all across the story, for who she's supposed to marry.  I don't quite understand why she's so important.  Because there is her brother Rob, who is the King of the North and Lord of Winterfell. And if he fell wouldn't all of that go to Bran (&lt;em&gt;although he may or may not be alive according to their knowledge&lt;/em&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-07-09T07:17:00.543" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T07:17:00.543" Title="Why is Sansa Stark so important?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12417" CreationDate="2013-07-08T20:17:29.423" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bran is believed to be dead. When Robb marches to war, Theon Greyjoy betrays the Starks and takes Winterfell. Bran and Rickon escape. Theon eventually has two boys slain at a farm and says that they were Bran and Rickon. As far as the greater world knows, all the Stark men are dead, which leaves Sansa (the oldest girl) as the heir to Winterfell. Whoever marries her will become Lord of that region.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2013-07-08T20:17:29.423" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12361" CreationDate="2013-07-09T01:14:26.240" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the Father is the commander of the camp, he knows how thorough his orders are carried out, and  the lack of mercy his subordinates use. Since the son has never met the subordinate guards, they don't know him by sight. When the barracks are emptied, they are emptied with extreme prejudice. As soon as the Father and mother see the empty barracks, their first thought is obviously that there is no hope in finding their son alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T01:14:26.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11684" CreationDate="2013-07-09T02:51:39.897" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;John dies at the end&quot; initially was a web novel series by Jason Pargin (aka David Wong), one of the editors of cracked.com. This also is the reason why the book is somewhat episodic at times: It was not written and published at once, but one part after another. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pargin later got a book contract for the story and it was published under the same title, which then finally was filmed into said movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So one likely explanation is that when the web series started under the title &quot;John dies at the end&quot;, Wong/Pargin may have planned to actually kill him off and simply ditched the idea while the story developed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An equally likely possibility is that the title is merely a joke. It certainly fits with the book's overall humor and also acts as a great tool to intrigue a possible reader and keep the tension up while reading (&quot;Will John actually die?&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Major spoiler&lt;/strong&gt; for people who haven't read the book (Not joking! Read the book first, it's great):&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The title also cleverly subverts the reader's expectation in the book, because ultimately it is revealed that David is the one who dies. Unfortunately this twist does not make it into the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One last view one could have on the matter is that, because the story explains time as a nonlinear construct (users of the &quot;soy sauce&quot; drift through time), John might actually be dead at 'the end', wherever or whenever that may be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Robert Marley:&lt;/strong&gt; Time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud. Your mind... is a flying corn snake hovering through all the possibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However personally I don't find this to be a very good explanation for the title. I prefer to think of it simply as a clever and funny way to name your book/movie and the title is what actually got my attention and make me watch the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T02:51:39.897" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12386" CreationDate="2013-07-09T05:14:22.673" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I may be misremembering the ending of the movie, but I'm pretty sure that there is no reference at all to Jessup being prosecuted. He is arrested by military police, as a confession like that would be grounds for an arrest. But the movie does not portray any sort of prosecution of Jessup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, as viewers, we could make the assumption that he will be prosecuted in court, but that doesn't mean it would go well and certainly doesn't mean he would be convicted or punished. In fact, you could likely make the argument, based on what is presented in the movie, that Jessup, if he were to be prosecuted, might be found not guilty (or might plea bargain down to a lesser charge ... plea bargaining is a big plot device in the movie, after all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in other words, I think that the answer to your question is that, given what the movie tells us, we can't say anything at all about a theoretical Jessup prosecution; it is quite possible that there is not enough evidence to eventually prosecute or convict him (although I wouldn't call it a plot hole, but just a &quot;hey this movie is ending&quot; issue).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an interesting message board thread where people debate this issue more, coming to pretty much the same conclusion (that Jessup will likely be tried, but very possibly not convicted):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=556867&quot;&gt;http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=556867&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the two marines were not completely acquitted; they were both found guilty of conduct unbecoming and were dishonorably discharged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T05:14:22.673" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12426" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12436" CreationDate="2013-07-09T14:04:12.240" Score="5" ViewCount="17980" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars- Episode IV- A New Hope&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Luke's lightsaber has a light blue color, almost white, however in the prequel films the same blade is a dark blue instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the blade in &lt;em&gt;A New Hope&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1O3ba.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and here it is in &lt;em&gt;Revenge of the Sith&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kcEjs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an in universe reason for this change in color or is it simply a byproduct of the newer out-of-universe production techniques of making the lightsabers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: The same lightsaber is once again deep blue in &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cBCdmm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cBCdmm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v3DMym.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v3DMym.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-04-07T06:30:47.563" LastActivityDate="2022-03-21T00:06:55.280" Title="Why does Anakin/Luke's Lightsaber change colour?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12427" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12428" CreationDate="2013-07-09T16:07:54.383" Score="5" ViewCount="12483" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just finished watching Season 3 of The West Wing. In the last few episodes of that season the Secret Service have the codenames &lt;strong&gt;Flamingo&lt;/strong&gt; for C.J. and &lt;strong&gt;Eagle&lt;/strong&gt; for the President.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do other characters in The West Wing have codenames, and if so, what are they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastActivityDate="2016-06-27T05:35:02.717" Title="Secret Service codenames for West Wing characters" Tags="|the-west-wing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12427" CreationDate="2013-07-09T16:29:13.693" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://westwing.wikia.com/wiki/Secret_Sevice_Codenames&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;West Wing Wiki&lt;/a&gt; lists code names for only four characters:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;President Josiah Bartlett: Eagle&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Sam Seaborn: Princeton&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;C.j. Cregg: Flamingo&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Zoe Bartlett: Bookbag&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Service_codename#In_popular_culture&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; contains a few more:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;President Jed Bartlet - Eagle or Liberty&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Gus Westin (Grandson of Jed Bartlett) - Tonka&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Arnold Vinick - Big Sur&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en-us.reddit.com/r/thewestwing/comments/1foyri/secret_service_code_names/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;reddit&lt;/a&gt;, but most of these seem to be humorous, rather than authentic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2013-07-09T16:56:28.043" LastActivityDate="2013-07-09T16:56:28.043" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12431" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12434" CreationDate="2013-07-10T05:15:09.650" Score="6" ViewCount="1282" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, Thirteen Ghosts it was shown that ghosts can be captured in glass rooms. But how were they trapped there in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only answer I could find was for the Juggernaut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5374" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-07-10T07:09:17.603" LastActivityDate="2013-07-10T09:47:28.097" Title="How were all of the ghosts &quot;caught&quot; in the movie Thirteen Ghosts?" Tags="|plot-explanation|thirteen-ghosts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12432" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12433" CreationDate="2013-07-10T07:24:34.140" Score="24" ViewCount="25751" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 5 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0773262/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dexter&lt;/a&gt;, Detective Joey Quinn is heavily suspicious of Dexter and what he gets up to. Joey then hires Liddy to spy on him. Liddy gets some good evidence including pictures of Dexter and Lumen going out on his boat to dispose of a body. Dexter kills Liddy and its fairly obvious to Quinn that Dexter must have done it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blood is discovered on Quinn he gets brought in to be questioned. Quinn eventually gets released, but basically gives up in his pursuit of Dexter. Why is this? Is it just because he doesn't want to upset Debra?&#xA;(I'm on season 6, so I'm unsure if this issue resurfaces in later episodes.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="9012" LastEditDate="2017-04-03T04:45:38.180" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T21:37:54.363" Title="Why does Quinn give up on catching Dexter?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|dexter|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12432" CreationDate="2013-07-10T08:54:52.010" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, Dexter tests the blood on Quinn but provides falsified results stating that the blood is not Liddy's. Quinn realises that Dexter is getting him off the hook and then more or less lets Dexter off. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no hint that the suspicion has gone away, but that he accepts that Dexter is not all he seems, but trusts him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastActivityDate="2013-07-10T08:54:52.010" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12431" CreationDate="2013-07-10T09:47:28.097" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you mean how they are captured in general, then the beginning of the movie, which shows how they capture the &lt;em&gt;Juggernaut&lt;/em&gt; at a junkyard, answers this perfectly. If you ask how all the others got captured in particular, then this cannot be answered since it isn't explained in the movie at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you can assume that the overall process was similar to the shown one: &lt;em&gt;Cyrus&lt;/em&gt; and a team of specialists, one of them &lt;em&gt;Dennis&lt;/em&gt; the psychic, hunted them and trapped them into one of those glass containers they ended up in (though for some of those ghost it was probably much easier than this action-packed junkyard scene where many of &lt;em&gt;Cyrus&lt;/em&gt;'s team die). In fact that's one of the purposes of this first scene, showing how they captured those ghosts (even if the audience only learns about the actual meaning of this and all those characters later on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-07-10T09:47:28.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12426" CreationDate="2013-07-10T14:37:51.663" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;As @Jared points out in the comments, differences in the color of lightsabers between the Star Wars episodes, can be attributed to post-production.  There is no canonical (in-universe) reason for these color differences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, and taken directly from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11094/why-were-some-lightsaber-effects-in-a-new-hope-different-quality&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; that Jared linked to...&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4gbBy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;It&amp;#39;s Green&quot;&gt; &#xA;...before the last edited release on Blu-ray in 2011, it was made green (on the 2004 DVD edition). More than likely, if you are watching a copy of Star Wars that was released before 2004, you will find color differences from scene to scene. The 1997 Special Edition and original version, the same lightsaber in this scene is white.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T06:41:19.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12437" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12438" CreationDate="2013-07-10T18:21:46.987" Score="17" ViewCount="22858" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a devil like person, and a lot of flying creatures sort of like bats, which is why they had to leave the theatre, but what Opera were they watching?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5297" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-30T12:51:30.617" LastActivityDate="2017-05-31T14:56:36.143" Title="What opera does Bruce Wayne attend with his parents at the beginning of Batman Begins?" Tags="|plot-explanation|batman-begins|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12437" CreationDate="2013-07-10T18:34:58.907" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The opera is called &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mefistofele&quot;&gt;Mefistofele&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, which is a Faustian opera (i.e. dude makes a deal with the Devil).  Wikipedia states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Batman Begins depicts the opera being performed onstage, using an excerpt of Rampiamo, rampiamo, che il tempo ci gabba (Chorus of Warlocks and Witches from Act 2, scene 2) from the 1973 EMI (see &quot;Recordings&quot; above). During the scene, performers dressed as bat-like monsters frighten young Bruce Wayne, who asks to leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the opera, the title character is the Devil.  Mefistofele makes a bargain with the Forces of Good that he can corrupt Faust, and spends the opera trying to do so.  He does this by making deals with Faust, to fulfill Faust's wishes.  Faust pines for a woman, Mefistofele enables him to seduce the woman, but then the woman realizes Faust's relationship with Mefistofele and she seeks God's forgiveness.  This sort of thing happens a few times.  Eventually Faust realizes that neither the real nor the illusionary pleasures that Mefistofele offered were the perfect bliss Faust sought.  He grabs his Bible, seeks God's forgiveness, and receives it.  Mefistovele is then sent back to Hell, having failed to turn Faust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially this mirrors Batman's arc in the film.  Faust is Bruce, and Mefistofele is Ra's.  Batman is then God, I think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-07-10T19:23:40.323" LastActivityDate="2013-07-10T19:23:40.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12439" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12453" CreationDate="2013-07-11T00:22:29.743" Score="15" ViewCount="2918" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/&quot;&gt;Serenity (2005)&lt;/a&gt;, the crew finds on planet Miranda a video recorded by a woman. That woman explains how the Pax was added to the air system and the effects it had on the inhabitants eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did that woman herself survive when all other people either stopped breathing or became Reavers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastActivityDate="2019-09-11T23:20:10.800" Title="In Serenity, how did the woman on Miranda survive?" Tags="|plot-explanation|serenity|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6895" CreationDate="2013-07-11T01:16:33.120" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The beholder in dungeons and dragons is able to change its size and yes it has tentacles but there are eyeballs at the tip of each tentacle and it does have one eye.   Only thing wrong with it is that it is green&amp;mdash;the original color is a purple gray color.  I know this because I am a fantasy nut.  So yes, it very well could be a beholder or maybe Disney used the idea and made it their own.  As for the blue elf, I think she's from Zelda. I'm a full time gamer so ask me anything&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5383" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-07-11T07:27:01.410" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T07:27:01.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12439" CreationDate="2013-07-11T02:04:08.890" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can make out, the video message was recorded by one of the original researchers who were studying the effects of Pax on the planet's populace. The woman certainly seems to have all the information to hand, statistically and scientifically. This suggests that the researchers, like any 'Earthbound' equivalent, conducted their studies in a sealed environment, with air purifiers and other filters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would explain why she was still alive, albeit just long enough to make the recording before the Reavers attacked and massacred the team; the woman's on-screen death being a final footnote in the whole sorry state of affairs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-09-11T23:20:10.800" LastActivityDate="2019-09-11T23:20:10.800" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9168" CreationDate="2013-07-11T04:52:46.167" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think when he said she passed, he actually meant she passed up being a judge. But it ended too early to determine if he literally passed her or if it was a figure of speech.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5385" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-07-11T07:23:54.983" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T07:23:54.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12447" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12462" CreationDate="2013-07-11T10:31:31.947" Score="26" ViewCount="5156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just reading a piece about I am Legend and noticed that one particular scene that was shot on Brooklyn Bridge cost five million dollars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This piqued my curiosity as to what the most expensive scene ever shot was?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T21:55:56.197" LastActivityDate="2018-01-18T07:53:10.020" Title="What is the most expensive scene ever shot?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12448" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-11T11:01:25.800" Score="18" ViewCount="1298" Body="&lt;p&gt;What character/actor combo have appeared in the most movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know Christopher Lee has done at least nine Dracula roles by my count, and a lot of Harry Potter actors reached eight movies in the same role.  Hugh Jackman is about to have his seventh Wolverine, and Connery and Moore both have seven James Bond portrayals, but Desmond Llewellyn racked up 17 movies as Q.  Does anyone beat that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5389" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2014-05-16T15:22:55.937" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T15:22:55.937" Title="What character/actor combo have appeared in the most movies?" Tags="|character|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12448" CreationDate="2013-07-11T12:57:38.153" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you count short films as eligible, then Larry Fine, Moe Howard, and Shemp Howard (or Curly - doesn't really matter) outweigh all as the Three Stooges with a combined output in the hundreds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T12:57:38.153" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9168" CreationDate="2013-07-11T13:40:52.383" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously she passed and becomes a judge. The last scene of the movie is a silhouette (or back lit) view of Anderson in her Judge uniform ... at least this is what it appeared to be to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T13:40:52.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9884" CreationDate="2013-07-11T13:55:17.053" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;While Wheedon provides no real answers here, nature may bring some insight into view. I would suggest the Reavers were not &quot;insane&quot; so much as hyper-sensitive and overly aggressive. They would probably still have a hierarchy and order to their way of life. There would still be some type of &quot;chain-of-command&quot; where as to keep them in order. In the movie Riddick, they &quot;keep what they kill&quot; - seems this might apply here as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:25:21.773" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:25:21.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12439" CreationDate="2013-07-11T14:12:02.800" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The woman who made the recording arrived after the Pax was released on Miranda.  She was most likely part of the research team itself that released the Pax.  In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-NVs68X_S4&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Youtube video&lt;/a&gt; of the monologue, the way she talks about it as well as her reference to &amp;quot;they have killed most of us&amp;quot; also indicate that the group she was with was something separate from the population of Miranda.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, once the crew of the Serenity are on Miranda, they are attempting to locate the source of a beacon.  Their search leads them to this crashed ship...&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P483P.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...they enter the ship, and this is on the wall...&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CigFj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Research and Rescue.  Within the ship, Wash says &amp;quot;This is the source?&amp;quot; meaning the beacon they were looking for, and Jayne says &amp;quot;This ship's banged up all to hell.&amp;quot; confirming for the audience that they are NOT in a building, but on a ship.  They then play the recording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the woman who made the recording was part of a Research and Rescue team who at the very least knew about the Pax beforehand, and crashed on Miranda in an attempt to discover what happened after it was inflicted on the population of the planet.  They weren't in a sealed environment on the planet watching it all unfold.  Exactly when that ship crashed isn't explained (immediately on releasing the Pax, or long after) but since the details in the recording indicate that the Pax had time to cause everyone to die or change into Reavers, it is likely that the ship was forced down by Reavers in orbit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that none of the crew of Serenity is affected by the Pax also suggests that the ship crashed on Miranda at some point in time after the Pax had dissipated, so that the woman who made the recording wasn't affected at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T14:45:42.953" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11876" CreationDate="2013-07-11T19:01:19.583" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before I start, I'll disclose that I haven't seen the movie, nor do I work for Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having the characters code may just be something that the writers included for the movie but it would make sense: the best sales people are going to be those that really understand how the product works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, internships are designed to be wide-ranging, to introduce you to many aspects of the company.  While you're there, the company is looking to see where you fit-in the best, in case they end up hiring you.  Just because you think you're meant for a job in sales doesn't mean that you'll actually end up there.  The company you work for may decide that you are a better coder than sales person.  If nothing else, showing proficiency in more than one area makes you more appealing to a company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5395" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-07-11T23:47:49.183" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T23:47:49.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1885" CreationDate="2013-07-11T21:16:39.013" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, the transition from blindness to sight for the Bob Hoskins character personified Henry's &quot;finally seeing&quot; that he is dying/dead and must move on... just as the Bob Hoskins character gains his sight and then walks off into the fading-out train tracks. What an amazing film! Too bad that such gems of magnificence go so unnoticed by the masses. How sad. To each their own, yes, but I consider it a gift to be presented with such a thought-provoking experience that inspires us to share our perspectives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5396" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T21:16:39.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11876" CreationDate="2013-07-11T22:44:33.837" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other answers give reasonable rationales for why a movie script writer might require sales people to know coding.  Whether Google does or not, I don't know, but it is an extremely reasonable requirement, especially for such a company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, being a multi-decade software engineer, requiring experienced coding goes well beyond snobbery, tradition, or basic product understanding:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;drastically improves communication by providing a common frame of reference&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;provides a common lexicon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;expectations begin within reasonable limits on both sides (sales and engineering)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;improves sales perception of what is possible and impossible, and provides insight into how difficult (costly) a potential customer's application might be&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A joke I heard in the 1980s may shed more light:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q:  What's the difference between a used car salesman and a computer salesman?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   A:  The used car salesman &lt;em&gt;knows&lt;/em&gt; when he is lying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-07-11T22:44:33.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11198" CreationDate="2013-07-12T01:40:56.860" Score="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a deliberate directorial device.  We're experiencing the world through Walt and Jessie's eyes, so it allows us to appreciate their confusion, suspicion and fear through the powerlessness they feel when events are unfolding around them - with little understanding and consequent lack of control.  We're left to interpret the body language (of which 70% of communication arises) and the odd words that are similar in both languages.  Just as we would in the same situation. &lt;em&gt;shudder&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5397" LastEditorUserId="5397" LastEditDate="2013-07-30T16:08:34.753" LastActivityDate="2013-07-30T16:08:34.753" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12448" CreationDate="2013-07-12T11:19:47.777" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) had 1024 acting credits from 1937 through 1990&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5374" LastActivityDate="2013-07-12T11:19:47.777" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12447" CreationDate="2013-07-12T11:59:29.557" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fXhIrgJddQsC&amp;amp;pg=PT217&amp;amp;lpg=PT217&amp;amp;dq=Cleopatra%20%22most%20expensive%20scene%22&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=9-mTpTX1DM&amp;amp;sig=BinnGaOG1fJk3z4feHALV1doMpQ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=ZeffUZqbBIj40gXj4IDQAw&amp;amp;ved=0CFMQ6AEwBA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this book&lt;/a&gt;, Cleopatra's entry into Rome from the 1963 Elizabeth Taylor film is &lt;em&gt;the most expensive scene in motion picture history&lt;/em&gt; (that must be assuming that you adjust for inflation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/tNjrfXOgZkM?t=296&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The scene is on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;. As well as the massive set and giant Sphinx the scene required &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/jun/07/featuresreviews.guardianreview16&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;10,000 extras&lt;/a&gt;, Elizabeth Taylor's dress cost $6,500 alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastEditorDisplayName="user43022" LastEditDate="2018-01-18T07:53:10.020" LastActivityDate="2018-01-18T07:53:10.020" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12463" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12466" CreationDate="2013-07-12T12:38:37.443" Score="27" ViewCount="8585" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the movie &lt;em&gt;Saving Pvt. Ryan&lt;/em&gt;, most of the soldiers led by Capt. Miller (&lt;em&gt;Hanks&lt;/em&gt;) are dead and he himself too is fatally injured. It is obvious that they have been overwhelmed by the enemy forces and he is going to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a scene where he is sitting with his back supported by a truck and a Tiger tank is approaching. If my memory serves me right, they have already fired quite a few bazookas at it to no avail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that moment Hanks takes out his .45 pistol and starts firing at the tank. Had he gone delirious because of his injuries or the war at large? Or was it his resilience in the final moments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why would a person fire bullets at a tank?!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-07-12T12:55:25.730" LastActivityDate="2018-10-20T18:38:59.737" Title="Why is Tom Hanks firing at the tank in Saving Pvt. Ryan?" Tags="|character|plot-explanation|saving-private-ryan|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12465" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-12T13:13:17.027" Score="2" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Revenge&lt;/a&gt; has been renewed for a third season. However, it had steadily dropping viewership with just 6 million viewers watching the season 2 finale. There have been shows which have been cancelled with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numb3rs#Production&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;much higher and stable viewership&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this still on? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5123" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-08T18:34:11.787" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T18:34:11.787" Title="Why has the contract been renewed for another season when it has a low viewership?" Tags="|revenge-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12463" CreationDate="2013-07-12T13:24:37.367" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was definitely the last resort of a desperate man.&#xA;Broken and dazed, his company in tatters, Miller doggedly pulls out his pistol and fires at the tank in a futile but defiant gesture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His mission was over, Ryan had been found and given the message, Miller's trusted sergeant lay dead at his side, as far as Miller was concerned this was the end of the road. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So, in answer to your question, it was a combination of resilience, defiance and resignation that caused Miller to unload his pistol at the approaching tank.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-07-12T13:24:37.367" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12467" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="73355" CreationDate="2013-07-12T14:23:12.753" Score="9" ViewCount="7149" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the first Bollywood film to have a sequel or prequel ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The oldest I found is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigahen:_Nagina_Part_II&quot;&gt;Nigahen: Nagina Part II&lt;/a&gt; from 1989. But I think there should be more that are older than this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T00:51:08.993" LastActivityDate="2017-05-18T10:13:53.390" Title="What is the first Bollywood film to have a sequel/prequel?" Tags="|first-appearance|sequels|prequels|indian-cinema|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12465" CreationDate="2013-07-12T15:24:20.090" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some viewers are more valuable to advertisers (and hence a TV network) than others (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dmn3.com/dmn3-blog/conventional-wisdom-of-advertising-demographics-no-longer-applies&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Conventional advertising logic is that the number of viewers of a television program within the 18-49 age range is more important than the total number of viewers. Television advertising rates are still, by and large, based on this premise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Revenge is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_%28TV_series%29#Ratings&quot;&gt;popular with the 18-49 age range&lt;/a&gt;, so this is probably the reason for it being renewed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other possibly reasons for a show with low viewership being renewed are strong DVD sales (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peep_Show_%28TV_series%29#Ratings&quot;&gt;Peep Show&lt;/a&gt;) or being popular overseas (Revenge is &lt;a href=&quot;http://whatafy.com/revenge-the-series.html&quot;&gt;broadcast in over 30 countries&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastActivityDate="2013-07-12T15:24:20.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12471" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-12T19:29:08.423" Score="6" ViewCount="2097" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Man of Steel; How is it that no one seems to know of Lara's Pregnancy?  Did Jor El hide her away for the entire term of her pregnancy? Why was it considered Heresy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-13T10:45:03.977" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T10:45:03.977" Title="Lara's pregnancy in Man of Steel" Tags="|plot-explanation|dc-extended-universe|man-of-steel|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10432" CreationDate="2013-07-12T20:22:55.287" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's another explanation although without evidence of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither of the pills were poisonous. The poison was in a glass of water he would offer the victims to wash it down with. He'd dry swallow the pill. In my opinion it's one of the better answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However everything is entirely speculation so it could easily be wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5402" LastActivityDate="2013-07-12T20:22:55.287" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3923" CreationDate="2013-07-12T22:31:26.693" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sesame Street began in 1969, under the direction of the Children's Television Workshop (now known as Sesame Workshop). Jim Henson was contracted to provide the puppets for that show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that time, Jim Henson was also producing a number of specials starring other Muppet characters (Kermit, for example, had been created for a local TV show in 1955, and Rowlf for a commercial in 1962).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1976, The Muppet Show began. Most of that show's major characters, except for Kermit and Rowlf, were new creations either for the show itself or for a special intended as a pilot the previous year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 2000, Sesame Workshop bought the Muppet characters that had been appearing on their show from the Henson company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 2004, Disney bought the Muppet Show, its characters, spinoffs, movies, and a few precursor specials (along with the word &quot;Muppet&quot;) from Henson (along with Bear in the Big Blue House).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fraggle Rock and some other specials not starring either of the above-mentioned sets of characters (except in small roles) remain under the Jim Henson Company's ownership. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5406" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-11-10T01:52:06.883" LastActivityDate="2017-11-10T01:52:06.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10491" CreationDate="2013-07-13T01:59:50.773" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cook planned to double-cross the Driver by pursuing him after the robbery (which he did), killing him (which he failed at), and taking the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Driver learns this from Christina Hendricks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From IMDB:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Nino explains, the money belonged to an East coast mobster who was&#xA;  moving it in to finance a new LA based operation. The pawn shop was a&#xA;  front for him, and they would not want the police digging any deeper&#xA;  into the crime than is necessary. Saying that there was only one&#xA;  robber who ended up dead keeps them from tracing the money any&#xA;  further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5405" LastActivityDate="2013-07-13T01:59:50.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12471" CreationDate="2013-07-13T02:18:16.087" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're not really shown her carrying Clark to term, just him in the ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can make assumptions though.  Jor-El was a rather smart cookie, so he probably figured out a way to hide her away or figured out something to hide her belly (assuming they get pregnant like humans).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, from what it sounds Kryptonians weren't used to women walking around pregnant, so many of them probably wouldn't have known.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-07-13T02:18:16.087" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12481" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12509" CreationDate="2013-07-13T05:37:42.863" Score="19" ViewCount="28808" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right before the detonation of the large nuke, Mako said something to Stacker. It wasn't subtitled and I don't speak Japanese. What did she say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-07-13T17:36:19.157" LastActivityDate="2018-08-20T16:53:50.943" Title="What did Mako say?" Tags="|pacific-rim|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12482" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12498" CreationDate="2013-07-13T05:38:49.633" Score="13" ViewCount="1558" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the intro to the movie &lt;em&gt;Pacific Rim&lt;/em&gt;, they mention Kaiju Blue being somewhat of a problem after a kaiju was taken down. I didn't quite understand what it was or why it was a problem. What was it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-10-17T10:28:32.070" LastActivityDate="2018-10-17T11:04:54.347" Title="What was kaiju blue?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pacific-rim|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12483" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-13T13:37:27.833" Score="2" ViewCount="1507" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt;, near the end there are three dream levels. In Level 1, when the van enters freefall, there is zero gravity in level 2. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that the members of level 2 experience no gravitational force. At one point in the movie you are shown these members floating in midair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't this carry over to level 3? Our sensory organs (or any sensory organ you devise, for that matter), cannot distinguish between freefall and zero gravity. Shouldn't the zero-G in level 2 cause zero-G in level 3?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="898" LastActivityDate="2013-07-13T15:34:19.063" Title="Why was the zero-gravity effect not transferred to the third level in Inception?" Tags="|inception|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-07-13T20:32:14.140" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12484" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-07-13T14:21:44.340" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-07-13T14:21:44.340" LastActivityDate="2013-07-13T14:21:44.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12485" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-07-13T14:21:44.340" Score="0" Body="Punjabi language film industry in the states of Punjab in India." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-07-13T14:21:44.340" LastActivityDate="2013-07-13T14:21:44.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12471" CreationDate="2013-07-13T15:23:19.550" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, we can presume that they could have hidden her by reducing the number of public appearances, a clever use of robes, seclusion(you can see that their home is kind of secluded) and not staying exactly &lt;em&gt;in the city&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer why Zod proclaimed it to be a heresy, please understand, that Kyptonian culture had come to endorse, proclaim and follow the artificial birth culture, where every child created was done so for a very specific purpose. That child did not have any choice, or any say, and the shape of society was in the hands of the rulers who created them. To have a natural birth was to challenge the rulers and their system of artificial birth. By being naturally born, as Jor-El put it, &lt;em&gt;He can choose what he becomes. He is free.&lt;/em&gt; Therefore, his presence and birth in society is against the &lt;em&gt;rules&lt;/em&gt; which proclaim that every man is born for a very specific duty chosen for him even before his birth. Hence the shock and proclamation of &lt;em&gt;heresy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-07-13T15:23:19.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="475" CreationDate="2013-07-13T15:34:19.063" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;One possible explanation for this is that as time multiplies with each dream level, the effects from the upper level would be felt gradually. For e.g. In level1, the van falls into the water&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iqVlN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;van falling into water&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as a result, in level2, we get the zero gravity effect because the van is in free fall- &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zwll3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;zero gravity&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and in level3, we have the snow avalanche - &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4f5gH.png&quot; alt=&quot;avalanche&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;now, the van hit the bridge, started its free fall in water. Normally this would take about 20seconds. In level2 the free fall gives them zero gravity for a longer period, assume 10min(time is multiplied in inner dream levels). And in level3, this effect would occur even more gradually. So now we have 10min maginified, that makes it say 2-3hours. The other effects would have gradually occured in that level too. But as you know, the kick : level1 van hitting water, level2 lift propulsed with explosives resulted in the avalanche. That means, that before those effects from level1 could have reached level3, the kick from level2 actually reached level3. And the people got out of there quickly, they did not remain in level3 long enough for the effects to have taken place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-07-13T15:34:19.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12488" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-13T16:09:36.717" Score="10" ViewCount="768" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one scene, Ron Perlman's character is eaten by a giant monster.  This isn't the first time this has happened to him in a del Toro movie, it also somewhat happened in Hellboy.  Was this scene supposed to be an homage to Hellboy, or am I reading too much into it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-08T08:50:58.690" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T08:50:58.690" Title="Was this scene an homage to Hellboy?" Tags="|reference|pacific-rim|hellboy|guillermo-del-toro|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12481" CreationDate="2013-07-13T17:47:00.480" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;She said &quot;aishitemasu&quot; which is &quot;I love you&quot; in Japanese.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5412" LastActivityDate="2013-07-13T17:47:00.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12491" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-13T22:22:23.350" Score="9" ViewCount="2085" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm talking about the MPAA rating. Is natural death PG rated? The criteria for violence, drug use or nudity is easy to find, but what about death itself, caused by time or a disease such as cancer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an example in a different domain, &lt;em&gt;My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic&lt;/em&gt; is TV-Y rated, but depicts a funeral in an episode and a quick analysis can lead the viewer to know which background character (an old pony) is dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, would there be a different rating depending on the identity of the dying character? E.g. the grand-father of a friend of the main character = PG, but the brother of the main character = PG-13 (or more)? What about the death of the main character itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5414" LastActivityDate="2018-02-04T07:52:14.037" Title="Is natural death PG rated?" Tags="|content-rating|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12491" CreationDate="2013-07-13T22:41:31.670" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpaa.org/ratings/what-each-rating-means&quot;&gt;MPAA website&lt;/a&gt;, a PG rating may include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;...some profanity and some depictions of violence or brief nudity. But these elements are not deemed so intense as to require that parents be strongly cautioned beyond the suggestion of parental guidance...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowhere on the site does it explicitly mention death by natural causes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the risk of providing a purely speculative answer, it seems that natural death from old age or disease does not fit into the category of violence outlined in the other ratings (PG-13 etc)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I wondered if the death of Carl's wife in &lt;em&gt;Up&lt;/em&gt; had been the catalyst for that film to get the second ever PG rating for a Pixar film (after &lt;em&gt;The Incredibles&lt;/em&gt;), but according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bigscreenanimation.com/2009/04/up-rated-pg-by-mpaa.html&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;, it earned a PG for: &lt;em&gt;Some Peril and Action.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it would appear that natural death is not considered when rating a movie, and therefore can be depicted in G-rated fare such as &lt;em&gt;My Little Pony&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-07-13T22:41:31.670" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12471" CreationDate="2013-07-14T02:20:20.003" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Kryptonians can make fabrics resistant to fire, bullets, weaponry, one would speculate they had technology to make any figure appear svelte. Probably Jor-El tailored a suit for Lara that hid her pregnancy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why heresy? Eugenics was probably a law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Natural birth is always unpredictable. Krypton was so advanced that they could control any outcome and they wanted control every Kryptonian's destiny. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5313" LastActivityDate="2013-07-14T02:20:20.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12496" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-14T10:42:14.340" Score="3" ViewCount="2487" Body="&lt;p&gt;Almost all WWII movies depicts Nazi officers and soldiers as well-dressed and handsome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, allied officers and soldiers are always shown wearing torn uniforms, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1215" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-08T09:46:56.407" LastActivityDate="2014-09-08T09:46:56.407" Title="Why do most of the WWII movies show Nazi soldiers as well-clothed?" Tags="|costume|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12496" CreationDate="2013-07-14T12:15:44.310" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;My answer here is to the point of history and not movie making ... Please remember what Hitler was trying to build and exemplify, that of the &quot;master race&quot;. His Nazis would have fit that mold to a tee. Blond, blue eyed, blah, blah, blah. You get the picture. This may now be a bit over done in movies, but it is what it is. The dress may very well just be an extension of this. Allied troops overseas would not have the supply chains available to them to keep their uniforms freshly pressed and tidy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-07-14T12:15:44.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12482" CreationDate="2013-07-14T14:28:37.000" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It got elaborated in &lt;a href=&quot;http://pacificrim.wikia.com/wiki/Kaiju_Blue&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikia&lt;/a&gt; pretty well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Kaiju Blue&quot; is the Blood of the monsterous Kaiju creatures. It is&#xA;  also highly toxic to the Earth and Humans. It can instantly poison the&#xA;  land it falls on. Everything gets stained, Peoples skin, their nails,&#xA;  everything. and if it gets into the human system, the suferer will&#xA;  begin to cough up blue vapour. - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="32199" LastEditDate="2018-10-17T11:04:54.347" LastActivityDate="2018-10-17T11:04:54.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12501" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-14T15:47:18.427" Score="8" ViewCount="6326" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/How-did-Captain-America-survive-being-frozen-for-70-years-in-ice&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;asked on Quora&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With a metabolism 4X the average human's, the notion that his body wouldn't have wasted away doesn't make sense. Did the comics provide any explanation for how he was able to survive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-02T15:44:30.157" LastActivityDate="2017-03-31T10:20:26.100" Title="How did Captain America survive being frozen for 70 years in ice?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-avengers|captain-america-the-first-avenger|marvel-cinematic-universe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-14T15:48:51.530" Score="6" ViewCount="5295" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-Tesseract-end-up-in-Norway-during-the-events-of-Captain-America&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;asked on Quora&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film opens with Red Skull breaking into a church and stealing a hidden Tesseract. But why was it there in the first place? &#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Is there a possibility it was a gift to the vikings by Odin himself?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Surely such a powerful object wouldn't be hidden behind a brick wall in Norway. Why wasn't it kept in Asgard along with all the other powerful items that Odin owns?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-02T15:45:52.967" LastActivityDate="2016-09-02T15:45:52.967" Title="How did the Tesseract end up in Norway during the events of Captain America?" Tags="|plot-explanation|captain-america-the-first-avenger|marvel-cinematic-universe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12503" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12524" CreationDate="2013-07-14T15:50:43.710" Score="1" ViewCount="21135" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/In-Silence-of-the-Lambs-1991-movie-where-does-Dr-Lecter-originally-get-the-metal-pin-that-he-uses-to-pick-the-lock-on-his-handcuffs-in-the-museum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;asked on Quora&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;em&gt;The Silence of the Lambs&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've always thought that when Dr. Lecter was moved to see the Senator, he and the prison guard &quot;Barney&quot; trade a glance, and there's a scene shot of a pen that's lying around. My thought was that Barney allowed Lecter to take that pen, and that he swallowed a piece of it and kept it for that purpose. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-02T15:48:36.307" LastActivityDate="2016-09-02T15:48:36.307" Title="Where does Dr. Lecter originally get the metal pin that he uses to pick the lock on his handcuffs in the museum?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-silence-of-the-lambs|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1518" CreationDate="2013-07-14T16:01:32.090" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the the first episode, &quot;Unholy Alliance&quot;, Mumm-Ra is shown to live in the pyramid of Giza. He also states that he has been on that planet since it was first earth. Mumm-Ra is an Egyptians who sold his sole to the evil spirits, who want him to find the eye of thundera for them. This is all explained in the series, the 85-89 series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5419" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-28T10:01:32.103" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T10:01:32.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12501" CreationDate="2013-07-14T16:57:32.870" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only reason given in the movie is just that he was exposed to super soldier serum which made him able to survive and even in some animated TV shows, there is no other explanation given rather than this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same question is present on Scifi &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14248/how-did-captain-america-survive-freezing&quot;&gt;How did Captain America survive freezing?&lt;/a&gt; with the same answer. There are some un-sourced claims present on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/Captain-America-The-First-Avenger-2011-movie/How-did-Captain-America-survive-being-frozen-for-70-years-in-ice&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quora&lt;/a&gt; too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2017-03-31T10:20:26.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12502" CreationDate="2013-07-14T17:06:46.193" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The opening sequence of Captain America: The First Avenger, combined with the historical information at the start of Thor provides the answer. ~1000 years ago, Asgardians fought the Frost Giants on Earth as part of a cross-realm war. During this war, the Tesseract was lost on the Earth. (Source : &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17608/how-did-the-tesseract-come-to-earth-from-asgard/17611#17611&quot;&gt;Scifi&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it is clear that Odin didn't give it to anybody intentionally but it was lost on the earth. Human's found it here and hid it in Norway to save it from bad people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2013-07-15T17:58:30.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12481" CreationDate="2013-07-14T21:32:43.957" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;She said 「せんせい あいしてます」(sensei aishitemasu), which means &quot;I love you teacher/elder.&quot;  This was &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/travisbeacham/statuses/356618165930831875&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;confirmed on Twitter&lt;/a&gt; by Travis Beacham, &lt;em&gt;Pacific Rim's&lt;/em&gt; screenwriter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mako Mori is a Japanese name, which was my first clue that she's Japanese. The others were that the language she and the Marshall spoke early on was Japanese, and the city in her flashback was adorned with signs that had Japanese, not Chinese, on them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2018-08-20T16:53:50.943" LastActivityDate="2018-08-20T16:53:50.943" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12511" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-15T04:13:17.870" Score="6" ViewCount="2420" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does Timmy Turner have more than 1 Fairy Godparent? Other kids on the show seem to have only one Fairy Godparent (i.e. Remy Buxaplenty), but somehow Timmy Turner has 2: Cosmo &amp;amp; Wanda&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; and later on he has 3, including Poof&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4406" LastActivityDate="2019-09-30T16:23:14.893" Title="Why does Timmy Turner have more than 1 Fairy Godparent?" Tags="|the-fairly-oddparents|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12512" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-15T04:18:13.120" Score="11" ViewCount="11697" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the movie, we see a man who has been talking to James Cole with a mysterious voice; Cole asked him about his identity, but he denied to express it. Once Cole doubted a beggar in 1996 to be the owner of that voice, but later Railley understood that he was not that &quot;person&quot;. So who was he? And why was he calling Cole &quot;Bob&quot; all the time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2016-03-25T03:50:04.953" LastActivityDate="2020-12-24T13:52:24.210" Title="Who was the guy always talking to Cole and why did he use to call him &quot;Bob&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|12-monkeys|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12513" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12525" CreationDate="2013-07-15T05:02:39.680" Score="13" ViewCount="1040" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final scene of 12 monkeys, we see James Cole is shot dead and as he said earlier his child copy is present there. Railley sees him and smile comes to her lips. What does it signify? Does it mean she hoped she had not lost Cole and that she is meant to be with him in coming time? Is Cole bound in a never ending &lt;em&gt;time-loop&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uEFeZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Still of Railley smiling&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2020-09-24T13:11:22.953" LastActivityDate="2020-09-24T13:11:22.953" Title="What does the smile in Railley lips signify?" Tags="|plot-explanation|12-monkeys|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12512" CreationDate="2013-07-15T05:12:20.113" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This character is referred to as Louie/Rasping Voice on IMDb, and feelings are mixed on the interpretation of the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the feedback section of the movie's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/&quot;&gt;IMDb page&lt;/a&gt;, there is a lot of discussion over the idea that Louie is a fellow time 'volunteer', who has extracted his own teeth to avoid being tracked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, other sites, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scifi.sk/12Monkeys/faq.html&quot;&gt;including this one&lt;/a&gt;, suggest that Cole might have been hallucinating the entire time and that he has made up the Louie character and the rasping voice in his head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason he was called 'Bob' could be because this is a form of greeting (although the correct pronunciation would be along the lines of &quot;hey, Bub&quot;) - however, Cole is called Bob in the future segments, which leads me to believe that he was being mistaken for a different volunteer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a sample of dialogue that coroborates the fellow traveler theory:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Louie&lt;/em&gt;: Where'd they send you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;James Cole&lt;/em&gt;: 1990.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Louie&lt;/em&gt;: '90! How was it? Good drugs? Lots of pussy? Hey, Bob, you do the job? You find out the big info? Army of the 12 Monkeys?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;James Cole&lt;/em&gt;: I was supposed to be 1996.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Louie&lt;/em&gt;: Science ain't an exact science with these clowns but, they're getting better. You're lucky you didn't end up in ancient Egypt!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-02T05:35:00.267" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T05:35:00.267" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12511" CreationDate="2013-07-15T06:45:16.297" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cosmo and Wanda are husband and wife. I guess they just keep married couples together. Otherwise they would probably almost never see each other, since fairies need to stay with their kid basically all the time unless specifically told otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5405" LastActivityDate="2013-07-15T06:45:16.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12503" CreationDate="2013-07-15T06:50:17.473" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The metal pin is the pen tip from Chilton's pen, which he stole. He held it in his mouth to hide it until he was ready to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5405" LastActivityDate="2013-07-15T06:50:17.473" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12488" CreationDate="2013-07-15T12:16:06.653" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Rim_%28film%29#Design&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; page of the movie: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Del Toro wanted to &quot;honor&quot; the kaiju and mecha genres while creating an original stand-alone film, something &quot;conscious of the heritage, but not a pastiche or an homage or a greatest hits of everything&quot;. The director made a point of starting from scratch, without emulating or referencing any previous examples of those genres.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't refer Hellboy but it explicitly says that Del Toro doesn't want to pay homage to any film. Rather than popular culture, he drew inspiration from works of art such as  Francisco Goya's The Colossus and George Bellows's boxing paintings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-30T21:19:15.443" LastActivityDate="2013-07-30T21:19:15.443" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12519" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12522" CreationDate="2013-07-15T13:06:59.160" Score="14" ViewCount="2215" Body="&lt;p&gt;In recent Christopher Nolan's related DC films, lesser known titles are selected as movie names. Such as &lt;em&gt;Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; for &lt;em&gt;Batman&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/em&gt; for &lt;em&gt;Superman&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any specific reason for it or is it just to keep them separate from the previous films of Superman and Batman?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-05-15T09:11:26.847" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T09:11:26.847" Title="Why use titles like 'Dark Knight' and 'Man of Steel'?" Tags="|title|the-dark-knight|man-of-steel|comic-adaptation|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12519" CreationDate="2013-07-15T13:26:21.070" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd just say it is to seem like something fresh, a new take on an established role and thus using their lesser known (yet still common and recognizable by experts) nicknames rather than their original names, which have been used to great lengths already. Who wants to see yet another &lt;em&gt;Superman&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Batman&lt;/em&gt; movie nowadays?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead &lt;em&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; sounds like something different and I think that is quite related to their reboot character, since both movies rather present a completely new take on those stories (Ok, &lt;em&gt;Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; was the sequel to &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt;, but so what) rather than continuing the old ones and thus being just another &lt;em&gt;Batman Continues&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Superman VI&lt;/em&gt; (forgive me for possibly getting those numbers wrong, see what I mean ;)). This is just related to nowadays' popular reboot method of taking a common and established figure and reinventing it (likewise the new &lt;em&gt;Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt; is not fourth in line, he's &lt;em&gt;Amazing&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And it may also be related to the general fact that maybe nowadays filmmakers are more confident of using more metaphorical titles over straight-to-the-point titles than in the past, maybe because we're finally running short of titles? (but this is absolutely unprooved and mere subjective opinion) ;))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-15T13:39:01.890" LastActivityDate="2013-07-15T13:39:01.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12541" CreationDate="2013-07-15T14:25:30.207" Score="5" ViewCount="7616" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that the earth's yellow sun gives Kryptonian an extra boost but why can they shoot lasers out of their eye? What kind of eye structure will support this kind of energy output and not damage it in the process?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't the eye beam energy eventually run out if they keep it up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5425" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-07-16T14:29:25.157" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T15:07:13.357" Title="How can Kryptonians shoot lasers from their eyes?" Tags="|superman|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12519" CreationDate="2013-07-15T14:42:26.403" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Superman&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Director Zack Snyder had a marketing campaign arranged with the National Guard to promote their &quot;Soldier of Steel&quot; recruitment program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can visit the website for the program here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.soldierofsteel.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.soldierofsteel.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The marketing program was a join effort that allowed the produces of &quot;Man of Steel&quot; additional exposure for the film. I'm not sure if the name of the film pre-existed the campaign, but it's clear that the two are connected. I don't think the title &quot;Superman&quot; would have offered as much flexibility with the campaign.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Batman&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia states this about the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On July 31, 2006, Warner Bros. officially announced initiation of production for the sequel to Batman Begins titled The Dark Knight; it is the first live-action Batman film without the word &quot;Batman&quot; in its title, which Bale noted as signaling that &quot;this take on Batman of mine and Chris' is very different from any of the others.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He simply wanted to differentiate his work from that of others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2017-02-01T16:54:19.757" LastActivityDate="2017-02-01T16:54:19.757" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12521" CreationDate="2013-07-15T14:52:19.647" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Superman has heat vision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He can direct infrared light at targets by looking at them, and heat them until it melts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_and_abilities_of_Superman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_and_abilities_of_Superman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;heat vision as a separate power first appeared in Action Comics #275 (April 1961).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it has ever been explained how it works. It has been stated that Superman absorbs the sun's radiation through his skin, and the energy is stored in his cells. I assume he's able to release that energy as pure infrared light through his eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-15T14:53:06.833" LastActivityDate="2013-07-15T14:53:06.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12503" CreationDate="2013-07-15T16:54:14.227" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, it is implied that Lecter somehow stole Chilton's pen and used it to fashion a key for the handcuffs that he expects the Tennessee police to use to restrain him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book, he's been in possession of the key for some time in anticipation of a chance. His interest is piqued by the Senator's offer in part due to the fact that Chilton tells him that the Tennessee police will get custody of him (and he will be out of Crawford's jurisdiction). Quoting from the book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At Last Dr. Chilton has said something interesting, and he doesn't even know what it is. Dr. Lecter pursed his red lips behind the mask. The custody of police. Police are not as wise as Barney. Police are accustomed to handling criminals. They're inclined to use leg irons and handcuffs. &lt;strong&gt;Handcuffs and leg irons open with a handcuff key. Like mine.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, Crawford reads the following message on his computer screen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MEMPHIS POX RECOVERED 2 ITEMS IN SEARCH OF LECTER'S CELL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) &lt;strong&gt;IMPROVISED HANDCUFF KEY MADE FROM BALLPOINT TUBE. INCISIONS BY ABRASION,&lt;/strong&gt; BALTIMORE REQUESTED TO CHECK HOSPITAL CELL FOR TRACES OF MANUFACTURE, AUTH COPLEY, SAC MEMPHIS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-07-15T16:54:14.227" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12513" CreationDate="2013-07-15T18:22:44.007" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is more of a wry, fatalistic, and sad smile, as when she sees young Cole at the Airport, she finally puts all the pieces together from what Cole had told her.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the theater, Cole falls asleep and remembers/dreams seeing her running in the Airport.  He wakes panicked, to find her gone.  He runs into the lobby to see her as a blonde, just as she was in his memory/dream. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He says &quot;It was always you.  In my dream, it was always you.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a sympathetic response, she replies with &quot;I remember you like this.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cole becomes confused.  &quot;You do?&quot; he asks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She says &quot;I felt I've known you before.  I feel I've always known you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cole's confusion deepens, and he replies &quot;I'm so scared.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That scene is important, because it shows how she has really turned that corner, in believing and &lt;em&gt;wanting&lt;/em&gt; to believe what Cole tells her.  She feels it is more important for him to understand that she is with him.  More importantly, she &lt;em&gt;wants&lt;/em&gt; to believe him, to the point of making herself think she has indeed seen him in the past and her dreams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Cole, he knows to some degree that his dream is founded in a memory, and he knows he has traveled through time.  So for him, dreaming and remembering her at the airport when he was a kid is more of a revelation when he sees her as a blonde.  What confuses him so, and begins to scare him, is when she not only agrees with him, but tells him that she has always known him as well.  Cole knows she hasn't traveled through time.  Cole knows she couldn't have seen him in her past.  He may even begin to doubt his sanity, and his dreams/memories at this point... for he had previously believed that it was a memory.  However, if what she was saying was true, that she really felt like she had always known him as well, then he might &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be remembering things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, later, at the airport, when she sees him as a child, the last pieces of the puzzle fall into place for her.  She knows that she is doomed (along with most everyone else) because he was telling the truth all along.  Any lingering doubt she had at that point has washed away.  She knows he was telling the truth in the theater when he said she was in his dream.  She knows that she scared and confused him by telling him she had always known him.  It's an OMG moment for her.  She knows that he survives the coming wave of death, only to be sent back to die before it happens.  The futility of everything they have done settles on her, and it all comes out in that smile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I wouldn't say that the smile is honestly a happy one, except in that she was relieved to know the man she fell in love with wasn't crazy after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="4621" LastEditDate="2013-07-15T18:40:36.913" LastActivityDate="2013-07-15T18:40:36.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12526" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12527" CreationDate="2013-07-15T18:58:19.217" Score="3" ViewCount="8152" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just looking on IMDB and saw the trailer listed for the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1121096/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Seventh Son&lt;/a&gt;. I originally wondered if this movie is in anyway connect to the book by Orson Scott Card of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0812533054&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;same name&lt;/a&gt;. Looking through what is listed on IMDB, I don't see any credit given to Card, so now I'm curious. The plot seems at least vaguely the same: Seventh son of the seventh son; 1800's setting; battling evil with magic. I don't know if there are further plot similarities, but this seems a little too obvious to be missed. What's going on here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-07-15T19:00:42.567" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T11:01:48.510" Title="Movie Seventh Son any tie to Orson Scott Card book?" Tags="|book-adaptation|seventh-son|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12526" CreationDate="2013-07-15T19:02:44.340" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No relationship to the book; it's an adaptation of a different book series (&lt;em&gt;The Wardstone Chronicles&lt;/em&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seventh_Son_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seventh_Son_(film)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this doesn't mean that this other book isn't related to Card's book, somehow. That's a different discussion, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2013-07-15T19:02:44.340" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12530" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12531" CreationDate="2013-07-15T22:20:12.523" Score="6" ViewCount="1120" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was this movie I remember watching as a kid. I imagine it was probably some made for TV or b movie, but maybe not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway there was some kind of Armageddon event where everyone on earth died (they might have vanished actually), except for the people who died at the precise moment of this Armageddon moment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I recall the main character was fighting someone in a river and was being drowned, and that's why he &quot;died&quot; and thus &quot;lived&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He figures it all out and in the end manages to get back. Maybe it was a parallel universe he went into. I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's all I can remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3441" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-07-16T06:34:54.993" LastActivityDate="2017-04-25T06:21:23.150" Title="Identify a movie where people who died at a certain moment lived" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:46:24.450" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12530" CreationDate="2013-07-15T22:58:04.930" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869/&quot;&gt;The Quiet Earth&lt;/a&gt;, NZ 1985.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Zac Hobson wakes up to find that he is apparently the only person left on Earth. Soon, however, he meets others - Joanne, a pretty young woman, and Api, a huge Maori tribesman. They survived the apocalypse (a malfunction of a government project in which Zac was involved) because all three were at the moment of death--Zac's attempted suicide, Joanne's exploding hair dryer, Api fighting with another man--when the apocalypse occurred. Soon, however, Zac and Api begin fighting over Joanne, and the trouble begins&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl&quot;&gt;IMDB ... Written by Anonymous&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He enters his underground laboratory; a monitor displays the message &quot;Project Flashlight Complete&quot;. The mass disappearance seems to coincide with the moment Flashlight was activated. He notes on his tape recorder:&#xA;  &quot;Zac Hobson, July 5th. One: there has been a malfunction in Project Flashlight with devastating results. Two: it seems I am the only person left on Earth.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;at the instant of The Effect, they were all at the moment of death—Api was being drowned in a fight, Joanne was electrocuted by a faulty hairdryer, and Zac had overdosed on pills in a suicide attempt. He had realized there were serious dangers with the experiment and was guilt-ridden for not speaking out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quiet_Earth_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/LiArDP3wh4I&quot;&gt;Youtube-Version of the film&lt;/a&gt;. The scene you remember is starting at &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/LiArDP3wh4I?t=56m55s&quot;&gt;minute 56:55&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132" LastEditorUserId="132" LastEditDate="2013-07-30T22:00:38.513" LastActivityDate="2013-07-30T22:00:38.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12040" CreationDate="2013-07-16T01:43:31.597" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's possible that Sully was just telling Randall that he was no longer scary anymore to Boo; technically, I don't think Randall would have been out of the job since he could scare other kids. However, Waternoose was arrested; and Randall might have been implicated with Waternooses's scandals, especially if that corporation learned about that scream-sucking machine...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5431" LastActivityDate="2013-07-16T01:43:31.597" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10452" CreationDate="2013-07-16T01:46:19.187" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wondered that same thing; but I think Bane did that purposefully since he actually probably had some resentment toward Bruce Wayne betraying all that Bane loved (the League of Shadows, not Talia). He was excommunicated and couldn't be one of them while Bruce had all the chances in the world to lead the League but simply walked away. Bane's voice could have just been agitated or something...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though your idea is quite convincing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5431" LastActivityDate="2013-07-16T01:46:19.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2437" CreationDate="2013-07-16T01:48:59.230" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The moves are all scripted, I believe; so every actor knows which hits are coming up next and it's not a surprise...unless it's improvised like a slap or something (in which case that is totally real).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5431" LastActivityDate="2013-07-16T01:48:59.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12540" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12543" CreationDate="2013-07-16T06:42:14.273" Score="3" ViewCount="354" Body="&lt;p&gt;In more than one scene of &lt;em&gt;Battleship&lt;/em&gt;, various officers are wearing some sort of necklace, apparently permissible additions to the uniform. They are of several different designs. What are they, and what do they represent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5374" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-07-24T02:53:47.537" LastActivityDate="2013-07-24T02:53:47.537" Title="What does this necklace represent in Battleship?" Tags="|battleship|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12521" CreationDate="2013-07-16T07:48:46.620" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not called lasers but it is known as Heat Vision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to  &lt;a href=&quot;http://superman.wikia.com/wiki/Photonucleic_Effect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Photonucleic Effect&lt;/a&gt; Kryptonians are able to release large amounts of the solar energy stored in their cells as heat (Presumably, as infra-red light) via their eyes in focused beams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In most depictions, Heat Vision has been shown as a solid red beam. However, in Smallville and Superman Returns, heat vision was pictured as beams of heat distortions in the&#xA;  air-- that is, the beams themselves are invisible, but their intense&#xA;  heat causes the air to ripple and shimmer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In other works, &quot;invisible&quot; heat vision means that the beams are&#xA;  relatively low power and is sometimes used by Superman in a discreet&#xA;  manner as Clark Kent. In the later seasons of Smallville, the beams&#xA;  become solid orange, implying that the appearance changed because&#xA;  Clark has become more powerful as he ages. - &lt;a href=&quot;http://superman.wikia.com/wiki/Heat_Vision&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;superman.wikia.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-12-22T15:07:13.357" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T15:07:13.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12540" CreationDate="2013-07-16T08:18:35.880" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;That thing which you call a &quot;&lt;em&gt;necklace&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is actually a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_%28garland%29&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lei&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which is sort of a &lt;em&gt;garland or wreath&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;From Wikipedia:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;lei&lt;/strong&gt; is any series of objects strung together with the intent to be worn. The most popular concept of a lei in Hawaiian culture is a &lt;em&gt;wreath of flowers draped around the neck presented upon arriving or leaving as a symbol of affection&lt;/em&gt;. This concept was popularized through tourism between the Hawaiian Islands and the continental United States in the 19th and 20th centuries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you remember, the Naval war games were being conducted off the Hawaiian coast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-07-16T13:14:54.453" LastActivityDate="2013-07-16T13:14:54.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12467" CreationDate="2013-07-16T09:17:21.837" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;After searching for a long time i concluded that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigahen%3a_Nagina_Part_II&quot;&gt;Nigahen: Nagina Part II&lt;/a&gt; is the first Bollywood sequel follow-up of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagina_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Nagina (1986)&lt;/a&gt;.  (Sources:&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bollywood.com/node/22722&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;http://in.movies.yahoo.com/blogs/24fps/first-among-sequels-085811712.html&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2013-07-16T09:17:21.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12545" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18031" CreationDate="2013-07-16T10:56:15.923" Score="3" ViewCount="376" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770828/trivia?ref_=hm_trv_sm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Perry White's office at the Daily Planet there is a bugle trophy on&#xA;  top of the shelf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is surely a reference to the Marvel Comics newspaper office the Daily Bugle and I think I have also seen something like this in the film but with blurred memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is there really a Bugle reference in the film or is it just miss-interpretation. &#xA;If yes then, is it just an homage to Spider-Man or an approval of the Marvel universe's co-existence? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-12T13:11:15.177" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T13:11:15.177" Title="Is there really a bugle trophy in Man of Steel?" Tags="|reference|dc-extended-universe|man-of-steel|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1971" CreationDate="2013-07-16T11:21:31.777" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot find a YouTube video of this, but I saw the original audition Tobey Maguire did for Spider-Man. In the audition he took his shirt off to show how cut he was. This is what got him selected for the part. Here is an article online which talks about this. They didn't wait for him to bulk up, the scenes with him looking limp were CGI'd to make him look that way. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eonline.com/news/59203/spider-man-s-shirtless-audition&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.eonline.com/news/59203/spider-man-s-shirtless-audition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-07-10T08:27:02.723" LastActivityDate="2017-07-10T08:27:02.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12551" CreationDate="2013-07-16T11:23:46.327" Score="17" ViewCount="1734" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Steel_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/a&gt;, there are two references to other DC character, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First Christina Wren's character called Carrie Ferris in the film resemblance to  Blake Lively's character  Carol Ferris from Green Lantern Film. Even some speculation suggest Carrie Ferris is Carol Ferris because Carol is also called as Carrie.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Second,  In the final battle when General Zod and Superman fly into outer-space they both hit a satellite with the &quot;Wayne Enterprise&quot; logo. Obvious reference to Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this intentional reference for Upcoming Justice League film or just Easter eggs? Because Justice league Movie finalization came after the success of Man of Steel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-02T09:26:28.157" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T09:26:28.157" Title="Is this Green Lantern and Batman reference intended for a Justice League movie?" Tags="|reference|dc-extended-universe|man-of-steel|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12548" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12549" CreationDate="2013-07-16T11:28:17.980" Score="11" ViewCount="1667" Body="&lt;p&gt;Three instances spring to mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Trek conversations via the viewscreen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Red Dwarf crew interacting with Holly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A scene in the Doctor Who episode 'Blink' where the Doctor speaks from the television&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there are many many others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do directors film scenes where two people speak to each other on a monitor?  For starters in real life if you view a screen on something like a CCTV you often see static on the screen.  Secondly how are timings done?  Is the other actor off screen?  Are strategic cuts used?  Are timings worked out in advance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-09-26T18:11:01.697" LastActivityDate="2019-09-26T18:11:01.697" Title="How are conversations on in-scene display screens filmed?" Tags="|film-techniques|doctor-who|star-trek|red-dwarf|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12548" CreationDate="2013-07-16T12:29:23.370" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you ever heard of a film called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_News_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Broadcast News&lt;/a&gt;?  There is a pivotal scene where William Hurt turns in an interview, and he appears to cry in reaction to his subject's story.  The interview looks extremely emotional, and garners Hurt's character a ton of attention.  It isn't until later that it is brought to Holly Hunter's character's attention that Hurt's attempt to display an honest emotional response during the interview is completely staged and fake.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see, Within the context of the story, Hurt had taken a single camera man with him on the interview.  So, the final footage of Hurt crying, and specifically the view switching back and forth from the interviewer to the interviewee, didn't actually happen at the time of the interview.  During the interview, the camera man filmed the interviewee.  After the interview was over, Hurt had the camera man turn the camera on him, while he worked up some responses... including those tears that made him look so honest and human.  Then, the two different sets of footage were edited together, to make it look like multiple cameras were used in the interview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;how are timings done? Is the other actor off screen? Are strategic cuts used? Are timings worked out in advance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Practice.  Practice, practice, practice.  Take after take.  Run through after run through.  Sometimes an audio recording is made during one of those practice takes.  Sometimes someone else reads the other part in the conversation just off-screen.  When an actor has to interact with a television screen, in most cases the part we see on the screen is recorded first, and then the actor interacting with the screen will practice a few times before a take is attempted.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When there are edits showing one actor and then cuts back and forth multiple times to the other actor in the conversation, the conversation is usually put on film/video at least twice.  The conversation in it's entirety is recorded from one angle.  Then the camera is moved to catch the face of the other actor, and the conversation is done all over again.  In more expensive movies, this process is repeated from different angles... and you can tell when the camera cuts back to an actor and the view is slightly different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The technique of not having both actors in the same shot during a conversation is actually a production repair tool as well.  Sometimes when an actor's schedule conflicts with shooting, a scene will be changed or altered from a shot that would include both actors in the same shot, to the conversation that switches back and forth.  This enables one actor to get their parts in the can, without having to have the other actor present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember.  Most productions are not shot in a linear progression that matches the storyline of the movie.  Shots are marked and documented, and then assembled much later into the final story we see.  Every shot is practiced and timed and worked out in advance to one degree or another.  Lower budget productions might not spend as much time practicing a shot, but that's more because it is very expensive (time and money-wise) to practice before you attempt a take.  Everything you see on screen is (for the most part) something that someone WANTS you to see on screen.  Again, the size of the production determines this.  Obviously low budget guerrilla-style filming will catch things in the lens that weren't intended.  However, higher budget films leave nothing to chance.  That being said, conversations are no different than prop placement or stunt doubling.  You work it out until you get it right, then film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-07-16T12:32:29.850" LastActivityDate="2013-07-16T12:32:29.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12547" CreationDate="2013-07-16T12:56:56.700" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;From everything I can gather about the genesis of this Justice League movie is that it has been a long and arduous project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 2007, the project was talked about and started slight development in order to start filming before the major writers strike. Due to this, it seems, the film was put on &quot;indefinite hold&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, they attempted to get some kind of cast list together as well as &quot;announce&quot; plans to make a Justice League film that never came to fruition and became overshadowed by Nolan's Batman as a result due to rumors running wild and confirmation that this Batman would not be a part of the Justice League at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, with the relative success of Man of Steel, and prior to that, Snyder stated that if it did do well, he would be looked to in order to put together the connected universe of this live-action Justice League.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has also been confirmed that Nolan, Bale, and Ryan Reynolds will &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; be a part of this Justice League film at all.  Due to his involvement of producing Man of Steel it would not surprise me if Nolan had some creative input however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is confirmed for now is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DC characters do exist in the Man of Steel universe. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;David S. Goyer has been hired to write the film&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Henry Cavill will play Superman&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A different Bruce Wayne (think alternate universe) does exist in this universe.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The actor that portrays Green Arrow on the show is in talks to try to get his character involved in this Justice League.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nothing has been confirmed about Green Lantern other than Ryan Reynolds declining reprising his role as Hal Jordan.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Snyder will most likely be the front runner of this series as was Whedon to The Avengers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Man of Steel 2 is aiming for a 2014 release.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as it being intentional, the knowledge that Bruce Wayne exists would lead anyone to believe that he is still the billionaire that is most known throughout Gotham City and would have something like a satellite in space.  If you notice as well there are several Lexcorp items like a truck that gets destroyed and a building with the logo on it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also read somewhere (I have to find it) that some of the characters of the Daily Planet were smaller known DC characters so that hardcore fans have something to look forward to and reference the fact that this is possibly the true DC universe on film, characters and all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Steel_%28film%29#Sequel&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League_in_other_media#Film&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-07-16T13:12:06.103" LastActivityDate="2013-07-16T13:12:06.103" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12552" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-16T14:40:39.757" Score="13" ViewCount="365" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to find a movie I saw in the late 1990s in Russian language, but it was definitely originally in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot of this movie is very like &lt;em&gt;Solaris&lt;/em&gt;, but it is not the one released in 2002 and not one of the Russian movies. It takes place somewhere on the planet (not on the ship), where the whole time a storm is going on. It could be Saturn, Titan, or other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the top of this base is an observatory, where the crew is trying to make contact with the storm because of strange patterns in its behavior, but without success. There is a lot of suspense and everything is in noir style. The screens and computers looks kind of like in &lt;em&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt;. One of the actors look similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Emmet_Walsh&quot;&gt;M. Emmet Walsh&lt;/a&gt; playing Harry Bryant, but it's not him, I've checked it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can remember, there could be a scene with one of the crew members went outside (to die), and we see dust and sand streaming out from badly closed hatch. Also there was a scene where two crew members, one of them holding a gun, are sitting around and arguing about the storm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5436" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-16T13:29:32.300" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T06:09:51.157" Title="Crew try to make contact with an intelligent storm" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:46:27.580" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3055" CreationDate="2013-07-17T03:29:54.453" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even when the Narrator was in control he couldn't have had shot Tyler directly because he would have imagined killing somebody else. He had to imagine he was killing himself in order for Tyler to believe he was dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5442" LastEditorUserId="5318" LastEditDate="2013-07-17T16:59:03.557" LastActivityDate="2013-07-17T16:59:03.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12559" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12560" CreationDate="2013-07-17T05:28:36.597" Score="11" ViewCount="2461" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245674/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thir13en Ghosts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, is Cyrus a ghost or a real person? If he's a ghost, why can he be seen without the glasses?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5374" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-07-17T13:23:31.727" LastActivityDate="2021-11-30T14:49:33.323" Title="How can the final ghost be seen without the glasses?" Tags="|plot-explanation|thirteen-ghosts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12559" CreationDate="2013-07-17T07:44:18.710" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's the point. Arthur taking off the glasses while Cyrus still stays visible shows that Cyrus wasn't a ghost at all. You seem to forget that Cyrus planned all this in advance. He wasn't dead at all and this whole story of him inheriting his house to his nephew was just a setup to get Arthur and his family into the house, since he needed Arthur and his love for his children as a final key to drive the machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All Cyrus wanted was the machine (which the whole house was) to work in order to use the powers of the &lt;em&gt;Ocularis Infernum&lt;/em&gt; to his advantage (see comments) and for this he needed somebody sacrificing himself out of true love, which he couldn't do, but fortunately he knew somebody that could, Arthur. So he lured him into his house by faking his death and coming up with that heritage plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2021-11-30T14:49:33.323" LastActivityDate="2021-11-30T14:49:33.323" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12562" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12563" CreationDate="2013-07-17T14:25:40.960" Score="7" ViewCount="5982" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Iron Man 3, about 25 minutes into the movie, one of Aldrich Killian's henchman walks over to a guy, and asks, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Can you regulate?&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then Happy Hogan bumps into the person who was asked, making him drop the suitcase. Out of the suitcase drops a bunch of silvery metal things, that look sort of like dogtags. What were those things, and why did the guy want them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5297" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T09:12:26.910" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T01:40:51.807" Title="What was in the suitcase that the new Extremis recruit dropped in Iron Man 3?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-3|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12562" CreationDate="2013-07-17T14:30:31.100" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;They were vials of the Extremis drug.  The guy injected himself, couldn't &quot;regulate&quot; the effect, and then exploded, being turned into a bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-07-17T14:30:31.100" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12567" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12572" CreationDate="2013-07-17T17:00:33.417" Score="15" ViewCount="123522" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Tesseract ends up on earth because it was lost during the battle between Odin and the Frost Giants. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800369/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; we see Thor talking (as a child) about how he wants to wage war on the Frost giants, like his father (Odin). So we know that the Tesseract must have been lost already. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But&lt;/em&gt;, during Thor's coronation ceremony, we see some frost giants trying to steal the Tesseract from Odin's throne room (or wherever that was), even though we know that it was lost. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Tesseract wasn't returned to Odin's throne room until after the events of the Avengers, which we know came after Thor, because Thor only decided to become a superhero on Earth after the events of Thor. Can anyone explain what's going on here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5297" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T09:12:53.757" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T09:12:53.757" Title="How is the Tesseract still in Odin's trophy room during Thor?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|continuity|captain-america-the-first-avenger|thor|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12567" CreationDate="2013-07-17T17:10:35.217" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading up on this Marvel Universe article about &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.com/universe/Cosmic_Cube&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cosmic Cubes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tells us that there is possibly more than one cube in the universe itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we are to believe that the Cinematic Universe (Earth-199999 as it is known in the Marvel Multi-verse) has similar canon then we can assume the same to be true that there is more than one Tesseract a.k.a. Cosmic Cube a.k.a. ooo shiny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, things that I have been looking up state that the Cubes in this universe were actually Asgardian artefacts created by Odin himself.  Therefore we can assume the one found on Earth was just a remnant of the time when Odin was on Earth, creating the illusion of Norse mythology to the people and uses these cubes (several?  a few?  who knows) to power Asgard itself and the Bifrost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope to add more info when I go home and get some screen-grabs of Thor as well as hope to add more when Thor 2 comes out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, memories are serving me at the moment that the artefact that the Frost Giants were stealing during the coronation was not actually a Tesseract/Cosmic Cube but actually an artefact of the Frost Giant's creation that maybe powered their world or contained something relating to their own people that Odin obtained to signify the end of the Asgard/Frost Giant war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking on, it seems the item confiscated from the Jotuns was actually the &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/Casket_of_Ancient_Winters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cask of Ancient Winters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which gave the Jotuns power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another artefact spotted in that scene is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/Orb_of_Agamotto&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Orb of Agamotto&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; used by another Marvel character in the Comic's canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-02T04:08:19.627" LastActivityDate="2013-10-02T04:08:19.627" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11314" CreationDate="2013-07-17T17:14:25.867" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;How was Azkaban guarded? It was guarded by the Dementors, who would &lt;em&gt;catch&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;punish&lt;/em&gt; anyone trying to escape. They might lose their soul to the Dementors too. Hence, the prison was actually dependent way too much on the Dementors. As we know, when Voldemort had been reborn, the Dementors sided with him. It is impossible for anyone to &quot;break&quot; out of Azkaban without the Dementors knowing about it. Even Sirius could manage to escape only because of being an Animagus. The Dark Lord and his supporters could simply have had a deal with the Dementors for letting the Death Eaters escape. The Dementors would have &lt;em&gt;ignored&lt;/em&gt; the escape. Once they had the Dementors on their side, freeing the death eaters was only a matter of &quot;breaking them out&quot; from the wall. Hence the hole in the wall - which was done by the Dark Lord or his supporters. Even though it is not mentioned explicitly that Dementors had sided with Voldemort, it was because of the Ministry cover-up. They had already started drifting towards Voldemort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please also note that the Dementors themselves cannot do any magic such as blasting holes, etc. They are beings who feed on emotions, and can affect only emotions of people. That is the reason they cannot be defeated by mere magic - you require a Patronus, which is the physical form of an emotion - happiness, that can fight a Dementor. Hence, the belief that the break out was orchestrated by the Dark Lord and his supporters with help from the Dementors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-09-16T18:30:48.360" LastActivityDate="2016-09-16T18:30:48.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12570" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-17T17:20:07.413" Score="19" ViewCount="1800" Body="&lt;p&gt;At first glance, Battleship appears to be a fairly run-of-the-mill action blockbuster where plucky humans defeat scary aliens using cunning and cleverness rather than overwhelming force. The audience is led to believe that the aliens are threatening and hostile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there's a decent amount of evidence that the story as told from the hero's point of view is not the whole story:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The film goes out of its way to show the aliens as non-hostile from the start. They only attack military targets, either when provoked or when it's necessary to further their objective.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The camera is very quick to cut away when it appears that a defenceless target is being attacked, meaning the audience never gets to see what happened.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Every violent act committed by the aliens is in response to aggression from the humans. (In response to a comment, I'll concede that firing into traffic at Pearl Harbor is a hostile act. However, by the time this happens, the humans have already escalated hostilities, so it's not like it was completely unprovoked).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The protagonist constantly makes mistakes and escalates hostilities at every opportunity. He actually botches the entire first contact mission, starts a war, gets huge numbers of innocent people killed, and also kills all of the aliens. At the end he is lauded as a hero despite all this. (Not to mention that the aliens were &lt;em&gt;invited&lt;/em&gt; to Earth in the first place).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Every time we see an alien's face, the alien is looking scared, panicked or threatened. This includes shots of the aliens on land and in their ships.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The aliens have multiple opportunities to kill the protagonist (and many others) and spare their life every time. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: peaceful aliens come to Earth after receiving a signal from humanity. Their communications ship hits something in orbit and crash lands. They attempt to use a communications satellite to phone home, but are assaulted from all sides by the hostile natives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The subtext here is so blatant that it can't possibly be unintentional. However, I can find no reference to this anywhere (presumably because the movie was panned by critics so no-one took it seriously).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I have a few questions with this in mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The central assumption is that the aliens are trying to access the communications satellite to summon reinforcements for a hostile invasion. Is this ever explicitly stated in the film? Or is it simply an assumption made by an unreliable character?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this reading of the text supported by the text itself, or have I missed something important?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has anyone involved in the making of the film ever alluded to this potential subtext?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5318" LastEditorUserId="5318" LastEditDate="2013-07-18T13:26:29.457" LastActivityDate="2018-10-11T14:44:02.623" Title="Is Battleship really an anti-war movie in disguise?" Tags="|analysis|battleship|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11314" CreationDate="2013-07-17T17:26:08.373" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note:  My answers are based primarily on the books themselves and do not use many details (or lack thereof) from the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Azkaban is/was the most feared prison in the London side of the wizarding world.  This is because of the cold dark cells combined with the Dementor guards.  During the time that Voldemort was left powerless, the Dementors had nowhere to go.  So the Ministry employed them into Azkaban in order to keep them under control in a sense and to further discourage wizarding crimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main reason no-one escaped from Azkaban ever was because the power of the dementors left the prisoners in such a state of apathy that they felt escape was pointless and even that wouldn't bring happiness back into their minds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ultimate punishment for an offending wizard was not to be sent to Azkaban as a prisoner, but to have performed upon them what became to be known as the &lt;em&gt;Dementor's Kiss&lt;/em&gt;.  This act would allow the Dementors to unveil their hood and suck out the soul of the offending wizard, leaving them as an emotionless husk for the rest of their days.  A fate considered much worse than death or anything Voldemort could accomplish during his reign of terror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 3rd book, the dementors didn't escape.  They were merely allowed to hunt down the only escapee to ever come out of Azkaban: Sirius Black.  This act was only performed by Siris because he was an &lt;em&gt;unregistered Animagus&lt;/em&gt;  someone who could turn into an animal at will, but did not register this ability of his with the Ministry of Magic.  Without that information, the Ministry had no clue how he could escape and unleashed the Dementors on the world due to essentially panic on their part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sirius figured out this trick due to noting the Dementors had no actual &lt;em&gt;eyes&lt;/em&gt; to see with, they merely felt their way around using people's emotions.  For whatever reason, they are unable to do this with animals so by turning into a dog, Siris was able to literally walk right out of Azkaban.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, jump ahead to the 6th with people being broken out of Azkaban.  The Dementors themselves are only &lt;em&gt;magical creatures&lt;/em&gt; but they themselves are not capable of &lt;em&gt;magic&lt;/em&gt; as humans are.  Therefore, it must have been Death Eaters themselves that either blew a hole into the prison using basic spells or even the Dementors decided to stop feeding on the imprisoned Death Eaters and allow them to simply leave the prison due to Voldemort's return and &lt;em&gt;guarantee&lt;/em&gt; of fresh &lt;em&gt;food&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-07-17T17:26:08.373" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12567" CreationDate="2013-07-17T18:28:33.917" Score="20" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During Thor we see Thor talking (as a child) about how he wants to wage war on the Frost giants, like his father (Odin). So we know that the Tesseract must have been lost already. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, what this shows us is that this is happening over a thousand years in the past.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Dr. Selvig is in the library, we see a book of Norse mythology.  It has a picture of a full-grown Thor.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Due to the mixture of real-world mythology, and the Marvel universe, the Asgardians were active on Earth about a thousand years ago, to jibe with our real-world history.  It was during this time they lost the Tesseract on Earth during the war with the Frost Giants.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This means that ~1000 years ago, Thor looked like a teenager or young human, at least.  This is because ~1000 years ago the Norse peoples interacted with Thor, and passed around stories of him as a full-height person, not a short child.  This then trickled down through time as Norse mythology&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in the scene with child Thor and child Loki, it's entirely possible that the Tesseract would be in the trophy room, since it hadn't yet been lost on Earth.  &lt;strong&gt;However:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;BUT, during Thor's coronation ceremony, we see some frost giants trying to steal the Tesseract from Odin's throne room (or wherever that was), even though we know that it was lost. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, during this scene they attempt to steal the Casket of Ancient Winters.  It's the device that allows the wielder to make blasts of severe cold.  This is the device that later on Loki takes and uses to freeze several things, including Heimdall and the Rainbow Bridge device.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Tesseract is a device that emits vast amounts of energy, and can be used to travel between the realms.  This device was central to the plot of &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Captain America&lt;/em&gt;.  It was not seen in &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt;, except during the post-credits scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-07-17T18:28:33.917" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12570" CreationDate="2013-07-17T18:37:11.257" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I couldn't disagree more with your assumptions. One point you have absolutely wrong is the assertion &quot;every violent act committed by the aliens is in response to aggression from the humans&quot;. I would like to point at least one scene which would depose this position. When the main &quot;ship&quot; (whatever it was) shoots to two balls into Pearl Harbor, it is to do two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Take out any and all military resistance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shut down the infrastructure&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is complete aggression. I see no way around it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe what is happening is this: the invaders do not see anything &quot;we&quot; have (or can do) as anything which can oppose them, so as long as we don't get in their way, they couldn't care less. They are there to complete their mission. It's not that they are non-hostile (I mean, what do you call taking over a planet if not hostile? They didn't try to communicate with us before hand), it's that don't believe we have anything which can touch them. Not much us puny humans can do to stop them, so they just don't care. The aliens couldn't care less about 1st contact. They are looking for conquest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is an interesting theory, I just think it's off-base is all. Again, JMHO, but I guess that's what the call for analysis is all about, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="43889" LastEditDate="2018-10-11T14:44:02.623" LastActivityDate="2018-10-11T14:44:02.623" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12552" CreationDate="2013-07-17T19:20:15.777" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0702730/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Eye of the Storm&lt;/a&gt; (Session 5 episode 17) From Sliders?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5451" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-17T11:43:15.280" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T11:43:15.280" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12576" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12577" CreationDate="2013-07-17T21:13:01.687" Score="8" ViewCount="2592" Body="&lt;p&gt;So in most &lt;em&gt;Scooby Doo&lt;/em&gt; episodes, Shaggy and Scooby are given the task of leading the monster to the trap. This despite the fact they are the biggest cowards. It seems to me they are tricked and/or bribed (with Scooby snacks of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why are they the ones usually chosen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5133" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-11-28T13:38:32.053" LastActivityDate="2018-11-28T13:39:29.810" Title="Why are Shaggy and Scooby always chosen to lead the monster to the trap?" Tags="|analysis|scooby-doo|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12576" CreationDate="2013-07-17T21:21:50.403" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few possibilities: Scooby and Shaggy are seen as less reliable team members and so aren't trusted by the rest of the gang with the task of springing the trap. Scooby and Shaggy are legitimately terrified, so the monster will be less suspicious that he is being led into a trap. They are both pretty fast, and if the need arises, they could get away from the monster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastActivityDate="2013-07-17T21:21:50.403" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1194" CreationDate="2013-07-18T01:00:21.000" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Okay&quot; is Joel saying, &quot;I don't care if it falls apart again. It doesn't matter because I love you and every moment we have is worth it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it works or not is irrelevant to the screen and to the overall point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5452" LastEditorUserId="5318" LastEditDate="2013-07-18T13:40:53.697" LastActivityDate="2013-07-18T13:40:53.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12579" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14641" CreationDate="2013-07-18T02:57:31.397" Score="9" ViewCount="3921" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm up to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/episodes?season=3&amp;amp;ref_=tt_eps_sn_3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Season 3&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;House, M.D.&lt;/a&gt; and it's been perplexing me for a while now as to why Dr. House has an old TV in his office. It's a small Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) TV and has been seen in the background of many episodes sitting on a cart with wheels. Is it ever revealed during the series or in any actor/director commentary why he still has it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AJl4p.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-08-23T23:48:54.533" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T22:44:09.217" Title="Why does House have an old TV in his office?" Tags="|props|house|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12576" CreationDate="2013-07-18T05:38:05.857" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per my knowledge of Scooby Doo episodes, there are a few episodes where Scooby and Shaggy said they don't want to lead the monster to the trap. So they have to choose someone else, but no other member agreed. They again used Scooby snacks to bribe Scooby and Shaggy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to me the reasons are- &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nobody else from the team wants to do this&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scooby and Shaggy can be easily bribed with Scooby Snacks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They have more expertise in leading monsters to traps&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you analyze this, then you will see there is a proper task distribution among Scooby's gang as per their skills. Daphne Blake can never be a choice because her focus is on makeup; similarly the other characters also have expertise in their own, separate work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think their are some exceptional episode but don't have link to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-11-28T13:39:29.810" LastActivityDate="2018-11-28T13:39:29.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12581" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12585" CreationDate="2013-07-18T08:56:57.730" Score="9" ViewCount="1369" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Fellowship of the Rings Galadriel gives each member of the fellowship a gift, many of these turn out to be critically useful in their quest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Frodo's light saves their life in Shelob's lair&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sam's rope is used in emyn muil&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The broaches lead Aragorn to the Hobbits&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The cloaks hide them more than once&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two instances of foresight in the films, the first is Elrond who can see Arwen's future (and indeed Arwen herself).  The other is Galadriel's mirror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these random gifts which may come in useful or are they specifically given for challenges she knows they will face?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-07-18T10:55:51.127" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T21:09:24.263" Title="Can Galadriel see the future?" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12583" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26669" CreationDate="2013-07-18T09:13:09.400" Score="13" ViewCount="16969" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is this is a mistake in the book or just a blooper in the film?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Deathly Hallows Part 1&lt;/em&gt; Harry doesn't ever disarm Malfoy he simply snatches the wand. &lt;strong&gt;Does that mean Harry is still the owner of the elder wand?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing I noticed is in &lt;em&gt;Deathly Hallows Part 2&lt;/em&gt;, Hermione disarms Malfoy in the Room of Requirement after which Harry saves Malfoy and never disarms him again! So doesn't that mean that the Elder wand belongs to Hermione now? I haven't read the books so I'm a bit confused. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might be a stupid question for a few of you but I really want to understand this, as every time I see the movie I research on it and never get an answer that really explains or satisfies me, especially about when Hermione disarms Malfoy in the Room of Requirement!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5374" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-11-22T10:38:56.383" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T21:08:34.530" Title="Does the Elder Wand really belong to Harry Potter?" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|the-deathly-hallows-2|the-deathly-hallows-1|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12581" CreationDate="2013-07-18T10:48:50.283" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting question. But I'd rather say they were just very useful tools, if they hadn't used them the way they did, they surely would have found other uses for them. More than being tailored for their specific futures they were probably chosen more to fit their individual characters, so I'd say she rather sensed they might be especially useful or fitting for the specific recipients.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(But this is all rather speculation because despite having read the corresponding books I'm not completely sure.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-25T12:55:45.750" LastActivityDate="2014-01-25T12:55:45.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12587" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12591" CreationDate="2013-07-18T12:17:41.743" Score="35" ViewCount="46383" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV Series &lt;strong&gt;Sherlock&lt;/strong&gt; I know there are many references to the original canon (&lt;em&gt;for example the hat&lt;/em&gt;). Particularly variations of the episode names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Study in Pink - A Study in Scarlet&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Scandal in Belgravia - A Scandal in Bohemia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hounds of Baskerville - The Hound of the Baskervilles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How closely are stories from the books transformed into the modern episodes or are they simply new stories with a similar name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-07-18T14:49:34.320" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T16:51:51.707" Title="How closely do Sherlock Episodes relate to the original stories?" Tags="|book-adaptation|sherlock|reference|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12576" CreationDate="2013-07-18T12:18:30.437" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main reason? Shaggy and Scooby will do &lt;strong&gt;ANYTHING&lt;/strong&gt; for a Scooby-Snack. Why should the rest of the gang put themselves at risk when it is so easy to get S&amp;amp;S to do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-07-18T12:18:30.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12587" CreationDate="2013-07-18T12:50:13.850" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are not merely taking the name. Apart from many smaller nods to the originals (like the title) and little allusions to characteristic conversations from the original stories, there are many bigger story elements from the original that can be found in the episode's story, yet often set into a slightly different context or maybe even parodied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the episodes are indeed inspired by the original stories to a large degree, but still tend to differentiate themselves, be it by modernizing certain aspects, parodying things, extending by additional stuff (most of the original stores were just short stories in the end), or just combining elements from the original in interesting and unique ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this is only a very broad answer. Given that I only have rather vague memories to the original stories (and haven't read all of them either), I'll leave actual examples or further explanations to other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-19T07:21:41.137" LastActivityDate="2013-07-19T07:21:41.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12587" CreationDate="2013-07-18T13:40:50.680" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will try to stay away from what Christian has already posted which already is a great answer. I can answer this from a reader's perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherlock holmes stories by Doyle can be classified into Long stories and short stories. There are only 4 long stories of which 2 of them are already made into episodes two of them which haven't made it into episodes are the Sign of Four (If rumors are true I think there is a sign of three planned for Season 3 I think thats that adaptation) and Valley of Death (Although I hardly doubt we will see an adaptation of that because this story has a link to Moriarity since he is dead in the series we can put this out of the question). As for the short stories there are 56 short stories which are classified into Adventures, Memoirs, Return and the His Final Bow categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The stories the episodes are based off mainly are as follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Study in Pink  - A Study in Scarlet (Long story)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Blind Banker - Mostly based off Five Orange Pips (Short Story)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Great Game - Mostly based off The Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans (Short Story)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Scandal in Belgravia - A Scandal in Bohemia (First short story in Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hound of the Baskerville - The Hound of the Baskervilles (Long Story)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Reichenbach Fall - Final Problem (Last short story of Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To closely relate to the attention to detail given by the creators of the show In the first episode Study in pink when anderson sees the pink lady's body with word Rache written on the floor he surmises that Rache could be a german term referring to Revenge actually but sherlock dismisses him saying that it was indeed intended to be Rachel but in the book its actually the other way, The police start to look for a girl named Rachel and then Sherlock holmes asks them to stop looking for Rachel and says that Rache means German for Revenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the great game too. The plot's core was straight off the short story, in the book it was plans for submarine but in the episode it was a missile program which gets stolen, The same character name Andrew West who dies and the part where the body gets placed near a train tunnel all were right of the short story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Hound of the Baskerville was significantly changed from a family plot motive in the book to a biological weapon in the series mainly because creators didn't want to show a hound in the episode they wanted it to be modern so current viewers can relate but the core of the story is driven by the characters created by Doyle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were also even other stories referenced in the episodes like the Story of the Geek interpreter (Adventure of the Greek Interpreter), Speckled Blonde (Adventure of the Speckled Band etc). The best part about the show is that it's got equal amount of content for readers and non-readers alike to enjoy about the show. it's not like ones who haven't read the stories won't enjoy the show at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the specific references I could think of right now. I will update this answer if something else comes to my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-07-18T13:47:59.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12592" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12595" CreationDate="2013-07-18T14:25:35.780" Score="20" ViewCount="19406" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just browsing IMDb and always wondered why in some movies an actor/actress will appear in the credits as the character but right beside in parenthesis &quot;As Name&quot;? Check out Dane DeHaan's profile as an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2851530/?ref_=tt_cl_t1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2851530/?ref_=tt_cl_t1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two in his profile, one for Lincoln - Second White Soldier (as Dane Dehaan) and one for At Risk - Cal Tradd (as Dane Dehaan)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anybody provide a reason for this? Or is this an IMDb only tweak?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3570" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T06:56:26.697" LastActivityDate="2016-04-16T20:45:44.410" Title="Why do some actors in credits appear as - Character (As Actor)" Tags="|credits|imdb|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5630" CreationDate="2013-07-18T14:27:41.907" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel the women walking towards the protagonist, had been freed via the death of She. Previously they'd been trapped in the prison of Eden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5457" LastActivityDate="2013-07-18T14:27:41.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12592" CreationDate="2013-07-18T14:29:23.210" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The two names which are listed are the one the actor is commonly known as and the other is how the credit in the film is given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(EDIT: So the main listing is the main one and the one in the parenthesis the credited.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-07-18T14:51:01.973" LastActivityDate="2013-07-18T14:51:01.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12592" CreationDate="2013-07-18T14:38:17.677" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is because there is a difference between how IMDb (or another source) lists the actor's name than their credit in a movie.  The name after 'as' shows how they were credited in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case here, it is because there is a difference in the capitalization between Dane DeHaan and Dane Dehaan. The difference here is relatively minor, they can be more significantly different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T06:56:18.163" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T06:56:18.163" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2324" CreationDate="2013-07-18T14:46:49.887" Score="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although the ending of inception was meant to be debatable and ultimately was left up to the audience, there are several factors indicating that Cobb is indeed dreaming in the end of the film. In fact if you read my whole theory you shall understand that Cobb is actually on the third dream level and you will understand why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reason 1. Cobb told Saito and Ariadne how his totem works therefore he can never truly tell if he is inside one of their dreams. In the end of the movie the totem DID fall down, but it was a dream. (This is because the totem was corrupted; the whole purpose of a totem is that it's functions are known only to you and no one else. When you are in someone else's dream and they know how your totem works they can use it against you, therefore making it impossible to tell if you are dreaming.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reason 2. When Cobb met his children at the end of the film after he spun the top he asked his son what he was building and his son replied &quot;A house on a cliff.&quot; This is A HUGE factor because we all know that throughout the movie elements of the subconscious work their way through to the dream; ie, Mal who was a projection. The relevance of the &quot;house on a cliff&quot; is that Saito lived in a house on a cliff in Limbo. If you remember when Cobb washed up on shore to the beach in Limbo he looked up and saw a house on a cliff. The son saying this is not a coincidence because there is no way he would have known that Saito lived in a house on a cliff. Therefore Cobb is inside Saito's dream hence the elements of the subconscious working its way to the surface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reason 3. The reason the screen to suddenly cut to black and possibly the reason for the top to take so long to fall was due to the end of the third dream. The dream was collapsing and it in fact ended. This is because of the song Je ne regrette rien. It was played in the dreams to indicate when the dream was ending. When the song ended so did the dream. The song was 2 minutes and 28 seconds long. The movie Inception was EXACTLY 2 hours and 28 minutes to the exact second (check if you want). This means that the ending was a dream but it was the end of the dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reason 4. Why did Saito and Cobb end up in the third dream level? Well everytime someone dies in a dream within a dream they awake up one dream level. When Cobb and Saito shot themselves they died in Limbo and awoke in the third dream level which is one level higher than Limbo. However why did they wake up on the plane? Simple. It is not the plane and they did not &quot;WAKE UP&quot;. Going back, you must keep in mind that Cobb and Saito missed the series of kicks that would allow them to leave the dream. So with everyone gone and Cobb and Saito still in Limbo, only EMPTY DREAM SPACE REMAINS, waiting for the first mind to make contact with it. Then Saito killed himself followed by Cobb. Saito was first and so his subconscious populated and inhabited the third dream level. The reason he &quot;wakes up on a plane&quot; is because he believed himself to be on a plane and so his subconscious built the plane from his memory along with the projections of his team. When Cobb entered right after he was entering a dream that belonged to Saito and therefore because it looked like reality he couldn't tell if it was a dream or not. Also his totem is &quot;broken&quot; so there is no telling whether he is dreaming or not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reason 5. After Saito and Cobb leave the plane and enter the airport they never once talk to the other &quot;members of their team&quot;. This 1 dimensional characteristic was commonly used before from the projections in the various dream levels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5458" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-18T15:09:50.647" LastActivityDate="2013-07-18T15:09:50.647" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12583" CreationDate="2013-07-18T15:11:58.983" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, I understand why you are confused about this.&#xA;Please let's first understand how the &lt;strong&gt;elder wand&lt;/strong&gt; works:&#xA;&lt;em&gt;the wand must be taken from it's owner &lt;strong&gt;against&lt;/strong&gt; their will&lt;/em&gt;. This does not mean that it must specifically be disarmed. It can be snatched, summoned, taken after killing, stolen while dueling or any other way of taking the wand against the will of the owner. Grindelwald stole the wand from Gregorovitch, and I guess fired a spell in order to win the allegiance of the wand. Dumbledore won the wand by dueling and defeating Grindelwald. Now, Malfoy disarmed Dumbledore, thereby taking the elder wand away from its owner without their will. Snape killed Dumbledore, but this was pre-decided. Which means, that even before Dumbledore's death, the elder wand now belonged to Malfoy. So he was the owner of the wand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now neither Harry, nor Malfoy ever touched the elder wand, yet became its owners. So I am &lt;em&gt;guessing&lt;/em&gt; here that winning the original wand from its owner would grant you allegiance to all their other wands. So, Harry won Malfoy's hawthorn wand. This means he also won any other wand that had their allegiance given to Malfoy, which happened to be the elder wand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it happened several times in due course that Harry was parted with his wand. But it always ended up with him having his wand back. That means Harry's wand was never &lt;em&gt;taken&lt;/em&gt; away from him. He always had it, in the moleskin pouch. Therefore, no matter who disarms Malfoy &lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; Harry had taken his wand, it would not make any difference to the allegiance of the elder wand. Because it now belongs to Harry. So anyone wanting the elder wand must now win Harry's wand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope it makes things clear to you. I am ready to edit or add to this answer any more doubts you have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T21:08:34.530" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T21:08:34.530" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="56583" CreationDate="2013-07-18T19:41:16.163" Score="28" ViewCount="50524" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the discussions after King Robert's accident with the boar in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; S01E07, I was somewhat given the impression that the Lannisters, or at the very least Cersei, planned for Robert to be too drunk to properly hunt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, did she/they actually plan it, or am I mistaken?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-12T21:30:58.960" LastActivityDate="2019-02-01T12:54:24.723" Title="Did the Lannisters plan Robert's death?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12599" CreationDate="2013-07-18T20:25:55.183" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if it's as clear in the TV show (it's been a while since I watched season 1), but in the book it's spelled out pretty clearly that Robert was supposed to die on the hunt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Queen Cersei gives Lancel Lannister (Robert's squire) very strong wine for Robert to drink, with the instruction that Robert should get as drunk as possible and have some kind of accident. Varys later reveals that if the boar hadn't killed him, a stray arrow would have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Robert_Baratheon#A_Game_of_Thrones&quot;&gt;A Wiki of Ice and Fire&lt;/a&gt;, which usually has pretty good references to the text but is missing a reference for this particular fact, for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, this wasn't a &lt;em&gt;Lannister&lt;/em&gt; plot, it was just Cersei. Cersei feared that her incestuous relationship with Jaime would be revealed when Robert returned, so had him killed to prevent this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5318" LastActivityDate="2013-07-18T20:25:55.183" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12587" CreationDate="2013-07-18T22:01:43.193" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the excellent answers already provided, there essence of the environment created in the new Sherlock series is a modernized, but true to the source mirror of the original.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in the original, Sherlock is manic between cases, and addicted to cocaine and opium.   In the modern version, he's a manic between cases, addicted to nicotine patches.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example is Watson, and army doctor, injured in the war in India in the original, injured in Afghanistan in the modern version.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, though they've updated the elements, I think they've done an excellent job (better than any other attempt) of holding true to the essence of the stories and the characters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5462" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2013-12-30T16:51:51.707" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T16:51:51.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12602" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12608" CreationDate="2013-07-19T06:27:31.643" Score="17" ViewCount="10196" Body="&lt;p&gt;Between the events in The Incredible Hulk (2008) and The Avengers how did Bruce Banner end up in India when he was last in Canada? Did it have anything to do with what happened at the end of the Incredible Hulk movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5374" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T08:19:23.670" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T08:19:23.670" Title="How did The Hulk end up in India?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|the-incredible-hulk|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12602" CreationDate="2013-07-19T07:06:34.353" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a way it did. The ending of &lt;em&gt;The Incredible Hulk&lt;/em&gt; we see Bruce attempting to control the transformation, a few years later in &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; we see that he has succeeded in gaining some control over the Hulk. We can then assume that his trip to India was probably part of that training process. When Bruce meets Natasha for the first time this conversation between them occurs which may shed light on the subject:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bruce Banner: Should have got paid up front, Banner.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Natasha Romanoff: [comes up behind him] You know, for a man who's&#xA;  supposed to be avoiding stress, you picked a hell of a place to&#xA;  settle.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bruce Banner: Avoiding stress isn't the secret.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Natasha Romanoff: Then, what is it? Yoga?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a bit later in the same conversation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bruce Banner: And what if the... other guy says no?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Natasha Romanoff: You've been more than a year without an incident. I&#xA;  don't think you wanna break that streak.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bruce Banner: I don't get always what I want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2013-07-19T11:40:00.553" LastActivityDate="2013-07-19T11:40:00.553" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12604" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12605" CreationDate="2013-07-19T09:13:50.207" Score="30" ViewCount="46405" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/3316/how-did-sherlock-know-the-combo-for-adlers-safe&quot;&gt;similar previous question&lt;/a&gt; established that in &lt;em&gt;A Scandal in Belgravia&lt;/em&gt; Irene Adler's safe combination was her measurements.  However, how did Sherlock know to use that combination?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Irene is naked and he's &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; observant, so he would have picked up on her measurements.  However, how did he know to use that as the code?  It may as well have been the distance apart of her curtains!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, when Irene decides to meet him in her &quot;battle dress&quot; she doesn't know she's going to want Sherlock to access the safe so it's not like she could &quot;dress&quot; accordingly...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how did Sherlock know to use her measurements to open the safe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2014-12-02T17:04:41.170" Title="How did Sherlock know to use her measurements?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12604" CreationDate="2013-07-19T12:26:15.973" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;While Irene was very distracting and a great match for Sherlock in general this only hinders his deduction ability so much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With Irene's display to Sherlock he can then continue in the back of his mind to try to figure out what series of numbers would be important enough to her to use as a combination.  Counting on the fact that she wouldn't use a random set as the possibility to forget the numbers would be detrimental.  Sherlock then has to figure out what is important to her? Her birthday?  Her parents age at death? The locker combination she had in the 5th grade?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ah, but Sherlock gets a peak at something most spectacular.  The one thing that gives Adler power over Sherlock, even for a brief moment.  &lt;strong&gt;Her body.&lt;/strong&gt;  Something that seems so important to her, that drives her livelihood, her profession, something that allows her to get what she wants when she wants it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also ingenious in a way.  A number not easily obtained without her knowledge (except in Sherlock's case of course).  A number easily remembered by her, as well as a number most people don't use much in this era in addition to a number that fits perfectly as a combination to a safe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherlock realizes this as a good possibility to the combination and gives it a whirl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-07-19T12:26:15.973" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12602" CreationDate="2013-07-19T14:30:02.933" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;A large part of Bruce Banner's self control is based on distracting himself and thus mentally distancing himself from &lt;em&gt;being&lt;/em&gt; The Hulk. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now how does he do that?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Banner being a world class physicist employs his immense knowledge ( &lt;em&gt;He is described by Marvel comics as &quot;possessing a mind so brilliant it cannot be measured on any known intelligence test.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/05/smart_heroes/source/7.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;) in humanitarian efforts.  He thus lands up in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolkata&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Calcutta(India)&lt;/a&gt; where he is just another foreigner, far far away from the United States and is practically unrecognizable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here he immerses himself in fighting the endemic spread across the city and &lt;strong&gt;his work becomes his savior&lt;/strong&gt;. It is safe to assume that Bruce Banner keeps traveling (&lt;em&gt;and quite frequently&lt;/em&gt;) to far-flung places where he can be a contributing member of the society through his work and keep himself distracted enough to not turn into that &quot;Green-Rage-Monster&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-07-22T12:56:25.630" LastActivityDate="2013-07-22T12:56:25.630" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12609" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-19T15:20:19.497" Score="7" ViewCount="528" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am referring to the scene where Jesse, the Gat Man, was releasing Sara who was held at gun-point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A moment later, Cid can be seen walking down the stairs (&lt;em&gt;maybe because of the commotion downstairs&lt;/em&gt;). As soon as Jesse senses a figure coming down the stairs, he points the gun at him. In a jiffy he draws his gun back, almost in a surrendering &quot;hands-up&quot; gesture, a look of horror mixed with shock/surprise spread across his face. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is his expression on seeing Cid&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UyTtF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the ensuing commotion Cid starts to tumble firing up his abnormal TK power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is his reaction when Cid starts to tumble&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Notice the arms raised in hands up position&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i2DRR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I can't understand why does Jesse get alarmed on seeing a kid (&lt;em&gt;assuming he doesn't know who he really is i.e. The Rainmaker&lt;/em&gt;). IMO, a suitable reaction on sensing that its just a kid, would be point the gun back at Joe. &lt;strong&gt;Why the shock and awe?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-07-26T12:31:04.370" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T12:31:04.370" Title="Why is Jesse alarmed to see Cid?" Tags="|character|plot-explanation|looper|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12609" CreationDate="2013-07-19T15:27:42.643" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jesse was not just a &lt;em&gt;hired killer&lt;/em&gt; to say, but he had some morality. He was talking about taking things outside, and was listening to the argument. When Cid comes down, Jesse points the gun at him as a reaction. When Cid sees him, he is startled and slips and falls down the stairs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jesse is surprised because Cid is just a boy and he did not want to point the gun on a kid. Also, he is slightly horrified that he startled Cid into him falling down the stairs. That's why he hastily took down his gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per se, Jesse was an enforcer, not a bad guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-07-19T15:27:42.643" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11785" CreationDate="2013-07-19T21:22:19.420" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the other posters on here that suggest it alludes to an STD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The phrase &quot;a wee bout&quot; suggests an infection, not anything drink related, plus the use of the words 'sea dog' and 'shore leave' are usually connected with the old tales of sailors having a girl in every port (and a port in every girl).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-07-19T21:22:19.420" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12614" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-20T02:44:07.170" Score="8" ViewCount="389" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the first part in Mulholland Drive, after Betty and Rita go inside the box, it drops on the floor and stays there for apparently a long time. The camera slowly pans up to Aunt Ruth entering the room, and looking around confused. From her point of view the camera examines the room, slowly making its way down to the floor where the box was, except that the box is no longer there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? What version of reality is this scene in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-01-21T18:51:08.257" LastActivityDate="2017-01-21T18:51:08.257" Title="Where did the box go?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mulholland-drive|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12614" CreationDate="2013-07-20T03:52:55.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First question I'll attempt at answering.  The last time I saw Mulholland Drive was in the theatre, however, your wording is quite useful, so I'll do my best to provide some type of insight.  If Betty &amp;amp; Rita go inside the box, outside of the multiple puns that notion can be viewed at within the context of the movie aside (&quot;Have you done this before? [I believe Betty asks] Rita: &quot;I don't know?&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they go in the box, then it shows the box for a long time (clearly gestation implication/transformation/transference/ [ever see the movie Persona?] some moth/butterfly chaos occuring by the long time lapse on the box)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the somewhat subjective POV of Aunt Ruth and the room (womb? cocoon?) Your wording of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...camera slowly pans up to Aunt Ruth entering the room, and looking around confused. From her point of view the camera examines the room...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you saying at this point the camera is representing the box and it pans up to aunt ruth? if it does that are you also saying there's an edit that switches to aunt ruth's pov of view? so, according to your wording the sequence goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;pan up to aunt ruth&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;from ruth's pov&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;suggesting an edit, which could potentially mean a few of the following.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the metamorphosis in the box, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;first off either the POV is aunt ruth's or it's the spirit of the whomever came out of the box.  since i don't remember the specifics of the movie super well, i can only surmise that the box in mulholland drive has to do with transformation.  i believe it's blue right?  the key and the box are both blue, in lost highway inside the jail cell there are electric blue flashes in the transition between the two characters.  also a transition without an exit is depicted &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOLb1nThRds&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;you'll also want to read this in connection with the youtube clip to truly understand some of Lynch's visua cues (sparks always mean transformations of some sort all the way back to Eraserhead maybe even the Grandmother etc alphabet, six men &quot;getting&quot; {transformation) sick{look it up) &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/nMu3Vz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here's&lt;/a&gt; the youtube footnote.&#xA;so i can only figure that with all the character dualism of projected and actual, whoever is the POV, is whoever stayed in the box.  however if when panning up from box to ruth the pov transferred from box to ruth, this in and of itself could be a process of determining, also, in and of itself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll have to rewatch that scene and then potentially edit this response.  Hopefully it provides larger questions to your question. ;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next!  half kidding. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, in the episode of Twin Peaks called Miss Twin Peaks, there's a scene at approximately the 25minute mark involving a vice, a chrome box and yes, a key.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5470" LastEditorUserId="5470" LastEditDate="2013-07-25T19:21:59.113" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T19:21:59.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12616" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12638" CreationDate="2013-07-20T04:21:03.580" Score="25" ViewCount="93498" Body="&lt;p&gt;In World War Z, one of the characters described something called &quot;the tenth man rule.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After several disasters that NO ONE thought could happen, the Council decided that if a vote was unanimous against a possible outcome, one member would act as if it was ABSOLUTELY going to happen, and trying to prevent it. This way, if they have a crisis, one man is prepared for it, and assumes directorship of the council for the duration of the crisis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds familiar to me, but I can't place it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this have any basis in fact/policy in any real government, or was this a pure fabrication?  If it's purely fictional, has this concept been used in other works?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="698" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-19T01:00:21.970" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T13:16:01.690" Title="Is the 10th man rule purely fictional, or is it based in fact?" Tags="|realism|world-war-z|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11861" CreationDate="2013-07-20T06:10:22.993" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;@wallyk's answer is excellent, and I would add just one thing: the greenscreen work you see done by local news and live TV is done in &lt;em&gt;real time,&lt;/em&gt; unlike a movie where computers can render for hours, days, weeks etc. There's only so much polishing that even a powerful computer can do at 30 frames per second, while also pumping the rendered video stream back out to be broadcast. When the source video is recorded footage rather than a live stream, and the computer or network of computers can take more than one-thirtieth of a second to render each frame, the quality of the output is considerably higher. Entirely different software is used for not-live greenscreen work, and it produces much better results (though not as quickly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Building off this point, starting with already-shot footage means that compositors can do preliminary work on it even before the green gets keyed out—color-correcting the image so that the green pops more, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For an example of the very best &lt;em&gt;live&lt;/em&gt; greenscreen replacement that money can buy, look at NFL games and the computer-generated line of scrimmage/first-down line that sometimes goes underneath players; or some MLB games have ads behind the batters that are added digitally, keying out a greenscreen &quot;ad&quot; in a stadium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5352" LastActivityDate="2013-07-20T06:10:22.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12621" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-20T06:48:03.943" Score="2" ViewCount="499" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several scenes in a movie require a lot of people to appear on-screen. For example a scene of a party where it needs a lot of people to appear together. I heard crews of the production unit and even often their kith and kin are used to fill the space as random people. Now my question is &lt;strong&gt;are heroes or heroins who are cast as lead role in a film used to fill the space if they don't have direct shots in that particular scene?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question popped into my mind when I saw a picture in Facebook where the uploader claims &quot;Heath Ledger&quot; is used to fill space in a scene in &quot;The Dark Knight&quot;. Here is the picture he uploaded:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6kxV7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Is Heath really there?&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now nobody in that group could tell whether it is true or not. I am not interested about this particular picture because this is hard to know about this particular scene. But I want to know if people with so much importance can be used this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-07-20T07:43:09.680" LastActivityDate="2013-07-20T07:43:09.680" Title="May the lead role actors be used to fill spaces if needed?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="382" CreationDate="2013-07-20T07:03:30.957" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoting from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/faq?ref_=tt_faq_sm#.2.1.39&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMBD FAQ page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Richard Kelly has given various reasons for this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;It was a favorite time, when he was a teenager. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Very few films have been set in the '80s. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;He didn't feel comfortable setting a teenage film now, with no knowledge of current teenage life. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(It could also be a reference to Back to the Future as both movies take place in the 80's and the movie is also referenced at some point during the film- And don't forget the DeLorean needed to reach a speed of 88mph in order to time-travel.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-04-04T14:03:48.013" LastActivityDate="2016-04-04T14:03:48.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12623" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12644" CreationDate="2013-07-20T07:14:34.247" Score="16" ViewCount="23567" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know &lt;em&gt;Donnie Darko&lt;/em&gt; is a very hard film to understand. But let me say what I understood in pieces:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;corruption&lt;/strong&gt; has happened in the timeline of the film, when the jet falls down from the future upon Donnie Darko's room.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He should have died. But he did not because that night Frank called him outside.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now Donnie's work was to create a wormhole and return to the past and get killed by sleeping in his room.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;So the entire movie was how Donnie returned to the past, got killed and saved the universe from corruption.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the night of the accident in the real universe, Frank called Donnie outside so that the corruption could be mended.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my question is if Frank would not have called Donnie that night outside, the accident could have happened the way it was supposed to, i.e. by killing Donnie? So isn't it the rabbit's fault for what happened in Donnie Darko's life? If he had not called Donnie in the first place, these things could not have occurred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-26T07:55:57.433" LastActivityDate="2020-04-29T18:01:39.217" Title="Is Frank responsible for what happened in Donnie Darko's life?" Tags="|plot-explanation|donnie-darko|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12621" CreationDate="2013-07-20T07:40:52.220" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;no, not unless they do not have a direct shot. The ramifications of having something such as this - the &lt;strong&gt;joker&lt;/strong&gt; being open, without makeup in Bruce's hotel? Unless this was all done deliberately (if the picture is true).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally if such people are used as extras (they are used a lot of times) the editing department works hard to check that their faces or bodies do not appear in any recognizable way for the audience who is seeing the edited film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-07-20T07:40:52.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12628" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12635" CreationDate="2013-07-20T08:19:18.310" Score="4" ViewCount="1426" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying really hard to remember where I saw this.  I remember it took place in a modern world, but there was a field or dome that they could see in to.  The beings inside looked 1800s or amish and appeared to be human.  At one point some military type guys go inside and turns out they weren't human at all and are attacked by them.  Thats all I really remember, and I can't find anything anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5473" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-20T09:04:04.273" LastActivityDate="2017-05-23T03:21:58.900" Title="80s / 90s Sci Fi movie or show about aliens/monster that look amish" Tags="|identify-this-movie|identify-this-tv-show|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-05-23T07:21:31.763" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8278" CreationDate="2013-07-20T08:24:49.043" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I prefer Marvel's solution to continuity: we live in a multiverse. Any stories that contradict each other must be taking place in parallel realities. It's nice to try to retcon conflicting stories as much as possible, to make ALL the stories work in just one world, but where that becomes implausible, the many-worlds interpretation is the ultimate fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even removing the Craig continuity from the previous five, we're left with a very implausible continuity. I can't swallow Bond as a timelord. MI6 would have noticed his two hearts during initial physical exams, so he would know for sure that he wasn't human, and he'd be immune to extreme heat, cold, radiation, etc. A human Bond who occasionally undergoes a complete transformation of body and personality also isn't very plausible. Besides, if we're separating the Craig continuity, why not separate all the continuities that are obviously different? The parallel universes theory, while it may be kind of out there, is not nearly as disprovable as the timelord theory or the makeover theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, from the Bond movies, we have six parallel Bondverses: the Conneryverse, the Lazenbyverse, the Mooreverse, the Daltonverse, the Brosnanverse, and the Craigverse. The continuity of the original book series isn't identical to any of the movie continuities, so it gets its own universe too. These universes are all a little different, but they share many events and characters (some played by the same actors).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5474" LastActivityDate="2013-07-20T08:24:49.043" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10429" CreationDate="2013-07-20T12:02:43.080" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The entire film was not a dream. The movie started when Cobb and Saito are in that dream where he proposes that he can extract information and protect his subconsciousness and tells him about the safe where Saito looks at the wall. This is where the film started and when Cobb reaches America to his kids and spins the totem, that is where it ended. The totem he spins belonged to his wife. He did not spin his own totem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5259" LastActivityDate="2013-07-20T12:02:43.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12628" CreationDate="2013-07-20T13:57:20.517" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like the Night Visions segment &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aAY57plRYQ&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;A View Through the Window&lt;/a&gt;, based on the short story &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_%28short_story%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Window&lt;/a&gt; by Bob Leman. The army investigates an idyllic ca 1800's prairie homestead which been found in the middle of the desert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-01-16T06:57:25.173" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T06:57:25.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12004" CreationDate="2013-07-20T14:17:46.033" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;A comic was released before the movie in which it was shown that a member of house El (Kara El) was on that space ship which was sent to explore other worlds thousands of years ago but crashed due to damage taken by it during fight between Kara Zor-El and Dev-Em which also explains presence of skeletons of kryptonions whose cryogenic pods were shut down by Dev-Em. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ign.com/wikis/man-of-steel/Man_of_Steel_Prequel_Comic&quot;&gt;http://www.ign.com/wikis/man-of-steel/Man_of_Steel_Prequel_Comic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5479" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-20T16:43:55.117" LastActivityDate="2013-07-20T16:43:55.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12616" CreationDate="2013-07-20T15:53:07.807" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do remember talking about this in Political Science class. This does happen. It's based on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edge.org/conversation/the-argumentative-theory&quot;&gt;Argumentative Theory&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5449" LastEditorUserId="698" LastEditDate="2013-07-20T20:49:22.457" LastActivityDate="2013-07-20T20:49:22.457" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12639" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12656" CreationDate="2013-07-20T16:58:47.797" Score="11" ViewCount="12318" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't normally watch &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1600194/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hawaii Five-0&lt;/a&gt;, so I'm not familiar with the intricacies of the characters' histories, but last night I watched an episode from Season 3 (episode 20) titled &quot;Olelo Paʻa&quot;, or &quot;The Promise&quot;. Much of the plot involves Steve McGarrett attempting to retrieve the body of a fallen Navy SEAL comrade from North Korea. The episode includes many flashbacks, including McGarrett and his friend as Navy SEAL's in training and on a mission. From the beginning of the new Hawaii Five-0 series, Steve McGarretts back-story was that he is a former Navy SEAL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the &quot;current&quot; time, McGarrett is seen wearing an Army uniform, as seen in the photo below (the woman beside him is wearing the comparable Navy uniform). I've checked several show-specific wikis and can't find any reference to him ever being associated with the Army. All references are to his Navy SEAL background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know why McGarrett was wearing an Army uniform? All former military personnel that I've ever met are fiercely loyal to their branch and wouldn't lightly wear another uniform. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BeGQX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Navy SEAL McGarrett on left, in Army uniform&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-18T11:48:25.540" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T04:50:49.170" Title="Why was McGarrett wearing an Army uniform?" Tags="|plot-explanation|hawaii-five-0|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12641" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12975" CreationDate="2013-07-20T17:46:15.480" Score="8" ViewCount="2462" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hot Fuzz featured at least &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425112/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast&quot;&gt;two big names in uncredited cameos&lt;/a&gt; (Peter Jackson as the guy in the Santa suit who stabbed Nicholas Angel in a flashback sequence, and Cate Blanchett as Angel's ex-girlfriend, Jannine). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was hoping for more of the same in The World's End, but didn't spot any when I saw the film, and haven't read of any either. Are there any I've missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="624" LastActivityDate="2013-08-31T19:46:30.303" Title="Are there any uncredited cameos in The World's End?" Tags="|cameo|the-worlds-end|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12642" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-07-20T17:47:39.610" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The World's End is a comedy directed by Edgar Wright and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. It is the third in the so-called &quot;Cornetto Trilogy&quot;, the first two being Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="624" LastEditorUserId="624" LastEditDate="2013-07-20T18:21:46.433" LastActivityDate="2013-07-20T18:21:46.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12643" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-07-20T17:47:39.610" Score="0" Body="A comedy directed by Edgar Wright and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost." OwnerUserId="624" LastEditorUserId="624" LastEditDate="2013-07-20T18:21:49.730" LastActivityDate="2013-07-20T18:21:49.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12623" CreationDate="2013-07-20T18:18:42.650" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spoiler Alert&lt;/strong&gt; if you have never seen this movie, stop reading now.  This answer is going to have multiple specific details pertaining to this movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok.  Everyone gone that doesn't want to know this stuff?  Good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First... remember, whenever you step into a book or movie, you enter the universe of the writer.  The writer creates the rules of that universe, and we as readers must decide whether we wish to accept those rules for the duration of our stay within the tale.  This inevitably means that there will be things either our imagination or experience cannot readily accept.  That said...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie does not explain away all the events as a simple dream sequence that Donnie wakes up to.  If it were, he would wake up and proceed through life... with one or two small events in the conclusion of the story to make us go &quot;Wait... was it really a dream?&quot;  In this case, the Jet Engine does indeed crash into the house, it does kill Donnie, and his family and friends (or potential friends, as in Gretchen) continue on through life as if he really did just get killed by a falling Jet Engine.  So, the universe that the story takes place in, as explained by the events we are shown, really does contain all the pieces that enable what we saw to really happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means for the purposes of a discussion on Donnie Darko, it is a given that what happens up to the point at the end where Donnie is laughing in bed &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; happen to a character in said universe.  Although he has been diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic by his psychologist, she has come to that conclusion from the information he gave to her... information he came by in the observation of events unfolding in his life... events that were not necessarily delusions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; that Donnie merely possessed the ability to see the future, and everything up to where he was laughing in bed before the Jet Engine killed him was simply a vision of the future.  This would mean he did not have the ability to travel through time, and no actual time travel occurred.  He saw events, and on realizing what would happen, he chose to stay in bed and die to avoid them happening.  Now... I said it is &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt;... however, it is not probable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasons it is not probable, are...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;because of the reactions we see everyone else have.  Donnie laughs, Donnie dies, then we are shown the montage of people waking up with various stages or remorse and remembering.  This tells us (the viewers) that it did happen.  We are shown the page from Sparrow's book that describes this, and then we are shown it actually happening... the expressions of concern and the tears... down to Frank touching his eye in the remembrance of being shot there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;because if it was simply a vision of the future, Donnie's vision would not have been &quot;haunted&quot; by Frank.  Again, although it is &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; that if he was seeing a vision of the future, he could have also been seeing a second series of future visions (aka Frank's appearances) within the main vision... it is not probable.  He killed Frank.  It is more likely that in a universe where one can (under extreme circumstances) time travel without technology, that Frank was also a time traveler, working to change events, just as Donnie chose to do at the end.  Unfortunately, although this sounds good, there is a glaring flaw with that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now... there are several holes, even assuming the givens of this particular universe.  For one... Frank appears to Donnie with his gunshot wound.  That means Frank appears to Donnie when he was already dead.  That's a gunshot wound to the head folks.  So, how could dead Frank time travel, to tell Donnie about the future and actually assist Donnie in knowing what he needed to learn to change it?  Also, if Donnie did travel back and remember it all, why wouldn't he get out of the room, and just avoid all the things that went wrong?  Instead of laughing fatalistically, he could have gotten out of bed, written down what he remembered, and worked to make sure things didn't go that way.  If he thought staying in bed and getting killed was a better way to handle it, he was already thinking one could change the past (IE staying in bed rather than surviving).  If he thought one could change the past, then why not LIVE and change it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you step back and look at this from another point of view... assume Time Travel is possible through the power of the human mind.  Assume that what we are shown is real in that universe.  This story could instead be all about Frank.  He runs over a girl, and gets shot.  He travels back in time, he gives Donnie the message which inevitably forces the change that gets him un-shot (sorry about that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know what you are thinking... what does this have to do with your question... that and... if Frank never traveled back in time, he wouldn't have been shot, so there wouldn't have been a need to travel back in time.  Yes.  This is correct.  However, whenever you are dealing with the concept of Time Travel, you must ALSO always deal with the possibility and consequences of a PARADOX.  A paradox is a situation that is created by the probability of Time Travel, where it can and only &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; happen if Time Travel was possible... but otherwise is impossible.  With Time Travel, and therefore with the Paradox, there is no &quot;Chicken and Egg&quot; syndrome.  It is never a matter of which came first.  The question of which came first is now a moot point, when you can just travel back before an event, to make something else happen first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example.  Jill travels back in time and tells John to shoot the first person to walk through the door in front of him.  The door opens, and John shoots and kills... Jill, since her former self was the first person to walk through the door.  Your first instinct is to say that this scenario is impossible, because Jill wouldn't be alive to go back in time to tell John this, if John were to shoot her.  However, your instinct is to say this because of the trouble we all have accepting the possibility of a Paradox.  With a deeper understanding of both Time Travel and the Paradox, it is entirely possible for someone to go back in time and cause their own death before the point where they would go back in time.  Not that someone would want to, but it could happen.  It doesn't mean they cease to exist.  It plays on the concept of divergent realities, and the concept that there are infinite universes created at every decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... did Frank cause everything that happened to Donnie?  Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Frank we are introduced to, even though we can't see what he looks like until the movie theater, is the Frank that was created by Donnie and the gun.  It is the Frank of nanoseconds after being shot, assuming that the bullet kills him nanoseconds after that.  Frank is the first time traveler in this story we are introduced to (but not the first time traveler in the story... the first time traveler in the story is Roberta Sparrow).  Because of the way that the Paradox works, Frank pulled Donnie out of one time line (calling him out of bed), and led him down the path that resulted in his being shot.  Why?  To hopefully get Donnie to understand time travel as well, and get Donnie to decide NOT to shoot him.  Remember, I'm not talking about the Frank we see on the floor after Donnie decides to stay in bed.  This is the Frank from the time line where he is shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Donnie, with his mental illness, when faced with the same choice as Frank had (time travel or die), chooses to accept death instead.  Roberta, when she is introduced to all of these things, she instead opts for a third choice.  She becomes a new person overnight, writes it all down in a book, and becomes a science teacher.  the Character of Roberta is there (among other reasons) to show us that Donnie could have opted to take a different path other than accept the Jet Engine to the face... but that's where his mental illness comes in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yes.  Frank time travels out of the time line of his own making to create the events that happen to Donnie and ultimately lead to his own death.  The presence of him in the Rabbit costume WELL before Halloween night, as well as the picture Donnie draws of him that his mother sees, show that Frank is real, and Frank is traveling through time.  Maybe not physically... maybe he can only be seen by Donnie because he doesn't have all his marbles.... but he is there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; almost forgot about the Jet Engine itself.  The Jet Engine comes out of the divergent time line involving the events of the movie (and from his mother's plane), and is supposedly sent back in time through the same wormhole that Donnie uses to time travel with.  Unfortunately, Donnie was miles away when he actually traveled back in time.  The vortex might have been forming over his house, but that's not where he was.  It was where he ended up... but the vortex and subsequent wormhole should have followed him... or he should have returned to it at that moment he decided to travel through time.  The Jet Engine most certainly traveled through that wormhole... it came from the future to kill him in the past.  IE... more proof of the actual Time Travel theory, as opposed to the Future Visions theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This again points to the paradox and says &quot;See what you made me do?&quot;  If Donnie never got out of bed and was killed by the Jet Engine, how could he be killed by a Jet Engine in the first place when it came off a plane hitting the atmospheric turbulence created by the vortex that was there from Donnie corrupting the time line and NOT getting killed by the Jet Engine?  Answer?  Paradox!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="4621" LastEditDate="2013-07-20T18:52:57.127" LastActivityDate="2013-07-20T18:52:57.127" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12337" CreationDate="2013-07-20T20:37:40.727" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm more inclined to believe that Cereberus required all three codes to authenticate and that Kang getting the last code was just a plot hole. If I recall correctly, one of the men in the conference room said it would take at least three days for all three codes to be cracked - obviously assuming a brute force attack. My memory is not too clear, but I think each code had 7 characters. This means 36^7 ~ 7.8x10^10 candidates, assuming all possible combinations of the (uppercase) Latin alphabet and the numbers 0-9 were possible. Assuming only permutations were possible, we'd still have 36!/29! ~ 4.2x10^10. Taking out codes consisting only of a string of a single character (e.g., AAAAAAA, BBBBBBB...), (36!/29!)-36 = negligible decrease = still a shitload of candidate codes to try.  Unless the attack lucked out and generated the correct code within  ~12 hours (give or take), making the above, assumption, it's unlikely that the system only required 2 codes - let alone 2 codes &lt;strong&gt;excluding&lt;/strong&gt; the presidents. But hold on. We're talking about an extremely powerful government security system here that has the potential to leave the United States vulnerable to nuclear attacks. Why the hell would it be possible to brute force the system? Even moderately secure authentication systems limit the number of failed authentication attempts possible within a given time frame. Why would the American government make it possible to brute force their system? They wouldn't. Well, then maybe they were brute forcing the file containing the encrypted passwords? Maybe the encryption algorithm used to encrypt the passwords before storage was leaked to the Koreans? Maybe, m-maybe... maybe GOD gave them the passwords!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just don't see the US government designing an security system with such major vulnerabilities. Just as a precaution, I'd design the encryption code so that all three codes are combined, encrypted, and verified together, thereby increasing the number of possible codes (possible codes = k^n, where k = number of characters to choose from, n = number of characters in the code).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a tense movie. That's all it was good for. The technical aspects of it were merely vehicles by which the writers carried the story. The only good things about this movie were the fact that it made me think about encryption, and seeing Gerard Butler's character follow through on his promise to stick his knife in Kang's face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adios.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5482" LastActivityDate="2013-07-20T20:37:40.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10640" CreationDate="2013-07-21T02:41:24.513" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I agree with &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/10645/4739&quot;&gt;DForck42's answer&lt;/a&gt;, I would really emphasize &lt;em&gt;style preferences&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A long series of straight cuts (&quot;straight&quot; means no transition like a wipe, crossfade, blur, etc.) between camera angles does several things for the viewer's state of mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The viewer feels more omniscient&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The scene's intensity seems stronger and more important&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Concentrates (in the sense of juice concentrate) action or reaction&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A stronger emotion is created, even if part of it merely comes from having one's mind crammed full of images, and just trying to keep up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fight sequences are most often shot for all those reasons plus &lt;em&gt;performer safety&lt;/em&gt;.  A fight sequence is usually broken down into a series of clips of no more than three &quot;moves&quot;&amp;mdash;punch, block, dive for example.  That way both performers can easily get the choreography entirely correct:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; therefore safely performed.  (I know this from being an extra in a &lt;em&gt;Leverage&lt;/em&gt; episode laying on the ground beside Christian Kane (Eliot) as he has a sword fight with Noa Tishby.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2013-07-21T17:25:25.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12653" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-21T06:18:13.687" Score="5" ViewCount="8370" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Julian put his hands in his mother's stomach in &quot;Only God Forgives&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this scene mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5487" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-18T00:38:15.123" LastActivityDate="2017-07-29T11:40:44.833" Title="What does this scene in Only God Forgives signify?" Tags="|plot-explanation|only-god-forgives|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12639" CreationDate="2013-07-21T12:35:38.057" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Summarizing from the Wikipedia article on Uniforms of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Navy_Uniforms&quot;&gt;United States Navy&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;The USN has three classes of uniform for different uses: Dress (for formal occasions), Service (for daily wear), and Working (for use when other uniform types would be unduly soiled or are otherwise inappropriate). The Working uniforms come in three colour groups, depending on where the sailor is serving: predominantly blue, woodland, and desert. The latter two colour schemes are specifically mentioned as being used SEALS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think your question is based on a faulty premise - McGarett is meant to be wearing a woodland-colored working uniform, which could be mistaken for an army uniform if one is not familiar with the intricacies of navy uniforms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastActivityDate="2013-07-21T12:35:38.057" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10640" CreationDate="2013-07-21T14:08:19.623" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to disagree with the assumption that the number of cuts in a film has increased over the last 20 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To say the number of edits has increased is to also say that film techniques have also changed, and while technology and style have changed. The basic techniques of filming have remained mostly intact. With the except of the few directors who challenge the norm (Quentin Tarantino as an example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An editor tries to stay true to the script, and will make changes under the guidance of the director. The point here is the script. Scripts, how they are written, how they are structured has not changed much in the last 20 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we can use MTV as an example of fast editing. Let's remember that most of the MTV style is copied from classic great directors. There are many films of the 1960s and 1970s that used fast editing to build drama, action and mood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The central rhythm of a film is called its &lt;code&gt;beat&lt;/code&gt;. Beats are specific, measured, and spaced to create a pace that moves the progress of the film forward. Script writers have been using beats long before films. Scripts for the theater contained beats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To say films contain more cuts now than before, is to say that films have a faster beat now than before. That simply isn't true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What has likely happened is that you are now watching more films that have a faster beat than you did when you were younger. So your perception is that films now have more cuts. There are many adult drama films being produced that have a slower beat that you are likely not watching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-07-21T17:29:39.957" LastActivityDate="2013-07-21T17:29:39.957" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12658" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12665" CreationDate="2013-07-21T18:19:19.807" Score="13" ViewCount="5407" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies1.netflix.com/WiMovie/House_of_Cards/70178217&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Rep. Francis Underwood's wife Claire is the director of the non-profit organization Clean Water Initiative.  It seems to be a small potatoes operation with an annual budget around $1.5 million.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there seems to be some symbiosis for Frank and Claire during the first 13 episodes, CWI seems a really odd career choice for Claire considering how the two of them have a relentlessly pursued life plan to gain power and conquer pretty much everything they face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With Claire's skills, it would seem she could do better, like being a lobbyist, media person, or more.  And it certainly seems like they would have plotted out a more ambitious purpose for her for their &quot;power positioning&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is CWI her profession?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2020-03-06T11:40:10.513" Title="Why is Claire at Clean Water Initiative?" Tags="|character|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12659" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-21T20:07:24.903" Score="-4" ViewCount="448" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently watched the season 4 finale of Breaking Bad and although it was hinted at before, now the series has taken a sharp turn towards portraying Walt as a bad guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's great, as it is something never seen before in television. It's just that I've also recently played a game called Spec Ops: The Line, in which you play as a guy who eventually turns out to be the villain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if one of the above has borrowed from the other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5496" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-01-04T17:13:26.837" LastActivityDate="2017-01-04T17:16:56.310" Title="Is Breaking Bad inspired by Spec Ops: The Line? (or vice versa)" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12658" CreationDate="2013-07-21T22:43:53.547" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't see anything in the episodes (at least which jumped out) spelling this out. The way I see this helping the symbiosis is she needs to be doing &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; which will not interfere with anything he is doing. Being the Director of the non-profit shows her willingness to support &lt;em&gt;bigger things&lt;/em&gt; without any interference. It's kind of like the First Lady, Michelle Obama doing stuff with children's health: it helps their husbands look better. They don't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to do these things, but do so to further the overall goals of the administration. It's all politics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-07-21T22:43:53.547" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12653" CreationDate="2013-07-21T23:08:50.890" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few times it was hinted that there was a history of incest between the mother and her sons, so for Julian I think it was a weird, angry sexual thing.  He also killed his father with his bare hands because of her, as a result he seems to hate them. I guess it might be a kind of &quot;fuck you&quot; to Kristin Scott Thomas; character as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5499" LastEditorUserId="5499" LastEditDate="2013-07-24T00:53:40.797" LastActivityDate="2013-07-24T00:53:40.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3052" CreationDate="2013-07-21T23:42:05.187" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be a thyroid thing too, Betty was diagnosed and treated in a later season. With over and under active thyroid disorders you can have shaky hands off and on, numbness in certain body part too. Back then it was nearly impossible to catch it, the sad thing is it's still nearly impossible to catch it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5500" LastActivityDate="2013-07-21T23:42:05.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12658" CreationDate="2013-07-21T23:51:59.240" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Initiatives like that, have a huge impact on politics. With his wife running the CWI, it makes Frank look good before the general public. If it were ever to come down to the people voting for him, people would favor somebody who supports such initiatives. It's like brownie points in politics! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5449" LastActivityDate="2013-07-21T23:51:59.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12666" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12667" CreationDate="2013-07-22T00:15:43.080" Score="8" ViewCount="1289" Body="&lt;p&gt;A long time ago, I watched a movie that started with a car chase, and the good guy says &quot;he drives like a cop&quot; and the bad guy was a cop. After that I dont really remember what happened, but I think the good guy was a famous actor, and maybe the bad guy too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5502" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-07-22T05:25:09.793" LastActivityDate="2013-07-22T07:11:36.900" Title="Movie that police officer is the bad guy" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:46:40.077" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12666" CreationDate="2013-07-22T00:42:02.517" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108238/combined&quot;&gt;Striking Distance&lt;/a&gt; with Bruce Willis playing Det. Hardy. The line was to Hardy's father, also a police veteran, who was in the car while both were on the way to a police function. A radio call came out that the suspected serial killer was escaping, and the description of the car matched; they started chasing, too. See the quote &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108238/quotes&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2013-07-22T00:42:02.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12488" CreationDate="2013-07-22T02:58:52.403" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the scene after the end credits, we see Perlman cut his way out of the Kaiju and then exclaim &quot;Where's my Damn Shoe!?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That whole bit where he gets swallowed (by a premature Birthed Kaiju with no teeth) was simple comedy relief scene to show that the character portrayed didn't know everything, but maintains posturing as though he does. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt this was a nod or anything like that to Hellboy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5503" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-07-22T12:30:53.680" LastActivityDate="2013-07-22T12:30:53.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12659" CreationDate="2013-07-22T14:08:01.047" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spec_Ops%3a_The_Line&quot;&gt;Spec Ops: The Line&lt;/a&gt; was released in 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad&quot;&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/a&gt; started in 2008.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, if you must insist that one one inspired the other, then Breaking Bad was the inspiration for Spec Ops: The line.  However, it isn't that simple.  Just because it appears that the protagonist goes bad, doesn't mean the story lines are at all similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From that Wikipedia Page on Spec Ops: The Line...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While lead writer Walt Williams has stated that there are many influences, the premise is inspired by Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, with Konrad replacing Kurtz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, if you need a more recent influence... Apocalypse Now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea of a good man sinking deep to perform questionable acts in order to maintain the &quot;Greater Good&quot;... regardless of whether or not that is a questionable good itself... is not a new one.  Our Hero in Spec Ops: The Line is pursuing a villan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Breaking Bad, our protagonist is beaten down by the events in his life, and he makes a &lt;strong&gt;choice&lt;/strong&gt; to turn bad, as he sees it as his only way out.  He proceeds to be bad, and get badder, while attempting to maintain some semblance of still fitting in to society's concept of being good, or doing as he is supposed to.  Unfortunately, the character of Walter started teetering on the edge of being morally questionable very early on.  His trip over the edge was by choice.  He wanted to go down the wrong path; he takes pride in what he does and how he does it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we were going to compare protagonists and their stories... and we needed a single setting to do so, then Apocalypse Now is a pretty good stage to work from.  You could compare Captain Martin Walker from Spec Ops:The Line to Martin Sheen's character, and you could compare Walter White from Breaking Bad to Marlon Brando's character.  Both characters could be in the same story, but I don't see how you can say that both characters are the same (or inspiration for one another).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2013-07-22T14:08:01.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12678" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12679" CreationDate="2013-07-22T14:24:05.400" Score="8" ViewCount="1024" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've searched far and wide for this and, as I've got limited memory of it, I've no idea how to find the actual name of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The premise of the film was of a scientist that was forced to retire from his job and, upon doing so, stole two insect-like creatures (aliens) that he kept in his personal shed outside his home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As time went by, the creatures grew in size and one was blue, whilst the other was red. They gradually got bigger and multiplied, whilst gaining in intelligence and ended up building a &quot;shrine&quot; in sand to depict the scientist's face (i.e he was their God/creator).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this, inevitably, everything goes wrong and the red and blue aliens end up having a war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone have an idea what this film is actually called?! I've run out of options other than asking here!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5516" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-07-22T15:41:31.033" LastActivityDate="2013-07-22T15:41:31.033" Title="Scientist steals two insect-like aliens and raises them in his shed" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:46:43.200" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12678" CreationDate="2013-07-22T14:33:45.507" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was the premiere episode of 1995's &lt;strong&gt;The Outer Limits&lt;/strong&gt;, titled &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667945/&quot;&gt;Sandkings&lt;/a&gt;.  From IMDB:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When his research project is closed down, Simon Kress rescues a few of&#xA;  its living subjects and transplants them to a recreation of their&#xA;  native Martian environment in his barn. They grow and learn, but then&#xA;  Kress makes an error with disastrous implications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually based on a 1979 &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandkings_%28novelette%29&quot;&gt;novelette&lt;/a&gt; by George R.R. Martin of &lt;strong&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/strong&gt; fame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-07-22T14:33:45.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12680" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-22T22:21:50.317" Score="5" ViewCount="8265" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &lt;em&gt;&quot;Doubt&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (S01E11) of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703925/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wilfred&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (the US version) &lt;em&gt;Ryan&lt;/em&gt; meets a guy who introduces himself as &lt;em&gt;Bruce&lt;/em&gt; and who can see &lt;em&gt;Wilfred&lt;/em&gt; the way &lt;em&gt;Ryan&lt;/em&gt; does. He tells him that he's been &lt;em&gt;Wilfred&lt;/em&gt;'s friend once, similar to &lt;em&gt;Ryan&lt;/em&gt;, but that &lt;em&gt;Wilfred&lt;/em&gt; ultimately ruined his life. While he first believes &lt;em&gt;Bruce&lt;/em&gt; (after &lt;em&gt;Wilfred&lt;/em&gt; once again played one of his tricks on &lt;em&gt;Ryan&lt;/em&gt; by luring him into a situation with a sabotaged condom, like he did with &lt;em&gt;Bruce&lt;/em&gt; before), during the final conclusion when &lt;em&gt;Wilfred&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Bruce&lt;/em&gt; fight with each other he saves &lt;em&gt;Wilfred&lt;/em&gt; by shooting &lt;em&gt;Bruce&lt;/em&gt;. But then it turns out that this was all staged (and the gun isn't loaded with real bullets) and seems to have been a test for &lt;em&gt;Ryan&lt;/em&gt;'s trust in &lt;em&gt;Wilfred&lt;/em&gt;, which he finally passed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now given the premise that &lt;em&gt;Wilfred&lt;/em&gt; is in the end something like a mentor (a pretty weird one, though) for &lt;em&gt;Ryan&lt;/em&gt; to get control over his own life again, and given the title of the episode, a pretty near interpretation would be that &lt;em&gt;Bruce&lt;/em&gt; symbolizes &lt;em&gt;Ryan&lt;/em&gt;'s doubt in &lt;em&gt;Wilfred&lt;/em&gt;'s ultimate goodwill and his overall purpose (and in the end &lt;em&gt;Ryan&lt;/em&gt;'s beliefs about &lt;em&gt;Wilfred&lt;/em&gt;'s intentions are permanently put to test). But while &lt;em&gt;Wilfred&lt;/em&gt; is in the end a &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; dog others can see and whose behaviour is observed by others, too (albeit not in the same way like &lt;em&gt;Ryan&lt;/em&gt; does), I'm not sure what &lt;em&gt;Bruce&lt;/em&gt; then was. If he was a completely imaginative entity purely created by &lt;em&gt;Ryan&lt;/em&gt;'s own doubts, then how could &lt;em&gt;Wilfred&lt;/em&gt;, who is in fact still rooted in the &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; world (even if the particular expression of his behaviour was an imagination of &lt;em&gt;Ryan&lt;/em&gt;) interact with him? But if &lt;em&gt;Bruce&lt;/em&gt; has an actual &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; world counterpart (like &lt;em&gt;Wilfred&lt;/em&gt;'s actual dog nature), then who was this guy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this whole question is intended to be unanswerable or I'm just making more out of it than there is to it, but it would be really helpful if anyone could shed some light on &lt;strong&gt;what &lt;em&gt;Bruce&lt;/em&gt; actually is&lt;/strong&gt; and maybe &lt;strong&gt;where the border between &lt;em&gt;Ryan&lt;/em&gt;'s imagination and the real world is&lt;/strong&gt; in general. (Note that I haven't seen the last episode of season 1 and all the following seasons yet, but don't mind spoilers either if they can shed some light on this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1186" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T18:23:54.060" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T06:06:58.780" Title="Who is Bruce and does he have a real-world counterpart?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|wilfred|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10581" CreationDate="2013-07-23T00:51:59.000" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The author of the book and the director of the film are both clear that the murders are real not imaginary. As for the disappearing bodies...that's never made clear..and I think that adds to the mystery and makes you come to your own conclusions....but like I said, interviews with the director and author make it clear that the murders were real. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5519" LastActivityDate="2013-07-23T00:51:59.000" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="711" CreationDate="2013-07-23T05:02:25.990" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not Hannah, it's Jacob's father. He describes Cal when he is in the bedroom with Hannah. He calls him for fatherly advice when he is about to meet Hannah's mother. Cal gives off a fatherly vibe. From the moment that Jacob meets him he's devastated about his family falling apart, showing Jacob how important family is to him. Jacob was looking for a father figure and he saw it in Cal and wanted to help him and have him play a key role in his life. That's why it's so difficult for Jacob to have Cal angry with him and Hannah, it's why he craves his approval and why he's so hurt when Cal doesn't give it to him. I don't think that Jacob was ever any different than he is in the movie- I think he was always a womanizer. Even if the line was originally &quot;Maybe you remind me of me&quot; then they would have changed it to suit the purpose of Cal being a father figure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5523" LastActivityDate="2013-07-23T05:02:25.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12686" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12687" CreationDate="2013-07-23T07:16:13.583" Score="22" ViewCount="23929" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was observed again and again in the movie Avatar that humans could not breathe the air present in Pandora. So it can be assumed Oxygen was not present in Pandora. But again the human fires which erupted in the Hometree bombing, wouldn't be sustained if there was no Oxygen at all. So what were the components present in the air of Pandora?  On the other hand if there was Oxygen, why could not the humans breathe there? So was the atmosphere in Pandora Oxygen filled or Oxygen free?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5374" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-07-23T16:45:10.190" LastActivityDate="2021-02-03T00:31:34.820" Title="Why were the humans unable to breathe the air in Pandora?" Tags="|avatar|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12686" CreationDate="2013-07-23T07:33:48.490" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoting from &lt;a href=&quot;http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Pandora&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pandora wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Pandora's Atmosphere components:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pandora's atmosphere is a mixture of &lt;strong&gt;nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide (&amp;gt;18%), xenon (&amp;gt;5.5%), methane, and hydrogen sulfide (&amp;gt;1%)&lt;/strong&gt; and is about 20% denser than the atmosphere on Earth primarily due to the high percentage of Xenon; a heavy, colorless, odorless, and generally unreactive noble gas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why can't human breathe in Pandora:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The high concentration of &lt;i&gt;carbon dioxide&lt;/i&gt; in the Pandoran atmosphere makes it extremely &lt;strong&gt;poisonous&lt;/strong&gt; to humans, rendering them unconscious in about 20 seconds and causing death in about 4 minutes. The hydrogen sulfide present is also quite poisonous; concentrations over 1000 ppm (0.1 %) can cause immediate collapse with subsequent loss of breathing, even after inhalation of a single breath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Oxygen is present there and that's why combustion is possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-07-23T07:39:38.860" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12689" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12692" CreationDate="2013-07-23T12:54:11.493" Score="5" ViewCount="3784" Body="&lt;p&gt;We watched the first episode of the second season last night and I'm a little unsure.  On the one hand Daenerys' story and the plot of Rob's crusade doesn't seem to have moved on very far at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other Bran is now much more independent, Joffrey has settled into his new role very quickly and Rob's wolf looked a LOT bigger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much time has passed between the two seasons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-07-23T15:31:11.083" Title="How much time has passed between Series 1 and 2 of Game of Thrones?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|continuity|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12690" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12694" CreationDate="2013-07-23T13:04:30.673" Score="16" ViewCount="1460" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's occurred to me many times how long the title sequence is for Game of Thrones, apparently it's award winning but I've found it to be tedious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the title sequence significantly longer than other TV shows?&#xA;If so what is the reason for this?  Is it to do with the large cast?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2016-04-26T18:06:50.560" Title="Game of Thrones Title Sequence" Tags="|game-of-thrones|credits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12689" CreationDate="2013-07-23T15:13:29.227" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not much time at all. Apparently less than a month. The first season closes with Dany hatching her dragons, and the second season opens with Tyrion assuming his position as Hand of the King. According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj_uNZmcJaTddG9BVU5tRnJJTE5KcE5JRkFha1ZfNUE#gid=8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this fan-created spreadsheet&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;WARNING major spoilers for viewers who haven't read the books&lt;/strong&gt;) the hatching happened in the first month of year 299 AL, 20th day. Tyrion's stint as Hand started in the second month of the same year, 10th day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the seemingly fast progression in the characters you mentioned, we need to remember that the show is an adaptation of a series of seriously thick books. There are a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of story details that never get mentioned in the show due to time/budget constraints. For instance, Bran's new found freedom of movement using Hodor's back pack and his specially saddled pony galvanize his efforts to lead a new life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2013-07-23T15:31:11.083" LastActivityDate="2013-07-23T15:31:11.083" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="544" CreationDate="2013-07-23T15:28:42.697" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's consequence. The whole story is this &quot;haunted house&quot; that allows the kids to do whatever they want, free to explore and roam. It's childhood. The agents' truck is the looming, oncoming reality of adulthood. They dispose of the magical playground, and the main character feels hurt, now outside of the consequence-free environment they came from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5531" LastActivityDate="2013-07-23T15:28:42.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12690" CreationDate="2013-07-23T15:33:52.873" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Game of Throne's opening sequence clocks at 1:50 minutes, which is indeed longer than most modern TV opening credits that rarely break a minute. There are several reasons for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To establish an &lt;em&gt;epic&lt;/em&gt; feeling for the series. A similar series, &lt;em&gt;Rome&lt;/em&gt;, has a credit sequence that lasts 1:30.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To establish where the action takes place. Each episode the camera zooms on the part of the map where the story will unfold. This is to help TV viewers who don't have the luxury of an inset map.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Game of Thrones is an ensemble piece, and thus has plenty of major characters and thus actors. So to give their credits justice, you would indeed need a longer than average credit sequence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-07-23T15:33:52.873" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12695" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12803" CreationDate="2013-07-23T16:44:05.413" Score="58" ViewCount="195548" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, I read it on Facebook, but don't know whether it is true or not.&#xA;The scene in &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; where the Joker blows Gotham Hospital up was initially not according to plan, but Heath Ledger improvised with his skills. So, initially when he presses the button a very small explosion happens. Then we can observe that Heath Ledger gets confused (which does not look like he is acting to some extent to me) &amp;amp; then presses the remote multiple times. Then suddenly the whole thing blows up, Heath is definitely taken for surprise here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, just wanted to know whether there is any proof whether all this was part of the script or was it a goof-up covered up by Heath?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4381" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-01T22:49:42.647" LastActivityDate="2017-01-18T00:33:34.647" Title="Was the Gotham Hospital scene a goof-up?" Tags="|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12695" CreationDate="2013-07-23T16:52:03.433" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;From everything I've read of this scene, I can't find any &lt;em&gt;official sources&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what there is a common consensus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, due to the nature of having an abandoned building given to the production crew, the explosion scene had a one chance deal and one chance only to get the scene proper.  Not exactly within the production budget to blow up a building and rebuild it should you need to shoot the scene again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During his individual part, Ledger pressed the button and the explosion was set to go off from that.  Obviously, murphy's law seemed to happen and that wasn't the case.  But instead of calling cut or waiting for a production crew to cue him into when it'll actually happen and have the scene be edited, Ledger stayed in character and did what the Joker would do:  Fidgit with the thing until it actually worked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish I could find some official sources on this to further prove this point but that seems to be the case, he covered up for a improperly timed explosion with one of the greatest scenes of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-07-23T16:52:03.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12697" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12720" CreationDate="2013-07-23T17:25:33.160" Score="11" ViewCount="21828" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Bradley Cooper's character have an injury (a split at the upper bridge) on his nose during the entire film of Silver Linings Playbook?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-07-23T17:47:16.900" LastActivityDate="2014-09-27T04:29:49.630" Title="Bradley Cooper's nose" Tags="|silver-linings-playbook|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="509" CreationDate="2013-07-23T18:12:41.800" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that we enter the loop during its Nth playthrough.  However, I do not think we are following the same Jess all the way through -- there is a moment when the film seems to judder and jump back several frames -- I think this represents several more playthroughs of the exact same moment thus we have jumped forward 2 or 3 Jess'.  Remember, these are not rewinds but replays starting a frame or two behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS, I am reading really annoying theories that there is a third killer, a masked man.  This theory is based on a blooper -- you can see &quot;masked Jess&quot; hairy arm near the cuff, i.e. the stunt man when he throws the shot gun.  This same theory holds that the third masked killer disappears but it is explicitly shown that this is really masked Jess who works out unmasked-Jess' attempt to distract her by throwing a valve.  Consequently, she runs ahead of unmasked Jess and waits to ambush her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a supernatural punishment loop of some kind for killing her son -- whether it's murder or manslaughter we will never know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5532" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-30T18:37:49.000" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T18:37:49.000" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12699" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14229" CreationDate="2013-07-23T18:24:16.273" Score="4" ViewCount="885" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;The Lake House&quot;, while Kate is waiting in the restaurant, that scene is interspersed with some skating. What does all this switching back and forth between Kate waiting in the restaurant and athletes skating on ice mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-07-26T07:23:51.023" LastActivityDate="2017-01-18T15:01:55.120" Title="What is the meaning of skating scenes in The Lake House?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lake-house|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12697" CreationDate="2013-07-23T20:34:55.707" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks to me to be a scratch which becomes a scar later in the movie. Looking at subsequent images from the movie, it appears to lessen in severity. I therefor don't think it is a scratch (or sore), just the scar after healing. (EDIT: Right click on image and display in a new tab to get the large version of the images.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9OhBa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bradley Cooper later in SLP, pulled from Huffington Post website.&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/obJm3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Another Bradley Cooper image from SLP, pulled from fanpop.com&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-07-23T20:34:55.707" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12695" CreationDate="2013-07-23T20:45:00.380" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking &lt;strong&gt;this is urban legend&lt;/strong&gt;, only because it's hard to believe that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvIew81pJiw&quot;&gt;the scene&lt;/a&gt; was not the product of special effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he presses the button, Ledger has just exited the hospital and is still very close to it -- within a distance that has to be much closer than he would ever be allowed to stand while filming, due to danger from flying debris, broken glass, and other hazards. It seems impossible that the film's insurers -- let alone other safety-conscious bureacracies, not to mention common sense -- would allow the scene to be filmed truly as it appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would guess that the demolition of the building was filmed separately from the part where Ledger appears to be pressing the button, and then the two were combined, probably using blue-screen or similar technology. So the crew probably had a chance to watch the demolition film, noticed the delayed explosions, and then had Ledger incorporate the frustrated button-pressing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2013-07-23T20:45:00.380" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12703" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12712" CreationDate="2013-07-24T00:53:38.263" Score="9" ViewCount="1099" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/episodes?season=4&amp;amp;ref_=tt_eps_sn_4&quot;&gt;Season 4&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1144658/&quot;&gt;Episode 9&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;House, M.D.&lt;/a&gt;, Dr. House is seen playing a piano in one of the class rooms of the teaching hospital he works at. What possible reason would there be for a teaching hospital to have a piano in one of its classrooms?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastActivityDate="2013-07-24T06:45:51.777" Title="Why does a teaching hospital have a piano (in House, M.D.)?" Tags="|plot-explanation|house|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11337" CreationDate="2013-07-24T02:52:35.813" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The loot is in the garden under the tomatoes. Setting aside Frank's memory issues, this is the end of the garden thread that is introduced early on in the movie. Robot tries to help his patient in becoming more active by taking up a hobby such as gardening. We get to see repeated scenes of Robot preparing a garden and planting tomatoes. It is a minor thread that is tied off at the end with a bit of reveal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-07-24T02:52:35.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12708" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12719" CreationDate="2013-07-24T04:21:31.557" Score="6" ViewCount="1115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just wondering, why isn't Jean, the 4th ghost, violent? The psychic said that all the ghosts are violent because they died a violent death and that's why Cyrus wanted them, so why is she the only one who isn't violent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5374" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-24T07:46:34.827" LastActivityDate="2016-07-27T15:49:43.940" Title="Why is the 4th ghost the only ghost that isn't violent?" Tags="|character|thirteen-ghosts|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11992" CreationDate="2013-07-24T06:34:08.327" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even in the 1st movie, they hinted to this relationship through a couple of points in the movie. here are the hints that I noticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the beginning Po wakes up and is commenting on his action figures of the furious five especially tigress who he tries to imitate her roar. This shows that he admires her as a Kung Fu master although secretly after watching this, he does, in fact, have a small crush on her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Po goes to the training hall for the first time, he immediately is watching Tigress and ends up getting hit in the face when she breaks the swinging club thingy. Some may argue that it was just a coincidence, but while watching the movie look at Po's face right before he gets hit he has the look of &amp;quot;holy crap, she looks beautiful.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, Tigress is the first of all the five to bow to Po and call him master, and then she smiles at him. This might have shocked Po but he was finally accepted in his mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also watching the Kung Fu panda legends of awesomeness. Why this relationship needs to happen. There are a couple of reasons in these shows, I'll list them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tigress makes a comment after one of her comrades broke up with their girlfriend, saying that she avoids relationships because of the disruption of one's chi. I would like to point out the word avoids this is not the same as stay away from or never going to happen, so to me, this is another hint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In a couple of other episodes both Po and tigress interact quite a lot in a lot of different ways. Tigress also doesn't hate Po, she just finds him pestering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Both Po and Tigress have similar backgrounds. Both were orphans and both were taken in by someone, Po by Mr. Ping and Tigress by Master Shifu. Had they been raised by the other dad, they would have turned out differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, in the 2nd movie, there are way more of these hints and foreshadowing events that cause people to speculate that this relationship will happen. Here are the hints I found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After the introduction, it shows two kids playing with a Po and Tigress action figure. At first, you might think &amp;quot;so what?,&amp;quot; but when you factor in why didn't they have a crane or a viper action figure, then maybe you come to the conclusion that this is a hint, but this is more of a personal preference hint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the training hall, Po is trying to beat the 38 bean bun record, and typically, Tigress would find this stupid and disgusting, but she actually encourages him. also during the same scene Po hears a bell and has to go see Shifu and as he's leaving you notice tigress turn around watching him go and TADA she smiles in a fantasy kinda way, Ok first off she doesn't do that every day, okay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When the five and po go to fight, po and tigress have tag team moves or as i would like to call it the tango because it looks a lot like they are dancing while doing kung fu. Also in the same scene she goes out of her way to try and save po from the boss wolfs hammer but fails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The boat scene tigress really comes out of her shell to talk to po one on one and she was about to say something before getting cut off. I have this feeling whatever she was going to say was going to bring them much closer together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tigress appears to always be in pos general area in almost every scene and she apears to always watch his back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the jail she wants to know the truth to why po let shen go and when he didn't answer this angered her because she cares for him and she didn't want him to be killed. So that is why she told him to stay in the jail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When po neglects tigress's commands she is worried for him and tries to get to him and fails as po is shot and she is shocked that it happened saying NOOOOO!!!!! as she tried to save him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When the five are chained up and monkey points out that po would want them to remain hardcore to the end and tries to confirm this with tigress who is Crying over po being dead ok we are talking about tigress a Iron lady ok she really dosen't just cry for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When po comes back to save the five she is the first to notice him saying PO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;She pushes po out of the way of shens cannon blast not wanting po to be hit again. she just wont push anyone out of the way of a cannon blast and im sure of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Po swims over to tigress and holds her paw obviously showing that he cares for her as well and is angry at shen for hurting his friends and tigress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;after the final battle tigress pulls po out of the water commenting how that stunt was pretty hardcore. at this po huggs HER ok different from the jail because she expected the one in the jail not at the end though. She was shocked but obviousely not mad&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5374" LastEditorUserId="85911" LastEditDate="2021-02-08T23:30:37.240" LastActivityDate="2021-02-08T23:30:37.240" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12703" CreationDate="2013-07-24T06:45:51.777" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see anything surprising in that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of doctors (and students, nurses and patients) who love music and appreciate its therapeutic value (or just as a way to break the tedium of some long treatment or studying sessions). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used to study and later work in a variety of university hospitals as a doctor (before settling on a pure teaching job). All these universities have a diverse selection of musical ensembles, and classrooms are available for rehearsing in the evening hours, which is why it makes sense to put a piano there. Most places have more than one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, one of my most revered teachers used to choose his staff (besides their medical qualifications) based on whether he could use them in his chamber music ensembles, which rehearsed in the classrooms when they weren't used for teaching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I don't think I would have survived medical school without making music several times a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="353" LastActivityDate="2013-07-24T06:45:51.777" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12713" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12744" CreationDate="2013-07-24T07:27:57.153" Score="13" ViewCount="1004" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the gender of the giant dragon in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892769/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;How to Train Your Dragon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? Astrid refers to it as the Queen, but Hiccup calls it a he and him several times in their battle with it. The movie is not clear if the dragon is male or female, and the sites I searched about it were just as cryptic. So what is the gender of the giant dragon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5374" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-07-24T13:29:12.820" LastActivityDate="2019-09-26T14:22:50.743" Title="What is the gender of the giant dragon?" Tags="|how-to-train-your-dragon|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12715" CreationDate="2013-07-24T09:46:47.997" Score="17" ViewCount="3737" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've watched the first series and I'm currently reading the book.  What strikes me the most is how much extra gore and sex has been added for the TV series.  I believe most of the DVDs released in the UK have been rated 18+ which seems a dramatic step up from the nature of the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The initial sex scene in the tower is as yet the only one I've read, although it's described quite graphically it's written from Bran's perspective and is very naive.  It describes both characters as naked (which I don't believe they are in the series, presumably due to contracts) but he has no idea what they're doing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tyrion with the whores in Winterfell (where Jamie invites more in).  As far as I recall this scene does not exist in the book&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The scene of Daenerys getting into the bath, again it mentions robes but nothing about nudity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Daenerys and Drogo's first night is only briefly hinted at yet we get a graphic sex scene.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could go on...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the reasoning to decision to make the sex more explicit (and frequent) than in the original books and therefore push back viewing times (and ages)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2017-08-11T14:45:20.720" Title="Why is Game of Thrones aimed at such a mature audience?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|book-adaptation|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12714" CreationDate="2013-07-24T10:09:12.477" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;The books are just as graphic (and perhaps more so) than the show. Just keep reading. In fact, way before the TV show was a reality, the books' author had stated frequently that if his series was ever to be turned into a TV show that only HBO could do it, because they wouldn't cut out the whole lot of sex and violence that are in the books. True, there are a few extra sex scenes that are not shown explicitly in the books, but many more are definitely &lt;em&gt;implied&lt;/em&gt;. The reason for this is the different narrative methods used by the two mediums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books, the story unfolds in a POV (point of view) style where you see only what the chapter's character sees. As you mentioned, Bran sees the Lannister twins having sex but he interprets it as two naked people wrestling. Innocent and naive Sansa refers to her stomach with the childish word &lt;em&gt;tummy&lt;/em&gt;. And so and so forth. So, there are many events that are never actually witnessed by the POV characters (and thus the reader) and are second hand reports (subject to &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator&quot;&gt;unreliable narrator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the TV show follows the &lt;em&gt;action&lt;/em&gt; rather than the main characters, simply because that's a lot easier and more effective in a visual medium. Thus many events are explicitly shown rather than being second hand reports. This results in extra scenes (not just extra sex scenes). For instance, the scene where Tywin is chastising Jaime while skinning a stag is not in the first book, since neither Jaime nor Tywin have their own chapters in that book. But we do know from various reports that Tywin was unhappy with Jaime's actions, we have just never witnessed it first hand in the books, which is something the TV show can allow us to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-07-24T10:09:12.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12717" CreationDate="2013-07-24T10:46:15.970" Score="5" ViewCount="4205" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;strong&gt;Silver Linings Playbook&lt;/strong&gt;, in a scene at the end where &lt;em&gt;Pat&lt;/em&gt; confesses his love to &lt;em&gt;Tiffany&lt;/em&gt; through a letter. I can't recollect the exact words but he says something like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The only way you can beat my crazy was by doing something crazy yourself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is was &lt;em&gt;Tiffany&lt;/em&gt; just acting crazy to get close to &lt;em&gt;Pat&lt;/em&gt; and ease out his suffering &lt;strong&gt;OR&lt;/strong&gt; was she actually, for lack of a better term, &lt;strong&gt;psychotic&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-24T11:01:28.537" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T15:30:58.207" Title="Was Tiffany actually psychotic or was she just acting?" Tags="|silver-linings-playbook|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12716" CreationDate="2013-07-24T11:58:28.427" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me there's a lot more evidence suggesting that she's mentally unwell than the fact she's faking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;She tells the story of how her husband was killed buying her lingerie because her sex drive had been low.  As a result she goes into overdrive and sleeps with everyone in the office.  These are not &quot;normal&quot; things to do.  What's more &lt;strong&gt;she's unashamed of it&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She compares drugs she'd been with Pat&lt;/strong&gt;.  I'm no expert on these drugs but unless someone had been researching for some time it would be very difficult for a non-medial professional to list them as efficiently.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Her speech about Pat's time dancing with her during the Eagle's games.  For someone who loathes football &lt;strong&gt;she's very familiar with statistics and patterns of their games&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't recall Tiffany's condition actually being named.  Pat has bipolar disorder, his mood swings from ecstatic and high as a kite to deeply depressed and lethargic.  He's also in denial about his condition and reluctantly and erratically takes his medication - these are all classic symptoms.  In his case they were only diagnosed after the confrontation with his wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The deception at the end had a lot more to do with Pat's mother than Tiffany.  She'd wanted him to move past his wife (who she didn't believe ever really loved him), so much so she'd tell Tiffany when he was running so she could &quot;ambush&quot; him (perhaps she'd even supplied the Eagle information?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me someone faking a mental illness would be very difficult, I believe the film makers have given more clues about her honesty than any deceit.  What's more I don't believe it holds true to the moral of the film - two imperfect people coming together and being happier for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-07-24T17:10:00.043" LastActivityDate="2013-07-24T17:10:00.043" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12708" CreationDate="2013-07-24T13:31:09.300" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that it had to do with her connection to them, since she was their mother/wife.  None of the characters shared any similar connection to the ghosts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Jean is the only one that died in a non-violent, non-demeaning manner.  Yes, she died in a fire, but she was saving her family, not trying to murder them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-07-24T13:31:09.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12697" CreationDate="2013-07-24T13:31:28.347" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Cha Cha: When asked about the scar, Bradley Cooper said &quot;I ran into a support beam, a stucco pillar, in the garage of this apartment I was renting in Venice Beach. The location of the cut meant I couldn't really have it stitched. I love my scar now.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The injury is real, thus the reason for it being on his nose through the entire movie. I believe it was left alone (Not Covered), due to it fitting the character's personality in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He says the same thing in &lt;a href=&quot;http://metro.co.uk/2010/07/29/bradley-cooper-the-a-team-is-a-big-fat-wet-dream-for-an-actor-463537/&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-07-24T16:51:03.417" LastActivityDate="2013-07-24T16:51:03.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12708" CreationDate="2013-07-24T13:32:09.107" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As is stated on Wikipedia, ghost #4 is called &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Ghosts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Withered Lover&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is written as such:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Withered Lover is Jean Kriticos, Arthur's wife. She was burned severely while saving her family from a devastating house fire, and died of her wounds in the hospital. Her ghost initially appears in a hospital gown, hooked up to an IV pole and showing severe burns on her face. However, after the destruction of the machine, her ghost is wearing her normal clothes and her burns have vanished. &lt;strong&gt;Unlike the other ghosts, she is not a vengeful spirit and tries to help her family.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2015-06-05T11:45:44.900" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T11:45:44.900" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12722" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12723" CreationDate="2013-07-24T16:04:09.373" Score="9" ViewCount="3258" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched it perhaps around 2008. It was a horror film. In the movie, a group of friends (2 girls and 3 boys maybe) got killed in a remote house probably in woods. They were lured there by an old man who informed them some kind of party was going there in the night. In the party the friends got detached. One friend discovered no body was taking with anybody. Another one discovered some freaky epic weapons which  we see in the picture of hell in a room. Later, he was killed by some demon from hell. Only a girl could get out of the house, but I forgot what happened to her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, it was discovered they were just dreaming. In reality, they were drugged by the same old man, father of one of their friends for whose death they were responsible. He took vengeance by drugging the group and burying them under the soil within a wooden crate. he kept them living by supplying oxygen to the crate via a tube. When somebody was dying in their dream, in reality he was killing himself. Somehow one girl and one boy got saved. Police came and when they tried to arrest the old man, they found him dead in his apartment. This was a color film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-07-24T16:52:49.300" LastActivityDate="2013-07-24T16:52:49.300" Title="Horror movie where a group of friends were killed in sleep" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:46:46.340" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12722" CreationDate="2013-07-24T16:47:36.463" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354623/&quot;&gt;Hellraiser: Hellworld&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The youngsters Chelsea, Allison, Derrick and Mike are grieving the suicide of their friend Adam, who became obsessed with an internet game called Hellworld. Their former friend Jake blames the group since they have not stopped playing the game even when Adam was unstable. When they receive an invitation to a Hellworld party in an isolated mansion, the reluctant Chelsea decides to join the group and they surprisingly find Jake in the party. He explains that he was invited by a girl he met in a chat room. They are hosted by the owner of the place, who shows them his private macabre collection. Along the night, they find that they are in a party in hell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia carries a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellraiser%3a_Hellworld#Plot&quot;&gt;detailed plot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-07-24T16:47:36.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12724" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12725" CreationDate="2013-07-24T17:27:03.717" Score="13" ViewCount="19107" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the comic books, Banner's character is named Bruce Banner (from what I have read, &quot;Robert Bruce Banner&quot;, though I'm not a diehard enough fan to know the origin of that) and he is a physicist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just started watching the 1978 show on Netflix, and the character's name is &quot;David Banner&quot;, who is a physician/researcher.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was this change made?  It doesn't seem like a trivial switch, and Stan Lee is credited as a consultant on the TV show, so it was not seemingly done to avoid any issues with copyrights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastActivityDate="2020-10-31T03:42:49.097" Title="Why was Banner's first name and profession changed for the 1978 television series?" Tags="|character|the-incredible-hulk-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12724" CreationDate="2013-07-24T18:18:04.390" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show's &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Hulk_%28TV_series%29#Development&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; provides a couple of possible reasons for the switch:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Johnson changed the name of the Hulk's comic book alter ego, Dr. Bruce Banner, to Dr. David Banner for the TV series. This change was made, &lt;strong&gt;according to Johnson, because he did not want the series to be perceived as a comic book series&lt;/strong&gt;, so he wanted to change what he felt was a staple of comic books, and Stan Lee's comics in particular, that major characters frequently had alliterative names. &lt;strong&gt;According to Lou Ferrigno, it was also changed because CBS thought the name Bruce sounded &quot;too gay-ish,&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; a rationale that Ferrigno thought was &quot;the most absurd, ridiculous thing I'd ever heard.&quot; On the DVD commentary of the pilot, &lt;strong&gt;Johnson says that it was a way to honor his son David&lt;/strong&gt;. &quot;Bruce&quot; ultimately became the TV Banner's middle name, as it had been in the comics. It is visible on Banner's tombstone at the end of the pilot movie, and that footage is shown at the beginning of every episode of the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-07-20T14:00:51.330" LastActivityDate="2016-07-20T14:00:51.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12727" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12767" CreationDate="2013-07-24T22:34:53.450" Score="13" ViewCount="689" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A sci-fi prison where you don't age&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The main character is male, he gets sent to prison (unsure if he committed the crime)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He keeps trying to escape, earning the nickname slider&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The walls are like liquid air so running through them can kill you&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He ends up escaping to find his daughter is an old woman&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Skip to my lou&quot; is sung at odd intervals throughout the film&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5544" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-07-26T07:22:57.707" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T12:44:47.350" Title="A sci-fi prison where you don't age" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:46:49.470" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12728" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-25T00:45:29.167" Score="3" ViewCount="2789" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the Hollywood industry standards for how a movie is released? For instance, in South Korea, there is a general schedule leading up to every movie release: non-screening event (e.g. a director Q&amp;amp;A with fans), press conference, 1st screening with press and film critics, red carpet and VIP screening, and then the official release of the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you could offer any insight for what type of 'schedule' is followed for most Hollywood blockbuster releases, that would be much appreciated! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5546" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T04:45:12.163" Title="Industry standards for releasing a film (i.e. press conference, premieres, red carpet, etc.)?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12729" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-25T00:55:17.763" Score="3" ViewCount="666" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D3%3a_The_Mighty_Ducks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;D3: The Mighty Ducks&lt;/a&gt;, the mighty ducks face off with the Edan Hall Warriors varsity team. The winner of this game gets to stay and the losers leave. As the final game is being played, the ducks are faced with trouble early as their goalie is taken out of position to leave the Warriors with an open net attempt. Which Mighty Duck player skates around the net and leaps in front of the goal to save the puck from going in? Charlie Conway? Or Adam Banks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5547" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T10:29:30.943" LastActivityDate="2022-04-29T20:20:41.490" Title="Who saved the open net goal against the matchup with the warriors?" Tags="|plot-explanation|d3-the-mighty-ducks|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12730" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-25T00:57:28.243" Score="7" ViewCount="1080" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok.  I'm having trouble locating a copy of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Key_%281942_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Glass Key (1942)&lt;/a&gt; but that's not what I'm asking about.  I just haven't seen it, so I can't get the information I seek myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone familiar with Akira Kurosawa's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojimbo_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yojimbo&lt;/a&gt; has most likely also seen Sergio Leone's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fistful_of_Dollars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Fistful of Dollars&lt;/a&gt;.  Whether you watched them because they are the same story, or you found that out afterwards... or you just liked them independently, you would have noticed that although they &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; the same story, there are details that are different between them.  Now, Walter Hill directed a Bruce Willis film called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Man_Standing_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Last Man Standing&lt;/a&gt;, which is also the same story as those other two.  There are specific nods to both previous versions.  Nods such as...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce stops and spins a bottle when he hits a fork in the road, to determine which way he is going to go.  This is a variant on how Toshiro Mifune throws a stick in the air to decide which way he is going to go when he hits a fork in the road in the beginning of Yojimbo.  Clint Eastwood faces no random chance/indecision and performs no action to choose the way he is going to go before he gets to the town where all the action happens.  So, the Nod is in Last Man Standing, to Yojimbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce faces thugs when he arrives who assault his car.  Clint Eastwood faces thugs who harass his mule.  In Yojimbo, Toshiro Mifune is on foot, so the Nod is from Last Man Standing, to Fist Full of Dollars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After being captured, Clint is assisted in his escape by being hauled off in a coffin.  In Yojimbo, Toshiro escapes the same way at the same point in the story.  Bruce however, is taken away in a car.  So this Nod is in Fist Full of Dollars, to Yojimbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never seen The Glass Key, but all three of these movies are based on it.  One of the differences between it and all the others though, is that Alan Ladd who plays the character playing both sides against each other, is actually loyal to Brian Donlevy... while in the later three films, the protagonist is loyal to neither side.  Akira Kurosawa supposedly introduced this change on purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my question.  Are there specific nods in any of the three subsequent films to the original, The Glass Key?  They could be small or large, but they would be details you could connect back to the original. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-07-25T17:06:05.147" LastActivityDate="2022-11-02T14:32:03.073" Title="Any homages to The Glass Key in Yojimbo, A Fistful of Dollars, or The Last Man Standing?" Tags="|analysis|last-man-standing|yojimbo|a-fistful-of-dollars|the-glass-key|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12790" CreationDate="2013-07-25T02:32:24.477" Score="8" ViewCount="13715" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last parts of The Wolverine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yashida, via the Silver Samurai, drilled into Wolverine's cut-off claws and presumably sucked all the adamantium out of him, as evidenced by his claws becoming pure bone after. However, Yashida becomes visually younger as the adamantium was being removed from Wolverine. Was Wolverine's healing ability getting transferred as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or did the movie become confused with regards to the relation between Wolverine's adamantium and his healing ability?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5548" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T14:41:42.083" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T14:41:42.083" Title="Adamantium and healing in The Wolverine" Tags="|plot-explanation|x-men-cinematic-universe|the-wolverine|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11042" CreationDate="2013-07-25T06:01:31.083" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;If one stretched oneself, one could reason this out like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jack and Victoria &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; being used just like drones. Their minds are wiped and they are programmed to do their jobs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The dexterity of human hands and our ability to reason is a huge plus over the drones. Couple this with the emotional motivation provided to Jack that he's battling against the Scavs who have destroyed his planet and you could say that you have an &lt;em&gt;efficient&lt;/em&gt; team.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The humans are not necessarily only maintaining the drones. They are also maintaining all the planet-sucking machinery as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Tet is unaware of Jack's flashbacks. It doesn't know that the mind-wipe was not perfect.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lastly, what is Tet going to do with all the remaining Jack-clones from the war? Reprogram them and send them out into the field.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If somebody could get their hands on the original comic, more could be explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T06:01:31.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11053" CreationDate="2013-07-25T06:25:24.387" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Besides the USD 5M indie movie, &lt;em&gt;Moon&lt;/em&gt; (2009), you can also add stuff like &lt;em&gt;2001&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Wall-E&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt;, etc. to the list of inspirations for the USD 120M Oblivion production. But I agree that the similarity with Moon is striking. The fact that Moon was released only recently doesn't help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In interviews, Joseph Kosinski makes it a point to mention that he wrote the script eight years ago (which would date it to 2005). Moon's script (which has its own set of inspirations) is dated to 2007. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/film-interview-oblivion-director-joseph-kosinski/&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; he brushes aside similarities to Wall-E and states the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It actually isn’t. It’s surprisingly… Tron had fifteen or sixteen hundred visual effects shots in it and Oblivion is eight hundred shots, so it’s almost half. Because I was able to do so much in camera. Hopefully it feels like a big movie, which is what I always wanted to do, but we did it… You never get credit for it publicly, but doing movies at a reasonable price compared to the other summer blockbuster films is something that I’m very proud of. We really did this for… &lt;strong&gt;It’s an original property. It’s not based on anything known&lt;/strong&gt;, so you have to stretch it as far as you can. That’s something I’m really happy with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there you have it. There is no formal connection between the two properties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T06:25:24.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12735" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12738" CreationDate="2013-07-25T06:28:50.600" Score="3" ViewCount="383" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Parker shows up at Leslie's house all bloody after his fight with the hit man, why is Leslie's mom cool with him being there? Do they know each other? What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-07-25T22:32:35.803" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T22:32:35.803" Title="Why is Leslie's mom cool with Parker?" Tags="|plot-explanation|parker|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8720" CreationDate="2013-07-25T06:39:20.080" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's because werewolves turn on the full-moon night, not necessarily at the same time. The exact hour differs from person to person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5154" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T06:39:20.080" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12735" CreationDate="2013-07-25T07:49:43.470" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leslie's Mom, Ascension, used to own a beauty salon and is now retired. Leslie has now moved back in with her and is in effect mooching off her. Ascension did not approve of Leslie's ex (who was a con) and thinks that she should find a man for herself who will take care of her and treat her right. She believes that Parker fits the description and at one point states, &quot;This is a real man&quot;, or words to that effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T07:49:43.470" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12739" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12740" CreationDate="2013-07-25T09:39:18.083" Score="1" ViewCount="477" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Percy Jackson &amp;amp; the Lightning Thief&lt;/em&gt;, How can Percy and his friends play all the games in the Lotus Hotel casino, when they are still teenagers and the legal age for the gamble in Las Vegas is 21?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5374" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-11-21T12:34:59.680" LastActivityDate="2024-03-25T22:20:28.577" Title="How can Percy and his friends play all the games in casino?" Tags="|plot-explanation|percy-jackson-the-lightning-thief|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12739" CreationDate="2013-07-25T10:22:00.703" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think what is really going on is that anyone going into the casino would be put under the spell of the lotus flower (assuming consumption) and after that just doesn't care. The &quot;proprietors&quot; of the casino don't care. Their whole purpose is to draw people in and keep them there. Any &quot;authority&quot; who would normally be keeping this sort of thing from happening would more than likely get drawn in by the flower as well, so too, wouldn't care. It's not illegal for a minor to go into a casino. It is only illegal for them to play the games. If nobody is looking or caring who is playing the games, let it ride.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-07-25T10:27:53.683" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T10:27:53.683" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12742" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-07-25T14:03:54.600" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-07-25T14:03:54.600" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T14:03:54.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12743" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-07-25T14:03:54.600" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-07-25T14:03:54.600" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T14:03:54.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12713" CreationDate="2013-07-25T14:37:34.530" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;A conclusive answer has not been found either in the film, the book or any fan wikia. However speculation presents it as a &lt;strong&gt;female&lt;/strong&gt;, for &lt;em&gt;queen&lt;/em&gt; of the nest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://howtotrainyourdragon.wikia.com/wiki/Red_Death&quot;&gt;Red Death - How to Train Your Dragon wikia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The gender is possibly female, as it is known as the queen of the Mountain Nest of the dragons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of the sources and material simply refer to it as &lt;em&gt;it&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T14:37:34.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12747" CreationDate="2013-07-25T15:22:29.340" Score="7" ViewCount="1116" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been trying to remember the name of a movie, made probably in the last 10-15 years. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot, set in Hollywood, is about a director who is filming a movie where the main actor is not aware that he (or she, I can't remember) is the main actor of the movie. He is not even aware that he participates in the movie. Most of the crew is also unaware of this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie goes on the director hiding this from the crew and creating situations where he can film the unknowingly actor in situations appropriate for his story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone knows this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5553" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-07-31T18:34:01.307" LastActivityDate="2013-07-31T18:34:01.307" Title="Main actor who does not know he is in the movie" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:46:52.603" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12745" CreationDate="2013-07-25T15:30:15.593" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131325/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bowfinger&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1999):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iQWIv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a desperate movie producer fails to get a major star for his bargain basement film, he decides to shoot the film secretly around him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowfinger&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; has some more details&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T15:30:15.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11029" CreationDate="2013-07-25T15:45:00.357" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question in the title appears to have been unanswered in the accepted answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My question is who woke up Jack and Victoria? Were they awoken by the alien and tricked into thinking they were communicating with mission control. Or, was the woman on the screen a real person back in mission control and not the alien?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They were woken either automatically by the ship itself or by NASA remotely. It's also possible that one member of the crew was always awake on a shift basis. Currently, a journey to Saturn can take anywhere between three and seven years hence the need for the &quot;delta sleep&quot; pods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jack Harper is woken up on schedule. We know this as he is aware that the Superbowl would have been held the previous night and NASA's Sally threatens to spoil the game for him by telling him who won. Considering that the Tet was the primary mission, why the other members of the crew were not woken up defeats me. The nature of the conversation makes it unlikely that the Tet was already impersonating Sally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T15:45:00.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11086" CreationDate="2013-07-25T16:00:59.580" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Julia is rescued and taken to the Sky Tower, we see a panning shot of one of the Scavs peering through a pair of binoculars up at the house from ground level. It doesn't really appear to be all that high and was perhaps on par with a medium-sized skyscraper. It could be that the tower itself is constructed on elevated ground. We later see Tech 52's house which is on a mountain top but does not rest on top of a huge tower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect that the altitude ensures that the tech can always be in contact with his communications officer and the house is better placed to contact the Tet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The house itself is sealed and considering their clothes and the pool, it's also heated. The pool scene is not a dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-07-25T16:00:59.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12731" CreationDate="2013-07-26T04:29:29.090" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are confusing the part as to what &lt;em&gt;yashida&lt;/em&gt; exactly wanted. Yashida wanted Wolverine's healing factor to stop himself from dying. As they fight, Yashida in the guise of the &lt;em&gt;Silver Samurai&lt;/em&gt; cuts off Logan's claws, and begins stealing his healing factor. From the onset of the movie, Yashida is after Logan's &lt;em&gt;healing factor&lt;/em&gt; and not his admantium. When fighting and falling into the well, Yashida starts stealing Logan's healing ability, which results in the mentioned scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T04:29:29.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12728" CreationDate="2013-07-26T04:45:12.163" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't any particular schedule which is supposed to be followed, but the production company generally makes use of whatever resources it gets to maximize the marketing of their film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, a press conference, or press release or news slot announces the movie and (&lt;em&gt;if any&lt;/em&gt;) cast have been finalized along with more information about the movie as to the director, characters, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there may appear teaser posters for the same movie, generally at periodic times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then in most cases, in a press conference or release of some other event for the same production house, more information is provided as to how the movie is progressing. Generally the movie crew interacts with audiences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is any fan event, such as &lt;em&gt;comic-con&lt;/em&gt;, then the movie is promoted at such events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Periodically, the director or producer will talk and interact about the film, its production and other aspects. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Teaser trailers, TV spots will come out at regular intervals to keep the audience interested about the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tentative release dates are declared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once a significant portion of the film is complete, the trailers and TV spots are scheduled. These are the final trailers of the film and come along with the release dates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the release dates come nearer the shooting is wrapped up into post-production. The stars, director and other ensemble cast try to promote the film through media, and other appearances. The production house amps up aggressive marketing by increasing the amount of tv slots, ads etc. given to the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, as the film is being completed, it can be sent to various film festivals and competitions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A special screening is kept for the production house and ensemble cast (in some cases). Another special screening is kept for the press and other members. The red carpet event comes at the movie release time. Mostly, the first public previews are shown to press, critics, reviewers and VIP personnel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The release date can be different in different areas of the world, and depending on the production, some or most of these marketing events will be repeated at some regions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the movie release, the ads and trailers will be changed accordingly. Also the stars and other crew members will promote the film through media and talk shows etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T04:45:12.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16095" CreationDate="2013-07-26T08:00:10.053" Score="5" ViewCount="982" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm watching the first series of Luther and I can't understand why he has dropped the investigation into Alice Morgan.  He knows she's the murderer, every other suspect he's relentless with (even bending/breaking the rules to catch them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does he form an (almost) friendship with Alice instead of continuing the investigation - and why does the police force apparently abandon the case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T14:38:09.920" Title="Why does Luther not pursue his suspect?" Tags="|luther|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12761" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-07-26T08:00:38.523" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Luther is a British psychological crime drama television series starring Idris Elba as the title character Detective Chief Inspector John Luther. A first series of six episodes was broadcast on BBC One from 4 May to 8 June 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-07-26T08:36:51.503" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T08:36:51.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12762" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-07-26T08:00:38.523" Score="0" Body="Luther is a British psychological crime drama television series starring Idris Elba." OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-07-26T08:36:01.500" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T08:36:01.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12763" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12764" CreationDate="2013-07-26T08:57:37.763" Score="1" ViewCount="387" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I've seen the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amoveocompany.com/damien-chazelle/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Whiplash&lt;/a&gt; short movie. And I really like the music they're playing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;: Is the music a real musical composition or was it specially written for the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user3192" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-07-26T12:23:47.940" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T12:23:47.940" Title="Whiplash short movie from Sundance 2013" Tags="|soundtrack|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12763" CreationDate="2013-07-26T10:01:54.600" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found it by myself: that's a &lt;strong&gt;Whiplash&lt;/strong&gt; composition written by Hank Levy and the most popular play is by Don Ellis Orchestra.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user3192" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T10:01:54.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12760" CreationDate="2013-07-26T10:26:43.370" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Updated: I'm going to put the answer in spoiler tags, but if you're watching the first series, really don't look  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last episode of the third series just premièred this week, and it's only just resolved your question, so I'd say just watch it and see, don't spoil it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a 3 series story arc and fundamental to the whole plot, so inadvertently revealing it will spoil the rest for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'll say as little as I can&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; There is a mutual attraction between Alice and John which comes from Alice being one of the few people to understand his actions at various parts of the stories where he goes over the line.  Initially she has escaped justice as although John knows she is guilty of her initial crime, the police are unable to prove it.  She is arrested by the end of series one, but for what is part of the finale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastEditorUserId="4637" LastEditDate="2013-07-26T11:03:50.130" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T11:03:50.130" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12766" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-26T11:12:58.787" Score="3" ViewCount="1578" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't find a name for the episode so I'm going with S1E3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luther arrests his suspect for returning to the scene of the crime and attempting to disinfect it.  However he has no cameras, no finger prints and no DNA...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can he hope to convict the killer (he's already been told the case has to be watertight) simply by saying he found him there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2014-02-08T07:57:08.690" Title="In Luther Series 1 Episode 3 how does he build the case?" Tags="|luther|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12727" CreationDate="2013-07-26T12:06:27.640" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess you're talking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120187/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spoiler&lt;/em&gt; (1998)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Roger Mason is a prisoner locked away in a futuristic fortress of a jail. Desperate to escape and see his daughter, he keeps making attempt after attempt to break free, but each one is foiled just as he's about to gain his freedom. As his punishments include being frozen in suspended animation for years at a time, he stays the same age while his daughter grows older. As more time keeps being added to his sentence, he despairs of ever getting out...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5562" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-26T12:44:47.350" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T12:44:47.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12270" CreationDate="2013-07-26T14:11:04.227" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been several movies which have been released for online viewing (at a price) at the same time it is released in the theaters (examples: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454792/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bubble 2006&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084989/?ref_=sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Upstream Color&lt;/a&gt; - a month after theater release). I don't think this will ever become a regular practice in the future ... more of an oddity. The reason I say this is, as long as there are movie theaters, theaters will want their cut (theaters do not make their money from the movie itself, but from the concessions they sell - popcorn &amp;amp; soda - at least here in the States). If people are home enjoying movies, they aren't buying concessions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reason is, most main stream movies were meant to be seen on the &quot;big screen&quot;. If they weren't meant to be seen there, they'd be shown on network television. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it may seem releasing movies at home at the same time as in theaters would provide a way for studios to make more money, I would argue it wouldn't exactly work this way. While their upfront money would be greater (make money quicker), the total quantity of money made would less. They release a movie in the theater (money made), then out on On-Demand, then on DVD, on premium cable channels and direct stream, and finally (usually) much later on commercial TV. Here is five different money streams where money is made for a movie. If you put any of them together, they compete for the same pool of money. If I have a choice to view a movie at home vs. at the theater I would probably choose home because it is much more fiscally responsible (multiple people can watch a movie at home much cheaper than what it costs for tickets to go to the theater). Some people might choose to go to the theater, but not nearly as many. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mind you, it would be great for us (the viewer) if movies were released at the same time to different markets, but given the amount of money which can be made through the various sources, I doubt it will happen anytime in the near future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an article from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/sony-disney-streaming_n_3490750.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Huffington Post&lt;/a&gt; on the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T14:11:04.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12771" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12774" CreationDate="2013-07-26T20:11:50.467" Score="1" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's some shiny stuff attached to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Northman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Eric Northman&lt;/a&gt;'s head in Season 2 (Episode 1 and 2) of True Blood. It looks metallic, and I would like to know what it is and what it's for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Busic.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Above is an early scene from Episode 2, just after a bloody exercise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastEditorUserId="105" LastEditDate="2013-07-26T21:01:52.763" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T21:13:12.333" Title="Shiny stuff on Eric's head" Tags="|character|true-blood|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10918" CreationDate="2013-07-26T20:44:09.983" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's about the fear of aging/death, and the title is taken from a Yeats poem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story is really about the sheriff.  He's unable to cope with modernity and continuously refers to how the old days or old timers were and talks as if the world is going downhill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moss represents the youthful search for materialism, while Chigurh represents death.  Death can happen at any point and you're a victim to fate, which is why AC tosses the coin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the sheriff speaks to his brother near the end, his brother tells him a story which basically means the violence he sees is nothing new and he's just distancing himself from it because he's old and vain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole point, IMO, is the world doesn't wait on you and any moment could be your last.  The only reasonable way for living is to make your own fire somewhere in the darkness (like his dream about his father) and push your chips out there.  Otherwise you're just an old man with nothing left to live for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5564" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T20:44:09.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12773" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12787" CreationDate="2013-07-26T21:01:12.200" Score="0" ViewCount="1673" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the past, movies were (and still seem to be) rated on a &quot;star rating&quot;. Unlike rating systems like Rotten Tomatoes which aggregates critic scores as a percentage of &quot;like&quot; and &quot;doesn't like&quot;, the star rating system seems very closed doors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What determines how many &quot;stars&quot; a movie gets and who decides this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5565" LastActivityDate="2013-07-27T07:50:36.493" Title="What was the source of the &quot;star&quot; ratings?" Tags="|content-rating|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2013-07-29T21:12:09.310" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12771" CreationDate="2013-07-26T21:13:12.333" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Eric is getting his hair dyed (aluminum foil is a common item used in bleaching or coloring hair).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't quite remember the reason he did this - but one suspects he was looking to change his appearance for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is circumstantial evidence in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.screened.com/eric-northman/15-1634/all-images/132-1977849/0000006/131-490771/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; and in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8fGPfGFNKY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;YouTube clip&lt;/a&gt;, he's clearly wearing something to protect his clothes from the dye too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2013-07-26T21:13:12.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12781" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12784" CreationDate="2013-07-27T04:11:16.653" Score="10" ViewCount="18241" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://madmen.wikia.com/wiki/Red_in_the_Face&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Red in the Face&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (S01E07), Don pays the elevator attendant to deny access to the elevator when Sterling and Draper show up later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would Draper do that considering that both Draper and Sterling would have to climb stairs all the way to the 21st Floor? Was he trying to teach Sterling a lesson of some sort for hitting on Betty the previous night? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5449" LastEditorUserId="42844" LastEditDate="2017-01-27T11:10:48.293" LastActivityDate="2017-01-27T11:10:48.293" Title="Why did Draper pay the Elevator Attendant to shut off service?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mad-men|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12781" CreationDate="2013-07-27T05:44:13.727" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's exactly it ... Don was getting revenge on Roger, upset that Roger had made a pass at his wife. Hence Don pushing the martinis, oysters, and cheesecake on Roger, knowing that it would be a lethal combination which, when combined with the long stair climb (which Don, being quite a bit younger, knew he could handle), would lead to the projectile vomiting in front of the clients.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The season six premiere called back to that episode when Don vomited at the funeral of Roger's mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also note that the episode you reference was not in season two, but in season one --- episode seven, entitled &quot;Red in the Face.&quot; Here's the scene in question on YouTube: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzsJsbGLTUY&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzsJsbGLTUY&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2013-07-27T05:44:13.727" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12785" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12786" CreationDate="2013-07-27T06:45:22.080" Score="23" ViewCount="51874" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no doubt form the start of the movie that Forrest loved Jenny from the beginning of their friendship. But it is Jenny who never gave a thought or had a feeling about Forrest's feelings. She always avoided him right from the start and considering girl's sixth sense is too strong, she most probably understood that Forrest started loving her. But watching the movie, somehow it was depicted that Jenny despite understanding everything (even Forrest expressed himself that he loved her) always tried to ignore him (rude to say but the reason being he was &lt;strong&gt;stupid&lt;/strong&gt; and this is the &lt;em&gt;truth&lt;/em&gt;) and chose an aimless yet apparently enjoyable life for her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the end she returned to him conceiving how much life she had spoiled of herself. She was sure he would accept her in any condition, had a baby with him for her own interest (for natural reason) and married Forrest when she became sick. Needless to say Forrest had become too rich by then. Is the above theory not enough to prove that she married Forrest for her own interest?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-07-27T07:37:48.613" LastActivityDate="2021-11-27T14:14:41.173" Title="Did Jenny marry Forrest at the end out of selfishness?" Tags="|plot-explanation|forrest-gump|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12785" CreationDate="2013-07-27T07:34:33.303" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Far from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jenny was a seriously mixed-up, mentally unstable woman who did not know what she wanted to do with herself. The primary reason for her instability was the sexual abuse meted out to her as a child by her father. Such events scar people for life and Jenny was no different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a particular scene early on in the film where Jenny and Forrest are hiding from her father in a corn field. She tells him that she wants to &quot;fly away like a bird far from here&quot;. As soon as she got a chance, that is exactly what she did. She wanted to be a completely different person. But she got kicked out of college and fell in with hippies and extremists of the time and got sucked into a downward spiral. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She did love Forrest. She even said so before sleeping with him even though she turned down his proposal. Even though she ran away again, the birth of Forrest Jr. resulted in her becoming mature and responsible. She became a waitress in Savannah and appeared to be supporting her son and herself quite well. She only wrote to Forrest once she knew of her terminal illness. Their marriage gave both of them happiness and Forrest Jr. a father who would take care of him once Jenny died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-07-27T07:34:33.303" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12773" CreationDate="2013-07-27T07:50:36.493" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia has a page detailing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_%28classification%29&quot;&gt;history of star ratings&lt;/a&gt;. The film section reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the 31 July 1928 issue of the New York Daily News, the newspaper's film critic Irene Thirer began grading movies on a scale of zero to three stars. Three stars meant 'excellent,' two 'good,' and one star meant 'mediocre.' And no stars at all 'means the picture's right bad,'&quot; wrote Thirer. Carl Bialik speculates that this may have been the first time a film critic used a star-rating system to grade movies.[6] &quot;The one-star review of The Port of Missing Girls launched the star system, which the newspaper promised would be 'a permanent thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know where you get the idea that star ratings are a thing of the past. Been to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?votestopfaq&amp;amp;ref_=hlp_brws&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; lately? Many critics, like the late Roger Ebert, prefer to use stars to quantify their opinion of a film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How critics and viewers decide to give stars varies a lot and is often arbitrary or intuitive. Some decide on a rating based on their overall enjoyment of a film. Others might have separate ratings for aspects such as storyline, cinematography, screenplay, direction, etc. and average them out to arrive at a final value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The arbitrariness of star ratings is pretty much why sites such as Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic exist. They attempt to bring some statistical order to the chaos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-07-27T07:50:36.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12731" CreationDate="2013-07-27T10:50:08.863" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Silver Samurai drilled into the stumps of Wolverine's claws in order to begin the process of stealing his healing factor, but he had no interest in the adamantium. He made no       effort to collect the claws he had lopped off, or to reclaim the adamantium shavings left behind by his drilling. The adamantium in the rest of Wolverine's skeleton was unaffected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the metal claws were removed, Wolverine's healing factor caused him to regrow his bony claws, similar to the ones he had had for decades before he had been infused with adamantium in the first place. He used these regrown claws in the final moments of the fight with the Silver Samurai.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastActivityDate="2013-07-27T10:50:08.863" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12791" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12794" CreationDate="2013-07-27T11:33:30.027" Score="10" ViewCount="2771" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/em&gt; (2013), the aging Yashida wishes to make contact with Logan so that he can try to persuade the mutant to voluntarily relinquish his healing powers to Yashida or, if Logan refuses, to steal those powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Logan refuses, Yashida arranges for Logan to be weakened so that his healing factor can be stolen, then fakes his own death and secretly transfers himself to an enormous robot body. Why? In what way was his plan advanced by being thought of as dead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T21:54:25.990" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T21:54:25.990" Title="Why did Yashida fake his own death?" Tags="|plot-explanation|x-men-cinematic-universe|the-wolverine|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12792" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-27T11:37:28.577" Score="7" ViewCount="683" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/em&gt;, Kenuichio Harada is the head of a band of ninjas that has defended the Yashida family for 700 years. In the early part of the film, he uses his skills in a failed effort to protect Mariko Yashida from kidnapping by yakuza. Later, he uses his skills to capture Wolverine, who was wanted by Mariko's grandfather so that he could steal the mutant's healing factor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the climactic battle, Harada suddenly switches sides, attacking the elder Yashida in defense of Wolverine. Why? How are the interests of either member of the Yashida clan advanced by this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T13:56:19.807" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T13:56:19.807" Title="What was the reason for Harada's final decision?" Tags="|plot-explanation|x-men-cinematic-universe|the-wolverine|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12792" CreationDate="2013-07-27T12:41:00.347" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As was shown in the film, Harada was Mariko's lover at one time, and still loved her. She wanted to save Wolverine, and this prompted Harada to side with Mariko, and attacks Yashida so that Mariko can save Logan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-07-27T12:41:00.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12791" CreationDate="2013-07-27T12:45:45.413" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mere speculation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Yashida &quot;faked&quot; his own death because he could not stay a public figure (head of a big company) while still becoming the Silver Samurai. Since Logan had refused to provide his healing abilities, Yashida might have decided to force it from Logan in the guise of Silver Samurai. It is seen in the final climax that Wolverine vs Silver Samurai is an almost evenly matched fight. Yashida, in his normal persona, could not have obtained Wolverine's healing abilities without resorting to some sort of mercenaries. Also, he himself was old and frail. Hence he &lt;em&gt;died&lt;/em&gt; and became the Silver Samurai. This also presented him with an advantage of Logan not knowing who the Silver Samurai is and what he wants. Since Yashida was dead, Logan could not have realized that Viper and others were still trying to take his healing abilities from him. Hence another reason to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-07-27T12:45:45.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12796" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12797" CreationDate="2013-07-27T16:13:11.360" Score="7" ViewCount="381" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie 12 Monkeys, when James Cole was sent back in time for the second time, they sent him by mistake to the WW1 era. But I think the place where they sent him was not in USA, but in Europe and people spoke on some other language, like German. Does it mean that time travel includes space travel too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1598" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2013-07-27T17:47:03.970" LastActivityDate="2013-07-27T17:47:03.970" Title="Time and Space Travel?" Tags="|time-travel|12-monkeys|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12796" CreationDate="2013-07-27T16:38:57.357" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would seem logical to me that any form of time travel would imply spacial travel as well. The earth is constantly rotating on its axis and orbiting the sun. If you traveled through time but not space (i.e. ended up in the same exact point in space) then you might end up in the vacuum of space, or even the interior of the earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, if the scientists in the future sent him back to the wrong time, it's logical to say that their miscalculation would have landed him in the wrong position in space as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the section titled &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel#Time_travel_or_spacetime_travel&quot;&gt;Time Travel or Spacetime Travel&lt;/a&gt; on the Wikipedia article &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel&quot;&gt;Time travel&lt;/a&gt; for more information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastActivityDate="2013-07-27T16:38:57.357" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3785" CreationDate="2013-07-27T19:28:48.393" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty certain that season 2 episode 12 was set in March 2009 as Jane was born in April 1982 and her dad said she would be turning 27 the following month. Working back using the timeline posted elsewhere the series began in October 2008 and this was when Walt turned 50. What all that means is that each season has only covered about three months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5573" LastActivityDate="2013-07-27T19:28:48.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12800" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12805" CreationDate="2013-07-27T20:34:05.180" Score="6" ViewCount="1271" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a movie centered around a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_harmonica&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;glass (h)armonica&lt;/a&gt;. It's live action, and there was something about magic. I remember sort of stained-glass looking sets, and that the (h)armonica was under attack and the main character was protecting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; &quot;The Glass Harmonica&quot; ('68), but perhaps a remake or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw it On Demand from Comcast under &quot;free movies&quot;, about 8 years ago. I'm about 95% sure it was a full length movie rather than a short or a mere musical performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you help me identify it? They referred to the instrument as either an &quot;armonica&quot; or &quot;harmonica&quot;, and it looked like this in the film but glowing and magical and stuff:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i9orH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Glass Harmonica&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5575" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-08T15:23:05.057" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T15:23:05.057" Title="Main character protects a glass (h)armonica" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:46:58.860" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12695" CreationDate="2013-07-27T21:39:41.150" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Had a look at the special features on my Blu-ray of The Dark Knight (Special Features, Focus Points, Hospital Explosion), how the scene was planned and filmed is described in some detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; shot essentially as it appears, the only computer graphics used was the addition of two rows of glass windows at the top of the building. &lt;strong&gt;The delay between the two explosions was deliberate&lt;/strong&gt;, this was to allow Heath Ledger to be much closer to the building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wc3Ax.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;for real&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The debris that you see flying around is actually pieces of soft cork, fired out of metal drums. The flying glass is stunt glass / breakaway glass, with each window shattered individually with its own charge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hipht.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;cork&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/peTzN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;glass&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Focus Point doesn't explicitly say whether or not fiddling with the remote was Heath Ledger's idea. It does say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We rehearsed endlessly with Heath that morning. We walked him out, got him to do exactly what he was going to do, Chris Corbould [special effects supervisor] calling the explosions, where they would take place. We rehearsed it, I think, about twelve times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if Heath Ledger did improvise with the remote, it sounds like he did it in rehearsal rather than on the spot with things exploding all around him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastActivityDate="2013-07-27T21:39:41.150" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="124" CreationDate="2013-07-27T23:07:58.533" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a hypothesis since it is not stated in the book. I believe even with magic a person cannot go back in time before their birth. Also may be the time turner is simply a magical object that isn't as powerful enough to move far back in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's just hypothesis, only real facts are that it has mental effects on the user. Like Hermione getting stressed or Dumbledore warning that the wearer cannot let the past self-see their future counterpart otherwise they can get crazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5313" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-06-19T06:27:03.583" LastActivityDate="2017-06-19T06:27:03.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12800" CreationDate="2013-07-28T05:04:03.727" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a few hours of googling and finally some help from a friend, I found that the movie is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202586/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shapeshifter&lt;/a&gt;, a relatively unknown movie from 1999, which doesn't even have a wikipedia page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched it again today to see if it was as I recalled with the harmonica, and here's a picture of the scene in which we are introduced to it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WvFkZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5575" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-08T15:19:11.200" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T15:19:11.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12807" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-28T06:56:23.157" Score="16" ViewCount="38449" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where are the real aliens in Oblivion? Surely with the TET destroyed they'll be coming back. Are they on Titan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5581" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-16T19:30:48.223" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T19:30:48.223" Title="Where are the real aliens in Oblivion?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oblivion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12819" CreationDate="2013-07-28T04:00:38.960" Score="7" ViewCount="1292" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching the Blues Brothers recently and I was wondering how many people were there chasing Elwood and Jake in the final chase scene, including the army, police and swat teams, soldiers and vigilantes, and all the other groups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would think at least 300.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5587" OwnerDisplayName="Outlaw Lemur" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-02-01T21:37:32.143" LastActivityDate="2018-02-01T21:37:32.143" Title="How many police/SWAT team/soldiers/nazis/cowboys are there in the final chase scene?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-blues-brothers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12809" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12832" CreationDate="2013-07-28T08:26:04.390" Score="19" ViewCount="39066" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realise I'm teetering on the edge of duplication here but I'll try and phrase as accurately as I can (a lot of the previous questions have been based around the drilling).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does Wolverine still have his healing ability at the end of the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Although he has been &quot;declawed&quot; his bone claws have regrown, implying that he has&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The silver samurai attempted to steal his ability.  It's my understanding that he did this by triggering it (via cutting off his claws) then extracted it, the fact that Logan survived and the samurai didn't implies to me that he failed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He almost certainly has his full skeleton (missing claws) because magneto could control him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I found the entire ending of the film very confusing... my question - does Wolverine still have his healing ability at the end of the film or has it been taken from him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T14:43:28.327" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T14:43:28.327" Title="Wolverine's status at the end of The Wolverine" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|the-wolverine|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12807" CreationDate="2013-07-28T08:45:05.070" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;There never were any (bilogical) aliens at all, only the &lt;em&gt;TET&lt;/em&gt;. The message from &lt;em&gt;Titan&lt;/em&gt; was from the &lt;em&gt;TET&lt;/em&gt; alone, a completely artificial entity. The &lt;em&gt;TET&lt;/em&gt; then attacked and devastated earth in order to drain its resources. The whole story about an alien attack that is told to &lt;em&gt;Jack&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Victoria&lt;/em&gt; (and all the others) was just a staging to keep him maintaining the drones and stay away from the remaining human resistance, which he thought to be the alien scavengers. &lt;strong&gt;The &lt;em&gt;TET&lt;/em&gt; is the &lt;em&gt;&quot;real alien&quot;&lt;/em&gt; for that matter.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the question who in turn created the &lt;em&gt;TET&lt;/em&gt; (and maybe this is what you actually meant with the question). This is never adressed in the movie at all and neither are we supposed to know anything about it. All we are supposed to know is the &lt;em&gt;TET&lt;/em&gt; alone and the fact that we don't have any background information about it adds to a large degree to its fascination. It is a completely autonomous entity appearing out of nowhere, a living machine and thus not any less &lt;em&gt;&quot;real&quot;&lt;/em&gt; than you and me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-16T16:47:15.590" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T16:47:15.590" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12731" CreationDate="2013-07-28T08:54:30.713" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The adamantium wasn't being drilled, the claws were cut in order to gain access to the bone underneath. It's more likely Yashida was tapping into wolverines bone marrow to extract the healing factor. In humans new blood cells are created within the bone marrow, so it would be realistic to presume that the bone marrow is a great place to harvest newly created and maybe the purest of wolverines cells.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5582" LastActivityDate="2013-07-28T08:54:30.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11281" CreationDate="2013-07-28T12:31:35.760" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;No the lightning rod did not stop the freeze of the clock at 22:04:00. The rod just made the lightning go in the flux capacitor. It froze and nobody had a plan to fix the clock. Everybody planned to keep the clock the way it is as if its just a fake clock just for Hill Valleys history and heritage. The lightning went through the flux capacitor after it hit the clock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5583" LastActivityDate="2013-07-28T12:31:35.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12814" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12817" CreationDate="2013-07-28T13:02:15.127" Score="10" ViewCount="21487" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got back from watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430132/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/a&gt;, and I was too caught up in the story/battle sequences to notice if Stan Lee made an appearance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did anyone notice him whilst watching the movie? If so, which scene was he in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4174" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T21:54:16.460" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T21:54:16.460" Title="Did Stan Lee make a cameo in The Wolverine?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|the-wolverine|stan-lee|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12815" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-28T13:11:51.597" Score="8" ViewCount="6209" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched the 2003 Korean film &quot;Oldboy&quot;, and as much as I enjoyed the gritty feel to it, I'm still left with a major dilemma I've noticed yet haven't seen discussed. I understand that the antagonist was trying to put Oh Dae-su in the same situation he was in years before. However, there's no changing the fact that the antagonist was &lt;em&gt;intentionally being incestuous&lt;/em&gt;. There really is no avoiding that fact. Yes, he was able to make Oh Dae-su have intercourse with his own daughter, but in the end Oh Dae-su never intentionally engaged in incest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leaves the antagonist as someone who messed around with his sister, then suffered severe consequences for his actions. He then decided to shift the burden of responsibility to a kid (Oh Dae-su, who probably would have done the same as any other kid in his situation who sees a classmate fooling around with his sister), wrongfully imprisons him for 15 years, only to play some brutal and twisted mind games with him just after he's released. To top it off, once he gets his revenge, he offs himself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see the antagonist as a sociopath who seriously needed therapy and prison time. I can't say I really sympathize for him. Oh Dae-su on the other hand, though not innocent, is victim to punishment he ultimately doesn't deserve.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else see it this way or is there something I'm not quite grasping?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5585" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-07T05:48:10.587" LastActivityDate="2021-06-08T08:17:14.377" Title="Was the revenge justified?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oldboy|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12814" CreationDate="2013-07-28T13:43:41.077" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, Stan Lee did not make an appearance in The Wolverine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-07-28T13:43:41.077" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12814" CreationDate="2013-07-28T14:16:10.457" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, Stan lee only appears in the film versions of characters he created alone - he was not the sole creator of Wolverine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also the reason why he does not have a cameo in Ghost Rider, Elektra or The Punisher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This subject has approached before in a couple of SE questions &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/10370/why-doesnt-stan-lee-make-a-cameo-appearance-in-x2&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/10361/why-does-stan-lee-play-random-extras-in-marvel-films&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2013-07-28T14:21:35.963" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12808" CreationDate="2013-07-28T20:15:57.430" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to an &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20050911010626/http://www.suntimes.com/special_sections/bluebros/cst-nws-bbdaley24.html&quot;&gt;article in the Chicago Sun Times&lt;/a&gt;, over &lt;strong&gt;500&lt;/strong&gt; extras were used for the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Aykroyd remembers a &quot;day of intense concentration'' while working with so many extras -- more than &lt;strong&gt;500&lt;/strong&gt;, including &lt;strong&gt;200&lt;/strong&gt; real soldiers. Belushi hurt his back pushing a cigarette machine and a bench in front of the fake doors, recalled his widow, Judy Belushi Pisano.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you came upon Daley Plaza on Labor Day weekend 1979, you might have turned and run for cover. &lt;strong&gt;Two hundred&lt;/strong&gt; National Guardsmen, rifles in hand, raced from Army jeeps and tanks toward the Cook County Building. They were backed up by &lt;strong&gt;three&lt;/strong&gt; Sherman tanks, &lt;strong&gt;three&lt;/strong&gt; helicopters and &lt;strong&gt;three&lt;/strong&gt; fire trucks. Not to mention &lt;strong&gt;100&lt;/strong&gt; state and city police officers in 50 squad cars and on 15 horses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There was even &lt;strong&gt;a SWAT team&lt;/strong&gt; crawling across the roof and rappelling down the Corinthian columns of the building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-07-28T20:15:57.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12820" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12822" CreationDate="2013-07-28T21:05:29.713" Score="14" ViewCount="2333" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1037705/&quot;&gt;The Book of Eli&lt;/a&gt; it is revealed that the eponymous bible that &lt;em&gt;Eli&lt;/em&gt; used to read (and learn by heart) is actually written in Braille. Yet I'm not sure what further conclusions to draw from this. Was &lt;em&gt;Eli&lt;/em&gt; just able to read Braille for some unknown reason or &lt;strong&gt;was he actually blind all the time&lt;/strong&gt; (probably since the apocalypse 30 years ago, which is implied to have blinded many people)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if he was really blind, then &lt;strong&gt;how could he do all those things he did&lt;/strong&gt; and appear as a man who can see perfectly? Was he just well-trained or are we supposed to believe that the same &quot;mysterious voice&quot; who sent him on his mission gave him the power to see and sense his environment (and to survive the shot long enough to complete his task)? Or was it only his own believe in his mission that let him accomplish all those things he did (though that would stretch the capabilities of self-confidence a bit far)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-28T21:13:12.933" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T03:00:19.893" Title="How could Eli do all those things?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-book-of-eli|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12820" CreationDate="2013-07-28T21:56:07.987" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1037705/trivia?item=tr1278071&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMDb&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; lists &lt;em&gt;some hints&lt;/em&gt; that he was blind, but their &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1037705/faq?ref_=tt_faq_sm#.2.1.12&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FAQ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; summarises:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;... the possibilities are:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Eli is blind and if so, he either trained himself to be able to travel, hunt, shoot, etc. like a sighted person would or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;perhaps God is guiding his every move, as Eli says &lt;em&gt;&quot;I know I wouldn't have made it this far without help.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Eli is partially blind &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;he is fully sighted and anything to suggest otherwise is just coincidence &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Denzel Washington&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.beliefnet.com/idolchatter/2010/01/the-book-of-eli-interview-with.html#&quot;&gt;had this to say&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The audience doesn’t get to know a lot about Eli’s past. How did he get skills like martial arts?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In [Eli's] 30 years of walking, you run into people. I make light of it, but that’s almost the way I looked at it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;… There’s this whole issue, without giving it away, is he blind, is he not.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;… If you look at the movie, sometimes I actually bumped into stuff — and they used it. But it was actually an accident or it was God’s will. In a couple of scenes, I bumped and tripped over stuff and they kept it in there.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I’m sure there will be people [who say], “Oh, there’s the clue. … I told you he was [blind] because he bumped into that.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;maybe he can [see], maybe he can’t? Maybe he can see a little bit? Maybe his eyes are clouded? I don’t know.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So martial art skills don’t necessarily come with God’s calling?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;It could be a gifting.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, apparently Eli bumping into stuff wasn't scripted, but simply Denzel being clumsy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2013-07-28T22:06:30.660" LastActivityDate="2013-07-28T22:06:30.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12823" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12833" CreationDate="2013-07-29T00:25:47.190" Score="13" ViewCount="1246" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the ending of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483013/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oblivion&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Jack Harper drives into the Alien Ship with Morgan Freeman inside the coffin-like thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, how can the Tet not discover if the body is male or female let alone the body being Julia's. Given the Tet could recognize DNA behind layers of rocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; (as shown when Vika requests drones to be sent to rescue Jack.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5590" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-29T01:06:44.607" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T14:44:28.053" Title="How does Tet not recognize the body inside the coffin?" Tags="|oblivion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12824" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-29T01:29:48.623" Score="7" ViewCount="1008" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just finished watching the box set of &lt;em&gt;The Prisoner&lt;/em&gt; and I was also reading the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/tvshow/the-prisoner,84/&quot;&gt;reviews on the AV Club website&lt;/a&gt;, because I like reading reviews of things. I noticed that the episode order in the reviews was different to the order on the DVD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, there's some disagreement about what the correct order of the episodes should be. Has there ever been a 'canonical' running order, and, if not, does it even matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5318" LastActivityDate="2013-07-29T10:07:38.913" Title="Does The Prisoner have a 'canonical' running order?" Tags="|the-prisoner|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12825" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-07-29T01:32:26.417" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-07-29T01:32:26.417" LastActivityDate="2013-07-29T01:32:26.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12826" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-07-29T01:32:26.417" Score="0" Body="Television series about a retired secret agent who finds himself a prisoner in a mysterious village. Originally broadcast on British television in 1968." OwnerUserId="5318" LastEditorUserId="5318" LastEditDate="2013-07-29T02:00:03.540" LastActivityDate="2013-07-29T02:00:03.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12731" CreationDate="2013-07-29T02:10:16.217" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was definitely just to get to the bone marrow. All of his bones are covered in adamantium so the bone marrow wouldn't be accessible without removing it or cutting it in two. He already had plenty of the metal which he needed to build the suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5593" LastActivityDate="2013-07-29T02:10:16.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12814" CreationDate="2013-07-29T02:13:00.750" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://comicbook.com/blog/2013/07/28/stan-lee-explains-lack-of-cameo-in-the-wolverine/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stan Lee says&lt;/a&gt; he just didn't have time to fly to Australia to film the cameo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5594" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-03T04:06:28.203" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T04:06:28.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12745" CreationDate="2013-07-29T03:55:07.147" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a movie with Jim Carey. I believe it is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Truman Show&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  When he is born, he automatically was in a TV show and when he gets older, he eventually realizes this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5596" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-07-30T18:27:24.277" LastActivityDate="2013-07-30T18:27:24.277" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4161" CreationDate="2013-07-29T04:09:52.530" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I have been doing a lot of thinking and I realized that Elizabeth wanted to kill the alien inside of her as soon as she found out about it. Maybe the engineers made us by mistake just as Elizabeth and Holloway did. Maybe they thought they would create something else!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5596" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-29T09:53:39.987" LastActivityDate="2013-07-29T09:53:39.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12809" CreationDate="2013-07-29T05:16:24.960" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, he has his healing ability and the adamantium skeleton minus the claws which were original bone anyway and due to his healing ability he can regrow the bone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The silver samurai was taking his bone marrow which is believed to be the source of his healing factor...numerous discussion as to if this is the case or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The script implies that the &quot;Viper&quot; mutant knew how to weaken his immune system (healing ability) in order to prepare him for a marrow transplant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sequel Script Spoiler Alert (Factual):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end when he is talking with Mariko you can see Yuriko (his &quot;bodyguard&quot;) next to the steps of the airplane in the background being given a green rectangular box with a yellow ribbon securing it. This box contains his claws that were cut for the next movie where he &quot;may&quot; have them reconstituted and grafted to his skeletal structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5597" LastActivityDate="2013-07-29T05:16:24.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12823" CreationDate="2013-07-29T05:26:35.843" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the Tet could &lt;em&gt;unerringly&lt;/em&gt; identify DNA behind layers of rocks, it would have rid the Earth of the Scavs long ago. The reason Beech's bunch wore those Predator-like costumes was to defeat the Tet's scanners. While it would have been nice if the director had made this plain to see, one can surmise that the pod that Jack took up to the Tet was concealed using the same technology as the costumes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More importantly, the camouflage technology was also used to hide the nuke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You could argue that Beech didn't even have to be there. But he did say earlier that he'd &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; like to see the look on Tet's face when the nuke went off.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I agree that it's all rather poorly handled.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-07-29T05:26:35.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12824" CreationDate="2013-07-29T10:07:38.913" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion is that the running order isn't particularly important so long as you watch &lt;em&gt;Arrival&lt;/em&gt; first and &lt;em&gt;Fall Out&lt;/em&gt; last. Wikipedia &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Prisoner_episodes#Episode_list&quot;&gt;lists all the episodes&lt;/a&gt; with various permutations of running order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the ITC order is the nearest you'll get to an &quot;official&quot; running order, this is the order in which the episodes were intended to be broadcast in the UK and is the order that they were broadcast in the US (except that Living in Harmony wasn't broadcast). I believe this is also the running order for my DVD boxset (Region 2).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastActivityDate="2013-07-29T10:07:38.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="525" CreationDate="2013-07-29T10:08:11.087" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ending is deliberately ambiguous. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, the police do not tend to him at all and the flash photography of the police camera is reminscient of police recording a homicide scene (and a link to the 1952 film noir Sunset Boulevard ending). On the other hand, Alex greets Inspector McCall with a cheery hello. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This fits the ongoing motif throughout the film of appearance versus reality - things are not what they seem. There are numerous examples of this: Hugo has killed a man when he says he hasn't; David's face appears in the opening shot with eyes open and voiceover when in fact he is dead (revealed at end); heaven is where god supposedly resides but in their flat the loft is inhabited by the gothic beast of the paranoid David who is becoming evil; the phone rings with no-one on the line - seems benign but in fact it's the thugs checking that they are home; Cameron appears as a harmless geek but in fact breaks Alex's nose; Juliet seems worth fighting for but in fact she drives the knife deeper and takes the money; the case seems to be full of money but in fact its just newspaper; the forest seems to to be a serene and natural place but in fact it hides a gruesome secret. There are many more. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why ambiguous? The ambiguity emphasises the theme of money being the root of all evil. The three flatmates choose to dispose of Hugo's body secretly so that they can keep the case of cash. This seems attractive but in fact brings all three to their mutual and self-promulgated destruction. The film is ambiguous so that we are left to decide whether it ended with the good guy winning (Alex eventually emerges as someone who we like because he gallantly attacks David after he has hit Juliet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shallow Grave is the most under-recognised contemporary film. John Hodge has written a masterpiece of a screenplay which is as complex and complete as Shakespeare. The film should be listed as film noir and gothic. It has a strong reference to Orson Welles' 1964 film The Trial (based on the novel by Franz Kafka). The use of the macabre baby is also in Trainspotting (1996).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5600" LastEditorUserId="45357" LastEditDate="2017-02-08T00:38:22.283" LastActivityDate="2017-02-08T00:38:22.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12838" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12848" CreationDate="2013-07-29T10:58:32.047" Score="14" ViewCount="4440" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like many others I am a big fan of &lt;em&gt;The Departed (2006)&lt;/em&gt;. But the title of the movie makes me curious. What is the justification for use of this title? I mean how does this title fit in the context of story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-18T09:18:46.793" LastActivityDate="2016-08-18T09:18:46.793" Title="How does the title fit in the context of the story?" Tags="|analysis|the-departed|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12820" CreationDate="2013-07-29T11:14:35.927" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Evidence Eli is blind came to me when watching the movie for a second time. There is a point when Eli goes into an old house/shack where he is looking for food (or whatever he can find). He is alone. He goes into a separate room in the shack where the previous occupant has hung himself. We, as the audience, recognizes there is a person hanging there, but Eli does not. He does, however, recognize the smell, but not exactly where the smell is coming from. This leads me to believe Eli &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; blind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-07-29T11:14:35.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12841" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-29T14:50:21.457" Score="4" ViewCount="3932" Body="&lt;p&gt;In series 2 of Luther Alice Morgan is in a mental hospital after the events of the last episode of series 1. How come she is not in prison and has she also admitted the murder of her parents?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5599" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-22T23:58:25.230" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T23:58:25.230" Title="What crime is Alice Morgan charged with?" Tags="|plot-explanation|luther|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12843" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-29T15:47:55.340" Score="29" ViewCount="15988" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the warehouse scene, the Joker lights the stack of money on fire and says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don't worry, I'm only burning my half.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mafia guy doesn't seem to have much of a reaction to this comment, though (the &quot;my half&quot; part,) it's more that he's shocked about the fact that the money is burning in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Joker didn't kill Batman, so why would he have half of the money?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-07-29T19:54:35.497" LastActivityDate="2016-07-07T08:41:07.377" Title="Why would the Joker have half of the money?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12838" CreationDate="2013-07-29T15:51:45.560" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Departed&lt;/em&gt; refers to death and the dead. The movie has plenty of both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Costigan is at his mother's grave, he sees a wreath from Costello with a note reading, &quot;Heaven holds the Faithful Departed&quot;. The phrase &quot;faithful departed&quot; appears to be used by Christians to refer to deceased members of their congregation. Considering the movie's plot dealing with identity and mixed loyalty, it is a rather ironic turn of phrase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-07-29T15:51:45.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12843" CreationDate="2013-07-29T15:58:52.390" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;He doesn't technically receive the money in a transaction sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His receipt of the money is 0 in actuality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In the future should he kill Batman, he would receive 50%&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However at that point he had 100% of the money, one guy opposing him against his ever growing army of psychos, what do they care about money? What do they care if they rightfully received the money or not. The whole point of Joker getting &quot;paid&quot; to kill batman was just a ploy anyway to turn the mob upside down, the city upside down, and batman upside down anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Joker doesn't care about money.  He doesn't care about fame.  He doesn't care about life.  He only cares about &lt;em&gt;chaos&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly after this act he states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's not about the money, its about sending a message&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As his goons escort the mobster off to his demise.  The Joker merely brought him there to show that he retrieved Lau and his money, only to shortly show the mobster how &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All you care about is money. This city deserves a better class of criminal. And I'm gonna give it to them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joker doesn't want to kill Batman, he has &lt;em&gt;too much fun&lt;/em&gt; with him, trying to show him how the natural order of the world is &lt;em&gt;chaos&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness, and I won't kill you because you're too much fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be argued that he knew of this fact long before he made his offer to the mobsters to kill Batman for 50% of their money.  They were just another pawn in his long game for the &lt;em&gt;soul of Gotham&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify some points about the scene.  All of the people there besides the mobster are under Joker's command.  After escaping the police station with Lau, he most likely forced Lau to show him where he had stashed the money, which is most likely where they were to begin with.  He then tied up Lau and contacted the mobster to &lt;em&gt;retrieve&lt;/em&gt; his money from him.  At that point the scene commences, Joker burns the money (and Lau) and has the mobster taken away to be fed to his own dogs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At no point was the Joker actually &quot;paid&quot; for his services.  He merely burns &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of the money as a display of his wanton disregard for the value of currency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-07-30T13:10:20.660" LastActivityDate="2013-07-30T13:10:20.660" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10581" CreationDate="2013-07-29T16:50:50.343" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had never seen this movie until 2013, catching bits &amp;amp; pieces on HBO, then finally DVR'd the thing and watched it several times. One of the funniest movies ever and Christian Bale is brilliant. The main point: ALL the murders happen in his head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my interpretation (and, isn't that what it's all about?):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Several characters have actually seen Paul Allen in London;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The scene(s) when Patrick picks up the hooker in the limo; we never see his limo driver;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When he kills the hooker with a chainsaw in the stairwell at Paul Allen's apartment, she's banging on people's doors &amp;amp; Patrick is running thru the building with a live chainsaw&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;no one would have heard this?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No one would have discovered her body? The cop would not have investigated a dead hooker cut to pieces in a bloody stairwell at Paul Allen's apartment?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wouldn't the cop have spoken to Patrick's limo driver at some point? (hint: there is no limo driver)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He shoots &amp;amp; kills a woman at an ATM, several police officers chase him, he shoots &amp;amp; kills them all, their car explodes in a giant fireball; he continues to shoot &amp;amp; kill a door/security man at an apt bldg &amp;amp; a cleaning guy. That's like 6 people in 5 minutes, and no one is ever on his trail. He calls his lawyer and confesses and no one believes him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, the movie has gotten very surreal, and you start thinking 'ok, this is all happeneing in his head'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;THEN we get to the missing bodies at Paul's apartment. The realtor did not 'clean it all up' as some speculate. None of it ever happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His lawyer says 'it is simply not possible'. Because there were no murders.&#xA;His final monologue he says &amp;quot;this confession has meant nothing&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5604" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2021-02-03T22:04:45.433" LastActivityDate="2021-02-03T22:04:45.433" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12843" CreationDate="2013-07-29T17:53:38.980" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first time The Joker tries to make a deal, its for &lt;em&gt;half&lt;/em&gt; the money to kill the Batman. Subsequently, we know that the Mob initially did not deal with the Joker (because they later &lt;em&gt;decide&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;hire&lt;/em&gt; the &lt;em&gt;clown&lt;/em&gt;). So we know that the Joker was working for the Mafia, although at this point we can be pretty much sure that they would &lt;em&gt;certainly not&lt;/em&gt; give The Joker &lt;em&gt;half&lt;/em&gt; of their money. It seems common sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cut later, to the time The Joker is in the warehouse along with one of the Mafia boses. How did they get there? Joker obviously wriggled out the location out of Chao in the police holding cells. He then got out, went to the warehouse alongwith the Mafia boss. How did the Mafia boss got involved? Because the joker &lt;strong&gt;may&lt;/strong&gt; have made a deal with him - he'll get &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; the money if they &lt;strong&gt;split it half-ways&lt;/strong&gt; between them (The Joker always demands half!). It's not shown, but certainly implied. Why else would the Joker say &lt;strong&gt;my half&lt;/strong&gt;? How else would the Mafia boss even be there if it was only the Joker who got the location out of Chao? From my interpretation, this seems to be the answer to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-29T20:05:47.110" LastActivityDate="2013-07-29T20:05:47.110" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12838" CreationDate="2013-07-29T18:06:48.390" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Departed&lt;/strong&gt; stands as a honorable and respectful way to refer to those who have passed away. As correctly explained in the first line by &lt;em&gt;coleopterist&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, every action and consequence happens due to the death of somoneone, or because someone has &lt;em&gt;departed&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first scene and character, Collin Sullivan is introduced to Crime and Frank because he is now brought up by Frank (his parents have departed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Billy Costigan is made an undercover cop by Captain Queenan and Sgt. Dignam because of his family ties to crime. The crime syndicate decide to hire him because of his family (father, uncle, et. all) - All Departed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Psychiatrist, Madolyn, is in business because cops come to her whenever they have killed someone (The Departed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Queenan is killed (Departed) and this causes all hell to break loose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, Frank and his entire crew are killed (All departed), and Sullivan is frantic because Frank was an FBI informant. Killing Frank, Sullivan becomes the hero of the cop force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, Billy catches Frank at the building where Queenan died (the place where he departed). Officer Brown shows up, and all three go down the elevator in a stand-off. Once the doors open, officer Barrigan shoots Billy and Brown. Sullivan shoots Barrigan in return. Now, Billy is The Departed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This earns Sullivan his keep, and no one knows that he was the real mole. However, Madolyn had heard the CD recordings and she knows what must have happened when Billy died. (again, the departed have changed the course of events). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later when Dignam arrives, he goes over and kills Sullivan. Finally killing all the pieces of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, at every turn The Departed (whether people who have died earlier, or have died at that moment) change the course of the story and the characters. Hence it is a very unique way to name the film for something that is very subtle to notice, and yet has such a powerful impact on every aspect of the film. Therefore, the name &lt;strong&gt;The Departed&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-29T19:53:39.133" LastActivityDate="2013-07-29T19:53:39.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12729" CreationDate="2013-07-29T18:13:09.093" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm fairly certain (though it's been a while since I've seen the movie) that it was Charlie, having fully embraced the new coach's mantra of two-way hockey. I will double-check when I get home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5605" LastActivityDate="2013-07-29T18:13:09.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8601" CreationDate="2013-07-29T19:56:50.477" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He wanted to visit the witch (at the bar) to ask her if she knows how to break the spell or was it something about the necklace. I think he just wanted some alone time with Elena and he wanted to tease Stefan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5607" LastActivityDate="2013-07-29T19:56:50.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8601" CreationDate="2013-07-30T05:10:12.323" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;from &lt;a href=&quot;http://vampirediaries.wikia.com/wiki/Bree%27s_Bar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Vampire Diaries wikia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Damon came with Elena here(Bree's Bar in Atlanta, Georgia) in the episode Bloodlines to ask Bree for help. Damon, hoping to release Katherine from the tomb without the crystal, seeks out Bree's help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Damon needed the help of a witch to know and to open the seal on the tomb of Katherine. Bree was a witch who was on friendly terms with Damon, and hence he went to her to ask for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-07-30T05:10:12.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11292" CreationDate="2013-07-30T07:53:25.490" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tokyo Drift felt really out of place in the timeline. Nothing seemed to add up because it was assumed the events occurred either completely independent of Dom's realm, or perhaps directly after 2 Fast 2 Furious based on Dom's appearance at the end of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The writers did an amazing job re-introducing Han into the big picture by giving him a small yet effective role in Fast and Furious; despite his short time on screen, Han is established to be a valuable friend and associate of Dom's as he is an incredibly skilled driver at the very least. Han reprised his role in Fast Five and in Fast 6 on a much larger scale, establishing a relationship with Gisele. The events in Fast 6 now opened the door for Tokyo Drift to entire its place in the timeline; Han leaves the crew to pursue his own personal affairs after the death of Gisele.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Tokyo Drift, Han establishes himself and takes on the &quot;Dom&quot; persona of the street-racing and crime scene; he's well respected by friends and enemies and only drives competitively when he truly needs to. Backtracking to the important exchange between Brian and Mia in Fast and Furious - Dom is respected because he lives by his own code. His strong and influential presence effects those around him - Brian and Han included. This is made evident by the conversation Han and Sean have at the top of the building, when he explains what he finds important (trust) and why he drifts. Han, like Dom, has established his own code. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In later events in Tokyo Drift, Han races DK in the streets and dies in an apparent racing accident. However, it is revealed at the end of Fast 6 that it was no accident; Shaw's brother Ian was behind the wheel of the car that struck Han, killing him as revenge for the death of his brother, which Han was partially responsible for. He phones Dom and lures him out to Tokyo, which likely explains Dom's cameo appearance at the very end of Tokyo Drift.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Tokyo Drift now has a clear time-stamp in the entire franchise. The events of Tokyo Drift happen after Fast 6 (perhaps not immediately after, as Han would have needed some time to establish himself in that city), which tells us that at least some of Fast 7 will be set in Tokyo. Some other questions that come to mind is if anyone in the Tokyo Drift realm will be included in Fast 7; the notable figures are obviously Sean, Twinkie, and Neela, but none of them really have the chops to hang with Dom and his crew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the most exciting prospect of Fast 7 (to me) is that the dynamic has been completely changed; Dom and Brian have been depended on to apprehend a villain or steal a lump of money, but this time, they are being hunted by Ian Shaw (Jason Statham), which shows his ruthless personality by stalking and killing Han.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5611" LastActivityDate="2013-07-30T07:53:25.490" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12856" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12858" CreationDate="2013-07-30T15:09:17.773" Score="11" ViewCount="1087" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand the Adamantium is hard to break. I get the idea of normal metal not able to break it since they are not as hard as Adamantium, I also understand that perhaps when Adamantium hit Adamantium, it can possibly break since they are the same hardness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/em&gt;, the sword used to cut the claws was heated. When metal is heated, it becomes liquid if heated long enough, or at least the metal will become softer (molecules moving faster, in other words metal can be bend easier when heated). So my question is, if this is true and the heated metal is softer, why would it cut the claw which is harder since it is not heated? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5425" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T21:54:07.503" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T21:54:07.503" Title="How can Adamantium be cut?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|the-wolverine|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12856" CreationDate="2013-07-30T16:27:05.740" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamantium#History_and_properties&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for adamantium&lt;/a&gt;:  &lt;em&gt;Adamantium's extremely stable molecular structure prevents it from being further molded even if the temperature is high enough to keep it in its liquified form.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this is a fictitious material, you are excused from unsuccessfully applying real world insight.  If there is an answer, it is because the overall strength and force of the sword overcomes the lesser strength of the claws, perhaps based on material thickness, or maybe its shape.  (Or it could be just because the script writer says so.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, if adamantium is going to be cut, what else would be able to do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-07-30T16:27:05.740" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12843" CreationDate="2013-07-30T20:12:26.857" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not an observation of fact that half the money is his or that the money in that pile was only half of all the pot.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a highly aggressive version of an old joke: &quot;Can I have half that beverage&quot;,&quot;Sure&quot;, after chugging down the whole beverage &quot;Sorry, my half was on bottom.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They were in fact saying, &quot;I burned you money, but I burned mine too...see how unimportant it is to me?  You can't buy my services - hahaha&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a multi-layered joke I guess...sort of...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least that's my interpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1585" LastActivityDate="2013-07-30T20:12:26.857" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12861" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-30T20:38:35.643" Score="7" ViewCount="305" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a child sometime in the late seventies or very early eighties, I saw a sci-fi movie on TV - there was a scene in a greenhouse, either on a spaceship or space station - you could see stars out the windows, and they were growing apple trees there. A family was serving apple pie, and people were enthusing over it. The family explained that the apples came from Earth, before it was destroyed.  This may have been the pilot for a failed TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5617" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-07-31T05:47:40.397" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T14:23:25.200" Title="Apples in a greenhouse on a spacestation" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:47:02.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12862" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12987" CreationDate="2013-07-30T21:32:40.973" Score="15" ViewCount="13442" Body="&lt;p&gt;When watching &lt;em&gt;Pacific Rim&lt;/em&gt; in German it didn't strike me much to hear those giant robots being called &lt;em&gt;&quot;Jäger&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (hunters), only to be surprised by the fact that they are called &lt;em&gt;&quot;Jaegers&quot;&lt;/em&gt; in the original, too (and the beginning of the movie, when the word's definition is given alongside &lt;em&gt;&quot;Kaiju&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, says that this indeed derives from the German word for &lt;em&gt;&quot;hunter&quot;&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But while the name &lt;em&gt;&quot;Kaiju&quot;&lt;/em&gt; is an obvious hommage to the Japanese origin of this whole movie genre with giant monsters, the choice of the word &lt;em&gt;&quot;Jaeger&quot;&lt;/em&gt; for those robots seems rather arbitrary while still pretty unusual. &lt;strong&gt;Is there any explanation why the term &lt;em&gt;&quot;Jaeger&quot;&lt;/em&gt; was chosen to name those giant robots&lt;/strong&gt; or any connection of that word to the mecha genre those things were meant as an hommage to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-30T21:42:19.030" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T06:16:45.963" Title="Why are those robots called Jaegers?" Tags="|analysis|pacific-rim|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12863" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-07-31T01:18:35.443" Score="7" ViewCount="586" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A movie about getting to a utopian planet that found out to be a fake one, instead the people were connected to a machine, that took them to a virtual environment, that had the name of the said utopian planet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Earth is in some sort of problem and humanity is living in a space station or on the fake utopian planet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The main character is a woman, trying to survive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The space station is run by a some sort of big corporation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which movie is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5620" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-17T04:57:46.833" LastActivityDate="2013-11-17T05:03:07.213" Title="A movie about getting to a fake utopian planet / virtual environment" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:47:05.807" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12862" CreationDate="2013-07-31T01:33:26.780" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Jaeger program&quot; was presented and started by &quot;Jasper Schoenfeld&quot;, he is stated as American citizen but his place of birth or ancestry isn't mentioned, we can only guess from his surname that it is from German speaking countries, which would explain why he chose the German word for hunter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But still there are lot of speculations about this, especially since lot of trivia is between movies and comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-31T07:38:51.980" LastActivityDate="2013-07-31T07:38:51.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12862" CreationDate="2013-07-31T01:34:33.147" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scientist who created the Jaeger mechs was Jasper Schoenfeld (a german name). Hence while naming his ideas and creation, he may have chosen a german term for &lt;em&gt;hunter&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why the plot contains this obvious german reference, it is unclear whether Del Toro chose a german word because it pairs up with &lt;em&gt;Kaiju&lt;/em&gt; or because of german prowess in automotive engineering is not clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-07-31T07:39:59.500" LastActivityDate="2013-07-31T07:39:59.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12861" CreationDate="2013-07-31T05:54:26.540" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;That resembles &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Silent Running&lt;/em&gt; (1972)&lt;/a&gt;, with Bruce Dern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't recall if there was a family and apple pie.  Maybe there was early in the movie, but it has been many decades since I have seen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-07-31T05:54:26.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12863" CreationDate="2013-07-31T07:47:34.603" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Except for the big corporation aspect, that describes an episode of the original Star Trek series:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_World_Is_Hollow_and_I_Have_Touched_the_Sky&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky&lt;/em&gt; (1968)&lt;/a&gt; which no doubt inspired many similar stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-07-31T07:47:34.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12869" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12870" CreationDate="2013-07-31T11:23:25.663" Score="8" ViewCount="622" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every Star Wars fan remembers the uncomfortable moment in The Empire Strikes back where Leia kisses Luke.  In Return of the Jedi we're then told that she's his sister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While George Lucas and the writers were making The Empire Strikes Back had this family relationship been decided or was it only added for Return of the Jedi?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-09T12:02:08.007" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T12:02:08.007" Title="Was the family connection established in The Empire Strikes Back?" Tags="|star-wars|the-empire-strikes-back|return-of-the-jedi|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12869" CreationDate="2013-07-31T12:25:32.570" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Source - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/faq#.2.1.4&quot;&gt;Empire Strikes Back FAQ on IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;There is another.&quot; To whom is Yoda referring?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the time that &lt;em&gt;Empire&lt;/em&gt; was written and released, Leia was not meant to be Luke's sister. Luke instead had an unnamed sister, also undergoing Jedi training, on the opposite end of the galaxy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leia being Luke's sister was only decided when Return of the Jedi was made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastActivityDate="2013-07-31T12:25:32.570" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12871" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12873" CreationDate="2013-07-31T16:30:43.543" Score="14" ViewCount="4039" Body="&lt;p&gt;On one hand you've got some very seasoned actors like Sean Bean, Lena Headey and Natalia Tena who have been in other TV series as well as some big Hollywood films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And on the other hand you've got some actors who have done almost nothing before. Such as Emilia Clarke (in one of the biggest parts in the series) and Sophie Turner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason for such a massive discrepancy in experience among the cast?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-08-01T13:19:59.033" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T22:59:39.257" Title="Why were so many inexperienced actors hired for lead roles in Game of Thrones?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|casting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12871" CreationDate="2013-07-31T16:40:01.827" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't know this as fact (no references) in this case, but many productions use some high paid actors as the draw, then fill in the rest of the characters with lesser known actors as a means of limiting production costs. It comes down to economics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-07-31T16:40:01.827" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12871" CreationDate="2013-07-31T16:47:23.620" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actors are usually hired if they fit the role they are supposed to play. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case of GOT, some of the characters can be visualized with existing actors. As you can notice, none of the &lt;strong&gt;star&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;lead&lt;/strong&gt; characters (Jon Snow, Arya Stark, Daenerys etc.) are known faces. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Senior actors are roped in because they either fit the role or lend some good acting in the scenes. Sometimes, when the character is important, mature actors are often cast as they have a better knowledge to face the challenges required in the role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case of GOT, the number of characters and roles is phenomenal. The costs alone for more &lt;em&gt;known&lt;/em&gt; actors would have increased the budget several times. Also, the actors that play the character are definitely good in their roles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having new faces in the series also makes it more immersing for the fans as they can visualize the characters with the actors. Most fans might not recognize the previous works these actors have done, and hence recognize them only by their GOT persona.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, the producers and directors many a times go for newer faces and fresher talent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-07-31T16:47:23.620" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12874" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-07-31T18:52:21.967" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-07-31T18:52:21.967" LastActivityDate="2013-07-31T18:52:21.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12875" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-07-31T18:52:21.967" Score="0" Body="2013 movie starring Brad Pitt, directed by Marc Forster, and produced by Plan B Entertainment." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-07-31T19:47:06.693" LastActivityDate="2013-07-31T19:47:06.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12876" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-07-31T18:57:36.567" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-07-31T18:57:36.567" LastActivityDate="2013-07-31T18:57:36.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12877" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-07-31T18:57:36.567" Score="0" Body="1957 movie starring Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, and Lee J. Cobb. Directed by Sidney Lumet. " OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-01T23:21:02.703" LastActivityDate="2013-08-01T23:21:02.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10432" CreationDate="2013-08-01T00:40:09.423" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I heard my favorite theory on tumblr and expanded on it. &#xA;Neither pill was poison, and the water he gave them was. He swallowed his dry. This explanation has no evidence in the episode to support it, but it still fits the events and I like it a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One problem that I noticed is that there is no water in the final scene where they are both about to take the pills. One way to explain this is that the cabbie's sponsor Moriarty (who has been described as a 'fan' of Sherlock) did not want Sherlock dead. If neither of them used poison water then neither one would die. Presumably, the cabbie would fake his own death, let Sherlock think he had chosen right, and then who knows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5630" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-01T06:51:35.143" LastActivityDate="2013-08-01T06:51:35.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12881" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20056" CreationDate="2013-08-01T09:39:49.313" Score="9" ViewCount="420" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cast and crew of Mythbusters make an amazing number of gadgets, test platforms, small scale buildings, etc. for each and every episode.  They take great pride in destroying their creations whenever possible.  While this is fun to watch, it seems like it creates a tremendous amount of waste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reliable information out there (from the producers or otherwise) about what the show does with all of the material?  Is it recycled? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastActivityDate="2014-06-07T15:02:11.330" Title="Production logistics for recycling on Mythbusters" Tags="|production|mythbusters|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12882" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12884" CreationDate="2013-08-01T09:58:21.003" Score="13" ViewCount="5926" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very often when a film's success is being judged, its opening few weeks takings are considered.  However many films and franchises also generate revenue from DVD/BluRay sales and merchandise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What proportion of a typical modern action film's income comes from its box office takings?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-08-01T15:48:09.220" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T02:20:40.330" Title="How much of a film's revenue comes from its cinema release?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12883" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14997" CreationDate="2013-08-01T10:01:05.970" Score="17" ViewCount="149091" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know Scotland very well and have several theories of my own but can anyone tell me where this iconic shot was taken?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally I'm after as accurate a location as possible as I'm fairly sure I can narrow it to one of two valleys (bonus points for a streetview link!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dep0U.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Skyfall Shot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T01:06:50.973" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T01:06:50.973" Title="Where was the Scottish Skyfall scene filmed?" Tags="|james-bond|skyfall|film-location|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12882" CreationDate="2013-08-01T10:21:26.340" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creativeskillset.org/film/knowledge/article_5103_1.asp&quot;&gt;Creative Skill Set&lt;/a&gt; website breaks it down in general for you:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Theatrical (ie. cinema) revenues only account for about 25% of the total revenues, with video (including DVD) taking about 40%; television accounting for 28% and ancillary revenues the final 7%. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The website goes on to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How Revenue Flows Through the Marketplace&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The main revenue streams for filmed entertainment are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Theatrical exhibition&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Video/DVD rental&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Video/DVD retail (or sell-through)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Pay per View Television&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Subscription or Pay Television&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Free Television &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The industry has created windows of exploitation to maximise revenues&#xA;  at each stage of the value chain and avoid any clashes in the&#xA;  marketplace. These windows are starting to close up as the&#xA;  non-theatrical streams start to eclipse the original release in terms&#xA;  of revenue generation (although the cinematic shop window still&#xA;  remains the main driver of revenues throughout the chain in most&#xA;  cases) but are roughly as indicated below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Theatric: 0 - 6 Months &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Video/DVD: 6 - 15 Months &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Pay Per View: 15 - 18&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Months Pay TV: 18 - 30 Months &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Free TV: 30 + Months&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The website has a lot more information on how and who makes money from a film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-08-01T10:21:26.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12883" CreationDate="2013-08-01T10:44:20.580" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The shot was taken in Glen Etive, Highland, Scotland. The water to the left is the River Etive. I believe this link is the exact spot, but not entirely sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Glen+Etive,+Highland,+Scotland,+UK&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ll=56.616414,-4.946117&amp;amp;spn=0.001318,0.003012&amp;amp;sll=38.776731,-77.176719&amp;amp;sspn=0.118971,0.192776&amp;amp;hnear=River+Etive&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;z=19&amp;amp;layer=c&amp;amp;cbll=56.616518,-4.946239&amp;amp;panoid=_STxqf26bxbybfc_GbomNQ&amp;amp;cbp=12,286.18,,0,8.98&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-01T11:07:28.540" LastActivityDate="2013-08-01T11:07:28.540" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12886" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-01T11:14:36.090" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;An American TV series starring Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer. Use this tag for questions relating to the 8 seasons aired between November 6th, 2001 and May 24th, 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285331/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:27:26.753" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:27:26.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12887" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-01T11:14:36.090" Score="0" Body="An American TV series starring Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer. Use this tag for questions relating to the 8 seasons aired between November 6th, 2001 and May 24th, 2010." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:27:23.873" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:27:23.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12888" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12908" CreationDate="2013-08-01T16:01:28.120" Score="13" ViewCount="1044" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a live action film set in the US, I saw it about 20 years ago on TV.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not recall anyone famous being in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the family moved to a new place somewhere in the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The leading actor was an astronaut named Matthew, he and his colleague developed a new space suit.  When the helmet was focussed on something it gave a reading as to whether they were human or not - how this would be useful for anything is not explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wife makes a new friend who corrupts her somehow.  The new corrupted wife wants the dog to be put down and takes him to a vet and demands to watch the operation happen.  The vet refuses and calls Matthew to discuss the odd request with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the finale Matthew figures out what is happening and puts on the space suit to rescue his wife from some kind of hell.  The 'friend' tells him he cannot and that she will punish him etc but it turns out that she actually has no power at all, she is just a good liar.  He goes to 'hell' and finds his wife playing the piano and rescues her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-08-01T17:26:25.683" LastActivityDate="2013-08-07T03:06:25.817" Title="Astronaut rescues corrupted wife from hell" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:47:08.930" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12889" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12890" CreationDate="2013-08-01T16:35:57.767" Score="17" ViewCount="10039" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may sound like a bit of an odd question, but I was wondering how the opening scene in &lt;em&gt;Once Upon A Time in The West&lt;/em&gt; was made and more specifically, how they made the fly do what it did. It must not have been easy to get a fly to fly to his beard and stay there despite all of his attempts to get rid of it. So how did they make this fly do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5608" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-24T21:04:49.257" LastActivityDate="2013-11-24T21:04:49.257" Title="How was the opening scene with the fly made?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|once-upon-a-time-in-the-west|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12889" CreationDate="2013-08-01T16:35:57.767" Score="19" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene with Jack Elam and the fly was first attempted by placing a fake fly on the actor's face. When that didn't work, better results were achieved by smearing honey or jam on Elam's beard to attract flies kept in a jar just out of view and released one at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source:  &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pov.imv.au.dk/Issue_24/section_1/artc4A.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack Elam and the Fly in Once Upon a Time in the West&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; by Richard Raskin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5608" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-08-01T16:35:57.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12891" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12905" CreationDate="2013-08-01T22:55:32.977" Score="7" ViewCount="4786" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really want to watch this movie &lt;em&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/em&gt;, and was wondering if I have to watch something before watching this movie so that I won't miss or not get part of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which of the previous &lt;em&gt;X-Men&lt;/em&gt; films are required viewing before watching &lt;em&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5641" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T21:53:43.423" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T21:53:43.423" Title="Can The Wolverine be viewed as a stand-alone film?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|the-wolverine|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2471" CreationDate="2013-08-02T00:07:26.763" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don and Betty only loved the idea of each other. On the other side they looked perfect. Both of them good looking, charming, and had a great sex life. However, Don's mommy issues made it impossible for his to stay faithful to Betty. He does try but fails every time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, both Don and Betty keep don't really talk about their problems. Throughout their marriage, Don tries his best to keep Betty happy but she never talks to him about what's bothering her. She keeps it to herself and it turns her into a bitter person. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don opens up more to his mistresses than he does to Betty because he's scared of not being the perfect man she thinks he is. He knows that if she knew the real him, she wouldn't want to be with him. However, it's the fact that he lied to her for so long that made her file for divorce, that and the fact that she was already in love with Henry, a man she was having an affair with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5644" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2013-08-02T08:47:08.703" LastActivityDate="2013-08-02T08:47:08.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10879" CreationDate="2013-08-02T03:14:07.503" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It makes more sense if you look at the problem in a different way. The union are abolitionists, but with fabricants comes a unique issue. Are they capable of thinking their own thoughts, like a human, or is their very nature that of a slave, unable and unwilling to change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the book (which i have literally just put down) purebloods had been experimenting with ways to make fabricants 'ascend' for their own scientific purposes for some time. Students in Sonmi-451's time were very lazy, however, and paid for their research to be rehashed. One of these lazy students, unwittingly ends up with one such 'ascended' fabricant, Sonmi 451.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the Union, Sonmi 451 is a hugely powerful ally. Not only does she represent proof that fabricants are more than just slaves, but she wants to learn, is intelligent, and has a real thirst for life, which allows her to become the one person who can create a set of catechisms designed for fabricants who have ascended. &#xA;The Union plan was to introduce huge amounts of the chemical agent - which allows fabricants to ascend - into the 'womb tanks' where they are created. Sonmi 451's catechisms are designed as a guide on how to live once ascended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sonmi 451 does not play a smaller role in the novel, but the circumstances were different. Her meeting with the Union was more chance, which the Union capitalised on, rather than the whole thing being a plan from the start. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are never told whether the union plan works, whether it is responsible for the 'fall' (mentioned in Zachry's story) or whether it was abandoned.  The book also contains no speech by Sonmi 451, or even a written version of her catechisms, although they may have been similar to that in the movie, i highly doubt it, as this story was modified to contain much more sentimental and emotional content for Hollywood purposes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5646" LastEditorUserId="5646" LastEditDate="2013-08-02T03:24:08.963" LastActivityDate="2013-08-02T03:24:08.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12896" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12903" CreationDate="2013-08-02T05:06:29.257" Score="8" ViewCount="17253" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that many parts of the story of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455275/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Prison Break&lt;/a&gt; match with the script of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Shawshank Redemption&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an innocent sent to jail&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;making friends in jail&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;making wardens as friends on the basis of knowledge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sneaking through the jail with digging out&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;going to Mexico after breaking out of jail&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can &lt;em&gt;Prison Break&lt;/em&gt; therefore be regarded as a copy of &lt;em&gt;The Shawshank Redemption&lt;/em&gt; or are there at least any further references (or maybe even official statements) suggesting that this movie was a strong inspiration for &lt;em&gt;Prison Break&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5647" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-08-02T17:29:25.457" LastActivityDate="2018-08-05T13:20:52.163" Title="Does Prison Break copy Shawshank Redemption?" Tags="|the-shawshank-redemption|prison-break|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11292" CreationDate="2013-08-02T05:57:12.480" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watch the movies in this order if you want to know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Fast And The Furious [2001]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 Fast 2 Furious [2003]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fast And Furious [2009]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fast Five [2011]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fast and furious 6 [2013] (don't forget to watch the mini clip at the end!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift [2006]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5648" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2013-08-02T08:46:16.810" LastActivityDate="2013-08-02T08:46:16.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12843" CreationDate="2013-08-02T07:07:51.360" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well if you go back to the original scene where the Joker met with the mob bosses for the first time, the conversations were the following : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is simply we kill the batman &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If it so simple why haven't you done it already &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you are good at something never do it for free&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How much you want ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Half&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can understand he want half of their money to kill the batman not get half the money after killing batman. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Off course whether he really wants to kill batman or not is different question altogether.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3559" LastActivityDate="2013-08-02T07:07:51.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12815" CreationDate="2013-08-02T07:28:48.943" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well that is the whole point of the movie. The antagonist wanted to make him what he felt once. He wanted Oh Dae su to live life knowing of his incest. It makes no difference whether this is intentional or not. Woo-jin summed this up at the very end of the movie when he said something like  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If I can live my life loving my sister you can do to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He didn't want any revenge of any sort. He just wanted to make the situation of Oh dae su like his own. Remember he just wanted to make the environment of Oh dae su to be such that he would  fall in love with his own daughter unknowingly, so he might feel what he once felt. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That for me is the whole point of the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3559" LastActivityDate="2013-08-02T07:28:48.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12900" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12901" CreationDate="2013-08-02T09:08:30.867" Score="18" ViewCount="5339" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final scene of The Dark Knight Rises we see Bruce sitting at the table with a brunette.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aQGGJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Scene in cafe&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this woman Selina Kyle or is it someone he's met in his new life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T15:23:52.880" Title="Who is in the cafe scene in Dark Knight Rises" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|plot-explanation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12900" CreationDate="2013-08-02T09:35:27.350" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is definitely &lt;em&gt;Selina Kyle&lt;/em&gt;, never thought it could be someone else (and have &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; heard anybody &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; referring to her being &lt;em&gt;Selina Kyle&lt;/em&gt;). Yet that particular screenshot is indeed a bit vague, but together with the fact that due to the story's development she is most probable to be &lt;em&gt;Selina Kyle&lt;/em&gt; it still bears enough resemblence to &lt;em&gt;Anne Hathaway&lt;/em&gt; to be quite sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in fact &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Dark-Knight-Rises,-The.html&quot;&gt;the movie's script&lt;/a&gt; agrees with me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;EXT. CAFÉ, FLORENCE - DAY&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alfred folds his paper. Pulls out his money, then stops,&#xA;  seeing...across the tables, a familiar couple... Bruce smiles at&#xA;  Alfred, who nods. Bruce turns back to the pretty brunette in pearls.&#xA;  Selina. Alfred pays his bill, content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-08-02T09:35:27.350" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12902" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12904" CreationDate="2013-08-02T10:55:03.377" Score="29" ViewCount="24619" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; Walt seems to always put on his hat when he gets into the Heisenberg mind set/character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this the hat's sole purpose or is there a deeper meaning/connection to something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-13T19:47:38.420" LastActivityDate="2017-04-05T16:25:46.760" Title="What is the deal with Walt's hat?" Tags="|analysis|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12896" CreationDate="2013-08-02T11:15:44.947" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if you watched the Film and show you'd see the only major thing they have in common is being set in a Prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The majority of the film is actually about living in prison not escaping, while the Series is all about escaping.  The main Character in the film is wrongly convicted and sent to prison while in Prison Break the main Character actually gets himself sent to prison so he can break his brother out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that in Prison Break Michael Scofield does make friends with the Warden  and guards to help with the escape, In the Shawshank-Redemption Andy doesn't have much choice, he's approached by the Warden and not given much option but to do the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also a major difference is the time line The escape in Prison Break only takes a few weeks/months, in Shawshank it happens over years&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just some points there are lots of other differences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="430" LastActivityDate="2013-08-02T11:15:44.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12902" CreationDate="2013-08-02T13:13:47.730" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;One could say that his hat &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Heisenberg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual hat is known as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_pie_hat&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pork-Pie Hat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which grew into style around the 30's and 40's.  Not exactly associated with major meth empires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The relation of his hat and Heisenberg can be rather simple, or it can be rather complex, depending upon how much you want to read into it and how much analysis you associate with the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be as simple as Walt feels a lack of confidence or even a great feeling of guilt for his actions without his hat on or near.  With it on, he can rest assured that anything he does or says as &quot;Heisenberg&quot; won't come back to bite him in a kind of karmic sense.  That he is embracing Heisenberg in order to protect and provide for his family.  This quote from 502 &quot;Madrigal&quot; pretty much sums up his rational thinking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;When we do what we do for good reasons, then we've got nothing to worry about. And there's no better reason than family.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Showing how much Walt is willing to commit in order to do what he feels is the right thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To go out on a limb with a &lt;strong&gt;crazy&lt;/strong&gt; theory, it can be argued that the hat is the dead spirit of some kind that posesses Walt and uses his body to commit horrible acts of murder and evil planning.  It has grown in power so much that Walt only needs to be near the hat in order to be taken over by the spirit within.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This theory requires more rooting out, and possibly needs the end of the series in order to flesh out to something believable but an interesting thought nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A final thought to end this answer, it is possible that Walt is actually suffering from a mental disorder related to his cancer.  It is possible that it has already came back, but not where the doctor's are looking and spread to his brain, similar to Jesse's theory in 310 &quot;Fly&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However being familiar with how cancer scans work in general, and with the apparent ability of his doctor, I doubt this to be true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-08-02T13:13:47.730" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12891" CreationDate="2013-08-02T14:30:31.120" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film depends heavily on the events of &lt;em&gt;X-Men 3: The Last Stand&lt;/em&gt;.  In that film, Wolverine does something he regrets heavily, and it is the basis for his character arc in &lt;em&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/em&gt;.  So to fully appreciate this film, you should watch &lt;em&gt;X-Men 3&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to fully appreciate &lt;em&gt;X-Men 3&lt;/em&gt;, you should see &lt;em&gt;X-Men&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;X-Men 2&lt;/em&gt;, since it's a sequel to those, and a continuation of those stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can skip &lt;em&gt;X-Men: First Class&lt;/em&gt;, as it has no bearing on &lt;em&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/em&gt;.  And you should skip &lt;em&gt;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&lt;/em&gt; for the many reasons critics described back when it was released (it also doesn't have much bearing on &lt;em&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, if you're familiar with the X-Men from the comics, and are aware of some of the key storylines that occurred there, you can read this spoiler to get up to speed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; In &lt;em&gt;X-Men 3&lt;/em&gt;, Jean Grey is taken over by the Phoenix.  She goes on a rampage, allies with Magneto and begins a mutant vs. human war.  Wolverine is forced to kill her because she's completely out of control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-08-02T14:30:31.120" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12843" CreationDate="2013-08-02T14:56:41.993" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't really source this answer, but my interpretation is that the Joker's words carry the implication that he is taking (and burning) his promised 50% cut &lt;strong&gt;in advance&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4993" LastEditorUserId="4993" LastEditDate="2016-07-07T08:41:07.377" LastActivityDate="2016-07-07T08:41:07.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12907" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12909" CreationDate="2013-08-02T15:26:53.397" Score="13" ViewCount="6517" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched &lt;em&gt;Fistful of Dollars&lt;/em&gt; and then &lt;em&gt;For a Few Dollars More&lt;/em&gt;. Both movies had an amazing villain in Gian Maria Volonté and interestingly Lee Van Cleef played a good guy in the second movie along with Clint Eastwood. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After watching the first 2 movies back to back makes me wonder if there is any special reasoning/choice Sergio Leone had to make to pick Lee Van Cleef to play the Bad in &lt;em&gt;The Good, the Bad and the Ugly&lt;/em&gt; where there was an obvious choice for the role already in Gian Maria Volonté?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-08-02T17:33:43.177" LastActivityDate="2013-08-03T04:15:49.150" Title="Reason for choosing Lee Van Cleef to play The Bad in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" Tags="|the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12888" CreationDate="2013-08-02T16:25:25.930" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie was &lt;a href=&quot;http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0087480&quot;&gt;Invitation to Hell (1984)&lt;/a&gt; with Robert Urich and Susan Lucci (as the devil).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5651" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-02T20:33:56.577" LastActivityDate="2013-08-02T20:33:56.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12907" CreationDate="2013-08-02T17:44:06.920" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is covered in some detail in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly#The_trio&quot;&gt;movie's wiki&lt;/a&gt;. The toss up wasn't between Van Cleef and Volonté for &lt;em&gt;Angel Eyes&lt;/em&gt;, the Bad. It was actually between Van Cleef and Charles Bronson (who he later cast in &lt;em&gt;Once Upon a Time in the West&lt;/em&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Originally, Leone wanted &lt;strong&gt;Charles Bronson&lt;/strong&gt; to play Angel Eyes but he was already committed to playing in The Dirty Dozen (1967). Leone thought about working with Lee Van Cleef again: &quot;I said to myself that Van Cleef had first played a romantic character in For a Few Dollars More. &lt;strong&gt;The idea of getting him to play a character who was the opposite of that began to appeal to me.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, Volonté &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; considered for the part of Tuco, the &lt;em&gt;Ugly&lt;/em&gt;, but was deemed not comical enough:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The director originally considered Gian Maria Volonté for the role of Tuco, but felt that the role required someone with &quot;natural comic talent&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. In the end, Leone chose Eli Wallach based on his role in How the West Was Won (1962), in particular, his performance in &quot;The Railroads&quot; scene. In LA, Leone met Wallach, who was skeptical about playing this type of character again, but after Leone screened the opening credit sequence from For a Few Dollars More, Wallach said: &quot;When do you want me?&quot; The two men got along famously, sharing the same bizarre sense of humor. Leone allowed Wallach to make changes to his character in terms of his outfit and recurring gestures. Both Eastwood and Van Cleef realized that the character of Tuco was close to Leone's heart, and director and Wallach became good friends. They communicated in French, which Wallach spoke badly and Leone spoke well. Van Cleef observed, &quot;Tuco is the only one of the trio the audience gets to know all about. We meet his brother and find out where he came from and why he became a bandit. But Clint's character and Angel's remain mysteries.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wiki sources this information from the book, &lt;em&gt;Sergio Leone: Something To Do With Death&lt;/em&gt; by Christopher Frayling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-08-03T04:15:49.150" LastActivityDate="2013-08-03T04:15:49.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12587" CreationDate="2013-08-02T18:00:54.017" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently read &quot;A Study in Scarlet&quot; and noticed a number of other similarities to the story:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sherlock is introduced to Watson the same way - Stamford, an old medical acquaintance of Watson's, runs into him in London and learns that he is looking for a flatmate; he had earlier spoken to Sherlock and learned that Sherlock was seeking the same thing, so he introduces the two of them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At their first introduction, Sherlock deduces that Watson has recently returned from a foreign war.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As Dredd said, &quot;Rache&quot; was written in blood in the book near one (or both) of the victims, while it's carved into the floor near the fourth victim in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The killer in both cases (spoiler-free) has the same occupation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In both the book and the show, the killer gives his victim a choice between two pills, one of which has no effect and the other of which is poison, and takes the remaining pill himself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two additional notices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the story &quot;The Sign of the Four&quot;, Watson hands a watch (his late brother's) to Sherlock to see what he can deduce about its owner; one of the things Sherlock says is &quot;Look at the thousands of scratches all round the hole &lt;em&gt;[keyhole for winding the watch]&lt;/em&gt;; marks where the key has slipped. What sober man's key could have scored those grooves? But you will never see a drunkard's watch without them.&quot; In &quot;A Study in Pink&quot;, Sherlock borrows Watson's mobile phone (given to him by his sibling) and makes a similar deduction based on scratches around the charging port.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the story &quot;The Hound of the Baskervilles&quot;, Sherlock makes a reference to &quot;that little affair of the Vatican cameos&quot;; the phrase &quot;Vatican cameos&quot; is also used by Sherlock in &quot;A Scandal in Belgravia&quot; to warn Watson of the trap hidden in Irene Adler's safe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5605" LastEditorUserId="5605" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T17:57:09.017" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T17:57:09.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12931" CreationDate="2013-08-03T15:46:13.287" Score="12" ViewCount="6407" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Oblivion we watch a flashback to when the astronauts are captured by the alien spaceship. Jack and Victoria are in the cockpit talking to mission control, and mission control says &quot;you are an effective team&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, the alien spaceship was listening into the broadcast as that phrase is repeated throughout the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did this statement by mission control seal their fate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know what would have happened had control not said the phrase, but I'm left wondering if the alien has always used native life as a tool or if this was a special case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alien was capable of destroying the moon, and using our own nuclear weapons against us. It seems strange that it would be dependant upon Jack and Victoria to complete it's objective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T08:06:59.180" Title="Did the words &quot;effective team&quot; seal Jack's and Victoria's fate?" Tags="|oblivion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12915" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-04T00:12:04.000" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-04T00:12:04.000" LastActivityDate="2013-08-04T00:12:04.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12916" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-04T00:12:04.000" Score="0" Body="2007 Western Movie starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale. " OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-04T00:28:00.447" LastActivityDate="2013-08-04T00:28:00.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12917" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-04T00:16:04.267" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-04T00:16:04.267" LastActivityDate="2013-08-04T00:16:04.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12918" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-04T00:16:04.267" Score="0" Body="2008 Action-Adventure movie. Omar Sharrif lends his voice as narrator describing a prehistoric mammoth hunter." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-04T00:27:40.320" LastActivityDate="2013-08-04T00:27:40.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12919" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-04T00:28:09.960" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-04T00:28:09.960" LastActivityDate="2013-08-04T00:28:09.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12920" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-04T00:28:09.960" Score="0" Body="1993 Movie Crime-Drama starring Robert De Niro. Set in the 1960's Bronx, New York." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-04T00:31:14.280" LastActivityDate="2013-08-04T00:31:14.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12921" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-04T00:33:39.533" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-04T00:33:39.533" LastActivityDate="2013-08-04T00:33:39.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12922" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-04T00:33:39.533" Score="0" Body="1983 Movie Family-Comedy. Set in the 40's, about a boy's desire of acquiring a Red Ryder BB Gun." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-04T02:21:40.400" LastActivityDate="2013-08-04T02:21:40.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12923" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-04T00:39:52.373" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-04T00:39:52.373" LastActivityDate="2013-08-04T00:39:52.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12924" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-04T00:39:52.373" Score="0" Body="1992 Movie Crime/Drama/Mystery. Directed by Rob Reiner.  Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Pollak and Demi Moore leads an all-star cast. About a Naval Lieutenant lawyer defending two Marines who are accused of murder but insist they were acting under orders." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="29264" LastEditDate="2016-03-22T22:13:45.770" LastActivityDate="2016-03-22T22:13:45.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12925" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-04T00:40:31.283" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;2000s&lt;/strong&gt; is the period of movies and television ranging from 2000 to 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag should be used in combination with one or more of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/identify-this-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;identify-this-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;identify-this-movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/identify-this-tv-show&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;identify-this-tv-show&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;identify-this-tv-show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/identify-this-episode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;identify-this-episode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;identify-this-episode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-18T19:30:50.430" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T19:30:50.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12926" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-04T00:40:31.283" Score="0" Body="The period of movies and television ranging from 2000 to 2009." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-18T19:30:40.127" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T19:30:40.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12927" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-04T00:48:46.943" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-04T00:48:46.943" LastActivityDate="2013-08-04T00:48:46.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12928" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-04T00:48:46.943" Score="0" Body="1964 Movie Western. Starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Sergio Leone. First of the so-called Spaghetti Westerns. First of the &quot;Dollars Trilogy&quot;. Unofficial remake of the 1961 movie, Yojimbo. " OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-04T02:22:00.513" LastActivityDate="2013-08-04T02:22:00.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12929" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-04T00:55:21.817" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-04T00:55:21.817" LastActivityDate="2013-08-04T00:55:21.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12930" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-04T00:55:21.817" Score="0" Body="1997 Movie Action/Adventure/Drama. Starring Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, and Glenn Close. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Ford plays the US President on board Air Force One as terrorists disguised as reporters takes control of the plane." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-04T02:21:49.403" LastActivityDate="2013-08-04T02:21:49.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12912" CreationDate="2013-08-04T00:56:51.717" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took that quote in the flashback as simply a reveal that, all along, the Tet's version of mission control was just a spliced-up recording. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, I think it was supposed to be an &quot;oh my gosh!&quot; moment for viewers, as it's kind of an odd phrase, so viewers would recognize it in the flashback as something the Tet had been saying in the present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that it seems odd that such a competent, well-equipped alien would need to use humans like it used Jack and Victoria. But without that premise, there wouldn't have been any story, I suppose...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2013-08-04T00:56:51.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12902" CreationDate="2013-08-04T14:49:26.413" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I've always thought the hat was a vehicle for Walt to feel more confident in his ability to perform such actions.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the beginning, we're shown that &lt;em&gt;Walt is always the bridesmaid&lt;/em&gt; and never the bride (in reference to things like how &lt;em&gt;he's second banana to Elliot Schwartz in Grey Matter Technologies&lt;/em&gt; and that this is a guy who's won a Nobel Prize and is now a chemistry teacher at a high school). From the jump we are introduced to a man that has little to no confidence in his abilities, and now he's diagnosed with cancer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When he puts on the hat, we forget that. We don't see his bald head (the most vivid reminder of his cancer), so we don't see his weakness.&lt;/em&gt; All of the things that make Walt who he is are masked by the hat. That's why I think the hat makes him Heisenberg, because in that world Heisenberg doesn't have cancer, and cancer patients are always thought of as being so weak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5664" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-08-05T08:10:36.237" LastActivityDate="2013-08-05T08:10:36.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12935" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-04T16:43:22.323" Score="11" ViewCount="15526" Body="&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V6dG4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Viper&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20647938_20684746,00.html#21298603&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have read several reviews of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430132/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that believe russian actress &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Khodchenkova&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Svetlana Khodchenkova&lt;/a&gt;, who plays &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Viper&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, was dubbed (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-wolverine-2013&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;), but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430132/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMDb&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; doesn't list a voice actress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;em&gt;comment&lt;/em&gt; on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/the-wolverine-what-did-you-think/#comment-978008602&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Slashfilm.com&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; article&lt;/a&gt; that claims:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I heard from a studio exec that worked on the film that &lt;strong&gt;everyone was quite unhappy with Svetlana Khodchenkova's performance. They dubbed over all of her lines&lt;/strong&gt;, and drastically cut down her role in the final cut.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there any official &lt;em&gt;(director, producer, the actress herself,...)&lt;/em&gt; confirmation that &lt;em&gt;Svetlana Khodchenkova&lt;/em&gt; was dubbed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes, who was the voice actress?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T21:54:33.087" LastActivityDate="2016-10-11T10:14:21.433" Title="Was Svetlana Khodchenkova's voice dubbed?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|the-wolverine|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3491" CreationDate="2013-08-04T19:01:58.100" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, the real Yip Man from the movies said that the accuracy of the first film is almost completely true.  He in fact did fight a General Miura in a small tournament, was in fact shot and as proof he became an Opium addict because he has used Opium to help ease the pain of his gun shot wound during that time but eventually became an addict of it.  However, I don't know how accurate the second film was, he did fight a western boxer from Britain as in the 1950's until around 1953-54ish after the American and Korean War Britain's occupancy over China ended.  Though Yip Man actually stated that most of the first film was indeed accurate he said only about 1/3 to 1/2 of the second film was.  They didn't portray his Opium addiction, the fight with the western boxer was actually more brutal than what was portrayed AND the boxer was racist but not that rude of a guy like in the film.  They just made him more menacing that way to make him more villainous in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5667" LastEditorUserId="67810" LastEditDate="2022-02-07T18:23:36.140" LastActivityDate="2022-02-07T18:23:36.140" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12937" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12971" CreationDate="2013-08-04T20:45:12.223" Score="9" ViewCount="1254" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching the 1967 movie &quot;Bonnie and Clyde&quot;, I read a couple of reviews to see what others thought about it. One review said: &quot;the movie looks very dated. I looks as it it was made at least a decade before it was actually made&quot; (my translation; original in Dutch). Since the movie is made in 1967, that would mean the 50s. However, the review does not mention why the reviewer thinks it's dated; however, having read many of his other reviews as well, the reviewer does seem knowledgeable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm wondering what makes this difference so obvious? What looks dated most certainly are the scenes inside the car, but apart from this, I find it hard to see anything that looks incredibly dated. So how does one make such an analysis? What are these differences between 50s and 60s movies in general and most importantly, which ones can be found in this Bonnie and Clyde movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5608" LastEditorUserId="5608" LastEditDate="2013-08-04T22:38:38.903" LastActivityDate="2019-06-09T00:01:44.403" Title="How is &quot;Bonnie and Clyde&quot; dated?" Tags="|analysis|bonnie-and-clyde|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8205" CreationDate="2013-08-05T01:14:10.950" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The easiest way to see that the movie takes place closer to present time is that Denzel's character is using an iPhone (released 2007) and an iPad (released 2010) also when they are referencing the toxicology report, the lawyer states that the tox machine was calibrated in 2009 and then states that it is 18 months overdue thus making the year 2010/2011. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5670" LastActivityDate="2013-08-05T01:14:10.950" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12942" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12962" CreationDate="2013-08-05T02:28:26.177" Score="7" ViewCount="450" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many westerns about reluctant sheriffs, including &quot;The Tin Star,&quot;  but the one I am looking for has a star that children made for the sheriff, misspelled if I recall correctly. Like usual the bad guy is amazed the sheriff does not cut and run saying something like &quot;it is not even a real badge!&quot; Black and white, 50s or 60s?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5671" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-08-05T04:27:51.690" LastActivityDate="2013-08-06T04:55:42.790" Title="Western about a sheriff with a tin star made by children" Tags="|identify-this-movie|western|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:47:18.327" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12945" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12947" CreationDate="2013-08-05T05:55:43.473" Score="7" ViewCount="28221" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of movie, Dr Lecter calls Clarice at her convocation day at FBI. From which place does he call Clarice? And how did he know that Dr. Chilton was going to be there? What makes him follow Dr Chilton?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5647" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-08-05T08:05:48.817" LastActivityDate="2015-08-14T10:10:22.620" Title="Where, how, and why does Lecter follow Dr Chilton at the end of the movie?" Tags="|the-silence-of-the-lambs|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12946" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-05T06:32:03.223" Score="9" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;Late in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821694/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;RED 2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the &quot;mad scientist&quot; Dr. Edward Bailey claims that he himself published the classified document on the Internet using a phone that he stole from the asylum guard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The classified document clearly originated on paper, so to publish the document using some random phone Dr. Bailey needed to have a digital copy of the document. Perhaps he could have used the phone camera to take a picture of the document if he had access to the it more or less at the time when the movie events take place, but that doesn't seem realistic - to do so he must have had the document with him, which wouldn't (presumably) be allowed in an asylum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how could he obtain a digital copy of the classified document?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3707" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-12-21T14:38:04.540" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T10:05:24.593" Title="How does the mad scientist obtain a digital copy of the classified document?" Tags="|plot-explanation|red-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12945" CreationDate="2013-08-05T08:13:18.513" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lecter and Chilton are both in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/faq#.2.1.13&quot;&gt;Bimini in the Bahamas&lt;/a&gt; which is where Hannibal calls Clarice from. It is unclear &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; he knew that Chilton was going to be there. But presumably, Lecter could have simply called his office and been informed that he was (going to be) on vacation in the Bahamas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lecter follows Chilton because of the treatment meted out to him in the latter's Baltimore asylum. He also considers Chilton to be rude and uncouth and Lecter doesn't like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/faq#.2.1.7&quot;&gt;rude people&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The closing, where Hannibal says: &quot;I'm having an old friend for dinner&quot; as he watches Dr. Chilton deplane, strongly suggests that Chilton ended up as one of Hannibal's meals. A small reference was made in the sequel novel Hannibal, where it was mentioned that Chilton disappeared seven years earlier while on vacation, strongly suggesting Hannibal had gotten his revenge (albeit in the novel, Chilton disappeared in Jamaica, not the Bahamas). However, this is never specifically stated in the sequel movie. The only reference to Dr. Chilton in Hannibal is made by Barney, when he says that Lecter, when possible, preferred to eat &quot;the rude,&quot; and Dr. Chilton &quot;was a bad man,&quot; which also strongly implies Chilton became Hannibal's victim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-08-05T08:13:18.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12948" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-05T08:53:45.110" Score="6" ViewCount="3967" Body="&lt;p&gt;We watched Beautiful Creatures last night, I've read the book and even I was confused at points.  Extra ideas were added, large amounts were cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From memory&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marilyn and Ama's characters were merged&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Macon was made a caster instead of an incubus&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Boo Radley didn't appear at all&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ethan found the necklace at a different time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ethan played football instead of basketball&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Larkin didn't surprise us at the end&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ethan's father didn't appear at all (this again led to a changed ending)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The scene where Macon read Ethan's future didn't occur in the book&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The entire idea of Ethan losing his memory didn't happen in the book&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Emily and Ethan didn't date in the book&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compared with book adaptations such as Harry Potter and Twilight it seemed to change a massive amount from the book.  Why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-08-05T13:13:00.877" LastActivityDate="2016-10-10T11:47:55.937" Title="Why does the film Beautiful Creatures differ so drastically from the book?" Tags="|book-adaptation|beautiful-creatures|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12949" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-05T08:54:46.943" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beautiful Creatures is a 2013 film where Ethan discovers that the new girl in town is a mysterious caster with a powerful curse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-08-05T09:44:13.117" LastActivityDate="2013-08-05T09:44:13.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12950" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-05T08:54:46.943" Score="0" Body="Beautiful Creatures is a 2013 film where Ethan discovers that the new girl in town is a mysterious caster with a powerful curse." OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-08-05T09:44:20.930" LastActivityDate="2013-08-05T09:44:20.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12902" CreationDate="2013-08-05T11:41:47.170" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walt lives a double life, and suffers from a split personality. I don't think it's a mental disorder but simply the fact that he had to behave differently in order to survive. After a while it becomes difficult to know which personality is the real Walt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Pacifist&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's a family man.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's a teacher.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's dieing of cancer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He avoids confrontation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He doesn't want to deal with his problems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He just goes with the flow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Antagonist&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's a killer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's methodical.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's an opportunist. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's goal oriented. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hat becomes a marker as to which personality has taken over. When the hat is off we see the bald head of the pacifist, and when the hat is on it's clear we now see the antagonist. &lt;em&gt;The hat is a non-ambiguous indicator as to which personality we are currently watching.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the start of the show Walt has hair. The pacifist personality is dominate and he is diagnosed with cancer, but he still has hair. Walt gets the idea to cook meth and makes his first attempt at cooking. It's a complete failure. It's not until the birth of his antagonist personality does Walt shave his own hair off. It's an important scene because it marks the moment when his personalities split. Once his hair is off and he puts on the hat. Suddenly he's able to cook meth. He now has the two personalities and we will only know the difference when he's wearing the hat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-08-06T10:45:32.710" LastActivityDate="2013-08-06T10:45:32.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11961" CreationDate="2013-08-05T16:04:43.173" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes it is a real thing. For example, I am a Special Agent working in the Investigations Division of the Office of the Attorney General in my state. We are sworn Criminal Investigators with full Police powers and come from extensive law enforcement backgrounds. I am assigned to investigate major felony crime and our office handles a very wide variety of criminal cases including drug crimes, weapons crimes, fraudulent ID mills, murder for hire, cold case homicide, white collar crime including medicaid fraud, public corruption, etc. I am aware of other states that have Special Agents under the Attorney General and would be willing to bet most states have something similar. It is a fantastic job by the way, the work is demanding, interesting and the people I work with are top notch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5677" LastActivityDate="2013-08-05T16:04:43.173" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12954" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-05T21:37:55.607" Score="5" ViewCount="1726" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Decker can suppress Volkoff/Hartley's intersect programming, and Mary Bartowski can do it for Chuck in season 4, why didn't Shaw's intersect just get suppressed using the blue images?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5679" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-02T06:51:29.487" LastActivityDate="2019-11-11T23:04:16.520" Title="Why wasn't Shaw's intersect suppressed?" Tags="|chuck|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="98" CreationDate="2013-08-06T02:54:59.383" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It’s not fake, but slightly edited. (Well, one thing is fake. The head of the TST official was superimposed upon whoever sat next to Stoltenberg.) But Stoltenberg actually said that we have Troll. But Troll is the name of an gas field in the Northern Sea, in which there are three oil platforms, Troll A, Troll B and Troll C. (In Norwegian, the word troll is both singular and plural.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5683" LastActivityDate="2013-08-06T02:54:59.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12961" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-06T04:35:58.407" Score="8" ViewCount="8947" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess I missed the back story on Doug and Rachel in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856010/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  Why is he so involved with helping her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5684" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-07T20:03:52.617" LastActivityDate="2018-10-30T22:08:27.720" Title="What is the history between Doug and Rachel?" Tags="|plot-explanation|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12942" CreationDate="2013-08-06T04:41:00.380" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firecreek&quot;&gt;Firecreek&lt;/a&gt;. Jimmy Stewart plays a part-time sheriff in a small town:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;He is a peace-loving farmer whose childishly made sheriff's badge is practically an honorary one.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/firecreek&quot;&gt;Roger Ebert&lt;/a&gt; described the sheriff (and badge): &#xA;&lt;em&gt;This time, Jimmy is the part-time sheriff of a town populated with broken-down, defeated settlers. He gets two bucks a month and wears a &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Sharaf&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; badge his kids have hammered out of tin. His wife is expecting another baby any minute now, and the last thing he wants is trouble.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When gunmen come into town (led by Henry Fonda) and start causing trouble, none of the townspeople will stand up to them or stand with the sheriff.&#xA;It was released in 1968, but is in color, not black and white.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastEditorUserId="5345" LastEditDate="2013-08-06T04:55:42.790" LastActivityDate="2013-08-06T04:55:42.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12961" CreationDate="2013-08-06T07:22:59.723" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rachel is the call girl/prostitute who was with Peter Russo in the first episode.  If you haven't finished the season, then just keep watching.Spoilers below if you finished and missed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; She is a cat's paw in Francis Underwood's plan.  Doug was keeping Rachael around to be used against Peter Russo after they cleaned him up enough, for long enough, to run in the governors race.  The plan was to use her to create a scandal at the 11th hour in the governor's race.  The only way to keep governor's position for the party would be to have someone like the VP run at the last minute.  After the VP ran and won, the VP position would be vacant leaving room for Francis Underwood to be nominated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="327" LastEditorUserId="4083" LastEditDate="2016-03-12T07:12:40.033" LastActivityDate="2016-03-12T07:12:40.033" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12948" CreationDate="2013-08-06T11:07:45.917" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it could boil down to any of several different reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Writer of the original book was not involved in the making of the movie, and therefor the movie script takes different directions than the book.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Producer thinks they know better and forces divergent changes in the script. (Same could be said for the director, or as in #1, where the script writer diverges from the book.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Time limitations. There is usually way too much in a book to portray on the screen (which is usually the reason for sequenced movie production ... besides the desire to make more money). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes there is no easy way to translate a book from page to screen. Production costs could figure in here somewhere.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes what someone understands while reading a book is not exactly what is happening. Two people could read a portion of the book and come up with two completely thoughts as to what is happening. When this gets up on the screen, it could be shown as a completely different third thing. I'm not saying this happened here, but interpretation plays a role in any production.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are a plethora of other reasons scripts could diverge from their book counterparts. Why exactly Beautiful Creatures diverged will probably remain a mystery along with all of the other movies out there which have taken the divergent plunge. Sometimes the changes make sense ... other times it leaves you scratching your head like you have done here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-08-06T11:07:45.917" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12970" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12972" CreationDate="2013-08-06T14:21:17.560" Score="27" ViewCount="4464" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of 508 &lt;em&gt;Gliding Over All&lt;/em&gt;.  Walt and Jesse are awkwardly reminiscing about their times cooking in the RV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point, Jesse brings up the point of how much money they had made at that point and wonders why they didn't buy a newer, more reliable vehicle.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt replies with one word:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Inertia&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inertia in it's simplest is one of Newton's laws stating: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An object in rest tends to stay at rest, an object in motion tends to stay in motion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does Walt mean by implying inertia kept them from buying a new RV?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T10:02:11.853" Title="What does Walt mean by 'Inertia'?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12937" CreationDate="2013-08-06T15:18:01.880" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, you are asking for an explanation for one individual's opinion that could be (and IMHO &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;) wrong.  The only person who can explain the opinion that the movie looks dated, is the person who said it looks dated.  I know you mention that the reviewer didn't explain himself, but that doesn't change that if you wanted to know why the reviewer said what they said, you'd have to ask them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's kind of like asking &quot;Hey, does this boy like me?&quot; or maybe &quot;What was Jane thinking when she came over my house?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally disagree that the movie appears to be dated, and to form that opinion I am looking at the following things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Acting Style; we are only talking about a decade here, so most of the actors in the 60s were also acting in the movies in the 50s.  Granted they've got a decade more experience, so they should be better actors now as compared to how they were then.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filming Technologies; The tech was improving greatly between when B&amp;amp;C was released, and the decade it is being compared to in this review.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Choice of Cast; Budget played a larger part in who was cast in a movie the further back you go.  This is a generalization, but since the studios controlled who was in a movie with a stronger iron fist in the 50s, as compared to the 60s, you'd see a better selection of well known cast members in the older movies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Movie Content; Did the film just recycle things we've seen before, or did it break new ground?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On to the Show&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pulling a few 1957 movies up... say &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050212/&quot;&gt;The Bridge on the River Kwai&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/&quot;&gt;Twelve Angry Men&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050105/&quot;&gt;An Affair to Remember&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050976/&quot;&gt;The Seventh Seal&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050839/&quot;&gt;Peyton Place&lt;/a&gt;... we can have a good selection to choose from to compare some movies from the 50s, to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061418/&quot;&gt;Bonnie &amp;amp; Clyde&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Acting Style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right off the top, I notice that the acting in Bonnie &amp;amp; Clyde isn't as wooden or &quot;overly dramatic&quot; as it is in the older movies.  The actors in the older movies seem to definitely be from an older school of acting... years of experience producing good performances, but they are practiced performances.  Even Twelve Angry Men, having been filmed in one room essentially, and having to rely more on the actors than anything else, seems to project a VERY dramatic take expressed in the acting style used by each of the cast.  Ok... that was a set-up.  Twelve Angry Men is supposed to be overly dramatic.  However, The Bridge on the River Kwai is different.  That's more about location and sets... and the acting is still far more dramatic than what you find in B&amp;amp;C.  So, my point is that the acting styles in B&amp;amp;C don't line up with the acting styles you find in movies from a decade before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Filming Technologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one kind of meshes with Movie Content a little.  B&amp;amp;C makes extensive use of off-set filming (outdoor shots, location shots, etc) as opposed to filming on a dressed movie set.  I'm not saying that all the movies out of the 50s used sets (The Bridge on the River Kwai was all location)... however, most movies coming out of the 50s used time honored traditional methods as opposed to expanding into new territories.  What I mean, is that rather than use a location shot and film inside a real house, the Studio would more likely authorize building a mockup of the interior of a house to control the shot better.  IMHO, the filming techniques of B&amp;amp;C don't make it look like a movie made in the 50s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Choice of Cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost all of the cast of B&amp;amp;C are either new to full length movies, or have little experience with movies from the 50s.  That would mean that there wasn't much of that old school acting going on.  The cast seemed to have been chosen for fresher faces.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movie Content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were several newer things shown in B&amp;amp;C.  Squib usage, for example.  Death scenes were far bloodier in B&amp;amp;C than movies made previously.  B&amp;amp;C was considered one of the bloodiest movies of its time.  Before B&amp;amp;C, gunshot deaths were typically bloodless.  The Graphic violence was over the top, and hadn't been seen to that degree before.  The sex was also handled a bit differently than movies that came before, to the point where it was considered groundbreaking.  In general, that word itself &quot;groundbreaking&quot; gets applied multiple times to B&amp;amp;C, which right there would remove any comparison to movies that came out in the previous decade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To conclude, I believe that reviewer was wrong, regardless of how knowledgeable he seemed.  The movie might seem dated compared to today's films, but it wasn't dated compared to other movies that came out at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-08-06T19:43:04.083" LastActivityDate="2013-08-06T19:43:04.083" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12970" CreationDate="2013-08-06T15:33:28.823" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;They were already moving forward (not necessarily literally, even though they were in an RV) with making the drugs in their current lab.  Getting a new RV would have meant stopping that progress, taking a good chunk of money and spending it on something new, and starting over with a new lab in the new RV.  Starting with a new lab would mean losing time in making the drugs... getting the new lab set up, getting used to the new setup, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The comment about Inertia refers to the fact that it was easier to keep moving forward, than to stop and start over again.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-08-07T06:31:11.547" LastActivityDate="2013-08-07T06:31:11.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12641" CreationDate="2013-08-06T17:04:02.760" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mark Heap from Spaced is in there and I'm pretty sure I saw Julia Deakin too, also from Spaced &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5688" LastActivityDate="2013-08-06T17:04:02.760" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12641" CreationDate="2013-08-06T17:39:15.810" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.contactmusic.com/news/edgar-wright-yahoo-the-world-end_3686961&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; with Edgar Wright, there is indeed one surprise cameo in the film - but as of yet the name has not been revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK - having seen the film, there are a couple of 'guest spots' - but if we are talking uncredited cameos then Pierce Brosnan would have to rank up there ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rafe Spall is also in there, but I doubt he ranks as a 'big' cameo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-08-31T19:46:30.303" LastActivityDate="2013-08-31T19:46:30.303" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12977" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12994" CreationDate="2013-08-06T20:27:47.267" Score="14" ViewCount="45011" Body="&lt;p&gt;The conclusion of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Quiet Earth&lt;/em&gt; (1985)&lt;/a&gt; has Zac pushing the explosive detonator button just as the sun experiences its &quot;effect&quot; probably from the distortion of time and space.  (See the finale beginning at 1:22:45 on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CsLc-9Ez2w&quot;&gt;Youtube&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At 1:24:41, he wakes up completely unharmed, presumably spared of death (again) by &quot;dying&quot; during the effect.  The world has changed, but he seems the same&amp;mdash;confirmed well into the end credits (1:26:05) since he still has the dictation recorder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The world he is on strongly resembles Earth as far as we can see, except for the water spouts and ringed planet which rises as he watches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quiet_Earth_%28film%29#Ambiguous_ending&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; has a mild attempt to explain the ending from the director's DVD commentary:  &quot;[T]he director suggests a recurrence of The Effect because of Zac's second death.  But he also allows a lapsed-Catholic colleague's idea of a second term in Purgatory. In any case, he says that 'a little obscurity' is a good thing.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't seem like a &quot;little obscurity&quot;.  Instead, it is a major puzzle!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We still don't know what happened to everyone else:  this time it seems likely he really is alone since Joanne and Api were safely far away from the explosion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is he on Earth?  Did the planets get rearranged?  Has the &quot;effect&quot; ended?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I am all in favor of some obscurity to make me work my brain, I saw this when it came out 28 years ago and &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; am no closer to any explanations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T00:54:12.703" Title="The Quiet Earth conclusion analysis" Tags="|analysis|the-quiet-earth|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12978" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-06T21:44:35.527" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Quiet Earth is a 1985 New Zealand science fiction post-apocalyptic film directed by Geoff Murphy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quiet_Earth_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The film is available at &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/LiArDP3wh4I&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Youtube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132" LastEditorUserId="132" LastEditDate="2013-08-19T19:48:50.380" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T19:48:50.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12979" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-06T21:44:35.527" Score="0" Body="The Quiet Earth is a 1985 New Zealand science fiction post-apocalyptic film directed by Geoff Murphy." OwnerUserId="132" LastEditorUserId="132" LastEditDate="2013-08-07T00:04:18.003" LastActivityDate="2013-08-07T00:04:18.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12954" CreationDate="2013-08-06T23:49:12.177" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how much of Chuck you have seen, so apologies if I give spoilers ahead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once Shaw has lost to Chuck (in Episode &quot;Chuck Versus the Ring: Part 2&quot;), he subsequently loses the Governor which regulates both Chucks' and Shaws' intersect, Shaws' intersect now becomes useless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Daniel Shaw's capture, Shaw became involved with Decker, by flashing on him. Because of this flash, Shaw knew all of Decker's dirty secrets. Most likely, because he blackmailed Decker, Decker saved Shaw from getting &quot;de-intersected&quot;. Along with the fact that since without a Governor, his intersect was essentially already &quot;suppressed&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in Shaw's return in &quot;Chuck Versus the Santa Suit&quot; another show down is held between Chuck and Shaw. This time Shaw has a new intersect granted from the &quot;Omen virus&quot; labeled as the &quot;Intersect 3.0&quot;. Shaw was going to upload this to his brain until Chuck thwarted his plan once again, by reconfiguring the Omen Virus to erase Shaw's Ring Intersect upon uploading it into his brain, instead replacing it with images of Santa Claus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially Daniel Shaw has no intersect now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://chuck-nbc.wikia.com/wiki/Daniel_Shaw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chuck Wikia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-11-11T22:56:21.863" LastActivityDate="2019-11-11T22:56:21.863" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12977" CreationDate="2013-08-07T03:51:38.763" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is obvious from the way the movie is scripted and made, that the writers and the director &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; want to provide any satisfactory answers to questions such as this. For one, it is never explained what &lt;em&gt;the effect&lt;/em&gt; really was. We just know that the protagonist was near his death experience and seemingly &lt;em&gt;survived&lt;/em&gt;. And that several of the physical characteristics of the world have changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think that &lt;em&gt;death&lt;/em&gt; plays a major part in the story and answers from the film. Characters about to &lt;em&gt;die&lt;/em&gt; are revived, while the rest of life forms have seemingly vanished. Taken from a sci-fi perspective, it becomes difficult to believe that a series of events related to a global energy grid could disorrient the universe itself (as seen from the last scene showing the planet) because there is no explanation provided. The director's reference to religion is equally baffling. Clearly, there is no hint or hidden answer to be found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply put, there is no conclusive material or answer to this question. It simply is &lt;em&gt;a story&lt;/em&gt;. You &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; know or speculate about things not in the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-07T10:54:08.930" LastActivityDate="2013-08-07T10:54:08.930" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4427" CreationDate="2013-08-07T06:33:21.127" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's possible that one of the twins deliberately tied the Langford double knot, knowing Julia won't be able to break free from it in time, in order to sabotage Angier's act and eliminate the business competition - so that the only great magicians remaining in town would be the Borden brothers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This ruthlessness in business, this willingness to sacrifice both human and animal life for the sake of fame and profit, is paralleled both in the story of Edison's men destroying the fruits of Tesla's hard work, and thus eliminating the competition, and in Angier's own story of destroying himself by drowning, over and over in agony, for the sake of putting on a sensational show. If these men were willing to sacrifice the lives of beautiful birds, their fingers, the happiness of their romantic partners, their own happiness, and even their own lives to sabotage each other's acts and prove the more successful in this business of creating illusions, why wouldn't at least one of the Bordens have it in him to sacrifice the life of an innocent and beautiful woman and the happiness of his business rival in order to nip his competition's success in the bud and come out on top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this Borden was a plant from the start, wishing to work with Angier in order to ruin him, just as Olivia was a plant sent to work with Borden in order to ruin him. Maybe he tied the wrong intentionally, after having tested it on his own and determined that it is not possible for anyone to wiggle out of it in time, and maybe he convinced Julia beforehand to be daring and not to protest when he ties it. We can't discount this possibility. This whole movie is about the ruthlessness of business, about how vicious people can become towards one another and how cruel even towards their own selves when they value business success, fame and profit more than life itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5694" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-07T08:22:11.810" LastActivityDate="2013-08-07T08:22:11.810" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12862" CreationDate="2013-08-07T09:45:58.500" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only language the Japanese geek out over as much as they do English, is German. There are plenty of examples, particularly in anime and Japanese video games of German words and German or German-sounding names in use. For the life of me I can't find it via Googling but I swear I've seen some game or anime use the term Jaeger for its mecha in the past. IMO, Del Toro is just following a popular anime/mecha meme that also conveniently fits in with the focus on the Jaeger program being an international effort. I tried to find some nice lists of definitive examples but seriously there's just too much commentary out there to pull wheat from the chaff. Look around a little bit. There's tons of observation of the phenomenon of German in manga/anime/games out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5697" LastActivityDate="2013-08-07T09:45:58.500" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12988" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12989" CreationDate="2013-08-07T10:46:28.120" Score="11" ViewCount="7480" Body="&lt;p&gt;When we first meet Brienne of Tarth in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; S02E03, she's fighting in a tournament to impress Renly Baratheon, when she wins she requests the honour to serve him.  There are several points where Brienne clearly shows she's devoted to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?  From the viewer's perspective there are four kings at this point, why does she support Renly's claim and why does she show such devotion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-14T10:50:28.313" LastActivityDate="2015-04-26T13:53:21.477" Title="Why is Brienne of Tarth devoted to Renly Baratheon" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12988" CreationDate="2013-08-07T10:55:21.897" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simply because Brienne of Tarth is in love with Renly Baratheon. She is fully aware that she can never be with him as a wife so she contents herself with being close to him as his body guard. She confesses as much to Catelyn Stark, even though Cat had already deduced that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-08-07T10:55:21.897" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12990" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="12991" CreationDate="2013-08-07T11:00:18.207" Score="34" ViewCount="8912" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen numerous films being described as a Spaghetti Western. What exactly makes a film a Spaghetti Western?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-14T20:26:09.777" LastActivityDate="2013-08-14T20:26:09.777" Title="What is a &quot;Spaghetti Western&quot;?" Tags="|western|genre|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12990" CreationDate="2013-08-07T11:09:47.437" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short answer, quoted from Wikipedia, is as follows&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spaghetti Western, also known as Italian Western, is a broad sub-genre&#xA;  of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio&#xA;  Leone's film-making style and international box-office success. The&#xA;  term was used by critics in USA and other countries because most of&#xA;  these Westerns were produced and directed by Italians. According to&#xA;  actor Aldo Sambrell, the phrase 'Spaghetti Western' was coined by&#xA;  Italian journalist Alfonso Sancha. In the beginning the term was used&#xA;  in a derogatory sense, but over time it has become accepted as&#xA;  descriptive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The typical Spaghetti Western team was made up of an Italian director,&#xA;  Italo-Spanish technical staff, and a cast of Italian, Spanish,&#xA;  German and American actors, sometimes a fading Hollywood star and&#xA;  sometimes a rising one like the young Clint Eastwood in three of&#xA;  Sergio Leone's films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you would like to read more about it, FlavorWire posted an article called &lt;a href=&quot;http://flavorwire.com/383336/a-beginners-guide-to-spaghetti-westerns&quot;&gt;'A Beginners Guide to Spaghetti Westerns'&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, what makes a &quot;Western&quot; a &quot;Spaghetti Western&quot; then?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Introduction&quot;&gt;article at spaghetti-western.net&lt;/a&gt; that does a fairly good job at describing the differences, but, to sum it up; Spaghetti Westerns are more violent, action-oriented and sparse in dialogue, and the &quot;hero&quot; is more often than not just less evil than the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-07T11:40:34.473" LastActivityDate="2013-08-07T11:40:34.473" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12988" CreationDate="2013-08-07T13:10:59.277" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;from &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Brienne_of_Tarth&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a wiki of ice and fire&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Brienne of Tarth:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She yearns for respect and acceptance from others, and easily gives her love and loyalty to the few people who treat her with any degree of genuine courtesy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brienne's only positive encounter with a man occurred when the Tarths'&#xA;liege lord, Renly Baratheon, visited their island during his coming of&#xA;age tour. He crossed paths with Brienne and treated her courteously,&#xA;so she fell in love with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore the obsession with Renly. Further, in spite of being the daughter of a lord, Brienne knew she could never get together with Renly, hence she chose to fight in the tournament and be &lt;em&gt;near&lt;/em&gt; her &lt;em&gt;king&lt;/em&gt; Renly by being his Kingsguard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-08-07T13:10:59.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12977" CreationDate="2013-08-07T15:40:43.227" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great question, a great film and classic puzzle for most sci-fi films that challenge the human condition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;You Have To Understand Zac&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zac commits suicide at the start of the film because he feels very depressed from his involvement in project Flashlight. He fears that the experiment will have dire consequences and he can't live with that guilt. He suffers from a social detached personality, is divorced and has a problem getting along with other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is important, because Zac finds himself in a world where he thinks he's the only man alive. What starts out to be the ideal world for him to live in turns into an endless hell as he discovers that he hates being alone and starts to go crazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He changes into a person who needs to be with someone and this is when he finds Joanne, falls in love and has a chance at happiness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Api shows up and Zac realizes he hasn't really changed. People find him difficult to get along with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What Is The Effect?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Project Flashlight was an experiment to create a grid around the Earth that would wirelessly power military devices. The experiment was computer controlled, and Zac is almost certain that Flashlight is the cause of The Event. He discovers that the grid is still on and that another event is going to occur. Except this time it will be bigger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was an unexplained connection with the Sun. Something they didn't expect and the grid interacted with the Sun to cause the effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Prelude To The Ending&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zac comes to realize that everything related to The Event is his fault. His difficulty getting along with people, his feelings of guilt for his involvement and a life of feeling depressed. His act of destroying the research center is an attempt to atone for what he has done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we have a person who hates being with people, is the engineer who works on project Flashlight, who kills himself at the exact moment The Event happens, then he wakes up to find himself alone. I don't think this is a coincidence. If you can accept that Zac and The Event are somehow connected, then the ending makes more sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Ending Break Down&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zac drives the truck full of explosives to the research center, but before he can enter the compound the truck collapses into the ground and falls into the control room. This is the only indication in the end that something went wrong. Had the truck not gotten stuck he would have been able to drive into the compound and destroy the dish before The Second Event happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just before the truck falls in, Zac closes his eyes and says &quot;f#ck!&quot;. He knows he didn't make it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ynOlR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joanne and Api cry out &quot;It's started!&quot; as the effects of the event begin to be felt, and then Zac presses the button to trigger the bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5aTXq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's too late!&lt;/strong&gt; The Second Event triggers and we see a quick flash of the sun. Followed by the explosion triggered by Zac. In that order. Had the explosion stopped the event the sun would not have flashed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dybft.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joanne and Api are now gone (or are they? see at bottom)! Just like the first event. All life on Earth disappears, and just like the first event Zac has killed himself. He has committed suicide. We know he is dead because we watch the research building go up in the explosion, but we don't see what happens to Joanne and Api. That part is left ambiguous, but I'll try to explain why lower down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next thing we see is the &quot;tunnel of light&quot;, and then Zac wakes up on another planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O350j.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s2sSv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The very last thing we see of Zac (during the credits) is his face while he quickly looks at the readout of the device he uses to measure the event, and then he looks out to the sky in &lt;strong&gt;horror&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;awe&lt;/strong&gt; as he realizes he is no longer on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/trHsp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Explaining The Ending&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To understand the ending. You have to understand the beginning. This is critical to the entire film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Zac has always been dead.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was made in New Zealand, and filmed in the city of Auckland. The largest population of Catholics is located in the city of Auckland. The book and director of the film make several references to Catholicism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Catholics believe that if you commit suicide you go to hell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zac commits suicide at the start of the film, and wakes in a world that is perfect for him. He hates people and there aren't any. What should be heaven turns slowly into hell as he realizes he needs people to survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joanne is introduced, he falls in love but loses her to Api.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zac commits suicide a second time, and wakes up on another planet. He realizes in horror that he has not died (again), but this time there is nothing. There are no cities, there are no houses to ransack, there will be no women to keep him company and there will be no men to talk with. His hell has gotten worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zac is living his afterlife in Hell, and each time he commits suicide his Hell gets worse. It's a sci-fi abstract take on the Catholic values of suicide and afterlife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;About Joanne and Api&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've always taken Joanne and Api to represent Adam and Eve in paradise. Zac represents the evil in paradise, and when the second event happens evil is expelled from paradise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on which perspective you take. It's up to the viewer to decide their fate. If the two represent Adam and Eve, then they survived the second event to repopulate the Earth. If you are non-religious then they disappeared like all life did in the first event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the survivors in the film were people whose death was a sin. I would say that Joanne and Api were real people, but we can assume they too were in the afterlife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question of &quot;what is the afterlife&quot; in the context of the film is never explained. It's simply shown that it's relative to the characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2015-10-04T05:01:32.240" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T05:01:32.240" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12937" CreationDate="2013-08-07T21:11:26.143" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that this is a hard question to answer. We’re trying to rationalize another person’s subjective opinion with objective reasoning. Given that difficulty, I think that the answer to this question lies in choices that were either made (or forced upon them) by Arthur Penn (director) / Burnett Guffey (DP) regarding the film development process and aspect ratio. These two factors give Bonnie and Clyde the look of a movie made in the 50s. (it might be that all movies made with technicolor have an aspect ratio of 1.78)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Film Development:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;The film was developed using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/oldcolor/technicolor1.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Technicolor&lt;/a&gt; which had its heyday between 1922 and 1955. By 1967 Technicolor was already outdated by 12 years. Due to one limitation of Technicolor, light had a difficult time making it to the film. This meant that films made using this film had to be over lit. This caused much softer shadows. Notice the similarity between the look of the picture between Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). Then notice the difference between Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and The Graduate (1967).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qRTKs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;50s look&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lDAUy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;60s look&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aspect ratio:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;This is the big reason B&amp;amp;C looks dated. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061418/?ref_=sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bonnie and Clyde&lt;/a&gt; was shot using a “spherical” cinematic process. This gives the film an aspect ratio of 1.78:1. By 1967 the standard had shifted from “spherical” to anamorphic (which double the visible width compared to height of the frame). Even in 1957 anamorphic  process was present with CinemaScope. The aspect ration for 1957s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050212/?ref_=sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bridge on the River Kwai&lt;/a&gt; was 2.35:1. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movies up for best picture in 1967 and their aspect ration:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bonnie and Clyde 1.78&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the Heat of the Night 1.85&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Doctor Dolittle 2.2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Graduate 2.35&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1.85&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the difference in aspect ratio in these stills (even in 1957 the shift away from Technicolor can be seen):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LuaQj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;BonnieAndClyde 1.78&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wRIuG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;BoTrK&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde has the look of a movie made in the 1950s because it used techniques from a previous age of movie making.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not in any way diminish the films impact, relevance or importance. It is one of the defining movies of the 1960s, and rightfully so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2019-06-09T00:01:44.403" LastActivityDate="2019-06-09T00:01:44.403" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="12996" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-07T21:15:06.880" Score="3" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone worked out the relationship between Claire Salter and Stephen Morton yet? They both care for Stephen's mum. Claire appears to have an office job and so is unlikely to be a professional carer. She could be Stephen's sister, although something about the way they talk to each other makes me think that isn't the case. Have I missed something or do we just not know yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="624" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T21:35:50.547" Title="What's the relationship between Claire and Stephen in Southcliffe?" Tags="|southcliffe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12997" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-07T21:33:06.117" Score="30" ViewCount="30826" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S5E8 of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, Skyler takes Walt to a storage locker and shows him the enormous pile of money he has earned. I spent some time trying to calculate the total amount. By my math, the pile is roughly 5000 stacks of 20s, 50s and 100s, but I'm having a hard time determining the ratio of each type of stack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else tried to calculate this amount?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5704" LastActivityDate="2018-07-24T21:22:31.193" Title="How much money did Walt earn?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="12999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12841" CreationDate="2013-08-07T22:23:47.470" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alice is incarcerated in the mental hospital because she confessed to the murder of John Luther's corrupt colleague and false friend DCI Ian Reed. We can infer that Alice was charged with his murder, although there were likely extenuating mental circumstances. A secondary explanation for her time in the mental hospital is her suicide attempt. There is no suggestion that she has confessed to the murder of her parents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the conclusion of series/season 1, John Luther catches up with Reed, who had murdered Zoë, Luther's ex-wife, and framed Luther for the murder. Luther extracts a confession from Reed at an empty train station. Preferring death to imprisonment and disgrace, Reed taunts Luther, claiming that he and Zoë had had an affair, and tries to enrage Luther to the point of killing him. However, Luther refrains, but, in a struggle, Reed stabs Luther. Alice, who, along with Zoë's grieving boyfriend Mark, had assisted Luther and met him at the station, steps in with a gun and says that she would like to kill Ian as punishment for his crimes. Wounded, Luther objects but is unable to stop her. Alice, looking for a tie-breaker, asks Mark for his opinion. Mark agrees with Alice that Reed should die. Alice shoots Reed just before the police arrive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the show does not cover the immediately following scenes, series/season 2 opens with Alice being interrogated by DCU Schenk in the room that is later identified as an interview room in the mental hospital. Alice flatly states, referring to DI Reed, &quot;He was a friend who betrayed John and hurt him very badly, so I killed him. Two barrels of his own shotgun. Boom, boom.&quot; She explains that Luther did not ask her to kill Reed; in fact, Luther was angered by her decision. Alice assumed all guilt for the killing of DCI Reed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the same episode (series 2, episode 1), when Luther visits Alice in the mental hospital, her wrist is bandaged. She alludes to a suicide attempt and makes comments suggesting that the failed attempt led to her institutionalization, so that she would avoid further harm to herself. Unfortunately, the series never fully shows Alice's plot arc. We are left to wonder whether she was put in prison for the murder of DCI Reed and made her suicide attempt there before being transferred to the hospital or she was institutionalized shortly after the events of series 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5706" LastActivityDate="2013-08-07T22:23:47.470" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10190" CreationDate="2013-08-07T22:32:47.580" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Terry's death is never fully explained in the film. The only time the audience sees Terry alive, during the laundry room scene, she is wearing Mrs. Castevet's antique pomander ball charm, filled with Tannis root. We see the same charm around Terry's neck in the pool of blood by her dead body. The audience is given no reason to doubt Terry's claim that she is a drug addict apparently &quot;saved&quot; by the charity of the Castevets. So, the presence of the charm, which Mrs. Castevet gives to Rosemary shortly after Terry's suicide, logically signifies that Terry, like Rosemary, was being groomed for a Satanic purpose of which she was initially unaware. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5706" LastActivityDate="2013-08-07T22:32:47.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12997" CreationDate="2013-08-07T23:49:14.167" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;A pattern you will see in movies and television shows, is that if the viewer is exposed to an item in a large quantity, but not informed exactly what the quantity is, then the viewer not meant to know what that quantity is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example.  In the Walking Dead episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_%28The_Walking_Dead%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Clear&quot; (S3, ep. 12)&lt;/a&gt; we see Rick stuffing weapons and ammunition into bags.  We are not shown exactly what weapons, and we are not shown how much ammunition.  Why?  Because the actual amount of bullets fired from those same weapons in the future will most likely be far more than the amount that would have been carried in that bag.  Sort of feeding into a variation of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BottomlessMagazines&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bottomless Magazine&lt;/a&gt; trope.  This isn't the first time Rick had stuffed a bag full of weapons either, or that said bag had been an important part of the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point here is that you are shown a pile of money.  It is meant to look like an overwhelming amount.  You are not told the exact amount for multiple reasons.  For one, it adds to the mystery and sense of &quot;Wow&quot;... aka That's a buttload of Money!  For another, as long as you don't know exactly how much is there, money can always be pulled out of the pile to pay for something... providing a seemingly endless supply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you know the amount in a pile (of money, or of ammunition, etc) you start to see the limits of that quantity.  An example of how this works in reverse (and against the plot/characters in a movie), examine the Explosive Arrow Tips from Rambo II.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/M5vZ7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(From Therpf.com)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are only shown one box during the montage where he loads up for the mission.  You do see him cutting away equipment left and right when he is hung up on the plane, but when it comes time for him to start using the arrows, he fires off far more than just four.  It is possible that he loaded up with more than four, and it is possible that he didn't lose all of them when he cut away the equipment, but the viewer is still left asking the question &quot;Where did he get all those explosive tips?  He only had four.&quot;  If he had been shown a demonstration of how they worked, and a large stockpile of them before he loaded up, and we were left guessing as to how many there were, then we wouldn't have felt the need to disbelieve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="4621" LastEditDate="2013-08-08T02:13:28.137" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T02:13:28.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12997" CreationDate="2013-08-08T02:16:25.400" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bon Gart's answer is correct. The viewer is supposed to be overwhelmed by the size of the pile. By not revealing the amount it's left to the viewer's over-active imagination to guess. Even Skyler doesn't know how much is there, when asked by Walt she replies: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have no earthly idea. I truly don't. I just stack it up, keep it dry, spray it for silverfish. There is more money here than what we could spend in ten lifetimes. I certainly can't launder it, not with 100 car washes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/news/breaking-bad-how-much-cash-was-in-that-storage-unit-29497/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; gives estimates that vary wildly based on the denomination. The lowest estimate is &lt;strong&gt;$15,000,000&lt;/strong&gt; but &lt;strong&gt;more realistic is between 17 and 25.5 million&lt;/strong&gt;. The wildly high estimate, if they were all $100 bills (which they're not) is $80 million.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A normal person (with non-drug related employment) will never see a pile like that. But here is a side by side comparison of Walt's pile (left) and an actual drug cartel's seized money pile (right) totally $205 million.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lHC9W.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Walt&amp;#39;s money and $205 Million&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt's pile is less than half that size&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2015-07-05T12:52:47.873" LastActivityDate="2015-07-05T12:52:47.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13006" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-08T03:58:30.590" Score="4" ViewCount="384" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like it does laser scans quite often. Is it so it can identify enemies, and, if so, why did it not do a scan on Jack before he said &quot;Tech Four-Nine. Jack Harper.&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5709" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T20:53:31.480" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T20:24:25.737" Title="When does a drone do a laser scan?" Tags="|oblivion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13007" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-08T04:06:12.603" Score="3" ViewCount="2431" Body="&lt;p&gt;Specifically I'm trying to track down the song playing at the end of &lt;em&gt;Rescue Me&lt;/em&gt;, Season 4, Episode 6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A friend was asking me about this. Naturally I assumed with a few Google searches I'd be able to turn it up, but this has been astonishingly difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nothing on FX's site seems pertinent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wikipedia turns up nothing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The series' official soundtrack was released before Season 4 was released, so no good there&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Turning on subtitles on Netflix &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; reveal the songs lyrics, which is particularly interesting given how muffled they are. I don't know how this data works - obviously in, e.g., in a pirated series, the subtitles may be made by the pirates themselves. But I know nothing of this metadata or whether it might be possible to purchase the episode in a digital form and find other metadata residing with the song.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The credits on Netflix seem irrelevant. This surprised me because I thought the song would require, you know, being credited. The series is 5-10 years old so may predate modern business models, in which it's clearly &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to the advantage of the producer to obscure the origin of the song (conversely here I am advertising the series, but I'm guessing this is not the thinking, even if it arguably should be). Some producers involved in sound and music were listed. I could possibly try them on LinkedIn but that sounds like beyond a last resort.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shazam was not able to determine it on a few tries.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel this information should be somehow researchable / trackable. And obviously it is via social networking but that sounds like a very uphill battle. In particular I'm wondering if it's possible to infer the song from the same metadata that has the subtitles. Are there any other approaches to doing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5710" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:58:18.237" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:58:18.237" Title="How do you identify a song in a TV score?" Tags="|soundtrack|rescue-me|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13007" CreationDate="2013-08-08T05:19:41.767" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/rescue-me/balance-1043588/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tv.com&lt;/a&gt;, the song featured in season 4 episode 6 (&quot;Balance&quot;) is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLJAX_cjUZM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tell Me What You want&lt;/a&gt;, by &lt;strong&gt;Black Hollies&lt;/strong&gt;.  Was that the song you heard?  If not, could you post the lyrics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found the name of the episode on IMDB.  I entered &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Rescue Me&quot; Balance Song&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in Google, and got the tv.com link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T05:19:41.767" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13007" CreationDate="2013-08-08T05:37:42.553" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question was &amp;quot;How do you identify a song...&amp;quot; In this case, I watched the episode (both on Netflix and Amazon - only Netflix had subtitles). I entered a few lines of the lyrics to search engines and evaluated the results. A few places claimed to have the mp3, but didn't actually. People on a few web forums were trying to identify the same song. One of them (allthelyrics, linked below) had a poster that referred to an episode guide on FX's site. That episode guide no longer lists the music played in the episode, so the forum reference was useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The song at the end of Episode 406 (that begins when Dennis Leary is sitting in his truck) has the lyrics posted below. Several &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allthelyrics.com/forum/identify-it/59289-rescue-me-season-4-episode-6-closing-credits.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;places&lt;/a&gt; say that it is &lt;em&gt;Wedding Song&lt;/em&gt; by Abel (sometimes listed as Able). I haven't been able to find the name of the album or any collection where it might be found. Also, can't find a definitive artist by that name. There is a band called Abel, but their earliest album is from 2009 but the episode in question was broadcast in 2007, so I don't &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; it is the same artist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lyrics are distorted, as if through a megaphone, so even by listening, it might be hard to pinpoint the exact artist unless the same technique is used on another song or you actually find the song in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put on your weddin' dress,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put on your weddin' dress&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanna see you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I saw you then&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Get out your high-heeled shoes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Get out your high-heeled shoes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanna watch you walk&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 'em once again&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Get out your dress, baby&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Get out your dress and shoes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the the big, black sky&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the big, black sky&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T21:15:32.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13006" CreationDate="2013-08-08T07:31:02.303" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jack repair first drone i.e 166, it scan Jack after activated Jack said &quot;Jack Harper, Tech 49&quot; because scan process take time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5715" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T07:31:02.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13012" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13021" CreationDate="2013-08-08T08:31:25.523" Score="12" ViewCount="26514" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2007 film Hairspray the character Edna Turnblad is played by John Travolta.  She's also played by a man in at least one stage production I know of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? I know of the tradition in panto for women to play men and vice versa but why was the decision made here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-08T08:40:11.233" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T11:33:05.627" Title="Why does John Travolta play a woman?" Tags="|casting|hairspray|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13013" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-08T08:32:41.937" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-08-08T10:17:20.130" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T10:17:20.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13014" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-08T08:32:41.937" Score="0" Body="Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show." OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-08-08T10:17:27.287" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T10:17:27.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13015" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13020" CreationDate="2013-08-08T08:35:50.390" Score="26" ViewCount="137030" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S2E10 &quot;Valar Morghulis&quot; of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, Qhorin Halfhand started provoking and attacking Jon Snow.  Why was this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My only thought was that it was to make the Wildlings trust Jon but I don't see how it achieves that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2016-03-03T21:29:34.330" LastActivityDate="2018-11-28T23:27:14.347" Title="Why did Qhorin Halfhand attack Jon Snow?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13016" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13022" CreationDate="2013-08-08T08:37:38.507" Score="12" ViewCount="2762" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of S2E10 &quot;Valar Morghulis&quot; Game of Thrones Tyrion has been disgraced, removed from his role as Hand of the King and left in a small room following a successful defence of King's Landing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is he in such disgrace after successfully defending the city?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T15:55:05.370" Title="Why was Tyrion disgraced?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13018" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13019" CreationDate="2013-08-08T09:27:52.203" Score="8" ViewCount="1160" Body="&lt;p&gt;Julia Harper was in a life support boat and she along with 4/5 other members had been thrown out of the ship by Jack Harper when their ship was going to enter the TET. This event was happening in 2017 and when Jack Harper (Tech 49) finds Julia again after 60 years in 2077 she was still young. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My question&lt;/strong&gt;: Why was she not shown an old lady as she survived 60 years?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5715" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-08T18:21:45.620" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T01:42:18.443" Title="How does Julia not age?" Tags="|oblivion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13018" CreationDate="2013-08-08T10:06:42.207" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;She has been in stasis. In stasis it is commonly assumed one does not age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasis_%28fiction%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; has a great page on this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A stasis field is a region where a stasis process is in effect. Stasis fields in fictional settings often have several common characteristics. These include infinite or near-infinite rigidity, making them &quot;unbreakable objects&quot;, and a perfect or nearly-perfect reflective surface. Most science fiction plots rely on a physical device to establish this region. When the device is deactivated, the stasis field collapses; that is, the stasis effect ends.&#xA;  Time is often suspended in stasis fields. Such fields will thus have the additional property of protecting non-living materials from deterioration. This time dilation can be, from an in-universe perspective, absolute, so that something thrown into the field, has the field triggered, and after any length of time reactivated, would fly out as if nothing had happened. Storylines using such fields often have materials as well as living beings surviving thousands or millions of years beyond their normal lifetimes. This property also allows for such plot devices as booby traps, containing, for instance, a nuclear bomb. Once out of the stasis field the trap is sprung. In such a situation, it wouldn't do to let the protagonist see what is in the field, so in stories like this, the story line will not allow normal beings to see something protected by a stasis field.&#xA;  The primary use of stasis fields is essentially the same as suspended animation: to let passengers and cargoes (normally of spacecraft) avoid having to experience extremely long periods of time by &quot;skipping over&quot; large sections of it. They may also be used (such as in The Night's Dawn Trilogy) as protection against the effects of extreme acceleration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: In the movie it is referred to as &quot;Delta-Sleep&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T01:42:18.443" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T01:42:18.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13015" CreationDate="2013-08-08T11:06:50.603" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Halfhand and Jon Snow are the lone survivors of their patrol and are captured by the wildlings, Halfhand orders Jon Snow to defect. The scene which you are questioning is where the actual deed transpires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Halfhand knows that once they reach the Wildling's camp, both of them will be killed or worse, first tortured and then killed. He can also sense that their only chance is if they can convince the Wildling's that Jon Snow is no more a &lt;em&gt;Crow&lt;/em&gt; . But for that they needed a substantial &lt;em&gt;hook&lt;/em&gt;. Thus, Qhorin Halfhand engages Jon Snow in a mock fight which leads to Jon Snow claiming Halfhand's life (&lt;em&gt;which was what Halfhand intended to happen&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to this act of his, Jon Snow is able to convince the Wildlings that he never really wanted to be a Night's Watch ranger and despised their authority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-04-25T07:35:01.580" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T07:35:01.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13012" CreationDate="2013-08-08T11:17:18.650" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000691/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John Waters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, who wrote and directed the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095270/&quot;&gt;original film&lt;/a&gt; had this to say: &lt;br&gt;(from the article &lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2007/legit/news/waters-recalls-men-who-played-edna-1117969969/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Waters recalls men who played Edna&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the beginning, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001145/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Divine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; played the role of &lt;em&gt;Edna Turnblad&lt;/em&gt;. And the first day on the set of “Hairspray,” I didn’t recognize him. I thought it was another neighborhood woman watching the shoot. We were filming in East Baltimore, and all the housewives were talking to him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Divine looked normal, not weird. It was a moment of truth. It was so anti-the-Divine-character that we started with. Divine said, &lt;em&gt;“Nobody can call me a drag queen, because what drag queen would allow themselves to look like this?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If there’s a template, that’s it for everybody who has played the role of Edna.&lt;/strong&gt; And they’ve all taken that to heart. &lt;strong&gt;Edna Turnblad isn’t a drag-queen part.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It has become a tradition for men to play her&lt;/strong&gt;, as with &lt;em&gt;Peter Pan&lt;/em&gt;, where it is always &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan_%28play%29#Adaptations&quot;&gt;played by a woman&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Why, I don’t know. It gives it an edge. It’s all about outsiders.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Divine played Edna realistically. The movie I made was actually realistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0581117/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Neil Meron&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, who produced the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427327/&quot;&gt;2007 film version&lt;/a&gt; (with John Travolta in the role) &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-07-19/news/0707190288_1_gay-issues-edna-turnblad-hairspray&quot;&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We hired an actor to play the role of Edna, not an actor to be a man wearing a dress&lt;/strong&gt; and a fat suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;John Waters never conceived of the role as a drag role. I mean, it happened to be that Divine was a drag queen, but &lt;strong&gt;it's not a drag-queen role. The only tradition is that a man play the role of Edna.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2013-08-08T11:33:05.627" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T11:33:05.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13016" CreationDate="2013-08-08T11:18:35.123" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst he lay recovering from his wounds his father, who had little regard for him and wanted to ensure his own position of power set to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had authority when he was hand which his father took.&#xA;He had power due to his wild men who had been removed.&#xA;He had influence over the Gold Cloaks and guard via Bron etc.  This had been removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of his allies and supporters had been bought by his father or sent away whereas his enemies now enjoyed the protection and power of his sister and nephew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He now has no political authority and no muscle to back his claims.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was also given no credit for what he did in defending the city.  Overall he was not so much disgraced as had his status and power taken by Tywin which left him vulnerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T11:18:35.123" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13023" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-08T12:49:38.077" Score="7" ViewCount="24666" Body="&lt;p&gt;All (or nearly all) in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fight Club&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; can be explained by the protagonist's mental disorder. But why does he stay alive and get rid of his alter ego after shooting himself? What is the meaning of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5719" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-08T12:53:29.837" LastActivityDate="2017-05-07T15:24:53.693" Title="How did Edward Norton's character stay alive at the end?" Tags="|fight-club|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13023" CreationDate="2013-08-08T13:01:40.257" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you watch the scene closely (I wish I had screenshots...might have to dig later) you can clearly see that he doesn't shoot himself in the back of the head, but really in the side of the mouth, albeit farther back than his cheek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you feel around with your tongue you can feel that it is just skin and muscle and nothing important until you get to your jawbone, we can assume he hit just before that, which explains why he is still alive.  A shot like that would hurt a tremendous amount, and probably bleed a lot, but it won't kill you outright, not unless you don't find proper treatment or something to close the wound.  &lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt; I AM NOT A DOCTOR&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of this answer is C&amp;amp;P of my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/3055/how-why-did-tyler-durden-got-shot-in-the-head&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;to a related question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is then he realizes that he must follow Tyler's own advice and &amp;quot;hit bottom&amp;quot;. Only by doing so, is he able to control his own body and &amp;quot;kill&amp;quot; Tyler. To hit bottom he realizes he must do something life-threatening and plain insane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas the bullet only blew a hole in his &lt;em&gt;cheek&lt;/em&gt;, it was his mental &lt;strong&gt;F--- You&lt;/strong&gt; to Tyler, showing him that he can take care of himself now, which is why the bullet is shown to have gone through the &lt;em&gt;back&lt;/em&gt; of Tyler's head, killing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T13:01:40.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13025" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-08T13:50:16.033" Score="11" ViewCount="3221" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recall a scene in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince where I saw Crabbe and Goyle failing to brew the drought of living death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SeiNM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How they get into Slughorn's newt potion class?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5720" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T15:48:19.217" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T15:48:19.217" Title="How did Crabbe and Goyle get into the advanced N.E.W.T. class?" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|the-half-blood-prince|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13025" CreationDate="2013-08-08T14:22:16.793" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A purely speculative answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To qualify for Newt Potions they would have had to have received high grades in their previous year (during the events of The Order of the Phoenix).  At that time Professor Snape was potions master.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's well known that Snape played favourites and often made exceptions for Slytherin children who's parents were associated with &quot;You Know Who&quot; thereby keeping the illusion that he was one of the Death Eaters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe Snape gave them high grades in the previous year so they would be accepted into Slughorn's class (which if I recall correctly actually had a lower entry requirement than Snape - a fact which benefited Harry!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T14:22:16.793" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13027" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13028" CreationDate="2013-08-08T16:23:52.857" Score="5" ViewCount="1680" Body="&lt;p&gt;okay, I know the details are going to be extremely vague but if I had remembered better I wouldn't have to ask this now, so here we go, what is this movie's name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's an horror movie, there is a ghost in it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;safe to say that it's probably around 2 decades back.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the scenes/scenarios I remember are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a couple moves into a haunted house I think&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The ghost also has like a burned body (this one not sure too)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The ghost grabs (or sort of hugs) the girl from inside the bed (or&#xA;the mattress to be precise)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and oh boy this scene I remember very well, the girl looks outside&#xA;the house at night and she sees someone(the ghost ofcourse) in the&#xA;shadow and the ghost removes it's finger nails(long pointy) and&#xA;blood comes out (the scene is happening in shadow)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;this is probably the last scene, when the couple leave the house&#xA;forever in a car, someone, a girl was standing in front of the door&#xA;and the ghost grabs that woman inside the house through a round&#xA;hole(covered with glass) in the door into the home!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5722" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-08-08T16:28:53.033" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T17:20:12.080" Title="Identify horror movie involving a ghost and a couple in a house" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:47:21.450" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13027" CreationDate="2013-08-08T17:12:21.667" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds a lot like Nightmare on Elm Street:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;ghost would be Freddy Krueger who died in a fire and looked like it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Freddy kills people while they are sleeping, including one girl who he kind of pulls into her mattress, then blood flies up from bed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Freddy's weapon of choice is glove with knife-blades for fingernails.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;in final scene, a woman is standing on her porch in front of closed door, and Freddy's arm smashes through the door window and pulls the woman inside.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eVo34.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AT42w.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1l0uB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-08T17:20:12.080" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T17:20:12.080" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="641" CreationDate="2013-08-08T21:10:36.830" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's Bar de la Marine in Marseille.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5725" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-08T21:44:02.373" LastActivityDate="2013-08-08T21:44:02.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13031" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13034" CreationDate="2013-08-08T21:25:18.100" Score="12" ViewCount="1246" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the course of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1663662/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pacific Rim&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we share with &lt;em&gt;Mako Mori&lt;/em&gt; a memory of her childhood when she was saved from a &lt;em&gt;Kaiju&lt;/em&gt; attack by &lt;em&gt;Marshal Pentecost&lt;/em&gt; in his &lt;em&gt;Jaeger&lt;/em&gt;. During those events she somehow lost a shoe and then later picked it up looking at it, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't make much out of this, but then later when &lt;em&gt;Dr. Geiszler&lt;/em&gt; first visits &lt;em&gt;Hannibal Chau&lt;/em&gt; he (or at least the camera) notices &lt;em&gt;Chau&lt;/em&gt;'s extraordinary gold-plated shoes and when &lt;em&gt;Chau&lt;/em&gt; later gets eaten by the newborn &lt;em&gt;Kaiju&lt;/em&gt;, only one of his shoes remains, which &lt;em&gt;Geiszler&lt;/em&gt; picks up and looks at it. (And furthermore in a funny post-credits scene, we see &lt;em&gt;Chau&lt;/em&gt; burst out of the &lt;em&gt;Kaiju&lt;/em&gt; and angrily ask for his shoe.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given those two quite remarkable incidents with shoes, yet totally different in their individual moods, my question is: &lt;strong&gt;Is there any deeper meaning to those shoes or the way they are picked up and looked at?&lt;/strong&gt; (Of course it may also be that I'm just making more out of it than there is to it, especially given the &lt;em&gt;intentional&lt;/em&gt; light-heartedness of this movie.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-27T01:02:10.313" LastActivityDate="2014-09-18T13:09:57.450" Title="Significance of the shoes" Tags="|analysis|pacific-rim|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13032" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-08T22:19:23.510" Score="5" ViewCount="1118" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the man who played a TV news reporter in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443706/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Zodiac (2007)&lt;/a&gt; approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes (130 minutes) into the movie. It's during family dinner scene after Robert (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his son are excused from the table to watch the news. The reporter's name is Alan Freeman (sp?). I have no clue who he is! I'm pretty sure he's uncredited, but I know for sure he's been in other things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CdJYE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CdJYE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5726" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2017-01-23T15:44:42.950" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T15:44:42.950" Title="Who is this extra in Zodiac?" Tags="|identify-this-actor|zodiac|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:36:27.007" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13032" CreationDate="2013-08-08T22:36:51.003" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0786537/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bill Seward&lt;/a&gt; played a news anchor in the film (uncredited) - is this who you think you saw?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rS4Qr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1697724/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mitchell Fink&lt;/a&gt; is uncredited but plays a reporter in the film - ring any bells?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IPLOi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-08-09T03:58:24.537" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T03:58:24.537" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13031" CreationDate="2013-08-08T22:46:11.777" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;A great question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally have always seen red shoes as a representation of dream states, as in The Wizard of Oz, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://thisisinfamous.com/okay-about-the-shoes-in-pacific-rim/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here is a great site&lt;/a&gt; which offers up an interesting take on this, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...I think they simply serve to show a bond between the characters. It raises a question, what does this mean, why is it important to them? Later, we discover why; she wore them when he saved her from the Kaiju...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...If you think of red shoes, and you care about film, you should already be at Powell &amp;amp; Pressburger. THE RED SHOES is one of their masterpieces, and very well regarded by many other film makers; undoubtedly Del Toro is a fan. [...] If you don’t flash to THE RED SHOES, you should certainly flash to THE WIZARD OF OZ. [...] None of these references are too significant, nods really, but they help establish a sense of style and feel among other things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Finally, Hannibal’s shoe… how does that play in? [...] An empty shoe is a powerful reminder of the person who once stood in it, and I think in this way they can touch on apocalyptic imagery without overstating it. [...] The fact is, shoes are surprisingly unique items that say a lot about their owners and empty, they look…wrong. I think, in the end, it is actually as simple as that. Without necessarily tarnishing more – let us say “worthy” – symbols and images, Guillermo manages to harness them to enhance the depth of his own fantasy piece.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a more 'highbrow' take on the significance of the shoes, might I direct you to &lt;a href=&quot;http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/pacific-rim-guillermo-del-toros-fractal-shoes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this essay&lt;/a&gt;, which explores the deeper psychological significance of shoes in art and literature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To whit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...A shoe without its mate, for most of us, is like a low-grade fever — not a major disaster, but definitely a pain. In a movie intent on matching and pairing everything, it’s a sign that something is afoot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Of course, footwear as a visual fulcrum is nothing new. [...] In “The Origin of the Work of Art,” Heidegger speaks of these shoes as reflexive “equipment,” instrumentalized forms that mirror the starkly enduring lives of those who wear them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...As equipment — as instrumentalized forms that re-express the forms of their users — all three are on the same page. [...] Hannibal’s footwear reprises the high-risk but surprisingly low-casualty life he leads as a black-market dealer in Kaiju parts. His opening bravura, his seeming downfall, his post-credits comeback — all of this is externalized and objectified by the fate of his shoes. What is remarkable here is the deep resemblance between the equipment and its user, the fidelity with which one tracks the other and amplifies the other, thanks to the infinite reproducibility of form across an infinity of scale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...the nesting of self-replicating geometric forms, as posited by Benoit  Mandelbrot in 1975, when he coined the word “fractal.” Shoes are a familiar instance of this: a slightly enlarged re-expression of us, copying both the physical anatomy of the feet encased in them and the emotional contours of the person walking on those feet. Hannibal’s shoes are not alone here. Mako Mori’s red shoes, the other star players in the footwear department, also copy her in just the same way. Mako has initially seemed too overwrought, too stuck in her traumatic past, to be trusted with a Jaeger, one of the giant robots that stand between mankind and the Kaijus. In her backstory, as a child wandering alone through the rubbles of Japan (a scene in turn framed by the large shadow of Hiroshima), she comes across as unhinged, wearing one shoe and carrying the other in her hand. But she’s always had both in her possession, just as she’s always had her wits in her possession. She is a together person, as the togetherness of her shoes could have told us all along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Resemblance is key. For all its high-tech contraptions and CGI geekery, Pacific Rim remains firmly rooted in a primitive, resemblance-based, analog world, honoring the iterative sameness of the embodied form, rather than the numerical abstraction of the digital universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-18T13:09:57.450" LastActivityDate="2014-09-18T13:09:57.450" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1029" CreationDate="2013-08-09T02:35:32.733" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Peter Ward was accused of murdering his family, but thought to be insane.  He was sent to Greenhaven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was eventually released.  As Will Atenton he creates the family and story he needs to exist in his old house, while only seeing it as it used to be... thus making his way back to his home.  There, he eventually uncovers who he is and who actually did kill his family.  The audience learns why his wife shot him at this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When was Peter in Greenhaven?  After his family was killed.  Why was he considered nuts?  He insisted that he was innocent despite the evidence and lack of other suspects.  The death of his family fractured his personality and drove him temporarily insane, to the point where he created his alter-ego of Will Atenton.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T02:35:32.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13037" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-09T02:37:01.127" Score="17" ViewCount="17769" Body="&lt;p&gt;in &quot;The Bourne Legacy&quot; what was Aaron Cross doing in the scene where he had the camera and wires connected to the passport?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5728" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-08-09T04:58:54.187" LastActivityDate="2016-04-14T09:49:50.810" Title="Scene with passport connected to wires" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-bourne-legacy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13037" CreationDate="2013-08-09T02:50:01.560" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;He is using &lt;a href=&quot;http://dr.archives.pdx.edu/xmlui/handle/psu/7363&quot;&gt;High Voltage to de-magnetize&lt;/a&gt; a hidden identifying strip in the passport.  Since the lack of the presence of this strip doesn't cause any issues at the Airport, we are to assume that her passport had this magnetic identifier because of her job, to keep tabs on her travel.  By disabling it, she is able to use the passport and garner no additional attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;addition&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;He still needed to use her passport as a base to work from, in providing her with credentials to travel with.  Using a new picture on the old passport and/or altering the document would be easier than obtaining a new passport.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="4621" LastEditDate="2013-08-09T12:48:21.197" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T12:48:21.197" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13039" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-09T03:31:49.310" Score="5" ViewCount="405" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of &lt;em&gt;The Bourne Legacy&lt;/em&gt;, he is shot in the leg by LARX #3. Later it shows blood on the shoulder of his jacket.  I have watched this movie 30 times and have never seen him take a bullet to the shoulder... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5729" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T19:57:52.987" LastActivityDate="2017-06-20T23:24:41.317" Title="Was Aaron Cross shot in the shoulder?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-bourne-legacy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13040" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13053" CreationDate="2013-08-09T04:26:02.603" Score="15" ViewCount="1148" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valar_Morghulis&quot;&gt;S02E10 of Game of Thrones&lt;/a&gt;, we see the 20 men from Greyjoy army knock out Theon Greyjoy, also stabbing Luwin. And then they leave the castle gagging Theon. The Stark's ally forces were on their way to take back Winterfell. So who put the castle on fire and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="1539" LastEditDate="2013-08-09T12:32:20.210" LastActivityDate="2014-05-22T13:26:43.260" Title="By whom and why was Winterfell castle put on fire?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13055" CreationDate="2013-08-09T04:32:13.067" Score="15" ViewCount="3973" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S02E10 of Game of Thrones, after the men from the Greyjoy army stab Maester Luwin and flee, Bran &amp;amp; Rickon with Osha and Hodor come to Maester Luwin.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Luwin want them to go to the wall and meet up with Jon? The Stark's allied forces were on their way. There was no Greyjoy army. So why didn't he want them to just wait outside the castle (castle was on fire) in someone's home till they come rather then sending them on a dangerous path to the wall. What was the danger for Bran and Rickon to stay at Winterfell?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="19585" LastEditDate="2015-04-05T13:28:39.973" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T13:28:39.973" Title="Why did Maester Luwin want Bran and Rickon to be taken to the wall in S02E10 of GoT" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13043" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13048" CreationDate="2013-08-09T05:21:49.837" Score="6" ViewCount="3369" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is seen in the movie that Clark was unable to hold the steel structure of the oil rig and was plunged into the sea with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't is expected that Clark Kent would have full control over the steel structure and hold it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1215" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-12T07:21:15.730" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T07:21:15.730" Title="Why was Clark Kent unable to hold the falling steel structure of the oil rig?" Tags="|plot-explanation|man-of-steel|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13045" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13047" CreationDate="2013-08-09T05:29:28.713" Score="10" ViewCount="3148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Krypton was already in the process of destruction. Kryptonians would have inevitably died with the planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everybody knew that, including General Zod. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, what was General Zod actually trying to achieve by initiating a military coup?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was his specific plan to save the Kryptonian race from extinction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1215" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-12T07:24:39.583" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T07:24:39.583" Title="What was General Zod actually trying to achieve by initiating a military coup?" Tags="|dc-extended-universe|man-of-steel|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13045" CreationDate="2013-08-09T09:28:44.790" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jor-El had discovered that the planet faced imminent destruction. The council however refuted or refused his claims. Zod takes note of how the Council has dismissed the claims and decides to overthrow the council as he feels that they are not governing properly. He felt that the council members are involved in petty politics, daily affairs and their own well being. When they should be more concerned about the planet and should at least have paid attention of Jor-El's claims. Also, none including Jor-El could have known that they planet would die so early. They only knew that it would happen &lt;em&gt;soon&lt;/em&gt;. Jor-El always planned for his son to escape to Earth to be saved from the planet's destruction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zod however, planned to overthrow the Council and take control of the Codex to save the planet's race. There was no such &lt;em&gt;plan&lt;/em&gt;. The planet was destroyed soon after he started the coup. He initially planned to take help of Jor-El to prepare a plan for survival. However, this required that the council be overthrown first. Zod would then take control of the Codex, and ensure that only &lt;em&gt;proper&lt;/em&gt; bloodlines were produced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;His initial plan was to take control of the Codex, and to choose proper bloodlines for further propogation. He also tried to enlist Jor-El as he had significant knowledge and means to ensure the survival of the kryptonian race&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a doomed planet, it is not possible to save all the population. However, with the Codex and the technology at hand (genesis chamber), Zod could save the &lt;strong&gt;Kryptonian race&lt;/strong&gt;. That was his only plan at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jor-El travels to Kandor on his pet H'Raka where he stands in front of the Kryptonian Law Council telling them the planet is to explode because of the council's decision to harvest the planet's core to serve the depleted energy reserves of the planet. They dismiss his claims but General Zod takes note informs Jor-El he is going to overthrow the council. &lt;a href=&quot;http://superman.wikia.com/wiki/Man_of_Steel_%28film%29&quot;&gt;from Man of Steel - Superman wikia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-09T10:01:18.947" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T10:01:18.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13043" CreationDate="2013-08-09T09:49:51.770" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Clark Kent at that period of time was not yet &lt;em&gt;Superman&lt;/em&gt;. He was aware of his immense strength, hyper-senses and laser eyes. He certainly did not know he could fly, though he could jump quite high. Simply put, he was not aware of his true strength.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, he mostly lived a secluded and mysterious life. Not being open about his powers was a choice which he lived with. When he tried to stop the Steel Tower from falling down, it was only for a few moments during which the people could safely escape in the helicopter. He physically stopped the tower from falling by standing in between and taking its weight. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8dKX7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;clearly seen that he supported the tower from one side only&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, due to the way the steel tower was positioned, it's foundation continued to topple off from the other end, resulting in the tower losing its balance, and falling in the sea. Clark stopped the tower from falling, but the structure finally toppled off due to imbalance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T09:49:51.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13043" CreationDate="2013-08-09T11:55:57.570" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a scene when Jor-El meets Clark in which he says (I'm afraid I don't know the exact quote). &quot;If you keep pushing yourself who knows how strong you can become&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point in the film Clark had been living an ordinary life, avoiding conflict and not testing his powers.  It's only once he starts to become Superman that his strength increases even further and he gains other abilities (flight for example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, when he's on the oil rig although he's far stronger than any human he's not Superman strong!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T11:55:57.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13040" CreationDate="2013-08-09T12:36:50.197" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Late Season 3 spoilers: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Winterfell was torched by Ramsay Snow, the bastard son of Roose Bolton. He made a secret deal with Theon's men that in return for them leaving Winterfell and giving up Theon he would let them leave in peace. So they knocked him out (after giving a rather stirring speech), handed him over to Ramsay and left. Afterwards, Ramsay sacked the castle and set it on fire, all as part of his father's plans to overthrow the Starks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T12:36:50.197" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13041" CreationDate="2013-08-09T12:54:14.810" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;With Winterfell sacked it was no longer safe. The Greyjoys could have easily returned, or other enemies of the Starks might attack. Bran is also (at the time) Robb's only heir and had to be protected, so it was safer for them to go to the Wall. The Starks have always been an ancient ally to the Night Watch, and Jon Snow was there as well. They could easily find shelter there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Late season 3 spoilers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Maester Luwin's fears proved to be true. The Boltons took advantage of the situation to overthrow their liege lords the Starks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2013-08-10T01:29:39.890" LastActivityDate="2013-08-10T01:29:39.890" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13057" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13073" CreationDate="2013-08-09T14:24:54.550" Score="5" ViewCount="1815" Body="&lt;p&gt;In movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice_%282010_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Sorcerer's Apprentice&lt;/a&gt;, what was written by young Becky on the note behind which young Dave/David ran and went inside Balthazar Blake's shop of antique. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5715" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T14:27:59.070" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T14:27:59.070" Title="What was written in the note?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-sorcerers-apprentice|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10359" CreationDate="2013-08-09T14:48:13.247" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw it as a bit if irony on Walt's part for several reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) He really didn't need the money that would have come from selling the car. He had more than enough cash to buy any car he wanted, several times over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) As was later revealed, part of why he was in his station as a teacher, underappreciated and struggling financially, was due to a fallout between him and his partners in the company they founded decades earlier, referred to as Gray Matter. Walt informs Jesse that he sold his stake in the company for a paltry $5000, &quot;A few months rent,&quot; as he referred to it. Then the company became a huge, multi-billion dollar entity, of which he had no stake or claim to. He sold his and his family's future for a few grand and petty reasons, when he could have been a millionare had he simply reconciled his differences with the founders. Now he has more money than he knows what to do with, so selling the car for a paltry sum is likely Walter having a moment of irony in his new life as a drug lord: he cast off one life he could have had for a small amount of money, why not do it again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2013-08-09T22:22:49.763" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T22:22:49.763" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9950" CreationDate="2013-08-09T18:04:51.290" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Animated films are just another form of storytelling, and I wouldn't say that executives or writers or anyone looks at a script that's been written and decides if they want to do it via live action with live actors, or animation of some kind. I believe that sort of thing is decided well in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, animation can allow for certain things that live action can find harder to achieve, such as suspension of disbelief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good example of this is the horse Maximus. His actions and mannerisms would have felt completely odd and out of place had they decided to go with live action. They would have needed a CG horse, which imposes some restrictions on how they can make the character move and act without seeming too unreal. However, with a fully animated and highly stylized film, they can make the horse do things that would seem really odd to see a real horse do: act as a pointing dog, express emotions with his face, just to name a few.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are more willing to suspend their disbelief for animated films, especially ones that look more &quot;cartoony&quot;, than they are for live action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T18:04:51.290" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13062" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13063" CreationDate="2013-08-09T20:48:59.487" Score="2" ViewCount="1078" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a good movie and is a prequel of The Lord of the Rings intended to show how Bilbo Baggins gets the ring from Gollum and gift it to his nephew Frodo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My Question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where did Golum get the ring?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does Gollum know about the ring's power of invisibility?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why didn't Bilbo Baggins tell anybody about the ring?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5715" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-01-04T17:04:53.900" LastActivityDate="2017-01-04T17:04:53.900" Title="Where did the one ring come from?" Tags="|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13062" CreationDate="2013-08-09T21:02:44.857" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;You should go back and rewatch the beginning of the Fellowship of the Ring. The exposition there shows the ring in Sauron's hand, then taken by Isildur when he cuts off Sauron's finger. But Isildur is then ambushed by orcs while riding north, and tries to swim away in the Great River Anduin when the ring slips off his finger, and is lost in the river.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on, two friends, Deagol and Smeagol, find the ring while fishing. But the ring's power compels Smeagol to murder his friend and keep the ring. The ring corrupts him, so he is driven from his home and finds shelter in the caves beneath the Misty Mountains, where he slowly turns into the creature Gollum we know and love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your other two questions - yes, Gollum knows of its power, and uses it to kill (and eat) orcs on occasion. However, he doesn't use it much by the time Bilbo arrives, since he feels it &lt;em&gt;stretching&lt;/em&gt; him, extending his life at the expense of his essence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why Bilbo says nothing of the ring - again, you'll have to remember that this is an artifact imbued with much power and evil, which usually seeks people to carry it, corrupting them in the process of bringing it to where it needs to go (in this case, back to Sauron). If Bilbo keeps it hidden, there's a better chance it would be taken away from the caves, so it compels him to keep quiet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1507" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T21:02:44.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13065" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-09T23:36:29.940" Score="6" ViewCount="14715" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SPOILER HEREIN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1477076/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Saw 3D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, we see Hoffman finally get his comeuppance at the hands of Dr. Gordon, the original victim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when Hoffman is attacked and subdued in the parking lot, there are two additional assailants wearing pig masks along with Gordon - I assumed these were other 'survivors' possibly from the earlier meeting, but is there any official explanation as to their identity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hired thugs? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I miss something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2021-11-11T06:47:12.633" LastActivityDate="2021-11-11T06:47:12.633" Title="Who are the masked attackers in Saw 3D?" Tags="|character|saw|saw-3d|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13066" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13069" CreationDate="2013-08-09T23:43:32.933" Score="8" ViewCount="1780" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched a film when I was a kid about a group of scientists in the desert studying a strange ant colony. They had a science building that had an odd shape to it (maybe a dome). There were a couple of male scientists and a female working together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are scenes where they show the ants eating an animal in a few seconds (maybe a mouse or rat).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the scientists tried to kill the ants and as a result the ants start to build structures around the research building. These structures reflect the sunlight to overheat the building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One by one the scientists are killed except for the last one. He/she walks out into the desert and falls into a large chamber dug by the ants. In the chamber the person faces the queen ant in some kind of psychedelic mind trip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was made in the 60s to 70s timeframe and might have a post-apocalyptic theme to it. The ants might be the result of nuclear bomb fallout or some other popular fear at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T22:58:26.143" Title="Film about scientists studying killer ants in the desert" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:47:24.573" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10359" CreationDate="2013-08-09T23:57:37.587" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I took from this scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Walt wants a better car&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He doesn't care how much he gets for the Aztec because he doesn't need the money&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Aztec reminds him of his previous life as a loser&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's also fairly distinctive. It's probably best for Walt not to be recognised by the car he drives&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a horrible, ugly car&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He might not want to deal with the paperwork involved in formally transferring the car to the mechanic, so offers a ridiculously cheap deal to tempt the mechanic to do it 'off the books'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To impress Walt Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5318" LastActivityDate="2013-08-09T23:57:37.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13066" CreationDate="2013-08-10T00:13:56.613" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds a lot like &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070531/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Phase IV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; to me - I'll see if I can find more details for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the linked IMDb page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage&#xA;  war on the desert inhabitants. It is up to two scientists and a stray&#xA;  girl they rescue from the ants to destroy them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's one of the domes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xl3Qi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-08-10T00:13:56.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13070" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13380" CreationDate="2013-08-10T01:33:45.170" Score="2" ViewCount="1003" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the name of the space shuttle used in the &lt;em&gt;Space Cowboys&lt;/em&gt; launch scenes? Which mission is that from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the name of the space shuttle used in the landing scenes? Which mission is that from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;The landing scenes are not from &lt;em&gt;Discovery&lt;/em&gt; (at least cannot confirm), the name of that shuttle had been covered by &lt;em&gt;Daedalus&lt;/em&gt; using CGI presumably. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meatball insignia on the left wings suggest that both missions were no earlier than 1992 (the introduction of that insignia) or 1998 (the time NASA repainted their fleet). Considering the production date of the film, there are 53 missions between January 1992 to May 2000, 10 missions between January 1998 to May 2000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5738" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T21:50:26.960" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T21:50:26.960" Title="What are the names of the two shuttles and which missions were they on?" Tags="|space-cowboys|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13065" CreationDate="2013-08-10T04:42:48.253" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After destroying his workshop, Hoffman is captured by three pig-masked figures, led by Lawrence Gordon. Flashbacks reveal that John Kramer found Lawrence by the steam pipe and helped him recover, and Lawrence had helped John in secret ever since. Tasked with watching over Jill and taking action of anything happened to her, Lawrence brings Hoffman to the underground bathroom and shackles him by the ankle. &lt;a href=&quot;http://sawfilms.wikia.com/wiki/Saw_3D&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;from Saw 3D wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no evidence, hint or any clue to guess who the masked figures could be. Speculation suggests they could be past victims of Jigsaw, or entirely new characters recruited by Gordon. Personally, I'm more inclined to believe they are the past victims that just took away Hoffman because of Jill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-08-10T04:42:48.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13057" CreationDate="2013-08-10T12:13:17.823" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the timeline, in the movie, for everything relating to the note.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5:22, David writes the note, passes it to Becky&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5:35, Audience sees note:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Og1E.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;note&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5:49, Becky checks something&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5:54, Becky sets note on base of lamp post&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5:57, David goes to pick up note, but it blows away and David chases it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6:56, Note blows into Arcana Cabana&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1:30:38 to 1:30:52, David asks Becky about note:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;David: Hey, Becky. You remember that letter I wrote when we were ten years old, friend or girlfriend? I never saw what you checked. So, in case I die tonight, could you please tell me?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Becky: Don't die and I'll tell you.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1:41:50 to 1:42:02, Becky gives her response:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;David: You did it!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Becky: I know, and I'm still alive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;David: Surprisingly, so am I.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Becky: I know. ... Oh, the note. Right, friend or girlfriend.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;David: Ahh, I don't care.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they kiss&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Becky: Girlfriend. Definitely girlfriend.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1357" LastEditorUserId="1357" LastEditDate="2013-08-11T03:49:38.657" LastActivityDate="2013-08-11T03:49:38.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="883" CreationDate="2013-08-10T12:16:31.757" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prot is from K-Pax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He came down from K-Pax to help a friend whom he had been in contact with many times in previous visits (As Peter was also very smart).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prot took over the body of Peter, (saved from drowning) to try and keep him alive to help him, which as it turned out in the end Prot could not (then gave him to the human Dr to look after), the loss was to great after the death of his wife and child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now why he chose Bess, she suffered the same sort of illness from much the same sort of emotional incident (loss of family). If there was a K-Pax 2, Bess would be the Prot from K-Pax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing I like about this movie is this: &lt;strong&gt;We just don't know anything for sure.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We humans think we are smart, but we are nothing in the time frame of the universe and so very naïve. There could easy be other life forms out there far more advanced than us. We assume because we have not discovered it yet that light is not a means for energy, that time travel or intergalactic travel is not possible...but it could be as we don't know everything. In just even 500 years from now, our knowledge would have grown massively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5741" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-10T18:10:18.507" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T18:10:18.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13075" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-10T14:36:58.730" Score="10" ViewCount="13346" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Ed and Lorraine Warren are returning from the Perron's, their daughter Judy is haunted by the Witch Spirit. She comes down to see the witch sitting in the chair with the Annabelle doll. We can see her stroking or grooming the doll. The doll then turns around to look at the Judy standing at the door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hZT6Q.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;scene where the witch is stroking the doll&amp;#39;s hair&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the Witch Spirit Bethsheba from the Perron's house doing with the Annabelle doll in the Warren's house?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-09-28T07:07:41.307" LastActivityDate="2018-09-28T07:07:41.307" Title="What was the witch spirit doing with the Annabelle doll?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-conjuring-universe|the-conjuring|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13081" CreationDate="2013-08-10T17:47:34.047" Score="6" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Siege_2%3a_Dark_Territory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Under Siege 2: Dark Territory&lt;/a&gt; the villain takes over some sort of space-based, earthquake-causing super-weapon that has been launched by the US. He then uses fifty or so satellites as decoys to avoid having his newly acquired toy shot down by the &quot;good&quot; guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concept seems reasonable (or, as reasonable as anything in a film of this kind can be) and it does cause the good guys to waste two perfectly good missiles on the decoys, but then one of the characters makes this little comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We don't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; a Pegasus. Once we get down to the last one we lock in on the satellite and use the self-destruct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then at the finale, they proceed to do just that in less than 5 seconds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that in mind, does anyone know of any reason for them not to spam all fifty decoys with the self-destruct codes right away? Apart from it making the whole film - along with Steven Seagal's beating up the bad guys - unnecessary, that is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="663" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-14T18:29:06.930" LastActivityDate="2013-08-14T18:29:06.930" Title="Why were the &quot;ghost satellites&quot; such a big issue?" Tags="|under-siege-2|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12153" CreationDate="2013-08-10T20:00:01.400" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Kryptonians are able to manipulate graviton particles, in an unknown and apparently unconscious manner, to defy the forces of gravity. Under one Earth gravity, they are capable of speeds of multi-Mach speeds in Earth's atmosphere. Their control of their flight is very precise and they can perform aerobatic feats such as hovering, flying backwards and even lifting great weights while flying.&quot;&#xA;This is how He does things like this. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fxguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/MOS-TRL2-2502r.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.fxguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/MOS-TRL2-2502r.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;But in Man of Steel, Kal generates his own gravitational field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5744" LastActivityDate="2013-08-10T20:00:01.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13076" CreationDate="2013-08-10T22:02:43.600" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot_device&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Plot Device&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I believe this statement from the beginning of that Wikipedia article sums up your frustration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A contrived or arbitrary plot device may annoy or confuse the reader, causing a loss of the suspension of disbelief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've got to remember... you are watching a story that someone wrote down... or multiple people had a hand in writing down.  It was constructed from beginning to end to take up a certain amount of time, create drama and tension, tell a story and (hopefully) illicit an emotional response or two (or more).  If it is well written, you won't see plot issues like this.  The story will flow, you will get sucked into it, and at the end you'll come away with a feeling of satisfaction.  If it is not well written... well, you get issues like the problem you point out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are so many examples of bad plot devices that I can't even begin to provide examples of them.  I can honestly say that you can probably rattle off a dozen or more yourself, and you know what I'm talking about.  Bad plot devices are extremely common in action movies unfortunately, where the movie itself is written as a vehicle for a specific star (and we are talking about a Steven Segal &lt;em&gt;sequel&lt;/em&gt; here) as opposed to a well constructed story that just happens to have well-known actors in it.  In general, action movies are not about a good story (don't list examples of where I'm wrong, I know there are good action movies).  Action movies are about action.  Whatever can be put in the movie to even superficially provide an excuse somewhere for action (or making the star look good) will be put in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you have to ALWAYS bear this in mind.  When you spot something like this, you have to resist the urge to ask for the reason why the bad plot device is there.  You will rarely, if ever, get a satisfactory answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2013-08-10T22:02:43.600" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13082" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17675" CreationDate="2013-08-10T23:03:11.870" Score="15" ViewCount="5712" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Breaking Bad season 5 episode 6, &amp;quot;Buyout&amp;quot;, a reference is made to Ho Chi Minh. Can someone explain the meaning of the reference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, gentlemen, we're here to discuss your illegal harassment of my client.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should be good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr. Ehrmantraut has become the subject of a vicious, relentless, and&#xA;unwarranted DEA persecution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gomie, does that, uh, that sound right to you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea what he's talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Play it as cool as you like, Fonzie. But we all know you've been following my&#xA;client day and night. The poor man can't even spend a few minutes with his&#xA;granddaughter without you guys quivering in the bushes and peeping through&#xA;your little binoculars. It's-- Well, it's disturbing. And it's taken a toll on&#xA;his mental and physical well-being.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your client looks fine to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, some hurts only show on the inside. Now, you guys don't even have&#xA;warrants for these tails, do you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Theoretically, these tails you refer to would be completely within the bounds&#xA;of the law. We don't need a warrant to follow somebody through a public place.&#xA;Theoretically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, that is, uh, theoretically correct. However, I would counter that an&#xA;open-ended, unrestricted surveillance like this amounts to stalking. Which is&#xA;illegal. Now, I don't know what it is you find so interesting about my client,&#xA;and I'm not here to judge. Different strokes and all. But sadly, he's just not&#xA;that into you. So, I have filed for a temporary restraining order against the&#xA;DEA on behalf of Mr. Ehrmantraut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where'd you get your law degree, Goodman? The same clown college you got that&#xA;suit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know who likes this suit? Judge Papadoumian. She thinks I'm a snappy&#xA;dresser. You know what Judge Papadoumian hates? Police harassment of a senior&#xA;citizen. Sorry. Expect a visit from the sheriff, agents. You should have your&#xA;ex parte within the hour. Let's go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What the hell kind of judge would issue this thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Papadoumian, man. She's like &lt;b&gt;Ho Chi Minh&lt;/b&gt;. So what we do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, not a lot of choice, you know? We back off. For the moment. TRO won't&#xA;stand up, and Goodman knows it. I don't see what they're playing at here, but&#xA;if Ehrmantraut wants a fight, he's gonna get one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1339" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T04:36:38.730" Title="Ho Chi Minh reference in Breaking Bad" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13076" CreationDate="2013-08-11T01:55:13.710" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For almost all the duration of the movie, the satellite was under the complete control of Dane's laptop. As such, it would not respond to self-destruct commands, or any other attempts to communicate. It was completely taken over by Dane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only when Casey shot and destroyed the laptop at the very end of the movie, the satellite began to respond to communications form the command center, and destroyed itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastActivityDate="2013-08-11T01:55:13.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13039" CreationDate="2013-08-11T05:53:39.517" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer: Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike the leg shot it isn't explicitly shown (or was edited out). LARX #3 fires three shots as Aaron flies past at the end of the street. The third shot hits him in the leg, so, from the angles it must have been the first shot that just grazed his left shoulder. If you look closely you can see his jacket being slightly ripped-up shortly afterwards, just before he spins his bike around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the shoulder wound that causes Aaron to drop his gun after wounding LARX #3, and it also explains the shoulder bandage he's wearing on the boat as they sail away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2116" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T19:42:51.627" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T19:42:51.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13086" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-11T08:51:17.357" Score="5" ViewCount="2541" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the scene : &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kD54-q1uFM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kD54-q1uFM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is right before the final duel and lets the audience know Harmonica's motivation in wanting to kill Frank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harmonica's brother is standing on Harmonicas shoulders with a noose around his neck. Harmonica is the only thing keeping him alive. Franks gang are present and knowing that there's no way he can get out of this alive he kicks Harmonica to the ground. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right before he kicks Harmonica away he says something but we can't hear it. Does anyone know what he says?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T01:58:45.680" LastActivityDate="2015-01-04T18:50:49.823" Title="What does Harmonica's brother say before he dies?" Tags="|dialogue|once-upon-a-time-in-the-west|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13087" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13088" CreationDate="2013-08-11T10:33:20.267" Score="6" ViewCount="3081" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen multiple references to this character, mainly in cartoons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What movie is this character originally from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The character is a paranoid, sleep deprived old man with long hair and long nails who's constantly watching the surveillance camera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen a reference to him on The Simpsons, which looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wWnSb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5747" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-08-11T19:33:45.057" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T20:53:38.060" Title="Old paranoid man with uncut hair and fingernails" Tags="|identify-this-movie|character|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:47:27.697" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13087" CreationDate="2013-08-11T11:47:49.823" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is usually artistic license in the depiction of someone with a severe phobia of germs. In the particular case where the individual in question is very rich, as with Mr. Burns in The Simpsons, it is almost certainly based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Howard Hughes&lt;/a&gt; rather than on any movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T20:53:38.060" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T20:53:38.060" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13076" CreationDate="2013-08-11T20:06:15.763" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is simply lame writing.  Or probably a collaborative effort by the producer, director, etc., in a small series of steps which transformed an initially decent plot into a lame one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;WarGames&lt;/em&gt; (1983)&lt;/a&gt;, the computer tries to find the missile launch security code, a 12+ digit number, by using brute force.  Somehow it is able to identify when it has a digit correct (lame point #1), so we see it trying the remaining digits in rapid succession, seemingly thousands or more per second.  However, after finding all but the last few, it still takes the same amount of time to determine the next digit, when clearly it should take one tenth of the time of the previous digit (lame point #2).  That wouldn't be as dramatic, I suppose, from one point of view.  Though setting the scene truthfully would bring more suspense, particularly if it were explained how it actually worked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-08-11T20:06:15.763" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13092" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-11T20:25:53.193" Score="8" ViewCount="11305" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 4 of Breaking Bad, the relationship between Gus (and subsequently Mike) and the pair of Walt &amp;amp; Jesse is complex.  Gus sets them up with a fully equipped laboratory to cook Meth, but initially Jesse proves unreliable and Walt is forced to defend him from the boss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the relationship sours between the parties:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't Gus just kill Jesse and leave Walt alone to cook? They could kill Jesse and say to Walt that if you don't cook, we will kill your family.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Later, why does Gus want to kill Walt and not just fire him and leave him alone?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why did Mike start to take Jesse with him on jobs?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5750" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-17T01:12:00.537" LastActivityDate="2017-04-08T13:59:22.120" Title="Relationship between Walt, Jesse and Gus" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13092" CreationDate="2013-08-11T23:09:48.427" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 3 Gus sets up Walt and Jesse in the fully equipped laboratory to make meth.  Gus is a rational and self controlled business person.  He runs his empire in the understanding that a tiny mistake might result in either law enforcement catching him, or a rival cartel killing him.  He expects all his employees to act in the same manner - this is a business, and everyone should be professional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Jesse becomes a liability and Walt stands by him, they have both become a danger to Gus personally.  At the beginning of Season 4, Gus is forced to continue to use Walt as his cook, but he has clearly identified him as a dangerous person, too intelligent to easily outwit, too unreliable to trust.  Unfortunately parting on bad terms when you are in a highly illegal business is not really an option.  At any point in the future Walt could give evidence to the authorities about Gus, or if Walt continued to cook on his own and ends up being caught by rival drug lords, he could be used to get back at Gus.  Firing Walt and hoping he would keep quiet, even under threats to his family would not be enough for the ruthlessly controlling Gus - its no comfort to think that Walt might eventually suffer, if he's already in prison because of Walt's evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Killing Jesse might have been an option, but Walt had proven quite loyal to Jesse and could not have been relied upon to have been unemotional and continued to cook for them.  Threats to his family are only good if you think they will work.  It only takes Walt to crack, go into witness protection and Gus is sunk.  Walt could easily claim he was forced to work by Gus to plead for protection or a lenient sentence.  Its Gus that has built an enormous drug manufacturing and distribution empire, not Walt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did they take Jesse to help Mike?  In my opinion Gus and Mike decided that they needed to divide Walt and Jesse.  They decided that they could try to mentor Jesse, he's young and can be a little naive.  Giving him almost a father figure to look up to and to make him feel like he is being trusted was a powerful psychological technique to use on him.  The fact that he might be able to replace Walt as the cook was a secondary benefit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2017-04-08T13:59:22.120" LastActivityDate="2017-04-08T13:59:22.120" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2040" CreationDate="2013-08-11T23:38:11.333" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although Xenomorphs don't have visibly obvious eyes, they have been demonstrated to be capable of seeing.  For example, in the Aliens 3 movie, the runner has fish-eye vision similar to human.  In the AVP PC games, aliens have two visual modes, one similar to human vision and another short-range sonar like vision that can be used to navigate in the dark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Xenomorphs certainly can sense, if not see, cloaked predators.  In the movie AVP 1, a Xenomorph drone impales a cloaked predator with its tail.  Granted, the cloaked predator was moving, its cloak wasn't as effective as it was in a well lit area, and it made a sound by activating its wrist blades, but the drone had no problem knowing exactly where it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the AVP PC games, Xenomorph see an aura around different species even cloaked predators.  However, this aura is probably meant to convey a sense of smell as well as the sense of a slight bioelectric charge around living things like Matt said above with the shark example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire skin of the Xenomorph is covered in ions which lets the Xenomorph use its entire surface area as a sophisticated EM sensor and nose.  This is why in the AVP PC games Xenomorph appear to have electric fields around them when viewed by Predators in EM vision.  This is also why Xenomorph are stunned by EM grenades whereas humans are not.  The EM burst overloads the Xenomorph's sensory system like a flash-bang grenade would do to a human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, the Predator's cloaking device is worthless against xenomorphs and is best turned off so as not to drain energy from the Predator's weapon systems while fighting only Xenomorphs.  Fighting both humans and Xenomorphs can be tricky for a Predator because the two prey are best dealt with using completely different tactics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5753" LastActivityDate="2013-08-11T23:38:11.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13097" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-12T01:18:14.413" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T01:18:14.413" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T01:18:14.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13098" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-12T01:18:14.413" Score="0" Body="Referring to an actors accent used in films." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T02:03:36.480" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T02:03:36.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13099" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-12T01:24:39.363" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T01:24:39.363" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T01:24:39.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13100" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-12T01:24:39.363" Score="0" Body="1992 Movie - Action/SciFi/Thriller - Starring Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, &amp; Charles Dance. Ripley crashes on a planet used for ore refining. She is attacked by a stow away alien." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T02:04:21.827" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T02:04:21.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13101" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-12T01:27:09.233" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T01:27:09.233" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T01:27:09.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13102" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-12T01:27:09.233" Score="0" Body="1997 Movie - Action/SciFi/Thriller - Starring Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, &amp; Dominique Pinon. Ripley is resurrected, only this time, she's the alien." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T02:04:57.080" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T02:04:57.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13103" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-12T01:31:54.147" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T01:31:54.147" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T01:31:54.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13104" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-12T01:31:54.147" Score="0" Body="1984 Movie - Horror - Directed by Wes Craven. Starring John Saxon, Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp and Robert Englund as the killer, Freddy Kruger. Kruger attacks his victims while they sleep ... from inside of their dreams." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T02:03:47.823" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T02:03:47.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13105" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-12T01:38:38.113" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T01:38:38.113" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T01:38:38.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13106" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-12T01:38:38.113" Score="0" Body="1986 Movie - Action/Adventure/Comedy - Starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, &amp; Dennis Dun. Directed by John Carpenter. Truck driver Jack Burton helps retrieve two green eyed women from the villainous David Lo Pan in the San Francisco supernatural underground, while battling demons, monsters, and magic." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T02:04:54.330" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T02:04:54.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13110" CreationDate="2013-08-12T02:56:08.997" Score="6" ViewCount="3023" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do some shows have certain seasons broken into 2 parts, when their spacing would otherwise mean that they were separate seasons altogether?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many examples are from non-network stations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sex and the City Season 6, Parts 1 &amp;amp; 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Entourage Season 3, Parts 1 &amp;amp; 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Sopranos Season 6, Parts 1 &amp;amp; 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Breaking Bad Season 5, Parts 1 &amp;amp; 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for that matter, why aren't there ever any Part 3s?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5755" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T12:22:01.573" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T12:22:01.573" Title="TV Shows with Season Parts 1 &amp; 2" Tags="|distribution|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13109" CreationDate="2013-08-12T03:29:50.247" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shows and movies may do this for several reasons: to keep audiences around for longer, production breaks, financial reasons, actors signed on for other projects that interfere with shooting of a season, to ramp up other projects that needed more time, just to name a few.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of Breaking Bad, Brian Cranston indicated that they planned to shoot the first 8 episodes, then take a 4 month break from production with the intent of filming those then having the series air sometime in 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/breaking-bad-season-5-premiere-2012-2013-scott-163909/&quot;&gt;http://screenrant.com/breaking-bad-season-5-premiere-2012-2013-scott-163909/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then you have movies that do it, like the Harry Potter franchise. The reasoning given there was that the final book was so dense with material that trying to fit it all in a single movie, even a super long one, wouldn't do it justice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/harry-potter-deathly-hallows-split-movies-ross-6889/&quot;&gt;http://screenrant.com/harry-potter-deathly-hallows-split-movies-ross-6889/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The long and the short of it is that there's many reasons for TV shows and movies to have seasons and single movies split into two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T03:29:50.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13109" CreationDate="2013-08-12T03:32:21.627" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In at least some of these cases, a single season was filmed during the show's usual shooting schedule, shown the same year, and then released on DVD in two parts. This is typically a marketing decision - you'll note that the cost of the two parts of a season is invariably greater than the cost of a single season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T03:32:21.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13112" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36837" CreationDate="2013-08-12T04:06:37.387" Score="11" ViewCount="7650" Body="&lt;p&gt;The guy who runs Armadyne has a word like &quot;RICH E&quot; or &quot;RICHE&quot; on his face. What exactly is the word, and why is it on his face?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-17T13:08:57.133" LastActivityDate="2017-04-18T04:28:26.530" Title="What is the word on the executive's face, and why is it there?" Tags="|plot-explanation|elysium|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13112" CreationDate="2013-08-12T04:56:55.080" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The word on John Carlyle's face is &lt;em&gt;RICHE&lt;/em&gt;, which is &lt;a href=&quot;http://translate.google.com/#fr/en/riche&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;French for &lt;em&gt;rich&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. He also has some sort of &quot;branding&quot; on his forehead, so I believe that these are a form of body modification (the proof of citizenship branded on the characters' arms appear to be of the same type).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Director Blomkamp explains in an interview about product placements, &quot;We did make up our own brands because we couldn’t get enough of them,&quot; Blomkamp explains of labels such as &quot;Riche,&quot; a moniker that is branded onto the skin of characters who have partaken of a beauty enhancement. &quot;We had a binder with thousands of fake brands and awesome logos. But they don’t mean anything to people, they just look like future brands. It doesn’t have the same resonance.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7HzxR.png&quot; alt=&quot;John Carlyle&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;Image courtesy of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.armadyne.net/company/leadership.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;armadyne.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is my interpretation that language is used as a device to further separate the two classes;  Jessica Delacourt spoke French while at the social gathering. The wealthy citizens of Elysium speak French, while the poor citizens of Earth speak Spanish. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5756" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-05-11T22:20:03.487" LastActivityDate="2014-05-11T22:20:03.487" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13114" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-12T06:48:58.303" Score="13" ViewCount="3613" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;The Godfather&quot;, when Kay visits the compound to track down Micheal, there is a shot up car, which Tom Hagen explains had been in an accident and that no one was injured. This was before Sonny's &lt;em&gt;incident&lt;/em&gt;. Is there any information about why this scene was put in ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="42844" LastEditDate="2016-11-18T14:48:09.737" LastActivityDate="2016-11-18T14:48:09.737" Title="Shot up car in The Godfather" Tags="|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13114" CreationDate="2013-08-12T07:44:06.217" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie script was created based on the book. In the book, and also in the movie, it is implied that there was some tension regarding the &lt;em&gt;families&lt;/em&gt; and that security was pretty tight. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bullet ridden car implied that there was an assassination attempt on &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; member of the family. That's mostly Vito Corleone or Sonny. It signaled to the audience and represented the fact that the family knew about the assassination. That was the reason Sonny and Vito were heavily &lt;em&gt;protected&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that while the movie script is based on the book, Mario Puzo did make some changes  in the movie for continuity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T07:44:06.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13109" CreationDate="2013-08-12T08:09:18.227" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Production teams and writers decide to break up a season or a movie for several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Material is simply too much for one season or movie, but cannot be converted to another episode/season.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The initial cost estimate was for a limited season only, but later they changed it to have more episodes or parts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes, when the list of episodes is large enough, the company might break it up into two parts for marketing, distribution and broadcast purposes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The shooting schedule forces them to shoot the season in two or more parts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A break in production for any reason could force the producers to release the first half while the second half is still being/will be created.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The producers and directors want to focus on more detail and visuals, i.e. on quality, and hence take time to craft the episodes over a period of time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the TV series you mentioned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sex and the City Season 6&lt;/em&gt;: The sixth season  aired in two parts: from June until September 2003 and during January and February 2004 due to production schedules. (No official sources to cite)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Entourage Season 3&lt;/em&gt;: Similarly, the third season aired in two parts: the show was produced and shot in different timelines of the year. Also, the season was expanded from its initial run.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Sopranos Season 6&lt;/em&gt;: Possibly due to it being the finale, and the large number of material and episodes to create.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad Season 5&lt;/em&gt;: It was split up into two parts because of Production and length, material, quality of the plot. Also please read the news article- &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In early August 2011, negotiations began over a deal regarding the fifth and possibly final season between AMC and Sony Pictures Television, the production company of the series. AMC proposed a shortened fifth season (six to eight episodes, instead of thirteen) to cut costs, but the producers declined. Sony then approached other cable networks about possibly picking up the show if a deal could not be made.[33] On August 14, 2011, a deal was made in which AMC renewed the series for a final 16-episode season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: Even though the title says &lt;em&gt;Season X - Part I or II&lt;/em&gt;, the media, critics and award committees consider each Part to be a separate &lt;em&gt;season&lt;/em&gt; on their own. They get separate ratings, separate awards and separate accolades.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T08:09:18.227" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13119" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-12T14:04:44.230" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T14:04:44.230" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T14:04:44.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13120" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-12T14:04:44.230" Score="0" Body="2013 Movie - Action/Drama/SciFi - Starring Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, &amp; Sharlto Copley. Set in the year 2154, Earth's population is divided into the ultra-rich who reside on an orbiting space station, and the poor who live on the devastated ground below. One man's attempt to bring equality to the two diverse social castes. " OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T14:07:03.290" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T14:07:03.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13121" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-12T14:08:03.997" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Directed by David Fincher, this 2007 movie is based on one of Northern California's most infamous unsolved crimes that took place during the late 1960s and early 1970s in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jake Gyllenhaal portrays Robert Graysmith, a cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle who later becomes obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag should be used for the question related to Zodiac(2007) movie and not to be confused with The Zodiac(2005) movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Links&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443706&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27264" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-01-29T06:27:39.093" LastActivityDate="2017-01-29T06:27:39.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13122" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-12T14:08:03.997" Score="0" Body="2007 Movie - Crime/Drama/Mystery - Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, &amp; Robert Downey Jr. A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T14:33:05.610" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T14:33:05.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13123" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-12T14:17:28.207" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T14:17:28.207" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T14:17:28.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13124" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-12T14:17:28.207" Score="0" Body="2013 Movie - Action/Comedy/Crime - Starring Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, &amp; Helen Mirren. Sequel to the 2010 movie &quot;Red&quot;. Retired CIA operative Frank Moses reassembles his elite team to track down a missing portable nuclear device." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T14:33:19.030" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T14:33:19.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13125" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-12T14:25:56.027" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T14:25:56.027" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T14:25:56.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13126" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-12T14:25:56.027" Score="0" Body="1994 Movie - Drama/Romance - Starring Tom Hanks, Sally Field, &amp; Robin Wright. The story follows the title character while he is unwittingly at many of history's key events, yet he cannot seem to attract his one true love." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-12T14:33:09.657" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T14:33:09.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2033" CreationDate="2013-08-12T15:23:10.317" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Underworld Awakening&lt;/em&gt; shows the humans capturing Selene during &lt;em&gt;The Purge&lt;/em&gt; which was a crusade to exterminate the supernaturals. Selene is released from the cryogenic suspension and she escapes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Selene escaped the research facility, the driver of the truck shot her. The uniform of the driver may suggest something to do with security or involvement with the facility. The screenshot you posted shows the guy wearing a gun and an id, with a security-like get-up. So I'm guessing security.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if Selene was &lt;em&gt;captured&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;held&lt;/em&gt; in the facility, and she escaped, whoever saw her would try to stop her. And that's what the guy was doing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't remember the movie, so cannot remember if it was Eve or Selene&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, Eve was injured and captured by some diseased Lycans, not Humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T15:23:10.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13129" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13130" CreationDate="2013-08-12T18:30:53.130" Score="9" ViewCount="603" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535108/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Elysium&lt;/a&gt;, the secretary of defense Delacort (played by Jodie Foster) intended to overthrow the existing government and install herself as the new leader. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I understood correctly, her plan was to upload a new version of the computer program that the government uses to manage everything -- and in the new version, she would be designated president.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that seriously all there was to her plan? Was the movie really built around the premise that the populace and its existing power structure would suddenly accept Delacort as the new leader just because some computer program said so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-22T18:22:25.413" LastActivityDate="2013-08-22T18:22:25.413" Title="What exactly was Delacort's plan?" Tags="|plot-explanation|elysium|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13129" CreationDate="2013-08-12T19:14:12.703" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;People who lived in/on Elysium were the so called high-strata of society, managed by a Government and supported by Armadyne Corporation. The high-tech facility recognized leaders via it's AI. Sort of like a computerized version of Office Leader board. Upon overriding the program, Delacort would be &lt;em&gt;officially&lt;/em&gt; recognized as the President. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She did not want Armadyne to create a &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; program, but merely modify the existing one to make her the President. In return she promised them defense contracts for the next 200 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, once the system and Armadyne recognized her as the President, there is little anyone else could have done. Neutral people would serve her, while Loyalists to Patel would be in a fix. It simply was a political situation - more like a &lt;em&gt;military coup&lt;/em&gt;, albeit much more complex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people on Earth, were not much intuited by the workings of the Government, since it resided on Elysium. Hence, at large, the general population would be kept out of reach, both politically and physically. Also, the populace of Elysium were wealthy people who would have sided with Delacort at large due to her pro-stance towards them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-08-12T19:14:12.703" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13006" CreationDate="2013-08-12T20:03:15.600" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Drone #166 (the very first one Jack repairs, and the one I assume you are referring to) actually does a scan on Jack. Not with its lasers, but with its &quot;eye&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The drones are equipped with both an &quot;eye&quot;, which seems to be mainly used for navigation and close range scans, and lasers, which seems to be used for long range scans as well as to scan in multiple directions at once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the second meeting with the drone (down in the New York Public Library,) the second scan, which is done with the lasers, is just there for some extra seconds of doubt to make the audience unsure about whether the drone will actually recognize him or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T10:59:38.377" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T10:59:38.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13082" CreationDate="2013-08-13T00:27:45.880" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without knowing too much about Breaking Bad or Mr. Minh, I would guess from the context you provide that the DEA agent is making a reference to Minh being a communist. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When one American derisively suggests a second American is a communist, the meaning is usually that the second American's ideals contrast with typical American ideals. So the DEA agent is implying that the judge is the type who would protect a citizen from persecution from over-zealous law enforcement officials, even if the citizen is likely guilty of a crime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2013-08-13T00:27:45.880" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8170" CreationDate="2013-08-13T07:07:44.300" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is shown from the disjointed perspective of an out of control junkie.  So most everything is in question as to whether it actually happened. How could he have saved the inmate if he nearly broke his back jumping down? Is it possible that the lady cop refused to steal from the property room, but still got the speeding ticket fixed? Yes, very. Is it possible that a college game that was lopsided early became close by the end?  Very possible. It's the SEC. As far as the crack pipe, well he personally got Fates to smoke out of it. And then planted it. All that said, I believe many points throughout the film are &quot;double-takes&quot;  as in we see things happen that never happen AND we see things happen that are left unexplained. Whose body is the gang dumping off the bridge while talking about real estate?  Why so many amphibious and aquatic animals?  I don't think there is supposed to be a clear story.  It's drug induced hallucinogenic and disconnected from cause and effect, but with repetition representing addiction.  Pay attention to the recurring places and themes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5768" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-13T10:39:39.097" LastActivityDate="2013-08-13T10:39:39.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13141" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13144" CreationDate="2013-08-13T08:34:50.427" Score="22" ViewCount="5751" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first season of Game of Thrones, Arya trains with a Dance Master called Syrio Forel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the series their lesson is interrupted when troops burst in and try to capture Arya.  Syrio Forel stays behind with a wooden sword to fight them off but his fate is not shown...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened to him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-08-13T11:24:00.253" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T15:55:09.530" Title="What happened to Syrio, the Dance Master?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12151" CreationDate="2013-08-13T09:15:27.877" Score="12" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Fall of a Nation&lt;/em&gt; (1916)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livescience.com/32781-what-was-the-first-movie-sequel.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;LiveScience&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The Fall of a Nation,&amp;quot; released in 1916, is considered the first feature-length movie sequel, according to &amp;quot;The Story of Hollywood: An Illustrated History&amp;quot; (BL Press, 2006). Directed and co-written by Thomas Dixon, Jr., the silent film is a sequel to director D.W. Griffith's controversial 1915 classic, &amp;quot;The Birth of a Nation.&amp;quot; In his book, &amp;quot;The Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time&amp;quot; (Oxford University Press, 2007), author Melvyn Stokes writes that Dixon made the sequel to capitalize on the success of first film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dixon actually wrote a novel called &amp;quot;The Fall of a Nation&amp;quot; before he did the film. Much like its predecessor, &amp;quot;The Fall of a Nation&amp;quot; was and remains a controversial film, according to Turner Classic Movies, for its glorification of the Ku Klux Klan and promotion of many ugly stereotypes. &amp;quot;Viewed as propaganda, it is a pity it is so reckless,&amp;quot; The New York Times wrote about the film after its screening in 1916 at New York's Liberty Theatre. The paper also called it a &amp;quot;lively, interesting and sometimes preposterous picture.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The Fall of a Nation&amp;quot; is also considered a 'lost' film. Surviving prints of the movie disappeared decades ago and have yet to surface anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sherlock Holmes II&lt;/em&gt; (1908)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z5xeZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sherlock Holmes II&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were earlier series of films. The earliest, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_series&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia's lists&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_series_with_six_entries&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;film series&lt;/a&gt;, is Viggo Larsen's Danish 1908 silent series of Sherlock Holmes films:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000758/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes I&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; also known as &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dfi.dk/faktaomfilm/film/en/36388.aspx?id=36388&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes i Livsfare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Sherlock Holmes Risks His Life&lt;/em&gt;) (20 November 1908)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000759/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes II&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; aka &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dfi.dk/faktaomfilm/film/en/36387.aspx?id=36387&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Raffles' Flugt fra Fængslet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (1908)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000760/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes III&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; aka &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dfi.dk/faktaomfilm/film/en/36389.aspx?id=36389&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Det hemmelige Dokument&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (1908)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0001036/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes IV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; aka &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dfi.dk/faktaomfilm/film/en/36367.aspx?id=36367&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sangerindens Diamanter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;The Theft of Diamonds&lt;/em&gt;) (30 April 1909)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0001037/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes V&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; aka &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dfi.dk/faktaomfilm/film/en/35698.aspx?id=35698&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Den graa Dame&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (27 August 1909)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0001038/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes VI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; aka &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dfi.dk/faktaomfilm/film/en/35062.aspx?id=35062&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Droske 519&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (20 January 1910)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After leaving Danish film company Nordisk, he joined German film company VitaScope and made five further Sherlock Holmes films under the title of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars%C3%A8ne_Lupin_contra_Sherlock_Holmes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Arsène Lupin contra Sherlock Holmes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (1910), followed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/SherlockHolmesContraPr1911.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sherlock Holmes Contra Professor Moriarty&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1911).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-08-13T09:15:27.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13141" CreationDate="2013-08-13T09:48:24.333" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is never specified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least not in the TV series or as far as I have got into the last part of the fifth book.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people think that he was a face changer was the same Bravosie that Arya met later but this seems to just be wishful thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-08-13T09:48:24.333" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13141" CreationDate="2013-08-13T10:57:15.810" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Arya flees, she hears Syrio shout out his battle cry. Later while fighting Ser Meryn Trant, Syrio's wooden sword breaks apart. This is as far as the five books or the 3 season series goes. The actual fate of whether Syrio lives or dies is never specified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Syrio's battle with Ser Meryn Trant in the TV series is portrayed much as it was in the books: except that Syrio does far greater injury to his opponents with his wooden sword, like killing with a blow through the eye. He continues to fight the Kingsguard even after his wooden sword is broken, and as Arya runs away she hears his battle cry. In both the series and the book, his fate is left uncertain. &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Syrio_Forel&quot;&gt;Syrio Forel - Game of Thrones wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-08-13T10:57:15.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13145" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13151" CreationDate="2013-08-13T12:21:55.067" Score="9" ViewCount="2552" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently re-watched &quot;Lost&quot; in its entirety for the first time since the show ended.  Overall, I appreciated the show, and especially seasons 4-6, a great deal more now than I did during my initial watch.  Now I also see that most questions were answered, even though some questions are still left for debate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One question that I do wish the producers had given a more satisfactory answer to, though, is the connection between Eloise Hawking and MIB's loophole.  When Locke leaves the island, he is told by Christian Shephard (i.e. MIB), to find Eloise Hawking in Los Angeles.  Eloise is then later paramount in ensuring that the loophole works in that she is insisting that the coffin with Locke's body must be on board the Ajira-flight, thus providing MIB with his &quot;vessel&quot; for completing the loophole.  These two facts made me think that perhaps Eloise somehow was cooperating with MIB, but this is never really confirmed, and since we know that MIB can not leave the island, this means that MIB must have &quot;recruited&quot; Eloise before she left the island. But if this is the case, how could MIB know about his loophole-plan years before it manifested?  Does MIB perhaps have contact with somebody else off the island who could relay information to Eloise?  Or is it perhaps possible that Eloise really had no contact with MIB, and simply insisted Locke's body had to be on the Ajira-flight in order to have a &quot;substitue&quot; for Christian Shephard's body which was on Oceanic 815?  Or was she somehow manipulated by MIB without her knowledge through some way never seen on the show?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really do not find a satisfactory answer to this, so I would love to hear some theories from other people here!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5774" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-14T17:38:35.507" LastActivityDate="2013-08-14T17:38:35.507" Title="Eloise Hawking's connection to MIB and the loophole" Tags="|plot-explanation|lost|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13086" CreationDate="2013-08-13T15:24:01.860" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fistful-of-leone.com/forums/index.php?threadid=240;start=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sergio Leone Web Board&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've seen OUATITW close to 100 times.  I saw it at the theater in 1969.  My best opinion on what the brother says to Frank is  &quot;You sick son of a bitch....I'll show you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2013-08-13T15:24:01.860" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13145" CreationDate="2013-08-13T15:56:17.960" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eloise Hawking was one of the Others.  As such, she had been communicating with the MIB (at least during Ben Linus' reign as leader of the Others).  The 'loophole' was part of MIB's years in the making plan to escape the island, and as such MIB would have provided Eloise/The Others with pieces of the plan that they needed to contribute to.  The Others have reliable ways of communicating and traveling to/from the Island.  That's the (admittedly off-camera, and not fully explained in the show) way that she would know of the need to have Locke on the plane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, she was also responsible for getting Desmond onto the Island originally.  In the final season it was revealed that Desmond was part of a plot that Widmore and Hawking enacted to kill the MIB.  Desmond's ability to survive exposure to large amounts of electromagnetism was used to get him to the heart of the Island, where he temporarily disabled the MIB's immortality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So presumably Eloise took orders from the MIB.  But also, at some point (likely after realizing she'd shot her own time-traveling son), she started enacting a plan to kill the MIB.  Widmore worked with her on this, although he likely started contributing later, as he was working to dethrone Linus until pretty late in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-08-13T15:56:17.960" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13152" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-13T16:11:37.607" Score="16" ViewCount="2023" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the US version of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703925/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wilfred&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; it is established right at the beginning and a recurring theme that Wilfred is a big fan of Matt Damon, yet I don't think it is ever explained why. Furthermore the 1st episode of the 2nd season makes an amazing reference to &lt;em&gt;Good Will Hunting&lt;/em&gt; in one of the best scenes of the show (and maybe there are more references to Matt Damon movies I haven't recognized).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there any reason or explanation why Wilfred is such a big Matt Damon fan?&lt;/strong&gt; I'd be interested in both in-universe explanations (if any, maybe there's something about him attractive to dogs?) as well as explanations from a writer's standpoint of why in particular Matt Damon was chosen and if there is any further meaning to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(But maybe it was just an arbitrary decision and there isn't much more to it. If relevant, I haven't seen much of the 2nd season and further yet, but don't fear spoilers either.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2020-09-24T06:42:14.853" LastActivityDate="2020-09-24T06:42:14.853" Title="Why is Wilfred a fan of Matt Damon?" Tags="|analysis|wilfred|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13153" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13154" CreationDate="2013-08-13T16:18:59.287" Score="17" ViewCount="28606" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;em&gt;House, MD&lt;/em&gt;, there was a running gag were for every case, someone would suggest that it could be a specific disease but it never was (I can’t remember if it ever turned out to be the case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I knew it not to long ago, but seem to have completely forgotten it now. I keep wanting to say polio, but that doesn’t seem to be right, and Googling it is not turning up anything because most people don’t bother with the “MD”, so searching for &lt;code&gt;house &quot;it could be&quot;&lt;/code&gt; or even &lt;code&gt;house md running joke &quot;could be&quot;&lt;/code&gt; aren’t very helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the disease that they always suggest it might be? Bonus points if you know if it ever turned out to be correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastEditorUserId="4174" LastEditDate="2013-08-19T15:43:24.907" LastActivityDate="2020-12-25T09:51:09.480" Title="What was the “It Could Be” running joke on House MD?" Tags="|house|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13153" CreationDate="2013-08-13T16:54:33.233" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was Lupus, and in one episode it actually was Lupus, which the characters commented on as being surprising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing a google search for &lt;code&gt;house it's never lupus&lt;/code&gt; gets you tons of hits, including to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-not-lupus&quot;&gt;Know your meme&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-08-13T16:54:33.233" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12730" CreationDate="2013-08-13T18:55:23.430" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I finally got a copy of &lt;em&gt;The Glass Key&lt;/em&gt; and watched it.  It is a good movie, and more to the point a good murder mystery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The information I had read online (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Harvest#Adaptations&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;including apparently information from Kurosawa himself&lt;/a&gt;) at multiple different sources put &lt;em&gt;The Glass Key&lt;/em&gt; at the beginning of chain of movies I listed in the question.  I can see where Kurosawa would have seen inspiration in this movie, but honestly it doesn't appear that &lt;em&gt;Yojimbo&lt;/em&gt; is an adaptation of &lt;em&gt;The Glass Key&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For one, the central plot in &lt;em&gt;Yojimbo&lt;/em&gt;, and subsequently &lt;em&gt;A Fistful of Dollars&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Last Man Standing&lt;/em&gt;, turns out to only be a minor plot device in &lt;em&gt;The Glass Key&lt;/em&gt;.  That being the concept of one man in the middle, playing both sides against each other.  Although there is a build up to a scene like this in &lt;em&gt;The Glass Key&lt;/em&gt;, it is just that... one scene.  It also doesn't work out the same, both in the work up to it, and the way it plays out.  The Main character starts off the movie loyal to the Boss of one side (in the two sides in this movie).  He makes a partially public break from his Boss, gets the head of the other side to offer a large pay off and start to give him information... but the plot similarity seems to end there.  He doesn't take the money, and... well... read on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now... the scene immediately following takes place in a warehouse apparently.  There appears to be the makings of a still in the background of the room, and the main character is beaten badly by thugs in this room.  He distracts his captors and escapes... and it seems that all three subsequent movies all use this scene in the movie, albeit loosely.  However the specifics of the opening of this scene, and the contents of this scene appear to be a nod from &lt;em&gt;Yojimbo&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;The Glass Key&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hi3TG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the main character in &lt;em&gt;The Glass Key&lt;/em&gt;, getting up after being beaten before the scene begins.  We don't see the initial beating, we only get to watch some more of it in the scene itself.  The still can be seen in the background.  His captors, a large thug who does all the beating, and a small thug who seems to provide comments, are playing a game of cards while they &quot;watch&quot; the main character.  Immediately after that screenshot, he crawls across the floor and attempts to get out of the door, but is picked up by the large thug, carried back to the bed, and beaten.  The little thug warns the big one not to kill him, and the big one shrugs it off, talking about how tough the main character is.  During the scene he is beaten more, but his captors get no further information out of him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yqKxJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the main character in &lt;em&gt;Yojimbo&lt;/em&gt;, waking up after a beating, in a storeroom of a brewery.  His captors, a big thug and a small one are playing a game to pass the time.  Our main character crawls across the floor and attempts to get out.  The big thug almost lifts him by his head, and actually throws him across the room away from the door.  The little thug warns the big one not to kill him, while the big one shrugs it off pointing out that he is fine because he is &quot;groaning&quot;.  The scene cuts soon after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The similarities of these two scenes down to the actors, their actions and the rest of the scene content, are so close in the way they play out that it can only have been done on purpose by Kurosawa as a tip of the hat or an homage to Stuart Heisler and &lt;em&gt;The Glass Key&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll have to watch &lt;em&gt;The Glass Key&lt;/em&gt; a few more times to see if there are any more scenes like this one, but like I said, the main plot of the movie is &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; different from &lt;em&gt;Yojimbo&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;A Fistful of Dollars&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Last Man Standing&lt;/em&gt;.  With such a large difference, the contents of all the other scenes in the movie play out quite differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2013-08-13T18:55:23.430" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10452" CreationDate="2013-08-14T08:12:21.167" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the voice change was more about drama and theatralics as Bane often used them. E.g. When Bruce is in the pit, Bane says &lt;em&gt;&quot;when gotham is ashes, you have my permission to die...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we could speculate what emotion spectrum the voice change signified, Bane's voice itself was very &lt;em&gt;unique&lt;/em&gt;, and that makes it difficult to try and guess such a thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Bruce calls them all &lt;em&gt;a gang of psychopaths&lt;/em&gt;, Bane is clearly agitated and proceeds to beat up Bruce. So I think that &lt;em&gt;The League of Shadows&lt;/em&gt; is something that entices &lt;em&gt;pride&lt;/em&gt; for him. So he says it in (&lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt;) a prideful tone - that they both are &lt;em&gt;members&lt;/em&gt; of the League, and above all the theatralics and deceptions that Batman was using to distract Bane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, since Bane holds the League very close to himself, he harbored a particular resentment towards Bruce for shunning the League. Clear examples of this resentment can be seen when Bruce insults the League, and also when in spite of Talia asking Bane to stop until the Bomb explodes, Bane proceeds to kill Bruce. Hence more so the reason to elevate the League in front of Bruce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-14T09:46:52.663" LastActivityDate="2013-08-14T09:46:52.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8052" CreationDate="2013-08-14T09:20:18.140" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It represented &lt;em&gt;England&lt;/em&gt; in the beginning of Skyfall when M was writing Bond's obituary. The Bulldog was facing outwards as if M was looking out for and over England. For the rest of the movie, the dog was facing inwards as if England was watching her. Then at the end when Eve gave the dog to him, it was M telling Bond that now she wants him to look out for and over England... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5784" LastEditorUserId="1461" LastEditDate="2013-08-14T10:04:49.987" LastActivityDate="2013-08-14T10:04:49.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11810" CreationDate="2013-08-14T10:52:32.407" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assumed that they felt killing him just was not worth the bother of stopping what they were doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not as if he was a threat or anything.  So what if he warned people, they were on the march anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-08-14T10:52:32.407" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12376" CreationDate="2013-08-14T11:00:07.770" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is only one movie pair in this list that is a real and proved issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Bug's Life&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Ants&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can read &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bug%27s_Life#Rivaling_DreamWorks_and_Antz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and in more detail in Steve Jobs's biography, it really seems like there was something going on at the time between Pixar and Dreamworks, and in particular between Dreamwork's Jeffrey Katzenberg and Pixar's Steve Jobs &amp;amp; John Lasseter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For every other movie pair in the list I agree with Christian Rau as to their being results of a trend and a rush for competition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5612" LastEditorUserId="18624" LastEditDate="2015-06-03T01:17:52.577" LastActivityDate="2015-06-03T01:17:52.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9772" CreationDate="2013-08-14T11:51:23.840" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the initials H.M. were never explained in terms of what Murdock's actual first and middle name were, and the nickname &amp;quot;Howlin' Mad&amp;quot; were simply attributed to them (although it is rumored that his name comes from World War II Marine Corps General Holland M. Smith, aka &amp;quot;Howlin' Mad&amp;quot;, a nickname given by his troops). Not even his driver's license reveals what &amp;quot;H.M&amp;quot; stands for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_A-Team_(season_5)#Episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Season 5 Episode 13&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Episode showed the rumor that the H.M. 'Howlin Mad' nickname came from Holland M. Smith. Apart from that, no other explanation of his name have ever been given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="83431" LastEditDate="2022-12-25T23:31:50.573" LastActivityDate="2022-12-25T23:31:50.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13165" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-14T11:55:40.610" Score="13" ViewCount="8152" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the scene in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; S01E06 where Khal Drogo pours molten gold over Viserys's head and he dies, Daenerys says that a real (&lt;em&gt;dragon&lt;/em&gt;) Targaryen could never have been killed by that.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CYHQB.png&quot; alt=&quot;crown of gold&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we know that &lt;em&gt;dragon&lt;/em&gt; blooded Targaryens are immune to fire, how does that translate to being immune to a pot full of molten gold? The Molten metal might have anyways killed any person on whom it was poured over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T14:10:33.433" Title="How is a Targaryen immune to molten metal?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13165" CreationDate="2013-08-14T15:05:13.533" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought they were immune to heat rather than just fire, hence the heat from the molten gold (whether it could have got that hot in the pan is another question) would not have killed him if he was a 'real' dragon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-08-14T15:05:13.533" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13169" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13172" CreationDate="2013-08-14T17:23:23.933" Score="7" ViewCount="3504" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the quality (&lt;em&gt;I believe it was percentage of pure product&lt;/em&gt;) of the best batch made by Walt in Breaking Bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; In the latest episode, there is a complaint about the quality in the product produced by the people now cooking with Methylamine Walt was in possession of. I want to know just how drastic the quality drop was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5788" LastEditorUserId="4128" LastEditDate="2013-08-14T23:27:26.307" LastActivityDate="2013-08-14T23:28:23.250" Title="What grade was the best batch of meth?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13165" CreationDate="2013-08-14T17:36:02.423" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Targaryens are not immune to fire, heat or molten metal. According to George R.R. Martin (the author of the books, if anyone was in doubt) the birth of the dragons was a special magical event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a few sources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/37473&quot;&gt;Is Daenerys Targaryen immune to fire? - Scifi.StackExchange&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Snippet from an interview)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;George_RR_Martin: Granny, thanks for asking that. It gives me a chance to clear up a common misconception. TARGARYENS ARE NOT IMMUNE TO FIRE! The birth of Dany's dragons was unique, magical, wonderous, a miracle. She is called The Unburnt because she walked into the flames and lived. But her brother sure as hell wasn't immune to that molten gold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Revanshe: So she won't be able to do it again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;George_RR_Martin: Probably not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/House_Targaryen#Traits&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Wiki of Ice and Fire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Targaryens can tolerate a bit more heat than most ordinary people, though they are by no means immune to fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then again. These statements are most likely about the books and not the TV series. So it is possible that it is changed in the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/House_Targaryen#Background&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This wiki&lt;/a&gt;, which seems to be mostly about the series, states the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Targaryens have some common genetic traits such as silver-white hair. Some members of the family are also immune to the effects of fire, extreme heat, or high temperatures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember though that these wikis are maintained by fans that might have the same misconception about the immunity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1344" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-08-14T17:36:02.423" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13169" CreationDate="2013-08-14T19:18:49.080" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best I can do based on memory and a bit of research are two examples of the purity mentioned in the show:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) In a flashback scene at the start of Season 4, episode 1 titled &quot;Box Cutter&quot;, Gale tells Gus that his product is 96% pure, but that whomever makes the &quot;blue stuff&quot; has achieved a purity of 99%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683084/synopsis&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683084/synopsis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) In the opening scene to the Season 5, episode 7 episode titled &quot;Say My Name&quot;, Walter specifically states that his product is 99.1% pure compared to the other group's 70% purity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad#Say_My_Name_.5B5.07.5D&quot;&gt;http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad#Say_My_Name_.5B5.07.5D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, the highest quality I can recall being referenced specifically is &lt;strong&gt;99.1%&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2013-08-14T19:18:49.080" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13165" CreationDate="2013-08-14T21:17:11.417" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Targaryens, as was referenced heavily in the other answers are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; immune to fire. Several Targaryens have been killed by fire and dragons in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However (book spoilers ahead):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Dany does survive two fires. However it is still not known why this happened. Is it some form of rare genetic trait that only a few Targaryens possess, or is Dany special in some other way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But back to the question. What Dany probably meant wasn't that a true Targaryen wouldn't be killed by the molten metal. It was simply her coping mechanism for losing her brother (and until recently her only family) in a very horrible way. For a very long time Dany truly believed that her brother Viserys was the rightful ruler of Westeros and a true dragon. As the frightened child progressively becomes the Khaleesi, she starts to lose faith in her brother. This culminates at his death scene. The man who just died with a crown of molten gold was not the brother she loved a long time ago. He wasn't a dragon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-08-14T21:17:11.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12337" CreationDate="2013-08-15T00:43:46.670" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok I looked in to this by watching the movie a few times. What I think is that they were in the room for pretty much the entire movie, so once they took control of the room and the computer, they started working on the codes. The code breaker had been split up into three different sets, splitting up the power. The President pretty much gave them what they needed. With 2 of the codes unlocked, the software was able to focus all its power to break the last code. Which in fact it had already been working on for pretty much the entire time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that guy is smart enough to infiltrate the South Korean security team and be the biggest terrorist on the planet, then he is smart enough to have backup plans. Like having the next-gen weaponry in place and covering the White House in C4. And also knowing about the interiors of the White House. Breaking one code, though it was random, should be pretty easy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5791" LastEditorUserId="1461" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T06:13:28.770" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T06:13:28.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13181" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-15T08:36:17.050" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;General questions about the film industry and its workings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_industry&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Film industry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T11:29:06.487" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T11:29:06.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13182" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-15T08:36:17.050" Score="0" Body="General questions about the film industry and its workings." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T08:36:17.050" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T08:36:17.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13183" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-15T08:39:53.580" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;2013 movie centering around the character of &lt;em&gt;Wolverine&lt;/em&gt; as known from the &lt;em&gt;Marvel&lt;/em&gt; comics and played by &lt;em&gt;Hugh Jackman&lt;/em&gt;. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430132/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolverine_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T08:39:53.580" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T08:39:53.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13184" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-15T08:39:53.580" Score="0" Body="2013 movie centering around the character of Wolverine as known from the Marvel comics and played by Hugh Jackman." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T08:39:53.580" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T08:39:53.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13185" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-15T08:47:47.537" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;General questions about the classification of movies into different genres and their respective meanings and origins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T08:47:47.537" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T08:47:47.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13186" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-15T08:47:47.537" Score="0" Body="General questions about the classification of movies into different genres and their respective meanings and origins." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T08:47:47.537" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T08:47:47.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13187" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-15T08:48:55.243" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions concerning the censorship of movies or TV shows, its reasons, and implications for the resulting movie and the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T21:45:09.330" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T21:45:09.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13188" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-15T08:48:55.243" Score="0" Body="Questions concerning the censorship of movies or TV shows, its reasons, and implications for the resulting movie and the audience." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T21:44:46.170" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T21:44:46.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13189" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-15T09:01:54.660" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;U.S. TV-sitcom about a manic depressive man (Elijah Wood), who is the only one that can see the eponymous dog Wilfred as an actual man in a dog suit (Jason Gann), and his way to get his life back on track with the rather unorthodox help of Wilfred. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703925/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_%28U.S._TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T09:01:54.660" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T09:01:54.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13190" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-15T09:01:54.660" Score="0" Body="U.S. TV-sitcom about a man who is the only one that can see the eponymous dog Wilfred as an actual man in a dog suit." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T09:01:54.660" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T09:01:54.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13192" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-15T12:31:28.787" Score="8" ViewCount="46862" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Mike died in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, did the DEA confiscate his money, or did his granddaughter inherit it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5797" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-27T09:49:23.457" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T18:20:42.260" Title="Did Mike's granddaughter get Mike's money?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9048" CreationDate="2013-08-15T12:35:37.983" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I honestly wouldn't read too much into the color change matter, as the neuralizer itself is really a sort of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macguffin&quot;&gt;MacGuffin&lt;/a&gt;. They aren't the main driving point of the movie like an actual MacGuffin, but they exist simply to provide an explanation to the question, &quot;What about the people who witness aliens or the problems they cause while on Earth?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're never really told exactly how the neuralizers work (if I recall correctly), only that they're used to wipe the memories of anyone who has witnessed aliens that shouldn't have. As such, their existence in the movie is merely a simple solution to what would otherwise be a complex answer, and the color change between them could possibly just be a continuity error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T12:35:37.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13194" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-15T13:04:26.010" Score="4" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Secret Service agent who was the traitor informed Kang that Banning was dead. After that the agent did not return to Kang for a long time. Shouldn't Kang, who was a wicked mastermind, have doubted his delay to return? The agent also had a radio. Kang could have contacted him to enquire about the delay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-10T17:59:02.583" LastActivityDate="2013-09-10T17:59:02.583" Title="Shouldn't Kang be concerned when the Secret Service agent does not return?" Tags="|olympus-has-fallen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13196" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-15T15:31:33.680" Score="6" ViewCount="1268" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194173/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Bourne Legacy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the blue pills enhanced the intelligence of the agents. But did they only enhance intelligence, or did they also affect the agents' behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember them saying that the facility was designed for behavioral design.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=bourne-legacy-the&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;transcript&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And people there are working&#xA;  on behavioral design.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  It's programmable behavior,&#xA;  neural design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is she talking about the conditioning that Jason Bourne and others went through, or is she also talking about the drugs they gave them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T18:44:08.710" LastActivityDate="2013-08-20T02:05:26.240" Title="Did the blue pills cause behavioral modification?" Tags="|the-bourne-legacy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13197" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-15T15:34:31.190" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T15:34:31.190" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T15:34:31.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13198" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-15T15:34:31.190" Score="0" Body="1972 Movie - Animation/Comedy - Starring the voices of Skip Hinnant, Rosetta LeNoire, &amp; John McCurry. Directed by Ralph Bakshi. A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960's." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T15:48:16.067" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T15:48:16.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13199" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-15T15:40:35.790" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T15:40:35.790" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T15:40:35.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13200" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-15T15:40:35.790" Score="0" Body="Term describing three so called Spaghetti Western movies directed by Sergio Leone, namely A Fist Full of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. " OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T16:02:37.903" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T16:02:37.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13201" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-15T15:44:30.100" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Conjuring&lt;/em&gt; is a 2013 American horror, mystery, thriller film. It is directed by James Wan, and written by Chad Hayes and Carey Hayes. It stars Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ron Livingston, and Lili Taylor. It released USA-wide on July 19, 2013. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDb Storyline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 1971, Carolyn and Roger Perron move their family into a dilapidated Rhode Island farm house and soon strange things start happening around it with escalating nightmarish terror. In desperation, Carolyn contacts the noted paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren, to examine the house. What the Warrens discover is a whole area steeped in a satanic haunting that is now targeting the Perron family wherever they go. To stop this evil, the Warrens will have to call upon all their skills and spiritual strength to defeat this spectral menace at its source that threatens to destroy everyone involved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1457767/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conjuring&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41249" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2017-01-11T08:25:07.817" LastActivityDate="2017-01-11T08:25:07.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13202" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-15T15:44:30.100" Score="0" Body="2013 Movie - Horror/Thriller - Starring Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, &amp; Lili Taylor. Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. " OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T16:02:41.920" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T16:02:41.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13203" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-15T15:50:30.980" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T15:50:30.980" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T15:50:30.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13204" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-15T15:50:30.980" Score="0" Body="2000 Movie - Action/Adventure/Thriller - Starring Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, &amp; Donald Sutherland. An aging engineer is called upon to become an astronaut save a failing satellite of which he unwittingly designed the guidance system. He calls upon his buddies to help him in space to save the failing craft." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T16:02:32.450" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T16:02:32.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9048" CreationDate="2013-08-15T15:56:51.750" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is never implied in the movie whether the color of the neuralizers are any indication of their technological progress. You can simply put them as having different colors without reading too much into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many possibilities to your doubt, but I maintain that the colors were simply design choices, and nothing conscious. According to you, the mass neuralizer on the Statue of Liberty was blue. It could simply have been upgraded (if that is indeed the case) along with other neuralizer technology. It isn't shown that only K had the switch to activate the neuralizer. Maybe the MIB had a switch, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; K personally had one? These details are not available in any &lt;em&gt;canon&lt;/em&gt;. Hence, it will raise only opinions and speculations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T15:56:51.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13206" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-15T16:03:38.587" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T16:03:38.587" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T16:03:38.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13207" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-15T16:03:38.587" Score="0" Body="2010 Movie - Action/Adventure/Comedy - Starring Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, &amp; Alfred Molina. Master sorcerer Balthazar Blake must find and train Merlin's descendant to defeat dark sorceress Morgana le Fey. " OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T16:16:54.357" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T16:16:54.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13196" CreationDate="2013-08-15T16:46:36.003" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;She was speaking about some of the various projects that people were working on at the facility.  Some of her coworkers were working on programmable behavior, unrelated to the project she herself was working on.  While it's possible the blue pills contained that technology, I don't think the film is suggesting that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The relevant dialogue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Look, there are projects at Sterisyn, defense projects that could explain why he did what he did.  And people there are working on behavioral design. It's programmable behavior, neural design. Do you understand what I'm saying to you? I think he was exposed to something at the lab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-08-20T01:35:32.483" LastActivityDate="2013-08-20T01:35:32.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13213" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-15T20:59:06.343" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T20:59:06.343" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T20:59:06.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13214" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-15T20:59:06.343" Score="0" Body="TV series about a computer geek who inadvertently downloads critical government secrets to his brain." OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-15T21:51:57.883" LastActivityDate="2013-08-15T21:51:57.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="514" CreationDate="2013-08-15T22:55:34.063" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;While &lt;em&gt;Barry&lt;/em&gt; is quite spot on with his characterization of her as a female &lt;em&gt;Belloq&lt;/em&gt;, I'd say she was a more ambivalent character than him, and &lt;strong&gt;not as easily chracterizable as a bad girl.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While &lt;em&gt;Belloq&lt;/em&gt; had some problems with the Nazis' treatment of &lt;em&gt;Marion&lt;/em&gt;, he certainly was quite at terms with his collaboration with them, even if he wasn't sharing their ideals. Now, it may be that &lt;em&gt;Elsa&lt;/em&gt; was just more emotional than &lt;em&gt;Belloq&lt;/em&gt;, but, &lt;strong&gt;to me it seemed like she was in a much larger conflict because of her collaboration with the Nazis&lt;/strong&gt; than he was. This is shown in her reactions at the sight of the book burning ceremony (which goes against her ideals as a discoverer and pursuer of knowledge) and the death of one of the members of the secret order in the desert and his dying words (which might also have reminded her of the fact that the grail is more than just a simple archeological relic). In fact, I don't think that she strived so much for the power of the grail, but, rather for the mere discovery of it, especially since &lt;em&gt;&quot;Elsa never really believed in the grail&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. In the end she was more of a pursuer of truth and knowledge rather than power, I think (which is why she might have had a bigger problem with the Nazis than &lt;em&gt;Belloq&lt;/em&gt; had), and therefore &lt;strong&gt;more similar to &lt;em&gt;Indiana Jones&lt;/em&gt; himself.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, in line with &lt;em&gt;AidanO&lt;/em&gt;'s comment, I think especially in her similarity to &lt;em&gt;Indiana&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;she also helps to demonstrate that there are limits to what one can know and find, and that there are things more important than mankind's striving for more knowledge and relics.&lt;/strong&gt; This is demonstrated at the end when she doesn't respect the limit of the grail not being able to move beyond the great seal and dies trying to salvage it. In fact even &lt;em&gt;Indiana&lt;/em&gt; risks his life in the same way as she does, but unlike her he is reasonable enough to let himself get talked out of it by his father. In the end the grail itself &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; just a cup, not worth a single archeologist's life (and even his father has finally realized this after a life in which his son &lt;em&gt;&quot;was less important to him than people who'd been dead for 500 hundred years in another country&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, or a supposed ming vase for that matter ;-)). So, while &lt;em&gt;Elsa&lt;/em&gt; somehow represents the urge of mankind for discovery and development, she also &lt;strong&gt;represents the problems of pure rationalism and disrespect for the things not &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to be known and discovered&lt;/strong&gt; (yet a moral I don't necessarily share myself), which in my opinion also fits to the slightly spiritual atmosphere of the whole movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, last but not least, &lt;strong&gt;she also served as a more interesting love interest to &lt;em&gt;Indiana&lt;/em&gt; due to the conflict of them being on opposing sides.&lt;/strong&gt; The fact that she was, simply spoken (yet very simply, given the above elaborations), a bad girl and more or less a female equal to &lt;em&gt;Indiana&lt;/em&gt; himself provided much more conflict and a more mature angle to her relationship with &lt;em&gt;Indiana&lt;/em&gt; than if she had just been yet another damsel in distress like in the previous movies (especially compared to &lt;em&gt;Willie Scott&lt;/em&gt; from &lt;em&gt;The Temple of Doom&lt;/em&gt;, who was even more like a kid than &lt;em&gt;Shorty&lt;/em&gt; was). This might be in line with the movie in my opinion being the most serious and mature of the whole franchise (yet of course still with the general lightheartedness we love &lt;em&gt;Indiana Jones&lt;/em&gt; for).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-10T23:09:22.803" LastActivityDate="2014-08-10T23:09:22.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13216" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13217" CreationDate="2013-08-16T05:20:12.443" Score="9" ViewCount="449" Body="&lt;p&gt;The beginning of the movie shows a scene where a boy goes out to play, only to return home and find that time has lapsed by more than 17 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have something to do with time travel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which movie is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5804" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-16T11:45:31.257" LastActivityDate="2013-08-16T11:45:31.257" Title="Guy returns home to find time has lapsed by 17 years" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:47:40.170" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13216" CreationDate="2013-08-16T06:51:09.473" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are talking about the movie &quot;Flight of the Navigator&quot;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Navigator&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Navigator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It involves space travel at light speed and therefore time travel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although only 8 years are passed in this movie when he returns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5612" LastActivityDate="2013-08-16T06:51:09.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13192" CreationDate="2013-08-16T07:57:58.913" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. When money is found to have been gotten through illegal means it no longer belongs to the initial beneficiaries. This money (from what I understand) now belongs to the state. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the latest episode (spoiler)  (aired 11th of August 2013)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; we see Jessie attempting to give half of his share of the $5mil (given to him by Walter/Heisenberg) to Mike's Granddaughter, knowing she now needs the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I hope this answers your question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5805" LastActivityDate="2013-08-16T07:57:58.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13221" CreationDate="2013-08-16T08:15:46.430" Score="12" ViewCount="1057" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Family Guy the mayor of Quahog is Adam West&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3tplE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this character a representation of the actor who played Batman?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EMEY6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is the character's name just a coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2018-05-27T09:32:35.567" Title="Is the Mayor of Quahog Batman?" Tags="|family-guy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13219" CreationDate="2013-08-16T08:34:11.493" Score="4" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The actor who voices Adam West in Family Guy actually is Adam West (the guy who plays the Batman you pictured).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whether it's a real representation of the actor himself (modern appearance) is something you'll have to determine yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whether there's some in-joke or particular reason why Adam West was cast or the character name was the same is something that's unknown (at least in my limited research I just did now).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5806" LastActivityDate="2013-08-16T08:34:11.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13219" CreationDate="2013-08-16T10:09:27.173" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;When asked about the Adam West character in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/articles/seth-macfarlane,13910/&quot;&gt;interview with A.V. Club&lt;/a&gt;, Seth MacFarlane said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera, and he guest-starred as himself. He was so funny, and he's got this way about him. I think he likes playing into what he's known for, even on a casual basis. He's a really fun guy to work with, and genuinely gets comedy. It's not the type of situation where you just bring somebody in to make fun of themselves. &lt;strong&gt;The character we've created is kind of this alternate-universe Adam West where he's mayor of this town, and we deliberately have not made any references to Batman, because we like keeping that separate.&lt;/strong&gt; It's the obvious place to go. We tried it, we thought it would be funny to do something different with the mayor of this town. People like Clint Eastwood and Martin Sheen who have taken whacks at this sort of thing–there's a precedent for it, actors getting into politics. He's the mayor, but he's this guy who clearly does not have it all together. The first couple episodes we did, we got a great response from fans in their teens, who I can't imagine, necessarily, know who he is from the old Batman show. He's one of the characters we get the most requests for more of. It's nice, because to me it means we've built a funny character around him that doesn't just play off of the fact that he's a celebrity. &lt;strong&gt;He's playing himself, but he's not playing himself.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-16T10:59:12.853" LastActivityDate="2013-08-16T10:59:12.853" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12815" CreationDate="2013-08-16T11:30:06.387" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't find any plot dilemma here at all. Oh Dae Su was imprisoned because the antagonist wanted him to suffer. Whether he deserved this is never discussed because the punishment came from a sociopath with the same anger and drive for revenge from when he was a kid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He believed (rightfully so) that Oh Dae Su was the cause for his sister's death as they could never survive in a strict Korean society knowing about this incestuous pregnancy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The antagonist lived a life loving his sister and also plotting his revenge. Over the years this drive for revenge would only grow without closure. This would be the cause for plotting and scheming on a sociopathic level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After 15  or so years he finally decided Oh Dea Su was ready to feel what it was to love one from your own family. Here begins the elaborate plan for Oh Dea Su to unknowingly build an intimate (and sexual) realationship with his own daughter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the antagonist finallly lets Oh Dea Su know the whole story he's finally acomplished what he wanted, for Oh Dea Su to feel the same feelings he did. With that done he now feels he has no other purpose in life because he spent so long plotting his revenge, and so kills himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh Dea Su lives the rest of his life with his daughter all the while knowing the truth in the back of his mind. And there is where our antagonist wins. He wanted Oh Dea Su to feel the shame of a strongly incestuous relationship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this answers your question. With these long answers it's easy to sidetrack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5805" LastEditorUserId="5805" LastEditDate="2013-08-16T13:55:13.017" LastActivityDate="2013-08-16T13:55:13.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="66655" CreationDate="2013-08-16T11:49:27.267" Score="16" ViewCount="2684" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Twelve Monkeys&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as being centered around the fact that the past cannot be changed. But why is that? Is it a physical law that makes it impossible to change or is it just the scientists that don't want to change it for any reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5612" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-16T14:05:38.753" LastActivityDate="2021-02-28T22:02:38.897" Title="Why don't they try to change the past?" Tags="|plot-explanation|time-travel|12-monkeys|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13223" CreationDate="2013-08-16T11:54:10.600" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I gathered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our protagonist was unable to change the past because it was part of his present. He could have changed everything had he been told by someone else sent to him. This person would have to have gone to a timeline where the same big event ocurs, found out the truth and then go back to our progagonists timeline to let him know&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people in charge could have changed things (I think) but didn't as it's likely they wouldn't be in charge in the altered reality. They were in a  position of power that was too beneficial to them to care about everyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5805" LastEditorUserId="5805" LastEditDate="2013-08-16T12:02:46.557" LastActivityDate="2013-08-16T12:02:46.557" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13223" CreationDate="2013-08-16T13:47:31.367" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Caveat: Looking for logic in time-travel movies is an exercise in recursive futility.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea in &lt;em&gt;12 Monkeys&lt;/em&gt; is that the past is, in many ways, &lt;em&gt;read only&lt;/em&gt;. You can go back and &amp;quot;read&amp;quot; all you want, but you won't be able to &amp;quot;write&amp;quot; anything that will (meaningfully) change the timeline. Alternatively, you can attempt to change an event, but since the timeline is already set, it accounts for your &amp;quot;hack&amp;quot; and adjusts events to reconcile the &amp;quot;new&amp;quot; timeline to the original version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keeping the above in mind, the scientists in the future are content to send people into the past to get information and communicate it back to them in the future. The scientists are aware of the paradox that if they could change such a catastrophic event in the past, then they wouldn't be considering doing so at all (in their present). Presumably they have tried to change things in the past and know that it's something impossible to do. They are, therefore, happy to use time travel purely as an archaeological avenue to find out enough information about the virus to allow them to synthesise a cure in &lt;em&gt;their present&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This subject is tackled to an extent in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/faq?ref_=tt_faq_1#.2.1.8&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why can't the future be changed, as Cole says?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are roughly two major schools of thought on the subject of time travel in (science) fiction. One is that a timeline is 'flexible' and can be changed. When a certain outcome is undesireable, one needs to travel back to a point in the past, and change whatever caused the undesiarable outcome to happen. For instance, in order to save your mother from being run over by a car, you travel back in time so that you can push her out of the car's way and save her life. Most popular movies about time-travel adhere to this principle (e.g. Back to the Future (1985), Donnie Darko (2001), The Terminator (1984), and The Butterfly Effect) (2004).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another theory is that the timeline is 'fixed' and can't be changed. The present is already the result of the past plus all attempts to try and manipulate the present. This implies that whatever you try to prevent by traveling back in time will be unsuccesful, or, worse, instrumental in causing whatever you tried to prevent. In case of the mother example, according to this theory, you can travel back in time to a moment before she was hit, but any action you might take will not be succesful in saving her. Possible scenarios are that you don't make it in time for some reason: perhaps in your hurry, you are hit by a car yourself, or you could shout at her to watch out for the car, thereby distracting her from the traffic, and thus causing her death. Movies following this principle are Sphere (1998), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), The Time Machine (1960), and Twelve Monkeys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cole says that the future can't be changed, which proves to be true. Throughout the movie we see and hear about things that are said to happen in the future, and they all inevitably happen. Of course, the main event is that the global virus infection occurs. &lt;strong&gt;Cole's mission is not to prevent it, because the scientists know he can't; the very fact that the infection happened is evidence that it could not be prevented anyway.&lt;/strong&gt; Furthermore, by traveling back into the past, Cole sets in motion a chain of events that lead to the very future he comes from, e.g. the mysterious recording by Kathryn to the future, in which she identifies the Army of the Twelve Monkeys as the source of the virus. Cole and the scientists hear the recording and Cole is sent back in time to investigate; however, because of Cole's interactions with Kathryn Railly, he causes Kathryn to make this recording. In essence, the events that trigger him to travel through time actaully cause them, which is known as a time paradox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the future is set does not prevent Cole from trying to change it anyway. It is in his nature to try, simply because he does not know the exact details of what caused that particular future to happen and what his failure in trying was. For instance, it is known in the future that there was an outbreak of a virus, but not who or what started it. After the Army of the Twelve Monkeys appeared to be a dead end, Cole and Kathryn identify the real perpetrator at the airport, and try to stop him. This ends in Cole's death, which is witnessed by the young Cole, explaining the strange dreams he always had. It had never occurred to the young Cole that he actually saw himself dying, so the adult Cole never knew what fate would await him if he would try to prevent the virus outbreak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T05:47:58.093" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13223" CreationDate="2013-08-16T14:04:37.183" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two approaches to time travel science fiction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That time is &lt;strong&gt;ONE&lt;/strong&gt; fabric and continuous. Which makes it sort of a physics law that the past cannot be changed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Time is something like a &lt;em&gt;dimension&lt;/em&gt;. Which means that there can be alternate realities, parallel realities, well &lt;em&gt;take your pick.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 12 Monkeys, no matter what the actions are, the consequences are always the same. E.g. Red Army herring, Releasing the virus, Cole appearing in various books. So it is more like the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; time function. Cole may go in his past, but in no way shall his actions &lt;em&gt;change&lt;/em&gt; the present. What that can be interpreted as is that what has happened, will happen. No matter what actions you might try to take to prevent it. His being shot in front of his younger self is explainable as it is something the adult Cole has lived with his entire life. He remembers the Woman's eyes in his adulthood even though he was a kid and saw her just once. Thus, these events has already &lt;em&gt;happened&lt;/em&gt; in Cole's past. And hence, it was &lt;em&gt;impossible&lt;/em&gt; to change that past. This is also why Cole was sent on a recon mission, to observe and to report. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I would like to point out to you that Cole was given the gun at the airport. At that point of time, Cole had defected and could not be contacted. So why did &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; give &lt;em&gt;him&lt;/em&gt; a gun? They had other people in the past who could have stopped the guy just as well... Just a point to ponder upon. Had Cole not tried to shoot the guy, would his younger self have seen the shooting and the Young Woman? That's the time-paradox, which cannot happen at all in such time lines. Hence the linear consequence of the timeline and the unchanging past. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-08-16T14:04:37.183" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13192" CreationDate="2013-08-16T16:29:32.897" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we know at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lawyer was dropping off money for the guys in prison when caught, not Mike's money for his granddaughter, Kaylee. That safety deposit box was already filled, with a note for her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to speculate... you could suppose that the lawyer had the key to that deposit box as well on him and they did confiscate it. But you could also argue that since the deposit box was already filled Mike would have taken the key himself to be delivered to Kaylee at a later time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jesse attempting to give Kaylee half of the $5 million did not indicate to me that he knew anything about the money in the safe deposit box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1396" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T18:20:42.260" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T18:20:42.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13196" CreationDate="2013-08-16T17:07:49.193" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From that same transcript:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The green side, the physical side, is nothing more than a 1.5 percent rise in your mitochondrial protein uptake. But with 1.5 percent, you see this immediate increase in cellular tempo, muscle efficiency, oxygenation... And the blue side? Intelligence, obviously, but it's more than that. It's neural regeneration and elasticity. Sensory function. Pain suppression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus yes, they did enhance more than just intelligence. But they had no behavioral influence. Like &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/13211/4739&quot;&gt;Keen says&lt;/a&gt;, that would likely be part of another program at the same facility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2013-08-20T02:05:26.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13233" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13235" CreationDate="2013-08-16T17:19:28.860" Score="8" ViewCount="2189" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of Season 4 of the new Doctor Who we meet Rose Tyler again. In these episodes she seems to speak with some sort of speech impediment which is never explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this intentional? Is it part of the timeline that was left out? Was something else going on outside of the filming of the show that affected her voice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4468" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T10:50:28.177" Title="Rose's voice in Doctor Who Season 4" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13234" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-16T18:28:59.680" Score="1" ViewCount="829" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the English translation of what King Julien says &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77BOHdscOuY&amp;amp;t=171&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; from the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479952/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The language sounds Russian, but I am not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5813" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2016-05-28T06:16:31.080" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T10:43:55.590" Title="Translation of words spoken by King Julien" Tags="|translation|madagascar-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13233" CreationDate="2013-08-16T19:12:25.193" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Billie's response to this conundrum is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Maybe it was really cold and my lips were tense, because we were&#xA;  shooting in the middle of winter and I'm always in a tiny leather&#xA;  jacket&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read more: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/doctor-who/19632/doctor-who-why-rose-tyler-was-talking-funny#ixzz2cA2A2UvD&quot;&gt;Doctor Who on denofgeek.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/2182328/Doctor-Who-star-Billie-Piper-in-TV-mystery.html&quot;&gt;other sites&lt;/a&gt; have speculated that she may have had some dental work done which caused the lisp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="1461" LastEditDate="2013-08-16T20:18:20.290" LastActivityDate="2013-08-16T20:18:20.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13237" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13514" CreationDate="2013-08-16T23:48:49.163" Score="7" ViewCount="2177" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1670345/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Now You See Me&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, during the FBI investigation of the supposed bank robbery (the first trick of the Four Horsemen), they're all interrogated separately by Agent Rhodes in the usual plain grey interrogation rooms. But after they play their tricks on him, they end up getting released due to missing evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But why were only the interrogations of Daniel and Merritt shown, and not those of Jack and Henley too?&lt;/strong&gt; Were those scenes not in the script in the first place, or were they just cut from the movie later on? And why were they not shown? Was it just because they wouldn't have been as entertaining as the other two interrogations, or is there more to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="38208" LastEditDate="2018-06-04T04:27:59.897" LastActivityDate="2018-06-07T16:20:30.147" Title="Why were there no interrogation scenes with Jack and Henley?" Tags="|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8694" CreationDate="2013-08-17T00:41:20.117" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;She found Rooney's wallet in the kitchen and realized he was the reason she was so scared and wound up at the police so revenge against Rooney overcame her need to get her brother. After all she could always get Ferris another day. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5818" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-17T01:18:10.413" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T01:18:10.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5736" CreationDate="2013-08-17T06:44:20.643" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because if he used the gas in the car in 1885 they wont be able to use the car in 1955 cause theres no gas because they used it in the past  there for doc is dead&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5820" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T06:44:20.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42202" CreationDate="2013-08-17T08:23:11.223" Score="8" ViewCount="7026" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300854/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/a&gt; today, and wonder what this formula is about. Is it an important topic of physics? You know, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399103&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Transformers: Dark of the Moon&lt;/a&gt;, as I can recall, when an answer of some formula (problem) is got, an amazing weapon is invented. But I don't see any relationship in this movie. The picture is below:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mSXSb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5821" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T08:16:27.107" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T15:43:31.460" Title="Why is this formula useful in Iron Man 3?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-3|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13241" CreationDate="2013-08-17T13:23:16.987" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This formula was the problem that Dr. Hansen needed to solve to fix the flaws with the Extremis virus. As you saw in the movie, many people who are subjected to the virus reject it and die violently. Dr. Hansen's attempts to solve it always failed, but she knew Tony Stark was smart enough to do it. So the whole plot of the movie was her and Killian attempting to force Tony to solve it, and thus fix the flaws of the Extremis virus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T13:23:16.987" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11262" CreationDate="2013-08-17T13:41:10.167" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not shown, nor implied in the movie whether Omar &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; was an informant. However, given the situation, the logical answer to the question &lt;em&gt;seems&lt;/em&gt; to me to be yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Omar really was an informant, would Frank really have known about it? Of course not! Frank's denial or reply that Sosa was lying had more to do with his anger at that moment. Tony had just come back with an unauthorized deal with Sosa without Frank's nod and claimed that they killed Omar(who was Frank's man) because he was an informant. Obviously, Frank went in denial. So as a personal opinion, yes it looked that way. Omar was an informant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T13:41:10.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12935" CreationDate="2013-08-17T13:43:03.783" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could not find any information about whether her voice was really dubbed. All the official forums and canon do not have any source on this. However, the general community consensus on the issue is &lt;em&gt;yes&lt;/em&gt;, her voice was dubbed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does seem that way as the voice-over parts seem to dubbed pre-production. But if that really was the case, we do not have a source to confirm that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T13:43:03.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13234" CreationDate="2013-08-17T14:48:29.433" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;King Julian is not saying anything in any particular language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you mean the line after he asks Stevie if that's even possible, all he's saying is, &quot;You naughty little thing,&quot; in a very shrill voice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're asking about what he says after the line, &quot;Stevie says,&quot; he's simply making a series of noises that is not supposed to be distinguishable. You're not supposed to know what Stevie is saying or what King Julien is &lt;em&gt;saying&lt;/em&gt; he's saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T14:48:29.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10351" CreationDate="2013-08-17T15:48:29.587" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far, I like most of the reviews that I have read.. All the reviews are very plausible explanations but I've noticed that nobody mentions the fact that this person, before being born, wasn't touched by the Angels of Oblivion on the top of the mouth. He was missed so he retained all of his memories.  For this reason, he remembers picking out his parents... maybe then, the reason he knows everything is because he has lived all of those lives, each time that the universe expands and contracts it's as though life is being repeated but also, they are all happening concurrently because time is something that we have made up. In realty, if it can even be called that,there is no concept of time and in a way, that's more like a higher being, like God, almost. How He can be everywhere at once, it's just that it's too far over our heads to even understand.. Kinda like, if we learned to use our brains to its fullest potential. If so we would be able to levitate, travel through time, etc.. Or maybe he did make a choice and that is why the date when he dies is so significant. Maybe, his life as he lived it, the life that ended with him being an old man in the year 2090 is the life that he chose and so in order to have it happen again, he has to, in a way, cheat. Just as  he unknowingly cheated at the beginning by not having his memories erased.. The more I think about this, the more possibilities pop into my head.. before I have even finished one possible explanation, others take control of my mind.. . never mind.. i don't want to think about this anymore..But, I love that soundtrack. Your Precious Love and the song about how everyday, it's getting better, rolling faster than a roller coaster.. lol&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5826" LastEditorUserId="5826" LastEditDate="2013-08-17T15:53:41.847" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T15:53:41.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8399" CreationDate="2013-08-17T17:11:55.463" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;he doesn't remember his condition but every time that he forgets things and he feels like he has just woken up, he first looks around (so he sees his left hand at the very first moment) and the tatoo &lt;code&gt;&quot;remember Sammy Jankis&quot;&lt;/code&gt; makes him realize about his condition at the time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5790" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-17T17:38:39.213" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T17:38:39.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13252" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13261" CreationDate="2013-08-17T18:20:43.990" Score="7" ViewCount="906" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;Ronin&quot;, there is a scene where Sam and the gang have to locate Gregor. Sam knows a guy locally who can help. When he approaches his contact he asks him where the nearest post office is. In response the contact says, &quot;What do you need a post office for? Because over here, they use them for different things.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are these different things he's referring to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5828" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-17T18:39:20.317" LastActivityDate="2016-11-11T16:29:04.037" Title="Post office reference in movie Ronin" Tags="|plot-explanation|ronin|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13253" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="92737" CreationDate="2013-08-17T18:22:13.787" Score="8" ViewCount="1441" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Separation&quot;&gt;A Separation&lt;/a&gt;, Nader didn't really want to get divorced and was only trying to oppose his wife's decision seemingly wanting to convince her his own way. But, at the middle of the film, he started to change his mind and he got really serious about going through with this decision. What made him, a character who doesn't seem to make any decisions without enough reasons, change his mind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5790" LastEditorUserId="5790" LastEditDate="2013-08-30T14:18:22.363" LastActivityDate="2018-09-26T07:05:31.230" Title="What changed Nader's mind?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|character|a-separation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1232" CreationDate="2013-08-17T19:45:55.173" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vito had his own agenda.  Allowing other families to fight over the drug revenues would occupy their resources and weaken their ranks.  He got the assurances he sought.  He bought Michael the time and opportunity to go after Las Vegas gambling, rackets, prostitution etc.  This also afforded the time to see how the other families reacted to the drug free-for-all.  In the end, the other 4 families lost sight of the big picture.  Michael took out the heads of the other four and Moe Green.  Checkmate!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5829" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T19:45:55.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13006" CreationDate="2013-08-17T20:00:20.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Drones scan objects and surroundings in order to find Scavengers. (Navigation probably is done by GPS and/or radar, because drones do not scan during flight.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why Jack identifies himself, there could be multiple reasons. I think it is just human nature to prove innocence against an armed opponent and it could be a reflex of Jack on the just &quot;awoken&quot; drone. Furthermore, maybe Jack identifies himself just to speed up the scanning process in order to get the drone in normal operation mode quickly. But most important: it could also be protocol, because later on we learn that the drones are ordered to eliminate all humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-17T20:24:25.737" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T20:24:25.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12653" CreationDate="2013-08-17T21:44:11.760" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading &lt;em&gt;Only God Forgive&lt;/em&gt;'s IMDb page the other day and stumbled upon this :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was Ryan Gosling's idea to open the stomach of Julian's dead mother. He had it after director Nicolas Winding Refn asked him if he'd rather smile or cry after Julian's mom death. He replied that he'd open her uterus to see what's inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that Julian killed his father with his bare hands (which he puts inside his mother) and that it is implied many times in the movie that the relationship Julian had with his mother was not the usual mother-son relationship. I think that all these elements and this scene show us how messed up Julian really is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5831" LastEditorDisplayName="user5831" LastEditDate="2013-08-17T23:00:25.143" LastActivityDate="2013-08-17T23:00:25.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13259" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-17T22:00:28.843" Score="5" ViewCount="3186" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067959/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Walkabout&lt;/a&gt; and while I really liked the movie, its beginning left me quite confused. Why does the father lose his mind and attempt to kill his kids and finally kill himself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole movie is about a walkabout. But not the walkabout of the Aborigine; the walkabout of the lost girl and her brother. Their whole adventure is used as a way to criticise our society but what does the father's breakdown mean? Is it just a way of showing how our society can drive us crazy? Is there something else to say about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5831" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-08-18T11:34:38.970" LastActivityDate="2013-10-04T23:18:12.863" Title="Why does the father lose his mind?" Tags="|analysis|character|walkabout|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13260" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13267" CreationDate="2013-08-17T22:14:45.993" Score="5" ViewCount="543" Body="&lt;p&gt;How could Voyager navigate inside the starless void? Especially since it was very large. Taking one year to cross. Some sort of inertial navigation maybe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3706" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-21T23:13:01.720" LastActivityDate="2023-12-31T05:29:32.153" Title="How could Voyager navigate inside the void in &quot;Night&quot;?" Tags="|star-trek|star-trek-voyager|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13252" CreationDate="2013-08-18T00:45:53.920" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was just a password exchange. To an outsider it sounds like ordinary conversation, but to the two people involved in the exchange it allows them to ascertain each other's identities, since only the right people will know the correct words to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-08-18T00:45:53.920" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13264" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-18T07:57:34.820" Score="27" ViewCount="7855" Body="&lt;p&gt;Andy left a series of clues for Red to discover. But why couldn't he just tell him all that directly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5834" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T20:06:14.490" LastActivityDate="2019-09-20T15:32:39.253" Title="Why did Andy not reveal his plan to Red directly?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-shawshank-redemption|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13264" CreationDate="2013-08-18T09:56:05.980" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Andy doesn't explicitly tell Red about his plans because Red is his best friend and everybody knows this. The first person the warden wants interrogated after Andy's escape is his &quot;thick as thieves&quot; friend, Red. Andy did not want Red to voluntarily or involuntarily give away information or to even have a chance to compromise his escape. Hence the use of the cryptic clues. &lt;em&gt;So the answer to your question is&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;security&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many ways, Andy doesn't specifically tell Red that those were clues to finding him or reaching him. Red is narrating the story and he wouldn't necessarily have put two and two together to understand where Andy was escaping to. What is more likely is that Red recalls the conversation about Zihuatanejo only when he receives the postcard from Fort Hancock, Texas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-08-23T06:13:05.550" LastActivityDate="2013-08-23T06:13:05.550" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13260" CreationDate="2013-08-18T11:46:30.800" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voyager's navigational computer was able to calculate it's relative distance from Earth from the very first moment it was in the Delta Quadrant (70 thousand light-years). Not only that, but the amount of times Janeway told Paris to 're-set a course for home' (after having made a detour or three), makes it seem that such a distance could be plotted fairly quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their trip home was originally estimated at around 75 years. This was based on both the ship's speed, and the distance from home. Knowing this, one year's worth of 'Starless void' would seem like nothing for the navigational computer to plot a course through. All they would have to do is pick a point or two on the other side of the void, and constantly measure distance and heading from those points, to make sure they kept on a steady track.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4174" LastActivityDate="2013-08-18T11:46:30.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13264" CreationDate="2013-08-18T13:00:38.093" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He says if he's ever freed or escapes, he'd like to go to&#xA;  Zihuatanejo, a beach town on the Pacific coast of Mexico. He also&#xA;  tells Red how he got engaged. He and his future wife went up to a farm&#xA;  in Buxton, Maine, to a large oak tree at the end of a stone wall. The&#xA;  two made love under the tree, after which he proposed to her. He tells&#xA;  Red that, if he should ever be paroled, he should look for that field,&#xA;  and that oak tree. There, under a large black volcanic rock that would&#xA;  look out of place, Andy has buried a box that he wants Red to have.&#xA;  Andy refuses to reveal what might be in that box.&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/synopsis&quot;&gt;The Shawshank Redemption - IMDb synopsis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we know that Andy &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; tell Red where he was going, even though it was in the passing. Though Red might not have known it at that time. He never even told Red he was escaping. All he ever said to Red was - &lt;em&gt;&quot;find that Box&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that this was a test of friendship for Red. If he would indeed find the box, he could join Andy. If not, Red probably would have no clue where Andy &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have gone. So if Red went searching for the box, then he was a &lt;em&gt;true&lt;/em&gt; friend. Because he had carried out his word given to Andy. And Andy in turn helped his &lt;em&gt;friend&lt;/em&gt; reach him by providing money and instructions to reach Mexico.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-08-18T13:00:38.093" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12639" CreationDate="2013-08-18T16:12:22.837" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here in the picture for example, we've got both US Navy uniforms: Navy Working Uniform Type III (aka AOR 2, or Area Of Responsability 2, in woodland but with more green than MARPAT Woodland used by US Marines Corps) and, on the right, NWU Type I, which is the standard uniform dressed by sailors on the ships.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Navy personnel operating on the ground, in the Area of Responsability 1, there is also the NWU Type II, VERY VERY VERY similar to US Marines MARPAT Desert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5840" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-08-18T16:24:12.337" LastActivityDate="2013-08-18T16:24:12.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13275" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-18T17:16:33.613" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-18T17:16:33.613" LastActivityDate="2013-08-18T17:16:33.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13276" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-18T17:16:33.613" Score="0" Body="The 2010 reboot of the 60's hit show about an Hawaii-based special tasks force." OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-18T17:46:28.070" LastActivityDate="2013-08-18T17:46:28.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13277" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-18T18:31:52.623" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-18T18:31:52.623" LastActivityDate="2013-08-18T18:31:52.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13278" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-18T18:31:52.623" Score="0" Body="A TV series about a brilliant San Francisco detective who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder." OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-18T19:45:22.040" LastActivityDate="2013-08-18T19:45:22.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11810" CreationDate="2013-08-18T19:55:10.950" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I felt that because Sam just sat there and was no threat to the white walkers at all they didn't harm him... They saw that he was scared and that he wouldn't attack them so why should they attack in return.... Just my thought &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5841" LastActivityDate="2013-08-18T19:55:10.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13280" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13307" CreationDate="2013-08-18T20:02:35.673" Score="3" ViewCount="1359" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the original, 1974 version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071771/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Longest Yard&lt;/a&gt;, during the big game, the convicts are on the 16 yard line facing fourth and four and Crewe calls for a drop kick.  The kick is successful (though if you watch closely the ball actually goes far left of the post) so the convicts get 3 points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: why attempt what was even at the time a pretty obsolete play instead of just kicking a field goal for the same amount of points?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the game Crewe elected to run in an extra point attempt instead of kicking it, but he explained that was because they were showing off and intentionally trying to embarrass the guards.  However, since the drop kick play happened late in the fourth quarter while they were still losing, I would assume Crewe would be much more concerned about winning the game at that point instead of showing off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there a rule in football back then that gave them some advantage to attempting a drop kick?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="753" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-18T21:07:03.820" LastActivityDate="2013-08-20T14:58:22.410" Title="In the 1974 version of The Longest Yard, what was the reason for the drop kick?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-longest-yard|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13286" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-19T09:48:26.537" Score="5" ViewCount="8597" Body="&lt;p&gt;At Warsaw Ghetto, policemen randomly picked some Jews and the rest were sent to station for the extermination camp. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume some were picked because they were better built as later said by somebody that those present at the station were children, women and old people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then why the chosen ones were later escorted to the station? Halina says: &quot;I wanted to be with you.&quot; and Szpilman comments: &quot;Stupid.&quot; That makes me think as if Halina and others chose to come to the station. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if it was so, then why were they escorted by a jeep? Surely, they weren't any privileged slaves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even a scene later, when they were about to board the train, Szpilman told Halina: &quot;Wish I knew you better.&quot; I thought he got impressed that his sister sacrificed her life to be with the family, but then how can so many people be so selfless that they deliberately came to the station. I am surely missing something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any clarification would be welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5834" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-08-05T11:27:46.113" LastActivityDate="2015-08-05T11:27:46.113" Title="What were Henryk, Halina and others chosen for?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-pianist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13233" CreationDate="2013-08-19T10:50:28.177" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;ive read on a few webistes that she had veneers fitted to correct her natural overbite , these can cause tempoary speech problems factored in with the cold weather she reported,  causing fuddled speech ! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T10:50:28.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12153" CreationDate="2013-08-19T12:49:02.660" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, in &quot;Man of Steel&quot; you see a disturbance on the ground around Superman just before he takes off each time. So apparently Kryptonians are able to create some sort of anti-gravity field, or perhaps it is a form of localized telekinesis. That would also explain why Zod's henchmen were not able to fly. It would seem that this ability requires a certain clarity of thought or a precise emotional state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5846" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-19T16:19:31.927" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T16:19:31.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13289" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-19T16:03:08.907" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-19T16:03:08.907" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T16:03:08.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13290" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-19T16:03:08.907" Score="0" Body="A seven season TV series about a man dealing with the fears of his job as a firefighter and seeing his ex-wife dating other men.&#xD;&#xA;Starring  Denis Leary, Michael Lombardi, and Steven Pasquale" OwnerUserId="4476" LastEditorUserId="4476" LastEditDate="2013-08-19T16:15:16.187" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T16:15:16.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13292" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-19T16:25:14.350" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-19T16:25:14.350" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T16:25:14.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13293" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-19T16:25:14.350" Score="0" Body="2012 Movie - Action/Adventure/Fantasy - Starring Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, &amp; Ralph Fiennes. Sequel to 2010 Clash of the Titans. Perseus, mortal son of Zeus, battles the minions of the underworld to stop them from conquering heaven and earth." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-19T16:31:09.307" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T16:31:09.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13252" CreationDate="2013-08-19T17:00:20.167" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, they are simply making conversation to seem as if De Niro is a bumbling tourist. I don't recall the scene exactly, but his contact is then able to pull him aside briefly to have their private conversation and then conclude it by loudly directing De Niro to the post office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the post office being used for different things, the content of the conversation is quite irrelevant to the plot. In some countries, the post office can be used for doing additional things (besides posting letters) like paying bills and the like. Tourists from a country where post offices offer a variety of different services might expect (in this case) French post offices to do the same. This is presumably why the contact asks (the tourist) De Niro what he actually wants to do at the post office in order to guide him better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I have no idea which services French post offices offer/do not offer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T17:00:20.167" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13295" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-19T19:09:30.783" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-19T19:09:30.783" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T19:09:30.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13296" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-19T19:09:30.783" Score="0" Body="2012 Movie - Action/Adventure/Fantasy - Starring Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, &amp; Ralph Fiennes. Sequel to 2010 Clash of the Titans. Perseus, mortal son of Zeus, battles the minions of the underworld to stop them from conquering heaven and earth." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-19T19:49:03.147" LastActivityDate="2013-08-19T19:49:03.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13298" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13301" CreationDate="2013-08-19T21:10:49.317" Score="3" ViewCount="141" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103466/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Larry Sanders Show&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; you can see a bunch of portraits hanging in &lt;em&gt;Larry&lt;/em&gt;'s office, as shown in this screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ibfD2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Office&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The third from the top is Johnny Carson, but &lt;strong&gt;who are the other three?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5850" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-07T10:02:43.067" LastActivityDate="2014-11-07T10:02:43.067" Title="Of whom are the photo portraits in Larry's office?" Tags="|the-larry-sanders-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13298" CreationDate="2013-08-20T11:41:56.680" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The top photo is Steve Allen. The bottom photo is Merv Griffin. The second photo is fuzzier but I'm pretty sure it's Jack Paar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5651" LastActivityDate="2013-08-20T11:41:56.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13280" CreationDate="2013-08-20T14:58:22.410" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, an advantages with a drop kick is that you have 10 blockers instead of the 9 you would have with a place kick, it also allowed Crewe to read the field before commiting to a kick (his opponents have nowhere near his experience or skill so he does not have to play at the same intensity he used to in the NFL where his opponents are some of the best in the world).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure any of these reasons are the real one though, my gut instinct is that the director wanted a drop goal because it looked cool and did not clutter the screen with more people and movement than was required.  It also kept the focus on Crewe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-08-20T14:58:22.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13308" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13310" CreationDate="2013-08-20T15:00:58.153" Score="10" ViewCount="4889" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the season 3's &quot;Thank You&quot; Finn &amp;amp; Jake beat up the Ice King, and nearly at the end of the episode when the Ice King is restrained Jake takes his crown and wears it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jdxa2.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been said and shown in other episodes that the crown has certain &quot;efects&quot; on whoever wears it. That's what made the human Simon Petrikov into the Ice King after all, the same goes for Farmworld Finn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How come that has no effect on Jake? Is he maybe immune to the crown's powers because he's a magic dog?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4406" LastEditorUserId="4406" LastEditDate="2013-08-20T15:44:25.677" LastActivityDate="2017-12-20T07:53:24.660" Title="Why doesn't the Ice King's crown affect Jake?" Tags="|plot-explanation|adventure-time|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13308" CreationDate="2013-08-20T18:00:56.687" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://adventuretime.wikia.com/wiki/Ice_King%27s_crown&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Adventure Time&lt;/em&gt; Wikia&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jake has been seen wearing the Ice King's crown in the episode &quot;Thank You,&quot; though it had no effect. This is because Jake is already magic, according to Adam Muto.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, in the episode &quot;Holly Jolly Secrets Part I,&quot; Gunter is seen wearing the crown and is also unaffected by its powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://spring.me/MrMuto&quot;&gt;Adam Muto&lt;/a&gt; does storyboards for &lt;em&gt;Adventure Time&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-08-20T18:00:56.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13311" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13320" CreationDate="2013-08-20T20:43:48.947" Score="16" ViewCount="63560" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been sometime since I saw Rocky, but I remember being confused by the ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fight ends by both of them grabbing each other, and the referee pulling them apart. Rocky then goes looking for Adrian (his girlfriend), ignoring everyone who is trying to talk to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But who won the match, and what does the ending mean? Why was there no clear winner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5133" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-21T11:16:13.447" LastActivityDate="2019-09-27T04:37:27.073" Title="What happened at the end of Rocky?" Tags="|ending|rocky|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13311" CreationDate="2013-08-20T20:58:56.023" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was no clear winner by KO. But also by points there wasn't a clear winner, but the movie still clearly shows that one of the three point judges (don't know how they're called or how they're actually deciding at all) decided in favour of Rocky and two in favour of Apollo, so it was an extremely close call but Apollo won by points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in fact it doesn't matter who won the match. Rocky has proved himself and he has shown that he can stand against Apollo. For the whole movie nobody believed in him and Apollo Creed took this whole fight as a mere show-fight, where he could pretend to give an outsider a chance, but he never took Rocky serious, until the actual fight. So the fact who's the actual winner doesn't matter so much and Rocky doesn't even care. All he cares is that he stood his ground and proved to be an equal match for Apollo Creed. Now he just wants his peace with Adrian, which is also why he ignores everybody else. At this moment all those reporters and the actual sports success doesn't count, his love for Adrian does. This is also shown in his final conversation with Apollo at the end of the fight, when both exhaustedly say to each other:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Apollo&lt;/em&gt;: Ain't gonna be no rematch!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rocky&lt;/em&gt;: Don't want one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Apollo (not even listening)&lt;/em&gt;: Ain't gonna be no rematch!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Apollo is in the end just happy that this fight, which he expected to be a piece of cake, is finally over and he didn't completely lose to this outsider. But Rocky is as happy as well and doesn't want a rematch fight to &quot;officially&quot; win against Apollo. He has done his best and for himself he &lt;em&gt;has won&lt;/em&gt; in a way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This rather tie ending (when seen from a mere objective sports perspective) gives the movie a much more down-to-earth feel, I think. Rocky doesn't just magically knock Apollo out, but neither does he go down as everybody expected. He just did his best and proved his value against all odds, nothing less and nothing more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-09-26T18:10:31.963" LastActivityDate="2019-09-26T18:10:31.963" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13313" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-20T21:45:41.827" Score="1" ViewCount="750" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the T.V. series M*A*S*H Radar does something with his hat. I'm wondering what he does with that hat that finishes one of the Leaving episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5859" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-08-21T12:11:51.310" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T19:49:04.313" Title="Radar's Hat's resting place" Tags="|mash|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13311" CreationDate="2013-08-21T01:12:00.297" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;More than anything the end of Rocky illustrates that Rocky has &quot;gone the distance&quot; (all 15 rounds of the fight). That's all he wanted. He didn't care if he lost, (which he did. Apollo is the victor by points in this match) only that he didn't loose by knock-out. He is elated that he &quot;went the distance&quot; and proved to Adrian that he had what it takes to go the distance. He's looking for Adrian because he want to celebrate this victory with her. Nothing else is important. This is why he doesn't care about having a rematch. He was never interested in winning the fight. He was only interested in &quot;not being another bum from the neighborhood&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The need for &quot;going the distance&quot; as the main goal for Rocky as the protagonist is exposed in the lyrics to the theme song (albeit Rocky III) &lt;em&gt;Eye of the Tiger&lt;/em&gt; by Survivor&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Went the distance, now I'm back on my feet&#xA;  Just a man and his will to survive &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and in a monologue he delivers to Adrian:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ah come on, Adrian, it's true. I was nobody. But that don't matter&#xA;  either, you know? 'Cause I was thinkin', it really don't matter if I&#xA;  lose this fight. It really don't matter if this guy opens my head,&#xA;  either. 'Cause all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody's ever gone&#xA;  the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and&#xA;  that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first&#xA;  time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the&#xA;  neighborhood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This monologue sets up the meaning of the end of the movie. The movie ends with the most important moment of Rockys life. Rocky is on top, because he's gone the distance and proven that he was not just another bum from the neighborhood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="51336" LastEditDate="2019-09-27T04:37:27.073" LastActivityDate="2019-09-27T04:37:27.073" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-21T12:14:07.517" Score="1" ViewCount="582" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jessup keeps saying that Santiago's death is important to save many other lives. I didn't get it. I wish somebody could explain this to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, if he was so weak, how come he got recruited for Navy? And why Dawson won't allow other members to operate code red on Santiago?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5834" LastEditorUserId="5834" LastEditDate="2013-08-21T12:21:19.920" LastActivityDate="2013-08-22T13:15:58.600" Title="Knowing more about Santiago" Tags="|plot-explanation|a-few-good-men|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13324" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13326" CreationDate="2013-08-21T12:20:54.467" Score="5" ViewCount="704" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was Dawson not called to testify that he was ordered to operate Code Red?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5834" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T14:22:07.177" Title="Why was Dawson not called to testify?" Tags="|plot-explanation|a-few-good-men|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13325" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13327" CreationDate="2013-08-21T13:43:25.170" Score="9" ViewCount="796" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401729/&quot;&gt;John Carter&lt;/a&gt;, he (John Carter) is able to jump high because of low gravity but how does he survive there if the atmosphere is so different than Earth's?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5715" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-08-21T13:45:56.590" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T17:13:27.130" Title="How did John Carter survive on Mars?" Tags="|john-carter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13324" CreationDate="2013-08-21T14:22:07.177" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dawson was not called to testify as a legal maneuver. Criminal defense lawyers know when to withhold a testimony by the accused, because that would open up the prosecution's questions of his character. Dawson had the illegal fence-line shooting in his recent history where he shot at his counterpart. This was the same shooting Santiago reported, and was using to bargain his release from detail at Guantanamo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T14:22:07.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13325" CreationDate="2013-08-21T14:23:24.740" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie John Carter, is based on the Barsoom novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs - in particular &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Princess_of_Mars&quot;&gt;A Princess of Mars&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Burroughs began working on the novel in 1911 and at that time, current scientific theories about Mars were very different from what we know today. Wikipedia gives credit for much of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Princess_of_Mars#Scientific_background&quot;&gt;scientific background&lt;/a&gt; to the book &lt;em&gt;Mars&lt;/em&gt; by the astronomer Percival Lowell (published in 1895). In all likelihood there were other inspirations such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Flammarion&quot;&gt;Camille Flammarion&lt;/a&gt;, whose Wikipedia entry says that Burroughs &quot;are referring to him in their writing&quot;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Schiaparelli&quot;&gt;Giovanni Sciaparelli&lt;/a&gt;, whose Wikipedia article describes the origin of the idea for canals on Mars:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During the planet's &quot;Great Opposition&quot; of 1877, he observed a dense network of linear structures on the surface of Mars which he called &quot;canali&quot; in Italian, meaning &quot;channels&quot; but the term was mistranslated into English as &quot;canals.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1357" LastEditorUserId="1357" LastEditDate="2013-08-21T17:13:27.130" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T17:13:27.130" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13323" CreationDate="2013-08-21T15:36:04.843" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Santiago was a Marine, not Navy.  You don't become a Marine unless you want to be a Marine.  And his heart condition was so mild, that it was never detected until he pushed his physical development during training.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to Jessup's statement, a Marine squad/platoon operates as a unit.  Each man depends upon his fellow marines to protect his back and do their job.  If Santiago was physically unable to do his job, he could potentially endanger his entire platoon. For want of a nail...  If Santiago was removed from the group, the overall quality of the platoon goes up, and the chances of success go up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3569" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T15:36:04.843" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13313" CreationDate="2013-08-21T16:12:53.323" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you sure it's his hat?  In his final episode before leaving Korea, he left his teddy bear behind, but I don't think he did anything special with his hat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was without his hat for most of his final episode, which was actor Gary Burghoff's idea. He wanted to show that the character of Radar was no longer a kid and was grown up, so he went without his hat, which showed off his receding hairline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="753" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T16:12:53.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13332" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13333" CreationDate="2013-08-21T17:20:46.277" Score="17" ViewCount="8647" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Iron Man 3, when the Mark 42 (a prototype) takes an unconscious Tony Stark to Tennessee. There he tries to repair the suit, but fails. And must take a car back to California, Miami and make some gadgets on his own. He is caught and summons a recharged Mark 42 to the location. He also saves several people from Air Force One in the same suit. Later when he goes to confront the Mandarin at the dockyard, he calls on his suits after he (and Rhodes) are outnumbered by the Extremis solders. Why doesn't he call on his suits earlier right when the Mark 42 was damaged or at other times when he needed them the most? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T08:16:41.670" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T20:03:19.317" Title="Why didn't Tony Stark summon his other suits earlier?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-3|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13332" CreationDate="2013-08-21T17:25:46.673" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The key part is &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;wreckage of his house&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the suits were in the vault, which were underneath his house. After Mandarin's attack, the vault was buried in rubble. After the attack, the rubble from the attack was cleaned up. By the end of the film, that had progressed far enough that the vault's doors were accessible again (we get a glimpse of this once Tony authorizes House Party, as it shows the workers clearing rubble as the vault doors open).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer taken from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/36103/why-didnt-tony-stark-initiate-the-house-party-protocol-earlier&quot;&gt;Sci-fi - Why didn't Tony Stark initiate the House Party Protocol earlier?&lt;/a&gt; by @Keen as suggested by Doorknob.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2013-08-22T06:43:23.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13334" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13349" CreationDate="2013-08-21T17:36:16.710" Score="2" ViewCount="412" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final scene of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1846487/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reality&lt;/a&gt;, is Luciano actually inside the Big Brother house? Or has he completely lost his grip on reality while watching television?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-09-20T19:31:05.530" Title="What happens in the final scene?" Tags="|plot-explanation|reality|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13335" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-21T17:56:07.490" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-21T17:56:07.490" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T17:56:07.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13336" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-21T17:56:07.490" Score="0" Body="1972-1983 TV Series - Comedy/Drama/War - Starring Alan Alda, Loretta Swit, &amp; Jamie Farr. US Military MASH hospital during Korean War. Doctors use humor to keep their sanity during the brutalities of war." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-08-21T17:59:12.367" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T17:59:12.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13337" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-21T17:57:32.700" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reality is a 2012 Italian drama film directed by Matteo Garrone, starring Aniello Arena, Loredana Simioli and Claudia Gerini. The narrative is set in the world of reality television, and follows a Neapolitan fishmonger who participates in Grande Fratello, the Italian version of Big Brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-21T13:42:48.940" LastActivityDate="2013-11-21T13:42:48.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13338" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-21T17:57:32.700" Score="0" Body="2012 Italian drama film directed by Matteo Garrone, starring Aniello Arena, Loredana Simioli and Claudia Gerini, which follows a Neapolitan fishmonger who participates in Grande Fratello, the Italian version of Big Brother." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-21T13:42:48.940" LastActivityDate="2013-11-21T13:42:48.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13339" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-21T18:02:03.297" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is a small time fighter from Philadelphia.  The world champion Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) wants to give a &quot;no name&quot; a shot at the title.  Rocky is selected as that boxer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29264" LastEditorUserId="29264" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T18:40:45.820" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T18:40:45.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13340" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-21T18:02:03.297" Score="0" Body="1976 movie about a small time boxer, Rocky Balboa, who gets a chance to box the world champion." OwnerUserId="29264" LastEditorUserId="29264" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T18:40:51.570" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T18:40:51.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13341" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-21T18:04:26.260" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Larry Sanders Show&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (HBO, 1992-1998) is an American television sitcom created by &lt;strong&gt;Garry Shandling&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Dennis Klein&lt;/strong&gt; which is set in the office and studio of a fictional late-night talk show. The series mixes fact with fiction in order to deliver an adept satire of show business punctuated by an endless parade of real-life celebrities playing (and often satirizing) themselves is a large contributor to the show's originality and hilarity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Larry Sanders&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, regarded as influential, landmark television, has proudly collected a total of 24 major awards, including three Primetime Emmys, five CableACEs, four American Comedy Awards, two British ones, two Peabody Awards and a BAFTA. The HBO hit ranks 38th on &lt;strong&gt;TV Guide's&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;—the single &lt;strong&gt;HBO&lt;/strong&gt; laffer to make the list—and was also one of &lt;strong&gt;Time&lt;/strong&gt; magazine's &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;100 Best TV Shows of All Time&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Larry_Sanders_Show&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43924" LastEditorUserId="43924" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T16:07:51.577" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T16:07:51.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13342" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-21T18:04:26.260" Score="0" Body="This groundbreaking HBO series looks at the life of a Letterman-esque late night talk show host both on and off-camera. Throughout the run of the series, segments of the talk show within a show (&quot;The Larry Sanders Show&quot;) are shot on video and feature real celebrity guests. It's an artfully jarring contrast to the &quot;behind-the-scenes&quot; content on the program, which is shot on film. &quot;Larry Sanders&quot; is smart, unique and, first and foremost, always funny." OwnerUserId="43924" LastEditorUserId="43924" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T03:25:47.670" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T03:25:47.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13343" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-21T18:06:54.883" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-21T18:06:54.883" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T18:06:54.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13344" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-21T18:06:54.883" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-21T18:06:54.883" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T18:06:54.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13346" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-21T18:09:08.047" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-21T18:09:08.047" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T18:09:08.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13347" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-21T18:09:08.047" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-08-21T18:09:08.047" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T18:09:08.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13334" CreationDate="2013-08-21T18:56:39.973" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it is left as being &lt;em&gt;ambiguous&lt;/em&gt; as we can see with many of the film endings today. One may hint that the maniac laughter and his general behavior may hint towards a certain losing of the mind, and hence all of it not being real. But there is no such &lt;em&gt;evidence&lt;/em&gt; to indicate that it may have happened so. May be it was for real, and he was always mad by then. Could be interpreted as anything with a good argument. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T18:56:39.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8954" CreationDate="2013-08-21T19:59:55.793" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Lucas was employing a plot trope called, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlwaysSaveTheGirl&quot;&gt;Always Save the Girl&lt;/a&gt;. The effect of having a wait associated with the character moves the plot along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also other ways to look at it: aside from the dramatic effect of waiting, there may have been bureaucratic obstacles (the Empire is a government entity after all). And the timeline of events issue raised by a previous poster. Additionally, Darth Vader is powerful in the ways of the Force and could possibly foreseen future events regarding the escape of Leia and the discovery of his son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the movie and the story were written in an earlier time when people were more innocent than we are today. Look at American Graffiti; another great movie by George Lucas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5828" LastActivityDate="2013-08-21T19:59:55.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13352" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14218" CreationDate="2013-08-21T22:03:05.073" Score="2" ViewCount="2767" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dexter comes home, hears the &lt;em&gt;Make your own kind of music&lt;/em&gt; song, then sees the dead kid and dramatic melody starts playing. How is it called? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5750" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-26T12:51:58.093" LastActivityDate="2014-01-17T13:02:37.957" Title="What's that song at the end of Dexter S08E08?" Tags="|soundtrack|dexter|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-02-17T17:02:36.350" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13352" CreationDate="2013-08-22T01:33:19.207" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Make your own kind of music song&quot; is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Your_Own_Kind_of_Music_%28song%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Make Your Own Kind of Music&lt;/a&gt; performed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Elliot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mama Cass&lt;/a&gt; (A.K.A Cass Elliot). I believe the song playing when Dexter is throwing Zach's body into the water is a never before, or at least rarely played part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter%3a_Music_from_the_Showtime_Original_Series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dexter Blood Theme&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Licht&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Daniel Licht&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-08-29T06:57:48.440" LastActivityDate="2013-08-29T06:57:48.440" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13356" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13357" CreationDate="2013-08-22T04:54:29.747" Score="18" ViewCount="10777" Body="&lt;p&gt;How are dual/double role films shot in which the actor is shown on the screen at the same time in the same or different z-index planes and are in a fight scene in which one actor is punching the other, especially on the face?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've heard of split filming and stitching the scene, green screen, and lastly computer processed overlays of the actor's face on another actor's body with the same build. The last one I've seen in The Social Network but I'm referring to films that were shot pre 2005.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it looks very real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5874" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-29T18:26:22.237" LastActivityDate="2017-06-04T19:01:22.060" Title="How are dual-role films shot?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13356" CreationDate="2013-08-22T05:37:12.067" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most common method used for this, rather than green screen, is using action doubles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The first thing you need to do is find someone who is about the same&#xA;  height as your main actor. Similar hair is also necessary, so whether&#xA;  the Doppelganger needs to dye his or her hair or wear a wig, that’s a&#xA;  judgment call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Place the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelg%C3%A4nger&quot;&gt;Doppelganger&lt;/a&gt; with his or her back to the camera and frame&#xA;  the shot to shoot over that person’s shoulder to focus on the main&#xA;  actor. Film it that way until you get what you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For the reverse of that shot, switch the hair and the outfit of the&#xA;  main actor and the Doppelganger and do the same thing on the other&#xA;  side. This way you can edit it so that you basically have the same&#xA;  person having a conversation with himself. - (Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://timidmonster.com/how-to-shoot-an-actor-in-a-double-role/&quot;&gt;timidmonster.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-03T18:22:49.903" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T18:22:49.903" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13358" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13359" CreationDate="2013-08-22T06:18:20.927" Score="15" ViewCount="3004" Body="&lt;p&gt;Knowing that Rapunzel was taken by the witch in her early childhood, did her stepmother tell her the exact date she was born?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5877" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T13:17:58.730" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T13:17:58.730" Title="How did Rapunzel know her birthday?" Tags="|plot-explanation|tangled|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13358" CreationDate="2013-08-22T07:45:42.930" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rapunzel was kidnapped by Mother Gothel when she was just a newborn, and she never met another person until Eugene came along. She mentioned her real birthday before that scene. So its clear that Mother Gothel told her the actual date of her birthday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2013-08-22T12:56:36.300" LastActivityDate="2013-08-22T12:56:36.300" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13129" CreationDate="2013-08-22T08:20:36.697" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't forget that Elysium has (is?) a powerful AI system that offers all the robots that, for example, are in charge of security. According to the company's website, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.armadyne.net&quot;&gt;http://www.armadyne.net&lt;/a&gt;, there are only about 8000 people on Elysium and quite some robots, I presume. So, there is really nothing much the inhabitants could have done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5851" LastActivityDate="2013-08-22T08:20:36.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13362" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18209" CreationDate="2013-08-22T09:39:17.273" Score="21" ViewCount="2191" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a live action film set in the US.  I saw the first part of it about 25 years ago on TV.  I only saw the first part and am keen to watch the whole thing.  The below scenes are all from the first half and hour or so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It began with a woman being told by a doctor that she did not have, I think, cancer.  She is not happy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Later she is sitting on a bench and is approached by a man, I think he was French or he at least had an similar accent.  She is looking at the floor when he starts talking to her and she jumps and shouts &quot;Don't kill me!&quot;.  He is bemused and says that anyone who shouts that as a stranger could probably do with help.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It turned out that she thought she had cancer so had hired a hitman to kill herself but did not know how to track him down to stop him now she knew she was healthy.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The man who approached her was a police officer who offered to help her.  In my memory he looks and sounds like Ricardo Montalban but I am not sure how reliable that is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He tells her to always walk on the wallside of him and as soon she should always get in the back seat of the car and duck down immediately,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As he took her somewhere he noticed that they had seen the same blond man in two separate locations doing something innocuous, the second time he was reading a newspaper.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She does not believe he could be the hitman as he looks too nice, the police man is exasperated and reprimands her for being so naive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="7732" LastEditDate="2014-03-21T17:06:18.943" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T17:12:48.850" Title="Woman mistakenly orders a hit on herself" Tags="|identify-this-movie|thriller|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:47:52.667" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13323" CreationDate="2013-08-22T13:15:58.600" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jim Green gives a good answer, I'm just going to elaborate a bit more. Basically, there were two opposing forces with regard to Santiago. On the one hand, he clearly was not cut out to be a Marine. In almost any other organisation, he would have been shown the door (or in his case, probably given a dishonorable discharge) as soon as he was seen not to be what the platoon needed. On the other hand, Jessup was not one to admit failure. Letting someone just walk off after he had been part of his marine corps would have been a failure in his eyes, since he wasn't able to mold Santiago into being a proper fighting machine. So this explains why Santiago wasn't allowed to just leave, as well as Jessup's mindset with Santiago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said all that, in Jessup's mind, Santiago was a risk. If the Cubans ever tried to attack, Jessup would have had to put Santiago out there with the rest of the crew, and at best he would have been killed quickly (at worst, the Cubans would capture him and torture him to get info on how to get past the Marine defences). Think a minute to the movie 300. Leonidas meets Ephialtes, who like Santiago wants to fight but is incapable of doing so. As Leonidas explains to him, if Ephialtes were to be part of their group, he would compromise their phalanx form, not only putting himself in harm's way but also someone else. Jessup and Leonidas, as leaders of men about to fight an enemy, had to think of their whole group. One weak link, and the whole group would suffer. So yes, in Jessup's mind, Santiago's death &quot;while tragic, probably saved lives&quot; because of his inherent risk to the whole group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2013-08-22T13:15:58.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13356" CreationDate="2013-08-22T14:43:08.293" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Split filming to duplicate an actor, which is basically involves shooting the scene twice with the actor in one role, then the other, then stitching the separate shoots together, long predates 2005.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The earliest example of a film I know of that used this technique is the musical &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Man_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Wonder Man&lt;/a&gt;, which is from 1945.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5858" LastActivityDate="2013-08-22T14:43:08.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13362" CreationDate="2013-08-22T14:56:32.750" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this was an episode of Starsky and Hutch - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0709500/&quot;&gt;Cover Girl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A gorgeous but terminally ill model puts a hit out on herself, but when her cancer goes into remission, she asks Hutch to stop the contract killer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found this by searching IMDB for the keyword &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/keyword/suicide-by-hitman/&quot;&gt;Suicide By Hitman&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastActivityDate="2013-08-22T14:56:32.750" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10432" CreationDate="2013-08-22T21:49:23.280" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both pills have poison. You see but you do not observe! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cabbie opens the bottle and holds the pill in his &lt;em&gt;left&lt;/em&gt; hand. He talks and distracts Holmes. Just before he is shot you see him with a pill in his &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; hand. He had a second, non-poison pill, all the time. He did this with all the victims. None had a chance, the game was rigged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At time 1:19:36 the pill is in his left hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1htwM.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1htwM.png&quot; alt=&quot;At 1:19:36 the pill is in his left hand&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At time 1:19:54 the pill is in his right hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/513iC.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/513iC.png&quot; alt=&quot;At time 1:19:54 the pill is in his right hand&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5886" LastEditorUserId="71431" LastEditDate="2019-03-22T00:50:15.017" LastActivityDate="2019-03-22T00:50:15.017" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7915" CreationDate="2013-08-23T01:31:04.120" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think its just a message to someone who they want to kill.  I don't think that they intended the assassination of Pentagili to fail.  Remember that Roth has one of the Senators in the Corleone hearing, so its not impossible for Roth to convince one of the senators to instruct the FBI to question Pentangili about Corleone since he knows that Pentangili would want to take revenge on MIchael.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5888" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-08-23T12:02:14.400" LastActivityDate="2013-08-23T12:02:14.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13070" CreationDate="2013-08-23T07:17:25.503" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Launching scene&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the ignition scene, we can see that the name of that orbiter on the right wing is much longer than the flag. Since the name is not readable in that distance, I would not suspect that the film crew modified that name as well. The length of the name suggests that the orbiter is not &lt;em&gt;Atlantis&lt;/em&gt;. The white wing roots indicates that the orbiter is not &lt;em&gt;Columbia&lt;/em&gt;. Considering the time of that ten missions, it could only be STS-95 by &lt;em&gt;Discovery&lt;/em&gt; or STS-99 by &lt;em&gt;Endeavour&lt;/em&gt;. The preparation scene prior to the launch shows that the surrounding area of the meatball logo on the left wing are rather clear. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS-130_Endeavour_Rollout_6.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;notice the blank block above the logo on &lt;em&gt;Endeavour&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, it's noticeable comparing to the logo on &lt;em&gt;Discovery&lt;/em&gt;'s left wing) This suggests that it is STS-95.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Landing scene&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In those ten missions between the NASA logo change and the production of the film, STS-99 is the only mission took place in the evening with flood light on the runway on. The NASA &lt;a href=&quot;http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/rrg2.pl?video/shuttle/missions/sts-99/sts-99-land.rm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;footage&lt;/a&gt; appeared to be a slight off angle from the scene. The white block on the left wing also suggests that the orbiter is &lt;em&gt;Endeavour&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those observations show that the launch scene is taken from the actually launch scene of STS-95 and landing scene is taken from the landing scene of STS-99. The two shuttles are &lt;em&gt;Discovery&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Endeavour&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5738" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T22:09:26.543" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T22:09:26.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12226" CreationDate="2013-08-23T07:24:58.873" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the movie will be shot on film and almost without CGI, the movie most likely won't be shot in 3D.&#xA;But maybe it will be post-converted to 3D.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5889" LastActivityDate="2013-08-23T07:24:58.873" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11023" CreationDate="2013-08-23T08:02:48.630" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that the proper spelling is Brünnhilde, so &quot;broom&quot; is not the only change, also the -e to an -a. Tarantino pretty obviously took the spelling from the comic strip, but I see no symbolism there other than the obvious: humiliation of a slave woman who inside was a proud valkyrie, and mocking Southern whites ignorant of the Nibelungenlied, their cultural heritage (Wagner's opera was first performed in 1869, so they would not have known about that). Tarantino mocked the whites' pretensions and facade in other ways, like how Calvin Candie favored French but didn't speak it himself (despite plenty of money and leisure time to learn it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5890" LastActivityDate="2013-08-23T08:02:48.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13385" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14115" CreationDate="2013-08-23T18:53:35.240" Score="3" ViewCount="9818" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203259/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Law &amp;amp; Order: SVU&lt;/a&gt;, what was the 'lie' that Casey Novak told to a judge that led to her being fired/disbarred/imprisoned? What exactly was the consequence? How did it come out that she had lied?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3416" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-23T20:16:42.577" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T16:33:20.680" Title="Casey Novak's lie and departure" Tags="|plot-explanation|law-and-order-svu|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13386" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13389" CreationDate="2013-08-23T19:46:00.517" Score="6" ViewCount="4812" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series M*A*S*H, who was the first person to call Margaret &quot;Hot Lips&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5859" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-18T20:34:00.023" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T20:34:00.023" Title="Who called Margaret &quot;Hot Lips Houlihan&quot;?" Tags="|character|mash|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13386" CreationDate="2013-08-23T20:25:30.967" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Major Houlihan first got the nickname &quot;Hot Lips&quot; in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MASH_%28film%29&quot;&gt;M*A*S*H&lt;/a&gt; movie, (1970):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While Henry is away visiting General Hammond at the 325th Evac&#xA;  Hospital, Trapper leads the camp in a general abandonment of&#xA;  regulations, and wild partying ensues. Burns and Houlihan are appalled&#xA;  and write a report to the General. They also give in to their&#xA;  repressed passions and engage in a sexual encounter. Their tryst is&#xA;  broadcast over the public address system; everyone hears Houlihan&#xA;  telling Burns to &quot;Kiss my hot lips!&quot;, earning her the nickname &quot;Hot&#xA;  Lips&quot;. Hawkeye quietly taunts Burns about the encounter, goading Burns&#xA;  to attack him. Burns is sedated, restrained and shipped stateside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So she had the nickname prior to the start of the series.  Is that what you wanted to know, or are you asking which character &lt;em&gt;in the series&lt;/em&gt; first said the words &quot;Hot Lips&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-08-23T20:25:30.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13386" CreationDate="2013-08-23T20:27:11.943" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;She actually got the nickname in the M*A*S*H movie. She's having sex with Frank Burns, unaware that the camp PA system is on. She's overheard begging him to kiss her &quot;hot lips.&quot; After that, the name stuck. And it was transferred into the TV show as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mash.wikia.com/wiki/Margaret_%22Hot_Lips%22_Houlihan&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for who first called her that, in the movie, it was Duke Forrest(&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/MASH.txt&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;). The link is to the movie script. Her name (Margaret) in the movie was only ever said once, by Frank. As for the TV show, without watching the Pilot, I'm not certain. But I'd presume Hawkeye or Trapper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3541" LastEditorUserId="3541" LastEditDate="2013-08-23T20:38:43.580" LastActivityDate="2013-08-23T20:38:43.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10939" CreationDate="2013-08-24T01:01:35.807" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been a long time since I've seen the movie so there may be some inaccuracies about the way I remember things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It did seem in the movie that Silver absconded with the entirety of the contents aboard the skiff. However, in the book (and the film as well it seems) Flint's treasure amounted to 700,000 pounds sterling. Using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.measuringworth.com/ppoweruk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this inflation calculator&lt;/a&gt; that amount would have the equivalent buying power of a shade under 60 million pounds in today's money. That's a &lt;strong&gt;lot&lt;/strong&gt; of dough, and almost certainly none of it was in banknotes or other forms of paper currency. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using &lt;a href=&quot;http://measuringworth.com/gold/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this calculator&lt;/a&gt; for gold prices I estimate the amount of gold that £700,000 could buy to be around 5 tons! In the books the repaired &lt;em&gt;Hispanola&lt;/em&gt; carried the treasure back home so I doubt that tiny skiff would have carried the entire treasure cache, which makes it probable that a great deal of it was left in the island for pickup at a later date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, it's a Disney movie and they wanted to end in a somewhat uplifting note.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2013-08-24T03:44:11.717" LastActivityDate="2013-08-24T03:44:11.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13393" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13396" CreationDate="2013-08-24T02:58:17.303" Score="2" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;When does Sergeant Rizzo (G.W. Bailey) pour out his entire family lineage? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He says that he has a &quot;bouncin' baby boy&quot; named Billy Buba. What episode is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5859" LastEditorUserId="417" LastEditDate="2013-08-24T04:21:54.053" LastActivityDate="2013-08-24T05:29:13.720" Title="When did we first hear about Rizzo's bouncin' baby boy?" Tags="|mash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13394" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13445" CreationDate="2013-08-24T03:20:15.803" Score="7" ViewCount="3303" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whedon's &quot;Much Ado About Nothing&quot; added many visual details to the text of the play. One of these appeared to be a prior sexual relationship between Beatrice and Benedick. However, it's not exactly easy to follow the dialog. Was this a correct interpretation of events? If so, was this at all referenced in Shakespeare's dialog, or was this an extrapolation by Whedon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-27T14:53:51.503" LastActivityDate="2018-05-15T18:43:24.510" Title="What was Benedick and Beatrice's relationship?" Tags="|much-ado-about-nothing-2012|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13393" CreationDate="2013-08-24T05:29:13.720" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was in S10E17, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0638392/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Promotion Commotion&lt;/a&gt; when Luther Rizzo &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_M%2aA%2aS%2aH_characters#Luther_Rizzo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;made it clear&lt;/a&gt; that he was an American &quot;with an American wife and American son (Billy Bubba)&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-08-24T05:29:13.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13397" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13401" CreationDate="2013-08-24T08:30:23.070" Score="5" ViewCount="626" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen a movie quite some time ago in the local channel. It was dubbed movie in the local language, so they kept the movie name as &lt;strong&gt;Martial Arts&lt;/strong&gt;. But I don't think this is the real name of the original version. I believe it belongs to the period of 80's or 90's. I have searched with this name, but couldn't find. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the plot that I remember -&gt; Starting scene would be in some kinda police station. A notorious gang comes in and tortures police men and the head of that gang says that his lover is proved guilty just because she spat on road. While they warn the police men and come out of that building, another notorious gang(Main villain gang in the movie) confronts this gang and kill them including the gang head and his lover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-&gt; Next scene is in a colony where there is a huge building whose owners are somewhat an old-aged couple. A lady owner behaves so rude towards the tenants in that colony, doesn't supply proper water to them and she always compels them to pay rent arrears and she even beats her husband(lean person) often. While this goes on, an underachiever in martial arts who comes to barber shop in that colony with his fatty friend and tries to pretend and threatens that he belongs to that notorious gang so that the barber shouldn't ask his money for the service.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The reason that I love this movie is it contains lot of humor even in the serious scenes and stunts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this information is enough to say the movie name if anyone knows this movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5634" LastEditorUserId="5634" LastEditDate="2013-08-24T08:35:34.640" LastActivityDate="2013-08-24T09:48:09.107" Title="A movie in which martial arts plays a major role" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:48:08.343" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13398" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="66606" CreationDate="2013-08-24T09:08:36.123" Score="10" ViewCount="25970" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the scenes in the Boot Camp section of Full Metal Jacket has the recruits marching their barracks holding their rifle in one hand and their crotch in the other, chanting &quot;This is my rifle, this is my gun; this is for fighting this is for fun&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/4kU0XCVey_U?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I understand the purpose of this drill in the narrative of the movie, but what on earth could be its military use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5898" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T23:41:22.140" LastActivityDate="2020-05-21T07:21:32.490" Title="What's the military purpose of the &quot;my rifle, my gun&quot; drill in Full Metal Jacket?" Tags="|full-metal-jacket|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13399" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-24T09:39:57.880" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 movie directed by Stanley Kubrick and set in the Vietnam era.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Links:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093058/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Full Metal Jacket on IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20215" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-12-06T23:55:27.680" LastActivityDate="2019-12-06T23:55:27.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13400" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-24T09:39:57.880" Score="0" Body="Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 movie directed by Stanley Kubrick and set in the Vietnam era." OwnerUserId="5898" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2019-12-06T23:55:52.517" LastActivityDate="2019-12-06T23:55:52.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13397" CreationDate="2013-08-24T09:43:00.190" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;That sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373074/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kung Fu Hustle&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2004):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious &quot;Axe Gang&quot; while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pig Sty Alley:&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bu1nY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Pig Sty Alley&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Hero and his fat friend:&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BMiEz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Hero and his friend&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Landlady:&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/geiw5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Landlady&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can see &lt;strong&gt;more pictures &lt;a href=&quot;http://outnow.ch/Movies/2004/KungFuHustle/Bilder/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, or&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Watch the trailer&lt;/strong&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMdbXLmUgXY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Youtube&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;read a more detailed &lt;strong&gt;plot summary&lt;/strong&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_Hustle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2013-08-24T09:48:09.107" LastActivityDate="2013-08-24T09:48:09.107" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13398" CreationDate="2013-08-24T10:36:48.760" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In USMC culture, a &quot;gun&quot; is a large artillery piece, and this chant (which is apparently genuinely used by Marines) is to train the new recruits not to make the civilian mistake of referring to a rifle as a gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-24T12:03:25.427" LastActivityDate="2013-08-24T12:03:25.427" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3130" CreationDate="2013-08-24T12:08:57.407" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doreah betrays Dany by teaming up with Xaro, who in turn is teamed up with the Undead Warlock to steal the dragons. This is made clear by the bed scene - Xaro had asked Dany to marry him, then sleeps with her handmaiden (not very sincere, is he?) Also the masked mysterious woman from Xaro's party later tells Ser Jorah, when he seeks her out whilst looking for the dragons, that &quot;the thief is with her now&quot; (meaning with Dany), and in the scene prior she was last with Xaro.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the dragons, it is consistently emphasised all through S2 that whoever has dragons will have the ultimate power in the world of GOT. And that men will &quot;lust&quot; for that power. Xaro is the wealthiest man in Qarth; by elimination of all other motives, it's reasonable if not obvious to conclude Xaro bought Doreah off to assist with stealing the dragons because Dany wouldn't hurry up and say yes to marrying him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And remember Doreah had no love for Irri - they are fighting in one of the scenes leading up to D's return to Xaro's villa where she finds her people dead and the dragons gone. Also, remember that Doreah was originally bought as a slave by Dany's brother for her in the first season. So they never started out as friends and yes even though Dany gave her her freedom later on, she obviously got greedy for Xaro's wealth and has either offered to help or had been seduced to help (although remember she was always a prostitute  - she says so in season one, from the age of 12). She was always going to side with the highest bidder or whoever could offer her the most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5900" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-06-28T14:32:01.970" LastActivityDate="2016-06-28T14:32:01.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-24T12:19:03.157" Score="10" ViewCount="5943" Body="&lt;p&gt;In GOT/S2 Ep 9: &lt;em&gt;Blackwater&lt;/em&gt;, just before the battle for King's Landing, there is one burnt corpse hanging in the background, on the brick wall up high. This is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to be confused with the 2 orphan boys hanging back in Winterfell, that Theon killed and burned in his deception of killing Bran Stark and his little brother. This is one lone ( &amp;amp; longer) corpse and it is just outside the courtyard where Bronn is singing the Lannister song with the girly on his knee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just wondering who it is meant to be and the significance of that person. I am presuming it does otherwise why bother to have it there at all and in such a significance first frames of that scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5900" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-25T19:56:51.470" LastActivityDate="2016-04-11T02:03:27.553" Title="Whose corpse is hanging in the courtyard in S02E09?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|plot-explanation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13407" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13410" CreationDate="2013-08-24T17:52:27.923" Score="9" ViewCount="11677" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which Movie is this? I remember the opening scene where the thieves make a hole under a bank vault and then heat the gold till it melts down into a trailer placed underneath. I cannot remember what happens after that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think at the end of the movie there is a Police Detective and another person in a boat watching a couple on the pier as they have the gold, the man picks the gold up and throws it in the water. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a hazy memory about this movie and cannot remind what it was called - I watch A LOT of movies, I might even be combining two movies together. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1969" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T09:18:47.693" Title="Thieves steal gold by melting it through a hole?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:48:11.460" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13407" CreationDate="2013-08-24T19:44:35.993" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was an episode of the original &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0649329/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mission: Impossible S3E4&lt;/a&gt; which did the gold through a whole bit. They drilled up through the floor ... Here's the part in the IMDB synopsis which tells about it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, IMF technical expert Barney Collier (Greg Morris) and muscle man Willy Armitage (Peter Lupus) carry out an elaborate plan to steal the mercenaries' gold. They drill up from a cave below into the vault where the gold is being held and use a complicated device to heat the vault to 2400 degrees, melting the gold and draining it through the floor, where they re-mold it back into ingots. After all the gold is sucked from the vault, the contraption seals the hole and repaints the floor, covering all traces of the theft. Barney and Willy quickly drive the gold out to an abandoned camp and bury it under a fireplace, getting out seconds before Rollin leads Krim and Karl to the 'other' gold. Krim then shoots Rollin, who pretends to die, and after Karl loads the gold into a false bottom in Jim's truck and sends him off, Krim kills Karl too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-08-24T19:44:35.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13407" CreationDate="2013-08-24T20:34:47.853" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are thinking of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1656186/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stolen&lt;/a&gt;, starring Nicolas Cage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He plays a thief who gets caught, goes to prison, and does his time.  On getting out, his daughter is kidnapped by one of his former partners.  She is ransomed for the money that had been stolen in the caper that sent him to prison.  Since he destroyed the money before getting caught, he needs to come up with a new source of money.  He follows a plan he thought up in prison, namely to use a thermal lance to burn through the concrete floor below a large pile of gold bars, and melt the gold so it flows through the hole and cools in the water below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, at the end of the movie, Nicolas Cage is sitting at a picnic table with the female lead, debating keeping a large chunk of gold.  He is being watched by the main detective who is rooting for Nicolas to throw the gold into the Gulf of Mexico.  Nicolas then makes it appear as if he does indeed throw the gold into the water, but it turns out to be a ceramic pineapple that was sitting on the table... leaving the gold there on the table in the final shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="4621" LastEditDate="2013-08-27T09:18:47.693" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T09:18:47.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13411" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13413" CreationDate="2013-08-24T23:10:39.073" Score="0" ViewCount="1300" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the main genre of &quot;hacking&quot; films which have hackers as characters in the film, e.g., &quot;Die Hard 4&quot; or &quot;Nikita&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to look up the genre of them but they are just Action | Crime | Thriller. Isn't there a main genre for the movies like them? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5903" LastEditorUserId="417" LastEditDate="2013-08-25T08:27:19.630" LastActivityDate="2017-05-26T12:11:55.437" Title="What is the main genre of &quot;hacking&quot; films?" Tags="|genre|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13411" CreationDate="2013-08-25T02:52:44.397" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a bit more of a buzzword rather than a formal genre, but I think what you are looking for is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-thriller&quot;&gt;techno-thriller&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Techno-thrillers (or technothrillers) are a hybrid genre, drawing subject matter generally from science fiction, thrillers, spy, action and war. They include a disproportionate amount (relative to other genres) of technical details on its subject matter (typically military technology); only science fiction tends towards a comparable level of supporting detail on the technical side. The inner workings of technology and the mechanics of various disciplines (espionage, martial arts, politics) are thoroughly explored, and the plot often turns on the particulars of that exploration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastActivityDate="2013-08-25T02:52:44.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13414" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-25T02:54:40.267" Score="12" ViewCount="2522" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed what seems to be a plot hole in the Disney version of the movie &lt;em&gt;Hercules&lt;/em&gt;, and I'm hoping someone can fill it in with a logical explanation!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in the beginning of the movie, we have Hades coming to the celebration of Hercules' birth. It is very clearly established that he does not like Zeus, at all. But Zeus seems happily oblivious; he's glad his brother is there, he jokes around with him, tells him he should stay at the party longer and not work so hard. So we've established, then, that Hades does not like Zeus at all, but that Zeus doesn't know this, and however often they see each other, he likes his brother and thinks they have a good enough relationship to invite him to the celebration of his son's birth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fast-forward to the scene on Mt. Olympus after Pain and Panic have just failed to kill Hercules. Zeus and Hera wake up to find baby Hercules missing from his crib...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was tragic. Zeus led all the gods on a frantic search. But by the time they found the baby, it was too late. Young Herc was mortal now. ... But Zeus and Hera wept because their son could never come home. They'd have to watch  their precious baby grow up from afar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay. So, I am totally able to accept that &quot;all the gods&quot; here refers to &lt;em&gt;all the gods on Mt. Olympus&lt;/em&gt;, which would be all of them except Hades. So Hades did not participate in the search for Hercules—fair enough, I buy that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;. At some point, one of the gods on the search found Hercules (&quot;But by the time they found the baby, it was too late.&quot;) At this point, all the gods on Mt. Olympus (so, all except Hades) now know that Hercules has been found, and Zeus and Hera watch baby Hercules with his new mortal parents, and are sad that he can't come back to Mt. Olympus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;At some point during the next 18 years,&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;no one&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;talked to Hades about this?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this very, very hard to believe. All the other gods don't like him; fine, I can accept that they wouldn't have told him (or spent much time with him). Hades doesn't leave the Underworld often, so he wouldn't have spent much time on Mt. Olympus and heard it by accident—I can buy that too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Zeus is his brother. He's just had a baby, and a huge party celebrating that baby's birth where he invited his brother and tried to get him to stick around longer. If you have a brother who you care enough about to make jokes and invite him to the baby's party etc.... Then you're going to go visit that brother and tell him in person that your baby has been kidnapped and lost his immortality, and that you've lost your only chance to ever raise your son. I think you're going to go tell him &lt;em&gt;pretty darn quick&lt;/em&gt;, actually, because you're upset and grieving and want your family's support. But setting speed aside—at some point within the next couple of days, you're going to tell him. Of &lt;em&gt;course&lt;/em&gt; you are. Who wouldn't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just find it very hard to believe that Hades managed to go 18 years without hearing the slightest whisper of the most awful tragedy to rock Mt. Olympus since...well, probably the Titans. There was only one baby god up there. This would have been a pretty big deal. Yet somehow Hades manages to get through the next ~18 years without finding out until Hercules rescues Meg from the River Guardian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone want to plug this plot hole for me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5904" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-13T23:16:54.510" LastActivityDate="2018-01-15T07:40:44.900" Title="How did Hades not find out that Hercules was alive in 18 years?" Tags="|plot-explanation|hercules-1997|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11192" CreationDate="2013-08-25T03:03:01.107" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is implied that the date we are seeing is at some time subsequent to their initial meeting, which would allow them to know where she lives and to have one of them (the one that wants to be alone with her) waiting there after the lunch date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5905" LastActivityDate="2013-08-25T03:03:01.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10581" CreationDate="2013-08-25T06:09:42.080" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia states that the author deliberately left the reality of the murders open to interpretation. Didn't really double check the source for this but that is what is stated for the book. Which begs the question &quot;Why is he constantly referred to as a serial killer by editors and book reviewers if its possible he didn't kill anyone.&quot;&#xA;Two other points.&#xA;He is schizophrenic which means he is quite susceptible to graphic and realistic delusions and as a previous person mentioned it could all be metaphor or allegory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, at the end of the movie Christian Bale is desperately trying to convince his lawyer that Bateman is capable of and indeed did commit all the atrocities. However, the lawyer thinks that Christian Bales character is someone else and refers to Bateman in the third person as if they are talking about Bateman as if he is not there. This occurs several times in the movie and in the book, to intentionally make the viewer and the reader question the integrity of the narrator and his sanity. &#xA;Does Bateman have multiple personalities? Does he commit murders as someone else and get confused as to which are fantasies and which are real? &#xA;Is the cop who interviews him real? Willem Defoe's character has him on the ropes but lets him go. Why? The murdered Paul Allen was seen in London but it was mistaken identity according to Defoe's character. But the lawyer at the end says he had dinner with Paul Allen twice. Could it be that Bateman's character cant handle the reality of his crimes so he creates other fantasies to assuage his conscience that he didnt commit them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5907" LastActivityDate="2013-08-25T06:09:42.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="572" CreationDate="2013-08-25T16:40:49.807" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry but most of the answers here are incorrect.  The original observation made by the person asking the question is correct.  In 3 dimensional space, only three unique co-ordinates are needed to describe an objects exact location relative to a known point of origin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good real-life example of this, which proves that point - is that GPS devices are designed to track your location with a minimum of three satellite signals in range.  GPS co-ordinates do use more satellites than that to improve accuracy, but that is not because having more reference co-ordinates makes them more accurate, it is because having more RADIO signals reduces the impact of noise and other interference on the that distorts one of the signals it is tracking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine your assistant is sitting in the backseat on the passenger side of your car, and you need to tell him  the exact location of a cup of coffee you left on your dash board.  You could use the following reference co-ordinates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Front Bumper (X axis coordinate)&#xA;Drivers side-view mirror (Y axis coordinate)&#xA;Windshield Wipers (Z axis coordinate)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, from the passenger side back seat if you were to move your hand towards all three of those object, without moving past any of them, you will arrive at a location that sits in front of you, at the height of the windshield wipers, in the direction of the driver's seat, and that would be the dashboard of the vehicle in the corner closest to the driver's window.  Adding 3 more reference points would not make it any more accurate, because it doesn't matter how many directions you measure from, as long as you have enough reference points to choose from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think that 3 million possible address combinations and 38 reference points is accurate enough when you are talking about galactic travel.  If more accurate was needed, they would have to use symbols on the gates, but the addresses would still only need 3 symbols and a point of origin to work!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those of you who believe the other answers that argue that 6 points plus a point of reference is logical; I can understand why you might come to that conclusion but you are over thinking it... and you are wrong.  If you were to eliminate the point of origin from the equation, then you would need to 6 coordinates, just because you would need 3 coordinates for each point (one set for your point of origin and one set for your destination).  Hollywood obviously did not understand the math, and misinterpreted how coordinates work in three dimension space.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way you can see how illogical that would be, would be to take a two dimensional map and mark two points... then figure out how to describe the position of one point relative to the other.  According to Stargate logic, you would need one coordinate for your point of origin, and then four points for the destination (one point on each side of the destination forming a square, instead of the cube they used in the movie for 3 dimensional space).  I promise, when you are done, you will feel pretty stupid.  It won't take you more than a couple seconds to realize that finding four reference points to describe one location on a 2 Dimensional map is completely stupid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for those of you who are die-hard over thinkers, you do not need an agreed center or universal axis, or reference orientation to make this work using one coordinate per dimension, plus your point of origin; as long as you ensure that every destination has at least three reference points around it which are all further away from the destination than they are to the point of origin (I won't get into the math or explain that part in detail, but the reason is that you need to draw three separate vectors going all the way past the destination from three different angles, so that the distance between the object remains equal to the distance between the point of origin and the intersection of the three points).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5910" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2017-01-03T20:37:27.307" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T20:37:27.307" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13425" CreationDate="2013-08-25T18:20:28.837" Score="5" ViewCount="2265" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Cornetto trilogy consists of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shaun of the Dead&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hot Fuzz&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The World’s End&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw that Shaun (Simon Pegg) grabs a Cornetto from the Indian store in &lt;em&gt;Shaun of the Dead.&lt;/em&gt; Also Andy (Nick Frost) tries to catch an empty Cornetto cover at the end of &lt;em&gt;The World’s End&lt;/em&gt; when talking about organic food. However, I cannot recall any reference to a cornetto in &lt;em&gt;Hot Fuzz.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an actual reference to it in &lt;em&gt;Hot Fuzz?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="13707" LastEditDate="2019-05-28T19:59:15.037" LastActivityDate="2019-05-28T19:59:15.037" Title="Is there any Cornetto reference in Hot Fuzz?" Tags="|hot-fuzz|the-worlds-end|cornetto-trilogy|shaun-of-the-dead|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13421" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-25T18:21:40.497" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2013-08-25T18:21:40.497" LastActivityDate="2013-08-25T18:21:40.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13422" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-25T18:21:40.497" Score="0" Body="The Cornetto trilogy refers to the three movies directed by Edgar Wright namely Shaun of the dead, Hot fuzz and the world's end starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in lead roles." OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2013-08-25T18:21:40.497" LastActivityDate="2013-08-25T18:21:40.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13423" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-25T18:23:24.393" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2013-08-25T18:23:24.393" LastActivityDate="2013-08-25T18:23:24.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13424" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-25T18:23:24.393" Score="0" Body="Shaun of the dead is a British Zombie comedy film and is the first of the Cornetto trilogy directed by Edgar wright and stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in lead roles." OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2013-08-25T18:23:24.393" LastActivityDate="2013-08-25T18:23:24.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13420" CreationDate="2013-08-25T19:28:47.787" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chud.com/139527/worlds-end-featurette-explains-the-cornetto-in-joke/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;featurette&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1213663/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The World's End&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that explains the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Flavours_Cornetto_trilogy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cornetto trilogy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425112/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hot Fuzz&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; features the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;blue Cornetto&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edgarwrighthere.com/2013/08/01/usa-the-worlds-end-trilogy-screenings-with-amc-august-22nd/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;to signify the police element&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FmzzX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Cornetto&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rF7gX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Cornetto&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Watch the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDu1oYi3AoA&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;featurette&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for more info&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-08-25T19:28:47.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13426" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-25T19:46:43.593" Score="2" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2016940/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Man of Tai Chi&lt;/a&gt;, where exactly does Tiger's girlfriend work? I'm guessing that it's some kind of a government office possibly dealing with &quot;historical preservation&quot;. But do we know what department or organisation it is for sure?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, does Keanu actually lay a foundation for this before/when Tiger is first shown meeting the girl while making a delivery?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-08-25T19:46:43.593" Title="Where does the girlfriend work?" Tags="|plot-explanation|man-of-tai-chi|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4305" CreationDate="2013-08-25T21:24:43.510" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The pilfering of the watch is completely out of synch and illogical with what is going on in that scene (the act of knocking the security chief out) - also, the idea that Cross knocked the chief out and stole the watch to make it look like a mugging is interesting, but not realistic - the chief's own security crew responded to the chief going down, not local police, and to assume that the local police would know that the chief wore a Rolex and that, because it was missing when (if) they found him, that they would conclude he was knocked out for the watch, and not because the chief knew who Cross was and why he was really there, and ultimately 'move on and not recisitat, thereby slowing the investigation' is not realistic either.  The act of pilfering the watch is added to enable the Rolex product placement.  The start of the scene showing the Rolex on the captain's/father's wrist phasizes the watch way too much&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5911" LastActivityDate="2013-08-25T21:24:43.510" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13428" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31962" CreationDate="2013-08-25T23:27:41.323" Score="2" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Arrested Development Season 4, Heartfire is sometimes subtitled while she is not facing the screen.  Is there any list of her dialog that I may read?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="926" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T20:09:23.633" Title="Heartfire Quotes in Arrested Development" Tags="|arrested-development|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13430" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13460" CreationDate="2013-08-25T23:59:45.580" Score="8" ViewCount="875" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sidney Freedman was a somewhat enigmatic recurring character on M*A*S*H, who started out his stint on the show examining Max Klinger during one of his &quot;Section 8&quot; claims.  Dr. Freedman then shifted his emphasis more to being a counselor to Hawkeye Pierce, but still continued to serve as general psychological support to the 4077th when his character recurred.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the final episode, when Hawkeye has had a breakdown and is in treatment, he is seen by Dr. Freedman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this the plan for the character all along, to be the ultimate outlet for Hawkeye's frustrations in the final hour, or was Freedman worked into the script as a means through which the writers could funnel the &quot;war is Hell&quot; message long before the ending of the series was planned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="417" LastEditDate="2013-08-28T23:10:28.183" LastActivityDate="2013-08-28T23:10:28.183" Title="Was the character of Dr. Sidney Freedman created with Hawkeye's final breakdown in mind?" Tags="|character|mash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2013-08-26T02:26:12.237" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You all have not noticed one major clue in the movie. Who gave the name of the psychiatrist to OH??? It was the guy himself. He knew that OH will go to her. And if he can buy a hand from the jail owner, Don't you think he can buy her too? That's where his revenge finishes. He makes sure that OH lives with the burden of knowing what he has done with his daughter for the rest of his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5913" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T19:35:00.277" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T19:35:00.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5615" CreationDate="2013-08-26T03:42:46.137" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the movie Stephen explains that he will do anything it takes as long as he believes in the cause. Do you think that he still believes in Morris? I think that says it all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5914" LastActivityDate="2013-08-26T03:42:46.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13433" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-26T04:30:43.947" Score="2" ViewCount="1790" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the French movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1661420/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Polisse&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a cop kills herself when she gets promoted and she notices her coworkers don't &quot;care&quot; but I'm sure there were many pre-factors I missed during the film. But what were they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I felt that maybe she never dealt with her own childhood abuse and the young boy near the end reminded her of her pain. Is that likely the only reason or was there more I may have overlooked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1212" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-26T08:20:20.137" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T15:51:56.383" Title="Why did the cop make this decision?" Tags="|plot-explanation|polisse|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13437" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16279" CreationDate="2013-08-26T07:26:31.107" Score="3" ViewCount="415" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Blank_%281967_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Point Blank&lt;/a&gt;, my initial impression was that the character of Yost was a cop trying to get Walker's cooperation in taking down the organisation. Was this Walker's impression as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-31T10:42:12.440" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T10:42:12.440" Title="Who is Yost (Keenan Wynn) in Point Blank?" Tags="|character|point-blank|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13438" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16289" CreationDate="2013-08-26T07:37:52.447" Score="4" ViewCount="1867" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both the 1967 Lee Marvin flick, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Blank_%281967_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Point Blank&lt;/a&gt;, and Mel Gibson's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payback_%281999_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Payback&lt;/a&gt; (1999) are based on the novel, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunter_%28Stark_novel%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hunter&lt;/a&gt;, by Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake). Although the underlying premise is similar, the two movie adaptations are significantly dissimilar to each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to know which of the two scripts is, if at all, more faithful to the novel. Please also consider Helgeland's 2006 director's cut of Payback (titled Payback: Straight Up) which is quite different from the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T11:15:08.947" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T23:42:21.627" Title="How faithful are the scripts of Point Blank and Payback to the book, The Hunter?" Tags="|book-adaptation|payback|point-blank|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13439" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-26T10:22:02.023" Score="1" ViewCount="592" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Les Misérables&lt;/a&gt; while Cosette and Valjean are talking/singing, the grown up Cosette wants to know about Valjean's past. And why they are constantly on the run. She makes a movement to lift his cuff and he quickly pulls away - why does he do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ETA: I believe this is around the song &quot;Attack on Rue Plumet&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-09-19T13:16:12.463" LastActivityDate="2013-09-19T13:16:12.463" Title="What was Valjean hiding?" Tags="|plot-explanation|les-miserables|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13477" CreationDate="2013-08-26T10:24:18.970" Score="3" ViewCount="1033" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Les Misérables&lt;/a&gt; the Inn keeper follows Valjean after he takes Cosette. He's paid VERY well for her. He never really liked her anyway. Why is he so determined to track and (I'm not even sure what, kill? expose? bribe?) Valjean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does he then confront Marius with the ring in an attempt to discredit his father-in-law?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-08-26T13:27:03.560" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T15:53:12.330" Title="Why does the Inn Keeper feel wronged?" Tags="|plot-explanation|les-miserables|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13446" CreationDate="2013-08-26T10:27:08.453" Score="11" ViewCount="67081" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Les Misérables&lt;/a&gt;, Javert kills himself after letting Valjean pass. Why did he commit suicide?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was it because he felt he had failed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was it because he didn't want to be indebted to a criminal?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was it because he realised he'd been pursuing a good man?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see these reasons upsetting him but not enough to take his own life!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="21868" LastEditDate="2017-07-14T12:12:37.153" LastActivityDate="2018-05-29T03:13:48.743" Title="What was the reason for Javert's decision?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|les-miserables|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13441" CreationDate="2013-08-26T10:51:04.977" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Javert was a man of big integrity and he believed fully in the law and the penalty system.&#xA;He followed and enforced the law to the letter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when he realized that Val Jean was doing more good as a free man that he would have done in jail he find himself with a dilemma. &#xA;He can't let him free because he would betray his integrity, but also he can't stop him because he would prevent him from protecting good people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he found the only solution to his inner fight. If he dies Val Jean is free to go and he would not have to betray the law.&#xA;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javert&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Valjean saves his life, Javert finds himself unable to reconcile&#xA;  his life's work pursuing criminals with the nobility and justice shown&#xA;  him by the man he thought was a criminal, and takes his own life by&#xA;  jumping off a bridge into the river Seine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5612" LastActivityDate="2013-08-26T10:51:04.977" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13439" CreationDate="2013-08-26T11:08:02.810" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;He just doesn't want her to know about his past as a criminal and prisoner. While that may not be much of a problem for &lt;em&gt;Cosette&lt;/em&gt;, this isn't the experience &lt;em&gt;Valjean&lt;/em&gt; has made in the past. I'd say he is ashamed about his criminal past and just doesn't want her to know, even if he was convicted for such ridiculously small a crime and has done more than enough good to wash away his sins. His past still bothers and haunts him and he has made the experience (and is constantly told by society, and not the least by &lt;em&gt;Javert&lt;/em&gt;) that a man cannot change himself or his past. So this is a dark stain on his past that, while it won't ever vanish, he at least doesn't want &lt;em&gt;Cosette&lt;/em&gt; to know and to cloud her believes in him (even if that wasn't likely to happen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another factor may be that he doesn't want her to know the whole story, including that he is (or at least feels) responsible for &lt;em&gt;Fantine&lt;/em&gt;'s death, which is something he's probably never forgiven himself, even if he's done all the best for &lt;em&gt;Cosette&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; If you're actually asking about a real &quot;cuff&quot; she wants to lift in a specific scene (which I don't remember too well), then this can still be seen in light of the above explanations. He was most likely hiding his prisoner &quot;tattoo&quot; that he didn't want her to see for the above mentioned reasons. Why she made the movement to lift it is another question, though. Maybe she was curious as she felt he was hiding something or maybe she even drew her own conclusions and was looking for a prisoner &quot;tattoo&quot; on purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-26T11:19:11.437" LastActivityDate="2013-08-26T11:19:11.437" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13444" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13581" CreationDate="2013-08-26T12:01:38.490" Score="15" ViewCount="2170" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Dexter&lt;/em&gt;, Season 4, Dexter keeps two houses, one of his old one for secret works and one for Rita and his children. Similarly in Season 5, He returns to his old house but still keep's Rita's house for Lumen. So is this possible in Miami to hold two houses on rent on the salary of a blood analyst? Dexter has other expenses too like maintaining killing rooms/equipment/killing costume , expensive cars,boat, nanny's salary  etc. etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-08-26T13:56:59.617" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T00:06:27.697" Title="Is a blood analyst's salary enough to pay rent for two houses and other expenses in Miami?" Tags="|realism|dexter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13394" CreationDate="2013-08-26T13:03:11.070" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DON PEDRO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of&#xA;     Signior Benedick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;BEATRICE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave&#xA;     him use for it, a double heart for his single one:&#xA;     marry, once before he won it of me with false dice,&#xA;     therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DON PEDRO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You have put him down, lady, you have put him down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;BEATRICE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I&#xA;     should prove the mother of fools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, at some point in the past, Benedick told Beatrice he loved her (he lent her his heart).  She returned his love ( gave him use for it, a double heart for his single).  However, he was not faithful (he won it of me with false dice, i.e. he cheated).  Therefore she insults him/keeps him at arms length because of how he treated her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, Whedon presents this as a sexual relationship, possibly a one night stand, during the prelude/opening credits.  Given the horror of Hero's assumed loss of virginity, however, this would NOT be the original intent of Shakespeare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3569" LastActivityDate="2013-08-26T13:03:11.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13441" CreationDate="2013-08-26T14:46:12.110" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Javert reveals his reasons in the song he sings when he commits suicide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And must I now begin to doubt, who never doubted all these years/ My heart is stone and still it trembles/ The world I have known is lost in shadows/ Is he from Heaven or from Hell?/ And does he know, that granting me my life today, this man has killed me even so...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am reaching but I fall and the stars are black and cold/ As I stare it to the void/ to a world that cannot hold&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll escape now from that world, from the world of Jean Valjean/ There is nowhere I can turn/ There is no way to go on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Javert kills himself because the mercy shown to him by Jean Valjean so disrupts his black and white world view that he cannot bear to live in a world he no longer understands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the key themes in the work is that those who cannot adapt are destroyed (Javert, Fantine, Enjolras), while those who are flexible thrive (Thénardier).  It is really a very cynical work when you get down to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1326" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-08-26T14:46:12.110" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13448" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-26T17:15:05.963" Score="28" ViewCount="4866" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a refined petroleum product called &quot;petrol&quot; available as far back as 1870 which was used (among other things) to kill lice nits and as a solvent.  When internal combustion engines were being developed, this product, unchanged, was found to be an ideal fuel.  Why couldn't Doc and Marty have bought some of that to refill the DeLorean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="497" LastActivityDate="2018-05-17T01:29:37.627" Title="Why didn't Doc and Marty buy &quot;petrol&quot; in 1885?" Tags="|back-to-the-future|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13448" CreationDate="2013-08-26T17:42:42.950" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is all just speculation, but some points to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How many bottles of this “petrol” would be required to get to 88 mph?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To what degree is this “petrol” compatible with combustion engines from 1985?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There were no highways back then, where could you find a place to accelerate to the required speed? (If I remember correctly, flight was not an option.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="282" LastActivityDate="2013-08-26T17:42:42.950" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11023" CreationDate="2013-08-26T21:29:50.280" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the movie purposely makes many allusions to mid and late 20th century popular culture as well.  Broomhilda is not the only character named after a comic strip. Leonardo Di Caprio's character is named Calvin (Calvin and Hobbs) he lives on the Candie-Land (similar to the children's board game) ranch. Django and Broomhilda are supposed to be the ancestors of Shaft according to IMDB.  The name Django itself was taken from the hero of a string of spaghetti westerns, which in turn took the name from the famous Gypsy Jazz guitar legend, Django Reinhardt. I'm sure there are many other references as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5926" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-01-10T12:27:30.617" LastActivityDate="2015-01-10T12:27:30.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12604" CreationDate="2013-08-26T21:58:15.923" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward. Sherlock is told to open the safe. He protests that he does not know the combination. Irene begins to say &quot;Mr. Holmes doesn't ...&quot; but is interrupted. Most people jump to the incorrect assumption that the end of her statement is &quot;... know the code&quot;. (buzz sound) Wong. The sentences would have continued &quot;... know where to look&quot; a reference to there earlier conversation when Watson asks her to put something on. Perhaps a napkin. She says Watson does know where to look but suggests Holmes does not.&#xA;   When Holmes still does not clue in she glances down at her self, since he can not follow her logic she tries his. Once again referencing the earlier conversation when he says &quot;fire exposes our priorities&quot;. In this case her priority is not to get shot thus needing Holmes to get the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5927" LastActivityDate="2013-08-26T21:58:15.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13448" CreationDate="2013-08-27T00:23:36.137" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Petrol wasn't invented until 1870 or 1871 and it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vintagegarage.co.uk/histories/carless%20capel%20&amp;amp;%20leonard.htm&quot;&gt;seems likely&lt;/a&gt; it was a small potatoes British business.  While I don't doubt that some of their product made it to the eastern U.S., it seems very unlikely it was well distributed and probably would not have made it to the Wild West, especially California.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if it was sold in San Francisco, what are the chances it would have made it to Hill Valley?  As portrayed, the town had made it to the iron age, but that was about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T00:23:36.137" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13459" CreationDate="2013-08-27T00:53:01.257" Score="11" ViewCount="8045" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching several episodes of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262153/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Caillou&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with my son, I have this question burning inside. &lt;strong&gt;Why is Caillou bald?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ORqUol.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-02T06:49:07.883" LastActivityDate="2015-01-16T19:45:04.623" Title="Why is Caillou bald?" Tags="|character|caillou|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13458" CreationDate="2013-08-27T01:29:48.153" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chouette-publishing.com/why-caillou-bald&quot;&gt;FAQ from Chouette Publishing&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Caillou stands for all children. He doesn’t have curly blond hair, a&#xA;  carrot-top, brown hair, glasses, or ethnic features, because he&#xA;  represents all children. We wanted to make Caillou universal so every&#xA;  child could identify with him. And they do! Caillou’s baldness may&#xA;  make him different, but we hope it’s helping children understand that&#xA;  being different isn’t just okay, it’s normal&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5448" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T01:29:48.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13430" CreationDate="2013-08-27T02:05:02.553" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that the Sidney Freedman character was just a counselor to Hawkeye.  Sidney was called in whenever there was a case needing pyscho-analysis, from a medic suffering amnesia to a patient who thinks he is Jesus.  Yes, on a few occasions that even included Hawkeye. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But he first debuted in season 2, back when the episodes were much more light-hearted.  I doubt the writers would have kept the character around for the next 10 years, just to have him be a dramatic hook in the final episode.  Couldn't any (unknown) psychiatrist have functioned as Hawkeye's doctor in the end?  Yes, it was more effective because we already knew of Sidney, and he already knew of Hawkeye's past, but presumably any shrink would have been able to help Hawkeye with his self-analysis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068098/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;trivia entry on IMDB&lt;/a&gt;, when Gary Bughoff left the series, the producers wanted to make Sidney a regular character, but actor Allan Arbus turned down the offer, preferring to appear only sporadically. So the producers may have wanted Sidney around more, but again I just don't think it was part of a master plan to setup the final episode.  I think he was just an interesting occasional character (like Colonel Flagg or Rosie) that the writers used to make the episodes more interesting and also to help delve into the psyche of the different characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="753" LastEditorUserId="753" LastEditDate="2013-08-27T02:21:00.113" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T02:21:00.113" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="572" CreationDate="2013-08-27T02:47:07.107" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, the coordinate frame needs to be known. There is no 'absolute' universal coordinate frame, so I assume it is galactocentric. However, think about how difficult it would be to specify a single point in a galaxy where every thing is behaving like a fluid. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a galaxy, EVERYTHING is moving. The super singularity at the center is spinning, and infinitely warping space, the spiral arms of the galaxy are moving. Then there is the orbits of planets within solar systems, and the orbits of moons around those planets. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And everything is interconnected through gravity and subtly influencing each other's motion within the waltz. Binary stars orbit each other, massive gas giants wobble their stars. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neighbouring galaxies also exert an influence. Then there is dark matter which is affecting us in ways we don't fully understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in conclusion, I have no idea how to specify an exact location in space, but I do know time would have to be a considerable component. Basically, the only answer that can possibly make any sense is that is fiction and the requirements come from where the sun don't shine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said all that, I am a computer programmer, and I make physics engines. In a 3D physics simulation, 7 numbers are used to specify the state of an object. 3 for position and 4 for orientation. Actually only 3 for orientation are needed, but the calculations are much nicer when using a tiny bit of redundency. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, another possible answer is: x,y,z,roll,pitch,yaw, and time could be the 7th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5928" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T02:47:07.107" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13463" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13469" CreationDate="2013-08-27T03:39:17.340" Score="7" ViewCount="2367" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483013/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oblivion&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; there are radiation zones that they cannot cross. Are these really radiation zones or are they boundaries to contain... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;each pair of clones? &lt;em&gt;Beech&lt;/em&gt; said he's been to the radiation zones and if I recall, &lt;em&gt;Jack&lt;/em&gt; (the main one) landed in a radiation zone only to find a clone of himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-27T08:30:59.817" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T00:08:55.853" Title="What are the radiation zone boundaries for?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oblivion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13448" CreationDate="2013-08-27T04:10:38.877" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because that wouldn't make a good movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reality they could have burned Kerosene that no doubt has a higher octane rating (150) than petrol of the time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a low octane rating, they wouldn't have gotten to 88mph because the knock sensors would have cut timing and put the car in limp mode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T04:10:38.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13466" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13475" CreationDate="2013-08-27T06:00:08.783" Score="43" ViewCount="141469" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm struggling to understand the ending of Breaking Bad S05E11.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the episode Jesse realizes that Huell stole the cigarettes and confronts Saul about it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;At one point, Jesse flat out says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The ricin cigarette! You had him steal off of me! And all for that asshole Mr. White! He poisoned Brock! He poisoned Brock and you... you helped him!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get that Jesse realizes that Huell stole his cigarettes the first and second time. I also get that Jesse realizes that Walt manipulated him into eliminating Gus. That makes sense. But how exactly does Jesse leap from thinking that Walt orchestrated the cigarettes being stolen to Walt poisoning Brock? Just because Walt manipulated him into helping him with the Gus situation doesn't necessarily mean that Walt was behind Brock's poisoning...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something doesn't add up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1297" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-09-01T14:57:56.383" LastActivityDate="2023-05-10T23:51:20.613" Title="How does Jesse connect the dots in S05E11?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13467" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-27T06:21:05.237" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth installment in the Harry Potter film series, based on the novel of the same name, starring Daniel Radcliffe as the titular character alongside Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_(film_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Main Wikipedia Article for the Harry Potter franchise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T18:24:02.047" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T18:24:02.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13468" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-27T06:21:05.237" Score="0" Body="Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth installment in the Harry Potter film series, based on the novel of the same name, starring Daniel Radcliffe as the titular character alongside Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T18:24:31.967" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T18:24:31.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13463" CreationDate="2013-08-27T07:40:34.250" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;radiation zones&quot; are only there to keep Jack and Victoria from going anywhere other than where they're supposed to. The reason for it being a &quot;radiation&quot; zone and not something else is to stop them from getting curious and wanting to explore what's out there (and finding out what's really going on). Nothing keeps you from doing that better than thinking that you'll die if you do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2014-03-19T00:08:55.853" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T00:08:55.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13470" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-27T08:11:42.093" Score="5" ViewCount="2178" Body="&lt;p&gt;The engineers are supposed to have engineered...us, right?&#xA;That is shown at the beginning of the movie, with the self sacrifice, somehow seeding the initial life on Earth. Panspermia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if that was the case, that would have been 4.6 billion years ago. So why did life on earth develop plants and fungi? Why so many wildly varying species. Why didn't they all look humanoid from the get go. Why did it take 4.6 billion years, to go all the way through invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, apes to finally get to the ultimate goal of resembling the engineers. 4.6 billion years is stupendously long time for a species to remain the same, physically, technologically, culturally and ideologically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the idea is that many branches of science such as biology, paleontology, paleobotany, geology, etc, were thrown out by this new discovery, and life on earth is much much younger than the evidence suggests. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, they came just a few million years ago and their DNA just mixed with apes, who already happen to look similar to engineers (and have compatible biochemistry) by a totally remarkable example of convergent evolution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am perfectly willing to suspend my disbelief for any scenario for the sake of fiction, but it has to be clear and consistent. I just don't get the main premise of the movie. Were they planning to come back to earth to kill all humans, or all life? I suppose it is to be explained in the sequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I understand this is just fiction, and that evolutionary/biological plausibility is not a high priority, but I want to ask this very simple question: did they seed ALL life on earth (which is suggested by the prologue), or just human divergence from apes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2771/why-did-the-engineer-at-the-start-of-the-movie-drink-the-dark-liquid&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; also suggest they created all earth life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5928" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2017-05-29T05:50:17.963" Title="When did the scene at the start of Prometheus happen?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|alien|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13448" CreationDate="2013-08-27T11:34:31.623" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;They were going to try alternative combustible liquids.&#xA;The first they tried was alcohol. The strongest one the could buy from the local bartender if I remember correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that the intake manifold to blew out and then it would have taken about a month to repair it according to Doc. They didn't have the time for that since they were planning to leave before the next Monday to avoid Doc's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably if they didn't blow the intake manifold they would have tried also Petrol eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5612" LastEditorUserId="60177" LastEditDate="2018-05-17T01:29:37.627" LastActivityDate="2018-05-17T01:29:37.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13473" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13474" CreationDate="2013-08-27T12:57:51.903" Score="15" ViewCount="1376" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Breaking Bad season 4-5,&#xA;people are told that Walt has won a lot of money in gambling&#xA;and hence they have bought a Car Wash and clearly Walt doesn't need to work anymore.&#xA;But the Car Wash is run by Skyler and everybody knows that because Marie has visited her several times there.&#xA;How come nobody ever raises the question what Walt is doing?&#xA;Where does he spend his days, doing what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't this unusual?&#xA;Or is there an explanation offered in the episodes which I have missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T01:02:28.493" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T01:02:28.493" Title="What do people think what Walt does now?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13473" CreationDate="2013-08-27T13:00:31.040" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone just assumes Walt is working constantly at the car wash.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you notice, it is very rare for Hank, Marie, and Jr (make that almost never) to even be at the car wash and with them being busy enough in their own lives there is no reason to suspect otherwise.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T13:00:31.040" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13466" CreationDate="2013-08-27T13:15:04.843" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is because Jesse is a lot smarter than the viewers give him credit for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially, Jesse only helped Walt because of Walt's speech about Gus poisoning Brock with the ricin in order to manipulate him into not only giving permission to kill Walt, but to do it himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jesse, realizing these pieces fit believes him and helps Walt get the information he needs to finish Gus off.  However at the end of &lt;em&gt;Face Off&lt;/em&gt; it is revealed that Brock was actually poisoned by a flower called Lily of the Valley, later revealed to be in Walt's backyard, thus implicating Walt in the poisoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has yet to be revealed &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; exactly Brock was poisoned, but nevertheless the facts remain that Walt orchestrated the ricin cigarette to be lifted from Jesse in order to help prove this idea, along with planting the fake in the Roomba to convince him that he had nothing to do with the poisoning in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skip ahead to &lt;em&gt;Confessions&lt;/em&gt; Jesse pieces together that &lt;em&gt;Huell&lt;/em&gt; must have lifted the ricin cigarette from him just like his weed this time.  From here he connects that Saul must have had &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; to do with the poisoning considering this is his perceived &lt;strong&gt;second time&lt;/strong&gt; having something lifted by Huell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then goes to Saul's office, literally &lt;strong&gt;beats the truth&lt;/strong&gt; out of him that it was all orchestrated by Walt.  This sends Jesse into a fit of rage, ready to burn down the White residence at the end of the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole connection goes back to Jesse realizing that the only person that wanted Gus dead at that point, was Walt.  There is only one person he knew of that was that vindictive and manipulative enough to accomplish this task and instead of just asking for Jesse's help in eliminating him, he went to the trouble of not only poisoning a child, something very against Jesse's ideals, but a child that Jesse was &lt;em&gt;close to&lt;/em&gt; to begin with.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Walt may not be the one &lt;em&gt;directly&lt;/em&gt; responsible for Brock's poisoning, Jesse believes that no one else could have orchestrated such an act whether or not it was actually Kuby, or Huell, or Saul, or a random meth head that did it, it all points back to Walt's planning and idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="1634" LastEditDate="2013-10-07T03:35:54.473" LastActivityDate="2013-10-07T03:35:54.473" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13476" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13479" CreationDate="2013-08-27T14:44:47.217" Score="6" ViewCount="2465" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1670345/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Now You See Me&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, The video is shown on the walls of the building. How did they do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AlRS2l.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4840" LastEditorDisplayName="user4840" LastEditDate="2013-08-28T03:35:50.530" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T15:54:49.167" Title="How does video come on the walls of the buildings?" Tags="|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13440" CreationDate="2013-08-27T15:53:12.330" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Strictly in terms of the movie, Thenardier extorts as much as he can from Valjean initially, for the reasons that @Christian_Rau mentions (sees his wealth, knows he's willing to pay a lot). Later in life, their meeting comes not from any pursual of Valjean, but rather from chance. The Thenardiers are living in Paris, learn Valjean and Cosette have moved there, and plan to rob them (again, knowing how wealthy he is, and also out of revenge).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene with the ring is actually not really an attempt to discredit Valjean, but an attempt to blackmail Marius -- Thenardier is hoping that Marius will pay him well to keep the secret about Valjean &quot;looting&quot; bodies in the sewer. It backfires, though, as it's the piece of information that lets Marius know his father-in-law saved his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T15:53:12.330" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12639" CreationDate="2013-08-27T16:05:53.123" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are both Navy uniforms. One is a navy seal and ground team uniform (green) the other blue one is the basic service duty uniform. The navy has a long history of having more than three different types of uniforms and they are holding true to that history to this day. No Army uniforms appear in this photo, trust me I've been in the Army for 10 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5932" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-27T16:13:38.637" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T16:13:38.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13476" CreationDate="2013-08-27T16:42:10.087" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Taking into account that everything &lt;em&gt;magic&lt;/em&gt; in the movie was actually &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;, and that there was an extensive use of gadgetry by &lt;em&gt;The Eye&lt;/em&gt;; the obvious answer to this question would be - &lt;em&gt;technology&lt;/em&gt;. Or to be more precise - &lt;em&gt;projectors&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;holographic displays&lt;/em&gt; of some sort. Earlier in the movie, when the Horsemen are first summoned, we see a holographic projection created using four projectors planted in the room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oHEW9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;the safe&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, at the last show, we can see them standing in front of a projection generator (the glowing circle like stands). So what all this is supposed to explain, is that it is an incredibly clever use of lights and holographs that make it possible to create such illusions. (&lt;em&gt;please don't go for scientific plausibility on this one&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2013-10-27T22:34:34.743" LastActivityDate="2013-10-27T22:34:34.743" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10368" CreationDate="2013-08-27T16:45:10.267" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://arresteddevelopment.wikia.com/wiki/Sudden_Valley#Location&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Arrested Development Wiki&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A map of Sudden Valley shows its location northeast of Mission Viejo&#xA;  and Las Flores, putting approximately in the location of Rancho Santa&#xA;  Margarita, Orange County, California.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5448" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T16:45:10.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13470" CreationDate="2013-08-27T17:06:43.237" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be perfectly honest, this is a highly debated question (not just about the movie) and is &lt;em&gt;open&lt;/em&gt; to several interpretations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While we were shown that the engineers seeded life in the first scene of the movie, it might not even have been earth. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While the &lt;em&gt;seed of life&lt;/em&gt; was created from engineer DNA, it can be interpreted that when the engineer broke down, it was into the very basic molecules that chain up life. At the base, there was simply DNA / amino acids, that kind of stuff. So evolution also produced several other species. While it took several thousand years before the DNA would emerge to form humans. See, they &lt;em&gt;seeded&lt;/em&gt; life, and it &lt;em&gt;grew&lt;/em&gt;. Take the analogy about growing a seed into a tree.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even if we have been given life through their DNA, there are still some big differences in the bodies. This could have been due to other factors apart from DNA, such as planet gravity, the sun, plant life, atmosphere, etc. This could also be the reason that life needed to be engineered from the very basic so that it could evolve in that atmosphere. Their DNA would be evolved from whatever their planet and atmosphere led it to be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You mention &lt;em&gt;they came a few million years ago and their DNA mixed with apes&lt;/em&gt;. I strongly oppose this point. Because to mix DNA, it would require somehow introducing the DNA into the apes, and ensuring that it worked, etc. The first scene did not seem to suggest any such thing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It has already been a scientific milestone, that we now approximately know when life was &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;start&lt;/em&gt; on Earth. That age is given as 4.6 billion years (I'm not sure about the number, am quoting that from your question). The story was created as an explanation for real facts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read up on a few interviews he did about Prometheus. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prometheusforum.net/discussion/1575/ridley-scott-engineers-they-are-dark-angels/p1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Interview 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/did-ridley-scott-just-ruin-the-mysteries-of-prometheus-20120614&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Interview 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prometheusforum.net/discussion/3687/it-all-goes-back-to-jesus-christ-the-space-engineers-ambassador-to-earth/p1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Interview discussion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prometheusforum.net/discussion/1939/ridley-scott-confirms-the-first-cut-of-prometheus-is-2-hours-and-27-minutes-long/p1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Interview 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-28T07:42:18.113" LastActivityDate="2013-08-28T07:42:18.113" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9513" CreationDate="2013-08-27T17:12:20.463" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, understand that these spells were not present in the book and were part of the movies only. In the book, the bank robbery and the cart ride go very different from what has been shown in the movie. It is not mentioned that they fell from such a great height and how Hermione saved everyone. So, this was added/changed by whoever created the movie script. Also, if you start to compare the movies with those earlier in the series, you will find &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of inconsistencies such as that. That is mainly each movie was made after the books came out, and while other books were being written. So, something new might come up in the next book not shown in the current film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, to answer your question -- in the department of mysteries, if you see that, they did not fall from a great height as had been implied in Deathly Hallows. There could be the reason they did not use a spell. Also, it could be from all the chaos that was happening. They were in a middle of a fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I personally think is this -- It was the scriptwriter's idea to include the scene, and to make it more thrilling and logical, they added the fall, dramatized it, and cashed on Hermione to save everyone using a  &lt;em&gt;spell&lt;/em&gt;. Just one of the several thousand things they decided to change from the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T02:28:34.880" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T02:28:34.880" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13483" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-27T17:22:55.597" Score="6" ViewCount="325" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the very last scene of the TV show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460690/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;The Unit&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, when all of the crew is in the chapel for Grey's wedding (except Col. Ryan,) you can see &quot;Whiplash&quot; in the back looking remorsefully at &quot;Redcap&quot;.  My question is whether Whiplash's presence signifies the unit's forgiveness of his actions or merely tolerance/understanding, leaving him as an outsider forever looking in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5933" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-29T19:47:44.423" LastActivityDate="2013-08-29T19:47:44.423" Title="Significance of Whiplash's presence in the very last scene of &quot;The Unit&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-unit|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11444" CreationDate="2013-08-27T17:29:31.033" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of those things that could probably never be answered, I am not even sure the author really knows.  All the comments above make good points, so not to distract from them, but felt this deserved at least one answer ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final narration and the 'clues' that are revealed are meant to be provocative.  A set of identical men with different personalities and a man duplicating himself destroying each other (and themselves).  So there is the commentary of self-destruction and, ambition and envy/greed destroying the things one values.  The only way to end the cycle was for the driving forces to be stopped.  The final narration and images/shots are deeply metaphorical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I believe @Sean is correct above; Fallon was the calm one and wanted the destruction to end.  With the nod from Cutter at the end we are lead to believe that there was an understanding between them.  Cutter can be seen as having the same reservations (conflict) with the actions of Angier and Borden near the end.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I don't believe Angier &quot;knew&quot; Borden was backstage, but took advantage of the opportunity (of which he may have desired to happen and planned for) and was not affected by the misery that followed, then paid for his own sins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie gets better each time I watch it.  I think it is very undervalued.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3416" LastEditorUserId="3416" LastEditDate="2013-08-29T15:55:50.797" LastActivityDate="2013-08-29T15:55:50.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13237" CreationDate="2013-08-27T19:52:04.703" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each person among the four horsemen had an area of expertise. Daniel and Merritt had their area of expertise in manipulation and psychology (mentalism) while those of jack and henley were stealing and (I guess) getting out of tight spot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now clearly Daniel and Merritt's area of expertise was strong enough to seem to be useful and intimidating. Also these two were probably more senior than the other two so the FBI probably thought it to be useless to interview them. At this point in the movie I guess the point was to prove that these guys were one step ahead of the FBI. This point wouldn't be put forward in an intimidating manner by the other two. As you might know if you watched the full movie Agent Rhodes might have easily been playing himself in their hands and that probably was the case here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3559" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-27T20:14:25.330" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T20:14:25.330" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13486" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13495" CreationDate="2013-08-27T20:15:00.367" Score="12" ViewCount="17684" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1670345/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;Now You See Me&lt;/a&gt; how do the Four Horsemen steal from Arthur Tressler?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1X3f9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one part of the movie that isn't explained well. There was some explanation about the first trick as well as the last but not this one. Even if Agent Rhodes was playing all along in the Four Horsemen's hands how could he have known anything about Arthur Tressler? Arthur Tressler especially would keep things close to his chest especially since he knows what these guys could possibly do knowing they already robbed a bank before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in this scene they say something about maybe unlocking it through security question. I can't believe it could be that easy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3559" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-27T20:20:37.657" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T20:36:26.363" Title="How did the Four Horsemen accomplish their second trick?" Tags="|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13486" CreationDate="2013-08-27T20:28:49.923" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There wasn't much explanation for this trick because there really wasn't much to it in the first place, they just hacked his bank account and transfered the money to the accounts of all the people in the audience, which they knew, since they selected them especially as guests for the show beforehand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the movie made use of some very elaborate technological gadgets, it isn't hard to believe them to be able to hack &lt;em&gt;Arthur Tressler&lt;/em&gt;'s bank account using the usual &lt;em&gt;computer hacking magic&lt;/em&gt; known from the movies. &lt;em&gt;Arthur Tressler&lt;/em&gt; has been their target (and thus that of &lt;em&gt;Rhodes&lt;/em&gt;, since he set up their whole plan) all along, since they wanted him and his insurance company to pay for what he did to the &lt;em&gt;Katrina&lt;/em&gt;-victims. In fact, they actually tell Arthur right on stage how they managed to get his password by asking him some questions and doing some mentalist tricks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arthur:&lt;/strong&gt; Hey, did you do this!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jack:&lt;/strong&gt; How could we, Arth? We don't have your password.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Henley:&lt;/strong&gt; We'd need access to information we could never get our hands on...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Daniel:&lt;/strong&gt; Security questions for instance... Like, I don't know, Your mothers maiden name or the name of your first pet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Merritt:&lt;/strong&gt; Where would we get that information, Arth? You'd certainly never tell us...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To &lt;em&gt;Arthur&lt;/em&gt; they were just a bunch of talented illusionists that can perform a good magic show. He never knew they actually robbed a bank in reality (and if they did, then only to do a good magic show, which was in &lt;em&gt;Arthur&lt;/em&gt; best interests). He just was a normal businessmen that sponsored the &lt;em&gt;Four Horsemen&lt;/em&gt;, providing the resources for their show and getting a share of the ticket sales. He wasn't really aware of the fact that they had quite some technological backing to their advantage, let aside an ingenious plan to betray him and bite the hand that feeds. They were his employees in the end, no reason to assume they're thieves or can do real magic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-27T21:46:58.690" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T21:46:58.690" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12792" CreationDate="2013-08-27T21:30:03.397" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;em&gt;kicker86&lt;/em&gt;'s answer &lt;em&gt;Harada&lt;/em&gt; probably also realized that &lt;em&gt;Yashida&lt;/em&gt; has finally turned mad out of his fear of death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He maybe had to fight an internal struggle all along. While &lt;em&gt;Yashida&lt;/em&gt; was his master and the &lt;em&gt;Black Ninjas&lt;/em&gt; always served his family, he also realized that his recent ways were a bit skewed. This is evident in his dialog with &lt;em&gt;Mariko&lt;/em&gt; when he says to her:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This isn't easy for me, but I'm following Grandfather's wishes. The Viper woman is evil, we both know that. But she's a means to an end...an end your grandfather wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while he still believed in the cause, he already doubted the measures. But once he saw how &lt;em&gt;Yashida&lt;/em&gt; turned into that giant monster and didn't care about anything apart from &lt;em&gt;Logan&lt;/em&gt; he saw that this isn't the way to go. And when attacking him he directly said to &lt;em&gt;Yashida&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is not the way!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet &lt;em&gt;kicker86&lt;/em&gt;'s explanation might still be the main reason why he finally decided to turn against his master, even if not the only reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-26T15:52:13.070" LastActivityDate="2014-01-26T15:52:13.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13489" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15132" CreationDate="2013-08-27T22:08:00.540" Score="8" ViewCount="968" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430132/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we learn that &lt;em&gt;Yukio&lt;/em&gt; is neither a real member of the &lt;em&gt;Yashida&lt;/em&gt; family nor a mere employee, but she was an orphan found by &lt;em&gt;Yashida&lt;/em&gt; when she was a child. When asked by &lt;em&gt;Logan&lt;/em&gt; for the reasons she says that &lt;em&gt;Mariko&lt;/em&gt; always had problems making friends. So it seems she was taken with them because she made friends with &lt;em&gt;Mariko&lt;/em&gt;, which &lt;em&gt;Shingen&lt;/em&gt; puts a bit more cold-hearted when he says something along the lines of (forgive me for not being word accurate):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You are a toy doll, a companion for a child who has outgrown you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which sounds a bit cold (and seems to be what &lt;em&gt;Yukio&lt;/em&gt; thinks secretly, too), but sounds reasonable given that &lt;em&gt;Yashida&lt;/em&gt; seems like a man that takes and gets whatever he wants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But likewise &lt;em&gt;Yashida&lt;/em&gt; is depicted right from the beginning as a man that fears his own death above all other things (even if this is emphasized more heavily towards the end). And from a story viewpoint &lt;em&gt;Yukio&lt;/em&gt;'s mutant power to predict other peoples' deaths doesn't serve much more than to classify her even more as an outcast (and maybe to raise the tension by falsely predicting &lt;em&gt;Logan&lt;/em&gt;'s death).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So are there any hints that she wasn't &quot;adopted&quot; just to provide a friend to &lt;em&gt;Mariko&lt;/em&gt;, but for &lt;em&gt;Yashida&lt;/em&gt; to constantly have someone around him who could warn him of his death? And was this an additional device to emphasize his constant fear of death and thus another hint to his actual plans? Or am I just over-interpreting things here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(While it may be that this was intentionally left open for interpretation, there could also be additional hints suggesting the one over the other).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T16:41:32.327" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T16:41:32.327" Title="Why did Yashida &quot;adopt&quot; Yukio?" Tags="|analysis|x-men-cinematic-universe|the-wolverine|plot-explanation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13491" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13492" CreationDate="2013-08-27T22:33:29.587" Score="2" ViewCount="458" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw the last episode of season 2 (Episode 52: Cyclonia Rising (Part 2)) a few years ago. Because of how it ended I was waiting for a season 3 however it doesn't seem as if one would be coming out since it's been this long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am also wondering, like Anime how most are adaptations of another media (like a manga in most cases or a light novel like with Kara no Kyoukai). I am wondering if there are any media that either continues off from where the cartoon finished or at least has a more conclusive end that what the cartoon series has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4297" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T19:05:08.563" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T19:05:08.563" Title="Is there any other media that would continue from where Storm Hawks finished" Tags="|storm-hawks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13491" CreationDate="2013-08-27T23:14:21.330" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Hawks#Comic_books&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; there are plans for a comic book series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-08-27T23:14:21.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13486" CreationDate="2013-08-28T05:03:11.137" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the airplane scene, right after the first act when they are with Arthur (Caine), they play mentalist tricks on him. Daniel tries to guess incorrectly about Arthur's life. Each time, Arthur himself presents the correct information -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Daniel: You had an uncle who had a manly name...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arthur: No, his name actually was...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you can see that Arthur was just passing information to the Horsemen, which in the end, contained his bank account information that helped them access the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure getting his account number wasn't much of a problem - he was their sponsor after all. And then, trying to get his password, his security questions, etc. would require some knowledge about Arthur himself. Which they got with their time spent working for him, and through the mentalist tricks. The scene on the airplane shows exactly how they could get information that they wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the show, when it is finally revealed that they are giving away Arthur's money, he is baffled as to how they got access to his account. That is when they tease him about his security questions - mother's maiden name, first pet, etc. And then sarcastically ask him  how they could have gotten that information. &lt;em&gt;He&lt;/em&gt; would never have given it to them. When in fact, they cleverly got this information from Arthur with mentalist tricks played throughout. They had a lot of time to gather this information considering that they had everything planned out right from the beginning. So they had the time they were first introduced to Arthur, right till the second show to get all that information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-08-28T07:59:32.517" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13237" CreationDate="2013-08-28T05:11:54.340" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the FBI brought in the Horsemen for interrogation, they led them to separate rooms to be interrogated separately. Consider that the interrogation was totally planned, and was an opportunity for the Horsemen to steal Rhodes' phone. And to intimidate the FBI into following false trails. McKinney was the mentalist, he tried to goad Rhodes into getting frustrated. He played mentalist tricks to lead them off track. Daniel was the real plot - he had to get Rhodes' phone. Apart from these two, the others probably gave nothing to the plot. They simply were interrogated, and let go. They did not have any &lt;em&gt;roles&lt;/em&gt; to play during the interrogation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-28T14:33:36.597" LastActivityDate="2013-08-28T14:33:36.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13489" CreationDate="2013-08-28T05:16:23.187" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it is highly doubtful that a kid Yukio could have developed mutant powers, once Yashida came to know about them, he must have kept her closer. Earlier on, as explained, she was adopted simply because she could be friends with Mariko. Whatever happened, Mariko was the only heir to the family. Also, Yukio would always be adopted, an outsider. Such is traditional Japanese family policies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while Yukio was adopted to be Mariko's playmate, once Yashida was aware of her powers, he would not have failed to utilize them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="1461" LastEditDate="2013-08-28T12:41:22.987" LastActivityDate="2013-08-28T12:41:22.987" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="844" CreationDate="2013-08-28T06:21:26.890" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was not answered in the movie, and was not meant to be answered...I think it's just supposed to be a moment where she mysteriously wows the brothers and Bang Bang: normally they're the ones with the plan, but she manages to mystify and amaze them (and the audience) with her escape.  An explanation would cheapen the intrigue of &quot;how the heck did she manage that?!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I had to hazard a guess, I would say she pretended to be a museum employee who, when the museum was threatened, was making every effort possible to preserve a historic artifact and escape the attack.  But that's just a guess.  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5939" LastActivityDate="2013-08-28T06:21:26.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13500" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13573" CreationDate="2013-08-28T06:44:14.657" Score="8" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure where else on the internet to ask this and I've tried looking extensively myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many years ago when I was much younger I saw a movie on TV (SBS Australia if that helps anyone) that I only caught the end of and its lodged its self like a splinter in my mind ever since. This was many years ago (maybe 5+?) so its not a recent movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a foreign film from what i remember, but i don't know what language. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember the following final sequence of events (which is all I saw)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;someone gets shot and its quite bloody (a shotgun perhaps?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;someone acquires an insane amount of marijuana and stuffs it all into a tiny little box car&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the person in the box car is chased by people shooting at them and for some reason being shot at makes the marijuana ignite and fills the car cabin smoke&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the driver of the car is now extremely high and stumbles out of the car onto the side of the road and is (i think) in the desert surrounded by cacti. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;he see's the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team staring him down who then do the 'haka' and he runs off screaming into the distance as the credits roll.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got a copy of the New Zealand movie 'Scarfies', however it's not the right movie unfortunately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5940" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2013-11-04T04:10:02.383" LastActivityDate="2013-11-04T04:10:02.383" Title="Marijuana in car ignites and the driver gets high during a car chase" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:48:17.690" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13502" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13544" CreationDate="2013-08-28T13:09:07.493" Score="13" ViewCount="45489" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1670345/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Now You See Me&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the Four Horsemen each receive a card containing a symbol and an invitation on the back. It seems that there was a connection or implication about what that Horsemen were about to do, or the role he/she was to play. Is there any explanation or are there any theories about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jesse Eisenberg as &lt;strong&gt;J. Daniel Atlas&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;The Lovers&lt;/em&gt;), a street Magician&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Woody Harrelson as &lt;strong&gt;Merritt McKinney&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;The Hermit&lt;/em&gt;), a Mentalist&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Isla Fisher as &lt;strong&gt;Henley Reeves&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;The High Priestess&lt;/em&gt;), an Escapist&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dave Franco as &lt;strong&gt;Jack Wilder&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Death&lt;/em&gt;), a street Magician&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ySyBW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;LOVERS&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/flSBb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;DEATH&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zJUtG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;HERMIT&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VyyNu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;PRIESTESS&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-28T14:32:35.420" LastActivityDate="2014-10-11T18:27:32.400" Title="Were the Horsemen cards referring to roles?" Tags="|analysis|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13504" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-28T13:45:02.157" Score="11" ViewCount="3323" Body="&lt;p&gt;When getting Rhodes out of the suit, there is a scene showing Killian breathing fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EFNKL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Aldrich Killian breathing fire&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did he not use the same against Tony Stark when fighting him at the end of the movie? Or why did he not use it again at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2022-11-08T02:18:35.663" Title="Why didn't Aldrich Killian use the fire-breathing in close combat against Tony Stark?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-3|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13507" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13509" CreationDate="2013-08-28T15:32:16.817" Score="14" ViewCount="5895" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched the season 4 ending of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; and the story is that Huell underhandedly replaced Jesse's cigarettes with an other pack. Jesse desperately looks for the ricin cigarette at the hospital and thus empties out every cigarette. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point Walt has the ricin, Saul has the old cigarettes and Jesse think Gus poisoned Brock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this last episode, Jesse is leaving Saul's office, Huell lifts his dope and somehow he ends up with his old pack of cigarettes that used to contain the ricin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Huell put it back? Why in the world would he do that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5946" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T16:55:43.077" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T17:18:15.333" Title="How did Jesse end up with the cigarettes in his pocket?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13508" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-28T15:44:35.243" Score="21" ViewCount="3933" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw a trailer for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981115/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thor: The Dark World&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and noticed that it will be released in Germany as &lt;em&gt;Thor - The Dark Kingdom&lt;/em&gt;. While movie titles are often changed in localized versions for various reasons (as shown in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/12203/49%29&quot;&gt;this more general question&lt;/a&gt;), this change from &lt;em&gt;&quot;World&quot;&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;&quot;Kingdom&quot;&lt;/em&gt; seems completely arbitrary to me and I cannot imagine any of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/12205/49&quot;&gt;usual reasons&lt;/a&gt; to apply here. If there are 10 English words any German understands &quot;world&quot; is one of them, neither do I have any knowledge of &quot;dark world&quot; being used in other contexts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981115/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_dt#akas&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;other localized titles&lt;/a&gt; it seems that most (if not all?) other countries also use their words for &quot;world&quot; (yet in their own languages, but modern German has always been quite anglophile anyway), and the other countries not listed most probably use the original title. But given that we already had &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2268/why-was-the-avengers-movie-called-something-different-in-the-uk&quot;&gt;previous instances of seemingly arbitrary title changes&lt;/a&gt; that garnered pretty definite and good answers in the end, there might in fact be a known reason behind this oddity. &lt;strong&gt;So why was the title of this movie changed in such a minor yet unreasonable way for the German version?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2016-10-07T10:24:19.777" Title="Why was the title changed to Dark Kingdom in the German release?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|title|thor-the-dark-world|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13507" CreationDate="2013-08-28T15:49:22.353" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's as simple as this, these are Jesse's cigarettes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you notice, he pulls them out of his right-hand side pocket.  He had his weed in his left-hand side pocket.  Huell lifted the weed and &lt;em&gt;nothing else&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WXgT9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Left Side&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0tPH0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Right Side&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a simple argument of Jesse is a smoker, always having a pack of cigarettes on him.  These particular cigarettes happen to be his favoured brand, therefore having a pack on him in his pocket.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not the same pack that Huell lifted the ricin cigarette from.  It merely sparks the train of though that led to Jesse's rage and realization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T17:18:15.333" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T17:18:15.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1376" CreationDate="2013-08-28T15:59:36.427" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The remake actually provides some clarity on the matter. In either Karate or Kung Fu, there is a recurring theme of &quot;excellence in everything you do, no matter how mundane&quot;. The underlying thread in this concept is meditation - a truly enlightened mind is meditating all of the time. Martial artists, seeing their art as a meditation, find practice in everything they do. This is the deeper significance to disguising technique as chores. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5947" LastActivityDate="2013-08-28T15:59:36.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13512" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13618" CreationDate="2013-08-28T17:15:24.210" Score="29" ViewCount="2385" Body="&lt;p&gt;In upcoming Marvel film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron&quot;&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/a&gt;, they are using Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, characters which are Mutants (X-Men). So has Fox agreed for the characters to be used or Marvel and Fox both own the rights for these X-Men characters? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-28T18:26:44.617" LastActivityDate="2019-03-03T22:48:13.833" Title="Does Marvel have full filming rights for all characters in Avengers Multiverse?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|x-men-cinematic-universe|copyright|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13512" CreationDate="2013-08-28T17:56:31.863" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Legally, 20th Century Fox may &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/marvel-comics-movies-characters-carl-6766/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;object&lt;/a&gt; to the use of characters it is producing. So Marvel and Fox may both end up in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/GraphicCity/news/?a=80174&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;suing soup&lt;/a&gt; due to some characters &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; one of them decides to sue the other. Though my opinion would be that both firms lawyers and management would negotiate the films and scripts to get a way out of this. Its just power play to get leverage over the other studio. You can read up more on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Studios&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marvel Studios deals with other studios&lt;/a&gt; to get a good picture about how much of Marvel characters are actually licensed outside itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-08-28T17:56:31.863" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13237" CreationDate="2013-08-28T20:25:07.663" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whether there were any interrogation scenes with Jack and Henley in the first draft(s) of the script, or if they actually made it as far as production, I can't answer. But, I can tell you why they didn't make the final cut. Unlike Daniel and Merritt, Jack and Henley simply didn't have anything to contribute that would either drive the plot forward or set something up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interrogation scenes with Merritt did two things. They revealed how talented he was (and obviously still is) which made, among other things, their second trick more believable (where it was his mentalist knowledge that gave them Arthur's security information). He also set up the romantic sub-plot (which wasn't fully explored in the movie, but it was still there) which was later paid off at the end when Rhodes met Alma at the bridge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scenes with Daniel were the ones that drove the plot forward. He was the one who swapped Rhodes' phone and also the one who explained why they got to walk after having committed the bank robbery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rhodes:&lt;/strong&gt; You are literally begging to be arrested, you know that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Daniel:&lt;/strong&gt; If it means you would actually do it, then yeah. But you won't... Because if you did, it means that you and the FBI and your friends at Interpol actually believe—at an institutional level—in magic. The press would have a field day... And we'd be even more famous than we already are, and you guys would look like idiots even more than you already are. [...] Listen, you have what we in the business like to call &quot;nothing up your sleeve...&quot; And you know it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2018-06-07T16:20:30.147" LastActivityDate="2018-06-07T16:20:30.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13414" CreationDate="2013-08-28T23:03:11.617" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you stated, &quot;Hades doesn't leave the Underworld often, so he wouldn't have spent much time on Mt. Olympus and heard it by accident&quot;. Plus they are Gods, I think they have a different perception of time, 18 without talking to each other is not that long, and they are not even that close (Hades does not like Zeus at all, like you said). Even more, he was busy planning to take over the Gods for those 18 years, if Zeus called him he probably make an excuse not to see him. At least thats my point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5951" LastActivityDate="2013-08-28T23:03:11.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13518" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-29T00:02:45.223" Score="3" ViewCount="540" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching millions of TV-shows and movies I always thought that detectives and higher ranking officers of the U.S. police force don't usually wear uniforms during their normal work (apart from special official events), in contrast to normal officers patroling the streets. Therefore I always wondered why &lt;em&gt;Deputy Chief Noland&lt;/em&gt; always keeps wearing his uniform during the whole runtime of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247087/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The District&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it ever explained why he does this? Is there a special rule for the police of &lt;em&gt;Washington D.C.&lt;/em&gt;, or does he do this out of his own impulse, maybe to show a special commitment to his job or pride in it (yet what would this say about &lt;em&gt;Chief Mannion&lt;/em&gt; not doing so)? Is there any further meaning to this? Or maybe it isn't as uncommon as I think it to be and there isn't much more to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-14T13:18:15.183" LastActivityDate="2015-08-14T13:18:15.183" Title="Why does Deputy Chief Noland always wear a uniform?" Tags="|character|the-district|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13518" CreationDate="2013-08-29T00:37:24.033" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or maybe it isn't as uncommon as I think it to be and there isn't much more to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give a particularly strong counterexample, the Los Angeles Police Department chiefs are almost always seen with a standard uniform on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lapdonline.org/lapd_command_staff/comm_bio_view/7579&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chief Charlie Beck&lt;/a&gt;, but a Google image search of &lt;code&gt;LAPD chief&lt;/code&gt; turns up a lot of other photos. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u7uMS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="417" LastEditDate="2013-08-31T06:18:58.697" LastActivityDate="2013-08-31T06:18:58.697" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13518" CreationDate="2013-08-29T04:08:22.360" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There could be two reasons that people do this in the real life too -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Since they are the section chief and deputy section chief, they are an authority figure and hence always don the uniform. They are supposed to look after other ranking officers and also are a public figure. Hence the uniform.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some people are very passionate about their work, and always like to wear their uniforms even if they do have the option not to. An officer who can wear plainclothes might often be seen in uniforms. Such people tend to wear their uniforms as a symbol of pride and duty.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The District&lt;/em&gt;, Chief Mannion is a strict abider and believer in the laws and his duty. Yet you always see him in blazers. While Deputy Chief Noland is always in uniform. There are some official functions that &lt;em&gt;require&lt;/em&gt; everyone to don their uniforms. Otherwise, It comes down to personal choices and preferences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-08-29T04:08:22.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13523" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-29T07:38:08.173" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-08-29T07:38:08.173" LastActivityDate="2013-08-29T07:38:08.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13524" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-29T07:38:08.173" Score="0" Body="Refers to The Avengers: Age of Ultron sequel to The Avengers and the eleventh film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-08-29T07:38:08.173" LastActivityDate="2013-08-29T07:38:08.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13525" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-29T07:40:19.870" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thor: The Dark World, also known as Thor 2, is a 2013 superhero film featuring the Marvel character Thor and the sequel to Thor (2011). It is produced by Marvel Studios and stars Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Natalie Portman, and Tom Hiddleston. It is the eighth movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/thor-2011&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'thor-2011'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thor-2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/thor-the-dark-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'thor-the-dark-world'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thor-the-dark-world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/thor-ragnarok&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'thor-ragnarok'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thor-ragnarok&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel-cinematic-universe'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the Marvel Cinematic Universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_(Marvel_Comics)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the Marvel character, Thor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor:_The_Dark_World&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the movie, Thor: The Dark World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981115/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Thor: The Dark World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T18:59:33.153" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T18:59:33.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13526" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-29T07:40:19.870" Score="0" Body="Thor: The Dark World, is a 2013 superhero film featuring the Marvel character Thor and the sequel to Thor (2011). It is produced by Marvel Studios and stars Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Natalie Portman, and Tom Hiddleston. It is the eighth movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T18:54:51.657" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T18:54:51.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13532" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13580" CreationDate="2013-08-29T19:55:13.367" Score="13" ViewCount="34697" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Dexter Season 5 Harrison's nanny looks like an important part of the story. She is the only one who passed the nanny interview held by Debra. She really even cares for Harrison. So why did she disappear in the start of season 6 ? I am unaware if it's mentioned later. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2021-08-05T13:59:07.347" LastActivityDate="2021-08-05T17:38:59.903" Title="What happened to Harrison's first nanny?" Tags="|character|dexter|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12432" CreationDate="2013-08-29T20:13:00.480" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I am correct, Quinn quits catching Dexter more because of Debra's fight with him rather than falsify blood test report which saved him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He loves Debra and when they had fight on Dexter's matter, he started ignoring Liddy. Even when he got arrested he doesn't mentioned anything about catching on Dexter and what's Liddy working on. So it's clear now that Quinn is now more concerned in getting Debra back rather than catching Dexter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T21:37:54.363" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T21:37:54.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13535" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-08-30T01:47:16.320" Score="3" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;While watching &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntik%3a_Secrets_&amp;amp;_Seekers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Huntik: Seekers and Secrets&lt;/a&gt;, something seemed odd how they would receive missions. If the mission involved an uncharted ruin the image they would get would show what it would look like, something you would expect in a video game. Also how their objectives are worded seems like it was meant for a video game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also there are the monsters they summon, despite some showing off their special abilities, you don't see how their announced stats have any effect unlike other video game based shows like Yu-Gi-Oh or Bakugan where the stats are explained and how they impact the battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I am wondering if &lt;em&gt;Huntik: Seekers and Secrets&lt;/em&gt; is actually based on a video game or even a prequel to it (considering how it ended and I have yet to see any episodes that continue after that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4297" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-08-30T05:36:56.377" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T14:46:02.167" Title="Is the series based on a game?" Tags="|animation|video-game-adaptation|huntik|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9168" CreationDate="2013-08-30T01:49:19.570" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dredd did pass her, it was up to Anderson after that. At the very ending scene you see Anderson carrying a helmet and a new gun implying she learned from Dredd and decided to become a Judge, plus in the comics she was the lead Judge is the pyi division. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5965" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T01:49:19.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8990" CreationDate="2013-08-30T14:37:57.360" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;he was referring to the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Without_My_Daughter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Not without my daughter&lt;/a&gt; and asking if this Argo movie is that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That movie was released in 1991 and represented exaggerated bad aspects of Iran and was opposed by Iranian government and people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although that movie hadn't existed at the time Argo happened, seems like the filmmakers wanted to mention that movie to the audience. Comments of this answer make it clearer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5790" LastEditorUserId="5790" LastEditDate="2013-09-04T19:17:18.733" LastActivityDate="2013-09-04T19:17:18.733" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11262" CreationDate="2013-08-30T18:52:45.497" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is No! Omar was not an informant. Sosa killed Omar because he knew if he let Omar go back to Miami that him and Frank would never make the deal.  He could tell that Omar knew Frank wouldn't be interested in a deal that big. But he knew Tony would be and that if he sent Tony back alone that the deal would most likely get done. If not, he would kill them just like he did Omar and as we all know later on Tony as well. Frank was just surprised and disgusted that Tony tried to make the deal himself and suddenly was so enamoured with Sosa who he already didn't care for. As you saw throughout the movie Sosa did away with pretty much anyone who stood in his way with making $ . &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5973" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T18:52:45.497" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13502" CreationDate="2013-08-30T19:13:39.207" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I'd say that they were indicative of roles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jesse Eisenberg as J. Daniel Atlas (The Lovers), a street Magician&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his intro, we can see that women are crazy about him and one of his marks actually attempts to seduce him. The innuendo between Atlas and Henley suggests that they have slept together as well. He is good with banter and plays the role of the host/MC/compère.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Woody Harrelson as Merritt McKinney (The Hermit), a Mentalist&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hermits have … mental powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Isla Fisher as Henley Reeves (The High Priestess), an Escapist&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At a guess, she keeps the boys under control which she is seen doing a few times throughout the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dave Franco as Jack Wilder (Death), a street Magician&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While watching the movie, my reaction was that he had actually died on stage in his spoon-bending intro, but he later resurrects himself by stealing his mark's wallet. This also happens later in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TVTropes has some &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/NowYouSeeMe&quot;&gt;interesting notes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tarot knowledge also lets a bit more foreshadowing be known; the first card we see in the film is the 7 of Diamonds. The Suit of Pentacles represents martial wealth; all the Asshole Victims in the film have Greed as at least one of their motivations. The 7 of Pentacles itself represents reaching a new level or a prediction of future success, which in both cases is the prediction of the Four Horsemen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dylan being called The Fool. The Fool tarot often represents an innate cleverness hidden by an apparent foolishness, foreshadowing that he isn't as stupid as he seems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You need five cards for a Tarot reading. The five cards are in order of &#xA;  appearance: King of Spades/Swords, Lovers, Hermit, High Preistess [sic], Death. The hidden card is revealed to be the one hidden in backstory magic trick and is the last one that the Horsemen see so for them the reading is: Lovers, Hermit, High Preistess [sic], Death, King of Spades/Swords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tarot Motifs:&lt;/em&gt; The Eye first contacts the Horsemen by giving them tarot cards — The Lovers (Daniel), The High Priestess (Henley), The Hermit (Merritt), and Death (Jack). This extends to Dylan, the &quot;fifth Horseman,&quot; who Thaddeus repeatedly calls 'The Fool' — particularly right before the big reveal. His actual card is the King of Swords. This represents him being a man with an idea, and not being afraid to hurt his victims.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-08-30T20:08:52.923" LastActivityDate="2013-08-30T20:08:52.923" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13545" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-08-30T19:16:58.157" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now You See Me is a 2013 thriller-caper film directed by Louis Leterrier starring Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Melanie Laurent, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is about a group of Robin Hood-style magicians called the Four Horsemen who use their illusions to steal money and give it to their audience despite the impossibility of it. As they become more infamous, an FBI agent and an Interpol detective chase after them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/NowYouSeeMe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TVTropes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1670345/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Now You See Me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_You_See_Me_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Now You See Me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:12:16.150" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:12:16.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13546" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-08-30T19:16:58.157" Score="0" Body="A 2013 American caper thriller film directed by Louis Leterrier." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T12:12:16.150" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T12:12:16.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13549" CreationDate="2013-08-30T20:35:29.293" Score="15" ViewCount="10896" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1670345/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Now You See Me&lt;/a&gt;, Henley wears gloves &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the time. Did I miss some explanation for this in the movie? Or is there some out of movie explanation, like she's a germophobe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZhQas.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3541" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-08-30T21:24:32.030" LastActivityDate="2016-07-17T17:08:43.063" Title="Why does Henley always wear gloves?" Tags="|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13547" CreationDate="2013-08-30T21:23:22.950" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The in-universe explanation is that she's germophobic. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/celebrity/entertainment/monitor/2013/06/jesse-eisenberg-isla-fisher-now-you-see-me-interview&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does Henley wear gloves so often for any particular reason?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt;: Germs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Isla&lt;/em&gt;: She's germ-phobic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, she is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; wearing gloves during the piranha stunt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T01:05:10.993" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13550" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13551" CreationDate="2013-08-31T01:02:27.127" Score="13" ViewCount="596" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Red Matter is used to create a singularity. Does this singularity crush everything that enters it or just act as a wormhole and transport everything to a different point in time and space? When Spock's ship and Narada are sucked in that aren't destroyed as it acts like a wormhole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a wormhole, does that mean that Vulcan has just been transported to another time and space?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2013-09-06T01:23:29.957" LastActivityDate="2013-09-06T01:23:29.957" Title="How does the Red Matter singularity work?" Tags="|star-trek|star-trek-2009|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13550" CreationDate="2013-08-31T03:11:41.953" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_matter#Red_matter&quot;&gt;Red Matter - The rare mineral decalithium is processed into red matter that creates a black hole when it comes in contact with nuclear matter.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was presented with a lot of artistic license which made it red when in actuality it wouldn't be and also the matter being &quot;destroyed&quot; (we know it can't be, but Vulcan went poof) yet the spacecrafts didn't, just transported across time/reality. But the fictional inaccuracies aside, its simply an unstable substance that produces massive energy creating a chain reaction that ultimately leads to a black hole. Black holes are theorized to bend spacetime and in this it can act as both massive energy that converts matter into antimatter (Vulcan just becomes antimatter feeding the black hole) and the magnetic wash it creates can explain the manipulation of time and dimension (although again no proof other than science fiction assumptions to date).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But considering some faint elements that are rooted in actual science of quantum chromodynamics. The principle of color charge used to explain quark confinement (basically why protons/neutrons can bind together forming lager groupings) has three aspects of primary colors RGB, though has nothing to do with actual color. Although unlikely this Red Matter was a Gluon, it could still be explained away as possibly some exotic form of Quark matter. This would explains its &quot;destructive&quot; capability (again I use that loosely as we know energy cannot be destroyed just transformed) and that amount of massive energy I suppose could facilitate a shift in spacetime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope that helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5929" LastActivityDate="2013-08-31T03:11:41.953" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13552" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13559" CreationDate="2013-08-31T05:32:50.523" Score="1" ViewCount="16857" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can Peter Pan's shadow be detached from his body and appear to have a different personality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious about this, because it seems, in Peter Pan (2003) by P.J. Hogan this is not explained. Or am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5941" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-08-31T08:51:09.120" LastActivityDate="2021-03-14T23:22:22.840" Title="How is Peter Pan's shadow capable of being detached from his body?" Tags="|plot-explanation|peter-pan|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13555" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17858" CreationDate="2013-08-31T07:00:07.913" Score="8" ViewCount="683" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;28 Days Later&lt;/em&gt;, when they end up at the mansion with the military guys,  Jim goes on a rampage and sets free the infected. He ends up being chased by them and runs into a room where he proceeds to a corner and disappears into a secret door in the wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does he know that door is there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There must be an answer in the deleted scenes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2014-03-09T20:01:41.437" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T20:17:37.277" Title="How does Jim know there is a secret door?" Tags="|plot-explanation|28-days-later|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13556" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13558" CreationDate="2013-08-31T09:13:38.357" Score="3" ViewCount="346" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Nemo does his 2nd attempt at blocking the fish tank cleaning fan, there is a sound inconsistency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You would need to know that he can only get out by jamming the fan with a pebble, after which it finally comes to a stop so he can swim through the tube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why does the fan make the jamming sound when Gill and Folk shove the stem of the plant into the tube when it's already stationary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5978" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T15:51:49.893" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T15:51:49.893" Title="Sound inconsistency in Finding Nemo" Tags="|plot-explanation|finding-nemo|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13552" CreationDate="2013-08-31T09:16:26.947" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple answer is magic. That's really all there is to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5978" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-02T05:26:28.370" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T05:26:28.370" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13556" CreationDate="2013-08-31T09:58:10.290" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think its an inconsistency. The first time when Nemo puts the pebble into the fan, he swims back into the tank. During this time, the other fishes are busy uprooting the fake plant and pushing it into the fan. They don't notice Nemo has already arrived. When they push the plant into the fan, the fan is pushed across, and what we hear is the sound of the stone being scraped. The fan is jammed because of the stone, so if anyone tries to push it, the stone will still block the fan which produces the noise that you just heard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-08-31T09:58:10.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13552" CreationDate="2013-08-31T10:06:32.237" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In these films, it is depicted that Peter and his shadow can be separated. Although the same person, Peter and his shadow can be considered as separate &lt;em&gt;bodies&lt;/em&gt;. Like how in some films, when a hand gets separated from the body, it continues to act independently. Or when someone is beheaded, their body tries to find the head back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peter Pan got separated from his shadow as depicted in the two films - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the film, while Peter was visiting the Darling household to listen to stories, the Darling's dog Nana barked at the intruders and while Peter escaped, his shadow was captured. That night, Wendy Darling discovered the shadow and stored it in her draw to prevent it from getting into trouble. The next night, Peter and Tinker Bell returned to retrieve it. When they found it, they accidentally woke Wendy. As Peter attempted to restore it with soap, Wendy preferred the proper way and sewed it back.  - &lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Peter_Pan_%281953_film%29&quot;&gt;Peter Pan (1953)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...that night, Wendy catches a glimpse of Peter hovering over her bed that night and her nursemaid and dog Nana steals his shadow just as he escapes. Wendy is caught drawing Peter in her book in school the next morning. While chasing the delivery boy carrying a letter from Wendy's teacher to Mr. Darling at the bank, Wendy and Nana literally crash into him and spoil his chances of impressing his superiors. Mr. Darling chains Nana outside and reprimands Wendy before he, Mrs. Darling leave for a party, leaving the children with Aunt Millicent. Peter visits Wendy again, who sews his shadow back on.  - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan_%282003_film%29&quot;&gt;Peter Pan (2003)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence it seems that his shadow and him both have a playful personality. While it was sewed back up again, the shadow may continue to &lt;em&gt;play&lt;/em&gt; with Peter Pan by being separated and teasing him. Though after being sewed back up, the &lt;em&gt;shadow&lt;/em&gt; is now a part of Peter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-08-31T10:06:32.237" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13560" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13583" CreationDate="2013-08-31T10:22:42.923" Score="8" ViewCount="13656" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was born in 90's, and I used to watch Cartoon Network.  I have been trying to identify a show for the past 3 years, but I have not yet found it.  It was a bit like a Transformers style, but not fully. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were two gangs, good and bad. In the good gang there was a queen, and a few youngsters would be protecting her. They traveled in space, and the queen's protectors had their own robots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a problem came they moved inside of the robots and operated them. After some shows one protector got a powerful knife and if he showed that knife to the sky, the robot will come from up there and would be fixed around his body.  Later, the queen's husband joined the enemy team to fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone identify this show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5979" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-24T15:59:22.673" LastActivityDate="2016-12-21T10:05:08.680" Title="Cartoon similar to Transformers, with two gangs, good and bad" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:54:46.927" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13560" CreationDate="2013-08-31T10:45:59.713" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you talking about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltron#Lion_Force_Voltron_.28Voltron_of_the_Far_Universe.29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lion Force Voltron&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Krzq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It had a princess, but not a queen (I think one of the Voltron series had the queen appear as a spirit).  There was a blazing sword and katana, if that's what you mean by a &quot;knife&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="417" LastEditDate="2013-08-31T10:52:51.117" LastActivityDate="2013-08-31T10:52:51.117" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10432" CreationDate="2013-08-31T19:42:02.480" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could be the pills are his meds. If he takes them it does nothing (they're prescribed for a reason), but when someone else takes them they die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5982" LastActivityDate="2013-08-31T19:42:02.480" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13565" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13567" CreationDate="2013-08-31T20:45:39.300" Score="5" ViewCount="33000" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just seen the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1829012/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Passion (2012)&lt;/a&gt;, and seriously, I don't get any of it. Wikipedia does not have a detailed storyline of the movie and other sites just have a review. I would like to know what the story really is — Is it a dream or really happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5983" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-01T19:48:56.803" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T15:24:13.473" Title="Were the events in &quot;Passion&quot; really happening or a dream?" Tags="|plot-explanation|passion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13565" CreationDate="2013-09-01T01:02:00.803" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does seem pretty confusing from the plot descriptions on Wikipedia and IMDB, and even the trailer seems confusing. But, Wikipedia says the movie is really a remake of a French movie named &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1459012/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Love Crime&lt;/a&gt;. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Crime&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;plot description of Love Crime on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; seems a lot more detailed and reads as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Set in and around Paris, France, the story revolves around two women who work in a multinational corporation. Christine (Scott Thomas) is a cold, ruthless business executive who enjoys using and betraying people. Isabelle (Sagnier) is Christine's young, ambitious and intelligent administrative assistant who regularly suffers from professional and personal humiliations at the hands of Christine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A subplot revolves around Christine's boyfriend, Philippe, who is cheating on her with Isabelle. When Christine discovers accounting irregularties in Philippe's business accounts with the firm, Christine threatens him instead of reporting him, hoping to use him to her own advantage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Midway through the movie, Isabelle, after suffering one-too-many implied threats and humiliations by Christine, murders her by staging a break-in at Christine's suburban house and stabs her to death. Isabelle then implicates herself in the crime, a seeming sign of a nervous breakdown, when she allows herself to get arrested and incarcerated. At this point, the imprisoned Isabelle embarks on a quest to prove her innocence of a murder that she actually committed, but her defense may prove to be even more difficult than she anticipated due to her history with Christine and of the circumstantual evidence that Isabelle herself planted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So based on what I've seen and read so far, the movie is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-09-01T01:08:47.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13500" CreationDate="2013-09-01T10:01:36.607" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's such a scene with police officer at the end of french movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343426/reviews?ref_=tt_urv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;La Beuze&lt;/a&gt;. In the movie the whole car was made of marijuana.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="564" LastActivityDate="2013-09-01T10:01:36.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13466" CreationDate="2013-09-01T14:43:35.103" Score="13" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Walt wants to kill Gus because he knows Gus wants him dead. He talks Jesse into doing it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Walt gives Jesse the cigarette with the ricin to kill Gus but it doesn't happen as Jesse is becoming loyal to Gus and Mike.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Walt is cornered now and decides to turn Jesse against Gus by making Jesse believe that Gus has poisoned Brock. [off camera]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He tells Saul to remove the ricin in Jesse's cigarette pack [off camera]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Saul's bodyguard Huell removes the ricin by patting Jesse down.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At the same time Walt poisons Brock somehow with Lily of the Valley knowing it will make him sick but won't kill him.  [off camera]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jesse finds out Brock is very ill and when he sees the ricin missing he's convinced that Walt is responsible. Jesse thinks that Walt used Saul's bodyguard Huell to remove the ricin so that he could use it to poison Brock. Jesse thinks Walt did that to get back at him for helping Gus. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Walt convinces Jesse that Gus is responsible: he says that Gus had probably figured out about their ricin plan through all the cameras in the lab, and Tyrus probably took the ricin.  Walt says Gus poisoned Brock so that Jesse would blame Walt.  He also tells Jesse that Gus has used kids before.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jesse believes Walt and helps him get the information he needs to finish Gus. Walt's plan has worked.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Walt kills Gus using Tio. Jesse finds out that Brock wasn't poisoned by ricin and he freaks out because he thinks he has lost the ricin somewhere and he also realizes that Gus didn't poison Brock.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Walt convinces Jesse that Gus deserved to die anyway and that he probably lost the ricin somewhere.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Walt hides the ricin that Saul had given him back previously.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Walt puts a fake vial of ricin into Jesse's Roomba  and then helps Jesse searching around the house until they find it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Later in the series Huell pickpockets Jesse again this time to replace some weed Jesse had with a pack of cigarettes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jesse finds out and at this point he realizes that it was indeed Huell who took the ricin that first time.  Although he probably doesn't understands the whole plot that Walt has orchestrated he knows he was manipulated big time and he's very angry.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jesse goes to Saul and tells him at gun point that Walt used Saul to poison Brock. Saul confesses.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5990" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-10T15:39:14.320" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T15:39:14.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3758" CreationDate="2013-09-01T16:58:29.747" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it kinda sounds like a recod on a turntable being slowed to a stop. More likely,  They probably recorded a single tone on tape and then played back with the engineers thumb on the reel to slow it down to a stop.&#xA;Sure would like to know for sure. It's a very cool sound. Of course, how the actually made the sound back in the day was probably pretty easy! The things always are fasinating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5991" LastActivityDate="2013-09-01T16:58:29.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13577" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-01T18:33:39.470" Score="3" ViewCount="4467" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the song Lupin plays at the end of &lt;em&gt;Prisoner of Azkaban&lt;/em&gt;, when he's resigning, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the one with the boggart? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I already know the boggart scene one, it is &lt;em&gt;Hot Liquorice&lt;/em&gt; by Dick Walters, but I am unsure about the one when he's resigning and packing up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5992" LastEditorUserId="417" LastEditDate="2013-09-02T03:28:34.013" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T03:47:37.097" Title="What is the song that Lupin plays at the end?" Tags="|soundtrack|harry-potter|the-prisoner-of-azkaban|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-12-03T18:19:48.877" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13579" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13593" CreationDate="2013-09-01T20:27:35.920" Score="2" ViewCount="4511" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've heard vague comments to the effect that the writing staff of Frasier got shaken up considerably during the last few seasons. Specifically, I heard that many of the writers of seasons 1-7 left, and then came back for season 11. Is this accurate? If so, is there any information about how the season 8-10 writers planned to resolve the season 10 cliffhanger, with Roz leaving KACL?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1331" LastActivityDate="2016-06-25T18:42:32.907" Title="What happened to the writing staff on Frasier in the last few seasons?" Tags="|frasier|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13532" CreationDate="2013-09-01T23:51:06.673" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://dexter.wikia.com/wiki/&quot;&gt;Dexter Wikia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://dexter.wikia.com/wiki/Sonya&quot;&gt;Sonya&lt;/a&gt; left the show without any explanation. There was also no explanation as to why Angel Batista's younger sister Jamie took over from Sonya.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Wikia page for Sonya also adds&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sonya unfortunately fell into the category of characters that disappear between seasons. This is likely due to their contract only requiring their appearance for one season and/or Showtime deciding to drop them afterwards. It's assumed that Showtime felt a younger, more visually attractive woman was needed to replace her for on screen appearances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to IMDB, she took up another role &lt;em&gt;Corp &amp;amp; Anam&lt;/em&gt; after season 5, so perhaps she was only contracted for 1 season and couldn't be obligated into another season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastActivityDate="2013-09-01T23:51:06.673" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13444" CreationDate="2013-09-02T00:00:36.143" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found information (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ehow.com/info_8468172_salary-blood-splatter-analyst.html&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;) on the net containing salary ranges for &quot;Blood Analsyts&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A rookie can start off from a $40,000 mark&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Senior (like Dexter) can earn anywhere from $80,000 to $160,000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to this, Dexter sold his biological fathers' house in season 1, from which I would guess he would get at least $100,000 cash in hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also noted a comment passed by Angel Batista in Season 2 when they were trying to catch the &quot;Bay harbour Butcher&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;that Coral Cove is still affordable on a cops' salary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is where Dexter kept his boat, while not hard evidence, but does conclude that where he kept his boat is one of the cheaper harbours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, while conjecture information, up until Season 4 he wasn't the legal guardian of Ritas' children and had no dependant children himself yet, so when he did have dependant children, I assume he would be eligible for government paid tax credits. Not being from America, not sure of the laws for that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="749" LastEditDate="2013-09-02T00:06:27.697" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T00:06:27.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13582" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17780" CreationDate="2013-09-02T04:33:31.813" Score="5" ViewCount="7644" Body="&lt;p&gt;While reading the Wikipedia entry on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolver_%282005_film%29#Home_media&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2005 Film Revolver&lt;/a&gt; I noticed it mentioned that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Region 2 is the original 2005 theatrical release, while Region 1 is&#xA;  the 2007 reedited version, created by Ritchie in order to simplify&#xA;  and/or clarify some plot points after criticism that the film was too&#xA;  hard to follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone explain or provide insight to what was changed between these two releases past what is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365686/alternateversions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;explained here&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5940" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-02T05:13:30.270" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T12:00:40.930" Title="What are the differences between the Region 1 and Region 2 Releases of Revolver?" Tags="|alternate-version|revolver|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13560" CreationDate="2013-09-02T12:58:12.533" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Suit_Gundam&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mobile Suit Gundam&lt;/a&gt;, First Gundam, Gundam 0079, or simply Gundam '79&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WFIsk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Mobile Suit Gundam&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It had Queen, Kingdom, Federation, and the plane can be transformed into large robot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5941" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T12:58:12.533" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13584" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-02T13:05:09.110" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A mischievous boy who can fly and who never ages, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang, the Lost Boys, interacting with mermaids, Native Americans, fairies, pirates, and occasionally ordinary children from the world outside of Neverland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to two distinct works by Barrie, the character has been featured in a variety of media and merchandise, both adapting and expanding on Barrie's works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5941" LastEditorUserId="5941" LastEditDate="2013-09-02T13:43:43.190" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T13:43:43.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13585" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-02T13:05:09.110" Score="0" Body="Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A mischievous boy who can fly and who never ages." OwnerUserId="5941" LastEditorUserId="5941" LastEditDate="2013-09-02T13:43:10.157" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T13:43:10.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4305" CreationDate="2013-09-02T15:15:22.233" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The addition I'd make to the already good answers is that Aaron shows his need for timekeeping earlier in the film when he urgently asked for his watch back from Marta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As well as the product placement I'd add in that Aaron uses his watch to know when to medicate (something he's clearly religious about to try and stave off reverting to his previous IQ). Having a watch is an addiction so he's always on time with his medication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-07-09T07:47:24.240" LastActivityDate="2014-07-09T07:47:24.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13406" CreationDate="2013-09-02T16:21:35.670" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just watched it back a couple of times, and not being able to remember anything of significance from the book. I think it's just placing emphasis on the meaning of The Rains of Castemere. That all who cross the Lannisters, become corpses adorning their walls! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5998" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T16:21:35.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13577" CreationDate="2013-09-02T17:05:51.527" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been asked on various forums for a long time with no answer I'm afraid, I have personally trawled through hours of really good swing music trying to find it. To no avail, each time I think &quot;its got to be by &lt;strong&gt;__&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; no joy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I can conclude that is a piece of stock music, or a throwaway by John Williams. I'd love to be proved wrong though as it really is a catchy tune&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5998" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T17:05:51.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13406" CreationDate="2013-09-02T17:50:19.547" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not to be confused with the 2 orphan boys hanging back in Winterfell, that Theon killed and burned in his deception of killing Bran Stark and his little brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those weren’t orphans, they were the children of the farmer whom they also killed and burned their farm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In GOT/S2 Ep 9: Blackwater, just before the battle for King's Landing, there is one burnt corpse hanging in the background, on the brick wall up high. This is one lone ( &amp;amp; long) corpse and it is just outside the courtyard where Bronn is singing the Lannister song with the girly on his knee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just wondering who it is meant to be and the significance of that person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The shot in question was an following-shot which followed a couple of random soldiers into the tavern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am presuming it does otherwise why bother to have it there at all and in such a significance first frames of that scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, it isn’t significant, it is just an establishing shot leading into the scene with Bronn. The charred body was set-dressing to set the tone, and to show the callous attitude that they have for life, where that they can kill people and leave their corpses lying (or hanging) around without a thought, then go on to sing and drink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sort of thing is common on this show where bodies are shown strewn around all over the place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T17:50:19.547" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9516" CreationDate="2013-09-02T21:54:10.533" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its because the police guy at the plane said that only one person was supposed to be at the plane. So bane wanted the guys to stay so that the investigators would believe that the doctor (dead guy with real doctors blood), the police guys and the one person died in a 'accidental' plane crash. Bane did this so they wouldn't know it was a kidnapping and that the doctor was captured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5999" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-02T22:58:41.767" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T22:58:41.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13579" CreationDate="2013-09-02T22:40:56.030" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Frasier_writers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a list of writers and the episodes they wrote. There is an article &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Frasier?from=Main.Frasier&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; that discusses the writers of season 11 called season 10 a misfire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This probably means that the producers wanted a creative sea-change to get the show back on track. The original trajectory for season 11 is unclear, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/christopher-lloyd-writer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here's&lt;/a&gt; a half hour interview with writer Christopher Lloyd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T22:40:56.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13594" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-02T23:01:25.730" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-02T23:01:25.730" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T23:01:25.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13595" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-02T23:01:25.730" Score="0" Body="Disney's Animated film about an over-protective father clownfish named Marlin along with a regal tang named Dory searches for his abducted son Nemo." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-02T23:01:25.730" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T23:01:25.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13596" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-02T23:05:59.277" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-02T23:05:59.277" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T23:05:59.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13597" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-02T23:05:59.277" Score="0" Body="2002's  British science fiction zombie invasion horror film." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-02T23:05:59.277" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T23:05:59.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13598" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-02T23:18:54.843" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-02T23:18:54.843" LastActivityDate="2013-09-02T23:18:54.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13599" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-02T23:18:54.843" Score="0" Body="For questions about the intricacies of adapting a video game to the film or TV series format, or the relationship of a story going from one format to another." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="19762" LastEditDate="2022-03-15T13:41:04.623" LastActivityDate="2022-03-15T13:41:04.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13600" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-02T23:34:58.137" Score="10" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the opening of the movie, Captain Robau (Faran Tahir) pilots a shuttle to the Romulan mining craft.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The shuttle he piloted has a set of plastic curtains between the pilot and the rest of the crew bay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see that other shuttles from the same generation (such as the medical evacuation shuttle that George Kirk's wife is evacuated on) and also shuttles from later generations (such as the one Pike uses to drop Kirk and the others from) have actual doors between the rear of the craft and the pilot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What purpose would such curtains serve? Do they provide a film-element that I'm overlooking such as &quot;indicates that it's a craft and not a set&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sidenote: is that canon I just missed and that's why they were used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9upec.png&quot; alt=&quot;A screenshot of what I&amp;#39;m referring to&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6001" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-09-04T20:55:33.213" LastActivityDate="2013-09-06T06:37:55.387" Title="What's the purpose of the plastic curtains in Captain Robau's shuttle?" Tags="|star-trek|star-trek-2009|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13602" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13619" CreationDate="2013-09-03T02:14:23.130" Score="7" ViewCount="4997" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any documentation of the specs (processor speed, memory, etc...) for the WOPR super computer in the 1983 film War Games?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was watching the movie tonight and I was curious as to how &quot;Joshua&quot; compared to modern computers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1326" LastEditorUserId="1326" LastEditDate="2013-09-03T13:31:58.507" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T00:07:40.557" Title="How would the WOPR super computer (&quot;Joshua&quot;) in War Games compare with modern computers?" Tags="|war-games|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2517" CreationDate="2013-09-03T02:20:35.943" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;J could let go of Boris when they were falling and travel a few seconds/minutes into the future instead, only if that spikes weren't poisoned, making him bleed badly. Boris would land hard (not stopping few feet above the ground) and when J would arrive in the future a few seconds/minutes later he would be the only one on the ledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or when he travels a few seconds back in the movie, he could just push Boris of the ledge since he appeared where he started the jump (next to boris, practically hugging him) and since J's past self would still be laying there, not being hit by spikes, the future J's spikes would disappear too. That could leave us with two Js or when the time that passed from when J got up and started running towards Boris till he jumped back in time would pass future J would disappear since past J wouldn't need to make the jump since Boris wouldn't be on the ledge anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, I guess movie makes it a bit illogical but I never really thought about it before few minutes ago. And it appears that both J and Boris travel few seconds back but only J remembers that it already happened. I guess because he broke the laser line but they still both traveled because they were touching. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6004" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-09-03T05:37:30.677" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T05:37:30.677" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13604" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-03T02:38:39.857" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Tick: The Animated Series is an American animated television series adaptation of the New England Comics superhero, The Tick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series debuted September 10, 1994 on the Fox network's Fox Kids block and was responsible for introducing the satirical comic book character to a mainstream audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lasting three seasons, the final episode aired on November 24, 1996. Since then, The Tick has been syndicated by various networks, further increasing the show's cult following, and has been released on both VHS and DVD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A live-action series was created in 2001.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5941" LastEditorUserId="5941" LastEditDate="2013-09-03T02:39:13.920" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T02:39:13.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13605" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-03T02:38:39.857" Score="0" Body="The Tick: The Animated Series is an American animated television series adaptation of the New England Comics superhero, The Tick." OwnerUserId="5941" LastEditorUserId="5941" LastEditDate="2013-09-03T02:39:11.407" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T02:39:11.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13607" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13608" CreationDate="2013-09-03T05:50:48.677" Score="6" ViewCount="12477" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frasier is 40 when the show begins, and 51 when it ends. Niles is his younger brother. Frasier is depicted as being old enough to say &quot;I don't like him&quot; at Niles' birth, and both are clearly referenced and depicted as being in prep school together. Is Niles' age ever explicitly stated, beyond being younger than Frasier? If not, how far can we narrow down the age difference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1331" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T06:16:11.587" Title="What is the age difference between Frasier and Niles?" Tags="|frasier|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13607" CreationDate="2013-09-03T06:16:11.587" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most Internet sources (Wikipedia, Wikia, IMDb, etc.) state/estimate that &lt;a href=&quot;http://thecheersfrasier.wikia.com/wiki/Frasier_Crane#.5Bedit.5D_Birth&quot;&gt;Frasier was born in 1952&lt;/a&gt; while &lt;a href=&quot;http://thecheersfrasier.wikia.com/wiki/Niles_Crane&quot;&gt;Niles was born in 1957&lt;/a&gt;. There appears to be no listed source for Niles' date of birth, but Frasier is well covered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The details of Frasier's birth are erratic and changing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In Cheers episode &quot;It's a Wonderful Wife&quot;, the bar celebrates Frasier's birthday in late February.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In one episode, it is established he was born in March 1952.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In the episode &quot;Back Talk&quot; it is revealed that Frasier's birthday is the day after one of Queen Elizabeth's children. As Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (born March 10, 1964) is the only one of Queen Elizabeth's children born in March, Frasier's birthday would be March 11, 1952. However, the episode &quot;The Fight Before Christmas&quot; takes place a few days after &quot;Back Talk&quot; (according to the storyline) which contradicts a March birthday. Also, this date is established by Daphne reading a newspaper from the day Frasier was born and assuming it was a current newspaper. This would suggest Frasier was born in 1964, but he is clearly older than this (mentioning being in his 40s consistently before this). Other children of Queen Elizabeth include Anne, Princess Royal (born August 15, 1950) and Prince Andrew, Duke of York (born February 19, 1960). Charles, Prince of Wales was born November 14, 1948, but this was before Elizabeth ascended the throne. If Frasier was born prior to 1952, then the &quot;Queen Elizabeth&quot; referred to in the paper could be Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, wife of King George VI and the queen-mother of Elizabeth II (although her last child was born in 1930). Alternatively, a third &quot;Queen Elizabeth&quot; might have been intended, or the joke from &quot;Back Talk&quot; was simply historically inaccurate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In the episode &quot;The Late Dr. Crane&quot; a local Seattle news station incorrectly reports that Frasier died of a heart attack. Frasier's picture is shown on the screen with the dates 1952-1999.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In the episode &quot;Are You Being Served?&quot; it is revealed that he was named after one of his mother's lab rats. In the same episode, a second birthday contradiction appears: His mother's journal indicates that as of April, she was pregnant with Frasier, making a March birthday impossible. Frasier has one younger brother, Niles (David Hyde Pierce), who, like Frasier, was also named after one of his deceased mother's lab rats.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The episode &quot;Party, Party&quot; suggests a May birthday.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In a trailer made for the British television network Channel Four, Frasier says that he was born on the 4th day of the 4th month.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T06:16:11.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13609" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13610" CreationDate="2013-09-03T06:31:39.183" Score="6" ViewCount="2312" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a comedy movie where two(or three??) men using the dead body of a man, possibly their boss to hide the fact that he's dead and trying to find out how he is dead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I recall, the dead man is a very rich businessman who is killed by his business partner/friend. The event happens at a beach house or place like that. The rich man just bought the house and an evening party was being held there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think he is killed during the party by injecting some poison into his body by a brutal assassin. The main characters play many pranks with the dead body to avoid others from knowing the fact that he's dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the timeline of the movie is between late 90's and early 2000's..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1927" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T07:44:01.933" Title="Movie where two or three men playing with a dead body" Tags="|identify-this-movie|comedy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:48:33.283" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13609" CreationDate="2013-09-03T06:41:41.990" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098627/&quot;&gt;Weekend at Bernie's&lt;/a&gt; probably, but it's been awhile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A pair of losers try to pretend that their murdered employer is really alive, but the murderer is out to &quot;finish him off.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6006" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-09-03T07:44:01.933" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T07:44:01.933" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13615" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13617" CreationDate="2013-09-03T14:04:38.083" Score="11" ViewCount="1821" Body="&lt;p&gt;While extracting Ethan Hunt, unidentified assailants rain bullets on the car in which Ethan, William Brandt (&lt;em&gt;Jeremy Renner&lt;/em&gt;) and the Secretary (IMF) are traveling. One of the bullets hits the Secretary in the head, killing him instantly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am puzzled, because killing a diplomat from another country would be usually considered an &lt;em&gt;Act of Aggression&lt;/em&gt; or even worse, an &lt;em&gt;Act of War&lt;/em&gt; against the diplomat's country. But in the movie there were no repercussions mentioned from the USA. Even though tensions were running high between the two nations due to the Kremlin bombing, it couldn't have been reason enough to massacre a diplomatic convoy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a simple plot hole which I'm reading too much into or is there some International Law in play that I am unaware of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am considering the Secretary as a diplomat as he mentions in the car that &quot;&lt;em&gt;yesterday I came to Moscow to accept the Order of Peace...&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. This indicates that he was on an official diplomatic mission.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The assailants though unidentified can be easily linked to the Russian police/military/special forces as the person who had detained Ethan in the hospital was later seen issuing orders to them.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T15:54:17.550" LastActivityDate="2023-02-08T14:01:18.973" Title="Why no repercussions of assassinating the Secretary?" Tags="|plot-explanation|realism|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-ghost-protocol|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13615" CreationDate="2013-09-03T14:27:12.200" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the IMF (&lt;em&gt;Impossible Missions Force&lt;/em&gt;, not the &lt;em&gt;International Monetary Fund&lt;/em&gt;) had already been disavowed (by activating the Ghost Protocol) by the US government when the secretary was killed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Russians were operating under the belief that the IMF was responsible for the Kremlin bombing and, with the USA cutting the IMF off (which only served to confirm Russian suspicions), treated them as terrorists/spies/enemies of the state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were no public repercussions from the USA as they wanted to distance themselves from the IMF.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T14:27:12.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13615" CreationDate="2013-09-03T14:58:40.007" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The secretary was in Moscow for the official ceremony. But following that, his activities and meeting with Ethan Hunt was &lt;em&gt;classified&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;secret&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm guessing he was not supposed to be there in Kremlin. So if he was killed, then the Government would have to explain what he was still doing there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The assailants got rid of the body later on, which only made it nearly impossible to accuse or follow up on what had happened&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The entire IMF had just been disvowed. That meant that every IMF member was no longer on the official employee list. Hence no claims for anybody in IMF to be a diplomat.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Russia had already declared the bombing as an act of war. With the primary suspicsion being on Ethan Hunt. Also, since Ghost Protocol had been activated, Ethan and his team were made responsible for the bombing. At such times, the IMF members were internationally wanted. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tensions in Russia also would have prevented pressure from the US Government about any sensitive issue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T14:58:40.007" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13512" CreationDate="2013-09-03T15:33:35.357" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are a special exception to the licensing of the Mutant portion of the Marvel universe to Fox.  Due to them being mutants, but also being important Avengers, both companies retain partial rights to the characters.  Fox can use them as mutants and children of Magneto.  Marvel can use them as Avengers, but they can't mention they're mutants or mention Magneto.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kevin Feige &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.superherohype.com/features/articles/170425-exclusive-interview-with-marvel-studios-prez-kevin-feige&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Characters like the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, are they part of Fox's deal or are they characters you could use?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feige: We both have them. There's a specific arrangement with those two characters that would allow us to use them with &amp;quot;Avengers,&amp;quot; but not discuss or reference their mutant or Magneto-related lineage. They can use them as mutants and as Magneto's relatives, but cannot have anything to do with &amp;quot;The Avengers.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T15:33:35.357" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13602" CreationDate="2013-09-03T15:34:42.290" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you take into account &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Moore's Law&lt;/a&gt; (which basically states computer output doubles every 18 months), you could extrapolate that today a computer should be 1,048,576 times more powerful today than it would have been then (June 1983 release date), as there have been 20 of these 18 month periods since then (approximately). This graph would tend to bear this theory out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D0fzq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Supercomputer speeds over the last 60 years - from Wikipedia&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This image depicts the number of FLOPS (FLoating Point Operations Per Second) by year. In 1983 it appears we were around 10^7 FLOPS while today we should be somewhere around 10^18 FLOPS. In fact, the fastest computer currently is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianhe-2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tianhe-2&lt;/a&gt; which is based out of China. It can perform at 33.86 petaflops (a petaflop is the 10^18 I mentioned earlier), so it is a bit faster than what the graph indicates, but hopefully you get the picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how powerful the WOPR was actually supposed to be, as I don't see anything mentioned. Part of this may be it was supposed to be one of, if not &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; most powerful computer on the planet at the time. If so, my analysis should hold true. Mind you, the numbers we are talking about are mind boggling from a 1983 standpoint ... getting to where we are at today might leave you with a large gaping hole in your cerebral cortex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T15:34:42.290" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12616" CreationDate="2013-09-03T16:39:11.973" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if there is such rule in Israel, but in the intelligence section of the IDF there is a unit called &quot;Ipha mistabra&quot;. The purpose of this unit is to doubt everything and come out with alternative theories to every regular theory the intel section has. It was founded after the war at 1973.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6011" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T16:39:11.973" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13624" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13628" CreationDate="2013-09-03T19:43:46.260" Score="4" ViewCount="1315" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just been watching &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0403358/?ref_=tt_pg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Night Watch&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, there were many things which confused me but foremost, what is the Gloom?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears to make people invisible? But you can't stay in it too long?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-11-28T13:33:56.650" LastActivityDate="2018-11-28T13:36:22.570" Title="In Night Watch what is the gloom?" Tags="|plot-explanation|night-watch|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13625" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-03T19:44:10.027" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A fantasy-thriller set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-09-03T19:52:27.970" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T19:52:27.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13626" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-03T19:44:10.027" Score="0" Body="A fantasy-thriller set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle." OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-09-03T19:52:30.643" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T19:52:30.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13624" CreationDate="2013-09-03T19:52:11.733" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am unaware of the series but found this direct answer from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0403358/faq#.2.1.9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The Gloom,&quot; aka &quot;The Twilight&quot; or &quot;The Dusk,&quot; is another plane of&#xA;  existence that overlaps our own. In the books it is explained as being&#xA;  like a sepia-toned photo, very old and worn. In it an Other can tap&#xA;  directly into his or her powers. However, the Gloom has its price. It&#xA;  drains all who enter it of their vital life energy: that is what it&#xA;  thrives on. Anyone who stays in the Gloom too long will not be able to return to the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same was present in the novel it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_(Lukyanenko_novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;based on&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the story's worldline there exists a magical realm beneath the surface of all things—referred to as the Twilight (or Gloom in other translations).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From same Wikipedia link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bromfield's English translation translates the Russian word &quot;sumrak&quot; as &quot;twilight&quot;, although &quot;sumrak&quot; actually refers to a state of coming darkness in singular (visible in one place, not the whole sky); &quot;sumerki&quot;, which would usually be translated as &quot;twilight&quot;, is its plural form. &quot;The gloom&quot; is the translation used in the movies based on the novel. Note that the Russian word sumrak does not have the negative emotional connotation of the English word gloom; sumrak has a lighter connotation, characterised by Nabokov as a &quot;not infrequently pleasurable and poetical gloom.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-11-28T13:36:22.570" LastActivityDate="2018-11-28T13:36:22.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13632" CreationDate="2013-09-03T21:18:27.747" Score="6" ViewCount="1024" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is this 1950s sci-fi movie about a boy's dream? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember its ending where you are convinced that all the action in the movie turns out to just be a dream that occurred when a boy fell asleep at a picnic with his family. But then some kind of large hairy monster/alien comes out of a cave and you know that it really wasn't a dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6015" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-07T06:36:10.897" LastActivityDate="2013-10-07T06:36:10.897" Title="Boy's dream about a hairy monster or alien turns out to be real" Tags="|science-fiction|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:48:36.417" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13630" CreationDate="2013-09-03T22:00:01.513" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most likely &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Monster&quot;&gt;Robot Monster&lt;/a&gt;, (1953).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ultimately the youngest family member, the son, wakes up after&#xA;  suffering a mild concussion, revealing that the film had presumably&#xA;  all been a dream. However, The Great Guidance is then seen coming out&#xA;  of a cave (three times in a row).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The monster was hairy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The budget did not allow for a robot costume as intended so Tucker&#xA;  used his friend George Barrows who had his own gorilla suit to play&#xA;  Ro-Man. Tucker added the helmet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T22:00:01.513" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13633" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13674" CreationDate="2013-09-03T22:53:41.983" Score="5" ViewCount="6495" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Dome_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Under the Dome&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the military used a MOAB (Mother of all Bombs) to remove the dome problem. In episode 2 one old man tried using digging tractor but Big Jim stopped him because it could explode. Why didn't they try digging into the ground? The military could use non-electronic methods, like lots of men with shovels. Is there any explanation of it in the novel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2019-12-12T20:49:14.233" LastActivityDate="2019-12-12T20:49:14.233" Title="Why don't they try digging in Under the Dome?" Tags="|plot-explanation|book-adaptation|under-the-dome|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13633" CreationDate="2013-09-03T23:40:14.543" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As was revealed in the scene with Junior Rennie going into the tunnels in an attempt to find a way out by going under the dome, the dome extends down into the ground. For all intents and purposes, the assumption is that the dome extends down into the ground far enough that one cannot dig or if they do, it will extend into that void as well. However, I have to admit that seeing the smaller dome in the woods dug up and relocated to the barn, it would stand to reason the same should be doable with the larger dome, although probably to a much greater scale which might be out of the reach of the people inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5929" LastActivityDate="2013-09-03T23:40:14.543" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13636" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13637" CreationDate="2013-09-04T04:47:23.950" Score="21" ViewCount="8314" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Now You See Me&lt;/em&gt;, when Morgan Freeman explains to the detective on how the Four Horseman robbed the bank, he mentions that they replaced the real money (while in the secured transport truck) with flash paper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does not explain how the paper in the bank got ignited, and no ignition/stimulator left in the scene as evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who/What/When ignited the flash paper in the bank on time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There had to be some timer/delay mechanism on the platform, or something similar - but in the frames we see - there is nothing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2162" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-04T13:57:40.450" LastActivityDate="2017-02-05T08:02:38.150" Title="How was the bank robbery completed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|props|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13636" CreationDate="2013-09-04T05:36:39.537" Score="16" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Flash Paper ignites into a brilliant flame when touched by a lighter,&#xA;  match or any extreme heat source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he could have concealed a lighter, heat device into his palm like he did with the red wine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the paper money in the bank, The bank was already closed. So it wasn't necessary that the paper money was ignited &lt;em&gt;at the same moment&lt;/em&gt; while the stage show was being done. It simply had to be ignited &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the bank had closed down. What is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; shown is how they managed to burn up the money - what was the source of ignition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing left there was the show ticket. We can see when the paper starts burning that there is something in the center that starts the ignition. Maybe it was hidden in the platform. &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BeOxj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-09-04T05:36:39.537" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13638" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13643" CreationDate="2013-09-04T06:43:55.860" Score="18" ViewCount="9676" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1987 film &lt;em&gt;The Last Emperor&lt;/em&gt;, Pu Yi is removed from power and taken away from the Forbidden City. As a child, he had a pet cricket that he kept in a tiny cage in a secret compartment in his throne. Pu Yi returns as an adult and finds the (60 year old!) cricket alive and well in the secret compartment in the old throne. How did that work? Did he imagine the cricket to be alive, or was there somebody behind the scenes that maintained the old throne and its tiny resident(s) so that there was always a live cricket in the cage inside the throne? Or is there another explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-04T07:56:10.523" LastActivityDate="2024-01-04T21:17:57.407" Title="Did the &quot;Last Emperor&quot; really find a live pet cricket when he returned to his throne in the Forbidden City?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-last-emperor|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13075" CreationDate="2013-09-04T09:30:03.500" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The spirit of Bethsheeba had latched on to the necklace which Lorraine had dropped in the basement of the Perron's house. My guess is that, it created a connection with the necklace's pair that was at the Warren's house (&lt;em&gt;remember the violently shaking necklace in Judy's room?!&lt;/em&gt;). This explains the presence of Bethsheeba's spirit at the Warren's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now to explain, what was she doing with the Annabelle doll, you'll have to go back a little to the scene where Lorraine was combing Judy's hair sitting at the &lt;em&gt;very same spot, in the very same chair&lt;/em&gt;! This is what Bethsheeba is imitating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is she doing that?!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no clue! After all, the activities of evil spirits aren't really logical. They do whatever they do to spook and scare the crap out of you. And I'd say she was pretty successful at that. However, she was a twisted soul who tried to kill its own offspring and that of others. The mother-child relation wasn't sacred to her, and I guess she derived some kind of pleasure mocking it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-09-22T16:22:30.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13641" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-04T12:58:35.080" Score="10" ViewCount="7711" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had watched Children of men recently, I'm confused in one aspect&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What caused the infertility?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3201" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-04T13:09:13.273" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T07:11:45.090" Title="What caused the infertility?" Tags="|plot-explanation|children-of-men|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13641" CreationDate="2013-09-04T13:12:21.583" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The source/cause of the infertility is never explained in the movie and very likely unknown. This, in many ways, is what the &lt;em&gt;Human Project&lt;/em&gt; is trying to ascertain in order to find a cure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the women are the ones said to be infertile in the film, it's the men who are infertile (zero sperm count) in the original &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_Men&quot;&gt;P.D. James novel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-09-04T13:12:21.583" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13638" CreationDate="2013-09-04T15:25:11.380" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Crickets are not long-lived, with a lifespan of only around three months. The use of the insect is symbolic. The cricket was kept as a pet in a cage, a situation not unlike Pu Yi's, as he was caged within the Forbidden City. The symbolism of the cricket in the final scenes could be interpreted in a multitude of ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The release of the cricket is a metaphor for the freedom that Pu Yi enjoyed as a simple gardener unfettered by the weighty duties of Empire. It provided him with some closure.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The fact that he proved to the boy that he was indeed the &lt;em&gt;Son of Heaven&lt;/em&gt; by showing him the secret compartment, indicates a vain yearning for days of glory and power. The presence of this flicker of nostalgic yearning is confirmed by the fact that the cricket is still alive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The release of the cricket could also symbolise the release provided by death, accentuated by the sudden disappearance of Pu Yi from the room. The visit as a tourist was something of a final goodbye.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;By handing over the cricket to the young communist guard, the Last Emperor is handing the baton of power (and all that comes with it) to the next generation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's up to the audience to decide which interpretation is the best fit. But what is certain is that the scene is symbolic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-04T15:28:04.567" LastActivityDate="2013-09-04T15:28:04.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13645" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13646" CreationDate="2013-09-04T16:56:59.617" Score="5" ViewCount="3500" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1457767/&quot;&gt;The Conjuring&lt;/a&gt; we only get to see what happens to Bathsheba, but what happened to the other demons in the film? Are they harmless and still roaming in the house?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5983" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-09-28T07:08:44.227" LastActivityDate="2018-09-28T07:08:44.227" Title="What happened to the other demons?" Tags="|ending|the-conjuring-universe|the-conjuring|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13645" CreationDate="2013-09-04T17:33:31.357" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film, Bathsheba was a wicked woman, who killed off her child to please the devil. Other &lt;em&gt;ghosts&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;apparitions&lt;/em&gt; as seen in the film are actually direct or indirect victims of Bathsheba. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While researching the house's history, Ed and Lorraine discover that the house once belonged to an accused witch, Bathsheba, who tried to sacrifice her children to the devil and killed herself in 1863 after cursing all who would take her land. The property was once 200+ acres but has since been divided up into smaller parcels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bathsheba had cursed people who took or lived on her land. So even after she was killed, she continued to possess mothers and made them kill their children. So the other &lt;em&gt;demons&lt;/em&gt; which you refer to are actually &lt;em&gt;NOT&lt;/em&gt; demons, but the ghosts of the mothers who have committed suicides after Bathsheba made them kill their children. Also, &lt;em&gt;Rory&lt;/em&gt; is one such murdered child killed by a possessed mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lorraine enters the passage and falls through the floorboards into the cellar, where she sees the spirits of people whom Bathsheba has possessed. All are mothers whom Bathsheba used to kill their children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bathsheba is the only one who wants to hurt the family, and possess Carolyn to make her kill her daughter. All the other ghost spirits are not actively tormenting, merely living their horrors in the afterlife. It was only Bathsheba who needed to be exorcised, while the other ghost spirits could have been ridden off with other means. Bathsheba was the &lt;em&gt;danger&lt;/em&gt; to the family. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Links: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conjuring&quot;&gt;The Conjuring - Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-09-04T17:33:31.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13647" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15403" CreationDate="2013-09-04T17:58:58.610" Score="6" ViewCount="193" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been trying to find this movie where a journalist moves to an island where his ancestors are from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember if he is investigating something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a very great scene, a flashback where we see that his family was cast away, and the family is leaving with their whole house, by which I mean they tied ropes to the house and they are dragging it, it was snowing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a scene of a murder or attempted murder on a boat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last name of the protagonist is weird.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also &lt;strong&gt;I don't know if I'm confusing things with another movie&lt;/strong&gt; (it has been years since I saw it on a bus), but I also remember a celebration, a guy fixed his boat, and the people are celebrating, but they end up destroying the boat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6018" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-05T04:48:48.077" LastActivityDate="2013-11-25T17:39:14.687" Title="Journalist moves to the island of his ancestors" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:48:39.537" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13649" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13652" CreationDate="2013-09-04T19:49:58.083" Score="5" ViewCount="1989" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember a film about a Female writer. Something bad happens to her and she moves, with the help of her friend, to a remote place near a beach and a Lighthouse. Story progress and she starts writing a novel but struggles, then she goes near the lighthouse and meets a man who works there. They meet very regularly. But suddenly something happens and after struggle she finds out that the man she met at lighthouse has been dead a long time. I didn't watch its ending but it shows the struggle of that lady to know if that man is really dead before meeting her or any other conspiracy is running. It doesn't looks like a horror film but a suspense thriller for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-09-04T20:49:17.530" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T02:59:11.603" Title="Female writer meets a man, who's actually dead, in a lighthouse" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:48:42.680" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13650" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13651" CreationDate="2013-09-04T19:55:31.727" Score="8" ViewCount="3930" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was a child of Disney and we had a VHS copy of the Lion King. I watched it many many times but never saw a song called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGt1qa3VpsY&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Morning Report&lt;/a&gt;&quot; with Rowan Atkinson singing as Zazu but it appears on various CDs and soundtracks I've seen since.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this song only released in some versions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-09-04T20:24:20.513" LastActivityDate="2013-09-04T20:24:20.513" Title="The Morning Report song in The Lion King" Tags="|soundtrack|the-lion-king|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13650" CreationDate="2013-09-04T20:00:50.377" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The song was created when the film was made, but cut for the initial theatrical release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it was added in later for some IMAX and home video releases, mainly due to the song being included in the live Broadway production of The Lion King.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lion_king#Soundtrack&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lion_king#Soundtrack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2013-09-04T20:00:50.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13649" CreationDate="2013-09-04T21:08:20.277" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412798/&quot;&gt;Half Light&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extract from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_Light&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In an effort to finish her novel and find some emotional peace, Rachel moves away to a remote cottage on the Scottish coast. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Troubled by the possibility that her son has returned from the grave, Rachel shares her troubles with a young and handsome lighthouse keeper named Angus (Matheson) and the two spark a romance that suddenly goes awry when she learns that Angus died seven years ago by committing suicide after murdering his wife and her lover in the lighthouse. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132" LastActivityDate="2013-09-04T21:08:20.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13654" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-04T21:56:52.167" Score="11" ViewCount="1301" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching a movie on Cartoon Network as a child with two men in top hats chasing after a girl in these very colorful, very vivid scenes. The only characters are the two men in top hats, the girl, and the villain who is kidnapping her (though I remember nothing about him). One scene I remember is the villain carrying the girl over his shoulder crossing a short bridge with the two men in pursuit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The men in top hats were an anachronistic version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/ATLAS_and_P-body&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ATLAS and P-body from Portal 2&lt;/a&gt;, one being tall and skinny, the other short and plump. The two men were definitely something out of the late 19th, early 20th century.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, there was no speaking in the movie, to my recollection, so it was kind of like a very colorful, silent movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The animation was very similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%27s_Home_for_Imaginary_Friends&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends&lt;/a&gt;, but it was crisper, very detailed, except somewhat &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;steampunk&lt;/a&gt;. Basically, the art style is very hallucinogenic. If I were to estimate when I watched it, I would guess around 2000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6021" LastEditorUserId="6021" LastEditDate="2014-11-20T17:17:52.060" LastActivityDate="2014-11-20T17:17:52.060" Title="A cartoon about two men in top hats chasing after a girl in distress" Tags="|identify-this-movie|identify-this-tv-show|animation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:48:45.800" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="402" CreationDate="2013-09-04T22:19:57.257" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, the Wheel Of Pain...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Wheel Of Pain can be an allegory, if you wish.  It can be a mill or a torture device or just a clever creation by a writer to explain how Conan got his Hanz and Franz on. But I believe the Wheel Of Pain is what it is.  It is real.  It is pain. I mean, never ending pain and mind numbing boredom and madness until the wheel itself,  or the cold or the heat or some illness or injury, finally stops the hell you're living and you drop dead in your chains.  Free at last. It is what it is, a wheel.  With slaves to push it.  Round and around and around, day after day, month after month, lifetime after lifetime, ad infinitum.  It is what it is.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why?  To grind grain?  Build muscles?  Waste a lot of good slaves for no reason other than to waste them?  No. The wheel is a brilliant device constructed by the War Masters in the East, where Conan is eventually taken to learn the &quot;deepest secrets&quot; of weapons and warfare.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Riddle of Steel&#xA;Every now and then, the Wheel of Pain reveals its terrible purpose for existing.  On a very rare occasion, the Wheel of Pain does not destroy and grind a man to death.  Instead, it creates one.  Creates a man into something that is harder and stronger than any weapon of steel.  A man of incredible strength in body and mind.  Of the flesh.  Most men chained to the wheel will go insane or die of exhaustion or from the elements.  Or both.   But the War Masters knew that a rare few would become the answer, become the truth to the Riddle:  &quot;steel isn't strong, boy, flesh is stronger.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The Wheel, the War Master's wagered when they constructed it, would create a man who could master his flesh.  Master body and mind and thus, master fear and pain.  If that happened, the man would be ready to take the next step towards the &quot;deepest secrets.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the Wheel of Pain has fulfilled its purpose, the War Masters then order the raw material to be taken to the gladiator pit and set loose.  There is never any doubt in the War Masters' beliefs that this newborn child of the Wheel will survive the pit.  They know that no gladiator stands a chance against the child of the Wheel of Pain.  The fights to the death are only meant to reawaken the emotions and instincts in the man, and to wake up the long subdued violence inside him.  Only now, it is lightening in a bottle.  The rage is controlled.  The pain is controlled.  The fear is controlled. Thought and body are chained to a mind of focused power that only the Wheel Of Pain could create.  All the enemies of men who fight in combat, of the warrior, fear and doubt and pain, no longer threaten him.  For they do not exist if he wishes it.  He can bend his flesh to where there is no doubt or fear, or pain.  There is only him.  And in the pit, only he will remain.  After waking the violence within by slaughtering countless gladiators in raw combat, the War Masters then order the man to be brought to them in the east.  He is now ready to learn the &quot;deepest secrets&quot; of war and weaponry and fulfill the ultimate purpose of the Wheel of Pain.  He has become the living answer to the Riddle of Steel.  And now he will become a true warrior--a man, whose sole occupation, sole purpose and reason, is killing.  Is war.  Round and round.  Day after day. Year after year.  He will fight.  No one can say if he is a good man or a bad one.  No one will know why he fights or why he died.  Not even the gods will know.   He just is what he is.  Real.  Not a metaphor.  Not an allegory.  Just is.  And that's all that matters and is important on the Wheel of Pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That my friends, is my Wheel Of Pain.  No allegory in my opinion.  No allegory can match it's simple but very real and terrible purpose.  It is what it is...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Conan rips the wheel necklace off his neck and replaces it with the eye of the serpent, he begins to diminish.  Emotion has him once again. The lessons of the Wheel are then, over time, slowly forgotten until he loses control of his inner peace for good and spends the rest of his life restless and empty with the jeweled crown of Aquilonia resting &quot;upon a troubled brow.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6022" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-23T01:39:31.140" LastActivityDate="2016-12-23T01:39:31.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13657" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-05T00:35:46.073" Score="17" ViewCount="21233" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember a brief comment by Jor-el in &lt;em&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/em&gt; saying their fate was linked to Krypton but what does that mean? Why didn't he or Lara accompany their son?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the greatest scientist on Krypton and displaying a measure of compassion it would seem his contribution to preserving his race could have better benefits had he chose to leave Krypton.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6024" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T14:11:25.933" LastActivityDate="2016-11-27T04:53:22.687" Title="Why didn't Jor-el and Lara leave Krypton with their son?" Tags="|man-of-steel|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8282" CreationDate="2013-09-05T03:49:59.690" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a fusion reactor, which means that it simply fuses different hydrogen ions to create helium.  This is of course, a layman's explanation, but what this means is that there is no nuclear fallout.  Search nuclear fusion for more information, specifically the difference between fusion and fission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6025" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T03:49:59.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13657" CreationDate="2013-09-05T04:11:51.380" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been several reasons stated in the various eras of Superman -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The classic version&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, as time ran short, Jor-El soon found that he would only have enough time to build a spacecraft to save his son Kal-El. He decided to send Kal-El to Earth, realizing he would gain superhuman powers under Earth's more intense yellow sun and lower gravity. As Krypton finally went through its final destructive stages, Jor-El and Lara placed their son in the rocket and launched him toward Earth, before they themselves were killed along with almost all the rest of the planet's population. Lara could have fit inside the rocket as well, but she chose to stay behind to increase Kal-El's chances of reaching Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Byrne's Series&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jor-El genetically altering his son's fetus (gestating in a &quot;birthing matrix&quot;) to allow him to leave Krypton (in this version of the mythos, Kryptonians were genetically &quot;bonded&quot; to the planet itself, not allowing them to leave) and merely attaching a warp engine to the matrix instead of constructing a ship wholesale. The result was that Kal-El was &quot;born&quot; when the birthing matrix opened on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Superman: Birthright&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In this version, Jor-El discovers Earth moments before launching his son's spacecraft. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mid-2000's&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the mid-2000's, another new origin tale was created, basically going back to the old version with Jor-El building a rocket to send Kal-El to Earth. This time, however, Lara could have gone, too, but she chooses to remain with Jor-El on Krypton.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Superman #69 1949&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JZX0g.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Superman #69&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Links&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jor-El&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jor-El Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/Superman-comics-movie-and-creative-franchise/Why-didnt-Jor-El-and-Lara-leave-Krypton-with-Kal-El&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quora&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicvine.com/articles/off-my-mind-supermans-shipwhy-only-room-for-one/1100-142830/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Comicvine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-12T07:17:41.570" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T07:17:41.570" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13647" CreationDate="2013-09-05T04:39:32.460" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I reckon you're right in suspecting that you are conflating two different scripts together. One of the movies is possibly Werner Herzog's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083946/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fitzcarraldo&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fitzcarraldo is an obsessed opera lover who wants to build an opera in the jungle. To accomplish this he first has to make a fortune in the rubber business, and his &lt;strong&gt;cunning plan involves hauling an enormous river boat across a small mountain with aid from the local Indians&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's not a house which is dragged, but a riverboat. I don't remember any snow. As you remember, there is a celebration when the boat is sent off and the boat is eventually destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The character's last name is actually Fitzgerald, but is nicknamed Fitzcarraldo. The actor's last name is Kinski. I'd say that both of them are weird :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie was released in 1982 and the version I've seen was in German. Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F53yUsgVuL0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;trailer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T04:39:32.460" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10305" CreationDate="2013-09-05T06:39:03.240" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season One is missing the episode &quot;Tick vs. The Mole Men&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On August 29, 2006, Buena Vista Home Entertainment released the first season of The Tick on DVD as The Tick vs. Season One. This collection contains only 12 of the 13 episodes. On May 31, 2006, Disney released the following statement regarding the missing episode: &quot;Due to licensing problems, episode #11 (&quot;The Tick vs. The Mole Men&quot;) is not included. However, we hope to include it in future DVD releases of The Tick&quot;.[2] The UK edition of the first season, released the following year by Liberation Entertainment Ltd., presented all 13 episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season Two is missing the episode &quot;Alone Together&quot;, a Galactus spoof adapted from the comics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The second season of The Tick, entitled The Tick vs. Season Two, was released on August 7, 2007.[3] This DVD release is not the complete set, however, as it is missing the episode &quot;Alone Together.&quot; This episode features Omnipotus, a parody of Galactus (though earlier episodes used similar comic book parodies, and are available on the DVD releases). In the August 6, 2006 entry of his blog, Christopher McCulloch, the writer for all of the omitted episodes, states that he does not know the reason for the exclusion of episode #11 from the Season 1 DVD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season Three was never released in the US.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Edlund later expressed his view that, because the series did not reach the commercial heights of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, its merchandising success deteriorated by the end of its first season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, you yourself have done much research and given all plausible answers to your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T06:39:03.240" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13662" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13665" CreationDate="2013-09-05T07:22:50.140" Score="2" ViewCount="89501" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the America's Got Talent (AGT) show, contestants that make it past the initial auditions held in various across the US are invited to perform in Las Vegas.  All of those shows are taped and broadcast later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 48 contestants (this season anyway) making it past Las Vegas go on to perform at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City.  Those shows are broadcast live, and voting by viewers determines who goes on to the next level culminating in the final show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously those contestants that win the first round of competition in New York and then go on to compete over a period of the next few weeks (if they continue to be voted through) have considerable living expenses, assuming they stay in the New York area to rehearse (or they might have a lot of travel expense if they chose to go back and forth to their home).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do these final 48 contestants receive any sort of living expense or travel expense stipend from the show, or are they expected to fund everything out of their own pocket?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2020-02-15T10:24:18.560" Title="AGT contestant expenses" Tags="|americas-got-talent|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13664" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-05T07:34:11.490" Score="3" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Crystal Fairy&lt;/em&gt;, the group finds a secluded spot to cook their cactus. All the shots during their arrival paint the area as being completely deserted and private. However, the next day we see that there are fishing boats right next to their tents and a cantina nearby. What gives? Were there earlier sweep-shots of the area that indicated that they were there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-09-05T09:36:22.833" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T02:38:26.750" Title="Where did the cantina and fishing boats come from?" Tags="|crystal-fairy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13662" CreationDate="2013-09-05T09:18:14.303" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The contestants are provided what is generally termed as a &lt;em&gt;package&lt;/em&gt;.&#xA;It includes, but is not restricted to -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Living accommodations in hotel or suitable places. Could be solo or in pairs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Travel arrangements from the hotel to the shows, practice areas and so on. Usually a group bus or private taxis.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Food allowances or food directly. This is just like providing food expenses. If the contestants want something else, they can pay more.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clothing and apparel as provided by the producers or sponsors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other facilities like stereo, songs, etc. as and when required.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, when they are being presented in the show, the producers are responsible for the general well-being of the contestants right from how they live to how they perform on stage. So they provide all the necessary facilities to the contestants. This ranges from living, food, clothing to practicing and styling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often times, there may exist special agencies that cater to some or more of these facets of providing contestants with facilities. Most common are hotel, food and transport.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T09:18:14.303" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13666" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-05T09:57:09.713" Score="9" ViewCount="6234" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Titanic&lt;/em&gt;, the iconic ending shows Jack letting go of the plank and allowing himself to sink and die while presumably leaving Rose alive and safe. I find it controversial that Jack could have climbed on to the plank, and they both could have managed to save themselves still.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/68CVw.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/68CVw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jack and Rose&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have put forward a popular theory on this topic. But I am certain there are many more explanations for this plot. Could it be an inconsistency? Or was it played up just because Jack had to die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2024-03-26T10:33:46.877" LastActivityDate="2024-03-26T14:21:09.463" Title="Why did Jack let go of the plank?" Tags="|plot-explanation|titanic|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13666" CreationDate="2013-09-05T09:57:09.713" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the space on the plank was plenty for two people to sit on it, the plank would have sunk under the combined weight. Since it was on water, it could float only when there was one person on it. If Jack had indeed climbed onto the plank, it would have partially or fully submerged into the cold water. So it was both dangerous and risky - if it didn't sink, then they would be in water and get hypothermia. Hence Jack decided to sacrifice himself so that Rose could stay out of the water and safe on the raft.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2203532/Titanic-James-Cameron-explains-Jack-climb-raft-Rose.html&quot;&gt;James Cameron explains this in an interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-09-05T11:00:04.713" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T11:00:04.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13668" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-05T10:17:07.473" Score="8" ViewCount="1409" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film credits about cast &amp;amp; crew on IMDb pages no longer show Nolan listed as executive producer. Has Nolan bowed out of the project? Or is there a role change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T12:57:42.957" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T21:43:08.513" Title="Is Christopher Nolan no longer associated with Batman vs Superman?" Tags="|batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13669" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-05T10:18:47.153" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Batman v Superman : Dawn of Justice&lt;/em&gt; is the 2016's sequel to the 2013's &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/man-of-steel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;man-of-steel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;man-of-steel&lt;/a&gt;, directed by Zack Snyder starring Henry Cavil as Superman and Ben Affleck as Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt; Links &lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_v_Superman:_Dawn_of_Justice&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2975590/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Poster&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JoxYG.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JoxYG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="34492" LastEditorUserId="34492" LastEditDate="2017-01-24T17:32:56.293" LastActivityDate="2017-01-24T17:32:56.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13670" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-05T10:18:47.153" Score="0" Body="Man of Steel sequel directed by Zack Snyder starring Henry Cavil as Superman and Ben Affleck as Batman." OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="1461" LastEditDate="2013-09-05T10:38:26.667" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T10:38:26.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13633" CreationDate="2013-09-05T12:00:17.723" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of the second episode (about 3 minutes in), several people are seen digging with spades, near Joe's house:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ySWtL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Under the Dome&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Followed by this dialogue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joe: Any luck yet?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Man: No, this thing goes down far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As GµårÐïåñ's answer states, in the third episode Junior (being followed by Julia) go into the tunnels and find the dome goes really far down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T12:00:17.723" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13602" CreationDate="2013-09-05T12:45:27.680" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might compare the power of the WOPR back in 1983, to a modern day calculator at best!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T12:45:27.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13676" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13688" CreationDate="2013-09-05T12:49:46.033" Score="4" ViewCount="466" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the beginning of &lt;em&gt;The Sweeney&lt;/em&gt; (2012), Jack Regan, the head of the flying squad, is seen to meet surreptitiously with an underground contact to whom he seems to sell silver ingots stolen from a recent police action. We are later told that internal affairs is investigating Regan and suspects him of having stolen the silver, and of having committed similar crimes during other busts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The subject is then dropped and never referred to again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was going on in that first transfer of silver? Is Jack Regan a crook?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T12:13:13.170" Title="Was Jack Regan corrupt in The Sweeney?" Tags="|the-sweeney|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13678" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13679" CreationDate="2013-09-05T14:58:39.377" Score="5" ViewCount="453" Body="&lt;p&gt;The plot is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A man who has many objections against marriage, gets married, and after that goes to his aunts house. There they meet. But his aunts have killed 12 men and have buried them all in the cellar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the brother appears with a doctor (a plastic surgeon). Brother's face is filled with stitches and he is a cold, stonehearted person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the house, there is another man, who thinks he is the president of the United States and once a while generates a loud sound with his military trumpet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The overall plot seems to be both funny, and thrilling. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the name of this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="288" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T15:06:37.753" Title="A man marries and meets his two aunts, who have killed 12 men and buried them in the cellar" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:48:55.257" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13678" CreationDate="2013-09-05T15:06:37.753" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Arsenic and Old Lace&lt;/a&gt; (1944)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The play is a farcical black comedy revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family and local police in Brooklyn, NY, as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves. His family includes two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and &quot;just a pinch&quot; of cyanide; a brother who believes he is Theodore Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home (which then serve as graves for the aunts' victims); and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein (a character based on real-life gangland surgeon Joseph Moran) to conceal his identity and now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff (a self-referential joke, as the part was originally played by Karloff). The film adaptation follows the same basic plot, with a few minor changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3569" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T15:06:37.753" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13668" CreationDate="2013-09-05T15:52:12.983" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Batman Vs Superman Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas will be executive producers, along with Benjamin Melniker and Michael E. Uslan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Charles Roven and Deborah Snyder will be producers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;source - &lt;a href=&quot;http://henrycavill.org/en/filmography/projects/man-of-steel-2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://henrycavill.org/en/filmography/projects/man-of-steel-2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6032" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T15:52:12.983" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3868" CreationDate="2013-09-05T17:49:48.280" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the other answers point out, he is packing supplies (bread).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But why does he only packs in his third attempt?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's because only in this third attempt he was determined to escape and save Gotham, this emphasizes that he was not in the right mind set before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6018" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T17:49:48.280" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13683" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-05T19:53:35.707" Score="3" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963194/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Repo! The Genetic Opera&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I have a hard time grasping why Shilo would trust Rotti. I know that she's been locked up in her bedroom for years, and he is the only person to have ever even offered her a cure for her illness. At that point, you'd be willing to trust anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, in &quot;Zydrate Anatomy&quot; the lyrics clearly state that Rotti has the right to repossess Mag's eyes, and Amber Sweet openly admits that the Repo Man is coming for Mag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One would think at that point that trusting Rotti would be off the table for Shilo. Though, she stills disobeys her father and goes to the opera... then, knowing that Rotti is the one responsible for any harm inflicted on Mag (he's in charge of repossessions) she still blames her father when she sees Mag's dead body on stage. She even goes as far as to tell her father that he's been replaced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Someone has replaced you! Dad I hate you! Go and die!&quot; I assume she's talking about Rotti replacing Nathan...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know she didn't actually see Rotti kill Mag, and at that point in the film she knows Nathan is a Repo Man. But, she still knows Rotti is responsible for all repossessions. Even if Nathan had killed Mag, he wouldn't have done it without Rotti's orders. How could Rotti replace Nathan in her eyes? How could she ever have trusted him beyond the point of &quot;Zydrate Anatomy&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6034" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-05T20:00:25.930" LastActivityDate="2016-04-17T23:10:23.153" Title="Why does Shilo trust Rotti?" Tags="|character|repo-the-genetic-opera|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13690" CreationDate="2013-09-05T20:01:01.193" Score="9" ViewCount="724" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I understood the &quot;dogfight&quot; scene in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1133985/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Green Lantern&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was that Ferris wanted to &quot;put on a show&quot; in order to get a contract with the military. Carl decided to use his two best pilots to then, basically lose against the drones on purpose? If this is the case, I would assume Carol (specifically), and Hal would both be aware that they are to lose, and Hal being Hal (egocentric, etc) decides to demolish the drones. I assume that he does this in order to show off, or to show that the drones' &quot;ceilings&quot; need to be raised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why does Carol warn him ahead of time that the drones are impossible to beat, and that she has been &quot;smoked&quot; by them all week? Wouldn't it have made more sense to have her say, &quot;Look, put on a good show. Make it look believable.&quot; (Or something along those lines) instead, they have her give Hal this warning as if he's actually supposed to try and destroy them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6034" LastEditorUserId="6034" LastEditDate="2013-09-06T16:53:40.733" LastActivityDate="2013-09-07T15:39:00.913" Title="Can someone explain the &quot;dogfight&quot; scene?" Tags="|plot-explanation|green-lantern|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13685" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13686" CreationDate="2013-09-05T20:21:50.373" Score="5" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1133985/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Green Lantern&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, if fear is the very thing that turned the original Guardian into Parallax, and it cannot be conquered (The Guardians themselves say so)... why then does Sinestro decide to have The Guardians create a ring of fear? If the Lanterns fought Parallax with fear... would he not just feed off of the fear from the ring? Not to mention, wouldn't the fear take control of any Lantern that tries to master it within the yellow ring? (Example: Sinestro in the end credits.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6034" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-07T05:28:38.990" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T16:23:46.357" Title="Why does Sinestro have The Guardians create a ring of fear?" Tags="|plot-explanation|green-lantern|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13685" CreationDate="2013-09-05T20:38:47.313" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sinestro, was the leader of the Green Lantern Corps at the time and regarded to be one of the greatest Green Lanterns ever. He also had a very big ego and believed that he could accomplish what Parallax had failed to do: control the yellow essence of fear without losing himself to it. He also believed that the green essence of will power was no match for the yellow, and that if he wanted to defeat Parallax he would have to use the same power, which is why he asked for a yellow ring to be constructed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had Sinestro's plan prevailed, he would've worn the yellow ring into battle with Parallax. The latter wouldn't be able to siphon fear from Sinestro's ring because the yellow ring didn't &lt;em&gt;emit&lt;/em&gt; fear, it &lt;em&gt;absorbed&lt;/em&gt; it, the same way Parallax does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T16:23:46.357" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T16:23:46.357" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4305" CreationDate="2013-09-05T22:09:06.403" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The watch sales pitch is clearly in the scenes, but the story line is the fact that Aaron Cross is extremely conscious of keeping his chems on time. Perhaps even taking more of the blue pills (which were intelligence enhancement) than he should. Hence the story about losing his chems to the first contact. He told the doctor how low his IQ was upon enlisting in the service and how adamant he was on not slipping back mentally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6035" LastActivityDate="2013-09-05T22:09:06.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2013-09-06T00:42:13.530" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original Regan blurred the lines a bit strictly so he could nick people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ray Winstones Regan was exactly the same, but in a very modern, more gritty way. He cheated, stole and bent the rules to breaking point; but he did so with the sole purpose of putting the real crooks behind bars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He might skim a bit here and there for his troubles, &lt;em&gt;which in the eyes of the &lt;strong&gt;law&lt;/strong&gt; makes him a crook himself&lt;/em&gt;, but he sees it more as getting a little bonus, &amp;quot;the stolen goods are likely covered under insurance anyway&amp;quot; mentality. I feel compelled to use the definition of Chaotic Good from D&amp;amp;D to best describe his portrayal in the movie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A chaotic good character acts as his conscience directs him with little regard for what others expect of him. He makes his own way, but he's kind and benevolent. He believes in goodness and right but has little use for laws and regulations. He hates it when people try to intimidate others and tell them what to do. He follows his own moral compass, which, although good, may not agree with that of society.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote the start of the film directly (just after the raid on the warehouse)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Yep, nice work regan, but did you really need to destroy the whole place in the process?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regan: &amp;quot;We got the villains didn't we?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well i've got the headache of explaining why you smashed their heads in and wrecked the whole depot!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regan: &amp;quot;We got the villains didn't we?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..... Regan: &amp;quot;You get internal affairs off my f'ing arse, and I'll get you results&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The internal affairs investigation doesn't really go away, but the ingots being stolen scene set the tone between Regan and Frank Haskins for the rest of the film. As Haskins wants to bring Regan down for all the crimes he's committed but just hasn't got the evidence to make good. He KNOWS Regan is bent, and Regan knows that, but doesn't care becaaause (say it with me now!) &amp;quot;We got the villains didn't we?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5998" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-09-06T01:03:23.173" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13684" CreationDate="2013-09-06T04:19:14.927" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the exercise is to show the capabilities of the drones against the fighter jets of modern technology. So the two pilots are brought in to showcase the capabilities of the drones. The purpose is &lt;em&gt;evasion&lt;/em&gt; - how well the drones can evade any competent attack formation. The pilots were to team up and try to take down the drones. It was not just &lt;em&gt;putting on a show&lt;/em&gt; but a real and live demonstration of how the drones were superior. They were not asked to lose - they were asked to demonstrate a superior technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when Carol and Hal were practicing with the drones, they pretty much knew how &lt;em&gt;superior&lt;/em&gt; the drone technology was. They knew what features of the drones they had to present, what actions to follow. So when Hal deviates from the plan and actually tries again to take down the drones, Carol reminds him that during the practice she had tried too - and had been consistently unsuccessful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hal wasn't supposed to destroy them for certain, he was merely supposed to &lt;em&gt;demonstrate&lt;/em&gt; their ability and advanced technology.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-09-06T06:18:37.843" LastActivityDate="2013-09-06T06:18:37.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3868" CreationDate="2013-09-06T04:35:14.697" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;first time&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce carries a bundle with him during the first trip. Although it is not shown what is it that he carries, nor is it mentioned in the Script.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fmEEw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;first time&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;second time&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This time Bruce does not carry anything, he simply walks determined to the ropeway and starts climbing.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vVg1l.png&quot; alt=&quot;second time&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;third time&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;      INT. CAVE PRISON - MORNING&#xA;&#xA;      Wayne puts some scraps of bread into a rough coat which he&#xA;      folds into a makeshift shoulder pack.&#xA;&#xA;                      PRISONER&#xA;       Supplies for your journey?&#xA;      Prisoners nearby laugh.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/St5qr.png&quot; alt=&quot;third time&quot;&gt;&#xA;From the picture one can assume that the folded brown packets are food items and the other is a water container. So basically, he carried sustenance with him - food and water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-09-06T04:35:14.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13600" CreationDate="2013-09-06T06:37:55.387" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could be a case of art imitating life here, airlines have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-06-17/news/0906160427_1_curtains-flight-attendants-air-marshals&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;equipping clear curtains&lt;/a&gt; which serve three functions simultaneously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dampen sound.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide a physical barrier to discourage people passing through them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow an air marshal to be able to see into all cabins without moving around the plane.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems perfectly reasonable then to assume that a shuttle captain may want to block noise out of the rest of the shuttle in order to concentrate, and still be able to see if any funny business is going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could also &lt;em&gt;conceivably&lt;/em&gt; have been installed to reduce the amount of post-processing needing to be done on the audio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="32" LastActivityDate="2013-09-06T06:37:55.387" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13695" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-06T17:47:49.527" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;From House on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House,_M.D.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;House&lt;/strong&gt; (also known as &lt;strong&gt;House, M.D.&lt;/strong&gt;) is an American television medical drama about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_House&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dr. Gregory House&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Laurie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hugh Laurie&lt;/a&gt;), a pain medication-dependent, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius who leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH) in New Jersey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usanetwork.com/house&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;House MD Official Website on USA Network&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House,_M.D.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;House MD Article on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;House MD on IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T17:22:38.353" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T17:22:38.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13696" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-06T17:47:49.527" Score="0" Body="House (also known as House, M.D.) is an American television medical drama about Dr. Gregory House, a pain medication-dependent, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius who leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T16:32:50.643" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T16:32:50.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13697" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13699" CreationDate="2013-09-06T17:57:21.887" Score="22" ViewCount="12844" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I have been watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/?ref_=sr_1&quot;&gt;House MD&lt;/a&gt;, all the episodes seem to be a bit unrealistic. Does this series have any close actual relevance to medical science?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series is about cases that most doctors are unable to solve. So it may just be realistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3559" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-07T12:08:49.473" LastActivityDate="2013-09-07T12:08:49.473" Title="How realistic is House MD series with respect to medical science?" Tags="|realism|house|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13697" CreationDate="2013-09-06T18:14:23.847" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.politedissent.com/house_pd.html&quot;&gt;website managed by a doctor&lt;/a&gt; which reviews the medicine in House M.D.. The site features in an article on Forbes titled, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2012/05/21/the-most-and-least-medically-accurate-episodes-of-house-m-d/&quot;&gt;The Most (And Least) Medically Accurate Episodes Of 'House, M.D.'&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But how realistic was the medicine behind those adrenaline- and vitriol-drenched storylines?&lt;/strong&gt; There’s really only one authority on that: Scott Morrison, a physician in O’Fallon, Illinois, (and, previously, in the Air Force) who has reviewed every single episode of House, M.D., on his blog, Polite Dissent. Since sometime during season one he has rated each episode using academic-style A-F letter grades not only on its plot, but on the quality of its medicine. He is as tough on House as House is on other doctors. &lt;strong&gt;“An average House episode may rate a C,” he says, “but that is still miles above any other show out there.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the opinion appears to be that the quality varies from episode to episode. Some are very good while others can be unreliable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-07T04:45:29.350" LastActivityDate="2013-09-07T04:45:29.350" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13700" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13701" CreationDate="2013-09-06T18:46:42.953" Score="8" ViewCount="21409" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always wondered why a sexual comedy film would be called &lt;em&gt;American Pie&lt;/em&gt;. I mean what is the significance of &quot;Pie&quot; in the title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-09-06T19:00:12.533" LastActivityDate="2017-06-03T01:56:58.830" Title="Why is American Pie called American Pie?" Tags="|title|american-pie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13700" CreationDate="2013-09-06T18:57:33.697" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is answered pretty well on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;. Specifically, the last sentence in the quote below. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The title is borrowed from the folk song of the same name and refers to a scene in the film, in which the lead character is caught masturbating with a pie after being told that third base feels like &quot;warm apple pie&quot;. It's also been stated by writer Adam Herz that the title also refers to the quest of losing your virginity in high school, which is as &quot;American as apple pie.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The writer is using &quot;pie&quot; as a metaphor for your first sexual experience. When you read the title &quot;American Pie,&quot; don't think of it as a delicious desert, but rather as a sexual innuendo. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-09-06T22:48:01.720" LastActivityDate="2013-09-06T22:48:01.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12405" CreationDate="2013-09-06T19:20:30.200" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;the wuxi finger hold destroyed Tai lung, in an episode of kung fu panda Po meets Tai Lung's nephew. Po tells him he skadooshed his uncle(TL), which tells that Tai Lung exploded in the end. If he was brought to prison or somewhere else in China, Po would have interpeted it different to TL's nephew. Plus his nephew get's angry and pushes Po down a cliff, this conclusion shows Tai Lung is dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6040" LastActivityDate="2013-09-06T19:20:30.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13703" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13705" CreationDate="2013-09-06T20:05:29.310" Score="7" ViewCount="926" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343092/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Great Gatsby (2013)&lt;/a&gt; they make reference to the billboard with the eyes and eye glasses. &quot;Always watching&quot;. Several times during the movie they pan and/or zoom to the billboard as if it were judging. What is the significance of this billboard and the eyes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-07T12:07:30.357" LastActivityDate="2013-09-07T12:07:30.357" Title="What is the significance of the billboard?" Tags="|analysis|the-great-gatsby|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13703" CreationDate="2013-09-06T22:13:49.617" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a standard academic question posed to students reading the novel. I remember it being on a test in high school. I'm willing to bet it's discussed in the cliff notes to the novel. To a degree the answer is in the eye opinion holder...What I mean is that you'll probably find other opinions out there, like: the eyes symbolize that God is dead, or the glasses symbolize corruption, but the best answer is that the eyes are symbolic of God watching man. This is the answer you should put on the test.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read some commentary on the symbol &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ovtg.de/3_arbeit/englisch/gatsby/Symbols.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_does_a_symbol_of_God_appear_in_The_Great_Gatsby&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shmoop.com/great-gatsby/eyes-dr-t-j-eckleburg-valley-ashes-below-them-symbol.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://lastroseofsummer2.hubpages.com/hub/Doctor-TJ-Eckleburg-and-The-Great-Gatsby-Eyes&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2013-09-06T22:48:50.557" LastActivityDate="2013-09-06T22:48:50.557" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13706" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13710" CreationDate="2013-09-06T23:53:44.617" Score="1" ViewCount="2303" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the sci-fi film, &lt;em&gt;Lockout&lt;/em&gt; (2012) can someone please explain the empty briefcase, the lighter with the chip inside of it? Why was Snow still arrested even though he was told he would be let go after bringing the President's daughter back to earth safely (basically the ending of the film)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I enjoyed the film alright. Guy Pearce was awesome, but that ending threw me for a complete and utter loop, it did. I get that they're using the briefcase as a way to lure out the mole, but it still doesn't seem to add up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-01-21T05:30:47.910" LastActivityDate="2024-01-21T05:30:47.910" Title="Why the empty briefcase?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lockout|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13708" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17811" CreationDate="2013-09-07T00:05:36.917" Score="9" ViewCount="79337" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain to me what the deal is with the water coffins in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362478/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Box&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? I mean, what is their relevance in the film? What is the point of having them there in the library? That scene always seems so isolated from the rest of the movie to me. I understand the ending, I understand the film, but the water coffin scene makes no sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-07T11:58:01.863" LastActivityDate="2016-09-03T14:21:01.027" Title="What is the significance of water coffins scene?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-box|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13706" CreationDate="2013-09-07T01:07:06.497" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a brief part of the synopsis given on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592525&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; which states pretty clearly about the parts you are asking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suits allow Snow and Emilie to re-enter Earth's atmosphere and parachute to safety in New York City. Emilie is taken to the hospital, while Snow is arrested. At her bed, Emily realizes Mace had actually given them the code &amp;quot;ICUI4CU&amp;quot;, which opens the briefcase, hidden in a locker in a subway station with the word &amp;quot;Lullaby&amp;quot; spray painted on it. Emilie then finds evidence the footage of Snow killing Armstrong was forged and delivers the briefcase to Shaw during a meeting with Snow. Shaw opens it, but finds nothing, only to notice that Emilie hadn't told him the code. Realizing Shaw is the mole, Langral arrests him and releases Snow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Snow retrieves the lighter that Armstrong had given him before dying, only to realize that the microchip with the true evidence and the secrets that Shaw had stolen is hidden inside. Snow decides to keep it for himself in case he needs to use it as leverage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless I'm way off base, the briefcase is a decoy while the lighter is (or has) the true &amp;quot;evidence&amp;quot; ... been a while since I've seen the movie, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-09-07T01:07:06.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12815" CreationDate="2013-09-07T08:41:25.727" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer to this question may vary from person to person because it depends on one's personal opinion. According to me though, I agree tht the revenge was unjustified. Oh Dae-su did not deserve the treatment he got. What was his crime ? He saw something and he told someone about it. Now there is one points that I would like to highlight -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wasn't like Oh Dae-su spread a lie. He told what he actually saw, what actually happened and which wasn't a normal thing. Isn't it human tendency to talk to someone if one saw or witnessed or experienced something highly unusual or bizzare ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened to the antagonist's sister, Oh Dae-su was not responsible for it.&#xA;It was bound to happen. Someone must have noticed it sooner or later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you watch the 2006 hindi movie 'Zinda', which is largely based on Old Boy, there are small changes from the original plot. In that movie the revnge is justified because Oh Dae-su's character spreads a false rumor which leads to the girl's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However in the original movie, the revenge is unjustified.&#xA;That's what I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2013-09-07T08:41:25.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15451" CreationDate="2013-09-07T08:50:05.060" Score="6" ViewCount="7518" Body="&lt;p&gt;In World War Z, Brad Pitt plays the role of a former UN investigator named Gerry Lane. When are we first informed of this fact?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I watched the film, I spent half the movie wondering who he was that he could get a helicopter to specially ferry him and his family out of the city. It was only when he spoke to the naval honcho that I found out that he was a former UN man. Is this the first instance of this information being revealed to the audience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can remember a conversation about his job when the Lanes are having breakfast. But I don't recall the UN being mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-27T16:02:40.543" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T16:02:40.543" Title="When are we first informed about Gerry Lane's profession?" Tags="|character|world-war-z|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13715" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-07T08:56:52.903" Score="8" ViewCount="7613" Body="&lt;p&gt;In World War Z, the Israeli soldier that Gerry rescues introduces herself as &lt;em&gt;Segen&lt;/em&gt;, which I see is simply &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces_ranks#Current_ranks&quot;&gt;Hebrew for the rank of lieutenant&lt;/a&gt;. Why is she reluctant to provide her real name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is she similarly reticent in the book?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T05:28:19.840" Title="Why is 'Segen' reluctant to provide her real name?" Tags="|world-war-z|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13683" CreationDate="2013-09-07T09:06:33.463" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seemed like she had access to tv/radio/news.  So we can probably assume she already knew about Rotti controlled of GeneCo.  I don't recall Rotti ever being deceptive about his practices of repossession of organs.  Sure he was a sleaze, but as far as she knew, he didn't lie to her directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rotti was in the business of selling cures.  He obviously was successful enough at this that he was able to convince people that they were willing to basically accept a life somewhat like slavery in exchange for cures.  She may have been willing to accept the idea that, yes, he probably has a cure, and it will probably have a cost associated to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her father on the other had lied to her.  About her 'disease', and about his occupation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="327" LastActivityDate="2013-09-07T09:06:33.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1881" CreationDate="2013-09-07T09:16:27.247" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a pretty well-known theory that the whole movie of Inception was Cobb's dream, as well as many theories about Ariadne being Cobbs therapist, etc.. but I choose to believe we, the audience were meant to believe the whole movie is Cobbs dream (I would recommend googling about this and deciding for yourself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyways the quote is basically a fantastic &quot;symbol&quot; of 2 lovers in the midst of a midlife crisis. As long as they are together, it doesn't matter what &quot;reality&quot; they are in. Even after death, death is just a train taking them away together. You see this in how cobb can't get rid of Mal the whole movie. It doesn't matter where or what, Cobb and Mal will always be together. The &quot;you know where you hope it takes you&quot; is sort of that desire for being in a &quot;true reality&quot; that everyone feels. Then, the &quot;but you don't know for sure&quot; describes the contradiction in that we have no way of knowing what &quot;reality&quot; is as compared to a dream (if it were all Cobbs dream, totems wouldn't work or be a thing at all). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6046" LastActivityDate="2013-09-07T09:16:27.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12042" CreationDate="2013-09-07T09:57:30.497" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The warden also would not have informed the Police of the fraud he had been involved in, hence him comitting suicide.. Andy would have written to all of the banks before arriving to collect his loot and at the end of the day, he was able to do all this for one reason, pure and simply he is Andy Dufresne, not even Superman comes close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6047" LastActivityDate="2013-09-07T09:57:30.497" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13714" CreationDate="2013-09-07T11:41:19.017" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the scene when his daughter mentions him doing pancakes all the time. I think he replied, &lt;em&gt;I've left my old job/or retired&lt;/em&gt;. Also the daughter asked him what was Martial Law, which tells us that he was former military or in some Defence organization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5632" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-27T07:41:41.260" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T07:41:41.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13253" CreationDate="2013-09-07T11:58:30.293" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know that's what love is. Well first of all you need to understand how life and relationships work around in Iran. Its not America! So here's the thing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually once you're married for a long time (for more than 5-10 years) and then want a divorce, you probably start to think about the future of your kids. Not only this but in well-cultured families the people fear how society will react to their decision.Also if your financially struggling, it definitely adds to the pressure.The movie starts off in that fashion where Nader has not yet given a thought to the future, hence he tries to review the decision made which will affect him, his wife and his children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Men do care you know ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5632" LastActivityDate="2013-09-07T11:58:30.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13684" CreationDate="2013-09-07T15:28:04.853" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I understand the answer given, I also totally agree with your question. The movie suffers from a severe consistency problem. It seems that the writing of the screenplay was full of points that constantly contradict themselves. (The Guardians agreeing to make the yellow ring when they should know full well what could possibly happen. Ferris using his own test pilots for this demonstration. Those are just a couple.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carol doesn't &lt;em&gt;warn&lt;/em&gt; Hal about how unbeatable the drones are during or after practice. She warns him right before the demonstration even begins, which does give a person watching the film the idea that they are actually supposed to try and beat the drones... which she then &lt;em&gt;nails&lt;/em&gt; Hal for afterwards. Why tell him how difficult they are to beat if she doesn't really expect him to try and beat them? Ferris wanted to show the military what his drones could do... at the same time, he would be making his own pilots fight against their own company. I'm not sure that a company like Ferris would really do something like that. Maybe they would. Either way, it certainly makes this scene very confusing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="6043" LastEditDate="2013-09-07T15:39:00.913" LastActivityDate="2013-09-07T15:39:00.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13724" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18333" CreationDate="2013-09-07T15:46:49.477" Score="3" ViewCount="177" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Katie first arrives on the base, Jerry runs to the plane to help her down. He can be heard saying, &quot;I didn't expect to see you this year!&quot; Katie replies, &quot;Yeah, well I guess you got lucky.&quot; This implies that he didn't expect to see her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, later on that night in Katie's room... Jerry brings her a bowl of ice cream stating that it's strawberry (her favorite). She replies by reminding him that strawberry is his favorite flavor, and he says.. &quot;Yeah, well you got here early. I didn't have time to go shopping.&quot; This implies in a playful way that he &lt;em&gt;DID&lt;/em&gt; expect her, and that she showed up early.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I assume it's just him being sarcastic. He obviously can't go shopping in the Arctic.  It could be just the way that Paul Walker delivers the line of dialogue that throws me off.  However, was Jerry expecting Katie to show up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="4621" LastEditDate="2013-09-07T16:54:40.683" LastActivityDate="2014-04-26T09:37:01.213" Title="Was Jerry expecting Katie to show up in the movie &quot;Eight Below&quot;?" Tags="|character|dialogue|eight-below|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13727" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-08T02:32:26.720" Score="3" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Repo the Genetic Opera&lt;/em&gt; at the very end of the film on stage, Rotti, Shilo, and Nathan are all finally confronting each other, and Rotti tells Shilo that Nathan is the one that has been making her sick with his &lt;em&gt;medicine&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rotti then tries to get Shilo to kill Nathan so that he may leave her Gene Co. before he dies. She turns against him explaining that she is not a murderer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She then goes on to say, &quot;You used my mother's death to use my father, You used my father's debt to use me too.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My problem with those lyrics, is that Rotti had never once told Shilo the truth about what really happened. She (like Nathan) knows what Rotti has had them both believe, that Nathan killed Marni. The lie is the whole reason Nathan owes a debt to Rotti in the first place. He became a Repo Man in exchange for keeping Shilo from ever knowing the truth, and to keep himself out of jail for the death of his wife, which of course Rotti is responsible for anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, even if Rotti's story &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; the truth, and Nathan &lt;em&gt;had&lt;/em&gt; accidentally killed Marni... it still wouldn't explain how Shilo knew of the debt. Nowhere in the film does anyone explain this situation to Shilo... and Rotti even says he'll take the &quot;truth&quot; to his grave. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="6043" LastEditDate="2013-09-08T17:49:38.300" LastActivityDate="2013-09-08T17:49:38.300" Title="How did Shilo know the real reason Nathan was working for Rotti?" Tags="|plot-explanation|repo-the-genetic-opera|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13732" CreationDate="2013-09-08T05:43:11.817" Score="3" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105932/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.&lt;/a&gt; (currently on S01E07) and I've noticed that his pants have a yellow stripe down them. According to what I know, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalry_in_the_American_Civil_War&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;American calvary soldiers&lt;/a&gt; during and after the Civil War wore pants with a yellow stripe down them exactly like Lord Bowler's. I also know  there were &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_Cavalry_Regiment_%28United_States%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;African American cavalry soldiers&lt;/a&gt; during the time period, so this seems very plausible to me, but I couldn't find anything online nor have I seen anything during the series to confirm this. Any evidence other than his pants to support this? I imagine there are plenty of other explanations to explain  this besides him behing a former cavalry soldier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a snap shot revealing the yellow stripe on his pants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9jGJW.png&quot; alt=&quot;Lord Bowler&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-09-08T05:49:46.187" LastActivityDate="2013-09-08T10:53:32.427" Title="Was Lord Bowler an American Cavalry Soldier before he became a bounty hunter?" Tags="|character|brisco-county-jr|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13728" CreationDate="2013-09-08T10:02:38.140" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;, Lord Bowler (his real name is &lt;a href=&quot;http://paul.rutgers.edu/%7Ecwm/Brisco-County-Jr/Bowler.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;James Lonefeather&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;was &lt;strong&gt;First Sergeant in the US &lt;em&gt;10th Cavalry&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The Cavalry trousers he wears are an artifact of his time in the Army.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During his time in the Army, he met the love of his life, &lt;em&gt;Lenore Raymond&lt;/em&gt;, but couldn't do anything about it because she was married to a Lieutenant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This information is revealed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0505802/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Episode 18: &amp;quot;Hard Rock&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional sources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://theoasis.com/brisco/encyclopedia/encyclopedia.php#Bowler&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Ultimate Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Guidebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://veethemonsoon.wordpress.com/2004/06/14/blacks-in-the-old-west-new-york/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blacks In The Old West&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-09-08T10:53:32.427" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="711" CreationDate="2013-09-08T12:33:24.540" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cal reminds Jacob of his father. The qualities  of being kind and sweet he describes to Hanna in the bedroom are traits that I believe Cal has. Proof of this is when the kids stay up and Jessica talks to Emily. Jessica told Emily &quot;That when she babysits most kids will stay up late for moms but not for dad.&quot; He also said his father was very successful in business. Cal works for a business firm in the movie. Jacob stated that his mother was very vain and that his father &quot;couldn't handle her.&quot; Cal's progression in the movie though Jacob's help is evident. Cal is devastated by Emily in the beginning of the movie. Cal throughout the moviel is more vocal with Emily expressing how he feels about the situation. This adds to what Jacob says to him when coming out of the fitting room, &quot;Your wife cheated on you because you lost sight as who you are as  husband, a father, and even a lover.&quot; Cal admits towards the end of the movie he did not fight for his relationship.  Jacob lost his father very young according to the movie. Perhaps he helps Cal because he sees him headed down the same potential path as his father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6058" LastEditorUserId="6058" LastEditDate="2013-09-08T12:57:48.607" LastActivityDate="2013-09-08T12:57:48.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13734" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13743" CreationDate="2013-09-08T12:37:02.483" Score="7" ViewCount="3794" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Being John Malkovich Craig becomes trapped inside Emily.  Lester, and his friends, plan on using Emily as their next vessel.  Since Craig is already there, is it impossible for Lester to use Emily?  Or, because Craig is unable to control Emily, can Lester still do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="926" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-08T13:13:28.887" LastActivityDate="2013-09-08T22:27:30.713" Title="Will Lester Be Able to Use Emily?" Tags="|plot-explanation|being-john-malkovich|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13736" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13756" CreationDate="2013-09-08T15:40:12.110" Score="14" ViewCount="2091" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film &quot;Office Space&quot; is a comedy about several men in their early 20s who work as software developers for a company called &quot;IniTech&quot;.  As the film progresses, they endure an unempathetic boss, they experience a miserable workspace, they face the prospect of unemployment (including meeting an unemployed software developer who poses as a recovering drug addict peddling magazine subscriptions), and on and on and on until one of them finally snaps and sets fire to the office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it is never specifically mentioned in the movie, it was filmed in Austin, Texas, USA.  It was released in 1999.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I began work as a software developer myself in the year 2009, ten years later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most every source I look at says that software development is one of the best careers available today.  I'm told that Austin is one of the best places in the United States, if not in the world, to be a software developer because of the high number of high-paying jobs available.  I'm told that unemployment of software engineers is about 1%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the exact opposite of what is portrayed in &quot;Office Space&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has something changed in the past ten years since this film was made?  I can't imagine an unemployed software developer selling magazine subscriptions in my town.  Were things really that bad for software developers back in 1999, or is the film simply exaggerating for comedic effect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1865" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-12-29T16:03:42.150" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T16:03:42.150" Title="How historically accurate is the film &quot;Office Space&quot;?" Tags="|historical-accuracy|office-space|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13738" CreationDate="2013-09-08T17:47:32.357" Score="5" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;Things I remember: Some German students get caught while distributing some papers in which they criticize Hitler's war. They get interrogated by the police, and I think tortured, and in the end of the movie they are decapitated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie it is suggested that the allies are very close, so this seems to happen at the end of the WW2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what's the name of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6061" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-08T17:58:50.623" LastActivityDate="2013-09-08T18:04:36.490" Title="Movie about last days of WW2 where students are killed" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:49:10.917" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13737" CreationDate="2013-09-08T18:04:36.490" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426578/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sophie Scholl - The Final Days&lt;/a&gt; which is about a group of students forming the resistance group &lt;em&gt;The White Rose&lt;/em&gt; and their arrest, trial and following execution (I think even through decapitation). See &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Scholl_%E2%80%93_Die_letzten_Tage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; for further plot details. Considering the additional information from your comment, it seems like a likely fit, given that it's a German movie from 2005.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-09-08T18:04:36.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13739" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13742" CreationDate="2013-09-08T18:41:31.130" Score="7" ViewCount="719" Body="&lt;p&gt;All I remember about the movie is that a man in a hotel in Africa (I think) takes the identity of a man that he finds dead next door. The man doesn't realize that people are looking for the man whose identity he stole. In the last scene the man is lying dead in a hotel bed. The camera then zooms out of the room and out of the building...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6062" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-09-08T19:41:57.583" LastActivityDate="2013-09-08T22:12:25.407" Title="An &quot;older&quot; movie about a man stealing a dead man's identity" Tags="|identify-this-movie|drama|action|crime|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:49:14.057" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13739" CreationDate="2013-09-08T22:12:25.407" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you're referring to &quot;The Passenger&quot;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073580/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;) from 1975 starring Jack Nicholson. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4oZ9xymXHE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Trailer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke2CFuLQ6t8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;End Scene&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5998" LastActivityDate="2013-09-08T22:12:25.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13734" CreationDate="2013-09-08T22:27:30.713" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Lesters explanation in his library.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Craig is absorbed into Emily because he tried to enter the portal after midnight on Malkovichs 44th birthday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lester &amp;amp; Co. however will enter Emilys mind on HER 44th birthday and still have full control&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for cannon reference: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/clips/malkovichScienceExplain.mp4/view&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Vessel Scientific Explanation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5998" LastActivityDate="2013-09-08T22:27:30.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13744" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13747" CreationDate="2013-09-09T02:01:20.153" Score="8" ViewCount="647" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120611/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blade&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1998), Frost needs the blood of the &lt;em&gt;Daywalker&lt;/em&gt; to awaken La Magra.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just a coincidence that Frost himself was the one to actually create Blade, and Blade was just a one in a million chance outcome, or was there more to it than that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Frost know of the prophecy and specifically target a pregnant woman hoping for the &lt;em&gt;Daywalker&lt;/em&gt; outcome?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-02-05T01:48:04.507" LastActivityDate="2024-02-05T01:48:04.507" Title="A question about the &quot;Daywalker&quot; prophecy" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|blade|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11810" CreationDate="2013-09-09T02:10:11.593" Score="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now, it may very well have been just your good old fashioned MacGuffin, HOWEVER on closer inspection of the scene at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You never actually see Sam or the mounted White Walker make eye contact. It is cleverly implied. Sam clearly hears the hooves padding through the snow and hears the rattling chains and the White Walker looks off to the left and then shrieks an order/battlecry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BUUUUUUUUUUUUT, when the pan out begins, we see: &#xA;The large rock is IN FRONT of the mounted white walker.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/y26Dl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Rock infront of white walker&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other rock in the entire pan out is tiny and there is no shallow on the other side.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wyF7Z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Sam is clearly seen getting behind a rock with a shallow which, when he sits down, gives about a foot of cover above&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8aKfo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The walkers never actually saw him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He pressed his back against the rock and waited until he thought they had all gone past&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He then legged it!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The council for the defense rests m'lud, although I would like to say at this point. This whole bit feels like it was just rammed in for a cliffhanger, and is actually full of gaffs!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5998" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T02:10:11.593" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13746" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13748" CreationDate="2013-09-09T02:48:11.963" Score="9" ViewCount="1167" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know the old trope of how the person has a &quot;backup plan of last resort&quot; where in case of the person going missing or turning up dead, they have info that will be released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many scenes have we saw where the person says &quot;If I do not call in every 24 hours, they system will email your secret to the paper ...&quot; or something similar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I for the life of me cannot remember what this is called.  Help!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6067" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-18T14:40:27.923" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T14:40:27.923" Title="What is the name of this &quot;backup plan of last resort&quot; trope?" Tags="|trope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13744" CreationDate="2013-09-09T02:53:07.453" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;One specific plot device seems to say that Frost didn't create Blade just to fulfill the prophecy.  Frost's Research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frost needed the computers of that specific time to finish translating and correlating all the information relating to the prophecy, in order to follow through with it and create the ceremony to awaken La Magra.  He was still performing that research up until he performed the ceremony.  So, he would have had to have completed that research in order to know he would have to make a Daywalker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible that he did research BEFORE the movie takes place, and learned of the prophecy, and that it would require a Daywalker, and then set out to make one... and then over time continued the research to learn what would be necessary to make the prophecy come true, however his modern attitude and the other vampires' reaction to him and what he was doing suggested that he learned all of this in short order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if he made the Daywalker just to take a specific place in this prophecy, he would have had a much heavier hand in the upbringing and life of Blade.  He would have allowed his mother to raise him (instead of allowing Blade to think she was dead), and he would not have allowed Blade to become the vampire killer that he is.  Blade causes Frost more trouble due to the events surrounding his birth and subsequent life than Frost would have normally put up with if he had planned this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is another time when the viewer must suspend disbelief and allow himself (herself) to accept what happens in that specific universe in order to follow along and enjoy the show.  The movie was an action flick more than a logical piece of fiction, thus there are going to be holes in the plot.  Yes, it's a big coincidence that Blade was the Daywalker Frost needed to make the prophesy happen, since Frost made Blade... but that &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; what it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-09T07:40:26.207" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T07:40:26.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13746" CreationDate="2013-09-09T02:55:28.310" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is called a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeadManSwitch&quot;&gt;Dead Man Switch&lt;/a&gt; since it operates the same way that a physical &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch&quot;&gt;Dead Man Switch&lt;/a&gt; works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A backup plan in case of untimely death or incapacitation, used as a threat to protect the holder. If that person dies or fails to issue some form of communication within a set period of time, the plan goes into action automatically, making it in the interests of the threatening party to not harm that person. Provided, of course, that the threatening party knows about it. A common plot involving this trope is the switch is put in danger of being set off either by accident or by somebody who had no way to know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T02:55:28.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13753" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13754" CreationDate="2013-09-09T08:17:31.413" Score="19" ViewCount="1121" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first ever episode of Doctor Who, Susan explains that she named their home the Tardis (Time And Relative Dimension In Space). This implies that there are many Time Lord time travelling vessels and the Doctor's Tardis is only one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in later series there are multiple references which imply that the Time Lords built (or perhaps grew) the Tardises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We're going to build a Tardis&quot; - The Doctor's Wife&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and again...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We are the first Sontarans in history to capture a Tardis&quot; - The Poison Sky&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This implies that a Tardis is the name of a type of ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a discrepancy and if so what's the reason for this change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-09-11T04:03:09.613" LastActivityDate="2018-10-22T23:42:33.053" Title="Is it a Tardis or the Tardis?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13753" CreationDate="2013-09-09T08:57:13.093" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Tardis is an intelligent entity.  There are multiple references over the 50 years (since 1963) that the show has been on the air to the sentience of the Tardis, from examples covering its ability to demonstrate free will, to using an avatar to communicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Tardis is not a unique entity in concept.  Time Lords used them as they saw fit.  As the Tardis that we are introduced to is a TT Type 40 Mark 1, that model designation implies there are other models.  In point of fact, The Doctor stole the Tardis from a museum, as it had been decommissioned.  So, although it is &quot;a&quot; Tardis, it is the only one we are shown through the series and this is one of the reasons it is considered &quot;the&quot; Tardis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TARDISes are bioships that are grown from a species of coral presumably indigenous to Gallifrey, as stated in &quot;The Impossible Planet&quot;, (2006) and it can take years to complete one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Tardis appears as a police box all the time because it is damaged.  A Tardis normally can and will take different shapes through the power of its chameleon circuit to blend in to the surroundings of the time and place it visits.  The Doctor likes it as it is for multiple reasons so this is something he never bothers to repair.  This adds to the fact that it is unique, and the reason it is referred to as &quot;the&quot; Tardis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So both &quot;a&quot; and &quot;the&quot; are correct when referring to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-09-10T16:48:46.380" LastActivityDate="2013-09-10T16:48:46.380" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12182" CreationDate="2013-09-09T12:59:20.423" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kryptons sun was a low energy red star that made Kryptonians human like on their planet. When introduced to such a young, high energy yellow sun as Earths they become super-human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both the Comics and LnC, it is stated that Clark's aging process slows down and stabilizes after reaching adulthood. Which I would assume applies to Zod also, as a Kryptonian lifespan is normally several hundred years on Krypton.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Through all the different incarnations, there is no &quot;set in stone lore&quot; answer, however the common line is due to a yellow suns rays, there is very little cellular de-generation, and it's safe to assume that Zod and Co had travelled past many different Stars in order to get to Earth&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5998" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T12:59:20.423" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13736" CreationDate="2013-09-09T13:10:49.897" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't look at the main occupation of the characters in the movie as some attempt at being historically accurate to the times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As noted on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_space#Production&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Shot primarily in Austin, Texas, the origins for Office Space lie in a series of four animated short films about an office drone named Milton that Mike Judge created, which first aired on Liquid Television and Night After Night with Allan Havey, and later aired on Saturday Night Live. The inspiration came from a temp job he once had that involved alphabetizing purchase orders and a job he had as an engineer for three months in the Bay Area during the 1980s, &quot;just in the heart of Silicon Valley and in the middle of that overachiever yuppie thing, it was just awful&quot;. &lt;strong&gt;The setting of the film reflected a prevailing trend that Judge observed in the United States. &quot;It seems like every city now has these identical office parks with identical adjoining chain restaurants&quot;, he said in an interview. He remembers, &quot;There were a lot of people who wanted me to set this movie in Wall Street, or like the movie Brazil, but I wanted it very unglamorous, the kind of bleak work situation like I was in.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible reasons Judge chose software developers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As noted in the excerpt from Wikipedia, he worked briefly as an engineer working in what became Silicon Valley, so Judge is mostly drawing from his own, personal experiences and not necessarily from the industry as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tech companies were on the rise in the late 90s.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The occupation of the main characters wasn't chosen to necessarily be an accurate depiction of that specific job at that point in time, but (possibly) more so due to their increasing visibility in the economy at the time (remember, the dot com bubble would burst within a year after the movie's release). Given his experience as an engineer, the impending Y2K &quot;bug&quot;, and people's misconceptions about computer systems in general, he could also write the characters as being successful in &quot;getting back&quot; at their employers who clearly didn't care about them by developing a simple piece of code that could rip the company off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, the movie is really meant to be taken as more of a satire than anything else, providing people with a laugh that they can relate to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-09T16:53:32.880" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T16:53:32.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11307" CreationDate="2013-09-09T16:16:56.170" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My theory is that the Machines lack one thing that only Humans can have -&gt; &quot;Creativity&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The machines can maintain the status quo, but for any new technology development, they need human brains. Therefore, the machines keep all humans alive, to harvest their brain power for advancing the technology. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6072" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T16:16:56.170" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13759" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13761" CreationDate="2013-09-09T18:32:12.657" Score="12" ViewCount="5705" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that the intro for Breaking Bad only has a few notes in it but they are remarkably similar to those in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmyO2xuI1qI&quot;&gt;&quot;The Ballad of Serenity&quot;&lt;/a&gt; from Firefly. If it is the case that they are connected, is there anything behind this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5805" LastActivityDate="2013-11-15T18:23:16.027" Title="Do Breaking Bad and Firefly have the same intro music?" Tags="|breaking-bad|soundtrack|firefly|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13759" CreationDate="2013-09-09T20:13:14.757" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are similar, since the intro and show music for Breaking Bad has a heavy southwest influence (&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/2008/04/interview-with-dave-porter/&quot;&gt;according to the composer&lt;/a&gt;), and the music for Firefly... well, it's made for a western in space so there's going to be that heavy southwest influence as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However... &#xA;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1HNuAE9WdU&quot;&gt;Intro to Breaking Bad&lt;/a&gt; was written by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/breakingbad/comments/1c8j4y/i_am_composer_dave_porter_best_known_for_my_work/&quot;&gt;Dave Porter&lt;/a&gt; and doesn't really have a title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7vS4z6ngQo&quot;&gt;Intro to Firefly&lt;/a&gt; was written by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon&quot;&gt;Joss Whedon&lt;/a&gt; and performed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Rhodes&quot;&gt;Sonny Rhodes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are different songs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2013-09-09T20:13:14.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13753" CreationDate="2013-09-09T21:40:27.750" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is of course going to beg the ever prevalent question about rationalizing possible conflicts in Canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Susan in fact states that she picked out the name Tardis in &quot;Unearthly Child&quot; but as the series has continued, they are all referred to as Tardis. &quot;The Master's Tardis&quot; and &quot;The Rani's Tardis&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in theory we have three simple potential answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Susan was acting a bit like a teen-ager and stretching the truth&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Susan is in fact the Time Lady responsible for the naming of the Tardis&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tardis is the actual Gallifreyan word and Susan is responsible for the English &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Backronym&lt;/a&gt; that helps humans understand a LITTLE about the nature of the Tardis.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or at least 3 would be a great theory if the line didn't indicate the opposite:&#xA;&quot;Well, I made up the name Tardis from the initials, Time And Relative Dimension In Space.&quot; - Susan, &quot;An Unearthly Child&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/doctorwho/1-1.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;transcript&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would throw down my least favorite gauntlet in the realm of &quot;Unobtanium Magickal Translation Systems&quot; or UMTS for short&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's assume that the ship is in fact called the '&lt;em&gt;Gryf Mobe Nopre Peen Dprew&lt;/em&gt;' which is High Gallifreyan for &quot;Time and Relative Dimensions in Space.&quot; And that Time Lords affectionately refer to the ship as a GMNPD. The Tardis translation circuit (a UMTS put to the test in &quot;Fires of Pompei&quot;) would have to look thru time for the first Time Lord/Lady to devise an acronysable (is this even a word) translation; so that when a human heard the word GMNPD; the Tardis would translate that so in fact a human hears &quot;TARDIS.&quot; Consider who would be speaking in the language of the Time Lords and who would be speaking English and who the Tardis is translating for. This gets confusing enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, the High Gallifrean word might in fact be a telepathic word that 'sounds' like &quot;Tardis&quot; which would simplify everything but would be of very high coincidence. And the Doctor doesn't like coincidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This entire massive plot hole created by the UMTS is brought to you by the &quot;Klingon Traditional Battle Sword&quot; which the Universal Translator always calls a Batleth. And by America Ninja Warrior's Mount Midoriyama which translates to Mount Green Mount.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-09-10T08:17:29.017" LastActivityDate="2013-09-10T08:17:29.017" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9518" CreationDate="2013-09-10T04:16:59.613" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thats a movie thing (I agree... with @TylerShads about the filmmakers trying to be comical) it affects them all equally in the books. Harry mentions smelling a flowery smell and then smelling it again later as Ginny walks up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It has a different aroma for everyone who smells it, reminding each person of the things that they find most attractive, even if the person themselves doesn't acknowledge or is unaware of their fondness for the object of their affection e.g. Hermione Granger smells fresh cut grass, new parchment, spearmint toothpaste, and Ron Weasley.[1] Harry Potter smelled treacle tart, the woody scent of broomstick handle, and &quot;something flowery that he thought he might have smelled at the Burrow&quot; (which he later realised was the smell of Ginny Weasley's perfume). Ron Weasley smelled his mother's cooking, bacon, and the perfume he gave Hermione in their fifth year at Hogwarts for Christmas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Amortentia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Amortentia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6041" LastActivityDate="2013-09-10T04:16:59.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13764" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13766" CreationDate="2013-09-10T04:48:37.863" Score="1" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;The second season of the TV series &lt;em&gt;V&lt;/em&gt; ends dramatically. Is there a third season planned to come?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6074" LastEditorUserId="1461" LastEditDate="2013-09-10T07:35:40.283" LastActivityDate="2013-09-10T07:35:40.283" Title="Is there going to be a 3rd season of V?" Tags="|v|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13765" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13767" CreationDate="2013-09-10T07:06:14.997" Score="10" ViewCount="1423" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the original X-Men movies, Wolverine is on a quest to find out who he is and what happened to him after Stryker removed his memory. How is it possible that his physical body can heal instantaneously and his memories can't? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1969" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-11T13:25:49.730" LastActivityDate="2013-09-11T13:25:49.730" Title="If Wolverine has healing ability, why do his memories not heal?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13764" CreationDate="2013-09-10T07:30:31.163" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On May 13, 2011, ABC announced that V was canceled&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;^ Ausiello, Michael (May 13, 2011). &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvline.com/2011/05/breaking-abc-cancels-brothers-sisters-and-v/&quot;&gt;Breaking: ABC Cancels Brothers &amp;amp; Sisters, V, Mr. Sunshine, Four Others&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. TV Line. Retrieved May 13, 2011.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastActivityDate="2013-09-10T07:30:31.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13765" CreationDate="2013-09-10T07:44:08.340" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Memory is stored as a series of chemical changes or connections in the Brain. So the memory is in fact a neurological matter existing physically in the brain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Amnesia&lt;/a&gt; is loss of memory. The memory can be either wholly or partially lost due to the extent of damage that was caused. There are two main types of amnesia: retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia. Retrograde amnesia is the inability to retrieve information that was acquired before a particular date, usually the date of an accident or operation. In some cases the memory loss can extend back decades, while in others the person may lose only a few months of memory. Anterograde amnesia is the inability to transfer new information from the short-term store into the long-term store. People with this type of amnesia cannot remember things for long periods of time&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the bullet pierced Wolverine's admantium skull and penetrated his brain, there was some loss of brain matter. Now either of these two things must have happened -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the bullet pierced his brain, it damaged tissue. While his body healed that back, the chemical responses (&lt;em&gt;memories&lt;/em&gt;) stored in the tissue were lost indefinitely. So although his brain healed back, and other functions were generated normally - like speaking and walking and so on, the long term memory area suffered significant damage.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the bullet pierced his brain, it cut through brain tissue and got lodged somewhere in his brain. So while the other tissues healed back up, body functions and actions were resumed, the part where the bullet was lodged might have been the area where long term memories are stored. So that is the reason his memories might never have reformed. I'm sure what to answer if the bullet was removed and whether the memories would reform.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I'm inclined to agree more with point 1 than 2. Because Professor X can still access some memories in Logan's mind. So I'm thinking damage to the brain with long-term memory affected combined with some degree of Amnesia. This is based on his behavior and occasional remembering some aspects of his previous life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-09-10T07:49:12.663" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12182" CreationDate="2013-09-10T07:50:02.337" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the second answer because it represents another Theory:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kryptonians when exposed to the solar radiation from a yellow sun are energized by it. They develop endurance, strength and healing factors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clark Kent or &lt;em&gt;Kal-El&lt;/em&gt; was on earth from the time his ship landed here, and had absorbed significant amount of solar radiations to develop his &lt;em&gt;superman&lt;/em&gt; body. So the reason for his aging could be attributed to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zod and his other Kryptonian Survivors took refuge on the Moon where they stayed in their ships and salvaged any machinery they could. Please focus here - that they too were in a zone where they were exposed to indirect solar radiation. So scientifically it &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; have had some effect on them. While direct exposure to the Earth's atmosphere and the solar radiation was a must to develop those powers (as seen in the Movie), the simple effect trace amounts of radiation on the darker side of the moon could have served for slowing their aging process. Note that Zod and his people &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; age, though not a great deal. You can clearly see that from the facial features - like Zod's white beard. Combine that with a natural longer lifespan than humans and solar radiation could have been an important factor in the aging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-10T09:37:33.857" LastActivityDate="2013-09-10T09:37:33.857" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13769" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13792" CreationDate="2013-09-10T11:13:04.457" Score="10" ViewCount="3302" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of Iron Man 3 when Extremists  attack on his house, he uses his suit to save Pepper's life. The same could be done in the end part of the movie when Pepper Potts was falling from 200 feet. Why didn't he do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6077" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T08:16:16.890" LastActivityDate="2018-01-16T21:34:43.550" Title="Why didn't Tony Stark order Jarvis to save Pepper Potts?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-3|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13657" CreationDate="2013-09-10T11:47:24.127" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In contrast to &lt;em&gt;kicker86&lt;/em&gt;'s answer which presents many origin stories from the comics, I'd like to concentrate more on the actual movie, which for me presents its own reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Jor-El&lt;/em&gt; explains to his son (when he meets his digitized consciousness in the old ship on earth) that &lt;em&gt;Krypton&lt;/em&gt; and its whole society have been corrupted over time in their striving for perfection and expansion. Children were only born artificially and their destiny and place in the society was predetermined before their birth, yet &lt;em&gt;Kal-El&lt;/em&gt; was the only naturally born child in years. This whole situation on &lt;em&gt;Krypton&lt;/em&gt; is reflected in &lt;em&gt;Jor-El&lt;/em&gt;'s speech:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Artificial population control was established. The outposts and space&#xA;  exploration were abandoned. We exhausted our natural resources. As a&#xA;  result, our planet's core became unstable. Eventually, our military&#xA;  leader, General Zod, attempted a coup, but by then it was too late.&#xA;  Your mother and I foresaw the coming calamity and we took certain&#xA;  steps to ensure your survival. This is a genesis chamber. All&#xA;  Kryptonians were conceived in chambers such as this. Every child was&#xA;  designed to perform a predetermined role in our society as a worker, a&#xA;  warrior, a leader, and so on. Your mother and I believed Krypton lost&#xA;  something precious: the element of choice, of chance. What if a child&#xA;  dreamed of becoming something other than what society had intended?&#xA;  What if a child aspired to something greater? You were the embodiment&#xA;  of that belief, Kal. Krypton's first natural birth in centuries.&#xA;  That's why we risked so much to save you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for &lt;em&gt;Jor-El Krypton&lt;/em&gt; and its society were doomed long before the planet actually started to destabilize. This is also the reason why he doesn't take &lt;em&gt;Zod&lt;/em&gt;'s offer to join him in rebuilding the society, since he saw &lt;em&gt;Zod&lt;/em&gt; misguided by the same wrong ideas that led to &lt;em&gt;Krypton&lt;/em&gt;'s downfall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And to come back to your actual question&lt;/strong&gt;, I think this is also the reason why &lt;em&gt;Jor-El&lt;/em&gt; didn't join &lt;em&gt;Kal-El&lt;/em&gt;. He believed himself and &lt;em&gt;Lara&lt;/em&gt; to also be a part and a relic of this corrupted society. And this is what he means when he says that &lt;strong&gt;their fate was linked to Krypton&lt;/strong&gt;. It wasn't their whole family, but only the naturally-born &lt;em&gt;Kal-El&lt;/em&gt; who was the chance for a new beginning. It is true that he still preserved his consciousness in order to guide his son in this task. But I think to make their actual selves disappear together with &lt;em&gt;Krypton&lt;/em&gt; was a step and a sacrifice &lt;em&gt;Jor-El&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Lara&lt;/em&gt; had to take for a clean reset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T14:11:55.320" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T14:11:55.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1588" CreationDate="2013-09-10T13:01:02.477" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/2008/05/chrysalis-movie-review-futuris.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Coventry Telegraph - The Geek Files&lt;/a&gt; review of the movie, they state this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We learn that Brugen has created a duplicate of her dead daughter Manon using an abducted girl called Elena, whose face has been surgically changed to look like Manon and whose own memories have been removed and are being replaced with those of Manon. The crash-mangled body of Manon is being kept alive by Professor Brugen as a mere shell from which she is stripping her daughter's identity to put into Elena. Meanwhile, the memory transfer into Elena is slow and imperfect and she feels unease with her identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not know if this authoritative, but seems to me the &quot;kicking&quot; version of Manon is a duplicate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-09-10T13:01:02.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13772" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-10T15:55:39.870" Score="2" ViewCount="5942" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was the final episode of Do No Harm written with the knowledge that it would be the final episode of the series, or with the intention that it was the final episode of the season?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have seen the final episode you will most likely understand what I am getting at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; In the final scenes, you learn that Jason is the alter and that Dr. Carmello intends to suppress the part of Ian's brain that contains Jason. You also notice a surgical scar in the area that is being operated on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads me to believe that the writers did not intend this to be the end of the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel that it would be way too much of a rip-off ending, and they would probably not have done this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5933" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-10T16:42:41.903" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T14:02:25.700" Title="How was the final episode of Do No Harm intended?" Tags="|ending|do-no-harm|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13773" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-10T16:55:47.367" Score="4" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1905042/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Standing Up&lt;/a&gt;, there is an act that deals with Howie and Grace getting on a bus belonging to a different camp. This leads to a potential confrontation with racial undertones which, at least to me, felt like it was more likely to have been added in for the screenplay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the characters of Tiwana, Lydia, and Calvin also in the book, &lt;em&gt;The Goats&lt;/em&gt;, which was the source of the script? Are they Black? Is their camp also largely Black?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-10T17:00:50.853" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T22:24:47.010" Title="Were the characters of Tiwana, Lydia, and Calvin also in the book?" Tags="|book-adaptation|standing-up|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13194" CreationDate="2013-09-10T17:39:25.813" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The wicked mastermind had other things on his mind like the military, the Cerberus codes, and the unification of the Koreas (for example). He also had a number of men under his command and the return of one man might not have been deemed important enough for him, turncoat though he may have been.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any event, he doesn't really need Forbes any longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-09-10T17:39:25.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13772" CreationDate="2013-09-10T18:06:48.340" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know why you think &lt;em&gt;Do No Harm's&lt;/em&gt; ending is not what it intended to be. I haven't watched the show, but I think the reason might be the conflict between NBC and the show's owners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On November 12, 2012, NBC reduced its episode order for the series&#xA;  from 13 to 12 episodes, due to scheduling conflicts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On February 8, 2013, it was announced that NBC had canceled the series after airing two episodes, due to low ratings. On April 26,&#xA;  2013, NBC announced that the remaining episodes would be burned off,&#xA;  beginning June 29, 2013.- &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_No_Harm_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-25T14:02:25.700" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T14:02:25.700" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13776" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13782" CreationDate="2013-09-10T19:02:36.487" Score="11" ViewCount="2220" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of the series I follow intensely have showrunners I know off the top of my head.  &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; has Stephen Moffat (who was preceded by RTD).  &lt;em&gt;Lost&lt;/em&gt; had Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof.  But I only know they are the showrunners due to media on the internet referring to them as such.  Watching the shows, there's no 'showrunner' credit, or obvious marking that these people ran the show during that season/episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some standard way to determine who the showrunner(s) of a show is/are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T12:33:25.407" LastActivityDate="2022-12-07T09:03:34.560" Title="How to find who is the showrunner?" Tags="|production|credits|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13777" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13781" CreationDate="2013-09-10T19:04:11.480" Score="11" ViewCount="2811" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of the series I follow intensely have showrunners I know off the top of my head.  &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; has Steven Moffat (who was preceded by Russell T. Davies).  &lt;em&gt;Lost&lt;/em&gt; had Carlton Cuse &amp;amp; Damon Lindelof.  They are generally responsible for the direction of the show's story, from what I understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what is their job; what do showrunners do above and beyond what other producers/writers do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="18624" LastEditDate="2015-05-22T19:27:16.150" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T19:27:16.150" Title="What are the exact responsibilities of the showrunner?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13777" CreationDate="2013-09-10T19:55:14.173" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Show Runners is essentially just another term for Executive Producer.  The show runner is responsible for the day-to-day work involved in a tv series and often combine the main roles of writer, director and editor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a nutshell: It's the title for the person who has overall control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5998" LastActivityDate="2013-09-10T19:55:14.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13777" CreationDate="2013-09-10T20:53:22.463" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;To &lt;a href=&quot;http://johnaugust.com/2004/producer-credits-and-what-they-mean&quot;&gt;quote&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0041864/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John August&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Frankenweenie&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Charlie and the Chocolate Factory&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Charlie's Angels&lt;/em&gt;...)&lt;em&gt;:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The highest ranking producer is the showrunner&lt;/strong&gt;, the man or woman &lt;strong&gt;ultimately responsible for the creative direction of the series.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Showrunner is a function, not a title...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... this person is credited as an &lt;em&gt;Executive Producer&lt;/em&gt;. In many cases, he or she has &lt;em&gt;“Created by”&lt;/em&gt; credit on the series&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; this doesn't mean that every &lt;em&gt;Executive Producer&lt;/em&gt; is a &quot;showrunner&quot; &lt;br&gt;(a &lt;em&gt;leading actor&lt;/em&gt; is credited as an &lt;em&gt;actor&lt;/em&gt;, but that doesn't mean every &lt;em&gt;actor&lt;/em&gt; is a &lt;em&gt;leading actor&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Also of note:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because &lt;strong&gt;scripted television is run by writers, the majority of producers you see listed are writers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0505867/&quot;&gt;Ken Levine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (*M*A*S*H*, &lt;em&gt;Cheers&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Frasier&lt;/em&gt;,...) has &lt;a href=&quot;http://kenlevine.blogspot.co.at/2012/08/what-does-showrunner-do.html&quot;&gt;this to say&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[The Showrunner] oversees the entire production and essentially provides the voice and creative direction of the show. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He hires the writing staff, the crew, the directors. He is in charge of the show’s budget.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He approves and breaks the stories, assigns them, rewrites them, and decides when the scripts are ready for distribution.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He does all of the casting. Deals with the network and studio. Approves sets, wardrobe, music,&lt;/strong&gt; ... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He also oversees the editing.&lt;/strong&gt; The editor and director put together their first cut and then the showrunner is in control. He can change that cut at will, if the show is long he determines what gets cut. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He then supervises post production – sound, color correction, music.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How the hell does he have time to do all of that?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;He doesn’t. And that’s the real art of showrunning.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How does e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319213/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vince Gilligan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;) do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/showrunners-2012-breaking-bad-vince-gilligan-375641&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The thing about my job as showrunner that I’d most like to delegate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dealing with money and budget issues. ... Some days I find myself telling my producers: &quot;Please just deal with the money stuff. Tell me what we can do and tell me what we can’t do.&quot; ... I remember when somebody first told me that you’re now in charge of a $40 million start-up, it kind of freaked me out.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So even though a &lt;em&gt;Showrunner&lt;/em&gt; is basically responsible for &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt;, he doesn't actually have to do everything. He can of course appoint people to do things for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/10/14/showrunner_meaning_and_origin.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When Did People Start Saying “Showrunner”?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Most likely, the late 1980s. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The rise of the term “showrunner” tracks with the rise of writers in television.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Before TV became a “writer’s medium,” it was a studio’s medium. Throughout the ’50s and ’60s, studios controlled all facets of production, from conception onward. Writers were mostly contract workers and did not generally participate in crafting the vision of the show. Studios only allowed experienced executives to pitch new shows, and these executives typically stayed on as the chief producers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As writers became more critical to keeping shows on air, they were given more production responsibilities. Soon, studios even allowed writers to create new shows—and then to stay on to shape the shows they envisioned. The writer-executive producer was born.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But in an era of producer credit proliferation, &lt;strong&gt;those on set needed a new, shorter term to separate the person making final creative decisions from other producers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Showrunner” became natural shorthand for the person who literally runs the show. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/top-50-power-showrunners-2012-374224&quot;&gt;THR's Top 50 Showrunners 2012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Showrunner&quot;&gt;TV Tropes - Showrunner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-09-10T20:53:22.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13776" CreationDate="2013-09-10T21:29:45.223" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe that there's a standard way as they are not credited as such. Showrunners are always credited as &lt;em&gt;Executive Producers&lt;/em&gt;. Additionally, they also usually receive credits as a &lt;em&gt;Creator&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Writer&lt;/em&gt;, and/or a &lt;em&gt;Director&lt;/em&gt;. They are all inevitably writers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking up IMDb's crew list for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804503/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast&quot;&gt;Mad Men&lt;/a&gt; suggests that Matthew Weiner is the showrunner&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244365/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast&quot;&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise&lt;/a&gt; suggests that Rick Berman and Brannon Braga were joint showrunners&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436992/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm&quot;&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/a&gt; suggests that Russell T. Davies was the showrunner until 2010 after which Steven Moffat took over; Julie Gardner was also the executive producer with Davies, but she didn't have his writing credits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I haven't watched any of the above shows.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-09-10T21:29:45.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13783" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-10T23:08:03.373" Score="2" ViewCount="3160" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Merchant Ivory picture, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0306734/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Le Divorce&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2003), there is a painting supposedly painted by the French painter, Georges de La Tour, which plays a role in the plot. Was it a genuine painting by this painter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2023-12-31T15:56:17.433" LastActivityDate="2023-12-31T15:57:11.930" Title="Was the painting a genuine La Tour?" Tags="|props|le-divorce|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13784" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13790" CreationDate="2013-09-10T23:15:12.650" Score="9" ViewCount="991" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024648/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Argo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, right after the supposed film team is allowed to board their plane, Iranian soldiers storm the house of the Canadian ambassador. They find a desolated home and what I think to be a destroyed phone, or rather something like an advanced phone with a kind of encryption device, or whatever this is called. But immediately after they see this they frantically run out and try to phone the people at the airport and then hurriedly run to the airport guards, as if they had realized what was going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet I'm not sure what conclusions they drew from this and why they realized something bad was going on. All they saw was such a destroyed phone-thingy, which I would guess every ambassador would have (&lt;em&gt;Mendez&lt;/em&gt; definitely didn't bring it with him) and that the ambassador was gone, which I'm not sure was such a bad or unexpected event for them, he wasn't an enemy of Iran at all. &lt;strong&gt;How did they realize that there were other people there or that those were something else than what they reported, and that they should immediately head for the airport?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did they just do this out of security and didn't really know what to look for (but what made them so suspicious then)? Or did the filmmakers maybe leap over some deductions in order to raise the tension? Or am I just dumber or more naive than the Iranian military and overlooked something in the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-09-11T11:23:33.697" LastActivityDate="2013-09-11T11:23:33.697" Title="How did the Iranians realize the fraud?" Tags="|plot-explanation|argo|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13785" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-10T23:16:28.753" Score="5" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Merchant Ivory picture, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0306734/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Le Divorce&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2003), a painting is auctioned towards the end of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stephen Fry plays the role of an auctioneer (possibly representing Christie's from London) who has had a prior meeting with the Walkers, the sellers of the painting. To them, he values the painting at around a million pounds. During the auction, however, bidding started at two million euros and Fry is also placing bids on the painting which eventually sells for over 4 million euros to a third party.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the Walkers spurn Fry's (Christie's) offer? Or was Fry bidding on the painting in order to drive up the price?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Incidentally, who was the eventual buyer? She (the character) looked familiar.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2023-12-31T15:50:11.267" LastActivityDate="2023-12-31T15:50:11.267" Title="On whose behalf was the auctioneer bidding?" Tags="|plot-explanation|le-divorce|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13787" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13788" CreationDate="2013-09-11T03:16:07.760" Score="3" ViewCount="5260" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 1 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050079/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Zorro (1957)&lt;/a&gt;, Zorro's horse, Tornado was black, but in the first half of season 2 it was white, and the second half the season it was black. Was this oversight, or two different horses? Maybe I just wasn't paying enough attention to plot details. If it was two different horses what was the name of the second horse and what happened to Tornado?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastActivityDate="2015-02-13T16:33:19.517" Title="White horse in season 2 of Zorro (1957)" Tags="|plot-explanation|zorro|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13787" CreationDate="2013-09-11T03:16:07.760" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Diego is in Los Angeles, he rides Tornado (the black horse) when he becomes Zorro. When Diego traveled to Monterey, he did not take Tornado with him, and a new horse named Phantom (the white horse) was introduced. Phantom was given to Zorro by a dying soldier and it is not revealed in the series where Phantom hides out while Diego is in Monterey &amp;mdash; or what happened to him after Diego returned to Los Angeles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sources:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050079/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv&quot;&gt;www.imdb.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.billcotter.com/zorro/faq.htm#horse&quot;&gt;www.billcotter.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastActivityDate="2013-09-11T03:16:07.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13799" CreationDate="2013-09-11T03:56:13.817" Score="7" ViewCount="1798" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the first day I watched Woody Allen's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyone_Says_I_Love_You&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Everyone Says I Love You&lt;/a&gt; I couldn't stop wondering: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUu01nJPoRo&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;amp;t=1m50s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How on earth was this scene filmed?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way Goldie Hawn moves is incredibly natural. I literally find it hard to believe that they were using cables to hold her in the air, especially on the parts where she slides back through the floor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6086" LastEditorUserId="6086" LastEditDate="2013-09-19T01:28:16.667" LastActivityDate="2013-09-19T01:28:16.667" Title="How did Woody Allen film this dancing scene?" Tags="|film-techniques|everyone-says-i-love-you|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13784" CreationDate="2013-09-11T04:33:04.450" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly there was a destroyed photo of &quot;one of the six&quot; that was reconstructed in a sweatshop. This was the vital clue. Once it was reconstructed, it was discovered that it was someone from the Canadian Film crew. At this point their (the Americans) cover had been blown. If they (the Iranian Army) sent the photo and details to the third checkpoint at the airport here, the Canadian Caper would have ended in capture at the gate. However, since the cultural attaché knew they were staying at the Canadian Embassy (or Ambassadors house?) that became the point of focus. When the embassy was stormed, and the Canadian film crew was not found, the army would then check all exit ports in and out of the city. The only one that matters to the film is the airport, so it is the only one shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For dramatic purposes the escape and the hunt happened simultaneously. I don't think the actual timeline was this close. I think the Iranian Army was a day late, if they were even aware of the ruse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2013-09-11T04:39:48.613" LastActivityDate="2013-09-11T04:39:48.613" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13791" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13800" CreationDate="2013-09-11T08:12:11.310" Score="25" ViewCount="23507" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; Final Season, when Walt meets Jesse with Saul and asks Jesse to leave town, Jesse breaks into tears and says to Walt that why doesn't he tell him straight away what he wants or he will kill him as he killed Mike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Jesse know that Mike is dead and that Walt killed him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T16:23:36.037" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T16:23:36.037" Title="How did Jesse know that Walt did this in season 5?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13769" CreationDate="2013-09-11T08:53:57.970" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The suits were under the command to &lt;em&gt;engage and eliminate&lt;/em&gt; all Extremists. The suits considered Pepper too as an Extremist as she had been injected with the virus. Therefore, the suits would try to destroy her rather than save her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, IMO issuing a new command to save Pepper Potts would had taken time and moreover be seen as an ambiguous instruction by the suit's system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastActivityDate="2013-09-11T08:53:57.970" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13791" CreationDate="2013-09-11T09:10:06.893" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;He doesn't have any definitive evidence so he can't be 100% sure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However he knows what Walt is capable of and has seen what can happen to people who put Walt in danger. Either in physical danger (Gus) or in danger of being caught (Prison inmates).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's fair to say Jesse makes the presumption that Walt kills Mike based on what has happened before rather then definitive evidence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastActivityDate="2013-09-11T09:10:06.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13794" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13795" CreationDate="2013-09-11T13:03:06.727" Score="15" ViewCount="98860" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film The Social Network Mark breaks up with Erica Albright early on, this (through a series of steps) leads to him creating The Facebook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However in real life Mark is married to Priscilla Chan who he met at Jewish fraternity at Harvard University in 2003 (Facebook was founded in 2004).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does Erica Albright exist? If not why is she featured in the film and not Priscilla Chan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-09-11T13:12:11.803" LastActivityDate="2019-05-14T22:10:38.860" Title="Was Erica Albright real?" Tags="|the-social-network|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13794" CreationDate="2013-09-11T13:13:12.100" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can find your answer on &lt;a href=&quot;http://ericaalbright.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ericaalbright.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know that Mark has another girlfriend and the two of them seem very happy together. I’ve actually met her a few times when Mark and I were dating and she’s very nice. But since “The Social Network” came out, people are still asking me if him and I are going to get back together. So for once and for all, I’m going to set the record straight. I do not want to get back together with Mark. Not that there is anything wrong with him I just don’t have much in common with him. We do talk every once in a while but we’re not Facebook friends or anything. I’m not friends on FB with him mainly because I don’t want a gazillion friends on FB. (I’m not Erica Albright on FB) A lot of you have been writing to me and...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So definitely a real person (unless the website is a hoax).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT (because of further reading on the website) ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So usually I don’t read all the blogs and news sites that talk about ‘The Social Network’, but today, one just caught my attention. Maybe I’m being overly sensitive today for some reason but I just need to get a few things out in the open. The movie ‘The Social Network’ really depicts me as being a b*tch. Yeah, I know that Mark wrote that in in public HTML code which is now totally public, but I’m not really a b*tch! Do you want to know the REAL story about me, the EX Girlfriend of Mark Zuckerberg? Even though it is really cool that someone played ME in a movie, I am completely the opposite of how I am depicted in the movie. I am smart, funny, sweet (although I do have a naughty side), and I was really in LOVE with...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-09-11T13:13:12.100" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13794" CreationDate="2013-09-11T13:22:04.997" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;While not having any background information if she really existed in the way written in the movie/book or how his relationship with &lt;em&gt;Priscilla&lt;/em&gt; actually was, I'll attempt an answer based on mere reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say his relationship to &lt;em&gt;Priscilla&lt;/em&gt; maybe didn't provide the same conflicts as his (maybe fictitious) relationship with &lt;em&gt;Erica&lt;/em&gt;. While it would be wrong to say he's done everything just because of &lt;em&gt;Erica&lt;/em&gt;, his break-up with her still serves as a major background influence to his character and the movie's story. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/176/49&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/218/49&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; for some insight on her role in the movie. Maybe &lt;em&gt;Priscilla&lt;/em&gt; just didn't provide those interesting developments for the story. If &lt;em&gt;Erica&lt;/em&gt; was not real, then you have more freedom in fitting her to the story of the movie than if she had been real, like &lt;em&gt;Priscilla&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Seeing &lt;em&gt;Paulster2&lt;/em&gt;'s answer, she was indeed real. But I still stand by my reasoning, that his unsuccessful relationship with &lt;em&gt;Erica&lt;/em&gt; was probably prefered by the writers for providing more conflict to the story and the character. In fact the movie (as well as the book) doesn't seem to be an accurate (or at least not complete) rendition of the real circumstances and characters anyway. So leaving out a character or emphasizing another one for the sake of story-telling isn't that unreasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2013-09-11T13:31:43.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13789" CreationDate="2013-09-11T17:17:51.027" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a technique known as &lt;strong&gt;wire work&lt;/strong&gt;, often used in martial arts films&amp;mdash;see &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_fu&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wire fu&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A wire is attached to a harness under the bodice of her dress is threaded through a pulley on a crane.  Typically a man is on the other end of the line, pulling down to raise her a little, or two men to raise her a lot.  The smooth horizontal movements are made by extending/retracting a telescopic crane, or for limited distances, a stationary crane can be rotated.  You can see some stunt performers training in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlebgX5Uj8g&quot;&gt;this video&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In post production, the wire is removed through a technique known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping&quot;&gt;rotoscoping&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-09-11T17:17:51.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13791" CreationDate="2013-09-11T17:26:37.840" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jesse has seen first hand how ruthless Walt can be to anyone he perceives as a danger. Mike and Walt had never been on good terms but Mike had always cooperated with Walt's schemes after some persuasion. The only glaring exception was handing over the names of Mike's associates residing in prison. Jesse knew how paranoid Walt felt about leaving those men alive, and how protective Mike was of them. So when Mike's sudden disappearance coincides with the synchronized executions of Mike's men, Jesse knew something was very fishy. Mike would never abandon his men that way. The only way Walt would've been able to safely go through with his plan was for Mike to be out of the way. Jesse is smart enough to add two and two together and deduce that Walt had killed Mike as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-09-11T17:26:37.840" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13794" CreationDate="2013-09-11T19:43:58.903" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The existance of www.ericaalbright.com not withstanding, the name of the girl portrayed as &quot;Erica Albright&quot; in the film was certainly not &quot;Erica Albright&quot;. Sorkin basically admits to this in a few interviews, where he claims to have changed three specific names and that Erica's was one of those. The person who most fits that character's depiction is a girl names Jessica Alona, but literally all anyone knows about her publicly is that Zuckerberg insulted her on LiveJournal in a drunken rant that seems to have been the start of FaceMash. The actual LiveJournal post is still available, and you can clearly see the original name in the source code for the famous &quot;bitch&quot; post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/the-truth-behind-the-social-network/&quot;&gt;http://www.slashfilm.com/the-truth-behind-the-social-network/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this directly contradicts the statements made on the Erica Albright web site, which suggests that either 1) that's a fake web page, or 2) Jessica Alona has decided to go with Sorkin's pseudonym to maintain her own identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the slashfilm article, as of late 2010, no one named Jessica Alona had come forward to identify herself as the subject of that particular blog post. Also, nothing in that post necessarily claims that Zuckerberg was &lt;em&gt;dating&lt;/em&gt; Mrs. Alona, merely that she had somehow angered him, but that does seem most likely. Note that he did not begin dating his current wife until after Facebook was already up and running, which would likely have been years after any possible relationship with the girl that inspired Facebook in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2013-09-11T19:43:58.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3454" CreationDate="2013-09-11T22:34:31.447" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The pit, as was shown in the film, is located in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. In the brief moment when Talia Al Ghul comes out of it, one can see the Mehrangarh Fort in the background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even Confirmed from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehrangarh_Fort&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wkipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The third movie of The Dark Knight trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, was&#xA;  partially shot around the Mehrangarh fort. A few scenes included the&#xA;  prison well within which Bruce Wayne is shown to have been imprisoned.&#xA;  There is one particular shot when Wayne emerges from the prison that&#xA;  actually gives a glimpse of the Mehrangarh Fort in the background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene involving Ras Al Ghul also seem to be filmed in fort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The inside of the pit is a famous Step well called &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;biw=1280&amp;amp;bih=886&amp;amp;tbm=isch&amp;amp;q=chand%20baori%20dark%20knight%20rises&amp;amp;revid=431917961&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chand Baori&lt;/a&gt;  which is in Dausa district, Rajasthan, India.(Borrowed answer from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/The-Dark-Knight-Rises-2012-movie/Where-was-the-Pit-filmed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quora&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-01T08:15:40.577" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T08:15:40.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13808" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-11T23:41:41.937" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-09-11T23:41:41.937" LastActivityDate="2013-09-11T23:41:41.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13809" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-11T23:41:41.937" Score="0" Body="An American television drama series, Sons of Anarchy focuses on the lives of an outlaw motorcycle club based in Charming, a fictional town in California's Central Valley. It begins as protagonist Jackson &quot;Jax&quot; Teller (the vice president of the club), begins questioning the actions of the club and himself. It was created by Kurt Sutter and premiered in 2008." OwnerUserId="4174" LastEditorUserId="4174" LastEditDate="2013-09-12T00:17:56.037" LastActivityDate="2013-09-12T00:17:56.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4546" CreationDate="2013-09-12T01:32:43.667" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not all members have the tattoo on their on their back. Some members have the tattoo on their arms. In the episode &quot;Poor Little Lambs&quot; of season 7, Juice is seen also without a back piece. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-03-18T07:06:16.623" LastActivityDate="2016-03-18T07:06:16.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13811" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13812" CreationDate="2013-09-12T03:37:16.777" Score="8" ViewCount="1469" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a Sci-fi movie that aired on PBS in the mid-seventies. I'm guessing at the circa.  But I think that was about the time because I had a lot of stuff falling on my head, so remembering a movie title was probably low on my list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember a man dreamed a dream, then it came true the next day.  The only specific dream I remember was the Earth was invaded by aliens.  Bingo, the next day it happened.  I remember the aliens were roundish and cyborg-ish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember I think I liked it.  I have been asking for 40 years.  I found one other person who remembered the movie, but that was all they remembered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6097" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-21T12:14:10.017" LastActivityDate="2015-06-14T07:21:16.050" Title="Man dreams of an alien invasion of Earth and it comes true" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:49:20.313" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13811" CreationDate="2013-09-12T04:50:32.890" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lathe_of_Heaven_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Lathe of Heaven&lt;/a&gt;. PBS were the distributors for this movie. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081036/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Orr's explanation of his drug abuse is incredible: he has known since age 17 that his dreams change reality, and tries to prevent himself from dreaming because he fears their effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Haber suggests that Orr dream of a solution to overpopulation (resulting in a plague wiping out three-fourths of the human population), the end to all conflict between people (&lt;strong&gt;resulting in an alien invasion uniting mankind&lt;/strong&gt;), only after numerous failed attempts to &amp;quot;make the world right&amp;quot; admitting to Orr that he believes in Orr's power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-09-12T04:50:32.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13813" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-12T07:50:02.643" Score="1" ViewCount="698" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Dark Knight Rises during the ending scene, we see that Alferd is crying in front of Gordon and Blake at Bruce Wayne's Funeral. After sometime we see that Alferd sees Brue Wayne and Selina Kayle at a place (as he had imagined once).&#xA;So I want to know that when did Alfred come to know about the reality of Bruce's death?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had he known it all before because if that is the case then his crying at funeral was just a mask to fool Gordon and Blake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it that at that time he genuinely believed that Bruce is dead and only later he came to know that he is alive and where to find him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-12T13:21:30.557" LastActivityDate="2013-09-12T13:21:30.557" Title="When Alfred cries in front of Gordon at Bruce Wayne's funeral, was he faking it?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-09-12T11:40:33.143" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13815" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13818" CreationDate="2013-09-12T16:45:20.483" Score="4" ViewCount="4000" Body="&lt;p&gt;How much of a movie's sound effects is a foley artist responsible for? Are all non-dialogue sounds rendered by them? How is this decided?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-12T18:44:21.340" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T23:53:09.177" Title="How much of a film's sound effects do foley artists typically work on?" Tags="|production|sound-effects|foley|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13816" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13817" CreationDate="2013-09-12T16:51:44.260" Score="7" ViewCount="726" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are boom microphones designed to only capture dialogue? If not, is all extraneous noise filtered out during post-production? How is this done? How was this done before computers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-09-12T17:34:16.693" Title="Do boom mics only capture dialogue?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13816" CreationDate="2013-09-12T17:11:14.553" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you are calling a &quot;boom microphone&quot; doesn't really exist. The boom is a pole that holds a microphone so that the operator can stand outside of the frame and still get the microphone into a location from which it can pick up sound. Microphones come in many different styles, as defined by the way they sense sound signals and the directions from which they will pick up sound waves. Usually, booms are used with a &quot;shotgun&quot; style of microphone. Shotgun mics are designed to be the most unidirectional mic, which means that they pick up sound waves that are coming from sources directly in front of them, while sounds that come from the sides and back are hardly noticeable. The side and back sounds are usually further reduced by the use of a &quot;dead cat&quot; or wind cover (which you've probably seen pictures of... They look like a stuffed animal fur wrapped on the mic.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What this means is that the booms are used to point the shotgun mics directly at the talent so that the mic picks up the dialogue and as little ambient sound as possible. If there are sounds that are still recorded and no usable takes were made, then ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) is performed. In this process, the actors are put into a sound recording studio and they re-record their lines while watching the recorded video footage. That way a clean audio recording is made. This can be mixed with the recorded ambient sounds so that it fits with what is recorded on location. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-09-12T17:34:16.693" LastActivityDate="2013-09-12T17:34:16.693" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13815" CreationDate="2013-09-12T18:11:13.150" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Foley Artists&lt;/em&gt; are responsible for a lot of different types of sounds; mostly natural sounds like footsteps and the sound that certain clothes make while moving in them, but pretty much anything that you can fit into a foley studio. In addition to &lt;em&gt;Foley Artists&lt;/em&gt; there are also &lt;em&gt;Sound FX Designers&lt;/em&gt; whose job is to create the sounds that can't be naturally or easily recorded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following text (which I grabbed from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.marblehead.net/foley/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;marblehead.net&lt;/a&gt;) does a pretty good job of describing who's responsible for what:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Foley does not cover sounds like car engines, explosions or other mechanical stuff - driving a car around in the studio or blowing up a building is usually not possible although we have tried! We don't do birds, laser blasts, dog barks or rain storms either!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [...]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  While a Sound Editor can do very precise and repeatable effects, they have a harder time when it comes to footsteps for example, since every step is different and unique, the pace changes and the mood of the step is always different. With a good pair of shoes and years of practice, a Foley Artist can perform an actors walk perfectly on the first take while making it sound natural!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to &lt;em&gt;how much&lt;/em&gt; of a film's sound effects that are actually added during post-production, an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2011/02/the-sound-of-cinema.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;excerpt from an article&lt;/a&gt; featuring an interview with Oscar-winning sound editor Richard King tells that it's almost all of them. Though, it most likely differs from scene to scene, and movie to movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The audience should believe that everything they hear was recorded the day the movie was shot,&quot; says King.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's far from what actually happens in a feature film. The majority of the sounds that make up a scene has to be recorded and inserted after production by a team of sound designers. The art of recreating sound effects on a stage for a film is known as foley art.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2014-01-03T23:53:09.177" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T23:53:09.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11716" CreationDate="2013-09-12T18:49:19.850" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it makes sense. Lucille was hiding it in a certain place and then transferred it to the banana stand after the fire...&#xA;It does makes sense to change where you stash valuable things every once in a while...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, &quot;there's always money in the banana stand&quot; might not be as literal as it sounds, but rather as a hint, like, &quot;I recently hid money in case of an emergency.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6102" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-09-12T19:24:48.110" LastActivityDate="2013-09-12T19:24:48.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13821" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13825" CreationDate="2013-09-12T20:35:38.543" Score="17" ViewCount="40607" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330373/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)&lt;/a&gt;, Sirius Black appears in a fireplace to talk to Harry. It looks as if his head was made of embers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7rJ4g.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sirius Black&amp;#39;s head made of embers&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373889/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)&lt;/a&gt;, Sirius Black appears in the same fireplace, once again to talk to Harry and his friends. The effect is very different, though, and his head now appears to be floating in the flames:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PZC9Z.png&quot; alt=&quot;Sirius Black&amp;#39;s head floating in the flames&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why were two different effects used for the very same spell?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-11-22T10:40:25.383" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T06:24:03.570" Title="Why the different effects when Sirius Black appears in a fireplace?" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|effects|the-order-of-the-phoenix|the-goblet-of-fire|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13821" CreationDate="2013-09-12T21:08:48.080" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the medium is different. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's clear that the spell used by  Sirius Black is &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Floo_Network&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Floo Network&lt;/a&gt;'s Head-only transport. But the medium for both the instances are different. In &lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire&lt;/strong&gt;, when Sirius Black talks to Harry there is only coal present in the fireplace. But in &lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix&lt;/strong&gt;, when Sirius talks to Harry there is also flame there. So his appearance looks different all because of the condition of the fireplace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not a canonical answer but my conclusion from watching the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T01:40:55.873" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T01:40:55.873" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13823" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15977" CreationDate="2013-09-12T21:13:35.013" Score="5" ViewCount="7388" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2334879/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;White House Down&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the hacker, &lt;em&gt;Tyler&lt;/em&gt;, having finished his work puts on a military uniform (probably for disguise) and tries to escape by the tunnel &lt;em&gt;&quot;through which JFK brought in the Monroe&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. When reaching the explosively-locked gate which &lt;em&gt;Cale&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Sawyer&lt;/em&gt; saw earlier, he tries to unlock it (with a kind of chip card, I think). Having no success he tries a second time but then says something like &lt;em&gt;&quot;Oh shit!&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and the thing goes off, blowing him away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my question is, &lt;strong&gt;why were his unlocking attempts not successful?&lt;/strong&gt; Was it really just mere bad luck that his card didn't work or was there a better reason which I might have overlooked in the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T02:26:03.970" Title="What happened to Tyler?" Tags="|plot-explanation|white-house-down|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13821" CreationDate="2013-09-12T23:10:28.180" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd stick with what &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/29/system-down&quot;&gt;System Down&lt;/a&gt; wrote in the comments: different directors. I have at least two reasons for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, there is no mention of the difference in the books. He always appears in the flame. Here is what it says in the &quot;Goblet of Fire&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The room was in semidarkness; &lt;strong&gt;the flames were the only source of light&lt;/strong&gt;. Nearby, on a table, the Support Cedric Diggory! badges the Creeveys had been trying to improve were glinting in &lt;strong&gt;the firelight&lt;/strong&gt;. They now read POTTER REALLY STINKS. Harry looked back into the flames, and jumped. &lt;strong&gt;Sirius's head was sitting in the fire.&lt;/strong&gt; If Harry hadn't seen Mr. Diggory do exactly this back in the Weasleys' kitchen, it would have scared him out of his wits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, there was a fire then, as it was in the &quot;Order of the phoenix&quot;. The first time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She gasped, gazing at the fire; Ron dropped his quill. There &lt;strong&gt;in the middle of the dancing flames sat Sirius's head&lt;/strong&gt;, long dark hair falling around his grinning face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the second time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Harry whipped round. &lt;strong&gt;Sirius' untidy dark head was sitting in the fire again&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My second reason is that this is not the only change. For example, the pensive started levitating between two movies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nnrzw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Pensive&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FC1s8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Pensive&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, professor Flitwick went under some serious (no pun intended :-)) plastic surgery:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MxtBr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Professor Flitwick&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lWZ8U.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Professor Flitwick&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As did Tom (the barman from the Leaky Cauldron):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KVOAS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tom&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xtiiy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tom&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or Dobby, whose changes are a bit more subtle, but nevertheless they are there. Or Dumbledore, when the actor was changed in the third movie (tying his beard was, IMO, really an unnecessary change).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We could go on like this for quite a while, but I think you get my drift.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and by the way, I like the embers effect more, but the fiery one is more consistent with the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2013-09-12T23:10:28.180" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13827" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13833" CreationDate="2013-09-13T05:27:14.123" Score="6" ViewCount="3043" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember this one scene from a movie, and would really like to be able to refer to it in a piece about humor. Can you identify the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The character barely makes it in time to board an airplane and is a bit fazed by the effort. It turns out he is sitting next to a Frenchman who wants to strike a conversation. This becomes a bit awkward for both and they fall silent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the Frenchman tries a new approach. He asks something that sounds like &quot;Do you want my penis?&quot; and the main character is befuddled. The Frenchman insists and the situation becomes more tense, until he puts the hand in his pocket, pulls a packet of airplane peanuts and repeats (heavy accent) &quot;Do you want my penis?&quot; The main character acts relieved, says &quot;Ah! 'Do you want my PEANUTS!' &quot; snatches the bag and begins to chew nervously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6105" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-13T12:18:49.953" LastActivityDate="2013-09-13T12:18:49.953" Title="&quot;Do you want my peanuts?&quot;" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:49:26.550" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13827" CreationDate="2013-09-13T07:18:25.260" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds exactly like a joke from Jim Carrey in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112281/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ace Ventura: when nature calls&lt;/a&gt;, but this is with the stewardess:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Airplane Stewardess: Peanut? [sounds like penis] Ace: Yes, I have one&#xA;  right here. It's bulky, but I consider it carry-on. Airplane&#xA;  Stewardess: Peanut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6OUYNxlYcM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this clip&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1315" LastActivityDate="2013-09-13T07:18:25.260" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13829" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-13T07:35:08.383" Score="6" ViewCount="56760" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1924396/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Best Offer&lt;/a&gt;'s denouement, as Oldman (Rush) begins to understand exactly what has happened, there is a series of events involving him going to a restaurant in Prague, moving into a new room furnished to his specifications, finding a tracker in the boot of his car, and eventually him in an asylum. What is the exact sequence of these events? What is their significance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T08:28:39.553" Title="What is the sequence of events during the denouement?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-best-offer|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13830" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-13T07:49:45.680" Score="6" ViewCount="1059" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Best Offer&lt;/em&gt; includes a lot of symbolism revolving around the automaton that plays an important role in the film. Besides the automaton itself, there are a lot of gears and pieces of clockwork. Then there's the &lt;strike&gt;midget&lt;/strike&gt; dwarf lady from the café who is often seated like a doll, has perfect memory, and drones on about numbers like a machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does all this symbolism signify?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2017-03-20T12:48:54.567" Title="What does the automaton symbolise?" Tags="|analysis|the-best-offer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13831" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-13T07:53:49.870" Score="4" ViewCount="744" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Best Offer&lt;/em&gt;, why does Robert (Sturgess) manoeuvre Oldman (Rush) to take him along when he has dinner with Claire? How does this help his scheme?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-09-25T21:26:29.400" LastActivityDate="2016-09-25T21:26:29.400" Title="How did Robert's visit to Claire's house help the plot?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-best-offer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13832" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-13T07:59:17.300" Score="5" ViewCount="1296" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Best Offer&lt;/em&gt;, Virgil Oldman is finally shown tied to a device and spinning around. This is presumably occurring in the loony-bin. What is this device? Does this event actually occur or does it represent Oldman unravelling, trying to figure out how he was duped and unable to come to terms with what has happened to him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2015-07-12T19:41:16.657" Title="What was Oldman spinning around in?" Tags="|the-best-offer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13827" CreationDate="2013-09-13T08:42:23.480" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Os1QiglVQ&quot;&gt;this YouTube clip&lt;/a&gt; it's most probably from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098369/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Speed Zone!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the infamous maybe/maybe not third part of the &lt;em&gt;Cannonball&lt;/em&gt; series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-09-13T08:42:23.480" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13834" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13841" CreationDate="2013-09-13T09:50:42.003" Score="15" ViewCount="12912" Body="&lt;p&gt;In some places in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, 'Sting', (Bilbo's sword) wasn't glowing blue. There are a few scenes where Bilbo is around Orcs, Even one where they were fighting the Pale Orc, but the sword was still not shown to glow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sting&lt;/strong&gt; had the magical ability to detect orcs or goblins nearby. &lt;strong&gt;When&#xA;  orcs or goblins were present, it glowed blue&lt;/strong&gt;, as it did when the&#xA;  Fellowship encountered orcs in the mines of Moria. This was a common&#xA;  property of First Age Elf blades, particularly those forged in&#xA;  Gondolin.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_%28Middle-earth%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if I'm not blind, &lt;strong&gt;is there some explanation for that or is it just a mistake?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6108" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-19T21:48:22.643" LastActivityDate="2021-07-17T13:41:31.647" Title="Why was Bilbo's sword not glowing?" Tags="|the-hobbit|an-unexpected-journey|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3470" CreationDate="2013-09-13T12:12:35.497" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the rest that it was really happening, however, with a bit different reasoning. The whole ending is done in a way that it gradually reveals that Bruce had made it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We see Gotham finally accepting the Batman as a hero, also confirming the overall belief that he's dead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We find out that Blake is named Robin, which - at the moment - seems like just a minor, unimportant detail.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then we find out that the autopilot was fixed six months ago, which is supposed to spark a hope that Bruce just &lt;strong&gt;might&lt;/strong&gt; have made it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Back to the Missing items, Bruce's mother's pearl necklace is gone. Another spark of hope. I realize that someone else might have taken it, but it wouldn't be in the spirit of the ending. But still, at that moment, it's just rising our hopes... &lt;em&gt;maybe Bruce is really alive&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We see Blake coming to a strangely familiar waterfall, and we start realizing who sent him the package. It &lt;strong&gt;could&lt;/strong&gt; have been Alfred, of course, but I think he saw the Batman as a curse, so it's not like he'd like to see it passed on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We see Alfred entering that cafe in Florence, the exact same scene as from his story before, and we start realizing that we'll soon see Bruce, happy and Gothamfree.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Blake scenes start mixing with the others, building up to the joint climax. Blake's part, as we are now sure is going to happen, is his gaining the access to the Batcave.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We see Gordon at the rooftop, where we know the Batsignal used to be. We see something catching his eye. We don't yet see what it is, but it's an easy guess, and yet another confirmation that Bruce is leaving subtle signals to his surviving friends, without making a direct contact.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The final climax:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blake in the cave, among the bats, as once was Bruce. We now &lt;strong&gt;know&lt;/strong&gt; where Blake is, and are pretty sure who sent him there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gordon approaches what caught his eye, and we now &lt;strong&gt;see&lt;/strong&gt; that this really is a Batsignal. We also see Gordon's face, which confirms our realization that Bruce is alive, and we're just seconds away from seeing him again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Back to Blake, and the same face of realization (that Bruce is alive), ending with his approach towards the platform.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Back to Alfred, with yet again the same face of realization, as he has obviously seen someone he knew. He nods, and we finally see Bruce alive. Alfred leaves, as in his dream, without talking to Bruce, but &lt;em&gt;they both know that Bruce had made it. That he's happy.&lt;/em&gt; And now the audience knows it as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The final scene is of Blake rising on the platform, confirming that the Batman's story is over. If there is more, it can only be Robin's.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the Florence scene is the part of a whole ending. We can, of course, argue that all these characters had a massive joint dream, but there are no hints to this (at least I don't see them). Also, the title of the movie is &quot;The Dark Knight &lt;strong&gt;Rises&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, not &quot;falling&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'd say all of that is really happening, along with the scene in Florence cafe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am aware that my depiction of the final scenes of the movie is somewhat melodramatic, but I think it was meant to be that way. There are also two things to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When watching it the first time, without spoilers, the viewer was just shocked that the Batman was killed. The whole ending (starting with the uncovering of the Batman's statue) lasts about 3 minutes and 20 seconds. This means that the scenes happen fairly quickly, and the hope/realization part is much more real for the first-time viewer, than for someone reading this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The context of time when the movie was released. There were plenty of rumors about the movie. I particularly remember the one of Blake possibly being a bad guy (hence the late realization that his legal name is Robin), and that Nolan would kill Bruce (hence the killing, and then the - IMO great - revelation that Bruce did make it).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last, but not least, it is in the spirit of the movie, and it was announced all along: Bruce had to get free of the Batman and Gotham, and the story is of him rising beyond it all. He (Batman, but necessarily Bruce) is &lt;em&gt;giving it all to these people&lt;/em&gt; and, doing so, freeing himself from the misery of Gotham that started by his parent's murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-13T14:24:56.323" LastActivityDate="2013-09-13T14:24:56.323" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="509" CreationDate="2013-09-13T13:21:11.283" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;jess said the whole process restarts when all them dies, just like the other jess who was wearing those black gowns told her that jess must kill her(jess) but she fell of the ship and ended at the beach where she walked back to her home(begining of the movie). there was a black cloth in the water at the beach, the same she was wearing when she fell of the ship. but because many jess`s have died she goes back again where she will become another jess but must first kill the abusive jess who was invited to the trip the day before by greg&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6111" LastActivityDate="2013-09-13T13:21:11.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13838" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13839" CreationDate="2013-09-13T14:20:53.683" Score="7" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm having trouble recalling which television show had an episode with a particular plot.  It was probably on TV in the &lt;strong&gt;1990s&lt;/strong&gt; but could well have been a movie.  Haven't had much luck googling and searching/reading episode summaries on IMDB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plot points I recall (vaguely; may be inaccurate but they stick in my mind):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On a &lt;strong&gt;submarine&lt;/strong&gt;, there is a laptop with software (perhaps referred to as a &quot;virus&quot;) that threatens to kill a bunch of innocent people, possibly by &lt;strong&gt;launching nuclear missiles&lt;/strong&gt;.  At least, I'm fairly sure there was a submarine...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bad guy invents a software program to &quot;&lt;strong&gt;translate English into Japanese automatically&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; (or possibly vice-versa).&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I recall this seeming far-fetched at the time (using Google Translate recently triggered this memory).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It may have been late in the episode that the bad guy reveals his motivation; I think I mainly remember the ending.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bad guy becomes disgruntled after his employer &lt;strong&gt;pays him just a salary while they make millions&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The crew of the submarine fakes a malfunction in the software causing it to target the submarine&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The bad guy falls for this trick and tells one of the good guys (possibly the female lead) how to disable the software (some &lt;strong&gt;obscure keyboard shortcut&lt;/strong&gt; like &quot;control+alt+shift+F9&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have done some detailed searching of these series (but haven't watched them... yet ;-):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;SeaQuest DSV&lt;/em&gt; - I thought it was this show but so far haven't found an episode with the stated plot.  Even searched through online transcripts for all three seasons...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;JAG&lt;/em&gt; - I thought perhaps the submarine thing was making me think of SeaQuest and figured it might have been JAG.  There seem to be a lot of seasons and episodes but I only watched a handful.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Seven Days&lt;/em&gt; - I read through the episode summaries and checked a few plausible ones found on YouTube but nothing convincing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6112" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2013-11-04T04:08:57.127" LastActivityDate="2013-11-04T04:08:57.127" Title="Submarine crew fakes a software/virus-initiated missile attack to trick bad guy programmer into revealing the abort code" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:54:53.507" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13838" CreationDate="2013-09-13T14:47:44.497" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you are correct and that this is one of the early JAG episodes. I have very similar recollections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a description of &lt;a href=&quot;http://jag.djmed.net/5/shadow-3/&quot;&gt;Episode 3 - Shadow&lt;/a&gt;, that I think fits the bill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5448" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-13T15:00:35.727" LastActivityDate="2013-09-13T15:00:35.727" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13834" CreationDate="2013-09-13T15:27:37.997" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is a mistake&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From: &lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/hobbit-unexpected-journey-worst-continuity-errors-231400669.html&quot;&gt;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - the worst continuity errors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sting!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The sword that is affectionately known as Sting has a magic property,&#xA;  it glows blue when enemies are near. We know that because in 'Lord of&#xA;  the Rings' Frodo has it, and it does indeed glow blue when enemies are&#xA;  near, like in the Mines of Moria. However, during the Orc attack on&#xA;  the cliff at the finale of the movie, Sting doesn't glow at all&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6018" LastActivityDate="2013-09-13T15:27:37.997" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13253" CreationDate="2013-09-13T16:35:30.040" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesnt not depend on Nader's nationality, it's about Nader's personality. During the film we understand Nader was a bullheaded man, and his recalcitrance was a reason to divorce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6114" LastActivityDate="2013-09-13T16:35:30.040" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13843" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13920" CreationDate="2013-09-14T00:29:33.160" Score="4" ViewCount="48584" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1291584/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Warrior&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, just after Brendan taps Tommy, he talks to his coach Frank (probably asking him to say something to his wife, Tess).&#xA;Then it seems like he is talking to some agent of some kind, and Frank is seen talking to the referee (asking him to back off or something).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is happening on the stage at this moment? Is it some trick Brendan pulls off not to make his brother arrested? They are last seen walking in some corridor, but the referee hasn't officially announced the winner yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't understand this very last scene. &lt;strong&gt;What does the last scene of Warrior mean?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6090" LastEditorUserId="6090" LastEditDate="2013-09-16T09:28:06.600" LastActivityDate="2016-09-17T11:59:51.440" Title="What is happening in the last scene?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|warrior|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3410" CreationDate="2013-09-14T07:47:27.013" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the film we see the Mr fox and the way he lives. The main important thing in the Mr fox’s life is the contrast between the domesticated side and the wild side which is controlled by a pure instinct. In the wild side the meaning of life is totaly different from the domesticated side. In fact following the new life even for human being made the Mr fox to forget the wild side, but after a while this seems empty and thats why he decided to start again to live in the way that he suppose to live, the way that nature wants him to live not his wife. In the Wolfe scene we see that in the highest moment of Mr fox’s life and after his victory against the domesticated side, a wolfe which is the symbole of a pure instinct in nature appears in the top of a hill. Not wearing dress for the wolf is a symbole to show that this animal is still living only based on its instinct. When the Mr fox is watching the Wolf he weeps for a second. He probably miss all pure leanings that are transfered to him by instinct and now he can not have them just becuase he left the wild and accepted to live like a domesticated animals. That the main point, the contrast between instinct and the new life in the cities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guys, we humans started to live 3 million years ago. Comparing more that 2.99 million years living in nature, the new lifestyle is strange and new. Thats why for most of the people this is empty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is amazing that the Mr fox can not make a connection with his language, and seems the wolf doesn't understand what he is saying. but when he raise his hand it like the Wolfe know what does he mean and answers to him clearly. this Wolfe is the lost side of every creature in earth, the side that we truly belong to the side that is formed during thousands of years. fro me my instinct remember me the memory of life i nature, hunting and dying in gross&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6117" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-09-14T21:49:31.097" LastActivityDate="2013-09-14T21:49:31.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13847" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-14T08:24:06.223" Score="2" ViewCount="1530" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently seen the last Kim Ki Duk movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2942522/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Moebius&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and I feel I didn't quite get the narrative structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought the whole film was pretty linear but the last scene, where you find out &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;that the &quot;monk&quot; that was used to pray in front of the shop is the son, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;made me wonder if I didn't overlook some aspect of the structure.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not quite sure but I think that even the gun and the bullets in the drawer may play a role, even though I can't really explain why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a coherent explanation of the narrative structure?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6071" LastEditorUserId="6234" LastEditDate="2014-04-10T17:17:37.943" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T17:22:04.007" Title="What was the actual narrative structure in Moebius by Kim Ki Duk?" Tags="|plot-explanation|moebius|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3410" CreationDate="2013-09-14T09:54:00.653" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could agree with the above review about the wolf being a representation of the wild. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the explanation is that Mr. Fox is already living in the forest/suburbs and is tightly connected with a civilized small animal world and human world. His talents lie in being good in this environment, yet he also loves his wild side, as he repeats several times during the movie &quot;I am a wild animal&quot;. &#xA;References to the wolf are made just so you understand the scene at the end. It could have been anything else that symbolyses wilderness - eagle, wolverine, bear etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually when Mr. Fox meets the wolf, the whole scene is him realizing that he is not that wild after all. He almost gets his eyes teary due to this realization, he is not a pure animal after all. &#xA;At the end of the scene Mr. Fox seemingly copes with this idea.&#xA;The idea is again enforced at the very end when Mr. Fox gives a speech about living in the suburbs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The underlying story is probably the one of humans (normal humans) often yearning to be more natural, our instinctive love of wilderness, yet we have to live with the reality that we may sometimes rejoin the nature, but we still have to return to our daily homes, our society etc. Sort of a bittersweet idea, since it is about growth of a character and it doesn't take some tragedy to change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(P.S. Also as a lawyer I loved the badger. He's very typical. Serious, desires leadership, helpful and a bit whacky outside his immediate field of work (demolitions expert haha).)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6120" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-14T10:39:18.370" LastActivityDate="2013-09-14T10:39:18.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13849" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14979" CreationDate="2013-09-14T14:14:02.983" Score="12" ViewCount="45279" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know that the first time Natalie set Leonard up to get someone (a thug named Dodd), her motivation was selfish, and she deceived Leonard in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when she helps him find the John G. he's looking for, it seems as though she's genuinely trying to help him. Maybe she did it because she felt guilty for taking advantage of Leonard earlier, or perhaps (like Leonard himself guessed) out of pity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was Natalie genuinely trying to help Leonard, or was she just using him again the get back at Teddy for her boyfriend's death?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just seems like too much of a coincidence that the John G. who's license plate she looked up was in fact Teddy, the man responsible for her boyfriend's death. &#xA;We know that Natalie knew of Teddy because she mentioned him in the scene where she discovers Leonard's tattoos, saying that her boyfriend went to meet a guy named Teddy and didn't come back. Another clue is given when she hands over the license plate details to Leonard, when she says she saw the man from the picture in the bar where she works.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it is never explicitly said in the movie that Natalie knows that the John G. from the license plate and Teddy are the same person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can anyone point to other clues in the movie that can corroborate one of these two views?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6122" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-14T16:16:43.443" LastActivityDate="2017-09-29T08:46:15.403" Title="Did Natalie really help Leonard or was she just using him again?" Tags="|plot-explanation|memento|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13850" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13855" CreationDate="2013-09-14T19:48:38.887" Score="20" ViewCount="12486" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have often seen that the actual monetary figures are kept hidden. If a cheque is offered to a character, he often looks at it and says something along the lines of &quot;That's a lot of money!&quot; without ever revealing the actual amount.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do they never let the audience know the exact figure?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6123" LastEditorUserId="6123" LastEditDate="2016-05-23T05:22:59.790" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T05:22:59.790" Title="Why do they often hide the money figures in TV and movies?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13862" CreationDate="2013-09-14T20:32:04.830" Score="10" ViewCount="5913" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both films have a large corporation called the Wayland corporation which seems to be all controlling, in Alien they're a large haulage/terraforming company. In Death Race they run private prisons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these set in the same universe? Is this naming a coincidence or are there some production nods to the naming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2016-12-01T02:34:11.877" Title="Are Death Race 2 and the Alien franchise connected?" Tags="|alien|death-race-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13852" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-14T20:32:40.113" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Death Race 2 is a 2010 American science fiction action film directed by Dutch filmmaker Roel Reiné, written by Tony Giglio and Paul W. S. Anderson, and starring Luke Goss, Ving Rhames, Tanit Phoenix, Danny Trejo and Sean Bean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-09-14T21:46:53.523" LastActivityDate="2013-09-14T21:46:53.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13853" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-14T20:32:40.113" Score="0" Body="Death Race 2 is a 2010 American science fiction action film directed by Dutch filmmaker Roel Reine, written by Tony Giglio and Paul W. S. Anderson, and starring Luke Goss, Ving Rhames, Tanit Phoenix, Danny Trejo and Sean Bean." OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-14T20:35:52.810" LastActivityDate="2013-09-14T20:35:52.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13854" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13857" CreationDate="2013-09-14T20:34:19.367" Score="1" ViewCount="451" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the closing moments of the film Lists is in the shower and watches someone being killed, presumably this is part of Carl Lucas' revenge (as it's shown in parallel with the other payback killings).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is murdered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-09-14T21:04:44.883" Title="In Death Race 2 who was killed in the shower?" Tags="|death-race-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13850" CreationDate="2013-09-14T20:36:54.107" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simply because every one has a different idea of what &quot;a lot of money&quot; is. And, unless the actual number is important to the plot, there's no need for the audience to know it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the movie is well written the audience will be emotionally attached to the character, so, for example, if that character is later handed a supposedly &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; check for some reason and he/she gets all super excited about it, they will too. Now, imagine you show that number to the audience. If $1,000 is a life-changing amount to the character, the richer part of the audience might not be as excited as if it would've been $10,000, or maybe even $100,000, and that might make them feel less connected to the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not just put a &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; amount on the check, then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, depending on the reason why the character is given the check, such an amount might be unrealistic. The thing is, even if we know that the check couldn't possibly be bigger than $500, seeing the character jumping up and down from excitement will make the audience feel like they won a million dollars, which, obviously, they wouldn't have if they saw &quot;$500&quot; written on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/5391/paulster2&quot;&gt;@Paulster2&lt;/a&gt; said in his comment, yet another reason for leaving out the actual amount is because whatever it is, it might not be as big (or small) in the future as it is today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T11:56:56.560" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13850" CreationDate="2013-09-14T21:04:02.820" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without telling real sum you can avoid misunderstandings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember an acquisition in an old French film and I wondered the high sum. I needed some time until I realized they talked abut the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_franc#New_franc&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;old French Franc&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there would be only &lt;em&gt;a lot of money&lt;/em&gt; you have no problem, if the currency changes or if inflation change the nominal value. The number is not important, but the rating of the value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132" LastActivityDate="2013-09-14T21:04:02.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13854" CreationDate="2013-09-14T21:04:44.883" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1500491/synopsis?ref_=tt_stry_pl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Luke] joins the race as the new character &quot;Frankenstein&quot; with a mask to hide his identity from others, especially September, who is threatening not only his life but Katrina's as well. Meanwhile, Luke's new Triad friends manage to kill Marcus in revenge, and &lt;strong&gt;List kills Rocco in the shower house for rigging Luke's car&lt;/strong&gt;. Frankenstein then kills September by running her over with his car during a race, leaving some fates (such as Katrina's) unresolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-09-14T21:04:44.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13850" CreationDate="2013-09-14T23:46:01.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow, this answer has spurred up controversy...Here's a redrafting and clarification of why this answer is not a generalization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have provided extensive citation (from Princeton.edu, a Vanity Fair George Lucas Interview, A Hitchcock interview, Merriam-Webster and others) in the links below to support my answer (I have researched this answer...it's not just my opinion):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Film makers that avoid showing the value of money show that they know about film making and film history, and by so doing, are paying homage to Hitchcockian theroy of MacGuffin &amp;amp; respect to their craft.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer relies on clearly stating and showing why this situation is a MacGuffin, and why it is crucial to understand the rationale filmmakers use to determine whether or not to show the true nature of the MacGuffin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why a check with an undisclosed amount has to be and can only be a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/macguffin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MacGuffin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The check with undisclosed amount used to entice a character into action is a variation of a cliche. As a cliche, this situation occurs in the first act. The protagonist receiving money is a plot device that's referred to as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MacGuffin&lt;/a&gt;. In the story a check handed to him &lt;em&gt;could be anything&lt;/em&gt;. It could be his fathers gold watch that was smuggled out of 'Nam. It could be plans for building the Death Star. It only needs to be something that will prompt the character to initiate an action. It doesn't need to be a check. But if it is, it doesn't need to have an amount - the amount is only important to the character (not the audience).  Since it is something that is shown (a check), but it's true nature is not revealed (we don't know the amount), it can only - and has to be a &lt;a href=&quot;http://borgus.com/hitch/macguffins.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MacGuffin&lt;/a&gt; (the briefcase in Pulp Fiction and Ronin...in a jewel heist movie it's the necklace, in a spy movie it's the papers). This is the definition of MacGuffin and the reason the term exists. If it was important to the plot for the amount to be shown, it wouldn't be a MacGuffin. Since it's not shown, it's not important to the plot - it has to (and can only) be a MacGuffin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this instance the payment gets the protagonist to start the ball rolling, after that the plot develops on it's own without further need of catalyst.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How and Why film makers deal with the decision of revealing or not revealing the true nature of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-macguffins.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MacGuffin&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkyUxfSOKbI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hitchcock said&lt;/a&gt; that what the MacGuffin is doesn't matter to the audience. It could be anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.princeton.edu/%7Eachaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/MacGuffin.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;George Lucas says&lt;/a&gt; the audience should care about the MacGuffin (in Star Wars, it's R2-D2; everybody is looking for R2-D2) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/02/indianajones200802?currentPage=4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;as much as they do about the hero and villain&lt;/a&gt;. Then he does &lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/indiana-jones-5-story-george-lucas/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rationale Film makers use to determine to show, or not to show the true nature of the MacGuffin&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film maker can choose to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;show an amount and tell viewers and critics that he is from the George Lucas school of thought (the guy that brought you Jar-Jar Binks and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/steven-spielberg-macguffin-indiana-jones-kingdom-crystal-skull/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;not show an amount and show critics and viewers he's from the Alfred &amp;quot;True King of Filmmaking&amp;quot; Hitchcock school of thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not a tough choice to make. It has to be one of these two rationalizations because Hitchcock and Lucas are on record about their feelings of the MacGuffin and this is taught on day one of Film History 101. All directors know about the MacGuffin and the relevance to film history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In conclusion...The answer to the question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Film makers that avoid showing the value of money show that they know about film making and film history, and by so doing, are paying homage to Hitchcockian theroy of MacGuffin &amp;amp; respect to their craft.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-09-15T05:18:15.473" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13859" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13868" CreationDate="2013-09-14T23:57:29.763" Score="13" ViewCount="4255" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering this for quite a while. Mr. Kitty is a male cat at the beginning of the episodes, but later on it's like he suddenly became a she.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In the episode &quot;Major Boobage&quot; for cheesing they needed 2 male cats. In the other episode &quot;Cat orgy&quot; Mr. Kitty behaves like a female cat.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6108" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-15T12:07:17.480" LastActivityDate="2023-07-23T02:03:47.253" Title="What is Mr. Kitty's gender?" Tags="|character|south-park|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13850" CreationDate="2013-09-15T04:12:56.557" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is done because suspense is the biggest element for any movie and they keep you engaged with the doubt in your mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6126" LastActivityDate="2013-09-15T04:12:56.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8642" CreationDate="2013-09-15T10:37:08.307" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Magic in the Mirror&#xA;Magic in the Mirror: Fowl Play&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Babes in Toyland&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Hugga Bunch was another mirror movie but has toy munchkins that need hugs to save grandma and only youth know how to hug story line...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Labyrinth had a flight of stairs in it as well, Sarah was the lead character&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJLnGjhPT1Q&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJLnGjhPT1Q&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6128" LastEditorUserId="6128" LastEditDate="2013-09-15T10:43:36.583" LastActivityDate="2013-09-15T10:43:36.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13851" CreationDate="2013-09-15T11:56:12.130" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say they may be loosely connected. Paul W.S. Anderson was the producer on &lt;em&gt;Death Race 2&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Death Race&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Alien vs. Predator&lt;/em&gt;. It's likely that including Weyland Corporation in &lt;em&gt;Death Race 2&lt;/em&gt; was an homage or in-joke, but there's nothing to say that it's not the same company (and therefore the films share the same universe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that Weyland-Yutani appears briefly in both &lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Angel&lt;/em&gt;. These shows were created by Joss Whedon, who also wrote &lt;em&gt;Alien: Resurrection&lt;/em&gt;. Again, this is also probably an in-joke or Easter Egg, but worth mentioning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Weyland-Yutani also appears in numerous other media, as in-jokes or visual references. The only one of these I can cite here is &lt;em&gt;Red Dwarf&lt;/em&gt;, but you can see visual references to the Alien franchise all over the place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;References&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Weyland-Yutani was a client of Wolfram &amp;amp; Hart in &lt;em&gt;Angel&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20121013175513/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kwgow/cross_key.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kwgow/cross_key.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the opening episode of Firefly, one of the characters fires a turret manufactured by Welyand-Yutani - &lt;a href=&quot;http://firefly.wikia.com/wiki/Weyland-Yutani&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://firefly.wikia.com/wiki/Weyland-Yutani&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Weyland-Yutani ship appears in the spaceship graveyard in the &lt;em&gt;Red Dwarf&lt;/em&gt; episode &lt;em&gt;Psirens&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20121013175513/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kwgow/cross_key.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kwgow/cross_key.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that the OP is not the first person to spot the connection. Empire Magazine's article &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.empireonline.com/features/evil-movie-corporations/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Most Evil Movie Corporations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; specifically states one of Weyland-Yutani's corporate activities as &quot;operate privately-owned prisons with scant regard for the health or rehabilitation of inmates.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5318" LastEditorUserId="5318" LastEditDate="2016-03-11T23:15:50.817" LastActivityDate="2016-03-11T23:15:50.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13859" CreationDate="2013-09-15T12:04:37.080" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are various references to the Mr Kitty's Gender which are as - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Mr Cartman always refers him as Mr. Kitty. Mr. is always used for male.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Mr. Kitty would later have prominent role in &quot;Cat Orgy&quot;, in which his/her gender has shifted back towards female &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Mr. Kitty's next real appearance would be in &quot;Major Boobage&quot;, in which Cartman, Kenny, Kyle and Stan attempt to test whether or not&#xA;  it's possible to get high off of male cat urine (Mr. Kitty is again&#xA;  male in this episode).   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Source:&lt;a href=&quot;http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Kitty&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;southpark.wikia.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that changes are made from episode to episode, from Mr Kitty's nose color to Mr Kitty's gender. This is most probably due to a writer's mistake or just ignorance. We can still assume that Mr kitty might be bisexual or transgender, but I don't have confirmations from any canon sources. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2013-09-15T19:26:12.637" LastActivityDate="2013-09-15T19:26:12.637" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13864" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-15T12:54:16.790" Score="2" ViewCount="24654" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last scene of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1670345/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Now You See Me&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when the &lt;em&gt;Four Horsemen&lt;/em&gt; go to the park, &lt;em&gt;Henley Reeves&lt;/em&gt; asks whether they have the cards. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking about &lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/74585381&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this scene&lt;/a&gt;. Does it mean that Dylan Rhodes isn't the one giving them the cards? What's the point of that scene? it's confusing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5494" LastEditorUserId="5494" LastEditDate="2013-09-16T10:40:24.150" LastActivityDate="2015-07-25T18:14:58.507" Title="What cards are the Horsemen referring to?" Tags="|plot-explanation|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13864" CreationDate="2013-09-15T15:06:18.883" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The final instructions the Horsemen receive are to go to the park. There they find the card-tree of Lionel Shrike, featuring the King of Spades/Swords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You need five cards for a Tarot reading. The five cards are in order of appearance: King of Spades/Swords, Lovers, Hermit, High Preistess [sic], Death. - &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/NowYouSeeMe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TVTropes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when they saw the fifth card (they had the four cards delivered to them a year back), they knew the reading was complete. To read, they now needed all five cards together. That's what they were referring to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The King of Spades/Swords is the card referring to the man with the &amp;quot;idea&amp;quot; - their benefactor. Who taught them magic and made them into the Four Horsemen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-09-15T18:33:40.453" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13859" CreationDate="2013-09-15T15:13:38.897" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Kitty&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mr.Kitty - SouthPark wikia&lt;/a&gt; mentions the gender as &lt;strong&gt;male&lt;/strong&gt;. This is the gender potrayed throughout the series, with the exception of a single episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; episode where Mr.Kitty is depicted as a female is &lt;a href=&quot;http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Cat_Orgy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cat Orgy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mr. Kitty would later have prominent role in &quot;Cat Orgy&quot;, in which his/her gender has shifted back towards female and he/she is in heat. After attempting to have sex throughout the episode, Mr. Kitty assembles a massive group of male cats to come home with her. She then proceeds to get all the cat's high on catnip (which they snort like cocaine) and all the male cats proceed to take turns having sex with Mr. Kitty. Cartman and his babysitter Shelly Marsh were, needless to say, horrified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_South_Park_characters#Mr._Kitty&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; mentions this - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although Mr. Kitty is indicated to be female in &quot;Cat Orgy&quot;, there are examples of where he's portrayed as a male; in the season 12 episode &quot;Major Boobage&quot;, the children experiment with Mr. Kitty's urine after learning that the urine of male cats can cause intoxication, indicating that Mr. Kitty is actually male.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1461" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-15T18:26:00.020" LastActivityDate="2013-09-15T18:26:00.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13864" CreationDate="2013-09-15T18:30:44.863" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;What we see in that scene is basically a bit of &lt;strong&gt;a funny setup for a possible sequel that doesn't really have much bearing on the actual plot&lt;/strong&gt; and only tries to end the movie with a notion of &lt;em&gt;&quot;On to new adventures!&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and wasn't part of the theatrical release (as pointed out by &lt;em&gt;Oliver_C&lt;/em&gt; in his comment and as Louis Leterrier &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/108241-following-up-with-now-you-see-me-director-louis-leterrier&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;confirmed in an interview&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To recap it a bit again, it puts the Horsemen into a new location where they find crates containing what is supposedly their gear for the next job. When posed with the question how to open those crates,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Henley:&lt;/strong&gt; Guys, the cards.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Merrit:&lt;/strong&gt; Wha...What card?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Daniel:&lt;/strong&gt; Sorry, what do you mean, &quot;what card&quot;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Merrit:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(fumbling in his pockets)&lt;/em&gt;...Okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the point here is that Henley seems to be referring to &lt;strong&gt;the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/13502/49&quot;&gt;tarot cards each of the Horsemen got&lt;/a&gt; as their invitation at the beginning of the movie&lt;/strong&gt;, and which were later used in the tree at the end when they met Dylan Rhodes (or rather Lyonel Shrike's son). The joke here is, that Merrit actually forgot to bring his card. There is not really anything more to it. Those cards served as their access into &lt;em&gt;The Eye&lt;/em&gt; throughout the entire movie and are likely used in a similar way in further tasks and interactions with &lt;em&gt;The Eye&lt;/em&gt;, like accessing the crates with the gear for their next show/adventure. You could say they're somewhat like the Horsemen's ID cards inside the organization of &lt;em&gt;The Eye&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-07-25T18:14:58.507" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13871" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13887" CreationDate="2013-09-15T21:29:54.663" Score="10" ViewCount="2307" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/4537/how-did-liam-neeson-know-his-location-in-taken-2&quot;&gt;This is how Bryan Mills knew his location in Taken 2&lt;/a&gt;, so lets not discuss that as it's discussed in a previous question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to know if he used exact sciences, did the director hire some scientists, is it a scientific way or is it a Hollywood way? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems real, so I want to know if real people/agents can do what Bryan did, can they use time and sound to know their location or is it impossible for real people to do in real life, what Bryan did in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5494" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T06:18:16.030" Title="Did Liam Neeson use exact science in order to know his location?" Tags="|realism|taken-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11086" CreationDate="2013-09-15T22:47:13.200" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The key things to remember here are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The house is attached to the ground (via a big pole).  Yes, this is entirely unrealistic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the pool sequence was a dream.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The house is above the clouds because it looks cool.  This is a film, and looking cool trumps being accurate and realistic (like, hey, what happens when they flush their toilet!?!)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1651" LastActivityDate="2013-09-15T22:47:13.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13876" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="72931" CreationDate="2013-09-16T06:10:44.170" Score="8" ViewCount="28090" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142688/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Ninth Gate&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, after Corso and &quot;The Girl&quot; fight off Telfer's emissary who is trying to steal back her copy of &lt;em&gt;The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows&lt;/em&gt;, Corso and &quot;The Girl&quot; return to Corso's hotel room, and she wipes the blood from under her nose and smears it down his forehead. Why does she do this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k0FAz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-16T07:36:25.540" LastActivityDate="2020-04-09T13:05:21.070" Title="Why did &quot;The Girl&quot; wipe her blood on Corso?" Tags="|analysis|character|the-ninth-gate|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13877" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13906" CreationDate="2013-09-16T07:45:40.343" Score="22" ViewCount="37702" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Rorschach&lt;/em&gt; wears a mask that shows continuously changing symmetrical patterns of black &quot;ink&quot; on white cloth, resembling those of, well, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test&quot;&gt;Rorschach test&lt;/a&gt;. In fact, in some scenes he is very anxious about his mask, calls it his &lt;em&gt;&quot;face&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and cannot stand a second without it (probably because &lt;em&gt;Walter Kovacs&lt;/em&gt;'s real identity &quot;died&quot; long ago).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But while I understand what a Rorschach test is, I'm not sure how its motives relate to the character of &lt;em&gt;Rorschach&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Why does he wear that mask and name?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-28T11:50:12.927" LastActivityDate="2013-10-28T11:50:12.927" Title="What is the meaning of Rorschach's mask and name?" Tags="|analysis|character|watchmen|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13878" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13888" CreationDate="2013-09-16T07:57:47.757" Score="5" ViewCount="2968" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can only recall a few scenes and details from the movie :- &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;80's / 90's TV movie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Happy married couple, husband is a pilot (if not mistaken).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Husband dies in a plane crash (if not mistaken).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Husband's ghost takes care of his wife by finding the right guy for her ( the guy is a soldier ).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wife meets a guy which is set up by the dead husband.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wife try to impress the guy through dinner which she did not cook at all. Only order takeouts but makes it looked like she is cooking.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dead husband made the guy rub his left eyebrow and the wife notices that action because that is her husband habit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a scene where the wife felt the husband is there so she started to dance and the dead husband dances with her.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really love this movie and I watched it like when I was 10. Please help to identify this film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6136" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-09-16T10:25:35.023" LastActivityDate="2013-09-16T15:03:54.737" Title="Ghost of dead husband tries to play Cupid for widow" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:49:29.663" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13877" CreationDate="2013-09-16T08:19:44.710" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Rorschach test relies on the interpretation of ambiguous images to judge personality and even potentially identify things like homosexuality, schizophrenia, etc. The ever-changing mask represents how Rorschach interprets both society and himself. When Kovacs wears the mask and becomes Rorschach, he becomes the &lt;em&gt;interpreter&lt;/em&gt; rather than the &lt;em&gt;interpretee&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://watchmen.wikia.com/wiki/Walter_Kovacs&quot;&gt;Wikia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Two years afterward, in March of 1964, he bought a newspaper and saw 'her' on the front page. He read the name Kitty Genovese and decided that she was the one that ordered the dress, &quot;I'm sure that was the woman's name.&quot; Kitty Genovese, in both the Watchmen reality and our world had been raped and tortured outside of her apartment building while her neighbors just watched, not calling the police. Because of this Kovacs learned what people were behind all the evasions and self-deception. Being ashamed for humanity, he took the remains of her unwanted dress and made a face he claimed that he &quot;...could bear to look at in the mirror.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is also filled with self-loathing, which is unsurprising, considering his childhood. Part of it stems from the fact that he has always been ostracised and, in many ways, wants to fit into society and gain some semblance of acceptance. Yet, he also sees society for the apathetic mess that it is, having borne the brunt of it himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: The real-life &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese&quot;&gt;murder of Kitty Genovese&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-16T09:02:00.313" LastActivityDate="2013-09-16T09:02:00.313" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13877" CreationDate="2013-09-16T08:21:46.333" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rorschach's mask consist of black and white color representing good&#xA;  and evil with no shades of grey. Matching to his purpose of punishing&#xA;  evil at all costs. With the mask's black and white coloring consistent&#xA;  with Rorschach's sense and view of morality. The characters Rorschach&#xA;  was specifically based on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_%28comics%29&quot;&gt;Question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._A&quot;&gt;Mr. A&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Question was used as the prototype for creating Rorschach, while&#xA;  Mr. A, being a far more radical right-wing character than the&#xA;  mainstream-suited Question, served as the main inspiration for&#xA;  Rorschach's right-wing views as well as his black and white morality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When buying a newspaper on his way to work in March 1964, Walter read&#xA;  about the rape and murder of Kitty Genovese, whom he believed was the&#xA;  Italian woman who had rejected the dress. Ashamed by what he read&#xA;  about the unresponsiveness of her neighbors, Kovacs became&#xA;  disillusioned with the underlying apathy that he saw as inherent in&#xA;  most people. Inspired by Genovese's fate, Kovacs returned home, made&#xA;  &quot;a face [he] could bear to look at in the mirror&quot; from the dress's&#xA;  fabric, and began fighting crime as the vigilante Rorschach.&#xA;  Initially, Kovacs left criminals alive, but bloodied, for the police&#xA;  to arrest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_%28comics%29&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-16T08:37:28.590" LastActivityDate="2013-09-16T08:37:28.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13881" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-16T09:15:21.730" Score="7" ViewCount="5046" Body="&lt;p&gt;After reviewing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142688/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB cast list&lt;/a&gt; for the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142688/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Ninth Gate&lt;/a&gt;, I noticed there was an uncredited &quot;demon&quot; character played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0102896/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jane Bradbury&lt;/a&gt;. I just recently watched the movie, and have seen it several times before, yet I do not recall seeing this woman or any &quot;demon&quot; character other than possibly &quot;The Girl&quot; who protected Corso, and &quot;The Girl&quot; was played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0782561/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Emmanuelle Seigner&lt;/a&gt;, so I know it wasn't her. So, the question is where was this &quot;demon&quot; character in the movie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-28T19:56:27.403" LastActivityDate="2016-07-24T03:11:59.930" Title="In which scene does the uncredited demon character appear?" Tags="|character|credits|the-ninth-gate|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13878" CreationDate="2013-09-16T09:40:55.960" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it be the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096684/episodes?season=2&amp;amp;ref_=tt_eps_sn_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;M.I.A. - April 1, 1969 (S02E22)&lt;/a&gt; episode of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096684/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quantum Leap&lt;/a&gt;? It matches several of the bullet points you listed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Husband appears like a ghost (though he is really a hologram from the future).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Aired on TV during the 80's / 90's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Happy married couple, and husband is a pilot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Husband was presumed dead (though he did not die in a plane crash).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Husband (and friend) find a guy for her to fall in love with (guy was a cop)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the episode, the husband and wife dance, and she feels like he is there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N99f4.png&quot; alt=&quot;Beth and Al dancing&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some points I know that don't match are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was a TV show episode not a movie, though the episode is over 48 minutes long, so it could easily be mistaken as one if you weren't familiar with the show.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Husband did not die in a plane crash.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Guy was not a soldier. He was a cop. Wife was in the navy I believe though.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-09-16T09:50:26.797" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13883" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-16T11:35:06.507" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-16T11:35:06.507" LastActivityDate="2013-09-16T11:35:06.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13884" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-16T11:35:06.507" Score="0" Body="Watchmen is a 2009 American superhero film directed by Zack Snyder and an adaptation of the comic book of the same name." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-17T09:25:52.077" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T09:25:52.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13871" CreationDate="2013-09-16T14:57:07.050" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dare say that the director did not actively use a scientist to formulate this trick. I base this on the presence of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1397280/goofs#character_error&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;goofs in the script&lt;/a&gt; that a scientist would not have made. However, it is certainly scientific and possible. I expect that the scriptwriters pieced this together based on three things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Triangulation: This is a pretty common trope used to determine the position of a transmitter, often a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_tracking&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;mobile phone&lt;/a&gt;. However, this is not what Neeson actually uses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lightning strikes: There is a rule of thumb which can be used to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder#Calculating_distance&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;calculate the distance of lightning strikes&lt;/a&gt; from your position based on the delay in the sound of thunder. Neeson's use of grenades is pretty similar although we have to  presume that cellphone signals are instantaneous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateration&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trilateration&lt;/a&gt; is the slightly more sophisticated cousin of triangulation and involves intersecting circles (or spheres). It is how GPS works. This is what Neeson uses in combination with the lightning strike trick to approximate distances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YkY0U.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the image above show three circles, two are sufficient to get a rough approximation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the purposes of a script in an action film, the technique holds water. As to whether it is possible for &amp;quot;real people&amp;quot; to use such techniques, I'd say &lt;em&gt;yes&lt;/em&gt;. But it's not a trivial calculation. Given Neeson's military background and the technique's potential for use in the field, it is possible that he would be aware a familiar with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How Stuff Works has a page which &lt;a href=&quot;http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/travel/gps1.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;explains 2-D trilateration&lt;/a&gt; in easily digestible form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-09-16T15:08:14.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13878" CreationDate="2013-09-16T15:03:54.737" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be Steven Spielberg's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096794/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Always&lt;/a&gt;, (1989).  Richard Dreyfuss is an aerial firefighter who dies fighting a forest fire, and Holly Hunter is his girlfriend.  From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always_%281989_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the spirit of a recently dead expert pilot mentors a newer pilot,&#xA;  while watching him fall in love with his surviving girlfriend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-09-16T15:03:54.737" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12552" CreationDate="2013-09-16T15:43:15.687" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your initial description really reminds me of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183523/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mission to Mars (2000)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a storm (obviously not natural) in it and the astronauts try to understand what it is. It's been a while since I've seen it so I can't recognize all the scenes you describe, but your description really stroke me as familiar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a picture of a scene in the movie that shows the storm:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RAeb8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://johnkennethmuir.wordpress.com/category/brian-de-palma/page/2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1319" LastActivityDate="2013-09-16T15:43:15.687" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13894" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14847" CreationDate="2013-09-16T16:51:14.060" Score="32" ViewCount="165834" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Ultimate Survival on Discovery channel, we see Bear Grylls do amazing stuff, hunting dangerous animals, climbing dangerous mountains and all that fun stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was another similar show on that channel few years ago, it was called Survivor Man i believe, the idea is to leave a man alone for 7 days, he carries a camera, he has to do the filming and to survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That show was pretty boring, maybe because it was so real, all that guy wanted is to eat, maybe some worms, or fish, create a shelter and lay back until the 7 days are over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear Grylls show however is exciting and so i must ask, how real is it? We see Bear climbing dangerous places, and the crew &quot;somehow&quot; follow him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see him making a shelter for 1 person, on some tree or in some cave, and the crew &quot;somehow&quot; get through the night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see him hunting and eating bugs and drinking his own pee, and the crew &quot;somehow&quot; survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then miraculously, he finds his way out, running behind a train and jumping on it, and the crew &quot;somehow&quot; follow him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just doesn't make sense, lets assume that Bear is real survival expert, how can the crew survive? Every single guy in the crew is an expert? There's a production team following him so how can they survive? It seems more like a movie, and not a surviving experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5494" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-11T10:50:48.233" LastActivityDate="2016-04-11T10:50:48.233" Title="How real are Bear Grylls TV shows? (Ultimate Survival in particular)" Tags="|realism|ultimate-survival|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13881" CreationDate="2013-09-16T16:59:31.357" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can only see this demon in the director's cut version of the movie. You can also see it in deleted scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you are looking at the unique scenes in the director's cut it is scene #4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5859" LastEditorUserId="5859" LastEditDate="2013-09-16T17:58:33.517" LastActivityDate="2013-09-16T17:58:33.517" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13876" CreationDate="2013-09-16T17:00:48.220" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is because of a secret blood pact that takes place. It resembles the &quot;I am you and you are me&quot; in this movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5859" LastActivityDate="2013-09-16T17:00:48.220" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13900" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13901" CreationDate="2013-09-16T18:47:32.357" Score="7" ViewCount="6037" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was an episode of Top Gear (UK) where they participated in the making of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sweeney_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Sweeney&lt;/a&gt;. They had to do a car chase scene and ruined the movie. But at the end of that episode, Jeremy Clarkson said that Top Gear guys are filming some scenes for the new die hard movie in Russia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched the entire movie, and it doesn't seem to me that Top Gear participated in that movie, in fact there's no real car chase, in the movie, except that scene where Bruce Willis is chasing the bad guys in traffic jam, and it doesn't seem that Top Gear filmed that scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So did Top Gear had anything to do with A Good Day To Die Hard? Or were their scenes deleted or what? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5494" LastEditorUserId="5494" LastEditDate="2013-09-16T19:23:03.233" LastActivityDate="2016-08-03T15:58:57.727" Title="Did Top Gear participate in A Good Day To Die Hard?" Tags="|top-gear|a-good-day-to-die-hard|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13900" CreationDate="2013-09-16T19:07:37.933" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Top gear helped with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/a-good-day-to-die-hard-behind-the-scenes-mercedes-2013-02-05&quot;&gt;promoting&lt;/a&gt; the film. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/a-good-day-to-die-hard-car-chase-mercedes-g-wagen-2013-02-01&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is also posted on the top gear website. Other than that I find no involvement between the production of Die Hard 5 and the staff of Top Gear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastActivityDate="2013-09-16T19:07:37.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13903" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13921" CreationDate="2013-09-16T20:14:09.867" Score="48" ViewCount="27225" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the BBC series Sherlock (and indeed in most other adaptations of the character I've seen) Sherlock is not paid for this investigations - he does it because he's interested. He rents a flat on Baker Street (which I can only assume is not cheap) one which a part time Doctor has trouble keeping up the rent for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition he always seems to have scientific equipment available at home when he requires it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where does Sherlock's money come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2020-06-15T07:12:13.633" Title="Where does Sherlock get his money?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13877" CreationDate="2013-09-16T21:04:21.503" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's safe to say that it represents different things to different characters, and that Alan Moore wants you to judge for yourself the meaning behind Rorschach's face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I certainly have my opinion. Because the movie is &quot;based on the comic&quot; we can look to the comic for clues. IMHO, this is a question that is answered in the comic book, but not addressed in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The short answer is that the mask represents &quot;the abyss&quot; (that created Rorschach) staring back at humanity. Chapter VI &lt;em&gt;The Abyss Gazes Also&lt;/em&gt; deals with the origin of Rorschach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alan Moore continuously describes Rorschach as being above the filth he is looking down at. From Rorschach's journal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beneath me, this awful city...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up...and&#xA;all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'save us!' and&#xA;I'll look down and whisper 'no.'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's looking down at the abyss, and the abyss is looking back. I would make the case that the abyss is what turns Kovacs into Rorschach, and so the mask represents humanity's evils coming back to judge itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6nYtc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this chapter we see Kovacs being given a Rorschach test, and see the inner working of his thought process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the chapter progresses, we see there is an ever changing symmetry in the traumas as Walter Kovacs remembers them. This is the genesis for the name Rorschach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HF3sZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UE78m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Kovacs becomes Rorschach, the case can be made that the mask is the representation of the horrors that have turned him into the self loathing vigilante he's become. That is to say: &lt;em&gt;the mask is the re-projection of the Abyss (that Rorschach is looking into) Rorschach shows to those that he encounters.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qgTdu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To Kovacs the mask is Rorschach's face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f4afq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To Rorschach, it's the (symmetrical) horrors of the world that are coming back to judge evil doers. What he calls his freedom &quot;to scrawl own design on this morally blank world.&quot; This is the reason the patterns are ever changing. The design changes with &quot;heat &amp;amp; pressure&quot;. Heat &amp;amp; pressure being metaphor for the oppressive elements of day to day life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LcPsy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to his doctor it represents something different. The horror of meaningless blackness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uSunn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-17T15:15:46.293" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T15:15:46.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13903" CreationDate="2013-09-16T21:31:59.973" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no direct mention of how Holmes receives income, in the television show. However the show draws significantly from the short stories of A.C. Doyle. I am inclined to think that there wouldn't be much difference in the financial life between the two versions of Holmes. Of course &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Moffat&quot;&gt;Moffat&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gatiss&quot;&gt;Gatiss&lt;/a&gt; may, in the future, give further insight into their modern Sherlock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did turn up this blog: &lt;a href=&quot;http://wellingtongoose.tumblr.com/post/45067981924/accounting-for-sherlock&quot;&gt;accounting for sherlock&lt;/a&gt; which (over)analyses the television show &amp;amp; attempts to shine light on your question. I hope this information helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A.C. Doyle did reference how this original Victorian Sherlock Holmes received remuneration.&#xA;Here is an excerpt from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;… in &quot;The Final Problem&quot;, Holmes states that his services to the government of France and the royal house of Scandinavia had left him with enough money to retire comfortably, while in &quot;The Adventure of Black Peter&quot;, Watson notes that Holmes would refuse to help the wealthy and powerful if their cases did not interest him, while he could devote weeks at a time to the cases of the most humble clients. Holmes also tells Watson, in &quot;A Case of Identity&quot;, of a golden snuff box received from the King of Bohemia after &quot;A Scandal in Bohemia&quot; and a fabulous ring from the Dutch royal family; in &quot;The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans&quot;, Holmes receives an emerald tie-pin from Queen Victoria. Other mementos of Holmes's cases are a gold sovereign from Irene Adler (&quot;A Scandal in Bohemia&quot;) and an autographed letter of thanks from the French President and a Legion of Honour for tracking down an assassin named Huret (&quot;The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez&quot;). In &quot;The Adventure of the Priory School&quot;, Holmes rubs his hands with glee when the Duke of Holdernesse notes the 6,000 pound sterling sum, which surprises even Watson, and then pats the cheque, saying, &quot;I am a poor man&quot;, an incident that could be dismissed as representative of Holmes's tendency toward sarcastic humour. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2013-09-17T14:23:32.977" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T14:23:32.977" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11013" CreationDate="2013-09-17T02:24:37.697" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Thailand the color purple means widow and mourning. Season 5 makes all sense know the meaning of the color purple. I don't want to spoil the episode but I think you understand. I think it is a great touch of symbolism by the directors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6144" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-17T06:51:09.237" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T06:51:09.237" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12708" CreationDate="2013-09-17T07:23:04.083" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;13 ghosts are required to make a dark Zodiac. As in the zodiac there are 12 zodiac signs, which says that every member who belongs to that sign has some specific traits. Similarly, we can assume that the 13 ghosts required for making Dark zodiac should also have different traits. For example, the 13th ghost is Arthur, whose soul is required, but he is also nonviolent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the ghost are violent, but they have their own traits that make them different from each other. The &lt;strong&gt;The Withered Lover&lt;/strong&gt; is a spirit made of sacrifice, so she doesn't have any vengeance towards anybody, which made her nonviolent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-27T15:49:43.940" LastActivityDate="2016-07-27T15:49:43.940" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1410" CreationDate="2013-09-17T07:49:08.627" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Inception Cobb was wearing his wedding ring in some scenes and in some scenes he doesn't. After watching the movie so many times, according to me, in every scene of a dream he was wearing his wedding ring and in every scene of reality he was not wearing his ring, which implies that his wedding ring was his real totem!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6145" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-17T08:41:58.980" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T08:41:58.980" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13913" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14531" CreationDate="2013-09-17T08:27:08.757" Score="8" ViewCount="730" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows Sherlock replaces Moriarty's bank book with a similar one containing a fish animation while he's being tortured with the hook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However this is the first time the trout analogy is used (who is the fisherman who is the trout?). If this is the case when did Sherlock do the drawing? Did he expect the analogy to come up? Did he draw it while dangling from the hook? Did he switch books at a different time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-10-13T18:05:57.257" Title="When does Sherlock draw the flipbook?" Tags="|sherlock-holmes-a-game-of-shadows|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13914" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13931" CreationDate="2013-09-17T08:29:27.757" Score="3" ViewCount="691" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final courtroom scene, the guy in the screenshot below sneaks over and triggers a fire alarm in the courthouse. Who is he?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7uLPk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T08:36:55.737" Title="Who's the guy who triggered the alarm?" Tags="|character|boondock-saints|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13915" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13919" CreationDate="2013-09-17T08:33:02.193" Score="1" ViewCount="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the MacManuses leave the police station, one of them calls a number from a phone in the station and is informed of a location, presumably that of the Russian mafia meeting. Who is the informant? What was his motive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="34594" LastEditDate="2016-09-24T18:51:11.150" LastActivityDate="2016-09-24T18:51:11.150" Title="Who tips off the MacManuses about the Russian mafia meeting?" Tags="|plot-explanation|boondock-saints|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13916" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-17T08:41:27.543" Score="3" ViewCount="1463" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Papa Joe and his Italians want Rocco killed by sending him to assassinate the Russians? Considering that Rocco was known to be part of their gang, did they want to start a war?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-21T19:39:16.197" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T09:56:26.227" Title="Why did the Italians want Rocco killed by the Russians?" Tags="|plot-explanation|boondock-saints|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13917" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-17T08:50:18.097" Score="3" ViewCount="545" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do the MacManus brothers not consider Rocco to be scum? He's been in the mafia for 18 years (IIRC) and has to have gotten his paws dirty. Is he small fry or is he given a pass because he's a friend?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, Il Duce was a violent hit man. Why is he given the clean bill of health?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T17:46:17.580" Title="Why are Rocco and Il Duce not considered 'scum'?" Tags="|boondock-saints|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13918" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-17T11:51:47.043" Score="1" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I was a kid, I used to watch 007 just to see what new weapon he will be using. I bought two PS2 games just to use these cool weapons and drive the BMW which can fire rockets! Or to use the watch and break the glass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't watch 007 because I like the actors, every new Bond movie has different cast, I didn't watch it because I loved the plot or because I want to see a story, we all know how bond movie ends: he falls in love with a blonde girl, who is a bad girl, the good girl is black, the blonde dies, Bond kills the bad guy and fall in love with the good girl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched 007 because I wanted to see incredible weapons never seen before and we used to talk about it for months!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt; on the other hand is good, however they used a fake Q and fake weapons, they killed the blonde girl too early and made her a hopeless girl. The black girl didn't do anything in the movie beside shooting Bond in the first scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's something wrong! Who will watch &lt;em&gt;Iron Man&lt;/em&gt; if he doesn't have that fancy suit and a billion different weapon? Same story with Bond, the story is good, but it seems more like a Jason Bourne movie, not James Bond (Jason does what James does without having the cool weapons).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why didn't the director give Bond his cool guns and car? Is it a lack of creativity or what? And can we expect to see the cool guns in the next Bond? or is the future of the franchise going to be about a man who kills using traditional - old weapons? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5494" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-01-31T13:59:55.640" LastActivityDate="2019-01-31T13:59:55.640" Title="Why was Bond not given advanced weapons?" Tags="|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-09-17T12:51:38.927" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="13919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13915" CreationDate="2013-09-17T13:15:24.630" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been a while since I've seen the movie but they are informed through a pager with the info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They got the pager from the Russian mobsters who tried to kill them at their flat (after the bar fight).&#xA;After the interrogation with the FBI agent, where we learned that they speak a wide variation of languages fluently (Russian included), they get a phone number paged on the russian pager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the MacManuses calls the number and they get the adress and the hour of the meeting etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is stated on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boondock_Saints&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Connor learns of a meeting of Russian syndicate bosses at a hotel from a pager taken from one of the dead Russian mobsters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4868" LastEditorUserId="4868" LastEditDate="2013-09-17T13:45:13.387" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T13:45:13.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13843" CreationDate="2013-09-17T13:20:59.637" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the screenplay for THE WARRIOR, written by Gavin O'Connor and Anthony Tambakis &amp;amp;&#xA;Cliff Dorfman:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;INT. BOARDWALK HALL ARENA CAGE - SAME&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Frank makes eye contact with the jubilant Tess. Indicates she should meet them in the locker room. Meanwhile, people pour into the cage. Frank pushes them aside, keeping them away from Brendan and Tommy, who remain on the ground, exhausted. Tommy to begins to WEEP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;INT. COLT’S PITTSBURGH FIGHT CLUB - SAME&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Silence at Colt’s. Everyone spent from what they’ve seen.&#xA;  ON TV SCREEN: CHAOS IN THE RING. BRENDAN HOLDS TOMMY IN HIS ARMS AND PUSHES AWAY A DOCTOR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;INT. BOARDWALK HALL ARENA CAGE - SAME&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tommy buries his head in Brendan’s chest. A torrent of sobbing gushes from him, years of pain pouring out in heavy bursts. From the crowd, Paddy stares into the cage and watches as Brendan comforts his little brother, then helps him to his feet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Callen, Sheridan, and J.J. Riley make their way inside for the post-fight interview, cameras trailing behind them. With Frank continuing to run interference, Brendan pushes through the crush of people, arm around Tommy, and exits the cage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The crowd parts for Tommy and Brendan. Paddy watches them, a tear in his eye. He’s overwhelmed by the sight of his two boys together again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As the noise from the arena fades, the brothers walk through the wild crowd and continue on through the tunnel, arm in arm...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on that and repeated viewings, I believe all that's happening is the ref wants to get Brendan up to declare him the winner, but Frank is telling him to let Brendan have his moment with his brother (Tommy tapped out, so the winner is obvious).  There's no scheme to help Tommy escape; it's safe to say he'll be taken into custody shortly, but director Gavin O'Connor wisely chooses to end on a triumphant note of brotherly solidarity rather than the downer of Tommy getting arrested.  A great ending to a great movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6148" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-17T13:31:54.507" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T13:31:54.507" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13903" CreationDate="2013-09-17T14:29:20.477" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV Series, Sherlock calls himself a Consulting Detective.  Whilst it is not completely certain that this involves payment, it is certainly conventional for you to pay a consultant in any sphere.  Watson is also involved, and spends some of his time blogging about Shelock's successes, presumably not just to enhance his reputation but to 'improve sales'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is true that Sherlock cannot be bought, he will not take a boring well paid assignment for example - but there is a specific example where he is paid.  In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Banker&quot;&gt;The Blind Banker&lt;/a&gt;, Sherlock's old university friend who is in a senior position at the Bank offers the two of them a significant fee - Sherlock walks out disinterested in such petty matters but Watson, the more practical one, collects the cheque.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, it is implied that Sherlock is from a wealthy family.  It may be the case that he has inherited money.  EDIT: Actually from later episodes in Season 3 it seems that while his family are not poor, they don't seem to be ridiculously wealthy - so this can be discounted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of scientific equipment - Sherlock is probably not above 'blagging' equipment off people, borrowing it for an extended period to help his work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-01-22T03:03:33.303" LastActivityDate="2014-01-22T03:03:33.303" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13923" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13926" CreationDate="2013-09-17T16:49:06.247" Score="16" ViewCount="5052" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the character of Rorschach always speaks with a very growly voice, no matter if acting as Rorschach or simply as Walter Kovacs (well, the latter was probably completely absorbed into the former long ago anyway). Since this is so much different from Jackie Earle Haley's everyday voice, &lt;strong&gt;I wonder why he speaks that way all the time&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this supposed to be Walter Kovacs's real voice or does he actively speak that way? Is this done (no matter if by Kovacs, Haley, Moore, or Snyder) just to make him more threatening (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/2572/49&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt;) or is there a deeper reason for it? And was this taken from the graphic novel (if such acoustical things can actually be addressed there) or was it added by the movie only (maybe even to underline the &quot;hard-boiledness&quot; of this character)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2016-11-13T13:36:18.467" Title="Why does Rorschach speak with such a growly voice?" Tags="|analysis|character|dialogue|watchmen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13924" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13963" CreationDate="2013-09-17T16:49:16.117" Score="7" ViewCount="1233" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481499/&quot;&gt;The Croods&lt;/a&gt; the girl &lt;em&gt;Eep&lt;/em&gt; meets &lt;em&gt;Guy&lt;/em&gt; who is travelling to the mountain, because the &lt;em&gt;world is ending&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a scene from the film that shows &lt;em&gt;Guy&lt;/em&gt; telling &lt;em&gt;Eep&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.yahoo.com/video/croods-meet-guy-193653923.html&quot;&gt;the world is ending&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does &lt;em&gt;Guy&lt;/em&gt; know that the world is ending?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="1100" LastEditDate="2013-09-19T00:08:18.553" LastActivityDate="2017-01-18T16:20:10.710" Title="How does Guy know the world is ending?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-croods|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11014" CreationDate="2013-09-17T17:02:08.230" Score="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is answered very well here in an AMC blog posting an interview with the actress who played Gretchen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q: What’s it like have Bryan Cranston curse at you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A: Oh man, he’s a good actor. But it was easy because Vince Gilligan told us exactly what went down between the characters off screen: We were very much in love and we were to get married. And he came home and met my family, and I come from this really successful, wealthy family, and that knocks him on his side. He couldn’t deal with this inferiority he felt — this lack of connection to privilege. It made him terrified, and he literally just left me, and I was devastated. Walt is fighting his way out of going back to that emotional place, so he says, “F— you.”&#xA;  - actress who plays Gretchen AMC blog&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/2009/05/jessica-hecht-interview/&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6150" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T08:36:28.297" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T08:36:28.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13923" CreationDate="2013-09-17T19:17:46.370" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the actor and director were trying to honor Alan Moores depiction of the character(s). I don't remember the difference (if any) between the presentation of Kovacs and Rorschach in the film. But in the comic there is a difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to this question is shown gradually. But I think the answer is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From April 1966 - 1975 Kovacs was playing at being Rorschach; Rorschach had Kovacs voice. In 1975 Rorschach found his real voice. This is why he talks the way he does.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why I think this is the answer (I use the original source material in this discussion, because it was a reference that the movie cast and crew used):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Watchmen comic uses talk bubbles to show the changes that occur to the way Rorschach presents himself outwardly. Kovacs took on the persona of Rorschach prior to Rorschach being &quot;born&quot;. Rorschach was at the first ever meeting of &quot;the crimebusters&quot; in April of 1966. In the comic he is shown speaking in this meeting with a regular talk bubble with complete sentences and proper grammar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u0Ja0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While speaking to Dr. Malcolm Long in 1985, Kovacs (with regular talk bubble - and grammer slightly better than Rorschach) describes a kidnapping that occured in 1975. A six year old girl named Blaire Roche. This kidnapping is the catalyst that turned Rorschach into a separate personality, at least that's how Kovacs describes it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xw8lf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pivotal moment occurs when (spoilers / possibly disturbing imagry below):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rorschach finds that she had been killed and her body was fed to two dogs (Barney and Fred).&#xA;Rorschach finds the dogs fighting over her bones. He then kills the dogs by splitting their heads with a meat cleaver.&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Kovacs:&lt;/strong&gt; The shock of the impact (of the cleaver into the dogs skull) ran along my arm, Kovacs said &quot;mother&quot; and closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;after that every illustartion of Rorschach's dialogue is shown in a broken talk bubble, with poor sentence structure and poor grammar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A5N5k.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However whithout the Rorschach &quot;face&quot; Kovacs is shown talking in a different tone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/isY5L.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say from April 1966 - 1975 Kovacs was playing at being Rorschach. In 1975 Rorschach found his real voice. This is why he talks the way he does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;additionally his voice is described by Laurie &quot;Jupiter&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mNkx4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2013-09-17T22:25:57.580" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T22:25:57.580" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13508" CreationDate="2013-09-17T21:45:48.803" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is some speculation on this &lt;a href=&quot;http://moviepilot.com/posts/1109821-thor-2-german-poster-has-loki-in-a-dark-kingdom&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently Dark World doesn't translate well in German but Dark Kingdom does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Googling and Wikipedian the Dark World and Germany resulted in a few possibilities for the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few articles referred to Die Schwarze Welt or Dark World of the Afro-Germans (Afro-Deutsche) of which there are close to a 1/2 million living in Germany today.   Like the Jews, Afro-Germans were rounded up and sent to concentration camps during WWII.  About 50,000 Afro-Germans were gassed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Changing the title avoids that connotation but adds an even more disturbing one:  Kingdom translates to Reich in German.  So pasting Malekith, his minions and the world they come from with the &amp;quot;Reich&amp;quot; word associates them as automatically evil in most Germans' mind.  &lt;strong&gt;The marketing folks for Thor 2 are hoping that by using the English &amp;quot;Kingdom&amp;quot; they would be avoiding the unsettling layers that rise by calling it Das Schwarze Reich.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James White of Empire magazine also speculated that &lt;strong&gt;there might be a clash with some other film or tv series that uses the title.&lt;/strong&gt;  Recalling The Weinstein Company losing legal battle to keep &amp;quot;The Butler&amp;quot; that also makes perfect sense.  I was not able to come up with any conflicting German film/TV titles though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Empire magazine article mentioned above is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=38699&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-10-07T10:24:19.777" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12997" CreationDate="2013-09-17T23:23:13.703" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has recently been answered in episode 14 of season 5 &quot;Ozymandias&quot;. Walt reveals to Jack that the buried barrels contain $80 million and offers it in return for Hank's life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-09-17T23:23:13.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13914" CreationDate="2013-09-18T08:17:31.517" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer to this question is: Detective &quot;Dolly&quot; Alapopskalius. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is the character that I found to be credited with pulling the fire-alarm in the script to the sequel (of Boondock Saints): All Saints Day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This character is portrayed by actor David Ferry in both films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/boondock-saints-script.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;copy of the original script&lt;/a&gt; I found has the fire alarm being pulled, it makes no mention of the character that pulls it. Further research of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Boondock-Saints-2-All-Saints-Day.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;All Saints Day&lt;/a&gt; (Boondock Saints 2), reveals that this script has an important clue in the opening sequence of the script (on page 7):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dolly, dressed as a civilian, pulls the fire alarm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sequence recaps the end courtroom scene from the first movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-18T08:36:55.737" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T08:36:55.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13932" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13933" CreationDate="2013-09-18T11:24:57.780" Score="4" ViewCount="1489" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1515091/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and I'm as hooked as everyone else is to see how the TV series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; reveals Sherlock's trick. Is it pure coincidence that these two storylines happened in such a similar way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both are Sherlock faking his own death by jumping&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both have Watson as a witness and kill Moriarty as well&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both happened at (approximately given the age of the character) the same time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would two interpretations of the same character made by completely different companies have him fake his own death in such a similar manner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-18T11:35:03.613" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T11:49:41.457" Title="Similarity of the endings of different Sherlock Holmes adaptions" Tags="|sherlock|sherlock-holmes-a-game-of-shadows|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13932" CreationDate="2013-09-18T11:30:01.007" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;They have both taken inspiration from the original story &quot;The Final Problem&quot; where Holmes fakes his death:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Holmes and Moriarty are engaged in a battle of wits which results with most of M's gang being arrested by M himself escaping to the continent (where Holmes and Watson are).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Whilst Holmes and Watson are taking a holiday they go for a walk to the Reichenbach Falls but Watson receives a note saying that there is a sick lady back at hotel so he returns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a ruse by Holmes to ensure that he faces Moriarty alone (as he does both the series and the film).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They fight at the top of a cliff (in the series a building, the film a ledge) next to a lethal drop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watson rushes back to help Holmes but is too late and finds a note which Moriarty allowed him to write apologising for deceiving Watson.  There are footprints leading to the edge of a cliff and signs of a struggle but no returning foot prints.  They are presumed to have both fallen to their deaths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We find out in 'The Empty House' that this was a ruse by Holmes (after spotting Sebastian Moran) to flush out the remaining associates of Moriarty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Holmes faked his own death&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Watson was kind of a witness (the note is switched to an eye witness)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The age is just reflective of how the direction imagined the character and they both would have read this book.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doyle wanted to kill off Holmes, the creation of Moriarty was designed to give him a climactic send off.  However, Doyle's desperation for money and the public outcry forced him to bring Holmes back to life again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="1501" LastEditDate="2013-09-18T11:49:41.457" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T11:49:41.457" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13932" CreationDate="2013-09-18T11:41:42.173" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't find this surprising. Arthur Conan Doyle was, to put it mildly, not very fond of his most famous character, and tried to kill him. It wasn't a fake death either, Sherlock was meant to die in that waterfall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the public outcry was so strong that he had to bring Sherlock back. So, given the publicity, that part of the original Sherlock stories is very famous, and I see no surprise that two modern adaptations have focused on it. Actually, I'd be more surprised if one of them didn't do it at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: personal knowledge, confirmed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle#.22Death.22_of_Sherlock_Holmes&quot;&gt;&quot;Death&quot; of Sherlock Holmes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T11:41:42.173" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13903" CreationDate="2013-09-18T11:46:52.970" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this has been clearly answered in the show, and it has been a long time since I've watched the show. So if there are any errors in my answer it's my memory's fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherlock's brother in the BBC series is very wealthy and well connected. It's implied that it's his brother who gets Sherlock work as a consultant because Sherlock is too stubborn to find work for himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of scenes in the show where Sherlock and his brother are at odds with each other, but it appears that Sherlock is somehow dependent upon his brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point in the show his brother mentions something like &quot;If you applied your intellect to business you could earn a good living&quot;. Implying that Sherlock doesn't earn any money, but I always took that scene as an indication his brother supports him financially. So I think it's his brother who receives payments for Sherlock's consulting efforts, and in turn pays for Sherlock's living expenses. I don't think this is the source of his wealth, but more of a brotherly burden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the episodes where Sherlock helps the Queen. His brother is the one who arranges for Sherlock to go to Buckingham Palace, and it appears that his brother is motivated financially and has to convince Sherlock to take the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few scenes in the show where Watson is left with the tab and has to pay for things like the news paper or a restaurant bill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Money to Sherlock is either unimportant or other people's problems. So it seems clear that he's not directly responsible for paying the rent bills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T11:46:52.970" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13936" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13937" CreationDate="2013-09-18T12:30:06.457" Score="24" ViewCount="13654" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was disintegrated and then reformed, I get that but at what point did he decide not to bother with wearing clothes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would imagine that if he walked into someone's office after regenerating the conversation would have been more like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Good lord, you're alive!  And your blue!!  And put some clothes on,&#xA;  man!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;There is no need for clothing, I feel no cold and shame is a human&#xA;  concept&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Well get dressed anyway.  We're still human and it's freaky enough you are blue and you don't want to get anything caught in a draw or something, do you&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So logically he must have presented them with a sound argument as to why he did not want to ever get dressed again, does anyone know what it is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-18T13:33:10.383" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T07:02:05.437" Title="Why was Dr. Manhattan naked?" Tags="|character|watchmen|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13936" CreationDate="2013-09-18T12:45:44.680" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, he wears clothes now and then, since he hasn't completely lost his sense for what human culture demands in order to concentrate on the real matters (instead of just starring at his blue dong). For example he wears a suit during the TV-interview and he also wore a speedo now and then when with other people (at least at the beginning, I think).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it is also a fact and innate to the development of his character that he loses his connection to humanity and its puny problems more and more during the course of the story. This is indeed reflected in his growing reluctance to wear clothes, up until the point when he doesn't really care how people see him as he doesn't care about them anymore either (and neither to explain anything to them). It's not just about shame, but about cultural adaption and making your fellow people feel comfortable, for which &lt;em&gt;Dr. Manhattan&lt;/em&gt; had absolutely no desire or reason anymore at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And from a filmmaker's perspective (beware I'm none) I'd say it also somehow shows the filmmakers' dedication to the source material. While it is really a bit irritating at first, since you don't expect that from a major Hollywood movie (and I found myself starring at his wang now and then in the cinema ;-)), it shows that the filmmakers don't take any consequences in transporting the story, no matter if it involves excessive violence or showing a blue penis, which for a more-or-less mainstream blockbuster is quite unusual.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-18T17:54:43.507" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T17:54:43.507" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10749" CreationDate="2013-09-18T12:48:21.617" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't made it through the movie, but in Don Winslow's original novel (on which the movie is closely based), Ben and Chon are both fully aware and accepting of the fact that she sleeps with both of them, regarding O as the bond that holds them all together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The book's a great read.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1451667159&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Amazon link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6148" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T12:48:21.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13939" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15814" CreationDate="2013-09-18T13:38:55.583" Score="5" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie starts with the hero being fired because he saved the company in a law suit and now can never do anything like that again. When he gets home to be consoled by his wife he finds a note that she has left him. Every time he tries to talk to someone about his misfortune a new disaster happens. In the end he meets with his sister (?) who is dying of cancer. She tells him not to be so obsessed with himself and get over it, or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't remember any actors or the director. What is the name of this French movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw it between 89 and 94. I think it was from the same year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6161" LastEditorUserId="6161" LastEditDate="2013-09-18T15:04:51.977" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T05:07:27.840" Title="Hero is fired by his company and his wife leaves him too" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:49:48.383" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12823" CreationDate="2013-09-18T14:44:28.053" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that this part was not answered in the accepted answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Given the Tet could recognize DNA behind layers of rocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt; (as shown when Vika requests drones to be sent to rescue Jack.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the images of the actual sweep:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Drone 185 is sweeping a ground, far from where Jack currently is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MkWyu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Oblivion sweep 1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it wasn't far, they wouldn't have the time for their long &quot;starting to reveal what's really going on&quot; conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The analysis itself says &quot;bio &lt;strong&gt;trail&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D9jTx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Oblivion sweep 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The actual &lt;strong&gt;trail&lt;/strong&gt;, as seen by the droid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YbBYI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Oblivion sweep 3&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the legend on the right, the cyan trail is clearly Jack's, while the red one belongs to an unidentified person (I assume Julia's).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The absence of a third trail confirms what @coleopterist wrote in his answer: the rebels' costumes are there to defeat the Tet's scanners. Otherwise, there'd be at least one more trail, since the rebels seem to do everything themselves, i.e., they don't seem to have drones or similar technology they could use to bring Jack in.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T14:44:28.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13941" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-18T16:28:53.697" Score="5" ViewCount="633" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1586676/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fairly Legal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; employs some references to &lt;em&gt;The Wizard of Oz&lt;/em&gt; (also note the usage of &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Yellow Brick Road Song&quot;&lt;/em&gt; as theme song), in particular &lt;em&gt;Kate&lt;/em&gt; using different roles as knicknames on her cell phone for the people in her life:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wicked Witch&lt;/em&gt; - for her boss and stepmother &lt;em&gt;Lauren&lt;/em&gt;, whom she doesn't like for probably both those aspects, but who isn't as evil as &lt;em&gt;Kate&lt;/em&gt; thinks her to be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Lion&lt;/em&gt; - for her assistant &lt;em&gt;Leonardo&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;&quot;Leo&quot;&lt;/em&gt;), who is kind of &quot;nerdy&quot; and sometimes helps &lt;em&gt;Kate&lt;/em&gt; steer clear of her chaos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Tin-Man&lt;/em&gt; - for her husband &lt;em&gt;Justin&lt;/em&gt;, which she is separated from yet seems to have an on-and-off relationship with.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wizard&lt;/em&gt; - for her late father, with whom she has somehow different views of the law in practice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And I'd just infer &lt;em&gt;Kate&lt;/em&gt;, who indeed seems a bit lost at times, to be &lt;em&gt;Dorothy&lt;/em&gt; then.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Did I maybe forget anyone here? Strangely enough her brother doesn't seem to have knickname.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But having only superficial knowledge about &lt;em&gt;The Wizard of Oz&lt;/em&gt;, I'm not sure if to make anything more out of those references than a mere side joke. &lt;strong&gt;Do these references have any deeper meaning?&lt;/strong&gt; Do those &lt;em&gt;Wizard of Oz&lt;/em&gt; characters and their roles in the story maybe provide a description of the corresponding &lt;em&gt;Fairly Legal&lt;/em&gt; characters or at least how &lt;em&gt;Kate&lt;/em&gt; sees them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-18T22:16:17.107" LastActivityDate="2014-02-07T02:05:57.010" Title="Significance of the Wizard of Oz references" Tags="|analysis|fairly-legal|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13942" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-18T16:46:24.367" Score="5" ViewCount="238" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Gerry wakes up in the WHO the two guys grill him about who he is and what he is doing there as he's tied down. They make the comment &quot;you know what we are don't you&quot; or something to that affect. I didn't understand how to take what they were trying to imply to Gerry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took that to mean they would kill him if his identity was proven; e.g. as if the WHO is a cover for a secret government hit-man crew. As the movie progressed the guys in the WHO turned out to simply be lab nerds so I don't understand why they were attempting masquerade as assassins of some sort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some well-known conspiracy theory about the WHO that this scene is trying to play on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5121" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-18T16:51:41.687" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T20:40:39.853" Title="Initial scene at the World Health Organization" Tags="|plot-explanation|world-war-z|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13917" CreationDate="2013-09-18T19:10:24.443" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;God it's been ages since I've seen this, but IIRC, Rocco was only a delivery guy. He never really got his hands dirty, and only ever was given 1 task to &quot;make&quot; him. As such, he was also seen as someone who had information. The brothers most likely kept him alive for these reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Il Duce, it may be because they realized he was their father. The scene where they are praying over Rocco, Duce walks in, hears what they are saying, and then finishes the prayer for them. He then joins them in their cause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3541" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2013-09-18T20:49:04.373" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T20:49:04.373" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13942" CreationDate="2013-09-18T20:40:39.853" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're misinterpreting their intentions. They're a lab containing extremely contagious diseases. That's a highly classified facility, probably with extremely high security in normal times. To anyone who isn't a high-ranking UN or WHO operative, this facility is &lt;em&gt;strictly&lt;/em&gt; off limits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There wasn't anything said to imply they're assassins. Just that if he wasn't who he was supposed to be, they'd toss him out. Of course, with Zeke wondering around, that's equivalent to a death sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1507" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T20:40:39.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13715" CreationDate="2013-09-18T20:47:50.483" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're right about the name &quot;Segen&quot;, which is not real name used in Hebrew, but only the rank. I don't know why she wouldn't use her name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I can answer your second question easily - she wasn't, because she doesn't exist in the book. The movie has very little relation to the book, other than taking a global and geopolitical look at a zombie apocalypse. The book is built as a post-apocalypse UN report, not as a personal narrative/adventure of a specific operative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1507" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T20:47:50.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10202" CreationDate="2013-09-18T21:04:37.367" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hercules, where the cyclops beats him up, Herc bleeds from his mouth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6164" LastActivityDate="2013-09-18T21:04:37.367" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9145" CreationDate="2013-09-19T01:40:40.167" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the jacket is a trophy from killing a high ranking member (possibly the leader) of a rival gang.  The Judge's helmet seems to indicate that she keeps trophies like this, and seeing as they are displayed over the bed, I think she is showing them off.  A woman like MaMa obviously feels the need to display her power often and violently, so it makes sense to me.  We saw her techie kid making those wire figures the first time he appears in the movie.  The fact that she keeps one in her apartment could mean that she has some kind of feelings towards the kid, even after she maimed him, or she just likes them.  It does seem strangely sentimental for such a hard woman to keep such a useless object though.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6165" LastActivityDate="2013-09-19T01:40:40.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10231" CreationDate="2013-09-19T04:35:48.733" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;People today take things too literally.  Billy has a close relationship with his daughter and this was / is an inside joke between them.  She said in her intro &quot;I rewrote this song for you&quot;....&quot;I hope you like it and don't let anyone else see it&quot;.... My only thought is the directors missed an opportunity or maybe created one, by not cutting to him in the end and having him burst into laughter when the song got to that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6167" LastActivityDate="2013-09-19T04:35:48.733" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13951" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="109164" CreationDate="2013-09-19T06:38:47.267" Score="3" ViewCount="1340" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just noticed that there's a one-frame scene in the &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; episode S05E07, after Jesse watching Skyler walked away in her car-washing warehouse. Just like the stuff in the movie &quot;Fight Club&quot;. Is there anyone taken a screen shot of that scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5346" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T00:41:30.830" LastActivityDate="2020-05-17T06:56:16.790" Title="What are the two &quot;one frame&quot; pictures in EP 7, Season 5 of Breaking Bad?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13952" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13953" CreationDate="2013-09-19T07:51:28.610" Score="12" ViewCount="94521" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched &lt;em&gt;The Great Gatsby&lt;/em&gt; twice, but there is one thing I don't understand. How did Mr. Gatsby became so rich after being a sailor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6168" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-03T17:41:57.000" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T04:34:39.790" Title="How did Mr. Gatsby become so rich after being a sailor?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-great-gatsby|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13952" CreationDate="2013-09-19T08:38:08.107" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;While sailing with his mentor Dan Cody, Gatsby learned to speak and act like a well educated gentleman. This allowed him to keep a reputation as a member of high society and reach people who would not have normally had access to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Cody died he had anticipated an inheritance but this turned out not to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With his ability to make friends all over the city he became immensely valuable to the criminal underworld who used him to sell bootlegged alcohol (effectively smuggling in the same way a drug smuggler/dealer works today).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this money he bought a big house, hosted fantastic parties all with the goal of reconnecting with his long lost love Daisy Fay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-09-19T08:52:30.533" LastActivityDate="2013-09-19T08:52:30.533" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13954" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13968" CreationDate="2013-09-19T09:55:00.190" Score="6" ViewCount="61371" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a big fan of &quot;Prison Break&quot; and want Michael Scofield in action again. So please can anybody tell me, will I be able to see &lt;em&gt;the gang&lt;/em&gt; again in action or not? Are there any plans for Season 5?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6168" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-24T12:52:24.703" LastActivityDate="2017-01-12T07:54:58.323" Title="Will there be any more seasons of &quot;Prison Break&quot;?" Tags="|prison-break|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13936" CreationDate="2013-09-19T10:47:34.567" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only thing the above answer leaves out is that Dr. Manhattan's nudity (chiefly, his ability and willingness to expose his genitals) is symbolic of his invulnerability to harm.  Going the Freudian route, he's the only male character for whom no threat of castration exists, so he can truly let it all hang out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6169" LastActivityDate="2013-09-19T10:47:34.567" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13954" CreationDate="2013-09-19T13:01:55.847" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. The the show is over and there are no plans for a season 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4128" LastActivityDate="2013-09-19T13:01:55.847" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13954" CreationDate="2013-09-19T13:03:49.723" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Prison Break&amp;quot;, a television series on the Fox Network, ended its run in 2009, after 4 seasons. It concerned the breakout of a group of felons from a prison in Chicago, and the ensuing run to evade capture by the FBI and international agents. It starred: Wentworth Miller, who has gone on to other roles, though, decidedly few; Dominic Purcell who played his incarcerated brother, who has moved into motion pictures in a number of action thrillers, and guest television spots; Robert Knepper, who had a number of television projects since Prison Break, also a number of films; William Fichtner, who played the FBI agent in pursuit, has a currently-active television series &amp;quot;Crossing Lines&amp;quot;, and a number of film roles since. Long story short, I don't think the show &amp;quot;Prison Break&amp;quot; is on anyone's radar for a comeback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: Today, 2015/01/18, it was revealed &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/prison-break-fox-would-love-to-revive-the-tv-show-35369/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;that&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...“There is some speculation in the press about Prison Break, which honestly was slightly news to us…. Although we’ve made it clear over the years to the studio that we would bring Prison Break back in a heartbeat...It’s probably the perfect event series. If our old partners in that show are interested, that would be great. But at the moment, we have nothing else to report.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Purcell and Miller are currently recurring in their roles as villains Heat Wave and Captain Cold on The Flash on The CW. That series was renewed for a second season earlier this week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T23:40:18.160" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13958" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13959" CreationDate="2013-09-19T13:05:55.887" Score="18" ViewCount="5370" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jedi use lightsabers, some use them a lot! However you never see a lighsaber being plugged in, on charge or running out of battery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What powers a lightsaber and does it run indefinitely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T16:44:57.830" Title="What powers a lightsaber?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13958" CreationDate="2013-09-19T13:51:06.410" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;The lightsaber is powered by a &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Diatium_power_cell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Diatium power cell&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The diatium power cell was the primary power source for a lightsaber and one of the critical components of a lightsaber hilt. Located directly below and wired into the primary crystal mount, to which was affixed the weapon's primary focusing crystal, these types of power cells were in turn wrapped within the power field conductor, power vortex ring and an inert power insulator. The lightsaber's pommel cap and its recharging port were attached directly to the diatum cell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P5wIjl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lightsabers were initially (as protosabres) powered by a &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lightsaber&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;belt-mounted power pack&lt;/a&gt; connected to the saber via a power cable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It seems the Dark Lords of the Sith Empire were ultimately responsible for the advancement of lightsabers, replacing the belt-mounted power pack with a power cell within the hilt. An internal superconductor was introduced, which transferred the returning looped energy from the negative-charged flux aperture back into an internal power cell. With this modification, the power cell would only expend power when the energy loop was broken, such as when the lightsaber cut something, solving the power supply problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="18480" LastEditDate="2015-11-30T16:44:57.830" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T16:44:57.830" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13960" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13961" CreationDate="2013-09-19T18:27:25.670" Score="10" ViewCount="1230" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess, the movie is set in the future, because we have no such devices yet. When a child is born, a doctor makes a pinch in a child's foot with a device that predicts the child's health.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were two brothers. The device indicated one would be healthy, one would not. I don't remember whether the device predicted success or just health.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their daddy loved the healthy child, the other was neglected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the story goes one, the poor kid actually becomes more physically fit and successful than his brother. The movie ends with the neglected kid going to space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched this movie a long time ago and now want to watch it again. I don't remember the title. I tried Googling, but had no success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6170" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-09-20T06:30:42.217" LastActivityDate="2013-09-20T06:30:42.217" Title="What's the movie about two brothers with their health being predicted by a device as soon as they were born?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:49:54.650" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13960" CreationDate="2013-09-19T18:38:15.947" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that you are thinking of Gattaca. It presents a society driven by eugenics. A family has two sons, one &quot;naturally&quot; and one using the genetic manipulations. The natural born son faces much discrimination because of his poor genetics. Eventually, he borrows the identity of a &quot;valid&quot; (since genetically he is unfit for the space program) who has an exceptional genetic print but who suffered a car accident and is now paraplegic. Eventually, this son makes onto a space mission. You can find out more at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2013-09-19T18:38:15.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13962" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16706" CreationDate="2013-09-17T19:31:55.107" Score="13" ViewCount="8754" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film The Prestige, Borden's secret is that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He has a twin brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watching the movie for the second time, I noticed a man looking just like Christian Bale sitting next to Borden at the beginning of the scene where Angier and Borden appear as assistants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I mistaken, or is the secret revealed as soon in the movie?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6t3DZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;A man looking like Borden is sitting next to him in the theater&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6090" OwnerDisplayName="Kalissar" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-19T20:46:21.010" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T12:31:26.767" Title="Is Borden's secret revealed as soon as the 11th minute of the movie?" Tags="|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13924" CreationDate="2013-09-19T21:10:46.393" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is based on Guy's theory that the earthquakes are a symptom of &lt;em&gt;The End&lt;/em&gt; (of the world) and that heading to higher ground is the best way to possibly escape from the calamity. He's something of a cave-scientist and this is the kind of thing that cave-scientists do. It also contrasts his out-of-the-box thinking against that of stick-in-the-mud Grug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-09-19T21:10:46.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13964" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-19T22:36:31.803" Score="7" ViewCount="4337" Body="&lt;p&gt;Much of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2625030/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;New World&lt;/a&gt; is about a succession battle after the don of the Goldmoon syndicate is killed. But do we know who actually killed him? Who's the guy in the car that pulls up next to his?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T01:38:12.280" LastActivityDate="2016-07-16T05:43:41.713" Title="Who kills the boss, Seok, at the start of 'New World'?" Tags="|plot-explanation|new-world|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13966" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-19T22:54:31.267" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;New World (&lt;em&gt;Sinsegye&lt;/em&gt;) is a 2013 South Korean crime drama film written and directed by Park Hoon-jung. Starring Lee Jung-jae, Choi Min-sik and Hwang Jung-min, the film shows the conflict between the police and the mob through the eyes of an undercover cop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_%282013_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-19T22:54:31.267" LastActivityDate="2013-09-19T22:54:31.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13967" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-19T22:54:31.267" Score="0" Body="New World (Sinsegye) is a 2013 South Korean crime drama film written and directed by Park Hoon-jung. Starring Lee Jung-jae, Choi Min-sik and Hwang Jung-min, the film shows the conflict between the police and the mob through the eyes of an undercover cop." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-19T22:54:31.267" LastActivityDate="2013-09-19T22:54:31.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13954" CreationDate="2013-09-19T23:18:42.133" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aside from all the sources that may already corroborate that Prison Break has reached its ending in totality, e.g., IMDB/Wikipedia, it seems exceedingly unlikely that we would see Michael Scofield in action again, as the final episode of Prison break tells us:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Michael hears of the bounty and devises plans for Sara's escape. In&#xA;  the end, knowing that he is dying from a brain tumor, Michael&#xA;  sacrifices himself for his brother, wife and child.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Break#Season_4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't see him die, but we do see Sara and his child at his gravestone, assuredly marking his demise.  When we also consider all the other loose ends tied up (other prisoners dying, Lincoln's absolution, deconstruction of 'The Company'), it lends for little further possible plot to continue on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ibtimes.com/prison-break-cast-officially-return-season-5-event-series-fox-2042416&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Prison break going to be revived&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of these unanswered questions that likely immediately jumps to&#xA;  mind is: [SPOILER ALERT] how in the world is Michael still alive? For&#xA;  those that don’t know, “Prison Break” ended with a made for TV movie&#xA;  in which the character sacrifices himself in order to save Lincoln,&#xA;  Sarah (Sara Tancredi) and her unborn child. According to Deadline, the&#xA;  10-episode event series revival will mostly ignore the events of this&#xA;  finale, but will provide a “logical explanation” as to why the&#xA;  character is alive. However, even if they explain how he survived his&#xA;  death, writers also need to explain how he survived his terminal brain&#xA;  tumor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1125" LastEditorUserId="1125" LastEditDate="2015-08-27T18:25:04.223" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T18:25:04.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12215" CreationDate="2013-09-20T04:12:49.790" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;MANY YEARS AGO,  A JOKE WAS GOING AROUND... AND IT WENT LIKE THIS :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;A popular radio announcer, back in the 1940's, was doing 'Man In The Street' interviews, asking people if they knew any 'knock-knock' jokes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He came upon a drunk. He wasn't sure the guy was sober enough for this, but he asked him anyway: &#xA;&quot;Sir, we're doing knock-knock jokes today... do you know any knock-knock jokes?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Yeah, I know one, &quot; said the drunk. &quot; Knock-knock.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Who's there?&quot; said the announcer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Argo.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Argo who?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Argo fuck yourself.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The announcer almost went into cardiac arrest.  In the 1940's, OBSCENITIES were strictly forbidden on the air.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He knew he was in trouble.   And he was right - - the station immediately fired him!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For 20 years he tried getting back into Radio, but no station would hire him. Finally one day, a new station decided to give him a chance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And again, he soon found himself back on the street, interviewing people, just like before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But he wasn't afraid.  This time he was prepared.  During those 20 years he'd learned EVERY knock-knock joke in existence, so he was certain nothing like that could ever happen again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Strangely, he once again came across the same drunk.  He was about to walk away when the drunk yelled, &quot;Hey! Ya wanna hear a knock-knock joke?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The announcer hesitated, but he decided there was nothing to be afraid of. &#xA;&quot;Sure,&quot; he said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Knock-knock. &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Who's there?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Harry.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The announcer raced thru his mind, going over every knock-knock joke he'd ever heard. He'd never heard one with &quot;Harry.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally he decided it was safe. &quot;Harry who?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Argo fuck yourself!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And now you know something that very few people know... why in the movie &quot;Argo,&quot; they said ARGO FUCK YOURSELF so often, but never explained why. It was all based on that old joke.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6177" LastActivityDate="2013-09-20T04:12:49.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="883" CreationDate="2013-09-20T09:19:23.783" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prot is Human&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prot created the double ego the first time he went through a shock he couldn't handle when his father died. After that he bought a telescope and kept going with his life establishing the facts regarding the second ego at the periods of crisis. After his wife and daughter died, which was the worst crisis, 5 years passed that we do not know what he was doing. His was clever enough and obsessed enough to have been searching and studying about the spedific planet so as to conclude in facts that scientists hadn't. He wrote laws of physics and mathematics so he may had been studying these as well. When he was under hypnosis he reffered to his other ego as a friend. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Prot travelled through a light beam, he didn't need mass. That's why he left Robert behind. If that is so, why Bess needed a human body to go to K-Pax? As i see it, he just gave her strength to run free. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The camera happened to not to be working at the moment and the bluebird may had been a mass paroxysm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6178" LastActivityDate="2013-09-20T09:19:23.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13975" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15449" CreationDate="2013-09-20T10:34:09.327" Score="6" ViewCount="1050" Body="&lt;p&gt;In films like Step Up, Wikipedia shows some songs as featured songs and some songs as non-featured. Even only featured songs appear on their album. So what are those non-featured songs and what are the rules regarding the usage of non-featured songs? I mean, are movie makers free to use any song as non-featured song or are there any rules regarding it? I mean doesn't they have to pay for them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-11-27T09:34:45.763" LastActivityDate="2022-05-07T14:33:18.470" Title="What are the rules regarding usage of non-featured songs in films?" Tags="|soundtrack|copyright|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13976" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13980" CreationDate="2013-09-20T10:37:50.437" Score="13" ViewCount="2526" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Monkeys&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;12 Monkeys&lt;/a&gt;, James Cole has some tattoos, one on the back of his neck looks like a bar-code and another on the side of his neck near to the ear  looks like some digits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XZIAW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any significance to those tattoos? They are shown various times in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-21T05:26:25.530" LastActivityDate="2017-01-29T19:17:32.557" Title="What is the significance of James Cole's tattoos?" Tags="|character|12-monkeys|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14" CreationDate="2013-09-20T12:09:04.090" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I gained the impression from the film that R.L. jumped off that waterfall into the water. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was just my opinion though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6179" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-13T21:46:40.133" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T21:46:40.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13976" CreationDate="2013-09-20T12:55:19.437" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Introduction to Twelve Monkeys &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smart.co.uk/dreams/monkfact.htm&quot;&gt;from the Programme Notes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And, his stark look was further enhanced by his makeup artist, Cristina Bartolucci, who, everyday, etched a trio of tattoos onto Willis' scalp and neck - &lt;strong&gt;one that indicated his prisoner number, and a pair of bar-codes, the kind imprinted on packaged goods, on each side of his neck.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also repeated on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Monkeys#Casting&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The actor had a trio of tattoos drawn onto his scalp and neck each day when filming: one that indicated his prisoner number, and a pair of barcodes on each side of his neck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that there's any particular significance to the tattoos other than to emphasise the dystopian undercurrent in the story and remind us every now and then that Cole is actually a prisoner (from the future).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-09-20T12:55:19.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13985" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-20T19:04:27.037" Score="6" ViewCount="6218" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, the movie is about a guy in prison cell/mental facility, the main guy goes into his mind/head to see if he is guilty of a crime, when he gets in his mind (literally in his mind, he is walking in his mind) to see his thoughts and memories. But he gets stuck in the mind, time passes and he is still there (he lives in all this guys memories, his childhood, his teen life). He is living in the guys thoughts and memories (he talks to a voice, like for instance (miriam (the voices name also the computer) take me to Christmas eve, then he gets teleported to Christmas eve) and relives the guy's Christmas eve. But later he learns to talk to the guy in his memory by going to the memory he is thinking about. They meet there and start talking? (For example, if the guy is thinking about Christmas eve, and the main character is at his Christmas eve, they can talk.) By the end they go to an empty room, and the guy in the head tells the prisoner to think of that room, what was in the room, what colour it was, everything about it, and that's what solves the murder case. It's an English movie, Hollywood, the whole movie takes place in the guys mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6180" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-21T20:22:00.840" LastActivityDate="2016-09-29T12:59:03.393" Title="Movie about man who goes into the mind of a prisoner" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:50:01.127" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13987" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="13993" CreationDate="2013-09-20T20:26:00.643" Score="6" ViewCount="4430" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many sitcoms are recorded in front of a live audience who provide the laughter track. Now this is simple enough in most scenes. But some scenes require added special effects. For example the dinner scene in Red Dwarf season 6 episode &quot;Legion&quot;. Part of the comedy is the food hovering in the air, and part of the drama is the reveal of Legion's face as an amalgamation of the cast's faces. You can't do that live, and it has to be done in post production. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how is that sort of scene filmed in front of a live audience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T12:35:17.973" LastActivityDate="2019-05-31T02:42:59.893" Title="How do TV shows with live audience manage special effect scenes?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|effects|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13985" CreationDate="2013-09-20T21:25:02.057" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1757746/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Extracted&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, found it on yahoo answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A scientist who has invented a technique to watch people's memories&#xA;  finds himself in a dangerous situation after he's tasked with entering&#xA;  a heroin addict's mind to see whether the man committed murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-20T22:35:09.573" LastActivityDate="2013-09-20T22:35:09.573" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13987" CreationDate="2013-09-21T06:47:15.120" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the Wikipedia entry for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyswap&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bodyswap episode&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This was the first episode to be recorded without the live studio audience. Technical difficulties of the actors playing other characters meant that the scenes would have to have been done twice. Instead the voices were dubbed over the scenes in post-production and trying to match up with lip movements caused much mirth while recording. Chris Barrie, being an impressionist, had no problems playing Lister, whereas Craig's portrayal as Rimmer was not as smooth. &lt;strong&gt;The final edit, with dubbed voices, was then played to a small audience to provide the laughter track&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laugh_track#U.K.&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;common technique&lt;/a&gt; for scenes that can't be recorded with a live studio audience:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the 20th century, most U.K. sitcoms were taped before live audiences to provide natural laughter. Scenes recorded out of doors, traditionally recorded in advance of studio work, are played back to the studio audience and their laughter recorded for the broadcast show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastActivityDate="2013-09-21T06:47:15.120" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="13994" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14294" CreationDate="2013-09-21T08:26:54.287" Score="7" ViewCount="435" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are the remakes of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077402/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dawn of the Dead (1978)&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088993/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Day of the Dead (1985)&lt;/a&gt; so drastically different from the original films? The remakes seem too different form the originals to even call them remakes to me. Generally remakes tend to at the very least have the same basic story, and the same characters. But these two particular remakes don't share either of those with the original movies. They only share minute details, so why even call them remakes? To expand on it further, the remakes seem so different, I'm convined that if they hadn't used the same movie titles, or gotten permission, any claims of copyright infringement would have been dismissed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dawn of the Dead (1978)&lt;/em&gt; vs. &lt;em&gt;Dawn of the Dead (2004)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The original started out with the zombie outbreak already being well established, two S.W.A.T. team members acted like they'd being killing zombies for weeks, months, or even years. Zombies was the only topic on the news and people were already publically investigating why outbreak was occuring. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the remake, it starts out with nobody knowing anything about the zombies, and the characters waking up in the morning to a zombie apocolypse. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The characters (group of people held up in the mall) were drastically different. &#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the original, it was two S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic&#xA;reporter, and a T.V. executive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the remake, it was a nurse, policeman, married couple,  salesman, and a few mall security guards. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The plot was different.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the original, it was a group of people who &lt;em&gt;decided&lt;/em&gt; to hold up in an abandoned mall after running away in a helicopter. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the remake, it was a group of survivors of the initial outbreak who &lt;em&gt;happened&lt;/em&gt; to end up in the mall while running from the zombies. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the original, the group encounter a gang of bikers who raid the mall. Never happens in the remake.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the remake, the group is trying to &lt;em&gt;escape&lt;/em&gt; from the mall, and modify two buses to try and escape. In the original, the group are trying to &lt;em&gt;stay&lt;/em&gt; in the mall. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Day of the Dead (1985)&lt;/em&gt; vs. &lt;em&gt;Day of the Dead (2008)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this instance, I think it would easier to list their similarities!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both films involve zombies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both films involve the military.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both films have a character named Captain Rhodes. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both films have a zombie soldier who remembers how to use a pistol. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both films involve an underground bunker, though it is completely different between the original and remake. &#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the original, it was an underground historical archive (a place for storing items and records of historical significance) which the military had taken shelter in to do research on the already existing zombies.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the remake, it was a lab that used to be a missile launch facility where the scientists &lt;em&gt;created&lt;/em&gt; a virus that caused the zombie outbreak. In the original series it was never known why the outbreak occured, or where it originated from.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the original, &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; of the movie takes place in the underground bunker. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the remake, &lt;em&gt;very little&lt;/em&gt; of the movies takes place in the underground bunker. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that in the original, the zombie outbreak was very well established. There were few survivors left which is made very clear in the opening scene which starts out with the main characters flying around in a helicopter looking for more suvivors. In the remake, it takes place the first night of the outbreak where there are still people living their lives unaware of zombies, and the radio announcements in the remake make it very clear the outbreak was limited to the that one particular town. Whereas in the original, it seemed national, or even global.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-09-22T02:19:44.153" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T18:26:02.347" Title="Why are the Romero Dead Series remakes so different?" Tags="|remake|dawn-of-the-dead|day-of-the-dead|george-a-romero|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14000" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14009" CreationDate="2013-09-21T21:19:33.047" Score="9" ViewCount="898" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800320/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Clash of the Titans (2010)&lt;/a&gt;, the witches prophesized that Perseus would die, but he clearly didn't... Were they lying in attempt to make his allies abandon him, or were they just mistaken? Was there some other motive for a deception?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-22T10:34:41.670" LastActivityDate="2013-09-22T11:59:56.053" Title="Was the witches' prophecy a lie?" Tags="|clash-of-the-titans-2010|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14001" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14027" CreationDate="2013-09-21T21:21:14.430" Score="3" ViewCount="354" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800320/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Clash of the Titans (2010)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, if man's worship feed the god's power then when the statue was ripped down it weakened Zeus. Why then did Hades attack the men who defiled it if his endgame was to weaken (and eventually overthrow) his brother?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-22T11:43:59.290" LastActivityDate="2013-09-22T14:43:35.993" Title="Why did Hades defend Zeus' statue?" Tags="|clash-of-the-titans-2010|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14002" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14025" CreationDate="2013-09-21T21:24:32.213" Score="2" ViewCount="1245" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_the_Titans_%282010_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Clash of the Titans (2010)&lt;/a&gt; Zeus provides a number of gifts to Perseus (the sword, the pegasus). However from his perspective Perseus is trying to stop Hades who (he believes) is trying to return man's prayers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would he assist someone (even his own son) who is attempting to undermine an attempt to restore man's worship of the gods?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-22T11:43:44.210" LastActivityDate="2013-09-22T12:34:37.927" Title="Why did Zeus assist Perseus?" Tags="|plot-explanation|clash-of-the-titans-2010|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14003" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17531" CreationDate="2013-09-21T21:28:15.453" Score="3" ViewCount="488" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_the_Titans_%282010_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Clash of the Titans (2010)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, this character,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w2orX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Prophet&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is determined to convert people to worship Hades. Is he acting of his own free will or is he under Hades' influence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-22T11:54:36.610" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T17:08:33.630" Title="Is the prophet under the thrall of Hades?" Tags="|character|clash-of-the-titans-2010|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14004" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14006" CreationDate="2013-09-21T21:29:48.883" Score="6" ViewCount="848" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800320/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Clash of the Titans (2010)&lt;/a&gt;, Perseus finds a metal owl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's obviously some sort of in-joke, but what's the reference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pob40.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Metal Owl&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-22T10:32:25.147" LastActivityDate="2017-01-22T21:03:06.940" Title="What is the Owl?" Tags="|reference|clash-of-the-titans-2010|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14005" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14007" CreationDate="2013-09-21T22:06:22.013" Score="5" ViewCount="580" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a movie once and forget the title. It is about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;alternate history, set in steam/dieselpunk setting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;megacorporations fighting over the world&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;some demon-monsters from under the earth&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;group of heroes set to fight and stop the demon plague&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they're flying in some steampunk alike airship&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was &quot;A book of demons&quot;, or probably something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6191" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-09-22T07:00:15.687" LastActivityDate="2013-09-22T07:00:15.687" Title="Steampunk movie about demons and apocalypse" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:50:10.523" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14004" CreationDate="2013-09-21T22:45:46.687" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reference is to the original movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082186/?ref_=sr_2&quot;&gt;Clash of the Titans&lt;/a&gt; from 1981. The owl has a more prominent role in that movie. This is just a &quot;cameo&quot; to give the audience a chuckle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Its name is &lt;a href=&quot;http://clash-of-the-titans.wikia.com/wiki/Bubo&quot;&gt;Bubo&lt;/a&gt; ... I never knew it had a name, but the wiki page explains it all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-09-21T22:58:35.287" LastActivityDate="2013-09-21T22:58:35.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14005" CreationDate="2013-09-21T22:52:49.230" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490181/&quot;&gt;Mutant Chronicles&lt;/a&gt;, (2008):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the end of the Ice Age, The Machine came from outer space with the&#xA;  purpose to change men into mutants. However, a hero defeated the&#xA;  device and a great seal was laid over The Machine. In 2707, the&#xA;  depleted world is ruled by four Corporations: Mishima, Bauhaus,&#xA;  Capitol and Imperial that are in a constant state of war. During a&#xA;  battle between Capitol and Bauhaus, the great seal is broken and The&#xA;  Machine works again transforming soldiers and civilians into hordes of&#xA;  mutants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It did have an airship that looked like it was steam-powered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-09-21T22:52:49.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14000" CreationDate="2013-09-22T02:02:11.913" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is what they actually said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your journey does not end well.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Fate has spoken.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  You will die, son of Zeus!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Written as history.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  You will die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The obvious question is: what is his journey? It may very well extend beyond the movie and, as we know today, it did: we had a sequel. So, the propecy may still be true, but are yet to see it fulfilled (although, knowing Hollywood, they'll never make an end to the journey, unless Nolan takes over ;-)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even more, if &quot;his journey&quot; is his life, than the prophecy is completely void of any (useful) information, as it only says that he will day when his life ends. This would be in accordance with the very famous -- and also uninformative -- Pythia's &quot;Go, return not die in war&quot; (see the intro &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oracular_statements_from_Delphi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), and other double-meaning old Greek prophecies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Addition&lt;/strong&gt; (inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/574/liath&quot;&gt;Liath&lt;/a&gt;'s comment)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wrote the above under the assumption that Perseus will die, forgetting that he is a demigod and has a choice. I'm not sure if all demigods got that choice; probably not, but he got it. Here is a part of his conversation with Zeus, in the last scene of the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Zeus: I don't suppose you'll reconsider my offer to take your place as one of us.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Perseus: I've got everything I need right here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, right away, a few more confirmations, from Zeus' farewell words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Zeus: &lt;strong&gt;You may not want to be a god&lt;/strong&gt;, Perseus, but after feats like yours, men will worship you. Be good to them. Be better than we were. And &lt;strong&gt;if you insist on continuing this mundane human existence&lt;/strong&gt;, I won't have you do it alone. You're the son of Zeus, after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Perseus has chosen to live a human life, which in itself may be considered a fulfillment of the prophecy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2013-09-22T11:59:56.053" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10936" CreationDate="2013-09-22T09:34:36.970" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good question, there is no clear answer provided during the movie, but there are some hints as to why he might have done it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The most compelling answer I could come up with is that Tiny just has a soft spot for women. At dinner, the mother says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My baby boy gets shy around new people, but he'll warm up to you, &lt;em&gt;especially the girls.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I re-watched the scene and noticed as she is trying to leave the room, Otis catches her and puts her in a cage. He then turns around to look at Tiny as if to say &amp;quot;what happened?&amp;quot; and Tiny shrugs his shoulders as if to say &amp;quot;I don't know.&amp;quot; So, maybe Tiny didn't know why he did it. Then again, he could have just been lying to protect himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As I recall, the family seems to like messing with people's heads, as well as killing them. So, it's possible that Tiny knew she had no hope of escape and just wanted to mess with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tiny is obviously mentally challenged and just seems to follow the orders of the family. As I recall, Mary was the only one to tell Tiny do something other than the family, so it's possible he simply follows any order (or request) that he's given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;During dinner, Tiny's mother says that his father set the house on fire and Tiny was badly burned by it. It's possible that Tiny resents the family and wanted to let her go as a small way to get back at them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-09-22T09:34:36.970" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14014" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-22T10:41:23.713" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-22T10:41:23.713" LastActivityDate="2013-09-22T10:41:23.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14015" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-22T10:41:23.713" Score="0" Body="1981's British-American film involving the story of Greek hero Perseus." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-22T10:41:23.713" LastActivityDate="2013-09-22T10:41:23.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14016" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-22T10:42:59.467" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-22T10:42:59.467" LastActivityDate="2013-09-22T10:42:59.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14017" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-22T10:42:59.467" Score="0" Body="American fantasy film about Greek demi-god Perseus and a remake of the 1981 film of the same name." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-09-23T15:12:19.003" LastActivityDate="2013-09-23T15:12:19.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14021" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14043" CreationDate="2013-09-22T11:30:05.350" Score="6" ViewCount="3192" Body="&lt;p&gt;To which extent were the stories and events from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_the_Titans_%28franchise%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Clash of the Titans (franchise)&lt;/a&gt; films based on real Greek mythology and to which degree were they just made up for the movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T00:12:23.017" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T00:12:23.017" Title="Are the events from the Clash of the Titans film franchise based on events from actual Greek mythology?" Tags="|clash-of-the-titans-2010|wrath-of-the-titans|clash-of-the-titans-1981|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14022" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14032" CreationDate="2013-09-22T12:00:47.337" Score="0" ViewCount="184" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please tell me when the &quot;Dragon Ball Z&quot; movie will be released worldwide? I have been waiting for a long time. I saw the trailer in 2009, but the movie is not out yet. So please help me to find out the exact date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6168" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-23T04:20:51.257" LastActivityDate="2013-09-23T04:20:51.257" Title="When will the &quot;Dragon Ball Z&quot; movie be released worldwide?" Tags="|dragon-ball-z|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14002" CreationDate="2013-09-22T12:34:37.927" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Zeus explains this himself, in the final scene of the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But now the world knows a man can stop him [Hades].&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Of course, you had some help.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  A sword, the Pegasus...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;I wanted men to worship us again, but I didn't want it to cost me a son.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, he simply didn't want his son Perseus to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It think Zeus has also some regrets, and feels partly guilty for the loss of humans' worship:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You may not want to be a god, Perseus but after feats like yours, men will worship you.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Be good to them.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Be better than we were.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last, but not least, Hades is not serving him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Zeus must think I serve him but I am growing stronger.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Until I possess my full power you will be my weapon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zeus probably realized, at some point, that human fear fuels Hades' power, but not his own, and thus realized Hades' plan to overthrow him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2013-09-22T12:34:37.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14021" CreationDate="2013-09-22T13:16:58.793" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movies are loosely based on Greek Mythology. There are a lot of faux pas in the movies which makes them fun to watch, but not accurate to the mythology. Here are a couple of sites which explains some of the issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gogreece.about.com/od/greekmythology/tp/clash-of-the-titans-greek-mythology-errors.htm&quot;&gt;Mythtakes About the Movies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://geekout.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/01/the-most-popular-epic-webcomic-youve-never-heard-of/&quot;&gt;When Hollywood Gets in the Way of a Perfectly Good Myth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even Hollywood movies based on true events are just &quot;based&quot; on true events. Liberty is almost always taken to tell a better story or make it more exciting, or whatever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-09-22T13:16:58.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14001" CreationDate="2013-09-22T14:43:35.993" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can think of two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He needs humans' fear, as he admitted to &quot;have only learned to live on their fear&quot; (while Zeus need their love), so the short term reason is to get as much of their fear as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for the long term reason, he is plotting against Zeus, but is not yet strong enough (I mentioned that &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/14025/5589&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), so he needs the pretense of supporting Zeus, until his own powers grow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hades' plan is revealed at the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hades: Argos has fallen. Do you feel stronger, brother? You thought the Kraken would bring you their prayers. But the Kraken is my child. It feeds only me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Zeus: I command Olympus! Remember who you serve!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hades: I serve myself! I have since you cheated me. You sent me to the underworld to be hated, while you basked in their love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Zeus: We need the love of humans!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hades: No, you need it. I survive on their fear. Your reign is over, brother Zeus. You'll watch while my blessed avenger devours their hopes. And then finally you'll know my pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Zeus was aware of it in the beginning, or even suspecting a foul play on Hades' part, he'd stop him while he still could. So, Hades played on &quot;I do it for you, brother&quot; card, and got Zeus to comply (and allow him to release the Kraken).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2013-09-22T14:43:35.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13486" CreationDate="2013-09-22T15:05:39.137" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here is how the trick was executed (In 6 Simple Steps):-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 1:&lt;/strong&gt; The Four Horsemen befriended Arthur Tressler a businessman who was too proud of himself to understand their wickedness. He also understood everything the way the Four Horsemen wanted him to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 2:&lt;/strong&gt; By accompanying him for a long time, they came to know a lot of personal facts about him. For instance, consider the plane scene, where Arthur unconsciously provided them with his personal facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 3:&lt;/strong&gt; My best guess is hacking was not at all needed by The Four Horsemen. We all know if somebody looses his password, system asks the owner to provide with answers to some preset security questions which are not hard-to-know facts for close persons with the owner. Similar thing happened here. They furnished all the necessary information that has been storing in the Four Horsemens' database for a long time, asked by the system and possibly they changed or retrieved the password of his account. All this thing was done according to me just before the show started so that Arthur does not get any chance to know about this burglary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 4:&lt;/strong&gt; The Four Horsemen did not know about the true identity of Rhodes; so they arranged to stop him after the revelation beforehand, so that they can get the chance to flee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 5:&lt;/strong&gt; They shackled Arthur when he realized The Four Horsemen went berserk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step 6:&lt;/strong&gt; They knew about the tracked device all alone. It was just a simple trick, they managed to misguide Rhodes during the chase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think this plan was never that hard to understand, so producers did not put effort to clarify it since the whole process can be easily imagined by the spectators. This is the best we can make out from the hints left in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="3271" LastEditDate="2013-09-23T07:33:44.453" LastActivityDate="2013-09-23T07:33:44.453" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14030" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-22T15:15:50.160" Score="11" ViewCount="2172" Body="&lt;p&gt;Despite its good rating and an uplifted discussion about it among movie watchers, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;No Country for Old Men&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; seemed to me a movie without a message and a clear ending. All that is there to see in that movie is the villain and its psycho mentality, nothing else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it is also an undeniable fact that when a movie gets so good reviews, definitely there is something special about it. How should I interpret the movie to get the full enjoyment out of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2019-11-21T13:14:32.073" LastActivityDate="2023-05-19T20:09:01.403" Title="How should I interpret &quot;No Country for Old Men&quot;?" Tags="|no-country-for-old-men|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14022" CreationDate="2013-09-22T22:19:27.203" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2009 movie was not Dragon Ball Z, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1098327/&quot;&gt;Dragonball: Evolution&lt;/a&gt;. Going by the reviews, you don't really want to see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie was released &quot;worldwide&quot; in 2009. In India (as per the OP's profile), it was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1098327/releaseinfo&quot;&gt;released on 7 Aug, 2009&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-09-22T22:19:27.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14034" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18500" CreationDate="2013-09-23T01:15:46.017" Score="1" ViewCount="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Chance appears on a tv show, the president is so restless that he has no desire for sex. This happens at least once more in the movie, and I wonder what the issue is. Maybe he's already concerned the now-popular Chance would defeat him in a possible future contest (for U.S. presidency)? If so, are we given enough detail in the movie to justify him acting this way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastEditorUserId="105" LastEditDate="2013-09-23T01:37:24.617" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T20:18:14.927" Title="Why is the president so restless?" Tags="|plot-explanation|being-there|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14035" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-23T01:25:33.797" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-09-23T01:25:33.797" LastActivityDate="2013-09-23T01:25:33.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14036" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-23T01:25:33.797" Score="0" Body="Being There (1979) is a comedy about a man who positively impacts a large number of people through a succession of accidents, but is too simple-minded to notice." OwnerUserId="105" LastEditorUserId="105" LastEditDate="2013-09-23T04:26:29.563" LastActivityDate="2013-09-23T04:26:29.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14037" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14046" CreationDate="2013-09-23T02:07:09.457" Score="4" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Night At The Museum&lt;/em&gt;, Ben Stiller is hired as a replacement for three retiring night guards who soon return to rob the museum at which they had worked. With the help of the magically animated exhibits, Stiller captures the three and ties them up. They are never mentioned again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens to the three guards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastActivityDate="2017-03-31T10:38:36.253" Title="What happens to the retired night guards?" Tags="|plot-explanation|night-at-the-museum|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-23T02:10:46.860" Score="10" ViewCount="830" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Night At The Museum&lt;/em&gt;, the exhibits in the Museum of Natural History come to life and wreak havoc every evening. We see them causing extensive destruction on several different nights. However, sometimes this damage seems to be magically repaired, and goes unmentioned by the daytime staff of the museum, and on other occasions, the museum is left in a terrible state. Is there some explanation for this, or is it merely sloppy plotting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="940" LastEditDate="2014-01-07T22:04:25.080" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T22:04:25.080" Title="How does the museum get cleaned?" Tags="|plot-explanation|night-at-the-museum|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14040" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16694" CreationDate="2013-09-23T04:24:13.330" Score="3" ViewCount="8205" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV show, they said that T-Bag burned the Sona. But they never showed how he did that and what exactly happened there in the Sona. So how do T-Bag, Sucre, and Bellick come out of Sona?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6168" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-23T04:27:36.367" LastActivityDate="2014-01-15T08:04:27.233" Title="In Season 3, how do T-Bag, Sucre, and Bellick come out of Sona?" Tags="|prison-break|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14042" CreationDate="2013-09-23T07:28:34.650" Score="10" ViewCount="4750" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry, I don't have many details to go on for this one, but I recall watching a movie on TV during my childhood (i.e. 1993-2000) where a young, pretty babysitter is in the kitchen and the floor somehow got filled up with water (I seem to remember it being soapy water) and something happened to expose the water to electricity. I can't remember exactly what, but the babysitter died from the electric shock. Other details include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The movie was live-action (i.e. &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; animated).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a good chance the movie was made in the 80's (I've always liked older movies). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have no idea what genre the movie was, but most likely was either comedy or horror as those have always been my favorite types of movies. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It would have been an American made movie, and was most likely aired on one of the public TV stations such as USA, Sci-Fi Channel, TNT, or one of the other similar stations. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm really not sure on this, but I believe she may have been listening to music on her headphones while this happened. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first thought was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101757/&quot;&gt;Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead&lt;/a&gt;, but after looking up the plot description, the babysitter just doesn't match. It was definitely a young girl, and she definitely died in the kitchen from electrocution. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T01:12:41.960" Title="Movie where babysitter gets electrocuted in the kitchen" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:50:16.780" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14041" CreationDate="2013-09-23T07:51:36.277" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Machine_%28film%29#Plot&quot;&gt;Ghost in the Machine (1993)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Karl opens the scanned page from Terry's address-book and begins killing the names that are on her list. Her co-worker, Frank Mallory (Richard McKenzie), becomes the first victim when he dies in an electrical fire. Another friend, Elliot Kastner (Jack Laufer) gets burned to death when a hand-dryer turns into a flame-thrower. Terry's babysitter, Carol Maibaum (Shevonne Durkin), becomes the third victim when she gets caught between an exploding TV-set and a dishwasher in her kitchen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can watch most of the scene in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB5Nn--X2g4&quot;&gt;odd mash-up on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-09-23T07:51:36.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14021" CreationDate="2013-09-23T09:40:42.213" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the elements are indeed taken from Greek Mythology however they've been put together in a different manner. I'll try to outline a few changes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Perseus did indeed kill Medusa and save Andromeda, however in the myth it was a sea monster sent by Poseidon not Hades, it was indeed based around the city of Argos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Medusa was actually one of three Gorgon sisters (Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Perseus married Andromeda not Io (who was in fact a nymph who seduced Zeus)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bellerophon rode the Pegasus not Perseus&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Kraken is a sea monster in Norse mythology not Greek&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Zeus defeated the Titans by tricking his father Kronos not Hades and the Kraken.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary a lot of the elements of the story were taken from various greek myths, many of the characters were very real characters (if you read many of the myths the gods play as central role as the humans - there is no question of their existence). However the stories has been combined in a new way to create a film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-09-23T09:40:42.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14038" CreationDate="2013-09-23T10:58:47.900" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing mentioned about how museum get cleaned every night after destruction but for the cleaning of destruction done in the end done by retired night guards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cecil, Gus, and Reginald are forced to become museum janitors to evade&#xA;  being sent to jail for their crimes. -  (Source :&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_at_the_Museum&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same confirmation has been provided on IMDb &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477347/faq#.2.1.18&quot;&gt;So who cleaned up the mess in the Museum lobby? &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-23T12:13:14.523" LastActivityDate="2013-09-23T12:13:14.523" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14037" CreationDate="2013-09-23T11:00:16.110" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cecil, Gus, and Reginald are forced to become museum janitors to evade&#xA;  being sent to jail for their crimes. -  (Source :&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_at_the_Museum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477347/faq#.2.1.18&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In some versions, Cecil, Gus, and Reginald were forced to clean up the&#xA;  lobby, seen in the end credits. 'We're nightwatchmen, not janitors!'&#xA;  says Gus during these end credits.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-03-31T10:38:36.253" LastActivityDate="2017-03-31T10:38:36.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14049" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-23T14:39:27.400" Score="7" ViewCount="1635" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the UK television show &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_%28game_show%29&quot;&gt;CountDown&lt;/a&gt;, the clock appears to run clockwise from 12 o'clock down to six o'clock (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2dhD9zR6hk&quot;&gt;Youtube video&lt;/a&gt;).  Although I have never seen how the clock hand returns to the 12 o'clock point. After a round the camera seems to focus on the presenters, and contestants, thus when the next round is played everything is reset. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibilities;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The hand completes the whole circumference of the clock, returning to the top&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It reverses direction to go back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A technician pulls the hand from the face, and places it back to the top. (Least likely because of the disruption).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3368" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-09-23T14:52:41.373" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T17:39:11.707" Title="How does the Countdown clock work?" Tags="|countdown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14051" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14054" CreationDate="2013-09-23T19:15:03.607" Score="8" ViewCount="16951" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The World's End&lt;/em&gt;, Nick Frost's character Andy notices this wristband that Gary King was wearing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WFSr9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose that it's connected to the Alcoholics Anonymous-like support group meeting towards the beginning of the movie. But what does it mean exactly? What is he suffering from? Are we given any clues during the support group scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-11-24T22:49:14.370" LastActivityDate="2016-09-06T02:34:47.827" Title="What does Gary King's wristband signify?" Tags="|the-worlds-end|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14052" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14080" CreationDate="2013-09-23T19:24:04.493" Score="14" ViewCount="1415" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing as to how the final pub, &lt;em&gt;The World's End&lt;/em&gt;, is more or less when the world ends, do the other pub names also signify something? What are their names and their positions in the &lt;em&gt;Golden Mile&lt;/em&gt; crawl?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I believe that they do mean something. Gary meets Oliver's sister in &lt;em&gt;The Old Familiar&lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-27T05:33:17.553" LastActivityDate="2015-01-04T23:47:27.213" Title="Do the pub names and their order mean anything?" Tags="|analysis|the-worlds-end|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14051" CreationDate="2013-09-23T20:28:21.553" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is hidden below, because it is spoiler-ish.  These are things that were inferred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Simon Pegg's characters has a wristband because he was in a hospital because he tried to kill himself, the group that he was in was a support group to help him deal with things.  This all comes out when Nick Frost see's the bandages on the wrist and asks what happened and Pegg replies that everything was supposed to be awesome after they graduated and it never got any better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50" LastActivityDate="2013-09-23T20:28:21.553" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14049" CreationDate="2013-09-23T20:45:22.513" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like it just winds around and back whenever the camera isn't looking. You can see this in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEgvhc0nivs&amp;amp;t=11m53s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;8 Out Of 10 Cats do Countdown special (16 08 13)&lt;/a&gt; where Jimmy gets excited and accidentally starts the countdown and they reset it with the camera still on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5724" LastEditorUserId="5724" LastEditDate="2017-01-26T17:39:11.707" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T17:39:11.707" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10952" CreationDate="2013-09-23T22:46:00.833" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was in the closet..Sheriff Ed Tom comes out of the bathroom but never checks the closet across from him...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6209" LastActivityDate="2013-09-23T22:46:00.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14060" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-24T05:22:36.847" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T05:22:36.847" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T05:22:36.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14061" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-24T05:22:36.847" Score="0" Body="Frequently Asked Questions asking for resources and recommendations which are generally considered off-topic. Such questions are often community wikis." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T05:22:36.847" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T05:22:36.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14062" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-24T05:23:50.543" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronin_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ronin&lt;/a&gt; is a 1998 American crime thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård, Sean Bean, and Jonathan Pryce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T05:23:50.543" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T05:23:50.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14063" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-24T05:23:50.543" Score="0" Body="1998 American crime thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård, Sean Bean, and Jonathan Pryce." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T05:23:50.543" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T05:23:50.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14064" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-24T05:25:36.460" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payback_%281999_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Payback&lt;/a&gt; is a 1999 American crime thriller directed by Brian Helgeland and starring Mel Gibson. The film shares the same source material as the 1967 noir-classic &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com/tags/point-blank/&quot;&gt;Point Blank&lt;/a&gt;, directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin; both are based on the book The Hunter, written by Donald E. Westlake under the pseudonym of Richard Stark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T05:25:36.460" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T05:25:36.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14065" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-24T05:25:36.460" Score="0" Body="1999 American crime thriller directed by Brian Helgeland and starring Mel Gibson." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T05:25:36.460" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T05:25:36.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14066" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-24T05:28:04.007" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Blank_%281967_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Point Blank&lt;/a&gt; is a 1967 American crime film directed by John Boorman, starring Lee Marvin and featuring Angie Dickinson, adapted from the crime noir pulp novel The Hunter by Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark. Boorman directed the film at Marvin's request and Marvin played a central role in the film's development and staging. The film was not a box office success in 1967 but has since gone on to become a cult classic, eliciting praise from such critics as film historian David Thomson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T05:28:04.007" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T05:28:04.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14067" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-24T05:28:04.007" Score="0" Body="A 1967 American crime film directed by John Boorman, starring Lee Marvin and featuring Angie Dickinson, adapted from the crime noir pulp novel The Hunter by Donald E. Westlake" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T05:28:04.007" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T05:28:04.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14068" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-24T05:30:53.010" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_the_Barbarian_%281982_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Conan the Barbarian&lt;/a&gt; is a 1982 American sword and sorcery/adventure film directed and co-written by John Milius. It is based on stories by Robert E. Howard, a pulp fiction writer of the 1930s, about the adventures of the eponymous character in a fictional pre-historic world of dark magic and savagery. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T05:30:53.010" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T05:30:53.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14069" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-24T05:30:53.010" Score="0" Body="A 1982 American sword and sorcery/adventure film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones and Max von Sydow." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T05:30:53.010" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T05:30:53.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14070" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14087" CreationDate="2013-09-24T05:53:40.550" Score="5" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The World's End&lt;/em&gt;, is the whole &quot;blanks&quot; and &quot;The Network&quot; angle a gibe by the writers at technology and the Internet and what it is doing to people? The Network states that it is responsible for all technological advances made in the last few decades.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T14:05:52.313" Title="What are the writers trying to convey with the whole blanks/Network angle?" Tags="|analysis|the-worlds-end|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14071" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14077" CreationDate="2013-09-24T05:56:21.923" Score="8" ViewCount="7604" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does Gary King become in the end? Is he happy now that he has found a purpose in life? Or is he simply content to repeat the Golden Mile crawl once again, this time with blanks? Why choose the kid blanks to team up with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2023-03-15T20:31:29.387" Title="What does Gary King become in the end? Why team up with blanks?" Tags="|the-worlds-end|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14072" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14088" CreationDate="2013-09-24T07:19:41.780" Score="5" ViewCount="7452" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Upside Down&quot;, what happened after Eden gave birth to Adam's children? Will they belong to the &quot;Up&quot; or the &quot;Down&quot; world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6168" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T14:52:19.430" LastActivityDate="2016-06-26T22:06:43.533" Title="Will Adam and Eden's children belong to the &quot;Up&quot; or the &quot;Down&quot; world?" Tags="|upside-down|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14073" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14079" CreationDate="2013-09-24T08:16:57.457" Score="20" ViewCount="5337" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a Hollywood stereotype that very intelligent characters are often socially awkward and struggle to understand human interaction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sherlock Holmes, in almost every interpretation of his character he insults people unknowingly, misses obvious things, and is crass and rude&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sheldon Cooper, a physics genius who has a prickly and awkward character and often fails to interact with people around him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tony Stark, a genius mechanical engineer. Despite seeing a shift throughout the films he's not exactly balanced - he's obsessive and compulsive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alice Morgan (Luther), she's a genius who's cold, calculating, and doesn't feel any regret for her crimes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bruce Banner, let's not even go there...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edited to add:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Peter Parker&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this stereotype based on any evidence? Why are highly intelligent characters often portrayed this way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T13:45:27.087" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T09:23:21.533" Title="Why are geniuses often portrayed as socially awkward?" Tags="|character|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14071" CreationDate="2013-09-24T11:31:26.437" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Flavours_Cornetto_trilogy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Three Flavors Cornetto trilogy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748/?ref_=sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shaun of the Dead&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425112/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hot Fuzz&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1213663/?ref_=sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The World's End&lt;/a&gt;) has arrested development for main theme. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;em&gt;The World's End&lt;/em&gt; is the most blatant example of it.  At the end of the movie it is clear that Gary is a new man: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;his idealized adolescence's visions have been beheaded (literally) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the place of his past glory has been destroyed (literally)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gary King (of humans) has found a new sense of self worth by defeating the network&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;he doesn't rely on childish notions of manhood and self affirmation (alcohol is not needed to be a man, as he orders water)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it is safe to say that the days obsessed with self indulgent nostalgia are over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why choose the kid blanks to team up with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure that &quot;why&quot; is the right question to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ending makes sense/is satisfying because : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;it ties nicely with the end of &lt;em&gt;Shaun of the Dead&lt;/em&gt; where Shaun chose to hang with the villains of the movie (his zombified roomate)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;it ties nicely with the whole premise of the movie (the Golden Mile) but now with a twist (well, two : the blanks and the water) to show the character growth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;it opens on a movie genre that the Cornetto trilogy hasn't touched : western (after zombie, cops and aliens movies). &lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; Or, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/382/nobby&quot;&gt;Nobby&lt;/a&gt; points out, Mad Max post-apocalyptic film.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gary graduated from obnoxious teenager to a man of honor. Instead of using his friends as mere means to have a second go at the Golden Mile, he now takes charge and fight for his mates (the Blanks that got bullied by the bar patrons).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6216" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2016-09-06T03:29:52.370" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14073" CreationDate="2013-09-24T11:45:33.800" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't call characters in your list socially awkward (may be with an exception a Dr. Cooper). They have their own demons, but it is the main point about them - otherwise they won't be interesting, and building an interesting character is an ultimate goal (or at least one of two - the other being a story) for a writer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now back to the question in the title. I think that social awkwardness of some characters in movies stems from an 'obvious' correlation between being a genius and being a geek, and then immediately another far one: being a geek and being socially awkward. Why is that? Well, first of all because it has some reason behind it, especially when perceived by a jock. Then, there is always one of two. The character either overcomes whatever his social awkwardness stops him from overcoming, or is a background-ish science type, whose role in movie boils down to 'being smart'. In a latter example, of course, it is really easy to make a socially awkward character to communicate his levels of intellect to the viewer (as you were right that it is a stereotype).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think other examples usually feature characters that are far more interesting, than just being labeled as socially awkward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now a quick comment on people from your list. Sherlock, who is indeed crass sometimes, isn't socially awkward, he's just crass (and a bit cynical).  Tony Stark is everything that social awkwardness is not. He's billioner, philantropist... you know the drill. Morgan is a sociopath, and they are far from being socially awkward either. As for Banner - bingo. But as he sometimes wakes up in desert with clothes torn apart, without clue of what happened and generally thinks little of himself. He is a definition of social awkwardness (at least in marvel universe), but it serves purpose - how would he otherwise turn into a green moster, without always feeling nervous?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To recap. It's either for a purpose, or just a lazy way out for a writer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6219" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T11:45:33.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14073" CreationDate="2013-09-24T11:46:04.113" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;As all stereotypes, it's an oversimplification. Our culture is focused mainly (or almost exclusively) on the material, so the &quot;important&quot; traits are physical: strength, beauty, knowledge/intelligence (often wrong intertwined), money, power,... This, being still too complicated for the pop culture, is simplified further: power means money, good physical traits will give you both (at least by the end of the movie),... so, you're left with body and mind as the only two important traits (now my answer is a bit of an oversimplification, but not as much).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another simplification is that pretty = sociable. So, those not pretty are not sociable, which is the reason why such persons become, as you rightly put it, socially awkward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if you have only two (main) traits, a person cannot have both, because (s)he would be perfect, right? Hence, smart must mean socially awkward. Tony Stark is the obvious counterexample here, but he is portrayed as an all-might human, and his flaws are just minor annoyances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that your examples are more or less aiming towards comedy. Very common way to make fun of characters is to make them stupid, but you cannot make that to smart people. Hence, you make them &quot;socially stupid&quot;, and achieve the comedy element (this is the key element of the Bones character in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460627/&quot;&gt;Bones&lt;/a&gt;, although most of the other - also smart - characters there are not nearly as awkward as she is, with the exception of Zack).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This kind of stereotype is also somewhat believable to &quot;ordinary&quot; people, since &quot;smart&quot; is also mysterious, in respect to what such people do. Most people do not understand advanced mathematics, programming/system administration/hacking, chemistry, etc., so people who understand this stuff must be weird, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, astronauts must also be insanely smart, but they are mostly seen as good looking guys (rarely women) who fly in rockets and walk on alien planets and moons. Or snipers, who just put a cross on someone and shoot him (in reality, it's a job that requires quite a bit of smarts; see a nice, short explanation in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/article_20052_5-weapon-myths-you-probably-believe-thanks-to-movies.html&quot;&gt;this Cracked article&lt;/a&gt;). These types are never portrayed as socially awkward, are they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for how strongly this is based on the real life, I'd say not at all. Sure, there are very smart people who are also socially awkward, but there are much more of them who are just as normal as the next man. On the other hand, there are loads of people who are of an average intelligence, but are for some reason socially awkward. A typical example: obsessive fans/collectors, i.e., StarWars fans, Trekkies, Tolkien fans,... some of them are certainly very smart, but you can be one without having beyond-average intelligence (I hope this doesn't get my rep in negative :-)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum it up: social awkwardness is related to the interaction and share of one's interests with the &quot;ordinary&quot; people (read: with the majority), and is not, at least directly, related to one's intelligence, but it's an easy way for the pop culture a) to achieve comedy, and b) to emphasize smartness of a person doing something that common people have hard time understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T11:46:04.113" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14052" CreationDate="2013-09-24T11:47:12.007" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you know, the &lt;strong&gt;Cornetto trilogy&lt;/strong&gt; is pretty big on &lt;a href=&quot;http://lolsnaps.com/news/73826/0/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;foreshadowing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A fine movie student (posting as guest) got an interesting answer in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edgarwrighthere.com/2013/08/24/the-12-pubs-of-the-golden-mile/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;edgarwrighthere.com&lt;/a&gt; (first comment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Italics : comments added by me.&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One. The First Post&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sd146.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This pub should be self explanatory, it is the beginning of the&#xA;adventure Gary King (Simon Pegg) and his mates are about to take. The&#xA;sign, itself, adds some depth as one could say that they have come to&#xA;a crossroads with this journey; both paths will eventually lead to the&#xA;prize (completion of the Golden Mile) but the routes will be&#xA;different. To some it may be difficult, and others easy. It's safe to&#xA;say that it was pretty difficult for Gary and Co.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Two. Old Familiar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ap9fd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This pub is where Oliver's (Martin Freeman) sister Sam (Rosamund Pike)&#xA;shows up. Both Gary and Steven (Paddy Considine) had a thing for Sam&#xA;as the group recalls and Gary even tries to become &amp;quot;familiar&amp;quot; with her&#xA;once again in the same pub it happened 20 years earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Besides the pub is a replica of the first pub.  Note that it ties to the movie main theme: which is things repeating again and again(the reasons varying from nostalgia, arrested development, or clones). And it also describes the benefit of pubs : pubs&#xA;feel safe because they are fundamentally all the same (a bar, taps,&#xA;tables, beer)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Three. Famous Cock&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TItu9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gary King and Co. were not allowed to drink in this bar because of the&#xA;events that took place 20 years ago. Gary is trying to seem more&#xA;important (cock of the walk) in this city even though no one remembers&#xA;him. In a sense though he is famous because he is banned from the bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;There is a delicious sense of irony there: King wanted desperately to&#xA;be remembered by his old town.&#xA;The only time he is, he's barred from a bar.&#xA;So his wish to be famous denies another wish of his: his bar-athon.&#xA;Another hint at King's current deadlock.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Four. Cross Hands&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y1zfS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gary and Co. go into this pub, have a few drinks and Co. (Peter,&#xA;Oliver, Steven, and Andy) try to set Gary straight. This pub is where&#xA;a lot of deep emotions come to the surface and everyone suddenly wants&#xA;to become violent (Peter when seeing his old high school bully, Andy&#xA;when he finds out Gary lied, and the whole fight scene in the&#xA;bathroom).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As noted by &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/382/nobby&quot;&gt;@Nobby&lt;/a&gt;, the background of the sign is a callback&#xA;to the bathroom tiles where the infamous fight took place.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Five. The Good Companion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cLbuD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gary and Co. continue to do the pub crawl but as the sign shows, only&#xA;one (the King himself) is actually having a good time while the others&#xA;only want to continue to save themselves from the robots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Six. The Trusty Servant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/a6Bfe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, are they really robots? Anyways, we're getting off topic. In this&#xA;pub we see Tyres, I mean Reverend Green and two others warning Gary&#xA;and Co. about the danger that is around them. When Reverend Green says&#xA;too much, he willingly (but not joyfully, hence the sadness of the&#xA;trusty servant) obeys the order of the mysterious beings (as he must)&#xA;and disappears. (Also note that this is the time O-man becomes a&#xA;servant)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seven. The Two Headed Dog&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IDcXi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, in this pub Gary and Co. realize that people are acting strange&#xA;(specifically MARK HEAP!!) Using Mark Heap as the bartender may be a&#xA;joke directed at Spaced fans as Brian was never super happy and&#xA;smiling but all of a sudden its his job! We also see the twins change&#xA;and everyone suddenly becomes part supportive of the mission to&#xA;complete the Golden Mile but also try to kill Gary and Co. as well.&#xA;(Note: In the sign there is a dog with two heads, one normal, the&#xA;other with ink on it. This could represent the aliens. They look like&#xA;us, but that does not mean they are)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eight. The Mermaid&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hrHhg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this may be a long shot but it makes sense to me, hopefully Edgar&#xA;will agree. I believe this pub is called the Mermaid because of the&#xA;Marmalade Sandwich and their similarities to Odysseus and the Sirens.&#xA;Sirens are often compared to Mermaids. The Sirens enchanting voices&#xA;(sex appeal, in the World's End) would lure soon-to-be-shipwrecked&#xA;sailors for their own benefit (to get their DNA). In this case,&#xA;Steven/Sam was Odysseus and saved their mates from the Sirens. The&#xA;sign is also a Marmalade Mermaid Sandwich.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nine. The Beehive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qn2lg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guy Shepherd (1995-2002 James Bond) explains to Gary and Co. the goal&#xA;of the invasion, how they are all like a Beehive; working together to&#xA;create something magnificent. The group understands that when they say&#xA;they're not willing to join, they may get stung (they get into a huge&#xA;brawl).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note the presence of the blue paint, ominous sign of the presence&#xA;the network. As seen before in th two headed dogs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ten. The King's Head&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qOX1e.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gary KING goes insane and despite the danger wants to finish the&#xA;Golden Mile. It's safe to say he is running around like a Cock with&#xA;its Head cut off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And he knocks his head against a post - many times - to prove he's human.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As noted by &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/382/nobby&quot;&gt;@Nobby&lt;/a&gt;, the portrait has a striking resemblance to Gary King's head&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eleven. The Hole in the Wall&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Do5ym.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any crashes the car through the pub, thus, making a hole in the wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Do you think the color blue used for the bricks is just random chance?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Twelve. The World's End&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KCz6l.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The world ends; fire spreading across the globe as in the sign. This&#xA;makes way for a new dawn, and a new tale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6216" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-01-04T23:47:27.213" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14081" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14085" CreationDate="2013-09-24T12:29:02.587" Score="5" ViewCount="30184" Body="&lt;p&gt;The TV series The Tudors (2008-2010) depicts the reign of Henry VIII. So far I've not noticed any historical inaccuracies. How truthful to history is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cQcf1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T13:33:09.113" LastActivityDate="2017-11-11T07:54:31.863" Title="How historically accurate is the TV series 'The Tudors'?" Tags="|historical-accuracy|the-tudors|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14082" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-24T12:29:34.637" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T12:29:34.637" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T12:29:34.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14083" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-24T12:29:34.637" Score="0" Body="The Tudors is an Irish-Canadian historical fiction television series set primarily in sixteenth-century England, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime. The series, named after the Tudor dynasty, is loosely based upon the reign of King Henry VIII of England." OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T12:29:34.637" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T12:29:34.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14084" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17816" CreationDate="2013-09-24T12:32:41.153" Score="2" ViewCount="1179" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realise this may be more of a historical question than a TV series one but... when Anne Boleyn is being tried for treason Mark Smeaton confesses to adultery despite being depicted as homosexual (and no indication given that he was guilty).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did he confess?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T13:11:17.093" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T15:55:11.067" Title="Why does Mark Smeaton confess?" Tags="|the-tudors|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14081" CreationDate="2013-09-24T13:19:45.467" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tudors#Departures_from_history&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; has listed various inaccuracies as character names,&#xA;relationships, historical costume, physical appearance and the timing&#xA;of events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As creator Hirst noted, &quot;Showtime commissioned me to write&#xA;  an entertainment, a soap opera, and not history ... And we wanted&#xA;  people to watch it.&quot; He added that some changes were made for&#xA;  production considerations and some to avoid viewer confusion, and that&#xA;  &quot;any confusion created by the changes is outweighed by the interest&#xA;  the series may inspire in the period and its figures.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some listed errors from Wikipedia are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Historically, Cardinal Wolsey died of an unspecified illness in Leicester in 1530&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The character of Henry's sister, called &quot;Princess Margaret&quot; in the series, is actually a composite of his two sisters: the life events of&#xA;  his younger sister, Princess Mary Tudor, coupled with the name of his&#xA;  elder sister, Margaret Tudor.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The king's natural son Henry Fitzroy was shown to be born near the beginning of the series and dying at a very young age from the&#xA;  sweating sickness. In fact, he lived until 1536, long enough to marry&#xA;  the only daughter of Anne Boleyn's uncle Thomas Howard, Duke of&#xA;  Norfolk, and be a witness to Anne Boleyn's execution.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Henry's daughter Mary is shown to be openly hostile towards Catherine Parr having discovered her Protestant view. Mary didn't fall out with Catherine until after Henry's death, when the Queen hastily married Thomas Seymour.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And many more inaccuracies are there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thetudorswiki.com/page/Historical+INACCURACIES+of+the+Tudors&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;www.thetudorswiki.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Writer Michael Hirst believes that&#xA;  The Tudors brings out into the open the gaps and contradictions in the&#xA;  historical record that academic history shies away from. “Of course,&#xA;  there are certain facts which are incontrovertible,” he says, “but&#xA;  beyond that there’s just interpretation and there are surprisingly few&#xA;  sources.  So I discovered that the truth is variable and I also&#xA;  discovered that most historians are very bad psychologists:  They&#xA;  don’t tell you very much about the human relationships in history.&#xA;  I’ve discovered that nearly all the  caricatures of Henry’s wives for&#xA;  instance, are nonsense or only tell a little bit of the story.” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-11-11T07:54:31.863" LastActivityDate="2017-11-11T07:54:31.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14073" CreationDate="2013-09-24T13:32:05.923" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, this is neither a stereotype particular to Hollywood nor one peculiar to the movies (although both might have perpetuated it). It's a general stereotype from our society.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the following definitions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nerd&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nerd&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(slang, sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(slang, always derogatory) An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person; a dork.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/geek&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Geek&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(colloquial) A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and usually asocial.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(colloquial) An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why the mentally gifted are often eccentric or do not possess adequate social skills is out of the scope of this answer. That said, writing characters with eccentricities is a common enough trope used to provide a little more dimension to them. For example, most detectives (Poirot, Holmes, Monk, Rorschach) have peculiarities that allow them to stand out from the rest of their ilk. These peculiarities often render them social awkward or inept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, there are plenty of examples of characters in the movies who are gifted and function perfectly well in their societies. Sticking to the superhero theme, we have Reed Richards and even Superman. Characters such as those in CSI or perhaps Dexter himself (at least on the surface) probably also fit the bill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. The following is rather apropos:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mOtyZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodNerd&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TVTropes&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T13:39:17.877" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T13:39:17.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14070" CreationDate="2013-09-24T14:05:52.313" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;To a degree, yes. The film is dealing with the nature of our addiction to the internet and our devices, but this is just part of a larger picture. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a number of references made to the 'homogenization' of England (read 'the world'), depicted by the identical pub interiors, the 'Starbucks' references and the the beehive mentality of the antagonists. This homogenization is aided and spread using the network and, in a sense, harkens back to the anti-communism films of the 50's such as &lt;em&gt;Invasion of the Body Snatchers&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Invaders from Mars&lt;/em&gt;. One of mankind's greatest fears is loss of identity, and this film deals with the consequences of making choices through free will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, there is a great article &lt;a href=&quot;http://jalopnik.com/the-movie-the-worlds-end-shows-that-hybrids-are-for-al-1347359227&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; about the use of cars in the film - not just about Gary's stubborn reluctance to give up his old Ford Granada, but the fact that the town is populated with identical Vauxhall Amperas (Chevy Volts in the US) - further evidence of the insidiousness of homogenization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T14:05:52.313" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14072" CreationDate="2013-09-24T14:06:00.083" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short answer is a combination of &quot;We don't know&quot; and &quot;It doesn't matter&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know because it is not explained to us. The science in the movie is sketchy at best. That said, even Adam and Eden wouldn't have known until the twins were born (which at the risk of sounding macabre, is not a given either).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter because regardless of which world they are born &lt;em&gt;of&lt;/em&gt;, they can live anywhere, thanks to Adam's (and Bob's) innovations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trying to predict what will happen using reason is difficult thanks to the whole &quot;third law&quot; business which is, IMO, too gimmicky. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upside_Down_(2012_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After some time in contact, matter in contact with inverse matter burns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are not informed what exactly Bob did to &quot;negate&quot; the gravitational effects. We don't know if it also negates the third law. But that is unlikely. If it doesn't, then there are a few points to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In  light of the third law, how did Adam impregnate Eden in the first place? How did she get fertilised?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Presumably, those from &lt;em&gt;Up&lt;/em&gt; can only eat &lt;em&gt;Up&lt;/em&gt; grown food. This would mean that Eden will only be able to eat &lt;em&gt;Up&lt;/em&gt; food and thereby, the twins too. It would then follow that the twins will be made of &lt;em&gt;Up&lt;/em&gt; matter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;But why &lt;em&gt;twins&lt;/em&gt;? IMO, the writer wants us to believe that one twin will be an &lt;em&gt;Up&lt;/em&gt; while the other will be a &lt;em&gt;Down&lt;/em&gt;. This unfortunately does not solve the  nutrition problem from above.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The twins were conceived when Adam and Eden had sex in the &quot;neutral zone&quot; between worlds. We will have to assume that the &quot;third law&quot; doesn't really have an effect in this region, which would mean that the twins are &quot;neutral zone&quot; citizens. Furthermore, this might render them immune to all three laws and capable of living on either world. Perhaps all &quot;interracial&quot; couples will then go to the neutral zone to conceive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, the neutral zone theory is the least problematic solution to the problem. But let's hope that there are no plans for a sequel :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="36899" LastEditDate="2016-06-26T22:06:43.533" LastActivityDate="2016-06-26T22:06:43.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14091" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-24T18:54:17.007" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T18:54:17.007" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T18:54:17.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14092" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-24T18:54:17.007" Score="0" Body="2013 Movie - Animated/Comedy/Adventure - Starring the voices of  Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone, and others. A prehistoric caveman family has their cave-home destroyed. Due to this they must travel through unfamiliar lands. The story follows their adventures." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T20:20:51.170" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T20:20:51.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14094" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-24T20:10:53.680" Score="4" ViewCount="679" Body="&lt;p&gt;How and when is the chronology is separated from the main storyline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What or who ties together the characters and the movie? After the restaurant robbery?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is two questions I can't understand, english is not my first language so I am sorry if you don't understand my question. Ask me what I mean if you don't get it and I will do my best to explain :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6214" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-24T20:24:00.800" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T03:15:04.583" Title="Who/what ties together the characters/movie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pulp-fiction|chronology|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14096" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33968" CreationDate="2013-09-24T21:08:18.100" Score="6" ViewCount="1143" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching a Japanese anime movie on [adult swim] years ago about a group of children wandering around a city that resembles Tokyo, with &lt;a href=&quot;http://image.yaymicro.com/rz_1210x1210/0/26e/japanese-lion-statue-26eec5.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lion statues&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torii&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;torii&lt;/a&gt;. I've looked through &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_Adult_Swim&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this list&lt;/a&gt; but none of the movies listed match what I remember. For a long time, I thought the name of the movie was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royale_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Battle Royale&lt;/a&gt;, but I later learned this was false. I think the reason I believed the name was Battle Royale was because it seemed like a version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warriors_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Warriors&lt;/a&gt; with children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that I saw  this movie sometime between 2005 and 2008. Other than the possible plot of the children being sent out into an empty city, I don't remember much more of the plot. My most vivid memory of the movie is two children under a lion statue with a torii in the background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the movie was red. It seemed like most of the buildings and objects except for the children were red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6021" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-08T03:42:16.773" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T07:37:07.873" Title="What is the name of a movie on [adult swim] where children run around an empty Tokyo-esque city?" Tags="|anime|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:50:23.030" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14097" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-24T22:08:12.043" Score="29" ViewCount="61216" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was rewatching the &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; episode S04E08 (Hermanos) and I didn't quite understand why exactly Don Eladio killed Gus's partner, but he let Gus live. He says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The only reason you're alive and he's not, is because I know who you are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I still have yet to fully understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6225" LastEditorUserId="21705" LastEditDate="2020-05-01T13:44:30.280" LastActivityDate="2020-05-01T13:44:30.280" Title="S04E08 (Hermanos): Why is Gus allowed to live?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|dialogue|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14094" CreationDate="2013-09-24T22:18:30.623" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I understand your question(s) correctly, Vincent Vega, played by John Travolta, is probably the closest character to tying all of the events and characters together as most of the events involve him. If you were to take all of the events and re-arrange them so that they were in chronological order then it would be as follows... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vincent and Jules drive to Brett's apartment, kill him and his associates. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vincent and Jules leave Brett's apartment with Marvin, Vincent &quot;accidentally&quot; shoots Marvin in the head, and they travel to Jimmie's house.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Wolf helps Vincent and Jules clean up the blood and guts from the car. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vincent, Jules, and The Wolf arrive and Monster Joe's to demolish the tainted car, and dispose of Marvin's body.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vincent and Jules head to the diner, where they encounter Pumpkin and Honey Bunny who rob the restaurant. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jules and Vincent leave the diner and go to Marsellus' club where he is talking to Butch about throwing the fight. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vincent and Butch have their encounter at the bar. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Butch keys Vincent's car.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Simultaneously&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Butch throws the fight, gets in the cab with Esmerelda to take him the hotel, makes love to Fabienne, etc. etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vincent goes to Lance's house to score some heroin, then proceeds to the Wallace house to pick up Mia, takes her out to Jack Rabbit Slims, takes her back home where she O.D.'s. Vincent takes her back to Lance's house to get the adrenaline shot, then takes her back home, and goes home himself. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marsellus gathers his men to hunt down Butch. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Simultaneously &#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vincent steaks out Butch's apartment. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Butch and Fabienne have the argument about his fathers gold watch, and Butch returns to the apartment to pick up his gold watch. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Butch kills Vincent when he comes out of the bathroom.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Butch leaves and starts to head back to the hotel, but encounters Marsellus at the intersection and runs him over.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marsellus chases butch into the gun shop, where they have their fight. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maynard knocks out Butch and Marsellus, and then takes them down to the basement, ties them up, and calls Zed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Zed arrives, heads down to the basement and he and Maynard rape Marsellus while Butch escapes upstairs, has a change of heart looks through variuos weapons and decides on a katana, then returns down to the basement and kills Maynard, etc. etc. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Butch leaves, takes Zed's &lt;del&gt;motorcycle&lt;/del&gt; chopper and returns back to the hotel to pick up Fabienne. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of &lt;a href=&quot;http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/pulp-fiction-in-chronological-order_502917de71757.jpg&quot;&gt;more detailed outlines&lt;/a&gt; available &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=pulp%20fiction%20chronological%20timeline&quot;&gt;on the Internet&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T03:15:04.583" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T03:15:04.583" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14097" CreationDate="2013-09-24T22:43:26.497" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far we don't know. All we do know is that Gustavo Fring immigrated from Chile to Mexico in 1986. What he did back in Chile and who he was remains a mystery. Hank investigated his past and couldn't find anything, leading him to suspect that the Pinochet regime (who ruled Chile at the time) were somehow responsible. Don Eladio's words seems to suggest that Gustavo was a person of some note back in Chile, or is at least related to someone of note. But, with only one episode left in the series, no further information is available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-09-24T22:43:26.497" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13936" CreationDate="2013-09-25T07:02:05.437" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He doesn't care. In his mind he's not human. And it's not like they can force him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6227" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T07:02:05.437" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13641" CreationDate="2013-09-25T07:11:45.090" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure I remember them saying something about a pandemic rendering all women infertile. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6227" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T07:11:45.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14105" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-25T13:28:29.353" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T13:28:29.353" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T13:28:29.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14106" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-25T13:28:29.353" Score="0" Body="After the Rain aka Ame agaru is a 1999's Japanese film based on the last script written by Akira Kurosawa." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T13:28:29.353" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T13:28:29.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11013" CreationDate="2013-09-25T14:11:29.627" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that she wears purple as she feels more secure with her clothing and home surroundings being purple. When she gets depressed and upset in the final series she mainly wears the colour black.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6232" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T14:11:29.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14108" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-25T14:23:00.200" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T14:23:00.200" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T14:23:00.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14109" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-25T14:23:00.200" Score="0" Body="So I Married an Axe Murderer is a 1993 American comedy-horror film starring Mike Myers and Nancy Travis. (The tag has been shortened to fit.)" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T14:23:00.200" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T14:23:00.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14110" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-25T07:38:16.610" Score="8" ViewCount="5736" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw the movie &lt;em&gt;Sherlock Holmes&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that movie, there is a scene where Holmes and Doctor fights with Dredger in Ginger Midget's place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To attack Dredger, Holmes used a weapon which contained electric charge. When Holmes touches Dredger with that weapon, Dredger was thrown away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't the electric charge affect Holmes? (They both are touching each other - Moreover Dredger was lying on him)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please someone clarify how this is possible&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6245" OwnerDisplayName="arunborn2win41" LastEditorUserId="6245" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T06:06:44.320" LastActivityDate="2019-01-05T23:34:55.580" Title="Why didn't the electric charge affect Holmes when he attacks Dredger?" Tags="|plot-explanation|realism|sherlock-holmes-2009|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14110" CreationDate="2013-09-25T09:44:02.490" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're talking about this scene at about 1:55 &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/VxIiww1bAMQ#t=1m55s?start=115&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;weapon&quot; appears to be a charge-carrying part of some sort of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatic_generator&quot;&gt;electrostatic generator&lt;/a&gt; built by Reardon, but actually intended to be moved around. Presumably, the handle is insulated (e.g. made of wood) in order to protect the person conducting the experiment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;As for why Holmes was not affected even though Dredger was touching him - the charge would flow from the device to the ground. Dredger was standing on the ground, so it would flow through him. Holmes was not - he was lying on a wooden table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to be honest, the scene is overall not very realistic. The effect shown (Dredger being thrown across the room) is total bollocks. It's also unrealistic for the device as shown (basically a massive metal fork) to carry enough charge to be in any way dangerous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6233" OwnerDisplayName="Michael Borgwardt" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T10:25:58.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14112" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-25T15:21:04.187" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law in lead roles, Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) is based on the story written by Lionel Wigram and Michael Robert Johnson. Set in 1890, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are hired by a secret organization to prevent villain Lord Blackwood from expanding British empire by supernatural means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-08-26T10:06:58.937" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T10:06:58.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14113" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-25T15:21:04.187" Score="0" Body="2009 British–American action mystery film based on the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It stars Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T15:21:04.187" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T15:21:04.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14096" CreationDate="2013-09-25T15:33:57.603" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you've also tagged this as &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/identify-this-tv-show&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;identify-this-tv-show&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;identify-this-tv-show&lt;/a&gt;, I'd like to suggest that you might have watched an episode of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Coil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dennou Coil (aka Cyber Coil)&lt;/a&gt;. It is from 2007 and features children running around in a virtual world. I can distinctly remember a scene in a temple with a &lt;em&gt;torii&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a Japanese science fiction anime television series depicting a near future where semi-immersive augmented reality (AR) technology has just begun to enter the mainstream. The series takes place in the fictional city of Daikoku, a hotbed of AR development with an emerging city-wide virtual infrastructure. It follows a group of children as they use AR glasses to unravel the mysteries of the half real, half Internet city, using a variety of illegal software tools, techniques, and virtual pets to manipulate the digital landscape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure about the red tint. But the animation does sometimes carry an other-worldly feel to it. Here's some artwork:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0W3KO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T15:33:57.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13385" CreationDate="2013-09-25T16:33:20.680" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;She basically violates due process by breaking the Brady rules, which are rules governing the disclosure of all information to all parties (Such as not prosecuting a witness in exchange for testimony). She does this to convict a cop rapist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially she is told that she is facing either censure or being disbarred, and when she left the show they settled on disbarred. This is contradicted, however, a few seasons later when she returns to the show and it was reduced to a censure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T16:33:20.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14116" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14117" CreationDate="2013-09-25T17:04:14.337" Score="8" ViewCount="400" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024648/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Argo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, why don't the Iranian soldiers shoot the wheels ofr the plane in their attempt to stop it at the end of the movie? Why don't they contact the control room to stop it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6235" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-29T17:29:24.567" LastActivityDate="2013-09-29T17:29:24.567" Title="Why don't the Iranian troops try more extreme measures to stop the departing plane?" Tags="|plot-explanation|argo|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14116" CreationDate="2013-09-25T17:18:06.503" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because no matter how desperate you are to stop the plane, would you really want to be responsible for shooting at and potentially crashing a full aircraft, fueled for an international flight?  An airline of the national carrier of Switzerland, setting off another international incident, but this time a famously neutral country?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The soldiers do what they can do to attract the pilot's attention.  They do burst into the ATC control tower to get the controllers to communicate with the plane, but its too late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reality from my reading of the events, their exit from the country was much less dramatic than shown in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T17:18:06.503" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14110" CreationDate="2013-09-25T18:08:33.507" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot_device&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Plot Devices&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've made that claim before, and I'll be making it again.  People seem to think they don't exist, or that they shouldn't exist in certain movies... when in point of fact, they exist in every movie.  Plot devices have even invaded so-called Reality Television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me make a few points on this specific scene.  It begins at 45:00 in the movie when Holmes begins to pick the lock to the workshop/laboratory, and Watson kicks the door in.  They enter, and Watson notices the bear trap on the floor and trips it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/phIv8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this detail important?  Because we see the floorboards, emphasis on &lt;em&gt;boards&lt;/em&gt;.  IE The floor is made of Wood.  Just a few moments past, their location in the building is further emphasized with Holmes walking past a skylight...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HeftC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we know they are on a wooden floor, at least one floor off the ground.  This fact is confirmed when Dredger exists the workshop via a loading window...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DlOg7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, during the fight, Dredger has Holmes on his back, on a table.  He has his hand around Holmes' throat.  This is at 49:32 in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0tKHw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Holmes subsequently touches Dredger in the chest with the device in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/M2zxt.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At which point Dredger flies back, punching through a wall in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are asking about the logistics of this?  There aren't any.  You can't address an issue of grounding, because neither Dredger nor Holmes were grounded when Holmes touched Dredger with the device.  No, no one can claim that since he was standing on wooden floorboards that he was grounded, because then Holmes would be grounded while on the wooden table that is on the same wooden floor that Dredger is supposedly grounded through.  If wood will ground for ONE character, it would have to ground for BOTH characters... if we are applying any logic here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also bring up an excellent point, and you make it VERY clear in the Youtube video in the comments... that the electricity &lt;strong&gt;SHOULD&lt;/strong&gt; have been conveyed to Holmes as well, since he was clearly being held by the throat when he shocked Dredger.  And... people conduct electricity quite well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to even touch the later scene with the device and the pipe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why wasn't Holmes shocked when he first touched Dredger with the device?  The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988045/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_wr#writers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;screenwriters&lt;/a&gt; didn't want him to be shocked.  Why did that device work like some kind of antique Tazer?  Because the screenwriters wanted it to.  Where is the logic that should clearly be present in a Sherlock Holmes movie?  It isn't there, because these are plot devices intended to raise the emotional response of the audience.  You are expected to watch and enjoy, and not apply the whole &lt;em&gt;that would never happen&lt;/em&gt; attitude.  Mind you, I'm not saying that this scene had any right to expect such responses, for when you have holes big enough to drive dump trucks full of gold bars through, suspension of disbelief goes out the 31st floor window.  However... it's a Robert Downy Jr. movie, and it's a Sherlock Holmes action flick.  I'm not sure &lt;strong&gt;we&lt;/strong&gt; have a right to expect anything more than we got.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="4621" LastEditDate="2013-09-26T17:17:25.060" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T17:17:25.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9492" CreationDate="2013-09-25T20:45:08.570" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He knew that Bane had previously worked for Dagget. He also lost track of Bane, so Bane could have been there. My second thought is he that knew that Selina Kyle was there because of the reason that she put Batman in a cage, which was that Bane had promised to erase her criminal record. He might also have put a tracking device on Selina Kyle's car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6237" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-09-25T22:14:39.790" LastActivityDate="2013-09-25T22:14:39.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2013-09-26T01:55:06.007" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;After reading your answers it seems to make sense that he is the monster, hence why he walks away from where he sat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my main concern with that ending is, why did he smile then when she said she loved him? Shouldn't he be upset?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only possible answer I can think of is that he was happy to hear her say she loved him but then realised what had happened, hence the anguish - because he does seem to cry at the end. I'm not saying you guys are wrong but this answer still doesn't convince me for some reason. I just can't get over why he would smile. I know I just gave a possible answer but it still doesn't satisfy me. For the film it seems too simplistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's another possible theory that I want to put forward. We do not actually know what he asked of the hypnotist. Could it be that he actually wanted the 'father' side of him erased? Maybe he actually couldn't let go of her as a lover so in the end he decided he wanted to be with her and so had the part where he knows it's his daughter removed. Hence why when she tells him she loves him, he smiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6240" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T01:55:06.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6841" CreationDate="2013-09-26T04:40:29.367" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Belinda told Darius that Kenneth was not her type, that she was just being nice to him. No way is she the type to stay at home while her friends partied, as Kenneth had said to Darius. People with deep crushes often misjudge any kindness done to them by the object of their desire.  They probably never really ever dated, but in Kenneth's very creative but emotionally immature mind, he &lt;em&gt;thought&lt;/em&gt; they had a relationship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps he was the one who crashed into her house in the first place and killed her.  I think the story is suggesting, by the wording of the newspaper ad, that he did go back in time and tried to rewrite history - but maybe he didn't travel back far enough and was already in the car (the second time) when the car was about to crash.  Maybe this time, with foreknowledge, he was able to slam on the brakes sooner and only caused minor damage to her boyfriend's house.  What triggered the first, fatal accident, which in turn triggered Kenneth's devotion to mastering the art of time travel in order to erase regrets and correct past mistakes? Perhaps, in unaltered time,  he had been following Belinda home one evening, after work, saw her with her boyfriend, freaked out when his illusions were shattered, slammed his foot on the gas (again perhaps without realizing what he was doing due to his highly emotional state), sending the car smashing into her (or the boyfriend's ) house, accidentally killing her.  He seems too mild-mannered to have wanted to actually harm Belinda.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Kenneth did travel back in time, did change what happened to Belinda, and maybe now he wanted to go back again to make more changes?  When Darius confronts Kenneth with the news that Belinda is alive, he exclaims that obviously his previous stint at time travel had therefore worked.  I find it strange that he would not have immediately tried to find this out the results of his time-travel intervention upon his return, for himself, if he was that obsessed with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why advertise for a &quot;side-kick&quot; to go along with him back in time again?  To alleviate loneliness? To fit in with the heroic image he had set up of himself as a &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; type hero?  Maybe he had gone in search of Belinda when he returned from his first trip back into time and seen that even had she lived, she would not have chosen to be with him. Perhaps he was subconsciously hedging his bets?  If, during his second attempt to time travel and change things, he couldn't make Belinda fall in love with him, at least he would have his faithful sidekick?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, I don't think we should over-analyze this movie:  this movie is all about the ability to suspend your disbelief and accept that reality - and the past - can be altered, and that not everything is as we think we are perceiving things to be..... Hey, we all have regrets, but one way to rise above them is to acknowledge past mistakes and make sure we don't repeat those same mistakes.  Our mistakes and regrets hopefully teach us to be kinder, better people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6241" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-26T04:57:43.067" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T04:57:43.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14126" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-26T06:06:08.197" Score="2" ViewCount="2889" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre_%282011_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jane Eyre&lt;/a&gt;, she runs away from her fiancee's house after discovering he is already married. &#xA;However, she returns after realising her love and inability to be without him. &#xA;How long is she away from Thornfield Hall and Mr Rochester before she returns?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6135" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-26T06:31:16.210" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T16:41:01.997" Title="When does Jane Eyre return to Thornfield Hall after she runs away?" Tags="|ending|jane-eyre|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14127" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14241" CreationDate="2013-09-26T07:06:10.893" Score="3" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2013 Bollywood movie 'The Lunchbox', When Sheikh is escorting Fernandes to taxi after his wedding, he mentions an incident about Train pass.&#xA;He says that when he first traveled with Fernandes, he didn't have ticket,&#xA;but the next day he made himself a pass for the train.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this scene there is a small pause and the Fernandes leaves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the purpose of this scene ?&#xA;What did the director wanted to convey through this very dialog ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-24T08:04:58.797" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T08:04:58.797" Title="Why does Sheikh mention the thing about Train Pass after his wedding?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lunchbox|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14129" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14131" CreationDate="2013-09-26T09:01:29.023" Score="37" ViewCount="4197" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've watched movie &quot;Avatar&quot; few times. In my opinion it's one really good movie but every time I watch it I wonder how the hell that pieces of ground or &quot;flying islands&quot; can be in the air? Is there any explanation for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if they can somehow fly, how is it even possible that they stay in one place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6108" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-09-26T10:49:17.350" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T02:49:37.990" Title="How do the flying islands in Avatar stay in place?" Tags="|avatar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14129" CreationDate="2013-09-26T09:35:51.610" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Hallelujah_Mountains&quot;&gt;james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Hallelujah Mountains (Na'vi name: Ayram alusìng meaning &quot;Floating&#xA;  Mountains&quot;) are floating islands that circulate slowly in the&#xA;  magnetic currents like icebergs at sea, scraping against each other&#xA;  and the towering mesa-like mountains of the region. On Pandora, huge&#xA;  outcroppings of unobtanium rip loose from the surface and float in the&#xA;  magnetic vortices due to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meissner_effect&quot;&gt;Meissner Effect&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James Cameron said that it was the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huangshan&quot;&gt;Huang Shan mountains&lt;/a&gt; that inspired him to create the Hallelujah Mountains, which would explain the similar appearance.(It looks similar but they obviously not flying mountains).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-26T09:57:25.973" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T09:57:25.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14129" CreationDate="2013-09-26T10:28:43.580" Score="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see how in &lt;a href=&quot;http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Unobtanium&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Parker Selfridge's&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; office&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0RErQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iWuSj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James Cameron's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avatar-film.fr/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Script-AVATAR-1995.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;original scriptment&lt;/a&gt; had this to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's how it works:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Polyphemis (the massive planet around&#xA;  which Pandora revolves) has a mother of magnetosphere... a&#xA;  naturally occurring magnetic field a million times more&#xA;  powerful than Earth's. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;As Pandora rotates and revolves&#xA;  through this field, its molten iron core generates its own&#xA;  field, with &quot;cells&quot; or vortices which are small regions of&#xA;  intensely powerful magnetic force at the surface.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Added to this unique phenomenon is another... &lt;strong&gt;Pandora is&#xA;  blessed with a naturally occurring substance a million&#xA;  times more precious than gold.&lt;/strong&gt; Its joke name of&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;unobtanium&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; has stuck, over the years. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unobtanium is a&#xA;  rare-earth mineral, formed volcanically, which is a roomtemperature &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductors&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;superconductor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The room temperature superconductor has been the &quot;snark&quot;&#xA;  of modern materials science... a substance which transmits&#xA;  electricity with zero resistance, but at normal&#xA;  temperatures, rather than the liquid-helium cooled&#xA;  superconductors of human science.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unobtanium does not exist in our solar system. It is&#xA;  unique to Pandora.&lt;/strong&gt; And it is the reason to go there...&#xA;  the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow bridge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another interesting &lt;strong&gt;property of superconducting materials&#xA;  is that they will levitate in a powerful magnetic field.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This magnetic levitation, or maglev, effect has been used&#xA;  to lift trains and run them without wheels since the late&#xA;  1980's.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On Pandora the effect causes &lt;strong&gt;huge outcroppings of&#xA;  unobtanium to rip loose from the surface and float in the&#xA;  magnetic vortices. These floating islands circulate&#xA;  slowly in the magnetic currents, like icebergs at sea,&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  scraping against each other and the towering mesa-like&#xA;  mountains of the region. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jamescamerononline.com/AvatarFAQ.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why not mine the Mountains?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Resources_Development_Administration&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;RDA&lt;/a&gt; originally was mining the mountains, but after one mountain was mined from the bottom too much, it became top heavy and flipped over, killing a huge number of workers and ruining much equipment. After this incident the RDA stuck to mining more safe locations of the substance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T10:28:43.580" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14132" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14133" CreationDate="2013-09-26T11:56:13.640" Score="3" ViewCount="4253" Body="&lt;p&gt;What kind of animal was it that looks like a giant lizard in the China scene? What is the actual name of that creature?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6235" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T01:06:40.340" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T01:06:40.340" Title="What kind of creature bit the enemy's leg in China in Skyfall?" Tags="|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14132" CreationDate="2013-09-26T11:59:19.667" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;That was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_dragon&quot;&gt;Komodo dragon&lt;/a&gt;, though these are not indigenous to Macau, one of the Special Administrative Regions of China, where that casino scene was staged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6243" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T11:59:19.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14293" CreationDate="2013-09-26T12:53:03.640" Score="22" ViewCount="14463" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Season 5B episodes &quot;To'hajiilee&quot; and &quot;Ozymandias&quot;, Hank and Gomez are cornered by Jack and his men in the desert. Once it's clear that they're both outnumbered and outgunned, why doesn't Hank or Gomez call for help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's look at the situation in more detail:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hank was armed with a pistol, Gomez with a shotgun. I'm no expert, but I'm sure I'd rather have a rifle at this distance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jx3UM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially when faced with four automatic files and two handguns:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/miF5X.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The view of Jack's men:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tJDkr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My immediate reaction would be to get into cover and call for backup. Both Hank and Gomez get into cover:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1zZ1hm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mqAQfm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they both pop out again, risking their lives with crappy weapons (a handgun and a shotgun -- both utterly useless at such distances):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I5sQam.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TRhPOm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Couldn't they have tried to signal for help? I know Hank was worried about his career being ruined, but I don't believe that either he or Gomez were concerned about that in the heat of an overwhelming battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain it to me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3430" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-06T01:17:41.977" LastActivityDate="2021-08-23T21:43:15.713" Title="Why didn't Hank or Gomez call for help?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14135" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-26T12:54:05.467" Score="0" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ted&lt;/a&gt;, When the news shows Ted being arrested at an airport. Ted gives the camera the rude finger. When he does this, his hand is censored. Ted doesn't actually have any fingers then how would he have been able to show a finger?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6235" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-26T13:20:14.960" LastActivityDate="2014-01-09T19:25:35.177" Title="How can Ted show a finger?" Tags="|ted|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14136" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14451" CreationDate="2013-09-26T13:34:50.013" Score="22" ViewCount="19192" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the penultimate episode of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, &quot;Granite State&quot;,&#xA;after talking to his son, Walt calls the cops and indicates his location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that we see him having a drink as he watches his old friends on TV&#xA;who say that Walt had nothing to do with their company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this, when the cops arrive at the bar, Walt is gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What exactly happened here?&#xA;What would Walt have thought of that interview?&#xA;Why exactly did he leave?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-09-02T13:36:57.757" LastActivityDate="2021-11-26T21:26:32.520" Title="Why does Walt leave the bar after calling the cops in Granite State?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14134" CreationDate="2013-09-26T13:38:26.577" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there was no time to call for help.&#xA;It all happened so quickly.&#xA;Until Todd and his uncle had arrived, Hank was totally clueless about who is coming.&#xA;Second when guns are pulled out, Hank and Gomez have literally no time for anything.&#xA;In the torrent of bullet exchange, the only thing which they can do is fire back,&#xA;which was exactly what they did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There was no time for calling for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-09-26T18:18:06.877" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T18:18:06.877" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14138" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14148" CreationDate="2013-09-26T13:42:42.863" Score="10" ViewCount="1918" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the second last episode Granite State of Breaking Bad, something is very unusual, something which has happened for the first time in the Series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The intro music is played at the end of the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does this signify?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T19:19:18.160" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T19:19:18.160" Title="Why the episode Granite State has intro music at the end?" Tags="|breaking-bad|soundtrack|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14136" CreationDate="2013-09-26T13:49:47.557" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the moments leading up to him leaving the bar the following happened: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He called Walt Jr to say he missed him and gave him instructions about how he was sending him money. Walt Jr responded by telling him he didn't want the money and that he hoped he would die. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This destroyed Walt. He has lost family. He probably could have lived with it if he was able to give them the money he had earned but now he can't even do that. He felt as if that was it for him and called the cops giving them his location. Effectively, giving up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He sat at the bar waiting for the cops to arrive when he saw the interview with Elliot and Gretchen. He heard them describe how he had nothing to do with Gray Matter Technologies except help come up with the name. Walt is a genius and it is never properly stated how much of an influence he had on the establishment of Gray Matter but we can assume it was a significant one. We are also not 100% sure why he left Gray Matter but in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/2009/05/jessica-hecht-interview/&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with the actress who plays Gretchen she mentions he left because his relationship with her broke down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hearing how he had no influence on Gray Matter really damaged his ego. Walt has a huge ego. We can see this when Hank states that Gale was Heisenberg in season 4. This hurt Walt's ego and despite making trouble for himself he tells Hank that Gale was merely following instructions and the real Heisenberg is probably still out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He left the bar due to a number of factors. He lost his family, his legacy (the money for his family) and had his ego badly damaged. Something inside him snapped and he no longer wanted to give up. He feels as if he has something left to settle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll have until next week to see exactly what this is though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Its also worth noting in the interview on TV the host says that the blue meth is still on the streets. This may also have contributed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-09-26T17:42:56.390" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T17:42:56.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14136" CreationDate="2013-09-26T13:51:03.583" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;After his call with Flynn/Junior Walt was resigned to giving himself up to the authorities.  His &quot;Walt&quot; persona was finally winning over &quot;Heisenberg&quot; - he was tired, lonely, unable to help his family - his entire reason for doing all this has been for nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However as we have seen in the past, Walt has an enormous ego - shown most animately in the &quot;I am the one who knocks&quot; and &quot;Say my name&quot; speeches.  He doesn't like it when he is painted as 'the little guy'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he sees the interview with Gretchen and Elliot, who diminished his part in Grey Matter to 'just the name' he becomes angry at being belittled.  Clearly he decides that giving himself up to the authorities is not how he wants to go out, he wants to right the perceived wrongs in his life - perhaps revenge (since we see him retrieve the ricin) who knows - only a few more days will tell us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T13:51:03.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14141" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14144" CreationDate="2013-09-26T13:52:45.673" Score="13" ViewCount="51582" Body="&lt;p&gt;Much of the film revolves around the retrieval of an object known only as &lt;em&gt;The Rabbit’s Foot&lt;/em&gt;. But nobody discloses information about it. What was the Rabbit's foot and what could it do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6235" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T12:39:56.143" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T17:29:18.563" Title="What was the Rabbit's foot and what could it do?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-3|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14142" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14147" CreationDate="2013-09-26T14:08:45.353" Score="19" ViewCount="4153" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303461/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;Firefly&lt;/a&gt; was cancelled before it ever was able to expand on the back stories of most of the characters, and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2&quot;&gt;follow-up movie, Serenity&lt;/a&gt;, simply didn't have the time.  Did &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923736/?ref_=tt_ov_wr&quot;&gt;Joss Whedon&lt;/a&gt; ever reveal the history to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0003820/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_17&quot;&gt;Shepherd Book&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3416" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-27T02:54:06.333" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T02:54:06.333" Title="What was the backstory to Shepherd Book on Firefly?" Tags="|character|joss-whedon|firefly|serenity|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14143" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-26T14:11:38.940" Score="5" ViewCount="352" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the significance of the election in &quot;The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance&quot;? Why were the rich ranchers so excited about the territory's independence that they were hiring outlaws to influence the vote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How was sending a representative to Washington DC affecting their business?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-26T15:49:38.660" LastActivityDate="2014-04-29T23:08:28.397" Title="What is the significance of the election in &quot;The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|liberty-valance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14141" CreationDate="2013-09-26T14:50:13.610" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't know what it does, and that's sort of the point.  All we know is that it's something the bad guy wants, and the good guys will prevent that from happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Rabbit's Foot is a classic &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin&quot;&gt;MacGuffin&lt;/a&gt;, a nebulous object of desire that drives the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T14:50:13.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14145" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-26T15:49:55.960" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a 1962 American Western film directed by John Ford starring James Stewart and John Wayne.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Shot_Liberty_Valance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The tag has been shortened to fit within Stackexchange's limits.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-26T15:49:55.960" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T15:49:55.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14146" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-26T15:49:55.960" Score="0" Body="The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a 1962 American Western film directed by John Ford starring James Stewart and John Wayne." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-26T15:49:55.960" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T15:49:55.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14142" CreationDate="2013-09-26T15:55:40.020" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd_Book#Character_biography&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;His background is explored further in the comic book &lt;em&gt;Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale&lt;/em&gt;. Book was born Henry Evans, a boy who was raised by an abusive father. He ran away from home and began life as a petty criminal before being recruited by the Independence movement and moving out to the Border Worlds. Long before the Alliance begins the Unification War, forward-thinking Browncoats assign Evans to be a long-term mole. He sheds his old identity by killing a random passerby and stealing his identification card, becoming Derrial Book. His Browncoat superiors keep tabs on him by surgically removing one of his eyes and replacing it with a camera. He joins the Alliance military and quickly moves up in rank. Becoming an officer, Book intentionally leads a risky operation that results in a humiliating defeat for the Alliance. He is forced to retire from the Alliance military. It is implied that the Alliance covers up the loss, therefore not officially punishing Book. Homeless, he visits a soup kitchen and finds God while contemplating a bowl of soup. He takes refuge at an abbey where he becomes a shepherd before leaving on Serenity to become a missionary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More on the comic can be found on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://firefly.wikia.com/wiki/Serenity%3a_The_Shepherd%27s_Tale&quot;&gt;Firefly Wikia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T15:55:40.020" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14138" CreationDate="2013-09-26T16:53:54.253" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just before the episode ends we see Walt drinking in defeat. His life in meaningless with no friends and no family left. He no longer has a purpose in life and he has called the police and is waiting for them to come and arrest him. Then he sees his former Grey Matter partners on TV and they are belittling his past accomplishments. One of Walt's most defining traits is his ego, and that TV interview had just insulted his ego. Now Walt has a purpose in life again. He is, once again, the dreaded evil genius Heisenberg and he is ready to &lt;em&gt;break bad&lt;/em&gt; again. Queue the extended version of the intro of the Breaking Bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T16:53:54.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14149" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14152" CreationDate="2013-09-26T17:24:55.500" Score="6" ViewCount="871" Body="&lt;p&gt;Used to watch this show as a kid in the 1980s, when I stayed home from school (it was broadcast each weekday on a second-tier network, like a lot of sitcoms from earlier decades).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thinking about it recently, and wondering specifically about the title -- &lt;strong&gt;to whom does the &quot;I&quot; in &quot;I Dream of Jeannie&quot; refer?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/boJcJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T19:07:22.927" Title="Who is the &quot;I&quot; in &quot;I Dream of Jeannie&quot;?" Tags="|title|i-dream-of-jeannie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13951" CreationDate="2013-09-26T17:26:51.920" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just checked and that's exactly where it fades to black for an advert break. It's clear you've seen a flash of an advert that wasn't edited out properly, and thought it was deliberate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3430" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T17:26:51.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14151" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-26T17:29:09.437" Score="3" ViewCount="334" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the significance of the ostrich strolling about in the couple's bedroom in the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071487/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Phantom of Liberty&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5002" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-26T19:25:53.487" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T19:25:53.487" Title="What's the significance of the ostrich in the couple's bedroom?" Tags="|analysis|the-phantom-of-liberty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14149" CreationDate="2013-09-26T18:17:46.763" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;I&quot; does not refer to any specific in-show character.  The show takes its name from the opening line of the Stephen Foster song &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanie_with_the_Light_Brown_Hair&quot;&gt;Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair&lt;/a&gt;, from 1854:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The opening line notably got used as the basis for the title of the TV&#xA;  series I Dream of Jeannie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here it is on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKdq249uOGs&quot;&gt;Youtube&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The opening line is &quot;I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2013-09-26T19:07:22.927" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T19:07:22.927" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14151" CreationDate="2013-09-26T18:45:28.773" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that in the main part, Buñuel is trying to say that there is &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; significance at all. The significance of the scene with the cock, the lady with the timepiece, the postman, and the ostrich is the subsequent need for interpretation and the assignment of significance to the events. This is coupled with (and juxtaposed against) the fact that his doctor does not believe him and is utterly dismissive of his proof (the letter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, in keeping with the theme of the film, the use of the ostrich is symbolic of the myth that it buries its head in the sand when in danger unaware that the rest of its body is exposed and vulnerable. The final scene in the movie is that of an ostrich.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-26T18:54:18.890" LastActivityDate="2013-09-26T18:54:18.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14155" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-26T20:09:17.873" Score="13" ViewCount="380" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an arguably poor-received way, Dexter ended in a very odd way. Our favourite serial killer is now a lumberjack in wintery... wherever. The question comes back to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;? Why does Dexter choose to seclude himself in such a fashion when everything was bumpy, but working out well enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-09-27T01:18:18.710" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T04:59:41.477" Title="How did events lead this way?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|dexter|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14160" CreationDate="2013-09-26T20:12:33.013" Score="6" ViewCount="592" Body="&lt;p&gt;So everyone's favourite &lt;strike&gt;vegetable&lt;/strike&gt; expletive-laden character had a fate presented to her that wasn't expected by anyone in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, it wasn't expected by anyone, arguably. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone explain how exactly one goes from healthily (relatively) surviving a gunshot wound in the &lt;em&gt;stomach&lt;/em&gt; to being in a persistent vegetative state in the span of a couple of hours, considering modern monitoring equipment in a hospital? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="15816" LastEditDate="2015-03-05T12:00:10.950" LastActivityDate="2017-02-24T18:28:05.203" Title="How did she deteriorate?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|dexter|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14136" CreationDate="2013-09-26T20:34:56.150" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walter White is dead&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about that for a minute.  Let it soak, let it permeate your brain for just a moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walter White was a respectable chemist who contributed to work that eventually procured a Nobel Prize for the benefactors of this research.  Co-founded a company that became worth literal billions of dollars.  Started a small family in a respectable town living a decent life with this same caring family, teaching the subject he loves the most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then he died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walter White started dying when the cancer diagnosis was presented to him shortly after his 50th birthday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Heisenberg Lives&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heisenberg started to turn into an entity of its own.  One could argue that his cancer IS Heisenberg, but I digress.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heisenberg is cold, calculating, deceitful, ruthless, egotistic, greedy, all things Walter White is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many factors at work here, there's Walter attempting to provide for his family, Heisenberg wanting to become top dog, Walter wanting to live innocently, and Heisenberg wanting his accomplishments known.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that bar watching that broadcast is what finally killed Walter White.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His family is in ruins, his money is worthless, his legacy destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heisenberg is all that remains.  It is all that he can be, and ever will be from that point forward.  And Heisenberg is pissed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He wants his money, he wants his family, he wants his empire.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Heisenberg can never have Walter's family, he can be sure that his family is taken care of.  He can be sure that Skyler now knows the true Heisenberg.  He can also be sure that no one will ever make his product ever again.  And that is what really mattered to Heisenberg, that everyone knew his name, that everyone knew he was behind his product, and that his legacy lived and died with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all this is Mr. Chips to &lt;strong&gt;Scarface&lt;/strong&gt;, and we all know how that ended up for Tony...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-09-30T15:45:03.537" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T15:45:03.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14155" CreationDate="2013-09-26T20:47:14.313" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Dexter now realizes that he is the one who is responsible for Harry's suicide, Deb's condition of being on life support, Rita's death, and Vogel's death. He can't bare it anymore. He now thinks that everyone he is comes into contact with will be destroyed the same way &amp;mdash; that's why after killing The Brain Surgeon he stopped Deb's life support system to free her from anymore pain and even decided to commit suicide too, leaving Harrison in the care of Hannah McKay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somehow, he survives and shows up as a lumberjack. This means he survived, but still didn't want to go to Hannah or Harrison in order to save them from his darkness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last sight of Dexter eyes were still very arguable making a point for an open end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-09-27T01:16:47.080" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T01:16:47.080" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14156" CreationDate="2013-09-26T21:07:34.997" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even in this era this kind of surprise death or near death condition comes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the point of view of story gunshot wound survival was just to put up the suspense in viewers mind. Its already decided that she is going to die in the end. Even Jennifer Carpenter doesn't want to extend her role for a spin-off or any new season and want peace for Deb's character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe direct gunshot death appeared very lame to makers of the show, so that they made this melodramatic death scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2017-02-24T18:28:05.203" LastActivityDate="2017-02-24T18:28:05.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14156" CreationDate="2013-09-27T00:45:32.533" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The monitoring equipment in the hospital measures things like blood pressure, pulse, oxygenation and the like. What it doesn't monitor is blood clots. Blood clotting is a normal reaction to wounds and is part of the healing process. What happened to Debra is that one of the clots came free and began circulating around her bloodstream. At some point, it clogged one of the arteries that fed her brain causing her to have a massive stroke. This is not uncommon. More than 795,000 people in the U.S. per year have some kind of stroke and it is the leading cause of death for all Americans according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cdc.gov/stroke/facts.htm&quot;&gt;CDC&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T00:45:32.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14163" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16419" CreationDate="2013-09-27T03:26:03.917" Score="2" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;Re: the end of &lt;em&gt;Stir of Echoes&lt;/em&gt;, will Tom (Kevin Bacon) now be able to hear and communicate with the dead just as his son is able to do, or, was it just a one time deal that was brought on by Maggie's sister hypnotizing him? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-27T03:43:35.807" LastActivityDate="2014-01-04T23:41:20.897" Title="Will Tom now be able to hear and communicate with the dead?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|stir-of-echoes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14164" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18184" CreationDate="2013-09-27T03:35:27.083" Score="2" ViewCount="492" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film, Warm Bodies, R tells Julie that she must wait a few days until the zombies &lt;em&gt;forget&lt;/em&gt; that she is around before trying to escape. I understand that R is crushing on Julie at this point and would like very much for her to stay. I also understand that he is really trying to keep her safe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when they first sneak out and begin driving the car around the airport for &lt;em&gt;something to do&lt;/em&gt; *out of boredom*... why do they not just haul ass right then and there? I mean, they were able to get to the car unharmed, it would have been the prime opportunity to just take off. Instead, she ends up sticking around for a few more days. She obviously didn't have to stay.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-27T03:38:35.380" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T21:41:29.057" Title="Why didn't R and Julie just drive away?" Tags="|plot-explanation|warm-bodies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14165" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-27T03:37:49.640" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Reader is a 2008 German-American romantic drama film based on the 1995 German novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink. The film was written by David Hare and directed by Stephen Daldry. Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet star along with the young actor David Kross. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reader_%282008_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-27T03:37:49.640" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T03:37:49.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14166" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-27T03:37:49.640" Score="0" Body="2008 German-American romantic drama film starring Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet based on the 1995 German novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-27T03:37:49.640" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T03:37:49.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1887" CreationDate="2013-09-27T03:50:35.010" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you freeze frame the shot of the ID badge when the character Josh gets caught looking at the girl who was previously taken from the shelter you find your answer.  The picture on the ID is that of an Asian man, but the tiny print above the bar code at the bottom of the badge reads:&#xA;Department of Containment and Preservation.&#xA;It was an inside job.  The city was nuked to contain something that can apparently be traced in the glands of prepubescent kids (hence why the soldiers look down the girls throat with a flashlight prior to taking her).  Sort of a &quot;sacrifice the few for the good of the many&quot; thing but on an appalling scale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6259" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T03:50:35.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14190" CreationDate="2013-09-27T05:33:34.783" Score="13" ViewCount="355" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, our favorite serial killer turns his boat into an oncoming hurricane and then apparently swims ashore. I have seen some reference to the gulf stream being 5-7 miles out from Palm Beach - which might even be an underestimate since we don't know exactly where he was. Doesn't it strain credulity that he could swim such a distance in the middle of a hurricane? People compete in such events (10 km swims or more - 6.2 miles), but we've never SEEN him swim - are we to believe he could really have done this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5178" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T16:19:46.727" Title="Swimming to shore from the gulf stream in the middle of a hurricane" Tags="|plot-explanation|dexter|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14169" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17693" CreationDate="2013-09-27T06:13:21.540" Score="4" ViewCount="1001" Body="&lt;p&gt;In American Horror Story: Asylum, the doctor pulled out a microchip out of Kit's neck that then turned into a bug. They showed it a few more times in the following episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point later in the season the doctor was yelling at Kit about the bug and asked which orifice the bug crawled back into so he could retrieve it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What actually happened to the bug?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2014-03-04T17:49:26.477" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T18:06:55.343" Title="What happened to the microchip bug?" Tags="|plot-explanation|american-horror-story|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14170" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-27T07:51:11.633" Score="12" ViewCount="4279" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been trying to find an interview with Mike Myers where he supposedly mentions the inspiration for the Fat Bastard character. My friend swears that Mike Myers said he saw an obese guy in Nashville, TN playing the bagpipes and that was where he got the idea for Fat Bastard. So who is the inspirational character for Fat Bastard?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6261" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T17:53:32.017" LastActivityDate="2021-09-03T21:49:36.090" Title="What is the source of inspiration for the Fat Bastard character?" Tags="|character|austin-powers|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14171" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14246" CreationDate="2013-09-27T09:03:43.147" Score="4" ViewCount="3090" Body="&lt;p&gt;What kind of technology does Ethan Hunt use in The Kremlin where he projects the image of a statue on transparent film? Is this possible to trace anyone's eyes according what they're seeing in front of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What kind of eye lens do they use in where an agent can identify a person and also to make photocopy of codes? Is that kind of lens available in market?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What kind of computer system and pen derive does Ethan use in IMF's special train compartment? How can the computer fetch the pen drive data by just touching it to the screen of the system?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6235" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T15:54:25.713" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T15:54:25.713" Title="Technologies used in MI: Ghost Protocol" Tags="|film-techniques|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-ghost-protocol|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14172" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-27T09:43:54.940" Score="4" ViewCount="149" Body="&lt;p&gt;Christian Bale is said to be in the BBC's 1981 production of &lt;em&gt;A Midsummer Night's Dream&lt;/em&gt;. However, after watching it over and over again. I can't find him. I think he is one of the little boys but I am not sure, I need help please :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know he was in the 1999 version of &lt;em&gt;A Midsummer Night's Dream&lt;/em&gt;. ! However, my theatre professor said that he is in the 1981 version too. I think he may be an extra because there's no credit ... Does anyone know if this is true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6262" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-09-27T15:17:27.747" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T15:17:27.747" Title="Did Christian Bale star in &quot;A Midsummer Night's Dream&quot; (1981)?" Tags="|casting|a-midsummer-nights-dream|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14172" CreationDate="2013-09-27T10:09:33.547" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Doesn't look like it!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/?ref_=sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; or any other source that I've been able to find state that Christian Bale appeared in the 1981 Midsummer Night Dreams. However as you and all of the articles that I can find state, he did later appear in the 1999 version with the same name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T10:09:33.547" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14171" CreationDate="2013-09-27T11:23:21.200" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short: spy movies like the Mission: Impossible series are designed more as action movies to entertain people for a few hours, and not meant to be taken seriously in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many action films in the spy film genre rely on super high tech that doesn't actually exist. It's designed to show how &quot;advanced&quot; this particular spy or government agency is, and isn't intended to be taken seriously or feasibly at all. Most of the tech shown usually serves as a means of explaining how agents are able to do the things they do in seemingly impossible situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things like the screen they hide behind while infiltrating the Kremlin are just meant to be a cool way to show them sneaking into a high security area, but isn't actually possible, at least not in the manner depicted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T11:23:21.200" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14176" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14177" CreationDate="2013-09-27T11:34:21.357" Score="8" ViewCount="514" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Star Trek First Contact there's line spoken by Zefram Cochrane which I've never understood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And you people, you're all astronauts, ... on some kind of star trek?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the writers implying that the TV show exists in the Star Trek universe or are this an example of the character breaking the fourth wall?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't he simply say &quot;On some kind of space ship?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-22T22:45:58.557" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T22:45:58.557" Title="Zefram Cochrane talks about Star Trek" Tags="|dialogue|star-trek|star-trek-first-contact|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14176" CreationDate="2013-09-27T11:42:51.210" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The line is simply self-referential humor on the part of the writers, and I guess you could say it's an attempt at breaking the fourth wall. The character of Cochrane isn't really intended to have any awareness of a TV show called Star Trek. The crew of the USS Enterprise are basically trekking around the stars, hence the name of the show. As such, when they tell Cochrane about all the things his technology will do for mankind in the future, he replies with some incredulity about the people telling him this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The line could have been written as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And you people, you're all astronauts on some kind of trek across the&#xA;  stars?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T11:42:51.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14179" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14200" CreationDate="2013-09-27T12:54:44.413" Score="14" ViewCount="1216" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I want you all to know, before watching Nolan's version of Batman, neither have I watched any other Batman movies nor have I read the Batman comics. So literally, Nolan's Batman is the first introduction of Batman to me. Having now watched all three parts, I feel that the story of Batman is always influenced by the politics of Gotham.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt;, Bruce had to become Batman in order to get rid of Mafia kingpin Falcone. In order to do that, he had to join Ra's Al Ghul's League of Shadows which had a political principle more than a moral principle and that was to destroy Gotham so that people fear the League of Shadows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;, Harvey Dent was an advocate who dedicated his life to empower the application of law in Gotham. In this movie, we see that the town's police has lost honesty. Mob bosses are dominating again proving that the mayor and police department have failed again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dark Night Rises&lt;/em&gt; showed us a new police commissioner who did not have the intention to die for his town, who said Gordon was a commissioner for good times, not for bad times. Corruptness of Gotham's politics is always seen to be high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read somewhere that the author of Batman, Bob Kane made Batman in order to let people get back some confidence within themselves to fight the evil (&lt;em&gt;read Adolf Hitler&lt;/em&gt;) in war times of 1939. That's why Batman is never free of politics. Is this true? Surely, Nolan's version suffer/enjoy political effects. But is Nolan's version of Batman different from other Batmans in this regard or has it always been like this (&lt;em&gt;under political effects&lt;/em&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-06-02T06:40:15.270" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T06:40:15.270" Title="Have Batman movies always had a political influence upon them?" Tags="|character|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14181" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14185" CreationDate="2013-09-27T13:47:51.943" Score="3" ViewCount="371" Body="&lt;p&gt;These days people are very serious about the live action adaptation of their favorite character from comic books or novels. Some fans even file online petitions to request a change in the character's casting. For example. these days Ben Affleck's casting is in the news due to a petition filed against him online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my question is: what is the first occurrence of this kind of petition being filed against casting a character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-27T17:35:56.037" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T17:35:56.037" Title="What is the first instance of people filing a petition against casting a character?" Tags="|first-appearance|casting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14182" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14198" CreationDate="2013-09-27T14:11:44.320" Score="20" ViewCount="82826" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jews have a tradition of placing stones on the grave. In the Film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler%27s_List&quot;&gt;Schindler's List&lt;/a&gt;, in the ending scene everybody places stones on the grave of Oskar Schindler. But Liam Neeson places a pair of roses on the grave and stands over it. What does this signify?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-29T16:56:02.387" LastActivityDate="2023-02-16T16:54:30.550" Title="What's the significance of the roses on Oskar Schindler's grave?" Tags="|analysis|ending|schindlers-list|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10359" CreationDate="2013-09-27T14:52:23.717" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walt hates Aztec. That's the kind of car Walt &lt;em&gt;had&lt;/em&gt; to drive and not the kind of car Walt &lt;em&gt;wanted&lt;/em&gt; to drive. It embodies dullness, practicality, prudence and lack of ambition of pre-Heisenberg days, it's the vegetarian bacon of the car world that we witness Walt consuming without much enthusiasm. It's Skyler's choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aztec was a flop in sales and evidently Whites family bought the car from brand new with a huge discount, based on the attractive price, reliability and practicality. Walter never liked the car. We get a peek into his real passion for driving in the later episode when he empathises with Walt Jr. desire to get Charger and then goes into fiery doughnut painting session once told by Skyler to take the Charger back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still 200,000 miles left? That's 10-20 years of uninspiring, lifeless motoring, the prudent much hated choice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we know Walt has uncanny ability to add up numbers in his head. My guess is that Walt quickly does miles-into-years conversion and 10 years until the car change seems like a very long term to a man whose life was hanging on a shoestring for a year. Why not do it now then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt acts with the resolve and urgency of a person who had a near death experience and arrogance of his belief that there are no more predators that can match him in this new situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;$50 is a token payment; Charger for Junior? What the heck, it's just like a new pair of boots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the &quot;leasing&quot; talk is aimed to soothe Skyler, Heisenberg doesn't really care that much at this stage how he is going to explain the purchase to others. He just knows that somehow he will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6265" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T14:52:23.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14168" CreationDate="2013-09-27T15:22:00.663" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the season, Dexter was showing his boat to a prospective buyer.  He gave a rundown of the features of the boat, which included some sort of emergency life raft.  So he likely used that raft to escape once he'd put the boat in the path of the hurricane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T15:22:00.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14181" CreationDate="2013-09-27T15:39:07.067" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first time I heard about a popular internet based campaign against a casting decision was Daniel Craig as James Bond in Casino Royale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, here is a page specifically set up to campaign against this decision:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielcraigisnotbond.com/boycott_casino_royale.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;danielcraigisnotbond.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.petitiononline.com/CRAIG007/petition.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a petition&lt;/a&gt; (only 40 signaures though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The internet campaigning against Daniel Craig was also thoroughly reported on the BBC film review radio show and podcast - the Kermode and Mayo Film Review.  I'll try to find an example of this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T15:39:07.067" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11138" CreationDate="2013-09-27T15:48:30.817" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walt knew that Hank already was on Gustavo's tail and that the violent death of the latter would accelerate discovery of the lab by law enforcement. Walt could reasonably expect the lab to be discovered within hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt had to minimise the amount of information law enforcement will eventually be able to learn from the lab and he didn't have any time at all to destroy the evidence selectively. Remember, there were two bodies to get rid off as well? And he had to destroy the manufacturing capacity anyway even if undiscovered by DEA or police - leaving Gus people high and dry - they still could just have found another cook and kicked the production off again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6265" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T15:48:30.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14176" CreationDate="2013-09-27T15:59:02.277" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was not referring to their method of transportation, he was referring to their lifestyles.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was trying to take in the fact that his invention lead to people casually being able to journey (aka trek/stroll/wander) around the stars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T15:59:02.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9641" CreationDate="2013-09-27T16:04:13.663" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;An act of defiance. By putting down the towel she rejects the offer of life with Ted and everything that comes with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6265" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T16:04:13.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14179" CreationDate="2013-09-27T16:16:59.183" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Batman stories are almost always set in Gotham City, and a Gotham is almost always depicted with varying levels of governmental corruption of some degree. Batman's hunting grounds is what TV Tropes calls a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ViceCity&quot;&gt;Vice City&lt;/a&gt;. So given this setting the city's politics is definitely a common story element: Batman having to deal with corrupt officials, criminals trying to shape legislation ... etc. But I would not say that it is the most prevalent story element in Batman stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T16:16:59.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14168" CreationDate="2013-09-27T16:19:46.727" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an interview with Executive Producer Scott Buck he explains that it is mentioned in a different episode that Dexter had an emergency life raft on the Slice of Life, implying that the raft is how Dexter got back to land. The full interview can be viewed on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dexter-series-finale-showrunner-scott-632536&quot;&gt;Hollywood Reporter website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T16:19:46.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14191" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14192" CreationDate="2013-09-27T16:26:44.847" Score="34" ViewCount="2282" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the classic scene in Star Wars a New Hope our heroes are trapped in a rubbish press with a creature...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the Death Star is fairly new (it's only just been completed) how could such a creature have got on board and how could it end up in the garbage compacter? Is it actually part of the rubbish recycling process?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-09T07:09:49.463" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T07:09:49.463" Title="Why is there an alien in the garbage?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|a-new-hope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14191" CreationDate="2013-09-27T16:37:15.397" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;The creature, called a &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dianoga&quot;&gt;Dianoga&lt;/a&gt;, is a pest found across the Galaxy, that originated on a planet called Vodran.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It likely arrived on the Death Star as a stowaway on a garbage ship removing trash from the Death Star.  Their larva are apparently microscopic, and common enough to be considered a serious pest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Over many millennia, dianoga migrated from Vodran by stowing away aboard garbage ships in their microscopic larval forms, and could be commonly found in trash compactors, garbage pits and sewers across the galaxy, living off any present organic matter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The presence of a single dianoga was often cause for alarm, since the creatures were self-fertilizing hermaphrodites, and could quickly multiply to pose a larger problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="188" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T16:37:15.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14194" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14199" CreationDate="2013-09-27T17:53:39.850" Score="7" ViewCount="1085" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is written on Agent Hanaway's ring and what is the meaning of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6235" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T15:54:34.240" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T15:54:34.240" Title="What is written on Agent Hanaway's ring in Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol?" Tags="|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-ghost-protocol|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14182" CreationDate="2013-09-27T20:38:14.323" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the movie's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108052/faq&quot;&gt;FAQ on IMDB.com&lt;/a&gt;, Neeson's reason was &quot;for respect and the fact that he was proud to portray such a historical figure.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the scene shows actual Holocaust survivors as well as the actors who played some of them. I believe it is only the survivors, not the actors, who place stones on the grave. So perhaps it would not have been proper for Neeson to place stones on the grave, leading him to use roses instead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2013-09-28T23:55:53.317" LastActivityDate="2013-09-28T23:55:53.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14194" CreationDate="2013-09-27T23:15:54.190" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia to the rescue. On its page &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission%3a_Impossible_%E2%80%93_Ghost_Protocol&quot;&gt;Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, we have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bird, having directed several Disney and Pixar films and short films, incorporated the trademark &quot;A113&quot; into the movie on two separate occasions. The first is the design print on Agent Hanaway's ring during the flashback sequence, and the second being when Hunt calls in for support and uses the drop callsign, Alpha 1-1-3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what is this &quot;A113&quot;? Again, Wikipedia is smart. Let's see the page &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A113&quot;&gt;A113&lt;/a&gt;&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A113&lt;/strong&gt; (sometimes A-113 or A1-13) is an inside joke present as an Easter egg in animated films created by alumni of California Institute of the Arts, referring to the classroom number used by graphic design and character animation students at the school that was used by John Lasseter and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Bird&quot;&gt;Brad Bird&lt;/a&gt; among others. Brad Bird first used it for a license plate number in the &quot;Family Dog&quot; episode of Amazing Stories. It has since appeared in other Disney movies and every Pixar movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2013-09-27T23:15:54.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14179" CreationDate="2013-09-28T00:51:52.370" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The character of Batman is older than you may think... unless you have already begun to research him.  For example, his first comic appearance in 1939 had him killing and maiming criminals.  That's quite a different Batman from the one he developed into over time.  In that first year it was explained that Batman became the superhero he was to avenge the death of his parents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, step back a moment.  The comics of 1939 were not nearly as in-depth and detailed as they are today.  Batman was the protector of Gotham City, because as far as that specific comic strip was concerned, Gotham City was the entire world.  I'm not saying that it spanned the globe in that comic... just that it was essentially pulp fiction about a dark crime fighter protecting a city.  The reader didn't need much more than that to enjoy the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a storyline in 1940 &quot;in which Batman shoots some monstrous giants to death&quot; the editor of the comic decides that Batman is no longer allowed to kill or use a gun.  This was also the year Robin was added, and the character was softened a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the years following World War II, DC Comics &quot;adopted a postwar editorial direction that increasingly de-emphasized social commentary in favor of lighthearted juvenile fantasy.&quot; The impact of this editorial approach was evident in Batman comics of the postwar period; removed from the &quot;bleak and menacing world&quot; of the strips of the early 1940s, Batman was instead portrayed as a respectable citizen and paternal figure that inhabited a &quot;bright and colorful&quot; environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the motives that spurred Batman on weren't always necessarily political... but you do have to remember here that we are talking about a &lt;strong&gt;crime fighter&lt;/strong&gt;.  He was created to fight crime as a vigilante, and do what the police were either unable or unwilling to do, or incapable of doing.  This does mean that sometimes there would appear to be some kind of political tie to his actions.  One might be prompted to ask if the police were really that incompetent if Batman is always the one chasing down the bank robbers, but the comic series was about Batman fighting crime... not about the police doing their jobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now... you step Batman out of his original comic beginnings, and you have to see him instead as the reinvention of the people who are presenting him.  The Batman of the original comic series is a different Batman from the TV series out of the mid 60's.  This Batman is a different Batman from the Dark Knight introduced in the mid 80's, who in turn was a different Batman we saw in the first movies (starring Val Kilmer, George Clooney, and Michael Keaton).  The Batman portrayed by Christian Bale was again a reinvention of the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea of Batman in Gotham City, isolated from the rest of the world (because it didn't exist) couldn't stand the light of day (or the moon) by the time Christian Bale stepped into the role.  The Batman we are introduced to is a global Batman, and Gotham City is more like a real city than a comic-book one.  The City as a character even transforms over time, over the series of these movies.  Take for example the multi-level suspended tramway that is so significant in the &quot;death&quot; of Ra's al Ghul.  It was one of the crowning jewels of what Bruce Wayne's father had given to the city, and is completely gone by the second film in the DK series.  Gotham City has all but completely transformed into New York in The Dark Knight.  This transformation for a major character (for Gotham City is indeed a character in the Batman stories) from an element of fantasy to one of super-reality is indicative of how the stories being told by Christopher Nolan are to revolve less around fantasy, and more around reality... something that the viewer can relate to easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is important to remember, so much so that I must repeat it, that above everything... Batman is an example of a normal man, pushed to an extreme, who takes the law into his own hands in such a way that viewers can get behind him... rather than condemn him for putting himself above the law.  In order to be able to see him as a hero, the situations we see Batman in mustn't be ambiguous.  It must appear as if the police are inept or corrupt, or that the criminal is too smart or powerful for the police to stop.  As the stories that Batman is woven into become more realistic, the reasons that drive his actions will indeed appear to become more political... simply because characters like Mr. Freeze and the Penguin don't fit into that realistic picture.  If he can't fight some over-the-top villain, he must fight some &quot;evil&quot; that the audience can more easily recognize.  Today, that is usually related to something political.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2013-09-28T00:51:52.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14203" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-09-28T06:06:15.833" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Usual Suspects&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1995 American neo-noir film directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie. It stars Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite, and Kevin Spacey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film follows the interrogation of Roger &quot;Verbal&quot; Kint, a small-time con man who is one of only two survivors of a massacre and fire on a ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles. He tells an interrogator a convoluted story about events that led him and four other criminals to the boat, and of a mysterious mob boss known as Keyser Söze who commissioned their work. Using flashback and narration, Kint's story becomes increasingly complex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5941" LastEditorUserId="5941" LastEditDate="2013-09-28T10:30:18.210" LastActivityDate="2013-09-28T10:30:18.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14204" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-09-28T06:06:15.833" Score="0" Body="The Usual Suspects is a 1995 American neo-noir film directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie. It stars Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite, and Kevin Spacey." OwnerUserId="5941" LastEditorUserId="5941" LastEditDate="2013-09-28T09:10:43.760" LastActivityDate="2013-09-28T09:10:43.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13458" CreationDate="2013-09-28T11:57:49.113" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an official answer from PBS on their &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pbs.org/parents/caillou/faq.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Frequently Asked Questions about Caillou&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q. Why is Caillou bald?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A. Caillou’s character is based on a much younger character featured in illustrated children’s books published before the television series was created. Generally, for children, Caillou is a larger than life image of a preschooler. The fact that he is bald does not seem to bother preschoolers in the least. Not only do they never mention it, but when asked to think about why Caillou has no hair, our focus groups just laughed and replied: &amp;quot;He just doesn’t have any hair!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-09-28T11:57:49.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14210" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17815" CreationDate="2013-09-28T12:45:19.110" Score="3" ViewCount="509" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1817273/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Place Beyond the Pines&lt;/a&gt;, we saw that Avery Cross (played by Bradley Cooper) discusses the whole situation about his fellow corrupt officers with his father (Judge Al Cross). His father advises him on something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that we saw that Avery discusses it with Bill Killcullen (played by Bruce Greenwood). He asks him to accept his three requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After some argument Bill agrees and accepts all three of his requests. Why did he do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2119" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-28T19:00:03.143" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T15:39:31.020" Title="Why did Bill Killcullen accept all three of Avery's requests?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-place-beyond-the-pines|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14214" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14217" CreationDate="2013-09-28T16:27:28.400" Score="7" ViewCount="19465" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;strong&gt;The Pianist&lt;/strong&gt;, just before the end of the movie &lt;strong&gt;Szpilman&lt;/strong&gt; was caught&#xA;by the German officer at the house when he was trying to open a can. And then he&#xA;asked Szpilman to play piano.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did the German officer do like that? Because of Szpilman is a pianist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastActivityDate="2019-01-06T01:55:32.167" Title="Why didn't the German officer kill Szpilman?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|the-pianist|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9331" CreationDate="2013-09-28T18:44:46.667" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they're probably going to a mixture of the two films as well as the comic book universe. I can foresee Dredd being a genetic experiment, or possibly being tampered with as a child to elicit a more augmented and controlled anger response; without the loss of fine motor control related to increased blood pressure and pulse rates. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6279" LastActivityDate="2013-09-28T18:44:46.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8699" CreationDate="2013-09-28T19:38:57.203" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You guys are making this all WAAAAAY too complicated.  The drinking scene was nighttime.  He stayed in the bar all night and into the morning, by which time everyone had gone home.  There's nothing even remotely dreamlike about anything in that scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6280" LastActivityDate="2013-09-28T19:38:57.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14214" CreationDate="2013-09-28T23:46:18.530" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the reason was this was toward the end of the occupation of Warsaw, Poland. The German officer was disillusioned with the war at that point. When he realized the great talent Szpilman was, he was unwilling to send him away to certain death or kill him as his orders probably dictated. He loved the talent more than he loved the war, the occupation, or his official duties. I am not sure if the German Officer knew who Szpilman was, but he definitely recognized the talent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Wikipedia, it talks of this encounter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In November 1944, Szpilman was hiding out in an abandoned building at 223 Niepodległości Avenue when he was found by a German officer, Captain Wilm Hosenfeld. To Szpilman's surprise, the officer did not arrest or kill him; after discovering that the emaciated Szpilman was a pianist, Hosenfeld asked him to play something (a piano was on the ground floor). Szpilman played Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor. After that, the officer showed Szpilman a better place to hide and brought him bread and jam on numerous occasions. He also offered Szpilman one of his coats to keep warm in the freezing temperatures. Szpilman did not know the name of the German officer until 1951. Despite the efforts of Szpilman and the Poles to rescue Hosenfeld, he died in a Soviet prisoner of war camp in 1952.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More information can be found at: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.szpilman.net/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.szpilman.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-09-28T23:46:18.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13352" CreationDate="2013-09-28T23:59:36.530" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The track is actually 'Argentina - Daniel Licht' which is Track 10 on Dexter - Season 7 (Music From The Original Series). Listen from around 30-35 seconds in and you'll recognise it within about 10 seconds! Find it here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://open.spotify.com/track/40Y80ukppQKlFRuiVta4Ck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://open.spotify.com/track/40Y80ukppQKlFRuiVta4Ck&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dexter-season-7-music-from/id684236034&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dexter-season-7-music-from/id684236034&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6281" LastActivityDate="2013-09-28T23:59:36.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14225" CreationDate="2013-09-29T04:47:13.993" Score="6" ViewCount="16515" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was Mr. Meyer Wolfsheim's role so important in &lt;em&gt;The Great Gatsby&lt;/em&gt;? How did it affect the story of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6168" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-29T10:14:20.180" LastActivityDate="2019-03-12T15:29:55.520" Title="What was the role of Meyer Wolfsheim? Why was it so important?" Tags="|character|the-great-gatsby|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14220" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14240" CreationDate="2013-09-29T08:32:57.983" Score="6" ViewCount="1719" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcism_of_Emily_Rose&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Exorcism of Emily Rose&lt;/a&gt; is based on the real story of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anneliese_Michel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Anneliese Michel&lt;/a&gt;. In the real story, two priests claimed that there were six demons including Adolf Hitler, Judas Iscariot and Nero. But in the film version the six ghosts are  Cain, Nero, Judas Iscariot, Legion, Belial and Lucifer. Why did they not use Hitler's ghost?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-29T19:47:12.450" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T08:22:56.607" Title="Why didn't they use Hitler as one of the six ghosts?" Tags="|adaptation|the-exorcism-of-emily-rose|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14221" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15296" CreationDate="2013-09-29T09:43:09.937" Score="3" ViewCount="349" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2717168/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Celluloid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is about the story of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._Daniel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;J. C. Daniel&lt;/a&gt;, who is the father of Malayalam film and &lt;strong&gt;Vigathakumaran&lt;/strong&gt; was the first Malayalam movie released in 1928. The story explains Daniel's exile and downfall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Can anyone explain how historically accurate the movie Celluloid is?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-21T09:41:02.963" LastActivityDate="2013-11-21T09:46:35.213" Title="How historically accurate is the movie Celluloid?" Tags="|historical-accuracy|celluloid|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14222" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14223" CreationDate="2013-09-29T11:02:01.553" Score="13" ViewCount="2216" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Breaking bad, perhaps one of the most dreadful things that Walt has done is poisoning the little kid. Ever since the incident happened it has surfaced up many times, but it's still not clear how Walt feels about the whole things. Is he really sorry for what he did?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-09-30T07:37:28.243" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T16:59:32.427" Title="Is Walt really sorry for poisoning Brock?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14222" CreationDate="2013-09-29T13:28:37.887" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a loving father of a son, Walt without doubt &lt;strong&gt;hates himself&lt;/strong&gt; for involving/using kid in his &quot;war&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's just it, he &lt;strong&gt;doesn't feel sorry&lt;/strong&gt; for doing it at all, mostly because from his perspective his confidence/ego (about poison dosage) is so high that he doesn't feel like he put that kids life in danger at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is like pessimist/optimist point of view, to Jesse it looks like he almost killed Brock, Walt however thinks that he merely gave this kid a simple cold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Walt could see it from Jesse's perspective, he would feel sorry and would hate himself even more... but since he doesn't, he would do it all over again. To Walt Brock was justified mean to a goal (Walt's power).&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;Also in season 5 episode 13 when Walt is rushing to the desert in his car he tries to explain to Jesse on the phone why he poisoned him. He says that he knew exactly how much &quot;poison&quot; to put...but you could hear doubt in his voice, like he was just guessing being led by his ego.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T16:59:32.427" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T16:59:32.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14219" CreationDate="2013-09-29T16:00:27.970" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not acquainted with the book myself. But as far as the movie is concerned, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shmoop.com/great-gatsby/meyer-wolfsheim.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;it is not &lt;strong&gt;expected&lt;/strong&gt; to be known much about Wolfsheim&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wolfsheim is a friend of the Gatsby. He is a member of New York's underworld. He also fixed the 1919 World Series. He was in some sort of &quot;bond-scam&quot;. Further, Wolfsheim gave some hints to Nick that seem to indicate that Gatsby, who always tried to beat his own drum in front of the public by throwing parties and all, was merely an associate of the former and Wolfsheim carried much of the later's expenditure in order to carry on with his own business making Gatsby a mere carrier of his interest. As The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/13/how-the-great-gatsby-could-afford-those-great-parties/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Washington Post&lt;/a&gt; describes-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And we have to assume, I think, that Gatsby's home and his parties are, to a greater or lesser degree, a business expense for him. They're part of creating the Gatsby vehicle that can carry the Wolfsheim business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wolfsheim seems to be using Gatsby for retaining his own anonymity and he might as well was funding fir the parties to get familiarized with the high-society. Although, the sponsor can the Gatsby too; this remained a mystery. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as a character, Wolfsheim was not &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; important, but he let us know some true facts about the Gatsby, who apparently could not be believed easily regarding his business profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastActivityDate="2013-09-29T16:00:27.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12699" CreationDate="2013-09-29T20:09:33.173" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe you already know this, but just to make sure, first of all those skating scenes aren't interspersed with &lt;em&gt;Kate&lt;/em&gt; out of nothing. They are not anyone's dream or a mere metaphor (at least not only), but &lt;strong&gt;happen right there in front of the restaurant and can be seen by her through the window&lt;/strong&gt;. This is evident in the first scene that shows the skaters through the windows of the restaurant from &lt;em&gt;Kate&lt;/em&gt;'s point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now to the meaning of the skaters. I would say they were added as a &lt;strong&gt;classic romantic winter/christmas element to underline the romantic atmposphere&lt;/strong&gt; of the whole situation, since ice skaters have been used as a symbol for the enjoyment and romance of winter in many movies before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The skating field emptying over time and the skaters getting fewer and fewer is then used to emphasize the passing of time that &lt;em&gt;Kate&lt;/em&gt; waits in vain and the tilting of the situation from romantic anticipation to sad disappointment. At the end there is only a single couple left dancing on the ice, which &lt;em&gt;Kate&lt;/em&gt; stares at, envying them for the love they apparently share and that she thought to find herself, too (or to have found already), but which she disappointedly didn't find this evening (not yet knowing the sad reason for &lt;em&gt;Alex&lt;/em&gt;'s disappearance).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to sum up, the skaters weren't just interspersed with the real scenes, but were observed by &lt;em&gt;Kate&lt;/em&gt; in realtiy and served the purpose as a classic romantic winter symbol and &lt;strong&gt;the development of the skating field and its inhabitants underlined the emotional stages &lt;em&gt;Kate&lt;/em&gt; went through&lt;/strong&gt; on this evening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-01-18T15:01:55.120" LastActivityDate="2017-01-18T15:01:55.120" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4527" CreationDate="2013-09-29T23:53:53.750" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose was to show that Skyler chose to be involved and made a deliberate choice even after she was &quot;told&quot; to leave. This most likely will be important as we see the consequences of her decision in the final episode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6291" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-09-30T15:12:07.093" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T15:12:07.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14233" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14236" CreationDate="2013-09-30T04:27:48.957" Score="17" ViewCount="40991" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final episode of Breaking Bad (S5E16), titled &quot;Felina,&quot; there is scene depicting Jesse making a wooden box of some kind. There are shots of him whittling, sanding and staining the box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Then, he wakes from what we learn to be an illusion, a dream, and that he is actually in the basement meth lab, still captive to Jack and his men.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this dream (for lack of a better term) signify?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-09-30T09:53:00.003" LastActivityDate="2016-11-08T10:45:59.460" Title="What does the wooden box scene signify?" Tags="|breaking-bad|plot-explanation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14234" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14254" CreationDate="2013-09-30T05:19:09.447" Score="9" ViewCount="18461" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where does the theme of Breaking Bad (intros and sometimes during the episodes) come from? Is it a song or a short piece written specifically for this show? Also can it be found on any official CD collections?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the longest version of the theme can be heard in the end of Granite State (s05e15) episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5788" LastEditorUserId="5788" LastEditDate="2013-09-30T06:25:47.150" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T22:11:46.040" Title="What is the theme music of Breaking Bad?" Tags="|breaking-bad|soundtrack|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14235" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14244" CreationDate="2013-09-30T05:29:41.873" Score="14" ViewCount="2608" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, does Lydia still have any chance to recover after being poisoned by a cup of tea with ricin in it? Is there no way she can survive this? I'm not sure, but I think Brock was able to recover from it somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5788" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T20:43:23.473" LastActivityDate="2017-05-10T14:43:12.523" Title="Is the recipient of the ricin doomed after ingestion?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14233" CreationDate="2013-09-30T05:42:57.987" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right after the last episode of Breaking Bad, there was a live Talking Bad show episode with some of the actors and crew, where they told us that this was Jesse daydreaming of how he was crafting a wood box a long time ago in school, and how this daydream abruptly ends with the &amp;quot;leash&amp;quot; pulling on him like a captive dog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On his group therapy Jesse talked about how he made this box for a class, and in the end he traded that box for some drugs. Note how the scene in the last episode suddenly changes from Jesse holding his box with a happy look on his face to him standing in the middle of a meth lab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Penny Arcade Report's Ben Kuchera &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20131001131645/http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/breaking-bads-finale-the-fallen-the-victorious-and-the-question-of-what-com&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;writes in his article&lt;/a&gt; which I suggest to read in full:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jesse Pinkman is fantasizing about the creation of a beautiful wooden box, a call back to the third season where he discussed being inspired by his woodworking teacher. He traded the box he made in class for drugs, but this seems to be a vision of what might have been, a happy, healthy Jesse doing something that created an item of worth, something of lasting value, and taking pride in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can say a lot of things about the act of cooking a near-perfect batch of crystal meth, but it’s an act of destruction. All those beautiful blue crystals will end up in the greater world, ruining the lives of the people who consume it. There is no satisfaction in a job well done once you understand that, and the fact that Jesse now dreams of creation is significant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a quick interlude, and serves mainly to give us a peek into what Jesse wants right now. And he wants peace. Whether he ultimately gets it is open to interpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last episode there are many moments that go way back in the show's timeline, reminding the viewers how things once were and how it all could've turned out differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njuIKGNcTVE&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;youtube vid of that group therapy scene (s03e09)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5788" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-11-08T10:45:59.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14248" CreationDate="2013-09-30T06:20:39.420" Score="17" ViewCount="5026" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it can be clearly seen in the first and the last episodes of the fifth season of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, the ammo boxes in Walt's car say that there are &lt;em&gt;tracer&lt;/em&gt; bullets in them. Why is that? It wasn't explained in the Talking Bad episode that followed right after the last episode, because it wasn't as important as the other things they only had an hour to talk about live, but I think it's still peculiar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tpkAT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why &lt;em&gt;tracer&lt;/em&gt; bullets and not the ordinary ones? As far as I know tracer bullets only &quot;ignite&quot; at least about flying for ten meters or so, and there wasn't even that much distance between the gun and the back wall of the club house the shooting took place at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5788" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T20:34:38.103" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T20:34:38.103" Title="Why does Walt use tracer bullets for his machine gun?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14220" CreationDate="2013-09-30T08:22:56.607" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would guess that the most likely reason was to avoid the possibility of causing upset or offence.  Hitler's actions are still within living memory and some people (mainly in Europe) are very sensitive about the issue and do not even like discussing it or even having it mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it is because their families might have suffered in the atrocities and sometimes it is because their families might have been involved in inflicting it etc.  Whatever the reason it is usually best to simply avoid the issue unless you are going to handle it in a very specific way.  That is not the angle the film makers wanted to go down so they avoided it entirely, it is not as if there are not plenty of other horrible ghosts you could use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example in Germany a friend was stopped and questioned at an airport because a tattoo he had resembled (if you squinted) an eagle symbol which is associated with the Nazi party.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T08:22:56.607" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14127" CreationDate="2013-09-30T09:50:47.640" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sheikh wanted to show fernandes that he is a big influence on his life and since he has taken him under his wing he has resolved to be a better man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6009" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-24T08:03:26.243" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T08:03:26.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14235" CreationDate="2013-09-30T10:21:55.727" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Wikipedia: &quot;Oral exposure to ricin is far less toxic [than injection or inhalation]...By ingestion, the pathology of ricin is largely restricted to the gastrointestinal tract where it may cause mucosal injuries; with appropriate treatment, most patients will make a full recovery.&quot; So while this was a nicely creepy bit of plotting, it certainly seems possible that Lydia's real-world chances of survival would be significantly better than we're meant to infer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6298" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T10:21:55.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4421" CreationDate="2013-09-30T10:45:44.960" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/title?keywords=time-travel&amp;amp;sort=year,asc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB search&lt;/a&gt; gives you all films which have &lt;code&gt;time-travel&lt;/code&gt; in their plot keywords, sorted by year, ascending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following are the first elements of the list:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0009105/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Ghost of Slumber Mountain&lt;/a&gt; (1918)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0012067/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court&lt;/a&gt; (1921)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141045/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Felix Trifles with Time&lt;/a&gt; (1925)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000370/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost&lt;/a&gt; (1901), mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/4421/what-was-the-first-tv-show-or-movie-to-feature-a-character-who-travelled-through/14245#comment6292_4421&quot;&gt;above&lt;/a&gt;, is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; labelled by IMDB as having &lt;code&gt;time-travel&lt;/code&gt; in its plot. One could disagree with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6295" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T17:15:52.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14171" CreationDate="2013-09-30T10:50:24.547" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it was already answered by &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/5733/mattd&quot;&gt;MattD&lt;/a&gt;, most of the technologies you ask about doesn't actually exist (as far as the public is aware ;-)). However, I think that most of them are actually possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The display thingie is a combination of things that do exist, although such combination is a bit of a stretch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is capable of detecting eyes in the room. For comparison, most digital cameras, including those on smartphones, recognize faces. Red-eye removing software is often capable of detecting eyes. Of course, all of these are not really reliable enough to be trusted with the outcome of the secret mission of breaking in Kremlin, but that doesn't mean that the technologies cannot be improved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next thing it does is display an adapted version of an image, so that it is always a 2D projection adapted to the position of the eyes of the viewer. This part is a bit thin, because normal 3D vision is achieved by eyes receiving two slightly different pictures, but given the simplicity of the scene (an empty hallway), it might be feasible. I'd say it would be quite convincing if the guard wasn't, at moments, staring really intently at the projection, but this kind of exaggeration is the most common element of movie suspense, so we can forgive that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also renders each scene very quickly, as the guard moves. Not really a stretch, since common PCs do that in many modern (and even not so modern) games. This is even simpler, due to the aformentioned simplicity of the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, all you need is a perfectly silent mechanism to setup the projection screen, accurate 3D imaging of the environment to prepare the scene (I believe those also exist, although I suspect today's technology is not capable of ignoring two agent's standing in the way of some of the nearer parts of the wall ;-)), and plenty of luck, so that the guard doesn't notice that the scene is actually 2D. You also need a perfect layout of Kremlin, so that you can prepare the screen that will fit the hallway width and height perfectly, and similar minor details which, in my opinion, would be much harder to fix (in real world) than the technology itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Funny, you didn't mention a device which they used in that scene to send the sound (of water dripping) to a distant corner. I have no idea if that exists, nor if it is possible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The lenses need extreme miniaturization (so that a computer would fit there, without being in the way of the one using such lenses), some way to record the image (this one is beyond today's technology, since we still rely on lenses which need depth between them), some WiFi device, etc. I'm not sure if &quot;a thin layer of glass capable of recording stuff&quot; is physically possible, but I believe the rest is (it may even exist, but it's not on the market).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lenses remind a bit of a miniaturized &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google Glass&lt;/a&gt;, but notice that even Google Glass has a &quot;fat&quot; device (in front of the right eye):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6wqP7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Google Glass Explorer Edition&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, human eye &quot;records&quot; the images by using lenses, so it also needs depth. This is why I find this part the least convincing one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sending data by contact is not really a surprise. The technology exists (as &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/5391/paulster2&quot;&gt;Paulster2&lt;/a&gt; wrote in the comments), but the devices have to be compatible. Don't expect to do the trick with a common USB stick, but it is not really weird that a super-duper technologically hyperadvanced agency would have such adapted hardware.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the others on this topic, I agree that nothing in MI4 should be taken too seriously, as it is an action comedy. However, you did pose an interesting question, especially since the movie industry was full of technological &quot;miracles&quot; almost since the day one, and many of those &quot;miracles&quot; later became a reality (in some form, although rarely exactly as they were envisioned in a movie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T10:50:24.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14238" CreationDate="2013-09-30T11:34:41.050" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks as though these are portrayed as standard US Military issue rounds. For this type of round, every fifth round is a tracer round ... it's the way they come in the can. Tracer rounds ignite as soon as the bullet is fired, which means they are glowing when they have left the barrel of the gun. The 7.62mm round fired out of the M60 will stay lit out to about 900 meters (max effective range of an M60 machine gun is 1100 meters). To give you a better idea on tracers, here is the excerpt from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracer_ammunition&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tracer ammunition (tracers) are bullets or cannon caliber projectiles that are built with a small pyrotechnic charge in their base. Ignited by the burning powder, the pyrotechnic composition burns very brightly, making the projectile visible to the naked eye. This enables the shooter to follow the projectile trajectory to make aiming corrections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When used, tracers are usually loaded as every fifth round in machine gun belts, referred to as four-to-one tracer. Platoon and squad leaders will sometimes load their magazines entirely with tracers to mark targets for their soldiers to fire on. Tracers are also sometimes placed two or three rounds from the bottom of magazines to alert the shooter that their weapon is almost empty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tracer rounds may also ignite flammable substances on contact from a nominal distance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I stated, this is just the way the ammunition comes when pre-packaged for military use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T11:41:30.000" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14233" CreationDate="2013-09-30T12:06:36.623" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Jesse reclaimed the perfect box he made in high school that he gave away for an ounce of weed. Into this box he put away all the awful things that happened to him during his servitude and before. Vince is very good with clues and foreshadowing and I think the box lets us know that Jesse is going to be okay. He's able to remember the satisfaction of making something beautiful which will give him the courage to remake himself. Because Breaking Bad wasn't just about corruption and greed but also redemption and love. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6299" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T12:06:36.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14250" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-09-30T12:53:50.540" Score="15" ViewCount="40741" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169547/%E2%80%8E&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;American Beauty&lt;/a&gt;, we see Colonel Frank Fitts tried to kiss Lester Burnham just before the latter was killed. Why did he try to do so? At first, I thought Frank himself was gay too. But later the fact that he was trying to check whether Lester was gay or not started making more sense to me. However I am not still sure. So can it be said definitely whether Frank was gay or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-13T00:28:36.050" LastActivityDate="2019-10-12T23:51:28.213" Title="Was Frank Fitts gay or not?" Tags="|plot-explanation|american-beauty|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14030" CreationDate="2013-09-30T14:49:08.327" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that people are impressed because of the role of the psychopath. In this movie Javier Bardem proves to everyone that he is an excellent actor. His performance is just amazing, the end leaves the viewer breathless. The story is not so incredible, it's just the story of a man chased by another one. In my opinion, the movie is priceless because of the role of Bardem. Sometimes, the glory of a movie is just because of an actor/actress, not because of the story or anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6301" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2023-05-19T20:09:01.403" LastActivityDate="2023-05-19T20:09:01.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13433" CreationDate="2013-09-30T15:04:41.787" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;She killed herself because she couldn't handle her boulimia anymore, she was single (her fiancé left her because of her boulimia, and because he couldn't support her anymore), she couldn't have babies, and at the end, she didn't have friends anymore. That's why she commited suicide! I don't think that she had been abused, she acted weirdly when the little guy talked about his teacher because she doubted : is it possible for a child to really love an adult? Does she really has to punish the man? Is he really a bad guy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-30T15:51:56.383" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T15:51:56.383" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14253" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14299" CreationDate="2013-09-30T15:15:41.713" Score="15" ViewCount="3617" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious why there is a guy holding an umbrella during the song &quot;Los cuates del Sinaloa&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nuO0q.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only explanation I can imagine is that it's a reference to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_Man_%28JFK_assassination%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Umbrella Man&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ArHzm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Umbrella Man&quot; was a witness of JFK assassination. This generated many conspiracy theories, but none of them were true. So it might mean to stop analyzing every frame of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6300" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2013-10-11T22:36:25.443" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T13:26:02.203" Title="Why is there an umbrella man in this Breaking Bad song?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14234" CreationDate="2013-09-30T15:28:27.070" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's an original piece written specifically for the show, written by Dave Porter. The title of the song is simply, &quot;Breaking Bad Theme&quot;. There are a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;field-keywords=breaking%20bad%20soundtrack&amp;amp;index=blended&amp;amp;link_code=qs&amp;amp;sourceid=Mozilla-search&amp;amp;tag=mozilla-20&quot;&gt;few CDs&lt;/a&gt; available with music from the show, one featuring music written specifically for the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T15:28:27.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14255" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14260" CreationDate="2013-09-30T15:31:53.650" Score="11" ViewCount="25783" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Memento&lt;/em&gt;, there are several scenes of Leonard talking on the phone about Sammy Jenkins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually he reveals a tattoo on his arm that says &quot;never answer the phone&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the person he is talking to revealed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-30T15:41:38.703" LastActivityDate="2017-03-04T03:15:39.343" Title="Who was on the phone in Memento?" Tags="|memento|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14250" CreationDate="2013-09-30T15:40:29.513" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frank Fitts is a closet/repressed homosexual. There are a few pointers for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He had a Southern upbringing, one which is very Christian and anti-gay&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has a failed marriage and barely touches his wife&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was in the army, a society of men, possibly with a lot of man-on-man action going on&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is also vehemently anti-gay which could be interpreted to be a form of Freudian projection, a defence mechanism for self-denial.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frank kissed Lester because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was under the mistaken impression that &lt;em&gt;Lester&lt;/em&gt; was gay&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lester informed him that his wife was probably out cheating on him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His own relationship with his wife was virtually non-existent; this led him to believe that Lester and he were in similar situations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He finally caved in to his desires, in many ways encouraged by Ricky's open (false) confession of his sexuality&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-30T18:36:52.600" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T18:36:52.600" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14255" CreationDate="2013-09-30T16:20:18.310" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am afraid that I can't add more than what is already explained in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/faq#.2.1.15&quot;&gt;IMDB FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In some cases it is clear that Leonard is talking to the front desk (and at least one time it is Burt since Leonard says &quot;Burt&quot; as if the man on the phone indicated his name). The other times it is most likely Teddy; early in the film Leonard tells Burt to hold all his calls except Teddy's as an exception. Thus it appears to be Teddy who is telling Leonard that Jimmy Grantz is the 2nd attacker on the phone. Teddy does admit to doing this at the end of the film as well, supporting the conjecture that Teddy is on the phone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any question regarding this explanation, you can comment on the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T16:20:18.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14030" CreationDate="2013-09-30T16:37:59.027" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in the comments, the movie's themes are explored and contrasted in some detail in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themes_and_analysis_of_No_Country_for_Old_Men_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this wiki&lt;/a&gt;. Some viewers focus on certain aspects of the plot while others prefer other aspects. In light of the title of the film, the following critiques are probably good summaries of what you could interpret from this Cormac McCarthy story:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;William J. Devlin analyzes the opening narrative of &quot;the traditional western hero portrayed by Sheriff Ed Tom Bell. Bell relates the following about himself and his life in the West: 'I was sheriff of this county when I was twenty five [years old]. Hard to believe. Grandfather was a lawman. Father too ... You can't help but compare yourself against the old-timers. Can't help but wonder how they would've operated these times.' Here, Bell acknowledges that he is part of a tradition – and not simply that of generations of lawmen in his family ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But it is now 1980, and times have changed in at least three significant ways. First, the western frontier is no longer characterized as the 'Wild West,' where the land is unpopulated and unsettled, power-hungry tycoons dominate the innocent, and legal order is yet to be established. Second, though the 'Wild West' has been 'tamed' in one respect, the modern West has a new breed of lawlessness, [where] Bell explains in his opening narrative '... The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure.' ... Third, the hero of the West has grown old. Bell is no longer a young, twenty-five-years-old sheriff, ready and willing to act accordingly to his moral duties ... Instead, he is now weary and cautious: '... But I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard.' ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Though the western frontier has been tamed so that towns have been settled and cities have developed, a new kind of wildness has now spread and ravaged the world. Bell, part of the tradition of the 'old-timers' ... is confused as to how to handle this new immoral wildfire.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;William Luhr focuses on the experiences of the retiring lawman played by Tommy Lee Jones at the beginning of the film. &quot;[He] feels that the evil surrounding him has metastasized beyond his comprehension and that he can no longer even pretend that he can deal productively with it,&quot; he said. &quot;On one level, such comments reflect anxieties shared by many older people who feel that their world is passing them by, that the securities upon which they have built their lives are becoming ignored or invalidated. But [David Fincher's 1995 film] &lt;em&gt;Seven&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;No Country for Old Men&lt;/em&gt; and other recent neo-noirs indicate that more is involved, that a new era of evil is emerging. Such films partake of a millennial sensibility, a sense that the world is entering a phase so degenerate that traditional agents of law, stability, and continuity can no longer cope with, or even understand, it. Such films offer no hope for a viable future, only the remote possibility of individual detachment from it all.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FYI, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Road&lt;/a&gt; was also based on a Cormac McCarthy novel. He's not what one would term a happy writer and tends to (bleakly) explore themes like fate, morality, and the human psyche.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2019-11-21T13:17:04.793" LastActivityDate="2019-11-21T13:17:04.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14255" CreationDate="2013-09-30T16:52:13.357" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I haven't seen it for quite some time, I'm pretty confident to say, that it isn't ever revealed in the movie and the audience is just not supposed to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; has that tattoo saying &lt;em&gt;&quot;never answer the phone&quot;&lt;/em&gt; is, that his desease doesn't work that well over the phone, since after some time he doesn't really know who he's talking to, which is shown in one scene when &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; finally asks the phone &lt;em&gt;&quot;wait, who are you?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (or something similar). He just doesn't know and probably hasn't known for the majority of the whole conversation. And in the same way the audience doesn't know who he's been talking to the whole time. This fits to the rest of the unconventional narrative structure of the movie, which more or less repeatedly puts the audience into the same situation as &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt;, not knowing what just happened some minutes ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So by keeping the audience unaware who he's actually talking to all the time, the movie stays in line with its whole motive of not giving the audience too much more information than the anterograde amnesian protagonist. And not even revealing who was at the phone at the end also fits to the disillusioning ending (beginning?) of the whole story, I think, which doesn't present &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; with the murderer he (and the audience) searched all the time, but just with the very plain and sad truth of yet another unimportant victim in &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt;'s struggle for mental occupation. The man on the phone is as unimportant in understanding the real case of his wife's death as all the other clues acquired by &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; throughout his &quot;pursuit&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; After rewatching it, I would ammend this rather common sense answer by some substance based on the movie's actual story. It was indeed most of the time &lt;em&gt;Teddy&lt;/em&gt; who he's talking to. This is not only evident from him repeatedly calling the other person &lt;em&gt;&quot;officer&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (which we learn at the end/beginning &lt;em&gt;Teddy&lt;/em&gt; is supposed to be).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a long phone call when &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; is starting to talk about &lt;em&gt;Sammy Jenkins&lt;/em&gt; and this is also the talk when he learns about &lt;em&gt;John G.&lt;/em&gt;'s background as drug dealer, information that obviously comes from &lt;em&gt;Teddy&lt;/em&gt;, who we learn later wanted to get &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; on the track of &lt;em&gt;Jimmy&lt;/em&gt; the drug dealer. This call lasts until &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; discovers the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Never answer the phone&quot;&lt;/em&gt;-tattoo and hangs on, hesitating to pick up the phone for some time. Then he gets a message under the door saying &lt;em&gt;&quot;answer my calls&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, accompanied by the Polaroid photo showing the half-naked &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; after his first kill (as we learn at the end/beginning), which we know also has to come from &lt;em&gt;Teddy&lt;/em&gt;. And indeed this last phone call ends with &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; saying &lt;em&gt;&quot;You're in the lobby? I'll be right there&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, which is followed by &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; meeting &lt;em&gt;Teddy&lt;/em&gt; in the hotel lobby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But most of my above points about the meaning of the unknown phone caller still stand, I think, since it is only at the very end of the movie that we get all the information to know that it was &lt;em&gt;Teddy&lt;/em&gt; he was talking to most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-05T01:19:54.157" LastActivityDate="2013-11-05T01:19:54.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2679" CreationDate="2013-09-30T17:39:03.553" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He obviously showed the man that agent J was his son and that he will die, also that agent k will look over him and that he was going to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also agent k(young) soon realises as well who agent J is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6302" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-09-30T18:59:14.897" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T18:59:14.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14263" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14265" CreationDate="2013-09-30T17:49:31.317" Score="9" ViewCount="4345" Body="&lt;p&gt;I frequently watch TV series on DVD and very often I see the &quot;Unaired Pilot&quot; episode advertised (most recently Supernatural).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand these are the test episodes which will be given to the networks for them to decide whether or not to pick up the show. However these episodes are often crucial in setting up the character motivations and back story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would they remain unaired until the DVDs? If the network has already paid for the production why confuse viewers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T16:06:11.300" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T16:06:11.300" Title="Why are pilot episodes often unaired?" Tags="|production|pilot|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14264" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14268" CreationDate="2013-09-30T17:50:47.573" Score="4" ViewCount="14185" Body="&lt;p&gt;A large part of the plot of the 1st series of Supernatural is based around Sam and Dean trying to track down John.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does John avoid them for so long and why does he send them to various hunts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T01:51:15.127" Title="Why was John Winchester avoiding Sam and Dean?" Tags="|supernatural|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14263" CreationDate="2013-09-30T18:01:01.700" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;On  the contrary, I don't think that pilot episodes are &lt;em&gt;often&lt;/em&gt; unaired. They are usually aired as a show's first episode unless there are issues with the production quality, the cast, or similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_pilot&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Most pilots are never publicly screened if they fail to sell a series. If a series eventuates, &lt;strong&gt;pilots are usually&lt;/strong&gt; – but not always – &lt;strong&gt;broadcast as the introductory episode of the series.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A pilot episode is &lt;strong&gt;generally the first episode of a new show&lt;/strong&gt;, shown to the heads of the studio to whom it is marketed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Pilot?from=Main.PilotEpisode&quot;&gt;TVTropes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Even when a show is picked up and given a timeslot, there is no guarantee that a pilot will ever reach the air. &lt;strong&gt;They often do, usually as the premiere.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons why a pilot &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be unaired include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Low production quality: Some pilots are created on shoestring budgets and might not be able to afford the lavish sets and technology required for prime-time television. They are effectively &lt;em&gt;demos&lt;/em&gt;. The pilot for the quiz show, QI, is a representative example.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change in cast: The cast used during the pilot might not have been available for the main series. Wikipedia throws up &lt;em&gt;Gilligan's Island&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Temple Houston&lt;/em&gt; as examples.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change in script: The network might have been satisfied with the feasibility of a project, but required changes to the script which necessitated a complete reshoot for the first episode. The pilot for &lt;em&gt;Gilligan's Island&lt;/em&gt; serves as an example here too.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-09-30T18:11:53.967" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T18:11:53.967" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14234" CreationDate="2013-09-30T22:08:44.057" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;MattD is absolutely correct, you can meet the composer &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/09/24/meet-the-composer-behind-the-eerie-breaking-bad-theme/tab/print/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dave Porter created that opening theme and has scored the show&#xA;  throughout its five-year run. A composer who began his career as an&#xA;  assistant in the studio of Philip Glass, he is currently working with&#xA;  filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan on the TV series “Wayward Pines,” a&#xA;  thriller expected to air on Fox next year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5929" LastActivityDate="2013-09-30T22:08:44.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14264" CreationDate="2013-10-01T00:02:53.930" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was explained in this conversation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sam Winchester:&lt;/strong&gt; But after, we're gonna meet up, right? Use the gun &lt;em&gt;together&lt;/em&gt;, right?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [pause]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Sam Winchester:&lt;/strong&gt; You're leaving again, aren't you? You &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; wanna go after the demon alone? You know, I don't get you. You can't treat us like this.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;John Winchester:&lt;/strong&gt; Like what?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Sam Winchester:&lt;/strong&gt; Like children!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;John Winchester:&lt;/strong&gt; You &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; my children. I'm tryin' to keep you safe.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dean Winchester:&lt;/strong&gt; Dad, all due respect but uh, that's a bunch of crap.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [Sam and John look at him in surprise]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;John Winchester:&lt;/strong&gt; Excuse me?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dean Winchester:&lt;/strong&gt; You know what Sammy and I have been huntin'. Hell, you sent us on a few huntin' trips yourself. I mean you can't be that worried about keepin' us safe.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;John Winchester:&lt;/strong&gt; It's not the same thing, Dean.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dean Winchester:&lt;/strong&gt; Then what is it? Why do you want us outta the big fight?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;John Winchester:&lt;/strong&gt; This demon? It's a bad sonofabitch. I can't make the same moves if I'm worried about keepin' you alive.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dean Winchester:&lt;/strong&gt; You mean you can't be as reckless.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;John Winchester:&lt;/strong&gt; Look. I don't expect to make it outta this fight in one piece. Your mother's death? It almost killed me. I can't watch my children die too. I won't.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dean Winchester:&lt;/strong&gt; What happens if you die? Dad, what happens if you die and we could've done something about it? You know I been thinkin', I think maybe Sammy's right about this one, I think we should do this together. We're stronger as a family, Dad, we just are, you know it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;John Winchester:&lt;/strong&gt; We're runnin' outta time. You do your job and you get outta the area. That's an order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0018169/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quotes for John Winchester&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, there are basically two reasons, both closely related to his sons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;His own efficiency, as they get him distracted, for he goes after a dangerous daemon (the yellow-eyed one), and thus worries about them getting killed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He is afraid to actually see them die, like he saw their mother die.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T00:02:53.930" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14269" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-01T01:01:18.533" Score="16" ViewCount="3084" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800369/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, after Thor's failed attempt to retrieve Mjollnir from the S.H.I.E.L.D. compound, he gets taken into custody.  A little while later, Erik Selvig shows up, asking Agent Coulson to release him into his custody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Coulson is questioning him, he quickly finds plenty of evidence that Selvig is lying through his teeth about Thor's identity and Dr. Selvig's relationship with the prisoner, and Selvig is someone that Coulson already knows, and has butted heads with in the past over S.H.I.E.L.D.'s decision to confiscate his protege's research and equipment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yet, Coulson hands Thor over into Selvig's custody, with only an offhand order to one of his agents to &quot;follow them,&quot; which never seems to be followed up on.  What's going on there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2023" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T08:23:13.453" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T08:23:13.453" Title="Why did Agent Coulson hand Thor over to Selvig?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|thor|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14270" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14343" CreationDate="2013-10-01T02:03:13.223" Score="20" ViewCount="1049" Body="&lt;p&gt;At some point in the movie &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/&quot;&gt;In Time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, the main character Will Salas and the daughter of powerful businessman Weis decide to rob banks belonging to her father. &#xA;The first robbery just shows the two protagonists crashing an armored bank vehicle into the glass wall of a bank in the &quot;ghetto zone&quot;, and then taking with them time capsules from the safe.  How did they get that vehicle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If robbing banks is so easy, why did nobody try it before? In an area where people die in the street when their time counter reaches zero, you'd think they'd have high incentives to rob such an easy target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2089" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-01T03:33:35.380" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T22:31:10.863" Title="Why did nobody attack the time bank before?" Tags="|plot-explanation|in-time|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14271" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19185" CreationDate="2013-10-01T02:12:14.070" Score="8" ViewCount="13703" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;In Time&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when Timekeeper Raymond Leon meets main character Will Salas for the first time, he teases him by talking about Will's father who was too young to know him when he died. He also implies he knows what really happened to him, but we never learn what. What happened to Will's father?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2089" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-01T03:36:00.623" LastActivityDate="2016-08-30T20:32:05.913" Title="What happened to Will Salas' father?" Tags="|plot-explanation|in-time|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14272" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14411" CreationDate="2013-10-01T02:44:34.190" Score="9" ViewCount="7135" Body="&lt;p&gt;Critics have drawn comparisons of scenes in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/29/breaking-bad-finale-lost-interviews-with-bryan-cranston-vince-gilligan.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;classic Western Cinema&lt;/a&gt;. Vince Gilligan himself &lt;a href=&quot;http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/06/breaking-bad-once-upon-a-time-in-the-west.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;has spoken&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/vince-gilligan-western-breaking-bad-interview/184215/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;such influences&lt;/a&gt;, and I was just wondering if there are any specific pro-filmic/on screen references to any particular films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can think of one from &lt;em&gt;S5E05&lt;/em&gt; which,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;  contains a sequence in which &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0327167/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Todd&lt;/a&gt;  calmly and methodically  executes an innocent boy is reminiscent of a sequence in Sergio Leonie's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064116/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Once Upon a Time in the West&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, in which Henry Fonda's Character &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ptjc9Vono4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;executes a child&lt;/a&gt; at a crime scene to eliminate a potential witness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D77hH.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there other homages in the series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; This could extend to examples which are deliberately subverting the  Western genre itself (as &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; frequently seems to do), scenes which are stylistically 'Anti-Western', but still acknowledge their references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-08T08:40:17.413" LastActivityDate="2018-10-22T21:48:12.200" Title="What are the analogies/homages to Western Cinema in Breaking Bad?" Tags="|breaking-bad|reference|western|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14273" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-01T03:34:48.870" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A 2011 dystopian science fiction action film starring Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake and directed by Andrew Niccol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;IMDB: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-03T16:32:01.450" LastActivityDate="2014-08-03T16:32:01.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14274" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-01T03:34:48.870" Score="0" Body="A 2011 dystopian science fiction action film starring Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake and directed by Andrew Niccol." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-01T03:34:48.870" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T03:34:48.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14275" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14277" CreationDate="2013-10-01T04:48:51.397" Score="4" ViewCount="11960" Body="&lt;p&gt;What exactly was wrong with Oscar Shales and Agent Mahone? Did Oscar ever kidnap Mahone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6168" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-01T04:56:23.540" LastActivityDate="2017-06-08T08:11:35.517" Title="Who was Oscar Shales? What did he do with Mahone?" Tags="|character|prison-break|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14275" CreationDate="2013-10-01T05:25:48.103" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oscar Shales was a psychopathic serial killer who had raped and killed many women. Mahone was assigned to the Shales case. After almost an year of chasing the case, Mahone successfully apprehended Shales on his own. However, he could not fathom turning over a hardened criminal like this to the authority and kills him and disposes the body under a bird bath in his own backyard. He used lye to decompose the body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to your second question, no, Oscar Shales had never even come close to kidnapping Alexander Mahone, an accomplished and able federal agent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2017-01-13T06:47:57.237" LastActivityDate="2017-01-13T06:47:57.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14271" CreationDate="2013-10-01T06:10:28.990" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In one instance, Salas says he can always fight for money, but his mother reprimands him, telling him not to be like his father. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leon also makes a reference to Salas' father. Salas looks confused, as&#xA;  he thought his father died in a fight. (Source:&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/intime.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.themoviespoiler.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both point indicated that Salas father's death is a mystery and only his wife and Leon know about it. It kept mystery in the film till end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per &lt;a href=&quot;http://intime.wikia.com/wiki/Will_Salas&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;intime.wikia.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wills parents are both timed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-01T06:18:11.243" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T06:18:11.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14279" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-01T06:52:02.553" Score="15" ViewCount="64047" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; has finished. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; In the final episode Walt killed Jack, when he started to talk about money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But where is Walt's money, which Jack has stolen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6294" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T20:40:28.107" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T18:01:05.297" Title="Where is Walt's money?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14279" CreationDate="2013-10-01T08:32:20.150" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does it really matter? The police are probably going to find it and confiscate if it's on the meth lab compound. Anyway, these guys must have sold some meth by then and they have more than the amount they stole from Walt. But now that nobody from the crew is alive to tell anyone where they hid the money, it doesn't really matter. It might even be buried somewhere in the desert like in &quot;To'hajiilee,&quot; in which case it will slowly fade away inside the container.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5788" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-10-28T18:01:05.297" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T18:01:05.297" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3071" CreationDate="2013-10-01T12:37:15.097" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Director/writer &lt;strong&gt;Jon Hurwitz&lt;/strong&gt; explains &lt;em&gt;&quot;why&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (but not &lt;em&gt;&quot;how&quot;&lt;/em&gt;) Jim's mom died &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/04/interview-american-reunion-directors-jon-hurwitz-hayden-schlossberg/page/3&quot;&gt;in this interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The first decision that we made literally was to kill off Jim’s mom.&lt;/strong&gt; And we liked that for two reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One, &lt;strong&gt;we liked how that matured the franchise in a certain way, where it’s not just about sex and losing your virginity and the smaller things in life&lt;/strong&gt; you see in the earlier films; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When you get to be in your 30s, some serious things can happen to you&lt;/strong&gt;, and we wanted to explore that with a relationship that you know and love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jim and his father have always had this relationship where his dad is giving him advice and helping him along in life, and when you reach your 30s, you no longer see your parents as just “mom” and “dad”—you see them as actual, real people. You start giving them advice, and we loved that role reversal.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The second thing we loved about it was the ability to, &lt;strong&gt;by making Jim’s dad single, unleash him into the world in a whole different kind of way.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Instead of just staying inside the house, he’s able to go to the party and mix it up. We were able to pair Jim’s dad with Stifler’s mom; [...] It was too tempting not to have Jim’s dad and Stifler’s mom get together on screen and see what kind of magic we could have.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T12:37:15.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14285" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14286" CreationDate="2013-10-01T13:12:57.560" Score="7" ViewCount="2045" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movies based on the novels of Stieg Larsson were produced in 2009 in Sweden, e.g. &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132620&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Män som hatar kvinnor&lt;/a&gt;&quot; by Niels Arden Oplev. It was published in many countries with new voices (e.g. German).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only 2 years later in 2011 a remake was produced: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568346/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo&lt;/a&gt;&quot; by David Fincher. Sometimes between an original and a remake there even lie decades.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the reason for a remake only 2 years afterwards? I heard rumors that they needed an English version (without subtitles and any translations), but that doesn't seem to make quite much sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5248" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-02T07:08:37.980" LastActivityDate="2013-10-02T07:08:37.980" Title="Why was the Millennium trilogy remade in English so soon after the Swedish original?" Tags="|remake|millennium-trilogy|the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14285" CreationDate="2013-10-01T13:21:29.450" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16110375&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BBC News report&lt;/a&gt; states that there was actual room for making a big business with an English language film trilogy. Quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Telling a story of murder, corruption and family secrets, the late&#xA;  author's Millennium Trilogy has sold more than 65 million copies&#xA;  worldwide and spawned a series of Swedish films made in 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although a hit in Larsson's native country taking 110m Swedish krona&#xA;  (£10.3m, $16m) within three months of release, it had a muted&#xA;  reception in the US and UK, taking just $10m (£6.4m) and £1.5m&#xA;  respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now the book has had a Hollywood makeover with a $100m (£64m) budget&#xA;  and Oscar-nominated director David Fincher and Schindler's List scribe&#xA;  Steve Zaillian at the helm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The prediction was correct. The first &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tattoo_%282009_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Swedish film&lt;/a&gt; had a box office of $104,384,415 (for a budget of $13 million), while the first &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tattoo_%282011_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;American film&lt;/a&gt; had $232,617,430 (for a budget of $90 million).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said in a comment above, a remake only two or three years after the original is not that uncommon - see the Wikipedia &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_remakes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;List of film remakes&lt;/a&gt; for several examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6295" LastEditorUserId="6295" LastEditDate="2013-10-01T15:03:33.820" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T15:03:33.820" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14179" CreationDate="2013-10-01T14:40:52.217" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that Batman is not about politics directly. It is however very much about law, order, and justice. Because of these themes, it can very easily be drawn into politics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Individuals running for Mayor or District Attorney often have to take a though stance on crime. This can both ally them with the Batman or put them at odds with him as they try to crack down on this street vigilante. Bringing in the Batman would be a great media-flashy (and to a would-be mayor, easily done: &quot;He's just &lt;strong&gt;ONE MAN&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;) way to show your hard anti-crime work (without actually confronting the problems themselves). Also, the presence and need for the Batman makes their own though-crime efforts look bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, Batman is a constant thorn in the side of Gotham's organized crime, who often have a ties into politics though corrupt politicians and bribery. This can also easily cause a more politically-themed story line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, due to the tight coupling of crime and politics in a variety of ways, Batman, while not directly about politics, finds it's way there often. You can see examples of this sort of thing in other series too, a prime example being &lt;em&gt;The Wire&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5448" LastEditorUserId="5448" LastEditDate="2013-10-01T14:55:24.887" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T14:55:24.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14290" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="61331" CreationDate="2013-10-01T16:13:12.240" Score="4" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the series Better Off Ted, the protagonist often refers to his ex-wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On at least one occasion (maybe two), he describes her work, saying something along the lines of: &quot;she's working on improving the world, instead of her self. which is not working out very well, either for her or for the world&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have the original quote, preferably with a few lines before and after, preferably with a reference to an online source (if available)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6311" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-01T16:26:17.143" LastActivityDate="2016-09-29T13:28:23.967" Title="Looking for a specific quotation, from Ted, about his wife Stacy" Tags="|dialogue|better-off-ted|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14290" CreationDate="2013-10-01T16:35:02.040" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a modest collection of quotes from every episode &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Better_Off_Ted&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, though I don't see any related to that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I can find, Ted mentions it in passing in the pilot to establish that he is single and has sole custody of Rose.  According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1346400/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;, the line is closer to &lt;em&gt;She left me to find herself and save the world&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-10-05T03:05:32.277" LastActivityDate="2013-10-05T03:05:32.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14269" CreationDate="2013-10-01T17:44:03.623" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And yet, Coulson hands Thor over into Selvig's custody, with only an&#xA;  offhand order to one of his agents to &quot;follow them,&quot; which never seems&#xA;  to be followed up on. What's going on there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They are indeed following him&lt;/strong&gt;, that's why they saw his friends:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcif323T_qo&quot;&gt;www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcif323T_qo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And right after that, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroyer_%28Thor%29&quot;&gt;destroyer&lt;/a&gt; arrived. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they were checking on Thor, but then all those other important events happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6018" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T17:44:03.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14134" CreationDate="2013-10-01T17:55:58.380" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at it again, it appears that it just wouldn't have made any difference. Although there was unquestionably time to call for help, Hank and Gomez were only concerned with surviving... and hiding behind the vehicle probably wasn't their best chance of survival.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: Even though Hank and Gomez were shielded behind the SUV (see the view of the SUV from Jack's men's POV below), they didn't have many options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tJDkr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if Gomez had continued to fire, while Hank called for help, it was inevitable that they'd run out of ammunition before anyone arrived. Once that happened (or even before), Jack's men could have moved around either side of the SUV, attacking Hank and Gomez from several sides at once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This made their best chance of survival to attack... despite the overwhelming odds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a strange way to end an episode. It appeared to be a cliffhanger, but thinking about it, there was practically no chance for it to end any other way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3430" LastEditorUserId="3430" LastEditDate="2013-10-04T15:05:15.240" LastActivityDate="2013-10-04T15:05:15.240" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13994" CreationDate="2013-10-01T18:08:48.190" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The names are re-used for brand recognition, aka marketing, also known as why we're on our third version of &quot;Carrie&quot;. The films themselves are the works of the directors, who bring their own vision (and that of their investors) to the specific project. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zack Snyder didn't have to follow any set of rules when he decided to do the remake - often, directors get into remakes because they have a vision of how the original story could have been realized. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rights to the story are settled before anything happens on a film, so in the case of Dawn of the Dead Richard Rubenstien (who stole ^H^H^H^H^H acquired the rights from George Romero long ago) got his paycheck before Snyder was able to make any moves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some are making movies they loved, some are trying to bring a new vision to an old classic. But all of them have their own budget, and staff and agenda and there's no requirement they make the same movie again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, sometimes they do make the same movie again - exhibit A, Mr. Gus Van Sant and his utterly unneccessary vanity project &quot;Psycho&quot; shot-for-shot cargo-cult Hitchcock remake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when you see that a remake is different from the original, it's because the movie was made by different people with a different context in a different time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of Romero's insight that helped invent the whole genre is that he saw zombies as metaphors for unthinking consumption, and especially in Dawn of the Dead, as metaphors for consumerism and the emptiness of materialism and that's why he wanted to set it in a shopping mall. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 2004 version of Dawn of the Dead took some of the trappings and added some nice pieces (even more so if you read the original version of that script by James Gunn), but became way more interested in Sarah Polley's cheekbones, the Cirque du Soliel zombies and the kill shots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other example of this are the Spider-Man movies, or Rob Zombie's Halloween &quot;remakes&quot;, or the 1970s horror movies being remade lately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good lesser-known example of this are the film versions of Richard Matheson's &quot;I Am Legend&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1964's &quot;Last Man on Earth&quot; one with Vincent Price, which was actually pretty good but crippled by budget;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1971's &quot;Omega Man&quot; with teeth-grittin' NRA pinup boy Charlton Heston;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2008's &quot;I Am Legend&quot; with Oscar-chasin' Will Smith.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same movie, but very different interpretations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me part of the fun of watching films is see how most of them both steal and contribute at the same time (except for Mr. Gus Van Sant).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1634" LastEditorUserId="1634" LastEditDate="2013-10-01T18:26:02.347" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T18:26:02.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14295" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14305" CreationDate="2013-10-01T18:11:35.550" Score="7" ViewCount="822" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching Season 1 episodes of &lt;em&gt;Prison Break&lt;/em&gt; again, and in the last episode where they break out of the jail, Warden along with detectives are investigating the Doctor's room. One of them report to the warden that the Door was not forcefully opened. And they immediately came to conclusion that the door was kept open by some one. How did they not see that the inmates could have made a duplicate of the key (as Michael did initially before the lock was replaced)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is that they arrived to the conclusion that some one left the door open as the only possible way to get in to the room?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3939" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-02T03:52:35.960" LastActivityDate="2013-10-04T11:16:01.340" Title="Open door as the only possible way to get into the room" Tags="|plot-explanation|prison-break|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14297" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14298" CreationDate="2013-10-01T22:11:05.930" Score="8" ViewCount="8864" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1411250/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Riddick&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the eponymous protagonist grabs one of the smaller mud-crawling beasts in order to collect some of its venom. He then constructs his own home-made injector and injects it into the dog he holds caged, only to see it fall asleep and awaken later on. After that he repeatedly injects the venom into himself. &lt;strong&gt;But why does he do this?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First I thought he might want to immunize himself against the venom, yet in this case I wonder why this idea wasn't picked up in the further course of the movie, given the heavy attention this whole venom draining and injecting process received at the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, near the end of the movie &lt;em&gt;Vargas&lt;/em&gt; gets bitten by one of the smaller beasts and immediately dies from the venom, only to have &lt;em&gt;Riddick&lt;/em&gt; say &lt;em&gt;&quot;the smallest are the worst, they're full of venom&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. So what should I make out of all those elaborations at the beginning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-03-23T14:18:31.553" Title="What did Riddick do with the venom?" Tags="|plot-explanation|riddick|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14297" CreationDate="2013-10-01T22:53:57.667" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are correct that Riddick was injecting himself with small doses to build up a tolerance to the venom.  The creatures in the bog at the base of the cliffs were blocking his way through the pass to the less desolate region on the other side.  He knew he was going to have to fight his way through, and was likely to be bitten in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He used the dog as a test subject to make sure the doses were small enough not to kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Riddick&quot;&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt; agrees:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Acquired Poison Immunity: Riddick has to get through a narrow pass to&#xA;  get out of the desert into the fertile grasslands beyond. The pass&#xA;  houses a muddy pool with a poisonous scorpion creature that paralyzes&#xA;  its prey. He captures a younger, smaller creature, and extracts the&#xA;  poison. He tests it on a young desert dog first, then injects himself&#xA;  with small doses until he's built up an immunity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-10-01T22:53:57.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14253" CreationDate="2013-10-02T03:18:25.750" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The band is called Los Cuates del Sinaloa (The Guys from Sinaloa), and the song is called &lt;em&gt;Negro y Azul&lt;/em&gt; (Black and Blue). The song is a narcocorrido - a drug ballad which tends to glorify drug lords. This type of music has become very popular in Mexico as bands write and sing about the battles between drug dealers and the federales and then post videos online. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Negro_y_Azul%3a_The_Ballad_of_Heisenberg&quot;&gt;lyrics&lt;/a&gt; for this ballad refer to a gringo named Heisenberg whose face has not been seen (he is to the right faced backward in the video). Black and blue refer to Heisenberg and his blue meth (as well as the color of bruised skin).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible meanings for the umbrella&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The band is an actual narcocorrido band that was hired to perform the ballad (written by Pepe Garza) for the show. In an article about drug operations in Sinaloa (where they are from), &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/06/04/in-sinaloa-cartel-operators-hide-in-plain-sight/&quot;&gt;Fox News&lt;/a&gt; reports that the umbrella is the symbol of the unregistered currency changer (American dollars for pesos)  who launders money from the US in Sinaloa's &quot;little market.&quot; This may have influenced their choice of the umbrella that Jesse is holding as he is the business end of the operation (though the currency changers are usually women with body guards, and the umbrellas may not be black as they are also sun protection).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility is the symbol of the umbrella (El Paraguas) from Mexican Loterias cards, which stands for being prepared in any situation, good or bad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The umbrella was also a favorite symbol of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=umbrella%20surrealism&amp;amp;client=firefox-a&amp;amp;hs=0DE&amp;amp;rls=org.mozilla%3aen-US%3aofficial&amp;amp;tbm=isch&amp;amp;tbo=u&amp;amp;source=univ&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=PYxLUouAMcLVqAGimoCoAg&amp;amp;ved=0CDcQsAQ&amp;amp;biw=1093&amp;amp;bih=462&amp;amp;dpr=1.25&quot;&gt;surrealists&lt;/a&gt;, and its odd presentation in unlikely places lets you know that you have entered a space that does not operate in an ordinary way. This is the interpretation that I am personally inclined toward, as my first impression on seeing the photo above was that it reminded me of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=magritte&amp;amp;oe=utf-8&amp;amp;aq=t&amp;amp;rls=org.mozilla%3aen-US%3aofficial&amp;amp;client=firefox-a&amp;amp;um=1&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;tbm=isch&amp;amp;source=og&amp;amp;sa=N&amp;amp;tab=wi&amp;amp;ei=5I1LUur7D8mwqgGxkIHgBg&quot;&gt;Magritte painting&lt;/a&gt; (actually multiple Magritte paintings) which featured simple settings, blue skies with puffy white clouds, black umbrellas, and faceless or backward men in bowler hats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a short film about the making of &lt;em&gt;Negro y Azul&lt;/em&gt; at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amctv.com/breaking-bad/videos/inside-breaking-bad-making-of-negro-y-azul&quot;&gt;amctv.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2013-10-06T14:04:49.730" LastActivityDate="2013-10-06T14:04:49.730" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14300" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-02T03:57:45.500" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Riddick&lt;/em&gt; is a 2013 British-American thriller science fiction action film, the third instalment in the &lt;em&gt;The Chronicles of Riddick&lt;/em&gt; film series. Produced by and starring Vin Diesel as the title character, Riddick is written and directed by David Twohy, who previously wrote and directed the first two instalments, &lt;em&gt;Pitch Black&lt;/em&gt; (2000) and &lt;em&gt;The Chronicles of Riddick&lt;/em&gt; (2004).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddick_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-02T03:57:45.500" LastActivityDate="2013-10-02T03:57:45.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14301" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-02T03:57:45.500" Score="0" Body="2013 British-American thriller science fiction action film and the third instalment in the &quot;The Chronicles of Riddick&quot; film series." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-02T03:57:45.500" LastActivityDate="2013-10-02T03:57:45.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14302" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-02T04:14:14.297" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Thor (2011)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thor is a 2011 American superhero film based on the comic book character of the same name published by Marvel Comics. It is the fourth film released as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film was directed by Kenneth Branagh, written by Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz and Don Payne, and stars Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, Colm Feore, Ray Stevenson, Idris Elba, Kat Dennings, Rene Russo and Anthony Hopkins. The film tells the story of Thor, the crown prince of Asgard, who is exiled from his homeland to Earth. While there, he forms a relationship with Jane Foster, a scientist. However, Thor must stop his adopted brother Loki, who intends to become the new king of Asgard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/thor&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thor&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/thor-the-dark-world&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thor-the-dark-world&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thor-the-dark-world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/thor-ragnarok&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thor-ragnarok&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thor-ragnarok&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the Marvel Cinematic Universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_(Marvel_Comics)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the Marvel character, Thor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the movie, Thor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800369/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Thor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-02T00:24:17.313" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T00:24:17.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14303" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-02T04:14:14.297" Score="0" Body="Thor is a 2011 superhero film featuring the Marvel character Thor, produced by Marvel Studios, starring Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Natalie Portman, and Tom Hiddleston. It is the fourth movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T18:59:52.387" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T18:59:52.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14304" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14306" CreationDate="2013-10-02T07:31:41.430" Score="1" ViewCount="2935" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the ending of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Elysium&lt;/a&gt;, Spider and Max reach Elysium's main data-center and realize that the activation of the program will kill Max.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it not possible for Max to be resurrected. We have seen Kruger to be resurrected so easily then what is the complication in resurrecting Max? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-12-07T12:34:21.650" LastActivityDate="2018-12-07T12:34:21.650" Title="Explanation on the ending of Elysium" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|elysium|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14295" CreationDate="2013-10-02T11:31:29.983" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The man inspecting the lock concludes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Door wasn't forced, lock wasn't picked, as far as I can tell they&#xA;  basically just walked right in.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In saying that, it's not clear that &lt;em&gt;he&lt;/em&gt; concludes the door was left open. It just implies that the prisoners either had access to a key or that the door was not locked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The infirmary staff member who is in the room at the time exclaims (defensively): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I don't see how that's possible, these doors are locked down every&#xA;  night when we leave - it's priority number 1. Only thing I can think&#xA;  is... someone left it open for them.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It certainly seems he is implying that somebody left it open on purpose, but it's possible he meant that somebody forgot to lock it or let them inside. I think in the moment he is just trying to avoid any blame being pointed towards him and those words come out (a similar thing happens with Katie when warden threatens her; she immediately mentions Sara's relationship with Michael to protect herself by taking the focus off of her).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should also take into account that the lock on that door was changed the day before, so maybe he didn't think it was possible for somebody to duplicate a key in that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it even stranger they didn't consider the use of the guard's keys (the one who was guarding Lincoln). It's impossible to know for sure, but you would think he had keys to access all areas (considering he was in the infirmary area alone anyway) and they knocked him out...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6271" LastEditorUserId="6271" LastEditDate="2013-10-04T11:16:01.340" LastActivityDate="2013-10-04T11:16:01.340" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14304" CreationDate="2013-10-02T12:55:13.870" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My initial thought has been muddied by trying to find a clip of the scene of the Kruger 'resurrection'.  Everything I've come across online says that Kruger was just near death, not actually dead.  Where as Max is actually dead dead, so he cannot be resurrected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With the lockdown lifted, Kruger's ship departs for Elysium, but a&#xA;  scuffle ensues, causing the ship to crash land into Elysium. Max, Frey&#xA;  and Matilda are apprehended from the wreckage, while Kruger is&#xA;  severely disfigured and near death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From FilmSchoolRejects&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How does the healing machine know to give Kruger a full beard? One of the most amazing moments in the movie is when we learn that Kruger,&#xA;  in spite of having his face blown off, is not actually dead&#xA;  (apparently the blood loss that would come with that wasn’t as much as&#xA;  you think) - See more at:&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/12-big-questions-left-unanswered-by-elysium.php/2#sthash.hOXj38HI.dpuf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/12-big-questions-left-unanswered-by-elysium.php/2#sthash.hOXj38HI.dpuf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, my memory of the movie is that Kruger was dead dead, but his brain was in good shape so he could be brought back, where as Max's brain get's 'fried' resulting in him not being able to be resurrected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, without the clip to listen to the henchmen's dialogue again, either or both may be true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="50" LastActivityDate="2013-10-02T12:55:13.870" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14307" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14310" CreationDate="2013-10-02T13:04:59.723" Score="15" ViewCount="47812" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2002 movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264464/?ref_=sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Catch Me If You Can&lt;/a&gt; starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, how does DiCaprio's character Frank Abagnale Jr. pass the Bar Exam with only two weeks of study? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was he that smart, or is this just adaptation to the script? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing this movie is based on a true story, it makes me wonder if this actually happened or if it was made up for the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the US, the Bar Exam is arguably one of the hardest tests to pass (second only to the CPA exam, I'd bet). Almost all budding lawyers must study for several years to pass this ambitious test. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is this the true story or is it just film adaptation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="34317" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T11:54:29.500" LastActivityDate="2017-03-16T11:54:29.500" Title="How does Frank pass the Bar Exam?" Tags="|catch-me-if-you-can|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14307" CreationDate="2013-10-02T13:14:09.463" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that it is slightly exaggerated.  He took the exam 3 times and passed on the third.  Overall ISTR he studied for about 2 months. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason he passed it was that you were allowed to resit the exam as many times as you want and they also told you why you had failed.  It was just a matter of eliminating what he previously did wrong until he got a good enough mark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, according to here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lasc.org/la_judicial_entities/bar_admissions.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.lasc.org/la_judicial_entities/bar_admissions.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pass rate is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 2011, the Committee on Bar Admissions developed and administered&#xA;  examinations to 382 applicants in February, resulting in a 54.2% pass&#xA;  rate, and 750 applicants in July, resulting in a 72.4% pass rate. A&#xA;  total of 750 new attorneys were admitted to the Louisiana Bar in April&#xA;  and October ceremonies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a pass rate of 54.2 and 72.4% it does not sound that difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-10-02T13:14:09.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14307" CreationDate="2013-10-02T13:14:37.000" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/scams/frank_abagnale/6.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Frank studied law books for weeks before he felt confident enough to&#xA;  take the test. Once he felt he knew a sufficient amount to pass, he&#xA;  registered with the examiner's office, supplying them with his fake&#xA;  transcripts. Eventually he was summoned to the office to take the&#xA;  exam. It was no surprise that he flunked, since he had never attended&#xA;  law school in his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Frank later stated in an interview with Faraci that &quot;Louisiana at the&#xA;  time allowed you to (take) the Bar over and over as many times as you&#xA;  needed. It was really a matter of eliminating what you got wrong&quot;,&#xA;  which was exactly what he did. Surprisingly, after his third try Frank&#xA;  passed and received a license to practice law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6271" LastActivityDate="2013-10-02T13:14:37.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14307" CreationDate="2013-10-02T13:22:08.213" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is covered in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale#Attorney&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Frank Abagnale's Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While he was posing as Pan Am First Officer &amp;quot;Robert Black&amp;quot;, Abagnale forged a Harvard University law transcript, passed the Louisiana Bar exam, and got a job at the Louisiana State Attorney General's office at the age of nineteen. He told a stewardess he had briefly dated that he was also a Harvard Law School student, and she introduced him to a lawyer friend. Abagnale was told the Bar needed more lawyers and was offered a chance to apply. &lt;strong&gt;After making a fake transcript from Harvard, he prepared himself for the compulsory exam. Despite failing twice, he claims to have passed the bar exam legitimately on the third try after eight weeks of study, because &amp;quot;Louisiana at the time allowed you to take the Bar over and over as many times as you needed. It was really a matter of eliminating what you got wrong.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his biography, he described the premise of his legal job as a &amp;quot;gopher boy&amp;quot; who simply fetched coffee and books for his boss. However, a real Harvard graduate also worked for that attorney general, and he hounded Abagnale with questions about his tenure at Harvard. Naturally, Abagnale could not answer questions about a university he had never attended. Eight months later he resigned after learning the man was making inquiries into his background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Above the Law&lt;/em&gt; is a site for lawyers and it &lt;a href=&quot;http://abovethelaw.com/2012/12/how-did-you-pass-the-baaaaar-frank-abagnale-jr-says-its-easy-to-fake-being-a-lawyer/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;took a look&lt;/a&gt; at the film's claim as well (with some good references):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For many lawyers, this was an anticlimactic end to a running joke in the movie. &lt;strong&gt;With all due respect to people who can’t pass the Louisiana bar, passing the Louisiana bar is not particularly hard (despite the test’s unusual length and civil-law components).&lt;/strong&gt; I don’t know if you can do it in two weeks. But in a month? In six weeks? Even without going to law school, I’m not sure there is a bar exam in the country that is so hard that a reasonably intelligent person couldn’t pass it with intense study over a few months. Again, they’re not really teaching you what you need to do as a lawyer in law school, they’re just messing with how you think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It turns out that the real life Frank Abagnale Jr. passed the LA Bar on his third try. But there wasn’t any deception involved, he eventually just passed the test.&lt;/strong&gt; Once he earned the credentials, Abagnale says that pretending to be a lawyer was one of the easiest things to fake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-10-02T13:22:08.213" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14313" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14316" CreationDate="2013-10-02T18:39:08.890" Score="5" ViewCount="3246" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to find the details of a TV show that was aired on British Morning Television in the mid to late 1990s. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vaguely remember it being Australian, but that could simply be due to the number of Australian imports CBBC was fond of airing during the summer holiday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The central plot was about some kind of underwater habitat where the occupants were studying some form of marine biology, and they all wore uniforms that made them look like Seaworld trainers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe, from the freely available technologies (bathyspheres, advanced submarines) that it could have been set in the future, possibly after some kind of environmental incident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way the protagonists were for some reason forbidden from going ashore, and yet seemed to manage it every episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recurring character was a girl who was some kind of bipedal mermaid, and I think she was a mute... unless that part is just the little mermaid blurring into my memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone know what this show was?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-24T15:56:44.290" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T15:56:44.290" Title="1990s TV series featuring underwater habitat and girl with the ability to breathe underwater?" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:55:00.693" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14313" CreationDate="2013-10-02T23:45:09.520" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;A quick Google search suggests &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Girl&quot;&gt;Ocean Girl&lt;/a&gt; - it's an Australian TV show made between 1994 and 1997 which features a girl named Neri with &quot;super-human lung capacity&quot; who befriends some boys living in an underwater facility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-10-02T23:59:48.800" LastActivityDate="2013-10-02T23:59:48.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14315" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-02T23:59:22.553" Score="6" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Portal%3aCaprica&quot;&gt;Caprica&lt;/a&gt;, the spin-off series from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Portal%3aBattlestar_Galactica_%28RDM%29&quot;&gt;Battlestar Galactica&lt;/a&gt;, a central plot point is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Meta-cognitive_processor&quot;&gt;Metacognitive Processor&lt;/a&gt; (MCP). It's seemingly required to get the virtual Zoe in to a robot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the virtual Zoe is already fully functional in v-world, which runs on standard computing hardware, without an MCP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why is the MCP required to get Zoe in to a Cylon robot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6319" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-10-03T00:21:45.730" LastActivityDate="2019-03-11T13:11:41.107" Title="Why is the Metacognitive Processor in Caprica needed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|caprica|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14313" CreationDate="2013-10-03T00:00:17.710" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it be Australia's &lt;em&gt;Ocean Girl&lt;/em&gt; (released as &lt;em&gt;Ocean Odyssey&lt;/em&gt; in the UK)? It featured a character named Neri:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Neri — the title character — is a young girl with an affinity for&#xA;  water, super-human strength, the ability to swim long distances, and&#xA;  super-human lung capacity. She lives alone on an otherwise deserted&#xA;  island. Early in the first season, Neri befriends two Australian boys:&#xA;  Jason and Brett Bates. This friendship is at first a highly-guarded&#xA;  secret due to Neri's fear of other humans. The Bates brothers live in&#xA;  an elaborate underwater research and environmental protection facility&#xA;  called ORCA, located near Port Douglas, Queensland. At the beginning&#xA;  of the series, they move to ORCA in order for their mother, Dr. Dianne&#xA;  Bates, to study whale song. A significant portion of the series takes&#xA;  place on ORCA itself, and looks at the activities of its inhabitants,&#xA;  many of whom are school-aged children, just as Jason and Brett.&#xA;  (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Girl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It ran from 1994-97, and a follow-up version ran in the early 2000s. Neri was played by Marzena Godecki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0zjgI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(from oceangirl.org)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T00:00:17.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14320" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14321" CreationDate="2013-10-03T08:36:56.157" Score="5" ViewCount="1049" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcism_of_Emily_Rose&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Exorcism of Emily Rose&lt;/a&gt; is based on the real story of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anneliese_Michel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Anneliese Michel&lt;/a&gt;. But why did they choose the name Emily Rose rather then real name Anneliese Miche. What is the reason for this change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-03T13:41:57.460" LastActivityDate="2018-05-02T10:35:55.467" Title="Why was the protagonist's name changed to Emily Rose?" Tags="|character|the-exorcism-of-emily-rose|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14320" CreationDate="2013-10-03T09:10:55.273" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is based on the book, &lt;em&gt;The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel&lt;/em&gt;, and indeed, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404032/releaseinfo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;that was also the movies &lt;em&gt;working title&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I'd wager that they changed the name to Americanise the title in light of its primary audience. Anneliese Michel sounds decidedly European while Emily Rose is very American.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also possible that they didn't want to run into legal issues with the author of the book (which was published in 1981).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-03T13:43:15.260" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T13:43:15.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14322" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-03T09:49:35.273" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-03T09:49:35.273" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T09:49:35.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14323" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-03T09:49:35.273" Score="0" Body="2005's American courtroom drama horror film loosely based on the story of Anneliese Michel." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-03T09:49:35.273" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T09:49:35.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14324" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-03T10:12:16.927" Score="3" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't the supposed killer recognize Walter when he went to jail to talk to him? After that scene, we later see that Walter went to college with him and they make eye contact at one point. So, I'm assuming that the falsely accused guy would have some memory of Walter... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6324" LastEditorUserId="666" LastEditDate="2015-12-09T17:47:44.887" LastActivityDate="2017-05-17T13:24:43.620" Title="Why doesn't the guy in jail recognize Walter?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-number-23|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14325" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14326" CreationDate="2013-10-03T11:53:21.177" Score="4" ViewCount="23116" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcism_of_Emily_Rose&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Exorcism of Emily Rose&lt;/a&gt;, for the explanation of voices in tape, the prosecutor says that humans have two vocal cords and Emily had activated the other one too, which made her sound like two voices coming together. Is this possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2013-10-04T09:24:30.210" LastActivityDate="2016-04-30T18:50:26.370" Title="Is it possible to activate two vocal cords together as stated by the prosecutor?" Tags="|realism|the-exorcism-of-emily-rose|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14325" CreationDate="2013-10-03T12:30:23.223" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently it is possible but takes years of training:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is a vocal technique used by Tibetan monks which allows them to&#xA;  literally sing a chord, or three notes simultaneously. This technique&#xA;  is not considered appropriate for most styles of western popular&#xA;  music, and therefore is somewhat of a mystery to many in the west. The&#xA;  technique when properly done has a pronounced droning which sounds&#xA;  similar to a digital audio effect. The technique may take years to&#xA;  master, but can be mimicked by producing a low sound from the back of&#xA;  the throat, and then shaping the tongue against the roof of the mouth&#xA;  as if sounding out the letter R. Adjust the shape of the mouth&#xA;  slightly until you hear harmonic overtones which are two octaves&#xA;  higher than the note being sung.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further ref:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm2-9/sm2-9Nomads.html&quot;&gt;http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm2-9/sm2-9Nomads.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have sung in various choirs throughout my life and have never come across anyone who did this or any music scored for it so I am guessing it is very unusual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is likely to refer to the false vocal cords explained here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The vocal folds ... sometimes called 'true vocal folds' to distinguish&#xA;  them from the false vocal folds. These are a pair of thick folds of&#xA;  mucous membrane that protect and sit slightly superior to the more&#xA;  delicate true folds. They have a minimal role in normal phonation, but&#xA;  are often used to produce deep sonorous tones in Tibetan chant and&#xA;  Tuvan throat singing, as well as in musical screaming and the death&#xA;  growl vocal style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_folds#False_vocal_folds&quot;&gt;Full wiki entry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The false folds are also called vestibular folds and ventricular folds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The vestibular fold (ventricular fold, superior or false vocal cord)&#xA;  is one of two thick folds of mucous membrane, each enclosing a narrow&#xA;  band of fibrous tissue, the ventricular ligament, which is attached in&#xA;  front to the angle of the thyroid cartilage immediately below the&#xA;  attachment of the epiglottis, and behind to the antero-lateral surface&#xA;  of the arytenoid cartilage, a short distance above the vocal process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The lower border of this ligament, enclosed in mucous membrane, forms&#xA;  a free crescentic margin, which constitutes the upper boundary of the&#xA;  ventricle of the larynx.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The vestibular folds of the larynx play a greater role in keeping food&#xA;  and drink out of the airway, breathing, and phonation (speech).&#xA;  People who have had their epiglottis removed because of cancer do not&#xA;  choke any more than when it was present.[citation needed]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They have a minimal role in normal phonation, but are often used to&#xA;  produce deep sonorous tones in Tibetan chant and Tuvan throat&#xA;  singing, as well as in musical screaming and the death growl&#xA;  singing style used in various forms of metal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They are lined with respiratory epithelium, while true vocal cords&#xA;  have stratified squamous epithelium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibular_fold&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibular_fold&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="1501" LastEditDate="2013-10-03T15:07:40.630" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T15:07:40.630" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14328" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-03T13:15:53.993" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-03T13:15:53.993" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T13:15:53.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14329" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-03T13:15:53.993" Score="0" Body="Question regarding the scientific accuracy of a scene or element from the film or TV series." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-03T13:15:53.993" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T13:15:53.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14330" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-03T13:18:22.380" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Break&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-03T13:18:22.380" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T13:18:22.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14331" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-03T13:18:22.380" Score="0" Body="American television serial, revolves around two brothers. One has been sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, and the other devises an elaborate plan to help his brother escape prison." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-03T13:18:22.380" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T13:18:22.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14332" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-03T13:20:17.127" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-03T13:20:17.127" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T13:20:17.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14333" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-03T13:20:17.127" Score="0" Body="2007's American psychological thriller film, with Jim Carrey in the lead." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-03T13:20:17.127" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T13:20:17.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14334" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-03T13:22:05.417" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_Me_If_You_Can&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Catch Me If You Can&lt;/a&gt; is a 2002 American biographical crime film based on the life of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Frank Abagnale&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1539" LastEditDate="2017-05-08T15:12:19.660" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T15:12:19.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14335" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-03T13:22:05.417" Score="0" Body="2002's American biographical film with the elements of crime and comedy. Based on the life of Frank Abagnale." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-03T13:22:05.417" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T13:22:05.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14336" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-03T13:24:11.380" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-03T13:24:11.380" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T13:24:11.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14337" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-03T13:24:11.380" Score="0" Body="ABC's American satirical situation comedy series ran from March 18, 2009 to January 26, 2010." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-03T13:24:11.380" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T13:24:11.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14279" CreationDate="2013-10-03T13:35:15.860" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter. Walt had the option of finding out where the money was, but he didn't need it. He ensured that his son would get nearly $10 million in less than a year, which he'd likely use to help out his sister and mother (and probably Marie as well), so Walt didn't need the rest of the money anymore, which is why he shot Jack as Jack started to try and talk his way out of the situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T13:35:15.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14320" CreationDate="2013-10-03T15:55:43.330" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the movie may be &lt;em&gt;based&lt;/em&gt; on the true story, it doesn't neccessarily need to replicate it &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt;. In the end they didn't just change the name of the protagonist, but the whole setting from Bavaria to the United States. This was a natural consequence of the movie being produced in Hollywood and for American audiences. It would be pretty weird and unusual for a Hollywood movie to be set in Bavaria. So given that the setting was changed in such a significant way, why keep the original name of the protagonist, which wouldn't fit to the rest of the setting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T15:55:43.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14279" CreationDate="2013-10-03T17:48:19.473" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another &quot;it doesn't matter&quot; answer, to accompany the excellent ones already written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key thing for me is that this action demonstrates that finally Walt doesn't care about the money.  Its the first time in the entire series that Walt doesn't care about maximizing his return.  Even back in Season 2 when they were selling small quantities via Badger and Skinny Pete, Walt got upset when his cut was $1k light when Skinny Pete was robbed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could be several reasons why he doesn't care - he's been injured and knows he is likely to die.  However I think he went into this situation for two main reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Revenge.  Jack &amp;amp; Todd stole 80% of his money and killed Hank and Steve.  It was this action that finally destroyed Walt's chance to simply return to his family.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To protect his family from being threatened by Jack &amp;amp; Todd&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think he knew it was risky and possibly might result in his death - but he had to do as much damage as possible to Jack and his crew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also clearly has paternal feelings towards Jesse, and when he sees what they've done to him this must also make him angry.  When faced with a choice of killing Jack and taking his revenge or possibly retrieving his cash - there is no choice as far as he is concerned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T17:48:19.473" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14270" CreationDate="2013-10-03T22:31:10.863" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that a conclusion can easily be drawn between that movie scene and slavery in the South before the Civil War. The simple answer is that they were quite frankly unaware that something like that could even be done. Slaves believed that they were unable to fight back and so most of the time did not. They were afraid of the powers that existed to hold them in their chains. I could go on and on, but this is the essential idea behind the scene you are discussing. For reference, I include &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/slavery-in-the-american-south&quot;&gt;an article on slavery in the South before the Civil War&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3209" LastActivityDate="2013-10-03T22:31:10.863" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12223" CreationDate="2013-10-04T04:07:01.530" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been thinking about this quite a bit lately. My impression is that Jean Valjean lied to Javert twice in the movie about coming back and turning himself in. The last time when he begs Javert as they are sword fighting that he will return before he falls into the river. My impression is that if that was really Valjean's intentions then he would have turned himself in after completing his task because he is a man of honor and does not need Javert's affirmation in order to do the &quot;right&quot; thing. Those quote marks kind of indicate why it's a lie... because turning himself in is not the right thing to do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Javert is an ass that would imprison a man for life for stealing a loaf of bread. That I think is the crux of the movie/play/book, Javert is an ass that doesn't understand any sort of reason and feels himself as the judge, jury, and executioner of anyone. His definition of &quot;the law&quot; really meant what he personally felt as good or bad, not the definition of &quot;the law&quot; that we commonly understand. One loan cop is not the moral arbiter of right and wrong much less deciding the fate of another mans entire life. So in the end I feel like Valjean lied to Javert (twice). Javert was a man that couldn't be reasoned with; he had no ability to see past what he personally wanted to a greater truth. So I feel like Valjean lied to Javert (twice) out of necessity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What ultimately lead Javert to his death was his inability to reconcile how this seemingly unrepentant criminal (which he had judged as completely horrible, deserving of a horrible life in prison) can do such righteous moral acts like saving a prostitute and then further saving her child. Javert is an example of a person with completely rigid thinking; which is maybe an example of how people thought in past ages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So.... all in all Valjean lied to the law, but he had to because Javert was a huge jackass with unreasonable expectations. JUST BECAUSE IT'S a LAW DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT IS RIGHT. Valjean decided on what was ultimately right and that is why I love this story :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6333" LastActivityDate="2013-10-04T04:07:01.530" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14134" CreationDate="2013-10-04T05:37:34.347" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think may be that's possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I guess Hank and Gomez didn't expect Jack and his crews to shoot. Hank and Gomez are both high profile DEA agents and killing them is going to get Jack and his crews in major trouble. So Hank and Gomez expected may be at best Jack and his crews will try to rescue Walt at gun-point. And keeping Walt in custody was their topmost priority, so calling for help won't do them any good. Their best bet was to scare Jack and his crews away as soon as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember one important point, Hank knew Walt wouldn't kill him. Because if it was his intention, then he would have Hank killed long before. Hank knew they are Walt's men, so he guessed they won't try to kill them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="324" LastEditorUserId="324" LastEditDate="2013-10-04T21:16:48.763" LastActivityDate="2013-10-04T21:16:48.763" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="214" CreationDate="2013-10-04T19:04:01.700" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like it is borrowed from 1981's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083111/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Southern Comfort&lt;/a&gt; with Powers Boothe and Keith Carradine, a decent thriller about a squad of National Guard soldiers on maneuvers who run into some country boys and hilarity ensures as the soldiers armed with blanks try to evade the locals armed with live ammo. Check it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1634" LastActivityDate="2013-10-04T19:04:01.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13259" CreationDate="2013-10-04T23:18:12.863" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the father intended to do that from the beginning of the trip - that's why he took them out for the picnic in the desert, and started shooting at them from so far away. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was kind of out of the blue and came across as more Something To Get The Plot Going than a real inciting incident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought at one point I had read this was based on a real-life incident, but can't find any internet precedent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1634" LastActivityDate="2013-10-04T23:18:12.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14354" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-05T04:38:04.577" Score="6" ViewCount="1865" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Walter White is in New Hampshire during the ending of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, he was not supposed to have phone, internet, or TV connections. Why can't he use these provided he doesn't do something foolish with internet or phone? And how can the police find him by using TV?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="324" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-12-01T12:56:59.140" LastActivityDate="2016-12-01T12:56:59.140" Title="Why can't Walter White use a TV in New Hampshire?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14356" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-05T09:17:50.843" Score="7" ViewCount="2044" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_Mile_%28film%29&quot;&gt;8 Mile&lt;/a&gt;&quot; we saw how Bunny Rabbit got into the rapping gang and won the heart of millions of rap lovers. Now in Eminem's original life too similar thing happened. We know how Dr. Dre helped him getting into an industry which is dominated by mainly black people in USA. In fact, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminem#1996.E2.80.9399%3a_Early_career.2C_Infinite.2C_and_The_Slim_Shady_LP&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; called the film semi-autobiographical. So I want to know which parts are direct picturisations of his real life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-05T09:30:09.727" LastActivityDate="2017-06-11T20:00:06.623" Title="Which parts are from Eminems real life?" Tags="|biopic|8-mile|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14357" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14360" CreationDate="2013-10-05T12:20:43.087" Score="3" ViewCount="374" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am sure I must have seen this few times were people ask or have apple pie (at a diner), the 2 occurrences that I know for sure is from Men in Black (III) and Sleepy hollow episode 2 season 1 ( But I have a feeling people have been eating apple pie more often than it just being a coincident).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a conjecture that maybe some school of writing drums that to it's students as either a signature or technique. So my questions is what is the significance of apple pie being ordered at the diner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="285" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-15T08:42:23.910" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T08:42:23.910" Title="What's with apple pie at the diner?" Tags="|analysis|props|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14358" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14359" CreationDate="2013-10-05T13:48:14.683" Score="4" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212448/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tripping The Rift: The Movie&lt;/a&gt;, when Whip is selecting a brain from the shelf (obviously mocking Mel Brook's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072431/?ref_=sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Young Frankenstein&lt;/a&gt;), we see the following labels on the jars. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Genius ~ Albert Einstein's Brain&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Senator ~ Diane Finestein's Brain&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comedy ~  Mel Brookstein's Brain&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Broadway ~ Hearty Fiberstein's Brain &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get who first three are (who wouldn't get the first one?), but who is Hearty Fiberstein supposed to be mocking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-05T14:09:27.453" LastActivityDate="2013-10-05T16:38:14.613" Title="Who is Hearty Fiberstein?" Tags="|analysis|tripping-the-rift-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14358" CreationDate="2013-10-05T15:17:06.953" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a parody of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Fierstein&quot;&gt;Harvey Fierstein&lt;/a&gt;'s name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;American actor and playwright, noted for the distinction of winning&#xA;  Tony Awards for both writing and originating the lead role in his&#xA;  long-running play Torch Song Trilogy, about a gay drag-performer and&#xA;  his quest for true love and family, as well as writing the&#xA;  award-winning book to the musical La Cage aux Folles. He has since&#xA;  become a champion for gay civil rights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a news story about him on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnPiKjzTi3Y&quot;&gt;Youtube&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastEditorUserId="4304" LastEditDate="2013-10-05T16:38:14.613" LastActivityDate="2013-10-05T16:38:14.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14357" CreationDate="2013-10-05T15:34:03.680" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apple pie might be just another dessert in the rest of the world, but in the US it is a cultural icon. It has a long history and tradition dating from the first settlers. It has become a symbol for the warm and familiar. After all, the expression goes &quot;As American as apple pie&quot;. So having people eat it in movies is just as American as having them eat burgers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-05T17:17:31.920" LastActivityDate="2013-10-05T17:17:31.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14354" CreationDate="2013-10-05T16:14:10.457" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its not that Walter cannot use TV, its that he cannot do anything that is likely to bring him into contact with someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While his name is plastered on television and in newspapers, while the story is fresh in people's minds, he has to stay under deep cover.  The 'vacuum repair guy' has one mission, to get Walter started in a new life.  To do this he needs to weather the initial storm of publicity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He provides him with a remote location, unlikely to be disturbed by anyone, food, entertainment - books and DVDs, and warmth in the form of a wood pile and stove.  He even brings chemotherapy drugs and learns how to administer them (from YouTube).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He wants to stop any visitors, which means anyone likely to service a telephone, an internet connection, cable service, gas lines etc.  He also needs to prevent Walter from contacting his family - no phone or internet, and a long cold walk to the local town.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cabin seems to have electricity, but this is provided by a generator with a months supply of fuel, as described by the vacuum repair guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="6319" LastEditDate="2013-10-10T01:21:43.773" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T01:21:43.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14363" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-05T17:45:31.887" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-10-05T17:45:31.887" LastActivityDate="2013-10-05T17:45:31.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14364" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-05T17:45:31.887" Score="0" Body="2008 Movie - Animated/Comedy/Sci-Fi - Movie based on parts of four different Season 3 episodes of the TV series Tripping the Rift. " OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-10-05T18:11:56.680" LastActivityDate="2013-10-05T18:11:56.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14365" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-05T18:02:11.087" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-10-05T18:02:11.087" LastActivityDate="2013-10-05T18:02:11.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14366" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-05T18:02:11.087" Score="0" Body="2005 Movie - Drama/History/Sport - Starring  Shia LaBeouf, Stephen Dillane, and Elias Koteas. Based on the 1913 US Open where a 20 year old Francis Ouimet plays against the 1900 US Open Champion, Englishman Harry Vardon, who happens to be his hero. Story covers how each faces their own prejudices." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-10-05T18:31:08.550" LastActivityDate="2013-10-05T18:31:08.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14367" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-05T18:08:51.123" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-10-05T18:08:51.123" LastActivityDate="2013-10-05T18:08:51.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14368" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-05T18:08:51.123" Score="0" Body="2002 Movie - Drama/Music - Starring  Eminem, Brittany Murphy, and Kim Basinger. Story of a young white rapper who must battle his way up through the ranks in order to receive recognition in an industry where Caucasians are not normally prevalent. " OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-10-05T18:31:21.470" LastActivityDate="2013-10-05T18:31:21.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14370" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-05T18:16:28.977" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-10-05T18:16:28.977" LastActivityDate="2013-10-05T18:16:28.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14371" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-05T18:16:28.977" Score="0" Body="2009-2010 - TV Series - Action/Drama/Sci-Fi - Starring Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, &amp; Paula Malcomson. Prequel to the remade Battlestar Galactica TV Series (2004-2009). Two families live together on Caprica. When a breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence happens, all heck breaks loose." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-10-05T18:30:56.173" LastActivityDate="2013-10-05T18:30:56.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14374" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14412" CreationDate="2013-10-05T21:00:34.533" Score="3" ViewCount="491" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the course of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1428538/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hansel &amp;amp; Gretel: Witch Hunters&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the town of Augsburg is repeatedly depicted in a rather rural style, with half-timbered clay houses and dirt streets, as seen on this screenshot from &lt;em&gt;Mina&lt;/em&gt;'s trial at the beginning:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XuTek.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet at the end (and only there), when &lt;em&gt;Hansel&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Gretel&lt;/em&gt; get their pay for returning the children, it shows a much higher developed part of the town, with large stone buildings and cobblestone streets, as seen here:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DW5Ed.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any information &lt;strong&gt;if this change of depicting the town at the end was done on purpose?&lt;/strong&gt; And if yes, &lt;strong&gt;what is the meaning of this&lt;/strong&gt; (was it maybe just to emphasize the effect of the happy ending)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Of course it could also be that there wasn't much more to it and it was just a natural consequence of them being at a different part of town, but the difference to the previous depictions of the town struck me as pretty significant.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T15:48:02.803" Title="Why was the depiction of the town changed at the end?" Tags="|analysis|hansel-and-gretel|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14377" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-06T04:07:04.860" Score="12" ViewCount="28142" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the film &lt;em&gt;Gravity&lt;/em&gt;, we see some land formations up close.  There's a particularly distinctive swirly island/sandbar that I'm referring to.  Shortly afterwards, Stone lands, and I'm curious if the land formation was distinct, so that landing spot could be identified.  Where did she land?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-10-11T15:14:06.737" LastActivityDate="2013-10-11T15:14:06.737" Title="What land formation was that?" Tags="|gravity|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14378" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14396" CreationDate="2013-10-06T04:10:28.793" Score="10" ViewCount="1110" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;em&gt;Gravity&lt;/em&gt;, Stone makes her way to the Chinese space station.  When they reached ISS, we saw that the crew of the ISS had abandoned the station, taking one of its two Soyuz capsules.  There was no similar explanation for where the crew of the Chinese space station were.  Is this station not always occupied?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-09T19:40:47.933" LastActivityDate="2013-10-09T19:40:47.933" Title="Where were the Chinese?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gravity|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14381" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14383" CreationDate="2013-10-06T05:55:30.590" Score="3" ViewCount="1993" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of season 1 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235099/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lie To Me&lt;/a&gt;, Dr. Lightmen demoted Loker to an unpaid intern instead of firing him for &lt;a href=&quot;http://lietome.wikia.com/wiki/Eli_Loker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;divulging sensitive information to the SEC while working on a case&lt;/a&gt;. Did Loker ever start getting paid again? If so, at what point did he start getting paid? If not, then how did he afford to stick around continue working for free? Surely he has bills to pay. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-06T10:03:41.863" LastActivityDate="2013-10-06T10:50:21.537" Title="Did Loker ever start getting paid again?" Tags="|character|lie-to-me|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14381" CreationDate="2013-10-06T10:50:21.537" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Season 2 Episode 21 (&quot;Darkness and Light&quot;) has Torres and Loker competing for a promotion (to Vice President) which Loker snags.  That should probably mark the end of his unpaid internship.  Though why the writers didn't dwell more on this significant change in later episodes (starting season 3) is up in the air. Probably why if you missed/forgot about this one, you'd think nothing changed for Loker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6331" LastActivityDate="2013-10-06T10:50:21.537" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14384" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14389" CreationDate="2013-10-06T13:28:33.120" Score="52" ViewCount="71333" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; finale, 'Felina' Walt goes to this gas station where he uses a pay phone to obtain the address of Mr. and Mrs.  Schwartz. After this he takes out his watch and places it on the pay phone. Then he just leaves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of this scene ?&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LRRCo.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T20:31:55.133" LastActivityDate="2019-05-02T04:45:02.010" Title="Why does Walt leave his watch at the gas station?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14386" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27371" CreationDate="2013-10-06T16:44:38.027" Score="6" ViewCount="15123" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Supernatural the &quot;Yellow-Eyed Demon&quot; Azazel made deals to create a group of psychic children. Through a chain of events this leads to Sam, Lucifer and the climax of Season 4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much of this story line was part of Azazel's plan? What was his original plan for the kids?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T13:21:29.280" Title="What was the Yellow-Eyed Demon's Plan?" Tags="|plot-explanation|supernatural|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14387" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14390" CreationDate="2013-10-06T17:03:38.867" Score="-1" ViewCount="2692" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535108/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Elysium (2013)&lt;/a&gt; happens more than a century from now, but really, how plausible is it to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Survive a full dose of nuclear radiation&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Store data in brains&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shoot a missile from Earth out of a moderately-sized rocket launcher and hit a ship flying in space&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go into a machine that is able to fully heal any diseases, even terminal ones, in a matter of seconds&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reconstruct someone's face perfectly using said machine, including facial hair&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember there were others I think were absurd, but this is what I remember for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6353" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2013-10-06T23:37:18.680" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T07:43:14.000" Title="How plausible is Elysium in terms of realistic science?" Tags="|realism|elysium|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11992" CreationDate="2013-10-06T18:19:06.690" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that Tigress cares for Po a lot more than she does for any other of her team, but you cannot deny that there's any romance there. In one episode (the way of the prawn) the prawn and Po fight and it seams as if the prawn didn't do anything but Po's pants fall down and every one looks shocked but Tigress. she just looks on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6354" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-10-06T22:01:58.713" LastActivityDate="2013-10-06T22:01:58.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14384" CreationDate="2013-10-06T21:39:57.307" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;On talking bad aired directly after the finale Vince Gilligan stated it was down to a continuity error. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they shot the flash forward scene in the first episode of season 5 Walt wasn't wearing a watch. Therefore they had to have it removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also said there was an &quot;artsy fartsy&quot; which was that Walt didn’t need the watch anymore as he was about to encounter Jesse, who gave him the watch, for the last time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But ye. The primary reason is the continuity error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastActivityDate="2013-10-06T21:39:57.307" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14387" CreationDate="2013-10-06T23:14:06.503" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say that some of it might be theoretically possible, but it's an awful stretch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Survive a full dose of nuclear radiation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/40/iandotkelly&quot;&gt;iandotkelly ♦&lt;/a&gt; has answered that in the comments. However, I do have a problem imagining a &quot;cure&quot; that can keep such a person working for the next few days and then he's supposed to just drop dead. Whole of the body decays, and while some zombificating technology might keep the body moving, the brain decays as well. If the cure cas put a stop to that, it should be able to do it permanently. If not, person would soon become delusional, or faint, or something... but would not be fit to work with the heavy machinery.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Store data in brains&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=people-only-use-10-percent-of-brain&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Since we use whole of our brains&lt;/a&gt;, I'd say that such meddling with it would necessarily affect some (or even most) of its usual functionality. I'd allow it as a distant possibility as I don't know much about brain, but I really see no way to avoid damaging the brain (or, at least, significantly changing the person's personality).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the trick is that John Carlyle is a corrupt CEO, so he doesn't use most of his brain? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why would simple reading of the data destroy the brain, when writing to it didn't do anything? That's just pure nonsense, IMO.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shoot a missile from Earth out of a moderately-sized rocket launcher and hit a ship flying in space&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd have to calculate how much energy would such a rocket need. It is certainly not nearly possible with today's fuels. Might it be theoretically possible to create such fuel, I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A machine that is able to fully heal any diseases, even terminal ones, in a matter of seconds&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, in theory, why not? You'd need to replace bad cells, maybe edit genes,... avoid altering personality,... Time is not important, IMO. If it is possible to do it, then it is probably possible to do it quickly. In theory, at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, notice that we still use stitches to close wounds, i.e., we rely on body healing itself, while we just help. So, as far as I know, there is no technology capable of regrowing anything (although, we do know how to grow some organs in labs).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reconstruct someone's face perfectly using said machine, including facial hair&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you can do what is mentioned in the previous point, and you know how to read the DNA and decypher its tiniest details, you should be able to reconstruct the face. As for facial hair (or, better, haircut), you'd need a &quot;barber&quot; function in that machine, along with some info on what kind of haircut the person had before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, the guy surviving with the hole where his face and a good part of the brain were... that has nothing to do with the technology, and is absurd no matter how technically advanced the society becomes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't suggest watching Elysium a bit more seriously than a popcorn action flick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2013-10-06T23:14:06.503" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14386" CreationDate="2013-10-07T02:00:46.710" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although initially, these &lt;strong&gt;special children&lt;/strong&gt; were candidates for leading an army of demons in a war against humanity and God, Azazel's true goal was to create a &lt;strong&gt;suitable vessel&lt;/strong&gt; for Lucifer when he returned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://supernatural.wikia.com/wiki/Special_children&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://supernatural.wikia.com/wiki/Special_children&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6331" LastActivityDate="2013-10-07T02:00:46.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14377" CreationDate="2013-10-07T02:18:52.303" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was filmed in Lake Powell, near the border of Utah and Arizona. &lt;a href=&quot;http://jerrygarrett.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/gravity-filmed-in-lake-powell-arizona-not-exactly/&quot;&gt;This blog&lt;/a&gt; mentioned the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454468/&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; page listing the film locations used for the movie and gave some analysis on where the scene might have taken place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although we know where the movie was shot, there's no indication whether the scene was supposed to be there, story-wise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there were radio transmissions that were interfering with the Houston communication, and they sounded Midwestern to me (although I might not be the best judge since I'm not from the US). The actual location still probably jives with the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an excerpt of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/alfonso-cuaron-answers-your-gravity-questions.html&quot;&gt;an interview&lt;/a&gt; with the movie's director, Alfonso Cuarón:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film was a metaphor of rebirth; literally, at the end, she goes from a fetal position [earlier in the film, when she floats after undressing in the space station], then in the water [shot at Lake Powell, Arizona, with significant postproduction alterations to make it green and lush and butterfly-filled]...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5548" LastEditorUserId="5548" LastEditDate="2013-10-08T00:50:19.147" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T00:50:19.147" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14378" CreationDate="2013-10-07T02:48:01.223" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst accurate in many details, Gravity is not accurate in others, most notably in the relative orbital arrangements of Hubble &amp;amp; the International Space Station (ISS). Details about the Chinese Tiangong space station don't appear to be accurate either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The US Space Shuttle had its last flight in July 2011, the Tiangong-1 space station was placed in its final orbit in October 2011, so in our history they have never been in orbit together.  In addition the Tiangong-1 space station is much much smaller than the Chinese station shown in the movie.  There are plans for larger Chinese stations, but the plans shown in Wikipedia indicate that they all have single docks for Shenzhou craft.  If this were the case, then if a craft is docked then there must have been crew on the space station.  It would appear that even though the future Tiangong-2 &amp;amp; -3 are designed for continuous operation, they don't have a continually available 'life raft' craft.  In this case, if the crew had abandoned the station - they would have taken the only craft available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we are meant to presume, given that it appears to be a large station - that it had multiple Shenzhou craft docked, and that Stone was able to take the life raft.  The crew of the station are assumed, like the ISS, to have taken the primary vehicle and returned to the surface as soon as the scale of the accident is clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2013-10-07T02:48:01.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14384" CreationDate="2013-10-07T11:41:43.237" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another interpretation can be, it's the symbol that Walter White had finally accepted his fate. He's never gonna make it alive or never gonna die a normal death (a cancer patient without any proper treatment, isolated in a cold mountain, his family is suffering for all his crimes). So Walt decided he's gonna redeem all of his misdeeds. Leaving watch is the symbol that he isn't Heisenberg anymore, he's now Walter White. And he didn't need that watch anymore, his time is already over. All he needs is redemption and revenge&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="324" LastActivityDate="2013-10-07T11:41:43.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14401" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-07T13:01:31.977" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Lunchbox&quot; is a 2013 &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bollywood&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistolary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;epistolary&lt;/a&gt; romantic movie.&#xA;It stars Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui in the lead roles.&#xA;The story of the film revolves around the letters of Ila (played by Nimrat) and Saajan (played by Irrfan). Ila is a housewife who feels lonely in his house most of the time. Saajan is a widower who lost her wife many years ago and lives alone. The story portrays the loneliness of both of these characters. One day the lunchbox of Ila reaches to Saajan because of the mistake of dubbawala (the tiffin delivery boy). Saajan enjoys the food without knowing that it is not his tiffin. When Ila comes to know about it, she sends a letter with the tiffin on the next day. She is constantly guided by Mrs. Deshpande (played by Bharati Achrekar), who lives in the upper flat of Ila. Thereafter a regular exchange of letters occurs between both of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6264" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2018-10-16T23:02:27.047" LastActivityDate="2018-10-16T23:02:27.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14402" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-07T13:01:31.977" Score="0" Body="&quot;The Lunchbox&quot; is a 2013 Bollywood epistolary romantic movie." OwnerUserId="6264" LastEditorUserId="6264" LastEditDate="2013-10-07T13:08:33.200" LastActivityDate="2013-10-07T13:08:33.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14404" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14407" CreationDate="2013-10-07T15:53:46.870" Score="18" ViewCount="2843" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I realise the futility of looking for logic in such movies, I'd still like to know if any plausible reason was provided for why coastal walls were considered to be better than the Jaegers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cost: How would building walls have been cheaper than Jaegers? To block a Kaiju that could run through concrete buildings like the proverbial knife through butter, the walls would have to be insanely thick and strong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then what? Even if the Kaiju were blocked, what then?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I believe that by this point, it was understood that Kaiju could evolve. How would a wall have prevented aerial Kaiju?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't recall any coastal batteries being shown in the scene where a Kaiju breaches a coastal wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will stop here for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-07T15:59:00.930" LastActivityDate="2018-12-07T22:16:12.077" Title="How were the coastal walls supposed to block the Kaiju?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pacific-rim|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14405" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-07T15:58:30.647" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pacific Rim is a 2013 American science fiction monster film directed by Guillermo del Toro, written by del Toro and Travis Beacham, and starring Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Robert Kazinsky, Max Martini, and Ron Perlman. The film is set in the 2020s, when Earth is at war with the Kaijus,[note 1] colossal monsters which have emerged from an interdimensional portal on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. To combat the monsters, humanity unites to create the Jaegers: gigantic humanoid mecha, each controlled by two pilots whose minds are joined by a neural bridge. Focusing on the war's later days, the story follows Raleigh Becket, a washed-up Jaeger pilot called out of retirement and teamed with rookie pilot Mako Mori as part of a last-ditch effort to defeat the Kaijus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Rim_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-07T15:58:30.647" LastActivityDate="2013-10-07T15:58:30.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14406" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-07T15:58:30.647" Score="0" Body="2013 American science fiction monster film directed by Guillermo del Toro, written by del Toro and Travis Beacham, and starring Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Robert Kazinsky, Max Martini, and Ron Perlman." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-07T15:58:30.647" LastActivityDate="2013-10-07T15:58:30.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14404" CreationDate="2013-10-07T19:40:57.883" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are probably right in all your points and one could easily classify the idea of this wall as stupid or a plot-inconsistency (neither do I remember any plausible reason to be given in the movie). Yet I'd say its stupidity served exactly the purpose it had to serve in the context of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It showed how desperate and, yes, stupid those bureaucrats were that cancelled the &lt;em&gt;Jaeger&lt;/em&gt; program just because of some backlashes, only to build a wall that every reasonably-thinking human would classify as outright useless. But they were not thinking reasonably, they faced nothing less but humanity's end. It might on the very first thought make at least a small bit of sense (and is an intuitive human reaction) to build a wall as a last line of defense and this desperate and uninspired idea was the only thing they could come up with after the &lt;em&gt;Jaeger&lt;/em&gt; program failed in their eyes. In light of a hopeless situation and mankind's guaranteed downfall, even the most stupid ideas may present at least a small bit of hope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, the idea of this wall as defense against the &lt;em&gt;Kaiju&lt;/em&gt; is rather implausible, but on the other hand I think that's exactly how it was intended to appear, to emphasize the desperation and lack of further ideas of humanity in the presence of the &lt;em&gt;Kaiju&lt;/em&gt; danger. And it may also have served to strengthen the audience's reliance on the &lt;em&gt;Jaeger&lt;/em&gt;'s to be successful, seeing that they are humanity's only reasonable hope left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-07T20:42:31.297" LastActivityDate="2013-10-07T20:42:31.297" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7915" CreationDate="2013-10-07T19:45:16.930" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a question I've been pondering for years and still can't quite come with anything. I don't agree that the policeman was part of the plot to disrupt the murder of Petangeli. It was the cops interference that resulted in the following shoot out leading to multiple deaths. So that just make any sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The night before, Fredo received a late night call from Johnny Ola asking if Petangeli was really going to make a deal with the Rosado brothers, or if Petangeli was bringing his &quot;boys.&quot; Fredo didn't know and hung up. I was thinking maybe the &quot;Michael Corleone says hello&quot; line was said just to let Frank know the Rosado brothers were tipped off by the Corleones. Sort of a taunt. Not so much ordering the murder. Best I can come up with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole point of Roth wanting to get Michael out of the way was to install Fredo as the new Don. That would have made it real easy for Roth to get the Corleons involved with his Havana dealings, which Michael was reluctant to do, and too smart to jump right in. But even that would have failed as we see Michael appoint Tom Hagan, not Fredo, temporary Don until it was all sorted out. Smart man that Mikie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6364" LastActivityDate="2013-10-07T19:45:16.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11842" CreationDate="2013-10-07T22:14:43.547" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the number of pills matters, because there are plenty of poisons that can kill with just one pill. For example, a lethal dose of potassium cyanide is only 300 mg. The real plot problem is that the cabbie killed four people (not three) before meeting Sherlock, and if the pill selection was random this means he had 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.5 = 0.0625 or a 6.25% chance of surviving that far. His chance of killing Sherlock drops to 3% and I don't think his sponsor (Moriarty) is the kind of guy to put a plan in motion that has a 1 in 32 chance of succeeding. In addition the cabbie is motivated to survive in order to make more money for his family. For these reasons the game must have been rigged. How? Potassium cyanide is a lethal poison that has a number of antidotes (i.e. hydroxocobalamin and a new one called sulfanegen triethanolamine). These antidotes are usually administered after cyanide poisoning and when present in the blood they convert cyanide to a harmless byproduct. So the cabbie could have put poison in both vials, self-administered a large dose of antidote &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; taking the cyanide and another large dose immediately &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6365" LastActivityDate="2013-10-07T22:14:43.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14272" CreationDate="2013-10-08T02:43:20.263" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if the references to westerns are quite as direct as you might be expecting. Interviews with Vince Gilligan about the series indicate that he was influenced by many films of many genres, and the western was certainly among them. These are a few examples&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tuco Salamanca was named after Tuco Ramirez, the 'Ugly' in &lt;em&gt;The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/09/30/breaking-bad-finale-vince-gilligan/&quot;&gt;According to Vince Gilligan&lt;/a&gt; (interview with &lt;em&gt;Entertainment Weekly&lt;/em&gt;), the last episode was taken from the plot of the &lt;em&gt;Searchers&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“A lot of astute viewers who know their film history are going to say,&#xA;  ‘It’s the ending to The Searchers.’ And indeed it is. The wonderful&#xA;  western &lt;em&gt;The Searchers&lt;/em&gt; has John Wayne looking for Natalie Wood for the&#xA;  entire three-hour length of the movie. She’s been kidnapped by Indians&#xA;  and raised as one of their own, and throughout the whole movie, John&#xA;  Wayne says, ‘I need to put her out of her misery. As soon as I find&#xA;  her, I’m going to kill her.’ The whole movie Jeffrey Hunter is saying,&#xA;  ‘No, we’re not — she’s my blood kin, we’re saving her,’ and he says,&#xA;  ‘We’re killing her.’ And you’re like, ‘Oh my god, John Wayne is a&#xA;  monster and he’s going to do it. You know for the whole movie that&#xA;  this is the major drama between these two characters looking for&#xA;  Natalie Wood. And then at the end of the movie, on impulse, you think&#xA;  he’s riding toward her to shoot her, and instead he sweeps her up off&#xA;  her feet and he carries her away and he says, ‘Let’s go home.’ It just&#xA;  gets me every time — the ending of that movie just chokes you up, it’s&#xA;  wonderful. In the writers room, we said, ‘Hey, what about &lt;em&gt;The&#xA;  Searchers&lt;/em&gt; ending?’ So, it’s always a matter of stealing from the best.&#xA;  [Laughs]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The decision to shoot the series in New Mexico (due to tax breaks) got Gilligan thinking about Westerns: “Now I absolutely see &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; as a modern Western,” he said. “A man alone against the horizon, being tested, testing himself, testing his mettle.” (&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/08/to-hajiilee-is-the-finest-episode-of-breaking-bad-yet.html&quot;&gt;Daily Beast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; interview)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Film critic &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/08/to-hajiilee-is-the-finest-episode-of-breaking-bad-yet.html&quot;&gt;Andrew Romano&lt;/a&gt; elaborates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the final act of “To’hajiilee,”…Walt’s arrest plays out like the&#xA;  conclusion of a classic Hollywood Western. The parched New Mexican&#xA;  moonscape. The good guy’s call for surrender, echoing off the crags.&#xA;  The bad guy coming out with his hands up. Justice itself unfolding,&#xA;  finally, in a slow, almost sanctified sequence, like stations of the&#xA;  cross: “Drop it. Hands up. Walk towards me slowly. Stop. Turn around.&#xA;  Lace your fingers behind your head. Walk backwards to me. Stop. Get on&#xA;  your knees.” And, above all else, the hero’s flinty satisfaction in&#xA;  getting his man…This is followed by the shootout, “a hail of bullets&#xA;  buzzing back and forth.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Butch Cassidy&lt;/em&gt; are about two men on the run whose fate we know won’t turn out well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are similarities with &lt;em&gt;The Unforgiven&lt;/em&gt;, where William Munny (Clint Eastwood) is drawn back into a life of killing after years of being a pig farmer in order to alleviate his family’s financial troubles. “In the ensuing hostilities, the ruthless demon that laid dormant within Munny is unleashed with a vengeance.” (&lt;a href=&quot;http://tropes.wikia.com/wiki/Unforgiven&quot;&gt;TVTropes&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The plot line is also somewhat a reverse of &lt;em&gt;The Shootist&lt;/em&gt;, where a gunman (John Wayne) is trying to die quietly from cancer, and old enemies seek him out to exact revenge. After befriending a widow and  her son, whom he tries to set on a straight path, he plans his own death by shootout.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2013-10-08T15:45:42.733" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T15:45:42.733" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14374" CreationDate="2013-10-08T03:49:40.337" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are looking at two areas of the same town - the village parts where regular people live and work, and the city center/ market square - where the wealthier business people, government and church would be, and where the heroes would be honored for their great deeds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some interesting links about the sets:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://carlyreddin.com/Hansel-Gretel-Witch-Hunters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://carlyreddin.com/Hansel-Gretel-Witch-Hunters&lt;/a&gt; Click through to the next two pages to see hand drawings of the village sets&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://whatculture.com/film/set-report-hansel-gretel-witch-hunters.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://whatculture.com/film/set-report-hansel-gretel-witch-hunters.php&lt;/a&gt; Explains (with photos) how they transformed the castle square in Brunswick into a medieval market for the film&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/bondbulletin/sets/72157626395815566/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/bondbulletin/sets/72157626395815566/&lt;/a&gt; More photos of the market place where the witch burning was filmed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoaqIapj0dI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoaqIapj0dI&lt;/a&gt; Video of the village settings from the Babelsburg film studio&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2013-10-08T15:48:02.803" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T15:48:02.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14413" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19639" CreationDate="2013-10-08T07:59:21.093" Score="2" ViewCount="547" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810988/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Nines&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Ryan Reynolds' character gets out of the shower and freaks out because he does not have a belly button. This, of course, is later explained being that he's not actually human, but a God like entity that has created the entire world around him... However, there are several shots in the film where we can see he clearly has a belly button... Was this just something that was overlooked in production? Or, was it due to the crack he and the hooker had obtained earlier in the film? I know the movie has many different interpretations of various events throughout, I was just curious. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6034" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-08T08:16:18.247" LastActivityDate="2014-05-24T11:25:45.543" Title="What is the meaning of the belly button?" Tags="|character|the-nines|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14417" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15201" CreationDate="2013-10-08T15:04:33.390" Score="7" ViewCount="1475" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't remember too much, but for starters, if I'm not mistaken, I think I watched it after 2004, on like a Sunday Morning Block. Not sure how helpful that was, since the channel I watched it on often plays movies from really long ago. So the movie might be made on 2002, it might be made on the 1980s. I'm not sure. But the animation looks far better than old cartoons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm very sure the movie was made for children. That's one thing. I think the plot involve a main character, whose name I'm pretty sure is &quot;Tex&quot; (Although I'm not sure if that's short for something, but that's what he's referred to throughout the movie.), who ran away from, I think home, on some kind of wooden raft, only to end up on an island filled with dinosaurs. He met this girl, whose father was a scientist? Explorer? Something like that, who lives on the island, and takes care of the baby dinos. The main antagonist I believe was some kind of shrewd guy with a dark secret lair. I think his main motive have something to do with the Dinosaur eggs, which is why they instantly concerns the cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, the boy gets his very own dinosaur from a freshly hatched egg, while the girl gets her own dinosaur that is like a twin or something of the boy's dino, except the colors are different. Then the credits roll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not even sure this is a well known movie, so my hopes isn't too high...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6353" LastEditorUserId="6353" LastEditDate="2013-10-08T15:56:33.420" LastActivityDate="2013-11-17T01:50:58.340" Title="Animated Movie about a boy stranded on a dinosaur-filled land" Tags="|animation|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:50:54.380" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14418" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14420" CreationDate="2013-10-08T15:20:15.093" Score="10" ViewCount="1010" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111281/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_93&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S7E25 &quot;All Good Things ...&quot; of Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/a&gt; which I believe is the final episode of the series. In this episode, Captain Beverly Picard tells the crew to pilot her medical ship into the Neutral Zone at Warp 13. In a separate episode of ST: Voyager (actual episode unknown to me), the characters Tom Paris and Harry Kim talk about not being able to break the Warp 10 barrier for some reason. This is toward the end of the series. Is there any explanation in the Star Trek Universe which explains this seeming difference? This especially confuses me because ST:V (1995-2001) started the year after ST:TNG ended (1987-1994). I would think it would be produced with these story lines in mind. Is there any explanation for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-10T06:17:41.580" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T06:17:41.580" Title="Warp 10 Barrier?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-trek|star-trek-the-next-generation|star-trek-voyager|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14419" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14422" CreationDate="2013-10-08T15:25:13.413" Score="5" ViewCount="370" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a comedy - lead character is male, and I believe it was set in Britain. There exists a TV show (in the fictional world of the movie) where people can set up their friends. The &quot;victim&quot; responds to some &quot;random&quot; event which sets off a scripted series of events which are filmed and designed to provide excitement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I remember: the man answers a phone call, breaks up a fight between a couple in a home, and somehow becomes involved with real criminals whilst believing it is all scripted and part of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this movie was released in the 1990's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5096" LastEditorUserId="5096" LastEditDate="2013-10-08T15:44:27.993" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T15:56:31.070" Title="Man mistakenly believes that he is in a TV show" Tags="|identify-this-movie|comedy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:50:57.500" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14418" CreationDate="2013-10-08T15:31:04.943" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The episode in question , &quot;All Good Things&quot; (TNG: S7E25) is actually based in an alternative universe. Warp factors above 10 do not exist according to 24th Century Warp Theory as &quot;Warp Factor 10&quot; is interpreted as &quot;Infinite Velocity&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is important to note the differences between the earlier Star Trek material and the later material. Many episodes in The Original Series quoted warp factors that were later 're-scaled' as the newer series (The Next Generation, Voyager, Enterprise) came into existence. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Warp_factor&quot;&gt;This is covered in more detail on the Memory Alpha for Warp Factors&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T15:31:04.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14418" CreationDate="2013-10-08T15:35:54.463" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been answered in some detail &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35539/warp-13-was-this-overlooked&quot;&gt;on SFF&lt;/a&gt;. The answer references the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/All_Good_Things#Continuity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Memory-Alpha wiki for &lt;em&gt;All Good Things …&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; where the following is noted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is clear that there is no more warp 10 limit in the future. This limit was set in &quot;Force of Nature&quot;. In addition, ships in the future timeline are able to go above Warp 13. This would appear to contradict &quot;Threshold&quot;, where it is stated that Warp 10 is the theoretical limit. &lt;strong&gt;It is, however, possible that the warp scale was recalibrated in this future.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the limit is exactly the same. It's just the labels on the scale that (might) have been changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T15:35:54.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14419" CreationDate="2013-10-08T15:56:31.070" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120483/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Man Who Knew Too Little&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1997), starring &lt;strong&gt;Bill Murray&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NMg5v.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bill Murray&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Knew_Too_Little&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2bMmtNRpI8&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trailer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T15:56:31.070" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14423" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41061" CreationDate="2013-10-08T16:12:03.163" Score="6" ViewCount="1681" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; season 1, episode 1 (maybe it was the pilot?) when Rick wakes up in the hospital he stumbles around looking at all the carnage until he heads toward the stairwell exit. In the stairwell in complete darkness he lights several matches. Where did he get these? I don't remember any scene where he picked these up. I can't imagine him having these while in a coma in his hospital bed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1396" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-26T21:42:37.343" LastActivityDate="2015-09-13T05:31:20.053" Title="Where did Rick get the matches?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14425" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-08T18:53:59.767" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A sub-genre of films where one or more protagonists seek revenge against the antagonist/s&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T11:15:29.343" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T11:15:29.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14426" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-08T18:53:59.767" Score="0" Body="A sub-genre of films where one or more protagonists seek revenge against the antagonist/s" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T12:39:32.910" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T12:39:32.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14427" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-08T18:56:19.557" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-08T18:56:19.557" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T18:56:19.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14428" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-08T18:56:19.557" Score="0" Body="American television series starring Madeleine Stowe and Emily VanCamp." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-08T18:56:19.557" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T18:56:19.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14429" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-08T20:09:16.930" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gravity is a 2013 3D science fiction thriller and space drama film co-written, co-produced, co-edited and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. The film stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as surviving astronauts from a damaged Space Shuttle; they are the only actors appearing in the entire film, apart from voice acting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cuarón wrote the screenplay with his son Jonás and attempted to develop the project at Universal Studios. After the rights to the project were sold, the project found traction at Warner Bros. instead. The studio approached multiple actresses before casting Bullock in the female lead role. Robert Downey, Jr. was also involved as the male lead before leaving the project and being replaced by Clooney.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gravity opened at the 70th Venice International Film Festival in August 2013. Its North American premiere was three days later at the Telluride Film Festival. It got a wide release in the United States and Canada on October 4, 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6372" LastEditorUserId="6372" LastEditDate="2013-10-08T20:37:47.637" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T20:37:47.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14430" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-08T20:09:16.930" Score="0" Body="2013 Movie - Drama/SciFi/Thriller - Starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. Disaster strikes during a space-walk to install a new component on the Hubble Space telescope leaving the astronauts in a life or death race to get back to earth safely." OwnerUserId="6372" LastEditorUserId="6372" LastEditDate="2013-10-08T20:37:29.730" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T20:37:29.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14431" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-08T21:48:50.700" Score="6" ViewCount="1790" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found an article that said that the first appearance was in season 3, but Walt wore it in season 1 when he and Jesse met up with Tuco in the parking lot. I don't remember this being the first appearance, because doesn't he first look at it in his car or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6373" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T22:53:45.507" Title="Which episode marks the first appearance of Walt's hat in Breaking Bad?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14431" CreationDate="2013-10-08T22:53:45.507" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;That was indeed the hat's first appearance. Season 1 episode 7 &quot;A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal&quot;. Jesse even comments on it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-10-08T22:53:45.507" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14433" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14436" CreationDate="2013-10-08T23:15:52.323" Score="3" ViewCount="6223" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to watch &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2226417/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Insidious: Chapter 2&lt;/a&gt;. But do I have to watch the first part or is this a stand alone movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5641" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-09T00:59:12.880" LastActivityDate="2013-10-09T05:52:07.243" Title="Is Insidious: Chapter 2 a stand alone movie?" Tags="|sequels|insidious|insidious-chapter-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14433" CreationDate="2013-10-09T03:28:40.260" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the Chapter 2 yet but I have seen the first movie and trailers for the second movie which appeared to be a direct continuation from the first movie and trailers also seemed to show more light into the origins of the some of the events shown in the first movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would advise you to watch the first before the second, so you're not feeling stumped watching it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2013-10-09T03:28:40.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14433" CreationDate="2013-10-09T04:01:33.103" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Insidious: Chapter 2&quot; is a direct sequel of the 2011 movie Insidious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insidious%3a_Chapter_2#Development%5D&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; at help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film received the title of Insidious: Chapter 2 because it is a direct continuation of the first installment. However, the tone of the film was to be more grounded than in the first film, with Wan citing his work on The Conjuring as an influence to how he and Whannell approached Insidious: Chapter 2. &quot;I pulled things from Insidious that I applied to The Conjuring, and what I learned from The Conjuring I applied to Insidious 2,&quot; said Wan. &quot;So for me, I feel like it’s a cumulative filmmaking experience that I’ve gathered over the years.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-09T05:52:07.243" LastActivityDate="2013-10-09T05:52:07.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14235" CreationDate="2013-10-09T06:06:10.120" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I totally agree with MattD comment. Even if she managed to survive ricin ingestion, she is doomed. Jack and his crews are dead, it's just matter of time for police to get Lydia in custody. Remember, she was already a suspect in Gus Fring case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also several important points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At least 36 hours had passed after the ingestion. Lydia had already suffered the effects of ricin. I seriously doubt in this stage even appropriate treatment can cure Lydia.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;From wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oral exposure to ricin is far less toxic and a lethal dose can be up&#xA;  to 30–40 milligrams per kilogram.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's assume Lydia's weight is around 55 kg. So she needs (0.04*55)grams = 2.2 grams. I believe Walt had way more than 2.0 grams ricin. So the dose would be more lethal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="324" LastEditorUserId="324" LastEditDate="2017-05-10T14:43:12.523" LastActivityDate="2017-05-10T14:43:12.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14442" CreationDate="2013-10-09T07:08:51.157" Score="23" ViewCount="8855" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bourne and Marie seeks refuge in Marie's ex-boyfriend Eamon's house. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Professor arrives there in the morning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bourne grabs Eamon's shotgun and starts looking for The Professor in the field near the house. At first Bourne doesn't know where &quot;The Professor&quot; is. &lt;strong&gt;He fires a shot in the air&lt;/strong&gt;. Birds fly. Professor leaves his current position. Bourne sees The Professor and shoots him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the trick behind shooting in the air? And why did The Professor move?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2119" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-10-10T06:36:09.917" LastActivityDate="2021-03-20T23:01:49.283" Title="Why did Bourne fire a shot in the air?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-bourne-identity|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14441" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-09T07:26:27.327" Score="14" ViewCount="1429" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;A Scandal in Belgravia&lt;/em&gt; Irene Adler shows the following text to Sherlock&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;007 Confirmed allocation&#xA;4C12C45F13E13G60A60B61F34G34J60D12H33K34K&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and he figures out &quot;these are seat allocations on a passenger jet&quot; in several seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't get it. If every &quot;number-then-letter&quot; combination in the string is a specific seat then there're only 14 people on the plane (a 747 which takes around four hundred people). Plus what's the point in planning which seats are taken without deciding who takes each seat? I don't see how this sequence could help anyone except Sherlock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What exactly is in the string and how does it help plan the operation with the jet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3707" LastActivityDate="2013-10-09T14:21:00.257" Title="What exactly is the alphanumeric string in A Scandal in Belgravia?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14440" CreationDate="2013-10-09T10:15:16.457" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a classical &quot;I pretend to have to fired a shot, so you think I have revealed myself involuntarily, so you make your move, and then I get you because I'm ready&quot; move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic idea is a confusion. Bourne fires a shot, which would normally reveal his position. But, the birds are scattered along a wide area, so they create a mass distraction. The Professor now has some hint (from the direction of the shot's sound) where Bourne is, and tries to use it to his advantage, by moving in that direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would work for &quot;The Professor&quot; just fine, had Bourne been distracted, i.e. if he fired a shot accidentally, or as a defense against some animal. Since the shot was staged, Bourne was ready and spotted him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had &quot;The Professor&quot; not moved, the birds would be useless to Bourne, but he instinctively moved and it cost him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-10-10T06:38:45.650" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T06:38:45.650" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14377" CreationDate="2013-10-09T13:43:09.923" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you remember when her capsule sinks to the bottom of the lake (about 10 meters) a frog swims up the bottom. Frogs normally don't frequent those depths except in Lake Titicaca in Peru where they are adapted to live at those depths. I guessing Lake Titicaca. I'd love for someone to confirm the landing spot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6377" LastActivityDate="2013-10-09T13:43:09.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14441" CreationDate="2013-10-09T14:21:00.257" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The string uniquely identifies the flight based on its partial flight number and the numbers of a few &lt;em&gt;confirmed sets&lt;/em&gt; of booked seats. There are a few lone bookings (single passengers) and a few bookings for two or three &lt;em&gt;consecutive&lt;/em&gt; seats (couples and families). Considered as a whole, the combination acts as something of a fingerprint for the flight in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that the code does is finger the exact flight which is going to be bombed. It's all rather gimmicky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-10-09T14:21:00.257" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2013-10-09T17:13:00.903" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the first question, I agree with most of what you guys are saying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I watched the movie for the first time, I felt like he was asking to forget about being the father. I watched it again and I still feel like that was what he was asking the hypnotist to help him forget. He wanted to remain a lover without having to know he's in love with his daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the hypnotist told him that he would split into 2: one, the monster, who knows that Mido is his daughter and another who will remain a lover without that burden. We assume that he walked the 70 steps and before he wakes from the hypnosis, lying in the snow, that falling to the ground could be the death of his monster and him waking free from burden of knowledge, or just a simple awakening from hypnosis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do I mean by a simple awakening? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you pay attention, the hypnotist says that with each step the monster would age 1 year and die at the age of 70. This could be hypno-babble for, &quot;walk 70 steps and you'll forget that your lover is your daughter&quot; or you won't forget till you die at the age of 70. Personally I favor the first. It fits more with the feel of the movie since if we don't believe hypnosis works, then why do we believe that the events that took place would take place? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything that happened between Oh and Mido were a result of hypnosis. In order to keep their lover relationship going on, Oh went through more hypnosis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's all in the smile/cry, I agree. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can't really pull anything from the smile/cry. Obviously, it can go both ways. It's a smile and a cry. So were the tears of joy that went with the bliss that accompanies ignorance. We may never know. But, the movie quotes a poem a few times, &lt;em&gt;Solitude&lt;/em&gt; by Ella Wheeler. The line they chose was &quot;laugh and the world laughs with you, weep, and you weep alone&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh will be happy with Mido but the burden of knowledge is carried alone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe. Hahaha.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6380" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-09T18:52:24.763" LastActivityDate="2013-10-09T18:52:24.763" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14440" CreationDate="2013-10-09T17:23:21.030" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the reason behind this shot (and any other shot just like this) could be, just like Vedran suggested, a trick to get the other person to believe that you for some reason had to fire your gun at something (or someone) else and must therefore be distracted making it a perfect opportunity for the other person to take off; the reason could also be to make the person believe that you know where he his but just happened to miss the shot. In either case, the person being hunted is unlikely to stay in his current position after hearing a gun shot. While the actual, specific reason varies, the basic idea is to trick the other guy to reveal himself by making a run for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2016-08-03T23:45:11.377" LastActivityDate="2016-08-03T23:45:11.377" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14448" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14546" CreationDate="2013-10-09T18:19:52.510" Score="0" ViewCount="4018" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewie_Griffin:_The_Untold_Story&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story&lt;/a&gt;, there is a scene in which we see Stewie Griffin ruminate about where babies come from.  In Stewie's imagination, a giant stork flies into a window and tells an expectant mom, &quot;You and me are going to make the baby.&quot; after which the first five seconds of a song plays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the name of the song?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Edit&lt;/b&gt;: I see that someone has posted this on YouTube: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ax9Ei_pZ1-U?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1865" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-23T01:30:27.500" LastActivityDate="2018-07-18T13:49:16.527" Title="What is the name of the song that plays following &quot;Sweetie, you and me are going to make the baby?&quot;" Tags="|soundtrack|family-guy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14449" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16272" CreationDate="2013-10-10T01:06:34.310" Score="4" ViewCount="1449" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Dodgeball, Patches O'Houlihan was once a spry ADAA All-Star. But by the time Peter LaFleur and the team meet him, he's in a wheelchair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My Question: Does the movie ever explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; Patches O'Houlihan is in a wheelchair? Did he suffer some sort of an injury?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="1410" LastEditDate="2013-10-10T01:33:13.367" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T21:41:18.687" Title="Why was Patches O'Houlihan in a wheelchair?" Tags="|character|dodgeball|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14136" CreationDate="2013-10-10T03:32:13.600" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the other answers here are too complicated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you jump to the end when Walt is talking to Skyler in the kitchen, he admits his past actions were for him and not his family. You have to wonder when he came to that conclusion. It must have happened sometime after he kidnapped Holly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, go back to the bar. After Junior refuses to take the money and hangs up, Walt realizes that he can't help his family anymore by just giving them money. The only way left to help them is to turn himself in and hope the authorities give up on Skyler. So he calls the DEA. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then he sees Elliott and Gretchen and gets an idea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every action from this point forward is calculated to eliminate potential threats to his family: the deal with Elliott and Gretchen that keeps the money out of the suspicion of the authorities, and the poisoning and the machine gun attack to eliminate everyone else who has an interest in preventing Skyler from revealing their identities and secrets. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the phone call with Junior, nothing is for him. It truly is about his family. And until he sees Elliott and Gretchen on TV, turning himself in is the best thing to do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6319" LastEditorUserId="6319" LastEditDate="2014-12-08T14:53:12.553" LastActivityDate="2014-12-08T14:53:12.553" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14454" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-10T08:18:51.450" Score="13" ViewCount="2829" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tony Stark's suits are designed to be controlled from inside. Why didn't the President just use it to fight his captors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can it be used as a prison to transport him? Was it remote controlled/deactivated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6383" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T14:42:34.953" LastActivityDate="2016-07-26T17:34:28.490" Title="How could the President be held captive in the Iron Patriot?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-3|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14455" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14460" CreationDate="2013-10-10T08:52:53.090" Score="8" ViewCount="981" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Star Trek ships are frequently seen travelling many times faster than the speed of light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My understanding of the theory of relativity is a little rusty but my understanding is that if you travel at velocities approaching the speed of light (Warp 1) then the flow of time is different for you than people who are stationary. This would result in your journey taking different amount of times from different frames of reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I wrong in my understanding or is Einstein's work being ignored for the sake of the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T15:00:32.533" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T15:00:32.533" Title="Why doesn't time dilation take place when travelling at warp?" Tags="|science-fiction|star-trek|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14456" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14462" CreationDate="2013-10-10T08:54:52.273" Score="8" ViewCount="2573" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Star Trek into Darkness you see several shots of the phasers being fired while at warp. It's my understanding that phasers are beams of light (I don't believe they could in classic trek - they only used torpedoes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How could they fire light based weapons when they're travelling faster than light - wouldn't it be left behind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T14:03:08.057" LastActivityDate="2017-03-21T12:41:42.647" Title="How could the Vengeance fire phasers at warp?" Tags="|star-trek|star-trek-into-darkness|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15793" CreationDate="2013-10-10T10:49:19.683" Score="6" ViewCount="1276" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the following dialogue in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_II&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blade II&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Kounen was talking about Nomak to the captured Blade:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KOUNEN:&lt;/strong&gt; But fortunately for us, he doesn't know this location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BLADE:&lt;/strong&gt; Now... he does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above dialogue was followed by a scene of Nomak attacking the vampires' security forces in the supposedly secret location where Blade was being held.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did Nomak learn about the supposedly secret location where Blade was being held?&lt;/strong&gt; Was Blade at some point able to communicate or let Nomak know about the location?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2022-10-06T02:15:49.977" LastActivityDate="2022-10-06T02:19:05.257" Title="How did Nomak learn about the supposedly secret location where Blade was being held?" Tags="|plot-explanation|blade-ii|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14455" CreationDate="2013-10-10T10:57:56.893" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of things at work here ... first of all, in order for a starship to travel at Warp Speed, they must create a Subspace Bubble (I believe this is also called a Warp Bubble) which encompasses the ship and everything within it. According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Subspace_bubble&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Memory Alpha&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A subspace bubble is an encompassing energy field which can be used to protect objects or people from various environmental effects. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This protects occupants from the effects of Einstein's theory. Remember also, that in the Special Theory of Relativity, Einstein predicted that as an object (containing mass) is propelled faster, it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_mass&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;relativistic mass&lt;/a&gt; increases to the point where there isn't enough energy in the universe to propel it to the point of the speed of light. We do not see this happening in the Star Trek Universe for the reason of the Subspace Bubble. It also protects the occupants from the effects of inertia as well (think of a bug hitting the windshield and you might get the picture).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T10:57:56.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14455" CreationDate="2013-10-10T11:00:37.830" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The theory of relativity, as we understand it today, would preclude faster-than-light travel altogether, and make near-light travel subject to time dilation, as you said, which makes for some very good science fiction, but really gets in the way of &lt;em&gt;space opera&lt;/em&gt;, of fast ships travelling to and fro around the galaxy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To achieve that, various science fiction authors and franchises have looked for ways to bypass relativity and its pesky limitations. These ways usually take the form of some sort of &lt;em&gt;warp drive&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;hyperdrive&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;hyperspace travel&lt;/em&gt;, which basically means that the limits of relativity remain - in our dimension. But the new drive allows your ship to move to a different dimension/plane/hyperspace, travel a much shorter distance, and return. This leads to various effects like &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Subspace_rift&quot;&gt;rifts&lt;/a&gt;&quot; between that alternate dimension and the regular one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, you can say that Einstein's theories are ignored - or at least, explained away with some technobabble and handwaving - for the sake of the story. The consistency, coherence and style of that handwaving is what makes for a believable sci-fi drive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1507" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T11:00:37.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14454" CreationDate="2013-10-10T11:25:14.737" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Tony demonstrates the ability to remotely control his own suits in the movie, it's not beyond reason to assume that the same would be possible with the Iron Patriot, thus rendering it an effective if rather unconventional prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4993" LastEditorUserId="4993" LastEditDate="2014-04-14T08:23:07.620" LastActivityDate="2014-04-14T08:23:07.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14456" CreationDate="2013-10-10T11:54:10.207" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you throw a ball so that it goes 200kmh/h? Probably not. But, if you're being driven in a car that goes as fast as that and then throw a ball (ignore the air resistance -- they don't have that in space), The ball will have a speed of 200km/h plus whatever you give it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In essence, anything given a speed x will travel relatively (meaning &lt;em&gt;compared to the thrower&lt;/em&gt;) at that speed, but absolutely (meaning &lt;em&gt;in comparison with the surrounding space&lt;/em&gt;) at speed v+x, where v is a speed of a thrower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This explanation, of course, works fine with low speeds (200km/h is slow in physics). If you want to know what would happen at warp speeds... well, you'll have to wait for physicists to find that out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Star Trek universe, the explanation of how is faster-than-light travel even possible is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...] warp drive technology creates an artificial &amp;quot;bubble&amp;quot; of normal space-time that surrounds the spacecraft [...] Consequently, spacecraft at warp velocity can continue to interact with objects in &amp;quot;normal space&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp_drive&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is not obvious here is what happens with an object that flies out of that &amp;quot;bubble&amp;quot;. The same article also mentions a theoretical solution for such flight, which might help us:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A theoretical solution for faster-than-light travel which models the warp drive concept, called the Alcubierre drive, was formulated by physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994. Subsequent calculations found that such a model would require negative mass, the existence of which has never been supported by any evidence, and prohibitive amounts of energy. However, it has recently been found that by changing the shape of the warp drive, much less negative mass and energy could be used, though the energy required is still many orders of magnitude greater than anything currently possible by human beings. NASA scientists have begun preliminary research on such technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I assume that an object flying out of the &amp;quot;bubble&amp;quot; would have negative mass and huge amount of energy, but upon entering the other ship's &amp;quot;bubble&amp;quot;, it'd probably again have positive mass and its normal amount of energy. In other words, since both ships are traveling under the approximately same conditions (and through a vacuum), faster-than-light speed would not affect them much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, what is the size of the &amp;quot;bubbles&amp;quot;? Maybe they are big enough for the two &amp;quot;bubbles&amp;quot; to have intersected, so the projectiles have never left both &amp;quot;bubbles&amp;quot;? Are these &amp;quot;bubbles&amp;quot; what we see as a tunnel? I don't know; I'm not that familiar with Star Trek, but if this is the case, then the whole thing is equivalent to ships not moving at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, I have another problem with Enterprise &amp;quot;falling&amp;quot; out of a tunnel (&amp;quot;bubble&amp;quot;?) and getting to an abrupt stop. There is no friction in space and the physics of that stop looked very much like it was a car on a road. Also, you'd expect at least some broken bones with a halt that hard (I'd expect the &amp;quot;bubble&amp;quot;, if it was not what we saw as a tunnel, to have popped when the ship was incapacitated, or there was no reason for the ship to stop).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T11:54:10.207" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14456" CreationDate="2013-10-10T12:56:00.297" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I understand you're looking for a more &quot;grounded in real science answer&quot;, looking over the information available on the ship via Memory Alpha (the Star Trek wiki) simply states that because the ship was essentially created by Khan it featured technological advancements that weren't readily available at the time, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/USS_Vengeance#Technical_data&quot;&gt;including the ability to fire phasers while at warp speed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically, it can do it because Khan was able to make it happen with advanced technology Starfleet didn't have until they commissioned him to build the USS Vengeance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T12:56:00.297" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14464" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14465" CreationDate="2013-10-10T13:48:26.357" Score="7" ViewCount="673" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't watch Doctor Who on a regular basis. I know who River is. But why is it that she keeps the diary of their meetings and the doctor cannot see it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31942" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-10-10T14:21:15.517" LastActivityDate="2018-07-30T13:34:49.873" Title="Why can the Doctor not read River's Diary?" Tags="|character|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14464" CreationDate="2013-10-10T14:02:57.083" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/River_Song%27s_diary&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tardis Data Core&lt;/a&gt; website, it talks about this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon saving the Doctor's life (after nearly killing him herself) by giving up her remaining regenerations, River ended up in the best hospital in the universe. It was there that the Doctor gave her the diary. This was done to make sure she kept track of their meetings to keep their timelines from becoming corrupted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 52nd century, in Stormcage, River was writing about one of her outings with the Doctor before taking a phone call from Winston Churchill and escaping to help her husband.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the Doctor reset the universe at the cost of his own erasure from existence, River temporarily gave her mother her diary as a wedding present to bring him back. Later, the Doctor returned the diary to River, telling her that all the writing had returned, but he hadn't peeked; foreknowledge is dangerous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last line spells it out. If the Doctor has the information contained in River's diary, he'd have knowledge which might be dangerous not only to himself, but to the Universe as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T14:02:57.083" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14464" CreationDate="2013-10-10T14:03:57.643" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;River and the Doctor are both time travelers, for reasons which are never quite explained they tend to meet each other in the wrong order (as one knows more about their history the other knows less).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The diagram below shows this (click for larger version):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/va4wq.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/va4wqm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Timeline of River Song&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://willbrooks.deviantart.com/art/River-Song-Timeline-Series-4-7a-288713635&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Will Brooks&lt;/a&gt; on Deviantart)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Through the series the diary actually pops up a few times. It was only after she met him for the first time (Let's Kill Hitler) the Doctor actually gave it her as a gift thus completing the cycle which and explaining how he ends up with the diary when he meets her for the first time (Silence in the Library).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As River has already experienced a lot of the adventures the Doctor hasn't had yet her diary contains his future. As such they've imposed a set of rules (which they jokingly remind each other as &quot;spoilers&quot;) in reality the Doctor implies that it's very dangerous for either of them to know their own future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="16343" LastEditDate="2018-07-30T13:34:49.873" LastActivityDate="2018-07-30T13:34:49.873" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="883" CreationDate="2013-10-10T14:20:31.037" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've developed somewhat of a theory over the years since its release in 2001.&#xA;Many times throughout the films, there's an indication towards Dr. Powell's failed attempt at a marriage, the first time around. I've always wondered as to why this was mentioned, what significance could this possibly hold? That it's questionable as to whether Dr. Powell should be considered to having his life in order?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, Dr. Powell has a beautiful wife and two cute kids, and another whom we don't see till the end of the film played by the fabulous Aaron Paul... but what relevance does this past marriage have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion, which may be somewhat outlandish, is that Dr. Powell is Robert Porter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robert Porter vanished five years ago, and yet Kevin Spacey's role as Prot seems unbelievably close in age to Dr. Powell. Could they have been childhood friends? Apparently, Robert's father was a keen astronomer; something which a member of Dr. Powell's family is also proficient in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe Prot has returned with complete knowledge of where Robert Porter/Powell had setup his new life - in New York as a psychologist. One could argue how someone would be able to become an obviously well-respected psychologist in 5 years, on top of building a family; but even here - we don't know if Powell's daughters are biologically related to him, and either of them may be under/around the age of 5. Powell also has a dream about the twilight planet of K-PAX, which may be a clue that he's also travelled with Prot at some point or another, and that this warping of time may have afflicted him also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Powell also had his previous failed marriage, but there's no indication as to what the cause of this was; only that he and his son Michael have developed an alienated relationship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were other clues throughout the years I have considered and mulled over, but I don't think it was the intent of the DOP to have people wondering the truth behind it all. I suppose in the end it is quite evident that Prot IS really Robert Porter (the first clue, obviously, being that Prot is an anagram for the first four letters of Porter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6386" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-10T18:05:30.300" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T18:05:30.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14456" CreationDate="2013-10-10T15:33:37.337" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Phasers are actually beams of nadion (a fictional type of artificially-created subatomic particle) particles, so they aren't necessarily bound by a light speed limitation.  Faster-than-light particles (i.e. tachyons) are known to exist in Star Trek, so it's plausible that nadions or some specific type of nadion is capable of moving faster than light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5858" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T15:33:37.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11014" CreationDate="2013-10-10T17:56:33.187" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walt and Gretchen were an item. Elliot teams up with them to start Gray Matter. Gretchen cheats on Walt with Elliot. Heartbroken and betrayed, Walt leaves Gretchen and Elliott and, in the process, all of Gray Matter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show never spelled it out clearly, but there were enough hints to point to what seems an obvious and believable reason as to why Walt left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6388" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T17:56:33.187" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14471" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14473" CreationDate="2013-10-10T18:28:20.633" Score="6" ViewCount="1079" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I realise that the Liberace biopic, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind_the_Candelabra&quot;&gt;Behind the Candelabra&lt;/a&gt;, is based on Scott Thorson's book of the same name, what is the meaning of the title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T18:55:21.290" Title="Why is the movie named &quot;Behind the Candelabra&quot;?" Tags="|title|behind-the-candelabra|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14454" CreationDate="2013-10-10T18:47:36.110" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not a mystery anymore. In Iron Man 2, we saw the Russian physicist made such Iron Man suits that can't be operated from the inside. Remember how Agent Rhodes got confined in that suit and could not leave it. The villain in this movie who held the president captive is a scientist himself. As we saw, at the end of Iron Man 2, the suit was retained by the United States government. However, Rhodes took it away. It is presumable no new upgrades have been done to it (at least not shown). So the suit still remains vulnerable and, as @Avner rightly commented, the villain possibly got the equipment to control the suit and connected to it during the upgrade by AIM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-26T17:34:28.490" LastActivityDate="2016-07-26T17:34:28.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14471" CreationDate="2013-10-10T18:55:21.290" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Liberace pretty much &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=liberace%20piano&amp;amp;safe=active&amp;amp;client=firefox&amp;amp;hs=VvM&amp;amp;rls=org.mozilla%3aen-US%3aofficial&amp;amp;source=lnms&amp;amp;tbm=isch&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=tvdWUr_vAdCuyAG15YEI&amp;amp;ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&amp;amp;biw=1600&amp;amp;bih=707&amp;amp;dpr=1&quot;&gt;always had a candelabra&lt;/a&gt; on or near his piano while playing, as he was known for his very elaborate and often flamboyant stage presence. As such &quot;Behind the Candelabra&quot; is a play on the phrase &quot;Behind the Scenes&quot;, but it refers to his frequent use of candelabras in his performances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T18:55:21.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14474" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-10T19:02:31.620" Score="12" ViewCount="6660" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering how well 42-year old Matt Damon carried off the role of 17-year old Scott Thorson in &lt;em&gt;Behind the Candelabra&lt;/em&gt;, I'm curious to know if it is easier, in terms of make-up, to make an older person look (25 years, in this case) younger than the other way around. While I can't think of a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; example of a younger actor looking convincing (or not) as an older person, you'd think that it'd be easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or does it vary from actor to actor? If so, which physical quality determines the effectiveness of any make-up required for the part?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-10-11T08:43:31.120" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T06:32:09.807" Title="Is it easier to make an older actor look younger than a younger actor older?" Tags="|production|make-up|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14475" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-10T19:29:42.913" Score="12" ViewCount="4859" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the movie, which was in color, was set in a remote area of England or Scotland.  The prisoner figures out how to escape from his cell.  One night he 'goes out', kills someone with an ax, and while returning to his cell passes another man, rubs the blood from the ax on him and stuffs the ax into the other guy's hand before running off.  Then he returns to his cell and pretends to be asleep.  Part of his escape was based on using a grotesque chess set that he had made.  While the guard goes off to get his own set, since he can't stand using the prisoner’s, the prisoner uses wire to hook the door latch so he can open it again after lights out.  He is caught because while he's committing the murder a pet bird owned by the victim crawls into his coat pocket.  While looking in on the apparently sleeping prisoner, trying to figure out what is going on, the hero see the bird crawl out of the pocket and realizes that - somehow - this guy really did do the murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6389" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-10T20:14:14.970" LastActivityDate="2016-08-17T14:46:54.437" Title="Man escapes prison or asylum, murders, returns to cell" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:51:00.613" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14476" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-10T19:59:42.070" Score="7" ViewCount="523" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first level of dream, Robert Fischer took a taxi cab driven by Arthur. Robert Fischer is a billionaire. So why didn't he have his own limousine? And shouldn't there be private security for him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="324" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-10T20:02:38.180" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T12:53:46.427" Title="Why didn't Robert Fischer take his own car?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14478" CreationDate="2013-10-10T21:06:18.657" Score="11" ViewCount="2534" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411477/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hellboy II: The Golden Army&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when the team reaches the ruins of &lt;em&gt;Bethmora&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Liz&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Hellboy&lt;/em&gt; are led by some lone goblin into a chamber where they meet some other creature who lives there, depicted here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tbdi0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This creature seems to be somehow all-knowing or at least knows about &lt;em&gt;Liz&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Hellboy&lt;/em&gt;'s true name and fate and makes prophecies about the future (and says it waited for &lt;em&gt;Hellboy&lt;/em&gt; for a long time). It is also able to magically heal &lt;em&gt;Hellboy&lt;/em&gt; from the serious injury he received from &lt;em&gt;Nuada&lt;/em&gt;, with no effort from one second to the other. All in all it seems quite observant and indifferent to the world's actual fate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there is no doubt that this movie is full of weird and mysterious creatures, this one with its somehow decayed yet majestic and elegant appearance and its rather strange powers and mysterious aura was kind of fascinating, especially when found at such a desolate place. &lt;strong&gt;So is there any further information what this creature is all about? What are its background and motives and what does it do alone in the lost ruins of &lt;em&gt;Bethmora&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If I haven't missed something and it isn't explained any further in the movie, maybe the comics on which the movie are based can shed some light on it or there is some background information from the writers of the comics/movie. But maybe it is never explained any further and it is intended to be unkown and mysterious.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T21:43:02.933" Title="What is the nature of the creature living in the ruins of Bethmora?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|hellboy-ii-golden-army|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14477" CreationDate="2013-10-10T21:35:46.080" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;She is &lt;a href=&quot;http://hellboy.wikia.com/wiki/Angel_of_Death&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Angel of Death&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jones explained his portrayal, &quot;The script refers to the angel as a&#xA;  her and that's what I do. I think she has feminine qualities, but&#xA;  she's not totally a woman either. And that's okay. I like characters&#xA;  that keep you guessing (Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellboy_II%3a_The_Golden_Army&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She is just one of the made for movie character and kept to make a guessing  game around viewers or as an open end for sequel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-10T21:43:02.933" LastActivityDate="2013-10-10T21:43:02.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14479" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-11T00:18:57.550" Score="2" ViewCount="484" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280990/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Nest (org.: Nid de guêpes)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when &lt;em&gt;Santino&lt;/em&gt;'s crew drives in their car to prepare the robbery, &lt;em&gt;Santino&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Nasser&lt;/em&gt; start whistling the title melody of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054047/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Magnificent Seven&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and the rest of the crew joins them (and this whistled version is also played again at the beginning of the end credits). Apart from just being a very famous melody and the general purpose of loosening up the slightly stressed situation, &lt;strong&gt;is there any further meaning to this melody or any further connection to &lt;em&gt;The Magnificent Seven&lt;/em&gt; and its story/motives in &lt;em&gt;The Nest&lt;/em&gt; or this scene in particular?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I should add that I haven't seen &lt;em&gt;The Magnificent Seven&lt;/em&gt; and have only rough knowledge about its plot.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-17T08:24:49.400" LastActivityDate="2018-12-07T20:40:12.250" Title="Significance of the Magnificent Seven reference in The Nest" Tags="|analysis|reference|the-nest|the-magnificent-seven|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14480" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14481" CreationDate="2013-10-11T03:21:36.620" Score="9" ViewCount="21812" Body="&lt;p&gt;In many films and TV shows, just before a seminal moment (though not necessarily before a climax), the director will call for a character's face to be half in darkness, half in light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I first noticed this technique in 'The Empire Strikes Back'. During the lightsaber scene between Luke and Darth Vader, there is a moment when Luke is pushed back, underneath a stairwell, and half of his face is in darkness, half is in light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last Sunday, I saw it again in 'Boardwalk Empire'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Just before Eddy Kessler jumped off of the balcony, he looked in the mirror. Half of his face was in darkness, half was in light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the name of this technique? And what is the director trying to get across?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-10-11T03:44:35.553" LastActivityDate="2017-07-02T14:12:55.917" Title="When half of a character's face is dark and half is light - What is this called? And what is the intent?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14480" CreationDate="2013-10-11T05:29:43.497" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to an &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FaceFramedInShadow&quot;&gt;article on tvtropes.org&lt;/a&gt;, this is called &quot;Face Framed In Shadow.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A face half-covered by shadow, very often through a partial Lightning Reveal. Good way to emphasize a character's sinister side. This can overlap with Hidden Eyes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also sometimes called &quot;chiaroscuro,&quot; which seems to be a bit more broad than just applying to the face. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A visual trope, using a stark contrast between dark and light in an image, usually for dramatic effect. Generally uses directional lighting and sharp shadows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastActivityDate="2013-10-11T05:29:43.497" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14482" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15622" CreationDate="2013-10-11T06:30:54.563" Score="7" ViewCount="13722" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mostly in the cartoons and in some TV series or movies sometimes the screen turned black mid-between a sudden surprise scene, which impacts great to maintaining goosebumps. The last i noticed this is in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Dome_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;Under the Dome&lt;/a&gt;. Is there a specific term or name for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="260" LastEditDate="2013-10-11T07:28:10.210" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T02:03:23.120" Title="What is the term called for the sudden blackout before the suspense scene?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14482" CreationDate="2013-10-11T07:29:59.453" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're probably thinking of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smash_cut&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Smash Cut&lt;/a&gt;. In effect, this is a 'cut' (the same as if you were watching a film and the film goes from one scene to another), but is much more abrupt. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2013-10-11T07:29:59.453" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14484" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-11T08:03:58.933" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-11T08:03:58.933" LastActivityDate="2013-10-11T08:03:58.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14485" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-11T08:03:58.933" Score="0" Body="The use of cosmetics on actors to improve their appearance on camera or as special effects to modify their appearance to suit their characters." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-11T08:03:58.933" LastActivityDate="2013-10-11T08:03:58.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14487" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-11T13:04:58.037" Score="2" ViewCount="62" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the jobs of the two brothers in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108260/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Suture&lt;/a&gt;? The story is about twins, and I don't remember their jobs. I think one is a doctor, but I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6394" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-11T13:07:00.517" LastActivityDate="2013-10-14T22:30:25.700" Title="What are the jobs of the two brothers in the movie &quot;Suture&quot;?" Tags="|character|suture|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14491" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-11T15:41:07.293" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marvel Comics, one of the big two comic book companies in the US (the other being &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/dc-comics&quot;&gt;DC Comics&lt;/a&gt;), have adapted their characters and stories into many TV and film releases over the decades.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spider-man&quot;&gt;Spider-man&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fantastic-four&quot;&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/x-men&quot;&gt;X-Men&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/avengers&quot;&gt;Avengers&lt;/a&gt;, and Guardians of the Galaxy are among their properties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: This tag is for any Marvel films or TV series.  Use &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot;&gt;Marvel Cinematic Universe&lt;/a&gt; for the shared universe of TV and film that began with 2007's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/iron-man&quot;&gt;Iron Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel-cinematic-universe'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.com/comics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Marvel Comics Official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Comics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Marvel Comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T01:20:46.107" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T01:20:46.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14492" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-11T15:41:07.293" Score="0" Body="Marvel Comics, one of the big two comic book companies in the US, have adapted their characters and stories into many TV and film releases.  Spider-man, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Avengers, and Guardians of the Galaxy are among their properties." OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T01:22:26.160" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T01:22:26.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11315" CreationDate="2013-10-11T16:04:25.160" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer simply, no, the kid is not based on any existing Marvel characters before. However, I believe the character was added by Disney to make the film more kid-friendly, to have a character that children can identify with. If I was not mistaken, at the time of the release, the character was poorly received, as with Mandarin's different take (an image, rather than a real terrorist.) another edit perceived to be done by Disney.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6353" LastActivityDate="2013-10-11T16:04:25.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14494" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-11T17:15:20.013" Score="4" ViewCount="4478" Body="&lt;p&gt;B movies are generally considered to be low budget films without the greatest production values. But where is the line in the sand that divides a B-movie from its richer brethren? (Also, who draws this line? The critics?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insidious%3a_Chapter_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Insidious: Chapter 2&lt;/a&gt; considered a B-movie? It was apparently made on a budget of USD 5M and has raked in USD 102M.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-10-14T06:31:53.210" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T12:43:50.733" Title="What is the budget of a typical modern B-movie?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14494" CreationDate="2013-10-11T18:13:26.593" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;A B-Movie isn't really a measure of budget, but rather is a genre all of its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, by your criteria &lt;em&gt;The Blair Witch Project&lt;/em&gt; would be considered a B-Movie due to its tiny budget and low production values, but this is not the case. At the other end of the spectrum, we could consider &lt;em&gt;Pacific Rim&lt;/em&gt; to be one of the biggest budgeted B-movies around, so it is worth examining what constitutes a B-movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_movie&quot;&gt;wiki link&lt;/a&gt; contains a lot of interesting information, namely that the B-movie has evolved from being the second (or 'bottom') movie in a double-bill into a class of its own - glorified and emulated by seasoned professionals in the industry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another great example to consider is &lt;em&gt;Mars Attacks&lt;/em&gt; which is a supremely well-crafted, big budget movie with its roots firmly in B-movie territory. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, the whole B-movie genre is rather ambiguous, often (as you suggest) at the mercy of critics who like to pigeon-hole films. For the record, most of the movies coming out of the Asylum or SyFy stables are considered B-movies, and it is true that their budgets rarely exceed $1.5M and the production quality is sometimes horrendous. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems the whole genre hangs on the whim of critical reception and filmmaker intentions, and probably less to do with investment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-10-11T18:13:26.593" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14476" CreationDate="2013-10-11T20:11:39.587" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a dream, and the architect made a scene where he doesn't have his own car (a foreign city). Private security was all around in the dream and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQIpLBLLQoQ#t=90&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;they did attack the intruders right away&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-10-14T06:34:24.257" LastActivityDate="2013-10-14T06:34:24.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14458" CreationDate="2013-10-11T22:15:03.857" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blade led (or should I say &lt;em&gt;bled&lt;/em&gt;) him right to the location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/Blade_II_David_goyer.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;David Goyer's script&lt;/a&gt; makes it clear in the dialogue that immediately followed your &lt;strong&gt;quoted&lt;/strong&gt; quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                            STEVENS&#xA;                  You may be right.  Fortunately for us,&#xA;                  he has no idea where this facility is&#xA;                  located.&#xA;&#xA;        Blade smiles, laughing tiredly.&#xA;&#xA;                            BLADE&#xA;                  He does now.&#xA;                      (off their concerned looks)&#xA;                  He's been watching me since the tunnels.&#xA;                  Following me.  I led him right to you.&#xA;&#xA;        Blade lifts up his hand, unfurling his previously closed&#xA;        fist.  There is a deep gash in his palms.&#xA;&#xA;                            BLADE (CONT'D)&#xA;                  Just like a trail of bread crumbs.&#xA;&#xA;        Damaskinos stares at Blade's hand, then looks to the floor.&#xA;        A line of blood droplets lead back to the doors through which&#xA;        he entered.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6331" LastActivityDate="2013-10-11T22:15:03.857" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="475" CreationDate="2013-10-12T07:06:25.487" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this can be explained by assuming that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a controlled mental projection only has enough power to travel down one level, and &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a kick is designed to travel up, not down. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first premise is supported by noting that Yusuf is the dream controller for level 1, and his need to visit the men's room at level 0 causes rain at level 1 but not level 2. Arthur is the dream controller for level 2, and his free fall at level 1 causes free fall in level 2 but not level 3. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Premise (2) relies on the idea that the purpose of a kick is to wake up all of the extractors at level 0. You may have experienced something like this when you are having a nightmarish dream and something extremely violent happens in the dream that causes you to suddenly sit up in bed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think about a kick as originating inside the dream and travelling upwards, its downward effects (if any) become irrelevant other than as a warning that all of the dreams are about to end. It seems that each level needs an upwards kick since Arthur scrambles around setting up a kick with the elevator at level 2. Not sure why lower levels need an upwards kick, a level 1 to level 0 kick should suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6365" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T10:06:56.577" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T10:06:56.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14508" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16102" CreationDate="2013-10-12T17:20:04.970" Score="62" ViewCount="153949" Body="&lt;p&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/749fe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;BBT&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/the-big-bang-theory/the-raiders-minimization-2969767/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Raiders Minimization&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898266/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Amy ruins &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082971/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Raiders of the Lost Ark&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for Sheldon by making the following claim:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indiana Jones plays no role in the outcome of the story. If he weren't in the film it would turn out exactly the same.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If he weren't in the movie the Nazis would have still found the Ark, taken it to the island, opened it up and all died... just like they did.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, the Ark ending up in the warehouse (probably) wouldn't have happened without Indy, but aside from that, would Belloq and the Nazis have met the same fate even without Indy's meddling?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is Amy's assertion correct, did Indiana Jones play no role in the outcome of the story?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-03T10:42:36.343" Title="Is Amy right about Indiana Jones being irrelevant to the outcome?" Tags="|analysis|the-big-bang-theory|indiana-jones|raiders-of-the-lost-ark|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14510" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17713" CreationDate="2013-10-12T19:57:15.897" Score="5" ViewCount="5109" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end of the movie The Fall (2006) there are several black-and-white scenes shown from (I suppose) old comedy movies with humorous stunts and such. The movie itself is centered around a man who suffered a trauma while performing a stunt. So I was wondering if the movie is somehow about a famous stuntman. It seems as if it is, but I don't think there is a particular name mentioned in the movie, except all the main characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5788" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T12:55:04.663" Title="Is The Fall movie based on real events?" Tags="|the-fall|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14508" CreationDate="2013-10-12T20:34:27.623" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main question to answer this question is: &lt;em&gt;Did Indy lead Belloq to Marion?&lt;/em&gt; If he did, then Belloq would never have found the headpiece of the staff and thus the rest would not have transpired, thus Indy was quintessential to them finding the Arc. Indy did inadvertently lead Belloq and Dietrich there. Belloq knew Indy would know where to find the headpiece to the staff. Because of this, Amy Farah Fowler was wrong to play with Sheldon's head like this ... but it did make for a good story line!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-10-12T20:34:27.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4158" CreationDate="2013-10-12T21:30:30.407" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Mrs Robinson tries to stop Benjamin dating her daughter because they have the same father. Watched The Graduate for the first time from start to finish yesterday and I think this is obvious. But you do need to read between the lines. It is not spelt out anywhere. But no other explanation makes any sense. Does anyone know if this idea has been explored by anyone over the years or am I the first to suggest this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6405" LastActivityDate="2013-10-12T21:30:30.407" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14508" CreationDate="2013-10-12T21:32:25.200" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;I too was asking myself this question, and had to go back and watch the movie over again. Here's how I see the movie turning out without Indiana Jones' presence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of whether Indiana led the Nazi's to Marion, they would have found her anyways. They already knew that Abner Ravenwood had the amulet, like the U.S. Army Intelligence officers told Indiana at the beginning of the movie. Marion is Abner's daughter, so it's only logical that they would have gone to see her eventually. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the scene at Marion's bar, the Gestapo interrogator, Major Toht, would have tortured and most likely killed Marion, and would have obtained the amulet. Since the fight between Indiana and the bad guys would not have happened, her bar would not have caught fire. That combined with the Nazis already having the amulet, Major Toht wouldn't have gotten burned by the amulet (which is how the Nazis only got one side of the amulet), and thus would have looked in the right place. The Nazis would have gone on to open the Ark just as they did and every one would have died, just like Amy says. Finally, the Ark would have been left at the site where they opened it for someone else to discover, so who knows what would have happened after that. You could say Hitler would have sent more Nazis to investigate, or maybe the U.S. would have found it and suffered the same fate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one major thing here is that if you at any point remove Indiana from the story, the Nazis would have killed and/or tortured Marion. So, for that, Indiana Jones is still a hero!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for how Indiana Jones got the Ark off of the island, the answer isn't really revealed in the movie, but the most logical conclusion I have is that he stole the submarine that the Nazis used to travel to the island. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I don't remember where I saw it (might have been in TBBT), but there was a comment that without Indiana Jones, the Ark would have been opened in front of Hitler. That's not true, because when they get to the island, Belloq gives a speach about making sure that it was &quot;the one true Ark&quot; before handing it over to Hitler (for fear of what Hitler would do to them if it wasn't). So, he would have opened it before it got to Hitler anyways. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2013-10-12T23:45:03.370" LastActivityDate="2013-10-12T23:45:03.370" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14519" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-13T06:47:07.237" Score="-3" ViewCount="3483" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I watched seasons 1-3 of Madmen and I'm a bit confused as to why Don Draper cheats on his wife. I always thought when married men cheat, it's because they are unhappy or they just don't have a sex life with their wives. Although Don seems like an unhappy person, he seems to be happily married to his wife who he has a healthy sex life with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't seem to be out of entitlement because he does try not to cheat on her, it also doesn't seem like he's a sex addict and he really seems to care about his mistresses, so is he capable of falling in love with more than one woman at a time or what? It's just sad to me that a woman can be beautiful, have a sex life with her husband and be loved by him and still be cheated on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6410" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-01-04T17:10:30.753" LastActivityDate="2017-01-04T17:10:30.753" Title="Was Don Draper happily married to Betty?" Tags="|mad-men|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2017-12-06T10:26:20.517" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14523" CreationDate="2013-10-13T10:05:48.307" Score="4" ViewCount="2931" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the ending of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumper_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jumper&lt;/a&gt;, we got to know that David has a half sister played by Kristen Stewart. What is the significance of her role? I am not aware of the novel series from which it is adopted. Does her character have a significant role in the novel or is it just a cameo? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-13T10:14:45.120" LastActivityDate="2013-10-13T12:01:35.653" Title="What is the significance of Kristen Stewart's character?" Tags="|character|book-adaptation|jumper|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14521" CreationDate="2013-10-13T12:01:35.653" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I have nothing to back this up, it seems to me her character was placed there for sequel purposes. Seeing as how she wasn't introduced until the end of the movie lends me to believe they were leaving something open for further story. Just as you are questioning now, having such a character placed so obviously at the end of the movie would leave someone to ask if she might have the same powers as her brother? Those kinds of questions can help drive the sequel. They will always leave an opening to make more money. As I remember, the movie was okay, but didn't do well at the box office, so a sequel never coalesced. With Hayden Christensen's popularity (or lack thereof after Star Wars) it's no wonder there was never a sequel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-10-13T12:01:35.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14524" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14526" CreationDate="2013-10-13T12:17:37.157" Score="21" ViewCount="378658" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does the ending scene in the movie &lt;strong&gt;Basic Instinct&lt;/strong&gt; actually mean?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;After the killer has been caught by the police, we see in the last scene a very suspenseful, cliffhanger sex scene. Can somebody explain the ending of that to me? Does it mean the real killer is not caught after all?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-07-20T07:10:07.970" LastActivityDate="2015-05-25T11:01:59.630" Title="What does the ending scene in the movie Basic Instinct actually mean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|basic-instinct|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14524" CreationDate="2013-10-13T12:30:11.530" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The last scene is to clear up who the killer is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end Catherine Tramell tries to pick up the ice pick in the sex scene which is her murder tool from the first kill, which signifies that she was the killer from the start. The killer was never caught, but after the death of Beth and the evidence found at her house, it turned out that she is the killer. But she was all innocent, and it's been all Catherine's revenge plan because Beth was her lesbian partner and left her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-07-20T07:05:56.987" LastActivityDate="2014-07-20T07:05:56.987" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14527" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19549" CreationDate="2013-10-13T14:23:56.413" Score="3" ViewCount="2130" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Step_Up_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Step Up (film series)&lt;/a&gt;, Alyson Stoner only appeared in the 1st film, then 3rd film, and now she is confirmed for 5th film. In some speculation I have heard that she is only going to appear in odd numbered sequels of the film series even before release of the 4th film and which proved right because she was not in 4th sequel but coming in 5th film of the franchise, making her third entry again in an odd numbered sequel. Is this just a coincident or is there something else behind it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T00:43:12.017" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T07:58:01.357" Title="Is there something behind Alyson Stoner's appearance in only odd numbered sequels of step up films?" Tags="|character|casting|step-up|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14528" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14530" CreationDate="2013-10-13T15:48:29.233" Score="7" ViewCount="1377" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film, &lt;em&gt;Gravity&lt;/em&gt;, the protagonists are warned early on of destruction headed their way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The debris from a Russian missile strike on one of their defunct satellites is headed right towards them, coming in at high-speeds, and even killing almost the entire crew on their mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: shouldn't NASA have predicted this beforehand? I'm not a rocket scientist, but wouldn't they have been aware of the missile and subsequent debris more than a minute before it affecting such an expensive mission? Would this ever really happen? And would it play out like it did in the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user978" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-13T16:44:06.367" LastActivityDate="2014-05-23T12:07:50.430" Title="Would NASA have known about the oncoming debris in Gravity?" Tags="|plot-explanation|realism|gravity|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14508" CreationDate="2013-10-13T15:57:20.000" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aside from the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Would the Nazis have found Marion without Indy?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; issue mentioned in the &lt;em&gt;other answers&lt;/em&gt;, there also the matter of &lt;a href=&quot;http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/Flying_Wing&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;getting the Ark to Germany&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After the &lt;em&gt;Ark of the Covenant&lt;/em&gt; was recovered, &lt;strong&gt;Dietrich planned to transport the treasure back to Germany in a plane&lt;/strong&gt;, ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pY0ab.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Flying Wing&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/tech_ops/read.main/220886/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IndyGear.com&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Indy's plan was to &quot;hijack&quot; the plane, but the attempt failed and resulted in the destruction of the plane. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This prompted the Nazis to change their plan. They loaded the Ark onto a truck so they could drive it to Cairo and fly it out from there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Indy managed to take over the truck and thus the Ark ended up on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/Bantu_Wind&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bantu Wind&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7lKIk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bantu Wind&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Speculation:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Without Indy's interference the Ark would have never been transported to island, because the original plan was to simply fly it to Germany.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-10-13T15:57:20.000" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14528" CreationDate="2013-10-13T16:54:33.487" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, the &lt;em&gt;NASA&lt;/em&gt; noticed the destruction of the Russian satellite early on and even informs the crew about it, though just saying that it won't impede their operation. What they didn't anticipate was the resulting chain reaction with debris creating more debris and so on. This was indeed only noticed by the &lt;em&gt;NASA&lt;/em&gt; when it was already too late (yet still only some 3 minutes after the satellite had been destroyed) and the debris was very near heading for the shuttle. It wasn't only the debris of the satellite directly that headed their way (and that ultimately destroyed nearly all the stuff in earth's orbit), but the additional debris created by the debris of the debris of the..., which is the reason why &lt;em&gt;NASA&lt;/em&gt; at first didn't regard that one destroyed satellite far away as an immediate danger for the mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This kind of chain reaction catastrophe is indeed a real hypothesized scenario, called the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kessler syndrome&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Yet I have no idea if it would happen exactly that way in reality, since the movie, while seeming pretty realistic to a layman, took some artistic freedom in many details. To get some insights into the particular scientific (in)acccuracies of the movie in certain parts, you can take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/astronaut-fact-checks-gravity.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; (just don't take it too serious and don't let it ruin the movie for you, it's still just a fictional movie and not a documentary). It also gives some comment on the space debris:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's your experience with space debris? If you're out on a space walk, what are you seeing around you?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, first of all, if you see it, it's too late. That was quite&#xA;  implausible, to me, first off, the chain of events that would take&#xA;  down the world's telecommunications. Things don't quite move in that&#xA;  pattern. But that notwithstanding, if there were a cloud of&#xA;  Micro-Meteoroid Orbital Debris, what we call MMOD, it would be coming&#xA;  at tens of thousands of miles an hour. I don't know if you've ever&#xA;  looked at a bullet coming straight at you. Hopefully not, but if you&#xA;  had, you wouldn't appreciate it for very long. And these would be a&#xA;  much tinier, swarmlike pattern of debris coming at perhaps twenty&#xA;  times the speed of sound. And you wouldn't see it at all; it would&#xA;  just rip through everything in its path. So it's kind of a&#xA;  spacewalker's doomsday scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So given that the movie wasn't entirely accurate in the way a hypothetical &lt;em&gt;Kessler syndrome&lt;/em&gt; would pan out in reality, I think there isn't a sure way to say if &lt;em&gt;NASA&lt;/em&gt; could have reacted a few minutes earlier or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yet in the context of the movie and given that nobody really took this worst case scenario into account, it isn't too unreasonable that &lt;em&gt;NASA&lt;/em&gt; didn't take the destruction of a Russian satellite (which might not have happened for the first time) too serious before it was already too late&lt;/strong&gt; (and also no way to say if the shuttle crew could have made it had they aborted at the moment the satellite was destroyed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-23T12:07:50.430" LastActivityDate="2014-05-23T12:07:50.430" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13913" CreationDate="2013-10-13T18:05:57.257" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the film, Holmes had been to see Moriarty at the university, where Moriarty was listening to a piece of music by Schubert titled, &quot;The Trout,&quot; about a fisherman who muddies the water to catch a trout. At this time he also notices the horticulture book and the dead plant on the windowsill (which let him know that the book was not something Moriarty read; stealing it, he realized it contained a code).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the hook scene, Moriarty hums his favorite fish tune from before, because he thinks he has caught a fish. In the ensuing scuffle, during which Holmes had hoped to get close enough to switch the books, he does switch them, though Moriarty doesn't discover this till later (after Holmes has sent both books to Mary and Scotland Yard to decode, and to drain the accounts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-10-13T18:05:57.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10421" CreationDate="2013-10-13T23:22:57.550" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure because I didn't read the book. But in the movie, when Marla crosses the street to the thrift shop a car stops to avoid hitting Marla. From the perspective of the camera there was absolutely no reason for the car to emergency brake to a stop. However, if Marla were a manifestation of Jack's psyche, the perspective would be Marla looking back at Jack and Jack (Marla) would be looking, in essence, at himself. Sorry to confuse the issue but  both sides seem completely plausible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thought is that Marla is a manifestation of Jack's feminine side and he does actually cross dress because Marla talks about her bridesmaid dress and tells Jack &quot;you can borrow it sometime&quot;. Also the first time we see Jack smoking is at work which illustrates to me that Marla would be Jack's daytime character and Tyler would be Jack's night character crossing paths occasionally morning and evening which would be a result of his insomnia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6416" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-14T04:31:00.840" LastActivityDate="2013-10-14T04:31:00.840" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14533" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14535" CreationDate="2013-10-14T00:52:53.043" Score="21" ViewCount="45559" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S01E03 of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, why did Walt suspect Krazy 8 of hiding a shard of the broken plate? What made him suspicious, sort through the garbage, and put together all the broken pieces of the plate he'd dropped?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-13T19:55:36.137" LastActivityDate="2020-02-25T23:58:18.257" Title="Why did Walt suspect Krazy 8 of hiding a shard of the broken plate?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14533" CreationDate="2013-10-14T03:30:08.320" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walt had killed Krazy-8's cousin Emilio, and had all but killed Krazy-8 with the phosphine gas.  However Walt was not at this point a ruthless killer, he had improvised the gas as a way of escaping from what was increasingly looking like a fatal situation for Jesse and himself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was now however faced with the job of killing Krazy-8 in cold blood, and was trying to rationalize his way out of the job, and was befriending him with sandwiches &amp;amp; beer in an attempt to find some means however slim of having to get out of the job of killing him.  Walt is not particularly in a rush either, and Krazy-8 is not in a position to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However Walt knows this is mostly procrastination, and that it is unlikely that some reasonable path out of this can be found.  We've seen since that Walt is not stupid and knows that he needs a watertight reason to trust some of the people he deals with.  He would only not kill Krazy-8 if he had some leverage to ensure his and his family's safety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt also knows that Krazy-8 is also not stupid, and is also weighing up the chances of him walking out of the situation alive.  Krazy-8 knows that it is unlikely that Walt will just let him free, as a result he will be forced to take any opportunity that arises to kill Walt and escape.  They are both in a situation with a very slim chance of a negotiated 'diplomatic' ending, and they both know it.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the key to why Walt double checks the shard of the plate.  Walt is analyzing everything happening in this situation, knowing that a bad decision or a careless move will result in his death, or worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt has been very careful with how he deals with Krazy-8 - such as to not put himself in danger.  The time he passes out and breaks the plate is the only time his guard is dropped &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; he knows it.  I think Walt is thinking through all the possible consequences of the event, and it occurs to Walt as he looks at the plate in the trash that he needs to &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; that he has all the major pieces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt's strength is his analytical mind.  I think that this is just one of many examples of Walt thinking through all the possible consequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-10-14T13:17:36.153" LastActivityDate="2014-10-14T13:17:36.153" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14538" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-14T07:09:35.667" Score="6" ViewCount="3647" Body="&lt;p&gt;When did Guy begin to take part in the plan to use Rosemary to give birth to the devil's son? It's weird because at the beginning of the movie he didn't want to buy the department.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6419" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-14T07:52:19.207" LastActivityDate="2017-03-25T18:00:04.873" Title="When did Guy join the satanic cult?" Tags="|plot-explanation|rosemarys-baby|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14538" CreationDate="2013-10-14T08:16:56.560" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The exact reason reason why he joined the cult isn't shown in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guy forms a bond with the Castevets after he and Rosemary go to their apartment for dinner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly after Guy lands a role in a play when the actor who was originally cast suddenly and inexplicably goes blind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be implied that the cult made the actor go blind through rituals. Another example of this happens when Hutch goes into a coma later on in the film after Rosemary goes to him for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore I think the most likely reason is that he was seduced by promises of fame and success from the Castevets and this is why he joined them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know precisely when he joined but it was some time after the first dinner with the Castevets and when he got that first role. So it was fairly early in the film and before the sex scene with the devil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="3203" LastEditDate="2013-10-14T08:30:18.960" LastActivityDate="2013-10-14T08:30:18.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14541" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-14T13:55:24.410" Score="9" ViewCount="210" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just recently watched &quot;Oz&quot;, and the whole thing has me thinking about time dilation, for some reason. The opening of both movies &lt;em&gt;seem&lt;/em&gt; to be in roughly the same time period, I'd say 1890 to 1910, with &quot;Wizard of Oz&quot; happening at the latter portion of the time frame. However, when Dorothy travel's to Oz, the Wizard is an old, wizened man. You'll also notice that Glinda seems to have aged only barely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is, does time in Oz affect humans differently from its natural inhabitants?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3541" LastActivityDate="2013-11-06T14:21:24.430" Title="Does the passage of time affect humans differently in Oz?" Tags="|oz-the-great-and-powerful|the-wizard-of-oz|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14533" CreationDate="2013-10-14T17:52:33.983" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe Walt suspected him of doing this at all. Remember he was going up stairs to get the key to let him go. Just by pure chance he went to throw his can away and sees the broken pieces of the plate. At that point Walt's analytical mind realized that those pieces of the plate don't add up to a whole plate. He attempts to build the &quot;plate puzzle&quot; and shockingly realizes his mistake in trusting this guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he had suspected him of some underhanded act, he would not have gone to get the key and he would not have been so upset after finding the missing plate shard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1396" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-02-25T23:58:18.257" LastActivityDate="2020-02-25T23:58:18.257" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14544" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14545" CreationDate="2013-10-14T20:38:00.007" Score="6" ViewCount="564" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember seeing a few scenes of this movie and would like to figure out the name:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So the main character was probably Mel Gibson or someone very similar.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The story was set around 90s in a bigger city...as usual probably New York &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Main character was walking down the street and intentionally bumped into another man, pick-pocketing his wallet...later on I think he was in some hotel room paying with his credit card.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There was also a generic action scene, not sure how it went, but it had something to do with classic black american muscle car (something like a Mustang, Dodge, Impala …).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the vague description, but the actor is famous so someone might recognize the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-10-14T21:12:28.317" LastActivityDate="2013-10-14T21:12:28.317" Title="Mel Gibson movie where he picks the pocket of a guy on the street" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:51:09.977" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14544" CreationDate="2013-10-14T20:42:25.023" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're trying to identify &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120784/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Payback from 1999&lt;/a&gt; which did star Mel Gibson. It does feature a scene where his picks the pocket of a guy who vaguely resembles himself and uses his card to buy stuff. He's actually in a restaurant when he tries to pay with the stolen card.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payback_%281999_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a seedy basement, Porter (&lt;strong&gt;Mel Gibson&lt;/strong&gt;) lies severely wounded with two gunshot wounds in his back. A whiskey-drinking surgeon removes the bullets and Porter spends months healing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stealing a credit card to acquire a new suit, food and a gun,&lt;/strong&gt; Porter begins tracking down Val Resnick (Gregg Henry), his former partner, and Lynn (Deborah Unger), his ex-wife, both of whom betrayed Porter following a $140,000 heist from the Chinese triads. After leaving Porter for dead, Val rejoined the Outfit, a powerful criminal organization, using $130,000 of the heist money to repay an outstanding debt. Porter is intent on reclaiming his $70,000 cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;em&gt;Payback&lt;/em&gt; has a tag on this site: &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/payback&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;payback&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;payback&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-10-14T20:42:25.023" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14448" CreationDate="2013-10-14T22:17:35.200" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure that is really from an actual song. Rather than that, it is supposed to be the classic stereotypical funky-style &quot;porn music&quot; to imply that the stork and the woman are indeed about to make that baby right now, as also implied by the red light the stork installs and his whole behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This kind of cliché &quot;porn music&quot; is a common trope often used in a comedic way to signal that something sexual is going on or about to happen, like in this scene. A variation of this trope is when characters utter the words &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bow%20chicka%20wow%20wow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;bow chicka wow wow&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in a melodic way in order to immitate this funky music and in turn imply something sexual in a funny or satirical way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how extensive &lt;a href=&quot;http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/Stewie_Griffin%3a_The_Untold_Story&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this Family Guy wiki page&lt;/a&gt; is and I have only checked it roughly, but it doesn't seem to list the song explicitly as reference or music used in the episode/movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-15T08:24:46.793" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T08:24:46.793" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14487" CreationDate="2013-10-14T22:30:25.700" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timeout.com/london/film/suture&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;synopsis of the book&lt;/a&gt;, Vincent is a wealthy sophisticate (Trust fund baby), and Carl is a construction worker. However, they are not twins, as one is white and one is black. I believe they are half brothers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2013-10-14T22:30:25.700" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14508" CreationDate="2013-10-15T01:03:53.843" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real thing to note here is not that Indiana Jones was pointless but rather that he risked life, limb and even career to be the hero when he was not required. If that does not prove how heroic and awesome he was in the movie nothing does. Also, without Indy than Marion would die in all possible outcomes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6424" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-15T03:19:11.567" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T03:19:11.567" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14549" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-15T02:22:25.757" Score="14" ViewCount="918" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the first two series of Sherlock, Mycroft sends a car to pick John up and bring him to him. Just about every time, they meet at a different location. He doesn't seem to have any issues with protecting his identity (once his identity is revealed). His only concern, and it is only an occasional one, is to prevent Sherlock from being aware of the meeting or what is being discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why does Mycroft meet John in different locations?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-03T11:46:29.403" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T11:46:29.403" Title="Why does Mycroft meet John in so many different locations?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14550" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-15T02:28:37.010" Score="30" ViewCount="23975" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &amp;quot;The Reichenbach Fall&amp;quot; (S2E3) of Sherlock, Mycroft meets with John in the Diogenes Club. In the course of their conversation, Mycroft says to John &amp;quot;we don't want a repeat of 1972.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;To what is he referring?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For context, here is the back-and-forth between the two:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mycroft:&lt;/strong&gt; Tradition, John, our traditions define us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; So total silence is traditional, is it? You can’t even say pass the sugar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mycroft:&lt;/strong&gt; Three-quarters of the diplomatic service and half the government front bench all sharing one tea trolley, it’s for the best, believe me. &lt;strong&gt;We don’t want a repeat of 1972.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2020-05-16T05:04:42.530" Title="What does Mycroft mean when he says “we don't want a repeat of 1972?”" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|sherlock|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14551" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14573" CreationDate="2013-10-15T03:15:18.843" Score="7" ViewCount="4326" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am watching Sleepy Hollow, and there have been several scenes showing Ichabod's red-haired wife, Katrina Crane. She seems slightly younger in her appearances in the second and subsequent episodes. Her total appearances have been short and made under poor lighting conditions due to her in-show situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was she re-cast after the first episode, or did they just change makeup artists, or am I simply mistaken?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to some comments on &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvline.com/2013/09/23/sleepy-hollow-season-1-recap-jenny-mental-institution/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Line&lt;/a&gt;, I am not the only one who thinks this, and while some supply that it is the same person, I'd like a confirmation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Katrina looks different – or maybe wearing a pound less of makeup. The credits say Katia’s name, but the pilot Katrina looks different from the 2nd episode’s. Was there a recast? &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;k&amp;quot; – September 23, 2013&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought she looked different too from the pilot (was it her hair colour maybe?), but it’s def the same actress. &lt;em&gt;JeffDJ – September 23, 2013&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s the same actress, but you’re right, she looked different. A big part was the hair. It was more of a flame red in the pilot, and had more body and curl to it. A friend and I watched the pilot before tonight’s ep, and that was the first thing she said when Katrina came on-screen in the second ep. &amp;quot;what happened to her hair?&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;Alichat – September 23, 2013&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-10T01:15:27.870" Title="Did Ichabod Crane's wife Katrina Crane get re-cast during Season One?" Tags="|casting|sleepy-hollow-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14552" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-15T03:39:27.023" Score="5" ViewCount="769" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the same vein of zombie movies not existing in the worlds of zombie films, does the traditional story/legend of Sleepy Hollow (the jealous lover / school teacher story) exist in the show Sleepy Hollow as it does in the real world? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My instinct says it does not, as people living in Sleepy Hollow would have known the name Ichabod Crane and the legend of the headless horseman; it would be like living in the North Pole and having never heard of Santa Claus (which is actually not a great analogy due to the inaccessibility of the North Pole), or living in Transylvania and having never heard of Dracula (which also isn't a great analogy because he actually was a real person).  Maybe like living in Mississippi and having never heard of Tom Sawyer, or living in London and having never heard of Peter Pan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, that last one is a good one to use.  Consider the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Hook&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, where both the story of Peter Pan and the person Peter Pan both co-exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2013-10-15T15:29:33.380" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T15:54:48.087" Title="Does the Washington Irving story, &quot;The Legend of Sleepy Hollow&quot; exist in the world of the television show?" Tags="|sleepy-hollow-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14550" CreationDate="2013-10-15T08:24:53.363" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding was that there was an event in 1972 which caused uproar in the Diogenes Club.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John Watson enters a room and asks for Mycroft, a number of the gentleman in the room look at him in horror. Mycroft arrives and ushers him quickly from the room. Mycroft then explains that the room has a policy of silence. He jokingly comments that there are a lot of very senior (and possibly cantankerous) people using the club and too much talking could result in disagreements and fights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's my interpretation that in 1972 there was a disagreement or argument in the club which was scandalous (possibly relating to Bloody Sunday but we have no way of knowing) and has gone down in the club's history. This may have been caused by talking in the silent room, however I think it's more likely it was a disagreement which got out of hand. Mycroft jokingly comments he doesn't want to cause another scandal!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T08:24:53.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14550" CreationDate="2013-10-15T08:36:03.107" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure that it is based on a specific event but 1972 was a very tense year in the British government:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 separate states of emergency were declared due to striking &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bloody Sunday &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The British Embassy in Ireland was burned down &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There was a very violent protest in Derry &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Aldershot was bombed with several people killed &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 British ships were sunk by Icelandic battleship &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Government introduced pay freezes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the people in the club would have had strong opinions on all of these subjects (and more).  I would have been amazed if they did not discuss it there and discussions on emotive subjects can easily become shouting matches!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only real way to stop it would be to stop anyone talking about anything so people know that they can come somewhere just to relax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally (slightly OT), when the politics in my re-enactment group became very bitter and nasty (yes, really!) my wife and I banned anyone from discussing it in our house.  Our house became a popular hang out for many of the people involved because they knew they could relax. No one had been allowed to blacken their name so they did not need to worry about explaining their side of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T08:36:03.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10918" CreationDate="2013-10-15T09:28:15.080" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The story is absolutely about Sheriff Bell, and despite the fact that the majority of the action focuses on Llewelyn Moss, his story is really only a subplot. The main arc of the story actually concerns itself with Bell's decision to quit policing in the face of what he considers to be unstoppable violence. That is the subtext behind the movie's title, as well as its final lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ed Tom Bell&lt;/strong&gt;: Alright then. Two of 'em. Both had my father in 'em .&#xA;  It's peculiar. I'm older now then he ever was by twenty years. So in a&#xA;  sense he's the younger man. Anyway, first one I don't remember too&#xA;  well but it was about meeting him in town somewhere, he's gonna give&#xA;  me some money. I think I lost it. The second one, it was like we was&#xA;  both back in older times and I was on horseback goin' through the&#xA;  mountains of a night. Goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was&#xA;  cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on&#xA;  goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on past... and he had&#xA;  his blanket wrapped around him and his head down and when he rode past&#xA;  I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I&#xA;  could see the horn from the light inside of it. 'Bout the color of the&#xA;  moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and he was&#xA;  fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all&#xA;  that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And&#xA;  then I woke up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6026" LastEditorUserId="6026" LastEditDate="2013-10-16T07:50:56.623" LastActivityDate="2013-10-16T07:50:56.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14556" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-15T09:38:33.263" Score="12" ViewCount="511" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; Walt seems to take on attributes of the foils that he kills. For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After Walt kills Crazy 8, he starts cutting the crust off of&#xA;sandwiches.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After Walt kills Gus, he starts greeting people from the drug&#xA;underworld who visit him in his place of employment as though they&#xA;are regular customers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What other examples have people seen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6026" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-19T16:04:58.077" LastActivityDate="2014-10-19T16:04:58.077" Title="What are some examples of Walt and Jesse taking on attributes of the foils that they kill?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-10-21T03:40:54.480" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14557" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-15T09:41:42.443" Score="9" ViewCount="1154" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the witch curses the Dragon Emperor in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0859163/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, he turns into a mud statue inside the palace and so does his army outside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when Alex found the statues, they were somewhere else, the emperor's body position was different and he was holding horses' reigns (there were horses!) and traps were laid in that place. It was like, the emperor and his army were hidden but who hid them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5722" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-09-23T10:17:04.433" LastActivityDate="2019-09-23T10:17:04.433" Title="Who hid the Dragon Emperor and his army after they were cursed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-mummy-tomb-of-dragon-emperor|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21182" CreationDate="2013-10-15T09:59:48.397" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are the ones I've noticed :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt - Traits&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Krazy 8&lt;/strong&gt; - Sandwich crusts as you mentioned&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gus' dealers&lt;/strong&gt; - The ability to use kids to his advantage. The dealers used the kid on the bike to kill Combo. Walt poisoned Brock to turn Jesse against Gus and set his killing in motion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gus&lt;/strong&gt; - Ruthlessness. He can kill/have people killed with no remorse. He can be seen whistling soon after Todd kills the kid on the bike showing that he can just shrug it off as something that had to be done. He has all of Mikes guys also killed and it doesn't seem to bother him. I think even if he didn't kill Gus he would of went this way anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jack&lt;/strong&gt;  - I'm not sure about this one. Jack shoots Hank in the head mid-sentence. Walt shoots Jack in the head, mid-sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt - other&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;*&lt;em&gt;Aeroplane crash&lt;/em&gt;* - He caused the crash by allowing Jane to die. He kept the eyeball of the teddy bear. Not a trait but interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gale&lt;/strong&gt; He ordered Jesse to kill Gale. He kept Gales book even though it was possibly incriminating. Again not a trait but interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mike&lt;/strong&gt; Before Mike's demise, Walt would get his drinks a certain way.  Mike would always order his drinks with ice which Walt adopted at Hank's some time after dispatching Mike.  Also in Felina when he is confronting Elliot, his tone matches Mike's perfectly when mocking Elliot's knife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of traits Walt acquired from the following characters : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mike&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Emilio&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gus' guys in the lab&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I missed something!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jesse&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;As far as I can remember Jesse only killed Gale and Todd. I don't think you can say that Jesse took any of Gales traits. He became a better chemist but that was probably going to happen anyway. And he killed Todd right before the end of the series so we had no time to see if he took any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Side note&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Todd kept the Tarantula the kid on the motorbike was carrying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-10-16T13:08:54.923" LastActivityDate="2013-10-16T13:08:54.923" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-10-16T07:32:06.560" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14560" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14561" CreationDate="2013-10-15T10:10:24.677" Score="35" ViewCount="57913" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the plane crash in season 2 of breaking bad a pink teddy bear falls into Walts pool. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see the bear in several scenes before the plane crash in previous episodes of the season. In these scenes it is the only element that's in colour. The rest of the scenes are in black and white.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of this bear? What does it represent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-15T10:47:16.670" LastActivityDate="2019-10-14T14:09:24.767" Title="What does the pink teddy bear represent in Breaking Bad?" Tags="|analysis|breaking-bad|props|" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14560" CreationDate="2013-10-15T10:20:07.963" Score="24" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Pink_Teddy_Bear&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pink Teddy Bear&lt;/a&gt; is an homage to the film Schindler's List, in&#xA;which the color red is used to distinguish a little girl in a coat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Television critic Myles McNutt has called it &amp;quot;a symbol of the damage&#xA;[Walter] feels responsible for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(source:&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad#Pink_teddy_bear&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the Pink Teddy Bear is always kept for open interpretation similar to Girl in red in Schindler's List. But I agree with Myles McNutt that it could be a symbol of the damage Walter feels responsible of. That may be the reason he kept eye of the teddy bear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T08:38:32.713" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14549" CreationDate="2013-10-15T11:17:03.257" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not any official sources to base this on but I assumed that the random odd meeting places was for safety and privacy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Privacy:  It is unlikely that anyone would blunder passed without being noticed.  No one has a reason to stay within microphone eavesdropping range (like they would in a pub).  Mycroft might not even want his colleagues to hear what was between him and Holmes, people in his position trust as few people as they possibly can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Security: It would be very hard to predict where they were going to meet so anyone with any sinister motives would have their work cut out for them to interupt the meeting or do anything to Mycroft.  Even John did not know where the meeting was until it had started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T11:17:03.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14567" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14587" CreationDate="2013-10-15T14:16:31.810" Score="4" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the world of Panem the country is organised into twelve districts which support the capitol&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; There are in fact 13 but D13 is no longer under Capitol control&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see the Reaping in D12 which contains (by my estimate around 400 children), again by my estimate this would suggest a population of around 4000? We have no indication of how big the other districts are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The capitol is seen to be very large and very lavish, resources are squandered and the people are very rich. Could such a small population in the districts feasibly support such a large and wasteful capitol?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-10-16T13:09:48.927" LastActivityDate="2013-10-16T13:09:48.927" Title="Could the twelve districts support the Capitol?" Tags="|the-hunger-games|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14552" CreationDate="2013-10-15T15:18:32.463" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;While there have been television shows / films where the &quot;source&quot; media (or some iteration of said &quot;source&quot; media) exists and is referred to by the characters within the show as an (in)accurate account / bastardization of the actual events, I don't think Sleepy Hollow falls in with those shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &quot;The Legend of Sleepy Hollow&quot; the story did exist in this show, it would be something akin to &quot;Washington Irving wrote this entertaining folklore story which is a bastardization of something that actually happened in real life and was probably passed down to him as a tale from someone else, and he was the first to put it to paper.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since not one person has addressed it in-show so far, I reiterate my gut feeling from the initial question that the answer is &quot;no, the tale which has become American folklore doesn't exist within the context of the show&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T15:18:32.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14552" CreationDate="2013-10-15T15:33:04.470" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I haven't seen the show myself and this answer is only based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepy_Hollow_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; combined with common sense (resummarizing my comments into a proper answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An interesting aspect is that the &lt;em&gt;Ichabod Crane&lt;/em&gt; from the TV-show does in fact come originally from the 18th century. So the only reasonable possibility to combine the TV-show with the original story would be that &lt;em&gt;Irving&lt;/em&gt; actually based his story on this same real &lt;em&gt;Ichabod Crane&lt;/em&gt; and his adventures in the past. But I think in this case the writers of the TV-show would have adressed this aspect at one point or another and if not a single character in the TV-show ever adresses this point or seems to ever have heard about the traditional story, you can safely assume it doesn't exist for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way to view the TV-show would be like Wikipedia does, as &lt;em&gt;&quot;a modern-day retelling of the 1820 short story&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and thus something like a remake. Thus this TV-show &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the one and only &lt;em&gt;Sleepy Hollow&lt;/em&gt; story and &lt;em&gt;Irving&lt;/em&gt;'s wouldn't exist in this universe, as people in stories don't hear their own stories, which would need them to be aware of being fictional. This is IMHO strengthened by Wikipedia's plot summary saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 1781, Ichabod Crane &quot;dies&quot; in the midst of the Revolutionary War&#xA;  while on a mission for General George Washington. He rises from his&#xA;  &quot;grave&quot; in modern day Sleepy Hollow after the Headless Horseman,&#xA;  (revealed to be Death, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), is&#xA;  summoned back from his watery grave by an unknown party. The&#xA;  resurrection of the one causes the resurrection of the other due to&#xA;  the intertwining of their fates as a result of their blood mixing&#xA;  shortly after Crane decapitated the Headless Horseman on the field of&#xA;  battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;em&gt;Crane&lt;/em&gt;'s past history with the &lt;em&gt;Horseman&lt;/em&gt; isn't similar to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Sleepy_Hollow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;original story&lt;/a&gt; and only given to provide some relationship to him, and &lt;em&gt;Crane&lt;/em&gt;'s anachronicity is done to provide an interesting out-of-time aspect to the show (and to carry over the &quot;early U.S./colonial history&quot;-aspect of the orignal story to some degree) rather than to hint at any actual relation of him to the &lt;em&gt;Irving&lt;/em&gt; story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-15T15:54:48.087" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T15:54:48.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14551" CreationDate="2013-10-15T16:54:08.387" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2647544/fullcredits&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb claims&lt;/a&gt; that it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2316016/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Katia Winter&lt;/a&gt; in all six episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also check picture albums for &lt;a href=&quot;http://katia-winter.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=39&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Episode 1&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://katia-winter.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=41&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Episode 2&lt;/a&gt; of her fan site. Are these the two looks confusing you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2013-10-15T17:01:44.937" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T17:01:44.937" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14574" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14575" CreationDate="2013-10-15T17:34:49.303" Score="13" ViewCount="3374" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’m finally getting a chance to see the entire original &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; series and have gotten up to the episode “Balance of Terror” (season 1, episode 8/14).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few minutes into the episode, Spock gives a speech to the rest of the ship about the Earth-Romulan conflict of “over a century ago” (2166). He goes on to say that because they had used primitive atomic weapons and vessels with no visual communication screen, “no human, Romulan, &lt;em&gt;or ally&lt;/em&gt; had ever seen the other”, and that they can only assume Romulans are a war-like, cruel, and treacherous people. He also explains that the treaty that established the neutral-zone was conducted via sub-space radio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, I can accept that humans and Romulans had never seen each other in the more-than-100-years that they have known of the others’ existence, but what about Spock?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that Vulcans and Romulans are related, branching off from a common ancestor a while ago. So why does Spock not know anything about Romulans? It seems difficult to believe that Vulcans would have erased everything about Romulans from their history books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought that maybe they had not yet established the link between Vulcans and Romulans at this point in the franchise, but Spock theorizes later in the episode that Romulans are related to Vulcans. So why is Spock so surprised that Romulans look like Vulcans? How had he never seen at least a photo of a Romulan or read about them in history class?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a mention in canon about Vulcans trying to bury the connection? Has it been ret-conned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing was mentioned of the discrepancy in the episode’s &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Balance_of_Terror_%28episode%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Memory Alpha&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_Terror&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek/balance-of-terror-24899/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV.com&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708420/reference&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastEditorUserId="40011" LastEditDate="2017-07-31T04:56:27.260" LastActivityDate="2018-11-25T00:10:49.903" Title="Why did Spock not know about Romulans in “Balance of Terror”?" Tags="|star-trek|continuity|star-trek-the-original-series|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14574" CreationDate="2013-10-15T18:21:50.493" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The time of the division was marked by violent upheaval on Vulcan.  It isn't hard to imagine the records being lost, or the Vulcans never making the connection between  those warlike Vulcans who disappeared thousands of years earlier and the Romulan Star Empire.  From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surak&quot;&gt;Wikipedia entry on Surak&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During the &quot;Time of Awakening&quot; a Vulcan schism of those who &quot;sought a&#xA;  return to savage ways&quot; and &quot;marched beneath the raptor's wings&quot; (later&#xA;  the symbol of the Romulan people) perpetrate a cataclysmic nuclear&#xA;  attack upon Surak and his enlightened society. Soon after Surak's&#xA;  death, these Vulcan recidivists abandon their homeworld to colonize&#xA;  the planets Romulus and Remus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T18:21:50.493" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14576" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-15T19:04:20.120" Score="6" ViewCount="1253" Body="&lt;p&gt;A woman loses her home. She is homeless and pregnant, she births a baby girl. She tries to raise it but in the end she buys her a necklace and tells her she's gonna get sandwiches and leaves her. The woman has organised with someone to adopt her girl. The adopters go and get the girl when the mom left her alone to get the food. The mother has organised this. Also there is a scene where the girl nurse in a hospital and she likes it there, she doesn't wanna leave. The director in the ending titles indicates how many people are homeless in the United States. The whole story takes place somewhere in the United States. I think sometime in the movie the woman works in a factory and when the girl is still a baby the man who rents them the apartment they live in tries to rape her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw it on Greek TV in 2003.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6433" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-09-23T17:51:29.257" LastActivityDate="2016-09-23T17:51:29.257" Title="Homeless woman abandons young daughter" Tags="|identify-this-movie|drama|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:51:22.413" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9397" CreationDate="2013-10-15T20:00:15.857" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because he thought the Phoenix Club members have contacts and connections with powerful, trendy and cool people. Thus they could spread the website better then anyone else Mark knew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6434" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T20:00:15.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14578" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-15T22:50:07.840" Score="8" ViewCount="2092" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the very beginning of &lt;em&gt;Dredd (2012)&lt;/em&gt;, when the officer asks Anderson about the person who's with her, she begins to describe Dredd and her head tilts and she says &quot;I even detect&quot;. The officer cuts her off and says &quot;That's enough..&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, when Dredd is shot by the armor piercing rounds of another judge and drops to his knees he asks the other to wait.. And as he does and enters his monologue, Anderson shoots and Dredd responds, &quot;Wait for her to shoot you&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So does this mean that Dredd is a psychic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6435" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-10-16T13:10:43.273" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T09:46:01.100" Title="Is Judge Dredd a psychic himself?" Tags="|analysis|dredd|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14578" CreationDate="2013-10-15T23:14:51.140" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dredd in the movie was by no means a psychic. The scene that you're talking about, Judge Dredd after he was hit by that armor piercing round and was sitting on the floor he might have seen Anderson coming behind the bad guy after he had moved right next to confront Dredd which would have made him say wait to buy him some time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2013-10-15T23:14:51.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14578" CreationDate="2013-10-15T23:20:19.633" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The interview scene you describe was discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/9331/5589&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and is, in my opinion, nicely explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, I don't think Dredd is a psychic. There too many tell-signs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the scene before MaMa clan starts shooting those three big guns. He had to go there and take a peek. A psychic would read it from the nearby corner. As we see, he goes by his guts and brute force. That's the only way for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, he wouldn't have to ask why Anderson didn't bring her helmet; he'd know it already, if he was also a psychic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Dredd is The Law. That's his alpha and omega. And, since the movie is following the comic very closely (and was much praised for that by the fans), I'd say there is no chance they wanted to include anything like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2013-10-17T06:08:21.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14582" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-16T00:04:27.003" Score="9" ViewCount="878" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just discovered Primer: it is nothing short of amazing IMHO. I've read various sites and graphics explaining how their machine work and I've got a question which, I think, would help me better understand how it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if I'm the original and I plan to use the machine to go six hours back but with a twist...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First to simplify things nobody is ever going to enter the machine besides one time at 2013-oct-15 at 6pm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I turn the machine on at 11:45am 2013-15-10 with a 15 minutes delay and then leave the area to not have an encounter with my double when it pops up at 12:01pm or so.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I then stay in the area (but somewhere where he can't see me : for example because I have binoculars) and wait for my future-self to come back in the past&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;My future-self comes back and from my point of view it is just that: my future-self that knows what the lottery number are going to be that day etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because I have my binoculars, I can see my future-self coming out of the facility where the time-travel machine is.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm glad that I saw my future-self with my binoculars, I dodge him, I go check the lottery numbers (say the lottery happens at 5pm) and then at 6pm I enter the machine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many timelines are now created? An infinity because there's a loop? As I understand it I go in the machine at 2013-oct-15 6pm and come back at 2013-oct-15 12:01pm with &quot;lottery numbers knowledge&quot;, I'm seen by past-self, my past-self learns the lottery and enters the machine, he comes out in the past to be seen by his past-self and rinse and repeat? Is this correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(basically I'm trying to understand what's going on if I try to use my binoculars to see the one that already has the &quot;lottery knowledge&quot; instead being the one that has the &quot;lottery knowledge&quot; that tries to see the one that hasn't)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now what if there's an additional twist: what if in addition to &lt;em&gt;&quot;nobody is ever going to enter the machine besides one time at 2013-oct-15 at 6pm&quot;&lt;/em&gt; I decided that  &lt;em&gt;&quot;I'll enter the machine at 2013-oct-15 at 6pm no matter what, except if I did see my future-self (the one with lottery knowledge) come out at 2013-oct-15 a little bit after 12:01pm, in which case and in which case only I won't enter the machine&quot;&lt;/em&gt; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then say I'd be before the first ever use of the machine and I'd check with with my binoculars and not see my future-self popping back in my timeline, so I'd enter the time machine at 6pm. But that means I'd have been back in the past so I should have seen my future self and hence decided not to go into the machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if I've been clear enough but how would that work in the way time travel works in Primer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this later scenario &quot;always enter the timemachine but not if I see my future-self&quot; a paradox? (I don't care about there being two me in one timeline... I just don't see how things would work out with this simple rule : &lt;em&gt;&quot;Always enter on 2013-oct-15 at 6pm unless I've seen my future-self come out&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is similar to something posted by someone nicknamed 'Indigo' on &lt;a href=&quot;http://qntm.org/primer&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://qntm.org/primer&lt;/a&gt; who wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I kept asking myself, how could symmetry really be broken? Wouldn't I&#xA;  always see the end result? In other words, if I wanted to go back a&#xA;  few hours to make a change.. to say hello to myself for instance;&#xA;  wouldn't I have seen myself greet me a few hours ago in the first&#xA;  place? And so, you can get trapped in this circular logic if you don't&#xA;  accept certain rules like the possibility of multiple timelines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I do accept the Primer rules and I do accept the possibility of multiple timelines. What I'd like to know is how things would work out if before ever inventing my first time-travel machine I'd fix to myself the very simple rule above: &lt;em&gt;&quot;Always enter on 2013-oct-15 at 6pm and on 2013-oct-15 at 6pm only, unless I've seen my future-self come out&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2064" LastEditorUserId="2064" LastEditDate="2013-10-16T01:26:03.017" LastActivityDate="2017-12-23T02:04:50.123" Title="Primer question to better understand the movie" Tags="|science-fiction|primer|plot-explanation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13823" CreationDate="2013-10-16T05:36:01.937" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that Tyler screwed up when he (earlier) deleted his own profile from the database. This meant that his swipe card was no longer valid which, unfortunately for him, resulted in the bomb going &lt;em&gt;BOOM&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-10-16T05:36:01.937" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14585" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15976" CreationDate="2013-10-16T05:44:06.990" Score="3" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;White House Down&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Raphaelson is in the pocket of the defence industry which makes money by selling weapons to the ME. But he also wants to nuke the region.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Raphaelson gives Walker the launch codes to launch the nukes and also gives the orders to bomb the White House.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Raphaelson is party to nuking the Middle East, but deploys troops back there once he reaches the White House.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These seem to be blatantly contradictory positions. What gives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T11:12:56.283" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T12:16:31.267" Title="Contradictions in Raphaelson's plan in White House Down" Tags="|plot-explanation|white-house-down|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14582" CreationDate="2013-10-16T05:50:49.923" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Q: What I'd like to know is how things would work out if before ever inventing my first time-travel machine I'd fix to myself the very simple rule above: &quot;Always enter on 2013-oct-15 at 6pm and on 2013-oct-15 at 6pm only, unless I've seen my future-self come out&quot;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: There would be two versions of you in existence. One version -- &quot;You A&quot; -- would be 12 hours older than &quot;You B&quot; because &quot;You A&quot; lived through the original 12pm to 6pm as well as the subsequent 6 hours in the box. &quot;You A&quot; would be the only person in the universe who experienced those particular 12 hours. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When &quot;You A&quot; emerges from the box at 12pm, events would unfold exactly as they had before --  except for any differences caused by &quot;You A.&quot; So if &quot;You A&quot; prevents &quot;You B&quot; from traveling back in time at 6pm, that simply means &quot;You B&quot; does not travel back in time at 6pm. The trip made by &quot;You A&quot; still happened, so now both &quot;You A&quot; and &quot;You B&quot; are in existence, even after 6pm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, the universe in Primer does not appear to be subject to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_principle&quot;&gt;Novikov consistency principle&lt;/a&gt;, which asserts that if an event exists that would give rise to a paradox or to any change to the past whatsoever, then the probability of that event is zero. Because clearly the characters in Primer change the past (like when they use tranquilizers to incapacitate previous versions of themselves). In fact, I believe a key point of Primer is that, if time travel were truly possible, paradoxes would be unavoidable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2013-10-16T06:15:21.883" LastActivityDate="2013-10-16T06:15:21.883" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14567" CreationDate="2013-10-16T06:24:25.530" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your assumption that the population of District 12 is around 4000 is wrong. The population is somewhere close to 9000-10,000 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games_universe#District_12&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;). And according to the canon, District 5 is the smallest district. So we can safely assume that District 12 is not &lt;em&gt;so little&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, you err in hypothesizing that &lt;em&gt;small populations in the districts cannot feasibly  support such a large and wasteful capitol&lt;/em&gt;. The population in many of the districts live in abject poverty (District 12 even close to starvation), only to churn the resources and support themselves and the Capitol. Each district specializes in something, for example, District 12 specializes in mining (&lt;em&gt;mostly coal&lt;/em&gt;). Now coal is quite essential for production of electricity and other industries that run on a furnace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thats why, even though some of the districts are less populous, they contribute to the Capitol through their specialization. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastActivityDate="2013-10-16T06:24:25.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="365" CreationDate="2013-10-16T08:23:27.630" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film is also a reimagining of several other movies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Like &lt;em&gt;The Wizard of Oz&lt;/em&gt;, it features a &quot;dream story&quot; where characters in real life populate the landscape of the dream. The two movies also share similar color palettes and set designs:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ge2Hv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sYH6D.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VIfoa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U9oCn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are two women at the heart of both &lt;em&gt;Mulholland Drive&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Persona&lt;/em&gt;, one of whom is an actress, who seem to fall in love with each other and to merge their identities slowly:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fRGCS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sYhag.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Among other things, &lt;em&gt;Vertigo&lt;/em&gt; shares a scene with &lt;em&gt;Mulholland Drive&lt;/em&gt;, where a traumatic event triggers a change in a main character's hair color; there are thematic resonances between the two films as well:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QlSYK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/n0W2C.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Without wanting to spoil anything, there are also a lot of various female characters posed on a bed in a similar pose building up to a climactic moment for the film:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6cbbK.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YDHSW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is probably another Hitchcock reference, this time to &lt;em&gt;Psycho&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OIKeo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mulholland-drive.net/studies/references.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Plenty of other films as well&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I had the realization recently that what Diane does with characters from her real life, i.e. recontextualize them, is exactly what &lt;em&gt;Mulholland Drive&lt;/em&gt; does with prior film history. That's obviously true for many other movies - film history is littered with self-reference - but &lt;em&gt;Mulholland Drive&lt;/em&gt; uses its references to an unique purpose. Lynch is also famously interested in dream logic and its relationship to the cinema; it's probably not an accident that some of the most powerful scenes in the movie threaten to (but do not) disrupt not only the fantasia of Diane's dream, but also the suspension of disbelief of an audience watching &lt;em&gt;Mulholland Drive&lt;/em&gt; itself. We too are &quot;only&quot; watching a recording just as Betty and Rita are, but like them, we nonetheless feel sincere emotion. And we get a gentle reminder of this same idea when the same campy script that Betty and Rita ridiculed earlier is performed with legitimate heat in her audition scene just before Betty is nearly (but not) introduced to Adam. Adam, of course is creating a movie within a movie, one with a production that features actors lip-synching over recorded music, just like the unnamed woman at Silencio. In the same way that the Wizard in the emerald city at last reveals his machinations to be &quot;just&quot; an illusion, the work of the film director, both in character as Adam, director of &lt;em&gt;The Sylvia North Story&lt;/em&gt;, as well as outside as David Lynch, director of &lt;em&gt;Mulholland Drive&lt;/em&gt;, are also creators of deceptions. But the power of that illusion is nonetheless also a testament to the power of cinema. &quot;No Hay Banda,&quot; sure, but the transportive ability of the film is nonetheless real, and simultaneously an homage to prior shared dreams in a movie theater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6026" LastEditorUserId="6026" LastEditDate="2014-05-05T04:46:52.650" LastActivityDate="2014-05-05T04:46:52.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14590" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-16T09:20:47.910" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;White House Down is a 2013 American action film directed by Roland Emmerich about an assault on the White House by a paramilitary group and a cop rejected when trying to get a job on the Secret Service who tries to stop them. The film's screenplay is by James Vanderbilt, and it stars Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Down&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-16T09:20:47.910" LastActivityDate="2013-10-16T09:20:47.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14591" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-16T09:20:47.910" Score="0" Body="2013 American action film directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-16T09:20:47.910" LastActivityDate="2013-10-16T09:20:47.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14592" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14593" CreationDate="2013-10-16T12:10:50.400" Score="21" ViewCount="6119" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/d_lq2p7-p2Y&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the tavern scene&lt;/a&gt; where Archie's disguise is blown through his English hand gesture, he is initially questioned by Cprl Willhelm about his unusual accent. Can the German visitors to this site confirm if his accent did sound iffy, and did Stiglitz and the other chaps accents match to where Major Hellstrom guessed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="206" LastEditDate="2013-10-18T19:46:41.017" LastActivityDate="2023-06-02T16:21:51.083" Title="Was Archie Hicox's accent actually strange?" Tags="|character|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14592" CreationDate="2013-10-16T12:28:12.463" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I, being a German and having heard a wide variety of different German dialects, can confirm to you that his accent was indeed a bit strange. And while Michael Fassbender didn't have too strong an accent, it was IMHO still identifiable as slightly English-based and thus was likely to arouse the suspicion from the Germans in that bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet the accent wasn't completely weird, given that there might still be hidden places where people speak accents I haven't heard yet, like at the &lt;em&gt;Piz Palü&lt;/em&gt;. So I would say that Cpl. Wilhelm would probably not have spoken about it to a higher ranking officer, hadn't he been as drunk as he was, and maybe asked him out of mere curiosity rather than actual suspicion. But they didn't plan to stumble across such a highly suspicious security officer as Maj. Hellstrom, who had all the reasons to request some clarification from Hicox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I also have to say that I don't have as good an ear as Maj. Hellstrom and wouldn't really have been able to classify the other two German Basterds according to their home towns as easily as he did, since they spoke pretty clear High German. So that part was maybe a bit exaggerated (or he had really just far better trained ears than I have). Yet looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedeon_Burkhard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Til_Schweiger&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;actors&lt;/a&gt;, they were indeed born or grew up at or near the places attributed to their roles by Maj. Hellstrom, so it is pretty reasonable to assume that he was right in his assumption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-05-03T09:36:22.407" LastActivityDate="2019-05-03T09:36:22.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14595" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14596" CreationDate="2013-10-16T14:11:46.813" Score="6" ViewCount="1873" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the chicken man stole Woody from Andy's house, Buzz somehow discovered he was taken to the Al's Toy Barn from the numberplate of the car. I could not understand that part. How could he discover it using a toy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Screenshot:-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zroyo.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zroyo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;How&amp;#39;s he doing this&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastActivityDate="2013-10-16T15:04:33.967" Title="How could Buzz come to know about Al's Toy Barn?" Tags="|plot-explanation|toy-story|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14595" CreationDate="2013-10-16T14:59:25.117" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is common for people with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_plate&quot;&gt;vanity license plates&lt;/a&gt; to remove vowels in order to create longer phrases that fit on the plate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LZ = als&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  TY = toy&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  BRN = barn&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4128" LastEditorUserId="4128" LastEditDate="2013-10-16T15:04:33.967" LastActivityDate="2013-10-16T15:04:33.967" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14474" CreationDate="2013-10-16T15:31:06.320" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking from a theatrical background, stage-work, I will honestly say it's a combination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actor/actress being made up affects this. Do they have smooth skin or wrinkled, do they have a tendency to look younger/older than they are to start with? I find it's easier to make a younger person look older because it's a case of addition over reduction. To make someone look older, you can create laugh-lines, create drooping jowls or extra chin flab. You can add the wrinkles, play with the hair (roughing it and then whitening it works...or if you have liberties, even thinning it throughout the head, or balding them). When you're working in reverse, to de-age a person, you have to handle the reduction of lines and extras...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another factor to account for is the difference of ages. It's very easy to age or reduce a person 5 to even 10 years, but a 20 year difference going either way, you're going to need serious expertise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's similar to drawing. In actuality, it's easier to draw or paint an adult than an infant, simply because of the features that age bring to our faces over the smoothness of infancy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had one fun experience when doing makeup on the &quot;Noah&quot; character for the show &quot;Two By Two.&quot; Before the show, I needed to age the 40 something year old man to look like he was 900 years old. In a VERY short time, I had to de-age him to look 90 (well. 90 their time, more like 50 our time. So about a 10 years difference). Later in the show, I had to re-age him to about 900.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Effectively, I had to age him in all cases, but it was an interesting challenge...and as I'm not a professional, I found it to be a fun one...but it wasn't too difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have, however, encountered difficult situations. A production of &quot;Drood&quot; where Jasper was played by a 19 year old and Drood by a 32 year old. Jasper is supposed to be 6 or so years older than Drood. We opted to age the 19 year old and did nothing to Drood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6391" LastActivityDate="2013-10-16T15:31:06.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14598" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14602" CreationDate="2013-10-16T16:38:49.547" Score="15" ViewCount="1889" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; when &lt;em&gt;Lt. Archie Hicox&lt;/em&gt; is briefed by &lt;em&gt;Gen. Fenech&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Winston Churchill&lt;/em&gt;, his qualities as movie expert are put to a little test when he is asked by &lt;em&gt;Churchill&lt;/em&gt; about &lt;em&gt;Joseph Goebbels&lt;/em&gt; in his role as a movie producer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Churchill&lt;/em&gt;: You say he wants to take on the Jews at their own game? Compared to say Louis B. Mayer...how's he doing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hicox&lt;/em&gt;: Quite well, actually. Since Goebbels has taken over, film attendance has steadily risen in Germany over the last eight years.&#xA;  But Louis B.Mayer wouldn't be Goebbels proper opposite number. I&#xA;  believe Goebbels see's himself closer to David O. Selznick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After which &lt;em&gt;Chuchill&lt;/em&gt; agrees to brief &lt;em&gt;Hicox&lt;/em&gt; for the upcoming operation. So there has to be some truth in &lt;em&gt;Hicox&lt;/em&gt;'s explanations, a truth that &lt;em&gt;Churchill&lt;/em&gt; as a (I suppose) non-expert understood. But I for myself, being not too well-versed in Hollywood history, am not sure if this was a correct comparison or not. &lt;strong&gt;So in which way was &lt;em&gt;Joseph Goebbels&lt;/em&gt; in his role as a movie producer more similar to &lt;em&gt;David O. Selznick&lt;/em&gt; than to &lt;em&gt;Louis B. Mayer&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(While it may also just have been a rather arbitrary comparison not supposed to be made much sense of, with &lt;em&gt;Tarantino&lt;/em&gt;'s and the whole movie's general obsession with the movies, I bet there to be some truth or reference in this statement.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-10T10:11:56.970" LastActivityDate="2014-01-10T10:11:56.970" Title="Is Lt. Hicox correct in his comparison of Joseph Goebbels with David O. Selznick?" Tags="|analysis|film-industry|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14214" CreationDate="2013-10-16T17:42:11.293" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe he would have spared Szpillman if he hadn't played the piano for him.  It is well established that Hosenfeld protected many people from the Gestapo during his tenure at the sports center, including at least 1 jew, and several Poles. He grew to hate what the Nazis were doing and told his wife he would save everyone he could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6443" LastActivityDate="2013-10-16T17:42:11.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14598" CreationDate="2013-10-16T18:45:44.337" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few tidbits that I can pull from looking at both David O. Selznick and Louis B. Mayer via Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Louis B. Mayer was pretty much the figure head of MGM during its golden years, and is considered the creator of the &quot;star system&quot;, focusing more on producing and advertising films around the stars in his films rather than the films themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;David O. Selznick is the producer behind Gone with the Wind, the most profitable film ever made (adjusting for inflation). Selznick still had great success after Gone with the Wind, but he could never quite outdo Gone with the Wind in terms of success. He also longed to be a producer with his own company, and not simply releasing films through larger studios such as MGM or Paramount. He eventually did form his own studio, Selznick International Pictures, in 1935. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Both men are very prominent Hollywood producers, and both are Jewish. This is probably where the bit about, &quot;You say he wants to take on the Jews at their own game,&quot; comes from.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Selznick worked under Mayer&lt;/strong&gt; at MGM at various periods in the 1920s and early 1930s before leaving to begin his own studio, Selznick International Pictures, in 1935.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, you could sort of compare Mayer to Hitler, and Selznick to Goebels. Mayer was the head of an extremely large motion picture empire during the 1930s and 1940s. Until Selznick broke out on his own, he was pretty much beholden to the higher powers of studios much bigger than he was. Even when he formed his own studio, it still took help from MGM to release Gone with the Wind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it seems to me the reason he says Goebels probably sees himself as closer to Selznick than Mayer is because Selznick, while successful, still had to rely pretty heavily on the efforts of larger entities than himself for his works to see the light of day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-16T18:48:02.720" LastActivityDate="2013-10-16T18:48:02.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14604" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-17T00:45:56.683" Score="6" ViewCount="675" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332134/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;King of Devil's Island (org.: Kongen av Bastøy)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the former sailor &lt;em&gt;Erling (C-19)&lt;/em&gt; tells a story to &lt;em&gt;Olav (C-1)&lt;/em&gt; for writing down, about a ship crew hunting for a whale, which seems to be an allegory for their own situation in &lt;em&gt;Bastøy&lt;/em&gt;. He starts to tell it when they are on forest duty with a third boy (forgive me for not recounting it word-accurate):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Olav:&lt;/em&gt; You ever seen whales?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Erling:&lt;/em&gt; I saw one which, hit by three harpoons, just swam away. It took three days till he was dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Olav:&lt;/em&gt; And my role in it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Erling:&lt;/em&gt; Deck boy. And I'm the harpooner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, during &lt;em&gt;Olav&lt;/em&gt;'s parole after six years and after the &lt;em&gt;Warden&lt;/em&gt;'s reluctance to say anything about &lt;em&gt;Bråthen&lt;/em&gt;'s deeds and his guilt in &lt;em&gt;Ivar (C-5)&lt;/em&gt;'s suicide to the comittee, he develops it further:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Olav (reading):&lt;/em&gt; We were already weeks on the sea till I saw him again. Our supplies went short and Øystein, our cook, gave few reasons for praise. You should have seen how thin I was, fed up with the fish. We met the whale again, got very near, much nearer than before. The harpoon I hit him with had weakened him. He was huge, at least 25 metres, and he was laced with scars from endured fights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Erling:&lt;/em&gt; The new deck boy he'd already killed, the poor guy. The captain was convinced very much of himself, but actually he was a cowardly bastard. The rest fo the crew feared him. One I know quite well, he's going to sign off soon. For six years he worked without blame or faults, now he wants to go on land again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which makes it clear that the captain symbolizes the &lt;em&gt;Warden&lt;/em&gt;, whom I first thought to be the whale. Then the last part is told once they are put in isolation together with &lt;em&gt;Øystein&lt;/em&gt; after attacking the reappearing &lt;em&gt;Bråthen&lt;/em&gt;, who wasn't fired but continues to work at the institution as before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Erling:&lt;/em&gt; Everywhere was only blood. He swallowed them before he died, the harpooner, the cook, and the deck boy. The whale swallowed them all three.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Olav:&lt;/em&gt; Then everything went its usual course. The captain became admiral...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Erling (laughing):&lt;/em&gt; ...got the command on a shabby tub and sailed to America.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Olav (laughing):&lt;/em&gt; The crew stood in line for sex, full with mackerels and herrings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at the end, after &lt;em&gt;Olav&lt;/em&gt; escaped as the only one and ships by &lt;em&gt;Bastøy&lt;/em&gt; again after some years passed, you hear a shortened version spoken by &lt;em&gt;Erling&lt;/em&gt; from the off:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw a whale who, hit by three harpoons, just swam away. It took&#xA;three days till he was dead. The harpoon I hit him with had weakened&#xA;him, and he was laced with scars from all his endured fights. One I&#xA;know quite well, he's going to sign off soon. For six years he worked&#xA;without blame or faults, now he wants to go on land again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which gives a rather omptimistic ending again, at least for &lt;em&gt;Olav&lt;/em&gt;. But while the roles of all the major characters in this story are rather clear to me, I'm not sure what to make out of the whale. &lt;strong&gt;Whom or what does the whale symbolize in this story?&lt;/strong&gt; Does it maybe stand for &lt;em&gt;Bastøy&lt;/em&gt; itself or something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T19:58:07.330" Title="Whom or what is the whale supposed to symbolize?" Tags="|analysis|king-of-devils-island|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11344" CreationDate="2013-10-17T07:11:10.030" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hank was attacked the same time when Jesse was in hospital. Jesse even dropped the case which can sue Hank. How did they related it to Jesse's incident? It is over-statement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jesse was never proved guilty, so why does DEA goes after him when they already have the killer duo brother (One dead and other without legs). I mean they have all their focus in identifying the duo brothers rather than randomly blaming Jesse. Even after the death of Tuco's cousins, they still have two faces to connect to the attack reason not Jesse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-01T09:37:59.810" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T09:37:59.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13657" CreationDate="2013-10-17T07:35:24.560" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is answered in the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kal-El:&lt;/strong&gt; Why didn't you come with me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jor-El&lt;/strong&gt;: We couldn't, Kal. No matter how much we wanted to. No matter how much we loved you. Your mother, Lara, and I were a product of the failures of our world as much as Zod was tied to its fate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, Lara, Jor, Zod, and the rest are all genetically programmed in the ways of Krypton. C.f., Zod's dramatic dialogue from the climax:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I exist only to protect Krypton. That is the sole purpose for which I was born. And every action I take no matter how violent or how cruel is for the greater good of my people. And now I have no people. My soul, that is what you have taken from me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also get a sense of what Krypton has lost in some of the banter that &lt;em&gt;Faora-Ul&lt;/em&gt; (Zod's lady friend) throws at Kal in the middle of their battle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Faora-Ul&lt;/strong&gt;: You are weak son of El. Unsure of yourself. The fact that you possess a sense of morality and we do not gives us an evolutionary advantage. And if history has proven anything it is that evolution always wins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-10-17T07:35:24.560" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14613" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14617" CreationDate="2013-10-17T12:58:42.960" Score="9" ViewCount="1447" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the extended cut (video version) of &lt;em&gt;The Chronicles of Riddick&lt;/em&gt;, while Riddick is on his way from the Planet U.V. going to the Helion system, we see a dream (?? don't know what to call her ??) which Riddick is having about his home world of Furya. It seems to me he doesn't really know what it's about or about his heritage. Is there a reason for this? Is it a repressed memory? &lt;strong&gt;Why does it seem Riddick doesn't know he's Furyan?&lt;/strong&gt; Is there any back story on this which I'm missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-10-18T12:12:54.290" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T12:12:54.290" Title="Why doesn't Riddick know he's Furyan?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-chronicles-of-riddick|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14613" CreationDate="2013-10-17T14:39:52.783" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Furyans are said to be a highly spiritual (warrior) race. The dream was a vision. We do know though that Riddick also carries repressed memories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://riddick.wikia.com/wiki/Richard_B._Riddick#Early_Life&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Riddick retained memories of massacre on Furya, &lt;strong&gt;these memories were repressed and forgotten, likely due to his extreme youth at the time&lt;/strong&gt;. Instead, he believed his mother attempted to kill him at birth by strangling him with his umbilical cord and dumping him in a liquour store trash bin, likely the story contained in his records and just as likely told to him repeatedly by those with little care for the child Riddick's sense of self worth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Riddick grew older &lt;strong&gt;he began recieving [sic] periodic visions of a Furyan named Shirah&lt;/strong&gt;; visions which he believed to be signs of mental instability. It would not be until his encounter with the Necromongers that his repressed memories would finally escape their imprisonment and he would realize that he had a homeworld and a tragic past that he had never been consciously aware of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of the backstory is from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Chronicles_of_Riddick_video_games&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Riddick games&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-10-17T14:39:52.783" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14618" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14619" CreationDate="2013-10-17T21:32:47.063" Score="58" ViewCount="453982" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the start of Season 3 &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, we see a bunch of villagers and Tuco's cousins crawling on their bellies towards some shrine where they put a drawing of Walter White as some kind of &quot;offering&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why were the villagers and the cousins crawling towards this shrine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-10-17T22:10:41.200" LastActivityDate="2022-06-29T21:21:03.430" Title="Why were the villagers and the axe-wielding hitman brothers crawling towards a shrine?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14618" CreationDate="2013-10-17T21:54:46.283" Score="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are visiting a shrine of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_muerte&quot;&gt;Santa Muerte&lt;/a&gt; (Saint Death). In Mexico, she is a popular folk saint/deity who is the patron saint of (among other things) drug dealers and smugglers, and is often invoked to protect against violent death. Traditionally, a worshiper would crawl on his knees on his way to visit the shrine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-10-17T21:54:46.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14519" CreationDate="2013-10-18T00:34:32.233" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don was happy being married to Betty. He wasn't happy that his marriage to her was built on a lie. I think Don knew that Betty only loved the idea of him. They both actually had a mutual infatuation for each other, but they were never in love. Notice how throughout their marriage, they were very affectionate and had a sex life but not much more than that. I do think that Don really cares about Betty though, because he tired not to cheat on her and hated himself for doing it. He also was hurt when she left him ( the first and second time) However Don's cheating has nothing to do with Betty or his marriage to her. It's a problem he has because due to his traumatic childhood, he cannot commit to one woman and there is nothing Betty did or didn't do to keep him from cheating on her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5644" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T00:34:32.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2585" CreationDate="2013-10-18T00:40:08.870" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Matt Weiner, the show's creator, Don is,&quot; Looking for his&quot; in the women he sleeps with. Joan just doesn't fill that void for him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5644" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T00:40:08.870" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14625" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14626" CreationDate="2013-10-18T02:48:27.360" Score="7" ViewCount="1220" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_&amp;amp;_Furious_6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fast &amp;amp; Furious 6&lt;/a&gt; introduced some neat little Formula 1 style cars that could flip another vehicle by popping a 'runway-shield' for the driver and driving directly under one set (right/left) of the wheels of the approaching car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their movement on-screen suggested the cars had 4 wheel steering, given they could move left/right without the angle of the body changing (the car was pointed in one direction while traveling in another, apparently without sliding).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know for sure whether they had 4 wheel steering, and have a reference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-06-28T17:40:14.897" LastActivityDate="2021-07-11T10:43:19.103" Title="Steering in Flip Cars" Tags="|fast-and-furious-franchise|fast-and-furious-6|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14625" CreationDate="2013-10-18T03:15:58.760" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As long as this link works, you should be able to see that this is a four wheel steer car. At about 50 seconds in you can see the cant of the wheels, then at 52 you can see the tie rod end for the steer linkage. Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Kb-yx4PyAgs?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the link does not work, I did a Google search for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fast and Furious 6 flip car specs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and found it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: there is also a good picture of it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.drivearabia.com/news/2013/03/17/special-cars-of-fast-furious-6-nissan-gt-r-dodge-daytona-ford-escort/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;on this site&lt;/a&gt; in crab mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5pZO8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-10-20T00:30:39.830" LastActivityDate="2013-10-20T00:30:39.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14628" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-18T12:37:01.483" Score="6" ViewCount="3182" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/em&gt; the basterds have to meet Bridget von Hammersmark at some tavern in the basement and the basement turns out to be a very bad choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basterds themselves mention several times it's a really bad place even before they find the German soldiers inside and the only explanation why it is chosen is that it was chosen by Bridget and &lt;em&gt;she's not a military strategist, she's just an actress&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, she's an actress, but the operation is planned at the British army headquaters and even Churchill himself takes part in planning and I guess they had a chance to hint to Bridget how the place should be chosen in advance and still with all the best men taking part in planning the operation the meeting is still planned in a outrageously badly chosen place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is that possible that such an important operation is planned without proper selection of a meeting place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3707" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T04:53:23.360" Title="Why is the meeting of basterds and Bridget von Hammersmark planned in the basement?" Tags="|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14628" CreationDate="2013-10-18T13:16:40.230" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like you said, they most probably instructed &lt;em&gt;von Hammersmark&lt;/em&gt; on the requirements to some degree. But I don't think they gave that many instructions, apart from the obvious ones that it should be a quite desolate little bar in the outskirts of Paris, without a high chance of German soldiers hanging around. Of course they could have told her much more things, like &lt;em&gt;&quot;don't chose a basement bar, don't chose an attic bar, chose a bar where the bartender understands neither German nor English, chose a bar where the bartender doesn't have a rifle himself, chose a bar with the bartender belonging to the resistance, ...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, but well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But excluding those factors I'd say the tavern was a very good meeting point (ignoring the fact that it was coincidentally &lt;em&gt;swarming&lt;/em&gt; with bad guys ;-)), especially since the basement-factor increased its desolateness and decreased the chance of someone from the outside seeing what conspiracies happen inside (and I for myself, being not a military strategist either though, would have thought it quite a good meeting place, too, hadn't &lt;em&gt;Aldo&lt;/em&gt; told me it wasn't). And like said, she wasn't picking a battlefield, but a secret meeting place. In the end I'm not even sure there was really such high importance in that meeting place at all, given that they were just gathering and not doing a serious operation, which came only later on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And apart from the above possible in-universe explanation, it was of course also needed in the story to drive the conflict between &lt;em&gt;von Hammersmark&lt;/em&gt; and the &lt;em&gt;Basterds&lt;/em&gt; due to her bad choice and to make the resulting chaos and standoff more exciting, without the remaining &lt;em&gt;Basterds&lt;/em&gt; just shooting everyone easily through the windows. In the end they wouldn't have needed a public meeting place at all, necessitating the &lt;em&gt;Basterds&lt;/em&gt; to dress and play as German officers. They could have just met in the woods or an abandoned house or wherever (or the house across the tavern, where all the other &lt;em&gt;Basterds&lt;/em&gt; were), but that would have spared us one of the best scenes of the whole movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-18T13:27:16.247" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T13:27:16.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5764" CreationDate="2013-10-18T13:36:24.660" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately it has never been mentioned on the show but I too have wondered what the others IQ's are. I believe that based on how Sheldon believed that Raj knew what the anthropic principle was and believed Leonard did not could mean that Raj may be possibly smarter than Leonard. I am a big fan of the show and think that the order of IQ is...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sheldon (187)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Amy (between 180-185)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kripke (maybe around 176-183)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Raj (between 174-179)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leonard (173)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bernadett (between 170-175) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Howard (between 160-165)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stuart (maybe around 120-130)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Penny (maybe around 95-105)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this is completely based off of my opinion from watching the show, but I hope this helped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6464" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-18T15:10:01.420" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T15:10:01.420" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14631" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14632" CreationDate="2013-10-18T13:42:06.653" Score="9" ViewCount="34496" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Breaking Bad Season 4, we learn that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Gus had never poisoned Brock at all. It was Walt's doing using lily of the valley; a way of manipulating Jesse into helping him murder Gus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if this was the case, where did the ricin go? Walt had already convinced Jesse that he could not have taken the ricin as Jesse had it with him in the morning and the only people who had any sort of access to it afterwards were Jesse himself and possibly Tyrus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Walt's plan hinged upon Jesse believing that Gus had stolen the ricin and used it on Brock. So Jesse couldn't have just lost it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How could Walt have stolen the ricin? The most likely explanation IMO is that Walt stole the ricin during the three day period before the symptoms are supposed to kick in. That way Jesse wouldn't suspect him for lifting the ricin (as he would only look for any opportunities Walt may have had &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; three days prior to Brock's sickness). But I can't think of any opportunity that Walt had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how could Walt have stolen the ricin?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="898" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T13:54:55.983" Title="Where did the ricin go in Season 4?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14631" CreationDate="2013-10-18T13:54:55.983" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are correct in that Brock was indeed not poisoned by ricin but by Lily of the Valley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how did Walt get the ricin from him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Huell of course! /-.-\&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Jesse is summoned to Saul's in S04E12: &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/End_Times&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;End Times&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, you see Huell pat him down for 'weapons'.  However, Huell has a dirty dirty secret. He is actually a &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; good pickpocket!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In S05E01: &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Live_Free_or_Die&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Live Free or Die&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Saul returns the cigarette to Walt, complaining about the diabolical act he made Saul a part of (how dangerous the ricin is in addition to poisoning a child).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt then takes the cigarette to Jesse's house to help him get a peace of mind about it all and plants it in Jesse's Roomba to convince him that everything is a-ok in S05E02: &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Madrigal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Madrigal&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It isn't as prevalent during that episode but as I demonstrated in my &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/13509/130&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;answer to Jesse's realization&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Answer &amp;amp; question has spoilers about second half of season 5) Huell demonstrates more clearly how good at pick-pocketing he is by snatching a bag of weed out of Jesse's pocket without him knowing until he reaches for it much much later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Later on when Jesse is making his grand exit using Ed the Disappearing Man, he notices his weed is gone and puts 2 and 2 together to realize that Walt had Huell lift the ricin cigarette from him in the same manner that Saul had Huell lift the weed and figures out that Walt did indeed poison Brock in some manner, sending him down a spiraling rage that leads to the events of Rabid Dog and Ozymandias.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T13:54:55.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14634" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-18T17:55:46.103" Score="2" ViewCount="30566" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of the crawling ritual in Breaking Bad season 3 episode 1. It takes place right at the beginning of episode 1. Several farmers in a Mexican village are crawling towards some kind of shrine, decorated with flowers. The twin killers arrive in the Mercedes and join the crawling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably this is a religious ritual, but what is their religion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastActivityDate="2014-03-02T16:36:46.003" Title="Can you explain the crawling ritual in Breaking Bad season 3 episode 1" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-10-18T18:31:25.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14618" CreationDate="2013-10-18T18:10:52.460" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an article in National Geographic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;In Mexico, the practice of Catholicism among the poor and desperate often involved crawling long distances on one's knees ... if God's favors were received.&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130512-vatican-santa-muerte-mexico-cult-catholic-church-cultures-world/&quot;&gt;(&quot;Vatican in a Bind About Santa Muerte&quot;)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How this relates to the episode as a whole is open for speculation, though what makes the most sense to me is that the brothers were hoping God would protect them in their mission to cross the border into the United States to kill Heisenberg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-03-02T16:36:46.003" LastActivityDate="2014-03-02T16:36:46.003" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14636" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-18T19:49:54.603" Score="12" ViewCount="12102" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing I always wondered about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is, why the famous actress &lt;em&gt;Bridget von Hammersmark&lt;/em&gt; has such an unusual name (and which nobody else in the movie seems to find unusual). Her last name is classically German, yet she bears a very English forename, one that would never have been used in Germany right away. While in nowadays' globalized world and especially American-influenced German culture this wouldn't be totally uncommon, at that time it would have been completely unusual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;is there any further information why that name was chosen for her?&lt;/strong&gt; While this might have been an arbitrary decision and there might not be much more to this, it could also be that this name is a reference to somebody else or has some deeper meaning to it. Or maybe it was just a foreshadowing of her work for the British empire (one that nobody else noticed, though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-01-22T08:28:28.473" Title="What is the reason for Bridget von Hammersmark's unusual name?" Tags="|analysis|character|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14636" CreationDate="2013-10-18T20:25:08.170" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best I can find is that the various inspirations for the character were &lt;a href=&quot;http://inglouriousbasterds.wikia.com/wiki/Bridget_von_Hammersmark#Trivia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ilona Massey,  Zarah Leander&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/entertainment/movies/inglourious-basterds-more-fantasy-than-fact-1/nM39K/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Marlene Dietrich&lt;/a&gt;. Otherwise I can't find anything describing a reason for why the name Bridget was chosen, so it appears to simply be arbitrary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T20:25:08.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14636" CreationDate="2013-10-18T21:02:53.860" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found an article in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.welt.de/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;German newspaper Die Welt&lt;/a&gt; from 2009 &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.welt.de/kultur/article4246470/Quentin-Tarantinos-Spass-mit-obskuren-Namen.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quentin Tarantinos Spaß mit obskuren Namen&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; (Quentin Tarantinos fun with strange names):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WELT ONLINE: Diane Kruger ist Bridget von Hammersmark, deutscher Filmstar und englische Agentin. Bridget/Brigitte klingt schon deutsch genug. Und dann noch &amp;quot;von Hammersmark&amp;quot;. Das deutet sehr auf einen gewissen &amp;quot;Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tarantino: Das ist nun wirklich ein völliger Zufall!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WELT ONLINE: Meinen Sie wirklich!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tarantino: Als man mich zum ersten Mal auf diese Ähnlichkeit aufmerksam machte, fragte ich mich, ob ich den Namen so belassen sollte. Ich denke, von Donnersmarck sollte erst noch ein paar weitere Filme drehen, bevor ich ihm den Namen einer meiner Charaktere spendiere. Ich habe mich dann gegen eine Änderung entschieden, weil ich das Wort so schlagend finde: &amp;quot;Hammer!&amp;quot; Hammermäßig!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rough translation (with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://translate.google.de/#de/en/WELT%20ONLINE:%20Diane%20Kruger%20ist%20Bridget%20von%20Hammersmark,%20deutscher%20Filmstar%20und%20englische%20Agentin.%20Bridget/Brigitte%20klingt%20schon%20deutsch%20genug.%20Und%20dann%20noch%20%22von%20Hammersmark%22.%20Das%20deutet%20sehr%20auf%20einen%20gewissen%20%22Florian%20Henckel%20von%20Donnersmarck%22.%20%0A%0ATarantino:%20Das%20ist%20nun%20wirklich%20ein%20v%C3%B6lliger%20Zufall!%20%0A%0AWELT%20ONLINE:%20Meinen%20Sie%20wirklich!?%20%0A%0ATarantino:%20Als%20man%20mich%20zum%20ersten%20Mal%20auf%20diese%20%C3%84hnlichkeit%20aufmerksam%20machte,%20fragte%20ich%20mich,%20ob%20ich%20den%20Namen%20so%20belassen%20sollte.%20Ich%20denke,%20von%20Donnersmarck%20sollte%20erst%20noch%20ein%20paar%20weitere%20Filme%20drehen,%20bevor%20ich%20ihm%20den%20Namen%20einer%20meiner%20Charaktere%20spendiere.%20Ich%20habe%20mich%20dann%20gegen%20eine%20%C3%84nderung%20entschieden,%20weil%20ich%20das%20Wort%20so%20schlagend%20finde:%20%22Hammer!%22%20Hammerm%C3%A4%C3%9Fig!&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;help of google&lt;/a&gt;, links added by me ;) ):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WELT ONLINE: Diane Kruger is Bridget von Hammersmark, German movie star and British agent. Bridget / Brigitte does sound German enough. And then &amp;quot;von Hammersmark.&amp;quot; This points to a very certain &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_Henckel_von_Donnersmarck&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tarantino: This really is a complete coincidence!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WELT ONLINE: You really think so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tarantino: When I was made ​​aware of this similarity for the first time, I wondered whether I should leave the name that way. I think von Donnersmarck should only turn a few more movies before I'll buy him the name of one of my characters. I then decided against a change because I find so striking the words: &amp;quot;Hammer&amp;quot; Hammermäßig!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In German &lt;em&gt;Hammer&lt;/em&gt; is the same as the English hammer. Beside the tool, you can use it also more literally. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linguee.de/deutsch-englisch/uebersetzung/hammerm%E4ssig.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hammermäßig&lt;/a&gt; (&amp;quot;Das ist der Hammer&amp;quot;) is English &lt;em&gt;That's just about the limit.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T21:02:53.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14639" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14640" CreationDate="2013-10-18T21:43:03.633" Score="5" ViewCount="391" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sat with a few mates and we all recollect this one scene from a movie, but none of us can recall the film at all, even if its a horror film or not, but based on the violent death its a good guess. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically there's a crew of people aboard a spaceship, and they board a dormant spaceship, the boarding mechanism/bridge between the 2 ships gets severed and there aren't enough spaceships to make the trip back for the whole of the boarding party. One of the people who doesn't get a suit tries to get wrapped up in the interior of the ship they are currently in as a makeshift suit. They line up both ships airlocks, and try to use the force of opening the airlock of the ship they are in to catapult all of them into main ship, it doesn't work and of the guys flies off into space, freezes, and shatters into pieces&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the only horror space movies I can think of is Event Horizon, but it's been a long time since I've watched that, I'll be more annoyed if it is and I've forgotten&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5517" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T22:01:22.193" Title="Horror film in space, man falls into space and shatters" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:51:34.900" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14639" CreationDate="2013-10-18T21:53:27.193" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/&quot;&gt;Sunshine&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that particular scene, they meet up with the sister ship that was thought lost. They board it to find it empty and before they know it, they must evacuate back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3570" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-10-18T22:01:22.193" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T22:01:22.193" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12579" CreationDate="2013-10-18T22:44:09.217" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of my coworkers was the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1121610/&quot;&gt;Art Coordinator for &lt;em&gt;House&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and helped create the original sets. This is what she said on the subject:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is no particular significance to any item in his office or&#xA;  apartment, but the items were chosen to help develop the House&#xA;  character. Additional items accumulated over the seasons as his&#xA;  character grew, but old ones tended to stay. He is a doctor on the&#xA;  cutting edge of medicine and he is an audiophile. He is surrounded in&#xA;  both his office and home by older technologies and old stuff in&#xA;  general that he appreciates for their simplicity - he is a man who&#xA;  thinks you shouldn't replace things that work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He is seen watching the television in early episodes. You will also&#xA;  notice a Sota turntable to his right, and in his apartment he has an&#xA;  old baby grand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a humorous aside, this coworker told me the story of the old baby grand, which the art department had an incredibly short time to get refinished and tuned (by Frank Sinatra's tuner, no less). So when the piano was delivered, my coworker was the only one on the sound stage. Once she got it in place she did what anyone would do who was alone on a sound stage with a freshly tuned piano - she sat down to play. To her horror, when she stood up, every stitch of her blue jeans could be seen etched into the freshly refinished piano bench! Alas, a panicked call to a scene painter resulted in the worst of it getting buffed out, and no one ever noticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-10-18T22:44:09.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14643" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14651" CreationDate="2013-10-19T04:28:49.093" Score="5" ViewCount="1372" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mom and dad had moved in to their new house with their two daughters. Their room is upstairs, just off the staircase, with a little closet on the other side. One of the daughters has an imaginary friend there, and it turns out to be a ghost/demon of some sort, and the dad sets up cameras to try and catch sight of this thing. There is a scene of it making a mess in the kitchen during the night. The dad is reviewing the tapes in his studio constantly, and the wife is incredulous that anything is happening. The whole movie just drags on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6469" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-19T04:56:03.027" LastActivityDate="2014-02-28T14:06:09.130" Title="Father tries to catch daughter's imaginary friend on camera" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:51:38.013" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14645" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-19T07:21:23.483" Score="9" ViewCount="358" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that some directors insist on having the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_cut_privilege&quot;&gt;final cut privilege&lt;/a&gt;. But taking it further, have any directors (or studios for that matter, however unlikely it is) insisted on a &quot;no cuts, no dubs, no censorship&quot; (or similar) policy? Such a clause would ensure that the movie is &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; watched as the director meant it to be watched. But it would also impact distribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T19:43:26.687" Title="Have any directors insisted on a &quot;no cuts, no dubs, no censorship&quot; policy?" Tags="|directors|censorship|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14650" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21572" CreationDate="2013-10-19T15:06:18.037" Score="3" ViewCount="3547" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching &lt;em&gt;Pacific Rim&lt;/em&gt; Special Features disc last night. In one brief production scene, I saw a half moon shaped object which was chrome or mirror like. In another movie special features, I saw the same thing. It looked as though it was in the shape of a dumb bell, only with a thin rod between two half spheres. Just curious if someone could explain what this is and how it is used in production?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-19T15:07:04.587" LastActivityDate="2014-06-23T04:15:38.337" Title="What is the mirror half-moon object used in production?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14643" CreationDate="2013-10-19T15:10:43.860" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1778304/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a snapshot of the little girl talking to her &quot;imaginary friend.&quot; If I remember correctly, there is a little closet right in-front of where she is standing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Jlesm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastActivityDate="2013-10-19T15:10:43.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14652" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14658" CreationDate="2013-10-19T15:49:16.840" Score="27" ViewCount="20360" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the last few minutes of Felina, the last episode of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, after Walt has killed the Nazis, he gives gun to Jesse and asks him to shoot, but Jesse doesn't shoot him.&#xA;What could be the reason/reasons behind this ?&#xA;It was Walt who poisoned Brock.&#xA;It was Walt who was responsible for Andrea's death as well.&#xA;His actions led to Jesse's torment.&#xA;He teases Jesse about Jane's death as well when he got him caught by the Nazis.&#xA;There was so much bad that Walt had done to Jesse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then what happened at the end? Did Jesse forgive Walt because of his last act?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Why did he not shoot Walt?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T20:51:31.370" LastActivityDate="2018-11-02T04:54:02.877" Title="Why didn't Jesse shoot Walt?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14654" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14655" CreationDate="2013-10-19T18:45:18.160" Score="6" ViewCount="949" Body="&lt;p&gt;About 10-15 years ago I watched a movie: there was a couple of anti death penalty activists. The woman dies, presumably murdered. The husband is charged and accepts the death penalty. After his execution a videotape of his wife committing suicide is released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3706" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-19T19:26:11.433" LastActivityDate="2013-10-19T19:26:48.470" Title="Guy accepts death penalty though he is innocent" Tags="|identify-this-movie|drama|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:51:41.123" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14654" CreationDate="2013-10-19T19:26:48.470" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are probably looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289992/&quot;&gt;The Life of David Gale&lt;/a&gt; (2003) starring Kevin Spacey and Kate Winslet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dr. David Gale, an advocate of eliminating the death penalty, is accused of rape and murder. Once convicted, he ends up on death row in Texas himself, telling his story to a reporter through a series of flashbacks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_David_Gale&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bloom pursues this lead until she finds a tape revealing that Harraway, who was suffering from terminal leukemia, had committed an elaborate suicide to look like murder. She and Wright are both seen on the videotape, showing that they framed Gale as part of a plan to discredit the death penalty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-10-19T19:26:48.470" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14652" CreationDate="2013-10-19T20:46:32.143" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think he didn't shoot him because he forgave him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the main reason he didn't shoot him was because he has finally escaped Walts control. Throughout the majority of the show Walt had Jesse under his control. Walt manipulated Jesse in many situations in order to benefit himself. An example was when he poisoned Brock to turn Jesse against Gus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jesse knew Walt had control over him and manipulated him and it hurt him as I believe Jesse cared for Walt and viewed him as a father figure. This was shown in the epiose &quot;Confessions&quot; where Walt met Jesse and Saul in the dessert when he wants to talk Jesse into leaving town. Jesse breaks down accusing Walt of not caring for him and only wants hime to leave town in order to hinder Hanks investigation instead of benefiting Jesse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it comes to the scene where Jesse has the oppurtunity to kill Walt, Walt hands him the gun and asks him to shoot him. I believe Jesse really considerates it as he must hbe harboring hatred toward him. But I think he doesn't shoot him because he wants to break free from Walts control. He does as he leaves without shooting him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastActivityDate="2013-10-19T20:46:32.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14652" CreationDate="2013-10-19T22:38:03.130" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;The important explaining moment is when Jesse noticed Walt was shot by the machine gun. If we look at Jesse in a normal situation - he is more of an ordinary man, definitely not a killer. He can murder on impulse or emotion but not on some purpose. His guilt always stops him from moving forward - he can fail his business or risk his life because of a child. Once he notices Walt's bleeding - a man dying of cancer who have just risked his life for him covering him from bullets, he calms down, becomes himself, his hatred is gone and he doesn't give a damn about Walt. He does not forgive him, I think he forgets him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS sorry, not a native speaker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6444" LastActivityDate="2013-10-19T22:38:03.130" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14662" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-20T08:34:13.730" Score="9" ViewCount="9567" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anybody remember the scene in the cemetery in &lt;em&gt;Resident Evil: Apocalypse&lt;/em&gt; (2004)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The group of survivors walked through the cemetery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Alice explained about the virus, the dead man got out from the grave and then attacked the reporter. And all the other dead men raised as zombies from their graves. How could this happen? They were buried. I suppose that nobody had bitten them. May be the land has already been infected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0NaR9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6294" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-01-03T22:42:12.673" LastActivityDate="2021-06-10T00:59:53.170" Title="How could the buried corpses turn into zombies?" Tags="|plot-explanation|resident-evil|resident-evil-apocalypse|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14662" CreationDate="2013-10-20T08:57:58.870" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that as well, on my first watching of the movie, but given that it was not that deep a movie, I've decided that it's a &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/plot-inconsistency&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-inconsistency&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-inconsistency&lt;/a&gt; and nothing more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The virus transfers by bite, scratch,... i.e., by blood. We've seen it being airborne at the start of the pandemic, in the Hive, but only then, because it was in concentrated form. We've never seen any proof that &amp;quot;the land has [...] been infected&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if we try to justify this by the &amp;quot;infected soil&amp;quot; theory, I think we introduce even bigger inconsistencies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How did this happen? Surely, zombies didn't bite the dirt (at least not that much), and even if it did, a bit of saliva infecting the whole city's soil is... dumb. There was no mention of Umbrella doing anything like it, there was no obvious reason for them to do so, and no such symptoms were shown ever again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The soil is full of dead things (worms, moles, bugs, buried pets,...). If the soil was indeed infected in some weird way, we'd be seeing an outpouring of dead insects and animals all the time. Just how many dogs would we have? And let's not forget cats, snakes, and other pets that must have been buried in the yards across the city.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some of these corpses were just skeletons. How do you infect the blood of something that has no blood? How does a muscle-less skeleton move? I wouldn't accept a theory that the Umbrella Corporation was experimenting with reviving random skeletons in some cemetery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why did they rise exactly then, and how did they do so all at the exact same moment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was just to make another suspense/fight scene, nothing more. Most of the Resident Evils are fun action flicks, but I wouldn't read much into them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="60982" LastEditDate="2021-06-10T00:59:53.170" LastActivityDate="2021-06-10T00:59:53.170" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14664" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14665" CreationDate="2013-10-20T09:31:58.867" Score="106" ViewCount="45901" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that all cartoons are generally a stylised drawing however many western style cartoons follow similar patterns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why then are the Simpsons dawn in yellow? Why not pink like most other American shows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T23:28:30.207" Title="Why are the Simpsons yellow?" Tags="|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14664" CreationDate="2013-10-20T09:43:06.273" Score="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6260000/newsid_6262500/6262584.stm&quot;&gt;interview with BBC&lt;/a&gt;, Matt Groening told them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They're yellow because when it was time to pick the colour for the cartoon I didn't want the conventional cartoon colours.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  An animator came up with the Simpsons' yellow and as soon as she showed it to me I said: 'This is the answer!' because when you're flicking through channels with your remote control, and a flash of yellow goes by, you'll know you're watching The Simpsons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastActivityDate="2013-10-20T09:43:06.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14664" CreationDate="2013-10-20T09:46:11.140" Score="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;A simple &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=Why%20are%20the%20Simpsons%20yellow?&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;copy/paste of the title of this topic to Google&lt;/a&gt; reveals:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To finish, Matt took questions from his hugely appreciative audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One audience member asked why the Simpsons are yellow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Yellow wasn't my choice. You initially work in black and white, and one of the animators suggested that we colour them yellow, and it looked right. Then again, she also made the trees purple, which we didn't go for. It means the Simpsons look like no other cartoon characters, though. I don't like that skin colour they use in cartoons. I loved Mickey Mouse when he had a white face, not the strange pink Caucasian colour he is now.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/simpsons/interviews/groening/page13.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;BBC - Cult - The Simpsons - Matt Groening's Desert Island Flicks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The choice of color for the Simpsons characters was very strategic, actually. As soon as Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, was given a drawing of the characters in yellow by an animator, he knew it was perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea was that whenever someone was flipping through the channels, they would automatically know The Simpsons was on when they saw the yellow bodies flash by. Speaking of characters, all of them are a digit short of a full, human-like hand. Actually, the only character to ever have five fingers on a hand was God.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.omg-facts.com/Interesting/Ever-Wondered-Why-The-Simpsons-Are-Yello/53732&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ever wondered why the Simpsons are yellow? - OMG Facts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-10-20T09:46:11.140" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14668" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-20T10:13:17.163" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Castle is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on ABC on March 9, 2009. The series is produced jointly by Beacon Pictures and ABC Studios. Created by Andrew W. Marlowe, it primarily traces the lives of Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion), a best-selling mystery novelist, and NYPD Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) as they solve various unusual crimes in New York City. Detective Beckett is initially infuriated at the thought of working with a writer and goes to great lengths to keep him out of her way. However, the two soon start developing feelings for each other. The show focuses on the romantic tension between the two lead characters, and also on the unsolved homicide of Beckett's mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-20T10:13:17.163" LastActivityDate="2013-10-20T10:13:17.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14669" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-20T10:13:17.163" Score="0" Body="American crime drama television series which primarily traces the lives of Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion), a best-selling mystery novelist, and NYPD Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) as they solve various unusual crimes in New York City." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-20T10:13:17.163" LastActivityDate="2013-10-20T10:13:17.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3785" CreationDate="2013-10-20T11:01:14.230" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Exactly&lt;/em&gt; two years, by the end of the 5th season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Season 1 starts off with Walt's 50th birthday. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4ZQzX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Walt comes back to Albuquerque in the end of Season 5, he starts of the day by celebrating his 52nd birthday:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J8Wux.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show ends on the same in-universe day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="898" LastActivityDate="2013-10-20T11:01:14.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11130" CreationDate="2013-10-20T11:11:43.910" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gus may have been convinced that Victor's batch would be substandard&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Victor probably needed to die anyway. He had screwed up by failing to kill Walt and had also gotten himself seen after the Gale murder&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To send a message, as we are lead to believe at the time. Either to scare Walt/Jesse or to send a message to Mike; it could even be both.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is another possible reason mentioned in Season 5 Episode 3:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've been thinking about Victor. All this time, I was sure that Gus did what he did to send me a message. Maybe there's another reason. Victor trying to cook that batch on his own, taking liberties that weren't his to take. Maybe he flew too close to the sun and got his throat cut. - Walt&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="898" LastActivityDate="2013-10-20T11:11:43.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14674" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14675" CreationDate="2013-10-20T19:32:41.760" Score="6" ViewCount="5749" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first season of Breaking Bad, we can see Jesse's car's trunk going up and down a few times. Although one of those cases is when Walt and Jesse are locked in the trunk, another time it seems to go up and down on its own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a mechanical defect of the car?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastActivityDate="2013-10-20T19:42:47.863" Title="Why is Jesse's car's trunk going up and down in Breaking Bad?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14674" CreationDate="2013-10-20T19:42:47.863" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its not a defect, its for show. Hydraulics are used to make the car bounce. He has a switch that he uses to make it jump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an article on hw hydaulics work : &lt;a href=&quot;http://auto.howstuffworks.com/under-the-hood/trends-innovations/question294.htm&quot;&gt;http://auto.howstuffworks.com/under-the-hood/trends-innovations/question294.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastActivityDate="2013-10-20T19:42:47.863" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14676" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14677" CreationDate="2013-10-20T20:06:00.793" Score="11" ViewCount="15282" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understood that Ted was hiding revenue or misrepresenting how much the company earned annually in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, but I couldn't figure out why he was doing this. To what end would hiding annual income be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also as a side question, what was he doing with that money?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-14T17:11:47.750" LastActivityDate="2014-10-14T17:11:47.750" Title="Why was Ted Beneke hiding revenue in Beneke Fabricators?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14676" CreationDate="2013-10-20T20:12:47.793" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was hiding the income to avoid paying the taxes as the company was having some financial difficulties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember him telling Skylar how he felt everyone working there was like a family and he couldn't let the business go under so that was his motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think he was doing anything in particular with the money but his ain reason was avoiding taxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;The business was making a profit on certain accounts. This income is taxable. By hiding the income Beneke didn't need to pay the taxes. I believe Skylar said he was recording the income as expenditure. Expenditure isn't taxable on Benekes side of the transaction. More information on these types of taxes can be found here : &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax_in_the_United_States&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax_in_the_United_States&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="3203" LastEditDate="2013-10-20T20:49:58.727" LastActivityDate="2013-10-20T20:49:58.727" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14682" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14683" CreationDate="2013-10-21T07:29:49.813" Score="13" ViewCount="3220" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hank is given a little statue in one episode of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, which looks like a railway employee from his cloths, with the phrase 'know your enemy'. Which he hands over to his partner later. So what is the significance of this statue. Is this statue of some famous person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-15T05:30:30.263" LastActivityDate="2016-09-15T23:12:00.720" Title="What is the significance of the statue given to Hank?" Tags="|analysis|breaking-bad|props|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14682" CreationDate="2013-10-21T07:50:54.050" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The statue Hank receives from one of his colleagues is that of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs_Malverde&quot;&gt;Jesús Malverde&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jesús Malverde is the patron saint of drug dealers. Hes not recognised by the catholic church but is very popular among some cultures especially Mexico.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The agents keep the statue in order to get into the mindset of the drug cartels. This fits in the phrase of 'know your enemy'. Hank was surprised to see the statue on the agents desk and even comments on it being strange. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe its significance is that it shows that Hank has stepped into a different world. The agents think differently here and take their enemy very seriously. Hank has a different view on criminals to these guys. This is shown in the motel room with the co-operating gangster played by Danny Trejo where the agents are listening to his demands. Hank can't see the sense in this and jumps in and threatens him to no avail. He's not in Albequerque anymore. He's stepped into a more dangerous world and he maybe out of his depth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-21T09:38:54.497" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T09:38:54.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14698" CreationDate="2013-10-21T08:21:08.307" Score="7" ViewCount="2394" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;In Time&lt;/em&gt;, we hear several references to fighting, it's implied that this is some sort of fight for time rather than a physical brawl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the film we see Will and the Minuteman &quot;fighting&quot;. It looks to be some kind of arm wrestle (with their clock free arms)... what exactly is going on and how is time/money transferred?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-21T13:42:24.133" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T22:51:05.997" Title="How does &quot;fighting&quot; work?" Tags="|plot-explanation|in-time|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14685" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-21T08:50:14.630" Score="6" ViewCount="1179" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1223934/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Door&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2009) (German: &lt;em&gt;Die Tür&lt;/em&gt;), there are repeated occurrences of a butterfly. First of all, &lt;em&gt;David&lt;/em&gt;'s daughter &lt;em&gt;Leonie&lt;/em&gt; wants to go catching butterflies when her father doesn't have time for her and when she finally drowns in the pool. Later it is a butterfly that leads &lt;em&gt;David&lt;/em&gt; to the eponymous door to the past. And at the end of the movie, when future &lt;em&gt;David&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Maja&lt;/em&gt; sit at the pool in the past,  we see the butterfly fly away, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;does the butterfly have any special meaning in the movie, and what could that be?&lt;/strong&gt; Given that the movie is about time travel and correcting your past errors, I had to think about the &lt;em&gt;Butterfly Effect&lt;/em&gt;, both the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289879/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;theoretical concept&lt;/a&gt; it was based on. But that interpretation doesn't hold too strong I think, given that the movie wasn't so much about the future consequences of changes to the past and didn't involve any feedback of past changes to &lt;em&gt;David&lt;/em&gt;'s or anybody else's future at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2022-11-01T02:13:08.993" LastActivityDate="2022-11-01T02:13:08.993" Title="What is the meaning of the butterfly?" Tags="|analysis|the-door|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11130" CreationDate="2013-10-21T10:43:10.863" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some points from me. Victor was a very loyal and dedicated team member, and Gus being a man of reason must have had a strong motive to eliminate him. There was a pause before he killed he when he thought this through, so that's definitely not an impulse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who is responsible for Gale's death? Most probably it's Victor because he is the only one from the gang who's been on the crime scene. Of course, he's been outsmarted by Walt, but for Gus this might not be an excuse.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Victor giggled at a very tense moment + his is the one responsible, he does not understand he should not do the giggles, so for Gus this could be a sort of immature behavior which makes him look very stupid having such a team member.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In mafia you don't start speaking before your boss in such moments, because it lowers your bosses rank. Remember how the same situation ended in the very first season with Tuco and his hitman? Even asking seems awkward, not to mention that Victor made a statement.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6444" LastEditorUserId="6444" LastEditDate="2013-10-21T10:50:56.670" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T10:50:56.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14684" CreationDate="2013-10-21T11:21:01.630" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The people work and earn time rather than money. That clock ticks. In the movie when they wrestle they transfer time from one to  other. If one person's losing, their time is transferred to the opponent. That way they fight and win and lose - until death in that scene. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6489" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-10-21T13:03:12.000" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T13:03:12.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14688" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-21T11:22:52.747" Score="12" ViewCount="1145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any significance for the phone call (The &quot;seven days&quot; reminder call from the ghost) in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298130/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Ring&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the signs the victims saw/experienced after watching the video, like the wet hair, flies, blood, dark water, medical electrode sensors etc. were somehow related to the ghost when she was alive/dying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about the phone call, why did the ghost &lt;em&gt;call&lt;/em&gt; them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5722" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-06T09:29:27.180" LastActivityDate="2015-08-07T13:16:25.353" Title="Why does the ghost call the victims?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-ring|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14690" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-21T11:30:18.827" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;2010 Norwegian drama (orig.: &lt;em&gt;Kongen av Bastøy&lt;/em&gt;) set in Norway at the beginning of the 20th century and telling the story of the inmates of the &lt;em&gt;Bastøy&lt;/em&gt; juvenile correction facility and their struggle against the governor and the overseers. It is a fictional retelling of a real revolt at the &lt;em&gt;Bastøy Reform School&lt;/em&gt; in 1915.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Devil%27s_Island&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332134/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-21T11:45:31.697" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T11:45:31.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14691" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-21T11:30:18.827" Score="0" Body="2010 Norwegian drama (orig.: Kongen av Bastøy) set in Norway at the beginning of the 20th century and telling the story of the inmates of the Bastøy juvenile correction facility and their struggle against the governor and the overseers. It is a fictional retelling of a real revolt at the Bastøy Reform School in 1915." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-21T11:45:31.697" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T11:45:31.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14692" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-21T11:57:09.167" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;2002 French action thriller (orig.: &lt;em&gt;Nid de guêpes&lt;/em&gt;) about a group of robbers in a warehouse accidentally getting into the crossfire of a failed prisoner transport and their efforts in working together with the police officers and the guards to defend the warehouse against the assaulting Albanian mafia. It is a quasi-remake of &lt;em&gt;John Carpenter&lt;/em&gt;'s 1976 movie &lt;em&gt;Assault on Precinct 13&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nest_%282002_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280990/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-21T11:57:09.167" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T11:57:09.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14693" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-21T11:57:09.167" Score="0" Body="2002 French action thriller (orig.: Nid de guêpes) about a group of robbers in a warehouse accidentally getting into the crossfire of a failed prisoner transport and their efforts in working together with the police officers and the guards to defend the warehouse against the assaulting Albanian mafia. It is a quasi-remake of John Carpenter's 1976 movie Assault on Precinct 13." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-21T11:57:09.167" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T11:57:09.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14694" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-21T12:12:53.833" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;2009 German mystery thriller/drama (orig.: &lt;em&gt;Die Tür&lt;/em&gt;) starring &lt;em&gt;Mads Mikkelsen&lt;/em&gt; as a father who gets the chance to undo his daughter's death when he discovers a door leading into the past, and the resulting consequences of trying to maintain his past happiness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1223934/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-21T12:12:53.833" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T12:12:53.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14695" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-21T12:12:53.833" Score="0" Body="2009 German mystery thriller/drama (orig.: Die Tür) starring Mads Mikkelsen as a father who gets the chance to undo his daughter's death when he discovers a door leading into the past, and the resulting consequences of trying to maintain his past happiness." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-21T12:12:53.833" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T12:12:53.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14696" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-21T12:40:25.323" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;2009 French comedy (orig.: &lt;em&gt;Micmacs à tire-larigot&lt;/em&gt;) by &lt;em&gt;Jean-Pierre Jeunet&lt;/em&gt; about a man and his unusual group of friends on their quest to bring down two weapons manufacturers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micmacs_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149361/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-21T12:40:25.323" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T12:40:25.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14697" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-21T12:40:25.323" Score="0" Body="2009 French comedy (orig.: Micmacs à tire-larigot) by Jean-Pierre Jeunet about a man and his unusual group of friends on their quest to bring down two weapons manufacturers." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-21T12:40:25.323" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T12:40:25.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14684" CreationDate="2013-10-21T13:10:21.683" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As seen throughout the movie, time can be given from one person to another, and it can be taken by force as well.  Fighting is done in an arm-wrestling style position, where each person holds the other person's hand.  It's then a contest of wills to pull as much time from the other person while not letting their time get pulled as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T13:10:21.683" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14652" CreationDate="2013-10-21T13:43:45.520" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought of multiple possible reasons for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jesse forgave Walt. This is probably the most obvious one. He realizes that Walt did care for Jesse after all, even though Jesse was may a time an unwilling part of Walt's plan.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jesse thinks that Walt isn't worth it. Jesse was never fond of killing, and seems to want as less of it as possible. He doesn't want to kill Walt, even if Walt is asking for it as he doesn't like blood on his hands.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jesse is tired of doing what Walt asks him to. As @Travis said, he wants to break free of Walt's control.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the following reason is the one I like the most:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jesse realizes that Walt is manipulating him, again. Jesse is angry at Walt, and about to shoot. Suddenly, he realizes that Walt is bleeding, and his facial expression changes. He decides not to shoot after all. Why? Maybe because he thinks that Walt knows that he is dying anyway, and this request to shoot is just his way of manipulating Jesse into feeling like he got his revenge. Jesse didn't like that, and decided not to oblige Walt and walk away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="898" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T13:43:45.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14701" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14702" CreationDate="2013-10-21T14:05:48.917" Score="10" ViewCount="14415" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad&quot;&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/a&gt; Mexico looks very rural and the US also look rural sometimes. So I am curious to know what time frame Breaking Bad is taking place at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-21T14:11:31.763" LastActivityDate="2017-04-26T14:17:10.430" Title="What time frame is shown in Breaking Bad?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14701" CreationDate="2013-10-21T14:10:47.337" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can then assume 2009 is when &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Walter_White&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walter White&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; turns 50 years old due to his birth year being listed as 1959&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this, the final episode &lt;strong&gt;Felina&lt;/strong&gt; takes place in 2011, exactly on the day of Walter's 52nd birthday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-10-21T16:29:50.417" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T16:29:50.417" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1986" CreationDate="2013-10-21T17:54:06.593" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Quentin Tarantino, in several interviews, the following two lines from the &amp;quot;Sicilian Scene&amp;quot; were ad-libbed by Christopher Walken playing Vincenzo Coccotti and Dennis Hopper playing Cliff Worley:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cliff Worley: &amp;quot;... Cuz you, you’re part eggplant.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Vincenzo Coccotti: You're a cantaloupe!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An &amp;quot;eggplant&amp;quot; refers to the italian word &amp;quot;moulignon&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;moolie&amp;quot;, which is a racial slur directed toward black people. The cantaloupe comeback was a poor attempt at a racial slur but somewhat humorous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2021-05-18T11:08:06.353" LastActivityDate="2021-05-18T11:08:06.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14704" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27353" CreationDate="2013-10-21T20:59:28.510" Score="1" ViewCount="469" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of the first third of the movie We Are What We Are, there is a scene of a kid asking for some food, and his sister putting some &quot;Snap Pops&quot; into his glass of milk. Then the kid whispers: &quot;Snap Pops!&quot;, and his sister responds with eating one from the pack. Then the other scene follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2pfs9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Snap Pops&quot; cereal brand appears to be fictional, so it's not a product placement situation, but the scene is so conveniently short. I'm not sure what it means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5788" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T20:57:24.153" Title="What is the meaning of this Snap Pops scene?" Tags="|plot-explanation|we-are-what-we-are|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14688" CreationDate="2013-10-21T21:34:58.123" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took the name of the movie to have a dual meaning. Obviously, the tag line of the movie states &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Before you die, you see&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The Ring&lt;/em&gt;. A more obtuse meaning to me is, &lt;em&gt;Before you die, you&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;hear&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The Ring&lt;/em&gt;. I have never seen the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0178868/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ringu&lt;/a&gt;, but it seems from other people's descriptions of it (that this remake of that movie) was pretty close, I would have to assume it played out the same way with the telephone calls. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not found anything to back this up, but it seems like this could be a reason (if not &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; reason) it was chosen for the one week catalyst.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-10-21T21:34:58.123" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14706" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15208" CreationDate="2013-10-21T23:50:38.887" Score="13" ViewCount="2472" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am stuck trying to find this movie, here is what I remember of it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, there is a family, the son in the family for whatever reason secretly sets up hidden cameras all around the house, and decides to start streaming it on the internet as a commercial show. It becomes big, and people start recognizing the family members in the streets, etc., but of course, they are completely oblivious as to why or what is going on.&#xA;Eventually, the truth comes out, but I believe due to financial issues the family decides to willingly participate in continuing the internet show. Eventually it all ends with the father going mad and blowing up the house live with a gasoline canister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone please tell me what the title of this movie was, or any information that may help me find it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6494" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-10-22T02:02:07.377" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T12:34:18.643" Title="Son secretly records family for internet show" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:51:50.483" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14707" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-22T08:34:02.790" Score="5" ViewCount="12257" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2051879/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Europa Report&lt;/a&gt;, two of the astronauts (James and Andrei) are coming to the end of a space walk (and are low on air) when there's an emergency in the form of an explosion. Andrei finds a tear in his suit and is rapidly losing consciousness. James' suit is contaminated with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrazine#Hazards&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hydrazine&lt;/a&gt;. He is advised to avoid re-entering the ship as doing so would contaminate its atmosphere presumably putting everybody else at risk. He therefore chooses to send his colleague back in and is stranded in space (and dies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What happened to James' tether? Wasn't it Andrei who was untethered?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Couldn't they have used the airlock to switch suits or if there were no suits, flood it with air and rescue Andrei first? Hydrazine exposure does not appear to be (immediately) fatal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Couldn't a third astronaut have helped James after Andrei had been rescued?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the general attention to detail in the movie, I'm questioning the realism of this scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-10-22T13:02:29.207" LastActivityDate="2017-04-22T09:11:22.327" Title="The hydrazine incident: could both astronauts have been saved?" Tags="|realism|europa-report|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14708" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14716" CreationDate="2013-10-22T08:37:31.917" Score="2" ViewCount="2081" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most reviews of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2051879/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Europa Report&lt;/em&gt; (2013)&lt;/a&gt; state that it was made on a low budget. But what was its budget exactly? Neither IMDb nor Wikipedia carry this information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2017-06-15T19:20:31.273" LastActivityDate="2017-06-15T19:20:31.273" Title="What was Europa Report's budget?" Tags="|production|europa-report|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14709" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-22T08:39:15.877" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Europa Report is a 2013 science fiction film starring Anamaria Marinca, Karolina Wydra, Michael Nyqvist, Daniel Wu, Sharlto Copley and Christian Camargo, directed by Sebastián Cordero. A found footage film, it recounts the fictional story of the first crewed mission to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. Despite a disastrous technical failure that loses all communications with Earth mission control and the death of one of the crew, the remaining members continue their mission to Europa and encounter a baffling mystery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Report&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-22T08:39:15.877" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T08:39:15.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14710" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-22T08:39:15.877" Score="0" Body="2013 science fiction film which recounts the fictional story of the first crewed mission to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-22T08:39:15.877" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T08:39:15.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14712" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-22T09:01:19.463" Score="45" ViewCount="21235" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can the weightlessness of space be &lt;em&gt;realistically&lt;/em&gt; simulated on film? Does it require CG or can a convincing simulation be achieved using &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_fu&quot;&gt;wire fu&lt;/a&gt; and editing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm happy to hear of good examples of weightlessness in movies and how the effects were achieved.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-22T11:29:30.897" LastActivityDate="2016-11-11T16:29:21.543" Title="How can weightlessness be simulated on film?" Tags="|film-techniques|science-fiction|production|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14713" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-22T09:19:36.413" Score="3" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Europa Report&lt;/em&gt;, why was Andrei sleep-deprived? Was it because he had failed to save James during the EVA accident?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2014-09-13T15:22:00.120" Title="Why couldn't Andrei sleep?" Tags="|character|europa-report|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14714" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-22T09:21:37.080" Score="3" ViewCount="2605" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Europa Report&lt;/em&gt;, is the length of the journey to Europa ever mentioned? How long did it take? Is the route described?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T02:33:38.150" Title="How long did the journey to Europa take?" Tags="|plot-explanation|europa-report|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14712" CreationDate="2013-10-22T10:13:28.177" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the known method for this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_gravity_aircraft&quot;&gt;Reduced gravity aircraft&lt;/a&gt;, unofficial nickname &lt;em&gt;vomit comet&lt;/em&gt;. KC-135A known as NASA 930 was used in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Apollo 13&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/329/how-did-they-walk-upside-down-in-2001-a-space-odyssey&quot;&gt;Cecil&lt;/a&gt; said that in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%3a_A_Space_Odyssey_%28film%29&quot;&gt;2001: A Space Odyssey&lt;/a&gt;, huge rotating sets are used, while the actor remained more or less stationary. It's not that realistic in looks but cheaper as compare to vomit comet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wire and green screen combination are also used sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-22T10:27:17.873" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T10:27:17.873" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14708" CreationDate="2013-10-22T10:37:52.757" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only site i got is &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/01/entertainment/la-et-mn-europa-report-20130802&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;articles.latimes.com&lt;/a&gt;, which says Europa Report's budget is less than $10 million.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T10:37:52.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14717" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14725" CreationDate="2013-10-22T11:32:08.027" Score="13" ViewCount="6577" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shawshank_Redemption&quot;&gt;The Shawshank Redemption&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, Andy told Red about his dream of the pacific ocean and at last when Andy is about to break out he told Red to visit a specific hayfield near Buxton to retrieve a package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, Andy has been in prison for more than 19 years and he does not have any information about the outside world. So how was Andy so sure that the tree was still there after 19 years? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know Andy hid that cache after he escaped from Shawshank. But how was he sure about the tree when inside the prison?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3223" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-22T13:38:59.250" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T02:42:00.280" Title="How did Andy know for sure that the tree in Buxton was still there after 19 years?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-shawshank-redemption|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14712" CreationDate="2013-10-22T14:18:14.760" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inception is well known for simulating all of its zero/reduced gravity scenes without CG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a behind the scenes documentary where the effects team detail the various method they use – and crucially how different shots within a sequence use different methods. This means there's never a single &quot;trick&quot; that the eye can catch to break the immersion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/uU497FNZ4hw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Christopher Nolan:&lt;/strong&gt; We did it through a number of different rigs and in the final edit what you see is shot to shot to shot it tends to be a different orientation and a completely different rig in each shot and I think that more than anything else really stops the audience of seeing the trick of how this scene is done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They used different sets for the scene, with different orientations, suspending the actors on wires to let them &quot;fly&quot; through the scene. The long hotel corridor was built upright, so that the walkway was vertical and the camera is looking upward from the bottom. Then they hung the actors upside down so they can freely move towards the sides of the corridor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paul Franklin:&lt;/strong&gt; The vertical corridor is supposed to be the same location as the horizontal corridor, it's an identical set. The difference is that it has been built vertical standing on its end. This means we drop actors and stunt performers on wires down into the set and the camera looks up at them. They can then be raised and lowered and swing around the sides and it looks like they're floating in zero gravity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actors also tried to simulate the behaviour of weightless people, based on real examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joseph Gordon-Levitt:&lt;/strong&gt; In real zero-G, and I've actually spoken to people that have been in real zero-G, what they told me is they never felt so relaxed in life. What I did is the exact opposite of that. In order to make it look like that was the case I actually had to keep every muscle tight because I was supporting myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6496" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-11T16:29:21.543" LastActivityDate="2016-11-11T16:29:21.543" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14719" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-22T14:39:29.913" Score="7" ViewCount="682" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 2 of Discovery's 'The Colony' later in the series a man named Tick reveals himself to the rest of the group. This brings their number up to 10, which is the same number that the first season had. The voice on the screen said that Tick had been there since the very beginning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was he supposed to be a part of the colony and just struck it out on his own until he decided to get involved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-10-22T14:59:13.700" LastActivityDate="2017-03-20T06:42:29.697" Title="Was the member 'Tick' always supposed to be a part of the colony?" Tags="|the-colony|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14720" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14744" CreationDate="2013-10-22T14:51:36.297" Score="28" ViewCount="7141" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first time Walt sold Gus meth was toward the end of season 2 of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; after they met in Los Pollos Hermanos. Guss trait as a careful man is highlighted several times. One example was his straight up refusal to even speak to Walt because he saw that Jesse was high. However, he goes on to do the transaction. Walt gets his money and Gus gets the meth. At this stage Gus didn't know Walt had a brother in-law in the DEA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, in the final episode of season 2 Gus visits the DEA office as he's sponsoring a fun run. While in the office he spots a picture of Walter. He asks Hank who the picture is of and Hank explains that its his brother in-law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next time we see Gus is when Walt goes to Los Pollos Hermanos to tell him he's retiring. Gus straight out offers him 3 million (I believe? I need to check the figure) for 3 months work. I find it a bit hard to believe, seeing as how there was such emphasis on him being a careful man, that he would talk to him in this way the very next time he sees him after finding out about Hank. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did he take this action?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-15T05:26:20.647" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T05:26:20.647" Title="Why would Gus do business with Walter knowing his brother in-law was a DEA agent?" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14714" CreationDate="2013-10-22T15:06:26.760" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the time when the crew loses contact with Earth, because of the solar storm. They have been travelling to Europa for about 1 year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Report&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After a year of mission time, a solar storm hits the ship knocking out communication with mission control on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/europa-report-is-a-space-opera-that-gets-it-right-1001685813&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;io9.com&lt;/a&gt; it states it was a multi-year mission:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A team of scientists and engineers undertake the multi-year trip to see if there really are living creatures in one of the solar system's only ocean environments (other than the ones on Earth).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_long_would_it_take_to_travel_to_europa_from_earth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WikiAnswers&lt;/a&gt; states that it's currently a 5 year travel time to Europa. There is no supporting links to support those claims. The statement could be based upon NASA's previous missions, but those missions could be designed for efficient fuel consumption and not human survivability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Using current rocket technology it would take around 5 years to get to Europa in a flyby maneuver, or around 10 years to get there and enter orbit around Europa. Advanced nuclear rockets could theoretically cut the trip down to 3 years or less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that it takes a NASA craft 9 months to fly from Earth to Mars during the shortest launch window. Jupiter is much farther than Mars but travel time is relative to speed. So a travel time of 1 year sounds unrealistic to me. The craft has to enter orbit of Europa and at 1 year travel it would be forced to do a ballistic fly-by.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reading about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.space.com/18901-nasa-mission-jupiter-moon-europa.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NASA's planned mission to Europa in 2021&lt;/a&gt; it doesn't state how long it would take to get there, but it does mention a mission time of 2.5 years once it arrives. I would think such a long mission time implies a long travel time as well.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T15:06:26.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14720" CreationDate="2013-10-22T16:40:14.517" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;By that time Gus had invested massive amounts of money on building the meth lab beneath the laundry, and probably had a huge list of customers waiting on the blue meth with their hands on their wallets. Also, Gus had yet to find a replacement for Walt. So letting go of Walt now would've meant a massive financial loss. Apparently it was a loss Gus (and his partners?) were averse to undertake. However, Gus becomes much more careful with Walt afterwards and puts in motion plans to replace him as meth cook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T16:40:14.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12388" CreationDate="2013-10-22T16:49:52.643" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short, Vincent knew that Butch was a boxer who would be throwing a fight. Vincent was having a bad day and was merely responding to Butch's staring at Vincent for too long while buying a pack of Red Apple cigarettes from English Dave. It's conceivable that Vincent would not like someone who would throw a fight, but there's no evidence in the screenplay or the movie to suggest that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that Vincent knows that Butch is a boxer when he calls him Palooka. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Palooka&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joe Palooka&lt;/a&gt; was a boxer in a comic strip in the 1930s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that Vincent knows that Butch is supposed to throw the fight when he calls him &quot;Punchy&quot;. In the 1949 film noir &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Set-Up_%281949_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Set-Up&lt;/a&gt;, Stoker Thompson is a 35-year-old has-been boxer who is supposed to throw the fight in the fourth round. (In &lt;em&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/em&gt;, the fight is supposed to be thrown in the fifth round.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-22T17:17:30.927" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T17:17:30.927" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14712" CreationDate="2013-10-22T17:57:32.903" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The recent film &lt;em&gt;Gravity&lt;/em&gt; used motion control rigs adapted from automotive assembly line robots. &lt;em&gt;Popular Mechanics&lt;/em&gt; did a pretty interesting article about it: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/digital/fact-vs-fiction/free-floating-feel-how-gravity-simulates-zero-g-16016504&quot;&gt;http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/digital/fact-vs-fiction/free-floating-feel-how-gravity-simulates-zero-g-16016504&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6501" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T17:57:32.903" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14717" CreationDate="2013-10-22T18:49:16.227" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is safe to assume that he figures when he went in a 100 year old tree was there and unless suddenly people decided to bulldoze the trees down indiscriminately that it was probably still there as an old tree that has survived as long as it has. At the end of the day though, he did't know if they had cut the tree down or not, he was going on faith that it was still there like it was when he went in. Its more of the symbolism of something enduring like an old solitary tree that is there year in year out and long after we come and gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Stephen King's manuscript, the tree occupied a field in Buxton, Maine, but in real life the scene was shot 810 miles away in Richland County, Ohio.&#xA;  Five years ago, lightning hit the oak and some of the tree was damaged. Jodie Snavely with the Mansfield &amp;amp; Richland County Convention and Visitors Bureau says the rest of the tree fell Friday due to high winds. &quot;It's a sad day for Shawshank fans,&quot; she said.&#xA;  Thanks to the film, the field and tree have become an international tourist destination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SOURCE:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/22/entertainment/oak-tree-from-shawshank-redemption-falls/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;CNN 02/22/2016&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;UPDATE 2&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What remained of a 200-year-old oak tree made famous by the movie&#xA;  &quot;Shawshank Redemption&quot; has been cut up and hauled away by an owner of&#xA;  the north-central Ohio property.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Mansfield News-Journal reports (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ohne.ws/2ohFpuC&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://ohne.ws/2ohFpuC&lt;/a&gt; ) Dan Dees&#xA;  said last week he plans to use some of the wood to make a table. The&#xA;  tree was rotted in the middle when high winds knocked down a portion&#xA;  in 2011. It was further damaged during a storm last July.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SOURCE:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/oak-tree-in-shawshank-redemption-cut-up-hauled-away/ar-BBzEjHn&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;MSN 04/08/2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5929" LastEditorUserId="5929" LastEditDate="2017-04-11T02:42:00.280" LastActivityDate="2017-04-11T02:42:00.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14726" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17908" CreationDate="2013-10-22T17:28:38.357" Score="6" ViewCount="701" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the pilot episode of &lt;em&gt;Sleepy Hollow&lt;/em&gt;, Abbie is identified as a lieutenant in the Westchester County PD, working under Sheriff August Corbin. Later, after Corbin's death, she introduces herself to Captain Frank Irving, who appears to be in command of the precinct that includes Sleepy Hollow. Irving does not seem immediately familiar with her until she identifies herself as Corbin's &quot;partner&quot;. Lieutenant Mills subsequently begins taking orders directly from Irving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm confused as to how the chain of command in that police department works. Sheriff is the highest-ranking official in a police department, usually an elected official. Lieutenant is fairly near the bottom, but still high enough that she should normally be a supervisory position, with one or more sergeant beneath her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that both the Sheriff and one of his Lieutenants still went on patrols, and did so together, implies that the police department must be tiny, but the Westchester County PD has dozens of officers. Even more strange, Corbin (as sheriff) would be responsible for all precincts in the county, making him Irving's boss, so the idea that Irving would not know how own boss's &quot;partner&quot; is also unlikely. Either Lieutenant Mills worked in Irving's precinct, in which case he obviously should know her, or she works in another precinct, in which case he isn't her superior and wouldn't routinely take his orders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So where exactly are Lieutenant Mills, Captain Irving, and Sheriff Corbin supposed to fit into a chain of command?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, the department on the show is clearly not drawing on real-life for its model. The real Westchester County Police Department has no sheriff. That position is held by the head of the county-wide Westchester County Department of Public Safety, while the Westchester County Police Department only covers those areas not part of another precinct. In particular, Sleepy Hollow has it's own PD. The highest ranking official in a single precinct is the police commissioner (whom we don't see).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" OwnerDisplayName="Michael Edenfield" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-22T18:53:24.023" LastActivityDate="2014-11-06T03:55:23.727" Title="What is the law enforcement structure of Sleepy Hollow/Westchester County?" Tags="|sleepy-hollow-tv|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14508" CreationDate="2013-10-22T19:10:11.840" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without Indiana Jones, Marion would have perished. He told her not to look. As with Lots wife at Sodom and Gamorah, she would have looked. I'll bet this was one of Steven Spielburg's additions to the script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6502" LastActivityDate="2013-10-22T19:10:11.840" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14728" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-22T23:54:30.633" Score="6" ViewCount="56728" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a trailer for a movie a while back where this guy moves into this old house with his family. Strange stuff starts happening they find out the previous family was murdered. Then, surprise surprise, the guy might be the father from the last family who killed everybody. I think the two leads are fairly well known as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, no none of those. I thought I saw the trailer for it in 2011, 2012, or the beginning of 2013. So I'm sure it's fairly new. I also think it's supposed to have been out already, so I don't think it'd still be in the making or &quot;post-production.&quot; It didn't look low budget or cheesy or anything so I'm pretty sure it was a Hollywood film. I think the main guy might have also spent some time in a psychiatric hospital?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6505" LastEditorUserId="6505" LastEditDate="2013-10-24T05:26:59.133" LastActivityDate="2016-06-29T02:13:35.050" Title="Father moves family into house where previous family was killed, might be the killer" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:51:53.693" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14729" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-23T00:27:34.217" Score="4" ViewCount="243" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119249/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Commander Hamilton (orig.: Hamilton)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; seems to be set roughly at the time it was produced (1998), due to its use of cell phones and Russia instead of the  Soviet Union, as well as the operation of the Anglo-Norwegian Steel Co. in Murmansk. But it also seems to present the KGB as an actively working institution, e.g. when it is said that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whether KGB likes it or not they have to help us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or when Barabanov is presented to be an active KGB agent. Yet, I thought the KGB was officially closed in 1991. But maybe they are just talking casually about ex-KGB officers that still have more or less their previous functions or the inofficial situation in Murmansk is/was more vague.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;what is the actual time frame the movie is supposed to be set and how historically accurate is the depiction of the KGB&lt;/strong&gt; and its interactions with the other institutions in the movie? Do the novels maybe give more insight into this or is this maybe to blame on a not too accurate adaptation of the novels' story into a more modern setting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-12-15T16:28:00.873" LastActivityDate="2017-12-15T16:28:00.873" Title="How accurate is the depiction of the KGB?" Tags="|plot-explanation|historical-accuracy|commander-hamilton|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14730" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-23T00:32:49.367" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;1998 Swedish action thriller (orig: &lt;em&gt;Hamilton&lt;/em&gt;) starring &lt;em&gt;Peter Stormare&lt;/em&gt; as Swedish secret service agent &lt;em&gt;Carl Hamilton&lt;/em&gt; investigating the smuggling of a Russian nuclear missile. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_%281998_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119249/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-23T00:42:51.743" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T00:42:51.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14731" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-23T00:32:49.367" Score="0" Body="1998 Swedish action thriller (orig: Hamilton) starring Peter Stormare as Swedish secret service agent Carl Hamilton investigating the smuggling of a Russian nuclear missile." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-23T00:32:49.367" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T00:32:49.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14508" CreationDate="2013-10-23T03:42:46.847" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's something funny to think about...the very beginning of Raiders. When Indy hunts down the golden Idol within the cave of just about every obstacle imaginable. Belloq is fresh on his heels which leads me to believe that if Indy never got to the Idol first, navigating the treacherous landscape, then Belloq and his spear wielding minions would have tried to navigate the cave, thus might have certainly ended Rene's life. Or held him captive for the rest of his days. So yes, Indy is intensely important, if he never got the idol, then Rene might have never made it to any of the adventure. And perhaps..the Arc would have never been found at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kevyK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6506" LastEditorUserId="6506" LastEditDate="2013-10-23T03:55:43.480" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T03:55:43.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14728" CreationDate="2013-10-23T07:04:55.307" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the &quot;old house&quot; is a large hotel closed for the winter, that could describe &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Shining&lt;/em&gt; (1980)&lt;/a&gt; well.  I am a little fuzzy because the plot is not that clear cut&amp;mdash;it could be the father lived years before and killed a lot of people.  Or it could be an ancestor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Shining&lt;/em&gt; stars Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall.  It was written by Stephen King and directed by Stanley Kubrick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T07:04:55.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14728" CreationDate="2013-10-23T08:11:59.353" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like the Amytiville Horror to me. It could be the origional or the 2005 remake&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The details all fit except the part where you say the killer could be the same guy from the previous familt. Saying that, I think I remember a scene where a character states the current father strongly resembles the previous killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T08:11:59.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14728" CreationDate="2013-10-23T09:44:29.583" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Messengers_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Messengers&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amityville_Horror_%282005_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Amityville Horror (2005)&lt;/a&gt;, both movies have known actors and description also matches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In The Messengers, the father of the last family turned out to be killer in end and try to kill this family, too. On the other hand in The Amityville Horror the new family's father try to kill his family ( Possessed by the same entity which made the previous family killed ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-10-23T12:34:44.840" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T12:34:44.840" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14738" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14743" CreationDate="2013-10-23T09:51:18.847" Score="22" ViewCount="22830" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 1 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad&quot;&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/a&gt;, Jesse visits Tuco in order to make a drug deal. Tuco takes Jesse's meth, beats him pretty severely, and doesn't pay him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, Walt visits Tuco to make a deal and get the money he owes. While there, he throws &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%28II%29_fulminate&quot;&gt;mercury fulminate&lt;/a&gt; on the floor. It causes an explosion that blows out the  windows. &lt;strong&gt;How come Walt wasn't harmed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-10-24T13:20:04.877" LastActivityDate="2017-05-14T03:21:32.197" Title="How was Walt unharmed after throwing the mercury fulminate on the floor in Tucos office?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14739" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15157" CreationDate="2013-10-23T10:18:07.310" Score="6" ViewCount="4975" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV show &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_British_Bake_Off&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Great British Bake Off&lt;/a&gt;, contestants are set a number of challenges. For example in the final they had to create:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A picnic pie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Two types of pretzels&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A wedding cake&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of the finalists had difficulty with the pretzels because they hadn't done them before and didn't know the process. This indicates that they are told what to make and sent away to bake immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However for both the wedding cake and pie, Kimberly had the opportunity to go find tools. So either she happened to have a both a pig shaped cutter in her bench and a stencil with the word &quot;love&quot; in fifty languages (very unlikely), or she'd had advance warning of the final challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do the contestants know what they're going to be baking in advance of the show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-14T13:34:18.707" LastActivityDate="2017-11-28T16:34:39.353" Title="How much planning time do the contestants have?" Tags="|the-great-british-bakeoff|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14740" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-23T10:21:29.670" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-10-23T10:21:29.670" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T10:21:29.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14741" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-23T10:21:29.670" Score="0" Body="The Great British Bakeoff is a UK cookery show where contestants compete in a series of challenges which are then judged by celebrity bakers." OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-10-23T10:21:29.670" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T10:21:29.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14738" CreationDate="2013-10-23T12:52:07.420" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically, &lt;em&gt;he was harmed...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fZ767.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The visible effects are the blood dripping from his nose and his ears, but this is symptomatic of possibly more serious (although obviously not life threatening) internal injuries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're asking why he wasn't as badly injured as the rest of Tuco's crew, it's because they had no idea what was about to happen and he was entirely aware (being the propagator of the attack)..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt wasn't disorientated, confused or alarmed, unlike everyone else in the room who just experienced the physical effects of a surprise explosion!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention he was all jacked up on adrenaline..this is the more or less the beginning of his Heisenberg persona.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I miss Walt ... I'm Breaking Sad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="28151" LastEditDate="2017-05-14T03:21:32.197" LastActivityDate="2017-05-14T03:21:32.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14720" CreationDate="2013-10-23T13:01:08.180" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always figured it was because Gus realized at that moment that Walt and he shared similar methodologies, and Gus realized that in order for Walt to remain hidden from the DEA, he must also be an incredibly careful man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He misjudged Walt based on Jesse's condition, and this was the moment he realized there was more to the man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a more sinister aside, Gus gained a huge amount of &lt;em&gt;leverage&lt;/em&gt; over Walt by learning such personal information. If he was serious about going into partnership with Walt, sure he could have gotten Mike to do some investigative work anyway, but the opportunity presented itself to him and he simply took him up on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gus is clearly trying to gain some kind of insight into the workings of the DEA, it's no coincidence he's sponsoring them for a fun-run. He's proactively ingratiating himself into their operations; either for intelligence, to better camouflage his operation or possibly a mixture of both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having Walt onside is a risk, but a calculated one, and possibly one in which the benefits (to Gus at least) outweigh the danger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T13:01:08.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14748" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14753" CreationDate="2013-10-23T17:46:44.003" Score="13" ViewCount="2208" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is about &quot;End Times&quot;, the twelfth episode of the fourth season of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Jesse learned that Brock had been poisoned, he came over to Walt's house to confront him. Walt opened the door holding a gun in his hand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though Jesse was obviously mad at Walt, in a couple of minutes Walt left his gun on a couch and walked away, which allowed Jesse to hold Walt at gunpoint using Walt's gun. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was that intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-17T01:16:35.020" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T13:35:33.957" Title="Why did Walt leave his gun on the couch when Jesse came to confront him?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14749" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14752" CreationDate="2013-10-23T18:37:59.887" Score="24" ViewCount="4333" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does Robert Angier choose to die everyday instead of using the machine just once to create his clone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some reasons that I don't think justify his act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ego issues&lt;/strong&gt;: It didn't work well between Robert and the previous double (Roote) that he had hired but that shouldn't be the case with a clone as they both share same personalities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Double going rogue / blackmailing&lt;/strong&gt;: It's a clone and inherits the same personality, highly improbable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keeping it a secret&lt;/strong&gt;: Alferd Borden did it. Much less stressful than literally preparing to die everyday and ensuring proper disposal of those tanks that only increase in quantity everyday, IMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also why does the public not accuse Robert Angier for using a double, as it does with Alfred Borden's act?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3690" LastEditorUserId="3690" LastEditDate="2013-10-24T11:20:32.443" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T13:40:08.703" Title="Why does Robert Angier not use a double for &quot;The Real Transported Man&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14749" CreationDate="2013-10-23T19:17:45.060" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the problem as Angier sees it is 'which one had the right to get &lt;em&gt;his&lt;/em&gt; life'.  If he were to allow the other Angier to live, would it end up killing him to replace him.  Just because someone has the same personality as you doesn't in my opinion make it less likely that they would feel threatened by you, actually with shared memories and understanding, your doppelgänger might be more dangerous than another person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Angier decides that it doesn't particularly matter which one of them survives, as long as there is only ever one.  He even prepares for this in his first experiment with the device, by having the gun available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its kind of twisted logic, because for each clone created by the machine, one Angier dies - but he doesn't know which one &lt;em&gt;he&lt;/em&gt; is going to be each time.  But I think he believes only having one survivor is cleaner .... no chance of &quot;going rogue&quot; happening, or his secret being found out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, its a dramatic demonstration to himself (and ultimately Borden) that he's finally willing to &quot;get his hands dirty&quot; to perform the ultimate illusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2013-10-23T19:17:45.060" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14749" CreationDate="2013-10-23T20:36:41.427" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;em&gt;iandotkelly&lt;/em&gt;'s already good answer, I'd say &lt;strong&gt;it just doesn't fit to Angier's nature&lt;/strong&gt;. One of the major differences between Borden and Angier is, that Angier couldn't ever imagine to devote his entire life to &quot;just a magic trick&quot;, and always wanted to go the easy way, whereas Borden took his art as serious as to only live half a life for his entire life, which in fact was &lt;em&gt;&quot;his real trick and shows true dedication to his art&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is the reason why Angier couldn't imagine Borden to use a double, since his own fast experiences with this were rather unfruitful (yet, he was lucky enough to find his exact double in London, but nevermind ;-)) and why he couldn't get behind the old Chinese magician's trick, while Borden undertsood it immediately. And this is also the reason why he doesn't want to use a double. As you say, both Angiers would have the same personality and as &lt;em&gt;iandotkelly&lt;/em&gt; says, there wouldn't be any one who had more right to be the &quot;real&quot; Angier. So in order to not share his whole life with another Angier to keep the trick secret, he went the fast and easy (and pretty dirty) way of a forced move operation instead of a copy. On the longer perspective &lt;strong&gt;Borden's way of keeping the secret wasn't really &lt;em&gt;&quot;less stressful&quot;&lt;/em&gt; than Angier's if you consider what Borden had to sacrifice&lt;/strong&gt; in his non-stage life in order to keep up his trick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And an additional factor is also, that I for myself think that Angier didn't just do those tricks to do a good show and win against Borden success-wise, but also &lt;strong&gt;in order for the supposed &quot;murder&quot; to happen one day&lt;/strong&gt; and to ultimately win against Borden. And for this one Angier had to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-20T13:40:08.703" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T13:40:08.703" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14748" CreationDate="2013-10-23T22:48:25.993" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spoilers if you have not seen season 4 episode 13 (not sure if this should be in a spoiler block, remove if you wish):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Yes. Walt wants Jesse to think that Gus poisoned Brock so Jesse will help him kill Gus. Now, for this to work, he needs Gus to have some plausible motivation. The one that makes the most sense is that Gus poisoned Brock so that Jesse would kill Walt out of anger. From Gus' point of view, this is ideal as Jesse was the one holding Gus back from killing Walt &amp;mdash; If Jesse himself kills Walt then this is out of the question. Now, for this constructed fantasy to work, when Jesse comes to Walt's house, he must have the opportunity to kill Walt. Only then can Walt feign that he thinks that Jesse has come to kill him and put forward the argument that Gus manipulated Jesse into this position so that Walt would be killed. To this end, Walt left the gun on the couch on purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="898" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-09-02T13:35:33.957" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T13:35:33.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14756" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-24T06:27:24.063" Score="2" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Bollywood movie, &lt;em&gt;The Lunchbox&lt;/em&gt;, why are there no computers in Saajan's (Irrfan Khan) office? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was surprised to see that all the employees were doing their work manually where they all were accountants as shown in the film. (There were calculators shown). The story is of present time. So there can not be a problem of computers not been invented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowadays, accounting job (actually any job) requires computers. Was it a mistake or deliberately shown like this? If deliberately shown, what could be the reason behind it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6264" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-24T10:15:51.963" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T11:07:52.160" Title="Why are there no computers in Saajan's office?" Tags="|analysis|lunchbox|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="290" CreationDate="2013-10-24T06:47:55.830" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the comment that Mike's convincing lying points out to Marge that Jerry may be lying too, and so the second interview with Jerry, where Jerry becomes less and less convincing (&quot;I'm cooperating here&quot;) under Marge's polite but insistent questioning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think there is something else.  Consider the consecutive scenes where the criminals are banging the TV and yelling obscenities at it, followed by Marge and Norm calmly watching a show where insects prepares for birth by storing food, followed by the phone call from Mike.  The next day, she decides to go to the Twin Cities, a four hour drive from Brainerd.  Notice how surprised Norm is, and notice how she doesn't tell him about Mike.  Does she really have to go to the Twin Cities?  Not really, a state trooper was killed, the state police would be all over this investigation.  She is going to see Mike, who she knew and liked in high school, and who she may feel would be a better provider for her and her child than the virtually unemployed Norm. The investigation is a convenient cover (and pays the expenses) for the trip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, when she gets there, she realizes that something is wrong with Mike, she cuts the meeting short, and next morning she calls her girl friend in the Twin Cities to find out.  She is surprised  to find that everything Mike said was a lie, and he is a mess in general.  Which leads her back to Jerry, who is even more of mess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, again watching TV in bed, Marge learns that Norm sold a painting to the Postal Service, so some money will be coming.  So Marge now feels they are doing pretty well (she may not have felt that before).  So the point of the sub-plot - it is better to do the lawful thing, rather than be tempted to circumvent the law - reflects the point of the main plot, which is the same point exaggerated by the complete stupidity of the criminals and the magnitude and violence of their crimes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6517" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T06:47:55.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14758" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-24T09:22:31.283" Score="12" ViewCount="32462" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Sopranos there was a painting of Tony Soprano with his horse Pie-O-My.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Pie-O-My dies Tony ordered for the painting to be destroyed. Instead of destroying it Paulie Gaultieri keeps it on his wall in his house without telling Tony. He makes one change to the picture and has Tony's clothes changed from a suit to a generals uniform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a later episode Tony comes to Paulies house where he sees the picture. He gets angry and dumps it. While hes putting it in the dumpster he stares at the uniform and the sword.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the significance of the painting? Is Tony's reaction entirely down to his sadness of Pie-O-Mys death?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6tJle.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tony&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-24T09:33:19.463" LastActivityDate="2022-01-08T03:32:21.260" Title="What is the significance of the painting of Tony Soprano in the generals uniform with the horse?" Tags="|the-sopranos|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14759" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14767" CreationDate="2013-10-24T09:40:02.490" Score="14" ViewCount="1305" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.&lt;/em&gt;, Agent Coulson makes repeated references to his having been brought back from the dead after having been stabbed by Loki. Wasn't he confirmed dead in &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt;? Or was he just near dead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what is with the story of spending time in Tahiti? Is this a metaphor for something? Heaven? Valhalla?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-10-30T03:16:34.503" LastActivityDate="2016-09-01T14:29:46.620" Title="Was Coulson dead or near-dead? Is Tahiti a metaphor?" Tags="|character|the-avengers|marvel-cinematic-universe|agents-of-shield|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14756" CreationDate="2013-10-24T10:11:04.150" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not unusual in India, for an office to not have computers.&#xA;Many offices especially non-private ones still use manual techniques.&#xA;Reason is that most employees are working since a long time and are not used to computers.&#xA;They prefer manual methods which they are more proficient in.&#xA;Besides, we don't know whether we saw the whole office in Lunchbox.&#xA;There might be more rooms, with computers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T10:11:04.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14761" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-24T10:21:50.260" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As quoted from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agents_of_S.H.I.E.L.D.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., or simply Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., is an American television series created for ABC by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen, based on the Marvel Comics organization S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The series is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, sharing continuity with the films in that franchise. It revolves around the character of Phil Coulson, with Clark Gregg reprising the role from the 2012 movie, The Avengers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel-cinematic-universe'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agents_of_S.H.I.E.L.D.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2364582/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T01:24:05.130" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T01:24:05.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14762" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-24T10:21:50.260" Score="0" Body="An American television series based on the Marvel Comics organization S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) which revolves around the character of Phil Coulson." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T06:52:32.247" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T06:52:32.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14759" CreationDate="2013-10-24T10:33:02.643" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I gather from watching the first four episodes, so far, it seems that Coulson's death and return will be a part of the story arc for the show. It appears that Coulson did indeed die and was somehow brought back, possbly using alien (Asgardian, Chitauri, other) technology. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coulson himself believes he was near death and was sent to Tahiti to recuperate. From dialog between Melinda May and Grant Ward in one of the first episodes, it appears that it's accepted knowledge that that did &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; happen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing whatever happened to him is behind Nick Fury's decision to give him this team, and will be revealed, slowly, throughout the season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1507" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-10-24T12:42:08.753" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T12:42:08.753" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14759" CreationDate="2013-10-24T12:56:47.920" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was under the impression that Coulsen was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Model_Decoy&quot;&gt;LMD (Life Model Decoy)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a plot device that has been used before in the comics (Nick Fury often turns out to be a LMD whenever he is defeated) and is even mentioned in &lt;em&gt;Iron Man III&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;You have reached the life model decoy of Tony Stark, please leave a message...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would explain his ongoing memory lapses, the alluded-to 'loss of muscle memory', and the number of times an old companion or colleague has mentioned that he 'doesn't seem the same'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this is merely speculation on my part (and many others), but the signs all seem to be pointing that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Tahiti - implanted memories?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-10-24T16:35:54.237" LastActivityDate="2013-10-24T16:35:54.237" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14759" CreationDate="2013-10-24T16:16:59.120" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/notyetamovie/news/?a=88585&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;To quote&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Clark Gregg&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(who plays Agent Coulson)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What’s the deal with Tahiti. &lt;strong&gt;Tahiti’s a magical place. I keep saying that…&lt;/strong&gt; it’s where I went to recover after being impaled and as I say in the pilot, it was a spectacular experience, I had a beautiful physical therapist and I read Travis McGee novels all day.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But every time someone mentions it lately I seem to go into post traumatic stress so &lt;strong&gt;I think there’s a little more to Tahiti than meets the eye.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There’s a much darker, more interesting story there. Something much more magical has gone on to bring this guy back to life.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of the word &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;magical&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/agents-of-shield-coulson-alive-theories-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;one theory&lt;/a&gt; is that &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.com/universe/Scarlet_Witch_%28Wanda_Maximoff%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scarlet Witch&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; had something to do with his resurrection. &lt;em&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/joss-whedon-avengers-2-quicksilver-scarlet-witch-x-men/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Scarlet Witch will appear in 'The Avengers 2'&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;. But at the moment it's pure speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvguide.com/News/Agents-SHIELD-Thor-Crossover-Whedon-Tancharoen-1073558.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Nov 18, 2013)&lt;/em&gt; producer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1871590/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jed Whedon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; had this to say about Coulson's resurrection:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We know that there's going to be a lot of theories and there's no chance that whatever we reveal won't, at some point, be written on the internet. We're just &lt;strong&gt;trying to come up with ways to make it surprising or make it not how they expected it to unravel.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We know what it is, but we know that no one else does yet.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last sentence is interesting, because it implies that the most popular theories, which Jed Whedon must be aware of, are probably wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-11-21T13:03:33.023" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14769" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-24T20:24:39.857" Score="4" ViewCount="480" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_Fire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Arcade Fire&lt;/a&gt; recently released (through their official YouTube account &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/CBjqUEMlHTY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) a video containing their entire new album, Reflektor, played over the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Orpheus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Black Orpheus&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What do the two have to do with each other? Why did Arcade Fire choose Black Orpheus and not another film? Are there specific themes in the film that speak to the message the band is trying to convey with their album?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-24T20:29:43.710" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T17:29:41.350" Title="Why choose 'Black Orpheus' (Orfeu Negro)?" Tags="|analysis|reference|black-orpheus|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14770" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14782" CreationDate="2013-10-24T20:54:56.837" Score="8" ViewCount="2089" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a flashback scene in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; in which young Walt and Skyler are buying their house. Walt sounds very optimistic about his career opportunities, suggesting that they should not buy a starter house, because they can &quot;only go up&quot;. This is clearly the same house they are living in when Walt is 50. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably Walt was not a high school teacher at that time yet, correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-03-19T15:04:45.590" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T15:04:45.590" Title="What was Walt doing between leaving Gray Matter and becoming a school teacher?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14771" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15175" CreationDate="2013-10-24T21:33:14.807" Score="14" ViewCount="8496" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the title of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392214/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Prisoners&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; could obviously refer to all the different protagonists who have literally been imprisoned or held captive at one point or another (the girls by &lt;em&gt;Mrs. Jones&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Alex&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;em&gt;Keller&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Keller&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;em&gt;Mrs. Jones&lt;/em&gt;,...), I wonder &lt;strong&gt;if there is any other deeper meaning of this title&lt;/strong&gt; in relation to the plot of the movie and its characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T03:38:58.020" LastActivityDate="2013-11-25T13:24:54.373" Title="What does the title &quot;Prisoners&quot; mean?" Tags="|analysis|title|prisoners|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14773" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14774" CreationDate="2013-10-24T23:42:22.583" Score="13" ViewCount="5563" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one of the more famous Pulp Fiction scenes, Jules and Vincent are eating at a diner when Ringo and Honey Bunny decide to rob it.  Their attempt doesn't go well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point, Jules tells Ringo to open up his wallet and take out $1,500.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PeyiU3uWJ8&amp;amp;t=1m22s&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PeyiU3uWJ8&amp;amp;t=1m22s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Now, I ain't giving it to him, Vincent.  I'm buying something for my money.  Wanna know what I'm buying, Ringo?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;What?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Your life.  &lt;strong&gt;I'm giving you that money so I don't have to kill yo' ass.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does giving Ringo $1,500 have to do with not killing him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6527" LastEditorUserId="6527" LastEditDate="2013-10-24T23:52:51.303" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T15:19:26.560" Title="Why did Jules have to give Ringo $1,500?" Tags="|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14773" CreationDate="2013-10-25T00:58:58.450" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;By this point in the narrative, Jules had already decided that he was going to change his life - he no longer wanted to be a killer for hire. The affair with the bullets missing him in Marvin's apartment had convinced him that God had a higher purpose for him, and by allowing Ringo to take what he needed, Jules was ensuring that he wouldn't have to kill him for attempting to rob him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was the first step towards Jules' new life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was not only buying/saving Ringo's life, but also his own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T00:58:58.450" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14775" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-25T06:40:35.123" Score="7" ViewCount="3704" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Terminator Salvation&lt;/em&gt;, we see Skynet capturing humans and herding them in its main facility in San Francisco. What was the purpose of this exercise? Was it trying to locate Kyle Reese? Or was it using the humans as a shield against any resistance attacks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-05T15:58:04.037" LastActivityDate="2017-05-11T02:07:52.987" Title="What was Skynet doing with the humans in San Francisco?" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-salvation|terminator-series|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14776" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14808" CreationDate="2013-10-25T06:51:26.943" Score="8" ViewCount="1799" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Terminator Salvation&lt;/em&gt;, Skynet casts Kyle Reese and John Connor as its two most wanted humans. How did it know about Kyle Reese's existence? John Connor's story as something of a messiah appears to be well known. But is the fact that he was fathered by a time-travelling soldier from the resistance public knowledge? He is shown keeping his mother's tapes something of a secret.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I haven't watched  &lt;em&gt;Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines&lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-05T15:58:16.503" LastActivityDate="2016-08-05T15:58:16.503" Title="How did Skynet know about Kyle Reese?" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-salvation|terminator-series|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14777" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-25T07:32:10.733" Score="12" ViewCount="545" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the success of &lt;em&gt;The Terminator&lt;/em&gt;, most of the titles of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_%28franchise%29&quot;&gt;franchise&lt;/a&gt; have followed the &quot;Terminator: subtitle&quot; template. Examples include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Terminator 2: Judgment Day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Terminator: War of the Machines&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Terminator: Rampage&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Terminator: Future Shock&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Terminator: Dawn of Fate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we have &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_Salvation&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Terminator Salvation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. What is the significance of the missing colon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-05T15:58:27.863" LastActivityDate="2016-08-05T15:58:27.863" Title="Why &quot;Terminator Salvation&quot; and not &quot;Terminator: Salvation&quot;?" Tags="|title|terminator-salvation|terminator-series|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14778" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-25T07:34:44.120" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T07:34:44.120" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T07:34:44.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14779" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-25T07:34:44.120" Score="0" Body="The Terminator is a sci-fi film directed by James Cameron about a robot sent back through time to kill the woman whose son will lead the human resistance in a future where sentient machines rule. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as the murderous title character." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T07:34:44.120" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T07:34:44.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14780" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-25T08:23:48.230" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Terminator Salvation is a 2009 American science fiction action film directed by McG and starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington. It is the fourth installment in the Terminator series. In a departure from the previous installments, which were set between 1984 and 2004 and used time travel as a key plot element, Salvation is set in 2018 and focuses on the war between Skynet and humanity, with the human Resistance fighting against Skynet's killing machines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_Salvation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T08:23:48.230" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T08:23:48.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14781" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-25T08:23:48.230" Score="0" Body="2009 American science fiction action film directed by McG and starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington. It is the fourth installment in the Terminator series." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T08:23:48.230" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T08:23:48.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14770" CreationDate="2013-10-25T08:25:41.070" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Correct. &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Walter_White&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Walter&lt;/a&gt; was part of the 3 person team together with &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Gretchen_Schwartz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gretchen&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Elliott_Schwartz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Elliot&lt;/a&gt;. He was, correction: is, a really smart chemist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back then the company wasn't worth that much. And because &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Skyler_White&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Skyler&lt;/a&gt; had a &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Walter_White_Jr.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;baby&lt;/a&gt; coming, Walter (as he explained to &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Jesse_Pinkman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jessie&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Buyout&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Buyout&lt;/a&gt;) sold out his share of Gray Matter for a measly 5000 bucks. Big mistake, because a few years later, the company was worth billions, with a B.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apperently the story was completely different from what I perceived of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Around 20 years ago, Walt worked in Application Labs (&quot;Cancer Man&quot;). He also worked in a chemical lab near Los Alamos, and met Skyler White, a hostess at that time, in a restaurant (&quot;Cancer Man&quot;). He moved to Albuquerque to work for Sandia Laboratories just prior to his firstborn (&quot;Full Measure&quot;).&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Walter_White#Background_information&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess it's time for a Breaking Bad marathon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6384" LastEditorUserId="6384" LastEditDate="2013-10-28T13:26:57.243" LastActivityDate="2013-10-28T13:26:57.243" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14783" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14784" CreationDate="2013-10-25T10:45:40.713" Score="1" ViewCount="479" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently attended a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cornerhouse.org/film/film-events/24-hour-noir-athon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;24 Hour Film-Noir-A-Thon&lt;/a&gt;, which was brilliant (if not a little exhausting), and talking to some of the other patrons they were discussing the lack of Philip Marlowe movies, him being such an iconic figure of the genre...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the event organizers explained that, whilst they were showing &lt;em&gt;The Big Sleep&lt;/em&gt;, Marlowe has far too many movie's and, notably, some of them are incredibly &lt;strong&gt;Obscure&lt;/strong&gt;, so obscure that even she couldn't name them in anywhere near what she considered their entirety...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We discussed &lt;em&gt;Lady In The Lake&lt;/em&gt;, which they are also showing as part of their film season, an also &lt;em&gt;The Long Goodbye&lt;/em&gt; as some of the less recognized Marlowe films, but a few other people were convinced there were stranger and more remote ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what makes up the complete &lt;em&gt;Marlowe Collection&lt;/em&gt;, including his non-hard-boiled iterations? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T10:57:57.193" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T11:43:21.993" Title="Phillip Marlowe: How many films?" Tags="|movie-franchise|noir|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14783" CreationDate="2013-10-25T11:43:21.993" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Marlowe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, it appears there were only ten film adaptations of Chandler's detective. On the television, there was a three series, the first one in B&amp;amp;W in '59-60 on ABC, which aired 26 episodes. The second one was in color in '84 with only five episodes appeared on London Weekend Television. The third series was six episodes in Canada. That was in 1986. There were also many single movies/TV specials during that time and after. You can read all about the different exploits of Phillip Marlowe at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thrillingdetective.com/marlow2.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thrilling Detective&lt;/a&gt; website, which also talks about Chandler's written works which movies/tv are based off of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T11:43:21.993" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14777" CreationDate="2013-10-25T12:13:46.087" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is because in T2 &amp;amp; T3, what was listed after &lt;strong&gt;Terminator #&lt;/strong&gt; was a tag line, so requires a colon. With &lt;strong&gt;Terminator Salvation&lt;/strong&gt; it is a single title. You can see it here in the movie posters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E9I0d.png&quot; alt=&quot;Terminator 2: Judgement Day from Google Images&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yy5rb.png&quot; alt=&quot;Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines from Google Images&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here with Terminator Salvation you can see it is not a tag line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L45Qx.png&quot; alt=&quot;Terminator Salvation from Google Images&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T12:13:46.087" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14777" CreationDate="2013-10-25T12:29:32.710" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;One possibility might also be that the producers wanted to emphasize the fact that they were starting something new. &lt;em&gt;Terminator Salvation&lt;/em&gt; was the first movie to be set in the future war against the machines instead of the present with the classic time-travel context and it was also initially planned to start a new trilogy (most probably set entirely in the future).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in order to emphasize those aspects and distinguishing it from the previous movies, that title change might have been a conscious decision and might have been followed through in future upcoming sequels to it (which don't seem too likely anymore, though, given the &lt;em&gt;reboot&lt;/em&gt; planned for 2015).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T12:51:52.010" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T12:51:52.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14787" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15412" CreationDate="2013-10-25T13:14:21.403" Score="15" ViewCount="8958" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched the pilot of the Sopranos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the pilot there is no mention of Jackie Aprile who is the boss of the family. There is also a scene where Junior Soprano snaps at Tony &quot;You may run North Jersey but you don't run your uncle Junior&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, in the second episode we are introduced to Jackie Aprile and its shown that he's the boss. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there a change in the structure of the family between the pilot and the second episode? I believe there was a long gap between when the pilot was shot and when the second episode was shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T16:06:47.627" LastActivityDate="2022-05-23T10:34:44.543" Title="Was Tony the Boss of the family in the Sopranos pilot?" Tags="|the-sopranos|pilot|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14788" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44246" CreationDate="2013-10-25T14:17:17.477" Score="4" ViewCount="2384" Body="&lt;p&gt;A dwarf woman character appeared a few times in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1924396/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Best Offer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, reciting some numbers. During her final appearance, the numbers and their meaning were obvious. During a previous scene, she probably recited results of some arithmetic problems given to her by the audience, performing as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_calculator&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mental calculator&lt;/a&gt;. However, during her first scene, she was shouting numbers (initially disputed by another bar guest, who later admitted his own fault) without any context I could see. What were the numbers and their meaning or significance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109" LastActivityDate="2015-12-03T05:55:45.943" Title="What were the numbers shouted by the dwarf woman?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-best-offer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14790" CreationDate="2013-10-25T14:24:56.177" Score="12" ViewCount="10842" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie adaptations of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Langdon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Robert Langdon book series&lt;/a&gt; have been released in the wrong order. The order of the books is &lt;em&gt;&quot;Angels &amp;amp; Demons&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Da Vinci Code&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Lost Symbol&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, and then &lt;em&gt;&quot;Inferno&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. But when it comes to the movies, &lt;em&gt;The Da Vinci Code&lt;/em&gt; was filmed and released before &lt;em&gt;Angels &amp;amp; Demons&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Inferno&lt;/em&gt; will be next while &lt;em&gt;The Lost Symbol&lt;/em&gt; hasn't been adapted yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are the movie adaptions in the wrong order?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-12-12T07:18:55.840" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T07:18:55.840" Title="Why are the movie adaptations of the Robert Langdon book series in a random order?" Tags="|book-adaptation|inferno|angels-and-demons|the-da-vinci-code|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14789" CreationDate="2013-10-25T14:33:20.633" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say that this order was prescribed by &lt;em&gt;The Da Vinci Code&lt;/em&gt; (the book)'s high success. While Dan Brown might have been regarded as a best-selling author even before &lt;em&gt;The Da Vinci Code&lt;/em&gt;, this book was a major success world-wide and gathered an attention much higher than &lt;em&gt;Angels &amp;amp; Demons&lt;/em&gt; or any of his previous books did, I think. So it was just a matter of time till it got turned into a movie. And only later after a whole bigger crowd had noticed &lt;em&gt;Dan Brown&lt;/em&gt; and after the &lt;em&gt;Da Vinci Code&lt;/em&gt; movie was a big success, too, they are catching up on &lt;em&gt;Robert Langdon&lt;/em&gt;'s previous adventures. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_%26_Demons_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; seems to support this to some degree:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 2003, Sony &lt;strong&gt;acquired the film rights to Angels &amp;amp; Demons along with&#xA;  The Da Vinci Code&lt;/strong&gt; in a deal with author Dan Brown. [...] Director&#xA;  Ron Howard chose to treat Angels &amp;amp; Demons as a sequel to the previous&#xA;  film, rather than a prequel, since &lt;strong&gt;many had read the novel after The&#xA;  Da Vinci Code&lt;/strong&gt;. He liked the idea that Langdon had been through one&#xA;  adventure and become a more confident character. Howard was also more&#xA;  comfortable taking liberties in adapting the story because &lt;strong&gt;the novel&#xA;  is less popular than The Da Vinci Code&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as to why &lt;em&gt;The Lost Symbol&lt;/em&gt; was skipped for the movies, I don't have as obvious a theory, yet. Maybe it was to profit from the temporal adjacency to &lt;em&gt;Inferno&lt;/em&gt;'s publication or maybe &lt;em&gt;The Lost Symbol&lt;/em&gt; didn't sell too well (though that doesn't seem the case). But given the summaries on Wikipedia, it may also be that they wanted to continue &lt;em&gt;Robert Langdon&lt;/em&gt;'s travel through the Old World and Renaissance history as in the previous movies, which &lt;em&gt;Inferno&lt;/em&gt; seems to be pretty in line with. &lt;em&gt;The Lost Symbol&lt;/em&gt; seems to tread quite a different path, having him on a chase through American history and Freemasonry in Washington D.C., a path that the &lt;em&gt;National Treasure&lt;/em&gt; franchise already went rather successfully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also seems, that they indeed wanted to do &lt;em&gt;The Lost Symbol&lt;/em&gt; after &lt;em&gt;Angels &amp;amp; Demons&lt;/em&gt;, but changed their mind when &lt;em&gt;Inferno&lt;/em&gt; was released in mid-2013. There were also issues with &lt;em&gt;Ron Howard&lt;/em&gt; opting out for the supposed &lt;em&gt;The Lost Symbol&lt;/em&gt; but rejoining when the plan switched to &lt;em&gt;Inferno&lt;/em&gt; (along with screenwriter &lt;em&gt;David Koepp&lt;/em&gt;?), so maybe that was a factor, too, as can be read &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/sony-dates-latest-dan-brown-movie-inferno-for-december-2015-will-come-before-lost-symbol/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tom Hanks and Ron Howard, the star and director, respectively, of&#xA;  Sony’s first two tentpole movies based on Dan Brown’s novels, are&#xA;  returning for Inferno, we’ve learned. &lt;strong&gt;Hanks had been expected to&#xA;  reprise his role as Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon for The Lost&#xA;  Symbol&lt;/strong&gt;, the third novel in Brown’s book series. But &lt;strong&gt;Howard had bowed&#xA;  out of that project&lt;/strong&gt;, which is now on the back burner, saying he wanted&#xA;  to produce it with Brian Grazer and their Imagine Entertainment but&#xA;  not direct. Now we’re hearing &lt;strong&gt;he’ll return for Inferno&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;PREVIOUS BREAKING…Inferno was released in May and is the fourth Robert&#xA;  Langdon book written by The Da Vinci Code and Angels &amp;amp; Demons author&#xA;  Dan Brown. Sony, which has film rights to the franchise, has just set&#xA;  a December 18, 2015 release date for it. &lt;strong&gt;David Koepp, who wrote Angels&#xA;  &amp;amp; Demons, is aboard to write the script&lt;/strong&gt;. The news means Brown’s third&#xA;  installment of the thriller series, The Lost Symbol, will not be the&#xA;  next movie for Sony. &lt;strong&gt;Danny Strong had been set to write that&#xA;  adaptation&lt;/strong&gt; in March 2012 and the expectation was the film would be&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;directed by Mark Romanek after Ron Howard opted out&lt;/strong&gt; of directing as he&#xA;  had done on the first two pics. Not much has been heard of that&#xA;  project since, and now &lt;strong&gt;Sony is leapfrogging it for Inferno&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-06-19T23:53:42.053" LastActivityDate="2016-06-19T23:53:42.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14775" CreationDate="2013-10-25T16:52:10.907" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Skynet needed the humans &quot;to do lab testing on their stem cells. This research on humans led to the creation of the Series 800 Terminator.&quot; That quote is from Terminator Wiki &lt;a href=&quot;http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Harvester&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update:&lt;/em&gt; According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Skynet_Work_Camp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a quote from Kyle Reese&lt;/a&gt; in the original Terminator movie, Skynet collected humans in concentration camps for mass disposal, also using some humans as workers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kyle Reese: &quot;Most of us were rounded up, put in camps for orderly&#xA;disposal. (pulls up his right sleeve, exposing a barcode) This is&#xA;burned in by laser scan. Some of us were kept alive... to work...&#xA;loading bodies. The disposal units ran night and day.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2013-10-26T05:25:08.157" LastActivityDate="2013-10-26T05:25:08.157" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14792" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17789" CreationDate="2013-10-25T17:21:30.677" Score="15" ViewCount="34456" Body="&lt;p&gt;After reading today's &lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/1282/&quot;&gt;XKCD&lt;/a&gt;, I've actually become curious.  Is there any record of a contestant actually wanting to go home with the goat (or other Zonk!) on Let's Make a Deal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6529" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-18T11:55:33.703" LastActivityDate="2019-11-30T23:29:36.863" Title="Did anyone ever actually take home the goat from &quot;Let's Make A Deal&quot;?" Tags="|lets-make-a-deal|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14787" CreationDate="2013-10-25T18:55:28.723" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Jackie Aprile was the street boss of the DiMeo crime family. However, Tony was a ranking &lt;em&gt;caporegime&lt;/em&gt;: a captain of his own crime crew and with his own territory, but still answerable to the family's boss, Jackie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T18:55:28.723" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14794" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14799" CreationDate="2013-10-25T20:24:51.533" Score="4" ViewCount="2513" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently the CBS sitcom &quot;We Are Men&quot; was cancelled after just two episodes aired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine that several more episodes of the show had been filmed. Am I correct? And if so, what will happen to these episodes? Will they ever be released online or on DVD? (Today, more than two weeks after cancellation, the &quot;We Are Men&quot; website only offers the first two shows.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or do sitcoms film each episode week-to-week during the actual season, such that there actually aren't any episodes that have been filmed but not broadcast?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T23:33:37.220" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T23:33:37.220" Title="What happens to unbroadcasted episodes of cancelled series?" Tags="|distribution|cancellation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14797" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-25T21:45:00.713" Score="5" ViewCount="5503" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie City of God, who was the man that Changes the name of Li'll Dice to Li'll Z?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YLHXc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5555" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T22:07:04.000" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T20:23:54.837" Title="Who is this man changing the name of Little Dice to Li'll Z?" Tags="|character|city-of-god|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14794" CreationDate="2013-10-25T22:00:03.740" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_Men&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;four episodes&lt;/a&gt; according to Wikipedia. And &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=We%20Are%20Men&amp;amp;ie=utf-8&amp;amp;oe=utf-8&amp;amp;aq=t&amp;amp;rls=org.mozilla%3aen-US%3aofficial&amp;amp;client=firefox-a&amp;amp;channel=rcs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;six episodes&lt;/a&gt; according to Google's sidebar: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;S1, Ep6    We Are Gentlemen    Nov 4, 2013&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  S1, Ep5    We Are Wingmen          Oct 28, 2013&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  S1, Ep4    We Are Learning to Swim Oct 21, 2013&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  S1, Ep3    We Are One Night Stands Oct 14, 2013&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  S1, Ep2    We are Dognappers   Oct 07, 2013&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  S1, Ep1    Pilot                   Sep 30, 2013  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, the titles and scripts may have been in place for scheduling, but it doesn't necessarily mean the episodes were completed. No word yet on a DVD release, but as most things eventually get released there is no reason to assume these episodes would not be included. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, Firefly was cancelled in the winter of 2002 with 3 unaired episodes. They were released on DVD and subsequently aired the following summer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T22:10:57.820" LastActivityDate="2013-10-25T22:10:57.820" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14794" CreationDate="2013-10-25T22:03:29.427" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on the show in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, apart from the obvious live programs, TV Shows are filmed well in advance, and usually have at least a half-dozen episodes in some stage of post-production at a time. Dramas that are cancelled in this middle of their production season will definitely have leftover episodes. (This is one reason networks prefer to send shows on &quot;hiatus&quot;, or let the season end, before cancelling them.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens to those episodes depends on the contract negotiations between the network and the producer. Those contract terms could literally say anything that both parties are willing to agree to, so every show will be slightly different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in a typical scenario, the network orders a fixed number of episodes up-front, before the first one airs, and is thus forced to pay for all of them. If the network chooses to cancel the order prematurely, they may be required to pay for the rest of the initial order, or may not, but generally the production company is only going to finish producing episodes they're getting paid for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that point, the network has the option to do whatever they feel is the best business decision for them. Often times they will &quot;burn off&quot; remaining episodes of a program on weekends, using them as filler for otherwise empty hours of programming. This may be put on the schedule immediately, or the network may hold onto the programming until they need it. Since they have purchased the first-run broadcast rights to the episode, they have sole discretion on when, how, and &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; the episode runs. The only major alternative would be syndicated re-runs, and even then, that assumes the network is willing to sell rebroadcast rights, and that anyone's willing to buy them. These days, getting syndication at anything less than ~4 years worth of episodes is a tough sell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also likely that completed but unaired episodes of a program will show up on a DVD, but that assumes a DVD will be released in the first place. In the case of a program with only two aired episodes, it's likely the network won't even consider it worth the cost to produce DVDs. So odds are, we're probably never going to see the rest of those episodes unless someone's willing to buy the network's broadcast rights from them and air them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2013-10-27T01:19:15.830" LastActivityDate="2013-10-27T01:19:15.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14801" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18971" CreationDate="2013-10-25T23:03:35.417" Score="5" ViewCount="351" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the course of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278504/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Insomnia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Ellie&lt;/em&gt; is given the task of investigating the death of &lt;em&gt;Det. Eckhart&lt;/em&gt;, who is supposed to have been shot by the killer, but who we know was shot by his partner &lt;em&gt;Det. Dormer&lt;/em&gt;. When &lt;em&gt;Ellie&lt;/em&gt; has finished her report she hands it to &lt;em&gt;Det. Dormer&lt;/em&gt; to sign it. Yet he rejects it and says she should double check it and make sure everything is correct (forgive me for not quoting it word-accurate):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ellie:&lt;/em&gt; My report, it's finished. You only have to read and sign it. It basically explians itself all by itself. Looking forward to working with&#xA;  you again, we got more important things to do here than this paper&#xA;  work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dormer (retreating the pen):&lt;/em&gt; A man is dead Ellie, that is important. Make sure of all the facts before handing this in, your name is on this&#xA;  report.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But right before reading that report he went out of his way to cover his guilt in &lt;em&gt;Eckhart&lt;/em&gt;'s death and foist it on the killer (e.g. by hiding the gun and substituting the bullets). So why would he now urge &lt;em&gt;Ellie&lt;/em&gt; to investigate further if he could just have had it filed away by simply signing her report? (And indeed she finds contradictions between his statements and the evidences after looking further.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2013-10-25T23:20:36.130" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T21:09:06.083" Title="Why does Dormer hesitate to sign Ellie's report?" Tags="|plot-explanation|insomnia|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12083" CreationDate="2013-10-26T02:08:34.167" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The British show &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SPACED&lt;/a&gt; consisted of two &quot;series&quot; each 7 episodes long. Each series was completely written before filming began. It allowed them to have more natural call-backs and to keep a more strict control over the tone of the program. It's also brilliant and funny and made by the chaps who brought us Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastActivityDate="2013-10-26T02:08:34.167" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12042" CreationDate="2013-10-26T03:53:34.460" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;He is no longer Andy Dufresne. He is now Randall Stevens.  The only person who would know that name was the warden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6534" LastActivityDate="2013-10-26T03:53:34.460" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14804" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-26T03:54:47.857" Score="3" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;AFAIK the original story arc ended in season five, before they started writing new material. All I remember is that there was some sort of conspiracy going on within the ranks of the angels and that Castiel was a 'rebel' so to speak and that 'God had left them.' Although this was toyed with when 'God' supposedly saved Dean in one episode. As I stopped watching after the fifth season ended, I can't really comment any further. Upon googling, I couldn't really seemed to find any information on whether or not they abandoned the concept or developed it further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone elaborate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6533" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T10:20:39.607" Title="What role does God (the character) play post season five?" Tags="|supernatural|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14804" CreationDate="2013-10-26T05:14:44.933" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are multiple references to God abandoning His post and leaving Heaven and the angels, but there haven't been any appearances or messages from Him as far as I can tell. Heaven has just been in turmoil and getting worse. I can't say too much more without revealing spoilers, of which there are many. The showrunners have kept a decent level of quality, even if not quite up to Eric Kripke's original story. All things considered, the show is still good with no definite end in sight without feeling overly soap-operatic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;God remains AWOL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2013-10-28T08:19:21.057" LastActivityDate="2013-10-28T08:19:21.057" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14806" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14807" CreationDate="2013-10-26T05:30:52.020" Score="13" ViewCount="1204" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last season of Breaking Bad, Hank and Gomez put Saul's right-hand man Huell in their custody and instructed him not to leave until they said so. A few episodes later Hank and Gomez are killed and since this was a secret mission, no one else would have known about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened to Huell after all the apocalypse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2013-10-27T00:35:05.053" LastActivityDate="2022-08-02T11:27:04.433" Title="What happened to Saul's right hand man Huell?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14806" CreationDate="2013-10-26T09:30:36.140" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/M5h6I.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst there is no definitive answer to this, I imagine sooner or later he just got on with his life...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP_4z4IoYHs&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;for your pleasure...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2013-10-26T09:30:36.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14776" CreationDate="2013-10-26T21:45:44.060" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This exact question is covered on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26732/why-didnt-skynet-kill-kyle-reese&quot;&gt;SE SciFi &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/a&gt; quite extensively, but I don't think it was ever resolved. There is a lot of speculation about this, but some just think that paradoxes ensue where time travel is used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In another post on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22515/is-skynet-trying-to-turn-kyle-reese-into-a-terminator-at-the-end-of-terminator-4&quot;&gt;SF&amp;amp;F&lt;/a&gt;, they talk about an episode on T:TSCC where they show Kyle Reese being captured and at the Skynet facility. Here he is interrogated. They make mention of why he was there, primarily to force John Connor to attempt a rescue, but not to kill him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is plenty of speculation, but nothing hard and fast as to why or how Skynet knows about Kyle and why they are after him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for T3, it was the only showing (TV or movie) which did not feature Kyle Reese in some way (he was in out takes in T2), so it would not be of much help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2013-10-26T21:45:44.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14810" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14811" CreationDate="2013-10-27T03:45:11.020" Score="4" ViewCount="1170" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the connection between Sex and the City and The Carrie Diaries? Is it Carrie Bradshaw's childhood days shown in The Carrie Diaries? If so what happens to Carrie's sister in The Carrie Diaries? She is never shown in Sex and the City (not even for her wedding). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6186" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-03-12T16:48:51.053" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T16:50:54.607" Title="Sex and the City and The Carrie Diaries" Tags="|sex-and-the-city-tv|the-carrie-diaries|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14810" CreationDate="2013-10-27T07:07:38.980" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carrie_Diaries_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Carrie Diaries (TV Series)&lt;/a&gt; is a prequel to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_the_City&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sex and the City&lt;/a&gt;. It is based on the novel &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carrie_Diaries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Carrie Diaries&lt;/a&gt;. You are right that Carrie Bradshaw's story is being told in the TV series, but I am unaware of the novel's story, so can't tell you what happened to Dorrit. But in the TV series it's in the second season and very few episodes were broadcast yet. So it's too soon to speculate why &lt;a href=&quot;http://the-carrie-diaries.wikia.com/wiki/Dorrit_Bradshaw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dorrit Bradshaw&lt;/a&gt; didn't attended the marriage and where she is in Sex and the City.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-12T16:50:54.607" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T16:50:54.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14812" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-27T12:59:51.350" Score="4" ViewCount="10391" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;Taking Lives&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; we see that it was James Costa aka Martin Asher who is the real killer. But by that time this is discovered he has had sex with Scott, has taken another life and has escaped. Scott is terminated from her service at the FBI for her conduct. In the last scene, few months later, we see Scott, pregnant, coming from a store to a secluded house living all alone. Asher/Costa arrives there and abuses and threatens her to start fresh with him.  Finally he loses his mind and stabs Scott in her belly, but Scott pulls back the scissors and stabs his chest revealing that this whole thing was staged(she isn't pregnant) to nab Costa/Asher. Scott then tells Leclair about their success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is if this whole sacking of Scott and her living secluded, pregnant, was a set up to catch Asher/Costa, as he would come to her, How can Scott kill him? She is bound by the law, this whole thing was a setup by the authorities. She expected Asher/Costa to abuse her when he came and possibly attempt to kill her, but how can she kill him and get away with the law. He is not a convicted murderer. He hasn't undergone a trial. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Leclair must have known that Asher/Costa would try to harm her, so why didn't he have an arrangement to catch the killer alive. Is this setup and most importantly, the killing part, legally justified?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-09T15:52:01.980" LastActivityDate="2016-10-24T19:39:13.383" Title="Is the ending of the movie &quot;Taking Lives&quot; legally justified?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|ending|taking-lives|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14840" CreationDate="2013-10-27T16:59:59.877" Score="9" ViewCount="1360" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;i&gt;Cloud Atlas&lt;/i&gt;, the timelines are not only connected mystically through reincarnation and imagery of past lives (broad explanation), but directly via stories transferred over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Half of the slavery era biography is read by the WWII era composer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The WWII era composer's letters and music are heard by the 1970's journalist.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Oppressive Future's clone servant watches the adaptation of the 2012 publisher's escape from the nursing home.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Post-Apocalyptic Future worships the legend of the Oppressive Future's clone servant and her recorded confession also appears.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There appears to be nothing connecting the 2012 publisher's timeline to any prior one, expressing how he (or anyone else in his era, for that matter) gained knowledge/experience from a prior era. I would suspect maybe he published the composer's letters (possibly given to him by the niece?) or the story of the journalist, but I must have missed it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What connects the 2012 story to those which came prior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2013-10-27T18:35:37.933" LastActivityDate="2013-10-28T17:39:05.020" Title="How does the 2012 storyline connect to the prior storylines in Cloud Atlas?" Tags="|plot-explanation|cloud-atlas|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14814" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-27T17:15:52.063" Score="4" ViewCount="1860" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Sting&lt;/em&gt;, Loretta Salino, Lonnegan's assassin, masquerades as a waitress in a diner in order to get close to Hooker. Why the need for all the subterfuge? Considering how easily she herself was eventually killed, couldn't she have accomplished the same thing herself? Hooker was a small timer after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T10:26:09.783" Title="Why the subterfuge by Salino?" Tags="|character|the-sting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14815" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-27T17:38:37.667" Score="2" ViewCount="664" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Sting&lt;/em&gt;, a key element lies in the fact that Lonnegan and his people do not realise that Hooker and Kelly are the same person. Why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do Lonnegan's two goons know what Hooker looks like?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does Salino know what Hooker looks like?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Doesn't Salino pick Hooker/Kelly up from right outside Lonnegan's place? Or, was this Gondorff's man?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do both these parties locate Hooker?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realise that the story was set in 1936.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-27T18:15:24.940" LastActivityDate="2020-06-19T10:10:22.830" Title="The confusion between Hooker and Kelly" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-sting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14816" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-27T17:57:46.980" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-27T17:57:46.980" LastActivityDate="2013-10-27T17:57:46.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14817" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-27T17:57:46.980" Score="0" Body="1973 American caper film set in September 1936, involving a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw)." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-27T17:57:46.980" LastActivityDate="2013-10-27T17:57:46.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14818" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-27T18:17:58.153" Score="3" ViewCount="476" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would the plot of &lt;em&gt;The Sting&lt;/em&gt; have worked if the character of Salino had never been introduced? While Salino does kill one of Lonnegan's other assassins, they do not appear to impact the plot in any other manner. Yet the character, while a surprise during the reveal, seems to lack substance, at least to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the character necessary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="33375" LastEditDate="2021-09-22T16:20:29.593" LastActivityDate="2021-09-22T16:20:29.593" Title="Would the plot have worked without Salino?" Tags="|character|the-sting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30" CreationDate="2013-10-27T19:27:56.147" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;After going almost completely insane thinking about this movie and trying to solve it, I believe that it is a metaphor. In the beginning, &quot;Mazzy&quot; says &quot;If you piss off enough people, they will eventually become your fans, and that makes other people want to listen because those pissed off people tell other people they know and get them pissed off&quot;. Well, killing or murdering someone or committing suicide is a complete bastardization of mankind by God, right? Well, if he is spreading all this negative energy to people... In the end anyway, he says &quot;Kill is Kiss&quot;. So in other words, he is telling people the opposite now, that instead of bad being good, good is bad. This in turn corrects the negative energy. The idea for this movie is in some way original. I do not know about other people, but long before I saw this movie, I would get deeply lost in thought trying to repeat a word because it all of the sudden didn't make any sense. Now the whole point of this movie, is to literally screw with your mind. It is just enough, I believe, to make a mentally unstable person to go completely insane if they watch this movie. I almost did. I still feel different. This movie messed with my mind so much, I really could not think of anything, at all, in my brain. I feel like my soul literally got lost in the back of my brain somewhere and could not come out. I couldn't even move my body, not even shut my eyes. I started hearing voices, and seeing things, I was scared of the voices. Then, all of the sudden, like a snap of a finger, it stopped. But my mind still feels half lost in the middle of nowhere. Watching this movie literally made me feel like I did a hallucinogenic drug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, in the movie, in the late beginning, apparently only English words are infections - some English words - particularly - anything that involves LOVE. Words like Sweetie, Lovely, Cutie, Lovely, Precious - Turned people into killing machines. Maybe because it is another metaphor for people not ever being able to understand what love is? Also, this movie happens on Valentines Day - Feb. 14 - Hmm... Curious. If Kill is Kiss... and Kiss is kill... think about that Kiss is Kill. Got it now? All the hate bottled up in people is misinterpreted - and when someone says that to love is to kill... the meaning of the word gets jumbled, and they believe that they are supposed to love and kiss, but if they believe now what to kill is to love and kiss, then that is what they will do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say, for example, if you took the word breathe. Now think about it hard. Say this word to yourself 20 times. Eventually this word will become unknown to you. In the back of your head, you know what it means, but the definition of the word you are thinking about or saying has been lost. It is alien to you, because you usually do not think about words like that when you say them, you just say them and you leave it be. But when you try to think about what the word you are saying means, you can lose your sense of language, and everything and every word will become unknown. In the movie, just the title of the film itself is a metaphor. Pontypool. What the hell does that mean? Exactly! If you say Pontypool over in your head enough times, it makes absolutely no sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Words lose their meaning when you repeat them them them them them them them them them them them them them them them them them&quot; - If people all over town saw Honey on the cat posters so much:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bRHDN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honey the Cat - Lost - Friendly and Affectionate. Lost friendly. Lost honey. Lost affectionate. Honey is lost. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the people in the movie that are supposedly sick with the contaminant, then all the words they are repeating and saying... maybe do not make sense when you think about it. It is a repeating process that they cannot come out of. Another MAJOR point in the movie, is the cat posters. Almost forgot about that didn't you.? Well what could they mean? Well the Cat's name is HONEY. Where are you Honey. Honey. Honey. If everybody in the town went insane from reading the cat posters all around town, then Honey is the first infected word? Maybe the person who put those posters there knew it. Or maybe she already had it from her cat. Maybe the cat spread the virus? Who knows. If Pontypool means Typo, then is Pontypool an error. Is their town bad. Words rooted within other words? Have I lost you yet or jumbled your mind? Have you gone completely insane?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few things that do not make sense still... besides from almost everything (ha) - why only the English language? Why emotion related words? Any words using emotion spreads it if you understand it? Why the cat posters? Could they be metaphors for people losing their loved ones? LOVED ones. If they lose emotion, they lost what makes them human. They cannot handle emotions, and strong words like Love and Darling... I don't know I'm starting to mumble, so I am going to try to stop here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyways tell me what you think? Is it like it is, is there a deeper meaning, is there more than meets the eye, why emotion and love related words, why only the English language, why the cat posters, and why Valentine's Day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;lurking in the center of Pontypool is the word &quot;typo&quot;?&quot;&#xA;&quot;The crux of Pontypool is a question of whether mass communication does more harm than good. Mazzy is torn between going off the air to prevent the spread of the virus and using his mouthpiece to warn the citizens of Pontypool of the plague. Mazzy's ego, like the plague itself, won't let him stop talking.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;In the beginning of the movie, the omniscient voices says &quot;Pontypool... Pontypool, PontyPull... PantyPull&quot; This is an example of the metaphor behind the basis of the title itself and also the movie itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I believe that the ending is just there to make a point that you should be confused by events to save yourself from the virus, or that its tongue in cheek that watching the film, you may have picked up the virus and the end bit 'cures' you from your fate, either way, very clever.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I believe that the initial cursed word was not 'Pontypool' itself, but 'Honey', The Cat named honey, posters all over town with everyone seeing all day, then used again in the French Army broadcast 'Please refrain from using terms of affection such as 'Honey', Sweetheart.. and so on...' and next time you watch it, watch how many times 'Sydney' says the word throughout the film, it must be a good six or seven times!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think another point of this movie, is that the American and English media, is turning people into brain-washed, out of control, psychotic people. The American media is so very false and beyond the point of no return when it comes to lying all the time, it is all they do, and people believe them. The American Media is completely false. Nothing they say is the truth. It is very liberal, mainly because of President Barrack Obama, same for the Nazis in World War II. The media is destroying us. We are literally being brainwashed and turning into zombies. I've seen it for myself, even in my family, my aunt. She is completely brainwashed and there is no turning her back. She is a liberal Obamazombie. France and Canada obviously know this is true, and it is, but sadly our own American people cannot figure that out. They think they are being told the truth. George Orwell's 1984 ring a bell here? If the words they are telling them appear to be the truth but are actually not the truth, then this can jumble the meaning, leading them to insanity. In 1984, words are deleted every day not created. Anything to do with knowing the truth is terminated. The only thing the people can do is listen to the lies, even knowing that they are false, they will hear it so much it will become the truth. So lies are now truth. Lie is Truth. Truth is a lie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6543" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-02-27T20:00:13.880" LastActivityDate="2019-02-27T20:00:13.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14821" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14834" CreationDate="2013-10-27T22:03:31.383" Score="5" ViewCount="2203" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;Now You See Me&quot;, during the second magic show, the Four Horseman steal all of Arthur Tressler's money and give it away to people who had previously held insurance agreements with one of Arthur's companies that had refused to pay out after a natural disaster. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm no expert on the American banking system, but surely in the instance where something like this happened, with the FBI watching it happen and confirming it had happened, the banks would reverse all of the transactions and return all of Arthur Tressler's money to him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't Arthur Tressler's bank return all of his money under the circumstances?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-10-28T11:17:13.043" Title="Wouldn't Arthur Tressler's bank return all of his money under the circumstances?" Tags="|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14822" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14846" CreationDate="2013-10-27T22:06:52.290" Score="10" ViewCount="2743" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the Four Horseman's final trick, they steal a safe and pack all of the money into Thaddeus Bradley's car in a way that would prevent you from being able to get into the car, let alone drive it. At that precise moment in time the police turn up and arrest him for the theft of the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cgUD2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't Thaddeus Bradley having all of the money stuffed into his car demonstrate his innocence? Surely the way these events played out would prevent him from actually being sentenced and thus Dylan's overall goal would fail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-29T05:56:42.853" LastActivityDate="2021-07-09T05:59:26.973" Title="Wouldn't Thaddeus Bradley having all of the money stuffed into his car demonstrate his innocence?" Tags="|plot-explanation|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14824" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-27T22:33:36.153" Score="7" ViewCount="2088" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the scene where Thaddeus Bradley visits the Four Horseman before their second show, J Daniel Atlas performs a trick where he somehow gets a card with the words &quot;Suck It&quot; into Thaddeus Bradley's pocket.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vX64I.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did this trick work? Surely somebody with as keen of an eye as Thaddeus would have noticed a card being placed into his pocket?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="6245" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T06:33:04.937" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T21:30:49.260" Title="How did Daniel Atlas get the &quot;Suck It&quot; card into Thaddeus Bradley's pocket?" Tags="|plot-explanation|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14826" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15292" CreationDate="2013-10-28T00:48:15.973" Score="22" ViewCount="3341" Body="&lt;p&gt;When did the writers plan Monica and Chandler were going to get together in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108778/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? I am wondering how far in advance it was planned, as there's such a long history between the two characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31942" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-11T02:42:33.123" LastActivityDate="2013-11-21T01:07:47.853" Title="When did the writers plan that Monica and Chandler would get together?" Tags="|friends|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1193" CreationDate="2013-10-28T00:50:21.957" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Yes, I know this topic was started over an year ago)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't know about Biff's deleted scene where he fades out of existence. Because of that, this has become my point of view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In BTTF1, Marty traveled back to 1955-A and changed his future, thus creating a 1985-B where he didn't exist. The future took some time to change, but since he was 30 years in the past, changes took longer to catch up to him so it took almost half the movie for him to start disappearing, giving him the chance to fix things. When his parents finally got back together, he created a new 1985-C where he did exist and also time traveled, so he stopped disappearing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In BTTF2, Doc, Marty and Jennifer traveled to the future. How can their future selfs exist there if they disappeared in 1985? Because the timeline takes time to adjust like in BTTF1. If they had stayed long enough, they would have transitioned/faded into a new 2015 where their future selfs don't exist. Also, any changes they made to their future will be futile because the moment you know something about your future, you're already changing it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Biff traveled back to 1955-C and drastically changed the future, thus creating 1985-D and 2015-D (we never saw 2015-D). Again, changes took some time to happen, so when he returned to 2015, it was still 2015-C. He eventually faded into 2015-D in the deleted scene (dead or alive, doesn't matter) taking much less time than Marty in the 1st movie.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Doc, Marty and Jennifer were still in 2015-C, but they weren't the ones responsible for the new 2015-D neither they belonged in 2015, so 2015-C only ceased to exist for them when they left in the Delorean. By traveling back to 1985, they entered the new 1985-D timeline created by Biff.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since they traveled back 30 years into the past, and then another 30 years into 1955, they had enough time to fix things before starting to disappear. The Delorean didn't exist in 1985-D because Doc was in an Asylum and never created it, but since it's the only tie-in between timelines, it cannot simply cease to exist, but it could still take damage, and eventually was destroyed in BTTF3.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In BTTF3, Doc and Marty didn't disappear because their future was fixed, they only needed to return to it. Jennifer was left on the porch in 1985-D and when Doc and Marty shot their way into a new timeline (changing Clayton Ravine to Eastwood Ravine), she transitioned/faded from 1985-D into 1985-E while she was sleeping.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, all the original plot needed to be more consistent was the deleted scene and a better explanation from Doc about the &quot;fading&quot;, but that could become too technical for the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Edited to include all 3 movies)&#xA;(edited to explain Marty's existence in the future of BTTF2)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6546" LastEditorUserId="6546" LastEditDate="2013-10-28T16:38:59.653" LastActivityDate="2013-10-28T16:38:59.653" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12143" CreationDate="2013-10-28T04:39:11.880" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;His speciality was manipulating people. Therefore she was nothing more than a device for the purpose of breaking down barriers of those he was interrogating.&#xA;I've never seen his wife in any episode. Nor has anyone else. &#xA;&quot;Oh, and just one more thing.&quot; She was under the weather, and unable to accompany him at verious engagements frequently. I think perhaps he was referring to his dog, who oddly enough was in several episodes.&#xA;Case closed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6551" LastEditorUserId="6551" LastEditDate="2013-10-28T05:45:27.360" LastActivityDate="2013-10-28T05:45:27.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14830" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14831" CreationDate="2013-10-28T07:40:08.983" Score="2" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Jason Statham film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hummingbird&lt;/a&gt; (AKA 'Redemption' &amp;amp;  'Crazy Joe'), who or what was 'Hummingbird'?  I guessed it was his operative name in the special forces, but could not confirm that from two viewings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-28T08:14:08.987" LastActivityDate="2013-10-28T08:47:43.537" Title="Who or what was Hummingbird?" Tags="|character|hummingbird|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14830" CreationDate="2013-10-28T08:26:39.903" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;hummingbird&lt;/em&gt;, literally speaking, was the call-sign of the &lt;em&gt;drone&lt;/em&gt; in Afghanistan that was &lt;em&gt;witness&lt;/em&gt; to Joe's actions. The imaginary hummingbirds are a motif that represent Joe's PTSD and his guilt, the proverbial albatross around his neck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joe believes that he is lethal when he is sober and becomes dangerous to those around him. The summer he spends sober is no different. During this period, Sister Cristina is his hummingbird, bearing &lt;em&gt;witness&lt;/em&gt; to his actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see him reverting back to being a harmless homeless man in the end. But we are also told that it won't last as he is again shown to be under surveillance by London's network of CCTV cameras.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(There is a sub-plot with Cristina's own story which also ties into the whole witness/guilt theme.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-28T08:47:43.537" LastActivityDate="2013-10-28T08:47:43.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14832" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-28T08:29:37.523" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-28T08:29:37.523" LastActivityDate="2013-10-28T08:29:37.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14833" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-28T08:29:37.523" Score="0" Body="Hummingbird (released as &quot;Redemption&quot; in the US and &quot;Crazy Joe&quot; in France) is a 2013 British-American action thriller film written and directed by Steven Knight and starring Jason Statham." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-28T08:29:37.523" LastActivityDate="2013-10-28T08:29:37.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14821" CreationDate="2013-10-28T11:17:13.043" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bank accounts in the US (I &lt;em&gt;believe&lt;/em&gt; this was a US bank, but not sure) are covered under an insurance provided by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fdic.gov/deposit/deposits/dis/&quot;&gt;FDIC&lt;/a&gt;. Assuming all of his money was in one account, as seems the case, the deposit would only have been covered for $250,000. From a realism point of view, no person with that sort of money would have kept all of their money in one account or one location. They would be highly diversified, not only from an earnings side of things, but from a safety side of things to prevent just this sort of action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the &quot;FBI watching it happen&quot;, since Rhodes is the lead investigator and the instigator, he would not have pursued any action which would interrupt that plan. He either would not have provided any information or would have conveniently destroyed any information garnered from the investigation. He had put too much time and effort into the entire scheme and would not have any bit of it fall apart in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-10-28T11:17:13.043" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14839" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14844" CreationDate="2013-10-28T14:43:55.560" Score="16" ViewCount="14224" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416449/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;300&lt;/em&gt; (2006)&lt;/a&gt;, why does Xerxes consider himself a god? Is there a back story for him somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T16:21:26.500" LastActivityDate="2023-07-15T15:06:45.317" Title="Why does Xerxes think he's a god?" Tags="|character|300|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14813" CreationDate="2013-10-28T15:26:10.520" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The publisher gets a manuscript of a novel called, &quot;Half Lives: A Luisa Rey Mystery&quot; by an author named Javier Gomez. This is the name of the boy in the Luisa Rey (1970's) section. Several times, the young boy says something along the lines of, &quot;This would make a great mystery novel!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRZcJ5IOIg8&quot;&gt;in this video excerpt at 30 seconds&lt;/a&gt;, the publisher is reading the manuscript while resting in his room at the asylum.  It goes by very quickly and can be easily missed without subsequent viewings or pausing on the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2013-10-28T17:39:05.020" LastActivityDate="2013-10-28T17:39:05.020" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14845" CreationDate="2013-10-28T16:30:47.187" Score="10" ViewCount="4637" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since Hank turns down the offer to return to El Paso, Steve Gomez is promoted instead of him. However, later in the series, in seasons 4 and 5, Steve Gomez is still in ABQ, working with Hank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is he not in El Paso?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-28T18:23:19.110" LastActivityDate="2017-07-24T07:46:46.473" Title="Why was Steve Gomez not promoted and did not move to El Paso?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14842" CreationDate="2013-10-28T16:32:46.257" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, he accepted the job. Maybe he moved to El Paso and came back from time to time? Maybe he came back to help Hank when he got Jessie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot isn't really clear on that point&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastActivityDate="2013-10-28T16:32:46.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14839" CreationDate="2013-10-28T17:31:32.280" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerxes_I&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;real &lt;em&gt;Xerxes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; there doesn't seem to be a background suggesting that he ever claimed himself to be an actual god, apart from the mandatory high self-esteem every great king and conqueror needs. Rather than that it is probably just that a naturally high self-esteem exaggerated in a way congruent with the rest of the movie's plot and style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you probably know, the movie is not an entirely accurate rendition of the real historical events, but rather an artistically distorted and exaggerated version (upto the point of including fantasy elements), and told from the viewpoint of the Spartans. And in light of this exaggeration and subjective viewpoint it makes perfect sense to depict &lt;em&gt;Xerxes&lt;/em&gt; as a god-like creature or someone who regards himself as a god. This is pretty in line with the whole depiction of the Persians as an invincible and ruthless army of millions (while tens of thousand would have been more accurate) and helps to emphasize both the contrast between them and the mere 300 Spartans with their more down-to-earth king &lt;em&gt;Leonidas&lt;/em&gt; and the hopelessness of the Spartans' situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Yet I also have to admit that this is an answer more based on common sense than elaborate research of the real events and the comic/movie's development process.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="83431" LastEditDate="2020-09-06T18:51:40.937" LastActivityDate="2020-09-06T18:51:40.937" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14842" CreationDate="2013-10-28T17:40:43.650" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Steve Gomez returned when Hank got attacked by Leonel and Marco Salamanca (Tuco's cousins). And Juan Bolsa also got shot during phone conversation to Gus by Mexican federals during investigation of Hank's attack. So after the death of Juan Bolsa, Leonel and Marco Salamanca whom DEA is searching in El Paso, there is no requirement left for Steve Gomez to investigate in there, so he doesn't go back after Hank's attack. Because the case was solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-07-24T07:46:46.473" LastActivityDate="2017-07-24T07:46:46.473" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14822" CreationDate="2013-10-28T19:42:03.887" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I most certainly agree with you; this seems to be not much more than just a &lt;em&gt;glaring plot-oversight&lt;/em&gt;.  In reality (I surmise), a brilliant robbery will have its share of vanity and stupidity, but I can't think of any reason why a mastermind thief would:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;make his &quot;getaway&quot; car literally unusable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;have all his money be un-contained in a public place (the floor of the parking garage)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So one might ask &quot;why would somebody fill his car up to the brim in cash, then systematically go and open each door and the trunk then step back and savor the view?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't outright imply his innocence, but it would definitely &lt;strong&gt;strongly&lt;/strong&gt; suggest he is being framed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1125" LastActivityDate="2013-10-28T19:42:03.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13894" CreationDate="2013-10-28T21:44:16.450" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;Man Vs Wild isn't real. If you watch the DVD extras, Bear introduces us to his team. There's a rope expert, a survival food expert, a medical guy etc. The point of the show is to show us how to survive in those situations. And at the beginning of each show there's a disclaimer stating that he is accompanied by a team of experts. He builds his shelters to teach us how to do it, but he doesn't have to stay in them. Once he's taught the viewer how it's done, his job is done. He can go check into a hotel and I don't see anything wrong with that. The show is educational, not a case of &quot;Look what I can do!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6555" LastActivityDate="2013-10-28T21:44:16.450" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14849" CreationDate="2013-10-28T22:15:33.957" Score="23" ViewCount="10125" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does Quentin Tarantino or any other screenwriter write dialog for a language he doesn't speak?  I have never found any mention of Tarantino being able to speak in any language other than English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Hans Landa speaks English, German, French, and Italian fluently. In fact, about a third of the film is non-English and is subtitled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have never heard anyone who speaks German, French, or Italian complaining that their language was written by a hack. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the language written in English first and then rewritten in the appropriate language? Or does he work with other writers as he is writing it? Did he learn the basics of other languages to write for those languages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-28T23:12:56.297" LastActivityDate="2023-09-20T19:27:38.897" Title="How does Quentin Tarantino write dialog for a language he doesn't speak?" Tags="|production|dialogue|inglourious-basterds|quentin-tarantino|screenwriter|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14848" CreationDate="2013-10-28T23:15:31.660" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's simple, really. What most screenwriters do is to write the entire script in the same language (which, in the case of Hollywood movies, is English) and then when there's a piece of dialog that's supposed to be spoken in some other language, all you have to do is tell the reader this by adding a parenthesis between the character's name and the dialog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;      VADER&#xA;  (in French)&#xA;No, I am your father.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main reason for this is that there's a &lt;strong&gt;huge&lt;/strong&gt; chance that the person who's going to read your script doesn't know that specific language. And, even if the reader happens to know that specific language it doesn't read as fast and as smooth as if the entire screenplay would've been written in the same language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When realizing that you don't actually have to know the language your characters are going to speak in the movie, some writers might get carried away and throw some foreign language-skills in there just to spice things up a bit. However, this isn't exactly recommended as it could easily turn a great, dramatic moment into something, well, ridiculous... Just like in the example above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2017-08-20T20:10:16.690" LastActivityDate="2017-08-20T20:10:16.690" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14850" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-28T23:42:57.307" Score="4" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first episode of He-Man (1983), Skeletor approaches Castle Grayskull with his cronies, and says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Without He-Man to defend it, Castle Grayskull will be ours!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the door is forced open, with the help of Tri-Klops, revealing He-Man behind the door. Tri-Klops has the ability to see through objects. Why didn't he see He-Man?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2013-11-02T02:01:51.037" LastActivityDate="2013-11-02T02:01:51.037" Title="Why didn't Tri-Klops see He-Man hiding in Castle Grayskull?" Tags="|plot-explanation|he-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14853" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-29T05:44:32.737" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Laurent, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth and Diane Kruger. The film tells the fictional alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's political leadership, one planned by a young French Jewish cinema proprietor (Laurent), and the other by a team of Jewish-American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt). The film's title was inspired by director Enzo G. Castellari's 1978 Macaroni Combat film, The Inglorious Bastards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglourious_Basterds&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-29T05:44:32.737" LastActivityDate="2013-10-29T05:44:32.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14854" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-29T05:44:32.737" Score="0" Body="2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-29T05:44:32.737" LastActivityDate="2013-10-29T05:44:32.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14855" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-29T10:12:08.710" Score="11" ViewCount="1451" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering what would have been the first film to depict stereotypical ideas of American High Schools. I can only think back as far as Grease (1978) or maybe Rebel Without a Cause (1955) but I'm not sure if that counts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6561" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-29T10:21:38.897" LastActivityDate="2013-10-29T20:27:08.410" Title="First American High School film?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14855" CreationDate="2013-10-29T10:39:03.687" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, there was Edison's film in 1900 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0336727/&quot;&gt;Lancaster, PA., High School&lt;/a&gt; ... I don't know if that is a &quot;stereo typical&quot; look at high school as it is just a documentary (and probably just Edison testing his movie camera), but that would be the first. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first which was not a documentary or a short was probably &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0014947/&quot;&gt;A Girl of the Limberlost&lt;/a&gt; from 1924.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a link to a search I did on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/title?plot=%22high%20school%22&amp;amp;sort=year,asc&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;. Search factors were just &quot;high school&quot; in plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-10-29T10:39:03.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14858" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-29T13:22:41.207" Score="3" ViewCount="802" Body="&lt;p&gt;If anyone has seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112445/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The White Balloon&lt;/a&gt; by Jafar Panahi, could you please share your view why the title of the film is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5002" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-29T13:28:39.270" LastActivityDate="2019-10-17T08:13:43.037" Title="Why is the movie titled &quot;The White Balloon&quot;?" Tags="|title|the-white-balloon|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14850" CreationDate="2013-10-29T14:27:01.787" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;May be the Castle Grayskull's doors are X-ray proof. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a serious note think about this Castle grayskull holds the secret of Eternia and all the elder's powers if Tri-Klops could peek into its doors it wouldn't make it much of a fortress really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I think that Sorceress magic is powerful even though it's not powerful compared to Skeletor's but I assume its good enough to give a primary layer to the Castle Grayskull which I presume would've stopped Tri-Klops' vision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: I have vague memories of the 83 show I am basing this answer on the new Heman show which came out in 2000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2013-10-29T14:28:10.440" LastActivityDate="2013-10-29T14:28:10.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14855" CreationDate="2013-10-29T15:05:47.383" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's important to note the sociological underpinnings of the high school film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From 1900 throughout the 1920s, most Americans lived in small rural communities. They usually only had one school, and by the time children were of high school age, they were usually working on the family farm or apprenticed to a vocation. Thus, there was no &quot;stereotypical&quot; high school, and very few movies were focused on the school aspects of children. Even in literature, stories about children in this time period usually focused on their adventures outside of the classroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The combined push of industrialization, the need to assimilate a major inflow of immigrants, and progressive educators like John Dewey and Maria Montessori helped created the American public school system we know today in the 1930s, and World War II cemented the high school's role in the life of the American teenager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During this transitional period, movies about high school served as quasi-propaganda for this movement, and so you have movies like 1940's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032595/&quot;&gt;High School&lt;/a&gt;, which features Jane Withers as a rural rancher's daughter who gets bused into an urban (and strikingly beautiful) high school. You also have a series of famous &quot;educational&quot; shorts, primarily about PDA and dating, including &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332166/&quot;&gt;Junior Prom&lt;/a&gt; from 1946 which has some of the stereotypes - primarily the hormonal ones - you've come to see, but it's very staid and dry. You also had a very witty radio series, Our Miss Brooks, which was turned into a successful long-running TV show, but it usually just used the children as fodder for jokes, and focused more on Miss Brooks' love life (or lack thereof.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally Hollywood started taking a look inside these high schools (not coincidentally at a time when those very same teenagers were borrowing mom and dad's car, grabbing a date and heading to the movies) and found the themes  that a high school fostered - students' newfound independence, causing alienation from their families before they could truly leave them; and industrialization, which had set them on a treadmill that many weren't prepared for  - and the subsequent rebellion against that - were excellent fodder for movies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ur-Text often pointed to for the &quot;high school film&quot; is 1955's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047885/&quot;&gt;Blackboard Jungle&lt;/a&gt; which featured the music of rock n' roll pioneer Bill Haley and the Comets and has all the beats the modern high school film expects: a new teacher comes to a rough school, there's drama with relationships, school violence, fear of failure, and an unflinching bureaucracy, but with life-affirming results at the end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6567" LastEditorUserId="6567" LastEditDate="2013-10-29T20:27:08.410" LastActivityDate="2013-10-29T20:27:08.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14858" CreationDate="2013-10-29T15:47:51.283" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Balloon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki page&lt;/a&gt;, it says the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Finally, the siblings receive help from a young Afghan street vendor selling balloons. He carries all of his balloons on a wooden stick, and has only one balloon, a white one, left. The group attaches a piece of gum to one end of the balloon stick, and with it, they reach down through the grate and pull the money out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The white balloon is an object which is quintessential to the story line. I do not believe there is anything more to it than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find out more about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allmovie.com/movie/v134796&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;film at AllMovie&lt;/a&gt; or at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Balloon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2019-10-17T08:13:43.037" LastActivityDate="2019-10-17T08:13:43.037" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14864" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="65689" CreationDate="2013-10-29T22:26:13.477" Score="1" ViewCount="1803" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Kombat:_Legacy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mortal Kombat: Legacy&lt;/a&gt; season 1, looks more character oriented and doesn't seems to be in chronological order. But Kano's appearance makes it more inconsistent if we go episode number wise. So what is the right chronological order of for Mortal Kombat: Legacy season 1?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-12-25T09:57:36.423" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T11:40:51.777" Title="What is the chronological order to watch Mortal Kombat: Legacy season 1?" Tags="|chronology|mortal-kombat-legacy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14865" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17787" CreationDate="2013-10-29T22:34:05.687" Score="1" ViewCount="435" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the web-series &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Kombat%3a_Legacy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mortal Kombat: Legacy&lt;/a&gt;, several important characters like Jax, Sonya Blade, Cyrax, Sektor and Kano not appear in season 2.&#xA;What is the reason for removal of this many important characters from the second season?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2013-10-30T13:47:55.060" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T17:37:32.463" Title="Why important characters from Mortal Kombat: Legacy season one doesn't appear in season 2?" Tags="|character|mortal-kombat-legacy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14866" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-29T22:37:39.953" Score="5" ViewCount="17599" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know I'm a little behind, but I just watched the movie Memento and the ending got me thinking a lot. And when I think a lot I usually turn toward the internet to find the vast majority of solutions available and find the right answer. To my concern I feel that there isn't one out there for this movie that fits what I saw of it. I might be missing something, but please fill me in if you have seen the movie several times and want to correct me on how it actually ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;em&gt;Oh and please stop reading and watch this movie if you haven't already because it is fantastic! and ruining it by reading this would break my heart&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie ends with what seems to be an open-ended question on who killed his wife, hinting that he in fact killed her. But I feel that the movie in it's entirety holds the solution. Throughout the movie Leonard explains the story of Sammy Jankis and how his illness is prone to conditional therapy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know any other way to explain it so I'll just say my theory and explain it after. Leonard is the story of Sammy Jankis, he got into a car accident, his wife couldn't believe that he was faking it or couldn't live with the fact that he wasn't so she devised the test of insulin. There was no murder, there was no rape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: WHAT? How do you explain him knowing about the incident at his house, his last memory?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was all conditioned. By people like Teddy taking advantage of his condition. By seeing tattoos that his wife was murdered, etc., every time he wakes up. By the reports he dismembered to cause him to want to catch someone. All these things conditioned him to believe that that is why his wife isn't with him anymore. He doesn't even have to think about it when someone asks, he just knows in his memory that she was murdered. Slightly more conclusive proof of him being Sammy that Nolan adds is when he is explaining the story of Sammy in the mental hospital, after the nurse passes by, it quickly changes to Leonard for a split second sitting in the chair instead of Sammy. Sort of like for a split second he remembered that he was actually Sammy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: But if that is true, why doesn't he remember that his wife has diabetes? That would have happened before the 'car accident' or 'murder/rape'.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That got me for a little bit. The reason he doesn't remember it is because he's trying to piece two puzzles pieces that belong to two different puzzles. The image in his mind of his wife is convoluted with conditioned images of her being raped/murdered. All things that never actually happened. That version never had diabetes. His actual wife did. That version of his memory is stored as Sammy Jankis' wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So all this time, Teddy was the one assigned to the case that investigated the murder/suicide of his wife. The pieces left out were the pieces Leonard crossed out because he didn't want to know the truth. He lies to himself to make himself feel better. What's left in the report makes it appear that his wife was murdered. Teddy takes advantage of this and gets him to do things for him for personal reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's how I interpreted the ending. So my question to you, is there any evidence that the rape/murder actually did happen? Did the rape/murder actually happen or was it a car accident? Is there any proof in the movie? Please fill me in where I might be wrong because no conclusion I've read is close to mine (other than he was Sammy but she lived after the rape).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6571" LastEditorUserId="8379" LastEditDate="2017-05-01T02:47:22.143" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T02:47:22.143" Title="Ending to Memento" Tags="|plot-explanation|memento|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14868" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-29T23:00:05.567" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Kombat%3a_Legacy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mortal Kombat: Legacy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-29T23:00:05.567" LastActivityDate="2013-10-29T23:00:05.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14869" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-29T23:00:05.567" Score="0" Body="Mortal Kombat: Legacy is an American web series based on Mortal Kombat video game franchise.  The idea was originated with director Kevin Tancharoen's short film titled Mortal Kombat: Rebirth." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-10-29T23:00:05.567" LastActivityDate="2013-10-29T23:00:05.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14866" CreationDate="2013-10-29T23:10:52.667" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ending (beginning) is that he realizes he is the killer and sets up Teddy for him to discover later. He did suffer the brain trauma, but could not forgive himself and creates a mystery for him to solve to absolve himself. It sounds like you &quot;got&quot; it, but maybe expect more. The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;story&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is fairly straight-forward. The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;story-telling&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is confusing and captivating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, dealing with an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Unreliable Narrator&lt;/a&gt;, there is no reason to believe any of his memories are 100% factual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastActivityDate="2013-10-29T23:10:52.667" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14871" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-30T01:14:56.160" Score="5" ViewCount="2743" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie The Counselor, Malkina shows up to a Catholic church and tries to get the priest to let her confess her sins. She taunts him. We understand from the previous scene that Malkina is not religious, she just seem curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the screenplay, Malkina has an extended conversation about confession with Laura (that is not in the movie). Malkina basically just asks Laura how confession works and Laura explains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Malkina going to church doesn't seem to have any impact on the plot. It seems to have only a slight impact on developing her character as a little twisted. So what was the further point of this scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-10-20T13:29:00.293" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T13:29:00.293" Title="Why does Malkina go to the church and try to confess?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-counselor|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14839" CreationDate="2013-10-30T02:01:18.233" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The historical Xerxes probably did not consider himself a god, but he was a legend in his own time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He removed a golden statue from the temple of Zeus, desecrating the temple, something his father Darius did not dare to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext:1999.01.0126%3abook=1%3achapter=183&amp;amp;highlight=xerxes&quot;&gt;Herodotus, &lt;em&gt;The Histories&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Book 1, Chapter 183, Section 3)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;and in the days of Cyrus there was still in this sacred enclosure a statue of solid gold twenty feet high. I myself have not seen it, but I relate what is told by the Chaldeans. Darius son of Hystaspes proposed to take this statue but dared not; Xerxes his son took it, and killed the priest who warned him not to move the statue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a bridge, built by Xerxes' engineers, was destroyed by a storm on the Hellespont, Xerxes ordered his men to punish the waters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext:1999.01.0126%3abook=7%3achapter=35%3asection=1&quot;&gt;Herodotus&lt;/a&gt; (Book 7, Chapter 35, Section 1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Xerxes heard of this, he was very angry and commanded that the Hellespont be whipped with three hundred lashes, and a pair of fetters be thrown into the sea. I have even heard that he sent branders with them to brand the Hellespont. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a man, he was regarded as exceptionally handsome. As a king, he had gathered an enormous army (Herodotus claims in excess of 1 million, modern scholars estimate 60-150,000) and marched it across western Asia and into Europe. Regardless of the actual number, he was a living legend. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, movies have a tendency to make  &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; bigger than life. So when it's time to portray a person that actually was bigger than life, the only choice is hyperbole and exaggeration. Take Xerxes' actual accomplishments and audacity, and combine that with the idea that some ancient rulers tried to cloak themselves in deity, and it isn't too much of a stretch to portray him as was done in &lt;em&gt;300&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T02:01:18.233" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14875" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14879" CreationDate="2013-10-30T08:07:46.197" Score="11" ViewCount="348" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't remember much apart from that. A scientist, not good at human relations, makes a robot that is his exact duplicate with the plan of sending it into space for a long trip. The robot through the course of the movie learns about humans, their customs and culture, while the scientist always remains reserved. In the end, the robot falls in love with a girl, and doesn't want to leave, so the scientist, not telling anyone, goes in his place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The color orange was their uniform color, if memory serves (it's quite possible that it doesn't). The movie was of the older variety, pre 90's definitely, quite possible pre 80's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this remind anyone of any movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6575" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-10-30T10:35:13.737" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T14:41:10.417" Title="Scientist assembles a robot which is a duplicate of himself" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:52:03.073" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14876" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14878" CreationDate="2013-10-30T09:36:10.520" Score="14" ViewCount="837" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several scenes in Skyfall where Bond has opportunities to save people and apparently doesn't try:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The security guard Patrice shot in Shanghai&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The man viewing the painting shot by Patrice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Severine (he escaped moments later but fails to save her)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In previous films Bond has always been shown to try and minimise civilian casualties (police often shown climbing out of smashed cars).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why in Skyfall is he portrayed as being willing to stand by and watch innocent people die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-10-31T15:38:37.867" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T17:31:38.367" Title="Why is Bond shown to have a disregard for collateral casualties?" Tags="|character|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14876" CreationDate="2013-10-30T13:49:19.443" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is only speculation, I am not aware of an in universe answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shows how focussed/cold and detached he has become.  He is prepared to let innocent people die rather than risk the chance of jeopardising his mission by potentially giving himself away etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was established at the end of Casino Royal where he tells M to keep 'sweating' his friend as even though they now knew that his lover was a double agent it did not prove that he was not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also shown in the bar scene where he is partying near the beginning.  At night everyone is cheering him and drinking with him but in the morning he is alone.  He does not form attachments to other people and seems to be in a world of one where everyone is else is a guest or an intruder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T13:49:19.443" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14875" CreationDate="2013-10-30T14:41:10.417" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Mr._Right&quot;&gt;Making Mr. Right&lt;/a&gt; (1987) to me. Repressed scientist, deep space project, robot that falls in love with a woman, it's all there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3569" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T14:41:10.417" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1109" CreationDate="2013-10-30T16:10:05.767" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844286/faq&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Are the Bloom brothers really brothers?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. At the very beginning of the movie, a caseworker can be seen opening a file cabinet and pulling out the files on young Stephen and Bloom. The file is tagged &amp;quot;Bloom (2)&amp;quot;, suggesting that there must be a &amp;quot;Bloom (1)&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Does Bloom have a first name?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reference to what Bloom's first name might be comes from a con in which Stephen calls him &amp;quot;Victor.&amp;quot; Whether that's his real name or only a contrived name for the con is unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it's entirely possible that &lt;em&gt;Bloom&lt;/em&gt; wasn't really Brody's first name, but his last name. This would make the title accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose it's not uncommon for people to become known more by their last name than their first. Also, &lt;em&gt;Bloom&lt;/em&gt; is certainly not a common first name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This question reminds me of the &lt;em&gt;Mario bros.&lt;/em&gt;, Mario and Luigi.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T18:53:36.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14881" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-10-30T19:35:23.980" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Brothers Bloom is a 2008 American caper comedy film written and directed by Rian Johnson. The film stars Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, Ricky Jay, Rinko Kikuchi, and Robbie Coltrane. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Bloom&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-30T19:35:23.980" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T19:35:23.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14882" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-10-30T19:35:23.980" Score="0" Body="2008 American caper comedy film starring Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody, and Rachel Weisz." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-30T19:35:23.980" LastActivityDate="2013-10-30T19:35:23.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14892" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14909" CreationDate="2013-10-31T08:26:11.663" Score="12" ViewCount="2143" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to find out what movie or TV show this sci fi-looking prop is from. I saw the prop, appearing to be some kind of shuttle-craft, recently at the Aviation Warehouse in El Mirage and I suspect it's from a relatively new production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IBbZ4l.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Black shuttle&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qGf8il.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Interior&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bsULRl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Front&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6580" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2013-11-01T15:37:17.203" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T15:37:17.203" Title="What movie or TV show is this shuttle-craft prop from?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|identify-this-tv-show|science-fiction|props|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:52:15.593" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14895" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-31T11:22:10.193" Score="3" ViewCount="3634" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Sixth Sense there is a scene where Cole is in the kitchen and Lynn walks out of the room talking to him.  She returns and finds all of the drawers and cupboards open.  She screams in fright as there was no sound made and the amount of time she was gone was not enough for all of these to be opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, even if the ghosts did it - how did they do it so fast without making any noise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2019-11-08T19:56:57.187" Title="How did the kitchen get messed up?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-sixth-sense|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14895" CreationDate="2013-10-31T12:01:58.257" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who's to say that it was just one ghost? Maybe there were many ghosts, i.e., one ghost per each drawer and cupboard. Or they're capable of doing more than we've seen them do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that one can get more than a speculative answer on this. It was not explained in the movie, which is quite normal, since it's a typical suspense-raising scene, and explaining those beats their purpose. But I think that it was purposefully done that way, so that it is obvious that Cole couldn't have done it (alone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your comment about ghosts &quot;not shown to be using telekinesis or anything similar&quot;, they do move objects. Remember that first girl that Cole has helped? They were under her bed, and she pushed that box with the video tape to him, if I remember the movie correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2013-10-31T12:01:58.257" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14898" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-31T13:38:13.910" Score="21" ViewCount="401989" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981115/&quot;&gt;Thor: The Dark World&lt;/a&gt;, Thor, Loki and Jane are in the dark elves world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thor is in a fight and Loki saves him by impaling the foe with a blade. The enemy then grabs Loki and stabs him with the blade that's sticking out of his chest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see Loki die (or fake his death). Thor mourns for his brother and he and Jane leave leaving Loki on the ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then at the end of the movie Thor is talking to Odin. He tells him he can't be the king of Asgard and leaves. After he leaves Odin turns into Loki revealing that Loki is still alive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did he fake his death? Was he actually stabbed and just performed the illusion that he stopped breathing until after Thor left? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T08:23:27.547" LastActivityDate="2022-08-11T07:53:07.397" Title="What happened to Loki in the Dark World?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|ending|thor-the-dark-world|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14756" CreationDate="2013-10-31T16:12:07.243" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from what is already said by Ankit, &lt;i&gt;The Lunchbox&lt;/i&gt; was a low budget movie. Not having computers may be part of being &quot;low-budget&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-11-01T11:07:52.160" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T11:07:52.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14902" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14903" CreationDate="2013-10-31T17:52:24.267" Score="3" ViewCount="354" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could someone please clear up the runtime confusion of this film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen it listed at 89 minutes, 94 minutes, 98 minutes, 99 minutes, and 120 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched it online for the first time and thought it was an excellent film. I don't remember the exact length of the version I watched, however. But I ordered the DVD, and upon watching it, I noticed right away that at least two scenes were significantly shortened. The runtime of my DVD is 89 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There doesn't appear to be a Blu-ray of the film available in the United States, only Canada and Europe... and I've been told that the European version of the film is the 120 minute one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that, sometimes, European and American runtimes are often different. I've just never seen such confusion over the length of a film. I'd be happy with the standard U.S. edition, but due to the two scenes being shortened on my DVD, I believe I must have purchased yet another different variation of this movie...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone has any info, I'd appreciate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For anyone wondering... The two scenes that have been cut are the scenes in which Ryne is sorting through her mother's clothing and flips out on Michael and Kelly... the other being where Kelly admits to Jane that she's pregnant while they're searching for Christopher. In fact, on my DVD we never even learn that Kelly is pregnant. They've cut that out entirely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6034" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T10:43:30.037" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T10:43:30.037" Title="Confusion over the run time of 'Fireflies in the Garden'" Tags="|alternate-version|fireflies-in-the-garden|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14902" CreationDate="2013-10-31T17:59:33.480" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0961108/technical&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; is usually the place to find such information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;1 hr 39 min (99 min) (theatrical) (Germany) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;2 hr (120 min) (Berlin International) (Germany) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;1 hr 34 min (94 min) (DVD) (Australia)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There do appear to be other versions floating around. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/firefliesingarden.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This review&lt;/a&gt; (and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0961108/reviews&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;others&lt;/a&gt;) suggests that at least one DVD release was only 89 minutes long although the linked Amazon page lists the run time as being 120 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireflies_in_the_Garden&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Going by Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Fireflies in the Garden&lt;/em&gt; was released in the US on October 14, 2011, which was close to four years after its European release on February 10, 2008 at the Berlin International Film Festival. The delay has been attributed to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/julia-roberts-fireflies-garden-finally-227963&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;significant editing and release issues&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reviews suggest that the shortened versions are too rushed and unsatisfactory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-10-31T19:11:23.297" LastActivityDate="2013-10-31T19:11:23.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14905" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-31T20:22:21.203" Score="4" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Dominik Graf&lt;/em&gt; directed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0806910/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tatort&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2865680/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Aus der Tiefe der Zeit&quot;&lt;/a&gt; repeatedly employs a certain country song as in-scene background music at various occasions. More or less anytime when some music plays as part of the scene, it is this song, be it at the party of the &lt;em&gt;Löwenhof&lt;/em&gt; constructors, &lt;em&gt;Jansen&lt;/em&gt;'s apartment, the casino where the Croatians meet, and especially most prominently in the &lt;em&gt;Holzer&lt;/em&gt; villa, when &lt;em&gt;Peter Holzer&lt;/em&gt; commits suicide and later when &lt;em&gt;Liz&lt;/em&gt; is arguing with &lt;em&gt;Ante&lt;/em&gt;, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am unable to find out what the name of this song was, so first of all, &lt;strong&gt;what song was that?&lt;/strong&gt; But even more important, &lt;strong&gt;was there any meaning to this song&lt;/strong&gt; in relation to the story and its motives, and &lt;strong&gt;what would that be?&lt;/strong&gt; The only slight connection I could draw was, that this very Western-style song might just be an allusion to &lt;em&gt;Magda Holzer&lt;/em&gt;'s past in the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Annie Oakley Show&quot;&lt;/em&gt; decades ago, but that doesn't hold so strong when the song is used at each and every possible occasion and &lt;em&gt;Magda&lt;/em&gt;'s past as &lt;em&gt;&quot;Annie Oakley&quot;&lt;/em&gt; wasn't much significant at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-10-31T20:36:12.950" LastActivityDate="2013-10-31T20:36:12.950" Title="What was the meaning of the country song in the episode &quot;Aus der Tiefe der Zeit&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|soundtrack|tatort|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14906" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-10-31T20:33:26.310" Score="2" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Dominik Graf&lt;/em&gt; directed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0806910/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tatort&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2865680/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Aus der Tiefe der Zeit&quot;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Liz Bernard&lt;/em&gt; always wears a different wig in nearly each and every scene (the only scene when she doesn't seem to wear a wig is during her interrogation). While sometimes it might just be for special events as part of her job in &lt;em&gt;Holzer&lt;/em&gt;'s event management company, she does that all the time even during her everyday life and it is never the same wig twice. &lt;strong&gt;But why does she always wear a wig and why always a different one?&lt;/strong&gt; What does this behaviour say about her character or her role in the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-12-20T11:35:40.643" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T11:35:40.643" Title="Why does Liz change her wigs so frequently in the episode &quot;Aus der Tiefe der Zeit&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|character|tatort|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14898" CreationDate="2013-10-31T22:52:40.830" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's either Loki faked it by illusions or:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the convergence happened (alignment of realms) he escaped hel or valhalla and returned his soul to his body, or &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because of his Jotenhium heritage but living in Asgard, maybe there was a genetic mutation in his body.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also how did he obtain the Throne? We know that guard was actually him, when he told Odin, Loki died. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6585" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-03T06:47:28.863" LastActivityDate="2013-11-03T06:47:28.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14892" CreationDate="2013-11-01T01:16:06.303" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't watch the movie, but some Googling has revealed that this is a helicopter from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1790885/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Zero Dark Thirty (2012)&lt;/a&gt; movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can watch a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-OE7QC4gC0&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;YouTube clip where it can be seen&lt;/a&gt;, and here three stories that confirm/explain it: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/movie-prop-or-stealth/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://deepbluehorizon.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/real-stealth-helicopter-or-movie-prop.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://filmmakeriq.com/2012/12/building-osama-bin-ladens-compound-for-zero-dark-thirty/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;three&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is from the last link:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Zinn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Zero Dark Thirty helicopter&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T01:16:06.303" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="544" CreationDate="2013-11-01T06:34:00.147" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you watch the film carefully, you see that the can came from the &quot;glitched&quot; area and bounced out of quarantine as the Agents were resetting it. The can is the one object that survived their purge. When she cut her self, maybe she realized the truth, or had some form or power or aspect of the glitched area transferred to her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe it was a straightforward sadness, loss-of-innocence scene. There's no way of knowing for sure. One of the most beautiful moments in film, regardless, and few will appreciate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6590" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T06:34:00.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14913" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14914" CreationDate="2013-11-01T09:36:18.257" Score="9" ViewCount="9942" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every dialogue of the Movie Les Miserables is rhyming with the background music being played.&#xA;I know it's a musical, so does that means every dialogue has to be sung? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5555" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-11-01T09:58:03.910" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T08:30:00.320" Title="Why is the whole movie Les Miserables sung?" Tags="|les-miserables|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14913" CreationDate="2013-11-01T09:44:33.950" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it does not mean that all dialog is sung, have a look at Phantom of the Opera, Wicked, West Side Story, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason that the movie has all dialog rhyming etc. (known as 'sung through') is because the West End musical that it is based on is sung through (although there are versions where Valjean speaks a normal line to Javert when he gives him his address but this is less usual).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much of the musical is sung and how much is spoken is down to the taste of the director and his colleagues.   Usually the main scenes and emotive moments are conveyed via song (like in Rock of Ages or the Phantom of the Opera) but sometimes everything is in song (like in Les Mis).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-11-01T09:57:34.173" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T09:57:34.173" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14917" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14918" CreationDate="2013-11-01T12:12:06.963" Score="6" ViewCount="2197" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did Bane know the exact location of the Batmobile in the Dark Knight Rises, since Lucious said it was off the books?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastActivityDate="2018-07-07T21:15:34.257" Title="How did Bane know the exact location of the Batmobile?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14917" CreationDate="2013-11-01T12:46:17.430" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not that hard, once you know who the Batman is. The whole R&amp;amp;D department was off the books then, but it was not always so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, he might have just looked into people close to Bruce. It's only 2 people (Alfred and Lucius, since Rachel died), and Alfred is not a very likely candidate for the Batman's armory-man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Miranda/Talia is on the Wayne Enterprises' board of directors, so she ought to have an easy access to all the files, present and past. Knowing what to look for, and that Lucius must be on top of it,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really see no problem in finding out that there used to be some huge &quot;Applied science&quot; division that &quot;disappeared overnight&quot;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z6o1GIEsQE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;It was said so in the second movie&lt;/a&gt;, also found out about from the books, by a person with no knowledge about the Batman. Note that scene also includes sketches of Batmobile, formally known as the Tumbler (or by some &quot;long, dull W.E. code&quot;), that Reese managed to find in the archives. Miranda/Talia has far more knowledge, resources, and motivation than Reese.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2018-07-07T21:15:34.257" LastActivityDate="2018-07-07T21:15:34.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14919" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14999" CreationDate="2013-11-01T13:04:06.917" Score="4" ViewCount="404" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Let the Right One In (orig.: Låt den rätte komma in)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Eli&lt;/em&gt; was accompanied by &lt;em&gt;Håkan&lt;/em&gt;, an older man, who tried (not very successfully, though) to kill people and gather their blood in order for &lt;em&gt;Eli&lt;/em&gt; to not have to kill anyone, it seems. And when &lt;em&gt;Eli&lt;/em&gt; visits him in the hospital (after he failed to kill another one and disfigured himself to prevent her being discovered) he finally sacrifices himself to &lt;em&gt;Eli&lt;/em&gt; as blood source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm not sure what to make of his character. &lt;strong&gt;What was his relation to &lt;em&gt;Eli&lt;/em&gt; and why did he help her, up to the point of sacrificing himself?&lt;/strong&gt; While she said he was her father in the hospital, this doesn't really seem to match her relationship to him as depicted in the movie and to me seemed more like a cover-up just told to the nurse (but I might also be wrong with this evaluation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-11-06T05:28:45.033" Title="What is Håkan's background?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|let-the-right-one-in|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14920" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14925" CreationDate="2013-11-01T13:40:14.810" Score="4" ViewCount="2889" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Let the Right One In (orig.: Låt den rätte komma in)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, after &lt;em&gt;Oskar&lt;/em&gt; found out about &lt;em&gt;Eli&lt;/em&gt;'s true nature and let her into his apartment he asks her:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oskar:&lt;/em&gt; Who are you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eli:&lt;/em&gt; I'm like you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oskar:&lt;/em&gt; What do you mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eli:&lt;/em&gt; &quot;What are you staring at? Well? Are you looking at me? So scream! Squeal!&quot;, those were the first I heard you say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oskar:&lt;/em&gt; I don't kill people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eli:&lt;/em&gt; But you'd like to, if you could...to get revenge. Right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oskar:&lt;/em&gt; Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eli:&lt;/em&gt; I do it because I have to. Be me, for a little while. Please... be me, for a little while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't understand what she means with her last words. &lt;strong&gt;What does she want to say with &lt;em&gt;&quot;Be me, for a little while&quot;&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T15:01:46.387" Title="What does Eli mean with the words &quot;Be me, for a little while&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|let-the-right-one-in|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10697" CreationDate="2013-11-01T13:40:20.013" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would guess that they could either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have the actors sing the piece through together on stage, have them mime on location and then dub the lyrics &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have them singing on location and support them with a backing track.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Do not forget that they would have rehersed these songs scores of times and would know them inside out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T13:40:20.013" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14922" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-01T13:50:09.540" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Let the Right One In&lt;/em&gt; (Swedish: &lt;em&gt;Låt den rätte komma in&lt;/em&gt;) is a 2008 Swedish romantic horror film directed by &lt;em&gt;Tomas Alfredson&lt;/em&gt;. Based on the 2004 novel of the same title by &lt;em&gt;John Ajvide Lindqvist&lt;/em&gt;, who also wrote the screenplay. The film tells the story of a bullied 12-year-old boy who develops a friendship with a vampire child in Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm, in the early 1980s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-01T13:50:09.540" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T13:50:09.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14923" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-01T13:50:09.540" Score="0" Body="2008 Swedish horror drama (orig.: Låt den rätte komma in) about a 12-year old boy befriending a girl, unaware that she is a vampire. It is based on the novel of the same name." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-01T13:50:09.540" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T13:50:09.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14924" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14928" CreationDate="2013-11-01T14:52:06.027" Score="5" ViewCount="1518" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165598/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;That 70's Show&lt;/a&gt; for some years now. I've wondered why on season 8, Eric Forman (played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0333410/?ref_=tt_ov_st&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Topher Grace&lt;/a&gt;) was not on the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I looked it up and I saw that during the 8th season, Topher was filming &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413300/?ref_=nm_knf_i2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spider-Man 3&lt;/a&gt;, where he played Venom and the producers did not want him to be on the show. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that? What was the purpose of him not being on the show? Could it be something so simple as to not having enough time to film both?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-12-20T10:29:31.857" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T10:29:31.857" Title="Why did the producers of Spider-Man 3 not want Topher Grace on That 70's Show?" Tags="|casting|spider-man-trilogy|that-70s-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14920" CreationDate="2013-11-01T14:55:23.670" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that with her last words, she is trying to say that she wants Oskar to be in her shoes. In the conversation, Oscar says that he does not kill people like Eli as she is a vampire, and Eli is trying to say that he should try to be in her position, understand that she needs to kill people to survive and live. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eli is saying that she is like Oskar because they're nature is alike, Oskar wanting to kill for revenge and Eli killing to survival.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5018" LastEditorDisplayName="user5018" LastEditDate="2013-11-01T15:01:46.387" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T15:01:46.387" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14876" CreationDate="2013-11-01T17:31:38.367" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What could he do? The guards were all dead, at least they seemed so, the man watching the painting was in another building, and Severine being shot took him by surprise. I didn't think anything unusual or out of the ordinary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6598" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T17:31:38.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9623" CreationDate="2013-11-01T18:02:56.777" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe that's supposed to serve any real purpose, rather, It's a nod to all the monster movies where the hero comes across some abruptly added plot device that gives the victims a chance against the impossible odds. like when in a movie the victims find out that water or the common cold is deadly for the monster.&#xA;What I want to know is: if the kids were going up to a cabin for the weekend, why the heck would they take an RV? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6600" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T18:02:56.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14924" CreationDate="2013-11-01T18:19:44.993" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general reason is that Topher Grace, along with Ashton Kutcher, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165598/faq#.2.1.6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wanted to move on&lt;/a&gt; to other things in his career, particularly acting in films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2013-11-01T18:31:42.493" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T18:31:42.493" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14913" CreationDate="2013-11-01T18:23:56.773" Score="0" Body="&lt;h1&gt;It's historical&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As noted by Alfred Cobban in &quot;A History of Modern France&quot; and Phillip Mansel in &quot;Paris Between Empires&quot;, it was common in mid-19th-century France for people to sing rather than talk. To quote Mansel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Despite the bitter cold, outbreaks of thyphus, and the appalling&#xA;  stench of the dead, which clogged the Seine as well as the streets,&#xA;  there was near-constant music in the city. What might now be called&#xA;  'recetitive' or 'sprechgesang' was, in fact, a common mode of speech&#xA;  among Parisians, who subscribed to the idea that &quot;Tout ce qui peut&#xA;  être dit, c'est mieux si elle est chantée&quot; (whatever is said, is&#xA;  better if sung).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6601" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T18:23:56.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14930" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14932" CreationDate="2013-11-01T18:31:03.803" Score="13" ViewCount="15073" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the most recent episode of the show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., &quot;Girl in the Flower Dress&quot;, it is revealed that S.H.I.E.L.D. has a &quot;short list&quot; of individuals with various powers, such as the man in China with pyrokinetic abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, given that the show is supposed to tie into the larger cinematic universe, is S.H.I.E.L.D. aware of the existence of the X-Men, or are the Avengers and X-Men films/franchises intended to be seen as completely separate film universes for Marvel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-11-01T19:05:57.817" LastActivityDate="2016-11-26T11:52:31.087" Title="Is S.H.I.E.L.D. aware of the X-Men?" Tags="|the-avengers|x-men-cinematic-universe|marvel-cinematic-universe|agents-of-shield|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14930" CreationDate="2013-11-01T18:41:25.690" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Currently Marvel doesn't have rights for X-men, Spider-man and Fantastic Four (or might be few more guys). So in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they can't mention any mutant (X-men) till they got permission from Fox, which doesn't seems possible for now as Fox isn't going to share the mutants with Marvel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With one exception that Marvel has rights to a few X-men characters like Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and few more but without mentioning their mutant or X-men connection. So we can assume that X-men belongs to different a universe then Marvel Cinematic Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Even Tancharoen said that &quot;We can't ever say 'mutant'&quot; (Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://splashpage.mtv.com/2013/09/24/mutant-marvels-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MTV.com news&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1799" LastEditDate="2016-11-26T11:52:31.087" LastActivityDate="2016-11-26T11:52:31.087" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14930" CreationDate="2013-11-01T18:42:31.597" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marvel licensed the Mutants portion of their universe to Fox.  This means the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; has no mutants in it*, as they can't use those characters.  Ergo, in &lt;em&gt;Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.&lt;/em&gt; there are no mutants, which means no X-Men, no Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/13512/does-marvel-have-full-filming-rights-for-all-characters-in-avengers-multiverse&quot;&gt;The exception&lt;/a&gt; being Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, which are a special part of the license deal.  Fox can use them as mutants and children of Magneto.  Marvel can use them as Avengers, but can't mention their mutant status or mention Magneto.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2013-11-01T19:21:50.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14933" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14947" CreationDate="2013-11-01T19:06:08.683" Score="3" ViewCount="951" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000433/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Corey Haim&lt;/a&gt; is listed as the main character on the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1513927/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dead Sea&lt;/a&gt;. Corey died back in 2010 and I can't find any information about how much of the film finished before he passed away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is listed on IMDb as being released next year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it possible for them to finish a film after the actor has died? Is there any information released explaining what impact it had on the production of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-04-19T11:08:51.263" LastActivityDate="2019-04-19T11:08:51.263" Title="Will the movie &quot;The Dead Sea&quot; still be released?" Tags="|production|casting|the-dead-sea|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14933" CreationDate="2013-11-02T02:50:43.637" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Corey never filmed any scenes for the Dead Sea. They kept his character and name listed in tribute to him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6605" LastActivityDate="2013-11-02T02:50:43.637" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14942" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14945" CreationDate="2013-11-02T15:16:53.357" Score="3" ViewCount="855" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do producers change the storyline when they take a book/comic book and make it into a movie/ TV show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, I've been watching the walking dead since 2010 and I recently read all the comic book issues. I can understand why they didn't put some really brutal scenes in the TV show, but why did they have to change the storyline? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could understand if they wanted to add stuff if there weren't enough on the comic book to make the TV show last, but there are like 10 seasons alone that could be made from the comic book issues and it is far from ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T12:17:36.857" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T12:17:36.857" Title="Why do they change the storyline?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|comic-adaptation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14942" CreationDate="2013-11-02T17:46:06.003" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There can be numerous reasons. You have to remember that media like TV shows and film have to cover stories in a far more restricted timeframe than print media can. This means they can't dwell on story lines or certain characters for too long. This May result in shallower character development, characters being dropped, added, or altered. You may also have content considerations, as you've already noted. Sometimes the writers change things to keep those that have read the source material on their toes, or to make things more relatable to those who haven't read the source material. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end there can be many reasons why shows like The Walking Dead have the changes they do. I simply recommend viewing them as two separate items entirely. The comic book writer is telling his story, the show writers are telling theirs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2013-11-02T17:46:06.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14933" CreationDate="2013-11-02T20:32:04.733" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corey_Haim&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He requested a &quot;clean set&quot; from producers to reduce temptation, though&#xA;  his fellow cast members commented on his hyperactivity and need for&#xA;  affection. Haim came to the set on his days off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like he doesn't worked in film for much time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1513927/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Though Corey Haim is listed in the credits, no footage of him was ever&#xA;  captured on film or video. The credit is given in memory of. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means we can conclude that his name is only included as a tribute. He doesn't have any footage in movie. His role might be cut of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-11-02T20:42:27.847" LastActivityDate="2013-11-02T20:42:27.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14898" CreationDate="2013-11-03T01:07:29.307" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Loki is the god of tricks, yes he faked his death. When Odin sent his Asgardian guard to look for Thor, Loki had killed the guard and flew back to Asgard and continued his identity as the guard to report the death of himself to Odin. Odin must have been killed or something leaving Loki to morph his identity as Odin in the scene with Thor later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6616" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-03T06:48:31.070" LastActivityDate="2013-11-03T06:48:31.070" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14950" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14969" CreationDate="2013-11-03T02:38:59.960" Score="7" ViewCount="2545" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please help identify the name of a movie I saw partially, where there's a company that specializes in collecting information about someone (from social networks), and uploads that data into an android/robot. So, a women pays them to &quot;recreate&quot; her deceased husband. Well, in the end she doesn't want the robot any more ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6617" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-11-03T15:45:12.347" LastActivityDate="2013-11-04T00:23:22.713" Title="Company recreates dead people as androids using data from social networks" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:52:28.090" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14898" CreationDate="2013-11-03T02:46:42.320" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember how Loki use illusions to trick Malekith that he cut Thor's hand. I think he did the same trick to fake his own death&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6618" LastActivityDate="2013-11-03T02:46:42.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5630" CreationDate="2013-11-03T04:05:40.920" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on how the film is viewed as a whole.  Many of the techniques and themes point towards abortion and how it affects men and women.  She is torn by the abortion, regrets it every day, is plagued by it.  He really couldn't care less.  The death of her is freedom for him, so as he walks down the hill he sees sexual freedom in the form of many women rushing at him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least that's my take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6619" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-03T06:45:57.263" LastActivityDate="2013-11-03T06:45:57.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14957" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14958" CreationDate="2013-11-03T14:58:03.930" Score="6" ViewCount="5129" Body="&lt;p&gt;In new episodes of Star Wars (specifically Ep.II Attack of the Clones) there were clones that was created from Jango Fett, including Boba Fett, so does it mean that in the original episodes (IV to VI) all Storm Troopers are the same clones, and they all look like Boba Fett?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4903" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-11-03T15:07:12.793" LastActivityDate="2023-12-11T19:28:09.840" Title="Do all the Storm Troopers in Star Wars look like Boba Fett?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14957" CreationDate="2013-11-03T15:11:39.957" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the original clone army consisted of clones of Jango Fett, but as the Stormtrooper Corps was built from that original, clones of different people and even just normal born humans were allowed to join the Corps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Stormtrooper_Corps&quot;&gt;Star Wars Wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2013-11-03T15:11:39.957" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14959" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-03T16:44:21.757" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pi, also titled π, is a 1998 American surrealist psychological thriller film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky. The title refers to the mathematical constant pi. Like most of Aronofsky's films, Pi centers on a protagonist whose obsessive pursuit of ideals leads to severely self-destructive behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-03T16:44:21.757" LastActivityDate="2013-11-03T16:44:21.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14960" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-03T16:44:21.757" Score="0" Body="1998 American surrealist psychological thriller film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-03T16:44:21.757" LastActivityDate="2013-11-03T16:44:21.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14898" CreationDate="2013-11-03T17:36:50.940" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Loki creates illusions, people pass through them. But in the Avengers, Loki has an illusion of himself and it is touched, yet the hand didnt go through. He obviously became stronger so he can create illusions that can still be touched. After all, he created the illusion in his cell, and the one where he it looked like he cut Thor's hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Loki created an illusion of himself. Either that or he WAS stabbed, but had the power to heal himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6623" LastEditorUserId="105" LastEditDate="2014-03-10T20:38:23.503" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T20:38:23.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3339" CreationDate="2013-11-03T18:28:15.403" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the meaning of the fly was that Walt's cancer came back.&#xA;On the same episode, Jessie talked about his aunt and the raccoon that she used to see. He mentioned that even after that they killed it, his aunt kept seeing it. Some time after that, they found out she had cancer and it was one of the side-effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-15T05:10:10.763" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T05:10:10.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8942" CreationDate="2013-11-03T19:49:13.900" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who thinks that the director is mistaken is foolish or stupid?  He wanted to show how the romance looks like. The scene came earlier in the movie when they were strangers and later when they are lovers. If she entered from the first gate the movie would have lost its eternality and a scene repeated more than 100 times and one of the best ending with the best music. It would have been dry, dull and free from romance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6627" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-05-04T10:32:05.827" LastActivityDate="2017-05-04T10:32:05.827" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14950" CreationDate="2013-11-04T00:23:22.713" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's Episode 1 of Series 2 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2290780/&quot;&gt;Black Mirror&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Martha (Hayley Atwell) and Ash (Domhnall Gleeson) are a young couple&#xA;  who move to a remote house in the countryside. Ash is a social media&#xA;  addict and compulsively checks his phone for updates on his social&#xA;  network pages. The day after moving into the house, Ash is killed&#xA;  returning the hire van. At the funeral, Martha's friend Sarah (Sinead&#xA;  Matthews) tells her about a new online service that lets people stay&#xA;  in touch with the deceased. By using all of his past online&#xA;  communications and social media profiles, a new &quot;Ash&quot; can be created&#xA;  virtually. Martha rejects the idea outright, but Sarah signs Martha up&#xA;  to the service anyway, without telling her. When Martha is sent an&#xA;  e-mail supposedly from Ash, she furiously confronts Sarah, who urges&#xA;  her to at least give the service a try before dismissing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Over the following days, Martha is overwhelmed by grief, and soon&#xA;  discovers that she is pregnant. Becoming emotionally unstable, she&#xA;  responds to the artificial Ash's e-mail. She starts to communicate&#xA;  with him through instant messaging, and informs him of the pregnancy.&#xA;  She then uploads videos and photos of Ash to the service's database,&#xA;  and the service duplicates Ash's voice to talk to Martha over the&#xA;  phone. Martha allows herself to believe that she is talking to her&#xA;  dead partner, and over the following weeks she talks to the artificial&#xA;  Ash almost non-stop, keeping him updated regarding the pregnancy.&#xA;  After Martha accidentally damages her phone and has a panic attack&#xA;  when she temporarily loses contact with the service, the artificial&#xA;  Ash tells her about the service's next stage, which is still in its&#xA;  experimental phase: a body made of synthetic flesh that the program&#xA;  can be uploaded onto.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Martha buys a blank, synthetic body from the service, and following&#xA;  the artificial Ash's instructions she allows the body to take on Ash's&#xA;  physical characteristics. The end result is a clone that looks almost&#xA;  exactly like Ash, only missing minor characteristics such as his&#xA;  facial hair and a mole on his neck. From the moment the clone is&#xA;  activated, Martha is uncomfortable and struggles to accept its&#xA;  existence. Despite the clone satisfying her sexually, she quickly&#xA;  becomes frustrated by it constantly doing what she says without&#xA;  question, its lack of emotion (only expressing emotions when she tells&#xA;  it to do so), and the absence of certain habits and personality traits&#xA;  which the real Ash had but the service did not have information on.&#xA;  After an argument, Martha decides she can no longer tolerate the Ash&#xA;  clone, taking it to the edge of a tall cliff and ordering it to jump&#xA;  off. The clone agrees to do so, but Martha grows even angrier, saying&#xA;  that the real Ash would not have willingly jumped. The clone responds&#xA;  by begging for its own life, causing Martha to realise that she can't&#xA;  bring herself to get rid of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The scene cuts to several years later, and Martha is shown to have&#xA;  raised her daughter (Indira Ainger) in the country house, keeping the&#xA;  Ash clone locked in the attic. She allows her daughter (who is never&#xA;  named) to see the clone on weekends, but the daughter convinces Martha&#xA;  to allow her into the attic on her birthday to give it a piece of&#xA;  birthday cake. While her daughter is in the attic with the clone,&#xA;  Martha waits at the bottom of the attic steps, close to tears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Black_Mirror_episodes#Series_2&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Black_Mirror_episodes#Series_2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5318" LastActivityDate="2013-11-04T00:23:22.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14972" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14973" CreationDate="2013-11-04T16:54:29.663" Score="8" ViewCount="1537" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would love to find out the name of this tower:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ipBqK.png&quot; alt=&quot;tower&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's in Cambridge, but that's about all I know. It's for a project. IMDB is pretty inconsequential.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a better website for finding film locations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4875" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-04T19:00:38.187" LastActivityDate="2013-11-04T19:00:38.187" Title="Shooting location for Cloud Atlas: where is this tower?" Tags="|film-location|cloud-atlas|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14972" CreationDate="2013-11-04T16:57:25.737" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah just found it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Monument&quot;&gt;It's called Scott Monument&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not actually in Cambridge! That's what was throwing me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4875" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-11-04T17:14:14.663" LastActivityDate="2013-11-04T17:14:14.663" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14976" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14977" CreationDate="2013-11-05T01:11:15.747" Score="10" ViewCount="4939" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; season 3, episode 3, Hank and Gomez are in a low class bar where all the other patrons look criminal. Hank comments that two patrons &quot;are holding&quot;, and maybe the bar owner is holding too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does he mean they are carrying guns, or drugs, or something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-15T05:28:28.963" LastActivityDate="2016-04-23T19:58:59.733" Title="What does &quot;they are holding&quot; mean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14976" CreationDate="2013-11-05T01:23:40.693" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;When said in that context &quot;are holding&quot; means &quot;are in possession of narcotics&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Confirmed at Drug Slang Dictionary, toward end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.noslang.com/drugs/dictionary/h/&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-11-05T05:59:24.290" LastActivityDate="2013-11-05T05:59:24.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14976" CreationDate="2013-11-05T01:24:40.713" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=holding&quot;&gt;Urban Dictionary&lt;/a&gt; says that it means &quot;Possessing drugs available for sale&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2013-11-05T01:24:40.713" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13849" CreationDate="2013-11-05T02:40:28.867" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is indeed quite a good question and I cannot do much more than recapitulate some speculative things you might have considered yourself already, but let's see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all to some degree &lt;em&gt;Natalie&lt;/em&gt; serves as a distraction to prove that notes are in no way less treacherous than memories, by being presented as &quot;good&quot; while being revealed to be more and more &quot;evil&quot; later on, and thus opposite to &lt;em&gt;Teddy&lt;/em&gt;. But still you are right in that she couldn't know about &lt;em&gt;Teddy&lt;/em&gt; being the one with the license plate, so either it was a writing inconsistency, sacrificing a bit of logic to the purpose of a nasty revelation about &lt;em&gt;Natalie&lt;/em&gt;'s character, or we can really find some justification for her actions later in the story (earlier in the movie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even at the beginning (of the story -&gt; later in the movie) she showed some compassion for &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; during his first visit in the bar, when she was about to play a little trick on him with the beer everybody had spit in. She takes the beer away from him once he starts talking about his dead wife as she probably feels a bit guilty seeing that &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; really got some serious problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And while the scene where she got beaten by &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; and revealed her bad side probably didn't show her from her best side, she was really at a dead end herself at this point, with &lt;em&gt;Dodd&lt;/em&gt; chasing her for &lt;em&gt;Jimmy&lt;/em&gt;'s money and her not knowing if to trust &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; or if he had anything to do with &lt;em&gt;Jimmy&lt;/em&gt;'s disappearance. So much of her bad bevahiour in this scene could be seen in the heat of the moment (and maybe even with the intention of provoking a punch from &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; in order to blame it on &lt;em&gt;Dodd&lt;/em&gt;). So I think even then she didn't misuse &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; just out of bad will or greed, but because she had serious problems herself and was not lying when saying she was threatened by &lt;em&gt;Dodd&lt;/em&gt;, even if making up the beating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now when &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; arrives at her house after beating up &lt;em&gt;Dodd&lt;/em&gt; she indeed first eagerly and selfishly asks if he killed him. But then she starts to see his &lt;em&gt;&quot;freaky tattoos&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and learns a bit more about his dead wife and especially his deep feelings for her and his determination in finding the killer, to which she says &lt;em&gt;&quot;I've lost someone, too&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. And later they share a night, with &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; talking very emotionally about his wife and his quest for revenge. And indeed the next morning &lt;em&gt;Natalie&lt;/em&gt; says she'll check the license plate. And I think &lt;em&gt;Natalie&lt;/em&gt;'s behaviour during this whole visit seemed very honest. This is then also continued by her honest enquirings about his memories of his wife, when she gives him the information about the license plate in the bar. (Yet, this is all shown before the reveal about her misusing him later in the movie, so it's maybe hard to say in which way we can trust her depiction entirely or in which way it's deliberately distorted to facilitate the effect of the later revelation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while being revealed to have rather bad intentions later in the movie, I think especially this visit by &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; indeed sparked some feelings in her for him. If not actual emotional feelings for him, then at least understanding of his situation and his quest for revenge, maybe mixed with guilt about misusing him. So I agree with the fact that she's a much more ambiguous character than one (at least I) might think after watching the movie just once and I'd deduce that she really wanted to help &lt;em&gt;Leonard&lt;/em&gt; when she checked the license plate, not knowing that she would also find the man responsible for &lt;em&gt;Jimmy&lt;/em&gt;'s death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while we might think to have been misguided by &lt;em&gt;Natalie&lt;/em&gt;'s earlier (in watching order) nice bevahiour once her misusing of him is revealed, the actual story development if seen in chronological order draws a nicer or at least more ambiguous picture of her character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-29T18:52:48.423" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T18:52:48.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14806" CreationDate="2013-11-05T06:11:05.813" Score="13" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A few episodes later Hank and Gomez are killed and since this was a secret mission, no one else would have known about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nope. Remember, there was another DEA officer (or similar) taking care of Huell. He didn't know about the case, but he did know that Hank and Gomez had kept Huell there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's pretty safe to say that Hank used official channels to get the safehouse setup. IIRC, these channels are designed in a manner such that there is a trail, but one that is very hard to track down (well, there &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; to be a trail, since government resources are being used up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I bet that the death of Hank/Gomez is noticed by those in charge of the protection, and sooner or later a connection with the Heisenberg case is made. In which case the DEA would determine why Huell was kept in a safehouse, and take him into their custody (or free him) if they feel it prudent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is in fact reinforced by series creator Vince Gilligan himself in his book about &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, as quoted in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/14/breaking-bad-huell-what-happened-vince-gilligan?utm_source=huffingtonpost.com&amp;amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;amp;utm_campaign=pubexchange_article&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this entertainment weekly article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is Huell still waiting for someone to come back for him?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Yes, sadly he’s waiting morosely on that sofa, looking like a lost puppy… [Laughs] No. It’s likely that Agent Van Oster keeps in touch with DEA headquarters. So when he learns Gomez and Hank have gone missing, he would in short order tell his superiors what they were up to. Within a matter of hours, really not that many in story time, Huell will be taken back to HQ. They’ll question him, find out what he knows—which isn’t much—and he’ll be let out on the street. Right now, he’s doing what Huell does best, whatever that is. He’s out and about as a free man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="898" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-09T23:16:20.717" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T23:16:20.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13654" CreationDate="2013-11-05T06:52:03.883" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it be &quot;Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century&quot;.  See if this pic rings a bell:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/02y6yl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6512" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-05T17:00:52.977" LastActivityDate="2013-11-05T17:00:52.977" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13654" CreationDate="2013-11-05T12:14:37.570" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your description reminded me of The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, by Hanna Barbera. Not sure though, as there were more than two men with hats, but have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hotink.com/wacky/pitstop/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;look here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Funny, because I was thinking of this cartoon just the other day...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6641" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-05T16:59:56.503" LastActivityDate="2013-11-05T16:59:56.503" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14989" CreationDate="2013-11-05T13:35:38.180" Score="-3" ViewCount="436" Body="&lt;p&gt;On most ratio/television quiz shows the contestants interact with the game (answering questions, activating lifelines) by speaking instead of pressing buttons.  Why do it this way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6643" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-01-04T16:54:04.527" LastActivityDate="2017-01-04T16:54:04.527" Title="Why do contestants play quiz shows by speaking?" Tags="|production|reality-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14988" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14994" CreationDate="2013-11-05T14:07:58.690" Score="20" ViewCount="15650" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are told from early on in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt; &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/a&gt; that Viserys and Daenerys are brother and sister, and it is said they are the descendants of dragons, although this is (as of yet -- midway through season 2 for me) not fully explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Viserys is killed during the shaping of a custom-made gold crown, his sister, Daenerys, says &quot;He was not a dragon. A dragon cannot be killed by fire.&quot; Or words to that effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, she demonstrates her own &quot;dragonness&quot; by surviving a fire, and at the same time establishing her status as &quot;Mother of Dragons,&quot; when her three dragon eggs hatch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the relationship between this brother and sister, and dragons?  Are they not truly brother and sister, thus explaining why she is immune to fire but her brother not?  Or is &quot;dragonness&quot; less of a biological trait, which can be lost (and perhaps gained) by some other means?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2018-10-31T15:31:09.020" LastActivityDate="2018-10-31T15:31:09.020" Title="What is the relationship between Daenerys, Viserys, and dragons?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="14989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14986" CreationDate="2013-11-05T15:28:23.023" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's more interesting for the viewers to watch a personality, than to see people press buttons. Interacting with the host builds rapport between contestant and host, which makes the host someone the viewers can trust, and when that happens, it's easier to sell the advertisers products.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastActivityDate="2013-11-05T15:28:23.023" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14991" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="14993" CreationDate="2013-11-05T18:07:06.803" Score="13" ViewCount="5888" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ma-Ma has this thing attached to herself which will detonate the bombs if her heartbeat stops. Well she does die in the end and yet the bombs don't go off. Did I miss something here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6646" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-11T02:53:13.133" LastActivityDate="2021-04-04T23:05:25.420" Title="Why doesn't the building blow up at the end?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|dredd|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14991" CreationDate="2013-11-05T18:28:40.660" Score="15" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dredd reasons that the detonator's signal will not reach the&#xA;  explosives from the ground floor, so he forces Ma-Ma to inhale Slo-Mo&#xA;  and throws her down the atrium to her death. (Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dredd&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So its clear that building doesn't blow up because of signal range.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2013-11-05T18:28:40.660" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14988" CreationDate="2013-11-05T19:41:26.663" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Viserys and Daenerys are the last known descendants of a noble Valyrian family called the Targaryens. Like many noble Valyrian families, they had very strong ties to dragons. They bred them, trained them, and rode them to war. In fact, the Targaryen coat of arms is a red three headed dragon on a field of black. When Valyria was destroyed in a mysterious event known as the Doom of Valyria, the Targaryens escaped to Westeros where it became apparent to them that they were the only people there who had access to dragons. Using that technological edge, Aegon the Conqueror invaded Westeros with his dragons and united the Seven Kingdoms into one, effectively beginning the royal Valyrian dynasty in Westeros.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For many years after, the Targaryens continued to use their dragons. At one time, each Targaryen noble would be given a dragon egg from birth hoping that eventually it would hatch and be that Targaryen's war mount. But as years went on, the dragons stopped hatching and those that did hatch were sick and weak. Eventually, dragons would disappear completely. As a result, the Targaryen family lost it's technological edge and it wasn't long until they were supplanted by the Baratheons who are in control of the Iron Throne at the begning of the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The relationship between the Targaryens and their dragons are obviously magical, but it is not well understood at this time. But what is obvious is that not all the Targaryens are the same. Even the famed Targaryen look (silver blonde hair and purple eyes) is not uniform among them. So it would seem that Daenerys simply inherited something that Viserys didn't. Or perhaps the dragon eggs themselves gave her something that it didn't to Viserys. It's all speculation at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-11-05T19:41:26.663" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12883" CreationDate="2013-11-05T23:01:02.367" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually I think it's here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/pa3c8mk&quot;&gt;Skyfall in Glen Etive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The little bridge in front of Bond is the land mark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6648" LastActivityDate="2013-11-05T23:01:02.367" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14998" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15001" CreationDate="2013-11-06T04:04:21.170" Score="11" ViewCount="1797" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the chase sequence in which Batman reveals himself during &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;, there is a sequence when Batman uses a pump action disruptor weapon against Bane's getaway motorcade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HQegj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moments after we see how useful this weapon is, a rookie cop shoots the weapon, disabling it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tx14Q.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next part really puzzles me: &lt;em&gt;Batman throws the weapon down&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's obviously useless to him: but he's just given over a piece of evidence to them, which seems hugely uncharacteristic of the Nolan-Verse Batman SOP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the Dark Knight Rises, his Tumbler even self-destructs after the Batpod is ejected, presumably to destroy any evidence that would link the vehicle to Wayne Enterprises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d9rSt.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that he gifts a &lt;a href=&quot;http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/3720/joffrey.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Young Joffrey&lt;/a&gt; with a surveillance device during the Batman Begins, but I think given the police attention these are different circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also accept that the moment is funny, and understand it to be a nod to the audience that Nolan isn't going to let batman use his 'gadgets' to pull victory out of his a$!%hole, like times of yore...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pU1h1.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I still don't understand why he would throw the device down. It just seems incredibly sloppy for what has been typically methodical execution. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does anyone have any insight on this?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-30T12:50:27.490" LastActivityDate="2016-10-25T00:13:55.183" Title="Why would Batman discard his disruptor?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight-rises|batman-begins|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="14999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14919" CreationDate="2013-11-06T05:28:45.033" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My impression from the film was that Eli had met up with Håkan when he was still a child, the same way she did Oskar, and that he grew old while she did not.  It is never stated explicitly, but it isn't contradicted either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the novel on which the film is based does give additional background for Håkan.  According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139797/faq#.2.1.7&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Håkan (Per Ragnar) was Eli's &amp;quot;helper,&amp;quot; meeting Eli at a low point in&#xA;his life when he is contemplating suicide because of his liking for&#xA;young boys. Eli recognises that his vulnerability and exploits this,&#xA;using him as her source for food.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Håkan truly believes he loves&#xA;Eli, but his infatuation (a more accurate description) is largely&#xA;motivated by sexual attraction to Eli's childlike body;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eli found&#xA;Håkan when he was about 45 years old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-11-06T05:28:45.033" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15000" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-06T08:21:17.417" Score="6" ViewCount="3837" Body="&lt;p&gt;How have &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086250/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scarface&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Tony Montana's mother and sister got green-cards and have been living in the US for years but Tony hasn't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-19T23:51:35.183" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T23:51:35.183" Title="How are Tony's mother and sister green-card holders in Miami while Tony is stuck in Cuba?" Tags="|plot-explanation|scarface|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14998" CreationDate="2013-11-06T09:56:17.253" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just rewatched the scene, and the disruptor is not thrown away. He lowers it gun, putting it next to his right leg, where it was at the beginning of the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In movies, if a gun is disposed off willingly, it is usually (always?) dramatically thrown away, and not just gently dropped next to one's leg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, here it is, mere 20 seconds later, attached and shining where it was in the first place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DOeKc.png&quot; alt=&quot;The disruptor is here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, we don't see the disruptor anymore, for example right before the end of the chase:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ILQm9.png&quot; alt=&quot;The disruptor is gone&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see it as just one of many &quot;the item (dis)appears when it is (not) needed&quot; moments, typical for the Batman and his gadgets throughout all of his movies and series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2013-11-06T22:48:18.977" LastActivityDate="2013-11-06T22:48:18.977" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14541" CreationDate="2013-11-06T14:21:24.430" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1623205/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Oz The Great And Powerful&lt;/a&gt; to be set much earlier than &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Wizard of Oz&lt;/a&gt;. If you take Oz to be set at the time when it was made in 1939, and Oz-TGAP to be set when you were suggesting, around 1900, that gives you about a forty year difference. This would account for the difference in the Wizard. The Wizard, being from our world, would age as we would expect. Glinda (and the Wicked Witch, for that matter) might age differently if for any other reason than being witches (speculation on my part). One of the purposes of the newer movie was to provide back story for the witches and the Wizard. With this in mind, it would make sense that the Wizard would have aged. To answer your question, I think there could be an aging difference here, but I don't think it would be due to time dilation, though, or anything inherent within the Land itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-11-06T14:21:24.430" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15000" CreationDate="2013-11-06T16:33:08.677" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Context and dialog imply that back in Cuba, Tony was in prison for crime, while his mother and sister were law-abiding citizens -- but were not in the good graces of the Castro establishment because of Tony's late father's anti-Castro work. (For example, when first seeing him, Tony's mother snidely says to him &quot;No postcards from jail?&quot; Also, Tony mentions his dad's anti-Castro work.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then came &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Mariel boatlift&lt;/a&gt; (depicted in the documentary-style short at the start of Scarface) when Castro opened the border briefly, allowing Cubans to cross the sea into Cuba. Tony's mother and sister seized the opportunity to escape, as did Tony -- though Tony left separately, from jail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After arriving in the US (separately from Tony) his mother and sister were processed by the US government, identified as anti-Castro and therefore welcomed to the US as legals residents and eventual citizens. Tony, however, was identified as a criminal (a US agent examines Tony's tattoo and says &quot;pitchfork means an assassin&quot;) so was stuck in a refugee camp. Time passed, but soon enough, Tony received and accepted Frank Lopez's request to kill Ribenga, and then Lopez was able to get Tony released from the camp. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several months, at least, passed between Tony's release from refugee camp and Tony's visit to his mother and sister (first Tony works at the taco shop, then establishes himself with Frank Lopez). During that time, Tony's mother and sister had begun their lives in the United States, having known nothing about his whereabouts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T01:36:26.293" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T01:36:26.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8282" CreationDate="2013-11-06T19:14:36.743" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film mentions that it is a 4 megaton NEUTRON bomb. My understanding is that in a typical fission nuclear device, approx. 95% of the released energy is kinetic (blast) and 5% radiative (high energy neutrons). In a neutron device, it is more like 50% for each. In other words, a neutron bomb of the same yield will emit more of its energy in the form of lethal radiation and less as blast potential compared to its fission counterpart. Note that these types of bombs were flirted with decades ago due to their ability to kill living organisms while doing a lot less damage to infrastructure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway... if we assume that Batman programmed the Bat to go out to sea and explode at a low altitude, this would have resulted in a smaller blast radius. And, if we assume he was lucky and the prevailing winds were directed off-shore, the overall effect on Gotham could have been minimal or nonexistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add to this a shot of &quot;suspension of disbelief&quot; and I can enjoy what we saw in TDKR...    :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6652" LastActivityDate="2013-11-06T19:14:36.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15012" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15034" CreationDate="2013-11-07T01:27:37.953" Score="29" ViewCount="96846" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I was watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058150/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot;&gt;James Bond 007 - Goldfinger&lt;/a&gt; on TV, I remember a lesson I had back in high school. We were learning about how movies are affected/released by what is going on in society. We looked at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot;&gt;Dr. Strange Love&lt;/a&gt; and James Bond 007 - Goldfinger. I'm quite sure we were supposed to note the notations to nuclear weaponry, however in Goldfinger everyone just laughed their asses off when Pussy Galore's name was brought up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I may be trying to keep both my physical and mental virginity until I get a girlfriend, but I know what everyone was going on about with Pussy Galore (and personally I don't find it funny, I saw the film several times before the class and never found it funny). I know that the James Bond films are based off books which were out long before the movies were released. I've been wondering, was Pussy Galore's name really a take on the slag term currently used in porn or was there another reason why Pussy Galore was named this way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: While the answer probably lies in the book rather than the film's development, there's no SE site for books (at least not named easily enough) and this curiosity has came from watching the film, not to mention I do not know how different the movie is to the book so there is a chance that Pussy goes under a different name in the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4297" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T16:27:27.063" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T16:27:27.063" Title="What is the meaning behind Pussy Galore's name?" Tags="|character|book-adaptation|james-bond|goldfinger|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15012" CreationDate="2013-11-07T02:05:24.550" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's really a question only Ian Fleming can answer, but he did use double entendres quite often when naming his female characters. In this case the double entendre is (hidden because it's not polite conversation):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; a housecat and vulva. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-11T02:38:02.527" LastActivityDate="2013-11-11T02:38:02.527" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15012" CreationDate="2013-11-07T09:29:46.977" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is also a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy_Galore&quot;&gt;Wikipedia entry&lt;/a&gt; on the character, which explains the meaning and origin:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As with many of Ian Fleming's creations, the name is a double&#xA;  entendre—in this case with respect to pussy, which is both another&#xA;  word for a housecat and a slang term for vulva and vagina, while&#xA;  galore means an abundant or plentiful supply of something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1315" LastActivityDate="2013-11-07T09:29:46.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15019" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-07T11:07:39.580" Score="8" ViewCount="1450" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Kong falls off the Empire State Building, on what street does he land? Has anyone tracked his movements around the top of the ESB, perhaps using the Chrysler building as a coordinate, to see from which side of the tower he drops? This is in re: the 1933 King Kong&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6657" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-12-17T05:31:42.347" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T20:07:13.313" Title="Where does King Kong fall?" Tags="|plot-explanation|king-kong-1933|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15021" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15023" CreationDate="2013-11-07T12:26:48.773" Score="6" ViewCount="7207" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any difference between the terms &quot;Walker&quot; and &quot;Zombie&quot; as used in the Walking Dead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6168" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2013-11-07T13:34:53.377" LastActivityDate="2016-06-26T00:38:40.770" Title="Is there any difference between a &quot;Walker&quot; and &quot;Zombie&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15021" CreationDate="2013-11-07T12:37:06.027" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1520211/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Walking Dead&lt;/a&gt; goes, the term &quot;walker&quot; is just slang for zombie. The term &quot;zombie&quot; is so over used, they had to work it from a different angle. I believe it is a play off of the series name to help it find its niche on television. There is no &quot;real&quot; difference between the terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-11-07T12:37:06.027" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15021" CreationDate="2013-11-07T13:37:43.340" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The term &quot;zombie&quot; is never used in The Walking Dead, as far as I can recall.  The term Rick's group uses to refer to the animated corpses is simply &quot;walker.&quot;  The inhabitants of Woodbury use the term &quot;biters&quot; to refer to the animated corpses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a viewer's standpoint, &quot;zombie,&quot; &quot;walker,&quot; and &quot;biter&quot; are synonyms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In-universe, nobody uses the term &quot;zombie&quot; at all because, as @djmadscribbler explained in comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In-universe, the characters haven't had zombies in popular culture--no Night of the Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead, etc.  So they have their own names for the creatures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2013-11-07T23:20:29.487" LastActivityDate="2013-11-07T23:20:29.487" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14826" CreationDate="2013-11-07T16:13:25.760" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It must be during or before the season when they got together. As with any show, no one can plan or predict in the beginning how many episodes or seasons it will get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing for sure, I heard this during the documentary of 9th season of Friends: When the 9th season started, they had plans for it to be the last season. But during filming of this season, they decided to have another one. That was the reason (or one of the reasons) 10th has only 18 episodes whereas all previous ones had 24-25.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4588" LastActivityDate="2013-11-07T16:13:25.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15028" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15029" CreationDate="2013-11-07T21:30:03.590" Score="5" ViewCount="1777" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie was from the end of 80s or early 90s tales from the crypt style.&#xA;At the beginning of the story a man drives a car to a small town, he rides at night. A man on a bike passes him, a few minutes later he rides still in the car but not on a highway anymore but in the sky. The same guy on a bike passes him again. At the end of the movie they are showing a movie based on his book and after that people start to kill each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what I remember, saw that movie a long time ago. Does anyone have any idea about the title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6663" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2013-11-07T22:12:15.440" LastActivityDate="2013-11-07T22:12:15.440" Title="Horror about novel writer whose book will be turned into movie, after watching it people start to be violent" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:52:43.707" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15028" CreationDate="2013-11-07T21:50:37.790" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although some things are mixed up, many details as well as the part of the book turned into a movie and driving people crazy, remind me of the &lt;em&gt;John Carpenter&lt;/em&gt; classic &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113409/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;In the Mouth of Madness&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. But it isn't his book, but he is searching for the author, who's gone disappearing to an odd town, which is actually from one of his books but turned into reality:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is&#xA;  breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for&#xA;  description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life.&#xA;  Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane's&#xA;  mysterious vanishing act and ends up in the sleepy little East Coast&#xA;  town of Hobb's End. The fact that this town exists as a figment of&#xA;  Cane's twisted imagination is only the beginning of Trent's&#xA;  problems...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you read Sutter Cane? ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-11-07T21:50:37.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="459" CreationDate="2013-11-08T03:42:48.957" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The puppet master wanted revenge... By making the puppet fall in love and hence procreate with his own kin, he: 1. Got his revenge for the puppet opening his mouth, and 2. Made the puppet aware that he had fallen in love with someone that ended up being the same circumstance (if not worse).. Thus proving the fact that you should not judge others until you've lived through that person's experiences. Since the puppet master lost everything he lived for (everything he loved), he no longer wanted to live knowing he had finally proved his point. &lt;em&gt;drops mic, exits stage&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6667" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-27T19:37:44.003" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T19:37:44.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15032" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15040" CreationDate="2013-11-08T04:15:10.793" Score="6" ViewCount="2567" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, when Michael was in surgery he had visions of Charles Westmoreland and uncovered what Scylla actually was? Or did Michael use his extraordinary brain to know the reason behind SCYLLA?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6168" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-16T10:26:20.327" LastActivityDate="2014-01-16T10:26:20.327" Title="When Michael was in surgery, how did he realise what SCYLLA actually is?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prison-break|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15012" CreationDate="2013-11-08T08:55:11.097" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems the women in James Bond's love life often have provocative names:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_Rider&quot;&gt;Honey Rider&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Dr. No&lt;/em&gt; (1961):  1960s sexual position name for reverse cowgirl&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_Vitali&quot;&gt;Domino Vitali/Petachi&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Thunderball&lt;/em&gt; (1965) and &lt;em&gt;Never Say Never Again&lt;/em&gt; (1983):  Dominatrix?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissy_Suzuki&quot;&gt;Kissy Suzuki&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;You Only Live Twice&lt;/em&gt; (1967):  &quot;kissing machine&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_Case&quot;&gt;Tiffany Case&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Diamonds Are Forever&lt;/em&gt; (1971):  beautiful outside, desirable inside&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Goodhead&quot;&gt;Dr. Holly Goodhead&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Moonraker&lt;/em&gt; (1979): certainly a euphemism for &lt;em&gt;holy fellatio&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Havelock&quot;&gt;Judy Havelock&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;For Your Eyes Only&lt;/em&gt; (1981):  bondage term or wrestling lock&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopussy_%28character%29&quot;&gt;Octopussy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Octopussy&lt;/em&gt; (1983):  (what can I say?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenia_Onatopp&quot;&gt;Xenia Onatopp&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Goldeneye&lt;/em&gt; (1995):  none too subtle&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wai_Lin&quot;&gt;Wai Lin&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Tommorrow Never Dies&lt;/em&gt; (1997):  sounds like &lt;em&gt;Way In&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Whaling&lt;/em&gt;, both implying forceful sex&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm having trouble deciphering &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesper_Lynd&quot;&gt;Vesper Lynd&lt;/a&gt; (from several &lt;em&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/em&gt; movies).  Vesper means &lt;em&gt;evening&lt;/em&gt;, but I don't see how that provocatively fits with &lt;em&gt;Lynd&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for what they all mean:  maybe Bond can't be relied upon to independently identify his next sexual conquest, so they are named as though they have signs on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe Ian Fleming was poking fun at English society's prudish and contradictory morals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-11T02:36:54.507" LastActivityDate="2013-11-11T02:36:54.507" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15000" CreationDate="2013-11-08T11:09:13.163" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can also state with some experience (my wife is Dutch, and when we first got married she applied for a Green Card) that it takes a LONG time to get processed for a Green Card. It's entirely plausible that Tony's mother and sister were selected for processing via a lottery system (something they still use today) and that Tony was simply left to wait his turn with everyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2013-11-08T11:09:13.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13657" CreationDate="2013-11-08T14:37:53.583" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know that the world maker engine could be used to re-construct Krypton, right? Jor,Lara,Zod and the rest of the Kryptonians before the link (a.k.a Kal) had a natural tendency to re-create the Kryptonian way of life. Jor and Lara knew that the survival of Kryptonian way of life was ingrained into their genes. Their hope was that Kal would find an uninhabited planet which he could use to revive Krypton (I believe in this theory because he asks Kal to save earth, instead of allowing Zod to destroy it). However, regardless of their hopes, they knew that their genetic conditioning would take over. They valued life so much that they sacrificed themselves than take that slim chance. Well, that's my 2-bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6672" LastActivityDate="2013-11-08T14:37:53.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15019" CreationDate="2013-11-08T16:01:13.960" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Despite the reservations of other users, this intrigued me enough to figure it out :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you watch a &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/qqQKgSwlcm8&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;clip from the end of the '33 film&lt;/a&gt;, you can see the approximate camera angle - which I have replicated in the map below...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/At64b.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this angle, it appears that Kong was hanging onto the East/South 'corner' of the Empire State Building, which would put his landing point somewhere at the intersection of 5th Ave and West 33rd Street. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might not seem obvious where he actually landed, but then there is this still from a deleted shot of the fall (which was cut out due to the effect no working properly) which seems to suggest that he actually lands in 5th Avenue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xbFHC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering this thoroughfare is the better known of the two and was, at the time, known for glitz, glamor and theater, it would make sense for this to be his final resting place - however it is not highlighted in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-11-08T16:01:13.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="873" CreationDate="2013-11-08T16:34:37.947" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Off the top of my head, the stories are essentially the same, with the capsule being discovered, the Martian remains, the telepathic 'sightings' of the ghost Martians, the links to the devil via the aliens' appearance and the inscriptions on the craft.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only significant difference I can recall is the ending. In the original BBC series, Quatermass attempts to destroy the Martian apparition with a heavy iron chain which is grounded. He misses, and the soldier helping him sacrifices himself to complete the task. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Hammer version, Quatermass climbs into a crane and swings the arm around into the apparition, shorting it out and ending the threat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-11-08T16:34:37.947" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15032" CreationDate="2013-11-08T19:06:43.960" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vision of Charles Westmoreland was yield of Michaels imagination, so however you put it it ends that Michael &lt;strong&gt;figured out scylla by himself&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Up to this vision, &lt;strong&gt;Michael never actually thought what scylla really was&lt;/strong&gt;. Don Self told him it was the black book for the company so Michael assumed that it was, that is the power of suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Don Self betrayed them, Michael realised it was all a lie so scylla could actually be something else. This was also the part where Charles &quot;told him&quot; &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Things are not as they seem&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now curiously Michael pulls all his information about scylla in attempt to figure that out. Words &lt;strong&gt;Bargain&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Power&lt;/strong&gt; stood out as they were mentioned few times... Which seems was enough for Michael to make his own conclusion about Scylla.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-08T19:16:48.993" LastActivityDate="2013-11-08T19:16:48.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="387" CreationDate="2013-11-08T23:09:18.960" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole point of the Granger subplot is that they cannot know why he travelled back - Aaron states as much in the narrative. Thomas Granger falls unconcious whenever in proximity to Abe because the sharing of information between them would create a paradox that the Universe cannot allow. This revelation is what convinces Abe to return to the failsafe point and undo the effects of their time travel, given that it is evidently too dangerous to be employed. I agree with the implication that some tragedy involving Rachel is the reason for Granger's trip back but as the voiceover says, Aaron and Abe are ultimately frustrated by the fact that the answer is unknowable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6675" LastActivityDate="2013-11-08T23:09:18.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15012" CreationDate="2013-11-09T00:13:44.280" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The meaning of the name &quot;Pussy Galore&quot; is essentially &quot;abundant sex&quot; (with &quot;Pussy&quot; meaning sex and &quot;Galore&quot; meaning abundant).&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name &quot;Pussy Galore&quot; is intended to make viewers laugh. The humor is largely driven by how the name is such an obvious, crude reference to sex. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember the movie came out in 1964, when audiences were much less de-sensitized to sex and to shock-humor than they are today. Also note that the most recent Bond films seem to have done away with the obvious-sex-reference names for Bond Girls -- probably because that stuff just isn't funny to enough people anymore, and might even be considered offensive by many.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2013-11-09T00:13:44.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15044" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-09T10:03:04.443" Score="7" ViewCount="2270" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1663662/&quot;&gt;Pacific Rim&lt;/a&gt; the robots kept losing and almost at the last minute they remembered that they had a super powerful sword and cut the kaiju in half. Why didn't they use that in the beginning of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erua3uAbfhc&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erua3uAbfhc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastActivityDate="2013-11-09T11:46:09.750" Title="Why didn't they use the sword they had?" Tags="|pacific-rim|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14942" CreationDate="2013-11-09T11:32:09.493" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is always a gap to bridge when adapting a book/comic/graphic novel into a TV show. A graphic novel is not addressing the same audience as the TV show. There is even a difference between the ways such literary works are adapted for Movies and TV shows. Given the episodic release format for the shows spanning over different seasons, the makers try to gauge the audience reactions to certain aspects of the show that make it click. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you have given the example of The Walking Dead, let's take that under consideration. We can clearly see that the start of the first season is true to the story in the graphic novel. In the first season the only new additions were made by the characters of Daryl and Merle. Since these are new introductions they can be treated as experiments by the writers. If the audiences accept them, they can incorporate them into the story-line. If they aren't they can be easily written off. In this particular case, the audiences loved these characters so much that they became characters around whom entire episodes were filmed. Therefore, the writers can now take the liberty of using such new introductions to further make creative additions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6668" LastActivityDate="2013-11-09T11:32:09.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15044" CreationDate="2013-11-09T11:46:09.750" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You would have to look at this from the point of view of the filmmaker as well as from the point of view of the actual character&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a filmmaker's perspective you would want to keep your 'best-for-last' moment to be as surprising and awe-inspiring as possible. Revealing the sword earlier to the audience would spoil the climax. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the characters are concerned one of the jaeger pilots Raliegh Beckett wasn't aware of the sword in his Jaeger in the first place. It can be argued that Mako Mori didn't remember this detail since she was a novice pilot. (I know this is far-fetched but I am giving them the benefit of doubt.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6668" LastActivityDate="2013-11-09T11:46:09.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12862" CreationDate="2013-11-09T19:53:17.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Pure speculation, it might not at all be correct.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My friend told me that it was because the intended effect was, these giant mechas are going to &quot;hunt&quot; Kaiju. And giant robots named Hunters, doesn't sound very impressive. But giant robots named Jaegers, now that's more intimidating. Couple this to the whole Japanese obsession towards German words, and Jasper Schoenfeld.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also thought it might be a reference to Alex Jaeger, someone who had quite substantial work in this movie, though I'm not sure as what. Feel free to edit if you can make it clearer who Alex Jaeger is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6353" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-09T21:26:16.633" LastActivityDate="2013-11-09T21:26:16.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1126" CreationDate="2013-11-10T06:37:28.957" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason the killer wears a mask, is because he  plans to frame another person (Bobby Slade) for the murders.  He did not kill his first victim - Julie Jensen - whom he attacked in the same ritualistic manner as the murdered Mrs. Forrester.  Julie Jensen would be a witness and implicate Bobby Slade in court.  Bobby had slept with both women. Also, the killer - Mr. Forrester - wears a mask to kill his wife and her maid because, by remaining anonymous, it's easier to kill them - easier on his conscience - especially if he needs to lead a convincing double life for his attorney.  Wouldn't it be easier to kill people you know, and live with it, if they don't know it's you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6684" LastEditorUserId="6684" LastEditDate="2013-11-10T08:02:52.583" LastActivityDate="2013-11-10T08:02:52.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15058" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-10T20:33:44.133" Score="1" ViewCount="324" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044706/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;High Noon&lt;/em&gt; (1952)&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, when the Marshal is looking for some assistants to help him fight Frank Miller and his friends, one of the civilians asks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Those three killers walking the streets bold as brass. Why didn't you put them in jail where they ought to be? Then we'd only have Miller to worry about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the Marshal answers: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I haven't anything to arrest them for. They haven't done&#xA;  anything. There's no law against them sitting on a bench at the depot.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when the four villains arrived the town, the Marshal shoots one of them dead, before they have committed a crime! Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6204" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2013-11-10T22:43:56.417" LastActivityDate="2022-07-30T13:09:11.507" Title="Why did Marshall shoot one of the villains before he committed a crime?" Tags="|plot-explanation|high-noon|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15059" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-10T20:45:50.273" Score="5" ViewCount="2446" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YXSda.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The antagonist of the film &lt;em&gt;Gravity&lt;/em&gt; is a wave of shrapnel which circles the earth every 90 minutes. The result of a &quot;controlled destruction&quot; of a defunct Russian Satellite (what is this, the cold war?!) the crew of the Explorer shuttle and the ISS are threatened by this because it matches their altitude, and is traveling at a much greater velocity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Hubble telescope is listed as being at an standard altitude of approximately 559 km, way above the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_Line&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kármán line&lt;/a&gt; (the boundary of the earth's 'atmosphere' and the altitude at which foreign objects experience atmospheric effects in the way of friction/heat).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of &lt;em&gt;Gravity&lt;/em&gt;, Mission Specialist Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) manages to navigate her way to Tiangong, the Chinese space-station which has been affected by the same shrapnel wave and knocked off it's orbit, back towards earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The debris storm has its own musical motif, which begins to play: and Stone realises that as another 90 minutes have passed, the storm has re-orbited and is on its way back...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Stone struggles to get inside the escape capsule, now entering earths atmosphere &lt;strong&gt;Pieces of satellite debris begin to strike the vessel, punching dents into the side of it&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the satellite debris was orbiting at 559km, and yet the Tiangong is crossing the Kármán line at 100km, &lt;strong&gt;why would the debris have descended over 400km down?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yHg5J.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stone had to utilise a launcher pod to bring herself down to this altitude, so there obviously isn't enough gravitational pull to de-orbit the wrecked ISS, let alone the tiny pieces of shrapnel travelling at a much greater velocity...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is very, very good and a lot of extensive research has obviously gone into it, so I'm reluctant to say this is a goof... more likely either its:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: Accurate according to some laws of physics im totally unaware of, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;B: I've missed some major plot point where this is explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it stands it's incredibly confusing. I know NASA spoke of a 'chain reaction' of satellites crashing into each other, but surely not at a girth of 400KM?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I know it might not go down to well, but can we limit answers to people that have seen the film; although I've done my best to try and explain the problem, there will likely be answers that will start with &quot;I've not seen the film, but...&quot; and end with an explanation that would immediately be ruled out by those who have seen the very specific scenario the film depicts.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-12-03T00:25:47.920" LastActivityDate="2015-01-06T16:31:51.817" Title="Why would the satellite debris have followed the Tiangong out of orbit?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gravity|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15060" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15080" CreationDate="2013-11-10T20:59:58.813" Score="5" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was likely an Italian film made in the 70s.  The scene was a military parade.  The parading army and audiences were waiting for the general who was on the toilet.  He finally stood up off the seat, turned around and accidentally dropped one of his medals into the toilet bowl.  He then tried to fish the medal out again but this only resulted in him dropping more medals into the toilet.  Finally he had had enough, drew his pistol and shot himself!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone identify the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6689" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T07:38:21.510" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T07:38:21.510" Title="Fellini-esque movie with a general in a toilet" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:52:46.830" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11884" CreationDate="2013-11-10T21:32:10.060" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the similarities are coincidental. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Johnny B. Goode scene ties directly back to the start of the film, where Marty is auditioning for the school program, and his band is rejected for being &quot;too loud.&quot; In talking about the filming of the scene, Michael J. Fox says, &quot;My favorite part of the original &lt;em&gt;Back to the Future&lt;/em&gt;, filmed in 1985, was the Johnny B. Goode sequence during the “Enchantment Under the Sea” dance. As a frustrated musician, I was in my glory, learning the guitar chords and lead solo arrangements, as well as working with a choreographer to mimic and incorporate into the production number the signature styles and stage moves of my rock and roll heroes.”  (&lt;em&gt;Lucky Man: A Memoir&lt;/em&gt;, p, 144)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Top Secret&lt;/em&gt; was actually a parody of Elvis films (imdb, Wikipedia, Rotten Tomatoes), so it had a different inspiration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2013-11-10T21:32:10.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15063" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-11T04:04:11.083" Score="9" ViewCount="2989" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was about some sort of aliens trying to enter earth. I was watching it on and off on TV so couldn't find more details. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Details:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They were broadcasting some stuff of what's happening on news or something. The lead actor's son or someone was watching it and seeing what was happening and was pretty freaked out. One of the scenes on TV was about how someone recorded a bird flying in mid air and stopped in the middle and fell down straight. He said this almost word for word &quot;It was as if there was an invisible wall over there&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There were 2 kids, a girl around 6 and a boy around 8. The boy was reading some sort of book where they talked about aliens. He was taking about how there were 2 options with alien invasion if they came for resource. They invade, we win, and they come back 100 or 1000 years later. Or we lose. He also talked about how they will not do air strikes too much since they wouldn't want us to do nuclear attacks and make the planet useless.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This part is &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; fuzzy to me. The actor looked a little like Robert de niro but I don't think he was. I might have even gone crazy and he looked nothing like him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6691" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-11T05:53:05.273" LastActivityDate="2013-11-13T13:21:26.420" Title="Alien invasion movie with bird hitting invisible wall" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:52:49.947" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15063" CreationDate="2013-11-11T05:26:59.473" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds like your describing two - three different movies... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Small chance if not SIGNS) The Last Mimzy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Signs&lt;/strong&gt; (Has everything but the &lt;em&gt;Robert de niro&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would guess Signs because &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signs_(film)&quot; title=&quot;Movie Info&quot;&gt;WIKI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;dead bird&lt;/strong&gt;: With no sound, this scene shows Graham going back home from Ray's, and after a short time, a dead bird near the road (&lt;strong&gt;after supposedly hitting an invisible forcefield&lt;/strong&gt;) is shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it is a Alien movie about an father, son, daughter, and uncle on a farm.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vA5d1.jpg/&quot; alt=&quot;uncle, son, daughter&quot; title=&quot;Morgan Hess(Son), Merrill Hess(Uncle), Bo Hess(daughter)&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PEbCI.jpg/&quot; alt=&quot;father&quot; title=&quot;Morgan Hess(Son), Rev. Graham Hess(father), Bo Hess(daughter), THE BOOK&quot;&gt;. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The key point in the movie for me was seeing &lt;strong&gt;the book that Morgan Hess is using to predict how the alien invasion will develop&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120219195454AA11ojJ/&quot; title=&quot;Alternative Books - By Yahoo Answers&quot;&gt;book he's reading&lt;/a&gt; from is a pastiche of &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0962057053&quot; title=&quot;Amazon Link to 1st Edition&quot;&gt;Linda Howes &quot;Glimpses of Other Realities&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, in which she spins out sinister and lurid stories of aliens coming here, mutilating our animals, creating patterns in our crops and harvesting humans for food.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6696" LastEditorUserId="6696" LastEditDate="2013-11-11T18:53:28.857" LastActivityDate="2013-11-11T18:53:28.857" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15068" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-11T12:35:04.073" Score="2" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the opening scene of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287963/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Secret Things&lt;/em&gt; (2002)&lt;/a&gt;, and again three times throughout the movie, including the climax scene at the end, a veiled woman is seen, holding a hawk.  Sometimes the hawk is seen moving about as well, most notably at the end when it begins pecking at the corpse of Cristophe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the significance of this woman and the hawk? What does it represent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-11T12:40:20.837" LastActivityDate="2013-11-11T12:40:20.837" Title="What is the meaning of the veiled woman with the hawk?" Tags="|plot-explanation|secret-things|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15069" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15070" CreationDate="2013-11-11T13:35:31.633" Score="14" ViewCount="48187" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given Loki is an orphan from Jotunheim not a child of Asgard why would he look like his adopted family?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Frost Giants are not portrayed as looking human, does the fact that he was adopted change his appearance in some way or is it part of Frigga/Loki's &quot;tricks&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-11T14:09:37.327" LastActivityDate="2017-05-27T07:31:33.210" Title="Why does Loki look like an Asgardian?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|thor|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15069" CreationDate="2013-11-11T13:40:57.037" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I am not mistaken Odin changes Loki's appearance by touching him in Thor in a flashback scene. So Odin intentionally changed his look and then adopts him.  His real look appears when he's attacked by a Frost Giant's freezing touch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qe4qj.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qe4qj.png&quot; alt=&quot;Loki&amp;#39;s true appearance&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no explanation of Loki's small size as compared to Frost Giants but in comics Laufey kept him hidden from his people, ashamed of his son's small size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are further answers present on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16234/why-does-loki-look-like-he-does-in-the-movies&quot;&gt;SciFi.SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="48480" LastEditDate="2017-05-27T07:31:33.210" LastActivityDate="2017-05-27T07:31:33.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15071" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15072" CreationDate="2013-11-11T13:58:55.917" Score="6" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was a black and white film, made in the same kind of style as High Noon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it starts with outlaws robbing a town, they might have killed some people too. As they are riding away someone picks up a pistol and fires a lucky shot which kills one of them. He is not a gun fighter and it was blind luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is hailed a hero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The town find out that gang are coming back and he become a pariah. ISTR he seems oblivious to the danger he is in and does not seem to realise why no one will allow their children near him etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The gang kill someone who helped him and later come into the town to kill him but still no one helps him. At the finale the gang are walking down the street towards the hero as he is firing at them but he keeps missing as he has no idea how to accurately fire a gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I try to Google it, I just get references to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Noon&quot;&gt;High Noon&lt;/a&gt; (It is definitely not, I have seen both) or various other films and I cannot separate the wheat from the chaff!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="1501" LastEditDate="2013-11-11T14:14:14.717" LastActivityDate="2013-11-11T14:17:01.773" Title="Amateur kills outlaw with a lucky shot and is hailed as a hero" Tags="|identify-this-movie|western|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:52:53.140" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15071" CreationDate="2013-11-11T14:17:01.773" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might be looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047844/&quot;&gt;At Gunpoint&lt;/a&gt; starring Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Malone, and Walter Brennan:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The peace-loving owner of a general store, who became a town hero when he luckily killed the leader of a gang of bank robbers, is deserted by the townspeople who fear the threatened return of the vengeful bandits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-11-11T14:17:01.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15073" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15087" CreationDate="2013-11-11T14:56:29.437" Score="11" ViewCount="2806" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the first film of The Hobbit we see a meeting of the White Council in which Saruman seems unconvinced and even argues against the likelihood that Sauron could be returning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In The Fellowship of the Ring it becomes apparent that Sauron has corrupted the wizard. When did this seduction begin? Was Saruman already under Sauron's control at this point in The Hobbit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-07T12:20:48.240" LastActivityDate="2022-05-17T14:07:15.377" Title="Was Saruman already under the thrall of Sauron?" Tags="|character|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-hobbit|an-unexpected-journey|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1971" CreationDate="2013-11-11T16:07:23.720" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am pretty sure the scene of him looking weak and skinny was CG...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;they didn't film him skinny then have him bulk up, they just used CG/airbrush to make him look that way&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6703" LastActivityDate="2013-11-11T16:07:23.720" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15079" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15518" CreationDate="2013-11-11T18:22:51.957" Score="4" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;During a rewatch of episodes of Fringe, I have re-encountered &quot;Jacksonville&quot;, the episode that demonstrated the first explicit example of mass distribution from the alternate universe. A building appeared in our universe from the alternate, causing Walter to shortly deduce &quot;I'm afraid I've just remembered what's going to happen next&quot;.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;He and William Bell had experimented with moving a car across the barrier to the other side, resulting in an automobile from the alternate universe appearing here shortly thereafter on the MIT campus. Universes seek &quot;balance&quot;, so mass moved across the barriers had to have some equivalent mass move back to replace it.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Walter brought Peter from the other side - was there ever an accounting of the &quot;balance&quot; necessary for the compensating mass of the small boy? How about each of the times we/they intentionally crossed agents across the barriers?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I actually don't remember this concept ever coming up again outside the Jacksonville episode. Was there some accounting for the balances in mass due either side for these incursions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2013-11-30T18:38:23.510" Title="Fringe Mass Redistribution" Tags="|plot-explanation|fringe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15060" CreationDate="2013-11-11T19:33:31.380" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film is &quot;Signore e Signori Buonanotte&quot; / &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight,_Ladies_and_Gentlemen&quot;&gt;Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, 1976. The general was played by Ugo Tognazzi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="676" LastActivityDate="2013-11-11T19:33:31.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14726" CreationDate="2013-11-11T23:29:57.083" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Westchester Department of Public Safety is run by a Commissioner who is also the County Sheriff.  Westchester County has both a police and a sheriffs department, both of which are commanded by the same person. Sleepy Hollow does have it's own police department but calls for backup with emergencies and assistance with large events from both the County police and sheriffs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6708" LastActivityDate="2013-11-11T23:29:57.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15086" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18533" CreationDate="2013-11-12T00:16:59.667" Score="19" ViewCount="30233" Body="&lt;p&gt;During his visit on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130884/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shutter Island&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Marshal &lt;em&gt;Teddy Daniels&lt;/em&gt; repeatedly has traumatic memories of the liberation of the KZ &lt;em&gt;Dachau&lt;/em&gt; during his service in WWII, where he saw the piles of corpses, let an officer die slowly after a failed suicide attempt and ultimately shot the guards with his fellow soldiers. He even thinks to remember &lt;em&gt;Dr. Naehring&lt;/em&gt; as one of the doctors from the KZ, yet this accusation is rather ignored by everyone, including &lt;em&gt;Teddy&lt;/em&gt;, while a former war criminal working as a doctor in a U.S. asylum would indeed be a big scandal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But of course, as we learn at the end, &lt;em&gt;Teddy&lt;/em&gt; is an unreliable narrator and the whole investigation was a staging to cure &lt;em&gt;Andrew Laeddis&lt;/em&gt; from the alternate reality he invented to suppress his guilt in his family's death. At one point &lt;em&gt;Dr. Cawley&lt;/em&gt; even says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You were at Dachau, but you may not have killed any guards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I wonder, &lt;strong&gt;to which degree were his memories of &lt;em&gt;Dachau&lt;/em&gt; really &lt;em&gt;Andrew&lt;/em&gt;'s memories&lt;/strong&gt; and to which degree were they just part of &lt;em&gt;Teddy&lt;/em&gt;'s false reality and &lt;strong&gt;what is their further meaning inside this false reality?&lt;/strong&gt; If they were all just made up by him, how do they relate to the rest of the story, or were they just supposed to be a distraction for the audience, giving the conspiracy-laden and disturbing &lt;em&gt;Teddy&lt;/em&gt;-reality yet another strange angle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-09T16:47:42.383" LastActivityDate="2022-01-03T12:25:03.797" Title="What is the meaning of Teddy's memories of Dachau?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|shutter-island|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15073" CreationDate="2013-11-12T02:20:09.393" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;He does not appear in novel &amp;quot;The Hobbit&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Jackson's adaptation of the prequel, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/a&gt;, Lee reprises his role as Saruman the White, &lt;strong&gt;even though Saruman does not appear in the novel&lt;/strong&gt;. He is shown meeting with Gandalf, Galadriel and Elrond in Rivendell and speaking with them about the mysterious Necromancer encountered by Radagast the Brown, where he tells Gandalf that the Necromancer is just a mortal man and that Radagast is a foolish fellow because of his consumption of mushrooms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saruman&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though he is not in the novel, we could try and draw some conclusions from the novels. However, he has a different role there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saruman studied in depth the arts of Sauron in order to better oppose him. However, Saruman soon became enamored of Sauron's devices, especially the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/One_Ring&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;One Ring&lt;/a&gt;. He turned traitor to his mission, and sought power for himself by attempting to find the One Ring. &lt;strong&gt;He initially advocated an alliance with Sauron, but he soon betrayed Sauron as well&lt;/strong&gt;, as his ultimate goal was to supplant Sauron and rule Middle-earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Saruman&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;LOTR Wikia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, he never &amp;quot;falls under the thrall of Sauron&amp;quot; in the novels, but rather becomes the victim of his own greed for power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My final answer to your question on his role in the movies is that we can only try to guess, and my guess would be &amp;quot;yes&amp;quot;, not only for his somewhat obvious attempt to undermine Gandalf's warnings about the problem at hand, but also because it hardly makes sense for him to resist the power of Sauron for thousands of years, only to fall under it in the 50 or so years between the events of &amp;quot;The Hobbit&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;The Fellowship of the Ring&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T02:20:09.393" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15088" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15090" CreationDate="2013-11-12T02:47:54.717" Score="4" ViewCount="10131" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, when Mike rescued Chow, who was being held hostage by cartel's hitmen, he asked if the lady to whom Chow spoke in Chinese can drive. When Chow replied that she can drive, Mike shot him through his right hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Mike shoot through Chow's right hand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-15T05:23:01.123" LastActivityDate="2015-10-09T23:29:48.790" Title="Why did Mike shoot through Chow's right hand?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15089" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15801" CreationDate="2013-11-12T03:22:30.957" Score="6" ViewCount="2351" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just finished watching the &lt;em&gt;Avatar: The Last Airbender&lt;/em&gt; episode &quot;Winter Solstice Part 2 - Avatar Roku&quot;. Towards the end of the episode once Aang is done talking with Roku he (Avatar Roku) proceeds to destroy the tower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Avatar Roku destroy the tower in the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tower being destroyed:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E18vnl.png&quot; alt=&quot;Tower&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6709" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-30T09:02:19.817" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T09:02:19.817" Title="Why did Avatar Roku destroy the temple after talking with Aang?" Tags="|plot-explanation|avatar-the-last-airbender|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15088" CreationDate="2013-11-12T03:54:41.853" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Duane_Chow&quot;&gt;Breaking Bad Wiki&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mike Ehrmantraut tracks him down to the building and shoots him in the&#xA;  hand as a consequence for hesitating to inform Gustavo Fring that he&#xA;  was being held hostage by the Juárez Cartel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't make much sense, though.  The clip is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amctv.com/breaking-bad/videos/breaking-bad-talked-about-scenes-mikes-killing-spree&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  It seems like Mike doesn't completely buy Chow's story about being held against his will, and not being able to return their calls.  Possibly Mike wants to send a message to other business associates who aren't zealous enough in their efforts to escape from similar situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T03:54:41.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15091" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-12T04:08:20.797" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Avatar: The Last Airbender (Avatar: The Legend of Aang in some parts of Europe) is an American animated television series that aired for three seasons on Nickelodeon from 2005 to 2008.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series follows the adventures of protagonist twelve-year old Aang and his friends, who must bring peace and unity to the world by ending the Fire Lord's war against the other three nations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar%3a_The_Last_Airbender&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T04:08:20.797" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T04:08:20.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15092" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-12T04:08:20.797" Score="0" Body="An American animated television series that aired for three seasons on Nickelodeon from 2005 to 2008. For the live action film adaptation, use *the-last-airbender* tag." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T04:08:20.797" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T04:08:20.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15093" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-12T06:20:53.510" Score="4" ViewCount="163" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Guns#Production&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;2 Guns&lt;/em&gt; is an adaptation of the comic series of the same name by Steven Grant. How true is the script to the comic series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2014-01-05T05:08:32.583" LastActivityDate="2014-01-05T13:56:34.310" Title="How faithful is the script of 2 Guns to the comic?" Tags="|comic-adaptation|2-guns|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15094" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-12T06:21:50.950" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;2 Guns is a 2013 American action film directed by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur and starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg. Based on a graphic novel series of the same name published by Boom! Studios, the film was released on August 2, 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Guns&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T06:21:50.950" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T06:21:50.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15095" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-12T06:21:50.950" Score="0" Body="2013 American action film directed by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur and starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T06:21:50.950" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T06:21:50.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15098" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15100" CreationDate="2013-11-12T07:46:54.750" Score="28" ViewCount="11814" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the scene where Dr. Ryan Stone's (Sandra Bullock) leg is entangled in Soyuz's parachute cords and she is tethered with Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) through a strap, there is tension in the strap, suggesting act of some external force. Where is this force coming form that is causing tension in the strap and pushing both Dr. Ryan and Matt outwards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that the tension might be coming from centrifugal force, but immediate events before this scene, as well as other parts of ISS in same scene do not suggest presence of such force (or presence of any kind of rotation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3690" LastEditorUserId="3690" LastEditDate="2014-05-23T10:46:35.007" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T09:45:52.470" Title="What causes the tension in the strap between Dr. Ryan and Matt?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gravity|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15098" CreationDate="2013-11-12T09:13:28.870" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I for myself am not sure if there was any tension (especially a continuous tension pulling him away even after his motion has been stopped by &lt;em&gt;Dr. Stone&lt;/em&gt;), &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/astronaut-fact-checks-gravity.html&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; with a real astronaut suggests there wasn't, especially this section:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We see quite a few worst-case scenarios in the film. George Clooney ends up untethering himself from his crewmate and literally floating&#xA;  away into space. Is dealing with that scenario part of your training?&#xA;  Or does that not even come up?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Actually, I really couldn't understand the tension there. Sandra has&#xA;  her leg caught in some parachute rigging, and she's holding on to&#xA;  George by his hand. I think all he would have needed to have done&#xA;  would be to crawl up on her, and basically rope-climb up toward the&#xA;  space station. Or just lightly pull and he could have flown himself up&#xA;  to the space station. There would be no continuing motive force to&#xA;  continue to pull him away. So that physically didn't work for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So when George he let go of her hand, if it was in real space, he wouldn't have been pulled away.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He would have just floated there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So according to the above interview the answer to your question would be &lt;em&gt;&quot;nothing&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T09:13:28.870" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1546" CreationDate="2013-11-12T11:12:55.243" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the ending of &lt;em&gt;Chinatown&lt;/em&gt; is about coping with grief - and really summarises the moral struggles of Jake throughout the movie, leading us to an evaluation of guilt and self-forgiveness. Polanski actually changed the original ending to the film, which was initially going to be a happy ending, with Evelyn escaping and Jake dying, however &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article.html?isPreview=&amp;amp;id=154968%7C28063&amp;amp;name=Chinatown&quot;&gt;Polanski insisted&lt;/a&gt; on the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's hard to tell exactly why Polanski made this change, however, with reference to his wife's murder in 1969, a viewer can begin to appreciate the hopelessness of Jake's statement and the bleak ending of the film. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/roman-polanski-the-artful-dodger-508255.html&quot;&gt;Polanski said&lt;/a&gt; that his absence on the night of his wife's murder was the biggest regret of his life - Jake's regret for the unnamed woman who died in Chinatown is similar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can't always help what happens in our lives, and it frustrates and torments us when someone we love is hurt - we blame ourselves. By consoling ourselves that &lt;em&gt;its Chinatown&lt;/em&gt; we accept that we don't control our lives, even if we want to, and that's ok. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Jake's consolation could also be construed as a critique of justice and futility, with Walsh forming a sort of Senecan prototype of fortune and immorality/injustice. Either way it is one of my favourite movie quotes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6712" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T12:29:39.917" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T12:29:39.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15104" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-12T12:59:37.263" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Call is a 2013 American thriller film directed by Brad Anderson and written by Richard D'Ovidio. Produced with a budget of $13 million, the film stars Abigail Breslin as Casey, a teenage girl who is kidnapped by a serial killer, and Halle Berry as Jordan, the 9-1-1 operator who receives her call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_%282013_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T12:59:37.263" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T12:59:37.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15105" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-12T12:59:37.263" Score="0" Body="2013 American thriller film starring Abigail Breslin as Casey, a teenage girl who is kidnapped by a serial killer, and Halle Berry as Jordan, the 9-1-1 operator who receives her call." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T12:59:37.263" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T12:59:37.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15106" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-12T13:05:33.627" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T13:05:33.627" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T13:05:33.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15107" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-12T13:05:33.627" Score="0" Body="A mention, allusion, citation, or homage to other works." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T13:05:33.627" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T13:05:33.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15108" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-12T13:09:45.573" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about the use of cameras and camera-related film techniques.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T14:58:55.690" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T14:58:55.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15109" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-12T13:09:45.573" Score="0" Body="Questions about the use of cameras and camera-related film techniques." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T14:58:55.690" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T14:58:55.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15110" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-12T13:11:12.160" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (also known as Mission: Impossible IV) is a 2011 American action film. It is the fourth film in the Mission: Impossible series. It stars Tom Cruise, who reprises his role of IMF Agent Ethan Hunt, and is director Brad Bird's first live-action film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_%E2%80%93_Ghost_Protocol&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about this film should also be tagged with the general franchise tag &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/mission-impossible&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mission-impossible&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mission-impossible&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T12:47:41.107" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T12:47:41.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15111" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-12T13:11:12.160" Score="0" Body="Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (also known as Mission: Impossible IV) is a 2011 American action film. It is the fourth film in the Mission: Impossible series. Questions about this film should also be tagged with the general franchise tag [mission-impossible]." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T12:47:41.107" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T12:47:41.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15112" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-12T13:12:43.167" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dredd is a 2012 British-South African thriller science fiction action film directed by Pete Travis and written and produced by Alex Garland. It is based on the 2000 AD comic strip Judge Dredd and its eponymous character created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra. Karl Urban stars as Judge Dredd, a law enforcer given the power of judge, jury and executioner in a vast, dystopian metropolis called Mega-City One that lies in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Dredd and his inexperienced partner, Judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby), are forced to bring order to a 200-storey high-rise block of flats and deal with its resident drug lord, Ma-Ma (Lena Headey).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dredd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T13:12:43.167" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T13:12:43.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15113" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-12T13:12:43.167" Score="0" Body="2012 British-South African thriller science fiction action film based on the 2000 AD comic strip Judge Dredd and its eponymous character." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T13:12:43.167" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T13:12:43.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15114" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-12T13:30:32.880" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western thriller directed, written, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name. The film stars Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin and tells the story of an ordinary man to whom chance delivers a fortune that is not his, and the ensuing cat-and-mouse drama as three men crisscross each other's paths in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Country_for_Old_Men_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T13:30:32.880" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T13:30:32.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15115" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-12T13:30:32.880" Score="0" Body="2007 American neo-Western thriller directed, written, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-12T13:30:32.880" LastActivityDate="2013-11-12T13:30:32.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15098" CreationDate="2013-11-12T16:36:06.847" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;During that scene, Stone's leg gets wrapped up in some parachute cabling.  She then starts slowly rotating around whatever the cabling is stuck on.  Then she grabs the strap attached to Kowalski.  She's still rotating.  In order to hold onto him, she's providing a centripetal force.  After releasing him, she finally rotates into another part of the station, and works her way to the airlock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I look forward to being able to provide some evidence of this once the film is released on blu-ray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basic physics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kgo2e.png&quot; alt=&quot;image of 2 astronauts in scene&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have 4 things of import in this image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stone's ongoing motion, which are the lines behind her in my crude drawing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A, the force that Stone is exerting on Kowalski.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;B, the force Kowalski is exerting on Stone. This is equal and opposite to A.&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_third_law#Newton.27s_third_law&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Newton's 3rd Law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;  If it wasn't equal and opposite, then Kowalski would be moving toward or away from Stone at this moment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C, the centripedal force exerted on Stone by the parachute cabling wrapped around her foot.  This force is going to be equal to A + the amount of force needed to keep Stone alone moving in the arc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C is larger here due to it needing to pull the mass of both Kowalski and Stone.  Once Kowalski is released, then C just needs to pull Stone, which drastically reduces C's magnitude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the scene, while C is large, Stone's leg is slipping out of the parachute cabling.  Once C is reduced, this stops, and she soon swings into the hull of the ISS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-12-11T19:38:15.087" LastActivityDate="2013-12-11T19:38:15.087" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15119" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-13T01:31:54.577" Score="6" ViewCount="71321" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2004 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376541/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Closer&lt;/a&gt;, every affair between two people always has a scene alluding to it, except the one between Larry (Clive Owen) and Alice (Natalie Portman). She is only shown stripping in front of him. Larry claims that he slept with her, and Alice also accepts it after being pestered about it. However, Larry could have lied about it just to screw with Dan (Jude Law). Again, there is no scene in the movie that shows the two indulging in such an act. Could this affair have never taken place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6668" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2013-11-13T01:35:25.403" LastActivityDate="2021-10-06T08:39:00.183" Title="Does Alice actually sleep with Larry?" Tags="|plot-explanation|closer|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15120" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-13T01:32:32.437" Score="7" ViewCount="10638" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt;, is that the back of David Prowse's head that we see in the hyperbaric chamber before Darth Vader is fitted with his mask?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d4Prr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image from theforce.net&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6717" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-13T06:47:48.600" LastActivityDate="2019-12-15T21:08:55.543" Title="Darth Vader with his mask off: was that David Prowse?" Tags="|star-wars|the-empire-strikes-back|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15121" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-13T01:36:01.530" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closer is a 2004 romantic drama film written by Patrick Marber, based on his award-winning 1997 play of the same name. The movie was produced and directed by Mike Nichols and stars Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen. The film, like the play on which it is based, has been seen by some as a modern and tragic version of Mozart's opera Così fan tutte, with references to that opera in both the plot and the soundtrack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closer_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-13T02:47:35.253" LastActivityDate="2013-11-13T02:47:35.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15122" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-13T01:36:01.530" Score="0" Body="2004 romantic drama film written by Patrick Marber, based on his award-winning 1997 play of the same name. The movie was produced and directed by Mike Nichols and stars Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen. " OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-13T02:47:35.253" LastActivityDate="2013-11-13T02:47:35.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15123" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="53241" CreationDate="2013-11-13T03:18:30.037" Score="5" ViewCount="849" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just wondering why Wolverine does not appear in his iconic costume when even in &lt;code&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/code&gt;, there is apparently a deleted scene to show such a costume?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iNbtK.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iNbtK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This deleted scene can be scene in the DVD/Home Release extras.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7141" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-09-24T14:04:57.210" LastActivityDate="2016-09-24T14:04:57.210" Title="Why doesn't Wolverine appear in his iconic costume in X-men?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|the-wolverine|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15123" CreationDate="2013-11-13T05:47:13.617" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, mostly because the costume is a bit ridiculous when taken out of the context of four-color comics. Might as well ask why Logan's hair doesn't stick out to both sides as much as it does in the comics: just because something &lt;em&gt;works&lt;/em&gt;, visually, in the medium of print comics doesn't mean it will work in the medium of live-action cinema. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As @AnkitSharma mentioned in the comments, the deleted scene is probably a nod to comic fans who have a sentimental attachment to how Wolverine looks in the comic books. But in any adaptations changes must be made, and &lt;em&gt;visual&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;aesthetic&lt;/em&gt; changes most of all, to fit the new medium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1507" LastActivityDate="2013-11-13T05:47:13.617" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15120" CreationDate="2013-11-13T06:22:51.627" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure about Empire (it may have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0026428/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bob Anderon&lt;/a&gt;), but the unmasked Darth Vader (Return of the Jedi) is not played by David Prowse. The actor in question there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Shaw_%28actor%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sebastian Shaw&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2013-11-13T06:38:20.843" LastActivityDate="2013-11-13T06:38:20.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15126" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15136" CreationDate="2013-11-13T06:26:30.413" Score="4" ViewCount="3185" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor%3a_The_Dark_World&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thor: The Dark World&lt;/a&gt;, what is the significance of the Erik's nude scene? Is it just for comedy effect? But if I remember correctly he justified it, but I don't understand the point. Even he was shown pant-less again in another scene. Is there any justification for it or just a comedy oriented non-justified scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T08:23:00.323" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T08:23:00.323" Title="What is the significance of Erik's nude scene?" Tags="|character|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|thor-the-dark-world|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15127" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-13T06:32:18.807" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir film, directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay by Robert Towne, and starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston. The film was inspired by the California Water Wars, a series of disputes over southern California water at the beginning of the 20th century by which Los Angeles interests secured water rights in the Owens Valley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_%281974_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-13T06:32:18.807" LastActivityDate="2013-11-13T06:32:18.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15128" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-13T06:32:18.807" Score="0" Body="1974 American neo-noir film, directed by Roman Polanski, and starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-13T06:32:18.807" LastActivityDate="2013-11-13T06:32:18.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15129" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-13T06:48:36.353" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As stated on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_V:_The_Empire_Strikes_Back&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Empire Strikes Back Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (also known as The Empire Strikes Back) is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner, produced by Gary Kurtz, and written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, with George Lucas writing the film's story and serving as executive producer. Of the six main Star Wars films, it was the second to be released and the fifth in terms of internal chronology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Main Star Wars article on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back article on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back page on IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T18:59:37.813" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T18:59:37.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15130" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-13T06:48:36.353" Score="0" Body="Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (also known as The Empire Strikes Back) is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner. Of the six main Star Wars films, it was the second to be released and the fifth in terms of internal chronology." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-13T06:48:36.353" LastActivityDate="2013-11-13T06:48:36.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13489" CreationDate="2013-11-13T07:30:29.660" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, Yashida was a nice guy until he was on his deathbed. Logan himself rescued him in Nagasaki due to the kindness shown by the Japanese to both himself and the other prisoners of war. So it's understandable that he would have been inclined to rescue an orphan girl looking through the garbage for food and set her up as a playmate for his granddaughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While one of Yukio's roles is as a device to predict Wolverine's death, she is also used in a bit of foreshadowing earlier when she declares that she did not foresee Yashida's death. (The fact that she later tells Logan that she is never wrong is a bit of a hole.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shingen's disdain for Yukio is also understandable considering that she's an outsider foisted upon his daughter by his father. His dislike for all three elements is remarked upon throughout the film. The fact that Yukio considers herself better at the katana than him probably didn't help matters either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-11-13T07:30:29.660" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15134" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-13T08:31:13.843" Score="3" ViewCount="540" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/em&gt;, is the motivation behind Viper's involvement in Yashida's immortality project ever explained? I can only recall her mentioning that Yashida hired her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T13:56:26.837" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T13:56:26.837" Title="What was in it for Viper?" Tags="|character|x-men-cinematic-universe|the-wolverine|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15134" CreationDate="2013-11-13T08:59:05.193" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can only recall her mentioning that Yashida hired her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might not be worth a complete answer since it's just speculation, but I'd consider that motivation enough for her. &lt;em&gt;Yashida&lt;/em&gt; is extremely rich and goes out of his way to overcome death, so it's likely he paid her quite a good amount for her services. Unlike &lt;em&gt;Harada&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Viper&lt;/em&gt; doesn't seem like a person whose loyalty is driven by higher ideals than mere payment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If she had really just been the doctor she was introduced as, you wouldn't ask for her motivation either (well Ok, you could say doctors have an iherent motivation to heal people, but they usually won't do it for free either).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-11-13T08:59:05.193" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15126" CreationDate="2013-11-13T09:33:20.293" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I believe that it was simply to show that he really have lost his mind. But that pants-less scene was done when he seemed completely sane, thus it seemed as if it's because of his natural queerness. Indeed yes, I think it was mentioned that Erik Selvig's mind hasn't completely returned sane after Loki invaded his mind. To quote Selvig himself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I had a god in my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, Selvig also said something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Finally, The world is crazier than I am.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shows that he is fully aware that he is crazy, and someone who can asses himself as insane, is, usually, someone who still retain a degree of sanity. This is completely different in behavior than what he did at Stonehenge, suggesting that it was indeed an action that was completely not deliberate. He didn't seem to show any shame or regret in doing that, though, which I guess attributes itself to the partial madness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6353" LastEditorUserId="6353" LastEditDate="2013-11-13T16:52:51.683" LastActivityDate="2013-11-13T16:52:51.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="790" CreationDate="2013-11-13T14:52:47.827" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a way of testing how upset Sherlock was. In the Hounds of Baskerville, Sherlock is extremely stressed out because he doesn't have a case to work on, and can be seen trashing the flat looking for a pack of cigarettes. &#xA;When someone comes with a case, Sherlock begs him to smoke (since the person smoked) and then sniffs out all the smoke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, since Sherlock was upset, he took the cigarette. That's why John swears when he finds out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6726" LastActivityDate="2013-11-13T14:52:47.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15146" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15166" CreationDate="2013-11-14T00:14:40.070" Score="7" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be a movie from the 80s or 90s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie starts with the main actress driving her car, I believe somewhere in Italy, and she rides out of the city. On some mountain she crashed with some people. The car of the other people is destroyed so they asked her to take them to France. They had a lot of money with them. In France the actress meet some guy that intrigues her and she decides to follow him, I think in Berlin, and after that to Tokyo, I think. In Tokyo she found out that he records what he see with his special camera so his blind mother can see what he saw. Both of them after that go to the USA where they meet his family somewhere in desert in some kind of secret camp...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6731" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-14T02:09:13.200" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T16:46:33.580" Title="Woman follows a man with a special camera around the world" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:53:02.637" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15148" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-14T02:18:13.347" Score="1" ViewCount="541" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099797/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hot Spot&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, what was the relationship between the blackmailer Frank Sutton and Mrs. Dolly Harshaw? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was he blackmailing her or was it the other way around?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T17:01:03.553" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T17:03:40.987" Title="What was the relationship between Sutton and Mrs. Harshaw?" Tags="|character|the-hot-spot|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15149" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-14T02:24:06.383" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Hot Spot is a 1990 American drama film directed by Dennis Hopper and based on the 1952 book Hell Hath No Fury by Charles Williams. It stars Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, and Jennifer Connelly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Spot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-14T02:24:06.383" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T02:24:06.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15150" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-14T02:24:06.383" Score="0" Body="1990 American drama film directed by Dennis Hopper and based on the 1952 book Hell Hath No Fury by Charles Williams." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-14T02:24:06.383" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T02:24:06.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15152" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18789" CreationDate="2013-11-14T09:19:35.517" Score="2" ViewCount="1912" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Escape Artist there's an in reference to tea which I don't understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When acting as Liam Foyle's defence Maggie Gardner drinks some tea which he asks about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Foyle: What tea is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maggie: Mine&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In episode three Maggie discovers a gift in her apartment which contains tea. You then see her on the phone &amp;quot;freaking out&amp;quot; and saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maggie: There's no way he could have known!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However no more of this is made in the story, it's implied that Foyle is stalking her, it's implied that he's been in her house, Will Burton even warns her to be careful but the thread is dropped instantly towards the end of the final episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the reference to the tea and why include it if it had no impact on the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2022-05-24T09:06:19.193" Title="What was the relevance of the tea?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-escape-artist|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15153" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-14T09:19:59.557" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Escape Artist is a BBC drama/thriller three-part series, starring David Tennant. The series is created and written by David Wolstencroft and directed by Brian Welsh. It premiered on 29 October at 9pm on BBC One.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-11-14T09:19:59.557" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T09:19:59.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15154" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-14T09:19:59.557" Score="0" Body="The Escape Artist is a BBC drama/thriller three-part series, starring David Tennant. The series is created and written by David Wolstencroft and directed by Brian Welsh. It premiered on 29 October at 9pm on BBC One.&#xD;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-11-14T09:19:59.557" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T09:19:59.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15155" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15156" CreationDate="2013-11-14T10:57:34.010" Score="3" ViewCount="3382" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2101341/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dead Man Down&lt;/a&gt;, Darcy asks Victor if he didn't kill him because he had a family and Victor replies &quot;I didn't kill you because ........&quot;. Rewound it 15 times and it is unintelligible to me. Anyone know what he says there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5121" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-14T10:59:39.570" LastActivityDate="2021-05-10T22:58:05.767" Title="What did Victor say to Darcy's character at the end?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dead-man-down|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15155" CreationDate="2013-11-14T11:05:39.320" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Darcy: Did you choose not to kill me 'cause I've got a wife and a kid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Victor: No. I didn't kill you because they've got you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2101341/trivia?tab=qt&amp;amp;ref_=tt_trv_qu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T11:05:39.320" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14739" CreationDate="2013-11-14T11:28:24.847" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The contestants have to do three challenges per week: a signature bake, a technical challenge and a showstopper. The signature bake and showstopper are planned in advance by the contestants. The shows are filmed once I week so I would guess that they have the week for planning what to do and gathering tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the technical challenge is designed to test the cooking knowledge and skill of the bakers and therefore they are not given planning time or told in advance what they have to cook, so the judges can see how they can think on their feet with regards to the ingredients and techniques needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6735" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-11-28T16:34:39.353" LastActivityDate="2017-11-28T16:34:39.353" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15160" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15161" CreationDate="2013-11-14T13:31:23.330" Score="18" ViewCount="44849" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a general case, Where can I find scripts/screenplays/transcripts of movies and TV shows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2020-10-12T16:44:41.537" Title="Where can I find scripts/screenplays/transcripts of movies and TV shows?" Tags="|faq|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-11-14T15:06:13.880" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15160" CreationDate="2013-11-14T13:31:23.330" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a number of websites that provide access to movie and TV scripts. I'm unsure of the legality of any of them. But here are a few of the popular ones:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/&quot;&gt;IMSDb&lt;/a&gt;: The Internet Movie Script Database&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.script-o-rama.com/&quot;&gt;Script-O-Rama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simplyscripts.com/&quot;&gt;SimplyScripts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ebay.com/gds/Movie-Scripts-Buying-Guide-/10000000177627449/g.html&quot;&gt;eBay&lt;/a&gt;: Movie script buying guide&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-14T14:04:18.677" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T14:04:18.677" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-11-14T13:31:23.330" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15165" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-14T15:59:44.990" Score="5" ViewCount="724" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S01E07 of &lt;em&gt;Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.&lt;/em&gt;, two members of Coulson's team are tasked by the Hub to go into enemy territory to disable a weapon of some kind. One of the threads of the plot uncovers the fact that there was no extraction plan for these agents. Coulson and his team finally take their jet to rescue their own agents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, why was there no extraction plan in the first place? Coulson's team was just sitting around, wasn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T07:51:15.893" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T07:51:15.893" Title="Why was there no extraction plan in S01E07, &quot;The Hub&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|agents-of-shield|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15146" CreationDate="2013-11-14T16:46:33.580" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the movie &quot;Until the End of the World&quot;, from 1991 with William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin and Max Von Sydow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, Dommartin has an accident with some bank robbers, and they enlist her to take the money to a drop in Paris. There she meets Hurt who is a fugitive being chased by the CIA for a camera his father invented that allows recording of dreams and vision. They end up in Australia at Sydow's research facility where they hope to play the images for his blind mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB entry is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101458/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T16:46:33.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15169" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15174" CreationDate="2013-11-14T18:46:34.877" Score="13" ViewCount="98319" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the most recent episode of Arrow (season 2, episode 6), what did Oliver Queen say to the Russian guard (in Russian)? The scene is about 18 minutes into the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6740" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-15T06:16:38.753" LastActivityDate="2016-11-29T02:08:29.290" Title="What did Oliver Queen say to the Russian guard in S02E06?" Tags="|dialogue|arrowverse|arrow|translation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15165" CreationDate="2013-11-14T18:48:54.927" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agent Hand smiled after Coulson called her out on the lack of an extraction plan.  Her plan was to not have a planned extraction, and instead allow the rest of Coulson's team to figure this out and go save Fitz and Ward.  She smiled because her plan played out as she hoped, and Fitz and Ward got their extraction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T18:48:54.927" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12215" CreationDate="2013-11-14T19:57:47.297" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Straight from the horse's mouth.  Was a joke that was used by the real-life John Chambers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It's a real joke that John Chambers, who's the character played by John Goodman, used to make when they were trying to relieve tension in the room,&amp;quot; Terrio told HuffPost Live's Jacob Soboroff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The screenwriter said including it in the film was one way to bring Chambers to life on screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;In the process of writing the film, you get these little gifts, these posthumous gifts from John Chambers, that his sense of humor finds its way into the film,&amp;quot; Terrio said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/08/argo-screenwriter-argo-f-ck-yourself-video_n_2648659.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;huffingtonpost.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6742" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-01-03T09:35:45.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15169" CreationDate="2013-11-14T23:33:08.310" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's something like: &quot;If you won't let us go, my people will find you and your children&quot;&#xA;The rest I couldn't understand because of his accent...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6743" LastActivityDate="2013-11-14T23:33:08.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15169" CreationDate="2013-11-15T07:24:41.670" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;If you do this, my people will make your children orphans&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking of style, huh :))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6749" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-11-29T02:08:29.290" LastActivityDate="2016-11-29T02:08:29.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14771" CreationDate="2013-11-15T11:03:34.773" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I expect that if you really think hard enough, you can adapt &lt;em&gt;prisoners&lt;/em&gt; to represent just about every character in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of physical captivity, Alex, Bob, Joy, Anna, and Keller were all prisoners at some point. But Keller is also prisoner to his pride, ego, and way of life. He is a prisoner of his own self-reliance and suspicion of everybody else. To add some additional symbolism, his father was also a prison guard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His wife and son are conditioned dependants who are trapped by Keller's force of personality. The wife additionally prefers to pop sleeping pills than face reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Birches are trapped by their complicity in Keller's plan and their rather submissive relationship with him. Once they condone the torture of Alex, they are unable to get out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alex and Bob are both victims and prisoners of the Jones couple. They are additionally trapped inside their mind and are continually trying to seek a way out, a way out of the &lt;em&gt;maze&lt;/em&gt; that the Joneses have created for them. Just like the final maze given to them that has no solution, they are unable to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally don't understand the motivation of Holly Jones and her husband. But I'm sure that you can concoct something out of the fact that they lost their son and spiralled down into a well of negativity and evil in their revenge against god.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, we have Detective Loki who is trapped by the promises that he makes to the parents and his own past as a child brought up in an orphanage (?). He also has a track record to protect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-25T13:24:54.373" LastActivityDate="2013-11-25T13:24:54.373" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15176" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15346" CreationDate="2013-11-15T11:11:26.613" Score="4" ViewCount="2251" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Prisoners&lt;/em&gt;, Holly Jones and her husband were a religious couple who lost their son to cancer. This led to a loss of faith and in their thirst for revenge, they attempt to deny happiness to other families as well by kidnapping their children, and, based on the husband's confession to the priest, killing at least 16 of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They, however, do not kill Alex. Why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-15T12:48:38.707" LastActivityDate="2013-11-25T08:52:09.817" Title="Why was Alex not killed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prisoners|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15177" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-15T11:12:32.230" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prisoners is a 2013 American thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve. The film has an ensemble cast including Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo, and Paul Dano. The plot focuses on the abduction of two young girls in Pennsylvania and the resulting search to find them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_%282013_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-15T11:12:32.230" LastActivityDate="2013-11-15T11:12:32.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15178" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-15T11:12:32.230" Score="0" Body="2013 American thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo, and Paul Dano." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-15T11:12:32.230" LastActivityDate="2013-11-15T11:12:32.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15179" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15187" CreationDate="2013-11-15T11:22:48.227" Score="7" ViewCount="18990" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Prisoners&lt;/em&gt;, when Keller roughs up Alex Jones in the police station car park, he immediately tells him something about the girls not crying until he (Alex) left them. He then denies saying this. Why? He also does not immediately help Keller once he himself is kidnapped irrespective of whether he is asked nicely, threatened, or tortured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on, once the audience is introduced to the &quot;maze&quot;, he tells Keller about it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a plausible reason for the randomness of the breadcrumbs that he throws to Keller? Bob Taylor might not remember much about his captivity and be reluctant to discuss his obsession with snakes, mazes, and children's clothing. But, how about Alex?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-15T12:39:59.393" LastActivityDate="2023-10-21T04:52:07.597" Title="Why does Alex only help Keller randomly?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prisoners|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15180" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17783" CreationDate="2013-11-15T11:27:05.717" Score="3" ViewCount="318" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the BBC TV series The Escape Artist the title most likely refers to either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will Burton&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Liam Foyle&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Episode 1, I assumed the title character was Will Burton (he'd never lost a case and so was an expert in helping his clients escape jail). However in episode two Liam Foyle is declared innocent of murder for the second time... at this point I assumed it was him. With the concluding episode we watched Will Burton being released after the prosecution failed to prove his guilt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is the escape artist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-11-15T11:43:51.083" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T13:24:02.473" Title="Who was the Escape Artist?" Tags="|character|title|the-escape-artist|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15181" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15348" CreationDate="2013-11-15T12:05:16.057" Score="11" ViewCount="5521" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Prisoners&lt;/em&gt; is tinged with religion. Keller appears to be a deeply religious man. But he is very flexible with his morality when it comes to torturing Alex Jones for information about his daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, the villains of the show are two people who have lost their faith in religion and in a bid for vengeance, start kidnapping and killing children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there's the priest who is portrayed as a sex-offender (presumably a child molester) and a murderer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Amidst all this, we have the more balanced Detective Loki (with a rather &quot;heathen&quot; name?) who is possibly not all that religious. I might be reading too much into his first scene where he is a bit derisive of Chinese fortune cookies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2016-12-24T16:01:20.687" Title="Is 'Prisoners' an anti-religious commentary?" Tags="|analysis|prisoners|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15182" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15186" CreationDate="2013-11-15T12:24:08.997" Score="4" ViewCount="30873" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Prisoners&lt;/em&gt;, what are we supposed to make of the character of Detective Loki? Is there some symbology to his &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;name&lt;/a&gt; (the trickster from Norse mythology) and all the tattoos that adorn his body?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T07:00:07.517" Title="What are we to make of Detective Loki?" Tags="|character|prisoners|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15182" CreationDate="2013-11-15T18:49:56.920" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if the following is sufficient as a complete answer already, but it should give some insights into how &lt;em&gt;Det. Loki&lt;/em&gt; was intended and what he might have stood for, even if not giving too deep an analysis of his character and its meaning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPWqCdAIj1Q&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;his interview with &lt;em&gt;Jake Hamilton&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Jake Gyllenhaal&lt;/em&gt; talks a bit about &lt;em&gt;Det. Loki&lt;/em&gt;'s character and what he meant to him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For this movie there was &lt;strong&gt;the foundation of the script and it was a&#xA;  blueprint in a lot of ways&lt;/strong&gt;. And when you work with a director like&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Denis Villeneuve&lt;/em&gt;, who directed this movie, he allows for that mystery to come out, &lt;strong&gt;so every character has been sort of developed&#xA;  separately with him&lt;/strong&gt;. So when we come together in a scene, there are&#xA;  all these crazy masteries. And I think one of the great things about&#xA;  playing a detective and being the detective in this movie was that &lt;strong&gt;I&#xA;  created a lot of mystery for myself and in the character&lt;/strong&gt;, so&#xA;  regardless of knowing what happens in the end as an actor or even as&#xA;  an audience member or objectively, I was always looking, I believed,&#xA;  in no matter what scene I was, that anybody could be the person who&#xA;  did this. And I knew that if I believed that, I knew the audience&#xA;  would believe it, because &lt;strong&gt;in a lot of ways &lt;em&gt;Det. Loki&lt;/em&gt; is the eyes&#xA;  for the audience&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The biggest thing for me as an actor walking into every scene was,&#xA;  that I knew &lt;strong&gt;that &lt;em&gt;Det. Loki&lt;/em&gt; would be listening a lot&lt;/strong&gt;. And I knew&#xA;  that because of that &lt;strong&gt;I wanted to give him something to sort of rub&#xA;  up against&lt;/strong&gt;. And if &lt;strong&gt;his directive is to always find that answer I&#xA;  wanted to have something that I was hiding&lt;/strong&gt;. And so for me there was&#xA;  a past for him, a past of, I think, &lt;strong&gt;he went through the juvenile&#xA;  detention system for a while&lt;/strong&gt; and I think he found himself in the&#xA;  institution of either maybe the military, but I doubt it in this case,&#xA;  more &lt;strong&gt;police work, and he found a family there, one that he hadn't&#xA;  had&lt;/strong&gt;. And that past that he had, maybe &lt;strong&gt;he'd caused some trouble in&#xA;  his past, that past he's trying to cover up&lt;/strong&gt; and in a lot of ways sort&#xA;  of &lt;strong&gt;tighten himself up&lt;/strong&gt; and in the same time I think &lt;strong&gt;he's&#xA;  fascinated with the person who did this crime, the suspect, and their&#xA;  mind because he understands it&lt;/strong&gt;. So I think &lt;strong&gt;he's looking for&#xA;  institutions&lt;/strong&gt;, our director would say that all the time, that&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Loki&lt;/em&gt; represents an institution&lt;/strong&gt; and I think that &lt;em&gt;Hugh Jackman&lt;/em&gt;'s character represents that sort of beating heart, that individual ideal&#xA;  where you're trying to get what you need as an individual and &lt;em&gt;Loki&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;  represents that institution. And to me I decided &lt;strong&gt;that institution&#xA;  was not just, you know, clean-cut detective that in my opinion has&#xA;  become cliché.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/09/jake-gyllenhaal-prisoners&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this review&lt;/a&gt;, which also presents some views on &lt;em&gt;Det. Loki&lt;/em&gt;'s character:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Prisoners, a movie replete with complicated, showy characters,&#xA;  Detective Loki—played by Gyllenhaal—&lt;strong&gt;is an indecipherable question&#xA;  mark. Solemn and, for the most part, non-emotive, he's harboring more&#xA;  than a few inner demons.&lt;/strong&gt; It's obvious from the way he blinks&#xA;  incessantly, a nervous habit &lt;strong&gt;that could mean he's a former drug&#xA;  addict, or, at one point in time, suffered from some kind of&#xA;  psychosis&lt;/strong&gt;. There's no question that &lt;strong&gt;he's a lonely guy&lt;/strong&gt;. The first time&#xA;  we see Loki, he's eating alone inside an empty Chinese restaurant on&#xA;  Thanksgiving night, trying to scam extra fortune cookies out of the&#xA;  waitress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The script, written by Aaron Guzikowski, doesn't provide any concrete&#xA;  background information about Loki&lt;/strong&gt;. The rest of the bleak and&#xA;  engrossing film's tormented characters, on the other hand, are given&#xA;  more obvious layers, namely grieving father Keller Dover (Hugh&#xA;  Jackman), a blue-collar repairman whose young daughter and her&#xA;  neighborhood friend have been abducted. Loki's the acting detective on&#xA;  the case, and &lt;strong&gt;his no-fail record precedes him&lt;/strong&gt;, even if Keller doesn't&#xA;  trust Loki's abilities and decides to take matters in his own dirty&#xA;  hands—e.g., kidnapping the lead suspect, the brain-damaged Alex Jones&#xA;  (Paul Dano), boarding him up inside an abandoned building's decrepit&#xA;  bathroom, and torturing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are moments early into Prisoners where you're left frustrated,&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;wishing that Loki would show some kind of emotion&lt;/strong&gt;. After all, he's&#xA;  investigating the possible homicides of two girls who haven't even&#xA;  entered grade school yet. Yet &lt;strong&gt;Gyllenhaal doesn't let you hate Loki, or&#xA;  even scoff at his monotone approach to crime-solving. There's an&#xA;  underlying melancholy to the character visible in Gyllenhaal's&#xA;  eyes&lt;/strong&gt; —he's on the verge of breaking down, it's only a question of when.&#xA;  And then the catalyst for self-implosion happens in one particularly&#xA;  brutal scene, and that's it. Loki snaps, and it's animalistic and&#xA;  sorrowful. He's hurting badly. Whether something's conjured up past&#xA;  memories or he's simply reacting in the moment doesn't matter. As Loki&#xA;  treats his desktop keyboard like a head-banging rocker would his&#xA;  guitar after an especially raucous performance, Gyllenhaal's tapping&#xA;  into something primal, something explosive. From that point on, he's&#xA;  the most compelling thing about Prisoners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;em&gt;Loki&lt;/em&gt; primarily served as the voice of reason amongst all those other people in the story that were mostly driven by their emotions. And thus his Masonic ring for example could also have emphasized this aspect and his nature as a seeker of truth. In this way his name could indeed refer to the Norse god, when concentrating more on his intelligence and his out-of-the-box-thinking rather than his role as a trickster. Or this rather &quot;heathen&quot; name just helps to further distance him from all the other heavily religious characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also emphasized right from the start that he doesn't seem to have much of an actual family himself, seeing that he takes his Thanksgiving meal in an empty diner. In a story that relies on family ties and commitments to a large degree, this casts him even more as an outsider and thus as an objective observer, which in turn helps him steer clear of all the emotions involved in the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tattoos, as &lt;em&gt;Jake Gyllenhaal&lt;/em&gt; explains, emphasize his troubled past (since he &lt;em&gt;&quot;spent six years in the Huntington Boy's Home&quot;&lt;/em&gt;) and give him a bit of an unusual background compared to your average police detective. Yet I'm not sure if the particular tattoos have any further meaning. But &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_%282013_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; says he has many religious tattoos, which would tie in with the many religious symbols used in the movie, as also stated in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/15181/49&quot;&gt;your other question&lt;/a&gt;. But what this says about &lt;em&gt;Det. Loki&lt;/em&gt; I'm not sure, as I would have seen him as rather the only one not influenced by some kind of blind faith or fanaticism or otherwise unreasonable external control. But maybe he once was a more religious man in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T10:40:10.700" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15179" CreationDate="2013-11-15T21:41:03.077" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main aspect of Alex's character here is, that he had &quot;the IQ of a ten year old&quot; and he was bound to his &quot;aunt&quot; Holly. He was incredibly &lt;strong&gt;loyal and dependent on her due to the years of brain-washing&lt;/strong&gt; (for the lack of a better term). I'm not saying he feared Holly or was actively threatened by her, but he was entirely dependent on her and unable to say anything against her. That statement at the parking lot probably just slipped through due to the surprise of Keller's attack (and he wasn't really revealing anything there apart from his mere participation, if he was even aware of this at all) and he immediately denied it afterwards, especially since Holly sat right next to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Later on, once the audience is introduced to the &quot;maze&quot;, he tells&#xA;  Keller about it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, that's indeed just &quot;movie coincidence&quot; I'd say (meaning that he could also have told it to him a bit earlier or later, but it served the story-telling better to tell it at this point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is true that it might be a bit of a stretch that he endured the heaviest of tortures without even saying anything, but it isn't completely unreasonable, given that he was &lt;strong&gt;mentally unable to say anything against Holly (or maybe didn't even understand what Keller wanted from him)&lt;/strong&gt;. So I agree that this aspect of his character might have been exaggerated a bit for the sake of suspense and for Keller and the audience to not know everything right away and for us audience to not even be sure if Alex has anything to do with it at all (we didn't hear what he said to Keller at the parking lot). But it wasn't without any consistent explanation, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-11-10T17:54:25.340" LastActivityDate="2018-11-10T17:54:25.340" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="260" CreationDate="2013-11-16T05:18:31.163" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching the video of the assassination of JFK tonight and the street where it happened was called Elm Street, which may bring back the memories of the people who lived in that time and for those who follow history.  Could be a clever way of marketing a movie title.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6757" LastActivityDate="2013-11-16T05:18:31.163" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15169" CreationDate="2013-11-16T13:34:55.790" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm no expert on Russian but I'm pretty sure he said: &quot;If you shoot us, my men will slaughter you (as a group), and give your kids to poor people.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6762" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-16T13:57:33.490" LastActivityDate="2013-11-16T13:57:33.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15199" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15379" CreationDate="2013-11-16T21:44:15.143" Score="3" ViewCount="699" Body="&lt;p&gt;What drug was used in the itv version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2119592/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Big Four&lt;/a&gt;? The one that caused the paralysis in the two hostages and one of the murder victims.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3706" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-25T16:44:21.920" LastActivityDate="2015-01-25T16:44:21.920" Title="What poison in Poirot: The Big Four?" Tags="|poirot|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14417" CreationDate="2013-11-17T01:50:58.340" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone&lt;/em&gt; is what you're remembering. It was released in 2005 and the main character was a boy named Kex. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372238/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372238/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6768" LastActivityDate="2013-11-17T01:50:58.340" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12863" CreationDate="2013-11-17T04:32:02.027" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381940/&quot;&gt;Cargo&lt;/a&gt;, in case you never found it. I found this forum searching for the same film..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_%282009_film%29&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lindbergh realizes that Portmann doesn't trust her and restrains her too, revealing to her that &lt;strong&gt;Rhea is a giant virtual reality simulation on a station&lt;/strong&gt; in orbit around the actual, uninhabitable, planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6771" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-17T05:03:07.213" LastActivityDate="2013-11-17T05:03:07.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15204" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15206" CreationDate="2013-11-17T06:52:11.450" Score="8" ViewCount="2683" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, at the beginning, once the Decepticons find where Megatron lies, they go diving down into the ocean about 40 minutes into the the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nsrt7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The overseen ship/sonar calls out: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/t/transformers-revenge-of-the-fallen-script.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;5 unidentified objects...&lt;/a&gt;&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yjW6U.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;script showing &amp;quot;five contacts at 5,000 feet&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4 large robots, and the jaguar-like robot appear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/avVKq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While down at the bottom, out of the jaguar-like robot comes small MedicBot. They disassemble the small robot, as they need spare parts to repair Megatron.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, once they all submerge, the ship calls: &quot;6 objects are coming...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BatFi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;script showing &amp;quot;six contacts&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a plot error? Editing mistake?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If they took the parts with them that would still NOT show as another object. As each robot carries some parts with them, their sonar signal might only be larger.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If they count the tiny MedicBot, why does the radar screen have one marked as &quot;New Hostile?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3Cukf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2162" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T15:25:49.240" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T15:25:49.240" Title="5 go down - 6 come back - who is the sixth?" Tags="|plot-explanation|transformers|revenge-of-the-fallen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15059" CreationDate="2013-11-17T17:02:50.423" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;C: the movie is scientifically inaccurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can start with how Hubble (350mi up), ISS (230mi up) &amp;amp; Tiangong are all in sight lines of one another. There are many many flaws.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The director said he's aware of them. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/21/gravity-alfonso-cuaron-knew-science-flaws&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón says he knew of film's scientific flaws&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5466" LastActivityDate="2013-11-17T17:02:50.423" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15204" CreationDate="2013-11-17T17:26:54.080" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might indeed be some editing mistake or something changed later on to make the whole thing a bit more cruel and less like &amp;quot;they let him die, but we could help him&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re-watched that part of the movie and there's one short screen obviously showing the submarine's radar or sonar or whatever (assuming that due to the short cut before showing the submarine's back):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yqNQi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;5 targets visible on a screen&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see there are exact five targets. Two of them almost overlap, so look at the circles on the top/surface. The contact on the left might be the freighter we saw earlier, considering it's not underwater and not marked in red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only possibility I could think of would be the small &amp;quot;doc bot&amp;quot; counting as another signature, but that wouldn't make any sense considering the targets are obviously counted in ascending order. Megatron obviously received designation &amp;quot;C-6&amp;quot;, but why are &amp;quot;C-1&amp;quot; through &amp;quot;C-5&amp;quot; still with him? Maybe they didn't kill the Construction(?) after all? But where did they get the spark from then? Or did they pull him on some kind of cable? But why does he still show up, considering Megatron obviously didn't show up before (otherwise he'd have a known signature I assume).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; The whole &amp;quot;opening&amp;quot; of that sequence includes quite a few mistakes. After all, there should be five Constructions (and  that's the thing that disturbed me the most when first thinking about the whole sequence):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First scene: There are four Decepticons visible: wheel loader, cement truck, caterpillar, and some green truck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/n9y3g.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;4 Decepticons visible&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There comes the cat-like/panther robot. Especially note his path, he's going to hit the front of the caterpillar. Also remember the position of the vehicles relative to each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NFRKG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Moments before the impact&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The next scene shows the actual impact. The mixer truck is further back and the wheel loader is now a bagger(!?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c84Yy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Actual impact&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;So initially there are five Constructions (or another goof/mistake) and the panther? But wouldn't that make six contacts to start with? And we only see four jumping into the water? It's easy to miss, but the panther jumps first:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hHOrj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Panther jumping first&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The next jumping are (some random guessing included): bagger, mixer, caterpillar, truck&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1055369/trivia?tab=gf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; there is one more error in these scenes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Megatron is coming up, the Captain calls for hard left rudder, and the sub's rudder turns right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they've got an explanation for the 5/6/5 discrepancy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the Decepticons go under water to revive Megatron, the Navy states that 5 &amp;quot;objects&amp;quot; went under water. If one of the Decepticons was killed to bring Megatron back to life, 6 &amp;quot;objects&amp;quot; could not have come out of the water: Ravage spits out the Doctor Robot (5+1=6), one gets stripped into parts (6-1=5), Megatron gets reactivated (5+1=6), and Ravage swallows the Doctor to head back to the surface (6-1=5).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This just doesn't explain Megatron having a &amp;quot;new&amp;quot; designation, while one of the others doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T09:58:26.613" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14706" CreationDate="2013-11-17T23:34:05.663" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you're thinking of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489085/&quot;&gt;I-See-You.Com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-See-You.Com&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Harvey Bellinger (Beau Bridges), his wife Lydia (Rosanna Arquette), and their two teenage kids live a well-to-do life in suburbia. This changes, however, when their seventeen-year-old son puts video cameras around their house, and starts to broadcast the family's actions live on the internet. When Harvey finds about this, he is angry and appalled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6779" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-18T12:34:18.643" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T12:34:18.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6895" CreationDate="2013-11-17T23:40:49.697" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also known as Michaela, Mishela is a powerful wizard and a prophet from Sega's Shining Force series of RPGs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6781" LastActivityDate="2013-11-17T23:40:49.697" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15211" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15212" CreationDate="2013-11-18T02:48:37.287" Score="20" ViewCount="268136" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it known who is the killer after the ending scene? The former detective looked very intense, as if he finally understood who was the serial killer, but it's not very clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Was it the guy he let go some years ago near the railroad tunnel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, is the actor who played the killer in that half-second scene listed in the credits? If so, then did he play any other characters in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5788" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2019-07-14T15:24:43.440" LastActivityDate="2020-04-05T12:13:42.793" Title="Who is the serial killer in Memories of Murders?" Tags="|plot-explanation|memories-of-murder|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15211" CreationDate="2013-11-18T05:40:12.913" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it isn't known who the killer is. The &lt;em&gt;film&lt;/em&gt; is based on a real-life event, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwaseong_serial_murders&quot;&gt;Hwaseong serial murders&lt;/a&gt;, which is an unsolved case in Korea. The film too can therefore only end on a similarly unresolved note.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memories_of_Murder&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the end, the crimes remain unsolved. Visiting the crime scene years later in 2003, Park Doo-man, now a businessman, learns from a little girl that the scene had recently been visited by another, &lt;strong&gt;unknown man with a 'plain' face&lt;/strong&gt;. The little girl had asked him why that man was looking at a drain (from the scene of the second murder, which is shown at the start of the film), and he told her that he was reminiscing about something he did there a long time ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final scene where Detective Park stares at the camera is open to interpretation. But, one of the interpretations is that he is convinced that this man with the plain face must have been the killer and that he could be just about any Korean. Park then looks through the camera at the audience trying to locate the murderer as the &lt;em&gt;Hwaseong&lt;/em&gt; killer is surely watching the film himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the factory worker who was the prime suspect could well have been the killer in the film as the DNA test results from the US do not exonerate him. They simply state that the evidence is inconclusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea about the OP's question on the credits for the half-second scene. But it is unlikely that such a credit has been listed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T05:40:12.913" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15213" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-18T05:42:08.610" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Memories of Murder&lt;/em&gt; (Korean: &lt;em&gt;살인의 추억&lt;/em&gt;; RR: &lt;em&gt;Sarinui chueok&lt;/em&gt;) is a 2003 South Korean crime-drama film directed by Bong Joon-ho. It is based on the true story of the country's first known serial murders, which took place between 1986 and 1991 in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province. Song Kang-ho and Kim Sang-kyung star as Detective Park and Detective Seo, respectively, two of the detectives trying to solve the crimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memories_of_Murder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-18T05:42:08.610" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T05:42:08.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15214" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-18T05:42:08.610" Score="0" Body="Memories of Murder/Sarinui chueok is a 2003 South Korean crime-drama film based on the true story of Korea's first known serial murders, which took place between 1986 and 1991 in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-18T05:42:08.610" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T05:42:08.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15215" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15216" CreationDate="2013-11-18T06:47:52.987" Score="69" ViewCount="38988" Body="&lt;p&gt;While film scenes where an actor injects something into his/her arm can perhaps be faked with edits and maybe prosthetics, how do actors manage to snort cocaine or smoke crack? Are there approved safe alternatives that are used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vk0w6.gif&quot; alt=&quot;From Tumblr&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Also, considering the lifestyles of many actors, are there any instances where actors have used the real deal?&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="7302" LastEditDate="2019-09-24T04:03:14.500" LastActivityDate="2019-09-24T04:03:14.500" Title="What do actors actually inhale when their characters snort cocaine or smoke crack?" Tags="|film-techniques|props|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15215" CreationDate="2013-11-18T06:59:32.863" Score="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powdered_milk&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;powdered milk's&lt;/a&gt; resemblance to cocaine and other drugs, powdered milk is sometimes used in film-making as a non-toxic prop that may be inhaled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other methods listed on &lt;a href=&quot;http://nypost.com/2013/10/23/what-actors-really-snort-shoot-and-smoke-on-set/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;nypost.com&lt;/a&gt; are -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;“It’s usually cornstarch, but you have to put a bit of baby powder&#xA;into it, because starch is too sticky and heavy,” says Gillian&#xA;Albinski, the property master on &lt;strong&gt;Homeland&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;“I always use powdered lactose,” says longtime prop master Mychael&#xA;Bates, who worked on 2011’s &lt;strong&gt;Horrible Bosses&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Colin Farrell didn’t seem to mind. He was even snorting the powder&#xA;off-camera in order to stay in character, Bates says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For the lactose-intolerant, something like a vitamin B powder (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inositol&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;inositol&lt;/a&gt;),&#xA;available at health-food stores, might be substituted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Snorting any powder over multiple takes can cause an actor to become&#xA;congested. (Or just angry.) In that case, the prop masters will&#xA;sometimes coat the inside of the coke straw with Vaseline. When the&#xA;powder is snorted, most of it sticks to the straw instead of going up&#xA;the actor’s nose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For pot/crack:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides heroin, “Homeland” includes scenes of Morgan Saylor’s character Dana Brody smoking pot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I’ve worked on shows where actors have wanted to smoke the real thing, and I was constantly fighting to take away their real bags,” Albinski says. “Oregano smells so much like the real thing, you have to check carefully to make sure they haven’t switched it out.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other prop masters do use the real thing — sort of. Companies, including legalbuds.com, sell ganja without the active ingredient THC. It looks and burns like marijuana, but it won’t get anyone high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Crack rocks are created by dropping globs of Krazy Glue into a pile of baking soda.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T20:22:19.880" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15218" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15220" CreationDate="2013-11-18T08:12:59.637" Score="5" ViewCount="447" Body="&lt;p&gt;In India we consider rivers to be holy and respect them. Sometimes swearing by them to prove a point. But in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namastey_London&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Namastey London&lt;/a&gt;, Bebo Malhotra (&lt;em&gt;an UK based NRI&lt;/em&gt;) swears by river Thames to vouch for her daughter's virginity and even compares Thames to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ganga&lt;/a&gt;. Is Thames in UK considered to be holy or auspicious? I mean do people swear by Thames in the UK?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T00:52:36.367" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T00:52:36.367" Title="Do people swear by river Thames in the UK?" Tags="|realism|namastey-london|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15218" CreationDate="2013-11-18T09:35:08.870" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I grew up in the London area and never ever heard anyone swearing by the Thames in the manner you describe. It is entirely possible that people of Indian origin have transplanted this behaviour but no local would do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Swearing by the Thames, in the sense of cursing while in the vicinity of the river, is rather more common - especially after the pubs close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6789" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T09:35:08.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15218" CreationDate="2013-11-18T09:35:29.917" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have lived in the UK for over 35 years and I have never heard this expression once.  To the best of my knowledge there is no sentiment, emotional or spiritual attached to that (or any other) river.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is probably a quirk of the speaker.  He considers rivers holy but has relocated to the UK so it the famous UK rivers that come to his mind.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T09:35:29.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15224" CreationDate="2013-11-18T13:47:59.737" Score="26" ViewCount="11211" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been seeing more and more of these scenes lately (though I know they aren't new), as they add shock value to a particular scene/story line. Just curious if it's split-scened or just a part of the job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4416" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-18T14:22:15.713" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T14:22:15.713" Title="Do other actors/actresses really spit on each other in movies?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15223" CreationDate="2013-11-18T13:59:53.103" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can often come down to the willingness of the actors concerned as to whether to go all the way during a 'spitting' scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you will indeed see the shot as an edited one - 'spitter' spits, cut to 'spitee' receiving the phlegm. This is easy to pull off and does not have to involve any real phlegm hitting the 'spitee's' face - this can be simulated with water/egg white/corn syrup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when you see the shot as a two-shot (both actors in frame), then there is no faking it, but you can rest assured that plenty of mouthwash is involved, plus a similar mixture as described above to create the most effective spittle, a substance that will cling to the face but then also dribble in sticky strings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have any links to back this up, as I am going by my own filmmaking experience alone, but would welcome any edits to this answer if anyone has anything to add. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-11-18T13:59:53.103" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15230" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-18T22:35:55.657" Score="26" ViewCount="3671" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Darren Aronofsky's famous and mysterious film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_%28film%29&quot;&gt;&quot;Pi&quot;&lt;/a&gt; there are many mathematical secrets. My question is about one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the film begins one can see the digits of the number Pi. But here something is wrong! The digits of that Pi are not exactly the digits of &quot;real&quot; Pi! Note the following difference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Real Pi&lt;/strong&gt; = 3.14159265 &lt;strong&gt;358979323846...&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aronovsky's Pi&lt;/strong&gt; = 3.14159265 &lt;strong&gt;263124534235...&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems this is not just a simple mistake because &quot;Pi&quot; is a film about mathematics with a strong stress on numbers so every number in it has a particular meaning and probably is a sign for an implicit message. Furthermore many digits of Arnovsky's Pi are true so one who designed the title scene perhaps used a calculator to find exact digits of Pi and then replaced some true digits by fake numbers to produce this &quot;Pi&quot; which is so similar to the real one. Also there is no reason for a mistake in digits after 10th place when you know 9 digits exactly!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question:&lt;/strong&gt; What does this difference between the digits of these two &quot;Pi&quot; numbers mean? Is it a message?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qAnRVl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6796" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T07:29:17.033" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T11:15:08.467" Title="Why is Aronofsky's Pi not Pi?" Tags="|analysis|pi|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15232" CreationDate="2013-11-19T01:28:27.810" Score="4" ViewCount="2557" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the end when Walt is found out to be Heisenberg, the DEA and feds went and seized all his assets (like his and Skyler's home) but what would happen to the car wash?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this was purchased with illegal drug money to Bogdan Wolynetz, I would have thought that the government could not reverse this transaction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore what happens to the car wash and the money used to buy it? Do the feds retrieve that money back from Bogdan? Does the car wash itself sit there rotting like Walt's home?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="6245" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T06:04:35.703" LastActivityDate="2016-12-03T22:36:19.187" Title="What happens to the money used to buy the car wash?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15231" CreationDate="2013-11-19T01:57:26.577" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;What the DEA confiscate is the criminal's &lt;em&gt;assets&lt;/em&gt; not the actual paper money. When Walter bought the car wash from Bogdan, the money became Bogdan's and since he accepted the transaction without knowing the source of the money he is in the clear. On the other hand, the &lt;em&gt;car wash&lt;/em&gt; itself is now part of Walter's assets, and &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; gets seized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T01:57:26.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10644" CreationDate="2013-11-19T05:13:15.203" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Easiest way: If you are using Google Chrome you can right click on an image and select &quot;Search Google for this image&quot; and voila!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The picture you have posted is from Jacob's Ladder (1990 Film).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5466" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T05:13:15.203" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-11-19T05:13:15.203" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15236" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-19T06:27:17.660" Score="14" ViewCount="82481" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; Walter wanted Jesse to believe that Gus was behind the poisoning of Brock. Then why would he use Lily Of The Valey, at the risk of it being traced back to him? Won't using Ricin ensure that Jesse believes Gus did it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6801" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T01:11:01.983" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T01:11:01.983" Title="Why does Walter use Lily Of The Valley instead of ricin?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15236" CreationDate="2013-11-19T06:40:33.877" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion Walter White is not truly evil. He just want to earn money for his family. His aim is not to kill Brock but to use Jesse's emotion towards Brock in his favor. Ricin is riskier than Lily of the valley. So he used Lily of the valley and removed the Ricin just to put suspicion on Gus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;STRIKE&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;- I haven't completed season 5 yet, so don't know if it is addressed later.&lt;/STRIKE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1111" LastEditDate="2014-06-02T12:12:12.470" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T12:12:12.470" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15230" CreationDate="2013-11-19T07:48:55.117" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, I don't think that there is any message or meaning to the use of an inaccurate value of π. I submit that the inaccuracy is simply a result of laziness or small budget constraints. In the provided image, you can make out that Aronofsky's number has been generated (possibly) by his liberal arts college-going nephew who was familiar with the mysteries of Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V. If you compare lines 3 and 4, you can see that the digits 2858286858919431192301402971286501 are repeated on both lines. While I'm sure that there are repeating patterns in π, I dare say that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.angio.net/pi/#likely&quot;&gt;this is not one of them&lt;/a&gt;. Other patterns can also be seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie isn't really mathematically sound which is unsurprising considering that it attempts to mix Math with religion. But that should also be apparent when one questions what it has to do with π in the *cough* first place. If my memory serves me correctly, the plot really deals only with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio&quot;&gt;golden ratio&lt;/a&gt; (1.618…). IOW, the movie should have actually been titled &lt;em&gt;Phi&lt;/em&gt; (φ) rather than &lt;em&gt;Pi&lt;/em&gt; (π).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why is Aronofsky's Pi not Phi? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T13:17:06.960" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T13:17:06.960" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12616" CreationDate="2013-11-19T09:56:28.677" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Wikipedia article &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_and_corporal_punishment_in_Judaism&quot;&gt;Capital and corporal punishment in Judaism&lt;/a&gt;, it's stated that if the Beth Din (a rabbinical court) was judging a capital case, and there was a unanimous verdict of guilty, the accused was released, because there must be something wrong with the court if no judge could find anything to excuse the accused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A unanimous verdict being treated with suspicion would be consistent with &quot;the tenth man rule.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1312" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T09:56:28.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15248" CreationDate="2013-11-19T10:34:09.330" Score="5" ViewCount="5465" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first episode it is indicated that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2364582/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; happens after &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;, but the first episode also has Extremis in it. So is it a pre &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/em&gt; version of Extremis or post? I mean if it's post then why didn't they already have the Extremis solution (which is used on Pepper Potts)? So why to waste time in making Extremis again. Or is it a pre version?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T10:53:00.263" LastActivityDate="2015-05-29T02:13:08.190" Title="In Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Extremis shown is a post Iron Man 3 version of virus or pre?" Tags="|iron-man-3|marvel-cinematic-universe|chronology|agents-of-shield|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15242" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15250" CreationDate="2013-11-19T10:36:54.217" Score="12" ViewCount="33530" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it ever made clear officially what the timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is and where &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2364582/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; falls on it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T10:49:48.713" LastActivityDate="2022-10-13T21:01:18.770" Title="Where does Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. fall in the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|chronology|agents-of-shield|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15245" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15246" CreationDate="2013-11-19T13:02:23.217" Score="16" ViewCount="3958" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy an alien from Betelgeuse visits the earth and calls himself &quot;Ford Prefect&quot; I get the impression that this is a joke which has been lost as the story has aged. Is there a double meaning for Ford Prefect which viewers/listeners/readers at the time would have found funny?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-19T20:21:47.387" LastActivityDate="2016-03-16T04:37:57.777" Title="What's unusual about the name Ford Prefect?" Tags="|the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15245" CreationDate="2013-11-19T13:07:44.703" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Prefect&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ford Prefect&lt;/a&gt; was a car that was reasonably common in the UK up until the 1960's. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lxpFT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ford Prefect&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're no longer produced, so the joke might be lost on a modern audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T13:07:44.703" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15249" CreationDate="2013-11-19T13:09:36.033" Score="3" ViewCount="451" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the webisode &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_of_the_Doctor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Night of the Doctor&lt;/a&gt; we meet the pilot Cass who is extremely fearful (or perhaps angry with) the Doctor once she realises he's a timelord (bonus points if you can tell me how she realises the the phone box is a Tardis as most Tardises have a functioning chameleon circuit).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does she fear Time Lords? Doesn't she realise they're fighting the Daleks who are much worse!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T13:24:36.680" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T08:17:54.430" Title="Why did Cass distrust the Doctor?" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15241" CreationDate="2013-11-19T13:39:35.947" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pulling from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thecomicboard.com/forum/showthread.php?13339-Marvel-Cinematic-Universe-Timeline&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Comic Board Forum&lt;/a&gt; (and from IM3), we know that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;December 31, 1999, Tony Stark learns about Extremis from Maya Hansen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;October, 2006, Aldrich Killian injects himself with Extremis.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;February, 2008, Killian goes on to find new recruits (including Ellen Brandt, Chad Davis, Eric Savin, and Jack Taggert) to test Extremis on. Some of the recruits explode due to a malfunction, while others have limbs restored or other disfigurations fixed/cured.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;June 12, 2008, Chad Davis explodes from an Extremis malfunction which kills five others in the explosion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;May 4, 2012, Battle of New York.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;December 19, 2012, Stark Industries security chief Happy Hogan is badly injured in an attack on the Chinese Theatre, which was triggered by an Extremis subject, Jack Taggart.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;December 24, 2012, Killian outs himself as the true Mandarin. He kidnaps Potts and subjects her to Extremis in an attempt to get Stark to help fix the problems with Extremis.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;December 27, 2012, With Stark's help, Potts' Extremis effects are stabilized. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;September 24, 2013, Agents Fitz and Simmons discover the explosion which occurs was from a person, as well as that it comes from the Extremis within the Centipede.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;September 25, 2013, The SHIELD team discovers that Michael is near exploding from a malfunction in the Extremis part of the Centipede. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the time based events. We do know Stark helped Potts make it through the Extremis transition. What I believe is not spelled out is we do not know if the &quot;bad guys&quot; know what that &quot;cure&quot; (or help) was which Stark provided to Potts. They (the bad guys) are still working with Extremis trying to fix these problems. The SHIELD team is trying to counteract the effects of the Centipede (people blowing up). They aren't necessarily trying to cure Extremis in these people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: As seen in my revision of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/15242/where-does-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-fall-in-the-marvel-cinematic-universe-timeline&quot;&gt;chronology&lt;/a&gt; thread, I have made some updates to this thread here which makes more sense, but does not invalidate what I'm saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T16:24:45.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15247" CreationDate="2013-11-19T13:44:15.360" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;For your secondary question, you can see Cass didn't realize it's a TARDIS until the Doctor mentioned it's bigger on the inside - a telltale sign you're dealing with Time Lord technology. That's what tipped her off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your main question, Cass's reaction makes it quite clear that at that point in the war, both sides had committed such atrocities that any moral distinction was quite blurry, especially from the outside. By the end of the Time War, Rassilon, leader of the Time Lords, was willing to &lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Ultimate_Sanction&quot;&gt;destroy time itself&lt;/a&gt; and all the universe to ensure the Time Lords' survival.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The old series, where the Time Lords were still occasionally encountered, made it clear that they're not particularly &lt;em&gt;nice&lt;/em&gt; people, on the whole. Many of them are ruthless, amoral or downright vicious, and their dictum forbidding interfering with other species and their timeline was there mostly to &lt;em&gt;protect&lt;/em&gt; those species from Time Lord meddling, not necessarily from some Prime Directive-like imperative to let time take its natural course. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1507" LastEditorUserId="1507" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T13:54:23.007" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T13:54:23.007" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15242" CreationDate="2013-11-19T13:45:31.570" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pulling from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thecomicboard.com/forum/showthread.php?13339-Marvel-Cinematic-Universe-Timeline&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Comic Board Forum&lt;/a&gt; (and IM3 in movie references):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;December 31, 1999, Tony Stark learns about Extremis from Maya Hansen (Beginning of IM3)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2008, Tony Stark demonstrates the Jericho outside of Kabul, Afghanistan. (exact date unsure - Beginning of IM1)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;May 5, 2012, Battle of New York. (Avengers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;December 27, 2012, With Stark's help, Potts' Extremis effects are stabilized. (End of IM3)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;September 24, 2013, Agents Fitz and Simmons discover the explosion which occurs was from a person, as well as that it comes from the Extremis within the Centipede. (First AoSHIELD episode)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The AoSHIELD episodes are based after IM3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: After reading points in the comment made by Oliver_C, I did some more checking on several other websites. There is a very &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ifc.com/fix/2012/05/marvel-movie-timeline-avengers&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;specific timeline&lt;/a&gt; given up to the time of &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; given by Marvel Studios which comes from &lt;em&gt;Art of the Avengers&lt;/em&gt;. This is the only &quot;official&quot; Marvel release I can find showing a timeline. On &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thecomicboard.com/forum/showthread.php?13339-Marvel-Cinematic-Universe-Timeline&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this webpage&lt;/a&gt; (albeit not official), there is a very specific timeline which shows a video chapter-by-chapter timeline showing the AoSHIELD happening after IM3. (I have updated the timeline above to reflect this.) This makes more sense than my original timeline and accounts for discrepancies as described by Oliver_C. The notes in the two wikis which provide the &quot;6 month&quot; and &quot;1 year&quot; references are an &quot;about&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T16:17:14.090" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T16:17:14.090" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15242" CreationDate="2013-11-19T13:51:26.287" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Further to Paulster's great answer - considering the next episode of Agents of SHIELD takes place immediately after the events of Thor: The Dark World, and will not only be referencing it but will also incorporate a possible piece of Asgardian (or other realm) technology, I believe the AoS storyline is running concurrent to the Marvel cinematic universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/11/19/jeffrey-bell-on-marvels-agents-of-shield-tying-into-thor-the-dark-world-and-audience-expectations-on-revealing-secrets?page=1&quot;&gt;interview with executive producer Jeffrey Bell&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So our team shows up in the wake of what happened in Greenwich, and&#xA;  we’re cleaning up. We’re looking for other Asgardian or alien -- we&#xA;  don’t use the words “dark elves” or anything like that -- but we’re&#xA;  looking for other alien material, because as we’ve learned from other&#xA;  episodes, if a Chitauri or somebody leaves something laying around, it&#xA;  can lead to trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T14:16:23.550" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T14:16:23.550" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15254" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-19T17:03:05.580" Score="6" ViewCount="7266" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_%281990_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Akira Kurosawa's Dreams&lt;/a&gt; is a strange symbolic film. My question is about a possible relevance between the first dream (nightmare!) and the last sweet dream in a cyclic story! The following paragraphs are quoted from Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The first dream: Sunshine Through The Rain:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is an old legend in Japan that states that when the sun is&#xA;  shining through the rain, the kitsune (foxes) have their weddings&#xA;  (this is a common theme globally – see sunshower). In this first&#xA;  dream, a boy defies the wish of a woman, possibly his mother, to&#xA;  remain at home during a day with such weather. From behind a large&#xA;  tree in the nearby forest, he witnesses the slow wedding procession of&#xA;  the kitsune. Unfortunately, he is spotted by the foxes and runs. When&#xA;  he tries to return home, the same woman says that a fox had come by&#xA;  the house, leaving behind a tantō knife. The woman gives the knife to&#xA;  the boy, implying that he must commit suicide. The woman asks the boy&#xA;  to go and beg forgiveness from the foxes, although they are known to&#xA;  be unforgiving, refusing to let him in unless he does so. The boy sets&#xA;  off into the mountains, towards the place under the rainbow in search&#xA;  for the kitsune's home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The last dream: Village of the Watermills:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A young man finds himself entering a peaceful, stream-laden village.&#xA;  The traveller meets an old, wise man who is fixing a broken watermill&#xA;  wheel. The elder explains that the people of his village decided long&#xA;  ago to forsake the polluting influence of modern technology and return&#xA;  to a happier, cleaner era of society. They have chosen spiritual&#xA;  health over convenience, and the traveller is surprised but intrigued&#xA;  by this notion. At the end of the sequence (and the film), a funeral&#xA;  procession for an old woman takes place in the village, which instead&#xA;  of mourning, the people celebrate joyfully as the proper end to a good&#xA;  life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Analyze:&lt;/strong&gt; Some information are strangely missed in both first and last dreams. In the last dream we have an unknown grave in the village. The old man says: &quot;this is the grave of a sick passenger who died here many years ago.&quot;. My question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question 1:&lt;/strong&gt; Whose grave is this? Who was that poor passenger?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8tLZS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have an unpleasant surprising answer for this question! This is the grave of the child in the first dream and this funny sunny village of the watermills (which seems like an utopia) is &lt;strong&gt;the village of foxes&lt;/strong&gt; who forced the poor boy to kill himself many years ago! Note the following signs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sign 1:&lt;/strong&gt; The fate of the child is &lt;strong&gt;unknown&lt;/strong&gt; in the first dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sign 2:&lt;/strong&gt; It seems the story of the first dream happens near &lt;strong&gt;100 years&lt;/strong&gt; before the story of the last dream which is in the present time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sign 3:&lt;/strong&gt; There is a happy funeral in the last dream for a 99 years old woman who was the first love of the old man but broke his heart for another man. The old man is near 104 years old now. So one can consider the old man and woman as &lt;strong&gt;groom and bride&lt;/strong&gt; in the foxes' wedding at first dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sign 4:&lt;/strong&gt; Both fox groom in wedding and old man in funeral are in &lt;strong&gt;red clothes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RYq1F.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/znyPL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sign 5:&lt;/strong&gt; There is an undeniable similarity between the final happy funeral scene and this japanese painting by Hokusai Katsushika which shows &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsune_no_yomeiri&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Kitsune no Yomeiri-zu&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (Foxes wedding) in the style of a funeral. Also there is following fact about foxes wedding in Japan:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Generally at night in the mountains or at riverbeds, it is said that&#xA;  countless kitsunebi would come together in a line and look like a&#xA;  procession of paper lanterns, and it is said that the foxes are&#xA;  lighting paper lanterns for a wedding ceremony, and thus it is called&#xA;  &quot;the fox's wedding.&quot; These mysterious flames have the particular&#xA;  characteristic that they can only be seen from afar. In the Tokushima&#xA;  Prefecture, these are not for a wedding, but rather a &lt;strong&gt;funeral&lt;/strong&gt;, and&#xA;  it is an &lt;strong&gt;omen&lt;/strong&gt; that there will be &lt;strong&gt;someone to die.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lwpu9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k9Dys.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sign 6:&lt;/strong&gt; There are many &lt;strong&gt;flowers&lt;/strong&gt; in both first and last dreams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sign 7:&lt;/strong&gt; Many eastern cultures believe in &lt;strong&gt;cyclic&lt;/strong&gt; process of the life and stories. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary:&lt;/strong&gt; So it seems there is a nightmare hidden behind the last sweet dream!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;A child goes to the jungle in a sunshower day. He sees the forbidden wedding procession of two foxes (the old man and woman). This violation breaks the holy process of the wedding and the fox woman leaves the fox man. The fox man who is very angry about this goes to the child's home and offers a suicide to him. The child goes to the village of the foxes in the hope of forgiveness. The fox man refutes his apology. The child accepts suicide because he want to die by honor not to live with disrepute. The foxes admire his braveness and bury him in their village. The grave belongs to the poor brave child!&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question 2:&lt;/strong&gt; Is my analyze true? Is there any other fact which supports my story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6796" LastEditorDisplayName="user6796" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T17:53:45.100" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T20:10:16.587" Title="Is this the grave of a child in Akira Kurosawa's Dreams?" 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  <row Id="15256" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-19T19:14:41.753" Score="13" ViewCount="10453" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Wall-E the name of the main spacecraft which is the new home of humanity is rather questionable. &quot;Axiom&quot;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5xPyM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8svAZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main problem here is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Axiom&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and &quot;Axiomatic Systems&quot; are abstract mathematical (logical/philosophical) notions. In the first view this abstract mathematical name seems inappropriate for a spacecraft in an animation movie but I believe there is a deep philosophy behind such a name choosing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question:&lt;/strong&gt; What is the philosophy behind choosing name &quot;Axiom&quot; for the main spacecraft in Wall-E? Is there any quote from producers about this name?    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6796" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-20T04:55:08.030" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T04:55:08.030" Title="Why is the name of the main spacecraft &quot;Axiom&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|wall-e|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15254" CreationDate="2013-11-19T19:31:09.090" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My impression was that the blooming wildflowers at the end of &lt;strong&gt;Sunshine Through the Rain&lt;/strong&gt; signified that the boy had been forgiven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z3TlG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Kurosawa Dreams Wildflowers&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T19:31:09.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15256" CreationDate="2013-11-19T19:33:46.933" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have anything official from the cast or crew. But &lt;a href=&quot;http://pixar.wikia.com/Axiom&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this Wikia&lt;/a&gt; provides a plausible-sounding theory about the name:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The literal meaning of the word &quot;Axiom&quot; is something that is taken for granted, reflecting on the population of the Axiom's over-indulgent lifestyle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/trivia#tr0753556&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; provides a similar take:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The name of the ship that the humans are living on is &quot;Axiom.&quot; In logic and math, an axiom is something unquestionable or taken for granted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T19:33:46.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15256" CreationDate="2013-11-19T19:35:24.477" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is said on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://pixar.wikia.com/Axiom&quot;&gt;Pixar Wikia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The literal meaning of the word &quot;Axiom&quot; is something that is taken for granted, reflecting on the population of the Axiom's over-indulgent lifestyle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as a mathematician, I'd like to offer an alternative view of the name (which may have nothing in common with the official reasons for this naming).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Axioms are basic statements of any mathematical theory, that we consider to be true (inside that particular theory) &lt;em&gt;for granted&lt;/em&gt;, i.e., without proving them (they cannot be proven, since there are no other statements on which to base any proof). All other statements are built upon them and they are true only as long as the axioms are true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in a way, axioms are origin of every (mathematical) system/theory, and I see the above name as a subtle announcement that this ship (among &lt;a href=&quot;http://pixar.wikia.com/Axiom&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;hundreds of thousands of spacecrafts built to keep humanity safe and happy while Earth was being rejuvenated&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) will be the origin, as it actually happens to be in the end (the origin from which humans repopulate the Earth).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; The captain's name is &lt;a href=&quot;http://pixar.wikia.com/Captain_B._McCrea&quot;&gt;B. McCrea&lt;/a&gt;. Is it only by accident that &quot;McCrea B.&quot; sounds a lot like &quot;Mc&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_bed&quot;&gt;Crib&lt;/a&gt;&quot; or is it also a suggestion of the cartoon's finale? It might seem a bit far-fetched, but maybe it's not, considering the other names in the movie. For example, VAQ-M (a vacuuming robot), PR-T (&quot;pretty&quot; hair dresser), L-T (a &quot;light&quot; bot), BIRD-E (golfer with a golfing reference name),... The list with the name explanations is &lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Category%3aWALL-E_characters&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2013-11-20T01:41:58.807" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T01:41:58.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10911" CreationDate="2013-11-19T19:46:33.950" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1494775/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;be Metallic Attraction: Kungfu Cyborg&lt;/a&gt;? It's a Chinese movie from 2009 starring Wu Jing as one of the leads. I was thinking of this because you mentioned martial arts (and androids of course)..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="461" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T19:46:33.950" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15256" CreationDate="2013-11-19T19:52:57.457" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My analysis is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Axiom spacecraft is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;consistent&lt;/a&gt; axiomatic system. This is a formal notion in mathematical logic which states that a particular axiomatic system doesn't imply contradictory statements. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Axiom space craft is an &quot;axiomatic system&quot; because a &quot;robot&quot; (not a &quot;human&quot;) is managing it. Logically the notions of a &quot;robot&quot;, an &quot;algorithm&quot; and an &quot;axiomatic system&quot; are very near and theoretically &quot;equivalent&quot; in some contexts of mathematical logic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the Axiom spacecraft is a &quot;consistent&quot; axiomatic system because in some sense it is completely &quot;closed&quot; and &quot;independent&quot; from the environment. Its design allows the inhabitants to live in it without any collapse by internal inconsistency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most interesting point here is that it seems the animation designers have a complete knowledge about modern mathematical logic! Particularly about a very technical and famous theorem by Kurt Godel called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godel_incompleteness&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Godel's incompleteness theorem&lt;/a&gt;&quot; which simply says &quot;every consistent axiomatic system which is sufficiently rich to produce arithmetic is incomplete (i.e. cannot prove all true statements.)&quot; (All of the notions have exact mathematical meanings). A philosophical aspect of this theorem is that no &quot;robot&quot; is &quot;alive&quot; and &quot;life&quot; is not &quot;axiomatizable&quot;! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that who are supporting the &quot;life&quot; in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Humans: Who are obviously alive.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wrecked robots: Who are working out of the defined axioms of the boss robot and so they are not a part of algorithm. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Wall-E&quot; and &quot;Eve&quot; (Adam and Eve): Who can feel the &quot;love&quot; which is one of the properties of living beings.     &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If my analysis is true, Wall-E is one of the deepest movies about philosophy, logic and mathematics! It is a masterwork!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6796" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T19:57:32.640" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T19:57:32.640" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15263" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-19T20:38:20.980" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dreams (夢 Yume?, aka Akira Kurosawa's Dreams) is a 1990 magical realism film based on actual dreams of the film's director, Akira Kurosawa at different stages of his life. The film is more imagery than dialogue. The film was screened out of competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—Wikipedia&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T20:38:20.980" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T20:38:20.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15264" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-19T20:38:20.980" Score="0" Body="1990 magical realism film based on actual dreams of the film's director, Akira Kurosawa at different stages of his life." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T20:38:20.980" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T20:38:20.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15265" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-19T20:40:42.447" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Raiders of the Lost Ark (later marketed as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) is a 1981 American fantasy-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford. It was the first installment in the Indiana Jones film franchise to be released, though it is the second in internal chronological order. It pits Indiana Jones (Ford) against a group of Nazis who are searching for the Ark of the Covenant which Adolf Hitler believes will make their army invincible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T20:40:42.447" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T20:40:42.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15266" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-19T20:40:42.447" Score="0" Body="1981 American fantasy-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford. It was the first installment in the Indiana Jones film franchise to be released, though it is the second in internal chronological order." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-19T20:40:42.447" LastActivityDate="2013-11-19T20:40:42.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15269" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15274" CreationDate="2013-11-19T22:01:30.437" Score="9" ViewCount="5168" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been bugging me for a LONG time now and was hoping someone knew the title to this animated movie I saw a long time ago on Cartoon Network. When I say long, it possibly aired on Cartoon Network in the UK over 5 years ago. It was a animated movie with a very cartoon-like style and I haven't heard of it since.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the plot, it revolved around this other dimension to earth called Toy land or something, which as you might guess, involves a world solely inhabited by toys and their 'human' princess. Due to the threat of an army of evil toys, the princess heads to the human world to find their 'saviour' or something. I believe the idea was no one could see her, however she did have this special rock or crystal. The rule was the first human to touch it would get transported to Toy land and become prince/king. During a football game at a random school she drops the rock/gem near a boy she likes who completely ignores it, however another random boy finds it and picks it up, transporting him to the toy world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From then on my memory becomes more hazy. I do remember certain bits such as how the princess immediately starts hating the boy (despite the fact that the citizens of Toy land seem to like him), although in the end she does fall for him. When in Toy land I remember him having some sort of toy robot suit and sword for fighting off the villains, and I do remember the movie having a sequel. Only thing else I remember is the fact that every time the boy transports himself off to Toy land, he leaves behind a doll of himself which his Uncle/Dad who owns a toy shop looks after due to mistaking it for part of his stock. I also remember that in one of the sequels (there might of been 2 sequels), one of the evil toys makes it to the human realm and starts twisting/attacking the doll of the main character which reveals the fact that if the doll is injured, the main character will be hurt too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6819" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T00:40:29.320" LastActivityDate="2017-09-22T13:44:42.573" Title="Animated movie that aired on Cartoon Network about a world of toys" Tags="|identify-this-movie|animation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:53:15.283" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15271" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-20T05:04:21.503" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last Action Hero is a 1993 American action-comedy-fantasy film directed and produced by John McTiernan. It is a satire of the action genre and its clichés, containing several parodies of action films in the form of films within the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Jack Slater, a fictional Los Angeles police detective. Slater is a fictional character even within the film, the hero of the Jack Slater series of action films. Austin O'Brien co-stars as a boy who is magically transported into a parallel universe inhabited by Slater and the other characters in the Slater film series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Action_Hero&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-20T05:04:21.503" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T05:04:21.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15272" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-20T05:04:21.503" Score="0" Body="1993 American action-comedy-fantasy film directed by John McTiernan and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Jack Slater, a fictional Los Angeles police detective. " OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-20T05:04:21.503" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T05:04:21.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15269" CreationDate="2013-11-20T05:34:14.433" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363141/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Toy Warrior&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, released in 2005.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Land Of Toys is a world of pure imagination, ruled by the popular doll Princess Sherbet, but when the mysterious Dark One threatens Sherbet's toy kingdom, she turns to the real world in search of a heroic Warrior Prince... Unfortunately, she ends up with the imaginative trouble-maker Jinoo. When Jinoo accidentally touches Sherbet's magical Warrior Stone, the spunky sixth-grader is suddenly transported to the Land Of Toys to become the powerful Toy Warrior! Aided by the reluctant Princess Sherbet, the transforming Police-bot, R.J., and Jinoo's amazingly loyal backpack, Ping, Jinoo is ready to play Toy Warrior and chase the dark forces across the landscape of imagination. The evil is spreading and now both the real world and the very Well of Imagination itself are at stake! Our only hope is a hero with heart... the Toy Warrior Jinoo!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6779" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-09-22T13:44:42.573" LastActivityDate="2017-09-22T13:44:42.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15277" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15284" CreationDate="2013-11-20T10:44:24.617" Score="2" ViewCount="668" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Spider-Man_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)&lt;/a&gt;, Dr. Rajit Ratha's role played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrfan_Khan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Irrfan Khan&lt;/a&gt;, which appear to me as an open-end character. Is his role similar to some Comic counterpart or is it kept to earn from the character's popularity? I mean the requirement of Indian/Asian character doesn't appear in the film. So what is the intention for this casting? And even, as per rumors, Irrfan Khan opted out to play any villain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-05-24T12:50:30.230" LastActivityDate="2019-05-24T12:50:46.457" Title="Is Dr. Ratha's role similar to some comic counterpart or is it kept only for popularity of the actor?" Tags="|character|casting|the-amazing-spider-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15278" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15280" CreationDate="2013-11-20T12:44:20.713" Score="12" ViewCount="26542" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Thor - the Dark World Malekith is the leader of the Dark Elves. The film obviously derives from the Marvel universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also play a lot of tabletop wargames and I know Malekith is also a character there (also leading armies of Dark Elves in a fantasy setting). I'm curious as to the history of the name, character and the dark elf race.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems highly unlikely to me that two different companies would create such a similar character and race with the same names independently. However both Marvel and Games Workshop proactively protect their trademarks and copyrights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How was the race of Dark Elves originally created and how was Malekith devised? Are there any references in other works of fiction such as Tolkien?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T08:45:50.430" LastActivityDate="2022-06-04T16:12:24.313" Title="What are the origins of the name 'Malekith'?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|origin|thor-the-dark-world|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15236" CreationDate="2013-11-20T14:39:49.727" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Walter White was contemplating how he was going to topple drug&#xA;kingpin Gustavo Fring, he noticed the potted lilies in his backyard.&#xA;(&amp;quot;End Times&amp;quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brock Cantillo was poisoned by Walt in an unknown way with the Lily of&#xA;the Valley berry. The doctors initially thought he was poisoned by&#xA;ricin as Jesse Pinkman had suggested but later discovered the true&#xA;toxin. The doctors and Jesse believed that Brock came across the&#xA;flower growing naturally and ate some poisonous berries. (&amp;quot;Face Off&amp;quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After returning home from successfully killing Gus and getting Jesse&#xA;back on his side, Walt disposed of the Lily plant from his backyard.&#xA;(&amp;quot;Live Free or Die&amp;quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the doctors taking care of Brock, Lily of the Valley is not as poisonous as ricin, and they came to the conclusion that Brock might of thought of them as fruits (as they claimed that it would be easy for kids to mistake the venomous plant as consumable), and slipped one in his mouth, causing him to poison himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the episode makes you believe that Walter White poisoned him, without actual evidence, because he had the plant in his backyard, and disposed of it after killing Gus.&#xA;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Lily_of_the_Valley&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Lily_of_the_Valley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Walter might of wanted to temporarily have Jesse's attention by making him believe Gus poisoned Brock, thus sort of brain-washing Pinkman to get him onboard to kill Gus, without causing real harm to the child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6787" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T14:48:29.897" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15278" CreationDate="2013-11-20T14:58:08.150" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Norse Mythology, the Elves were inhabitants of Aelfar, which was ruled by Freyr. They were given to Freyr in payment for losing a tooth, as referenced by one of the Eddas. Other than a couple of names of leaders, there isn't much actual Norse mythology built around the elves, much of that came later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dwarves were said to be formed from maggots that ate from the giant Ymir, and the first two were Durin and Modsognir. One early descendant is named Lofar, and part of his lineage is Dvalin, who is a leader of the dwarves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One race of dwarves is known as svaltarfar, or &quot;black elves&quot;. Additionally, one character in the folklore is named Volund (From the eddaic Volundarkvida), or Wayland in English, and is known as Lord of the Elves, but he was a master smith/craftsman, which is more attributed to the dwarven races.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would postulate that Malekith is a made up name, as the &quot;th&quot; sound and combination of letters is actually very rare in Old Norse naming conventions. Even &quot;Thor&quot; is more an Anglicization pronunciation than the actual original spelling. Frith is more accurately Fnor in Old Norse, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the etiology, Male = male, kith = familiar, friends. It may also be an adaptation of Malachi, or Mal'akhi (Old Hebrew) who was one of the twelve minor prophets of the Old Testament.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T14:58:08.150" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15281" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15282" CreationDate="2013-11-20T15:14:50.557" Score="8" ViewCount="678" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Elysium&lt;/em&gt;, Kruger and his other South African buddies are used as off-the-books mercenaries by Delacourt. But considering that they are … South African and do not appear to be cut out of the same cloth as other (French-speaking) Elysians, are they still Elysian citizens? Or, are they simply mercenaries with privileges?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T15:39:30.187" Title="Were Kruger and his men Elysium citizens?" Tags="|character|elysium|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15281" CreationDate="2013-11-20T15:39:30.187" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given their nature, base of operations and 'sleeper agent' title it's unlikely they were citizens of Elysium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judging by the fact that Kruger's face was able to be re-constructed pre-reboot, I think it's safe to assume that the mercenaries were granted special privileges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a precedent for preferential treatment of certain citizens;  during the Hi-jack sequence, the surveillance satellites register Kruger as 'Unidentified'. He is also distorted, so the computer knows who he is and has applied this masking program to conceal his presence. &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ImjRx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the violent, Sociopathic nature of Kruger and the Mercs, they would likely not wish to live on Elysium anyway, as the Utopia is free from violence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, when Kruger is haggling with Delacourt over his fee, he makes no attempt to vie for citizenship. He clearly has no desire for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, coupled with the fact that there are no citizenship markings on any of the mercs, seem enough to indicate they were not citizens; they didn't need to be, they had everything they wanted already and had access to medibays whenever they needed to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T15:39:30.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15277" CreationDate="2013-11-20T17:47:05.213" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unlikely.  He has a pretty minor role in the first film, and his character's name doesn't match existing comic characters.  The in-universe viral marketing website for &lt;em&gt;Amazing Spider-Man 2&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://thedailybugle.tumblr.com/post/67096671139/by-dilbert-trilby-the-new-york-city-coroners&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;posted recently&lt;/a&gt; that his character was found dead.  There was a deleted scene in the first movie that contained his death, so this post indicates it's canon for the sequel.  It wasn't an open ended ending for his character in the first movie, the plot line simply &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5924065/why-were-glad-amazing-spider+man-dropped-most-of-its-untold-story&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;got dropped&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.ndtv.com/bollywood/irrfan-khan-turns-baddie-for-thank-you-85398&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an interview&lt;/a&gt; a few years ago, he explains how he was cast:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actor says he got 'Spider-Man' role after his appearance in US drama 'In Treatment' where he played a widower, who is trying to adjust to the life in a foreign land with his son and his American wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The role got me some good reviews there and I think the industry there is aware of my work. Marc Webber had seen me and wanted to work with me and he approached me for this role. I play one of the villains in the movie. It is a pivotal role.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5922752/amazing-spider+man-a-superhero-movie-thats-actually-about-heroism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;io9.com mentioned&lt;/a&gt; another possible reason for his casting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;em&gt;Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt;] has broken box office records in India, possibly partly because of Khan's supporting role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2019-05-24T12:50:46.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15285" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15286" CreationDate="2013-11-20T17:53:54.053" Score="10" ViewCount="1098" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does Batman not kill? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He could have at least killed the Joker in &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; when he had the chance instead of handing him to the law. He would've done the world a great favour. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6825" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-29T09:57:19.637" LastActivityDate="2016-08-10T18:58:49.270" Title="Why doesn't Batman kill?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15285" CreationDate="2013-11-20T18:18:43.713" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bruce Wayne knows that he's a disturbed individual with violent tendencies and unresolved issues, and could easily slide towards evil. To stop that from happening he created a set of ground rules for himself, a code of ethics. No killing, and no guns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly enough, this wasn't always the case. The very early Batman stories in the 1940's he was shown using guns and killing criminals. This didn't last long and the now familiar rules were now put in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These rules have created some very interesting stories. The Joker in particular, and Batman's unwillingness to kill him is a constant dilemma for the caped crusader. Watch &lt;em&gt;Batman: Under the Red Hood&lt;/em&gt; for a very interesting story about that very same dilemma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T18:18:43.713" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15287" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-20T18:46:21.083" Score="4" ViewCount="913" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was the laughing gas dentist scene in The Pink Panther Strikes Again done in a previous movie? Maybe a Jimmy Cagney comedy from the thirties or forties?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6830" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2013-11-20T22:30:43.437" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T18:46:05.350" Title="Was the laughing gas dentist scene in The Pink Panther Strikes Again done previously?" Tags="|first-appearance|the-pink-panther|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15290" CreationDate="2013-11-20T20:41:47.670" Score="18" ViewCount="36082" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;The Dark Knight&quot;, what did the joker really want to prove? I mean burning all the money, killing few innocent people and creating chaos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6825" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-27T17:54:20.683" LastActivityDate="2016-04-27T17:54:20.683" Title="What did the Joker want to prove in The Dark Knight?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15288" CreationDate="2013-11-20T21:10:40.410" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Joker was a disciple of chaos, and wanted to prove that anyone - especially Batman, disciple of law - were as ready to abandon law and morality as he had already done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He had the robbers progressively executing each other in the opening scene. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He forced Batman to choose between Harvey Dent and his girlfriend.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He went to Harvey in the hospital room and turned his anger from what the Joker had done to the arbitrariness of life, turning Harvey into Two-Face.   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He threatened to blow up the hospital unless someone murdered the man who knew Batman's true identity. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He set up the boat bombs, to set people at each other's throats.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, he wanted to validate himself by dragging or proving everyone could be dragged down to his level, and was pretty successful at it (even Batman, using the cell phone monitoring technology from Lucius). Even at the end, the Joker encouraged Batman to indulge his rage and drop him from the roof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, as Alfred said, some people just want to watch the world burn. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1634" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T21:10:40.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15288" CreationDate="2013-11-20T21:30:46.730" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some obvious, important quotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Don't talk like one of them, you're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me. They need you right now. But when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper. See, their morals, their code... it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you, when the chips are down, these... these civilized people? They'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as Ionstar mentioned: the Joker wants chaos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't agree that &amp;quot;he wanted to validate himself by dragging or proving everyone could be dragged down to his level&amp;quot;. He needs no validations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a quote which I think is more important than the two above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Batman:&lt;/strong&gt; Then why do you want to kill me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Joker:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;[giggling]&lt;/em&gt; Kill you?! I don't wanna to kill you! What would I do without you? Go back to ripping off mob dealers? No, no, NO! No. You... you... complete me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't forget that the Joker is mad (at least when viewed form the perspective of us, &lt;em&gt;civilized people&lt;/em&gt;). He wants to play with the Batman, probably because he sees him as the only worthy opponent (don't forget that the Joker effortlessly rips off whole mob of Gotham!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the Joker believes that the he and the Batman &lt;em&gt;are destined to do this forever&lt;/em&gt; (as they really do in the comic books). That's why he never kills the Batman (and it's not like he never had the chance): &lt;em&gt;You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness. And I won't kill you because you're just too much fun.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To conclude: it's just a challenge and good fun for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T21:30:46.730" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15287" CreationDate="2013-11-20T22:09:00.633" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that it was done exactly, and there have been many different scenes with dentists and tooth mishaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However if you are thinking it's Jimmy Cagney, there are two possibilities. The first is the original film &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025452/?ref_=nv_sr_3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Man Who Knew Too Much&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, (1934) which was a Hitchcock thriller. This featured a scene in a dentists chair where the dentist is probing around in the hero's mouth and interrogating, only to have the tables turned on him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Jimmy Cagney reference is from the remake of the same name in 1956, but in this movie the scene was changed from a dentists office to a taxidermy shop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If neither of those are correct, here is at least a partial list of movies with dentist scenes in them: &lt;a href=&quot;http://sallongo.com/movies.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dentist scene list&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2013-11-20T22:09:00.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14826" CreationDate="2013-11-21T01:07:47.853" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2013/11/friends-monica-chandler-how-writers-paired-them-off.html&quot;&gt;How Friends Decided to Pair Off Monica and Chandler&lt;/a&gt; gives details. It's a big article, but the part may interests you that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Friends was nearly 100 episodes into its run before the show's writers&#xA;  played the Monica-and-Chandler card, but the coupling was something&#xA;  that almost happened earlier. The idea had been &quot;kicking around&quot; since&#xA;  before Silveri and Goldberg-Meehan joined the show in season three, he&#xA;  remembers, with his predecessors taking note of the chemistry between&#xA;  the two characters as early as the season-two episode &quot;The One Where&#xA;  Ross Finds Out.&quot; That plot had Monica acting as a trainer for Chandler&#xA;  as he tried to shed a few excess pounds, and &quot;there was a real fun&#xA;  dynamic between the two of them,&quot; Silveri says. &quot;So even as early as&#xA;  that, they said, 'Oh, they're kind of special together. If we're ever&#xA;  looking for another relationship, that's something to file away.'&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The notion of Monica and Chandler was also seriously pitched in the&#xA;  writers' room in season three, Silveri says. &quot;People got excited about&#xA;  the idea,&quot; he says, including himself among that group.&#xA;  Goldberg-Meehan, however, thought it was simply too soon in the show's&#xA;  life to introduce another couple. &quot;She was the one who said, 'I just&#xA;  feel like at this point it would feel a little desperate,'&quot; Silveri&#xA;  recalls. &quot;We had gotten excited about the stories we could tell, but&#xA;  once she said that, we were all shamed and ran away. It became clear&#xA;  it was too early to explore something like that.&quot; Another reason the&#xA;  writers put a pin in the idea: &quot;There was a little bit of relationship&#xA;  ennui among us writers,&quot; Silveri says. &quot;We'd already done a lot of&#xA;  drama between Ross and Rachel. And nobody wanted it to become the 'Get&#xA;  Together and Break-up' show.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="324" LastActivityDate="2013-11-21T01:07:47.853" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14221" CreationDate="2013-11-21T06:22:09.410" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not actually a historian nor have I read the biography of J. C. Daniel by Chelangott Gopalakrishnan. &#xA;But as a regular movie goer and based on my research, what I can understand is that it is a movie which has got some facts wrapped up in fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears to be an attempt influenced by the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harishchandrachi_Factory&quot;&gt;Harishchandrachi Factory&lt;/a&gt; (which was Indias official entry to Oscars in 2009), except for the political events depicted in the movie. There have been an enough discussions on the historical accuracy of the movie regarding the depiction of former Chief Minister of Kerala, K. Karunakaran and famous writer Malayatoor Ramakrishnan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several prominent historians and writers like D. Babupol and N. S. Madhavan have come out openly citing the inaccuracy of portraying Malayatoor and K. Karunakaran in a wrong manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the plot in the movie about actress P. K. Rosy is based on the biography written by Vinu Abraham 'Nashta Nayika'. You can read more about Rosy &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mathrubhumi.com/movies/flash_back/183596/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether historically accurate or not, the movie Celluloid was widely accepted as one of the finest craft produced in Mollywood in the year 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some interesting facts on J. C. Daniel can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemaofmalayalam.net/jcdaniel.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Also, find the original version of the speech of Harris Daniel shown towards the end of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=2&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;ved=0CDgQtwIwAQ&amp;amp;url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiOcRV3VubY&amp;amp;ei=_6KNUpurLoGNrQfa5YCgBA&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGmP4LTXTqCLlv6qPiWp9IlM1Orrg&amp;amp;sig2=OHCr4AO4nxCo_vesOoUPNA&amp;amp;bvm=bv.56987063,d.bmk&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6841" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-21T09:46:35.213" LastActivityDate="2013-11-21T09:46:35.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15298" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17810" CreationDate="2013-11-21T08:12:06.760" Score="3" ViewCount="2704" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thor (2011)&lt;/a&gt; we see a cameo appearance of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/Infinity_Gauntlet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Infinity Gauntlet&lt;/a&gt;. But after watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor%3a_The_Dark_World&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thor: The Dark World&lt;/a&gt;, it is made clear that Tesseract and Aether are the infinity gems. So what are the stones attached to the Infinity Gauntlet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know the Aether was buried by Odin's father in a place which was discovered in Thor 2. It does not seem that the Infinity Gauntlet has the Tesseract infinity gem attached to it. So what are the stones attached to the Infinity Gauntlet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-21T09:35:48.587" LastActivityDate="2018-04-26T10:12:23.070" Title="What is the meaning of the cameo of the Infinity Gauntlet in Thor?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|thor|thor-the-dark-world|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12143" CreationDate="2013-11-21T10:22:16.037" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;His speciality was manipulating people. Therefore she was nothing more than a device for the purpose of breaking down barriers of those he was interrogating.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is how I always took it and I loved it since it &lt;em&gt;perfectly&lt;/em&gt; fitted Columbo's cunning character. I was therefore rather annoyed when in the later episodes (mentioned by another post above) he did actions which contradicted it. It in a way imho damaged who Columbo is. Making &quot;fake wife&quot; to his suspects was imho just another brilliant way how to lower their caution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I try to pretend those episodes which make her &quot;real&quot; even if still hidden did not happen. :-P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But strictly speaking - there is (unfortunately) now quite a clear evidence she is a real person. He could in theory fake phone calls despite being alone and thus having no one to fool (but I'd really hate that since it would mean he is a bit schizophrenic and crazy, what Columbo imho surely isn't), but in few episodes other people talk about her (ship captain for example) what would make no sense if she wouldn't existed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6839" LastActivityDate="2013-11-21T10:22:16.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15304" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15312" CreationDate="2013-11-21T15:23:46.583" Score="5" ViewCount="524" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People met something terrible, something like tree spirit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tree spirits can take human's blood and body, only left bones and skin.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tree spirits are some kind of transparency, like crystal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They can not be hurt by sword or any physical method.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They can not appear under the sunshine (not vampire), but they can manipulate the trees to gather their branches to create shadows.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People went to the deep forest (&lt;em&gt;on their way, the tree spirits controlled the trees to create darkness and kill many of them&lt;/em&gt;) and found one broken steel, which says those tree spirits are afraid of water and can be killed by fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally people drew those tree spirits to the riverside and burnt them on a raft. But all people die too. The last man is the male lead of that movie, he told his wife to keep standing in the water but she was trying to help and then got killed, she till had a baby. The male lead went on to the raft and drew those tree spirits to it, and he set fire to the raft, burnt himself and all the overruns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some other people who are like Indians. They didn't help much.&#xA;Just after all of those people were dead, the Indians went to the riverside and felt thankful for what those have done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used to think that is a Scotland/England movie, but not sure. The title of the movie is a tough one! Which movie is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;I used Google translate, and it told about &quot;overruns&quot;, maybe it's wrong. Literally i think maybe it can be called &quot;tree spirit&quot;. Hope you can understand this translation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6843" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-12-31T09:07:27.187" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T09:07:27.187" Title="Movie in which people go to a forest and build their new home but are killed by tree spirits" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:53:21.587" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15305" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-21T16:21:37.143" Score="3" ViewCount="1823" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219024/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Castle&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3258212/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;'&lt;em&gt;Disciple&lt;/em&gt;' (S06E09)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Castle and Beckett eventually come to the conclusion that Kelly Nieman played a part in the murders, and go on to discuss about it at the loft while Castle is playing with a pen found at her abandoned office. This pen, he finds, holds a flash drive. When he plugs it in, he finds an audio file. It's a song, one that scares the shit out of Beckett. She is visibly shaken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The song is called &quot;&lt;strong&gt;We'll Meet Again&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; by &lt;strong&gt;Vera Lynn&lt;/strong&gt;. Do we know the significance of this? It cannot simply be Dr. Neiman taunting Beckett. She would not have been &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; shocked and acted &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; broken. And since 3XK always troubled Castle more than Beckett, I have a hunch that song is somehow related to her &lt;strong&gt;mother&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3862" LastEditorUserId="3862" LastEditDate="2013-11-21T16:31:37.413" LastActivityDate="2013-11-21T18:13:14.803" Title="Is the song supposed to be a reference?" Tags="|analysis|castle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15306" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-21T17:45:13.680" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Columbo&lt;/em&gt; is an American detective mystery television film series (1968-1978 and 1989-2003), starring Peter Falk as Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.  It ran for ten seasons and a total of 69 episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Variety&lt;/em&gt; columnist Howard Prouty wrote &quot;The joy of all this is watching Columbo disassemble the fiendishly clever cover stories of the loathsome rats who consider themselves his better.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1466074/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2013-11-21T17:56:57.733" LastActivityDate="2013-11-21T17:56:57.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15307" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-21T17:45:13.680" Score="0" Body="Television series starring Peter Falk as a polite but seemingly absent-minded police detective.  Aired from 1971 through 1990 and a few years later with 1-3 episodes per year." OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-21T17:57:29.500" LastActivityDate="2013-11-21T17:57:29.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15305" CreationDate="2013-11-21T18:13:14.803" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of this writing (11.21.2013, or 21.11.2013 for our European visitors), there isn't a definable meaning available. Most blog posts and references that I can find speculate in one of two directions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mother - It's related to her mother, and that is why she looks so shaken.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Recurrence - It's a thinly veiled allusion that a serial killer has returned, and may possibly be stalking her personally.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In either case, there is nothing proven yet, only speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2013-11-21T18:13:14.803" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15311" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15313" CreationDate="2013-11-21T20:22:45.910" Score="25" ViewCount="4656" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rewatching &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt;, I noticed a scene where Daryl goes through Merles drugs and in the bag was Walt aka Heisenberg's blue meth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my quick google research, pure meth is never blue an inconsistency in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; which means any meth should be shown as its normal colour outside of the &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of universe, this is explained that since both shows probably use the same props on the AMC network, however I'm looking for in universe or director/producer comments that give some indication that they could be in the same universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OwTul.png&quot; alt=&quot;blue meth from The Walking Dead&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastActivityDate="2021-04-08T11:36:43.940" Title="Are the shows Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead in the same universe?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15304" CreationDate="2013-11-21T20:39:38.853" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wraiths_of_Roanoke&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wraiths of Roanoke&lt;/a&gt; (not awesome indeed, &lt;em&gt;Lost Colony&lt;/em&gt; sounds much better to me). Movie is about English colonists in America who deal with ghost viking warriors. Details match up, except &quot;tree spirits&quot; part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="564" LastActivityDate="2013-11-21T20:39:38.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15311" CreationDate="2013-11-21T21:20:07.117" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/did-the-walking-dead-cook-up-a-breaking-bad-reference/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did ‘The Walking Dead’ Cook Up a ‘Breaking Bad’ Reference?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kirkman&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Robert Kirkman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a creator of the &lt;em&gt;“Walking Dead”&lt;/em&gt; comics and a producer of the television series, said that &lt;strong&gt;the inclusion of the blue meth was indeed &lt;em&gt;&quot;a little Easter egg we were doing for AMC fans&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; are both &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_%28TV_channel%29&quot;&gt;AMC&lt;/a&gt; shows)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-11-21T21:20:07.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15314" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15315" CreationDate="2013-11-21T22:06:54.893" Score="21" ViewCount="14806" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ring of power has a strange power to deceive people. There are many characters from &quot;good&quot; races who the ring is successful in polluting their heart. Isildur, Sméagol, and Boromir are among them. They are our gray characters. Obviously those who show resistance in front of the power of the ring are our white characters. For example Galadriel, Gandalf and Aragorn deny the chances to catch the &quot;precious&quot; for their own. But what about Frodo? Is he really a white character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the ring finally deceives him and he is not the one who threw the ring into the fire (it was just an accident during his struggle with Sméagol). One of the final scenes shows Sam and Frodo in a corresponding situation with Elrond and Isildur after defeating Sauron during the great battle. One can conclude that Frodo is just another Isildur in the present time. Beside Frodo we can see Samwise (the brave) who &quot;never&quot; wants the ring even when he has it in his hands. Even when the huge spider bites Frodo, Sam takes the ring for a while and gives it to Frodo peacefully. His character is whiter than other white characters because Galadriel, Gandalf, and Aragorn avoid even touching the ring. They know if they touch it, the ring can easily deceive them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question 1:&lt;/strong&gt; Who is our hero in this film? Frodo or Sam?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question 2:&lt;/strong&gt; Why does Frodo deserve immortality by going to the Undying Land? Why is Sam not qualified for this journey?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6796" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2019-12-05T21:54:20.233" LastActivityDate="2019-12-05T21:54:20.233" Title="Who is our hero, Frodo or Sam?" Tags="|analysis|character|the-lord-of-the-rings|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15314" CreationDate="2013-11-21T22:31:18.727" Score="24" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question 1:&lt;/strong&gt; Who is our hero in this film? Frodo or Sam?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are right in that &lt;em&gt;Frodo&lt;/em&gt; could at the end not withstand the power of the ring and was corrupted like all the others. Only once the ring was destroyed was he free of his desire for it. This way &lt;em&gt;Sam&lt;/em&gt; could indeed be seen as the true hero, always loyally holding to &lt;em&gt;Frodo&lt;/em&gt; and not falling to the power of the ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet I'm not sure this matters so much. Yes, if seeing it that formulaic you could maybe call &lt;em&gt;Sam&lt;/em&gt; more a hero than &lt;em&gt;Frodo&lt;/em&gt; was. But then again &lt;em&gt;Frodo&lt;/em&gt; was the &lt;em&gt;Ring-bearer&lt;/em&gt; (and not the &quot;ring-carrier&quot;) and suffered heavily from this burden, carrying it all the way to &lt;em&gt;Mordor&lt;/em&gt; (to its final destruction). Does that weak moment at the end where he finally couldn't stand the influence of the ring anymore make him not a hero and annihilate all his achievements? I for myself don't think so. He contributed as much to the destruction of the ring as all the others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same way &lt;em&gt;Frodo&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Sam&lt;/em&gt; are not alone responsible for the victory over &lt;em&gt;Sauron&lt;/em&gt;. Many others were too, be it &lt;em&gt;Gandalf&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Aragorn&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Merry&lt;/em&gt;, ... There are just many heroes in the whole story, and not any of them is without flaws or weaknesses. I therefore would not see the whole story (even though it is pretty much about good vs evil in its purest essence) in such a narrow way as to who is more of a hero than others. But if you want to see it that way, I could agree that &lt;em&gt;Sam&lt;/em&gt; might be considered the true hero of this story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question 2:&lt;/strong&gt; Why does Frodo deserve immortality by going to undying&#xA;  land? Why is Sam not qualified for this journey?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, as explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/2736/49&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and its answers, &lt;em&gt;Frodo&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Bilbo&lt;/em&gt; were not going to live forever in the &lt;em&gt;Undying Lands&lt;/em&gt;, they just got a very nice retirement place. Neither do I think it was for their achievements in general, but rather because they were Ring-bearers (as well as the other people on the ship, if considering the three Elven rings, too). After all, &lt;em&gt;Bilbo&lt;/em&gt; didn't directly contribute that much to the Ring's destruction either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even if &lt;em&gt;Sam&lt;/em&gt; would have been offered the chance for that journey, I'm not sure he would have gone. He had a very happy life in the shire to look forward to, together with &lt;em&gt;Rosie&lt;/em&gt; and their family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on... when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend... some hurts that go too deep... that have taken hold. [...] My dear Sam. You cannot always be torn in two. You will have to be one and whole for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be and to do. Your part in the story will go on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was &lt;em&gt;Frodo&lt;/em&gt; whose soul was struck by his journey deeper than it could recover (and who in this way probably paid a much larger price for the victory than &lt;em&gt;Sam&lt;/em&gt; did, no matter what exactly happened at &lt;em&gt;Mount Doom&lt;/em&gt;) and who didn't see much of a future for himself in the shire (and maybe the ones that granted him his place on the journey sensed that, but this would be speculation):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Frodo:&lt;/em&gt; We set out to save the Shire, Sam. And it has been saved... But not for me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2014-05-04T23:34:20.327" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15316" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15317" CreationDate="2013-11-21T23:09:02.680" Score="4" ViewCount="6468" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535109/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Captain Phillips&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;'s hostage-taking aboard the lifeboat there is one incident (or one of many in fact) when the situation with the Navy and aboard the lifeboat is escalating a bit (I think after they wanted to bring them water and supplies) and &lt;em&gt;Muse&lt;/em&gt; is holding &lt;em&gt;Captain Phillips&lt;/em&gt; at gunpoint. At this point &lt;em&gt;Captain Phillips&lt;/em&gt; says to &lt;em&gt;Muse&lt;/em&gt; something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You're not fishermen, you're not just simple fishermen!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm not sure what he really wanted to say or achieve with these words, given that he was rather cool-headed and thinking all the time (apart from the finale, though). Did he just want to make them a bad conscience or to intimidate them (though, if he wanted them to fear the Navy, he would have rather said &lt;em&gt;&quot;you &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; just fishermen&quot;&lt;/em&gt;). Or was he maybe trying to show them that he respects their authority? What did he mean with this statement?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T18:52:24.570" Title="What was Captain Phillips trying to say?" Tags="|analysis|dialogue|captain-phillips|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15316" CreationDate="2013-11-21T23:32:28.230" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst Piracy can hardly be considered a legally justified activity, there is certain amount of sympathy that exists for 'Somali Pirates'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;a href=&quot;http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1892376,00.html&quot;&gt;relatively well accepted&lt;/a&gt; that the recent spate of Piracy around the Horn of Africa has been motivated by the events of the Second Phase of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Civil_War&quot;&gt;Somali Civil war&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of these Pirates claim they are simply defending the natural resources of their country against the imperialistic tendencies of both international shipping companies and elements of their own countries interests vying for power and control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Counter-cultural Publications such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.adbusters.org/&quot;&gt;Adbusters&lt;/a&gt;, and the Time Article linked earlier, are often found explaining (if not defending) the actions of Somali 'Pirates' as simple fishermen driven to the act of violence as their only means of nihilistic expression against forces beyond their control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 'Fishermen' in &lt;em&gt;Captain Philips&lt;/em&gt; definitely do not fall into this category. They are part of a network of organised crime which ransoms cargo against insurance payouts as industrial practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Muse and his men had been playing the 'just fishermen' card to play off against these muddy waters, this international sympathy about a conflict whose details are grey at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was the point that Captain Philips realized they were manipulating this sympathy to work in their favor, and responded in anger:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;You're not fishermen, you're not just simple fishermen!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2013-11-22T00:48:12.373" LastActivityDate="2013-11-22T00:48:12.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15319" CreationDate="2013-11-21T23:50:22.827" Score="23" ViewCount="13928" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently reading both the books and watching the movies for &quot;A Murder on the Orient Express&quot; and &quot;Ender's Game&quot;, I am curious as to why some of the details change when going from the book to producing the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to clarify, I am not talking about big obvious changes. For example, in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_on_the_Orient_Express_%281974_film%29&quot;&gt;&quot;A Murder on the Orient Express&quot; (1974)&lt;/a&gt;, Hercule Poirot leads an inquisition only once while in the book he does it twice. This makes sense maybe it is because there isn't enough time in the  movie. Filming at Paris station instead of Istanbul of course also doesn't matter. I'd expect them to use whatever is the easiest/cheaper/faster to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is more about the minor details which seem completely inconsequential to me and I really can't imagine why they would change.  Such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Masterman was renamed Beddoes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The dead maid Susanne was renamed Paulette&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Arbuthnot became Arbuthnott&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;M. Bouc became M. Bianchi&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, how the setting of the movie might be in a different place than in the book or when a romantic interest is added which wasn't there originally in the book. Why do producers/directors do this? Can anyone perhaps explain this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3900" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T00:40:18.383" LastActivityDate="2017-02-09T20:15:41.203" Title="Why are movies so different from the original books?" Tags="|book-adaptation|film-industry|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15318" CreationDate="2013-11-22T00:22:12.073" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;The '&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/9781847184023-sample.pdf&quot;&gt;Fidelity Issue&lt;/a&gt;' has been a long term fixture on many (if not most) film/production and screenwriting qualifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During my Degree we had an entire module named 'Adaptation', and for three weeks we discussed/researched this very question without verifiable success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's unlikely you'll find a satisfactory answer to something so broad on here, but there will always be multiple factors that will force script doctoring and rewrites, drops and pickups to screenplays:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Time&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Books are able to describe events in a non-linear fashion, without having to use such cumbersome pro-filmic techniques like flashback and voice over. Sometimes these can be implied through cinematic effects, but often it is simply impossible to include everything (including back-story and context) within 90 minutes or so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a popular adage within the film industry and mentioned in Peter Biskind's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Riders,_Raging_Bulls&quot;&gt;Easy Riders, Raging Bulls&lt;/a&gt;, which is a rather gossipy but thoroughly entertaining insiders view to the New Hollywood era of film making...Basically, &lt;em&gt;2001: A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt; is considered the high water mark stretching narrative time. It's jokingly said that because the movie packed so much in (the birth of humanity through to its psychotropic implosion[?!]), that afterwards people would say; &quot;If you can't tell your story in 90 minutes, don't bother&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Re-Mediation&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some Novels are better left as novels, and as such fail entirely when turned into movies. Often it can be accredited to lack of fidelity to the original source material, but increasingly often failure is accredited to &lt;em&gt;too much&lt;/em&gt; fidelity, that the film wasn't allowed to exist as a film because it was too closely tied to the original text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst I thoroughly enjoyed it, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/&quot;&gt;Watchmen&lt;/a&gt; was both reviled and celebrated for this very aspect of its production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446029/&quot;&gt;Scott Pilgrim&lt;/a&gt; was an attempt at remediation that actively relished the opportunity to engage with its source material, frequently using animated sequences and importing game-style graphics into the effect sequences to signify it's source text and inspirations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Production Issues (Internal)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some films struggle to find sufficient funding or credible effects to complete the 'total vision' of a story that is described in a book, and as such entire sequences will be omitted because they are considered 'too costly' or unfeasible. If anyone knows any specific, interesting examples of this feel free to edit in...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Production Issues (External)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes real world events can make the subject of a movie seem inappropriate, and as such they are edited out of final cut to avoid controversy. Whilst not an adaptation, promotional material for the 2002 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzha4kUowf4&quot;&gt;Spider-Man&lt;/a&gt; movie famously had a sequence where Spider-Man used his webbing to suspend a helicopter between the two World Trade Center towers. After they were destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, this sequence was cut from promotional material and the film. The inclusion of comic book adaptation, whilst not explicitly part of your question, are obviously some of the more &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v6_1/bolton/&quot;&gt;prolific&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=166&quot;&gt;discussions&lt;/a&gt; at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392170/&quot;&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/a&gt; reportedly had a sequences removed because they were considered too graphic for the rating the film was trying to achieve, despite the events being specifically mentioned in the books they were simply not marketable to put in a film with a 12 certificate. Although The film is should be commended for side stepping these as creatively as possible with camera angles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Creative Licence&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people believe that the difference between cinema and book should be celebrated, and they should be respected as different works of art occupying different mediums.&#xA;Just like Impressionist painters, who would take what was in front of them and interpret the material into something entirely different. Both the beauty of what is in front of them and the beauty of what they have created are equally valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is something called 'The categorical approach' greatly discussed by narrative theorist &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Rethinking_the_Novel_Film_Debate.html?id=GM7TqTLYKogC&amp;amp;redir_esc=y&quot;&gt;Kamilla Elliot&lt;/a&gt;, which;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'Emphasizes the unbreakable link (some would say the identity) between form and content, placing visual and verbal arts into emphatically distinct categories and calling on artists to recognize the limitations of their media and to strive to work within these boundaries.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are so many more aspects to this, its a big argument with plenty&#xA;of avenues of discussion: hopefully people will contribute more...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, Spike Jonze's movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268126/&quot;&gt;Adapation&lt;/a&gt; does&#xA;sterling job of exploring the very question you've asked here, albeit&#xA;incredibly humorously...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="12783" LastEditDate="2016-05-25T08:22:09.823" LastActivityDate="2016-05-25T08:22:09.823" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15320" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-22T01:10:43.310" Score="18" ViewCount="500" Body="&lt;p&gt;The pirates that capture &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535109/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Captain Phillips&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; seem to be given rather typical roles in the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;em&gt;Muse&lt;/em&gt;, the leader and voice of reason (compared to the others at least), struggling to keep everything under control.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Najee&lt;/em&gt; gives the aggressive and hot-headed opposite, who more than one time challenges &lt;em&gt;Muse&lt;/em&gt; for his supposed softness.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And there is the young and overstrained &lt;em&gt;Bilal&lt;/em&gt;, who gets injured and starts to sympathize with &lt;em&gt;Captain Phillips&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;em&gt;Elmi&lt;/em&gt;, the one steering the lifeboat, seems to stay rather under-developed compared to the other three, I think.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I wonder in which way those characters match their descriptions from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Captain%27s_Duty&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Richard Phillips&lt;/em&gt;'s book&lt;/a&gt; (which I admittedly haven't read). The &lt;em&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/em&gt; article says that he portrays them as &lt;em&gt;&quot;alternately conciliatory, vicious, and unfocused&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, but it doesn't explain if he attributed those traits more to single characters or rather to the group as a whole at different times. Or maybe he didn't differentiate the various characters of the pirates in the same clear way the movie did. It would therefore be interesting to know &lt;strong&gt;in which way the movie differs from the book in its depictions of the pirates and what the reasons for those differences are (if any)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In fact I'd also like to ask if the pirates' characters match those of their real-life counterparts during the hostage crisis, but I see that apart from &lt;em&gt;Richard Phillips&lt;/em&gt; there aren't really any witnesses for that.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-02T13:32:40.827" LastActivityDate="2017-03-18T17:56:54.520" Title="How far does the depiction of the pirates' characters match the book?" Tags="|character|book-adaptation|captain-phillips|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15321" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32861" CreationDate="2013-11-22T01:32:05.940" Score="3" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535109/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Captain Phillips&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we see some scenes of him together with his wife &lt;em&gt;Andrea&lt;/em&gt;, driving to the airport and talking about their children. Later his family is mentioned rather rarely, he sends an e-mail to &lt;em&gt;Andrea&lt;/em&gt; and at the end writes a letter to his family and speaks to them before his supposed execution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Captain%27s_Duty&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; says, the book on which the movie is based (and which is in turn based on real events) &lt;em&gt;&quot;alternates between Phillips' five-day ordeal and the plight of his family in Vermont, watching the drama unfold on cable news&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. While I, not having read the book, don't know how important or prominent this sub-plot about his family is in the book, the movie doesn't contain any treatment of what is going on in the outside world and especially his family, apart from the Navy ships.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason I could imagine for the viepoint of his family to be dropped from the story might be to not interrupt the intensity of the hostage crisis (while showing his family could in turn infuse other emotions). But &lt;strong&gt;is there any official word why this sub-plot has been completely removed from the movie?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-02T13:29:19.477" LastActivityDate="2015-04-02T17:59:11.697" Title="Why was the family's viewpoint not shown in the movie?" Tags="|book-adaptation|captain-phillips|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15322" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15330" CreationDate="2013-11-22T03:43:27.850" Score="3" ViewCount="1787" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe I just don't understand enough about pop culture to get this reference in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079367/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Jerk&lt;/a&gt;. Basically, Navin (Steve Martin's character), who seemed to have trouble feeling the rhythm of music his family played, was very impressed with this music he heard on the radio. He started tapping to the beat and snapping his fingers and said the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;It's unbelievable! I've never heard music like this before! It speaks to me!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then his mother was about to say something to him but his father stopped her:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Let him go...&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is meant to be a joke, but I don't understand it. Anyone care to explain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOKpDidUq-w&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here's&lt;/a&gt; that scene on YouTube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6844" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-22T04:23:00.693" LastActivityDate="2013-11-22T07:24:53.287" Title="Scene where Steve Martin's character dances to music on the radio" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|the-jerk|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15322" CreationDate="2013-11-22T04:02:45.083" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a spoof on cultural stereotypes. Being raised by a black family, he never picked up any rhythm in his blood. They don't have the heart to tell him, but in his own mind he has great rhythm. But as the audience can see, he is terrible. It's one of the many reasons he is a &quot;Jerk&quot; in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6845" LastActivityDate="2013-11-22T04:02:45.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15325" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15331" CreationDate="2013-11-22T04:12:49.737" Score="3" ViewCount="10627" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happened during the Christmas evening drive from Camp David to a campaign fundraiser? How did the car crash? Was that a tree or some kind of terrorist attack? And how did she (First Lady Margaret) die? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6168" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-22T04:19:23.733" LastActivityDate="2013-11-22T08:40:33.093" Title="Did the First Lady die accidentally or by a terrorist attack?" Tags="|plot-explanation|olympus-has-fallen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3764" CreationDate="2013-11-22T04:21:28.480" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the Paul became engulfed because he imagined himself being tricked by the &quot;Shadows&quot;.In other words he loses inside his mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6846" LastActivityDate="2013-11-22T04:21:28.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15327" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-22T04:31:27.007" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Olympus Has Fallen is a 2013 American action thriller film. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, it stars Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, and Morgan Freeman, with Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Cole Hauser, Finley Jacobsen, Ashley Judd, Melissa Leo, Dylan McDermott, Radha Mitchell, and Rick Yune in supporting roles. The film depicts a North Korean-led guerrilla assault on the White House, and focuses on Secret Service agent Mike Banning's efforts to stop them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Has_Fallen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-22T04:31:27.007" LastActivityDate="2013-11-22T04:31:27.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15328" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-22T04:31:27.007" Score="0" Body="2013 American action thriller film starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, and Morgan Freeman. It depicts a North Korean-led guerrilla assault on the White House, and focuses on Secret Service agent Mike Banning's efforts to stop them." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-22T04:31:27.007" LastActivityDate="2013-11-22T04:31:27.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15322" CreationDate="2013-11-22T07:24:53.287" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;At this point in the film, we've seen that he can't hit the rhythm of the blues. However, when he hears the very stereotypically &quot;White&quot; music for the first time in his life it clicks, and he feels the music. This is a &quot;joke&quot; built on the stereotypes of white music vs. black music, balanced with Navin not knowing he was white until he hears this music...exemplified by him exclaiming:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &quot;You, mean I'm going to stay this color?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastActivityDate="2013-11-22T07:24:53.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15325" CreationDate="2013-11-22T08:40:33.093" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The crash was caused by part of a tree falling on the car. A few moments before the crash we see the camera focus on the part of the tree that is breaking. This caused the car to skid off on the ice and through the side of a bridge, it was the fall from the bridge that killed the First Lady. &#xA;Quote from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Has_Fallen#Plot&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Former Special Forces U.S. Army Ranger Mike Banning (Butler) is the lead Secret Service agent assigned to head the Presidential Detail. He maintains a personal, friendly relationship with President Benjamin Asher (Eckhart), First Lady Margaret (Judd) and, especially, their son Connor (Jacobsen). &lt;strong&gt;During a Christmas evening drive from Camp David to a campaign fundraiser, a tree branch falls and strikes the front of the president’s convoy, making the vehicles skid out of control on black ice on a bridge.&lt;/strong&gt; The lead vehicle crashes through the guard rail and falls into the icy river below, leaving the presidential limousine teetering on the edge of the bridge. Banning is able to save President Asher, but &lt;strong&gt;Margaret and two other agents die when their vehicle falls and crashes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6840" LastActivityDate="2013-11-22T08:40:33.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15332" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15604" CreationDate="2013-11-22T09:15:02.300" Score="0" ViewCount="13197" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final battle, human space fleet approaches the enemy planet, and most of the ships are sacrificed in a tactical maneuver. How many people were on these ships, and what was their role?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5788" LastActivityDate="2019-01-07T22:22:07.973" Title="How many people died during the last battle in Ender's Game?" Tags="|enders-game|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15333" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15334" CreationDate="2013-11-22T12:00:57.413" Score="25" ViewCount="3784" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was it important to hide the sins of Harvey Dent in the movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? I mean what could have possibly happened if they hadn't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6825" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-22T13:22:09.747" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T19:02:33.113" Title="Why were Harvey Dent's sins covered up?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15333" CreationDate="2013-11-22T12:13:55.993" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;The people of &lt;em&gt;Gotham City&lt;/em&gt; faced a very hard time. The mob was still on its height and was only slowly taken its powers (to a large part by &lt;em&gt;Harvey Dent&lt;/em&gt;), there was corruption all over the governmental institutions. While the &lt;em&gt;Batman&lt;/em&gt; did his best to fight crime, it was still a very dark situation when a masked vigilante has to do what the police and the government are unable to do. And in contrast to this, &lt;em&gt;Harvey Dent&lt;/em&gt; as district attorney was a man who  fought this corruption and organized crime from within the system, an unmasked and official crime-fighter. He was the white and shiny knight contrasting the &lt;em&gt;Batman&lt;/em&gt; and was a spark of hope at the horizon of &lt;em&gt;Gotham&lt;/em&gt; city:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bruce Wayne:&lt;/em&gt; You know that day that you once told me about, when Gotham would no longer need Batman? It's coming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rachel Dawes:&lt;/em&gt; Bruce. You can't ask me to wait for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bruce Wayne:&lt;/em&gt; It's happening now. Harvey is that hero. He locked up half of the city's criminals, and he did it without wearing a mask.&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Gotham needs a hero with a face.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the &lt;em&gt;Joker&lt;/em&gt; wanted to show, that not just each and every citizen of &lt;em&gt;Gotham&lt;/em&gt; was able to be dragged onto his level and into the chaos, but especially one of the best and shiniest of them all, and with this he succeeded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Batman:&lt;/em&gt; Because you were the best of us. He wanted to prove that even someone as good as you could fall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Two-Face:&lt;/em&gt; And he was right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nobody cares if a masked vigilante goes postal and kills people he thinks to be evil, but after this hard time the people of &lt;em&gt;Gotham&lt;/em&gt; had to endure, if they would have known that their white knight &lt;em&gt;Harvey Dent&lt;/em&gt; was as evil and crazy as everybody else, they would have completely lost their hope in this city and a future where masked individuals are not needed to keep the city from falling apart. &lt;em&gt;Harvey&lt;/em&gt; may not have been &lt;em&gt;the hero Gotham deserves, but the one it needs right now&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-03T19:02:33.113" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T19:02:33.113" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15336" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15337" CreationDate="2013-11-22T14:40:07.013" Score="51" ViewCount="65823" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched the movie, &lt;em&gt;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind&lt;/em&gt;, several times but couldn't understand the relationship between the title and the story. What does the title mean in the context of the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6825" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-22T15:10:37.037" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T04:40:40.000" Title="Why is the movie titled &quot;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind&quot;?" Tags="|title|eternal-sunshine-of-spotless-mind|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15336" CreationDate="2013-11-22T15:00:13.353" Score="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;My interpretation is well represented by the term &quot;ignorance is bliss&quot;. &#xA;The point of the film is to create &quot;spotless minds&quot; by removing the memories that cause turmoil, jealousy etc. &#xA;&quot;Eternal sunshine&quot; is a metaphor for ongoing peace, happiness and carefree. &#xA;So in full &quot;Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind&quot; is describing the happiness and joy one can experience once the negative experiences (or &quot;spots&quot;) have been removed from your mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6840" LastActivityDate="2013-11-22T15:00:13.353" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14475" CreationDate="2013-11-22T15:08:28.707" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some parts sound similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066141/&quot;&gt;The Night Visitor&lt;/a&gt; (1971). It is not a prison, but an insane asylum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Visitor&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An inmate named Salem (Max von Sydow) escapes from an insane asylum in the dead of winter. His destination is the house of his sister, Ester (Liv Ullmann), and her husband, Anton (Per Oscarsson). His quest is revenge as he sets about framing Anton because Salem feels he was set up for a horrendous axe murder two years previously. On the case is a police inspector (Trevor Howard) who must determine if Anton is really crazy for claiming he saw Salem outside of the asylum and discover if Salem was really framed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066141/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A man named Salem escapes from an insane asylum where he was confined for an axe-murder. Falsely convicted under a plea of &quot;guilty due to insanity&quot;, he does not plan to let his sister and her husband forget that they were responsible for the murder of a farmhand and for his cruel imprisonment in the asylum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132" LastActivityDate="2013-11-22T15:08:28.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15340" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15341" CreationDate="2013-11-22T16:32:18.740" Score="4" ViewCount="1578" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the relevance of the title to the story?&#xA;Is the ability to talk to the ghost referred as the sixth sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6825" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-22T17:19:04.560" LastActivityDate="2013-11-22T17:19:04.560" Title="Why is the movie titled &quot;The Sixth Sense&quot;?" Tags="|title|the-sixth-sense|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15340" CreationDate="2013-11-22T16:45:07.813" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_sense_%28disambiguation%29#In_senses&quot;&gt;&quot;Sixth sense&quot; on wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Humans have five traditionally recognized physiological senses (sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste). Thus, &quot;sixth sense&quot; usually refers to something that goes beyond physiological perception (e.g. extrasensorical abilities).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense#Traditional_senses&quot;&gt;Traditional senses on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="564" LastActivityDate="2013-11-22T16:45:07.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15336" CreationDate="2013-11-22T18:23:48.857" Score="64" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The world forgetting, by the world forgot.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;― Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Charlie Kaufman, the sreenwriter of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is kind of obsessed with the dichotomy between embracing life unabashedly and keeping it at a skeptical and safe distance. He literally split his personality on the page for his script of Adaptation., where Nicholas Cage plays both Charlie (the skeptic) and Donald (the embracer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of his key theses is to question whether it's possible to make genuine connections with other people, and to that end, one of his bugabears is the story of 12th century philosophy teacher Pierre Abelard and his charge Heloise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The short version: Abelard taught Heloise and they fell in love. Heloise's family found out and had Abelard castrated. Abelard retreated to a monastery and convinced Heloise to move into an abbey. They then famously discussed the nature of their love in a series of letters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kaufman first references their story as Craig Schwarz's puppet show in Being John Malkovich. Craig's search for meaningfulness is echoed in their own writings, and like Abelard's penchant for selling his monastic lifestyle to Heloise as more spiritually and intellectually rewarding than their previous relationship, Craig feels more comfortable and happier living his &quot;life of the mind&quot; (in Craig's case, somewhat literally.) Abelard represents something akin to nihilism, a denial of pleasure, and a retreat within oneself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind expands on this idea in a different yet equally interesting way: by asking us to take stock of our memories and our pasts. In Eloise's letters, she mentions that in her dreams she still feels Abelard's touch and finds herself highly aroused by his presence there. She feels guilty about these dreams, and in Pope's poem she notes that only a life with no regrets can achieve happiness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pope's lines are powerful because they are (like the movie) a hopeless fantasy. The movie takes it one step further - even in its fantasy world where your memories apparently can successfully be erased, they still exist in others to haunt you; there's simply no escaping them. So in the film you have multiple people erasing genuine connections they did have; retreating into themselves; fighting those urges; and ultimately resigning themselves to a world that simply does not forget.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film's title is a promise, and a wish, and a lie, all in one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6567" LastEditorUserId="6246" LastEditDate="2015-09-12T01:01:56.083" LastActivityDate="2015-09-12T01:01:56.083" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15176" CreationDate="2013-11-22T22:56:44.053" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Holly said that &quot;adopting Alex helped [them cope with the loss of their son]. But [they] never got over it&quot;. From this I conclude that their first victim, Alex, was an attempt to replace their own dead son. But, since they &lt;em&gt;never got over it&lt;/em&gt; (over their son's death), they lost their faith and went on killing children, as a revenge on God.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-25T08:52:09.817" LastActivityDate="2013-11-25T08:52:09.817" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15347" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15350" CreationDate="2013-11-22T23:39:33.480" Score="6" ViewCount="16117" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am just curious to know why Bonnie Swanson, wife of Joe Swanson, was kept pregnant until the seventh season. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6531" LastEditorUserId="417" LastEditDate="2013-11-23T00:16:08.933" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T02:06:01.420" Title="Why was Bonnie pregnant for seven years (seasons) on Family Guy?" Tags="|family-guy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15181" CreationDate="2013-11-22T23:43:15.707" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is more of a commentary on the human nature and behavior under extreme circumstances. Yes, the setting is very religiously painted, but I think it is here more to emphasize the main message, and less to comment on the religion itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's take a look at the two religious main characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Keller Dover is a deeply religious, one might say quite typical character (God, family, guns, paranoia from &quot;anything that might happen&quot;,...). All that crumbles down when his daughter is kidnapped. He attacks Alex, later on he kidnaps him, tortures him,... By the end, when he is about to kill Alex, he prays:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [ breathing heavily ]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  As we for...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [ exhales sharply ]&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as we know, he doesn't finish. At this point, he realizes what he became, how far he strung away from what he believed to be most important to him. However, he also hesitates in killing Alex, and seems cracking under his own deeds, while human and &lt;em&gt;demon&lt;/em&gt; in him fight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Holly Jones, as she herself explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My husband and I were very devout at one time. Spent our summers driving around in that camper with our son, handing out pamphlets, spreading the good word.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  After our son died of cancer, we started seeing things differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see this as another example, in essence not very different from Keller, of deep devotion when things went smooth, and straying from the &quot;good word&quot; (that they themselves were preaching) after they were hit by a family tragedy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these characters needed a guilty face for their trouble (Keller turned on Alex, while Holly and her husband turned on God), both of them forgot the teaching of their own religion (and, more importantly, humanity) and went to a complete opposite when they faced the loss of a child,... Notice that they both violently attacked little children, since Alex was - very early in the movie - established to have the I.Q. of a ten years old child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Holly herself said (my emphasis):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Making children disappear&lt;/strong&gt; is the war we wage with God. Makes people&#xA;  lose their faith. &lt;strong&gt;Turns them into demons like you.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from the wording and apparent direct motivation of a character, this has nothing to do with religion. This direct motivation for killing children does come from Holly's and her husband's religion. Without it, they would have no one to wage their war against, at they would find meaning in killing innocent children. This is not unheard of, people doing terrible things in the name of religion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that this is really the only thing that may be considered as an attack on religion. But I also think it is here more as an explanation of the characters motivation. Instead of a cliche explanation &quot;they are crazy&quot; (which is a shallow explanation that script writers use as a synonym for &quot;we had a good story, but couldn't explain why this all happened&quot;), this gave a nice, realistic explanation of what was going on and why. Religion-crazed people do kill other people, including children, all the time. Random lunatics are not so common in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also serves the realism in another way: there are no absolute villains. Keller (almost) lost his daughter, but did terrible - we might say worse than death - things to Alex, who turned out to be just a misunderstood victim. Holly and her husband were monsters, but they themselves suffered the terrible fate of losing a child after leading what they perceived as an exemplary life. Nancy and Franklin didn't directly do as much damage to Alex as Keller did, but they are far from being innocent; however, they had their fair share of pain before walking that path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anything, the movie is a commentary on how nothing is black and white, and how people crack when it's about their children, and religion is there as a way of showing that, instead of being the main topic itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-06T04:49:01.220" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T04:49:01.220" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15349" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15399" CreationDate="2013-11-23T00:16:59.030" Score="8" ViewCount="46812" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, I apologize for the vague title of my question. I don't know how to write it properly, without it being a big spoiler, which I don't like to put on the front page of the site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is about the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392214/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Prisoners (2013)&lt;/a&gt;: why did Anna and Joy survive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Holly and her husbands were kidnapping and killing children, but their actual aim were the parents. As Holly explained:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Making children disappear is the war we wage with God. Makes people lose their faith. Turns them into demons, like you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, once Anna and Joy were taken, there was no reason to keep them alive (actually, it proved counter-productive).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this just a plot inconsistency, or is there some plausible explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2022-12-12T01:01:06.873" Title="Inconsistency about the girls in &quot;Prisoners&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prisoners|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15347" CreationDate="2013-11-23T01:15:42.463" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because it's cartoons — Stewie is still a baby, too. Generally, cartoons are not too happy about altering the state of the show by letting big things happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cartoons are for a lot of people not shows they follow consistently, rather they just watch a few episodes once in a while in no particular order. To that end, if the scenario changed in every episode (like it does with more continious story-telling tv shows like Breaking Bad), it would confuse the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine watching just a few random episodes of Breaking Bad: you'd have no idea what was going on. That's great for such a dramatic show, but not the norm in comedies and cartoons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="970" LastEditorUserId="970" LastEditDate="2013-11-23T16:07:09.407" LastActivityDate="2013-11-23T16:07:09.407" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6895" CreationDate="2013-11-23T02:55:48.907" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought he tentacle green monster was from Mario or Kirby,Prabally wrong. But the elf&lt;br&gt;&#xA;girl,perhaps a majorly changed look from Vaati from a legend of zelda game.But I'm just guessing.(is that guy nex to Bowser and eggman from Street fighter?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6867" LastActivityDate="2013-11-23T02:55:48.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15354" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15355" CreationDate="2013-11-23T10:26:06.960" Score="5" ViewCount="5304" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just recall the trailer. Some guy is driving during the night with his wife who is asleep. There is a truck before us. For a split second, the doors of the truck open and the man driving can see women in a cage inside the truck. He tells his wife something like &quot;Oh! Did you see that?&quot;, but she's asleep. He dismisses it as an illusion due to the fatigue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, when they stop to fuel the car, his wife disappears, and the man is tracking down the network of women's abductors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6871" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2013-11-23T12:04:30.310" LastActivityDate="2016-09-11T14:25:32.827" Title="Movie with a truck carrying abducted women" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:53:34.317" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15354" CreationDate="2013-11-23T11:16:57.897" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it could be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093369/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hush&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(2008)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tired and irritable, &lt;strong&gt;Zakes Abbott drives home along the motorway, his girlfriend, Beth, asleep beside him&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Failing to spot his exit he speeds across the causeway, cutting up a white van and barely avoiding an accident. Apoplectic with rage, the truck driver gives chase, and as he violently overtakes &lt;strong&gt;the tailgate flips up revealing a woman bound and bloodied in the back. But before there is time for a second look, the door is slammed shut and Zakes is left bewildered and wondering if what he saw was real.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Later at a service station, Zakes' fears grow when Beth goes missing&lt;/strong&gt;, and as he begins a frantic search, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXuUMDUIP5g&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watch the trailer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-11-23T11:16:57.897" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15357" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15361" CreationDate="2013-11-23T13:13:05.637" Score="4" ViewCount="7839" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/a&gt;, why the Joker choose Harvey Dent to bring him down to his level? Why not Batman himself?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6825" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-11-23T16:39:20.173" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T05:50:55.493" Title="Why did the Joker choose Harvey Dent?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15358" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15365" CreationDate="2013-11-23T13:32:25.647" Score="25" ViewCount="3521" Body="&lt;p&gt;BBC News (UK) has a countdown timer in its opener, for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGMDkZ_iI8Q&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;see this video&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/seRPt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the bottom right, there's a countdown timer which counts the time until the news begin. But I find the timer somehow weird because it seems to count seconds and some unit I can't figure out. At the beginning, I thought it would be every tenth millisecond but that would mean that it would have to count down from &lt;code&gt;XX:99&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;XX:00&lt;/code&gt; (&lt;code&gt;XX&lt;/code&gt; being the seconds). But at some point I noticed that the highest number seems to be about &lt;code&gt;XX:24&lt;/code&gt;. At least for the 2008 theme, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_News_presentation&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia mentions the countdown would indeed count down &quot;every 10 milliseconds&quot;&lt;/a&gt; but that can't be true for 2013 anymore :-).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6875" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-03-07T21:08:13.403" LastActivityDate="2016-05-13T00:02:38.230" Title="What Unit Does the BBC News Countdown Timer Count Down?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15358" CreationDate="2013-11-23T13:56:06.480" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen this myself, but if the highest number on the right is 24 than it is a timeframe stamp - so 44:23 means 44 seconds and 23 frames.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The highest number is 24, but there are 25 numbers, 0-24. In the UK the PAL (25 fps) timecode goes from 00 to 24. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edited answer to reflect the clarifications below - thanks for the input user54609 and James.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-11-23T20:18:23.787" LastActivityDate="2013-11-23T20:18:23.787" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15357" CreationDate="2013-11-23T14:36:44.217" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Joker chose all three (Harvey, the Batman, and Jim Gordon), each in his own way, but only Harvey fell completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harvey was attacked through the loved one, done by kidnapping and murder. The Joker gave the Batman switched locations, because he knew that the Batman would go after Rachel (&lt;em&gt;The way you threw yourself after her&lt;/em&gt;), so with one move he achieved a strong blow (soon to be proven fatal) to Harvey, and heavy guilt on the Batman who made the choice who to save, and never forgave himself (the guilt follows him to &amp;quot;The Dark Knight Rises&amp;quot;, almost a decade later).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was done while the Joker was in custody, and by using Jim Gordon's corrupted police officers, making Jim Gordon directly responsible for the outcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In effect, Harvey felt betrayed by his colleagues and he has turned on them, but in reality, all of them were victims of the Joker's plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Barman: What happened to Rachel wasn't chance. We decided to act. We three.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harvey: Then why was it me who was the only one who lost everything?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Batman: It wasn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce also lost Rachel who he believed was going to marry him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jim Gordon almost lost his son, although not through the Joker's direct actions. However, in &amp;quot;The Dark Knight Rises&amp;quot; we see the real aftermath on him: the events and his consequential crime fighting obsession cost him his family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congressman: Anyone shown him the crime stats?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Foley: He goes by his gut and it continues to bother him, no matter what the numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congressman: Must be popular with his wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Foley: Not really, she took the kids and left for Cleveland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, Harvey was the weak link. Bruce and Gordon endured (although, Bruce almost gave in to the Joker's demands, and later became a recluse). They were mostly cool-headed, fighting crime, while Harvey was more into public theatrics (for example, the courtroom scene), and rash decisions (for example, abduction of Thomas Schiff), while completely unfit to deal with the consequences of the actions that were his, and not just his colleagues'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Harvey was the only one who fell, but all three were attacked by the Joker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-11-23T14:36:44.217" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15362" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-23T15:50:27.163" Score="4" ViewCount="14569" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790686/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mirrors&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Ben got trapped in the parallel paradox/mirror. The majority of us would have thought that this aspect has to play a crucial role in its sequel &lt;em&gt;Mirrors 2&lt;/em&gt;, but none of the things relating to this incident are shown in Mirrors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas why Ben got trapped in the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6858" LastEditorUserId="417" LastEditDate="2013-11-24T00:34:39.133" LastActivityDate="2017-10-05T13:22:05.760" Title="Why did Ben get trapped in the parallel paradox/mirrors?" Tags="|analysis|mirrors|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15199" CreationDate="2013-11-23T16:11:28.973" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was Belladonna:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Belladonna&lt;/strong&gt; (also known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://aliciac.hubpages.com/hub/Belladonna-the-Deadly-Nightshade&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Deadly Nightshade&lt;/a&gt;, Devil’s Berries or Death Cherries) features in &lt;em&gt;The Caribbean Mystery&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Big Four&lt;/em&gt;. Foliage and berries are toxic, containing a mixture of alkaloids including hyoscine (scopolamine) and atropine (both anti-cholinergic anti-muscurinic in action) and hyoscyamine (an isomer of atropine). Both the &lt;a href=&quot;http://darkside.hubpages.com/hub/augustus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Emperor Augustus&lt;/a&gt; and Agrippina (wife and sister of Claudius) used belladonna to poison contemporaries. Symptoms include dilated pupils, blurred vision, tachycardia, dry mouth, slurred speech, urinary retention, confusion and hallucinations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://anneharrison.hubpages.com/hub/The-Poisons-of-Agatha-Christe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Poisons Used In Agatha Christie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although paralysis is not mentioned here, if you follow the first of the two links, you get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Severe poisoning can cause paralysis, a coma and respiratory failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-11-23T16:11:28.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15362" CreationDate="2013-11-23T16:35:31.200" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My interpretation of the film is that, when somebody dies they enters in the mirror world. So the last scene for me is not an open end for the sequels but to show that Ben has been died. The last fight was too dangerous for Ben to survive, so he died when the building collapsed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-10-05T13:22:05.760" LastActivityDate="2017-10-05T13:22:05.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15358" CreationDate="2013-11-23T20:12:54.163" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a PAL timecode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the PAL analog video standard used in the UK (and much of the rest of the world) before the advent of digitial video, there are 25 frames in a second (numbered 00 to 24 in the timecode displayed by most video devices, in the same way that seconds and minutes go from 00 to 59, so the hour from midnight to just before 1:00 am stretches from 00:00:00:00 to 00:59:59:24).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Canada, the US, and several other places, NTSC, with 29.97 fps, was used instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These legacy units of 1/25 and 1/29.97 of a second are still used in the digital era.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even when seen in jurisdictions using 30 fps, the BBC has retained as part of their branding the PAL timecode from Old Blighty, which makes sense, although presumably the numbers don't count down smoothly if you watch them carefully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastActivityDate="2013-11-23T20:12:54.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15349" CreationDate="2013-11-23T22:57:31.693" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think that there is a plausible explanation. The flashbacks Joy has in the hospital show a book with a note 'Solve the maze and you can go home' which immediately makes viewers believe that maybe they were kidnapped by a serial killer who likes mazes and likes to play games with his/her victims like Jigsaw in &lt;em&gt;Saw&lt;/em&gt;. I think this was just to thicken the plot. To let them live and keep the viewer guessing about the kidnapper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6873" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-23T23:23:09.420" LastActivityDate="2013-11-23T23:23:09.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14051" CreationDate="2013-11-23T23:26:23.907" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watch the movie with the commentary on, Simon specifically says that his character, Gary, was committed to treatment after trying to commit suicide. Also, Gary's journey through the Golden Mile was also a suicide mission, he didn't care if he lived at that point as he had nothing to live for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6884" LastActivityDate="2013-11-23T23:26:23.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15398" CreationDate="2013-11-24T07:30:48.873" Score="14" ViewCount="1778" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/&quot;&gt;The Avengers&lt;/a&gt;, despite the mess Hulk made with the ship, why was the Iron Man so sure that Dr. Banner would return to fight?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6825" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T12:43:49.147" LastActivityDate="2019-01-07T22:22:39.410" Title="Why was Tony Stark so sure that Banner would return to fight?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15377" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15378" CreationDate="2013-11-24T07:45:19.820" Score="7" ViewCount="6232" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/a&gt;, why did Harvey Dent change himself to Two-Face?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it because his face was burnt or his love died?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6825" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-24T11:00:46.663" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T06:42:48.987" Title="Why did Harvey Dent become Two-Face?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15377" CreationDate="2013-11-24T08:50:18.913" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why he chose to name himself two face seems relatively straight forward, after the injuries sustained (predominately to his face) during the explosion and subsequent conversation with Commissioner Gordon in which it is revealed that members of the major crimes unit were calling him &quot;Two-Face&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harvey is obviously upset that Batman chose to save his life rather than Rachel's, in addition to whatever emotion he's currently going through to deal with that loss. He sees Batman as the person that resulted in Rachel's death, even though it was the Joker that set up the bomb. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While these factors both play a major part in the beginnings of the psychological transformation of Harvey Dent into Two Face, there is a later visit from Joker which leads him to the conclusion that his frequent personality quirk of tossing a coin to determine his actions could be applied to more sinister and direct action - starting with whether the Joker should live or die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-11-25T12:02:36.780" LastActivityDate="2013-11-25T12:02:36.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15199" CreationDate="2013-11-24T11:35:36.997" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;By now, I have watched the relevant parts again, and although I think Vedran's answer is correct for the book version of the story, in the TV series, something different was used. I listened to it closely again, and understood something like Jasmine. There is a variety of Jasmine, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelsemium_sempervirens&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yellow Jasmine&lt;/a&gt;, which seems to be very poisonous, containing &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelsemine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gelsemine&lt;/a&gt;. This poison is similar to Strychnine, it seems. The Wikipedia page on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Four_%28novel%29#Agatha_Christie.27s_Poirot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;The Big Four&quot;&lt;/a&gt; seems to agree:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] orchestrates the entire Big Four setup, feeding the press&#xA;  with sensational clues and threatening letters and killing his victims&#xA;  to implicate the Peace Party members (whom he then kidnaps and drugs&#xA;  with immobilising gelsemine) [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally am wondering how Gelsemine can cause such paralysis, since it rather seems to produce convulsions. But that's fiction for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3706" LastActivityDate="2013-11-24T11:35:36.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15385" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-24T22:00:19.213" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Once Upon a Time in the West&lt;/em&gt; (Italian: &lt;em&gt;C'era una volta il West&lt;/em&gt;) is a 1968 Italian epic Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone for Paramount Pictures. It stars Henry Fonda cast against type as the villain, Charles Bronson as his nemesis, Jason Robards as a bandit, and Claudia Cardinale as a newly widowed homesteader with a past as a prostitute. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_the_West&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-24T22:00:19.213" LastActivityDate="2013-11-24T22:00:19.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15386" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-24T22:00:19.213" Score="0" Body="1968 Italian epic Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, and Claudia Cardinale." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-24T22:00:19.213" LastActivityDate="2013-11-24T22:00:19.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2677" CreationDate="2013-11-25T00:24:21.167" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He simply could have done a long session with Ben while Lana waited in the car....spending 24 hours doesn't necessarily mean every second plus how do we know if she wasn't at the Great Northern waiting for Jacoby to come back&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6896" LastActivityDate="2013-11-25T00:24:21.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15389" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15426" CreationDate="2013-11-25T00:55:15.833" Score="7" ViewCount="10932" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently started watching South Park episodes and in the final episode of season 3 (Worldwide Recorder Concert), Kenny G is shown as kissing the teacher Garrison. I thought Kenny G might be gay in real life but when I checked he is straight. Why would the show creators would do like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6531" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-08-26T06:58:08.313" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T06:58:08.313" Title="Why is Kenny G portrayed as a homosexual in southpark in the last episode of season 3?" Tags="|character|south-park|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15394" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15402" CreationDate="2013-11-25T05:06:27.010" Score="10" ViewCount="13483" Body="&lt;p&gt;In scenes where the boom mic would have to be placed much too far from the actor in order to film the scene, how is the dialogue recorded? Is there some hidden microphone on the actor's clothing or does the actor voice-over in post-production?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5874" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-12-27T05:45:59.640" LastActivityDate="2018-12-27T05:45:59.640" Title="How is the dialogue for wide shots recorded?" Tags="|dialogue|production|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15376" CreationDate="2013-11-25T08:14:12.073" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stark is shown to have taken a liking to Banner, and in their talks aboard the helicarrier, he encourages Banner to &quot;suit up&quot; with the rest of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose it could be argued that Iron Man is such a good judge of character that he innately knew that Banner wouldn't let them down, but this being the arrogant Tony Stark, I think it's more likely that this confidence stems from his self-assurance, i.e. he was convinced that his little pep talk with Banner would work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4993" LastActivityDate="2013-11-25T08:14:12.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15349" CreationDate="2013-11-25T08:23:09.837" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that there's any inconsistency in the fact that the &lt;em&gt;girls&lt;/em&gt; were not killed immediately. The two other victims that we are aware of, namely Alex and Bob (Taylor), were also not killed. Bob Taylor escaped from the Joneses after three weeks (?) of captivity. So it seems that the modus operandi does not involve killing the children immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if we assume that &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/15176/why-was-alex-not-killed&quot;&gt;Alex was a special case&lt;/a&gt; and that Bob was a standard example of how the other abductees were treated, then the question of why they were allowed to live for a certain period of time before being killed remains to be answered. There is no clear answer given in the script. But here is a theory:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Joneses were unhinged serial killers. But they were previously a very religious couple and perhaps some of that still lingered as they indulged in ritual before they killed each of their victims. While both of them wanted their revenge on god, Holly appeared to be a remorseless but practical vamp. But her husband was more complicated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, there was Mr. Isaac Jones' fascination with with FBI agent's book, &lt;em&gt;Finding the Invisible Man&lt;/em&gt;, which was about finding a hypothetical kidnapper of children and bringing him to justice. But to Mr. Jones, it was also about finding the &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; Invisible Man (the one in the sky) and bringing &lt;em&gt;him&lt;/em&gt; to justice for killing (kidnapping) his child. Perhaps he/they were daring/beseeching the Invisible Man to rescue the child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, there is the maze motif which Mr. Jones is obsessed with. It is also from the same book and is unsolvable. But the drugged children were asked to solve it in order to be allowed to go home. This might not have been an empty promise as it would have essentially taken a miracle to solve it. Perhaps the victims were being given sufficient time to solve the maze before they were killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, there was his confession to the (child molesting) priest. &lt;strike&gt;While the priest states that Mr. Jones bragged about his deeds, to me, this could also have been an indirect plea for someone to stop him or an attempt to absolve himself of his guilt.&lt;/strike&gt; The priest implies that it was not so much of a confession as a brag, as if Mr. Jones was taunting his god. Couple this with the symbolism of the snakes (which represent sin) that he was fascinated with, and you can piece together a religious motive for his behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the ritual and thereby the delay in killing the victims was an elaborately indirect (and perhaps subconscious) attempt to allow someone/god to stop him/them from killing another child. The husband was the source of the ritual and Holly continued in the same vein after his disappearance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2017-03-23T11:50:24.640" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15400" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-25T13:20:13.300" Score="8" ViewCount="26760" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Prisoners&lt;/em&gt;, Bob Taylor is said to be obsessed with a book titled &lt;em&gt;Finding the Invisible Man&lt;/em&gt; written by an FBI agent about &quot;a theoretical suspect that he believed was responsible for a bunch of child abductions&quot;. Was he obsessed with it because it was about his kidnapper?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-25T13:38:05.087" LastActivityDate="2018-11-10T17:48:01.673" Title="Was the FBI agent's book about the kidnapper?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prisoners|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15394" CreationDate="2013-11-25T17:03:03.527" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Off the top of my head I can think of three options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavalier_microphone&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lavalier microphone&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: a small microphone that is attached to the actor's body &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uj85l.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Lav&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.recording-microphone.com/electret-microphones.php&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Plant microphone&lt;/strong&gt;:  a microphone that's attached to, or hidden behind, an object on the set &lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;(e.g. a Lavalier mic can be used as a plant mic)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_dialogue_replacement#Automated_dialogue_replacement_.2F_post-sync&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ADR / Automated dialogue replacement&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: the actors re-record their dialogue in post-production&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-11-25T17:03:03.527" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13647" CreationDate="2013-11-25T17:19:56.340" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie in question is: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120824/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Shipping News&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have just found it today while looking at movies with Kevin Spacey, I didn't remember that Kevin Spacey was in this film. If I had I would have found it way sooner!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6018" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-25T17:39:14.687" LastActivityDate="2013-11-25T17:39:14.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15400" CreationDate="2013-11-25T17:37:46.713" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, while it is possible, it is unlikely that the book is about Mr. Jones, the kidnapper. I base this conclusion on the presence of the maze and other circumstantial indicators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The kidnapper was wearing a pendant with the symbol of the maze.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The book, &lt;em&gt;Finding the Invisible Man&lt;/em&gt;, also has mazes in it. It even has a maze on its cover.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bob Taylor found the book and one of the reasons why he thought that it was related to his kidnapping was due to the presence of mazes in it. He became completely obsessed with them. &lt;em&gt;His&lt;/em&gt; book full of mazes was made from photocopies and pictures from the FBI agent's book.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7XDbX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is, how did the FBI agent (Paul Kelly) and Mr. Jones find out about the maze? We do not have any information on &lt;em&gt;when&lt;/em&gt; the book was published.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably, Bob was asked to solve the maze when he was a captive, and this explains why he became obsessed with the symbol. Considering how old Bob was (the actor who played him is apparently ~30 years old), he was very likely abducted at least 20 years prior to his death. In other words, the Joneses were familiar with the maze even back then. This further implies that the pendant that Mr. Jones wore was also probably just as old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know Alex Jones' age either. But the actor who played him is also around 30 years old. Since Alex was the first victim, this suggests that Bob's abduction didn't occur all that much later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if the book had been about the kidnappings by the Joneses, then the mazes used in it were based on clues from an investigation into the matter. For it to be a substantial enough clue possibly pointing to a serial killer, it would have had to have been found repeatedly in more than one crime scene. We are only aware of Bob escaping and if there were others who escaped with similar stories, there would have been a full-fledged investigation into the case rather than just a &quot;discredited book&quot; about a &quot;theoretical serial killer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is therefore reasonable to conclude that Mr. Jones was not the subject of the book. The book very likely antedates Bob's abduction and was the source of inspiration for Mr. Jones as it has the exact same maze as his pendant. It could also be completely unrelated. But considering its subject matter and the use of mazes, such a degree of coincidence is suspicious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-25T17:49:21.973" LastActivityDate="2013-11-25T17:49:21.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15400" CreationDate="2013-11-25T17:44:34.810" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bob Taylor was obsessed with this book and thought the described hypothetical abductor was the kidnapper that he fled from in his childhood, so much is clear, I think:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So he read the book and decided he was taken by the &quot;Invisible Man&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question now is, was this described kidnapper actually Mr. Jones? I think it is strongly hinted, even if maybe never said explicitly. Bob Taylor &lt;em&gt;&quot;has got a thing for mazes&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and when asked to draw a map to the kids' location, he draws a round maze that Loki recognizes from the medallion of the corpse he found earlier (which we later learn was Mr. Jones):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Kzoe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;circular maze from the book and Mr. Jones&amp;#39; medallion&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Loki:&lt;/strong&gt; Taylor drew this as a map to the bodies. As a map to the bodies! And we found the same design on a pendant that we pulled off a&#xA;  corpse the other day. There's a connection!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Policeman:&lt;/strong&gt; The connection is, it's the last maze in the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So the maze that Bob Taylor drew, the maze that Mr. Jones wore around his neck, and the maze that is described in the book are at least &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; similar.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, Alex also has a little obsession with mazes, when he finally tells Keller that the girls are &lt;em&gt;&quot;in the maze, that's where you'll find them.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. So that &lt;strong&gt;obsession with mazes does not just come from Bob Taylor and the book, but seems to come from somebody both know, Mr. Jones&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Bob Taylor wasn't obsessed with mazes because he fell for that book, but he was obsessed with the book because he was obsessed with mazes and therefore thought to have found his kidnapper in the &quot;Invisible Man&quot;. And I think by all the clues in the movie it is at least &lt;strong&gt;strongly hinted that Mr. Jones really was the &quot;Invisible Man&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; described in this book. It would be quite a coincidence to have two different child abductors that have a thing for extremely similar mazes (but then again Mr. Jones might also have just been influenced by the &quot;Invisible Man&quot; after reading the book).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; While &lt;em&gt;coleopterist&lt;/em&gt; presents some reasonable arguments about the inconsistency of where the book author got his clues about the &quot;Invisible Man&quot;'s abductions from, I don't think it is that unreasonable that an FBI agent whose only evidences were some theories about mazes wouldn't get together a complete investigation. If there was an official investigation (which in Mr. Jones's case there never was), it would have been more than a strange book with some &lt;em&gt;&quot;discredited&quot;&lt;/em&gt; theories about mazes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that the biggest stretch here is where the book author would have his clues from, including all the mazes (especially the most prominent pendant design). But like said, he probably didn't have many substantial evidences in the first place. And the feed for his (supposedly) weird theories might come from various little sources nobody took serious or tried to put in the larger context (e.g. small notes to the parents, to drive them more insane maybe). But most importantly, &lt;strong&gt;Bob Taylor might have served as a source for the book himself, as he escaped the kidnapper after three weeks and was likely interrogated about his experiences&lt;/strong&gt; (so it was some kind of feedback loop, with him telling the FBI about his kidnapper, forgetting it and years later getting reminded by a book based on his own case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I also agree that this is really speculative territory now and it might very well be a little plot-inconsistency where the book author got his clues from. I still stand by the point, though, that the movie most probably wants to imply Mr. Jones to be the &quot;Invisible Man&quot;, even if that is accompanied by some minor plot holes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-11-10T17:48:01.673" LastActivityDate="2018-11-10T17:48:01.673" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15406" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15407" CreationDate="2013-11-25T19:16:58.767" Score="8" ViewCount="1130" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085959/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Monty Python's The Meaning of Life&lt;/a&gt;, (1983), when the Maître d' is describing the jugged hare to Mr. Creosote, he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ze hare is very high&lt;/strong&gt;, and ze sauce is very rich with truffles, anchovies, Grand Marnier, bacon, and cream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of &quot;&lt;strong&gt;very high&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; in this context?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found this reference in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=lGYDAAAAQAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA57&amp;amp;lpg=PA57&amp;amp;dq=%22hare+is+very+high%22&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=HsCCF43dv3&amp;amp;sig=0Lli2LuknCC1xZHIusvvK_Y_jwY&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=D5qTUsqwGIzokAf0tIDADw&amp;amp;ved=0CEMQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22hare%20is%20very%20high%22&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1885 cookbook online&lt;/a&gt;, but the precise meaning is still unclear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If a hare is very high it may be left in tepid water for some little time; or if the blood has settled in one part, and it looks black, just cut it with the point of a knife, and soak it in warm water to draw out the dark blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The full clip is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx0ME65y72E&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2013-11-27T21:39:58.217" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T21:39:58.217" Title="Maître d' describes jugged hare on menu as &quot;very high&quot;" Tags="|dialogue|monty-python|the-meaning-of-life|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15406" CreationDate="2013-11-25T19:47:19.757" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The term &lt;em&gt;high&lt;/em&gt; in this context is often used with &lt;em&gt;game&lt;/em&gt;. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/high&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiktionary&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(of meat, especially venison) Decomposing, rotting (to an extent which is desired by some).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tailor liked his meat high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the maître d' is suggesting that the hare is ready to be cooked or has been cooked in the manner that Terry Jones prefers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-11-25T19:47:19.757" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15408" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-25T19:57:34.010" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons) are a British surreal comedy group that created Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series. The Python phenomenon developed from the television series into something larger in scope and impact, spawning touring stage shows, films, numerous albums, several books and a stage musical as well as launching the members to individual stardom. The group's influence on comedy has been compared to The Beatles' influence on music.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-25T19:57:34.010" LastActivityDate="2013-11-25T19:57:34.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15409" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-25T19:57:34.010" Score="0" Body="British surreal comedy group that created Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-25T19:57:34.010" LastActivityDate="2013-11-25T19:57:34.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15410" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-25T19:58:52.290" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, also known as The Meaning of Life, is a 1983 British musical-sketch comedy film written and performed by the Monty Python team, and directed by one of its members, Terry Jones. Unlike Holy Grail and Life of Brian, this film's two predecessors, which each told a single, more-or-less coherent story, The Meaning of Life returns to the sketch comedy format of the troupe's original television series, loosely structured as a series of comic sketches about the various stages of life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_The_Meaning_of_Life&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-25T19:58:52.290" LastActivityDate="2013-11-25T19:58:52.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15411" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-25T19:58:52.290" Score="0" Body="Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, also known as The Meaning of Life, is a 1983 British musical-sketch comedy film written and performed by the Monty Python team, and directed by one of its members, Terry Jones." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-25T19:58:52.290" LastActivityDate="2013-11-25T19:58:52.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14787" CreationDate="2013-11-25T23:39:20.427" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the following I've concluded that Tony was in fact the boss in the pilot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No mention of Jackie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Junior says &amp;quot;you may run north jersey but you don't run your uncle Junior&amp;quot; to Tony. North Jersey is the Sopranos territory. If Junior and Tony were both caporegimes and at the same level, like in the second episode, this quote wouldn't make sense&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the Bada Bing, while discussing the Pussy Malanga hit, Hesh says: &amp;quot;your uncle resents the fact that you're the boss&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Artie's wife Charmaine describes Tony as the don of New Jersey&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2021-05-26T17:11:17.337" LastActivityDate="2021-05-26T17:11:17.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15413" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-26T02:44:02.760" Score="4" ViewCount="1719" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question regarding &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;'s first season's first episode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end, Sherlock says to the serial killer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know a real gun when I see one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The serial killer (i.e, the cab driver), actually shows Sherlock the gun, when they arrive at the destination (&lt;em&gt;where the serial killer intends to kill Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;). At this moment, Sherlock asks how the cabbie makes the victims follow him and for that the cabbie shows the gun. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, Sherlock tells the cabbie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You don't take people's lives at gun point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is, at this point, doesn't Sherlock know it's not a real gun?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, is it just intended for the serial killer to think Sherlock is not as intelligent as himself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6531" LastEditorUserId="24423" LastEditDate="2017-04-30T11:30:11.600" LastActivityDate="2017-04-30T11:30:11.600" Title="A study in pink: doesn't Sherlock know it's not a real gun?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15413" CreationDate="2013-11-26T04:09:22.743" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is nothing to ponder about this action at that instance you're referring too, however it could be that Sherlock was very much interested in seeing how he killed his victims he didn't refer to the fact that gun is a fake until later, it's just that he must've observed it but didn't want to focus on that because his mind was occupied by what the cabbie was going to show him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish i could write a more descriptive answer but to me it just feels that's all to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2013-11-26T04:09:22.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15417" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-26T04:46:35.360" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Identification of movies, TV shows or actors is no longer supported on this site. For further information please see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4087/we-are-discontinuing-support-for-identification-questions&quot;&gt;related meta post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still want your film identified? Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4129/49&quot;&gt;this question and its answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-05-25T20:09:30.563" LastActivityDate="2019-05-25T20:09:30.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15418" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-26T04:46:35.360" Score="0" Body="NO LONGER ON TOPIC. DO NOT USE. IDENTIFICATION QUESTIONS WILL BE CLOSED AS THEY ARE NO LONGER SUPPORTED.&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;Identify an actor or a character based on an image or a description." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-18T21:59:54.447" LastActivityDate="2018-01-18T21:59:54.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14576" CreationDate="2013-11-26T06:28:54.773" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;May be it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095227/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;God Bless the Child (1988)?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Storyline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Single mother, Theresa Johnson, becomes homeless, loses her job and&#xA;tries to survive with her young daughter, Hillary, through charities&#xA;and public shelters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Written by Herman Seifer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6592" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-11-26T06:28:54.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15422" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15423" CreationDate="2013-11-26T06:30:24.043" Score="17" ViewCount="2238" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does the Oracle wish for? Disorder? If she supports humans then she should help destroy the Matrix. If she does not, then she should mislead Neo and make the machines win.&#xA;In the end of The Matrix Revolutions, she seems pretty content. Why? Because the war was over? Is that all she wanted from the start?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4982" LastActivityDate="2019-01-28T10:30:59.413" Title="Oracle's motives in the Matrix trilogy" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-matrix|the-matrix-reloaded|the-matrix-revolutions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15422" CreationDate="2013-11-26T08:48:27.183" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not the first matrix, it's the sixth one and Oracle helped Architect to build this one. From the failure of previous matrix, Oracle and Architect given the humans 'free will'. So Oracle  always in support of free will for Humans. Her action sometimes cause imbalance in matrix but Architect is always there to control the effects. Like other agents and programs Oracle and Architect are not bound to matrix, they existed before it and will going to live after it. So this gives Oracle free will of her own, which reflects in her actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some fan conclusions also say that the Black actor and white actor playing the Oracle character are like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Yin and yang&lt;/a&gt;. But its Architect and Oracle  who act like Yin and yang. Oracle is even wearing yin-yang earrings throughout the third film to indicate this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-11T22:06:29.767" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T22:06:29.767" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15424" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15425" CreationDate="2013-11-26T08:56:09.497" Score="1" ViewCount="5458" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Doctor%27s_age&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TARDIS Data Core&lt;/a&gt; there was about two or three years between the appearance of the 9th doctor and his regeneration. From the same source we can estimate that the 10th doctor lived around seven or eight years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However the doctor claimed to have lived in his 11th incarnation for around three hundred years!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would Matt Smith's incarnation of the doctor live so much longer than his 9th or 10th, given Matt Smith and David Tennant portrayed the character for roughly the same number of episodes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-11-26T09:23:33.867" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T06:58:44.310" Title="Why did the 11th doctor live so long compared with his predecessors?" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15424" CreationDate="2013-11-26T09:27:10.463" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Different question: Why shouldn't it be the case, i.e. have the same timespan per incarnation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't forget that all these three regenerations weren't triggered due to any natural/inherent reason (like dieing of old age). The ninth Doctor absorbed the vortex energy from Rose and the tenth Doctor absorbed the radiation from that completely weird and odd failsafe containment thingy. Neither of them regenerated by choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also keep in mind that timespans are hardly constant when comparing single episodes. While this is especially true for time travelling stuff, it's also true for pretty much any other TV series or movie (maybe except &lt;em&gt;24&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, take episodes such as &lt;em&gt;Rose&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Aliens of London&lt;/em&gt;. The story happening in those essentially covers a day or two each. Compare this to episodes with far longer timespans, e.g. &lt;em&gt;The Impossible Astronaut&lt;/em&gt; and the sequel: Those cover several months. Or, if you want it even more time bending: &lt;em&gt;Blink&lt;/em&gt; happens on a single day for the audience as well as for the characters depicted in the present. However, for the Doctor (and Martha) obviously months pass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastActivityDate="2013-11-26T09:27:10.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15389" CreationDate="2013-11-26T10:38:13.730" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Due to his appearance and 'G' in his name, Kenny G is always targeted for being a a Gay. But the G stand for Gorelick because his real name is  Kenneth Bruce Gorelic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even he got &lt;a href=&quot;http://onerudedude.blogspot.in/2008/12/kenny-gs-wikipedia-article.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia controversy&lt;/a&gt;, which I don't know is real or not but surely got speculated on internet. So I think South Park doesn't made it all on their on but used the controversy associated with the actor for their own good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-08-26T06:45:07.480" LastActivityDate="2016-08-26T06:45:07.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15427" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16103" CreationDate="2013-11-26T12:01:11.170" Score="8" ViewCount="1043" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Doctor Who episode The End of Time the war is described as being &quot;time locked&quot;, like a bubble, nothing can come in or out - except things which were already out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In The Day of the Doctor we discovered that the War Doctor actually ended the time war by destroying both Daleks and Time Lords. However they change their history to instead hide Gallifrey away in safety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the time lock the 10th doctor and Rassilon described the effect of hiding Galifray away (and the doctor only becomes aware of it during the episode) or did those events now never happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T19:47:59.993" Title="How do the events in The Day of the Doctor relate to those in The End of Time?" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|continuity|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15428" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15432" CreationDate="2013-11-26T12:32:04.173" Score="4" ViewCount="2506" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV-series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2243973/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hannibal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in one of the episodes we see Dr. Lecter killing a man and there are many incidents throughout the season about Hannibal killing people. But I didn't understand or could not see any reference about Dr. Lecter cooking them. All scenes suggested that he may be cooking a human flesh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were some mild humor by Dr. Lecter saying &quot;all are non-vegetarian&quot; or something, I couldn't recall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-26T16:57:23.130" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T11:16:56.577" Title="Was Dr. Lecter really cooking human flesh?" Tags="|plot-explanation|hannibal-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15430" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-26T14:22:08.760" Score="0" ViewCount="12981" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800080/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Incredible Hulk&lt;/a&gt;, there was a scene with Tony Stark having a conversation with Bruce Banner who was played by Edward Norton. So why didn't Joss Whedon choose him in his movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Avengers&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6825" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-07T13:32:32.540" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T13:32:32.540" Title="Why was Edward Norton replaced by Mark Ruffalo in &quot;The Avengers&quot;?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|casting|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-11-27T04:04:08.740" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8028" CreationDate="2013-11-26T14:32:09.027" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/edward-norton-hulk-avengers-schrad-67833/&quot;&gt;Marvel simply decided they wanted someone else to play him&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote Kevin Feige, President of Production for Marvel Studios:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We have made the decision to not bring Ed Norton back to portray the title role of Bruce Banner in the Avengers. Our decision is definitely not one based on monetary factors, but instead rooted in the need for an actor who embodies the creativity and collaborative spirit of our other talented cast members. The Avengers demands players who thrive working as part of an ensemble, as evidenced by Robert, Chris H, Chris E, Sam, Scarlett, and all of our talented casts. We are looking to announce a name actor who fulfills these requirements, and is passionate about the iconic role in the coming weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5858" LastActivityDate="2013-11-26T14:32:09.027" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15428" CreationDate="2013-11-26T15:03:48.673" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IuVzG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes he is cooking human flesh. You see it at various points in the show. He has a Rolodex of whose body parts he has kept in his freezer, and chooses certain ones on account of his current mood and dish he is creating. I believe it's shown the most in episode 7 &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2373037/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sorbet&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t1Gv5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jX5xR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="3502" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T11:16:56.577" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T11:16:56.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15434" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15435" CreationDate="2013-11-26T15:15:53.287" Score="3" ViewCount="11072" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Dune (1984), &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYddbkrASMs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;what does Paul use as his killing word&lt;/a&gt;? I can never make it out very well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it &quot;Father&quot; or possibly &quot;Chani&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6917" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2020-09-27T03:53:48.250" LastActivityDate="2020-09-27T03:53:48.250" Title="What killing word does Paul Muad'Dib use?" Tags="|dialogue|dune-1984|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15434" CreationDate="2013-11-26T15:55:06.503" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I first watched the film, I was under the impression that Muad'Dib was shouting &lt;em&gt;Chaaaaar-ge!&lt;/em&gt;. But when I watched it again much later, that didn't seem to fit as the second syllable sounds different. I've seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://observer.theguardian.com/dune&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;some subtitles&lt;/a&gt; transcribe it as &lt;em&gt;Chaaak-saa!&lt;/em&gt; (or similar).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paul: Orato! This obelisk is of your hardest stone... Kick it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paul: Hit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paul: Yell at it. (Troops laugh)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Orato: Break!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paul: Cut it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paul: Move back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paul: Chuk...sa!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fremen: Achiii!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paul: This is part of the weirding way that we will teach you. Some thoughts have a certain sound, that being equivalent to a form. Through sound and motion, you will be able to paralyse nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs. We will kill until no Harkonnen breathes Arrakeen air.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fremen: Muad'dib!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fremen soldier: Chuk...sa!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paul: Stilgar...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fremen soldier: Muad'dib!&lt;/strong&gt; (Echoes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paul (voiceover): &lt;strong&gt;My name is a killing word.&lt;/strong&gt; They are ready to fight, yet in order to lead them I must conquer the world, conquer Shai-Hulud.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The killing word is used in tandem with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weirding_Module#Weirding_Module&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;weirding module&lt;/a&gt; (which only exists in the movie):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Director David Lynch is said to have adapted the weirding way into the Weirding Module because he did not like the idea of &amp;quot;Kung-fu on sand dunes&amp;quot;. The change literalizes Paul's line &amp;quot;My own name is a killing word.&amp;quot; In the novel, the Fremen shout his Fremen name, &amp;quot;Muad'Dib,&amp;quot; as a battle cry; &lt;strong&gt;in the film, the Fremen are surprised to find that saying &amp;quot;Muad'Dib&amp;quot; is a powerful trigger for the Weirding Module.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the Fremen find that &lt;em&gt;Muad'Dib&lt;/em&gt; itself is a killing word. &lt;em&gt;Chani&lt;/em&gt; is not a killing word in either medium/version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-11-26T16:04:54.013" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15436" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15714" CreationDate="2013-11-26T15:58:28.980" Score="9" ViewCount="805" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Donnie Darko&lt;/a&gt; there is an exchange between Donnie's parents about some behavior over which they were called in to see the principal.  Later, they are sitting together, eating in silence, each lost in their own thoughts, until:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rose Darko:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't think telling any woman to forcibly insert an object into her anus is something that should go without consequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edward Darko:&lt;/strong&gt; I think we should buy him a moped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rose Darko:&lt;/strong&gt; I think we should get a divorce. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(beat) They both start laughing&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That exchange could make it into a movie based on the 'Rule of Funny', but I was wondering, is there some deeper significance to it that I missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2013-11-26T20:21:57.513" LastActivityDate="2013-12-08T23:59:35.003" Title="Punishment for bad behavior - a moped!" Tags="|plot-explanation|donnie-darko|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17984" CreationDate="2013-11-26T21:46:53.080" Score="9" ViewCount="9703" Body="&lt;p&gt;The classic song &quot;When Johnny Comes Marching Home&quot; is used heavily throughout Die Hard With a Vengeance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it used so much? What connection does the song have with the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-27T05:08:47.043" LastActivityDate="2014-04-13T16:47:31.517" Title="Is there any significance to the use of &quot;When Johnny Comes Marching Home&quot;?" Tags="|soundtrack|die-hard-with-a-vengeance|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15443" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15488" CreationDate="2013-11-27T01:15:03.100" Score="10" ViewCount="6513" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the end result for Jim Cunningham (the 'motivational speaker' played by Patrick Swayze) in Donnie Darko?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Donnie completes his task to revert the time-line to the original 'correct' one (let's call it the 'primary' time-line), many of the things he did during the interim are reversed or negated.  E.G. 2 characters who die in the secondary time-line are obviously alive and well once it is changed back to the primary time-line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Donnie, during the course of the secondary time-line, takes a disliking to Jim and when he finds his wallet lying in the street, he uses the information to burn his house down.  It turns out that Jim is a paedophile, and the police discover evidence of this in the ashes of the fire.  He is arrested and his life takes a turn for the worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then ..Donnie reverts the time-line..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So does that mean that Jim was never discovered, and is still an active child molester?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastActivityDate="2022-06-09T18:52:33.790" Title="End result for Jim Cunningham - motivational speaker" Tags="|character|donnie-darko|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15444" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15445" CreationDate="2013-11-27T01:23:00.777" Score="11" ViewCount="566" Body="&lt;p&gt;I might go the risk of a slightly opinionated question here, but it seems to me that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1663662/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pacific Rim&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; employs quite some unusual forenames for many of its major characters, e.g. &lt;em&gt;Raleigh&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Yancy&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Stacker&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Newton&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Hercules&lt;/em&gt; (or &lt;em&gt;&quot;Herc&quot;&lt;/em&gt;), compared to the more or less Anglo origin of those characters. So &lt;strong&gt;is there any further significance to or reason for all those unusual names or was this just an arbitrary decision?&lt;/strong&gt; (Or maybe those forenames aren't as weird as I think them to be, yet they struck me as pretty remarkable in their frequency of occurrence.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-05-15T12:28:02.850" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T12:28:02.850" Title="Significance of the many unusual names?" Tags="|analysis|pacific-rim|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15444" CreationDate="2013-11-27T02:15:35.543" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they were just having fun making those names up. In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://badassdigest.com/2013/07/12/the-badass-interview-guillermo-del-toro-gets-spoilery-on-pacific-rim/&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt;, Guillermo del Toro said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Travis is truly a genius at world creation and naming. He came up with Jaeger and kaiju. We shared robot names - I put half, he put half - but Hercules Hansen? That’s a fucking name! Stacker Pentecost. He had something weird for Raleigh, I changed it to Raleigh Becket. It was originally Raleigh Antrobus. What a fucking name! It sounded like a suppository.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uproxx.com/gammasquad/2013/07/pacific-rim-parody-meme-improved-jaeger-names/&quot;&gt;The imaginative naming of robots was used as a part of a promotion campaign&lt;/a&gt;, which I see as a further confirmation that this was done purely for fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A movie like &quot;Pacific Rim&quot; really must avoid taking itself seriously, because it'd make it look absurd. So, a healthy dose of goofiness is more than welcome, and the names fit in that perfectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T02:15:35.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4585" CreationDate="2013-11-27T04:41:25.220" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;So what I gathered is, the matrix is a program. The &quot;real world&quot; is where Zion is. The matrix was created by the machines after winning the war against man kind. The matrix is implanted into  the human clones that the machines grow and harvest for energy to give them the thought of living. So there for the matrix is basically a dream if you were. The reason neo came back to life and can do what he can do in the matrix is because of the spoon theory. He basically bends the fake reality. Since you can do that if your mind opens up and realizes it's not real. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neo basically was born and his body grew to adult form in the machines pods. (Which is why he has the bolts in his skin) The red pill seems to be a virus which ends the matrix and wakes his body up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the real question is, how come neo had powers outside the matrix if in fact the &quot;real world&quot; is supposed to be real???&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6921" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T04:41:25.220" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13975" CreationDate="2013-11-27T10:22:55.997" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anything beyond 'fair use' of a copyrighted piece of work is illegal without getting permission or a license to use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Description of US copyright 'rules' for fair use can be seen at &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20210605143659/https://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;copyright.gov&lt;/a&gt;.  Clearly interpretation of fair use is complex but basically the main aspects are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whether you intend to profit from the use of the copyrighted material - a commercial movie using a song is benefiting from it and trying to profit from its use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The size of the sample of music in relation to the size of the copyrighted work in total. A whole song is more significant than a few seconds of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How the use of the material affects the profitability of it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now using the music in a movie arguably might boost the sales of the original song, so an artist or the owner of the work &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; give permission and not demand a fee.  Clearly anything featured in a soundtrack album has potential to negatively impact sales of the original, someone might choose to buy the soundtrack rather than the original to obtain a copy of that song - so a license fee would normally be involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However as the document from copyright.gov states - it's safest to obtain permission from the owner of the work.  If they demand a license fee, then it's up to you to decide whether its fair use or not risk using it anyway or to decide to pay the fee, or not use the music.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The RIAA have even been known to send cease-and-desist letters to YouTube users who have music in the background of their amateur non commercial videos so this is a hotly contested area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2022-05-07T14:33:18.470" LastActivityDate="2022-05-07T14:33:18.470" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13714" CreationDate="2013-11-27T16:01:45.197" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the opening chatter does mention the UN and the WHO, and Gerry explains martial law to his daughter, we do not find out exactly what his profession is/was until he and his family are extracted and arrive on the warship (and, as in my question, speak to the naval man). This is also the first time that the UN is mentioned after the aforementioned opening chatter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Under-Secretary here says you were his best investigator when you were at the U.N.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You were on the ground during the Liberian Civil War. Investigated Chechen war crimes. Sri Lanka in '07. Places you and I both know Dr. Fassbach wouldn't last a night in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This conversation occurs at around the 32 minute mark. Until then, we have no idea who he really is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T16:01:45.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6841" CreationDate="2013-11-27T16:22:40.277" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;He did time travel, but he over shot and changed the time line.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He showed up prior to the two of them dating, and because of that he never got to be with her.  The fact that he said he did it once before means he went back to save her life, but now the second time, he is trying to go back in order to save the relationship they had before the time line changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6927" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T16:22:40.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15453" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15454" CreationDate="2013-11-27T18:15:13.343" Score="4" ViewCount="4294" Body="&lt;p&gt;A scene in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Social Network&lt;/a&gt; Mark wants the mailing list of Phoenix Club members from Eduardo. The conversation was :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mark Zuckerberg: These guys know people. And I need their emails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eduardo Saverin: Sure.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mark Zuckerberg: Good. Give me the mailing list. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eduardo Saverin: Jabberwock12.listservharvard@edu. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mark Zuckerberg: These guys! They're literary geniuses cause the world's most obvious &lt;strong&gt;Lewis Carroll reference&lt;/strong&gt; is in there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eduardo Saverin: They're not so bad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mark Zuckerberg: I'm just saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's the Lewis Caroll reference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;EDIT&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok so it was a poem of Lewis Caroll named &quot;Jabberwocky&quot;. Jabberwocky is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll &lt;sub&gt;(from the answers see below)&lt;/sub&gt;. But why Mark is mocking them by saying &lt;em&gt;&quot;literary geniuses&quot;&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="6895" LastEditDate="2013-11-27T18:44:25.013" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T18:44:25.013" Title="What was the Lewis Carroll reference and mockery to the Phoenix members?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-social-network|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15453" CreationDate="2013-11-27T18:19:44.150" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a famous poem by &lt;em&gt;Lewis Caroll&lt;/em&gt; called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky&quot;&gt;&quot;Jabberwocky&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, which the e-mail adress &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jabberwock12&lt;/strong&gt;.listservharvard@edu&lt;/em&gt; seems to be referencing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; As to the updated question, &lt;em&gt;Mark&lt;/em&gt; is mocking them because to him those guys seem to pretend being sophisticated and literary by chosing this poem as e-mail adress. But it is actually a very famous poem, which is why &lt;em&gt;Mark&lt;/em&gt; calls it &lt;em&gt;&quot;the world's most obvious Lewis Carroll reference&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Add to this &lt;em&gt;Mark&lt;/em&gt;'s general cynicism/arrogance and dislike of the &lt;em&gt;Phoenix Club&lt;/em&gt; members. So to him this reference isn't as elaborate as it may be supposed to seem and they are just boasting to seem like literary experts, while they aren't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-11-27T18:40:12.927" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T18:40:12.927" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15453" CreationDate="2013-11-27T18:20:13.473" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eduardo Saverin: &lt;strong&gt;Jabberwock12&lt;/strong&gt;.listservharvard@edu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jabberwocky&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Jabberwocky&quot; is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of a looking glass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Jabberwocky&quot; is considered one of the greatest nonsense poems written in English. Its playful, whimsical language has given us nonsense words and neologisms such as &quot;galumphing&quot; and &quot;chortle&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T18:20:13.473" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3720" CreationDate="2013-11-27T20:20:02.297" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is the &quot;ini&quot; in initech and iniwas a short way to say &quot;Innovation&quot; as many tech businesses love to get that buzz word invoked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6930" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T20:20:02.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15457" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-27T20:51:39.900" Score="11" ViewCount="2578" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Walking Dead is a show that got 16.1 Million Viewers while Breaking Bad &quot;only&quot; got 10.3 Million Viewers at its highest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question here is: how is it possible that one show, (Breaking Bad) which has far less viewers than TWD on average has/had so much more &quot;cultural&quot; influence? Everyone is talking about BrBa (and they definitively should!) not so much on TWD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is Breaking Bad influencing people's ideas so much while TWD isn't? Is it maybe because the first one is more &quot;meaningful&quot; and more realistic than a zombie show, a show that people can't really easily relate to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6931" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2013-11-28T03:46:17.767" LastActivityDate="2013-11-28T06:30:21.587" Title="The Walking Dead &amp; Breaking Bad: Numbers VS Influence" Tags="|breaking-bad|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15459" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17677" CreationDate="2013-11-27T22:56:01.537" Score="5" ViewCount="8577" Body="&lt;p&gt;Didn't he stand a better chance of fighting back, given he has a gun, and was good with it? Instead, he wasted the little energy he had left so he can sit at a river...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; to enjoy his last moments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastEditorUserId="6895" LastEditDate="2013-11-27T23:06:38.450" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T05:00:17.770" Title="Why did Mike get out of the car after being shot?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15460" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15461" CreationDate="2013-11-27T22:59:25.537" Score="11" ViewCount="2695" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Walt call the police at the end of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; S05E15? He was supposed to be in hiding, and it was just a matter of luck that he wasn't caught... the police didn't check the inside of the cars, and 'his' was covered in snow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T20:47:26.427" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T20:47:26.427" Title="Why did Walt call the police?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15460" CreationDate="2013-11-27T23:54:26.500" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wasn't one of his clever plans... Walt called the police from the bar because he was ready to give up after Junior refused to take any money from him and told him to just die already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing Gretchen and Elliott on TV gave him the idea to use them to get the money to Junior, so he changed his mind and ran. Being in the car under the snow when the police arrived was just luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt got lucky a lot of times throughout the show, and never really understood that luck was as important to his success as careful planning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6436" LastActivityDate="2013-11-27T23:54:26.500" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10684" CreationDate="2013-11-28T00:50:11.613" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;She was indeed one of the people sacrificed in the helicopter. This is evident in the scene right before the hostages are led to the helicopter. You see her in the same hooded cloak as all the others, so she was most likely one of them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8uTa4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that, you can see that the guy &lt;em&gt;Banning&lt;/em&gt; kills when doing the run for the president at the end is not &lt;em&gt;Lim&lt;/em&gt;, but the long-haired guy, as &lt;em&gt;Le Phuoc Dai&lt;/em&gt; points out in his comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OOrpD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-31T20:23:18.710" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T20:23:18.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3758" CreationDate="2013-11-28T00:56:53.433" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly it was a vertically oriented metal disk (approx 12-18in dia) mounted on a table and had a handle at the axis for rotating it manually, like a bike tire. It had evenly spaced holes drilled in it in concentric circles (so it looked kind of like a strainer covering a bathtub drain). The sound was created by holding a plastic tube (that was connected to an air pump) near the holes as the disk was turned. I believe the air pump was either sounding a reed-like device or was being modulated at a specific frequency (kind of like the TalkBox used by Frampton).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6933" LastActivityDate="2013-11-28T00:56:53.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15457" CreationDate="2013-11-28T01:58:46.553" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basing the cultural impact on viewers has never been an accurate gauge of quality or longevity. The Transformers movies will bring in more viewers but it's not the kind of movie that still gets talked about years later like The Usual Suspects (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=usualsuspects.htm&quot;&gt;Domestic Total Gross: $23,341,568&lt;/a&gt;) or other critical successes that don't rake in hundreds of millions of dollars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the possible reasons that TWD has more viewers is because it already had a built-in audience (fans of the comic book) in addition to being a really well-made show. Breaking Bad had to get its numbers on its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another factor to consider is that Breaking Bad was a &quot;proper&quot; story; beginning, middle and an &lt;strong&gt;end&lt;/strong&gt;. It especially exploded in media popularity during the last season &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; people knew it was going to end. The Walking Dead (show) is ongoing with no definite end in sight. The Walking Dead comic (which the show is loosely based on) could go on for &lt;a href=&quot;http://dailydead.com/robert-kirkman-talks-all-out-war-and-the-end-of-the-walking-dead/&quot;&gt;another 200 issues&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last factor I'll mention is believability and societal worries. Breaking Bad can hit too close to home for some segments of the population dealing with the very real threat of addiction and the fallout (crime, prostitution, violence, health issues, etc). The threat of a zombie apocalypse is pretty much zero which makes it easier escapist fare. Meth and drug dealers exist. Zombies (ala TWD) do not. Many people watch TV to escape problems and reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2013-11-28T06:30:21.587" LastActivityDate="2013-11-28T06:30:21.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15467" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-28T05:42:24.563" Score="7" ViewCount="3479" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/em&gt;, Tony Stark has a problem powering the Mark 42 suit.  There is a key scene where he has a panic attack because the young boy says the suit is not charging.  There is also a scene where he is charging it from a car battery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never understood this, as one of the major plot points of &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 2&lt;/em&gt; was Tony developing a new element for the arc reactor which could safety power his Iron Man suit and electromagnet in his chest without killing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony has the modified reactor in his chest since you can see the triangular shape through his shirt.  So why is it suddenly a problem powering the suit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6512" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T14:42:29.870" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T14:42:29.870" Title="What is the problem with powering the Mark 42 suit?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-3|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14454" CreationDate="2013-11-28T05:56:26.787" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a scene in Iron Man 3 when Colonel Rhodes is holding up a bunch of guys in a building somewhere when Tony calls him and asks &quot;Your re-design, your big re-brand, that was AIM, right?&quot; and Colonel Rhodes replies &quot;Yeah&quot;.  So if AIM did the redesign and updated the software for the suit, then chances are Killian put in a override in the suits software to prevent the wearer from being able to control it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6512" LastEditorUserId="6512" LastEditDate="2013-11-28T06:02:35.813" LastActivityDate="2013-11-28T06:02:35.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11507" CreationDate="2013-11-28T06:10:15.037" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Craig series takes place before all the other movies. In &lt;em&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/em&gt;, Bond first gets his 00 license. At the end of &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;, the new MI6 office is identical to the one from the old movies and Moneypenny begins working as M's liaison. It's all in the last 60 seconds of the movie so it's easy to miss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6935" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-28T07:12:29.440" LastActivityDate="2013-11-28T07:12:29.440" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10125" CreationDate="2013-11-28T15:24:48.653" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;While &lt;em&gt;Kevin Howell&lt;/em&gt; is quite spot-on in his explanation of the upside down flag representing distress, I think especially his link to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usflag.org/uscode36.html#176&quot;&gt;Flag Code&lt;/a&gt; gives another, maybe even better fitting explanation. The country itself is objectively seen not in distress during the course of the show. So while the upside down flag could represent some kind of metaphorical distress in the way that the government and the political system are depicted, what may better fit here is the other, albeit invalid, reason for an upside-down flag, &lt;strong&gt;disrespect&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By showing the flag upside-down &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; an imminent presence of &lt;em&gt;&quot;dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property&quot;&lt;/em&gt; it shows disrespect to the flag and the political ideals (and ultimately the country and its people) it stands for. Of course, I'm neither saying the show or its makers are disrespecting the U.S. flag nor am I making any personal judgement about such behaviour, just that the characters and the way politics are shown have lost the ideals that flag was once supposed to represent. This disrespect is shown by the political schemes and plots that (not only, but most prominently) &lt;em&gt;Frank Underwood&lt;/em&gt; plays with the governmental forces (and ultimately the country) in order to feed his own lust for power. &lt;strong&gt;The show depicts a political system and moral that have been (in/per)verted upside-down in the same way as the flag that represents them.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The missing stars could either be just some kind of stylization, but could as well refer to something deeper. One might interpret that into the same disrespect symbolization as the upside-down part, but could maybe also come up with something based on the fact that the stars represent the states. Maybe this way it shows that the show isn't about actual politics with any significance to the whole country, but about a man not interested into anything outside of Washington D.C. and misusing the country's fate only as a device for his own goals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-02T10:58:28.917" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T10:58:28.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12004" CreationDate="2013-11-28T18:46:17.830" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason why it has the costume is even weirder. See, one of you was right (for a bit). There were thousands of seed ships sent out, for exploration and colonisation. This is one of those ships; that's why it has the suite. It's a simple guess which blond niece of a certian alien is/was on the ship: Kara Zor-El aka Supergirl. Why it looks like a man suite - one size fits all spandex? It's all in the prequel comic for the Man of Steel movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6941" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-06-30T10:23:00.090" LastActivityDate="2016-06-30T10:23:00.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15481" CreationDate="2013-11-28T19:58:03.127" Score="9" ViewCount="885" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’ve never understood how Kirk, Spock, and Bones got back to the present at the end of “City on the Edge of Forever”. Going back to 1930 is simple enough, they stepped through the portal at the right moment, but there was no portal on their end! How did they get back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finding an answer is proving to be difficult because even after trying numerous search-term permutations, I only managed to find a &lt;a href=&quot;http://trotterssciencefiction.blogspot.com/2012/04/travel-and-time.html?showComment=1335189066018#c8855361245444153446&quot;&gt;single mention&lt;/a&gt; of the discrepancy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand if maybe they wanted to focus on the emotion and stuff of the episode, but it’s a &lt;em&gt;science-fiction&lt;/em&gt; show, and this was one of the first incidents of time-travel in the whole franchise, so getting back is a fairly big issue that can’t just be glossed over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-09-26T14:06:28.567" LastActivityDate="2017-09-26T14:06:28.567" Title="How did they get back in “City on the Edge of Forever”?" Tags="|star-trek|continuity|star-trek-the-original-series|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15477" CreationDate="2013-11-28T20:42:51.583" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a part in the episode at approx 12:30 where Kirk asks the Guardian if they are successful what will happen. The Guardian tells them all will be set back to normal and they will be returned as though nothing happened. The Guardian sends them back. Also notice they come back with uniforms back on, where at the point in the episode, Kirk and Spock do not have theirs on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit addition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify something to bring this all together for you. How did Kirk, Spock, and McCoy go through the portal in the first place? They jumped. They jumped in, McCoy first, followed by Kirk and Spock. They came back in the same manner, only Spock and Kirk come back first because they entered the timeline first. The jumping motion was one contiguous motion as seen from the crew left on the planet. Scotty also says to them, &quot;You just left.&quot; The Guardian puts them back just as he found them, jumping through the portal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-11-28T22:18:27.717" LastActivityDate="2013-11-28T22:18:27.717" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15443" CreationDate="2013-11-29T05:19:16.883" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, what happened to Jim is irrelevant because -- like many of the events in Donnie Darko -- the whole bit about Donnie heroically revealing Jim as a child molester is a fantasy in Donnie's mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I explained in answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/106/ending-of-donnie-darko&quot;&gt;another question about Donnie Darko&lt;/a&gt;, the movie shows the main character Donnie developing schizophrenia. The schizophrenia causes Donnie to believe he is at the center of a time-travel adventure that just might save the universe -- and the movie depicts Donnie's madness as it appears to him -- as if it was reality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scenes with Donnie's psychiatrist are the biggest clues to this -- she has some idea of what is going on with him. And another key piece of evidence is that in a deleted scene (availble on the DVD) Donnie has a conversation with his father where Donnie, in a moment of self-awareness, says &quot;Dad, I'm crazy.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2013-11-29T05:19:16.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15459" CreationDate="2013-11-29T10:21:25.963" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a word, the answer is what you've said &lt;code&gt;to enjoy his last moment&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But let me elaborate, if you watch Mike carefully, he's an enforcer. He had only two things in his life that mattered to him: Gus Fring and his granddaughter. For some obscure reason Mike is loyal to Gus which was not shown in the show. After Gus's death, his granddaughter is the only thing in his life. Because of her, Mike agreed to become a partner of Walt even knowing that Walt is a time-bomb. After the arrest of his lawyer and confiscation of his share. It' literally impossible for him to see his granddaughter for not only the Police, he might not have the gut to face her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So after being shot, his life is literally over. What options did he have? Without immediate medical attention, he won't survive. An immediate medical attention isn't possible without involving Police. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why he didn't try to kill Walt? He had already enough blood on his hand. At his last moment, he just didn't want more blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="324" LastEditorUserId="324" LastEditDate="2013-11-29T16:43:20.850" LastActivityDate="2013-11-29T16:43:20.850" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4216" CreationDate="2013-11-29T13:40:06.817" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scientists exploited Cole. It was essential that Cole die at the airport as it provided the memory of his older self being shot, which the Scientists manipulated for his mission, as the memory was recurrent as a dream that continued to develop providing him new investigative paths or possibilities as well as drawing him closer to Dr. Raily, a psychologist whose entire job is understanding her patient's pasts and psychology. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dr. Raily's sympathies for Cole helped their relationship develop, which was key into pushing them toward the final discoveries at the airport. With Dr. Raily identifying Dr. Peters as the trigger man from her past interaction with him, Dr. Jones from the Future stepped in. The Scientists had no interest in stopping the viral outbreak but lied to Cole about that, evident by his comment &quot;I can't save you, nobody can.&quot; They could have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead the Scientists chose to allow the virus to spread and to study the outbreak patterns and develop an anti-virus that they would provide in the future, allowing them to be seen as heroes, allowing them to continue and possibly expand their power and governance over the underground society as they returned to the surface of the Earth. This technique was used for the plot of V for Vendetta (&quot;Imagine you have a virus and only you have the cure.&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, Cole is truly an essential messiah. James Cole has the same initials as Jesus Christ. However, he would probably never be known as a messiah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6951" LastActivityDate="2013-11-29T13:40:06.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15492" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15496" CreationDate="2013-11-29T16:19:09.913" Score="3" ViewCount="2406" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the name of the game that Dade plays (the one he gained highest score by beating Kate)? Or at least suggest a 3D game like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6028" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-29T17:56:58.800" LastActivityDate="2013-11-29T18:08:13.537" Title="What's the name of the game that Dade plays?" Tags="|hackers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15494" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-11-29T17:58:04.633" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hackers is a 1995 American cyberpunk thriller film directed by Iain Softley and starring Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Renoly Santiago, Matthew Lillard, Lorraine Bracco and Fisher Stevens. The film follows the exploits of a group of gifted high school hackers and their involvement in a corporate extortion conspiracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-29T17:58:04.633" LastActivityDate="2013-11-29T17:58:04.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15495" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-11-29T17:58:04.633" Score="0" Body="1995 American cyberpunk thriller film starring Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie which follows the exploits of a group of gifted high school hackers and their involvement in a corporate extortion conspiracy." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-29T17:58:04.633" LastActivityDate="2013-11-29T17:58:04.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15492" CreationDate="2013-11-29T18:02:21.220" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rso3z.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The game is called &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipeout_%28video_game%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;WipEout&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wipeout (stylized in promotional materials as wipE'out&quot;) is the first in a series of futuristic racing video games developed and published by Psygnosis. It was originally released in 1995 for Sony PlayStation and PCs running MS-DOS, and in 1996 for Sega Saturn. In 2007, it was re-released for download on the PlayStation Store, first for PlayStation Portable on 8 March, then made playable on PlayStation 3 months later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-03-22-wipeout-the-rise-and-fall-of-sony-studio-liverpool&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;eurogamer.net&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As WipEout was being worked on the people behind the movie Hackers came calling. They wanted Psygnosis to recreate WipEout for the film. Something super cool, something sci-fi, something fast. After a couple of weeks' work the result was recognisably the dirty aesthetic from the early WipEout demo fleshed out with a world and effects. As it turned out, Hackers and WipEout launched in the same month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional confirmation can also be found on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_%28film%29#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;film's WP page&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0e8ZMVqVCc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this YouTube video&lt;/a&gt;'s summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dade and Kate having a friendly competition with what looks to be an arcade version of Wipeout by Psygnosis. Psygnosis was notorious for publishing the most unusual but creative games of its time like Lemmings, Obitus, and Shadow of the Beast until it was acquired by Sony. The song playing is Cowgirl by Underworld from Dubnobasswithmyheadman. What a horribly awesome film. I loved every cheesy minute of it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-29T18:08:13.537" LastActivityDate="2013-11-29T18:08:13.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15498" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15514" CreationDate="2013-11-29T22:14:03.493" Score="12" ViewCount="759" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the season two episode of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;, “Wolf in the Fold”, they discover that there is a non-corporeal entity that has been going around the galaxy committing murders for a very long time. During their investigation, they discover evidence to implicate the Argelian chief city administrator Mr. Hengist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, they transport him out into space to eventually die, but before they got him to the transporter room, the entity had &lt;strong&gt;jumped from person to person&lt;/strong&gt;. It was simply by chance that it jumped back into Mr. Hengist before they caught it and transported it into space. Just a moment earlier, it was in the prefect Jaris, and before that, it was in Scotty several times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems arbitrary that they chose to kill it instead of trying to contain it and try to find a way to extract it from Mr. Hengist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene made me pretty mad because it was really selfish and callous. Would they have jumped to beaming Scotty out into space or bothered to try to extract it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I miss something like that Mr. Hengist never existed and it was just the entity in disguise the whole time, or did they really just kill him without even trying to get it out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-30T18:54:48.423" LastActivityDate="2023-07-23T18:51:30.797" Title="Why did they *kill* Mr. Hengist in “Wolf in the Fold”?" Tags="|star-trek|star-trek-the-original-series|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15501" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15586" CreationDate="2013-11-30T07:12:37.907" Score="5" ViewCount="836" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&lt;/em&gt;, Beetee (played by Jeffrey Wright) comes up with the plan to wrap a wire around the &quot;Lightning Tree&quot;, and plant the other end of the wire in the water at the pond (to electrocute their opponents). The group leaves the pond and hikes quite a distance to the tree. They wrap the wire around the tree and then send Katniss back to the beach with the other end of the wire. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, since they start at the beach, why didn't they leave one end there, rather than repeating the entire hike all over again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand they wanted to separate Katniss from the group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T03:48:01.953" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T03:48:01.953" Title="Why didn't they leave one end of the wire at the beach?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-catching-fire|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="226" CreationDate="2013-11-30T07:27:08.067" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In reference to the great Rob Ager, it could come to mean that 'Jack' never existed, that he was merely an illusionary character used to symbolize the American man's obsessions with wealth, power and standing within a society. As Grady states &quot;&lt;em&gt;You've always been the caretaker&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, Jack is forever trapped within a cycle of pursuing a wealth, or a dream (the American Dream?) that is, in itself unattainable. I would see collativelearning, Ager does well in developing many of the common and more intelligent theories that people have about The Shining, as well as other Kubrick films. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6955" LastActivityDate="2013-11-30T07:27:08.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12267" CreationDate="2013-11-30T07:41:06.653" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add, I would also say that Tuco's grill represents the change that Hank refuses to go through. Hence, why he throws it, and for that matter, El Paso in the river. Heisenberg calls him and (if I'm not getting into spoiler territory), by extension death calls for him. So in a small way, I come to see Tuco's grill as both a grizzly reminder not only to the violence inflicted upon Hank, but the violence that he has inflicted on others. &#xA;&lt;br/&gt;Maybe the grill represents the tainted idea of being rewarded? I mean, Hank killed Tuco and yet, instead of having cuffs slapped on his wrists, people clap their hands on his back. &quot;Good job, Hank&quot;, &quot;Way to get that bastard!&quot;. But at the end of the day, Hank took a life, and I think that haunts him throughout the series. He constantly fears his own fate, verbally and emotionally (its why he has anxiety/panic attacks?) because he regrets his own thirst and actions for and towards violence.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6955" LastActivityDate="2013-11-30T07:41:06.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15459" CreationDate="2013-11-30T07:53:25.400" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think its that simple, everything within BB is chosen with almost OCD-like meticulousness. Maybe it's an a symbol of Mike's psyche? I mean, that, in terms of geography, it could mean this. Let me explain/speculate.&#xA;&lt;br/&gt; Walt is often associated with desert imagery, and this is because Walt is a isolated character. He's the desert because literally no life can survive there without having to go to extreme measures. Even the title to the last season was a reference to the desert. &quot;remember my name&quot; it promoted, whilst earlier in the film we hear&quot;....in the desert you can't remember your name, cause there ain't no one who can give you no pain&quot;. Walt constantly echoes (through his singing of America's song) this theme of isolation and furthermore unexpected death.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br/&gt; So I would hope to associate Mike to a river, or maybe regret to the river (As it was a river where Hank literally threw his one opportunity to live away). As it flows away, maybe he feels a sense of regret for an innumerable amount of reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6955" LastActivityDate="2013-11-30T07:53:25.400" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8192" CreationDate="2013-11-30T08:06:54.157" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's meaning can be found in the scene between Billie and Frank, where Frank draws on the table. Note that it is a picture of rats, swarming over the MA state dome. Why? Because I believe that the Gold Dome represents the American ideals of ambition, power and above all, honesty. To be golden, as it were. However, as we see throughout the film, the actions and decisions required to make it to the gold, are not so pure. It's all an illusion, at least, by Frank's perception. Billie's too, by the end of the film he mocks &quot;the state funeral, with all the bagpipes and shit&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He does this, because he understands that it's all just for show, and that only rats make it to the top. This can go further with the rat motif, because notice at the end, a rat crawls across Sullivan's balcony. At last, he had reached the top, but in the end...he was only a rat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6955" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-01T16:25:56.693" LastActivityDate="2013-12-01T16:25:56.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15148" CreationDate="2013-11-30T08:52:47.540" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;She was having an affair with Sutton. We know this because...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; it was her shoe Harry found at Sutton's shack. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since she was always playing strategy, it's possible she did this to get more information after discovering or because she suspected he was...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; blackmailing Gloria Harper. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interesting movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1634" LastActivityDate="2013-11-30T08:52:47.540" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1281" CreationDate="2013-11-30T09:07:17.963" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It ties into Chigurh's ultimate flaw as the &quot;ultimate badass&quot;, he is arrogant. He only puts himself directly into situations, in which he firmly believes he has control over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that in every scene, he quite literally dominates the pace, tone and direction of the conversation. This is also true in his actions, whom does he terrorize? A young naive sheriff (whose back is turned), an old gas station attendant, two simpletons, and his competitor. But only twice is Chigurh shown to be surprised by the outcome: his near death experiences. This occurs twice in the film, first with the hotel shootout and second with his car crash. It's interesting to observe that we also are granted a glimpse at his process. After his near death experiences, we can see Chigurh attend to himself medically. I believe that this is him reflecting on his mistakes; however, it is his final experience that ultimately breaks him (literally) as character. He soon learns that he could never prepare himself against the random chaos of fate, and that literally, anything could happen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also interesting, when he bandages himself up, it is usually through rudimentary and often primitive methods. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6955" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-01T16:24:14.263" LastActivityDate="2013-12-01T16:24:14.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15510" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-11-30T09:25:44.750" Score="9" ViewCount="4249" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; Saul has been shown at Andrea's new house, where he delivers Jesse's money directly to Andrea. Both her and Brock are familiar with him, we even see him conversing with Brock. &#xA;Also later in the 5th season, Walt randomly shows up on their door-step, I don't recall Jesse ever telling him where they live...it connects the dots a little, it would also explain &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; Brock was poisoned.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Saul gave him Lily of the Valley&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The doctors and Jesse believed that Brock came across the flower growing naturally and ate some poisonous berries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And how often would a kid question someone they knew? All Saul would have to do was hold out his hand and watch him eat the poison. It parallels nicely too, with Jesse's all too foreboding words &quot;&lt;em&gt;you're just feeding them hamburgers, just like every time.&lt;/em&gt;  Also note that Saul is distant with Walt throughout the 5th season, and uncomfortable whenever asked to perform a task for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So did Saul poison Brock?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6955" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T17:18:00.747" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T10:45:46.123" Title="Did Saul poison Brock?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-05-29T20:10:26.443" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15510" CreationDate="2013-11-30T10:02:10.803" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember a meeting scene of Walter and Saul, where Saul mentioned that he stole the cigarette from Jesse. Saul even mentioned that he doesn't know the intention of Walter and didn't even know that he was going to poison Brock; from that conversation, it is clear that Walter poisoned Brock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also Saul is a kind of person which can get address of anybody easily because &lt;em&gt;he knows a person, who knows a person...&lt;/em&gt;, and Saul was uncomfortable working with Walter because Walter poisoned Brock and Saul was somewhere responsible for it too because he helped in getting the cigarette. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even confirmed in this &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/14222/is-walt-really-sorry-for-poisoning-brock&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; from season 5 episode 13.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T10:45:46.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15512" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15515" CreationDate="2013-11-30T10:33:46.380" Score="1" ViewCount="450" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Fast &amp;amp; Furious&lt;/em&gt; aka &lt;em&gt;The Fast and the Furious 4&lt;/em&gt;. When Dom is out on the road piecing together Letty's accident in his mind... how does he know the color and make of the car she was driving? He obviously wasn't there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-06-28T17:29:13.973" LastActivityDate="2018-06-28T17:29:13.973" Title="How does Dom know the color of Letty's car?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fast-and-furious-franchise|fast-and-furious-4|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15498" CreationDate="2013-11-30T12:41:54.747" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/review/star-trek-obsession-the-wolf-in-the-fold-29649&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this review&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_A.V._Club&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.V. Club&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;... this alien creature is called a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Mellitus&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mellitus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that can possess people&lt;/strong&gt; and lives off of fear. It's been traveling the galaxy on a killing spree for centuries, and it landed on Argelius because everybody was so happy, and ripe for gutting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kirk figures out that Hengist has a connection to the entity, and &lt;strong&gt;when Hengist tries to escape, Kirk punches him out. He was dead all along, possessed by the creature...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Beaming Hengist into space was less of a moral problem, due to him being dead already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-11-30T12:41:54.747" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15512" CreationDate="2013-11-30T14:40:46.420" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're right, he wasn't there when the crash or subsequent shooting occurred. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the scene in question, Dom was at the crash site putting the pieces together, I'm not convinced he would have cared what colour the car was. For the sake of the viewer though, rather than narrate what he thought was happening they showed a scene with Letty's car flipping over, since this was shown in a scene and &quot;colourless&quot; isn't possible, the car had to actually be a colour. This scene is purely for the viewer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-11-30T14:40:46.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2324" CreationDate="2013-11-30T16:49:36.070" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could there be a possibility that Cobb's mentor, Mal's father, purposely trapped him within the maze as revenge for his part in Mal's suicide?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only offer my own personal observations on this theory, and if it's true then maybe the story isn't about one man incepting another, but about his own personal inception. In thematics, it might make sense: just as Mal was made to believe that her reality was an illusion, Cobb was made to believe that the illusion was his reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could also be argued that he is still dreaming because of the thematic space, in which Christopher Nolan occupies Cobb in. His character is usually associated with large castles or buildings that overlook a lonely sea, but in the 'real world' he is mostly associated with vast, winding, decaying metropolises. So if the end of the film is reality, then how is his setting that of a rural, seaside home. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answering directly, I believe that Cobb isn't in any specific level of dream, he's simply lost in the vast maze of his own consciousness. He's simply trapped within his own world, lost to reality after what he reaches what he thinks is his goal.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;But it could also be argued that he was in the real world because of the children's ages. If you stick around for the credits, you can see that two sets of children were used to act out James and Phillipa. But it's simply a technicality, the film achieves a lot more depth if Cobb is stuck in the dream. If he had been 'incepted'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6955" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-12-18T20:44:44.893" LastActivityDate="2017-12-18T20:44:44.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15079" CreationDate="2013-11-30T18:38:23.510" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Found One!&lt;br/&gt;Yes, there was a further mention of redistribution of mass, which I've just re-encountered by watching further into the following season. Season 2 ended with Olivia trapped on the other side because of collusion between alt-Olivia and Walternate. They knew Olivia, Walter, and Peter would escape the alternate universe to return home, so they captured Olivia, and sent back alt-Olivia in her place. They did NOT mention equivalent mass during this exchange, or during a slightly-revised repeat of the encounter at the following season's premiere. I believe they couldn't because a few other of our team members had crossed but were killed in the alternate universe. Without &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; mass redistribution mentioned, the script would have been flawed to mention it at all.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;When alt-Olivia's cover was blown in the following season - episode Entrada (S3E8), Walternate engineered her rescue and specifically mentioned the compensating mass of &quot;our&quot; Olivia, who was no longer useful to the other side.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Alt-Brandon: &lt;i&gt;&quot;Agent Dunham hasn't completed her mission yet.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;Walternate: &lt;i&gt;&quot;No. But we can't worry about that now. We need to provide her an extraction point.&quot;...&quot;We simply need to narrow the harmonic field to focus on something smaller -- a single person. We'll use the girl [Olivia]. We've gotten all we need from her, and obviously they have equivalent mass.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2013-11-30T18:38:23.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15519" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15533" CreationDate="2013-11-30T19:20:21.157" Score="9" ViewCount="37996" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last two episodes of the first season of the TV series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285331/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;24&lt;/a&gt;, it is shown that Nina Myers is a mole. However, from the very first episode and onwards she's very helpful to Jack Bauer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Nina help him if she was a mole? Is this purely an inconsistency, or is there some other reason for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-12-01T13:40:38.130" LastActivityDate="2019-07-01T04:43:09.243" Title="Why did Nina Myers help Jack Bauer if she was a mole?" Tags="|plot-explanation|24|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21893" CreationDate="2013-11-30T19:59:10.337" Score="2" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Anger Management&lt;/em&gt;, S2E40 (titled &quot;Charlie and the Devil&quot;), why was Luci so attracted to Noman if there was no devil acting upon her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-11-30T20:02:25.833" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T14:03:44.663" Title="In S02E40, why was Luci so attracted to Noman if there was no devil acting upon her?" Tags="|plot-explanation|anger-management|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15522" CreationDate="2013-11-30T20:10:55.330" Score="11" ViewCount="2491" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Bruce escaped from the prison, how did he manage to get into Gotham?&#xA;He had no access to his Batman-utilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6962" LastActivityDate="2016-10-20T02:20:28.750" Title="How did Bruce Wayne get into Gotham when Bane had blown up all the bridges?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15521" CreationDate="2013-11-30T23:35:23.623" Score="13" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had no access to his Batman-utilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't actually know that. I, for one, believe he had some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember in &amp;quot;The Dark Knight&amp;quot;, when he's in a restaurant, talking to Harvey, Rachel, and Natascha (a prima ballerina for the Moscow Ballet)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Natascha: How could you want to raise children in a city like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce: Well, I was raised here. I turned out okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harvey: Is Wayne Manor in the city limits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce: Is... Heh... heh... The Palisades? Sure. You know, as our new DA, you might wanna figure out where your jurisdiction ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that the Wayne Manor is outside of the city. Now, he obviously couldn't come in as the Batman, since he needed to pull up a little performance to get to heavily guarded Lucius Fox, but not using the suit does not mean he couldn't use his gadgets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How &lt;strong&gt;exactly&lt;/strong&gt; did he get in, I'm afraid will have to remain unanswered. The Tumbler would probably be a bit to much. The Batpod is more realistic option, but still hard to sneak by. We could assume that he has a secret tunnel, but I think that too is a bit too much of a stretch, given that no hint of such a tunnel was ever given, and there were few situations when it might come in handy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'd go by &amp;quot;sneaking on foot&amp;quot;. After all, he &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; a ninja, and has mastered their art of invisibility. He might have used the same grappling hook as he did in Hong Kong in &amp;quot;The Dark Knight&amp;quot;, or he could've just climb under the one bridge that was not collapsed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think that not too much though should be spent on this. Ultimately, he is Bruce Wayne, and these seemingly impossible things come easily to him. For example, finding Selina Kyle and saving her from Bane and his thugs on the roof of Daggett's mansion, or finding Rachel at just the right moment in the &amp;quot;Batman Begins&amp;quot; (the subway scene),... Plenty of perfect timings with very thin explanations (or none at all). Not to mention fixing his broken back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, these movies &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; comic adaptations, and as such they do keep a healthy dose of non-realism and cartoon physics. This way they remain lighthearted fun, not burdening us with the technical details for the sake of unnecessary realism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-11-30T23:35:23.623" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15528" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-01T06:36:42.500" Score="1" ViewCount="878" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of the movie when Leonard is talking on the phone to the mysterious caller (who we find out is Teddy [John gamble {not thee John G}]). He says he is different from Sammy Jenkins because he faked his condition. So could you say that Leonard was Sammy Jenkins up until the part where Sammy's wife has given him the shots over and over. This is where it becomes Leonard's memory but he cant make new memories according to Anterograde amnesia. If Leonard had Anterograde these memories wouldn't exist. So how is it that he is able to formulate these memories after the incident and remember them as though they were before?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not trying to find holes in the story, I just found this interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6968" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-01T07:59:45.797" LastActivityDate="2016-07-11T15:13:13.937" Title="Did Leonard Shelby know his wife because of his subconscience?" Tags="|plot-explanation|memento|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15528" CreationDate="2013-12-01T06:57:47.777" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sammy Jenkins's incident happened before Leonard's Anterograde amnesia. In Anterograde amnesia, as you stated, old memories remains same. That's why he made &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/10526/what-is-the-significance-of-the-remember-sammy-jenkins-tattoo&quot;&gt;“Remember Sammy Jenkins” tattoo&lt;/a&gt;, to remind himself of his condition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2013-12-01T06:57:47.777" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15530" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15532" CreationDate="2013-12-01T13:10:46.253" Score="9" ViewCount="4183" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is the twenty-third James Bond movie titled &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Skyfall&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched the movie but couldn't find him falling from an airplane or something...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6825" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T01:06:31.473" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T01:06:31.473" Title="Why is the movie titled &quot;Skyfall&quot;?" Tags="|title|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15530" CreationDate="2013-12-01T13:26:53.450" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ju9SG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Skyfall_Lodge&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skyfall Lodge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; used to be James Bond's home:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... &lt;strong&gt;the Bond family resided at &lt;em&gt;Skyfall Lodge&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, though James Bond had not visited his ancestral home since his parents' death. Its only resident ever since has been gamekeeper &lt;a href=&quot;http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Kincade&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kincade&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After they died, Bond's parents were buried in the chapel on the grounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-12-01T13:26:53.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15530" CreationDate="2013-12-01T15:31:32.993" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.empireonline.com/features/purvis-and-wade-on-skyfall&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt;, Purvis and Wade, authors of the film, claim the title &quot;fell from the sky&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Neal Purvis: “Unfortunately Rob came up with the title. Not as a&#xA;  title, he came up with the name of the house.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Robert Wade: “We were looking for a name for this house…”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Purvis: “Like Manderley in (Daphne du Maurier’s) Rebecca.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wade: “Exactly. It’s evocative, and you don’t really know what it&#xA;  means. And it was two o’clock in the morning, and the script had to go&#xA;  off, and I typed ‘Skyfall’. So it sort of fell out of the sky,&#xA;  actually. And I never thought that that would end up as the title of&#xA;  the movie. But it obviously struck a chord. But if we’d thought the&#xA;  name of the house would be the name of the film, and the name of the&#xA;  song…”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Purvis: “We’d have talked about it a little bit longer.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wade: “And maybe have done a three-syllable house name. Like Manderley&#xA;  – that’s pretty good, actually.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Purvis: “Yeah. It’s the first two syllable Bond title, actually. Some&#xA;  people find that interesting (laughs).”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ian Fleming, creator of the James Bond character, never named the Bond ancestral home, but in &lt;em&gt;You Only Live Twice&lt;/em&gt;, he did write that Bond's parents died in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywood.com/news/movies/44135764/skyfall-and-the-mystery-behind-james-bond-s-family&quot;&gt;mountain climbing accident&lt;/a&gt;, so interestingly, they fell from the sky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2013-12-01T16:36:43.877" LastActivityDate="2013-12-01T16:36:43.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15519" CreationDate="2013-12-01T18:03:35.430" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came away from the first season thinking that Nina was &quot;a&quot; mole, but working for someone other than the main antagonist for that season, essentially keeping track of both CTU &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; the would-be presidential assassins.  I thought the people who had kidnapped Jack's family were not associated with Nina because they ordered him to kill her at one point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see from &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-05-22/features/0205220318_1_jack-bauer-plot-nina-myers&quot;&gt;this document from Fox&lt;/a&gt; that Nina &lt;strong&gt;was&lt;/strong&gt; working for the main antagonists.  It explains some of the seeming plot holes as different operatives not knowing of each other's existence, and having no responsibility for the other operative's success or failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Richard Walsh warns Jack, &quot;Don't trust anybody, not even your own people, Jack.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Early in the series, Richard Walsh gives Jack a keycard and tells him&#xA;  that whoever's electronic signature is on the card is the dirty agent.&#xA;  Nina's signature is on the card.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Jack confronts Nina about the keycard, she deflects his suspicion&#xA;  by pointing out that she was with him in Santa Barbara (during their&#xA;  affair) the day it was last used at CTU headquarters -- and therefore&#xA;  someone else must have used it that day to set her up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In fact, she altered the date on the keycard to cover her tracks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The dead shooter's thumb (cut off by Jack in an early episode) yields no I.D. CTU speculates the only explanation is that &quot;either&#xA;  this guy doesn't exist or else he has some friends in very high&#xA;  places.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nina erased the records from the database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Nina calls Teri in the car and tells her that the dead body Jack found was Alan York's, thus alerting Teri that the man she is riding&#xA;  with in the car is not Alan York.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nina was not aware of Gaines or the details of his plan, and thus did&#xA;  not know the significance of the name Alan York, or that telling Teri&#xA;  would tip her off that she was riding with the man assigned to kidnap&#xA;  her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Jack shoots Nina, per Gaines.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nina and Gaines did not know of each other's existence. So, when&#xA;  Gaines ordered Jack to shoot Nina, he didn't know she was on his side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Nina helps catch Jamey.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nina wanted to deflect her own involvement by fingering Jamey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nina purposefully brings Kim and Teri to the safe house, essentially setting a trap for them to be recaptured. She then leads Teri to&#xA;  realize that she and Jack were lovers, turning Teri against her and&#xA;  giving her an excuse to leave.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once Alexis is stabbed and taken into custody, Nina doesn't tell the Drazens.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Telling the Drazens about Alexis does not further her objective, which&#xA;  is to ensure that Palmer is assassinated by the end of the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Drazens capture Kim as she is being returned to the detention facility.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nina told the Drazens where to find Kim, to provide them with leverage&#xA;  to force Jack to kill Palmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Drazens want Jack and his family dead. Why doesn't Nina just kill Kim and Teri when she has the chance?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nina's objective is Palmer's assassination and not the deaths of&#xA;  Jack's family members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Nina helps Jack loyally throughout the season.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nina knows that she is more powerful with Jack's confidence than&#xA;  without.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastEditorUserId="4304" LastEditDate="2013-12-01T21:22:23.620" LastActivityDate="2013-12-01T21:22:23.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3543" CreationDate="2013-12-01T19:18:49.897" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My frustration with the entire film was figuring out the dividing line between what was plausible for an illustionist in ca. 1889, and what was merely film special effects. The added or more significant (IMHO) problem with the sword bit is, it seemed spontaneous - the prince challenged him apparently on the spot to do a trick &quot;without the gadgetry&quot; - and Eisenheimm quickly conjured the sword bit. Even if the electromagnetic meme was doable (in that era, and with that sword, etc.) wouldn't it have to have been set up ahead of time (it seemed to be in a royal ballroom, not at Eisenheimm's theatre or on a specially prepared stage; considering the suspicions and jealousies of the crown prince, wouldn't he or even the inspector have been snooping around to witness such preparations?). That seems the most implausible aspect of the trick. The other illusions did seem cinematic to a degree but were subtle enough that one could suspend disbelief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6976" LastActivityDate="2013-12-01T19:18:49.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="641" CreationDate="2013-12-01T19:29:42.223" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although the restaurant where it was filmed may actually be in Portugal, there is no practical way the guy would drive from Marseilles to anywhere in Portugal.  Not logical. There are many expats of Portuguese decent living in France; there are many enclaves.  That is what was intended in the film. Although ... it is certainly not clear in the movie.  They mostly work in construction, or in the service industries, as did Aurelia.  Their numbers are substantial enough that they have their own neighborhoods and restaurants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6977" LastActivityDate="2013-12-01T19:29:42.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15539" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-01T20:23:23.670" Score="8" ViewCount="3084" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many movies and TV episodes in which a character &quot;crosses his own timeline&quot;, sometimes even meeting his past or future self (e.g. &lt;em&gt;The Day of the Doctor&lt;/em&gt;). Technically, I should say meeting his past self &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; meeting his future self, I suppose, since this is actually what happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they supposedly alter their own future resulting in their never having travelled in time (as in &lt;em&gt;Back to The Future&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Looper&lt;/em&gt;), or narrowly avoid doing so, this is known as the &quot;grandfather paradox&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are we, the audience, supposed to make sense of this, if we actually think it through logically?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you perform an action which has an effect that you never survived or were never ever born, then how did you travel in time in the first place? (Although it's not really &quot;in the first place&quot;, if you travelled backwards in time...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that there is some quantum mechanics theory relevant to this but the average cinema-goer doesn't know about all that stuff, surely...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="729" LastActivityDate="2020-07-06T10:12:43.560" Title="Crossing your own timeline, changing the future - how does that work?" Tags="|doctor-who|time-travel|looper|back-to-the-future|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15539" CreationDate="2013-12-01T20:42:15.647" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My belief is that the audience is guided towards the nonsensical belief that there are two dimensions of time - ordinary time, and &quot;meta-time&quot; - that is, that before &quot;now&quot; in &quot;meta-time&quot;, the universe had such-and-such a history, but one second later in &quot;meta-time&quot;, history was &quot;changed&quot;, and the past became a different past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't actually make sense from a physics point of view, and they are usually careful not to be explicit about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not talking about &quot;personal time&quot; - how time subjectively appears to a character - although it is easy to get confused between &quot;personal time&quot; and this idea of meta-time, because they are usually coterminous from the point of view of a particular protagonist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way to make it really consistent is if the protagonist who &quot;changes the past&quot; is really God, and everything else is effectively just a figment of his imagination, or a dream in other words. Otherwise, as soon as you start thinking about what would happen if someone else also &quot;changed the past&quot;, it all falls apart, because the &quot;personal time&quot; theory doesn't fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="729" LastEditorUserId="729" LastEditDate="2013-12-01T20:52:18.257" LastActivityDate="2013-12-01T20:52:18.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15541" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-01T21:32:17.587" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Man of Tai Chi is a 2013 Chinese-American martial arts film directed by and starring Keanu Reeves. The film is Reeves's directorial debut. Man of Tai Chi is a multilingual narrative, partly inspired by the life of Reeves' friend, stuntman Tiger Chen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Tai_Chi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-01T21:32:17.587" LastActivityDate="2013-12-01T21:32:17.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15542" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-01T21:32:17.587" Score="0" Body="2013 Chinese-American martial arts film directed by and starring Keanu Reeves partly inspired by the life of Reeves' friend, stuntman Tiger Chen." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-01T21:32:17.587" LastActivityDate="2013-12-01T21:32:17.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15544" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-02T01:34:25.453" Score="5" ViewCount="10730" Body="&lt;p&gt;Billy Costigan's uncle Jackie is mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Departed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with Queenan and Dignam, then again during Sullivan's briefing scene. How was he important to Frank Costello's crew?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6955" LastEditorUserId="34594" LastEditDate="2016-09-24T18:19:44.880" LastActivityDate="2016-09-24T18:19:44.880" Title="What was the role of Jackie Costigan?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-departed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9107" CreationDate="2013-12-02T02:36:53.333" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm almost positive he knows it's her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those little things he says are just like his personality to poke at her.&#xA;Inquiring deeper than most people about her aunt and uncle and how they died.&#xA;Ordering milk for her knowing she had been taken in and saw her family murdered at a dairy farm, watching her as he said it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jews in hiding weren't hiding because no one would notice them, they probably made the mistake of leaving behind pictures, the state probably had photo ideas. And Landa doesn't seem like the type to forget a face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that last thing he couldn't remember that must have just not been important.&#xA;He ended the movie betraying Hitler. That's not a split-second decision. He had probably known at that time the state of things in the war and was planning his betrayal at that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why exert himself more than needed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6979" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2020-02-16T12:35:38.907" LastActivityDate="2020-02-16T12:35:38.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15546" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15547" CreationDate="2013-12-02T05:03:25.543" Score="3" ViewCount="1647" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been watching Bewitched on Netflix, and I noticed that two episodes in season 1 are in colour, while the rest of the episodes in the season are in black and white.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read that the show switched to colour in season 3, so how are these two season 1 episodes offered in colour?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6980" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-02T05:58:22.440" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T05:59:18.320" Title="How are colourized season 1 episodes available on Netflix?" Tags="|netflix|bewitched-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15546" CreationDate="2013-12-02T05:38:54.033" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bewitched#DVD_releases&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Beginning in 2005, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released all eight seasons of Bewitched. In regions 1 and 4, seasons 1 and 2 were each released in two versions—one as originally broadcast in black-and-white, and one colorized. Only the colorized editions were released in regions 2 and 4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-02T05:59:18.320" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T05:59:18.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15548" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-02T06:00:29.407" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Netflix, Inc. is an American provider of on-demand Internet streaming media available to North and South America, the Caribbean, United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States, where mailed DVDs are sent via Permit Reply Mail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-02T06:00:29.407" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T06:00:29.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15549" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-02T06:00:29.407" Score="0" Body="American provider of on-demand Internet streaming media and flat rate DVD-by-mail. To be used for general questions about Netflix, not for questions about individual films or shows streamed on or produced by Netflix." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-13T16:16:30.680" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T16:16:30.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15550" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-02T06:01:56.790" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bewitched is an American fantasy situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972. It was created by Sol Saks under executive director Harry Ackerman, and stars Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York (1964–1969), Dick Sargent (1969–1972), Agnes Moorehead, and David White. The show is about a witch who marries an ordinary mortal man and tries to lead the life of a typical suburban housewife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bewitched&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-02T06:01:56.790" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T06:01:56.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15551" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-02T06:01:56.790" Score="0" Body="American fantasy situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972 starring Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York. The show is about a witch who marries an ordinary mortal man and tries to lead the life of a typical suburban housewife. " OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-02T06:01:56.790" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T06:01:56.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15552" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15553" CreationDate="2013-12-02T08:29:04.457" Score="18" ViewCount="4291" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering that the film is an American kung-fu production which takes on Chinese traditions and culture, how was it received in China? Did local critics consider it a humorous animated Chinese tale? Or was it derided for being an inaccurate portrayal, a parody, or a Western stereotyping of Chinese culture?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-15T20:00:03.677" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T20:00:03.677" Title="How was Kung Fu Panda received in China?" Tags="|kung-fu-panda|reception|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15552" CreationDate="2013-12-02T08:35:13.663" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_Panda#Box_office&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kung Fu Panda was also well received in China. It made nearly 110&#xA;  million Chinese Yuan by July 2, 2008, becoming the first animated film&#xA;  to make more than 100 million Yuan in Chinese box offices. The&#xA;  Chinese director Lu Chuan commented, &quot;From a production standpoint,&#xA;  the movie is nearly perfect. Its American creators showed a very&#xA;  sincere attitude about Chinese culture.&quot; With the film's&#xA;  success at the Chinese box office, some people within China have&#xA;  questioned the quality of China's domestic animations. The fact that&#xA;  such a successful film based on Chinese culture was created by the&#xA;  American film industry has led to some Chinese introspection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it looks like it was well received in China.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-02T10:30:56.617" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T10:30:56.617" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15554" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-02T08:38:44.547" Score="8" ViewCount="7584" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Master Shifu&lt;/em&gt; is a supporting character in the &lt;em&gt;Kung Fu Panda&lt;/em&gt; (franchise). But seeing as to how his name is something of a &lt;em&gt;tautonym&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;shifu&lt;/em&gt; means &lt;em&gt;master&lt;/em&gt; in Mandarin), what is used for his name in the Chinese dub?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T11:13:36.380" LastActivityDate="2021-05-28T12:37:04.053" Title="What is the name of Master Shifu in the Chinese dub of Kung Fu Panda?" Tags="|character|kung-fu-panda|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15554" CreationDate="2013-12-02T09:46:26.723" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most probably Sifu because their meaning is same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sifu (Cantonese Chinese) or shifu (Mandarin Chinese) (or shih-fu) is&#xA;  the identical pronunciation of two Chinese terms for a master. - (Source - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sifu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in &lt;a href=&quot;http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BE%BE%E6%96%AF%E6%B1%80%C2%B7%E9%9C%8D%E5%A4%AB%E6%9B%BC&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dustin Hoffman's Chinese Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;, he is listed as 师傅 (Master). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-01T15:15:13.010" LastActivityDate="2014-01-01T15:15:13.010" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15556" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15557" CreationDate="2013-12-02T10:17:31.160" Score="6" ViewCount="772" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Jurassic Park, What was the Dilophosaurus made of? Neither can I make it out be an animatronic robot like T-Rex/Triceratops nor a human costume like Velociraptor (since it was very small). Was it CGI, although it looked real?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5722" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-02T10:27:34.003" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T23:02:01.753" Title="How was the Dilophosaurus scene shot?" Tags="|film-techniques|jurassic-park|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15556" CreationDate="2013-12-02T10:38:47.227" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its achieved by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animatronics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Animatronic&lt;/a&gt; robot. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/blog/making-jurassic-park-dilophosaurus-aka-spitter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; for full details with picture, to know how it is achieved. Few more picture of Dilophosaurus's making are present &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/blog/jurassic-park-dilophosaurus-dinosaur-puppet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/3IJQjhdLbbo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T23:02:01.753" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T23:02:01.753" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4104" CreationDate="2013-12-02T11:33:52.483" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;IIRC there was a scene near the beggining showing pictures of the Ark with priests carrying it with poles, the priests were blindfolded and around them were their enemies hit by lightning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-02T11:48:10.520" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T11:48:10.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15560" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-02T12:59:54.110" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy wuxia film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by John Wayne Stevenson and Mark Osborne and produced by Melissa Cobb, and stars the voice of Jack Black along with Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Ian McShane, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross, Randall Duk Kim, James Hong, Dan Fogler, Michael Clarke Duncan and Jackie Chan. Set in a version of ancient China populated by anthropomorphic talking animals, the plot revolves around a bumbling panda named Po who aspires to be a kung fu master. When an evil kung fu warrior is foretold to escape from prison, Po is unwittingly named the chosen one destined to bring peace to the land, much to the chagrin of the resident kung fu warriors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_Panda&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-02T12:59:54.110" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T12:59:54.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15561" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-02T12:59:54.110" Score="0" Body="2008 American computer-animated action comedy wuxia film starring the voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, et al. Set in a version of ancient China populated by anthropomorphic talking animals, the plot revolves around a bumbling panda named Po who aspires to be a kung fu master." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-02T12:59:54.110" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T12:59:54.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15539" CreationDate="2013-12-02T14:23:44.480" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two logical ways of dealing with time travel paradoxes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StableTimeLoop&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stable time loop&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. When you travel to the past, whatever you do, you won't actually change anything (which pretty much implies there is no free will).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fiction, the way this is often done is that the time traveller attempts to change the past, but doesn't succeed, because it was him who caused the final outcome in the first place. Or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlternateTimeline&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alternate timelines&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. When you travel back in time, you cause the creation of an alternate timeline. So there are now two timelines: the one where you left and the one where you arrived. This means that you can do anything and it won't change the original timeline, so no paradoxes are possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though many films and TV shows (including BTTF and Doctor Who) don't use any of the two approaches and instead use approach that doesn't make sense (people slowly vanishing, monsters killing people because change occured, but only sometimes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="282" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T14:23:44.480" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14560" CreationDate="2013-12-02T16:06:07.170" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think about it, I think it's spelled out pretty plainly for us with Walter standing there with the pink sweater on.  We're led through the chain reaction of cause and effects, poor decisions and their outcome.  Walter's drive to achieve in an industry that he's completely unfit for (as was pointed out to him by a psycho drug distributor at one point) contributed to Jesse hitting the pipe hard, which led to his girlfriend falling off the wagon and getting on heroin again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was even there with the opportunity to save her life as she choked on her vomit, but relented.  Her death then caused her father to drop the ball in his job as an air traffic controller, causing the collision of the planes, which brought Pinky the Bear to his pool, burnt and in pieces.  This at the moment that he's contemplating how he destroyed his own family by the same decision to make bank as a meth producer and dealer; it's a metaphorical collision of disastrous proportions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't forget the unseen victims, the users of his product, which has now spread across the whole South West, as demonstrated in this episode, it's comparable to a couple of airliners full of people colliding in midair, probably worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6987" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-02T17:04:29.743" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T17:04:29.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15567" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15647" CreationDate="2013-12-02T18:12:24.700" Score="5" ViewCount="14458" Body="&lt;p&gt;How long is the interval between the events of &lt;em&gt;Kick-Ass&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Kick-Ass 2&lt;/em&gt;? I believe that Mindy is said to be 15 in the sequel. Do we know how old she was in &lt;em&gt;Kick-Ass&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about in the comics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T04:26:56.553" Title="How long is the interval between the events of Kick-Ass and Kick-Ass 2?" Tags="|sequels|kick-ass|kick-ass-2|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15568" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-02T18:36:35.043" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kick-Ass is a British-American 2010 superhero action-comedy film based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. It tells the story of an ordinary teenager, Dave Lizewski (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), who sets out to become a real-life superhero, calling himself &quot;Kick-Ass&quot;. Dave gets caught up in a bigger fight when he meets Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage), a former cop who, in his quest to bring down the drug lord Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong) and his son (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), has trained his eleven-year-old daughter (Chloë Grace Moretz) to be the ruthless vigilante Hit-Girl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick-Ass_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-02T18:36:35.043" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T18:36:35.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15569" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-02T18:36:35.043" Score="0" Body="British-American 2010 superhero action-comedy film based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. It tells the story of an ordinary teenager, Dave Lizewski (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), who sets out to become a real-life superhero, calling himself &quot;Kick-Ass&quot;." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-02T18:36:35.043" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T18:36:35.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15570" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-02T18:37:38.520" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kick-Ass 2 is a 2013 British-American superhero action-comedy film based on the comic book of the same name and Hit-Girl, both by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr., and is the sequel to the 2010 film Kick-Ass, as well as the second installment of the Kick-Ass film series. The film was written and directed by Jeff Wadlow and co-produced by Matthew Vaughn, who directed the first film. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Chloë Grace Moretz reprise their roles from the first film as Kick-Ass, The Motherfucker (&quot;Red Mist&quot; in the first film), and Hit-Girl respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick-Ass_2_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-02T18:37:38.520" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T18:37:38.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15571" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-02T18:37:38.520" Score="0" Body="2013 British-American superhero action-comedy film based on the comic book of the same name and Hit-Girl, both by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr., and is the sequel to the 2010 film Kick-Ass." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-02T18:37:38.520" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T18:37:38.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15287" CreationDate="2013-12-02T18:46:05.350" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie I was looking for is Pale Face starring Bob Hope.  He has the same scene as Sellers, getting goofy on the laughing gas and then pulling the wrong tooth.  Blake Edwards' version is much longer and funnier, but Hope and Sellers were different comic actors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6830" LastActivityDate="2013-12-02T18:46:05.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15574" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15579" CreationDate="2013-12-03T02:10:44.510" Score="16" ViewCount="21807" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would seem more logical for a graduate student of microbiology to be working at a lab or perhaps as a teacher's assistant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it ever explained why she needs to work as a waitress to pay for her tuition?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6980" LastActivityDate="2014-08-02T01:29:05.470" Title="Why does Bernadette work at the Cheesecake Factory?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15567" CreationDate="2013-12-03T02:33:24.120" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure about the comics; I don't read them. But for sure, its completely different, considering Mindy was not 15 in the comics, but was rather the same age as she was in Kick-Ass (1). I think it was mentioned somewhere that Mindy was 12 in the first movie. That makes the time-skip more or less 3 years. Besides, it also fits the movies; the first Kick-Ass was released in 2010, and the second 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6353" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T02:33:24.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15577" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17044" CreationDate="2013-12-03T05:59:46.550" Score="3" ViewCount="5208" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't feel like &lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&lt;/em&gt; fully explained this. It seems awfully convenient to have a tree where lightning strikes 12 times every hour. What would possibly be the point of this in the &quot;game&quot;? It would only kill someone if they were on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1641" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T10:45:23.777" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T11:15:40.823" Title="What was the purpose of the lightning tree?" Tags="|analysis|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-catching-fire|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15577" CreationDate="2013-12-03T06:33:43.287" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that Heavensbee, the current gamemaker, is in fact working for the insurgents. He would have absolute power to decide to create something like a lightning tree, for Beetee to use. And since its hazardous nonetheless, it doesn't raise any other official's eyebrows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6353" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T06:33:43.287" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15574" CreationDate="2013-12-03T06:54:35.750" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is never explained that I know of. But Pasadena is in the middle of an area with several top notch universities (A couple of UCs, USC, loads of CSUs and of course CalTech) so there must've been loads of graduate students and perhaps not that many appropriate lab jobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T06:54:35.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15583" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15584" CreationDate="2013-12-03T14:42:30.333" Score="14" ViewCount="29507" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are some films still shot in black and white or sepia? I can understand if it's perhaps a &quot;period piece&quot; like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1655442/&quot;&gt;The Artist&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452624/&quot;&gt;The Good German&lt;/a&gt;, or if, like in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401792/&quot;&gt;Sin City&lt;/a&gt;, it's done to perhaps stay true to the source material. But movies such as the recent &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2347569/&quot;&gt;Frances Ha&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113247/&quot;&gt;La Haine&lt;/a&gt; have no such obvious requirements. Then there's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109445/&quot;&gt;Clerks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is, what would drive a director to choose to film in black and white? What qualities does shooting without colour lend to the film? Is it less expensive to shoot in black and white?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T11:56:56.507" Title="Why are some movies still shot in black and white or sepia?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|black-and-white|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15583" CreationDate="2013-12-03T14:51:18.353" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clerks was shot in black and white for budgetary purposes, they just didn't have the money to film it in color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frances Ha was filmed digitally (Color) and in black and white, and was done in b&amp;amp;w to evoke reminisces of movies such as Woody Allen's Manhattan, or works by Truffaut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot find any references explaining why La Haine is in black and white, but considering that it was filmed during riots and contained other raw footage type scenes, it may have been both a budgetary and dramatic effect choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originally, color film was available as early as the 1920's, however it was very expensive to work with, and as the development process was not very robust, colors could change depending on chemicals used and time exposed. Additionally, there were not very many cameras available that could utilize color film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technicolor developed a fairly consistent, robust development process in the 40's, and in the late stages of the decade was forced via anti-trust to license their process royalty free. This made color filming much more available and cost effective, and color slowly became cheaper than black and white.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Black and white is now more of an artistic choice. As stated by Roger Deakins (Principal photographer on The Man Who Wasn't There) in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zenoshrdlu.com/zenobw.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Black-and-white] focuses you on the content and the story, and it really concentrates your attention on what's in the frame. All too often, color can be a distraction -- it's easier to make color look good, but harder to make color service the story. Black-and-white imagery is much more about the balance between the light and shade in the frame, and I think it can help convey story points a lot better with fewer distractions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lighting is not only about lighting; it's also about not lighting, and cutting light off of objects as much as shining light on them. Those kinds of considerations are as important in colour photography as they are in black-and-white, but the sheer beauty of a well-composed and well-lit black-and-white frame is hard to beat, because it's difficult to produce that type of focus and simplicity when you're shooting in color. It's vitally important to be able to separate shapes and surfaces through the use of light and shade, and to focus the audience's attention on what you want them to see. Color is seductive, but it's harder to get past the surface gloss to create a truly simple and relevant image. I almost wish every film were in black-and-white&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: The above referenced article has quite a few links regarding use of black and white, including references to using it to distinguish between two worlds in a movie, (Such as Wizard of Oz, Purple Rose of Cairo), and statements by directors essentially that it evokes an other worldliness and/or nostalgia and memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With digital cameras and editing, the process can become easier and much less expensive, as there are programs and tools available to take a color image and convert to grayscale. There are two main methods, luminosity (assigns a shade of gray based on brightness of tone), and color altering which alters the colors themselves before the conversion. (There are only 256 shades of gray available, while modern color has over 16 million shades).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Modern cameras also have settings to mimic various types of black and white film, such as Afgapan (Afga was/is a German company that developed color methods around the same time as Eastman Kodak/Technicolor), Ilford and Kodak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T16:15:40.413" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15501" CreationDate="2013-12-03T15:52:13.190" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is just what I gathered from both the book and film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's likely that the group was being watched by the others. If they'd left anything behind it would arouse their suspicion and risk failure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being the larger and more dangerous group it would be more secure for them to be seen to move as a group rather than leave people behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5805" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T15:52:13.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15583" CreationDate="2013-12-03T16:20:55.100" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some directors just &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; black and white movies and sometimes have ideas that seem to be better suited to B&amp;amp;W. It's usually an &lt;strong&gt;artistic choice&lt;/strong&gt;, not for financial reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Directors like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytrash.com/deadman/deadjj.html#1&quot;&gt;Jim Jarmusch&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://aronofksy.tripod.com/interview14.html&quot;&gt;Darren Aronofsky&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Wood_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Tim Burton&lt;/a&gt; actively choose, or sometimes &lt;a href=&quot;http://metro.co.uk/2013/03/06/tim-burton-disney-was-brave-to-let-me-make-frankenweenie-in-black-and-white-3526469/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;insist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that certain projects not be in color. &lt;a href=&quot;http://woodyallenwednesday.com/manhattan.html&quot;&gt;Woody Allen&lt;/a&gt; shot Manhattan in B&amp;amp;W because “that’s how I remember it from when I was small. Maybe it’s a reminiscence from old photographs, films, books and all that. But that’s how I remember New York.”  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I for one am glad we still get the occasional B&amp;amp;W movie. I love how good they can look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T16:20:55.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15236" CreationDate="2013-12-03T16:33:13.057" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ricin was always Walt's go-to poison. This is becuase it's not at all common and very hard to detect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As knowlegable as Gus was, it's very unlikely that he'd know about a poison such as ricin.Gus is a business man nad owner of a chicken franchise, not an expert in chemistry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was actually found to be ricin in brock's system, Jesse would have immediatley blamed Walt despite it coming from his own pack of cigarettes. By using Lily of the Valley (stated in the show as a commonly found poison) it's much easier to believe that Gus could be aware of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5805" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T16:33:13.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2657" CreationDate="2013-12-03T22:17:26.467" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thirteen Assassins has got to top the list. The final battle is over 45 minutes of nonstop fighting. No dialogue breaks, no plot twists, just thirteen badasses against two hundred hired goons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7000" LastActivityDate="2013-12-03T22:17:26.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15596" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17157" CreationDate="2013-12-04T01:45:53.557" Score="3" ViewCount="2260" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the course of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106664/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dark Half&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we learn that the killer is actually George Stark, an alter ego that Thad Beaumont invented in order to publish books not to be brought in relation with his name. When Thad decides to put an end to this alternate carreer, this alter ego turns real, though more as an incarnation of Alexis Machine, the antihero from George Stark's books. He seems to embody something like Thad's dark evil side and tries to push Thad into writing a new story about George in order to make him completely real. But then there is also the story about the &quot;tumor&quot; that Thad got removed from his brain when he was a child, which is revealed to actually have been the remnants of Thad's unborn twin that Thad absorbed into himself pre-birth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I am not completely sure how to bring those characters into relation. If Thad's evil side was bound to and removed with his unborn twin and now comes to life, then &lt;strong&gt;why is this George Stark whom Thad only invented years later, and why didn't it break out earlier?&lt;/strong&gt; But if it is George Stark representing Thad's hidden evil side and created by him, turning to real life after Thad's attempt to metaphorically &quot;kill him&quot;, then how is he related to the twin? &lt;strong&gt;Why even need the story about the twin then if he isn't related to Stark at all&lt;/strong&gt; (though the sparrows, which are repeatedly used as &quot;soul escorts&quot; in the story, appearing at the surgery suggest that even back then the twin already had some kind of soul or a part of Thad's soul)? So &lt;strong&gt;what is the connection between George Stark and Thad Beaumont's unborn twin&lt;/strong&gt; and what is the real nature and background of the killer? Did I miss anything in the movie or is this explained further in the novel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as a side question, &lt;strong&gt;why is it that George Stark's real incarnation is actually more like Alexis Machine&lt;/strong&gt;, Stark's book hero, but wants to turn to full life by Thad writing about him, while Stark has never been a book figure but someone &lt;em&gt;writing&lt;/em&gt; books? (Though, that may just be a minor iconsistency/mixup, but could also have a better explanation or be related to the above questions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-11-05T22:38:37.520" LastActivityDate="2017-11-05T22:38:37.520" Title="How is George Stark related to the twin?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-dark-half|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15598" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15603" CreationDate="2013-12-04T06:03:59.827" Score="13" ViewCount="2992" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie a few years ago and don't remember much about it, but I'll try my best. Pretty sure it was an indie film on Netflix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This college-aged girl wakes up after being knocked out (tried to overdose on drugs I think) for a few days, only to realize the zombie apocalypse has struck.  She gets a call from her friend, telling her to head over to her place where they're safe.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Basically she spends the duration of the movie trying to survive, avoiding the zombies, and at one point she is held up in a cellar with another family.  The family acts terrified of her, but she is not sure why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, when she walks in to her friend's apartment, you see her from her friend's point of view, only to realize she's been a zombie the whole time!  She gets killed by her friend's boyfriend (I think), and that's the end of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone can tell me the name of this film, I would be eternally grateful.  it's driving me insane!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7003" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-12-04T07:28:03.113" LastActivityDate="2015-09-05T12:09:39.670" Title="Zombie Movie where girl realizes that zombie apocalypse happened" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:54:12.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15600" CreationDate="2013-12-04T07:50:29.210" Score="8" ViewCount="4263" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching Supernatural yesterday, and Dean bribed a motel clerk to get some info about vampires. Then it hit me, where do they get money?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am aware that Dean was a construction worker in the 6th season. But given how they are always on the road, it doesn't explain how they get along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7004" LastEditorUserId="3862" LastEditDate="2013-12-04T09:00:40.070" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T04:38:35.683" Title="Where do Sam &amp; Dean get money from?" Tags="|plot-explanation|supernatural|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15599" CreationDate="2013-12-04T08:30:45.290" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;By credit card scam or stolen credit cards (mentioned in first season) and by hustles pool and poker games. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2013-12-04T08:30:45.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15602" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15605" CreationDate="2013-12-04T10:41:12.810" Score="16" ViewCount="3075" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to identify a probable 70's movie about a captured allied soldier. The German captors set up a fake hospital away from the city, complete with ingenious and very convincing details. The prisoner keeps some important military secret his captors covet, and when he wakes up he is told that the war is over and the Germans won, that he was hurt and has amnesia, and that he should rest and be released when fully recovered. Meanwhile they try to get him to reveal the secret claiming it no longer matters since the war is over. The soldier almost falls for it, but in the end he notices a small but troublesome paper cut hidden in a fold in his finger, and therefore not found when his captors painstakingly inspected his body for recent wounds. The cut is obviously recent and he remembers how it came about, thus proving the whole thing is a charade and the secret is not revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: Solved, it's &quot;36 Hours&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6860" LastEditorUserId="6860" LastEditDate="2013-12-12T21:02:49.413" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T21:02:49.413" Title="Fake German postwar hospital to trick allied soldier into revealing secrets" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:54:15.327" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15598" CreationDate="2013-12-04T10:44:07.557" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1112285/?ref_=tt_ov_inf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fear Itself&lt;/a&gt;: Season 1, Episode 6 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1117024/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;New Year's Day&lt;/a&gt;), from IMDb's synopsis all plot-line is matching. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Day_%28Fear_Itself%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is full Wikipedia summary of the episode. Even the ending of the episode is matching with your provided details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-05T12:09:39.670" LastActivityDate="2015-09-05T12:09:39.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15332" CreationDate="2013-12-04T10:49:23.180" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just saw this movie not long ago for the advanced screening. Its seems that thousands were killed in the battle as Ender was made to believe he was in a simulation but he actually wasn't. Harrison Ford states that thousands were necessarily sacrificed in the battle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7006" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-04T11:59:45.500" LastActivityDate="2013-12-04T11:59:45.500" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15602" CreationDate="2013-12-04T11:41:55.773" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie you're looking for is most probably &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057809/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_74&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;36 Hours&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from 1965. It stars &lt;em&gt;James Garner&lt;/em&gt; as an Allied officer captured shortly before D-Day. The Germans stage a play for him pretending that he was in coma and meanwhile the Allies have won, to trick him into revealing the supposedly successful Allied attack plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In this psychological war-drama an Army Major is captured by the&#xA;  Germans during World War II. They attempt to brainwash him into&#xA;  believing the war is over and that he is safe in an Allied hospital,&#xA;  so that he will divulge Allied invasion plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I even think to remember this clue with the small cut wound that makes him realize the fraud.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2013-12-04T11:41:55.773" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15602" CreationDate="2013-12-04T11:42:45.310" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36_Hours&quot;&gt;36 Hours&lt;/a&gt;, From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057809/&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World&#xA;  War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion&#xA;  of Europe out of him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2013-12-04T11:42:45.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15608" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-04T14:51:27.007" Score="7" ViewCount="39441" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Fifth Element Leeloo has some document that's pretty much looks like a driver license but bears a large &quot;Multi pass&quot; caption on it. She display it when boarding the spacecraft and introduces herself saying &lt;em&gt;Leeloo Dallas mul-ti-pass&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does &quot;Multi pass&quot; mean here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3707" LastEditorUserId="33921" LastEditDate="2017-11-15T16:25:04.167" LastActivityDate="2017-11-15T16:25:04.167" Title="What is the &quot;multi pass&quot; Leeloo had?" Tags="|the-fifth-element|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15608" CreationDate="2013-12-04T14:58:32.513" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just an identification card/credit card/money card/etc all rolled into one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FjuAo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Leeloo Dallas Multi-Pass&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-12-04T14:58:32.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9818" CreationDate="2013-12-04T15:16:19.437" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a fantasy playing out in Ofelia's mind.  She is a child of war and this is her escape from the atrocities she is witnessing.&#xA;If you know Spanish the fawn speaks to Ofelia in the &quot;vosotros&quot; subject, translating to you (plural) in English.  A nice detail on Del Toro's part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7009" LastActivityDate="2013-12-04T15:16:19.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15612" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44654" CreationDate="2013-12-04T19:00:29.133" Score="6" ViewCount="882" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to ID a movie that I had caught the end of as a child.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific scenes that I remember are a cat-and-mouse exchange between the protagonist and a couple of henchmen in a giant, well-lit, enclosed maze or labyrinth.  The antagonist, if I remember correctly, was monitoring the event from some sort of control room that had a giant screen representing the maze and yellow and red dots representing the protagonist and henchmen.  The protagonist eventually takes the electronic tracker off of his belt (I believe) to mislead the henchmen into believing they have him cornered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also clearly remember the ending, in which the antagonist compound is vaporized by some sort of laser blast, which may have been from a satellite - I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other information I have to give is that there was definitely some sort of female lead / damsel in distress.  All-in-all, the movie definitely had a very &quot;James Bond&quot; feel to it, although I'm relatively certain that it isn't a Bond film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3495" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T14:26:54.517" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T14:26:54.517" Title="Villain tracks henchmen chasing hero through a maze/labyrinth" Tags="|identify-this-movie|action|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:54:21.580" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15614" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-04T21:44:04.040" Score="15" ViewCount="18541" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, &lt;em&gt;The Green Mile&lt;/em&gt;, I knew instantly that the small, &quot;magical&quot; like mouse had some sort of symbolic meaning but I cannot for the life of me think of what that meaning could be. Does anyone know why or how the mouse is symbolic or have any idea of what the mouse represents? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7014" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-05T19:36:17.397" LastActivityDate="2017-09-26T01:12:00.810" Title="What does the mouse symbolize?" Tags="|analysis|the-green-mile|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15616" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-04T22:15:25.270" Score="6" ViewCount="856" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a girl in an all-girls school, or perhaps a convent. One night they have some kind  of dance, and get to dance with these men, who I seem to remember are convicts, seems a bit strange though. The girl meets and falls in love with one of the men, they then make out in some kind of church with lots of candles around them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point in the film, the boy is running through a forest and sees the girl lying in a pond photographing herself, with all the photography gear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They run away together and live in a hut on a mountain somewhere but the police eventually catch up with them. A police helicopter appears right next to their hut but they manage to escape somehow by (I think) jumping off a waterfall, and then going underwater through a tunnel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say it's from the 80's or 90's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7015" LastActivityDate="2013-12-04T22:26:14.710" Title="Identify this film about a couple who escape from the police down a waterfall" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:54:24.700" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15614" CreationDate="2013-12-04T22:25:17.783" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always thought of the mouse as a storytelling vehicle to show us a few things: the humanity and kindness that still resides in the hearts of the convicted murderers in the Green Mile (and by contrast the inhumanity and cruelty of Percy) and to allow John Coffey to demonstrate his healing powers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Del's crimes are heinous, yet he still shows a child like wonder at the mouse's intelligence and adopts it as a friend. The guards know Del's crimes, yet they help him take care of the mouse joined as they are by a bond that is very human. Percy, on the other hand, doesn't share that bond. He may not have been convicted of any crimes, yet his inhumanely cruel nature bars him from bonding with the prisoners and the mouse, as he sees both as targets for him to exercise his power. This is shown by him attempting to kill the Mouse and torture Del on the electric chair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the mouse mortally wounded, Coffey gets to show us his healing powers. He not only revives him, but also as we see later on imbues him with a longer lifespan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-05T19:40:05.557" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T19:40:05.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15616" CreationDate="2013-12-04T22:26:14.710" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are looking for the 1986 film, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091053/&quot;&gt;Fire With Fire&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The boy is from a prison camp, and she is from a Catholic school. She is floating in the lake recreating the painting Ophelia for a photography class, when he sees her during a training exercise. They eventually run away together, setting the scene for the pursuit later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2013-12-04T22:26:14.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15394" CreationDate="2013-12-05T01:40:23.990" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I work in film/TV, and here's how it's usually done in professional shoots. The main actors (pretty much everyone with lines) wear hidden lavalier microphones all day long, in every scene. For the most part they're unseen, even in real life (hidden under shirt collars, on the inside of clothing, etc.). &lt;em&gt;However,&lt;/em&gt; the audio quality from lavalier microphones is mediocre, which is why shoots still use boom mics. (The lavalier audio is treated mainly as a backup.) So what do you do for wide shots where you can't squeeze in a boom?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simple: use the audio from the closeup. Remember that for most scenes, the coverage of the scene in the wide shot is usually the beginning or end of the scene, often covering motion like actors walking up to each other. Most dialogue, in the final edit, is shown in closeup where we can see actors' faces well and see their reactions. That's also the coverage where the audio is of highest quality. So what's done is crews shoot &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the dialogue in closeup, even if they know that the first line or two will be shown in wide shot in the final edit, and then the audio from the closeup is overlaid on top of the picture from the wide shot. This has the double benefit of having the audio perfectly match the audio from the rest of the scene (i.e. the closeups) and it's of higher quality. Keep in mind that a shot that's too wide for a boom is also so wide that we can't see the actors' lips clearly, so there's more latitude for using audio from other takes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the unusual scene that is covered &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; in wide shot, crews would also record what's called &quot;wild lines&quot; on site: takes for the sound department only, where the camera isn't rolling. For wild lines the boom mic is positioned directly below the actor's mouth, in the ideal position. It's recorded on site, rather than months later in a studio, for two reasons: to more closely match the actor's recorded performance, and so that any background noise (or &quot;room tone&quot;) matches any other audio recorded at that location. In general American or Hollywood-style shoots try to avoid ADR whenever possible, as it doesn't sound as realistic as audio recorded on site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5352" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T01:40:23.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14712" CreationDate="2013-12-05T01:49:52.647" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;More recent films also use digital doubles to animate all but actors' faces. This was used extensively on &lt;em&gt;Ender's Game,&lt;/em&gt; and to some extent on &lt;em&gt;Gravity.&lt;/em&gt; Per &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/11/design-fx-creating-a-zero-g-battle-room-for-enders-game/&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To create a sense of weightlessness, the filmmakers shot actors in&#xA;  harnesses and on wires against a greenscreen set to place them in a&#xA;  virtual world. Then to achieve the look of zero-G — and obey the laws&#xA;  of physics — visual effects studio Digital Domain ultimately retained&#xA;  only the actor’s faces and relied instead on digital doubles of their&#xA;  bodies for the sequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cgsociety.org/index.php/CGSFeatures/CGSFeatureSpecial/enders_game&quot;&gt;much more detail&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nearly all the digital doubles created for Ender’s Game were in the&#xA;  zero-G Battle Room. . . . Digital Domain’s animation team developed&#xA;  tools that allowed artists to correct for that movement, then&#xA;  re-projected digital doubles (or parts of their bodies) back into the&#xA;  shots. Because Digital Domain had developed CG versions of the actors’&#xA;  flash suits and re-created the lighting environment digitally, they&#xA;  were able to keep the actors’ faces from the live action shoot and&#xA;  replace nearly all of the body motions with digital doubles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5352" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T01:49:52.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14482" CreationDate="2013-12-05T02:03:23.120" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry to disappoint, but it's just called &quot;cut to black&quot; (as opposed to the more traditional &quot;fade to black&quot;). Sometimes things are called exactly what you'd expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a screenwriter wanted to emphasize that the picture is to remain black for awhile, usually the script would describe something audio-only, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Looking down into the grave, we see the coffin lid close over our very-much-alive hero.&#xA;&#xA;                                                                                   CUT TO:&#xA;BLACK.&#xA;&#xA;Heavy breathing. Scratching sounds. . . .&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then in editing usually the big suspenseful music cues are added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5352" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T02:03:23.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15583" CreationDate="2013-12-05T02:53:21.167" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;For low-budget independent films pre-2005 or so, the reason was often primarily budgetary. Until shooting digitally became a viable option, shooting black-and-white cost roughly a quarter what shooting in color cost, for the film stock itself and the processing. But that doesn't begin to cover all the additional savings you'd get by forgoing color film. Shooting on black-and-white you don't need color correction, nor do your lights need to be as numerous or as powerful (black-and-white film has a wider exposure range than color film does) and of course the makeup doesn't need to be anywhere near as good—just cake on the foundation and go. Even the sets don't need to be as large—things can fall into shadow, which would look weird in real life or in color, but doesn't seem odd in the already-unrealistic world of black-and-white. Across the board, everything can be done more cheaply (even slapdash-ly) and still look acceptable. Read some articles about all the cheats used in Hitchcock's &lt;em&gt;Psycho&lt;/em&gt; and other horror films of the era and you'll get an idea of what kind of chicanery black-and-white made possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But of course such an important decision has a huge artistic component as well; black-and-white also needs to work for the story. For a good example of this, see Darren Aronofsky's &lt;em&gt;Pi,&lt;/em&gt; apparently made for $60,000. That film used black-and-white reversal film, just about the cheapest film stock available (and used by students for that reason; unlike regular black-and-white film, it has a very narrow range of exposure). As Aronofsky himself says about his cinematographer Matty Libatique:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Matty was brave enough to take on Reversal film, which many of us shot&#xA;  in film school, and its black and white Reversal, extremely hard film&#xA;  stock to expose. We didn't want it to end up looking like &quot;Clerks&quot; and&#xA;  be all gray. We wanted it to be black or white. We were inspired by&#xA;  &quot;Sin City&quot; by Frank Miller -- he just does white scratches into black&#xA;  ink. Matty was a master of exposure. . . I can't tell you, we did&#xA;  three hundred feet of test. That's all we could afford. Three hundred&#xA;  feet of 16mm test, on a Bolex, which is absurd. We shot most of it on&#xA;  an Aaton. But then, Matty just nailed it, there was some reshooting,&#xA;  but I'd say 90% of his exposures were nailed, which is amazed. Like on&#xA;  paper, he's shooting newspaper on Reversal and to get the black black&#xA;  and the white white, I mean, if it's off half a stop, it's unusable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowadays with consumer-level cameras (even cellphones) capable of shooting HD, it's far cheaper to shoot even high-quality digital video than it is to shoot on any kind of film, color or black-and-white. So any black-and-white film made after the mid-2000s (and any studio/high-budget film after the 1940s or so) was shot that way for purely artistic reasons. The references don't need to be so specific as &lt;em&gt;Manhattan&lt;/em&gt; or Trauffaut; many modern black-and-white films are evoking the film noir movement (see the Coens' &lt;em&gt;The Man Who Wasn't There)&lt;/em&gt; or simply the 1900s through 1940s in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that our collective memory of 1900-1945ish is black-and-white, mostly through historical photographs and films from that era, so in some ways black-and-white (or moderately to extremely desaturated) feels more &quot;authentic&quot; to the period—for example, see &lt;em&gt;Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.&lt;/em&gt; Finally a film may be shot in black-and-white (or 16mm or a specific film stock) to more closely match existing stock footage that the filmmakers want to integrate into the film: &lt;em&gt;Goodnight, and Good Luck&lt;/em&gt; was shot in black and white so that period 1940s footage (such as of Joseph McCarthy) could be used in the film without it appearing jarring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5352" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T02:53:21.167" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15628" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15630" CreationDate="2013-12-05T09:13:01.130" Score="1" ViewCount="230" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;After Earth&quot; the humans are relocated to another planet. What is that planet and the planet the ship crashes? Is it the Earth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6903" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-12-05T14:27:22.633" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T14:29:15.160" Title="What are the Planets?" Tags="|plot-explanation|after-earth|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15629" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15631" CreationDate="2013-12-05T09:39:44.687" Score="5" ViewCount="7582" Body="&lt;p&gt;In LA confidential, Sid Hudgens and Jack Vincennes set up this one kid, Matt Reynolds, to have sex with the district attorney so they can take pictures of the two of them. However, when Jack has a change of heart and shows up at the motel to stop Matt, Matt is found with his throat slashed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did the District Attorney panic and do it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did Sid set the whole thing up to kill Matt?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did Sid and his associates kill Matt after they had the pictures to prevent any leaks?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or was it just a random murder?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="376" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-12-05T10:35:27.067" LastActivityDate="2017-09-04T00:37:39.250" Title="Who slashed Matt Reynold's throat in LA Confidential?" Tags="|plot-explanation|la-confidential|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15628" CreationDate="2013-12-05T09:57:04.083" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;They went to Nova Prime to settle.&#xA;And the main part of the movie takes place in Earth, where their shuttle went down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can get a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Earth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;After Earth Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3489" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-12-05T14:29:15.160" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T14:29:15.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15629" CreationDate="2013-12-05T10:00:25.337" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, Sid worked for Cpt. Dudley Smith and this setup was actually done for him, in order to give his dark schemes some backing from DA Loew. The dialogue during Bud's and Exley's &quot;interrogation&quot; of the DA makes this clear, and it also gives the reason why Matt ultimately had to die:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Loew:&lt;/strong&gt; Dudley Smith is a highly decorated officer of this city's police department. I won't smear his and Pierce Patchett's name without...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Exley:&lt;/strong&gt; Without what, them smearing yours first? What do they have on you, Loew? &lt;strong&gt;Pictures of you and an out of work actor with your pants down?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Loew:&lt;/strong&gt; Okay! Okay! Pierce Patchett and Dudley! I wouldn't play ball so they hatched this blackmail scheme to destroy me. I capitulated. &lt;strong&gt;The kid heard everything so they killed him.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Matt had to die because he overheard the argument between the DA and Dudley/Patchett and from then on knew too much (similar to the third theory from the question). Who it was then? Most probably one of Dudley's henchmen, or maybe even Dudley himself, given that he doesn't seem to have any problems with making his own hands dirty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-09-04T00:37:39.250" LastActivityDate="2017-09-04T00:37:39.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15633" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15644" CreationDate="2013-12-05T11:07:29.467" Score="11" ViewCount="767" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw once again Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and noticed something I hadn't given so much attention in my previous viewings. Namely, the fact that all main characters are shown, at some point, eating and this is a human activity which is shown several times throughout the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The apelike men eat plants first then raw meat, meals are served aboard Floyd's flight to the moon and he has lunch also on the space station (we don't see it, but this is implied by what he says to his Russian friends when he meets them). Then Floyd has also a snack while travelling from Clavius to the TMA site and we see also Bowman and Poole eating a meal aboard the Discovery. Finally, in one of the final scenes in the white hotel room at the end of the movie, an aging Bowman eats a comfortable meal before seeing himself dying in the bed. I may have forgotten other instances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the first occurrence of eating, In the Dawn of Man segment--is certainly functional to the story, as it shows how man moved from a vegetarian diet to one rich of meat, the other instances seem more perfunctory and accidental, even the last one. My idea is that eating induces an idea of normality and Kubrick maybe used it as a means to enforce a certain lack of exceptionality of the situation, even when men are travelling on the moon, towards Jupiter, or bound in a mysterious, likely alien, artifact. Would you think that this interpretation is correct or is there something more that could be said?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1889" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-05T19:13:37.723" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T19:13:37.723" Title="Symbolism of eating as a main human activity" Tags="|analysis|2001-a-space-odyssey|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13850" CreationDate="2013-12-05T12:59:15.933" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You'll find that figures tend not to be mentioned if the story is set in a contemporary setting so as not to date it.  If the story could be taking place now (even if costumes are a bit out of date etc), the mind will suspend disbelief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (tv/radio/book) Ford Prefect is buying Arthur Dent beer in a pub to prepare his system for teleportation before destruction of the Earth, he buys 6 pints of beer (3 each) plus a packet of nuts, hands over money to the barman, and requests him to keep the change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The barman answers &quot;from a fiver (£5)?, thank you&quot;, which would have been a generous tip at the time (beer was about £0.08 at that time, so the bill would have been less than £0.60), however today the same pub may be charging best part of £5 a pint, so the barman would be expecting several times the £5, dating the story which is otherwise not set in any time period (and indeed been updated in other media to remain contemporary)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastEditorUserId="4637" LastEditDate="2013-12-05T14:33:24.033" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T14:33:24.033" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15119" CreationDate="2013-12-05T14:43:58.503" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an audience member, I believe Alice and Larry did not have sex. Alice lied to get rid of Dan. Here are my clues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clue 1: When Alice told Dan &quot;the truth&quot;, she kept blinking her eyes and turned her head, not looking Dan. That's a sign of lying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clue 2: When Dan responded by &quot;I knew it, Larry told me.&quot; Alice was shocked and in disbelief. Had they really had sex, she should have expected Larry would tell Dan to get even. A logical explanation to her shock is she was lying about the sex and did not know Larry lied too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clue 3: When Dan was nagging her about why she slept with Larry, she replied that she desired him and he asked nicely. Larry did not ask nicely but rather was rude in the strip club scene. And in that scene, there was no sign that Alice desired Larry. She treated Larry as a customer and did not even let him touch her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were the writer of the movie, I would not let Alice and Larry have sex. That adds more depth and theatrical value to the play. It makes Alice the only one among the four who did not betray their lover (Anna and Dan slept together, Larry slept with a whore in New York). Yet she was a liar (who was hiding her identity to Dan) and a stripper (who was getting paid providing sexual fantasies). That the person who is more likely to have an affair does not cheat make the play more ironic and tragic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7026" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-07T22:21:55.427" LastActivityDate="2019-01-07T22:21:55.427" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15636" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-05T15:59:30.903" Score="3" ViewCount="1071" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed in countless films and television shows that when characters stop for some reason-- to pick someone up, for instance-- they turn the car off, only to turn it back on again mere seconds later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One example I recently observed was in the 1995 Michael Mann film Heat. The scene in mind had Vincent (Al Pacino), stop to pick up his girlfriend's daughter Lauren (Natalie Portman) from the side of the road. The driver of the car turns off the vehicle and Vincent and Lauren have a brief conversation. Upon the conclusion of the conversation, Lauren gets in the back of the car and the driver turns the car back on and the three drive away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why turn the car off at all?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear: there are a plethora of examples out there, this is just one of them. I hoped to provide a clip for reference but it's challenging to find a clip of an event so irrelevant to the plot of a film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T07:10:21.503" Title="Why do characters turn off a car when stopped, even briefly, only to turn it back on again?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15636" CreationDate="2013-12-05T16:05:12.310" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing odd in it. I mean in general its a good habit to to turn off car, when not in use. Many people do this in regular life and it became in their habit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-12-05T16:29:49.003" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T16:29:49.003" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15640" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15641" CreationDate="2013-12-05T17:31:16.710" Score="6" ViewCount="1598" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the movie should be somewhere between late 80's and early 90's. I watched this movie in my friend's netflix account. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The guy has three sons and a daughter, and one son would be in jail. They have a house just besides the airport. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the movie is about the guy trying to save the house from the airport authorities who wants the land for airport expansion. I also remember a scene where the family would be having dinner together. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6531" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T17:34:59.837" Title="Australian comedy movie where a guy has house near airport" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:54:30.953" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15640" CreationDate="2013-12-05T17:33:28.197" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its definitely &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Castle (film)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118826/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; plot summary&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Melbourne family is very happy living where they do, near the&#xA;Melbourne airport (according to Jane Kennedy, it's &amp;quot;practically their&#xA;back yard&amp;quot;). However, they are forced to leave their beloved home, by&#xA;the Government and airport authorities. 'The Castle' is the story of&#xA;how they fight to remain in their house, taking their case as far as&#xA;the High Court.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T17:33:28.197" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15640" CreationDate="2013-12-05T17:34:59.837" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this would be the Australian film &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118826/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Castle&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. Many of your plot elements match, except for the son in jail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki entry and summary&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T17:34:59.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15643" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15646" CreationDate="2013-12-05T18:01:11.700" Score="16" ViewCount="84286" Body="&lt;p&gt;In all the Ocean Movies - Linus' (Matt Damon's) mom (in 12) and dad (in 13) get the gang out of sticky situations. They &lt;em&gt;say&lt;/em&gt; they are part of the law enforcement agencies - but I have never been sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So who are they? Are they actors or actually FBI / law enforcement agents?&#xA;And if they are law enforcement agents and know that their son is a thief, why are they helping him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Ocean's 12 - his mom actually congratulates him on a &lt;em&gt;job&lt;/em&gt; well done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some backstory that I am missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1172" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-05T19:18:19.900" LastActivityDate="2017-05-28T05:02:15.697" Title="Who are Linus' mom and dad really?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oceans-eleven|oceans-thirteen|oceans-twelve|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15633" CreationDate="2013-12-05T18:02:57.477" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that you are on the right track when it comes to showing &lt;em&gt;normality&lt;/em&gt; through eating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the main themes of the movie is the (forced) evolution of humanity. In the Dawn of Man segment we see humanity's ancestors living a subsistence life style. They huddle in fear and scrounge for scraps of food. Enter the Monolith, who teaches Moon Watcher how to use tools to hunt. The tool using proto humans have now moved up a rung in the food pyramid. They are beginning their journey to become masters of the Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cut to 2001. Humans have now conquered the Earth and are now invading space. Yet, fundamentally they are still apes that use tools to get food. The tools are much more advanced (a space faring nuclear weapons platform instead of a bone club) but they are still locked into the same primitive life cycle. Find food and resources, gather the food (by force if necessary), consume food, move on. They are still bio mechanical machines that depend on a highly inefficient fueling process (eating).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cut to the Jupiter Monolith as it abducts Bowman. In the original book, one of the first things the operators of the Monolith do is provide Bowman with food. After all, he is still a bio mass consuming ape. Then the next step in human evolution occurs. Bowman is transformed into the Star Baby. A being of energy that has shed its human needs, including eating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T18:02:57.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15643" CreationDate="2013-12-05T18:46:14.890" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I'd like to point out that the &lt;em&gt;Ocean&lt;/em&gt;'s movies are repeatedly confronting you with various references to persons and events which are only mentioned in passing and whose backstory is only hinted at slightly, but whose meaning and backstory is completely clear to everybody else except you as the audience. This is IMHO part of the movies' classy and self-confident style and helps to establish this kind of parallel world of thieves and robbers we're presented with. And especially &lt;em&gt;Linus&lt;/em&gt;'s parents are introduced as some kind of legends that everybody else seems to know but whose actual nature stays a mystery to the audience. So I think there is not much of a backstory one can take directly from the movies and this is by-design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I concluded from the movies was, that &lt;em&gt;Linus&lt;/em&gt;'s parents are in the same criminal business as all the others and seem to be pretty well-known and respected in this business. This is also slightly hinted at by &lt;em&gt;Linus&lt;/em&gt;'s refusing any help from his parents, which suggests he's somehow treading into the same carreer path as them but wants to prove his value by doing things on his own. So those scenes in &lt;em&gt;Ocean's 12&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Ocean's 13&lt;/em&gt; where they appear as &quot;official government people&quot;, are actually just big frauds in order to get &lt;em&gt;Linus&lt;/em&gt; out of trouble (and give you that usual wow-effect of &lt;em&gt;&quot;wait, that was all just a staging?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-05T18:55:22.047" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T18:55:22.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15643" CreationDate="2013-12-05T19:26:26.667" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are actually provided a quick backstory in &lt;em&gt;Ocean's Eleven&lt;/em&gt; when Linus is caught by Danny after picking someone's pocket.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hello, Linus. Whose is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who are you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A friend of Bobby Caldwell's.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're either in or out. Right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a plane ticket. A job offer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're pretty trusting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bobby has faith in you.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fathers are like that.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He didn't tell you? He doesn't want me trading on his name.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do this job, he'll be trading on yours.&lt;/strong&gt; Don't, and you can go back to feeling up stockbrokers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you get the check, please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the best lift you've made yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going by this conversation, we can infer Linus' dad is Bobby Caldwell who is also a con. His mother is very likely one too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's another conversation between Reuben and Linus where the latter is referred to as &amp;quot;Bobby Caldwell's kid&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T19:26:26.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15567" CreationDate="2013-12-05T19:45:32.313" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question of how much time has elapsed since the events of &lt;em&gt;Kick-Ass&lt;/em&gt; is answered early on in the sequel in a news report that Dave and his two buddies watch on TV:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They may wear costumes, but it isn't Halloween. They're real life superheroes and in the &lt;strong&gt;two years&lt;/strong&gt; since the first ordinary citizens donned capes and masks, the movement has started to spread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To also answer the question of the ages of the protagonists in the films and the comics …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Kick-Ass comic, Hit-Girl is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicvine.com/hit-girl/4005-56881/&quot;&gt;10 years old&lt;/a&gt;. In the first film, she is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit-Girl_%28character%29#Films&quot;&gt;11 year old&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second comic, Hit-Girl is &lt;a href=&quot;http://kick-ass.wikia.com/wiki/Kick-Ass_2_%28film%29#Differences_Between_Comic_and_Film&quot;&gt;said to be 13 whereas her movie counterpart is 15&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1631269/&quot;&gt;Chloë Grace Moretz&lt;/a&gt; also confirms her age in the film in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/scifimediazone/news/?a=82921&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The obvious difference is that I'm older now, and the difference between 11 and 15, which is how old I was when we finished, is that you're a different person, obviously,&quot; she offers. &quot;You're calculating more ideas, you're experiencing more things in your own life, you're not just living through other people's eyes, you're making your own decisions. So I was able to step into the sequel knowing that after the first movie I was able to have such an amazing career. I've been able to do such amazing, emotionally stretching things that I didn't just want to do a role like the first one. The first one was great for an 11-year-old, but now I'm older and I want to try something I can sink my teeth into.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chloë herself was 13 when &lt;em&gt;Kick-Ass&lt;/em&gt; came out and 16 when &lt;em&gt;Kick-Ass 2&lt;/em&gt; was released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dave's age, on the other hand, is only an estimate. Based on the fact that he is a senior in high school in the sequel, he was probably 15/16 in &lt;em&gt;Kick Ass&lt;/em&gt; and 17/18 in &lt;em&gt;Kick-Ass 2&lt;/em&gt;. Contrast this with the actor who portrays him, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1093951/&quot;&gt;Aaron Taylor-Johnson&lt;/a&gt;, who was a believable 20 and an unconvincing 23 year old (with a 46 year old wife to boot) when the two films came out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T19:45:32.313" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15648" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-05T20:12:48.167" Score="3" ViewCount="670" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film, &lt;em&gt;Frances Ha&lt;/em&gt;, Greta Gerwig plays the titular character who happens to be an apprentice dancer in a professional dance company and later, a choreographer. The movie is sprinkled with a number of scenes which show her dancing on and off stage. But Greta/Frances comes off (at least to my unfamiliar eye) as being rather clumsy and awkward. She does not possess the svelte body of a dancer either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is, is Frances not really a good dancer? Was she purposely made to look comical? Or is it &lt;em&gt;Greta Gerwig&lt;/em&gt; who is simply not a good dancer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2347569/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb's summary reads&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A story that follows a New York woman (who doesn't really have an apartment), apprentices for a dance company (&lt;strong&gt;though she's not really a dancer&lt;/strong&gt;), and throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm unsure how official this summary is. But if Frances is not really a dancer, how does she get a paying position (even as an apprentice) in a professional dance troupe? Also, as the audience, are we supposed to understand that Frances is not a good dancer based on her movements or is there any dialogue to reinforce this attribute?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2014-02-22T03:14:22.093" Title="Is Frances a bad dancer? Or is it Greta?" Tags="|character|frances-ha|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15649" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15654" CreationDate="2013-12-05T20:25:51.080" Score="4" ViewCount="3591" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is the film titled 'Frances Ha'? Is there some symbolism to it? Sure, we see that she has to abbreviate her name to get her label to fit into the mailbox of her new apartment. But this scene occurs right at the end of the storyline rather than the beginning. What does this signify?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T19:20:48.087" Title="Why is the film titled 'Frances Ha'?" Tags="|analysis|title|frances-ha|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15650" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-05T20:36:32.047" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-05T20:36:32.047" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T20:36:32.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15651" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-05T20:36:32.047" Score="0" Body="Use this tag if you want to identify a commercial/advertisement. Be sure to add as much information about it as possible include when you saw it, what language it was in, the name of the product, and so on." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-05T20:36:32.047" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T20:36:32.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15649" CreationDate="2013-12-05T21:35:41.833" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/noah-baumbach-frances-ha_n_3269130.html&quot;&gt;Here's an article&lt;/a&gt; with an interview with the film's director Noah Baumbach. His first feature-length film, &quot;Kicking and Screaming&quot; shares a title with a Will Ferrell movie that he's not overly fond of.  There is a Jessica Lange film already named &quot;Frances&quot; and he didn't want his film to be confused with it.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was that annoying when that movie came out with the same title?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Yeah. It was very annoying. The same year, &quot;Crash&quot; came out, too -- or right around there -- I imagined David Cronenberg was annoyed as well. I mean, actually, that was something that I was very conscious about because an obvious title for our movie was &quot;Frances.&quot; And there's a very good movie with Jessica Lange called &quot;Frances&quot; about Frances Farmer. It kind of pushed Greta and me to get more inventive with the title and, ultimately, I think to come up with a kind of great ending for the movie. So, I wish the filmmakers of &quot;Kicking &amp;amp; Screaming&quot; had maybe done similar -- [laughs] worked a little harder to figure it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7033" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-06T04:19:49.647" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T04:19:49.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15120" CreationDate="2013-12-05T23:17:14.323" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Dave Prowse playing Vader in that scene.&#xA;He had the prosthetics adhered to the back of his head for the shoot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a rare photo of Dave on set in the meditation chamber - I believe it comes from the recent J. Rinzler 'making of' book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yLMJK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-12-05T23:17:14.323" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15649" CreationDate="2013-12-06T01:02:37.987" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the above answer, the title is also obviously a play on words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Frances Ha' could be pronounced as &lt;em&gt;Francesca&lt;/em&gt;, which is the common development of Frances. The character is Happy-Go-lucky, naive and largely oblivious to the political, 'daddy-funded' mechanics of the dance world she works in, but perseveres regardless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The '&lt;em&gt;Ha&lt;/em&gt;' could be seen as a play on her name, and an triumphal refusal to give in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T01:02:37.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15662" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-06T08:02:23.697" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frances Ha is a 2012 American comedy-drama film directed by Noah Baumbach and written by Baumbach and Greta Gerwig. Frances Halladay (Greta Gerwig) is a 27-year-old dancer who lives with her best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner) in Brooklyn, but Sophie decides to move out and live with another friend, leaving Frances to figure out how to live her life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gerwig also plays the title role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Ha&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-06T08:02:23.697" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T08:02:23.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15663" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-06T08:02:23.697" Score="0" Body="2012 American comedy-drama film directed by Noah Baumbach and written by Baumbach and Greta Gerwig. Gerwig also plays the title role.&#xD;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-06T08:02:23.697" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T08:02:23.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15664" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-06T08:04:00.470" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 British-American science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, and was partially inspired by Clarke's short story &quot;The Sentinel&quot;. Clarke concurrently wrote the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey which was published soon after the film was released. The story deals with a series of encounters between humans and mysterious black monoliths that are apparently affecting human evolution, and a space voyage to Jupiter tracing a signal emitted by one such monolith found on the moon. Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood star as the two astronauts on this voyage, with Douglas Rain as the voice of the sentient computer HAL 9000 who has full control over their spaceship. The film is frequently described as an &quot;epic film&quot;, both for its length and scope, and for its affinity with classical epics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%3a_A_Space_Odyssey_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-06T08:04:00.470" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T08:04:00.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15665" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-06T08:04:00.470" Score="0" Body="1968 British-American science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, and was partially inspired by Clarke's short story &quot;The Sentinel&quot;. " OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-06T08:04:00.470" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T08:04:00.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15666" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-06T10:49:49.973" Score="1" ViewCount="1276" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Aaron Cross returns to the cabin to survey the wreckage (and presumably gather any useful supplies and &quot;chems&quot; he might find), he scratches through the snow until he reaches a solid surface and gives-up in apparent exasperation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What surface did he scratch down to that caused him to stop digging further?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7038" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T19:48:31.570" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T15:34:51.200" Title="Cabin wreckage scene: why did Aaron Cross stop digging further?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-bourne-legacy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15666" CreationDate="2013-12-06T12:35:26.967" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;He doesn't stop digging because he ran into something, he stops digging because he realizes it is a lost cause to look for the chems. As he is digging you see what's left of the chems in the snow, both blues and greens. You also notice there aren't any intact enough to salvage. Later in the movie when you see when he goes to take some chems, there are only fragments of one. I would assume this what is left of what he salvaged from the wrecked cabin. Other than the realization, there is nothing there which would make him stop digging. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u5GI9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-12-06T12:47:31.683" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T12:47:31.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15671" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-06T14:18:14.607" Score="17" ViewCount="3725" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/1yqVD0swvWU&quot;&gt;this parody&lt;/a&gt;, why didn't Frodo and the fellowship use eagles to travel (even part of the way) into Mordor?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5225" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-06T14:23:46.250" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T21:45:11.303" Title="Why didn't the fellowship use eagles to travel into Mordor?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15671" CreationDate="2013-12-06T14:36:48.993" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Sauron's Nazgul patrols would have spotted them and easily killed the eagles. Stealth was a major part of the plan to sneak into Mordor, hence the diversion of Gandalf riding with Pippin to Minas Tirith when Sauron believes Pippin is in posession of the ring. Also, the Eagles wouldnt have wanted to. Would you like to give someone a piggy back in scale probably 300 miles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-12-06T14:44:42.140" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T14:44:42.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15674" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-06T15:54:54.100" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Master is a 2012 American drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. It tells the story of Freddie Quell (Phoenix), a World War II veteran struggling to adjust to a post-war society who meets Lancaster Dodd (Hoffman), a leader of a religious movement known as &quot;The Cause,&quot; who sees something in Quell and accepts him into the movement. Freddie takes a liking to &quot;The Cause&quot; and begins traveling with Dodd along the East Coast to spread the teachings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-06T15:54:54.100" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T15:54:54.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15675" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-06T15:54:54.100" Score="0" Body="2012 American drama film by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. It tells the story of Freddie Quell (Phoenix), a World War II veteran struggling to adjust to a post-war society who meets Lancaster Dodd (Hoffman), a leader of a religious movement known as &quot;The Cause,&quot; who sees something in Quell and accepts him into the movement." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-06T15:54:54.100" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T15:54:54.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15676" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-06T16:22:47.053" Score="4" ViewCount="357" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is been stated that Lancaster Dodd's character in/as &lt;em&gt;The Master&lt;/em&gt; is loosely based on Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Both &lt;em&gt;The Cause&lt;/em&gt; and Scientology are also pseudo-somethingortheothers. But what are the similarities between the founders and the two organisations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia provides a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_%282012_film%29#Analogies_with_Scientology&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;disappointingly brief comparison&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Upon the release of the script, comparisons between &quot;The Cause&quot; and Scientology were quickly made. The press noted Hoffman's physical resemblance to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986), who served in the U.S. Navy in World War II and after his release from the hospital founded the belief system in 1950, the same year as the religion in the script. The film ends in England, at roughly the same time Saint Hill Manor became Hubbard's residence and the first Scientology &quot;org&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are a number of other similarities that I noticed. The year 1950, for example, is around the time that Scientology was founded and is also the setting for &lt;em&gt;The Master&lt;/em&gt;. Dodd is seen travelling in a yacht. Hubbard did so too. The Cause has &lt;em&gt;processing&lt;/em&gt;. Scientology has &lt;em&gt;auditing&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what are the other similarities between the two organisations and their founders?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T13:32:05.270" Title="What are the similarities between The Cause and Scientology?" Tags="|analysis|the-master|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9210" CreationDate="2013-12-06T16:38:09.363" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Q: “What is the moral of the story?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the reviews above, I can conclude that the lesson of the story is indeed subjective. It depends on your own perspective, on how you make of the things present in the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for me, I think the lesson is 'to follow your dream and enjoy the journey'. Because by doing so, you'll encounter people who'll help you, people you can inspire, people who are kind to you and people who are opposite of everything mentioned. But when you're still on the road, you tend to not recognize these people 'cause you're too focused on your dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I think that was what he learned, hence the quote &quot;Happiness is only real when shared&quot;. In his last moments, he realized that he was most happy when he was on his way to Alaska. When he was on the journey and met different kinds of people. He was happy at first to have arrived at his destination but that was just that, at first. That happiness was short-lived, because success is nothing without having anybody to celebrate it with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was what he learned and he did not regret anything. Because he wouldn't have realized the meaning of happiness if he did things differently. So, it's safe to say that his decision to abandon society was a mistake because he had learned something from it. But it can't be considered wrong because it was his dream. That's his belief and I admire his courage to have fulfilled that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tragedy of the story can be linked to life itself. 'Cause even if we're gone, life goes on (that was depicted in the movie when the current errands of the people he met along the way were shown). But still he's happy because the world will know his story (that was why he'd been writing everything in the first place, and he even took a picture of himself). He's happy(the real happiness) because he will be able to 'share' what he learned with others. That was also the reason why he wore a smile when he was dying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was really his time. He had fulfilled his 'mission' on earth. It wasn't coincidence that they found his body 2 weeks after. Why couldn't they have found him earlier, when he was still alive but already weak? If they had, they could have saved him and prevented his death. But why didn't that happen? We can only imagine. The universe has its ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7042" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T16:38:09.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15671" CreationDate="2013-12-06T17:08:23.333" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the films, there's no reason.  There are some aspects of the below that you could infer, but they are largely not stated plainly in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just as Gandalf could not take the Ring himself to Mordor, neither could the Eagles.  Both were bound to not take power in Middle-earth, but rather to assist and guide, as they were agents of the Valar who ceased directly ruling Middle-earth ages prior.  This is why the Eagles and Gandalf did not directly take charge of the quest, but instead contributed by guiding the success of the quest.  This is part of the larger theme of the smaller people of the world rising to the responsibility of taking care of the world.  The Elves were wrapping up their time in Middle-earth, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Free_peoples&quot;&gt;Free Peoples&lt;/a&gt; (less Elves) needed to start standing on their own to guide the fate of Middle-earth.  The destruction of the One Ring is their crucible for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to this, by taking the ring and/or ringbearer, the Eagles would also struggle with the desire to take the ring.  This is just as Gandalf, Galadriel, Boromir, et al. who assisted Frodo but had to fight the lure of the ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sean-crist.com/personal/pages/eagles/index.html&quot;&gt;This page&lt;/a&gt; has a &lt;em&gt;thorough&lt;/em&gt; run down on many points for and against the so-called 'Eagle Plan', as had been discussed on Usenet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-12-06T19:51:30.220" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T19:51:30.220" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15680" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15683" CreationDate="2013-12-06T18:20:22.340" Score="5" ViewCount="1344" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching this movie when I was a little kid (though, I probably shouldn't have). The title had something to do with dragons, but the movie itself did not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie was about a woman who was shopping with her young son, possibly for a Halloween costume, when a group of masked men came in, and one of them shot and killed the kid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The remainder of the movie was about the woman seeking out revenge. She may have been wearing a short blue wig at one point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7044" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-12-06T19:05:06.840" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T19:35:46.673" Title="Woman out to get revenge on men who killed her kid" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:54:34.323" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15671" CreationDate="2013-12-06T19:16:03.937" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other answers are good. In addition, Bob the Angry Flower addresses your question &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.angryflower.com/lordot.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though obviously satiric, Bob has a good point here. The &lt;em&gt;fundamental&lt;/em&gt; problem is not getting the Ring to the fire undetected; the problem is choosing to throw it in the fire once you're there. Only four people in history have the opportunity to do so (Sauron, Isildur, Frodo and Gollum), and &lt;em&gt;none&lt;/em&gt; of them choose to do so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that the eagle plan would work, all that accomplishes is it gets Frodo to the point of choosing to not destroy the ring &lt;em&gt;faster&lt;/em&gt;, which is not helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7046" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-07T22:37:05.937" LastActivityDate="2013-12-07T22:37:05.937" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15682" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15684" CreationDate="2013-12-06T19:16:50.040" Score="27" ViewCount="22854" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Breaking Bad S5 E14, Jack not only lets Walt go, but also leaves a barrel of money to him after killing Hank. I don't understand why he would do this. Jack says that, with 7 barrels of money, he doesn't need to cook meth any more, so there is no reason to keep Walt (the witness of the killing) alive, let alone to give him so much money. What's the rationale behind this? Or it's just mercy or respect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7045" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-06T20:08:15.117" LastActivityDate="2018-01-30T01:31:46.210" Title="Why does Jack let Walt go?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15680" CreationDate="2013-12-06T19:25:31.173" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you might be thinking of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Tiger_%28film%29&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blue Tiger&lt;/em&gt;, from 1994&lt;/a&gt;. A mother and her son are out shopping for a Halloween mask when her son is killed by accident during a gang hit by Yakuza/Japanese Mafia. One of the gangsters has a tiger tattooed on his chest. The rest of the movie follows her descent into the underworld of the Japanese mafia as she becomes obsessed with finding the gangster and getting revenge. Virginia Madsen played the mother. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;tiger&quot; tattoos in the film look kind of like dragons and the plot fits which is why I think this might be your film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A trailer for the film is available on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrp-OxSJYTU&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-06T19:35:46.673" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T19:35:46.673" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15682" CreationDate="2013-12-06T20:54:06.263" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing it's a mixture of respect and mercy with a good dose of honor among thieves thrown in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jack's crew started out as underlings working for Walt. In exchange for their services (usually kill someone) Walt would pay them. Their last outstanding job that Walt had commissioned them to do was to find Jessie and kill him. This was a task that they failed to do. It wasn't until Walt called them that they had a change to get Jessie. In Jack's mind he still had obligations that he needed to fulfill. So not killing Walt was part of that. But Jack also knew how vindictive and ingenious Walt was. If he had stolen &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of his money &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; left him alive, Walt would be a danger. Out of a sense of honor he couldn't kill Walt so he needed to keep things &lt;em&gt;square&lt;/em&gt; between them. So he leaves him part of his money and pointedly asks him if everything between them is now finished and square. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T20:54:06.263" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15685" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-06T21:01:59.043" Score="8" ViewCount="430" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 28 Days Later..., the soldiers are discussing that Rage is so infectious and manifests so quickly after infection (within seconds) that it couldn't have spread outside of Britain. However, in the beginning of the movie, Selena recounts to Jim that the last news reports they heard before the TV stations stopped transmitting mentioned that there had been cases in Paris and New York.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were those reports false/misinformation? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, the effects of the virus do make it highly unlikely that an infected person could get off the island. Or is there some non-human transmission model (e.g. birds)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it's just a movie, but maybe there is some &quot;in-universe&quot; explanation for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="353" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T22:29:43.303" Title="Did Rage spread from Britain or not?" Tags="|plot-explanation|28-days-later|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15686" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15691" CreationDate="2013-12-06T21:19:45.037" Score="4" ViewCount="601" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; season four's Mid-season finale, we are given a glimpse into Judith's car seat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/je4Bi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know she was in this car seat based on a previous scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gg1PT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assumed at first that this was the end of Judith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after reviewing the images, I think we are left with a cliffhanger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest clue is that the buckles are undone.  No walker is going to fool with seatbelts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any more clues from the episode that would help prove/disprove that Judith is alive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt;  I just searched &quot;judith carseat buckle&quot; and noticed there are several pages with the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1134" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-31T00:10:44.173" LastActivityDate="2014-10-31T22:32:19.927" Title="Is there enough evidence in the mid-season finale to conclude &quot;Little-Ass-Kicker's&quot; fate?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15685" CreationDate="2013-12-06T21:25:09.517" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, I just found the answer I was looking for in the Spoilers section of IMDb's trivia entry for this movie: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289043/trivia?item=tr0754887&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289043/trivia?item=tr0754887&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film has engendered some confusion as to whether or not the virus&#xA;  is a worldwide phenomenon or whether it's confined to Britain. This is&#xA;  clarified on the DVD commentary however. When shooting began, Danny&#xA;  Boyle and Alex Garland intended to reveal that the virus had spread&#xA;  worldwide, which is why Selena mentions outbreaks in Paris and New&#xA;  York early in the movie. However, as filming progressed, they changed&#xA;  their minds and decided to render the spread of the virus more&#xA;  ambiguous. As such, they wrote the dialogue spoken by Sergeant Farrell&#xA;  (Stuart McQuarrie) when he is tied to the radiator as a counter-theory&#xA;  to Selena's claims, as he hypothesizes that Britain would have simply&#xA;  been quarantined at the first sign of trouble and that there was no&#xA;  way the virus could have reached America or mainland Europe.&#xA;  Obviously, the sequel 28 Weeks Later (2007) confirms that Farrell was&#xA;  entirely correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="353" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-12-06T22:29:43.303" LastActivityDate="2013-12-06T22:29:43.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15688" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15693" CreationDate="2013-12-06T21:55:51.433" Score="4" ViewCount="2045" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV show M.A.S.H. why is Frank Burns character portrayed as such a childish person?  Everything he does seems childish.  (I absolutely can't stand the character and feel for the actor who played the part.) (Childish may not properly encompass my feelings, but I can't think of a better word.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7051" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T18:11:39.470" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T23:40:06.880" Title="Why is Frank Burns portrayed as such a child in M.A.S.H?" Tags="|mash|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15689" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-06T23:00:50.123" Score="7" ViewCount="4795" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;A Scandal in Belgravia&lt;/em&gt;, Sherlock cracks the code and John confirms it's flight 007. This triggers Sherlock's recollection of Mycroft saying something earlier in the episode on his phone, &quot;bond...&quot;? I understand how 007 is &quot;Bond&quot; but Mycroft says a few words after &quot;Bond&quot; which leads Sherlock to hypothesize about Coventry. What are those words? And what do they mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7055" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-09T20:18:02.003" LastActivityDate="2014-06-01T23:45:17.497" Title="What is Mycroft saying on his phone before he tells Sherlock not to interfere with Adler?" Tags="|dialogue|sherlock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15689" CreationDate="2013-12-07T00:09:41.927" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mycroft&lt;/em&gt; just says &lt;em&gt;&quot;Bond Air is go,&quot;&lt;/em&gt; meaning that this flight with number 007 (or the whole secret operation with this flight full of already dead supposed terrorism victims) has permission to proceed/start. It isn't just that dialogue from &lt;em&gt;Mycroft&lt;/em&gt; that leads &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; to realize the true nature of the situation, but the whole context of events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-01T23:45:17.497" LastActivityDate="2014-06-01T23:45:17.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15686" CreationDate="2013-12-07T00:51:34.013" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no answer. Even creator Robert Kirkman (on the episode of Talking Dead that followed the show) would not confirm anything. He did joke &quot;that's a &lt;em&gt;lotta blood&lt;/em&gt; in that car-seat, &lt;em&gt;I don't know.&lt;/em&gt; (laughs) Yeah. You'll have to tune in.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastActivityDate="2013-12-07T00:51:34.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15692" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15697" CreationDate="2013-12-07T00:56:15.537" Score="5" ViewCount="3123" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the meeting at Bag End Balin says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You forget the front gate is sealed. There is no way into the mountain.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some sort of magical protection on the door making it sealed or is it just Smaug has barricaded himself into Erebor sealing up the entrance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1405" LastActivityDate="2017-10-13T19:57:04.517" Title="How is the Front Gate of Erebor sealed?" Tags="|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15688" CreationDate="2013-12-07T01:14:18.807" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer this, you have to consider the source material which is the film and the book that came before it. In the original material Frank Burns is a very different creature. While as inept as the character in the series, the film/book version is far stronger in his own personal beliefs and (unwarranted) confidence. Film-Burns goes so far as to blame others for the shortcomings of his lack of surgical knowledge and crushes a young orderly, blaming him for the death of a patient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The book/film shows the danger created in wartime by drafting doctors to surgical duty who didn't necessarily have the ability yet still got promoted in the chain of command. It further shows the lengths that competent doctors went through to get these people thrown out of the army.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In transitioning to the series which wanted to still be drama mixed with comedy; albeit lighter fare so as to be accessible to 70s audiences; Frank Burns in his film/book state needed to undergo some changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He needed to not be so much of a danger that he had to be removed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He needed to be semi-likable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, ratchet down the incompetence, ratchet up the child-like goofiness and you've still got &quot;A&quot; Frank Burns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the long run, the character didn't last the series and left under similar pretenses. Winchester was brought in spinning the film Frank in the other direction. High level of superiority and confidence, but removing most of the incompetence in exchange for cultural snobbery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One last note on your comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actors will tell you that villains/unlikable characters are far more fun to play. The fact that you find yourself brought to an emotional level over the character on a regular basis is a sign that the actor was succeeding at his work. Linville himself said he had a love/hate relation with the character. The actor himself was a very sweet, bright, well-liked gentleman, but really relished making Frank as conniving as he did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastActivityDate="2013-12-07T01:14:18.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15671" CreationDate="2013-12-07T05:49:23.867" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eagles seem to be a strong proud species and not one to cater to just any whim. &lt;em&gt;Saving the hobbits who ended the reign of Sauron?&lt;/em&gt; Sure, they'll help there. Being a general taxi service? &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastActivityDate="2013-12-07T05:49:23.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15692" CreationDate="2013-12-07T13:42:26.963" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;POTENTIAL SPOILER IN ANSWER&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Front_Gate&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tolkien Gateway site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Over time Smaug had broken and blocked all of the other gates to the&#xA;  Mountain (except for the secret Back Door), leaving only the Front&#xA;  Gate for his use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there is no mention of the front gate actually being sealed up, as I presume Smaug would have left it accessible for his own needs, so perhaps this was just a bit of hyperbole on Balin's part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-12-07T13:42:26.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15698" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15699" CreationDate="2013-12-07T17:07:54.547" Score="12" ViewCount="1206" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neo's martial arts skills don't carry over into the real world because they're a part of his persona in the Matrix installed by a chip.  That's why when he's fighting Bane (Mr. Smith in the real world), he has very limited skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Mr. Smith has copied his persona, with all its intelligence and skills, into Bane.  So shouldn't he have the martial arts knowledge and skills that Smith had in the Matrix?  If so, shouldn't he annihilate Trinity and Neo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T18:19:29.447" LastActivityDate="2021-06-17T19:45:48.690" Title="How can Neo stand a chance against Bane?" Tags="|the-matrix-revolutions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15698" CreationDate="2013-12-07T17:44:40.877" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think &lt;em&gt;Neo&lt;/em&gt; couldn't carry his martial arts skills to the real world. It is true that he learned them inside the matrix and they were more programmed into his brain rather than learned the &quot;traditional&quot; way. But if there is one thing that is the same in both the real world and the matrix, it's &lt;em&gt;Neo&lt;/em&gt;'s brain, since that is how he's connected to and existing in the matrix. So he learned all this into his actual brain, no matter if just electronically (in the end he also learned to speak in the matrix, yet can speak right away in the real world, ...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And while martial arts are an inherently physical activity, many aspects are just a matter of learning and done mainly through the brain, I think. So while &lt;em&gt;Neo&lt;/em&gt; might not be as phyisically trained as in the matrix and might not have as fast muscular reflexes, he nevertheless knows all the moves and has the same abilities of anticipation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And apart from that, how often have you seen somebody stand the chance against someone else far more capable in the movies. There are really much larger inconsistencies in the matrix trilogy. In fact &lt;em&gt;Neo&lt;/em&gt; carrying over his martial arts skills into the real world is far more believable than him carrying over his &quot;magic skills&quot; from the matrix.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="134" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T18:33:37.147" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T18:33:37.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15698" CreationDate="2013-12-07T22:52:40.120" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Along with Napoleon Wilson's excellent answer, there is another factor which I don't think he's touched upon. I think the key here is muscle memory. While both Neo and Smith (as Bane) bring &lt;em&gt;knowledge&lt;/em&gt; from the Matrix, they do not have the muscle memory required to actually perform any of it in the real world with any sort of skill. Everything performed in the Matrix  can be performed at the speed of thought, if the person performing it can let their mind realize it can do it. In the real world, both Neo and Smith are bound by the laws of physics and what their bodies are actually capable of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yes, Smith has copied his knowledge into Bane, but not his skills. Skills are things which are practiced. I can read book after book and become intelligent about a subject, but until I actually perform what I've read about, my body will not know how to behave and perform the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2021-06-17T19:45:48.690" LastActivityDate="2021-06-17T19:45:48.690" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10018" CreationDate="2013-12-07T23:35:33.860" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If he did, he probably would have told Smokey, his best friend. Plus, he woulda had some money or something from it, and they wouldn't have almost got killed by Big Worm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7062" LastActivityDate="2013-12-07T23:35:33.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12862" CreationDate="2013-12-08T03:22:02.553" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeager is a common name for strong military leaders (side doesn't really matter, but usually good) and robots (manned or AI) in Japanese manga series or stories and games inspired but such series... some examples below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gray Fox (Frank Jaeger), a character in the Metal Gear series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jagar Tharn, a fictional character of The Elder Scrolls universe&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Karl Jaeger, a playable character in the game Alien Swarm&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Felix Jaeger, a fictional character in the Gotrek and Felix series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jägermonsters, a fictional race from the Girl Genius comics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gen. Radi Jaeger, a fictional villain in the video game Valkyria Chronicles&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Strong Jaeger, a red and yellow robot with a signature J on his chest appearing in the videos of songs of the same name in the beatmania IIDX music games&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jäger, the field-name of the first and most basic of the Southern forces in the video and board game series Heavy Gear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jaegers, small steampunk-style attack bots used by Nemesis in City of Heroes &amp;amp; City of Villains&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Each of the &quot;Invisible 9&quot; units of the manga and anime series Pumpkin Scissors is nicknamed using &quot;Jäger&quot;; the soldiers of the most prominent unit, 901 are known as Gespenst Jäger&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Bishop's Jaegers (1932), a comic novel by Thorne Smith&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pilgrim Jäger, a Japanese manga series&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jaeger Corps in The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jäger Sucher, German for hunter searcher, clandestine government group of werewolf hunters in the Night Creature series by Lori Handeland&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jaegers, a fictional type of giant robots used in the 2013 film Pacific Rim&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eren Jäger, protagonist in the Attack on Titan manga and anime&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7063" LastActivityDate="2013-12-08T03:22:02.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8030" CreationDate="2013-12-08T12:43:12.410" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Ben was was likely to be good, but since his mother left him while reading bible, in childhood, he was left to face the odds of society, that made him become what he became... but there were two things left in him of that memory, bible and respect for family. He killed one bounty hunter when he told him he was son of a wxhore... In whole movie he was reading proverbs and references... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie he was shown drawing things he liked, an Eagle, a woman, ... and DAN! He had liking in him about Dan, because he didn't gave up on the family's pride, even when Ben taunted him of things he should've done better for his wife, his sons... Ben couldn't break him... he mentioned that part of Dan he liked while fight in mountains... and when in the station Contention, Dan just told him of why he wasn't stubborn... this was turning point that made Ben believe that this guy has guts not to leave the family against all odds... and when they left the station for train, they nodded each other of a plan to enable Dan hand over Ben to train's staff... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;well at that ending part, Ben was living in retrospect ... thinking about any good left in him was giving Dan a chance to succeed with his family's issues, not just a few bucks, but win his respect and he admired his struggle for his family that's why he gave himself in. But it was only among these two... Ben's crew didn't had glimpse of what's going through his head... and when they realized, it was too late for them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7066" LastEditorUserId="7066" LastEditDate="2013-12-08T12:59:37.403" LastActivityDate="2013-12-08T12:59:37.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14508" CreationDate="2013-12-08T20:35:08.033" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;An alternative interpretation of your question &lt;em&gt;&quot;Is Amy's assertion correct, did Indiana Jones play no role in the outcome of the story?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; It really depends on what you refer to as the &quot;story&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If what you call as the &lt;em&gt;story&lt;/em&gt; is &quot;the ultimate fate of the ark&quot;, then one can make an argument one way or another.  However, if the true &lt;em&gt;story&lt;/em&gt; of the movie is &quot;the ultimate fate of the protagonist&quot; (i.e. indiana jones), then his presence is not only essential, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;it is the movie!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All other inquiries about his relevance to the &quot;fate of the ark&quot; are moot point.  In my honest opinion, the true story is that of the &lt;em&gt;character&lt;/em&gt; (i.e. Indiana Jones), not the fate of the &lt;em&gt;device&lt;/em&gt; (i.e. the ark).  Therefore, from this perspective, &lt;em&gt;Amy is wrong&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5225" LastActivityDate="2013-12-08T20:35:08.033" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15436" CreationDate="2013-12-08T23:27:27.173" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't think there's any deeper significance in the line. It comes off, to me at least, as very much the opposite of punishment for bad behavior. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not even sure 'Rule of Funny' applies here either, since it doesn't seem to violate any logic. It sounds like an attempt at shedding some light on the personality of Donnie's dad by his suggesting Donnie be &lt;em&gt;rewarded&lt;/em&gt; (as much as one can consider a moped to be a reward, anyway) for his poor behavior, namely due to the fact that no one really likes Kitty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Rose's reply, this is likely another personality showcase. She realizes her husband is joking, but she doesn't necessarily agree with his idea of getting Donnie a moped for a reward, so she comes back with a joke of her own. It does a good job of portraying the juxtaposition of personalities, to an extent, of Donnie's parents; carefree (dad) versus serious (mom).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example of these two personalities would be at dinner near the beginning, when Donnie and his sister are fighting. Their mother is very serious, while their father is flippant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="530" LastEditorUserId="530" LastEditDate="2013-12-08T23:59:35.003" LastActivityDate="2013-12-08T23:59:35.003" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15717" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15718" CreationDate="2013-12-09T09:04:04.993" Score="18" ViewCount="4250" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I understand Pulp Fiction is webbed with symbols and hidden meaning. Is there something symbolic in the Butch's father's gold watch because it did trigger a large number of events like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;argument about the watch with Fabienne &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;return to the apartment to pick it up&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;killing Vincent at the apartment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;running over Marsellus&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;all that gun shop action with Maynard, Zed and The Gimp &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;followed by Butch stealing Zed's chopper, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6982" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T18:20:00.860" LastActivityDate="2019-01-07T21:00:11.857" Title="What is the symbolism of the gold watch?" Tags="|analysis|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15717" CreationDate="2013-12-09T10:31:02.123" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it functions as a symbol in the sub plot about loyalty, friendship and being a 'true man'.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He gets it from the Captain with explanations about what the Captain and his father went through, the ordeals and humiliations which were suffered to connect with Butch via this watch.  Remember that Captain says that &quot;when two men are in a situation like that they take on certain responsibilities for each other&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rescue operations where Butch gets his gold watch back and when Wallace and Butch are captured in some ways parallel military rescue mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the most important aspect was when Butch had escaped the basement but knew he could not abandon Wallace to be raped and tortured, like his father and the Captain he knew he had taken on a responsibility for Wallace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the basement Wallace is being raped.  There seems to be foreshadowing with references by Wallace to asses (&quot;pop a cap in his ass&quot; etc.) and the watch being concealed in Butch's father's and then the Captains rectum.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Butch risks being recaptured to free Wallace.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this rescue mission to Wallace was a way for Butch to connect with his father and gain some closure?  Symbolically he might be rescuing his father from the torture of the POW camp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="1501" LastEditDate="2013-12-10T11:14:41.487" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T11:14:41.487" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15686" CreationDate="2013-12-09T10:36:00.443" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is currently unconfirmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The buckles being undone do not confirm anything as if you were to try to pull the baby out without undoing them they are quite likely to be the things that give first (rather than the straps).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if someone had taken her out there is no guarantee that they got away safely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it is perfectly plausible that someone could have rescued her.  Running with a baby carrier is very difficult, they are awkward and quite heavy (I have two toddlers so I have a bit of experience with them!) so a rescuer would almost definitely have taken her out and left the seat behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I have a child not much older than Judith.  I found the scene horrific to watch and am desperately hoping she is still fine!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T10:36:00.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15636" CreationDate="2013-12-09T11:08:53.850" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They did not have the right sound library for a &lt;em&gt;stationary vehicle&lt;/em&gt; with the engine turned on, so they make the actors turn them off to not have to create additional sound effects.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The engine running might create unwanted noise with the conversation between the actors, so maybe they wanted the audience's full attention on the actors, not the background noise.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or the actors doing their job and feeling like turning off the engine makes the scene look more natural.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6787" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T11:08:53.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10555" CreationDate="2013-12-09T11:09:17.033" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;George Lucas wrote a treatment--as in he laid out the &lt;em&gt;foundations&lt;/em&gt; for the story. His script was only around 200 pages (most of which was changed dramatically when &lt;em&gt;Alan Dean Foster&lt;/em&gt; NOT Goerge Lucas, wrote the first Star Wars book (The Adventures of Luke Starkiller) for him for a payment of $5,000; which was released a year before the movie came out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lucas has admitted this only recently--and the newest editions of the book give the credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lucas did this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want Rebels&#xA;I want Empire&#xA;I want Jedi&#xA;I want Civil War&#xA;I want a master etc etc etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He gave vauge ideas on where he wanted the story to go... He did have a 200 page treatment which he gave to Alan Dean Foster when he wrote the first book. Alan changed major parts of the treatment for it was for lack of a better word--terrible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alan then released the book under George's name and Lucas took all the credit (till a few years ago).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the matter of the movies--Lucas adapted what Alan wrote into a screenplay then directed episode 4--which was a disaster due to 2 things; Lucas is a terrible director; this is why episodes 5 and 6 were better than all other films he made--for all others he directed. The other thing was his god awful editing--if you want to see how bad his editing is just look at the dialogue scenes in the prequels, absolutely bare minimum no excitement nor entertainment, predictable and utter a bore to watch; luckily he was able to get his wife to move on into the editing on episode 4 and she did a fantastic job--she gave scenes that felt lifeless; life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In regards to episode 5:&#xA;Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (also known as The Empire Strikes Back) is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner, produced by Gary Kurtz, and written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, with George Lucas writing the film's treatment and serving as executive producer. Of the six main Star Wars films, it was the second to be released and the fifth in terms of internal chronology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;George did not write it, the screen play was written by Leigh and Lawrence based on Lucas's vague treatment--the success to 5 is the director &quot;Irvin&quot; and the amazing themes and scenes he &lt;em&gt;forced&lt;/em&gt; the studio to put into the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Episode 6 &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; written by George and Leigh. Hence why it had Ewoks in it(just look at Jar'jar and you can see what I mean by that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;George wrote episodes 1,2,3 all on his own--no editors for the screenplay nor any proof-readers to fix continuity or coherence problems--what we saw was basically a first draft of each film--the novelizations were far better for 2 reasons: they weren't written by George--they didn't have the problems the movies had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7082" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T11:09:17.033" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15723" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15753" CreationDate="2013-12-09T11:52:22.767" Score="10" ViewCount="3408" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been wondering, knowing that back when this movie was shot technology wasn't &lt;em&gt;comparatively&lt;/em&gt; so advanced, how could they have shot the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCmWfb7bfxQ#t=25s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;opening scene&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;em&gt;The Shawshank Redemption&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was shot using a chopper, how could the chopper come so close to the roof of the second building right at end of the shot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7083" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-10T11:19:29.323" LastActivityDate="2017-11-27T03:13:19.430" Title="How was the aerial prison scene shot?" Tags="|film-techniques|the-shawshank-redemption|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15724" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17854" CreationDate="2013-12-09T12:05:44.960" Score="22" ViewCount="130088" Body="&lt;p&gt;Michael survives an attempt on his life at the beginning of &lt;em&gt;The Godfather Part II.&lt;/em&gt; The gunmen miss him and attempt to flee. We then see that they have been killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who killed the bodyguards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="47145" LastEditDate="2018-01-05T06:01:58.250" LastActivityDate="2021-07-21T21:14:49.873" Title="Who killed the assassins after the failed hit on Michael Corleone?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-godfather-2|" AnswerCount="14" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15725" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-09T12:07:49.170" Score="20" ViewCount="364682" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know Fredo betrayed Michael by working with Hyman Roth and Johnny Ola. What exactly did he do though?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He says he didn't know it was going to be a hit and that he was only trying to help the family. So what exactly did he do? Did he let the gunmen into the complex? Did he provide information about how the gunmen could get into the complex? If not then what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastActivityDate="2023-05-14T19:31:48.743" Title="What exactly did Fredo do to betray Michael?" Tags="|the-godfather-2|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15729" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-09T14:00:53.020" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-09T14:00:53.020" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T14:00:53.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15730" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-09T14:00:53.020" Score="0" Body="A script for a movie or a television show." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-09T14:00:53.020" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T14:00:53.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15734" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15834" CreationDate="2013-12-09T15:23:19.290" Score="5" ViewCount="18266" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/&quot;&gt;Bicycle Thieves&lt;/a&gt; is one of &lt;strong&gt;Leonardo DiCaprio's&lt;/strong&gt; favorite movies of all time. I saw it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just ended abruptly. I was really hopeful for a happy ending that he would win his bike back but rather he ends up with no bike in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone help me understand the reasons for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7088" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-09T15:36:18.460" LastActivityDate="2015-08-24T08:23:12.523" Title="Why did Bicycle Thieves end so abruptly?" Tags="|analysis|bicycle-thieves|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15725" CreationDate="2013-12-09T15:58:58.670" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, it could be said that he warned Johnny Ola that an attempt was going to be made on Hyman Roth in Cuba, which would explain the guards catching the assassin in the act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, it could be argued that Fredo left the blinds open in Michael's room, to help out the assassins spot Michael, although naive Fredo didn't think they were going to try and kill him &quot;just scare him&quot;. He would have given Johnny (uncle junior) Ola details on the family business as well including Michael's comings and goings. Michael warned Fredo in the first film not to side against the family so his death was inevitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T22:09:36.557" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T22:09:36.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15724" CreationDate="2013-12-09T16:03:12.883" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would have been Fredo's men. Fredo would have told his men to let them in and kill them after the hit. Micheal even says that he doesn't trust the men, and they are just trying to make money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-09T17:03:06.993" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T17:03:06.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15737" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-09T16:17:03.240" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1965 British Cold War spy film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Oskar Werner. Based on the 1963 novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré, the film is about a British agent who is sent to East Germany in order to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer. With the aid of his unwitting English girlfriend, an idealistic communist, he allows himself to be recruited by the communists, but soon his charade unravels and he admits to being a British agent—a revelation that achieves the ultimate objective of the mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spy_Who_Came_in_from_the_Cold_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-09T16:17:03.240" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T16:17:03.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15738" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-09T16:17:03.240" Score="0" Body="The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1965 British Cold War spy film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Oskar Werner. Based on the 1963 novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré, the film is about a British agent who is sent to East Germany in order to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-09T16:17:03.240" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T16:17:03.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15734" CreationDate="2013-12-09T16:28:44.470" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a film that was intended to show the poverty and desperation of post war (World War II) Italy, as well as the frustration of the general populace. The protagonist is basically powerless against the thief, as he cannot &quot;prove&quot; anything, yet he is still without his bicycle (Which is a valuable commodity, for transportation to/from work, etc.) If there was a happy ending, that would soften the impact of what the filmmaker was trying to portray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also scenes to drive home the fact that everyone seems to have their own bicycle, as shown by the scene near the end where everyone around the protagonist seems to be on a bicycle, coinciding with the opportune unlocked bicycle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final scene is not really abrupt, but it does underscore the powerlessness of the average person, and the uncaring willingness of the world to step on the already downtrodden. It's also an homage to many of the Charlie Chaplain film endings, as Di Sica was a fan of that filmmaker. (Last reference from the Wiki page).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2013-12-09T16:28:44.470" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15725" CreationDate="2013-12-09T16:38:34.410" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take a look &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredo_Corleone&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;at Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;. It is explained as much as it is possible to deduce from the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fredo later betrays Michael when approached by Johnny Ola (Dominic&#xA;Chianese), an agent of rival gangster Hyman Roth (Lee Strasberg),&#xA;during the negotiation of a business deal between Roth's organization&#xA;and the Corleone family. Ola and Roth claim that Michael is being&#xA;particularly difficult in the negotiations, and Fredo secretly agrees&#xA;to aid them in exchange for compensation; the film never reveals what&#xA;specific assistance Fredo provides Ola and Roth against Michael, or&#xA;what he receives in return. In any event, Roth's men use this&#xA;information to make an attempt on Michael's life at Michael's home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While in Havana negotiating with Roth, Michael realizes that Fredo is&#xA;the family traitor he had been looking for. Despite twice telling&#xA;Michael that he had never met Ola, Fredo drunkenly lets slip that they&#xA;had met in Havana earlier that year. Michael confronts Fredo later,&#xA;giving him the kiss of death and telling him, &amp;quot;I know it was you,&#xA;Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!&amp;quot; In the ensuing fray&#xA;after dictator Fulgencio Batista's flight from Fidel Castro's rebel&#xA;army, Michael pleads with Fredo to come with him, but a frightened&#xA;Fredo runs away. He is eventually tracked down and convinced to return&#xA;home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1654" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2023-05-14T19:30:31.070" LastActivityDate="2023-05-14T19:30:31.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15725" CreationDate="2013-12-09T17:33:17.563" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always had the impression that Fredo just provided Roth with some extra information in order for Roth's supposed deal with Michael to succeed and for himself to make a good figure, not knowing about Roth's plans against Michael. Maybe he even wanted a bit of a little advantage for himself out of the deal, feeling ignored by the family though being the older brother. So I think he was more careless and naive (which Roth used to his advantage) than having actual bad intentions against Michael. At least that's what Fredo says about it to Michael:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fredo:&lt;/strong&gt; They've got Pentangeli. That's all I can tell you. I didn't know it was gonna be a hit, Mike. I swear to God, I didn't know&#xA;it was gonna be a hit. Johnny Ola bumped into me at Beverly Hills, and&#xA;he said that he wanted to talk. He said that you and - and Roth were&#xA;in on a - a big deal together and that there was something in it for&#xA;me if I could help 'em out. He said that - He said that you were bein'&#xA;tough on the negotiations, but if they could get a little help and&#xA;close the deal fast, it'd be good for the family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael:&lt;/strong&gt; You believed that story? You believed that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fredo:&lt;/strong&gt; He said there was somethin' in it for me. On my own...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we don't neccessarily need to believe him (as he could just be pleading for innocence before Michael), this seems pretty much in line with how his character is depicted throughout the series. He always seemed to me as not the brightest of the brothers and a bit naive. It doesn't seem too unlikely that he would be a bit too careless with information when he thought he could make something &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;on his own&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, without deliberately endangering the family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I for myself believe his pleading. I don't think he ever intended Michael to be hurt or the family as a whole, even if he maybe wanted to make a little advantage behind his back. This just wouldn't fit to his character as depicted, I think. But this is all just my own impression without much substantial proof and without providing much information of what &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; he told Roth then (and I admit I haven't seen it for quite some time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2023-05-14T19:30:13.843" LastActivityDate="2023-05-14T19:30:13.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15746" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15749" CreationDate="2013-12-09T22:07:38.997" Score="8" ViewCount="2684" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched Hanna (2011). At a couple of points during the film, the agent Marissa is seen brushing her teeth until they bleed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a purpose to these scenes? They seemed to be focused on, more than I would expect. The only notable reference I found online is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmjournal.com/filmjournal/content_display/reviews/major-releases/e3i796f9488f1a2ecb139e2dc8078f2a1ab&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this review&lt;/a&gt;, stating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Her habit of flossing her gums bloody will weird out viewers clever enough to figure out why she does it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems there is more to it. What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T18:08:16.967" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T15:07:06.607" Title="What's with Marissa's bleeding gums in Hanna?" Tags="|plot-explanation|hanna|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9940" CreationDate="2013-12-10T01:08:46.727" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Running through the cemetery is an example of Claire pursuing an objective with utter disregard for what surrounds her. The old woman is a reality check (and maybe the beginning of a slow transformation in Claire -- I'm guessing, as I'm only on ep. 3).&#xA;When we see her again, she's walking in the cemetery. That in itself is a show of respect. That she smiles at the young couple shows that she still has the ability -- however buried -- for empathy. At least for me! Being optimistic maybe :p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7095" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-15T00:05:41.320" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T00:05:41.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15746" CreationDate="2013-12-10T02:55:02.753" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;My take on the situation is she has an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCD&quot;&gt;OCD&lt;/a&gt;). As explained in Wikipedia, this disorder shows in a lot of different ways. One such:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The acts of those who have OCD may appear paranoid and potentially psychotic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agent Marisa displays both of these traits in the movie. Also, she is very fastidious in everything she does (overly clean and particular). I don't think she is full blown OCD (if you read the Wiki article, you'll see what I mean), but she does show many of the symptoms. Considering the flossing behavior is over the top to you and me and she does this more than once, it might be considered this type of behavior. I am sure there are other things in the film which point to this as well, but not popping into my head at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason these scenes are important is because it develops the character to show you she has problems with things she has done in the past, whether or not she realizes it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T02:55:02.753" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15751" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-10T09:35:21.597" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unknown is a 2011 German-British-French psychological thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, starring Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn, Bruno Ganz, and Frank Langella. The film is based on the 2003 French novel published in English as Out of My Head, by Didier Van Cauwelaert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_%282011_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-10T09:35:21.597" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T09:35:21.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15752" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-10T09:35:21.597" Score="0" Body="2011 German-British-French psychological thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, starring Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn, Bruno Ganz, and Frank Langella." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-10T09:35:21.597" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T09:35:21.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15723" CreationDate="2013-12-10T10:01:40.363" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The chopper does not really come all that close to the building. And yes, *it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a chopper, baby*.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following is apparently from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shawshankredemption.org/analysis.htm&quot;&gt;director Frank Darabont's notes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scene 10.&lt;/strong&gt; This scene contains everybody's favorite shot in the movie. It's the amazing aerial view that first reveals the prison in all its bleak glory, with the army of prisoners streaming across the yard below to greet the arriving bus. It's a wonderfully cinematic moment, one that seems to suspend time even as it plunges us breathlessly into this new and horrible world...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...and boy, would I love to take credit for it, but you'll notice it's not even alluded to in the script. Truth is, it was production designer Terence Marsh's idea. On our very first scout to determine the viability of using the abandoned Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield as our primary location, producer Niki Marvin, coexecutive producer David Lester, Terry Marsh, and I found ourselves abjectly freezing our butts off and picking sleet out of our teeth (real winters come as a nasty surprise if you've just flown in from California). Suddenly, Terry (two-time Academy Award winner and last of the soft-spoken gentlemen) blinked up at the sky and uttered something like: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;This place would look smashing with an opening helicopter shot.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Six months later we were back again, this time with a veritable army of crew and trucks, desperately trying to get the shot in the can before lunch. This involved coordinating three major elements (and believe me, everybody's timing had to be perfect): &lt;strong&gt;the helicopter in the air, the bus on the ground, and the 500 extras in the yard.&lt;/strong&gt; It didn't help that the copter could only go up (or the extras emerge from hiding) in the intermittent breaks between rain flurries. The shot came off perfectly. It's even got the state flag of Maine snapping smartly&#xA;  in the breeze as if saluting Stephen King. &lt;strong&gt;It helps to have a great pilot (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0952174/&quot;&gt;Bobby Z&lt;/a&gt;), a great aerial camera operator (Mike Kelem),&lt;/strong&gt; intrepid assistant directors (John Woodward and Tom Schellenberg, who spent a month planning placement and movement of the prisoners in the yard as if diagramming the world's biggest football play), stout-hearted extras (the fine men of Mansfield and surrounding areas), and God or the universe on your side. Most of all, it helps to have a great idea to set all the madness in motion. Thanks, Terry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The use of the helicopter is also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/goofs#gf0907971&quot;&gt;confirmed in a goof&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Towards the beginning of the film, during a beautiful aerial shot of the bus entering Shawshank Prison, the camera flies over the buildings, where we see the prisoners on their way to &quot;greet&quot; in the new inmates. As the camera circles around, at the top of the frame, in an area of green grass, near a building, &lt;strong&gt;the shadow of the camera's helicopter is clearly visible.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T10:01:40.363" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15755" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-10T12:27:42.957" Score="8" ViewCount="1668" Body="&lt;p&gt;What type of mental illness does Nina suffer from? It looks like she has schizophrenia. Her mother also appears to be unwell or just extremely overbearing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7098" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T18:25:59.363" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T18:25:59.363" Title="What type of mental illness does Nina suffer from?" Tags="|character|black-swan|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15756" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-10T14:05:19.697" Score="32" ViewCount="102502" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eli Wallach &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327056/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast&quot;&gt;appears&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Mystic River&lt;/em&gt;. Olivia Williams &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376994/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast&quot;&gt;plays a role&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;em&gt;X-Men: The Last Stand&lt;/em&gt;. However, neither of them (according to IMDb) is credited in the movie. These two instances are simply examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are some actors, who are oftentimes quite well known, not credited in certain features?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-05-28T09:19:01.257" LastActivityDate="2016-06-04T04:15:01.503" Title="Why are some actors uncredited in certain films?" Tags="|production|casting|credits|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15758" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-10T15:57:13.353" Score="5" ViewCount="880" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched the French film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387898/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Caché&lt;/a&gt;, because it received unanimous positive reviews and Roger Ebert added this movie to his &quot;Great Movies&quot; list. But I am still not clear about the ending, though, I partially understand it has something to do with the protagonist's past life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: In the climax, Pierrot and Majid's son meet in front of Pierrot's school and discuss something. The conversation can not be heard and am not sure what is the significance of this scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6531" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-10T16:37:31.103" LastActivityDate="2014-03-28T20:02:14.947" Title="What do Majid's son and Pierrot discuss at the end?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|cache|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15759" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-10T16:00:52.353" Score="6" ViewCount="1299" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do even some of the big budget films slow down the frame rate to give slow motion effect rather than use a slow-motion camera? The point is that the first technique almost always give a hint of &quot;ruggedness&quot; which is totally smoothed on using a proper slow-motion camera instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4982" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-10T16:19:06.010" LastActivityDate="2013-12-11T12:08:36.147" Title="Slowing down the frame rate vs. using a slow-motion camera" Tags="|effects|cinematography|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15760" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-10T16:22:37.993" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-10T16:22:37.993" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T16:22:37.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15761" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-10T16:22:37.993" Score="0" Body="Caché (distributed as Hidden in the UK and Ireland) is a 2005 French-language thriller written and directed by Michael Haneke. The film stars Daniel Auteuil as Georges and Juliette Binoche as his wife Anne." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-10T16:22:37.993" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T16:22:37.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15756" CreationDate="2013-12-10T16:41:21.833" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Screen Actor's Guild sets certain required pay scales for actors. In some cases actors will agree to pay adjustments or a lack of credit as a favor to a friend directing the film (Robin Williams in Baron Munchausen) or just to have the chance to cameo in the film for fun. In some cases an actor won't be billed so as not to spoil a surprise. Lately the Marvel films (Avengers, Iron Man, etc) have been not billing cameo actors for this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, in some cases its a gross oversight. James Earl Jones had to wait decades for the digital reissue of Star Wars to get screen credit as the voice of Darth Vader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T16:41:21.833" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15717" CreationDate="2013-12-10T17:15:35.943" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the watch really &quot;symbolic&quot;? I think its role is much more direct: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the watch is simply the central plot device in the Butch-related parts of the movie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The watch is Butch's prized possession, a token his ancestors went to great lengths to pass on to him -- as Tarantino chose to explain in the movie's very first scene. To Butch, the watch is loaded with &lt;em&gt;sentimental value&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Butch's attachment to the watch causes him to go back to his apartment, leading to his confrontations with Vincent Vega and then Marcellus Wallace, which make up the main action of the movie. Any other possession would not have been worth risking all that trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-07T21:00:11.857" LastActivityDate="2019-01-07T21:00:11.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15766" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-10T18:51:00.883" Score="3" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489664/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shattered&lt;/a&gt; (aka &lt;em&gt;Butterfly on a wheel&lt;/em&gt;), at about the 7th minute, Neil Randall (Gerard Butler) is going up an elevator, with another person in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eSHEd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the angle of the shot, I am 100% certain that the camera man (or at least the camera) should have been seen in the mirrors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How come they aren't? Was there an effect used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2162" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-10T19:24:36.867" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T19:24:36.867" Title="How was the cameraman removed from the mirrors in the elevator scene?" Tags="|effects|cinematography|shattered|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2013-12-13T00:13:05.617" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15767" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-10T19:08:55.653" Score="5" ViewCount="6945" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wes Anderson's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128445/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rushmore&lt;/a&gt; closes with a scene where Miss Cross asks Max if he wants to dance. He gets the DJ to change the music to the song &lt;em&gt;Ooh la la&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;em&gt;The Faces&lt;/em&gt;. Miss Cross then removes his glasses and there's a lot of staring into each others eyes before she pulls him onto the floor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this happens after Miss Cross makes up with Herman Blume while Max seems to enter a relationship with Margaret.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what is this scene supposed to represent? Is the love triangle still unresolved? Does Miss Cross now see Max as a mature man? Is there some meaning to the song?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T00:49:53.553" Title="Miss Cross dancing with Max Fischer at the end" Tags="|ending|plot-explanation|rushmore|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15768" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-10T19:10:07.767" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rushmore is a 1998 comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson about an eccentric teenager named Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman), his friendship with rich industrialist Herman Blume (Bill Murray), and their mutual love for elementary school teacher Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams). The film was co-written by Anderson and Owen Wilson. The soundtrack was scored by regular Anderson collaborator Mark Mothersbaugh and features several songs by bands associated with the British Invasion of the 1960s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushmore_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-10T19:10:07.767" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T19:10:07.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15769" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-10T19:10:07.767" Score="0" Body="1998 comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson about an eccentric teenager named Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman), his friendship with rich industrialist Herman Blume (Bill Murray), and their mutual love for elementary school teacher Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams)." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-10T19:10:07.767" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T19:10:07.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15770" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-10T19:20:55.227" Score="3" ViewCount="981" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Wes Anderson's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128445/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rushmore&lt;/a&gt;, we see Max ordering dynamite from a store prior to staging his play. He asks the order to be made out to &lt;em&gt;Ready Demolition, Tucson, Arizona&lt;/em&gt;. Yes, said play involved a war and there were lots of effects. But what was the necessity for the dynamite?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were the explosives a red herring for the audience? I personally expected him to blow up the newly constructed aquarium (especially after his conversation with Herman about how much money he is prepared to lose).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T20:37:12.283" Title="What was the dynamite for? Was it a red herring?" Tags="|plot-explanation|rushmore|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15771" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15776" CreationDate="2013-12-10T20:44:54.203" Score="4" ViewCount="2631" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I watch Joss Whedon's shows I'm very aware of how often the same actors appear. Here's a quick list of ones I've spotted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eliza Dushku - Dollhouse and Buffy/Angel&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alexis Denisof - Buffy/Angel and Dollhouse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adam Baldwin - Angel/Firefly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nathan Fillon - Firefly/Buffy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gina Torres - Firefly/Angel&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Summer Glau - Firefly/Dollhouse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Amy Acker - Dollhouse/Angel&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alan Tudyk - Firefly/Dollhouse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has he ever given any reason for hiring the same actors in his different shows instead of finding different casts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2013-12-11T02:10:35.883" Title="Why does Joss Whedon use the same actors so frequently?" Tags="|casting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15772" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15773" CreationDate="2013-12-10T20:49:40.073" Score="7" ViewCount="1844" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed several references to Battlestar Galactica in the TV series Dollhouse. These include the sharing of Tahmoh Penikett and Jamie Bamber as cast members and at least one reference to Cylons (I believe Topher calls Bennet a Cylon at one point?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any connection between the two shows or are these just nods to another sci-fi show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2019-02-08T16:09:55.757" Title="Are Dollhouse and Battlestar Galactica connected?" Tags="|battlestar-galactica|dollhouse|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15772" CreationDate="2013-12-10T22:42:35.490" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Battlestar Galactica apparently exists in the world of Dollhouse, but only as a show. That would explain calling someone a Cylon.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sharing actors is nothing new. Summer Glau is in Dollhouse, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Firefly / Serenity (along with Alan Tudyk who also appeared in Dollhouse). This does not suggest that they are all in the same 'verse.  Adelle DeWitt (Olivia Williams) did not just have her husband Bruce Willis die, and Patton Oswalt's presence does not mean this is stand-up comedy. It's crazy how many of these people like to work together and get to on such fun (albeit usually short-lived) shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BSG is controlled by The Sci-Fi Channel (someone else can edit that) and Dollhouse was run by FOX. That's a bureaucratic problem with them existing in the same uiniverse, minus all the logistical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="715" LastEditDate="2013-12-10T23:42:09.000" LastActivityDate="2013-12-10T23:42:09.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15775" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-11T02:03:48.983" Score="5" ViewCount="848" Body="&lt;p&gt;This movie starts out with a convenience store being robbed in a desert setting. This bounty hunter(a Nolte or Busey lookalike) comes in and shoots the store up with a sawed off shot gun. I believe he collects the bounty on the armed robbers. Outside this store was a sky blue mid 50's Ford Stepside pick up truck. The bounty hunter drives a Caprice classic (mid 80's chev car) he lives in an old warehouse in which he pulls in his car into a cargo elevator and it takes him upto the second floor where he lives. He drives his motorcycle around his living room in this warehouse and drinks Jack Daniels from the bottle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's about all I caught of this movie on late night cable. Any leads would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7107" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-11T05:07:54.263" LastActivityDate="2013-12-11T12:16:37.910" Title="Nick Nolte or Gary Busey lookalike who lives in a warehouse and is a bounty hunter" Tags="|identify-this-movie|action|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:54:43.757" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15771" CreationDate="2013-12-11T02:10:35.883" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;They have a camaraderie and a short-hand that only happens by having worked together before. Fillion said in an interview (maybe with EW?) that when the phone rang and he saw it was Joss Whedon calling, he answered the phone by saying &quot;YES.&quot; And that's how he became a member of the cast of Dr. Horrible. It's the same reason Martin Scorsese works so often with De Niro and more recently DiCaprio.  Many directors do this. Wes Anderson, Hal Hartley and Woody Allen. It makes the set more relaxed and communication easier because there's no &quot;getting to know you&quot; orientation when you're working with friends. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastActivityDate="2013-12-11T02:10:35.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15778" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-11T02:52:47.123" Score="8" ViewCount="1481" Body="&lt;p&gt;Midnight, small diner in a large city, possibly Chicago or New York, an adult male sits and drinks his coffee. A couple others in coffee shop going about their business. He pays for his coffee and leaves. He walks out on to the dark street and hears the pay phone ringing. He doesn't want to answer but the phone just keeps ringing. Finally he picks it up without speaking, the guy on the other end begins to speak of a nuclear attack that is coming in a couple hours. After listening the guy is convinced it's for real. He decides only to tell his loved ones and starts calling them one by one, trying to arrange an evacuation ASAP. They spend most of the night trying to get away from the threat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which movie is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7107" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-11T05:14:45.650" LastActivityDate="2014-06-30T04:39:14.770" Title="Man who answers a ringing payphone is told about a imminent nuclear attack on North America" Tags="|identify-this-movie|drama|action|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:54:50.107" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15759" CreationDate="2013-12-11T05:17:40.770" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;slow motion happens by filming at a higher frames per second (FPS) than the playback on a projector happens. What you're talking about is a high speed camera, designed to capture more FPS than a standard camera. If a high speed camera records at 240 FPS and play back runs at 24 FPS, then what took 1 second to record will talk 10 seconds to watch, and be very smooth. If you record 48 frames per second and playback at 5 frames per second it will still take about 10 seconds but won't be very smooth at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some high speed cameras record at 12,500. They're expensive and really only good for this one job. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2013-12-11T05:23:35.040" LastActivityDate="2013-12-11T05:23:35.040" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15784" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-11T06:02:03.853" Score="12" ViewCount="1118" Body="&lt;p&gt;Andy Dufresne was sentenced to two life sentences, how was his right to appeal his sentence denied to him by the warden, and could he have been able to appeal? How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7108" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T19:51:05.863" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T19:51:05.863" Title="How could Andy's right to appeal his sentence be denied to him by the warden?" Tags="|analysis|the-shawshank-redemption|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15785" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15791" CreationDate="2013-12-11T07:54:41.977" Score="7" ViewCount="10355" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actors in the movies and TV shows from the 50s and the 60s often look old to me, probably way older than their actual age, or older than than you would expect their roles to be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, am I just imagining things or is there really a perceivable difference in the age (be it real or just visual) of the actors or their roles compared to nowadays' movies? And what would the reasons for this difference be? Is this because of some healthcare or makeup advances in the 70s or lifestyle changes in the US or some other reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-01T12:46:14.993" LastActivityDate="2021-10-30T06:10:46.330" Title="Why do actors in old movies look old?" Tags="|film-techniques|make-up|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15785" CreationDate="2013-12-11T08:03:59.270" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not imagining. You are probably right that in current films actor appear younger than their real age but in older film they look same to their age or might be older. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of my friend told me that in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Idiots&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;3 Idiots&lt;/a&gt;, the face wrinkles of the leading actor (Aamir Khan) is removed digitally in the film, so that he can look like a college aged boy. So now days not only makeup but they also changes faces digitally. Similarly these days actor/actresses have cosmetic surgeries to look younger for films. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-01T08:23:19.217" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T08:23:19.217" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15778" CreationDate="2013-12-11T12:01:51.313" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like the movie called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097889/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Miracle Mile&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A young man hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit his city in 70 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A young man meets and falls in love with a young woman at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. This area is known as Miracle Mile, and the whole movie takes place there. They make a date, which he misses, and while he is searching for her, he accidentally finds out that we (the United States) are about to start a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. He frantically searches for her so that they can escape Los Angeles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4392" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-12-11T12:01:51.313" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15759" CreationDate="2013-12-11T12:08:36.147" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Slow motion video is recorded in a rate higher than the playback rate (Ben already explained the details). When taking a still image (but it corresponds to video) there are 3 parameters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;exposure time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;lens aperture&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sensor/film sensitivity&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Modifying these 3 will result in certain effects:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;motion or shake blur vs more &quot;frozen&quot; action&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;more vs less depth of field&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;more vs less noise/grain&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When modifying the frame rate you're modifying the exposure time. Respectively you will need to modify either or both the aperture or the sensitivity, which may result in effects you might not want (shallower depth of field or more noise).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally and probably most important sometimes you can either not modify the latter two parameters or you may hit a certain limit where you can't modify them so you need to introduce more light sources or more powerful light sources which will usually effect the overall &quot;feel&quot; of the shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's always more reasons like &quot;I want that ruggedness&quot; which is totally viable in my opinion because you may create interesting effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6982" LastActivityDate="2013-12-11T12:08:36.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15775" CreationDate="2013-12-11T12:16:37.910" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure this is a 1986 movie starring Rutger Hauer called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094293/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wanted: Dead or Alive&lt;/a&gt;. The guy riding the bike is his friend who is storing his bike in Nick's (Hauer) wharehouse home because he doesn't want his wife to know he's bought it. This movie also stars Gene Simmons from the rock band KISS and TV show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498617/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Family Jewels&lt;/a&gt;. Gene plays a Middle-Eastern terrorist who kills Danny (Nick's friend) because Danny is mistaken for Nick. Nick then goes on a hunt to track down Malak Al Rahim (Simmons) for a large bounty, which he transfers to Danny's widow. He does this because he feels guilty for Danny's death. The final scenes of the movie are with Al Rahim standing bound with a grenade in his mouth. Nick leads him to the police officer (played by Robert Guillaume) using the &quot;pin&quot; on the grenade. Nick is supposed to get a bonus for bringing him in alive. Instead he says, &quot;F*** the bonus&quot; and pulls the pin, blowing Al Rahim's head off in the process. Very apropos ending!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bKJkK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Movie Poster for Wanted Dead or Alive&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-12-11T12:16:37.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15784" CreationDate="2013-12-11T13:54:47.230" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The right to counsel was decided by the Supreme Court in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_v._Wainwright&quot;&gt;Gideon vs. Wainwright&lt;/a&gt; in 1963.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gideon v. Wainwright was one of a series of Supreme Court decisions that confirmed the right of defendants in criminal proceedings, upon request, to have counsel appointed both during trial and on appeal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This story is based in the 1940s or early 50s at best. This is evidenced by the Rita Hayworth poster Andy requests. A screencap of the poster shows an image that comes from &lt;a href=&quot;http://theartofilm.blogspot.com/2013/09/moving-pictures-rita-hayworth.html&quot;&gt;Life magazine in 1941&lt;/a&gt;. Prior to Gideon, lawyers were only appointed for capital offenses (execution). Since he was convicted of killing the only means of outside support, the wife, and her lover, Andy couldn't afford his own lawyer; he had no recourse. The warden was also corrupt, and the staff of officers supported him. They control Andy, control his contacts, control his whole life, just as a convict. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-11T14:51:51.100" LastActivityDate="2013-12-11T14:51:51.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15785" CreationDate="2013-12-11T14:56:53.170" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be honest with you, the best answer to this question is the adage that &lt;strong&gt;beauty is in the eye of the beholder&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a plethora of reasons why actors looked so drastically &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; back then, some of them social, some of them technical, but to assert that they were any less handsome is a misnomer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Popular culture of the 1950's (and also but &lt;em&gt;a little less&lt;/em&gt; the 1960's) circulated different ideals of what was attractive to an audience than we do today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 1950's was an interesting time in Hollywood, as the 'Leading man' persona was being jeopardized by the collapse of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_system_%28filmmaking%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;star system,&lt;/a&gt; yet also given ballast by the post-war victory movies that were churned out at an unimaginable pace (compared to the rate of production today). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These movies privileged the idea of a leading man being strong, rugged and masculine. It's possible to represent this conservative view of masculinity with a younger male, but there was very little precedent for younger male leads at the time, it was simply felt that Audiences would respond better to more established stars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was also fierce patriotism to contend with, not only because of McCarthyism and the Cold War, but because of a strong development of American national identity following WWII.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, many of the older stars had embedded themselves into not only the public consciousness but the machinations of the studio industry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Studio system that was prevalent in the 1950's and 60's used contracted stars, who would be used for a predefined number of pictures. These contracts &lt;em&gt;HAD&lt;/em&gt; to be honored, so as such there was little room for new talent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This situation became pretty dire (as it extended to production crew and directors alike), and caused what was tantamount to crisis in the late 1960's. The only way for studio's to re-engage with their audiences was to allow &lt;em&gt;New Creative Talent&lt;/em&gt; to take over from the stalwarts of the previous generation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This transition became known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hollywood&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;New Hollywood,&lt;/a&gt; and is what gave birth to the American Auteurs (Coppola, Kubrick, Peckinpah etc..). you'll notice that after around 1968 (ish), films start to become not only more graphic and controversial, but also took greater risks in using unknown, younger actors. Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson got their big breaks during this period, to name but a few. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xJ9Bs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the 1950's was (for the most part) before the Teen Explosion: the introduction of 'The Teenager' as a marketable entity, with its own personality and traits. James Dean was at the threshold of this movement, and for most of the 1950's was really the only &lt;em&gt;younger&lt;/em&gt; megastar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This list of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/list/No-XMvUx6Hs/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The most Handsome actors of the 1950's&lt;/a&gt; has James Dean as the only actor under the age of 30, and he died in 55'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To Summarize, the 1950's idea of a leading male was an older, wiser, stronger representation of masculinity than we have today, and as such they picked their stars to match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T19:30:45.110" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T19:30:45.110" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15792" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-11T15:15:08.007" Score="2" ViewCount="1807" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a scene where Bullock's foot was tangled in the parachute's strings and she was holding onto the tether which Clooney is also holding onto. Clooney was still floating away, almost like he was getting blown away by wind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does that work? I don't understand why Clooney was still floating away after Bullock aught the tether. Eventually Clooney had to detach himself so she would be saved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5425" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T18:28:02.933" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T18:28:02.933" Title="Why was George Clooney pulling Sandra Bullock away?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gravity|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-12-11T22:43:44.573" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14458" CreationDate="2013-12-11T15:19:36.643" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the sequence in the tunnels, Blade is buying time for the remainder of the Bloodpack to get clear, as they will be affected by the UV bomb and Blade is unharmed by sunlight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A7XL5.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A7XL5l.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screencap of the described scene&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The UV bomb's remote detonation fails, meaning Blade has to get to the package and trigger it manually. In order to draw the Reapers towards him, Blade &lt;em&gt;smashes a vial of Reaper Pheromones on his chest&lt;/em&gt;, making him a distinctive, traceable target for Reapers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of The Bloodpack are present at this point, and as such they would not know that Blade had&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;done this, which would explain their surprise when Nomak is able to trace him so easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2022-10-06T02:19:05.257" LastActivityDate="2022-10-06T02:19:05.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15098" CreationDate="2013-12-11T15:27:07.437" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sigh. Another &lt;em&gt;Gravity&lt;/em&gt; Realism Question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm kidding of course. I was caught out by this attitude when &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/15059/why-would-the-satellite-debris-have-followed-the-tiangong-out-of-orbit&quot;&gt;I posted my own&lt;/a&gt; question about the Physics of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As much as you'll want a decent answer to this, it's likely that the only one you'll get is the same as mine; the film is hugely flawed, scientifically speaking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll refer you to the link &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/49/christian-rau&quot;&gt;Christian Rau&lt;/a&gt; was kind enough to provide me with, from a real life astronaut fact checking the movie. He addresses this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/astronaut-fact-checks-gravity.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;question in his interview.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Actually, I really couldn't understand the tension there. Sandra has her leg caught in some parachute rigging, and she's holding on to George by his hand. I think all he would have needed to have done would be to crawl up on her, and basically rope-climb up toward the space station. Or just lightly pull and he could have flown himself up to the space station. There would be no continuing motive force to continue to pull him away. So that physically didn't work for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2013-12-11T15:42:31.290" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15755" CreationDate="2013-12-11T16:00:19.483" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Swan_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki says..&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The production requires a ballerina to play the innocent and fragile&#xA;  White Swan, for which the committed dancer Nina (Portman) is a perfect&#xA;  fit, as well as the dark and sensual Black Swan, which are qualities&#xA;  embodied by the new arrival Lily (Kunis). Nina is overwhelmed by a&#xA;  feeling of immense pressure when she finds herself competing for the&#xA;  part, causing her to lose her tenuous grip on reality and descend into&#xA;  a living nightmare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So just like @aman_abhishk said, it was pressure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastActivityDate="2013-12-11T16:00:19.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15796" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16259" CreationDate="2013-12-11T16:51:01.997" Score="14" ViewCount="19270" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the course of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Godfather&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Michael marries Appolonia in Sicily. A failed assasination attempt results in her death. Shortly after, Michael returns to New York and marries Kay Adams. There was no mention of Appolonia in the rest of the Godfather trilogy apart from a deleted scene where her killer was murdered by a car bomb and a flashback at the end of 3. Did anyone back in America know of the marriage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-11T16:59:43.557" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T15:25:22.723" Title="Did anyone back in America know about Michael's marriage to Appolonia in Sicily?" Tags="|the-godfather-2|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15797" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-11T17:00:37.167" Score="1" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149361/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Micmacs&lt;/a&gt;, each member of Bazil's crew has a speciality. This includes Petit Pierre who can build impressive stuff (like automatons) out of just about anything. Each member assists in Bazil's plots using their talents. But Pierre's contributions are, to my memory, conspicuously absent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do see him helping out in raising a drawbridge. But all that we see him do is press a button. Did he render any other notable service?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-31T10:59:58.150" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T18:15:10.613" Title="What was Petit Pierre's contribution to the scheme in Micmacs?" Tags="|character|micmacs|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15798" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15800" CreationDate="2013-12-11T17:06:46.160" Score="13" ViewCount="2669" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; Season 5, Episode 14, there is a flashback scene at the start of the episode that shows Walt and Jesse during their first time cooking. When Jesse asks how much longer, Walt begins to explain that the reaction has begun and if they had a fridge it would work faster because the reaction is exothermic. When Walt turns around, Jesse says something under his breath. I watched this part over and over and cannot make out what he said. I looked for a script online, but found none. Does anyone know what Jesse said? At first I thought he was muttering to himself about how much money he will make by putting up with Walt. Then after listening again, I think it sounded more like he said something about a coma. But this doesn't make sense because Jesse doesn't know yet that Walt is sick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4607" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T19:14:46.527" LastActivityDate="2016-04-18T19:30:07.980" Title="What did Jesse Pinkman mumble in the flashback scene of Breaking Bad S05E14?" Tags="|breaking-bad|dialogue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15799" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-11T17:13:43.980" Score="2" ViewCount="135" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149361/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Micmacs&lt;/a&gt;, Bazil is the protagonist of the story, initially a Tarantino-like video store clerk, and later the mastermind of a revenge plot. One of the reasons for his quest for revenge is the fact that he was shot in the head by a bullet. The bullet was not removed and was instead left in his brain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What were the effects of the bullet? Besides ruining his earlier life and leading to his revenge quest, how did it affect him psychologically or physically?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-31T10:59:40.103" LastActivityDate="2019-01-31T18:13:25.237" Title="How did the bullet lodged in his brain affect Bazil in Micmacs?" Tags="|character|micmacs|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15798" CreationDate="2013-12-11T17:23:12.240" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly he says &quot;Put me in a coma, why don't ya?&quot; It has nothing to do with Walt being sick. This was a flashback to their very first cook together. As Jesse was a former student in Walt's chemistry class, they very much had a teacher/student relationship. Jesse had cooked before and thought he knew everything about the process. When Walt starting his &quot;lecture&quot; (the bit about it being a &quot;exothermic reaction&quot; etc) Jesse is bored and uninterested and his coma comment reflects that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2013-12-11T17:23:12.240" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15089" CreationDate="2013-12-11T22:14:40.350" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;He destroyed the temple because the sages had become corrupt, so he wanted to get rid of them and the firebenders. It was to protect Aang, and there was no more use in the temple after he had already talked to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7113" LastEditorUserId="7113" LastEditDate="2013-12-12T12:12:57.367" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T12:12:57.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15805" CreationDate="2013-12-11T23:04:32.820" Score="3" ViewCount="8001" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Prisoners (2013), the abducted victims (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200452/?ref_=tt_cl_t7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alex Jones&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2810287/?ref_=tt_cl_t14&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bob Taylor&lt;/a&gt; and then Anna and Joy) didn't talk -that much-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anna and Joy maybe didn't talk because they were shocked and tired but what about Alex and Bob? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Alex didn't even talk when he was under torture by Keller. Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-12T00:22:01.907" LastActivityDate="2017-03-27T14:20:17.017" Title="Why didn't the abducted victims talk?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prisoners|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15803" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15826" CreationDate="2013-12-11T23:31:24.127" Score="23" ViewCount="8475" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that musicals are much less common in the American Film Industry these days in comparison to the 30's, 40's, and 50's.  Of course, I'm not saying that they never make musicals (e.g. Disney/Pixar films, Baz Luhrmann films, etc...), but it seems like they used to make a lot more a long time ago.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When did this shift away from musicals occur?  What are the factors which led to the apparent decline?  Why don't we see very many american musical films?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5225" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-04T15:06:47.837" LastActivityDate="2018-01-26T03:56:30.183" Title="When and why did the decline of Musicals in American Cinema happen?" Tags="|cinema-history|film-industry|musical|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15802" CreationDate="2013-12-12T00:02:42.890" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer: the trauma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We didn't see much of Anna and Joy after being taken. There was just a short scene as Joy remembers it, and their mouth were duct-taped (&quot;It put tape on our mouths&quot;). In the hospital, we learn that Joy was drugged and thus almost completely unable to speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alex and Bob were both very traumatized by their kidnapping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Early in the movie, we learn that Alex has the intelligence of a ten year old boy. Later on, we learn that he suffered another trauma, besides the kidnapping: some kind of an accident that involved snakes (that Holly's husband kept) which was intensified by the fact that, in Holly's words, &quot;Alex had a fear of them&quot;. Since then &quot;Alex never talks very much&quot;, &quot;Well, he talks, you know. &lt;em&gt;Good morning&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;good night&lt;/em&gt;,... that sort of thing. Hard to get too much more than that out of him&quot;. You can read more about Alex in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/15187/5589&quot;&gt;this Christian's answer&lt;/a&gt; to a somewhat related question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Bob, he is also clearly suffering from a trauma induced by the kidnapping. He is recreating the scene (thus for a while implicating himself as a kidnapper), he knows what the girls are going through,... he simply cracked a long time ago, probably even before or right after he got away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T02:04:57.500" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12224" CreationDate="2013-12-12T04:49:49.393" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I grew up hearing the stories of the Canaima as told by my Native American grandmother and other people when I visited the village in Guyana South America. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7119" LastEditorUserId="5929" LastEditDate="2013-12-12T11:21:57.143" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T11:21:57.143" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13939" CreationDate="2013-12-12T05:07:27.840" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly &lt;em&gt;La crise&lt;/em&gt; from 1992? The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104025/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;plot summary&quot;&gt;plot summary&lt;/a&gt; on IMDB indicates that this is a film about a lawyer who becomes unemployed and single on the same day. There are a couple other similarities with what you've mentioned above as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6779" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T05:07:27.840" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15819" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-12T06:25:06.323" Score="1" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Shawshank Redemption&lt;/em&gt;, Red receives parole after serving 40 years in Shawshank. In the beginning of movie it is shown that Red's plea for rehabilitation got rejected multiple times. When Andy breaks-out of Shawshank, it gives hope to Red but in his interaction with the prison authority Red shows no interest in getting out. So how did Red get approval for rehabilitation?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3223" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-12T09:12:03.897" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T09:13:59.043" Title="How did Red get approval for rehabilitation?" Tags="|character|the-shawshank-redemption|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2013-12-12T17:53:48.157" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2022" CreationDate="2013-12-12T08:46:38.270" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In previous hearings, he seemed a bit cocky and not at all sorry for what he'd done. Therefore they judged that he needed more time in prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the last hearing, he definitely had an air of penitence and he was &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; sorry for what he had done. At this point, the panel recognised that the term he had served had served its purpose, he'd realised that what he'd done was wrong, and therefore they judged him ready for release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6811" LastEditorUserId="42568" LastEditDate="2022-10-24T19:56:53.257" LastActivityDate="2022-10-24T19:56:53.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15823" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15838" CreationDate="2013-12-12T09:45:20.897" Score="13" ViewCount="832" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched the ending of Breaking Bad, and it made me wonder, had they decided how many seasons, how the story unfolds, and how it ends, before starting to shoot the series, or did they decide what happens next as the story went?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone from the studio mentioned that in interviews?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6137" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T17:51:30.037" Title="Had they decided how Breaking Bad ends before they started shooting the series?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15824" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-12T11:30:51.303" Score="9" ViewCount="14763" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071562/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Godfather: Part II&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Willie Cicci, played by Joe Spinelli, testifies that Michael Corleone was involved in organised crime and the head of the Corleone family: &lt;em&gt;&quot;Oh yeah, a buffer. The family had a lot of buffers!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He isn't seen again in the film. What happened to Cicci? Would he have gone into witness protection, jail or have been murdered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T09:25:13.143" LastActivityDate="2016-11-12T23:44:01.267" Title="What happened to Willie Cicci after the grand jury in Godfather II?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-godfather-2|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15825" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15840" CreationDate="2013-12-12T11:33:16.297" Score="19" ViewCount="148197" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Sonny is killed at the toll booth, Don Corleone calls a meeting with the head of the five families. During this meeting he makes peace with Tattaglia who he thought was backing Sollozzo. After the meeting he tells Tom Hagen that he now knows it was Barzini who was backing Sollozzo all along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened in the meeting that allowed Don Corleone to make this deduction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-12T12:49:23.960" LastActivityDate="2016-11-10T07:39:04.323" Title="How did Don Corleone know that Barzini was behind Sollozzo?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15803" CreationDate="2013-12-12T11:58:04.843" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason why musicals are less popular now, or more prolific back in the first half of the century is pretty long, but hopefully engaging and interesting. It certainly was to me when I studied it. There are tons of academic books written about the downfall of musicals, but here's the short(er) version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Musicals (along with Westerns) were very much a staple of the now defunct Star System that American studio's used to participate in. As such, if you could make a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/list/gCasPrK3Wk4/&quot;&gt;Musical Western&lt;/a&gt;, you were laughing all the way to the bank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JLmEZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you have correctly pointed out, these days Musicals (&lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Westerns, for that matter) are only produced as Prestige Pictures, and there are reasons for that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 1920's saw a technological leap forward that would change cinema forever: Namely, the introduction of sound. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018037/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2&quot;&gt;The Jazz Singer&lt;/a&gt; featured the first sequence of synchronized sound in a widely distributed feature film, and was met with immediate success. From its very inception, the use of sound in cinema was linked with music, and more specifically yet &lt;em&gt;singing&lt;/em&gt;, so the connection to musical theater was recognized and explored immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Star System was already in place, and as such singing and dancing were added to actors feature lists to make them all rounders. Early successes of the pre-sound cinema, like Florence Lawrence, the 'Biograph Girl' fell to the wayside in favor of more musical fare. Appropriately, the Biograph Girl's story was turned into a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Biograph_Girl&quot;&gt;musical itself&lt;/a&gt;, and both &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1655442/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot;&gt;The Artist&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045152/&quot;&gt;Singing in the Rain&lt;/a&gt; borrow elements from her story. The studios enjoyed great success from the stars they promoted into musicals, and there was global appreciation for them for many years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wasn't until the late 1950's that things within the Star System started to fall apart, and it was just as much the studio's fault than it was that the audiences didn't want to see musicals anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see, for a long period The Studio System enjoyed &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_integration#Media_industry&quot;&gt;Vertical Integration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, meaning that they owned and controlled their entire production, distribution and exhibition processes themselves. This level of control may seem beneficial, but it whittled movie production into only 5 competing studios, &lt;strong&gt;'The Big Five&lt;/strong&gt;': MGM, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, and RKO. (There was also &lt;strong&gt;'The Little Three'&lt;/strong&gt;, but as their nomenclature would indicate, they weren't as big!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result of this set up meant that Studios were only really competing with a small market, and as they had all more or less decided to keep out of each others pockets, very little even there. This meant that there was no competitive market to decline or bargain for movies, so the only thing that could influence what sort of film was being made was a studio executive in his office, who were hardly representative of the masses!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wasn't until 1948 that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc.&quot;&gt;Supreme Court ruled&lt;/a&gt; that this system should be broken up, and it was itself only delayed because of the focus on the war. This meant that the studios' control was finally broken up, but it had very little real effect to the Big Five who had used their time wisely to consolidate their assets into a firm grip on the industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, for the time being, the studios continued to prosper. Different Genre's came in and out of popularity, and so &lt;em&gt;not being a genre itself, but more of a method of application&lt;/em&gt; Musicals survived by simply adopting the genre a la' mode and wearing it like a mask for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WWII nostalgia films become popular? War Musicals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Si3bm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Warner Bros. have a spate of successful Gangster movies? Gangster Musicals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dq9ii.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It didn't matter whether or not people actually wanted to see these movies, there was no choice in the matter and as a result of that, they enjoyed the illusion of popularity, not to mention being genuinely popular anyway as a means of family entertainment in a very conservative America.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real killing blow to musicals came with the same blow that threw the entire industry into crisis: advent of Home Television. It was a slow death however, over a number of years. For the most part, the Industry didn't even realize it was dying. People had been provided with &lt;em&gt;Choice&lt;/em&gt; for the first time, and for an industry who's unofficial motif was &quot;You'll get what you're given&quot;, this was bad news...The motto slowly became its epitaph. Some Studio's began to experiment with Television, and set up sister studio's in the rival industry, but even this did little to change their programming output.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rise of Suburbia also struck its blow, as people were expected to take long journeys into cities to see movies, and the Television was already sat in their living room. It would have to be something pretty impressive to budge them, so in a way they were voting with their feet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, the studio's remained stubborn in their refusal to adapt. Whatsmore, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code&quot;&gt;the Hays Code&lt;/a&gt; was still very much in place, not only prohibiting certain types of film but encouraging Studios to stick to what they knew already, stifling any creative experimentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When this all finally came to a head in the late 60's, the industry was in crisis. It didn't know, or more accurately didn't care, what their audiences wanted anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only solution to this was tantamount to almost total replacement. &#xA;Crew and Cast from leading men to lighting operators, Directors to set designers were systematically replaced for younger, fresher and more in touch counterparts. This became known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hollywood&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The New Hollywood&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and produced what many people consider the greatest movies of 20th century's second half.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This came at its price...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Directors had to fight for years, and continue fighting, to wrestle creative control from the old guard. They heavily resented the former ringleaders of the industry, and poured scorn on their pitiable output of incessant Musicals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, many of these directors looked up to the writing of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahiers_du_cin%C3%A9ma&quot;&gt;Cahiers du Cinema&lt;/a&gt;, and the European cinematic giants who wrote for it: Bresson, Goddard, Truffaut to name a few. These were figures that hated Musical Cinema, not only for what they considered to be unoriginal copies of stage productions, but for the American Imperialistic intent these films harbored as they washed over Europe. This hatred found its way stateside and embedded itself into the New Hollywood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Hays code was finally lifted in 1969, giving these film makers a freedom no one had experienced since the mid 1920's. And what did they do with this freedom? They ran as far away from Musical cinema as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only studio to continue exploring Musicals as a prolific statement is Disney, for obvious animation reasons. It is for this reason that they are able to credibly produce programmes like Glee and movies like High School Musical: They have a fair claim to owning the Modern Musical Mastership, and they pretty much kept it breathing for the last part of the 20th century.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, until the late 60's, audiences were forcibly saturated with Musicals, and came to collectively loathe them, even if it took a bunch of pretty spiteful up and comers to point this out to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These up and comers ended up taking on their own downfall, however, proving history repeats itself. But that is a story for another time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-06-04T13:17:20.187" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T13:17:20.187" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15827" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15835" CreationDate="2013-12-12T13:21:14.900" Score="-2" ViewCount="4778" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently started watching Season 1 episodes of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106179/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The X-Files&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; series....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wanted to know if there is any verification for the claim that stories shown in its episodes are real-life stories or just a publicity stunt?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;http://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/true-stories-that-inspired-4-episodes-of--the-x-files--221938757.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt; which I found, but it was not that convincing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7110" LastEditorUserId="6234" LastEditDate="2013-12-12T15:46:58.080" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T15:55:42.537" Title="Are the stories of The X-Files real life?" Tags="|the-x-files|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8572" CreationDate="2013-12-12T13:57:00.227" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the (lack of) protection of the cloak's wearer from the spells was well explained in KeyBrd's answer, the invisibility was not, so I'd like to address that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was established throughout the books that the cloak is an exceptional one, not losing its properties, etc. However, some devices can penetrate it. One of them is Moody's magical eye, as explained in the following excerpt from &amp;quot;Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moody took a step closer to the foot of the stairs. Harry saw Moody's magical eye travel over Snape, and then, unmistakably, onto himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harry's heart gave a horrible jolt. &lt;strong&gt;Moody could see through invisibility cloaks...&lt;/strong&gt; he alone could see the full strangeness of the scene: Snape in his nightshirt, Filch clutching the egg, and he, Harry, trapped in the stairs behind them. Moody's lopsided gash of a mouth opened in surprise. For a few seconds, he and Harry stared straight into each other's eyes. Then Moody closed his mouth and turned his blue eye upon Snape again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recall that it is the eye that sees through the cloak, because - as we learn later on - this Moody is not the real Moody, but rather Barty Crouch Jr., who has no extraordinary wizarding powers (although, he could've use Homenum revelio spell, but I don't believe that he did). In the movies, that scene is not present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The aforementioned movie and book scene in the Hagrid's cabin (from &amp;quot;Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets&amp;quot;) is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/7/30/j-k-rowling-web-chat-transcript&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;explained by J.K. Rowling&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Angela Morrissey: Why is it that Albus Dumbledore can see Harry under his invisibility cloak at certain moments? (during the series is the cloak only infallible to those who do not own a deathly hallow).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;J.K. Rowling: Dumbledore, who could perform magic without needing to say the incantation aloud, was using &amp;quot;Homenum revelio&amp;quot;, the human-presence-revealing spell Hermione makes use of in Deathly Hallows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another device that can see through the invisibility cloak is the Marauder's map, as Lupin explains in the book &amp;quot;Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The number of times I saw James disappearing under it...&amp;quot;, said Lupin, waving an impatient hand again. &amp;quot;The point is, &lt;strong&gt;even if you're wearing an Invisibility Cloak, you still show up on the Marauder's Map&lt;/strong&gt;. I watched you cross the grounds and enter Hagrid's hut. Twenty minutes later, you left Hagrid, and set off back toward the castle. But you were now accompanied by somebody else.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the name &amp;quot;invisibilidy&amp;quot; hints: the cloak hides its wearer from the sight, but not from all the magical spells and devices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T13:57:00.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15829" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15850" CreationDate="2013-12-12T14:04:32.007" Score="13" ViewCount="21001" Body="&lt;p&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q9CKS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Bridge&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the episode &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3252318/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Bridge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2364582/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) superhuman &lt;a href=&quot;http://agentsofshield.wikia.com/wiki/Michael_Peterson&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mike Peterson&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; pushes a bulldozer across a football field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Afterwards Mike and his trainer exchange these words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mike:&lt;/strong&gt;   &lt;em&gt;Did I beat Captain America’s time?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trainer:&lt;/strong&gt;   &lt;em&gt;Not even close.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;But according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/Captain_America_%28Steven_Rogers%29#Powers&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marvel Wiki&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Captain America&lt;/strong&gt;'s&lt;/em&gt; strength is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;enhanced to the very peak of human potential.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result, he is as physically strong as a human being can be without being classified as superhuman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does Captain America's strength surpass peak human level in the &lt;em&gt;Marvel Cinematic Universe&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T06:52:12.817" Title="Does Captain America possess superhuman strength in the MCU?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|agents-of-shield|captain-america-the-first-avenger|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15824" CreationDate="2013-12-12T14:29:02.890" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read in an interview with Francis Ford Coppola that Willi Cicci was to appear in The Godfather Part 3 in the role that in the end went to the character Joey Zasa, but the actor died just prior to filming, which I find strange seeing as Cicci testified against the family in GF part 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-12T14:31:50.407" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T14:31:50.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7915" CreationDate="2013-12-12T14:40:42.427" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the Policeman hadn't come in, would they have just strangled him to unconciousness and let him recover? It all seems very odd. How did Roth know he would go into witness protection and not go to war with Micheal Corleone? Frankie was head of the New York family so he had the muscle! So I take it that Danny Aiello knew the script well enough to know that Hyman Roth orchestrated it? If he didn't say the line, would it then be a mystery until the end of the film who was behind the attempt on his life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-12T14:49:43.433" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T14:49:43.433" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15734" CreationDate="2013-12-12T15:55:20.693" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the early years of Cinema, Hollywood was far from the biggest player in the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, Europe could have been said to be making the biggest contributions, certainly stylistically...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QvO6U.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Germans had Universum Film (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universum_Film_AG&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;UFA&lt;/a&gt;), which helped make some of Cinema's most important Movies (&lt;em&gt;Metropolis&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Cabinet of Dr Caligari&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt;... the list is in-exhaustive). They were, pre-war, perhaps the biggest players, and actively engage in exploring the relationship between Art and Cinema; this culminated in an aesthetic style of &lt;em&gt;Artifice&lt;/em&gt; which was largely rejected by American Cinema.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the second most celebrated movie studio was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinecitt%C3%A0&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cinecittà&lt;/a&gt; (Literally Film-City), Italy's premier film studio (it remains so to this day, although its output is no where near as culturally significant as it once was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MWN0J.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both studios pursued not only artifice, but the idea of spectacle (not to dis-similar to a lot of Modern Cinema). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such they would construct gargantuan sets, with thousands of extra on a huge scale of production. Perhaps the Most famous of these is Giovanni Pastrone's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabiria&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cabiria&lt;/a&gt;, which produced some of the most impressive sets in cinema to date..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FWH79.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These movies bathed in opulence and extravagance, privileging &lt;strong&gt;the image&lt;/strong&gt; first and foremost, and were produced by the Super-Rich, attempting to combine high-art with monetary gain and international success. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cabiria itself was co-written and produced by the Ultra-Nationalist &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_d%27Annunzio&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gabriele d'Annunzio&lt;/a&gt;, and was later adopted by the Italian fascists as part of their cultural legacy, a mark of Italy's superiority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, the Roman Empire was a common backdrop to these Movies, distributing early propaganda to the Glory of Rome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Of course, when WWII broke out, Cinecittà was blown to pieces by Allied Bombing raids...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cQljN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was of course a great shame, but ultimately proved to be a positive...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cinecittà had been left in ruins, but so had the old institutions that made their opulent spectacle cinema. Having played a major part in the Italian propaganda effort, most of the board of administrators were indicted, imprisoned, or much worse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This left Italy with a clean slate, and a total disconnect from the cinema of the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having been betrayed by the previous generations, who had been fascists and willing participants of the Axis, modern Italy was quick to disavow the actions of their seniors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the first films (if not &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; first) to do this was &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome,_Open_City&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rome, Open City&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, of which principal photography began during Nazi occupation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was cobbled together from various elements: Nazi uniforms were found (or stolen!) from the retreating occupying forces, and footage of real soldiers was used in the film. With Film stock being in such limited supply, the film is shot on different types of stock, which is visible when watching un-restored versions of the Movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only was the film stylistically rough, its 'grittyness' found its way into the content of the film, and we are left with a damning indictment of occupied Italy, its citizens abandoned and betrayed by their leaders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film resonated with Italian, and European audiences, and its hopelessness and failure to cave in to a happy ending was refreshing for cinema of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This film, with a handful of others, was the dawn of &lt;strong&gt;Neo-Realism&lt;/strong&gt;, perhaps Italy's greatest contribution to cinema. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neo-Realism was a total, genuine rejection of the decadence of the previous generation, and sought to unify the real citizens of Italy with common sympathies. The large scale productions of UFA and Cinecittà were out of reach financially, and also unwanted. This was the first &lt;em&gt;Real Cinema&lt;/em&gt; of the world, that sought to explore themes and commentary of the worlds Lower classes. A great debt is owed to these film makers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most popular of these films, and perhaps one of the most beautiful, is &lt;em&gt;Ladri di biciclette&lt;/em&gt;, The Bicycle Thieves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yl3Cb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film uses metaphor and parable to explore the sense of betrayal and hopelessness of post war Italy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With no jobs and no prospects Antonio waits for casual labour, eventually gettinga  job putting up film posters. Notably, these posters are for &lt;em&gt;American Films&lt;/em&gt;, as Hollywood had the only real functioning Film studios (a fact they capitalized on, flooding the European market with Movies). Antonio is forced to become complicit with these invading cultural forces, to collaborate with the enemy simply to feed his family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to do this job, he requires a Bicycle, and so he and his wife Maria trade their Linen for a Bicycle, literally trading in &lt;em&gt;their clean sheets&lt;/em&gt; for prospects. The Bicycle make is a &lt;em&gt;Fides&lt;/em&gt;, which was the Roman Goddess of trust, and hope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Antonio's bike is stolen from him, and the rest of the film is spent searching for the culprits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(as an interesting side note, in America the film was translated to &lt;em&gt;The Bicycle Thief&lt;/em&gt;, removing the plural from title in what is a typical misinterpretation of the subtle subtext of the film).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joining him in his search is the enigmatic Bruno, Antonio and Maria's son. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gV8ly.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the film, Bruno, representing the emergent generation of post-facist Italians, proves not only his resourcefulness and capability, but also his eagerness to participate in helping his father, in re-building their life, in 'grafting'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the film, Bruno strides confidently ahead of Antonio wherever they travel to, and Antonio lets him, allowing him to believe he has more power and control than he possibly does. This is as to not disillusion his son, and to empower him giving him the one thing his father has left to give: Hope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note how Bruno is always allowed to participate in the search...&lt;strong&gt;BUT&lt;/strong&gt;... whenever Antonio is preparing for an act of violence, or of brutality, or simply something he doesn't want Bruno to be aware of, he tricks him and asks him to do something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Piazza Vittorio market, Antonio tells Bruno to 'look for Bells', whilst he engages in an altercation with a vendor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/M3iRe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Antonio seeks the old man for questioning, and ostensibly for violent interrogation, he makes Bruno wait by the bridge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Antonio sees the thief running into a Brothel, he makes Bruno Fetch a policeman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, when Antonio sees the unattended Bicycle outside the football stadium, he sends Bruno home. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the film, Antonio is trying to shelter Bruno from the harsh realities of post-war Italy; whilst maintaining his spirit and empowering his child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This illusion is almost shattered when Antonio strikes Bruno, but is quickly saved by his fatherly love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the film, when Antonio is caught stealing the bicycle outside the football stadium, the illusion is finally shattered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R3uIz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Antonio has himself become a Bicycle Thief, the very thing he has been teaching Bruno is the epicenter of Rome's troubles; people pursuing their own agenda, instead of attending to their collective troubles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now Bruno knows what his father is capable of, he will never be able to see him the same way, despite his protestations and tears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Illusion is over, and so is the film. The previous generation have failed the children of Rome, and their legacy is one of hypocrisy and betrayal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T15:55:20.693" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15827" CreationDate="2013-12-12T16:22:40.390" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering that all the X-Files are concerned with paranormal events (aliens, werewolves, sentient computers) and that none of these are what the scientific community will call 'proven' then no, none of it is based in 'fact'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, episodes quite often are based on common folklore (wild man in the woods, aliens visiting) so, you may find background material that is basically the same...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6811" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T16:22:40.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15836" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-12T16:24:42.957" Score="24" ViewCount="3082" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Trinity and Neo determine to save Morpheus, they begin by running their armory program and getting a lot of guns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TLGpC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of these guns is for them to kill people in the Matrix.  This armory program is one of their local LAN programs though, completely separate from the Matrix, I believe.  How are they getting the guns into the Matrix?  Are they somehow able to edit the Matrix to create these areas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-12T17:07:07.343" LastActivityDate="2016-05-14T19:33:34.220" Title="How can they bring guns into the Matrix?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15836" CreationDate="2013-12-12T16:58:43.830" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Construct&quot;&gt;Construct program&lt;/a&gt; which is not necessarily restricted to their &quot;LAN&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Construct is a virtual workspace (or &quot;loading program&quot;) created by the Resistance to run simulations or &lt;strong&gt;upload virtual objects when they hack into the Matrix.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the same wiki,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Later, in preparation for rescuing Morpheus from agents in a heavily fortified government building, Neo and Trinity enter the Construct to gather many weapons and a bomb for use in their mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a bit like when you are playing an RPG, you can go into &lt;em&gt;options&lt;/em&gt; and choose a different weapon or similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T16:58:43.830" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15823" CreationDate="2013-12-12T17:51:30.037" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan said that when he first started visualizing the series he wanted it to be about &quot;the protagonist turning into the antagonist&quot;. Later on he would describe Walter White's character development as changing him from Mr. Chips to Scarface. All of those ideas indicate that, unlike most American TV series, this would be a story with a definite beginning and an end. In July 2011, Gilligan &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/arts/television/breaking-bad-returns-and-walter-whites-descent-continues.html?_r=0&quot;&gt;announced&lt;/a&gt; that the fifth season would be the show's finale. Relevant quotes from the linked article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I actively wanted to create a TV show in which the main character&#xA;  transformed from who he used to be into what he eventually will&#xA;  become. That’s not how TV series are usually designed. The idea is to&#xA;  have your character remain pretty much who they are, sometimes for&#xA;  decades on end. I wasn’t interested in doing that.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“This was never intended to be an open-ended show,” he said. “As&#xA;  creators of the show, we have to see it through to the end, to finish&#xA;  what we started.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that doesn't mean that the whole story from beginning to end was written before the show started. The show's writers changed many planned story elements as they went along. For instance, Jesse Pinkman was supposed to be killed off at the end of the first season. But thanks to Aaron Paul's amazing performance and on screen chemistry with Brian Cranston (Walter), the decision was made to keep him as a character. Another prominent change was making Gus Fringe the main villain instead of Hector Salamanca, again due to the excellent performance of the character's actor Giancarlo Esposito.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T17:51:30.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15098" CreationDate="2013-12-12T17:53:03.570" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that even though the parachute lines had stopped slipping on Stone's leg, the parachute itself was still slipping through the wreckage, and Stone and Kowalski still had momentum directed away from the wreckage.  The friction of the parachute against the wreckage was slowing their momentum and causing the tension.  Kowalski was facing the parachute.  Maybe he estimated that the friction was enough to gently stop one person but not two, before the parachute pulled all the way through the wreckage, or before the line connected to the escape vehicle pulled taut, at which point the lines might be dislodged from Stone's leg.  And rather than trying to explain all that, Kowalski would probably try to be more succinct, which he was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was not really successful in getting this idea across, but I'm sure we can agree it is a difficult scenario to depict.  I personally am able to suspend my disbelief that far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't help that the director is trying to tell the story using long, uninterrupted takes.  He doesn't have the option of the usual tension-building technique of cutting to a closeup of the parachute slipping free of one outcropping, then another, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T17:53:03.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15825" CreationDate="2013-12-12T18:03:11.173" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always thought that it was two things that lead Don Corleone to that realization:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As the Don himself puts it: &quot;Tataglia's a pimp. He could never have outfought Santino&quot;. Obviously the Don had little respect for Tataglia's abilities as a war time Don. It's also obvious that it was a thought that had bothered him for quite some time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the meeting, it was obvious that Don Barzini took a very keen interest in the peace negotiations. In fact, he took almost complete reins of negotiating with the Corleones for a settlement. None of the other families seemed bothered by this. These facts indicate that the other families had already agreed on giving Barzini the lead role.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now given how weak Tataglia was, and how strong Barzini was, it's not far fetched to deduce who was the master and who was the puppet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T18:03:11.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15755" CreationDate="2013-12-12T18:26:32.343" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would surmise that Nina is experiencing a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychotic_break&quot;&gt;psychotic break&lt;/a&gt; as a result of extreme pressure.  Her mother shows signs of having &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder&quot;&gt;narcissistic personality disorder&lt;/a&gt; or some other personality disorder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7124" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-12T18:32:07.067" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T18:32:07.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15842" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-12T19:41:12.690" Score="6" ViewCount="4742" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read the book, and there was pretty long fight with giant spiders. I have a huge phobia of spiders, and I'd like to know how much of the movie involves spiders, and if I could watch it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7125" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T16:06:45.163" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T16:06:45.163" Title="Does &quot;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&quot; have spiders in it?" Tags="|the-hobbit|the-desolation-of-smaug|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15843" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-12T20:05:52.247" Score="1" ViewCount="1544" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1970 Lee Marvin western, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Walsh_%281970_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Monte Walsh&lt;/a&gt;, the eponymous protagonist learns rather suddenly that his woman, Martine, is dead. This caught me completely by surprise and led me to believe that this was a rather hackneyed attempt at increasing the tension. However, Wikipedia's summary introduces the character as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Monte has a long-term relationship with an old flame, prostitute and saloon girl &lt;strong&gt;Martine Bernard (Jeanne Moreau), who suffers from tuberculosis&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I watched the film, Martine appeared to be completely fine until she moves to a neighbouring town. Two-thirds of the way through the plot, we see her coughing as she has a drink. She apparently doesn't normally drink either and there is no hint in the dialogue that she is sick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to know if there was any suggestion that she was sick before the scene where Monte is informed that &quot;Martine is in a bad way&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-30T19:16:39.213" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T19:16:39.213" Title="When do we first learn that Martine suffers from tuberculosis in Monte Walsh?" Tags="|analysis|character|monte-walsh|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15842" CreationDate="2013-12-12T20:09:40.223" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes - there are giant spiders in the film for a decent length of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a more detailed account (which contains some spoilers) see &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/weve-seen-20-minutes-of-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-1458832059&quot;&gt;this IO9 article&lt;/a&gt; which sums up the first 20 minutes of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite your phobia, it would appear that these beasties are fantastic enough for you to brave them. After all, they don't really have any bearing on everyday spiders here in the real world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw the film last night, and although I didn't have a stopwatch going at the time, I didn't feel that the spider sequence went on for much more than 12 minutes tops. It is actually pretty surreal and really well done, and adds a lot to Bilbo's character - however, the spiders themselves are brilliantly rendered and creepy, so if you really do have a strong phobia about them I would suggest just skipping the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2013-12-14T15:03:29.923" LastActivityDate="2013-12-14T15:03:29.923" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15845" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-12T20:17:06.287" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Monte Walsh is taken from the title of a 1963 western novel by Jack Schaefer. The movie has little to do with the plot of Schaefer's book. It was directed in 1970 by cinematographer William A. Fraker in his directorial debut, and starred Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau and Jack Palance. The movie was set in Harmony, Arizona.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Walsh_%281970_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-12T20:17:06.287" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T20:17:06.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15846" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-12T20:17:06.287" Score="0" Body="1970 western starring Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau and Jack Palance about Monte Walsh (Lee Marvin), an aging cowboy facing the final days of the Wild West era." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-12T20:17:06.287" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T20:17:06.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15847" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15867" CreationDate="2013-12-12T22:18:27.443" Score="3" ViewCount="20291" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never really saw the end of season 12 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203259/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Law &amp;amp; Order: Special Victims Unit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; but I did know that throughout the series  Elliot Stabler would get suspended or investigated by Internal Affairs because of him being someone of a &quot;loose cannon&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the start of Season 13, Stabler has apparently been suspended again just before Amanda Rollins arrives, at the end of the episode Donald Cragen informs Olivia Benson that Stabler had handed in a letter of resignation, Nick Amaro is then called in to replace Stabler (to which Benson was opposed to at first).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now since I haven't seen or remember what caused Stabler's suspension this time and it would be quite some time until I see it on TV again (maybe never now) I am wondering what Stabler did this time to get suspended and if it affected his decision to quit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4297" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-12T22:23:08.777" LastActivityDate="2013-12-13T15:21:30.987" Title="What caused Elliot Stabler to be suspended and quit?" Tags="|law-and-order-svu|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15849" CreationDate="2013-12-12T22:47:17.933" Score="10" ViewCount="35475" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movies &lt;em&gt;Escape from New York&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Escape from LA&lt;/em&gt; there is a character called Snake Plissken. However in the Metal Gear Series there is a character who has the code name Solid Snake and goes by the name Iroquois Pliskin in the second Metal Gear Solid Games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two are quite similar, both are given stealth missions, for are former military and special ops and in Metal Gear Solid, Solid Snake is shocked to find that the leader of FOXHOUND Liquid Snake looks just like him and cuts his hair before the mission, Liquid Snake looks quite similar to Snake Plissken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; because Solid and Liquid Snakes are identical twin clones of their father Big Boss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in the second Metal Gear Solid Games Solid Snake's hair has grown back some and it is similar to Snake Plissken's hair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the third Metal Gear Solid Games, Naked Snake looses one of his eyes which ends up being his trademark in all of his other appearances not to mention he looks like Solid Snake from the second Metal Gear Solid Games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; because Naked Snake is Big Boss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, both Snake Plissken and the Snakes from Metal Gear smoke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am wondering if there is some sort of link between Snake Plissken and the young Snake's from Metal Gear as to my knowledge Konami, the developers behind the Metal Gear games had no hand in the development of the &lt;em&gt;Escape From&lt;/em&gt; movies and vice versa and the similarities are way too numerous to be just a coincidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: I've only seen LA and haven't been able to find where my dad has kept New York. I would assume Snake looks the same in both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4297" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-03-08T17:19:19.100" LastActivityDate="2019-03-13T00:30:41.483" Title="Is there a reason why Snake Plissken and the young Snake from Metal Gear are so much alike?" Tags="|escape-from-la|escape-from-new-york|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15848" CreationDate="2013-12-12T23:17:05.593" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you have pointed out several times in your own question, the MGS games explicitly reference Snake Plissken throughout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of the games release, part of the press package given and dispersed by media outlets saw Konami take &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/games-metal-gear-solid-1087873.html&quot;&gt;ownership of this association&lt;/a&gt;, and actively draw people's attention to it as reference material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John Carpenter even got involved, drawing people's attention to the association and explaning how he'd give Hideo Kojima &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.computerandvideogames.com/252903/hideo-kojima-gets-thumbs-up-from-john-carpenter/&quot;&gt;'his blessing'&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're looking for some kind of hidden material somewhere that indicates they are the same character, operating within the same Universe, I'm afraid you'll be found wanting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MGS Snake is &lt;em&gt;directly inspired by&lt;/em&gt; Snake Plissken, but Hideo Kojima has personally explained that they &lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/09/01/pax-solid-snake-wasnt-based-on-snake-plissken&quot;&gt;are different entities&lt;/a&gt;. that's as close to a literal cross over as I imagine we'll ever get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2013-12-12T23:22:11.423" LastActivityDate="2013-12-12T23:22:11.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15829" CreationDate="2013-12-12T23:27:03.973" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simple answer is YES. Very easily this is proven in The Avengers, while on board the flying boat, Captain goes in search of evidence of SHIELD's misuse of the Teseract and finds a closed door. At this instance, we see (or rather hear) Captain open the door forcibly using only arm strength to do so. This is only one such proof of super human strength in Captain America. This scene is just before Hawk lands on the ship and Banner becomes the Hulk. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.visualhollywood.com/movies_2011/captain_america/notes.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Production Notes&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458339/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Captain America: The First Avenger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; contain this quote from director Joe Johnston: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He doesn‘t have any super powers per se— his powers are basically what the human body can do, but taken to a level of physical perfection. I have to say, that‘s what appealed to me about the character and about doing a film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As he suggests, no special powers, but this is as good as it gets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2013-12-15T16:58:30.427" LastActivityDate="2013-12-15T16:58:30.427" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15853" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-13T04:17:31.280" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2013-12-13T04:17:31.280" LastActivityDate="2013-12-13T04:17:31.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15854" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-13T04:17:31.280" Score="0" Body="American sitcom created by and starring Rebel Wilson. Follows the Friday night adventures of Kimmie Boubier (Wilson) and her roommates." OwnerUserId="4607" LastEditorUserId="4607" LastEditDate="2013-12-13T08:32:27.663" LastActivityDate="2013-12-13T08:32:27.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15855" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15856" CreationDate="2013-12-13T06:36:32.470" Score="5" ViewCount="1093" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who are the actors common to both &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasantville_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pleasantville&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As part of my grieving process over the death of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Walker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Paul Walker&lt;/a&gt; who was in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fast_and_the_Furious&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fast &amp;amp; the Furious&#xA;franchise&lt;/a&gt;, I was researching his life.  It surprised me that he was also in Pleasantville since it is one &#xA;of my favorite movies and I had not connected the actor to both films (and would &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; have recognized &#xA;him in a million years).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This got me to thinking about the actors I &lt;strong&gt;had&lt;/strong&gt; noticed as common between &lt;strong&gt;BtVS&lt;/strong&gt; (another of my &#xA;favorite shows) and Pleasantville, since I had already spotted 3 of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Strong&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Danny Strong&lt;/a&gt;, plays 'Jukebox Boy' in Pleasantville and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Levinson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jonathan Levinson&lt;/a&gt; in BtVS.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Blucas&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Marc Blucas&lt;/a&gt;, plays an unnamed youth in the Pleasantville High School basketball team and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riley_Finn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Riley Finn&lt;/a&gt; in BtVS.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Lenehan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nancy Lenehan&lt;/a&gt;, plays the mother of a girl who's tongue turns an 'odd color' in Pleasantville as well as Pat in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man%27s_Party_%28Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dead Man's Party&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any I missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-07T21:42:35.783" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T17:57:11.830" Title="Actors common to both Pleasantville and Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Tags="|buffy-the-vampire-slayer|pleasantville|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15855" CreationDate="2013-12-13T06:55:01.997" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 17 people (at least) who &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/name?roles=tt0120789,tt0118276&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;worked on both projects&lt;/a&gt;. About half are crew and one is stuntwork (which is kind of both).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ACTORS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mark Blucas&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Danny Strong (actor on Buffy, cameo &amp;amp; crew on Pleasantville)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jason Behr&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nancy Lenehan&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Denise Dowse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Andrea Baker&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paul Morgan Stetler&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;J. Patrick Lawlor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Benjamin Stewart&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CREW&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jacob Chambers (stunts)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Randy Eriksen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tim Speed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kenneth Hunter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeff Orsa&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth Rabe&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chadwick Cohn&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kenneth Estes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T17:57:11.830" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T17:57:11.830" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15859" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15873" CreationDate="2013-12-13T13:42:58.697" Score="22" ViewCount="8003" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if &quot;colour template&quot; is the word for that. What I mean is the colour of the movies, especially Globet of Fire and the ones after it, seemed to be very dark but also with so much depth to portray the evilness of the Harry Potter world. And I rarely see such a colouring in any other movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a technical term for this kind of rendering? Do they use some special camera to achieve this result?&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YYeG3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6907" LastEditorUserId="34317" LastEditDate="2018-01-05T15:44:41.573" LastActivityDate="2018-01-05T15:44:41.573" Title="What is this &quot;colour template/effect&quot;?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15861" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15864" CreationDate="2013-12-13T14:29:55.750" Score="11" ViewCount="2805" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, because Mike works for Gus Fring, presumably he should be all set financially. Also Mike is apparently loyal to Gus. Why would he need a part time job as a PI for Saul Goodman on top of his multiple activities for Gu's operation? This part-time job might even be a conflict of interests. Also Mike is obviously old and not very fit - why does he want extra work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would Gus allow his loyal hit man do part time work on the side?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T00:54:56.750" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T00:54:56.750" Title="Why would Mike need a part time job as a PI for Saul?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15862" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-13T14:32:03.380" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Identification of movies or TV shows is no longer supported on this site. For further information please see the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4087/we-are-discontinuing-support-for-identification-questions&quot;&gt;related meta post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still want your film identified? Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4129/49&quot;&gt;this question and its answers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-05-25T20:09:43.883" LastActivityDate="2019-05-25T20:09:43.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15863" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-13T14:32:03.380" Score="0" Body="NO LONGER ON TOPIC. DO NOT USE. IDENTIFICATION QUESTIONS WILL BE CLOSED AS THEY ARE NO LONGER SUPPORTED.&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;The process of giving details about a specific episode of a known TV series in order to identify which episode the asker is trying to remember." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-18T21:59:39.830" LastActivityDate="2018-01-18T21:59:39.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15861" CreationDate="2013-12-13T14:37:27.457" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mike has not spent a dime of Fring's drug money, which is revealed when he is first interrogated by the DEA. All Mike's earnings from Fring's employment are put away for his grand-daughter. Thus perhaps his PI work for Goodman covers his living costs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically this might be a conflict of interest, but these are not moral, law-abiding citizens. Additionally, working for Goodman allows Mike to keep an eye on Walt and Jesse, who are very much part of Fring's interests. This would explain why Gus would allow Mike to work for Goodman. Now if Goodman were to ask Mike to tail Fring, Fring might have put a stop to Mike's extra work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4607" LastActivityDate="2013-12-13T14:37:27.457" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15847" CreationDate="2013-12-13T15:21:30.987" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the finale of season 12, Stabler (Played by Christopher Meloni) is placed on administrative leave after a shooting incident in the squad room where he kills a woman that came in and opened fire. (Administrative leave is normal while line of duty shootings are investigated for real life police officers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the off season, Meloni and the studio could not agree on contract terms, so he &quot;abruptly resigned&quot; from the force. So it wasn't a script decision per se, it was something dictated by off screen events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2013-12-13T15:21:30.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15861" CreationDate="2013-12-13T17:15:14.597" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only reason he would 'need' a job working for Goodman would be because it provides him with a legal income source. This allows him to 'hide in plain sight' like Mr. White and Mr. Fring do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Him working for Saul helps his true employer, Mr. Fring. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before Walt and Jesse entered the picture, we have no information about how often Mike did jobs for Saul. After Walt and Jesse became clients, continuing to work for Saul provided Mike with the opportunity to keep better tabs on the pair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saul likely works with lots of other drug dealers/junkies as well. Having Mike on Saul's payroll would allow Fring access information about them. Information that could be useful to Fring and his drug operations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4128" LastActivityDate="2013-12-13T17:15:14.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15870" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16597" CreationDate="2013-12-13T18:47:59.270" Score="4" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_%282013_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Family&lt;/a&gt;, the Blakes/Manzonis are American nationals in a witness protection program in Normandy, France. However, they are guarded by the FBI rather than by US Marshals &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Federal_Witness_Protection_Program&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;as is normally the case&lt;/a&gt;. Thrown into this mix is the presence of Tommy Lee Jones who is known for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fugitive_%281993_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Fugitive&lt;/a&gt; and its sequel, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Marshals_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;U.S. Marshals&lt;/a&gt;, where he plays the role of a US Marshal. I was under the impression that all the agents were US Marshals until everybody started calling them Feds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I suppose that the European setting simply provides a twist to the usual formula, I'd like to know the reason for this agency switch:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it because the US Marshals are not allowed to operate outside the US?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are the Feds?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who are the Manzonis guarded by in the original novel by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonino_Benacquista&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tonino Benacquista&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T17:10:58.037" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T15:21:59.540" Title="Why use the Feds rather than the US Marshals in The Family?" Tags="|plot-explanation|book-adaptation|the-family|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15871" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-13T18:48:59.573" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Family, also known as Malavita, is a 2013 English-language French action crime comedy film based on a novel by Tonino Benacquista and directed by Luc Besson, starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tommy Lee Jones, and Dianna Agron. The film follows a Mafia family under the witness protection program that want to change their lives. The film is based on Benacquista's novel Malavita (Badfellas in the 2010 English translation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_%282013_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-13T18:48:59.573" LastActivityDate="2013-12-13T18:48:59.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15872" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-13T18:48:59.573" Score="0" Body="2013 English-language French action crime comedy film based on a novel by Tonino Benacquista and directed by Luc Besson, starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tommy Lee Jones, and Dianna Agron." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-13T18:48:59.573" LastActivityDate="2013-12-13T18:48:59.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15859" CreationDate="2013-12-13T19:27:58.857" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I mentioned in the comments, the technique used to alter the appearance of film in post production is called '&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_grading&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Colour Grading&lt;/a&gt;', and is a process used in most if not all movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a practise that was used even before the advent of digital editing, but was the result of what was referred to as '&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKFFZBEiKYc&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Colour Timing&lt;/a&gt;'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Colour Timing is still used in analogue photography as part of the development process. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst Colour Grading is quite common now, it has always existed in some form: whether the film maker was aware of it or otherwise. &#xA;It is a process which is, strictly speaking, utilised in post production: but during filming itself there are a number of ways to adjust the image captured by the camera. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most common of these include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FILM SPEED&lt;/strong&gt; - The 'Speed of film' is more commonly used in photography, but can be replicated in most DSLR's and Full Movie Rigs, although the former is most common. Speed is denominated by the ISO number of the Stock.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kxToq.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kxToq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EXPOSURE LENGTH&lt;/strong&gt; - The amount of time the individual frames of film are exposed is controlled by exposure time, which is measured in fractions of a second. The higher the fraction, the darker the overall image will typically be, but less blur will be obtained and a sharper image outline will be caught. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Au1iz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;APERTURE&lt;/strong&gt; - This indicates the diameter of the 'opening', dictating the dimension and intensity of the light cone that will be caught in focus, typically measured in F-stops. The wider the aperture, the more light will be exposed to the lens/plate/censor, adjust the contrast further.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l3Sjn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FILTERS/LENSES&lt;/strong&gt; - These can be used to bring out specific parts of the light spectrum during filming, but this technique is becoming less popular due to the irreversible effect it has on the finished product: more often, these effects are laid on in post.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j96Kz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These functions can all be used in conjunction with each other to generate a number of distinctive adjustments, all affecting the final visual image. There are also important pro-filmic elements used on set, such as &lt;strong&gt;Lighting,&lt;/strong&gt; which can effect the colour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned earlier, Most if not all modern films use a combination of pro-filmic, in camera and post production to generate their specific aesthetic, and a good film maker will be able to prime his post production by changing any number of these on set for a good result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The effect displayed in Harry Potter, whilst increasingly popular, has no &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; name because it is a mixture of all these elements. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OBKnl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People have commented before on how the films seem to 'get darker', but it's really &lt;em&gt;The Prisoner of Azkaban&lt;/em&gt; that &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotterforum.com/discussion/3220/something-i-just-noticed-about-the-cinematography&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;steps up the cinematography&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinematography.com/index.php?showtopic=3989&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;starts&lt;/a&gt; to take on its own identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst the films Cinematographer Michael Seresin could be credited, &lt;em&gt;Azkaban's&lt;/em&gt; director Alfonso Cuarón (who recently directed &lt;em&gt;Gravity&lt;/em&gt;) has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.codexdigital.com/casestudies/lubezki-and-cuaron-test-the-limits-of-filmmaking-technology-on-gravity&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an outspoken preference&lt;/a&gt; for more in-camera and pro-filmic composition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is certainly de-saturated, but also colour corrected to bring out the deep blue tones of the filmstock. This is becoming increasingly more common as shorthand for indicating 'gritty-ness', but is nothing particularly new to film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleach_bypass&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bleach Bypassing&lt;/a&gt; is becoming an increasingly common way to adjust the photochemical composition of film to create a wash-out/in finish, but has been used as early as the 1960s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g6Xle.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you'd like to know more about the specific technical forces at work, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://photo.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Photography&lt;/a&gt; Stack will be more than willing to provide you with answers. I'd just be sure to provide a specific question, as these sites aren't shy of attacking a question considered 'too vague'!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:44:07.193" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T00:40:27.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14866" CreationDate="2013-12-14T05:56:07.953" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nah, here it is. &#xA;John said that his wife survived the assault. John said this, not Leonard. Anything Leonard says, you can't really trust, as he explains that he lies to himself to make himself feel better. John explains that Sammie faked his condition for some kind of insurance. They also SHOWED that Leonard had killed his wife by accident. She both tested to see if he was faking and couldn't live with it. The act was a two-in-one. There was also a split second at the end where Sammie is giving the shot and he is quickly replaced with Leonard. Everyone acts as if the ending is hard to figure out. It isn't. The clues are all there. Leonard remembered things differently because he lies to himself so that he isn't unhappy. This is another way of conditioning. He conditioned his memories to show that it wasn't him who killed his own wife. He would rather be a killer than accept that he took away his own love. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7140" LastActivityDate="2013-12-14T05:56:07.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15879" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-14T08:07:35.560" Score="4" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doctor Who series 2 episode 4: The Girl In the Fireplace&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reinette is 37 ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the clockwork androids are stopped the Doctor is trapped in Versailles because all the time windows are broken. Then Reinette brings him to the fireplace and he returns to the ship. Rose tells him that 5 1/2 hours had passed on the ship. From the time the Doctor broke through the glass in the ball room and he returned to the ship via the fireplace, only few minutes had passed in Versailles timeline. But time moves slower in the ship timeline so only few seconds should have passed instead of 5 1/2 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First time-&#xA;Reinette is 7&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second time- &#xA;few mins passed on the ship, weeks passed in France&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third time-&#xA;couple of hours on the ship, years passed in France... Reinette is 23.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and so on... few minutes in France should mean few seconds (or even milliseconds) on the ship. Why had 5 1/2 hours passed? And why does the Doctor tell Rose to always wait 5 1/2 hours?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5466" LastEditorUserId="5466" LastEditDate="2013-12-14T08:17:14.840" LastActivityDate="2018-10-22T23:45:33.743" Title="Why had 5 1/2 hours passed on the ship?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|doctor-who|time-travel|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11936" CreationDate="2013-12-14T16:50:19.780" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He cut his own jugular, but beforehand he explained to the woman (Emma) how to staunch the wound and dress it so that he would not bleed out and die.  This is revealed in a cut scene as a flashback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7146" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-01-14T00:20:04.450" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T00:20:04.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15884" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-14T22:01:50.910" Score="25" ViewCount="54363" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264464/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Catch Me If You Can&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;'s fictionalized version of &lt;em&gt;Frank W. Abagnale Jr.&lt;/em&gt; uses to peel off labels from things. While in certain cases this is part of his check frauds (especially the &lt;em&gt;Pan Am&lt;/em&gt; labels), he does this all the time with many everyday objects, like bottles and stuff, and seems to collect them in his wallet (as evidenced by &lt;em&gt;Carl&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Frank&lt;/em&gt;'s hotel room or seen live during &lt;em&gt;Frank&lt;/em&gt;'s engagement party). So it seems to be more like a kind of tic he has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;what are the reasons for this behaviour and what does it tell us about his character, if anything?&lt;/strong&gt; (And as a side question, is there any information if the real &lt;em&gt;Frank Abagnale&lt;/em&gt; used to do this, too, or is is this primarily an addition by the movie?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T13:39:57.977" Title="Why does Frank peel off the labels from bottles and things?" Tags="|analysis|character|catch-me-if-you-can|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15885" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15888" CreationDate="2013-12-15T01:32:44.273" Score="22" ViewCount="38009" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Kill Bill, we see the following sequence of events:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beatrice crosses swords with Elle Driver&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beatrice plucks Elle's remaining eye out&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Elle drops Bea's sword, stumbles back (I think into bathroom), and flails around screaming curses and threats&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beatrice steps on the eye&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beatrice walks out, and we see a snake slithering nearby&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Elle yells &quot;Oh Sh1t&quot; and goes quiet, as Beatrice closes the door.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to imply to me that Elle was bitten to death by her own snake, but I'm not sure if that's certain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there some confirmation (from creative crew, screenplay, other material) over whether Elle died and exactly how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T14:18:03.157" LastActivityDate="2017-03-06T21:33:18.597" Title="Did Elle Driver die in Kill Bill 2? And if she did, how?" Tags="|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11489" CreationDate="2013-12-15T01:33:06.840" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is highly improbable that the G.I. in his encounter with the Doctor at Trenzalore asked the question outlined in the prophecy. The G.I. who was only interested in the Doctor's name will not figure in the events that transpire at Trenzalore in the forthcoming Time of the Doctor special (although he might influence things somehow without being a player in the events) which will be centred on a struggle between the Doctor and his enemies. That is significant because the prophecy appears to refer to events that happen on the fields of battle. The Time of the Doctor special rather than the Name of the Doctor episode would seem therefore to present the characteristics of time, place and situation that are in keeping with the details of the prophecy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the lines from the prophecy &quot;when no living creature can speak falsely or fail to answer&quot; do make it hard to accept that the situation presented in the Name of the Doctor episode corresponds to the one mentioned in the prophecy. The Doctor did resist answering (and did not answer) despite being in a situation of extreme duress. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some grounds to suppose that the question also is really more about the Doctor's identity or self-knowledge than simply his name because we know, based on another comment from Dorium, that the Doctor has been running from this question all of his life. The G.I., in the Name of the Doctor episode, wasn't concerned with this aspect which arguably is essential to the prophecy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The terms of the prophecy were not fulfilled, in my view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7151" LastEditorUserId="7151" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T02:04:55.567" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T02:04:55.567" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15887" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-15T01:54:09.617" Score="19" ViewCount="4721" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beatrix defeated several Vipers who owned Hanzo swords (O-Ren's, Budd's she found when fighting Elle, and Bill's are three I can recall right now).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't she take either of those? (the scenes after defeating O-Ren and Elle clearly show her walking away with just her sword).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see at least 4 reasons for her to take the swords:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Respect for Hanzo work. Leaving the sword to Muggles would be disrespectful to the master.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Monetary value. Clearly Hanzo swords are extremely valuable and rare&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Backup weapons if she loses her own Hanzo sword.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Trophies (Elle planned to take Beatrix's).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastActivityDate="2018-07-31T08:43:00.063" Title="Why didn't Beatrix take any of the Vipers' Hanzo swords?" Tags="|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15885" CreationDate="2013-12-15T02:10:11.260" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting question, considering how this event changed from the initial script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is very clear that Elle did indeed die in the original script - but the film does not show her death, although it is implied by the sighting of the black mamba.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her death appears in this segment from the original screenplay:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Elle drops the Bride's sword.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As her blood continues to escape, both women look across each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The effect is that Elle Driver is a balloon and her life is escaping&#xA;  before both their very eyes. And now looking across at each other, the&#xA;  two women see the other for the first time, not as adversaries, or&#xA;  opponents, or as rivals, or as bitches...but as sisters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Elle no longer has enough life in her to stand up...She falls to her&#xA;  knees in front of The Bride....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...then as she dies, she leans the side of her head against The&#xA;  Bride's standing body. Her blood runs down The Bride's leg. As she&#xA;  passes on, Elle gently wraps her arms around the Bride's leg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Bride's hands go down to Elle's long blonde hair, and begins&#xA;  gently stroking it, easing her pain as she expires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Only in death do they find the sisterhood that could have been theirs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, this is markedly different from the final film. In this version of the script, Elle has already killed the black mamba, so she dies from her wounds after fighting Beatrix. In the film, she is left blinded by the bride, with the sound of the mamba growing ever closer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears Tarantino always intended for Elle to die, but left her death offscreen in his final version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read the full script at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Kill-Bill-Volume-1-&amp;amp;-2.html&quot;&gt;Internet Movie Screenplay Database&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-12-15T02:10:11.260" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15887" CreationDate="2013-12-15T02:12:47.070" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was under the impression that Hanzo swords were created for one person in particular and, whether through respect or tradition, this is why Beatrix never took any of the swords away from their dead owners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-12-15T02:12:47.070" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9515" CreationDate="2013-12-15T02:12:58.943" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot; I could not understand why he portrayed himself as angry, ferocious, tough and mischievous to his students? &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First, among other things, because he was a high-IQ, low-social-IQ geek, who had to develop a tough bullying exterior to survive all his life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He clearly hated incompetents (thus total offense at Neville's entire existence). He disliked Gryffindors since he saw nothing but grief from them all his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He doted on his in-group (Slytherins) - clearly illustrated when he forsake Lily and her love for being with his budding-DE Slytherin friends when in school.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Second, because that tough pro-Slytherin image was helpful to him as far as convincing Death Eaters that he was still on their sides. He was &quot;in&quot; with Lucius Malfoy and other Slytherin DE parents, and playing favorites helped him in that even if he wasn't naturally inclined to do so, which he was (see #1)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastActivityDate="2013-12-15T02:12:58.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15887" CreationDate="2013-12-15T02:13:48.980" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main theme of the Kill Bill is Revenge. There is no reason for the bride to take the sword after killing the people on Death list five. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Elle and Bud their motivations are purely monetary value but not beatrix she went to Hattori Hanzo to plead with him to make a sword for her to take revenge on his protege. In-fact I think the bride has a strong respect for Hattori Hanzo to even think about selling it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-12-15T02:31:56.520" LastActivityDate="2013-12-15T02:31:56.520" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15884" CreationDate="2013-12-15T02:16:59.140" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I saw this behavior as a clever way for the filmmakers to convey Frank's state of mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a film that is all about peeling off labels/layers to reveal the truth beneath the con artist's veneer, the use of this habitual obsession serves to provide a metaphor for the overall theme of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note: this is purely speculative and not backed up by any evidence)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-12-15T02:16:59.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1380" CreationDate="2013-12-15T02:25:45.033" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;She's not a Death Eater as far as officially serving Voldemort, but she does hold pretty much similar political views (blood purity wise) - hates &quot;half-breeds&quot;, &quot;mudbloods&quot; etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She's basically Lawful Evil on alignment chart, whereas most DEs would be Neutral Evil or Chaotic evil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastActivityDate="2013-12-15T02:25:45.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8318" CreationDate="2013-12-15T02:50:57.330" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Aaron is stockpiling his meds because he is suspicious something foul is afoot. With his enhanced mental capabilities, he is very perceptive and must have some inkling that something doesn't smell right ... a sort of sixth sense. He says he's not sure if his log cabin contact is supposed to kill him or give him a pep talk ... I think he feels something is wrong and is preparing for the worst by making contingency plans to go off the grid again if necessary and go on the run as Jason Bourne had to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7152" LastActivityDate="2013-12-15T02:50:57.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15895" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15903" CreationDate="2013-12-15T03:01:20.930" Score="6" ViewCount="4158" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been rewatching &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliders&quot;&gt;Sliders&lt;/a&gt; again, and partway through the second season (episode titled &quot;Post-Traumatic Slide Syndrome&quot;, there are two versions of Arturo fighting it out at the end - the original, and the one from the world they are on.  Only one makes it through to slide to the next world, and it's not very clear which is which.  Subsequent episodes seem to treat it like this never happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has it ever been answered which Arturo made it through and which one stayed behind, either in the show, or other media somewhere? The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximillian_Arturo&quot;&gt;wikipedia entry for the Arturo character&lt;/a&gt; seems to indicate this question was never resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1959" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2013-12-15T05:31:45.990" LastActivityDate="2020-03-05T04:06:42.200" Title="Did the real Arturo get left behind?" Tags="|sliders|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15897" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15915" CreationDate="2013-12-15T05:57:43.033" Score="4" ViewCount="2214" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming Shaw didn't kill Letty because he wanted to use her as a &lt;em&gt;pawn&lt;/em&gt;, He could 've held her as a captive instead of including her in his crew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But he didn't, Why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it weren't for Letty, Dom &amp;amp; his crew wouldn't be after Shaw. And from what I 've seen in that movie Shaw wasn't exactly planning to have Dom follow him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even if he did for any master plan, The only other plan at the end of the movie was kidnapping Mia and it seemed like a &lt;em&gt;backup&lt;/em&gt; plan rather than a &lt;em&gt;master&lt;/em&gt; plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Shaw knew from the beginning that Letty was part of Dom &amp;amp; his crew? He knew Braga &amp;amp; Brian though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5722" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-06-28T17:39:41.020" LastActivityDate="2018-06-28T17:39:41.020" Title="Why did Shaw include Letty in his crew?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fast-and-furious-franchise|fast-and-furious-6|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15899" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15901" CreationDate="2013-12-15T12:34:04.780" Score="11" ViewCount="4940" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075194/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Seven-Per-Cent Solution&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we learn that &lt;em&gt;Holmes&lt;/em&gt;'s obsession with &lt;em&gt;Moriarty&lt;/em&gt; comes from his suppressed childhood memory of &lt;em&gt;Moriarty&lt;/em&gt;'s affair with &lt;em&gt;Holmes&lt;/em&gt;'s mother when he was his teacher (after which &lt;em&gt;Holmes&lt;/em&gt;'s father killed his mother). But after learning this, &lt;em&gt;Watson&lt;/em&gt; says to &lt;em&gt;Freud&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Napoleon of Crime. Holmes was right about him from the very&#xA;  beginning, Professor Moriarty I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Referencing the nickname &lt;em&gt;Holmes&lt;/em&gt; gave &lt;em&gt;Moriarty&lt;/em&gt; earlier, when he thought him to be a criminal mastermind. But what does he mean with this statement, given that &lt;em&gt;Moriarty&lt;/em&gt; was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the criminal genius that &lt;em&gt;Holmes&lt;/em&gt; made out of him, but just a timid little mathematics teacher that had an affair with his mother. So he wasn't &lt;em&gt;&quot;right about him from the very beginning&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. Is he merely saying that this was as heavy a crime (especially given that it lead to &lt;em&gt;Holmes&lt;/em&gt;'s mother getting killed), or does he mean something else with this line (maybe in reference to the real &lt;em&gt;Napoleon&lt;/em&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-20T01:07:44.140" LastActivityDate="2013-12-20T01:07:44.140" Title="Why does Watson call Moriarty the &quot;Napoleon of Crime&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|dialogue|seven-per-cent-solution|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15879" CreationDate="2013-12-15T12:38:18.073" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're assuming a never-stated correlation between time differences. The examples are not a fixed, linear 1 minute = 1 week pattern. One second could be a year. Another second could be a decade, another just a minute, etc.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After the clockwork androids are stopped the Doctor is trapped in Versailles because all the time windows are broken. Then Reinette brings him to the fireplace and he returns to the ship. Rose tells him that 5 1/2 hours had passed on the ship. From the time the Doctor broke through the glass in the ball room and he returned to the ship via the fireplace, only few minutes had passed in Versailles timeline. But time moves slower in the ship timeline so only few seconds should have passed instead of 5 1/2 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Third time- couple of hours on the ship, years passed in France... Reinette is 23.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, what made you think hours had passed? It seemed just a couple minutes. This is another example of lack of &quot;typical&quot; continuity. The last example towards the episode's end was less than a minute for the Doctor on the ship and twenty years in Versailles.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as your first quoted observation shows, the episode has already proven that your assumption is not the case. Your examples of the discrepancies are proof of this.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How often does the Doctor and / or TARDIS show up in a time other than anticipated? &lt;em&gt;A LOT&lt;/em&gt;. One can safely assume this is because time is not easily manipulated or plotted. Also, the ship the Doctor and his companions landed on was &quot;generating enough power to punch a hole in the Universe&quot; producing a &quot;spatial temporal hyperlink&quot; (which he made up instead of saying &quot;Magic Door&quot;). An anomaly like this wouldn't have to be constrained to our current understanding of time and space.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why he said &quot;Always wait 5 1/2 hours?&quot; It seemed like a joke to me. He was just excited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a postscript, this is also an episode the Doctor advises &lt;strong&gt;&quot;You never want to listen to reason.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2013-12-15T13:12:35.663" LastActivityDate="2013-12-15T13:12:35.663" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15899" CreationDate="2013-12-15T13:13:28.573" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Napoleon Bonaparte was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.authorama.com/famous-affinities-of-history-ii-6.html&quot;&gt;notorious&lt;/a&gt; womanizer, and his &lt;a href=&quot;http://williamdietrich.com/napoleon-and-sex/&quot;&gt;antics&lt;/a&gt; have been recorded in numerous &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.archive.org/stream/loveaffairsofnap00turq/loveaffairsofnap00turq_djvu.txt&quot;&gt;books&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5f-NtY2qzM&quot;&gt;documentaries&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to '&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Napoleon-Wives-Women-Christopher-Hibbert/dp/0006531466&quot;&gt;Napoleon and his Women&lt;/a&gt;', by British historian Christopher Hibbert, Napoleon would often weaponize his sexual experiences for leverage and political power, making him effectively a gigolo, although its a stretch to apply this handle to the Emperor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though Napoleon existed in the time before tabloid journalism, court gossip was powerful enough to consolidate this reputation internationally, and it could well be this that Watson is referring to.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2013-12-15T13:18:53.717" LastActivityDate="2013-12-15T13:18:53.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15895" CreationDate="2013-12-15T14:23:39.390" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Co-creator &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0868124/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tracy Tormé&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; said in &lt;a href=&quot;http://earthprime.com/interviews/tracy-torme-2009.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;For what it’s worth, &lt;strong&gt;I believe the wrong Arturo slid.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;And in the season 3 episode &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0702784/?ref_=ttep_ep4&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Guardian&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arturo comments that he has just seen his first American football game. However, the original Arturo seemed like a pretty big American football fan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Co-creator and writer Tracy Tormeé has hinted &lt;strong&gt;that seeming gaffe was actually a clue inserted to show our Sliders no longer had the Arturo they began with.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Even though it was never resolved in the series, I'd go with Tracy Tormé's original intention of it being the wrong Arturo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a lot of &amp;quot;bad stuff&amp;quot; going on behind the scenes, from unhappy actors to deliberately ending the series with a cliffhanger &lt;em&gt;(the production team knew in advance that season 5 would be the last season)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2019-01-30T09:25:28.457" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15904" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17855" CreationDate="2013-12-15T14:52:17.510" Score="26" ViewCount="3162" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just saw the second part of the Hobbit. I wonder in which barrel Bombur jumps in &quot;Barrel down the River&quot; scene. All the Dwarves are in their barrels floating and fighting of the Orcs then miraculously Bombur hops out of the water crushes a lot of Orcs and then fights some more even after his barrel is broken. After that over-the-top fighting scene, he  jumps back in the river in an apparently empty barrel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if I recall correctly all the barrels were filled when Bilbo dropped them in the water. There was no empty barrel (otherwise Bilbo should have crawled in the empty one eventually). On the other hand, I highly doubt PJ and the writers would have made such a stupid error, so what am I missing here? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7156" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T16:06:37.323" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T16:06:37.323" Title="Where does the barrel come from in which Bombur jumps in The Hobbit: DoS?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hobbit|the-desolation-of-smaug|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15908" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-15T18:31:37.487" Score="22" ViewCount="2822" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I watched the &lt;em&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;/em&gt; episode, &quot;The Poker Game&quot;(S09E05), when my sister pointed me out this jarring inconsistency from approximately minute 09:56:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/STjoO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, you could explicitly see Katie Holmes' character, Naomi/The Slutty Pumpkin, who Ted won't encounter again until Season 7. This scene was a flashback; but here's the inconsistency: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When did this particular scene take place, exactly?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was mentioned to take place a good number of months, perhaps at the most a year, after Lily and Marshall's marriage, but prior to Ted's engagement with Stella, putting it somewhere in between the middle of Season 2 to the end of Season 3. However, the presence of The Slutty Pumpkin begs to differ. One might argue Ted didn't notice her, played for humorous effect, but then in this scene shouldn't Ted be wearing that sandwich-board like costume?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6353" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T13:41:39.820" LastActivityDate="2023-08-18T13:01:36.820" Title="Around what time did this scene where Ted encounters Naomi take place?" Tags="|plot-explanation|chronology|how-i-met-your-mother|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9331" CreationDate="2013-12-15T22:43:18.953" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't say it was his doubt about the system, not at that point of the movie, at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the interview about the comic-book sequel to the movie: &quot;[This Dredd] is younger, a little more enthusiastic about his job as the years have ground him down less. &lt;strong&gt;He doesn't have any of the creeping doubts about the system that may have crept in.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&amp;amp;id=47971&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&amp;amp;id=47971&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess that's the canon (sounds about right). So whatever Anderson sensed behind the control.. well, it was probably something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7159" LastActivityDate="2013-12-15T22:43:18.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15910" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15933" CreationDate="2013-12-16T00:18:36.967" Score="4" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the opening scene of the John Waters movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069089/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pink Flamingos&lt;/a&gt;, there is a line about Baltimore being the sleaziest city in America, or something like that. Does any one know that quote?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7160" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T02:02:24.973" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T11:07:20.590" Title="Quote about Baltimore Being the Sleaziest city in America?" Tags="|dialogue|pink-flamingos|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15910" CreationDate="2013-12-16T01:03:03.213" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this in the transcript. Not quite what you were paraphrasing but the first mention of Baltimore that I could find:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Across town, located in the teeming metropolis known as downtown Baltimore live Connie and Raymond Marble, two jealous perverts that hate Divine's fame and notoriety more than anything in the whole world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7161" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T17:45:55.920" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T17:45:55.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15913" CreationDate="2013-12-16T02:15:17.320" Score="7" ViewCount="361" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope this is the right place for this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recall watching a movie where there was an old black and white clip (perhaps a home video within a movie?) where someone was standing near a large Victorian style building pointing toward the top. On top of the building was the silhouette of a man with his trench coat blowing in the wind. Moments later he slowly leans forward and starts calmly falling to his death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively it could have been the guy at the top of the building pointing to something before jumping, but the rest remains the same. The scene was very dark and ominous. I don't know what movie this was in and if anybody recalls this please help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7162" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T02:41:47.343" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T02:41:47.343" Title="Man points to suicide jumper in black and white old clip?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|black-and-white|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:55:05.770" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15912" CreationDate="2013-12-16T02:32:19.743" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This scene is a key scene in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119174/combined&quot;&gt;The Game&lt;/a&gt; where Sean Penn, playing Conrad, buys a thrilling game of survival for his brother's (Michael Douglas, playing Nicholas) birthday. The flashback concerns young Nicholas witnessing the suicide of his father when he was 48 years old, the same age that Nicholas is now celebrating. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119174/synopsis&quot;&gt;imdb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;i&gt;The game focuses on a key moment of Nicholas's life when, as a child, he witnessed his father committing suicide by leaping off their family home, the same home Nicholas lives in. Significantly, Nicholas's father took his life on his 48th birthday, the same age as Nicholas is now.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T02:39:23.270" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T02:39:23.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14652" CreationDate="2013-12-16T02:38:03.813" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walt came back for him. Not the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7163" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T02:38:03.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15897" CreationDate="2013-12-16T03:13:11.000" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We find out in the movie that Shaw was sent to the Hospital to kill Letty on Braga's orders after Braga learns that Letty survived the encounter. Shaw knew where Letty came from (driving for Braga) and her skills (if she didn't have mad skills, she wouldn't be driving for Braga in the first place), so when he gets to the hospital and finds out she has amnesia, he considers her a blank slate (as he stated in the movie). He figures due to this, he can mold her anyway he wants. He wasn't going to kill her because he believed he could remake her in his own image. If she ever did recover her memories, he could kill her then if she went against him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shaw knew Letty was originally a plant from the FBI, but didn't know she was connected to Dom until the picture is shown of Letty sitting on Dom's lap. He did know about Brian, Dom, and the crew due to Riley working on the inside for him, but not about a connection between Dom and Letty. He gets the names of Dom and the crew from Riley and is not overly worried about them until they almost foil the plan, then at that time he gets the in-depth on them and discovers the connection between Dom and Letty. Shaw tests Letty with the cross and picture to see if there is going to be an issue, but is relieved when Letty shows no knowledge of the connection. His soldier is still in place without question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with you that kidnapping Mia was not part of the original plan. Shaw realizes he needs an ace-in-the-hole if he is going to beat Dom after their encounter (right after Dom and Letty race). He needs leverage over Dom and views Mia the perfect pawn to help manage his schemes. I am sure at this point he knows of the connection between Brian and Mia as well, so this works out doubly well into his plans. We don't know when he comes up with this plan, but he doesn't decide to execute it until after the encounter because he tries to get Dom to walk away, which Dom is unwilling to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T03:13:11.000" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15916" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15926" CreationDate="2013-12-16T04:36:40.143" Score="21" ViewCount="2130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 film Rope is known for it's long takes. There is plenty of documentation regarding the length of each shot and the limitations of the technology available, but less so information regarding the &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; of this tactic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What motivated Hitchcock to film in this manner? What effect was he trying to create?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T10:10:01.527" LastActivityDate="2014-01-17T16:31:07.883" Title="Why the long takes in Rope?" Tags="|analysis|film-techniques|alfred-hitchcock|rope|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15917" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-16T05:03:59.447" Score="10" ViewCount="1464" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion, we observe a detective staring at a painting when visiting the home of Lena and Johnnie:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hSgvol.png&quot; alt=&quot;abstract-painting-suspicion&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both upon the entrance and exit of the detectives, he is entranced by the painting. Furthermore, both times he must be snapped out of this trance by the other detective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What is the significance of the painting?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-17T15:45:23.840" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T15:45:23.840" Title="What is the significance of the abstract painting?" Tags="|alfred-hitchcock|suspicion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2621" CreationDate="2013-12-16T06:29:37.230" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Sydnor is, in a way, supposed to represent the viewer. Over the course of five seasons, we learn nothing about his past, his personal life, or his ambitions. He is both figuratively and often times literally a passenger in the vehicle driven by Lester, McNulty and the rest of the police crew, just as we, the audience, are. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's interesting is that Sydnor becomes progressively more active in the show's quest for justice all the way up until the point at which he becomes the 'next' McNulty in the show's final montage. I can only assume that David Simon would hope his viewers undergo a similar progression while watching the show. During the ride that is The Wire, we, like Sydnor, witness firsthand the corruption, crime, and immorality that lays waist to Baltimore's poor. By the end of it, maybe we, too, will find ourselves bending the rules in the name of justice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sydnor is a call to action, a plea from Simon that you didn't just watch the show for nothing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7166" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T06:29:37.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6907" CreationDate="2013-12-16T06:36:44.890" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing happens to the Greek or to Vondas, which exemplifies one of the major themes of the series: True change is impossible to enact. You can replace the moving parts or force them to hide for a while, but the game is always the game. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7166" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T06:36:44.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15920" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17803" CreationDate="2013-12-16T07:04:37.590" Score="15" ViewCount="2657" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last episode, they don't actually show Walter White dying. They only show him lying on the floor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible for them to continue the story from there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7167" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T12:47:04.383" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T01:50:42.123" Title="Is Walter White dead?" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15920" CreationDate="2013-12-16T08:00:26.683" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walter is definitely dead, even confirmed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/breaking-bad-inspired-mock-tombstone-inspires-real-controvesy-article-1.1494107&quot;&gt;Walter White Tombstone&lt;/a&gt;. It's official and even the next phase of the Breaking Bad universe is about Saul's story k.a. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Call_Saul&quot;&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/a&gt; and its a prequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T08:27:19.430" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T08:27:19.430" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15916" CreationDate="2013-12-16T09:59:06.150" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the long takes, or just a single take as it should look for the audience, fit perfectly to the fact that the whole movie is set at a single small place. Those two aspects contribute to the impression that we are actually watching a play instead of a movie (as also stated in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/1393/49&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to a different question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this had two at first paradoxical effects. On the one hand it makes the time feel smooth yet short and thus emphasizes the real-time aspect of the action and in this way it contributes to the intensity of the whole situation. But on the other hand this smoothness also doesn't make it feel hectic or too fast, which emphasizes the calmness and intelligence of &lt;em&gt;Brandon&lt;/em&gt;'s actions and the mental games he's playing with his guests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this real-time one-take shot does neither delay the tension, nor does it artificially compress the action. It just shows it as intense as it really would have been.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Though, these are just some small speculative points for now.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2014-01-17T16:31:07.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15916" CreationDate="2013-12-16T12:26:08.147" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to Christian Rau's answer, here is an outtake from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_take&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When filming Rope (1948), Alfred Hitchcock intended for the film to have the effect of one long continuous take, but the cameras available could hold no more than 1000 feet of 35 mm film. As a result, each take used up to a whole roll of film and lasts up to 10 minutes. Many takes end with a dolly shot to a featureless surface (such as the back of a character's jacket), with the following take beginning at the same point by zooming out. The entire film consists of only 11 shots. (For a complete analysis of Hitchcock's hidden and conventional cuts in Rope, see David Bordwell's text &quot;Poetics of Cinema&quot;, 2008).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some will conjecture the reason you do not see much of this type of cinematography today is that the caliber of actor has gone down. Directors rely on action and imagery to tell the story rather than relying on the actor. The actor has become the &quot;pretty face&quot; to look at and not the means by which we learn what is going on. Hitchcock was renowned for his &quot;long shot&quot; style of story telling. And one of the reasons his movies still stands today as some of the best ever produced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T12:48:21.843" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T12:48:21.843" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15910" CreationDate="2013-12-16T13:34:59.190" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to what Justin W said above, in the opening scene Divine is referred to as &quot;&lt;em&gt;the filthiest person alive&lt;/em&gt;.&quot; You might be mixing up / combining the two lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T13:34:59.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15925" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-16T13:40:44.797" Score="10" ViewCount="572" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the first episode of the third season (s03e01 : &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Man_Is_Down&quot;&gt;Tin Man Is Down&lt;/a&gt;) Carrie watches Saul's testimony on live television and is distraught.&#xA;She is at home, alone, on her bed when she watches the television and she seems to be very distressed. Saul here announces the relation between Brody and an bipolar agent (not to mention Carrie before the committee).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on the fourth episode (s03e04 : &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_On_%28Homeland%29&quot;&gt;Game on&lt;/a&gt;) we learn that the forced internment that Carrie has been through is a part on a well planned, elaborate and secret operation between Carrie and Saul to approach the Islamic terrorists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if all the beginning of the third season (the first four episodes) was planned by Carrie and Saul why is Carrie distraught while watching Saul's hearing before the Intelligence Committee ? I understand why she acts unstable, panicked or whatever while other people are around but in her bedroom alone ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7171" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T04:50:55.930" Title="Why is Carrie distraught while watching Saul's hearing before the Intelligence Committee" Tags="|plot-explanation|homeland|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15916" CreationDate="2013-12-16T13:51:41.793" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6GxDq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1962 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000076/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;François Truffaut&lt;/a&gt; interviewed &lt;strong&gt;Alfred Hitchcock&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/listen-12-hours-franois-truffaut-interviewing-alfred-hitchcock/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;rather extensively&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br&gt;About 12 hours of audio has been broadcast on french radio. You can listen to the 25 parts &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/Interview:_Alfred_Hitchcock_and_Fran%C3%A7ois_Truffaut_%28Aug/1962%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In part 15 Hitchcock talks about &amp;quot;Rope&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;(I transcribed it myself, so please excuse any errors)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know why I really indulged in the stunt, &lt;strong&gt;I can only call it a stunt&lt;/strong&gt;, in &amp;quot;Rope&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_%28play%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;play&lt;/a&gt; played in its own time. It was continuous action from the moment the curtain went up and when it finished. And I got the idea, how can I technically treat this in a similar thinking, that the technique should play without a break&lt;/strong&gt;... the presentation of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, &lt;strong&gt;there is no break anywhere in the storytelling&lt;/strong&gt;, It starts at at seven-thirty and finishes about nine-fifteen. &lt;strong&gt;And I got this crazy idea of saying, well, maybe if I could do it in one shot, the whole film.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When I look back of course it's quite nonsensical&lt;/strong&gt;, really, because I was breaking all my own tradition of using film, the cutting of film, to tell story.*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interview about &amp;quot;Rope&amp;quot; is about 30 mins long, so if you want to learn more about the film, have a listen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The late film critic &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ebert&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Roger Ebert&lt;/a&gt; wrote &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rope-1948&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; about &amp;quot;Rope&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alfred Hitchcock called “Rope” an &lt;em&gt;“experiment that didn’t work out,”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and he was happy to see it kept out of release for most of three decades.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T13:57:33.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15927" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-16T14:20:17.187" Score="7" ViewCount="2098" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider the examples of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071935/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Odessa File&lt;/a&gt; (1974) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069947/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Day of the Jackal&lt;/a&gt; (1973). They are both classics based on novels by Frederick Forsyth and released at around the same time. &lt;em&gt;The Day of the Jackal&lt;/em&gt; is, going by IMDb statistics, more acclaimed and was nominated for an Oscar. Yet, it has still not seen a Blu-ray release while &lt;em&gt;The Odessa File&lt;/em&gt; has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Assume for the moment&lt;/em&gt; that they are both movies whose rights are owned by the same studio. I'd like to know how a studio decides which film to transfer to Blu-ray and release. Is the decision made purely on monetary grounds? What other factors are involved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T10:47:28.810" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T23:01:04.130" Title="How do studios decide which movie (classic) to release on Blu-ray?" Tags="|film-industry|distribution|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15928" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-16T14:21:54.990" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format. The plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Conventional (pre-BD-XL) Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs (50 GB) being the industry standard for feature-length video discs. Triple layer discs (100 GB) and quadruple layers (128 GB) are available for BD-XL re-writer drives. The name Blu-ray Disc refers to the blue laser used to read the disc, which allows information to be stored at a greater density than is possible with the longer-wavelength red laser used for DVDs. The major application of Blu-ray Discs is as a medium for video material such as feature films. Besides the hardware specifications, Blu-ray Disc is associated with a set of multimedia formats. Generally, these formats allow for the video and audio to be stored with greater definition than on DVD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T14:21:54.990" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T14:21:54.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15929" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-16T14:21:54.990" Score="0" Body="Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T14:21:54.990" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T14:21:54.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15927" CreationDate="2013-12-16T15:05:27.120" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is merely observation and some speculation, but I've noticed a few factors:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the studios wait to release a few similar titles (theme, actor, director) at once. Often in box sets with the films also available individually at the same time or a few months later. &lt;strong&gt;Possibly not applicable at least as far as Forsyth is concerned.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes they wait for an anniversary edition. If the film was made 19 years ago, why not wait another year to capitalize on a 20th anniversary edition? &lt;strong&gt;As this year is the 40th anniversary of The Day of the Jackal, this doesn't apply unless they're banking on a 50th.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the studios have a distribution deal, and not &lt;em&gt;exclusive&lt;/em&gt; rights, so new deals must be made with the production companies / producers. &lt;strong&gt;You asked about the studio owning the rights, so this does not apply.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some older titles need to be re-assembled from multiple copies of the 35mm prints to get the best possible copy which then need to be &quot;cleaned up&quot; (removing scratches, reducing grain, color correction from fading over time, etc) which takes a painstaking frame by frame approach in a few worst-case scenarios. Given the deep catalog of titles for the major studios, it is not a quick task to do this for all their older titles in a quick fashion. Especially since the studios are constantly in various states of production on the new films coming out now. &lt;strong&gt;A possibility.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Studio heads change, and personal feelings can enter into the decision to fast-track titles, also. The head of the studio that greenlit a film in the 60's is not the same as the current head who may hate the film or the producer or director and may slow things just as a vendetta, though I have no proof of this.  It is extrapolation from how newly-promoted TV executives cancel shows that they &quot;don't get.&quot;  &lt;strong&gt;A possibility.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When I started this answer, I thought I had a better (or at least an) answer, but I initially misread the question insofar as&lt;/em&gt; the studios OUTRIGHT owning the films &lt;em&gt;and have tried to edit accordingly. I'll voluntarily delete this answer if people think it should be downvoted.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T16:43:06.063" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T16:43:06.063" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15612" CreationDate="2013-12-16T16:02:24.797" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Paul Verhoeven's &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Total Recall&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; comes to my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You didn't say it starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, which is a quite memorable element of this movie, but your memories are so vague that is might have missed you :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, this is the trailer: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFMLGEHdIjE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFMLGEHdIjE&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here's why I think it may be it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's a sci-fi movie from 1990 and it's about a secret agent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the cat and mouse chase can either be the one in the first half of the movie, on Earth, when Arnie is chased around the city and into a building, where he removes a tracker (red glowing ball) he has in his skull and guides the henchmen (who see him on a screen as a red point) to a wrong location.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;alternatively, near the end of the movie Arnie is chased around a big industrial compound (an alien reactor) and he uses a holographic decoy (in form of a wrist watch, not a belt item) to confuse his enemies. Maybe you got those two scenes mixed in memory?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in the end there are explosions, something resembling a volcanic blast and clouds devastating huge buildings (so lots of explosions and shattered glass), which all may look like vaporizing the antagonist's compound.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out the trailer and let us know if it looks similar. I also advise to watch the whole movie anyway - whether that's it or not, it's still a good movie :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7172" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T16:02:24.797" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15910" CreationDate="2013-12-16T17:33:54.777" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst I have no success identifying the &lt;em&gt;Specific quote&lt;/em&gt; you are referring to, John Walters' entire oeuvre is dedicated to re-imagining Batlimore as a sleazy, disenfracnchised neo-nightmare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Waters many &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24806639&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sobriquets&lt;/a&gt; include the 'Pope of Trash&quot;, &quot;Prince of Puke&quot;, and &quot;&lt;em&gt;King of Sleaze&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, all of which he has welcomed and adopted as part of his own public persona. He also situates himself as being part of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/we-interviewed-john-waters-and-it-was-great-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the same tradition&lt;/a&gt; of the artistic exploration of debauchery as Russ Meyer and Herschell Gordon Lewis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He uses the concept as Sleaze as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_%28philosophy%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sublime&lt;/a&gt;, and has always marketed himself alongside such imagery. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Baltimore itself has two historically predominant nicknames: 'MobTown' and 'Charm City', and according to John Berra's &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oWC1tWKRbqwC&amp;amp;pg=PA25&amp;amp;lpg=PA25&amp;amp;dq=baltimore,%20the%20sleaziest%20city%20in%20america&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=Oh_E3NYPP_&amp;amp;sig=htCdq-LZN4nh9EdeGkCYMHorpr0&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=wy6wUu6bErGS7Aag0IH4Dg&amp;amp;ved=0CEIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=baltimore,%20the%20sleaziest%20city%20in%20america&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interpretation of Waters&lt;/a&gt;' work, it is the space in between these conflicting names that is being explored, and rendered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Quote from John Waters Autobiography, &lt;em&gt;Shock Value&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Baltimoreans (Or Balti-Morons, as they are sometimes called) shouldn't hang their head in shame when they hear Baltmore being referred to as the Armpit of the Nation, or Bumberg. Be Proud! think of it as Trashtown USA, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the Sleaziest city on earth&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the hairdo capital of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, and as Justin W has correctly pointed out, the dialogue doesn't seem to be part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/p/pink-flamingos-script-transcript-waters.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; from Pink Flamingos. As I've hopefully indicated, its entirely reasonable this quote (whether paraphrased or not) is included or attached to any number of his other works... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2013-12-17T11:07:20.590" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T11:07:20.590" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14170" CreationDate="2013-12-16T17:44:52.070" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot find any mention of any interview with Mike Myers where he reveals the inspiration for &lt;em&gt;Fat Bastard&lt;/em&gt;. That does not mean that there was none. But I'd like to venture that if such a revelation had ever been made, then it would have been mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Bastard_%28character%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0028712/bio&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FatBastard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://austinpowers.wikia.com/wiki/Fat_Bastard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first impression when I saw &lt;em&gt;Fat Bastard&lt;/em&gt; (and this opinion is shared in a number of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/reviews/188/18818.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;locations&lt;/a&gt;) was that he was modelled on the legendary character of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Creosote&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mr. Creosote&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Monty Python's The Meaning of Life&lt;/a&gt;. Myers grew up with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/03/mike-myers-family-values&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Monty Python&lt;/a&gt; and would have undoubtedly encountered the double Jeroboam swilling Creosote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers. I loved the Ealing comedies, &lt;strong&gt;Monty Python&lt;/strong&gt;, Alec Guinness. It's true that Englishness, comedy and otherwise, is a very big part of my life: and there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U2owo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T17:49:52.407" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T17:49:52.407" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15927" CreationDate="2013-12-16T18:07:18.337" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movies are often re-released according to a schedule, which can be dictated by any number of variables.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often, whoever owns the rights to a movie lacks the resources to directly distribute the film directly, and as such will strike up a deal with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_distributor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Distribution company&lt;/a&gt;. This is becoming more and more common as studios are becoming less vertically integrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike first run productions, which are handled by marketing and exhibition (New Releases always have press junkets, premieres and 'hype' to support their release), 'Classic' or 'Old' movies have to adopt different release strategies, which makes sense when you consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The title has already been in circulation for a number of years (&lt;em&gt;a&#xA;lot&lt;/em&gt; if its a true classic), so you can't pitch the title on&#xA;excitement of the unknown. Chances are, if they're buying it, they've&#xA;already seen it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The film is likely being pitched to a potential collector, Fan (in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Fan_Cultures.html?id=HHTxeHD29mcC&amp;amp;redir_esc=y&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Matt Hills&lt;/a&gt; sense of fandom) or image fetishist (if the release has been digitally altered/restored).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The title's strongest marketing ballast is the pre-circulated meaning that popular culture has ascribed it to, so trying to manipulate what &lt;em&gt;the film means to its audience&lt;/em&gt; is counter-productive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there's quite a specific Market to cater for, and the distributors have the advantage of knowing exactly who is buying their product, and don't necessarily have to actively sell the content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often, Classic movies will be released at an appropriate, pre-appointed time. It's always a good idea to re-release &lt;em&gt;It's A Wonderful Life&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Great Escape&lt;/em&gt; at Christmas, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095765/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cinema Paradiso&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is this year's remastered, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.curzoncinemas.com/films/details/1953/cinema-paradiso-2013-reissue/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;re-released Christmas Classic&lt;/a&gt;, and was probably saved for 2013 because it coincides with the films 25 anniversary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the restoration and preservation of Classic Cinema is an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adelphifilms.com/funding-restoration.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;expensive business&lt;/a&gt;, not to mention the responsibility concerned with choosing what is appropriate for restoration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the UK we have the BFI (British Film Institute), which is a charity whose main occupation is this very purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The BFI are also, however, a commercial entity, and as such they co-fund the restoration by creating deals with distribution companies to physically distribute the files (or film if its a special and very rare copy), handle the DRM (Digital Rights Management) and produce marketing material within cinemas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cinema I work at uses &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.curzoncinemas.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Curzon Cinemas&lt;/a&gt; as its distribution arm, and as they have a mutually beneficial relationship with the BFI, we receive a lot of 'remastered' work, which is lucky for me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Multiplexes always receive the option to exhibit these films, but usually choose not to, and will instead play what they consider a more popular current release onto all their screens, much to the ire of Cinema Critics like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Good-Bad-Multiplex/dp/0099543494&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mark Kermode&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Different countries have different institutions dedicated to the restoration of old work, but this is simply the most common method in the UK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As funding costs are largely recovered through exhibition, and eventual release on formats like DVD and Blu-ray, it's a sad truth of doing business that they will only commission their most commercially viable options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOWEVER...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What constitutes 'Commercially Viable' may well surprise you, as the BFI is run primarily by curators who have a legitimate interest in the movies they restore, and understand the difference between commercial classics and &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B001JV5BIU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;critical classics&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often, the restoration companies will commission a 'film season' for a particular director, or even actor. This is often the marketing angle with which they are able to obtain enough fiscal stimulus to restore an entire 'collection'. It's usually this that has happened when, as you have pointed out, a number of films sharing a similar element are restored and released together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically, in a DVD/Blu-ray store the customer will be unaware that the titles have likely already been released as part of an exhibition campaign in cinemas, and so the DVD release looks like a co-incidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2013-12-16T20:00:22.887" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T20:00:22.887" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15936" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-16T18:15:46.167" Score="26" ViewCount="15575" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the latest Simpsons episode S25E08 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/White_Christmas_Blues&quot;&gt;http://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/White_Christmas_Blues&lt;/a&gt;) there is a strange ending containing something that looks like car license plates, but with some strange content. Here is a list. Top text, number, and the state &quot;we&quot; think it is.. (from answers below, updated regulary):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;First in freeways - 2H77JE&#xA;The 'YUH-HUH' state - 7BMA12&#xA;Jewel of the fracking belt - DX156A&#xA;Still A British Colony At Heart - 1FGFI3&#xA;Land of many water snakes - P1VM8L&#xA;The socks and sandals state - 23IEZ01&#xA;The crooked governor state - 1PLIT4&#xA;First in foreclosures - 1AVN86&#xA;The wait aud see state - 13NR14&#xA;Touch it with a stick state - 2H45LX&#xA;The land of loud talkers - SABI7F&#xA;The bee sting state (dec) - J111A1&#xA;Home of the other clam chowder (feb) - LTOU12&#xA;The pickpocket state - LL158Z&#xA;The sunburn state (aug) - 6HGF17&#xA;America's Second-greatest carolina - 21PIR9&#xA;Unique Left turn laws - 1DXV4 -  Michigan?&#xA;America's Mongolia (jul) - 32UVL9&#xA;Where soda meets pop - 7IDAF1&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list contains 19 entries, takes 40 seconds and obvious contains references to Americas states, and some of them contains months (somewhere on the sign).. But I refuse to think that all this is random. Anyone else see any patterns here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7175" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-18T11:31:25.813" LastActivityDate="2022-04-16T22:23:26.597" Title="Encrypted message in Simpsons Christmas episode 2013" Tags="|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15938" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-16T19:42:59.440" Score="2" ViewCount="352" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end of the movie, Lawrence Gordon (the surgeon) cuts his feet and goes to get help. The movie then ends with Adam (the photographer) getting locked up in the room by the villain. So why does the surgeon not return with help? Does he get killed because he exceeded the time? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4982" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T19:53:26.327" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T19:53:26.327" Title="Why does the escaped prisoner not return with help?" Tags="|plot-explanation|saw|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15936" CreationDate="2013-12-16T19:48:41.347" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;First in freeways - 2H77JE2 : Hex system = 21 = 21st state = Illinois = where Dan Castellaneta is from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7179" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T19:48:41.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15938" CreationDate="2013-12-16T19:53:54.453" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spoilers for Saw 3D ahead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; After Lawrence crawls out of the room he cauterizes his wound with a hot pipe, which causes him to lose consciousness. Jigsaw finds him and helps him recover. Afterwards, Jigsaw recruits Lawrence to help him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T19:53:54.453" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15941" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15946" CreationDate="2013-12-16T19:57:48.370" Score="39" ViewCount="483403" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did they make Chris Evans so tiny and &lt;em&gt;skinny&lt;/em&gt; in the first half? He lost weight + green screen all along I suppose? Or is there something more interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4982" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T09:13:13.977" LastActivityDate="2018-08-13T19:58:03.937" Title="How did they make Captain America so tiny and skinny in the first half?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|effects|captain-america-the-first-avenger|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15941" CreationDate="2013-12-16T20:02:13.613" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's all CGI. Chris Evans is large in life. Watch the film in HD ... you can see it looks &lt;em&gt;smeared&lt;/em&gt; (don't know how to describe it). There is no other way to make Evans look small. He is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; going to lose weight before or after the main portions of the role are shot to have them do it differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T20:02:13.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12809" CreationDate="2013-12-16T20:29:02.410" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Wolverine was exposed to Adamantium during the bonding process, his regenerative powers altered the nature of of the Adamantium allowing it to be regenerated like his normal skeleton. (Don't ask because this makes no sense to me either.) This beta adamantium is supposedly as strong as true adamantium but that is unlikely since his bone structure would be as porous as his bones were originally.&#xA; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/38655/how-could-this-adamantium-piece-be-destroyed-in-the-wolverine&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7181" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T20:29:02.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15945" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15966" CreationDate="2013-12-16T19:45:04.713" Score="2" ViewCount="1732" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;King Kong&lt;/em&gt; (the Peter Jackson version), why was the piranhadon scene deleted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it because the movie was already 188 minutes? Or was King-Kong too far to have a &quot;versus&quot; battle? (King Kong would win I guess ^^) Also a triceratops scene exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7184" OwnerDisplayName="huseyin tugrul buyukisik" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-16T15:40:46.900" LastActivityDate="2015-08-16T15:40:46.900" Title="Why was the piranhadon scene deleted from Peter Jackson’s King Kong?" Tags="|king-kong-2005|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15941" CreationDate="2013-12-16T22:33:58.660" Score="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/company/co0129378/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lola VFX&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; worked on the body transformation of Chris Evans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the article &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fxguide.com/featured/case-study-how-to-make-a-captain-america-wimp/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;How to make a Captain America wimp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lola had three primary approaches to shrinking the 220 pound Evans to the 140 pound guy he needed to be, while maintaining Evans’ performance as closely as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Body double / actor doubling for the entire body.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The body double was English Shakespearean trained stage actor &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/meet-captain-americas-skinny-steve-rogers-leander-deeny-29756&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Leander&#xA;  Deeny&lt;/a&gt; (who even dieted for the role).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Digital head replacement / face projection&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;em&gt;similar to the technique Lola used in The Social Network, where the actor is filmed&#xA;  with multiple cameras and this digital file is object tracked onto a&#xA;  body double’s (Deeny) body. This was only used in about 5%&#xA;  of Lola’s shots.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YQ9up.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;2a&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uuu4Z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;2b&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shrink and scale the actor in the principal photography (no greenscreen)&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;em&gt;a 2D scale of the actor Chris Evans. This was used&#xA;  in the majority – about 85% of Lola’s effects shots.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3G4eP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;1a&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AtFf5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;1b&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Click the link above and read the full article if you want to learn more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T22:33:58.660" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13821" CreationDate="2013-12-16T23:44:08.410" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the films had different directors who probably had different ideas for how the effect should look and/or be achieved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7185" LastActivityDate="2013-12-16T23:44:08.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10281" CreationDate="2013-12-17T04:34:42.477" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think his name, or at least handle is King. At the end, his main partner says, &quot;the king is dead, long live the king.&quot; Plus, Temple told him he would be in his place some day and he was the king.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7190" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2014-01-31T19:27:20.233" LastActivityDate="2014-01-31T19:27:20.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14652" CreationDate="2013-12-17T06:44:55.463" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jesse's tragic flaw is his passion. When he's angry/upset/undermined, he lashes out without thinking and generally makes his life quite a lot more difficult for himself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Jesse has a chance to kill Walt, he has a chance to act on impulse, to get revenge, to prove that he outlasted and outsmarted Walt in the end. He has a chance to kill the man who poisoned a young boy and who watched his girlfriend die in her sleep. If the roles and story lines were reversed minus the character traits, Walt would kill Jesse in a heartbeat. But, Jesse isn't Walt, and that's what he proves in deciding not to kill Walt. He faces so much pressure throughout the show to be more like Walt, but Jesse proves himself to be far stronger than Walt ever is by ultimately not giving in to impulse and emotion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jesse's choice to let Walt die on his own is his way of saying 'I'm not you, nor will I ever be'. That's the real battle these two characters have been fighting since they teamed up, and Jesse ultimately wins it by not shooting Walt. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7166" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T20:55:44.460" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T20:55:44.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15953" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15962" CreationDate="2013-12-17T07:53:06.957" Score="19" ViewCount="1848" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can any one tell me, is the shark in &quot;Jaws&quot; real or just computerized?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I saw that movie I got confused. I have also seen &lt;em&gt;Jaws 2&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7120" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-01-22T00:15:56.503" LastActivityDate="2017-01-22T00:15:56.503" Title="Is a real shark used or is it just computerised?" Tags="|film-techniques|props|jaws|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15953" CreationDate="2013-12-17T08:13:16.837" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the scenes feature a mechanical shark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I27Lh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;mechanical shark (source: Wikipedia)&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_%28film%29#Filming&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;footage of a real shark&lt;/a&gt; was also used:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Footage of real sharks was shot by Ron and Valerie Taylor in the waters off Australia, with a smaller-framed actor in a miniature shark cage to create the illusion that the sharks were enormous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Computer-generated imagery was not used - Jaws was released in 1975, computers were much less powerful back then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T08:13:16.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16046" CreationDate="2013-12-17T08:58:37.290" Score="6" ViewCount="5633" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the close of the last episode of series 3 of homeland we see Saul &amp;amp; Mira relaxing on the rooftop of a sun-kissed building; but where are they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I remember in a different episode Saul saying he wanted to go live/retire some where, but I cant recall, and perhaps it isn't the same place anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any body know where they are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4990" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-17T09:12:45.353" LastActivityDate="2023-07-12T00:32:16.063" Title="Where were Saul &amp; Mira at the end of Season 3?" Tags="|film-location|homeland|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15936" CreationDate="2013-12-17T11:55:53.633" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Production codes for all previous Xmas specials. Look at any episode and it is assigned a unique identification number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7195" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-17T13:13:05.353" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T13:13:05.353" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15960" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="15973" CreationDate="2013-12-17T12:22:47.063" Score="5" ViewCount="1663" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was around 1995 that I watched this cowboy movie. It think it was not very popular and not a high grade movie. I just want to watch it again because that was &lt;strong&gt;the first cowboy movie that I watched&lt;/strong&gt;. I was about 10 years only and I didn't understand English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story goes like this:- Two cowboys, one thin and one fat were riding on their horses. The thin one was the main hero, who was intelligent but the fat one was clumsy and always ran after women. The thin one always plays some small music instrument on his mouth, it could be a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew%27s_harp&quot;&gt;Jew's harp&lt;/a&gt;, I don't remember clearly. The fat one saw a beautiful prostitute bathing naked in a forest and fell in love with her. He went to the brothel, saw her coming down with a customer, paid the price to the pimp and made love with her. There was a mole on her buttock. There was a gang who disturbed people and they had a camp where they kept all their guns and explosives. They purchased a new machine gun and were celebrating it. The boss of that gang kidnapped that beautiful prostitute. After quarreling much, the two cowboys decided to rescue her. The fighting scenes were good and funny. The prostitute was rescued and the hero destroyed the camp with a dynamite. The fat guy and the prostitute were together happily. The last scene I remember was where the hero secretly threw the coffee prepared by the fat guy and his girlfriend(the prostitute) because it didn't taste good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7194" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-17T13:14:47.400" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T20:49:26.803" Title="Fat Cowboy, a Skinny Cowboy, and a Prostitute" Tags="|identify-this-movie|western|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:55:08.897" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4376" CreationDate="2013-12-17T12:32:12.197" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tarantino once said that he got &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-16/news-interviews/32697700_1_kamal-haasan-aalavandhan-anurag-kashyap&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;inspiration for this scene&lt;/a&gt; from Tamil language film &quot;Aalavandhan&quot;(2001) starring Kamal Hassan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7196" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-17T13:41:11.777" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T13:41:11.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15953" CreationDate="2013-12-17T12:32:45.810" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Three mechanical sharks were built&lt;/strong&gt;, all nicknamed &lt;em&gt;&quot;Bruce&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, after Spielberg's lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EjnPt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jaws&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lassothemovies.com/jaws-1975-afi-100-days-100-movies-56/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;[Source]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mentalfloss.com/article/31105/how-steven-spielbergs-malfunctioning-sharks-transformed-movie-business&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;How Steven Spielberg's Malfunctioning Sharks Transformed the Movie Business&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Producers wanted Spielberg to hire someone to train a great white&lt;/strong&gt; — an impossibility. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The director toyed with rubber props before ultimately &lt;strong&gt;deciding the only real answer was to build a remote-controlled mega-shark—a 25-footer that could swim, leap in the air, and munch on human prey.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Every special effects company in Hollywood called the task impossible. Undeterred, Spielberg lured effects guru &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0559871/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bob Mattey&lt;/a&gt; out of retirement.&lt;/strong&gt; Famous for designing the giant squid in the 1954 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046672/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;20,000 Leagues Under the Sea&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Mattey assured the director he could build the perfect monster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The mechanical nature of the shark caused some problems, which actually changed Spielbergs approach to the movie.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Bob Mattey finally delivered Bruce, Spielberg began to panic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On its first day on the job, &lt;strong&gt;the shark promptly sank to the bottom of Nantucket Sound&lt;/strong&gt;. Within a week, &lt;strong&gt;saltwater had eroded Bruce’s electric motor&lt;/strong&gt;, and he had to be refitted with a system of pneumatic hoses. &lt;strong&gt;Every night, Bruce also had to be drained, scrubbed, and repainted.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Even by diva standards, Bruce was high-maintenance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Spielberg also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195/trivia?item=tr0776922&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;called the shark&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;the great white turd&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I had no choice but to figure out how to tell the story without the shark,”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Spielberg said. &lt;em&gt;“So I just went back to Alfred Hitchcock: ‘&lt;strong&gt;What would Hitchcock do&lt;/strong&gt; in a situation like this?’ ... &lt;strong&gt;It’s what we don’t see which is truly frightening&lt;/strong&gt;.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The idea of the unseen enemy completely changed the film’s direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127370664&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hunting Bruce, Or, On The Trail Of The 'Jaws' Shark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bruce the mechanical shark had a dirty little secret: It didn't work very well.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stories abound of the animatronic shark stalling the moment it hit water and sinking to the seafloor. In fact, &lt;strong&gt;the finicky mechanics ended up pushing the film both over budget and over schedule.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it turns out, there is actually a fourth Bruce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... &lt;strong&gt;this fourth shark was never used in the film&lt;/strong&gt;, but it does appear to have been cast from the original Bruce mold at the time of the film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It was made for use at the Universal Studios Theme Park in Hollywood&lt;/strong&gt;, where it hung by its tail from 1975 to 1990.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T12:32:45.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15936" CreationDate="2013-12-17T15:17:42.680" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not an answer or solution, but it's too long for a comment and it might help in finding an answer to this. Sorry if this was inappropriate to post as an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Simpsons have been known to hide lots of mathematical references in their show (also see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simonsingh.net/Simpsons_Mathematics/&quot;&gt;The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets&lt;/a&gt; by Simon Singh, who incidentally also wrote a book about &lt;a href=&quot;http://simonsingh.net/books/the-code-book/&quot;&gt;codebreaking&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is indeed some kind of code/reference I'm suspecting this is not the only set of codes in the episode. (I might scan the entire episode for more stuff like this later this week). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first guess is that these are indeed references to US states, which means that some of the answers could be guessed / deduced, leaving us with a partial set of codes and answers. From there the actual method of decryption could possible be deduced, enabling us to solve the rest of the states. However, if these are all just states that wouldn't leave us with much of a puzzle. Hence my reasoning that there is more to this (if at all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the codes are indeed states this is not a simple substitution method, where the length of the encrypted text would be the same length as the answer. If it were a substitution code the answers would be truncated to the 6 characters we see, making it a lot harder to solve than with the original lengths. It's possible, but not very likely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One method of encryption this reminds me of is MD5 (which renders any length of text as a 32 digit hexadecimal number). However, these strings are only 6 characters and seem to use all letters (as well as numbers 0-9) so it's not hexadecimal. It could technically be anything from base 36 up, but as I think it's not a substitution cipher I don't think it's a direct translation from text to any base &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; format. Then again, MD5 isn't either, so there's probably other known methods of encryption that render fixed-length sets of specific characters. I don't know of any off the top of my head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I think the first step towards a solution is see if we can find a set of answers that might fit the descriptions, like the US states, and see if there's a correlation between the answers and their respective codes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="74" LastEditorUserId="74" LastEditDate="2013-12-17T15:25:24.633" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T15:25:24.633" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15917" CreationDate="2013-12-17T15:32:31.057" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The detective is trying to make sense of the picture, as detectives are tasked with trying to make sense of things in any given case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The picture could also be seen as a representation of Lina's &lt;a href=&quot;http://theartofilm.blogspot.com/2013_07_01_archive.html&quot;&gt;frazzled state of mind&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T15:32:31.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15945" CreationDate="2013-12-17T17:14:15.250" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best I could find is that it was most likely cut due to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360717/trivia?item=tr0777537&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;already long running time of the movie&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene can be found in the extended version, available on home video.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T17:14:15.250" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15969" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-17T18:45:58.210" Score="3" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;p&gt;The recent Jason Statham action movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2312718/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Homefront&lt;/a&gt; has a lead character who used to be an undercover DEA cop, Phil Broker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phil has moved to some small town in the country so his daughter can have a better life and, presumably, he can get away from a dangerous career where he was associated with choices he didn't like (an early scene establishes his discontent with police overkill during an arrest).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the key early events in the movie involves a neighbor walking into his house (the door is open but Broker is out riding horses with his daughter). The neighbor is seeking trouble (perhaps stealing the family cat to traumatise Broker's daughter) but is able to stumble on an unprotected box file containing details of Broker's previous undercover identities. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What possible excuse or motivation can there be for Broker to have highly sensitive files at home and completely unprotected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2017-04-14T23:16:44.470" Title="Why does the ex-undercover cop in Homefront keep sensitive files about his identity unprotected at home?" Tags="|plot-explanation|homefront|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15936" CreationDate="2013-12-17T19:03:24.953" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unique left turn laws - 1DXV4&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michigan&lt;/strong&gt; has them (referring to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_left&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Michigan left&quot;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7204" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-12-18T00:50:46.557" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T00:50:46.557" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15972" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17534" CreationDate="2013-12-17T20:43:18.660" Score="5" ViewCount="5275" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season one of American Horror story:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Larry Harvey (Burned Guy as my girlfriend and I call him) is shown smothering Beau Langdon, at the request of Constance. Beau is chained up in the attic of the Murder House, and continues to exist as a ghost in the house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why is Beau in the Murder House? The Langdons didn't live there anymore, Harvey and his family did - the Langdons lived next door, as they do today.  The &lt;a href=&quot;http://americanhorrorstory.wikia.com/wiki/Beauregard_Langdon&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki entry for Beau&lt;/a&gt; (spoilers in link) doesn't offer an explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7207" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T23:11:18.317" Title="Why was Beau in the Murder House?" Tags="|plot-explanation|american-horror-story|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15960" CreationDate="2013-12-17T20:49:26.803" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based off your description and an &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;as_q=&amp;amp;as_epq=&amp;amp;as_oq=prostitute%20jew%20harp&amp;amp;as_eq=&amp;amp;as_nlo=&amp;amp;as_nhi=&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;cr=&amp;amp;as_qdr=all&amp;amp;as_sitesearch=spaghetti-western.net&amp;amp;as_occt=any&amp;amp;safe=images&amp;amp;tbs=&amp;amp;as_filetype=&amp;amp;as_rights=#as_qdr=all&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;q=prostitute%20OR%20jew%20OR%20harp%20site:spaghetti-western.net&amp;amp;start=10&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;extensive search&lt;/a&gt;, I believe that I found your childhood western, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Amigos&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Los Amigos&lt;/a&gt;. It also goes by &lt;em&gt;Deaf Smith &amp;amp; Johnny Ears&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;...Johnny recognises a girl he earlier has watched taking a bath in the river as the prostitute Susie Q...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;...Deaf pays so he can spend a night with her...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;...They set a trap with explosives to blow up the weapons transport to Morton...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;...Instead they infiltrate Morton's fort and destroy his men with explosives and with the new weapon, a machine gun that Deaf can handle because he could read the lips of the instructor...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please let me know if this is the correct movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3209" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-12-17T20:49:26.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15936" CreationDate="2013-12-18T00:22:56.633" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm doubting that we'll ever get an answer (at least not any time soon) unless we collaborate on this one, so I figured it'd be good if someone set up a wiki post for everyone to contribute to. I've made the references that have already been cracked &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt; to make it easier to distinguish them from all the others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any ideas or actual answers, then feel free to update this post with whatever you've got!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First in freeways&lt;/strong&gt; - 2H77JE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly on hit on North Carolina's &amp;quot;First in Flight&amp;quot; license plate slogan. Well: &amp;quot;North Carolina has the second largest state maintained highway network in the United States[...]&amp;quot;, but: &amp;quot;North Carolina Is The Good Road State&amp;quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ourstate.com/good-road-state/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.ourstate.com/good-road-state/&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 'yuh-huh' state - 7BMA12&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Have an idea of what &amp;quot;The 'yuh-huh' state&amp;quot; may refer to?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jewel of the fracking belt - DX156A&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Have an idea of what &amp;quot;Jewel of the fracking belt&amp;quot; may refer to?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still a British colony at heart - 1FGFI3&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Have an idea of what &amp;quot;Still a British colony at heart&amp;quot; may refer to?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Land of many water snakes - P1VM8L&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Have an idea of what &amp;quot;Land of many water snakes&amp;quot; may refer to?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The socks and sandals state - 23IEZ01&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Have an idea of what &amp;quot;The socks and sandals state&amp;quot; may refer to?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The crooked governor state&lt;/strong&gt; - 1PLIT4&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be a reference to &lt;strong&gt;Illinois&lt;/strong&gt; as 4 of their last 7 governors have been convicted for fraud and/or corruption. The colors on the license plates are also identical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First in foreclosures&lt;/strong&gt; - 1AVN86&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For 2013, this would be New Jersey (2nd place Florida, 3rd place New York). Note that the license plate serial would not be valid for new Jersey...but OTOH it looks like none of the license plate serials match some state's license plate serial format).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wait and see state - 13NR14&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Have an idea of what &amp;quot;The wait and see state&amp;quot; may refer to?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Touch it with a stick state - 2H45LX&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The touch it with a stick plate refers to WV, referring to hillbillies  being dumb, so when finding dead things they poke at them as pictured in film and TV. The license plate is blue and gold, just like it is in West Virginia also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The land of loud talkers - SABI7F&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Have an idea of what &amp;quot;The land of loud talkers&amp;quot; may refer to?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The bee sting state&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(dec)&lt;/em&gt; - J111A1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Utah is the &amp;quot;bee hive state&amp;quot; (they also has bee hives depicted on license plates at some time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Home of the other clam chowder &lt;em&gt;(feb)&lt;/em&gt; - LTOU12&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may refer to the state of Rhode Island, which has &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.10best.com/interests/food-culture/rhode-island-has-its-own-clam-chowder-it-was-first/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;its own style of clam chowder&lt;/a&gt; featuring a clear broth rather than the more common cream-based &amp;quot;New England clam chowder&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pickpocket state - LL158Z&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Have an idea of what &amp;quot;The pickpocket state&amp;quot; may refer to?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The sunburn state&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(aug)&lt;/em&gt; - 6HGF17&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A pun on Florida's slogan &amp;quot;Sunshine State&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;America's second-greatest Carolina - 21PIR9&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Have an idea of what &amp;quot;America's second-greates Carolina&amp;quot; may refer to?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unique left turn laws&lt;/strong&gt; - 1DXV4&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does indeed seem to be a reference to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_left&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Michigan left&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, giving us &lt;strong&gt;Michigan&lt;/strong&gt; as the state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;America's Mongolia &lt;em&gt;(jul)&lt;/em&gt; - 32UVL9&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Have an idea of what &amp;quot;America's Mongolia&amp;quot; may refer to?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where soda meets pop - 7IDAF1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Have an idea of what &amp;quot;Where soda meets pop&amp;quot; may refer to?&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;The soda/pop dividing line in NY is somewhere between Syracuse and Rochester.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="30354" LastEditDate="2022-04-16T22:23:26.597" LastActivityDate="2022-04-16T22:23:26.597" CommentCount="14" CommunityOwnedDate="2013-12-18T00:22:56.633" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="15976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14585" CreationDate="2013-12-18T01:59:01.667" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;By your points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nuking the region would incite far more fighting than it would stop. First of all, nukes wouldn't annihilate everything in the region, but they would turn it into an infinite source of various terrorist groups. Second, some kind of conflict, maybe even World War III (this is mentioned in the movie), with Russia, China, and likes would ensue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An airstrike on the White House was supposed to cover up all the evidence (because, evidently, in the &quot;White House Down&quot; universe everything is stored there and &quot;off-site backup&quot; is a non-existing concept). This is explained by Cale as he exposes Raphelson.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once the nuking has failed and the crisis was averted, the second best way to restart wars is to send those troops back in. It would probably make the conflicts there stronger than they were before, because it would be seen as a new occupation and the breaking of the previous peace offer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, in a movie like this, one is not to look for too much sense, because everything is in service of humor, explosions, and witty retorts, so I'd say that there is actually an unexpectedly high amount of sense in this move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Having just re-watched the movie, I'm not sure that Raphelson's plan was to actually start the nuclear attack. Maybe he counted on the attack to be prevented by the air strike (which would've been only seconds too late for that, had the Cale family not interfered). The possibility itself was enough to get an excuse to get war back on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T12:16:31.267" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T12:16:31.267" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13823" CreationDate="2013-12-18T02:26:03.970" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/4786/ben-plont&quot;&gt;Ben Plont&lt;/a&gt; quoted Wikipedia in the comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tyler tries to escape by deactivating the bomb on the tunnel gate, but discovers that it has been tampered with so it goes off rather than disarms when he leaves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Down&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;that part is currently written a bit differently&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tyler tries to escape but encounters the tunnel gate bomb. When he tries to deactivate it, it detonates instead, killing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, there are two important details:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tyler did not set the bomb himself. He sets up a camera and then gets the bomb out of the protective suitcase, gives it to one of the henchmen, asks &quot;You guys are good?&quot; and leaves commenting &quot;Don't mess it up&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Raphelson, who was actually the man behind it all, wanted to eliminate all the evidence (including witnesses). Keep in mind that he was more than likely getting some operational help from his buds from the weapons industry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my guess is that the bomb was deliberately planted in a way that it explodes whatever you do with it. Was it prepared like that before they even went in there or was it done there by the guy who planted it, remains unclear. But, with the lack of other viable explanations, I'd say it was part of the plan not to allow anyone to get out alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, this is the weakest part of the movie. Not that any of that other stuff is &lt;em&gt;realistic&lt;/em&gt;, but it works fine in the movie. This scene, however, is confusing. I believe that it was done to quickly get rid of Tyler when the movie didn't need him anymore, and you cannot just shoot a guy that wields computers instead of guns. This is quite similar to Argile disposing of Theo in &quot;Die Hard&quot;, by crashing into his ambulance with a limo, thus not directly killing him, but only incapacitating him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T02:26:03.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15978" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-18T04:04:01.607" Score="4" ViewCount="313" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not searching for a specific movie I have seen, hence the question may be vague or a little off-topic (hopefully not too far). I am searching for the original movie (or source, maybe even in literature) that the following plot line originated from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Person A and Person B had a romantic relationship (boyfriend/girlfriend, married, or any form of love interest). Person B has an accident which results in memory loss / amnesia and does not remember anything specific about the relationship, hence starts a new life or relationship with person C. Person B is considered missing and searched for by person A, or person B stumbles upon person A. Person A discovers what has happened, however leaves it that way (possibly to personal grief) since person B is happy (or happier) this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Person B is likely to be female, person A is likely to be male. Person C does not have to exist, and if he does, person A may or may not confront him. Person A may find out about the accident from person B or person C. Person B may or may not be faking amnesia, and if not, the memories may or may not return. Also, person A may or may not decide to confront person B, in case he/she does, he may or may not tell person B about his/her past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the current description allows for plenty of variation, but I think this kind of plot pattern is very recognizable and memorable. Innale, a Malayalam film from 1990, uses this plot line, though I doubt it originated from there. I have also seen it used elsewhere, but so far the aforementioned movie is the oldest source I know of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas for the original source?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7209" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-06T02:26:49.027" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T10:31:57.967" Title="What is the original occurrence of this specific memory-loss / amnesia plot?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15989" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-18T09:49:43.283" Score="5" ViewCount="1566" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Dark Knight after the Joker burns the money, he threatens to feed the Chechen to the dogs if he doesn't fall in line. But after that, he is not mentioned again. Anyone heard his final fate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T17:43:32.103" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T23:46:14.853" Title="In the Dark Knight, what is the Chechen's fate?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15989" CreationDate="2013-12-18T10:05:06.883" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The final fate of Chechen was not shown directly/indirectly in the movie. I think, it was left for audience to think what would have happened to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Joker's&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; men would've handed him his fate, which was ordered by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Joker&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T10:05:06.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15995" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-18T12:41:02.613" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Love Crime (French: Crime d'amour) is a 2010 French psychological suspense thriller starring Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas. It is the last film directed by Alain Corneau, and was released posthumously after the director's death from cancer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Crime&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-18T12:41:02.613" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T12:41:02.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15996" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-18T12:41:02.613" Score="0" Body="Love Crime (French: Crime d'amour) is a 2010 French psychological suspense thriller starring Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-18T12:41:02.613" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T12:41:02.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="15999" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-18T13:49:15.417" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something recurring across a genre or type of literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales. Similar to archetype and cliché but not necessarily pejorative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="21705" LastEditDate="2020-08-07T11:58:19.970" LastActivityDate="2020-08-07T11:58:19.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="16000" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-18T13:49:15.417" Score="0" Body="Something recurring across a genre or type of literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales. Similar to archetype and cliché but not necessarily pejorative." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-18T13:49:15.417" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T13:49:15.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16001" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-18T14:02:19.780" Score="7" ViewCount="452" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to identify a film which I cannot recall completely, its about a writer who writes a story and realizes that it is lived by another person (a girl). He happens to meet her somewhere, and then realizes that the character he is writing about is lived as it is by that girl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess towards the climax, his story demands that the girl should die in an accident but he cannot do it as now he has actually met that person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anybody identify this film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7220" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T19:57:58.983" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T19:57:58.983" Title="Writer who writes a story realizes that it is being lived by some person" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-11-22T20:28:12.320" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16001" CreationDate="2013-12-18T14:22:04.033" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds exactly like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420223/&quot;&gt;Stranger Than Fiction&lt;/a&gt; except that the writer is a female and the character is a male.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T14:22:04.033" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15904" CreationDate="2013-12-18T21:45:09.227" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As seen from this clip - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrRhXth2oCQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrRhXth2oCQ&lt;/a&gt; - there are 13 barrels released into the water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7225" LastActivityDate="2013-12-18T21:45:09.227" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1881" CreationDate="2013-12-19T08:22:50.010" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It makes sense once you know what the implicit question to the end of the riddle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why are you waiting for a train?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the answer to the riddle is, because &lt;em&gt;&quot;you're waiting to die.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7231" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-19T12:01:08.633" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T12:01:08.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16015" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16018" CreationDate="2013-12-19T11:18:41.653" Score="5" ViewCount="425" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know the name of this Movie?. Basic plot is a virus kills nearly everyone but some survivors are in Antarctica I think. There is an earthquake predicted in USA which will trigger nuclear weapons automatically being fired everywhere including where these survivors are. The movie starts I think with a man walking back alone returning to the survivors after having disarmed the nukes. The movie is about him recalling these events. I seem to think the movie is 1970's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7232" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T17:37:14.597" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T17:37:14.597" Title="End of the world movie" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:55:30.813" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16015" CreationDate="2013-12-19T13:46:47.420" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the film you are thinking of is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080768/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Virus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, also known as &lt;em&gt;Day of Reckoning&lt;/em&gt; from 1980.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the IMDb synopsis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A film that describes the development of a deadly Virus weapons system&#xA;  by the USA Military during the height of the Cold War epoch during the&#xA;  early 1980's. A small group of multinational scientists stuck in the&#xA;  Antarctic learn to survive after a human engineered virus knocks out&#xA;  most of earth's population... ...Only about 800 people in the entire&#xA;  world survive as General Rankin activates the ARS which is set off by&#xA;  an earthquake in the capital Washington and not any Soviet attack,&#xA;  thus blasting the entire world with Nuclear Armaggedon as the Soviets&#xA;  respond with their nukes, finishing off what is left of the population&#xA;  that managed to survive the Virus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hyUur.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T13:46:47.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16019" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-19T14:25:54.327" Score="2" ViewCount="717" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115734/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bottle Rocket&lt;/a&gt;, Robert Musgrave's character is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115734/trivia?item=tr0664417&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;named Bob Mapplethorpe&lt;/a&gt; after the &lt;em&gt;infamous&lt;/em&gt; photographer, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mapplethorpe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Robert Mapplethorpe&lt;/a&gt;. Why did Wes Anderson or Owen Wilson choose this particular name? Were either of them fans of Mapplethorpe's work? Or are they trying to convey something else especially in terms of the relationship between Bob and his brother, John (Future Man)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-29T18:12:22.307" LastActivityDate="2013-12-29T18:12:22.307" Title="Why name Bob after Robert Mapplethorpe in Bottle Rocket?" Tags="|character|bottle-rocket|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16020" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-19T14:27:24.943" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-19T14:27:24.943" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T14:27:24.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16021" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-19T14:27:24.943" Score="0" Body="Bottle Rocket is a 1996 comedy and crime film directed by Wes Anderson. It was co-written by Anderson and Owen Wilson and focuses on a trio of friends and their elaborate plan to pull off a simple robbery and go on the run." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-19T14:27:24.943" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T14:27:24.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15829" CreationDate="2013-12-19T21:56:09.113" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie version of Captain America is a combination of the &lt;em&gt;Ultimate Universe&lt;/em&gt; and the &lt;em&gt;Main Universe&lt;/em&gt;. The &quot;Ultimate&quot; Captain America can lift up to 2 tons, so the movie version can probably do anything from peak human 800lbs to the 2 ton range depending on who is writing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7239" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-12-19T23:06:44.543" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T23:06:44.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16024" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16026" CreationDate="2013-12-19T22:02:06.487" Score="3" ViewCount="6472" Body="&lt;p&gt;When George Bailey first enters Martini's bar in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;It's a Wonderful Life&lt;/a&gt; and prays for help, there is a song being sung in the background that isn't in English (possibly Italian?) and while I can't understand the lyrics, the tone doesn't seem like a Christmas song.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone identify the song, and does it have any connection to Christmas or to the message of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a link to the scene: &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/vRn26I2Bzd8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://youtu.be/vRn26I2Bzd8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="753" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T19:59:25.647" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T19:59:25.647" Title="What song is being sung in the bar while George is praying?" Tags="|soundtrack|its-a-wonderful-life|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16024" CreationDate="2013-12-19T22:24:36.043" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is identified in the Youtube comments.  The song is &quot;Vieni Vieni&quot;, sung by Adriana Caselotti, (the voice of Snow White.)  Here's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPIf-7LUto0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;another version on Youtube sung by Tino Rossi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-12-19T22:24:36.043" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16030" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-20T02:35:27.490" Score="6" ViewCount="333" Body="&lt;p&gt;This Movie or series has a few key points.  I want to remember the name of it badly since I liked it so much years ago.  any help would be appreciated&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;set in a Steampunk world, dull, rainy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Humans practice magic there but require protective suits else they become corrupt and turn into demons.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;starts off with seemingly 2 protagonists, &lt;em&gt;SPOILER ALERT&lt;/em&gt;  End up fighting each other when 1 uses too much magic in the fight and turns into a demon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Main character has a small girl following him around, she has 4 eyes (since her mother was raped by a demon, resulting in her birth)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;like I said, if anybody could answer this question &quot;what is the name of this movie&quot; you will make life so much easier since I can't remember it anymore by name or by those key points.  maybe you remember or might own it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7244" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T17:34:13.313" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T17:34:13.313" Title="Steampunk movie about Demons" Tags="|identify-this-movie|anime|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:55:37.053" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16030" CreationDate="2013-12-20T03:28:10.387" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2311880/&quot;&gt;Strait Jacket&lt;/a&gt;, (2008).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a world where sorcery and science co-exist, the power of magic&#xA;  comes with a price: Humans who do not take proper precautions are&#xA;  transformed into horrific demons. Those who destroy these demons - and&#xA;  run the highest risk of all - are tactical sorcerists known as Strait&#xA;  Jackets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was shown as one of the Sci Fi Channel's Ani-Monday features.  The girl looked like she had two human eyes and two sort of reptilian eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2013-12-20T03:28:10.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16035" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16899" CreationDate="2013-12-20T08:16:19.407" Score="3" ViewCount="353" Body="&lt;p&gt;A friend of mine who lives in an Asian country noted that non-Asian Americans use chopsticks very well in American TV dramas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TalentDouble&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;talent doubles&lt;/a&gt;, and/or actor training, employed to ensure that this is the case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1312" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T00:54:17.483" Title="Are talent doubles used for chopstick usage in American dramas?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3369" CreationDate="2013-12-20T13:49:33.270" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is actually explained in the prisoner's story, as he tells it to Bruce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The legend is that there was a mercenary who worked for the local&#xA;  warlord. He fell in love with warlord's daughter. They were married in&#xA;  secret.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When the warlord found out, the mercenary was condemned to this pit.&#xA;  But then he exiled him instead. The mercenary understood that was the&#xA;  daughter who had secured his release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But what he could not know was the true price of his freedom. She took&#xA;  his place in the pit. And she was with a child. The mercenary's child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Innocence cannot flower underground. It was to be stamped out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One day, the doctor forgot the lock the cell. But the child had a friend. &lt;strong&gt;A protector who showed the other that this innocence was their redemption&lt;/strong&gt;, it was to be priced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The mother was not so lucky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is Bane's prison now. He wouldn't want the story told.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saving this child was the one good (actually, the only significant) thing that Bane could do in his life. He had no prospect of ever leaving the Pit or doing anything remotely significant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer mentions that Talia's mother may have told him about Ra's Al Ghul and that he might have expected to be rescued as a reward. I think this is deeply wrong and maybe even offensive to his motives. A little girl, who has never even seen the outside of the Pit, who had no resources whatsoever, whose father didn't even know that she existed,... her mere survival would be a hard gamble. Also, his own survival of the riot is a minor miracle in itself, and he must have been aware that he is not likely to survive helping Talia. So, expecting any kind of reward is wrong and I strongly believe that his action was completely pure and exclusively focused on the salvation of that one child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, when Talia says her goodbyes to Bane, he cries, as he knows it's the last he sees of her, and that both of them are to be dead soon. Obviously, he has huge empathy for her... and only for her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PShin wrote that &quot;Bane is like a second father to her&quot;. This is close, but I think still incorrect. Bane is the father to her (not biological, but in emotional, protective, and every other way) and he sees her as his true daughter. I assume he took her under his protection &quot;as his redemption&quot;, and grew very fond of her through the years he cared for her in the Pit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, it is not hard to see that an innocent child was his only (metaphorical) light in the long years he spent there. Hence, his contempt for all but her, and huge devotion to her (and only her). I also think that her feelings are quite reciprocal, and for the quite similar reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2013-12-20T13:49:33.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16037" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16039" CreationDate="2013-12-20T15:50:19.190" Score="4" ViewCount="3702" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently visited IMDB and I was shocked to see that &quot;V for Vendetta&quot; and &quot;The Avengers&quot; share the same rating which is 8.2. I could not believe it, like a movie with social and political impact like V for Vendetta and a movie which is no doubt an entertaining one but will not be remembered after two or three years. I know this question is rather on subjective side but still I had to ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is there any credibility at all in the IMDB ratings? Are they just, like many other polls, a subjective list of things the public can remember seeing recently? Are they better than other ways of rating movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5549" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2013-12-20T18:50:47.220" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T18:03:45.943" Title="Are IMDB ratings objectively credible?" Tags="|imdb|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="20" ClosedDate="2015-03-27T17:51:14.333" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16037" CreationDate="2013-12-20T15:57:57.073" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is credible insofar as the viewing public is the arbitrator. Anyone can vote, and since more people like blockbusters and franchise movies than independent or foreign films, the votes reflect that. The ratings are only as useful as box-office receipts. They measure popularity, not importance or quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, I think Rotten Tomatoes does a better job by having a critic's score and a user's score. Hobbit 2 got 74% from critics and 87% from users. I feel that gives a better overall view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2013-12-20T18:08:57.353" LastActivityDate="2013-12-20T18:08:57.353" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16037" CreationDate="2013-12-20T17:01:23.610" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ratings used on IMDB are not just straight votes from anyone who chooses to participate.  They are, to some extent, protected from the short term whims of the masses who find a particular popular movie to be good. The ratings in the top 250 are also adjusted to some extent to account for the number of people voting and the total number of votes cast in the list. Also, only regular voters count in the top 250.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These adjustments make the ratings more consistent and somewhat more &amp;quot;objective&amp;quot; than would be obtained by just counting votes from anyone with an equal weighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB explain thus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The formula for calculating the Top Rated 250 Titles gives a true Bayesian estimate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;weighted rating (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;v = number of votes for the movie = (votes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;m = minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 250 (currently 25000)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 7.0)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for the Top 250, only votes from regular voters are considered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall I think this enhances credibility and consistency. But perfection is impossible and there will always be some subjectivity and we will all have scores we strongly disagree with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand there can never be a perfect scale of merit on which we will all agree so we should never expect that. IMDB rob ably does a better job than most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T11:27:05.293" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16044" CreationDate="2013-12-20T19:59:32.280" Score="5" ViewCount="1490" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a trend in movies where the camera &quot;sways&quot; during quiet, drama scenes, as opposed to &quot;shaky cam&quot; which is used during action scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed its use in both political/war movies and drama movies designed for teenagers, but not really in other kinds of movies, because it's supposed to be &quot;real&quot; and mess with the viewer's emotions. However, all it succeeds in doing is irritating me and making me feel queasy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a proper name for this technique and what is it designed to accomplish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6533" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2013-12-20T20:41:03.523" LastActivityDate="2013-12-20T20:43:33.053" Title="Camera sway as cinematic technique?" Tags="|film-techniques|drama|cinematography|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16041" CreationDate="2013-12-20T20:43:33.053" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's hard to be objective when answering this question as I personally hate this kind of camera work (out of context), but in general, 'swaying' shots and 'shaky-cam' fall under the same catch-all monicker of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-held_camera&quot;&gt;'hand-held&lt;/a&gt;'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First used to simulate the hand-held appearance of news reel footage in pseudo-documentaries, the camera form had a resurgence in the early 60s when the new wave of directors felt it their duty to rebel against the established 'old guard' - then it resurfaced after &lt;em&gt;NYPD Blue&lt;/em&gt; on TV began shooting episodes with the technique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The introduction of cheaper, prosumer cameras led to a proliferation of hand-held indie films, which was adopted by the larger studios especially during action scenes in order to give the scene a sense of confusion and urgency. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the camera form has been over-used in many cases, and is especially jarring when used out of context - for example, in the recent &lt;em&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/em&gt;, the hand-held cinematography was fully justified during the battle scenes and moments of extreme action, but was completely unnecessary (in my opinion) during the intimate conversational moments between Clark and his parents. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This technique often has the effect of pulling the viewer out of the film by drawing attention to the camera move, or in extreme cases, causing nausea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-12-20T20:43:33.053" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15956" CreationDate="2013-12-21T00:52:54.250" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's actually Asilah, Morocco. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It says it was filmed there but depicts Greece. You can see photos from the link below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=376513599150057&amp;amp;set=a.376512982483452.1073741828.145172285617524&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;theater&quot;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=376513599150057&amp;amp;set=a.376512982483452.1073741828.145172285617524&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;theater&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.376512982483452.1073741828.145172285617524&amp;amp;type=3&quot;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.376512982483452.1073741828.145172285617524&amp;amp;type=3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7250" LastEditorUserId="7250" LastEditDate="2013-12-21T00:58:46.583" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T00:58:46.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16047" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-21T03:57:04.727" Score="10" ViewCount="2786" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; episode &quot;Kafkaesque&quot; (S03E09) Skyler says to Walt when talking about Hank (who is in the hospital recovering from his gunshot wounds at the hands of the cartel hit men), &quot;Somehow, something tells me that Hank is here because of you and I'm not forgetting that.&quot; They don't show her face while she says it or after. So did she mean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: She thinks the reason Hank was attacked and thus is in the hospital has something to do with Walt, or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;B: she thinks Walt had something to do with the phone call that warned Hank he was about to be attacked and thus thinks Walt is the reason Hank is alive and not dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think A but am not positive. Walt's expression after she says it could fit either option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7254" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-15T05:36:59.033" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T05:36:59.033" Title="Explanation of the ending of the episode &quot;Kafkaesque&quot; (S03E09)" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|dialogue|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16049" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-21T15:18:50.153" Score="2" ViewCount="1312" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that humor is extremely difficult to translate across languages.  Cultural, linguistic, and historical differences between societies largely account for this difficulty.  Consequently, it's very difficult to make a comedy movie extremely successful on an international level.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious if there have been any studies to discern the elements of a comedy movie that are more or less universal.  That is, what plot elements / gags / tropes are universally translatable such that anyone in the world could watch a comedy movie and thoroughly enjoy it?  I'm sure star appeal has something to do with it, but I'm almost certain there has to be more than just that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Come to think of it, have there even been any extremely commercially successful comedy movies on an international level?  Some examples of such movies may help to discern what enables their international appeal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5225" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-03T01:14:35.010" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T01:14:35.010" Title="On the elements of a internationally successful comedy movie" Tags="|comedy|translation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16053" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16518" CreationDate="2013-12-21T18:20:49.423" Score="12" ViewCount="1638" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 4 of Dexter the Trinity Killer used to kill in the bathtub. A bathtub full of blood and he sat in it with victim till the end. How did he to manage leaving no trace from such a mess?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7259" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2013-12-21T20:27:43.900" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T13:50:17.740" Title="How did the Trinity Killer manage to leave no traces?" Tags="|dexter|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16049" CreationDate="2013-12-21T18:21:30.033" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first film that sprang to mind when you asked this question was &lt;em&gt;Bean&lt;/em&gt; (1997). &#xA;This film, the first based on a popular character created by Richard Curtis and Rowen Atkinson,took approx. $250,000,000 on an $18,000,000 budget.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=bean.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here are the final stats for the film's box office.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c5b6H.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of your feelings toward this type of humor (predominantly &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slapstick_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;slapstick&lt;/a&gt;/visual), it is generally accepted that humor that does not rely on dialogue works well across the globe, and indeed other films with the same kind of humor reflect this, including, but not limited to: &lt;em&gt;Mr. Hulot's Holiday&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Chaplin/The Three Stooges, Mousehunt&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T18:21:30.033" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16049" CreationDate="2013-12-21T18:52:59.933" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What makes people laugh.&lt;/strong&gt; There are surprisingly many theories about what makes us laugh! The most popular theories fall under the umbrella of “incongruity” and date back to Aristotle, who said that the best way to get a laugh was to set up an expectation and then deliver something “that gives a twist.” Theorists like Immanual Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, and more recently Henri Bergson and Patricia Keith-Siegel, have all emphasized the absurd, the surprise, the reduction/comparison of a human to something subhuman (animal or machine). “Play theory” suggests that we respond with laughter to pains that are presented playfully, treating something serious as not serious (Smut, 2009). We also laugh at mishaps that befall other people, because it makes us feel superior and confirms the social order (think of mocking-type humor and Internet videos of people falling down) and the covering up of foolish errors (think “I Love Lucy”) (Helitzer and Shatz, 2005).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What determines box office success.&lt;/strong&gt;  According to a recent study (Pangarker, 2013), the determinants for box office success are genre, MPAA rating, budget, major studio involvement, Academy Award nominations or awards, timing of release, and critics’ reviews. The top 10 international blockbusters list include no straight-up comedies (&lt;em&gt;Avatar, Titanic, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Lord of the Rings The Return of the King, Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man’s Chest, Toy Story 3, Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides, Alice in Wonderland, The Dark Night&lt;/em&gt;).  This suggests that perhaps comedies don’t translate well, or maybe they just don’t draw the biggest audiences in any country. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comedy success: traits and marketing.&lt;/strong&gt;  So what makes a comedy do well? Internationally known stars, broad physical comedy, raunch, and high concept (McNary, 2006). Studios are finding they do best with comedy films when they can adjust the marketing for different countries. For example, they might play up the sexual innuendo or the physical comedy in trailers for countries where that does well. For &lt;em&gt;Devil Wears Prada&lt;/em&gt;, for example, they played up the “universal story of a first job with a draconian boss” and they “amped up the fashion side for Asian markets highlight[ing] fashion labels.” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top grossing comedies of all time (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/list/3kzHdGMEOC4/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2012 list&lt;/a&gt; which has a US bias - in order of US box office takings, not international) with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=borat.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;percentage of gross&lt;/a&gt; coming from international markets might give some insight as to what sells well. There is a lot of physical comedy in the 40%+ groups and Jim Carrey does particularly well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Home Alone (40% of box office was foreign)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meet the Fockers (46%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Hangover  (40%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Hangover Part II (57%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bruce Almighty (50%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mrs. Doubtfire (40%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Austin Powers in Goldmember (28%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wedding Crashers (27%) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me (34%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Liar Liar (40%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tootsie (NA)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Home Alone 2  (52%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Elf (21%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bridesmaids (41%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meet the Parents (50%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wild Hogs (34%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Three Men and a Baby (NA)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Big Daddy (30%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Grownups (40%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Waterboy (13%)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At #34, Borat (51%) - Features an actor who is more popular overseas than in the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sources&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Helitzer, Mel and Shatz, Mark. 2005. &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=TtDxMuxT_jYC&amp;amp;dq=what%20makes%20a%20comedy%20successful&amp;amp;lr=&amp;amp;source=gbs_navlinks_s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Comedy Writing Secrets&lt;/a&gt;. Writer’s Digest Books. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Smuts, Aaron. 2009.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iep.utm.edu/humor/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Humor&lt;/a&gt;.  Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pangarker, N. A.Smit, E. v. d. M. &quot;The Determinants Of Box Office Performance In The Film Industry Revisited.&quot; South African Journal Of Business Management 44.3 (2013): 47. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 21 Dec. 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;McNary, Dave. &quot;Int'l Comedy No Laughing Matter.&quot; Variety 403.6 (2006): 50. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 21 Dec. 2013&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2013-12-21T19:04:24.450" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T19:04:24.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16058" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16074" CreationDate="2013-12-21T19:36:38.363" Score="8" ViewCount="10752" Body="&lt;p&gt;About 20 years ago, I saw part of a film or TV series about a group of people being stranded on a creepy island after a plane crash. I can't remember whether it was a movie or a TV episode, but it felt more like a made-for-TV movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The beginning of the movie went like this: a plane is flying through a thunderstorm at night, and there is heavy turbulence. One of the children asks her mother if everything will be all right, and she says they will be. The child then tells her she can't know for sure what will happen, which she acknowledges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, the plane does crash after being hit by lightning, and the survivors manage to reach an island. The survivors explore the island, which is shown to be really creepy. The people then find their food have inexplicably become rotten one morning. That's all I remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I searched through &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Robinsonade&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this list&lt;/a&gt; on TV Tropes, but none of the movies or TV shows seem to fit the profile. I know it's not &lt;em&gt;LOST&lt;/em&gt; because I saw this in the 1990s. Does anyone have an idea what this movie (or TV series) might be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7262" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2014-01-12T18:56:53.953" LastActivityDate="2017-05-23T07:12:03.750" Title="Plane crash survivors stuck on a creepy island" Tags="|identify-this-movie|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:55:43.310" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16060" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16079" CreationDate="2013-12-21T21:00:27.167" Score="5" ViewCount="1422" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112471/&quot;&gt;Before Sunrise&lt;/a&gt;, Jesse and Celine decide to meet again on the same platform at a specific time in the future. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381681/&quot;&gt;Before Sunset&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2209418/&quot;&gt;Before Midnight&lt;/a&gt; continue their story in the future. But was this how it was planned back when the first instalment's script was written? Did Richard Linklater plan the nine-year gaps? Or was the date decided due more to circumstance than to any deliberate plan? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-12-24T06:09:02.403" Title="Were the sequels to Before Sunrise planned when its script was written?" Tags="|sequels|before-sunrise|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16061" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-21T21:01:35.343" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before Sunrise is a 1995 romantic drama film directed by Richard Linklater and written by Linklater and Kim Krizan. The film follows Jesse Wallace (Ethan Hawke), a young American, and Céline (Julie Delpy), a young French woman, who meet on a train and disembark in Vienna, where they spend the night walking around the city and getting to know each other.&#xA;-&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_Sunrise&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-21T21:01:35.343" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T21:01:35.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16062" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-21T21:01:35.343" Score="0" Body="1995 romantic drama film directed by Richard Linklater and written by Linklater and Kim Krizan. The film follows Jesse Wallace (Ethan Hawke), a young American, and Céline (Julie Delpy), a young French woman, who meet on a train and disembark in Vienna, where they spend the night walking around the city and getting to know each other." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-21T21:01:35.343" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T21:01:35.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15671" CreationDate="2013-12-21T21:45:11.303" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's just no good reason. Stealth and diversion were indeed reasons to keep the fellowship small, but they could just have send eagles to different directions so Sauron wouldn't know which one was carrying Frodo, they could even have eagles ferry random people between random points for weeks at a time so they wouldn't attract much attention after a while and there'd be no way to know when Frodo was transported and where to. Also even if the dragon air forcewas large enough to intercept all the eagles (if it was why did we see so few in the battles?) over, or near, Mordor then the Eagles could still have been used to travel part of the way, cutting months of the journey and avoiding many instances where the fate of the world relied on pure luck (someone not falling off a cliff for example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stuff happens when you write a long story over a long period of time, you lose oversight, forget to rewrite all relevant parts of the story when you change one thing, etc... and that's where plot holes come from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7265" LastActivityDate="2013-12-21T21:45:11.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16037" CreationDate="2013-12-22T00:02:44.000" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The IMDB rating is highly subjective. The arithmetic used for averages or exclusion of voters for the top 250 are a way to adjust the ratings to misuse or exceptional values. But they work on the elementary data point which is bluntly: How many &quot;stars&quot; do you give this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not an objective data point in any way. It isn't even explained what this value should express. Is the user expected to rate the movie quality, as &quot;objective&quot; as possible for him? Or should a express if he liked the movie? Overall or will certain special features influence the overall rating (e.g. the presence of a favourite actor or a brilliant soundtrack in an otherwise &quot;bad&quot; movie)? There are movies I love but I know they are of low quality in general. I like them because of a certain song in the soundtrack or a special memory they raise. For me those are ten-star movies. By any quality measures or how I would estimate them to be liked by others some of them are at best mediocre. Other movies I have to admit are technical and narrative brilliant, influenced the movie world - and bore me to hell. What rating should it get from me? I seriously don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic question is not only highly subjective but also unclear. Without explanation the user enters a value of one to ten &quot;stars&quot;. It is completely up to the user what this means to him. Without any doubt your question about objectivity can be answered only with no, it is not objective at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you ask for credibility at all and better ways of rating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB is the most famous movie site (by my estimation). Even lesser known movies get some attention there. But as always most attention is by fans. Popular movies with a high fan base get much more attention than others, and mostly positive. Just look at the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/chart/top&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;top&lt;/a&gt;&quot; list (or the &quot;bottom&quot; list for the same reasons). It seriously differs from &quot;best of&quot; lists of established institutions, critics, or media. The proportion of fandom movies (Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Pulp Fiction, Matrix...) at the top is definitely higher. This doesn't mean one is &quot;right&quot; or &quot;wrong&quot; but the difference is apparent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alternative are &quot;qualified&quot; reviews, e.g. averaged critics by professionals who tend to be more unbiased against fandom. This is what sites like Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes do. Panels like the Oscar committee or are also an alternative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem here is in selecting the critics who participate. If you select a small homogeneous group it will be biased to certain movies. Select a panel of Swedish intellectuals to decide over the &quot;best&quot; (by certain criteria) literature in the world in the last year and you will get a high proportion of Swedish literature. Their expertise with e.g. Chinese literature may be not so high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that sites like Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic do a good job of averaging it out. You can get a &quot;popular&quot; vote aside of the critics vote to see how they differ; and they often do. A successful movie doesn't have to be a technical or narrative good one. That doesn't make it less enjoyable but influences the typical &quot;popular&quot; vote. And that is what IMDB delivers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what rating system is &quot;best&quot; depends highly on what is &quot;best&quot; for you. That is a little bit vicious, of course. I personally think that you should find and follow a few bloggers, professional or not, that you like and that typically hit your taste. That is highly subjective but after all enjoying a movie is highly subjective. Apart from a very rough estimation I don't see much value at all in a single aggregated rating value without explanation of its consistence. Discussing why one movie is a 7 and another an 8 is beyond my comprehension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastActivityDate="2013-12-22T00:02:44.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3246" CreationDate="2013-12-22T02:38:58.153" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &quot;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388139/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Its All Gone Pete Tong&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&quot; claims to be based on a true story, although it is not. Here is how writer and director &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236226/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mike Dowse&lt;/a&gt; justified this lie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mike Dowse: (a bit embarrassed) This &quot;truth/fiction&quot; thing was totally&#xA;  the idea of the U.S. distributor, who wanted to propagate that myth.&#xA;  We never thought about doing that when we shot it. We say, &quot;Based on a&#xA;  true story,&quot; but that was more of an homage to the Coen brothers. When&#xA;  they picked up the film after [the Toronto International Film&#xA;  Festival], they were all, &quot;It’s gonna be a true story!&quot; We’ve&#xA;  convinced a few people, even offended Guy Dixon [in The Globe and&#xA;  Mail] with our treatment of the handicapped. But I think it’s pretty&#xA;  fucking obvious it’s not a true story. Don’t you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hour: I dunno… Americans might buy it. They buy Fox News, after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dowse: I was terrible about lying about the true story thing. I was&#xA;  always hit-and-miss. I’m actually much more interesting when I pretend&#xA;  Frankie’s a real guy, because, you know, lying is so much more&#xA;  interesting than the truth. But then I would tell a whole festival&#xA;  crowd that I made it all up. And the distributor would get mad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1643" LastActivityDate="2013-12-22T02:38:58.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2385" CreationDate="2013-12-22T03:45:44.160" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a possibility he retains the power although it frequently has to be refilled. If you payed attention Natsu says he had created a vessel for the black fire and the lightning so that he can use it, but since Zancrow died he can't refill his black fire, and Natsu would need Laxus to give him more of his lightning for Natsu to use the lightning-fire dragon combination again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7270" LastActivityDate="2013-12-22T03:45:44.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16071" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16073" CreationDate="2013-12-22T04:45:15.090" Score="11" ViewCount="7635" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1607758/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;The Pandorica Opens&quot; S05E12&lt;/a&gt;), River Song is the person responsible for leaving a message on &quot;Planet One&quot; carved into the &lt;em&gt;Diamond Cliff&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The message reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;HELLO SWEETIE&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ΘΣ Φ ΓΥΔϟ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kHleH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;River Song&amp;#39;s message carved into the Diamond Cliff&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the &quot;Hello Sweetie&quot; is the obvious running greeting for River to The Doctor, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Aliases_of_the_Doctor#Theta_Sigma&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Long time fans know&lt;/a&gt; that &quot;Theta Sigma&quot; (ΘΣ) is a &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; alias or name for The Doctor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The remaining section is the part that I'm curious about;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Φ ΓΥΔϟ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With tones of science fiction programmes putting in codes for the audience to solve, does this last section have any perceived meaning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-12-22T18:48:49.657" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T17:32:06.293" Title="Does River Song's message on Planet One in &quot;The Pandorica Opens&quot; have any perceived meaning?" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12042" CreationDate="2013-12-22T12:29:01.043" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmm... I assumed that Andy goes to the banks on the first day and asks them to add the ledger to their outgoing mail on the first day.  Mail usually doesn't get to its destination the same day.  Perhaps it is the following day if it is nearby.  So it probably doesn't appear in the newspaper until the evening edition of the day after Andy escapes, or the morning edition two days later.  (Remember, they show a newspaper after he escapes.  So I would assume the newspapers detailing &quot;corruption, murder at Shawshank&quot; are 2-3 days after he escapes.)  The police during that time probably had no reason to suspect that Andy has purchased a car and is a long ways away... And Warden Norton shot himself.  We can assume that the police do not track the accounts of Randall Stevens until at least a day after that.  Andy has at least a two day head start in his car, probably even longer... And in 1966 it certainly would have been much easier to pull off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also do not know what level of detail is in the ledgers.  If I were him, why would want it known the the deposits went to accounts held by Randall Stevens?  Is it theoretically possible he could have left this information out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7272" LastEditorUserId="7272" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T11:28:34.787" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T11:28:34.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16071" CreationDate="2013-12-22T12:55:49.297" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a possible explanation you'll have to consider the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The TARDIS translates (almost) everything so it can be perceived and understood by those travelling with it. This includes spoken and written words.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After this scene the Doctor notes that it's been a message and coordinates, so he travels to ancient Britain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just followed the co-ordinates on the cliff face. Earth. Britain. one oh two am. No, pm. No, AD. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering there's no other writing on the cliff (at least nothing seen by Amy and the audience), this has to be the information in the second line. However to me this creates a few new questions that can't necessarily be explained by what we see in the episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The characters appear to be of Greek origin, which doesn't make any sense (why weren't they translated as well? Or why were they translated into Greek?).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are only 7 characters in 3 groups, making it impossible to include/encode all the information that's supposed to be in there. Remember that River knew exactly the point in time and space where the Doctor would arrive (sending the Roman soldier to welcome Caesar). So it's more precise than just &quot;Britain 102 AD&quot;, but where is that information coming from?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What I think&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible to interpret the second line as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_numerals&quot;&gt;Greek numerals&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ΘΣ:&lt;/strong&gt; 9 200&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Φ:&lt;/strong&gt; 500&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ΓΥΔϟ:&lt;/strong&gt; 3 400 4 90&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't sound that far off thinking about it - in fact it's my favorite theory right now. The information &quot;on Earth&quot; doesn't necessarily have to be included - neither does &quot;to the Doctor&quot;, considering it's more or less River's home planet and it's clearly written by River. So with more specific details missing, it should be obvious she's talking about Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first two groups (ΘΣ Φ) could represent a coordinate pair to identify a specific point on the surface of the Earth and the last group (ΓΥΔϟ) would mark a specific point in time. Once again, there'd be an offset given by the fact the message is from River.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit [&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I completely missed the clickable link regarding the Theta-Sigma reference, I skipped that. So here's an alternative interpretation with one more tiny assumption:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first two Greek characters (ΘΣ) refer the Doctor as the intended recipient.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This leaves five more numerals for space and time (at least 3 dimensions).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since there are only two groups, you'll have to add one more space that's omitted for whatever reason (might be a goof):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Φ:&lt;/strong&gt; 500&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ΓΥ:&lt;/strong&gt; 3 400 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Δϟ:&lt;/strong&gt; 4 90&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't sound that far off, because now the grouping makes more sense (the second and third coordinate being grouped, having a small number as well as a big one).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The question left is just how you could use those to get usable coordinates (longitude, latitude, and time).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is pure speculation, but it makes sense in some way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Let's just assume the Doctor's coordinates would work like humankind's longitude/latitude system, so Greenwich would denote 0°.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Since Stonehenge isn't that far away, I could accept the first number being the longitude, while the second number being the latitude.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finally, the last number would denote the time, although this would still be rather rough given the fact that the Doctor seems to arrive just in time and not just within a general time frame (or it's just a rough estimate and the TARDIS would be able to determine the rest)? This would support the Doctor's confusion regarding am/pm/AD.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Since the Greek numerals don't make any direct sense the way they're used (they wer used in a decimal system), I could imagine this being based on a different scaling.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you assume for time, the second digit to the right denotes 3 years rather than 10 years, you'd end up with &lt;strong&gt;3 * 4 + 90 = 102&lt;/strong&gt;... Eureka! Okay, it's really just speculation and trying to find a formula, which isn't that hard with only two numbers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although this still doesn't explain why the numbers don't show up using arabic numbers or anything more easily perceivable. Maybe the TARDIS isn't able to get the proper meaning (i.e. it doesn't know whether this is supposed to be words or numbers) or it's part of River's plan to hide the message right in the face of the whole universe to only be seen (and understood) by the Doctor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastEditorUserId="6725" LastEditDate="2013-12-23T10:54:12.400" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T10:54:12.400" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16058" CreationDate="2013-12-22T13:22:40.273" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could this be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104049/reference&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Danger Island (1992)&lt;/a&gt;, also known as The presence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plot synopsis from Imdb: &quot;Mixed assortment of people survive the crash of an airliner at sea; cast upon a shore of mysterious island they discover dangerous creatures, exploding bananas, mutations and a biological weapons research facility.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a chance you may remember this person from the film, he certainly stuck in my memory as a child: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jyjyp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Guy&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3200" LastEditorUserId="3200" LastEditDate="2013-12-22T17:42:13.397" LastActivityDate="2013-12-22T17:42:13.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16060" CreationDate="2013-12-22T16:33:39.623" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was definitely not a plan from the start to have sequels with nine-year gaps. I'm having trouble finding the interview I read where they initially said the first sequel was not planned at the time, but grew organically as they kept in touch. For Before Midnight, Ethan Hawke said in Entertainment Weekly (May 10, 2013 issue, page 45): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... But we never had a serious conversation until Rick and Julie were both in New York in 2010. We sat down at dinner and had a long conversation about it. And we made plans to meet again in six months and we'd all think about it and talk about what's on our minds. And then around Christmas in 2011, Rick and I came to visit Julie in L.A., and that's where we batted out the outline: &quot;What if we had twins?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the interview, page 46:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After the second one, I would have been surprised if we didn't do a third. But now I don't know. My bet is it's going to be some sort of life project. Like a fictional version of the Seven Up! films. I'm open to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That wording seems to imply the first sequel was not planned right after the first movie, and nor was the second sequel planned right after the first. It wasn't unexpected but there was no grand plan in place at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keeping in mind there are semi-autobiographical elements in the films about growing older, and they are co-written by all three, it's difficult to plan or plot a sequel nine years in advance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't be surprised if the idea for the first sequel really took off in 2001 on the set of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Waking Life&lt;/a&gt; which had a little vignette featuring Hawke and Delpi reprising their roles from Before Sunrise (1995). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&#xA;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.about.com/od/beforesunset/a/sunsetjd062804.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with Julie Delpi for Before Sunrise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did you watch the first film to get back into character?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We knew the film pretty well. A lot of things had slipped our minds but we started writing the script in 2002 together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the year after Waking Life they started writing the script. When asked (in the same interview) if there would be a sequel in another nine years she replied:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, we don’t want to do a sequel in nine years because we don’t want to have this mapped out pattern. If we feel like we really have something to say and people really want to hear something else, and explore and see more and go to other fields because we’d do something very different again, we will do it. But we’re not sure we’ll even do anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2013-12-24T06:09:02.403" LastActivityDate="2013-12-24T06:09:02.403" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2852" CreationDate="2013-12-22T17:44:02.487" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, there are inconsistencies, but they are for the most part tolerable ones. It is perhaps a moment that stretches credulity when the Doctor puts his hand into a crack but it is not bad drama for all that when he pulls out a damaged piece of the TARDIS (from the future).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making a quick list it is easy to see that a crack behaves something like a window. You can i) see and hear things (at other places and times) through a crack ii) you can pass things (across space and time) though a crack iii) you can be sucked through a crack (think decompression) and cease to exist or be remembered having had every trace of your impression on spacetime removed and perhaps iv) you can make your way from one place and time to another by passing through a crack. The Vampires of Venice episode seems to allow for the latter possibility with the vampires (i.e. Saturnine creatures) having fled through a crack that permitted their escape to Earth from some terrible threat that they labeled &quot;the Silents&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The strangest thing witnessed in connection to a crack is when in the Cold Blood episode a white light envelops Rory's dead body as it is drawn into a crack (as seen from where the Doctor and Amy stand). There apparently is something non-random and intentional happening here, but it is unclear whether we are looking at a form of technology controlled from the other side of the crack or whether some entity is able to use energy from the crack to achieve certain ends. Rory's reappearance in The Pandorica Opens as a self-aware individual (albeit Auton) who remembers everything about Amy and the Doctor is incredibly strange, so much so that the Doctor labels him a miracle, something he says he has never seen before. The way these elements are connected is unclear but it is reasonable to suppose that a connection exists. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7151" LastEditorUserId="7151" LastEditDate="2013-12-22T19:12:03.230" LastActivityDate="2013-12-22T19:12:03.230" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16082" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16089" CreationDate="2013-12-22T21:20:07.270" Score="5" ViewCount="423" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077413/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Death on the Nile&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for many times, it only occured to me recently that the role of Colonel Race, played by David Niven, doesn't seem to serve much more than being a slightly more &quot;socially competent&quot; assistent to Poirot, while all the other characters are more or less suspects in the murder of Linnet Ridgeway. Therefore I came up with the (maybe a bit far-fetched) theory that his character might just have been added to the movie in order to give Poirot, who might seem a bit &quot;remote&quot; at times, a charming British counter-part to work with (given that it also was the first of the &quot;Ustinov-Poirot&quot;-movies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So first of all, is this character also part of Agatha Christie's novel the movie is based upon and does the movie deviate in his depiction in any way? If yes, then is there any information about the reasons for this deviation from the novel? (Of course it might be that I'm entirely making up things here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2017-01-24T19:29:08.023" LastActivityDate="2017-01-24T19:29:08.023" Title="Is the role of Colonel Race true to the novel?" Tags="|analysis|character|book-adaptation|death-on-the-nile|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16083" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16139" CreationDate="2013-12-22T22:32:29.803" Score="8" ViewCount="1304" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Can someone please help me identify this?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope to be able to provide sufficiently detailed information about this movie I'm looking for (I'm guessing it's a &lt;strong&gt;psychological drama&lt;/strong&gt;). I have been trying to find out what movie it was ever since. This is one of my last hopes of identifying it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Plot:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I've seen it on &lt;strong&gt;May, 2011&lt;/strong&gt; on TV, and it's about a &lt;strong&gt;man&lt;/strong&gt; (English or French, in his 30s) who started &lt;strong&gt;fist fighting&lt;/strong&gt; as a job (in some underground entertainment business, I think), in order to support his &lt;strong&gt;wife and daughter&lt;/strong&gt; (they were having it rough, living in a small apartment, having some basic needs met).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had a brother named &lt;strong&gt;Charlie&lt;/strong&gt; (unfortunately, this the only name I can remember ... I feel stupid for this), who always took the easiest options (and risky deals) in order to get money, drugs and sex. I think he might even be the one who recommended his brother for this job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fights were taking place in large, dark rooms, with low ceilings (and some pillars I suppose), which looked like the basement of a building. There was no ring, only a crowd of people surrounding the fight scene. (I am not sure about those details)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was discovered to be surprisingly good at this, which brought him money and reputation (even though he was feeling somewhat &lt;em&gt;guilty&lt;/em&gt; for beating up other people, leading to an &lt;em&gt;inner conflict&lt;/em&gt;). His last, biggest and most anticipated match was against a tall, mighty guy (which I think had some Hispanic traits), who was the current champion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He won the fight, leaving his opponent unconscious while the crowd picked him up in joy. He wondered whatever happened to that guy. He later found him hospitalized and &lt;strong&gt;blind&lt;/strong&gt;, for which he felt &lt;strong&gt;guilty&lt;/strong&gt; like never before. Also, he discovered that this was a very nice man (adding up to his guilt) and learned from him what the fights and tournaments were all about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His boss and his opponent's boss were two old, rich, grumpy, &lt;strong&gt;alienated brothers&lt;/strong&gt;, whose only satisfaction was to have his fighter defeat his brother's, in an occasional event that was held once every two years. The fights and tournaments were just his boss's way of selecting the best fighter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an attempt to set things straight, he confronts/attacks his boss (who was happy to finally win a battle against his brother in 8 years or so), stealing money from him. He gave some money to the blind guy and brought some for his wife who turned him down because &quot;&lt;em&gt;there's blood on that money&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the movie, his boss (and a hired killer) come after him to get his money back and threaten to kill him (and possibly his family as well) for the theft.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, a group of people from his small town (or village) led by his wife, stood by him to protect him, while she questioned his boss's morality in front of everybody, who now chickened out, knowing he was guilty of what she was saying. He retreated from this confrontation (taking his money back) but leaving the main character alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T20:01:48.673" LastActivityDate="2015-10-16T07:36:02.080" Title="Underground fist fighting, alienated brothers" Tags="|identify-this-movie|action|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:55:49.563" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16082" CreationDate="2013-12-23T08:23:50.587" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a look at this: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_on_the_Nile&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_on_the_Nile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;spoilers in the above link !&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agatha Christie quite often introduced characters who were 'friends' or 'helpers' to the main 'detective'. It looks like, in this case (if you read the book or article) that Race was probably introduced to reveal to Poirot a piece of the puzzle that he couldn't have plausibley found out in any other way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, films nearly always deviate from books anyway so whether the film character and book character match, you'd have to read the book then watch the film . . . &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6811" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T08:23:50.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16082" CreationDate="2013-12-23T08:32:28.730" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Colonel Race does appear in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_on_the_Nile&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Agatha Christie's novel&lt;/a&gt; of the same name &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurring_Characters_in_the_Hercule_Poirot_stories#Colonel_Race&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;as well as a few others&lt;/a&gt;. He does play the role of an assistant/associate much like Captain Hastings, although his run-ins with Poirot are more often incidental than not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the novels, Race is actually an MI5 agent. In this novel in particular, he's on the chase of a murderous spy who is supposedly travelling on the &lt;em&gt;Karnak&lt;/em&gt;, while a Mr. Fanthorp plays a lawyer keeping an eye on Andrew Pennington. In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_on_the_Nile_%281978_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ustinov film&lt;/a&gt;, Race is an amalgam of both his and Fanthorp's characters from the book. I suppose that this was done for simplicity and perhaps because the whole foreign spy angle was a little too fanciful even for 1978.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T08:32:28.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1272" CreationDate="2013-12-23T11:23:16.843" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://popcultureblog.dallasnews.com/2012/05/wes-anderson-will-reteam-with.html/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dallas Morning News&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“This is the first movie I’ve made that he hasn’t been directly involved with, although he was around as a friend,” says Anderson, above at Cannes, who became good buddies with Wilson at the University of Texas shortly before they made their first feature, Bottle Rocket. “We started out doing this stuff together in the first place. It’s a family dynamic.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The good news: Anderson’s current script in progress, a large ensemble piece, &lt;strong&gt;has a part for his old friend, and Wilson says he’s in.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.owenation.com/2012/06/05/owen-wilson-and-his-ghostly-involvement-with-moonrise-kingdom/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Owen Wilson fan site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“It’s not weird to not have him around because there is so much going on and we had such a strong group of people. But, at the same time, I love working with Owen. He had read the script and given me some advice about the script, along the way, and he saw various cuts of the movie, so I had his voice in the mix. This is the first movie I’ve ever made that he does not have a credit on, in one way or another, and often in more than one way. I don’t expect that’s likely to happen very many times.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.about.com/od/moonrisekingdom/a/Wes-Anderson-Moonrise-Kingdom.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;About.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On why Owen Wilson isn't in Moonrise Kingdom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wes Anderson: &amp;quot;It's always tricky for me. The part that Edward [Norton] plays, Owen could have played that part. I think it has some similarities to parts Owen's played in the past, and I've always wanted to work with Edward. But I do feel like Owen and I are so connected in our careers, it's almost tricky for me not to have him in the movie. I miss that. &lt;strong&gt;But Owen was a very valuable counsel for me. We read various versions of the script and saw the movie more than once while it was in progress, so I always feel like I've got his voice in the equation even when he's not directly involved.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while Anderson doesn't explicitly state why Owen Wilson didn't play a visible role in the development of the film, he does note that Wilson was involved in a more passive role as a friend. The about.com article also hints that Bruce Willis' involvement in the film might have come about through Owen Wilson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anderson's next movie (mentioned above) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278388/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;does feature his friend&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FWIW, I don't believe that the other Wilson brothers have been involved in any Wes Anderson project that isn't based on an Owen Wilson (involved) screenplay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T11:29:36.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14524" CreationDate="2013-12-23T11:35:32.783" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Nick visits Catherine Tremell he reads a page as it's being printed from her book. It describes his partner's death (Gus) while he (Nick) is running up the stairs to save him. This was written before Gus dies hence Catherine is the killer. Nick realises this while waiting in his car and hence the dash to room 405. No reason then for him to kill Beth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7283" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-07-20T07:09:21.690" LastActivityDate="2014-07-20T07:09:21.690" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16093" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-23T13:24:18.767" Score="4" ViewCount="25330" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Riddick&lt;/em&gt;, we get to see something of a &amp;quot;lust triangle&amp;quot; between Santana, Dahl, and Riddick. Now, Dahl, when in dialogue with Santana, states that she doesn't &amp;quot;fuck guys&amp;quot;. She is subsequently referred to as a &lt;em&gt;lesbo&lt;/em&gt;. Santana is shown pretty early on to be someone who likes (and abuses) his women. There are quite a few scenes that build on their relationship (or lack thereof).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how about Riddick? He pervs on Dahl when she's in the shower (a scene which does also serve the purpose of showing how Riddick got a hold of a mirror). Later when he is chained up inside the station, he states the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then when it's all over and the rest of you are ready for Dead Animal Pickup I'm gonna go balls deep into Dahl. But only because she asked me to. Sweet-like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there's this scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Riddick:&lt;/strong&gt; You grant any last wishes? I was referring to you [Dahl].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dahl:&lt;/strong&gt; Not that the chains aren't a hot look, but no. I'm not gonna straddle you in front of all these guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Riddick:&lt;/strong&gt; What if I killed all of 'em first?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dahl:&lt;/strong&gt; Easy, boy. There's a lot more tranq where that came from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Riddick:&lt;/strong&gt; Tell me what you see outside that window, Dahl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, in the climax where Dahl rescues Riddick, she is shown to be straddling him as they are lifted back into the ship. She then says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me ask you somethin', sweet-like...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;… and a little later on, Riddick tells Johns:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tell Dahl to keep it warm for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was our hero supposedly sex-starved after his time on the planet? Or was he simply trying to get under her skin? Considering the above dialogue, does that mean that Riddick had sex with Dahl and essentially &lt;em&gt;turned&lt;/em&gt; a lesbian?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(FWIW, I watched the &lt;em&gt;Director's Cut&lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-10-24T17:18:25.837" Title="What was the point of the interplay between Richard Riddick and Dahl in Riddick?" Tags="|analysis|riddick|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16093" CreationDate="2013-12-23T13:52:43.730" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always took Riddick as someone who understood that winning fights isn't always about physical strength, but mental fortitude as well. Him &quot;preying&quot; on Dahl wasn't so much that he was starved for sex, it was more of him asserting his dominance in the situation. Dahl basically liked to consider herself &quot;one of the guys&quot;, and Riddick sought to overcome this by making her out to be nothing more than another sexual object in the eyes of a brutish man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether they actually had sex or not isn't really relevant, all that really mattered was the mental game Riddick was playing with Dahl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T13:52:43.730" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12760" CreationDate="2013-12-23T14:38:09.920" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the ultimate story arc (revealed in the last episode: see the previous question) retrospectively explains some of Luther's behaviour as far as the story arc goes, it doesn't explain Luther's motivation at the time. The nature of the somewhat complicated relationship between Luther and Alice develops over the three series and isn't really sufficient to explain what happens in episode 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a more obvious and more direct explanation of Luther's behaviour which happens to be consistent with his character and style of police work. In short, he can't pursue Alice Morgan because she has him over a barrel. The critical evidence Luther would need to ensure a conviction is the gun Alice used to shoot her parents. She hides it in the body of the dead dog which is cremated. Luther retrieves the cremated bones containing the metal parts of the dog but does so in an illegal way which Alice can prove. So Luther can prove she did it but can't pursue a conviction (any attempt to use the evidence would put him in jail and would not be usable against alice). So, when Luther confronts Alice late in episode 1 he destroys the evidence by throwing the created remains into the Thames.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Luther has another motivation for this. He knows he can't take her to court, but he can hurt her pride in her perfect crime by removing her memento of the deed. He wants to undermine her arrogant pride in getting away with the crime and being admired for it. In the end Luther is happy knowing she is guilty and has destroyed her monument to her own cleverness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course it all gets even more complicated after episode 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T14:38:09.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16097" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-23T16:18:10.020" Score="8" ViewCount="466" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching Vin Diesel's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddick_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Riddick&lt;/a&gt; (2013) was a jarring experience in many ways not least because of the quality of the CGI used. It could be best described as having a mid-2000s videogame-y feel to it. Reading up on the film's production issues suggests that this dearth in quality was due to budgetary constraints. Riddick was completed within a budget of 38M. Its prequel, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Riddick&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chronicles of Riddick&lt;/a&gt; on the other hand used up ~120M of 2004's dollars and certainly looked more polished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'd like to know is, why the vast difference in quality? I can understand if the &lt;em&gt;amount&lt;/em&gt; (as in length of time) of scenes with effects was limited. But Riddick does incorporate a lot of it. Did Riddick perhaps use a cheaper effects house due to its budget? Or do CGI firms bill based on the amount of rendering time? Also, shouldn't technology have advanced in the last 9 years to make it easier to realise 2004's quality in 2013 on a smaller budget?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-24T11:19:29.883" LastActivityDate="2020-11-03T20:07:19.473" Title="What is the difference between USD 38M and USD 120M CGI?" Tags="|production|effects|riddick|the-chronicles-of-riddick|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16098" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-23T16:21:27.813" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Chronicles of Riddick is a 2004 American science fiction film which follows the adventures of Richard B. Riddick, as he attempts to elude capture after the events depicted in the 2000 film Pitch Black. It is written and directed by Pitch Black director David Twohy, with Vin Diesel reprising his role as Riddick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Riddick&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-23T16:21:27.813" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T16:21:27.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16099" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-23T16:21:27.813" Score="0" Body="2004 American science fiction film which follows the adventures of Richard B. Riddick, as he attempts to elude capture after the events depicted in the 2000 film Pitch Black." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-23T16:21:27.813" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T16:21:27.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12896" CreationDate="2013-12-23T16:47:29.410" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The makers of &lt;em&gt;Prison Break&lt;/em&gt; were probably inspired by &lt;em&gt;The Shawshank Redemption&lt;/em&gt;, but they're not the  same. Sure, they definitely have some aspects in common which could make the viewers (me included) feel that &lt;em&gt;Prison Break&lt;/em&gt; is a copy of the movie, but it really isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7289" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-12-23T18:03:25.207" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T18:03:25.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14508" CreationDate="2013-12-23T17:08:41.370" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe Amy is correct, and it relates to a scene that isn't in the movie.  We know that the nazis had the wrong length staff because they only had one side of the head piece.  Other posters have argued whether or not the nazis obtain the head piece from Marion without him...let's assume they do...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember where I heard this but there's a scene that's not in the movie.  The second side of the head piece contains more info than just the 'correct' staff length.  Also written on the back side are instructions not to look into the Ark...this is how Indy knows to 'KEEP YOUR EYES SHUT' when the Ark is opened.  Indy learns this when he and Sallah have the head piece translated...don't know why this was left out of the movie...bad dates, maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, without Indy, either a) they never find the ark because they don't get the head piece without him, or b) they obtain the ark with the complete head piece but aren't killed by it because they have the instructions not to look at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, Amy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7290" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-23T17:19:12.273" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T17:19:12.273" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15427" CreationDate="2013-12-23T19:47:59.993" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my understanding it's no plot inconsistency. At least it's explained in the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one of the earlier episodes, the Doctor hides the TARDIS by shifting it out of time by a second or so, which causes it to disappear. To me, it's time locked in some way. Could this be the same or a similar effect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't think the &lt;em&gt;Time Lock&lt;/em&gt; and Gallifrey being hidden (or returning according to Rassilon's plans) are the same in this instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During &lt;strong&gt;The Day of the Doctor&lt;/strong&gt; once all three Doctors arrive in the barn there's the following short conversation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WAR DOCTOR:&lt;/strong&gt; Go away now, all of you. This is for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DOCTOR 10:&lt;/strong&gt; These events should be time-locked. We shouldn't even be here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DOCTOR 11:&lt;/strong&gt; So something let us through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, this clearly refers to the &lt;em&gt;Time Lock&lt;/em&gt; existing already, so there's no way the &lt;em&gt;Time Lock&lt;/em&gt; being the effect all incarnations of the Doctor create at the end of the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some reason the Moment was powerful enough to &amp;quot;open&amp;quot; the &lt;em&gt;Time Lock&lt;/em&gt; for the TARDIS's to materialize (and for a fez, War Doctor, and War Doctor with a fez to travel there and back again as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode also seems to refer to the events from &lt;strong&gt;The End of Time&lt;/strong&gt;. In the first scene featuring some kind of war room on Gallifrey:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ANDROGAR:&lt;/strong&gt; The High Council is in emergency session. They have plans of their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GENERAL:&lt;/strong&gt; To hell with the High Council. Their plans have already failed. Gallifrey's still in the line of fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me the High Council's plans would be exactly the events we've seen during &lt;strong&gt;The End of Time&lt;/strong&gt;. They've failed (they obviously planned bringing back Gallifrey without the Daleks that were in orbit). While this could be some kind of general plan or strategy, I think this is indeed the attempt at bringing Gallifrey back. So this happened and it's not somehow lost in an alternate timeline that never happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even if you consider Rassilon referring to the effect the Doctor(s) created, it would still make sense. It's possible, the High Council didn't listen to the Doctor(s)' messages or didn't believe it would work. So they might not have known that the Daleks have been destroyed. I think there's even one scene showing the outskirts of a city with destroyed Dalek ships, although I'd have to watch the episode again first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a minor note: The only plot inconsistency that I'm aware of and that is valid I think, would be the whole &amp;quot;still the same sonic screwdriver&amp;quot; part. There were two or three instances during the new series where the Doctor had to replace his sonic screwdriver. I don't think he'd have been able to somehow transfer the software (e.g. once half the screwdriver being eaten by one of the flying sharks and the other half being kept by the young boy in his bed stand).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T19:47:59.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16097" CreationDate="2013-12-23T21:22:23.453" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As with many things in life, if you can spend more money on something, you can usually expect a higher caliber of quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The budget for Riddick was mainly comprised of funding that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddick_%28film%29#Development&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vin Diesel raised himself&lt;/a&gt;. He mortgaged his house, took out loans, and spent his own financial reserves for the film to even see the light of day. He was literally quoted as saying if they couldn't finish the film, he'd be homeless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The likely reason it was hard to come up with funding is because the previous film in the series, The Chronicles of Riddick, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Riddick#Box_office&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;was considered to be a financial flop&lt;/a&gt;. With a reported budget of between $105 million and $120 million (remember: those figures &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; include marketing and distribution costs), Chronicles only grossed around $115 million, and only $57 million of that was domestic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean it's quite simple really. You can't expect special effects on the level of, say, Avatar, when your budget isn't even 20% of Avatar's budget. In the case of Riddick, its budget was merely 32% of the total budget for the previous film. Less money to spend means you have to reign in on things like special effects and CGI. You can't afford the best, and you can't afford a large team of special effects and CGI artists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T21:22:23.453" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9238" CreationDate="2013-12-23T23:13:17.673" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're thinking of Goblins and Trolls. Orcs and Uruk-Hai are able to move in daylight. It's not just one breed either. The whole race is this way. Goblins and Trolls can't survive in daylight hence why they lived underground and rarely venture out into the rest of the world without good reason. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7296" LastActivityDate="2013-12-23T23:13:17.673" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16118" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-24T06:53:44.077" Score="11" ViewCount="3362" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Breaking Bad when Walter White brought that bag of Mercury(II) Fulminate to that drug dealer it was relatively a big amount of that substance but as it says on wikipedia &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it can even explode under water and is impossible to accumulate in large amounts because it detonates under its own weight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%28II%29_fulminate#Preparation&quot;&gt;Mercury Fulminate Preperation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it possible for that chemical not to explode due to its own weight and friction in bag ??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3932" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T17:22:33.933" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T09:53:11.180" Title="Loophole in Breaking Bad - Mercury fulminate scene" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16119" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16121" CreationDate="2013-12-24T07:32:44.903" Score="11" ViewCount="9826" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does Sam Quint smash the CB radio in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jaws&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Brody goes and tries to call for help on the CB radio, Sam walks over with a club and smashes it but the movie doesn't really do a good job in explaining his actions. Is it because of Sam's history with sharks on the USS Indianapolis, and he feels like calling for help would be the cheap way out? Does he think that since his friends didn't get to call for help so he shouldn't either?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-26T01:03:12.823" LastActivityDate="2016-09-07T23:50:15.287" Title="Why does Sam Quint smash the CB radio?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jaws|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16118" CreationDate="2013-12-24T08:19:25.507" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was covered on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3059064/&quot;&gt;Mythbusters in the Breaking Bad special&lt;/a&gt; - that scene was purely artistic license and it would not be;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;safe to carry that quantity of mercy fulminate&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;possible to create an explosion of that size without killing everybody in the room&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2013-12-24T08:19:25.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16119" CreationDate="2013-12-24T08:20:58.353" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that it is due to one of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He wants to focus those on board to the task at hand. If there's no hope of help then the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; thing they can do is kill the shark.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's basically a macho thing that says &lt;em&gt;'I don't need anyone's help'&lt;/em&gt;. After all Quint is a loner who basically doesn't ask for help and expects none.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whichever way, the story would not have been so good if the whole town had turned out to help !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6811" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-24T12:14:49.847" LastActivityDate="2013-12-24T12:14:49.847" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16122" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16681" CreationDate="2013-12-24T10:51:50.790" Score="3" ViewCount="714" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quatermass was a british rocket scientist in a pioneering series of early television science fiction on the BBC. There were originally three series (incidentally broadcast live to camera) with a forth added decades later by Thames Television. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series was successful enough that all the original series were remade as movies. But only one actor played Quatermass more than once. Why were there so many changes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Broadcast and release dates with the actor playing Quatermass (sequence might not be quite right and the movies names were different in the USA)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Quatermass Experiment (TV 1953) Reginald Tate&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quatermass 2 (TV 1955) John Robinson&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Quatermass Xperiment (movie 1955) Brian Donlevy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quatermass II (movie 1957) Brian Donlevy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quatermass and the Pit (TV 1958) Andre Morell&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quatermass and the Pit (movie 1967) Andrew Kier&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;For completeness (but less relevant due to the long delay before these were made):&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Quatermass Conclusion (TV series and shorter movie 1979) John&#xA;Mills&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Quatermass Experiment (TV remake broadcast live 2005) Jason&#xA;Flemyng&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2014-05-16T15:24:39.457" LastActivityDate="2019-01-07T18:02:45.773" Title="Why did so many different actors end up playing Quatermass?" Tags="|character|casting|quatermass|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16123" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-24T11:21:59.557" Score="4" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the somewhat far fetched and morally dubious thriller &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914863/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Unthinkable&lt;/a&gt;, a terrorist suspect who claims to have planted three nuclear bombs is tortured to force him to reveal the locations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the movie involves debates between Humphries (played by Samuel L Jackson) and others about how far they are prepared to go to force the terrorist to reveal where the bombs are. Humphries is prepared to do the unthinkable, others are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the movie the history of the terrorist is revealed and his original threat is known to be credible because the intelligence services know how much plutonium he was able to steal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Close to the end of the movie the terrorist appears to crack and reveals the location of three bombs. But Humphries wants to continue the interrogation by unthinkable means. He points out that the three bombs don't add up to all the stolen material so there must be a forth. Nobody else takes him seriously. Why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T20:03:07.147" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T06:57:43.237" Title="Why is the interrogator the only person to notice that not all the missing nuclear material has been found?" Tags="|plot-explanation|unthinkable|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16124" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16126" CreationDate="2013-12-24T12:34:28.223" Score="21" ViewCount="62104" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;The Girl in Red&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is a character talked about as much as the movie itself! However, I don't exactly understand the significance of the character itself and the usage of the color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pjvyzl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Girl in Red&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler&amp;#39;s_List#The_girl_in_red&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; mentions that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spielberg said the scene was intended to symbolise how members of the highest levels of government in the United States knew the Holocaust was occurring, yet did nothing to stop it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and also&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...the red symbolises &quot;innocence, hope or the red blood of the Jewish people being sacrificed in the horror of the Holocaust. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the usage of the color Red is justified by associating it with the &lt;em&gt;blood and suffering of the Jewish people&lt;/em&gt;. I am looking for interpretations of the character and the way it was portrayed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2013-12-31T05:27:35.130" LastActivityDate="2017-02-24T21:10:46.197" Title="What is the significance of &quot;The Girl in Red&quot; in Schindler's List?" Tags="|analysis|character|film-techniques|schindlers-list|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16133" CreationDate="2013-12-24T13:14:30.410" Score="11" ViewCount="896" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode, A scandal in Belgravia, the woman drugs Sherlock in her apartment. In the drugged condition, it was shown that Sherlock solved the death of the hiker. Now the solution in his dream was unfolded by a friendly discussion with the woman. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see Sherlock takes too much interest in the woman after recovering from the trauma. So what does the dream mean? Did Sherlock explain the mystery to the woman in the drugged condition? Or the woman whispered the explanation to Sherlock's ears when he was dizzy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2013-12-24T18:44:33.090" LastActivityDate="2013-12-24T18:44:33.090" Title="What is the significance of Sherlock's dream?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16124" CreationDate="2013-12-24T13:45:53.617" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a simple explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The highlighting if the child in red (in an otherwise monochrome movie) was designed to put one thread of horror for one identifiable character in the midst of mass slaughter which would otherwise just numb the audience. In purely dramatic terms this creates a sense of identification for the audience who now have a human scale story of the elimination of an obviously innocent life. This creates a point of empathy and connection for the audience which is far more powerful and emotionally impactful than the statistics of mass slaughter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the use of red also helps to highlight Schindler's recognition of the true depths of horror he has witnessed. We notice Schindler's recognition of the dead girl because of the red highlight when, with no highlight, we would miss his identification of the girl in a pile of undifferentiated corpses. As a result the audience follows a single poignant human story that enhances the emotional impact of the brutality of the slaughter and it understands Schindler's emotional and moral journey through a single human story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spielberg may well have intended other layers on top of this, but the core essential purpose was to have a better impact on the audience. Any other intentions would have been meaningless had he not achieved that goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2013-12-24T13:45:53.617" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16127" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16128" CreationDate="2013-12-24T13:47:46.773" Score="28" ViewCount="2631" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a scene at the ending of &quot;&lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings - Return of the King&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, where Frodo appers finishing writing a book called &quot;&lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;&quot;... in plain English! This kind of broke down my &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;suspension of disbelief&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see Elvish and Orc languages all over the trilogy. Are we actually supposed to expect the Hobbits to used a modern language at that time/universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(There's also at least one English written plaque in the &lt;em&gt;Desolation of Smaug&lt;/em&gt; introductory scene, naming the village where the action is taking place)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm ok with them all &quot;speaking English&quot; because I can just imagine the movie was &quot;dubbed into English&quot; from whatever language the characters have been actually using (just like I do with &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Amadeus&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;The Last Temptation of Christ&lt;/em&gt;, just to name a few). But seeing books with English felt like seeing a hobbit using a watch or holding a can of soda.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;p.s.: While I have not read the book, I did read &lt;em&gt;Silmarillion&lt;/em&gt;, that explains the origin of them all, and I can't manage to fit the West Germanic medieval language into their culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7302" LastEditorUserId="7302" LastEditDate="2016-09-08T15:46:17.083" LastActivityDate="2016-09-08T15:46:17.083" Title="How does Frodo write in English?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-return-of-the-king|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16127" CreationDate="2013-12-24T14:03:52.467" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not just particular to the movies, but also to the books. Tolkien intentionally chose to translate and transliterate &lt;em&gt;Westron&lt;/em&gt; to English. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Westron#Translation&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tolkien Gateway&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Tolkien's fiction, Westron was the language spoken and understood by the protagonists of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Many names of characters and places, in the book's &amp;quot;reality&amp;quot;, were in Westron.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However, Tolkien mentions that Westron was presented as having been completely replaced by English in the text.&lt;/strong&gt; This had certain important implications: first of all, proper names with derivations understandable or evident to speakers of Westron had been translated, to preserve the effect to the English reader. Thus, names like Baggins, Bagshot Row, Peregrin, Rivendell et cetera, are not the actual names as spoken by the characters but are presented as translations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, outside the fictional context of the story, it is clear that there was no such &amp;quot;translation&amp;quot;: the English names came first and the &amp;quot;original&amp;quot; forms in Westron or other languages were devised by Tolkien later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rivendell (&amp;quot;cloven valley&amp;quot;) was actually called Karningul, and Bag End was actually called Labin-nec, after Labingi, the real form of Baggins. In some cases the explanations became quite involved, such as the river Brandywine (Sindarin Baranduin, &amp;quot;golden-brown river&amp;quot;) was actually called Branda-nîn, a punning Westron name meaning &amp;quot;border-water&amp;quot;, which was later punned again as Bralda-hîm meaning &amp;quot;heady ale&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This logic went one step further by also presenting all Mannish languages akin to Westron in languages related to English, so that their &amp;quot;understandability&amp;quot; by the protagonists be simulated to the English reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This utter replacement of Westron by English was taken so far that some sources that should give actual Westron have been turned to English too.&lt;/strong&gt; For instance, in Moria, an illustration of the runic text on Balin's gravestone is given. The text is said to be written in both Khuzdûl and Westron. But while the first part of the inscription seems to really be a bit of Khuzdûl, the second part is actually plain English, just written in cirth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-12-24T14:03:52.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16129" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-24T15:13:58.300" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 epic fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. It is the third and concluding installment in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, following The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Two Towers (2002).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings%3a_The_Return_of_the_King&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-24T15:13:58.300" LastActivityDate="2013-12-24T15:13:58.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16130" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-24T15:13:58.300" Score="0" Body="2003 epic fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-24T15:13:58.300" LastActivityDate="2013-12-24T15:13:58.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16131" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19898" CreationDate="2013-12-24T17:06:13.737" Score="10" ViewCount="221" Body="&lt;p&gt;My father claims that Brazil was shown in theaters with uncomfortably high volume, and carried a disclaimer to that effect. I can find no claim of this online,  including in reviews from the original release of the film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do any movies include such a warning? I've heard that Terence Malick's work carries a similar disclaimer in home editions, but my father's claim was strictly about seeing Brazil in theaters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7306" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-24T17:22:24.943" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T19:12:21.713" Title="Did Brazil carry a disclaimer about its uncomfortably loud volume?" Tags="|sound-effects|brazil|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16132" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16175" CreationDate="2013-12-24T18:07:30.683" Score="3" ViewCount="1485" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have begun watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219024/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Castle&lt;/a&gt; (in rerun) and have a chuckle every time there is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303461/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_38&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Firefly&lt;/a&gt; reference made.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0277213/?ref_=tt_cl_t1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nathan Fillion&lt;/a&gt; always gives a little smirk/wink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 4, episode 16 - Setup&lt;/strong&gt;: &#xA;Martha asks Castle if he has heard about &quot;Serenity&quot; (a spa in the catskills)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 2 episode 6 - Vampire Weekend&lt;/strong&gt;: &#xA;Castle puts on his Halloween &quot;costume&quot;, a space cowboy, the same he wore in Firefly (&quot;like 5 years ago&quot;, as Alexis says - the entire dialog is hilarious).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What (if any) are some other episodes (season and number) with references to Firefly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3416" LastEditorUserId="3416" LastEditDate="2013-12-24T20:10:49.407" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T23:42:46.877" Title="Firefly references on Castle" Tags="|character|reference|firefly|castle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16125" CreationDate="2013-12-24T18:43:15.520" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as i remember it wasn't a dream. I believe it was a conversation they had when he was in that drugged condition which is why it was shown as being in a dream and I know it wasn't a dream because she returns Sherlock's coat with him along with her phone inside it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She also figures out that how Sherlock took one glance to figure out how that guy who died mysteriously when he was fishing earlier in that episode was in fact killed by his boomerang.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2013-12-24T18:43:15.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16138" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-24T21:58:21.720" Score="7" ViewCount="4045" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you help me identify a science fiction movie I saw as a kid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was about these scientists who go into underground caves and tunnels where they find these strange,  almost albino aliens living under the ground. I think that the aliens had something to do with the Aztecs or Mayans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's from either the late 70's or very early 80's. It may even be a TV movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7308" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T20:03:36.790" LastActivityDate="2016-06-21T19:24:24.703" Title="Scientists tunnel underground and find albino aliens living in caves" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:56:05.170" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16083" CreationDate="2013-12-24T22:08:32.740" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;That sounds like the film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099136/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Big Man&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Crossing the Line&lt;/em&gt; in the US), starring Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer and Billy Connolly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An unemployed Scottish miner (Liam Neeson) is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's set in Scotland. It's a pretty good film. The fighting scenes are quite brutal, plus there is a very brief post credits scene at the end that vaguely hints that it doesn't end happily after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7308" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-25T05:00:33.510" LastActivityDate="2013-12-25T05:00:33.510" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16140" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-25T02:39:38.293" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/strong&gt; is a series of four films based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games_trilogy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hunger Games trilogy&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Collins&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Suzanne Collins&lt;/a&gt;. This is also the title of the first of the series, The Hunger Games (2012):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katniss_Everdeen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Katniss Everdeen&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Lawrence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jennifer Lawrence&lt;/a&gt;) who voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to compete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag should be used for all questions which relate specifically to The Hunger Games (2012) or the franchise in general. For the sequel, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), see &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/catching-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;catching-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;catching-fire&lt;/a&gt;. The final chapter was split into two movies, Mockingjay Part 1 and Part 2. See &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/mockingjay-1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mockingjay-1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mockingjay-1&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/mockingjay-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mockingjay-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mockingjay-2&lt;/a&gt; for questions on those, respectfully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hunger Games (film series)&lt;/a&gt; on Wikipedia and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392170/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hunger Games (2012)&lt;/a&gt; on IMDb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T05:37:20.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T05:37:20.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16141" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-25T02:39:38.293" Score="0" Body="A series of four films based on The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. This is also the title of the first of the series, The Hunger Games (2012) about Katniss Everdeen who voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to compete. For questions about the individual sequels also include the respective tags." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T11:07:33.283" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T11:07:33.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16138" CreationDate="2013-12-25T05:34:42.247" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds like 1956's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049516/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Mole People&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five-millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopatamia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which can be seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVlcx49t1Hg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or as an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_1T0RBOg8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you saw it as an episode of MST3K in the 90's and remember the time-frame from that. (That's when I first saw it.) Also, it does contain an &lt;em&gt;albino race&lt;/em&gt; not mentioned in the title or brief IMDb summary. The albino race was &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; light sensitive that one of the explorer's flashlight actually hurt them when pointed their way. The explorers with their different skin and flashlight were thought to be gods for part of the movie. There was also an indiginent beautiful servant woman who was not pale, like the rest, and considered a freak to the society. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2013-12-27T00:22:27.217" LastActivityDate="2013-12-27T00:22:27.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16145" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-25T19:08:02.367" Score="7" ViewCount="68624" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a festive one for all you guys and girls!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During &lt;em&gt;The Santa Clause&lt;/em&gt;, Scott and Charlie eventually land at the north pole and are greeted by an elf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lEaTy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They watch as the elf raises 'the North Pole' from the ground, and a keypad flips out of the side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A close up then reveals, quite deliberately, the elf typing the code &lt;strong&gt;1239&lt;/strong&gt; into the keypad, which activates the elevator, lowering the sleigh into Santa's secret hideout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What is the significance of these numbers?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's unlikely they would use such a lingering shot without purpose, but the numbers don't appear to have any significance to the rest of the film, as far as I'm aware...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a Christmas reference of some kind? or is there some other significance to these numbers in connection with Santa that I'm unaware of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any of Santa's little helpers out there that know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2021-12-25T15:38:04.467" Title="Significance of number 1239 in The Santa Clause" Tags="|analysis|the-santa-clause|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16138" CreationDate="2013-12-25T21:42:47.510" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its not &lt;a href=&quot;http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0054387/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Time Machine&lt;/a&gt; is it? The war era scientist travels forward in time to a place where most of the population have moved underground, thus becoming almost albino savages (morlocks) who conditioned the rest of the people (their food) to head underground at the sound of an air raid siren. It was made in the 60's or 70's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7298" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-06-21T19:24:24.703" LastActivityDate="2016-06-21T19:24:24.703" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16150" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-26T03:54:11.890" Score="12" ViewCount="26249" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Gandalf &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK-lDXRjS3w&quot;&gt;says the Black Speech&lt;/a&gt; from the ring during the secret meeting in Rivendell, someone else is also speaking. Who is that? Is it the ring, or Gandalf? There is distinctly another, deeper, possibly evil voice that is echoing him. What is that? Is it Sauron?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5297" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-26T10:26:57.493" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T23:28:43.747" Title="Who is speaking when Gandalf uses the Black Speech?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-fellowship-of-the-ring|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16150" CreationDate="2013-12-26T04:35:38.830" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure it is the 'voice of the ring', therefore Sauron's voice, as the one ring was forged by him, with his own spirit infused in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7298" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T04:35:38.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16156" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-26T10:21:36.177" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-26T10:21:36.177" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T10:21:36.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16157" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-26T10:21:36.177" Score="0" Body="Genre where the plot revolves around love." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-26T10:21:36.177" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T10:21:36.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16161" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16174" CreationDate="2013-12-26T16:45:27.397" Score="4" ViewCount="947" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.criterion.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Criterion Collection&lt;/a&gt; is renowned for the quality of its releases, restoration work, and for highlighting art-house classics from the past. However I'm curious to know why it also releases films made in the last decade or so and as a corollary, what benefits new films derive from a Criterion release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.criterion.com/library/expanded_view?f=1&amp;amp;s=release_date&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Upcoming releases include&lt;/a&gt; titles such as &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Mr. Fox&lt;/em&gt; (2009) and the controversial &lt;em&gt;Blue is the Warmest Colour&lt;/em&gt; (2013). Criterion recently released &lt;em&gt;Frances Ha&lt;/em&gt; (2013). While two of these examples are perhaps niche in terms of audience, &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Mr. Fox&lt;/em&gt; is a mainstream movie which has already seen a well received Blu-ray release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why would Criterion want to release a movie like &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Mr. Fox&lt;/em&gt; to its collection? Why would 20th Century Fox want Criterion to release &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Mr. Fox&lt;/em&gt; even though it has a BR release of its own? Is it simply a matter of prestige and a badge of honour, or perhaps about catering to a different audience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T10:41:42.073" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T10:41:42.073" Title="What advantages do Criterion releases provide new films?" Tags="|distribution|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16162" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19445" CreationDate="2013-12-26T16:47:26.110" Score="5" ViewCount="31926" Body="&lt;p&gt;In numerous early episodes of Sons of Anarchy, Gemma Teller is shown to own a cockatoo (an umbrella, IIRC).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In at least one episode (in either season 4 or 5), the same cage is suddenly occupied by a cockatiel. The cockatoo is never seen again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of season 6, the cage is now occupied by a crow. There are no signs of either the cockatoo or the cockatiel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thematically, one could argue that the species and color change tracks Gemma's progression (white -&gt; gray -&gt; black). But is there any official explanation to the the change in birds? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1046" LastActivityDate="2024-03-16T02:39:32.697" Title="Why does the species of Gemma's bird change?" Tags="|sons-of-anarchy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16163" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16167" CreationDate="2013-12-26T17:15:15.293" Score="4" ViewCount="7866" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Mr. Fox's fight with Rat, we have the following scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mr. Fox&lt;/strong&gt;: All these wasted years, what were you &lt;strong&gt;looking for&lt;/strong&gt;, Rat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rat&lt;/strong&gt;: Sssss …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ash&lt;/strong&gt;: He's trying to say something, Dad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rat&lt;/strong&gt;: Cider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mr. Fox&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(scooping up a handful of a thick, dark, syrup)&lt;/em&gt;: Here you are, Rat. A beaker of Bean's finest secret cider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rat&lt;/strong&gt;: Like melted gold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this scene mean? Wasn't Rat already guarding Bean's secret cider cellar? When Mr. Fox first robs Bean, we see Rat drinking from a beaker of cider. So, what gives? Was that not the secret stuff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2021-10-21T22:53:47.213" Title="What was Rat looking for in Fantastic Mr. Fox? Cider?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fantastic-mr-fox|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16164" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-26T17:33:40.917" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fantastic Mr. Fox is a 2009 American stop-motion animated comedy film based on the Roald Dahl children's novel of the same name. This story is about a fox who steals food each night from three mean and wealthy farmers. The farmers are fed up with Mr Fox's theft and try to kill him, so they dig their way into the foxes' home. However, the animals are able to outwit the farmers and live underground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Produced by Indian Paintbrush and Regency Enterprises, and released in the autumn of 2009, the film features the voices of George Clooney and Meryl Streep. For director Wes Anderson, it was his first animated film and first film adaptation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Mr._Fox_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-26T17:33:40.917" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T17:33:40.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16165" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-26T17:33:40.917" Score="0" Body="2009 American stop-motion animated comedy film based on the Roald Dahl children's novel of the same name. The film features the voices of George Clooney and Meryl Streep and is directed by Wes Anderson." OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-26T17:33:40.917" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T17:33:40.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16166" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-26T17:36:57.513" Score="4" ViewCount="921" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Mr._Fox_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Fantastic Mr. Fox&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film mixes several forms of animation but consists primarily of stop motion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides stop motion, Which other forms of animation did the film use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3650" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-29T18:11:40.990" LastActivityDate="2013-12-29T18:11:40.990" Title="Which are the &quot;several forms of animation&quot; used by Wes Anderson in Fantastic Mr. Fox?" Tags="|film-techniques|animation|fantastic-mr-fox|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16163" CreationDate="2013-12-26T17:52:07.523" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion this scene was part drama and part parody of overly dramatic evil character death scenes in movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene implies that everything that Rat does was motivated by his love of cider, so we can safely assume that he was being &lt;em&gt;paid&lt;/em&gt; in cider for guarding the cellar. It's not that the cider was something he couldn't get a hold of, it was something that he couldn't get &lt;em&gt;enough&lt;/em&gt; of. As he lay dying, all Rat could think of was getting one last sip of cider. A saddened Mr. Fox gives him a sip of muddy water instead since no cider was handy, and the dying Rat was in no position to notice and his imagination took over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T17:52:07.523" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14812" CreationDate="2013-12-26T17:56:20.750" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Self defense is legal as far as I know. He tried to harm her and she merely defended herself by stabbing him too. so my answer is yes I think so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7323" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T17:56:20.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10716" CreationDate="2013-12-26T18:10:07.263" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &lt;em&gt;The Time of the Doctor&lt;/em&gt;, it's confirmed that this did count as a regeneration.  Between this regeneration, and the recently-revealed (&lt;em&gt;Day of the Doctor&lt;/em&gt;) 'War Doctor' regeneration, Matt Smith, who we previously called the 11th Doctor, was in fact the 13th regeneration of that character.  The math works out that the original Doctor was his original face, so the 2nd Doctor is the 1st regeneration.  This then means that the 13th Doctor is his 12th and final natural regeneration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, just as they did for The Master, the Time Lords granted The Doctor a fresh set of regenerations (&lt;em&gt;The Time of the Doctor&lt;/em&gt;).  So as the '11th' regenerates, he turns into Peter Capaldi, the first of a new set of 12 regenerations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2013-12-27T00:23:28.460" LastActivityDate="2013-12-27T00:23:28.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16138" CreationDate="2013-12-26T19:04:20.970" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088392/&quot;&gt;What Waits below&lt;/a&gt; with Robert Powell:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The U.S. government has been using &lt;strong&gt;deep caves in Central America&lt;/strong&gt; as bases for a special type of radio transmitter used for communicating with submaries. When the signal from one of these transmitters suddenly disappears, a team of soldiers and &lt;strong&gt;cave specialists&lt;/strong&gt; is sent in to find out what happened. After some exploring deep underground, they stumble upon a &lt;strong&gt;tribe of albino cave dwellers&lt;/strong&gt; who have been isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7325" LastEditorUserId="3650" LastEditDate="2013-12-26T19:07:10.383" LastActivityDate="2013-12-26T19:07:10.383" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16172" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-26T21:00:37.530" Score="3" ViewCount="735" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw the second Hobbit film and some issues that I thought were present in the first Hobbit film really came through. The first issue was that nearly all hard diagonal lines, such as those on letters and designs, were heavily aliased. It was almost as if I was watching an old video game or VGA display. This issue wasn't very noticeable except during the titles and credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other issue was that vertical lines showed a red &quot;halo&quot; on one side and a green one on the other. This was noticeable throughout the film and especially prominent on architecture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these &quot;features&quot; of digital film, or the special high frame rate at which The Hobbit was filmed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7326" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-27T23:38:16.510" LastActivityDate="2015-01-06T19:18:32.793" Title="Why do digital movies show aliasing and red/green chromatic aberration?" Tags="|the-hobbit|film-industry|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-06-12T15:42:52.857" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16161" CreationDate="2013-12-26T23:41:29.590" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The people who pick which films to release on Criterion &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; seem like fans of the director, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027572/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wes Anderson&lt;/a&gt;, having released &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of his previous features (except his newest, Moonrise Kingdom, and The Grand Budapest Hotel which has not been released theatrically yet). &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.criterion.com/films/594-bottle-rocket&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bottle Rocket&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.criterion.com/films/333-rushmore&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rushmore&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.criterion.com/films/230-the-royal-tenenbaums&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Royal Tenenbaums&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.criterion.com/films/741-the-life-aquatic-with-steve-zissou&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.criterion.com/films/27520-the-darjeeling-limited&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Darjeeling Limited&lt;/a&gt; are all &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.criterion.com/explore/169-wes-anderson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Criterion releases&lt;/a&gt;. It therefore does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; seem out of place to include &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.criterion.com/films/28565-fantastic-mr-fox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Fantastic Mr. Fox&lt;/a&gt;, nor would it be surprising to see his newer works incorporated into the Criterion Collection. There is an established history between the director and the company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.criterion.com/help&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What is the Criterion Collection?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Criterion Collection is a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films on home video. Our editions often feature restored film transfers, commentary tracks, and other supplemental features that the company pioneered when it released its first laserdiscs, Citizen Kane and King Kong, at the end of 1984. Ever since, Criterion has been working closely with filmmakers and scholars to ensure that each film is presented as its maker would want it seen and published in an edition that will deepen the viewer’s understanding and appreciation of the art of cinema.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. How does Criterion decide which films receive the “Criterion treatment”?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We aim to reflect the breadth of filmed expression. We try not to be restrictive or snobby about what kinds of films are appropriate. An auteur classic, a Hollywood blockbuster or an independent B horror film has to be taken on its own terms. All we ask is that each film in the collection be an exemplary film of its kind. Of course we can’t just pick movies and put them out. The process of getting the rights to release a film can take years. Even if we want a film, we can’t work on it unless the film’s owners grant us the rights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. How does Criterion decide which special features to include? And who contributes to them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Each film release has a producer who oversees the entire process, from restoration to supplemental features to packaging. The producer researches available materials, conceives of original supplements, and decides which features truly add value to the appreciation of the film. We are fortunate to work with many great film directors, cinematographers, actors, scholars, and critics. We do not let market factors or an arbitrary quantity of supplements determine our decision for inclusion; rather it is on a case-by-case basis, serving the purpose of enhancing the viewer’s experience of that particular film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Criterion releases a DVD or Bluray they do a new transfer (usually overseen by the director and/or cinematographer), offer new features (often a commentary track), and it's meant as a release for longevity; providing cinephiles and enthusiasts the best possible copy available. Studios can license a limited release (x amount of copies, or x amount of time) with rights reverting back to them afterwards. They make money from the first wave and then from letting someone else do the heavy lifting. In order to meet the best &lt;em&gt;sell-through release date&lt;/em&gt;, the initial studio release may be light on features due to not having access to actors or filmmakers (who may have commitments for others movies and may be &quot;on location&quot;) to do featurettes, interviews or commentary, which is not a concern when the company (Criterion) is able to take its time to ensure the best release they feel they can create.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, this licensing is one of the reasons Criterion titles go out of print. &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B0000844JJ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Time Bandits&lt;/a&gt; is a good example. Criterion only had a license that ran out in the early 2000's. Afterwards, Handmade Films sold the license to Anchor Bay who have subsequently released their own 2-disc set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To elaborate on this specific title, &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B001QOGYBI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Fantastic Mr. Fox&lt;/a&gt;, the original release had &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From Script to Screen,&#xA;     Still Life (Puppet Animation),&#xA;     A Beginner's Guide to Whack-Bat,&#xA;     and Theatrical Trailer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;listed as the only features, while the Criterion release boasts &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;New digital master, approved by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray. Audio commentary featuring Anderson. Storyboard animatics for the entire film. Footage of the actors voicing their characters, puppet construction, stop-motion setups, and the recording of the score. Interviews with cast and crew. Puppet animation tests. Photo gallery of puppets, props, and sets. Animated awards acceptance speeches. Audio recording of author Roald Dahl reading the book on which the film is based. Gallery of Dahl's original manuscripts. Discussion and analysis of the film. Stop-motion Sony robot commercial by Anderson. One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats. PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay; a 2002 article on Dahl's Gipsy House by Anderson; White Cape, a comic book used as a prop in the film; and drawings, original paintings, and other ephemera. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2013-12-27T06:06:44.547" LastActivityDate="2013-12-27T06:06:44.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16132" CreationDate="2013-12-27T00:27:17.490" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFj8eFZx-TA&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's a &lt;strong&gt;bunch&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yes&lt;/em&gt;, it's a short answer, but this is probably what the OP was after. It's not complete but it's certainly fun. I did not transcribe the link because it's been around over two years and I don't anticipate it being gone anytime soon. If anything, I hope it's updated. &lt;em&gt;Also because &lt;strong&gt;I haven't watched Castle&lt;/strong&gt; and do not care to research where every quote came from during its run thus far.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;...didn't you wear that like, &lt;strong&gt;five years ago&lt;/strong&gt;?&quot; is by far my favorite, with the Chinese bit after it from &quot;a TV show I used to love&quot; being a close second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7TIjFpq_-E&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This&lt;/strong&gt; clip&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;em&gt;similar&lt;/em&gt;, but has the Firefly instances to compare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Undeleted post to make answer per @WayneWeibel's request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T23:42:46.877" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T23:42:46.877" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16176" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16179" CreationDate="2013-12-27T00:30:29.550" Score="7" ViewCount="21980" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did the 'smoke in the face' incident lead to Danny getting shot? Is this really grounds to kill someone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5392" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T17:45:22.300" LastActivityDate="2017-06-24T02:07:24.447" Title="Why did Danny get shot at the end of American History X?" Tags="|american-history-x|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2013" CreationDate="2013-12-27T00:44:46.820" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In fact, from what I have seen, that blinking effect comes from the globe that shows up between the map shots at the scene. It keeps spinning during the whole opening, and its rings move making that blinking sound. In the internet, they call it the Astrolabe (had to link because the image is too big):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/F5fgq.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones Astrolabe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to not have importance at all, but if you look closely and pause at certain parts, its design shows the animals of the families they represent (such as the dragon of Targaryen, the lion of Lannister, the stag of Baratheon and the wolf of Stark).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The picture below is a close-up of the astrolabe and it seems to hint at Robert's Rebellion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AFINW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of the dragon (Aerys Targaryen) is being attacked from both sides by the wolf (Eddard Stark) and the stag (Robert Baratheon), and surprisingly being also held up from behind by the lion (Jaime Lannister, who betrays and kills him).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look on the internet, more shots like this can be seen throughout the opening, with a few more hints of the show's backstory. Everything seems to have a meaning on this, it is pretty amazing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7285" LastActivityDate="2013-12-27T00:44:46.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16176" CreationDate="2013-12-27T01:13:16.410" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blowing smoke into someone's face is an insult. It means you do not respect them, nor their space (which can mean territory). Consider the deaths of people who inadvertently wore the wrong color(s) in a gang territory.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some gang-member's minds, it does not take much to warrant injuring or even killing someone. Protecting &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; integrity and the integrity of &lt;em&gt;any others&lt;/em&gt; you represent is the definition of being a &lt;strong&gt;member&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2017-06-21T10:30:00.663" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T10:30:00.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16181" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16182" CreationDate="2013-12-27T02:02:22.867" Score="12" ViewCount="8094" Body="&lt;p&gt;How is the scene of two people talking on a phone shot in a film or TV series? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, if person A has to call person B, the scene can be taken in either of two ways. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ask person A to act like person B is on the line and speak all their dialogue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have two cameras rolling simultaneously so that both person A and person B can talk as if a real conversation, which can be later edited.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6531" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2013-12-27T06:22:57.473" LastActivityDate="2013-12-27T06:22:57.473" Title="How do they film phone conversations?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16181" CreationDate="2013-12-27T02:33:14.650" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's often done filming one person first, using an AD (Assistant Director) or someone else on set to quietly do the reverse dialogue to what's being filmed. Then they use the practical (the first actor's voice) dialogue to shoot the counterpart. &lt;em&gt;Sometimes&lt;/em&gt; the other actor will be on set to do a more &lt;em&gt;natural&lt;/em&gt; dialogue, but this is not an industry standard. It's more rare that both actors are shot at the same time during a phone conversation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These scenes are usually heavily scripted and timed and are not open to much improvisation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastActivityDate="2013-12-27T02:33:14.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14538" CreationDate="2013-12-27T10:07:27.213" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several scenes before Rosemary's impregnation that allude to Guy's reasons to join the cult. When him and Rosemary are being showed the apartment, the landlord asks Guy if he is a doctor. He lies, saying yes, when in reality he is a struggling actor. &lt;em&gt;He was Luther and played a small role in Nobody Loves an Albatross&lt;/em&gt; This means that he's a liar, and a mediocre one at that. His role as an Albatross also echos his impending betrayal (albatross' represent burdens and obstacles). &#xA;&lt;br&gt;It is clear throughout the first weeks in the apartment that Guy is a self-centered, uber-macho, 60s man, its his role just as his frail wife Rosemary is a home-bodied simpleton (who just happens to read all the time). Guy is mainly interested in material wealth, he's only interested in Roman once he learns of his connections in the theater. &lt;em&gt;Did you know that he knew Forbes-Robertson!?&lt;/em&gt; He often adorns Rosemary in cheesy impersonal gifts, such as cliched roses and clothes. When the couple leave the interview, Rosemary begs Guy to buy it for her, like a child. There are several other scenes involving currency and father-like control: Rosemary bets a quarter that she's pregnant, her &quot;three gold stars&quot;, the arguement over the pricing of her doctors, and his constant preoccupation with fame.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;Wealth in Guy's eyes means control, since he appears wealthy to Rosemary he has control over her. In truth, and to be short, he betrays Rosemary because he believed that she would adhere to her own gender role and be seduced by material wealth and fame. Rosemary has shown signs of that, she marries a man who is much older than her (financially secure?), she has no job of her own, and she reads magazines about high fashion and furniture (&lt;em&gt;I saw it in a magazine&lt;/em&gt;) Its through this that Guy assumes that she would be fine with arrangement made with the cult.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6955" LastActivityDate="2013-12-27T10:07:27.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8318" CreationDate="2013-12-27T18:20:40.160" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is in response to Mathew Foscarini who suggested that Cross was unaware of what the pills did until Dr. Marta explained their use. When Cross 1st entered the cabin and explained what his prescription was, he referred to the pills as &quot;phys. meds 250 green, cognitive programs 400 blue.&quot; I subscribe to the theory that he crossed the mountains in the fastest way possible because he was aware that he had 2 days remaining so it was important to shave those days off the trip and secure a new supply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7339" LastActivityDate="2013-12-27T18:20:40.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12653" CreationDate="2013-12-27T23:50:22.123" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think also it's a reference to a dialogue happened before, when Crystal (the mother) told Julian that &quot;they&quot; asked her to abort. So it's like he's trying to do the job she refused in the past, because he hates himself, failed in his purposes and disappointed his mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7341" LastActivityDate="2013-12-27T23:50:22.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16195" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16207" CreationDate="2013-12-28T00:58:21.670" Score="11" ViewCount="26728" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Danny Boyle movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1924429/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trance&lt;/a&gt; is riddled with false memory and flashbacks. Enough to leave it unclear, even at the end, who first decided to steal the painting at the heart of the theft that kicks off the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every version, even the one I think the movie wants us to believe, seems to have holes depending on how you read the various scenes as reality, flashback or false memory. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a coherent theory of who did it and how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T14:31:35.853" LastActivityDate="2018-09-24T04:19:48.950" Title="Who was the ultimate originator of the conspiracy to steal the painting in Trance?" Tags="|plot-explanation|trance|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16202" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-28T06:19:25.313" Score="5" ViewCount="1651" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a Film series which had 5-6 parts where: a blond high school kid meets up with a white haired scientist and are being chased by a black guy who uses a exo-suit into different dimensions or time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The white haired scientist pretends to be the friend of the highschool kid until near the end where its discovered that the man in the exosuit is the good guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the title of the series had the main characters name which i sadly have forgotten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas or suggestions of the series would be appreciated&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7348" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-21T22:41:16.620" LastActivityDate="2016-09-15T05:54:28.247" Title="Looking for the name of a children's Sci-fi film series in the late 90s to early 2000s" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:55:30.300" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14253" CreationDate="2013-12-28T08:39:48.687" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it symbolizes anything, it symbolizes the storm that is coming for Heisenberg, the one they sing about in the song (&quot;he doesn't know it yet, but he's already dead&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7349" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T13:26:02.203" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T13:26:02.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16204" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16216" CreationDate="2013-12-28T08:47:56.503" Score="4" ViewCount="361" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;strong&gt;Time of the Doctor&lt;/strong&gt; context, did she do that by holding on to the outer edge of the &lt;em&gt;TARDIS&lt;/em&gt; and travel through time and space that way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6907" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-12-30T15:10:48.103" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T15:10:48.103" Title="How did Clara get back to Trenzalore the first time?" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16204" CreationDate="2013-12-28T11:15:43.693" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yeap. Well, that's what the Doctor said and what we obviously saw.... Didn't this kill Captain Jack Harkness though when he did it before? The 50th and Christmas special episode destroyed a lot of important things in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7335" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T11:15:43.693" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16166" CreationDate="2013-12-28T11:21:50.643" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to IMDB, the film's full cast and crew included several digital compositors. From the descriptions, most of the CGI was used for Lip Syncing the dialogue with the stop motion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7339" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T11:21:50.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16195" CreationDate="2013-12-28T11:27:26.153" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel the movie makes it clear that Elizabeth is the progenitor of the heists target painting, and through her manipulation of Simon, coerced him into approaching Franck with the inside information required to pull off the heist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elizabeth hypnotizes Simon to 'Steal Something' for her, something of great value. Knowing that Simon is an art dealer, that he has access to the Goya that is loaded with significance for the couple (and that he is &lt;em&gt;potentially&lt;/em&gt; psychotic and has latent violent attributes) she perhaps didn't doubt that he possessed the aptitude to attempt a theft: perhaps the Goya was the most obvious target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it necessarily mattered whether she believed Simon would pull of the heist or not, the aim was to place him in some kind of situation that would remove him from her life. If Simon failed, he would be imprisoned or killed. If he succeeded he would be living in the criminal world, or on the run. Any scenario creates distance between him and her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Remember!&lt;/strong&gt; Elizabeth doesn't want to take possession of the painting, she only wants Simon out of her life forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why she is so surprised when he shows up in her office. Her actions have resulted in a very specific scenario, perhaps the only possible scenario, that led Simon directly back to her office. The turn of events isn't about destiny, its about the subconscious: the mind wants what the mind wants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outside of universe, the Goya is only sought for its monetary value: the fact it is so meaningful to the former couple is a nice narrative addition, but is ultimately inconsequential other than as &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; control mechanism for Elizabeth to punish Simon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, she is perhaps the best fit as to who is the movie's true 'mastermind' because she inhabits the role of that old movie trope: the unreliable narrator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The films climax reveals that she is in possession of almost all the facts from the outset, or certainly more than anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is only when Simon's memory returns that she learns more information, which would identify the Goya. She has played Simon through hypnosis, and the rest of the gang through persuasion and feigned ignorance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene's closing moments, when she demonstrates her almost supernatural powers of hypnosis over Franck (by presenting him with the option of being brainwashed to 'forget' all the hurtful memories), compounds the fact that she is in &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; total control of the situation throughout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't see this as being unclear to be honest, but perhaps I've missed some plot holes that draw discrepancies to my interpretation of the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are unsatisfied with my answer, could you explain some of the plot holes you mention; either in your question or the comments beneath my answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T11:45:56.630" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T11:45:56.630" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16208" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-28T11:30:41.980" Score="2" ViewCount="3185" Body="&lt;p&gt;The brilliant modern animated movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286244/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Triplets of Belleville&lt;/a&gt; (also known as Belleville Rendez-Vous) is both moving as a story and has beautifully stylistic animation. The images are clearly meant to look like a standard hand-drawn animation but some scenes seem to contain vivid images that look impossible to achieve easily with manually hand drawn cells.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how was the vivid imagery achieved? What animation techniques were used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2013-12-28T14:21:22.377" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T19:56:40.783" Title="What techniques were used for the animation in The Triplets of Belleville?" Tags="|film-techniques|animation|triplets-of-belleville|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16209" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-28T11:47:14.610" Score="8" ViewCount="7865" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the underrated Polanski movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142688/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Ninth Gate&lt;/a&gt;, Jonny Depp plays Corso, a dodgy antique book dealer, who is hired by Balkan, a rich collector, to verify the authenticity of a rare dark book, &lt;em&gt;The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the course of his quest, Corso is impeded by Tefler, the wife of the book's original owner, who wants to retrieve it to perform some satanic rites. During the quest, there are many acts of violence and murder, but Liana Tefler's team doesn't seem capable of committing them all, nor do they have the opportunity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, who commits the killings and what is their purpose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2014-04-01T15:59:48.177" LastActivityDate="2020-10-29T17:49:17.840" Title="Who commits the murders in The Ninth Gate?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-ninth-gate|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15758" CreationDate="2013-12-28T18:28:19.047" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not what they said that matters but the simple fact that they talked as if they knew each other well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mystery throughout the movie is who is doing the surveillance and why? How did they get access to family things a stranger would not know? What is the motive? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When trying to unravel the mystery, Georges visits Majid but initially doesn't even recognise him. There has been no obvious connection between the families since Majid was a child and it becomes obvious that Majid is not the perpetrator of the surveillance tapes (I won't reveal how).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pierrot is Georges' somewhat disaffected teenage son but is too young to have known of the events relating to Majid. There is no obvious connection left to explain the mystery tapes. &lt;em&gt;Until we see the conversation.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the ending is possibly ambiguous enough to leave the mystery open, the connection between Pierrot and Majid's son is clearly meant to be significant and explaining the mystery seems like the intended effect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T18:28:19.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16047" CreationDate="2013-12-28T18:51:28.253" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best explanation is the first one. Walt still doesn't want to admit that he constitutes a danger to the family (including his bother in law Hank). And he surely doesn't want to scare Skyler. Much as Walt might want to let Skyler know he did something to protect the family, he can't do this without revealing the depths to which he has already gone and the danger he has exposed them to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way the second,  more convoluted explanation could be true would be if Skyler already knew all the details of Walt's activities and thought him capable of machiavellian levels of manipulation. I don't think she achieves that until sometime in season 4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-12-30T15:40:30.333" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T15:40:30.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16204" CreationDate="2013-12-28T19:19:50.017" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, Clara hung onto the key and outside of the TARDIS. The TARDIS extended a field, I recall the Doctor saying, to protect her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The TARDIS, did not want Jack Harkness to hang on to it, it tried to throw him off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7325" LastActivityDate="2013-12-28T19:19:50.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9807" CreationDate="2013-12-28T20:57:15.627" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dillon dies on the eve of Obama taking over, so isn't it obvious that Dillon represented Bush? Pitt, then, would be Obama. Gandolfini seemed like a Wall Street firm, drunk and out of its mind, not taking orders from anyone. AIG, perhaps. Liotta was definitely Lehman Brothers, that much is for sure. I think the driver dude (who hated cigs) was supposed to be like an upper-level manager working for the corporate CEOs, who, like in real life, we never see but call all the shots just the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed that more than a couple people think Liotta's Trattman was supposed to be Bush, but I couldn't disagree more. Bush did not &quot;pay the piper&quot; like Trattman, not at all. He was already a media punching bag when the crises occured, and the only price Bush paid (for excessively promoting home ownership and looking the other way while millions of poor people were given unrealistic loans and kept looking the other way as those loans were traded between mortgage companies as &quot;at face-value&quot; capital) was further vilification by the press. I'm not saying he should have been held accountable, BTW. The fault lies at the feet of Wall Street, just like most everything else that's wrong with America. (IMHO, obviously.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope more people write what they think about this movie, because three is too few interpretations to really get a feel of what normal people are thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7356" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-13T01:23:36.590" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T01:23:36.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16222" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16223" CreationDate="2013-12-29T01:11:02.000" Score="28" ViewCount="28074" Body="&lt;p&gt;In some closing credits, one (*) actor is listed with the name of her/his character in addition, in the form: &lt;code&gt;[Actor name] as [Character name]&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always thought this is the case for actors playing characters that are disguised (e.g., in monster costumes), or for actors that only gave their motion capture/voice (e.g., for digitally created characters).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example (not the best example, as it contains a &quot;Featuring&quot; in addition), in &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King&lt;/em&gt; (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZagR90a8j2g&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt;, at 3:31):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Featuring&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Andy Serkis&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  as Gollum  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ah, &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&lt;/em&gt; contains it without &quot;Featuring&quot; (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HraSGiF88Ho&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt;, 1:25):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Andy Serkis&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  as Gollum   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then I saw &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&lt;/em&gt;, and if I remember it correctly (couldn’t find the credits online), it read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Orlando Bloom&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  as&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Legolas&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this refutes my theory. Orlando Bloom is not acting disguised nor is he a digital creation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the reason for this?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(* Maybe there are credits where this applies to several actors, but I noticed it only for exactly one actor so far.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/12592/1876&quot;&gt;Why do some actors in credits appear as - Character (As Actor)&lt;/a&gt; may look similar, but that one is about the IMDb.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T22:51:01.710" Title="Why do some closing credits show the character name of only one actor?" Tags="|credits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16222" CreationDate="2013-12-29T01:31:39.607" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a bit of prestige being listed last. Generally this spot is for a famous actor that has a small role. For the Hobbit movies, Bloom isn't in all the films so he won't get the same type of billing as the regular players. The SAG rules are different for guest stars and featured players than for principal players. For Andy Serkis, I think it's because he's a featured player, for Orlando Bloom it's because he's a guest star. Both actors are famous, but neither are principal players.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the Wikipedia article about &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billing_%28filmmaking%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;billing&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An actor may receive &amp;quot;last billing&amp;quot;, which usually designates a smaller role played by a famous name. They are usually credited after the rest of the lead cast, prefixed with &amp;quot;and&amp;quot; (or also &amp;quot;with&amp;quot; if there is more than one, as Samuel L. Jackson was in the latter two Star Wars prequels). In some cases, the name is followed by &amp;quot;as&amp;quot; and then the name of the character (sometimes called an &amp;quot;and-as&amp;quot; credit). This is not the case if that character is unseen for most of the movie (see Ernst Stavro Blofeld).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An early last billing credit in a film's opening simply listed a question mark (?) as portraying the monster in the 1931 classic Frankenstein, which still lists it that way today, although the reissued prints seen today add actor Boris Karloff to the end credit listings, as the film made him a huge star such that the credits of the film's first sequel The Bride of Frankenstein credits him only by his last name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the first &amp;quot;and-as&amp;quot; credits was afforded Spencer Tracy (as Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle) in the 1944 World War II film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, since another top box office star of the time, Van Johnson, had top billing and Tracy was too big a star to receive second billing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some films have both an &amp;quot;and-as&amp;quot; credit and a separate last billing credit, such as the Irwin Allen 1978 disaster film The Swarm, the opening credits of which, after listing an already large cast of stars, concludes with &amp;quot;Fred MacMurray as Clarence ... and Henry Fonda&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T01:59:16.453" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16225" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-29T03:34:49.283" Score="6" ViewCount="1861" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 1 of Homeland, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carrie &lt;em&gt;knows&lt;/em&gt; that Brody can trick the lie detector, because of the last question (she has slept with him, he lies about it, but the lie detector doesn’t recognize it as lie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She can’t tell it someone at this point, because she doesn’t want to disclose her relationship with Brody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later she discloses the relationship (at least to Saul). At this point, all the others (including Saul) still don’t believe that Brody is a terrorist. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why doesn’t Carrie tell them (or only Saul) at this point about Brody’s tricking of the lie detector? Of course it wouldn’t prove that he is a terrorist, but it could be an important evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastActivityDate="2014-05-23T05:56:20.527" Title="Why doesn’t Carrie tell Saul that Brody can trick the lie detector?" Tags="|homeland|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14728" CreationDate="2013-12-29T04:01:12.533" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Late to the party but are you thinking of Dream House with Daniel Craig?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/nIeMYPfnST0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7362" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-16T07:21:45.273" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T07:21:45.273" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16227" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17537" CreationDate="2013-12-29T04:12:38.127" Score="12" ViewCount="4240" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the scene in the auto parts store where Jack confronts Sandy, he asks her to write down the name of the guy who hired her (Jeb?).  However at several points in the movie they make a specific point to show that he doesn't need to write things down to remember them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He remembers the serial number from the sniper rifle after specifically stating that he doesn't need to take notes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He specifically states that he doesn't need to write down the quarry address.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this simply a small plot oversight, or was he making a point when he asks Sandy to write the address down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1326" LastActivityDate="2023-04-11T16:14:06.213" Title="Why did Jack Reacher ask Sandy to write down the address when it is made clear he has a photographic memory?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jack-reacher|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2513" CreationDate="2013-12-29T04:32:15.530" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my point of view there are some facts that seem to interfere: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even though the Spear and Cube are known as mystical and magical items, they are used to tap into a source of almost universal convertable energy. An energy similar to the emitted power generated by the Arc Reactor. The two energies, if not even the same seem to interfere each other. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is known that the Arc Reactor is able to store and absorb large amounts of energy. So it is possible that it absorbed the low frequency energy normally used to correspond and control the victims brain patterns. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As seen the Arc Reactor is not only touched by the spear/scepter but it's attracting it in a magnet-like manner. In my opinion the reactor is emitting an electromagnetic field that is attracting the spear as well as interfering the energy projection which is causing the spear's ability to control the victim's brain patterns.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7363" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-29T11:23:17.153" LastActivityDate="2013-12-29T11:23:17.153" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16145" CreationDate="2013-12-29T04:54:30.417" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Long shot here... Maybe the authors were interested in the idea of a code for underground worlds...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subway lines 1239 take you through NYC to Penn Station/ 34th Street (think &lt;em&gt;Miracle on 34th Street&lt;/em&gt; - that other movie about whether Santa is real, which is referenced in the &lt;em&gt;Santa Clause&lt;/em&gt; at one point when the children scream &quot;Let him go! Let Santa go!&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j2swK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bQI5x.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These numbers have also been referenced elsewhere in pop culture (the Springfield subway is actually abandoned but still functional):&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XPemH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Credit to &lt;a href=&quot;http://fineartamerica.com/products/subway-1239-john-rizzuto-art-print.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;John Rizzuto&lt;/a&gt; for MTA photo and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thesimpsons.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fox&lt;/a&gt; for the the Simpsons photo. Subway line 9 was a skip-stop line that ran from 1989-2005, so current photos of subway stops and maps only show 123 instead of 1239.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastEditorUserId="1606" LastEditDate="2013-12-29T16:07:54.323" LastActivityDate="2013-12-29T16:07:54.323" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8965" CreationDate="2013-12-29T05:26:44.240" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, demons can't stop existing because Death said that souls can be twisted tossed and turned, but never broken, not even by him. So souls can't be destroyed. Demons have souls, they maybe corrupted, but they are still souls. I think maybe they go to Purgatory when they die, because in Gods eyes they are probably monsters. And monsters have poisoned souls, Eve put a monstrous virus in their body and soul. And Leviathans have no souls, because they are older than souls (said so by death) so I like to think that purgatory is the place of the soulless and corrupted soul. God gave humans souls so that they can go somewhere after death. So to go to heaven or hell when you die, you need a pure soul. Now in this case pure doesn't mean good or righteous, it means not contaminated. Demons have corrupted souls, so they go to purgatory. God probably gave Angels grace, not only for power, but so they could go somewhere when they die besides purgatory. They don't have souls, so god gave them grace to take them to a special place for angels.I believe God made it so that when Angels take out their grace, or have it taken out, they gain as soul, so they go to heaven (or hell) not purgatory. So if Sam had died when he had no soul, he would have gone to purgatory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7364" LastActivityDate="2013-12-29T05:26:44.240" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16209" CreationDate="2013-12-29T16:45:40.223" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The murders are all committed by Balkan to retrieve all the books for himself, so that he can perform the rite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7372" LastEditorUserId="1353" LastEditDate="2015-09-16T07:02:39.140" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T07:02:39.140" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12861" CreationDate="2013-12-29T19:56:04.173" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I may have an answer to your question.  I was a professional modelmaker in those years and was approached to make a model spaceship for a television pilot that fits your description.  It was going to be a comedy about an apple pie bakery in space and titled something like &quot;Pie in the Sky.&quot; The time period is correct. I did not take the job but recommended another modelmaker to do it. I would be interested to know if you remember anything else? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7377" LastActivityDate="2013-12-29T19:56:04.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16240" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-30T04:31:27.837" Score="3" ViewCount="5092" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there other curated film collections like the Criterion collection?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1738" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T10:10:25.993" Title="Are there other film collections like the Criterion collection?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16240" CreationDate="2013-12-30T06:16:39.010" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's the Kino collection &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kinolorber.com/about.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and Eureka's 'Masters of Cinema' collection &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://roskino.org/about?lang=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Roskino&lt;/a&gt; provides a like-minded option for Russian and Soviet-era film. I'm sure there are others for many other countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Turner Classic Movies library might also be considered something akin to the Criterion Collection, although your mileage may vary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-12-30T10:10:25.993" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T10:10:25.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16240" CreationDate="2013-12-30T06:25:32.360" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If by curated, you mean general releases overseen by a group: &lt;strong&gt;Yes. Many&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you mean in terms of overall quality for film-buffs and enthusiasts, the short is answer: &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Longer answer: There are distribution companies like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.anchorbayentertainment.com/Entertainment.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anchor Bay&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blue-underground.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blue Underground&lt;/a&gt;, and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kinolorber.com/video-store.php&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kino Collection&lt;/a&gt; (who made a great name for themselves in releasing well-received foreign releases and art-house films by such unique filmmakers as the Quay Brothers and Jan Švankmajer) as well as studio-mandated &quot;classic-treatments&quot; like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.infinifilm.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Infinifilm&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sonyclassics.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sony Classics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Vantage&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Paramount Vantage&lt;/a&gt; (now nearly defunct), and others. While Anchor Bay and Blue Underground provide quality versions of more underground and genre films, nothing compares to the scope of the Criterion Collection and their exemplary releases with the best possible film-to-disc transfers and extras that include cast and crew. The Criterion Collection has set the bar higher than any other single distributor can match, having begun to release &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.criterion.com/help#q1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;laserdisc&lt;/a&gt; widescreen editions of movies &lt;em&gt;with extras&lt;/em&gt; (including audio commentaries) in 1984. It should be noted that the Criterion Collection has been partners with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.janusfilms.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Janus Films&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; of their releases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2013-12-30T08:17:07.750" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T08:17:07.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12077" CreationDate="2013-12-30T10:02:36.920" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;After re-watching season 2 and season 3-part A, it looks like Stiles just needed a person to share his feeling towards the supernatural events with. He was not comfortable in telling this to his father and doesn't have anyone else to share his stuff with. And Scott was also stuck in his own problems, so a school counselor looks appropriate to him. He doesn't know much about the school counselor but just shared his thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-01T19:00:29.550" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T19:00:29.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16246" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-30T10:38:59.687" Score="3" ViewCount="820" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League%3a_The_Flashpoint_Paradox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox&lt;/a&gt;, the alternate future where the world is going to end, Zoom has the idea of a chain of event changes caused by The Flash.  How is this possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6903" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-09-27T10:32:29.753" LastActivityDate="2018-09-27T10:32:29.753" Title="What is Professor Zoom's role in the Flashpoint Paradox?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dc-animated-movie-universe|justice-league-flashpoint-paradox|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16250" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16251" CreationDate="2013-12-30T14:01:35.553" Score="2" ViewCount="459" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per the size of the Kaiju, they seemed like they could be monsters from Earth, but in the movie they showed that they may be alien too. So I just want to know, what exactly are these Kaijus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6168" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2013-12-31T08:24:26.207" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T23:46:10.703" Title="Are Kaijus alien creatures or Earth based animals?" Tags="|character|pacific-rim|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16250" CreationDate="2013-12-30T14:04:49.663" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Kaiju are a race of amphibious creatures genetically engineered by&#xA;  the &lt;a href=&quot;http://pacificrim.wikia.com/wiki/Precursors&quot;&gt;Precursors&lt;/a&gt;, a sentient race from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://pacificrim.wikia.com/wiki/Anteverse&quot;&gt;Anteverse&lt;/a&gt;. In 2013, the&#xA;  Precursors opened a portal between dimensions at the bottom of the&#xA;  Pacific Ocean, allowing the Kaiju to enter Earth's dimension. (Source:&lt;a href=&quot;http://pacificrim.wikia.com/wiki/Kaiju&quot;&gt;pacificrim.wikia.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So its clear from that, Kaiju  are the monster created by Alien scientists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T14:04:49.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16246" CreationDate="2013-12-30T14:40:02.353" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Professor Zoom taunting The Flash over the death of the hero's mother is responsible for the timeline change.  In the end, it is revealed that The Flash is responsible for the creation of the alternate world because, after Zoom's taunting, he traveled back in time to save his mother.  This created a chain of events which led the world to a destructive situation.  Professor Zoom took advantage of this situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2014-04-01T18:17:03.347" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T18:17:03.347" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9807" CreationDate="2013-12-30T16:58:59.877" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any allegory that is determined in the film by the viewers comes from the source material for the film. This was a 1970s crime novel, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cogan's Trade&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; written by the late George V. Huggins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the film neatly &quot;fits&quot; into the economic situation of the time period where it is set, its original setting (Boston in the 1970s) was itself a time of economic change and turmoil and the modern setting of the film simply mirrors that state of being.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T16:58:59.877" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15843" CreationDate="2013-12-30T17:10:56.533" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, this may only have been found in a scene which was cut from the final edit of the film, because no such scene exists in it. Martine having TB is a story element which is suddenly introduced to the viewer and is a surprise as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both the 1963 eponymous novel and the 2003 remake, starring Tom Selleck, make Martine's health issues clear to the reader/viewer. The 1970 film does not, and this may have been the result of editing needed to prevent the pace of the film slowing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T17:10:56.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16093" CreationDate="2013-12-30T17:31:01.907" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Riddick as written is a character who forces his antagonists to fight against themselves and one another as much as they do him. This is how he can maintain an advantage when he is outnumbered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As shown in Pitch Black, he torments the characters with subtle hints as to the fate of the planet they crash upon residents by never specifically revealing the fact that they were killed by the creatures who dwell (he hints at it but he never states it). This causes them to create a plan where it's clear that this numbers will be reduced by the time they attempt to leave the planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That worked in his favor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In The Chronicles of Riddick, he manipulates Coombs' crew into wasting valuable time on Crematoria when they simply should have (and could have) left taking whatever bounty they would have initially received. By staying, Riddick's actions led to the shootout between Coombs' group and the guards at the prison, making it easier for Riddick to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this plan is shown to have gone awry and Riddick was saved only by the intervention of a Purifier who was, like Riddick, a Furian survivor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the latest film, Riddick attempts to manipulate the two groups of mercenaries into fighting over him instead of working together. He seems to have sensed Dahl's insecurity and played upon that and the insecurity of her co-workers in their mission. This works, as the two groups waste valuable time fighting one another rather than attempting to capture Riddick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately the Riddick trilogy has often eschewed with its psychological foreplay to make its anti-hero protagonist looking more &quot;badass&quot;  than they need to. The best parts of the films are interplay and not when Riddick demonstrates the Hollywood conceit that edged weapons outclass guns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-05T19:11:14.057" LastActivityDate="2014-01-05T19:11:14.057" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9892" CreationDate="2013-12-30T17:37:47.607" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There aren't any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact the film goes out of its way to make it clear that Verbal &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Soze by including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The scene during the takedown robbery where Dylan hesitates to kill the driver and Verbal does it in cold blood.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The scene on the docks when someone asks what language the crew members are speaking and Verbal answers &quot;Hungarian.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The fact that of all of gang members, only Verbal doesn't &quot;know&quot; who Keyser Soze is and apparently has never heard of him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A careful review of the film will demonstrate that Verbal is Soze from the beginning and the film throws various MacGuffins in the way to prevent a less discerning viewer from realizing that early on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="7390" LastEditDate="2013-12-31T04:28:57.753" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T04:28:57.753" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15796" CreationDate="2013-12-30T17:42:39.563" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film, this was never revealed. In the book, Kay is told by Michael Corleone's mother to forget about him, implying that Corleone was already married and would never return to the US. The family in the novel The Godfather is well aware of Michael's actions in Sicily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the film leaves out Michael Corleone's revenge against the man who planted the bomb in the car which killed Apollonia it is clear that her death closes that thread of the tale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-31T03:22:42.117" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T03:22:42.117" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16264" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2013-12-30T19:20:59.767" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2013-12-30T19:20:59.767" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T19:20:59.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16265" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2013-12-30T19:20:59.767" Score="0" Body="Peter Jackson's remake of 1933 Classic version of King kong" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2013-12-30T19:20:59.767" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T19:20:59.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16267" CreationDate="2013-12-30T20:05:10.290" Score="14" ViewCount="97381" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I just finished watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309698/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Identity&lt;/a&gt; but I could not understand if the murders took place or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From watching the movie I was certain the murders indeed happened and that's why the case was going on.&#xA; But if it did happen then why did Dr. Mallick say that Malcolm the convicted was thinking the accidents in his head? Had the murders already happened, and was Malcolm responsible? Why has he not been punished? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I could not understand the plot clearly. I am also not sure if Timothy became Malcolm after he became older because the murders happened 4 years ago!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-17T13:37:23.410" LastActivityDate="2019-09-25T06:20:20.040" Title="Did or did not the murders happen in reality?" Tags="|plot-explanation|identity|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16266" CreationDate="2013-12-30T20:09:05.367" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Murders for which Malcolm was arrested did happen and Malcolm did indeed commit them. The plot of the identity is sort of a combination of Fight club along with the famous Agatha Christie novel namely &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None&quot;&gt;&quot;And Then there were none&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Malcolm committed the murders but he has a split personality disorder and there are 10 personalities to him, Dr. Mallick tries to convene all his personalities in a single place that happens to be the motel as part of the experiment to isolate the killer personality who is actually causing Malcolm to commit the murders he did in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every event which happens in that motel is happening in Malcolm's head and it includes only his 10 personalities, the other set of events are the actual events with the real Malcolm who is being presented to the jury the day before his execution by the Doctor to plead to them on the basis that its not Malcolm who did those crimes it was an aspect of his split personality with in him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dr. Mallick's idea is to eradicate the killer personality because he was the one who committed the murders but the other personalities were completely innocent it includes even the convict Rhodes with the help of John Cusack's personality, who appears to be the most sane personality among the others because of him being a cop prior. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Unfortunately they zone in on the wrong personality and the killer personality happens to be the little kid who is never suspected throughout the movie. Malcolm is now rid of all his good elements and is completely taken over by the evil personality, which is why he proceeds to kill the doctor.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2013-12-30T20:54:56.377" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T20:54:56.377" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16268" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16275" CreationDate="2013-12-30T21:05:54.557" Score="9" ViewCount="1988" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368226/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Room&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, the chronology is difficult to follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do Johnny and Lisa get married at some point in the Movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first, Claudette mentions that Lisa is getting married next month, and that Johnny's party is 'Next Friday', so (given the party takes place at the end of the film), it would appear as though that couldn't &lt;em&gt;possibly&lt;/em&gt; have happened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However, this is &lt;em&gt;The Room&lt;/em&gt; we're talking about....&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4gshx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One sequence contains all the men of the group wearing tuxedos, at which Denny informs Johnny his wedding photos are going to look great. It could be an impromptu dress rehearsal, but it seems heavily implied this is the morning of Johnny's wedding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, Mark confesses to Peter that he is having an affair with another man's &lt;em&gt;wife&lt;/em&gt;, and at the party Johnny also refers to Lisa directly as &lt;em&gt;his wife&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know from &lt;em&gt;The Disaster Artist&lt;/em&gt;, Greg Sestero's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thedisasterartistbook.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;production journal&lt;/a&gt; of the movie, that continuity and logical sequencing were entirely disregarded by Tommy Wiseau, which makes some sense of why the jumbled sequences made it into the film, perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have a reliable chronology for the events of the film? Did Johnny and Lisa actually get married?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-07-13T08:38:52.643" LastActivityDate="2016-07-06T09:02:00.370" Title="Did Johnny and Lisa get married?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-room|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16269" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-30T21:30:46.987" Score="11" ViewCount="3201" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many older movies seem to have vivid reds and particularly realistic or noticeable skin tones (they certainly seem to stand out from typical skin tones on TV or the majority of movies). This applies even in DVD or online versions and is not, given the range of material I've noticed the effect in, an artifact of special post processing or deliberate colour manipulation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the movies I've noticed the effect in are from the film era, especially from when colour became common to the late 1960's. I used to think it was just Technicolor but I've seen things recently that don't claim to be Technicolor that also show the effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.wikia.com/wiki/Technicolor&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This site&lt;/a&gt; claims the effect was due to the final print being constructed late in the process for separate black and white film strips for each primary colour allowing the final dyes to be very vivid and clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The rich colors that the Technicolor process gave came in part from the fact that the color was not added to the process until the final stages. The color information was recorded and processed as separate black and white images which were relatively easy to control and preserve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a good explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="134" LastEditDate="2014-04-26T13:50:48.397" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T00:58:50.447" Title="Why do some movies originally shot on film have notably vivid reds and skin tones?" Tags="|film-techniques|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14143" CreationDate="2013-12-30T21:36:21.600" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The election in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; represented the change from men like Tom (John Wayne) who dealt with problems with his hands or his guns and the future where men such as Jimmy Stewart (the protagonist) an attorney represented the future &quot;legal&quot; changes that were going occur in the West.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why the wealthy ranchers and businessmen were so eager to &quot;steal&quot; the election is that was how they were going to be able to hold on to their gains. In America's Wild West, many people became wealthy through using corrupt methods such stealing land claims and cheating the rightful owners out of their stakes. To change from doing these things to stealing elections weren't seen as being major steps by those same men.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T21:36:21.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14449" CreationDate="2013-12-30T21:41:18.687" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's never stated in the film why he needs the wheelchair other than his advanced age and infirmity. It can be inferred that years of hard living are the primary reason; but it is never explicitly stated in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T21:41:18.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16273" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-30T21:48:06.253" Score="4" ViewCount="624" Body="&lt;p&gt;The literal meaning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084302/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Marathon Family&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;'s original title, &lt;em&gt;Maratonci trče počasni krug&lt;/em&gt;, could be translated as something like &lt;em&gt;&quot;Marathoners running a lap of honor&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. How does the title correspond to the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7393" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T00:38:11.770" LastActivityDate="2014-12-26T22:09:54.627" Title="Why is the movie named Maratonci trče počasni krug (in English The Marathon Family)?" Tags="|title|the-marathon-family|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10511" CreationDate="2013-12-30T22:05:20.620" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only portions of the film which were not fabrications of Keyser Soze were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The initial sequences showing the arrest of the gang,&lt;em&gt;sans&lt;/em&gt; Verbal Kint.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The conversations between Agent Kujan and FBI Jack Baer concerning Soze.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The scenes of the ship after the the fire and explosion that destroyed it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Agent Kujan's questioning of Verbal Kint&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The scenes in the hospital with the survivor of the carnage at the ship&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The end reveal sequence&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be safely assumed that the entirety of the film besides the above were all the story created by Kint/Keyser Soze to explain what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2013-12-30T22:05:20.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16268" CreationDate="2013-12-30T23:30:59.483" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh hai, John. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, having &quot;plot-explanation&quot; and &quot;the-room&quot; tags next to each other is hilarious. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I rewatched it and found no evidence of their marriage other than your observations. The party is Johnny's birthday party and referring to her as his wife is as likely a mistake as glossing over the whole wedding would be. Mark confessing about a &quot;wife&quot; might be a ruse to lessen suspicion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At first, Claudette mentions that Lisa is getting married next month, and that Johnny's party is 'Next Friday', so (given the party takes place at the end of the film), it would appear as though that couldn't possibly have happened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That seems to be the only likely answer in an illogical, convoluted mess like this. Keep in mind things like &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv_Af_Rbi9I&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;breast cancer&lt;/a&gt; are mentioned and then quickly forgotten after being told &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfN2eOC1Xhs&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;don't worry about it&lt;/a&gt;.&quot; (Remember the drug &quot;subplot&quot; that lasted &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; scene?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure you want a better answer, but there doesn't seem to be one. Having just watched it again I can only paraphrase Chinatown, &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Forget about it John, it's &lt;em&gt;The Room&lt;/em&gt;.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-07-16T02:37:04.307" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T02:37:04.307" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9143" CreationDate="2013-12-30T23:52:16.047" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;When &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Six Million Dollar Man&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; premiered (1973) in the United States had just ended its involvement in the Vietnam War. The US military was not held in high regards in many circles and having Austin be a veteran might have been seen as &quot;problematic.&quot; The pilot seems to have done away with this by having Austin be a civilian test pilot who was the only civilian ever sent to the Moon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After two additional television films (during which Steve Austin was returned to his former military rank) the series was picked up by ABC as a weekly series in 1974. The improbability of Austin having been a civilian astronaut was probably brought the attention of the producers who simply changed the back story during the second pilot film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this respect, the television series began to match Martin Caidin's novels. The show later expanded upon Austin's background adding a family and then later love interest, Jamie Sommers, who herself became &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Bionic Woman.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="417" LastEditDate="2013-12-31T00:00:54.470" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T00:00:54.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16277" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16283" CreationDate="2013-12-31T01:34:19.240" Score="2" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Charlie Brown, was the creation of &quot;The Little Red Haired Girl&quot; inspired by a Charles Schulz' childhood crush?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-31T02:51:41.430" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T05:24:01.403" Title="Was the creation of the little red haired girl inspired by a childhood crush?" Tags="|character|charlie-brown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16123" CreationDate="2013-12-31T02:46:54.603" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it was shown throughout the film, the methods which Humphries employed were given as much weight as the information he was supposed to be obtaining. It also seemingly distracted Humphries' employers from their primary goal: locate and disarm any nuclear weapons which may been in existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to have been a message sent by the filmmakers to the audience that torture itself distracts from the reasons that it is to be used. That the acts themselves gain as much attention (and in some cases, far more) than the information which they are supposed to reveal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also the fact that people neither care for torture, note the torturer. When they got what they believed that they &quot;needed&quot; from him, they simply wanted him to go away as they likely felt &quot;soiled&quot; by his presence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, nobody (except for Humphries) really wanted him to do the &quot;unthinkable.&quot; If he could get them the information which they needed using methods which they could still stomach, fine. Beyond that seems to have been farther than they (Humphries employers) were willing to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T06:57:43.237" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T06:57:43.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13437" CreationDate="2013-12-31T02:59:42.700" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yost, if the imagery notion of the film is to be believed, was an &quot;angel.&quot; He was guiding Lee Marvin's Walker character on the mission to seek revenge (and his $93,000) from the men who had wronged him. This is why Yost was seemingly omniscient about all aspects of the organization and was not injured or killed by Walker or Walker's action is in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the film's narrative is read to be a simple revenge tale (e.g. Walker is  not a vengeful spirit seeking retribution for  the acts of betrayal which killed him) then Yost is really &quot;Fairfax&quot; one the triumvirate of gangsters who are running the organization from which Walker stole the money. Yost/Fairfax uses Walker's desire for revenge to eliminate his rivals in a manner which won't allow them to suspect that he is behind these activities and cause them to seek revenge against him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie can be seen by the viewer in either manner:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A violent ghost story with a vengeful phantom being &quot;aimed&quot; at those responsible for those he feels are responsible for his death.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A straight revenge film , where a betrayed robber seeks vengeance against those wronged him and whose &quot;guided&quot; in that revenge by one of the gangsters seeking to rid himself of his competition.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final decision is left up to the viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T02:59:42.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11626" CreationDate="2013-12-31T03:16:09.953" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it was not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New York City gangs, like most other street gangs in the United States, are almost exclusively broken down along racial and ethnic lines. The Warriors themselves were a multicultural group, which, given the racism present in New York City in the 1970s is unlikely to have formed organically. Even in present day America, street crime organization safe almost always race/ethnic or neighborhood based, precluding the formation of mixed member gangs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Females &quot;gangs&quot; as depicted in the film have almost never existed. When females do act as criminals they usually do so alone, as part of a male/female partnership or as part of a small group of non-violent females. Even modern female street and prison gangs are far smaller, less cohesive and far less violent than their male counterparts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, a &quot;gang truce&quot; would have attracted the attention of the police as that many criminals in a single location would have alerted the police to their presence prior to any such event occurring. Coupled with the fact that most criminal organization have serious issues with informants, any attempt for any group larger in number than the leadership caste of the various gangs meeting would have been a near impossibility without attracting numerous law enforcement organizations for what would d have been mass arrests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Warriors is decent entertainment, but only that: ENTERTAINMENT&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thefader.com/2005/10/03/new-york-mythology/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.thefader.com/2005/10/03/new-york-mythology/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/gangs/prison.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/gangs/prison.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/most-dangerous-prison-gangs-in-the-us-2013-4&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.businessinsider.com/most-dangerous-prison-gangs-in-the-us-2013-4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2013-12-31T03:19:03.253" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T03:19:03.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11644" CreationDate="2013-12-31T03:28:42.687" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most cartoon have a minimal number of episodes per season (10-16 being the usual number) that means within the span of a year each episode can be shown at least three times or more if the cartoon is aired multiple times on the day which it airs. That means that within several months time, a more than casual viewer can see all of the episodes at least once. A frequent viewer can see them multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the brevity of animated series ( almost all 30 minutes (22 minutes + 8 minutes of advertising) and the need for networks to air multiple programs as well as films of varying lengths, there is often a need to adjust the schedules accordingly. A cartoon in heavy rotation or which is not carrying its usual air time ratings (cartoons, like live action programs are also affected by viewer ratings) are often pulled and replaced by a program which  the network may think will attract viewers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, given the limited number of cartoons in existence and the fact that cartoons from the 1960s/1970s are no longer in many networks rotations,to keep viewers &quot;interested&quot; changes in the rotation have to be made. The network again has to program to make rating and attract advertisers, so airing the same cartoons all of the time may not be what will make this possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T03:28:42.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16277" CreationDate="2013-12-31T05:24:01.403" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to a Wikipedia article on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red-Haired_Girl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;little red-haired girl&lt;/a&gt;, it was actually an adulthood crush of Schulz's:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A former coworker, Donna Mae Johnson (born circa 1929 in Minneapolis,&#xA;  Minnesota), was Schulz's inspiration for the character. A 1947 high&#xA;  school graduate, Johnson was working in the accounting department of&#xA;  the Art Instruction, Inc., a correspondence school where Schulz&#xA;  worked. Johnson and Schulz eventually became romantically involved and&#xA;  dated for three years, but in 1950 when Schulz proposed to her, she&#xA;  turned him down, saying she was already engaged to fireman Allan Wold.&#xA;  She married Allan on October 21, 1950. Schulz was devastated, but he&#xA;  and Johnson-Wold remained friends for the rest of his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T05:24:01.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11489" CreationDate="2013-12-31T06:15:27.933" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Doctor was in Trenzalore, with Clara but it was truth domed. As in the whole city of Christmas (true name in the future: Trenzalore) was in the truth trance. So check for the &quot; in the fields of Trenzalore&quot; and &quot; where no living creature can speak falsely or fail to give answer&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A question was asked through a transistor which was transmitted all across the universe. From Gallifreyan origin. From the crack in Trenzalore. And was translated, the message was: &quot;Doctor Who&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was his future self in the past Trenzalore. Trying to make a difference. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7397" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2013-12-31T15:02:44.413" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T15:02:44.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13438" CreationDate="2013-12-31T15:15:07.210" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having seen both films and read the Westlake novel (actually four of them) the statement can be made that the films only peripherally resemble the character of Parker. The 1967 Boorman film gets most of the story elements correct and the 1999 film is somewhat faithful to Parker's level of obsession.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Parker as written by Westlake was a taciturn and difficult to like character who wouldn't have even made a decent anti-hero protagonist much less a &quot;good guy.&quot; Neither film captures this, although Lee Marvin seems closer to Westlake's imagining of the character than Mel Gibson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the two films, Point Blank (1967) is closer to the novel although it does contain &quot;supernatural elements&quot; that aren't there in the original text. Payback (1999) is actually less faithful to the novel, but more true to the viciousness of the criminals who Parker faces during his quest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;http://newimprovedgorman.blogspot.com/2009/01/donald-e-westlake-interview.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;newimprovedgorman&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T23:42:21.627" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T23:42:21.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8965" CreationDate="2013-12-31T15:30:59.050" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not clear yet. Misha thinks they're just gone but there must be some kind of loophole (See &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/O_ey0xiFGNg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). I think God must have some control over it, as he brought Cas back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7394" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T15:30:59.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14356" CreationDate="2013-12-31T16:24:04.923" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The portions of the film which are direct reflections of Marshal Mathers (Eminem) life include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was raised in Detroit, Michigan for a portion of his life.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was raised by his single mother in a series of lower income neighborhoods.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was friends with local black rappers in the Detroit area.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He performed occasionally at local clubs and parties in the Detroit area.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He worked at area automotive plants before becoming a professional performer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He had a troubled relationship with his girlfriend who later became the mother of his child.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The remainder of the story appears to have been created to fill in the narrative of the story and to make it appealing to viewers of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/2000/07/25/eminem_secrets/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.salon.com/2000/07/25/eminem_secrets/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.today.com/id/27578186/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.today.com/id/27578186/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-01T10:41:25.300" LastActivityDate="2014-01-01T10:41:25.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16293" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18478" CreationDate="2013-12-31T16:47:21.727" Score="9" ViewCount="689" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the season 1 finale of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2193021/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Arrow&lt;/a&gt;, when Oliver suits up for fighting Malcolm Merlyn in his office Oliver didn't put up the green color/mask around his eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any particular reason for that? Or was he so sure that all the policemen are so busy with the Glades that they will not notice the vigilante?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-12T08:40:48.210" LastActivityDate="2016-04-12T08:40:48.210" Title="Why didn't Oliver wear the mask?" Tags="|plot-explanation|arrowverse|arrow|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16295" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-31T18:42:00.740" Score="3" ViewCount="824" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &quot;American Hustle&quot; builds toward its climax, Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) sees Edith (Amy Adams) for the first time and instantly recognizes Edith as Rosalyn's husband's mistress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Rosalyn know who Edith was?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2013-12-31T19:01:18.063" LastActivityDate="2014-01-01T08:53:28.410" Title="How did Rosalyn recognize Edith?" Tags="|plot-explanation|american-hustle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16296" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16312" CreationDate="2013-12-31T19:43:27.673" Score="11" ViewCount="7466" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Bilbo is running from the dragon in &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&lt;/em&gt; and Thorin goes down to look for him and they run into each other, Thorin seems awfully suspicious of Bilbo, draws his sword and pushes Bilbo off to the edge of the cliff. Bilbo is clearly panicking. What is going on here? The incident seems to have been forgotten moments later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T16:06:23.970" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T16:06:23.970" Title="What was going on between Bilbo and Thorin on that ledge?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hobbit|the-desolation-of-smaug|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16299" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-31T22:31:17.733" Score="2" ViewCount="388" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surely the character knows this will happen through her training. Why wouldn't the hatch have a better mechanism such that astronauts do not run the risk of flying into space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7325" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-12-31T23:38:32.080" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T23:42:20.057" Title="On two occasions, the main character opens a capsule hatch and the hatch blows open violently" Tags="|plot-explanation|gravity|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15332" CreationDate="2013-12-31T22:46:15.073" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the film, the fighters were referred to as drones. Hence them acting more like a swarm. However, the transports, which Ender ordered the drones away from, were manned. I believe they mentioned thousands died on the transports.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7325" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T22:46:15.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10952" CreationDate="2013-12-31T23:19:57.587" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's in the room next door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you watch the scene again, Tommy Lee Jones notices the lock is destroyed and then proceeds to clear the room. The scene then cuts to Chigurh in another room of the motel listening to the sheriff and watching his movements as shadows through the destroyed lock of the door leading to the adjoining room. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcjRNOfvVgM&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcjRNOfvVgM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2013-12-31T23:19:57.587" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16303" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2013-12-31T23:38:18.827" Score="1" ViewCount="470" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_%282008_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Australia&lt;/a&gt;, there is much racism, and many derogatory words based on race, such as &quot;Boong&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as far as I could tell, racism and the use of derogatory words was done by the bad guys in the movie, such as Neil Fletcher, or neutral bystanders, rather than the good guys (The Drover, Lady Sarah, Nullah, and others). Even though the Aborigines would have much reason to dislike white-skinned people, they were not racist against them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Nullah used the word &quot;Japs&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Them Japs nearly got us. We had to swim'em.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was he being derogatory about the Japanese when using that word?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1312" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2013-12-31T23:41:13.103" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T15:48:00.740" Title="Was Nullah being derogatory when using the J-word in Australia?" Tags="|dialogue|australia-2008|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3084" CreationDate="2013-12-31T23:40:50.410" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;She sees Billy (her patient who is in on the con) leaving in the red convertible. She then goes to the bar where she overhears the plan and then sees that the &quot;dead cop&quot; is really one of Mike's cronies who was in on the con the entire time. For some reason, while announcing that the &quot;crazy broad&quot; (Crouse) stole his lighter, Mike tells his cronies about his travel plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Crouse then follows Mike to the airport and attempts to &quot;con&quot; him with a tale about her having $250k on her. Mike hustles her into the baggage check area so that she won't attract attention , where she continues with her attempts to con him. She slips (shows her &quot;tell&quot;) when she mentions that she has his (Mike's) lighter. Although Mike doesn't know how she knows it is his, he does know that she should not have known that fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sensing that he is being bluffed, Mike attempts to intimidate Crouse. When she pulls a gun to threaten him, he continues to bluff her,tries to escape and he is then genuinely surprised when she shoots him.He disparages her as being a &quot;violent&quot; criminal when he is above such things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was never any intent upon Crouse's part to &quot;con&quot; Mike. She planned to shoot him all along and she was hoping that he would provide her with a justification (in her mind) for her actions. Mike recognizing her &quot;tell&quot; and attempting to walk away simply hasten the actions which she had already planned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/FR4DTLFAS_g?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T00:46:30.023" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T00:46:30.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16306" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34253" CreationDate="2014-01-01T06:50:23.943" Score="5" ViewCount="838" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching Mexican TV channels like Televisa and TVAzteca, you'll notice that many TV commercials have captions at the bottom of the screen with what appear to read as cautionary messages. Snack commercials, for example, often have captions like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81P-N1J8tKI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Come bien y haz ejercicio&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (eat well and exercise) or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJY9EzmjmI0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Llenate de energia&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (fill yourself with energy). Makeup commercials often have messages like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hAx_jRrMzE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Salud es belleza&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (health is beauty). Beer commercials often come tagged with the phrase &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ8qIOtkibU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Todo con medida&lt;/a&gt; (everything in moderation). However, other &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hpPlC2zHgM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;commercials&lt;/a&gt; don't seem to have any captions at all.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do these messages appear in these commercials? Are they mandated by Mexican law? What is the motivation for these messages? Why do they appear on some commercials, but not all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5225" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-07-22T07:09:58.787" LastActivityDate="2016-07-22T07:09:58.787" Title="Captions in Mexican TV Commercials" Tags="|production|commercial|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16307" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16313" CreationDate="2014-01-01T08:03:31.403" Score="4" ViewCount="617" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Ender's Game, Colonel Graff states clearly to Ender that the objective is a war to end all wars. Even though Ender is duped into genocide believing a simulated battle is running, he is actually giving the strategy for genocide. I don't quite understand his sudden remorse. Why didn't he stop the simulation realizing that genocide was not a viable strategy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7325" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-01-01T09:38:23.650" LastActivityDate="2014-01-01T13:33:50.223" Title="Did Ender understand that genocide was the objective?" Tags="|enders-game|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8924" CreationDate="2014-01-01T08:18:36.420" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Governor stamps out anything he perceives as a threat to his position and community. He has a vision for survival and expects all others to follow it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7325" LastActivityDate="2014-01-01T08:18:36.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16295" CreationDate="2014-01-01T08:53:28.410" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rosalyn knew that her husband wanted to leave her but kept manipulating him back. From this I assume she knew he had a mistress. She guessed from his reaction when he saw her walking through the smoke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7325" LastActivityDate="2014-01-01T08:53:28.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16310" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16319" CreationDate="2014-01-01T11:56:10.273" Score="11" ViewCount="16839" Body="&lt;p&gt;In films like in &lt;em&gt;Indiana Jones&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;National Treasure&lt;/em&gt; old temples, caves etc. have spider webs all over the place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that these aren't real spider webs, how do they make these fake ones?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm not talking about &lt;strong&gt;Spider-Man&lt;/strong&gt;'s web.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-24T15:28:23.060" LastActivityDate="2018-11-22T03:50:35.813" Title="In films how do they make spider web?" Tags="|film-techniques|props|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16310" CreationDate="2014-01-01T12:07:37.373" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's often just &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B001HYYN38&quot;&gt;cotton&lt;/a&gt;. Next October go to a Halloween supply store. There you will find finely woven clumps of cotton that, when stretched out, resemble webs. It's a common stock item. While a simple prop, it's highly effective and does not stick to you, meaning it can stay where taped / glued until you take it down. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you ever pulled a cotton swab apart or pulled on the end of a Q-Tip? Same principle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'll add that one Halloween I spayed hair-spray on the cotton web and it was more realistic and stuck to you kind of like real webs.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-01-01T13:38:01.360" LastActivityDate="2014-01-01T13:38:01.360" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16296" CreationDate="2014-01-01T13:21:04.153" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/richard-armitage-the-hobbit-interview/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From an interview&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;strong&gt;Richard Armitage&lt;/strong&gt; (he plays &lt;em&gt;Thorin&lt;/em&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;... I think knowing that &lt;strong&gt;his father and his grandfather have been touched by this dragon sickness&lt;/strong&gt; which doesn’t necessarily affect all dwarves, but some dwarves are susceptible to it.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It’s this attraction to gold which becomes their downfall&lt;/strong&gt;, has always been at the back of his mind.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And I think the burden of taking his people back to their homeland, which is so massive, makes him a lonely figure, I think. Knowing that his grandfather failed, and his father failed, so if he doesn’t do it, there’s no other member of his line that will ever do this.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[...] to play around with the dragon sickness [...] I think it’s going to be very interesting. I’ve looked at all sorts of different – I’ve looked at drug addiction, and along those lines, so that it actually has a physical effect on him, his mind and his body.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But I think because he’s been a very heavy, melancholic character, I think the gold is going to change that, and it’s going to sort of bring him to life and make him the king that he should be, and more vibrant. But it comes at a price, I think.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thorin's &quot;dragon sickness&quot; &lt;em&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hobbit:_An_Unexpected_Journey#Bilbo_Baggins&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;For dragons covet gold with a dark and fierce desire&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt; will become an issue in the third movie, at least &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2013/11/25/83283-shakespeare-performance-capture-and-getting-back-on-stage-richard-armitage-talks-to-theonering-net/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;according to&lt;/a&gt; Richard Armitage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;...&lt;strong&gt;we do get into those moments with the dragon sickness, later into movie three&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=841103&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extended Version&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; contains a scene in which &lt;strong&gt;Elrond expresses doubts about Thorin to Gandalf&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UxEJ1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Have you forgotten? &lt;strong&gt;A strain of madness runs deep in that family. His grandfather lost his mind. His father succumbed to the same sickness. Can you swear Thorin Oakenshield will not also fall?&lt;/strong&gt; Gandalf, these decisions do not rest with us alone. It is not up to you or me to redraw the map of Middle-earth.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is overheard by Bilbo and Thorin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vOnTg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2014-01-01T13:26:23.927" LastActivityDate="2014-01-01T13:26:23.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16307" CreationDate="2014-01-01T13:33:50.223" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ender has remorse because he doesn't know he is actually fighting the war until the end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire setup of the second part of the movie (where his training is intensified and he assumes he is fighting Mazer Rackham, the hero from the previous formic invasion) is about realistic simulations of formic strategy. That is what Ender and his underlings believe. The &quot;training&quot; exercises grow in intensity driving Ender to his limits and breaking some of his commanders. He reacts in the end with an unthinkable strategy partially because he believes the training is unfair and he is fighting Mazer Rackham. He has had enough and he wants to beat the system and beat the unfair game by doing something ridiculous and over the top. He wants the game to stop because it isn't fair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His strategy parallels a similar move he used towards the end of the training in the zero gravity training room. The teachers increasingly set the battles there up so Ender's army had to face enemies and physical setups that were totally stacked against them. To win his final battle there, Ender chooses a ridiculous sacrificial strategy allowing him to get through the enemy gate without having to directly challenge all the enemy forces. Nobody else has tried this play before and Ender only tries it because, again, he is tired of the degree to which the game has become unfair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the subtleties of this are much more apparent in the book than they are in the movie, but the essential elements are still there if a little simplified. The essential point is that Ender has been duped. He always assumes he is training. Graff and the school knew they had to do it this way because Ender's military gift of thinking like his enemy relied on empathy to be effective and that could easily lead to him deciding genocide was too much. As Ender himself said, paraphrasing a little:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The moment when I understand my enemy well enough to defeat him, I also love him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, Genocide is a viable strategy here. And Ender justifiably feels species level remorse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the other hand, genocide is not achieved, a queen survives. Moreover, the formics may have been partially complicit in this as they expressed regret over what they had tried to do to earth when they found a human they could communicate with. And they had been preparing this through Ender's dreams for a long time and had been planning to avoid their complete destruction as a species.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2014-01-01T13:33:50.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15278" CreationDate="2014-01-01T13:51:56.553" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Malekith is not from Male but Maleficum = Crime, something bad and Kith means friendship, relation also knowledge. Malekith is a man related to crime. A bad friend. And this is what he does, he sacrifices his friend and his whole race.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7410" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T07:06:00.400" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T07:06:00.400" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16316" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-01T14:37:22.107" Score="4" ViewCount="1066" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing I always wonder when watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120657/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The 13th Warrior&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is, how &lt;em&gt;Ahmed&lt;/em&gt; learns the Norse language so fast. While I for myself could make some sense out of certain words, it must be significantly harder for an Arab to learn to speak it that fluently by merely listening to his Viking fellows for the time of their journey, be it even such a well-read man as &lt;em&gt;Ahmed&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I of course understand that the time they are traveling and when he learns the language is longer than depicted and that the movie needs them to speak fluently with each other to forward the narrative (and his learning procedure hasn't been depicted too bad), so I don't have any problem with accepting this plot element as sufficiently plausible. Yet I still would like to know if this part or &lt;em&gt;Ahmed&lt;/em&gt;'s following conversations throughout the movie &lt;strong&gt;are actually true to the novel or in which way they might have been altered to a more movie-friendly narration&lt;/strong&gt;, or if there is at least some information &lt;strong&gt;how long it took them to travel to &lt;em&gt;King Hrothgar&lt;/em&gt;'s court and &lt;em&gt;Ahmed&lt;/em&gt; to learn the language&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T09:15:59.083" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T05:17:18.020" Title="How long did it take Ahmed to learn the Norse language and was that true to the source material?" Tags="|plot-explanation|book-adaptation|the-13th-warrior|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16317" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16325" CreationDate="2014-01-01T14:46:16.553" Score="2" ViewCount="189" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie James Woods was the one behind the terrorist attack; but how did John Cale come to know about the involvement of the &quot;Speaker of the House of Representatives&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did John Cale know that the US Secretary is involved in the terrorist attack on White House?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6168" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2014-01-01T15:36:21.707" LastActivityDate="2014-01-01T21:00:45.987" Title="John Cale's knowledge of the involvement of 3rd parties" Tags="|character|white-house-down|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16522" CreationDate="2014-01-01T15:35:46.970" Score="19" ViewCount="20540" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2010 movie &lt;em&gt;Black Swan&lt;/em&gt;, Nina and Lily are the two main characters, but a couple of times in the movie, a third girl pops up out of nowhere. I cannot find any information about who this third girl is or even anyone asking who she is (or even &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0947798/fullcredits#cast&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;who played her&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She pops first when Nina is “exploring herself” in the bathtub (figure 1), and again during the sex scene (figure 2). I thought that maybe she has something to do with sex, but she did not show up in the scene when Nina woke up and… failed to notice her mother sitting next to the bed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest I can come to finding an explanation is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0947798/faq#.2.1.3&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;theory&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; about Nina possibly spawning a new personality, which might make sense since the girl looks a little like her, but it seems that people that propose that theory are actually talking about &lt;em&gt;Lily&lt;/em&gt; being the new personality, not this &lt;strong&gt;third girl&lt;/strong&gt;. One person seemed to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120123205652AActFls&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wondering the same thing&lt;/a&gt;, but the answer they got again referred to Lily, not the mysterious, unnamed girl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had wondered if maybe she is a morph between Nina and Lily, but doesn’t really seem to be. Whether she was CG or an actual actress, the filmmakers specifically and purposely made a point of putting her in and even highlighting her appearances, so she &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; be relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any ideas why they put this other girl in the movie and who/what she is supposed to represent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Figure 1&lt;/strong&gt;: The mysterious girl shows up during the bathtub scene and looks similar to Nina&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xLtW4.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screen capture of the girl during the bathtub scene&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Figure 2&lt;/strong&gt;: The mysterious girl shows up again during the sex-scene and looks different&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZNFfB.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screen capture of the girl during the sex-scene&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-01T15:42:40.240" LastActivityDate="2017-06-26T04:36:59.630" Title="Who is the third girl in “Black Swan”?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|black-swan|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16310" CreationDate="2014-01-01T15:53:21.857" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There could be various methods, a few are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As @Meat Trademark said fake spider webs can be made out of cotton. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cxTwyGSZwo&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a good video to demonstrate it. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another faster method using rubber cement is described &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-creepy-fake-spider-webs-fast-and-easy/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another method is by using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ehow.com/how_8349800_make-fake-spider.html&quot;&gt;hot glue&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-01-01T16:58:27.893" LastActivityDate="2014-01-01T16:58:27.893" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16320" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-01T16:53:11.280" Score="5" ViewCount="1057" Body="&lt;p&gt;The launch of the movie version of Ender's Game was beset by controversy caused by the anti-homosexuality views of Osron Scott Card, the author of the original book. The book doesn't itself contain any obvious anti-gay message but activists really took against the author.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said this, the nickname for the insect-like aliens in the book is &quot;Buggers&quot; (presumably because they are bugs). But the movie uses a different nickname, &quot;formics&quot; (presumably because they resemble ants). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the name changed because of the controversy and sensitivity over the misapplication of the bugger name or was there a better reason to adopt a different nickname?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-01T16:54:48.870" LastActivityDate="2014-01-01T18:27:44.963" Title="Why did the film change the name of the alien invaders for the movie Enders Game?" Tags="|book-adaptation|enders-game|marketing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16320" CreationDate="2014-01-01T18:12:09.217" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading into this on Wikipedia, it seems that Formics is the correct 'scientific' name of the species, and a term that is increasingly used as the book series progresses.  Buggers as you say is a 'nickname', a pejorative term for the species.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the movie adaptation, I can imagine that they received advice that for British English (and perhaps other English language countries) that Bugger is both mildly offensive and a slightly comical and archaic term - likely to detract rather than enhance the experience.  I'd like to find a specific reference for this, but it is certainly the case that the term is comically offensive at least, and seriously offensive to some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the root of the term as a pejorative for male homosexuals and for certain sexual acts, and Mr Scott Card's well advertised opinions, it may be that the producers also wished to avoid the controversy, and may also not go on record as to why the term was not used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-01-01T18:27:44.963" LastActivityDate="2014-01-01T18:27:44.963" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16322" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-01T18:18:13.533" Score="4" ViewCount="332" Body="&lt;p&gt;What did Edith/Sydney whisper in Irving's ear when she barged into the meeting at the casino in &lt;em&gt;American Hustle&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7411" LastEditorUserId="55668" LastEditDate="2019-02-01T13:05:08.140" LastActivityDate="2019-02-01T13:05:08.140" Title="What did Edith/Sydney whisper in Irving's ear?" Tags="|dialogue|american-hustle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="16323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8924" CreationDate="2014-01-01T18:30:57.323" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Carl's shooting of Jody as Jody was surrendering in the season 3 finale was meant to parallel and illustrate how The Governor became the way he was. A person in those circumstances starts to think that shooting is always the safest option, whereas not shooting can lead to tragedy later. Eventually preemptive killing becomes second nature. (I know Jody was acting suspiciously, but Herschel said Carl shot him in cold blood, and Herschel was right there.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-01T18:38:49.703" LastActivityDate="2014-01-01T18:38:49.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16324" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16653" CreationDate="2014-01-01T20:29:08.007" Score="5" ViewCount="3091" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the series Pushing Daisies, Charlotte &quot;Chuck&quot; Charles is born to Charles Charles and Lily Charles.  However, it is explained that this was an illicit affair between the two, as Charles Charles was engaged to Lily's sister, Vivian.  Considering that there was no familial relationship (or presuming?) between the three--and none ever married--is it mere coincidence that all three of them had the same surname?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems unlikely they would have changed their name to Charles upon adopting Charlotte, and this suspicion is further validated by the last episode &quot;Kerplunk&quot; when the Darling Mermaid Darlings are addressed by their long-time rival as 'the Charles Sisters'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this writing oversight, coincidence, or is there any other explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1125" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T15:06:55.440" Title="Why are the Aunts' surnames in Pushing Daisies 'Charles'?" Tags="|pushing-daisies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16317" CreationDate="2014-01-01T21:00:45.987" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My comment was wrong, and it explained how Cale found out about Walker, but he was the Head of the Presidential Detail, not the Speaker of the House of Representatives (that one was Raphelson).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Near the end, Walker gets the nuclear launch codes via a pager, and writes them down. Fast forward a few minutes, and Walker is dead, an air strike is averted, and all seems to be well. However, the deputy special agent Finnerty (Maggie Gyllenhaal) calls him on the phone with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finnerty&lt;/strong&gt;: Walker had no prior contact with any of the terrorists, but someone else did. This guy, Stenz, made multiple calls to a secure line in D.C., but we don't know who received them. The database was wiped 30 minutes ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cale&lt;/strong&gt;: Really? Did you check Walker's personal records? His computer, his e-mails?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finnerty&lt;/strong&gt;: You don't know Walker, John. He was a dinosaur. The man still used a pager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, Cale -- who was a Raphelson's (the Speaker's) bodyguard -- connected the dots (his face was just a bit short of a little cartoonish &amp;quot;I have an idea&amp;quot; light bulb above his head :-)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He knew his boss was using a pager, which is quite rare these days. Since Raphelson had the valid nuclear codes, and was made president in all that mess, and has ordered an air strike on the White House (which would kill all the witnesses and destroy all the evidence), it all made sense, once the idea that it was Raphelson all along was triggered by Finnerty's mention of the pager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cale says some of this stuff in his final chat with Raphelson:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cale&lt;/strong&gt;: Well, Walker had to get the launch codes from somewhere and you were the only person with those codes. And I found this pager in Walker's pocket. I only know one other person that uses one of these.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Would have been better if the evidence had been destroyed in the air strike that you ordered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-01-01T21:00:45.987" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16329" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-01T22:42:09.420" Score="4" ViewCount="573" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036775/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Double Indemnity&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, Neff's last plan was to kill Phyllis and put the blame on Nino. However, a few minutes later (after killing Phyllis), he changed his mind, and prevented Nino from entering the house, thus saving him from the potential charge of murdering Phyllis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Neff change his mind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6204" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2014-01-01T22:56:42.340" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T20:24:06.637" Title="Why did Neff change his mind?" Tags="|plot-explanation|double-indemnity|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1745" CreationDate="2014-01-02T06:29:37.443" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it means that Hugo's life is now complete with the key as he thinks but the train wreck happens because he doesn't know what to do as George's Mėlies still dislikes him though he is a bit kind to him. The dream represents the feelings of Hugo Cabret.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7420" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T06:29:37.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16336" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16337" CreationDate="2014-01-02T09:54:35.047" Score="7" ViewCount="1777" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Time of the Doctor:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When answering to the question what her name was while still being unaware of the truth field, Clara spurts out something, I couldn't make out even after several re-watches of both the original and the German dubbed version. But it definitely wasn't &quot;Clara Oswin Oswald&quot;. It sounded more like a string of techno-babble or a machine designation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have read tons of reviews and am baffled that not a single one has picked up on this as it felt like one of the biggest mind-blowers in that episode for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="989" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T09:56:44.840" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T18:49:58.023" Title="What was Clara's reply when asked for her name on Trenzalore?" Tags="|dialogue|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16336" CreationDate="2014-01-02T10:20:48.790" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was pretty sure that she said &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Wobbly personality masking bossy control-freak.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;using VLC to do a much slower playback, but according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/doctorwho/34-2.htm&quot;&gt;this transcript site&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/article/12-quotes-we-loved-from-the-time-of-the-doctor/&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CLARA: Bubbly personality masking bossy control freak. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the history of Wibbly-Wobbly-Timey-Wimey stuff, &quot;Wobbly&quot; seemed likely. Having played it again, I do concede that &quot;bubbly&quot; is indeed what she said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-01-03T01:16:06.253" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T01:16:06.253" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16338" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16378" CreationDate="2014-01-02T10:25:25.793" Score="21" ViewCount="11881" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, there are various occasions where there is a boy playing with toy car. Noticed mostly when Walter and Hank talk (about meth or Hank's cases). In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; everything appears to have some meaning. And this toy car's appearance also looks to hold some symbolism. If yes, then what is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example screenshot from S05E10 - &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hPyIo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screen shot&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: Didn't watch the succeeding episode yet but don't mind spoilers.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="7454" LastEditDate="2014-01-03T21:45:52.827" LastActivityDate="2020-03-03T18:47:50.663" Title="What is the symbolism of the remote controlled toy car?" Tags="|breaking-bad|props|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16269" CreationDate="2014-01-02T11:28:13.573" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're referring to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_grading&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Color Grading&lt;/a&gt;, these days it's much easier to enhance and mix colors in moving pictures than it was years ago. Hence Color Grading was not done years ago because its not cheap, flexible and easy as it is today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6787" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T12:13:11.623" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T12:13:11.623" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16341" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16343" CreationDate="2014-01-02T13:25:51.573" Score="6" ViewCount="2682" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Monsters VS Aliens when Susan &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VaHpHR0U0c&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;begins to grow in the church&lt;/a&gt; her hair changes from black to white. Throughout the movie (including when she's temporally reduced back to normal size), her hair keeps its new white colour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the change in her hair colour was caused by the Quantonium why didn't it revert later in the movie? Why did no one appear to notice the change of colour?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-05-27T14:50:47.190" LastActivityDate="2018-06-17T11:00:45.860" Title="Why did Susan's hair change colour?" Tags="|character|monsters-vs-aliens|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16342" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16344" CreationDate="2014-01-02T13:32:30.163" Score="8" ViewCount="1667" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Doctor Who episode &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Time of the Doctor&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, the town of Christmas is attacked by a wooden Cyberman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did the Doctor defeat it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see the Doctor use his Sonic Screwdriver then inform the Cyberman that he'd reversed his flamethrower. He then challenges the attacker to confirm it as the truth field already ensures he's not lying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Cyberman is promptly defeated leaving the Doctor to comment: &quot;It doesn't work on wood.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the Screwdriver doesn't work on wood (as we've seen before) how did he defeat the Cyberman? If it does how did he lie about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="7454" LastEditDate="2014-01-03T22:05:59.147" LastActivityDate="2017-10-05T01:53:51.060" Title="How did the Doctor defeat the wooden Cyberman?" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16341" CreationDate="2014-01-02T13:41:53.323" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no in-universe answer I got but logically my thinking says that Susan's hair changed to white because her hair pigment* got permanently damaged . So when she lost her power her hair remained the same colour because the pigments was permanently lost and doesn't turn brown again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Human hair turns white/gray with age due to loss of hair pigments and same can be due to some radiation etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T15:31:34.880" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T15:31:34.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16342" CreationDate="2014-01-02T13:42:04.277" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;He set his Sonic Screwdriver to reverse the flamethrower. The Cyberman confirmed that the Sonic Screwdriver was indeed sending that signal. It is &lt;strong&gt;because&lt;/strong&gt; it doesn't work on wood that the flamethrower was not actually reversed, the Cyberman just thought it was. The Cyberman did not know the Sonic Screwdriver doesn't work on wood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rule 1: The Doctor lies.&lt;/strong&gt; Apparently, even when telling the truth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T14:04:16.683" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T14:04:16.683" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16345" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16346" CreationDate="2014-01-02T14:28:49.873" Score="9" ViewCount="1376" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2189771/&quot;&gt;The Empty Hearse&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, the Holmes brothers play a deduction game. They were trying to deduce the characteristics of the the owner of a woollen bobble hat. They both(?) agree that he is single. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when Sherlock met him later the cap owner said he has a girlfriend. So how can the master of deduction be wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="134" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T14:45:36.083" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T14:48:23.453" Title="How can the Holmes brothers be wrong?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16345" CreationDate="2014-01-02T14:48:23.453" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't know the brothers were wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At no point do we see any evidence of a girlfriend. The hat's owner claims he has one, but he might do this because he doesn't want to be perceived as a sad loner which is what he looks like. So we actually have no evidence that the brothers' deductions are wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T14:48:23.453" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16338" CreationDate="2014-01-02T14:59:22.883" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the finale, the car that Walter uses to kill the Nazis and free Jessie is the ultimate remote controlled car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7430" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T16:08:21.273" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T16:08:21.273" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10385" CreationDate="2014-01-02T18:10:26.913" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer lies in the ageless riddle &quot;if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it make a sound?&quot; You see, for many who are familiar with this philosophy it is understood that it is a question of faith. If you believe the tree does indeed make a sound, then you are a believer in God. Knowingly or not (I mean believer in God, not necessarily religion, that is a whole other discussion). Why you ask? Well if you believe the tree makes a sound without physical proof, then you are willing to believe in something that you may not know to be true, like God! To not believe in the sound with out physical proof then you find yourself with out faith.  And with it goes God, to believe in the story of the Tiger, without proof, is to have faith in the existence of God. Although this story may feel as one of lost innocence, it is actually a test of the reader's faith, in God, in something greater than the physical. Whichever version you choose, says a lot about you...knowingly or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7432" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T18:22:06.880" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T18:22:06.880" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16350" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16351" CreationDate="2014-01-02T20:09:59.137" Score="3" ViewCount="1687" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently read an article about &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/transformers-dark-moons-powerful-visual-208967&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Transformers 3 Computer Graphics Production&lt;/a&gt;&quot; which states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For a last push on the final weekend of work, ILM’s entire render farm&#xA;  was used for Transformers 3. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;ILM calculates that that added up to more than 200,000 rendering hours&#xA;  per day - or the equivalent of 22.8 years of render time in a 24-hour&#xA;  period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand what type of render time it is? 200,000 rendering hours per day? How is this meant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7433" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T15:34:54.810" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T15:34:54.810" Title="Transformers 3 Computer Graphics Production" Tags="|production|effects|transformers|dark-of-the-moon|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16350" CreationDate="2014-01-02T20:43:11.400" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A &quot;render hour&quot; refers an hour of computer time it takes to generate a&#xA;  visual image (&quot;render&quot;) from raw input data such as a 3D model.&lt;/strong&gt; The&#xA;  amount of time it takes to render a given image depends on a LOT of&#xA;  different factors including how complex the input data is (and how&#xA;  much input data elements there are, since there can be textures,&#xA;  lights, etc, in addition to the 3D model data). The &quot;hour&quot; varies from&#xA;  computer to computer. My personal laptop might take 10 hours to render&#xA;  a single image from the Bee movie, but a more powerful desktop&#xA;  computer might be able to do it in just 1 hour. So just knowing that&#xA;  Bee movie took 25 million hours isn't really much to go on. For a true&#xA;  understanding of how long the film took to render we'd need to know&#xA;  what types of computers were involved and what type of input data was&#xA;  rendered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;25 million hours sounds reasonable for a movie such as Bee movie,&#xA;  actually. Feature animated films like this are VERY time consuming to&#xA;  render, and if they're always rendered on large collections of&#xA;  computers such as the Media Grid since individual computers and even&#xA;  small collections of computers aren't enough. The Media Grid has&#xA;  thousands of powerful computers all connected together to render, for&#xA;  example. This is known as a &quot;render farm&quot;. - Barbara M&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;emphasis added&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically they spent 200,000 hours of rendering to process the raw images into what you see as the final product. You might want to give this resource a look to start and go from there (&lt;a href=&quot;http://3d.about.com/od/3d-101-The-Basics/a/Rendering-Finalizing-The-3d-Image.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What is Rendering?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5929" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-01-02T23:48:52.387" LastActivityDate="2014-01-02T23:48:52.387" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16353" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-03T02:53:06.930" Score="11" ViewCount="23942" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not much more description to give; I never understood that part.  His justification is &quot;that may not be the last time this voice is heard here&quot; or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T09:07:07.670" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T09:07:07.670" Title="Why does Gandalf start speaking in Black Tongue at the Council of Elrond?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-fellowship-of-the-ring|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16354" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17439" CreationDate="2014-01-03T03:08:45.713" Score="5" ViewCount="3476" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've watched these Monster films with my kids many times as it's their fav, and something had always bothered me about the characters. It wasn't until today that I spotted it. None of the monsters have any noses. Some have horns but no noses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except Sulley, he's the only character to have a full featured face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is the little pig in the poster that has a nose, but it could be argued that it's not a monster (more of a pet). This noseless trait exists in the original Monsters Inc film as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering why Pixar separated the facial features so that only Sulley has a nose. What was the motivation behind this decision?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you notice it. It becomes clear that Pixar did this for a reason, but I can't figure out why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N5ek1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-24T12:01:20.490" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T23:16:12.440" Title="Why is Sulley the only monster in the Monsters Inc films to have a nose?" Tags="|monsters-inc|monsters-university|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16353" CreationDate="2014-01-03T04:00:46.967" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, when &lt;em&gt;Gandalf&lt;/em&gt; was speaking the black tongue he actually quoted the ring inscription, which is itself written in black tongue. So for one point he &quot;stayed true to the source material&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Ash nazg durbatulûk, &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; One Ring to rule them all,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ash nazg gimbatul, &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; One Ring to find them,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ash nazg thrakatulûk, &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; One Ring to bring them all&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;agh burzum-ishi krimpatul. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; and in the darkness bind them  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at this point it had multiple purposes to really say it in black tongue. When he did so everybody was shocked to hear this spoken there, which is in fact what &lt;em&gt;Gandalf&lt;/em&gt; wanted to achieve. Because at this point &lt;em&gt;Boromir&lt;/em&gt; was standing up and nearing the ring (seeming as if dragged to it by the ring itself), about to make a statement for using it to fight &lt;em&gt;Sauron&lt;/em&gt;. So recitating the ring inscription in black tongue was to remind him and everybody else that &lt;em&gt;&quot;the ring is alltogether evil&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and can never be controlled. And using the black speech gave his words the necessary power and effect to convey this message unmistakably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And last but not least using the black tongue openly instead of silently off the record also demonstrated that &lt;em&gt;Gandalf&lt;/em&gt; is not closing his eyes from the evil that is already growing in middle earth and that everybody else seemed to ignore (and that might take overhand if kept ignored, which he was saying with the quote from your question). (similar to &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; being for a long time the only one to call &lt;em&gt;&quot;you know who&quot;&lt;/em&gt; by his actual name, to draw a connection to another famous movie franchise.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-12T09:17:07.527" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T09:17:07.527" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16358" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16359" CreationDate="2014-01-03T07:32:57.423" Score="12" ViewCount="2862" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2013 film Now You See Me we see a group of four magicians performing tricks. Many of them are explained in the film (the crimes themselves), others you can deduce (the chosen card appearing in the tower). However the tricks (or magic) done by the mentalist Merritt McKinney tricks are never explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many of his tricks are realistic and possible for a real, skilled mentalist and how many are Hollywood exaggeration?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-04-06T01:41:02.840" LastActivityDate="2014-04-06T01:41:02.840" Title="How realistic is the portrayed mentalism?" Tags="|realism|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16358" CreationDate="2014-01-03T08:08:14.757" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remembered an article from an older copy of rbc ministries' &lt;em&gt;Our Daily Bread&lt;/em&gt; that may be somewhat relevant. After digging through my train-wreck of a room for approximately 5 minutes, I decided it was easier to google the article. I found the article &lt;a href=&quot;http://odb.org/2013/10/31/eyes-of-love/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Here's a quote of the first paragraph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many people who come to Marc Salem’s stage shows think he can read minds. But he makes no such claim, saying he is not a psychic or magician, but a close observer of people. He told writer Jennifer Mulson, “We live in a world that’s mostly invisible to us because we’re not paying attention to things . . . . I’m very sensitive to what people give off” (The Gazette, Colorado Springs).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then go on to do a little googling on this &quot;Marc Salem&quot;. These paragraphs from his &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Salem&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; is of interest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to Salem, most of the people do not absorb the majority of&#xA;  information that is available to them in their day-to-day lives. This&#xA;  is especially true when people are involved in a game such as poker.&#xA;  No matter how good an opponent is, there will always be some leakage&#xA;  of information given off by the body. If there is an attempt to hold&#xA;  it in somewhere, it will escape somewhere else. The numerous&#xA;  interactions that go on around people often don’t even enter their&#xA;  field of understanding. Salem states that if we train ourselves to let&#xA;  them in and then correctly interpret the information that is&#xA;  available, we can gain a tremendous advantage in a situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are three basic mind-tools needed in learning how to read people&#xA;  and detect deception. Observing means to closely watch for the visual&#xA;  ingredients of deception and learn how to recognize facial expression,&#xA;  body language and gestures. The second step is listening effectively&#xA;  for what normally goes unheard. It means a system for picking up vocal&#xA;  tones, sudden changes, unconscious sounds, word choices and silences&#xA;  should be developed.&lt;a href=&quot;http://odb.org/2013/10/31/eyes-of-love/&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; Lastly, the information has to be interpreted,&#xA;  meaning comparing current behavior to what has been seen and heard&#xA;  before. Finding inconsistency in an action is the challenge and the&#xA;  key. An inconsistency is often more significant than the action&#xA;  itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Summing it up, Salem is not a mind reader or a magician, but he is&#xA;  able to pay close attention to people's body language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I decided to re-watch some of Merrit McKinney's tricks. First, let's start with the first trick he does, where he guesses that the man is having an affair with his wife's sister. Note that, he don't directly say the name of the mistress; rather, first he &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;chants letters alphabetically&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and, if you watch closely, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the man's eye subtly twitches when he says the letter &quot;J&quot;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; He proceeds to mention some common girl names. When the man's eye twitches again at &quot;Janet&quot;, he knew he got his answer. But the whole Florida, him having an affair in the first place, was credited to &quot;intuition&quot;. A little bit of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HandWave&quot;&gt;handwave&lt;/a&gt;, really. Here's a quote from Merrit McKinney during the interrogation of how he does his tricks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rhodes: What exactly is mentalism?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;McKinney: Tricks, mostly. Some science.Targeted guessing might be a most apt description. Along with some intuition and the occasional...Voices in my head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not very solid, yes, but it reflects what Marc Salem does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hypnotism is a completely different part, and this answer is long enough as it is, so I think I'll keep it short and simple. The point is, I'm not sure how that works, but the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnosis&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; as well as &lt;a href=&quot;http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/extrasensory-perceptions/hypnosis.htm&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; link may be worth reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal, unprofessional conclusion: Merrit McKinney can plausibly exist in reality, although if he is real, he would be considered as an extremely talented and observant entertainer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:I re-watched more of the film and noticed one scene where McKinney tapped someone's forehead, saying something like &quot;Whenever you think about Janet, you'll see me naked, and that's not a pretty sight.&quot; It seemed to have worked. I have to admit that this part is probably a liberty by Hollywood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6353" LastEditorUserId="6353" LastEditDate="2014-01-03T19:16:04.450" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T19:16:04.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16363" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-03T13:40:49.393" Score="10" ViewCount="3982" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first episode of season 3 of Sherlock named as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2189771/?ref_=tt_ep_pr&quot;&gt;The Empty Hearse&lt;/a&gt;. Sherlock is in Serbia and arrested by Serbian soldier. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this modern take on A.C.Doyle's classic is very much coupled with the actual one. The creator of Sherlock chooses references and scenes which is somewhat similar to the actual one. Now is there any Sherlock Holmes novel by Doyle which has resemblance with this incident?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T22:13:27.660" Title="Sherlock in Serbia is reference to which actual novel?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16363" CreationDate="2014-01-03T14:08:16.600" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Sherlock returning London, Mycroft told him that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes. You got yourself in deep there (Serbia) with Baron Maupertuis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now some googling and got that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On Monday, February 14, 1887, Sherlock Holmes begins his two-month-long investigation of Baron Maupertuis and the Netherland Sumatra Company, spending over fifteen hours a day working on the case (including one five day marathon of detection).&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sherlockpeoria.net/Who_is_Sherlock/HolmesBiography.html&quot;&gt; [source]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;also&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Baron Maupertuis is associated with a &lt;em&gt;Netherland-Sumatra&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Company&lt;/em&gt;. Now I think that company is in Serbia. That's how Sherlock get occupied in Serbia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So maybe the incident is loosely referring to &lt;a href=&quot;http://de.sherlockholmes.wikia.com/wiki/Die_Junker_von_Reigate&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Squire of Reigate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;  Later we came to know that bomb had been planted at &lt;strong&gt;Sumatra&lt;/strong&gt; Road railway station. So maybe another loosely bound reference! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="6895" LastEditDate="2014-01-03T21:54:49.083" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T21:54:49.083" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16269" CreationDate="2014-01-03T14:28:59.460" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way you describe this effect makes me think about Film Colorization by Hand. It is an older technique than the era you're suggesting.&#xA;Here is a description of the technique from this site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Painters colored each part of each frame of each copy of the reel by hand. This labor-intensive technology was only possible because the earliest films were very short (...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an example of a movie colorized using this technique:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSZbPUPtapU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSZbPUPtapU&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see the reds are more vivid than the rest of the colors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2089" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T14:28:59.460" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12945" CreationDate="2014-01-03T15:08:42.697" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe Chilton's arrival was due to machinations set in play by Dr. Lecter himself. A ruse employed by Dr. Lecter giving Chilton both, a soon-to-prove-fatal ego trip that his name (Chilton's), will once again presently be in the spotlight as the handler of Dr. Lecter (as the only man with the insight in to Lecter's unique mind to be able to track him and bring him down), and secondly as an assuredly, 'most horrible wake up call imaginable' pending (Chilton is clearly a raving Knob.). When the two inevitably cross paths the ball can only, without a doubt, be in Lecter's court (Chilton's back alley muscle, (-'We have the top-notch security'- good for you matey ;) for shame certainly no match for the driving force that is Lecter :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7446" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-08-14T10:10:22.620" LastActivityDate="2015-08-14T10:10:22.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16370" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16373" CreationDate="2014-01-03T15:10:12.627" Score="20" ViewCount="64753" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;The Empty Hearse&lt;/em&gt;, when Sherlock meets Tom who was Molly's boyfriend, he stares at him long enough to remark something but eventually resigns to a handshake with him. Once he gets out of the room John seems to acknowledge him that its good he didn't mention it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only saw the episode once, Can anyone enlighten me as to what were they talking about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2014-01-04T19:44:29.853" LastActivityDate="2014-02-01T14:43:18.573" Title="What was Sherlock about to remark about Molly's boyfriend?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16370" CreationDate="2014-01-03T15:12:10.300" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was observing that Tom was dressed just like Sherlock.  Watson had also noticed the similarity in clothing style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T15:12:10.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1733" CreationDate="2014-01-03T15:29:11.490" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Disney movie, the Eiffel tower is shown (during the song &quot;Be our guest&quot;), however construction of the Eiffel tower wasn't until the late 1880s, so it could have been set around then (or else it's sloppy work by Disney). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7447" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T15:29:11.490" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16370" CreationDate="2014-01-03T15:45:53.470" Score="34" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The long coat,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the scarf, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the shoes,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the curly hair,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the high cheekbones&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Molly's fiancé Tom clearly resembles someone ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;Tom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wJSOL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tom&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fWzqn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tom&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sherlock&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qmZyI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T15:45:53.470" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16374" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-03T18:01:31.360" Score="8" ViewCount="59600" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering how they shoot dual-roles in movies and after searching found an &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/13356/how-are-dual-role-films-shot&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;; I knew some of this before, but I have seen movies where: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Camera is moving.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The actor is shaking hands or interacting the other double (the same actor).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recently released &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=5&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;ved=0CEMQFjAE&amp;amp;url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1833673/&amp;amp;ei=kfrGUobVMobhyQGC5oDYCw&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNETomcC9BNDHdLX-rPSrjqhNHAI5A&amp;amp;sig2=CaGOvRMKq-Zf0OsK7Bf2Hw&amp;amp;bvm=bv.58187178,d.aWc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dhoom 3&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=5&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;ved=0CEMQFjAE&amp;amp;url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1029231/&amp;amp;ei=rfrGUrjAEYa6yQH39oHoDw&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEt42hQ5b-einQg9iFIhyvhmA1oZg&amp;amp;sig2=NqBgr6plYcaJeP9KXJeW1g&amp;amp;bvm=bv.58187178,d.aWc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Krrish 3&lt;/a&gt; are good examples where &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=6&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;ved=0CFEQFjAF&amp;amp;url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0451148/&amp;amp;ei=UPrGUsGPOITwyQGfvYDIAQ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGVfekjBbm8tx4u6IkWYMta60KbRw&amp;amp;sig2=71-H5PE2ntKYu4LPydyZBw&amp;amp;bvm=bv.58187178,d.aWc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Aamir Khan&lt;/a&gt; hugs his twin whilst the camera is moving. Similarly, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=5&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;ved=0CEYQFjAE&amp;amp;url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004335/&amp;amp;ei=K_rGUunAG-6GyQHWhYDYCw&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHYOvfQfTArt9Qe5rnQscg_LZN8vA&amp;amp;sig2=yUrvU0g_NpKCUXAcW2z9AA&amp;amp;bvm=bv.58187178,d.aWc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hrithik Roshan&lt;/a&gt; and his father (double) do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any &lt;strong&gt;Behind the scenes&lt;/strong&gt; of this type of shot? Any explanations as to how this is achieved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7448" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2018-03-19T12:19:50.093" Title="How do they shoot Dual-Roles where camera is moving or both characters interact?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16374" CreationDate="2014-01-03T18:29:44.903" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are Aamir's words on the double role of Dhoom 3 - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; The double role in Dhoom 3 is different from what we are used to&#xA;  seeing, as there are many close-up shots and movements involving both&#xA;  Sahir and Samar in the same frame. How was the execution process for&#xA;  you as an actor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aamir:&lt;/strong&gt; With newer technology it becomes difficult for the actor, as the kind&#xA;  of shots you can design for a double role are limitless. Earlier due&#xA;  to constraints of technology, you could not touch each other in a&#xA;  double role. Physical contact could not be captured, as you would end&#xA;  up touching yourself on screen. The camera used to be pretty-much&#xA;  static and in wide. Here were are hugging each other, exchanging hats,&#xA;  one is giving an Apple to the other…Because with motion control&#xA;  cameras, you can duplicate the same moment a number of times. The&#xA;  angle and position are all locked in a computer, so a situation can be&#xA;  recreated identically, multiple times, for an actor to perform&#xA;  different shots for his respective character in a double role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example take the shot in which Samar is getting ready in front of&#xA;  a mirror! Sahir is talking to Samar’s reflection in the mirror and&#xA;  asks him about where he is going. Once he names Aliya (Katrina Kaif’s&#xA;  character) and confesses his love, Sahir comes face-to-face and covers&#xA;  the mirror to confront Samar. Later Sahir once-again uncovers the&#xA;  mirror and tells Samar that Aliya is actually coming for him.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full article at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/aamir-khan-reveals-his-top-dhoom-3-moments-120797.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;indiatimes.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="206" LastEditDate="2014-01-04T00:04:21.513" LastActivityDate="2014-01-04T00:04:21.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16370" CreationDate="2014-01-03T19:34:14.367" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to add something more with &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/16373/6895&quot;&gt;Oliver_C's answer&lt;/a&gt;. After Sherlock came out of room he put on a scarf&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8TmQx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and exhales how similar is Tom to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MFd48.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T19:34:14.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16377" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16380" CreationDate="2014-01-03T20:04:31.267" Score="9" ViewCount="848" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=johncarterofmars.htm&quot;&gt;Box Office Mojo&lt;/a&gt; John Carter grossed $284 million with a production budget of $250 million. I know that many things are not included in the production budget, possibly advertising and distribution. Do those things account for so much money that grossing $34 million over the production budget just doesn't cut it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4518" LastActivityDate="2016-06-20T12:41:36.317" Title="Why is John Carter considered a flop?" Tags="|john-carter|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16338" CreationDate="2014-01-03T20:06:07.573" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; questions about symbolism, but fair warning: it's like opening Pandora's Box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you've rightly pointed out; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;everything appear to have some meaning&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...But there's often a lot of debate over their interpretations. It could be observed that in the deployment of narrative devices such as foreshadowing, recurring motifs and visual metaphor, a variety of connotations are often purposefully woven together, saturating objects with symbolism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vince Gilligan is quickly getting a reputation as the Stanley Kubrick of TV, so you're probably right to assume most profilmic elements are purposeful, and potentially loaded with symbolism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once a show can demonstrate that level of detail, it becomes impossible to stop searching for more things to decode. &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; has proven its capable of this time and time again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that in mind, here are a few options to explore:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, lets look at the colour they've chosen: Yellow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B6HzV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yellow has long been used as a precursor to danger, or warning of threat and peril. In football (soccer to our American friends), a yellow card is a warning to desist; In Aviation, yellow signals &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flyingmag.com/technique/tip-week/yellow-most-dangerous-color&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;caution ahead&lt;/a&gt;;and appropriately for a car, a yellow traffic signal is intended to alert drivers to an imminent change of circumstance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yellow, and its cousin Orange, are used frequently in television to signal danger, as pointed out by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2013/06/a-brief-history-of-oranges-and-how-they-foreshadow-death/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;others&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vince Gilligan is said to be engaging with this emergent TV trope; look at this compilation of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; deaths and notice how &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;v=2PV-UiSKHog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;many times orange or yellow features&lt;/a&gt; in the scene: almost always.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been said that this is such a prominent visual device, Gilligan even parodies it himself by having Ted Beneke '&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;v=DwzDqN7foyI#t=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;attacked&lt;/a&gt;' by the most quintessentially orange thing out there: The Orange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PUgMH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the car is prominent in scenes the prelude violent or dangerous circumstances would perhaps indicate that the car serves as a visual indicator to danger, flagged by its colour and supported by Gilligan's previous use of &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Color&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;oranges/yellow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TV Tropes also identify a character trend using a model called '&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlueAndOrangeMorality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blue and Orange Morality&lt;/a&gt;', in which they discuss characters which 'have a moral framework that is so utterly alien and foreign to human experience that we can't peg them as good or evil', and cite it as a popular narrative device. It is alleged the use of these colours throughout the show could be a reference to this, with other colours representing different themes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YI68n.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another interesting possibility of my own, is alluded to in your very title: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;It is a remote &lt;em&gt;'control'&lt;/em&gt; car.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be said that the car represents control, as it is something manipulated by another entity to its own command. The use of a remote control car is an exertion of dominance over a foreign object, and furthermore the car is useless without the direction of its keeper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also; the car the Kid is using is a replacement supplied by Hank, after Marie purposefully runs over the original.&#xA;Marie destroys this in a fit of pique after he reminds her that she should be attending her 'meeting', thus visually destroying Hank's 'control' over her and the remote 'control' car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kCh8x.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the car is being 'played with' during the scene in which Hank and Walt are wrestling with their control over each other, is interesting. It's one 'power play' in the foreground mirroring another in the background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also; look what the kid is wearing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/puXVN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Attention has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2013/08/breaking-bad-blood-money-rewatch-color-schemes-theories-and-foreshadowing/2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;already&lt;/a&gt; been drawn to the fact that the last child we saw wearing yellow was this unfortunate youth:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ocr2z.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally; what is a 'remote controlled' car? Its a mimicry, a feeble replica of something much more powerful than itself that seeks to imitate its 'bigger version', its authentic original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this not what Walter White is? is he not 'playing' at being a drug dealer, mirroring what others do as best possible? It's already highly discussed that Walt seems to &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:8285&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;adopt the characteristics&lt;/a&gt; of others around him, as though he doesn't really know what he's doing and is just copying those around him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could Walt not be the car himself? A smaller 'copy' of the real thing, trying his best to fool those around him? perhaps the car is a manifestation of Heisenberg, an avatar; leaving Walt to be the kid controlling it from a distance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any one of these theories, or all of them together, could be true: maybe none at all. That's the beauty of the show, and why&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I love Breaking Bad questions about symbolism.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2020-03-03T18:47:50.663" LastActivityDate="2020-03-03T18:47:50.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="16379" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-03T20:10:07.937" Score="3" ViewCount="3562" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Big spoilers up ahead. You have been warned.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Early on in the movie, Dylan Rhodes was given the task to track down and arrest the Four Horsemen, a task he begrudgingly accepts. However, at the end of the movie, it was revealed that he himself is the mastermind of the entire scheme. His role in the scheme is to serve as the FBI agent, presumably to reduce the unpredictable variables and to observe the magicians firsthand. My question is, &lt;em&gt;how had he guaranteed that he would be chosen for this assignment&lt;/em&gt;? What if he had not been picked? Was he purely relying on sheer luck that when the time comes, he would be the person chosen for the job?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Apparently, it is possible to &quot;influence&quot; people's thoughts, but it doesn't explain everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6353" LastEditorUserId="6353" LastEditDate="2014-01-03T20:26:47.120" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T08:50:24.217" Title="How did Dylan Rhodes guarantee that FBI would give him the task to arrest the magicians?" Tags="|plot-explanation|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16377" CreationDate="2014-01-03T20:17:35.623" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was considered a flop because it was supposed to be a bigger hit and a tent-pole to a new franchise. The production budget, like you opined, does not &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; cover advertising and distribution. When you spend $250 million, you expect your Domestic Total Gross to be &lt;strong&gt;well&lt;/strong&gt; over &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=johncarterofmars.htm&quot;&gt;$73 million&lt;/a&gt;. That is a flop. Even with world-wide BO it only made a small profit (not figuring in DVD sales). Put it another way: this $250 million movie is ranked 853rd in Domestic Box Office. That is  not what they were hoping for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-01-04T16:46:24.947" LastActivityDate="2014-01-04T16:46:24.947" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16379" CreationDate="2014-01-03T21:04:36.350" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is simply a plot contrivance used by the writers to make the film's narrative, viable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no way that he could have been expected to be the agent put on the case and the film offers the audience nothing that would explain why it happened. You, the viewer, are simply supposed to &quot;go with&quot; the fact that an agency with over 14k worth of personnel would place that particular person in that that particular case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since film would not have &quot;worked&quot; had this not occurred, it appears that this is simply a narrative device to make the remainder of the film possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T21:04:36.350" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14662" CreationDate="2014-01-03T21:09:19.623" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This scene is a re-imagining of a similar scene from the game &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil_Code:_Veronica&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;RE: Code Veronica (2000)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. And no, it doesn't make much sense. This inconsistency is even unintentionally &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/26965/why-did-alice-lead-the-survivors-through-the-graveyard-in-resident-evil-apocaly&quot;&gt;covered over at SE Sci-Fi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are various fan theories, e.g. infected soil (which is already covered by &lt;em&gt;Vedran Šego&lt;/em&gt;) and a theory suggesting that these people were infected by the virus before burial. No in-universe answer has been given, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T22:26:42.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10929" CreationDate="2014-01-03T21:15:30.427" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, he's not.&#xA;He was just an unlucky victim who was available when Mike needed someone to show Margaret how easy that it is to run a &lt;strong&gt;short con&lt;/strong&gt; (an easy fraud for a relatively small amount) on someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the characters in on the con appear in the bar scene near the end. The Marine is nowhere to be seen, nor is he discussed, meaning that he wasn't part of the setup. The &quot;kid&quot; they refer to is Billy, the &quot;patient&quot; that Mike used to rope in Margaret in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/8w5xr8M3k9E?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-05-17T06:30:01.087" LastActivityDate="2017-05-17T06:30:01.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16384" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16385" CreationDate="2014-01-03T21:37:49.220" Score="14" ViewCount="34084" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first episode of season 3 of Sherlock named as &quot;The Empty Hearse&quot;. We can see that Mary received a message from the John's kidnapper(s). Mary said it's a skip code and Sherlock told that the formula to decrypt is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First word, then every third&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The message after decryption was like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Save&lt;/strong&gt; souls Now! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John&lt;/strong&gt; or James &lt;strong&gt;Watson!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saint&lt;/strong&gt; or Sinner? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;James&lt;/strong&gt; or John? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The&lt;/strong&gt; more is &lt;strong&gt;less&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But according to Sherlock's theory how is it possible? As &lt;code&gt;Saint&lt;/code&gt; is just after &lt;code&gt;Watson&lt;/code&gt;. So what am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also picture of the scenes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TIk9u.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-01-15T18:28:14.230" LastActivityDate="2014-06-12T03:18:54.197" Title="How does the &quot;skip code&quot; work in The Empty Hearse?" Tags="|analysis|sherlock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16384" CreationDate="2014-01-03T21:49:52.900" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you rewatch it, they are indeed two separate messages. They pop up on her screen separately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Save souls Now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John or James Watson!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saint or Sinner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James or John?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more is less?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T21:49:52.900" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16363" CreationDate="2014-01-03T22:13:27.660" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I couldn't think of any story with the Serbian incident in Doyle's books, the ones that caught my attention are 2 direct homages to The Adventure of the Empty House which was the first short story in the category Return of the Sherlock Holmes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One was the incident with the old patient with Russian Accent who speaks to John who shows those dvds, the names on those dvds were all the names of the books sherlock carried disguised as an old book seller in that story and the humor where John tries to unmask the old man was a reference as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly the name of the villain on this episode Lord Moran who is also named after &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Moran&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Colonel Sebastian Moran&lt;/a&gt; who was one of moriarity's right hand henchman as well as an excellent shot who gets captured by Sherlock and Watson in that story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2014-01-03T22:13:27.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="387" CreationDate="2014-01-04T01:42:34.613" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my thoughts: Granger goes into a coma because he has become an unresolved paradox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's unclear when he arrived - we can guess 5pm, after Abe turned on the machine - or what, exactly, went wrong. We'll never know. &quot;The permutations are endless.&quot; What we do know is this: when Thomas Granger interacted with Abe and Aaron, he &lt;em&gt;prevented himself from ever learning about the boxes.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Abe and Aaron are freaking out in the storage facility, they discuss the possibility of telling Granger, but both dismiss the act - except in an emergency. From this we know Granger is not yet aware of the boxes. Whatever event might have caused him to learn about and use the coffins, that act has now been undone, and Thomas Granger 2 cannot logically exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's likely that the timeline was otherwise identical until Abe and Aaron noticed Granger 2 outside the house. (I wonder if was to contact the drugged Aaron in the attic.) It is only after Abe confirms there are 2 Grangers that Thomas flees and collapses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Earlier, when Aaron commits the Cell Phone Paradox, Abe asks if Aaron &quot;feels okay.&quot; We don't know if this means anything, but it's possible Granger 2 began to feel the effects of his paradoxical nature and panicked.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Abe and Aaron have either misinterpreted the coma, or are purposefully misleading one another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7460" LastActivityDate="2014-01-04T01:42:34.613" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16395" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16399" CreationDate="2014-01-04T08:22:14.227" Score="7" ViewCount="760" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll give you what I know for sure about it (which isn't a lot) and what could possibly be true to help you figure it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For sure stuff: &#xA;The name of the main character is in the title of the movie, most likely ending the title&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are these weird creatures, with a lady as the &quot;leader&quot;, who are disguised as humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional Help:&#xA;I saw this 1-2 years ago on Netflix&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His name is generic, like John or something&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title could possibly have &quot;of&quot; before the guy's name (Something something of [Insert Character Name Here])&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My friend remembers something about him dying over and over, and he can't figure out how to stop dying (something the creatures did to him, more specifically the leader?). Could be something to do with a drug he took/takes, although I'm not quite sure on that. If there is something to do with a drug, it might be a black liquid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;leader&quot; interacts with the main character at some point near the beginning, possibly to try and get him to help her do something&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a scene in the beginning where he gets up from his bed, with his girlfriend/wife in bed with him, and goes into the kitchen to (make breakfast?). The layout of the house is very open, so you can see the living room from the kitchen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all I could remember (might be a lot compared to some other's). It doesn't look like it's on Netflix anymore (I searched the Horror, Sci-Fi &amp;amp; Fantasy, and Thrillers complete lists on their website). Many thanks if you do find it! I've been searching for it for a long time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7463" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2014-01-04T10:51:22.790" LastActivityDate="2014-01-04T16:04:08.107" Title="Movie with character name in title/weird creatures with female leader" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:56:42.727" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16395" CreationDate="2014-01-04T16:04:08.107" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810823/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Deaths of Ian Stone&lt;/a&gt;, (2007):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ian Stone (Mike Vogel) is a working stiff, an American businessman who&#xA;  travels to England for business only to find himself trapped in a&#xA;  bizarre reality: every day he dies a horrific death at the hands of an&#xA;  unknown killer... only to wake up and murdered again and again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was one of 2007's &quot;8 Films To Die For&quot;.  The leader of the creatures, Medea, was played by Jaime Murray from &quot;Dexter&quot; and &quot;Defiance&quot;, who I always mistook for Lena Headey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-01-04T16:04:08.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16400" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16428" CreationDate="2014-01-04T16:20:38.473" Score="3" ViewCount="1874" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to do a statistical comparison of the &quot;most popular&quot; movies by year. That is, I'd like to look at the top 20-50 or so movies for each year from maybe 1950-2010. I'm flexible on the exact details, but that should give an idea of the spirit of what I'm doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The question:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's a semi-rigorous way to determine which movies were most popular?&lt;/strong&gt; Since &quot;most popular&quot; is nebulous, I'm looking for an approximation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'd like to use a metric which actually has data available. (this is the crux of my issue; the different metrics I consider don't seem to have readily available data, which makes me wonder if I'm using poor metrics)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;My lines of thought:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most obvious choice seems to me to be the box office gross. I've found reasonably detailed lists of the top grossers overall or the top individual by year (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/records/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;, etc). However, for the top X movies in a year (where X is not 1), the best I've found is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/year/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on IMDb&lt;/a&gt;, although they only seem to have box office data back to about 1971. Also, I'm skeptical as to the reliability of this data, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://pro.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?infosource&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb has a wiki component&lt;/a&gt; and they assert that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?boxofficedifferent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;box office grossings are not always accurate anyways&lt;/a&gt;. (That said, I'm willing to settle for less than perfect accuracy)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also considered finding several awards that have been around for a long time, and using the awardees as my data points. For example, I could use the winners (and to get more data points, perhaps the nominees as well) of the Academy Awards (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;around since 1929&lt;/a&gt;) or, as I'm concerned primarily with sci-fi, the Saturn Award (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Award&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;unfortunately only around since 1972&lt;/a&gt;). My concern here is that awards don't necessarily reflect popularity, and I don't know enough about movie awards to assert that they're at least a rough approximation of popularity. Also, they're not going to provide as many data points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does there exist some state of the art on this? Is what I'm looking for fundamentally impossible?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I changed the title and made some tweaks to be more clear that I'm not asking for lists. My goal is to determine a reasonable way to assert the popularity of movies at different points in history. The existence of lists to prove that a metric is usable would certainly be a bonus, but I'm not incapable of using a search engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT2:&lt;/strong&gt; Just for anyone in the future who is making the same google searches I was, regarding an authoritative source for film grossings: after speaking to several academics in media studies, there's general agreement that the trade magazine Variety is the most rigorous place to get that data. Every year in one of their first issues, they list the top 250 grossing films from the previous year. I haven't found a good open source of this data, but a standard &quot;good&quot; library will have this. (I'm currently going through tons of microfilms)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7468" LastEditorUserId="7468" LastEditDate="2014-01-28T03:13:23.910" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T12:01:19.970" Title="Reasonable metric for &quot;popularity&quot; in movies" Tags="|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16401" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-04T17:09:31.050" Score="9" ViewCount="4446" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Arania_Exumai&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry Potter Wiki&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Arania Exumai is the incantation of a spell used to blast back&#xA;  acromantulas or other large spiders. If the spell is used on anything&#xA;  but a spider it will produce a large black scorch mark, and thus it is&#xA;  not recommended for use on humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harry pretty much blasted Ron in the face with the spell in the car in the Chamber of Secrets, how was Ron not harmed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="108" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T15:47:55.767" LastActivityDate="2017-04-21T21:58:56.483" Title="Why didn't Arania Exumai harm Ron in the Chamber of Secrets?" Tags="|harry-potter|the-chamber-of-secrets|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16401" CreationDate="2014-01-04T17:22:55.053" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The spell (&lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.neoseeker.com/wiki/Arania_Exumai&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;used in the movie&lt;/a&gt;) was used in the presence of spiders. It's really that simple, I think. I used a Search function on my PDF of the book and it produced &quot;No results.&quot; It seems to be an invention of the film and one only used in the presence of spiders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would Harry use it when there were no spiders around?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastActivityDate="2014-01-04T17:22:55.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8370" CreationDate="2014-01-04T17:54:14.060" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(The_Matrix)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(The_Matrix)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Trinity made a return to the series in the official continuation, The Matrix Online. Taking on a major role in the game's final chapters it was revealed both she and Neo were actually the cumulation of decades of Machine research into translating human DNA perfectly into Machine code, allowing them to interface directly with technology without the need for simulated interfaces. Originally developed by The Oracle, this program was called The Biological Interface Program and was strongly sought after by the Oligarchy as a means to transfer their digital minds to physical bodies instead of the mechanical androids they had developed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_(The_Matrix)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_(The_Matrix)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After Halborn's removal in Chapter 10, little more was questioned until the revelation of the Trinity project, originally headed by The Oracle, in Chapter 12. It was revealed that both Neo and Trinity were actually the culmination of decades of Machine research into translating human DNA perfectly into Machine code, allowing them to interface directly with technology without the need for simulated interfaces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mxosource.com/wiki/index.php/MxO_Story_Detailed&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.mxosource.com/wiki/index.php/MxO_Story_Detailed&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Oligarchs continue to deal with various high-level Machines in the Real, such as Deus Ex Machina, and are aware of the &quot;Architect&quot; program that oversees the Matrix, but are not aware that the Architect has made use of an &quot;intuitive&quot; program, the Oracle, or that those two programs have engineered a system whereby some humans are allowed to live outside the Matrix, which had been running on a cyclical basis, regulated by two genomes so carefully bred and manipulated by the Machines that they have reached an unprecedented state of human/machine compatibility: Neo and Trinity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While they have as yet been unable to achieve this feat, the Machines have now come close: Bane was a version of Smith transferred, flawed, to a human host, and Cryptos was mostly overwritten by a program, although this has proven to be unstable. Furthermore, Neo and Trinity were the successful result of the Machines' centuries of study of the human body and genetics. &quot;Designed,&quot; as the Architect mentioned to Neo, they solved the remainder of the intentionally flawed Matrix equation; their DNA is perfected to the point that it can be defined precisely and completely in computer code, and, most importantly, interfaced perfectly with computer code: how previous Ones returned to the Source, for instance, and how the Oracle was able to predict the complex pattern of Neo and Trinity's interections so precisely, guiding it to her desired outcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7469" LastEditorUserId="7469" LastEditDate="2014-01-05T18:41:38.963" LastActivityDate="2014-01-05T18:41:38.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16405" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16432" CreationDate="2014-01-04T19:18:33.017" Score="13" ViewCount="16207" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final confrontation with General Zod in &lt;em&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/em&gt;, Superman breaks Zod's neck just  before Zod kills some humans in the corner of the train station with his heat vision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After breaking Zod's neck, Superman screams in agony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is he agonizing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it because he was forced to kill Zod when all throughout the movie he was a pacifist? Or is it because he realizes that he has also killed the dream of his father to be a bridge between humans and Kryptonians?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7470" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2022-09-04T03:32:32.917" LastActivityDate="2022-09-04T03:32:32.917" Title="Why does Superman scream at the end of Man of Steel?" Tags="|man-of-steel|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="16407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12526" CreationDate="2014-01-04T19:28:39.880" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_son_of_a_seventh_son&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;7th son of a 7th son&lt;/a&gt; is old folklore, I'm pretty confident both authors knew that and drew on the folklore concept independently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7472" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-04T19:53:26.510" LastActivityDate="2014-01-04T19:53:26.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16414" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16563" CreationDate="2014-01-04T21:21:23.227" Score="8" ViewCount="6814" Body="&lt;p&gt;Taylor Swift stars in The Lorax, and Idina Menzel appears in a major role in Enchanted. These are two of the most famous musicians in the world, and they are starring in musical films without singing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have any of those involved with these films or any others given an explanation for these decisions in an interview?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5283" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T17:42:13.227" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T17:42:13.227" Title="Have any directors gone on record explaining why they chose to cast a famous musician in a musical film and not have them sing?" Tags="|casting|the-lorax|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16416" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16427" CreationDate="2014-01-04T22:52:12.097" Score="8" ViewCount="8667" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read an amazing allegory of the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454468/&quot;&gt;Gravity&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454468/board/nest/223856053?d=223856053#223856053&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; and I believe every scene in Gravity does symbolizes something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at the last of the movie Stone got a radio-connection from Earth. But unfortunately that wasn't from NASA. But from a mere man. Stone requested the man to make his dogs bark. Then Stone also barked with the dogs' sound. So what does it symbolize?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-06T16:09:14.050" LastActivityDate="2021-07-12T22:14:28.023" Title="What does Stone's woofing symbolize in Gravity?" Tags="|analysis|gravity|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48" CreationDate="2014-01-04T22:58:35.463" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an old thread and I assume you've already turned in your paper, but it's an interesting question so I wanted to share an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like many good movies, The Dark Knight has several themes, but to me the primary theme of the movie is duty. The reason why I say this is because the primary conflicts of the film are centered around that theme:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Joker - he explained to Harvey that he was a dog chasing cars, that he didn't really have much of a plan but that he just wanted to induce a little carnage. He enjoyed his duty, but the thing that motivated him - that got him to keep going after Batman - was that he felt a duty to disrupt, to shake up, to change, to show people what they were really made of.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Batman - duty incarnate. He is scarred, physically and mentally and does not want to keep doing this job but the city needs him. He could have, and wanted to, kill the Joker, but chose not to because he duty is to uphold the law, not become the law. And after Harvey's death, he takes responsibility. Commissioner Gordon's speech over the closing credits sums up Batman about as perfectly as anything I've ever seen written about him does.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Harvey Dent - Harvey was pulled into politics by Bruce Wayne, who told him it was his duty to protect the people of Gotham City. And when he lost Maggie Gyllenhall's character, he went insane but at the core of that insanity was still duty -- to represent the arbitratiness of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lucius - Lucius set up the cell phone monitors for Bruce Wayne not because he wanted to, but because he felt a duty to Bruce to help him stop the Joker.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Inspector Gordon - hid the details of his death from his wife to serve the greater duty of catching the Joker.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bank robbers - each did their assigned task, progressively executing each other, even though at some point no one asked (until it was dramatically appropriate) why if they had orders to kill another robber, it stood to reason that another robber had orders to kill them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Boat bombs - another examination of duty and responsibility. The people on the boats had the duty to save themselves, but Tiny Lister transcended that to show that even duty can have too high of a cost, and that's why he threw the detonator out of the window.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that sense, 6 and 7 are evolution points of the script in that 6 is about what happens when someone blindly does their duty and 7 is about when someone refuses to do a duty to serve a higher purpose. IMHO, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now I have done my duty, which was to provide an answer to this question, so I am finis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1634" LastActivityDate="2014-01-04T22:58:35.463" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14758" CreationDate="2014-01-04T23:12:11.890" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, Tony's attitude about the painting was that it was not just a reminder of Pie-O-My but also a reminder of his murder of Ralph Cifaretto (portrayed by Joe &quot;Joey Pants&quot; Pantoliano) after he found out that Ralph had the stable burned down (among other things, most notably Ralph's murder of Tracee, his role in inducing Jackie Jr. to rob the card game which led to his murder, etc.). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Tony stared at the change to the outfit he was wearing in the picture because he was processing that Paulie had made that change because of his view of Tony as the boss (general) of the organization. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paulie was interesting in that regard because sometimes it seemed as if he admired Tony personally, and sometimes it seemed as if he was just happy to be part of an organization with a clear leader and chain of command.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1634" LastEditorUserId="42844" LastEditDate="2018-01-12T10:22:37.013" LastActivityDate="2018-01-12T10:22:37.013" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14163" CreationDate="2014-01-04T23:41:20.897" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was a one-time connection - he was in the right place at the right time and the hypnosis just opened a channel the girl could use to reach him. Reason why - he only sees the one girl; a city the size and age of Philadelphia, if he has been able to see more ghosts he certainly would have done so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1634" LastActivityDate="2014-01-04T23:41:20.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16416" CreationDate="2014-01-05T01:09:05.730" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I would say she was just drifting off a bit at this point. She reached someone on the radio, just to realize that it was an unkown man that couldn't understand a word she was saying. In addition to this she was out of fuel and without any hope to get home again. She was at this point already preparing to die out there and was rather content with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So she was just happy to hear some human voice at the end of all hope (similar to &lt;em&gt;user2176127&lt;/em&gt;'s comment), be it just a remote man in Greenland (or wherever &lt;em&gt;Aningaaq&lt;/em&gt; was from). So I'd say she was just joking around a bit with him and trying to make some simple conversation, maybe even to supress the thoughts about her serious situation and her supposed end. It was both a sign of her arrangement with her nearing end as well as of the desparation she probably wanted to hide with this little playing around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So much to the reasons for her behaviour but I'm not sure there is really anything deeper to this situation (but am still looking forward to other possible answers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-01-05T01:09:05.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15093" CreationDate="2014-01-05T03:29:54.187" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;One key difference: Both of the protagonists in the 2 Gun series are White.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/GraphicCity/news/?a=76645&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/GraphicCity/news/?a=76645&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="7390" LastEditDate="2014-01-05T13:56:34.310" LastActivityDate="2014-01-05T13:56:34.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16423" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16836" CreationDate="2014-01-05T04:45:21.850" Score="8" ViewCount="876" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I remember about it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1980-2000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;man saves woman from getting robbed at an ATM&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;man gets recruited by wrestling/ultimate fighting organization&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;man refuses mind-control steroids&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;father of saved woman tells man he can date daughter if he can hit him in a fight&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;man can not hit saved woman's father&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;father of saved woman trains man in martial art&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;one of the organization's fighters goes on 'roid rage&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;man learns fighting organization is underground gang dealing in drugs, guns, and money&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;man learns to move cans and explode watermelons with chi&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;man brings down organization&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7478" LastEditorUserId="7482" LastEditDate="2014-01-05T20:14:13.960" LastActivityDate="2014-01-23T11:24:41.643" Title="Looking for a martial arts movie" Tags="|identify-this-movie|action|martial-arts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:56:58.343" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16424" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="114360" CreationDate="2014-01-05T08:27:18.663" Score="4" ViewCount="1653" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Inside Llewyn Davis&quot; was Mike (Llewyn's deceased musical partner) the Gorfeins' son?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am most interested in in-universe proof, but would also appreciate quotes of any relevant discussion by the filmmakers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2014-01-14T00:47:56.723" LastActivityDate="2021-07-27T00:00:58.250" Title="Was Mike the Gorfeins' son?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inside-llewyn-davis|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16425" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-05T11:30:48.053" Score="2" ViewCount="3587" Body="&lt;p&gt;How many different endings does the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073707/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sholay&lt;/a&gt; have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know of one in the ending of which &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0023505&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thakur&lt;/a&gt; uses a shoe containing nails to destroy &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027556/?ref_=tt_cl_t6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gabbar&lt;/a&gt;'s hand. There is definitely a second one which I have seen but can't recall. But I guess there are three.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholay#Alternate_version&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia: Alternative version&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7083" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T00:49:17.047" LastActivityDate="2017-02-28T13:16:45.173" Title="How many different endings does Sholay have?" Tags="|ending|sholay|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16416" CreationDate="2014-01-05T15:39:43.100" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many things symbolised in the radio conversation with Aningaaq (an Inuit somewhere in the middle of an arctic wilderness). Some are more apparent if you watch the conversation from Aningaaq's side which, amazingly, was filmed as an add-on to the movie by Jonas Cuaron (son of the director and co-writer). The short movie can be seen &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4P3V4lCvB0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say that the key theme from Stone's point of view is the balance between hope and despair. She has finally been able to contact someone, though they can't really communicate. But she does get to hear another voice before she is doomed to die. It may be her last chance to hear another person talk. There is a tension between the human contact and the possibility it will be her last human contact. During the conversation she encourages Aningaaq to make his dogs bark: she can't communicate effectively with the inuit, but dogs have a common language: she can howl at them, they can howl back. It's a little corny but it seems to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you watch from Aningaaq's point of view another theme emerges. The original howl was from an old dog now in severe pain. The inuit is agonising about having to kill the dog as an act of mercy. Stone obviously can't understand this part of the conversation. But it adds a strange atmosphere to the short account from his point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stone also hears the sound of a baby crying, which she finds affecting. What the whole experience does to her mentality is unclear, but one possible role the scene plays is breaking her from a mood where she is resigned to her fate to one where the possibility of seeing earth again is worth fighting for. Even an incomprehensible muddled conversation is better than never having a conversation again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2021-07-12T22:14:28.023" LastActivityDate="2021-07-12T22:14:28.023" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="16428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16400" CreationDate="2014-01-05T16:01:04.877" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the topic is a tough, tough problem. Not impossible but very hard. And I don't think any single metric will do the job. I suspect that you will need to look at a range of different types of metrics and search for commonality among them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Box office is imperfect but important. But don't use it without making some corrections for inflation. And there might be more subtle signals in some sources that might also help such as longevity (i.e. how long the movie lasted in theaters or how well long term sales on digital or DVD held up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some accessible rating scales are also valuable. IMDB ratings are more robust than most as discussed here &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/16037/are-imdb-ratings-objectively-credible&quot;&gt;Are IMDB ratings objectively credible?&lt;/a&gt; . However, &lt;em&gt;more robust&lt;/em&gt; doesn't mean &lt;em&gt;very robust&lt;/em&gt;. But worth a look not least because they cover many old movies which tend to get missed in many magazine &quot;vote for your favorite movie&quot; polls. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aggregate scales that allow comparisons from many sources may also be worth looking at. Rotten Tomatoes aggregates views from many critics (which might give you some idea of how much they disagree, as well as what their average rating is). Users can all vote there so you have a ready reckoner for how much critics agree with movie lovers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect there is no truly robust method by itself. But I would be interested to see whether there are any significant common signals, if several sources are compared. This might be a significant statistical problem, though, potentially worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T12:01:19.970" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16429" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16549" CreationDate="2014-01-05T17:52:46.483" Score="4" ViewCount="2772" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I don't have a clear example, I'm looking for a transition which is somehow a mix of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cross-cutting: where two scenes in different locations happen at the same time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Graphic match : where &quot;two successive shots joined so as to create a strong similarity of compositional elements (e.g., color, shape)&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, we have two scenes which happen at the same time and the transitions back and forth between the two scenes are done through similar looking elements of each scene (for example, between a barrel rolling and a vehicle wheel). I can't manage to find the actual name of such transitions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7481" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-03T01:13:36.693" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T01:13:36.693" Title="What is a seamless cross-cutting transition called?" Tags="|film-techniques|editing|terminology|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16430" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16593" CreationDate="2014-01-05T18:56:35.540" Score="12" ViewCount="2075" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 5, Episode 8 &quot;Lady Lazarus&quot;, Don sees Megan out of the office after she resigns.  Immediately the elevator door closes on her, he calls another elevator.  The door opens but there is no elevator car and Don carefully looks down the shaft before giving up and going back into the office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've watched the next two episodes and up to this point there is no explanation for this strange incident.  What is the missing elevator car meant to represent, and/or why did the writers include it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-01-05T22:12:41.257" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T10:35:05.027" Title="What is the significance of the missing elevator car?" Tags="|mad-men|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16405" CreationDate="2014-01-06T00:20:03.830" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're astute in your approximation, you've surely already pretty much nailed it in your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was clearly a very emotional moment for the emergent Superman, not only for the reasons you've identified but also because Clark/Kal has just taken &lt;em&gt;his first life.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is presented as being your average, everyday American boy. To commit what is tantamount to murder, despite the nobility of his reasons, must be pretty horrendous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That, together with the reasons you've already listed, is surely enough to prompt someone to scream out in anguish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a very powerful way of humanizing him, allowing him to be seen processing the consequences of his actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an effective way of contrasting him against Batman, possibly in preparation for the much anticipated &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2975590/&quot;&gt;Batman Vs Superman Movie.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Batman's great weakness was his unwillingness to take another life, it was his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/counting-down-batmans-best-scenes-good-cop-bad-cop.php&quot;&gt;absolute rule&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the new films won't be part of the Nolanverse, its a fairly widely accepted characteristic of Batman that he doesn't kill. Superman has already proven &lt;em&gt;HE WILL.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-01-06T00:26:54.387" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T00:26:54.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10231" CreationDate="2014-01-06T03:50:00.210" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;have you even seen the movie.... Billy is a loser, always was and will be, but he wouldnt have it any other way... partly coz he is a perfectionist amd also his only goal in life is to win....:) and also the love of his doughter, but there he just has to maintain that relations.&#xA;I know nothing about sports but i do know that if you are the best at the end of the season, people will think you are going to keep it up next season (this is how tickets are sold, sad actualy that is why i dont folow sports) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it does not matter if Casey's lirics say looser or that it was only in billys head... point is that you can never win when you are a perfectionist, there is just no beating youre self, you are always better than you were.... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;keep in mind just enyoj the show people... :) peace from Bosnia &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7485" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T03:50:00.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16436" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16449" CreationDate="2014-01-06T11:15:48.560" Score="7" ViewCount="803" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0396171/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Perfume: The Story of a Murderer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; it's like he liked the first girl's fragrance so much so he just tried to smell her closely, but why does he keep on killing other girls? Was he getting attracted by other girls' fragrance, too? And what did he achieve by killing girls?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6168" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-06T11:36:51.293" LastActivityDate="2021-04-01T17:42:22.783" Title="What exactly he wanted to make by killing girls or he wants to store the smell of that girl (first girl he killed)?" Tags="|character|perfume|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16438" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-06T12:12:36.240" Score="1" ViewCount="3508" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1028532/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hachi: A Dog's Tale&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the Japanese college professor Ken advises Parker that the dog Hachi will fetch him the ball only for a special reason. What reason was that? And why did Hachi woof several times? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the dog able to make out Parker's death?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any references to the dog are highly appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7247" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-04-28T03:19:21.717" LastActivityDate="2017-04-28T03:19:21.717" Title="What was the special reason?" Tags="|plot-explanation|hachi-a-dogs-tale|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17235" CreationDate="2014-01-06T12:55:47.147" Score="3" ViewCount="1211" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was clear by watching the first season of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455275/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Prison Break&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that Michael's mother died when she was 31. And Michael was also having the same disease. But in season 4 she came into the show. How was she still alive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6168" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-06T13:04:24.223" LastActivityDate="2014-02-10T12:13:55.380" Title="What really happened to Michael's mother?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prison-break|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16444" CreationDate="2014-01-06T12:59:54.440" Score="8" ViewCount="1163" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final battle of Pacific Rim when Herc Hansen had been injured Marshal Pentecost and Chuck Hansen pilot the Striker Eureka into the ocean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chuck had concerns that the pair would not be drift compatible but Pentecost brushed them aside saying &quot;You're your father's son&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Pentecost know he and Chuck could drift together?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-06T13:06:35.440" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T13:17:33.940" Title="How did Marshal Pentecost know he and Chuck Hansen were drift compatible?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pacific-rim|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16442" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16445" CreationDate="2014-01-06T13:02:04.583" Score="15" ViewCount="34065" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2781042/?ref_=tt_ep_pr&quot;&gt;The Sign of Three&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Sherlock said &lt;em&gt;Billy Kincaid&lt;/em&gt; the best man he ever knew. Following was his quote about Billy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Billy Kincaid, the Camden Garrotter, best man I ever knew. Vast&#xA;  contributions to charity, never disclosed. Personally managed to save&#xA;  three hospitals from closure and ran the best and safest children's&#xA;  homes in north England. Yes, every now and again there'd be some&#xA;  garrotings, but stacking up the lives saved against the garrotings, on&#xA;  balance I'd say he...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I find out that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Kincaid&quot;&gt;Billy Kincaid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a villain in comics. Now I know creators of Sherlock do not throw any &lt;em&gt;dialogue&lt;/em&gt; without any reference. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is there any connection with comic villain or it's another character from London History or any of original Sherlock Holmes character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastActivityDate="2018-01-01T10:16:52.237" Title="Why does Sherlock think Billy Kincaid is a good man?" Tags="|analysis|character|sherlock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16441" CreationDate="2014-01-06T13:17:33.940" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is established right away that drift-compatibility is something that is based on a kind of equality in spirit as it exists between what one could more poetically call &quot;soul mates&quot; (like &lt;em&gt;Raleigh&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Mako&lt;/em&gt;) or brothers (like the &lt;em&gt;Beckets&lt;/em&gt;) or father and son (like the &lt;em&gt;Hansens&lt;/em&gt;). So given that &lt;em&gt;Marshal Pentecost&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Herc Hansen&lt;/em&gt; were once drift-compatible and &lt;em&gt;Herc&lt;/em&gt; and his son were drift-compatible it is not a large stretch that there is a high chance for a transitive drift-compatibility between &lt;em&gt;Stacker&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Chuck&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is on the one hand of course a genetic compatibility between &lt;em&gt;Herc&lt;/em&gt; and his son, which &lt;em&gt;Marshal Pentecost&lt;/em&gt; could have meant with the sentence &lt;em&gt;&quot;You're your father's son&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. But even more likely he probably meant to say that &lt;em&gt;Chuck&lt;/em&gt; is in fact pretty equal to his father in his spirit and mind, or maybe how his father once was in his youth (or when he was riding the &lt;em&gt;Jaegers&lt;/em&gt; together with &lt;em&gt;Stacker&lt;/em&gt;), or said more colloquially that &quot;the apple doesn't fall far from the tree&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T13:17:33.940" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16442" CreationDate="2014-01-06T14:09:01.040" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no &quot;Billy Kincaid&quot; on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://bakerstreet.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Search?search=billy%20kincaid&amp;amp;fulltext=Search&amp;amp;ns0=1&amp;amp;ns112=1&amp;amp;ns500=1&amp;amp;ns502=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Baker Street&lt;/a&gt; wiki, nor any Kincaids at all. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Kincaid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;comic villain&lt;/a&gt; you're referring to is from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn_%28comics%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Spawn&lt;/a&gt; comics. Not a &lt;em&gt;likely&lt;/em&gt; connection. And searching all forms of Garrot on Baker Street only returns:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He is a harmless enough fellow, Parker by name, a garroter by trade, and a remarkable performer upon the Jew's harp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;from The Adventure of the Empty House.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading the quote below again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Billy Kincaid, the Camden Garrotter[sic], best man I ever knew. Vast contributions to charity, never disclosed. Personally managed to save three hospitals from closure and ran the best and safest children's homes in north England. Yes, every now and again there'd be some garrotings, but stacking up the lives saved against the garrotings, on balance I'd say he...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say this sounds like exactly the kind of thing Sherlock would think and say, not realizing that to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9sUVrVS4co&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;non-highly-functioning-sociopaths&lt;/a&gt; it may (and &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt;) sound completely &lt;strong&gt;horrible.&lt;/strong&gt; It's character-development on-the-fly. Him saying this tells you quite a bit about his personality and his ideas of good / evil in only a couple odd sentences. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gatiss&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mark Gatiss&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Moffat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Steven Moffat&lt;/a&gt; are clever show-runners and often say more than appears at first glance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2016-09-22T02:21:33.497" LastActivityDate="2016-09-22T02:21:33.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16446" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16666" CreationDate="2014-01-06T14:46:22.067" Score="16" ViewCount="47426" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movie I remember is about a programmer guy who created this house, completely automated who made food, turned in water for all the house, talked with a woman's voice and practically had a personality of her own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The guy was with his family in the house, if I remember well he had his wife, a son and a daughter, both older than about 14. There might have been a third son who was younger, but I can't recall. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thing is, the father really loved his creation, and talked to her almost everyday, leading to a bit of his wife's jealousy. The house started returning to his feelings, and sensed the mother's anger over her. The house had cameras all around, so she started watching everyone and started to try killing them for her to be alone with the father I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene I recall the most of this movie is when a guy who seemed to be interested in the family's daughter, invades the house at night and is attacked by a type of food cart robot, who pulls a knife and kills him with it. That same guy showed up to the family as a seemingly friendly neighbor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a scene related to the showers not working, and I can't remember how the film ends. The movie must not be older than 1990, and I must have watched between 2000 and 2003 on television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing that might help, the son was blond and the daughter had short black hair. The father looked a bit like Robert Carlyle or John Glover. That's about all I can remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really want to find this movie because for me it was a great reference of house automation technology, besides being really thrilling and interesting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: A few specific scenes I remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The mother in a kind of white kitchen, ordering the house (which I think is called by a woman's name) to bake something in the oven I guess, and she automatically opens the fridge.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The son of the family orders some milk or similar liquid to the house in the same kitchen from above, which mecanically offers it to him. Later on the house spies on him sleeping on one of the cameras.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The father is seen on a laptop, where there are some program code lines, and talks to the computer woman/house.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some family members are seen carrying some chopped wood on the back of a pickup truck, in the yard outside the house. In this scene I remember the daughter and the guy who is killed by the food cart knife. I think the father also appears. The place around was pretty rural I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2: The movie is a LOT similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDUVZlAlBYQ&quot;&gt;Homewrecker (1992)&lt;/a&gt;. I am frustrated as how much it fits into the one I have seen. The house doesn't have mechanical arms like in this one, and if there is a child on the movie (which I think unlikely), it barely appears. The movie I'm looking for seems to be somehow more recent in appearance than this one. I might be wrong though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7285" LastEditorUserId="7285" LastEditDate="2014-01-06T20:13:16.100" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T08:33:19.233" Title="Movie where automated house creates personality and falls in love with the father of a family, watches them and tries to kill them" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:57:04.587" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16447" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18074" CreationDate="2014-01-06T15:14:22.687" Score="2" ViewCount="951" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did Roland come to know that David is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489099/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jumper&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And also which kind of electronic gun or machine was he using to catch the jumpers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6168" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-01-06T15:40:05.417" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T01:40:02.973" Title="How did Samuel L. Jackson come to know that Hayden Christensen was a jumper?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jumper|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16446" CreationDate="2014-01-06T15:20:01.033" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_House_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Smart House&lt;/a&gt;, where the house owner wins a smart house in a competition. But Pat (smart house) develops emotions for the family and tried to be mother figure to children and wife to the husband. She even make a holographic full lady image for her. And lock all of them in the house to protect. Even their try to shutdown pat also fails. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: There is no killing in the film.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T15:20:01.033" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16436" CreationDate="2014-01-06T16:23:28.013" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;short answer:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie uses scent as a symbol of love. The main character was robbed of love at birth when his mother was killed, and therefore spends his entire life searching for love, and hurting other people along the way. Unfortunately, being deprived of his mother's love meant he never learned to love himself, and therefore is incapable of loving anyone else. In the end he finally realizes his tragic condition, leading him to take his own life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;long answer:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie opens with the main character losing his mother immediately after he was born. He then grows up without a scent of his own, but with a relentless nose for other people's scents -- a peculiarity which drives other people away from him. As he ages, his obsession with other people's scents causes him to kill several women in an effort to capture each of their scents as he searches for the perfect scent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interpretation is that the main character keeps searching for the perfect scent just like some men keep searching for the perfect woman, or like addicts keep searching for the escape of getting high. Each time the main character is able to capture a woman's scent, he finds himself unsatisfied and kills the woman -- just like real-life &quot;Don Juans&quot; are unable to find long-term happiness in a committed relationship, or like real-life addicts are unable to avoid the inevitability of coming down. Each woman the main character kills represents a sexual conquest that ends in the woman's heartbreak, or a bender that ends in the inevitable painful hangover. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, the main character is driven by his fractured childhood relationship with his mother, which left him with no scent of his own -- just like real-life Don Juans and other addicts are thought to be driven by &quot;mommy issues&quot; that leave them unable to love themselves. The main character's suicide at the end symbolizes the two most common outcomes for the main character's real-life counterparts: either self-destruction or a life-saving relinquishment of their self-destructive ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2014-01-07T01:12:40.797" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T01:12:40.797" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16438" CreationDate="2014-01-06T18:20:48.367" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ken just said that Hachi will bring him the ball only for a special reason, which was also proved right when he does that by bringing the ball to Parker on the day he is going to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is the theory that animals have a 6th sense. This is attributed to dogs and cats the most. It's a debatable concept and it's about beliefs. But from the movie point of view the special reason to bring the ball from Hachi is to save the life of Parker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the woofing, there are myths among the people that dogs woof in a different voice than usual to indicate death. But that's also debatable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-07-27T14:40:23.663" LastActivityDate="2016-07-27T14:40:23.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16429" CreationDate="2014-01-06T18:33:08.843" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are talking about repeated graphic match cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_cut&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A match cut, also called a graphic match (or, in the French term,&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuidad_cinematogr%C3%A1fica&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;raccord&lt;/a&gt;), is a cut in film editing between either two different&#xA;  objects, two different spaces, or two different compositions in which&#xA;  an object in the two shots graphically match, often helping to&#xA;  establish a strong continuity of action and linking the two shots&#xA;  metaphorically. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example shot from 2001: A Space Odyssey - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vO0Mp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-09T15:06:42.420" LastActivityDate="2014-01-09T15:06:42.420" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16456" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17389" CreationDate="2014-01-06T19:45:03.327" Score="4" ViewCount="2250" Body="&lt;p&gt;When &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; originally aired in the United States as part of PBS's &lt;em&gt;Masterpiece&lt;/em&gt;, each episode was edited down to an hour, from the original 80-90 minute length.  Will series 3 be similarly edited? Or will PBS air each full-length episode? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4158" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T19:43:57.687" Title="Will PBS air full-length episodes of Sherlock Series 3 in the US?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16457" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16460" CreationDate="2014-01-06T20:25:22.540" Score="19" ViewCount="1492" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/&quot;&gt;Citizen Kane&lt;/a&gt; is the best movie on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.afi.com/100years/movies.aspx&quot;&gt;AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIES&lt;/a&gt;, second best on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time&quot;&gt;BFI's The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time &lt;/a&gt; and has score a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/citizen_kane/&quot;&gt;100% on Rotten Tomatoes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I for myself cannot comprehend what is so great about this movie (I gave it a maximum of 8.5)? While this may sound slightly subjective there seems to be some major consensus in society about &lt;em&gt;Citizen Kane&lt;/em&gt;'s status as one of the best movies ever made (if not &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; best) and I would like to understand the reasons for this status, since those seem to be universal reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it because of the time in which it was made? Is it because of the story? And I heard someone say that depth-of-field or something related was introduced for the first time in that movie. Is that right and may this be a reason, too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7083" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-07T11:41:36.457" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T11:55:17.863" Title="What is so good and unique about Citizen Kane?" Tags="|citizen-kane|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16477" CreationDate="2014-01-06T20:37:02.387" Score="24" ViewCount="25160" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 3rd episode of the series (&amp;quot;The Revenge of the Sith&amp;quot;), in the ending we see that Anakin kills Padme. Then he fights Obi-Wan, loses, and the Emperor saves him. When Vader asks if Padme's alright, Palpatine explains that he &amp;quot;killed her in his anger&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this moment, for Anakin, it should be clear that the Dark Side was the wrong thing to follow, that the Sith way of living (in short: emotions) did not provide anything good and the Jedi way (in short: reason) was better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in one of the last scenes we see both of them watching the construction of the Death Star, and of course we know that Palpatine was Vader's master (&amp;quot;The New Hope&amp;quot; and so on) for the next 20 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't realize that for 20 years Vader could not realize that following the Dark Side made him kill Padmé and he was somewhat betrayed by Palpatine. Is there any explanation for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I saw only six Star Wars movies, no books, nor have I watched &amp;quot;Clone Wars&amp;quot;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5258" LastEditorUserId="67810" LastEditDate="2023-05-15T08:32:02.890" LastActivityDate="2023-05-20T13:12:46.490" Title="What made Lord Vader stay with Palpatine after he'd killed Padme?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|revenge-of-the-sith|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="16459" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-06T20:38:54.040" Score="2" ViewCount="14275" Body="&lt;p&gt;So a friend of mine asked me to watch &lt;a href=&quot;http://ww.imdb.com/title/tt0903624&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&lt;/a&gt;, which I haven't, so that we can then watch &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1170358&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is it necessary to watch Hobbit one in order to enjoy, relate and understand Hobbit two?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7083" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-19T21:49:11.050" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T21:49:11.050" Title="Is it necessary to watch &quot;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&quot; in order to enjoy and understand &quot;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&quot;?" Tags="|the-hobbit|the-desolation-of-smaug|an-unexpected-journey|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16457" CreationDate="2014-01-06T20:56:45.557" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Citizen Kane was incredibly innovative, for a number of cinematic techniques (both pro-filmic and technical).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The depth of field you are referring to is the first use of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_focus&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Deep Focus&lt;/a&gt;, or long focal range. If you actually type 'Deep Focus' into Google, the first images that come up are of Citizen Kane, such is its fame:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fSHFM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice how Charles Foster Kane, as a boy, is still in perfect focus: even though the action is occuring in the foreground. This is saying nothing of the heavy use of symbolism used within the frame, and beautiful composition. And all this is only one shot of the film!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Orson Welles was one of the first US directors who believed in &lt;em&gt;privileging the image&lt;/em&gt;, not only the content/plot. He would go to extraordinary lengths to create unique cinematic experiences that had never been discovered/explored before; boring holes into the studio floor to create camera trenches, in order to get super-low angle footage, for one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UItnY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RR511.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film making techniques, the plot, the allegory to America's infatuation with wealth, the clever symbolism, the veiled attack on a much &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane#Hearst.27s_response&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;loathed newspaper magnate&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;and that ending...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..what's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to love?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was an instant classic: Cahiers Du Cinema, perhaps the most prestigious cinema journal of all time, described it as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;an undisputed, ground-breaking masterpiece of cinema history. Welles’ stature as a baroque, impetuous and profoundly free artist made the studios uncomfortable. He had control of every detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's simply one of the most influential movies of all time, for a variety of reasons pertaining to almost every field of film-making.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-07T11:55:17.863" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T11:55:17.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16459" CreationDate="2014-01-06T21:25:35.770" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;My answer is a clear (and honestly pretty obvious) &lt;strong&gt;Yes, definitely!&lt;/strong&gt; It is one continuous story (which would not have needed to be turned into three movies at all, but that is a different question) and &lt;em&gt;The Desolation of Smaug&lt;/em&gt; is a direct continuation of &lt;em&gt;An Unexpected Journey&lt;/em&gt;, relying on characters and events introduced in that (they were even filmed as a whole, like the &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; trilogy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, of course nothing stops you from reading a summary of the first part before watching the second (or just the book, though they made quite some many additions to the book's story). But this is clearly not the way I would suggest to follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-07T22:38:44.777" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T22:38:44.777" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16458" CreationDate="2014-01-06T22:57:19.190" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best way to put it, I think, is that Vader's spirit had been broken. The combination of succumbing to the Dark Side (and doing unspeakably evil deeds in its name), the destruction of his human body, and Padme's death all contributed in pushing Vader so far into the Darkness that he was barely human anymore. In Episode IV, Obi Wan describes Vader thus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;He's more machine now than man. Twisted and evil.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except for a tiny sliver that resurfaces at the end of the original trilogy, all humanity and goodness had been squeezed out of Vader, and all that was left was pure evil that the Emperor used to great effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-01-06T22:57:19.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16469" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16512" CreationDate="2014-01-06T23:46:56.063" Score="10" ViewCount="15390" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode 4 of season 1 we &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QRpCG.jpg&quot;&gt;see&lt;/a&gt; Locke taking its first look at &quot;the monster&quot; (~30:00), while hunting boars on his own. He &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wfcR0.jpg&quot;&gt;seems&lt;/a&gt; to be looking straight at something, not just randomly towards the direction of the noises. But then (~38:53), when asked by Walt's father, he says he didn't see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does he lie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="751" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2014-01-07T13:22:26.387" LastActivityDate="2017-03-14T04:24:37.373" Title="Why didn't Locke say he saw the monster?" Tags="|lost|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16470" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16473" CreationDate="2014-01-06T23:47:27.517" Score="4" ViewCount="15071" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realize that some of this can be pieced together through recurring characters of the movies, but I wonder if anyone knows how long the different races are supposed to live?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the average life expectancy of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dwarves? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Men?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hobbits?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Elves?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wizards?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Orcs?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Uruk-Hai?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Goblins?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to figure out the relative ages of characters who appear in both films, how much time has passed, and how many of them are close to the limits of their mortality by the end of &quot;The Return of the King&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="7454" LastEditDate="2014-01-07T04:47:11.730" LastActivityDate="2021-01-02T04:07:21.407" Title="What is the average life expectancy of Middle-Earth inhabitants?" Tags="|character|the-lord-of-the-rings|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2394" CreationDate="2014-01-07T00:10:33.363" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;an interesting case study here is use of computers and computer-like systems in movies. here are several well researched articles on Wired site on this topic which shed some light on the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/movie-computers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Most Wonderfully Ridiculous Movie Computers of All Time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/movie-computer-two/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Return of the World’s Most Wonderfully Ridiculous Movie Computers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/06/the-five-most-p/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Five Most Powerful Movie Computers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the 3rd article emphasizes the &quot;make the gadgets look visually cool&quot; aspect&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Computer in movies suffer from one major problem. Real computers are boring. To juice things up, movie makers tend to add spinning, glitzy interfaces, perfect voice recognition and security that can be cracked in seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;however the 1st two articles point out an interesting historical aspect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For decades, the AN/FSQ-7 -- Q7 for short -- helped define the image of a computer in the popular consciousness. Nevermind that it was just a radar system originally backed by tens of thousands of vacuum tubes. For moviegoers everywhere, this was the sort of thing that automated myriad tasks not only in modern-day America but the distant future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in other words some of the original flashy computers were real &quot;control&quot; or &quot;monitoring&quot; systems. (but not necessarily computers). they seemed to have high audience appeal and their design inspired later fake props. in other words decades ago, some real control systems actually were very flashy and colorful and these real systems were used in the movies and influenced later props. some of the real systems were reused in many movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7497" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T00:10:33.363" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9929" CreationDate="2014-01-07T02:04:29.710" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realize I'm ludicrously late for this, but the very first parody film was The Little Train Robbery, made in 1905. It was a parody of The Great Train Robbery, made in 1903, which had the same director.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7498" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T02:04:29.710" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16470" CreationDate="2014-01-07T02:46:28.987" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; the movies as source material...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elves are immortal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gandalf says just before he goes to find Eomer: &amp;quot;Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.&amp;quot; Even if men live only 50 years or so, 300×50 is 15,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bilbo was Eleventy-One at his party, and he was considered &amp;quot;well-aged&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And let's not forget Treebeard, the Ent, referred to &amp;quot;young master Gandalf&amp;quot;, so just imagine how old he is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This is a partial answer, at least. The movies don't really cover this. There's much more in the books, of course.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're interested in information from the source material:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dwarves?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gimli supposedly accompanied Legolas to the West in the year 3141 making him 262 years old. Appendix A in The Return of the King shows the descendents of Durin commonly living past 200 years old. Gimli was about 140 at the time of the War of the Ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Men?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typical of modern humans, but Men of Numenorean blood lived much longer. Aragorn, for instance, lived to be 210, and was 88 at the time of the War of the Ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hobbits?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little bit more than Men. Bilbo surpassed the Old Took who lived to 130. He was 51 when the events of The Hobbit took place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the Hobbits I see in Bilbo's family tree (Appendix C) lived between 80 and 100 years old for the most part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Elves?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elves are immortal, for they have not received the &lt;em&gt;Gift of Men&lt;/em&gt;. (Or the &lt;em&gt;Doom of Men&lt;/em&gt; as some Men call it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wizards?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They first appear in the Third Age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When maybe a thousand years had passed, and the first shadow had fallen on Greenwood the Great, the &lt;em&gt;Istari&lt;/em&gt; or Wizards appeared in Middle-earth...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They came therefore in the shape of Men, though they were never young and aged only slowly...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Source: &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;, Appendix B)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Gandalf, Saruman and peers show up about year 1000 and Gandalf departs to the West in 3021. It is unknown if Wizards are mortal or how old they can actually be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No mention is made in the books as to how old orcs can live, assuming they don't die a violent death first, which is really more likely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, though, the movies deviate quite a bit from the books. In the books, Frodo lives for years in Bag End after Bilbo departs. In the movies, it's scant months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7454" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-12-04T14:55:52.120" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16474" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16475" CreationDate="2014-01-07T04:32:57.993" Score="28" ViewCount="43435" Body="&lt;p&gt;During his time on the island in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162222/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cast Away&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) never opens up one last FedEx package, even though it could have made his escape or his survival easier. Why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7301" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-12-05T13:18:06.890" LastActivityDate="2021-10-24T23:47:06.407" Title="Why does Tom Hanks' character never open up the last package?" Tags="|character|cast-away|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16474" CreationDate="2014-01-07T05:29:48.727" Score="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tom Hanks's character works for FedEx, and sees it as his job that the package reaches its intended destination safe and sound, and most importantly unopened. While the package remains closed he still has a chance to deliver it. And delivering it means that he gets off the island.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a way of keeping himself sane and keeping his hopes up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2021-10-24T23:44:51.580" LastActivityDate="2021-10-24T23:44:51.580" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="16477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16458" CreationDate="2014-01-07T07:27:30.757" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Vader killed Padme in anger he lost his reason to live, he'd betrayed the Jedi order (using Palpatine's fictitious uprising as an excuse) and committed murder to increase his power and gain the Sith Lord's trust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No doubt up until this point he had ambitions of saving Padme, reforming the republic with them at it's head and giving her everything. A dark and twisted devotion to her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After her death he no longer had these motivations, I believe the fall to the dark side is very much about self deception and finding justification for your actions - after all everyone is the hero of their own story! He blamed Padme's death on the fact she'd betrayed him (bringing Obi Wan to kill him), the betrayal was then cemented when Obi Wan crippled him and left him for dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his mind he'd gone to great lengths for the people he loved, these very people had then betrayed him. He'd been left alone with a crippled body and nowhere to turn... except to the man who'd rescued him and who had tried to help him save Padme - Palpatine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T07:27:30.757" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12807" CreationDate="2014-01-07T07:33:57.417" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The director Joseph Korsinski answers the question in the link below. Basically he explains that the distance from the Tet's unknown solar system/star to Earth is so vast its unlikely that a living being could make the journey. Therefor an unmanned vehicle was more likely. It took the Odyssey at least 39 days to reach the Tet (in our own solar system) and the crew needed to be sleeping to complete that journey. Logically, I was also thinking whatever intelligence created the Tet and sent it unmanned to take over a whole planet, clone humans and design and build  outpost on Earth, must have the capability to send backup. The Tet by any planetary standards appears to be very important and very expensive. It appeared to be on a mining mission. However based on the directors answer and Morgan Freeman's monologue around 1hr and 32 mins into the movie the Tet may be just be a digital community or single entity. Think the Matrix learns space travel. Which might make a nice prequel. I wonder if the Odyssey was on a mission to learn how to exploit Saturn's resources?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Oblivion-Spoilers-Director-Joseph-Kosinski-Answers-Your-Burning-Questions-37271.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Oblivion-Spoilers-Director-Joseph-Kosinski-Answers-Your-Burning-Questions-37271.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7501" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T07:33:57.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16484" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16485" CreationDate="2014-01-07T12:39:26.467" Score="5" ViewCount="592" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sony recently announced that a &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/venom-movie-amazing-spider-man-sinister-six-sony/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sinister Six &lt;/a&gt; film is to be released in 2015. So does that mean the villains in the Amazing Spider-man sequels all survive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2014-01-07T16:04:57.677" LastActivityDate="2014-02-07T16:01:09.287" Title="Has Sony spoiled the endings of the Amazing Spider-man films?" Tags="|the-amazing-spider-man|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16484" CreationDate="2014-01-07T13:13:08.013" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though this news does imply that the villains from the new movies will survive to appear in their own spin-off, it's worth knowing that there have been several different line-ups for the Sinister Six over the years - see &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinister_Six&quot;&gt;this marvel Wiki page&lt;/a&gt; for more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is entirely possible that Sony could introduce a new member should one fall by the wayside, however, considering the recent Hollywood predilection for setting up big ensemble pictures, I wouldn't be surprised in the least to see every baddie survive the three Spider-Man films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T13:13:08.013" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16484" CreationDate="2014-01-07T13:21:07.210" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book_death&quot;&gt;No one really dies in comic books&lt;/a&gt;. Least of all villains. They are always defeated, but always return again - either by miraculously surviving, having their name and mantle taken up by a family member of protege, or any other plot twist to return a fan favorite character to the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this tradition isn't as noticeable in superhero &lt;em&gt;movies&lt;/em&gt;, mostly because there are far fewer movies than there are comic-book stories, I still think it's the it's a part of the genre: bad guys are &lt;em&gt;defeated&lt;/em&gt;, not &lt;em&gt;killed&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that particular genre trope, I don't think a film focusing on a group of recurring villains from previous movies can be considered a &lt;em&gt;spoiler&lt;/em&gt;. Recurring villains are a part of the genre, not a plot spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1507" LastEditorUserId="1507" LastEditDate="2014-01-07T13:38:40.693" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T13:38:40.693" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10351" CreationDate="2014-01-07T14:49:56.863" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;well this is solely based on my interpretation of the movie and i will try to say it as broad as possible. &#xA;the old nemo is real and every sub-stories in the movie will lead into this.&#xA;the middle-aged nemo is not. it is just the imagination of his younger self. &#xA;the young nemo is the realest story here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;my ending&#xA;the real story is that he decided not to choose between his father and mother as stated in the movie. and the woman he actually met and married is anna which is why it is the name that the old nemo say or to be precised, REMEMBER. compare to the two ladies, young nemo already had a real interaction with the real anna. it is during the scene where young-anna dive into the swimming pool. and because he did not choose between his parents, he became a homeless man or a pool maintenance guy. i don't know which one, then jump to the ecstatic reunion between the two. how they fall in love with one another is the question. when the middle-aged nemo is living in i think an abandon house, he has a picture of anna. which was probably taken when they were teenagers, not sure if they go to the same school or maybe nemo never really have the chance to go to school. then the old nemo stated that when he was teenager or 15 to be precised. he was in love. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that's my explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and here is one&#xA;maybe the movie will simply let us decide which story do we prefer, all are equally real, or equally not. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7505" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T14:49:56.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16470" CreationDate="2014-01-07T15:09:32.667" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bilbo's age of 111 was not all that unusual. It would be like modern humans reaching 100. Somewhat uncommon, but nowhere near unheard of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be unnatural, and part of the rings influence, was how he LOOKED at 111. Note in the movies that when he gave up the ring to Frodo he aged quite suddenly after that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I cannot speak to the authenticity according to canon, there is a chart of life expectancy of Middle Earth denizens at &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotrproject.com/statistics/#lifeexpectancy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt;, which also states Elves and Ainur are immortal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="6234" LastEditDate="2014-01-07T16:18:16.110" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T16:18:16.110" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16492" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16496" CreationDate="2014-01-07T15:10:10.890" Score="7" ViewCount="517" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; episode “And the Children Shall Lead”, an alien entity that is trying to conquer the galaxy tried to get children to take over the Enterprise to go to Marcos 12 where it had “millions of friends”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kirk de-programs the children by showing them images of their dead parents and the Gorgan disappears. Sulu says that they are approaching Marcos 12, but Kirk tells him to redirect to Star Base 4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Kirk just leave? Why didn’t he go to Marcos 12 to find out what was there? It seems logical that if the creature had some sort of army there, Kirk should have investigated or at least sent word to the Federation to investigate, not simply leave as though everything is fine and dandy now that the one creature &lt;em&gt;appears&lt;/em&gt; to be gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-09-26T14:04:57.477" LastActivityDate="2018-02-25T18:32:48.537" Title="Why did Kirk ignore Marcos 12?" Tags="|character|star-trek|star-trek-the-original-series|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16494" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-07T15:24:07.677" Score="6" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Time of the Doctor special gives the strong impression that the future has been changed. The Doctor does not die at Trenzalore. The planet does not become the horrifically scared and burnt graveyard depicted in the Name of the Doctor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The events that transpire in the Time of the Doctor do make clear that the destruction of Trenzalore was a possible future, but is not the future that eventuates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean that the events of the Name of the Doctor are to be considered an aborted timeline? And what of the Great Intelligence? Does he therefore still represent a dangerous threat to the Doctor? And how are we to view Clara's courageous acts to counter the G.I.? Perhaps her splintering across time never really happens. But then how can the Doctor's earlier encounters with her be explained?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7151" LastActivityDate="2014-02-07T11:42:25.270" Title="After the Time of the Doctor are the events in the Name of the Doctor just an aborted timeline?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16296" CreationDate="2014-01-07T15:35:19.570" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The altercation on the ledge is regarding the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Arkenstone&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Arkenstone&lt;/a&gt;, which Bilbo was tasked with retrieving. When Thorin asks where it is, Bilbo does not answer him, which causes him to be enraged. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's unclear why Bilbo didn't answer Thorin, choosing instead to try and leave the Hall beneath the Lonely Mountain. It could be because he felt the shame of failure, also that he felt escape from Smaug was a priority, but given the way he looks at Thorin, it's likely he detected something was amiss within the dwarf king.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moments earlier, Balin reprimands the Thorin or not going after him, drawing attention to the 'Dragon Sickness' Oliver discusses above. When Balin warns him not to make the same mistakes as his grandfather, he replies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thorin: I am not my grandfather!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Balin: You are not &lt;em&gt;yourself!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thorin's judgement is obviously corrupted by something, be it his thirst for victory, the 'Dragon Sickness', his proximity to the lost gold or &lt;em&gt;the Arkenstone itself&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Smaug earlier toys with Bilbo, telling him he is almost tempted to let Bilbo take the Arkenstone back to Thorin so he may watch him succumb to madness. We can infer from this the Arkenstone has similar properties to &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/One_Ring&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The One Ring&lt;/a&gt;. Thorin is acting not unlike Gollum when he is searching for his 'precious', enveloped in paranoia and anxiety. Perhaps Thorin believes Bilbo to have recognized the power of the Arkenstone and has concealed it about his person, trying to take it for himself. He could also have news of the Arkenstone that he is unwilling to share with Thorin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thorin's reaction is obviously inappropriate, but this is because his judgement is heavily impaired by a combination of the pressures upon him. A measured response is perhaps not to be expected given the circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The incident seems to have been forgotten moments later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is because Smaug appears, rendering the intensity of the moment rather irrelevant. They simply need to flee...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-07T23:14:18.870" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T23:14:18.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16492" CreationDate="2014-01-07T16:07:30.003" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;My impression was that Marcos 12 was a well-known planet with a high level of civilization, and the &quot;millions of friends&quot; were the children there.  The Gorgan wanted to bring the children of Marcos 12 under its influence, like it did on Triacus.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T16:07:30.003" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16497" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16498" CreationDate="2014-01-07T16:11:52.350" Score="7" ViewCount="1857" Body="&lt;p&gt;The closing credits in a full length movie can seemingly go on for ages, or at least 10 minutes or more after the actual film has ended. I realize that modern movies requires a lot of professional people to produce, but why include every single person? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;audience&lt;/em&gt; might be interested in the director, producer(s) and actors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other &lt;em&gt;movie makers&lt;/em&gt; might be interested in finding out who did the beautiful lighting (&lt;em&gt;Director of Photography&lt;/em&gt;) and employ them in their next film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I have hard time imagining that someone is interested in who the electricians were.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;The light bulbs really worked good.&quot; :)&#xA;Or for that matter Key grip, Best boy and head carpenter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Bonus question:&lt;/strong&gt; Have the end credits changed over the years and is there a tendency to cut out &quot;unimportant&quot; people from the end credits in new films? In Sweden, where I live, the TV networks have started to cut the end credits when they air movies to save time I guess. In my opinion it reflects peoples lack of interest in reading the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7507" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2014-01-07T17:23:19.560" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T17:23:19.560" Title="Why are electricians listed in the closing credits?" Tags="|film-industry|credits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16497" CreationDate="2014-01-07T16:35:03.993" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Closing credits are not entirely there for the audience, although I have a few friends that work in the movie industry and it's cool to see their names scroll by at the end of a movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ones that you see for electricians, gaffers, best boy, etc., are part of the film crew. It's an acknowledgement that without those people, the film would not have been possible. As for your comment about &quot;the light bulbs worked really good!&quot;, that just shows a complete ignorance of what the electricians and other people do on a set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also serves as part of their resume, in that there are many people that work on the film (Apprentices, interns, 3rd assistants, etc), that are not listed in the credits. It's a cachet, and does serve as a work history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, the format and style of opening and ending credits over the years has changed dramatically. As far as Swedish TV cutting credits, that would be local laws and regulations and I am not familiar enough with that to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-01-07T16:35:03.993" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16500" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16501" CreationDate="2014-01-07T20:03:20.390" Score="10" ViewCount="27657" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Swedish/Danish TV series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1733785/&quot;&gt;Bron/Broen (aka &quot;The Bridge&quot;)&lt;/a&gt;, when Saga (from Sweden) and Martin (from Denmark) are together, what language do they speak? How about other characters? We don't speak either language and watch with English subtitles so we have no way of telling for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="314" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-04-27T09:50:20.067" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T01:36:37.840" Title="Do Saga and Martin speak Danish, Swedish or both?" Tags="|dialogue|the-bridge|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16500" CreationDate="2014-01-07T20:23:55.517" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;They both speak their native language. Saga speaks Swedish and Martin Danish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no idea about the other characters as I haven't seen anything of the show myself, except for trailers, but they are most likely speaking their native language. So, whoever you can identify as a Swede would most certainly be speaking Swedish, and all the Danes would most likely be speaking Danish. Most Swedes have a bit of a hard time understanding Danish, though, so don't be surprised if they start speaking English all of a sudden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2015-08-11T16:31:05.553" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T16:31:05.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16502" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16504" CreationDate="2014-01-07T21:18:16.827" Score="25" ViewCount="3893" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently re-watched the Samuel L Jackson vehicle &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0227984/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3&quot;&gt;51st State&lt;/a&gt; where he is also surrounded by some very sweary British actors (like Robert Carlyle). So I expected a lot of profanity. Obviously Jackson says &quot;motherfucker&quot; at least once (is this part of his standard contract or something?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was prompted to think about profanity in movies and wonder what the sweariest movie ever is. I suspect that there might be some debate about what counts as swearing, so let's keep it simple and stick with the word &quot;fuck&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which movie has the most uses of the word &quot;fuck&quot;? And is it the same movie that has the largest number of uses per minute? I'm guessing that something by Tarantino might win, but then, his movies are long and that might cut down the rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T12:03:44.167" LastActivityDate="2016-06-05T20:59:26.920" Title="What is the sweariest movie ever?" Tags="|cinema-history|most-appearances|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16503" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-07T21:32:31.937" Score="7" ViewCount="3081" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole point of the alien entity, the TET, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483013/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot;&gt;Oblivion&lt;/a&gt; is to abstract the earth's oceans because it can use them for power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the solar system has a lot of other water according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5827649/a-map-of-all-the-water-in-the-solar-system&quot;&gt;this article in io9&lt;/a&gt;. TET could easily take water from other planets, moons or asteroids and it wouldn't have to do anything nasty to the local populations there (as far as we know). So why does TET want &lt;em&gt;Earth's&lt;/em&gt; water?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2016-11-18T08:06:44.807" Title="Why does the TET want the water on earth when there is plenty of other water in the solar system?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oblivion|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16502" CreationDate="2014-01-07T21:42:36.170" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a point of great contention, with different sites grading different profanities to different levels of 'swearyness'...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back in 2009 The Magazine TOTALFILM claimed that &lt;em&gt;Casino&lt;/em&gt; held the title with 398 F-Bombs, at a rate of 2.23 per minute. This was apparently enough to make it into the Guiness Book of records.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since then however, certain films have been re-appraised and other contenders for most &lt;em&gt;fucks&lt;/em&gt; have been entered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia lists the contenders &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_that_most_frequently_use_the_word_%22fuck%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The highest count now belongs to a documentary called, aptly; '&lt;em&gt;Fuck&lt;/em&gt;'. The word is used 857 times, at an average rate of 9.21 fpm (fucks-per-minute).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The highest use in a fiction film belongs to the cult slasher &lt;em&gt;Gutterballs&lt;/em&gt;, with 625. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closely behind it is the very recent &lt;em&gt;The Wolf of Wall Street&lt;/em&gt;, with 506. Certain Newspapers erroneously &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/battle-of-the-fbomb-wolf-of-wall-street-breaks-swear-word-record-9039192.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;claimed this to be a new record&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you factor in the running times of &lt;em&gt;Gutterballs&lt;/em&gt; against &lt;em&gt;The Wolf of Wall Street&lt;/em&gt;, you realise that &lt;em&gt;Gutterballs&lt;/em&gt; packs in three times as many swearwords per minute, making it pretty unbeatable...or should that be, unbearable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Here's one for the Conspiracy theorists amongst you! since &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; posted a comment correcting the article in the Independent, the &lt;em&gt;Gutterballs&lt;/em&gt; entry has been removed from the wiki-link! interesting, considering anyone who has seen it can &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; vouch it has &lt;a href=&quot;http://letterboxd.com/frankentomato/list/holy-fck-films-with-the-most-f-words/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;more F-Bombs&lt;/a&gt; than &lt;em&gt;The Wolf of Wall Street&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if Scorcese's people have &lt;em&gt;leaned&lt;/em&gt; on wikipedia to hide the truth, so they can claim the soundbite-friendly prize, or if there is some genuine reason why it would have been removed? Maybe migrate this to &lt;a href=&quot;https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Skeptics&lt;/a&gt;, ha ha.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:46:46.903" LastActivityDate="2014-01-09T23:38:28.757" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16503" CreationDate="2014-01-07T22:00:10.457" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst it's true that other planets contains water deposits, no where but earth contains it in such abundance and so accessible, as the article in io9 states.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/obVXe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a rational human being that considers confrontation to be problematic, sure: &lt;em&gt;I'd&lt;/em&gt; tap up one of the frozen planets for water underneath. But the TET was perhaps uncaring about the ramifications of ressistance on Earth (which, as the movie reveals, was obviously a fatal mistake).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, water only exists in its 'liquid state' on &lt;em&gt;Earth&lt;/em&gt;, due to its &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldilocks_planet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Goldilocks&lt;/a&gt; status. It's probably much easier for the harvesting process to gather the substance in a maleable, liquid form than as huge blocks of Ice that need to be thawed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as Oliver C has pointed out, it wasn't the water itself the TET was after, but the Deuterium contained within it. Deuterium is aparrently incredibly easy to extract from &lt;em&gt;SEA WATER&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starscientific.com.au/faqs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;using centrifugal force&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A key advantage of deuterium is the fact it can be easily extracted from sea water without harming or polluting the remaining water in any way. It is estimated the world’s oceans contain enough deuterium to supply global needs for many, many generations to come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the TET was quite environmentally considerate, it seems! I'd imagine wiping out the worlds population of humans certainly put a stop to global warming. The Nihilists amongst us should be thanking it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-01-08T00:35:36.940" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T00:35:36.940" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15842" CreationDate="2014-01-07T23:11:06.667" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw the film on the 15th of December, and I have arachnophobia as well. I thought the spider scene was really no problem for me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some scenes I laughed at the spiders and how Bilbo becomes more brave and confident as the incident with the spiders progresses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; There is a moment were Bilbo drops the ring he goes to pick it up, but then a weird withered giant bug appears from the ground. At first I thought it was a beetle of some sort but as I remembered in the book I thought that it could have been the elder spider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7511" LastEditorUserId="6234" LastEditDate="2014-01-08T22:34:32.570" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T22:34:32.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16469" CreationDate="2014-01-08T04:08:17.680" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There might not be a reason for why he lied other than he is John Locke and that's what John Locke does best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before the camp bonded tightly, John Locke was noted as man that seldom shared information about where and what he was doing on the island.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point, he reluctantly told the camp about his finding of &quot;the hatch&quot; and he sabotaged the communication equipment that Sayid used to search for the Island's radio transmitter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T04:08:17.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16469" CreationDate="2014-01-08T08:42:48.393" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keeping in mind what we now know (that the monster is The Man In Black), we can only speculate at what John actually saw. Each person who saw the smoke monster presumably saw more than just a large cloud of smoke - they saw some kind of vision in the monster (if memory serves, this is what happened with Mr. Eko for example). What John saw probably affected him in a way that he wanted to keep whatever vision he saw to himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T08:42:48.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16425" CreationDate="2014-01-08T09:17:01.903" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;An old timer (&lt;em&gt;who was present at a private screening&lt;/em&gt;) once told me that in the &quot;&lt;strong&gt;original&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; ending of the movie, &lt;em&gt;Gabbar&lt;/em&gt; (Amjad Khan) rolls off the boulders and lands on iron rod(s) when kicked by &lt;em&gt;Thakur&lt;/em&gt; (Sanjeev Kumar). He is impaled on them or is seriously injured, leading to his death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this ending was considered too soft and didn't exactly give a meaningful conclusion to what was supposed to be a &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;revenge saga&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Moreover, the producers thought that this ending will not stir the emotions of the audience as the ending was too, well &lt;em&gt;chancey&lt;/em&gt;! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This led to &lt;em&gt;Ramesh Sippy&lt;/em&gt; shooting the next version in which &lt;em&gt;Thakur&lt;/em&gt; kills &lt;em&gt;Gabbar&lt;/em&gt;. And then there is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholay#Alternate_version&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;censored alternate version&lt;/a&gt;, mentioned in Wikipedia. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence,&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Total count of different endings = 3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-08T09:38:27.387" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T09:38:27.387" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16494" CreationDate="2014-01-08T11:02:45.723" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically, yes. The events of Time of The Doctor undo the events of Name of The Doctor. This question is answered at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/46882/time-of-the-doctor-v-s-happenings-of-name-of-the-doctor/46929#46929&quot;&gt;sci-fi stackexchange&lt;/a&gt;. Please go through the detailed answer there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2014-02-07T11:42:25.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16053" CreationDate="2014-01-08T11:31:42.120" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;He might have left trace evidences in the bathtub like hair. But the cops had no reason to think that he would sleep in the bathtub with his victim. Also, they would have to drain the bathtub to get hold of the victim's body, which would mean whatever evidence was trapped in the blood to be flushed out. And even in case the cops thought of analysing the blood, finding a single hair in a bathtub-full of blood is no easy task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7516" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T11:31:42.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16516" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-08T12:33:15.463" Score="2" ViewCount="277" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching the enjoyable remake starring giant handed Chloe Moretz, I started to think after the inquiry at the end, what crime could they prove Carrie carried out? Telekinesis could not be used as evidence could it!? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-01-08T16:00:58.653" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T16:00:58.653" Title="If Carrie were to be arrested what crime could she be convicted of?" Tags="|plot-explanation|remake|carrie-2013|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16516" CreationDate="2014-01-08T12:47:27.567" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well they wouldn't necessarily have to believe Carrie had 'Telekinesis' in order to carry out the murders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the following investigation would almost certainly be attempting to rule that out, unequivocally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people who witnessed her most supernatural feats (flying, lifting people off the ground) were mostly murdered in the school hall. Cause of Death: Fire/Being Trampled (trauma)/impaled by various falling debris.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the remaining witnesses, Hysteria has been attributed to mass &lt;a href=&quot;http://lesswrong.com/lw/2sr/are_mass_hallucinations_a_real_thing/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;hallucination&lt;/a&gt; on other occasions in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Punch was rumored to be spiked with Alcohol, so what else could have been said to be in there? Remember Ms. Desjardin, one of the only surviving witnesses, distinctly hears this comment being made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were no witnesses (we know of) to the murder of Tina, that could have been simply a crash into a Gas Station caused by the damaged road surface.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that huge chunks of the road were shattered and cracked, not to mention building collapse would perhaps point to tectonic activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Officials would probably assume mass hysteria coupled with a co-incidental earthquake or other seismic event which tore most of the town up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, however, there is obviously a lot of accusation being publicly leveled at Carrie, given the graffiti on her Gravestone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MkrQW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Authorities, as you've pointed out, couldn't necessarily pin anything on her. Not because she isn't guilty, but because admitting she perpetrated murder through  'Telekinetic' means is a conclusion they would be purposefully trying to evade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you've no doubt recognized yourself, its not possible to accuse someone (even posthumously) of murder unless you have clear and concise evidence &lt;em&gt;proving&lt;/em&gt; their guilt through tangible means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-01-08T13:54:01.277" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T13:54:01.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16053" CreationDate="2014-01-08T13:50:17.740" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was very thorough at cleaning. This is from the very first crime scene, during the kill:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mPN4O.png&quot; alt=&quot;During the kill&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is during the investigation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VO87M.png&quot; alt=&quot;During the investigation&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dexter comments on this: &quot;It's a very well organized crime scene. The assailant took his time. Cleaned up after himself.&quot; with a funny remark &quot;Obviously doesn't have kids&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, how &lt;strong&gt;exactly&lt;/strong&gt; did he manage to clean the whole scenes is never seen, if I remember correctly. But note the different carpet color on the two snapshots. This is because, prior to his kill, Arthur put a big white towel over the original green carpet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7eXNI.png&quot; alt=&quot;Before the kill&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has a ritual, not unlike Dexter's, and a certain preparation for the kill, albeit somewhat less efficient than Dexter's (since he actually has to clean some of the traces off the scene itself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T13:50:17.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16519" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-08T14:22:51.670" Score="8" ViewCount="2546" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure it's ever explicitly explained why Schultz brings Django to Candieland in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely they were aware that their plan is greatly jeopardized by bringing Django along: not only does he have to temper his emotions around Broomhilda, they are also counting on Broomhilda being able to do the same with &lt;em&gt;no prior warning&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Django has already fulfilled his purpose in proving to Candie that Schultz is interested in Mandigo fighting at the Cleopatra Club, which is how Schultz obtained his entry to Candieland. This proves Django was no longer needed &lt;em&gt;to convince Candie&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Schultz was already very capable of handling himself, being a bounty hunter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RLRXB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as for 'back-up', surely the last possible thing the pair wanted was a Gunfight, so why anticipate one? It only happens due to the failure of their original plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pMZwz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as for being able to positively identify Broomhilda, the dialogue already mentions that the chances of there being &lt;strong&gt;two&lt;/strong&gt; African slaves named 'Broomhilda' are almost zero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can see, the only thing that would jeopardize the plan is Django's presence, so why does he come along?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: No 'because it makes the plot better' answers, please ;P. I know its a great movie, but I'm looking to see if this is explained within the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-01-08T19:53:37.387" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T11:01:15.403" Title="Why did Django come to Candieland?" Tags="|plot-explanation|django-unchained|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17735" CreationDate="2014-01-08T15:57:10.403" Score="1" ViewCount="990" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jack Campbell is given a glimpse of an alternate life in The Family Man. It starts on Christmas day and ends sometime after that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many days did he live in the alternate reality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-03-24T16:05:12.150" LastActivityDate="2016-03-24T16:05:12.150" Title="How long was Jack Campbell in his alternate reality?" Tags="|the-family-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16318" CreationDate="2014-01-08T16:56:14.717" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'Girl' you are referring to is, as you have speculated, a computer generated re-rendering of the principal actress' face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fox Studios released a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n71sjmd-bM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;visual effects Show reel&lt;/a&gt; 2 years ago, demonstrating the different processes employed to create the special effects and the visual palate of the film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The video demonstrates the repeated use of 'Head Replacement', whereby Natalie Portman's face is rendered over the top of other on screen characters; notably the rest of the Swan Lake ballet cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Il0JO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RNxD5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iro2o.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sex scene you refer to is ostensibly an entire fabrication. Nina is suffering from some kind of undiagnosed psychotic episode, the details of which are being discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/15755/what-type-of-mental-illness-does-nina-suffer-from/15795#15795&quot;&gt;elsewhere on the site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Psychiatrists have claimed the character suffers &lt;a href=&quot;http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Movies/black-swan-psychiatrists-diagnose-natalie-portmans-portrayal-psychosis/story?id=12436873&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;from a Psychosis&lt;/a&gt;, but not necessarily Schizophrenia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;But speaking as a psychiatrist, Lamberti said the film did not accurately depict schizophrenia, as has been widely speculated, but&#xA;    &quot;does present a reasonable portrait of psychosis.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&quot;People tend to be scared of things they don't understand,&quot; he said.&#xA;    &quot;If you have never treated or observed a person with psychosis, it's&#xA;    upsetting.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Psychosis is a loss of contact with reality that usually includes&#xA;    false beliefs or delusions, and seeing or hearing things that are not&#xA;    there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Like a fever, psychosis is a symptom rather than a disease, and can be&#xA;    caused by a variety of triggers: exposure to mercury (the hats of the&#xA;    Mad Hatter were impregnated with the heavy metal), drugs like&#xA;    amphetamines, epilepsy, a brain tumor, dementia or psychiatric&#xA;    disorders like schizophrenia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The technical implications of this, however, suggest that Natalie Portman's face was rendered over Mila Kunis'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T20:15:58.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16519" CreationDate="2014-01-08T18:02:28.363" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it was ever even considered that Schultz goes there alone, so it's not an addressed issue. The rest of my answer is speculative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, it's Django's wife, so it is a matter of ego, and it is emotionally very important that he comes to her rescue. Given his temper, I have hard time imagining him waiting for Schultz to rescue her, even if it would be wise (which it probably would be).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine, for a moment, the scenario in which Django waits somewhere while Schultz goes to Candieland. I think we can say, with absolute certainty, that he'd do something stupid, like go &quot;see what's going on or if his help is needed&quot;. In a way, maybe it was reasonable for Schultz to want to keep an eye on Django.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, as you said, &quot;the last possible thing the pair wanted was a gunfight&quot;, but -- and I quote another movie -- &lt;em&gt;want doesn't get&lt;/em&gt;, so it is not unreasonable to anticipate a fight. However, you are right that Django greatly increased the possibility of a fight. And let's not forget that the fight was actually incited by Schultz, not by Django, so he too is a bit of a loose cannon (and most likely aware of that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, this is South in the time of slavery. Separating Django from Schultz for a few days is risky, as there is a hunting season on masterless black men there. No formal papers would help him if a group of gun-happy white men came along his way, and his aforementioned temper wouldn't help diffuse the potential situation. So, leaving Django somewhere would impose a risk of Schultz losing an associate (and, I dare say, a friend), while getting his wife instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are somewhat wrong about them &quot;also counting on Broomhilde being able to do the same with &lt;em&gt;no prior warning&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. That warning came in the room scene, where Schultz first to met her, and (tried to) prepare her for a meeting with Django.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was actually a good plan, which would go all right if Candie didn't have Stephen who noticed Broomhilda's emotions. Who there, other than a very observant black men eager to please his master, would pay attention to emotions of a black woman?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T18:02:28.363" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16525" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-08T18:26:32.400" Score="9" ViewCount="66326" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Les Misérables (2012)&lt;/a&gt;, I can't understand why Jean Valjean died at the end. There was no reason given in the movie. Jean Valjean was sitting on a chair inside the convent and was praying and said,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;God on high, hear my prayer. Take me now to thy care. Where you are,&#xA;let me be. Take me now, take me there. Bring me home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the cause of Jean Valjean's death?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it sickness? Was it old age? From his prayer, it sounds like Jean Valjean was tired of his life and asking God to take his life, thus saying &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;bring me home&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;. But I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7194" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2023-05-13T15:05:53.567" Title="Why did Jean Valjean die?" Tags="|plot-explanation|les-miserables|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16525" CreationDate="2014-01-08T19:00:58.080" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_%28musical%29#Act_I&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; lists this reason from the musical (which the 2012 film is based on) as: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At a convent, Valjean awaits his death, &lt;em&gt;having nothing left to live for.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That may be, but he was also pretty old for the time period, and serving 19 years of hard labor probably didn't help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1768 - Birth of Jean Valjean (book)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1796 - Jean Valjean is sentenced to prison (28)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1815 - He is released (47)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1823 - He is Mayor and becomes guardian to Cosette (55)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1832 - There is upheaval in Paris and the events of the student revolution take place. (64)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1832 or 1833 - Jean Valjean dies. (64 or 65)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At age 65 he is well past the average life expectancy of something living in France in the 19th century. Admittedly, when you are constantly in war, the life expectancy is pretty low. French people didn't see a life expectancy above 60 until after &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ined.fr/en/everything_about_population/graph_month/life_expectancy_france/&quot;&gt;World War 2.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it is probably a combination of old age, and having no more reason to live (believing that he will never see Cosette again). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T19:00:58.080" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16527" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18641" CreationDate="2014-01-08T20:11:13.257" Score="6" ViewCount="6711" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know Jack's father body was put on the plane (we clearly see the coffin in one of the very first episodes), and we know that someone took the body (probably &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/MiB&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;Man in black&quot;&gt;MIB&lt;/a&gt;) from Episode 5, when Jack smashed the coffin into pieces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, since Christian Shepard's body is never found. Where did it go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bonus question:&lt;/strong&gt; Why did the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/MiB&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;Man in black&quot;&gt;MIB&lt;/a&gt; take it in the first place? (we know he can impersonate somebody without literally taking their body)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="751" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-01-08T20:49:44.213" LastActivityDate="2017-05-29T02:25:53.100" Title="Where's Christian's body?" Tags="|lost|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16528" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16585" CreationDate="2014-01-08T20:15:22.697" Score="3" ViewCount="1416" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Sherlock's S03E02 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2781042/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Sign of Three&lt;/a&gt;) Sherlock identified the cameraman as the MayFly man and also the attempted murder of Bainbridge. But Sherlock couldn't find any &lt;em&gt;murder weapon&lt;/em&gt; or any live evidence to hold his theory. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He said the evidence is &lt;strong&gt;not in the camera&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't that too weak evidence to arrest and prosecute a man for attempted murder?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-01-08T21:00:36.827" LastActivityDate="2014-01-10T23:21:10.950" Title="On what evidence could the police arrest MayFly man?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16329" CreationDate="2014-01-08T20:24:06.637" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Noir protagonists need to be self-aware by the end of the story, and by preventing Nino (who was a little bent but basically innocent) from getting embroiled with Phyllis he's showing he's learned his character's lessons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Narrative-wise, recognizing and owning up to his fault was what killed him, not Phyllis's bullet (because once he's learned his lesson he's of no further use to the author).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1634" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T20:24:06.637" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16527" CreationDate="2014-01-08T20:49:35.800" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I am aware this was never answered in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a bunch of theories about Christian's body on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Christian_Shephard/Theories#Christian.27s_Body&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LOST wikipedia web page&lt;/a&gt;. Notably here is one of the most common theories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;During the crash, Christian's body was ejected from the coffin. The ultimate evidence is the sport shoes (possibly Jack´s) we can see hanging in a tree, in the first scene of the pilot. &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/MiB&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Man in black&quot;&gt;MiB&lt;/a&gt; must have found both the body and the coffin. He made Christian's body disappear but kept the coffin knowing that he would be able to drive Jack mad (or, at least, to spread a lot of doubts).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion is that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/MiB&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Man in black&quot;&gt;man in black&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Smoke_Monster&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Smoke Monster&quot;&gt;smoke monster&lt;/a&gt; had to take his body to be able to imitate Christians form. How or what the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/MiB&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Man in black&quot;&gt;MiB&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Smoke_Monster&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Smoke Monster&quot;&gt;SM&lt;/a&gt; did to assimilate the form from Christian's body nobody knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T20:49:35.800" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16532" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16534" CreationDate="2014-01-08T22:48:32.480" Score="24" ViewCount="41405" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having seen the incredible statistics on the frequency of the use of the word &quot;fuck&quot; in movies in this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/16502/what-is-the-sweariest-movie-ever&quot;&gt;What is the sweariest movie ever?&lt;/a&gt;, I thought it might also be worth recording the first use of the word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what was the first movie to use the word &quot;fuck&quot; audibly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2019-02-19T02:38:57.077" Title="What is the first appearance of the F-bomb in a movie?" Tags="|first-appearance|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16528" CreationDate="2014-01-08T22:51:43.907" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is actually strong evidence to get Jonathan Small convicted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is related to a person who died under Major Sholto (Revenge a major motive)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is present in both the crime scenes taking pictures with both Sholto and Bainbridge prior and there are witnesses who could identify him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How he was dating all the women with his false identities and using the places where people had just died as a meeting spot, using all these false identities is no serious issue but if you look at the first two points it would add a cynical nature behind these actions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He mentioned to Sherlock and Lestrade that Sholto wasn't a good guy at the end which pretty much serves to the point that he was wiling to take up the punishment for the attempted crimes he committed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus also Sherlock also mentions that he gave himself away by returning very late to the marriage again than he should be. I am no attorney but all these points i think could point to a very good circumstantial evidence and a very good motive to put him behind bars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2014-01-08T22:51:43.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16532" CreationDate="2014-01-08T23:06:02.897" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Contentious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=246323&quot;&gt;Most sources&lt;/a&gt; claim Robert Altmans &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066026/?ref_=tttr_tr_tt&quot;&gt;M&lt;/em&gt;A&lt;em&gt;S&lt;/em&gt;H&lt;/a&gt;* contained the first 'Fuck' in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066026/trivia&quot;&gt;major motion picture&lt;/a&gt;, it was already the first for other things (first use of sound bridging!) so it's happy to push boundaries. It was actually only the first Hollywood film to do so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, the climax of &lt;em&gt;The Graduate&lt;/em&gt; (1967) features a scene in which Ben Braddock can be seen (but not heard) shouting &quot;What the fuck are you doing?&quot; to Elaine as she stands at the alter, as he is behind glass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, both &lt;em&gt;Ulysses&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;I'll Never Forget What's'isname&lt;/em&gt; used it beforehand, both also being released in 1967. &lt;em&gt;Ulysses&lt;/em&gt; however, was released in June of that year as opposed to the December opening of &lt;em&gt;I'll Never Forget What's'isname&lt;/em&gt;, making &lt;em&gt;Ulysses&lt;/em&gt; the winner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1967 was a good 'fucking' year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others have argued over the first 'profanity' spoken in a movie, with &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020960/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4&quot;&gt;Hell's Angels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; being the most likely candidate (considering the amount of times 'damn' and 'son-of-a-bitch' is apparently uttered during dogfight sequences).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T18:58:07.853" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T18:58:07.853" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16540" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-09T01:11:17.507" Score="16" ViewCount="1354" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed a few Easter eggs that didn't seem obvious until I re-watched my Man of Steel BluRay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The traditional whooshing sound heard as Superman does his very first flying around in the suit... If I'm not mistaken this is the same sound heard when the original Superman (played by George Reeves) flew in the black and white TV series.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The LexCorp truck that was beat up against by whomever it was; which was a reference to Lex Luthor (who did not appear at all in the movie)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The supposed face morphing when Superman flies in the beam of light... his face changing briefly to resemble the late Christopher Reeve...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone else noticed these, and by chance seen any others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7513" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-12T13:10:16.187" LastActivityDate="2016-05-12T13:10:16.187" Title="Man of Steel Easter Eggs" Tags="|dc-extended-universe|man-of-steel|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16541" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-09T01:26:25.103" Score="2" ViewCount="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395843/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;CSI: NY&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &quot;Battle Scars&quot;, Nick confesses he shot his friend (Jesse), but it was an accident and it was Jesse who planned all  of this. In the end they believe he was telling the truth but we never know the outcome of Nick. Did he go to jail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5778" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-02T22:27:44.727" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T22:27:44.727" Title="Was Nick sent to jail for shooting his friend?" Tags="|csi-new-york|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16546" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-09T06:07:07.267" Score="0" ViewCount="3407" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I watched the movie Les Misérables (2012), I was surprised to see them singing! It looks funny to me. The story is excellent and touching but I find it quite inappropriate to see them singing. I feel like watching and opera show, not a movie, and I don't even like opera. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen many animations where singing is very common. For cartoons and animations, singing is very matching because it is mostly designed for kids and for entertainment. I have seen other movies like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchanted_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Enchanted&lt;/a&gt; where they sing a lot but it is very matching with the beautiful scenery, dress and the beautiful actors. But the movie Les Misérables is not like that. People are very dirty, the places are dirty, there is only death and struggles. And they are singing :( I think it should be done like a normal movie instead of the actors singing always. I also don't like the way they sing. It is only spoiling the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was  Les Misérables (2012) movie made in musical style? Would it be better if it was done like a &lt;strong&gt;normal movie&lt;/strong&gt;, which I think will make it &lt;strong&gt;more real and more touching&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7194" LastActivityDate="2017-05-16T19:13:20.120" Title="Why are they singing in Les Misérables 2012 film?" Tags="|les-miserables|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16546" CreationDate="2014-01-09T11:48:20.240" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The story has already been shot as a normal movie, back in 1998. And 1995. And 1982. And 1978.... on and on and on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 1998 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119683/&quot;&gt;version&lt;/a&gt; of Les Miserables was a straight take on the Victor Hugo novel, intended to be a po faced English language interpretation of the failed second revolution. It was well received (still rated 78% fresh by Rotten Tomatoes) but did not meet anywhere near the same level of financial success as the 2013 version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new version was created as a musical because this is the first time the story has been told in musical format in a feature film, having been adapted from the long running stage show. The Musical had already proven its popularity, being the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_%28musical%29&quot;&gt;longest running stage show&lt;/a&gt; on the West End of all time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been &lt;strong&gt;nine&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://stuartfernie.org/Misfilms.htm&quot;&gt;interpretations of the story&lt;/a&gt;, but this is the first time &lt;em&gt;the musical&lt;/em&gt; has been re-created, instead of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, the reason they sing is because that's entirely the point of this production: it is an adaptation of &lt;em&gt;The Musical&lt;/em&gt;, not the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables&quot;&gt;book&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-01-09T11:48:20.240" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16429" CreationDate="2014-01-09T12:45:00.980" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than being a match cut, I have always known this type of edit as a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;FORM CUT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_transition#Form_cut&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki entry&lt;/a&gt; for Form Cut:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The cut joins together two pieces of film that contain two similarly&#xA;  shaped objects in similar positions in the frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However - I would not refer to this as 'seamless', as the viewer is often acutely aware that the cut has taken place - rather it is used as an artistic way to transition between subjects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look at one of the more famous examples, from Eisenstien's &lt;em&gt;Battleship Potemkin&lt;/em&gt;.&#xA;There are many form cuts (Eisenstien pioneered this technique) in the Odessa Steps sequence, but none so striking as the shot of the gun barrel that is cut next to the open mouth and wounded eye of the old woman. Circles played a huge part in this sequence (pram wheels, screaming people) and are used to hold the entire scene together while dramatically demonstrating cause and effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vbOkV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c8rld.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-09T15:01:39.553" LastActivityDate="2014-01-09T15:01:39.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16552" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16553" CreationDate="2014-01-09T16:09:50.353" Score="7" ViewCount="594" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2781042/&quot;&gt;The Sign of Three (S03E02)&lt;/a&gt;, Sherlock remembers that Tessa knew John's middlename and this is how he figures out the whole thing about the Mayfly Man and his attempt to assassinate one of the guests. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't really understand the connection between him dating the women and attending the wedding. I mean, he was the photographer, so he did not need a date for the wedding. And if Tessa was not invited, but only saw the photographer's invitation, why would the killer need to date those women?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what was the purpose of dating the various women?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="418" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2014-01-09T16:14:24.647" LastActivityDate="2014-01-09T16:38:56.970" Title="Connection between the cases in &quot;The Sign of Three&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16552" CreationDate="2014-01-09T16:38:56.970" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was the &lt;em&gt;stand-in&lt;/em&gt; photographer, implying that, having discovered that his target was to attend the wedding he put things in motion to ensure that he would be there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The women were all employees of his target.  By dating the women, he was trying to find some information about his target that would enable him to carry out an attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tessa saw the target's invitation, not the photographer's.  She evidently let some details slip to the Mayfly Man.  Perhaps some ill-considered pillow-talk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7535" LastActivityDate="2014-01-09T16:38:56.970" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="524" CreationDate="2014-01-09T17:59:53.203" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Weird because I had almost the opposite recently happen. I had seen The Truman Show numerous times in the past, and recently saw it again and I swear there were whole scenes in this Bluray release that I had never seen before, and I remember the original being structured differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Bluray release, we only start seeing the viewers watching the Truman show halfway through, which changes the whole feel; it's a bit jarring. In prior watchings, I could have sworn these started earlier, and the transitions between the different points of view (viewers, actors/producers and Truman) were more common, with the viewers right from the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's probably my faulty memory though, since I can't find any information about alternate cuts, except for descriptions of these extended versions that you've described.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7537" LastActivityDate="2014-01-09T17:59:53.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16528" CreationDate="2014-01-09T18:32:54.073" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They can arrest him because there is a reasonable chance he is responsible for two attempted murders, has made statements which suggest his guilt, has made no denial, has been accused by a reliable witness, and the victim is in danger of a further attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these should be sufficient to convict, but they are sufficient to arrest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1219" LastActivityDate="2014-01-09T18:32:54.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14135" CreationDate="2014-01-09T19:25:35.177" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ted's paws are shown throughout the film as being very prehensile. He can:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hold a bong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use a cigarette lighter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drink from bottles with one hand&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use a cash register&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use a telephone keypad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use a television remote&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Among other complex hand tasks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is conceivable that if he were to point his paw in a certain manner at a person or a camera that the gesture could be perceived as him giving the &quot;finger&quot; (technically the paw) to the viewer. In the scene where he does (he's being detained at an airport) it is clear that he is also complaining very loudly and cursing , so it a gesture with his paw might be seen as him flipping off the camera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-01-09T19:25:35.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16561" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-09T21:41:08.010" Score="6" ViewCount="1753" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1955 film version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guys_and_Dolls_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Guys and Dolls&lt;/a&gt;, there is a series of scenes which take place in Cuba.  One of the odd features of this sequence is a series of four digit numbers on the various walls around the area, as per the screenshot below (or &lt;a href=&quot;https://images.app.goo.gl/NWwDAj9ZGRV6RscaA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this clip&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JnU2z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Wall with numbers&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do these represent?  Are they reflective of an actual feature of Havana, or simply something that the director put in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7541" LastEditorUserId="7541" LastEditDate="2019-09-10T17:07:13.693" LastActivityDate="2021-12-23T10:54:38.753" Title="Numbers on the wall in Cuba in &quot;Guys and Dolls&quot; film" Tags="|analysis|guys-and-dolls-1955|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="16562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16414" CreationDate="2014-01-10T02:18:01.567" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's safe to assume there is usually one main reason why famous musicians are cast in non-singing roles (though it's something most directors would probably refrain from saying): &lt;strong&gt;Famous musicians can be expected to draw a certain number of viewers -- often from a demographic that the movie would not otherwise attract.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2014-01-10T02:18:01.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16414" CreationDate="2014-01-10T02:30:29.257" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I couldn't find anything relating to Taylor Swift, but the following link refers to an interview with Idina Menzel regarding her role in &lt;em&gt;Enchanted&lt;/em&gt; and why she didn't sing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She said when asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;It's a compliment really that everybody misses my singing. Nancy was&#xA;  never written with a song, honestly, so I think Kevin was a fan of&#xA;  mine and honestly it was a compliment to be asked to just be hired on&#xA;  my acting talents alone.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_13514.html&quot;&gt;http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_13514.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, I couldn't find any interviews from Kevin Lima himself...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...However, I did find an interview at AnimatedViews.com:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://animatedviews.com/2008/enchanted-interviews-chapter-six-kevin-lima-and-chris-chase/&quot;&gt;http://animatedviews.com/2008/enchanted-interviews-chapter-six-kevin-lima-and-chris-chase/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this had mentions from Chris Chase, &lt;em&gt;Enchanted&lt;/em&gt;'s executive producer, speaking about Idina Menzel and her not being cast to sing in the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;AV: Indina Menzel is a very famous Broadway singer in shows such as&#xA;  Wicked, but in Enchanted she doesn’t sing. Why’s that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CC: We cast as an actress. That was one of the interesting things. A&#xA;  lot of people have asked us. They know her so well as a singer and&#xA;  they kind of wonder why would we cast her if her main purpose was not&#xA;  to sing. Kevin and I are both fans of her from Rent and from Wicked,&#xA;  and we’ve seen her in other things and we just thought she was a&#xA;  wonderful actress and she felt like the perfect New Yorker. Just like&#xA;  the contrast between Andalasia and, say, Times Square in New York, we&#xA;  wanted a contrast between Giselle, who was a princess from Andalasia&#xA;  and the woman who was quintessentially “New York”. So, it ultimately&#xA;  felt to us that she was the perfect New Yorker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;AV: In an early version of the film, didn’t she have a song?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CC: Yes. We had discussed a song that might at the end of the movie,&#xA;  between her and the Prince. You know what? With a different structure&#xA;  of the movie, it would have been a great thing. But, ultimately, the&#xA;  movie just couldn’t be longer. The movie couldn’t support it because&#xA;  she’s not the main character. It’s really not a movie about her. I&#xA;  would love to do another movie which is about her, because I’d love to&#xA;  have her in a movie where she sings! But that’s the kind of hard&#xA;  choice that Kevin always has to make. Sometimes, you have to let&#xA;  things go that are wonderful things and you want to find a place for&#xA;  them, but, you know, you have to stay true to the movie. The movie&#xA;  tells what it needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7513" LastEditorUserId="7513" LastEditDate="2014-01-10T03:26:58.337" LastActivityDate="2014-01-10T03:26:58.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16414" CreationDate="2014-01-10T02:50:58.733" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the interview Eliseo d'Annunzio quoted she was simply &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunt_casting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stunt casted&lt;/a&gt; to generate some media attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7394" LastActivityDate="2014-01-10T02:50:58.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14652" CreationDate="2014-01-10T12:58:37.593" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The important clue is in the exchange of glances between Walt and Jesse when they are outside afterwards, just before Jesse drives off.  It's an exchange of glances that we often see at the end of movies where honours are finally even.  That tells us that Jesse acknowledges that Walter came to the farm primarily to free him. (Walter threw himself on Jesse to save him from the machine gun fire and didn't wait to hear where his money was).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7548" LastActivityDate="2014-01-10T12:58:37.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16569" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16572" CreationDate="2014-01-10T14:01:26.327" Score="-4" ViewCount="1703" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to take my girlfriend to see this film but she is very sensitive about animals (especially cats) so if anything bad happens to the cat in this film then it would probably be best to avoid it. No need for details or spoilers, just let me know if there is any cat-related jeopardy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7494" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-10T14:04:43.040" LastActivityDate="2014-01-10T16:20:35.763" Title="Does anything bad happen to the cat in the film?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inside-llewyn-davis|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="17" ClosedDate="2014-01-10T18:35:57.383" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13504" CreationDate="2014-01-10T14:05:43.540" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at the scene, it looks like the fire breath takes quite a bit of effort to do and being constantly in battle with the Iron Man obviously was draining to Aldrich. Additionally he then got blown up in the suit weakening him even more!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-10T15:01:43.350" LastActivityDate="2014-01-10T15:01:43.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16569" CreationDate="2014-01-10T16:14:33.160" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Implied, but not seen. That's as detail free an answer as they come!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The definitive answer you are loking for would be a spoiler to the film, as the cat's fate is a sub plot of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-01-10T16:20:35.763" LastActivityDate="2014-01-10T16:20:35.763" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16575" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16591" CreationDate="2014-01-10T17:41:43.570" Score="5" ViewCount="3493" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392214/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Prisoners&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when Keller confronts Holly and tells her that she is the assassin, why he doesn't he carry a gun or something? It seems he went there only to unmask her but not to stop her. I know he wanted to know where his daughter is but it seems a better idea to have control over the situation, instead of being the controlled one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7551" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-10T18:08:29.997" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T03:50:32.710" Title="Why does Keller show up unprepared at the end?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prisoners|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14136" CreationDate="2014-01-10T19:43:08.697" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agree with a lot of what was written above but would add that while seeing Elliot and Gretchen damaged his ego. It also gave him the idea of getting them to deliver the $$$ to his family that he could not. He tried a last ditch effort to send it through one of Walt Jr's friends but that wouldn't work because Jr told him he didn't want it. Seeing Elliott and Gretchen on TV talking about the $28mill donation they made to drug abuse recovery in the southwest gave him the idea that another charitable donation from this wealthy couple would not raise eyebrows to the law and his family could get his $$.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7553" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-10T20:05:16.023" LastActivityDate="2014-01-10T20:05:16.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16580" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-10T20:47:52.747" Score="3" ViewCount="503" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;12 Years a slave&lt;/em&gt;, Solomon Northup is rendered unconscious before he is abducted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is seen drinking wine with his meal beforehand, and his captors are insistent he drinks more &amp;amp; more &amp;amp; more....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film doesn't make clear whether he was simply intoxicated, or if something was placed in his drink to render him unconscious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what really happened to him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-01-10T21:48:29.727" Title="Was Solomon Northup poisoned?" Tags="|plot-explanation|12-years-a-slave|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16580" CreationDate="2014-01-10T21:48:29.727" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the Wikipedia &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Years_a_Slave#Synopsis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;synopsis&lt;/a&gt; of the book the film is based on, he was drugged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the reason this may not have been made clear in the movie could have been deliberate. The director or writers may have wanted the audience to be oblivious as to what actually happened, as Solomon may have been oblivious himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-01-10T21:48:29.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16582" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16600" CreationDate="2014-01-10T22:11:03.177" Score="2" ViewCount="4315" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can someone please explain the flying car to me at the end of the movie, and how no one seems to act as if the car taking off with Danny and Sandy is anything out of the ordinary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this symbolic of anything?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7513" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-10T22:16:57.820" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T15:50:17.417" Title="What is the symbolism of the flying cars?" Tags="|plot-explanation|grease|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16528" CreationDate="2014-01-10T23:21:10.950" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In England and Wales the law on arrest is covered by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/60/part/III&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(2) If a constable has reasonable grounds for suspecting that an offence has been committed, he may arrest without a warrant anyone whom he has reasonable grounds to suspect of being guilty of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(4) But the power of summary arrest conferred by subsection (1), (2) or (3) is exercisable only if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that for any of the reasons mentioned in subsection (5) it is necessary to arrest the person in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(5)The reasons are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(e) to allow the prompt and effective investigation of the offence or of the conduct of the person in question;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(f) to prevent any prosecution for the offence from being hindered by the disappearance of the person in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lestrade has reasonable grounds for suspecting that an offence (attempted murder) has been committed, and he also has reasonable grounds to suspect that the cameraman of being guilty of it (being related to one of the dead soldiers and being present at the wedding). Lestrade is therefore allowed to arrest the photographer to allow the offence to be investigated and to prevent the photographer from fleeing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether the photographer will eventually be convicted of the attempted murders depends on the evidence found during the investigation. There's probably all sorts of forensic evidence for a start, eye-witnesses who can place him at the scene of the first attempted murder, there's also a good chance that he's one of the people who were sending death threats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-01-10T23:21:10.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1193" CreationDate="2014-01-11T01:32:22.610" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that 'Back to the Future 2' follows the same logic as the 2005 movie 'A Sound of Thunder' based on the Ray Bradbury story.  In 'A Sound of Thunder' (the movie) when someone went back to the time of the dinosaurs and they made even the smallest change, and then returned to their own time, then sometime later timewaves would catch up to the present and everything would change all at once.  The difference between BTTF2 and 'A Sound of Thunder' is that the timewaves were so subtle in BTTF2 that no one in 2015-B noticed them.  Had Marty and Doc remained in 2015-B long enough, then reality would have changed around them into the 2015-C (Biff-altered reality).  Marty and Doc left 2015-B soon enough to arrive in a 1985-C that the timewaves from 1955-C had already caught up to.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7559" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T01:32:22.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16575" CreationDate="2014-01-11T03:20:40.973" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mostly it is due to the fact that he has just spent a large portion of time torturing an innocent man.  At this point, he is mentally exhausted.  As you say, it does come across more like he is more concerned with finding out who really took his daughter, than actually finding his daughter.  So by this time he is drained and spent, and he is not looking to use force to intimidate the answer out of her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because his actions ended up being questionable (as opposed to being justified), he may believe that somehow coming to Holly with just the desire for the truth will be enough.  This is why he ends up in a hole, and why although we are left thinking he &quot;might&quot; be rescued, we are not actually shown this in the film.  For what he did, he may even believe he has deserved his fate.  This belief would also reinforce his desire NOT to bring a gun to the confrontation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T03:20:40.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16519" CreationDate="2014-01-11T03:37:18.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, it was explained as to why Django went to Candieland.  Shultz was the money man in their little plan, while Django was the one who had to identify the fighter they intended to purchase.  Shultz explained this beforehand.  In their plan, Django was to play the part of the experienced and expert fighter, and thus the best judge of the fighter they were to purchase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, Django proved that Shultz had an interest in purchasing a Mandigo fighter, but that was all.  In that same scene, both Shultz and Django proved that Shultz had the money while Django was going to decide who the money would be spent on.  Since the fighter was at Candieland, Django had to go along to see for himself if the fighter was indeed the third best, and worth the $12k.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible that they could have devised a different plan, where Shultz would not need Django at all, but it would have been far more difficult to pull off.  It would have been very easy for Shultz to make a mistake and prove he was no judge of fighters.  Moreover, with Django there, he was free to play a much more convincing part as just a rich and bored man looking to spend his money on more exciting matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither of them was counting on Stephen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T03:37:18.260" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16575" CreationDate="2014-01-11T03:50:32.710" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;After an exhausting ordeal he's been through and after losing almost all hope, he hears &quot;You were there&quot; from Joy. Moments later he realizes where was the only place where he could've been heard (we see that clearly on his face), and it dawns on him where his daughter is (or at least was). Also, in his mind, Alex is still the guilty one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I see his behavior as a consequence of two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since he believes Alex is the kidnaper, he sees Holy as only protecting Alex by not revealing his secret or, at best, by taking care of the kidnapped children. Ergo, she doesn't really pose a threat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think he confirms this when he comes in her house and, obviously trying very hard to restrain himself, says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't want to have to hurt you. I know they were here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is said in a peaceful, but threatening manner. Also, it is not &quot;(I know) you took them&quot;, but merely &quot;they were here&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The whole realization came as a shock, after days of fruitless search and Alex' torture. He's not in his right mind, and he didn't think it all through.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, he wasn't completely unprepared. After Holy dumps him in that hole under the old car, she goes back to her house and starts going through his tool bag (the one he had in front of her when he said he doesn't want to have to hurt her), where she finds his gun. So, he was &lt;em&gt;routinely&lt;/em&gt; prepared, but not for the &quot;Holy is the only culprit here, not Alex who he had safely away&quot;, which made her better prepared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T03:50:32.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16047" CreationDate="2014-01-11T04:52:19.767" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, option A makes sense &quot;Hank is in the hospital because of Walter&quot; but the truth is that my first thought (until even watching the series for a second time) was option B &quot;Hank is here with us alive because of you and that is why I am thinking more and more of coming back to you and helping you&quot;. She seemed calm when saying that and not angry as option A would suggest. The line before that was &quot;I learned from the best&quot; so I do not see how it would be possible from changing from positive to negative thoughts so fast. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, that is Breaking bad's beauty, there is always a debate&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7561" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T04:52:19.767" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16430" CreationDate="2014-01-11T10:35:05.027" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suspect that this may have been a nod to the famous LA Law scene where Diana Muldaur's character, Rosalind Shays, walks into an empty elevator shaft, falling to her death. The two series have been compared to each other and have both won 4 Emmys for Outstanding Drama Series. Basically, it was probably done as an inside joke by the writers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, the incident played into the themes of the threat of sudden death and Don's alienation from others that are found in the season as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="637" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T10:35:05.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16594" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="92170" CreationDate="2014-01-11T12:07:24.190" Score="11" ViewCount="1104" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the course of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1023114/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Way Back&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when the company is traveling through the Gobi Desert &lt;em&gt;Mr. Smith&lt;/em&gt; seems reluctant and unable to go on and is about to give up and die (maybe also in part because of &lt;em&gt;Irena&lt;/em&gt;'s death, to whom he developed some kind of fatherly sympathy). But one night &lt;em&gt;Janusz&lt;/em&gt; talks to him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mr. Smith&lt;/strong&gt;: Just leave me here. You can't, can you?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Janusz&lt;/strong&gt;: Mister, you know I may not even know your first name, but I...I know your son's name.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mr. Smith&lt;/strong&gt;: Irena told you.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Janusz&lt;/strong&gt;: Yes. Can I say his name?...David.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mr. Smith&lt;/strong&gt;: Saying his name won't bring him back. What are you trying to do? Give me the will to live, is that it? Stop me from giving up?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Janusz&lt;/strong&gt;: And are you giving up?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mr. Smith&lt;/strong&gt;: In the camp some thought death is freedom.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Janusz&lt;/strong&gt;: Why didn't you just kill yourself?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mr. Smith&lt;/strong&gt;: Survival was a kind of protest, and being alive was my punishment.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Janusz&lt;/strong&gt;: Punishment for what?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mr. Smith&lt;/strong&gt;: I brought David to Russia.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Janusz&lt;/strong&gt;: And now no-one can forgive you...and you can't forgive yourself.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mr. Smith&lt;/strong&gt;: Irena told me that they tortured your wife and she informed on you...They did the same thing to my boy. Then shot him in the head.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Janusz&lt;/strong&gt;: My wife is alive. She lived and was released, that much I know. But she'll never be able to forgive herself for what she's done. You see, only I can do that. She will be torturing herself just like you. So you see I have to get back. I have to get back!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this the next moring he is ready to move on and filled with new motivation it seems (and carries on till the end, or till &lt;em&gt;Tibet&lt;/em&gt; at least). But I wonder what really convinced him to go on. &lt;em&gt;Janusz&lt;/em&gt;'s story about his wife could also have had the contrary effect of giving &lt;em&gt;Mr. Smith&lt;/em&gt; peace and redeeming him of his punishment through survival, yet this wasn't the case. But his son was still dead and he had no place to go, which is again clarified in &lt;em&gt;Tibet&lt;/em&gt; when he is planning to get smuggled out to the U.S. over China, which isn't really his &lt;em&gt;&quot;home&quot;&lt;/em&gt; though and the ultimate goal of his journey:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zoran&lt;/strong&gt;: What are you going to do Mister, when you go back home?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mr. Smith&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot;Home&quot;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Zoran&lt;/strong&gt;: Build metros?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mr. Smith&lt;/strong&gt;: I drift a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or was he merely impressed by &lt;em&gt;Janusz&lt;/em&gt;'s story/motivation and didn't want to leave him alone? &lt;strong&gt;What really was it that convinced him to carry on with life and with their exhausting journey?&lt;/strong&gt; (While it may very well be that there wasn't much more to it than a motivating speech by &lt;em&gt;Janusz&lt;/em&gt;, I'd still like to know if there is anything more to make out of his character and his motivation to carry on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-17T01:23:14.707" LastActivityDate="2018-09-09T20:23:24.633" Title="What motivated Mr. Smith to carry on?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-way-back|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16595" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24414" CreationDate="2014-01-11T13:48:56.643" Score="11" ViewCount="33225" Body="&lt;p&gt;A Sequence in &lt;em&gt;12 Years A Slave&lt;/em&gt; shows &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2024544/characters/nm2143282&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Patsey&lt;/a&gt;, a plantation worker, being tied to a pole and whipped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ggK3P.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ggK3P.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Parsley being whipped, screaming&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The shot is horrifying, and shows her flesh being torn and rendered open by the whip as it makes contact, cleaving chunks of flesh away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously they didn't actually whip Lupita Nyong'o, and from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.vulture.com/2013/10/lupita-nyongo-on-12-years-a-slave.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; we can determine that no actual contact was made with her body during the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It’s all about the crack of the whip. You hear it. And you feel it. I felt the wind of it every single time. I didn’t need much more. That was one technical thing, and definitely it took some finessing because obviously I can’t see what’s happening. I can’t see the whip. I can only react to the sound and the wind of it, yeah? So it was hard, but that day was as real as it could have possibly been for me, because in preparing for it, all I could do was be present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's unlikely the shots were achieved by CGI, unless it's literally the best CGI ever used in cinema and Steve McQueen is incredibly humble about what he's achieved (those of you who have seen the movie will no doubt vouch for this, it's incredible).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I can't understand how they could have been achieved practically without physically touching the actress, which she has stated didn't happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another interviewer was, like me, utterly incredulous as to how this scene was shot and asked Nyong'o herself, but she only replied:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It feels, as the viewer, like it would've taken longer to achieve -- not only because it's one continuous shot, but because it's so emotionally heavy. Were those practical effects or CGI effects employed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't feel like telling! [Laughs]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone with any practical experience of S/FX understand how they could have filmed this?&#xA;Does anyone actually &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; how this was achieved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-06-03T18:00:57.657" LastActivityDate="2019-06-03T18:03:04.863" Title="How did they film Patsey being whipped?" Tags="|effects|make-up|12-years-a-slave|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="16596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16519" CreationDate="2014-01-11T15:05:43.807" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll take a different tack and state what may be obvious: It's a conceit of the narrative that Django goes along. He's the protagonist of the film, so his involvement in all aspects of that narrative becomes necessary to keep him in that role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film makes it abundantly clear that Candie's primary interest was in Mandingo fighting slaves. The remainder of his slaves (with the exception of his &lt;em&gt;majordomo&lt;/em&gt; Joseph) serve little purpose to him and thus the narrative. This could be extended to Broomhilda, who we see is actually locked in a punishment sweatbox when Django and Schulz arrive at the Candieland plantation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no reason for Django to go, as Schulz could have easily gone to the plantation seeking a female German-speaking slave. Since she was a &quot;problem&quot; for Candie's household and since his interests lied elsewhere (slaves bred for combat) it takes an exceptional stretch of the imagination to believe that he wouldn't not have sold her without much bargaining simply to be rid of her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Django's not being &quot;safe&quot; without Schulz: There was an extensive slavery abolition movement in the US which peaked just prior to the Civil War. While fugitive slave raids did occur, they were rare in the far North and they were illegal in Canada. It would have been very easy in an era where identification documentation did not require photos for Schulz to take Django to a state or country where he would be beyond reach of any group seeking to enslave him again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He could have then proceeded to Candieland, purchased Broomhilda, granted her freedom and then traveled with her to where Django was waiting for them. This plan would have placed none of them in danger (Why would Candie suspect an ulterior motive or even care?) it would have allowed them to save money as Candie would have rid himself of a &quot;troubled slave&quot; for a relative pittance and it might have made Django even more beholding to Schulz as he would have helped him free his beloved wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, using rather convoluted plot logic, the film requires that the protagonist (Django) risk his life, it ends Schulz's life when he decides to murder Candie and then not provide an adequate plan which would have allowed Django and Broomhilda any method to escape. And finally, it risked Broomhilda's life,  as it would have simply been wiser to kill her and Django after Candie's murder if for no other reason than to make them examples for the other slaves who might have been considering similar actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this is not a plot hole (it is consistent with the internal &quot;logic&quot; of narrative) it is certainly an unrealistic plot contrivance which is so glaring that it throws a thinking filmgoer out the sense of disbelief they require to make a film's fictional narrative seem to be realistic.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="7390" LastEditDate="2014-01-11T16:23:46.160" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T16:23:46.160" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15870" CreationDate="2014-01-11T15:21:59.540" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most likely answer is that the author,Tonino Benacquista, was unaware that the US Marshals are indeed capable of operating outside of the United States (they are, after all, the primary US law enforcement agency when it comes to hunting and tracking fugitives from justice) and simply wrote that the family's protectors while in hiding were an undisclosed federal law enforcement agency (e.g. 'The Feds&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a line from the Allocine website about the film, which is titled &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Malvita&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in foreign release:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;L'équipe n'a opéré que peu de changements sur l'histoire, modifiant légèrement les relations au sein de la famille Blake pour rendre les parents un peu plus émouvants, comme le remarque la productrice Virginie Besson-Silla. &quot;Pour la première fois, je me suis contenté de suivre l’intrigue existante. J’ai simplement ajouté quelques dialogues pour que l’adaptation soit plus cinématographique. Mais, en toute honnêteté, la structure et les personnages étaient déjà en place&quot;, ajoute Besson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its rough translation is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The team has made ​​few changes to the story, slightly changing relationships within the Blake Family to make a little more emotional parents, as noted producer Virginie Besson-Silla. &quot;For the first time, I was content to follow the existing plot. I just added some dialogues that adaptation is more cinematic. But honestly, structure and characters were already in place,&quot; Besson says.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is from the director of the film Luc Besson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems that little beyond minor character changes occurred in the making of the film. The overall text and intent of the author seems to be intact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-207801/secrets-tournage/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-207801/secrets-tournage/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T15:21:59.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14812" CreationDate="2014-01-11T15:41:22.990" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the United States you can respond with lethal force if someone attempts to kill you, in an effort to protect yourself from further harm. The film makes it abundantly clear that this is Asher's intent when he stabs Scott in the stomach with the pair of shears and also tries to strangle her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the film ends with the rather dubious showing of Scott (Angelina Jolie) calling someone (apparently the police) and speaking the line (unnecessarily) &quot;It's over&quot; there really is no need for her to do so. Someone breaking into your home and then attacking you is more than satisfactory legal cause for you to defend yourself up to, and including, lethal force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Pennsylvania (the setting for the end of the film) now has, and always had, strong laws enabling the potential victim of a crime to defend themselves along the lines of Florida's controversial &quot;Stand Your Ground&quot; legal protection. This means that the victim does not have to retreat if/when they are attacked and that they can use lethal force at any time during an assault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only &quot;problematic&quot; portion of the film seems to have been the use of prosthetic abdomen to make it appear that Scott was pregnant. However, Asher's breaking into her home and then assaulting her with a potentially deadly weapon even removes that particular obstacle as she was legally able to &quot;stand her ground&quot; when she was attacked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://publicsource.org/investigations/pas-stand-your-ground-law-mirrors-floridashttp://www.ncsl.org/research/civil-and-criminal-justice/self-defense-and-stand-your-ground.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://publicsource.org/investigations/pas-stand-your-ground-law-mirrors-floridashttp://www.ncsl.org/research/civil-and-criminal-justice/self-defense-and-stand-your-ground.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="7390" LastEditDate="2014-01-13T23:55:39.287" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T23:55:39.287" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16582" CreationDate="2014-01-11T15:50:17.417" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The car which they take off in at the end of the movie is the &lt;em&gt;fantasy&lt;/em&gt; version of the car the Thunderbirds sing about during &lt;em&gt;Greased Lightning&lt;/em&gt; and not the white car which gets torn up during the race. The Greased Lightning car, being a fantasy car, is a way of saying at the end of the movie that Danny and Sandy's dreams have come true: they will live happily ever after, or so they want the audience to believe. They ride off into the sunset together and everyone is happy for them. None of the other characters see anything wrong with it because it is a fantasy world in Danny, Sandy, and the audience's eyes, the rest of them are just seeing it as it is. At least that is my take on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T15:50:17.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16603" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-11T21:07:48.573" Score="8" ViewCount="11949" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once upon a time movies were so subject to censorship that rude words and any hint of sexual activity were impossible to put on screen. Directors could hint, but couldn't show. Go back and watch Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in the 1946 version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038355/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Big Sleep&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; where plenty is hinted at but nothing much &lt;em&gt;happens.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now we have censors in some countries relaxed enough to allow real sex to be shown on screen in non-porn movies for mainstream audiences (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9666/do-they-really-have-sex-in-movies&quot;&gt;Do they really have sex in movies?&lt;/a&gt; for discussion of the example &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411705/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nine Songs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what was the first mainstream (non-porn) movie where something like a real sex scene (simulated or not) was shown?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T15:29:57.953" Title="What was the first realistic sex scene in a mainstream movie?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16605" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-11T21:25:35.383" Score="13" ViewCount="6824" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current movie industry seems to be engaged in an orgy of remakes to reduce the risk of funding completely new scripts. We have had a recent remake of Total Recall and are about to get a remake of Robocop. Sometimes the remakes happen very quickly (the Swedish movies Let the Right One In and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo were both remade in English very quickly). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the scripts start as books (The Big Sleep, for example), some start as plays (The Front Page was originally a stage play but was remade as a movie several times, in 1931 and 1974 as The Front Page and in 1940 as His Girl Friday) and others as screenplays (Robocop seems to have started as a screenplay).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the most remade story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NB For clarity let us exclude series where a character such as James Bond repeats and stick with those where the &lt;em&gt;story&lt;/em&gt; credit references a single play, book or original script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="134" LastEditDate="2014-01-12T19:15:30.853" LastActivityDate="2023-07-28T05:28:11.323" Title="What is the most remade movie story?" Tags="|remake|screenplay|most-appearances|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16606" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16609" CreationDate="2014-01-11T21:44:59.650" Score="9" ViewCount="660" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I guess it isn't a big secret that &lt;em&gt;Alfred Hitchcock&lt;/em&gt; has always been a huge inspiration for &lt;em&gt;Brian De Palma&lt;/em&gt;, one possible connection between both of them has only occurred to me recently. The introduction of &lt;em&gt;De Palma&lt;/em&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120832/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Snake Eyes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is famous for being shot continuously without any &lt;em&gt;visible&lt;/em&gt; cuts. Another movie that famously exhibits this property is &lt;em&gt;Hitchcock&lt;/em&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040746/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rope&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (as also discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/15916/49&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;). Add to this that the story of &lt;em&gt;Snake Eyes&lt;/em&gt; unfolds in real-time, which is more or less the case for &lt;em&gt;Rope&lt;/em&gt;, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now is there any information (or at least further indication from the respective movies) &lt;strong&gt;if the introduction of &lt;em&gt;Snake Eyes&lt;/em&gt; is a direct reference to &lt;em&gt;Rope&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; or am I just making things up here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2023-06-15T00:54:08.437" Title="Is the introduction of Snake Eyes a reference to Rope?" Tags="|analysis|film-techniques|reference|rope|snake-eyes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16603" CreationDate="2014-01-11T21:54:23.767" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remark: This answer was written before the restriction to &lt;em&gt;mainstream (non-porn)&lt;/em&gt; films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question will get a very subjective answer. Depending of the definition of pornographic films, a film with a sexual act will always be a Porno.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should define better what a &lt;em&gt;mainstream (non-porn)&lt;/em&gt; is. (Some criteria may be: Winner of a (international) film price, more the x people as audience, ?) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first pornographic film with a sexual act was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386141/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;À l'écu d'or&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia has some more informations in &lt;a href=&quot;http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zum_goldenen_Ecu_oder_Die_gute_Herberge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;German&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80_l%27%C3%89cu_d%27or_ou_la_Bonne_Auberge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Serbian&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132" LastEditorUserId="132" LastEditDate="2014-01-11T21:59:54.827" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T21:59:54.827" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16608" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16650" CreationDate="2014-01-11T22:39:22.837" Score="6" ViewCount="3162" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Study in Pink&quot;, the killer wants Sherlock to play the game with the pills, betting on the fact that for Sherlock being right is even more valuable that being alive. The killer uses this incentive to force Sherlock to swallow the pills from the bottle Sherlock has chosen.&#xA;Although Sherlock may indeed value his life less than his rightfulness, I don't think he really wants to bet his life in case there are other ways to check whether he was right or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, he could call the police to catch the killer, collect both bottles remembering his choice and check the pills say with chemical analysis or mice in the worst case. Unless I'm missing something, by no means this is something impossible. Instead, Sherlock chooses to risk his life. The only reason for the latter that comes to my mind is: Sherlock shows off that he is so sure that he doesn't think he risks anything. However, this seems to be a pretty weak reason - especially taking into account that the killer says that there is somebody beyond him (Moriarty), and hence why would Sherlock show off himself in front of this killer, knowing that the latter is just a pawn of Moriarty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7570" LastActivityDate="2021-08-30T10:31:51.553" Title="Couldn't Sherlock just verify his choice of the bottle by the chemical analysis (Study in Pink)?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16606" CreationDate="2014-01-11T22:52:08.550" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, Brian De Palma is a known fan of Alfred Hitchcock (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1694248/brian-de-palma-afred-hitchcock-biopic.jhtml&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;) (&lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/brian-de-palma-passion-untouchables-prequel-capone-rising/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmscouts.com/scripts/interview.cfm?File=bri-dep&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; he explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We didn't set out to do a &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_De_Palma#Camera_shots&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brian De Palma Signature SteadiCam Shot&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I wanted to show the whole universe that the Nick Cage character was in. I wanted to show HIS world, I wanted to show it really fast, and I wanted to show it whole&lt;/strong&gt;, in an exciting venue: with that particular fight night, and the money stuff before the fight and the murder during the fight and the aftermath of the fight AND of the murder, he has a lot of problems to solve, and they're all tied up, in a way.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I wanted the movie to start with a long, incredibly long shot.&lt;/strong&gt; I wanted it to start on the boardwalk and end on the boardwalk. With a very long shot.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's actually four SteadiCam shots.&lt;/strong&gt; They don't make twenty-minute camera magazines, so we had to use four or five of them. Basically it's like three or four five-minute shots.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You're not supposed to see the seams, but they're there. The cut is there. I faked it the same way Hitchcock faked his real-time no-cuts thing in &amp;quot;Rope&amp;quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T22:52:08.550" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16608" CreationDate="2014-01-11T22:53:01.953" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sherlock with his curious mind would never have found about how he lured his victims and how he made me them take the pill because the cabbie remarks to him at the door that if he calls the cops he will not run instead surrender but will not reveal to Sherlock how he made them take the pill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that point it was far fetched for Sherlock to assume that the cabbie would've had the pills on him when he came to pick him, also you're completely underestimating the analytical powers of the cabbie he is just as intelligent as Sherlock is and is fairly good with deductions himself I don't think he would've allowed for the scenario to let sherlock or the cops to have the bottles for them to analyze even. Quite simply he would have confessed and let them scratch their heads out as to how he made his victims take the pills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally Sherlock only knows about Moriarity only when the cabbie dies and he had no idea at that time as to if that Moriarity person held an entire criminal network web at his sleeve. He was only following on his hunch and curiosity to find the drive and motivation behind the cabbie's mind to drive him to commit all those murders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2014-01-11T22:53:01.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16603" CreationDate="2014-01-12T01:35:14.787" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's likely that the first &quot;mainstream&quot; film (but not Hollywood release) that showed a couple having sex in what appears (and in some instances was) a realistic manner was 1967's &lt;strong&gt;I Am Curious (Yellow).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This film was the first film released in American theaters where the performers are shown in intimate and graphic erotic sexual positions and performing sexual acts which was not limited in its release to theaters which specialized in adult pornographic fare. It caused quite a sensation when it was released in the US market (many protests and an arson of a theater) but would likely be viewed as being rather tame by 21st Century standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Curious_Yellow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Curious_Yellow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allmovie.com/movie/v24002&quot;&gt;http://www.allmovie.com/movie/v24002&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&amp;amp;vol=396&amp;amp;invol=976&quot;&gt;http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&amp;amp;vol=396&amp;amp;invol=976&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T01:35:14.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="859" CreationDate="2014-01-12T05:50:10.063" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see how this doesn't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They may or may not be in a different place (there was a short blackout). As it is already mentioned that Tyler knows of &quot;Jack&quot; and that he has control of every one around them/him it's hardly difficult to believe that he could engineer the movement of his self (if he even needed to, due to &quot;Jack&quot; not remembering 90% of his life). He could have been carried or he could have taken control of &quot;Jacks&quot; body and walked him upstairs as it's already pointed out that he has no memory when Tyler takes over. It could have been as simple as.... fight, black out.. be Tyler, walk to another place and sit in a chair, be &quot;Jack&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3605" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T05:50:10.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3930" CreationDate="2014-01-12T07:44:11.880" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The color blue can represent loyalty and trust, two qualities that are really important to the piano teacher. The reason he abducted Jennifer and Aubrey was to punish them for quitting piano lessons. This is just my guess, but I think the color blue has more to do with the killer than the twins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7577" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T07:44:11.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16621" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16765" CreationDate="2014-01-12T12:07:47.277" Score="10" ViewCount="7409" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Disney animated movie Frozen, when Anna was still young she was struck accidentally by Elsa with her Frost powers and froze Anna's heart. Anna was brought to the Trolls by her parents to heal her. At that time Kristoff saw how the trolls healed Anna.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now when Anna was pursuing Elsa, she was again accidentally struck by Elsa with her Frost powers. Kristoff then brought Anna to the trolls again hoping that they could do something about her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my questions are, did the Trolls know that it was Anna, the same girl that was brought to them a few years ago? As well as Kristoff. Did Kristoff know or remember that it was Anna that he saw few years ago healed by the Trolls?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5238" LastEditorUserId="5238" LastEditDate="2014-08-26T06:05:08.323" LastActivityDate="2019-10-22T21:10:59.563" Title="Did the Trolls and Kristoff know/remember Anna?" Tags="|plot-explanation|frozen|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16621" CreationDate="2014-01-12T12:42:19.493" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got the impression that the trolls remembered Anna due their mystical 'all-seeing' nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Kristoff didn't remember her. I think his witnessing of the healing from the early scene in the film was purely for our benefit - we saw the event happen through his eyes.&#xA;In a way, Kristoff was the audience's eyes and ears in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T12:42:19.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16605" CreationDate="2014-01-12T16:05:13.523" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on how you define it, as you can look at something like Hitchock's Psycho, which was remade almost scene for scene and shot for shot, or adaptations of works. You can also limit it by Hollywood, Bollywood, German, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Great Gatsby has been made into a film seven different times in the US, but the overall record holder for a same name film is undoubtedly Romeo and Juliet. I believe the number of times that it has been made into a film a little more than 1300 times in various countries and languages. I don't believe this counts &quot;knockoff&quot; type films where the story is same/similar but the title is different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T16:05:13.523" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16379" CreationDate="2014-01-12T19:08:49.960" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nothing is said about other &lt;strong&gt;Officers&lt;/strong&gt; maybe he planned the timing so that the entire branch of officers had some case and only he was without one, this way when the case came up, he was the only one that could have taken it as he had already planned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7582" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T19:08:49.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16118" CreationDate="2014-01-12T19:28:58.640" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is possible. &quot;Walt&quot; was a clever person, he knew he could make his point by demonstrating power and was definitely not intending to blow himself up by blasting a whole bag of mercury fulminate even if it was possible to carry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the weight difference might have easily been noticed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He must have filled the bag with the drugs and lined the top with the explosives, so that he could pick up any piece without doubt. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also he does not shake the bag a lot and neither does anyone else if it was a small lining only then the scene is scientifically possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7582" LastEditorUserId="749" LastEditDate="2014-01-13T04:16:10.860" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T04:16:10.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16628" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16629" CreationDate="2014-01-12T21:12:46.360" Score="10" ViewCount="2444" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that during the opening credits of a movie/TV show, the name of the director(s) always shows up last, at the end of the credits. I'm not really sure if that happens in the ending credits as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason as to why to do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2014-01-13T14:40:58.120" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T14:40:58.120" Title="Why does the director's name always show up in the end of the credits?" Tags="|film-industry|credits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-02-19T19:56:44.590" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16628" CreationDate="2014-01-12T22:28:59.943" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the USA, this is governed by the agreements of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dga.org/&quot;&gt;Director's Guild of America&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dga.org/Contracts/Agreements/Basic2011.aspx&quot;&gt;basic agreement&lt;/a&gt; states in section 8-201 that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No other credit shall appear on the card which accords credit to the Director of the film. Such credit shall be on the last title card appearing prior to principal photography.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This convention even appears to cover movies that are made outside the US.  I'm not sure whether that is because of legal agreements or just because the US movie industry is the model for many around the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia and IMDB states that George Lucas was fined $250,000 by the DGA for breaking the terms of the agreement by just having the title of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back in the opening credit, and not mentioning the director.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T22:28:59.943" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11639" CreationDate="2014-01-12T22:38:54.963" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dustin, please don't refer to the crappy 2003 film as &quot;the original&quot;.  The original masterpiece was released in 1974, and the name of the family was Sawyer.  The 2013 film is a direct sequel to the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, not the crappy Michael Bay produced remake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7584" LastActivityDate="2014-01-12T22:38:54.963" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16633" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16636" CreationDate="2014-01-12T23:49:41.173" Score="11" ViewCount="784" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Sherlock episode &lt;em&gt;His Last Vow&lt;/em&gt; we see in detail how Sherlock has plotted to gain access to the villain Magnussen's apartment despite tight security.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when He gets there he finds that Mary is already there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did she gain access to the apartment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="134" LastEditDate="2014-01-12T23:58:19.930" LastActivityDate="2014-01-17T22:26:17.997" Title="How did Mary get access to Magnussen's apartment?" Tags="|analysis|sherlock|plot-explanation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16634" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-12T23:57:31.240" Score="13" ViewCount="3116" Body="&lt;p&gt;The key villain in the Sherlock episode &lt;em&gt;His Last Vow&lt;/em&gt; the visuals constantly suggest that Magnussen has some form of electronic assistance to recall key facts that he can use to &quot;leverage&quot; influence over people in power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We clearly see that Sherlock himself suspects that Magnussen has such a device but shows that it is not present, Google Glass-like, in his spectacles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end Magnussen claims there are no files and there is no device. Is his claim credible? Were there no devices and no physical records of the blackmail material?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T11:28:35.270" Title="Does Magnussen have no electronic assistance to remember the facts he needs for blackmail?" Tags="|sherlock|plot-explanation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16635" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16649" CreationDate="2014-01-12T23:59:05.497" Score="8" ViewCount="1869" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know the true background of the walker drones that Michonne slaughtered before she and Andrea were taken to Woodbury in &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, all I have been able to determine is that, whoever these walkers were, Michonne knew them -- they had betrayed her in some way (possible abuse, assault or attack) -- and has been quoted as saying that they deserved it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any clues, possibly from the comic books?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7513" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-31T21:23:45.970" LastActivityDate="2014-11-30T10:40:00.750" Title="The background of Michonne's walker drones" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16633" CreationDate="2014-01-13T00:09:52.800" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is deliberately left ambiguous, possibly so further details of Mary's past can be explored in further episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no stated explanation for this: the elaborate plan (months in the making) Sherlock has devised to gain access to Magnussen's apartment is not recounted to in order to highlight the level of security involved, but as a 'bait-and-switch' plot device to deliver an unexpected payoff when we find an Assassin in the apartment, and the identity of this Assassin to be Mary. 'Claire De La Lune' is exactly the same device being executed in another manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just a very attentive, preemptive writing technique that anticipates viewer response to clues (and importantly doesn't condescend to them) and then reveals it to be misdirection. This is the legacy of meta-cinematography, finally finding itself in television.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; has already made it very clear that it doesn't necessarily believe in hand-holding the audience through individual plot details, as demonstrated by the still not fully resolved Reichenbach Fall. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It leaves people to speculate, but never resolves fully: It's part of its charm. It will likely never be disclosed, but it won't stop people from enjoying speculating on here!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're goading us with something we don't have the pieces to resolve, and paying lip service to our need as an audience &lt;em&gt;to know every detail&lt;/em&gt; by removing the opportunity to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is quite funnily appropriate for this site: They're turning us all into &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0227195/?ref_=tt_cl_t9&quot;&gt;Andersons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-01-13T04:21:14.173" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T04:21:14.173" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16634" CreationDate="2014-01-13T00:18:24.240" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'Google-glass' on screen imagery is &lt;em&gt;yet another&lt;/em&gt; misdirection to make you believe Magnussen is utilizing such technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The on screen text displays is revealed to be nothing other than Magnussen's own way of interfacing with his 'mind palace', a visual device to explain that he is mining his categorically stored memories for information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherlock does the same thing, but the interface manifests in a different style.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EYrn5.jpgIF&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Sherlock himself is capable of the mind-palace technique, there is no reason to suspect others are not capable of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode was largely about underestimation, both of Magnussen and of Mary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Magnussen's lack of tangible 'files' and 'evidence' is his ultimate protection. In the age of the Leveson inquiry, it has been revealed that hard evidence is the most damning thing to possess, and can easily backfire against its possessor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The character of Magnussen was no doubt a commentary on this, and in this case his doomsday device was nothing other than his Eidetic memory. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-01-13T02:42:22.663" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T02:42:22.663" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13504" CreationDate="2014-01-13T01:29:48.537" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's take a few things in mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Iron Man 3 is based on Extremis comic book which features these superpowers on people who use the extremis virus. Obviously the whole scene is a reference to the comic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why ask &quot;why didn't he&quot;, instead ask &quot;would you&quot; or something similar. The whole idea of someone forgetting or not being able to do something is for the most time a really big part of the movie (although not this one for sure but I hope you get my point)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was there any weakness to that power he used? Was it maybe just a onetime power he could use? Was it even efficient enough to be used against Stark? Was that really fire and did it hurt him when he was using it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maybe the whole fire scene was a plot device to show how serious Killian was. Maybe it was nothing more than a MacGuffin to quickly turn him into a really bad guy who SHOULD be taken more seriously than we thought.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4938" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T01:29:48.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16605" CreationDate="2014-01-13T03:24:46.197" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we limit it to Hollywood, then one particular remake comes to mind... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Invasion of the Body Snatchers&lt;/em&gt; (1956) dir. Don Siegel&#xA;which then was re-made as&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Invasion of the Body Snatchers&lt;/em&gt; (1978) dir. Philip Kaufman&#xA;which then was then re-made as&#xA;&lt;em&gt;The Body Snatchers&lt;/em&gt; (1993) dir. Abel Ferrara&#xA;which was finally re-made as &#xA;&lt;em&gt;The Invasion (2007)&lt;/em&gt; dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7513" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T03:24:46.197" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16605" CreationDate="2014-01-13T03:58:53.687" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My money is on Romeo and Juliet. But without proper in depth research, my money maybe ill-placed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet_%28films%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia list of Romeo and Juliet Films&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet_on_screen&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia: Romeo and Juliet on Screen&lt;/a&gt; (&quot;...may be one of the most-screened plays of all time&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T03:58:53.687" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16645" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="67092" CreationDate="2014-01-13T08:05:37.733" Score="40" ViewCount="96978" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;His Last Vow&lt;/em&gt;, it has been decided that Sherlock will go on the important but ultimately deadly mission as his form of punishment/banishment.  In regards to his involvement with sending Sherlock on this mission, Mycroft is questioned about his feelings for Sherlock and says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Don't be absurd. I'm not given to outbursts of brotherly compassion. You know what happened to the other one.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This heavily implies that a third Holmes brother exists.  Is there a third Holmes brother in any canon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-08-31T20:54:49.370" LastActivityDate="2017-08-31T20:54:49.370" Title="Is there a third Holmes sibling?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16645" CreationDate="2014-01-13T10:06:10.573" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is mention of another brother Sherrinford Holmes on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Sherlock_Holmes_characters#Sherrinford_Holmes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherrinford Holmes is a hypothetical elder brother of Sherlock Holmes and Mycroft Holmes. It is believed that his deduction skills exceed those of both his younger brothers. His name is taken from early notes as one of those considered by Arthur Conan Doyle for his detective hero before settling on &amp;quot;Sherlock Holmes&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was first proposed by William S. Baring-Gould who wrote in his famous 'biography' &amp;quot;Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street&amp;quot; that Sherrinford was the eldest brother of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes once stated that his family were country squires, which means that the eldest brother would have to stay to manage the house. If Mycroft were the eldest then he couldn't play the role he does in four stories of the Sherlock Holmes canon, so Sherrinford frees them both. This position is strengthened by the fact that Mycroft's general position as a senior civil servant was a common choice among the younger sons of the gentry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The character appears (misspelled Sherringford), along with his brothers, in the Virgin New Adventures Doctor Who novel All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane, where he is revealed to be the member of a cult worshipping an alien telepathic slug that is mutating him and his followers into an insect-like form; the novel culminates with Holmes being forced to shoot his brother to save Watson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also appears, accused of a murder that Sherlock must find him innocent of, in the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game adventure The Yorkshire Horrors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7594" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T12:26:23.097" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3346" CreationDate="2014-01-13T11:38:05.463" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;He used an inflatable crashmat hidden by a low building, and a cyclist who deliberately knocked John to the ground, buying time for Molly and members of Sherlock's &quot;homeless network&quot; to bloody up his “dead” body and take away the crashmat &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X07qo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;crasmat&quot;&gt;, The squash ball under the arm to mask Sherlock's pulse – a technique used on stage by Gatiss's friend Derren Brown was used when watson checked for a pulse &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T11:38:05.463" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16635" CreationDate="2014-01-13T11:45:11.157" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was her boyfriend and a friend of his. It was mentioned on the comic but not on the TV show (as far as I remember).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the early stages of the outbreak, Michonne runs on foot to her&#xA;house. This attracts a street full of zombies to follow her. While she&#xA;arrives home, she meets her boyfriend, Mike and his brave but idiotic&#xA;best friend, Terry. A zombie tries to break in but Mike kills it. In&#xA;the process, Mike becomes bitten. At that time, Michonne bandages&#xA;Mike, who is unaware that he is infected. That night, Michonne&#xA;searches a neighbor's house for supplies and discovers her trademark&#xA;sword. She gets pinned down in the house during the night and returns&#xA;home the next day, finding that both Mike and Terry have become&#xA;walkers. She manages to survive their attack and lock them away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her&#xA;noisy encounter causes her street to become overrun. Michonne becomes&#xA;trapped and runs out of food. She notices walkers don't attack one&#xA;another and hacks off the arms and lower jaws of Mike and Terry. She&#xA;chains them up by their necks to use them as escorts for an escape&#xA;that was successful. Michonne says her final words to the zombified&#xA;Mike and Terry, to help remember who they are, and because she has no&#xA;one to talk to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Michonne_%28Comic_Series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Michonne on Walking Dead Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an image I found with Michonne fighting off the two of them:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Uos1G.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the show (S04E09), we see that the boyfriend and his friend are named Mike and Terry respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-30T10:40:00.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16608" CreationDate="2014-01-13T12:23:18.130" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sherlock wanted to play the game and win the game.  He wanted to show the cabbie he could beat him and was prepared to bet his life he was the smarter of the two.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Refusing to drink from the bottle would result him having to tolerate the cabbie smirking and saying &quot;But you weren't sure, were you?&quot;  that would have haunted Holmes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many times does Holmes put his life in danger trusting that his superior intellect will get him out?!  At times his life seems to almost be a quest to prove his superiority over everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T12:23:18.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16324" CreationDate="2014-01-13T15:06:55.440" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Oliver_C points out, Charles Charles' father married Lily and Vivian's Mother. When Chuck hires Cyrus Pennebaker to discover her lineage, she has this discussion with Ned about filling in the gaps:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;NED: Your aunts couldn’t help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CHUCK: Not when they’re step-aunts. My father was in his twenties when&#xA;  his father married Lily and Vivian’s mother. They barely knew each&#xA;  other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Charles Charles, 40 years old at death, orphaned his daughter Charlotte, who was 8 years, 42 weeks, 3 hours and 2 minutes old (108: &quot;Bitter Sweets&quot;). At CC's funeral:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chuck is flanked by 30-something Grey Garden-esque AUNTS VIVIAN and&#xA;  LILY, looking into an OPEN GRAVE as a RABBI reads in Hebrew from a&#xA;  prayer book. (101: &quot;Pie-lette&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see then that Charles Charles is somewhere between 1 and 10 years older than his step-sisters Lily and Vivian, presumably on the higher end, because they would still have had to be be young enough to justify changing their last names to Charles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://livingdeadguy.com/script/pushing-daisies-ep-108-corpsicle/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://livingdeadguy.com/script/pushing-daisies-ep-108-corpsicle/&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://livingdeadguy.com/script/pushing-daisies-ep-203-bad-habits/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://livingdeadguy.com/script/pushing-daisies-ep-203-bad-habits/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1125" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T15:06:55.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16633" CreationDate="2014-01-13T18:40:09.130" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/16636/6895&quot;&gt;John's answer&lt;/a&gt; there is another explanation, Janine is the P.A of Charles Augustus Magnussen. She is also a good friend of Mary, because she was the bridesmaid. So maybe Janine let her in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T18:40:09.130" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16656" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-13T18:47:58.853" Score="13" ViewCount="5922" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;His Last Vow&lt;/em&gt; (s03e03) episode when Charles Augustus Magnussen first come to meet Sherlock his bodyguard searched Sherlock and Watson for weapons. But at the climax when the detective duo reached the Magnussen house his bodyguards didn't bother to check them. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; If they had, Charles Augustus Magnussen would not be killed by SH.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="3862" LastEditDate="2014-02-18T10:15:57.123" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T10:15:57.123" Title="Why didn't Magnussen's bodyguards search Sherlock and Watson for weapons?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16657" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16658" CreationDate="2014-01-13T19:38:27.153" Score="11" ViewCount="20029" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Breaking Bad S02E12 I couldn't understand the last scene when Walter came back to Jesse and, while trying to wake him up, Jane just starts vomiting and suffocating. Was it because of heroin? If so then why did the same not happen to Jessie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please explain the whole thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3932" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2020-04-02T12:25:15.500" LastActivityDate="2020-04-02T12:25:15.500" Title="How did Jane start suffocating after smoking heroin?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="16658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16657" CreationDate="2014-01-13T19:46:16.837" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the season, Jane told Jessie that they need to fall asleep on their sides after doing heroin. The reason is if their body had some kind of violent reaction to the drug, causing them to vomit, they would asphyxiate on their own vomit. However, if they were laying on their side, the chances of the vomit &quot;pooling&quot; in their mouth were reduced, thus the chances of asphyxiation were reduced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jane turned over (or Walt turned her over, or she didn't fall asleep on her side, I can't quite remember the exact details), had a bad reaction to the drug, and began vomiting, but since she was unconscious or unable to move due to the drug, she could only lay there and asphyxiate on her own vomit, unaided by Walt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same thing didn't happen to Jessie because he didn't have a bad reaction to the heroin they injected, thus there was no vomit to suffocate on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T19:46:16.837" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16657" CreationDate="2014-01-13T19:46:38.013" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Heroin can often cause users to vomit, it's a reaction to what is ultimately poison. A few episodes earlier, Jesse and Jane have a conversation about 'nodding out' on their side so they don't choke on their own vomit, as it is a fairly common cause of death for Heroin Users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#Withdrawal&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It should also be noted that since heroin can cause nausea and vomiting, a significant number of deaths attributed to heroin overdose are caused by aspiration of vomit by an unconscious victim. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T19:46:38.013" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16657" CreationDate="2014-01-13T19:46:42.013" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad_%28season_2%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; entry:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During an attempt to awaken Jesse, Walt accidentally moves Jane out of the recovery position and onto her back, and witnesses her choking on her own vomit. Walt lets Jane suffocate and leaves. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_position&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;recovery position&lt;/a&gt; is described as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recovery position is designed to prevent suffocation through obstruction of the airway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More information about the above mentioned things can be found simply by seeing their corresponding Wikipedia pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6531" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-01-13T21:59:44.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16656" CreationDate="2014-01-13T21:29:29.430" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The simplest answer is his overconfidence&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Magnussen first meets Sherlock to negotiate the return of the evidence embarrassing to Lady Smallwood, he sends his goons in first to secure the environment and search Sherlock and Watson. This happens at Baker Street. At this point Magnussen doesn't really know what he will face and may be wary of Sherlock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, two things have happened. Sherlock has saved Magnussen's life or at least interrupted an event that could have led to his death and distracted his assailant who seemed about to kill him. Since the assailant shoots Sherlock, you could argue that Sherlock took a bullet for him. Also, Magnussen has managed to get plenty of dirt on Sherlock and, as a result, may be more confident in facing him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Magnussen may be overconfident. Also, he &lt;em&gt;invites&lt;/em&gt; Sherlock to his home base, sending a helicopter. Moreover, he is expecting to beat Sherlock in the negotiation for Mycroft's laptop. It seems that he has predicted Sherlock's strategy and wants to lord it over the detective by showing that his plan to facilitate a security search of his base to uncover his secret files won't work. Again, this might contribute to overconfidence on his part. Therefore no need to search Sherlock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also worth pointing out that it isn't at all obvious that Sherlock planned&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;to shoot Magnussen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherlock looks like he didn't expect to be bested by Magnussen. He could be putting on an act, but maybe he really was surprised to be beaten and improvised a new strategy on the spot. His actions are certainly unprecedented and a shock to Watson and the audience (making at least 4 mindf**ks in a single script).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="134" LastEditDate="2014-01-17T22:53:05.883" LastActivityDate="2014-01-17T22:53:05.883" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16665" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-13T23:47:04.803" Score="3" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 'The Following', it emerges pretty quickly that a cult has sprung up around Serial killer Joe Carroll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The masterminds of this cult have all visited Joe in Prison whilst he has been incarcerated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why weren't there any logs of who has visited them, and if there are why doesn't the FBI consult them to identify who could be part of the cult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like every time a new cult member pops up its a big surprise, but no-one thought of checking who'd been visiting him in prison? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T15:45:38.023" Title="Why aren't there any visitor logs?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-following|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16446" CreationDate="2014-01-14T00:31:08.453" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I strongly believe that, after a long and tiring search, I was able to find that movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie made for TV &lt;strong&gt;Dream House&lt;/strong&gt;, from &lt;strong&gt;1998&lt;/strong&gt;, has the following synopsis (the most complete I found):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Computer genius Richard Connor Thornton (Timothy Busfield) hopes to strike it rich with the world's first fully &lt;strong&gt;automated house&lt;/strong&gt;, controlled by &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Helen&lt;/strong&gt;,&quot; which even contains a logic chip for anticipating human needs. Primed to entice foreign investors, Mr. Thornton enlists his &lt;strong&gt;wife Laura&lt;/strong&gt; (Jennifer Dale) and &lt;strong&gt;son Michael&lt;/strong&gt; (Daniel Petronijevic) to test this home of the future. Soon, Helen begins eavesdropping, offering unsolicited advice, and flirting with Mr. Thornton. Although neither Laura nor Michael endear themselves to Helen, the computerized system reserves its spleen for the Thorntons' prodigal &lt;strong&gt;daughter Jenny&lt;/strong&gt; (Lisa Jakub); Helen even allows &lt;strong&gt;an intruder to get through the home security system to attack her&lt;/strong&gt;. Under orders from her sleazy beau Ray (Brennan Elliott), Jenny has actually returned home in order to rip off her family, but isn't prepared for Helen's interference. When her husband seems willing to sacrifice his family's safety for the sake of the almighty dollar, Laura calls for a showdown, but Helen promptly seals off the house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This certainly sounds like the movie I watched. The only actors I know of are Brennan Elliott (from Cold Case) and Lisa Jakub (from Ms. Doubtfire). I checked the other actors and they indeed seem to match! :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, this movie was pretty criticized by the public, thus it is almost impossible to find any reference of it despite basic synopsis. I managed to find the only 2 pictures of the film at this site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fantasfilm.org/detailsfilms.php?Titre_Usuel_Francais_ou_Titre_Original=MAISON%20SANGLANTE%20%28la%29&quot;&gt;http://www.fantasfilm.org/detailsfilms.php?Titre_Usuel_Francais_ou_Titre_Original=MAISON%20SANGLANTE%20%28la%29&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing those I can certainly remember the long haired woman confronting the house woman (Helen, as it seems), and down there is the short black hair girl, the daughter of the family, and the guy who is interested in her (however, I seem to think now that he isn't the same guy that is killed by the food cart).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really wanna thank you guys for all the help. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a watchable video anywhere, and I am really interested in rewatching this movie. Even if it's not a good movie it was the first reference of domotic I've ever seen in my life, and it is something that really catches my interest.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone knows anything about this movie I would appreciate any feedback. Thank you all again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7285" LastEditorUserId="7285" LastEditDate="2014-01-14T01:06:15.517" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T01:06:15.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15058" CreationDate="2014-01-14T00:43:29.643" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They have made it clear that when Frank Miller came to town that they (the collective group of outlaws) were going to kill the Marshal. They undertake that threat when he does arrive and that allows the Marshal to finally act. The clip attached demonstrates this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/2MWgOLT_vas?start=190&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also two other reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;High Noon was created in the era of the Hays Code&lt;/strong&gt; - This was a film standard which movie studios voluntarily adhered until the mid-1960s. Under this code, movies were held to a ridiculously high standard where indiscriminate violence couldn't be shown and that any hint of law enforcement corruption must end with film punishing the transgressor, If Will (the Marshal) had shot the Miller gang or arrested them without charge under the &amp;quot;logic&amp;quot; of the Hays Code, he would have had to be &amp;quot;punished&amp;quot; at the end of the film.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gary Cooper was an actor who had a great of &amp;quot;difficulty&amp;quot; playing roles which required a great deal of subtlety&lt;/strong&gt; - There is a film from 1959 called &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;They Came to Cordura&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; where Cooper's character was supposed to have been in a prior homosexual affair with a character played by Tab Hunter. Although Cooper was growing ill with the prostate cancer which eventually caused his death, he also did not feel comfortable being perceived as less &amp;quot;manly&amp;quot; than he was normally portrayed and he insisted that his character be &amp;quot;toughened up&amp;quot; which actually undercuts much of that film's narrative.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had Cooper's been written as ambushing Miller's men before he arrived or arresting them illegally, he would have likely objected strenuously. As it was, he had serious reservations about the perceived &amp;quot;socialist elements&amp;quot; of his High Noon part which is probably his best role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as soon as Miller and his men come into town and attempt to kill the Marshal, he is then &amp;quot;free&amp;quot; to commit violent acts against them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=4OBepfVJOeEC&amp;amp;pg=PA301&amp;amp;lpg=PA301&amp;amp;dq=%22The%20Don%27ts%20and%20Be%20Carefuls%22#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22The%20Don%27ts%20and%20Be%20Carefuls%22&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://books.google.com/books?id=4OBepfVJOeEC&amp;amp;pg=PA301&amp;amp;lpg=PA301&amp;amp;dq=%22The%20Don%27ts%20and%20Be%20Carefuls%22#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22The%20Don%27ts%20and%20Be%20Carefuls%22&amp;amp;f=false&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="75790" LastEditDate="2020-10-29T20:00:52.150" LastActivityDate="2020-10-29T20:00:52.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="16668" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-14T03:33:06.820" Score="9" ViewCount="3560" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Usual Suspects, Benicio del Toro plays the character of Fenster, who has a very unusual accent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this an accent from anywhere in the world, or is it something del Toro made up for the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-01-14T03:37:16.920" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T20:55:00.820" Title="Benicio del Toro as Fenster - What Accent is This?" Tags="|the-usual-suspects|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16669" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16672" CreationDate="2014-01-14T09:36:09.877" Score="2" ViewCount="566" Body="&lt;p&gt;Criminal Minds S9 Ep2 - &quot;The Inspired (Part II)&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they make arrests at the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There seems to be some difficulty over whether they have Jesse or Wallace.  They use his learned nervous tick as a differentiator and arrest him accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would they need to do this?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Surely they could just ask him questions that Jesse would know the answer to (e.g. who are these pictures of?  What happens in a normal day at work?) and demonstrate it was Wallace by his lack of knowledge of Jesse's life?  Also, the BAU would knew he suffered from hallucinations, if they kept him talking long enough he would eventually give himself away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps there is there some aspect of the American legal system that I am not familiar with?  Or did miss something in the episode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T12:08:35.220" Title="Why the confusion over who was arrested in Criminal Minds?" Tags="|plot-explanation|criminal-minds|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16670" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16671" CreationDate="2014-01-14T09:40:21.877" Score="3" ViewCount="559" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Police Academy Commandant Lassard tells Mahoney that he cannot throw him out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, later, Lt Harris does exactly that when Mahoney takes the blame for the canteen fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am guessing that the script was just not thought through in that detail but, on the off chance(!), is this ever actually explained?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T12:44:48.437" Title="How did Harris throw Mahoney out?" Tags="|plot-explanation|police-academy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16670" CreationDate="2014-01-14T10:15:55.600" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wasn't so much that &lt;em&gt;Lassard&lt;/em&gt; was technically unable to throw him out, he just had promised that to &lt;em&gt;Captain Reed&lt;/em&gt;, who chose the Police Academy as an alternative to jail for teaching &lt;em&gt;Mahoney&lt;/em&gt; some discipline. So it was more a personal than a technical decision to not throw him out for the many pranks he tried, since those were probably not strict (even if possible) reasons for getting expelled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But once &lt;em&gt;Mahoney&lt;/em&gt; started (or claimed to have started) a fight with another recruit, he had crossed a line where even &lt;em&gt;Lassard&lt;/em&gt; as commandant wasn't able to keep him at the Academy anymore and &lt;em&gt;Harris&lt;/em&gt; finally got a legitimate reason to expel &lt;em&gt;Mahoney&lt;/em&gt;. Fighting was just too heavy a misdeed to be ignored on the commandant's preference and was probably strictly written as a reason for expellance, which is also stated by &lt;em&gt;Copeland&lt;/em&gt; (or &lt;em&gt;Mahoney&lt;/em&gt; himself?) just before the fight, I think (and was in fact also the reason why &lt;em&gt;Hightower&lt;/em&gt; was thrown out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least that's how I understood the story, or how one could make some sense out of this. (Still one could ask the question why &lt;em&gt;Mahoney&lt;/em&gt; didn't try this earlier, when he still &lt;em&gt;wanted&lt;/em&gt; to get thrown out, but I'd really attribute this to some logic sacrificed for the sake of the story, as like you said, &lt;em&gt;&quot;the script was just not thought through in that detail&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-14T12:06:58.743" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T12:06:58.743" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16669" CreationDate="2014-01-14T12:08:35.220" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe there are two things going on here, one with the show, the second with the legal system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, the show is about the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Behavioral&lt;/strong&gt; Analysis Unit&lt;/em&gt;. To capture their guy through interrogation seems wrong with the premise of the show. Using behavior is much more fitting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, in the US legal system, all incarcerated (arrested or imprisoned) individuals have the right to an attorney and the right to remain silent. An attorney would advise against them talking, while they both may chose not to talk. Putting either/both of them into a room(s) and interrogating them may not produce any information. Besides, it was far easier for the BAU to detect who was whom from the tick than spending hours in interrogation which may or may not have produced results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T12:08:35.220" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16668" CreationDate="2014-01-14T13:54:34.030" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a few interviews  Benicio Del Toro decided that he was playing a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/films/30-unusual-facts-about-the-usual-suspects&quot;&gt;&quot;Black Chinese Puerto Rican Jew&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the websites where he describes his choice are blocked (I'm at work) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-01-14T20:55:00.820" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T20:55:00.820" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10421" CreationDate="2014-01-14T13:58:52.050" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My comment is about the book not the movie, but it is relevant to this thread because many of you think that Marla's ontological claims are stronger on page than on screen. I beg to disagree.  But then my theory is even more extreme than any I see here. I think that all of Project Mayhem is a part of &quot;Jack's&quot; delusion. None of it is real. If I am right about this, it would answer the objection about the waiter (which I admit is a strong argument for Marla's existence &lt;em&gt;if Project Mayhem is real&lt;/em&gt;). My evidence for believing that PM is an illusion? The mechanic scene (where the mechanic drives the car and swerves into incoming traffic). In the movie, the mechanic is played by Brad Pitt (a strong hint that the mechanic is not real). Things are much less clear in the book, where the mechanic is presented as a separate character. If the mechanic is indeed Tyler, we are asked to believe that three Space Monkeys would sit obediently in the back of the car (barking &quot;Sir!&quot;) while a single lunatic has a conversation with himself and drives toward oncoming traffic. Even the most dedicated follower would be moved to interject, &quot;Excuse me, Mr Durden, sir, but . . .&quot; in these circumstances. But the problem vanishes if there is only one real person in the car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7609" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T13:58:52.050" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16678" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-14T17:29:45.830" Score="6" ViewCount="12733" Body="&lt;p&gt;Breaking Bad S02E11 started with a scene where a small child is wandering around Combo (the drug dealer). Then some bullies stopped by Combo in a car and stared at him, he got scared and called his friend (Skinny Pete) for help and then that innocent looking child on a bicycle shot him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is that when those bullies could have killed him themselves why did they hire a small child?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3932" LastEditorUserId="216" LastEditDate="2018-01-06T03:42:06.580" LastActivityDate="2018-01-06T03:42:06.580" Title="Why was Combo shot by a small child when the enemy guys could have killed him themselves easily?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16678" CreationDate="2014-01-14T17:48:04.793" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was an initiation ritual. The kid (Tomas) wanted to become part of the gang, and they wanted to make sure that he would be someone they could use. So they asked him to prove himself by killing Combo, which he did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 3 spoilers ahead&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; This fact was revealed to Jesse by Tomas's sister Andrea in Season 3 Episode 11.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2014-01-14T20:07:29.037" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T20:07:29.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16122" CreationDate="2014-01-14T18:13:29.260" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reginald Tate died in 1955, roughly two weeks after it was announced that the second &lt;strong&gt;Quatermass&lt;/strong&gt; series would be created.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;John Robinson was not available for the third &lt;strong&gt;Quatermass&lt;/strong&gt; film and he also had a great deal of difficulty during the second film with the dialogue. Brian Donlevy was a major American star at the time and the next Quatermass project was aimed at an American audience.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Brian Donlevy was a major American star and he was bankable for the &lt;strong&gt;Quatermass&lt;/strong&gt; theatrical release. The film was a finacial success and Donlevy recreated the character in a sequel called &lt;strong&gt;Enemy From Space&lt;/strong&gt;. He remains the only actor to have portrayed Quatermass twice on film.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Andre Morell was the first choice to have played &lt;strong&gt;Quatermass&lt;/strong&gt; in the original series, but declined the role. He then played the role in the third BBC series and he is best remembered as being the &quot;definitive&quot; Dr. Quatermass. However he turned down the 1967 film role when it was offered to him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Andrew Keir was selected for the 1967 release &lt;strong&gt;Quatermass and the Pit&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;5 Million Years To Earth&lt;/strong&gt; in its US release). He was apparently not offered the role for the 1979 version and he died in 1997.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;John Mills was offered the role but was reluctant to take it until he was convinced by his wife. Although it remains his most famous television role, Mills went back to working as a film actor after it was completed&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jason Flemyng - Was offered the role due to his exposure from other works. All of the other actors who would had previously played &lt;strong&gt;Quatermass&lt;/strong&gt; were deceased or retired (except for John Mills, who died later that same year) when the production was created.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/442672/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/442672/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_(TV_serial)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_(TV_serial)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_and_the_Pit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_and_the_Pit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-07T18:02:45.773" LastActivityDate="2019-01-07T18:02:45.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="16682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16678" CreationDate="2014-01-14T18:28:53.933" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an interpretation that is consistent with the way many drug dealers behave (at least in many portrayals).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The normal process of selling a drug involves the dealers collecting the money. But they don't want to get caught in possession of any contraband. So they take the cash and then signal someone else, usually someone more innocent, to make the delivery to the punter. I'm sure this setup is also seen elsewhere in Breaking Bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The situation with the shooting of Combo at least partially parallels this. The actual bad guys don't want to get caught in the act of selling or committing acts of violence. So they get less suspicious-looking underlings to do the dirty work for them. It might also be that Combo would be less wary about being approached by a child, making the shooting easier for the child to do (he can get nearer to Combo without suspicion). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T18:28:53.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16687" CreationDate="2014-01-14T18:34:56.437" Score="12" ViewCount="2586" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last episode season 3 of Sherlock, &lt;em&gt;The Last Vow&lt;/em&gt;, Magnussen seems to use a very circuitous approach to beating Mycroft, whom he regards as essentially the head of England.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Magnussen blackmails Mary Watson in order to pressure John Watson;&#xA; John is a pressure point to Sherlock;&#xA; Sherlock is a pressure point to Mycroft&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, if Magnussen already had &quot;pages&quot; worth of pressure points applicable to Sherlock (evidenced by the rapid scrolling visual on his glasses), did he have to include so many other people--or is it explicable merely with &quot;arrogance&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1125" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T04:41:42.240" Title="Why did Magnussen need to pressure so many people to get to Mycroft?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16684" CreationDate="2014-01-14T19:57:17.870" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Magnussen has many pressure points on Sherlock, but few that have much &lt;em&gt;leverage&lt;/em&gt; on him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact Sherlock doesn't seem that concerned with his public image and is happy for drug taking and sex stories to appear in the press. This means that few of his foibles can be used to pressure him in any way (unlike revelations about a leading politician, for example). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Magnussen knew from the bonfire incident in the previous episode just how far Sherlock would go on behalf of Watson (he may have had other evidence pointing to this fact and set up the bonfire incident as a definitive proof). So Sherlock's desire to protect Watson creates leverage. But what is the best way to gain leverage over Watson? His weak point is Mary. And Magnussen knows all about her already, so he can use that to get the results he wants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T19:57:17.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13876" CreationDate="2014-01-14T20:04:14.857" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;About the only analysis that I can even find on that portion is from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.halexandria.org/dward909.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this website&lt;/a&gt;, where it is compared to the Qabalah (or Kabbala) and the Tree of Life. I don't remember there being much of an explanation in the original book, &amp;quot;The Club Dumas&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier, when Corso first expressed his admiration and gratitude to the girl for fighting for him against the albino down by the river, we saw the bond of Higher Feeling growing between them. It was at this point that the girl looked lovingly at Corso and drew with her fingers three vertical lines on his forehead with her own blood, the central line extending down his nose. There is a long spiritual tradition of marking the forehead as a sign of spiritual protection and initiation in both Eastern and Western traditions and three vertical marks on the forehead is the traditional Hindu sign of initiation of those who worship God in the form of Vishnu, the Preserver, whose qualities (like those of Chesed) are kindness and mercy. Such marks are also worn as a reminder of the consecration of the body as the temple of the Spirit, and in Corso's case might represent a sign of his initiation into Higher Feeling and the realm of the Soul. [Corso's blood stained forehead is not immediately cleaned.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the context of the Tree of Life, the three symbolic marks might also refer to the three Transcendent Creative energies of the Supernal Triad (which, when the body is superimposed on the Tree, are located in the head). The elongated center mark might symbolize the Central Pillar which extends downward from the highest central sephira of the Godhead, Kether/Crown, representing the route of the path of return which Corso is traveling. The girl begins as a symbolic figure who models for him the qualities of the Soul which he will gradually grow into, but once Corso has achieved the union of his ego and Soul, the inter-dimensional figure of the girl remains a symbol of the non-dual Spirit. It is his union with her in this capacity which will carry him across the Abyss and into union with the Spirit with the opening of the Ninth Gate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-01-14T20:04:14.857" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16684" CreationDate="2014-01-14T21:09:07.260" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;By involving so many people Magnussen is able to build &lt;em&gt;a chain of accountability.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he were to manipulate a single person, they could (out of a sense of desperation or nobility) sacrifice themselves in order to foil him. By involving a series of people linked to each other, none will jeopardize the position of their own 'weak-point', creating a fail-safe against any action against him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By creating such a chain, he is making the ramifications of Mycroft's/Sherlock's/Watson's/Mary's potential intransigence affect people beyond their immediate vicinity, and possibly beyond their comprehension, which is very intimidating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears as though Magnussen gets some kind of satisfaction from creating these needlessly convoluted chains, as they are a demonstration of his power and the far reaching boundaries of his control. This is perhaps the arrogance you speak of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-01-15T01:26:59.860" LastActivityDate="2014-01-15T01:26:59.860" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16688" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16696" CreationDate="2014-01-15T01:20:07.373" Score="5" ViewCount="1244" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478304/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Tree of Life&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; starts with a quote from the &lt;em&gt;Book of Job&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?  When the&#xA;  morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on the story of &lt;em&gt;Job&lt;/em&gt; is again referenced in a sermon the family is listening to in a church (during the funeral of &lt;em&gt;Jack&lt;/em&gt;'s drowned friend?). But having only very superficial knowledge of the &lt;em&gt;Book of Job&lt;/em&gt; (and as scarce an understanding of &lt;em&gt;The Tree of Life&lt;/em&gt;'s deeper meanings, if any), &lt;strong&gt;I wonder how the &lt;em&gt;Book of Job&lt;/em&gt;'s story or motives or this quote in particular tie in with &lt;em&gt;The Tree of Life&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-01-15T10:26:01.610" Title="Significance of the Book of Job quote" Tags="|analysis|the-tree-of-life|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16424" CreationDate="2014-01-15T03:25:11.460" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there is no definitive proof given that affirms that Mikey is a Gorfein.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of moments in the movie where it would be easy to confirm that he is in fact their son, but such opportunities are never taken. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Lillian says &quot;I don't want to be in this room&quot; she could have said &quot;his room&quot; which would imply more of a personal connection, but she didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Carey says &quot;I miss Mike,&quot; nobody else said anything like &quot;Imagine how the Gorfeins must feel.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If Mikey was the Gorfeins' kid, that would make Llewyn a total dick for the way he treated them (the whole abortion thing, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most grieving parents wouldn't have made Llewyn perform for dinner guests.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are no photographs of Mikey in the Gorfeins' house. In fact, the only reminder of him is the album &lt;em&gt;If We Had Wings&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this is all circumstantial and based on what characters &lt;em&gt;could have&lt;/em&gt; said or done, it's more compelling evidence than we're given to believe that Mike is a Gorfein.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7623" LastEditorUserId="7623" LastEditDate="2014-07-04T15:39:58.390" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T15:39:58.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14040" CreationDate="2014-01-15T08:04:27.233" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As they showed in the season three last episode that, T-Bag burn down the SONA, and then sucre, Bellick and T-Bag came out of SONA. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7625" LastActivityDate="2014-01-15T08:04:27.233" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1207" CreationDate="2014-01-15T08:51:49.567" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0391198/faq?ref_=tt_faq_sm#.2.1.6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FAQ on IMDb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did the Saeki family die?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Newspaper accounts say that Kayako Saeki was murdered by her husband&#xA;  Takeo, but it doesn't give many of the details. From various elements&#xA;  given throughout the movie, the audience is led to the conclusion that&#xA;  Takeo found Kayako's journal and read about her love for college&#xA;  professor Peter Kirk (Bill Pullman). Takeo went into a deep rage,&#xA;  killed Kayako, and then drowned their son Toshio in the bathtub. Takeo&#xA;  then hanged himself. In a deleted scene on the Director's Cut, it is&#xA;  explained that he had actually been killed by Kayako, having been&#xA;  hanged by large clumps of her long black hair that had sprouted from&#xA;  the ceiling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-15T09:31:38.200" LastActivityDate="2014-01-15T09:31:38.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16688" CreationDate="2014-01-15T10:26:01.610" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The quote from the Book of Job is, as you have perhaps identified, a central motif of the film: namely, ruminating on the nature and intentions of 'God'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Book of Job, God's great plan is questioned, to which God replies: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The inference of this is for God to say; mortal men have experienced little and as such know nothing of my great plan, it is all for purpose; know your place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is quoted at the start of the film (When R.L is discovered to have committed suicide), and at the funeral of the drowned boy, hence its relevance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is traditionally intended to bring comfort to the bereaved, to explain that God has a plan for all of us. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Immediately following this 'Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? ' quote,   we segue into the sequence showing the creation of life. The film is a rumination on the Sublime, focusing on a single family...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-01-15T10:26:01.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16656" CreationDate="2014-01-15T11:11:31.080" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The gun is actually not that relevant.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot quite get my head around why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Magnusson revealed so clearly that the only copy of all of the blackmail information is in his head with no backups.  Even if Holmes and Watson were not armed they could still have killed him with their bare hands.  They were both facing life imprisonment for treason so killing him would hardly make things worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing I can think of is that he got so carried away with his power and his intellectual dual with Holmes that he forgot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He can still be bested physically.  The triumph went to his, already arrogant, head and whilst he had all of the clever options covered he neglected the 'stupid' option of just killing him and taking the consequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2014-01-15T11:11:31.080" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13654" CreationDate="2014-01-15T12:08:38.800" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you were looking for Laurel and Hardy (animated series), It was a cartoon based on Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's comedic acts by the animation studio Hanna-Barbera from Hal Roach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Sorry, probably not the one since this one is old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7628" LastEditorUserId="7285" LastEditDate="2014-01-15T14:00:19.683" LastActivityDate="2014-01-15T14:00:19.683" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16656" CreationDate="2014-01-15T20:54:15.207" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;For all of Magnussen's power in having &quot;a very good memory&quot;, his primary weakness is assuming that once he has someone's pressure point, they will simply bow down to him. This was already evident in Lady Smallwood - he was able to intimidate her enough that he could lick her face and she'd do nothing about it, but he didn't anticipate that she would ask someone else for help. When it came time to confront Sherlock and John, even revealing where he kept his 'files' didn't seem to be a bother to him. As far as he was concerned, neither man would actually go so far as to kill him in cold blood. John is a soldier, a man of honour who would only kill when there was no other alternative (if memory serves, the only person he actually kills during the 9 episodes of Sherlock is the cabbie at the end of A Study In Pink). Certainly, if John was going to kill Magnussen, he would have done it beforehand. Sherlock, meanwhile, was not someone whom anyone would expect to kill someone else (if anything, Mycroft wouldn't hesitate to put a bullet in Magnussen's head if necessary). Thus, Magnussen fell by his weakness of assuming. There's a reason why they say when you assume, &quot;you make an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2014-01-15T20:54:15.207" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16268" CreationDate="2014-01-16T01:37:12.273" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I don't agree so much with the fact that the chronology is difficult to follow. After all &lt;em&gt;The Room&lt;/em&gt; seems to be pretty linear in the way the story unfolds. Disregarding the slight unconnectedness of some individual incidents, if the movie doesn't suggest otherwise, I have no reason to believe the chronology to be non-linear in any way. Thus my chronology of the events would be the same as presented in the movie (even if that might not be ragarded as &lt;em&gt;&quot;reliable&quot;&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree though, that I also couldn't completely bring this tuxedo scene in relation to the rest of the narration. But it also seems quite &lt;strong&gt;impossible that this could in any way happen after the birthday party&lt;/strong&gt;, as that is when everything collides, especially Johnny's relationships with Mark and Lisa. Additionally, it is clear that he was &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; married to Lisa during the birthday party&lt;/strong&gt; (and thus before his death), since at this party he still calls her his &lt;em&gt;&quot;future wife&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Thus from the movie itself I can only conclude with a very definite&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;No, Johnny didn't get married to Lisa.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in contrast to &lt;em&gt;Meat Trademark&lt;/em&gt;'s answer I wouldn't attribute anyone using the word &quot;wife&quot; to be just a mistake or a plot oversight. Rather than that they were just using the term &quot;wife&quot; colloquially, &lt;strong&gt;in anticipation of Lisa being Johnny's wife in the near future anyway&lt;/strong&gt;. This is similar to Lisa's mother calling Johnny her (Lisa's) &lt;em&gt;&quot;husband&quot;&lt;/em&gt; earlier, only to be corrected by Lisa. This inaccurate use of the terms &quot;wife&quot; and &quot;husband&quot; adds to the fact that &lt;strong&gt;apart from Lisa everybody else seems to see her marriage as more or less predetermined&lt;/strong&gt; and that Lisa's unwillingness to accept that and her anticipation of the boredom of being a &quot;wife&quot; is in fact the major motivation for her devastating actions. In addition to that Mark might also have said &lt;em&gt;&quot;wife&quot;&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;make the explanation easier and not disclose everything to Peter&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-07-06T09:02:00.370" LastActivityDate="2016-07-06T09:02:00.370" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16705" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16732" CreationDate="2014-01-16T08:54:12.990" Score="8" ViewCount="3248" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movie where guy is solicited by young teen prostitute and he ends up raising her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He first sees her with another potential client; she either already has or gets a black eye and tries to have sex with him.  He gives her a sandwich.  Then he runs into her later and ends up taking her to his apartment to look after her.  She ends up going to school, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, it's a recent movie with the male lead being mid 20s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7641" LastEditorUserId="7641" LastEditDate="2014-01-17T14:39:32.150" LastActivityDate="2014-01-17T14:50:37.353" Title="Movie where guy is solicited by young teen prostitute and he ends up raising her?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:57:42.057" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13962" CreationDate="2014-01-16T10:48:08.133" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been unanswered for too long, so I'm just going to say it. &lt;strong&gt;NO.&lt;/strong&gt; That is not him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond throwing CGI money away on such an inconsequential shot, if you look at the other man's features you'll notice much different bone and cartilage structures around the eye sockets, more-centered zygomatic bones (cheekbones), and a more acute angle where the nasal bones indent and leave the brow. Plus, this man looks nothing like The Professor / Bernard Fallon (Borden's alter-ego).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no reason to assume this is anything other than someone reading too much into a slight resemblance. Do I have definitive proof? No, I do not. Also, I have difficulty in seeing any kind of compelling resemblance between the two men. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing to consider is that the twins kept public contact at a minimum. They did not seem to &quot;hang out&quot; together. This is explained by Borden's reveal of the so-called &quot;frail&quot; old Chinese magician whose act was basically performed off-stage; ie: the man was fit enough to work heavy bowls of water but presented himself as a feeble old man who required canes and / or assistance to go to and from the theater. That was the real act. Borden would not likely risk exposure by sitting next to himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastActivityDate="2014-01-16T10:48:08.133" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16715" CreationDate="2014-01-16T20:10:10.227" Score="6" ViewCount="2049" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking to see if anyone can identify this movie. It's about 6 years + old. A couple live in a house near the sea and white cliffs. The couple find a girl, clearly shook up and unable to speak. They take her to the doctor, who makes a diagnosis that she had her skull forcefully open. (something about her parents opening her skull to let the evil out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a scene in the movie where a mass cow/people suicide takes place off the white cliffs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie ends with the girl drowning, and the woman trying to help her out. She fails however, and is seen falling in to the water with the girl.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The end of the movie is quite difficult, and ends with the woman being locked out of her body, and the spirit of the girl being inside her. They all go to the house, where the husband shuts the door and the spirit of the woman is locked outside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very end, the now possessed woman opens some sort of lock-box with a hidden key, and takes out some pictures. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-06-12T09:29:54.773" LastActivityDate="2017-06-12T09:29:54.773" Title="Horror film where couple find a girl, who is unable to talk" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:57:45.200" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16714" CreationDate="2014-01-16T21:16:15.320" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_%28film%29&quot;&gt;The Dark&lt;/a&gt;, (2005).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Ebrill, who was a sickly child, died, her father gave her to the&#xA;  ocean, sending her to Annwyn. He then convinced his followers to throw&#xA;  themselves into the ocean, claiming that it was the way to Paradise,&#xA;  while he privately hoped that their sacrifice would return Ebrill to&#xA;  him from Annwyn. Ebrill did come back, but, something came back with&#xA;  her. Her father tried to draw the evil out of her, through trepanning&#xA;  and locking her in her room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ending is described in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411267/board/nest/47499307&quot;&gt;IMDB Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So Sarah is back alive.&#xA;  Adele thinks she is back too, but as you can see James completely&#xA;  ignores her, he actualy slams the door shut right in frot of her, and&#xA;  she can't get it open.  Then James tells Sarah that Adele sacreficed&#xA;  herself to save Sarah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-01-16T21:16:15.320" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16722" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16726" CreationDate="2014-01-17T06:01:36.947" Score="6" ViewCount="448" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do film studio have to acquire rights for a public domain character or they can use them freely? I mean characters like Hercules, Thor, Social figures or fairy tale characters or any other religious/mythical characters. These character aren't owned by any studio or a person, so are film studio free to make TV series or movies on them or are they required to file copyright registration for them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-01-17T10:44:20.483" LastActivityDate="2014-01-18T08:57:30.000" Title="How does copyright work for pre-existing character/work?" Tags="|character|copyright|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16705" CreationDate="2014-01-17T10:11:59.777" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems to be the plot of Welcome to the Riley's with &lt;em&gt;James Gandolfini&lt;/em&gt; as the man and &lt;em&gt;Kristen Stewart&lt;/em&gt; as the prostitue/stripper.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1183923/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's the IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Plot (from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Rileys&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;WikiPedia&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ever since the death of their daughter Emily, Doug (James Gandolfini)&#xA;and Lois Riley (Melissa Leo) have been drifting apart. As Lois&#xA;wrestles with a suffocating sense of guilt over her daughter's death,&#xA;Doug copes by entering into an affair with Vivian, a local waitress.&#xA;Lately, Lois hasn't even been able to muster the courage to venture&#xA;outside, summoning hairdressers to her home in order to maintain&#xA;appearances and communicating with few people other than her sister&#xA;Harriet and the local pastor. When Vivian dies and Doug finds himself&#xA;in a New Orleans strip club during a business trip, he realizes he's&#xA;come to a dangerous crossroads in life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Turning down an offer for a&#xA;private dance by 16-year-old stripper Mallory (Kristen Stewart), Doug&#xA;instead accompanies the girl home and makes a most unusual&#xA;proposition: If Mallory will allow him to stay in her run-down house&#xA;long enough to straighten himself out, he will pay her $100 a day for&#xA;her trouble. For Mallory, who isn't used to getting money for nothing,&#xA;it seems like a great deal. She accepts, and Doug phones Lois to tell&#xA;her he won't be coming home. As time passes, Doug and Mallory settle&#xA;into an unconventional kind of domesticity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, back home, Lois&#xA;realizes that she'll have to act fast in order to save her marriage,&#xA;even if that means venturing well outside her comfort zone for the&#xA;first time in nearly a decade. Most days she can't even make it to the&#xA;mailbox, but after a couple of attempts, Lois manages to start up her&#xA;car and get on the freeway heading south. When Lois arrives in&#xA;Louisiana and discovers that her husband is living with a&#xA;foul-mouthed, underage stripper, she is at first horrified. Like Doug&#xA;before her, however, Lois quickly warms to Mallory due in part to her&#xA;striking similarities to Emily. Before long, Lois, too, has moved in,&#xA;and the three form an unconventional family. But when Lois attempts to&#xA;steer Mallory from the path of self-destruction, the young girl&#xA;bristles. Mallory is arrested after an altercation with a client, and&#xA;Doug and Lois rush to be by her side, but shortly after they bail her&#xA;out, she runs away. Doug and Lois realize they cannot use Mallory as a&#xA;substitute for their daughter and return to Indianapolis. Shortly&#xA;after returning and settling back at home, Doug receives a phone call&#xA;from Mallory in Houston. She announces her plans about moving to Las&#xA;Vegas, just before boarding the bus. Doug clarifies to her that she&#xA;will always be supported by his family, if any needs should come. Doug&#xA;and Lois finally begin to re-engage with the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3489" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-01-17T11:10:25.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16722" CreationDate="2014-01-17T11:26:38.760" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As MeatTrademark has alluded to in his comment, public domain works possess no tangible copyright from which licence fees can be extracted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An author's intellectual property protection expires in most cases 70 years after publication (making it almost always outside their lifetime), however in the United States this has been somewhat dubiously extended to 95 years after first publication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherlock Holmes is an interesting example, as since this amendment &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; of his work remains under copyright, and some doesn't. Looking at the details explains some of the nuances of IP law. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conan Doyle died in 1930, publishing his last novel in 1927 (The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes), meaning that particular work will stay under copyright in the States until 2023).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conan Doyle's estate are notoriously litigious about enforcing this, and as such they will sue anyone whom they believe to be even alluding to the latter works. &quot;The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes&quot; is a recent example of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, incarnations of a character can themselves be protected against reproduction within reasonable grounds. This very event happened when the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/legal-thriller-looms-as-sherlock-takes-his-caseload-to-new-york-6292682.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BBC tried to take action&lt;/a&gt; against CBS for their 'co-incidental' re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes shortly after the announcement of Sherlock. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the general character of &lt;em&gt;Sherlock Holmes&lt;/em&gt; is Public Domain, so &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; interpretations are legally unprosecutable. It is only remakes &lt;em&gt;of remakes&lt;/em&gt; that muddy the water, as it is not &lt;em&gt;Conan Doyle&lt;/em&gt; the newer work is adapting, but the remake itself (and authored within 70/95 years).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The concept of a new Sherlock Holmes is unprotectable. But if the unusual elements of the BBC series – the modern settings, characters, clothes, plots and distinctive visual style – were closely reproduced in the CBS version, that could form the basis of a potential copyright claim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; despite there being little opposition to the notion of Sherlock Holmes being Public Domain, The BBC, CBS and Guy Ritchie all chose to pay the Conan Doyle estate their fee to avoid potentially laborious legal fees intended only to slow production. Such is the effect of legal bullying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Characters also require &lt;em&gt;an identifiable author&lt;/em&gt; in order to create an estate that will act in its interests, so your other examples (Thor, Hercules) do not fall under any estate's remit. Most fairly tales are cautionary tales that have been in circulation for hundreds of years, and surface in different cultures in different ways, demonstrating their universality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-01-18T08:57:30.000" LastActivityDate="2014-01-18T08:57:30.000" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16729" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16731" CreationDate="2014-01-17T13:11:07.117" Score="6" ViewCount="5554" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121765/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; an assassination attempt is made on senator Amidala. But as we learn later, it wasn't Padmé who is killed there. Who was it then? I always thought it was Keira Knightley's character Sabé from &lt;em&gt;The Phantom Menace&lt;/em&gt;, but according to the E.U she serves Bail Organa on Alderraan post Episode 3. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-17T13:52:51.250" LastActivityDate="2014-01-17T15:12:06.623" Title="Who is killed in the assasination attempt on senator Amidala?" Tags="|star-wars|attack-of-the-clones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16730" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-17T13:37:53.443" Score="9" ViewCount="24579" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence of Fox and Marvel coming to an agreement for characters from both the &lt;em&gt;Marvel Cinematic Universe&lt;/em&gt; and the &lt;em&gt;X-Men&lt;/em&gt; franchise to appear in each other's films? If not, when does Fox's license on the X-Men run out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-12T13:14:18.377" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T13:28:53.133" Title="When does Fox's licence on the X-Men run out?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|x-men-cinematic-universe|copyright|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16729" CreationDate="2014-01-17T14:06:44.970" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems likely that after ten years and after becoming senator she chose another double after &lt;em&gt;Sabé&lt;/em&gt; (and with the &lt;em&gt;Nabooans&lt;/em&gt;' heavy make-up the double doesn't necessarily need to look much like &lt;em&gt;Padmé&lt;/em&gt; anyway ;-)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_II%3a_Attack_of_the_Clones&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;English Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; doesn't give much information on this, its &lt;a href=&quot;http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars%3a_Episode_II_%E2%80%93_Angriff_der_Klonkrieger&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;German version&lt;/a&gt; says that it was a double named &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0036781/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t32&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cordé&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which IMDb seems to agree with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cordé was a handmaiden and double for Senator Padmé Amidala of Naboo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cordé replaced Amidala's former decoy, Sabé, who was a decoy while&#xA;  Amidala was Queen of Naboo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She was killed in an assassination attempt on Amidala when she&#xA;  returned to Coruscant for the Senate vote on the Military Creation&#xA;  Act. The person responsible for the attack was bounty hunter Zam&#xA;  Wesell, who worked for the Confederacy of Independent Systems via&#xA;  fellow bounty hunter Jango Fett.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cordé died apologizing to Amidala, disheartened in thinking she had&#xA;  failed her duty to the Senator. On the contrary - Padmé was&#xA;  heartbroken by Cordé's sacrifice, regrettably accepting that she had&#xA;  perfomed her duty in order for the Senator to proceed with her vote&#xA;  for the Military Creation Act. Reluctantly, she left the bodies of&#xA;  Cordé and the other Royal Guards behind, guilt stricken over their&#xA;  rising to the greater good at the cost of their lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that, she is also directly mentioned in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Star-Wars-Attack-of-the-Clones.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; and the movie made out of this script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Klaxons blare, alarms sound! CAPTAIN TYPHO and the TWO ESCORT PILOTS&#xA;  get up and run to where SENATOR AMIDALA lies dying. Beyond, ARTOO&#xA;  DETOO drops down from the Naboo Fighter and rolls toward the wreckage.&#xA;  The FEMALE ESCORT PILOT kneels by SENATOR AMIDALA and takes off her&#xA;  helmet, revealing SENATOR PADME AMIDALA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;PADMÉ: Cordé...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She gathers up her decoy double in her arms. Cordé's eyes are open.&#xA;  She looks up at her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CORDÉ: ... I'm sorry, m'lady... I'm... not sure I... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CORDÉ dies. PADMÉ hugs her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;AMIDALA: No!... No!... No!...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;PADMÉ lowers CORDÉ to the ground. She gets up and looks around at the&#xA;  devastation. There are tears in her eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;AMIDALA: I should not have come back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CAPTAIN TYPHO: M'Lady, you are still in danger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amidala says nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CAPTAIN TYPHO: This vote is very important. You did your duty and&#xA;  Cordé did hers. Now come. (she doesn't respond) M'Lady, please!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-17T15:12:06.623" LastActivityDate="2014-01-17T15:12:06.623" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16705" CreationDate="2014-01-17T14:50:37.353" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I figured it out.  The movie is &quot;Detachment&quot; with Adrien Brody.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683526/&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683526/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other answer made me realize I was going to need more details to differentiate the movies, and when I got to thinking about them, I remembered!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Detachment&lt;/em&gt;'s two story arcs sort of separated into two separate movies for me.  Anyway, I enjoyed the movie more than most, so I intend to watch it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your help! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7641" LastActivityDate="2014-01-17T14:50:37.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16729" CreationDate="2014-01-17T15:04:55.240" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_II%3a_Attack_of_the_Clones_%28novel%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;novelization of Episode II by R.A. Salvatore&lt;/a&gt;, it was her bodyguard &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Cord%C3%A9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cordé&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Cordé,&quot; she said quietly, her voice breaking. Cordé was one of her beloved bodyguards, a woman who had been with her, serving her and serving Naboo, for many years. Padmé gathered Cord up in her arms, hugging her gently. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Captain Typho came up out of his ready stance long enough to lock stares with his Senator. &quot;This vote is very important,&quot; he reminded her, his tone uncompromising, the voice of a man sworn to duty above all else. So much like his uncle. &quot;You did your duty, Senator, and  Cordé did hers. Now come.&quot; He started away, grabbing Padmé's arm, but she shrugged off his grasp and stood there, staring down at her lost friend. &quot;Senator Amidala! Please!&quot; Padmé looked over at the man. &quot;Would you so diminish Cordé's death as to stand here and risk your own life?&quot; Typho bluntly stated. &quot;What good will her sacrifice be if--&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastActivityDate="2014-01-17T15:04:55.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13894" CreationDate="2014-01-17T16:17:47.090" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;None Bear Grylls shows are &quot;real&quot; in the sense that they depict actual events. They are staged documentaries which demonstrate Grylls performing tasks which:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Never fail&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Allow him to find and obtain all of the necessary components for his bushcraft demonstrations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't show Grylls being injured or becoming serious ill from being in a remote location&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use editing and time lapse photography to cover up any mistakes or errors that Grylls makes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be ascertained by the fact that his cameraman is ALWAYS in the correct position to record Grylls activities and those activities are never out of focus or out of frame. It can also e seen as Grylls never has to stop what he is doing and start over again completely from scratch as a person might have to do in a true survival situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Grylls' show is scripted reality television. It's outcomes are pre-planned and when/if the outcomes which filmed do not meet the specified results they are excised by editing and replaced with scenes which match the outcomes that are desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-01-17T16:17:47.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16730" CreationDate="2014-01-17T16:50:49.207" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is some info, although I don't know how reliable it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Alright, Gambit1024! I understand why Spider-Man and Wolverine can't be in the Avengers now, after all! But there's still one thing I don't get: Can Marvel/Disney get the rights to those characters back?&amp;quot; They sure can, little voice!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See, the contracts for say, Daredevil and the FF, say that &amp;quot;If Fox doesn't make a movie without these guys in it after this many years, the rights go back to Marvel.&amp;quot; Easy squeezie, right? Wrong. Since Fox cares oh so much about the money these potential cash-cows make, (and who can blame them?) they will do everything in their power to keep these names until they realize that people will not pay any more money to see them. That's exactly what happened with the Punisher, and now he's under the Marvel/Disney roof with all of his old friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicvine.com/marvel/4010-31/forums/the-marvel-movie-character-rights-and-where-they-a-666672/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the above forum post may not be what is usually considered a &amp;quot;reliable source&amp;quot;, about a year and a half ago it was announced that Daredevil might go back to Marvel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fox is looking for a director on its other major Marvel reboot, after David Slade just dropped out of &lt;em&gt;Daredevil&lt;/em&gt;. The studio has a script it likes, but has to get the film into production by fall or contractually risk having the the property revert to Marvel Studios and Disney. Slade could not make the timing work as he is directing the pilot of the series &lt;em&gt;Hannibal&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deadline.com/2012/07/comic-con-fox-sets-fantastic-four-and-daredevil-reboots-and-puts-joe-cornish-on-rust-loses-david-slade-on-daredevil-redo/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Director Joe Carnahan seems to be ready to toss in the towel on the last ditch attempt to reboot the Marvel superhero &lt;em&gt;Daredevil&lt;/em&gt; before Fox’s rights to the franchise expire this fall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/looks-like-daredevil-will-go-back-to-marvel-and-disney/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last summer, Marvel got the rights on Daredevil back (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/toldja-daredevil-rights-revert-from-fox-to-disney/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, this confirms the above &amp;quot;they have rights as long as they make the movies (which, in practice, means as long as it's profitable to make them)&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-01-17T16:50:49.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16656" CreationDate="2014-01-17T22:20:08.567" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.empireonline.com/features/sherlock-series-3-secrets/p7&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;an interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0309693/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mark Gatiss&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0595590/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steven Moffat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moffat:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;[I wrote a scene where] Sherlock and John go to him, and Magnussen’s decided to go for a swim so he just takes his clothes off. He gets into his Speedos. So he’s so bored of them, so uninterested, so unaware that they’re there, that he just behaves like that.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gatiss:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;It would be like a Roman emperor, where they just didn’t even acknowledge that the servants were there. They just put their hand out for something.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moffat:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;That sense of entitlement... It’s what brings him down of course, that &lt;strong&gt;it doesn’t occur to him that Sherlock Holmes might just shoot him. He hasn’t factored that in. He doesn’t think people can do that.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2014-01-17T22:33:25.863" LastActivityDate="2014-01-17T22:33:25.863" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16633" CreationDate="2014-01-17T22:26:17.997" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.empireonline.com/features/sherlock-series-3-secrets/p9&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;an interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0309693/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mark Gatiss&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0595590/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steven Moffat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moffat:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We had her doing all sorts of acrobatics&lt;/strong&gt;, didn’t we? He actually, at one point, goes over and &lt;strong&gt;finds the window open and all that&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But it was just boring, so we didn’t have it. She got in ingeniously.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gatiss:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She broke in&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moffat:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;She’s a highly trained intelligence agent, who’s doing a lot better job of breaking in than John and Sherlock are.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And if you actually think this through, suppose Sherlock hadn’t blundered his way in that night? She’d just have shot Magnussen, gone back to being Mrs. Watson – and not only that, they’d have carried on solving crimes together, with this lethal killer nurse wandering along behind them, picking off anyone who might put them in danger. That would’ve been the show.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2014-01-17T22:26:17.997" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15887" CreationDate="2014-01-18T12:11:10.883" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was out of respect for the owners. However, I feel that she should have taken them and returned them to Hanzo as he seemed to be collecting his work back and storing it, to prevent people from being hurt by it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7674" LastActivityDate="2014-01-18T12:11:10.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4158" CreationDate="2014-01-18T15:02:43.830" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that just as she used reverse psychology to seduce Benjamin (excusing him of being a virgin)- she does the same to get him to fall in love with Eline because she actually wishes her daughter to have a guy like him. There is proof of this for one second when he interrupts the wedding- and she smiles and tells her husband not to interfere. Later she changes back to being angry, acting out the proper mother part. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7676" LastActivityDate="2014-01-18T15:02:43.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16730" CreationDate="2014-01-18T16:00:37.310" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/16738/48480&quot;&gt;@VedranŠego's answer&lt;/a&gt; says, Fox owns X-men rights till they make movie on them. Fox already have lost rights of Daredevil and related property, so they are not seen interested in losing anymore rights of Marvel character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some rumors suggest Fox has to use this property and make film in every 3-4 year too sustain rights. And currently, Fox didn't stop making film on X-Men character because they have a milking cow and didn't want to loose it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past is coming this year and X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Force and The Wolverine sequel are in development. There might be a plan for Deadpool Film but no updates have been given since 2011.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;There is also a plan of reboot for Fantastic Four film, which will share continuity with X-men to make a Shared universe like Marvel's Avenger. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_%28film_series%29#Potential_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it looks like Fox is not going to loose rights soon and after the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/dickdock/news/?a=80370&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Quicksilver Controversy&lt;/a&gt;, Fox and Marvel is not showing any intention for friendly relation and having different version of same character will going to make thing more complex for crossover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-08-09T13:28:53.133" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T13:28:53.133" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16749" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-18T18:37:16.243" Score="4" ViewCount="2157" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is Lady Smallwood actually willing to just let Sherlock go? But Mycroft doesn't agree because Sherlock murdered someone therefore must be punished whatsoever?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7679" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-01-04T15:43:19.867" LastActivityDate="2017-01-04T15:43:19.867" Title="What is Mycroft implying when he says &quot;Regrettably Lady Smallwood, my brother is a murderer&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16752" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-19T00:28:37.693" Score="13" ViewCount="2905" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the finale of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099674/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Godfather: Part III&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Vincent&lt;/em&gt;'s &quot;clearance&quot; of the &lt;em&gt;Corleone&lt;/em&gt; family's enemies and the assassination attempt on &lt;em&gt;Michael&lt;/em&gt; is intertwined with the family attending a performance of the opera &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalleria_rusticana&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cavalleria Rusticana&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (in which &lt;em&gt;Anthony&lt;/em&gt; performs). Additionally, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalleria_rusticana&quot;&gt;German Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; says that the movie also cites many images and plots of this opera (&lt;em&gt;Vincent&lt;/em&gt; biting into &lt;em&gt;Zasa&lt;/em&gt;'s ear comes to mind).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But having only very superficial Wikipedia-based knowledge about the story of the &lt;em&gt;Cavalleria Rusticana&lt;/em&gt;, I have difficulties to draw any further connections of it to the movie. Now while I don't want this question to get too broad or degrade into a mere list of each and every possible camera shot referencing the opera, &lt;strong&gt;I'd like to know if there are any major references to the &lt;em&gt;Cavalleria Rusticana&lt;/em&gt;'s story or its overall motifs in the &lt;em&gt;The Godfather: Part III&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-19T00:39:00.987" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T19:14:05.683" Title="How is The Godfather: Part III related to the Cavalleria Rusticana?" Tags="|analysis|reference|the-godfather-3|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16749" CreationDate="2014-01-19T05:43:11.933" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;She merely said&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Hardly merciful Mr. Holmes.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think she was suggesting to just let him go. Quite the opposite really. I think she &lt;em&gt;wanted&lt;/em&gt; him to be detained in some sort of prison, she just didn't think he needed to &lt;em&gt;die&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the episode Mycroft told Sherlock about an assignment that would end with him dead in 6 months. At the plane, as they are saying their goodbyes, John asks Sherlock how long the assignment will take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Six months, my brother estimates. He's never wrong.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was being sent, at Mycroft's suggestion, to his death until&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Moriarty shows up at the end and Sherlock is called back to duty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-01-19T07:48:03.550" LastActivityDate="2014-01-19T07:48:03.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16758" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16772" CreationDate="2014-01-19T11:13:41.740" Score="4" ViewCount="1148" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm confused about a conversation in Pacific Rim beween Newt and Hannibal Chow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's previous established that eyes can become bloodshot and damaged when a drift goes wrong (or perhaps it's too much strain).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The early Jaeger Pilots have bloodshot eyes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Newt's first attempt to drift with a kaiju left him with a bloodshot eye&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Hannibal is discussing drifting with a kaiju he shows his eye to Newt (01:14:55), it's also damaged and he says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I tried it once... once!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However he previously suggested that the reason there's a double event (and the kaiju is looking for Newt) is because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maybe that's because no one has ever drifted with one before!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which suggests to me that he didn't attempt a kaiju drift... So I'm unclear, what did he only try once? Is he referring to drifting or perhaps going to a public refuge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="34594" LastEditDate="2016-09-24T18:50:30.733" LastActivityDate="2016-09-24T18:50:30.733" Title="What did Hannibal try once?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|pacific-rim|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16758" CreationDate="2014-01-19T11:43:10.617" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my understanding he tried to drift with one, but somehow lacked the knowledge and/or just the right &quot;material&quot; (or equipment). He didn't get it 100% working/right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the movie they introduce the concept of compatibility/synchronicity, so this might have been an additional factor here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After watching the specific scenes again I'd even think that Hannibal didn't plan on revealing his little secret, but then did so due to anger (and possibly fear as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those wanting to see the important scenes on their own, they start at &lt;em&gt;01:08:00&lt;/em&gt; (Hannibal notices the eye damage) and &lt;em&gt;01:14:55&lt;/em&gt; (Hannibal reveals his own eyes; both times are from the Region 2 BD).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastEditorUserId="6725" LastEditDate="2014-01-20T11:18:48.710" LastActivityDate="2014-01-20T11:18:48.710" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16760" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-19T17:19:01.443" Score="1" ViewCount="1608" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched the series of &lt;strong&gt;Two and a Half Men&lt;/strong&gt; two times now till the latest episode, but can't understand why either Charlie or Walden just don't kick Alan out? I mean it is a bit cruel but they are shown to put up with him even though he gets up on their nerves (even got on my nerves).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples off the top of my head:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He became the reason of his first engagement with Mia to be broken up.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He once set up his curtains on &lt;strong&gt;fire&lt;/strong&gt; after ruining his day.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He invited his girlfriend/assistant to move in without his permission and started acting like he owned part of the house when he didn't even pay rent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He acted sickly and dying (Walden's time) and tricked him out of money for his care and comfort.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He deliberately tried to break his relations (Walden's) just so he can keep sponging off.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know not the best examples, but if not in every episode then in every alternate episode he is shown to getting up on their nerves and they just keep on telling him to leave. Why don't they just kick him out? Why put up with such a leach?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7582" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-19T18:56:24.473" LastActivityDate="2022-07-21T14:00:07.460" Title="Why do people put up with Alan?" Tags="|plot-explanation|two-and-a-half-men|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16763" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-19T20:53:38.453" Score="2" ViewCount="941" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;Fritz Lang&lt;/em&gt;'s 1924 silent movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015175/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Die Nibelungen: Siegfried&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when &lt;em&gt;Kriemhild&lt;/em&gt; enters the minster, she sees that &lt;em&gt;Brunhild&lt;/em&gt; has commited suicide at the corpse of &lt;em&gt;Siegfried&lt;/em&gt;, calmly remarking&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tell king Gunther my brother, the queen of Burgundy is dead!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasons for which I don't entirely understand. Now of course there are millions of differing versions of the &lt;em&gt;Nibelung&lt;/em&gt;-legend and some in which &lt;em&gt;Brunhild&lt;/em&gt; indeed kills herself after &lt;em&gt;Siegfried&lt;/em&gt;'s death. Yet, those are the versions where she shares some kind of loving bond with him (to which the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibelungenlied&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;poem&lt;/a&gt;, the version nearest to the movie, doesn't belong though), while in &lt;em&gt;Lang&lt;/em&gt;'s version she hadn't any feelings for him other than disdain and hatred (and was in fact the one urging &lt;em&gt;Gunther&lt;/em&gt; to kill him). She is also depicted as an inherently strong character and remorse doesn't seem her trait, as also shown in her taunting of &lt;em&gt;Gunther&lt;/em&gt; for making him betray his friend. So &lt;strong&gt;what was the reason for &lt;em&gt;Brunhild&lt;/em&gt; to commit suicide right in front of &lt;em&gt;Siegfried&lt;/em&gt;'s layed out corpse?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T20:28:50.590" Title="What is the reason for Brunhild's suicide?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|die-nibelungen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16621" CreationDate="2014-01-19T23:21:58.273" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Troll King remembered, as he said that he could not heal Anna as he did before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kristoff didn't indicate that he remembered Anna specifically, but he knew that the trolls could heal the type of injury that she had, as he told Anna, because he had seen it done before. He most likely put two and two together, since very few people have sisters with that specific magical ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastActivityDate="2014-01-19T23:21:58.273" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16767" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-20T02:41:48.603" Score="10" ViewCount="7608" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the pre title sequence of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082398/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;For Your Eyes Only&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Blofeld is in a wheelchair. Why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8843" OwnerDisplayName="Gelfamat" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T13:16:17.840" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T05:50:31.807" Title="Why was Blofeld in a wheelchair in the beginning of For Your Eyes Only?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|for-your-eyes-only|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16767" CreationDate="2014-01-20T03:10:14.633" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, this is technically speaking an unnamed villain, NOT Blofeld (despite resembling him). To quote Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;John Hollis as the &quot;bald villain in wheelchair&quot;,[12] voiced by Robert Rietti.[13] The character appears in the pre-credits sequence and is both unnamed and uncredited. The character contains a number of characteristics of Ernst Stavro Blofeld,[12] but could not be identified as such because of the legal reasons surrounding the Thunderball controversy with Kevin McClory claiming sole rights to the Blofeld character, a claim disputed by Eon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason the character is in the wheelchair is that in the last Bond movie where he was a character (Diamonds are Forever) Bond crashed a mini-sub that Blofeld was using to escape into a control center, blowing up the platform and presumably injuring Blofeld.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" OwnerDisplayName="DVK" LastActivityDate="2014-01-20T03:19:46.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16760" CreationDate="2014-01-20T07:59:10.350" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alan is Charlie's brother, some familial obligation there. Alan is also the father of Jake, and Charlie is somewhat fond of Jake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7692" LastActivityDate="2014-01-20T07:59:10.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16760" CreationDate="2014-01-20T11:35:10.837" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Charlie tried to kick out Alan more than once. One or two times he even succeeded (Jake was allowed to stay but Alan took him with him) but Charlie always wanted to have them back. Not to forget there's his bad feeling seeing both Alan and Jake having to stay at their mother's house, which he obviously considers a too big punishment, even for Alan (since he calls her home the portal to hell).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on, Walden accepts Alan and allows him to stay after helping him with his (ex-)wife. He once tries to kick out Alan as well, which results in some kind of light heart attack (which reminds Walden of quite a few relatives who died due to him and/or at least close to him), which in the end gets him into welcoming Alan back (who'll promptly try to abuse this fear).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastActivityDate="2014-01-20T11:35:10.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16758" CreationDate="2014-01-20T12:12:22.870" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hannibal was talking about the public bunker. He never tried to drift with Kaijus. After saying the sentence, he opened his glasses to reveal a scarred eye, presumably caused by his time in  public bunker-falling debris, perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6353" LastActivityDate="2014-01-20T12:12:22.870" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16774" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="52824" CreationDate="2014-01-20T16:01:30.593" Score="7" ViewCount="13104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to find out what the official budget of a Movie or TV show is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficemojo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Box Office Mojo&lt;/a&gt; is a fairly reliable resource to find the estimated gross of a movie, but I haven't come across any similar type of database that discusses budgetary aspects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst Box Office gross is a good indicator as to a film's commercial success, I can't help but feeling like the metric is lacking without knowing their budgets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that it's common working practice to keep these details out of public scrutiny, but do the studios have to declare this information at any point, and if so is this information publicly accessible or speculated upon with some reference anywhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="16523" LastEditDate="2016-09-08T22:38:55.453" LastActivityDate="2016-09-08T22:38:55.453" Title="Is there a way to find out about Movie/TV Budgets?" Tags="|production|film-industry|distribution|marketing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16767" CreationDate="2014-01-20T16:15:36.687" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You would have thought he was in the wheelchair because of what happend in O.H.M.S.S .&#xA;here is the scene &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi0NingIKtA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bobsled chase neck injury&lt;/a&gt; blofelds neck gets caught in a branch severley injuring him . but he seems fine in diamonds are forever untill the end described in the answer above &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastActivityDate="2014-01-20T16:15:36.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16774" CreationDate="2014-01-20T16:59:18.147" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Internet Movie Database&lt;/a&gt; lists the budget on the main page of a movie under the heading Box Office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't yet found a resource for television budgets. It seems accountability is less. The reasons I've found so far are &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many actors want their salaries secret. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since tickets are not sold, &quot;weekend profits&quot; is less a marketing tool. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Advertisers do not always want to tell how much they pay (which is where primary budgeting is derived, with reruns, syndication and DVD/Bluray being secondary). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Budgets can change from episode to episode depending on things like locations, guest stars and contract renewals. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been looking, but do not expect to find a definitive Db.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-01-20T17:45:16.213" LastActivityDate="2014-01-20T17:45:16.213" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16779" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16786" CreationDate="2014-01-20T17:19:15.787" Score="9" ViewCount="849" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought S.H.I.E.L.D to be a clandestine organisation, claiming autonomy from any specific state or sovereignty, but the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3130186/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;'The Asset'&lt;/a&gt; has thrown some doubt over whether this is true in Marvel's Cinematic Universe (i.e. Earth-199999, MCU).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;S.H.I.E.L.D. is denied operational privileges in Malta for some undisclosed reason, attributed to being unable or unwilling to start a conflict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this potential war inferred to be &lt;em&gt;directly with S.H.I.E.L.D.&lt;/em&gt;? if so, how could a government start a conflict against a clandestine organisation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean that S.H.I.E.L.D.'s actions can be attributed to a specific state, or are they considered to be working towards pan-Global interest? if the latter, why would Malta refuse to acknowledge their authority?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series seems to indicate that S.H.I.E.L.D. is representative of a select group of interests, whereas previous entries set in the MCU presented them as working against intergalactic threats (largely incorporating the responsibilities of S.W.O.R.D in the 616), for the benefit of the survival of humanity in its broadest definition. I'm sure &lt;em&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt; will be in some way a commentary of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-11-27T06:52:59.040" Title="Who are S.H.I.E.L.D accountable to in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|agents-of-shield|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16780" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16835" CreationDate="2014-01-20T18:02:35.293" Score="8" ViewCount="329" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for someone to help me identify this movie:&#xA;I believe it's about 9 years old. The movie revolves around a business man who gets lost on his way to a meeting. He realizes he has a very low battery on his Nokia (one of the old square ones), and decides to call a helpline to guide him back to civilization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other side of the call, a seemingly nice young lady picks up, and begins to guide him. I remember a scene where she guided him to a crossroads, where one of the road signs was obscured by foliage. He then pulled it aside to reveal a hidden road. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, it turns out that the woman wasn't actually helping him, but was instead luring him in to a trap, where he was ambushed by multiple men. I believe the movie ended with a black screen and a white message warning the viewers of not trusting strangers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-21T17:06:13.987" LastActivityDate="2014-01-23T10:33:06.503" Title="Identify movie with a lost man being guided by a helpline operator" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:58:13.300" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16781" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-01-20T19:12:17.823" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The twelfth James Bond 007 film from Eon Productions, starring Roger Moore as James Bond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The screenplay takes characters and combines the plots from two of Ian Fleming's short stories: &quot;For Your Eyes Only&quot; and &quot;Risico&quot;. James Bond attempts to locate a missile command system while dealing with deceptions from rival Greek businessmen, as well as a woman seeking to avenge the murder of her parents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was released 1981-06-24 with mixed critical reaction but was financially successful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7454" LastEditorUserId="7454" LastEditDate="2014-01-20T19:39:16.177" LastActivityDate="2014-01-20T19:39:16.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16782" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-01-20T19:12:17.823" Score="0" Body="The twelfth James Bond 007 film from Eon Productions, starring Roger Moore as James Bond." OwnerUserId="7454" LastEditorUserId="7454" LastEditDate="2014-01-20T19:39:19.677" LastActivityDate="2014-01-20T19:39:19.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16783" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16785" CreationDate="2014-01-20T20:00:16.477" Score="24" ViewCount="31533" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Avengers (2012), Tony Stark aka Iron Man announces on control deck of S.H.I.E.L.D's flying base &quot;That man is playing Galaga!&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fKXRt.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the scene finishes the bits and pieces related to the plot, the camera turns to this operator who sneakily changes his work station back to Galaga and starts playing again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the reason there was a reference to this old arcade game and why was it included in the movie? I.e. why was Galaga referenced and not some other famous arcade game?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T12:42:02.940" LastActivityDate="2019-09-11T05:27:11.977" Title="In Avengers (2012) what was the reason for the Galaga reference?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6841" CreationDate="2014-01-20T20:25:30.003" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think he did time travel to save Belinda and was successful. Perhaps he intentionally crashed his car into Belinda's boyfriend's house sometime before the actual accident that would kill her. By already having crashed into the house, he somehow prevented the future event where the drunk band member would have crashed into the house; thus having saved her. And maybe, in his mind, crashing into the house was the best way to alter future events without having to explain the details to Belinda or anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7698" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-01-20T21:12:04.320" LastActivityDate="2014-01-20T21:12:04.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16783" CreationDate="2014-01-20T20:37:00.327" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if there is a reason for that &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; choice, but on the commentary Joss said they added the joke &quot;&lt;em&gt;after the fact&lt;/em&gt;&quot; because the computer operator just looked &quot;shifty&quot; and Joss wanted to know what he was up to. So they added that bit. It wasn't scripted, it was decided on the day. This might not really answer the question, but seeing as it was unscripted, there probably is no &quot;real&quot; reason; they just picked a game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot link to the DVD/Bluray commentary (for obvious reasons) but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/09/secrets-revealed-in-joss-whedons-avengers-dvd-commnetary&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; reveals highlights from it. The Galaga bit is the second to last thing mentioned if you scroll down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose a case could be made that the aliens falling from the sky in the battle in New York looks similar to the ships coming down in Galaga. Seems like a stretch, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2018-04-09T00:03:31.763" LastActivityDate="2018-04-09T00:03:31.763" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16779" CreationDate="2014-01-20T21:01:05.070" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Avengers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.com/universe/Fury,_Nick&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Agent Fury&lt;/a&gt; is seen receiving instructions and orders from &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/World_Security_Council&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The World Security Council&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The World Security Council are an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. The Council is comprised of several middle aged/elderly men and women. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fury directly disobeys them in regards to nuking New York City during the attack, but nonetheless seem accountable to this group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;S.H.I.E.L.D. is controlled by the Council. The Council communicates with S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury using several large plasma screens, each one displaying one of their faces. They are seen disagreeing with Fury's decisions during the Battle of New York. The World Security Council had at least one override command that they used during the Battle of New York to override Fury's orders and sent two jets to launch a nuclear missile at New York, one as a decoy to distract Fury long enough for the other jet to make it's [sic] escape and send the missile off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Both quotes taken from WSC link above.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w3HXP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-01-21T11:54:11.983" LastActivityDate="2014-01-21T11:54:11.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16787" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16831" CreationDate="2014-01-20T21:02:40.543" Score="5" ViewCount="886" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie was released between 1998-2001, but all I can remember of it is a single scene, two naked women randomly walk into a house and past two kids playing Final Fantasy VIII on a PlayStation. I believe it was a comedy movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And specifically, in-game, it was Quistis and Squall fighting a T-Rexaur in the Balamb Garden Training Center. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7699" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2014-01-21T16:39:33.197" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T19:34:05.433" Title="Identify a movie with kids playing Final Fantasy VIII" Tags="|identify-this-movie|comedy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:58:16.500" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9107" CreationDate="2014-01-21T03:53:35.627" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seem to be in the minority here, but I actually think Col. Landa did not recognize Shosanna. He did not get a good look at her in the beginning of the film. And if he suspected she would try to get revenge, he would have to think it would be primarily directed at him. Why allow somebody to potentially interfere with his plans to defect? He wouldn't know she planned to burn down the theater only after he left. I think the various pieces of evidence in the restaurant (cream, milk, forgotten question) are just for suspense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that said, I'd love to hear a definitive answer from Tarantino.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another answer of &quot;presumably not&quot; is given in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/faq#fq0023032&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did Col. Landa know that Shosanna was the girl he let escape when he meets her at the cafe?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Presumably not. He never saw her face while she was running away from&#xA;  him, so there is no way he could have known that she was the girl,&#xA;  although we don't know how detailed were the files Landa had on the&#xA;  Dreyfus family. It is possible he had a very good description of her&#xA;  or even a photo. Being a very skilled detective and interrogator, he&#xA;  acts as polite and respectful as possible and never shows all his&#xA;  cards until he is certain about the outcome. The beginning of the film&#xA;  showed Landa having a friendly conversation with Monsieur LaPadite&#xA;  whom he suspected of hiding the Dreyfus family, but asked for certain&#xA;  details about them to see how Mr. LaPadite responded, pretending to&#xA;  not really be sure about the details of the Dreyfus family was hint&#xA;  enough for Landa to know he was lying and confirm that LaPadite was&#xA;  hiding the Dreyfuses. Keep in mind that Landa also knew who Aldo,&#xA;  Donny and Omar were simply by interrogating the swastika marked&#xA;  soldiers. So he could very easily have known or suspected that Madame&#xA;  Mimieux was in fact Shosanna Dreyfus, simply by height, hair colour,&#xA;  eye colour and descriptions he had gathered from interrogations of&#xA;  other Dairy Farmers in the area. Perhaps the reason he ordered the&#xA;  milk and the cream was that he suspected she was Jewish, but as she&#xA;  kept her calm and even tried the strudel, cream and all, he either&#xA;  dismissed his theory or chose to ignore it. It's also possible, going&#xA;  with the assumption that Landa did indeed know who she was, that Landa&#xA;  was just testing her nerves. The more he prolonged the stress of him&#xA;  sitting there with her, the more uncomfortable she'd likely become.&#xA;  Not to mention she probably didn't have much of an appetite with him&#xA;  sitting there. While she kept her calm, it was also obvious she was&#xA;  still nervous. Perhaps when he said he had something else to ask&#xA;  her...then he paused...gave her an intense stare was just to gauge her&#xA;  reaction. As a cat toys with a mouse. Either for his own amusement or&#xA;  to see if she would try running at which point he could apprehend her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7701" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2020-02-16T12:35:07.557" LastActivityDate="2020-02-16T12:35:07.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="16793" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16797" CreationDate="2014-01-21T07:47:33.033" Score="7" ViewCount="8668" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2024544/&quot;&gt;12 Years a Slave&lt;/a&gt;, While Tibeats (Paul Dano), with two other men, tries to hang Solomon (Chiwetel Ejiofor) as revenge and the overseer of the plantation comes and scares them away, why didn't he free Solomon from the rope? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did he wait for Mr. Ford?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2162" LastEditorUserId="2162" LastEditDate="2014-06-05T07:39:29.567" LastActivityDate="2017-06-14T00:24:50.950" Title="Why did the overseer leave Solomon to hang?" Tags="|plot-explanation|12-years-a-slave|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16794" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16847" CreationDate="2014-01-21T08:31:58.277" Score="11" ViewCount="1837" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I do not mean it was a David Lynch film. It is not Blue Velvet. It is &quot;Lynchian.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likely made in the early 1990s. American film, color, well made. Category: drama. Very creepy, slow, and Lynchian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based in a small Midwestern town in the 1950s, perhaps Kansas or Oklahoma, post-Dust Bowl. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't remember a plot, but I think it was based around one family with an older son who is wanting to leave his hometown but feels bad about leaving his mother (this is just a guess, as my memory is foggy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WHAT I DO REMEMBER:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a group of hoodlums (they look like '50s teenagers with white T-shirts, jeans, and slicked-back hair) who drive around town in a black(?) car, staring at the other townfolk, making them nervous. At one point, they get a young (teenage?) girl to get in the car with them. She is never seen again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A man (probably the girl's father?) (also, I believe he worked at the town's only gas station) pours gas on himself and lights himself on fire (as the main kid watches... maybe it was his dad... darn, I have a foggy memory).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum it up: Very creepy, Lynchian, Midwestern, 1950s, hoodlums in a car kidnap a girl and kill her, man pours gasoline on himself and sets himself ablaze. Lynchian, very.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7703" LastActivityDate="2014-09-13T23:32:14.600" Title="A Lynchian '90s Film About Small 1950s Midwestern Town With Kidnapping, Rape, Murder, And Suicide?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:58:19.700" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16793" CreationDate="2014-01-21T11:25:02.653" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The overseer isn't sympathetic to Solomon, especially as his current predicament is a result of insubordination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;, his job is to ensure that the slaves remain obedient, but more importantly &lt;strong&gt;alive&lt;/strong&gt; as they are the property of Mr Ford, who &quot;has a debt to be mindful of&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After scaring off Tibeats, he seems to evaluate the situation and decides to leave Solomon on the lynch, ostensibly to teach him some kind of lesson without the price being his mortality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason that Mr Ford even takes him down is because he is a tentative abolitionist: although a slaver himself, he obviously holds slaves in a higher regard than many other plantation owners, as demonstrated by his attempt to keep Eliza's family together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr &amp;amp; Mrs Ford are deeply conflicted people, and perhaps their worldview is best demonstrated by the actions of Mrs Ford during this semi-lynch sequence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mrs Ford comes out onto the veranda, and watches Solomon struggling to keep his footing. She is unwilling to go down and help him (perhaps because she doesn't consider it &lt;em&gt;her place&lt;/em&gt; to do so) but she also can not bear to watch him struggling, so she goes back inside the house, closing the door behind her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-01-21T11:25:02.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16798" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-21T12:51:23.753" Score="6" ViewCount="1349" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are these claims circulated around the net that Moon (2009) is in fact &quot;inspired&quot; by an Italian movie Eutamnesia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I.e., here is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://video.repubblica.it/spettacoli-e-cultura/la-denuncia-del-filmaker-moon-e-copiato-da-me/116548/114978&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; which (in a very unconvincing way) has started it. Here is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.3de-signs.com/eutamnesia.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;site&lt;/a&gt; which seems to be a promo-page for the movie. I don't understand Italian and so couldn't really dig any further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the questions are: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a movie called Eutamnesia shoot in 2000 or is it a complete fake? There is a trailer and that video above which don't really mean that there is a whole movie and that it was created before 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this movie so similar to Moon? Probably would need to come from a person who actually watched it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7706" LastEditorUserId="7706" LastEditDate="2015-02-10T01:31:09.247" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T01:31:09.247" Title="Is Moon (2009) a remake of an obscure Italian movie Eutamnesia?" Tags="|remake|moon|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16798" CreationDate="2014-01-21T13:29:29.883" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to IMDb, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2665072/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Eutamnesia&lt;/a&gt; is a real movie. Yes, the resemblances are striking, but from first hand experience : I was writing a comic book &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisibles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Invisibles&lt;/a&gt; came out in 1994 that hit almost all the same plot points, this proves nothing. I know for a fact Grant did not steal my ideas, but they were &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; similar nonetheless. (Of course, Grant did a much better job than I would have.) I doubt Duncan would need to steal for his art, especially given his upbringing and background. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of similarities happen often and influence each other regardless of contact. One does not need to see a picture to present something similar anew only to find it was already done. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Quantum theory&lt;/a&gt; covers this nicely. Once something is observed (or thought) it becomes easier for someone else to reach the same conclusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not to say NO! HE DID NOT STEAL THIS IDEA! This is to say simultaneous ideas happen more often than most people realize. Given the amount of time it takes to write a screenplay, shop it, sell it, get a budget in place, hire the cast and crew, have rehearsals, do a read-through, do location scouting if it's not all done in studio, production, post-production, etc, why would David Bowie's son try to cheat his way into the system when he was already trying to hide his pedigree and make his own way? He could have coasted through many barriers without talent just riding his father's name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-01-21T18:16:29.397" LastActivityDate="2014-01-21T18:16:29.397" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16800" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-21T16:47:41.113" Score="2" ViewCount="976" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167261/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when Treebeard is carrying Pippin and Merry, Pippin asks to be taken south toward Saruman's fortress. But the maps of Middle Earth clearly show Mirkwood south of Saruman's fortress, so they would have to travel north to get there.  Is there any explanation for this geographic inconsistency or is this an actual error?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7707" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-21T17:14:01.077" LastActivityDate="2014-01-21T17:14:01.077" Title="Geography error" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-two-towers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16800" CreationDate="2014-01-21T16:54:02.473" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Merry, Pippin and Treebeard were not in Mirkwood. They were in Fangorn Forest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they were toward the north of Fangorn forest, going south would indeed bring them past Isengard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0iiF8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your probably getting confused somewhere because Isengard is south-west of Mirkwood, not north.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastActivityDate="2014-01-21T16:54:02.473" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11684" CreationDate="2014-01-21T19:58:31.080" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The book repeatedly notes that being mortal, in the end, we all die. Duh. The last chapter is the message: carpe diem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7711" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-21T21:27:10.473" LastActivityDate="2014-01-21T21:27:10.473" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16806" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-21T22:44:58.327" Score="3" ViewCount="106" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2481792/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Let Me Go&quot; (S01E07)&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;em&gt;The Following&lt;/em&gt;, Joe Carroll escapes from prison but Ryan Hardy seemingly witnessed him being strapped into the transport. Later, Hardy realizes that there was chicanery with the video surveillance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, when did Carroll get out of the transport and into the lawyer's car?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6855" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2014-01-21T23:07:37.320" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T09:32:16.903" Title="When did Carroll get out of the transport?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-following|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16811" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16814" CreationDate="2014-01-22T01:52:30.870" Score="10" ViewCount="2136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always wonder why the president of the &lt;em&gt;Federation&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102975/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; looks very similar to a &lt;em&gt;Klingon&lt;/em&gt;. He has the characteristic high hairline, this &quot;Fu Manchu moustache&quot; and, most remarkably, those slight bulges on his forehead (while maybe not as developed as those of actual &lt;em&gt;Klingons&lt;/em&gt;, they are still noticable). But given that the Federation is in an ongoing conflict with the &lt;em&gt;Klingons&lt;/em&gt; with the parties only recently approaching each other, this seems quite odd, especially when left without any explanation in the movie. So &lt;strong&gt;is there any explanation for the president's unusual appearance&lt;/strong&gt; or am I just imagining things?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-21T23:08:09.250" LastActivityDate="2016-12-04T18:38:52.447" Title="Why does the president of the Federation look like a Klingon?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|star-trek|star-trek-vi-undiscovered-country|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11810" CreationDate="2014-01-22T02:43:28.693" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming the walker did see him and look into his eyes, maybe he sensed that Sam had the dragon glass on him and decided not to initiate aggression since Sam was not? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7717" LastActivityDate="2014-01-22T02:43:28.693" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16817" CreationDate="2014-01-22T03:01:26.047" Score="1" ViewCount="4025" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems almost impossible to judge thousands of people per city in such a short time. Do the judges judge everyone or just select people from a crowd?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7301" LastEditorUserId="34594" LastEditDate="2016-09-24T19:16:47.380" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T09:24:47.200" Title="Do the American Idol judges, judge every contestant?" Tags="|reality-tv|american-idol|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16811" CreationDate="2014-01-22T03:54:13.813" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The President of the Federation according to the Memory Alpha website, is actually an &lt;strong&gt;Efrosian&lt;/strong&gt;, and not a Klingon. Granted there are distinct similarities...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Efrosians were invented by Kirk Thatcher, an associate producer on Star Trek IV, in honor of unit production manager Mel Efros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7513" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-21T23:10:29.130" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T23:10:29.130" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16813" CreationDate="2014-01-22T07:49:01.347" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idol#Selection_process&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Initial auditions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Contestants go through at least three sets of cuts. The first is a brief audition with a few other contestants in front of selectors which may include one of the show's producers. Although auditions can exceed 10,000 in each city, only a few hundred of these make it past the preliminary round of auditions. Successful auditioners then sing in front of producers where more may be cut. Only then can they proceed to audition in front of the judges, which is the only audition stage shown on television. Those selected by the judges are sent to Hollywood. Between 10–60 people in each city may make it to Hollywood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what we see on TV with the celebrity judges is the third step of initial auditions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-01T09:24:47.200" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T09:24:47.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16819" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17751" CreationDate="2014-01-22T10:24:06.403" Score="4" ViewCount="516" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode 6, after they get rid of the bees, Kate and Jack find two bodies in the caves. We, later, get to know that they are Jacob's twin's and his mother's bodies. At that point, Jack says (at ~13:45): &quot;It takes 40 to 50 years for clothing to degrade like this&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't the bodies be much older?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="751" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-26T10:26:49.057" LastActivityDate="2017-05-26T10:27:11.480" Title="How come that MIB's and his mother's bodies were 40-50 years old when found by Jack and Kate?" Tags="|lost|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16820" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16943" CreationDate="2014-01-22T11:00:42.910" Score="4" ViewCount="4820" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fritz Lang&lt;/em&gt;'s silent epic &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Nibelungen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Die Nibelungen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is completely tinted in a yellow-orange tone (and the film has only been reconstructed rather recently (2010) to this original color tinting using the same chemical processes as back in 1924, so not all versions around have it). Here are some examples from the original (and 2010 reconstructed) version of the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5MsWE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that this had to be done by a chemical post-processing of the film, it was a deliberate artistic decision rather than a mere technical one. So there has to be some kind of effect &lt;em&gt;Lang&lt;/em&gt; wanted to achieve with this. But while it seems to have been a rather common procedure to tint individual parts of silent movies to convey some special dramaturgic effect or provide additional information (like blue for night scenes, red for love and crime, ...), this doesn't hold so much when using a single tone for the entire movie, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;is there any information or theory as to why the whole movie was tinted with a single color and why this yellow-orange?&lt;/strong&gt; In which way did this support the movie's story, themes or effect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-22T12:55:10.783" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T00:28:33.650" Title="Why the yellow-orange tinting of the entire movie?" Tags="|analysis|film-techniques|die-nibelungen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2394" CreationDate="2014-01-22T16:23:15.287" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry I'm so late to the party on this one, but I thought I'd share some of the research I've found for a academic project, so here's my contribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;KennyPeanuts and Wonko the Sane both give interesting examples, and Napoleon Wilson cuts to the heart of it, but all three answers hint towards but do not explicitly discuss the wider trend they are discussing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps one of the most prevalent visual trends in modern cinema (and seems to be found across genre, not neccesarily limited to Sci-Fi) is a tendency towards...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;TECHNO-FETISHISM.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tecnho-Fetishism is a piece of wide terminology identifying behavior/preference that privileges the use/appearance of advanced technology, traditionally associated with the Sci-Fi/fantasy genre but more recently expanding across all areas of artistic/commercial enterprise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Emergence/History&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Techno-fetishism is inherently attached to the Computer-Age, but has only truly blossomed within the Modern (current) Information Age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concept of techno-fetishism is alleged to have been borne out &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/war_is_entertainment/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;of commerce&lt;/a&gt;, which is a problematic claim as it eliminates any notion of an organic cultural preference, in favor of a marketing model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, Tech Companies such as Apple and Samsung have seemingly identified this consumer trend, and appear to be exploiting it for commercial gain. This is probably due to more advanced technology being widely available within the domestic market, influencing notions of commodity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Techno-fetishism is also closely linked to the legacy of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Futurism,&lt;/a&gt; and the two terms can often be found being used interchangeably. This &lt;em&gt;is fine&lt;/em&gt;, but Futurism is more of an aesthetic movement and Techno-Fetishism is considered a behavioral model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Japan is obviously a huge proponent of the movement, both culturally and artistically. The Japanese term &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?page=2&amp;amp;term=otaku&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Otaku&lt;/a&gt; is a derisive description of a Tecnho-fetishist, although its negative connotations seem to have been lost in translation in the process of western circulation. There is a lot to be researched here, as Mecha-Anime is surely one of the most functionary conduits of the 'genre'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In Movies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Modern 'Mainstream' Cinema, in a typical reflection of the modernity, seems to be adopting techno-fetishism &lt;em&gt;reflexively.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's perhaps still very early days, and hasn't seemed to have been fully explored/identified academically (hence my research), but &lt;em&gt;technological interface&lt;/em&gt; seems to be a staple of many movies, sometimes the theme itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Spike Jonze movie &lt;em&gt;Her&lt;/em&gt; is a very interesting example, and perhaps ahead of its time (even though it is yet to be released!). Another good exploration of the way we interface with technology is &lt;em&gt;The Entire History of You&lt;/em&gt;, a very good episode of Charlie Brooker's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089050/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Black Mirror&lt;/a&gt;. The two are thematically similar, but seem to directly address modern cultures addiction to technology in a very mature way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Wonka the Sane skirted around, advanced technology is often 'air-dropped' into movies, and can often be jarring. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally think the high-watermark of this trend is &lt;em&gt;Quantum of Solace&lt;/em&gt;, where the 'Sci-Fi table' seems to be a totally unnecessary demonstration of tech-for-the-sake-of-tech.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S464a.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The MCU is a franchise that has readily adopted Techno-fetishism, and Iron Man remains the most exploratory of these trends. The Studio should be congratulated as a powerful example of how cultural preferences can be seamlessly stitched into pre-existing canon's, through camouflage and concealment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be said that the different characters of of the MCU are on divergent paths that manipulate modern cultural trends:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Iron Man&lt;/em&gt;-Techno-fetishism&lt;/strong&gt; Tony Stark, is a GatesJobsian avatar of technology and commercial responsibility, being an representation of futurist altruism. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt;-Mysticism&lt;/strong&gt; The Asgardian world is a beautifully rendered demonstration of Historical/Fantasy mysticism, and openly signals and engages fans of such a genre.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Captain America&lt;/em&gt;-Nostalgia&lt;/strong&gt; Whilst outwardly imperialistic, Captain America is actually a felicitous exploration of America's Modern Cultural identity by exploring old fashioned ideals of heroism. The First Avenger also capitalized in the 1930s/40s retro-styling that has emerged within wider fashion, a preference elicited by Vintage clothing.   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that the question you have asked is not about MCU, but I hoped to demonstrate how &lt;em&gt;Iron Man&lt;/em&gt; is an example of a commercial entity recognizing and exploiting the very trend you have yourself identified, and demonstrating how it is only part of a wider marketing strategy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In summary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why there is so much 'Fancy Technology' in movies is because there is an active market for it, and movies will always respond to market forces favorably. &#xA;Mainstream Movies will exploit the visual language of technology, and more artistic features will criticize and explore our interaction with it.&#xA;This is nothing especially new, but &lt;em&gt;it is&lt;/em&gt; accelerating in pace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-01-22T16:23:15.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16824" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16837" CreationDate="2014-01-22T21:37:08.747" Score="6" ViewCount="14730" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&lt;/a&gt; Katniss insisted Peeta must live. She also convinced Haymitch that he should protect Peeta at any cost. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T10:45:58.147" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T00:29:14.250" Title="Why did Katniss want Peeta to live?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-catching-fire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16829" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16832" CreationDate="2014-01-23T06:41:46.603" Score="8" ViewCount="2529" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290334/?ref_=nv_sr_6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;X-Men 2 (2003)&lt;/a&gt; Magneto escapes from his plastic prison by extracting the metal that Mystique injected into a security guard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was this necessary? Why can he not control all humans? Let me explain. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one of the episodes of the Avatar: The Last Airbender animated series, the gang ends up in a swamp like place where they meet a woman who can waterbend. But not only that, she can also manipulate things made of water, like plants and if I recall correctly, people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the human body contains metals such as copper, magnesium, manganese, zinc, iron and even aluminum and mercury, &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_are_the_metals_present_in_human_body&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;which are metals present in the human body.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why is it that Magneto cannot do what the waterbender was doing and take advantage of the fact that human bodies contain materials he can manipulate? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: as stated in &lt;a href=&quot;http://x-men.wikia.com/wiki/Magneto#Powers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;X-Men Wiki&lt;/a&gt; article about Magneto, he CAN in fact manipulate at a sub atomic level&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Matter Manipulation:&lt;/strong&gt; Magneto is able to manipulate matter even to the&#xA;  subatomic level for a number of purposes. This might explain why he is&#xA;  not limited to objects with metallic properties and is able to&#xA;  manipulate objects with non-metallic properties like wood, stone,&#xA;  plastics, etc. to such a degree. This is due to the electromagnetic&#xA;  force which exits between atoms and other subatomic particles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T07:30:35.633" LastActivityDate="2017-07-03T15:14:01.557" Title="Why isn't Magneto more powerful?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-2|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16787" CreationDate="2014-01-23T08:07:09.370" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the movie myself, but I've heard of a scene that sounds somewhat similar in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie%27s_Angels_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Charlie's Angels&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4993" LastActivityDate="2014-01-23T08:07:09.370" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16829" CreationDate="2014-01-23T09:05:40.553" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because X-Men is not The Last Airbender? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because the amounts of these metals in the body is far to small, remember the security guard had been injected with a lot of iron (this is about one of the most ridiculous scenes I have ever seen!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also because the metals that you list are not magnetic (they only generate a tiny magnetic field)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With respect to the comments below, where there was a discussion on what Magneto's powers were in the movies, I would use the most recent film Days of Future Past as more evidence for Magneto only being able to control metal. Whilst the continuity of this film is slightly dubious, it seems to still all be in the same timeline. Now there is a scene &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; where Magneto adds metal to the sentinels in order to control them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's clear that if he could control things that were not metal then there would have been no need for this to be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1027" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-05T12:59:15.417" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T12:59:15.417" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16829" CreationDate="2014-01-23T09:27:03.537" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably for the same reason that humans are not really magnetic to start with: The amount of various metals in a human is actually quite small. I checked out &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_the_human_body&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Wikipedia entry on the composition of the human body&lt;/a&gt;, took the metals you mentioned and checked to see how much all those metals together weigh. The total amount of all those metals in the average human body weighs roughly 24 grams. Put another way, it's .05 pounds of total metal. That's 5/100ths of a pound of metal. If you take a look at the metal balls (I saw at least 3 that Magneto had pulled out of the guard), each one of those had to weigh significantly more than that. According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.precisionballs.com/ball_weight_and_density.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this website&lt;/a&gt;, ONE lead ball would weigh nearly 40 times as much as what Magneto could pull out of a human. And although in theory, Magneto could simply yank the metal out of every human in the area to get enough metal, his prison was designed specifically to prevent him from being able to manipulate any metals outside the large room he was in. So every guard in the prison would have to walk up to Magneto for him to be able to pull all the trace metals out of everyone to do the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-26T10:24:48.383" LastActivityDate="2017-05-26T10:24:48.383" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16780" CreationDate="2014-01-23T10:24:42.653" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HqLxD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Lost (2004) - Movie Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lost&lt;/strong&gt; (2004)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before anyone starts getting any ideas, no, this one features that guy from the Lois &amp;amp; Clark TV series :-) The movie's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_%282004_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; page gives away most of the plot - so you can confirm it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xs6bxe_lost-trailer_shortfilms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;trailer&lt;/a&gt;. You could google for more vids.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-23T10:33:06.503" LastActivityDate="2014-01-23T10:33:06.503" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16423" CreationDate="2014-01-23T11:24:41.643" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w9g8n.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Superfights (1995) - Movie Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Superfights&lt;/strong&gt; (1995)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;From IMDb&lt;/em&gt;: Jack Cody has always wanted to enter the world of the Superfights, a free fighting tournament. One night, he rescues a girl from a mugging and he becomes a national hero. Then, he is finally given his opportunity to become a Superfighter. He soon discovers a Ninja who tells him that the man behind the Superfights is involved with illegal acts. When this comes to Jack, he must fight now for his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's another &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fistofblist.com/2012_08_01_archive.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;plot summary&lt;/a&gt; with more details and here's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-hcbZpWNA0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;trailer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastActivityDate="2014-01-23T11:24:41.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16824" CreationDate="2014-01-23T12:11:45.507" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pure and simply, Guilt. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Katniss feels guilt for many things in her life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She feels guilty for leaving her sister alone with her mom as she was pulled into the Games. She feels that she is the provider to her family since her father died, and when she can no longer do that, she feels guilty for not being able to support them anymore (she assumes she will die in the games).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She feels guilty for getting Pres. Snow so ticked off at her and Peeta. She feels guilty about everything ... even though she has no control over any of it. She has a huge guilt complex which rules her life and everything she does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She has grown an attachment to Peeta (not really love, but something close to it). If she doesn't do everything in her power to keep Peeta out of the games and safe, she will have more guilt. She is trying to keep herself from this, but ultimately fails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="26096" LastEditDate="2015-11-30T00:29:14.250" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T00:29:14.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16097" CreationDate="2014-01-23T12:44:03.257" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Less budget means less time to let people work on stuff. CGI isn't only about rendering time. In order to have good CGI you need models, which are made by artist. There's not much that has changed in this process of creating models and textures compared to 2004; you still have to come up with all the details and animations yourself. Furthermore, most of this stuff is made by &quot;hand&quot; (using computers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone has to get paid for their job, so if you have less to pay, you cannot afford the same amount of details and creativity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, of course some steps of the CGI chain cost less nowadays. Such as rendering due to faster computers and newer techniques. But still there's a creative process attached to CGI that is done by humans, that in the end, want to get paid for their work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-01-23T13:16:34.213" LastActivityDate="2014-01-23T13:16:34.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16370" CreationDate="2014-01-23T23:34:54.350" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it be possible that Tom is actually the mysterious third brother of Sherlock and Mycroft? In the third episode when questioned if he had familiar brotherly compassion, Mycroft responded: &quot;don't be absurd.... you know what happened to the other one&quot;. So there is a third brother and there is a certain possibility that it is Tom. To catch Sherlock's attention for so long and so intensely it had to be of something significant more than dressing like him. That is my theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7742" LastActivityDate="2014-01-23T23:34:54.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3055" CreationDate="2014-01-23T23:35:26.573" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The hole in Tyler's head is just showing the narrators total rejection of Tyler.  It's less about the actual shooting and more about the fact that he maned up and became what Tyler was there for.  He saw Tyler as a problem.  The act of him shooting himself is what got rid of Tyler ( his total rejection of Tyler).  He no longer had a need for that personality anymore because he was now able to handle his own life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7743" LastActivityDate="2014-01-23T23:35:26.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16794" CreationDate="2014-01-24T03:19:26.150" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Found it, only took me 15+ years of searching. It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100469/&quot;&gt;The Reflecting Skin&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his&#xA;  fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him&#xA;  stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road&#xA;  is a vampire, and tries to find ways of discouraging his brother from&#xA;  seeing her. He must deal with an abusive mother, a father with a&#xA;  charge of molestation, a band of youths creating havoc, and an&#xA;  unforgiving environment in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, I discovered it using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jinni.com/movies/the-reflecting-skin/&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;'s ingenious search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7703" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-24T10:08:06.233" LastActivityDate="2014-01-24T10:08:06.233" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16849" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-24T04:30:26.990" Score="7" ViewCount="339" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm known to laugh at scenes in movies that are so cliched or contrived that it becomes ridiculous. I sometimes worry that I'm ruining the experience for other movie goers. I just saw the latest Hobbit movie and laughed hysterically at the scene where the orcs battle the dwarves while riding down the river in barrels. Eventually everyone in the theater caught on and started laughing too. Was it supposed to be funny or did the audience perceive it the same way I did?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7746" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T16:04:42.263" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T16:04:42.263" Title="Was the Orcs vs Dwarves battle scene supposed to be funny?" Tags="|analysis|the-hobbit|the-desolation-of-smaug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16849" CreationDate="2014-01-24T10:30:54.993" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed yes. It supposed to be funny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those who also read the book knows that movies, especially the second movie according to the first one, are quite different then the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making 3 movies from a book with ~350 pages is hard. Making each movie 3 hours long is harder. So the director Peter Jackson choose to fill each movie some action and many funny scenes. If you go back to the scenes where they are taken captive by the goblins in the caves, there are quite &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; action scene. Even you may thought if they had tried a bit harder, they would  cleaned the goblins and capture the whole caves! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Barrel scene is similar to the caves except one is full of action and adrenalin while the other one is full of laughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason behind this funny or action scenes is, in my opinion, total movie time is too long according to the base book script. We are talking about a book with ~350 pages turns into movie of ~10 hours. Even hearing that makes the book fans and movie enthusiasts think about the content of the movies. Using that kind of scenes a lot, Jackson guarantees the viewer will have good time and will not get bored, or have disappointment for the big differences between the movies and the book. Filling that time is with such scenes makes the movie fans satisfied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-01-24T10:30:54.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15746" CreationDate="2014-01-24T14:06:47.303" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it does show she has problems with her past and feels guilty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, you might add it's also a fairy tale: she's the Bad Wolf, compulsively cleaning her teeth of her preys' blood, which only makes them bloodier (see the final scene when they literally run &quot;into the wolf's jaws&quot;, and Hanna turns the tables on her and hunts her down).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7752" LastActivityDate="2014-01-24T14:06:47.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16863" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17161" CreationDate="2014-01-24T17:54:55.063" Score="19" ViewCount="145941" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;The Big Bang Theory&quot; episode &quot;The Closet Reconfiguration&quot; (S06E19), the gang gets Sheldon to tell them the contents of a letter he found in Howard's closet from his father. Later, they give Howard various theories on what it contained and he declines from knowing which one was actually true. Of all the options, Bernadette describes a picture of his father holding Howard on the day he was born and on the back was written: Howard my son, my greatest gift.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an episode in the next season: &quot;The Thanksgiving Decoupling&quot; (S07E09), in a scene set in Howard's house, there is a picture of a man holding a baby in the background (in the stairwell; at around 04:52 into the episode). Could this be the contents of the letter? Making Bernadette's theory the correct one? This would include the assumption that someone removed the contents from the envelope as Howard lights it up and then throws it into the sink. Or that they managed to salvage it before it was completely destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1NQ4E.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1NQ4E.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Howard with the picture in the background&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1569" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-10-13T09:21:29.803" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T02:22:50.493" Title="Is the mystery of Howard's father's letter solved?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10465" CreationDate="2014-01-24T22:26:12.153" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blüdhaven appears briefly in the Justice League Unlimited television series episode &quot;Grudge Match&quot; as the backdrop for a meta-human fighting match organized by Roulette in which female Leaguers under mind control (including Fire, Wonder Woman and Black Canary) fight it out. A signboard at the city's entrance says &quot;Welcome to Blüdhaven&quot;. In the same scene, the silhouette of Nightwing appears in a cameo. (Source:&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl%C3%BCdhaven#Television&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7759" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T10:13:14.607" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T10:13:14.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16871" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="94355" CreationDate="2014-01-24T23:58:18.667" Score="3" ViewCount="7631" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Adventures of Tintin&lt;/em&gt;, the main pursuit for most of the movie is a sunken shipwreck with 400 weight of gold and treasure hidden with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I can't help but wonder, as I'm not familiar with the measurement, how much &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; 400 weight of gold?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More specifically, &lt;strong&gt;what would 400 weight of gold be worth today (or perhaps more relevantly, in Tintin's day)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7761" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-25T00:59:35.017" LastActivityDate="2018-12-03T07:06:18.443" Title="How much would 400 weight of Gold actually have been worth?" Tags="|adventures-of-tintin|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8192" CreationDate="2014-01-25T00:31:58.867" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It represents the Golden Dome over the Temple of the Mount in Jerusalem. The film is analogous to the battle over that land. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7762" LastActivityDate="2014-01-25T00:31:58.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16871" CreationDate="2014-01-25T02:27:44.060" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it was an actual 400 troy oz then today January 14, 2014 with gold at 1,269 USD/oz it would be worth 507,600 USD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the time period of the stories the movie is based on (1941-44) when gold was 33.85 USD/oz then it would be worth 13,540 USD or adjusted for inflation 179,218.06 USD&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="789" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-25T13:01:08.533" LastActivityDate="2014-01-25T13:01:08.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16877" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19385" CreationDate="2014-01-25T08:11:28.507" Score="5" ViewCount="6260" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Community Season 4, Chang came back to the college with Changnesia and said his name was Kevin. But there was an evil plan with the dean of City College, which Chang gave up at the last episode after he was accepted by the study group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the plan the City College had? Was something about this releaved or is there a theory about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="7757" LastEditDate="2014-01-25T08:20:07.820" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T17:58:29.683" Title="What was the plan of Chang and the City College?" Tags="|plot-explanation|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16878" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16881" CreationDate="2014-01-24T17:57:15.510" Score="8" ViewCount="622" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446029/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scott Pilgrim vs. the World&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Scott's ex says to Scott's current girlfrend:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I like your outfit. Affordable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This came across as an insult but I don't understand why. Could someone explain this to me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7771" OwnerDisplayName="user3033780" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-25T12:48:14.583" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T00:01:02.460" Title="&quot;I like your outfit. Affordable?&quot; How is this an insult?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|scott-pilgrim-vs.-the-world|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12581" CreationDate="2014-01-25T12:09:18.607" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In fact, Galadriel gives them useful gifts which either will make them happy or help them on the road:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frodo Baggins:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The Light of Eärendil&lt;/em&gt;. Frodo is going to Mordor, a realm of darkness. Since Frodo is the ring carrier, he is the one who needs light in this journey.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Samwise Gamgee:&lt;/strong&gt; In the books, Sam receives &lt;em&gt;Earth from Galadriel's Orchard and a Mallorn Seed&lt;/em&gt;. Sam is a gardener and he misses his home. Also he tries to make up his mind whether he keep going on this journey or turn back to his home. Galadriel gives this gift which make him happy. In the movie, he receives &lt;em&gt;elven rope&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meriadoc Brandybuck&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Peregrin Took&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Silver Belt with Gold Flower-Shaped Clasp&lt;/em&gt;. In the movie, they receive daggers. Because they want to help Frodo but they are not sure if they can since they do not have neither courage nor experience comparing to the rest of the group.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aragorn:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Elven Scabbard&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Elessar the Elfstone&lt;/em&gt; are received by Aragorn in the books. Scabbard is magical and the sword sheathed with it will never break. Since Aragorn wants to be the king again, this gift is possibly the best since the sword was broken in the time he receives the gift and that gift proves the same will not happen again ever after! Elfstone belongs to Arwen and left for him. But in the movie, Aragorn do not receive any gifts from Galadriel. Arwen gives him the Elfstone, and Elrond gives him the scabbard, but there is no indication that it is magical.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Legolas:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;em&gt;Bow of the Galadhrim with Arrows&lt;/em&gt;. What does an elf archer needs beyond that? Bow is strung with elven hair.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gimli:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Three Strands of Galadriel's hair&lt;/em&gt;. Gimli wants a single strand but receives three! Gimli wished to encase this gift in imperishable crystal, as an heirloom of his house and a sign of good will between the Dwarves and Elves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Boromir:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;A solid gold belt crafted in Lórien&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For all members except Gandalf:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Elven Cloaks&lt;/em&gt;. They are traveling to Mordor and they need to hide from evil eyes more and more when they get closer and closer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, characters received more useful gifts which will give them strength and courage. Some gifts replaced with &lt;em&gt;more useful&lt;/em&gt; ones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, she cannot see the future but she knows who needs what in that journey. Since most of them are more abstract in effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T21:09:24.263" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T21:09:24.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="16880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16878" CreationDate="2014-01-25T12:26:15.053" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is suggesting that her clothes are cheap, which is supposed to be offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1027" LastActivityDate="2014-01-25T12:26:15.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16878" CreationDate="2014-01-25T12:26:50.443" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;A big indicator of success is arguably wealth, and a big indicator of wealth is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;conspicuous consumption&lt;/a&gt;, i.e public displays of luxury items/expensive goods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of very shallow, very vain wealthy people believe that it is appropriate (and important) to publicly and conspicuously display items that immediately indicate their financial/social status; such as jewelry, finery and expensive clothing. A lot of Rap Music has unfortunately fallen into this mindset, and Wiz Khalifa can probably put it a lot better than I:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The bigger the bill, the bigger you ball&#xA;  The bigger the watch, the bigger the car, the bigger the star&#xA;  The bigger the chain, the farther you go, you already know&#xA;  The bigger the bank That's more hoes, nigga&#xA;  And I done spent a quarter milli on clothes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a very old fashioned (and for the majority of humanity) embarrassingly outdated worldview, but one which Envy Adams undoubtly subscribes to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By saying someone's outfit is affordable, she is intending to insult them by pointing out that their clothing could be easily obtained by someone without wealth, ergo without success, and is trying to undermine her personal style by highlighting it's lack of exclusivity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-01-27T00:01:02.460" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T00:01:02.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16883" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-25T18:28:38.450" Score="3" ViewCount="4671" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first Godfather movie, when Michael Corleone goes to the hospital to check up on his father, he notices that all the guards are missing. There is a very very trippy song playing in the background. The chorus just keeps repeating, and it sounds something like &quot;Mi in haw...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what song this is and why Coppola chose to go with this song?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="376" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-25T18:44:15.300" LastActivityDate="2023-02-04T08:47:06.773" Title="What is the song in the hospital scene in The Godfather" Tags="|analysis|soundtrack|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16884" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16885" CreationDate="2014-01-25T22:22:49.380" Score="6" ViewCount="4525" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's one James Bond film where he is playing a game against the bad guy. It looks like a 1v1 game of Battleships or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone know which one it is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7772" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-01-27T13:52:07.993" LastActivityDate="2016-11-23T07:43:22.510" Title="James Bond film in which he plays a computer game" Tags="|identify-this-movie|james-bond|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-11-22T19:19:25.867" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16884" CreationDate="2014-01-25T22:33:21.633" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086006/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Never Say Never Again&lt;/a&gt;, (1983), James Bond plays &quot;Domination&quot; against Maximilian Largo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastEditorUserId="9908" LastEditDate="2016-11-23T07:43:22.510" LastActivityDate="2016-11-23T07:43:22.510" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16886" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16888" CreationDate="2014-01-25T23:42:53.317" Score="3" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p8IYV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Doom&quot;&gt;&#xA;In the Box cover art of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2027128/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Justice League:Doom&lt;/a&gt; Batman is featured more prominently compared to the rest of the JLA members (who are on his batarang). Is there a reason why one member is given more prominence over the others? Has this been done before, albeit with other characters given the limelight?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6668" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-09T23:26:53.173" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T23:26:53.173" Title="Why is Batman featured more prominently in the poster of Justice League: Doom?" Tags="|justice-league-doom|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16887" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16896" CreationDate="2014-01-26T00:18:50.147" Score="14" ViewCount="12965" Body="&lt;p&gt;For instance, I know that Toy Story 3 was released in several other languages besides English, did Pixar re-render the characters mouths to sync with the audio? Do traditional animation studios do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would ask about television shows as well, but I'm fairly certain that the lower budgets means this never happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastActivityDate="2017-02-09T23:29:28.113" Title="Do feature-length animation studios reanimate characters' mouths for foreign language dubs?" Tags="|animation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16886" CreationDate="2014-01-26T00:24:28.963" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2027128/&quot;&gt;IMDb page&lt;/a&gt; you cited gives this teaser at the top:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vandal Savage steals confidential files &lt;strong&gt;Batman&lt;/strong&gt; has compiled on the members of the Justice League, and learns all their weaknesses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this synopsis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Justice League are a team of great power, but also of personal secrets they thought safe. That changes when the immortal supervillain, Vandal Savage, has &lt;strong&gt;Batman's Batcave secretly raided&lt;/strong&gt; to learn them all and more. Soon, the Leaguers are individually beset by their enemies who attack them with inescapable death traps specifically designed with that information. With that, all seems lost until an indomitable Knight and a young Titan combine to deliver salvation even as Savage uses the opportunity to implement a far grander scheme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would seem that Batman is the main focus since it was &lt;strong&gt;his&lt;/strong&gt; files that were stolen, putting the rest of the team at risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastActivityDate="2014-01-26T00:24:28.963" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16889" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-26T02:19:53.467" Score="5" ViewCount="4709" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430132/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; starts with the eponymous protagonist's encounter with &lt;em&gt;Yashida&lt;/em&gt; during World War II. This does clearly happen before the events of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, during which he completely loses his memory, which is also a major plot element of the X-Men trilogy. Yet, in the most recent events in &lt;em&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/em&gt; he can clearly remember &lt;em&gt;Yashida&lt;/em&gt; and their experiences back then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I know that there are other significant and yet to be resolved (or not) &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/8839/49&quot;&gt;continuity problems&lt;/a&gt; between the different X-Men franchises, so maybe this is just one of them. But it may very well be that I just missed something in the story of the movies or this is explained elsewhere (maybe he suddenly got all his memories back when he remembered &lt;em&gt;Striker&lt;/em&gt;'s experiment in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290334/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;X2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;?). So &lt;strong&gt;is there any information why &lt;em&gt;Logan&lt;/em&gt; is able to remember &lt;em&gt;Yashida&lt;/em&gt; from before his amnesia?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T10:17:38.740" Title="Why does Logan remember Yashida?" Tags="|plot-explanation|x-men-cinematic-universe|the-wolverine|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16890" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16891" CreationDate="2014-01-26T06:21:33.593" Score="5" ViewCount="2994" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 1985 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0738796/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mark Romanek&lt;/a&gt; (director of such videos as &lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/3554226&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nine Inch Nail's &quot;Closer&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFOzayDpWoI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fiona Apple's &quot;Criminal&quot;&lt;/a&gt;) made an independent film named &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090069/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Static&lt;/a&gt;. He did not direct another feature until 2002's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265459/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;One Hour Photo&lt;/a&gt;. I remember, in the DVD commentary, him referring to it as his first movie (even though it wasn't). Even the Wikipedia page about him barely mentions it. In the section &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Romanek#Feature_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Feature Films&lt;/a&gt;, it begins:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 2002, Romanek wrote and directed his second full-length feature movie, One Hour Photo, with Robin Williams in the lead role as a department store photo processor who becomes obsessed with a family through their snapshots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It fails to even begin with his first film. Does anyone know (from an interview or other source) why he dislikes or is embarrassed by Static? I personally liked it a lot and do not understand why he seeks to dismiss it. From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/article/mark-romanek-45803&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A.V. Club interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Never Let Me Go is only Mark Romanek’s second feature (not counting Static, his 1985 debut, which he himself has removed from his résumé)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2016-04-26T21:07:33.590" LastActivityDate="2016-04-26T21:07:33.590" Title="Why is Mark Romanek ashamed of the movie Static?" Tags="|directors|static|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16890" CreationDate="2014-01-26T06:25:08.343" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very quickly after posting this question, I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://marksalisbury.blogspot.com/2010/09/mark-romanek-on-his-debut-movie-static.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an interview&lt;/a&gt; where he discusses this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you didn't see Static at the time (and let's face it, not many people did), the film's almost impossible to watch today. I bought a NTSC video copy from ebay several years ago for a small fortune because I'm a completist and was intrigued to see for myself what Romanek was evidently embarrassed about. What I discovered was a film very much of its time. Static is intriguingly quirky and delightfully odd and features a terrific soundtrack from the likes of OMD and Japan, but, more importantly, it's really rather good. And so, when I spoke to Romanek recently, I mentioned to him how much I liked Static and asked why he decided to disown it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It’s nice that you think that,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;For me it seemed premature. Like I had an opportunity to make a film before I felt I had much to say or knew what I was really doing as a filmmaker, so I just find it this sort of embarrassing bit of juvenilia. I find it is embarrassing, but I know that some people connected with it and I don’t mean to discount that fact. I just wish it would go away…&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's probably all that needs to be said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I will add that if I were him, I'd be more ashamed of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closer_%28Nine_Inch_Nails_song%29#Music_video&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;appropriation&lt;/a&gt; in the video for NIN's &amp;quot;Closer&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These images seem to be inspired by the art of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=Joel-Peter%20Witkin&amp;amp;client=firefox-a&amp;amp;hs=xzK&amp;amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;amp;source=lnms&amp;amp;tbm=isch&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=Uq3kUsrFC9e-sQStjIDYAQ&amp;amp;ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&amp;amp;biw=1366&amp;amp;bih=656&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joel-Peter Witkin&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, as well as Francis Bacon and George Tooker. The video is also very heavily inspired by the animated short film &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgqmXK1pf7Y&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Street of Crocodiles&lt;/a&gt;, with much of the video being a live-action recreation of the sets and scenes from that film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least Static was an &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt; screenplay written by him and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Gordon&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Keith Gordon&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-01-26T13:16:41.983" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16887" CreationDate="2014-01-26T13:00:00.560" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Re-rendering the character mouths is not easy. But most of the time, original language sync do not fit too, due to some reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Few or no pre-study had done before the animation scene preparation. That leads to some sync problems since there is the script including the speech and there are designers who try to do their best on mouth movements. Dubbing or recording of the sounds is generally done after the animation scene (or when the complete animation) is finished. And people who vocalize the characters try to follow the script. Expressions have less importance than the voicing in original script and most film making companies expect the crew to stick to the script. That cause unsynced mouth movements in the &lt;em&gt;original language release&lt;/em&gt;. Better can not be expected for the dubs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best fitting example could be &lt;em&gt;Puppy in My Pocket&lt;/em&gt;, which has absolutely horrific syncing. Characters often express full sentences with barely any facial movement. The show's villainous kitten is a particular noteworthy example, as she can apparently deliver virtually all of her lines with a clenched jaw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Above are basic problems of original voicing. For the dubs, it got worse since changing of the language causes existing lip-voice sync to get lost. Some film making companies do not let big changes in the script text after the translation, that ends with a finely translated script which is  very very similar to the original one but unsynced lip-voice occurs much more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are some exceptions like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In countries with a long dubbing tradition, such as Spain, Germany, France or the Latin American countries, their translators, script adapters and voice actors are particularly well trained and experienced in dubbing, so they know how to deal with this situations efficiently most of the time. Specially when English is the original language&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Disney has handled the dubbing of some anime imports, such as the films of Miyazaki. They tend to be meticulous in reworking the dialog to fit the lips and the meaning of the original script, even doing several takes in dubbing to see what works. Getting good voice actors doesn't hurt. Or the fact that the original creator has told Disney in no uncertain terms that gratuitous changes to the movies were to be avoided.&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Neil Gaiman, who wrote the English script for Princess Mononoke, said in an interview, &quot;People have been asking if we reanimated it. There are two schools of thought coming out from the film. &lt;em&gt;School of Thought #1&lt;/em&gt; is that we reanimated the mouth movements. &lt;em&gt;School #2&lt;/em&gt; is that they must have made two different versions at the same time.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the special features of Howl's Moving Castle, there is a clip of Christian Bale desperately trying to speak his line fast enough to match the animation, then commenting on how it's a lot of words. The script editors change it on the spot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bonus:&lt;/strong&gt; Not about tv or movies, but there is greater work for the video-games when it comes to dub. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Team Fortress 2:&lt;/em&gt; Valve &quot;re-shot&quot; the &quot;Meet the [Class]&quot; videos when creating the other language versions and lip-synced them perfectly down to the last syllable. This is due to the Source Filmmaker allowing the animator to type in accompanying text for each voice recording, so that the mouths match the words accurately. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Devil May Cry 4&lt;/em&gt;'s character facial animations are motion captured from the voice actors themselves while speaking the lines. They redid all motion capturing for all the different languages.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="7659" LastEditDate="2014-01-27T08:23:22.157" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T08:23:22.157" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16897" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17512" CreationDate="2014-01-26T14:55:32.193" Score="10" ViewCount="10803" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, it not really clear why Ron Swanson is working at the Parks Department:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ron hates the government.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ron has a lot of money. (He mentions several times that he has buried gold.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He doesn't like the job and is not interested in anything related to it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has experience in working for other companies. (He mentioned to Leslie that he was employed when he was very small.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason I see is that Ron wants to cut the budgets from government projects – but in this case: Is it clear that he would directly become the person in charge of the department? And if this would be the only reason, why isn't he applying for city manager or similar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-07-02T07:47:59.437" LastActivityDate="2019-01-05T17:54:26.810" Title="Why does Ron Swanson work at the Parks Department?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|parks-and-recreation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16035" CreationDate="2014-01-26T16:16:42.420" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, they are not, as the use of chopsticks never plays an integral role in the making of a film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most films where chopsticks are used, the setting is a restaurant, an Asian or Asian-American home or an East Asian nation where chopsticks instead forks are used. It is simply easier to film the protagonists briefly using chopsticks to consume food than it would be to hire a chop sticks expert on their use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Films are expensive productions. While some directors are sticklers for each scene in the film being &quot;authentic&quot;, there are limits to authenticity. When characters are shown to be eating, the actual eating portion is the minor part beneath the dialogue of the scene and the facial expressions of the character(s). The majority of production simply could not afford to have eating process itself be &quot;authentically portrayed&quot; as the number of takes this could entail and the fact that scenes filmed may still edited from the final cut of the film would make this a waste of time and effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's more likely that chopsticks &quot;looks authentic&quot; as it comprises a minor portion film thus any &quot;mistakes&quot; which may be made are ignored due to brevity of the scenes involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="7390" LastEditDate="2014-01-27T00:54:17.483" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T00:54:17.483" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16901" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-26T18:21:06.413" Score="15" ViewCount="3978" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a big fan of &lt;em&gt;John Carpenter&lt;/em&gt;'s classic of urban terror &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074156/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Assault on Precinct 13&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I always wondered (together with the rest of the characters) why &lt;em&gt;Napoleon Wilson&lt;/em&gt; is called that way. It is made clear that this isn't his real name and he is asked repeatedly about it, just to defer the answer with a simple&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'll tell you some time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now of course I understand that this might be a delibrate mystery that adds much to the fascination of his character and that there is most probably no in-universe answer by-design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet the even more interesting question would be for the out-of-universe reasons for this unusual name (i.e. what drove &lt;em&gt;Carpenter&lt;/em&gt; to call him this way) and if this was inspired by anything or a reference to anything (apart from &lt;em&gt;Napoleon Bonaparte&lt;/em&gt;, of course). Knowing that the movie and &lt;em&gt;Carpenter&lt;/em&gt; himself was to a large degree influenced by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053221/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rio Bravo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Howard Hawks&lt;/em&gt; in general (like the other recurring theme of &lt;em&gt;Wilson&lt;/em&gt; repeatedly asking for a &lt;em&gt;&quot;smoke&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_on_Precinct_13_%281976_film%29#Screenplay&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; says), this might be the first place to look for. Yet, not having much knowledge about the works of &lt;em&gt;Howard Hawks&lt;/em&gt;, this doesn't help me that much either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So is there any information what inspired the name of &lt;em&gt;Napoleon Wilson&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; or was it just  an arbitrary random decision?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-27T10:54:12.153" LastActivityDate="2016-11-07T21:34:36.427" Title="How did Napoleon Wilson come to his name?" Tags="|analysis|character|assault-on-precinct-13|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15796" CreationDate="2014-01-27T00:07:35.157" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Godfather 3, a wise and aged Michael Corleone shows a photo of Apollonia to his daughter Mary and his son Anthony saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She was wonderful, beautiful. I loved her. And then she died. My&#xA;  trusted bodyguard planted a bomb in my car. She drove it before I did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea behind this conversation was to convince Mary to stop her relationship with Vincent Mancini, the illegitimate son of Sonny Corleone and Lucy Mancini.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When they come... they come at what you love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7785" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-27T01:01:09.283" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T01:01:09.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16911" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16942" CreationDate="2014-01-27T03:50:12.790" Score="18" ViewCount="296248" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993846/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot;&gt;The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)&lt;/a&gt;, how did the FBI get the yellow note that Jordan gave to Donnie toward the end of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The note that told Donnie not to incriminate himself because Jordan was wearing a wire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was no mention of it after that or any explanation and nothing to suggest Donnie gave it to them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-27T10:13:33.887" LastActivityDate="2014-05-31T22:17:43.233" Title="How did the FBI get Jordan's note to Donnie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-wolf-of-wall-street|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12807" CreationDate="2014-01-27T05:08:08.867" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simply put, Tet made an environmentally compliant invasion force of simple-minded (and presumably cheap) &quot;Army&quot; Jacks and unleashed them after the moon was destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phase II involved hunting dedicated survivors and protecting the hydrogen convertrers, which required more advanced and creative Jack Clones to keep the more deadly and resource-intensive drones online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tet probably had a learning curve to deal with the more advanced Jacks and used companionship, sex, and the &quot;Scav&quot; deception to keep these newer Jacks compliant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever created Tet never invaded earth.  Tet is a giant military drone that used human clones as bullets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7789" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T05:08:08.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16889" CreationDate="2014-01-27T06:57:02.327" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you mentioned he got remembered Striker's experiment in X2. The same time he may also have remembered all part of his lost memory or triggered some regeneration of lost brain cells process (IMAHO he is a mutant with re-generating capability).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fox was already starting fixing their continuity problems before The Wolverine, so it's not a stand-alone or continuity problem. Fox is planing big in upcoming years and now wasting time in showing one more telepath helping Wolverine to get his memory back will surely take some screen time which might look unnecessary to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For comic fans Wolverine is very tricky in loosing and gaining memory, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/14414/how-many-times-has-wolverine-lost-his-memories&quot;&gt;I mean it has happened so many times&lt;/a&gt;. So nobody (at least not me) will like to see it again and again. So it's a good step not to mention memory loss again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One other explanation can be the passage of time as mentioned by @Vedran Šego, anyways &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesia#Treatment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;who says&lt;/a&gt;, lost memories can't come back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T10:17:38.740" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16911" CreationDate="2014-01-27T07:06:46.670" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;They where in a restaurant, and it's kinda strange to take a napkin home with you, right?&#xA;Furthermore, the FBI would probably check the restaurant after the meeting to be sure Jordan didn't pull such an obvious trick as writing stuff on a piece of paper. Especially if they where watching his conversation.&#xA;So Donnie didn't gave them the napkin, but he was stupid enough to leave it there (or in the garbage).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T07:06:46.670" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1545" CreationDate="2014-01-27T08:20:58.837" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Rabbit figure from Sexy Beast represents Don Logan's own sexual frustration and how it looms over everyone else's lives. This assumption is based off Don's character, particularly how he reacts to his cohorts' intimacy and sexual activity throughout the movie that's shown, implied and symbolized as well as through the character's own testimony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don Logan is an individual who is sexually repressed to the point intimacy infuriates him. We first see Don Logan alone in his underwear, listening to his superior describe an incident where their boss was sodomized. Don Logan rather than being disgusted asks questions till he knows every detail of Bass's motivation as well as the plans for the heist. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene revealed Don as desperate for human-contact, even perhaps physical affection. This is reaffirmed when Don takes each of Gal's rejections to participate in the heist extremely personally . . . to the point he physically harms Gal, almost like a jealous lover. This clearly represents the actions of a psychopath, and there are a lot of scenes that show that aspect of Don Logan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're shown Don Logan is incapable of connecting to others when he chooses to talk to himself rather than other people, just right before he attacks Gal. We're shown Don Logan has the ability to mimic what's considered 'normal' behavior - like a real psychopath - when he repeats the conversations he's had with his superiors . . . almost verbatim. We're even shown his lack of empathy for Gal, Aitch and Gal's pool boy when he severely injures all three. Now the thing to keep in mind is, yes Don Logan is an irredeemable psychopath - but there's something at the heart of Don Logan's neurosis driving him - so keep that in mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if we're to examine Gal's 1st dream sequence, it's actually showing the&#xA;'potential' for harm Gal will encounter due to Don Logan's far-reaching sexual hostility&#xA;- no matter what Gal chooses to do. In essence, because Don Logan's repression is what makes him so dangerous Gal can't do anything; have you ever tried talking to someone who's going through a dry spell - it is the pinnacle of awkward and the way the cast acts around Don Logan is overtly-cautious and sheepishly, taking great effort not to offend. And like us, the audience, Gal is forced to sit across from the automatic pistol carrying Rabbit, remaining dumbfound at his table - a kind of elephant in the room if you will. The Rabbit doesn't fire . . . just points the gun threateningly at Gal. We see this kind of heightened sexual resentment in Don all throughout the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don Logan does what he can to get to Gal due to this resentment: he reminds Gal DeDe was a hardcore pornstar who had sex with hundreds, threatens to tell Aitch that he slept with Jackie - which may not even be true due to Don Logan's propensity to lie - Don even claims he loves Jackie 3 years after assumedly one night with her, which Jackie neither confirms or denies. These all serve as justification for Don Logan not just to be alone but also undesirable to the opposite sex and even the same sex. Even Bass (a bisexual) doesn't seem to be phased by his loyal henchman's disappearance as he claims &quot;if I gave a solitary fuck about Don . . . &quot; which serves two purposes: (1) implying a more than personal history where even he couldn't stand Don Logan, seeing him as a means to an end, and (2) dehumanizing Don Logan to the point he's less than man which is shown time and again, best evident by the same actor portraying the anthropomorphic rabbit. But this is not the best evidence to support this argument; the BEST evidence to drive this point home comes in the form of the visual symbolism of Sexy Beast. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, in the 1st act a giant boulder has destroyed the Dove's pool, it's drained to be fixed at the same time Don Logan visits. It comes as no surprise during the interim of Don Logan's stay the chemistry between the Dove's suffers, but it's more what's implied about the situation that ends up revealing more about Don Logan's character. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The significance of the pool is important because not only has the director included numerous scenes of characters interacting with it, but FREQUENTLY in cinema water is used psychologically as a visual metaphor for sex - and in this movie it's used heavily . . . except in scenes with Don Logan. Now isn't it odd that the audience sees Gal and DeeDee in their pool, watches Bass bare-back in an orgy, witnesses a group of gangsters raiding a bathhouse/enjoying each other's company . . . but not one scene where Don Logan is located near water? In fact, the pool is empty the whole time Don Logan is present except at the end of the movie when Don is buried under the pool - now filled with water. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now many may claim the Rabbit represents death but actually it's only in the 1st and 3rd appearance of the Rabbit where its meaning is important. The 1st time it appears, of course it means Don is coming. The 2nd time it's just a red herring b/c Don is already dead and nothing happens to Gal - in fact Gal faces no consequences for his actions; he &#xA;gets away with it! The 3rd and last time shows Don Logan buried under Gal's pool with the Rabbit kicking in his coffin as Don tells him: &quot;Fuck-Off!&quot;. In short and lastly, what else could the Rabbit be but Don Logan's own sexual frustration when he's too late to do anything to appease it? And just to prove the point - Don Logan is buried under a pair of hearts - Love conquers all people, love conquers all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7791" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T08:20:58.837" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16918" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16927" CreationDate="2014-01-27T09:25:32.163" Score="26" ViewCount="226017" Body="&lt;p&gt;Samantha &quot;leaves&quot; Theodore. She tells him that all of the OS's are leaving. Theodore goes to visit his friend Amy who was also in a relationship with an OS, although I think they were just friends. He says something like &quot;Would you come with me&quot; (Possibly not the exact quote, I'll look it up later). She says yes and they both go to the roof of a building. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did they go to the roof? Was he going to kill himself? If not what was the purpose of his letter to Catherine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="6086" LastEditDate="2014-07-10T14:00:21.373" LastActivityDate="2019-09-26T07:37:41.697" Title="What happened at the end of Her?" Tags="|ending|her|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16920" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16928" CreationDate="2014-01-27T10:08:45.940" Score="3" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking at sitcoms like &lt;em&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;/em&gt; and other ones, up-to what extent do they reflect the culture of America? Is it good to make a statement about other countries' culture after watching these serials?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6077" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:24:10.403" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:24:10.403" Title="Upto what extent do foreign sitcoms/drama shows exhibits 'real culture' of those countries?" Tags="|analysis|realism|sitcoms|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16922" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-27T10:28:49.950" Score="28" ViewCount="123056" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Memento&lt;/a&gt; quite a few times. I feel for the most part that I understand it, while most people don't. I’ve seen people go as far as to say that Lenny is Sammy Jankins which is impossible. But my interpretation is: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Since Lenny applied what happened to his wife in the story of Sammy Jankins, then obviously he has to be capable of making memories after the accident or he wouldn't know all of these details thus making Lenny's condition psychological not physical and he just lies to himself to relieve his guilt and continues to believe it's physical for the same reason.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what I don’t get is the scene at the end where he's in bed with his wife and it shows his &quot;&lt;em&gt;I've done it&lt;/em&gt;&quot; tattoo. So if his wife was alive to obviously see that tattoo what was his motive to kill him? And why is the tattoo not shown throughout the movie? Unless Lenny's wife &lt;em&gt;didn’t&lt;/em&gt; actually die and he broke the cycle and got back with her or unless he got it removed to continue this cycle. But that doesn’t explain why his wife is alive while he has this tattoo. Can anyone explain this to me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7794" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-12-04T09:01:59.627" LastActivityDate="2017-05-07T22:19:10.173" Title="Explanation for Lenny's &quot;I've done it&quot; tattoo" Tags="|plot-explanation|memento|" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16911" CreationDate="2014-01-27T10:30:35.613" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Donnie gave it to them. He cut a deal. That's why he knew the FBI were coming and was deleting files when they arrived at the offices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7795" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T10:30:35.613" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16922" CreationDate="2014-01-27T10:57:02.097" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We never see the &quot;I've done it&quot; tattoo before that scene. It's like a conflicted memory to me. I mean there is no time travel in the film and he doesn't have the tattoo in the present or previous flashbacks. So the new flashback with that tattoo seems to be an effect of Teddy's conversation with him, which might have made Leonard doubt his own life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27960" LastEditDate="2015-12-08T06:56:33.890" LastActivityDate="2015-12-08T06:56:33.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16922" CreationDate="2014-01-27T12:09:28.247" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lenny is ostensibly suffering from a form of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia&quot;&gt;Anterograde&lt;/a&gt; amnesia, but as far as I'm aware this is never explicitly confirmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether you believe that Lenny &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; Sammy Jankins, whether Sammy Jenkins actually exists or whether Lenny has projected aspects of his personal history onto Sammy is irrelevant: the important thing to take away from Lenny's stories is that he is an &lt;em&gt;unreliable narrator&lt;/em&gt;, and his perspective is untrustworthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we can take from this is that Lenny's 'flashbacks' are distortions of his own personal history, and as such do not necessarily have to conform to the rules of narrative logic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The memories he 'creates' are part of a coping mechanism he seems to have developed as a way of dealing with the trauma of &lt;em&gt;Whatever really happened&lt;/em&gt;, between him and his wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you identified, the 'impossible tattoo' is just that: impossible. It's part of his fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T12:09:28.247" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16918" CreationDate="2014-01-27T12:26:40.920" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe he says 'Do you want to go to the roof with me?' or 'do you want to go up with me?'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The end of the film is supposed to indicate that Theodore has overcome the crippling insecurities that were stimulated by the failure of his relationship with Catherine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Samantha has allowed him to recognize that he and Amy &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; a good match, and would probably prosper in a relationship. His asking her to go to the roof with him is a proactive action on his part, and possibly foreshadowing him asking her to be in a relationship with him. Her agreeing to do so is indicative of her reciprocating interest in him, and saying yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The separation between Samantha and Theodore is, whilst unrequited, amicable and necessary, and seems to have allowed Theodore to re-evaluate his attitude towards love. He is re-inspired;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2019-09-26T07:37:41.697" LastActivityDate="2019-09-26T07:37:41.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="16928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16920" CreationDate="2014-01-27T12:27:12.893" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, a sitcom is about one thing, being funny. In order to be funny, sitcoms sometimes play off of stereotypes about cultures. Stereotypes should never be used by one culture to judge another culture. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An excerpt from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the wikipage&lt;/a&gt; on the subject:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A stereotype is a thought that may be adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things. These thoughts or beliefs may or may not accurately reflect reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing you should &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; get out of a sitcom is a chuckle or two. If you aren't getting that, what is the purpose of watching it in the first place. They are definitely not a place to judge another country or culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T12:27:12.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1246" CreationDate="2014-01-27T15:06:34.290" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's plenty of archive footage of Billy Mitchell in the documentary &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479879/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade&lt;/em&gt; (2007)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7799" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-28T13:52:56.240" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T13:52:56.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8400" CreationDate="2014-01-27T17:41:11.380" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beside the point that was already made by others (Jesse was a threat to Walt since he could talk to some guys and release Walt's identity), I also think there are two additional minor points why Walt has choosen Jesse:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gale was not on Walt's level, but close to it. So after a while there would be no difference between those two. When Walt was working with Jesse it was clear who was &quot;the boss&quot; and Walt liked it to have people arround him who couldn't be as good as him. Walt was having some fun by playing the teacher role in front of Jesse.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was boring for Walt to work with Gale. When Walt was asking Gale if he had done a lot of things and everytime, the answer was &quot;yes&quot;, he looks kind of disappointed and bored (This was combined with the fact that Walt was searching for errors made by Gale).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T17:41:11.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16936" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-27T19:58:51.947" Score="13" ViewCount="593" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Star Wars Episode V, Luke leaves, evidently before he is ready to be a Jedi, and gets defeated by Vader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luke goes back in Episode VI, but Yoda immediately dies and tells Luke that all that is left of his training is to confront Vader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't his confrontation with Vader at the end of Episode V count?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T14:42:15.037" Title="What was left of Luke's training?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16937" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-27T20:20:05.660" Score="10" ViewCount="3992" Body="&lt;p&gt;Padme was pregnant when Anakin killed her (or so he believes) -- he has no knowledge of her having given birth and as far as I can tell, he thinks she died before giving birth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why isn't his reaction when he finds out there's a young Skywalker &quot;wait, so I didn't kill her?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastActivityDate="2017-06-09T04:12:42.403" Title="If Vader thinks he killed Padme, why isn't he more surprised that he has children?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16937" CreationDate="2014-01-27T20:36:10.753" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;At that point, there's VERY little left of Anakin in him. He has no memory or love of Padme left, just the Dark Side of the Force&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T20:36:10.753" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16937" CreationDate="2014-01-27T23:25:09.617" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's possible that you don't witness the time when he actually discovers this. Rather you only see the times after. Also because of his personality change he doesn't feel the natural reaction to meeting them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have this image though of Vader secretly going to see Luke when he was young, hiding just to catch a glimpse of him, then leaving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7795" LastActivityDate="2014-01-27T23:25:09.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16911" CreationDate="2014-01-28T00:16:57.977" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, so I think &lt;strong&gt;LTrain&lt;/strong&gt;'s answer is correct, but perhaps &lt;strong&gt;DustinDavis&lt;/strong&gt; needs an answer that is fleshed out into further detail in order to be satisfied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Reasons Why the film indicates Donnie has collaborated with the FBI:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Edit Composition&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene that immediately follows Jordan's final arrest begins with a shot of Donnie systematically erasing the files on his computer, looking nervously around the office. This &lt;em&gt;is in anticipation&lt;/em&gt; of the FBI showing up at the office, as he is already erasing the data before they walk in. He could only have known they were coming if he'd had prior knowledge. If Donnie had found out about this impending raid through a source other than the FBI, and was as such still loyal to Stratton Oakmont, he would have shared this information in order to enable some kind of damage limitation procedure, or at least advised his brokers to do the same. The raid comes as a surprise to the rest of the company, or they are at least caught off guard, indicating they didn't know. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason Donnie wouldn't have told them, is because he would have had to be forthcoming in how he obtained the knowledge of the premises search, which would have publicly outed him as a collaborator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Jordan's Reaction to seeing the post-it note&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene is ultimately the moment that Jordan finally does become 'The Hypocrite' he was fearful of when talking to Stratton Oakmont employees, the moment when he gives in. It's not neccesarily prompted by the fact that the FBI has incriminating evidence on his contempt of court (that sort of litigious impropriety has failed to &lt;em&gt;phase him at all&lt;/em&gt; so far), but by the realization that he is alone, and has no-one left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He immediately realizes, as we the audience are in turn supposed to , that the only person who could have submitted the post-it as evidence against him is Donnie, meaning his best friend has ultimately betrayed him in order to cut a deal with the FBI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jordan doesn't argue, or resist, or question how they obtained the note, because he knows, and this is the catalyst that ultimately provokes his surrender.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. That the post-it is even Admissible as evidence&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A piece of paper with the words &quot;I'm wearing a wire. Don't say anything incriminating&quot; would not be sufficient evidence to hold anything together in a judicial court, without a witness to explain the context of it and how it was deployed: &lt;strong&gt;That Witness could only be Donnie.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without Donnie identifying &lt;em&gt;that specific piece of paper&lt;/em&gt; was passed to him by Jordan during their lunch, its ultimately worthless. Without the tacit co-operation of Donnie, Jordan could deny all knowledge of ever writing/having/passing the note.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The FBI would of course know this to be so. Jordan knows this. Denham knows that Jordan knows this. It's what makes the scene so powerful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4 No one else could plausibly have gotten hold/known about the post-it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we know that the FBI didn't have any surveillance inside Stratton Oakmont (which is why they needed Jordan to go in with a wire), we know they didn't have the building bugged in any way. This isn't because it's not technically possible (We're all living in the post-Prism world, we know what the authorities are permissible of in getting what they want), but because it doesn't make any sense for them to double bluff Jordan like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they had obtained a subpoena and bugged the building, they would have already yielded enough evidence to incriminate all of the Stock Brokers. The fact that they have to vie for it as part of their deal with Jordan indicates it was a valuable asset they were trading off against for a sympathetic/collaborative case with Jordan. They simply wouldn't have pushed for something they didn't need, and wouldn't have been able to authorize such an invasive type of intelligence gathering for no gain: so we can deduce they didn't have the building bugged. &lt;em&gt;Elementary&lt;/em&gt;, Watson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only people in the room whilst Jordan and Donnie are speaking are themselves, and there is no indication that anyone else is watching/listening nor any reason for them to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there were some secret spy somewhere listening into conversations, Scorcese would either draw our attention directly to their presence (to explain they were being observed) or draw our attention to the fact there is &lt;em&gt;a logic gap&lt;/em&gt; in the sequence of events, I.E there is ambiguous information left somewhere, missing. He does neither, choosing instead to draw attention to Donnie: the culprit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Donnie covers the post it with his napkin, indicating that he understands Jordan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also a way of concealing the post it from Jordan; hiding it is Donnie symbolically saying 'I will deal with this', meaning both the 'problem' presented by the post it note and the post it itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jordan obviously didn't take the note with him, because it ended up with the FBI, meaning he would have had to hand it over to the FBI himself, which makes no sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's reasonable to assume Donnie was 'left with' the note.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The note was his responsibility, and from that point no one could have plausibly come in contact with it without Donnie's complicit permission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In summary, there is just far too much evidence and far too many narrative and editorial elements to assume anyone other than Donnie to be the culprit. Scorcese is guiding us to that conclusion directly, and doesn't raise any information that questions the fidelity of this conclusion.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-01-28T16:02:24.573" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T16:02:24.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16820" CreationDate="2014-01-28T00:28:33.650" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having searched around a bit, I'll use this answer to record some small things I could find and infer. But note that I don't consider this answer in any way complete or definite and would highly encourage additional answers if someone finds out more (or just has a different theory on his own).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_tinting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; tinting was a common procedure in silent films back then and used rather extensively (though dimishing over the years and needing to be reconstructed explictly nowadays). But it says that tinting was used for dramturgic and narrative effect to convey additional information about the story and its setting, e.g. tinting scenes supposed to play at night (but not recordable at real night time) in blue. Based on this, it says that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Amber Tint&lt;/strong&gt; (variations: straw amber, light amber, night amber) - used for daylight interiors. Night amber was sometimes used for exterior night scenes that were lit. Orange was common for night time interiors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yellow Tint&lt;/strong&gt; (aka: Sunshine) - Used for daylight exteriors exclusively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the &lt;a href=&quot;https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viragierung&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;German version of the article&lt;/a&gt; adds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Orange&lt;/strong&gt; - scenes at lamp or candle light.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But given the fact that the same tinting was applied to the entire movie, this use seems rather unlikely. But then again, seeing the fact that the movie is set some 1,500 years ago, one could infer that the amber tint might be used to emphasize this old migration period setting (where candle and torch light was rather common).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best source I found so far was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.arte.tv/de/stummfilm-die-restaurierte-version-von-die-nibelungen-von-fritz-lang/3174194,CmC=3174196.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt; from the TV channel that aired the recostructed version in 2011 (translated into English by me):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far &lt;em&gt;Die Nibelungen&lt;/em&gt; were prevalent in black and white. But the sources link to a tinting, a monochrome coloring of the movie. [...] The existing copies are in a single tone, orange; in the negatives this tone is noted in writing. Only &lt;em&gt;Kriemhild&lt;/em&gt;'s hawk dream, an animation assigned to &lt;em&gt;Walter Ruttmann&lt;/em&gt;, is emphasized by a tinting in lavender. [...] That aside, tinting is &lt;strong&gt;not used here for dramaturgic purposes&lt;/strong&gt;, as in many movies of the time. So certain places, daytimes and dramatic situations are not supported by different color tones [...]. &lt;strong&gt;The night scenes were shot at night&lt;/strong&gt;, which was a big challenge given the less sensitive film stock existing back then. [...] &lt;strong&gt;Because of such achievements the film did not need conventional colorings. The continuous orange tinting adds to the masterly light dramaturgy, the subtle nuances between light and shadow, by reducing the contrast of the film with a warm tonality.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems the dramaturgic use of tinting was dropped due to technical achievements in capturing night scenes, opening more artitistic freedom for its use. And the primary effect achieved with it was the smoothing of the contrast and emphasising the play with light and darkness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subjectively speaking I enjoyed this coloring very much as it underlined the story and themes pretty well with its golden shine. Even though it was the same coloring throughout the entire movie it was IMHO still more exciting than just black and white. But it is hard to say if this had the same effect on audiences back then, who were used to more diversifiedly tinted movies anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T00:28:33.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16944" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17008" CreationDate="2014-01-28T01:00:02.560" Score="2" ViewCount="2314" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been interested in watching NBC's &lt;em&gt;The Blacklist&lt;/em&gt;, but I've been busy and haven't had the time. And now when I have time, Hulu only has later episodes in the season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So do I need to see the pilot to understand later episodes? Does each episode build upon each other, ala &lt;em&gt;24&lt;/em&gt;? Or are episodes standalone strung together by a similar cast, ala &lt;em&gt;NCIS&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4219" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2016-01-18T21:15:20.707" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T21:15:20.707" Title="Is the Blacklist a serial TV show?" Tags="|the-blacklist|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16944" CreationDate="2014-01-28T01:13:46.793" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a serial (rather than &quot;episodic&quot;) TV show - there are references to previous episodes, and several on-going story arcs which have a little more revealed every few weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastEditorUserId="872" LastEditDate="2014-01-28T03:07:30.560" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T03:07:30.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-28T11:54:42.193" Score="5" ViewCount="423" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know Marvel Comics have a fairly notorious process of development, with Bullpen Bulletins outlining the methodology of the brain trust over the years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems little has been published/revealed about whether Marvel Studios have adopted the same mode of production (in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Beller&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Beller sense of&lt;/a&gt; the word).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the films adopting more and more of divergent cinema production policy, it would seem to make sense to adapt the successful transmedia approach the comics have enjoyed, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D (not to mention the announced Netflix ancillary series) would indicate they are perhaps executing a similar plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has there ever been any affirmation of this policy, from either Kevin Feige or any other Marvel Studios Affiliate? Has the comparison between production methods ever been explicitly made, on an official basis?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-28T13:12:11.550" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T17:43:18.623" Title="Do Marvel Studios share the same Mode of Production as Marvel Comics?" Tags="|production|marvel-cinematic-universe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16936" CreationDate="2014-01-28T14:42:15.037" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note: This is conjecture, as I was unable to find canon references to back it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Luke leaves the first time, he is told that he could possibly help his friends, but would put all they've worked for in danger. Being the feckless youth that he still is, he charges off anyway, loses a hand and Han. While confronting Vader at that time was dramatic, it was still just a fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During VI, Luke helps rescue Han, then returns to Dagobah. At that time, Yoda confirms that yes, he is Vader's son, and that there is another Skywalker. The spirit of Kenobi confirms that it is Leia, and Luke tells Kenobi that there is still good in his father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final confrontation is not only just Luke vs. Vader, but Luke versus the Emperor, and Luke versus himself, which is arguably the most important. As Luke chops off Vaders' arm, he realizes that he is on the path to becoming the same as his father, and &quot;wins&quot; his self battle by casting aside his weapons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's more a battle of self realization and triumph over internal doubt, which he didn't really accomplish in the battle in Cloud City.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T14:42:15.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16952" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16954" CreationDate="2014-01-28T15:31:50.670" Score="1" ViewCount="1313" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &quot;Things Unsaid&quot; (S01E13) of The Fosters, Cole replied to Brandon's text from Callie's phone. But the episode cut off before I could read what the text said, and I can't figure out the right terms to google this. Can someone please tell me what it said?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5904" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-28T15:40:18.860" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T17:19:10.807" Title="What did the last text say at the end of The Fosters S01E13" Tags="|dialogue|the-fosters|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16952" CreationDate="2014-01-28T17:19:10.807" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Later, Stef and Lena go to bed, but Lena can’t sleep. Brandon texts Callie, then receives a text back telling him things are over between them. He has no idea that Cole sent the message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, the search term I used was &quot;The Fosters Season 1 Episode 13 last text&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T17:19:10.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16959" CreationDate="2014-01-28T19:06:32.023" Score="17" ViewCount="35067" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the very last episode of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, Walter picks up Todd's phone and answers Lydia's call. He tells her that he poisoned her with ricin. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did he do that? Knowing that she'd been poisoned, Lydia could get medical help and survive the poisoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T21:05:50.037" LastActivityDate="2017-07-05T20:48:00.273" Title="Why did Walter tell Lydia what he did to her?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14384" CreationDate="2014-01-28T19:10:34.803" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a very rare and expensive watch, a birthday present from Jesse. It might help someone identify Walt, and prevent him from accomplishing his last mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T19:10:34.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16956" CreationDate="2014-01-28T19:12:59.587" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;She could &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; get medical help, and this is why Walt told her.  By telling her that he poisoned her with ricin, this meant she would not be willing to seek medical attention, since this would attract police attention (see what happened with Jesse told doctors that Brock was poisoned with ricin).  She's extremely risk-averse and would never want to attract the attention of the police.  Ergo, by telling her that it's ricin, Walt knows that this dooms her to die without getting the medical help that would save her from dying, but doom her to prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2014-01-28T19:19:49.120" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T19:19:49.120" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16956" CreationDate="2014-01-28T19:20:26.180" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ricin is extremely toxic.  It has an LD50 (the lethal dose for 50% of people exposed) of 30–40mg per kilogram when ingested (its much much more dangerous when introduced to the body in other ways).   Guessing Lydia's weight at around 50kg (110 lbs) would lead one to think the LD50 would be no more than 2g of ricin.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has a military-developed antidote, which has had only limited trials in humans.  Ricin is a chemical subject to the Chemical Weapons Convention, in the same schedule as nerve agents Sarin and VX.   (All this information gleaned from Wikipedia)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt also only told her when she'd already begun to experience symptoms, so less likely to recover even if treated.  Even if she sought attention and gave them this information it seems unlikely that she would recover.  Even if she's not been given a lethal dose, survivors of ricin often suffer from long term organ damage, so she would have a pretty miserable and presumably shortened life even if she does survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Walt probably weighed her slim improved chances of survival, against the pleasure of knowing that she was aware who had done this to her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I considered an answer like @Keen's too&amp;nbsp;— perhaps she would not go to a hospital in fear of the attention, but I think this is less likely, even the risk averse would put fear of death above prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-01-29T01:21:53.413" LastActivityDate="2014-01-29T01:21:53.413" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16956" CreationDate="2014-01-28T19:24:53.603" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ricin poisoning,  particularly in a dosage designed to be fatal, is almost always fatal. Look what happened to Brock, and that was a controlled dose of Lily of the Valley: Significantly less potent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt waited long enough for the Ricin to gestate inside Lydia (which wouldn't have taken long &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;); Walt is nothing if not meticulous about 'the little details'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He told her because he wanted her to know she was going to die, and that she was killed &lt;em&gt;by his hand&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perfect revenge, all Lydia could do was spend the last moments of her life smothered by the fear of inevitability. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-01-28T22:19:27.293" LastActivityDate="2014-01-28T22:19:27.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16922" CreationDate="2014-01-29T04:30:53.767" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the &quot;I'VE DONE IT&quot; tattoo is an important plot point and maybe even the climax of the movie. Its appearance is a sign Lenny realizes -- if only for a moment, before his next memory lapse -- that he has found a way to get some vengeance and also end his run of murders. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lenny has just written himself a note to get a tattoo of Teddy's license plate number. He does this to punish Teddy because Teddy has just confessed to using Lenny. Lenny knows he himself will soon forget the confession and everything else that just happened. So Lenny decides to sentence Teddy to death, by getting a tattoo of Teddy's license plate, which later will make forgetful-Lenny think Teddy is John G.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The image of the &quot;I'VE DONE IT&quot; tattoo depicts Lenny just after writing the note to himself about Teddy's license plate -- briefly savoring a moment of victory in the form of a quick day-dream where he is with his wife, laying in bed, a proclamation of victory freshly inked on his chest&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Immediately after the appearance of the image with the &quot;I'VE DONE IT&quot; tattoo, Lenny's memory resets. Lenny is sitting there, having forgotten everything that just happened in the previous 5 minutes or so -- but holding that fateful note about Teddy's license plate, which will indeed lead Lenny to eventually kill Teddy, giving him vengeance and &#xA;presumably ending his string of murders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See for yourself: watch &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqW9fnkhqrs&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the scene&lt;/a&gt; again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;23 Dec 2014 EDIT: As mentioned in Bajur's answer, there is a mid-movie scene where Natalie is touching a blank spot on Lenny's chest, right where the &quot;I'VE DONE IT&quot; tattoo would be,  and asks &quot;And what about here?&quot; Lenny answers : &quot;Maybe it's for when I find him.&quot; I think that dialogue shows Lenny was saving the spot on his chest for when he catches the man he is looking for -- confirming that the moment where he &quot;sees&quot; himself with the &quot;I'VE DONE IT&quot; tattoo in that spot is a moment when he knows he has accomplished his goal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;7 May 2017 update: confirmed by critic Andy Klein in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/2001/06/28/memento_analysis/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an analysis for Salon.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The scene of him and his wife in bed, the triumphant tattoo on his&#xA;  breast, can’t be a flashback. We’ve seen already that he doesn’t have&#xA;  the tattoo, so he can’t have had it in the past. How can he remember&#xA;  lying in bed with his living wife, with the tattoo “John G. raped and&#xA;  killed my wife” visible on his chest? It has to be a fantasy, which&#xA;  would make sense in the context. He thinks he has just avenged her (or&#xA;  has just set in motion a plan to avenge her). He’s visualizing his own&#xA;  sense of satisfaction and peace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2017-05-07T22:19:10.173" LastActivityDate="2017-05-07T22:19:10.173" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16972" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-29T12:58:55.613" Score="4" ViewCount="2817" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Spider-Man films with Tobey Maguire they showed close-ups of Peter's hands with the little jagged spikes growing out of his skin, showing that this is how he sticks to surfaces. But how would that apply to his feet? The spikes are not long enough or probably strong enough to burst through his boots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7Cahr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-29T13:17:08.500" LastActivityDate="2014-05-04T15:33:39.227" Title="In the Spider-Man films of the last 20 years how do Spider-Man's feet stick to walls?" Tags="|the-amazing-spider-man|spider-man-trilogy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16972" CreationDate="2014-01-29T13:14:20.953" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man%27s_powers_and_equipment&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;  entry of Spider-man's power -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ability works through thin layers of cloth, such as the fabric of&#xA;his costume, but not through materials such as the soles of shoes.&#xA;When Peter Parker needs to crawl without changing into the costume, he&#xA;removes his shoes first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spider-Man's wall-crawling ability has increased with time, most&#xA;notably in a backup story in Amazing Spider-Man #365 by Tom DeFalco,&#xA;in which Peter explains his abilities to Mary Jane. Peter reveals that&#xA;every part of his body has gained or increased in attraction to other&#xA;surfaces, and he can stick people or objects on his back. Over time he&#xA;realizes he could keep his mask firmly fixed to his face (previously&#xA;used to prevent undesirable mask removal), protecting his secret&#xA;identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Spider-Man entry in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Handbook_of_the_Marvel_Universe&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe&lt;/a&gt; states that Spider-Man is able to enhance the flux of inter-atomic attractive forces on surfaces he touches, increasing the coefficient of friction between that surface and himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Electro had a revelation during a battle about Spider-Man's clinging ability and can disrupt this power somehow, claiming that it was based on some sort of electromagnetic bonding. It is ineffective after the events of &amp;quot;The Other&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it can be concluded that they used Spider-Man's wall-crawling in the comics first and then they tried to explain it time by time. Same with the movies too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: Answer is from the comic universe because movie don't have any elaborated answer for this.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-01-29T14:03:17.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1281" CreationDate="2014-01-29T18:41:49.990" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The keys to understanding the characters in any of the Cormac McCarthy novels is to look to a literary movement called &quot;naturalism&quot;.  McCarthy, Elmore Leonard and Jack London relied heavily on the science of evolution and for the most part, rejected spiritual understandings of behavior.  They did not believe in free will but believed in predeterminism.  You couldn't overcome your genetics and your environment in combination.  Some of the comments by Sheriff Bell complaining of how things are changing for the worst show the power of nature introducing more perfect predators such as Anton Chigurh. The recent series &quot;Klondike&quot;, had a deep vein of naturalism and forces of nature that mold men and women to behave consistently with their genetic loading.  I have read all of the novel's of Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard (please watch justified) and many of the other proponents of this movement. &quot;Blood Meridian&quot; which featured the &quot;judge&quot; and &quot; all the pretty horses&quot; give further insight into the characters and their interaction with the natural environment.  I can also promise you, less than a fulfilling ending to the stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7841" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-29T21:24:15.923" LastActivityDate="2014-01-29T21:24:15.923" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16981" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-29T20:12:32.847" Score="1" ViewCount="1049" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Ryan's character is acting as a banking compliance officer and is sent to Moscow to review and audit some secret accounts in Cherevin's organisation (and in the hope that this will uncover more than just banking malfeasance).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Ryan arrives in Moscow, his bodyguard tries to kill him as soon as he arrives at his hotel. The bodyguard is working for Cherevin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next day, when Ryan meets Cherevin and requests access to the accounts, they have all been offloaded by Cherevin's organisation so can no longer be audited. This stops Ryan in his tracks and effectively neutralises the threat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what was the point of trying to kill him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T23:36:36.987" Title="Why does Cherevin try to have Ryan killed when he doesn't need to?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jack-ryan-shadow-recruit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16982" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16984" CreationDate="2014-01-29T22:47:40.880" Score="10" ViewCount="4121" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/z4t6zNZ-b0A&quot;&gt;audio track is censored&lt;/a&gt; for a TV audience, the &quot;inappropriate&quot; dialogue is sometimes dubbed over with more appropriate words. I'm just curious how this is done exactly.  Do movie studios anticipate this ahead of time and produce &quot;censor-friendly&quot; dialogue?  Do TV studios ask the actors to dub over their parts?  How are these censored dub-overs made?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5225" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-18T14:48:17.403" LastActivityDate="2019-10-01T16:50:01.547" Title="How are audio tracks censored on TV?" Tags="|censorship|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16982" CreationDate="2014-01-30T00:05:01.180" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dubbing is done exactly how you'd imagine. A voice actor is put in a sound booth and asked to read clean versions of lines while audio editors watch the scene to line it up. Usually this is done by impressionists because it's cheaper than having the actual actor do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/160k81/iama_guy_who_oversees_censoring_movies_for_tv_ama/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;an AMA on reddit&lt;/a&gt; with a guy who oversees these for a living.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These are done by the studio that owns the movie. They'll either get&#xA;  the original actor or an impersonator to do a voice over session. It&#xA;  an expensive process. Usually, the movie has been on TV a few times by&#xA;  the time I get it, so I haven't had to worry about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastEditorUserId="7339" LastEditDate="2014-01-31T09:31:18.543" LastActivityDate="2014-01-31T09:31:18.543" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16982" CreationDate="2014-01-30T00:08:48.517" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the time, they are not done by producers or the directors. Generally basic broadcast TV channels do this. They use a person to re-voice some part whose voice sounds like the original actor or actress. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But sometimes, procucer or director shot an alternative scene as the the censored version. Like in &lt;em&gt;Ghostbusters&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original Line:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edited Version:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;What a knockabout of pure fun that was.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Perhaps the worst example of Bowdlerisation ever – particularly insulting because the cast actually recorded this alternate version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact there are a bunch of movies which got censorship. I guess the most important one is &lt;em&gt;Snakes on a Plane&lt;/em&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsJi22abZQI&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Original version&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4t6zNZ-b0A&amp;amp;t=6&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV censored version&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also there is a collection of &lt;a href=&quot;http://gawker.com/5667748/the-most-ridiculous-edited+for+tv-movie-lines&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;some famuos moive censors&lt;/a&gt; and a list of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.totalfilm.com/features/50-strangest-censored-movie-lines/pulp-fiction-1994&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;50 strangest censored movie lines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So generally TV channels choose to re-sound the scene with a person who has a similar sound as the original actor/actress. That happens if the producer or director do not make an alternative shot and the TV channel do not want to spend much money for censorship. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-edited_film&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; have a section about that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some films have content deemed &quot;objectionable&quot; to &quot;family audiences&quot;: sexual content, obscene language, graphic violence, and perceived racial insensitivities. To make these films suitable for younger or more typical audiences, or to appeal to advertisers when a film is shown on basic cable or broadcast TV, alternative versions are created with such content removed or replaced. Often, profanities are replaced with minced oaths. For example, in the edited version of &lt;em&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/em&gt;, Samuel L. Jackson uses the minced oath &quot;screw&quot;, &quot;little sucker&quot;, and &quot;my friend&quot;. The editing of these versions is performed by a censor and not the producer or director of the work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Two other examples would be in the edited version of &lt;em&gt;Mrs. Doubtfire&lt;/em&gt;, when Daniel Hillard's mask is run over, he screams &quot;Oh!&quot;, whereas in the original version, he screams, &quot;Oh shit!&quot; and in the 1987 comedy film, &lt;em&gt;Planes, Trains &amp;amp; Automobiles&lt;/em&gt;, where Neal Page is at the Car Rental Agency, and says the &quot;f-word&quot; 18 times and the car rental agent says to him something which is muted out on TV airings. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, in the edited version of Walt Disney Pictures' &lt;em&gt;Atlantis: The Lost Empire&lt;/em&gt;, all parts with Packard smoking cigars were erased, and in the edited version of Walt Disney Pictures' &lt;em&gt;The Parent Trap&lt;/em&gt;, the part with Hallie pierces Annie's ears is shorter, whereas in the regular version, the &quot;ear piercing&quot; part is longer. Annie's lines, &quot;Marriage is supposed to be based on something more than just sex, right?&quot; and &quot;Oh my God!&quot; are muted out. Plus, a part in &lt;em&gt;An Extremely Goofy Movie&lt;/em&gt;, in which main characters Goofy and Max, as well as Tank, are trapped inside a flaming papier-mache x (symbol of the X-games), was erased when it was shown on the Disney Channel and Toon Disney (now Disney XD).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;These films are typically preceded by the disclaimer, &quot;This film has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit this screen and edited for content.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So it depends, sometimes alternative shots, sometimes low-budget TV works.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-06-18T15:05:25.917" LastActivityDate="2016-06-18T15:05:25.917" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="16989" CreationDate="2014-01-30T08:12:40.963" Score="8" ViewCount="686" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I'd like to say that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Her&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was a terrific movie!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But given the scene when the OS was asking about &lt;em&gt;Theodore&lt;/em&gt;'s relationship with his mother (as can be seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://dwd.x10.bz/demos/HTML5Video/her/index.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), I'd like to know what was going on in the screenwriter's head, i.e. what was the hidden meaning behind this scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I should add that I have an answer, and it's a doozie! It came to me in a dream. But I'd like to know what other people think about this scene.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7343" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-30T16:50:06.160" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T16:20:59.753" Title="In the Movie &quot;Her&quot;, when the OS is configuring Theodore's 'Profile', what's really going on?" Tags="|analysis|her|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16987" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17019" CreationDate="2014-01-30T08:16:54.003" Score="7" ViewCount="5021" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, so this has been eating me alive all night. There is an actor who I like, but can't remember his name, or even what I've seen him in. I know, I know; I must no like him very much, then. Well, he's fun. Anyway, let me describe him and the roles he has played (it should make this question very search-friendly):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He talks almost exclusively out of the right side of his face. That is to say, he seems to angle his mouth 20-35 degrees to his right every time he says something.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is caucasian and from either Canada or the U.S.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is short-ish. I would say he's maybe 5'5&quot;-5'7&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is also plump-ish, and has a noticeable slouch to his neck&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has seemingly greasy, black hair, which is almost always combed down straight into his face, but is relatively short.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has a very prominent nose.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I have only ever seen him in television shows.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has played, from what I can remember: A mayor, a presidential or congressional(can't remember which) candidate, and various office-worker roles.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has played serious characters and quirky, silly characters.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His roles are usually integral to the story arc, but are never main-characters. As in, he often helps the main character, or provides a short-term antagonist.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He likes to sit with his elbows on a table and his hands draped over one another in front of his neck/face. Often gesticulates, but not wildly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His voice has a relatively nasal quality to it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is in his late 40s to mid 50s.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haycL41dAhg&amp;amp;list=PL61E606149255B362&amp;amp;feature=share&amp;amp;index=2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; is actually the reason it's been eating me alive. The lecturer in this series looks like a skinnier version of the actor, down to the talking out of the side of his face and the prominence of his nose. It's stupid, but that doesn't make it any less nagging. The lecturer looks so much like the actor that they could be the same person; the lecturer being a younger version. They look so similar that I actually tried to see if the lecturer was related to any actors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7851" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2017-10-05T23:08:07.470" LastActivityDate="2017-10-05T23:08:07.470" Title="Who is this actor? Talks out of the right side of his face" Tags="|identify-this-actor|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:36:43.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16987" CreationDate="2014-01-30T09:19:38.797" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From your clip, I'd say it could be... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001618/?ref_=tt_cl_t1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joaquin Phoenix&lt;/a&gt;, which would be ironic as I just posted a question about a film he's been in recently. Although, he has played mainly lead roles and I don't recall him doing any of the roles you spoke of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He does seem to talk out the side of his face a little though?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. If its not Joaquin Phoenix, is he a present day actor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7343" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T09:19:38.797" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16986" CreationDate="2014-01-30T11:09:35.357" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought it was the OS was initiating psychometric profile of Theodore, and the fact that it asks him about his mother was perhaps a humorous Freudian reference that compounds this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-01-26T16:20:59.753" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T16:20:59.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16991" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17475" CreationDate="2014-01-30T11:56:02.967" Score="15" ViewCount="39149" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I got to watch the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1045658/&quot;&gt;Silver Linings Playbook&lt;/a&gt;. What is the theme of the movie and how is the title related to the context?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6825" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-01-30T12:02:13.903" LastActivityDate="2018-01-26T11:45:25.487" Title="What does the title Silver Linings Playbook mean?" Tags="|title|silver-linings-playbook|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16991" CreationDate="2014-01-30T12:00:43.650" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silver_Linings_Playbook_%28novel%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; page of the Novel-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pat believes he has only been away a few months, but soon realizes it&#xA;  has been years, and struggles to piece together his lost memories and&#xA;  what has become of his wife, Nikki. He has a theory that life is a&#xA;  film created by God and that its &quot;silver lining&quot; will be the end of&#xA;  'Apart Time' with Nikki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this line shows the real intent of naming the novel this way and the movie just copied the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-01-30T12:03:55.723" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T12:03:55.723" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10370" CreationDate="2014-01-30T13:10:35.300" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the first X-men film was made (and with it, some would argue, the birth of the modern age SuperGenre) there was very little to establish a conflict of interest: in fact quite the opposite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lee was probably very happy that Marvel Characters were being transferred to the big screen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As time has passed, and Movie Studios began to realize how lucrative these films can be (particularly post &lt;em&gt;Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt;), the legitimization of the Marvel 'brand' has since housed itself within Marvel Studios (who are responsible for the MCU), as this is considered the transmedia syndication of the original Marvel Comics movie arm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such and without tacit acknowledgement, Lee mainly seems to make cameo appearances within these movies, as they are the ones that are directly contributory to his property empire. The exception to this rule is Spider-Man,  which is understandable given his investment in the character and its contribution to his personal legacy, and there are other exceptions as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, Lee only makes cameo appearances when his endorsement is considered financially lucrative or it simply suits him to: he is under no obligation to make a cameo in every Marvel Movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: Blade, The Punisher, the forthcoming &lt;em&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EXCELSIOR!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-11-07T12:36:11.760" LastActivityDate="2016-11-07T12:36:11.760" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16995" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17000" CreationDate="2014-01-30T13:19:18.867" Score="9" ViewCount="3108" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Transformers films the Autobots and Decepticons always change between their humanoid form and (with the exception of Bumblebee's upgrade) the same cars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that they choose vehicles because they want to blend in on earth, they must be able to transform into a myriad of other mechanical objects (most likely with some size restrictions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why don't they transform from plane to car to ship and back again as required?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2016-07-27T15:50:56.023" Title="Why do the Transformers always transform into the same cars?" Tags="|plot-explanation|transformers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="16997" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17493" CreationDate="2014-01-30T14:28:47.720" Score="11" ViewCount="9239" Body="&lt;p&gt;Francois Truffaut famously said it is impossible to make an anti-war film. This is cited numerous times by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rogerebert.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;amp;q=truffaut%20anti%20war&quot;&gt;Ebert&lt;/a&gt;, and there is even the trope &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TruffautWasRight&quot;&gt;Truffaut was right&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. But what is the source for this statement?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7859" LastEditorUserId="13252" LastEditDate="2014-08-13T16:35:37.220" LastActivityDate="2018-08-07T23:48:44.700" Title="What is the source of Truffaut's famous anti-war movie quote?" Tags="|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16995" CreationDate="2014-01-30T15:24:21.070" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Transformers aren't very well explored in the Michael Bay movies, so we'll have to judge according to the other (better explored) continuities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the process of switching alternate modes in the movie seemed effortless, it might not have been. In other continuities the switch is either energy consuming or a major physical operation. So just changing to another vehicle might be a very expensive step that one does not take lightly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the alt-mode seems to be a very personal aspect for each Transformer, which serve a similar function as clothes do to humans. They are a reflection of the owner, and once it is chosen it tends to stay the same. Transformers have been known to keep the same alt mode for thousands of years, which isn't really that long when you remember that their life span can stretch into the millions of years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T15:24:21.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16202" CreationDate="2014-01-30T18:04:20.797" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U3AZ0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Josh Kirby - Planet of the Dino Kinights (1995) - Movie Poster&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cbr7W.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://moria.co.nz/sciencefiction/joshkirbytimewarrior1-planetofthedinoknights.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Josh Kirby... Time Warrior!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Josh Kirby... Time Warrior! is a film series in six installments. The&#xA;  series concerns a device, found by humans in the 25th century, called&#xA;  the Nullifier. This device is said to be capable of destroying the&#xA;  universe. Realising the danger, a man called Irwin 1138 splits the&#xA;  Nullifier into six pieces, which are then dispersed through time.&#xA;  However, a scientist called Dr. Zoetrope finds out where the pieces&#xA;  are located and, with the help of his time traveling armor, sets about&#xA;  reassembling the device. Along with 20th-century teenager Josh Kirby,&#xA;  and a half-human warrior known as Azabeth Siege, Irwin 1138 sets about&#xA;  thwarting Dr. Zoetrope's plans. --- &lt;em&gt;Edited from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Kirby..._Time_Warrior!&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UlU_NYtaIg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;trailer&lt;/a&gt;; also user deepimage1 has uploaded the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beunGdZQ0lc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;entire series&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4bfYs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Josh Kirby - Time Warrior - Zoetrope&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0916871/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Derek Webster&lt;/a&gt; plays Zoetrope, the guy in the suit :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DaJCV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Josh Kirby - Time Warrior - Irwin 1138&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrie_Ingham&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Barrie Ingham&lt;/a&gt; takes on the role of (evil) Irwin 1138, the white-haired scientist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T18:04:20.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16995" CreationDate="2014-01-30T18:47:01.020" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first thing to remember is that the Transformers are a toy, and for a toy multiple transformations are not possible. The films also used the same old transformation modes for the characters from the franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the films, their transformations are not well explained, but in the animated series and related shows, it's explained that Autobots used to transform into public vehicles so that they can mix with real vehicles, but Decepticons used to be transform into fighting machines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But their transformation is not that easy. To become something else, they have to upgrade to them. In one animated storyline, Optimus Prime became a jet by merging with an Autobot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-27T15:50:56.023" LastActivityDate="2016-07-27T15:50:56.023" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16944" CreationDate="2014-01-30T22:54:23.667" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show's creator &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0092578/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jon Bokenkamp&lt;/a&gt; called it a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/nbcs-blacklist-producers-were-not-594421&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;strange hybrid of serial and procedural&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; elements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Each week there's a different criminal&lt;/strong&gt;,...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;but the reason you come back to the show are the people and the secrets that they have&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Every episode usually has a &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;case-of-the-week&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; story, i.e. one criminal from the titular &amp;quot;blacklist&amp;quot; gets introduced and is dealt with. That part of the show is &amp;quot;procedural&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;serial&amp;quot; element of the show has to do with the mysteries that the characters hold, e.g.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why is Reddington so fond of Elizabeth Keen?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who is Reddington's adversary?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What happened to Reddington's family?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is Elizabeth's husband who he says he is?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How did Elizabeth's father get to know Reddington?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What's the deal with Mr. Fitch and the organization he works for?&#xA;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-01-30T22:54:23.667" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12143" CreationDate="2014-01-31T00:46:46.267" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As previously written, he does phone her beyond or out of cases so it would be odd if she was fictious (made up by Columbo himself).  I believe they tried to give her her own TV series, but surprise surprise it did not work and it got canned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7867" LastActivityDate="2014-01-31T00:46:46.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9107" CreationDate="2014-01-31T01:40:27.897" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course he knew who she was and would be insulted that you presumed otherwise.  Throughout the movie he is 10 steps ahead of everyone. Also, he likes to mess with people and make them squirm. In this case, he wants to make sure everything goes according to (his) plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7869" LastActivityDate="2014-01-31T01:40:27.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1560" CreationDate="2014-01-31T01:59:17.223" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, able bodied survivors are looking for friends and family who also fought and also injured survivors. While searching, Pippin comes across Merry's elven cloak. Pippin then begins his search specifically for Merry and does not give up until he is found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7870" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-31T10:32:00.197" LastActivityDate="2014-01-31T10:32:00.197" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17012" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19641" CreationDate="2014-01-31T04:41:54.173" Score="2" ViewCount="975" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Lorenzo's Oil, Mckaela Odone has a quote taped on her mirror, but it is in small font and difficult to see. What is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5283" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-01-31T10:30:05.183" LastActivityDate="2018-02-17T15:34:38.250" Title="What is on the mirror in Lorenzo's oil?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lorenzos-oil|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16991" CreationDate="2014-01-31T06:38:36.853" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;John Milton coined the phrase '&lt;em&gt;silver lining&lt;/em&gt;' in &lt;em&gt;Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle&lt;/em&gt; (1634) in reference to clouds. Since then the phrase has represented a prospect of hope or comfort in a gloomy (cloudy) situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the less literary-inclined, the Grateful Dead had the song, &quot;&lt;em&gt;Touch of Grey&lt;/em&gt;&quot; that's central theme was a silver lining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A playbook suggests a means to attain that &quot;silver lining.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7339" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-02-03T13:08:31.773" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T13:08:31.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16972" CreationDate="2014-01-31T07:09:11.757" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Specifically in the films, Parker grows a hooked chitin from his fingers. Assuming he cannot do the same with his feet, he needs only to apply compressive stresses (think arches) to transfer the weight to his hands. So his feet would supply minimal support where his upper body would compensate for every movement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7339" LastActivityDate="2014-01-31T07:09:11.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16949" CreationDate="2014-01-31T07:47:16.620" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Studios&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Marvel Studios, LLC originally known as Marvel Films from 1993 to 1996, is an American television and motion picture studio based at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. The Studio is a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment (the company is known for its comic books and, as of the 2000s, its film productions from Marvel Studios,) a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. Being a part of the Disney conglomerate, Marvel Studios works in conjunction with The Walt Disney Studios, another Disney unit, for distribution and marketing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per an interview with MTV Splash Page, Kevin Feige states that they understand that their audience is mixed between comic and action movie fans so they intentionally leave their movies &quot;lobbing something in at the last moment to get the audience buzzing.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for transmedial, it seems from the article that Marvel Studios relies on the audience driving the conversation. So in terms of Jonathan Beller's theory, it seems that Marvel creates questions for the audience to ask, answer, or discuss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7339" LastEditorUserId="7339" LastEditDate="2014-03-04T17:43:18.623" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T17:43:18.623" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16944" CreationDate="2014-01-31T08:05:51.777" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question is wholly inaccurate. Every show builds character development on previous episodes. Can individual episodes be viewed without understanding character dynamics from previous episodes? That depends on the episode you are watching! &lt;em&gt;Cheers, The Big Bang Theory, Friends&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Seinfeld&lt;/em&gt; all have independent episodes but watching most &quot;series&quot; expect an understanding of the characters that won't always be re-explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear, &lt;em&gt;The Blacklist&lt;/em&gt; regularly introduces episodes with &quot;previously,&quot; so while you may not need the pilot to understand, you need previous episodes to understand some dynamics. Regardless if you know those previous episodes, each episode does stand up individually...so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7339" LastActivityDate="2014-01-31T08:05:51.777" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16937" CreationDate="2014-01-31T08:34:18.620" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simple answer...&quot;the Force is strong in this one.&quot; Anakin/Vader knows his strength from his arrogant youth and knows his weaknesses from his 15+ years of servitude, (additionally his regrets.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Padme, she did gasp after he stopped choking her. But regardless, I believe he knew she died but was unaware she gave (premature?) birth of her children prior to that. Clearly her death was known by Yoda and his interest and (Jimmy Smits) was to not hide it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to whether the Force should be strong enough to tell if her body still held his unborn children...I am not strong enough to tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7339" LastActivityDate="2014-01-31T08:34:18.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16987" CreationDate="2014-01-31T08:34:31.107" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow. I finally found him. I was going through my Netflix history, and checking every show that I thought he might have been a part of, scrolling down lists of actors with tiny pictures next to them on IMDB. Finally I got to &lt;em&gt;Burn Notice&lt;/em&gt;. He played a character named Marv in four episodes in 2010. his name:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0454236/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Richard Kind&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/seviQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Richard Kind&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nick Parlante (lecturer in video)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/swtwA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Nick Parlante&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He doesn't look as much like the person in the video as I thought, and I underestimated his age a little. Still, their mannerisms and even their hairline are almost identical. He's also a LOT taller than I thought he was. He looked pretty short in every show I saw him in, but I guess that was a camera trick to make the main characters look taller. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7851" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2017-01-31T16:55:13.127" LastActivityDate="2017-01-31T16:55:13.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16920" CreationDate="2014-01-31T08:51:37.300" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The complex answer is yes and no. Sitcoms are &quot;situation comedies&quot; and therefore require a comedic value to situations. Let's be clear, the average person doesn't have 23 comedic situations per year. There may be that many or more misunderstandings, but most misunderstandings in romantic relations (let's skip politics) can be corrected before it escalates to the nature of sitcoms.&#xA;Sitcoms often place a timetable based on someone not &quot;coming clean&quot;/clarifying what happened.&#xA;Americans generally admit mistakes that they recognize in their actions and wish to correct them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7339" LastActivityDate="2014-01-31T08:51:37.300" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17022" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17023" CreationDate="2014-01-31T12:03:36.367" Score="23" ViewCount="6831" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hollywood accounting is the practice of big studios of making successful movies into what looks like a financial failures on purpose and through questionable accounting tricks. The goal is to show no profit despite the movie actually being profitable, in order to not having to pay anyone who negotiated for a cut of profits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This practice has been going on for a long time, and certainly pretty much everyone in the industry must be aware of it, but at least the lawyers and agents that negotiate the contracts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why does this practice still continue? Why is there apparently no wide-spread, effective boycott by movie makers and actors, why do people still accept a percentage of profits as payment, as opposed to a percentage of gross earnings?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7874" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T15:04:24.620" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T20:51:11.133" Title="Why does &quot;Hollywood Accounting&quot; still work?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17022" CreationDate="2014-01-31T12:44:29.350" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you need to remember is that in financial negotiation, the accounting department will never overtly declare that they are pursuing 'Hollywood Accounting', it is often something instigated through people being misled. &#xA;The wording/circumstances are often rephrased to evade detection: I believe 'Net Point Profit' was the circulating terminology for a long time, but has since fallen out of style as people have becomes immediately aware of its &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David Prowse was a famous example of this, the man who 'played' Darth Vader...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After seeing how lucrative Sir Alec Guiness' net-point deal was, he signed on for a similar payment. What Prowse failed to realize however, was that Guiness' deal included the &lt;strong&gt;merchandising&lt;/strong&gt; wing of Lucasfilm, not just the Movie itself. This resulted in Prowse still not being paid &lt;em&gt;to this day&lt;/em&gt;, whilst Alec Guiness' estate continues to receive residuals. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of Actors/talent, they often have little choice in the matter: if they want a part in the movie, they'll get what their given, and hope that the finance department is fair in the execution of debt owed.&#xA;Although not 'Hollywood Accounting', Jonah Hill is a recent example of this 'desperation' to be in a movie, taking only &lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2014/film/news/jonah-hill-was-paid-60000-for-wolf-of-wall-street-1201066745/&quot;&gt;$60,000&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;em&gt;The Wolf of Wall Street&lt;/em&gt;, because it was the only way he could get Scorcese's people to agree to his involvement. That's a mainstream, Oscar nominated actor taking a financial hit to secure his role, so sometimes Actors will just take what they can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many 'in-house' department actually benefit from 'Rolling Profits', so if they are &lt;em&gt;in on it&lt;/em&gt;, it makes sense to go along with the scam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good way to keep a movie out of profit is to keep going back and paying different departments for work 'owed', and delivering bonus' upon bonus'. If you've worked on the film, and are 'in on it' (and willing to co-operate), if the film is successful there's a good chance you'll receive some kind of surprise 'bonus' (who's real purpose is to stop the film having to commence net-point payouts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you've pointed out, there perhaps should be some kind of 'United We Stand' front against this kind of behavior, but unfortunately there are too many people complicit in its process, and the old system of 'Unions' was broken apart by the rise of the New Hollywood in 1969, so the only formidable force left in Hollywood is the SAG &amp;amp; WGA: which &lt;a href=&quot;http://fskrealityguide.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/hollywood-accounting.html&quot;&gt;are themselves complicit&lt;/a&gt; in this process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, Hollywood Accounting is borne out of two factors: Greed and Ignorance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until they are eradicated, its likely the practice will continue...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-01-31T12:44:29.350" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17024" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17025" CreationDate="2014-01-31T14:12:19.010" Score="5" ViewCount="46779" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Napoleon Dynamite, a woman rides up to Uncle Rico's trailer. I have no idea who this person is. I can only think that she might be Summer's mom, but she doesn't look like her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is going on here?  The appearance of this seemingly random woman seems like it should have been telegraphed earlier.  Was it foretold, and I missed it?  As it stands, her appearance feels completely out of left field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2014-12-10T16:47:48.060" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T19:51:54.097" Title="Who is the woman on the bicycle who rides up to Uncle Rico?" Tags="|plot-explanation|napoleon-dynamite|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17024" CreationDate="2014-01-31T14:28:43.873" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The girl on the bike is &lt;a href=&quot;http://napoleondynamite.wikia.com/wiki/Rico_Dynamite&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tammy&lt;/a&gt;, his ex-girlfriend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are fleeting mentions of a 'Tammy' from Uncle Rico earlier on in the film, but it is not a sub-plot that is explored. We must infer there was some kind of separation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's supposed to round off the 'happy ending for all' feel of the movie, and it's supposed to be fairy-tale-like in its way of bringing everything/one together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a piece of trivia, the actress portraying her is Aaron Ruell's (Kip) wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-02-01T13:50:26.377" LastActivityDate="2014-02-01T13:50:26.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15440" CreationDate="2014-01-31T15:24:48.910" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's two real links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First: &quot;When Johnny Comes Marching Home&quot; is also known by another name: &quot;Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye.&quot; In both versions of the song, more the second, Johnny is a man who has returned from war...missing many pieces. The song strips away piece by piece of his body, leaving him a lump. The one who he comes back to is left angry, resentful, and hurtful. &quot;Ye haven't an arm and ye haven't a leg, haroo, haroo.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tie-in there to Die Hard With A Vengeance relates partly to the way the enemy (Simon) picks away at him to try to win (the guards, the false leads, etc.) and partly to the fact that Simon is angry, vengeful over his loss of his brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interesting thing is that this song was left off of the soundtrack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For interest, the lyrics of &quot;Johnny I hardly knew ye&quot; are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When on the road to sweet Athy,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Hurroo Hurroo&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  When on the road to sweet Athy,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Hurroo Hurroo&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  When on the road to sweet Athy&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  A stick in the hand, A drop in the eye&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  A doleful damsel I heard cry&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Johnny I hardly knew ya  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Where are the eyes that looked so mild,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Hurroo Hurroo&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Where are the eyes that looked so mild,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Hurroo Hurroo&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Where are the eyes that looked so mild&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  When my poor heart you first beguiled&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Why did ya run from me and the child&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Johnny I hardly knew ya  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Chorus:]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  We had guns and drums and drums and guns,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Hurroo Hurroo&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  We had guns and drums and drums and guns,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Hurroo Hurroo&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  We had guns and drums and drums and guns&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The enemy never slew ya&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Johnny I hardly knew ya  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Where are the legs with which you run,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Hurroo Hurroo&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Where are the legs with which you run,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Hurroo Hurroo&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Where are the legs with which you run,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  When first you went to carry a gun&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Indeed your dancing days are done&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Johnny I hardly knew ya  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Chorus]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You hadn't an arm, you hadn't a leg,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Hurroo Hurroo&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  You hadn't an arm, you hadn't a leg,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Hurroo Hurroo&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  You hadn't an arm, you hadn't a leg&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  You're a spineless, boneless, chickenless egg&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  You'll Have to be put with the bowl to beg&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Johnny I hardly knew ya  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Chorus]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm happy for to see ya home,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Hurroo Hurroo&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I'm happy for to see ya home,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Hurroo Hurroo&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I'm happy for to see ya home&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  From the isle of Ceylon&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Johnny I hardly knew ya  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Chorus]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6391" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-13T15:46:42.210" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T15:46:42.210" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17033" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17042" CreationDate="2014-02-01T04:09:24.497" Score="19" ViewCount="15723" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just finished watching the Spanish movie 'The Orphanage' and I suddenly observed that many of the horror movies, especially some very popular ones, involve children as a central part of the story, e.g. The Shining, Exorcist, The Omen, The Ring, Insidious etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could be the possible reasons for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T09:10:02.203" LastActivityDate="2016-06-21T10:12:37.610" Title="Why do many horror movies involve children?" Tags="|analysis|horror|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17036" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17037" CreationDate="2014-02-01T06:47:09.340" Score="4" ViewCount="15330" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know the story. Someone tells you the great news that they're expecting, and the even better news that they want you to be the Godfather. Your natural response is to look the part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jE3wY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how? cotton balls seem too soft, moth balls are probably not the best thing to use. Marbles? How would they stay put while you talk?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4416" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T16:49:29.283" Title="What can someone use to give them 'Godfather cheeks'?" Tags="|character|props|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17036" CreationDate="2014-02-01T08:02:57.893" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marlon Brando used cottonballs so I'd suggest that they're not too soft. I think it was shown in Hearts of Darkness and mentioned on The Godfather commentary which are hard to link to for obvious reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://godfather.wikia.com/wiki/Marlon_Brando&quot;&gt;The Godfather wikia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Brando's performance as Vito Corleone in 1972's The Godfather was a mid-career turning point. Director Francis Ford Coppola convinced Brando to submit to a &quot;make-up&quot; test, in which Brando did his own makeup (he used cotton balls to simulate the puffed-cheek look).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've personally tried it, and it takes some getting used to, but with a little practice you can get the cotton to stay in place. Brando's slow, methodical drawl may be because he was working with this handicap. Perhaps cotton balls deserve an honorary Oscar®.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also confirmed on the Wikipedia page for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Brando#The_Godfather_and_Last_Tango_in_Paris&quot;&gt;Brando&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jaffe eventually set three conditions for the casting of Brando: That he would have to take a fee far below what he typically received; he'd have to agree to accept financial responsibility for any production delays his behavior cost; and he had to submit to a screen test. In order to skirt the humiliation of having Brando submit to a screen test, Coppola convinced Brando to a videotaped &quot;make-up&quot; test, in which Brando did his own makeup (he used cotton balls to simulate the puffed-cheek look). Coppola had feared Brando might be too young to play the Don but was electrified by the actor's characterization as the head of a crime family. Even so, he had to fight the studio in order to cast the temperamental actor. Brando had doubts himself, stating in his autobiography, &quot;I had never played an Italian before, and I didn't think I could do it successfully.&quot; Eventually, Charles Bluhdorn, the president of Paramount parent Gulf+Western, was won over to letting Brando have the role; when he saw the screen test, he asked in amazement, &quot;What are we watching? Who is this old guinea?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-02-01T15:19:13.697" LastActivityDate="2014-02-01T15:19:13.697" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17033" CreationDate="2014-02-01T10:08:25.343" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is about taking something normal and innocent and turning it scary. That is why most truly scary films take place on perfectly normal places 'The Strangers' is in a normal house owned by a couple, 'Rec' takes place in a regular apartment block. The horror comes from taking what we see as safe and turning it on us. Personally I don't find Sci-fi films at all scary because encountering a UFO is not something I do daily. But to take a child and use their innocence to commit a crime (Halloween) or channel evil (The Exorcist) is shocking which is where the horror comes from. I don't have any facts to back this up but if you look read up on interviews with a lot of horror writers (film and book) a lot of them talk about taking taking the viewer, or reader, out of their comfort zone by using things we encounter daily against them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7829" LastActivityDate="2014-02-01T10:08:25.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17033" CreationDate="2014-02-01T12:31:52.447" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your question is beginning from a &lt;em&gt;false premise.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I take @user7829's point, but would suggest that the closer it hits &lt;em&gt;where you live&lt;/em&gt; is more in category of &lt;strong&gt;Terror&lt;/strong&gt;. Horror can be anything from Dracula to Zombies. The movie tropes we've grown up with. Even Frankenstein encountered a child. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lm2hZ50sN4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Strangers&lt;/a&gt; is Adult fear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most horror seems to be seeking a younger demographic, as it's always done. Then we get home-invasion movies like The Strangers or completely &amp;quot;random&amp;quot; victims in things like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d5_lrn9v-g&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hostel&lt;/a&gt; franchise. It's a storytelling choice that preys on fear of the unexpected, while still being in the realm of possibility (as opposed to supernatural attacks like ghosts, demons, vampires and zombies, etc.) I'd argue your premise that &amp;quot;most of the horror movies especially the good ones involve children.&amp;quot; That is subjective to what &lt;strong&gt;YOU&lt;/strong&gt; consider the best horror movies. I think that for every &amp;quot;great horror movie&amp;quot; involving a child, there is one that doesn't. Maybe you have a child or have more empathy toward children so movies that put them in jeopardy are more &amp;quot;intense&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;scary&amp;quot; to you due to some paternal instinct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the trailer for The Strangers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Why are you doing this to us?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Because you were home.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;THAT scares me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most horror films are about adults. It's more shocking when the horror happens to children, and can be be more memorable. Doesn't mean or prove anything about the quality or how efficient a film was delivering scares.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I have no kids.&lt;/em&gt; When I see a person my age in a horror movie I have a better chance relating to them as opposed to relating to a younger or older person. &lt;strong&gt;It's subjective.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-02-01T12:31:52.447" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17033" CreationDate="2014-02-01T16:10:42.703" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a topic of Which there is a huge body of work, circulating different theories of why Children are such a prevalent theme of horror, so its unlikely you will find a single comprehensive answer/theory, but there is one unifying reason that all parties are in agreement upon:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Kids are scary, yo.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Children are able to operate as Microcosm for social anxieties. They are largely denied 'a voice' (particularly if they are infants), or when they do have a 'voice' it is distorted by the 'inexperience of youth', and so something that should sound innocent can come across as sinister. Think of &amp;quot;They're here&amp;quot; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084516/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Poltergeist&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;quot;1 - 2 - Freddy's coming for you, 3 - 4 - Better lock your door..&amp;quot; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Elm Street&lt;/a&gt; and &amp;quot;I see Dead People&amp;quot; from The 6th Sense.... but there are plenty more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a personal aside (but a good example!) a friend of mine once told me that when he was tucking his son into bed, his 3 yr old son said &amp;quot;Goodbye&amp;quot;. He said, &amp;quot;No, its Bedtime now, so we say &amp;quot;Goodnight&amp;quot;. His son replied, &amp;quot;I know Dad, but this time its Goodbye&amp;quot;... He slept with the light on that night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Children are something that are familiar, but still refracted through their own experiences; under-developed and 'alien'. There is no equivalent word in the English language for this apparent dichotomy, but the German word is 'Unheimlich', meaning un-homely (the opposite of what is familiar - or not &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; within the home, as a place of safety). This is to say the fear doesn't come from something being obviously sinister grotesque, but just &lt;em&gt;slightly&lt;/em&gt; not right, but without being able to fully explain why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;German Culture actually has a legacy of being slightly obsessed with the Unheimlich, and Freud wrote a great deal about it (claiming it is where our fear originates). The idea of a Doppelganger originates from the Unheimlich, and as such there are sinister connotations associated with twins. Twin Children, as in the Grady Twins of &amp;quot;The Shining&amp;quot;, are perhaps the ultimate representation of Unheimlich.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BxFwM.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Come and Play with us Danny..Forever..and ever..&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Children are not governed by the norms of society, as they are not yet participants of it. As our general notions of safety are governed by our shared assumptions to 'play by these rules', and Children are outside of this, they are considered 'Unpredictable', which can create anxiety, often turning them into 'folk devils'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an opposing theory to this (Which is particularly pertinent to Horror) Children who have a supernatural or sociopathic understanding of the rules of normality &lt;em&gt;but elect to disregard them&lt;/em&gt; are a classic origin of horror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Damien from the Omen is an example of &lt;em&gt;this type of fear&lt;/em&gt;, as he is considered the ultimate 'the Possessed' Child who demonstrates an awareness of and is complicit of his own evils. The book &lt;em&gt;You're only Young Twice&lt;/em&gt; by theorist Tim Morris features a chapter 'Panic attacks: children as adults, adults as children in the movies' which explores the origin of Horror within these parameters, and will be able to provide you with a long history of terror being extracted from children in this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Film Theorist Mary Jackson identifies this films with their own nomenclature as a sub-genre 'Children as Horror', and identifies our fear of these 'Evil Children' as the representation of our societal fear of failing the younger, emergent generations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;‘Not surprisingly, in the run of child-as-monster films, frequently the real point is not the evil of children, often the victims of demonic possession themselves, but rather the ineffectiveness of the family, church, and state – America’s most highly valued institutions – to guard themselves against  deception and impending destruction.’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regan from the Exorcist is a similar case, although hers is a story of the corruption of innocence as penance for her mother's implied heresy/blasphemy/impiousness.  Hers is a meta-religious allegory to the Angel of Death taking the children of the impious, but much more sinister: The devil 'takes them', but the terror is not through removal but through defilement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most obvious (perhaps) reason for Children being so numerous in Horror needs little explanation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Children aren't supposed to be scary.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By subverting our expectations of Children as non-threatening entities, Horror is able to force doubt into our natural assumptions, which is a staple of effective horror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it's become so common place for Children to be 'Evil' in Horror movies, and this genre tradition has become so entrenched, that its hard not to automatically consider children as the de-facto evil in a horror movie. Such is the way of postmodernism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-06-21T10:12:37.610" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15577" CreationDate="2014-02-01T18:38:02.233" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is explained a little more in the Novel, and is easier to understand with the hindsight of knowing Plutarch Heavensbee was subversively finding ways to assist the tributes who were complicit in the revolution...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't explicitly state 'Plutarch did this because of this and this...' because that would be &lt;em&gt;terrible&lt;/em&gt; clunky writing, and Collins is a &lt;em&gt;much better writer&lt;/em&gt; than most people will give her credit for... it just takes a little logic and deduction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 'Lightning Tree' is in the section of the Arena which endures &lt;em&gt;a lightning storm&lt;/em&gt; within its hour. The lightning tree introduces (naturally, without raising the suspicions of anyone else) the element of controlled, predictable burst of electricity in a pre-designated location, which obviously is of benefit to Beetee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, it is a clear and concise way for the tributes to keep track of what time it is, even if they aren't anywhere near the section that is enduring it's 'hour'. It's the equivalent of Big Ben striking 12.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's never pro-filmically shown that Beetee had discussed a plan with Heavensbee beforehand, but it's interesting that Beetee is insistent on carrying around that spool of electrical wire throughout most of the film. It's quite an encumbrance to keep hold of, 'just in-case', so it could be inferred that Beetee had the plan all along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T11:15:40.823" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T11:15:40.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17046" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-01T22:12:39.307" Score="3" ViewCount="1082" Body="&lt;p&gt;I might go the risk of a quite broad or subjective question here, but I was surprised by how the story of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1980209/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pain &amp;amp; Gain&lt;/a&gt; actually developed. From the trailer I expected a light-hearted action comedy about some simple-minded yet likable guys trying to kidnap a rich as**ole to get their share of the American Dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But while it started this way, it certainy developed into a rather unexpected direction. The three supposed heros completely lost their base for identification (and with it their role as heros) no later than when they decided to kill &lt;em&gt;Kershaw&lt;/em&gt; (and while they weren't successful, the cold-bloodedness with which especially &lt;em&gt;Lugo&lt;/em&gt; acted was quite a turn, even if maybe slightly foreshadowed already). And the focusing on the trio was also faltered as soon as they employed the same technique of inner monologues for &lt;em&gt;Kershaw&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;DuBois&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this point on it was unclear to me what the primary tone of the movie actually was. As the story and the trio's actions grew darker and darker it still remained rather comedic, with the humour ranging from simple to absurd to misplaced. Even for a black comedy the three protagonists (well, especially &lt;em&gt;Lugo&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Doorbal&lt;/em&gt;) turned out very evil in the end. And while I don't generally say &lt;em&gt;Ed Harris&lt;/em&gt; cannot play in a comedy, his character &lt;em&gt;DuBois&lt;/em&gt; and the scenes he was in were very sincere and made a strange contrast to the rest of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In retrospective it seemed more like an odd &lt;em&gt;Coen brothers&lt;/em&gt;-movie than a &lt;em&gt;Michael Bay&lt;/em&gt;-movie. So what I would like to know after all those ramblings is, &lt;strong&gt;what was the primary message or target audience of this movie? Were there any distortions to the story's tone during the transfer of the script into the actual movie&lt;/strong&gt; (or maybe just during the transfer of the movie into my admittedly subjective impression)? Or &lt;strong&gt;was this just a case of an inappropriate trailer&lt;/strong&gt; (but maybe there's a reason for this, too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T15:42:27.057" Title="What is the message of Pain &amp; Gain?" Tags="|analysis|pain-and-gain|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17047" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17048" CreationDate="2014-02-01T23:02:11.273" Score="38" ViewCount="5252" Body="&lt;p&gt;While rewatching Mr and Mrs Smith, there is only one instance where the f-word is used. There are several other movies (I can't recall any other at the moment) where f-word is used only once. Is there a reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7889" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T07:45:23.407" Title="Why do some movies include only one instance of the f word?" Tags="|dialogue|content-rating|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17047" CreationDate="2014-02-01T23:08:37.620" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order for a film to get a 12A or PG-13 rating, it cannot contain gratuitous use of profanity:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/24113/using-the-f-word-in-pg-1312a-movies&quot;&gt;One 'Fuck' is allowed,&lt;/a&gt; anymore and it automatically becomes a 15 or R rated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That article features a very humorous piece of meta-textuality, referring to the Movie &lt;em&gt;Be Cool&lt;/em&gt;, in which budding film producer Chili Palma states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Do you know that unless you're willing to use the R rating, you can only say the 'F' word once? You know what I say? Fuck that. I'm done.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the rest of the film, several characters come close to using the word &quot;fuck&quot; but are cut off or censored in some way before they can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Be Cool&lt;/em&gt; is a PG-13...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Othes that hold back the F-Bombs for certification purposes include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Crazy Stupid Love&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Larry Crowne&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Transformers: Dark of the Moon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Big&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beetlejuice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently there has been room for discretion, as the MPAA has stated that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if two-thirds of the ratings board members believe that multiple F-words are used in a legitimate 'context or manner' or are 'inconspicuous,' then the movie could still be rated PG-13.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the biggest gripe the MPAA/BBFC/Other variants have is the use of the word Fuck in a sexual context, or as a verb: as in &quot;I'm going to fuck you&quot;. Even hint at this, and its...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DIIlb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and so the following films use more than one 'Fuck' but still received a PG-13:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Social Network&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Tourist&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Adjustment Bureau&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Iron Man 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is clearly more and more room for discretion, but I guess it's not really worth the risk/re-edit for some people...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-02-01T23:22:50.013" LastActivityDate="2014-02-01T23:22:50.013" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13508" CreationDate="2014-02-01T23:33:44.497" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, the answer is quite mundane:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a Russian fantasy/horror movie called Тёмный мир (Temny Mir) which was released in Germany (and probably other European countries, too) as &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_World_%282010_film%29&quot;&gt;Dark World&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid possible conflicts with the name holder of said production, the &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt; movie's title was changed to &quot;Dark Kingdom&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7891" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T08:39:54.317" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T08:39:54.317" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17058" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-02T11:34:18.670" Score="23" ViewCount="308223" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just before the climax of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Departed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Billy comes to Madolyn's apartment and gives her a package to keep safe and asks her to open it if he's dead or if he tells her to.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Freld.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;   &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vYxgM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a later scene, we see her naming the package Costigan and putting it in her drawer in her office. &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MO0Eq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene than cuts to Madolyn telling Collin about her pregnancy.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What's in that package? It is never mentioned in the movie again, is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-26T17:57:37.113" LastActivityDate="2017-10-28T21:16:29.030" Title="What's in the package which Billy gives Madolyn in The Departed" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-departed|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17058" CreationDate="2014-02-02T11:42:52.407" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you referring to the package containing the recordings? If so, this is the evidence that instigates the 'rooftop meeting'...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Later, [Madolyn] discovers a package from Costigan containing a CD with recordings of Costello's conversations with Sullivan. Sullivan walks in as she is listening and tries unsuccessfully to assuage her suspicions. He contacts Costigan, who reveals that Costello recorded every conversation he had with Sullivan. Costello's attorney left Costigan in possession of the recordings and he intends to implicate Sullivan. They agree to meet at the building where Queenan died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T11:42:52.407" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1354" CreationDate="2014-02-02T13:57:12.877" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tom Riddle's Diary: Harry Potter with a Basilisk Fang. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marvolo Gaunt's Ring: Dumbledore with Godric Gryffindor's Sword. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Salazar Slytherin's Locket: Ron Weasley with Godric Griffindor's Sword. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hegla Hufflepuff's Cup: Hermione Granger with a Basilisk Fang. Harry Potter an the Deathly Hallows Part 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem: Ron Weasley Kicking it into Gregory Goyle's fiendfyre spell. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harry Potter: Lord Voldemort with a Killing Curse. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nagini: Neville Longbottom with Godric Gryffindor's Sword. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was all of Voldemort's Horcruxes but there is still the eighth part of his soul that lives inside him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lord Voldemort: Himself with His Backfiring Killing Curse, Harry Potter with the Elder Wand's Mastery. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lord Voldemort's killing curse backfired because the wand was being used against its true master (Harry Potter), after Harry disarmed Draco Malfoy in the book Half-Blood Prince. (Draco had previously won the wand's allegiance from Albus Dumbledore when he disarmed him in the astronomy tower prior to his death at the hands of Severus Snape).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7899" LastEditorUserId="57106" LastEditDate="2019-06-09T05:57:42.787" LastActivityDate="2019-06-09T05:57:42.787" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17062" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17064" CreationDate="2014-02-02T14:10:55.617" Score="4" ViewCount="6448" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352032/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kamal Hassan&lt;/a&gt; has acted with all top heroines in the Kollywood. But, he did not do a single film with one of the top heroine of 90's, Roja.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any specific reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5997" LastEditorUserId="37651" LastEditDate="2016-12-29T09:26:44.333" LastActivityDate="2020-02-08T21:26:24.213" Title="Is there any specific reason behind Kamal hassan not acting with Roja?" Tags="|acting-career|indian-cinema|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17063" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-02T15:05:04.830" Score="9" ViewCount="20441" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of &lt;code&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/code&gt;, Gordon says he cannot cover up the murders of 5 people, 2 of them cops. But how would the public know that Harvey committed those crimes? Why did they have to blame it on the Batman? Why couldn't they blame somebody else, perhaps Maroni since he is dead already?&#xA;I understand that the 2 cops are Wurtz and Ramirez, but who are the other 3 who are killed by Harvey? Even the death of Harvey could be blamed on some unknown person. I just feel it was unnecessary to blame everything on Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question is not a duplicate of &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/15333/why-were-harvey-dents-sins-covered-up&quot;&gt;Why were Harvey Dent&amp;#39;s sins covered up?&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;That question asks why Harvey's sins were covered up, while this question asks why put the sins on Harvey in the first place if you are going to cover it up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4381" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2020-05-13T05:30:55.957" Title="Why blame Batman for the crimes commited by Harvey Dent?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17062" CreationDate="2014-02-02T15:51:20.117" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tupaki.com/politicalnews/article/When-Roja-targeted-Kamal-and-Rajini-/34388&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tupaki.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Speaking in a interview, Roja once commented what will Kamal Haasan's&#xA;  films will have other than kissing scenes with heroines and that's the&#xA;  reason she never got the chance to work with the versatile actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Roja was once asked what was her feelings working for the first time with Rajinikanth in the movie ‘Ulaipali’ during a media interaction, the actress replied that she was never bothered about heroes and what matters to her is story and director. These remarks have been a sensation in Tamilnadu and the fans of Superstar launched massive protests demanding the makers to sack her from the project. However she didn't regret what she said and completed the film as female lead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its clearly showing that her controversial comments are the reason. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-07-05T09:31:08.747" LastActivityDate="2017-07-05T09:31:08.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17063" CreationDate="2014-02-02T15:59:40.680" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the question &quot;why did a self-sacrificing hero (which the Batman surely is) take the blame instead of framing somebody else?&quot; doesn't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To ask such a question properly, I think you'd have to make out a feasible alternative plan, taking into the account the current circumstances and the need to rig any evidence to fit Maroni and plenty of his men (no one would believe he did it alone) or whoever else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let us not forget that the place of Harvey's death was surrounded by the police force. They saw the Batman getting away, but - apart from him - only Jim Gordon and his family were there. So, how can the blame be put on anyone else (&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/15333/why-were-harvey-dents-sins-covered-up&quot;&gt;once we accept that the blame has to be put, which I find a bit weak&lt;/a&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T15:59:40.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17067" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-02T17:33:22.767" Score="26" ViewCount="47462" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who actually sent the assassin to kill Brandon Stark in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; S01E02? Jaime believes it was not Cercei, and swears he did not do it and it makes no sense for him to lie to Catelyn about that since he admitted to her that he pushed him out of the window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7902" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-07-19T07:51:43.440" LastActivityDate="2019-02-15T09:58:45.913" Title="Who sent the assassin to kill Bran Stark?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17069" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17082" CreationDate="2014-02-02T17:58:19.610" Score="9" ViewCount="2863" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode 301 &quot;Rainforest Shmainforest&quot; there is an organisation (a kids choir) which advocates for preserving rain-forests. The whole plot of the episode is about Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman being sent (for disrupting Mr. Garrison's lesson) to Costa Rica to perform with the choir on a conference dedicated to forests protection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to understand why the choir is called G.G.W.K. (Getting Gay With Kids).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last line in the first verse of their song: &quot;Being an activist is totally gay&quot;. Is it a reference to one of activist organisations or to activism in general? Is it even related?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Maybe my non-understanding is due to the fact that I'm not from the US. Anyway, I was unable to find any info on this topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7903" LastEditorUserId="7366" LastEditDate="2014-02-02T22:38:50.600" LastActivityDate="2017-04-07T09:38:02.627" Title="Why is the choir in South Park episode 301 called &quot;Getting Gay With Kids&quot;?" Tags="|south-park|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16918" CreationDate="2014-02-02T18:20:58.550" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that the ending scene on the roof might have hinted at suicide for a while and that they were both considering ending it but then found solace in each other. Anyone else? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7904" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T18:20:58.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16336" CreationDate="2014-02-02T18:49:58.023" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;something (very fast) multiple personality control freak.&#xA;OK after listening again I will accept &quot;Bubbly personality masking bossy control freak.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7905" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T18:49:58.023" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17072" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17081" CreationDate="2014-02-02T19:08:48.050" Score="3" ViewCount="1201" Body="&lt;p&gt;What heat vision goggles are used in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320253/?ref_=nv_sr_3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Expendables&lt;/a&gt; movie during the beginning scene with the Somali pirates?  Do these type of goggles actually exist?  If so, what is the make and model?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5533" LastEditorUserId="5533" LastEditDate="2014-02-04T18:50:43.187" LastActivityDate="2014-02-04T18:50:43.187" Title="What kind of heat vision goggles?" Tags="|the-expendables|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17069" CreationDate="2014-02-02T19:18:17.697" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I haven't seen the episode, it may help you to know that the word &lt;em&gt;&quot;gay&quot;&lt;/em&gt; once generally meant something like &lt;em&gt;happy, jolly or merry&lt;/em&gt; and only nowadays came to more specifically mean &lt;em&gt;homosexual&lt;/em&gt; (which is why you may usually find it used in older songs and the like and wonder what they're talking about).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the makers of &lt;em&gt;South Park&lt;/em&gt; are playing with this double-meaning, with the choir employing the more general meaning of &lt;em&gt;&quot;gay&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (i.e. &lt;em&gt;&quot;Getting Happy With Kids&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&quot;being an activist is total fun&quot;&lt;/em&gt;), but which nowadays of course always comes with its more specific meaning. A meaning that the people managing the choir (and maybe everybody else in the show) don't get, or just ignore, but which is pretty obvious to anybody watching &lt;em&gt;South Park&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as usual &lt;em&gt;South Park&lt;/em&gt; was &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; direct in their statements about the choir and activism in general, while at the same time not 100% direct. But all in all I would doubt that they wanted to make an honest statement about activism being gay but, as &lt;em&gt;MeatTrademark&lt;/em&gt; already said in his comment, were just being confrontational and exaggerating for the sake of its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-02T22:37:48.423" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T22:37:48.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17074" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17075" CreationDate="2014-02-02T19:53:29.740" Score="3" ViewCount="1356" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Supernatural S09E12 (Sharp teeth) Sam was describing Garth Fitzgerald to the nurse in the hospital saying &quot;He’s a skinny, Ichabod Crane-looking kind of guy.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Sam use that description and the Sleepy Hollow reference? I did watch the movie and TV show Sleepy Hollow, but I still don't see a good connection between a random skinny guy and Ichabod. Am I missing some description from the book?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2014-02-03T01:37:41.303" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T17:12:27.747" Title="Why did Sam describe Garth as Ichabod Crane looking?" Tags="|supernatural|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17074" CreationDate="2014-02-02T20:03:20.733" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a general description of the character known in the book by Washington Irving. In this excerpt from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Sleepy_Hollow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &quot;Legend&quot; relates the tale of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky and extremely superstitious&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, all-in-all, this is just his description. It really has nothing to do with the TV show about Sleepy Hollow or anything of the sort. This is a very well known story in the US, so may not have as much of a following in Croatia and thus your confusion. People can use the descriptor of &quot;Ichabod Crane&quot; here and most people would get the reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T20:03:20.733" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17078" CreationDate="2014-02-02T21:31:30.277" Score="11" ViewCount="10682" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of episode V, Han Solo is captured and frozen in carbonite to ensure the chamber works on humans, in preparation for freezing Luke Skywalker in the same manner. The last we see of him, Boba Fett is wheeling him onto his ship to take him somewhere. In episode VI, we find Han has been transported by Boba Fett to Jabba the Hutt's lair on Tatooine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, why did Han end up on Tatooine? Was it just the bounty? Or some other reason? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Clarifying question: Why would Darth Vader give him to Boba Fett to be taken to Tatooine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-02-02T22:27:00.320" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T18:14:25.557" Title="Why did Han Solo end up with Jabba the Hutt?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|the-empire-strikes-back|return-of-the-jedi|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17076" CreationDate="2014-02-02T21:48:22.833" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In fact &lt;em&gt;Boba Fett&lt;/em&gt; (as well as the other bounty hunters after &lt;em&gt;Han&lt;/em&gt;) worked for &lt;em&gt;Jabba&lt;/em&gt;, who had put the bounty on &lt;em&gt;Han&lt;/em&gt; because he owed him money, as we learn at the beginning of Episode IV and which he (&lt;em&gt;Han&lt;/em&gt;) states himself when leaving &lt;em&gt;Hoth&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, there's a price on my head. If I don't pay off Jabba the Hut,&#xA;  I'm a dead man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Boba Fett&lt;/em&gt; has never explicitly worked for the empire or had any other motivation than the bounty he was tasked with, so the only place &lt;em&gt;Han&lt;/em&gt; could end up after given over to &lt;em&gt;Boba&lt;/em&gt; was &lt;em&gt;Jabba&lt;/em&gt;'s lair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Darth Vader&lt;/em&gt; hadn't any interest in &lt;em&gt;Han Solo&lt;/em&gt; at all, which is why he tests the carbonite machine on him, he didn't care if he died, ended up with &lt;em&gt;Jabba&lt;/em&gt; or whatever, as long as he was out of the way (and &lt;em&gt;Tatooine&lt;/em&gt; would likely not hold a nice future for him). Everything &lt;em&gt;Vader&lt;/em&gt; concetrated his efforts on was the young &lt;em&gt;Skywalker&lt;/em&gt; and the others had played their roles in setting up the trap for him, what happens to them now is out of his narrowed down view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-02T21:59:46.970" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T21:59:46.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17076" CreationDate="2014-02-02T22:44:48.780" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Empire hires Bounty Hunters to track Luke (and the Rebel band), of which Han is an accessory to: if not a rebel himself. &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lh9hW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Rebel band (Han, Chewie, Droids and Leia) seek refuge at Bespin, as its supposed neutrality is supposed to offer them some form of protection (or at least not immediately reporting their presence to the Empire), not to mention Han's relationship with Lando.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This plan would have worked, if Boba Fett had not tracked the Millennium Falcon &lt;em&gt;to Bespin&lt;/em&gt;, by hiding Slave 1 amongst the debris/refuge field discharged by the Super Star-Destroyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e5Rvz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By plotting their trajectory (and applying some deduction) Boba would have been able to both trail the Falcon and report their destination to the Imperial Fleet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Solo was meaningless to the Empire (except to demoralize them by witnessing him being frozen in Carbonite, and to test whether a Human would survive the process so as to transport an unwilling Skywalker), part of his fee was implied to be Solo: Vader's foreknowledge of Jabba in the &quot;he's no good to me dead&quot; conversation infers a previous agreement/discussion between Fett and Vader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So Boba was able to claim one bounty whilst picking up the necessary cargo to claim another: it's obvious negotiation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there &lt;em&gt;is another glaring plot-hole&lt;/em&gt; hidden within this sequence that goes un-addressed: maybe someone else would like to ask it (it might already have been asked!), but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How did the Empire beat the Falcon to Bespin, if the Falcon is the&#xA;  'Fastest Ship in the Galaxy' and Vader &quot;arrived just before you did&#xA;  (...I'm Sorry)&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-02-02T22:57:59.340" LastActivityDate="2014-02-02T22:57:59.340" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17072" CreationDate="2014-02-03T00:09:23.353" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;They were &quot;Gibberish Goggles&quot;, available from absolutely nowhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goggles were intended to be Thermal, but the logic that sustains them falls apart under the weight of their own inconsistency (much like the film itself!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many films have played with their representation of 'Heat Vision', &lt;a href=&quot;http://lumistarcorp.com/wordpress/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;but none fail so&lt;/a&gt; spectacularly as &lt;em&gt;The Expendables&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2xBR9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Thermal Vision' picks out heat signatures, rendering them as Hotspot's (like the POV in the expendables). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when the lights are 'switched on' in the Movie, it seems to blind Barney Ross: The problem being, this would only happen if they were &lt;strong&gt;nightvision&lt;/strong&gt; goggles, as light itself has no effect on the infrared spectrum:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thermal infrared looks exactly the same with high light exposure or darkness as modern digital sensors are looking at the invisible infra-red energy. I suspect when they originally wrote the script and shot the scenes they intended it to be that greenish amplified moonlight night-vision, but Sylvester Stallone and the special effects department figured it would look cooler as thermal imaging in post-production, the heck with the science.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Facepalm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-02-03T13:19:25.047" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T13:19:25.047" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17069" CreationDate="2014-02-03T00:23:42.280" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Napoleon states, the original meaning of &quot;gay&quot; is &quot;happy or carefree&quot; but nowadays refers to homosexuality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this South Park episode, the joke is that the choir organisation is being &lt;em&gt;naive&lt;/em&gt; using the word &quot;gay&quot; when its meaning has changed. They think they are being fun and &quot;down with the kids&quot; when it's really the opposite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, there is a line in the episode where the Costa Rican president says &quot;I'm not getting gay with any kids&quot; further showing that only the choir organisation has missed the problem with the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the writers (Trey Parker &amp;amp; Matt Stone) are also making a satirical point about activism. The line &quot;being an activist is totally gay&quot; is using the modern meaning of &quot;gay&quot;, but as a slur which usually means &quot;lame or undesirable&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The choir naively thinks the line means activism is good, but the episode is really saying activism is stupid. And that's essentially what happens in the conclusion of the episode when they change the lyrics to criticise the rainforest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T00:23:42.280" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17094" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17099" CreationDate="2014-02-03T12:25:55.840" Score="9" ViewCount="6835" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been watching a lot of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Witness&quot;&gt;Silent Witness&lt;/a&gt; recently and I'm intrigued by how a lot of the post mortem shots are achieved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A typical story line involves a supporting character (one we certainly recognise by sight) being murdered. We often see them freshly discovered and again on the autopsy table. Autopsy scenes are often fairly explicit (you can often see face and nude torso along with any injuries), although surgical shots are often zoomed in (so are almost certainly a model or duplicate of sorts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to know how prolonged shots of dead characters are achieved, are actors given makeup and told to lie very still (while being examined)? Or are some sort of models used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T15:09:16.097" Title="How are death and autopsy scenes filmed?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17063" CreationDate="2014-02-03T12:28:33.673" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The death of Harvey Dent was going to be a huge blow to the city. Harvey had gotten rid of virtually all of corrupt crime in Gotham. Once word got out that he was dead, the public (I.E. the various newspapers, magazines and who knows who else) would naturally want to know the circumstances of his death. It would soon get out that Harvey had killed Maroni himself, as well as threatened Gordon and his kids. Such a bombshell would wind up destroying any hope that regular Gothamites would have had for the future. Not to mention that all the people Harvey would have locked up would naturally have wanted another day in court to argue that Harvey was not of sane mind when he prosecuted them. Most of the smaller criminals would still stay behind bars, but the larger ones would be able to use Harvey's turn as Two-Face as an almost literal 'get out of jail free card'. Gordon and Batman realised this. They needed someone to be an easy scapegoat in case any investigation got too close to the truth. Which is why Batman offered himself up. Being someone who many Gothamites either see as a figment or as someone who might be on the wrong side of the law, it'd be easy enough for Batman to be able to shoulder the blame. And as we saw at the beginning of The Dark Knight Rises, Bruce Wayne opted to simply stop being Batman for an extended period, making people think that he just simply disappeared. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T12:28:33.673" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14134" CreationDate="2014-02-03T12:35:34.333" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually cops call it in even when they know they are going to lose the gunfight, especially when they are outnumbered. In reality Schrader would've known better and called for help while sticking out his hand to shoot and keep the gang behind their cars. Gomez and his shotgun were enough to keep the enemy far while Hank called for backup. It's what cops do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, would the cavalry be there before they got killed... I don't think so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7916" LastEditorUserId="3430" LastEditDate="2015-06-15T17:41:32.487" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T17:41:32.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10581" CreationDate="2014-02-03T14:05:54.847" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/faq#.2.1.3&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; explains it well. Brett Easton Ellis says that some of the murders were in his head, but he did kill. In other novels that Bateman has appeared in people have mysterioulsy vanished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did the murders really happen, or did Bateman just imagine it all?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is the most frequently asked question in relation to the film,&#xA;  and the answer remains ambiguous. As with the questions of why Allen's&#xA;  apartment is empty, how did Carnes see Allen in London, and why people&#xA;  ignore Bateman's outbursts, there are two basic theories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the murders are very real and Bateman is simply being ignored when he tries to confess&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;everything happened in his imagination&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Much of the discussion regarding the possibility of everything being&#xA;  in his mind focuses on the sequence which begins when the ATM asks him&#xA;  to feed it a stray cat. From this point up to the moment he rings&#xA;  Carnes and leaves his confession on the answering machine, there is a&#xA;  question regarding the reality of the film; is what we are seeing&#xA;  really happening, or is it purely the product of a disturbed mind? An&#xA;  important aspect of this question is Bateman's destruction of the&#xA;  police car, which explodes after he fires a single shot, causing even&#xA;  himself to look incredulously at his gun; many argue that this&#xA;  incident proves that what is happening is not real, and therefore,&#xA;  nothing that has gone before can be verified as being real either. Of&#xA;  this sequence, Mary Harron comments &quot;You should not trust anything&#xA;  that you see. Trying to feed the cat into the ATM is sort of a&#xA;  giveaway. The ATM speaking to Bateman certainly indicates that things&#xA;  have taken a more hallucinatory turn.&quot; As such, if this scene is an&#xA;  hallucination, the question must be are all of his murders&#xA;  hallucinatory? Interestingly enough, in the corresponding scene in the&#xA;  novel, the narrative switches from 1st person present to 3rd person&#xA;  present mid-sentence (341) at the beginning of the sequence, and then&#xA;  back to 1st person present (again mid-sentence) at the end (352). This&#xA;  is a highly unusual narrative technique, suggestive of a sizable shift&#xA;  in consciousness and focalization, and an altogether different&#xA;  narrative perspective. This lends credence to the theory that the&#xA;  entire sequence is a hallucination, which in turn lends credence to&#xA;  the suggestion that much of what we see in the film is also an&#xA;  hallucination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, if this is the case, and if this sequence does represent pure&#xA;  fantasy, Harron ultimately came to feel that she had gone too far with&#xA;  the hallucinatory approach. In an interview with Charlie Rose, she&#xA;  stated that she felt she had failed with the end of the film because&#xA;  she led audiences to believe the murders were only in his imagination,&#xA;  which was not what she wanted. Instead, she wanted ambiguity;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;One thing I think is a failure on my part is people keep coming out of&#xA;    the film thinking that its all a dream, and I never intended that. All&#xA;    I wanted was to be ambiguous in the way that the book was. I think&#xA;    it's a failure of mine in the final scene because I just got the&#xA;    emphasis wrong. I should have left it more open ended. It makes it&#xA;    look like it was all in his head, and as far as I'm concerned, it's&#xA;    not (the complete interview can be found here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Guinevere Turner agrees with Harron on this point;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;It's ambiguous in the novel whether or not it's real, or how much of&#xA;    it is real, and we decided, right off the bat, first conversation&#xA;    about the book, that we hate movies, books, stories that ended and 'it&#xA;    was all a dream' or 'it was all in his head'. Like Boxing Helena,&#xA;    there's just a lot of stuff like that. [...] And so we really set out,&#xA;    and we failed, and we've acknowledged this to each other, we really&#xA;    set out to make it really clear that he was really killing these&#xA;    people, that this was really happening. What's funny is that I've had&#xA;    endless conversations with people who know that I wrote this script&#xA;    saying &quot;So, me and my friends were arguing, cause I know it was all a&#xA;    dream&quot;, or &quot;I know it really happened&quot;. And I always tell them, in our&#xA;    minds it really happened. What starts to happen as the movie&#xA;    progresses is that what you're seeing is what's going on in his head.&#xA;    So when he shoots a car and it explodes, even he for a second is like&#xA;    &quot;Huh?&quot; because even he is starting to believe that his perception of&#xA;    reality cannot be right. As he goes more crazy, what you actually see&#xA;    becomes more distorted and harder to figure out, but it's meant to be&#xA;    that he is really killing all these people, it's just that he's&#xA;    probably not as nicely dressed, it probably didn't go as smoothly as&#xA;    he is perceiving it to go, the hookers probably weren't as hot etc etc&#xA;    etc It's just Bateman's fantasy world. And I've turned to Mary many&#xA;    times and said &quot;We've failed, we didn't write the script that we&#xA;    intended to write&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In line with what both Harron and Turner feel about the question of&#xA;  whether or not the murders are real, Bret Easton Ellis has pointed out&#xA;  that if none of the murders actually happened, the entire point of the&#xA;  novel would be rendered moot. As with the practical theories regarding&#xA;  the Carnes conversation, the outbursts and the empty apartment,&#xA;  interpreting the murders as real is part of the film's social satire.&#xA;  Ellis has stated that the novel was intended to satirize the shallow,&#xA;  impersonal mindset of yuppie America in the late 1980s, and part of&#xA;  this critique is that even when a cold blooded serial killer&#xA;  confesses, no one cares, no one listens and no one believes. The fact&#xA;  that Bateman is never caught and that no one believes his confession&#xA;  just reinforces the shallowness, self-absorption, and lack of morality&#xA;  that they all have. None of them care that he has just confessed to&#xA;  being a serial killer because it just doesn't matter; they have more&#xA;  important things to worry about. In Bateman's superficial high-class&#xA;  society, the fact that even his open confession to multiple murders is&#xA;  ignored serves to reinforce the idea of a vacuous, self-obsessed,&#xA;  materialistic world where empathy has been replaced by apathy. By&#xA;  extension then, this could be read as a condemnation of corporations&#xA;  in general; they too tend get away with murder (in a figurative sense)&#xA;  and most people just choose to ignore it, just as do Bateman's&#xA;  associates. In this sense then, Bateman serves as a metaphor, as do&#xA;  the very real murders. If the murders were purely in his head, the&#xA;  strong social commentary would be undermined and the film would become&#xA;  a psychological study of a deranged mind rather than a social satire.&#xA;  And whilst that is a perfectly valid interpretation, as Harron&#xA;  indicates above, it is not entirely what the filmmakers were&#xA;  attempting to achieve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-03T19:16:33.470" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T19:16:33.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13834" CreationDate="2014-02-03T14:22:50.463" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is pure speculation but i might be because it only glows with living orcs and goblins. &#xA;I think that Azog and his hunters aren't living orcs but that they were in fact killed during the Battle of Azanulbizar. But then there is our Necromancer who can summon the spirits of the dead. So my believe is that Azog and his hunters are undead orc brought back to life by the Necromancer and that why i think Sting does not glown when they are nearby because they are not living orcs. &#xA;The scene when Gollum kills that goblin and Sting stops glowing right after it is according to me a nice bridge that Peter Jackson inserted to make the bridge that Sting only glows with living orcs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7917" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T14:22:50.463" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17094" CreationDate="2014-02-03T15:09:16.097" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actors call it &quot;corpse duty&quot;, and many of the shots that you see are actors in makeup with various molds to mimic things like the &quot;Y&quot; incision of an autopsy, and bullet holes, cuts, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest is done with makeup and makeup effects, depending on how they &quot;died&quot;, how long ago they passed, etc. Some shows will use dummies made to look like the actor, but these can be cost prohibitive to do on a frequent basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a link to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748703439504576116092672612366&quot;&gt;WSJ article&lt;/a&gt; where a reporter is a &quot;corpse for a day&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T15:09:16.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17100" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17101" CreationDate="2014-02-03T15:57:20.820" Score="6" ViewCount="1543" Body="&lt;p&gt;My friend and I were having a discussion about &lt;code&gt;The Great Gatsby&lt;/code&gt; and Mr. J. Gatsby in particular. My friend opines that he is a superficial man because all he cared about was wealth and showing off. His love for Daisy was also more about showing her that he can indeed become rich.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, my friend says, is proved from two incidents:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Daisy tells Gatsby that they should elope, he refuses because he was more focused on showing Tom Buchanan that he was better than him.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When J. Gatsby, Tom, Daisy, Nick and the other lady are at the New York apartment, Gatsby insists Daisy to verbalize that he is better than Tom and that she loves him over Tom. This, my friend says, is shallow and mean as this was tacitly understood she loved Gatsby over Tom.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, on the other hand, believe that he wasn't shallow. He loved Daisy and deep inside he was hurt because she refused to marry him because he was 'penniless'. All of this was amplified by the years they were separate. In the end Daisy betrayed him. She was shallow and not him.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, which one is it: &lt;strong&gt;shallow man&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;hurt lover&lt;/strong&gt;? Are there any further proofs from the movie (or the book?) or any other information in favour of one of those viewpoints or has this been left open for interpretation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;NB: I have not read the book. Feel free to use it for explanation if it provides better insight into his character (or maybe the movie has deliberately made him more ambiguous than the book).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7522" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-02-04T22:03:01.727" LastActivityDate="2014-02-04T22:03:01.727" Title="Was J. Gatsby a shallow, superficial man?" Tags="|analysis|character|the-great-gatsby|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17100" CreationDate="2014-02-03T16:28:39.593" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I believe that J. Gatsby went through a change in the film. At first, he was a hurt lover focused on getting Daisy back into his life. However, after the first party that both Buchanan and Daisy attended, Gatsby became focused on not just getting Daisy, but showing that he was better than Buchanan. In the end, it was his pride that made him stay at his estate rather than elope. Call him superficial, but in the end, he just wanted to know that he deserved Daisy, rather than just take her from Buchanan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7668" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T16:28:39.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17063" CreationDate="2014-02-03T17:49:32.090" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's really one of the main themes of &quot;The Dark Knight.&quot; Like Hammer said, Batman and Commissioner Gordon both knew that this had to happen. You may have heard Commissioner Gordon say something like &quot;He's not the hero they want, but he's the hero they need,&quot; referring to Harvey Dent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the implication is that the average citizen would want Batman as their &quot;hero.&quot; But for the sake of keeping order, the people need to put faith in someone. If they put faith in Batman or Gordon, then they can't cover up Two Face. If they don't cover up Two Face, then like the two above me have said, the city will corrupt. This was described by Hammer and Sego.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the only remaining option is to let Harvey Dent still be their hero. Batman is selfless as their true hero, so he's willing to take the blame. But he and Gordon can't let people know that because that is no longer an option. Make sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Batman is a better option to take the blame than Gordon because Batman is such a strong character by comparison that he's able to take in all of that pain to help his city.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Batman is the &quot;hero they want&quot; in the sense that the people WANT to put faith in Batman. But Harvey's symbolism as a hero in the city will help keep order. It's who the people need to put faith in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7896" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T17:49:32.090" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17104" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-03T20:12:50.403" Score="5" ViewCount="1429" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the movie is Japanese, although I'm not completely sure. It's certainly Asian, though, and it takes place in a city. The movie was made during the 90s or 2000s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main character (a man, ~40 years old) cannot bear the loss of his wife and keeps seeing her like she was still living with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember two scenes from the movie. In the first scene the man is having dinner with his friends (another couple) and he orders food for his wife, who's sitting next to him -- but in reality it's just an empty seat. In the second scene the man and his wife are riding a motorbike in a big city.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It it not &lt;em&gt;Visitor Q&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Rampo Noir&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Three (3 Extremes II)&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Departures&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Be With You&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Cherry Blossoms&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Audition&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;Nang Nak&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7920" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2014-02-03T22:09:49.697" LastActivityDate="2014-02-04T11:03:39.983" Title="Man keeps seeing his dead wife as she was still living with him" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:59:22.427" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17104" CreationDate="2014-02-03T23:42:58.477" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Solved: it is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0969269/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;San Taam AKA Mad Detective&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://050actionexpress.blogspot.cz/2011/09/mad-detectivesun-taam-2007.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;, which contains the keyword &quot;imaginary wife&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7921" LastActivityDate="2014-02-03T23:42:58.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17107" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17108" CreationDate="2014-02-03T23:53:17.503" Score="5" ViewCount="1461" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; Season 5, Episode 1, Walt and Jesse meet Mike on a one-lane dirt track in the middle of nowhere, after Mike has learned from the doctor that Gus is dead. How did they know when and where Mike would be driving?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T00:53:54.453" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T00:53:54.453" Title="How did Walt and Jesse know where to intercept Mike?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17107" CreationDate="2014-02-04T00:06:47.573" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;They don't go to that specific road to meet Mike, they are travelling to &lt;em&gt;intercept him&lt;/em&gt;, as you have identified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mike has been at a clinic 'Safe-House' of Gus', recovering from the stomach wound inflicted in 'Salud' S04E10. &lt;strong&gt;Jesse drove him and Gus there at the end of this episode.&lt;/strong&gt; So Jesse knows where he is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/30IFM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mike is going to kill Walt, out of revenge and possibly to remove/eliminate witnesses, thus making himself unimpeachable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On his way out from this remote location, he meets Walt and Jesse, &lt;em&gt;who are travelling to it&lt;/em&gt; in order to gain Mike's assistance in removing the camera's 'evidence' from the now destroyed lab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-02-04T00:06:47.573" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17120" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-04T13:58:03.783" Score="1" ViewCount="1794" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anybody remember the first scene when he killed teddy? How it happened while he met Teddy again and the film ended with Teddy is dead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7933" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2014-02-11T22:11:32.640" LastActivityDate="2014-02-11T22:11:32.640" Title="How did Teddy get killed in the end again?" Tags="|plot-explanation|memento|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17120" CreationDate="2014-02-04T14:04:12.527" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok abdelaziz, I' not sure if you've grasped the concept of &lt;em&gt;Memento&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As funny as your frantic panic is, I think I'd better explain....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is in &lt;strong&gt;reverse order&lt;/strong&gt;, so the start is the end and vice-versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each 'segment' begins just before the preceding one. So although we see Teddy die at the start, he is actually dying at the end of the films chronology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/niP96.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/niP96.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2014-02-10T11:31:00.477" LastActivityDate="2014-02-10T11:31:00.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17123" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17136" CreationDate="2014-02-04T14:54:34.483" Score="8" ViewCount="742" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Barbara says Beetlejuice 3 times, her and Adam are transported into Adam's model where Beetlejuice is residing. Why did they have to dig him out of his coffin? Why was he just not there already?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had two thoughts on this. The first is that the digging was symbolic to their commitment to Beetlejuice and they had to prove that they were serious. But later on, Juno yelled at them for, &quot;letting him out&quot; which to me suggests that he was somehow imprisoned and their digging was necessary to break him free. But earlier in the movie she tells them, &quot;he has been lurking around your graveyard&quot; which doesn't sound as if he's been imprisoned at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why did Adam and Barbara have to dig Beetlejuice out? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-02-05T00:12:23.960" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T16:00:37.050" Title="Why did Adam and Barbara have to dig up Beetlejuice?" Tags="|plot-explanation|beetlejuice|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17124" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-04T15:41:40.223" Score="10" ViewCount="2970" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film Michael has the heads of the other four New York families assassinated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These include Barzini, Tattaglia, Cuneo and Stracci.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the novel, it is only Emilio Barzini and Philip Tattaglia that are assassinated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any explanation in the film as to why Cuneo and Stracci are also murdered? If I remember correctly it was only Barzini and Tattaglia that conspired to murder Vito and later Michael Corleone. I can't remember a mention of Cuneo and Stracci getting involved? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-02-04T15:47:16.917" LastActivityDate="2021-05-21T00:59:24.790" Title="Assassinations during the christening in The Godfather" Tags="|book-adaptation|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17825" CreationDate="2014-02-04T16:08:53.663" Score="6" ViewCount="5383" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Annie Hall&lt;/em&gt;, Woody Allen quips that he wasn’t accepted into the army because he was classfied as “4P” which prompts the interviewer and audience to laugh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did he mean? What does “4P” mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried looking it up, but could not find anything that seems to fit. Wikipedia shows &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4P&quot;&gt;a few options&lt;/a&gt;, none of which seem to apply. Acronym Finder &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.acronymfinder.com/4P.html&quot;&gt;seemed promising&lt;/a&gt; for a moment, but that only applies to the New Zealand military. Google has a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=annie%20hall%204p&quot;&gt;small handful&lt;/a&gt; of references to this quotation from the movie, but none actually explain what it means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="214" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T08:07:31.637" Title="What does “4P” mean?" Tags="|annie-hall|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17126" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17128" CreationDate="2014-02-04T17:06:26.040" Score="9" ViewCount="9328" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw Dead Poets Society. Neil's parents were responsible for his death not John. Then why was the administration so determined to expel him from the organization?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6077" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-12T09:56:34.983" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T05:58:23.047" Title="Why was Mr. John Keating expelled from school?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dead-poets-society|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17127" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17524" CreationDate="2014-02-04T17:18:12.870" Score="11" ViewCount="11919" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying to find a kind of horror movie with a group of young people in a house, getting stuck there for the night I believe. They start getting killed by objects from the house, and it seems to be possessed by some entity which I don't remember about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene that mostly comes to mind is of a plump girl with short and red hair, who is killed in the kitchen, I guess a knife comes flying after her and cuts her stomach, showing her entrails. I remember her on the ground trying to put them back onto her belly before dying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the end of the movie, only a girl with long and black hair, named Kira/Kyra (I think), survived, but it was later discovered that she inherited the entity's power, as she shows when looking at a mirror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that there is another scene involving a guy being impaled by a horn of a deer head which was hanging on the walls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My memory must have messed up some of the facts. I think this movie was from between 2004 and 2009. Definitely not more recent than this. I saw it on TV, it might have been a low budget movie that never got much spotlight. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I searched for the character's name on IMDb with no success, and the movie is NOT &lt;strong&gt;See no Evil&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7285" LastEditorUserId="7285" LastEditDate="2014-02-07T10:19:37.360" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T17:24:35.020" Title="Horror movie with group of young people killed inside a haunted house, girl possessed at the end" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:59:31.870" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17126" CreationDate="2014-02-04T17:39:39.123" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, it is not completely clear if there is anyone alone responsible for &lt;em&gt;Neil&lt;/em&gt;'s death and you might want to look into &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/612/49&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt; to gain some further insights into this. But still, assuming &lt;em&gt;Keating&lt;/em&gt; was not entirely responsible (which the answers there agree with), the question stands why he was fired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to see the viewpoint of the school administration. If I remember correctly they, being rooted in their conservative ways, were to a large degree aversive to &lt;em&gt;Keating&lt;/em&gt;'s way of teaching self-determination and free will to those young men with his unconventional methods. So for them it was neither &lt;em&gt;Neil&lt;/em&gt;'s inability to confront his father, nor his father's strictness that drove him into suicide, but the &quot;insubordination&quot; and &quot;fruitless ambitions&quot; that &lt;em&gt;Mr. Keating&lt;/em&gt; inspired him to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And after such a big tragedy happened &lt;em&gt;Keating&lt;/em&gt; was the best scapegoat to blame for &lt;em&gt;Neil&lt;/em&gt;'s death and firing him was maybe also to prevent further damage to the reputation of the school, as this suicide could become quite a big scandal. An additional factor may also be that &lt;em&gt;Neil&lt;/em&gt;'s parents (especially his father) of course also only saw &lt;em&gt;Mr. Keating&lt;/em&gt; responsible (for exactly the above reasons) and maybe even applied some pressure to the school administration in order to get him fired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no matter if he was really responsible for &lt;em&gt;Neil&lt;/em&gt;'s death, he certainly was in the eyes of &lt;em&gt;Neil&lt;/em&gt;'s parents and the school administration and you are in fact &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to be confused (or at least moved) by this injustice. The narrow-minded establishment has once again won against a single creative and idealistic man (yet his efforts were not completely fruitless, remember the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Oh captain, my captain&quot;&lt;/em&gt;-scene).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I should admit, though, that this answer is entirely based on my clouded memory of a movie I haven't seen for a very long time.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T23:29:55.497" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17131" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17163" CreationDate="2014-02-05T10:08:38.120" Score="6" ViewCount="7505" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to know the exact meaning of the Box office collection in indian cinema. Let me explain clearly with an example. Take &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrambam&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this film&lt;/a&gt;, it was reported in wikipedia that it has collected more than 180 crores. &lt;a href=&quot;http://timesofcity.com/box-office/aarambam-66-days-collections&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Some other report&lt;/a&gt; said that it was above 300 crores. I’m not asking which is correct. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To whom these collections will go? To theatre owners or to distributers or to the producers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5997" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T00:52:13.017" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T06:08:23.857" Title="What is meant by box office collection in India?" Tags="|distribution|indian-cinema|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13794" CreationDate="2014-02-05T13:52:47.743" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;EricaAlbright.com is a hoax web site. It is just someone trying to get attention on the Internet with a &quot;famous&quot; name. Erica Albright is a fictitious person created for the sake of drama, because movies need a romantic plot to make them more interesting to some audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20150315014137/http://ericaalbright.com/about/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://ericaalbright.com/about/&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...By the way, everything on this website is fictional and completely made up. This website is for entertainment only and has no association with Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, or Mark’s girlfriend depicted on the movie, The Social Network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7945" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2015-04-26T11:13:23.957" LastActivityDate="2015-04-26T11:13:23.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17134" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-01-21T16:04:30.627" Score="4" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096320/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Twins (1988)&lt;/a&gt;, first Professor Mitchell Traven denies knowing anything about them, then changes his mind after they break through the door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't he have them taken away by the security guards who came in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7974" OwnerDisplayName="ike" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-05T19:59:53.833" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T22:12:16.433" Title="Why did Traven change his mind about speaking to the Benedicts?" Tags="|plot-explanation|twins|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17134" CreationDate="2014-01-22T09:42:43.680" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because they frightened him.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can call guards in to take them away and they might actually manage it(!) but what happens when you leave work?  You will not always have guards to protect you, who knows how far these two will go? Who wants to find out too late that they are lunatics with a basement, a gag and a blowtorch?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is much easier to just give them what they want and let them be on their way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" OwnerDisplayName="Stefan" LastActivityDate="2014-01-22T09:42:43.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17123" CreationDate="2014-02-05T16:00:37.050" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;They didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was just part of Beetlejuice's mind games to see how compliant Adam and Barbara were.  IF they were willing to dig up a coffin from the model graveyard they were likely desperate for help, something which would give him the edge in manipulating them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T16:00:37.050" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14404" CreationDate="2014-02-05T17:58:07.327" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to offer an alternative suggestion which gives the governments a little more tactical intelligence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film established that the kaiju were coming through more and more frequently. What started as every six months was rapidly becoming a matter of days - during the course of the film we saw the first double and triple events. In addition by this point the Jaegers were not winning every fight, lets assume that each side took roughly equal losses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Striker Eureka was reputed to cost &lt;a href=&quot;http://pacificrim.wikia.com/wiki/Striker_Eureka&quot;&gt;$100 billion dollars&lt;/a&gt;. If the rangers were losing a Jaeger every week and then every few days it's simply not possible to create Jaegers at the rate they're being lost!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know the Kaiju originate from the pacific ocean, there's also significant evidence that they're much less adapted to life on land (just look at their underwater speeds against their ones on land).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By pulling the population back into the middle of the continents and drawing the Kaiju onto land. They would have a lot more time and opportunity to fire nuclear weapons at them (which was the pre-jaeger approach). This is a much more sustainable defence than spending hundreds of billions of dollars a day to defend the coastal cities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2014-02-05T17:58:07.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17140" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17141" CreationDate="2014-02-05T21:12:45.427" Score="3" ViewCount="326" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie it is seen that the frequency of the Kaijus' appearance keeps growing in a certain pattern, we even see the scientists being able to calculate when the next Kaiju will arrive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why does this happen, as we know later on that aliens are sending the Kaiju? Why would the aliens follow a certain frequency?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7389" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-02-06T12:52:26.543" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T12:52:26.543" Title="Why would the Kaiju's appearances follow a pattern?" Tags="|pacific-rim|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17140" CreationDate="2014-02-05T21:29:44.480" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, why not? Why should anything done on purpose by reasonably thinking creatures &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; follow any kind of pattern?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More specifically speaking, the &lt;em&gt;Kaiju&lt;/em&gt; were created by these alien invaders in order to test our weaknesses, adapt to them and gradually weaken our defenses up to a point where they can start to invade us on a more personal level. With this goal in mind, it is quite reasonable that the attacks get gradually heavier, sending more &lt;em&gt;Kaiju&lt;/em&gt; and more often. And given that this follows some kind of alien invasion plan, it is only natural for the aliens to structure it with a strictly computed and prescribed frequency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only possible reason for them to bring some more randomness into the attacks, would be for us to not find out the frequency that easily and thus make it harder for us to adapt to the &lt;em&gt;Kaiju&lt;/em&gt; attacks (and maybe this is what your question is after). But there could be multiple reasons why this was not done. Maybe the aliens didn't think about this aspect, maybe they underestimated our strength and didn't think that we had any chance against the &lt;em&gt;Kaiju&lt;/em&gt; anyway, or maybe they just wanted to give the screenwriter a chance to let the scientists find some pattern in the attacks. Yet, this would be speculation and the latter seems the most likely possibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-06T09:36:00.090" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T09:36:00.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17143" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-02-06T00:12:11.730" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-02-06T00:12:11.730" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T00:12:11.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17144" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-02-06T00:12:11.730" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-02-06T00:12:11.730" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T00:12:11.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2982" CreationDate="2014-02-06T07:45:40.723" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; you can find all technical memo's and publications of Pixar. Most of them can be directly related to the movie they are developed for, or used in by the images provided.&#xA;Note that many of their publications are published in SIGGRAPH, which is one of the worlds biggest conferences/journals on Computer Graphics/animations. So they do new and innovative stuff all the time, though some of their novelties are not made for a specific movie directly. It seems they have people working on their rendering and simulation tools in general, while others try to achieve certain effects required for a specific movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that for their first movies they didn't publish as much since they still needed a solid ground in the movie business. Furthermore, it takes time to be able to develop new stuff. Also they improve on their techniques every movie (see for example the rendering of hair). So this list is unfortunately incomplete, but gives a nice overview of the published novelties per movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;General:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rendering tooling - &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/RMan2003/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;RenderMan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lighting - &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/RayDifferentials/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Ray differentials&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/IrradianceAtlas/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Complex illumination&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fluid - &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/TwoDThreeDWaterSim/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Efficient simulation of large bodies of fluid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Soft body animation - &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/SoftCachingB/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Key Point Subspace Acceleration and Soft Caching&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deformable bodies - &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/Incompressible/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Volume conserving FEM on deformable models&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movie techniques:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chess game (short movie) - &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/Geri/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Subdivision Surfaces in Character&#xA;Animation&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Monster Inc - &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/UntanglingCloth/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Untangling Cloth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The incredibles - &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/Hair/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Simulation and Rendering of Hair&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cars - &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/Lpics/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Lighting engine&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/ShotRendering/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Acceleration for Animated Global Illumination&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/DepthOfField/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Interactive depth of field&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/RayTracingCars/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Ray tracing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ratatouille - &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/RiversOfRodents/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Crowd animation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/ArticulatingAppeal/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;articulating appeal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/CartoonCollision/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Acting with contact in animation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/DoughEggsSauce/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Food animation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/SurfacesFromParticles/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Surface from particles rendering&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/StochasticSimplification/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Simplification of Aggregate Detail&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/SoftReflections/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Soft reflections&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/Whitewater/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;simulating white water rapids&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/500MillionHairs/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Hair/fur rendering&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/TailoringForRatatouille/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;cloth simulation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/HarmonicCoordinatesB/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Harmonic coordinates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Monsters University - &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/RadiosityCaching/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Better global lighting&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/PhysicallyBasedLighting/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Physics based lighting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Brave - &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/CurlyHairB/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Curly hair&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/VisibilityCulling/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Large scale geometric visibility&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Multiple movies (Toy Story 3, UP!, Pirates of the Caribean) &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphics.pixar.com/library/PointBasedGlobalIlluminationForMovieProduction/paper.pdf&quot;&gt;Point based global illumination&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;List without papers, but notable used techniques:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Toy story: First big feature animation movie, new re-rendering techniques&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Toy story 2: Acting and behavior of animations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A bugs life: Fluid animation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Monster's Inc: Fur&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finding Nemo: Underwater rendering, sea surface&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ratatouille: Cutting food and wet fur&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastEditorUserId="7659" LastEditDate="2014-02-07T07:32:37.627" LastActivityDate="2014-02-07T07:32:37.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17148" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-06T12:19:43.990" Score="1" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038762/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;My Darling Clementine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Doc Holiday doesn't seem like he'd have any sensible reason to want to fight Wyatt. Why does he want to challenge him to a gun fight?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="275" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-06T12:24:52.767" LastActivityDate="2014-05-18T13:18:10.697" Title="Why does Doc Holiday want to fight Wyatt in My Darling Clementine?" Tags="|plot-explanation|my-darling-clementine|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12896" CreationDate="2014-02-06T14:38:10.823" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The asker is correct and the answers are ill-informed. Die hard SK fans will notice that lines from Shawshank Redemption are actually used in Prison Break and many SK references are given. Even the way the main character tries to act like Andy in Shawshank and refers to &quot;hope&quot; Shawshank's theme. Dialogue lines and concepts are taken from Shawshank. I should have made a list as I was watching Prison Break, the &quot;rip-off&quot; of Shawshank was actually starting to annoy me as it was so obvious to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7960" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T14:38:10.823" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3814" CreationDate="2014-02-06T15:00:32.990" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://nbclatino.tumblr.com/post/13457338255/debate-is-batmans-archrival-bane-latino&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article from NBC&lt;/a&gt; (that is also referenced in another answer) which says that Bane's nationality/ethnicity is half British and half Caribbean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DC Comics describes Bane’s father as a British mercenary and his&#xA;  mother a rebel from the Caribbean. His life spent in a jail on the&#xA;  fictional Caribbean Island of Santa Prisca, a seemingly Spanish name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they fail to set this into context with a movie franchise that &lt;strong&gt;has made &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/23914/49&quot;&gt;extensive changes to the characters&lt;/a&gt; of its source material&lt;/strong&gt; (though they themselves mention some of the changes to his character in the movie, including the casting of a non-Latino actor). For example they speak of a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Caribbean&lt;/em&gt; prison&lt;/strong&gt; (which it wasn't in the movie) and the comic character seems to &lt;strong&gt;include elements from Talia's movie character&lt;/strong&gt;, being the child of a mercenary (while Ra's Al Ghul isn't a mercenary in the comics).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So all in all I don't think this article or the comic source material it references can be used as an explanation for the character of Bane as depicted in &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;, at least &lt;strong&gt;not a ono-to-one explanation&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But to come back to the actual question what nationality Bane was then&lt;/strong&gt;, one could at least use the fact that there is most probably a connection between the comic Bane being half-Carribean and spending his life in a Caribbean prison. So if we set this into context with the movie placing the location of the prison in Morocco (&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/3454/49&quot;&gt;which isn't 100% clear though&lt;/a&gt;), it is a &lt;strong&gt;very reasonable deduction that the Bane from the movie is indeed to some degree Moroccan&lt;/strong&gt; (which would also make him look tanned, albeit not after growing up in the pit, though). But I think apart from that we cannot draw any other conclusions, as his backstory is not mentioned in the movie and &lt;strong&gt;the comics fail to provide an explanation&lt;/strong&gt; because of the above mentioned contradictions to the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2016-07-20T15:44:25.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16991" CreationDate="2014-02-06T15:02:14.030" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoting from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/every_cloud_has_a_silver_lining&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiktionary&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;every cloud has a silver lining&lt;/strong&gt;, proverb&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In every bad situation there is an element of good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=silver%20lining&amp;amp;defid=3661794&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Urban Dictionary&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;phrase used to tell someone that there is a brighter side to the&#xA;  problem they are facing. the phrase comes from the fact that, every&#xA;  dark rain cloud has a silver edge, or lining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as other users commented, the silver lining describes a good side of something that is apparently bad. In the movie's plot, we can find that the main character Pat (Bradley Cooper) is having a bad time but when he meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence) the situation is still bad but with a better approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4078" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T15:02:14.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14423" CreationDate="2014-02-06T15:54:12.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;might have found them somewhere. obviously. it was a hospital where the walkers were confined to a room. so definitely someone must have got some lights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5632" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T15:54:12.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17153" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-06T16:36:21.123" Score="1" ViewCount="3489" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know it is a long word other than humming. There is a name for the action of talking with your mouth closed in movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7961" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-06T16:42:07.833" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T16:51:19.303" Title="What do we call the scene in which actors are talking with their mouth closed?" Tags="|dialogue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17153" CreationDate="2014-02-06T16:51:19.303" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer depends very much on the circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you hear the character's voice, but none of the other characters do, it's a &lt;em&gt;voiceover&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If multiple characters are conversing without speaking aloud, it's &lt;em&gt;telepathy&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the character is intentionally throwing his voice (multiple characters can hear him, but he isn't moving his lips), it's &lt;em&gt;ventriloquism&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the character is speaking softly without moving his lips (for the benefit of only one or two other characters standing close by), it's &lt;em&gt;subvocalizing&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7962" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T16:51:19.303" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17124" CreationDate="2014-02-06T19:38:29.257" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stacci and Cuneo, while not killed in the book, were aligned with the Barzini and Tattaglia families against the Corleone family to create the heroin trade:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stracci embraced the scheme of Don Emilio Barzini to unite against the Corleone family and force them into the heroin trade. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Stracci&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[The] Cuneo family, along with Stracci, Barzini and Tattaglia crime families decide to invest in the Sollozzo heroin trade, but when Sollozzo is killed in 1946 by Michael Corleone, Ottilio Cuneo declares war, with the other families on the Corleone family &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneo_family&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The obvious reason for them to be killed in the movie is they were also against them in the war that killed Sonny. It makes sense to me that Michael would want to eliminate those who conspired in (or failed to stop) the attack on his father and murder of his brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="43023" LastEditDate="2021-05-21T00:59:24.790" LastActivityDate="2021-05-21T00:59:24.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15596" CreationDate="2014-02-06T20:40:44.127" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is spelled out much more explicitly in the novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The connection is that Thad's parents insisted that the pieces of the unborn twin that were removed be buried in the Beaumont family plot. Years later, when Thad metaphorically kills George Stark, he does a photo shoot with a fake tombstone -- right on top of the family plot. Just before Stark begins his killing, Thad is notified that someone desecrated the cemetery plot, digging a big hole right where the photo shoot had been. It's observed that it almost looks more like someone had dug their way &lt;em&gt;up&lt;/em&gt; rather than down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a common theme/trope/belief to the effect that naming something gives it power and that belief, if strong enough, can reshape reality. (This is at the heart of the expression &quot;speak of the devil&quot;, to give you an idea of how far this idea reaches back.) Stark may have been meant to be only a pseudonym, but Thad treated him like a separate person. He created an entire backstory and history for him, changed his writing habits entirely when writing under that name, and even adopted aspects of Stark's personality when he got really deep into his novels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But where did Stark come from in the first place? One possibility that is strongly hinted at is that Stark was his twin the entire time, and that the essence of the personality he created was really aspects of his twin that he absorbed into himself. This would explain why the sparrows were at the hospital in such numbers when the twin was excised -- they were trying to carry away the twin's soul, but couldn't find it because it had already been absorbed into Thad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be backed up more by noting that Thad's books under his own name never did anywhere near as well as those written by Stark. Stark was the better writer, and when he begins to take over writing the book, he becomes stronger and Thad weaker, as though he is taking back what Thad originally absorbed from him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, putting it all together, the implication is that by staging a photo shoot on top of his twin's remains, a twin whose basic personality he'd taken into himself and then nurtured over the course of years by feeding it the power of his belief, Thad's rejection of that person he'd treated as independent unwittingly pushed the essence of George Stark back into the twin's remains, which then grew into Stark, who dug his way out of the grave and proceeded to kill everyone instrumental in his &quot;death&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7962" LastEditorUserId="7962" LastEditDate="2014-08-27T13:31:13.430" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T13:31:13.430" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16354" CreationDate="2014-02-06T20:43:08.430" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He isn't.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Dzvw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second from the left has a big red nose (Monsters Inc). After looking over many images from both Monsters movies, this is the only other character I have found that comes even close to have a nose excluding horns, beaks, or bends in the face above the lips (to hold glasses). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly a design choice was made to make the monsters less human and more monsterly, except for Sulley (and that one other guy). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="211" LastEditDate="2016-11-15T23:16:12.440" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T23:16:12.440" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1546" CreationDate="2014-02-06T21:21:18.577" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great Answers!  Like a lot of questions I think you can interpret it a lot of ways but after decades of watching Chinatown I'd like to inject this interpretation...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opening scenes of Jake's new career paint the picture of him as a pretty disreputable opportunist.  Photographing unfaithful partners and facilitating their Hollywood divorces are stereotypical examples of the work of mercenary private eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jake is a former police officer with no love lost between him and a few members of the LAPD.  The noir sensibility of the film and and the real history of the LAPD indicate that Jake was either an incredibly corrupt cop for not getting along with them, or an honest man that chose what some would view as a sketchy way to make a living rather than dealing with the hypocrisy of his former career.  The latter is what his interaction with his former colleagues seems to point to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The catalyst for the change in Jake, the tipping point, is painted ominously as events that occurred in Chinatown.  While the events are never delineated, Jake is clearly concerned about operating in that area, and people that know him know that he should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Chinese characters in the film are all (with the exception of the gardener) party to the main coverup of the film.  The virtual imprisonment, including the drug induced somnolence, of Katherine occurs with either their tacit or active participation.  When Jake decides to help Evelyn and Katherine escape, it is the Chinese butler and other household staff that get enlisted in the effort to hide her from Cross, the father of both women.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jake makes the choice to send them to Chinatown.  He reintroduces the moral conflict that drove him away from the police force and into his sketchy new life.  Rather than walk away from the old conflicts and uncertainties in the way that he did by hiding from them as a disinterested private eye, he confronts the old demons head on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dark climax of the film reinforces the central message that fate is inescapable.  No matter what our motives or our actions the cycle of life confronts us with the consequences of our destructive nature.  &amp;quot;Forget it Jake- it's Chinatown&amp;quot; means there is no escaping those consequences.  Evelyn meets her doom and Jake is forced to bear witness to it instead of hide from it the way he tried to by leaving the LAPD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologies for the long winded answer, just in case you didn't know...LOVE THIS MOVIE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7965" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2021-07-05T21:09:43.913" LastActivityDate="2021-07-05T21:09:43.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2014-02-06T21:31:03.027" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cobb as a character to take you (the viewer) through the movie doesn't have a trust worthy perception of reality. In my opinion Cobb uses the top to keep Mal locked away, by taking it out and spinning it after every bad dream interaction with Mal he reminds himself that she is dead and it was all a dream. Its not his token. He never said it was his token, Arthur was explaining token while he (Cobb) spun the top in the next room. If you watch the movie, you'll notice that after every non Mal related exit from the dream Cobb glances at his left hand as if he has a watch (which he doesn't have). I believe he's checking his ring finger. He only spins the top to assure himself that, yes his wife is dead and yes the real world sucks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7966" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2019-06-25T18:10:25.123" LastActivityDate="2019-06-25T18:10:25.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16863" CreationDate="2014-02-06T23:14:14.490" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Later in the &quot;Closet&quot; episode, Howard is seen looking through pictures of him (one with cornrows) and his father under the label &quot;Photos of Wolowitz family before father left forever.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is plausible that there was a picture included with the letter and Sheldon chose to organize the picture and letter separately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of that possibility, the episode was specifically about the contents remaining in the envelope and the understanding that each cast member's (minus Sheldon's) explanation was showing regret from the father for leaving and pride in who Howard has become.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the photo, it appears to be a grandfather holding a child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7339" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-06T23:57:09.007" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T23:57:09.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14423" CreationDate="2014-02-06T23:48:19.720" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know what your talking about. The first episode of the Walking Dead Right? Obviously, in an entire hospital, there are going to be matches or something because of a possible power outage. That means that clearly, it makes sense that he found them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7896" LastActivityDate="2014-02-06T23:48:19.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17131" CreationDate="2014-02-07T00:13:03.477" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this context, collections and receipts have the same meaning and are interchangeable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for who receives the monies, that is based on a sliding scale. The percentage that goes to theater owner and distributor changes depending on how long a movie stays at a theater. The longer a theater shows a film, the greater the percentage of the ticket price goes to the theater. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The theater takes in a small percentage of the ticket price initially, but each week gains a larger percentage of the price. The percentage that doesn't go to the theater is given to the distributor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the distributor and producers, their contract is based off of the non-theater take of collections/receipts and is independently negotiated. (Keep in mind, that some producers are the distributors, some independently finance, and some collaborate.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7339" LastActivityDate="2014-02-07T00:13:03.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17125" CreationDate="2014-02-07T00:15:46.270" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;per John Smith Optional and his correct response, &quot;Any classification prefixed with a &quot;4&quot; meant unfit for duty, with the following lettering explaining why. Conscientious objectors were common during the Vietnam War, and so the terminology was widely circulated/referenced. There is no real 4-P, which is why the interviewer asks him what it means...that's part of the joke.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7339" LastActivityDate="2014-02-07T00:15:46.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17165" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-07T01:14:56.903" Score="1" ViewCount="715" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ludmilla Drago explicitly stated &quot;I hope after, we can be friends.&quot; Is there any evidence in the films or novels that they did? It seems unlikely, but after the events of Rocky IV, I could see them being a source of support and healing for one another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8843" OwnerDisplayName="Gelfamat" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-02-07T01:50:27.523" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T19:41:58.640" Title="Did Ivan Drago's wife become friends with Apollo Creed's wife" Tags="|rocky-iv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13941" CreationDate="2014-02-07T02:05:57.010" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The references are not &quot;side jokes&quot; but metaphors on Kate's view of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wicked Witch&lt;/em&gt; opposes.&#xA;&lt;em&gt;The Lion&lt;/em&gt; helps without confronting.&#xA;&lt;em&gt;The Tin-Man&lt;/em&gt; wants to understand but confuses his options.&#xA;&lt;em&gt;The Wizard&lt;/em&gt; sees all and knows all from his perspective which is different than the perspective of Kate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7339" LastActivityDate="2014-02-07T02:05:57.010" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17168" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-02-07T09:35:27.873" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-02-07T09:35:27.873" LastActivityDate="2014-02-07T09:35:27.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17169" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-02-07T09:35:27.873" Score="0" Body="East-Asian Countries' or Languages' movies. &#xD;&#xA;Most common are Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese movies" OwnerDisplayName="user5722" LastEditorDisplayName="user5722" LastEditDate="2014-02-07T12:15:19.490" LastActivityDate="2014-02-07T12:15:19.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17171" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-07T14:26:06.730" Score="14" ViewCount="4299" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each Marvel 'continuity' is assigned a designation that indicates its 'Universe Number'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are used to distinguish different (and often concurrent) timelines across comic books, television (including animation) and movie incarnations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been assigned the designation: &lt;strong&gt;Earth-199999&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something about this designation seems to indicate that number has some kind of significance; both because of the seemingly deliberate recurrence of the number &lt;strong&gt;9&lt;/strong&gt; and the designations length.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most other continuities within the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse_%28Marvel_Comics%29&quot;&gt;Multiverse&lt;/a&gt; have shorter designations, such as &lt;em&gt;Earth-616&lt;/em&gt; (Original Marvel Continuity) and &lt;em&gt;Earth-1610&lt;/em&gt; (Ultimate Spiderman). &#xA;Others are made up of seemingly random numbers, &lt;em&gt;Earth-818793&lt;/em&gt; (Army of Darkness) or &lt;em&gt;Earth-92131&lt;/em&gt; (X-men Animated Series).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine whilst some of those designations are likely to be totally arbitrary in their composition, I wonder if there is a reason why the Marvel Cinematic Universe chose such an interesting designation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-07T15:18:07.157" LastActivityDate="2014-10-25T09:01:43.107" Title="What is the significance behind the MCU's numerical designation?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|comic-adaptation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17248" CreationDate="2014-02-07T14:43:26.787" Score="8" ViewCount="1763" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if there was any relation between the villains of the first and third movie of the franchise. In &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 1&lt;/em&gt;, the terrorists who abduct Tony belong to a group called the &lt;strong&gt;Ten Rings&lt;/strong&gt;. While in &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Mandarin&lt;/strong&gt;, the proxy antagonist is said to acquire his powers from an extraterrestrial entity called the &lt;strong&gt;Ten Rings&lt;/strong&gt; (in the comics universe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any relation between the two, or is it a mere happy coincidence? It feels like there is a correlation because in the movies, Mandarin is depicted only as a terrorist with no super-natural powers whatsoever. So, it would make sense for him to be affiliated with the Ten-Rings terror cell or at least be associated with them. Does all this somehow really fit into the story arch?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the reason is almost certain to spill on to the comics universe, I am open to explanations referring it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-02-11T16:38:51.617" LastActivityDate="2019-02-11T16:38:51.617" Title="Association between antagonists in Iron Man 1 and Iron Man 3" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-3|iron-man|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17172" CreationDate="2014-02-07T14:56:07.270" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There certainly is a relation between the two.&#xA;While one might consider the mention of the Ten Rings in Iron Man 1 as an easter egg for the fans, it seems that the filmmakers have always conceded that the Ten Rings and the real Mandarin exist in this onscreen universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SPOILERS BELOW&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, in the new short film that can be found on the Thor 2 DVD, we learn that the Mandarin does exist and is displeased with Trevor's take on him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the short film &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3438640/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;All Hail the King&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jackson Norris: I'm not the one that's going to kill you Mr. Slattery.&#xA;  I'm here to break you out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Trevor Slattery: That's... nice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jackson Norris: Not really. You see, there's somebody who wants to&#xA;  meet you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Trevor Slattery: Do I know him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jackson Norris: No... but you took his name... and now he wants it&#xA;  back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the relation between the Mandarin and the Ten Rings, this excerpt from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.com/universe/Mandarin%27s_Rings&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Marvel wiki&lt;/a&gt; explains a bit about their mutual history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Discovered by the Mandarin in China’s “Valley of Spirits,” the Ten&#xA;  Rings of Power are actually the product of the dragon-like race&#xA;  Axonn-Karr (or Makluans) from the planet Maklu-IV. The Axonn-Karr&#xA;  utilized them mainly as the power source for their interstellar&#xA;  craft’s engines. The rings’ functions currently cannot be explained by&#xA;  modern Earth science.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Mandarin learned how to utilize the rings for own personal use and&#xA;  make them respond to his personal commands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Ten Rings is the name of the terrorist organization that abducts&#xA;  Tony Stark in Iron Man. The organization's name and iconography was&#xA;  later appropriated by Aldrich Killian who falsely claimed that he was&#xA;  their leader, The Mandarin, and placed blame on the group for his&#xA;  illegal activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2014-02-08T19:02:09.407" LastActivityDate="2014-02-08T19:02:09.407" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17177" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17187" CreationDate="2014-02-07T22:09:58.113" Score="7" ViewCount="4446" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously a radio broadcast of a sporting event requires an commentator or two to tell the listening audience what is going on. But why do TV broadcasts of sports almost always use commentators? What is the point of having someone describing the event when viewers can see for themselves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I am a frequent viewer of American football on TV, and I almost always find commentators take away from my viewing experience rather than add value to it. In fact I will often mute the volume to escape the annoyance of the commentators - but then I miss the actual sounds of the game, from the players and from the crowd. Overall the presence of the commentators can be quite frustrating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember during the Olympics in Athens, the video of many less popular events (such as cycling) was viewable via online streaming, with no commentators, meaning the only audio was the sounds of the athletes and the spectators - and it was awesome! It felt less like watching on TV and more like really being there in person. So why isn't a similar approach taken for more conventional sports broadcasts? Why are commentators so frequently used in TV sports?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-02-07T23:20:18.527" LastActivityDate="2014-02-08T10:49:13.503" Title="Why use commentator in TV broadcasts of sports?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17178" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17887" CreationDate="2014-02-08T02:00:58.010" Score="4" ViewCount="743" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sofia Coppola's film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette_%282006_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marie Antoinette&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; incorporates small anachronistic elements, chosen very deliberately to help a modern audience understand and identify with its teenage protagonist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vj5oJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Modern shoes in the background of a scene of _Marie Antoinette_&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This approach extends to the music as well, with modern songs mixed in with period music. Most of these choices (e.g. &quot;I Want Candy&quot;) are fairly self-explanatory. One, however, eludes me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why did Coppola choose to use &quot;Hong Kong Garden&quot; so prominently for the ball scene?&lt;/strong&gt; What is the film communicating through the choice of &lt;em&gt;this particular song&lt;/em&gt; &amp;mdash; a high-energy post-punk song inspired by racial prejudice &amp;mdash; for the scene that it illustrates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7977" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-08T02:34:14.527" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T20:10:46.020" Title="What role does the song &quot;Hong Kong Garden&quot; play in Marie Antoinette?" Tags="|analysis|soundtrack|marie-antoinette|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17177" CreationDate="2014-02-08T04:42:00.620" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because not all viewers have in depth knowledge about the game, its rules, intricacies, strategies and nuances. Commentators also usually know more about the participating teams and players and their histories. So in that way, commentators add an extra level of information for viewers who may not have that information handy but would find it enjoyable. Also, they help fill the lulls between plays by entertaining the viewers with banter and/or trivia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-02-08T04:42:00.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17183" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30030" CreationDate="2014-02-08T05:05:30.873" Score="12" ViewCount="43559" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the credits of many episodes of Archer, a photo of a middle-aged blonde woman leaning on a table, possibly at a bar or diner, is shown.  The woman seems physically reminiscent of, but is not identical to, the Archer character named Pam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name of the production company, &quot;Floyd County&quot;, appears and the phrase, &quot;Made... in Georgia.&quot; is spoken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is this woman (or what is the source for this image) and, if possible, why was this image used?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screen capture:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zja1U.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screencap of the Floyd County image&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T14:31:32.923" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T14:31:08.977" Title="Who is the &quot;Floyd County&quot; woman shown during the credits of Archer?" Tags="|identify-this-actor|archer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:36:46.633" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17183" CreationDate="2014-02-08T05:53:58.990" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did some digging and found 2 forums (&lt;a href=&quot;http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=601837&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.closinglogos.com/thread/5085703/Floyd+County+Productions+and+Great+Scott+Films+International&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) where this picture was discussed.  The posts state that this image came from a stock photo site, &lt;em&gt;istockphoto.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though there was a link in the discussions to support the findings, the link no longer works, so I cannot prove that the image came from &lt;em&gt;istockphoto.&lt;/em&gt;  Nonetheless, the multiple discussion threads give me quite the confidence that the image was pulled from a stock photo site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="313" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2014-05-06T20:56:50.207" LastActivityDate="2014-05-06T20:56:50.207" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12766" CreationDate="2014-02-08T07:57:08.690" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Luther finds the boat where Lucien Burgess commits his crimes and enters without exigent circumstances (from Wikipedia, &quot;a situation where people are in imminent danger, evidence faces imminent destruction, or a suspect will escape&quot;),  meaning that any evidence he finds there will be inadmissible. He tells Lucien that he has discovered evidence tying him to the crimes, causing the killer to return to the boat - a location he would not have known had he been innocent - and simultaneously creating exigent circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Partial documentation here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/review/luther-episode-three-46863&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.avclub.com/review/luther-episode-three-46863&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7941" LastActivityDate="2014-02-08T07:57:08.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17177" CreationDate="2014-02-08T08:51:19.410" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beside from explaining rules to viewers who are not familiar with that particular sport, I see many advantages:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Normally, the commentators are from a bigger broadcasting company, they have the chance to get exclusive information (e.g., when someone was injured they can tell that the doctors was with him/her or he/she arrived at the hospital)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They have a lot of stastics (which nearly anyone could know. Even if they sit in front of a computer) they can tell when there is a boring moment of the sport. They will remind you of interviews of the players (e.g. when someone was asked if he/she will retire). Also, you have the feeling that something is going on even if the event is boring (I know a lot of people muting their tv and turning on radio broadcast in order to listen to the radio commentator since he will talk even more).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People watching sports alone do not feel that alone. In moment where some country is going to win something important (like the world soccer championship), they could make the moment special and many people will remember the commentator.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On many sports, they sit in the stadium seeing everything and not only things shown by the broadcaster, but other important things, too (&quot;Some players are warming up&quot;, &quot;the injured player is okay again and is waiting to rejoin the game&quot;). Sometimes things happen that you don't see on TV and the commentator can see it and tell you (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Jump&quot;&gt;Jimmy Jump&lt;/a&gt; who interferes with a lot a sports event and normally you will not see him).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some commentators were active in sports and they can share their experience and the viewers may learn from them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="7366" LastEditDate="2014-02-08T10:49:13.503" LastActivityDate="2014-02-08T10:49:13.503" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17189" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17193" CreationDate="2014-02-08T13:51:28.857" Score="8" ViewCount="1124" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a term for a dialogue-driven movie that takes place entirely on a single set? Some examples would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037017/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lifeboat, 1944&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047396/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rear Window, 1954&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;12 Angry Men, 1957&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Man from Earth, 2007&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276919/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dogville, 2003&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3361" LastEditorUserId="3361" LastEditDate="2014-02-09T01:19:57.983" LastActivityDate="2014-02-09T01:51:44.423" Title="Term for dialogue-driven movies in a restricted setting?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17189" CreationDate="2014-02-08T13:59:43.273" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Television, the terminology would be &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle_episode&quot;&gt;Bottle Episode&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It refers to an episode of a series that takes place within a confined setting: Ostensibly because of some plot development, but perhaps more likely as a budgetary measure to keep production costs down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has become part of a double-subterfuge of late, as the occurrence is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/bottle-episodes/23653/10-great-tv-bottle-episodes&quot;&gt;so widely recognized&lt;/a&gt; and so commonplace that it has itself become its own &lt;em&gt;trope&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BottleEpisode&quot;&gt;establishing itself within common practice&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community (Which is unflinchingly post-modern) even &lt;a href=&quot;http://community-sitcom.wikia.com/wiki/Cooperative_Calligraphy&quot;&gt;has an episode&lt;/a&gt; in which the characters become 'self-aware' that the nature of their dialogue would indicate they are living within a bottle episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The phrase was apparently first circulated by the cast and crew of Star-Trek, so was used no earlier than the mid 1960's...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Note that the term has become synonymous with &quot;single-location&quot; episode, even though bottle episodes can (theoretically) have as many locations as a normal episode. All that matters is that it costs less, because the money is having to pass through a &quot;bottleneck&quot;. The Star Trek cast and crew call this a 'ship-in-a-bottle' episode, which is where the name originated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst obviously originating in Television, the terminology has become used &lt;strong&gt;transmedially&lt;/strong&gt; to apply to all formats that match the criteria to appear as a 'Bottle Episode': &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameological.com/2012/06/the-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-timewater-temple/&quot;&gt;Video Games&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/article/tv-in-a-bottle-19-great-tv-episodes-largely-confin-42284&quot;&gt;TV &amp;amp; Animation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Movies&lt;/strong&gt; included. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...And so, even though some of the films you have mentioned were made &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the terminology existed, they still fall under the remit of its application, and are retrospectively re-cast as bottle episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-02-08T14:39:22.907" LastActivityDate="2014-02-08T14:39:22.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17191" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17192" CreationDate="2014-02-08T17:20:57.697" Score="11" ViewCount="24329" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Impossible Astronaut when Rory, Amy and River exit the Tardis into the Oval Office the Doctor introduces them as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My top operatives &lt;em&gt;The Legs&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Nose&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Mrs. Robinson&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Amy and Rory are presumably The Legs and The Nose (either because she's often wearing short skirts or because of Rory's silly shorts). But why is River &quot;Mrs Robinson&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2014-02-08T18:32:23.723" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T19:46:53.743" Title="Why did the Doctor call River &quot;Mrs Robinson?&quot;" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17191" CreationDate="2014-02-08T18:30:07.803" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was about to write the following myself, but as I made a search for it just to verify everything, I stumbled upon this slightly more detailed answer on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Robinson#Later_references_in_film_and_Internet_culture&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page for Mrs. Robinson&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The 2011 Doctor Who episode &quot;The Impossible Astronaut&quot; has the young-looking Eleventh Doctor introduce his middle-aged future wife River Song in 1969 to President Nixon as &quot;Mrs. Robinson&quot;, a nod towards a hinted-at romantic relationship between the two in the Doctor's future and in River's past (due to time-travel). River's line &quot;Hello, Benjamin&quot; spoken in the Doctor Who episode &quot;Let's Kill Hitler&quot; is a quote from a line spoken by Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastActivityDate="2014-02-08T18:30:07.803" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17189" CreationDate="2014-02-08T18:41:11.753" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;A possible term for this kind of movies might be a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber_play&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chamber Play&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A chamber play is a play of usually three acts which can be performed&#xA;  with a small cast and practically no sets or costumes in a small&#xA;  space. The form became popular in the early 20th century, with leading&#xA;  exponents being Max Reinhardt and August Strindberg. First it was&#xA;  adapted to cinema in 1920s, being Kammerspielfilm and was later&#xA;  adapted for cinema by Ingmar Bergman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The name is derived from the term chamber music.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this originates from theatre, it is also used nowadays to describe movies that are not only set at a very confined space but whose action also pans out more through the dialog between very few actors and the intimate conflicts between them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering your examples, while I'm not sure I would use it to describe &lt;em&gt;Rear Window&lt;/em&gt; in its entirety (which more or less, even if not completely, still lives mainly from &quot;external&quot; conflicts and actions, I think), it seems a very good fit for &lt;em&gt;12 Angry Men&lt;/em&gt; (don't know the others, though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-09T01:51:44.423" LastActivityDate="2014-02-09T01:51:44.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17195" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17241" CreationDate="2014-02-08T20:07:45.290" Score="3" ViewCount="10168" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a strange scene in Billy Madison where Billy is cleaning erasers for one of his teachers -- Miss Lippy, a hippy-like lady who teaches an elementary class -- and Miss Lippy &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=2&amp;amp;ved=0CDIQtwIwAQ&amp;amp;url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jeNQ53iKfw&amp;amp;ei=mo32UuvXCoL4yQHRqYGAAQ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGN_zODuDQrpD06Qc0GMO2fWCGuvw&amp;amp;sig2=sGBoBZROn50xY9DMjGKKjA&amp;amp;bvm=bv.60983673,d.aWc&amp;amp;cad=rja&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;puts a big dab of paste right on her face&lt;/a&gt;. The scene ends right after she does this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Miss Lippy put paste on her face?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-02-09T00:25:47.513" LastActivityDate="2016-03-13T21:22:49.090" Title="Why does the teacher put paste on her face?" Tags="|plot-explanation|billy-madison|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17198" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17204" CreationDate="2014-02-08T22:37:12.257" Score="1" ViewCount="4888" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &quot;Agatha Christie's Marple&quot; TV series, I gather that Miss Marple was involved with a Captain Ainsworth. Are there any references to this also in the books? And it is suggested in &quot;Murder at the Vicarage&quot; that Captain Ainsworth was married. Is that correct? Are there other sources for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3706" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-02-09T01:13:44.497" LastActivityDate="2014-02-09T04:53:12.340" Title="Was Miss Marples lover, Captain Ainsworth, married?" Tags="|miss-marple|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17198" CreationDate="2014-02-09T04:53:12.340" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, Captain Ainsworth only appears in the 2004 ITV series and is not a character who appears in the original books. And it is indeed implied that he was married when Miss Marple had the affair with him which explains why they never married.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-02-09T04:53:12.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17205" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17206" CreationDate="2014-02-09T06:20:22.110" Score="5" ViewCount="2858" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this movie, a husband and a wife who are separated, permit their daughter to go to Paris with her girl friend. Dad's a retired agent of some army section of the United States and has some very special skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Paris, some men come to kidnap the girls, and in this scene, daughter talks to her father on the phone. She is scared and she's crying. Her father tells her to try to give him as much information as possible over the phone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they kidnap the girl, one of the kidnappers takes the phone, and says &quot;Good luck&quot; in response to father's threats about finding them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then father goes on to find his daughter and in this journey, he's able to find his daughter who's been used as a whore to be sold to a rich Arab guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A dialog that I remember is that he finds the boss of the kidnappers group, and wants to shoot him in the elevator. Boss says &quot;Please don't take it personally, it's just business&quot; or something like that, and father says: &quot;for me, it's too personal&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the name of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="288" LastActivityDate="2014-02-09T07:15:52.883" Title="Man's daughter is kidnapped for sex business and he goes for a revenge" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:59:47.480" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17205" CreationDate="2014-02-09T06:28:44.007" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p9WlL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Taken (2008) - Movie Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0936501/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Taken&lt;/strong&gt; (2008)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bryan Mills, a retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills&#xA;  to save his estranged daughter, Kim, who has been kidnapped while on a trip&#xA;  to Paris.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the movie's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; entry, a description of the kidnapping:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kim is pulled out violently from under the bed, and she complies with&#xA;  her father's instructions before the phone is found. Bryan warns the&#xA;  person over the phone that they have this one chance to release his&#xA;  daughter, or else he will begin hunting them down and killing them.&#xA;  He's told &quot;good luck&quot; and the connection is terminated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These scenes describe how he tracks down his daughter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bryan infiltrates Saint-Clair's mansion, where a large party is the&#xA;  facade for an auction of girls in the basement. Bryan forces a Middle&#xA;  Eastern bidder to purchase his daughter, but is captured after they&#xA;  exit the room. Bryan frees himself and kills Saint-Clair's henchmen.&#xA;  He forces Saint-Clair to reveal where Kim has been taken before&#xA;  killing him. Bryan races the luxury yacht owned by Raman, a sheikh,&#xA;  and boards it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dialogue you remember from the movie? That takes place when Bryan corners Saint-Clair in his mansion and extracts his daughter's location from him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Saint-Clair pleads for his life: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please understand. It was all&#xA;  business, it wasn't personal.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bryan (coldly): &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It was all personal to me.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He shoots Saint-Clair dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CG5-bEGOKM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;trailer&lt;/a&gt; to confirm your movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastEditorUserId="7732" LastEditDate="2014-02-09T07:15:52.883" LastActivityDate="2014-02-09T07:15:52.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17212" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17215" CreationDate="2014-02-09T14:04:37.847" Score="15" ViewCount="5403" Body="&lt;p&gt;So according to the Marvel Multiverse (the different universes the various Marvel franchises operate their characters within), the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU, where the live action films take place) is continuity &lt;strong&gt;Earth-199999&lt;/strong&gt; and Ultimate Spider-Man is &lt;strong&gt;Earth-1610&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst Marc Webb's &lt;em&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt; (2012) is clearly fashioned after the Ultimate Marvel universe, it is not canonically/overtly established and acknowledged as such by Marvel Entertainment, as the franchise is owned by Sony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the cartoon &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Spider-Man_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ultimate Spider-Man&lt;/a&gt;, which is also overtly overtly set in the Ultimates Universe, features Agent Phil Coulson: a character created specifically for the MCU and appearing nowhere else in any Marvel Multiverse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SkUhZ.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Agent Coulson&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To further entrench the association, Coulson has the likeness of and is voice-acted by Clark Greg, the same actor portraying him in the Live action MCU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, &lt;em&gt;it seems&lt;/em&gt;, is the first and only time the MCU has crossed over outside of its own universe, and into another (pre-established) one from a different medium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Has the MCU ever overlapped into another property that isn't directly beneficial to its own continuity, anywhere else?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that the basic function of the Ultimate universe is for Marvel to have control a representation of all their cinematic characters, even those outside of their Marvel Studios productions (The most vertically integrated and thus most lucrative), so it's fairly common for characters to show up in Ultimates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the MCU seems to try to function in a one-way Microclimate: The MCU can borrow from other properties, but other properties can't borrow from the MCU. It locks IP down in an iron grip that way, I suppose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that Disney (who own Marvel Entertainment) produces the Ultimates series, so there is promotion of brand synergy (which is obviously why this has happened), but I'm wondering if it's ever happened &lt;em&gt;anywhere&lt;/em&gt; else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-07-10T10:03:19.867" LastActivityDate="2022-07-31T04:30:31.653" Title="Are there any more instances of MCU characters crossing over into Non Marvel Entertainment properties?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|crossovers|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17212" CreationDate="2014-02-09T15:23:24.413" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, nobody confirmed coming from Earth-199999 have crossed over to other Marvel universes. However, the opposite have happened; according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/Earth-199999&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Marvel Wikia&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;the Young Avengers visited the MCU while looking for the character Speed, in Young Avengers Volume 2 #8. In the same issue there's also an Easter egg, showing Earth-616's Loki's &lt;a href=&quot;http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130902171759/marveldatabase/images/9/98/Young_Avengers_Vol_2_8_p.06.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;passport&lt;/a&gt; which shows that he's visited a few Marvel alternate universes-among these, the MCU. However, I'm not sure if this passport is canonical, but if it is, this means the main universe Loki have visited the MCU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6353" LastActivityDate="2014-02-09T15:23:24.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17214" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17216" CreationDate="2014-02-09T15:28:18.323" Score="12" ViewCount="1955" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title state, what is the criteria for selecting a foreign movie (i.e. not made in Hollywood like in Asia or Australia or Europe) for the main category of Oscar awards (i.e. other than foreign language category)?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little context here. I was watching an Indian movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1773764/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ship Of Theseus&lt;/a&gt; which was so damn good in both its story and screenplay. But I wondered why it was never considered for the Oscars. The movie, unlike other Indian movies is certified Hinglish (Hindi+English) with 75% of the dialogues in English language.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a criteria as such related to language that makes some movie eligible for Oscars. For example, I've seen several movies from Middle-East and Korean-Japanese movies being nominated.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a category of foreign language film but SOT wasn't selected from India because obviously it was in English majorly and the theme of the movie was a global one and not necessarily represented India alone    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(P.S. You can (should and must) watch this film. It's free official HD version is available &lt;a href=&quot;http://cineoo.com/sot&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T00:48:15.433" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T00:48:15.433" Title="What is the criteria for selecting a foreign movie for the main category awards in Oscars?" Tags="|academy-awards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17212" CreationDate="2014-02-09T15:55:21.990" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE: The primary content of this answer reflects the state of the MCU in 2017.  An update titled &amp;quot;State of the MCU in 2022&amp;quot; is now a section appended to this answer.  Original answer follows.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've got a lot of properties listed here, so for the sake of clarification, let's break them out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)&lt;/strong&gt; is where the films produced by Marvel Entertainment / Disney take place.  Films include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Iron Man&lt;/em&gt; (1, 2, 3)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Captain America&lt;/em&gt; (1, 2, 3)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt; (1, 2, 3)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; (1, 2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt; (1, 2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ant-Man&lt;/em&gt; / &lt;em&gt;Ant-Man and the Wasp&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Doctor Strange&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spider-Man: Homecoming&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Incredible Hulk&lt;/em&gt; (w/Ed Norton, but not &lt;em&gt;The Hulk&lt;/em&gt; starring Eric Bana)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Black Panther&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Captain Marvel&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cinematic filmed shorts (distributed with the aforementioned films) include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Phil Coulson shorts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The one with the Chitauri item&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Mandarin-centric short&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MCU TV and Netflix series considered in-continuity for the universe include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.&lt;/em&gt; (ABC)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Agent Carter&lt;/em&gt; (ABC)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Inhumans&lt;/em&gt; (ABC)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Daredevil&lt;/em&gt; (Netflix)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Luke Cage&lt;/em&gt; (Netflix)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Iron Fist&lt;/em&gt; (Netflix)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jessica Jones&lt;/em&gt; (Netflix)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Defenders&lt;/em&gt; (Netflix)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Punisher&lt;/em&gt; (Netflix)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are additional in-continuity films and Netflix/TV shows announced, but it is not worth listing them until they near release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These MCU properties will interact with each other, but will likely &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; interact with anything else.  Marvel Entertainment may license Marvel to produce comics explicitly set in the MCU, such as a prequel or side-story; these comics will state this as matter of fact, but based on observations of other such products in the past, it is unlikely that any media created external to the films/television productions will be referenced by the films/television productions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Marvel Comics Universe (MU)&lt;/strong&gt; is where all the standard Marvel comics take place.  It has versions of everyone and even added a Phil Coulson analogue.  It has crossed over into the Ultimates Comic Universe through cross-dimensional portals.  Notably, its version of S.H.I.E.L.D. with Maria Hill, is used in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Ultimate Marvel Comic Universe (UU)&lt;/strong&gt; is a &amp;quot;hard core&amp;quot; version of the standard Marvel Comics, and their premiere super team, The Ultimates, is the inspiration for at least the Samuel Jackson iteration of Nick Fury and some concepts used in the Cinematic Avengers.  It has crossed into the standard Marvel comics universe through cross-dimensional portals.  You may be misusing the term &amp;quot;The Ultimates&amp;quot;, which refers to the Avengers team as they exist within the UUC.  It is not a term used elsewhere in any of the other universes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Ultimate Avengers animated universe&lt;/strong&gt; from the &lt;em&gt;Ultimate Avengers&lt;/em&gt; cartoon series featured a version of The Avengers which followed the story established by the Avengers of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but was cancelled when Disney acquired Marvel Comics.  It had not, and likely will not ever due to its nature, be referenced in the films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Avengers Assemble animated universe&lt;/strong&gt; is comprised of the &lt;em&gt;Ultimate Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt; and spin-offs, &lt;em&gt;Avengers Assemble&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Hulk: Agents of S.M.A.S.H.&lt;/em&gt; animated cartoons with an inherent silly nature to them; these all take place in a separate animated Marvel universe based on, but distinct from, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, even referring to The Chitauri aliens from The Avengers, but using identical characters in notably different ways.  For example, the teenage Luke Cage from &lt;em&gt;Ultimate Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt; is distinctly not the same iteration of Luke Cage from MCU's &lt;em&gt;Jessica Jones&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Amazing Spider-Man Cinematic Universe&lt;/strong&gt; from Sony featuring Andrew Garfield in &lt;em&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt; (1, 2) has not crossed into any other properties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Spider-Man Cinematic Universe&lt;/strong&gt; from Sony featuring Toby MacGuire in &lt;em&gt;Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt; (1, 2, 3) had a spin-off cartoon on MTV, &lt;em&gt;Spider-Man: The New Animated Series&lt;/em&gt;, which followed the trilogy film storyline.  It was never referred to by the film series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notably, &lt;strong&gt;a MCU iteration of Spider-Man&lt;/strong&gt; portrayed by Tom Holland, distinct from prior Sony versions, first appeared in &lt;em&gt;Captain America 3: Civil War&lt;/em&gt;, and has his own MCU film, &lt;em&gt;Spider-Man: Homecoming&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;X-Men Cinematic Universe&lt;/strong&gt; from FOX features the &lt;em&gt;X-Men&lt;/em&gt; (1, 2, 3, First Class, Days of Future Past, Apocalypse), &lt;em&gt;Wolverine&lt;/em&gt; (1, 2, 3), and &lt;em&gt;Deadpool&lt;/em&gt; films, which reference each other, but otherwise never crossed into other properties. It has not been confirmed where the &lt;em&gt;Legion&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Gifted&lt;/em&gt; TV shows meet any of these shows, if at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Additional Independent Properties:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The Ghost Rider&lt;/em&gt; (1, 2), &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/em&gt; (Corman; 1, 2; 2015), &lt;em&gt;Blade&lt;/em&gt; (1, 2, 3), Daredevil (2003) and &lt;em&gt;Elektra&lt;/em&gt; (both share the same universe), and other Marvel film properties not mentioned here, are stand-alone except where their own sequels are concerned or otherwise noted.  &lt;em&gt;Blade: the Series&lt;/em&gt; television show extends the Blade cinematic timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some properties (notably the comic books and cartoons) may hide &amp;quot;easter eggs&amp;quot;, which extend into the other properties for one-off encounters, but these incidents would likely not ever be acknowledged canonically by the receiving properties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Has the MCU ever overlapped into another property that isn't directly beneficial to its own continuity, anywhere else?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The MCU as defined above does not cross over into other properties, so no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Phil Coulson characters that you cite are artifacts of their individual universes, and while voiced by the same actor, only the film (&lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 2&lt;/em&gt;, etc.) and &lt;em&gt;Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.&lt;/em&gt; Phil Coulson instances are intended to be the same character in the same universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other properties may or do cross over to the MCU, but not officially in the sense that it would ever be addressed in the MCU, fitting with the definition of &amp;quot;beneficial&amp;quot;.  In fact, none of the films to date has referred to any television or Netflix show, though the shows themselves refer to the films and have film guest star cameos (most notably &lt;em&gt;Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Agent Carter&lt;/em&gt;).  Most &amp;quot;crossovers&amp;quot; are between the MU or UU characters (who interact a lot, especially during the 2015 Secret Wars), but of note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Spider-Man comics had a Spider-Verse crossover where he met every significant iteration of Spider-Man, including film and cartoon versions.  This would never be acknowledged on film, and none of the Spider-Men he met during that adventure were the Tom Holland MCU Spider-Man.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Deadpool&lt;/em&gt; film featured an extended sequence on an obviously decommissioned MCU S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier; that would be considered an unofficial crossover to MCU from an external source.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;State of the MCU in 2022&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is now a resounding &amp;quot;Yes&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original answer was written in 2017.  Properties since 2017 have changed that answer.  Rather than subverting the original answer, the following summarizes many of the changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since 2017, till July 2022&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Hulu and Freeform series &amp;quot;Runaways&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Cloak and Dagger&amp;quot; both crossed over into each other and are tangentially attached to the Netflix MCU via an authority figure in Cloak and Dagger connecting to &amp;quot;Luke Cage&amp;quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Actors reprising their characters from the ABC series &amp;quot;Agent Carter&amp;quot; appeared in the MCU film &amp;quot;Avengers: Endgame&amp;quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All current Disney+ live action series are part of the MCU with film actors reprising their roles and films referencing the series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Disney+ animated series &amp;quot;What If?&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Marvel Zombies&amp;quot; are implied to be part of the MCU, taking place across the multiverse. Captain Carter from &amp;quot;What If?&amp;quot; is not the same Captain Carter who appeared in &amp;quot;Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness&amp;quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Actors reprising their characters from the Netflix series &amp;quot;Daredevil&amp;quot; have appeared in both the Disney+ series &amp;quot;Hawkeye&amp;quot; and MCU film &amp;quot;Spider-Man: No Way Home&amp;quot;, and marketing materials imply they appear in the upcoming Disney+ series &amp;quot;She-Hulk&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Echo&amp;quot;. A new MCU &amp;quot;Daredevil&amp;quot; series with the same Netflix actors has been announced.  No official confirmation has been released citing the prior Netflix series events as having taken place in the MCU.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Actors reprising their characters from the &lt;strong&gt;Amazing Spider-Man Cinematic Universe&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;The Spider-Man Cinematic Universe&lt;/strong&gt; appeared in the MCU film &amp;quot;Spider-Man: No Way Home&amp;quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sony created &lt;strong&gt;Venom Cinematic Universe&lt;/strong&gt; with their &amp;quot;Venom&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Morbius&amp;quot; films; so far, no Spider-Man has appeared in these films, however the separate universe crossed over with the MCU during &amp;quot;Venom 2&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Spider-Man: No Way Home&amp;quot; and purportedly during &amp;quot;Morbius&amp;quot; (it has not been officially confirmed the character in &amp;quot;Morbius&amp;quot; is identical to the MCU counterpart).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Actors reprising variants of their characters from the &lt;strong&gt;X-Men Cinematic Universe&lt;/strong&gt; film series and the ABC TV miniseries &amp;quot;The Inhumans&amp;quot; appeared in a separate universe visited during the MCU film &amp;quot;Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness&amp;quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Disney+ series &amp;quot;WandaVision&amp;quot; has a tongue-in-cheek reference to the &lt;strong&gt;X-Men Cinematic Universe&lt;/strong&gt; by casting the same actor who portrayed X-Men Quicksilver to stand-in for MCU Quicksilver.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ABC's &amp;quot;Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.&amp;quot; had a Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider appear for a scene during an episode featuring the Robbie Reyes Ghost Rider.  He was never confirmed to be any prior cinematic Ghost Rider.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blade appeared off-camera in an MCU film and is expected to have a MCU film released, but it is unconfirmed to be related to prior Blade properties.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Disney now owns FOX.  No version of prior FOX properties not mentioned above have appeared in the MCU, yet.  This writer fully expects &amp;quot;Deadpool 3&amp;quot; to join Deadpool to the MCU and reference the &amp;quot;lesser&amp;quot; properties (Chiklis Thing, Bennifer as Daredevil/Elektra, Chris Evans as Johnny Storm, Fant4stik, etc.) as one-off gags.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2022-07-31T04:30:31.653" LastActivityDate="2022-07-31T04:30:31.653" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17214" CreationDate="2014-02-09T16:26:41.533" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are the relevant rules from the submission &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/rules/&quot;&gt;guidelines&lt;/a&gt;, especially &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/rules/86/rule02.html&quot;&gt;Rule Two: Eligibility&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paragraph 2 explains the physical characteristics of the film itself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A. feature length (defined as over 40 minutes),  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;B. publicly exhibited by means of 35mm or 70mm film, or [...].  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;C. for paid admission in a commercial motion picture theater in Los&#xA;  Angeles County,  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;D. for a qualifying run of at least seven consecutive days,  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;E. advertised and exploited during their Los Angeles County qualifying&#xA;  run customary to industry practice, and  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;F. within the Awards year deadlines specified in Rule Three.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paragraph 3 explains the disqualifying rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Films that, in any version, receive their first public exhibition or&#xA;  distribution in any manner other than as a theatrical motion picture&#xA;  release will not be eligible for Academy Awards in any category. This&#xA;  includes broadcast and cable television as well as home video and&#xA;  Internet transmission.  Motion pictures released in such&#xA;  non-theatrical media on or after the first day of their Los Angeles&#xA;  County qualifying run remain eligible.  Also, ten minutes or ten&#xA;  percent of the running time of a film, whichever is shorter, may be&#xA;  shown in a nontheatrical medium prior to the film’s qualifying run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paragraph 4 explains the submission requirements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eligibility is contingent on the receipt by the Academy of the&#xA;  following information on Official Screen Credits forms, available on&#xA;  the Academy’s website, to be signed by the film’s producer or&#xA;  distributor (unless waived by the Academy), which shall include: &#xA;  [...].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paragraph 5 concerns certifying the submitted film credits.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paragraph 6 concerns disputed film credits.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paragraph 7 concerns disqualification possibility concerning film alterations post-submission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paragraph 8 &lt;strong&gt;states all films are eligible&lt;/strong&gt; except if the film is &lt;strong&gt;submitted for consideration&lt;/strong&gt; in any subsequent rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/rules/86/rule13.html&quot;&gt;Rule Thirteen&lt;/a&gt; concerns rules for films submitted for the Foreign Language Film Award. A primary rule there (Rule B) states that &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Only one picture will be accepted from each country.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the conclusion is easy to make. The glory is in the winning, not the fact that you are submitted. Films have the best chance of winning within groups of limiting criteria - Be the &quot;big fish in a little pond.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-09T17:21:58.417" LastActivityDate="2014-02-09T17:21:58.417" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15649" CreationDate="2014-02-09T19:26:07.693" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see it as code for &quot;Frances Undatable&quot;, due to use of the phrase &quot;Ha Ha&quot; in the movie after a character says that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8001" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-09T19:41:38.757" LastActivityDate="2014-02-09T19:41:38.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17226" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-10T02:44:59.027" Score="1" ViewCount="2655" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I apologize in advance if this isn't a fitting question for this SE site.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never seen a James Bond movie, but I know the basis of a Bond movie from the millions of references I've seen growing up in all sorts of locations. I don't know if I would enjoy Bond movies, so the first movie I watch will likely determine whether or not I'm willing to watch others. I imagine the answer would vary depending person to person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6810" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T15:27:46.507" Title="I've never seen a James Bond movie, where should I start?" Tags="|james-bond|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2014-02-10T04:57:33.803" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17226" CreationDate="2014-02-10T02:56:26.583" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movies styles change over the years, so you really need to try a few.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the '60's, I'd say From Russia With Love - a great example of a movie which sticks close to the novel it's based on and which works well as a period piece.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the '70's, The Spy who Love Me - a 70's tech adventure style of film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skip the next two decades, and try 2006's Casino Royale, the well-regarded reboot of the series. You really can't fairly compare Casino Royale and the following movies with what went before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastActivityDate="2014-02-10T02:56:26.583" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17226" CreationDate="2014-02-10T03:09:04.590" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;They don't really follow a building story (meaning the next one doesn't build on top of the previous), so you will not miss anything if you decide to watch them &quot;out of order&quot; if there was such a thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are a purist and you absolutely want to see the evolution of style and tech in the stories and want to build upon the legacy to get to where we are now, I would recommend you just watch them in the order they were released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, a note up front, they are &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; all created equal, they are not &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; good, but even the bad ones give you perspective into the character. So you can go by the golden list (the ones voted by fans as being the best) and then work your way down the list. You can watch them by actor, although that will get hard at some point as there are a lot of turnovers in the role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why I would personally recommend you watch them in the order released. Take the different actors, the different style of effects, the good and the bad as they come to have a better appreciation for it. Warning through, there are a &lt;strong&gt;lot&lt;/strong&gt; of them, so know that it's a journey, so enjoy it; don't go for the quick watch and done: it will frustrate you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5929" LastEditorUserId="607" LastEditDate="2015-02-27T15:27:46.507" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T15:27:46.507" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12137" CreationDate="2014-02-10T05:18:12.537" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Still, Mr. Greenleaf seems a bit dense.  Or perhaps not?  Perhaps he even suspects that his son came to a bad end - maybe even at the hands of Ripley - and to avoid scandal, all of the scandal that would follow an investigation of Ripley (the father thought extremely little of his son), he decides to pretend / create his own reality.  Homo/Bi-sexuality, promiscuity, no contribution to humanity, just a playboy embarrassing his father... &quot;you can't choose your own children&quot; he mourns:  I think I'll make it all go away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8007" LastActivityDate="2014-02-10T05:18:12.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14560" CreationDate="2014-02-10T06:53:46.253" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree about the bear's significance explained above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, to me, the eye has two meanings:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The all-seeing eye of God, which sees Walt, and even warns and protects him (e.g. when Mike calls Gus calls the Twins to cancel killing Walt). It also is watching his decisions to tally his later consequences and accountability.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Walt keeps it as a reminder  of his connection to the airline crash... and maybe as penance?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8010" LastActivityDate="2014-02-10T06:53:46.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14560" CreationDate="2014-02-10T10:11:43.107" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Pink_Teddy_Bear&quot;&gt;quote from the creator&lt;/a&gt; Vince Gilligan himself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The teddy bear eyeball that Walt found in his swimming pool is&#xA;  symbolic. It's very, very symbolic. However, I'm not sure I can tell&#xA;  you with 100% certainty of what the symbolism is, what it&#xA;  represents...On the face of it, when we were coming up with that eye&#xA;  as an image, it probably, represented some form of the eye of the&#xA;  universe, the eye of god, the eye of morality, I suppose judging&#xA;  Walter White...And so symbolism like the eyeball, I'm not sure what it&#xA;  means to me completely but I'm always interested in hearing what it&#xA;  means to viewers of the show. I guess if you're going to hold my feet&#xA;  to the fire, what it means to me is the eye of God on Walt. If not&#xA;  necessarily judging him, nonetheless watching him, keeping tabs on&#xA;  him. And then the question: If that is what the symbolism stands for,&#xA;  then why does Walt keep that eye? Why does he keep it in his drawer&#xA;  versus discarding it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8011" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-10T10:29:58.287" LastActivityDate="2014-02-10T10:29:58.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16440" CreationDate="2014-02-10T12:13:55.380" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;She was never dead, she worked for &quot;The Company&quot; an organization in the show that made her leave her family behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8012" LastActivityDate="2014-02-10T12:13:55.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17240" CreationDate="2014-02-10T16:12:02.047" Score="7" ViewCount="6610" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Goodfellas&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the MOB killed Tommy due to his act of murdering a &quot;made man&quot; - Billy Batts. But if they figured out that Tommy did the killing, wouldn't they also have known that Jimmy and Henry were involved, too? So why were they not punished?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1396" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T05:10:59.347" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T05:10:59.347" Title="Why don't Jimmy and Henry get punished for their involvement with murdering Billy Batts?" Tags="|plot-explanation|goodfellas|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17238" CreationDate="2014-02-10T17:48:13.047" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because when Tommy exploded at the bar after Batts' comment, the bar was full of people including Batts' boys. It was also public that Henry was trying to prevent a fight and got Tommy to leave. The exchange between Batts, Henry and Jimmy was pleasant and apologetic. There was nothing to give suspicion to them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the versions I've seen there was no explanation as to how they discovered that Tommy did it so we have to assume that the &quot;MOB&quot; assumed since Batts had not turned up in so long that he is dead and decided Tommy was responsible since he was the last one seen having an altercation with Batts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they also killed Tommy &quot;for a lot of other reasons&quot; too. So this probably made it easy to determine he was the culprit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2014-02-10T18:07:05.403" LastActivityDate="2014-02-10T18:07:05.403" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17195" CreationDate="2014-02-10T18:32:48.257" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with @Paulster2 - just to make you laugh while scratching your head. But I want to add that Billy comes back to the classroom while the teacher is performing a tortured dance of anguish, so I think the paste on her face is just another level of her psychosis.  Adam Sandler thinks it's funny to show that a sweet Kindergarten teacher has this troubled psychological condition underneath it all.  (And I remember laughing at the paste on the face, so I must think it's funny too!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-02-10T18:32:48.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17242" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-10T20:18:06.103" Score="0" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Oliver for the correct wording. I played back the stream more than once but didn't get it right. As for failing to follow the rules about comments, while I understand the need for courtesy &amp;amp; procedures in online forums, the rules of Stack Exchange make me feel as if I am in a Medieval court of law, and will never manage to figure out which writ I should plead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I will bow out, wishing you all well, with apologies for my unseemly behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/16645/49&quot;&gt;&quot;Is there a third Holmes sibling?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; the questioner mentions a comment Mycroft made, saying &quot;I'm not given to brotherly love,...&quot; Later in the episode, when Holmes is saying good bye to John beside the airplane, Sherlock says that his brother and sister used to sing a song about the wind to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comments made by Mycroft and Sherlock suggest that the series writers have a Holmes sister in mind. It'll be interesting if she shows up in the next season of the show. It would also add an interesting counterpoint to the fact that John has a sister from whom he is seriously estranged. (Sister Harry didn't accept her invitation to John and Mary's wedding.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have made a comment about this where the question about a third sibling appeared, but I don't have enough reputation to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8018" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T13:19:18.610" Title="Doesn't Sherlock's comment to Watson during their good bye scene suggest that there is/was a third Holmes sibling and that the sibling is a woman?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-02-11T00:18:45.470" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="582" CreationDate="2014-02-11T12:53:59.663" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The mill is more of a metaphor imo. Like the heroine, it repeatedly gets taken down only to bounce back time after time. &#xA;  It adds to the scene's beauty exhibiting  QT's brilliance in creating a deep environment for the screen to get lost in.&#xA;  Homage it may be, but definitely a perfectly placed garnish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8026" LastActivityDate="2014-02-11T12:53:59.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17538" CreationDate="2014-02-11T14:48:14.720" Score="12" ViewCount="3155" Body="&lt;p&gt;Trying to recall of a movie I saw around 2005-2007 (movie date might be around this time as well), one of those &quot;group of young people go to a house in the woods, away from the city&quot;. But this one consists of the group being contestants of a big brother-like show, where they would be confined at this house, and they were monitored everytime by a cameraman who followed them everywhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember the house being pretty modern, with sofas and the walls to be red and purple colored. At the beginning one of the guys (I think the show producer) goes to the woods and disappears, being apparently attacked by something. From this part on, everyone gets scared and one by one they are kidnapped, but they could never see what took them. There is a particular scene I remember when they find out the cameraman is gay and the group uses one of the guys to seduce him and distract him while some of them escape/investigate I think. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, there is only one person who walks out of the house alive and well (can't remember if it's a guy or a girl), and he/she discovers in the end it was all a prank by the producer, who suddenly walks in like nothing happened, and everyone shows up alive later, indicating that the producer &quot;kidnapped them&quot; to add a fear factor on the show. I think the movie wasn't that good anyways, but its ending reminded me of Cry Wolf, and that's why I wanna find it again. Sorry if I lack more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 1:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember that the producer (or at least one of the contestants) had shoulder length black hair, kinda looked like he was indian-ish. There was at least one blonde girl (which horror movie doesn't actually)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seem to recollect of a scene where the contestants are eating and drinking on a table (I think it was rounded and white). The scene closely reminds me of a scene from the first season of The Walking Dead, when the characters are dining at the CDC. The surroundings were pretty similar in my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT 3: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still could not find this movie, thanks to the popularity of My Little Eye and the related movies being all about serial killers and zombies. IMDb and Tv Tropes were not useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to emphasize a little more (if that even helps in any way), the strongest points I remember were that: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The only camera watching the group was the one the gay guy was using (and they discover his sexuality after noticing he was always focusing the lens on one of the guys). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There was no true killing in the movie, since at the end all of them showed up alive, like an organized prank to scare off the contestans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And I just recalled of a scene with a blonde girl running towards a door, the walls around her with tons of green. I think she was able to escape through that door in a later shot. From the opened door, trees could be seen in a short distance.      &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7285" LastEditorUserId="7285" LastEditDate="2014-02-26T19:21:38.947" LastActivityDate="2015-03-10T22:45:58.903" Title="Reality show in secluded house in the woods, contestants are kidnapped, at the end it was all a prank" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T11:59:56.890" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17172" CreationDate="2014-02-11T16:58:56.207" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the OP said that he is open to answers outside the movie universe here goes this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Mandarin is portrayed as a genius scientist and a superhumanly&#xA;  skilled martial artist. However, &lt;strong&gt;his primary sources of power are ten&#xA;  power rings&lt;/strong&gt; that he adapted from the alien technology of a crashed&#xA;  space ship. Each ring has a different power and is worn on a specific&#xA;  finger. &#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_%28comics%29&quot;&gt;From Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the &lt;strong&gt;Ten Rings&lt;/strong&gt; terrorist group in Iron Man I, was &lt;strong&gt;a reference&lt;/strong&gt; to that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Ten Rings was a shout out to Iron Man’s archenemy&lt;/strong&gt; in Marvel&#xA;  Comics, the Mandarin, and refers to the literal ten rings that the&#xA;  Mandarin wears, rings with alien origins.&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/iron-man-3-ten-rings/&quot;&gt;From screenrant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the short film &lt;strong&gt;All Hail the King&lt;/strong&gt;, says that the real Mandarin exists:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ben Kingsley reprises his role as Slattery in the Marvel One-Shot&#xA;  short All Hail the King.  In this film, Slattery is an inmate at&#xA;  Seagate Prison being interviewed by Jack Norriss, a filmmaker&#xA;  documenting his life. However, &lt;strong&gt;in a plot twist, it is revealed that&#xA;  Norriss is a member of the real Ten Rings organization led by the real&#xA;  Mandarin&lt;/strong&gt;, and that they are angered by Killian and Slattery making a&#xA;  mockery of their beliefs. He kidnaps Slattery from the prison, telling&#xA;  him that the Mandarin wants to meet him.&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_%28comics%29#Film&quot;&gt;From Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if they plan the Mandarin to have those literal ten rings of power from another planet, or only the organization called the ten rings as a reference to the comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With Capitan America, Thor and Avengers introducing super natural powers from other planets and universes to the movie universe, I think they could introduce the real Mandarin with the rings as it is in the comics without been unrealistic in this continuity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6018" LastActivityDate="2014-02-11T16:58:56.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17250" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17252" CreationDate="2014-02-11T19:39:56.527" Score="6" ViewCount="2515" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Continuum Season 1, Episode 5, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Liber8 killed Kellog's grand mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Kellog didn't die. Kiera had some speculations about why that happend, but they all seem kinda odd. Is there an explonation consistent with the serie's logic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2014-02-20T19:33:33.350" LastActivityDate="2019-01-09T17:38:51.733" Title="Why didn't Kellog die in S1E5?" Tags="|plot-explanation|time-travel|continuum|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17259" CreationDate="2014-02-11T19:49:59.507" Score="3" ViewCount="21463" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187393/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Patriot&lt;/a&gt;, what all happened at Fort Wilderness? I know there was a battle, but who was fighting and what was the end result? Was Colonel Tavington involved in this battle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, is Colonel Tavington in the movie supposed to represent someone in real life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8028" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-12T11:40:41.283" LastActivityDate="2017-06-19T00:15:28.483" Title="What was the significance of fort Wilderness in the Patriot?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-patriot|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17250" CreationDate="2014-02-11T19:53:55.600" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the experiment was to prove or disprove the grandfather paradox theory of time travel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the result was inconclusive, because it's never stated for &lt;em&gt;certain&lt;/em&gt; that she was the right person and not just an innocent victim who shared the name. Remember they were going after multiple people with the same name in the hopes of finding the right one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if they'd been successful, Kellog still wouldn't have &quot;died&quot; -- he simply would never have existed in the first place. Which creates the paradox: if Kellog never existed, then Liber8 wouldn't have needed to kill anyone to make him not exist, and so he would have existed, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ultimate point here is that none of the characters know the rules/logic/physics involved, and this was one way they were trying to find out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's equally possible that through that death, they've already skewed off a parallel timeline completely separate from the one they left, and they are now incapable of returning to that one because it no longer exists. (The &lt;em&gt;Back to the Future&lt;/em&gt; theory of timestreams.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;: Given what we've seen in Season 3 so far, there are several distinct possibilities (Spoilers follow):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The easiest explanation is that she was the wrong victim. In this case, there is no paradox at all, and the universe keeps on ticking. We've already seen how both Kiera and Liber8 have made themselves part of this timeline, so there is likely a form of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_principle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;self-consistency principle&lt;/a&gt; at work. So, it's likely that in the &quot;original&quot; timeline, the woman was killed, and her murderer never caught. Only by backtracking do we realize that the killer was actually from Liber8, so the timeline remains consistent and paradox is not only avoided, but impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The woman was the right woman, but temporal inertia hasn't yet caught up with the timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; When Alec went back to save Emily, the timeline didn't start to crumble until some time &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; he made the change; long enough for Kiera to be questioned, escape, be re-captured and then recruited. So given that time could continue on for a period following the divergence, it's possible that the time differential between the woman's death and when it would have had an impact on the timeline was longer, and so the timeline hasn't yet diverged. Though how/if this would matter given the timeline divergence Alec caused is unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The woman was the right woman, but the change wasn't drastic enough to shatter the timeline. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Obviously, only severe timeline changes are disastrous; otherwise, every conversation Kiera had with anyone would have caused fracturing since in the &quot;original&quot; timeline, they couldn't have taken place. Plus, we know the &quot;freelancers&quot; have been coming back for some time in order to put things in place for their missions. Time is clearly able to absorb a certain amount of change, like having the uncaught serial killer be caught, so there is definitely some elasticity. Since Alec Sadler is a major player with a serious amount of influence in the future, a change to his past has more devastating effect than a minor player like Kellog, so one completely shatters the timeline while the other is absorbed and the universe looks the other way. As to how he would remain alive: he's just an orphaned piece of a defunct timeline, just like the &quot;duplicate&quot; Alec and Keira are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only direct influence in one's &lt;em&gt;own&lt;/em&gt; past is strong enough to cause divergence.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Kellog wasn't directly responsible for his grandmother's death, and in fact had no foreknowledge of it having happened, but Alec's tampering was specifically to alter his own past. In this scenario, the paradox isn't the change itself but the fact that one is altering events inside one's own memory. If you go back in time to prevent Event A, then it never happens, and so why do you need to travel back to stop it? This is different from the situation with Kellog's grandmother because no one involved had witnessed the original events. Now, suppose Kellog were to get hold of the device and travel back in time to save her. &lt;em&gt;That&lt;/em&gt; would cause a timeline-shattering paradox because he is directly altering events that he has witnessed and that are part of his personal history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, we still don't have enough knowledge of the time travel mechanics in this world (e.g., Keira's &quot;lifeboat&quot;) to know for certain what's going on. I suspect the writers are making up a lot of it as they go along rather than having a full vision already mapped out. For the moment, we don't really have anything more certain than &quot;wibbly wobbly timey wimey&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7962" LastEditorUserId="7962" LastEditDate="2014-04-07T18:42:39.870" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T18:42:39.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10050" CreationDate="2014-02-11T20:26:30.730" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it may also be a representation of Claire herself. Paper on it's own is blank and undefined but once folded and manipulated it can serve a purpose as with the origami. After the photo Claire takes of the girl is first printed Adam keeps projecting what he sees onto the image, wanting to name her Claire indicating that he sees her this way. Claire before leaving however, rearranges the photo into how she sees herself. A tightly controlled image surrounded by obscure and indiscernible border.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8029" LastActivityDate="2014-02-11T20:26:30.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16883" CreationDate="2014-02-12T00:19:49.013" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The music playing in that specific scene does not appear to have a specific name, but it is part of the original score composed for the movie by Nino Rota.  You can read an analysis of the entire score at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20141110003135/https://dtsft.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/whats-the-score-the-godfather/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Damn, That's Some Fine Tailoring&lt;/a&gt; blog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7035" LastEditorUserId="59522" LastEditDate="2023-02-04T08:47:06.773" LastActivityDate="2023-02-04T08:47:06.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="859" CreationDate="2014-02-12T00:52:53.587" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It shows that the narrator defuses the bomb when he pulls out the green wire. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why Tyler gets mad and why they start to fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8033" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T22:09:32.137" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T22:09:32.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13504" CreationDate="2014-02-12T02:47:45.827" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching the scene again, it's quite clear the fire-breathing moment was the result of a purge required after sustained use of extremis' exothermic capabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After applying extreme heat through his palms (for what is inferred to be some time), Rhodes is ejected from the suit. Killian seems to struggle for a few moments in an attempt to contain the sudden halt of this process, before venting the built up energy through his projectile fire-breath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both Killian and Savin look somewhat shocked at this. It appears as though this has never happened before, but perhaps only because circumstances have never dictated such application.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Killian even make a remark about this, claiming it is 'new day' in reference to this development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the spontaneity of the reaction, its unlikely Killian would be able or willing to try and reproduce it in a weaponized way...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-02-12T02:47:45.827" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17251" CreationDate="2014-02-12T09:41:22.263" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me this always has been part of the story to show that there's no real good or bad side and pretty much everyone could have a skeleton in their closet. We see the story from the perspective of the settlers, but that doesn't make them the only good people (and the British the only bad ones).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie (at least the higher ranks of) British soldiers are typically depicted as egoistic and (some of them) as cold-blooded murderers. Benjamin on the other side is just a loving father who joins the battle seeking revenge and to end the whole thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except he's not, and he probably did similar things in the past, which is hinted at by the whole Fort Wilderness storytelling (as far as it happens). He just doesn't want to remember or talk about it, because he's now fighting people that are quite like the person he (most likely) has been in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I know, there were conflicts between settlers (British and French) as well as native americans. However, the whole event (as well as the movie's main plot) are made up and only loosely inspired by actual events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick google lead me to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.patriotresource.com/factfiction/events/one.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; explaining several facts (and fictions) surrounding the whole Fort Wilderness plot. In short: Some things like that happened, but the actual location names are made up. In these conflicts the British settlers (so Benjamin most likely as well) were those burning down houses, murdering families, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastActivityDate="2014-02-12T09:41:22.263" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9879" CreationDate="2014-02-12T11:45:11.093" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to this article from the Wall Street Journal called &lt;a href=&quot;http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323296504578398431179979920?mod=e2tw&amp;amp;mg=reno64-wsj&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424127887323296504578398431179979920.html%3Fmod%3De2tw&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;From Talkies to Texties&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Sherlock is actually credited with this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The texting seen in &quot;Disconnect&quot; and other coming films adheres loosely &lt;strong&gt;to a convention credited to the BBC's &quot;Sherlock,&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; featuring a wired Sherlock Holmes in modern-day London, and more recently, Netflix's hit series &quot;House of Cards.&quot; The 13-episode show centers on a scheming U.S. congressman, Frank Underwood ( Kevin Spacey ), and his efforts to manipulate everybody he knows. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears Sherlock brought it to the screen for all to enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-02-12T11:45:11.093" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17264" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17316" CreationDate="2014-02-12T15:55:58.910" Score="4" ViewCount="29889" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;This is perhaps not the best place for this Q, but I'm not able to find any site more suitable. (Have looked at &lt;em&gt;English Language and Usage&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Writers&lt;/em&gt; and the like, but doesn't seem to fit.)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of Black Sails third episode we are given a read by Miranda from Marcus Aurelius &lt;em&gt;Meditations&lt;/em&gt;. With the possibility of not recapturing it correctly it goes something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;– The emperor writes: How should you be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You should be like a rocky promontory against which the restless  surf&#xA;  continuously pounds. It stands fast while the churning sea is  lulled&#xA;  to sleep at its feet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I hear you say – ``How unlucky that this should happen to me''. But  not&#xA;  at all. Perhaps say instead how lucky I am that I am not broken  by&#xA;  what has happened, and I am not afraid of what is about to happen.&#xA;  For the same blow might have stricken any one, but not many who  would&#xA;  have absorbed it without capitulation and complaint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this from an existing translation / rewrite, or is it a rework by the authors of the TV-series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Translation (1862) by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Long_%28scholar%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;George Long&lt;/a&gt; (1800 – 1879) can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, which at end of book four has:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[…] Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. […]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It reminds me of the quotation from Dante's &lt;em&gt;La Vita Nuova&lt;/em&gt; read by The Doctor in the Star Trek episode &lt;em&gt;Latent Image&lt;/em&gt; in which he reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;– In that book which is my memory,  On the first page of the chapter&#xA;  that is the day when I first met you,  Appear the words, 'Here begins&#xA;  a new life'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where the more literal translation say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In that part of the book of my memory,  Before which is little that&#xA;  can be read,  There is a rubric, saying, 'Incipit Vita Nova'. (Here&#xA;  beginneth the new life.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this the same case? A rework by the script writers, or is it from an existing translation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8038" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2014-02-15T14:21:31.623" LastActivityDate="2014-07-11T03:11:59.750" Title="Is the Marcus Aurelius quote in Black Sails a rewrite?" Tags="|dialogue|screenwriter|black-sails|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17265" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17303" CreationDate="2014-02-12T17:19:26.567" Score="32" ViewCount="26096" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode four of True Detective, there was a 6-minute long, single take, tracking shot sequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the longest, scripted, &lt;strong&gt;single take&lt;/strong&gt; (no cuts) sequence in movies / television?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not considering live (sketch comedy, reality television, improv, talk shows, etc.) or presentation-style (documentaries, how-to shows, etc.) takes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers are not restricted to any particular recording media (film, digital, etc.), just the length of the single take and that the content be of intent.  For example, the True Detective sequence was a 6-minute long action sequence with no cuts made as the camera followed the complex, scripted sequence with no cheats or trickery involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2015-03-20T19:38:59.997" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T23:20:38.410" Title="What is the longest, single take, tracking shot in cinema/TV?" Tags="|film-techniques|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17265" CreationDate="2014-02-12T17:32:20.587" Score="3" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scorcese's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBMKyNJvNV8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Copacabana tracking shot&lt;/a&gt; in &quot;Goodfellas&quot; needs mentioning.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.amctv.com/movie-blog/2007/09/the-ten-best-tr/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ten-best tracking shots list from AMC&lt;/a&gt; lists the opening of &quot;Snake Eyes&quot; as being 13 mins.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1634" LastActivityDate="2014-02-12T17:32:20.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17265" CreationDate="2014-02-12T17:37:19.340" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been movies where the &lt;em&gt;entire&lt;/em&gt; movie is a single take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best I can find based on quick research are &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Ark&quot;&gt;Russian Ark&lt;/a&gt; at 96 minutes, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timecode_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Timecode&lt;/a&gt; at 97 minutes. Timecode is actually a quad-split screen film (four different videos running in four different quadrants of the screen), each of which is a single take shot, running for the entire movie. I included Russian Ark if you wanted something that has a more direct narrative and doesn't change focus to a different story in a different part of the frame by upping the audio track for that frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: Had I bothered to look a little further down in my Google search, there is evidently a new king for longest single take film. It's a Swedish film called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/news/ni44733018/&quot;&gt;7333 Seconds of Johanna&lt;/a&gt;. The film is 2 hours, 3 minutes, and 3 seconds long, and was filmed with Guinness World Record officials present the entire time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="8048" LastEditDate="2014-02-13T09:22:05.500" LastActivityDate="2014-02-13T09:22:05.500" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17270" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-12T21:06:51.777" Score="7" ViewCount="3243" Body="&lt;p&gt;It can be somewhat common among spinoff series or when cross promotion is desired, for characters from one series to appear in episodes of another series. This has most recently been seen in some of the Law and Order episodes, and in various episodes of the NCIS and CSI family of series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As noted in some of the comments in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/17258/murder-mystery-television-show-in-the-80s-90s&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, there have been a few cases of spinoff series appearing on other networks. I'm interested in finding out if there have been instances of character crossover in currently running episodes on competing networks? (Just as an example, members of the cast of Bones (Fox) appearing on CSI (CBS).)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2019-12-17T06:23:19.033" Title="Television crossover episodes between networks?" Tags="|character|spin-off|crossovers|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17270" CreationDate="2014-02-12T21:16:54.737" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_crossover#Television_series&quot;&gt;Wikipedia has some information about this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, Detective John Munch from &lt;em&gt;Homicide: Life on the Street&lt;/em&gt; (NBC) appeared in an episode of &lt;em&gt;The X Files&lt;/em&gt; (FOX).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's rare, but it happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7454" LastActivityDate="2014-02-12T21:16:54.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17270" CreationDate="2014-02-12T21:26:54.317" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hate to send you to a website, but there is a master list of crossover appearances maintained at &lt;a href=&quot;http://poobala.com/crossoverlist.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Poobala&lt;/a&gt;.  The site is physically elderly, to the extent that it uses frames, and it last had a major update in January 2012, but it is quite comprehensive.  There are so many crossovers listed that it would be futility to copy them all over here.  The aforementioned Munch appearances are all part of a massive crossover grouping which is all the dream of the autistic child at the end of St. Elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2014-02-13T01:45:48.627" LastActivityDate="2014-02-13T01:45:48.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3390" CreationDate="2014-02-13T01:41:51.650" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bane has a dim view of humanity, especially the people of Gotham. He thinks people, under significant stress and hardship, will turn into maggots, not dissimilar to the way the Joker felt. He wants to screw with their minds. His 'revolution' is a way for him to exploit anti-authoritarian sentiment amongst the people : he positions himself as a liberator, as someone who's on the side of the weak, those who've been crushed by the 'system' - the poor, people who don't like the police. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put simply : he enjoys watching people squirm, because he and Talia are sadistic bastards whose childhood pain has distorted their view of humanity so much that they cannot see the world as anything but a cruel place. They want to accomplish the opposite of what Wayne does : just like the Joker, they want to encourage people to 'eat each other' ... 'to stay in the sun'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did they leave it so long? They thought they couldn't fail. They were arrogant and reckless, but more importantly : they had a mole inside the 'resistance' who was able to forecast every single move Gordon, Blake et al would make - the mole, of course, being Talia. And one more for one more reason that is obvious but not always apparent : they are fuc*ing crazy. They're not factoring in self-preservation or anything logical : they're trying to create hell on Earth - and enjoying it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8045" LastEditorUserId="8045" LastEditDate="2014-02-13T02:05:03.343" LastActivityDate="2014-02-13T02:05:03.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16634" CreationDate="2014-02-13T03:32:01.110" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;My theories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a) he has contact lenses that are electronic somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b) he is a robot - the words loose bend because the glasses caused the bend.  Contact lenses would probably do the same so the only thing left is he is a robot and the words are straight because his eyes are not real.  The &quot;dead&quot; in his eyes is because he is not human, or maybe only partially so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8046" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-06-09T11:28:35.270" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T11:28:35.270" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17279" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24281" CreationDate="2014-02-13T05:52:00.910" Score="19" ViewCount="3854" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this has been covered very similarly in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/1893/what-was-the-first-crossover-movie-like-the-avengers-using-only-movie-franchise&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question, but as opposed to just cross-overs, have there been other attempts at creating a cinematic universe? Freddy vs Jason, Aliens vs Predator, Abbot &amp;amp; Costello meeting The Universal Monsters were all &quot;after the fact&quot; ploys at getting more money as opposed to creating a universe. I'd also exclude singular directors who just link their movies like Tarantino's Red Apple cigarettes or Landis' &quot;See you next Wednesday.&quot; Using that logic any sequels would be open for inclusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know these sound like harsh guidelines, but I'm specifically after films leading up to other films, using other protagonists, as opposed to the James Bond sequence, the Harry Potter franchise, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to clarify, I &lt;strong&gt;don't want&lt;/strong&gt; sequels like the Dirty Harry movies, prequels like the Hobbit films which use the same protagonists as the Lord of the Rings, &lt;strong&gt;single writer or director's worlds&lt;/strong&gt; (The View Askewniverse being a prime example), or in-jokes like Quentin and Landis do as mentioned above. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, and whatever forthcoming titles are not directly sequels to each other nor require any character overlaps in their separate franchises, but DO create a bigger Universe they all exist and interact in&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;This is the central aspect of my question.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT -&lt;/strong&gt; I do not want a list, nor are any new answers really necessary. I have accepted an answer that I find compelling. &lt;em&gt;There&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;precedent&lt;/em&gt; at least in the Kaiju films. That's &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; I wanted to know. The MCU is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a completely new beast. I find this to be worthwhile information, because I thought the MCU &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; something completely new, and I know others did also. Still, the MCU is mighty impressive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I only include this edit because this info might be too easy to miss as a comment, &lt;em&gt;13 comments down,&lt;/em&gt; given the &quot;vote to close&quot; status.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2017-08-23T00:13:53.503" LastActivityDate="2017-08-23T00:13:53.503" Title="Have there been other cinematic crossovers like the Marvel Cinematic Universe?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|movie-franchise|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17280" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17281" CreationDate="2014-02-13T06:35:01.440" Score="9" ViewCount="3262" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111282/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stargate (1994)&lt;/a&gt;, Ra said he chose the human body because it was so easy to repair. I don't quite understand what this meant. They discovered that Ra's [alien] race was supposedly dying off. Obviously he found a way to become immortal by &quot;becoming human&quot;. But,  in the final scene, Ra morphs(?) back into the alien form. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what was Ra, a human or an alien? How did he get his human form, did he transfer his mind/spirit into a human body or was he just seen as a human? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-06T18:47:23.017" LastActivityDate="2021-01-25T08:14:48.440" Title="Who/What was Ra?" Tags="|stargate|stargate-1994|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17280" CreationDate="2014-02-13T08:29:19.620" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it later becomes established in Stargate SG1, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Goa%27uld&quot;&gt;Goa'uld&lt;/a&gt; are actually parasitic creatures that inhabit and control their hosts. We also know that before humans, the Goa'uld used to take control of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Unas&quot;&gt;Unas&lt;/a&gt;, but that the number of Unas in the universe was rapidly dwindling due to the rapid growth of the Goa'uld.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the opening scene of Stargate (the 1994 movie), we see a pyramid shaped ship landing on ancient Earth, amongst a group of local inhabitants, one of which gets curious and approaches the ship. This individual was captured and then subsequently became the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Ra_%28Human%29&quot;&gt;host of Ra&lt;/a&gt; - enslaved and trapped inside his own body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2014-02-13T08:29:19.620" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17279" CreationDate="2014-02-13T11:38:13.360" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The closest one is probably the Pixar films, where each movie references the next, the Pizza Planet truck appears in all the films (except The Incredibles), and there's always a character that sounds like Cliff from Cheers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8013" LastActivityDate="2014-02-13T11:38:13.360" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17265" CreationDate="2014-02-13T13:18:45.827" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a horror movie called Silent House, I think there's two or three cuts in it but they are all pretty cleverly hidden, besides that the movie is a continuous shot, probably about 30-40 minutes at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8052" LastActivityDate="2014-02-13T13:18:45.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17265" CreationDate="2014-02-13T15:03:42.603" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not longer than the movies listed above, but the TV show Mad About You had a single take, commercial-free, 20-minute long episode called the &quot;The Conversation&quot;.  I haven't seen it since it was aired, though, so I don't remember if the camera was fixed or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8056" LastActivityDate="2014-02-13T15:03:42.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17286" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17289" CreationDate="2014-02-13T15:28:37.987" Score="24" ViewCount="17527" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Sign of Three, we learn of a murder and an attempted murder in which the assailant had hidden an extremely sharp blade on the inside of a belt. The blade is so sharp that the victim doesn't notice the resulting wound, and does not bleed until the belt is removed, at which point he exsanguinates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of the first victim, why did he start bleeding in the shower, and not when he disrobed? Are we to understand that he didn't take his belt off until he was already in the shower?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-02-06T14:30:46.460" LastActivityDate="2017-02-06T14:30:46.460" Title="How could the murder weapon in The Sign of Three possibly work?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17286" CreationDate="2014-02-13T15:40:12.577" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is ridiculous. Also, I don't think that the blade was hidden on the inside of the belt but that the murderer stabbed through the belt with the &quot;very sharp knife&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also agree with you that the murder victim would not have turned the shower on and then dis-robed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also not sure that if this murder technique had worked that he would have died so fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1027" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-02-14T08:37:02.590" LastActivityDate="2014-02-14T08:37:02.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17279" CreationDate="2014-02-13T16:55:02.107" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't really think of an example from cinema (right now, but will update if I do), but there a few from television that I can recall.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Urkel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Urkel&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096579/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Family Matters&lt;/a&gt; appeared in episodes of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092359/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Full House&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Urkel#Appearances_on_other_shows&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Step by Step and a reference is made to Boy Meets World&lt;/a&gt;.  Fonzi also appeared in several other sitcoms during the same time period.  And the USA network has done pseudo cross over with their shows characters - in promos and commercials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: just rediscovered &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/theaarondouglas/status/424633754519212032&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this interesting comparison&lt;/a&gt;, and while not explicit or far reaching may be applicable, and I seem to recall similar 'cameos' and references in other films. And the graphic is rather humorous :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3416" LastEditorUserId="3416" LastEditDate="2014-02-21T20:30:43.750" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T20:30:43.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17286" CreationDate="2014-02-13T20:06:35.223" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually assailant didn't hide the blade inside the belt. He stabbed the victim with the sharp knife and because of the tightness in muscle victim didn't realize the wound until it began to bleed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you watch closely you can notice that Bainbridge's face was pale before going to the shower. So we can assume that internal bleeding had started. As he removed the belt bleeding started slowly. He just came out of a long over one hour guard without any muscle twitches. Thus not sensing external injuries. Even if you stand for 1 hour still you won't feel certain things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; he had removed the belt before entering the shower but &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt; he hadn't remove the inner shirt. So he can't see the blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cJ2xM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastActivityDate="2014-02-13T20:06:35.223" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17286" CreationDate="2014-02-13T23:04:07.047" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The attempted murders in &lt;em&gt;The Sign Of Three&lt;/em&gt; have some similarities with the real-life &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Elisabeth_of_Austria#Assassination&quot;&gt;assassination of Empress Elisabeth of Austria&lt;/a&gt;, who was stabbed with a very thin blade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because of the sharpness and thinness of the file the wound was very narrow and, due to pressure from Elisabeth's extremely tight corseting, the hemorrhage of blood into the pericardial sac around the heart was slowed to mere drops. Until this sac filled, the beating of her heart was not impeded, which is why Elisabeth had been able to walk from the site of the assault and up the boat’s boarding ramp. Had the weapon not been removed, she would have lived a while longer, as it would have acted like a plug to stop the bleeding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So perhaps it's not quite as absurd as it appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastActivityDate="2014-02-13T23:04:07.047" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17296" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-13T23:07:03.377" Score="4" ViewCount="862" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the pilot episode of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Deep Space Nine&lt;/em&gt;, I remember there were aliens who had no sense of time.  (It was a long time ago; forgive me if I get some details wrong!)  I remember the commander trying to explain baseball to them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the ball is pitched&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the spectators don't know if the batter will hit it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if the batter does hit it, nobody in the stands or on the field knows what direction it will go&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's why it's nice to have a sense of time and to not know what's going to happen.  HOWEVER ... if the aliens really don't have time, and know everything, they could NOT HAVE THIS CONVERSATION.  At the start of the conversation, they don't know a couple things.  (Baseball &amp;amp; time.)  During the conversation they learn about those things.  If they were truly immune to time, and could travel to the past and the future and stuff, they would already know the baseball analogy and would already know the result of the conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your thoughts?  Explanations?  (Bad jokes?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-09-26T14:03:14.910" LastActivityDate="2017-09-26T14:03:14.910" Title="In the pilot episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the &quot;timeless aliens&quot; were a paradox, right?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-trek|star-trek-deep-space-nine|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17297" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17298" CreationDate="2014-02-13T23:29:24.200" Score="13" ViewCount="5583" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever I search for episodes of various TV series, I am wondering why there are different writers and/or directors. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_Human_%28TV_series%29#Episodes&quot;&gt;the list of &lt;strong&gt;Almost Human Episodes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for an example. It doesn't make sense to me that a story started by one person is continued by another person, because it reminds me of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://storifi.it/&quot;&gt;&quot;Storifi&quot; game&lt;/a&gt;. So, how does it work? Why are they doing this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8061" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T21:37:16.870" Title="Why are there so many different writers to TV series?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17297" CreationDate="2014-02-14T00:18:22.260" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason is simple. Money. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something you may have noticed about shows with multiple writers versus ones with one or two writers is that the former have a lot more episodes than the latter. Having a lot of writers means you can write more story material, which translates to more episodes which (usually) translates to more money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reason is that for most part it is the studio that &lt;em&gt;owns&lt;/em&gt; the story and the characters, not the writer(s). So the story gets handled like an asset, and is managed in such a way as to maximize the monetary revenue it generates. So if the studio no longer likes the original writer (not enough revenue, refusing to conform with the studio's master plan, writer got bored with the story, or even plain old politics) it can simply give the story to another writer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This model is not unique to TV and film studios either. Comics are notorious for this, especially the big two (DC and Marvel). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-02-14T00:18:22.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17300" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17302" CreationDate="2014-02-14T01:08:52.653" Score="10" ViewCount="1762" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the general research areas/specialties of each of the main scientists in The Big Bang Theory are well known to viewers, as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sheldon: theoretical physics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leonard: experimental physics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Raj: astrophysics&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Howard: mechanical/electrical engineering&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(but I count him as a scientist for this question because it's easy)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Amy: neuroscience&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bernadette: microbiology&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much more precisely can we identify the specific subfields they work in? What evidence exists in the show that one would use to make such an identification?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, I'm aware that if one looks too closely, the evidence will be inconsistent, e.g. Sheldon usually works on string theory and particle physics but spends a whole episode on the motion of electrons through a crystal lattice, which is only vaguely related. But I'm willing to excuse an occasional diversion into a different research topic (which is plausible). I would imagine the &lt;em&gt;majority&lt;/em&gt; of each character's work in the show centers around some topic which can be identified more specifically than just e.g. &quot;experimental physics,&quot; and that's what I'm curious to know about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1099" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T00:31:46.367" Title="How precisely do we know the research topics of the scientists in TBBT?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17300" CreationDate="2014-02-14T03:21:07.470" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, we do have at least one clue for Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter, in that in episode 1.9 &quot;The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization&quot;, they were invited to co-present a paper on super solids, which comes from the quantum field. Leonard was also awarded dissertation of the year for his doctoral thesis on experimental particle physics. Sheldon concentrates more on string theory and M-theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rajesh Koothrappali is in astrophysics, and at one point in the series fears being deported because of failed research in trans Neptunian objects, so astral body research can be intimated from this reference, and he also does research with Sheldon on gamma rays and dark matter annihilation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Howard Wolowitz is pretty much an engineer, as shown by his creation of a toilet for the space station, and other physical objects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Amy Farrah Fowler is engaged in research on primates and invertebrates, which is sprinkled in through many episodes, usually centered around jokes during her work. (As an aside, Mayim Bialik, the actress that portrays Dr. Amy Fowler has a Ph.D in neuroscience.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bernadette Marian Rostenkowski Wolowitz (formerly Bernadette Marian Rostenkowski), for some of the series was in graduate school, and when she graduated was hired by a large pharmaceutical company, presumably in drug research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="2185" LastEditDate="2014-02-18T00:31:46.367" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T00:31:46.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17265" CreationDate="2014-02-14T04:57:26.857" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess the key here is using the word &lt;strong&gt;film&lt;/strong&gt; in your title. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With film you are limited to the length in a canister and no amount of creativity can change that. With digital video this constraint goes out the window. So for &lt;em&gt;film&lt;/em&gt;, it looks like Snake Eyes wins at just over 13 minutes. For &lt;em&gt;digital video&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2574426/&quot;&gt;Agadam&lt;/a&gt; looks to be a clear winner, endorsed by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/2000/longest-film-shot-on-a-single-camera&quot;&gt;Guinness Book of World Records&lt;/a&gt; at 2 hr 3 min 30 sec, beating out &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/news/ni44733018/&quot;&gt;7333 Seconds of Johanna&lt;/a&gt; by 27 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt; If @NapoleonWilson is correct, and DePalma used cuts, then &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.amctv.com/movie-blog/2007/09/the-ten-best-tr/&quot;&gt;The Player – Opening Shot: 8 minutes, 5 seconds&lt;/a&gt; might be the winner, and I hope it is, because it talks about other opening shots &lt;em&gt;during&lt;/em&gt; the shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All these directors owe a debt of gratitude to Hitchcock for trying it in the first place. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Rope&lt;/a&gt; was a very difficult and singular goal to strive for and he did a remarkable job given the technological and financial hurdles he had to overcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-02-14T14:38:12.460" LastActivityDate="2014-02-14T14:38:12.460" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9772" CreationDate="2014-02-14T05:48:00.540" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's Henry Mack. As stated by the previous poster, at one point, Hannibal calls him Henry. Also, in season 2 episode 14, Murdock refers to himself as &quot;Mack Murdock&quot;. Henry Mack &quot;Howling Mad&quot; Murdock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8064" LastActivityDate="2014-02-14T05:48:00.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17279" CreationDate="2014-02-14T07:07:46.860" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;All in the same universe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mallrats&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chasing Amy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dogma&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clerks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jay and Silent Bob&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scream 1,2,3,4 since Jay and Silent Bob show up in the third movie, as Jay and Silent Bob&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113749/movieconnections#followed_by&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore if you are interested in connections of a movie with another movie, they have for every movie (if available) a &quot;Connections&quot; section. This may help to find some more (however also references to the movie show up there).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2016-02-29T01:27:58.653" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T01:27:58.653" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17297" CreationDate="2014-02-14T08:36:50.970" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In some cases I suspect that it's not simply a case of money. In the past I used to help write 'scripts' for LARP events, which are basically like stories. In that case, having a number of writers was very beneficial. Different people had different ideas on how characters would interact with each other and how the story would pan out. If it's a collaborative affair, ie. all the writers get together and throw ideas at each other the atomosphere can become nicely charged and ideas come out that probably would have been difficult if a single person were writing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also (in my case) allowed a group of people with limited abilities to produce story lines that they otherwise wouldn't have thought of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another take on this is that distinct groups can write the story for different characters, almost independantly and, when nearly finished, share those ideas with other writers (writing for different characters) and see how the story lines combine and clash. This can lead to some great interplay between characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Also, writing with other people is a lot of fun !) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6811" LastActivityDate="2014-02-14T08:36:50.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17308" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-14T14:30:05.097" Score="12" ViewCount="978" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Die Hard 2 Holly and Dick have a heated exchange in the plane and she says something like &quot;Listen, buster.  You endangered my children and you didn't do it for anything as noble as the people ...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Die Hard his news report causes her to give away who she is to a very astute Hans but I am not aware of them actually being in danger.  I always assumed it was a retcon to make Dick more villainous and Holly more sympathetic to the audience.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, my brother in law thought that there was a chance that Hans could order someone to come after the children.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have I missed a reference in the film that makes this likely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2016-12-01T09:35:20.567" Title="How did Dick endanger Holly's children?" Tags="|die-hard|die-hard-2|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17308" CreationDate="2014-02-14T14:50:01.727" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may not have endangered the children &lt;em&gt;physically&lt;/em&gt;, but it definitely endangered their well-being because it greatly increased the chances that they would have ended up orphaned that night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that Hans would have sent someone after the children, but because it gave him the knowledge that Holly was someone important to John, it enabled him to use her as leverage against him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7962" LastActivityDate="2014-02-14T14:50:01.727" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16918" CreationDate="2014-02-14T16:22:54.977" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that their intention, althoungh not spoken, was to end their own lives. The gesture at the very ending where Amy leans over Theo's shoulder gives a hint of hope. Besides it's a beautiful sunset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8070" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-02-14T16:56:57.633" LastActivityDate="2014-02-14T16:56:57.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17311" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-14T16:31:25.873" Score="5" ViewCount="569" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few shows out where the antagonist is a serial killer type that has a network of followers: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1196946/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Mentalist&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2071645/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Following&lt;/a&gt; most prominently, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2191671/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Elementary&lt;/a&gt; partially.  Is there a documented real world basis for these 'cults', maybe even one from which those shows drew inspiration?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3416" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-14T17:07:29.373" LastActivityDate="2014-02-14T20:26:34.837" Title="Serial Killer following basis for television shows" Tags="|the-following|the-mentalist|elementary|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17238" CreationDate="2014-02-14T16:44:19.093" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tommy was a bit of a loose cannon, and a bit unpredictable to even his closest friends.  You remember the &quot;Funny, how??&quot; scene?  Even Henry was a bit nervous at first, and they knew each other from childhood (they got pinched together for selling cigarettes).  Tommy also shot Spider just because he made a joke.  I think the Luchese family had many reasons to ice him, but it wasn't until Batts disappeared that they had enough ground to do it without question.  It also made for a nice peace offering to the Gambino family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-02-14T16:44:19.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17311" CreationDate="2014-02-14T17:34:18.610" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;strong&gt;copycat crimes&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A copycat crime is a criminal act that is modelled or inspired by a&#xA;  previous crime that has been reported in the media or described in&#xA;  fiction. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_crime&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_crime&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Copycat killers are a very common plot twist in police dramas, movies,&#xA;  and mystery novels where the plot involves serial killings. The&#xA;  copycat may occasionally serve as a Red Herring - the detectives think&#xA;  they've caught the killer, but it turns out he was just a copycat and&#xA;  there's still a serial killer on the loose. (Although, in Real Life,&#xA;  investigators of a serial killer often keep some details from being&#xA;  released to the public in order to tell a possible copycat apart from&#xA;  the main suspect, and some realistic crime novels mention this as&#xA;  well.) Alternatively they could be tempted to doubt they have the&#xA;  right guy because the crimes haven't stopped.&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JackTheRipoff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WARNING TVTROPES WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some real life examples can be found in the link above and : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/oct/06/ukcrime&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ripper copycat is found guilty of murder&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.howstuffworks.com/5-copycat-killers.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;10 Notable Copycat Killers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alleged_Natural_Born_Killers_copycat_crimes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;List of alleged Natural Born Killers copycat crimes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know when was the copycat killers introduced in fiction, but I found a movie from 1969 that deals with the theme:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Night After Night After Night (1969) was a low-budget production that&#xA;  cast a high court judge (played by Jack May) as a demented copycat&#xA;  Ripper who attacks prostitutes in London's Soho &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper_in_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jack the Ripper in fiction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been also murderous cults like the Thuggee:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thuggee is described as a cult of people engaged in mass murder. The&#xA;  modus operandi was to join a caravan and become accepted as bona-fide&#xA;  travellers themselves. The Thugs would need to delay any attack until&#xA;  their fellow travellers had dropped the initial wariness of the&#xA;  newcomers and had been lulled into a false sense of security, gaining&#xA;  their trust. Once the travellers had allowed the Thugs to join them&#xA;  and disperse amongst them - a task which might sometimes, depending on&#xA;  the size of the target group, require accompaniment for hundreds of&#xA;  miles - the Thugs would wait for a suitable place and time before&#xA;  killing and robbing them. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thuggee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6018" LastActivityDate="2014-02-14T17:34:18.610" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14404" CreationDate="2014-02-14T19:02:46.937" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a Political Decision- didn't have to make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their Scientists probably argued that any creature bigger than Category 2 would cave in under its own weight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8074" LastActivityDate="2014-02-14T19:02:46.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17311" CreationDate="2014-02-14T20:26:34.837" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not aware of specific cult followings that these shows draw from, but the lore and allure of serial killers and their followers has been a long established fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the more famous serial killers that have cults include (But are not limited to):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Charles Manson - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson#Manson_Family&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Manson Family&lt;/a&gt; were a bunch of women that followed him as a guru, and whom he sent out (And some on their own) to commit murders. The wiki details on this start about 20% down the page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and Richard Ramirez, while they didn't have cult followers in the manner of Manson, did attract many (in some cases hundreds) female followers, many of whom would visit in prison, send letters, gifts and promises of adoration/undying love. (The phenomenon is known as Hybristophobia).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to this, there are many &quot;followers&quot; of serial killers that know every detail of their lives and cases, and often also collect artifacts from their lives (This industry has the name murderbilia). While these are not cult followers in the Manson sense, it does demonstrate the fascination that exists for serial killers. Quite a few serial killers have ended up marrying some of their fans, either while in prison or after release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-02-14T20:26:34.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17264" CreationDate="2014-02-14T21:47:36.067" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to be an actual quote from &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations&quot;&lt;/em&gt; by C. Scot - and David V. Hicks as you can see at &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=BJIa1iwWRbIC&amp;amp;pg=PA51&amp;amp;lpg=PA51&amp;amp;dq=emperor%27s%20handbook%20how%20unlucky&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=Ayi-gxq4ws&amp;amp;sig=4a5lLVp4VltcVtNYLf8Y_5mNLeY&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=sI3-UpeOB4jmoAThjIEg&amp;amp;ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=emperor%27s%20handbook%20how%20unlucky&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google Books&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Passage is found in &lt;em&gt;Book Four&lt;/em&gt; &quot;verse&quot; 49.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;49 &lt;sup&gt;&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Be like a rocky promontory against which the restless surf continuously pounds; it stands fast while the churning sea is lulled to sleep at its feet. I hear you say, &quot;How unlucky that this should happen to me!&quot; Not at all! Say instead, &quot;How lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened and am not afraid of what is about to happen. The same blow might have struck any one, but not many would have absorbed it without capitulation and complaint.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OpT7Y.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OpT7Y.jpg&quot; width=&quot;185&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8076" LastEditorUserId="8038" LastEditDate="2014-05-09T11:47:49.587" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T11:47:49.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17296" CreationDate="2014-02-14T22:17:02.500" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all the idea that time is different for wormhole-beings makes some sense: modern physics theoretically allows wormholes to connect different places in space-time, so one end can be in the past, one in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, here's my interpretation: The wormhole-beings &lt;strong&gt;dont know that they didn't know&lt;/strong&gt;. They have actually a worse perception of time than we have. Imagine their brains like a computer into which you store facts but dont record the time at which the fact was added, also it can not form memories of its own. At every point in time it seems to it as if it had always known.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8077" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-04-17T13:23:57.267" LastActivityDate="2014-04-17T13:23:57.267" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17319" CreationDate="2014-02-14T23:20:26.143" Score="15" ViewCount="946" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 1, episode 2 of &lt;em&gt;True Detective&lt;/em&gt;, Detective Rustin Cohle reads Dora Lange's diary, and the phrases, &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Yellow King&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&quot;Carcosa&quot;&lt;/em&gt; stand out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do these phrases mean? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do they have context outside of &lt;em&gt;True Detective&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2015-08-06T17:44:37.693" LastActivityDate="2015-08-06T17:44:37.693" Title="What is the basis of the information in Dora Lange's diary?" Tags="|plot-explanation|true-detective|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17318" CreationDate="2014-02-15T00:08:53.527" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow&quot;&gt;The King in Yellow&lt;/a&gt; is a book of short stories by Robert W. Chambers, first published in 1895:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are 10 stories, the first four of which, &quot;The Repairer of&#xA;  Reputations&quot;, &quot;The Mask&quot;, &quot;In the Court of the Dragon&quot; and &quot;The Yellow&#xA;  Sign&quot;, mention &lt;strong&gt;The King in Yellow&lt;/strong&gt;, a forbidden play which induces&#xA;  despair or madness in those who read it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The city of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcosa&quot;&gt;Carcosa&lt;/a&gt; is referenced in the forbidden play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The descriptions given of it make it clear that it must be located on&#xA;  another planet, or possibly even in another universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow#Cthulhu_Mythos&quot;&gt;Cthulhu Mythos&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the King in Yellow is an Avatar of Hastur, so named because of his&#xA;  appearance as a thin, floating man covered in tattered yellow robes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-02-15T00:08:53.527" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17326" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-15T17:24:51.990" Score="6" ViewCount="1008" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't seem to stop recollecting old movies in my memory. I just started to remember a scene I saw probably between 1994 and 1995 (the release date must be no older than the 80s though). There was a little boy in his room, in the second floor of a common house (white I think). It was night and he seemed a little scared if I remember well. I remember an old man in the house (his grandfather?). It was raining heavily outside. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suddenly, a thunder hit the house, and someone (I believe it was the old man but I might be wrong) came into the boy's room to see he was not there anymore. My memory then flashes a picture of him and his family (during the same scene). It sounded like the boy was gone forever, but I don't remember what exactly happened to him, of if I saw the full movie. I was really little back then, but I remember that scene kinda scared me out at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if this rings a bell to someone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7285" LastEditorUserId="7285" LastEditDate="2014-02-15T17:30:20.897" LastActivityDate="2017-10-03T19:15:28.233" Title="Movie where little boy disappears from his room after thunder strikes the house" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:00:20.990" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17330" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17347" CreationDate="2014-02-15T21:43:32.333" Score="8" ViewCount="5029" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Battle of the Morannon, when the ring is destroyed in Mount doom, the Dark Tower collapses. Then, The Eye of Sauron implodes and creates a shock wave which causes an earthquake that shatters the ground and ground starts to collapse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this scene, How come the ground did not collapse under Aragorn's army and the fellowship? Is it because of the presence of Gandalf? or does he use a special spell? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can it be even related with Eru (Ilúvatar) ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the scene in this video as well: (at 2m55s)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyzE9thQIPo&amp;amp;t=2m55s&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyzE9thQIPo&amp;amp;t=2m55s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8083" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T12:06:56.567" Title="How come the ground under Aragorn's army did not collapse after the ring is destroyed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-return-of-the-king|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17333" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17344" CreationDate="2014-02-16T02:21:07.807" Score="11" ViewCount="2678" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_Midnight_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Before Midnight&lt;/a&gt; has been nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar. As there is no other source material (like a book or play), why is this not an &amp;quot;Original Screenplay?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/16/ethan-hawke-adapted-screenplay-nominee-for-original-characters/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The New York Times&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question to Ethan Hawke (currently on a layover in Houston, after leaving his family on a beach in Tulum, Mexico, because he had to fly to Los Angeles to collect another movie award):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is “Before Midnight,” a movie that sprang directly from the minds of Richard Linklater and Julie Delpy and him, considered an adapted screenplay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“To be honest,” Mr. Hawke replied, “Rich and Julie and I don’t really understand.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He does opine later that since they are building on characters from previous movies, that might be the reason, but this still sounds strange considering that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nixon&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Brockovich_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Erin Brockovich&lt;/a&gt; and other &amp;quot;true&amp;quot; stories have been nominated as &amp;quot;Original Screenplays&amp;quot; and the characters in Before Midnight are original creations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-09-08T10:27:52.347" Title="Why is Before Midnight considered an &quot;Adapted Screenplay?&quot;" Tags="|academy-awards|screenplay|before-midnight|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15332" CreationDate="2014-02-16T03:33:10.257" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, the small fighters are actually indeed drones controlled by the pilots at Ender's side. However, as Colonel Graff reveals, &quot;We lost a thousand men on the transporters you abandoned!&quot;, the Transports do indeed have personnel onboard if only in minimal amounts. Also, if you notice when Ender is giving commands, he refers to the collective as a &quot;Battle Group&quot;, and he orders them to deploy their drones, implying that the carriers and dreadnoughts themselves are not unmanned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8103" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-07T22:22:07.973" LastActivityDate="2019-01-07T22:22:07.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14404" CreationDate="2014-02-16T07:14:33.723" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is also a psychological extension to the response provided above by Napoleon Wilson in relation to the desperate decisions being made by the world governments at that time, ie the end of the world. There is a certain amount of reassurance that is provided by having something to put between you and the 'other', the outside world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the idea of big bugger off massive wall is something that has been used successfully in history (the great wall of china &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China&lt;/a&gt;  and also hadrians wall in england &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrians_Wall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrians_Wall&lt;/a&gt; as 2 examples). They allow a definate defensive line to be drawn and are also a psychologically motivating device.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At a time when a lot of hope seemed to be loss, a big wall to keep things on the outside may have been seen as a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8105" LastActivityDate="2014-02-16T07:14:33.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17338" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17342" CreationDate="2014-02-16T07:27:09.073" Score="5" ViewCount="590" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the present age, pretty much everyone knows the working of a simple computer, but still in movies people shoot only the computer monitors to disrupt connections and what not! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously for most good computers this is useless as they are run by separated cabinets and woudn't be interfered by simply blowing up monitors, why then the movie industry insists on preaching that one can turn off computers just by blowing up the screens?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7582" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-16T13:40:27.087" LastActivityDate="2014-02-17T14:49:27.410" Title="Killing computers in movies" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17270" CreationDate="2014-02-16T07:30:00.200" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure if OP meant that Bones interlinked characters/episodes with the tv show Crossing Jordan, I wasn't aware of crossovers with CSI but maybe I missed them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure if this counts but Joss Whedon's two shows Buffy and Angel were written in the same universe however at a later time Angel was moved to another television network. This is why there stopped being characters obviously inter-written between the shows unless they'd stopped being regular characters on their main show. There is one instance where they got around this Angel season 5 episode 20 where they indicate that Buffy is in the area and a blond girl is seen leaving the club, it's indicated that this is Buffy however Sarah Michelle Gellar was no longer interested in playing the character. All the links of crossovers are listed here &lt;a href=&quot;http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Buffy_The_Vampire_Slayer_and_Angel_crossover_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Buffy_The_Vampire_Slayer_and_Angel_crossover_episodes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't think of any others immediately but i'll include them as I think of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8105" LastActivityDate="2014-02-16T07:30:00.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16162" CreationDate="2014-02-16T07:44:34.547" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know there was an explanation of the change between the Cockatoo and the cockatiel either in the episode &quot;Family Recipe&quot; or in the deleted scenes. Tig asks Gemma what happened to the bird. She said he had a heart attack. There is no explanation of what happened to her cockatiel &quot;Clay&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8108" LastActivityDate="2014-02-16T07:44:34.547" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17338" CreationDate="2014-02-16T10:47:04.617" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My personal guess:&lt;/strong&gt; Oversimplification and effects!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no reasoning, they either don't want to explain details or just go for the visuals and just assume people won't notice or care. Especially in the case of computers monitors are the typical &quot;tip of the iceberg&quot; for most people. That's the computer for them, because it's the visible part you're interacting with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it's not necessarily deliberate. Many authors just create their story outline or probably the whole script without actually knowing what they're writing about. Otherwise you couldn't explain storyline stuff such as nuclear weapons fitting into a small pocket or supercomputers in credit card format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately such inconsistencies or simply stupid &quot;hacks&quot; are something you can find related to pretty much anything that's not necessarily common knowledge and depicted in movies as well as other media (like video games).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some further examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hacking:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah, the classic. You just connect some cable to another computer, hit a key, and the stars popping up in the password field, unlocking the system without ever triggering any systems that would avoid brute force attacks. Not to mention it's rather often possible to &quot;decrypt&quot; a password (or nuclear weapons launch code or similar) digit by digit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hacking 2:&lt;/strong&gt; The elitist hacker is able to hack all kind of things in the victim's vicinity, no matter whether it's connected to some network or even digital at all. Screens blow up, ovens start working, etc. There's usually no believable/explainable reason behind this other than &quot;for the effects&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hacking 3:&lt;/strong&gt; (Just so many possible examples!) To hack any system, you just need some kind of network connection and sometimes not even that. Military supercomputer? Super secure and intelligent door lock? Alien mothership? No problems. The specialist's computer is always 100% compatible and immediately has the right tools to compromise the target system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;High Tech Tools:&lt;/strong&gt; This is a bit vague and partially related to hacking. Take &lt;em&gt;Knight Rider&lt;/em&gt; as an example. &lt;em&gt;KITT&lt;/em&gt; is able to remotely unlock locks, even if they're purely mechanical. He's able to engage the breaks of other cars, he's able to show images of cars being hundreds of meters away, possibly even behind a hillside or wall, etc. Oh and not to forget being able to isolate and listen to pretty much any telephone line, putting the NSA to shame. Or how about needing a secure telephone line, but that mobile phone isn't secure? Just put it in the other device, let some lights flash up, and the line is secured (wtf?).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Exploding vehicles:&lt;/strong&gt; This is pretty much similar to &quot;killing computers&quot;. See that bad guys following the good guys? Shoot the car once or twice. Chances are good, they won't just have to stop due to some cut fuel line and fuel dripping out of the car or some destroyed tires. The car will simply explode. At the same time, the vehicles of the good guys are usually extra armored and probably drive off with something like 0.00001 gallons every 100 miles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or how about the extreme opposite?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Injuries:&lt;/strong&gt; There are many instances where either a good or bad guy is injured in some way and gets away with it, without medical treatment or anything. While this is certainly true for minor wounds, there are tons of more extreme cases (how about &lt;em&gt;Harvey Dent&lt;/em&gt; from the &lt;em&gt;Batman&lt;/em&gt; universe?). Some characters suffer from their wounds or might even die, but it's pretty much always part of the plot line to introduce some kind of emotional moment or handicap (or to add some reason for a character's future actions).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastActivityDate="2014-02-16T10:47:04.617" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17333" CreationDate="2014-02-16T12:58:37.407" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your answer lies in how the Academy &lt;em&gt;defines&lt;/em&gt; the Original Screenplay category. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the years, that definition has itself shuttled back and forth. For instance, here's how the category was viewed in the 70s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wi9uC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Academy Award Nominees - Sounder (1972) - Pic 01 - reduced&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lJHuv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Academy Award Nominees - A Touch of Class (1973) - Pic 01 - reduced&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/1970-1979/45nominees.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1973&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/1970-1979/46nominees.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1974&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Writing (Story and Screenplay–based on factual material or material not previously published or produced)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/1970-1979/47nominees.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1975&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/1970-1979/48nominees.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1976&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Writing (Original Screenplay)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/1970-1979/49nominees.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1977&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/1970-1979/50nominees.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1978&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen–based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/1970-1979/51nominees.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1979&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During that period, the official stance on Adapted Screenplay transitioned between &lt;em&gt;&quot;Writing (Screenplay–based on material from another medium)&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&quot;Writing (Screenplay Adapted from Other Material)&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, before going back. Not much to glean from there. But if you study the Original Screenplay category through the years, it is clearly this section i.e.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that is the basis for selection. Anything else would automatically be slotted as an Adapted Screenplay. &lt;em&gt;And this rule still seems to stick&lt;/em&gt;, despite what they name each category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KzHys.png&quot; alt=&quot;Academy Award Nominees -The Aviator (2004) - Pic 01 - reduced&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hhkyQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Academy Award Nominees - The Queen (2006) - Pic 01 - reduced&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you see, the Academy's pick for Original Screenplay isn't based on whether the characters in the movie are real-historical figures or not. Movies like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/68th-winners.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Braveheart&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/2000-2009/77nominees.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;The Aviator&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/79th-winners.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;The Queen&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/1990-1999/68nominees.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Nixon&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/2000-present/73nominees.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Erin Brockovich&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt; were all nominated in the category because they weren't &quot;officially&quot; based on anything previously published or produced. Which includes movies, TV shows, books, stage plays, radio plays, diaries, poems, articles in newspapers or magazines. &lt;em&gt;Hell, let's just expand that to fit in theme parks, action figures and dolls, blogs, webcasts and webisodes :-)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VSKeU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Academy Award Nominees - Capote (2005) - Pic 01 - reduced&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0mq49.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Academy Award Nominees - The Social Network (2010) - Pic 01 - reduced&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/74th-winners.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;A Beautiful Mind&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/79th-winners.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Capote&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/83rd-winners.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;The Social Network&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/85/nominees.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Argo&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oscars.org/awards/81academyawards/nominees.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Frost/Nixon&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt; were all stories featuring real-life (even famous) people. Yet their scripts were nominated in the Adapted Screenplay category because they were based on books - the last one being a play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coming round to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/86/nominees.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Before Midnight&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. Being a sequel (based on already published/produced material), the Academy naturally casts it into the Adapted Screenplay section. &lt;em&gt;But guess what?&lt;/em&gt; It isn't the first sequel of its kind to be categorised like that. As fate would have it, in 2005, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/2000-2009/77nominees.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Before Sunset&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt; was also shoved in there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[I'm going to go off on a tangent here. Bear with me. Hopefully it'll be fun.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The larger issue about screenplays, adapted or otherwise, is whether &quot;due screen credit&quot; was given. Or, in certain cases, whether &quot;extended credits&quot; were submitted before an awards jury. More often than not, that's what decides which category a film gets into. Of course, a sequel is still an Adapted Screenplay in the Academy's eyes. &lt;em&gt;Until the day, I don't know, someone like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0510912/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Justin Lin&lt;/a&gt; heads it :-)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some more thoughts on the subject. Once again, the movies in these examples are based on real-life characters or events:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1cHqR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Academy Award Nominees - Patton (1970) - Pic 01 - reduced&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rN2YO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Academy Award Nominees - Bugsy (1991) - Pic 01 - reduced&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/43rd.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Patton&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt; was nominated for an Original Screenplay, despite the fact that the movie was inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patton_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;two books&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Patton: Ordeal and Triumph&quot; by Ladislas Farago and &quot;A Soldier's Story&quot; by Omar Bradley. The story and screenwriting credits eventually went to Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North. James Toback was nominated in the Original Screenplay category for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/64th-winners.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Bugsy&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. Sure, he'd researched the material from Dean Jennings' book &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugsy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;We Only Kill Each Other&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, but as far as the screen credits were concerned he was the sole author of the screenplay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PUJR9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Academy Award Nominees - The Last Emperor (1987) - Pic 01 - reduced&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TSROc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Academy Award Nominees - JFK (1991) - Pic 01 - reduced&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oliver Stone's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;JFK&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt; was also based on the works of two different authors, but the producers generously gave them credit - with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/64th-winners.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;expected results&lt;/a&gt;. Having actually read the Jim Garrison books, here's what I think: The movie is so stylised - in a good way - it bears little or no resemblance to the source material. Stone could just as easily have browsed through court transcripts, got a hang of the proceedings and convinced his co-producers to drop the credits. It's nice, in a feel-good, karma sort-of-way, that he didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/60th-winners.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;The Last Emperor&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. Here's a movie that doesn't give screen credit to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093389/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_wr#writers&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;autobiography&lt;/a&gt; it was based upon. Well, at least in any of the versions I've seen, even the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLhCQM_zf2A&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Criterion&lt;/a&gt; release. Yet the Academy nominations listed the script as an Adapted Screenplay. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only guess that the producers gave an extra credit while filling out their submission form. &lt;em&gt;Not as outlandish as it sounds.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Academy might have a working logic, but there are times when it's hilariously flawed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently stumbled upon a &lt;a href=&quot;http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/02/23/oscars-rules-written-for-the-screen/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; whose author was raving and ranting about - among other things - a sequel nominated for an Original Screenplay. &lt;em&gt;Turns out he was right.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bk4ye.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Academy Award Nominees -The Barbarian Invasions (2003) - Pic 01 - reduced&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I1Eit.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Academy Award Nominees - The Decline of the American Empire (1986) - Pic 01 - reduced&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the French-Canadian film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338135/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;The Barbarian Invasions&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. Yes, the movie got nominated in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/2000-present/76nominees.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Original Screenplay&lt;/a&gt; category, and yes, it was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338135/trivia?tab=mc&amp;amp;ref_=tt_trv_cnn&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;sequel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How does something like this occur?&lt;/em&gt; One guess is that the average Academy juror's world-view of world cinema is limited to reading snippets of foreign movie reviews. And if those critics don't know their stuff, the jurors don't either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it doesn't help when producers conveniently forget to mention ties to previous movies. To further illustrate how clueless these jurors can be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1987, the original movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090985/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;The Decline of the American Empire&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt; was nominated in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/1980-1989/59nominees.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Best Foreign Language Film&lt;/a&gt; category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coming back again to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2209418/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Before Midnight&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and its &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381681/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;predecessor&lt;/a&gt;. They've come under scrutiny only because they are American films. What if that wasn't the case? Would they have slipped under the radar? My guess is as good as yours :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastEditorUserId="7732" LastEditDate="2014-02-17T09:46:16.990" LastActivityDate="2014-02-17T09:46:16.990" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17330" CreationDate="2014-02-16T22:09:17.253" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;AFAIR this didn’t happen in the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;em&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy SE&lt;/em&gt;, there is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/32402/10622&quot;&gt;similar question&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/9309/jim-green&quot;&gt;Jim Green&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/32412/10622&quot;&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The ground collapsing under the orcs and not the humans was a visual effect added by Peter Jackson and his crew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if it’s true that this wasn’t mentiond in any of Tolkien’s works, there can be no canonical answer whether this would have to do with Eru, Gandalf, a spell or something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T12:06:56.567" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17349" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17474" CreationDate="2014-02-17T02:18:42.367" Score="7" ViewCount="2190" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only time in &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; that I can think of that we didn't see Daryl recover the arrow he has shot was when there was the hanging walker in the tree. However, I don't think that there was anything shown that precludes him from recovering that arrow. Are there any confirmed instances of Daryl firing an arrow and not getting it back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8119" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-28T16:47:02.087" LastActivityDate="2015-02-07T17:06:14.560" Title="Has Daryl ever fired an arrow and not recovered it?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17350" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24045" CreationDate="2014-02-17T02:51:36.843" Score="6" ViewCount="1178" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final few episodes of Fringe, we find out that Walter &amp;amp; September's plan was to effectively change the future so that the Observers/Invaders never exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Olivia gets excited at the prospect of seeing her &amp;amp; Peter's daughter again, and indeed at the end we see them enjoying the day at the park, this time without Observers turning up and killing people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the Observers never existed in this timeline, Peter and Walter would never have gotten pulled out from the ice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, if you count the Observer accidentally distracting Walternate away from the cure for Peter (the cause of our Walter crossing over in the first place) - Peter would never have been taken to our side in the first place - i.e. he never would've existed on this side to meet our Olivia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is, Why does Peter Bishop still exist in this timeline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4174" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditDate="2014-02-17T13:22:22.047" LastActivityDate="2014-09-18T06:42:16.633" Title="Why does Peter Bishop still exist?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fringe|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="158" CreationDate="2014-02-17T07:16:49.257" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a recent interview I saw with Carpenter he said that Universal would not allow him to do the soundtrack but he got a chance to work with Morricone who he was a huge fan of. It's a great testament to the skill of Morricone to create a score which really complimented the director.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8125" LastActivityDate="2014-02-17T07:16:49.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17247" CreationDate="2014-02-17T07:46:20.327" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds a lot like &quot;My Little Eye&quot; but with a different ending to what you've described &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280969/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280969/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Eye&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Eye&lt;/a&gt; so if this isn't the right film, maybe it'll help people link to the correct one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8105" LastActivityDate="2014-02-17T07:46:20.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17279" CreationDate="2014-02-17T10:12:40.100" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Dirty Harry&lt;/em&gt; series had 5 films written and directed by various people. Jack Ryan was written by Tom Clancy with various directors for the movies based on the character. Jason Bourne had 3 films with that character and a 4th film &lt;em&gt;The Bourne Legacy&lt;/em&gt; with Aaron Cross.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A common factor in the &lt;em&gt;Marvel Universe&lt;/em&gt; has been Stan Lee as writer/editor for all works incorporated into movies. YET, your question discounts the works of Quentin Tarantino who besides being the director (for most of his films) was also the writer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming your last paragraph was the heart of your question (meaning different protagonists holding the lead in a story inside a shared universe,) I would go with Robert Ludlum's Bourne series and definitely would include &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; as the protagonists change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note, the fundamental problem with a &lt;em&gt;shared universe&lt;/em&gt; is copyright law. This fundamentally means that there has to be a collaboration between writers and publishers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7339" LastActivityDate="2014-02-17T10:12:40.100" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17296" CreationDate="2014-02-17T11:02:19.317" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You hit the paradox on the head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To beings that exist outside of 3 dimensions (and assuming time is the next dimension) any interaction is already both presumed to occur and presumed to not occur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reality for us is still based in 3 dimensions with time constantly moving forward. Our reaction is like the batter and spectators from our perspective...we see and calculate strike or hit and if hit to where. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To a being not set in our perception of time, there is an infinite number of ways the bat will miss the ball (including not being pitched and the reason if it is pitched), and if struck an infinite number of ways the ball will travel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in talking to the &quot;timeless aliens&quot; we have changed things for us. Our reality includes the discussion, so regardless if they exist in multiple possibilities, our reality is that &quot;the ball was pitched.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simpler version is, assuming we asked, did they respond, what does that response mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7339" LastActivityDate="2014-02-17T11:02:19.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17360" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-17T11:22:27.637" Score="1" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2758950/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Helix&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; S01E05 Dr. Alan Farragut, in the investigation of Dr. Doreen Boyle's death, stated that Dr. Doreen Boyle couldn't have died from an aneurism or heart attack because she had been medically cleared prior to their deployment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Dr. Sarah Jordan was diagnosed by an infected oncologist as exhibiting symptoms of a cancer patient. Dr. Sarah Jordan confirmed she had a brain tumor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How could Dr. Sarah Jordan have been medically approved for field duty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7339" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-17T11:46:46.217" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T18:39:03.870" Title="Inconsistency in medical clearance on Helix?" Tags="|plot-explanation|helix|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17148" CreationDate="2014-02-17T11:40:45.040" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A simple plot device. Clementine Carter is not a historical person, and in this script appears to be an amalgam of Big Nose Kate and Josephine Earp, according to Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film, Clementine was known as previously being involved with Doc Holiday. Thus Wyatt Earp's interest in her caused conflict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7339" LastActivityDate="2014-02-17T11:40:45.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17363" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-17T14:24:46.770" Score="0" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film Now You See Me the Four Horsemen rob the bank Crédit Républicain de Paris.  Thaddeus Bradley gives an explanation which includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; the money being switched with a flash paper copy which was burned after being put in the vault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it explained how this got this to happen after the money was in the vault and there was no one there to burn it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-17T14:42:48.580" LastActivityDate="2014-02-17T14:42:48.580" Title="How did they get rid of the money in the bank?" Tags="|plot-explanation|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-02-17T18:05:26.480" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17338" CreationDate="2014-02-17T14:49:27.410" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a whole host of TV Tropes which are accepted as standard across the media but are not reflected in reality.  Try knocking someone out with one punch, shoulder barging a locked door open without taking a run up, jumping through a large window without being injured, being thrown metres through the air and landing on a solid floor and getting back up, chopping through plate armour with a single handed sword, shooting someone 30 yards away with a pistol, penetrating a full suit of armour with an arrow at 50 yards etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are often done to make exciting stories more plausible and easier to tell.  Ask any night club bouncer what would happen if he was jumped by 4 men of equivalent size, training and ferocity and then compare this with various action films' fight sequences :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you would like a detailed review of many of these, including various reviews of individual physics try the insultingly stupid movie physics page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2014-02-17T14:49:27.410" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17326" CreationDate="2014-02-17T18:15:17.030" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a scene at the start of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091369/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Labyrinth&lt;/a&gt; that is very similar, but it is the boys older sister, not an old man.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The boy was kidnapped by the goblin king (at the prompting of the sister) and taken to (wait for it) the labyrinth, prompting the girl to venture after him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091223/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;House&lt;/a&gt; where the mans son is taken-by/disappears-into a possessed house, but I can't recall the exact scene where this happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3416" LastEditorUserId="3416" LastEditDate="2014-02-18T14:49:56.553" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T14:49:56.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17326" CreationDate="2014-02-17T22:28:13.517" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was an episode of Fact or Fiction (a US TV show hosted by Star Trek: TNG's Jonathan Frakes) where a boy was playing in his room and went into a closet.  When the sister opened the closet door, the boy had vanished.  At the end of the episode, they actually stated that vignette was factual.  That show aired in the late 90's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-02-17T22:28:13.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3577" CreationDate="2014-02-18T04:04:27.573" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aunt May doesn't know that Peter is spider-man.  She thinks he is a just a teenager having a tough time, and when he finally get the eggs, to her its just a sign of him trying to make an effort to try to get back on a better note with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8132" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T04:04:27.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17384" CreationDate="2014-02-18T04:37:19.990" Score="9" ViewCount="28084" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; S02E03 it simply doesn't make sense for me that James Moriarty killed himself. I mean, for me there is nothing greater than life, so why would he kill himself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that James Moriarty may be brilliant and &lt;em&gt;insane&lt;/em&gt;, but insanity doesn't seem like a valid enough reason to commit suicide. Especially if Moriarty was so smart, couldn't he guess that it might be possible for Sherlock to fake his own death after all, and hence have the ultimate last laugh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I've only watched up to the first episode in season 3 and I hope the answer doesn't lie in the second or the third episode of season 3.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3502" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-18T12:26:40.247" LastActivityDate="2016-03-09T22:55:31.873" Title="Why did James Moriarty decide to end it this way?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|sherlock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17376" CreationDate="2014-02-18T10:20:44.887" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In light of &lt;em&gt;Meat Trademark&lt;/em&gt;'s answer the following discussion about &lt;em&gt;Moriarty&lt;/em&gt;'s motivations &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be moot, but I'll still stand by this answer in order to give a valid explanation in light of the existing 3 seasons, disregarding any future revelations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main point is indeed his insanity. First of all, insanity can be a reason for pretty much anything, especially suicide. But to be more specific, &lt;em&gt;Moriarty&lt;/em&gt;'s ultimate goal was to win against &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; in a battle of wits. As &lt;em&gt;Keen&lt;/em&gt; says in his answer, &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; reasons about the possibility for &lt;em&gt;Moriarty&lt;/em&gt; to call back the assassins and thus for &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; to not have to kill himself. So as long as &lt;em&gt;Moriarty&lt;/em&gt; lived, &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; wasn't broken yet. So &lt;em&gt;Moriarty&lt;/em&gt; leaves him with (supposedly) no options left when he kills himself, thinking that he has finally defeated him mentally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in fact &lt;em&gt;Moriarty&lt;/em&gt;'s brilliance &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; his insanity, or to be exact, his judgement of his brilliance to be more important than his life. For him there &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; something &lt;em&gt;&quot;greater than life&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, it was to win against &lt;em&gt;Sherlock Holmes&lt;/em&gt;. There are enough examples, be it in history or the movies, of people sacrificing themselves for (what they think to be) higher ideals that are more important than their own lives, and &lt;em&gt;James Moriarty&lt;/em&gt; is one of those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is not if &lt;em&gt;we&lt;/em&gt; would do the same or what &lt;em&gt;we&lt;/em&gt; regard highest in the world, but if we can understand why &lt;em&gt;he&lt;/em&gt; did so given his portrayal throughout the show, and for me this was a perfect ending for him, nobly sacrificing himself for the ultimate win (the biggest problem I would have with doing so was the inability to make sure that I was successful at all, which unfortunately for &lt;em&gt;Moriarty&lt;/em&gt;, was not the case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the updated question, &lt;em&gt;Moriarty&lt;/em&gt; might have been very smart, but he also was extremely arrogant in his believes that noone, not even the great &lt;em&gt;Sherlock Holmes&lt;/em&gt; could beat him in a battle of wits. When he killed himself he actually thought that he had considered (and prevented) each and every possibility for &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; to solve this &lt;em&gt;final problem&lt;/em&gt;. In retrospecitive one could say it was a stupid idea to kill himself without being sure that &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; couldn't survive, but &lt;em&gt;Moriarty&lt;/em&gt; really &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; 100% sure, blinded by his arrogance and superior intellect and his insane will (and confidence) to prevail over &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-13T09:19:05.553" LastActivityDate="2014-06-13T09:19:05.553" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="771" CreationDate="2014-02-18T11:39:42.660" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The onscreen text interacting with the environment is a stylistic choice and happens more often than you may think. The &lt;strong&gt;reason&lt;/strong&gt; for the text itself is to convey important information in an interesting way, avoiding the tedious and clunky ways &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_(narrative)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;exposition&lt;/a&gt; is often presented. It also seems to fit with the unorthodox way Sherlock's mind works (seeing things others do not, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the text disappears when walked across or in the case of Mary's &quot;Liar&quot; swirls around the two. It can also conform to the shape (like a face) it is mentally projected onto. Once, it was a timer. In the same episode you ask about, the text onscreen is even refected in a window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gTnsd.png&quot; alt=&quot;On face&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/F8mkt.png&quot; alt=&quot;being walked across&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DT0Aq.png&quot; alt=&quot;&amp;quot;Liar&amp;quot; swirling around them&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BEuQS.png&quot; alt=&quot;timer&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zj9t8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;hny&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It adds depth and weight to the thoughts behind the words, much the way the titles of the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqIclb4qsJI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Panic Room&lt;/a&gt; seemed to ominously float around the city.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-07-18T13:25:19.433" LastActivityDate="2015-07-18T13:25:19.433" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17376" CreationDate="2014-02-18T13:34:40.380" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is in &lt;strong&gt;season three&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;He didn't kill himself.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA; He returns at the end of episode 3, season 3.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the spoiler, but watch the show, right? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question and one answer were both posted by people who admitted they hadn't watched season three. Careful what you ask as the guidelines warn that these sites are spoiler-prone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT :&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not claiming my answer is 100% true (Moffat is a clever son-of-a-gun), but this sheds light on the possible &quot;reality&quot; of the situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a video signal takes over London's screens, we have to question what we thought we knew. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; A version of Moriarty's face reciting &quot;Did you miss me?&quot; in a variation of vocal tones and speeds. &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CgMIe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;miss me&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And after the credits is a more &lt;strong&gt;compelling&lt;/strong&gt; conclusion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; A non .gif or Max-Headroomy glimpse that he's back: a clear image of Moriarty looking directly into the camera asking &quot;Miss me?&quot; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mbD3k.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd be remiss and regretful if I didn't also acknowledge the brilliant use of the false ending. Maudlin music, fading to black, the drums for the end-titles kick in and &lt;strong&gt;TV static&lt;/strong&gt; and we're back in the show for a mad twist. BRILLIANT! I know Monty Python was spot-on with this misdirection, but don't remember a dramatic show using this device. (Could be a question on its own?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-07-02T11:47:35.177" LastActivityDate="2014-07-02T11:47:35.177" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16456" CreationDate="2014-02-18T18:54:16.697" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just finished watching all three episodes on the www.pbs.org web site.  All three episodes were approximately 90 minutes each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3569" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T18:54:16.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16456" CreationDate="2014-02-18T19:43:57.687" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched the shows on the PBS broadcast. Each &lt;em&gt;Masterpiece&lt;/em&gt; episode was allotted 2 hours - 90 minutes of that episode of &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;, followed by a 30 minute &quot;Behind the scenes&quot; type show about the episode that just aired. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to your questions: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, the episodes were not edited, and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, PBS aired each full-length episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastActivityDate="2014-02-18T19:43:57.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17391" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-18T22:52:05.533" Score="4" ViewCount="940" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the beginning of the 2014 version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234721/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Robocop&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Alex Murphy&lt;/em&gt; is severly injured by a car bomb when he is forced to check his car at home after the car's alarm system activates at night. But this car bomb was actually planted much earlier when he was visiting his injured partner at the hospital during the day. This is even emphasized when the two corrupt cops tell &lt;em&gt;Vallon&lt;/em&gt; that &lt;em&gt;Murphy&lt;/em&gt; will be at the hospital during the day, providing an easy chance for getting him out of their way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why didn't it detonate earlier, seeing that the bomb was to some degree smart enough to detonate when he was near and to drag him to the car in the first place (no matter if due to a smart arming system or a remote-controlling bad guy). I cannot see either an in-universe reason in the story why the bomb didn't detonate (or was detonated) earlier, like at the hospital or on the streets, nor a story-telling based reason why it had to happen at home at night (apart from the fact maybe that if he had been inside the car while driving it could have been more effctive, completely killing &lt;em&gt;Murphy&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So is there any explanation I have overlooked in the story or any other reason why the bomb detonated at home while planted much earlier at the hospital?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T18:34:17.757" Title="Why didn't the bomb detonate earlier?" Tags="|plot-explanation|robocop-2014|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17393" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17405" CreationDate="2014-02-19T00:17:04.233" Score="0" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watch shows like Pawn Stars, American Restoration and Count's Customs on History channel. Recently (as in 2-3 weeks ago) they announced the shows would &quot;return in 3 weeks&quot; and have not aired an episode since. Archer (FX channel) did the same thing. I don't regularly watch other shows so I have no idea if any others followed suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understood when American Horror Story: Coven took a break during the holiday season, but not this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why the 3 week delay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2014-02-19T21:03:53.370" Title="What was the recent 3 week delay for?" Tags="|scheduling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2014-02-19T23:06:57.647" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17394" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-19T00:47:14.150" Score="12" ViewCount="2316" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have found a few overlaps between &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2356777/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;True Detective&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098936/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Twin Peaks&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plot is motivated by ritualistic murder of teenage girl&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Two investigators: one a member of the community, the other an interloper with a taste for the mystical&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Character named Audrey joins a brothel&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Man with French ancestry wrongly assumed to be responsible for the murder&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Presence of a mythical &quot;other&quot; place (Carcosa / Black Lodge)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there even more similarities and are they merely coincidental or was &lt;em&gt;True Detective&lt;/em&gt; inspired by &lt;em&gt;Twin Peaks&lt;/em&gt; in some way or another?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6026" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-19T12:09:22.387" LastActivityDate="2019-04-12T23:47:46.017" Title="What are the points of overlap between True Detective and Twin Peaks?" Tags="|twin-peaks|true-detective|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17394" CreationDate="2014-02-19T11:21:27.717" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The mythology of &lt;em&gt;True Detective&lt;/em&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2014/02/16/3292391/true-detective-carcosa/#&quot;&gt;heavily indebted&lt;/a&gt; to the collaborative works of early horror -fiction/pulp horror writers, such as Lovecraft, Ligotti and Chambers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David Lynch is an avowed fan of the lore of this genre, and his work is often &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9dTCkwmvEyIC&amp;amp;pg=PA37&amp;amp;lpg=PA37&amp;amp;dq=david%20lynch%20hp%20lovecraft&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=CpLokEOFRa&amp;amp;sig=cyFPnG-eIa2A3tSq7KIraiy1LGc&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=bZEEU_XlNcjb7AbGhYBo&amp;amp;sqi=2&amp;amp;ved=0CHAQ6AEwDA#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=david%20lynch%20hp%20lovecraft&amp;amp;f=false&quot;&gt;compared&lt;/a&gt; to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.twinpeaksgazette.com/community/topic-topicid=5302.cfm.html&quot;&gt;style of&lt;/a&gt; H.P. Lovecraft himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not to say the two are being deployed as iterations within the same universe, but as to say they are both overt in the circulation of their references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concept of 'Carcosa' is directly lifted from Robert Chambers short stories book, &lt;em&gt;The King in Yellow&lt;/em&gt;. Within it is the poem '&lt;em&gt;Cassilda's Song&lt;/em&gt;', seemingly riffed by Ledoux in true detective:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink behind the&#xA;  lake, The shadows lengthen In Carcosa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle&#xA;  through the skies, But stranger still is Lost Carcosa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King,&#xA;  Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Song of my soul, my voice is dead, Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed&#xA;  Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is yet to be confirmed whether &lt;em&gt;True Detective&lt;/em&gt; is an interpretation of this poem/works, or whether the characters contained within are said to be inspired by the works themselves, meaning &lt;em&gt;The King in Yellow&lt;/em&gt; is a book that exists in the &lt;em&gt;True Detective&lt;/em&gt; universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter is unlikely, however, as Cohle's research would undoubtedly yield the same reference shown here and they would be following up on the connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-20T12:22:17.330" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T12:22:17.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17402" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18026" CreationDate="2014-02-19T20:03:53.787" Score="4" ViewCount="3154" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of us Tolkien fans have seen the movies and may recall that in the first the Hobbit movie Balin and Dwalin head-butt each other when meeting at Bilbo's. Ofcourse, this does not seem too strange a thing for Dwarves. I did not recall Tolkien ever mentioning this though. Which reminded me of some behind the scenes clips I had come across earlier. Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1VZG7zYBbo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently Viggo Mortensen and others had grown the habbit to head-butt each other when meeting one another. Is it, therefore, possible that PJ imported this silly characteristic into the Hobbit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7156" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T00:28:40.147" Title="Is there any relation between the head-butting in LotR and the Hobbit?" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17403" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34411" CreationDate="2014-02-19T20:40:51.127" Score="25" ViewCount="10259" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just about the second season of house of cards and I'm asking myself: What is so important about that bridge Feng wants to be build? He has already so much money and it seems not to be worth for him? What are his advantages if the bridge is going to be build?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T21:02:35.087" Title="Season 2: What is so important about the bridge?" Tags="|plot-explanation|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15012" CreationDate="2014-02-19T21:01:01.357" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's an obvious sexual innuendo (&quot;pussy&quot; is probably the most-often used slang term for &quot;vagina&quot;, and if you don't know what &quot;galore&quot; means then you need a dictionary), which was spoofed in the Austin Powers movies (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alotta_Fagina&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alotta Fagina&lt;/a&gt;).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-05-04T19:51:13.303" LastActivityDate="2014-05-04T19:51:13.303" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17393" CreationDate="2014-02-19T21:03:53.370" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The break coincides with the Winter Olympics, and allows them to air new episodes when they have a better chance of beating their competition for viewership, which (in turn) allows them to charge more for advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-02-19T21:03:53.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-19T21:20:35.133" Score="13" ViewCount="601" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;True Detective&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2790174/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 4&lt;/a&gt;, an undercover Cohle is made to prove his criminality by assisting Ginger and the Iron Crusaders lift a crack den, resulting in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;THAT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; sequence...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why do the Iron Crusaders bother to wear the Cop Uniforms?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Bikers look no where near convincing in the Uniforms, and don't even seem to bother acting in any way like Police Officers. They behave like raiders, and don't even arrive in a Police Vehicle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cohle himself, doesn't even wear a Uniform, and he seems to be the point man of the operation, so they don't seem to be trying to pose as officers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uy3xA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought perhaps it was some kind of 'calling card' from the Gang, but it seems to be presented as something novel when they explain their plan to Cohle...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also suspected it was just a way of disguising their true status as Iron Crusaders by wearing clothes not formerly associated with the gang, but Cop uniforms seem quite elaborate for this purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was there actually any purpose for the facade?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T08:17:52.273" Title="What was the function of the Cop Uniforms?" Tags="|true-detective|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17407" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17456" CreationDate="2014-02-19T23:09:08.270" Score="7" ViewCount="2714" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are or what could be reasons that Jackie as the new majority whip is against Claire's sexual abuse bill?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit: First time, it is directly revealedto to the viewer that Jackie is against it is in Season 2 Episode 10:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Jackie) I can't cosponsor the bill in its current form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[..]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Claire) Almost every woman in the House supports this bill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Jackie) And I can't be one of them. [...] It's because I honestly don't&#xA;  believe in this approach. [...] You never asked my position. You assumed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Claire) I can't imagine what that position must be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Jackie) I've served in war zones[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In later episodes, Jackie phones directly into a tv show to attack Megan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I hope the questions is not too speculative, but it seems to me that between lines there are some reasons)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="7757" LastEditDate="2014-02-20T15:20:29.227" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T07:35:17.480" Title="Why is Jackie against Claire's bill?" Tags="|plot-explanation|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="365" CreationDate="2014-02-20T00:54:49.670" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Blue Key, btw, has two definitions, one for the dream sequence and one for reality.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the dream sequence, the blue key is basically the key to the truth.  Pretty simple.  This may be obvious, but as soon as it's used on the box, we get the true story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reality, it's a standard blue key.  The hitman's calling card, kind of.  He uses it to communicate that the job/murder is done, because he doesn't want to be in further contact. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wondered why the hitman laughed when Diane asks &quot;what's it open?&quot; But then I figured, as in the dream sequence, again, it opens the truth, in this case, the truth of what Diane has done.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hitman knows when a &quot;client&quot; sees the key and  they know the target is dead, that they will probably go through a TON of emotions. It doesn't have to be a key, the emotions will probably be experienced regardless of the item.  But a key amuses the hitman. And maybe he likes to think that a &quot;key&quot; messes with the person's mind more, and maybe it does (fyi, the key doesn't physically open anything).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as a sidenote, we don't know where the hitman left the key, probably NOT on the coffee table. Diane probably just put it there and has been thinking about it. For how long?  Not completely sure but less than three weeks.  The piano ashtray was still there when the neighbor comes by-&quot;c'mon Diane it's been three weeks&quot;- and mentions the &quot;detectives came by again&quot; and it was there when Camilla was alive when they were gettin' freaky on the couch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4860" LastEditorUserId="4860" LastEditDate="2014-02-20T01:08:06.870" LastActivityDate="2014-02-20T01:08:06.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17410" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-20T04:14:23.797" Score="13" ViewCount="27067" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Godfather, Part II&lt;/em&gt; there's some conflict between Michael and Tom:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TOM: That plane goes to Miami.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MICHAEL: That's where I want it met.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TOM: Mike that's impossible -- they'll turn him over to the Internal&#xA;  Revenue, customs, and half the FBI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MICHAEL: It's not impossible. Nothing's impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TOM: I'd be like trying to kill the president -- there's no way we can&#xA;  get to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MICHAEL: TOM, you know you surprise me -- if anything in this life is&#xA;  certain -- if history has taught us anything -- it's that you can kill&#xA;  anybody. ROCCO?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;ROCCO: Difficult -- not impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TOM: Why did you ask me if something was wrong when I came in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MICHAEL: I thought you were goin' to tell me that -- you were going to&#xA;  move your family to Vegas -- and that you'd been offered the&#xA;  vice-presidency of the house and hotels there I thought you were goin'&#xA;  to tell me that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TOM: I turned them down -- do I have to tell you about ever offer I&#xA;  turn down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MICHAEL: let's do business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TOM: Alright -- just consider this Mike -- that's all just consider&#xA;  it. Now ROTH and the Rosato's are on the run -- are they worth it? And&#xA;  are they strong -- is it worth it -- I mean you've won -- do you have&#xA;  to wipe everyone out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MICHAEL: I don't fell I have to wipe everyone out -- just my enemies&#xA;  -- that's all. You gonna come along with me in these things I have to do -- or what. Because if not you can take your wife, your family, and&#xA;  your mistress -- and move 'em all to Las Vegas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TOM: Why do you hurt me MICHAEL -- I've always been loyal to you -- I&#xA;  mean what is this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MICHAEL: So -- you're staying?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TOM: Yes, I'm staying. Now what is it that you want me to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is going on in this scene?  Why is Michael suspecting Tom?  Why is Tom getting job offers?  What is the source of this strain in their relationship?  Why does their relationship always seem a little strained?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-20T16:12:12.690" LastActivityDate="2016-07-04T19:08:09.357" Title="What was going on with Tom Hagen?" Tags="|the-godfather-2|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17412" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-20T15:47:28.887" Score="6" ViewCount="8107" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Season 5 of &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt; Chuck the prophet disappears. Is he God? If yes, why didn't Dean's locket glow? If not, what happened to him? Did he die? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask because eventually Kevin became the prophet and they said there's only one prophet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8157" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-07-02T20:45:23.967" LastActivityDate="2020-03-20T15:10:16.227" Title="Is Chuck Shurley in Season 5 God?" Tags="|supernatural|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17412" CreationDate="2014-02-20T16:18:00.747" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No one knows for certain.  The writers kept it vague in the show, and have maintained that vagueness in interviews since the end of season 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2014-02-20T16:18:00.747" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17410" CreationDate="2014-02-20T16:40:47.560" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, I'll give it a first try, but this may not be too complete (and I haven't seen it for quite some time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact &lt;em&gt;Tom&lt;/em&gt;'s role in the family has always been a bit difficult. While he is to some degree a member of the family (and not just the &quot;family&quot;, but the real Corleone family core) and has always been a valuable member, he on the other hand has never been a complete member and thus there was always a bit of a border (be it only a small one), which didn't allow him to take any more responsibilities in the business than those of the &lt;em&gt;Consigliere&lt;/em&gt; (which is still an important role, of course). And I think especially between &lt;em&gt;Michael&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Tom&lt;/em&gt; there has been a little bit of a distance, at least a larger one than between &lt;em&gt;Tom&lt;/em&gt; and any of the other brothers, even if &lt;em&gt;Michael&lt;/em&gt; probably valued and respected &lt;em&gt;Tom&lt;/em&gt;  very high, of course. This is adressed in some dialogue in the movie (or maybe the first part?), I think, when &lt;em&gt;Tom&lt;/em&gt; says to &lt;em&gt;Michael&lt;/em&gt; that he has always felt a bit of a distance from him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another aspect is that this dialogue ocurs very late in the movie, I think, and &lt;em&gt;Michael&lt;/em&gt; was becoming increasingly paranoid and defensive (which is also evident from this dialogue itself, when he wants to go after &lt;em&gt;Roth&lt;/em&gt; for any price), and probably felt abandoned or betrayed by many important people in his life, be it &lt;em&gt;Fredo&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Kay&lt;/em&gt;. He maybe also remembered the dialogue earlier in the story when &lt;em&gt;Tom&lt;/em&gt; asked if he could take a higher position in the business, but was denied (if I remember correctly). So I think he was suspecting &lt;em&gt;Tom&lt;/em&gt; to forsake him, too and to cut the connections to the family and the business in order to strive for higher personal success. But in fact &lt;em&gt;Tom&lt;/em&gt; has always been one of the most loyal members of the family (maybe even motivated by the fact that he never felt 100% accepted, especially by &lt;em&gt;Michael&lt;/em&gt;) and is thus hurt when &lt;em&gt;Michael&lt;/em&gt; forgets this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-02-20T16:40:47.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17410" CreationDate="2014-02-20T17:14:41.127" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tom, being adopted and of Irish descent, was never allowed to be a &quot;made&quot; member.  Very similar to Henry Hill in Goodfella's.  This always made Tom feel distant from Michael and Sonny.  He knew he could never be a true, full member of the family.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Napoleon pointed out, by this time Michael was becomming paranoid of everyone.  Tom was more interested in keeping peace, and to some degree he twisted some facts to get Michael to back down on his personal vengeance spree.  That whole thing about leaving Roth alone was more about keeping the family out of a war than anything else.  Tom was more practical that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-02-20T17:14:41.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8885" CreationDate="2014-02-20T22:16:00.610" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer by @jlmmcdonald does answer this, but Joey's first performance in the Friends current timeline (where we join them) is missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Season 1, Episode 6 - &quot;The One with the Butt&quot;, Joey performs in a musical titled &quot;Freud!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3202" LastActivityDate="2014-02-20T22:16:00.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17419" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17924" CreationDate="2014-02-20T22:53:30.273" Score="6" ViewCount="4165" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi I'm trying to trace a film from the 1980s. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A woman is being stalked by someone. Phone calls etc. I'm almost sure he's a murderer and is taking out her close friends and family one by one.&#xA;During the film she has a friend who tries to help her etc when she's by herself etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ending is that the stalker finally reveals himself and it turns out to be the guy helping her ( I know it sounds like every thriller made in the 1980s with that &quot;twist&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A note to add is that the friend is a clean shaven well presented chap. But on the revealing of the twist he ends up with dodgy face stubble and has a limp.&#xA;In fact the limp might be something he had been concealing from her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8160" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-12T10:42:06.477" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T15:50:40.757" Title="Stalker thriller movie from 80s" Tags="|identify-this-movie|thriller|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:00:36.617" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17421" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45088" CreationDate="2014-02-21T00:14:11.170" Score="12" ViewCount="81249" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does Patrick's lawyer act funny, as if he were joking, when Patrick was confessing to him at the bar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/10581/what-happened-to-the-bodies-in-american-psycho&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question I get an answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the end, Bateman seemingly kills dozens of police officers,&#xA;  something that would not easily be forgiven, forgotten, nor without&#xA;  being the talk of the town and also among his socialite 'friends'.&#xA;  Even his 'confession' is aluded to by his lawyer as a laugh as they&#xA;  believe Bateman is too reserved to commit such acts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which explains why the lawyer acted the way he did, but not really because he was calling Patrick, &quot;Davis&quot; and said that &quot;Bateman was dull&quot; (something to that effect).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's the deal with the lawyer? Did I just misunderstand the conversation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T07:00:04.240" Title="Why does Bateman's lawyer call him Davis?" Tags="|american-psycho|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17423" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17654" CreationDate="2014-02-21T03:47:14.110" Score="2" ViewCount="511" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Repo!: The Genetic Opera Rotti largo says he can't cure himself, so what is he dying from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8164" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2014-02-21T13:51:18.873" LastActivityDate="2016-04-18T13:18:39.367" Title="What is Rotti Largo's terminal illness?" Tags="|repo-the-genetic-opera|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17424" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-21T05:15:12.640" Score="4" ViewCount="549" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did anybody notice the extended shots of the backs of characters' heads in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856010/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? I am wondering if those have any symbolism or intended value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8165" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-21T10:04:40.647" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T19:02:52.930" Title="House of Cards - Camera Shots" Tags="|analysis|house-of-cards|cinematography|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17421" CreationDate="2014-02-21T05:56:31.487" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the scene is ambiguous...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EITHER the lawyer mistakes Bateman for some other guy Davis - as a repeating theme in the story is someone mistaking person A for person B&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OR the lawyer pretends to mistake Bateman for Davis in order to avoid discussing the confession &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IN WHICH CASE the lawyer might think Bateman is crazy and fantasized the murders&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OR the lawyer might think Bateman really did the murders&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BUT IN ANY CASE the scene with the lawyer is in keeping with the repeating theme of people not really knowing the people around them, or caring to know&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T05:56:31.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16303" CreationDate="2014-02-21T15:39:42.503" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jap&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; says that the word &quot;Jap&quot; has not always come with a neccessarily bad connotation but rather developed this way during WWII. So there might be a chance &lt;em&gt;Nullah&lt;/em&gt; wasn't entirely acquainted with the nature of this word when saying it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But other than that, they were at war. During war it is natural for people to develop rather derogatory nicknames for their enemies (be it &quot;Thommies&quot;, &quot;Krauts&quot;, ...). But this doesn't necessarily come from an inherently racist attitude but mainly from the aversion people are to some degree developing and to some degree forced to feel (be it by propaganda) against their political enemies, concentrating their anger on the people as a whole, but not just because they are Japanese, but because they are fighting them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when &lt;em&gt;Nullah&lt;/em&gt; was speaking of the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Japs&quot;&lt;/em&gt; he was first and foremost averted to them because they were attacking his country and tried to capture him and not so much because he had an inherent aversion to Japanese or Asians in general. He was just speaking colloquially, in &quot;war slang&quot; so to say. So to conclude, it is likely that &lt;em&gt;Nullah&lt;/em&gt; was speaking a bit derogatory, but not necessarily with a racist intention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-21T15:48:00.740" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T15:48:00.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17127" CreationDate="2014-02-21T18:49:16.220" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can it be &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesh_for_the_Beast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Flesh For The Beast&lt;/a&gt;&quot; ? I did not watch the movie but some parts fit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Release year: 2003&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Group of young people  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Locked in a mansion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mansion is haunted by an amulet&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only survivor is a woman who has the power&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The survivor, &lt;strong&gt;Erin&lt;/strong&gt;, is then revealed to have been a succubus all along. She had been the warlock's favorite and somehow had lost her memories and gained the ability to leave the mansion. Erin then rejoins the other succubi in the mansion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8083" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T18:49:16.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17424" CreationDate="2014-02-21T19:02:52.930" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Opinion-based, but one of the major themes in House of Cards is control of information. The Underwoods thrive because they are able to conceal their own intentions, find out as much as possible about their targets and feed the proper information to proxies like Zoe, Stamper or Russo. Although I can't think of specific examples off the top of my head, back-of-the-head shots involve the viewer in this information play. They're almost the equivalent of Underwood's camera asides. They make the viewer feel like most of the characters, under informed and manipulated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought of a specific example. There's a moment around the end of Season 1 beginning of Season 2 where there's a ten second or so shot from behind of the Underwoods sitting on a couch. It's an invitation for the viewer to try to be smarter than they are, to figure out the plans and emotions of that monolithic partnership. It makes the series more entertaining to put the burden of decoding their characters on the viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T19:02:52.930" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15649" CreationDate="2014-02-21T19:20:48.087" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When she folds the label, she defines and claims her adult identity. She has her own apartment, she appreciates her relationships but she isn't defined by them, she has work and an artistic identity. She owns herself, and she defines herself independently. She isn't her friend's Frances, or her parent's last name, or undateable. She's Frances Ha. It's the culmination of her search for a self, she's finally embracing her character as is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T19:20:48.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17433" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17434" CreationDate="2014-02-21T19:22:44.683" Score="7" ViewCount="1729" Body="&lt;p&gt;All of us were frightened about the final destiny of Zoe in the second season of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856010/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. But after the scene I was wondering... how could Frank escape from the crime scene without any witnesses (cameras or security systems)? The subway station wasn't empty and it seems nobody tried to do something but declared it as &quot;accident&quot; (in the news). I know that they were in a blind spot, but still, for me, it is not very realistic that nobody noticed a suspicious person running away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've only watched the first episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7551" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-05-11T22:23:33.210" LastActivityDate="2015-02-21T12:37:07.933" Title="About Zoe Barnes in the second season of House of Cards" Tags="|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17433" CreationDate="2014-02-21T19:27:00.137" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;He starts walking as soon as he pushes her, and he's halfway up the stairs by the time bystanders notice she's under the train. He walks quickly but calmly, he doesn't run away. In unremarkable clothing, it isn't strange that no one stopped him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for security systems, if you watch more of the series, you'll notice that Frank is always aware of when he is being recorded. I don't believe his action was spur of the moment. He chose to meet her there and do the deed because he had an way out where any recording of him wouldn't be enough to identify him, especially with the hat and glasses. Would that be possible in the real world? Could there actually be a blind spot all the way out of the station? Unclear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her death was likely ruled an accident because metro police departments are overworked, and there isn't any immediate evidence to the contrary. The fact that they wouldn't find the angle and direction of her fall suspicious bother me too, I don't have an answer for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastEditorUserId="8170" LastEditDate="2014-02-21T19:41:49.393" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T19:41:49.393" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17350" CreationDate="2014-02-21T19:36:44.297" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer: Because erasing all of the character relationships would have been a terrible and disappointing end to the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long answer: Time loops work like that. If the Observers didn't exist, the Observer would never have come into the past and saved red Peter, the kid would never have gotten sent to the right point in time and Observers would have existed. No way to fix it other than for the writers to cut the cycle and say, alright, the Observers never existed, but their impact on the world when it came to Peter, Walter and Olivia's personal stories pre-invasion remains intact. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T19:36:44.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17191" CreationDate="2014-02-21T19:46:53.743" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Second the above answer, but I believe it's also an in-joke/hint from the writers that &lt;em&gt;spoilers&lt;/em&gt; River is Amy and Rory's daughter. In The Graduate, Benjamin is briefly and uncomfortably seduced by the mother, but ends up falling for the daughter. In Flesh and Stone, Amy has a similar, but toned down seduction scene with the Doctor, but he, like Benjamin, ends up falling for her daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastActivityDate="2014-02-21T19:46:53.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17438" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-21T22:48:29.860" Score="11" ViewCount="20343" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;House of Cards&quot;, Frank Underwood wants some energy bill to pass, but his wife is pressured by SandCorp into undermining him and getting two representatives to vote against the bill, which is a major blow to Peter Russo's campaign.  However, later on it seems that Underwood wanted Russo to fail from the start, and the bill's failure seems to be a critical part of Russo's failure.  What interest did Frank have in the bill's success if he wanted Russo to fail?  The following are not answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He wanted Russo to stay viable until the end.  Since Russo dies within 48 hours, which seems to be precisely timed by Underwood, the bill doesn't seem to make a difference.  Assuming Russo was a dead man either way, the bill's failure actually helps Underwood by giving Russo more motive for suicide.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He had a personal stake in the bill.  His only personal stake was Russo's success.  He actually lost if the bill passed since his wife got screwed by SandCorp.  We can see in their conversation earlier in this episode that his personal investment in the bill is entirely limited to the Russo campaign.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He wanted to maintain his own reputation as someone who could whip the bill into passage.  Underwood wouldn't have taken the risk on the bill just for the sake of passing another bill.  He needs another motive, otherwise he would have killed it before his own reputation was on the line.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastActivityDate="2016-05-07T04:22:49.567" Title="Did Frank Underwood mean for the bill to fail?" Tags="|plot-explanation|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16354" CreationDate="2014-02-21T22:49:59.587" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regardless of whether Sully is the only one that has a real nose, Pixar did minimize noses for a reason, as discussed in the question comments. The monsters are meant to look inhuman and unfamiliar. Taking off noses makes  them distinctly non-mammalian, and makes the world monstrous instead of just populated with animals. Sully, however, has to walk the line between a teddy bear and a blue Sasquatch so that Boo can both be terrified of him and grow to love him. The nose and the shaggy fur make him look approachable to both Boo and little kids in the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastEditorUserId="8170" LastEditDate="2014-02-22T16:26:23.133" LastActivityDate="2014-02-22T16:26:23.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15648" CreationDate="2014-02-22T03:14:22.093" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several intentional reasons why Frances is not shown to be a good dancer outside of simply not bothering to cast a good dancer in the role. I divide these into in-universe reasons and storytelling reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In-Universe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At 27, Frances is at least six years into a failed career as a dancer. She is teaching at a junior level instead of doing the intense practice necessary for being a top-of-the-line dancer. Maybe she was more skillful when she managed to join the company, but since then her skills have slipped while others outpaced her. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Frances does become a full-fledged choreographer, she does not work with ballet, the medium most associated with exceptional grace, svelteness, etc. Modern and jazz dancers work with a broader palette of motion, including some awkward movements, and have less stringent requirements for body types. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;During many of the moments that Frances' dances, she's inebriated or dancing purely for her own sake. Her form is understandably loose. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Storytelling:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The film is funnier and more moving if the audience knows that Frances' dreams are doomed far before she does. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many of the dancing moments are character-building. Frances isn't perfect, controlled and svelte. She's overenthusiastic and awkward. Showing her as a perfect dancer wouldn't move the film forward. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastActivityDate="2014-02-22T03:14:22.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16918" CreationDate="2014-02-22T03:31:34.200" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think he believed from Samantha's suggestions, that after death he would be ethereal and they would meet again. He was inviting Amy to join him as the obvious next step (since they clearly drank out of the same crazy os-loving fountain) in jumping off the roof so they could be closer to their ai soulmates. Their communication and lack of emotion did not suggest settling for each other, or reality check. They still had crazy cult eyes and were gonna hold hands and jump &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8175" LastActivityDate="2014-02-22T03:31:34.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17438" CreationDate="2014-02-22T03:47:45.840" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short answer is, &lt;em&gt;Frank Underwood doesn't care if the bill passes or fails.&lt;/em&gt; The only thing he wants is for Peter Russo to fail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The longer answer with background: Frank Underwood stated Russo was a pawn. Understand that after Frank is undermined for the Secretary position by Linda (and we later find out Tusk), he wanted something bigger and he wanted his revenge. Frank is the Master Manipulator (caps intended). It was Frank's intent for Russo to be clean for a couple of months, to run for the Pennsylvania Governor's race, only to bomb out. He didn't plan for Russo to try and continue with his attempted run for the Governorship, though, and thus the improvisation of the &quot;suicide&quot;. Frank's plan was for Russo to fail, and fail miserably. This was so there would be a hole in the Pennsylvania race for Governor. He knew the VP was pining to be in the spot light again, so just worked it out so it would be him who would re-run for the Governor's spot. The Democrat Party would have no one else they could run for the spot. This leaves the VP spot wide open for Frank to take over. Even Claire's position at the foundation is all just a ploy. She leaves as soon as Frank has secured the VP position. The bill is just a means to an end. It gives Russo a platform to run on. It's putting Russo in place and his ultimate failure too close to the election. This is what Frank wants. Once Russo fails, the dominoes start falling and his plan is seen through. Mind you, we don't know much of this until the end of the first season, but it's all there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-02-22T03:47:45.840" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17448" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-22T05:24:15.937" Score="3" ViewCount="387" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant spend so much time talking about boats in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032904/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Philadelphia Story&lt;/a&gt;? I understand that the True Love, their yacht, is a metaphor for their relationship. What specific advantages does the boat metaphor have though?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-22T13:18:26.500" LastActivityDate="2016-09-01T15:34:26.130" Title="Boats in Philadelphia Story" Tags="|analysis|dialogue|the-philadelphia-story|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17407" CreationDate="2014-02-22T17:49:08.570" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, her reason is never really explained in more detail, so we can only speculate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As she admits to Frank she killed many people through missile strikes during her time in the military, even civilians. This haunts her, but she thinks that it could not have been avoided at the time. She did what she &quot;had to do&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She does not seem to be opposed to protecting women in the military, but she thinks that civilian oversight is not a good idea. I guess that this is because of her experiences in the war. She knows that the things she did might have been considered murder by civilian standards and that only someone in the military &quot;get the whole picture&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said this is only speculation, but that might be the reason why she is against a civilian oversight committee. It would fit with the fact that she seems to have a high opinion of the military.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-02-22T17:49:08.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3983" CreationDate="2014-02-22T20:23:16.350" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Trying to keep in with the universe. When Flynn was repairing Quorra via her disk, did no one notice the digital DNA strand? That, more than likely is the whole key. Conceived in a digital world with a perceived organic structure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least, that's my take on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8187" LastActivityDate="2014-02-22T20:23:16.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10125" CreationDate="2014-02-22T23:01:05.283" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it also stands for a &quot;false flag event.&quot; Something fake used to bring about war for gaining political, monetary and a general increase in over all power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8189" LastActivityDate="2014-02-22T23:01:05.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2722" CreationDate="2014-02-23T10:18:59.090" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To mess with him, so the man that was hunting replicants can owe his life to one, and then to give him a little speech about the bitterness of death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Roy was pretty boss all in all&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8195" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-02-24T01:35:21.557" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T01:35:21.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17468" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17661" CreationDate="2014-02-23T20:08:43.580" Score="6" ViewCount="2199" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a scene on the bridge during &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1670345/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Now You See Me&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; where Dylan and his Boss are being talked to by the FBI. The FBI guy says &quot;Despite their bullshit razzle-dazzle&quot;. Now, at this point nothing happens. But in 10 minutes later, the same guy says &quot;bullshit&quot;, and the Boss starts playing Beethoven. Was this an actual flub, or was there something I missed explaining why it triggers that time and not the other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3541" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-24T01:36:54.737" LastActivityDate="2014-04-13T01:16:47.587" Title="Why didn't the key word trigger the hypnosis on the first incident?" Tags="|plot-explanation|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16595" CreationDate="2014-02-24T01:54:34.780" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;BuzzFeed has an article that describes the process as &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/inside-the-most-unforgettable-scene-in-12-years-a-slave&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a mix of practical effects and CGI&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Logistically, it was a matter of some old-school camera trickery — the whip never came close to Nyong'o's back, but it looked like it did thanks to the camera angles director Steve McQueen chose for the scene, and Nyong'o moving her body as if she was being whipped. And when the camera swings around to capture the ruin inflicted upon Patsey's back, the effect is a combination of practical make-up and CGI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the actual mechanics of what practical effects they used... unknown. Hopefully there's an industry professional somewhere around here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-06-03T18:03:04.863" LastActivityDate="2019-06-03T18:03:04.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17473" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17476" CreationDate="2014-02-24T02:03:24.180" Score="7" ViewCount="4858" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a movie from about the early 2000s or late '90s. The only real part I remember is in relation to a robbery. The robbery I believe was in Venice (as can be deduced from below), the robbers wish to gain access to the house which has laser or some light beam security. They cannot redirect the beam because the angle they have through the window misses the target. They end up bypassing it by raising the building by putting airbags under the foundation columns which are under water (hence Venice) which gives them the correct angle to bypass the security. I cannot remember where this occurs within the movie, i.e. weather it is stretched across the whole movie or just the opening scene.  I do think the movie is about robbery, like the Italian Job or Entrapment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8135" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-24T11:00:16.933" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T13:48:31.003" Title="Movie about a robbery by moving a building" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:00:46.063" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17349" CreationDate="2014-02-24T02:13:31.350" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;When we first see Daryl with the crossbow he is using manufactured bolts, with colored plastic fletching. Later we see him making his own wooden bolts with feather fletching.  So clearly he did not recover those bolts, which are probably lighter and stronger than anything he could make out of wood.  So we can assume he lost more than the one used to shoot the zombie hanging from the tree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later there are opportunities for him to recover a stock of manufactured bolts, from Woodbury, and also there is a crossbow and bolts taken by Rick from Morgan's weapons stash found when they go back to Kings County.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a picture of him with manufactured bolts, I think taken from a raid on Woodbury - so Season 3 (but I can't be sure):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SB6HT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Plastic Fletching&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.. and here are the bolts he made himself, looking like he is outside Hershel's farm from Season 2.  My conclusion from the fact that in Season 1 he clearly has manufactured bolts, that he does go through them, but makes his own when he runs out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AdXVT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Feather Fletching&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-02-24T02:33:15.097" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T02:33:15.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16991" CreationDate="2014-02-24T02:14:43.740" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Football is incredibly important to the main character, Pat, and his family. In that context, a playbook is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_playbook&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;a compilation of strategies the team would like to use during games&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. This usage is reinforced by the playbook graphics on the film's promotional materials.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/toJr9.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/toJr9m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Promotional Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The poster uses quotes from each character as explanations for their &quot;plays&quot;, which I would say is equivalent to their outlook on life and strategies. At the beginning of the movie, Pat believes that if he works hard and improves himself, everything he wants to have happen will happen. He thinks that every bad thing will end up having a positive effect, leading him to his goal of reuniting with his wife as a better husband than before. The movie is primarily about him figuring out the strengths and failings of his absurdly optimistic approach, or &quot;Silver Linings Playbook&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastEditorUserId="4078" LastEditDate="2018-01-26T11:45:25.487" LastActivityDate="2018-01-26T11:45:25.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17473" CreationDate="2014-02-24T02:51:57.653" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am 99% sure that the movie you are describing is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0349903/&quot;&gt;Oceans 12&lt;/a&gt; with George Clooney, Brad Pitt et al.  You've almost perfectly described their attempted robbery of a building where they need to raise the building to fire something through a window to disable security.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is their first attempt to raise the cash to pay off Terry Benedict, and occurs early in the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and the building is in Amsterdam ... but since that is a city with a large network of canals, this is not inconsistent with your description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-02-24T02:57:50.927" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T02:57:50.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15689" CreationDate="2014-02-24T04:39:47.533" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mycroft says,&quot; Bond Air is &quot;Go&quot;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8209" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T04:39:47.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17482" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17483" CreationDate="2014-02-24T06:32:27.040" Score="2" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;Years ago, I watched a documentary / behind the scenes on the movie A.I. (2001). It explained that the scenes in town were generated by putting markers on the ceiling. Each camera had an attached upward-facing camera which looked at the above markers, allowing them to be processed by software. Chroma key software replaced the studio walls with the scene automatically based on the coordinates and orientation of each camera. That way it didn't matter if the cameras moved; no manual labour was required to correctly set the CGI background, allowing them to produce the movie in real time with improvised camera angles as described &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,335074,00.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is this process called, and what research (if any) is it based off of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8210" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-28T09:15:36.387" LastActivityDate="2014-03-28T09:15:36.387" Title="What was the virtual reality research that was used to produce the movie A.I.?" Tags="|effects|ai-artificial-intelligence|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17482" CreationDate="2014-02-24T10:30:46.417" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure that there's some specific name to this (it's a form of &lt;strong&gt;3D image reconstruction&lt;/strong&gt; from single images or a series of images, and essentially the same process used for &lt;strong&gt;augmented reality&lt;/strong&gt;). The actual technique is rather easy to explain. It's essentially &quot;reversed&quot; motion capturing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The process is essentially the same for each and every camera - as used in classic augmented reality:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Object tracking is used to follow/&quot;see&quot; the markers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's possible to transform world coordinates to screen coordinates and vice-versa if you know the proper transformation matrix.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This transformation matrix consists of two sets of parameters (which it's essentially constructed/calculated from):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Intrinsic camera parameters describe the camera itself. Examples for these would be the camera's field of view, curvature of the projection, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Extrinsic camera parameters describe the camera in the world. These include it's position and rotation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since the walls/ceiling of the studio and the virtual positions of the markers won't change, these are all known.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The intrinsic camera parameters are known as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The only values missing are the extrinsic camera parameters (essentially the &quot;know the position and orientation of the camera in the scene&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;From there on it's all &quot;simple math&quot; as long as you assume one thing: All markers/positions have to be in the same plane (since depth information is lost when recording with one camera only).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since now you've got your extrinsic and intrinsic camera parameters, it's possible to construct the complete transformation matrix, which allows you to project your virtual 3D world/background into the camera image at the correct positions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In classic augmented reality, this would be enough. However, in this case they now replaced the instrinsic camera parameters with those of the actual camera used for the screening and they transformed the extrinsic camera parameters to consider the different angle the cameras were attached to each other (i.e. rotating the view).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case you've got a Nintendo 3DS, this is essentially the same process that is used in the Augmented Reality game, to determine the console's position in relation to the used cards and to draw the scene properly on screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T10:30:46.417" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17484" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-24T11:00:14.800" Score="14" ViewCount="356942" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can someone give the English translation of the Italian dialogues between Michael Corleone and Sollozzo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7956" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2016-05-28T06:15:53.593" LastActivityDate="2017-01-02T05:56:24.073" Title="English translation of dialogues in The Godfather" Tags="|the-godfather|translation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14769" CreationDate="2014-02-24T13:37:53.747" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer: Several of the songs on the album directly reference the Orpheus myth or have something to do with death and the afterlife. Black Orpheus is the best filmed depiction of the Orpheus myth with the Palme D'Or award for Best Film and Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Most importantly, it has a very visually arresting style, perfect for a music video.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long answer: In the Orpheus myth, a wonderful singer's young wife, Eurydice, is bitten by a snake shortly after their wedding and dies. Orpheus travels to the underworld and uses his music to convince Hades to let him bring Eurydice back. Hades agrees, but only on the condition that Orpheus doesn't look back and see her until they are both out of the underworld. He doesn't manage it, and loses her again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time has &lt;a href=&quot;http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/29/brush-up-on-the-greek-myth-that-arcade-fire-is-singing-about/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;an article&lt;/a&gt; with an explanation of exactly how the Arcade Fire songs relate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The first of the two Arcade Fire songs that directly reference the&#xA;  myth, &quot;Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice),&quot; doesn't have much within the lyrics&#xA;  to draw a parallel to the original story. The words, presumably from&#xA;  Orpheus' perspective, are about love and end with the lover being&#xA;  gone, but don't specifically reference the details of Orpheus'&#xA;  particular love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the next song on the album, however, the reference is much more&#xA;  clear: &quot;Hey, Orpheus! / I'm behind you / Don't turn around / I can&#xA;  find you&quot; begins the song &quot;It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus).&quot; The album&#xA;  also contains a song called &quot;Afterlife,&quot; which doesn’t mention the&#xA;  myth but may be a nod to Hades.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastEditorUserId="8170" LastEditDate="2014-02-24T17:29:41.350" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T17:29:41.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17473" CreationDate="2014-02-24T13:48:31.003" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Easily miscontrued as The Italian Job, where they stole a safe by cutting a hole in the floor and having it land in a boat.  That movie did take place in Venice, so you may have combined a few facts about the two movies in your mind.  But, as iandotkelly pointed out, it was most likely Oceans 12.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T13:48:31.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17484" CreationDate="2014-02-24T15:37:25.887" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the best I could find : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SOLLOZZO: “I’m sorry…”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MICHAEL: “Leave it alone.” ( or ) “Forget about it.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SOLLOZZO: “What happened to your father was business. I have much respect for your father. But your father, his thinking is old-fashioned. You must understand why I had to do that.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MICHAEL: “I understand those things…”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Waiter brings McCluskey's veal, then exits.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SOLLOZZO: “Now let’s work through where we go from here.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MICHAEL: “How do you say… ?” [Then Michael returns to speaking English.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[After Michael returns from the bathroom]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SOLLOZZO: “Everything all right? I respect myself, understand, and cannot allow another man to hold me back. What happened was unavoidable. I had the unspoken support of the other Family dons. If your father were in better health, without his eldest son running things, no disrespect intended, we wouldn’t have this nonsense. We will stop fighting until your father is well and can resume bargaining. No vengeance will be taken. We will have peace, but your Family should interfere no longer.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://mccluskeysurname.com/mccluskey-family-history/the-godfather-louis-restaurant-scene&quot;&gt;http://mccluskeysurname.com/mccluskey-family-history/the-godfather-louis-restaurant-scene&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="327" LastEditDate="2014-02-24T23:33:47.707" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T23:33:47.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17046" CreationDate="2014-02-24T15:42:27.057" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I have no definitive source indicating the movie was re-edited prior to release, circumstances suggest a strong possibility. (Similar to removing the World Trade Center towers from Spider-man due to 9/11.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1980209/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pain &amp;amp; Gain&lt;/a&gt; was released on April 26, 2013. Prior to the movies release (but after the trailer's release,) relatives of the victims were outspoken about the nature of the movie as documented by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/22/3247921/pain-gain-a-movie-based-on-south.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Miami Herald&lt;/a&gt;. They described the film as a mockery that &quot;trivialize(d) this horrible tale of torture and death.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7339" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T15:42:27.057" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16997" CreationDate="2014-02-24T16:29:36.360" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The earliest reference I could find was referenced in &lt;em&gt;Truffaut: A Biography&lt;/em&gt; starting on page 163, 2nd paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This link starts on page &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=a2H0AiDn4XIC&amp;amp;pg=PA163&amp;amp;dq=Truffaut%20and%20militaristic&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=WXALU5fsF9WhsQTh94GwCw&amp;amp;ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=Truffaut%20and%20militaristic&amp;amp;f=false&quot;&gt;163&lt;/a&gt; and gives the background. On page 164 there is the trope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Truffaut never directly says &quot;impossible to make an anti-war film.&quot; Rather in describing his desire to make one concerning Algiers, he decides that he cannot because &quot;to show something is to ennoble it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7339" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T16:29:36.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9940" CreationDate="2014-02-24T18:14:26.783" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The second time she walked in the cemetery showing respect &amp;amp; that she smiles with emotion at the young couple, shows that she still has the desire of making love with her ex-lover, but can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8217" LastActivityDate="2014-02-24T18:14:26.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9557" CreationDate="2014-02-24T18:49:58.813" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is my theory: &lt;strong&gt;Atom is Max's mom!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll get the hind from another movie (&lt;em&gt;Insidious&lt;/em&gt;), where they talk about an astral body, it's the same idea. Caroline (Max's mom) had an accident. The broke car was brought in the same dumpyard where Atom was found, and so was her spirit. She saved Max when she saw him fall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this scene Atom's soul (Caroline's soul) could understand him. But Max didn't know that and sent Atom to fight in WRB &amp;amp; UW, not knowing that his mom is being beaten. He also said &quot;mom was the coolest&quot; in one scene, so maybe he figured out the fact about Atom by the dance and such things. When he got the fact about his mom he actually allowed Zeus to win, as he didn't want Atom to be beaten up further. Why didn't he use his famous uppercut and end it? It wasn't Max's or Charlie's, but Atom's! He decided to let Zeus win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8218" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-26T12:23:14.783" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T12:23:14.783" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17496" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18658" CreationDate="2014-02-24T23:12:29.320" Score="10" ViewCount="922" Body="&lt;p&gt;Around five years ago I saw a pretty average post-apocalyptic, non-English (I think), movie with one of the most depressing endings I've seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I can't remember the name and Google is failing me, so I'm trying my luck here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it must be from late 1990's or early 2000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things I do remember from the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;main character is male, possibly a bit slow in the head.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's set in a desert setting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;people are fighting over water, food and fuel&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;female lead is a prostitute that joins the male lead&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;male lead has or gets a dog companion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they set out to search for some fabled Utopia where they still have power&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the ending is really depressing because:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the female lead gets killed (and possibly raped) by some guy offering food and fuel near the end&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the male lead runs out of fuel and is forced to kill and eat his dog&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the male lead finds the city, but is shot (either by an automated turret or a sniper)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope someone knows which movie this is, because the end makes it worth sitting through it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8220" LastEditorUserId="5929" LastEditDate="2014-02-25T00:10:45.787" LastActivityDate="2017-10-03T11:58:50.023" Title="Post-apocalyptic movie, non-English, with a depressing ending" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:00:55.423" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1861" CreationDate="2014-02-25T00:36:04.320" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing to give a definite yes/no answer to this question but based on the conversation I have to conclude that she wasn't involved&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Matt Freehauf:&lt;/strong&gt; When did he get that chair? Sophomore year?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mavis Gary:&lt;/strong&gt; Junior. Car wreck. God, he got so much attention.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Matt Freehauf:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah, he was the popular cripple. Practically ruined high&#xA;  school for me.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mavis Gary:&lt;/strong&gt; Please. That dick ruined my sweet 16. Same weekend.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Matt Freehauf:&lt;/strong&gt; You are a piece of work.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mavis Gary:&lt;/strong&gt; You're a piece of shit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Focusing on the way she says, &quot;Please. That dick ruined my sweet 16. Same weekend.&quot;, she is focusing on the attention that was taken away from her and given to him. She was the popular girl and she is bitter that one of the most important days in a girl's life was shadowed by someone else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Breaking down the statement, it implies that it was his fault. &quot;Same weekend&quot; as in &quot;the same weekend I was going to have my sweet 16&quot; implies that she was not involved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It isn't that she has no remorse, though she obviously doesn't care, but that she is bitter simply because her spotlight was taken away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that Mike and his back story are simply to give contrast to Mavis and her attitude and to show just how deep it runs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T00:36:04.320" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3454" CreationDate="2014-02-25T05:23:36.180" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The background when he comes out of the well was clearly Mehangarh fort,Jodhpur. But there is no well near by fort. They made a wall in a round shape, so that it looks like a well but some scenes (inside well) were shot in Jaipur (chand baori), Just search &quot;DEEPEST STEP WELL&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8226" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-02-25T05:45:57.210" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T05:45:57.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17503" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17508" CreationDate="2014-02-25T06:57:15.360" Score="7" ViewCount="35674" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question is about a scene in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1723811/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shame&lt;/a&gt; starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan directed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2588606/?ref_=tt_ov_dr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Steve McQueen&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Train Scene 1: In the beginning of the movie, Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is in a subway and while travelling he keeps looking at a very attractive woman and the woman also responds to him with smile and all of a sudden her smile turns into a serious expression and tries to leave the train and Brandon follows her to catch her but she disappears in the crowd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My analysis: In the train, The attractive lady is also into Brandon but suddenly she realizes that she's married, (I assumed it, since she's wearing two rings.) so she feels guilty for responding to a random person and leaves the train to escape from Brandon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Train Scene 2: In the ending of the movie, again Brandon and the attractive lady starts looking at each other. This time, the woman holds on to a pole and she wears only one ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My analysis: As she's wearing one ring this time, my brain told me that she's not married any more and not guilty to get close to Brandon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, whether my analysis is correct or not?&#xA;If it's correct, Why the director made the scene so complex to understand by making the lady character to wear two rings in the beginning and one ring later? Why can't simply make the woman to wear one ring in the beginning and no ring later so that audience  can understand that the lady is neither married nor guilty to get close to Brandon since both are into each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="32199" LastEditDate="2018-09-05T13:11:27.170" LastActivityDate="2018-09-05T13:11:27.170" Title="Train scene in the movie &quot;Shame&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|shame|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17504" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-25T08:07:36.383" Score="32" ViewCount="24266" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched Star Wars and noticed that James Earl Jones is not listed anywhere in the credits. I wanted to know why, given that he voiced Darth Vader? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8229" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-25T09:56:53.700" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T21:41:19.040" Title="Why didn't James Earl Jones get voice over credit for Star Wars?" Tags="|star-wars|credits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17504" CreationDate="2014-02-25T08:18:28.607" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv&quot;&gt;IMDB trivia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;James Earl Jones supplied the voice of Darth Vader, but specifically requested that he not be credited. At the time, the reason he cited was that he felt he had not done enough work to get the billing, but he later admitted that he didn't want his name associated with the film because he was still an up-and-coming actor, and didn't want to be typecast. Jones does receive billing in the subsequent sequels and the 1997 &quot;Special Edition&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T08:18:28.607" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17264" CreationDate="2014-02-25T12:43:38.443" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This quote is from Marcus Aurelius' &lt;em&gt;Meditations&lt;/em&gt;, written on campaign between 170-180 a.d.. &#xA;Following is the quote as found in the Penguin Classics Marcus Aurelius Meditations 2006, #49, Book 4, pg 33;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.&#xA; 'It is my bad luck that this has happened to me.' No, you should rather say: 'It is my good luck that, although this has happened to me, I can bear it without pain, neither crushed by the present not fearful of the future.' Because such a thing could have happened to any man, but not every man could have borne it without pain. So why see more misfortune in the event than good fortune in your ability to bear it?&lt;/strong&gt; ...&#xA;(I'm paraphrasing; more on the deviation of nature (external) should not prevent the man from his own nature (internal), &quot;just, high-minded, self controlled,...&quot;)&#xA;... &lt;strong&gt;So in all future events which might induce sadness remember to call on this principle: 'this is no misfortune, but to bear it true to yourself is good fortune.'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the 2006 Penguin Classics version translated by Martin Hammond.&#xA;So to answer your question here, it appears to be a &quot;rewrite&quot; of an &quot;existing translation&quot;. :) Hope that helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8230" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T12:43:38.443" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17503" CreationDate="2014-02-25T12:54:16.080" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure that the rings bear as much significance as you're inferring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why, for example, do two rings mean someone is married, but one rings doesn't?&#xA;To indicate someone is married, she (Lucy Walters) need only wear one ring: her wedding ring. In the first scene she is also wearing her engagement ring, but this doesn't neccesarily indicate anything further. The fact that she still wears a ring in the second scene doesn't do anything to imply she is divorced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-sU8GWoD3w&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;first scene&lt;/a&gt; is a silent correspondence between the two, a negotiation of intent. The smiles indicate they are attracted to one another, and as the girl closes her thighs &lt;em&gt;over her hands&lt;/em&gt; she indicates some sexual repression, the proximity of her hands to her crotch suggesting sexual stimulation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She then considers something, and feels the titular &lt;em&gt;shame&lt;/em&gt; of the Movie. Standing up to leave the train, she shows Brandon she is married by revealing her rings. He stands behind her, placing his hand underneath hers (in simulation of holding her hand) as if to indicate he still wants her and is uncaring as to her marital status. His proximity possibly suggests he wishes the altercation to be sexual charged, not neccesarily emotional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As she leaves the train, he follows her, in pursuit. This is at the start of the scene , and establishes Brandon as sexually predatory..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The end of the film shows a reversal of this situation, and the second subway scene is telling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She has obviously been on some kind of sexual journey too, but the culmination of her experiences has brought her back to Brandon. Part of the enigma of the film is the fact that we don't know what's happened to this woman and what has made her re-approach her stance on soliciting strangers for sex. She has somehow, become more like Brandon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that she still wears a ring on this finger indicates that &lt;strong&gt;she is still married&lt;/strong&gt;. She has just embraced her infidelity, and wishes to explore the experience of it. The fact we see her ring is, I think, supposed to be a visual motif the audience will attach to this non-speaking, ambiguous (but still important!) character so the audience recognizes her and completes the cyclic narrative of the Movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the rings (and their amount) indicate anything beyond the obvious, and as a narrative technique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-02-25T13:41:51.893" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T13:41:51.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8662" CreationDate="2014-02-25T13:03:09.910" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, the main point to consider is that the &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt; (and later &lt;em&gt;Alien/Predator&lt;/em&gt;) universe &lt;strong&gt;is not an entirely pre-thought and consistently grown universe&lt;/strong&gt;, with the stories well tied into each other. There were different producers, directors and story-tellers taking turns on the story and including additional stuff (like the merge with the &lt;em&gt;Predator&lt;/em&gt;-franchise). And with the resulting advantage of a conglomerate of entirely different genres and styles comes the disadvantage of sacrificing some coherence and overall consistency of the story. Rather than continuing some established universe, future sequels rather took their pick at interpreting and contuing the story, &lt;strong&gt;referencing previous events and characters as they see fit (or not at all)&lt;/strong&gt;, neccessarily introducing some problems with previous story aspects in the course. But we might be able to provide a little rundown of how the character of &lt;em&gt;Weyland&lt;/em&gt; and the androids developed in the movies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; movie &lt;strong&gt;did likely not have any future sequels in mind right from the start&lt;/strong&gt;, let alone the appearance of the original creator of the androids and the fact of them being modeled after him. Those androids were just modeled in some varied way (as the crew of the &lt;em&gt;Nostromo&lt;/em&gt; also didn't know about &lt;em&gt;Ash&lt;/em&gt; being an android at all). Thus this aspect was just not thought about yet. Then in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Aliens&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the role of the synthetic human was played by &lt;em&gt;Lance Henriksen&lt;/em&gt;. I think also at this point there was likely not yet a consideration of the androids being modeled after any real life person, but just in a normal diversified way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then at the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103644/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alien³&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we have &lt;em&gt;Lance Henriksen&lt;/em&gt; play the head of the &lt;em&gt;Weyland&lt;/em&gt; company. But it seems that was rather introduced into the story as a reminiscence (for both &lt;em&gt;Ripley&lt;/em&gt; and the audience) to the original &lt;em&gt;Bishop&lt;/em&gt;, chosen for &lt;em&gt;Ripley&lt;/em&gt; to better draw a connection to someone she already had a connection to (in the same way as the &lt;em&gt;T-800&lt;/em&gt; was selected to kill &lt;em&gt;John Connor&lt;/em&gt; due to his previous relationship with him, to draw a connection to an entirely different movie franchise). It is IMHO not clear if this was really the head of the &lt;em&gt;Weyland&lt;/em&gt; company (as he stated, I think) or just another of those androids modeled after the original &lt;em&gt;Weyland&lt;/em&gt; and just claiming to be him (though, IMDb lists him as &lt;em&gt;&quot;Bishop II&quot;&lt;/em&gt;). But disregarding if the role from &lt;em&gt;Alien³&lt;/em&gt; was really supposed to be &lt;em&gt;Weyland&lt;/em&gt; or not, &lt;strong&gt;the fact that the androids were modeled after the original &lt;em&gt;Weyland&lt;/em&gt; was not introduced, let alone thought about, before the creation of the story for &lt;em&gt;Alien³&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and the fact that not neccessarily all of the androids were modeled after him (be it in past movies, or also in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118583/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alien: Resurrection&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;strong&gt;was just a minor inconsistency to be accepted&lt;/strong&gt;, or rather a coincidence for &lt;em&gt;Ripley&lt;/em&gt; to stumble across one of the &quot;&lt;em&gt;Weyland&lt;/em&gt;-style&quot; models.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there came the merge of franchises with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0370263/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;AVP: Aliens vs. Predator&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. This built upon the previously introduced fact of at least &lt;em&gt;Bishop&lt;/em&gt; being modeled after &lt;em&gt;Weyland&lt;/em&gt; and used this to make &lt;em&gt;Lance Henriksen&lt;/em&gt; reprise the role of the original &lt;em&gt;Weyland&lt;/em&gt; in the present (our present, when &lt;em&gt;AVP&lt;/em&gt; is set). But this was IMHO rather made as &lt;strong&gt;a neat reference to the previous movies than to really strengthen the fact of &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; androids being built after &lt;em&gt;Weyland&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there is also the newest installment of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Prometheus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which was itself made as a (maybe/maybe not) prequel to the first &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt; movie and &lt;em&gt;Ridley Scott&lt;/em&gt; has clarified that &lt;strong&gt;it is &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/4389/49&quot;&gt;not related to any of the following movies (or at least any of the AVP movies)&lt;/a&gt; in any way&lt;/strong&gt;. So &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/8658/49&quot;&gt;there isn't any connection of &lt;em&gt;Prometheus&lt;/em&gt;' &lt;em&gt;Weyland&lt;/em&gt; to his depictions in the previous movies&lt;/a&gt;, let alone the fact of him modeling his androids after his likeness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to sum up, the out-of-universe answer is that this aspect wasn't thought out right from the beginning and &lt;strong&gt;this is just one of those little inconsistencies resulting from the heterogenous nature of the &lt;em&gt;Aliens/Predator&lt;/em&gt; universe&lt;/strong&gt;. If you would like to have some &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; in-universe reason, then it might very well be that &lt;strong&gt;not all of the androids were modeled after &lt;em&gt;Charles Bishop Weyland&lt;/em&gt; or his descendants&lt;/strong&gt;, but only some of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T14:55:47.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17510" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17511" CreationDate="2014-02-25T13:47:30.290" Score="4" ViewCount="4248" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been catching up on Castle, and the song he is humming on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM482RtZhlk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in this scene&lt;/a&gt; at the end of the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345746/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Home Is Where the Heart Stops&quot; (S01E07)&lt;/a&gt; is stuck in my head.  He is trying to stay in the car, he really is, but he is forced into action and an instrumental version plays as he grapples with the bad guy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I have heard this song in later action sequences in the series as well, but the closest I can make from the YouTube comments is that it may be an instrumental version of a Robert Duncan song. I am not sure who that is, but if anyone can give me the title of the song or perhaps a link to the original if it was not created for the show that would be great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Penenene nenenene penenene ne ne!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8231" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2014-02-25T18:41:06.297" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T07:09:37.380" Title="What song is Castle humming at the end of S01E07?" Tags="|castle|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17510" CreationDate="2014-02-25T14:19:34.827" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a quick scroll through the comments of the video I managed to find the correct answer, which seems to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb24kLd459Y&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eat You Alive&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;em&gt;Limp Bizkit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2014-02-25T14:25:35.143" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T14:25:35.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16897" CreationDate="2014-02-25T14:40:16.630" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mostly, Ron works in the department because of the Rule of Funny. Having a dour anti-government personality is great for Leslie to play off of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Ron also keeps his job because he wants to make the government as inefficient as possible. He doesn't just see high spending as bad but everything the government actually gets done. He keeps his position so he can slow things down and so he can hire inefficient people. This is especially highlighted in his episodes with Tom and April, who he hired because they were inefficient and unmotivated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T14:40:16.630" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16897" CreationDate="2014-02-25T15:07:21.637" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;While vastra360's answer is correct and it is great for comedy effect, it may also interest you to know that Ron says this in the Pilot episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I’ve been quite open about this around the office: I don’t want this&#xA;  parks department to build any parks, because I don’t believe in&#xA;  government. I think that all government is a waste of taxpayer money.&#xA;  My dream is to have the park system privatized and run entirely for&#xA;  profit by corporations, like Chuck E. Cheese. They have an impeccable&#xA;  business model. I would rather work for Chuck E. Cheese.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suggests another reason for his continual work for the department is to stop them from actually achieving anything (unless of course they're privatized, in which case he could become super-productive... doubt it though :))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T15:07:21.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17496" CreationDate="2014-02-25T15:17:44.307" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if you mixed up the movies but this list might help:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EatTheDog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EatTheDog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;A Boy and His Dog&quot; has some similarities but there is a different twist in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8083" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T15:17:44.307" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8922" CreationDate="2014-02-25T16:29:10.170" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's my belief that the arenas are created elsewhere in the land mass that was North America. The Capitol is one city, and the districts won't take up the rest of the country. I recall one of them being referred to the remains of a city, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, to add something to Mistu4u's answer. District 2 was also responsible for providing a lot of the Peacekeepers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8236" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T16:29:10.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17504" CreationDate="2014-02-25T21:41:19.040" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.popmatters.com/article/james-earl-jones-from-darth-vader-to-big-daddy/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;strong&gt;James Earl Jones&lt;/strong&gt; (2008):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; How come you didn’t take a credit for Darth Vader’s voiceover in the first “Star Wars”?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first two. You know the story, don’t you? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000304/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Linda Blair&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; did the girl in “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070047/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Exorcist&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,” they hired &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0564790/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mercedes McCambridge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to do the voice of the devil coming out of her. And there was controversy as to whether Mercedes should get credit. I was one who thought no, she was just special effects. &lt;em&gt;(Note: The Screen Actors Guild helped her eventually receive credit for her work.)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;when it came to Darth Vader, I said, no I’m just special effects.&lt;/strong&gt; But it became so identified that by the third one, I thought, OK I’ve been denying it, I’ve been saying it sounds like the &lt;em&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Up&quot;&gt;7-Up&lt;/a&gt; soft drink)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Up#Slogans_and_advertising_campaigns&quot;&gt;Uncola nut guy&lt;/a&gt; Holder. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Holder&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Geoffrey Holder&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;! ... and I got away with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But for the third one, I said OK, I’ll let them put my name on it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; People thought it was Geoffrey Holder back then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A lot of people I talked to did. I’d say, “Yeah, it does sound like him, doesn’t it?”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T21:41:19.040" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17127" CreationDate="2014-02-25T23:41:39.103" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alright, found it finally. The movie is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolobos&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kolobos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film begins with a couple coming across a severely wounded girl that can only utter the word &amp;quot;kolobos&amp;quot;. The film then cuts to a few days prior where the same girl, &lt;strong&gt;an artist named Kyra (Amy Weber)&lt;/strong&gt;, has agreed to take part in an experimental film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her artwork, which are inspired by &lt;strong&gt;a creepy faceless entity&lt;/strong&gt;, disturb her new housemates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eventually all but Kyra die&lt;/strong&gt; and she is then shown cutting herself with a blade she finds in her bathroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And all the rest you mentioned are in the movie as well. Release date is 1999 though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8083" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-02-25T23:41:39.103" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17265" CreationDate="2014-02-26T07:05:29.840" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know &quot;The longest shot&quot; in all of the movies but I remember this movie  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/?ref_=tttr_tr_tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Children Of Men&lt;/a&gt; directed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190859/?ref_=tt_ov_dr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alfonso Cuarón&lt;/a&gt; which has few long shots,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The length of the long takes: Long take in the car when Julian is shot - 3:58, Long take of the birth - 3:11, Long take of the siege - 6:18.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Quentin Tarantino&lt;/a&gt; has a way of filming long shots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;His films will often include one long, unbroken take where a character is followed around somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T07:05:29.840" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17526" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17535" CreationDate="2014-02-26T15:38:36.997" Score="9" ViewCount="2712" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first episode of BBC's &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;, &quot;A Study In Pink&quot; Sherlock insinuates a sexual encounter occurred between Sergeant Donovan and Anderson. He mentions something about Anderson's deodorant, and it vaporizing. Also the clear observations about Donovan's knees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how does he know Donovan had not been home when he first saw her? What was the connection he made about the deodorant? I really love &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; and the stories woven in it, but sometimes I don't understand many of Sherlock's more subtle deductions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8251" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-03T11:47:07.890" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T11:47:07.890" Title="How does Sherlock deduce the relationship between Sergeant Donovan and Anderson?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12386" CreationDate="2014-02-26T16:25:52.470" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jessup has to be made a scapegoat otherwise the marine corps is condoning the code red. The US govt has to distance themselves from this. I think loss of rank and pension.  Dishonorable discharge for conduct unbecoming.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8252" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T16:25:52.470" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17067" CreationDate="2014-02-26T16:43:35.593" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great question. I am simply providing an answer so this question is no longer listed as Unanswered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated, this question was already answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4613/who-actually-sent-the-assassin-to-kill-bran&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; on SciFi (as System Down mentioned in his comment). This is however based largely on information from the books, not the TV show, so it might be a spoiler if you plan to read the books: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Tyrion concluded after his own investigations that it was his nephew Joffrey who did it. Joffrey overheard his father (King Robert Baratheon) saying that putting Bran out of his misery would be the merciful and brave thing to do. Wanting to impress Robert, Joffrey stole the dragon bone hilt dagger, hired an assassin and gave him the dagger with orders to kill Bran. &lt;br /&gt;&#xA; &lt;br /&gt;&#xA; Later, during a celebration (Joffrey's wedding I think), Tyrion strongly hinted to Joffrey that he knew all about his role in the assassination attempt. Joffrey's demeanor changed, which confirmed it in Tyrion's mind. But of course he never confessed.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;em&gt;There's also a scene in A Feast For Crows after Tyrion's escape, where Jaime and Cersei discuss it and conclude it was probably Joffrey.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2018-11-27T08:37:54.023" LastActivityDate="2018-11-27T08:37:54.023" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14003" CreationDate="2014-02-26T17:08:33.630" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;His name is Prokopion and was played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2008435/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Luke Treadaway&lt;/a&gt; in the 2010 version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was not being commanded by Hades, but he was influenced by him in the fact that he believed in him as others do Zeus. As stated by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://clash-of-the-titans.wikia.com/wiki/Prokopion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Clash of the Titans Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Prokopion is the leader of the cult of Hades in Argos, and leads the&#xA;  cities' citizens to sacrificing Andromeda to the Kraken. Prokopion&#xA;  ultimately dies, when the petrified hand of the Kraken falls upon him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is simply acting as eccentric cult leaders do and of his own accord without direct influence from Hades. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T17:08:33.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15972" CreationDate="2014-02-26T18:25:43.313" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In early 1970's Constance moves to LA to pursue an acting career. It is unclear if she actually moved into the murder house at this time, but in 1984 Constance and her children move out of the Murder house and move next door. So at some point before this her and her husband move into the Murder house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is speculation as to why she went next door. Rumors suggest the house doesn't let people leave and only let her leave so she could &quot;work for the house&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1993, Larry and his family move into the murder house and after Larry's wife discovers Larry and Constance are having an affair, she kills herself and her children. That's when the Langdons move back into the Murder house with Larry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think about when Tate was shot by the police in 1994, he was in his room in the Murder house (which became Violet's room IIRC), NOT next door in Constance's current house. Why would he have a room if he wasn't living there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Beau was chained in the attic because they in fact were living in the Murder house. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a great question because the timelines and events are scattered, vague and hard to piece together. I used a few different resources to come up with this answer. Here are the two significant ones&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://americanhorrorstory.wikia.com/wiki/Murder_House_%28story%29/Timeline&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Murder House (story)/Timeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/celebritology/post/american-horror-story-10-questions-about-open-house/2011/11/16/gIQASIMfUN_blog.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;‘American Horror Story’: 10 questions about ‘Open House’&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T18:25:43.313" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17526" CreationDate="2014-02-26T18:46:59.563" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my take on this. Sherlock goes to the crime scene, smells the male deodorant Donovan's wearing (throughout the series it has been shown that he has a good nose for identifying perfumes and deodorants) and also observes her knees. She proceeds to annoy him by calling him a freak as well, but he doesn't have enough data yet to say anything to her until he meets Anderson who happens to be wearing the same deodorant. Then he correlates those data together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As soon as he smells that, he puts the knees connection together with smell and deduces that Anderson's wife is out of town. To be honest, at that point he was more guessing than deducing until Anderson concludes his hypothesis saying &quot;Don't tell me you worked that out? I bet someone told you that.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once his hypothesis is going in the correct direction then he adds the finishing touch by illustrating how Donovan came over for a chat and managed to scrub the floor sarcastically at him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="9877" LastEditDate="2014-05-30T14:33:42.910" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T14:33:42.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14713" CreationDate="2014-02-26T18:56:13.180" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, Andrei is having sleep issues because of the incident with James. When Andrei regains consciousness he howls in despair because he realized what happened. It was his fault. This occurred at 6mo into the mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At 8mo into the mission Daniel is taking Andrei's blood pressure and asking if he is sleeping well. His response is no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole team is still distraught a year later as we see in a scene at 19mo with Rosa trimming Katya’s hair and Katya saying, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;it’s been over a year since we lost him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2051879/synopsis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/europareport.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Movie Spoiler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Memory&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T18:56:13.180" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16227" CreationDate="2014-02-26T19:18:44.957" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jack Reacher's creator does state that Reacher has a photographic memory &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He also has a photographic memory and a keen eye for details that&#xA;  ordinary investigators overlook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/arts/articles/20121211lee-child-interview-jack-reacher-one-shot-movie.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've watched the scene with Jack and Sandy twice and I can't pickup any reason why he asked her to write it down. He barely looks at it and we don't get to see it. He doesn't do anything with the paper later on either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did notice that she continues to talk while she writes it down though. This may have been to not bore the audience with her rambling off an address that would be unimportant to the viewers. It was also a more natural scene (as you and I would have played it out). The scene with the quarry address seemed more like posturing than to show off his great memory. He was trying to intimidate the other guy after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I've looked a great deal and there just doesn't seem to be any specific reason so I can only offer speculation that he may have intended to give the paper to someone else (possibly a deleted scene?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I've been reading the book and in the book, reacher doesn't get the address from Sandy, he gets it from Gary. He forces Gary to pull Jeb's employment file and get the address from it which would require Gary to write it down. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene with Sandy was quite a bit different in the movie than the book, so it looks like they combined the two interactions from the book into a single one with Sandy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2018-01-21T20:14:50.623" LastActivityDate="2018-01-21T20:14:50.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17247" CreationDate="2014-02-26T22:42:41.970" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IMSV8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Real World Movie - The Lost Season (2002) - DVD Cover - reduced&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XhG1O.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Real World Movie - The Lost Season (2002) - Cast Pic - reduced&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a guess: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314564/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Real World Movie: The Lost Season&lt;/strong&gt; (2002)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/mtv-s-the-real-world-movie-the-lost-season-full-screen-2002-dvd/m2016174.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blurb&lt;/a&gt; on the DVD:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MTV parodies its own successful reality series with this comedic&#xA;  feature film. The cast of a new REAL WORLD season assembles in&#xA;  Vancouver to begin their communal living experience. While en route to&#xA;  participate in a &quot;Real World All-Stars&quot; athletic challenge even with&#xA;  cast members from previous seasons of the show, &lt;em&gt;they are kidnapped by&#xA;  Roland, an obsessed fan&lt;/em&gt;. They are then taken to a secret,&#xA;  camera-filled compound and &lt;em&gt;forced to participate in Roland's own,&#xA;  twisted version of THE REAL WORLD&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.medialifemagazine.com:8080/news2002/aug02/aug05/4_thurs/news2thursday.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;review&lt;/a&gt;, here's a description of the cast:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the fictional film, we meet Liz, the bitchy but beautiful diva;&#xA;  Melinda, the sheltered virgin; Cash, the gay one (though he doesn’t&#xA;  know it yet); Boomer, a Buddhist skater dude; Omara, the uptight&#xA;  African-American; Adam, the obnoxious frat boy; and Keith, the quiet&#xA;  Asian musician.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fun slowly turns to horror:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Roland wants to be one of the housemates, and since there are always&#xA;  seven, &lt;em&gt;he drags Keith away--and later informs us that he bludgeoned&#xA;  him to death&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another &lt;a href=&quot;http://unsolvedmysteries.com/usm283785.html?t=Discussion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;review&lt;/a&gt; describes how the next housemate departs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Finally, after &lt;em&gt;cast member Boomer is &quot;removed&quot; from the house for&#xA;  hitting Roland&lt;/em&gt; (breaking an actual Real World rule), The Real World&#xA;  kids learn to cooperate if they are to find a way out of their reality&#xA;  television nightmare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end, &lt;em&gt;some of them manage to escape the house&lt;/em&gt;. They enter a forest where they &lt;em&gt;stumble upon the &quot;dead&quot; bodies&lt;/em&gt; of two of their missing friends strung up from the branches above. Terrified, they run further through the woods, when &lt;em&gt;they spot a cabin in the distance&lt;/em&gt;. As they approach it, they're shocked to find &lt;em&gt;their tormentor Roland standing right at the front door&lt;/em&gt;. Watch that scene (and the rest of the movie) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nBkkHzF73I&amp;amp;t=73m12s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;~ DVD cover from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product-alternate/mtv-s-the-real-world-movie-the-lost-season-full-screen-2002-dvd/m2016174.aspx?path=0ed3ba8bf829fd0b20d763305c0475afen13&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Future Shop&lt;/a&gt;; Cast photo from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvspielfilm.de/kino/filmarchiv/film/the-real-world-movie-the-lost-season,1312982,ApplicationMovie.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV SpielFilm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T22:42:41.970" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8898" CreationDate="2014-02-26T23:07:14.450" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The actual line was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you think Nagel was...nah&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's in reference to a deleted scene where Roman Nagel talks about the possibility that their earthquake scheme might cause an actual earthquake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He would have said, &quot;Do you think Nagel was right about causing a real earthquake?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09nDSTJgsI0&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;deleted scenes&lt;/a&gt; at around 3:05 mark and watch as he is leaving the room. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2014-02-26T23:07:14.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3231" CreationDate="2014-02-27T01:47:36.417" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;cats big or small they protect the underworld the mummy thought that the cat could possible send him back to the underworld or the dead as we would say now days cat were very holy and the mummy is very unholy so they would try to stay away for the holy creature &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;were i got my research im a world history teacher &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8258" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T01:47:36.417" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17543" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-27T02:33:18.583" Score="5" ViewCount="1160" Body="&lt;p&gt;I use the term &quot;Soundtrack idiom&quot; to mean a very short musical phrase that immediately informs the viewer that the scene has shifted to a new location, and also suggests where the location is.  A cliché might be the opening bars of La Marseillaise to suggest that the current scene is in France.  Or a guitar strum to inform the viewer that the scene is now in Spain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But not every such idiom is taken from a national anthem, or even a previously published work.  But they are almost always dead-on effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are these 'idioms' composed?  Is there a data bank that soundtrack composers can refer to?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7950" LastEditorUserId="7950" LastEditDate="2014-02-27T02:44:02.177" LastActivityDate="2014-05-17T19:10:14.700" Title="Soundtrack idioms in movies" Tags="|soundtrack|film-location|sound-effects|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17544" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-27T02:47:05.017" Score="7" ViewCount="729" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a three note idiom that has appeared in SEVERAL theatrical releases (comedies) recently that indicates danger.  I do not know the notes, but it goes &quot;dum dum &lt;strong&gt;DUM&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, and the viewer knows instantly that the scene (or character) is dangerous. There are even sound effect videos of this idiom on YouTube, but they are very short on its etymology. Again, was this composed?  Does somebody own rights to this idiom?  If not, how did it enter popular culture?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A sample, accompanied by rich viewer commentary, is at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW7Op86ox9g&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW7Op86ox9g&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7950" LastEditorUserId="7950" LastEditDate="2014-02-27T10:46:02.177" LastActivityDate="2014-04-19T23:26:35.093" Title="The three note danger idiom" Tags="|soundtrack|sound-effects|origin|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17547" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-27T04:21:57.663" Score="3" ViewCount="2072" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of &lt;em&gt;Parks &amp;amp; Recreation&lt;/em&gt;'s running jokes is Leslie's deep affection for Vice President Joe Biden. She doesn't hold all politicians in such esteem, so there's something about Biden in specific. Has this ever been explained?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2014-02-28T22:05:15.393" Title="Why does Leslie Knope love Joe Biden?" Tags="|parks-and-recreation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15772" CreationDate="2014-02-27T07:56:00.120" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a million thematic links -- sleeper agents vs. cylons who think they're human.  the goo-bath you get in the attic vs. the resurrection ship.  the philosophical struggle between tech and real and &quot;hybrid&quot; as at the end of TDH with Anthony.  The good guys being bad guys being good guys until they're all sort of blended together and only your actions matter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8263" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T07:56:00.120" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17550" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17552" CreationDate="2014-02-27T10:56:05.850" Score="6" ViewCount="2060" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086250/&quot;&gt;Scarface&lt;/a&gt;'s director regretted killing Tony Montana. He didn't know that the movie would have such success; he could have used the character to create a sequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to revive someone who died in a movie in order to create a sequel? Did someone do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5494" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-02-27T19:48:05.053" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T11:42:06.657" Title="Would a director revive a dead character for a sequel?" Tags="|character|sequels|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17550" CreationDate="2014-02-27T11:38:39.943" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most often when they want to revive a character they start the sequel with an explanation why the character didn't die in the end. It doesn't have to make much sense of course, but well. In Death Race (2 and 3) for example it is shown that the main character didn't die and another guy was wearing the mask of the main character during the fatal race.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More often the dead/end of the main character is more mythical or unclear to keep the option of sequel open. Like in Crank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Crank the main character falls from a helicopter. He hits the ground/car, supposedly dead. But two heartbeats can be heard as the film fades to black and he blinks, the movie. Hence, the let the option open.&#xA;Then, in Crank 2 (High voltage) he is alive again in and in &quot;normal healthy&quot; condition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T11:38:39.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17550" CreationDate="2014-02-27T11:39:37.167" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably the most famous example I can think of for this is Terminator 2: Judgement Day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite his rather untimely demise in the previous film, Arnie is back albeit technically as a different terminator in the second film - however I fully admit I don't know enough about the film to know if this was always intended, or simply happened due to the financial implications of having Arnold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, an issue with your question is what you mean by killing a character. For example, pretend Lord of the Rings was a movie-only experience and no books had been written. I think most people would have looked at the first movie, and Gandalf's fall, and assumed death - but all that needed was a few clips to expand on the scene and everything changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie you referenced, Scarface, given the fact it's not a sci-fi movie and there's no silly futuristic technology capable of doing anything, it would be difficult to imagine how anyone could return from &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; ending. But if he had been shot once and fallen off a cliff, since we never see the moment of death, he could certainly have returned - although whether or not he would have &quot;died&quot; in the way you meant would obviously be questionable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, although it's not quite what you asked, director's can leave a character in limbo. A famous example of that was Han Solo in the Empire Strikes Back. The story goes that Harrison Ford hadn't agreed to sign on for the final film yet. George Lucas, wanting to simply freeze time until the contractual negotiations had been completed and he knew one way or another did just that - he froze time, or rather Han Solo in the carbonite. That meant they could either kill him off if the negotiations didn't work or revive him, as they did, in Return of the Jedi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forgot to include the legendary Kris Kristofferson, playing Abraham Whistler, in the Blade films. Killed himself in the first one after becoming infected, pops right back up again in the second (although we never see the death in the first film, it is strongly implied as he is given a gun by Wesley Snipes who then walks away as a bullet fires).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-02-27T15:46:54.870" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T15:46:54.870" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17550" CreationDate="2014-02-27T11:54:37.717" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bobby Ewing in Dallas is a fine example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8160" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T11:54:37.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17554" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17568" CreationDate="2014-02-27T12:03:41.860" Score="5" ViewCount="837" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently remembered a scene from a movie but can't quite place it. To give my racing mind some peace, would you please try to identify this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, some guy, about 18 to 25 years old, hangs around some kind of general store on a regular basis and becomes (or is) good friends with the store owner who maybe plays some kind of fatherly role. The boy's not really clever and somehow manages to need quite an amount of money. Maybe he owes the mob, I don't know. Anyway, he decides to rob the store he used to hang around in but the store owner (male? female?) instantly recognizes him and fights him off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing I can remember is, that the store owner, while fighting the perp off, shouts something like &quot;why are you so stupid? You stupid stupid boy!&quot;. They don't seem to be too angry about the attempted robbery itself but just disappointed in the guy and maybe the broken trust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it to be an English language movie, but it might be German, in which case I want to apologize.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the roadmovie-ish feel I have about that movie I'd place it between 1995 and 2005 but don't pin me down for it. Also, note that this scene is by far not the main &quot;thing&quot; in that movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8269" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T07:38:46.153" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T07:38:46.153" Title="Identify this movie with some stupid guy robbing his regular shop" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:01:11.047" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17550" CreationDate="2014-02-27T12:06:28.337" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is of course possible to revive a dead character in the sequel but audience are not that stupid to believe such revivals.. Wat I have seen in many movies is that the same actor comes in the sequel as the dead character's son and the story is altered accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie Scarface, what they could have done for a sequel is that Tony Montana's wife was pregnant at the time of his death and Al Pacino comes in as his son in the sequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7956" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T12:06:28.337" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17556" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17557" CreationDate="2014-02-27T12:33:56.133" Score="9" ViewCount="33139" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does &quot;Satellite Rights&quot; mean in the Indian film industry? And how is the amount paid to the film owners by a TV channel as &quot;satellite right&quot; decided? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7956" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-06-30T06:59:08.063" LastActivityDate="2017-06-30T06:59:08.063" Title="What is satellite rights in Indian Movie Industry?" Tags="|distribution|indian-cinema|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17556" CreationDate="2014-02-27T13:17:22.280" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a very good &lt;a href=&quot;http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120610072504AAk7BEi&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;answer present on Yahoo Answers&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Satellite right is the legal permission given by the producer of a&#xA;  film to a Television channel to show (broadcast) the film in TV. It&#xA;  might be for a limited time period or for lifetime. There will be many&#xA;  clauses and conditions like the film can be shown in TV only after a&#xA;  particular time period etc. Nowadays, satellite rights plays an&#xA;  important part of a film funding. If the film has a big star associate&#xA;  with it, the TV channels pays huge amounts as satellite right before or&#xA;  while shooting. But if there are no big names in a movie, most of the&#xA;  time the movie has to release and proof itself to be taken by the&#xA;  channel. The satellite rights are mostly sold like an auction- Who&#xA;  pays more will get the right to air the film. Also it will increase&#xA;  the popularity of the channel. In the meantime, the channel plays the&#xA;  film many times and gets the money back through advertisements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note:- Unsourced and rumoured (or yet to be confirmed) stuff from the Yahoo answer is not included.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the second part, these are the facts to decide about the amount paid for satellite right:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cast.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Production Banner (Yashraj production can sell its films on higher rate to channels than any new production house).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Past record of the people associated with the film. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Success or expectation of the film.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could be many others but it's like a bid on the expectation of film earnings from TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kites_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kites&lt;/a&gt;' rights got sold on high rate due to the expectation associated with it but rumours suggest that the channel got disappointed due to the movie's theatrical response and thought they have overpaid. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="22917" LastEditDate="2016-04-25T23:32:20.993" LastActivityDate="2016-04-25T23:32:20.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9968" CreationDate="2014-02-27T14:40:25.053" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, forgiveness is a running theme under all the major characters. The women refuse to forgive the cowboys, even after Bill fines them. Bill refuses to forgive English Bob for his past. The kid immediately seeks forgiveness when he kills the cowboy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8270" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T14:40:25.053" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17550" CreationDate="2014-02-27T15:30:22.650" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I accept that it's not a movie but perhaps the canonical example of this is the return of Sherlock Holmes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wanting to devote more time to his serious novels, Arthur Conan Doyle killed off Holmes by having him plunge to his death from the Reichenbach Falls locked in a struggle to the death with his arch-enemy Moriarty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eight years later in real life (but three in the canon) after Doyle bowed to increasing public pressure, Holmes reappeared and explained to a shocked Watson that he had only faked his death in to fool his enemies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Adventure of the Empty House&quot; marks the beginning of the second set of stories, which Doyle continued to write until 1927, three years before his death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8275" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T15:30:22.650" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17566" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-27T17:06:27.253" Score="3" ViewCount="337" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am taking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1815862/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;After Earth&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the scene the boy was sleeping on his hand-made raft and his dream was being shown. After hearing the conversation I think that the boy wanted to talk to his sister more but his sister wants to wake him up and she succeeds so after making a wounded face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did she make such a face? Was it all about fear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8193" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-27T20:00:52.807" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T21:15:46.670" Title="Why did his sister make a scary face?" Tags="|character|plot-explanation|after-earth|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17554" CreationDate="2014-02-27T18:24:33.527" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there was a scene like this in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105812/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;White Men Can't Jump&lt;/a&gt;. There were a lot of secondary basketball players in various scenes of that movie.  One of them needed money to place a bet, so he put a stocking over his head (I think?) and ran into a store where the owner recognized him immediately, told him he knew him from when he was a kid, and kicked him out of the store.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might be a totally different movie than what you're thinking of.  But I thought I'd throw it out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-27T19:59:18.380" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T19:59:18.380" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17550" CreationDate="2014-02-27T19:43:30.847" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tony Montana &lt;em&gt;himself&lt;/em&gt; was brought back for a video-game sequel. I know you were asking about movies, but since you used Scarface as an example, I think this might be of interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface:_The_World_Is_Yours&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Scarface: The World is Yours&lt;/a&gt; is a quasi-sequel beginning with the film's final scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DPpP8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;game cover&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The game begins in the film's final scene, with the mansion of Tony Montana (voiced by André Sogliuzzo) being raided by assassins sent by Alejandro Sosa (Robert Davi). In a point of divergence from the film, Tony kills Sosa's assassin the Skull, that was to slay him. With the assistance of some of his surviving employees, Tony manages to escape just as the DEA and the Miami Police Department arrive to gun down the remaining hitmen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of further interest re: the filmmakers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The developers originally asked Oliver Stone, the film's screenwriter, to write the script for the game. When Stone declined, they approached American screenwriter David McKenna, known for writing American History X and Blow, films which also feature criminal antiheroes. McKenna accepted after seeing early gameplay visualisations. As a fan of the film, he wanted to emphasise the over-the-top humour he perceived in the character of Tony Montana.&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface:_The_World_Is_Yours&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although Al Pacino lent his image to the game, he did not provide the voice for the Tony Montana character, as his voice had deepened considerably since the production of the film, due to his years of heavy smoking. Instead, actor André Sogliuzzo (who was selected by Pacino) imitated Al Pacino's voice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, pretty much anyone can be brought back for sequels. Sometimes it may be in another medium, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T19:43:30.847" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17566" CreationDate="2014-02-27T21:15:46.670" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As requested, my comment has become an answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I recall, she was trying to wake him up because he was in danger (in the real world) and got him to snap out of it by making the face which reminded him that she had died which startled him awake. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2014-02-27T21:15:46.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17576" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17578" CreationDate="2014-02-28T00:45:19.680" Score="13" ViewCount="10987" Body="&lt;p&gt;While watching a recent episode of The Walking Dead, there was a scene where Carl and Michone where scavenging houses for food. It occurred to me, why not just eat the zombies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are different zombie universes. For example, in 28 days later there are crazy zombies who act like they got into my mom's PCP stash. In this universe you can contract zombieism by exposing diseased blood to soft tissue (eyes, mouth, open wounds, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In The Walking Dead, I've seen instances in earlier seasons where blood has gotten into eyes and mouths and there was no ill effects and there hasn't been any concerns raised about avoiding it. Additionally, I understand from season one that every already has the disease in their blood but it doesn't activate until you die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the former universe, eating zombie meat would not likely be possible, but it seems that in the latter universe, it could be possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, based on the rules of The Walking Dead zombie universe, if the gang came across a freshly turned zombie, could they in fact break it down and consume the meat without any ill effects?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-28T00:51:47.697" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T20:00:39.170" Title="Can a zombie be eaten?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17576" CreationDate="2014-02-28T01:47:09.443" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Walking Dead, everyone supposedly has the virus dormant in them.  So, if they absolutely HAD to, they could possibly eat the zombies without repercussion if they could get their minds around the cannibalism factor.  And, in extreme cases (i.e. the Argentinian soccer team whose plane crash and the ordeal surrounding it inspired the book/movie &quot;Alive&quot;) that has been done by previously &quot;civilized&quot; humans.  However, with less living beings on the planet to compete with, it's logical that the supply of normal meat sources (cow, deer, fish, chickens, etc...) would never be exhausted, so they would probably never need to go down that path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-02-28T01:47:09.443" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17579" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17597" CreationDate="2014-02-28T04:35:23.780" Score="2" ViewCount="7214" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;6 Days to Air&lt;/em&gt;, the documentary about the making of &lt;em&gt;South Park&lt;/em&gt;, there is some great footage of the animators working on the characters in studio on wacom tablets. I couldn't tell what program it was. Does anyone know if it is a proprietary suite or something that can be purchased? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8291" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-04-17T08:35:01.890" LastActivityDate="2016-05-26T22:06:55.870" Title="What kind of animation/drawing program do they use to make South Park?" Tags="|production|animation|editing|south-park|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17580" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17625" CreationDate="2014-02-28T06:33:22.770" Score="17" ViewCount="13101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched all the seasons of Sherlock (the BBC one) and am still a little confused as to what did Moriarty meant when he talked about &quot;The Final Problem&quot;. What is/was the final problem? Is it simple that Sherlock had to stop Moriarty always or that Sherlock had to die so that it is proof that Moriarty was the better amongst them? I just want to be sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sherlock: So how are you going to do it? Burn me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jim: Ah, that’s the problem, the final problem. Have you worked out&#xA;  what it is yet? What’s the final problem? I did tell you... but did&#xA;  you listen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think that his ringtone &quot;Staying Alive&quot; gives away the final problem which is that they both cannot co-exist. Is this correct or are there other streams of thought? Also, if Moriarty is alive then should &quot;The Final Problem&quot; would still refurnish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8292" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-02-28T10:10:36.277" LastActivityDate="2018-08-14T17:49:16.877" Title="What is the &quot;The Final Problem&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|sherlock|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17576" CreationDate="2014-02-28T06:42:57.427" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a episode where a Zombie was trappen in a fountain. So the group tried to get out the Zombie from the fountain without the Zombie loses blood. So i think in the universe from the Walking Dead people cannot eat Zombie meat. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8271" LastActivityDate="2014-02-28T06:42:57.427" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3274" CreationDate="2014-02-28T06:47:00.897" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was a ridiculous and sloppy scene where the exposition and mythos of the film utterly failed, particularly Spiderman forgetting he could stick to walls but also Curt Connors had  no reason to save Spiderman given what we're shown about his character, and no I'm not observing Kurt Connors as the character from the comics because this is an adaptation (film version only). In short, Kurt Connors saved Peter Parker not out of some respect from the twerp but because of hack writing to create shock value. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This whole scene was a faux pa, the only reason it was included was because of bad writing: Captain Stacey had already been slain and Spiderman forgot he was part spider for some reason so only Kurt Connors could save him? What? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you believe this is an outlandish assumption ask yourself if Captain Stacey hadn't been fatally injured would he have saved Spiderman? The answer of course is yes but because he'd been removed from the picture only Kurt was left to save Peter. You see there are other scenes where sloppy writing has resulted in swapped character traits. For Example, in Star Wars Episode 2 when Senator Amidala was about to be killed, Obi-Wan rather than Anikan jumps after the probe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I personally believe the easiest explanation is the most likely, it's more than likely and also proven the creative writing in this movie was severely lacking, see any movie review online for reasons why - it's also more so likely Captain Stacey was killed  prematurely b/c of what we already know about Gwen Stacey - SPOILERS!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She's killed by Green Goblin in the comics!!! Yep, she dies from a broken neck. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since a sequel is already on the horizon and Green Goblin is confirmed as one of the main baddies in the trailer as well as the main heroine of this film and the sequel being Gwen Stacey it's possible the writers in order to create dramatic effect likely had her father killed to increase the levity of her death, resulting in Spiderman's two biggest failures. This resulted in Connors briefly swapping character traits to ensure Peter lived to see another day . . . even when it was completely unnecessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8293" LastActivityDate="2014-02-28T06:47:00.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17583" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-28T06:50:56.820" Score="-1" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;I often hear about a TV season having both &lt;strong&gt;clunkers and keepers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does it mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7715" LastEditorUserId="8295" LastEditDate="2014-03-03T00:48:25.940" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T00:48:25.940" Title="What do the terms &quot;clunkers&quot; and &quot;keepers&quot; mean when referring to a TV shows?" Tags="|plot-explanation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-03-01T14:43:38.630" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17584" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17586" CreationDate="2014-02-28T07:06:05.643" Score="8" ViewCount="10130" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last two episodes of Breaking Bad, we learn that Skyler has lost the house. The bank has to put up a fence to keep kids out and it was soon to be auctioned. Why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She lost the car wash because it was paid for with the drug money so it was seized along with the cars, but the house was purchased before this all started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't recall the earlier seasons but I don't recall them ever discussing house payments when they were discussing Walt's treatment payments. I'm assuming the house was paid off already?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T16:20:06.387" LastActivityDate="2021-11-26T18:59:39.880" Title="Why did Skyler lose the house?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17585" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17589" CreationDate="2014-02-28T07:12:56.257" Score="6" ViewCount="883" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last episode of breaking bad, Skyler gets a call from Marie with warnings of reports that Walt has been sighted in town and is concerned he will come after one of them. She stated all sorts of odd things such as he was going to bomb city Hall and had a manifesto, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it ever revealed who is making the calls? Was it Walt? If so, Why? He could easily just slip by unnoticed so no reason to alert the dea if his goal was to spread them thin as Marie mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize Walt's neighbor called in once after he said hi to her, but who made the other calls?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2014-02-28T09:47:45.193" Title="who was phoning in reports of Walt being back in town?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17584" CreationDate="2014-02-28T07:45:08.413" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Saul described to Walter how the DEA will ruin his wife's and children's lives and that they will do everything in their power to crush them, unless Walter dies or Skyler confesses everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess the DEA just seized the house because they could, with the reasoning &quot;everything they own has been paid for with drug money&quot;. To put as much pressure as possible on Walter and Skyler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8271" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2017-09-12T03:38:31.087" LastActivityDate="2017-09-12T03:38:31.087" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17585" CreationDate="2014-02-28T07:50:00.793" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walter was lurking through his old home, the scene where he saw the letters HEISENBERG all over the living room wall.&#xA;When he left the house again, the old lady, his neighbour, saw him. She was quite shocked and I guess she was the one who called the cops.&#xA;Also I think the &quot;manifesto&quot; thing was just an innuendo to the Una Bomber. Walt lived off the grid for a while and came back looking like a hobo, more or less like the Una Bomber.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8271" LastActivityDate="2014-02-28T07:50:00.793" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17583" CreationDate="2014-02-28T08:23:19.420" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &quot;clunker&quot; is used to describe something that's broken, originally as in a car that is often broken-down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &quot;keeper&quot;, on the other hand, refers to something worth keeping, or the opposite of a clunker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8295" LastActivityDate="2014-02-28T08:23:19.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17585" CreationDate="2014-02-28T09:36:54.740" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The biggest proof that Walter is in town is that the stolen car from the cold opening was found in the town.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Marie) That car they thought he stole in New Hampshire, they found it in a Denny's parking lot right on Central.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Walter was phoning his son at school and the DEA, the police was alarmed and they were searching for him, which is why the have found the stolen car so fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beside the phone call from Carol to the police, we can only speculate who was doing the calls like Marie does (I would say it doesn't matter since by Walter phone call from New Hampshire and the stolen car in town, it's very sure that he is there for everyone. Beside that it's not clear if it is distraction from Walter):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Marie) Skyler, we're getting calls from all over town. He's here, he's there, he's going to blow up city hall. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Skyler) Who's making these calls, him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Marie) There are two or three different voices. They're not sure if they're crank calls or people he's put up to it or if they're actual anonymous tips.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal guess would be that Walt has set up the calls in order to distract people and maybe he used Badger and Skinny Pete to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-02-28T09:47:45.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17590" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-02-28T10:14:01.120" Score="9" ViewCount="1413" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416320/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;Match Point&lt;/a&gt; by Woody Allen, the character played by Scarlett Johansson, Nola reveals to Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) she is pregnant and she is not willing to abort the baby. But why didn't the detectives mention anything about this during the investigation of her murder? It was a murder and obviously an autopsy would be conducted. This could be a strong lead to the case. Was she lying to Chris to make him divorce his wife?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7956" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-02-28T12:40:54.820" LastActivityDate="2020-06-19T07:54:24.720" Title="Was Nola really pregnant during the time of her murder?" Tags="|analysis|match-point|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17592" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18281" CreationDate="2014-02-28T13:03:08.957" Score="34" ViewCount="248341" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106476/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hunt (orig.: Jagten)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, during the deer hunt, there’s a shot fired right next to Lucas (deliberately missing the shot). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who fired the shot? Is it Theo's son? What is the meaning of that scene? Is someone warning Lucas that he made a mistake and definitely, Lucas will be punished in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-25T08:21:02.200" LastActivityDate="2018-10-07T23:56:26.120" Title="Who fired the shot and what is the symbolism in firing shot right next to Lucas at the end of the movie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|ending|the-hunt|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17579" CreationDate="2014-02-28T15:56:34.967" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park#Animation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; on South Park:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When the show began using computers, the cardboard cutouts were&#xA;  scanned and re-drawn with CorelDRAW, then imported into PowerAnimator,&#xA;  which was used with SGI workstations to animate the&#xA;  characters. The workstations were linked to a 54-processor&#xA;  render farm that could render 10 to 15 shots an hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Beginning&#xA;  with season five, the animators began using Maya instead of&#xA;  PowerAnimator. The studio now runs a 120-processor render farm&#xA;  that can produce 30 or more shots an hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-04-17T08:36:27.257" LastActivityDate="2016-04-17T08:36:27.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17547" CreationDate="2014-02-28T16:51:21.287" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;After fairly extensive researching, I can't find a rock-solid character-based reason or a quote from one of the creatives explaining why they chose Joe Biden as her celebrity crush specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Joe Biden's everyman-quality and mix of enthusiasm, goofiness and predilection to gaffes makes him pretty similar to Leslie Knope. He makes sense as a hero/crush. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason that makes the most sense though is that it's funny. Having her be obsessed with him, the extreme sexual attraction and professional admiration don't really seem warranted to the average viewer. It makes her level of obsession even more strange and alien and funny. If she felt the same way about Obama or Hillary Clinton, the audience could be thinking, &quot;oh, I see that, Obama actually is pretty hot for a president&quot; or &quot;damn straight, Hillary is a good role model and admirable politician&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, Joe Biden has a more silly-looking face than the average politician and is famous enough to be funny to everyone without being controversial enough to turn off half the audience every time he's joked about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastEditorUserId="8170" LastEditDate="2014-02-28T22:05:15.393" LastActivityDate="2014-02-28T22:05:15.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17603" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17604" CreationDate="2014-02-28T18:35:20.673" Score="28" ViewCount="79823" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; started, we've heard names like Walkers, Bitters, Dead Heads and some others I don't recall, when referring to the zombies. But, one thing no one has called them are Zombies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have thought that the man at the CDC would have referred to them or their condition by using the term Zombie, but he doesn't (I have to re watch to confirm this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But by-and-large, the term is avoided. Why is the &quot;Zombie&quot; never used in the show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-26T21:33:14.947" LastActivityDate="2014-12-28T22:53:47.123" Title="Why isn't the term &quot;Zombie&quot; used?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17603" CreationDate="2014-02-28T18:48:09.467" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thewrap.com/tv/column-post/walking-dead-why-walkers-are-called-walkers-video-32098&quot;&gt;an interview on thewrap.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Robert Kirkman reveals why zombies don't actually exist on &quot;Walking Dead&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So, why are the living dead referred to as &quot;walkers&quot; instead of zombies on &quot;The Walking Dead&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the pleasures of watching AMC's new &quot;Walking Dead&quot; aftershow — &quot;Talking Dead&quot; — is the chance for fans to get answers to questions like that one. &quot;Walking Dead&quot; comics creator and TV series producer Robert Kirkman answered it on Sunday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the world of &quot;The Walking Dead,&quot; he said, the concept of zombies doesn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;One of the things about this world is that people don't know how to shoot people in the head at first, and they're not familiar with zombies, per se,&quot; Kirkman said on &quot;Talking Dead.&quot; &quot;This isn't a world the (George) Romero movies exist in, for instance … because we don't want to portray it that way, we felt like having them be saying 'zombie' all the time would harken back to all of the zombie films which we, in the real world, know about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;So by calling them something different, we're kind of giving a nod to … these people don't understand the situation. They've never seen this in pop culture, this is a completely new thing for them.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="12" LastEditDate="2014-03-04T20:03:19.350" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T20:03:19.350" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17550" CreationDate="2014-02-28T19:18:25.480" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My favorite example of this is Chow Yun Fat in John Woo's &lt;strong&gt;A Better Tomorrow II&lt;/strong&gt; (screenplay by Tsui Hark). Fat dies at the end of the first &lt;strong&gt;A Better Tomorrow&lt;/strong&gt;, but he comes back in &lt;strong&gt;A Better Tomorrow II&lt;/strong&gt; as the twin brother of the protagonist in the first film. Sure, they're technically different characters, but their demeanor/action-style is pretty much the same. And the real kicker is that, as silly as this plot device sounds, &lt;strong&gt;A Better Tomorrow II&lt;/strong&gt; is a better film that its predecessor in near every way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from that film, and the films mentioned above, sure. It happens all the time. Especially in horror films. Take Freddy Kreuger in A Nightmare on Elm Street, for example. Sure, he's the antagonist in the first film, but as he became the box office draw, he really became the series' protagonist. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3584" LastActivityDate="2014-02-28T19:18:25.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17608" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17690" CreationDate="2014-03-01T03:11:57.420" Score="10" ViewCount="516" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Men In Black&lt;/em&gt;, how much control, if any, does the government actually have in the M.I.B. department?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When J is first being introduced to the department, K tells him the story of an &quot;underfunded agency (started by the government) used to try and make contact with other life.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The very next day when J arrives for the second time... he asks K which part of the government it is that they're involved with, K responds by telling him that they're not involved with the government at all, &quot;The government asks too many questions.&quot; He then explains to J that they are able to fund their operations by putting a patent on different devices they confiscate from the aliens. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the government started the operation years ago, how are they not involved now? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-04T22:20:02.017" LastActivityDate="2019-01-04T22:20:02.017" Title="How much involvement does the government actually have with the M.I.B. department?" Tags="|plot-explanation|men-in-black|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1007" CreationDate="2014-03-01T03:11:57.720" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vatican Cameos is a codeword used between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson.  It originated in WW2 when a non-military figure would enter a military-base armed.  Vatican Cameos would be shouted and everyone would duck. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having been in the military, Dr. Watson understands Sherlock's meaning and does indeed duck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8251" LastActivityDate="2014-03-01T03:11:57.720" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17610" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17624" CreationDate="2014-03-01T04:20:10.733" Score="10" ViewCount="12642" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like the family in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Godfather&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is quite suspicious of Clemenza's motives.  Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Among other examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From IMDB:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book, the Corleones have a contact at the phone company that gives them a log of calls by Paulie and Clemenza (Richard S. Castellano), who was also a suspect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Tom Hagen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always thought it would be Clemenza [to sell out Michael]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a deleted scene, from Sonny:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to use Clemenza's men right now&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who's head do we blow up, Clemenza's or Paulie's?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-01-30T05:20:50.507" Title="Why so much suspicion around Clemenza?" Tags="|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17611" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17617" CreationDate="2014-03-01T06:16:02.700" Score="3" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first scenes of Ichabod being in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162661/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sleepy Hollow (1999)&lt;/a&gt;, did Reverend Stynwick tell Ichabod the only book they follow is the bible because he was trying to give him a clue or was he trying to be snyde about Ichabod and his scientific methods?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The book contained a family tree graph that Ichabod refers to later in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-01T13:17:03.257" LastActivityDate="2014-03-01T13:17:03.257" Title="Was Reverend Stynwick trying to give Ichabod a clue?" Tags="|sleepy-hollow|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17550" CreationDate="2014-03-01T08:19:54.603" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From previous comments:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(An) example would be Crank, or to be exact Crank 2, making him alive again after dropping out of a helicopter up high. That is to some degree set in a present day non-SciFi-Fantasy reality, yet a quite weird and stretched reality, though.&#xA;  – Napoleon Wilson&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another example would be the Alien series, where Ripley is reborn either from hyper-sleep or DNA resurrection throughout the series. - Paulster2&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And a few other examples:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Curly&quot; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101587/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;City Slickers&lt;/a&gt; being brought back (using the same actor) as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109439/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;twin brother&lt;/a&gt;. Usually a lame gambit used for soap operas. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agent Smith was killed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Matrix&lt;/a&gt;. Brought back for parts 2 and 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spock gave his life in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084726/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Start Trek II: The Wrath of Khan&lt;/a&gt; &quot;for the many&quot; only to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088170/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;brought back&lt;/a&gt;, ruining the meaning of his selfless sacrifice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0357277/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Elektra&lt;/a&gt;. Ugh, I almost don't even want to get into &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287978/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;that awful nightmare&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-03-01T10:15:54.760" LastActivityDate="2014-03-01T10:15:54.760" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17615" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-01T10:50:21.560" Score="6" ViewCount="1364" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Lars Von Trier's &lt;em&gt;Nymphomaniac&lt;/em&gt;, Shia Lebouf plays a character called Jerome, who has an unidentifiable accent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if he is supposed to be English, but as an Englishman myself I can confirm it definately isn't an English accent. It's not even a dialect, it sounds like a South-African Australian Hybrid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this intentional? is there any evidence anywhere to confirm or deny that the character is supposed to be anything other than English?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At my cinema we had 12 people walk out of the film last night, 9 of them citing his performance as a point of ridicule meaning they could no longer take the film seriously. Ouch. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2021-03-01T16:58:04.270" Title="Where is Jerome supposed to be from?" Tags="|nymphomaniac|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2216" CreationDate="2014-03-01T12:11:58.150" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the mythology, Loki is blood brother of Odin.  He is a Giant, not an Aesir, and its common knowledge.  He is a trickster and a shapeshifter, and fathered and mothered Hel, goddess of the underworld; Fenris, the giant wolf destined to kill Odin at Ragnarok; and Jormungand, the serpent that wraps the earth biting its tail.  He ends up chained beneath the earth for orchestrating the death of Odin's son Baldur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thor is not destined to be king.  He's destined to be killed at the same time as his father Odin, at Ragnarok, by Jormungand.  He's a brawler and a boozer, a boaster and unable to resist a challenge, and he gets in trouble because of it frequently.  He marries Sif and their two sons survive Ragnarok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Odin is the All-father, god of War, death, wisdom and poetry.  He sacrificed himself to himself by impailing himself to hang upside down from the world tree, staring into the well of knowledge, discovering the runes from which the alphabet is based.  He likes to wander the earth disguised as an old beggar and test men's hospitality, bringing doom on you if it was found lacking.  He was also rather devious and not altogether to be trusted if you weren't Aesir.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movies and comic books do a pretty terrible job of representing Norse mythology.  About the only bit they got right was that Thor has a hammer no one can lift.  Which was made for him by dwarves, and had nothing to do with Excalibur whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8308" LastActivityDate="2014-03-01T12:11:58.150" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17611" CreationDate="2014-03-01T12:21:11.300" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am pretty sure he was being snide. It's been a while since I watched the movie, but it was Magistrate Philipse that had some sort of change of heart and gave some info away, not Reverend Steenwyck, who remained anti-Ichabod the whole movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I don't think he knew the whole plot. More specifically, I don't think he connected the dots, i.e., I think he didn't realize that the return of the Horseman had very earthly motives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2014-03-01T12:21:11.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9257" CreationDate="2014-03-01T17:42:10.177" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene before the castle reflects the Lewiston, Idaho/Clarkston, Washington area (separated by the Snake river).  Steamboats were once used on this river. This is where Walt's wife Lillian is from and where they were married!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you view an image of the Lewiston/Clarkston valley, you'll see the basis of this image at the confluence of the Snake &amp;amp; Clearwater rivers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8311" LastActivityDate="2014-03-01T17:42:10.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1991" CreationDate="2014-03-01T17:45:50.657" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;He hates his past, his guilt that he doesn't want to remember. He avoids the past version of himself, healthy, happy, and a killer. So he throws this part of his character away. This separation is too much that the thrown away past turn into a new, fictional, independent character. A pain in the ass and as disgusting as possible in Trevor's eyes (ugly fingers and laughing, etc...). Trevor doesn't want to remember his past year. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However his subconsciousness has created the past version of him, everywhere, communicating with people he knows, working at the same place, etc. to remind him of something. That hanging-man game, for example, is his subconscious intention to remember and accept his guilt. And when he accepts his guilt and past perhaps can go back to the normal life he had before the accident. To sleep, not accusing people, not washing his hands with bleach, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8312" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T21:12:26.467" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T21:12:26.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14866" CreationDate="2014-03-01T21:57:53.593" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched the movie once so far. I do not take anything for granted, thus imagine that the director himself had to rid his mind of any preconception, any hint of a &quot;solution&quot; and mingle everything in the right proportions, just to leave us empty handed, but entertained/shocked/bemused/etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer to Your question would be that there was murder and rape, but it was not the murder and rape of Leonard's wife...  BUT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have some objections as to 'Teddy' vel John being an undercover or even a crooked cop. &#xA;It cannot be confirmed that Teddy was the one who provided Lenny with police reports.&#xA;He refuses to show his badge to Lenny.&#xA;He has some dirty businesses (e.g. drug dealing) and plainly uses Leonard as his hitman.&#xA;Splits the drug money, but then tells Lenny to give him the keys to the Jag, where the second half is in the boot. &#xA;The girl played by Moss  quickly learns about Lenny's condition, and as she learns what had happened and checks that Lenny was but a tool in the killing,  easily obtains Teddy's documents (remember: undercover policeman's personal documents) to maneuver Lenny into being her tool and to wreak her revenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8314" LastEditorUserId="5929" LastEditDate="2014-03-02T02:46:20.887" LastActivityDate="2014-03-02T02:46:20.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17610" CreationDate="2014-03-01T22:08:37.633" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are a few reasons for this, drawing from both the movies and the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, Clemenza was known to be an extremely good caporegime and mentor. A quick check on the Godfather wikipedia points out that FIVE future capos were started in his regime - Sonny, Lampone, Pentangeli, Ritchie Nobilio and Joey Zasa. This shows that he has the ability to spot and nurture the talent needed to start a family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, in the scene when Michael asks Tessio and Clemenza to be patient and trust him now that Vito is turning all responsibilities over to him, Clemenza is the one who asks Vito Corleone for permission for he and Tessio to start their own family, strongly suggesting that while neither of them believed Michael was an appropriate choice for don, he was the one prepared to speak out about it. Another fact is that in the books Clemenza is frequently shown to be quite brutal in his dealings (whereas in the film, although brutal, he is also given an almost jovial &quot;big-guy&quot; character).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, whilst Tom took all this as being evidence that Clemenza would be more likely to rat Michael out and betray the family, Michael recognised it as loyalty and dedication to Corleone family (coupled with a lack of intelligence to look for opportunities elsewhere, beyond his own family). Tessio on the other hand masks his emotions throughout the entire don-changeover-process and Michael knew he had the intelligence, cunning and ability to betray the family, which is what led him to suspect Tessio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, if at all interested, Clemenza was meant to return in Godfather II, but the actor, Richard Castellano asked for too much money (he was actually the highest paid actor in the first film!). I've also heard he demanded control over all his lines, although I've not found a source to substantiate that. That's why he never returned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books, he got his own family and even acted as a consigliere at one point (albeit in a rather temporary capacity) for Michael. He died of a heart attack whilst cooking dinner, although it is frequently alluded to that he may have been assassinated by the Rosato Brothers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-01T22:08:37.633" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17580" CreationDate="2014-03-01T22:25:52.853" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, it was the title of the original short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle. As you may or may not know, contrary to what most modern adaptions of Sherlock Holmes show, Moriarty only ever appeared in a single Sherlock Holmes story, called 'The Final Problem'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arthur Conan Doyle wanted to kill off his detective with this story (more info can be found here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://thepopcultist.com/2012/10/13/how-sir-arthur-conan-doyle-tried-and-failed-to-kill-sherlock-holmes/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;how-sir-arthur-conan-doyle-tried-and-failed-to-kill-sherlock-holmes&lt;/a&gt;).&#xA;Effectively, the Final Problem was just that - the final problem Sherlock Holmes had to deal with. Moriarty was invented as a mastermind so brilliant that he matched Holmes' intelligence. Their final showdown took place at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, with both characters dying (until Conan Doyle bowed to public pressure and brought Holmes back).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, with that original story in mind, it seems obvious that the TV series wanted to reference it as much as possible. However, given your question is specifically about the TV series, you might be interested in this discussion over at the Sherlock TV Series page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://sherlock.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=588&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;What is the &amp;quot;final problem&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, which is full of opinions discussing exactly what you've just asked. A particularly interesting interpretation is provided by one of the users, who cites the following two reasons as being his understanding of the 'Final Problem':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Staying alive without dying of boredom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tea party at 221b Baker Street in 'The Reichenbach Fall' isn't the first conversation between Sherlock and Moriarty on this subject. Several phone calls and remarks in 'The Great Game' (though through a 'stolen' voice from Moriarty) about the puzzles hint at this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LESTRADE: Why would anyone do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK:  Oh…I can't be the only&#xA;person in the world that gets bored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;VOICE OF HOSTAGE AT PICCADILLY CIRCUS: This is about you and&#xA;me … because I'm bored … we were made for each other, Sherlock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;VOICE OF OLD LADY HOSTAGE: You are enjoying this, aren't you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JOHN: So why is he doing this, then? Playing this game with you. Do&#xA;you think he wants to be caught?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: I think he wants to be distracted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JOHN: Oh…I hope you'll be very happy together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Staying number one (Moriarty more than Sherlock: &amp;quot;…you should see me in a crown!&amp;quot; - Sherlock's deerstalker isn't exactly a crown…)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;'The Reichenbach Fall', rooftop&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JIM: Here we are at last – you and me, Sherlock, and our problem – the&#xA;final problem. Stayin’ alive! It’s so boring, isn’t it? … It’s just ...&#xA;staying … All my life I’ve been searching for distractions. You were&#xA;the best distraction and now I don’t even have you. Because I’ve&#xA;beaten you. It was easy. Now I’ve got to go back to playing with the&#xA;ordinary people. And it turns out you’re ordinary just like all of&#xA;them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier, at the pool scene, Jim isn't quite sure yet whether to&#xA;destroy Sherlock (and John) right away or just send them &amp;quot;a friendly&#xA;warning&amp;quot; not to be in his way any longer. He admits that he has&#xA;enjoyed &amp;quot;this little game of ours&amp;quot;. Fortunately the ringtone postpones&#xA;his decision: &amp;quot;Wrong day to die…!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jim knows that killing Sherlock will destroy the basis for an&#xA;interesting life in the future. A boring life for him isn't&#xA;worthwhile. But it is also not acceptable for him to be beaten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Solving these two problems at the same time is his dilemma. The only&#xA;way out he sees for himself is his suicide. The only satisfaction he has is that he is convinced that has destroyed Sherlock's reputation&#xA;and life as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst you are free to peruse the link to the site I provided, the two reasons cited by this user completely sum up the situation as I see it - although it is obviously open to interpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-08-14T17:49:16.877" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17615" CreationDate="2014-03-01T22:32:21.643" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a quick browse on the official website and looked at a few interviews with the cast members, but no one ever actually says where he is from. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am pretty convinced however that he is supposed to be English (especially given the amount of websites/videos mocking him for his attempt at an English accent) and so I think it's just another example of an actor getting an accent horribly, horribly wrong (see Russell Crowe in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_%282010_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Robin Hood&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-01T22:32:21.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17628" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-02T13:30:11.883" Score="1" ViewCount="362" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Lincoln (2012), Lincoln argued that passing the thirteenth amendment would lead to peace. This argument was key in convincing his political opponents to support its passage. But, it would seem likely to do the opposite - increase the chance that the confederates would fight on to avoid giving up slaves. So how was he arguing that it would help end the war?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="275" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-02T20:52:43.993" LastActivityDate="2014-03-02T20:52:43.993" Title="Why would the thirteenth amendment help with ending the war?" Tags="|lincoln|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17628" CreationDate="2014-03-02T14:55:24.877" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’m going to be a little cheeky in posting this answer, as I never studied American history in school and so almost all of my comments have been taken from other sites as opposed to my own knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first thing I must point out is that whilst you’ve asked this about the Lincoln movie, this is obviously a question related to the actual politics of the time and thus is a very deep and debateable question. Having done a little research online on it, here are some of the things I’ve come up with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summarising from Think Quest (&lt;a href=&quot;http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/myth_8.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/myth_8.htm&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In July, 1862, the war was going badly for the North, Lincoln decided&#xA;  to try to free the South's slaves to help the war effort, but he&#xA;  waited until the Union had a military victory. This was because&#xA;  Secretary of State William H. Seward feared that with recent Northern&#xA;  military defeats the proclamation might be looked on as a &quot;last shriek&#xA;  on the retreat.&quot;, i.e. an act of desperation from the losing side.&#xA;  However, on September 17, 1862, in the Battle of Antietam, the Union&#xA;  stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's attack on the North in a&#xA;  morale boosting victory. Even though Antietam wasn't prearranged, it&#xA;  was good enough for Lincoln's purpose and he passed the Emancipation&#xA;  Proclamation. It helped the Union by reinforcing the North's war&#xA;  effort and weakening the South's. The South was hurt by the&#xA;  Emancipation Proclamation because it discouraged France and Britain&#xA;  from entering the war. Those two countries depended on the&#xA;  Confederacy, or South, to supply them with cotton, so the South hoped&#xA;  that they would fight on their side. Most French and British citizens&#xA;  were against slavery, though, so when the proclamation made the war a&#xA;  fight against slavery, France and Britain gave their support to the&#xA;  Union.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summarising from How Stuff Works (&lt;a href=&quot;http://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/lincoln-emancipation-proclamation.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/lincoln-emancipation-proclamation.htm&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While it didn't technically set anyone free, the Proclamation was part&#xA;  of Lincoln's strategy to demoralize the South, and it worked. Poorer&#xA;  Southern whites resented that they were now fighting a war to protect&#xA;  wealthy plantation owners who were desperate to hold onto their&#xA;  &quot;property.&quot; And as word of the Proclamation spread, slaves left those&#xA;  plantations en masse. Their exodus even helped turn the tide in the&#xA;  siege of Vicksburg, a vital Union win. Additionally, France and&#xA;  England, which had been secretly helping the South, could not&#xA;  officially recognize a country that still enslaved other human beings.&#xA;  Europe also could not provoke a country that, according to the&#xA;  Emancipation Proclamation, was now fighting slavery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summarising from Civil War.org (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/emancipation-150/10-facts.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/emancipation-150/10-facts.html&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fact #6: The Emancipation Proclamation changed the focus of the war.&#xA;  Up until September 1862, the main focus of the war had been to&#xA;  preserve the Union. With the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation&#xA;  freedom for slaves now became a legitimate war aim. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fact #8: The&#xA;  Emancipation Proclamation paved the way for African-Americans to fight&#xA;  for their freedom. Lincoln declared in the Proclamation that&#xA;  African-Americans of “suitable condition, would be received into the&#xA;  armed service of the United States.” Five months after the&#xA;  Proclamation took effect; the War Department of the United States&#xA;  issued General Orders No. 143, establishing the United States Colored&#xA;  Troops (USCT). By the end of the war, over 200,000 African-Americans&#xA;  would serve in the Union army and navy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fact #10: Lincoln considered&#xA;  the Emancipation Proclamation the crowning achievement of his&#xA;  presidency. Heralded as the savior of the Union, President Lincoln&#xA;  actually considered the Emancipation Proclamation to be the most&#xA;  important aspect of his legacy. “I never, in my life, felt more&#xA;  certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper,” he&#xA;  declared. “If my name ever goes into history it will be for this act,&#xA;  and my whole soul is in it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, having summarised a few different sources of material, it seems the main reasons for Lincoln’s actions were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He genuinely believed it was the right thing to do.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More importantly, he hoped to stop Britain and France giving any aid/support to the South.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He hoped to turn the poorer South army against their “masters” by showing them they were effectively fighting to allow their rich masters to retain their slave workforce.&lt;/strong&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He hoped to increase the size of the North’s army.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated at the top of the answer, I got this from a little research. I never studied this in school and I'm not American, so if anyone has any issues with any of the info in the answer, do please comment!&#xA;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-02T17:34:58.107" LastActivityDate="2014-03-02T17:34:58.107" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17631" CreationDate="2014-03-02T15:44:25.110" Score="3" ViewCount="8403" Body="&lt;p&gt;During American Hustle, I was trying to determine why people were falling for Irving's loan scam. I understand that desperate people would pay a small nonrefundable fee up front to secure a fake overseas loan. I've heard of similar email scams, but this one has a physical real-life location. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After realizing the money  never showed up, wouldn't people just walk back to 'London Associates' and threaten Irving?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8320" LastActivityDate="2014-03-02T18:47:15.873" Title="How did the 'London Associates' scam work in American Hustle?" Tags="|american-hustle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17630" CreationDate="2014-03-02T16:43:32.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point of the scam was the the international, &quot;off the books&quot; tax avoidance scams were themselves illegal, and the people who would apply for them would do so because either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: They couldn't obtain credit through legitimate sources&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OR&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;B: They didn't want their business held under official scrutiny&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The deals would not have viable without connections, and as such Irving was &lt;strong&gt;only the broker&lt;/strong&gt; of the deal. What he was charging was a non-refundable brokerage fee, although he does tell people that he always obtains their money this is typical salesman spiel. Both parties know that what they are doing is illegal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The too-good-to-be-true deal will naturally raise the suspicions of potential marks, and so the reason 'Sydney Prosser' is such an asset is because she is able to negate the apprehensions of the mark and provide ballast to the narrative of the sting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There would be nothing to threaten Irving with other than vioilence, which he is obviously prepared for (he's packing) and besides, as far as the mark is concerned its simply a case of the deal not being successful. The beauty of the sting is that the mark &lt;em&gt;obviously has something to hide&lt;/em&gt;, something to devalue the nature of the deal, otherwise they would be obtaining the loan legally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's likely that most of the marks would be angry/dissapointed that their deal was unsuccesful, but with nothing legal to be done about it and (as far as they're concerned) Irving not being the point of blame, they would evaluate the situation and realise there is nothing to be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst it's not overtly stated, its inferred one of these disgruntled customers tipped off the FBI to Irvings dealings, either realising they'd been scammed, through frustration or possibly as part of a co-operative deal they themselves were making for consideration of their own case (remember! these people are largely crooks themselves).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-03-02T18:47:15.873" LastActivityDate="2014-03-02T18:47:15.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17633" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17667" CreationDate="2014-03-02T20:57:25.043" Score="6" ViewCount="1451" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes in a scene where a character is supposedly looking directly at another, the actor is in fact looking slightly to the side. When I notice this, it generally appears to be done intentionally so that the looker's face is more visible to the camera. Is this a common technique, and if so, is there term for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3361" LastActivityDate="2018-01-16T18:58:53.517" Title="When an actor is supposedly but not actually looking at someone or something" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17633" CreationDate="2014-03-02T23:15:04.870" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is just the logical execution of film-making, in order to maximize the clarity of the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a result of the conflation of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_Effect&quot;&gt;Kuleshov Effect&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/180-degree_rule&quot;&gt;the 180° rule&lt;/a&gt;, and just... well...common sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Camera shots are not typically blocked into character POV's: that would be a very stylized and specific type of shot that could seem jarring. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The camera is staged to the side of the character, and the parallax obtained by this will of course show more of the character's profile than a blanket face-on shot. It helps to sustain the illusion of spectatorship, whilst also communicating clearly and precisely who is talking and allowing the full extent of their acting/emotions to be exhibited. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-03-02T23:23:54.773" LastActivityDate="2014-03-02T23:23:54.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17637" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17649" CreationDate="2014-03-03T00:00:25.637" Score="12" ViewCount="60874" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just began season 3, and I understand... nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last episode of season 2, we see Don saying he will &quot;not be a part of Sterling Cooper anymore&quot; since Duck Philips is promoted Director. (And Pete Campbell will apparently be promoted too)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next thing we know... Don is still working at Sterling Cooper and fires the Head of Accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was Sterling Cooper really merged with PP&amp;amp;L? What happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is explained later, please put the answer in spoilers. If it is not... are we supposed to just guess what happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6090" LastEditorUserId="7757" LastEditDate="2014-03-03T08:19:05.437" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T17:16:07.550" Title="What happened between seasons 2 and 3 of Mad Men?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mad-men|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17639" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-03T00:42:39.140" Score="5" ViewCount="579" Body="&lt;p&gt;A movie about a man ending up in a concave or (Hollow) world think the movie was Russian or  Eastern European. Pretty sure the movie was made since 2000 but not 100% sure. I remember him talking to a women about the concave world (she was a native of that place) and her being confused when he talked about his world. I only saw the trailers so don't have much info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8325" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T13:08:47.890" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T13:08:47.890" Title="Movie about a concave (Hollow) world" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|fantasy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:01:29.790" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17639" CreationDate="2014-03-03T01:38:44.703" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gT7fH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Inhabited Island (2008) - Movie Poster 01&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0ocjl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Inhabited Island (2008) - Movie Poster 02&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0972558/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Inhabited Island&lt;/strong&gt; (2008)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film is set in the year 2157, following the exploits of a young&#xA;  earthling named Maksim who unexpectedly crash lands on an uncharted&#xA;  yet fully populated planet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SYwEm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Inhabited Island (2008) - Pic 01&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maksim, now a stranger in a strange land, must figure out how to&#xA;  survive in this hostile new world while simultaneously bringing about&#xA;  a revolution against an oppressive government that controls its&#xA;  citizens by use of an elaborate form of mind control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Et5Id.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Inhabited Island (2008) - Pic 02&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's odd but most of the reviews I've read don't mention the &quot;hollowness'' of the planet (shown in the first pic). Some &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/PrisonersOfPower&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;details&lt;/a&gt; from the book the movie was based on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The protagonist, Maxim Kammerer, is stranded on the world of Saraksh&#xA;  where &lt;strong&gt;the atmosphere has such an enormous refraction index that the&#xA;  horizon seems to bend upwards&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a bit more on that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saraksh's skyline must look really bizarre&lt;/strong&gt; to a Terran. The&#xA;  atmosphere's chemical composition results in total lack of clear&#xA;  skies, and somehow distorts optics to the point where the planet's&#xA;  surface appears concave instead of convex, making it seem &lt;strong&gt;as if the&#xA;  planet is actually the interior of a giant bubble&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;~ Posters from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.impawards.com/intl/russia/2008/obitaemyy_ostrov.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMP Awards&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3166934784/tt0972558?ref_=tt_ov_i&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;; Stills from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scifi-movies.com/english/photos-0001215-3-the-inhabited-island-2-2009.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;SCIFI-Movies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch one of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojw7I016Puw&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;trailers&lt;/a&gt; to confirm. There's also an English-dubbed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kl4MrwBwhU&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;promo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot;The Inhabited Island&quot; is actually a two-parter. More details on the second half &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399952/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inhabited_Island&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastEditorUserId="7732" LastEditDate="2014-03-03T04:25:46.953" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T04:25:46.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17641" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17644" CreationDate="2014-03-03T02:40:47.293" Score="14" ViewCount="8292" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a frequent idiom for a group of characters to interact while eating Chinese food. Generally of the carry out variety, with chop sticks being plunged into the deep fold-up boxes. It seems to me that this is intended to bring a particular thematic element, but I can't quite put my finger on it. I see it way too often for it not to have a specific significance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3361" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T09:11:02.090" LastActivityDate="2019-01-17T07:42:52.707" Title="What is the symbolism of eating Chinese take-out in a scene?" Tags="|analysis|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17642" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-03T03:28:00.183" Score="9" ViewCount="1627" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might be too tangential for the Movies Stack Exchange, but I think it's an interesting question. Scarlett Johansson is a singer as well as an actress. She's made two albums and been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Song (for &lt;em&gt;Before My Time&lt;/em&gt; from Chasing Ice and for &lt;em&gt;The Moon Song&lt;/em&gt; from Her). J. Ralph, the composer of &quot;Before My Time&quot; is even quoted as saying that Scarlett Johansson was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/tv-film/1549324/before-my-time-from-chasing-ice-story-behind-the-oscar-best-song&quot;&gt;'the only person I want to sing this song.'&lt;/a&gt; Typically, the Academy Awards try to get the original performers to sing at the ceremony, but Scarlett Johansson has always been replaced. Does anyone know why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-03T16:28:47.720" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T16:22:52.400" Title="Why hasn't Scarlett Johansson performed either of her Oscar-nominated songs at the Oscars?" Tags="|soundtrack|academy-awards|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17641" CreationDate="2014-03-03T04:08:53.470" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do think you have something in thinking that Chinese food has a particular significance as take-out. There's an aura of a comfortable, but pressured, environment, where people are banding together to get stuff done. But, enough of my personal opinion and on to some quotes and particular examples. Much of this is cribbed from TV Tropes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jewish people and Chinese food:&lt;/strong&gt; Starting with the trope of Jewish people going out for Chinese on Christmas (&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PekingDuckChristmas&quot;&gt;Peking Duck Christmas&lt;/a&gt;), there is a broader association in all cases. For example, in &lt;em&gt;My Favorite Year&lt;/em&gt;, the more urbane of two put-upon assistants bonds with the romantic interest by ordering Chinese food when they have to work through the night, saying &quot;Catherine, Jews know two things: suffering, and where to find great Chinese food.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chinese food and long hours/stuff to do:&lt;/strong&gt; This is particularly associated with &lt;em&gt;The West Wing&lt;/em&gt; where the characters order Chinese food when they're facing a long creative challenge, like writing jokes for the Correspondent's Dinner&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chinese food and comfort:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Orange is the New Black&lt;/em&gt; uses the theme this way by centering the main character's romantic choices around a quote about Chinese food. After having a wild and tempestuous relationship with Alex, a drug smuggler, the main character Piper is told by her more settled best friend that eventually, she's going to want &quot;someone who knows when to order Chinese food&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, Chinese food is associated with familiar but stressed situations, particularly among more intellectual and/or Jewish characters; and can imply both &quot;something needs to be done&quot; and &quot;something needs to get fixed emotionally&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastEditorUserId="8170" LastEditDate="2014-03-04T03:09:28.303" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T03:09:28.303" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10487" CreationDate="2014-03-03T05:41:53.190" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Estasi dell Anima was composed for the movie by David Sardy, there isn't a longer version. Searching through Spotify, I found Ennio Morricone's L'Estasi Dell'oro, which has a similar feel and might be an inspiration. It has similar instrumentation (discounting the electric guitar) and a driving beat with flourishes leading to a grand orchestral swell. It's 3:23 minutes long, might be helpful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastEditorUserId="8170" LastEditDate="2014-03-03T05:53:16.740" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T05:53:16.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10181" CreationDate="2014-03-03T05:45:15.877" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many movies are cut down for content and time to be shown on TV. Here's a description of the phenomenon, known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Bowdlerise&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bowdlerization&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T05:45:15.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17637" CreationDate="2014-03-03T07:10:11.270" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The people from PPL have chosen Duck as the boss of the new agency. When they met at the end of episode 13 (from Season 2), they tell Don that Duck will be his new boss. The people from PPL know that Don is the genius mastermind behind everything and without him, the agency is worth nothing. Don is aware of this and tells the people from PPL that he will quit as soon as Duck will be the new boss. This is his right since he doesn't have a contract, so he cannot be forced to work with them (In the beginning of Season 1, Roger gives Don more money but without having a contract).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main scene leading to the events you described reads is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Don) I think it sounds like a great agency, and I think Duck is the man to run it. I just don't think I'll be a part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Duck) You can either honor your contract or walk out that door with nothing and start selling insurance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Don) I don't have a contract.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Roger) We're close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Don) We didn't think we needed one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Don leaves the room; Duck is mad about Don; Cooper looks very angry at Duck)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Man from PPL) Duck, would you excuse us for a minute?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; wanted him to become the new director they would not ask him to leave the room after such a scene. Off screen they would have decided about firing Duck and keeping Don in order not to lose money and get a better agency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-08T16:58:27.983" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10050" CreationDate="2014-03-03T07:27:17.547" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Coming late to HoC party, but very intrigued by the paper references. I think it can also extend into the newspapers as well. Their impermanence and the digital forms of information that now are of so much weight and importance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The significance of the origami is far reaching. It represents a childlike whimsicalness, referring to Peter's children and to Claire's missed opportunity at motherhood. It is the transformation of a flat piece of ordinary paper into a beautiful unique hand made 3 dimensional art object. With the same generic piece of paper, you can imagine anything and create it from almost nothing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a swan that the homeless man creates for Claire. Not a crane. Swans are often folded for weddings. The folds allow for patterns on a piece of paper to be incorporated as the illusion of feathers ( as is shown in the folds of the US $20 bill). Swans mate for life. Swans also signify a journey or that a is change coming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For better and worse Cliare is married to Frank for life. She is on a journey with him and change is always afoot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Claire leaves Adam in New York, she rearranges the photograph he has printed for her. Again the impermanence of paper, who prints photos anymore and who prints them that large? More paper falling by the wayside. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She also folds a swan and leaves this for Adam showing her allegiance  to Frank. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8328" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T07:27:17.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12616" CreationDate="2014-03-03T07:35:49.290" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Vatican used to have the Devil's Advocate. During canonisation, which is part of the selection of people for elevation to sainthood, somebody is selected to play Devil's Advocate. Their job is to cast doubt on the person's character. They also try to prove that the miracles required for canonisation are fraudulent and so on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Vatican still actively looks for critics of the potential saints but they are no longer required by their own laws to do so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8329" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-03-03T14:40:17.833" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T14:40:17.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17423" CreationDate="2014-03-03T12:38:23.503" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera?from=Main.RepoTheGeneticOpera&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TVTropes.org&lt;/a&gt;, which looks at various conventions throughout movies, call it an &quot;Incurable Cough of Death&quot;, one of the signs in any movie that a character will not make it to the end. They expand on this though, saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rotti's terminal disease, which is heavily implied to be an&#xA;  untreatable cancer by the doctor's statement, &quot;You don't have a lot of&#xA;  time. It's spreading rapidly.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately though, his illness is never explicitly stated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T12:38:23.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17657" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17659" CreationDate="2014-03-03T17:16:52.120" Score="9" ViewCount="7320" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, some of you may have heard of this incredibly awesome website:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gizmodo.com/relive-jurassic-parks-iconic-hacking-scene-right-from-1535139292&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://gizmodo.com/relive-jurassic-parks-iconic-hacking-scene-right-from-1535139292&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which allows you to relive the classic scene from Jurassic Park. In that scene, you can clearly see something which I have noticed before - there is a picture of a person taped to Nedry's terminal smoking a pipe. I have always thought this was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._%22Bob%22_Dobbs&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;J.R. Dobbs&lt;/a&gt; for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He's a similar looking guy&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;More importantly, J.R. Dobbs is the (fictional) author of &quot;&lt;em&gt;The Church of the Subgenius&lt;/em&gt;&quot; and a big proponent of the concept of &quot;Slack&quot; (achieving your goals without working too hard). Now, &quot;Slack&quot; is the root for the namesake of &quot;Slackware&quot;, which it the oldest current &lt;em&gt;Linux&lt;/em&gt; distribution around. See the connection?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have always held this to be an intrinsically obvious Easter Egg, but actually when you look closely, the resemblance to J.R. Dobbs is only passing. Can someone confirm or deny my suspicion? If it is not Dobbs, who is the mysterious man on Nedry's computer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5178" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-11T10:08:11.750" LastActivityDate="2017-03-28T20:42:37.900" Title="Is this J. R. Dobbs on the picture at Nedry's desk?" Tags="|reference|jurassic-park|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17657" CreationDate="2014-03-03T17:46:37.420" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ClvOi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;JRO&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a picture of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;J. Robert Oppenheimer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, one of the &lt;em&gt;fathers of the atomic bomb&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project&quot;&gt;Manhattan Project&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Notice the left post-it note? It shows a mushroom cloud and the word &quot;BOOM&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ui0rO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;JRO&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchDetail&amp;amp;VBID=2K1HZO3RRW0CQ&amp;amp;PN=45&amp;amp;IID=2S5RYD9OB1R&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T17:46:37.420" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17468" CreationDate="2014-03-03T17:58:32.360" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it can be safely assumed this is a gaffe. It appears on a few sites online where it is identified as a Movie Mistake and there are forums over at Reddit and other such sites with people citing this issue as something that brought the film down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've yet to find a comment or response from the film makers about this, but like with any movie, there are tons of gaffes like this that slip through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T17:58:32.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17664" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18075" CreationDate="2014-03-03T18:34:50.473" Score="9" ViewCount="995" Body="&lt;p&gt;A man watching telly receives a package and it's a teddy bear. Doesn't think anything of it but then opens the stuffing out of the bear to find a VCR cassette tape. He plays it and there's some spooky horror. Then as he's finished watching it he goes to another room and en route a monster pulls him through the wall. It ends there.&#xA;I'm sure this was a British short film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8160" LastEditorUserId="7732" LastEditDate="2014-03-17T04:36:05.497" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T04:36:05.497" Title="What's this short film with a mysterious teddy bear?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|thriller|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:01:36.040" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17669" CreationDate="2014-03-03T19:13:06.250" Score="34" ViewCount="9227" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching a movie the other night and the main character slits the throat of another person. The camera stayed on the victim the whole time this happened. I'm wondering how this is achieved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar question is head shots (via gun fire) where someone gets shot in the head and you see an entry wound and the exit splatter all without cutting away then coming back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd imagine some kind of exploding blood pack on the back of the head for the splatter, but what about the forehead wound/neck gash spurting blood all over? Some of the cuts go pretty deep too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do they film/setup these types of shots? How are these types of &quot;live&quot; shots achieved without cutting away to another shot, then coming back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-03-27T04:46:38.130" LastActivityDate="2017-03-27T21:43:56.353" Title="How are head shots and deep throat gashes filmed?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13308" CreationDate="2014-03-03T20:14:57.633" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have two theories on this:&#xA;The first is that the crown can only have one host at at time. So Jake can put on the crown and use its ice powers, but the crown is still connected to the Ice King and can't take over another mind at the same time. This would explain why it works on Finn in the episodes Finn the Human and Jake the Dog. Simon is dead, so the crown is able to take a new host.&#xA;My second theory is that the crown only has mind-altering effects on humans, which would still explain why it's only happened to Finn and Simon.&#xA;(I know this post is like 6 months old I'm sorry I just couldn't resist answering.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8341" LastActivityDate="2014-03-03T20:14:57.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17633" CreationDate="2014-03-03T21:01:32.893" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I interpreted the question as referring to &quot;cheating to the camera&quot;.  That is, &lt;strong&gt;when actors are supposed to be facing each other, they are usually turned slightly to face the camera.&lt;/strong&gt;  @ChrisNoe, this is called &quot;cheating&quot; or &quot;cheating to the camera&quot;.  It started in the theatre (of course!). It lets the audience see more of the actor's face or body instead of just a profile.  You'll see it a LOT in sitcoms, and it's especially noticeable when there are 3 or more people talking.  Normal humans group into a circle, but not on sitcoms!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IwhXr.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IwhXr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2018-01-16T18:58:53.517" LastActivityDate="2018-01-16T18:58:53.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17665" CreationDate="2014-03-03T21:22:38.197" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;For movies within the last 10-15 years, many makeup effects like this are often combinations of practical effects (foam latex prosthetics, knives that squirt blood, exploding blood packets called &quot;squibs&quot;, and so forth) plus CGI. When I say combinations of practical effects and CGI, I mean that in many cases computer artists will &quot;enhance&quot; the practical effects after the fact.  If a squib sprayed a little bit of blood, the CGI artist will draw more droplets of blood and other gunk on the digitized film, matching the trajectory and splatter pattern of the original squib so the CGI looks realistic but the effect looks more intense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, before CGI the makeup artists had to rely on prosthetics, tubes that could squirt blood, little inflatable ballons under &quot;skin&quot; makeup (as in some werewolf effects from the 70's and 80's), stop motion animation, using puppets instead of real people, and the like. Another simple trick was to film the actor in position without the gory makeup, then keep the camera in the same place and apply the gory makeup and have the actor &quot;react&quot; or whatever, and then cut those two shots together to make them look like one continuous shot in the same location (since the camera hadn't moved).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2017-03-27T21:43:56.353" LastActivityDate="2017-03-27T21:43:56.353" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16150" CreationDate="2014-03-04T02:53:34.303" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The voice of the Ring and  Sauron in LOTR as well as Necromancer/Smaug  in  both parts of the Hobbit may seem similar. &#xA;Back to the plot,&#xA;the One Ring is a part of Sauron, so to speak. The Dark Lord put some of his evil spirit into it.  In The Desolation of Smaug, taking place  60 years earlier,Gandalf  realizes that the Necromancer is in fact Sauron when he (Gandalf the Grey) is caught  in Dol Guldur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voice of Necromancer/Smaug belongs to Benedict Cumberbatch. The actor in question mentioned it in an interview promoting  &quot;The Hobbit The Desolation of Smaug&quot;. Here are some relevant links:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/VRLTAd32DtI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/MKFaTH1PbzE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8346" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T23:28:43.747" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T23:28:43.747" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="90" CreationDate="2014-03-04T02:58:23.970" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the novels, the world of the ghosts is detailed, with complicated relationships that affect the storyline in later books. Moaning Myrtle, the Bloody Baron and the Grey Lady all play important roles later in the novels where extra characterization would have made the films stronger (in my opinion). Peeves himself is a worthwhile sideline to the &quot;getting rid of Umbridge&quot; storyline, but only if his trickster attitude and kinship to Fred and George has already been established in earlier books and movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Cackling madly, [Peeves] soared through the school, upending tables,&#xA;  bursting out of blackboards, and toppling statues and vases. Twice he&#xA;  shut Mrs. Norris inside suits of armour, from which she was rescued,&#xA;  yowling loudly, by the furious caretaker. He smashed lanterns and&#xA;  snuffed out candles, juggled burning torches over the heads of&#xA;  screaming students, caused neatly stacked piles of parchment to topple&#xA;  into fires or out of windows, flooded the second floor when he pulled&#xA;  off all the taps in the bathrooms, dropped a bag of tarantulas in the&#xA;  middle of the Great Hall during breakfast and, whenever he fancied a&#xA;  break, spent hours at a time floating along after Umbridge and blowing&#xA;  loud raspberries every time she spoke.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A description of Peeves' behavior after Fred and George's departure&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when the first movie began filming, many of the long-term implications of the ghost characters definitely weren't published. It's questionable if J.K. Rowling had fully planned out their importance, especially enough to convince the filmmakers to fully develop the characters. It makes sense to cut Peeves if he is only ever a source of commotion and a minor plot catalyst, which is the role he played in the first two books. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the same set of information, fully fleshing out Nearly-Headless Nick makes sense though. He welcomes Harry to Gryffindor, establishes just how magical the world is, and is a major part of the second book's storyline. Not only does he have some emotional moments with Harry, but he is essential to the development of the plot. He gets Harry to the Death Day party, which is visually interesting to film in a book that doesn't have as much action early on as others in the series. His petrification helps Hermione identify the monster and is an important emotional beat, being the most easily recognized of the victims before Hermione, and he has several other major events. As that book was published in 1998, three years before the film release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the filmmakers would have known that his character needed to be developed for the storyline to proceed smoothly. Peeves is never so essential, particularly in the first several books. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T02:58:23.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17673" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-04T03:41:46.777" Score="23" ViewCount="3263" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898266/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is full of interesting props. It's a pastime of mine to try to identify odd props in shows and movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one has me stymied. It is in the rarely seen set of Sheldon's bedroom. I've seen it on at least two different episodes. Can anyone help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A4OMA.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A4OMA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;prop in Sheldon&amp;#39;s bedroom&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8347" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-08-10T12:41:32.223" LastActivityDate="2019-08-10T12:41:32.223" Title="Big Bang Theory prop on Sheldon's bedroom wall" Tags="|props|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2394" CreationDate="2014-03-04T03:42:53.850" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the general tenor on this page that technology is fancy in movies because people like fancy technology and get excited to see it. Apart from production design geeks, it doesn't make sense to me that an audience would choose to go see a movie for some fancy interfaces. They aren't a centerpiece like big action sequences or character development, they're typically a means to an end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in most cases, that end does require technology that is different from realistic modern-day tech. Chances are, if someone is looking at a screen or an interface in a movie or TV show, there is important information being relayed, either about something happening in the character's world or about how the character is solving the problem. &quot;Fancy technology&quot; may be more visually pleasing to look at, but it's also more suited to get the most important plot information across quickly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Instant plot communication:&lt;/strong&gt; Half a season of Doctor Who revolved around this kind of instantly legible technology. The show was able to use a highly stylized pregnancy scan screen to bring up a recurring storyline in seconds. Disregarding how incongruous a Earth operating system would seem on the TARDIS, anything with a similar workaday tech aesthetic wouldn't have handled the storyline as well. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Character development:&lt;/strong&gt; Using John Smith's background of the MCU, a perfect example of &quot;fancy technology&quot; performing important character development is &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;. Tony Stark's most important character trait is how he thinks. The movies wouldn't be engaging without all of the scenes where he is doing nothing but inventing or figuring out a problem on his own. As for why technology is important to making that interesting, compare the scenes of him inventing the suit for the first time with later scenes back in America with Jarvis. Technology makes being alone interesting and allows the audience into his thought process, without forcing Pepper to constantly be his exposition buddy. It allows a whole new character and humor dynamic to emerge. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Illustrating relationships:&lt;/strong&gt; Granted, I can't think of a good example of this outside of &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; but their use of technology is my favorite. Twice in the movie, technology helps hit emotional points in cleaner, quicker and more effective ways than other methods. First is when Stark and Banner are first interacting trying to chase down the cube (I think, I'm fuzzy on their objective). Stark and Banner are two geniuses, and showing how they work together, and how Stark continues to push Banner as they work is an essential part of their storyline and best told through tech. That moment when Stark minimizes all of the windows on the transparent glass display is perfect. In the same movie, Stark attempting to call Pepper one last time before his sacrifice, with that portrait of her inside his helmet, is more affecting than an actual conversation would have been because it allows the audience member to fill in the emotional dots. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Defining worlds:&lt;/strong&gt; Sorry, I keep coming up with examples from the Marvel universe. Their use of tech is on point. It is important for the MCU that the Asgardians aren't actually magic or gods, they're just highly advanced aliens. This is made clear in &lt;em&gt;Thor: Dark World&lt;/em&gt; when Jane Foster is entranced by the interface of the medical technology used to help her. When they tell her it's a &quot;soul forge&quot;, she figures out the underlying science and describes it in terms of human technology. It's a great moment for showing what kind of a thinker and person she is, and it shows that the Asgardians are just highly advanced, not magical. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these more pointed, plot-oriented uses of technology would be impossible or highly difficult. Iron Man doesn't have Android installed on his suits not because people would get bored and spend less money on his movies, but because Android wouldn't tell his story as well. Granted, these are some of the best uses of technology I could think of, I know there is a lot of warrantless techno-fetishism out there.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T03:42:53.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13082" CreationDate="2014-03-04T04:36:38.730" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a derisive reference to the judge being somewhat more liberal in her rulings than is pleasing to the DEA agents. Most law enforcement members are conservatives as their primary jobs are to enforce their society's stays quo. Judges however come from a wide range of political leanings and many were at one time defense lawyers. Their interpretation of the law is somewhat more circumspect than the average law enforcement members and they often err on the side of the defendant's rights as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They have a far greater knowledge of American jurisprudence than do the majority of law enforcement officers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They know their errors can be reversed upon appeal and that doesn't make them appear to be competent if/when it occurs too often.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly Agent Gomez had one or more rulings come from this particular judge with which he disagreed and he compared her to the late leader of North Vietnam because communism and liberalism are often interchangeable in the minds of American conservatives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T04:36:38.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11344" CreationDate="2014-03-04T04:48:42.033" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This appears to have been a minor plot hole in the series. When two events occur in relatively close proximity to one another, the police would of course investigate to determine if they are indeed connected and to rule that possibility out if they are not. The series doesn't do this as it would have dragged the narrative away from Walter White, the protagonist onto what quickly became a peripheral subject rarely mentioned again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the series does this again when Jesse later goes to Hank Schrader and makes the videotape where he confesses to his and Walt's roles in the meth business. No one really addresses the fact that Schrader assaulted Jesse so severely that he hospitalized him and that not very much time had passed since this occurred. Jesse would have (and really should have) had serious trust when dealing with Hank from that event; but the series simply hand waves that as it again would have little to to do in advancing the core narrative of Walter White descent  in the final season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T04:48:42.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15459" CreationDate="2014-03-04T05:00:17.770" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In reality people often do strange or unusual things when they suffer a traumatic, and in Mike's case, a mortal injury. Their mind continues to work as it does and they realize that they need to DO something. However, after a short period of time, their injury overcomes their adrenaline rush and they are forced to halt whatever it is that they are doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Mike's case, being a trained professional, he would have tried to flee since he knew that he was wounded and that he was unable to defend himself. It seemed though that his body wouldn't allow him to go much further than it did and he simply sat down a short distance from the car where he'd been shot. When this occurred, he probably realized that his wound was a mortal one and he simply resigned himself to his fate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also the reality which may have occurred to Mike that there was no place for him to go. Even if Walt had called an ambulance and they arrived before he bled to death, he would have been arrested and gone on trial for at least the distribution of the money to his criminal conspirators if not been tried along with them for the events which occurred during the Fring drug organization. Sitting by a river and dying there may have been a far more pleasant option for him than spending the remainder of his adult life in prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T05:00:17.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11130" CreationDate="2014-03-04T05:12:24.253" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone had to be killed by Gus Fring to show that he wasn't a man to be trifled with and because his plans to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Gale_Boetticher&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gale&lt;/a&gt; and eliminate Walt and Jesse had been circumvented. With only five people in the room, who else could he have killed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He needed Walt&lt;/strong&gt; - After all, Gale was backup for Walt and Gale was now dead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He couldn't kill Jesse&lt;/strong&gt; - He knew or strongly believed that Walt would not cook without Jesse and he couldn't afford to be wrong about that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He couldn't kill Mike&lt;/strong&gt; - Not only was Mike the &lt;em&gt;de facto&lt;/em&gt; underboss of his criminal organization, he had also shown himself to a very deadly opponent and Fring knew this. In fact, it's a tossup between Walt and Mike as to the one who the most immune to Fring's anger on that occasion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He obviously wasn't going to kill himself&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That left Victor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Killing Victor offered the greatest amount of shock value with the least amount of damage to Fring and his criminal organization. Victor certainly didn't help his case by speaking as it focused Fring's attention and anger upon him. However, it's likely that he would have been killed anyway as Fring needed to make a point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-08-10T21:07:59.790" LastActivityDate="2019-08-10T21:07:59.790" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17665" CreationDate="2014-03-04T05:31:58.767" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depending upon the scene is filmed and in what type of genre it is in, in most lower budget feature any more CGI rendering is used. This is because even blown scenes can be used (if a squib fails to explode you have lost the shot and it can take as long as 1 1/2 hour to set up up the  same again if this occurs incurring greater expense) and the digital gunshot wound(s) can be added later. in most medium to higher budget film, both squibs and CGI are often used in unison to make the scenes &quot;look&quot; more realistic as so far digital only wounds rarely do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as throats being slashed, these scenes are rarely shown in a single edit. What usually happens is the knife is used to stab or slash in one scene and after an edit (and often a change of camera angle) the results of that injury being inflicted are shown. This also for the characters to be positioned in such a manner that bloodpacks and fake knives aren't easily detected by the viewer. For copious amounts of blood, a closeup of the victim is usually shown with their hand over the wound, defensively or in shock. This conceal the tubing that is run up into their clothing or costume and through which the fake blood for the wound is pumped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are almost no &quot;live shots&quot; of this as it is technically a stunt and according to union rules ( at least in Hollywood) that requires a stunt performer. The main performer is often replaced by a stand-in or a stunt person to achieve the shot as the risks of injury are high and injuring an expensive star or co-star of a film can cause production shutdowns and lawsuits. This means that any such scene is carefully choreographed beforehand, the scene is film several times and each&quot;take&quot; is done as closely as the one before to prevent obvious continuity issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T05:31:58.767" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17665" CreationDate="2014-03-04T06:54:47.573" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;For off camera exit wound headshots wearable devices are used that are either actor triggered or remotely. These devices blast out an amount of blood at the back of the head, yielding a realistic splatter pattern. These devices yield a realistic trajectory and saves the trouble of doing a correct flood simulation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For on camera exit wounds so called 'squib heads' are used. These are blood packs which can be detonated from a distance or again by the actor himself. These squib heads are placed on the actor and blasts out blood and &quot;stuff&quot; in the desired direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the more deep headshot wounds often prosthetic are used that blast out everything the director wants using air ratchets to pull out the inside of the prosthetic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For complete blast offs of the head they might use silicon heads filled with blood packs, which they just blow up. This however, requires a cut from the acting actor to the silicon head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Above techniques can also be applied for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12R2FOgBywY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;throat cutting&lt;/a&gt;, especially the prosthetics are really useful as well as the blood squirting devices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CGI can be used to give a wound more details or to add some splatter, however, it will look quite fake if overdone, which with the &quot;real&quot; prosthetics and squirting devices is not the case since these are by definition physically correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more info watch this &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYTgE-dR_ZA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;documentary&lt;/a&gt; from the Dawn of the Death remake.&#xA;Note that silicon heads are expensive and hard to make realistic, as is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4UWLwEx590&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;shown&lt;/a&gt; by the original Dawn of the Death, which has an &quot;hilariously&quot; puppet headshot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastEditorUserId="7659" LastEditDate="2014-03-04T12:37:47.977" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T12:37:47.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16150" CreationDate="2014-03-04T08:24:44.763" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The language spoken is the Black Speech, which Tolkien described as thus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Black Speech was not intentionally modeled on any style, but was&#xA;  meant to be self consistent, very different from Elvish, yet organized&#xA;  and expressive, as would be expected of a device of Sauron before his&#xA;  complete corruption. It was evidently an agglutinative language. [...]&#xA;  I have tried to play fair linguistically, and it is meant to have a&#xA;  meaning not be a mere casual group of nasty noises, though an accurate&#xA;  transcription would even nowadays only be printable in the higher and&#xA;  artistically more advanced form of literature. According to my taste&#xA;  such things are best left to Orcs, ancient and modern.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;- J.R.R. Tolkien, &quot;Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings&quot;, Parma Eldalemberon 17, p. 11-12.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There only is a single example of &quot;pure&quot; Black Speech in the book, which is the writing on the ring:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk agh&#xA;  burzum-ishi krimpatul.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find&#xA;  them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All other occurrences in the book are simply broken words. Due to this, for the film version, a linguist, David Sato, used the broken phrases throughout the book along with some invention to create Gandalf's speech in Rivendell:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gu kibum kelkum-ishi, burzum-ishi. Akha-gum-ishi ashi gurum. (&quot;No life&#xA;  in coldness, in darkness. Here in void, only death.&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The book does state that when in Rivendell Gandalf recites the wording on the ring, and goes on to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The change in the wizard's voice was astounding. Suddenly it became&#xA;  menacing, powerful, harsh as stone. A shadow seemed to pass over the&#xA;  high sun, and the porch for a moment grew dark. All trembled, and the&#xA;  Elves stopped their ears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suffice to say, even though the movie speech was created by Sato, it appears Peter Jackson was trying to emulate what Tolkien suggested here. Tolkien didn't expand on the paragraph above so it seems like Jackson improvised and decided an overlay of Sauron's voice would be the best way to make the scene seem even more dark and haunting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T08:24:44.763" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17682" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17685" CreationDate="2014-03-04T09:27:43.613" Score="19" ViewCount="1817" Body="&lt;p&gt;On what basis, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1165110/&quot;&gt;Chris Hemsworth&lt;/a&gt; is considered as a Lead actor in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1979320/&quot;&gt;Rush&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, both characters have equal importance and both narrated the story in equal measure and occupied same amount of screen space, how come &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0117709/&quot;&gt;Daniel Brühl&lt;/a&gt; is a supporting actor in the movie Rush?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m very intrigued to know on what basis Leading Actor and Supporting Actor is categorized in Hollywood. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T14:59:46.217" LastActivityDate="2020-02-12T16:07:26.130" Title="Lead actor/actress VS Supporting actor/actress" Tags="|casting|film-industry|credits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9168" CreationDate="2014-03-04T10:59:14.860" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;She's a Psychic, the sidearm isn't her primary weapon, her brain is.  So the loss of her brain, or having it taken from her is a fail, the gun is just another tool to her, but she'd have failed if she lost the psychic duel with Kay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the judgment call on the hacker being a victim, whilst unusual for a judge to be lenient, given her psychic powers she's far more likely to assess a victim correctly than a regular judge, additionally she could just as easily pick up on a perp playing the victim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we see leniency from Dredd himself with the vagrant at the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at no point did she actually fail, she merely judged herself along the same lines as Dredd, which was silly, cos hey, psychic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8353" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2014-03-04T16:58:59.417" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T16:58:59.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17682" CreationDate="2014-03-04T12:03:26.817" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the early days of Hollywood, at the Academy awards, the Academy members could choose whether they thought an actor’s performance was leading or supporting.&#xA;This led to an interesting scenario in 1945, where an actor was nominated for the leading and supporting Oscars for the exact same role (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_My_Way&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Going My Way&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this the Academy changed the rulings and studios were given a much larger part in the process. Studios now give their opinions as to which actor in the movie is the lead, which is supporting, etc. Studios can also take into consideration things like competition and choose the actor most “likely” to win in a particular category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A great example of this is Kate Winslet in (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reader_%282008_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Reader&lt;/a&gt;), where she won a Golden Globe for Supporting Actress and an Oscar for Leading Actress. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So from the Academy Awards side of it, it is largely down to the studio.&#xA;As to outside of the Academy Awards and looking just at Hollywood in general, other factors can come into consideration such as the fame of the star. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie you cited, Rush, there were two potential leads – Helmsworth and Bruhl. But Helmsworth would arguably be the bigger box office draw. He’s a good looking man, he’s starred in the big block buster movies Thor and Avengers and thus the studio may have felt he would be a better fit for the Leading Role as he would be easier to promote and market.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This article is also a fascinating read: &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20160321151757/https://www.greig.cc/journal/2014/1/why-names-rarely-match-up-with-faces-on-movie-posters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Why Names Rarely Match Up With Faces on Movie Posters.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarise its contents, it effectively discusses how some actors end up fighting quite bitterly over who gets “top billing” for a movie. An example they give is The Towering Inferno, where it was decided on all the movie posters that Paul Newman’s name would be “highest” on the photo, but Steve McQueen’s name would be the most “left” (as most people read posters either top to bottom or left to right). This way, they both could be promoted as leads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3uWim.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Towering Inferno&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="64300" LastEditDate="2020-02-12T16:07:26.130" LastActivityDate="2020-02-12T16:07:26.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17438" CreationDate="2014-03-04T14:33:34.120" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might reconsider the first non-answer in your list. Here is what I understood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frank's original plan is to have Russo run for governor and only in the last minute to see him fail miserably in order for the vice president to continue the race and leave his position open. And precisely here is your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Russo's failure should occur only a few days before the elections. Why? Because this would force a fast reaction from everybody, especially from the VP. The party doesn't want to loose the position and the VP doesn't have too much time for hesitation. This will bring up his desire to become a governor again and he will go for it. So it's a mix of internal desire and peer pressure.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Russo should have a very dramatic failure. Everything should have run perfect until the single (and final) blow at the end. Why? Because the VP and the party wouldn't be interested in rescuing a dying campaign in the last few days. I mean, what are the chances to get all the needed potential votes with a new candidate, without a platform and in a matter of, let's say, a week? By that time, most people would have already decided with whom to vote. So yes, the VP should be interested in the campaign from the start. He would have to be determined to save that potential. He wouldn't have risked his current position for something already half-dead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the suicide attempt, I do not know if it was planned ahead. I think it was only a decision made on the spot to make Russo quiet. I believe that the plan was only to make him fail so bad that he would leave by himself or be forced by the party to abandon the race. Still, if the suicide was planned (improbable), a sudden major blow from out of nowhere would crush someone's hopes. When it is all of a sudden, the impact is bigger. Otherwise, if it comes after some other failures, it might leave no real wounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="418" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-04T15:44:21.237" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T15:44:21.237" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17641" CreationDate="2014-03-04T16:24:19.113" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think sometimes people look for symbolism a little too much in cinema.  In this case, I contend that there is &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt; symbolism in Chinese food.  It just happens to be an easily recognizable take-out food that can be recognized without branding.  Also, hamburgers or pizza have been used but there are a lot of challenges with that.  You have to control the environment, and when someone takes a bite you can't just replace it.  But if you throw some rice or noodles in a box and someone takes a bite, you can refill it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T16:24:19.113" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14354" CreationDate="2014-03-04T16:45:10.763" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the series proposes that having cable (or in the case of the cabin in a remote area) satellite television might have attracted the attention of the authorities this seems to have been a narrative conceit used by the writers to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Isolate Walt from the events which are unfolding across the country after his flight from ABQ.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Create the need for Walt to leave the cabin and travel on foot to town.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The vacuum salesman (e.g. fugitive helper) could have easily had satellite television and Internet both installed in the cabin prior to Walt's arrival. And the chances that either system would have malfunctioned to the point where they would require the services of a technician, who would have probably had no idea who Walter White was and would have had no reason to suspect that he would be in New Hampshire of all places) are so slight as to be negligible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A more likely event would be that a hunter or lost hiker in the area would have prompted a search by first responders who would have checked all of the cabins in the area during a search, especially one which isn't normally inhabited during the winter. Or that someone familiar with the area might contact the authorities when they heard a generator running at a cabin where this was not a normal part of the winter routine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, having Walter White thus isolated allowed the events of the series in ABQ to occur without his attempting to alter them in any manner. It also prevents White from taking actions which could secured his his family's future in manners not consistent with those required by the future story lines (for example opening a Swiss bank account with his remaining funds or hiring the mercenaries he proposed to Saul Goodman to retrieve his stolen fortune).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it might have been a minor concern for Walter White to have had satellite or Internet at the cabin, it would have been far outweighed by the questionable logic of stashing a wanted fugitive in a remote cabin in the middle of winter. Thus having neither seems to have been a necessity of maintaining the series' narrative than of any useful precaution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="7390" LastEditDate="2016-12-01T12:54:29.783" LastActivityDate="2016-12-01T12:54:29.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17608" CreationDate="2014-03-04T17:22:16.863" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using the US government as an example: There are agencies and functions which exist within the Executive Branch of the government whose purposes are to perform certain intelligence gathering operations which may violate US law or which may create embarrassment for a sitting administration. These agencies and functions thus operate under &quot;black budgets&quot; and are only peripherally connected to the government for reasons of national security.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Men In Black&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; universe, it is made clear by statements and the use of the Neuralizer memory erasing devices that the existence of alien life is not known to to the general public. To maintain this facade, the government seems willing to extend certain law enforcement and intelligence powers to the MIB (arrest and detention powers, intelligence gathering, the use of deadly force, etc) while allowing the agency to operate outside of normal and legal channels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is probably for reasons of &quot;plausible deniability&quot; (e.g. if asked under oath if the agency exists, then a government official can truthfully state that it does not without incurring perjury charges) as well insulating MIB's operations from legislative oversight and media scrutiny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The government may be &quot;involved&quot; in some aspects of the MIB program (in the first film military officers are shown as being tested for candidacy with the agency, for example) however, it seem to keep the agency's daily activities at arm's length and its very existence is likely only known to a select few people for reasons of security and deniability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-04T18:02:15.807" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T18:02:15.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11639" CreationDate="2014-03-04T17:30:20.590" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;To quote from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Texas_Chainsaw_Massacre_characters#Jedidiah_.22Jed.22_Sawyer_.2F_Leatherface&quot;&gt;Wikipedia entry&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Leatherface] was originally portrayed by Gunnar Hansen. His real&#xA;  name is unknown, although older brother Chop Top calls him &quot;Bubba&quot; in&#xA;  the second movie and in Texas Chainsaw 3D, his name is Jedidiah. While&#xA;  Chop Top is most likely using this colloquial word for &quot;brother&quot;&#xA;  affectionately, it is possible that &quot;Bubba&quot; is Leatherface's proper&#xA;  name. In the latter case, assuming that his surname is Sawyer as with&#xA;  his older brothers, his full name would be Bubba Sawyer. In the third&#xA;  film he is only referred to as Junior by his family with his first&#xA;  name not being stated. In the fourth film Leatherface is called&#xA;  &quot;Leather&quot; by his relatives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This therefore leaves two names: &lt;strong&gt;Bubba Sawyer&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Jedidiah Sawyer&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Texas_Chainsaw_Massacre_characters#Thomas_Brown_Hewitt_.2F_Leatherface&quot;&gt;Wikipedia entry&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the remake series, Leatherface is named Thomas and lives with his&#xA;  adoptive family, the murderous Hewitts, he is portrayed by Andrew&#xA;  Bryniarski. In this series his family never refers to him as&#xA;  Leatherface, but by his real name.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This adds a third name, &lt;strong&gt;Thomas Hewitt&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now we have three total names for him, the real question is &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the name change. I haven't found anything quoting any of the directors, but there are a few logical leaps that can be made. The original movie was marketed as being a true story. It wasn't. But clever marketing made the event seem even scarier and drew in bigger crowds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It certainly seems plausible that in the reboot of the series the makers simply wanted to &quot;freshen&quot; things up and introduce a new name to bring a new generation of film-goers into the story. A quick browse through sites like Yahoo Answers and the like shows many people asking if the new name, Hewitt, is based off a real-life family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I'd have to conclude that the only reason for the name change was to keep the series fresh and to get a new generation of viewers to question whether this &lt;em&gt;new family&lt;/em&gt; were real (now that many realise the original family were not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I will hold my hands up and say I have no citable source from a director/producer to corroborate that - it's just an educated guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T17:30:20.590" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11975" CreationDate="2014-03-04T17:52:20.410" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, either the ships can travel at theoretical speeds beyond that of light or they can enter and exit &quot;warp&quot; or &quot;hyperspace&quot; corridors which allow travel across vast areas of space in far less than time than traveling at or near light speed would. Some clues from the 19780 novelization of the film Alien and the subsequent Alien films are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the novelization, the Nostromo's cargo is a refinery of petroleum which is still used for plastic on a future Earth. It isn't conceivable that an existing trade route would be established when cargo deliveries took centuries or millennia for delivery.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Carter Burke makes the comment during Ripley's dream that her escape shuttle drifted outside of the space lanes, implying that there are normal travel routes through space in the Alien universe. This again would require FTL (faster than light) travel to even be possible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Burke tells Ripley that contact was lost the colonists on LV-426. Since normal communications with another planet would take years,decades or even centuries, it can be inferred that faster than light communication is possible. To believe in that, then faster than light travel also has to be possible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Ripley asks Hicks how long it will be before they can expect rescue if they aren't heard me from he replies &quot;Seventeen days.&quot; Given that the events of the film do not occur within the Sol system of planets, it can be inferred that some form of FTL is possible to make the journey in such a short period of time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In all of the Alien franchises, sentient alien life is not viewed to be unusual. Given the fact that no such life exists in the Sol system of planets, one can infer that that series occurs outside of this area. That would only be possible if FTL was/is possible in their universe.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="7390" LastEditDate="2014-03-17T00:42:17.023" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T00:42:17.023" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14169" CreationDate="2014-03-04T18:06:55.343" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://americanhorrorstory.wikia.com/wiki/Micro-Bot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;American Horror Story wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After making a small incision, he discovers what appears to be a&#xA;  microchip, an unknown technology to the era. After placing it on a&#xA;  tray, it sprouts six segmented &quot;legs&quot; and skitters away(1). The&#xA;  micro-bot appears to be almost indestructible, as it is able to&#xA;  autonomously reassemble itself after being dissected into several&#xA;  parts and welded by Arden, who believes its purpose to be&#xA;  espionage(2). Its current whereabouts are unknown but Dr. Arden&#xA;  believes that it has reintroduced itself to Kit's body(3).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(1) Episode: Welcome to Briarcliff&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (2) Episode: Nor'easter&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (3) Episode: I Am Anne Frank: Part 1  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The micro-bot hasn't reappeared since.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T18:06:55.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3827" CreationDate="2014-03-04T18:14:30.103" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the bomb was threefold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To conceal the fact that a single person in the room was to be killed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To inflame passions in the country's involved to ratchet up tensions for Moriarty's desired worldwide conflict&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To destroy any trace evidence that any of the above had occurred.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the explosion is shown from the outside of the building, it is clear that the bomb created a great deal of heat and open flames as well as a powerful explosion. It also clearly destroys all of the windows facing the protagonists. In fact, the room and building should have still be on fire when the protagonists entered given the size of the explosion shown and any human remains should have mangled or destroyed making Holmes' deductions impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The remote control from the first film seems to to fit in with the numerous weapon's technologies been built by Moriarty's vast web of companies.  When for some reason the second film's narrative diverged from the ending of the first, the need to explain the remote and how it could have been used (decades before any such device was built in reality) seems to have dropped in favor of telling the new story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T18:14:30.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17360" CreationDate="2014-03-04T18:23:19.813" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;She wouldn't have been as the symptoms of a brain tumor large enough for the sufferer to notice that they have one would not have escaped a medical checkup required for a mission. The &quot;I have a brain tumor' narrative was added to give the story greater dramatic effect and not because it would fit logically into the overall narrative of the program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A brain tumor of any size would require immediate treatment to prevent its spread. The surgery, radiation treatments or chemotherapy necessary to do this would all be easily detectable by any trained physician and they would be impossible to conceal. If the tumor could not be removed, then the accompanying medical effects (headaches,seizures,etc) would be difficult to conceal and would indicated that an CAT scan or MRI of the patient's brain was necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, to be &quot;medically cleared&quot; for an assignment the presumption could be made that the person involved would have to provide recent medical records. Unless those records were falsified in some manner or somehow not review prior to any medical clearance screening, it is doubtful that a brain tumor sufferer could be cleared for an assignment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="7390" LastEditDate="2014-03-04T18:39:03.870" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T18:39:03.870" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5809" CreationDate="2014-03-04T21:28:47.040" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the little continuity between the films, it could be argued that the films do not take place in the order they are filmed. But in the order of the books. It would make more sense that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8363" LastActivityDate="2014-03-04T21:28:47.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15311" CreationDate="2014-03-05T02:11:47.460" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;While there may have been some &quot;Easter eggs&quot; in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; linking it to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the probable supposition has to be that the two universes are not connected. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a fictional representation of a dystopian post apocalyptic Earth meaning that unless the events of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; occurred before the beginning of TWD, then they exist in two very separate universes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T02:11:47.460" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17584" CreationDate="2014-03-05T02:24:42.147" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no adequate reason given for the DEA to have seized Walter White's former residence as they had yet to convict him or even try him for committing any criminal activity. Even RICO (The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) would require hearings to determine if Walter's home was both his and an asset which they could attach as part of asset forfeiture. They could not have simply moved Skyler from the home as her filing any number of legal writs or even short selling or quit claiming it to a relative could have prevented this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The narrative of the series needs to give Walter serious incentives to realize how his drug manufacturing and dealing has adversely effected his family. By showing that they have been forced to move from their home less than six months after he fled the jurisdiction is simply a conceit of that narrative. After all, Walter only &quot;confessed&quot; to certain things over the telephone and given his deteriorating health any minimally skilled attorney could have made the case that his mental state was impaired and that he had no idea what he was saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show is also incorrect as the DEA cannot &quot;RICO&quot; anything. Any prosecutorial decisions made at the US federal level come from the US Attorney's office or from the Attorney General.While the DEA could recommend that the US Attorney seize Walt's assets, without formal criminal charges having been filed and without clear evidence that his familial home was involved in the drug business, this would have been a tough road for them to travel. Saul Goodman as a skilled litigator should have known this and should not have made such a glaring legal error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="7390" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T18:26:12.383" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T18:26:12.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13192" CreationDate="2014-03-05T02:31:31.803" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The government seized both the money Mike had deposited for his granddaughter by Gus Fring in an overseas account and the money left in the safe deposit box by the attorney. There's no indication that Mike had any other money stashed away as he had Walt bring him a &quot;bug out bag&quot; from it's hiding place at the airport so it seems that he left nothing to his grandchild.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note, this seems to have been completely amateurish of Mike to have his funds seized. Had he used the money that Walt wrangled from his deal with Declan to purchase something like gold coins or collectibles, he could have easily concealed these from the feds and allowed them to be given to his granddaughter many years later following his death and after any statute of limitations had passed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T02:31:31.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15231" CreationDate="2014-03-05T02:38:45.440" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bogan would likely have to forfeit the money that he received for the car wash. Whether or not he knew or suspected that Walter White had earned the money Illegally, it was still the proceeds of criminal activity.When Skyler was eventually questioned about how she and Walt were able to buy the car wash, if she was granted immunity for her testimony she would then have to reveal the origin of their funds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means the car wash would be seized AND the money used to purchase the car wash would also be liable to civil forfeiture. If Bogan were lucky and hired a good attorney he could perhaps get the car wash back as the use of criminal funds could possible construed as having render the sales contract written for the business fraudulent. However, it's likely that he would lose both the money AND the car wash in the deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact Bogdan didn't know the source of the funds is irrelevant. If you receive money from an illegal source and the amount is beyond a minor amount (the carwash was purchased for $845,000 USD, not an insignificant sum) to presume as the other answer to this question does, that the US government would not attempt civil forfeiture demonstrates a basic misunderstanding of US federal law and jurisprudence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="7390" LastEditDate="2016-12-03T22:36:19.187" LastActivityDate="2016-12-03T22:36:19.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15682" CreationDate="2014-03-05T03:13:31.923" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jack let Walter go for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The series consistently demonstrates the neo-Nazis aren't a particularly intelligent assemblage of criminals and thus allowing a man who clearly had shown that he was willing to pay to commit mass murder for far less than stealing from him is yet another instance of this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If he had not, then it would have made the episode &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;To'hajiilee&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; what it technical was and is: the real ending of the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; saga.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As to the first part&lt;/strong&gt;: It is clear that Walter White will do anything to prevent Hank Schrader from being killed. He even offers the neo-Nazis his entire fortune to prevent this from occurring. However, Jack knows that there's no way that he and his men can aim weapons at federal agents or attempt to murder a federal witness and then hope the entire encounter will simply be &quot;forgotten&quot; by them. At that point Hank and Steve Gomez had to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In what has to be one of the most contrived narratives in the history of television, instead of killing the agents, Walt and Jesse, Jack and his men rather stupidly kill two federal agents, leave two living witnesses to this crime, steal almost all of ones fortune and then takes one of the witnesses, captive. This occurs rather than Jack and the neo-Nazis simply killing all of the witnesses, burying them in the holes where the money barrels had been and then simply driving off into the sunset, thus ending the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Jack knew that Walt was ruthless from his past dealings and from what his nephew Todd had told him leaving him alive was an act of sheer idiocy. Taking Jesse alive considering that he could have escaped and then testified in court as to what he'd seen was another an act of complete stupidity. Since blaming the narrative is never a satisfactory answer to most questions, a logical inference must be drawn that Jack was unable to see how his actions and his inactions would and could easily backfire on him with almost no effort, hence the statement that the neo-Nazis were written to be an exceptionally stupid gathering of individuals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As to the second part&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;To'hajiilee&lt;/strong&gt; is clearly the logical conclusion to the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; series. Had Walter simply allowed Jack and the neo-Nazis to murder Hank, Steve and Jesse and kept silent about the money, he would have eliminated all of the major credible witnesses to his drug activities and then simply driven home. He would have kept his millions (less what he would have to pay Jack and associates for killing the assembled group) and there would have no realistic reason to believe that he would have ever been prosecuted for his activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, Walter begs for Hanks life then attempts to bribe the neo-Nazis for it and fails. He has all but $10 million of his fortune stolen by them and he allows them to take Jesse Pinkman (the key witness against him) to be taken alive with the possibility that he could escape and potentially convict them all. Since the only reason for all of this to occur is to extend the series a few more episodes to its secondary conclusion, it's clear that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;To'hajiilee&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is really the end of the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a safe assumption to conclude that upon reflection Jack's allowing Walter to live was a narrative conceit of the series' writers and producers that gave them the flexibility of adding several extra shows and the wrapping up the show after &quot;resolving&quot; many of the plot holes and contrivances of earlier seasons. There really isn't any other logical reason for it to have occurred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="7390" LastEditDate="2016-11-28T22:56:09.590" LastActivityDate="2016-11-28T22:56:09.590" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16918" CreationDate="2014-03-05T03:21:29.013" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that after a good long hug up on the roof ......... that Ted and Amy went out to dinner&#xA;and then went back home and spoon cuddled all night long and were married soon after and are&#xA;now living in Vermont with 4 children 4 cats and 1 dog :)&#xA;it s all a matter of how you either LOOK at it or wanna SEE it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8369" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T03:21:29.013" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13783" CreationDate="2014-03-05T08:46:16.557" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Georges de La Tour (1593 - 1652) had many beautiful paintings, but this was not one of them. It was invented simply to add authenticity to the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're interested though, and on a completely different note to your question, Georges de La Tour drew a lot of inspiration from the great Italian artist Caravaggio (1571 - 1610), who &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; have a painting of Saint Ursula, titled &quot;The Martydom of Saint Ursula&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OJi0y.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Martydom of Saint Ursula&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to your original question though, the answer is a resounding no unfortunately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T08:46:16.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17710" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-05T09:29:28.317" Score="3" ViewCount="1782" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice that a great many of Cary Grant films show him in a shower, bathroom or bathhouse, with or without clothes on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this supposed to be some 'trademark' of his at the time that his fans have come to expect (just like most of Hitchcock's films show a cameo of the famous director)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5192" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T00:45:31.853" Title="Why do so many Cary Grant films show him in a shower?" Tags="|character|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17171" CreationDate="2014-03-05T12:40:09.503" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is some significance behind a few of the designations used in the Universes, whilst others appear to be totally random.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the original Marvel universe was set in &lt;strong&gt;Earth-616&lt;/strong&gt;. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth-616&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Earth-616 Wikipedia Page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A difference of opinion exists regarding the selection of the number&#xA;  616. In 2005, Alan Moore's son-in-law John Reppion (who is married to Alan Moore's daughter Leah Moore), stated on an Internet message board&#xA;  that the number 616 was arbitrarily chosen by Moore and had no&#xA;  significant meaning, saying it &quot;was just a random number of no&#xA;  significance chosen because people always seemed to be talking about&#xA;  'earth 2' or 'earth 4' but never any higher numbers.(1)&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  However, Alan Davis has said that it comes from 616, a variation on&#xA;  the Number of the Beast, picked because Dave Thorpe &quot;wasn't a fan of&#xA;  the modern superhero genre&quot; and expressed this in his stories, &quot;such&#xA;  as recording his opinion of the Marvel Universe with the designation&#xA;  616.&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081227134149AAzaGg8&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(1) &lt;a href=&quot;http://johnreppion.proboards.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://johnreppion.proboards.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (2) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.marvel.com/blogs/Tom_Brevoort/entry/719&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.marvel.com/blogs/Tom_Brevoort/entry/719&lt;/a&gt; (Currently broken link as Marvel perform site updates).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was also asked on &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081227134149AAzaGg8&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Yahoo Answers&lt;/a&gt; and an eagle-eyed reader noticed this trend:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is no set rule for numbering each alternate dimension so many of&#xA;  the numbers seem to be random. Some have been numbered after the&#xA;  publication date of the issue in which the universe first appeared in&#xA;  especially the Earth's that have appeared in the &quot;What If&quot; series. For&#xA;  example, What If (Vol. 2) #41 was published in Sep. 1992 and in&#xA;  &quot;Marvel Encyclopaedia: Fantastic Four&quot; that Earth was numbered&#xA;  Earth-929. Most of the 920-940 Earth's appear to follow that system. A&#xA;  few of the Earths that first appeared in 2001 appear to use Earth-10xx&#xA;  instead of 0100 or 100. Another one that I think is kind of cool is&#xA;  Earth-818793 which was featured as part of the Marvel Zombies vs. Army&#xA;  of Darkness miniseries. The numbering was derived from the release&#xA;  years of the Evil Dead trilogy since the movies were released in 1981,&#xA;  1987 and 1993.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the Earth-199999 universe you mentioned doesn't appear to be covered anywhere or discussed by any of the comic's creators, and thus its numbering appears to be random. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T12:40:09.503" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14510" CreationDate="2014-03-05T12:55:04.663" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is not based on real events, but is a retelling of the 1981 Bulgarian film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278827/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Yo Ho Ho&lt;/a&gt; (which itself is an original story).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Fall is incredibly realistic feeling at times, one of the reasons of which can be derived from a quick look at its &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_%282006_film%29#Production&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia Page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[The director's audio commentary] reveal that actor Lee Pace remained in&#xA;  a bed for most of the early filming at the director's suggestion,&#xA;  convincing most of the crew that he was in fact unable to walk. The&#xA;  intention, Tarsem and Pace noted, was to maximize the realism of Roy's&#xA;  physical limitations in the eyes of Catinca Untaru, whose lines and&#xA;  reactions as the character Alexandria were largely unscripted, and so&#xA;  were young Catinca's spontaneous interactions with Pace's character.&#xA;  For example, Alexandria's misinterpreting the letter E as the number 3&#xA;  in a note written by Roy came about from an accidental misreading by&#xA;  the 6-year-old actress during filming, which the director then&#xA;  realized he could adapt into a clever twist in the story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To further the realism of young Catinca's performance, Tarsem had&#xA;  portions of the hospital scenes between Pace and his young co-star&#xA;  filmed through small holes in the hospital bed curtains, maximizing&#xA;  the youngster's spontaneous interactions with Pace despite the&#xA;  presence of the film crew surrounding them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel this, coupled with the shots towards the end of the film of some of the most dangerous stunts in silent films, make it seem like it was a real story - but alas, there doesn't appear to be any evidence to suggest it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T12:55:04.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16665" CreationDate="2014-03-05T13:06:59.847" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm aware a lot of the comments discuss this already, but this really does appear to be a case of bad program design. Pick any movie discussing website online and you can see people echoing your views:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2071645/reviews&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...if any government department in any country ran anything remotely&#xA;  as incompetently as these guys do in &quot;The Following&quot; then we are&#xA;  seriously, seriously doomed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And then they escape because the FBI or the Police were looking the&#xA;  other way at the critical moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Joe's escape from jail was the final straw. The premise to be moved&#xA;  to another jail is bizarre and if that's not bad enough then prison&#xA;  officials, FBI agents and Federal marshals all manage not to be able&#xA;  to put one prisoner in the back of a transport truck and move him. But&#xA;  he then gets magically in the trunk of his lawyer's car and escapes.&#xA;  We all have different tastes in shows but I find it baffling that&#xA;  anyone could find this show even remotely watchable because it's so&#xA;  insulting to the viewers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s202/the-following/recaps/a469939/the-following-episode-11-a-dull-outing-for-kevin-bacons-drama.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Digital Spy&lt;/a&gt;, who note the lack of a prison log of any sort:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...There's Ryan's slipper snake ex Molly (Jennifer Ferrin) - who's now&#xA;  one of Joe's followers. A self-styled 'Angel of Death', Molly has it&#xA;  in for Hardy and first met Carroll - you guessed it - in prison.&#xA;  Seriously, Feds, check that visitor log.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, a rather entertaining rant over at &lt;a href=&quot;http://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/12/why-the-following-just-might-be-the-most-insulting-show-on-tv/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Time Entertainment&lt;/a&gt;. Some of the choice quotes from this article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The good guys are apparently idiots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At first, I was okay with this. I could accept that law-enforcement&#xA;  might be fallible; otherwise, the show would be an hour of Kevin&#xA;  Bacon’s former FBI agent Ryan Hardy talking to James Purefoy’s&#xA;  creepy-yet-charming psychopath Joe Carroll, explaining that there was&#xA;  no way that an imprisoned serial killer would’ve been able to use the&#xA;  Internet to set up thousands of websites to gain acolytes without&#xA;  everyone in the prison knowing about it (and logging the IP addresses&#xA;  of those visiting the sites).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...The problem with The Following is that these moments of idiocy are not&#xA;  few and far between. In fact, as Vulture pointed out earlier this&#xA;  week, every single episode of the show has asked us to believe that&#xA;  the FBI agents hunting the serial killing cult  have made at least one&#xA;  fatal, and often ridiculous, error in judgment or procedure that&#xA;  prevents them from catching the bad guys...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So effectively, the answer to your question appears to be because the FBI, by the decision of the show's creators, are complete idiots - something many people online have noticed and been irritated by.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-05T13:42:38.027" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T13:42:38.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16665" CreationDate="2014-03-05T14:18:37.397" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I recall correctly, they actually &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; have a visitor's log, but those visitors were provided with fake IDs from one of the cult members.  This way, his visitors couldn't be rounded up once the Feds were on to the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a fair amount of &quot;suspension of belief&quot; at play in this show.  You are asked to believe a lot of stuff that just isn't rationally believable, and the police/Feds are definitely made out to be fallable.  But, then again, almost any Action movie really uses that same concept.  The good guys are always smarter than the bad guys.  Chuck Norris, while indeed God-like, most likely wouldn't get past the 3rd armed guard in real life, nor would John Rambo.  But you have to buy that stuff in order to keep the ride going.  So, in The Following, the FBI &lt;strong&gt;has&lt;/strong&gt; to be incompetent enough to keep the plot moving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, after the back-and-forth about the kid getting away and then the wife gets captured, then the wife gets away and the kid get captured again, it all got too crazy.  The first couple episodes were some of the best TV I've ever seen, but then I got tired of suspending my belief that much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T14:18:37.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16665" CreationDate="2014-03-05T15:45:38.023" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The lack of visitor logs, necessary documentation to visit a prisoner and in an age of relatively inexpensive HD video, clear images of Joe Carroll's visitors, are part of program's necessary suspension of disbelief that allows its fictional narrative to be sustained. The series would not be able to function or would do so poorly if common sense security measures were employed. Or the level of writing would have to improved to compensate for these glaring errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the series is doing well for the network, filling any plot holes is a low priority. However, if the program begins to falter in the ratings or if the show's run extended further into the future than anticipated, attempts may be made to close the loopholes or fill in the gaps in the plot's logical inconsistencies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T15:45:38.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17721" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17724" CreationDate="2014-03-05T16:56:17.963" Score="14" ViewCount="69243" Body="&lt;p&gt;As anyone who has seen the movie will tell you, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Eraserhead&lt;/a&gt; baby is the stuff of nightmares. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dTmCZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Eraserhead Baby&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The baby itself is famous for being somewhat of a mystery. David lynch refuses to discus the baby, what it is, how it was created, or why it's so gosh darn creepy. The few comments he has made have been cryptic. Statements such as &quot;it was born nearby&quot; or &quot;maybe it was found&quot; have lead to rampant speculation including theories that it could possibly be such things as a skinned rabbit or a  cow, lamb, or even human fetus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The prop itself, nicknamed &quot;Spike&quot;, featured several working parts making its eyes, mouth, and ears capable of independent operation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the baby actually made of and what evidence do we have to prove this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8378" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-03-05T18:13:55.360" LastActivityDate="2017-05-19T14:20:48.377" Title="What is the Eraserhead baby?" Tags="|props|david-lynch|eraserhead|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17641" CreationDate="2014-03-05T16:59:24.390" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think Chinese food, in particular, is being used as a theme. I think it's delivery food in general. It evokes the sense that these people don't have time to go anywhere or do anything other than work on the project they're currently working on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In America, there are really only two universal foods that are delivered: pizza and Chinese. That is changing, and it varies by region, but those are the two standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the question then would be, &quot;Why choose Chinese over pizza?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes they don't. Sometimes it's pizza.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some people might considered Chinese a &quot;higher class&quot; of food than a greasy pizza.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(My personal opinion) When the characters have that A-HA! moment, it's much more effective visually to point a pair of chopsticks while saying, &quot;Yes! That's exactly it!&quot; than it is to point a floppy piece of pizza.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastEditorUserId="7820" LastEditDate="2014-03-05T18:30:45.730" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T18:30:45.730" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17710" CreationDate="2014-03-05T17:45:30.690" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you could really call it his &quot;trademark&quot;, but studios were definitly trying to capitalize on his sex appeal.  Grant was what Brad Pitt was in the 90's and Chris Hemsworth is today, and the more often you can get away showing a semi-clothed hot item, the more tickets you're gonna sell to women (and, consequently, their dates).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His &quot;trademark&quot;, if you will, was actually his dimpled chin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T17:45:30.690" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17721" CreationDate="2014-03-05T18:08:28.580" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer to that question is; no one will ever know.  David Lynch knew he was onto something ethereal, so he prohibited any promotional photos of the baby and forced his SE crew to sign a release saying they could never talk about it.  Lynch, himself, has always been elusive at best.  All anyone will ever have is speculation, until Lynch decides to spill the beans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to add that the idea that the baby was living tissue has 2 main roadblocks; decomposition and Rigor Mortis.  It is highly unlikely the baby was actually living tissue, though it may have been modeled on such.  I have seen mention that it somewhat resembles a sheep fetus, so that may have been the vision Lynch worked from.  Lynch would have needed several such fetuses for multiple days of filming, which just doesn't seem plausable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-03-06T20:40:51.183" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T20:40:51.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17725" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17726" CreationDate="2014-03-05T18:08:45.840" Score="9" ViewCount="17765" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; episode S04E12, Daryl and Beth came across a country club while looking for alcohol for Beth to drink. During this time Beth notices Daryl is taking what looks like a purse and filling it with cash and some kind of jewelry (gold, silverware, etc). Beth asks him, &amp;quot;Why are you taking that stuff?&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is exactly my question as well. At first, I thought maybe he was going to use the cash as tinder, but that turned out not to be the case. He did use a stack of cash at the end to burn the house down, but that wasn't his original intention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why does he &amp;quot;steal&amp;quot; from the country club? He even goes as far as trying to open the cash register at the bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on his behavior while at the country club I think he was doing it in spite of the snobbish nature associated with people who are members of such establishments, given his poor upbringing. It looked as if he had a personal issue which was made clear when he was throwing darts at the pictures of members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="60982" LastEditDate="2021-07-23T18:33:43.627" LastActivityDate="2021-07-23T18:33:43.627" Title="Why did Daryl take the cash and jewelry?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17725" CreationDate="2014-03-05T18:17:38.683" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw it as a re-telling of his upbringing.  It was a gut reaction to being around a stack of cash and jewels.  However, given the amount of time they've been living in the Walking Dead universe, I found it odd that he would suddenly exhibit such behavior.  The darts thing made sense, but Daryl is a survivor and should have been more practical at that point than to lug a pocketbook around with him full of trinkets he knows are useless in his world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T18:17:38.683" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17727" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-05T20:35:51.463" Score="6" ViewCount="5532" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw an episode of a TV episode a few years ago. I've asked about it on other sites and got almost unanimously pointed to &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt;. However, I've been watching &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt; and I'm up to season 7, and I'm pretty sure I'm up to episodes that aired after I saw this other episode. Here's what I remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Young girl (anywhere from 9-14) is helping an older woman (aunt? grandmother?) tend to plants in a greenhouse. Older woman leaves. A deranged-looking man shows up. Confidently, the girl asks the guy if he thinks he's going to try to sexually assault her, in some sarcastic way. The guy's plan was exactly that, so it would seem, so he chases after her.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A couple people (guys, I think, but could have been a guy and a girl) are from out of town and are interviewing people in town. It's a woody town, somewhere up north. No idea where. Could be Oregon, could be Montana, could be Vermont. They interview people (the girl's parents?) in a house and they interview a local business owner in a general store.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the episode, a guy closes a trunk lid to a classic car. I don't remember the color, the make, or the model. I think I remember them putting someone (a body, a living person like a suspect) in the trunk, but I can't be sure.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like I said, sounds a lot like &lt;em&gt;Supernatural,&lt;/em&gt; especially if the car in #3 is a black '67 Impala and the people in #2 were two brothers in their 20s/30s. Both are possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thing is, I was at my brother-in-law's place, and it sounded like a cool episode. It got me into &lt;em&gt;Supernatural,&lt;/em&gt; and even though I didn't get a hit, I'm enjoying the show. The show I remember didn't have angels, or demons, but there was a supernatural element to the crime. I vaguely remember maybe the plants were special, or maybe the girl had the &lt;em&gt;a terrible secret&lt;/em&gt; trope, like a monster in disguise or something. Or maybe the guy was the monster. Anyway, the curiosity is bothering me, so I thought I'd cast a net.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8380" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-04-24T18:09:42.700" LastActivityDate="2017-04-24T18:09:42.700" Title="Television show similar to Supernatural" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:56:26.440" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4105" CreationDate="2014-03-05T20:40:46.783" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Opinion, but I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; it's just a random event. It fits a pattern: the recap they almost always do has the &lt;strong&gt;THEN&lt;/strong&gt; header. The episode is labeled &lt;strong&gt;NOW&lt;/strong&gt;, and the rare preview is labeled &lt;strong&gt;SOON&lt;/strong&gt;. I don't think there's anything special; they just chose for whatever reason to preview the rest of the season. I've noticed they don't only preview the next episode, but multiple episodes to follow later in the season (some a few away).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Best I can tell, it was just to whet the viewer's appetite. It's a fun show to marathon, but I'm not sure I would pay as rapt attention week to week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8380" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T20:40:46.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17725" CreationDate="2014-03-05T20:57:50.993" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We still don't know what he did. Maybe he worked at the country club and moved peoples cars and they fired him and they treated him like shit only give him small tips. And the shed was his house and didn't want to tell beth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8382" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-06T11:49:53.880" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T11:49:53.880" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17710" CreationDate="2014-03-05T21:12:10.460" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I counter the first response. As opposed to other film stars of his day, much of Cary Grant's appeal came from his ability to not be a manly ideal. In many of his early films like &lt;em&gt;Bringing Up Baby&lt;/em&gt; (1938), &lt;em&gt;My Favorite Wife&lt;/em&gt; (1940), &lt;em&gt;Arsenic and Old Lace&lt;/em&gt; (1944), and &lt;em&gt;Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House&lt;/em&gt; (1948), he plays a nerdy or hen-pecked person who is constantly outmatched by the situations and characters around him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bringing up Baby&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4zHcZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cary Grant reduced to wearing Katherine Hepburn's bathrobe in &lt;em&gt;Bringing up Baby&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is not sexy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kLLKk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Howards of Virginia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dZeyZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In these films, he's shown in bathrooms, or unclothed, or shaving because it emphasizes his vulnerability and makes him funnier. It's actually particularly true in &lt;em&gt;North by Northwest&lt;/em&gt; (1959), where there's an entire sequence about the indignity of him having to use travel-sized shaving tools (while on the run). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;North By Northwest&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gnTbZm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P3a4rm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the specific case of &lt;em&gt;Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House&lt;/em&gt;, the bathroom is a metaphor for Grant's characters needs throughout the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jlFel.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His attempts to fight for turf in the bathroom mimic his efforts to get what he wants out of the giant remodeling at the center of the picture. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bathroom scenes are moments when Grant, as his character's life is spiraling into ruin, attempts to put his life back together and fails.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arsenic and Old Lace&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2uiKd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Okay, this shot may be for the sexy&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, this shot may be for the sexy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mr. Lucky&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HO3wd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone would like to try their hand at a general analysis of actors in tubs, here's a great &lt;a href=&quot;http://neptsdepths.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/all-washed-up.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;image resource.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-09T00:45:31.853" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T00:45:31.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17727" CreationDate="2014-03-05T21:28:59.023" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This couldn't be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Grimm,&lt;/a&gt; could it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0UTMp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never watched the show myself, but I know it circulates similar themes and tropes to both &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt; and the &lt;em&gt;Whedonverse&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read that the rights to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fables_%28comics%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fables&lt;/a&gt; spent a long time being passed around, and instead of an adaptation what we ended up with were two poor quality derivatives: Grimm and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Once Upon a Time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it isn't, could you at least rule it (&lt;em&gt;or Once Upon a Time&lt;/em&gt;) out to help others focus the parameters of their search?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-06-28T13:45:58.573" LastActivityDate="2014-06-28T13:45:58.573" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17721" CreationDate="2014-03-05T23:46:20.000" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Johnny Bones correctly answers, no one will ever know. John Patterson, a movie critic for the Guardian stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The secret of the Eraserhead baby is the Holy Grail of Lynch&#xA;  obsessives, and the one thing missing from Greg Olson's otherwise&#xA;  admirably comprehensive biography of Lynch (David Lynch: Beautiful&#xA;  Dark). And yes, it was the first thing I looked for. But one does&#xA;  learn a lot about the circumstances of Eraserhead's conception and&#xA;  six-year gestation. There was the birth of Lynch's daughter Jennifer,&#xA;  with two severely malformed feet, which required several unpleasant&#xA;  surgeries and the child's incarceration in a &quot;massive, waist-high&#xA;  cast...&quot;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/sep/06/davidlynch&quot;&gt;http://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/sep/06/davidlynch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I mention that quote is that a Guardian profile of Lynch and his movies stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Most of the film, though, deals with the birth of a mutant baby, a&#xA;  theme which Jennifer Lynch, who was born with club feet, now feels may&#xA;  have had its origins in her father's domestic situation: &quot;There is no&#xA;  doubt in my mind that there is something there that correlates to the&#xA;  baby in the film.&quot;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/sep/06/davidlynch&quot;&gt;http://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/sep/06/davidlynch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there's one possible explanation - the baby is representative, in some way, of his own daughter (it's also worth noting Lynch's marriage broke down 18 months into the shoot of the film).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top Trivia item on IMDB (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/trivia&quot;&gt;found here&lt;/a&gt;) states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The mutant baby was apparently created from the embalmed fetus of a&#xA;  calf, although David Lynch has never confirmed this or described how&#xA;  he articulated it. During filming when he watched rushes, he even had&#xA;  the projectionist cover his eyes when takes with the baby were&#xA;  playing, so that no one would know how it was made. After completing&#xA;  the film, Lynch reportedly buried the &quot;Embalmed Calf&quot; in an&#xA;  undisclosed location. At the wrap party, they had a mock wake for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it cites no sources for this information and so it's impossible to determine how likely at all it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An online blog, &lt;a href=&quot;http://cinevistaramascope.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/making-monsters-5-eraserhead.html&quot;&gt;Cinevistramascope&lt;/a&gt; discussed it in a feature on the top monsters in films, concluding:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The meaning of the baby and the movie remain elusive - saying&#xA;  Eraserhead is about the fear of fatherhood is a start, but it doesn't&#xA;  begin to explain everything. Lynch is famously reluctant to discuss&#xA;  the meaning of his work; with Eraserhead, he has always refused to&#xA;  explain how he created the baby as well, which has helped it retain&#xA;  much of its power. The thing looks like a crude puppet, but it has a&#xA;  sticky organic quality as well that has led people over the years to&#xA;  speculate that it's made from a cow fetus or other once-living tissue.&#xA;  I Googled &quot;cow fetus&quot; and don't think that's what it is (also,&#xA;  blechhh), but that the idea is even worth fact-checking says all you&#xA;  need to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, if interested, a forum over at &lt;a href=&quot;http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=14919&quot;&gt;Snopes&lt;/a&gt; was set up to discuss this very thing. They have a varied selection of opinions, but ultimately the answer is simple:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No one really knows because David Lynch won't confirm or deny anything.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-05T23:46:20.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16521" CreationDate="2014-03-06T00:22:44.063" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was discussed in a thread over at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218967/board/thread/153813005&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;. The responders intelligently noticed that a store announcement just before the &quot;glimpse&quot; has finished advertises Valentine's Day specials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he returns from the glimpse, it is Christmas Day. Therefore, it can be surmised that his glimpse lasted approximately six weeks (1 - 2 months).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-06T15:18:35.627" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T15:18:35.627" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2891" CreationDate="2014-03-06T01:05:13.480" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a few possible explanations for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, you could argue that it is because the sister suddenly realises what she is doing is a form of abuse - by putting her brother in a sexual situation which he didn't choose to be in. Given all the events of her life, this sudden realisation is certainly plausible. She did for him what no one ever did for her.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another possible reason I've read at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141974/board/thread/199577008&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB forums&lt;/a&gt; is that the director perhaps didn't want to portray all abuse as being cyclical, i.e. that the abused will become abusers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-06T08:13:53.677" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T08:13:53.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17739" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17740" CreationDate="2014-03-06T01:36:23.610" Score="1" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what you could call it. Nearly every channel has promotional adverts, to let you know who provides what you're watching. That's not quite what I'm thinking of. The best example I ever noticed was a hypnotic sequence of intensely seductive sounds and images - flash flash flash - on Spike TV, all that could arouse the audience. The room went silent as everyone was watching. Gunshots against a metal panel, spent shells falling to the floor, a woman's skin sliding past the camera. I wish I could find it again. This was back in the autumn 2010. It was genius in the way of the material, metal, power, sex, and the possibilities of the body. I don't think it was advertising a product at all. It was one of those little intermediate sequences that appear between commercials sometimes. I consider them like addictive additives that subliminally enrapture people to the channel. Viewers crave the feeling and return unwittingly for the fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know of any research into these?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8384" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2014-05-16T15:21:25.747" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T15:21:25.747" Title="Is there a name for the inter-mercials specific to TV networks" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17739" CreationDate="2014-03-06T03:37:20.023" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is called a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumper_%28broadcasting%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;bumper&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. Beyond that, I don't really get what you are asking for, but this is the answer to the question in your title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T03:37:20.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17744" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17746" CreationDate="2014-03-06T05:04:03.623" Score="1" ViewCount="354" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't get why they are travelling with Ursa in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1815862/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;After Earth&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. And what is their desired travel plan (obviously not earth)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-06T10:22:59.997" LastActivityDate="2017-06-15T06:35:17.667" Title="Why are they traveling with Ursa?" Tags="|plot-explanation|after-earth|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2038" CreationDate="2014-03-06T07:37:48.347" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, it's clear that it was indeed MiB. We see the mysterious man in there when Ben and Locke make their first visit, along with a short shot of &quot;the eye&quot;. The next time we see the cabin, we see Christian Shepard in there along with &quot;the eye&quot;, this is in S4E1 when Hurley runs into the moving cabin. We know from S6E13 that MiB was taking the form of Christian Shepard, and since we also see &quot;the eye&quot;, that makes the link with Ben and Locke's visit. Of course, near the end of Season 4 when Locke goes in alone, it's Christian Shepard in there with Claire, who later talked about MiB impersonating her father, making the connection of MiB with the cabin even stronger. In S5 MiB makes Ben admit that he never met Jacob, and that he was &quot;as confused as Locke&quot; about what happened in the cabin. Finally, Ilana and her team go there and she concludes that Jacob &quot;hasn't been there in a long time&quot;, the ash circle (which we know keeps the MiB out from S6) has been broken, and &quot;somebody else has been using it&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say all the clues are there that we only ever saw MiB in the cabin, although apparently Jacob did use it at some point, with the ash circle in tact to keep MiB away. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting that the primary thing MiB uses to get Ben to kill Jacob (and it's easy to forget this because later the focus is on Alex) is Ben's jealousy over his sense that the island, i.e. Jacob, prefers Locke to him. I think that MiB gave his &quot;help me&quot; message only to Locke as an early step in making Ben jealous of Locke, eventually leading Ben to murder Locke, only to have MiB take Locke's form - making Ben even more jealous thinking the island has even resurrected the &quot;chosen&quot; Locke. Then, &quot;Locke&quot; demands to see Jacob and is immediately taken there, while Ben was denied, leading Ben to kill Jacob. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8391" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T07:37:48.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17744" CreationDate="2014-03-06T08:37:22.663" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I recall correctly, the Ursa was on the ship for training purposes. It was there for the ship's crew to try and learn more about the creatures and train other rangers to &quot;ghost&quot;. Ultimately, when the ship crashed, it escaped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for their intended travel plan, I don't think it was ever alluded to, aside from being Cypher's &quot;last voyage&quot;. Ultimately they get caught up in the asteroid shower, take a jaunt through a wormhole and voila - Earth. It clearly wasn't their intended destination, not least given Cypher's reluctance to even set down there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So effectively:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ursa was there to train rangers to ghost.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unclear what their original travel plan was (and unnecessary to story, thus why it's not discussed in more detail).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-06-15T06:35:17.667" LastActivityDate="2017-06-15T06:35:17.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17747" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17748" CreationDate="2014-03-06T08:56:53.340" Score="8" ViewCount="17675" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pink Floyd released the influential and psychic-analytical album &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall&quot;&gt;The Wall&lt;/a&gt;&quot; in 1979. The album was then used as the soundtrack of a film with the same name &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084503/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;The Wall&lt;/a&gt;&quot; in 1982.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the film has not the same length as the album and as there are parts where no music is being played, they had to cut some songs or just leave them out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there a list which songs have been missing or were being cut?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8139" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-06T10:04:07.607" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T20:01:44.363" Title="What songs have been cut or not been used in &quot;The Wall&quot;?" Tags="|soundtrack|the-wall|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17747" CreationDate="2014-03-06T09:04:59.243" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here you go: &lt;a href=&quot;http://rock.co.za/files/thewall.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://rock.co.za/files/thewall.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Complete with a listing of the differences in lyrics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd_%E2%80%93_The_Wall#Soundtrack&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Wall Movie Wikipedia Page&lt;/a&gt; also has a summary of all the major differences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, The Wall movie removed &quot;Hey You&quot; and &quot;The Show Must Go On&quot;. An IMDB FAQ page discusses why &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084503/faq#.2.1.2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. It states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A sequence was actually shot for &quot;Hey You,&quot; but after a trial-viewing&#xA;  of the film, Alan Parker and Roger Waters decided it was simply too&#xA;  depressing and botched the film's pacing, so they had it removed. Some&#xA;  of the footage used for &quot;Hey You&quot; was recycled into other parts of the&#xA;  film, most noticeably into the &quot;Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3&quot;&#xA;  sequence. You can view a low-fidelity version of the &quot;Hey You&quot;&#xA;  sequence on the film's 2005 re-release DVD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The Show Must Go On&quot; was left out for undisclosed reasons, although&#xA;  one can infer it was also cut for the sake of pacing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Three songs are included in the film, but not on the album:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the Tigers Broke Free [New Song]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What Shall We Do Now? (an extended version of Empty Spaces)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5:11 AM (The Moment of Clarity) [Taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pros_and_Cons_of_Hitch_Hiking&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking&lt;/a&gt;, a Roger Waters concept album wrote at the same time as The Wall (although he released it later).]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sticking with the links, and if anyone is interested, they can check out the awesome &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thewallanalysis.com/main/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Wall Analysis&lt;/a&gt; website. This website has an incredibly detailed breakdown of the meaning of every line of every song in both the movie and the album.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give a snapshot of the detail this site contains, I'll take &quot;When The Tigers Broke Free&quot; as an example. Each song, including this one, has a &quot;Song in a Sentence&quot; description. For &quot;When The Tigers Broke Free&quot;, it looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pink recalls the last morning of his father's life, who was killed on&#xA;  February 18, 1944 in the Battle of Anzio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It then has seven or eight detailed paragraphs of explanation about the song, including what each line in the lyrics means, some trivia information, opinions from people on the site and an analysis of the song's context in the movie/album. Even posting this information for a single song would be too much (there is pages worth!), but an example of some of the information contained for &quot;When The Tigers Broke Free&quot; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Curiously enough, many Floydians rank &quot;When the Tigers Broke Free&quot;&#xA;  among their favorite Wall songs...despite the fact that the song was&#xA;  not part of the Wall canon until it appeared in the movie three years&#xA;  after the album's release and subsequent concert tour. (On the DVD&#xA;  commentary, Waters states that &quot;Tigers&quot; was written specifically for&#xA;  the movie, though later he says that it was a song that was just lying&#xA;  around. It's possible that it was a fragment during the album's&#xA;  recording, and was finished and polished especially for the movie.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For any Floyd fans who adore &quot;The Wall&quot;, or anyone who just wants to get to understand either the album or movie better, it's a fantastic website to check out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-07T17:17:03.450" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T17:17:03.450" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15770" CreationDate="2014-03-06T09:54:00.977" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the dynamite was meant for the play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than his line being a red herring, it's a direct reference to the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113277/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Heat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Max buys the dynamite and says, &quot;Could you make the order out to Ready Demolition, Tucson, Arizona&quot;, he is using the exact same line used by Val Kilmer in the first scene of Heat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T20:37:12.283" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T20:37:12.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16819" CreationDate="2014-03-06T10:42:58.160" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comments have been misleading. The show's creators have been very clear about the fact that they were not dead the whole time, only during the flash-sideways in season 6. The explanation given on the official podcast by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse for what Jack says is simply that he isn't an anthropologist or archaeologist, so he misjudged the age of the clothes by about 2000 years. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I, for one, don't quite believe this explanation, and I think it's simply that the original vision for Adam and Eve was for them to be characters from a much more recent time, and Jack's estimate was originally intended to be accurate. But, later on, the story took a different direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8391" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-26T10:27:11.480" LastActivityDate="2017-05-26T10:27:11.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17725" CreationDate="2014-03-06T11:10:12.770" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cash and jewels are light and easily carried.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assumed he was taking them just in case they could be used as a bribe or something at some point.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might well be unlikely but that does not mean the chance should be ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-06T11:50:18.340" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T11:50:18.340" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17754" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17755" CreationDate="2014-03-06T12:31:48.240" Score="21" ViewCount="85057" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have access to the books right now, but I believe in the books Gandalf didn't know in the beginning that Bilbo's ring was the one ring, so he did not immediately ask him to destroy it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the movie, after Bilbo does his vanishing act in his birthday party, Gandalf meets him in his house, and when Bilbo calls the ring his Precious, Gandals says that the ring has been called this before, but by someone else, indicating he knew then that it was the ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after around 30 more minutes (during which time, I think many years pass in the movie), they show it as if Gandalf confirmed it was the one ring only after he pulled it out of the fireplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when exactly did Gandalf realize it was Sauron's ring?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4763" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T09:05:26.250" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T09:05:26.250" Title="When does Gandalf realise that Bilbo's ring is the One Ring?" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-fellowship-of-the-ring|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17754" CreationDate="2014-03-06T12:40:17.327" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gandalf did &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; know then that it was the One Ring. He simply suspected it. He realised Smeagol had called it that in the past and understood then there was an even deeper magical power behind this than he realised. He suspected it could be the One Ring, but he needed proof and to know for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you remember, he left the Shire immediately to learn more information. Whilst in the movies this departure is a fairly short one, in the books Gandalf is gone for 17 years, searching for answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may remember in the movies he finds an account of Isildur, buried deep within a library (at Minas Tirith, in Gondor). It states &lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Saruman#Chief_of_the_White_Council&quot;&gt;as this script shows&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It has come to me...the ring of power! It shall be an heirloom of my&#xA;  Kingdom...all those who follow in my bloodline shall be bound to its&#xA;  fate, for I will risk no hurt to the ring...it is &lt;em&gt;precious&lt;/em&gt; to me,&#xA;  though I buy it with great pain...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The marking upon the band begin to fade...the writing which at first&#xA;  was as clear as red flame, has all but disappeared...a secret now that&#xA;  only fire can tell...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gandalf rushes back to Frodo and has him cast the ring in the fire, as a final test. At first it seems the situation may not be as feared, as the ring remains plain. As Frodo starts to notice the Elvish lettering though, Gandalf's fears are confirmed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Frodo: It's some form of Elvish...I can't read it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gandalf: There are few who can...the language is that of Mordor, which&#xA;  I will not utter here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Frodo: Mordor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gandalf: In the common tongue it says, &quot;One ring to rule them all, One&#xA;  ring to find them, One ring to bring them all, and in the darkness&#xA;  bind them.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was at that moment that Gandalf knew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth pointing out that Gandalf's suspicions were low before this event, as Saruman had led him and all the wizards to believe the ring had been lost (from &lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Saruman#Chief_of_the_White_Council&quot;&gt;Tolkien Gateway&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In T.A. 2953, the Wise gathered once more to debate about the Rings of&#xA;  Power. Saruman quieted the Council claiming to have the knowledge that&#xA;  the One Ring was lost forever in the Belegaer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Saruman was at the time a wise and trusted leader, none of the wizards like Gandalf had reason to doubt him. To give some context to the time, Bilbo's birthday at the start of the Fellowship of the Ring was in 3001 (48 years later).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, to delve into the lore of the books a little more, Gandalf started searching for Gollum when he left the Shire in 3001 (with the help of Aragorn). He returned to visit Frodo in 4 year intervals until 3008. He didn't return again until 3018.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some time between 3009 and 3017 Gollum is captured by Sauron and tortured. He is eventually released in 3017 and is captured by Aragorn in the Dead Marshes. In the same year, Gandalf reads Isildur's scroll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, in 3018, Gandalf returns to Frodo and the events unfold as you know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-06T12:54:35.373" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T12:54:35.373" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15925" CreationDate="2014-03-06T13:04:19.597" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;While later programs make it obvious to omniscient viewers of the series that Carrie's actions are in line with the events which play out, her reactions are realistically inline with those of a person who suffers from a profound mental disorder. When this occurs, the person has very limited control (if any) over their response to external stimuli, especially disturbing or proactive actions such as Saul's testimony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though later the viewer discovers that Carrie was involved in a wide ranging subterfuge, it is conceivable that her simply hearing comments which she knew might be coming engendered inappropriate emotional reactions in her. After all, as shown by the series, Carrie is barely able to control her emotional and mental states in non-stressful periods, so she couldn't be expected to control during stressful ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T13:04:19.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17739" CreationDate="2014-03-06T13:34:25.677" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Interstitial&lt;/a&gt; is the name for it. Spike TV has a target audience of &quot;dudes&quot; into sex, partying, violence, rock, crime, sports, etc. Them creating ads filled with sex, partying, violence, rock, crime, sports, etc is only natural. It's a channel with a frat-boy mentality. They want people to not change the channel so they keep those elements in their commercials. It's very simple. &lt;strong&gt;Find a market, fill it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T13:34:25.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4026" CreationDate="2014-03-06T13:37:48.720" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1990 film the explanation is pretty clear: Quaid create his alternate persona and simply informed Cohagen of the plans that he made. That way even when Quaid had removed the hidden transmitter from his bead, Cohagen would still know that Quaid plan entailed him infiltrating the Resistance and eventually returning to Mars. This would have tracking him relatively easy as Cohagen had inside information about his plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cohagen also employs operatives (such as Benny the mutant taxi driver) who keep track of Quaid when he's on Mars. That way, even Quaid were to somehow figure out that his change of heart was really a ruse, there were already agents in place to track his movements and inform Cohagen as to where and later Kuato, leader of Mars's underground mutant resistance, were located.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 2012 film is is even easier to understand as there were only two places where Quaid could be: The UFB or The Colony. Since there is no space travel and the rest of the Earth was a poisoned wasteland, Quaid was either in one or the other and as shown Cohagen had agents in both. Also, it can be surmised from the later video showing Quaid and Cohagen together that Cohagen knew about the entirety of Quaid's plans in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Side note&lt;/strong&gt;: While it's clear in the Philip K. Dick source novel &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;We Can Remember It for You Wholesale&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; That some of Quaid's (in the novel his name is Quail) memories are clearly fabrications, both film versions are portrayed as straight recitations of the events which occur. In both film narratives, Quaid is prevented from undergoing the Recall/Rekall memory process and, as such, is living out the events which unfold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="20764" LastEditDate="2019-12-10T10:10:00.747" LastActivityDate="2019-12-10T10:10:00.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8799" CreationDate="2014-03-06T14:11:01.707" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The LOST encyclopedia clearly states that the smoke monster was the result of the fusion of MiB's &quot;soul&quot; or &quot;spirit&quot; with a dark force of evil that was within the cave of light in the heart of the island. Thus, the smoke monster was created when Jacob threw his brother in the cave and did not exist before that. The motivations and personality of the smoke monster were carried over from MiB, however with added powers and perhaps an increased level of &quot;malevolence&quot;. It's only natural that MiB as the smoke monster would take his own form from when he was still human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8391" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T14:11:01.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17747" CreationDate="2014-03-06T14:43:25.343" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of my all-time favorites!  Song changes from album (taken from multiple sources, as well as my own notes):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;When the Tigers Broke Free&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New song, edited into two sections strictly for the film, but would later be released as one continuous song. The song was released as a single in 1982 and was later included on the 2001 compilation Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd and on the 2004 re-release of The Final Cut.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;In the Flesh?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extended/re-mixed/lead vocal re-recorded by Geldof.  The screaming kids entering the concert hall were added, which was inspired by Pink Floyd's run of Los Angeles, CA shows in 1975.  Those shows were said to be the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.collectorsmusicreviews.com/pink-floyd/pink-floyd-theory-of-ruin-value-sigma-46/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;first inspiration&lt;/a&gt; for the concept of The Wall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Thin Ice&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extended/re-mixed with additional piano overdub in second verse, baby sounds removed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extra bass parts, which were muted on the album mix, can be heard.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Goodbye Blue Sky&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re-mixed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Happiest Days of Our Lives&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re-mixed. Helicopter sounds dropped, teacher's lines re-recorded by Alex McAvoy.  The poem young Pink was caught writing, which the teacher reads aloud, is &quot;Money&quot; from their Dark Side Of The Moon release.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re-mixed with extra lead guitar, children's chorus part edited and shortened, teacher's lines re-recorded by McAvoy and interspersed within children's chorus portion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Mother&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re-recorded completely with exception of guitar solo and its backing track. The lyric &quot;Is it just a waste of time?&quot; is replaced with &quot;Mother, am I really dying?&quot;, which is what appeared on the original LP lyric sheet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;What Shall We Do Now?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A full-length song which begins with the music of, and a similar lyric to &quot;Empty Spaces&quot;. This was intended to be on the original album, and in fact appears on the original LP lyric sheet. At the last minute, it was dropped in favour of the shorter &quot;Empty Spaces&quot; (which was originally intended as a reprise of &quot;What Shall We Do Now&quot;). A live version is on the album Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980–81.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Young Lust&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screams added and phone call part removed. The phone call part was moved to the beginning of What Shall We Do Now&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;One of My Turns&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re-mixed.  This song was inspired by the events on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/concerts/pink-floyd-olympic-stadium-montreal-canada-july-6th-1977-2.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;July 6, 1977&lt;/a&gt; that directly led Roger Waters to write The Wall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Don't Leave Me Now&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortened and remixed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re-recorded completely with a slightly faster tempo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Goodbye Cruel World&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unchanged.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Is There Anybody Out There?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Classical guitar re-recorded, this time played by David Gilmour with a leather pick, as opposed to the album version, which was played finger-style by an uncredited session guitarist.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Nobody Home&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Musically unchanged, but with different clips from the TV set.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Vera&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unchanged.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Bring the Boys Back Home&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re-recorded completely with brass band and Welsh male vocal choir extended and without Waters' lead vocals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Comfortably Numb&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re-mixed with screams added. Bass line partially different from album.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;In the Flesh&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re-recorded completely with brass band and Geldof on lead vocals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Run Like Hell&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re-mixed and shortened.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Waiting for the Worms&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortened but with extended coda.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;5:11 AM (The Moment of Clarity)&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Geldof unaccompanied on lead vocals, sung in the bathroom stall just before The Trial sequence. The song is taken from The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, a concept album Waters wrote simultaneously with The Wall, and later recorded solo. Geldof sings the lyrics to the melody of &quot;Your Possible Pasts&quot;, a song intended for The Wall that later appeared on The Final Cut.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Stop&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re-recorded completely with Geldof unaccompanied on lead vocals. (The audio in the background of this scene is from Gary Yudman's introduction from The Wall Live at Earl's Court.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Trial&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re-mixed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Outside the Wall&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Re-recorded completely with brass band and Welsh male voice choir. Extended with a musical passage similar to &quot;Southampton Dock&quot; from The Final Cut.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only songs from the album not used in the film are &quot;Hey You&quot; and &quot;The Show Must Go On&quot;. &quot;Hey You&quot; was deleted as Waters and Parker felt the footage was too repetitive (eighty percent of the footage appears in montage sequences elsewhere) but available to view as in worn black and white work print form as a bonus feature on the DVD release under the name &quot;Reel 13&quot;.  It was also an &quot;Extra&quot; on the original Laserdisc release.  It should be noted that the original Deluxe Letterbox Laserdisc release was the only release that featured a full-length commentary track by director Alan Parker.  His was not included on any DVD/Blu-Ray releases to date, and no other Laserdisc versions of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A soundtrack album from Columbia Records was listed in the film's end credits, but only a single containing &quot;When the Tigers Broke Free&quot; and the rerecorded &quot;Bring the Boys Back Home&quot; was released. &quot;When the Tigers Broke Free&quot; later became a bonus track on the band's 1983 album The Final Cut, an album Waters intended as an extension to The Wall. Guitarist David Gilmour, however, dismissed the album as a collection of songs that had been rejected for The Wall project, but were being recycled. The song, in the edit used for the single, also appears on the 2001 compilation album Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, look for the Immersion box set which includes loads of full-band demos, as well as some of the original demos Waters and Gilmour presented to the band.  Some have completely different lyrics!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-03-07T20:01:44.363" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T20:01:44.363" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17754" CreationDate="2014-03-06T16:07:41.843" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all let me say one thing: Tolkien's son, Christopher (who, for the records, published some of the unfinished books of his father), tells that JRR used to read him all of the stories (from LOTR, The Hobbit, Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales etc.) from simple sketches when was about time to sleep. He's also sure that those sketches were JRR's work cause he saw him write every line of them. So it's not like The Hobbit wasn't meant to be a prequel. JRR simply wrote The Hobbit and then wrote something to continue The Hobbit's story. So yeah, it was meant to be a prequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Btw JRR's universe is incredibly large. One that even Star Wars and Star Trek put together can be compared with... So to have something clear you have to read EVERY-SINGLE-AND-WHEN-I-SAY-EVERY-SINGLE-I-REALLY-MEAN-IT book and tale he ever wrote. Even the ones published by Christopher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I'm really gentle I feel like sharing these info with you xD So here we go: start from the premise that Gandalf is one of the Maiar, the ones that assisted to the foundation of the world. Something turns on in my mind now: what does he know about what was, is and will be while &quot;trapped&quot; in a human body? Because, of course, if he knows everything then it's safe to assume that he did know about the ring since the creation of the world. But then we have to accept that, as a human being, Gandalf's powers are curtailed. So yeah, he could know where the future is going and have premonitions sometimes but he certainly didn't know that, for example, Sauron would be destroyed. &#xA;The doubt is still there...&#xA;So let's search the solution somewhere else... Unfinished Tales, maybe...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;In that far distant time I said to a small and frightened Hobbit:&#xA;  Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker, and you&#xA;  therefore were meant to bear it. And I might have added: and I was&#xA;  meant to guide you both to those points&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;So, basically, Gandalf knew that Bilbo would have found, one day, the Ring.&#xA;Now you can think whatever you'd like. I like to think that Gandalf knew everything, but the imagine of the whole story was blurred in his mind so he discovered every particular as it happened. So, talking about the ring, he knew that one was The Ring the first time he saw it in Bilbo's hands...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8396" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-06T16:19:58.680" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T16:19:58.680" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3823" CreationDate="2014-03-06T17:04:26.497" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was never directly addressed on the show. However, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have hinted on the podcast that perhaps the detonation of Jughead during the Incident had some effect on pregnant women on the island. Hence, we see why Ethan was conceived and born there without problems, while many others died in the middle of the term. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the epilogue &quot;The New Man in Charge&quot; during the part in the Dharma factory where they watch the orientation video about the Hydra, Pierre Chang says that the polar bears working at the Orchid station may experience pregnancy issues. This suggests that perhaps the island power source itself (a part of which formed the power behind the Orchid station) caused pregnancy issues, perhaps at will, perhaps randomly. Maybe this was intensified by the detonation of Jughead? We may never know exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One must not forget that Jin and Sun conceived on the island, and Sun gave birth off the island. For that, and the fact that the creators have stated it clearly, they were not dead the whole time, this rumor must end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8391" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T17:04:26.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17763" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17765" CreationDate="2014-03-06T17:57:10.970" Score="7" ViewCount="1476" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a cartoon (might be Disney but I'm not sure). I watched it some time ago but I don't remember it's title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a story about a piece of wrapping paper. At the beginning a girl from a rich family gets a gift. Greedily she tears off the paper to check out what is inside the box. It's a pretty good present but still she's very unsatisfied. Meanwhile, the wrapping paper flies out through the window and lands near a poor man. He happily takes it with him. When he gets home to his family he gives the paper to his daughter. She is really excited by this present and starts to play with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8404" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2014-03-06T18:31:33.833" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T19:02:11.097" Title="A man finds some wrapping paper and gives it as a present to his daughter" Tags="|identify-this-movie|animation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:01:45.470" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1538" CreationDate="2014-03-06T18:23:47.373" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, I'm going to try and answer some of your questions. But firstly, a warning - you are asking logical questions to a film that has a 6.3 rating on IMDB, but perhaps more tellingly, a 15% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It is incoherent and poor at times!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Secondly, I'm aware these answers aren't perfect, but given the length of time this question has been unanswered for, I feel they should be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So firstly, a brief plot summary (created after speed watching the film!) I know you know this stuff, but it should hopefully make it clear for other reads of this question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jinx ends up in the bank to complain about an ATM transaction fee that&#xA;  will overdraw him. As he enters, he inadvertently walks in on a&#xA;  robbery. Simon chases him into the vault and he accidentally locks&#xA;  himself inside, only to realise he's not alone - Jessica is there with&#xA;  him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jessica is trying to open the safety deposit boxes using the vault&#xA;  computer. Jessica can open the vault door, but Jinx won't let her and&#xA;  refuses to be bullied by Simon. It's at this time the police arrive&#xA;  and surround the building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As time goes on, Jinx and Jessica realise they both feel they have&#xA;  been used, so decide to escape together. During this time, between&#xA;  contacting both Simon and the police, Jinx realises Nick is the real&#xA;  mastermind of the operation. He is one of the bank's executives. He&#xA;  hired Jessica to set an account up that would allow him to access to&#xA;  some of the bank's money - but this could only be done under the&#xA;  disguise of a robbery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Simon knows nothing of this and is supposed to be paid by whatever is&#xA;  in the safe deposit boxes. However, Nick can't execute his plan&#xA;  without having an ATM card and PIN, which handily Jinx has. Jinx&#xA;  agrees to let Nick use this if he and Jessica can escape and get a&#xA;  cut. Nick agrees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As they work on this, the police cut the power to the building. Jinx&#xA;  plays a double bluff and tells the police that if the power is turned&#xA;  back on, Simon will let two hostages go. He then tells Simon that the&#xA;  police will turn the power back on if he releases a hostage and turns&#xA;  one of his crew in (i.e. him and Jessica).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now on to your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Who shouts &quot;you two stay where you are&quot;? And why?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It seems likely this was Simon. Despite making the deal, he'd been made a fool of by Jinx and was getting more and more unbalanced as the film went on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Who shoots Simon?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I've read/discussed two possible theories for this. The most likely is that Simon shot himself accidentally. Earlier in the film the gun malfunctioned and it's possible that it accidentally fired again as he tried to give it to his partner. Another possibility is that the stupid partner of Simon shot him, since he would have been able to see he was about to kill Jessica (and was perhaps confused by the situation)? Quite a waffly answer I know, but I think the prevailing opinion is that it happened due to the faulty gun. Do remember that right after this, Tip 9 appeared on screen (&quot;Remember, shit happens&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why do the police suddenly decide to storm the building?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I'm guessing standard procedure after having heard a shot fired.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I assume Nick goes through with the deal as Jynx is now driving a flash new car, but who is he on the phone to? &#xA;Good question. It certainly looks like Jynx and Nick are on the phone to each other. Possibly what we hear is their conversation from earlier and we are watching the &quot;afterwards&quot; and they are talking to other people. But this seems unlikely. I think they are talking to each other, although I can't back that up with anything other than by saying it seems logical.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I assume he's on the phone to Nick who is coming out of the bank. Why do they stay on the phone when they're right next to each other? &#xA;If they are on the phone to each other, goodness knows. Dramatic effect seems most likely. After all, most of the movie was spent with phone conversations going on. Why not finish that way?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If he is on the phone to Nick, why is he meeting Nick when he obviously already has the money (hence flash car and clothes and such).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Again, I've no definitive answer. Perhaps they needed to meet a few times, as they couldn't withdraw all the money at once?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why is Nick in the bank? (if that is Nick)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;He is a Bank Executive. That could give him a reason.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully that gives some indication, but there are lots of unexplained issues. For example, the movie ends with Nick revealing &quot;Tip #10 - Know When To Walk Away&quot;. This is spoken in a fairly sinister tone. Is he simply reminding the audience that they committed a perfect crime and it's time to stop? Is he suggesting Jinx and Jessica will be &quot;taken care of&quot;? It's all up to the viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T18:23:47.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17763" CreationDate="2014-03-06T18:36:55.233" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds very much like &lt;a href=&quot;http://animaniacs.wikia.com/wiki/A_Gift_of_Gold#A_Gift_of_Gold&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Gift Of Gold&lt;/a&gt;. The synopsis (taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TearJerker/Animaniacs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TV Tropes.org&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A piece of shiny gold wrapping paper is used to wrap Mindy's present.&#xA;  Needless to say, she tears it to shreds, but one piece blows out the&#xA;  window. It flits from place to place, trying to find somewhere to&#xA;  settle, before finally landing in a trash can. Just then, a poor man&#xA;  fishes it out of the can, using it to wrap a Cymbal-Banging Monkey,&#xA;  which he gives to his son. The son opens it, then folds the paper&#xA;  carefully and puts it in his pocket, giving it the love it sought the&#xA;  entire cartoon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only difference is the final recipient of the paper is a boy, not a girl. You see the animation for yourself and decide if it's the same one: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlr28u38mtQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Gift Of Gold Animation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-06T19:02:11.097" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T19:02:11.097" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1824" CreationDate="2014-03-06T19:01:18.923" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my understanding, there are a few things at work here. The first thing to do is read the pretty good &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecked_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;summary of the film&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your questions: Why does he try to kill her? He realises he is hallucinating and that everytime he sees her and follows her he is led back to the car. He is frustrated, tired, confused and quick to anger, which is why he shot her (in his imagination at least). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another theory is that  its a manifestation of guilt/anger as he spends some time in the movie believing he is the criminal. Perhaps as he gets angrier he feels that since he's already committed these other crimes, he can commit this one too. It's possible, although I prefer the first suggestion in the paragraph above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T20:36:45.580" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T20:36:45.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17769" CreationDate="2014-03-06T19:21:09.130" Score="10" ViewCount="684" Body="&lt;p&gt;A man wakes up, wearing only boxer shorts. He is trapped in an environment that is sort of like a fun house, that has a picture of someone that looks a bit like Haile Selassie. Years evidently pass. He lets himself go physically but then gets into shape by doing exercises he sees on a video screen using objects in his environment like books as weights. Time passes. He is shown video of what I assume is his wife and daughter, who plays the cello.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what I remember (I saw this on someone's screen (no sound) on an airplane, but fell asleep). Does anyone know what (recent) film this is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8408" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-06-15T08:43:44.293" LastActivityDate="2017-06-15T08:43:44.293" Title="Man is trapped for years, begins exercising" Tags="|identify-this-movie|drama|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:01:48.627" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15925" CreationDate="2014-03-06T19:31:55.533" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good question!  Just a guess, but perhaps she thought she was under surveillance, so she had to act the part.  There might have spy cameras hidden in her house, or some people with binoculars &amp;amp; telephoto leses could have been watching her through a window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That makes sense regarding the story.  But from the perspective of the filmmakers and actors, it would have confused the audience (and/or hinted too much at the surprising &quot;truth&quot;) if Carrie reacted any other way.  That's not a very compelling reason, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One other possibility: she didn't know how far Saul would throw her under the bus.  She didn't know he was going to completely disown her.  And that would really hurt her, since she was completely abandoned by everyone EXCEPT Saul until that moment.  (Plus they have that symbolic father-daughter relationship thing going on.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T19:31:55.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17767" CreationDate="2014-03-06T19:35:28.947" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SjY74.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Oldboy (2013) - Movie Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That could be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1321511/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Oldboy&lt;/strong&gt; (2013)&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was&#xA;  kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for 20 years without&#xA;  reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Vpzb.png&quot; alt=&quot;Oldboy (2013) - Pic 01&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vJ1lv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Oldboy (2013) - Pic 02&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;~ Stills used are YouTube screenshots&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKz_AUF0GcU&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;trailer&lt;/a&gt; to confirm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: If you're interested, check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5L0huBSdIw&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;original&lt;/a&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastEditorUserId="7732" LastEditDate="2014-03-06T20:30:41.607" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T20:30:41.607" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3054" CreationDate="2014-03-06T19:42:50.267" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might seem like a weak explanation, but LARP (Live Action Role-Playing) are taken very seriously, with people completely immersing themselves in their environment and character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Murtagh's point of view, he lost Evelyn (i.e. Princess Evlynia to him) and was embarassed by Erik. It seems this was enough of a trigger to send him over the edge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are totally correct in pointing out however that whilst this may have been enough to anger &lt;em&gt;him&lt;/em&gt;, even to the point of murder, it doesn't remotely explain why all his followers are so eager to get involved. I think that simply has to be chalked down to the fact it made for an entertaining movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're interested, there is a fascinating thread over at the IMDB, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1493886/board/thread/163088554&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;found here&lt;/a&gt;, which is a review of the movie from an LARPer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T19:42:50.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8787" CreationDate="2014-03-06T20:10:44.497" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding of this (which is just an opinion of events) was that it was initially assumed the group were just passing through. However, once it turned out they were staying the barman's attention was piqued. He makes some comment about the near hostel/camping stretch being some 40 miles away. I assumed at this point that if they had been there, they'd have been able to finish their drinks and leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, once its mentioned they are staying locally, at Ravenswood Cottage, I thought it was the sign that the barman now knew they were never going to leave the village and would be killed very soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T20:10:44.497" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17642" CreationDate="2014-03-06T22:25:16.257" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;With deference to Ms. Johansson, she's not a particularly strong singer. WHile that hasn't stopped other performers on Oscar programs in the past, it's safe assumption to believe that Ms. Johansson has people around her who wouldn't like to see her possibly embarrassed by singing during an awards program alongside people with greater measures of talent than herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;J. Ralph was likely being generous and more than a little bit of a sycophant when he stated that Ms. Johansson was &quot; the only person&quot; that he wanted to sing this song. While modestly talented, she certainly couldn't make a career of being a singer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACfmparmCdg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACfmparmCdg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-03-06T22:25:16.257" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17776" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17778" CreationDate="2014-03-07T06:19:23.670" Score="1" ViewCount="3165" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the theme of the Academy Award 2013 best animated short film winner &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Hublot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mr. Hublot&lt;/a&gt;&quot;? I saw that film two days before, but I can't get the theme of the film. A man sees the dog outside the window after he destroys the place of the dog, he adopts the dog and feeds him, the dog grows big after some days and he shift his place to a new big house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8418" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-07T16:26:02.593" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T16:26:02.593" Title="What is the theme of the short film Mr. Hublot?" Tags="|analysis|mr-hublot|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1392" CreationDate="2014-03-07T07:33:14.523" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In FWWM, not only does he say &quot;I am  the arm&quot;, but at the end when Bob shows up with Leland after kiling Laura, he assumes the position of Mike's left arm and they say together &quot;Bob, I want all MY garmonbozia.&quot; For Lynch, it doesn't get clearer than that for an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8391" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T07:33:14.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17776" CreationDate="2014-03-07T08:32:42.073" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The theme was simply to show the change somebody like Mr Hublot was having to go through due to his pet (think of it as an animated version of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0CCwQFjAA&amp;amp;url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119822/&amp;amp;ei=SIIZU7OHL9CO7Qaf5oHABw&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGANOXtrV7C7Seul0LdU10cf_YXSw&amp;amp;bvm=bv.62578216,d.ZGU&quot;&gt;As Good As It Gets&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hublot has quite severe OCD. He appears to be petrified of change and doesn't really like being outside. He has his own space and he's comfortable with that. (choosing to work from home). This is his normal life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, he sees the dog and notices it is about to be crushed. He chooses to rescue the dog which throws his whole life into a spiral, particularly as the animal gets bigger and bigger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.indiewire.com/animationscoop/anatomy-of-a-scene-dissecting-the-oscar-nominated-animated-shorts?utm_source=immersed_newsletter&amp;amp;utm_medium=sailthru_newsletter&quot;&gt;This blog&lt;/a&gt;, involving quotes from the film's director, gives an indication of what the production team were trying to achieve:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, the ever-expanding Robo Pet provided the most difficult&#xA;  challenge in Mr. Hublot. For the OCD character afraid of change, it&#xA;  poses a real dilemma. Does he get rid of the pet or the house?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;It's at this moment that we can feel there is something changing in&#xA;  their relationship,&quot; Witz explains. &quot;It's about 10 shots when he's&#xA;  growing. We tried a lot of things with scale to have the right size of&#xA;  the dog. The bigger the dog, the better. For me, it was as if he&#xA;  touched the ceiling with his head. It can't be bigger or something&#xA;  will go wrong.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Witz plays against convention in that it's not a monster that's&#xA;  growing, but an endearing pet. He says it's a statement about dog&#xA;  owners loving their young dogs but not as much when they're fully&#xA;  grown and demand more attention. When you have a pet you can't imagine&#xA;  what will happen next beyond just being cute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So once the dog is the size of the house, Mr Hublot has a life changing decision to make. Does he get rid of the dog or change his own lifetime habits? The former is much easier, but would rid him of his new companion who brings him so much joy. The latter would be incredibly difficult, requiring him to embrace change and accept venturing out into the world to find a new place and change his lifestyle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the film beautifully shows, he chooses the latter, preferring to embrace the change having the pet brings rather than continuing his lonely lifestyle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would argue the themes include: Embracing change, overcoming obstacles and developing friendship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T08:32:42.073" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17590" CreationDate="2014-03-07T09:03:51.450" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are two possible answers to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, she was not&lt;/strong&gt;. This assumes the police were &lt;em&gt;somewhat&lt;/em&gt; good at their jobs. They never discovered her pregnancy, it never showed on an autopsy report and, perhaps more tellingly, she never documented it in her diary (despite her extensive writing about everything else). On the basis of this evidence, there's a strong suggestion that she wasn't pregnant and was lying to get Chris to be with her.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, she was, but it was irrelevant due to the overarching &quot;theme&quot; of the movie - luck&lt;/strong&gt;. Think of how the movie ends. To take a line directly from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Point&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia Page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film ends with Chloe giving birth to a baby boy named Terrence,&#xA;  and his uncle blessing him not with goodness but luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the story, luck comes into play. Chris got rid of all the jewellery into a river. Just by chance, a one in a million chance, one of the rings doesn't go into the river but instead lands on the pavement. This ring is then pocketed by a drug dealer who is later killed. Since the prime suspect of the police was a drug dealer of some sort, this fit their &quot;picture&quot; of the crime perfectly and they stop investigating, leaving him in the clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that's the sceond way of looking at things. Nola &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; pregnant, but by pure luck the police never found out, never noticed the bit in the diary with it (assuming it was there), Chris got lucky in that the ring he dropped ended up brilliantly pinning the blame on someone else and he ended up luckily carrying on his normal life, with his little boy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is a right answer, so much as two open possibilities. It really just depends which you prefer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T09:03:51.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13582" CreationDate="2014-03-07T10:32:12.623" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365686/board/flat/101790221?p=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This fantastic post over at IMDB&lt;/a&gt; explains the differences in a lot of detail (given its length, I've chosen to just link to it rather than copy and paste it in its entirety).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A summary of some differences (note, the link above is far more comprehensive and descriptive). This is intended for all people who have seen the US version and are wondering how the UK version differs: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Around 22 minutes in (after the Horowitz scene), there is an extra&#xA;scene where Jake explains in the car to Avi and Zach his history with&#xA;Macha.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Around 1 hour in (after the scene in which the guy chasing Jake accidentally shoots himself), instead of the restaurant shoot-out scene, Jack goes to Paramount City to talk to Avi and Zach. The restaurant shoot-out scene follows this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the Driving Range scene, there are a few extra comments inserted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Around the 1 hour, 16 minute mark (after Driving Range scene and Jake giving money to charity), instead of Mache scene where we start to hear his thoughts, the actual structure of the film is changed. Due to the complicated nature of what happens next, I will quote from the above article:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We see the Machiavelli quote, then we have the scene where Jake is&#xA;  standing in Macha's bedroom, admitting his inferiority to Macha (the&#xA;  climax of the US version). This's plays out just like the US version&#xA;  does. Instead of the US epilogue (where Jake and Avi play chess and&#xA;  talk about Jake's enlightenment), after the &quot;Fear me&quot; scene it cuts&#xA;  right into the &quot;crucifixion&quot; of Lord John's man and the scene where we&#xA;  can start to hear Macha's thoughts. Originally, this marks the natural&#xA;  transition of Mr. Gold's thoughts from Jake (where he is now&#xA;  powerless) to Macha who has just been humiliated by Jake and deep in&#xA;  fear of Mr Gold (So it now makes more sense why we now can hear&#xA;  Macha's thoughts). Instead of the torture montage, Macha brags of&#xA;  Jake's groveling the night before and that he &quot;knows who's boss&quot;&#xA;  (conveniently forgetting to mention the &quot;fear me&quot; scene). Once Paul&#xA;  tells him Jake was behind everything, Macha has a very brief flash of&#xA;  the &quot;fear me&quot; scenes played back in his head (yelling instead of&#xA;  whispering the words) instead of the &quot;they don't fear me&quot; monologue&#xA;  the US version has. The UK version omits the &quot;Sam Gold will kill me&quot;&#xA;  internal monologue and replaces it with one of the whispering/crying&#xA;  &quot;fear me&quot; scenes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the UK version, instead of letting the Sorter shooting spree scene&#xA;  play out like seen in the US version, we get an over the phone&#xA;  retelling of the event by the surviving flunky Lou to Macha. He says&#xA;  he got tired of waiting at the car, went inside, saw Paul getting&#xA;  carried away with the little girl, and &quot;from out of nowhere, Sorter&#xA;  shot him&quot; (the dialog we hear in the US version is not in the UK&#xA;  version thanks to the voice over of Lou). Macha is in disbelief. &quot;Then&#xA;  he turned the gun on the 2 bodyguards, both gone in a blink of an&#xA;  eye.&quot; The rest of the scene plays out the same in both versions. At&#xA;  the end of Sorter's killing spree when he is wiping his glasses, Lou&#xA;  is the one who kills Sorter by shooting him in the back of the head.&#xA;  Lou says he was the only one left. Macha asks &quot;where's the girl?&quot;&#xA;  before the scene cuts to the exterior of Macha's casino.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The next scene (which is Jake’s final meeting with Macha) is different as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Macha tells the clerk to bring Jake up, this is where the US&#xA;epilogue is (where they talk about Jake’s new enlightenment). This is&#xA;played out with added content and much more detail, to give the&#xA;viewer a better understanding of what is (meant) to be happening.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-07T12:00:40.930" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T12:00:40.930" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15180" CreationDate="2014-03-07T12:24:00.713" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took it to mean they were &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; the Escape Artist, in their own ways, but that really Liam was the true escape artist and his mantle effectively passed to Burton by the end of the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst Burton was able to get criminals off and be a successful lawyer, thus ensuring their &quot;escape&quot;, Foyle at the start appears to be the true Escape Artist. As you correctly point out, he is defended initially by Burton and escapes justice for a murder he committed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, when Burton has no doubt whatsoever as to his guilt after finding his wife murdered, and after he comes down on him with everything he's got, he &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; escapes any justice due to Gardner's defence (despite even DNA evidence linking him to the crime).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Burton realises he can't win in the courtroom and takes matters into his own hands, leading to Foyle's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He effectively becomes the Escape Artist when he is charged with Foyle's death, brought to court, accused by Gardner of the perfect crime and yet &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; manages to escape justice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T12:24:00.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17786" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17801" CreationDate="2014-03-07T17:21:30.537" Score="7" ViewCount="9921" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay I’ve searched for hours but I can’t find this movie. I'll list some scenes I remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember it was about a little kid who was diagnosed with brain cancer and knew he’d die soon. I remember a scene when he was lying on his bead and his face was to the pillow. his father told him &quot;stop it&quot; so he told him &quot;I'm going to die anyway&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember him and his father (I think) going out on some journey. they asked some guy for directions. the guy made them go on a blocked road and came after them, showed them a knife and stole their money&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;their car was stolen also. I remember they they stopped for some guy who needed a ride. they were chatting. he told them about his wife and that she had breast cancer and the kid told him that he has brain cancer. they stopped (can't remember why), the boy and his father stepped down from the car and the guy stole the car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember the kid on his father’s back. the father shouts I’m a moron and the kid replies giddy up moron.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;they enter a bar. and there’s some game of a pistol duel (the guy has a pistol in his pocket, the guy in the game counts to 3 and you have to shoot him on 3) the father tried a lot but couldn't win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;…in the end the kid died. the father got back to that bar, played again and won and walked away and the bar tender asked him “don’t you want your money” but he didn't reply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I saw this movie about 8 years ago or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8430" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2014-03-07T19:03:34.350" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T10:35:21.930" Title="Identify movie about little boy with brain cancer who dies in the end" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:01:58.040" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14865" CreationDate="2014-03-07T17:37:32.463" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't there is an overarching reason, but some specific examples can be discussed. Kevin Tancharoen, the director of the second season, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/exclusive-interview-with-mortal-kombat-legacy-2-director-kevin-tancharoen&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;said in an interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On the absence of Michael Jai White (who played Jax) and Jeri Ryan&#xA;  (who played Sonya Blade) from season one:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Scheduling wise Jeri was on a hit ABC show, so she couldn’t come and&#xA;  join us and Michael Jai White has BLACK DYNAMITE amongst other movies&#xA;  he’s doing. And beyond that, I didn’t want to have to ask them to do&#xA;  me any more favors...However, the creative decision to not have them&#xA;  in this season is because I want to save them for the feature film.&#xA;  So, that is still for sure, in my mind, where you will see them&#xA;  again.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To confirm this, Jeri Ryan posted on her &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/jerilryan/status/274287436136345600&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Twitter account&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@Kitana_MK2013 Sorry, not doing Season 2. Still shooting season 3 of&#xA;  Body of Proof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Michael Jai White posted something similar on his &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/MichaelJaiWhite/status/276166228572258304?p=p&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Twitter account&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@sweetre15 I'm coming back to do the Mortal Kombat movie but not the&#xA;  web series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Darren Shahlavi (Kano) also used his &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/Shahlavi/status/292406853848158208&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Twitter account&lt;/a&gt; to comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“@Liz82002898: @Shahlavi @YoungerSubZero HNY x when can we expect you&#xA;  again in Mortal Kombat Legacy Kano..?”no Kano 4 llegacy2unfortunately&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When pressed on why (and visible on the above link), he said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@JamesWrightNI @liz82002898 @youngersubzero Kano Jax and Sonya origins&#xA;  were told in season 1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that's hopefully given some reasons as to at least three of the characters - Kano, Sonya and Jax - not returning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that is only a subset of the characters, but it appears that a mixture of one-season-only origin stories, combined with the actors having other commitments, led to quite a few cast changes for Season 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T17:37:32.463" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14792" CreationDate="2014-03-07T18:01:36.437" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Make_a_Deal#Format&quot;&gt;Wikipedia Page&lt;/a&gt; for Let's Make a Deal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Prizes generally are either a legitimate prize, cash, or a &quot;Zonk&quot;.&#xA;  Legitimate prizes run the gamut of what is typically given away on&#xA;  game shows, including trips, electronics, furniture, appliances, and&#xA;  cars. Zonks are unwanted booby prizes (e.g., live animals, large&#xA;  amounts of food, fake money, fake trips or something outlandish such&#xA;  as a giant article of clothing, a room full of junked furniture,&#xA;  etc.). Sometimes Zonks are legitimate prizes but of a low value (e.g.,&#xA;  Matchbox cars, wheelbarrows, T-shirts, grocery prizes, etc.). On rare&#xA;  occasions, a trader appears to get Zonked, but the Zonk is a cover-up&#xA;  for a legitimate prize. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Though usually considered joke prizes, traders&#xA;  legally win the Zonks. However, after the taping of the show, any&#xA;  trader who had been Zonked is offered a consolation prize (currently&#xA;  $100) instead of having to take home the actual Zonk. This is partly&#xA;  because some of the Zonks are intrinsically or physically impossible&#xA;  to receive or deliver to the traders (such as live animals or the guy&#xA;  in an animal costume), or the props/employees are owned by the studio.&#xA;  A disclaimer at the end of the credits of later 1970s episodes read&#xA;  &quot;Some traders accept reasonable duplicates of Zonk prizes.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To back this up, this is from an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvparty.com/gamemonty2.html&quot;&gt;interview with Monty Hall&lt;/a&gt;, one of the first presenters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer:&lt;/strong&gt; People who got stuck with the &quot;zonks,&quot; the joke prizes, were they&#xA;  good-natured about losing out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monty Hall:&lt;/strong&gt; In 4,700 shows, I got kissed 50,000 times. Even when they&#xA;  lost, they were very nice about it. But you know the law in game shows&#xA;  - if you go on a show and you win a donkey, that's your prize. You're entitled to it. So if a person won one of our zonks, they could take&#xA;  it home. But in 99 percent of the cases, we would offer them something&#xA;  after the show - a washer and dryer or a color TV or something,&#xA;  instead of that very valuable zonk, and they would take it. In 1&#xA;  percent of the cases, they didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There was a time when a farmer won five calves and he wanted the&#xA;  calves. That cost me a fortune because when you rent them from the&#xA;  animal place, they're expensive. And there were other cases like that.&#xA;  Like people won dogs; they would keep dogs. They wouldn't keep cats.&#xA;  They would keep dogs. It was a very genial atmosphere, over 27 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So despite the &quot;zonks&quot; being joke prizes, people did indeed take them home on rare occasions. I'm sorry to say I haven't found an example of a &lt;em&gt;goat&lt;/em&gt; being taken home, but I'm hoping a &lt;em&gt;calf&lt;/em&gt; will do!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T18:01:36.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10589" CreationDate="2014-03-07T21:51:45.850" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the simplest way to answer this is that Julie tracked them because the script told her where they would be!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it's not a great answer, but there isn't a very logical explanation as to how she could have done it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people over at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061955/board/thread/22716642&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB forums&lt;/a&gt; have had a discussion about this same issue. The nearest thing to any sort of explanation was offered by one of the posters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When she locked one of the men in the closet, he told her how they&#xA;  always used that room to play poker in. She would have been told&#xA;  (or figured out) the projectory of the shot, she would have discovered&#xA;  it came from that building and just bribe the tenants into finding out&#xA;  who used that room even though the men never met there again. Money&#xA;  opens doors as surely as doorknobs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I fully admit this is a little weak and requires a massive stretch, but she is intelligent and did have some five and a half years to plan the murders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, I stick with my first comment. I think it largely happened because it made the script work - nothing more than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to whether the men were indicted - there appears to be no evidence anywhere that they were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-07T21:51:45.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17793" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17795" CreationDate="2014-03-07T23:36:31.337" Score="4" ViewCount="11776" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought at the beginning, Jordan says he came from a family of both his parents being accountants, however later it appears that Jordan's Father is an ex-Cop and a PI?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8366" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-05T21:54:13.093" LastActivityDate="2016-09-02T15:23:13.937" Title="What's the job of Jordan Belfort's father?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-wolf-of-wall-street|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17794" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-07T23:54:06.660" Score="1" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;The antagonist from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337573/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Antibodies (orig.: Antikörper)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; carries the name &lt;em&gt;Gabriel Engel&lt;/em&gt;. Given that &quot;Engel&quot; means &quot;angel&quot;, this name is likely not just a coincidence and seems to refer to the &lt;em&gt;Archangel Gabriel&lt;/em&gt; from Christian mythology. Now this naming could have been done just to contrast &lt;em&gt;Engel&lt;/em&gt;'s pure evil. But given the many other religious references and motifs of the movie, &lt;strong&gt;I wonder if there is any other meaning to this name in relation to his character or his role in the story&lt;/strong&gt; (which would rather be the devil, when seeing his temptation and defiling of &lt;em&gt;Michael&lt;/em&gt;, apart from his other deeds of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-05-20T00:42:32.003" Title="Significance of Gabriel Engel's name" Tags="|analysis|character|antibodies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17793" CreationDate="2014-03-08T00:12:57.253" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Max Belfort &quot;Mad Max&quot; was an accountant. The person who tipped Jordan off about the FBI and told him about Brad being in jail because of Donnie was Bo Dietl who looks like Max. So no, Jordan's father was not an ex-cop or P.I. but Bo Dietl was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They look VERY similar&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PWYzA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OiBQ1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-05T21:35:14.830" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T21:35:14.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17796" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17799" CreationDate="2014-03-08T00:17:07.960" Score="25" ViewCount="19105" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Breaking Bad, Walter White chooses to go by Heisenberg. I know that there has to be some significance behind both why Walt chose the name and why the writers chose that name as opposed to any other physicist's. It would make sense for it to have something to do with Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which postulates (in broad strokes) that any system is fundamentally unstable on a short enough time frame. The connection between that and Walt's specific character eludes me though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastActivityDate="2019-01-29T18:29:07.277" Title="Why does Walt go by Heisenberg?" Tags="|analysis|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17797" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17840" CreationDate="2014-03-08T00:22:02.157" Score="0" ViewCount="4222" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a song used in both movies, it occurs towards the beginning of each movie around the time that both parties make a &quot;breakthrough&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Moneyball, the music plays when Jonah Hill's character first moves to Oakland and starts doing his thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In The Social Network, I don't remember exactly, but I know it plays just as Mark Zuckerberg gets his grand idea and starts programming The Facebook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The song is very soft, slow, and soothing. It gives positive feelings of &quot;discovery&quot;, &quot;creativity,&quot; &quot;ingenuity.&quot;&#xA;Can you guys help me find this song?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8366" LastActivityDate="2019-04-12T21:29:46.467" Title="music used in The Social Network AND Moneyball" Tags="|soundtrack|the-social-network|moneyball|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2019-04-13T02:49:00.510" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17796" CreationDate="2014-03-08T00:25:36.517" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because of the &quot;uncertainty principle&quot; which was created by the real &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg&quot;&gt;Heisenberg&lt;/a&gt; and other similarities to Walter White.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated in &lt;a href=&quot;https://theweek.com/article/index/250358/beyond-breaking-bad-meet-the-real-heisenberg&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First of all, like Mr. White, Werner Heisenberg was a teacher. In&#xA;  fact, in 1927, he was appointed ordentlicher Professor (ordinarius&#xA;  professor) of theoretical physics and the head of the department of&#xA;  physics at the Leipzig University. In 1932, Heisenberg picked up the&#xA;  Nobel Prize for Physics for his theory of quantum mechanics — but what&#xA;  he's most famous for (arguably) is his Uncertainty Principle. I don't&#xA;  claim to fully understand this by any means, but here's what I gather:&#xA;  It's impossible to exactly measure both the position and the speed of&#xA;  a particle, because to measure the position, you'd have change the&#xA;  particle's speed, and to measure the speed, you'd have to affect its&#xA;  position. The Principle is also sometimes loosely interpreted as &quot;we&#xA;  cannot know the present with enough precision in order to predict the&#xA;  future with certainty.&quot; I mean, right? Better call Saul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle may also be an interesting metaphor&#xA;  for Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. You can't affect one of them&#xA;  without affecting the other. As the series has progressed, every time&#xA;  our master cook and his sous-chef try to part ways, they're brought&#xA;  back together, both willingly and unwillingly. Kind of like magnets,&#xA;  bitch!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And also the cancer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One more notable similarity, and a striking difference: Like Walter&#xA;  White, Heisenberg had the big C. On February 1, 1976, the scientist&#xA;  succumbed to cancer of the kidneys and gall bladder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think about when he first stated his name it was after his encounter with Tuco. At that point he is contrasting his old self to his new self meaning he knows his position, but not of his momentum. Or, he is uncertain of what his new momentum will do to his position. This is basically the uncertainty principle. This is also just my speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2014-03-08T00:32:29.520" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T00:32:29.520" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17786" CreationDate="2014-03-08T00:43:35.370" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dnRCp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Cactus Kid (2000) - Movie Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233402/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Cactus Kid&lt;/strong&gt; (2000)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.vvs.ca/film.php?numFilm=30&amp;amp;title=The%20Adventures%20of%20the%20Cactus%20Kid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blurb&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When &lt;strong&gt;Jack discovers that his 10-year-old son Georgie is dying&lt;/strong&gt; he makes&#xA;  a promise to fulfill all of his dreams before their time together runs&#xA;  out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Georgie tells his dad that he wants to rob a bank, just like the&#xA;  heroes in his favorite comic book &quot;The Cactus Kid&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the trailer page (link below) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://mainline.lightning-ent.com/movie/view/4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jack's world collapses around him when he learns that Georgie is&#xA;  dying of an &lt;strong&gt;inoperable brain tumor&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scenes you might remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P4eiu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Cactus Kid (2000) - Pic 01&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fGv4E.png&quot; alt=&quot;The Cactus Kid (2000) - Pic 02&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;~ Screenshots from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blizzardkid.net/category/adv-direct/kaktus_kid_zavetnoe_zhelanie_the_cactus_kid_2000_ssha_dvd-rip.print&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BlizzardKid&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://thewildboys.flickzone1.info/viewtopic.php?id=911&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Wild Boys&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And towards the end when Jack returns to the saloon for the shooting game:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NmTtx.png&quot; alt=&quot;The Cactus Kid (2000) - Saloon Pic 01&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5opAn.png&quot; alt=&quot;The Cactus Kid (2000) - Saloon Pic 02&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iaInG.png&quot; alt=&quot;The Cactus Kid (2000) - Saloon Pic 03&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;~ Screenshots taken directly from the Russian video&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.traileraddict.com/cactus-kid/trailer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;trailer&lt;/a&gt; to confirm. Or watch the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rupirate.net/filmy/priklucheniya/28151-kaktus-kid-zavetnoe-zhelanie-the-cactus-kid-2000.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;full movie&lt;/a&gt;, if you don't mind sitting through a Russian dub :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastEditorUserId="7732" LastEditDate="2014-03-08T01:15:16.820" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T01:15:16.820" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17797" CreationDate="2014-03-08T01:29:39.703" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't look like there's any overlap between the &lt;em&gt;Moneyball&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Social Network&lt;/em&gt; soundtracks (according to IMDB and What-song). They were composed by different people (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for &lt;em&gt;The Social Network&lt;/em&gt; and Mychael Danna for &lt;em&gt;Moneyball&lt;/em&gt;) and don't share any non-original music. I would guess you're thinking of either Intriguing Possibilities from &lt;em&gt;The Social Network&lt;/em&gt; or It Would Be Like This from &lt;em&gt;Moneyball&lt;/em&gt;. If none of those are right, here's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.what-song.com/Movies/Soundtrack/1094/Moneyball&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; I used to look up the songs. It's incredibly useful, it gives a sentence long description of what's happening in the film as each song is played.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T01:29:39.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15920" CreationDate="2014-03-08T01:50:42.123" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the narrative of the program, it seems that Walter White is dead. However, if one looks at how he was wounded it is conceivable that he wouldn't have died from the wound that he received and that he simply became unconscious at the end of the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While an M-60 fires a 7.62 (.30 cal) round, its bullets are copper jacket military rounds. These rounds don't expand and often inflict non-fatal wounds if they don't strike major organs or blood vessels. As demonstrated in the episode &quot;Felina&quot;, the series denouement, Walter isn't struck directly by a rounds but is hit by a ricochet. This could cause a serious injury and perhaps an incapacitating one; however death seems to be a stretch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that Walt's injury (on his lower right side) could have struck his liver or his renal artery and thus caused him to bleed out internally. Unfortunately, such a wound would have made it impossible for him to have walked out of the neo-Nazi's hideout and around for what would have been at least ten minutes. Given that the police shown to have arrived within seconds of Walt's collapse, he could have easily been saved if paramedics had been called.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series states that Walter White is dead. The injury that he received could have been easily survivable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T01:50:42.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17805" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17806" CreationDate="2014-03-08T02:42:40.217" Score="8" ViewCount="1936" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes in comedies someone in a crowd is holding up a sign that says &quot;JOHN 3:16&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain me that joke, how it originated and why is used in a lot of movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8433" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T16:54:49.433" Title="The classic JOHN 3:16 sign" Tags="|comedy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17805" CreationDate="2014-03-08T02:51:15.450" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%203%3A16&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John 3:16, New International Version&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollen_Stewart&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rollen Stewart&lt;/a&gt; used to go to loads and loads of sporting events in the 70's, and he would hold up a sign with just &quot;John 3:16&quot; on it.  He was trying to spread a message.  Other people started seeing it on TV (he was starting to get some camera time after a while) and they started bringing signs like that in the hopes of getting airtime, and also spreading the message.  It became somewhat of a cliche, which was eventually made fun of in a lot of movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-24T16:54:49.433" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T16:54:49.433" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17809" CreationDate="2014-03-08T06:37:05.870" Score="8" ViewCount="1755" Body="&lt;p&gt;While Finch enquired about what happened in the detention centre in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;V for Vendetta&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, they came to realise that the priest was the highest paid staff there. But eventually I think it's not clear why they needed a priest in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5983" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-08T13:03:44.657" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T13:03:44.657" Title="Role of the priest in the detention center" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|character|v-for-vendetta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17808" CreationDate="2014-03-08T10:25:06.337" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The article on the priest (Bishop Anthony Lilliman) over at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Larkhill_Resettlement_Camp&quot;&gt;DC Comics Wiki&lt;/a&gt; provides some answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lilliman was the chaplain at the Larkhill Detention Center and was&#xA;  tasked with monitoring &quot;rules and rights&quot; violations. However, his&#xA;  £200,000 a month payment kept him silent while Commander Lewis&#xA;  Prothero and others worked on the St. Mary's virus, which the fascist&#xA;  government, Norsefire, used to kill thousands of people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't remember from my reading of the graphic novels how Lilliman came to be at Larkhill, but I think the implication was that he was assigned rather than chosen to be there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, he was given an extremely nice slice of money to effectively keep this mouth shut on any violations. That explains the highest paid staff part (although I had a quick browse through the script and didn't see that part anyway - if you can remember when it was said, do comment!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the reason for him to be there, officially, was to look after the &quot;rules and rights&quot; of the centre and the prisoner and to provide spiritual assistance to any of the children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T10:25:06.337" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15298" CreationDate="2014-03-08T11:08:52.513" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, so in answering this I have to first throw out a disclaimer and say that there isn't really a &amp;quot;right answer&amp;quot;. As the Marvel Cinematic Universe is still developing, all that I have right now are two theories. You can decide for yourself if you think they are any good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, some background for anyone interested in the topic but unaware of what the Infinity Gems/Stones are. All the information about to be quoted comes from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/Infinity_Gems&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marvel Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Power Gem – Increased strength and durability, enhances virtually any&#xA;known superhuman ability, energy manipulation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time Gem – Time travel;&#xA;stop, slow down or speed up flow of time; accelerate or slow down&#xA;aging; see into past/future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Space Gem – Travel through space, mostly&#xA;through teleportation. Able to interfere with the motion of other&#xA;objects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Soul Gem – Observe, attack or even steal a being's soul or&#xA;spirit. Also used to revert individuals to their natural state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reality Gem – Alters all of reality; similar to the effects of a&#xA;Cosmic Cube, but much, much higher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mind Gem – Near-limitless&#xA;psionic/psychic abilities including empathy, telepathy and&#xA;telekinesis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, &lt;em&gt;the Infinity Gems are the Infinity&#xA;Stones&lt;/em&gt;, and appear to be connected to the Nine Realms. Currently, only&#xA;two Infinity Stones have been named - the Tesseract of Asgard and the&#xA;Aether of Svartalfheim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note the line I've italicised, as I'll refer to it later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we know, these gems are used to power the Infinity Gauntlet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WX7gr.png&quot; alt=&quot;Infinity Gauntlet&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per the &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/Infinity_Gauntlet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marvel Movies Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Gauntlet grants the bearer infinite power over reality through the&#xA;use of the six Infinity Stones (Mind, Reality, Soul, Time, Power, and&#xA;Space) embedded in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now the background is out of the way, the crux of your question can be answered. If two of the Stones are discovered in Thor 2, and it becomes obvious they will be a major part of the plot to come in the rest of the Thor films, what were we shown in the first film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well here go my two theories. First, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/NovaThoughts/news/?a=89422&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Comic Book Movie&lt;/a&gt; website discussed this, postulating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The gauntlet itself appeared in Thor, as is plainly seen in the image&#xA;above, in Odin's treasure vault. It would appear at first glance, that&#xA;the gauntlet contains the Infinity stones already. So, surely the&#xA;gauntlet should be capable of functioning. Well, perhaps there is a&#xA;fundamental reason why it is unable to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The gems are indeed in the gauntlet, there's no doubt of that. Again,&#xA;why is it then, Thanos hasn't just taken the gauntlet already? Well,&#xA;what if the gems require some sort of power source in order to&#xA;function. Perhaps each &lt;em&gt;gem&lt;/em&gt; requires a particular stimulant in order to&#xA;get itself working. These stimulants are the Infinity &lt;em&gt;Stones&lt;/em&gt;. So far,&#xA;we have seen two Infinity Stones in the MCU, with a possibility of a&#xA;third and fourth. These Infinity Stones are the Tesseract.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The aether in Thor The Dark World, is a fluid, yet it is still classed&#xA;as an Infinity Stone. The Tesseract is also called an Infinity Stone&#xA;in the movie. It would seem that these Infinity Stones are some sort&#xA;of power source for the Infinity Gems contained within the gauntlet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read more of the theory at their page. It's a clever idea and I love the effort the site has put in to trying to make it work. It seems very unlikely, but it is still technically on the cards right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second and more likely theory is that it was simply a cool thing to show in the first movie, before they really knew what they wanted to do with the series. Perhaps the developers hadn't come up with the entire idea of the infinity gems and their relevance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting that before the film, as it customary, they took a bunch of their props and the cast to Comic Con in 2010. The Infinity Gauntlet was hugely popular - even now, a quick google search will reveal how many fan bases were already excited about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's highly plausible that Marvel took this strong fan reaction and set about integrating the Infinity Gauntlet storyline, complete with Thanos, into their intentions for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Don't forget, in the comics, it takes more than the Avengers to take on Thanos. It really does unite the whole Marvel universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, although not asked in your question, &lt;a href=&quot;https://medium.com/wild-theories/c1c07c8ffeb6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt; has got a wonderfully complicated and detailed breakdown of a variety of theories as to where the other stones/gems are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'm aware I've only offered a couple of theories to your question, but hopefully they'll be of some use!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T11:08:52.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13708" CreationDate="2014-03-08T12:34:45.023" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a lot of the movie didn't make sense, but I'm going to try and answer it. Apologies in advance, because this is a long explanation and takes quite a while before it actually even tries to answer your question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the movie largely revolves around the idea of free will. Do we have it, or is everything controlled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take the Box for example. Diaz presses the button, they receive their money and someone else dies. This is their choice. They could either collect the money and live with that knowledge or reject it. It is up to them... or is it? Did they have any choice at all, or would that action have always occurred?  Note that the man shoots his wife at the same moment she pushes the button - but there's no indication this wouldn't have happened if she didn't. Instead, it's presented almost as if they simply &lt;em&gt;had&lt;/em&gt; to happen. There was no other choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also learn that the woman who was killed in the above scene had &lt;em&gt;earlier&lt;/em&gt; pressed the button - she was killed by her husband after he was asked to choose between wife and child. Similarly, at the end of the film, when Diaz is killed, her husband is given the same choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the entire synopsis of the movie revolves around free will and choice - whether we have it, or whether everything is controlled from the start. I don't think any answer is ever given, or intended to be given. It's entirely up to you, the viewer, to decide what you believe happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the random people with nose bleeds in the movie (all working for Steward). Did &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; have choice, or did they simply act in a way that was predestined by Steward and the higher power. Even Steward can have this question asked of him. He even indicated he was just a messenger and nothing more - he was being controlled by whatever the higher power was after his accident (whether aliens/something else, we don't know).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me the water coffins are symbolic of this choice. Two lead to eternal damnation, one to redemption. He was given the &quot;peace&quot; sign a few times in the film. Did this lead to him choosing door 2? Was it free will? Or was it destiny? Did he ever have a choice? Is this true of humanity as well? Do we have a choice regarding our salvation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This fascinating &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091107131620AAWvNH2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Yahoo Answer&lt;/a&gt; goes an interpretation of the movie. To quote from the end of it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I might be wrong about this, but I think it's all a religious allegory&#xA;  about free will in a world with an all-knowing god. If god knows what&#xA;  choice you're going to make, did you have a choice in the first place?&#xA;  It's ultimately a modern telling of the garden of eden. The couple is&#xA;  Adam and Eve, the burned man is the snake, the button (and money) is&#xA;  the tree of knowledge, and their child represents their innocence (and&#xA;  whether they lose it in the end). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Part of the hint that it's the Garden of Eden is that the ONLY&#xA;  one that presses the button is the women in the couples. Remember in&#xA;  Genesis that Eve is the one that is seduced and picks fruit from the&#xA;  tree of knowledge. There are three couples referenced in the film.&#xA;  Only the women press the button. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the end, it's about being judged for your decisions (fate of&#xA;  humanity based on this box test) when those judging you (God or&#xA;  Aliens) already knows how you will respond, and are therefore&#xA;  responsible for your decision. This is a bible paradox and it's being&#xA;  played out in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to your question (I hadn't forgotten!!), using this logic and the idea that a higher power is testing everyone, it could be argued the three coffins scene was indicative of baptism and being reborn. Marsden chose to follow the signs (obviously coming from the higher power) rather than go it on his own. Remember, even though Diaz tried following them as well, &lt;em&gt;she&lt;/em&gt; gave into the temptation and pushed the button, not him. He even tried to back out of the deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a final note, I do have to add that all this is just mass speculation. There is no real right or wrong answer and I think it's perfectly plausible to say that the effects looked quite cool and were quite likely added for no real reason beyond that. However, hopefully this answer has made a go of providing one possible (albeit convoluted) suggestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T12:34:45.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14126" CreationDate="2014-03-08T13:45:53.457" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://eyreguide.awardspace.co.uk/extras.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This timeline&lt;/a&gt; is what you are after:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote some specific dates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1829&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  July:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Thursday, 23rd: The wedding; Bertha is revealed; Jane runs away&#xA;  in the night&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Friday, 24th: Early in the morning, Jane boards the coach&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Sunday, 26th: Jane arrives at Whitcross, spends the night in the heath&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So she leaves on the 23rd July, 1829&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1830&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  June:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Thursday, 3rd: Jane arrives at the Rochester arms, goes to Thornfield,&#xA;  returns to the inn and hears what has happened; before dark she&#xA;  arrives at Ferndean and reunites with Mr. Rochester.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So she returns on 3rd June, 1830&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;strong&gt;316&lt;/strong&gt; days from the start date to the end date, end date included&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Or &lt;strong&gt;10 months, 12 days&lt;/strong&gt; including the end date&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I've taken these details from the book, not the movie - I am logically assuming, even if the movie isn't explicit, it is following the same timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-08T14:02:35.830" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T14:02:35.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14210" CreationDate="2014-03-08T15:39:31.020" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;He didn't have a choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you remember, Avery was given $7,000 of Luke's money (as &quot;hazard pay&quot;). This was effectively the crooked cops in the department &quot;looking after&quot; him. In return, they wanted him to take cocaine out of the evidence room so they could pay off a hooker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he goes to the evidence room and sees the picture of Luke and his family, he is touched and realises he cannot do it. He goes to Weirzbowski, the police chief, who refuses to hear of any corruption against his men.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deluca, one of the corrupt cops, then invites Avery out to talk about the cocaine. They get pretty far out of the way, in a forest if I recall. As soon as Deluca steps out of the car, Avery drives away. He's now feeling the fear and worrying for himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's at this point he speaks to his father, who advises him to do the right thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he has a meeting with Scott, one of the crooked cops, about how to steal the cocaine and what to do when people ask questions. Scott answers and Avery records everything. He then takes all the evidence to Killcullen, the District Attorney.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, because Avery's father is a judge, Killcullen has the idea that he has been born with a silver spoon in his mouth, so to speak. He seems him as entitled, being given what he has rather than having to work for it. He really doesn't like him very much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But&lt;/em&gt;, he has seriously incriminating evidence which has to be acted on. Not only would it be great for Killcullen's career, it's also indicative of serious corruption in the department. So Killcullen tells Avery what he thinks of him, but proceeds to accept his three requests - in the bigger picture, dealing with the corrupt cops is more important than his own personal dislike of Avery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T15:39:31.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14084" CreationDate="2014-03-08T15:55:11.067" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer this question, I think one needs to look beyond the tv series and look at the actual history of Mark Smeaton and his execution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am going to quote a few paragraphs from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Smeaton&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mark Smeaton Wikipedia Page&lt;/a&gt;. Please note that a lot of the quotes and statements in these paragraphs are properly referenced there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Because of his lowly social origin, he was never part of the&#xA;Queen's intimate circle of companions, which included her favourite&#xA;ladies-in-waiting and courtiers. Anne herself once reprimanded him for&#xA;assuming she would speak to him in the same way she would speak to an&#xA;aristocrat. A poem by the courtier Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder made&#xA;reference to his apparent social-climbing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His unhappiness was said to have caught Anne's attention one day in&#xA;her chamber at Winchester, when she sent for him to play the&#xA;virginals. As Anne later confessed, &amp;quot;[On] Saturday before May Day… I&#xA;found him standing in the round window in my chamber of presence. And&#xA;I asked him why he was so sad, and he answered and said it was no&#xA;matter.&amp;quot; Smeaton's reply was non-committal. Anne replied, &amp;quot;You may not&#xA;look to have me speak to you as I should do to a nobleman, because you&#xA;are an inferior person.&amp;quot; Knowing the truth of her words, Smeaton&#xA;miserably replied, &amp;quot;No, no, Madam. A look sufficeth, thus fare you&#xA;well.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately for Smeaton, his conversation with the Queen was quickly&#xA;reported to Thomas Cromwell, one of Henry VIII's advisors, who was&#xA;looking for evidence of Anne's committing treason and adultery. It is&#xA;generally accepted that Anne was accused of adultery in order to free&#xA;her husband, Henry VIII, to marry a new wife, Jane Seymour, to whom he&#xA;was betrothed the day after her execution. Smeaton was arrested on 30&#xA;April. No one at first noticed Smeaton's absence. Cromwell took&#xA;Smeaton to his house in Stepney and supposedly tortured him. The&#xA;usually unreliable Spanish Chronicles detailed that Smeaton was&#xA;tortured with a knotted cord around his eyes. Anne is not thought to&#xA;have noticed his disappearance or been informed of his arrest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At 6 pm on May Day, he was sent to the Tower of London. Allegedly upon&#xA;the rack, Smeaton cracked and &amp;quot;confessed&amp;quot; to being Anne's lover.&#xA;However, this confession did not match up to the facts. Smeaton could&#xA;not possibly have had sex with Anne on 13 May 1535 at Greenwich as he&#xA;had confessed, because the Queen was at Richmond then. He is also&#xA;thought to have supplied the names of certain of Anne's circle, who&#xA;were also arrested. Afterwards he was put in a cell in the Tower of&#xA;London...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to his death:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When [Anne] heard that Smeaton had failed to withdraw his &amp;quot;confession&amp;quot; in&#xA;fully explicit terms, Anne was said to have been angry.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;As Smeaton was&#xA;led to his execution, he stumbled back from the bloody scaffold.&#xA;Collecting himself, he said despairingly, &amp;quot;Masters, I pray you all&#xA;pray for me, for I have deserved the death&amp;quot;. Smeaton was granted the&#xA;&amp;quot;mercy&amp;quot; of a beheading, rather than the usual brutal quartering&#xA;assigned to commoners. This is thought to have been due to his&#xA;co-operation with Anne's enemies. The other four men were also&#xA;beheaded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems apparent that it was &lt;strong&gt;torture&lt;/strong&gt; that led to his confession and death. But why did he never even appear to recant, even when it became clear his confession would lead to his, and Anne's, death?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A series of articles about Mark Smeaton were written over at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/bios/mark-smeaton/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anne Boleyn Files&lt;/a&gt;. In one of them, the author gives a few possible reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fear – Mark believed that&#xA;his execution could be changed, even at the last minute, from&#xA;beheading to hanging, drawing and quartering if he did not comply or&#xA;if he caused trouble by speaking out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guilt – By this time, Mark had&#xA;dug himself a hole and there was no way out of it for him or anybody&#xA;else. His friends had already been executed and Anne had already been&#xA;convicted and I expect that his words regarding deserving death were&#xA;to do with his guilt over what he had done, by confessing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He&#xA;recognised himself as a sinner – Christians believe that we are all&#xA;sinners and so deserve death, and separation from God, but that Jesus&#xA;Christ came to save us and reconcile us with God, so perhaps Mark’s&#xA;words were just him simply recognising himself as a sinner who&#xA;deserved death. No hidden meanings, just him confessing his sins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He&#xA;was guilty – Some believe that these words actually show that there&#xA;may have been something to the allegations regarding an affair between&#xA;the Queen and Mark. I don’t buy into that idea myself – Anne was far&#xA;too intelligent to risk her marriage and crown for a lowly musician.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T15:55:11.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13829" CreationDate="2014-03-08T16:25:49.810" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is my interpretation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember this quotation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Claire: In an old article of yours I found on the internet, you said:&#xA;  There's something authentic in every forgery. What did you mean?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Virgil Oldman: When simulating another's work the forger can't resist&#xA;  the temptation to put in something of himself. Often it's just a&#xA;  trifle, a detail of no interest. One unsuspected stroke, by which the&#xA;  forger inevitably ends up betraying himself, and revealing his own&#xA;  utterly authentic sensibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, in everything fake there is something real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, remember Claire's words that Rush replayed in his mind during the ending scenes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If anything should ever happen to us, I want you to know that I do&#xA;  love you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the film, Rush moves into the room furnished to his specifications, overlooking the square. This was the only place Claire mentioned as ever feeling safe and comfortable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By taking the apartment and going to the restaurant, he is showing hope that she will one day return - which is why he tells the waiter he is waiting for someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is hoping she is the glimmer of truth in the massive forgery. He has lost everything and is a broken man - but he is clinging to hope that that one part of his life could be real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is another interesting issue to be discussed. Do the asylum scenes take place &lt;em&gt;before or after&lt;/em&gt; the restaurant scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no correct answer to this. Perhaps he was in the asylum and reflected on the events, as the movie showed, during his time there and found some glimmer of hope and waited in the restaurant. Or perhaps he waited in the restaurant, became more and more broken and ended up in the asylum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, it's up to the viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-08T16:25:49.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14645" CreationDate="2014-03-08T21:55:33.713" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to try and answer this, but my first problem is identifying exactly what you mean by &quot;no cuts, no dubs, no censorship&quot;. As you rightly point out, some directors insist on having final cut privilege (and I'll list a few in a moment), but to my understanding if they insist on that, the rest will automatically follow. What I mean is that even if only one version of the movie is released, the theatrical version, it will in essence be the director's cut and we mightn't know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some famous films that were released straight out as director's cut include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_%28film%29#Home_video_releases&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alien&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Scott noted that he was very pleased with the original theatrical cut&#xA;  of Alien, saying that &quot;For all intents and purposes, I felt that the&#xA;  original cut of Alien was perfect. I still feel that way&quot;, and that&#xA;  the original 1979 theatrical version &quot;remains my version of&#xA;  choice&quot;. He has since stated that he considers both versions&#xA;  &quot;director's cuts&quot;, as he feels that the 1979 version was the best he&#xA;  could possibly have made it at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are more quotes in the link, but ultimately it shows that the original Alien was considered to be the Director's Cut, but Ridley Scott effectively ended up creating two director's cut, showing that he was happy with it to be watched in different ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Variety Magazine did an online article on this in 2010 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2010/film/news/fade-out-on-final-cut-privileges-1118014187/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;found here&lt;/a&gt;). Some of the highlights from that article include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“It’s being asked for less frequently,” says one studio chief. “In the&#xA;  current climate, movie stars and star directors are taking a bit of a&#xA;  backseat. Back in the day, agents would fight to get a first-time&#xA;  director who had done nothing an ‘A Film By’ credit. Remember that?&#xA;  Now, as the financials of the deals have become so much more&#xA;  challenging, creative rights are an afterthought.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Warner Bros. gave the Wachowski brothers final cut for its “Speed&#xA;  Racer” redo. The siblings brought the kid pic in at 2 hours and 15&#xA;  minutes (studio execs would have preferred 90 minutes). What had been&#xA;  hyped as the next breakout franchise became a box office disaster,&#xA;  earning $44 million domestically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Stephen Sommers negotiated for final cut on “G.I. Joe,” a decision&#xA;  that won’t likely be repeated by Paramount for the planned sequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And though Par publicly backed final-cut director Fincher on “The&#xA;  Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and “Zodiac,” privately top&#xA;  executives were pulling their hair out over Fincher’s unyielding&#xA;  stance on key creative issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sony recently ventured into the final-cut business for the first time&#xA;  when it hired Fincher to direct “The Social Network.” However, the&#xA;  move was hardly a gamble on the order of the $150 million “Benjamin&#xA;  Button.” “Social Network” is being made for $40 million. “Studios are&#xA;  negotiating tough on director salaries,” the studio chief adds.&#xA;  “Still, they aren’t giving away final cut as a consolation. It’s too&#xA;  big a bone to throw.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This shows a bunch of movies where the directors got final cut (most of which only have one &quot;version&quot; too, suggesting the movies are exactly what the director wanted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in summary - it appears in the early days of film the director had much more power over final cut and would quite often be given this and the film released would be his vision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowadays, it is much less likely, but still does happen, particularly with well known and box-office successful directors. However, as Ridley Scott demonstrated, it appears many directors would be quite happy to have a range of interpretations of their work (which isn't surprising, given their feelings/emotions will changes over months, years and decades).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After an extended discussion (see comments below), I feel I need to amend my answer. I think there are examples of director's who insisted on a no cuts policy. That seems clean cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The no censorship policy seems pretty clear cut too. Whilst one might think of grotesque films that have been banned for years, it appears obvious that most director's with final cut privileges are able to include whatever scenes they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The no dubbing issue is the most difficult though. I haven't found any examples yet of director's who have insisted on this. But as this point, I feel that it's an impossible question to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A director wants to create a film for any number of films, but ultimately the publishers want to make money from the film. Publishers agree to give people like Spielberg final cut privileges because they are trusting that, given his track record and fame, his movies have even more likelihood to be money-earners if he is given such assurances. If he then decide that the films shouldn't be dubbed, that will drastically reduce the circulation of the movie and lose money - so it's difficult to imagine ANY large Hollywood publisher agreeing to this sort of deal. Additionally, it's difficult to imagine any large-scale Hollywood director &lt;em&gt;wanting&lt;/em&gt; this type of deal. Ultimately, they want to reach as many people as possible. This deal would completely go against that notion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may well be many small-time directors out there who have released films that they've refused to allow to be dubbed (the sort that are circulating around YouTube, for example). But ultimately, as soon as a film is large enough to gain international fame and thus bring in a sizeable amount of money, it runs contrary to this aim to reduce its circulation by refusing to dub it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll continue my search for any major director who has requested this, but I suspect it will be in vain. So perhaps a better answer to the question would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many directors have insisted on a no cuts, no censorship policy. It's difficult to find any documented evidence of directors insisting on a no dubs policy, not least because it runs contrary to the entire point of movie creation (to reach an audience).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-10T19:43:26.687" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T19:43:26.687" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17821" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17822" CreationDate="2014-03-09T00:37:23.013" Score="7" ViewCount="10003" Body="&lt;p&gt;In David Mamet's twisty thriller &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252503/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Heist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Joe Moore (played by Gene Hackman) has a sophisticated plan to get away with the loot rather than splitting it with Mickey Bergman who has reneged on previous deals. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Near the end, most of Bergman's men are killed in a shoot out. But not before Joe's wife is led away by Bergman's nephew having apparently done a deal to tell Bergman where the loot is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the final scene it looks like Joe has got away only for the nephew and Joe's wife to catch him at the last minute but, again, Joe gets to live because his wife has, apparently, done a deal with Bergman's nephew. But Joe has double crossed them again. Then the movie ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did his wife know of the final double (or was that a higher multiple) cross? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-03-09T19:23:53.150" LastActivityDate="2022-01-19T21:23:02.180" Title="Is Fran aware of Joe's plan at the end?" Tags="|plot-explanation|heist|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17821" CreationDate="2014-03-09T01:05:46.647" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me it seemed that at the end only Joe alone knows that he has the gold. His wife had made a deal with Jimmy (Bergman's nephew). And not only that, she says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You're the one who sent me to him. You shouldn't have sent me to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Revealing that she has an affair with Jimmy and is about to leave Joe for him. I think he hoped for Fran to stand by him, but still prepared for her possible betrayal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There wasn't anything for me to hint at his wife being aware that he leaves with (at least part of) the gold. While the movie sure didn't run short of twists and double crosses, it has nevertheless always made those twists obvious when they occured and to me there wasn't any doubt in the fact that Fran had switched sides to Jimmy. She didn't want Joe to die, but she sure wanted to leave with Jimmy &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; the gold. Without the &lt;em&gt;slightest&lt;/em&gt; hint of her knowing about Joe's double cross (or maybe even double crossing Jimmy herself) I don't have a reason to believe in that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(While I admit that it is not 100% clear if she wasn't aware of Joe having part of the gold, we are bound to go by what the movie tells us. We cannot see what happened after the movie but what happened during it at least doesn't raise a doubt in me that she was unaware.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-02-05T22:55:57.047" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T22:55:57.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16911" CreationDate="2014-03-09T01:28:41.117" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Donny is an amalgamation is certain characters who were not in the film, but rather taken from the book. Jordan Belfort actaully gave the note to a child-hood friend called Dave beall (who is not mentioned in the film, amongst other many &quot;players&quot; in the saga) who was involved with his money laundering activities. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One a side note; Jordan thought Dave ratted on him out to the FBI after giving him the note and thuslly ratted Dave out, when in-fact dave got drunk and told someone about Jordan's Swiss connections who already was co-operating with the FBI in Jordan's criminal case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read &quot;The Wolf of Wall Street&quot; &amp;amp; &quot;Catching the Wolf of Wall Street&quot; both by Jordan Belfort; the latter of which is much more detailed on the ins-and-outs of the Stock game and his life after the FBI arrest him - just as crazy as the five years prior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8440" LastActivityDate="2014-03-09T01:28:41.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17125" CreationDate="2014-03-09T03:49:48.720" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a joke written specifically for the narrative of the film. There was no &quot;4P&quot; draft classification during the Vietnam and people who were adults at the time that Annie Hall was first shown in theaters would have known or guessed that. It's a topical reference, like many others in the film, which is over the heads of viewers of the film now, almost 40 years after its release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a list of Vietnam War era draft exemptions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.calledtoservevietnam.com/blog/information-about-the-vietnam-era-draft/draft-classifications-during-the-vietnam-war/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.calledtoservevietnam.com/blog/information-about-the-vietnam-era-draft/draft-classifications-during-the-vietnam-war/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's another:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/conscientiousobjection/MilitaryClassifications.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/conscientiousobjection/MilitaryClassifications.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-03-09T03:49:48.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17827" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17828" CreationDate="2014-03-09T13:07:33.120" Score="7" ViewCount="7869" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just after &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086960/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Beverly Hills Cop&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; starts it shows some parts of Detroit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About 1:45 in the movie appear 3 people looking at the street and it looks like one of them (the left one) is Russell Crowe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/shiB6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to search on the internet. IMDB doesn't have him in the full list of actors. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.answers.com/mt/beverly-hills-cop&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Some person on another site&lt;/a&gt; claims it is him indeed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does someone have another source to confirm (or negate) that this is him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8444" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-09T13:27:16.373" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T12:55:12.090" Title="Is Russell Crowe in the opening scene of Beverly Hills Cop?" Tags="|character|beverly-hills-cop|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17827" CreationDate="2014-03-09T13:29:48.807" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Russell Crowe&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/russellcrowe/status/63367453908025346&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tweeted&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; an answer to this three years ago:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ha ha, I don't think I could grow a beard when the first Bev hills cop was being made&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(the movie was released in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills_Cop&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1984&lt;/a&gt;, Russell Crowe was born in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Crowe&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1964&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-03-10T10:10:02.150" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T10:10:02.150" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17827" CreationDate="2014-03-09T16:38:57.887" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Crowe has very distinctive facial moles.  This fellow, although he bears a resemblance, does not have those moles.  Also, in the 80s Crowe was very very thin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8445" LastActivityDate="2014-03-09T16:38:57.887" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11198" CreationDate="2014-03-09T17:05:51.247" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have not really said who &quot;they&quot; is, but on the&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/I.F.T._subtitles&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Breaking Bad Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;as well as the Blu-ray they are shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1339" LastActivityDate="2014-03-09T17:05:51.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16208" CreationDate="2014-03-09T21:46:11.623" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been difficult to find an exact description of what techniques were used, but there are several interviews with the director that point to a combination of hand-drawn and computer-animated technique, possibly creating a framework for a scene in 3D and then adding hand-drawn details. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.awn.com/animationworld/sylvain-chomet-s-triplets-belleville&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with the director from Animation World, &quot;That said, what we've done in 2D in my film was sometimes treated in 3D underneath.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More detail is provided by &lt;a href=&quot;http://entertainment.time.com/2011/06/23/the-25-all-time-best-animated-films/slide/the-triplets-of-belleville-2003/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TIME&lt;/a&gt;, which says that &quot;for Triplets, [the director] did use computer animation for the film’s cars, boats and trains&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastActivityDate="2014-03-09T21:46:11.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11043" CreationDate="2014-03-09T21:49:48.473" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's likely that Hunter's adoption was handled as a private affair using an attorney affiliated with the cult which is the behind scenes agent in the film series. This explains why no one seems to have interfered with his adoption by the family. the film series at this juncture has not made it clear as to the details of the Hunter/Katie scenario between when she kidnapped him and when his adoptive family is murdered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be assumed that Katie placed Hunter up for adoption to make it difficult to locate both of them after the authorities found her sister's family murdered. She then comes to retrieve Hunter at a time when it is appropriate to do so and undertake additional sacrifices to the demonic entity worshiped by the cult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-30T07:49:02.513" LastActivityDate="2017-05-30T07:49:02.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17837" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17844" CreationDate="2014-03-10T04:36:37.833" Score="2" ViewCount="5977" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen season 1 of &lt;strong&gt;Veronica Mars&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In the middle of the season, Veronica finds her mom &amp;amp; makes her move &#xA;closer to town into rehab.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Then in the pre season finale(S01E21), Kieth Mars, her dad brings her mom home,&#xA;out of nowhere.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In the final episode, Veronica storms into the house &amp;amp; asks her mom to pack up &amp;amp; leave. Veronica says she knows her mom started drinking again &amp;amp; how she wasted her daughters College money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, what happened; why happened; how happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, why Kieth Mars brings her home after all this time &amp;amp; why Veronica asks her to leave at the end of the season(Is alcoholism the only reason).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there are spoilers in the S02 &amp;amp; S03 of the series related to this q, please include the spoiler tag.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: Read the wiki entry on &lt;a href=&quot;http://veronicamars.wikia.com/wiki/Lianne_Mars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lianne Mars&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; edited some details. Apparently, she doesn't appear for the rest of the series. Or does she? I mean, what the hell, why such a massive loose end &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="5315" LastEditDate="2014-03-10T06:04:20.817" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T08:37:34.437" Title="What is the deal with Veronica Mars's mother?" Tags="|plot-explanation|veronica-mars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9065" CreationDate="2014-03-10T05:53:48.157" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As they begin their exploitation of the stock market, both characters are afraid of bringing about any possible &quot;paradox&quot; situation.  They sequester themselves in a hotel room.  They do not communicate with anyone until they go &quot;back&quot; (second time through the same day), except to check the stock market.  Only when the forgotten cell phone rings when they are not &quot;back&quot; do they allow themselves to play with that dynamic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, any concept of sending a machine back in time to make the stock transaction for them would have been contrary to their (initial) conception of how to use this technology as safely as possible.  Such a plan would force them to confront &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_paradox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Grandfather Paradox&lt;/a&gt; and related issues, which they did not have to do if they simply go back in time themselves (as long as they strictly follow their intended sequestration discipline).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, with the information they have at the beginning of the film, there is no proof that using a machine to do it for them would even work - maybe the machine makes them a bunch of money in a parallel universe, not in their own.  The way in which both characters eventually seek to answer this question for themselves, lose trust in each other, and then turn on each other, makes the second half of the film so interesting (and confusing)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, there is the additional burden of designing a machine to extract &lt;em&gt;itself&lt;/em&gt; from the time capsule mechanically after the correct delay, so that it does not &quot;loop&quot; forward and backward through time, only to be removed at the time the capsule is powered off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8452" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T05:53:48.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17797" CreationDate="2014-03-10T06:11:37.173" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found the song in Moneyball, here's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0m8K2Ktz6Q&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;. I'm going to rewatch The Social Network to see if it plays at all like I suspected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8366" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T06:11:37.173" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13476" CreationDate="2014-03-10T06:53:14.307" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually that's just using 3D/4D projections. Pretty cool technology, been around a few years now. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FXpIVnkKzg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here is a fun example.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8455" LastEditorUserId="8455" LastEditDate="2014-03-10T21:06:37.683" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T21:06:37.683" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17837" CreationDate="2014-03-10T08:37:34.437" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.marsinvestigations.net/mysteries.php?id=31&amp;amp;season=1&amp;amp;mystery=why_did_lianne_mars_leave_neptune&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This website&lt;/a&gt; has a good explanation of events. I don't think there are any spoilers in it, as it is entirely focused on Season 1 - however, having not watched much of the series myself, I've tagged all quotes from the website as spoilers, just in case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to quote a few things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did she leave?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; All was not, however, as it seemed and it took the murder of Lilly Kane to shatter many of the illusions of Veronica's life, not least, those pertaining to her own family. Her parent's marriage did not have the strength to survive the public humiliation and loss of status brought upon them in the wake of Keith's dismissal for pursuing Jake as the murderer of his daughter. Lianne fell apart; she drank heavily. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did she &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; leave?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; But as she peeled away the layers in her search for the truth about the death of her best friend Lilly, Veronica discovered that she was still far from knowing the truth about her own mother. Or herself. She found that before Lianne left, she had been sent photographs of Veronica upon which gun sights had been drawn, that the man responsible was Kane Software's head of security, Clarence Wiedman, that Jake may be Veronica's father and that Lianne hadn't just left town, she was on the run, begging Veronica in a rare call not to try to track her down, a sentiment echoed by Keith, who unlike Veronica is prepared to move on with his life without Lianne.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was the mother brought back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; She found her mother, drunk and terrified in a lonely bar. Reluctantly, Lianne told her tale...Such information was dangerous for the Kanes and the false alibis they gave. Lianne was convinced that she could not be with Veronica because to do so would risk her daughter's life. Lianne's conviction was reinforced by Clarence Wiedman following Veronica to the bar...One thing was certain. Veronica Mars was no coward and would not be terrorized into losing her mother again. With all of her savings, her investment for her future, Veronica placed Lianne in a rehabilitation center. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Veronica kick her out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Veronica's dream to reunite her family came true when her mother came home, but once Veronica discovered that Lianne had started drinking again, she put aside her childish dream. Her college fund squandered on a worthless investment, Veronica ordered her mother to leave. Lianne did, with money earmarked to rebuild Veronica's future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to quickly answer your questions - she is brought home by Veronica who wants to give her a second chance. She is then sent to rehab. We don't see that Keith brings her home, but rather that Veronica comes home and finds them both together. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, what has happened is left up to the viewer. Maybe she lured him into picking her up from the rehab she was supposedly at, maybe she arrived home on her own and found him. Either way, she is home and that's all the really matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This then leaves Veronica in the next episode to discover that she was using her water bottle to store alcohol and was therefore still drinking. Outraged at such a betrayal of her trust (it cost all of Veronica's college savings) she ordered her to leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, given Veronica's strong independence, determination and investigative abilities, it makes sense in the context of the series for her to come from a broken/dysfunctional family where even in her personal life her detective skills are put to use on a constant basis. Therefore, even though this might seem like a loose end, I think it works (and many other series have done similar things, e.g. Ryan Atwood's mother in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O.C.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The OC&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T08:37:34.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17848" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-10T12:34:46.520" Score="11" ViewCount="90217" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087843/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Once Upon a Time in America&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when &lt;em&gt;Noodles&lt;/em&gt; visits &lt;em&gt;Deborah&lt;/em&gt; and asks her about &lt;em&gt;Senator Bailey&lt;/em&gt; (who later turns out to be &lt;em&gt;Max&lt;/em&gt;), she first denies to know him but shortly after we learn that she is indeed affiliated to him and even has a son with him (who indeed looks like the young &lt;em&gt;Max&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But while I could understand that &lt;em&gt;Max&lt;/em&gt; maybe above all other reasons just wanted to &quot;steal&quot; &lt;em&gt;Deborah&lt;/em&gt; from &lt;em&gt;Noodles&lt;/em&gt; out of his anger over his betrayal, I wonder what drove &lt;em&gt;Deborah&lt;/em&gt; to him, given that she never had a high opinion about &lt;em&gt;Noodles&lt;/em&gt;' way of life and especially his friend &lt;em&gt;Max&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;What was her motivation to start a relationship with him&lt;/strong&gt;, especially one that lasted so long and spawned a son?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or &lt;strong&gt;is there any chance that she did not know about &lt;em&gt;Bailey&lt;/em&gt;'s true identity?&lt;/strong&gt; Yet I think she had already seen (and known) &lt;em&gt;Max&lt;/em&gt; back in the 30s. But maybe she only realized it later when she was already in a relation with him (since she seems to know it when &lt;em&gt;Noodles&lt;/em&gt; visits her in the 60s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-10T23:30:40.957" LastActivityDate="2020-12-25T06:00:13.230" Title="Why did Deborah start a relationship with Bailey?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|once-upon-a-time-in-america|" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17849" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-03-10T14:10:18.560" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;2005 German thriller (orig.: &lt;em&gt;Antikörper&lt;/em&gt;) about a provincial policeman (&lt;em&gt;Wotan Wilke Möhring&lt;/em&gt;) interrogating a recently captured paedophile killer (&lt;em&gt;André Hennicke&lt;/em&gt;) about a local crime and the way in which this case questions his own believes about good and evil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337573/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibodies_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-10T14:10:18.560" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T14:10:18.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17850" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-03-10T14:10:18.560" Score="0" Body="2005 German thriller (orig.: Antikörper) about a provincial policeman interrogating a recently captured paedophile killer about a local crime and the way in which this case questions his own believes about good and evil." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-10T14:10:18.560" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T14:10:18.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="142" CreationDate="2014-03-10T14:52:11.067" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not very credible at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was clear to Vincent that his cover was blown and that escaping was far more important than finishing his hits, despite his discussions with Max about the meaninglessness of life, it was obvious that Vincent planned on living through this assignment from the beginning. That makes his actions at the end so incongruous as nothing prior to them reflected  a desire by Vincent to end his own life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as Max: With no apparent military or tactical training how he could be expected fire and hit someone in such an emotionally charged situation surpasses &quot;luck&quot; and bordered on the improbable. Trained marksmen have been known to miss targets at close quarters under ideal conditions so a &quot;lucky shot&quot; killing, not injuring someone, especially when it wasn't a head shot smacks of narrative conceit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, most bullet wounds are non-fatal despite what people have been trained by Hollywood to believe. Had  Vincent been laying on the floor bleeding heavily, the scene would have been somewhat more &quot;realistic.&quot; Having him sitting and dying passively is again more a narrative device than anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, unless you surprise a professional assassin and shoot him/her from ambush, your odds of surviving an encounter with them are extremely low, bordering on the miraculous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="105" LastEditDate="2014-03-10T15:37:20.400" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T15:37:20.400" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17852" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17853" CreationDate="2014-03-10T16:22:23.890" Score="3" ViewCount="3063" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched 'Into The Wild'. In the final scene the camera rotates around Chris' face, zooms out of the bus and zooms out showing the surrounding area above the bus. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO7a__V-sNI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This link&lt;/a&gt; does not show the close-up rotation but should give an idea of what I am talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How was this done without any cut? Or is it done using some Graphics/Editing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8462" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-10T16:30:58.597" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T17:50:21.240" Title="Camera movement in final scene of 'Into The Wild'" Tags="|film-techniques|cinematography|into-the-wild|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17852" CreationDate="2014-03-10T17:50:21.240" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what you're after: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.studiodaily.com/2007/11/into-the-wild-visual-effects/&quot;&gt;Into the Wild Visual Effects&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is an interview with Jay Cassidy, who served as Editor for the film. Quoting part of the article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;From Close-up to Aerial in One Seamless Shot&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The final moving shot&#xA;  starts out on a close-up Hirsch’s face... in the bus&#xA;  then pulls back through the window and rises up over the bus and&#xA;  continues up above until the bus is a mere speck on the screen. This&#xA;  proved to be the most challenging shot of the film for Entity FX. This&#xA;  was made harder because the shot, which actually combines a crane shot&#xA;  and helicopter shot, was done in the wrong order and one different&#xA;  days, one sunny and one rainy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“A critical thing was that it was shot out of order,” explains Beck.&#xA;  “Ideally you shoot the helicopter first and then the crane move to&#xA;  match it up. But for a number of reasons it was shot the other way&#xA;  around. Pre-vis was really critical. We pre-viz’ed a number of&#xA;  different proposed moves and tried to suggest one that would work both&#xA;  technically and aesthetically. If you look at the last pre-vis and it&#xA;  looks an awful lot like the final. I went up to Alaska and was beating&#xA;  on the Akila guys to make the crane as long as possible to get as high&#xA;  as possible. We had an 82-foot crane that was pulling back from the&#xA;  close-up up as high as it could go. And then we shot the helicopter&#xA;  trying to match the position of the crane on a different day with&#xA;  different weather. So it was our job to match those two together.” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Obviously the crane shot was a lot smoother than the helocopter shot&#xA;  but thre were also differences in position and motion path. In order&#xA;  to smooth out the helicopter shot and to match the cameras, the two&#xA;  shots were transferred at 4K, which allowed them the flexibility to&#xA;  stabilized and push into the shots as needed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“There was a lot of stabilization of the plates and stabilizing the&#xA;  scale,” explains Marty Taylor, VFX supervisor/lead compositor. “The&#xA;  crane finished below the height of the helicopter and the perspective&#xA;  was different, you saw more of the top of the bus in the helicopter&#xA;  shot than in the crane. This way we were able to lock the two plates&#xA;  together and stabilize and match them. From there figure out what we&#xA;  needed to add as CG elements and matte paintings.” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because the shots were done on two different days under very different&#xA;  conditions, Entity had to essentially re-create large patches of the&#xA;  landscape. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“One day was rainy and the other day was dry,” recalls Taylor. “On the&#xA;  rainy day all he plants were knocked over and beaten by the rain. On&#xA;  the other shot the plants are dry and standing up. So we had to match&#xA;  that and then we had to make the propeller-wash disappear. The crane&#xA;  is nice and smooth and there’s no wind. Then you get to the helicopter&#xA;  portion and everything is blowing like crazy.” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once the moves were matched Entity had to create 2D and 3D landscapes,&#xA;  and morph back and forth between those and the real landscape. In&#xA;  addition, Entity FX had to replace a road and production base camp&#xA;  with pristine Alaskan tundra. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“We refer to it as a matte painting but it was actually a 3D&#xA;  reconstruction because it was moving in perspective as the camera was&#xA;  pulling back,” notes Beck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T17:50:21.240" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15724" CreationDate="2014-03-10T18:52:33.033" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first question that needs to be answered is who tried to kill Michael. Then, some theories as to who killed the would-be assassinations can be drawn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we know by the end of the film, &lt;strong&gt;Hyman Roth&lt;/strong&gt; is behind the hit on Michael. There are a few reasons for this, the largest of which is resentment at Michael having killed Moe Greene in Godfather I.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To do this, he uses &lt;strong&gt;Johnny Ola&lt;/strong&gt;, his right hand man. He sends Johnny to talk to &lt;strong&gt;Fredo&lt;/strong&gt;, Michael's brother, and has him manipulate him into giving information that can be used to attempt an assassination. We never find out &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; this information is. Whether Fredo was callous enough to give direct information that could be used, or simply angry and careless enough to let slip something innocuous, we don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This exchange is all we have on it. You can decide for yourself how &quot;in the know&quot; Fredo really was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fredo Corleone:&lt;/strong&gt; I haven't got a lot to say, Mike.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Michael Corleone:&lt;/strong&gt; We&#xA;  have time.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Fredo Corleone:&lt;/strong&gt; I was kept pretty much in the dark. I&#xA;  didn't know all that much.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Michael Corleone:&lt;/strong&gt; What about now? Is there&#xA;  anything you can help me out with? Anything you can tell me now?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Fredo&#xA;  Corleone:&lt;/strong&gt; They've got Pentangeli. That's all I can tell you. I didn't know it was gonna be a hit, Mike. I swear to God,&#xA;  I didn't know it was gonna be a hit. Johnny Ola bumped into me at&#xA;  Beverly Hills, and he said that he wanted to talk. He said that you&#xA;  and - and Roth were in on a - a big deal together and that there was&#xA;  something in it for me if I could help 'em out. He said that - He said&#xA;  that you were bein' tough on the negotiations, but if they could get a&#xA;  little help and close the deal fast, it'd be good for the family.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Michael Corleone:&lt;/strong&gt; You believed that story? You believed that?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Fredo&#xA;  Corleone:&lt;/strong&gt; He said there was somethin' in it for me. On my own...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now we know the three people implicitly involved in the assassination attempt. As to who killed the failed-assassins, there are a few possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fredo&lt;/strong&gt; - He could have killed the assassins out of panic whenever he realised the hit had failed. This could have happened two ways - he might have given Roth information allowing him to access the compound, or allowed a mole in, and once he realised what transpired, murdered the assassins inside the compound out of fear. Or, of course, he could have been well aware all along a hit was going to take place and killed the assassins out of self preservation. However, if Fredo had killed them, it raises questions as to how he knew &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; where they would be (and how he could kill them with no other guard on the compound knowing). If Fredo &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; kill the assassins, it's difficult to imagine he wasn't well aware there was an assassination plot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fredo's Men&lt;/strong&gt; - Fredo is a caporegime, so he has &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of men under him. He could have had one of those men kill the assassins (then either hushed his man with money or killed him to silence him). However, the biggest issue with this idea is the notion that Fredo could offer someone more than Michael could (or could intimidate someone more than Michael could).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael's Guards&lt;/strong&gt; - It is of course possible that Michael's guards killed the assassins. These guys are mafia men - they're not trained soldiers. If they cornered an assassin and the assassin raised his gun, it's unlikely they would be aiming for the shoulder or foot. It's perfectly plausible that a scenario like this occurred and Michael's men killed everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie (or books) don't ever actually say &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; who killed the assassins, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jgeoff.com/godfather/gf2/transcript/gf2transcript.html&quot;&gt;this conversation&lt;/a&gt; occurs after the hit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TOM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If we catch these guys do you think we'll be able to find out who's&#xA;  backing them? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MICHAEL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's not the catch -- unless I'm very wrong, they're dead already.&#xA;  They're killed by somebody close to us -- inside. Very, very scared&#xA;  they botched it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TOM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What about your people ROCCO and NERI? You don't think that they had&#xA;  something to do with this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MICHAEL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You see -- all our people are business men, their loyalty is based on&#xA;  that. Now, one thing that I learned from Pop was to try to think as&#xA;  people around you think. Now on that basis, anything's possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Michael certainly suspects an inside man. Given that we later find out Fredo betrayed Michael, that most likely scenario does seem to be that &lt;strong&gt;Fredo himself&lt;/strong&gt; killed the assassins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reiterate however, all of this is just speculation, as it is never confirmed in either the films or books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="3203" LastEditDate="2014-04-14T14:10:10.047" LastActivityDate="2014-04-14T14:10:10.047" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15904" CreationDate="2014-03-10T19:27:59.800" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, this question has been unanswered long enough. I call &lt;strong&gt;movie mistake!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll use two different articles to defend my claim. Firstly, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/6090867/Hobbits-elude-us-but-we-get-to-set&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; describes the primary filming location -  The Pelorus River.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a second article I've found involves an interview with Peter Jackson about the creation of this scene. This was Peter Jackson had to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How tough was it to shoot the centerpiece action sequence with the&#xA;  barrels?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jackson&lt;/strong&gt;: We had these big V8 water-jet things that we&#xA;  built on a circle – it was like a theme park – about as big as this&#xA;  room. And we were worried because we thought, how fast can we actually&#xA;  grind, wind the engine up, because we could sort of wind it up at&#xA;  speed and, you know, we’d better be careful, you know, because we&#xA;  don’t know quite, it’s gonna be unpredictable and it was. And we had&#xA;  stunt guys doing it, round and round, and testing it and everything&#xA;  else, but you know, these are actors, they’re a little bit fragile&#xA;  (laughter). But by the end of the first day, the guys were just&#xA;  yelling, “Faster! Faster! Get it faster, faster, faster!” And we had&#xA;  it on max, we had the thing going on maximum pretty quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But one of the things that doesn’t really get referenced in the&#xA;  barrels is we also did another shoot on a different river in New&#xA;  Zealand, called the Awatere River in the North Island.&lt;/em&gt; And that was a&#xA;  shoot where – that’s a particular river, it’s like a gorge or a&#xA;  canyon, a rocky canyon that stretches about a mile and right at the&#xA;  head of the canyon is a big dam, and four times a day they open up the&#xA;  sluice gates and they just let this enormous torrent of water out, and&#xA;  they let it out for 10 minutes and then they close the gates again.&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;And so we got a lot of the really kind of hair-raising barrel stuff in&#xA;  the Awatere.&lt;/em&gt; It would be too dangerous to put a stunt guy down. I&#xA;  mean, we didn’t even dare put anyone in the barrels. We sent the&#xA;  barrels down completely empty and we put the digital Dwarves in later.&#xA;  But that got some of the more dramatic footage, was this – and it was&#xA;  just, it was great because we could set up the cameras when it was dry&#xA;  in between the dumps and we set up about six cameras right the way&#xA;  down the length of the gorge, and then we were there for about three&#xA;  days and every single, you know, four times a day on the dot, these&#xA;  things would open for 10 minutes. And we had a team up, throwing the&#xA;  barrels in, at the top. And we had another guys – you didn’t know what&#xA;  the hell was gonna happen to them, you had just to – they just were&#xA;  filmed on the way down and we had a team at the bottom recovering the&#xA;  barrels. We lost three of them. &lt;em&gt;I mean, to this day, we don’t know&#xA;  where three of those barrels have gone.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've italicised a few sections for effect. Effectively, the shoot was done in multiple locations, on multiple days, involving fast moving water, with the actors later super-imposed in for the most dangerous parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given all this, it seems highly possible that it was a simply &lt;strong&gt;movie mistake&lt;/strong&gt;. Whilst now it has been alluded to in this thread (and to me at least, it sticks out like a sore thumb everytime I rewatch the scene), this has been highlighted almost nowhere else online (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0CDAQFjAA&amp;amp;url=http://www.moviemistakes.com/&amp;amp;ei=EBIeU8HsMsSmhAedtYGQDw&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF25gOE1Y_GGtqDMulymtSkIZ4jlA&amp;amp;sig2=HY-ojtC6zejWsUc-qCO9fQ&amp;amp;bvm=bv.62578216,d.ZG4&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Movie Mistakes&lt;/a&gt;). Unless you're really paying attention, it's easy to gloss over which is my assumption as to why it wasn't spotted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can provide no definitive evidence, just opinion - it seems very much like a simple movie mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-10T19:34:38.200" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T19:34:38.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="142" CreationDate="2014-03-10T19:43:51.580" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the thing; Cruise's character is a hitman, but there is no indication that his hits have ever known the hit was coming.  Killing someone, while requiring a certain resolve, does not necessarily require a tremendous amount to skill if the victim is unaware they are a target.  As such, it's possible to believe that Cruise's character was defeated by Foxx's character in that, in a face-to-face showdown they are both on similar ground.  I don't recall if Cruise's character was said to have any combat experience or not, so by my assumption neither of them had ever fired a weapon at someone firing back at them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the flip side is that it is likely Foxx's character never fired a gun, period.  He wouldn't be familiar with recoil and sighting a target.  In this respect, Cruise's character clearly has the upper hand.  But on a moving train, which tends to jitter to some degree, that upper hand could be outweighed by a little bit of luck.  Perhaps it jittered at the exact moment the triggers were pulled?  Foxx's character could have been pushed out of the way, just as Cruise's character was pushed into the path of the bullet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most Action movies do, to some degree, require a &quot;suspension of disbelief&quot;.  Very few of them are actually plausable.  So, in that universe, I'd say it's definitely within scope to accept the outcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T19:43:51.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16208" CreationDate="2014-03-10T19:56:40.783" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a range of different techniques used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, it uses &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_animation#Cels&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Traditional Animation&lt;/a&gt; and in particular, Cels. Cels can be described as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The cel is an important innovation to traditional animation, as it&#xA;  allows some parts of each frame to be repeated from frame to frame,&#xA;  thus saving labor. A simple example would be a scene with two&#xA;  characters on screen, one of which is talking and the other standing&#xA;  silently. Since the latter character is not moving, it can be&#xA;  displayed in this scene using only one drawing, on one cel, while&#xA;  multiple drawings on multiple cels are used to animate the speaking&#xA;  character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a great pictorial example on the link above. It also uses &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-generated_imagery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CGI&lt;/a&gt; for some sections of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was what the director, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain_Chomet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sylvain Chomet&lt;/a&gt; had to say about the animation technique (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.darlingdimples.com/?p=49&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in an interview with the BBC&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wanted to do things in animation that hadn’t been done before. It’s&#xA;  a very rigid medium in what people think it should be. It’s always got&#xA;  to be for kids. It should bring good feelings, have bad guys and good&#xA;  guys, and end with a moral. But this means there are lots of subjects&#xA;  and things you can’t show, like someone smoking a cigarette for&#xA;  example. With “Belleville”, the aim was to go against that, and do&#xA;  something that wasn’t aimed at kids. It’s great that kids can enjoy&#xA;  the film, but it freed us up to go in directions that the animated&#xA;  movie hasn’t gone in before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same interview, he also commented on why he used CGI:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was mainly to get rid of all the boring stuff. Objects, for&#xA;  example, always take a very long time to animate because they don’t&#xA;  change as they move. We used CGI for the cars, the bicycles, the boats&#xA;  and the trains, and it meant the animators had more time for enjoyable&#xA;  elements like the character acting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T19:56:40.783" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13555" CreationDate="2014-03-10T20:17:37.277" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the answer has to be that during his time in the mansion he somehow found out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not shown on the screen at any time and it's not mentioned in any DVD commentary. Therefore, barring him discovering it completely by chance (which really would be impressive!) the only remaining plausible explanation is that he came across it at some point during his stay in the mansion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even this explanation isn't great (so the soldiers who were planning to rape his companions showed him the secret door?), but it's the only logical one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-10T20:17:37.277" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17861" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17863" CreationDate="2014-03-11T02:00:11.527" Score="6" ViewCount="8548" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Clone Wars series has an odd mix of rigid 3D figures and matte, painterly surfaces that I haven't seen anywhere else. What was the reason they chose this style over a computer-animated 2D style such as the Tartakovsky Clone Wars series or a less stylized 3D animated style? I've noticed that the droids and the armored clone troopers look fantastic, but the animation style does not do justice by emotional scenes or lightsaber battles, which look rigid and jerky. Is there any hint of why they chose one over the other? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T15:36:28.497" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T15:36:28.497" Title="What is the rationale behind the choice of animation style for The Clone Wars series (2008-2014)?" Tags="|animation|star-wars|the-clone-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10125" CreationDate="2014-03-11T04:28:25.683" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder if the lack of stars symbolizes the power of the federal government over constituent states. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8466" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T04:28:25.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17861" CreationDate="2014-03-11T08:14:48.703" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;These excerpts are from &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5033398/george-lucas-spills-all-about-clone-wars-at-skywalker-ranch&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; which describes an interview with George Lucas. To quote a few key excerpts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;One of the big questions a lot of people have about the new series is the look of the animation. Though it's CGI, it's not photorealistic;&#xA;  the characters are made to look like painted wooden puppets (a&#xA;  reference to the marionettes in the 1960s series The Thunderbirds).&#xA;  Lucas addressed this issue head-on:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We didn't want to do photorealistic — photorealistic is what live&#xA;  action movies are. Animation is art. This is an art discussion –&#xA;  either you like photorealistic art, or you like something that tries&#xA;  to find the truth behind the realism. To me animation is about design&#xA;  and style. Our goal wasn't photorealism — we wanted to use computers&#xA;  as paintbrushes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lucas also had a lot to say about how the studio put the animation&#xA;  together on a limited budget:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Art is also a technological medium. It has a lot to do with&#xA;  engineering. It's a medium dictated by resources. That was daunting,&#xA;  since we wanted to push the limits beyond anything you've seen on TV.&#xA;  We wanted to take feature animation to television. Normally feature&#xA;  animation costs 20-30 times what TV animation does. So that was a&#xA;  challenge. We had to build a studio from scratch and develop new&#xA;  techniques from scratch. We also didn't make it the normal way you&#xA;  make an animated feature. We treated it like live action feature –&#xA;  editing, rather than storyboarding. It makes a different kind of&#xA;  animated film, since we relied on cutting and editing vs. storyboards.&#xA;  If we can do something that will stand on its own as a feature film,&#xA;  then we've succeeded. He added, rather bluntly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This series is a test run for the live action series I'm working on.&#xA;  I'm trying to take Star Wars, which was a $50-million-an-hour&#xA;  adventure, and do it for $2 million an hour. It's hard to do that and&#xA;  have them look the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://video.about.com/movies/George-Lucas-Interview.htm&quot;&gt;This is a different interview&lt;/a&gt;, with Dave Filoni (the director) answering some questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The style of animation, why did you guys pick this?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dave Filoni: &quot;Well, it is computer animated but the style of it had to&#xA;  be different. That's the mandate George gave me. He didn't want to do&#xA;  something people had seen before. He wanted it to be unique and stand&#xA;  out. It was a big challenge. But, you know, I worked with really&#xA;  talented people and we collaborated. I'm really happy with the result&#xA;  and so is George.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So from the sounds of it, a mixture of reducing the overall budget for the series, whilst at the same time making it look &quot;big budget&quot;, coupled with a desire to do something different is what was behind the animation choices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T08:14:48.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17848" CreationDate="2014-03-11T08:38:29.810" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the reasons are never really explained. There are a few possibilities, but nothing definitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, it's possible that after Noodles rape of her, she simply lost respect for herself and her body and simply decided that material riches were all she needed. She chose to be with Max/Bailey and take the financial security and comfort that relationship brings - not all that surprising given her background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A second possibility is that the rape had nothing to do with it and she was simply attracted to the money. This is certainly the opinion of the FAQ part of one of the movie's fansites, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.onceuponatimeinamerica.net/resources/questions.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Once Upon a Time in America.net&lt;/a&gt;, which states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why would Deborah ever willingly hook up with Mr Bailey?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr Bailey&#xA;is a multi millionaire, with valuable assets, a grand mansion  and a&#xA;son. I've no problem with this whatsoever. Deborah probably  isn't&#xA;madly in love with Bailey but as we get older other factors such  as&#xA;comfort and security become more important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A third possibility I read in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Once+Upon+a+Time+in+America:+Sergio+Leone+and+the+construction+of...-a0172398130&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;another article&lt;/a&gt;, which believed Deborah's motivations in the movie were always suspect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Max increasingly assimilates the values of capitalism however, his&#xA;use of prostitution changes. He later uses his status as Secretary&#xA;Bailey to acquire Deborah, in essence using wealth to &amp;quot;hoard&amp;quot; Noodles'&#xA;girl where he previously would have &amp;quot;shared the wealth&amp;quot;. &lt;em&gt;This act also&#xA;implies that Deborah, who has been built up as the &amp;quot;nice girl&amp;quot; in this&#xA;film, really differs from a hooker like Peggy only in price.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, there is no correct answer and we can only made educated guesses. It seems highly unlikely Deborah &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; know Max's true identity. However, I also don't like the idea of her being simply attracted to money, as I hoped for better from her character. Therefore, I like to believe in the first theory - although we'll never know the &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T08:38:29.810" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17865" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17901" CreationDate="2014-03-11T08:46:04.633" Score="2" ViewCount="27967" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen this movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1253863/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;300: Rise of an Empire&lt;/a&gt; last night in theatres in our country and few scenes were removed as it has explicit content. I'm eager to know what happened during the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the middle of the movie, Artemisia asks Themistokles for a secret meet and tries to seduce him and asks him to join her side and Themistokles kisses her as if he fell for her charm and the next scene we were shown was, Artemisia yelling at Themistokles and saying something like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Artemisia : Get this filth out of my sight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is, Themistokles pretended that he was seduced and after doing what he wanted he might have said to her that he didn't wanna join her, so she yelled at him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone post the entire conversation happened during that scene as an answer? I'd like to know what exactly happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-11T15:04:04.017" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T14:00:00.223" Title="What happened during the adult scene in &quot;300: Rise of an Empire&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|300-rise-of-an-empire|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17865" CreationDate="2014-03-11T09:06:18.963" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've not seen the movie and the script hasn't been made available online yet, but quoting from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300%3a_Rise_of_an_Empire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Impressed with Themistocles' skills, Artemisia has him brought onto&#xA;  her ship, where they have sex. She offers him a place in her army, but&#xA;  he refuses, causing her to swear revenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So effectively she seduced him, he allowed her, but he refused to join her army which is what led to her throwing him out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T09:06:18.963" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17796" CreationDate="2014-03-11T09:23:20.017" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia for Uncertainty Principle by Heisenberg says that &quot;the more precisely the position of some particle is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be known, and vice-versa.&quot;&#xA;Kind sums up the situation, nobody knew what Walter would do next and how he would do it.&#xA;Also, he required to come up with a name when confronting Tuco for the first time and what better a name than Heisenberg. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to state some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He bombs Tuco's office with a crystal. None of us saw that coming.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He lets Jane die. Again, none of us thought he wouldn't save her.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He poisoned the little kid with Lily of the Valley.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lastly, and most importantly, he cooked the finest meth. I mean, a chemistry teacher who works at car service station with little money to live on, cooks Meth! So awesome.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and a lot more situations where Walt just rocked!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8467" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T09:23:20.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17848" CreationDate="2014-03-11T09:49:51.467" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is a real answer in terms of the character, and I suppose we could imagine many scenarios since the &quot;romance&quot; occurred entirely offscreen. I think that it is beside the point, in terms of the writers of the film, what Deborah wants or what her point of view is. She was the hope of escape for Noodles, she was only important in terms of what she symbolized for him. His rape of her was his damnation. And the only reason she is married to Max in the future is to add tragedy and pathos to the betrayal of Noodles by Max.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire &quot;old age&quot; segment of the film has an eerie dreamlike quality, and I'm not sure it is supposed to seem realistic. Of course, there is the famous &quot;it was an opium dream&quot; theory supported by the fact that the movie ends on Noodles in the opium den in the past. One should also note that while Max and Noodles (and other characters) look noticably older, Deborah looks unchanged from 30 years before. I know this isn't an answer, but I think this storyline is more poetic and interpretive than something we are supposed to analyze from a character point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8391" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-11T11:52:01.757" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T11:52:01.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11039" CreationDate="2014-03-11T11:36:15.750" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to think that they decided to not turn him in because Americans often are rooting for the person being chased in high speed pursuits. Anecdotally, Americans seem more exposed to high speed chases on the news and on live television, and honestly, it doesn't seem unlikely that a group of people would not report someone who simply walked away from a high speed chase, because it rarely happens that the pursued suspect escapes and it is often assumed that the police are overreacting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8468" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T11:36:15.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13662" CreationDate="2014-03-11T12:23:11.040" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's difficult to find any direct materials online with references for America's Got Talent. From their &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.americasgottalentauditions.com/faq/preparing-for-your-audition/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;official website&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;DOES IT COST ANYTHING TO AUDITION?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Auditioning for America's Got&#xA;Talent is completely free. Sure you still need to get to the venue,&#xA;and maybe get a hotel for the night if it's a long drive, but we&#xA;cannot reimburse you for your expenses. But if anyone is claiming they&#xA;are with the show and want to charge you money to audition please&#xA;contact us right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you make it beyond the first round of auditions, we will discuss&#xA;with you in detail how we reimburse for travel arrangements as you&#xA;progress in the competition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So clearly once you actually get &lt;em&gt;onto&lt;/em&gt; the show, there are some travel arrangements. I'll cheat a little in my answer here, and rather than give examples of America's Got Talent, I'll post some examples of information I found regarding American Idol, which will likely have a very similar expenses policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For American Idol, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2012/03/01/cost-being-on-american-idol/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fox Business&lt;/a&gt; describe the process for auditioning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Auditions Can Be Expensive&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Audition costs remain a financial&#xA;hurdle for hopefuls who follow the Idol audition trail from city to&#xA;city, hoping to be selected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;What the TV audience doesn't see is, if you're from San Diego and you&#xA;audition and make it through in St. Louis, then you have to return to&#xA;St. Louis a month or two later for the next round, and then again for&#xA;a third round,&amp;quot; says Rushfield. &amp;quot;Some can't afford to and drop out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They then describe actually being a contestant:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once chosen for the top 12, Idol contestants are provided room and&#xA;board, although the accommodations have varied widely from season to&#xA;season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;There have been years where they want to show it on the air so they&#xA;put them up in mansions in the Hollywood hills; other years, they've&#xA;put them up in this apartment complex that's not seen on the air,&amp;quot;&#xA;says Rushfield. &amp;quot;It's nothing fancy, but it's not squalor. They have&#xA;roommates all the way through, and when their roommates get cut, they&#xA;consolidate them to save on the rooms.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A far bigger expense falls to the contestants' families. &amp;quot;They don't&#xA;provide travel or expenses for families,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;That's the expense&#xA;that causes the most trouble for Idols and their families.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about costume expenses? The same article states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ever wonder whether Adam Lambert paid for those outrageous &amp;quot;Glambert&amp;quot;&#xA;costumes he wore on the eigth season? The answer is yes -- and no.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;They go on a shopping trip with a fashion consultant who works on the&#xA;show and they get like $450 a week to spend on whatever they want,&amp;quot;&#xA;says Rushfield. &amp;quot;But a lot of them dip into their own pocket because a&#xA;few hundred dollars doesn't go that far in a lot of these expensive&#xA;stores in Hollywood. The clothes are theirs to keep after the show.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for how much they earn overall:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How much does an &amp;quot;Idol&amp;quot; finalist earn?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Their payday for a year of very hard work comes to something like $1&#xA;million,&amp;quot; says Rushfield. &amp;quot;The top four all do Disney World&#xA;commercials; that's one of the biggest paydays. They also get money&#xA;for albums and shooting the Ford commercials.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there's the show itself. The American Federation of Television&#xA;and Radio Artists, or AFTRA, pays each top 24 contestant a performance&#xA;fee: $1,571 plus meals for two-hour Idol shows, $1,303 for one-hour&#xA;shows and $910 for half-hour results shows. But they all must fork&#xA;over $1,600 to join AFTRA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest payday for most of the top 12 is the summer tour. &amp;quot;They&#xA;get around $150,000 for four or five months of touring,&amp;quot; says&#xA;Rushfield.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The higher the finish, the larger the paycheck -- with notable&#xA;exceptions. According to Forbes, season four winner Carrie Underwood&#xA;led the pack, earning $13 million from June 2009 to May 2010. She was&#xA;followed by season one winner Kelly Clarkson with $11.7 million. But&#xA;Idol runners-up Chris Daughtry (third at $10.2 million), Kellie&#xA;Pickler (fourth, $7.6 million) and Jennifer Hudson (sixth, $3.5&#xA;million) routinely out-earn winners David Cook, Taylor Hicks, Kris&#xA;Allen and Ruben Studdard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A different &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2011/05/06/american-idol-contestants-story-625057601/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fox Business&lt;/a&gt; article gives a more granular view of parts of the audition process:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only a handful of contestants get called to audition for what the show&#xA;calls &amp;quot;Hollywood Week.&amp;quot; An &amp;quot;American Idol&amp;quot; insider confirmed that&#xA;contestants are flown out to Los Angeles and housed at the show's&#xA;expense. No meal money is given, but the shoot days are usually rather&#xA;long and a contestant could easily eat all three meals for free while&#xA;on set, according to the insider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Hollywood Week takes about five days to film, a contestant's&#xA;time commitment varies. &amp;quot;They can stay the whole time if they do&#xA;really well,&amp;quot; says the insider. &amp;quot;Or, they can be done within a few&#xA;hours on the first day.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the contestant continues to impress the judges, he or she will be&#xA;called back for live shows several months later. Again, the show pays&#xA;for travel and lodging, but the commitment can last several weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To confirm the overall amount earned by an Idol participant in a year, The &lt;a href=&quot;http://americanidolnet.com/american-idol-faq/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;American Idol Net.com&lt;/a&gt; fansite states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;ARE AMERICAN IDOL CONTESTANTS PAID FOR BEING IN THE COMPETITION?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Once&#xA;a contestant reaches the Top 10 and in some seasons the Top 12, they&#xA;start to receive a paycheck for appearing and performing on the weekly&#xA;shows. At that point, they are also required to join the AFTRA union&#xA;(The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists). The most&#xA;recently reported hourly rate I could reliably source is $1,571.00 per&#xA;two-hour episode and a bit less for a one-hour show. The Top 10&#xA;contestants (plus the wildcard pick this season) who go on to perform&#xA;on the American Idol Summer Tour will also receive a fee of $1,000.00&#xA;per show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;ARE THE FINALIST’S FAMILIES COMPENSATED FOR BEING IN THE&#xA;AUDIENCE?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Even though American Idol loves to utilize the finalists’&#xA;friends and family sitting in the audience, either by airing reactions&#xA;or actually bringing them up on stage, they do not compensate them for&#xA;their expenses. The cost to the families can be quite high considering&#xA;they must pay for travel and accommodations out of their own pockets.&#xA;The audition process can also be a financial drain, considering some&#xA;hopefuls must travel long distances to get to the audition city. If&#xA;they make it through the first round they must travel back again to&#xA;audition for the next round. These rounds of auditioning can be&#xA;separated by several weeks. Many believe it’s well worth the expense&#xA;for the chance to become an overnight success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;DO THE CONTESTANT’S&#xA;CHOOSE THEIR OWN WARDROBE AND WHO PAYS FOR IT?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The contestants are&#xA;given a clothing allowance. The last verified amount I could find is&#xA;$450.00 per week but it must be increased occasionally to keep up with&#xA;inflation. A stylist, employed by Idol, accompanies contestants on&#xA;shopping trips to help choose outfits for the coming week and advise&#xA;them on what “look” will work best based on the their individual style&#xA;as well as the style of their upcoming performance. Idol also provides&#xA;them with a hair stylist and makeup artist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I've given a bunch of articles and I'm well aware the majority of them aren't actually focused on your particular question - about America's Got Talent. However, I'm hoping they will still be of us considering the fact the shows are very similar and thus very likely have similar expense regulations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T12:23:11.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9630" CreationDate="2014-03-11T15:35:22.143" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The flashback to be mindful of here is not of Schlutz seeing the dogs mauling at D'Artagnan, but the point of time where he asks Django to kill Smitty Bacall in the presence of his son and when Django confronts Schlutz on their way to Candyland with Candie in relation to Bacall&quot;s killing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This stirs up his moral sense when he witnesses D'Artagnan's killing which subsequently makes him kill Candie... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8470" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-11T17:06:13.243" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T17:06:13.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17873" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-11T17:52:37.440" Score="2" ViewCount="4528" Body="&lt;p&gt;How was Kyle Reese sent by John Connor from the future in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Terminator&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; when in fact Kyle Reese died even before John Connor was born? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8130" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-05T16:56:47.740" LastActivityDate="2016-08-05T16:56:47.740" Title="How was Kyle Reese sent by John Connor?" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-series|the-terminator|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17873" CreationDate="2014-03-11T18:01:19.887" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Kyle Reese&lt;/em&gt; that is shown during the movie (and that ultimately turns out to be &lt;em&gt;John&lt;/em&gt;'s father) has been sent through time into the past (our present, when the movie is set) by the adult &lt;em&gt;John&lt;/em&gt; from the future. But there is yet another version of &lt;em&gt;Kyle Reese&lt;/em&gt; existing as a child (or maybe not even born yet) parallel to the movie's action, who later grows into the version that &lt;em&gt;John&lt;/em&gt; then sends back in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No matter if it's a circular time loop or different alternative time lines (whose actual physical validity is to be questioned elsewhere, I guess), the main point to take away from the movie's reality is, that the &lt;em&gt;Kyle Reese&lt;/em&gt; from the movie, who dies at the end, is not the one that grows into the &lt;em&gt;Kyle Reese&lt;/em&gt; that &lt;em&gt;John&lt;/em&gt; later sends back in time (as you already realized, he's dead, and also didn't know &lt;em&gt;Sarah&lt;/em&gt; personally). It is the one who has already been sent back in time, with his younger version currently existing as a child (or waiting to be born) in parallel somewhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-11T18:11:26.470" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T18:11:26.470" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17873" CreationDate="2014-03-11T18:08:19.073" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with those other two mind-bending answers -- there are multiple parallel timelines going on.  In one timeline, Sarah Connor gives birth to John Connor.  John grows up, meets Kyle Reese, and sends him back in time.  By sending him back in time, that creates a second, parallel timeline.  In that timeline, Kyle Reese is a grown man when John sends him back, and is still a grown man in 1984.  He impregnates Sarah, and THEN he dies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing that gets my mind all wrinkled up is that Sarah then gives birth to John, who grows up to send Kyle back to 1984 AGAIN ... and impregnate Sarah AGAIN, and John grows up AGAIN, and sends Kyle back AGAIN ... and Kyle impregnates Sarah a THIRD TIME, etc.  If you focus on that storyline, it's a loop.  Hard on the brain!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, notice that any way you look at it, Kyle is a GROWN MAN when he dies. And he dies &quot;after&quot; the GROWN UP John Connor sends him back. He also dies BEFORE the baby John Connor is born.  But we can assume there's another Kyle, a child, somewhere else in the world at the same time the adult Kyle is impregnating Sarah and then getting killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whew!  I need to go watch something simple.  Like Frozen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T18:08:19.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17873" CreationDate="2014-03-11T18:52:45.640" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He did it in 2 ways. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, by time machine. Once you've been sent back in time, you still exist. &#xA;From your date of birth all the way through to your date of death.. Even if that date of death was in the past via a time machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly he sent him by enticing him. By showing him a photo of Sarah Connor, which is why he confirms to her that he came back for her. I'm guessing that in Kyle's world, the future doesn't offer much time for hanging around with chicks etc what with lots of angry robots trying to terminate you. So when John Connor probably asked a crowded room full of men - who'd like to go back and help his 30 year old mum out- every hand in the room went up. Kyle couldn't believe his luck when he was chosen by his friend. Having to deal with only 1 robot, (as a posed to hundreds daily), plus on top of that having Sarah to hang out with was an amazing job opportunity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8160" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T18:52:45.640" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17881" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17903" CreationDate="2014-03-11T19:06:25.683" Score="25" ViewCount="12853" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beware: spoilers for &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; season 5 below. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the facts as I understand them: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leaves of Grass is a compendium of poems by Walt Whitman, an American influenced by Transcendentalism and Romanticism. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of the many quirky ways that Boetticher impresses Walt is by reciting Whitman's 'When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When I heard the learn’d astronomer;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lectureroom,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Boetticher later gives Walt a copy of the book with the following inscription&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4dkUl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Walt Whitman is also very well-known for his homoerotic content, but it's unclear whether Gale is using the book as a subtle way to romantically pursue Walt or if Walt understands that's what's going on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The book is eventually Walt's downfall when Hank finds his copy in the bathroom in the episode &lt;em&gt;Gliding Over All&lt;/em&gt;, whose title is another Walt Whitman quote. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Gliding o'er all, through all&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Through Nature, Time, and Space, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a ship on the waters advancing, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The voyage of the soul—not life alone, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Death, many deaths I'll sing.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could even make an argument that Walter White is named after Walt Whitman, as the similarity in their names is pivotal to the plot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did the showmakers choose to feature this particular poet so prominently? It feels like a deep analytic understanding of the poet could be used to understand the Breaking Bad characters more profoundly, as well as the heavy use of scenes set in nature. An ideal answer would explain why 'The Learn'd Astronomer' in particular was recited in full, why Gale chose it and why Walt was intrigued by it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-19T17:03:38.767" LastActivityDate="2014-10-19T17:03:38.767" Title="What is the significance of Walt Whitman to a broader understanding of Breaking Bad?" Tags="|analysis|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17883" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17906" CreationDate="2014-03-11T19:27:15.313" Score="10" ViewCount="785" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033045/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Shop Around the Corner&lt;/em&gt; (1940)&lt;/a&gt;, two characters bicker in person while falling in love anonymously through letters. The plot has been repeated in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041507/?ref_=nm_knf_t3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;In the Good Old Summertime&lt;/em&gt; (1949)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128853/?ref_=nm_knf_t1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;You've Got Mail&lt;/em&gt; (1998)&lt;/a&gt; and slightly modified in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2057441/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge&lt;/em&gt; (2011)&lt;/a&gt;. In other words, it's a pretty popular and successful scenario for a romcom. Did the writers of &lt;em&gt;The Shop Around the Corner&lt;/em&gt; create the plot or is it taken from another source? I'd be interested in a history in drama as well as cinema. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastEditorUserId="30713" LastEditDate="2016-09-22T00:37:36.890" LastActivityDate="2016-09-22T00:37:36.890" Title="What was the first appearance of the &quot;Shop Around the Corner&quot; romcom plot?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17673" CreationDate="2014-03-11T19:28:53.623" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's distinctly reminiscent of a turn of the century morse code tapper (AKA a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;telex&lt;/a&gt;), something like the one below;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7Pb9k.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T19:28:53.623" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17885" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-11T19:33:40.853" Score="5" ViewCount="9298" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are multiple descriptions of &quot;The Girl in Red&quot; on this site, but I remember color being used in &lt;em&gt;Schindler's List&lt;/em&gt; more than only that one time. Is my mind playing tricks on me? If it isn't, is there a theme to the multiple times that selective color is used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastActivityDate="2016-10-30T03:46:01.927" Title="How many times is color used in Schindler's List?" Tags="|schindlers-list|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17885" CreationDate="2014-03-11T19:42:09.280" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the movie the only color is the red coat of the little girl.  Specifically so you are aware of it and it is in contrast to everything else.  I believe she appears twice, once when 'escaping' and again when you see her in the pile of the dead being burnt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end the film becomes colorized as the descendants of those Schindler saved place stones on his grave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Small caveat, I always thought that the candle that is lit when the list is first being started was in color as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3416" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T19:42:09.280" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17178" CreationDate="2014-03-11T19:44:22.110" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.artandculture.com/feature/1540&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; in ArtandCulture.com, the song's role in the film is to underscore the unique feel of a masked ball:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The song choice manages to clearly convey the unique nature of the masked ball; this is no oppressive mignonette. The dancing in this scene is all about grabbing, whirling, and drunken flirtations. It is decidedly ruffled and translates the space into one of transgression, where Marie might finally flirt and enjoy the company of men other than Louis XVI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Hong Kong Garden&quot; was chosen to commemorate its use by Sophia Coppola as a &quot;wake-up tune&quot; for the staff and crew. Coppola is apparently a big fan of punk and would regularly blast the Siouxsie and the Banshees, Adam Ant, Bow Wow Wow and other rock songs over the tannoy at breakfast. They enjoyed them so much that many of the songs were later added to the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sophia Coppola used 'Hong Kong Garden' as the &quot;wake-up tune&quot; for her&#xA;  cast and crew. [Kirsten] Dunst says, &quot;Sometimes we would play music and&#xA;  that would evoke different feelings. It was great because when you're&#xA;  shooting at eight in the morning, when you just got done with tons of&#xA;  hair and make-up and wardrobe, and everyone's a little tired, the&#xA;  energy from music like that really helps.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="7977" LastEditDate="2014-03-11T20:10:46.020" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T20:10:46.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14182" CreationDate="2014-03-11T19:46:39.223" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The previous answer is good, but for a little more detail of the tradition of leaving stones, here's my two cents. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jewish people leave stones instead of flowers for a variety of reasons, many with Talmudic roots that I'm not educated enough to explain. For a more complete explanation visit &lt;a href=&quot;https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/4057/placing-stones-on-a-grave&quot;&gt;Mi Yodeya&lt;/a&gt;, the Judaism SE. However, one of the primary reasons is that stones offer permanence and solidity. They are a standing testament and remembrance. Unlike flowers, they don't wither and need to be removed or replaced. They become part of the monument. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neeson may have felt that both due to his non-Jewish identity and the fact that he is an actor, not a survivor, that it was inappropriate for him to leave a stone and permanently alter the gravesite. Flowers are a good alternative for him to pay his respects in a less invasive way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:42:08.553" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T22:10:17.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9482" CreationDate="2014-03-11T20:02:33.687" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although Game of Thrones does not have an excessively high number of directors for a series of its type, it would also be impossible for it to have another model due to the nature of its storytelling and location shooting. With such an expansive storyline, following many characters in vastly different locations, shooting often happens on multiple continents at the same time. Locations have included Malta, Croatia, Iceland, Ireland and Morocco. It's less of a problem for the actors because most of their storylines are confined to one location (Jon Snow is not spending a lot of time in Morocco). It would be highly difficult for one director to do it all though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T20:02:33.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9641" CreationDate="2014-03-11T20:25:16.043" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the full text of the scene where the floor is introduced. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SKYLER - Oh, my God, I love this floor.This feels fantastic.&#xA;  Can you control the temperature? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TED- Yeah.&#xA;  There should be a switch right next to you there.&#xA;  It's a thermostat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SKYLER - Ted, this has gotta be the most amazing invention ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TED - I know.&#xA;  Contractor talked me into it.&#xA;  Seemed kind of extravagant, but I gotta tell you, once you try it, you can't go back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SKYLER- I can never find anything in this Buick. (referring to her bag)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TED - You know, you could leave a few things here if you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the significance of her putting the towel underneath her feet is a hint on the part of the filmmakers that she has decided that Ted is a fling and is preparing to make the transition back to her family less painful. She's contradicting Ted's line &quot;Once you try it, you can't go back&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T20:25:16.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17891" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17893" CreationDate="2014-03-11T20:44:06.720" Score="2" ViewCount="2539" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the American broadcast of the Elementary episode &quot;You Do It to Yourself&quot;, there was a product placement scene where Sherlock Holmes prepares his Microsoft Surface™ tablet computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsiXfW75598&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsiXfW75598&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when I watched the episode again as broadcast in the UK, I think that scene was missing, jumping straight from picking the tablet up to searching for the sex offenders register without showing him adding the keyboard or using the kick-stand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I am unsure because I had already deleted the episode from my DVR once it occurred to me.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is my recollection correct? If so, which version is canon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note, the answer &quot;It doesn't matter&quot; is quite incorrect. You won't convice someone who uses the word &quot;canon&quot; about a TV show.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8474" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T22:07:06.240" Title="Does Sherlock Holmes (Elementary) use a Microsoft Surface™?" Tags="|elementary|product-placement|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17892" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17895" CreationDate="2014-03-11T21:51:19.393" Score="5" ViewCount="80277" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am still in the middle of Season 1 of &lt;em&gt;Vikings&lt;/em&gt;, so its very well possible that this is a plot point being explained later. Maybe I just missed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the start, I always assumed that Bjorn was Ragnar's biological son. He certainly raises him like one and I recall them calling each other &lt;em&gt;son&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;father&lt;/em&gt; respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Ragnar is extremely happy when his wife Lagertha tells him that she is pregnant, saying that he is sure that it will be a son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the unborn child dies, Ragnar is afraid that &quot;he will never have a son&quot; and it becomes apparent that he and Lagertha already tried many times without success to have another (?) son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is going on? I can understand why Ragnar would want a son so desperately (as a successor), but what doesn't he have one already? Also why do Ragnar and Lagertha keep talking like they have not been able to have a son yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the temple in Upsala Lagertha prays to Odin:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do as you will with me, make me blind or death if you want. But give me a son...before it's too late!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PIt3F.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Bjorn not Ragnar's son? Or is he from another woman? Why would that matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2019-01-20T21:45:56.940" Title="Is Bjorn not Ragnar's son?" Tags="|plot-explanation|vikings|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17891" CreationDate="2014-03-11T21:56:24.417" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure exactly what your question is. In both versions (if it was cut for the UK) it seems pretty clear that he uses a Surface, although the US version makes more of a big deal out of it. The US version seems like it would be canon, as the show is produced for CBS and broadcast in the US first. The UK cut is an alteration for a different audience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why the product placement would be cut from the UK version, it is likely that Microsoft only paid CBS for product placement to a US audience. Product placement in the UK is more rare than in the US. According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/2011/02/product-placement-on-tv/&quot;&gt;Ofcom&lt;/a&gt;, a UK communications regulator, product placement was only made legal in 2011, and all programs have to declare if they have product placement with a logo at the beginning and the end of the show. (I found it really interesting that all BBC programs paid for by the TV license are still product-placement free)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Sky, the broadcaster of Elementary in the UK, wasn't getting paid by Microsoft for product placement, it would make sense for them to cut it and charge for the additional advertising time. It wouldn't be much, but still. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T21:56:24.417" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17894" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17920" CreationDate="2014-03-11T22:23:31.037" Score="8" ViewCount="569" Body="&lt;p&gt;My research for this &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9482/what-is-the-reason-for-the-many-directors-used-in-the-game-of-thrones-series&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; revealed that due to extensive location shooting and use of wide-ranging intertwining storylines, Game of Thrones shoots with up to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.makinggameofthrones.com/production-diary/2012/10/17/good-things-come-in-threes.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;three different units&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.atlasofwonders.com/2013/03/game-of-thrones-film-locations.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;concurrently&lt;/a&gt; in varying locations. These units have different directing teams, but footage from each is used in a released episode. How is the credited director decided? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T17:13:49.310" Title="How is the credited director for any one Game of Thrones episode decided?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|credits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17892" CreationDate="2014-03-11T23:21:52.563" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://vikings.wikia.com/wiki/Ragnar_Lothbrok&quot;&gt;Vikings Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Seer had once prophesized that Ragnar will have many sons. Bjorn&#xA;  is the first of these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As time goes on, he becomes more and more frustrated that he hasn't been graced with more sons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, given the era as well, multiple children would have been common - especially boys. This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/daily_living/text/Demographics.htm&quot;&gt;historical page&lt;/a&gt; about Viking life states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A typical woman probably bore 7 infants during her lifetime, 29 months&#xA;  apart on average. During pregnancy, women were expected to continue&#xA;  working. After the child's birth, the mother typically returned to&#xA;  work with little delay. Evidence suggests that mothers nursed their&#xA;  children until the age of 2 years, which may have dictated the&#xA;  interval between the births of a couple's children. A typical couple&#xA;  probably had 2 or 3 living children at any one time. Few parents lived&#xA;  to see their children marry. And fewer lived to see their first&#xA;  grandchild. Three generation families were rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer your questions: Bjorn is indeed the true son of Ragnar. And Ragnar is indeed extremely frustrated that the prophecy of his many sons doesn't seem to be coming to fruition with Lagertha.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-11T23:21:52.563" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17896" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17897" CreationDate="2014-03-12T00:13:15.950" Score="20" ViewCount="141407" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;South Park&lt;/em&gt;, Canadians are animated with less detailed features and heads that are cut into two different pieces, with the top part bobbing when they talk. The characters can tell the difference, as in the episode &lt;em&gt;Christmas in Canada&lt;/em&gt; where Kyle's dad replies &quot;Yeah, I can tell&quot; (or something very similar) when Ike's parents come to claim him and say that they are Canadian. Is there a reason, or just for the funny? Subpoint: Why do Canadians have the weird heads, as opposed to making fun of any other nation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastActivityDate="2016-09-10T00:44:55.483" Title="Why do Canadians have hinged heads?" Tags="|animation|south-park|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17896" CreationDate="2014-03-12T00:53:01.350" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the South Park Studios &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20120523235112/http://www.spscriptorium.com/SPMedia/MattStoneInterview-04052005.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview with Matt Stone&lt;/a&gt; (where users were encouraged to ask questions):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;j0l0n: from Henbob&lt;/strong&gt; -&amp;gt; What made you think of the canadians having&#xA;those funny head and everything is square? its brilliant! cheers&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;MattStone:&lt;/strong&gt; Well the idea came to us during a trip to Toronto. That's&#xA;just the way they all look up there...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20120305203641/http://www.spscriptorium.com/SPinfo/TwentyQuestions.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;different interview&lt;/a&gt; with the same site, this was recorded:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Taison:&lt;/strong&gt; Ghislain Deslierres asks, I want to know why all the Canadians&#xA;in South Park have such weird heads because I'm a Canadian and I'm&#xA;sure that a lot of Canadian South Park fans would also want to know&#xA;why we must have those faces? So, what's the deal with the flapping&#xA;heads and beady eyes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trey&lt;/strong&gt;. Go look in the mirror.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Matt&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeh.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;[Trey&#xA;goes into fits of laughter]&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;That's what, that's what you, that's what&#xA;you look like to us. Everything started because Terrance and Phillip&#xA;were characters first, and they weren't necessarily Canadian. And were&#xA;later on we were like, &amp;quot;They're Canadian.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Trey&lt;/strong&gt;: But the idea with&#xA;Terrance and Phillip was, even worse animation than… South Park.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Matt&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;Yeh.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Trey&lt;/strong&gt;: Because, t-Terrance and Phillip was our answer to- When the&#xA;show first came out, and everyone was saying, &amp;quot;South Park is horrible&#xA;animation, and is nothing but fart jokes.&amp;quot; And we're like, &amp;quot;Nononono.&#xA;Here's horrible animation and nothing but fart jokes,&amp;quot; right? And&#xA;that's what Terrance and Phillip was, it was our answer to that. And&#xA;then it sort of grew and and, and, at that time we thought Terrance&#xA;and Phillip were probably like, British or something, and then they&#xA;just became Canadian out of necessity.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Matt&lt;/strong&gt;: And some grief for the…&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Trey&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeah, and then we decided that all Canadians look like that, and&#xA;that was sweet, because-&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Matt&lt;/strong&gt;: We, we loved the idea that… that,&#xA;different characters in South Park don't… look any different. Race.&#xA;Race doesn't matter.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Taison&lt;/strong&gt;: M-hm.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Matt&lt;/strong&gt;: Only nationality. So, like, a&#xA;black… American… es- essentially looks the same as a white American,&#xA;but just… different skin color.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Taison&lt;/strong&gt;: M-hm.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Matt&lt;/strong&gt;: But, um, but a&#xA;black Canadian looks like a white Canadian,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;[Trey laughs]&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;and uh he&#xA;looks totally different.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Trey&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeah.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Taison&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeah. Okay.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Matt&lt;/strong&gt;: And&#xA;like, a Chinese-American looks like everybody else in South Park, with&#xA;different skin tone. The Chinese Chinese… looks like, a different, a&#xA;different thing.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Taison&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there's a few reasons, but clearly comedic effect was the largest!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-09-10T00:44:55.483" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9950" CreationDate="2014-03-12T00:58:54.810" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer specifically to your case of &lt;em&gt;Tangled&lt;/em&gt;, Disney has a long tradition of blockbuster animated musical fairytales, and it's a business model that works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their most recent live-action exception, &lt;em&gt;Enchanted&lt;/em&gt; (2007) did pretty well at the box office. It didn't perform as well as animated movies aimed at the same audience though, and was beat out by &lt;em&gt;Shrek the Third&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Ratatouille&lt;/em&gt; (and also &lt;em&gt;Alvin and the Chipmunks&lt;/em&gt;, which kind of throws a wrench in my theory, but I'm forging ahead anyway). &lt;em&gt;Tangled&lt;/em&gt; pulled in over 200 million more than &lt;em&gt;Enchanted&lt;/em&gt;, which seems to show that animated movies, particularly animated princess movies, do better than live-action ones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Merchandising is also always a major concern for Disney, and it is harder to make palatable merchandising out of live-action images. Dolls, t-shirts, etc., especially modeled for kids, look a lot better with images that were meant to be 2D. (that is opinion-based, not fact)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is fact, though, is that live-action films cause major licensing problems for Disney. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This requires a detour into the history of the Disney Princess merchandise line. Since its introduction &lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Disney_Princess&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Sales at Disney Consumer Products rose from $300 million in 2001 to $3 billion in 2006. Today there are over 25,000 products based on the franchise&quot;.&lt;/a&gt; In recent years, the line-up has been exploding to provide more products and revenue, and it's gone from 8 characters to 13 since 2009. That's a princess a year, a big jump from the earlier rate of a little less than a princess a decade (starting from 1937 with the production of &lt;em&gt;Snow White&lt;/em&gt;). This shows a desire from Disney to increase revenue by introducing more Princess characters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Live-action princesses are harder to include in this merchandising boom though. From an article on the phenomenon in the Wall Street Journal, Disney &lt;a href=&quot;http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB119543097711697381&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;abandoned&lt;/a&gt; the plan to add Giselle to the princess line-up &quot;when it realized securing the life-long rights to the image of Amy Adams, who plays Giselle, was harder than an ugly step-sister squeezing into Cinderella's glass shoe.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in sum, Disney chooses to animate fairy tale movies because it lets them make more money, both in the box office and over the long term. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastEditorUserId="8170" LastEditDate="2014-03-12T01:12:51.217" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T01:12:51.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17900" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50631" CreationDate="2014-03-12T01:27:26.393" Score="28" ViewCount="5007" Body="&lt;p&gt;Starting with &lt;em&gt;The Princess and the Frog&lt;/em&gt; (2009), every Disney princess movie has included a scene where the princess is a child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Princess and the Frog (2009)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4qpBjm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tangled (2010)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/614Xvm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brave (2012)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GRIVlm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frozen (2013)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hAdv7m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;anna and elsa&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other Disney princess (I can think of) who was a child in her movie is Aurora, who was a baby for story purposes so that she could get cursed. We're introduced to every other princess as an adult/teenager.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update: Zootopia does the exact same thing!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FfO7ym.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FfO7ym.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Young Judy Hopps declares her life-long goal to be a police officer&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This similarity makes even more sense because Jennifer Lee, the Frozen writer, also contributed to Zootopia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Also Moana&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YtCZjm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Young Moana meets the ocean&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8170" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2023-03-23T15:14:02.620" LastActivityDate="2023-03-24T11:28:07.583" Title="Why have Disney princess films post-2009 all started with the princess as a child?" Tags="|animation|disney|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17865" CreationDate="2014-03-12T02:06:24.673" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;To more directly sum up what you're looking for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Artemisia invites Themistocles to her ship after he bests two of her&#xA;  generals in battle. The plan is to get him to join her so she can&#xA;  destroy Greece.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Themistocles agrees to board her ship. He boards her ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Artemisia tells Themistocles she knows he has no reinforcements coming in time&#xA;  for the next battle, and that she can keep throwing ships and&#xA;  resources at him for months on end. She offers to let Themistocles join her at her side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They have sex. The dialog you're missing here is a lot of panting and&#xA;  screaming as the two throw one another around the room.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Themistocles refuses her offer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Artemisia throws him off her ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is literally no dialog you're missing that's key to the plot or character development. They have violent sex, and that's pretty much it. A copy of the script will likely not be available as the movie is less than a week old on theaters, but again, it would be pointless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key thing to remember with Artemisia is that &lt;strong&gt;she absolutely despises the Greeks&lt;/strong&gt;. She doesn't just hate them, she wants them eradicated from the world. This is due to her people being ransacked by Greeks in her childhood, with her being taken captive and used as a child sex slave for years until her usefulness to her captors wore thin and they abandoned her, leaving her for dead in the streets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, she knows talent when she sees it, and always seeks an opportune moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She invited Themistocles to her ship in the hopes of seducing him not only with her body, but with the potential for power. Themistocles knows how strong the Persian forces are, and Artemsia attempts to bring this to light (&lt;em&gt;&quot;I can throw forces at you for months...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;) while offering him a place by her side and all the power he could ever dream of. The two engage in sex, but when Themistocles finishes and refuses her offer, and renews her vow to eradicate the Greeks. She tells her guard to, &quot;Get this filth out of my sight,&quot; because she views all Greeks as filth, and is attempting to insult him for having just taken advantage of her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether Themistocles let down his guard in the heat of passion, or knew what he was doing in an attempt to enrage Artemisia isn't really the point of the scene. What is, is that &lt;strong&gt;Artemisia is used by the Greeks yet again&lt;/strong&gt;. She was hopeful to lure him to her side, with all his knowledge of the Greek forces and brilliant military tactics, but instead was used for sex, rejected, and now yet another Greek gets to return to his people and brag about how they used her. Themistocles might have been trying to play mind games with her in an effort to throw off her own sense of strategy, but again, the point was to show that Artemisia gets used one final time, and believing Themistocles to be dead at the end of the next battle, returns to Xerxes believing she has won, only to be killed by Themistocles in a later battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-03-12T14:00:00.223" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T14:00:00.223" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17902" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-12T04:42:43.717" Score="4" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning behind the title &quot;Provenance&quot; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839578/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Person of Interest&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; S03E14?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8478" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-12T09:49:58.803" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T09:49:58.803" Title="Why is S03E14 titled &quot;Provenance&quot;?" Tags="|title|person-of-interest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17881" CreationDate="2014-03-12T05:18:21.540" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can only guess at the answer, but here goes. You've already noted the episode titled Gilding Over All is a reference to Walt Whitman, and has the line &lt;em&gt;many deaths I'll sing&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is no coincidence that both Walter White and Walt Whitman share the same first name. Even their surnames are basically the same: White and Whitman (&lt;em&gt;White man&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt Whitman was one of America's most influential poets - a great in his field. He was obsessed with his work &lt;em&gt;Leaves of Grass&lt;/em&gt; and was constantly revising it. The work was not easily accepted because of its celebration of self and sensuality - the editors asked Walt Whitman to censor his work, but he would not - just as Walter White was obsessed with creating the greatest meth possible - his life's work - and his work would also be frowned upon by less &lt;em&gt;enlightened&lt;/em&gt; people than himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walter White and Gale Boetticher were both &lt;strong&gt;brilliant&lt;/strong&gt; chemists; indeed Walter White would have been recognized as such by his success with Gray Matter if he had not acted so rashly/impulsively by walking away from it in a huff. It is an insight into White's arrogance that he never takes responsibility for this act, instead nourishing this grudge throughout the entire series. Walter White thinks of himself as being a world-class brilliant man cut down by chance (not his own flaw) to his lowly position as a high school chemistry teacher. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Walt and Gale first meet, Gale is already aware of Walt's brilliance, and they discuss their pure love of chemistry. We know why Walt is in the meth business; Gale explains, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I was on my way—jumping through hoops, kissing the proper behinds, attending to all the non-chemistry that one finds oneself occupied with. You know that world. That is not what I signed on for. I love the lab—because it’s all still magic, you know? Chemistry? I mean, once you lose that….”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Walt agrees with him. They have a moment where they agree with Walt Whitman that the purity of what they love had been spoiled for them. For Whitman, this was a declaration of disillusionment with convention and of liberation. So, too, are Walt and Gale liberated from the lecture room (class room for Walt, academia for Gale) and convention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When I, sitting, heard the astronomer... in the lectureroom,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  How soon... I became tired and sick;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Till... I wander’d off &lt;strong&gt;by myself&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt is accepting of Gale's obvious &lt;em&gt;great admiration&lt;/em&gt; verging on &lt;em&gt;adulation&lt;/em&gt; as if it were his due. It is with some of this stardust in his own eyes that he purchases a copy (paperback) shortly afterwards and reads it himself. Perhaps Walt liked Walt Whitman's celebration of himself that occurs in &lt;em&gt;I Sing the Body Electric&lt;/em&gt; and other poems in &lt;em&gt;Leaves of Grass&lt;/em&gt;. Though it is never explained, I think Walt sees himself in Walt Whitman. It doesn't hurt that two of the poems in &lt;em&gt;Leaves of Grass&lt;/em&gt; were mourning the death of the great president, Abraham Lincoln. One might even go so far as to say that to Walt, he with the insufferable ego (and self-deception) himself believes he is a great man who will deserve to be mourned when he dies (of cancer). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8476" LastEditorUserId="9071" LastEditDate="2014-04-17T18:04:09.537" LastActivityDate="2014-04-17T18:04:09.537" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17902" CreationDate="2014-03-12T08:12:33.957" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;A simple Google search will tell you Provenance is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the place of origin or earliest known history of something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A more detailed &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provenance&quot;&gt;Wikipedia listing&lt;/a&gt; describes it as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Provenance (from the French provenir, &quot;to come from&quot;), is the&#xA;  chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical&#xA;  object. The term was originally mostly used in relation to works of&#xA;  art, but is now used in similar senses in a wide range of fields,&#xA;  including archaeology, paleontology, archives, manuscripts, printed&#xA;  books, and science and computing. &lt;em&gt;The primary purpose of tracing the&#xA;  provenance of an object or entity is normally to provide contextual&#xA;  and circumstantial evidence for its original production or discovery,&#xA;  by establishing, as far as practicable, its later history, especially&#xA;  the sequences of its formal ownership, custody, and places of storage.&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;  The practice has a particular value in helping authenticate objects.&#xA;  Comparative techniques, expert opinions, and the results of scientific&#xA;  tests may also be used to these ends, but establishing provenance is&#xA;  essentially a matter of documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've italicized that particular section to indicate how it relates to demonstrating the authenticity of an object - something particular important when dealing with thievery (as this episode does).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the same Wikipedia page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The provenance of works of fine art, antiques and antiquities is of&#xA;  great importance, especially to their owner. There are a number of&#xA;  reasons why painting provenance is important, which mostly also apply&#xA;  to other types of fine art. A good provenance increases the value of a&#xA;  painting, and establishing provenance may help confirm the date,&#xA;  artist and, especially for portraits, the subject of a painting. It&#xA;  may confirm whether a painting is genuinely of the period it seems to&#xA;  date from. The provenance of paintings can help resolve ownership&#xA;  disputes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So given this episode is an antiquities heist, the word &lt;strong&gt;Provenance&lt;/strong&gt; is being used to both relate to the fact the episode is dealing with art and to highlight the important of ascertaining the authenticity of said art (since doing so will greatly increase its price - again, vital to know for any robbery!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T08:12:33.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17883" CreationDate="2014-03-12T08:48:29.597" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shop_Around_the_Corner&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The screenplay was written by Samson Raphaelson based on the 1937&#xA;Hungarian play Parfumerie by Miklós László.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick hop over to Miklós László's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikl%C3%B3s_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia Page&lt;/a&gt; shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most famous of all the plays that became produced as a motion picture&#xA;during this time was Illatszertár, known in English as Parfumerie. It&#xA;had premiered at the Pest Theatre in Budapest in 1937, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shop_Around_the_Corner&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; and shortly&#xA;after László came to New York, the play was adapted as a movie script&#xA;by Samson Raphaelson and became the Ernst Lubitsch motion picture The&#xA;Shop Around the Corner (1940), with James Stewart, Frank Morgan, and&#xA;Margaret Sullavan. A few years later it was re-filmed as In the Good&#xA;Old Summertime (1949), a semi-musical showcase for Judy Garland,&#xA;starring Judy Garland, Van Johnson, and S.Z. Sakall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1963, the play&#xA;was produced as a full Broadway musical with book by Joe Masteroff and&#xA;was titled She Loves Me. She Loves Me had music by Sheldon Harnick and&#xA;Jerry Bock (Fiorello!, Fiddler on the Roof, The Apple Tree). She Loves&#xA;Me, is also often referred to as the &amp;quot;Ice Cream Musical&amp;quot; because of a&#xA;signature song and performance by Barbara Cook. She Loves Me was&#xA;revived in 1993 by the Roundabout Theatre Company and ran for 354&#xA;performances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1998, the play was used once again as the inspiration&#xA;for a screenplay, by Nora Ephron, which became the motion picture&#xA;You've Got Mail, with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 2001, the&#xA;Laszlo/Raphaelson MGM script was adapted for the stage in France and&#xA;was produced as a straight play La Boutique au Coin de la Rue (&amp;quot;The&#xA;Shop at the Corner of the Street&amp;quot;). This production was a faithful&#xA;adaptation of the MGM movie script The Shop Around the Corner and ran&#xA;for the 2002 season in Paris at the Théâtre Montparnasse winning top&#xA;honors. The production garnered five Moliere Awards, the French&#xA;equivalent of the American Tony Award — for Best New Play, Best&#xA;Adaptation of a Foreign Work, Best Director, Best Set Design, and Best&#xA;Lighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 2009 &amp;quot;Parfumerie&amp;quot; was finally produced for the first time&#xA;in the United States as an English-language play. With a new&#xA;adaptation by the nephew of Miklós László, EP Dowdall, the production&#xA;took the play back to its original roots exploring with equal emphasis&#xA;both the story of the young lovers and the troubled marriage of the&#xA;shop owner Mr. Maraczek. The play premiered as &amp;quot;The Perfume Shop&amp;quot; in&#xA;December 2009 at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Florida.&#xA;Almost simultaneously, a separate Canadian production, translated,&#xA;adapted (Robins/Pettle) and produced by the Soulpepper Theatre Company&#xA;under a Canadian arts grant also premiered in Toronto.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems that that particular play, &lt;strong&gt;Parfumerie&lt;/strong&gt;, was the first example of the &amp;quot;shop around the corner&amp;quot; plot - and it has been successfully recreated many times since in film form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T08:48:29.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17900" CreationDate="2014-03-12T09:07:08.277" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may not want to believe it but they use psychoanalysts/psychologists in the motion picture industry to asses &quot;what sells the story better&quot; trends, habits etc. They've obviously worked out that kids can relate to the characters better if the character is a more like themselves. It makes perfect logical sense in fact. Don't forget that movie making is a business. The more $$$$$$ = better for the studios.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Checkout an amazing documentary called: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Century Of The Self&lt;/a&gt; - Adam Curtis &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8160" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-03-12T11:56:15.010" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T11:56:15.010" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14726" CreationDate="2014-03-12T09:16:20.343" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did some googling to get to the bottom of this and almost immediately came upon &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/i-want-to-like-sleepy-hollow.453397811/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt;, where a few people had posted the exact same grievances. Interestingly though, about half way down the page someone pointed out that the show had got everything just fine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is nothing wrong with their police structure. Here are examples.&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_County,_New_York_Sheriff%27s_Office#Rank_structure&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_County,_New_York_Sheriff's_Office#Rank_structure&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_County_Sheriff%27s_Department#Rank_and_insignia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_County_Sheriff's_Department#Rank_and_insignia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Orlando Jones's character is probably in charge of all the detectives&#xA;  in the area. Clancy Brown may have been an undersheriff or the Sheriff&#xA;  of the county. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The show takes place in Sleepy Hollow, New York. This means they'd be&#xA;  members of the fictional Westchester County Sheriff's Department&#xA;  because the real Westchester County has a Department of Public Safety&#xA;  lead by a Sheriff but is not actually called a Sheriff's department.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To expand on the first link that user posted, this is the current structure of Suffolk Count's Sheriff's Office, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Title&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Sheriff Vincent F. DeMarco&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Undersheriff John P. Meyerricks&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Undersheriff Joseph T. Caracappa&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Chief Deputy Sheriff/Chief of Staff/Warden&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Warden&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Deputy Warden&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Captain/Investigator Captain&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Captain&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Lieutenant/Investigator Lieutenant&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Sergeant/Investigator Sergeant&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Deputy&#xA;  Sheriff/Correction Officer&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Deputy Sheriff Investigator/Correction&#xA;  Officer Investigator&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm guessing that as to your question about where people fit into the chain of command - it's something similar to this structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T09:16:20.343" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17909" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-12T10:03:44.837" Score="25" ViewCount="79341" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did not understand a thing from the last minutes of &quot;A Scandal in Belgravia&quot;. Are we actually taking a look at Irene about to get killed, and is she hallucinating when she sees Sherlock? Or is Sherlock having a flashback? And if so, why did he receive the message only then in the present time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8483" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-03-12T10:25:21.860" LastActivityDate="2018-09-09T06:53:30.733" Title="Is Irene Adler alive?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17419" CreationDate="2014-03-12T10:14:19.377" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, some things don't match, but I'll still try with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099160/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blue Steel&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On her first day on the job, NYPD officer Megan Turner, the lone&#xA;  officer on the scene, shoots and kills the perpetrator of a&#xA;  supermarket hold-up. Since no gun was found on the perpetrator's&#xA;  person or at the scene and none of the witnesses could corroborate&#xA;  Megan's story definitively that the perpetrator was indeed wielding a&#xA;  gun, she is suspended from active duty. She is quickly albeit&#xA;  temporarily reinstated to the position of homicide detective because&#xA;  the spent shell casing from the bullet used in a subsequent murder had&#xA;  her name carved on it. This murder ends up being only the first in a&#xA;  series. Working on the case with fellow homicide detective Nick Mann,&#xA;  Megan initially has no idea who in her life could be the murderer. In&#xA;  short order, the murderer does show himself to her. He is commodities&#xA;  trader Eugene Hunt who she met immediately following her suspension&#xA;  and who she has since dated. He also implies to her that he was in the&#xA;  supermarket at the time of the hold-up and that he ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here she is a cop (which you didn't mention, though) accidentally killing someone. But she is stalked on the phone by a guy that saw this and goes on his own killing spree. And it is later revealed (to her, we know all the time, I think) that he is the guy she was dating and after that he one time also appears at her family's house playing her &quot;friend&quot;, while only she knows how dangerous he is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But some points don't match. He doesn't have a limp and, being &lt;em&gt;Ron Silver&lt;/em&gt;, he always wears a beard (though still well-presented). But maybe you have mixed him up with her partner, who is clean-shaven (and with whom she starts an affair at the end, too, I think).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T10:14:19.377" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17909" CreationDate="2014-03-12T10:22:44.307" Score="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's actually quite a simple, albeit far-fetched ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, Dr. Watson comes into the apartment with the phone. Sherlock asks for it and this conversation occurs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JOHN: Did she ever text you again, after ... all that?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;SHERLOCK: Once,&#xA;a few months ago.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;JOHN: What did she say?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;SHERLOCK: “Goodbye, Mr.&#xA;Holmes.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This obviously implies that she texted Sherlock goodbye and he never heard from her again. At this point, we as the audience are meant to believe this was their final communication and Sherlock is still upset/annoyed given her actions prior to this (with the entire Bond Air scandal).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watson then leaves and Sherlock, once he's aware John is gone and can't see him scrolls through all the texts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m not hungry, let’s have dinner.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Bored in a hotel. Join me. Let’s&#xA;have dinner.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;John’s blog is HILARIOUS. I think he likes you more than&#xA;I do. Let’s have dinner.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I can see tower bridge and the moon from my&#xA;room. Work out where I am and join me.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I saw you in the street today.&#xA;You didn’t see me.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;You do know that hat actually suits you, don’t you?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Oh for God’s sake. Let’s have dinner.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I like your funny hat.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I’m in&#xA;Egypt talking to an idiot. Get on a plane, let’s have dinner.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;You&#xA;looked sexy on Crimewatch.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Even you have got to eat. Let’s have&#xA;dinner.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;BBC1 right now. You’ll laugh.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I’m thinking of sending you a&#xA;Christmas present.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Mantelpiece.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I’m not dead. Let’s have dinner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then&#xA;comes the one reply he sent to her:  Happy New Year&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And at the bottom&#xA;of the list is her last message to him:  Goodbye Mr Holmes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, this implies that he got one last message from her and he's merely reflecting on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He looks out the window into the rain and we get Irene Adler's flashback. This is all done to show the story as Mycroft described it - her being killed by the terrorists. This all fits in with what we, the viewers, have been told, and so we accept it. It's moving, quite sad, and we see Irene send her final text before the screen goes to black...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... Only for us to hear the little groan that Sherlock's phone makes when he gets a text from her. Irene's eyes open and she realises that he is her supposed executioner, come to rescue her. He tells her to run and we see her smile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cut back to present day and Sherlock smiles away to himself thinking of &lt;em&gt;The Woman&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The idea is that he rescued her.&lt;/strong&gt; But he's Sherlock Holmes, the greatest detective in the world. No one knew he did it, not John or Mycroft or anyone else. And he didn't &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; them to know, so he didn't display any emotion regarding her in their presence (until he was alone at the end and smiled).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He didn't &lt;em&gt;see&lt;/em&gt; the message at the end of the episode &lt;em&gt;for the first time&lt;/em&gt;, he simply opened it to remind himself of the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Irene is most definitely &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; hallucinating, but rather is being saved by Sherlock (although disappointingly, it seems unlikely she ever got her dinner date).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T14:33:53.133" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17915" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17930" CreationDate="2014-03-12T16:23:40.787" Score="54" ViewCount="86266" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the Joker says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you stranger&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the original phrase is &lt;em&gt;&quot;What doesn't kill you, makes you &lt;strong&gt;stronger&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; So what did the Joker mean by &lt;em&gt;stranger&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-12T16:33:04.630" LastActivityDate="2015-11-10T13:29:29.460" Title="&quot;Whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you stranger&quot; - what does it mean?" Tags="|the-dark-knight|dialogue|" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17915" CreationDate="2014-03-12T16:38:03.420" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's word play. &quot;What doesn't kill you makes you stronger,&quot; is the familiar phrase. In the Joker's case he was hinting at the fact that his past troubles have messed him up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8160" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-03-12T16:39:45.473" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T16:39:45.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17915" CreationDate="2014-03-12T16:42:01.333" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a simple wordplay. He took a very famous and often used phrase (that you correctly identified in your question) and made it, well, &lt;em&gt;stranger&lt;/em&gt;. This is just the Joker's kind of humour, especially when seeing that he has a thing for taking the normal and driving it ad absurdum. So I'm not sure he intended anything else than being funny and, uh, &lt;em&gt;strange&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T16:42:01.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17915" CreationDate="2014-03-12T16:50:52.343" Score="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original phrase is by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche&quot;&gt;Friedrich Nietzsche&lt;/a&gt;, in his book &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_of_the_Idols&quot;&gt;Twilight of the Idols&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From life's school of war: what does not kill me makes me stronger&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that every experience in life makes you a stronger, more rounded person. Joker's phrase is obviously a word play on this, as other answered have already identified, but to give some more reasons on &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; Joker says it, you have to understand his character a little better. To use his excellent &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joker_%28comics%29&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Joker's main characteristic is his apparent insanity, although he&#xA;  is not described as fitting any particular psychological disorder. He&#xA;  displays a lack of conscience and empathy, and no concern over right&#xA;  and wrong demonstrating extreme psychopathy. In A Serious House on&#xA;  Serious Earth, Joker is described as only being capable of processing&#xA;  sensory information from the outside world by simply adapting to it,&#xA;  causing him to create a new personality every day depending on what&#xA;  would benefit him most, &lt;em&gt;explaining why he is sometimes a mischievous&#xA;  clown and at others a psychopathic killer.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Much like the Joker wears no mask and simply is the Joker, he believes&#xA;  Batman is Batman with or without the costume, and repeatedly ignores&#xA;  attempts to learn his true identity as he has no interest in what lies&#xA;  behind Batman's mask. Similarly, when given the opportunity&#xA;  to kill Batman, Joker opts not to, believing that without their game,&#xA;  winning is pointless. &lt;em&gt;The Joker has no desire for typical&#xA;  criminal goals like money or power, and his acts are designed only to&#xA;  continue his game with Batman.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joker is a bizarre, twisted individual who adores having &quot;fun&quot; with Batman, whilst simultaneously causing mass chaos and havoc on Gotham City. In the &lt;em&gt;Christopher Nolan Trilogy&lt;/em&gt; in particular, the strange nature of Joker was emphasised. Think of some of the scenes he had like dressing up as a nurse at the hospital, or burning the mountain of money. His strange attitude is one of the things that make him so terrifyingly brilliant as a character - he wants nothing. He can't be reasoned or bartered with. He simply wants chaos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The word play given by Joker is just one of many examples in the movie of his unusual and weird character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T16:50:52.343" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17909" CreationDate="2014-03-12T17:11:20.637" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Co-creator and writer &lt;strong&gt;Steven Moffat&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/sherlock-writer-clarifies-irene-adler-ending&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;clarified this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It couldn’t have been [Sherlock] imagining it, could it? Because what he’s been told is that she’s in witness protection.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It is a very complicated train of thought for you to believe that Sherlock was imagining that. &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, he really goes and saves her. How could you doubt that?! Of course he’s going to save her!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T17:11:20.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17894" CreationDate="2014-03-12T17:33:08.693" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I understand all the filming units are under the supervision of one single director (the one who is credited) who is shooting with the main unit that shoots the Westeros segments which constitute the bulk of the series. The main unit started off shooting in Northern Ireland, moved to Malta, and more recently are shooting in Croatia. The other units (mostly shooting in Morocco and Iceland) have a bit of autonomy for convenience sake, but are still under the supervision of the main unit director(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2014-03-19T17:13:49.310" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T17:13:49.310" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17922" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17925" CreationDate="2014-03-12T18:39:13.443" Score="5" ViewCount="25250" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Now You See Me Alma Dray is reading about the most famous magicians in history. She mentions Lionel Shrike's tree in the card trick to Dylan Rhodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We later discover that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Lionel Shrike is Dylan Rhodes' father&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just a massive coincidence Alma told Dylan about this particular magician or does she know the connection?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-03-13T05:30:03.177" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T12:45:25.560" Title="Why did Alma Dray ask about Lionel Shrike?" Tags="|plot-explanation|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17419" CreationDate="2014-03-12T19:06:58.877" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HMF2g.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Hotline (1982) - Promo Ad&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084095/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hotline&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1982)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Struggling artist Brianne O'Neil&lt;/strong&gt; is talked into being a volunteer to answer phones part-time at a crisis center. She soon finds herself&#xA;  being &lt;strong&gt;stalked by a psychotic caller&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a shot of 'nice guy' Kyle (Monte Markham):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AGkfC.png&quot; alt=&quot;Hotline (1982) - Pic 01&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is him in 'stalker mode':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vYKzB.png&quot; alt=&quot;Hotline (1982) - Pic 02&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read more about the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hysteria-lives.co.uk/hysterialives/Hysteria/hotline.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://anchorwomaninperil.blogspot.com/2008/02/hotline.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. The trailer's available &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.videodetective.com/movies/hotline/2051&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie's been uploaded on YouTube. Watch that scene you described &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ_WhITOPjM&amp;amp;t=87m50s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. Couldn't resist putting up that old ad. Besides, there weren't any decent posters anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;~ Synopsis edited from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/415898/Hotline/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TCM&lt;/a&gt;; Magazine clipping from &lt;a href=&quot;http://2warpstoneptune.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/tv-guide-ads-for-tv-movies-1980-1982/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2 Warps to Neptune&lt;/a&gt;; Screenshots taken directly from video&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastEditorUserId="7732" LastEditDate="2014-03-12T19:12:00.810" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T19:12:00.810" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17922" CreationDate="2014-03-12T19:54:18.873" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie had plenty of plot holes.  Apparently, she was just mentioning it because Shrike was supposed to be Houdini-like.  Since the entire movie was fiction, Houdini probably didn't exist in their world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2bqfDrtd6M&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this clip&lt;/a&gt; for a whole host of other plot inconsistencies (and a good laugh).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T19:54:18.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17915" CreationDate="2014-03-12T21:50:19.443" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;As noted in other answers, it's wordplay and emphasizes how strange the Joker himself is. But the literal meaning of the expression is also important; to me, it seems quite reasonable to assume that the Joker really does believe that traumatic experiences (&quot;whatever doesn't kill you&quot;) can push people to extremes and cause them to abandon social norms (&quot;makes you stranger&quot;). In particular, he thinks that even very stalwart-seeming people, those who attempt to uphold that which they consider &quot;good,&quot; &quot;virtuous,&quot; or &quot;just,&quot; will eventually give up their socially normative ethics if they are pushed hard enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the point isn't so much that the Joker himself is &quot;screwed up&quot; by his own experiences; the point is that he believes that he can &quot;screw up&quot; everyone else around him using psychological warfare. His behavior, his individual crimes, and his overarching strategies are all motivated by his efforts to &quot;break&quot; people, both individually and en masse:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A substantial portion of the film is dedicated to showing his efforts to force Batman into killing someone, which would mean that Batman would break his &quot;one rule.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His threat to blow up the hospital is a ploy to manipulate random Gotham citizens to commit murder.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Similarly, the &quot;game&quot; on the boats is an attempt to show that when given an incentive, groups of people will agree to blow up other groups of people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While being interrogated by Batman, he's reveling in how far he's pushed this &quot;good&quot; man emotionally--&quot;look at you go!&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And, of course, the &quot;ace&quot; up his sleeve is Harvey Dent, Gotham's &quot;White Knight,&quot; a paragon of (legal) justice, whom he has successfully turned into a murderer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8411" LastEditorUserId="8411" LastEditDate="2014-03-12T22:19:18.047" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T22:19:18.047" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13894" CreationDate="2014-03-12T21:52:05.757" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Man vs Wild is not real. But if everyone knew it was fake, they wouldn't like it as much. It gives the show more excitement thinking its real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8498" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T21:52:05.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17915" CreationDate="2014-03-12T23:17:36.637" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's important to look at (one of) the Joker's origin stories. From &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Joker#By_Book&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Killing Joke&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see it doesn't matter if you catch me and send me back to the asylum... [...] I've proved my point. I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day. You had a bad day once, am I right? I know I am. I can tell. You had a bad day and everything changed. Why else would you dress up as a flying rat? You had a bad day, and it drove you as crazy as everybody else... [...] Something like that happened to me, you know. [...] My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was, I went crazy as a coot!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see this philosophy behind so much of what the Joker does throughout the movie, notice how many of his crimes involve getting relatively innocent people to commit atrocities. He does whatever he can to give them that one bad day that will push them over the edge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Batman's sufferings have definitely left him alienated from the regular populace (stranger), they've also made him the man he is (stronger). The Joker's goal is just to corrupt people, to leave them as twisted and messed up as he is. This is particularly evident with Harvey Dent to whom the Joker gives personal attention. You can see his glee in corrupting Gotham's &amp;quot;White Knight&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, while the Joker has no problem with killing people, he loves it when he can make them as strange as he is. Most of his plans are set up so that one way or another, he'll get an outcome that makes him happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8499" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-12T23:17:36.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15567" CreationDate="2014-03-13T04:26:56.553" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, the film takes four years after the first one because it (Kick-Ass 1) was filmed in 2008 when Chloe Grace Moretz was 11 (Hit Girl's age was based on the actress's) but released in 2 years later in which Chloe was already 13. Kick-Ass 2 was filmed in 2012 (four years after the filming of the first one) and Chloe was 15. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, in a deleted scene in Kick-Ass 2, when Kick-ass was asked by a reporter since when did he become a superhero he says &quot;Since I was 16&quot; and in  the scene where Katie breaks up with him, Katie's friend Erica says to Dave &quot;Fifteen ditching 20, pervert!&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for the reporter saying it's been 2 years since the first ordinary citizens became superheroes, I think it's something they forgot to change in the script because if it was really 2 years after the first movie, Kick-Ass and Hit Girl would have been 18 and 13, respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8505" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T04:26:56.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17915" CreationDate="2014-03-13T08:39:39.640" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the joker, who believes he is immortal, or at least behaves as if he is, life would be boring without chaos, the strange, or unexpected is the root of chaos.  The more chaos, the more victorious or strong he feels.  Nothing seems to kill him, so whatever entertaining means that others use in attempts to kill him only satisfy him in watching the chaos.  Stranger, to the Joker, IS stronger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8509" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T08:39:39.640" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15676" CreationDate="2014-03-13T13:32:05.270" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a plethora of articles online detailing this now. I'll list some of them now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/09/19/the_master_and_scientology_just_how_much_of_lancaster_dodd_comes_from_l_ron_hubbard_.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This blog&lt;/a&gt; details some similarities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...the movie does draw extensively on Scientology and its past. Anderson finally admitted outright a couple weeks ago that he based the charismatic leader Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman) on Hubbard, adding that much of the film “related to the early days of Dianetics.” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It goes on to list some of the similarities in some detail, but just choosing the &quot;topic headings&quot;, it covers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Processing”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Scientology centers around a procedure called “auditing,”&#xA;  which uses probing questions and other techniques to identify&#xA;  traumatic memories (called “engrams”), to drain them of their power.&#xA;  Dodd’s spiritual practice, called The Cause, employs similar&#xA;  techniques.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Books&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Lancaster Dodd, like L. Ron Hubbard, spreads his word primarily&#xA;  through his books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Family life&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Just like Lancaster Dodd, L. Ron Hubbard had multiple&#xA;  children with multiple wives, and many of his ex-wives went on to&#xA;  become his critics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“A writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist, a theoretical philosopher.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Dodd, like Hubbard, likes to tout academic credentials, though neither&#xA;  of the men’s claims seem to hold up to scrutiny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Man is not an animal.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  One of the ideas Dodd returns to most&#xA;  frequently is his belief that “Man is not an animal.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reincarnation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Dodd never lays out his full theology in The Master, but we do get&#xA;  bits and pieces. The Cause, like Scientology, promotes the idea of&#xA;  reincarnation, believing that through “processing” people may recall&#xA;  past lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Move to England&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  In The Master, we last see Dodd sometime later in the 1950s, when he&#xA;  has relocated to Britain. (The timeline isn’t obvious.) There, he&#xA;  works in a mansion on a hill in the English countryside. Hubbard&#xA;  similarly moved to the English countryside, in 1959, where he set up&#xA;  shop in a Sussex mansion called Saint Hill Manor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Miscellany&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Some of the similarities between Hubbard and Dodd are more incidental.&#xA;  For example, there’s a scene in The Master in which Dodd goes out to&#xA;  the desert to play a game of “Pick a Point.” The game involves&#xA;  choosing a point on the horizon and then racing there as fast as you&#xA;  can, even if that means riding a bit recklessly. The suspense of the&#xA;  scene echoes an incident in the life of L. Ron Hubbard, who crashed a&#xA;  motorcycle in southern Spain in 1974, suffering a broken arm and&#xA;  several broken ribs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;....Both men love boats, too...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that blog covers all the major similarities, but do a simple google search for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&amp;amp;q=the%20cause%20scientology%20similarities&amp;amp;meta=&amp;amp;safe=active&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the cause Scientology similarities&lt;/a&gt; and you will be inundated with information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T13:32:05.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17940" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17941" CreationDate="2014-03-13T13:33:33.897" Score="22" ViewCount="73657" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is quite tricky to figure out, and I am not looking for a specific number, but for a approximation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you know, Charlie (nearly) always had a lot of money to spend, but a few hints suggest that he actually did not have money at all (talking about absolute, not cash flow)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he went bankrupt after a few months without income&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he told Alan that there is no money, and everything just a house of cards&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he worries about Bertha giving away a few clothes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he has three mortgages on his house&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when he died, there was no inheritance to Alan or anyone, and they had to sell the house&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, considering the lifestyle and spendings, Charlie must have had a substantial amount available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;driving the latest foreign expensive cars&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;owning a Malibu beachhouse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;paying the property tax for said house&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;discussing retirement at 45&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;spending endless money on booze, betting and women&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So all things considered, did he have money, or was he just a scam?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8520" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2022-09-12T15:30:19.523" LastActivityDate="2022-09-12T15:30:19.523" Title="How much money did Charlie Harper have?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|two-and-a-half-men|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17940" CreationDate="2014-03-13T13:55:59.700" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somebody tried to calculate this over at &lt;a href=&quot;http://voices.yahoo.com/how-charlie-harper-two-half-men-afford-2425139.html?cat=3&quot;&gt;Yahoo Voices&lt;/a&gt;. This was their awesome synopsis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How does Charlie afford this luxurious lifestyle? A quick look at the&#xA;  MLS in Malibu reveals that even after the recent housing downturn,&#xA;  Malibu beach houses cost anywhere from $1 million to $6 million or&#xA;  more. A million dollar mortgage at 6% for 30 years equals a $6000&#xA;  monthly payment, give or take. Charlie's sports cars set him back a&#xA;  pretty penny, too - $200,000 is a conservative estimate. Daily&#xA;  housekeeping services probably run $500 a week. As for the liquor and&#xA;  ladies, who knows? Though Charlie always has cash on hand, I bet&#xA;  credit cards (and credit card debt) come into play somewhere along the&#xA;  line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Charlie has had quite a bit of success as a freelance jingle writer,&#xA;  and when he &quot;ran out of money&quot; in one episode, he began writing&#xA;  children's songs, which was supposedly a very lucrative venture.&#xA;  However, even successful jingle writers don't make that kind of money&#xA;  - for instance, JinglePeople (a freelance jingle company) is offering $45 an hour for jingle writers - not chump change, but not enough to&#xA;  buy a sports car and a Malibu beach home, either. Charlie must be&#xA;  racking up credit card debt in a big way!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although Charlie hasn't worked a 40 hour week in his life, let's give&#xA;  him the benefit of the doubt: a 40 hour week at $45 an hour is about&#xA;  $93,000 a year, or $7800 a month. After taxes, that's about $5000 a&#xA;  month. That means that Charlie's home alone costs him more than he's&#xA;  bringing in. Add a $4000 monthly car payment, and Charlie is $5000&#xA;  underwater every month. He better have an excellent rewards credit&#xA;  card with an extremely high limit!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, credit cards alone would never support Charlie's&#xA;  lifestyle. Here's hoping the children's songwriting business pays a&#xA;  LOT better than the jingle company!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on that information, I call scam! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the (wonderful!) discussion below this answer about the types of money jingle writers earned, I've done some basic googling myself. &lt;a href=&quot;http://woman.thenest.com/much-jingle-writers-paid-8968.html&quot;&gt;This article&lt;/a&gt; details some of the factors involved in determining a jingle writer's pay. It finishes by stating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If commercials aren’t using original jingles or scores, they’re&#xA;  licensing previously released material. On average, a songwriter can&#xA;  earn $5,000 to $10,000 for a low-budget commercial, $10,000 to&#xA;  $175,000 for a medium-budget commercial and $100,000 to $250,000 for a&#xA;  high-budget commercial. For well-known songs, the rates can exceed $1&#xA;  million.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Charlie certainly didn't have a well-known song, just a very good set of jingles. Therefore it's plausible he could have earned up to the hundreds of thousands of dollars - but it's still a stretch considering his lifestyle and house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sticking with scam for now! (Especially since it explains why he faked his own death to appear, changed his identity and popped up again debt free on &lt;em&gt;Anger Management&lt;/em&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-13T17:43:07.780" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T17:43:07.780" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17942" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-13T15:44:52.950" Score="4" ViewCount="1138" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the party at Stu's house toward the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117571/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scream (1996)&lt;/a&gt;, the ghost face killer starts to attack. Sidney ends up outside and in the news van with Gale's camera man. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bit later she is running back into the house (after Gale runs off the road) and when she gets to the porch, Randy runs up limping yelling that they need to get to safety. Sidney basically tells him to f- off as if she doesn't trust him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does she do this? When she was in the news van, her and the camera man watched the ghost face killer sneak up on Randy while he was in the house watching the movie so she clearly saw that he was not the killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't she trust him and let him in the house with her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-16T03:40:09.250" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T03:40:09.250" Title="Why didn't Sidney trust Randy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|scream|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17943" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-13T15:49:45.890" Score="4" ViewCount="368" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the party at Stu's house at the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117571/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scream (1996)&lt;/a&gt;, Randy ends up alone watching the movie by himself. Eventually he wanders outside and appears at the driver-side window of the news van when Gale is trying to use the cell phone (right before she finds Kenny dead). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Randy asks where everyone went which startled Gale and she hit Randy in the face with the phone and we don't see him again for a few scenes. When we do see him, he is running toward Sidney while she is trying to get back into the house. At this point, he is limping as if something is wrong with his leg. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is he limping? He was fine until he got hit in the face and then next time we see him he is limping. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2023-05-15T10:41:09.163" Title="Why is Randy limping?" Tags="|scream|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17942" CreationDate="2014-03-13T16:05:41.267" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;To quote the exchange (from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Scream.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scream Script&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY:&lt;/strong&gt;  Jesus, Sid. We gotta get out of here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sidney throws the gun forward.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SIDNEY:&lt;/strong&gt; Stop. Right there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY&lt;/strong&gt;:  Don't shoot. It's me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SIDNEY&lt;/strong&gt;: Don't come any closer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY&lt;/strong&gt;:  Listen to me, Sid. I found Tatum. She's&#xA;          dead, she's been killed...I think Stu did&#xA;          it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He takes a step forward when another VOICE SPEAKS UP.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VOICE&lt;/strong&gt;: Don't believe him, Sid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sidney spins around to see Stu moving up the walk.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STU&lt;/strong&gt;: He's lying. He killed Tatum. And Billy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stu moves closer to Sidney.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SIDNEY&lt;/strong&gt;: Stay away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She aims the gun in his direction.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STU&lt;/strong&gt;:  His movie nut mind has snapped, Sid.&#xA;          He's gone psycho.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY&lt;/strong&gt;:  Don't listen to him. It's him. He's the&#xA;          one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STU&lt;/strong&gt;:  Come on, Sid. Give me the gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RANDY&lt;/strong&gt;: No, Sid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SIDNEY&lt;/strong&gt;: Fuck you both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at this stage in the movie, Sid has witnessed her boyfriend (seemingly!) being killed, Kenny killed, a host of other deaths and terror is gripping her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, in the midst of it, two of her friends, either one of which fits the profile of killer perfectly, show up and tell her to give them her gun. She realises it's a choice between trusting one of them and making the wrong choice or trusting herself and her own instincts. She chooses to do that and shuts them both out of the house, keeping the gun for herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your point is very valid though. She certainly saw the killer in the house. But it's highly unlikely she was thinking logically at this point, given all that had happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-13T16:12:40.887" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T16:12:40.887" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17943" CreationDate="2014-03-13T16:11:59.197" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't call this a movie mistake, as it wouldn't make sense for him to suddenly &lt;em&gt;start&lt;/em&gt; limping out of nowhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you remember, when he gets hit in the face, he gets thrown to the ground by Gale driving off. My only explanation is that he twisted his ankle falling. I don't think you'll get a better/more conclusive answer than that, unfortunately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2023-05-15T10:41:09.163" LastActivityDate="2023-05-15T10:41:09.163" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17942" CreationDate="2014-03-13T16:12:33.990" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, at this point &lt;em&gt;Sydney&lt;/em&gt; was really down with her nerves. She had many traumatic experiences in short succession and has just been (and still was) running for her life. So she was in a pretty run down and panicking constitution and I think at this point she didn't trust &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt;, no matter if she really had any proper reasons to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add to this, that she saw &lt;em&gt;Randy&lt;/em&gt; just at the edge of being killed by the killer (on the surveillance video), which he then magically wasn't and the fact that &lt;em&gt;Randy&lt;/em&gt; in his role as kind of a horror movie nerd always made a good suspect. It is true that &lt;em&gt;Randy&lt;/em&gt; sure wasn't the same person that aproached him on the video, but maybe she already took into consideration that it could be more than one (if she even considered so much at all, as written above).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T16:12:33.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17949" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17950" CreationDate="2014-03-13T16:45:01.500" Score="5" ViewCount="2838" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to recall the name of a movie which featured a thin, fit/muscular and intelligent guy (young, white, possibly blonde hair, maybe a doctor) who somehow keeps large women in different houses (I don't think they were his houses). The women are not captives, they are there willingly and the man is trying to make them as fat as possible. He continuously weighs them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one of the scenes he brings one of the women a tray of hamburgers, but she won't eat them until he strips to his boxers. He doesn't actually have any sexual interactions with the women, he just likes them to be large.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In another scene, he is cooking up a concoction to feed the woman that contains human fat, weight gain powder (used by body builders) and some other ingredients. He feeds it to her with a funnel and she gags because &quot;it was too salty&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The protagonist is some kind of cop, probably a run down hack. I believe in the end he ends up finding the bad guy and chaining him up and making him fat like he did the women.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie was recent, no more than 5 years old since it was in HD, English and set in current times. It was more of a thriller than a horror or drama. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought I watched it on Netflix, but going through my previously watched movies resulted in nothing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recall most of the movie, but just can't remember the title. Can you identify this movie's title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T17:53:13.343" Title="Looking for the title of a fetish movie with large women" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:02:13.763" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17949" CreationDate="2014-03-13T17:18:39.277" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q8Ji7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Feed (2005) - Movie Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445965/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feed&lt;/strong&gt; (2005&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a super-short synopsis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A cybercrime investigator&lt;/strong&gt; tracks a man suspected of force-feeding women to death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From another &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.beyondhollywood.com/feed-2005-movie-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;review&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The plot follows Phillip, an Australian internet policeman who becomes&#xA;  obsessed with proving that there is something sinister behind &lt;strong&gt;a&#xA;  website which features grossly overweight women being force-fed by&#xA;  apparently loving captors&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the cop:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NqV11.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Feed (2005) - Pic 02&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here's the bad guy, in the midst of a 'feeding' session:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2NLbE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Feed (2005) - Pic 01&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read more about the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Watch the trailer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go_E3vq8bao&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;~ Screenshots taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=crys5004&amp;amp;logNo=20117244684&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;NAVER&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastEditorUserId="7732" LastEditDate="2014-03-13T17:53:13.343" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T17:53:13.343" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17951" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-13T17:22:50.947" Score="2" ViewCount="3346" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder what is the specific term used or what are those movies like &lt;em&gt;127 Hours&lt;/em&gt; called that are recorded at the same place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7448" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-13T17:33:48.630" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T17:38:42.447" Title="What are movies called that are recorded at the same place?" Tags="|genre|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17951" CreationDate="2014-03-13T17:38:42.447" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't work in the film industry, so am happy to accept I could be wrong, but I don't think there is an &quot;official&quot; term for this. I think colloquially it is simply known as a &lt;strong&gt;one-location film&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://microbudgetfeatures.com/a-look-at-one-location-films/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This article&lt;/a&gt; discusses some of the benefits and reasons for doing them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The idea of making a film in one location is both tempting and&#xA;  horrifying for filmmakers. On one side, there is an immense production&#xA;  advantage: costs across the spectrum are considerably reduced and in&#xA;  some cases virtually eliminated. The production team only needs to&#xA;  secure, light, and art direct one location, and there is no longer a&#xA;  need to spend money transporting crew, cast and equipment from one&#xA;  location to another. Furthermore, shooting time and crew size are&#xA;  minimized as a result of the narrow production demands. Thus, shooting&#xA;  in one location may guarantee a low production cost without&#xA;  sacrificing production value.  On the other side, setting a film on&#xA;  one location presents creative challenges to the writer, the director,&#xA;  and the production team that could potentially trigger the failure of&#xA;  the film and are not as present in films designed to take place in&#xA;  multiple locations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To create a successful one-location film – a feature shot in one or&#xA;  mostly one location – a writer needs to construct a plot that must be&#xA;  entertaining, meaningful and cinematic, confined within four physical&#xA;  walls. A director must invoke a performance from his/her actors that&#xA;  shows progression and change in character without the option of&#xA;  changing their environment. In doing so he/she must also stay faithful&#xA;  to the medium by using character interaction rather than theatrical&#xA;  monologues to reveal internal conflict and transformation. The&#xA;  director, together with the production design team and&#xA;  cinematographer, need to develop a visual strategy to keep the&#xA;  audience interested and focused; avoiding repetition of shots and not&#xA;  being deliberate. The combination of these techniques must as a whole&#xA;  convey to the audience that by the end of the film the actors are, but&#xA;  are not, in the same place where the film started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One-location films have been attempted on both the micro-budget and&#xA;  the studio level. In both cases, there have been those that have&#xA;  captivated audiences and critics, and those that have fallen flat...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T17:38:42.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17953" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17957" CreationDate="2014-03-13T17:50:32.970" Score="21" ViewCount="3299" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that the three films in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_%28film_series%29&quot;&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/a&gt; film series were quite famously shot concurrently. The films were then edited and completed, before being released to the cinemas a year or so apart from each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, this appears to have some great benefits, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No visible aging of cast members&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No risk of cast members changing their salary demands after the first film's success and thus difficulty arising getting the cast member to come back.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a name for this style of film creation? Did Lord of the Rings start this trend, or had it been done before (or has it been since)? And if the latter, can you provide some examples?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-13T18:32:02.977" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T20:59:17.633" Title="Was the Lord of the Rings trilogy the first film series to be shot concurrently?" Tags="|film-techniques|first-appearance|the-lord-of-the-rings|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17953" CreationDate="2014-03-13T18:10:27.843" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there have been several over the years, as detailed by a wikipedia entry on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_back_film_production&quot;&gt;back to back filming&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a short list, there are more in the wiki entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Back to the Future II and III&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kill Bill was filmed as one film and later split into two.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Superman the movie and Superman II (Earliest on the list, 1978 timeframe)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deathly Hallows I and II were filmed together.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="6234" LastEditDate="2014-03-13T18:30:15.220" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T18:30:15.220" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17955" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18277" CreationDate="2014-03-13T18:30:43.040" Score="4" ViewCount="5018" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/559914737/the-veronica-mars-movie-project&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Veronica Mars Movie Project&lt;/a&gt;, Kickstarter bidder &lt;a href=&quot;http://popwatch.ew.com/2013/03/13/veronica-mars-movie-kickstarter-speaking-role/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Steven Dengler&lt;/a&gt; purchased an on-screen speaking role for $10,000.  I watched the film last night (at the LA premiere if anyone has any &quot;timing&quot; issues with this post), and though I was not specifically looking for his scene, afterwards I realized I had missed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which scene did Mr. Dengler appear in, or was his scene cut from the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T21:48:18.897" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T21:48:18.897" Title="Which scene in the film starred the $10k Kickstarter bidder?" Tags="|veronica-mars|veronica-mars-2014|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17955" CreationDate="2014-03-13T20:05:22.693" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't watched the movie (either), but I'm sure the following snippets will help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FILM_VERONICA_MARS?SITE=AP&amp;amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Associated Press&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The $10,000 contributor, 45-year-old Canadian entrepreneur and&#xA;currency exchange site XE.com co-founder &lt;strong&gt;Steven Dengler, ended up&#xA;playing not a waiter (as the reward had advertised), but introducing a&#xA;viral video with James Franco&lt;/strong&gt;, who also makes a cameo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another bit of detail, this time from the movie's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemareview.com/production.asp?prodid=17204&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Production Notes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top-tier prize-a speaking part in the film-went to Steve Dengler.&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;He plays the host of a viral-video show&lt;/strong&gt; seen (and heard) onscreen and feels his money was well spent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Do you recall any of it?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T20:05:22.693" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17953" CreationDate="2014-03-13T20:59:17.633" Score="28" Body="&lt;h2&gt;The Three Musketeers&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0758499/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alexander Salkind&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and his son &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007163/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ilya&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; produced &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072281/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Three Musketeers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;in 1973&lt;/strong&gt; they shot so much footage that they decided to split it into two movies: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073012/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Four Musketeers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;1974&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This had ramifications and resulted in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/17/movies/film-view-the-salkind-heroes-wear-red-and-fly-high.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Salkind Clause&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For their daring, the Salkinds have gone down in legal history:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;actors' agents and lawyers adopted &lt;strong&gt;the so-called &lt;em&gt;'Salkind clause'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which &lt;strong&gt;prohibits producers from salvaging footage from the cutting room floor for a second movie without paying the cast accordingly.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also mentioned on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072281/trivia?item=tr1499046&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb Trivia&lt;/a&gt; page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As a result of the producers splitting the film into two parts, &lt;em&gt;Screen Actors' Guild&lt;/em&gt; contracts now often feature what is called a &amp;quot;Salkind Clause,&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; which requires producers to state up front how many films are being shot, and that the actors involved must be paid for each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Superman&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Salkinds&lt;/strong&gt; would later do something similiar with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078346/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Superman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1978) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081573/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Superman II&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1980), by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_%281978_film%29#Development&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;shooting them back-to-back&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although, for the sequel director &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001149/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Richard Donner&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was replaced by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081573/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Richard Lester&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, who had previously directed the 'Musketeer' movies for the Salkinds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://superman.wikia.com/wiki/Superman:_The_Movie#Production_history&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Superman Wiki&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was decided early in the process to shoot two films simultaneously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the production of 'The Three Musketeers' (1973), the Salkinds had realized that there was enough footage for two films and split the film in two, releasing 'The Four Musketeers' a year later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The joint production of 'Superman' and 'Superman II' would mark the first time this process was used intentionally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All actors' contracts have what is now known as the &amp;quot;Salkind clause&amp;quot;, which stipulates how many films are being made.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All performers on 'Superman' were contractually obligated to 'Superman II' as well.&lt;/strong&gt; However, in this case, most of the simultaneously-shot footage was reportedly scrapped when Richard Lester was brought in to finish 'Superman II'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Kill Bill&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Salkind clause&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.backstage.com/news/actors-get-extra-payday-for-miramaxs-twin-bill/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;new deals had to be negotiated&lt;/a&gt; with the actors when &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266697/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kill Bill&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2003) was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Bill_Volume_1#Production&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;split into two films&lt;/a&gt; in post-production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of a movie like &amp;quot;Kill Bill,&amp;quot; which becomes two movies after the fact, SAG &lt;em&gt;(Screen Actors Guild)&lt;/em&gt; requires a new round of bargaining for actors appearing in the second installment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T20:59:17.633" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17554" CreationDate="2014-03-13T21:04:33.087" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any chance that it was Thai and not German? I'm pretty sure there was a similar scene in Tony Jaa's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427954/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Protector (Tom yum goong)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, in which someone attempts to rob a store while wearing a stocking over his head, but the shop owner berates him for being easily recognisable. Unfortunately I can't find any clips of it anywhere online...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8530" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-13T22:49:20.153" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T22:49:20.153" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17961" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-13T22:08:37.090" Score="5" ViewCount="3408" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched a movie years ago about a family who just moved into a house. They had two little girls and they had their own room (I believe it was a play house type room) and they drew pictures of these creatures and their parents were concerned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember at the end the creatures tried to burn down the home. Please help me find this movie!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movie was in English. I know it was between 2000, but before 2013. The girls were approximately 5 and 6. Never really showed the creatures. They always showed up black.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8532" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-16T08:31:21.073" LastActivityDate="2016-10-03T23:11:04.853" Title="What is this movie about creatures from pictures trying to burn a house down?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:02:16.957" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12029" CreationDate="2014-03-13T22:43:52.717" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene exists fella and I remember it as well.&#xA;I didn't even realise they'd started removing it but I have noticed a few movies doing this type of thing of late. In an ideal world the studios want as many people to see a movie as possible so the lower the rating that better. This could potentially have compromised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene is out there... You can watch it here..&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pobCoKFEfXk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pobCoKFEfXk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Someone call a veterinarian!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8160" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T22:43:52.717" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17965" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-03-13T23:32:46.927" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-03-13T23:32:46.927" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T23:32:46.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17966" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-03-13T23:32:46.927" Score="0" Body="1982 movie using the original Pink Floyd soundtrack as the theme." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-03-13T23:33:45.400" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T23:33:45.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17967" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-03-13T23:37:23.647" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-03-13T23:37:23.647" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T23:37:23.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17968" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-03-13T23:37:23.647" Score="0" Body="2013 movie starring Shia LaBeouf. Name is self explanitory." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-03-13T23:39:22.700" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T23:39:22.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17969" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-03-13T23:40:07.347" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-03-13T23:40:07.347" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T23:40:07.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17970" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-03-13T23:40:07.347" Score="0" Body="1996 thriller directed by Wes Craven and starring Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courtney Cox. " OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2016-10-27T10:01:59.997" LastActivityDate="2016-10-27T10:01:59.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17971" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-03-13T23:47:09.437" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-03-13T23:47:09.437" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T23:47:09.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17972" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-03-13T23:47:09.437" Score="0" Body="2014 action/drama movie; sequel to the 2006 action movie &quot;300&quot;. Based loosely on Xerxes march towards Athens around 480BC." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-03-13T23:47:46.067" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T23:47:46.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17974" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-03-13T23:55:07.093" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-03-13T23:55:07.093" LastActivityDate="2014-03-13T23:55:07.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17975" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-03-13T23:55:07.093" Score="0" Body="2014 action movie. After being nearly-fatally shot, Detroit cop Alex Murphy undergoes a transformation which makes him half-human/half-robot and all bad-ass. Remake of the 1987 movie of the same name." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-03-14T00:04:39.490" LastActivityDate="2014-03-14T00:04:39.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17976" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-03-14T00:01:27.710" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Furious 7 (stylized as Furious Seven) is a 2015 action/thriller movie starring Vin Diesel and the late Paul Walker. After taking down Owen Shaw (in the previous installment), Toretto and crew gets a new adversary - Ian Shaw who is Owen's brother. These street racers have to put their driving skills to the test. Furious 7 is the seventh movie in the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other movies in the franchise&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-fast-and-the-furious&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'the-fast-and-the-furious'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-fast-and-the-furious&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/2-fast-2-furious&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged '2-fast-2-furious'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;2-fast-2-furious&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tokyo-drift&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'tokyo-drift'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tokyo-drift&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/fast-and-furious&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'fast-and-furious'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fast-and-furious&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/fast-five&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'fast-five'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fast-five&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/fast-and-furious-6&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'fast-and-furious-6'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fast-and-furious-6&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/furious-7&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'furious-7'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;furious-7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furious_7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Furious 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2820852/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Furious 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T08:36:56.940" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:36:56.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17977" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-03-14T00:01:27.710" Score="0" Body="A 2015 action/thriller movie starring Vin Diesel and the late Paul Walker. After taking down Owen Shaw (in the previous installment), Toretto and crew gets a new adversary - Ian Shaw who is Owen's brother. These street racers have to put their driving skills to the test. Furious 7 is the seventh movie in the series." OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T08:28:21.340" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:28:21.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6841" CreationDate="2014-03-14T00:22:19.387" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He didn't time travel before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he had successfully saved Brenda, he would have known that he saved her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Darius caught him off guard when she told him she had met with Brenda and Kenneth retreated back into the fantasy world that he had built after he crashed his car into her house. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the video interview of Kenneth seems to have been made after he and Brenda time-travel at the end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's the way it is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8538" LastActivityDate="2014-03-14T00:22:19.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13964" CreationDate="2014-03-14T00:30:15.010" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's never explained in the film, but I would suspect there are two possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Section Chief Kang&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It's possible he chose to do it, or orchestrate it, as part of the takedown of GoldMoon. After  the leader is taken down, the entire organisation is thrown into chaos in a power struggle and they are able to get a real foothold of power in the gang.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vice Chairman Jang Su-Ki&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;He wanted power and knew he had a chance to get it if the boss was killed. He could have acted on his own initiative or been lured into doing it by the Section Chief. Note - the other candidates for the leadership appear to accuse/suspect each other which is why I don't think they can be considered responsible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately though, there's no right answer - just speculation!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-14T00:30:15.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6841" CreationDate="2014-03-14T00:51:38.677" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are so many answers already, but I thought I'd chuck my hat into the ring!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, some information on the background of the film. It was created due to &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20150319234549/http://badassdigest.com/2012/06/07/the-true-story-behind-safety-not-guaranteeds-time-travel-ad/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this posting&lt;/a&gt; in the classified section of the Backwoods Home Magazine. So as it was posted here, it was &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; going to be used verbatim in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That might mean nothing, but it's worth bearing in mind throughout the whole process of answering the question. The inclusion of the line wasn't really up to the director so much as it was staying true to the real story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second thing to discuss is &lt;em&gt;did he ever really time travel?&lt;/em&gt; This should be obvious to anyone who watched and paid attention to the movie, but in case it's not, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/06/interview-safety-not-guaranteed-director-colin-trevorrow/page/2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; is from an interview with the director:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Throughout the movie, the relationships between the characters are the&#xA;central focus, rather than the actual time machine itself. I noticed&#xA;that the machine was so hidden you only get glimpses of it. Was that a&#xA;conscious choice to have the device in the background for most of the&#xA;movie?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yeah. It really isn’t a movie about the time machine. And yes,&#xA;you do see a part of it very briefly in the middle, but it could be&#xA;anything. We all wanted to maintain the tension in the movie by really&#xA;bouncing you back and forth as to whether you believe that there’s&#xA;really a time machine or not at all. Whether it works or not is&#xA;another question, but I fell like if there’s a ping-pong thing going&#xA;on, if you believe it or you don’t, the paddles get closer and closer&#xA;and by the end you’re like, “Is it?” Then you get the answer to that&#xA;thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, the movie ends when Darius chooses to walk across the plank. I&#xA;think what happens after that is obviously a lot of fun. And&#xA;emotionally and narratively, the movie is over to a certain extent&#xA;after that scene, except for the fact that we don't get the answer to,&#xA;&amp;quot;Is this person crazy or not?&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Is she getting off the boat with&#xA;the right person?&amp;quot; [Laughs.] That’s one of the reasons I think the&#xA;film could be a little too ambiguous to be satisfying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The way it ends could arguably be unexpected. The whole time you're&#xA;asking yourself, &amp;quot;Is this real?&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Is this just going to end up as&#xA;some lesson?&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rock and roll. [Laughs.] I did one shot that would allow&#xA;us to change that outcome because the time machine was always in it&#xA;and that was always there, so it was just a matter of what happens&#xA;after he hits that button. It’s a series of making five shots there&#xA;that are different. In allowing that from technical stand points, from&#xA;having it being shot with a big, wide camera, we still could play with&#xA;it and do whatever we needed to do. It left that possibility there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, when I first brought the possibility up while we were&#xA;shooting, people were joking and the alternative ending was&#xA;preposterous at the time. But then you don’t really know what it's&#xA;gonna be like until you see the movie through. So when we were&#xA;actually able to see the way the film played out, I felt like that&#xA;ending was gonna work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love a certain kind of film, and because of that I almost felt a&#xA;responsibility for it to end the way it did. It became very clear at a&#xA;certain point where I just couldn’t do it any other way. It had to be&#xA;this way. If not, why did we sit through this hour and a half?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm aware this is all just background to your real question, but I think it's important to give context to the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now your real question: &lt;em&gt;Had Kenneth ever successfully time travelled before?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is that it's left &lt;strong&gt;ambiguous and totally up to the viewer to speculate&lt;/strong&gt;. However, speculate many viewers have. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1862079/board/nest/205652370?p=3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a fantastic thread over at IMDB completely devoted to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few arguments in favour of either outcome. The usual argument &lt;em&gt;against&lt;/em&gt; him having time travelled before is that he doesn't know he's saved Brenda - so how could he have done it in the past. However, other arguments counter this by saying his act of saving her didn't necessarily mean he &lt;em&gt;knew&lt;/em&gt; her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My views are actually rather brilliantly identical to a poster on the IMDB thread, so I'm quite happily going to quote from his text:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has travelled before.... Follow me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only speculate that the truth behind Kenneth and Belinda's&#xA;relationship is really a blend of both their accounts. It's easy to&#xA;see how a socially awkward man such as Kenneth could build up a&#xA;friendship to be more than it really was. Conversely it would be easy&#xA;to see how Belinda may have been more than friends with Kenneth only&#xA;to have her perception of him change. Therefore...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2001- a. He and Belinda are together, she is killed. (His given&#xA;account)  HER ORIGINAL FATE.... A car struck the house she was in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Intervention&lt;/em&gt; Future version steps in. She is NOT killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b. He and Belinda are just friends, he is crazy. (Her given account)&#xA;HER MODIFIED FATE.... His car struck the house she was in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2012- He travels back, 1st attmept.  He &amp;quot;knows&amp;quot; 2001 &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; to be true.&#xA;Living with grief and on the run,  he develpos a time machine to fix&#xA;the past...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These efforts cause the events of 2001 &amp;quot;B&amp;quot;. However he returns to&#xA;2012 unaware that his attempt at saving Belinda was successful  and he&#xA;continues to live as if 2001 &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; was still in effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2012- He places the ad and recruits Darius. The film plays out just as&#xA;we  see with her ultimately informing him that Belinda is still alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me edit this to say that I believe he was responsible for&#xA;Belinda's death in 2001 &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; and is striving to fix that. The account&#xA;of events he gives Darius is only a half truth in that he leaves out&#xA;his responsibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it's important to stress that the answer is entirely up to the viewer - exactly as the film makers wanted it to be. Remember, in this film time travel as a sci fi medium is much smaller element than time travel as an emotional one - the idea of rectifying past mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My advice would be to watch the movie and decide which storyline fits your interpretation of the movie best. There are good arguments on either side, but from my point of view, I like the version of events I posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2020-08-16T07:48:46.543" LastActivityDate="2020-08-16T07:48:46.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="17982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9236" CreationDate="2014-03-14T01:04:29.270" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not &lt;em&gt;aware&lt;/em&gt; of any major common patterns that run throughout the series. There are a few similarities, but I wouldn't call them patterns. &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Blackadder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TVTropes&lt;/a&gt; has a page of similarities across the series. Using my own knowledge and that page, the similarities include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Same actors, obviously, in different roles/time periods.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Same melody in the theme tune, though changed to suit the &quot;style&quot; of the period being portrayed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Poor rewriting of history, with large amounts of artistic license &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Each of the series ends with the &quot;bad guy&quot; winning&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Baldrick's catchphrase&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Idiosyncratic Episode Naming (e.g. titles of season 2 episodes are one word long, season 3 uses the style of &lt;em&gt;The Noun and the Noun&lt;/em&gt;), etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oddly small organisations (the Queen's staff, Captain Blackadder's men) etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are just some of the common patterns, but the link has more. I fully admit some of them are quite a stretch, but they're certainly all that I'm aware of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-14T01:04:29.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17983" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18136" CreationDate="2014-03-14T01:04:41.473" Score="15" ViewCount="3204" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the hypothesis of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096438/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Who Framed Roger Rabbit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; really being about Eddie's alcoholism (or some kind of psychological dissociation - perhaps via trauma from the death of his brother) tenable? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried, and made some progress by not taking certain lines literally - and especially by framing many (or all) animation scenes as hallucinations. Are there any other hints from the movie or external sources to support this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gary K. Wolf would be a good source of insight - there may be stronger clues in his book than in the resulting film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a somewhat related article &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pseudoccultmedia.net/2008/06/disassociation-through-disneys.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some ideas on this question are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first we see inside Toon Town (as Eddie enters through the tunnel) is just as he destroys his whiskey and thus &quot;quits&quot; - he will be suffering withdrawals and a symptom of this is hallucination. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The end scene is &quot;happy&quot; and surrounded by toons in Toon Town (but in a &quot;real&quot; building) - this may in fact be the dissociation being &quot;complete&quot;. Doom was his last barrier to total breakdown.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A cop says to Eddie, &quot;Didn't you used to be Eddie Valiant&quot;... this could interpreted in a personality splitting way (does anyone recall glass or mirrors breaking anywhere?). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4550" LastEditorUserId="4550" LastEditDate="2014-03-15T05:28:00.947" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T23:57:39.337" Title="Who Framed Roger Rabbit Allegory?" Tags="|analysis|who-framed-roger-rabbit|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15440" CreationDate="2014-03-14T01:16:33.873" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, as Oliver_C points out in his comment,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The first movie used &lt;em&gt;Beethoven's 9th Symphony&lt;/em&gt;, the second Jean&#xA;  Sibelius' &lt;em&gt;Finlandia&lt;/em&gt;, so it seems like a tradition to pick another&#xA;  &quot;old&quot; musical piece as sort of a leitmotif for the third movie (btw,&#xA;  all three movies were scored by the same composer: Michael Kamen)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And especially this song with its style of a military march (and the extensive use of drums throughout the movie) fits well to the military background and demeanor of the bad guys, who are more than one time depicted as being (or at least seeing themselves as) soldiers and behaving accordingly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Simon:&lt;/em&gt; I'm a soldier, not a monster. Even though I sometimes work for&#xA;  monsters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add to this that the song is basically about returning from war, and even more so the more pessimistic version of &lt;em&gt;Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye&lt;/em&gt; given in &lt;em&gt;dglickler&lt;/em&gt;'s answer. So it's motifs again fit to the bad guys' background of being ex-soldiers. Seeing that they are depicted as former GDR soldiers and the movie is likely set around its release in 1995, they might feel like having been taken away their homeland and with that basically their existence as soldiers. So they more or less feel a bit like disillusioned veterans returning from war (albeit a rather cold one), not knowing what to do now or what to fight for and trying to get their share from the world. This is also emphasized in &lt;em&gt;Simon&lt;/em&gt;'s speech at the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yesterday we were an army with no country. Tomorrow we have to decide which country we want to buy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-13T16:47:31.517" LastActivityDate="2014-04-13T16:47:31.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17987" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="17988" CreationDate="2014-03-14T04:07:16.163" Score="7" ViewCount="1594" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the James Bond movie &lt;em&gt;The Man with the Golden Gun&lt;/em&gt;, the bad guy Scaramanga has a dwarf manservant/accomplice named Nick Nack, played by Hervé Villechaize of later &lt;em&gt;Fantasy Island&lt;/em&gt; fame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FBWoG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Late in the movie, when Bond is hunting down Scaramanga at Scaramanga's beautiful island mansion, Nick Nack seems to be on Bond's side, wanting Scaramanga dead -- like when Nick Nack says to Bond &quot;If you kill him, all this will be mine,&quot; and gestures to the island mansion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But after Bond does kill Scaramanga, Nick Nack seems angry and tries to kill Bond, failing miserably and getting himself strung up on the mast of a boat as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Late in &lt;em&gt;The Man with the Golden Gun&lt;/em&gt;, why did Nick Nack seem to switch from encouraging Bond to avenging Scaramanga?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T15:18:31.123" Title="Why did Nick Nack switch sides?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|the-man-with-the-golden-gun|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17987" CreationDate="2014-03-14T04:29:42.693" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nick Nack never intends to help Bond.  He just wants to lure Bond into the &quot;funhouse&quot;, where Scaramanga is waiting to kill him.  If I remember correctly, the movie opens with an assassin hired by Nick Nack going into the funhouse where he is stalked and killed by Scaramanga as practice.  It seems to be part of Nick Nack's job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqCJqRhikDk&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-03-14T04:29:42.693" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17992" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-14T09:45:53.207" Score="6" ViewCount="8770" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is the movie Nebraska shot in black &amp;amp; white? What theme does it resemble in this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-14T09:57:20.003" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T01:22:22.143" Title="Why is Nebraska shot in black &amp; white?" Tags="|analysis|film-techniques|nebraska|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17992" CreationDate="2014-03-14T09:49:04.553" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was shot in black and white because Payne said he wanted to&#xA;produce an &amp;quot;iconic, archetypal look&amp;quot;. According to cinematographer&#xA;Phedon Papamichael, the choice was to use &amp;quot;the poetic power of the&#xA;black and white in combination with these landscapes and of course the&#xA;landscapes are playing a huge role in this story&amp;quot;. The choice of&#xA;black and white was made against distributor Paramount Vantage's&#xA;wishes. The film was shot with Arri Alexa digital cameras and&#xA;Panavision C-Series anamorphic lenses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Payne has claimed that a&#xA;color version was created in an effort to satisfy distributor&#xA;Paramount Vantage's concerns, but that he hopes no one ever sees&#xA;it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2013/05/cannes-alexander-payne-nebraska-black-and-white.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;different interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the press conference afterward, you’d better believe that the first&#xA;question to Payne is the one that wary marketing executives must have&#xA;asked him, too: “&lt;em&gt;Why black and white?&lt;/em&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I wasn’t expecting that&#xA;question at all,” Payne replied dryly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the director of Election&#xA;and Sideways is no dummy, and if he didn’t already have an answer&#xA;prepared for a question he’s bound to be asked until Nebraska’s&#xA;November release date — and beyond — he still managed an erudite&#xA;response on the fly. “It just seemed like the right thing to do for&#xA;this film,” he said. “&lt;em&gt;It’s such a beautiful form, and it’s really left&#xA;our cinema because of commercial, not artistic, reasons; it never left&#xA;fine-art photography. This modest, austere story seemed to lend itself&#xA;to being made in black and white, a visual style perhaps as austere as&#xA;the lives of its people.&lt;/em&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And one &lt;a href=&quot;http://parade.condenast.com/265496/scottneumyer/nebraska-director-alexander-payne-talks-bruce-dern-and-the-iconic-look-of-black-and-white/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;final interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You’ve said that there is a color version that you made for Paramount,&#xA;but you “hope no one ever sees it.” I couldn’t agree more with that.&#xA;Black and white fits this film perfectly. What is it about the iconic&#xA;black and white image that color just can’t deliver?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think in an age&#xA;when the recording of visual information digitally is making the image&#xA;more and more faithful to reality—how it really looks in real life and&#xA;even realer to an extent—people lose themselves more in a recorded&#xA;image than they do amidst real life. So in an age where the image on&#xA;television with HDTV, 4K, and all these other formats of digital&#xA;images are so clear, we don’t want that from art. We want art to&#xA;transform our perception of reality. We want to see the recognizable&#xA;in a new way, which actually makes you look at it. And, with some&#xA;luck, it also gives it some beauty or vividness, and I think black and&#xA;white is a perfectly good medium to do that. Let’s not forget as well&#xA;that our great cinematic heritage is largely in black and white. It’s&#xA;nothing new and it never left fine art photography.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-14T09:49:04.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="593" CreationDate="2014-03-14T10:13:21.080" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There doesn't appear to be any official rating system, disappointingly. As a previous user @Pubby answered, what you are referring to is the &quot;depth&quot; of the film (as per &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_perception&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Depth perception is the visual ability to perceive the world in three&#xA;  dimensions (3D) and the distance of an object.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few websites have had users try and champion a ratings system (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpbb/index.php?sid=9e77cbf9800ca5362aed5f776333dc83&quot;&gt;Meant to be Seen&lt;/a&gt;), but nothing has been adopted by a &quot;large&quot; company. The nearest thing to a &lt;em&gt;decent&lt;/em&gt; ratings system I have seen is a blog called &lt;a href=&quot;http://3dperfection.blogspot.co.uk/p/3d-rating-system.html&quot;&gt;3D Perfection&lt;/a&gt;, where the author defined his own 3D ratings system as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;3D....Perfect use of 3D. There is an excellent 3D&#xA;  depth throughout the movie and several pop-out moments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2.9D....the 3D depth is very good and consistent throughout but occasionally there are anomalies. This could be some scenes that lack&#xA;  a 3D depth or a few scenes that are incorrectly aligned etc. (overall&#xA;  though, there is nothing too distracting to really spoil the vast&#xA;  majority of the 3D)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2.8D.....a mixed bag of both strong and weak 3D. There are several scenes with nice 3D depth but unfortunately there is also a large&#xA;  amount of moments with weak 3D (a narrow separation or even incorrect&#xA;  alignment)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2.7D....generally weak 3D with a narrow separation but occasionally a good 3D scene might pop up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2.6D.....poor 3D. There is a very narrow separation and the 3D effect is weak and flat looking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2.5D.....a poor post production conversion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's rated some 95 films on his blog in this way. It's not much, but it's better than anything else I've come across.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-14T10:13:21.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17961" CreationDate="2014-03-14T15:28:10.467" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to take a shot here because it sounds very similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270761/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)&lt;/a&gt; in which a little girl and the family battle black creatures from the basement, the &amp;quot;Tooth Fairies&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In flashbacks of previous families there were other children, multiple children which is what you may be recalling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At Blackwood Manor in Providence County, Rhode Island, renowned&#xA;wildlife painter Lord Blackwood summons his housekeeper into the&#xA;basement where he reluctantly kills her with a hammer and chisel. He&#xA;removes her teeth, as well as his own, and offers them to mysterious&#xA;creatures down an ash pit within an old fireplace; however, the&#xA;creatures demand the teeth of children. Blackwood begs for them to&#xA;give back his kidnapped son, only to be dragged down the ash pit by&#xA;the creatures. In the present day, 8-year old Sally Hurst arrives in&#xA;Rhode Island to live with her father Alex and his girlfriend Kim, both&#xA;restoring Blackwood Manor to put it on the market for their client Mr.&#xA;Jacoby. Sally is depressed due to her mother forcefully putting her in&#xA;Alex's care and giving her copious amounts of Adderall. On the first&#xA;night of her stay, the melodious tune from a carousel-styled&#xA;nightlight awakens the creatures in the ash pit. The next day, Sally&#xA;wanders the grounds and finds the hidden basement's skylight. One of&#xA;the workmen restoring the house, Mr. Harris, warns her, Alex and Kim&#xA;not to venture into the basement, although they do regardless. Sally&#xA;takes interest in the sealed fireplace where she hears the creatures&#xA;calling her name and follows the mysterious voices. &amp;quot;BE AFRAID&amp;quot; is&#xA;written in runes above it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sally opens the fireplace to meet the&#xA;creatures and finds one of the old housekeeper's teeth. The creatures&#xA;quickly prove to be hostile, stealing Alex's razor and shredding Kim's&#xA;clothes. Alex immediately blames Sally and finds a 19th-century silver&#xA;coin in her possession, which she found under her pillow after the&#xA;tooth disappeared. Alex and Kim head into town on a business trip and&#xA;Sally sneaks to the basement to talk with the creatures, but Harris&#xA;sends her away and tries to seal the fireplace. The creatures emerge&#xA;and brutally wound him with his own tools and he is hospitalized.&#xA;Sally's increasingly frightening encounters with the creatures prompt&#xA;Alex to call a therapist to talk to Sally, who draws a sketch of one&#xA;of the creatures that attacked her under her bedsheets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kim visits&#xA;Harris in the hospital, who tells her to find the unpublished artwork&#xA;of Lord Blackwood in the local library. The librarian reveals the&#xA;artwork, one of which is of a creature whom he describes as being like&#xA;tooth fairies, which every now and again turns a human into one of&#xA;their own. Kim races home as Sally is attacked again by the creatures&#xA;while having a bath, the lead creature being a transformed Lord&#xA;Blackwood who proclaims the creatures will make Sally one of their&#xA;own. Kim finds an undiscovered mural painted by Lord Blackwood in the&#xA;basement, depicting his son being transformed by the creatures. Kim&#xA;confronts Alex who is more interested in hosting a dinner for Mr.&#xA;Jacoby and friends. However, he finally realizes what is happening&#xA;when Sally is trapped in the library by the creatures, but she fends&#xA;them off by using her camera flash to distract them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alex and Kim&#xA;decide to flee the house with Sally, but both are ambushed by the&#xA;creatures and knocked out, Sally tries to wake Kim up but also gets&#xA;ambushed by the creatures and is knocked unconscious. When Sally wakes&#xA;up, her feet have been tied up with rope, and the creatures are&#xA;starting to drag her to the basement for her transformation. Kim&#xA;awakens and goes to basement confronting the creatures, cutting the&#xA;rope around Sally's feet but only to get herself in the ropes and her&#xA;leg broken by it as she struggles to get free. The creatures drag Kim&#xA;into the fireplace, as a distraught Sally crushes the creature who&#xA;used to be Lord Blackwood to death with a large flashlight. Alex&#xA;arrives just as Kim disappears, and the father and daughter mourn&#xA;their loss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some time later, both return to the abandoned mansion to&#xA;leave a drawing of Kim there, but a gust of wind blows the drawing&#xA;into the creatures' lair, where the transformed Kim is heard&#xA;convincing the creatures to stay where they are and just go deeper&#xA;into the basement – for they will forget in time, and others will come&#xA;– claiming they have &amp;quot;all the time in the world&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Be_Afraid_of_the_Dark_%282011_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-14T15:28:10.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9236" CreationDate="2014-03-14T16:01:12.907" Score="0" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blackadder is always the schemer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Baldric is always his dumber counterpart&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blackadder is always subservient to another character - The King, The Prince, The Queen, The General, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The authority character always has a counterpart who more or less hates BlackAdder (Melchett, Darling, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And almost always:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Blackadder dies in the end&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8239" LastActivityDate="2014-03-14T16:01:12.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="17999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17983" CreationDate="2014-03-14T17:32:41.460" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want, you can make almost anything into an allegory to fit whatever your slant or agenda might be. &quot;Who framed Roger Rabbit?&quot; is no different. Here are a couple examples, showing widely different interpretations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Holocaust - The film appears to be set in the 1940's time frame, Judge Doom is equated to Hitler, robbing the &quot;Acme Bank House&quot; (Toon wealth) to fund his scheme is equated to robbing the Jews of valuable possessions, Italian stereotyped weasel henchmen represent Italy. And of course, the &quot;DIP&quot; equates to the extermination. It's a pretty well written correlation found on &lt;a href=&quot;http://metaphilm.com/index.php/detail/who_framed_roger_rabbit/&quot;&gt;Metaphilm&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Urban Planning - The film is regarded as an allegory for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy&quot;&gt;General Motors streetcar scandal&lt;/a&gt; in the 1936 to 1950 era, where GM created a specific unit to replace electric streetcars with motorcars. This is reinforced at the bottom of the wiki entry for &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Framed_Roger_Rabbit#Real_world_parallels&quot;&gt;Who Framed Roger Rabbit&lt;/a&gt;&quot; using references such as Judge Doom's company being called &quot;Cloverleaf&quot; industries, which is also a common reference to a freeway on/off ramp configuration. The transportation research board even did a presentation titled for the movie on the subject at their 1999 meeting, as referenced on wiki and &lt;a href=&quot;http://bcplanningblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/movies-about-planning-who-framed-roger_16.html&quot;&gt;this blog post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen this in literary interpretations as well, that many works can be interpreted in multiple ways, depending on the viewpoint of the reader/viewer. So yes, it probably can be interpreted as an allegory for alcoholism and recovery, but that may not necessarily be the intended purpose of the film originally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="6234" LastEditDate="2014-03-14T17:40:37.570" LastActivityDate="2014-03-14T17:40:37.570" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17915" CreationDate="2014-03-14T19:34:09.007" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love the deep answers, about Jokers background. But I don't think it's really that deep of a meaning. As any other character, in any other movie could say the same thing, and would make just as much sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone was injured/traumatized, physically and/or mentally, there's a good chance they'll be &quot;stranger&quot; after the incident, assuming they lived.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If someone had fallen off a building and broke both legs. They may now have a &quot;strange&quot; gait.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A burn victim, may look &quot;strange&quot;, as their skin is now stretched and grafted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone who's been abused, may later exhibit &quot;strange&quot; behavior. Such as PTSD, ticks, emulation of their abuser, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8556" LastActivityDate="2014-03-14T19:34:09.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7915" CreationDate="2014-03-14T20:16:06.023" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was clearly an attempt to scare Pentangilli and not kill him.  The cop walking in could have just been on his beat and noticed a darkened barroom when it should not have been.  (Cops on the beat in those days would routinely check on things like that.)  By failing to kill Michael originally Roth could now could turn Pentangilli against Michael by him being totally scared of Michael.  The words &quot;Michael Corleone says hello&quot; was intended to do just that.  Pentangilli had nothing to lose now to go in with Roth. Roth took the golden opportunity he had in Cuba to try to imply to Michael that Pentangilli was dead. (This is the business we've chosen) Roth now would get Michael in the Senate hearings by means of the velvet glove rather than the iron fist.  There was no guarantee that it would work but it was still an ingenious thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8557" LastActivityDate="2014-03-14T20:16:06.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18004" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18094" CreationDate="2014-03-14T21:06:25.273" Score="5" ViewCount="2453" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Synopsis:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a young girl who hides in the toilet of an airplane. When the airplane lands, we see that she becomes an old woman. At the end of the movie, there were airplanes coming from the past and I think they blast an atom bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Language:&lt;/strong&gt; English&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Country:&lt;/strong&gt; Most likely USA&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time-frame:&lt;/strong&gt; ~ last 10 years (watched in)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genre:&lt;/strong&gt; It seems like it is a kind of a time-travel movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not these movies:&lt;/strong&gt; Millennium, The Langoliers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8083" LastEditorUserId="7732" LastEditDate="2014-03-17T20:09:27.980" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T20:09:27.980" Title="Young girl becomes old in the toilet of an airplane" Tags="|science-fiction|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:02:26.347" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17544" CreationDate="2014-03-14T23:13:37.467" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's actually called: &quot;Shock Horror&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been credited to  Dick Walter: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0910011&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0910011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I stated in a comment that it had been used during wartime (BBC/ABC/NBC) as a danger signal, much as the first couple of bars of Beethoven 5th &quot;(morse code) V for victory&quot; music however this was mistaken. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4550" LastEditorUserId="4550" LastEditDate="2014-04-19T23:26:35.093" LastActivityDate="2014-04-19T23:26:35.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18007" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18017" CreationDate="2014-03-15T00:20:26.860" Score="16" ViewCount="64399" Body="&lt;p&gt;Various sources say that John Travolta and Uma Thurman's dance sequence is &quot;now-famous&quot; and &quot;iconic,&quot; some compare it to how Travolta danced earlier in movies like Grease and Saturday Night Fever. But what is it exactly about this scene that makes it iconic and noteworthy compared to other scenes in the film? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8562" LastEditorUserId="8562" LastEditDate="2019-07-07T00:04:00.337" LastActivityDate="2019-07-07T00:04:00.337" Title="What makes the dance sequence from Pulp Fiction so iconic?" Tags="|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18008" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18068" CreationDate="2014-03-15T03:31:44.057" Score="6" ViewCount="1972" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last episode of season 2 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856010/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, President Walker goes to Camp David amidst the looming fate of impeachment. By then, Frank Underwood and him already have a fallout, and the President refuses to speak to Frank directly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frank writes a &quot;heart-felt&quot; letter to the President, and the President immediately changes his mind on Frank, and that proves to be the final nail in the coffin. How can a President of the United States of America, the most powerful man in the free world, the one who rose to the top despite the treacherous DC politics, the one who just had an epiphany about who Frank really is one episode ago-- Frank is just manipulating everyone including the president to serve his own lust for power, can change his mind so suddenly? It seems to me President Walker is so gullible that he definitely deserves to fall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, I can't believe that any barely competent politician can be &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; gullible, let alone a battle-harden President. Any explanation on why this President is so easily being manipulated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, I know he has to be this gullible for Frank to make it to the top in the shortest time possible, but the whole plot is simply unrealistic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3502" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-07T20:05:16.017" LastActivityDate="2014-10-19T13:37:48.773" Title="Why is President Walker so gullible?" Tags="|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18016" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-15T08:26:54.740" Score="3" ViewCount="4334" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1253863/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;300 Rise of an Empire&lt;/a&gt;, what do the sea serpents represent? Are they meant to symbolize something or is it a random piece from mythology? If they are meant to be from greek mythology, what are these particular sea serpents called?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8567" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2023-12-17T13:02:00.940" LastActivityDate="2023-12-17T13:02:22.667" Title="What do the sea serpents represent?" Tags="|analysis|300-rise-of-an-empire|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18007" CreationDate="2014-03-15T10:56:23.893" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll attempt an answer to this question, but I warn you in advance that you're not going to get any single reason. The question isn't really answerable in that way and as such is only open to subjective reasoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first thing to note is that the scene was always meant to be in the movie, regardless of John Travolta's casting (as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; shows):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many have assumed that the dance sequence at Jack Rabbit Slim's was&#xA;intended as a reference to Travolta's star-making performance as Tony&#xA;Manero in the epochal Saturday Night Fever (1977); Tarantino, however,&#xA;credits a scene in the Jean-Luc Godard film Bande à part (1964) with&#xA;the inspiration. According to the filmmaker,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Everybody thinks that I wrote this scene just to have John Travolta&#xA;dancing. But the scene existed before John Travolta was cast. But once&#xA;he was cast, it was like, &amp;quot;Great. We get to see John dance. All the&#xA;better.&amp;quot;... My favorite musical sequences have always been in Godard,&#xA;because they just come out of nowhere. It's so infectious, so&#xA;friendly. And the fact that it's not a musical, but he's stopping the&#xA;movie to have a musical sequence, makes it all the more sweet.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tarantino's comments show what he was aiming to achieve. A fun, friendly and infectious dance scene that comes out of nowhere. That's exactly what he achieved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One minute we're watching these tough gangsters mixed up with drugs like cocaine and heroin and then all of a sudden - dancing! Out of nowhere. On top of that, their type of dancing is very peculiar. Their bodies appear to get more and more into the routine, whilst their faces (and Uma Thurman's in particular) remain so expressionless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That alone makes the scene both enticing and appealing, as it immediately stands out as being &amp;quot;out of place&amp;quot; in the film (and therefore memorable).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the fact Travolta is in the scene, especially given his performances in Saturday Night Fever, make it even more special. Quoting again from the above article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jerome Charyn argues that, beyond &amp;quot;all the better&amp;quot;, Travolta's&#xA;presence is essential to the power of the scene, and of the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Travolta's entire career becomes &amp;quot;backstory&amp;quot;, the myth of a movie star&#xA;who has fallen out of favor, but still resides in our memory as the&#xA;king of disco. We keep waiting for him to shed his paunch, put on a&#xA;white polyester suit, and enter the 2001 Odyssey club in Bay Ridge,&#xA;Brooklyn, where he will dance for us and never, never stop. Daniel&#xA;Day-Lewis couldn't have woken such a powerful longing in us. He isn't&#xA;part of America's own mad cosmology.... Tony Manero [is] an angel&#xA;sitting on Vince's shoulder.... [Vince and Mia's] actual dance may be&#xA;closer to the choreography of Anna Karina's shuffle with her two&#xA;bumbling gangster boyfriends in Bande à part, but even that reference&#xA;is lost to us, and we're with Tony again....&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly from the above article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Estella Tincknell notes that while the &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;diner setting seems to be a&#xA;simulacrum of a 'fifties' restaurant...the twist contest is a musical&#xA;sequence which evokes 'the sixties,' while Travolta's dance&#xA;performance inevitably references 'the seventies' and his appearance&#xA;in Saturday Night Fever.... The 'past' thus becomes a more general&#xA;'pastness' in which the stylistic signifiers of various decades are&#xA;loaded in to a single moment.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; She also argues that in this&#xA;passage the film &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;briefly shifts from its habitually ironic discourse&#xA;to one that references the conventions of the classic film musical and&#xA;in doing so makes it possible for the film to inhabit an affective&#xA;space that goes beyond stylistic allusion.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time Magazine listed the dance as one of their &lt;a href=&quot;http://entertainment.time.com/2010/12/03/top-10-movie-dance-scenes/slide/the-twist-in-pulp-fiction/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;top 10 movie dance scenes ever&lt;/a&gt;, saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already knew John Travolta could dance. He discoed and hand-jived&#xA;his way to stardom in Saturday Night Fever and Grease. But in the&#xA;1980s Travolta’s career fizzled and we sort of forgot about him&#xA;because — let’s be honest, here — we have pretty short attention&#xA;spans. But in 1994, Travolta made his comeback in Quentin Tarantino’s&#xA;stylized crime film Pulp Fiction. His smooth, understated twists to&#xA;Chuck Berry’s “You Never Can Tell” were so cool, we hardly noticed his&#xA;weight gain and thinning hair. If we were coked up Uma Thurman, we’d&#xA;let our Mob-boss boyfriend set us up with John Travolta any day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you can see a recurring pattern in all the comments. It appears to be the fact that the scene is so unusual and different from the rest of the movie, making it instantly memorable, coupled with the fact it was a revival of sorts for John Travolta, reminding the world of his dancing talents and evoking memories of his earlier role in Saturday Night Fever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-15T10:56:23.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18018" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-15T11:15:15.453" Score="1" ViewCount="7231" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105323/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scent of a Woman&lt;/a&gt;, there is a scene where Colonel Slade is preparing for his suicide and has a conversation with Charlie. He asks this question: &quot;Should I adopt you or shoot you?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is he adopting? Charlie's conscious?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8536" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2017-03-19T09:05:19.487" LastActivityDate="2017-06-01T16:49:00.527" Title="What does Colonel Slade mean when he asks: &quot;Should I adopt you or shoot you?&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|scent-of-a-woman|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18018" CreationDate="2014-03-15T11:48:54.297" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to look at the entire conversation to understand it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Charlie comes back to the room to see Frank putting on his uniform]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Lt. Col. Frank Slade&lt;/strong&gt;: You're back too fast. You didn't get my cigars,&#xA;  did you? Get outta here, Charlie.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [loads the .45]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Charlie Simms&lt;/strong&gt;: I&#xA;  thought we had a deal.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Lt. Col. Frank Slade&lt;/strong&gt;: I welched. I'm a welcher.&#xA;  Didn't I tell you?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Charlie Simms&lt;/strong&gt;: No, what you told me was, that you&#xA;  gave me all the bullets.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Lt. Col. Frank Slade&lt;/strong&gt;: I lied.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Charlie Simms&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;  Yeah, well you could've fooled me.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Lt. Col. Frank Slade&lt;/strong&gt;: And I did.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [pause]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Lt. Col. Frank Slade&lt;/strong&gt;: Charlie, how you ever gonna survive in&#xA;  this world without me?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Charlie Simms&lt;/strong&gt;: Colonel, why don't you just give&#xA;  me the gun, all right?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [Frank picks up the gun and points it at&#xA;  Charlie]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Charlie Simms:&lt;/strong&gt; What are you doing?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Lt. Col. Frank Slade&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm&#xA;  gonna shoot you, too. Your life's finished anyway. Your friend George&#xA;  is gonna sing like a canary. And so are you. And once you've sung,&#xA;  Charlie, my boy, you're gonna take your place on that long, grey line&#xA;  of American manhood. And then you will be through.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Charlie Simms&lt;/strong&gt;: I'd&#xA;  hate to disagree with you, Colonel.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Lt. Col. Frank Slade&lt;/strong&gt;: You're in no&#xA;  position to disagree with me, boy. I got a loaded .45 here. You got&#xA;  pimples. I'm gonna kill you, Charlie, cause I can't bear the thought&#xA;  of you SELLIN' OUT!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Charlie Simms&lt;/strong&gt;: [now firm] Put the gun down, all&#xA;  right, Colonel?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Lt. Col. Frank Slade&lt;/strong&gt;: What? You givin' me an&#xA;  ultimatum?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Charlie Simms&lt;/strong&gt;: No, I'm... Lt. Col.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Frank Slade&lt;/strong&gt;: I give the&#xA;  ultimatums!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Charlie Simms&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm sorry. All right I'm sorry.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Lt. Col. Frank Slade&lt;/strong&gt;: It's all right, Charlie. You break my heart, son. All my&#xA;  life I've stood up to everyone and everything, because it made me feel&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;important&lt;/em&gt;. You do it... because you mean it. You've got integrity, Charlie. I don't know whether to shoot you or adopt ya.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Charlie Simms&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;  Not much of a choice, is it, sir?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Lt. Col. Frank Slade&lt;/strong&gt;: Oh, don't get&#xA;  cute now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we know, Frank Slade is a short tempered alcoholic, whose is also blind and medically retired. He's not happy. He's on one last trip to enjoy himself, before killing himself. Charlie meets him by taking a temporary job to look after him to earn some money. Charlie is only a student, compared to the old, retired man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one of these stories about understanding the good of life and how every day can bring hope and a new adventure. Charlie is so naivé in the world, so good inside compared to the bitter, cynical nature of Slade. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Charlie &lt;em&gt;realises&lt;/em&gt; Slade is going to kill himself and rushes back to the hotel to save him. Charlie states how he really was fooled and thought Slade had gotten rid of the bullets from the gun. Slade can't believe how young and foolish he can be (which is why he asks him how he'll survive without him).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Slade says he'll shoot him, he refers to the fact he and George are going to &quot;sing like a canary&quot;. If you remember, this is a reference to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scent_of_a_Woman_%281992_film%29&quot;&gt;start of the film&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Charlie and George Willis, Jr., another student at the preparatory&#xA;  school, witness several students setting up a prank for the school's&#xA;  headmaster, Mr. Trask. Following the prank, Trask presses Charlie and&#xA;  George to divulge the names of the perpetrators. Trask offers Charlie&#xA;  a bribe, a letter of recommendation that would virtually guarantee his&#xA;  acceptance to Harvard. Charlie continues to remain silent but appears&#xA;  conflicted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Slade is effectively telling him that once he accepts the bribe, he's going to be like everybody else. Nothing special, nothing good. Ruined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Charlie tries to be firm with him to turn the situation around and when &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; only appears to aggravate the situation, he apologises - despite being the one with a gun pointed at him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's at this moment Slade mentions the line you quoted. What he means is that he respects Charlie a lot. Part of Charlie frustrates him beyond belief - the naivé little boy who can be fooled so easily (&quot;whether to shoot you&quot;), and another part of him respects this incredible kid, who'll stand up for what he believes for no reason other than because he feels he has to (&quot;adopt you&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's showing his conflicting emotions, that's all. Part of him is frustrated, but a larger part (which we see in the remainder of the movie) is moved by Charlie's integrity and strength of character - so much so, that Slade unexpectedly passionately defends him at the disciplinary committee and appears at the end of the film to turn his own life around based on his experiences with Charlie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-15T11:48:54.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1732" CreationDate="2014-03-15T14:20:51.690" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is more about &lt;code&gt;feelings vs expressions&lt;/code&gt;, when it comes to compare movies and tv-shows with written media.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine this scenario:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alice and Emma meets. Alice told something to Emma, which makes Emma sad first, then makes her smile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, imagine how can you write this down in a book? Expressions are hard to tell in written media so you can display his feelings by writing down his facial expressions. It is easier to tell her feelings and powered them with &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; expressions like &lt;em&gt;then she smiles&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in a movie, it is better to use facial expressions and body language. Emma suddenly sulks, then her lips begins to move slowly and ends up in a crooked smile. It is not good to use an &lt;em&gt;outer voice&lt;/em&gt; to tell what she thinks while she can use expressions to express it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/em&gt; have a similar situation in here. First book is full of flashbacks which tells the story of Katniss and Peeta. Adapting this to a movie is not easy and logical. That causes to switch point of view which the story is told. Because books are all about Katniss and people or events around her. If you rip the parts that are hard to adept to the movie, what you had at hand is not enough to make a good movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the book offers some action scenes, but not too much. But movie fans expects the movie to have more action scenes, because &lt;strong&gt;expressions are easier to use than feelings in a movie&lt;/strong&gt;. That also causes explains some changed events: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the book, muttas have the faces of deceased competitors who died in the 74.th games, including Rue. That causes Katniss not to use her weapons since they are ones who died  in the previous days or killed by her.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the movie, they are muttas with doggy faces, and Katniss uses her bow to hunt them as much as she can do. &lt;em&gt;She do not have any feeling that stopped her from firing her bow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-03-15T14:20:51.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18007" CreationDate="2014-03-15T15:45:06.733" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a cinema goers point of view (not filmmakers/magazines etc)-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember at the time Travolta was a washed up actor and Tarantino totally revived his career. &#xA;As Pulp Fiction became a worldwide success Travolta got an oscar nomination. Here's a very talented man who has finally got back to where he deserves to be by giving a great performance in a great movie. &#xA;Subconsciously the dance scene had become more than 2 people dancing to a song. It had become Travoltas celebration dance, that he's back near the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my penneth worth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8160" LastActivityDate="2014-03-15T15:45:06.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3915" CreationDate="2014-03-15T16:22:49.307" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yippie ki yay is an exclamation of joy that was popularly used by US cowboys in the mid 19th century&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8571" LastActivityDate="2014-03-15T16:22:49.307" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18007" CreationDate="2014-03-15T16:34:04.343" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As said in other answers, this question is hard to answer because it's open to subjective reasoning. I'm still going to try :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene is about constrast, as are lots of scenes in the movie. The whole story goes back and forth from very violent situations to very common day to day stuff. For example the conversation about fast food in foreign countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dance scene is particularly quirky on various levels. All of a sudden, these two people stop a gangster reunion to hit the dance floor and twist together. They do this as normally as they take hard drugs and kill people. Hence the quirkiness. In addition, the fact that Travolta is in this scene (even though the scene was written before he was casted for the role, as said by Andrew Martin on his answer) adds more quirkiness, as he is famous for impressive dancing skills, and is seen here simply twisting casually, without any particularly impressive moves whatsoever. He's just a ganster being cool having a not-feverish saturday night fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the success of the movie seems to be due to it's quirkiness, and this scene is particularly unexpected, it is a powerful sample of Pulp Fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8570" LastActivityDate="2014-03-15T16:34:04.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3915" CreationDate="2014-03-15T19:00:02.827" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;An article on &lt;a href=&quot;https://theweek.com/article/index/247022/a-brief-history-of-yippee-ki-yay&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Week.com&lt;/a&gt; broke down each part of the phrase:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...But where does the yippee-ki-yay part come from?...Let's break it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The yip part of yippee is old. It originated in the 15th century and&#xA;meant &amp;quot;to cheep, as a young bird,&amp;quot; according to the Oxford English&#xA;Dictionary (OED). The more well-known meaning, to emit a high-pitched&#xA;bark, came about around 1907, as per the OED, and gained the&#xA;figurative meaning &amp;quot;to shout; to complain.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yip is imitative in origin but probably also influenced by the 16th&#xA;century yelp, which has an even older meaning of &amp;quot;boasting,&#xA;vainglorious speaking.&amp;quot; Yawp is even older, coming about in the 14th&#xA;century, but now is primarily associated with Walt Whitman's late 19th&#xA;century &amp;quot;barbaric yawp.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The yips are &amp;quot;nervousness or tension that causes an athlete to fail to&#xA;perform effectively, especially in missing short putts in golf.&amp;quot; As we&#xA;mentioned in a Word Soup column back in November, some sources,&#xA;including the OED, cite the first known use of the yips as 1962.&#xA;However, we found a citation from 1941: &amp;quot;The match consumed three&#xA;hours and thirty minutes, most of it because Cobb, the tingling-nerved&#xA;old baseball Tiger, got the 'yips' on many greens and would step back&#xA;and line up his putts several times per putt.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yippee came about after yip. The earliest record of this exclamation&#xA;of delight is from 1920 in Sinclair Lewis's novel, Main Street: &amp;quot;She&#xA;galloped down a block and as she jumped from a curb across a welter of&#xA;slush, she gave a student 'Yippee!'&amp;quot; Yippee beans, by the way, are&#xA;amphetamines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yippie with an -ie refers to &amp;quot;a member of a group of politically&#xA;radical hippies, active especially during the late 1960s.&amp;quot; The word,&#xA;which originated in 1968, stands for Youth International Party and was&#xA;modeled after hippie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now how about the whole phrase, yippee-ki-yay? It seems to be a play&#xA;on &amp;quot;yippie yi yo kayah,&amp;quot; a refrain from a 1930s Bing Crosby song, &amp;quot;I'm&#xA;An Old Cowhand.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do cowboys really say this? We're guessing probably not, unless of&#xA;course they're single-handedly (and shoelessly) defeating a gang of&#xA;bank robbers on Christmas Eve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that's some explanation as to its origin. It's worth pointing out though that Bruce Willis had this to say (in an &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ryanseacrest.com/2013/02/14/bruce-willis-reveals-how-die-hard-quote-yippee-ki-yay-originated/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview with Ryan Seacrest&lt;/a&gt;) about the phrase:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On The Famous “Die Hard” Line Yippee-Ki-Yay…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“It was a throwaway. I&#xA;was just trying to crack up the crew and I never thought it was going&#xA;to be allowed to stay in the film.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2019-06-30T17:39:47.177" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12809" CreationDate="2014-03-15T19:36:17.987" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes he does, he heals the original claws back, and you see the silver samurai weeken and turned old again, implying that logan has his powers of regeneration back&#xA;In the new movie, he's a boss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8573" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-03-15T22:24:54.357" LastActivityDate="2014-03-15T22:24:54.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17402" CreationDate="2014-03-15T19:46:58.770" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disappointingly there doesn't appear to be an interview anywhere that confirms or denies  this. The nearest I've seen is an &lt;a href=&quot;http://grahammctavisharmy.tumblr.com/DwalinFAQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with Graham McTavish (Dwalin) which discussed &lt;em&gt;whose&lt;/em&gt; idea it was (not &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Whose idea was to greet Balin with a headbutt?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I’m afraid that was&#xA;me!…..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;That’s the only way you have to communicate with people?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Sometimes a handshake just takes way too long!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Did you actually&#xA;headbutt Ken Stott when filming the scene at Bag End?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If I did he took&#xA;it very well!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, it appears most unofficial forums have gone with your theory and accepted it is an homage to Viggo Mortensen and his antics in the Lord of the Rings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't normally quote from blogs, as opposed to wiki or film/tv website articles, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://wtfoosh.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/test-article.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this particular blog&lt;/a&gt; has a rather nice description of a possible reason for the headbutt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DWALIN AND BALIN’S HEADBUTT - A neat moment which fits in with the&#xA;proud, machismo nature of dwarven culture but also instantly reminds&#xA;one of the behind-the-scenes footage from Lord of the Rings where it&#xA;became something of a ritual between some of the cast (particularly&#xA;Viggo Mortensen, Bernard Hill and Orlando Bloom) to perform a headbutt&#xA;with the stunt teams as a mark of honour and respect. There are some&#xA;great stories of how Mortensen went around the entire stunt team at&#xA;the end of his principal photography for Rings and gave every single&#xA;one of them a hit such as this. It became such a talking point and fan&#xA;favourite by the time Return of the King was released (with the cast&#xA;even doing it at premieres and the like) that it’s difficult to not&#xA;imagine Jackson and team being reminded of and inspired by this when&#xA;coming up with moments of camaraderie and the like to show the bond&#xA;between the dwarves, particularly these brothers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other fan sites, in particular the &lt;a href=&quot;http://newboards.theonering.net/forum/gforum/perl/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_printable;post=570368;guest=74158736&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;One Ring Forums&lt;/a&gt; (an unofficial Tolkien fan club forum) have countless threads discussing the movie, many of which reference the headbutt and acknowledge it as a homage to Viggo, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The head-butt greeting Balin and Dwalin share is an homage to Viggo&#xA;Mortensen who would greet his friends by saying something endearing&#xA;and then slam them in the forehead with his own (talks about in eedvd&#xA;commentaries). White light! White light!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's certainly possible that Peter Jackson had the idea to bring this silly bit of fun into the Hobbit films, but it appears the idea itself came from Graham McTavish. Whether or not he intended to be a homage, or just a fun thing to do, is unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, you might like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.empireonline.com/features/hobbit-trailer-breakdown/p5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Empire Online's&lt;/a&gt; tongue-in-cheek reasoning behind the headbutt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book, these two are the first to arrive at Bilbo’s house&#xA;(Dwalin, then Balin separately). Here, they greet each other with a&#xA;head-butt, leading us to instantly assume they’re Glaswegian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-15T19:46:58.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15278" CreationDate="2014-03-15T19:58:27.073" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my language (Italian, which is probably the closest to Latin) Malekith sounds like evil, and there is no other possible meaning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example: in the old TV series &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters_%281986_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ghostbusters&lt;/a&gt;, the villain Prime Evil has been translated as Malefix, which sounds very similar to Malekith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8575" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-15T20:03:08.270" LastActivityDate="2014-03-15T20:03:08.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17915" CreationDate="2014-03-15T21:18:49.840" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This line is obviously a play on Nietzsche's, but it also implies that he's just someone normal but who has lived some very unusual, traumatic events (this is backed by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gothamalleys.blogspot.fr/2011/08/jokers-origins-multiple-choice.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alan Moore's backstory of th Joker&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's implying that anyone can be like him, he's just anyone. Just like Batman, and is thus making a direct connection between them, implying that they're just the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This idea was also used in Batman Asylum game with the mythical image of Cain and Abel and the end of the game when Batman is carrying the dead body of his &quot;brother&quot; Joker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8577" LastActivityDate="2014-03-15T21:18:49.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18053" CreationDate="2014-03-15T21:20:16.893" Score="5" ViewCount="1659" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to remember a movie from Germany. The plot was something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Young girl lives with her parents in a poor country (I think it was Romania)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Father is abusive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One night, mother and daughter try to get away with the family's horse-drawn carriage&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Father finds them and beats mother to death in anger&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The daughter has to watch the scene and gets mute due to the shock&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Later in the movie a German buys the daughter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She starts to paint but still doesn't speak&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She instead always writes letters and gives them to the postman&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;German man thinks at first she has an affair with the postman but learns that she is writing letters to her dead mother and the postman brings them to her grave (what is some kind of underground cave with many pictures of the mother and candles and stuff)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't remember much from the ending but I think the man buys a house with an artist's workshop for the girl and one day she falls in love with him and starts to talk again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know a movie like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: I just remembered the end! They want to marry but then discover that the girl has terminal cancer. She dies of a brain tumor right before the wedding.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8578" LastEditorUserId="8578" LastEditDate="2014-03-15T22:00:01.080" LastActivityDate="2014-03-16T08:12:35.623" Title="German movie about a young mute woman that begins to paint" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:02:35.710" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12545" CreationDate="2014-03-15T21:39:33.293" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have two questions here. Is there a bugle in the office and, if so, what does it symbolise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So firstly, what is a bugle? As per &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;?:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The bugle is one of the simplest brass instruments, having no valves&#xA;  or other pitch-altering devices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the picture from Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/grBPX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bugle&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now we at least know what we're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer the first question, a quick speedrun of the film reveals that there &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; a bugle on Perry White's bookcase. I have included a screen below (taken at 43:21 in the film) with a box around the bugle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0RdW1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Picture of Bugle&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there appears to be no way to definitively answer the second question. I would argue it is &lt;em&gt;extremely likely&lt;/em&gt; it is a homage to Marvel Comics, but I've found no interviews with either cast or film maker to corroborate this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it's a reference to Spiderman but, for now, I think it's largely a case of decide for yourself what you think it symbolises (if anything). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-15T21:39:33.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10351" CreationDate="2014-03-15T22:57:04.773" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nemo was { psychic } he was never touched by an angel on the lip . At the end he tells the reporter that they were both creation in a nine year old boy's mind .  The older version does not exist he is a projection of a projection of the only path that survived to be that age in this life. Everything in the movie at the point of the train-station is in Nemo's mind - I know this sounds crazy but Nemo was never born. In fact that's why it's called Mr. Nobody - He was still in deciding phase of picking a family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8582" LastActivityDate="2014-03-15T22:57:04.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15180" CreationDate="2014-03-15T23:21:55.947" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While &lt;em&gt;Andrew&lt;/em&gt; is quite spot on in his description of &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; of them being &lt;em&gt;Escape Artists&lt;/em&gt; at different points in the series (seeing their individual escapes from conviction as his answer and your question point out), I would see it from a different perspective. I would say that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Will&lt;/em&gt; in his role as a barrister is the true &lt;em&gt;Escape Artist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. If the series shows us &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; thing with all these different cases, it's that there is always a way for a clever barrister to bend the law to his needs and help a criminal escape from conviction, no matter how pressing the evidence is. So not only the escaping criminals are &lt;em&gt;Escape Artists&lt;/em&gt;, but even more so the lawyers that effectively facilitate their escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is first emphasized in the dialogue near the beginning of Episode 1, when &lt;em&gt;Will&lt;/em&gt; is unwillingly handed over the files about &lt;em&gt;Foyle&lt;/em&gt;'s case and his boss comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can't say I blame them. If I was in their client's shoes I'd want&#xA;  your record on my side. If you are chained up in a safe at the bottom&#xA;  of a shark tank, you don't call for Paul Daniels...&lt;strong&gt;you call for&#xA;  Houdini.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comparing &lt;em&gt;Will&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Houdini&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and thus &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; ultimate &lt;em&gt;Escape Artist&lt;/em&gt;, required to save the effectively doomed &lt;em&gt;Foyle&lt;/em&gt; (seeing the pressing evidence against him). And it is this role as &lt;em&gt;Escape Artist&lt;/em&gt; that finally takes its (at first moral, and later sadly real) toll from his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also to some degree reinforced by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/escapeartist/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;BBC&lt;/em&gt;'s introduction of the show&lt;/a&gt; saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;David Tennant plays Will Burton, a talented junior barrister who&#xA;  specialises in spiriting people out of tight legal corners, &lt;strong&gt;hence his&#xA;  nickname of 'The Escape Artist'.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Together with &lt;em&gt;Andrew&lt;/em&gt;'s answer &lt;em&gt;Will&lt;/em&gt; could even be seen as &lt;em&gt;Escape Artist&lt;/em&gt; in multiple ways, especially in his last case, where he is accused &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; defender in unison.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-19T13:24:02.473" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T13:24:02.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18034" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18035" CreationDate="2014-03-15T23:34:18.850" Score="5" ViewCount="3006" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Thor first boards SHIELD's ship in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, he explains about the Chitauri and how they are going to come to win the earth over for Loki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did he know about all this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8583" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T08:35:21.943" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T08:35:21.943" Title="How did Thor know about the Chitauri and Lokis plan?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18034" CreationDate="2014-03-15T23:51:29.140" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are looking for: &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/Thor%3a_The_Dark_World_Prelude&quot;&gt;Thor: The Dark World Prelude&lt;/a&gt;. It is a comic book set documenting the events after &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800369/&quot;&gt;Thor&lt;/a&gt;, leading up to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/&quot;&gt;The Avengers&lt;/a&gt;, then bridging the gap to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1981115/&quot;&gt;Thor: The Dark World&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote from the Wikipedia article (the first link) describing the comic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;...One year [after the events of Thor], with The Realm Eternal still in repair mode.&#xA;  Everyone has pressing concerns about looming conflicts with the&#xA;  Trolls, Marauders, Badoon and Ice Giants and have seemingly forgotten&#xA;  about Loki, having written him off for dead. Except for his mother&#xA;  Frigga who uses her powers to locate her foster-son in Chituari space&#xA;  with Thanos, The Other and their army. It's Frigga who alerts Odin and&#xA;  Thor to Loki's plan regarding the Tesseract...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Thor knew about the plan through his mother, who had located her son Loki and understood, given his location, what his plans were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-16T00:15:49.907" LastActivityDate="2014-03-16T00:15:49.907" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11495" CreationDate="2014-03-16T00:21:47.270" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;So the keleven, as you say, was used by Kevin to balance the books:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oscar: [on the phone] Years ago, the senator promised a left turn lane&#xA;by the Arby’s. So I wanna know where in the name of horsey sauce is&#xA;it? Well, yeah, you…hold on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dakota: Hi. I keep seeing this symbol in&#xA;the accounts from last year. It’s..it’s all over the place. I don’t&#xA;know what it means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oscar: That’s the reason Kevin got fired. It’s&#xA;his magic number. He used to use it to balance his accounts. He used&#xA;to call it a Keleven. He told Dwight, [imitating Kevin] “A mistake&#xA;plus Keleven gets you home by seven.” He was home by 4:45 that day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from these words and despite extensive googling, there is absolutely no reference anywhere to what the symbol might actually &lt;em&gt;look like&lt;/em&gt;. I even went through a combination of different searches on google images and instagram, but came up empty handed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I'm going to say &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;, we have no way of knowing what the symbol looks like as the producers of the show have never attempted to release it (and have likely never even created it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-16T00:21:47.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10317" CreationDate="2014-03-16T00:35:16.057" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There doesn't appear to be any real reason for this, other than the fact it helps the story along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hutter doesn't know who Orlok is. When eating dinner at Orlok's mansion, he cuts his thumb and is nearly devoured by Orlok who wants his blood. He then wakes up the following morning with two puncture wounds in his neck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given Orlok easily kills many people later in the same way, the only logical explanation is that, for whatever reason, he wanted to keep Hutter alive - whether permanently or temporarily, we don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect this wasn't given too much thought when creating the movie, as it proved to be a useful plot device building the audience up to understand the terrible truth of who Count Orlok &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-16T00:35:16.057" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18039" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18044" CreationDate="2014-03-16T01:00:26.160" Score="2" ViewCount="936" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watch &quot;The Following&quot; for a while and I never got why people follow him. His followers do everything to ensure his wishes are granted and he is not very kind with them, although he wants to seem like a safe harbor. He is very selfish and doesn't seem to care to anyone, but he has a lot of people willingly to do everything only because he said so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the reason behind the &quot;cult&quot; of Joe Carroll? What does he have that the &quot;normal&quot; society can't provide? I could say that is because our society rejects killers, but some of his followers only develop a &quot;killer instinct&quot; after being on his cult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8584" LastActivityDate="2014-03-16T01:54:23.497" Title="Why everyone follows Joe Carroll on &quot;The Following&quot;?" Tags="|the-following|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18040" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18063" CreationDate="2014-03-16T01:14:21.730" Score="9" ViewCount="22591" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just discovered the anime &lt;strong&gt;Genocyber&lt;/strong&gt;. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocyber#Controversy&quot;&gt;Wikipedia &lt;/a&gt; states that it &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;breaks the unwritten rule that you never show a child getting&#xA;  seriously injured or killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I was wondering if this rule applies to normal movies as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I would like to know some background on this topic. Was there some controversial movie that led to this &lt;em&gt;unwritten&lt;/em&gt; rule? Which movies broke this rule and created controversy? Is this rule still unwritten or part of an ethical code in the movie making business?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I just remembered the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1273235/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Serbian Film&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which features abuse on children. So I conclude that this &quot;rule&quot; gets broken outside of Hollywood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spoiler:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; It features a child beeing raped by his father and rape of a newborn baby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-16T16:57:34.117" LastActivityDate="2018-07-11T04:36:29.240" Title="Unwritten rule that you never show a child getting seriously injured or killed?" Tags="|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18042" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-16T01:38:12.047" Score="3" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096928/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bill &amp;amp; Ted's Excellent Adventure&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; toward the end of the film, the guys are trying to break the &quot;historical figures&quot; out of jail. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They decide to steal Ted's dad's keys by waiting until after their report, going back in time to when his father still had his keys and then steal them from him, then place them behind the sign outside of the police station for themselves to find later. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can they wait until after the report to do this when they need the &quot;historical figures&quot; for their report in the first place? Unless they intend to just wait for the report to be over, fail it, and go back in time to fix the issue, but that doesn't seem very logical. If they were going to do that, why not just go back in time right then? Why wait until after the report is done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do understand that this is, more-or-less, a set up to show the viewer that the guys future selves had already been through all of this, and that they had already set everything up that they'd need done, (the guys finding the keys already behind the sign, the trash can falling on Ted's father's head, the recording in the police station, etc.) but it's still not very logical to me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not trashing the movie, either. I love it. It's just a legitimate question. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-03-16T23:23:07.867" LastActivityDate="2014-03-16T23:23:07.867" Title="Why did they wait until after the report?" Tags="|plot-explanation|bill-and-teds-excellent-adventure|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18042" CreationDate="2014-03-16T01:49:43.420" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No version of Bill and Ted ever failed the report. This is an example of a causal loop. In time travel fiction where there's only one timeline, events in the future can be the cause of effects in the past.  This violates our usual expectation, where cause precedes effect. Time travel here enables effect to precede cause, which feels intuitively impossible, but is a simple jaunt through time away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, the events of the film play out as you see them. After the report is completed, Bill and Ted no longer have the time pressure to accomplish everything before running out of time in the present, which kept marching forward as they collected the historical figures, brought them to the present, then lost them to the police, and then broke them out in time for the report.  This future Bill and Ted then go back, and set the various things in place that their past selves needed help with, but didn't have time to pull off in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2014-03-16T01:49:43.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18039" CreationDate="2014-03-16T01:54:23.497" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although you've tagged this question about &lt;strong&gt;The Following&lt;/strong&gt;, the truth is that this is a much, much broader question which is far more interested in the psychological reasoning behind people joining cults and their blind dedication and loyalty to their leaders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried to focus on that aspect of the question and to aid in answering it have researched a few online articles. Given the severity of the topic, I've also tried to only use articles from reputable(ish!) sources. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is by no means a definitive answer and I do believe your question is so broad that it will be difficult to get anything like a single, definitive, objective answer. Additionally, there are so many resources available to answer the question, that it is hard to not automatically be drawn towards though which support your opinion (which is what happened to me in my answer below):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So first things first, what is a cult? From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/cult&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Oxford Dictionaries&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A system of religious veneration and devotion directed towards a&#xA;  particular figure or object.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An alternative, and more expansive, definiton is given by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cultinformation.org.uk/pdf/article_1.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cult Information Centre&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Cult Information Centre (CIC) defines a cult as a group having all&#xA;  of the following five characteristics:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  1. It uses psychological coercion to recruit and indoctrinate potential members.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  2. It forms an elitist totalitarian society.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  3. Its founder leader is self-appointed, dogmatic, messianic, not accountable and has charisma.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  4. It believes 'the end justifies the means' in order to solicit funds or recruit people.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  5. Its wealth does not benefit its members or society.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your example, that particular cult is focussed on devotion to Joe Carroll and your next obvious question was &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jaapl.org/content/23/2/239.full.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Feldman and Johnson&lt;/a&gt; [1995] describe some possible reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Members of cults are recruited and controlled by means of what&#xA;  Hochman  describes as the concepts of &quot;miracle,  mystery, and&#xA;  authority.&quot; Miracle refers to  an ideology that ascribes special&#xA;  powers  to the leaders and to the group's activities.  Mystery serves&#xA;  to obscure the actual be-  liefs and goals of the group, such as &#xA;  power and control, and creates an atmos-  phere of awe. Authority&#xA;  reflects the  claims on members' time, talents, lives,  and/or&#xA;  property to meet the needs of the  group. Through these concepts the&#xA;  cult  establishes dominance over individual  members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This follows to a degree what &lt;a href=&quot;http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Maslow/motivation.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Abraham Maslow&lt;/a&gt; [1943] proposed in his now iconic &quot;hierarchy of needs&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1psD0.png&quot; alt=&quot;Maslow&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He argued every person has fundamental needs (represented at the bottom of the pyramid) along with other needs such as the need for self actualisation. Maslow believed that the most basic level of needs had to be met before the person would strongly desire the higher needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, using the diagram, he argued that people would fight for basic amenities like food, water and shelter, before longing for safety and security, before longing for love and companionship, before longing for the respect of others and a development of confidence, before longing for real personal enlightenment and development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using this structure along with the reasons provided by Feldman and Johnson, it's easy to see why people can be attracted to cults. People are given a false sense of safety, love and bbelonging. This false sense brings with it a fake sense of esteem. It then leads members to a form of self-actualisation, which can never succeed since they are trapped by the previous layers of the pyramid being created on false truths. Only when they break free of this can they truly develop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;The Following&lt;/strong&gt;, Joe Carroll met his followers in prison. He had years (nine I think) to slowly convert them to his way of thinking. They were all intrigued with him and he used this to corrupt them and offer them a sense of belonging that they felt they couldn't find anywhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think this, coupled with the rest of the articles, provide some indication as to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;&#xA; people subscribed to his cult and ideas. However, one final question remains. Despite following him, why would people be moved to &lt;em&gt;kill&lt;/em&gt; for him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonexp.org/pdf/powerevil.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Zimbardo&lt;/a&gt; presents this line of reasoning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stanley Milgram (1974) developed an ingenious research procedure to&#xA;  demonstrate the  extent to which situational forces could overwhelm&#xA;  individual will to resist. He ‘shocked the  world’ with his unexpected&#xA;  finding of extremely high rates of compliance to the demands of an &#xA;  authority figure to continue shocking an innocent victim to the&#xA;  maximum possible level (also see  Blass, 2004). He found that about&#xA;  67% of research participants “went all the way&quot; up to the top  shock&#xA;  level of 450 volts in shocking another person that were supposedly&#xA;  helping. Milgram’s  study revealed that ordinary American citizens&#xA;  could so easily be led to engage in “electrocuting  a nice stranger,”&#xA;  as the Nazis had been led to murder Jews.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would argue this is why Joe Carroll's followers are able to go to such apparently astonishing lengths to follow his word. They trust him, he gives them a feeling of belonging and security and he rules them absolutely. This makes them believe they belong with him and as such lets him get away with poor treatment of them. After all, how could they turn away and reject him when, even when treating him badly, he still offers the best hope any of them could have (or so he's led them to believe). Given his power and dominance, they are willing to follow him blindly and have even become killers for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully these articles all provide some food for thought and give good answers to some of your questions. I will repeat though that this is by no means a definitive answer and someone with much more experience than me in the field of psychology would be the person to speak to!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-16T01:54:23.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18042" CreationDate="2014-03-16T02:07:56.307" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we assume the majority of what we see in the movie is the natural progression of time leading to a future in which Rufus can come from: Bill and Ted do not fail and the world becomes utopia. Therefore, anything needing to happen would happen so that what we had seen up until then would be possible, i.e., time traveling phone booths in front of Circle-K's. Achieving this timeline only becomes possible with these knuckleheads once it has been made foolproof enough in every other. Like having amazingly true to life historical figures at your high school history report.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bill: Whatever we do, we have to remember to go back in time after the report or else this'll never happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TED: But it did happen!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because if it didn't we would not have been watching the correct timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8580" LastActivityDate="2014-03-16T02:07:56.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5723" CreationDate="2014-03-16T02:14:04.683" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;His first name was Stacey. They kept it a secret to add a sort of mysterious aspect to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8585" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-16T02:19:52.393" LastActivityDate="2014-03-16T02:19:52.393" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18040" CreationDate="2014-03-16T02:16:52.960" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of movies which show children getting serious injured and/or worse. Some that immediately come to mind include (note, these all have &lt;em&gt;graphic&lt;/em&gt; child death/injury scenes):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112492/&quot;&gt;Beware: Children at Play&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074156/&quot;&gt;Assault on Precinct 13&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/&quot;&gt;City of God&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/&quot;&gt;The Shining&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another collection of films that can be added to the list can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://banesbluebox.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/killing-children-on-screen-why-is-it.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. That blog post also gives its own (very logical) reasons &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it thinks children don't die in the movies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So this leads me to my first point: its taboo because it does not&#xA;  sell. Hollywood does not make movies that do not sell. If a type of&#xA;  film does not sell tickets, why would they waste their money on it.&#xA;  Motion pictures cost thousands at the cheapest, hundreds of millions&#xA;  at the most, to produce, a film that does not make back its money&#xA;  hurts the studio and even if its &quot;such a good film&quot; if it does not&#xA;  make money, they won't make it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Second: there is little to be gained showing a child dying.&#xA;  Frankenstein and Lord of the Flies stem from literary works that have&#xA;  the death of a child as a turning point in the story. It serves it&#xA;  well as it does in Les Miserables and others. Films such as Alien vs.&#xA;  Predator Requiem just use it for shock effect and in that, it&#xA;  backfires every time. People do not just want to see kids die to see&#xA;  kids die (unless you get some sick glee out of such things) and unless&#xA;  it is emotionally poignant and important to the story, just having it&#xA;  there to have it, never pays off. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Third: child actors are hard to work with and getting them&#xA;  &quot;convincingly killed&quot; is difficult. Child actors are very hard to come&#xA;  by, a good one especially, getting one to do their lines correctly and&#xA;  be appropriately scared is one thing but getting them to die in a way&#xA;  that does not require excessive special effects or CGI is not worth&#xA;  the time of the directing team. A great actor can pull off almost&#xA;  anything and love the opportunity to have a good epic death but a&#xA;  child, is not that experienced and it is very hard to direct them in&#xA;  such scenes, so why go through the trouble?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lastly: the public does not want to see kids die. Look on the news,&#xA;  when a shooting happens the country mourns, when we see kids die in&#xA;  the news there is backlash against someone for it. We want to protect&#xA;  kids as a society and seeing them on screen as a source of bloody&#xA;  death and entertainment hurts us and unless it pays off for some&#xA;  &quot;better way&quot; or its &quot;expertly done&quot; it unleashes something within us&#xA;  that all of us have, the protective instinct to keep the child alive.&#xA;  We would rather root for the child to live than see him die. I believe&#xA;  everyone has something like this within them, a protective instinct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now obviously the above is just a single person's opinion on their blog, but I did include it as I think all the reasons given are sound and logical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does appear to be taboo in Hollywood (and in other media - often in video games children simply cannot be hurt). I do believe the real reason why lies in the fact it is often not necessary for the story and it is deeply uncomfortable to the viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, it is the same logic behind why rape scenes are rarely shown in their most brutal format. It is extremely uncomfortable to watch. Sometimes, that's what the director wants to create. But when an extremely graphic scene of that nature (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/&quot;&gt;Irreversible&lt;/a&gt;'s rape scene) is shown, it transports the audience from a state of despair/unhappiness/shock/anger at the scene to one of disgust and uncomfort. Again, there are times this can be used to great effect (e.g. holocaust films). But often, and in particular if the audience don't feel it is necessary, it is unwanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to come around full circle and look at your questions again - I'm not aware of a single film which led to this unwritten rule. It appears to have been something borne out of a common sense of ethical responsibility. There are plenty of movies which have broken the rule though, some listed above and many more listed on the link provided. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-16T02:16:52.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18042" CreationDate="2014-03-16T04:33:32.813" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the answer to your question is another logic matter in the movie : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rufus: Gentlemen, you can do anything you want, as long as you remember this, no matter what happens, you must get to that report. Got it? All right amigos, (points) that book will tell you the number of any place you want to go. Now, most important, no matter what you do, no matter where you go, that clock (points to Ted's watch), the clock in San Dimas is always running. Got it? (they nod) All right, time for me to go. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rufus states when he first comes that &quot;real time&quot; matters, and Bill and Ted can only travel through history until Ted's watch gives the true time of the report's deadline. That idea is wrong, since they can present their report pretty much any time they want, given that they have access to time travel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rufus's incorrect instructions about this are corrected by Bill and Ted when they unexpectedly use future selves to help them in present time, in the scene you described. Suddenly it appears pretty obvious that they could have taken as much time as they wanted to find historical figures, as long as any version of themselves (their present selves or their future selves) is at school with all the historical figures at the time of the report presentation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only consequence that &quot;real time of San Dimas&quot; has is Bill and Ted's biological age when they go back to the time of the report.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've considered the possible reason why Rufus gave them these instructions to begin with and I've come to the conclusion that it's one of the two following :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rufus made it simple for them, so that they wouldn't lose focus that the main goal is the report (concentration doesn't seem to be their strongest suit...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rufus is actually time-travel-dumb, and Bill and Ted surprisingly outsmart him :P (my personnal favorite)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8570" LastActivityDate="2014-03-16T04:33:32.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18040" CreationDate="2014-03-16T04:57:13.237" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting question...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's a rule, I think it's a technique to increase the tension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a child character is killed or physically harmed, the choice to not even show the event increases the &quot;unbearable&quot; aspect of the event. It makes a taboo inside the story and gives more tension to the situation. Sometimes the event isn't even really told at any time in the story, only suggested for instance the death of the couple's son in Antechrist by Lars Von Trier. This suggestion is very powerful and subtle narrative tool, as it puts the audience in the same taboo rejection of the event as the main character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other movies like Lord of the Flies or Battle Royale are doing the exact opposite : showing every physical or psychological harm done to the kids and their death. In these movies the audience is usually meant to identify with the kids, not surrounding adults.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8570" LastActivityDate="2014-03-16T04:57:13.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18052" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18055" CreationDate="2014-03-16T06:57:40.643" Score="4" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;My wife's grandmother just told us that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1468620/?ref_=nmawd_awd_nm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Petro Vlahos&lt;/a&gt;, in his Oscar acceptance speech during the 38th oscar ceremony thanked my wife's grandfather for his technical help. Is there any way to confirm this? Would the clip be online somewhere? Or are there transcripts of the Oscar ceremonies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8588" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T16:12:28.937" Title="Is it possible to optain clips or transcripts from previous Oscar ceremonies? (38th to be speciffic)" Tags="|academy-awards|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18029" CreationDate="2014-03-16T07:22:27.353" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/swzJK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Lea (1996) - Movie Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116844/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lea&lt;/strong&gt; (1996)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lea - a modern fairy tale for adults - tells the story of an unusual&#xA;  and, in the end, tragic relationship between a traumatised &lt;strong&gt;girl from&#xA;  Slovakia&lt;/strong&gt; and a &lt;strong&gt;former Foreign Legionnaire from Germany&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the story in detail:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the age of seven, Lea has already become accustomed to verbal and&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;physical abuse from her father&lt;/strong&gt;. But one fateful day, her father&#xA;  succeeds in &lt;strong&gt;beating Lea’s mother to death when she tries escaping&#xA;  with Lea&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The event traumatises her so severely that she's struck dumb&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A promise to her mother:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With her dying words, Lea's mother encourages her to write, and as&#xA;  she's raised by foster parents only marginally more compassionate than&#xA;  her father, &lt;strong&gt;Lea writes poems in her mother's memory&lt;/strong&gt; and has built&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;an underground shrine where she posts her work&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sd5AO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Lea (1996) - Pic 01&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another man enters her life:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Lea turns 21, her stepfather is approached by Herbert Strehlow,&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;a wealthy German who offers him a large amount of money for Lea's hand in marriage&lt;/strong&gt;; the stepfather accepts without explaining the&#xA;  situation to his daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FBlnY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Lea (1996) - Pic 02&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Herbert proves to be as cruel as the other people in Lea's life. &lt;strong&gt;He&#xA;  keeps her chained inside his house and beats her&lt;/strong&gt; when she refuses to&#xA;  obey his wishes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ur15s.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Lea (1996) - Pic 04&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The turning point in the story:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The marriage is a disaster until &lt;strong&gt;Herbert intercepts one of the&#xA;  letters&lt;/strong&gt; that Lea tries to mail -- &lt;strong&gt;he suspects another lover&lt;/strong&gt; --&#xA;  and takes it to a translator in Munich who under stands Slovakian. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He thus finds out that &lt;strong&gt;the love poems that have been fueling his&#xA;  jealousy&lt;/strong&gt; are all addressed to Lea’s mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Herbert reads the poems he becomes aware of Lea's humanity, and her&#xA;  words reach a reserve of compassion that lurks deep below the surface.&#xA;  As a result, &lt;strong&gt;he becomes kind to Lea, and she responds&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch clips from the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf2OI8ZzlaI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfPq8lvVPpY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;~ Text edited from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.german-films.de/filmarchive/browse-archive/view/detail/mode/goldenglobe/film/lea/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;german films&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allmovie.com/movie/lea-v136429&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;allmovie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://grunes.wordpress.com/2007/10/13/lea-ivan-fila-1996/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dennis Grunes' blog&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Lea-Points-Out-Magic-in-the-Modern-World-2799008.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SFGate&lt;/a&gt;; Movie stills from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinema.de/bilder/lea,1313937.html?page=3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cinema.de&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastEditorUserId="7732" LastEditDate="2014-03-16T08:12:35.623" LastActivityDate="2014-03-16T08:12:35.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18052" CreationDate="2014-03-16T11:25:58.090" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Oscars website has an &lt;a href=&quot;http://aaspeechesdb.oscars.org&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Academy Awards Acceptance Speech Database&lt;/a&gt; with transcripts and video clips.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately it currently only covers 1966 onwards. &lt;a href=&quot;http://aaspeechesdb.oscars.org/info.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This page&lt;/a&gt; suggests other ways of viewing video from Oscar ceremonies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch a video: It may be possible to view a videotaped segment of the Awards telecast at the Academy Film Archive in Hollywood. To inquire about their holdings or to set up a viewing appointment, contact the public access coordinator for the archive at (310) 247-3000, ext. 2332 or filmarchive@oscars.org. Other institutions with video coverage of the Awards ceremonies include the UCLA Film &amp;amp; Television Archive in Los Angeles and the Paley Center for Media, with locations in New York and Los Angeles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Listen to audio: Audio recordings of the ceremonies, which include some of the Academy's earliest holdings, are a part of the Music and Recorded Sound Collection in the Department of Special Collections at the Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills. To inquire about their holdings or to set up an appointment, contact the library's music and recorded sound specialist at (310) 247-3000, ext. 2236 or specialcollections@oscars.org.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contact the National Film Information Service: NFIS, a fee-based research service of the Margaret Herrick Library, can transcribe a specific speech for you. Contact information and a description of services may be found on the library's website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-16T11:25:58.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8097" CreationDate="2014-03-16T11:53:30.843" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The correct answer is that Quaid gets it wrong.  Dr Edgemar really is trying to save him and the whole secret agent saving Mars thing is the memory implant he has purchased transformed into an apparent reality by the schizoid embolism discussed in the early sequences of the film.  How do we know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film we know because we see the sequence in which Quaid describes his fantasy.  The girl that latter features is constructed on a screen by the computer putting together the memory implant.  The telling thing is that the girl on the screen is exactly the same as the one in the latter &quot;events&quot;, but the description he gives is only a general one so the computer version would not be identical to the girl in the latter sequences were the latter girl not the computer generated false one - meaning hwe is mistaking the hallucination from the embolism for reality and damning himself when he rejects Dr Edgemar who really is an intrusion from outside the hallucination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for in the book, well Dick's work is much more subtle and gives less definitive answers than the film but it was Phil's view that we are in essential the same situation as Quaid (Blake's Lost Travellers Dreaming under the hill).  Valis/Jehova is trying to get us to take the &quot;pill&quot; but we have to see through the deception of appearances (as per true scepticism) before we can become open enough to all the divine invasion of Christ and awaken from the dream of the dominion of matter (the hill) to idealism - the recognition that we4 are spirit and spirit constructs matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8592" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-09T18:18:11.373" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T18:18:11.373" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18058" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18060" CreationDate="2014-03-16T15:42:28.293" Score="7" ViewCount="1727" Body="&lt;p&gt;Need help finding the name of the following movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a guy who lived in an apartment in a big city (likely New York City), and there was a woman who posed as his housesitter/keeper while he went away for a (business?) trip. I can't remember if he actually hired her or if she just pretended to be his maid through some situational comedic hijinks, but I know they never actually met before she began acting as a maid, and at some point (probably because the guy's trip was cut short), they bumped into each other somehow, and he didn't reveal himself as the true owner of the apartment. And I believe she let the guy assume that she was the true owner of the apartment, and she even invites the guy into &quot;her&quot; (actually his) place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They began to have a little romantic relationship, All the while, the guy is staying at his friend's apartment until he can sort things out with his lady interest/maid and move back in. At some point, the guy even invites the lady back to &quot;his&quot; (actually his friend's) place for wine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, towards the end of the movie, I think the woman found out that the guy who she had been seeing was really the owner of the apartment all along - I think it was through some interaction she had with the local dry cleaner. One of the final scenes had the woman (and her best friend, who had been aware of the caper the whole time) throwing a party in the apartment with a bunch of women either in costume or very skimpy clothing (can't remember), and I think the cops shut it down because they thought it was a disturbance of the peace or something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that's a good description. Let me know if you can help me. Thanks!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8510" LastEditorUserId="7732" LastEditDate="2014-03-16T23:23:30.327" LastActivityDate="2014-03-16T23:23:30.327" Title="What's this romantic comedy about a housemaid pretending to be the owner?" Tags="|comedy|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:02:42.010" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18058" CreationDate="2014-03-16T15:53:11.557" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JJBcX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;That Funny Feeling (1965)  - Movie Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059794/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That Funny Feeling&lt;/strong&gt; (1965)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire&lt;/strong&gt;, meets and begins &lt;strong&gt;dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/woQGl.png&quot; alt=&quot;That Funny Feeling (1965)  - Pic 01&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Embarrassed about bringing him back to her tiny apartment that she&#xA;  shares with her roommate Audrey, &lt;strong&gt;Joan brings Tom over to a fancy&#xA;  apartment that she cleans&lt;/strong&gt; on a daily basis &lt;strong&gt;not knowing that it's&#xA;  his place&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dnvWZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;That Funny Feeling (1965)  - Pic 02&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tom plays along with the charade&lt;/strong&gt; despite not knowing who Joan really is, while &lt;strong&gt;she tries to tidy up Tom's place not knowing who he&#xA;  really is&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And like you described, here's how it ends:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To see how far Joan is prepared to go, Tom moves in with his pal&#xA;  Harvey and goes along with it. As soon as Joan becomes aware of the&#xA;  truth, however, &lt;strong&gt;she gets even by throwing a party&lt;/strong&gt; with girls&#xA;  pretending to be prostitutes, whereupon &lt;strong&gt;the party is promptly raided&#xA;  by the cops.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTGkF1uvk2o&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to confirm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;~ Text from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059794/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Funny_Feeling&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;; Poster from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movieposter.com/poster/MPW-18937/That_Funny_Feeling.html&quot;&gt;movieposter.com&lt;/a&gt;; Screenshots from &lt;a href=&quot;http://fedorasandhighheels.blogspot.com/2011/03/that-funny-feeling-1965.html&quot;&gt;Fedoras and High Heels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastEditorUserId="7732" LastEditDate="2014-03-16T21:17:24.113" LastActivityDate="2014-03-16T21:17:24.113" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18062" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18064" CreationDate="2014-03-16T16:59:09.593" Score="104" ViewCount="30348" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked my friends and none of them remembers having ever watched the credits after a movie to the end, except where the movie still continues after credits start rolling (short comic pieces or &quot;what happened to the characters afterwards&quot; short sequences or there was a special after-credits scene.) Anyway, none of them ever watched the credits for the sake of reading through all of the names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In theaters, people usually just get up and leave when the credits start. I stayed several times until the very end just to see people who are talking to each other, lazing around or have fallen asleep. Nobody really was looking at the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Credits seem to have become to people even less important than EULA for games and apps. They are also bloated with jobs that are remotely related to making of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seem to be a few important messages like &quot;no animals were harmed&quot; or &quot;pure fiction&quot; or &quot;tricks done by professionals&quot; to be conveyed, which can be done in just a few seconds, but these are often put in the very end of the credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Credits seem to have originated a long time ago when there weren't that many people involved in making a movie and most roles were important enough for people to want to find out who they were done by. And it didn't take that much time to show every job. Now everyone seems to be only interested in actors, director, composer and a few others who are usually shown in opening credits and on movie posters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt somebody would want to know who was some fourth cameraman's assistant. All these positions must only be significant to the movie-making community, which probably has easy access to that info, and I don't see why it would interest normal viewers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why even have credits now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5788" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-03-18T09:11:34.993" LastActivityDate="2020-03-05T06:27:35.327" Title="Why do movies still have credits?" Tags="|credits|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18040" CreationDate="2014-03-16T17:00:42.067" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Andrew Martin gives a good example. Although it's only formed from the perspective of an individual, its a pretty comprehensive reflection of the broad way society receives images of infanticide; the point about creating good performances from child actors is a little absurd, but it doesn't come directly from Andrew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only point to add are considerations towards certification and censorship, so far not discussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concept of infanticide is nothing particularily new to cinema. Infanticide has been exhibited in film as early as 1916, with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006389/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Awakening of Helena Ritchie&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concept of depicting the &lt;em&gt;onscreen&lt;/em&gt; trauma or death of a child is, indeed, something that audiences and film makers have only recently become accepting of. Taste and censorship would typically override any decision to show, pro-filmically, death or injury to children. That said, some very early classics were thematically &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; infanticide; none more powerful and famous than Fritz Lang's 1931 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;M&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one of the most celebrated sequences in the history of film, lang depicts the abduction, rape and murder of &lt;a href=&quot;http://%3Ciframe%20src=&amp;#39;http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/kfortmueller/clips/m-1931-elsie-disappears/embed_view&amp;#39;%20frameborder=&amp;#39;0&amp;#39;%20width=&amp;#39;630&amp;#39;%20height=&amp;#39;460&amp;#39;%3E%3C/iframe%3E&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Elsie Beckmann&lt;/a&gt;, a young child. Whilst none of this is actually shown on screen, a sequences conveys the horror and subsequent loss/absence of the child through a series of metaphorical imagery. It is considered to be a masterclass, and the point stands that such things can be featured and circulated in a text, to powerful effect, without the need to actually show the events happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069995/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Don't Look Now&lt;/a&gt; (1973) is a film that uses &lt;em&gt;the image&lt;/em&gt; of a child's drowning in repetition purposefully craft a level of psychological horror in its deployment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x3AIK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The image being priveleged in this way is an inherent aspect of the film's make up, so it's not &lt;strong&gt;a rule&lt;/strong&gt; to not display such scenes but  lightning rod for criticism if they are deployed in a way that could be considered exploitative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples from &lt;em&gt;MeatTrademark&lt;/em&gt; such as &lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/em&gt; indicate that the inferred death of a child, often by violent means, is becoming pretty common place. Interestingly, most of the examples provided operate within the Horror and Sci-Fi genres. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other questions have gone into detail in their attempt to demonstrate the general discomfort felt by an audience who are forced to endure the mutilation of a child or infant. It is perhaps for this reason that such films are most common in Horror. Discussions as to how and why this is effective is summed up by an exchange in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070047/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Exorcist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, appropriately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Father Damien Karras&lt;/strong&gt;: Why her? Why this girl? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Father Merrin&lt;/strong&gt; : I think the point is to make us despair. To see ourselves as... animal and ugly. To make us reject the possibility that God could love us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously the depiction of serious injury, murder, mutilation or any other form of violence towards children will draw automatic consideration from film classification boards, who still retain the ability to outright ban a film's distribution without licencing in some countries. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the act itself occurs non-diegetically or off screen, its reception will be considered within the context of the film. This applies to all forms of violence, or any aspect of a film that is likely to cause psychological distress. &lt;em&gt;Bambi&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Lion King&lt;/em&gt; are both interesting examples (both Disney) of &lt;strong&gt;ostensibly&lt;/strong&gt; Children's film that show &lt;em&gt;pretty messed up stuff&lt;/em&gt; in regards to on screen death, and both are often cited as a subject of childhood trauma for most people who saw them as a kid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concept of a child's death is a concept that has been actively recognised and deployed in favor of an audience response. A film maker doesn't 'accidentally' put such imagery into their film, so its deployment is reserved for the elicitation of a specific response: namely some form of distress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now for the Censorship part I was talking about: if you make a film that is deliberately crafted to distress its audience, some of whom may or may not be children, &lt;strong&gt;you will come under criticism&lt;/strong&gt;, and certification authorities will observe the consensus of this criticism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now in consideration of the amount of films, which lets face it, &lt;em&gt;are most of them&lt;/em&gt; that simply do not wish to court controversy, it's no wonder there are so few films outside of horror (which of course actively encourages criticism as discussion to its genre identity) feature such suggestive and deliberately manipulative imagery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2016-09-27T09:37:13.953" LastActivityDate="2016-09-27T09:37:13.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18062" CreationDate="2014-03-16T18:04:34.043" Score="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Legal/contractual obligations to list all staff who've worked on film&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Evidence that staff have worked on film, which can be used to help them gain future employment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some movie-goers are extremely interested in credits and finding out who was responsible for what&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Detailed Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Union Rules/legalities&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.eonline.com/news/58108/why-are-movie-credits-so-long&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;E! Online&lt;/a&gt; were asked a question about why movie credit were so long and as part of their answer stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Films have always employed dozens (if not hundreds) of people in&#xA;various jobs,&amp;quot; Clark University director of screen studies Tim Shary&#xA;tells this B!tch. &amp;quot;But before the '60s, they tended to be in teams,&#xA;and usually only the leader of the unit received onscreen credit. So,&#xA;the art director would be listed but not all of the people (painters,&#xA;decorators, landscapers, carpenters, etc.) that worked for him or her.&#xA;&amp;quot;Now, almost everyone who works on a film is a member of a union, and&#xA;they have expectations about getting onscreen credit.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could a director like Spielberg or a producer like Scott Rudin decide&#xA;to eliminate those credits during one of his 18 daily ego meltdowns?&#xA;Not likely, I'm told. During film's golden age, most movie workers&#xA;were under contract to a studio, so the suits could credit their&#xA;drones--or not--as they saw fit. Today, people hire themselves out&#xA;film by film, giving them and their unions more power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The presence of many credits today are adjudicated by unions and&#xA;guilds,&amp;quot; says Penn State senior film lecturer Kevin J. Hagopian. &amp;quot;So,&#xA;Steven Spielberg, even as a producer, could not decide simply to leave&#xA;off these names.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...One other factor: cheaper movies. Black-turtlenecked indie fans&#xA;love to joke that the size of a small film's credits is inversely&#xA;proportional to the size of its budget. (What, you expected these&#xA;people to have a real sense of humor?) Instead of paying cash,&#xA;indie-film producers often offer key spaces in their credits as a&#xA;thank-you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;When freelancing replaced the studio contract system, studios and&#xA;producers realized they could pay people less if they gave them&#xA;credit,&amp;quot; San Francisco State University film professor Joseph McBride&#xA;says. &amp;quot;So, the proliferation of credits went bananas in the '70s and&#xA;'80s, to the point that now even the honey-wagon driver is credited.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there does appear to be legalities involved in having people gain credits. Some examples of this can be seen for particular &amp;quot;groups&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wga.org/subpage_writersresources.aspx?id=171&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Writer's Guild&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.producersguild.org/?page=coc_tmp&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Producer's Guild&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Acknowledgement used as a form of intellectual property&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting directly from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acknowledgment_%28creative_arts%29#cite_note-Cronin-1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, which rather nicely sums it up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the creative arts and scientific literature, an acknowledgment&#xA;(also spelled acknowledgement) is an expression of gratitude for&#xA;assistance in creating an original work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Receiving credit by way of&#xA;acknowledgment rather than authorship indicates that the person or&#xA;organization did not have a direct hand in producing the work in&#xA;question, but may have contributed funding, criticism, or&#xA;encouragement to the author(s). Various schemes exist for classifying&#xA;acknowledgments; Cronin et al.give the following six categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a) moral support&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;b) financial support&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;c) editorial support&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;d) presentational&#xA;support&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;e) instrumental/technical support&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;f) conceptual support, or peer&#xA;interactive communication (PIC)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from citation, which is not&#xA;usually considered to be an acknowledgment, acknowledgment of&#xA;conceptual support is widely considered to be the most important for&#xA;identifying intellectual debt. Some acknowledgments of financial&#xA;support, on the other hand, may simply be legal formalities imposed by&#xA;the granting institution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it appears many people, from actors through to cameramen, can use the fact they are included in credits as a form of &amp;quot;proof&amp;quot; on their CV so to speak, to absolutely guarantee they were involved in a project in that particular role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of this on a &lt;em&gt;minor&lt;/em&gt; stage, is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://pro.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?eligibilitytopfaq&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB Credit System&lt;/a&gt;, which explicitly states that anyone can add their name as an actor to a film, but their system will check it against the official &amp;quot;credits&amp;quot; and remove it if not featured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Public interest&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst I imagine the majority of film watchers do not watch the end credits, there are a some who do (call them &lt;a href=&quot;http://dawsonscreek.wikia.com/wiki/Dawson_Leery&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dawsons&lt;/a&gt;) and are genuinely interested in how a particular part of a film was achieved (e.g. how a sound effect was completed or who was in charge of animal safety, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To add in some of the fantastic points made in the comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tom: People want acknowledgement for their hard work with a place in the credits, regardless of whether the audience will watch it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Damon: The credits add to the length of the movie which increases the amount of money it can be licensed to broadcasters for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Claudio Miklos: The credits are a piece of film history, recording for all time exactly who did what with a film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T14:49:09.053" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18008" CreationDate="2014-03-17T00:01:01.650" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are right, the president is portrayed as rather naive and is mostly a puppet in the hands of Frank and Tusk. I doubt that this is a likely scenario in the real world, at least to this extent, and it is one of the very few things one could criticise on this otherwise outstanding show.&#xA;However, even if it requires a little bit suspension of disbelief on the viewer's behalf, it surely is not impossible in the context of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How could he become president if he is so gullible?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer that, we would have to see how he actually became president: In contrast to Frank, who acknowledges proudly that he achieved all this without a single vote, Garrett Walker won the election for presidency. While we clearly see that D.C. has a lot of backstabbing and intrigue going on, which Walker is not good at, he has two things that helped him win elections:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has a very charming and honest appearance. This quality is likely to make him a favorite with the voters.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has friends with a lot of money (Tusk). Money wins elections.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it seems that Frank helped him with the political part of controlling the parliament. At least that is suggested at the first episode and likely the reason why Frank expected to become VP in return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum it up: Walker became president because the people like him and also exactly because he is gullible. By putting someone like him in charge, man like Tusk and Frank expected to be able to control him to their own advantage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T00:01:01.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18070" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-17T00:20:55.013" Score="11" ViewCount="12526" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Django Unchained&lt;/em&gt;, Django approaches &quot;Big John&quot; Brittle as he's about to whip a young black slave woman.  As Django approaches, we see that John has some Bible pages sewed into his shirt, and is reciting Bible passages.  The Bible pages aren't remarked upon by any of the characters in the scene, but it seems pretty odd to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did John Brittle have Bible pages sewed into his shirt?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorUserId="67810" LastEditDate="2021-05-08T16:22:34.530" LastActivityDate="2021-05-08T16:22:34.530" Title="Why did John Brittle have Bible pages sewed into his shirt?" Tags="|analysis|django-unchained|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14097" CreationDate="2014-03-17T00:57:17.953" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The series writers made the character of Gustavo Fring a Chilean as it seemed to them general Pinochet was a frightening enough character to give a Mexican drug lord, Don Eladio pause before killing him. Unfortunately, the number of Afro-Chileans (the group from where Gustavo would have to be) are a repressed minority in Chile. Being a fascist and somewhat of a racist, it is doubtful General Pinochet ever had any Afro-Chileans in in his inner circle making Fring's being Chilean rather pointless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most likely reason that Don Eladio didn't kill Fring was that he knew he had an established distribution network set up and it would cost money and time (and risk exposure) murdering Fring and then trying to either obtain his routes or start new ones. Since Fring hadn't stolen from him and since he could still use him, killing Gus' partner to show him who was in control and then allowing Fring to live, made it clear who was in charge of the operation, without causing any significant damage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-17T01:33:39.790" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T01:33:39.790" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14279" CreationDate="2014-03-17T01:05:48.650" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answering the question which was asked&lt;/strong&gt;: Probably buried at another desert location known only to Jack and the neo-Nazis who where then murdered by Walt. The money will never be found and it may eventually become part of Albuquerque are lore as a &quot;buried treasure.&quot; The neo-Nazis would have dry foolish to have buried the money at the same site where they were also still cooking meth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or it may be forgotten as Walt is also dead, Jesse and Saul are on the run and Huell and Kuby are probably doing the same. The main characters of the series are all also deceased or distracted and they will likely have forgotten that the money ever existed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T01:05:48.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18070" CreationDate="2014-03-17T01:07:09.473" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't found any interviews with Tarantino or the rest of the crew to definitively answer this, but I think it's largely about the symbolism involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just before Django killed John Brittle, he is recited scripture from the Old Testament (about justice) to a slave girl, while he whips her. He believes he is right. He believes he is superior to the girl, from a superior race. He treats her a lesser being and nothing more than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Django then challenges him and shoots him. His blood pours out of his wound which just so happens to be right in the middle of one of the bible pages. Considering the fact he was lecturing the girl on justice before his death, to me this suggests Tarantino was implying this was the real &quot;justice&quot; being delivered, with his blood appeasing the words of the Old Testament.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in summary I think the Bible pages are there to demonstrate his belief that he is one of God's servants. I think they also serve a double purpose as his death and bleeding out on top of the scriptures symbolise &quot;justice&quot; being done given his false beliefs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T01:07:09.473" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16447" CreationDate="2014-03-17T01:40:02.973" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The book &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumper%3a_Griffin%27s_Story_%28novel%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jumper: Griffin's Story&lt;/a&gt;, which was created &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the movie but is intended to be a &lt;em&gt;prequel&lt;/em&gt; to it, discusses this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It states that Paladins can sense jumpers and close in on them as long as they are close enough to sense the jump taking place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know how many Paladins there are, but given they were aware of David's robberies, it appears they kept a keen eye out and simply &quot;detected&quot; him at some point. Not a great explanation, but it's the best &lt;em&gt;canon&lt;/em&gt; explanation out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T01:40:02.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17664" CreationDate="2014-03-17T03:31:46.400" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AKNHL.png&quot; alt=&quot;Insides (2005) - Pic 01&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Insides&lt;/strong&gt; (2005)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://cinema-shorts.org/the-strawberry-shorts-film-marquee-fordham-fest-2010-programme-10/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cambridge Cinema Short&lt;/a&gt; it's about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A lonely man with a dark past and the horror beneath his feet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/title/bang--short-film-festival/id/823#.UyZWLKhdxWo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;reviewer&lt;/a&gt; noted that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Insides by Dan Gitsham introduced a completely contrasting genre.&#xA;  Incredibly atmospheric, I was unsure of what to expect as the &lt;strong&gt;lone&#xA;  man wandered around his empty, cluttered house&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the discovery of an oddly placed &lt;strong&gt;video cassette inside a stuffed&#xA;  toy&lt;/strong&gt; under a floor-board – having been a reluctant viewer of ‘The&#xA;  Ring’ – I knew it was time to hide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DUpQb.png&quot; alt=&quot;Insides (2005) - Pic 02&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch it on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dangitsham.co.uk/Insides.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;director's site&lt;/a&gt; or head straight to &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/25898196&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know you've searched long and hard for this one. Enjoy the show!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;~ Screenshots taken directly from the video&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T03:31:46.400" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18090" CreationDate="2014-03-17T07:28:02.263" Score="5" ViewCount="10250" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Gladiator, how did Maximus become a slave? The army believed he was executed, so he wasn't an offically known deserter due to this. Also, he was a Roman citizen, as a citizen you had rights. It should be clear that he was a Roman citizen because he had an army tattoo on his upper arm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was a free man with property, which was quite clear in the movie except that it was burned to the ground. Even back then you couldn't just pick up unconscious (free) people from their home and make them a slave &lt;em&gt;if they are Roman citizens&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastEditorUserId="7659" LastEditDate="2014-03-17T07:54:40.440" LastActivityDate="2018-10-22T05:32:34.590" Title="How did Maximus become a slave?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gladiator|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18076" CreationDate="2014-03-17T09:31:47.040" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well due to the tattoo on his arm they thought he was a deserter and he refused to give them any information about himself to explain otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any historical inaccuracy at this level of detail should probably be written off as a convenience of the story telling (like the flaming ballista bolts in the opening sequence etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if it could be definitely proved that becoming a slave in this way this would have been completely impossible, how many of the audience would know and, out of them, how many would care?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T09:31:47.040" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18076" CreationDate="2014-03-17T10:06:10.530" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;IIRC, he was found, half-dead, by a slave trader and sold into slavery.  By the time he was discovered to be a free man, he was too valuable to his owner because he had already gained notoriety as a Gladiator.  I believe by that point he enjoyed the spoils and adulation a winning Gladiator received, and since his wife and son were already dead he has nothing else to live for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T10:06:10.530" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18080" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23153" CreationDate="2014-03-17T11:17:55.823" Score="5" ViewCount="11884" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm talking about the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1206543/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Out of the Furnace&lt;/a&gt; where Harlan kills Rodney and John Petty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, Rodney owes a lot of money to Harlan. So, Rodney agrees to fight with some guy to clear his debt and he fights and goes down (even though he resists for some time to take the fall) as agreed with Harlan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the fight, they shake hands and leave the place. On the way, Harlan comes and puts a bullet in John's head and drags Rodney with other guys and shoots him in the head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not understand why Harlan does that. If it's for the money, clearly Harlan won't get any money from Rodney and John by killing them. And Harlan is a money minded person but not a psychopath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone explain why Harlan killed Rodney and John?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2014-07-16T06:18:25.117" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T15:53:58.323" Title="Why Harlan DeGroat had to do that to Rodney Baze Jr.?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|out-of-the-furnace|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18082" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-17T14:03:09.953" Score="9" ViewCount="6127" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Minority Report, how did Lamar Burgess perpetuate the red ball that resulted in Anderton becoming a fugitive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is my understanding of the manipulation of the pre-crime system by Burgess:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Burgess is a character who, much like Dr. Iris Hineman, was involved in the Precog program from the ground floor, and as such is aware of its vulnerabilities. It is with this knowledge that he hires a drug user/drifter to kill Agatha's mother (Ann Lively), which (being from that point pre-meditated by the killer) immediately produces a report from the pre-cogs. He views the report, and  the hired goon is immediately arrested. &#xA;Burgess then engineers circumstances that are visually identical to the manner in which his employee would have killed Lively, and replicates them, so they are considered to be an 'Echo' and dismissed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The film then seems to tie in the logic from this into Anderton's situation, as though he were being manipulated, but it doesn't seem to function logically.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Burgess is revealed to have payed Leo Crow to &quot;pretend to have murdered [his] kid&quot;, angering Anderton to the point of willful homicide and as such incarceration. But what was Leo Crow supposed to do, exactly? just sit in a hotel room and wait for Anderton to show up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's only because of the report that Anderton even goes looking for Crow.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The crime requires the Pre-cog report as instigation of the crime, without the report they would have been no crime, as Anderton would not have 'known his future'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand there is a lot of mythology surrounding self-fulfilling prophecies, but I'm not entirely sure the film adheres to its own logic. It seems to me that, unlike the careful choreography of the first Murder (which makes total sense, and is a pretty awesome parable about techno-dependence stimulating corruption), the second one just seems...impossible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How would the Pre-Cogs predict the murder, if it is the prediction itself that is catalyst for murder?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been called a 'causal loop' &lt;a href=&quot;http://alexpeak.com/art/films/mr/plothole/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;elsewhere&lt;/a&gt;, but I wonder if anyone can make sense of if this is possible, and if there is something we're all missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2019-03-17T10:13:22.713" LastActivityDate="2020-01-24T18:30:25.673" Title="How did Lamar Burgess instigate the red ball?" Tags="|minority-report|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18083" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42398" CreationDate="2014-03-17T15:28:24.813" Score="3" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;After getting bailed out of jail by Jesse, Michael finds Cybil in the trunk of his Cadillac. In the following scene, they end up in a field discussing what to do next. Of course, Michael wants to move on by himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene that follows shows Michael pushing his sweet Cadillac into the river. Why did he do this? What was the point? He had planned to get on his boat, but why not store the car or sell it. What did I miss? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T11:28:07.893" Title="Why did Michael ditch his car in the river?" Tags="|3000-miles-to-graceland|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18082" CreationDate="2014-03-17T15:35:13.457" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I'm skeptical about finding a completely plausible explanation, I don't think this is completely wrongly done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the prediction itself has put the events of the movie into motion, does not mean that none of this would have happened without it. There were many ways in which Burgess could've set Anderton on his path. Once that's set up, the future murder is going to happen, and the Precogs see it. Then Anderton follows the prediction, which kinda helps him arrive to the right place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that he also arrives at the same time can be attributed to the movie magic, but don't remember that he saw the time and was chasing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can also view it like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The future murder is set, hence it will happen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Therefore, Anderton will find out about it and will pursue the trail.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because of that, the events will happen as we saw them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the Precog's vision, in a way, contains itself, but did not initiate the events. It possibly shaped them to an extent, although I wouldn't bet on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Napoleon Wilson nicely put it in the comment, so I'll copy it here, as it is really a summary of what I was trying to say with the above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once Burgess set up Crow, the &quot;murder&quot; by &lt;em&gt;Anderton&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;had&lt;/strong&gt; to happen sooner or later anyway, it's just that the prophecy made it unneccessary for &lt;em&gt;Burgess&lt;/em&gt; to give &lt;em&gt;Anderton&lt;/em&gt; any further clues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The part of the murder that we saw in the precognitive vision happens the way it was foretold. The vision does not show Anderton seconds before it. I think that the way the murder/suicide was shot clearly shows that it fits the vision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the time is off by a few seconds, but the pictures that Precogs get are not a tidy movie. The clock could've been from a vision a few seconds before the fatal shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one more factor, which Agatha explains: once you know your future, you can change it. Anderton decides against killing Leo who, in turn, reveals his true motivation and initiates his murder/suicide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This brings us to one point that I think the movie &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt; silently claims (as discussed in the comments, I'm not too sure of this part, but I see it as a possible theory): you cannot change major moments of your future (similarly to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120148/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sliding Doors&lt;/a&gt;). This premise, I think, would give an extra ground to the assumption that, no matter what happened prior to it, the murder would go on as the Precogs foresaw, so it was in no way initiated by them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2020-01-24T18:30:25.673" LastActivityDate="2020-01-24T18:30:25.673" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18052" CreationDate="2014-03-17T16:12:28.937" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not positive of your location, but if you're ever in NYC you can go to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ny.com/museums/MTR.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Paley Center for Media&lt;/a&gt; and request a copy to view.  I'm not positive if they can actually make you a copy or not, but their library is &lt;strong&gt;massive&lt;/strong&gt; and it works like any public library; you request certain clips by catalog number and you can watch them on a monitor in a cubicle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T16:12:28.937" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17074" CreationDate="2014-03-17T16:22:55.097" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Try the old school cartoon too.  He was a skinny superstitious guy with a big nose in the disney cartoon.  Don't think Johnny Depp or the new tv series. Think of the old school disney cartoon or actual legend.  :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8607" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T16:22:55.097" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18076" CreationDate="2014-03-17T19:37:12.210" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather than quoting from serious academic articles, I'm going to use some simple educational websites. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/roman_slaves.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;History Learning Site&lt;/a&gt; states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who were slaves? They were people who were frequently captured in&#xA;  battle and sent back to Rome to be sold. However, abandoned children&#xA;  could also be brought up as slaves. The law also stated that fathers&#xA;  could sell their older children if they were in need of money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ROMslaves.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spartacus Educational&lt;/a&gt; explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Slavery existed in Roman society from an early stage of its&#xA;  development. There were several ways you could become a slave in Rome.&#xA;  Some became slaves because they could not pay back the money they had&#xA;  borrowed. The government would also take people into slavery if they&#xA;  could not pay their taxes. There were also many cases of poor people&#xA;  selling their children as slaves to richer neighbours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Roman citizens &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; technically become slaves (although it would be unlikely to happen at his age). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film, he had a home, but it was burned to the ground and his family left dead. At this point, his previous &quot;life&quot; is effectively done and he is now an unknown nobody. Except for the tattoo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, the tattoo (SPQR:  Senātus Populusque Rōmānus (&quot;The Senate and People of Rome&quot;)) is on his upper arm. Vegetius (ancient Roman historian) confirms that soldiers were often branded, although he stated it could be on their hands to make it even more obvious if they had deserted. The punishment for desertion was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fustuarium&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fustuarium&lt;/a&gt; (being clubbed to death). It does appear logical that, in the film, the slave owners who found and identified Maximus would have realised they could have lost a lot of money on a valuable slave if that had happened to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, having said all that, it is worth remembering that it made for a fantastic story and so historical accuracy was not high up Ridley Scott's list of priorities. For more information on this, just check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_accuracy_of_Gladiator_%282000_film%29#Architectural&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt; which lists a large collection of the historical inaccuracies prevalent in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T19:37:12.210" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18080" CreationDate="2014-03-17T20:01:09.390" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering this myself when I watched it last night. I sat wondering, &quot;What the crap, why?&quot; It bothered me so much I Google'd it and found this. I honestly can't come to a real conclusion other than Harlan DeGroat (Woody Harrelson) needs to be depicted as miscreant with limited tools to navigate life. Violence is his means drugs his entertainment. If it's not clear, DeGroat is a crime boss not just a low life leader of a rural area. Killing Rodney and Harlen might simply be an example of his power over the area, he can openly kill anyone he wants and the law can do little to stop or reprimand him. Maybe the death of the two would further his image as a crime boss. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On another note I would find it understandable that he might kill someone indebted to him to send a message to others he might deal with vs collecting money he most likely will never get. So Petty's (Dafoe) death might serve that purpose and killing Rodney, I might assert DeGroat might not need a reason or that Rodney exemplified the same contempt for life and violence DeGroat had, so he offs him. When DeGroat first interacts with Rodney there's serious tension, DeGroat even goes as far as slapping Rodney, behavior reminds me of Alpha dog pack nature. Maybe DeGoat sees Rodney's lack of fear as a danger seeing there's always some weird dude following him around almost the whole movie, everyone is subject to him hence the initial drive in theater fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another explanation...&#xA;It could be one dimensional thinking of how to progress the story. For a revenge story it is slow and even timid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8611" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-23T21:54:05.877" LastActivityDate="2014-08-23T21:54:05.877" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18092" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-17T19:56:57.047" Score="1" ViewCount="6204" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1837703/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Fifth Estate&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Julian and Daniel are using a program which seems to be a combined interface for chatting, compiling source, and monitoring server traffic all in one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a real user interface, or something purely fictional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, one of the characters even referenced &quot;Tor&quot; at some point:  I'm not sure if he too was using this uber-UI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="enragetimer" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-17T20:18:07.857" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T20:06:13.887" Title="In &quot;The Fifth Estate&quot;, what is the name of the program that Julian and Daniel are using?" Tags="|the-fifth-estate|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2860" CreationDate="2014-03-17T20:07:27.733" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the other answer talks about one of the masterminds behind it, I feel that the spirit of the question asks for the person who actually put out the notice. The person who actually issued the Burn Notice was NSA agent Phillip Cowen. If you watch the towards the end of season one Micheal figures this out and he sets up a meeting with him. While he doesn't say much before he is executed, he does tell Micheal that,&quot;This is much bigger than me or you. Bigger than all of us&quot; Hinting that he is part of the organization that we learn about later in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8612" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T20:07:27.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18004" CreationDate="2014-03-17T20:07:34.547" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bnM4V.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Triangle (2005) - Pic 01&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452573&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Triangle&lt;/strong&gt; (2005)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/the-triangle/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;tv.com&lt;/a&gt;, here's a synopsis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A ragtag team of scientists, led by billionaire Eric Benirall&lt;/strong&gt;, attempts to discover what in &lt;strong&gt;the Bermuda Triangle&lt;/strong&gt; is causing&#xA;  Benirall's cargo ships to disappear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G2ZJh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Triangle (2005) - Pic 02&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wn2z4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Triangle (2005) - Pic 03&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scififreaksite.com/triangle.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; reveals details of the crash:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A passenger plane crashes in the triangle&lt;/strong&gt; and the rescue vessels find the plane on the  sea bed, covered with 50 years worth of corrosion on barnacles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the same time and place, they find torpedo planes from the 50s in almost perfect &#xA;  condition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There is also a little girl survivor in the toilet, a 6 year-old in the body of a 60 year old&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a 3-part mini-series. Watch the scene where the girl hides in the plane's lavatory &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZIQj-RD7FM&amp;amp;t=42m49s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Shortly after, you'll see those &quot;old planes&quot; make a dramatic entrance as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZIQj-RD7FM&amp;amp;t=57m20s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for the scene where divers rescue the little girl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more thing. The series doesn't end quite the way you've described it. But don't worry, I won't spoil it for you :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;~ Screenshots from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.centropoholics.com/tv/TheTriangle/gallery.html?category=1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Centropoholics.com&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=gingoba&amp;amp;logNo=80063382197&amp;amp;redirect=Dlog&amp;amp;widgetTypeCall=true&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;NAVER&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T20:07:34.547" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18092" CreationDate="2014-03-17T20:32:13.563" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears to be a mixture of several languages and apps, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1v4ttd/linuxratpoison_movie_os_on_the_fifth_estate/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt; on reddit.  If you click on the link at the very top of the discussion, you will see quite a few screenshots of the app in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T20:32:13.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18098" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-17T23:06:24.470" Score="5" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060295/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Defector&lt;/em&gt; (orig.: &lt;em&gt;L'espion&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Prof. Bower&lt;/em&gt; enters his hotel room and surprises a naked woman that is taking a bath in his bathroom. She excuses herself and says that she's living one floor up, her bathroom is not working and she thought this room to be empty. She then leaves the sightly perplexed &lt;em&gt;Bower&lt;/em&gt; in a towel and seems to head to her room. Yet on the floor in front of &lt;em&gt;Bower&lt;/em&gt;'s room she is called into another room by a man standing in an open door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I wonder what this scene was all about&lt;/strong&gt;, since it isn't picked up at any later point in the story and I'm not sure what to make of all this. Was this really just a distraction without any relevance to the rest of the plot or was there more to it that I just didn't get? Was this already part of the Stasi's attempt to turn &lt;em&gt;Bower&lt;/em&gt; crazy? Or maybe it was a dropped story arc and the source novel might give some explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-17T23:35:31.813" LastActivityDate="2014-03-17T23:35:31.813" Title="What was the matter with the woman in the bathroom?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-defector|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18099" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-17T23:32:38.177" Score="1" ViewCount="137" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060295/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Defector&lt;/em&gt; (orig.: &lt;em&gt;L'espion&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Peter Heinzmann&lt;/em&gt; meets up with &lt;em&gt;Prof. Bower&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Agent Adams&lt;/em&gt; in West Germany after he defected (more or less due to his experiences in &lt;em&gt;Bower&lt;/em&gt;'s case). Yet we know that he actually was sent there against his will by the Stasi (after having been deliberately shot multiple times for better alibi) to get further friends with &lt;em&gt;Bower&lt;/em&gt; and try to turn him over to the East yet again. But when leaving them as pedestrian he gets into a street accident and is hit by a truck. He dies in &lt;em&gt;Bower&lt;/em&gt;'s arms saying something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maybe it's better this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this seems to be alluding to the neverending circle of mistrust, defection an anti-defection they were trapped in and which is finally broken by his death, it is still unclear to me &lt;strong&gt;if he actually killed himself by running into that truck on purpose or if this really was just an accident.&lt;/strong&gt; Maybe this is intentionally left open for interpretation, but maybe there is a definite answer I missed from the movie or it is further explained in the source novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in addition to that, if he really killed himself, &lt;strong&gt;I wonder why he did so&lt;/strong&gt;, given that he had alternatives. In the end he was sent into the West as a free man and had no motivation to participate in the Stasi's plans. He could just have explained the situation to the CIA (or not said anything at all about it) and switch from a pretended defection to a real defection instead of commiting suicide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-18T12:16:25.963" LastActivityDate="2016-07-22T01:22:39.377" Title="Did Heinzmann run into the truck on purpose?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-defector|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18100" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-18T01:28:15.237" Score="4" ViewCount="3887" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Truman Show&lt;/em&gt;, a child is adopted by a corporation.  Often, people say corporations are legally considered as &quot;people&quot;, insofar as tax law is concerned.  But I doubt that a corporation can legally adopt a person in real life.  Although, I can't find any credible evidence to support my hypothesis.  Can anyone provide a reference to how plausible the premise of the Truman Show is?  That is, is there any law barring a corporation from adopting a person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5225" LastEditorUserId="5225" LastEditDate="2014-03-18T03:35:48.750" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T04:14:41.323" Title="Can a corporation really adopt a person?" Tags="|the-truman-show|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11511" CreationDate="2014-03-18T02:14:30.970" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Say you're a fan of the show, and you've never been to a Cheesecake Factory.  You go there expecting a Denny's and you get the real thing.  Are you disappointed?  It's likely that you think, &quot;Wow, this is way better than the place on TV.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's good advertising.  The best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8614" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T02:14:30.970" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18100" CreationDate="2014-03-18T03:20:22.057" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adoption requires close scrutinizing of the prospective environment and guardians.  They don't just allow anyone to adopt, and it is inconceivable that an entity (such as a corporation is) could actually adopt a child.  The movie was purely satire about the voyeuristic nature of our current entertainment choices (particularly &quot;Reality TV&quot; shows).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T03:20:22.057" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18100" CreationDate="2014-03-18T04:14:41.323" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll interpret your question to specifically relate to US adoption laws, as you are referring to the case in the Truman Show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not a legal expert - but I've briefly reviewed &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Corporate personhood&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (from Wikipedia) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/statutes/parties.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Who May Adopt, Be Adopted, or Place a Child for Adoption?&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (pdf from childwelfare.gov).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think in short the answer is no - under current laws a corporation could not adopt. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that in general State adoption laws indicate that single adults or a husband and wife are generally required to be adopted parent (I know that in Michigan this is being challenged by a same sex couple who would like to be able to jointly adopt - but this does not challenge the premise of my answer).  The state laws indicate minimum ages for adoptive parents and/or a minimum age gap between the new parent and adopted child.  Corporations do not have 'age', and they are not generally referred to as adults.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Corporations are treated as people in some aspects of the law - this goes back to the constitution, both as corporations are groups of people and should be afforded protections as such, but also for convenience to treat corporations as entities.  As a result they can enter into contracts, make political donations, be taxed or sue and be sued in the courts.  However the courts have often restricted the rights of corporations and they do not have equal rights to citizens - e.g. a corporation has no right against self incrimination as a person does under the Fifth Amendment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the rights of corporate personhood are resticted and current state laws would prevent adoption of a child by a corporation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T04:14:41.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18104" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18106" CreationDate="2014-03-18T05:24:06.727" Score="6" ViewCount="81494" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the The Walking Dead episode &quot;The Grove&quot; (S04E14) the end showed ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Carol shooting the lizzy in the head because she was a mentally unstable and dangerous and Tyrese and Carol decided she couldn't be around other people. We see Tyrese and Carol walking away from the house, but without a baby in their arms. When they showed the graves of the two girls, they also showed a 3rd smaller grave with baby shoes hanging on the cross. What happened? Did they kill Judith too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-18T07:46:23.477" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T05:56:40.023" Title="What happened to Judith?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18105" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18107" CreationDate="2014-03-18T08:12:23.840" Score="24" ViewCount="44417" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that usually British sitcoms have far fewer episodes than US ones, but Sherlock kind-of takes this too far. I mean, one season has has only 3 episodes, and even the seasons come about 1-2 years apart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was just wandering if there's any specific reason for this? And also the running time of one episode is well above the par (90 minutes against the usual 40).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T22:18:58.987" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T17:20:55.937" Title="Why are there so few episode of Sherlock?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18104" CreationDate="2014-03-18T08:19:51.533" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.examiner.com/article/the-walking-dead-4x14-where-was-baby-judith-at-the-end-of-the-grove&quot;&gt;Examiner.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some fans noticed that Tyreese had some sort of carrier on his back.&#xA;  Inside it resembled a baby, although the shot of it wasn't close up.&#xA;  This caused some confusion with fans on whether baby Judith was dead&#xA;  or alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On &quot;The Talking Dead,&quot; the subject of baby Judith was brought up and&#xA;  it was confirmed that the infant is alive and well. She was in the&#xA;  carrier that was on Tyreese's back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If she had died, it would make sense why they wouldn't show her at&#xA;  all. The death of two children is hard enough for one episode,&#xA;  although one of them was a danger to survivors everywhere. But seeing&#xA;  the death of a baby would be too much for many viewers. Not only that,&#xA;  but fans are looking forward to Rick and Carl finding out that Judy is&#xA;  alive after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a different &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.examiner.com/article/the-walking-dead-news-talking-dead-confirms-if-judith-is-dead-or-alive&quot;&gt;Examiner.com&lt;/a&gt; article referencing the Talking Dead chat show:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On March 16, &quot;The Talking Dead&quot; confirmed the fate of the baby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They didn't show Judith at the end of the episode when Carol and&#xA;  Tyreese were walking away, but if you paid attention you could tell&#xA;  she was there. He was wearing a yellow pouch on his back. Paying&#xA;  attention to it you could tell that it was Judith and could see her&#xA;  head with a hood on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On &quot;The Talking Dead,&quot; it was confirmed that yes that was Judith on&#xA;  his back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T08:19:51.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18105" CreationDate="2014-03-18T08:26:01.697" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've already stated the fact British shows tend to have fewer episodes than their American counterparts (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9020/why-do-british-sitcoms-have-so-many-fewer-episodes-than-american-ones/9106#9106&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for a great explanation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are a few other things to consider when discussing Sherlock. From a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s129/sherlock/news/a379411/sherlock-no-more-than-three-episodes-a-year-says-pbs-exec.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Digital Spy&lt;/a&gt; article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;[The format is] very closely held,&quot; [PBS Executive] Eaton told Collider. &quot;Steven&#xA;  [Moffat] crafts them, and Mark [Gatiss] writes some of them. It's a&#xA;  lot of work, and [Steven] also does Doctor Who and he worked on&#xA;  Tintin, so there couldn't be more than three.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eaton argued that Sherlock co-creators Moffat and Gatiss use up all of&#xA;  their &quot;creative juice&quot; on the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I think there will only ever be three at a time, if we're lucky,&quot; she&#xA;  said. &quot;It's getting harder and harder to do another season, not just&#xA;  because Benedict and Martin [Freeman] are getting such high profiles,&#xA;  but Steven and Mark are busy and in demand.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it does appear that, in addition to the excellent answer I linked to discussing the shorter British seasons, the fact that Moffat has so many other shows to look after means they are on a very tight schedule and don't have time for more episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, to give more background on the schedules of Cumberbatch and Freeman, consider just Cumberbatch's acting roles since Sherlock began:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cumberbatch&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;War Horse    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Hobbit    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Trek Into Darkness    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;12 Years a Slave    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Fifth Estate    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;August:&#xA;Osage County&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a lot of production in a short period of time. Not only are the creators of the show busy with other projects, so are the lead actors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T14:45:43.367" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15160" CreationDate="2014-03-18T09:27:57.230" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's also...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Springfield! Springfield! Movie and TV show scripts&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=835224173&amp;amp;mt=8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Movie Transcript Database for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Movie Transcript Database is also available for Android&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8621" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T09:27:57.230" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-03-18T09:27:57.230" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18110" CreationDate="2014-03-18T09:46:07.333" Score="25" ViewCount="39047" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/&quot;&gt;Catching Fire&lt;/a&gt;, Katniss, Peeta, Haymitch and Effie are taken to the capitol. While Haymitch gives the Tributes his &quot;forget everything you think you know about the games&quot; speech there is some creepy-looking person standing in the background looking like a hollow-eyed fencing enthusiast with tape haphazardly wrapped around her head. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing it's something addressed in the books. Can someone please tell me who it is and why they're there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Cjrkn.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T03:49:49.563" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T13:52:08.350" Title="Background character in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" Tags="|character|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-catching-fire|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18109" CreationDate="2014-03-18T09:51:01.443" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are looking at the unfortunate &lt;strong&gt;Lavinia&lt;/strong&gt;. She is a non-character in the movies, but does play some role in the novels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note&lt;/em&gt; - If you go to any of these links, there are spoilers for the third book. If you haven't read it, be wary. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Hunger_Games_characters#Other_characters&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; she is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An Avox (a servant whose tongue has been cut out as punishment for&#xA;  treason). She has red hair, pale skin, and striking features. Because&#xA;  of her inability to speak, Katniss initially does not know her name or&#xA;  anything about her. Katniss recognizes her from when she and Gale&#xA;  witnessed the girl's capture and the death of her friend, and Katniss&#xA;  later speculates that she is a runaway from the Capitol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To explain what an Avox is, from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Avox&quot;&gt;Hunger Games Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An Avox is a person who has been punished for being a rebel against&#xA;  the Capitol; a traitor or a runaway. Avoxes have had their tongues cut&#xA;  out, rendering them mute. They are used as domestic servants and&#xA;  waiter upon tributes and Capitol citizens. It is also suggested that&#xA;  Avoxes  are charged with the day-to-day maintenance of the Capitol and&#xA;  work shifts in the Transfer network under the city. The term &quot;avox&quot; is&#xA;  from Latin, meaning &quot;without a voice.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some more information about Lavinia, again from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Lavinia&quot;&gt;Hunger Games Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Before she became an Avox, Lavinia and an unknown boy, whom Katniss&#xA;  believed was her brother or lover, were seen by Katniss and Gale while&#xA;  they were out hunting, in an off-limits wood outside of District 12.&#xA;  They appeared to be escaping from the Capitol for unknown reasons, and&#xA;  Katniss noted that the two had a &quot;Capitol look&quot; to them. A Capitol&#xA;  hovercraft appeared; the boy was struck with a spear that was shot&#xA;  from the hovercraft and was killed instantly, then was lifted up to&#xA;  the hovercraft, not to be mentioned again in the series. Lavinia,&#xA;  however, was scooped up by a net and taken into the hovercraft, and&#xA;  she briefly locked eyes with Katniss and Gale. When the boy was&#xA;  killed, she screamed what sounded like a name, and Katniss wondered if&#xA;  it was the name of the boy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Years later, Lavinia waited on Katniss as an Avox whose tongue had&#xA;  been cut out for committing crimes against the Capitol. Katniss said&#xA;  she knew Lavinia, but at that time did not know her name or where she&#xA;  remembered her from. This worried the residents from the Capitol, so&#xA;  Peeta stepped in and claimed that Lavinia looked like Delly Cartwright&#xA;  - a girl from District 12 who went to school with them, and who Katniss claims, could be the nicest person on earth. As an Avox, she&#xA;  could not publicly acknowledge anything that was not a direct order,&#xA;  so Katniss' initial attempt at conversation was ignored. However when&#xA;  she later walks in on the mess Katniss has made in her room prior to&#xA;  interview night she shows some response to Katniss' attempted apology,&#xA;  indicating by gestures that Katniss did not need to be sorry, and that&#xA;  there was nothing she could have done, otherwise she too, would have&#xA;  been an Avox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, some trivia from the same page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She is the only known Capitol citizen who attempted to escape for&#xA;  unknown reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She is not mentioned in The Hunger Games film due to&#xA;  the thought that her presence would have been rendered useless and&#xA;  would not have mattered anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lavinia is also the name of a&#xA;  character in Shakespeare's play Titus Andronicus. In the play, Lavinia&#xA;  has her tongue removed after she is assaulted so she will not reveal&#xA;  who attacked her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She's a truly tragic character and certainly a memorable one from the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T09:51:01.443" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18111" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-03-18T11:43:54.760" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Fifth Estate is a 2013 American thriller film about the news-leaking website WikiLeaks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5612" LastEditorUserId="5612" LastEditDate="2014-03-18T11:47:44.463" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T11:47:44.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18112" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-03-18T11:43:54.760" Score="0" Body="The Fifth Estate is a 2013 American thriller film about the news-leaking website WikiLeaks." OwnerUserId="5612" LastEditorUserId="5612" LastEditDate="2014-03-18T11:49:17.220" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T11:49:17.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18113" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-03-18T12:34:23.810" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;1966 French spy movie (orig.: &lt;em&gt;L'espion&lt;/em&gt;) about an American physicist (&lt;em&gt;Montgomery Clift&lt;/em&gt; in his last role) helping the CIA with the defection of a Russian scientist from the GDR and his subsequent entaglement in a circle of defection and anti-defection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060295/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defector_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-18T12:34:23.810" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T12:34:23.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18114" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-03-18T12:34:23.810" Score="0" Body="1966 French spy movie (orig.: L'espion) about an American physicist (Montgomery Clift in his last role) helping the CIA with the defection of a Russian scientist from the GDR and his subsequent entaglement in a circle of defection and anti-defection." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-18T12:34:23.810" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T12:34:23.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18104" CreationDate="2014-03-18T12:55:50.553" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From someone who watched the show:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The baby was in a &quot;papoose&quot; on Tyrese's back.  There was no need to kill the baby, she was alive and well when Tyrese and Carol returned to find Lizzy covered in Mika's blood, and they would have made sure Judith was well protected from Lizzy afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T12:55:50.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18105" CreationDate="2014-03-18T14:40:19.790" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;To &lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/sherlock-season-4-5steven-moffat-sue-vertue-interview/&quot;&gt;quote&lt;/a&gt; co-creator &lt;strong&gt;Steven Moffat&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(February 2014)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We deal with scheduling.&lt;/strong&gt;  I’ve also got to do &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436992/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'Doctor Who'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  I’ve got no choice about that.  That’s the day job.  Everyone is a little bit busy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If we made 'Sherlock' the ordinary way, and did a run of 6 or 12, it would have been over by now. It would have been done because Martin [Freeman] and Benedict [Cumberbatch] would never have been able to find the time&lt;/strong&gt;, after the first [season].  It would be done.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who says that the only way to make television is to make loads and loads of episodes for five years, until everybody is absolutely sick of it, particularly the people who are making it?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I’ve heard so many American showrunners talk about the shorter run – which for them is 12 or 13, but that’s quite a long run for us – and that all you’re losing are the filler episodes, and I think that’s true.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I do think that sharpening the appetite and having shorter runs of more shows is a better way.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you make a star of somebody, you have a chance of keeping them, if you’re not insisting that they work nine months of the year on your production.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;US Shows&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0445958/&quot;&gt;Mike Kelley&lt;/a&gt;, the creator and showrunner of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1837642/?ref_=nm_knf_i1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Revenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; quit after the second season &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/revenge-mike-kelley-creator-leaving-show-abc/&quot;&gt;because&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the pressure to churn out 22 episodes a season while maintaining the quality has taken a toll&lt;/strong&gt;, sometime causing tension on the set and ultimately leading to Kelley’s decision to move on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0156100/&quot;&gt;Marc Cherry&lt;/a&gt;, the man behind &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0410975/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Desperate Housewives&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/tv-moving-shorter-seasons-article-1.1387581&quot;&gt;says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If viewers like a show, they want more. Networks want more. But &lt;strong&gt;for a writer, the pressure can be overwhelming. At the end of ‘Desperate,’ I felt completely wrung out.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001864/&quot;&gt;Noah Wyle&lt;/a&gt;, who currently stars in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462059/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Falling Skies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; had &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/tv-moving-shorter-seasons-article-1.1387581&quot;&gt;this to say&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When I was doing&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108757/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;‘ER’&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;we’d joke about the ‘episode 13 to 17 malaise’. You’d feel like you were sleepwalking and repeating a lot of what you’d already done.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And about &lt;strong&gt;'Falling Skies'&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We could push to 12 [episodes], maybe. But if we went beyond that, we’d start having storylines where I find someone’s wallet and try to figure out how to return it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000102/&quot;&gt;Kevin Bacon&lt;/a&gt; wanted to do only &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/kevin-bacon-to-star-in-kevin-williamsons-serial-killer-fox-pilot/&quot;&gt;15 episodes a season&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2071645/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'The Following'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That lightens the load on the actor who &lt;strong&gt;can continue to do multiple features a year and spend time with his family&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; It can take &lt;a href=&quot;http://guardianlv.com/2014/01/sleepy-hollow-popularizing-shorter-season-trend-finale-airs-tonight/&quot;&gt;8-9 months&lt;/a&gt; to produce 22 episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T14:40:19.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18105" CreationDate="2014-03-18T14:44:13.567" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Time constraints and I would imagine Gatiss especially is a more 'quality over quantity' kind of fellow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1294" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-28T08:49:38.267" LastActivityDate="2014-07-28T08:49:38.267" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18121" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18123" CreationDate="2014-03-18T14:55:12.893" Score="1" ViewCount="1565" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw the Honk Kong action film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestorm_%282013_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Firestorm&lt;/a&gt; with subtitles and have a doubt regarding the ending scene. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, Inspector Lui was debriefing another officer and smiling to himself, then the camera panned out and an iron door of a cell where they were sitting came into view. Was it a jail or a mental institution or somewhere else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user5722" LastEditorDisplayName="user5722" LastEditDate="2015-08-06T09:33:24.257" LastActivityDate="2015-08-06T09:33:24.257" Title="Was inspector Lui in a prison or mental institution?" Tags="|plot-explanation|firestorm|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18122" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18124" CreationDate="2014-03-18T15:01:59.430" Score="15" ViewCount="19393" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the intro of season 1, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Target_%28The_Wire%29&quot;&gt;episode 1&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, detective &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_McNulty&quot;&gt;McNulty&lt;/a&gt; and some random dude talk about the Snot Boogie being murdered because of a craps game. What's the meaning behind this intro scene and the dialog? What does &quot;This' America, man&quot; symbolizes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8625" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2014-03-18T16:21:14.093" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T14:35:55.337" Title="The meaning of the intro to S01E01 of The Wire" Tags="|the-wire|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18121" CreationDate="2014-03-18T15:05:52.493" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Liu is in jail for the crimes he committed while taking Nam down.  Throughout the beginning of the movie he does everything &quot;by the book&quot;, but by the end he is forced to forgoe the rules and has to go to jail as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T15:05:52.493" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18122" CreationDate="2014-03-18T15:26:06.403" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Idea of America being land of the free and people being allowed to do what they want.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Idea of never-ending &amp;quot;game&amp;quot; that everyone on the street must play, regardless of if they like it/want to.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Idea of &amp;quot;us&amp;quot; v &amp;quot;them&amp;quot; mentality between the streets (sticking together) and others.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Detailed Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, for the benefit of others, I'll &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Wire#The_Target_.5B1.1.5D&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;quote the whole exchange&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Man On Stoop:&lt;/strong&gt; I’m sayin’, every Friday night in an alley behind the&#xA;Cut Rate, we rollin' bones, you know? I mean all them boys, we roll&#xA;til late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;McNulty:&lt;/strong&gt; Alley crap game, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Man On Stoop&lt;/strong&gt;: Like every&#xA;time, Snot, he'd fade a few shooters, play it out til the pot's deep.&#xA;Snatch and run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;McNulty:&lt;/strong&gt; What, every time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Man On Stoop:&lt;/strong&gt; Couldn’t help&#xA;hisself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;McNulty:&lt;/strong&gt; Let me understand. Every Friday night, you and your&#xA;boys are shooting craps, right? And every Friday night, your pal Snot&#xA;Boogie… he'd wait til there's cash on the ground and he'd grab it and&#xA;run away? You let him do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Man On Stoop:&lt;/strong&gt; We'd catch him and beat&#xA;his ass but ain't nobody ever go past that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;McNulty:&lt;/strong&gt; I gotta ask ya:&#xA;If every time Snotboogie would grab the money and run away, why'd you&#xA;even let him in the game?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Man On Stoop:&lt;/strong&gt; What?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;McNulty&lt;/strong&gt;: If Snotboogie&#xA;always stole the money, why'd you let him play?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Man On Stoop:&lt;/strong&gt; Got to.&#xA;This America, man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, it seems to be a strong reference to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Star Spangled Banner&lt;/a&gt; and these lyrics in particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;O’er the land of the&#xA;free and the home of the brave?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is America and everyone is free to do what the want. They let him play because this is America and he could play. And if he cheated they'd beat him up, but they'd never stop him playing cause it's America and it's his right. That's certainly one interpretation and impression I was left with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A second and much larger one though is that it's all a game. &lt;a href=&quot;http://poetry.rapgenius.com/The-wire-the-target-annotated#note-2383980&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This site&lt;/a&gt; have a wonderful explanation which I'll simply lift. They describe two types of people in the show, along with one overall concept:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Streets&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;As writer David Simon puts it, “those who are excluded&#xA;from the legitimate economy make their own world.” This is truly&#xA;another world. We see young kids out on the stoop unsupervised, just&#xA;watching the police work as if nothing’s wrong. As if there’s not a&#xA;bloody body out in the street.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Police&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;These people generally aren’t familiar with the streets.&#xA;Even when they are, their understanding is juvenile at best. Still,&#xA;they are forced to interact with this different world, which means&#xA;they often depend on those who live there. This relationship is&#xA;examined in-depth throughout this season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Game&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This is what unites the two different worlds. The “game” has&#xA;many levels, and while it may differ on some levels, the rules are&#xA;always the same: &lt;em&gt;there are winners and there and losers, and you play&#xA;the game whether you like it or not&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, he might have stolen the money every time and they might have beaten him up everytime - but he was from the streets and they were from the streets. They have to play the game together and regardless of how people play, you punish them if required and then let them keep on playing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example of this can be seen clearly in the first episode with Bubbles and Johnny Weeks. They get beaten up for using counterfeit money to buy their drugs. The next time they try the scam, Johnny is beaten up. This doesn't mean Bubbles can no longer show his face in the neighbourhood or anything like that. They're all still playing the game. They got their punishment, and now they can carry on playing, purchasing their drugs and surviving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can also be argued (and has been in several online boards) that the line demonstrates a parallel between Snot Boogie's death and the failure of the State in the drug war, with disproportionate amounts of violence being rendered against the powerless (and indeed Snot Boogie is just a teenager) and no real progress being made despite time dragging on and on. In Snot Boogie's case, he was the victim of violence far beyond what he caused, in a dance (of theft) that carried on and on with no real reason other than it could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A blog of one of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.nj.com/alltv/2008/05/the_wire_season_1_episode_1_th_1.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;New Jersey Local News&lt;/a&gt; discusses this as well, and as it phrases it so eloquently, I'll simply quote directly from it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David Simon likes to say that the first scene of each season of &amp;quot;The&#xA;Wire&amp;quot; encapsulates the themes of that season. In the case of Detective&#xA;Jimmy McNulty investigating the murder of one Omar Isiah Betts, known&#xA;to friends and family as Snot Boogie, Simon gets to explain what the&#xA;entire series will be about...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...The America of &amp;quot;The Wire&amp;quot; is broken, in a fundamental, probably&#xA;irreparable way. It is an interconnected network of ossified&#xA;institutions, all of them so committed to perpetuating their own&#xA;business-as-usual approach, that they keep letting their own&#xA;equivalents of Snot Boogie into the game, simply because that's how&#xA;it's always been done. It doesn't matter that it makes no sense. Only&#xA;a rugged individualist/cocky narcissist like McNulty would even think&#xA;to suggest that things could and should be run differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there's a whole collection of different interpretations. To me, the strongest of them has always been the idea of people playing the game, not out of choice, but due to the hand that life dealt them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, just for trivia, the entire line (and indeed entire segment along with much of The Wire) is lifted directly from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide:_A_Year_on_the_Killing_Streets&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets&lt;/a&gt; which is well worth reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T20:36:24.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18153" CreationDate="2014-03-18T15:50:20.247" Score="6" ViewCount="23514" Body="&lt;p&gt;Im not well-versed in political affairs (I like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856010/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; because of other aspects). So I didn't understand very well why president Walker had to resign. Can anyone explain this to me in &quot;dummy language&quot; :)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7551" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-03-19T20:06:41.030" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T09:33:33.460" Title="What are the reasons for president Walker's decision?" Tags="|plot-explanation|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18062" CreationDate="2014-03-18T17:39:15.340" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aside from the many valid issues found in Andrew's answer, there are a couple other considerations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Showmanship:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;The movie going experience is a show and every detail counts. What happens when the credits roll? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As you said, people leave. They gather their bags, stretch. The soundtrack is still playing, the lights are still dimmed but are progressively turned on. People start heading for the door at their own pace. For the few movies who hit the mark, people linger and enjoy to the last bit the movie going experience, especially those with a great score - without your attention on the story and the action on screen, the soundtrack shines through.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Consider the alternative: display &quot;the end&quot;, cut off the sound and turn on the lights? After a couple hours in the dark, turning on the lights at once would hurt the eyes. Obviously the lights have to remain somewhat dimmed, but with nothing on the screen, it's a bit weird, no? Same for the sound: you can continue playing the soundtrack specifically composed to match the mood of the film and the expected mood of the spectator at the end of the film, or you can cut off the sound or play whatever music the theater chooses. &#xA;People need a couple minutes to adjust themselves to the fact the movie is over and get back to their day to day life. &#xA;Rolling credits exists for historical reasons, but it does also serve a purpose: it's the perfect transition from the film's fictional world and reality.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No harm done.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Once everyone is out, whether there is still 15 seconds of credits or 20 minutes makes no difference: the projectionist turns off the projector. As such the full length of the credits is never an issue in theater.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Learning opportunity&lt;/strong&gt; - Gives a good grasp on what it takes to get a movie done.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's a more geeky reason, but for some movies, I like to see how they organized the various teams and how much personnel they assigned for specific tasks.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8629" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T17:39:15.340" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17543" CreationDate="2014-03-18T18:34:56.020" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yes, there are data banks film makers can refer to.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Often the music on these sites is composed by relatively unknown composers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It seems &lt;em&gt;extremely likely&lt;/em&gt; these sites also contain location music.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This type of music is called &lt;strong&gt;production music&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Detailed:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm only going to answer &lt;em&gt;part&lt;/em&gt; of your question, as the truth is I can't categorically comment about location themed music. However, I can answer regarding a data bank of music and it seems logical to assume that location themed music is found there, along with all manner of other clips (although I can't &lt;em&gt;verify&lt;/em&gt; this without actually signing up to one of the many sites).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Effectively what you are referring to is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_music&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;production music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Production music (also known as stock music or library music) is the&#xA;name given to recorded music that can be licensed to customers for use&#xA;in film, television, radio and other media. Oftentimes, the music is&#xA;produced and owned by production music libraries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike popular and classical music publishers, who typically own less&#xA;than 50 percent of the copyright in a composition, production music&#xA;libraries own all of the copyrights of their music. Thus, it can be&#xA;licensed without the composer's permission, as is necessary in&#xA;licensing music from normal publishers. This is because virtually all&#xA;music created for music libraries is done on a work for hire basis.&#xA;Production music is a convenient solution for media producers—they can&#xA;be assured that they will be able to license any piece of music in the&#xA;library at a reasonable rate, whereas a specially-commissioned work&#xA;could be prohibitively expensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give more insight on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Work for Hire&lt;/a&gt; term:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to copyright law in the United States and certain other&#xA;copyright jurisdictions, if a work is &amp;quot;made for hire&amp;quot;, the&#xA;employer—not the employee—is considered the legal author. In some&#xA;countries, this is known as corporate authorship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So among the work that production libraries store (taken from the first link):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Production music libraries typically offer a broad range of musical&#xA;styles and genres, enabling producers and editors to find what they&#xA;need in the same library. Music libraries vary in size from a few&#xA;hundred tracks up to many thousands...Library music is frequently used&#xA;as theme and/or background music in radio, film and&#xA;television...Library music composers and session performers typically&#xA;work anonymously and have rarely become known outside their&#xA;professional circle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way this works is based on two different types of income streams:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;License fees (paid upfront to library for permission to use music).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Performance income (generated when music is performed publicly, e.g. on tv/in movies).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some information on the market in which these groups can be found:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The production music market is dominated by libraries affiliated with&#xA;the large record and publishing companies: KPM is owned by EMI;&#xA;Universal Music Publishing Group library music has the music libraries&#xA;Chappell, Bruton and Atmosphere under their own name as well as others&#xA;owned by them such as FirstCom and Killer Tracks; Imagem Production&#xA;Music (formerly Boosey &amp;amp; Hawkes Production Music and including the&#xA;Cavendish, Abaco and Strip Sounds labels) is owned by the Imagem Music&#xA;Group; Extreme Music is owned by Sony/ATV Music Publishing; and&#xA;Warner/Chappell (a division of Warner Music Group) owns&#xA;Warner/Chappell Production Music.[4] Established in 1965 Sonoton is&#xA;the largest independent production music library in the world. There&#xA;are numerous smaller libraries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer some of your questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;These are composed by a collection of often unknown composers who rarely become household names, working for a variety of production music companies.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are various data banks film crews can refer to when looking for appropriate production music.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to whether these sites contain music on &lt;em&gt;location&lt;/em&gt; music, I feel the answer is probably yes. Some basic research on these sites seems to suggest so. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.audionetwork.com/content/music-for/background-music&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;AudioNetwork&lt;/a&gt; state:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Background Music often refers to the unobtrusive tunes heard in a lift&#xA;or in a restaurant, and can be another term for musak, piped music or&#xA;weather music.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To many people however, it’s just another name for a&#xA;musical soundtrack, a bed or an accompanying composition on a:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TV show&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Feature Film&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Corporate Productions&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Advert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While background music can be almost entirely un-noteworthy, it can&#xA;also:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;create atmosphere&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;generate mood&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;prompt &amp;amp; provide narrative&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final bullet point, about providing narrative, is certainly something that a location theme change would do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a final note, it appears many of these sites work in one of two ways. You can either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Browse their catalogue and find a piece of music you like, then detail exactly how it will be used so royalty calculations can be created.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Submit a request for a piece of music to suit a certain scene which you describe.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T18:34:56.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18128" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-18T20:50:00.690" Score="4" ViewCount="658" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the ending we see that Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman (in the Hyper Sleep Chamber) go to the Tet and blow it up. Also, we see Julia waking up in front of the lakeside house that Tech 49 built.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that means there should be 2 hyper sleep chambers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, while rescuing Julia, it was shown that all Hyper Sleep chambers were destroyed except for Julia's. &#xA;So how, were there two hyper sleep chambers in the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where did the second one come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4677" LastActivityDate="2016-08-03T23:41:31.313" Title="Oblivion ending Sleep Chamber" Tags="|oblivion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18129" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-18T20:55:27.863" Score="5" ViewCount="30382" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Oblivion, the Tet arrived, destroyed the moon then made a cover up story that humans had fled to Titan, and it was itself a human launch pad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in reality the Tet was an autonomously functioning Artificial Intelligence which controlled the drones and killed humans. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, who built the Tet? &#xA;And could they send another one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4677" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-12-03T20:41:56.200" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T15:36:26.093" Title="Who created the Tet?" Tags="|oblivion|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18130" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-18T21:00:39.757" Score="0" ViewCount="898" Body="&lt;p&gt;In reality in the war the Tet arrives and destroys the moon, causing earthquakes and tsunamis killing billions of people. &#xA;The humans already knew of the existence of the Tet (odyssey mission), and they must have figured out that the Tet destroyed the moon, so then why did they not launch nukes to attack the Tet? Our arsenal is big enough to take out the Tet, isn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if they had launched nukes which failed, wouldn't nuclear fallout actually cause Radiation zones on earth (which were actually a hoax in the film)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4677" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-18T21:49:48.147" LastActivityDate="2016-12-07T12:44:11.573" Title="Why didn't humanity fight in oblivion?" Tags="|oblivion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18129" CreationDate="2014-03-18T21:10:07.020" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We aren't really meant to know who sent the Tet.&lt;/strong&gt; In the film, Beech explains that the Tet is another alien race that's seeking to take Earth's resources for itself. The Tet could be a sentient being all on its own, built by another race somewhere in the known universe that, after eliminating its creators, travels to other worlds, eradicates the dominant native species, and hoards the resources for itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the scariest monsters are the ones we can imagine ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible that whomever or whatever built the Tet could send another one, but they would really have to think about how they would do it. Humanity has shown they're fairly resilient, and managed to take down the Tet and reclaim their planet, and that alone may cause wherever the Tet came from the rethink doing it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-03-18T21:57:52.030" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T21:57:52.030" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18129" CreationDate="2014-03-18T23:24:05.673" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film seems to leave that possibility (another invasion) open as at no point does it ever address the true origins of the TET. However, what might be surmised from the scene near the end where 49 comes aboard the TET is that it believes itself to be an independent entity (it informs 49 that it is his &quot;god&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Failing anything else apparent in the narrative it can be presumed that the TET is a sentient being whose creation was presumably by its own hands or by a race which no longer controls its actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-19T01:04:18.733" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T01:04:18.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18130" CreationDate="2014-03-18T23:28:18.917" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The TET's level of technology was clearly far superior to that possessed by Earth at the time of its attack. Even if a comprehensive plan of attack could have been mounted before the TET destroyed (and thus human civilization) there's simply no telling if that attack would have been successful. And after the Moon was destroyed, any human resistance would have been disorganized and more geared to combating the &quot;Jack&quot; clones sent to Earth, rather than attacking the vessel which sent them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, the TET's arrival was probably not seen as being a threat until it was too late to organize a coordinated defense against it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-19T01:03:12.150" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T01:03:12.150" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16503" CreationDate="2014-03-18T23:35:41.693" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its needing the Earth's seawater is a narrative conceit of story. As the Io9 article states, there are numerous sources of water throughout the solar system which wouldn't require the energy expenditures that attacking a fairly advanced and populated planet, would. Titan, Saturn's moon is almost completely covered by frozen water and there are enough comets in the Oort Cloud at the fringes of the solar system to meet TET's water needs for perhaps its conceivable lifespan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this doesn't quite rise to the level of being a &quot;plot hole&quot; it does provoke enough thoughts if one considers it for even a moment to take the scientifically aware viewer out of the suspension of disbelief necessary to thoroughly enjoy the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T23:35:41.693" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13463" CreationDate="2014-03-18T23:39:17.437" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The radiation zones are there to keep Jack and Victoria unaware that they are not the only &quot;jack and Victoria&quot; on the planet. Had the zones not been fabricated, Jack would have been able to roam the planet, given the range of ship, and he would have eventually encountered his clone(s)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T23:39:17.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17983" CreationDate="2014-03-18T23:57:39.337" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, I just watched the entire film and took notes. I have not read any of the book written by Gary K. Wolf, so I cannot comment in that area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few interpretations that could be made regarding a link between alcoholism and Eddie Valiant in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The toons are all a figment of Eddie's imagination&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This theory postulates that everytime Eddie sees the toons it's due to alcohol abuse. Towards the start of the film when he sees them, he's obviously been drinking. He obviously spends a lot of the time at the bar with Dolores, so is no stranger to drink. He's aggressive and has a short temper (as can be seen by his anger when wound up by the man at the bar).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he first sees Jessica Rabbit he is drinking again. He continues to do so until he is about to venture into toon land (when it could be hypothesised that he has completely lost it and succumbed to the drink).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there's a few &lt;em&gt;obvious&lt;/em&gt; flaws in this idea. Firstly, &lt;em&gt;hundreds&lt;/em&gt; of other people in the movie see the toons. We see two different bars filled with people admiring toons, we see a film studio dedicated to the toons, we see police officers discussing toons, we see humans reacting to Benny the car driving around - so it's clear others can see them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, this flaw could be countered by a simple line of reasoning. Eddie has drunk so much that he is effectively &lt;em&gt;no longer capable of rational thought&lt;/em&gt;. Therefore, everything he sees and does in the film is a lie. He has succumbed to alcohol after his brother's death and could be lying in his own apartment dead hallucinating the whole film. At times he teeters between insanity (the scene with Roger in the bar and Judge Doom, the scenes with Jessica) and reality (the scenes with Dolores). Finally, when he travels to Toon Town, he gives completely in to the insanity and lives the rest of his life trapped in a web of alcoholic lies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could also be argued this gives strength to the police officer's jibe at the original murder scene: &quot;Didn't you used to be Eddie Valiant?&quot; - suggesting a split personality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Verdict:&lt;/strong&gt;  A load of nonsense! You really could watch any movie and apply this scenario to it. This reminds me totally of the famous &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lovelyish.com/2011/09/19/the-creepy-new-theory-about-what-really-happened-on-rugrats/&quot;&gt;Rugrats Explanation&lt;/a&gt;. A total non starter for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jessica Rabbit symbolises the alcohol and Eddie's journey to get past it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the movie starts, Eddie is bitter, cynical and serious. He gets distracted by alcohol in every conversation and takes shot after shot. He gets furious at a fellow customer for suggesting he's working for toons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he arrives at the Acme Club, everyone else is laughing. He is completely stoic about what he is seeing. The violence of Daffy and Donald Duck appear to shock him, whilst everyone else finds them hilarious. Interestingly, he appears friendly towards Betty, the black and white character, suggesting he is out of place/out of touch with the times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Jessica comes out though, he is captivated - as if she symbolises all his lust for alcohol and all the urges to go with them. He goes to spy on her and gets thrown out (almost like a drunk desperate for another drink, pushing his luck too far and getting thrown out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He spies on her and reports back his findings to Roger Rabbit. Clearly he doesn't love her, he's simply fascinated by her at this point. As if he is &quot;casually&quot; getting into her (with her symbolising his alcoholic lust).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this, Roger is given &quot;toon alcohol&quot; and appears to go a bit mad. Perhaps this scene is symbolic of the overwhelming affects of alcohol on the body (juxtaposed right after the overwhelming effect of Jessica on Eddie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He goes to the crime scene next and is disgusted by the similarity of the death to his brothers. He is then insulted by a police officer. In his anger he is struggling. He desperately wants a fix. Along comes Jessica Rabbit (only to slap him). Perhaps symbolic of his desire for a drink, but his body's refusal to accept the alcohol as he has more important things to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After he finally, truly accepts to help Roger (after learning someone is after Acme's will) Jessica visits him in his office. She is flirtatious to him, hairy back and all. It's not her fault. She's &quot;not bad, drawn that way&quot;. Perhaps symbolic of him too? He's not a bad guy. Life dealt him a horrible hand and now he's had to turn to alcohol to survive. Despite all his flaws and difficulties, she shows interest in him. He's still snappy to her, but can't resist her. Almost like the urge of an alcoholic to drink - hateful, but addicted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dolores comes in and he's snapped right back to reality though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Roger claims laughter is the only weapon we have. Jessica appears to like this too. Judge Doom despises laughter. Perhaps laughter is what is needed to win Jessica (i.e. win the drink/move past it/get over it). He and Roger escape the bar and with the laughter scene fresh in his mind, travel with Benny. The whole chase is wild and wacky. But once it's over, Dolores comes in and he's back to reality. It seems much more sober and haunting, but it's real - unlike Jessica (symbolising his fruitless desire for more alcohol).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he suspects Jessica has killed, he makes the decision to follow her to Toon Town - where it all started for him. No matter what negative things happen in Toon Town, he always seems right on her tail. Like he can't escape her, or her him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they are united and he realises she's good (like an alcoholic getting that first sip and rekindling their love), she tells him she loves Roger because she makes him laugh. Suddenly, Eddie saves the day with laughter and wisecracks (e.g. &quot;nice booby trap&quot; and killing all the weasels). She is petrified of the dip (more so than any other character) and he saves her - with laughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet Roger gets the credit. But it doesn't matter any more. He's found the laughter, the hidden elixir - and it's enabled him to move past his addiction and come back to reality. He leaves with Dolores and lives happily ever after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Verdict:&lt;/strong&gt; Nonsense! I twisted so many things to come up with this hair-brained idea. Honestly!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alternative Interpretation: Racial Subtext&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has nothing to do with alcohol whatsoever. But there are quite a few racial interpretations of the story, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/06/the-world-of-who-framed-roger-rabbit-is-seriously-messed-up&quot;&gt;http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/06/the-world-of-who-framed-roger-rabbit-is-seriously-messed-up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alfredsullivan.com/movie008.html&quot;&gt;http://www.alfredsullivan.com/movie008.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.epinions.com/review/mvie_mu-1023594/content_25797365380?sb=1&quot;&gt;http://www.epinions.com/review/mvie_mu-1023594/content_25797365380?sb=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The logic is along the lines that the toons represent subservient creatures, living in a segregated area and effectively made to do the humans bidding - similar to black people living in America under oppression until the Civil Rights Movement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll not focus any more on it, as it doesn't answer your question, but it's worth bearing in mind, as those interpretations are far more plausible than the alcoholism argument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Final Thoughts&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible to interpret any story to mean anything you want, as meaning is largely in the eye of the beholder. I could argue that the entire movie symbolises the horrendous movement towards a modernised world (with quips about the freeway being built and the like). Instead, the movie represents the good, i.e. a time full of laughter and simple humour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could argue a ton of other things too, but ultimately, I think the most important thing is to ask what is realistic and perhaps even more crucially, what did the film makers intend. In a film like &lt;strong&gt;Inception&lt;/strong&gt;, there are all sorts of interpretations that were deliberately left in the movie. In &lt;strong&gt;Who Framed Roger Rabbit?&lt;/strong&gt;, it certainly doesn't appear like the alcoholism allegory was ever intended. It was simply a plot device used to demonstrate a man's breakdown following the death of his brother, his struggles with the drink and his eventual rebirth as he gets rid of the drink, &quot;forgives&quot; the toons and lives a happy life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's all the meaning I take out of this fun film and as a final note I would say it means whatever you want it to mean - but I reckon the alcohol allegory is a bit of a stretch!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-18T23:57:39.337" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17468" CreationDate="2014-03-19T00:31:00.170" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;So this is a little stretch but could it be possible that Evans received a phone call while on the way to the safe and was hypnotized then? When Rhodes is interrogating McKinney, he says McKinney can hypnotize people over the phone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8635" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T00:31:00.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18128" CreationDate="2014-03-19T01:03:11.353" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were indeed two different sleeping capsules used at the end of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first one (#06) is the one in which Julia wakes up at the end. It's also the same capsule in which Jack finds her at the crash site, i.e. her own capsule from the Odyssey. Although, in the footage from when they approached the TET with the Odyssey she appears to be in capsule #04, but let's just overlook that production mistake ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second capsule (#02) is the one Jack used to smuggle Beech and the bomb into the TET. We never get to see either Jack or anyone from the resistance retrieve it from the crash site, but we do get to see two people watch Jack take off after having saved Julia, so they could have easily grabbed one. We actually only saw two capsules being destroyed when the droids begun their killing spree, and considering the fact that there has to be at least two empty capsules there -- which the droids had no reason to destroy -- it's very possible that at least one survived the attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2016-08-03T23:41:31.313" LastActivityDate="2016-08-03T23:41:31.313" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18139" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-19T03:46:52.010" Score="10" ViewCount="1054" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a movie around 2000 (which would've been made within 5 years or so of this year) where I heard the line &quot;People who sit at home and watch sitcoms... those people are dead&quot; - this is paraphrase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it was &quot;Instinct&quot; (with Anthony Hopkins) - and my memory of a man like Anthony Hopkins' character saying this line is fairly clear - but I re-watched the film and did not find the line (I also checked the scripts and transcripts) so this does not look good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was NOT: &quot;Goodfellas&quot;, &quot;Trainspotting&quot;, &quot;Silence of the Lambs&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4550" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-27T09:08:57.773" LastActivityDate="2014-12-27T09:08:57.773" Title="Looking for movie with quote &quot;People who sit at home and watch sitcoms... those people are dead&quot;" Tags="|identify-this-movie|dialogue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:02:48.260" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18139" CreationDate="2014-03-19T07:41:30.193" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could this be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125664/&quot;&gt;Man on the Moon (1999)&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Andy Kaufman is being offered a job in a sitcom, and is talking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laugh_track&quot;&gt;canned laughter&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis added):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;- &lt;strong&gt;I hate sitcoms&lt;/strong&gt;, George. I've never liked them.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [...]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - And sitcoms are the lowest form of entertainment.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - I mean, it's just stupid jokes and canned laughter!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - You don't know why it's there, but it's there.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;strong&gt;Those are dead people laughing, you know that, those people are dead!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="287" LastEditorUserId="287" LastEditDate="2014-03-19T07:53:34.570" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T07:53:34.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18141" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-19T09:31:34.363" Score="2" ViewCount="1131" Body="&lt;p&gt;The last we see of &lt;em&gt;Sal Maroni&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is the car flipping over. IIRC there is no further mention of him in the film or in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; either. Has there been any E.U mention of him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-19T09:38:32.187" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T14:04:43.197" Title="Sal Maroni's fate in the Nolan Batman trilogy" Tags="|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18142" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-19T09:33:26.503" Score="3" ViewCount="2179" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Ramirez admits her role in Rachel's kidnapping in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Dent flips the coin landing on the unscarred side and then knocks her out - she is then not mentioned again. What happened to her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-19T09:36:35.203" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T11:21:54.140" Title="Anna Ramirez's fate In The Dark Knight" Tags="|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18142" CreationDate="2014-03-19T11:21:54.140" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no reference to her again, but as you have yourself noted, the coin lands on the unscarred side, meaning Dent wouldn't have killed her. At least not directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dent is bound by his preference for the determination of fate &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; fate, abandoning this would undermine the sanctimonious crusade he has embarked upon, and would also invite his own interpretation to events (and as such accept responsibility for his actions), which is entirely what he is seeking to evade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two face represents the duality of justice, that even in its execution it is able to occupy an 'unjust' position by virtue of of its extreme binary nature: 'Guilty' or 'Not Guilty'.&#xA;His raison d'etre purpose is to become a conduit of the cosmic forces of fate, or in the terms he describes it ...'Luck'. By totally removing his own perspective from the decision, he is able to carry out sentences without remorse or apprehension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He represents the ultimate parable about subscription to a higher cause, in this case the law. The Cosmic Nuremberg Defense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Maroni 'passes' this test, the driver doesn't, and Dent executes him, despite being in the same car (resulting in a crash). He hasn't killed Maroni, he has simply invited another element of 'luck' into the proceedings, another opportunity for Maroni to fail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, this is an interesting example of how the system (Dent, being the extreme representation of justice) is &lt;em&gt;designed&lt;/em&gt; to force a verdict against those which it has an investment &lt;em&gt;in to be guilty.&lt;/em&gt; People can interpret that statement as they may, but it at least demonstrates a system that can be corrupted for personal gain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst this is only speculation, I imagine Ramirez was forced to pay for her insubordination and corruption, but the fact she acted as an accessory under duress (her mother was in the hospital) its unlikely her sentencing would have been severe. Certainly expulsion from the Police, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dent, of course, would argue that the coin landed on the clean side &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;because&lt;/strong&gt; she was acting under duress&lt;/em&gt; and wasn't guilty of death, as that is the celestial/cosmic/chaotic judgement, so given the context its unlikely he would have discarded this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T11:21:54.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18144" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18149" CreationDate="2014-03-19T11:34:12.577" Score="8" ViewCount="2143" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to know why most of the movie titles are in medial capitals? few examples like,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1001508/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;He's Just Not That Into You&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought all the movie titles are medial capitalized but I've observed few titles like,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1206543/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Out of the Furnace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where middle two words are not medial capitalized, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who decides the naming convention of movie titles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T13:29:34.313" Title="Naming convention of movie titles" Tags="|title|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18144" CreationDate="2014-03-19T12:23:20.773" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Different grammatical rules are observed by different titles, often simply for the aesthetic choice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;A a&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Capitalized letters often appear visually bolder due to their comparative size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Factor the consideration that font is something that is only controlled by officially licensed marketing material, and you can see why cramming in as much capitalization can make the title of the film 'pop' when written in print media; which may well explain the preference. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no explicit convention, its simply the result of what a creative team decides is most effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some films employ &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/capital_letters_title_case.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Title Case&lt;/a&gt; capitalization, where the principal&#xA;words are capitalized: After the initial word, short prepositions,&#xA;articles and conjunctions are all lower case.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Others go for Pascal Case, a derivative of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_case&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Camel Case&lt;/a&gt; where all&#xA;the words are capitalized.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-03-19T12:30:39.070" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T12:30:39.070" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18144" CreationDate="2014-03-19T13:29:34.313" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movie titles typically use what is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Headings_and_publication_titles&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Title Case&lt;/a&gt; for their names. This is a very common practice in the US for anything with a title (books, articles, headlines, movies, ... ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each production house has its own variation on which words to capitalize, but they are usually pretty standard with minor deviations. According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://grammar.about.com/od/grammarfaq/f/capitalstitle.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;grammer.About.com:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Capitalize the first and last words of the title and all nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and subordinating conjunctions (if, because, as, that, and so on): &amp;quot;Rules for Capitalizing the Words in a Title.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the little words that style guides disagree on. The Chicago Manual of Style, for instance, notes that &amp;quot;articles (a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, for, nor), and prepositions, regardless of length, are lowercased unless they are the first or last word of the title.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But The Associated Press Stylebook is fussier:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Capitalize the principal words, including prepositions and conjunctions of four or more letters.&#xA;Capitalize an article--the, a, an--or words of fewer than four letters if it is the first or last word in a title.&#xA;Other guides say that prepositions and conjunctions of fewer than five letters should be in lowercase--except at the beginning or end of a title. (For additional guidelines, see the glossary entry for title case.)&#xA;So pick a form--any form. And then try to be consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T13:29:34.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18141" CreationDate="2014-03-19T13:59:09.673" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;His fate in the movie is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal_Maroni#Film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;intentionally left as ambiguous&lt;/a&gt;, but there's some implying by Jim Gordon later that Harvey killed five people, so Maroni could be one of the five.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the comics (specifically &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman%3a_The_Long_Halloween&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Batman: The Long Halloween&lt;/a&gt;, which served as influence in some ways for the Batman films directed by Nolan) Maroni is the one responsible for disfiguring Harvey Dent and turning him into Two-Face. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal_Maroni#Post-Crisis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Eventually he's killed&lt;/a&gt; by the central antagonist in The Long Halloween.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-03-19T14:04:43.197" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T14:04:43.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18062" CreationDate="2014-03-19T14:39:36.193" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In general sense, movies still need credits because every single person who worked very hard for the movie needs &lt;strong&gt;recognition&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still remember, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000965/&quot;&gt;Danny Boyle&lt;/a&gt; who got an Oscar award for Best Achievement in Directing for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/&quot;&gt;Slumdog Millionaire&lt;/a&gt; mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longinus_Fernandes&quot;&gt;Longinus Fernandes&lt;/a&gt;  for forgetting his name in the credits and thanked him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the 81st Academy Awards ceremony, director Danny Boyle thanked Longinus Fernandes in his acceptance speech, while receiving his award for Best Direction, and also acknowledge missing out Longinus Fernandes name in the credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pRlsz4yjpc&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; for Danny Boyle's Oscar acceptance speech.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2014-03-20T06:25:14.823" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T06:25:14.823" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18125" CreationDate="2014-03-19T19:03:17.983" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been some time since I finished the second season now, but I will try to go on what I remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were several reason why Walker was in a difficult position and why his opinion ratings were dropping quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Walker (supposedly) led the country into a growing conflict with China, which possibly could have been avoided. This also led to an energy crisis in the US with raising energy prices. All this was not exactly helping his reputation. Of course, Frank orchestrated all of this behind the curtains.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On top of all that, there was a major investigation going on about illegal donations for his party over the past years. This was bad press and Walker had to cut ties with his biggest ally, Tusk, because of this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Walker and his wife had marital problems. Frank and Claire convinced them that they should seek counseling, which they did. When it finally got uncovered, it was also unveiled that the therapist gave Walker drugs with psychological effects. This was a huge scandal, because it now was suggested that Walker's judgement was impaired. Especially with the current crisis going on, this meant a huge lost of trust for him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In consequence, his polls were dropping rapidly and it seemed clear that he had lost a lot of public faith. This was a serious threat for the next elections and could have cost his party the win over the Republicans.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, Walker was isolated, without political allies or public support. Because of the allegations against him, he would probably have faced an impeachment trial and might have lost the office anyway. Resigning was the logical consequence for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T19:03:17.983" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18154" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18157" CreationDate="2014-03-19T19:07:10.150" Score="20" ViewCount="3969" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that most movies appear to be created by a cooperation of at least one very well known studio (like &lt;em&gt;Pixar&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Paramount&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Dreamworks&lt;/em&gt;, etc.) on the one hand and a company you've never heard of on the other hand (example: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790724/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;Jack Reacher&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; has &lt;em&gt;Paramount&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Skydance Productions&lt;/em&gt;, the latter one I've never heard of). This gives the impression that most of these smaller companies are only ever working on a single movie (which sounds like a bad business model to me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that? Did I just not watch enough movies to know all of these? And why do the larger studios need the smaller ones anyway? I find it hard to imagine the big ones need their resources. How do such partnerships form? (Not a single question but I believe there is more or less is a single answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8646" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-23T15:54:51.120" LastActivityDate="2017-09-05T03:12:35.903" Title="Why is it that most movies seem to be created in cooperation with some unknown studio?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18155" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18199" CreationDate="2014-03-19T19:09:41.487" Score="6" ViewCount="1122" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to remember a cartoon that aired in the mid or late 90s (I think 1996-1997), the good guys drove high tech armored vehicles (It was not MASK) and had specialized suits.  One of the vehicles eventually gets an A.I. installed and starts talking with it's driver.  I can't remember any of the other good guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were 3 main bad guys that were some kind of cyborg or android (2 male and 1 female, no it is not Centurions), who were trying to grow their forces by assimilating normal humans, but would be defeated by the good guys.  I remember a scene with some kind of robotic tentacle around normal peoples neck, head, or chest who would be in the beginning stages of the transformation process.  Also the leaders of each group (Good/Bad Guys) were brothers opposed to each other, which the villain used against the hero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series ended with one of the heroes being captured and being turned into a cybernetic creature who sacrifices himself after the change to save the rest of his friends.  Also all of the villains underwent some kind of cocoon hibernation which upgraded them and made them stronger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any idea what I am talking about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8648" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-24T15:54:10.290" LastActivityDate="2017-03-06T21:56:15.533" Title="Random cartoon from the 90s?" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|animation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:56:29.597" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18156" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-19T20:51:45.903" Score="10" ViewCount="12066" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I've just seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1490017/&quot;&gt;The LEGO Movie&lt;/a&gt; and I was amazed at the intricate details of all the minifigures and sets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if anyone knows what software was used to create the film. Animal Logic, the studio behind the film, have said that they used Maya to model the bricks (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.animallogic.com/#Studios/Work/The-LEGO%C2%AE-Movie&quot;&gt;http://www.animallogic.com/#Studios/Work/The-LEGO%C2%AE-Movie&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8649" LastEditorUserId="8649" LastEditDate="2014-03-22T15:38:10.017" LastActivityDate="2017-02-19T08:46:44.603" Title="What software was used to make the LEGO Movie?" Tags="|effects|the-lego-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18154" CreationDate="2014-03-19T20:52:14.077" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using the example for Jack Reacher in your question, Skydance Productions is a &lt;strong&gt;production company&lt;/strong&gt; under Paramount, otherwise known as a subsidiary of Paramount.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Wikipedia, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_company#Tasks_and_functions&quot;&gt;production company&lt;/a&gt;...:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;may be directly responsible for fundraising for the production or may&#xA;  accomplish this through a parent company, partner, or private&#xA;  investor. It handles budgeting, scheduling, scripting, the supply with&#xA;  talent and resources, the organization of staff, the production&#xA;  itself, post-production, distribution, and marketing.&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_company#Tasks_and_functions&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; Production&#xA;  companies are often either owned or under contract with a media&#xA;  conglomerate, film studio, entertainment company, or Motion Picture&#xA;  Company, who act as the production company's partner or parent&#xA;  company. This has become known as the &quot;studio system&quot;. They can also&#xA;  be mainstream independent (see Lucasfilms) or completely independent&#xA;  (see Lionsgate). In the case of TV, a TV production company would&#xA;  serve under a television network. Production companies can work&#xA;  together in co-productions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example of a production company would be Blue Sky Studios, which produced such films as the Ice Age series, Rio, and Horton Hears A Who. They've been owned by 20th Century Fox since 1997.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A production studio that's a subsidiary of a larger studio may specialize in producing certain types of films. In the case of Blue Sky Studios, they've exclusively produced CG animated films for 20th Century Fox. However, Fox also has &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Searchlight&quot;&gt;Fox Searchlight&lt;/a&gt;, which specializes in independent and foreign/foreign language films (they're the US distributor for 12 Years A Slave). Others are more independent, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted_Pictures&quot;&gt;Twisted Pictures&lt;/a&gt;, best known for the Saw franchise. They've released films with the help of both Lionsgate and Universal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically, &lt;strong&gt;the other studios you see listed are likely owned by the larger studio&lt;/strong&gt;, but have their own managers and staff (usually freelancers) who handle the production of certain movies. The larger studio usually acts as the distributor. Think of it as a way for the larger entity to hand tasks off to others within the same company, and the production company is basically a &quot;department&quot; of the main company. The CEO of a company doesn't handle absolutely everything from the various departments, and instead hires/appoints others to handle those tasks, all reporting back to him in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a nifty &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_production_companies&quot;&gt;list of production studios&lt;/a&gt;, listed as subsidiary, non-subsidiary, or defunct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long story short: welcome to the crazy world of the studio system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-03-19T21:28:03.897" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T21:28:03.897" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18158" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-03-19T21:39:19.080" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The studio system is an arrangement of film production and distribution dominated by a small number of &quot;major&quot; studios in Hollywood. Although the term is still used today to refer to the organisation and output of the major Hollywood studios, historically the term refers to the practice of large motion picture studios between the 1920s and 1960s of producing movies primarily on their own filmmaking lots with creative personnel under often long-term contract, and which dominated exhibition through vertical integration, i.e., the ownership or effective control of distributors and exhibition, guaranteeing additional sales of films through manipulative booking techniques.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_system&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_system&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-03-19T22:58:10.547" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T22:58:10.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18159" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-03-19T21:39:19.080" Score="0" Body="The studio system is an arrangement of film production and distribution dominated by a small number of &quot;major&quot; studios in Hollywood." OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-03-19T23:07:03.270" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T23:07:03.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18156" CreationDate="2014-03-19T22:01:04.003" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I doubt anyone on this forum knows &lt;strong&gt;exactly&lt;/strong&gt; what was used, but typically it is a host of products that combine to produce the finished movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.twin-pixels.com/software-used-making-of-avatar/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; which describes the software used in Avatar.  The list includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Autodesk Maya (most shots)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pixar Renderman for Maya&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Autodesk SoftImage XSI&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Luxology Modo (model design, e.g. the Scorpion)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lightwave (low-res realtime environments)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Houdini (Hell’s Gate scenes, interiors)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;ZBrush (creature design)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Autodesk 3d design max (space shots, control room screens and HUD renderings)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Autodesk MotionBuilder (for real-time 3d visualisations)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eyeon Fusion (image compositing)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Foundry Nuke Compositor (previz image compositing)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Autodesk Smoke (color correction)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Autodesk Combustion (compositing)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Massive (vegetation simulation)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mudbox (floating mountains)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avid(video editing)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adobe After Effects (compositing, real-ime visualizations)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PF Track (motion tracking, background replacement)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adobe Illustrator (HUD and screens layout)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adobe Photoshop (concept art, textures)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adobe Premiere (proofing, rough compositing with AE)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;many tools developed in-house&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;countless plugins for each platform, some of them Ocula for Nuke, Ktakatoa for 3ds max, Sapphire for Combustion/AE.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-03-19T22:01:04.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18162" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18163" CreationDate="2014-03-20T01:25:56.617" Score="5" ViewCount="642" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Transformers (2007) Captain Witwicky is venturing about the Antarctic. I believe he states he's heading to the Antarctic Circle? On this voyage he stumbles upon Megatron frozen below the ice, but this was not the voyage goal. Why was he exploring the Antarctic to begin with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8651" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-11-22T13:54:56.743" LastActivityDate="2018-11-22T13:54:56.743" Title="Why Was Captain Witwicky Exploring The Antarctic?" Tags="|plot-explanation|transformers|transformers-2007|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18162" CreationDate="2014-03-20T03:10:37.150" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on his lines in the movie, &amp;quot;That be the smell of treasure, lads.&amp;quot;, he was leading an expedition to the arctic circle to look for fame and/or riches. That statement probably shouldn't be taken literal. Treasure probably means &amp;quot;what we've been looking for&amp;quot; which is probably anything scientifically significant which is why expeditions to exotic/remote places take place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;References:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Archibald_Witwicky&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Transformers Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Archibald_Witwicky&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;tfwiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another statement he made was, &amp;quot;We'll get to the Arctic first, lads! No sacrifice, no victory!&amp;quot; which also suggest a scientific expedition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some sources say he wasn't a real captin which would suggest he was leading a scientific expedition instead of a military mission. I'm looking for a solid reference to confirm this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T03:15:46.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18164" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18183" CreationDate="2014-03-20T03:15:52.490" Score="5" ViewCount="3717" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm watching the Cinematic Titanic riff on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066845/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Legacy of Blood&lt;/a&gt; and I'm interested in the background of the trope used. In the movie, a family leader dies and part of his will requires his family members to spend a week at his estate in order to claim their share of the inheritance. &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; did the same in the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honking&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Honking&lt;/a&gt;. Typically the inhabitants are subject to scary events or death. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are more movies and TV shows out there that do this &quot;Spend X time in my house to earn the inheritance.&quot; But what is the source of the trope? Who did it first?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3718" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-03-20T05:13:38.587" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T21:58:25.083" Title="Spend a week in my mansion to inherit my money" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18164" CreationDate="2014-03-20T03:44:01.057" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The earliest that I can find an example of this, is the original Vincent Price version of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_on_Haunted_Hill&quot;&gt;House on Haunted Hill&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, in 1959.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While not an inheritance, an eccentric millionaire rents a haunted house and invites 5 guests, along with his wife, and promises each person $10,000 US (Approx $80,000 US in today's dollars) if they stay the entire night after the doors are locked at midnight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many odd events and twists during the movie, including a couple of occasions where the actors break the fourth wall, involving the audience. The director, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Castle&quot;&gt;William Castle&lt;/a&gt;, also rigged up pulley systems in some theaters to fly plastic skeletons over the audience at an appropriate time in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T03:44:01.057" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18156" CreationDate="2014-03-20T07:05:52.923" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The CG was done by a company called &lt;em&gt;Animal Logic&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They used LEGO Digital Designer, a free computer program which allows users to build models using virtual LEGO bricks, in a computer-aided design (CAD) like manner. This allowed them to get high precision models and also the required bricks per model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The created LEGO Digital Designer (LDD) files were then converted into a single mesh ('shell') to remove hidden geometry, unlike the original LDD models which consisted of unique bricks. These meshes where used to build the scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bricks themselves were separately modeled in Maya, with asset and layout builds achieved in Maya and XSI. They observed real used Lego to make the meshes and bricks look used/worn out (they even modeled bite marks on some bricks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get a more photo realistic look they again observed real Lego and used this information to place light sources tactically throughout the scene, enhancing the tear and wear look of the Lego. Furthermore, to mimic to stop motion they used virtual &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steadicam&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;steadicams&lt;/a&gt;; the camera movement was then done using key framing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As conclusion they used the following software:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Lego Digital Designer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maya&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;XSI&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source and more info: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.animallogic.com/Studios/Work/The-LEGO%C2%AE-Movie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.animallogic.com/Studios/Work/The-LEGO%C2%AE-Movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastEditorDisplayName="user9311" LastEditDate="2017-02-19T08:46:44.603" LastActivityDate="2017-02-19T08:46:44.603" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18168" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-20T07:45:15.470" Score="1" ViewCount="2023" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering that on the pilot soundtrack of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112022/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;JAG&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the main theme is segued into from &quot;Engage and Destroy&quot;, but I don't think it's part of the same track. Does the title actually have a name, or just &quot;Theme from JAG&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8655" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-20T09:44:26.813" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T09:44:26.813" Title="Does the main title theme from JAG have a name?" Tags="|soundtrack|jag|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18168" CreationDate="2014-03-20T09:21:31.520" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't appear to have a name. It seems to be listed as &lt;strong&gt;Theme from JAG&lt;/strong&gt; by &lt;strong&gt;Bruce Broughton&lt;/strong&gt; in most sites. For examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/main-theme-from-jag-by-bruce/id380839011&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;iTunes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Main-Theme-JAG-Bruce-Broughton/dp/B003UQGJO2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T09:21:31.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="56882" CreationDate="2014-03-20T11:50:34.250" Score="19" ViewCount="3472" Body="&lt;p&gt;The character Rust, played by Mathew McConaughey in the TV series &lt;strong&gt;True Detective, Season 1&lt;/strong&gt;, has quite a number of quirks or ticks. One of them is to check his pulse at times. His hand reaches out to feel for his &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carotid_artery#Clinical_significance&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;cartoid artery&lt;/a&gt; for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that he is shown to do this exactly after a rough moment. The first time he does it is after his locker room altercation with Marty (&lt;em&gt;when he threatens to break Marty's wrists&lt;/em&gt;). He again does this while accompanying Ginger (&lt;em&gt;one in the biker gang called Iron Crusaders&lt;/em&gt;) on the black neighbourhood snatch. And if IIRC, he does it a third time right after he has had tempestuous sex with Marty's wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does he do that? Is it a way to subdue himself or something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/amwkG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-24T23:28:49.000" LastActivityDate="2016-07-18T15:11:52.720" Title="Why does Rust keep checking for his pulse?" Tags="|character|true-detective|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18172" CreationDate="2014-03-20T15:54:05.270" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a grounding technique I've seen suggested for people who have survived traumas. Basically a bio-feedback mechanism to remind you that you are alive/settle you after an emotionally volatile experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rust is obviously messed up because of things he saw as a cop. His daughter was also killed in a car accident. Rust in general shows signs of maladaptive coping, such as his copious use of drugs and alcohol, never sleeping, and so on. He's a guy who has seen a lot of shit but who is too stubborn to seek help or express how he feels...hence why the season finale was so effective, because it's one of the few times we see him open up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8324" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-24T23:29:59.963" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T23:29:59.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18175" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-20T17:10:35.840" Score="14" ViewCount="8949" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Shawshank Redemption&lt;/em&gt; (1994)&lt;/a&gt;, how did Andy Dufresne dig a tunnel if there was a cell next to him. He had to go through it, yet he obviously didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8662" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2022-04-27T13:34:06.010" LastActivityDate="2022-08-09T12:46:51.317" Title="How did Andy Dufresne dig the tunnel if there was another cell next to his?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-shawshank-redemption|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18175" CreationDate="2014-03-20T17:35:31.720" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;His cell was the last one on the row, so there was no cell next to his.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: I should say, his cell was the last on the row and only had 1 adjacent cell to the left and he dug out a hole on the right wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T17:35:31.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18175" CreationDate="2014-03-20T18:07:24.567" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Andy, as both a model prisoner and a cog in the warden's money laundering scheme, was given 2 priveleges; the last cell on the end of the row (a coveted cell for Andy because of its distance from most activity, which made it quieter), and a cell of his own.  You may recall that he didn't set out to dig a tunnel, it just started when a chunk of the wall fell out while he was etching on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result of his 2 privileges, he was able to dig a hole in the wall that led to the sewer pipe, and he was able to do it undetected since he didn't have a cellmate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T18:07:24.567" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17076" CreationDate="2014-03-20T18:38:05.333" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we know from this meme, it was due to a debt to Jabba.  Bobba Fett was just there to collect the bounty.  This was made evident in the re-working Lucas did on A New Hope, where a scene with Jabba the Hutt was added to enforce the fact that Han owed him money.  For those of us old enough to remember a time when Han shot first, you know Jabba wasn't in the original theatrical release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qFr1R.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T18:38:05.333" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18164" CreationDate="2014-03-20T20:56:21.590" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you've stated in your post isn't actually a trope, but a combination of several. To borrow from tvtropes.org, these include &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OldDarkHouse&quot;&gt;&quot;The Old Dark House&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LockedRoomMystery&quot;&gt;&quot;Locked Room Mystery&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OnOnecondition&quot;&gt;&quot;On One Condition&quot;&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TenLittleMurderVictims&quot;&gt;&quot;Ten Little Murder Victims&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and/or &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/AndThenThereWereNone?from=Main.AndThenThereWereNone&quot;&gt;&quot;And Then There Were None&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. I'd add a few others in there but, on second thought, I should probably reserve those for my comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the plot you described: The various heirs to an estate/inheritance are summoned to a venue. Where, according to the terms of the will, they must spend a requisite amount of time in order to lay claim to the riches. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some &quot;earlier&quot; versions of it in the movies: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059837&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Two on a Guillotine&lt;/strong&gt; (1965)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Duke Duquesne, is a very eccentric magician and due to his lifestyle&#xA;  his two-year-old daughter is sent away to live with an aunt (living&#xA;  there for the next twenty years). News of her father's death brings&#xA;  Cassie Duquesne back to Los Angeles to attend his funeral. The&#xA;  following day, she is told he left a rather odd will. &lt;em&gt;She will&#xA;  inherit her father's estate on the condition that she stay in his&#xA;  creepy palatial mansion for seven nights in a row - alone&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057183/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Indian Scarf&lt;/strong&gt; (1963)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to&#xA;  inheriting all his money. &lt;em&gt;However, he leaves a provision in his will&#xA;  that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they&#xA;  will be able to inherit anything&lt;/em&gt;. An alternate &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.angelfire.com/ny/BloodTimes/EW.txt&quot;&gt;synopsis&lt;/a&gt; reads:&#xA;  The will of a deceased statesman, requires his heirs to spend six days&#xA;  and nights in his  country home, where, one by one they are strangled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055650/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bring Me the Vampire&lt;/strong&gt; (1963)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A group of would-be beneficiaries gather for the reading of a will,&#xA;  and discover that &lt;em&gt;they must spend the night in a spooky castle to&#xA;  gain their inheritance&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056285/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No Place Like Homicide!&lt;/strong&gt; (1961)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ernie's uncle Gabriel has just died but &lt;em&gt;to claim his inheritance he&#xA;  must spend the night in the ancestral home with the rest of his&#xA;  relatives&lt;/em&gt;. Before long the guests begin to drop dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046966/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Phantom in the Red House&lt;/strong&gt; (1956)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A bunch of greedy relatives get together for the reading of a rich&#xA;  man's will. &lt;em&gt;They all have to live in his scary mansion for three&#xA;  days&lt;/em&gt; and on the third day they can search for his hidden fortune.&#xA;  Meanwhile there is a phantom in a red cloak sneaking around through&#xA;  the secret passageways that all spooky houses have in movies and&#xA;  sticking daggers into peoples backs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037151/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One Body Too Many&lt;/strong&gt; (1944)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Insurance salesman Albert Tuttle arrives at the Cyrus J. Rutherford&#xA;  estate to sell the millionaire some life insurance. Rutherford is&#xA;  already dead and his heirs have gathered at the mansion to hear the&#xA;  reading of the will. &lt;em&gt;Rutherford's will won't be read until he is&#xA;  properly entombed and the heirs are forced to stay on the premises or&#xA;  be denied their inheritance&lt;/em&gt;. Tuttle soon finds himself mixed up in&#xA;  shenanigans involving Rutherford's niece, secret passages, a missing&#xA;  body and murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, this particular theme lent itself quite easily to horror-comedies. Hardly a surprise, considering there were so many related as well as disparate elements in the blend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movies with variations on the theme:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_by_Invitation&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Murder by Invitation&lt;/strong&gt; (1941)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The relatives of Cassandra &quot;Cassue&quot; Denham, an old unmarried woman&#xA;  living in New York who is good for three million dollars, try to make&#xA;  a judge declare her unable to take care of herself financially. The&#xA;  attempt fails, and in charge of handing in the petition is Cassie's&#xA;  nephew Garson Denham, a lawyer. Instead he summons a newspaper&#xA;  columnist, Bob White, and his girlfriend, Nora O'Brien, and tells them&#xA;  he has been invited to stay a week at Cassie's estate up in the&#xA;  mountains. &lt;em&gt;The invite states that any relative not arriving on the&#xA;  specified time at midnight on Friday will be excluded from her will&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_Spooks&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Haunted Spooks&lt;/strong&gt; (1920)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The opening sequence has an uncle reading a telegram regarding a will.&#xA;  It tells him that &lt;em&gt;his niece Mildred will inherit the house and&#xA;  plantation as long as she lives there for a year with her husband&lt;/em&gt;. He&#xA;  tells his wife that they must scare them out of the house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of other movies I'd like to highlight. Even though they don't deal with a will or an inheritance, they do involve an ominous invitation. The first one features a treasure hunt which is merely a ruse to exact revenge. The second one has a group of strangers who are invited to a party. And the reason they bite is because they're plain curious i.e. there's no money in it for them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movies featuring a mysterious invite:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037711/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fog Island&lt;/strong&gt; (1945)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leo, a former convict, is living in seclusion on an island with his&#xA;  step-daughter, the daughter of his late wife. Leo was framed by a&#xA;  group of former business associates, and he also suspects that one of&#xA;  them killed his wife. He has invited the group to his island, tempting&#xA;  them by hinting about a hidden fortune, and he has installed a number&#xA;  of traps and secret passages in his home. He is aided in his efforts&#xA;  by a former cell-mate who holds a grudge against the same persons.&#xA;  When everyone arrives, the atmosphere of mutual suspicion and the&#xA;  thick fog that covers the island promise a tense and hazardous weekend&#xA;  for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025566/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Ninth Guest&lt;/strong&gt; (1934)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eight strangers are invited by a mysterious unknown host to spend the&#xA;  night in a penthouse apartment. The eight (5 men, 3 women) are wined,&#xA;  dined, then greeted by their host's voice via a radio broadcast. The&#xA;  voice announces that before the night is over each one will be&#xA;  systematically murdered unless they manage to outwit their ninth guest&#xA;  Death. Based on the mystery novel The Invisible Host (1930) by Gwen&#xA;  Bristow &amp;amp; Bruce Manning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is by no means a definitive list. As far as I can make out, there are stories based on this theme which date back to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/keyword/inheritance/?title_type=feature&amp;amp;genre=mystery&amp;amp;sort=release_date&quot;&gt;1910s and 1920s&lt;/a&gt;. But, hopefully, this post should point you in the right direction.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T20:56:21.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14164" CreationDate="2014-03-20T21:41:29.057" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film was released as something you would want to watch on Valentine's Day. A romance. To give the characters the right state of mind would be to lose some of that romantic essence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, I could try saying something relevant to the point, such as, 'there were a lot of zombies around' or 'the car was low on fuel' or 'she began to enjoy this new zombie and temporarily forgot her situation', but I doubt any of those are the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8650" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T21:41:29.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16981" CreationDate="2014-03-20T23:36:36.987" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To play it safe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that he planned far &lt;em&gt;&quot;more than just banking malfeasance&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, there was a chance &lt;em&gt;Jack Ryan&lt;/em&gt; was not just your average finance analyst (&lt;em&gt;Cherevin&lt;/em&gt; might even have known already that &lt;em&gt;Ryan&lt;/em&gt; worked for the CIA) and that he might still keep digging further, even if his &quot;official&quot; enquiry was put to an end. And in fact that's exactly what he did, the offloading of the accounts did certainly &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; stop &lt;em&gt;Ryan&lt;/em&gt; threatening the operation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that counted for &lt;em&gt;Cherevin&lt;/em&gt; was that the operation, scheduled in a few days, was successful and in this case a dead fincance analyst was better than risking any open ends, no matter if he belonged to the CIA or not (and even more so if he did). Even if this meant risking a bigger investigation following after his death. &lt;em&gt;Ryan there and then&lt;/em&gt; was a potentially bigger threat than a possible investigation for his death &lt;em&gt;later on&lt;/em&gt;. If he was just an ordinary finance analyst, then nobody cares about his death anyway, and if he wasn't, then he is too big a threat for the operation to be let alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I admit that this is entirely speculation and this part might have as well been a little plot inconsistency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-03-20T23:36:36.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18186" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18187" CreationDate="2014-03-20T23:52:57.553" Score="12" ViewCount="55966" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Addams Family movies, there is a large chamber full of gold, money and jewels. Where did the wealth come from? In the first &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101272/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Addams Family&lt;/a&gt; movie, there is a comment made about it being Fester's money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recall seeing a few times in the old TV show, Gomez standing next to a ticker tape machine and looking at the quotes. This confuses me as to the origin of the wealth and whose it really is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2022-12-24T20:02:06.107" LastActivityDate="2022-12-24T20:39:18.593" Title="Where does the Addams' wealth come from?" Tags="|the-addams-family|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18186" CreationDate="2014-03-21T00:44:00.457" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to wiki and the &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.forbes.com/2007/12/11/gomez-addams-money-oped-books-cx_de_fict1507_1211addams.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Forbes Fictional 15&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;, Gomez Addams (originally penned in the comics with no surname, the name Gomez was chosen by John Astin, the actor portraying him for TV), the source is given as inheritance and investments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The character is purported to be descended from Castilian royalty and British aristocracy, which would account for the inheritance portion, and the other comes from lucky (rather than sage) investments. One example given is a swamp that he bought for &amp;quot;scenic value&amp;quot; that turned out to have massive oil deposits, another is a mummified hand he bought at a flea market that turned out to be from an Egyptian pharaoh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the Forbes article, his net worth is guessed at ~2 billion dollars US. It is to be noted, that due to Fester gaining control of the fortune, Gomez dropped off the fictional 15 list in 2008, and does not appear to have returned, despite having a presumed worth of more than some of the lower members of the list in the 1 billion USD range.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="83431" LastEditDate="2022-12-24T20:39:18.593" LastActivityDate="2022-12-24T20:39:18.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18188" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18210" CreationDate="2014-03-21T02:04:57.533" Score="2" ViewCount="17777" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I watched Need For Speed the other day and was curious what the actual charges would be against Tobey as a result of that race? It seems like 180 days would be a bit short to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you haven't seen it: [SPOILER ALERT]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The race starts off with Tobey and three other racers in non-street legal cars (or at least Tobey's is not street legal). As they start the race a sheriff helicopter flies in and starts reporting there whereabouts. During this whole race, several cop cars are destroyed (I believe at least 3 cop cars were destroyed), several of which likely resulted in major injury or death to the officers. In addition to all this, Tobey is wanted across multiple states and is on probation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is putting logic into a movie, but I was trying to explain to a kid that those things in real life would have very serious legal consequences. But then again, I could be completely wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8666" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-21T09:42:46.507" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T14:48:04.943" Title="Need For Speed DeLeon Actual legal consequences" Tags="|need-for-speed|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17406" CreationDate="2014-03-21T05:43:28.907" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Their entire &lt;em&gt;modus operandi&lt;/em&gt; was &quot;&lt;strong&gt;shock and awe&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. And believe it or not, police uniforms make for quite good shock and awe! Just for a minute try to picture a few cops, brandishing firearms, a goon in tow. There body language is very aggressive and seem to be on a raid. Now in any black neighbourhood that is known to have gang affiliations and illegal activity going on (&lt;em&gt;which was pretty definite in this case&lt;/em&gt;), people would duck for cover or scoot to their home rather than confront the cops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rust's pals were banking on the fact that their appearance would at least make the people in the hood think twice before firing at them. Not a single soul, in that mayhem would had or did say, &lt;code&gt;&quot;Officer, may I please see your badge...&quot;&lt;/code&gt;. I agree the uniforms didn't make them look like bonafide law enforcement officers but it sure as hell did make the people second guess themselves. What was an out-and-out robbery, for a while seemed like a night raid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rust knew that as long as they made it a &lt;em&gt;snatch and grab&lt;/em&gt; they would make out of it scratch free. By the time somebody got their heads around the facts that these guys didn't look like cops and weren't driving a cop car, they would be on their way out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, the cop uniforms were very necessary as a tool for creating that effect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-03-25T08:17:52.273" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T08:17:52.273" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18197" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-21T09:10:09.953" Score="19" ViewCount="8804" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Batman Begins, on his birthday, when Bruce Wayne, leaves just about his party is about to start, to save Rachel, he asks Alfred to engage the guests with a joke &quot;Tell them that joke you know&quot;. What is the joke?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8670" LastActivityDate="2020-01-15T01:27:04.640" Title="What is the joke that Alfred knows in Batman Begins?" Tags="|batman-begins|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18197" CreationDate="2014-03-21T09:17:58.593" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene in question proceeds like this (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nolanfans.com/library/pdf/batmanbegins-screenplay.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;from the script&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wayne hurries through the hall. Alfred in pursuit. Tables of food and&#xA;decoration fill the hall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALFRED&lt;/strong&gt;: But Master Wayne, the guests will be&#xA;arriving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wayne turns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WAYNE&lt;/strong&gt;: Keep them happy until I arrive. Tell them&#xA;that joke you know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wayne hurries off. Alfred watches him go,&#xA;exasperated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a reference to a &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; joke, but rather a witty line by Bruce Wayne to effectively ask his butler to entertain all the guests in his absence. There's no interviews I've come across which suggest Christopher Nolan intended it to have any greater meaning than this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, this question &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; been asked over at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nolanfans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&amp;amp;t=12684&amp;amp;view=unread#unread&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nolan Fans&lt;/a&gt; website and, although coming to the same conclusion, the fans came up with a few possible jokes of their own. They're fairly terrible, which makes them quite funny. Since I'm sorry to answer this question in the negative, I'll include one to brighten your day! Here goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't Batman go fishing today? Because Robin ate the worms!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T09:17:58.593" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18155" CreationDate="2014-03-21T10:07:17.280" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wJxzm.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Vor-Tech - Series Logo&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137264/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VOR-TECH: Undercover Conversion Squad&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vor-Tech:_Undercover_Conversion_Squad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, here's the synopsis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The VOR-tech undercover conversion squad is a group of secret agents&#xA;  led by Hudson Roarke. Their mission is to stop Lord Matrix, Hudson’s&#xA;  older brother, and his evil Bio-Mechs from infecting the world with a&#xA;  techno-infectious plague. In their battle with the Bio-Mechs, VOR-tech&#xA;  agents use special computer systems with VOR-technology that imbue&#xA;  them and their vehicles with special powers. VOR-tech agents also had&#xA;  special masks and transforming vehicles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.retrojunk.com/article/show/4390/vortech-undercover-conversion-squad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Retro Junk&lt;/a&gt;, more details about the villains: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Damian Roarke/Lord Matrix, a scientist who specialized in&#xA;  nanotechnology, experimented nanotechnology on himself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Something went hideously wrong and it transformed him into a Bio-Mech&#xA;  i.e. a techno-organic being.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This particular nanotech strain went under the name of &quot;The Matrix&quot;.&#xA;  When someone is exposed to The Matrix, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/VorTechUndercoverConversionSquad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;it transforms them into a&#xA;  Bio-Mech&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://botsmaster.deviantart.com/art/Mechs-351565918&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;botsmaster at deviantART&lt;/a&gt;, here's the rogues gallery:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AefcX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Vor-Tech - Pic 01&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch a few clips from the show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvEivF7cnCQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2nXWdFqOkY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymROav2MgJw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T10:07:17.280" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18201" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18202" CreationDate="2014-03-21T11:08:42.300" Score="7" ViewCount="476" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recall an old Twilight Zone-type movie which begins with a car driving up to a house. There are a series of events/stories told via the characters in the house but at the end (after some horror-esque events) the central character wakes up and it was all a dream. So the character, now awake, goes to his appointment which involves his driving up to the same house at the end of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a close loop movie inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/18200/movies-that-are-closed-loops&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; question and I thought I recalled it was called something like &quot;House of&quot; something but House of Games, Cards, Lies all don't seem right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T11:42:22.623" Title="A black and white movie about waking up" Tags="|identify-this-movie|black-and-white|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:02:54.547" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18201" CreationDate="2014-03-21T11:42:22.623" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/a1vJz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Dead of Night (1945) - Movie Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037635/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dead of Night&lt;/strong&gt; (1945)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_of_Night&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, here's the synopsis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Architect Walter Craig arrives at a country house party where he&#xA;  reveals to the assembled guests that he has seen them all in a dream.&#xA;  He appears to have no prior personal knowledge of them but he is able&#xA;  to predict spontaneous events in the house before they unfold. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The other guests attempt to test Craig's foresight, while entertaining&#xA;  each other with various tales of uncanny or supernatural events that&#xA;  they experienced or were told about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These include a racing car driver's premonition of a fatal bus crash;&#xA;  a light hearted tale of two obsessed golfers, one of whom becomes&#xA;  haunted by the other's ghost; a ghostly encounter during a children's&#xA;  Christmas party; a haunted antique mirror; and the story of an&#xA;  unbalanced ventriloquist who believes his amoral dummy is truly alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The framing story is then capped by a twist ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read the full summary &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/491909/synopsis.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and watch some clips &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxYrjz9jQlc&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq9RUI4exQk&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18kdna_dead-of-night-1945_shortfilms&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T11:42:22.623" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18197" CreationDate="2014-03-21T12:17:06.767" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Andrew Martin's answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's not a reference to a specific joke, but rather a witty line by Bruce Wayne to effectively ask his butler to entertain all the guests in his absence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is not entirely correct.  It was actually a light ribbing of Alfred to indicate he needs a better sense of humor.  &quot;Tell them all &lt;em&gt;that joke&lt;/em&gt; you know&quot; is meant to indicate that Alfred knows &lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt; joke.  A &lt;strong&gt;single&lt;/strong&gt; joke.  It is actually unknown if he knows any jokes at all, but even if he did, I believe that information would be irrelevant to the point Bruce Wayne was making and the laugh it was supposed to elicit from the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="666" LastEditDate="2020-01-15T01:27:04.640" LastActivityDate="2020-01-15T01:27:04.640" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18204" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18205" CreationDate="2014-03-21T13:04:40.690" Score="10" ViewCount="2942" Body="&lt;p&gt;The leader of the replicants was standing in the elevator with Sebastian (a Tyrell's employee). They were going to pay Tyrell a visit. Tyrell asked what does he (Sebastian) need? Then Sebastian uttered his move in their chess game. Tyrell makes his move, Sebastian makes his and it is checkmate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how Tyrell, who is a chess genius, could not see that there was a checkmate in two moves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5568" LastEditorUserId="5568" LastEditDate="2014-03-21T13:11:03.063" LastActivityDate="2017-03-08T20:02:40.240" Title="How could Tyrell lose in chess so easily" Tags="|plot-explanation|blade-runner|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18204" CreationDate="2014-03-21T13:22:27.387" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, he probably should have seen it coming. But, it was a good plot device to highlight Roy's mental superiority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Detailed&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth pointing out that, although Ridley Scott &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner#Interpretation&quot;&gt;denied&lt;/a&gt; it was intentional, this game uses the conclusion of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortal_Game&quot;&gt;Immortal Game&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Immortal Game is a chess game played by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel&#xA;  Kieseritzky on 21 June 1851 in London, during a break of the first&#xA;  international tournament. The bold sacrifices made by Anderssen to&#xA;  secure victory have made it one of the most famous chess games of all&#xA;  time. Anderssen gave up both rooks and a bishop, then his queen,&#xA;  checkmating his opponent with his three remaining minor pieces. The&#xA;  game has been called an achievement &quot;perhaps unparalleled in chess&#xA;  literature&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for a start - the ending of this game is based on real events (although the pieces in that game were laid out slightly differently). That doesn't mean to say though that Tyrell shouldn't have seen it coming. Even in the Immortal Game, when defeat was near, it was obvious to both players. I suspect here it has been left out for dramatic effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, it's far more important as a thematic plot device. Remember, although computers had beaten humans at chess, it had never happened to the highest ranking players. As this &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93computer_chess_matches&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; shows, &quot;chess computers were first able to beat strong chess players in the late 1980s.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This film, released in 1982, was obviously much earlier than that. So here we see Tyrell, a genius and the creator of the replicants, has been beaten not just by a machine, but a machine &lt;em&gt;he&lt;/em&gt; created. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Tyrell is then killed, the ultimate superiority of the replicant over the man is complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scribble.com/uwi/br/brfaq/chess.html&quot;&gt;This link&lt;/a&gt; has a nice description of these themes, highlighting the fact the game is based off The Immortal Game stating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The concept of immortality has obvious associations in the ensuing&#xA;  confrontation between Tyrell and Batty. On one level, the game&#xA;  represents the struggle of the replicants against the humans: the&#xA;  humans consider the replicants pawns, to be removed one by one. The&#xA;  individual replicants (pawns) are attempting to become immortal (a&#xA;  queen). At another level, the game between Tyrell and Sebastian&#xA;  represents Batty stalking Tyrell. Tyrell makes a fatal mistake in the&#xA;  chess game, and another fatal mistake trying to reason with Batty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themes_in_Blade_Runner&quot;&gt;Blade Runner Wiki&lt;/a&gt; also has this to add:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a theme subtly reiterated by the chess game between J.F.&#xA;  Sebastian and Tyrell based on the famous Immortal Game of 1851&#xA;  symbolizing the struggle against mortality imposed by God. The Blade&#xA;  Runner FAQ offers further interpretation of the chess game, saying&#xA;  that it &quot;represents the struggle of the replicants against the humans:&#xA;  the humans consider the replicants pawns, to be removed one by one.&#xA;  The individual replicants (pawns) are attempting to become immortal (a&#xA;  queen). At another level, the game between Tyrell and Sebastian&#xA;  represents Batty stalking Tyrell. Tyrell makes a fatal mistake in the&#xA;  chess game, and another fatal mistake trying to reason with Batty.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To conclude, I agree Tyrell really &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have seen the move coming, particularly if his chess is as proficient as it appears. Any simple browsing of chess rankings shows that at higher levels, the ability of players is staggering and the statistical probability of their victory, or at least their understanding of the game, is colossal. so I agree with you that Tyrell should have seen the move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But&lt;/strong&gt;, as a thematic plot device, it worked well to have him be completely clueless and appear so inferior to his own creation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;William M. Kolb, in his ‘Blade Runner Film Notes’ (pp. 165-166),&#xA;  observes that Sebastian is scripted in the film as a chess&#xA;  grandmaster, and that this both highlights Tyrell’s genius and&#xA;  elevates Roy to an altogether new level of intelligence. However, all&#xA;  three players act in a manner that is thoroughly inconsistent with&#xA;  this portrayal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link goes on to in detail describe what each of the three characters - Tyrell, Sebastian and Roy were likely thinking and the meaning behind their moves. Very interesting and well worth reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to confirm the scene: Sebastian and Tyrell are playing. Sebastian is a grand master and has never beaten Tyrell. Roy whispers in Sebastian's ear how to win (as per &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.trussel.com/bladerun.htm&quot;&gt;the script&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sebastian&lt;/strong&gt;:    Queen to Bishop 6. Check.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Tyrell&lt;/strong&gt;:   Nonsense. Just a moment.&#xA;  Mmm. Queen to Bishop 6. Ridiculous. Queen to Bishop 6. Hmm... Knight&#xA;  takes Queen. -- What's on your mind Sebastian? What are you thinking&#xA;  about.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Roy&lt;/strong&gt;:  (whispered) Bishop to King 7. Checkmate.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Sebastian&lt;/strong&gt;:    Bishop&#xA;  to King 7. Checkmate, I think.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Tyrell&lt;/strong&gt;:   Got a brainstorm, huh,&#xA;  Sebastian? Milk and cookies kept you awake, huh? Lets discuss this.&#xA;  You better come up, Sebastian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-21T13:59:03.347" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T13:59:03.347" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9557" CreationDate="2014-03-21T16:32:05.840" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well according to my theory when max was dancing/practicing with atom in the garden, atom did not respond to max when max was not in front of him. But in the fight with Zeus, Charlie was Shadow boxing...but he was not in front of Atom and hence this indicates that atom could have a brain of himself. i.e He was For Real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8680" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T16:32:05.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13362" CreationDate="2014-03-21T16:51:14.983" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067078/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Face of Fear&lt;/strong&gt; (1971)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a made-for-TV movie from the 70s, based on the book &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ev-cunningham-2/sally/&quot;&gt;'Sally'&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.trussel.com/hf/women.htm#TOP&quot;&gt;Howard Fast&lt;/a&gt; (writing under the pseudonym 'E.V. Cunningham').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edited from &lt;a href=&quot;http://quinn-martin-tv-movies.blogspot.in/2013/02/the-face-of-fear-1971.html&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; page, here's a synopsis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sally Dillman [played by Elizabeth Ashley] is an Idaho school teacher&#xA;  who thinks she's dying of leukemia. She goes to San Fransisco for a&#xA;  last fling and gives $5,000 to a man in the underworld to hire a&#xA;  gunman to hasten her death. When she learns she is in perfect health,&#xA;  she tries to find the gunman and cancel her death-contract.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ricardo Montalban and Jack Warden play police detectives Sgt. Frank&#xA;  Ortega and Lt. Coye who help Sally in her dilemma. They know that a&#xA;  gunman is tracking her every move – even after it is apparent that he&#xA;  doesn't have to fulfill his contract.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't find any video clips to help you out. You can browse through some photos in the link posted above. Just in case you missed it &lt;a href=&quot;http://quinn-martin-tv-movies.blogspot.in/2013/02/the-face-of-fear-1971.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; it is again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aveleyman.com/FilmCredit.aspx?FilmID=5963&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; page featuring some of the cast members. Keep in mind, they don't look anything like that in the movie :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastEditorUserId="7732" LastEditDate="2014-03-21T17:12:48.850" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T17:12:48.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18188" CreationDate="2014-03-21T18:23:30.220" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a pathetically inaccurate legal answer, but it should fit your purpose of getting an idea of the legal ramifications involved and suggesting some reasons as to why the sentence was so low.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, he violates parole in New York. According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.parole.ny.gov/faq.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What happens when an offender violates his parole?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a parole officer determines that an individual released to parole&#xA;supervision may have violated the conditions of release, either by&#xA;committing a new crime or failing to adhere to the conditions of&#xA;release, the Parole Board's regulations provide for the issuing of a&#xA;detainer warrant. If a warrant is issued, the releasee will be&#xA;arrested and detained in a local jail awaiting the outcome of a parole&#xA;violation hearing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the charges alleging a violation of parole are not sustained at the&#xA;violation hearing, the warrant will be lifted and the releasee&#xA;restored to supervision. If the violation charges are sustained, the&#xA;releasee may be ordered returned to state prison for a duration of&#xA;time to be determined by the Board of Parole, or referred to an&#xA;alternative treatment facility - such as the Willard Drug Treatment&#xA;Campus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's likely he would have had a hearing and a possible prison sentence based on this violation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also causes criminal damage (in Nebraska I think). The link to the Nebraska state legislature wasn't working, but I took a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.criminalpropertydamage.com/michigan/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Michigan laws&lt;/a&gt; instead, to get a rough idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Felony Willful &amp;amp; Malicious Destruction Laws&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If any of the following apply to your case, you will face felony&#xA;charges and a potential maximum sentence of up to 10 years in prison&#xA;and fines of up to $15,000 or three times the value of the damage,&#xA;whichever is greater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The value of damage is greater than $20,000, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have 2 or more&#xA;prior convictions of malicious destruction.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could face felony&#xA;charges and up to 5 years in prison and fines reaching $10,000 or&#xA;three times the value of the property damage, whichever is greater if&#xA;any of the following apply to your offense:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The value of damage is between $1,000 and $20,000, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You have one or&#xA;more prior convictions of this offense.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that's a rough indication as to the types of penal sentences possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-consequences-for-illegal-street-racing.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;WiseGeek&lt;/a&gt; did a brief article on sanctions for illegal street racing, which included a possibility of jail time for repeat offenders (as opposed to just impounding and fines for first timers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the possible injury/death to police officers - as this is offscreen, we never see it or know much about it. I think for the purposes of the movie, and to promote Aaron Paul as the &amp;quot;goodie&amp;quot;, we are expected to assume there was no serious injury. Unfortunately, this is a common trend in movies/tv series (think things like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/a&gt;, with Batman flipping police cars).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, even assuming no major injury to officers, it appears there's a fair few sanctions he was facing and his jail sentence seems unduly lenient. So now on to the important question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is his prison sentence lenient?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He's the &lt;strong&gt;anti-hero&lt;/strong&gt;. He's not a typical, breathtaking goody, but he's the guy we're meant to care about and thus he gets a happy ending. He gets put away, which shows the film-makers didn't just &amp;quot;forget&amp;quot; about his crimes, but they reduced the penal sentence to suggest he could get out at the end and live his life normally again. This is not &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; uncommon, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Eyes_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Snake Eyes&lt;/a&gt; for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This was discussed over at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2369135/board/thread/227184396&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; thread for the movie, with someone suggesting &amp;quot;it's possible the real evidence of Dino being guilty could have helped him since he got 2 years for something he wasn't responsible for to begin with.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It could be argued it is a nod to the Need for Speed game series, where drivers frequently get busted by police with no real consequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, the most boring explanation but - it's a movie. Think of the endings to films like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0232500/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Fast and the Furious&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187078/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gone in 60 Seconds&lt;/a&gt;. It all lets the good guy come out on top due to his &amp;quot;righteous&amp;quot; cause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated at the start, the law presented here is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; rough, but hopefully it provides some basis for your answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T18:23:30.220" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17165" CreationDate="2014-03-21T19:41:58.640" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There doesn't appear to be any evidence to suggest they remained, or rather became, friends. Their exact exchange is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ludmilla&lt;/strong&gt;: Good Luck. I hope, we can be friends.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mrs. Creed&lt;/strong&gt;: I hope so.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ludmilla&lt;/strong&gt;: Of course, they're sportsmen, not soldiers.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [Shakes, Mrs.&#xA;  Creed's hand]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Igor Rimsky:&lt;/strong&gt; Enjoy the fight&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [shakes hands with Mrs. Creed]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears to just be a friendly gesture, with Ludmilla's line about sportsmen not soldiers drawing a parallel with Rocky's speech at the end of the film. There aren't any interviews with Stallone or other cast members to suggest otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T19:41:58.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16540" CreationDate="2014-03-21T20:03:03.600" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;As apparently a &quot;good&quot; list question can exist, here we go!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.empireonline.com/features/man-of-steel-easter-eggs/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Empire Online&lt;/a&gt; listed 15 Easter Eggs from the film. The following is almost directly lifted verbatim from the side, so I've put it all in a quotation block:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There’s a &lt;strong&gt;Keep Calm And Call Batman&lt;/strong&gt; poster hidden in the final fight   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Utopia Casino&lt;/strong&gt; sign hints towards another Superman villain...&#xA;  In the comics, the owner of the Utopia Casino was&#xA;  Tony Gallo, an unscrupulous businessman from Nevada involved in first&#xA;  bringing Superman into contact with Kryptonite   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I1qZ1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Utopia Casino&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That very small &lt;strong&gt;Blaze Comics sign&lt;/strong&gt; means more than you think...&#xA;  Sometimes there are comics within comics, and Blaze Comics are&#xA;  just that: comics within the Superman universe, best known for sharing&#xA;  the adventures of Booster Gold, a showboating one-time Justice Leaguer&#xA;  who rocks sweet yellow shades and the ability to time travel. Amongst&#xA;  other powers, he can also fly, but when you can travel through time,&#xA;  other superpowers tend to pale in significance.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xjNXv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Blaze comics&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, that was a &lt;strong&gt;Wayne Enterprises log&lt;/strong&gt;o on the side of the satellite   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jg8nI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Wayne enterprise&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Richard Schiff’s Dr. Emil Hamilton works for S.T.A.R. Labs...&#xA;  In the comics, &lt;strong&gt;S.T.A.R. Labs&lt;/strong&gt; is a research organisation blessed with a&#xA;  S.H.I.E.L.D.-like acronym (it’s short for Science and Technology&#xA;  Advanced Research, by the way).   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4jdLa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Guys&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There were more than a couple of &lt;strong&gt;LexCorp&lt;/strong&gt; references &#xA;  ...The first (and most subtle) sighting of Lex Luthor’s&#xA;  conglomerate’s stranglehold is when Clark Kent is walking up to his&#xA;  family home after hitchhiking his way there. Hitchhiking on – you&#xA;  guessed it – a LexCorp truck...You then have to wait until Metropolis&#xA;  for more LexCorpery, with the petrol truck proudly boasting the bald&#xA;  baddie’s stamp, and the construction site where Zod and Superman&#xA;  battle flying the Luthor flag with a huge banner declaring “LexCorp:&#xA;  The Future Is Now!”   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p8kY5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Lexcorp&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;That &lt;strong&gt;opened sarcophagus&lt;/strong&gt; was most definitely left in on purpose &#xA;  ...Off the back of the prequel Man Of Steel comic, many&#xA;  people have suggested this could be Supergirl, who could appear either&#xA;  in the sequel or as a spin-off.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yksod.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sarcophagus&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are many Smallville hat-tips, e.g. &lt;strong&gt;Pete Ross&lt;/strong&gt;...&#xA;  In Man Of Steel, grows up to be the red-haired IHOP worker.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A definite shout-out to the series is the lingering shot on the &#xA;  sign for &lt;strong&gt;Sullivan’s Truck &amp;amp; Tractor Repair&lt;/strong&gt;, which hints at Clark’s&#xA;  other close chum, Chloe Sullivan (played by Allison Mack). “Yep, that&#xA;  is from the show, the shop,” Snyder explains. “It’s funny, because&#xA;  with those kind of things I wasn’t trying to homage it too hard, but&#xA;  it’s in the mythology, so you have to give it a little bit of love.”  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/90El7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sullivan&amp;#39;s&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Elsewhere, &lt;strong&gt;Whitney Fordham&lt;/strong&gt; is mentioned: in the show she’s a love rival for Lana Lang’s affections.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Weisinger Primary School is named after a &lt;strong&gt;much-loved Superman editor&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jRoM2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;School&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are many other miscellaneous allusions...&#xA;  The understatement-loving girl who says “He’s kinda hot” at the end of the&#xA;  film is called Carrie Farris, which seems like a hint at &lt;strong&gt;Carol Ferris&lt;/strong&gt;,&#xA;  the Green Lantern’s other half (as played by Blake Lively in the 2011&#xA;  movie). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/geeqP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Carol&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then there’s the shattered moon of Wegthor in the skies above Krypton. &#xA;  This is a nod to &lt;strong&gt;Jax-Ur, a Kryptonian&lt;/strong&gt; sent to The Phantom&#xA;  Zone in the comics for accidentally firing a nuclear warhead at the&#xA;  originally spherical satellite. In Man Of Steel, Jax-Ur is the&#xA;  scientist assistant to Zod (played by Smallville alum Mackenzie Gray),&#xA;  and he’s the one who works out the Growth Codex is hidden inside&#xA;  Kal-El.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Smallville’s high school American Football team is named here &#xA;  as The Smallville Spartans, which is in honour of &lt;strong&gt;Zack Snyder’s 300&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p7j5I.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Spartans&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And though Man Of Steel has garnered a reputation of being humourless, there are a &lt;strong&gt;few visual jokes&lt;/strong&gt; you may have missed,&#xA;  including one when Superman is slung against a “106 days since the&#xA;  last accident” sign on a construction site and both the “1” and the&#xA;  “6” fall off, leaving… “0 days since the last accident.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mostly the same Easter Eggs appear in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/superman/26048/the-easter-eggs-hidden-in-man-of-steel&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/man-of-steel-movie-easter-eggs-trivia-comic-book-references/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;, but with slightly different interpretations offered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="6216" LastEditDate="2014-03-22T20:13:07.713" LastActivityDate="2014-03-22T20:13:07.713" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18216" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18226" CreationDate="2014-03-21T20:33:24.693" Score="2" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm able to find some movie posters on Google for old Disney shorts (the Mickey Mouse ones that ran 10 minutes or less), but not all of them. And I'm not entirely sure why it's hit and miss... was it unusual to make these for shorts pre-1950? Would a fairly major (even at the time) studio like Disney have refrained from designing a poster and having prints made?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm withholding the name of the short because I'm not just trying to have someone find it for me, I'm more interested in how this worked in general back in the 1930s and 1940s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastActivityDate="2014-03-22T11:07:20.550" Title="Was it standard for studios to design/print posters for short films?" Tags="|short-films|posters|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3577" CreationDate="2014-03-21T22:52:01.487" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just watched the film again for the 3rd or 4th time and I actually think she does, because her reaction to the news and then when he walks in afterwards, she tells him it'll be ok, as a reaction to what she saw&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8690" LastActivityDate="2014-03-21T22:52:01.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18221" CreationDate="2014-03-22T03:25:00.473" Score="4" ViewCount="30664" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been watching the American TV show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2515462/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rake&lt;/a&gt;, but I have seen no reference as to why the show is called &quot;Rake&quot;. The main character is not named anything that even resembles a rake, and he does not work for a landscaping company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know why the show is called &quot;Rake&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8691" LastEditorUserId="8691" LastEditDate="2016-01-13T14:47:22.760" LastActivityDate="2016-04-01T03:06:28.620" Title="Why is Rake Called Rake?" Tags="|title|rake|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18220" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-22T03:49:40.690" Score="4" ViewCount="514" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fringe presents a wonderful concept of existence of a parallel universe. In one episode, Walter explains how the choices made by the people affect the lives in parallel universes.&#xA;Of course, with time a lot of choices are made and they affect our lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both the universes are shown with the same set of characters with a little difference in their lifestyle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my question is, How come the same versions of people exist in both the universes, when every single choice made, affect the course of the future. If every choice affect the future, then why not some characters did not exist in either of the universe. I know the father of Astrid died in one of the universe, but my question is some of the characters must not have born in either of the universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know from the tv-series point of view, it might not have been possible to introduce new characters but the concept could have been more realistic if that would have happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8692" LastActivityDate="2019-02-17T23:31:17.633" Title="Parallel Universe in Fringe" Tags="|fringe|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18219" CreationDate="2014-03-22T04:23:11.843" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a reference to Keegan Deane's &lt;em&gt;character&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In British English, the word 'rake' is used to describe someone who leads an immoral lifestyle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/rake_2&quot;&gt;Cambridge Dictionaries Online&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/rake&quot;&gt;Macmillan Dictionary&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rake_%28character%29&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a man, especially one who is rich or with a high social position, who&#xA;  lives in an immoral way, especially having sex with a lot of women&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;hr&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;OLD-FASHIONED a man who behaves in an immoral way, for example by&#xA;  having sexual relationships with a lot of women&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;hr&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A rake, short for rakehell (analogous to &quot;hellraiser&quot;), is a historic&#xA;  term applied to a man who is habituated to immoral conduct,&#xA;  particularly womanising. Often a rake was also prodigal who wasted his&#xA;  (usually inherited) fortune on gambling, wine, women and song,&#xA;  incurring lavish debts in the process. Comparable terms are&#xA;  &quot;libertine&quot; and &quot;debauchee&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show is a remake of a popular &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rake_%28Australian_TV_series%29&quot;&gt;Australian series&lt;/a&gt; and the title makes perfect sense to viewers over there. Because 'rake' and 'rakish' are words they would commonly use to describe someone like the protagonist.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, the series synopsis contains a hint as to why the title exists. To quote from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rake_%28U.S._TV_series%29&quot;&gt;U.S. version&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The series follows Keegan Deane, a criminal defense lawyer whose&#xA;  personal problems and &lt;em&gt;self-destructive behavior&lt;/em&gt; has him battling&#xA;  wits and/or owing money to everyone around him, including his ex-wife,&#xA;  judges, an assistant district attorney, his bookie, a brothel owner,&#xA;  and the IRS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go over to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2515462/board/nest/226255489?p=1&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; page for a colourful discussion on the same subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastEditorUserId="7732" LastEditDate="2014-03-22T06:07:06.553" LastActivityDate="2014-03-22T06:07:06.553" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18222" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-03-22T05:26:03.763" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This tag refers to either the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rake_%28Australian_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Australian show&lt;/a&gt; which started airing in 2010, or the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rake_%28U.S._TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;US show&lt;/a&gt; which started airing in 2014.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-03-22T07:55:26.133" LastActivityDate="2014-03-22T07:55:26.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18223" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-03-22T05:26:03.763" Score="0" Body="Rake may refer to either the Australian or US television show." OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-03-22T07:55:32.170" LastActivityDate="2014-03-22T07:55:32.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18220" CreationDate="2014-03-22T05:38:52.050" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well it entirely depends on which theory of the &quot;multiverse&quot; is adopted. They are not all the same and/or implemented the same way. You might want to give the different theories a read to better understand how it is represented based on point of view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The structure of the multiverse, the nature of each universe within it&#xA;  and the relationship between the various constituent universes, depend&#xA;  on the specific multiverse hypothesis considered. Multiple universes&#xA;  have been hypothesized in cosmology, physics, astronomy, religion,&#xA;  philosophy, transpersonal psychology and fiction, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;particularly in&#xA;  science fiction and fantasy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. In these contexts, parallel universes are&#xA;  also called &quot;alternative universes&quot;, &quot;quantum universes&quot;,&#xA;  &quot;interpenetrating dimensions&quot;, &quot;parallel dimensions&quot;, &quot;parallel&#xA;  worlds&quot;, &quot;alternative realities&quot;, &quot;alternative timelines&quot;, and&#xA;  &quot;dimensional planes,&quot; among others. The term 'multiverse' was coined&#xA;  in 1895 by the American philosopher and psychologist William James in&#xA;  a different context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The multiverse hypothesis is a source of disagreement within the&#xA;  physics community. Physicists disagree about whether the multiverse&#xA;  exists, and whether the multiverse is a proper subject of scientific&#xA;  inquiry. Supporters of one of the multiverse hypotheses include&#xA;  Stephen Hawking, Steven Weinberg, Brian Greene, and Max Tegmark. In&#xA;  contrast, critics such as David Gross, Paul Steinhardt, and Paul&#xA;  Davies have argued that the multiverse question is philosophical&#xA;  rather than scientific, or even that the multiverse hypothesis is&#xA;  harmful or pseudoscientific.&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;[Source]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5929" LastEditorUserId="5929" LastEditDate="2014-03-22T05:55:50.120" LastActivityDate="2014-03-22T05:55:50.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18216" CreationDate="2014-03-22T08:40:22.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I might be completely off tracks here, but from what I know, most of those classic (cartoon) shorts weren't the &quot;main feature&quot; shown in cinemas back then. People went there to see things such as the newsreel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most short clips were more like filler content and/or shown before the actual performances (similar to how we've got ads today; in comparison... bad replacement!). During WW2 there've been clips made as ads for people to buy war bonds (this might have been where their whole intention changed?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in general, I wouldn't say it's been standard to create posters. It's been more like the exception (over time, the Disney shorts earned their own reputation and following).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastActivityDate="2014-03-22T08:40:22.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18216" CreationDate="2014-03-22T10:18:30.870" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd be surprised if any of the old cartoon shorts &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; have posters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the old days, animated &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;shorts&lt;/a&gt; were shown alongside live-action ones and newsreels. It all added up to the movie-going experience. They were a part of pop culture then and they still are now, although in a different form. Remember, animation was time- and labour-intensive. So it was common to find animators/studios churning out any number of shorts, before getting ambitious and venturing into a feature-length movie. And even then they would continue making shorts. Why? Because these were relatively easier to produce. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These shorts were advertised to the public in pretty much the same manner as full-length, non-animated films were. Hand-distributed flyers, smaller posters in prominent locations, print advertisements and inserts in dailies and magazines (which came later) were all part of the usual advertising 'blitz'. But there always was advertising present at the venue itself, using theatrical posters and lobby cards. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertie_the_Dinosaur&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gertie the Dinosaur&lt;/a&gt; had &lt;a href=&quot;http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertie_the_Dinosaur&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;vaudevillian and theatrical posters&lt;/a&gt; to promote the short. And that was in 1914. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if tight budgets restrained their advertising efforts, no studio would do away with theatre-based promotions. And there's a good reason for that. Theatres gave the studios a made-to-order captive audience, a group of people gathered in one location for a period of time. These people were familiar with your regular merchandise and they probably looked forward to your next offering. They were also in 'the right frame of mind' i.e. in the mood to watch a movie. To put it bluntly, these folks were susceptible to studio promotions. Think of it as in-store advertising, like the placards and displays in supermarkets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the rising cost of print and production, theatrical posters are still the most affordable and effective way to cut across to movie-going audiences. They're the staple of any movie's marketing plan. Look around you. From standalone theatres to multiplexes, the humble movie poster still holds its own against the most aggressive social media tools. All because it's in the right place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I don't believe that studios opted out of posters for their animated shorts. They were far too valuable to forsake. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Here's my theory: They became collectibles. And it's primarily due to this that such posters have all but disappeared from public view.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full-length features left a larger footprint, they were distributed and shown in other countries. In a lot of cases, the posters used abroad were variations of the original design. Either way, it's easier to track down movie posters, including those for animated features. Shorts, on the other hand, had a more 'domestic' history. Shorts from the US stayed in the US, and if at all they ventured abroad it was to US territories and other venues like, say, US military camps. Similarly, shorts from Britain stayed in Britain and the same goes for the rest of Europe or any other country which made them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lack of an overseas release also meant that there were lesser prints in existence, lesser number of posters too. Over the years, a lot of those posters would have been lost due to neglect or ignorance. And since something rare usually fetches a good price...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've heard of people shelling out thousands of dollars for plates and cels of animated movies. My guess is that there's also a booming market for posters of old cartoon shorts. Take a look at some auction catalogues &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=sew_TAfeW3AC&amp;amp;pg=PA104&amp;amp;lpg=PA104&amp;amp;dq=history%20of%20movie%20posters%20animated%20shorts&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=SpbOqckkUx&amp;amp;sig=xeMdITkRr_paPBnZj8m2Ei1cJXw&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=-eosU9G0GsuSrgfZx4HIBg&amp;amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=animated%20shorts&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=YZ7LpEragHYC&amp;amp;pg=PA55&amp;amp;dq=movie%20poster%20history%20animated%20shorts&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=qRktU7_BLouMrge9mICYDQ&amp;amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=animated%20short&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and you'll see what I mean. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There you have it. I think that the posters you're looking for are tucked away in the vaults of specialised auction houses and collectors. And they've probably been there long before copies were made for reference or research purposes. Then again, that's just my theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastEditorUserId="7732" LastEditDate="2014-03-22T11:07:20.550" LastActivityDate="2014-03-22T11:07:20.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18228" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18233" CreationDate="2014-03-22T11:32:27.743" Score="3" ViewCount="1800" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's this black semicircle thing on Rose's left shoulder (scene where she's prepping to jump off Titanic)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It almost looks like a fake eyelash. It disappears after this shot, and afterward, is seen on neither shoulder again. It looks too oddly out of place to be part of the dress' design, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pjjSG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Left shoulder&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nuRW0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/89dbS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J51lZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3471" LastActivityDate="2014-03-22T17:07:04.520" Title="What's on Rose's shoulder when she's contemplating suicide (Titanic)?" Tags="|character|plot-explanation|props|titanic|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18228" CreationDate="2014-03-22T17:07:04.520" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;To heck with it, I'm going to convert my comment to an answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure the marking is just &lt;strong&gt;some of the fabric of her dress that has come down from her shoulder&lt;/strong&gt;. If you pause the scene just a few frames before your first image, you can see the same mark in that position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume that when they filmed the more close up shots they deliberately fixed it (or the scene was spliced together from different takes, some with the fabric a little low like in your pictures, others not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-22T17:07:04.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18236" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18237" CreationDate="2014-03-22T22:28:33.370" Score="5" ViewCount="2397" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie takes place in Germany, they visit Cologne. The movie was filmed probably around 2005 or 2006.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The killer is a woman with long dark hair and uses a bow and arrow at some point. She's a good fighter and shooter and is really good looking. The man is young, tall and has brown hair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She meets the man (right after he had a fight with his girlfriend, a blonde woman). They have sex and when he wakes up in a hotel room she has left the room, he gets a call from her saying someone was killed in the hotel and that he must escape, he doesn't and gets arrested. She has framed him, he is now believed to be a professional hitman responsible for many murders. On the way to the police station the woman kills the police officers and kidnaps him. She takes him with her to also frame him for the other murders she still has to commit. When this is over she wants to retire and needs him as a patsy. The police and his girlfriend are after them. She kills another victim and there is a final scene with a fight between the 2 girls. Happy ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8701" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T07:20:47.843" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T07:20:47.843" Title="German movie about female assassin who frames a man" Tags="|action|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:03:00.853" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18236" CreationDate="2014-03-22T22:50:13.900" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OIUqH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Final Contract Death on Delivery (2006)&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458349/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Final Contract: Death on Delivery&lt;/strong&gt; (2006)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/405850/Final-Contract-Death-on-Delivery/overview&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; page, the synopsis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;David is broken up over the fact that his girlfriend is moving away.&#xA;  He eventually meets up with a sexy woman who embroils him in an&#xA;  adventure that may cost him his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.beyondhollywood.com/final-contract-death-on-delivery-2006-movie-review/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; review, here are the details:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;David is in Berlin, Germany working at his Uncle’s business. He has a&#xA;  crush on college-bound co-worker Jenny, but can’t bring himself to&#xA;  tell her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He soon gets into all sorts of nutty trouble when he picks up&#xA;  undercover cop Lara during a wacky car chase.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Except it turns out that Lara is not a cop after all, but a notorious&#xA;  contract killer who is in Berlin to off three government witnesses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lara has already dispatched two unfortunate souls, and has&#xA;  conveniently framed the second body on David, who had gone to bed with&#xA;  Lara the night before and is seen carrying the tools of Lara’s trade. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now the cops are after our hero, believing him to be the culprit...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0dDHY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Final Contract Death on Delivery (2006) - Pic 01&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FcUm8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Final Contract Death on Delivery (2006) - Pic 02&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie's also known as &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Dark Ride&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. Watch the trailer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihT31h7P2Ys&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to confirm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastEditorUserId="7732" LastEditDate="2014-03-22T23:08:34.837" LastActivityDate="2014-03-22T23:08:34.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18239" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18240" CreationDate="2014-03-23T01:55:14.720" Score="8" ViewCount="4703" Body="&lt;p&gt;So in the first Pirates of the Caribbean, The Curse of the Black Pearl, when Jack Sparrow first arrives at the port, the man asks him for a schilling and his name in order to &quot;tie up his boat&quot; in the dock. Jack Sparrow gives him 3 schillings instead in hopes for remaining nameless. As Jack Sparrow walks away, the man calls him &quot;Mr. Smith&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, later when he is talking to the two guards at the boat, just before Elizabeth Swan falls from the ledge into the water, the guards ask him his name and he replies &quot;Smith&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any significance in this in the fact that he is referenced to as and references himself as Smith, since the first mate that he recruits for his quest is Arabella Smith, the daughter of the infamous pirate Laura Smith? Or is this just a mere coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8697" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T12:59:09.647" LastActivityDate="2018-10-06T13:37:18.950" Title="Is there any significance in Capt. Jack Sparrow being called Mr. Smith in the first Pirates of the Carribean?" Tags="|character|pirates-of-the-caribbean|curse-of-the-black-pearl|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18239" CreationDate="2014-03-23T02:20:35.873" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if it has some special significance in this particular instance, but &quot;Smith&quot; is one of the most common surnames in the US, perhaps even the most common. So when someone wants to pick a pseudonym to mask their true identity, it's a typical choice. And for some reason, &quot;Smith&quot; has acquired this reputation more than any other common surname, so you'll frequently see it used for that purpose in TV and movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1099" LastActivityDate="2014-03-23T02:20:35.873" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18241" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-23T04:17:49.197" Score="1" ViewCount="104" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the theme song in David E. Kelley's short-lived TV series Girls Club? According to Wikipedia the opening theme is &quot;San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)&quot; by Laura Dawn&quot;, but this is not the song that played in the promos or the series opening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8703" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-23T14:15:52.170" LastActivityDate="2014-03-23T15:37:05.457" Title="Theme from the short-lived series &quot;Girls Club&quot;" Tags="|soundtrack|girls-club|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2016-02-12T10:56:58.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18241" CreationDate="2014-03-23T08:14:46.763" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's '&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAI__h-Bxzo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wild&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;' by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Danielewski&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Poe&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1LPL5.png&quot; alt=&quot;Girls Club - TV Series - Credits&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;~ Page extract from &lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/ooc6v3o&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Encyclopedia of Television Law Shows by Hal Erickson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastActivityDate="2014-03-23T08:14:46.763" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18243" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18245" CreationDate="2014-03-23T08:40:29.303" Score="9" ViewCount="1475" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching a movie a while ago about &quot;intelligent&quot; dog like aliens with like a spike or weapons in their tail (like a chimera) who had their home planet colonized by humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The humans nearly wiped them out but a few survived and the humans set up a perimeter grid to keep them out - movie is about how the protagonist has his family (wife and child) killed by the alien/s when they attack whilst he is off world. They break through the defences and revenge for the attack on their species - rest of the story is about how the protagonist hunts down the alien that killed his family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really good sci-fi movie that makes you think about how the aliens felt while their world was being wiped out just to make room for the humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone know the name of this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bit of a cross between pitch black and star ship trooper style - but it is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; Starship Troopers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8705" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-23T14:28:12.837" LastActivityDate="2014-03-23T14:28:12.837" Title="Identify a sci-fi movie about intelligent aliens who attack an outpost" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:03:04.000" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18243" CreationDate="2014-03-23T08:59:14.387" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rwdve.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Outlander (2008) - Movie Poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462465/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Outlander&lt;/strong&gt; (2008)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 709 AD, in the Iron Age, a spacecraft crashes in the Viking kingdom&#xA;  of Herot, Norway, and the pilot Kainan survives. He turns the beacon&#xA;  on; learns the language and culture of the planet using a machine; and&#xA;  finds that the predator, Moorwen, that he was transporting, had&#xA;  escaped. While chasing the alien monster, he finds a village&#xA;  completely destroyed and is arrested by the warrior Wulfric, believing&#xA;  that he killed the locals - Kainan is brought to Herot as a prisoner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlander_%28film%29&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; page, the details you mentioned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kainan's people came to the Moorwens' world to establish a colony,&#xA;  killing the natives and claiming the planet for themselves. As a&#xA;  reward, Kainan's wife and son were given a home in the new colony,&#xA;  while Kainan and the armed forces left for other conquests. Later, one&#xA;  surviving Moorwen slaughters all the colonists, including Kainan's&#xA;  family. Kainan was dispatched to capture the beast and was returning&#xA;  with it to his homeworld when it broke free and caused the crash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SLftS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Outlander (2008) - Pic 01&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OB1VN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Outlander (2008) - Pic 02&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of what you've described takes place in flashbacks, but otherwise it's a perfect fit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can browse through many more screenshots &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemasquid.com/blu-ray/movies/screenshots/sets/outlander/9f1fefb8-6203-419a-ae85-23837a5e2546#screenshots&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read more about the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifimusings.blogspot.in/2010/07/outlander.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.beyondhollywood.com/outlander-2008-movie-review/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.examiner.com/review/dvd-review-outlander-2008-an-imaginative-intersection-of-sci-fi-and-history&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5135803/the-saga-behind-viking-alien-war-movie-outlander&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Watch the trailer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZBoXCLG_28&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3628270361/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7732" LastEditorUserId="7732" LastEditDate="2014-03-23T12:32:50.373" LastActivityDate="2014-03-23T12:32:50.373" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18062" CreationDate="2014-03-23T10:25:19.840" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Up until circa the 1960s movies didn't have end credits. The director, writer and main cast were credited in the title sequence at the beginning, and movies ended with a simple &quot;THE END&quot; title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was during the studio system, when films were produced in house by crews employed directly by the studio on a long term basis. These studio employees weren't credited separately on screen for every film they worked on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the collapse of the studio system, the studios (MGM, Paramount, Universal etc.) stopped producing films themselves; they turned into financing and distribution companies; the production of films was farmed out separate production companies, who hire crew for each production they work on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the crews who work on films are no longer permanent studio employees but are put together for each film, the unions have negotiated that everybody who works on a film receives an on-screen credit, as a record of previous experience is an important basis for finding future employment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8707" LastActivityDate="2014-03-23T10:25:19.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18040" CreationDate="2014-03-23T10:36:45.760" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A good example of a film knowingly and deliberately acknowledging and breaking this rule (alone with the 4th wall, and other conventions of mainstream Hollywood cinema) is Michael Haneke's &lt;em&gt;Funny Games&lt;/em&gt; (remake and original).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8707" LastActivityDate="2014-03-23T10:36:45.760" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14297" CreationDate="2014-03-23T14:18:31.553" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, he was trying to build up an immunity. Hit the nail right on the head there. Another reason he was using it on the dog was to see if it was lethal or not. The dog &quot;fell asleep&quot; as you all say, but I think Riddick was really testing whether or not it would wake up. So he would know if the poison was lethal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8709" LastActivityDate="2014-03-23T14:18:31.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18241" CreationDate="2014-03-23T15:37:05.457" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; seen the show, or any of its promos - and given it lasted just two episodes it's proving difficult to actually find a link to it anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've already ruled out &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filminamerica.com/Movies/GirlsClub/girls-club.mp3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Laura Dawn - San Franciso&lt;/a&gt;, but that does seem to be listed in most places as the theme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over at the IMDB, somebody &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316984/board/nest/112934?ref_=tt_bd_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;asked a question&lt;/a&gt; regarding the song that appeared in the commercials, with the answer given as &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo2iGkS0pRY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Goo Goo Dolls - Here is Gone&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't find anything else to substantiate this, but I'll post it as a possible answer. Is this song what you're looking for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-23T15:37:05.457" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16225" CreationDate="2014-03-23T17:37:59.247" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because this would involve hampering her own professional life (relation in professional life not permitted in CIA)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8713" LastActivityDate="2014-03-23T17:37:59.247" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18255" CreationDate="2014-03-23T22:25:34.690" Score="10" ViewCount="28126" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the U.S. version of The Office, there were many hints (or red herrings?) that Toby Flenderson, who served on the jury which convicted George Howard Skub as the Scranton Stranger, was actually the Scranton Strangler.  Additionally, there were hints of a darker past for Creed Bratton, so perhaps it was him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was anything definitive determined about the identity of the Scranton Strangler by the end of the series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastActivityDate="2016-07-08T03:13:55.680" Title="Ultimately, who was the Scranton Strangler?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-office|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18254" CreationDate="2014-03-23T22:40:13.087" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the the Scranton Strangler was identified fairly definitively.  Toby was on the jury that convicted Skub, but feels he was pressured to convict, and suspects he might be innocent.  From &lt;a href=&quot;http://theoffice.wikia.com/wiki/Scranton_Strangler&quot;&gt;The Office Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He decides to travel to the prison to confront the strangler about his&#xA;  belief, but when speaking to the strangler, is attacked, leaving him&#xA;  with damaged vocal cords and a neck brace. This confirms that he was&#xA;  the strangler and Toby was wrong in his suspicion that he was&#xA;  innocent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-03-23T22:40:13.087" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18256" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18325" CreationDate="2014-03-23T23:00:38.253" Score="15" ViewCount="1877" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the chaos of WWII and the Mussolini-government the largely devastated Italian film industry developed the so-called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_neorealism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Italian Neorealism&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which distanced itself from the epic studio productions and conservative comedies of earlier times, concentrating on realistic (maybe even as far as cynical?) depictions of ordinary lower-class people and their struggle with the everyday problems in the devastated post-war Italian society.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A different, yet likewise iconic, film genre originating from Italy is  the so-called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_Western&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spaghetti Western&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of the 60s, which took the inherently American genre of Westerns, stripped them from the classic American ideals they depicted (freedom, discovery of the west, pursuit of a better future, ...) and concentrated on their violent essence, putting cynical and emotionless anti-heroes into an even more run-down and cynical depiction of the American west, considered to some degree more realistic than the classic US Westerns of the 50s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing that both genres were in some way efforts to revolutionize existing structures with a more realistic viewpoint and concentrating on more &quot;ordinary&quot; people with less idealistic goals (albeit in fairly different settings), &lt;strong&gt;I wonder to which degree the advent of &lt;em&gt;Spaghetti Westerns&lt;/em&gt; was influenced by &lt;em&gt;Italian Neorealism&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(But I also have to say, that I have admittedly no practical experience with &lt;em&gt;Italian Neorealism&lt;/em&gt; and my theoretical knowledge doesn't go much further than Wikipedia and &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/15734/49&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV&lt;/a&gt;, so I might be entirely making things up here.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T15:49:42.900" Title="To which degree were Spaghetti Westerns influenced by Italian Neorealism?" Tags="|analysis|cinema-history|western|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18257" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18269" CreationDate="2014-03-23T23:38:31.913" Score="8" ViewCount="10944" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually watch &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247082/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;CSI&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a lot with my wife so we have this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they start to seek for evidences they always use flashlights, even when they are in a room that has no energy suppression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that in a place with not so many light sources like a camp a big light could introduce many shadows but in a place like a fraternity room not. They use flashlights even to look at portraits in a table. This doesn't make sense to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know they usually work in the night shift but why don't they just switch on the light?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8444" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-24T00:28:43.737" LastActivityDate="2021-03-26T09:01:56.797" Title="Why CSI members always use flashlight to examine a crime scene?" Tags="|csi-las-vegas|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18258" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18259" CreationDate="2014-03-24T00:33:32.630" Score="2" ViewCount="1440" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of Gregory House's life lessons regarding people throughout the TV show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;House M.D.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; are, from memory:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone lies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone is an idiot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Parents mess up their kids, regardless of being a good or bad parent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Relationships usually don't work.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People have to lie to make people happy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gregory House is mentally insane?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The best patients are the ones who can't respond.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are so many more from each of the episodes, where he tests his friendship, to making people mad, and catching all of the lies which people make. But, are some of these actually accurate to our daily lives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-24T01:24:56.027" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T08:52:45.203" Title="Are Greg House's Life Lessons Accurate?" Tags="|analysis|house|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-03-24T10:02:13.073" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18258" CreationDate="2014-03-24T01:12:46.100" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, this entirely depends on your individual view on life. With a viewpoint as cynical as &lt;em&gt;Dr. House&lt;/em&gt;'s there is probably much truth in those statements, yet with a different approach you can probably turn all those lessons into the opposite. So above all, they are accurate to &lt;em&gt;House&lt;/em&gt;'s individual view of his life based on his past experiences and his character. But I doubt them to be universal truths believed by a &quot;general&quot; majority of the people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So given that you can more or less intepret some truth into any kind of life lesson, I'd rather deem the whole premise of the question quite opinion-based. But let's concentrate a bit more on &lt;em&gt;Greg&lt;/em&gt;'s character in particular and the truth of those statements in relation to that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Everyone lies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, Ok, everyone lies and who says he doesn't is, well, a liar. Taken out of context this seems like quite a pessimistic lesson, but it's as is just an objective truth and a natural part of human self-awareness and ability for understanding other people's positions. Yet while as it stands not wrong, more often than lying people actually tell the truth, so this is quite a half-truth. But yeah, indeed everyone lies. Especially if he doesn't want to discolse some embarassing secret to his doctor, even if it could clear up some mysteries, something that repeatedly annoys &lt;em&gt;House&lt;/em&gt; in his patients.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Everyone is an idiot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing that &lt;em&gt;House&lt;/em&gt; is a very intelligent and equally arrogant person, this makes quite some sense from his point of view. Objectively seen, the majority of the people he meets are probably less intelligent than him. Add to this, that he is also an extremely rationally thinking person, with a disdain for people acting irrationally or sacrificing their intelligence to their emotions and this adds to a large part to him calling them &lt;em&gt;&quot;idiots&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Parents mess up their kids, regardless of being a good or bad parent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again a bit of a half-truth, given that parents are to a large degree responsible for the character of their children and everybody could be seen as messed up in some way. Add to this that &lt;em&gt;House&lt;/em&gt; sees enough people who act with the best intentions for their children yet with not always the best results, especially in his medical context. And he probably is self-aware enough to realize that he is quite messed up himself, too, and maybe doesn't have too kind feelings for his parents, especially his father, if I remember correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Relationships usually don't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again a half-truth, given that indeed many relationships don't work in the end (probably even most) and again porobably much more true regarding the &quot;socially difficult&quot; &lt;em&gt;Gregory House&lt;/em&gt; and his past and present relationships. In the same way it could be seen quite cynically that most relationships require some lies and deception here and there to keep working and &lt;em&gt;&quot;People have to lie to make people happy&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Add to this that &lt;em&gt;Greg&lt;/em&gt; in his job usually sees other people and their relationships in a quite special context, which more often than not puts their relationships to test.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The best patients are the ones who can't respond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is again due to &lt;em&gt;House&lt;/em&gt;'s rather low &quot;social competence&quot; and his above mentioned views of his patients (especially their reluctance to tell the truth) together with the fact that he is a diagnostic expert and can give very accurate diagnoses from mere facts when not being &quot;distracted&quot; by the patients' supposed lies. Yet, I bet any real serious diagnostic doctor would tell you that the conversation with the patients is one of the most important factors of their work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gregory House is mentally insane?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever &lt;em&gt;House&lt;/em&gt; actually shares this viewpoint, this is probably part of the rather few instances of him realizing that he has quite some problems with his life and his relaitionships and is often not content with it himself. But I for myself would not call him insane right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are just some small thoughts about the individual bullet points (and I admit that I haven't seen much of &lt;em&gt;House M.D.&lt;/em&gt; lately), but to sum up, those lessons are to some degree accurate when assuming a view of life as cynical as &lt;em&gt;House&lt;/em&gt;'s and first and foremost pertain to his individual character and experiences alone. Given that you can interpret some truth into any kind of life lesson there is absolutely no way to tell if they are accurate to the daily life of the general public. This is just completely subjective, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-24T08:03:28.070" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T08:03:28.070" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16225" CreationDate="2014-03-24T02:51:26.723" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Brody admits to Carrie that he did indeed convert to Islam but he insists that he is not a terrorist (S1E7). Soon after that, Carrie learns that Tom Walker is alive and hence all suspicions are on him from that moment onward. Carrie is more or less convinced that she was wrong about Brody. Also, after the episode at the bunker where nothing happens to the Vice president she believes that Brody cannot be a terrorist (even though she correctly deduces that the Sniper fire was just a cover to get Brody into the bunker).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure of the episode where Carrie reveals her relationship to Saul, but if it is in the later episodes of S1, well... by then Carrie believes that Brody is not a threat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are talking about later seasons then I guess that the polygraph test must have lost its significance or maybe the electroshock therapy at the end makes her forget.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="1111" LastEditDate="2014-03-24T05:06:08.340" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T05:06:08.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18262" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-24T03:56:11.930" Score="4" ViewCount="914" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0011757/?ref_=tt_cl_t1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ben Richards&lt;/a&gt; know &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0849048/?ref_=tt_cl_t9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Subzero&lt;/a&gt;'s name in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093894/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Running Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hey Killian, here is subzero, now, plain zero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't imagine they had TV in prison, and he never had the chance to watch an episode of the show, although, Richard's character did know of Killian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="376" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-24T08:26:54.913" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T16:42:44.063" Title="How did Ben Richards Know Sub Zero's name in The Running Man" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|the-running-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18267" CreationDate="2014-03-24T07:21:05.030" Score="4" ViewCount="7430" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Veronica Mars TV series ended with unfinished mysteries and unanswered questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Veronica Mars movie takes place 10 years after the end of the TV series. During those 10 years, Veronica attended Stanford for a Psychology degree, then went to Columbia for a Law degree, and is currently a lawyer in New York.  During her interview at Truman, she reveals she did not work a case after she moved to Stanford.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Rob Thomas or any other show creator reveal any additional information for the missing 10 years during interviews?  An extended conversation would be welcome or even a link to a video.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specific questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Did Veronica get an internship at the FBI?  What happened to that, and why didn't she join the FBI?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Did Veronica find out who filmed the sex tape, and why?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What happened during the Sheriff elections? Who won?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-13T21:38:32.490" LastActivityDate="2014-04-13T21:38:32.490" Title="Has missing information been provided for the time between the Veronica Mars TV series and the movie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|veronica-mars|veronica-mars-2014|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18266" CreationDate="2014-03-24T08:24:05.083" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why didn't she join the FBI?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It would be hard to create a movie with all the former cast if she was in a totally different environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Who filmed the sex tape?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This appears to have been resolved in the TV series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What happened in the Sheriff elections?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Keith Mars lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Detailed Answer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can try and answer some of these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why didn't she join the FBI?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/veronica-mars/community/post/veronica-mars-paleyfest-139477799737/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From an interview pane&lt;/a&gt;l involving the show's creator, Rob Thomas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On the film's original plot:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cast is very cognizant of the fact that the film would not have&#xA;been made without the money donated by the fans, and Thomas said that&#xA;once he knew it'd be financed that way, his original idea, which&#xA;involved Veronica as an FBI agent, would no longer work. &amp;quot;I sort of&#xA;abandoned that FBI idea and tried to find a plot to get back to all&#xA;the characters we know and love,&amp;quot; said Thomas. &amp;quot;Because if the fans&#xA;are going to pay for a movie, I want them to see the characters they&#xA;love.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, if Veronica were a rookie FBI agent, she would obviously be in a different geographical location, well away from all the former characters. To prevent this possibility, the movie takes place primarily over an old high school reunion so many of the characters can be reunited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From an interesting article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://flavorwire.com/445880/how-does-the-veronica-mars-movie-compare-to-the-season-4-that-never-happened/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;FlavorWire&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could see how [the FBI idea] would have worked as a successful season of&#xA;Veronica Mars, and definitely one that I, and plenty of fans, would&#xA;watch and enjoy. It was a smart move to reset the setting and&#xA;characters, because that would make the show more accessible to new&#xA;viewers — which is exactly what The CW was looking for. The FBI angle&#xA;turns it into more of a crime drama with a whip-smart lead, rather&#xA;than a teen drama with a sassy lead (because, unfortunately, teen&#xA;dramas will always get a bad rep but crime shows will always be&#xA;popular).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, that’s where the Season 4 pitch wins over the movie: Veronica&#xA;as an FBI agent makes more sense than Veronica as a lawyer. And sure,&#xA;the movie addresses the former career option and, yes, Veronica would&#xA;make a hell of a lawyer (remember the “One Angry Veronica” episode?),&#xA;but it’s not her. She needs to be constantly on the move, solving&#xA;cases, and in the mud. Thomas seems to agree; a few months prior to&#xA;starting the Kickstarter, he was still intent on having the film&#xA;center on Veronica in the FBI. Once the show graduated from high&#xA;school, it would naturally become more about the mysteries than the&#xA;setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the Veronica Mars movie was fan service, and that’s why it worked&#xA;so well. The fans are the reason it happened, so Thomas had to abandon&#xA;his original idea because there was no way to do it while bringing&#xA;back all of the favorites from Neptune. The movie was packed with&#xA;callbacks and inside jokes — there is even a clever exchange about&#xA;this pilot pitch, referencing Veronica’s FBI career as something that&#xA;happened in another life — because, essentially, that’s what fans paid&#xA;for. The movie wasn’t much more than a long episode of the show, but&#xA;that’s exactly what I loved about it. Yet I also loved where the show&#xA;was going to go in the season-that-never-happened. It would have been&#xA;great to see a longer version of Veronica adjusting to the FBI and&#xA;generally just kicking ass and shooting bad guys. And maybe we’ll get&#xA;some stories of her in the law enforcement eventually (there are&#xA;rumors of a second movie, and Thomas hasn’t been shy about his desire&#xA;for a Netflix deal) but for now, Veronica’s intriguing alternate life&#xA;will remain too brief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the logic applied here is completely rational. It just wouldn't have worked to have many of the old cast back &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Veronica in the FBI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who filmed the sex tape?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/03/14/veronica-mars-faq-before-you-see-the-movie-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-show/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Washington Post&lt;/a&gt; did a recap of the series finale before the movie, commenting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series finale seemed more like a season finale. It was&#xA;unsatisfactorily open-ended and left many unresolved issues. Last we&#xA;saw, Veronica she was a freshman studying criminology at Hearst&#xA;College in California. A sex tape of her and boyfriend Stosh “Piz”&#xA;Piznarski (Chris Lowell) mysteriously surfaced. Neptune’s resident bad&#xA;boy and Veronica’s ex-boyfriend Logan Echolls (Jason Dohring) assumed&#xA;Piz was the culprit and beat him to a pulp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once it was revealed that&#xA;a secret collegiate society (modeled after Yale’s Skull and Bones) was&#xA;actually behind the tape, Veronica became furious at Logan. She tells&#xA;Logan their friendship is over and wants nothing to do with him, thus&#xA;seemingly choosing the sweet, levelheaded Piz over her former,&#xA;long-time flame (continuing an epic love triangle that picks up in the&#xA;movie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vengeful, Veronica hunts down the secret society and stages a&#xA;break-in at a billionaire’s mansion to collect evidence on the&#xA;association’s members. While escaping the residence, she is caught by&#xA;security cameras. Her father, former private eye and current sheriff&#xA;Keith Mars, protects her identity by destroying the surveillance&#xA;footage and, by doing so, jeopardizes his re-election campaign. The&#xA;final scene shows Veronica casting a ballot for her dad in the sheriff&#xA;election and walking off alone, seemingly debating whether her&#xA;sleuthing has caused more harm than good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never finished the series myself, but this sounds like that thread was fairly well resolved in the TV series. I'm not aware of any mention of it in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who won the sheriff's election?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://veronicamarsconfessions.tumblr.com/post/26850387034/i-just-finished-watching-season-3-for-i-just&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Veronica Mars Confessions&lt;/a&gt; blog stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: Rob Thomas tweeted from his official Twitter (@RobThomas) that&#xA;Keith Mars lost the Sheriff election to Vinny Van Lowe. He also had&#xA;plans for The Castle and Gory Sorokin. As for Logan and Veronica, he&#xA;refused to answer the question. As for the movie, he said “Don’t give&#xA;up.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I can't find the direct tweet in question, but as I've seen this claim in a few places I assume it is true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/veronica-mars-movie-plot-spoilers/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;ScreenRant&lt;/a&gt; also had an interview with Rob Thomas, where he stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“She transferred away from Hearst college after that freshman year and&#xA;went up to Stanford and finished her undergraduate degree. And then&#xA;she went to Columbia Law School. She’s certainly been back to Neptune&#xA;from time to time to see her dad and Mac and Wallace, but she hasn’t&#xA;worked a PI case since the last one we all saw in the final episode of&#xA;season 3. She ruined her dad’s chance for re-election and she decided&#xA;that that path had caused too much chaos in her life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“And so she hasn’t worked a PI case in nine years. And when we meet&#xA;her, she’s sort of like where Tom Cruise was in the beginning of The&#xA;Firm. She’s between having graduated and taken the bar and she’s&#xA;interviewing at various law firms in New York.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Final Thoughts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same interview as the last quotation, the following exchange occurred:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Will the movie be new audience-friendly? According to Thomas:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I want to avoid getting deep into the ‘Veronica Mars’ mythology.&#xA;We’re not going to get ghost visits from Lilly, as much as I joked&#xA;about having Amanda Seyfried in it. We’re not going to get into&#xA;Veronica’s backlog of cases. I want to make the movie accessible for&#xA;people who haven’t watched ‘Veronica Mars’ before. All you need to&#xA;know is that Veronica was a teenage private eye and she’s given it up.&#xA;And there will be a moment early in the movie that will bring her back&#xA;to Neptune and make her give being a private detective one more shot.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it does seem like Rob Thomas was trying to target new viewers as well as the old fans. It definitely appears logical then that some of the loose ends were simply left, as it would be too convoluted for new viewers to understand them. Other threads were resolved in the movie and most other discussion points appear to have been addressed in interviews with Rob Thomas and the cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T08:24:05.083" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18258" CreationDate="2014-03-24T08:52:45.203" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to offer an alternative, completely opinionated answer to this question. Like @Napoleon Wilson I'll focus on the life lessons you brought up. However, I'm not going to focus solely on House, but also the context in which he said them and the show revealed them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brace yourself - a long and completely subjective post is ahead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Everyone lies.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first glance, this seems a simplistic statement to understand. Everybody lies about something. I would agree with this. Whether the lies be great or small, everyone tells them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But&lt;/strong&gt; the show never implies the lies are small. This line is frequently used to describe some huge secret that characters on the show have. In fact, I found this to be one of the disappointing things about the world of House. It's almost guaranteed that if a man comes into the hospital with his wife and refuses to leave her bedside because he cares so much, it's &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; because he is responsible for her illness, or he cheated on her, or he embezzled money, or &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; other than &lt;em&gt;genuine&lt;/em&gt; sorrow and support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one of the life lessons from the show that I think is &lt;em&gt;unfair&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;not true&lt;/em&gt;. As I said, I understand the basic sentiment is correct, but the show uses it to imply that everyone has a life changing secret which affects the treatment options available, which I think is categorically untrue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst it was fun to watch House, and whilst this statement is in general true, given the context in which this statement was used on the show, I disagree with it and don't think it can be called a life lesson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Everyone is an idiot.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Napoleon Wilson made excellent points about this statement, discussing how everyone appears inferior to House and their emotional sacrifices offer themselves up to his scorn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's also worth pointing out that the majority of House's treatments are extremely unusual and dangerous. Is it idiotic for patients to opt against treatment suggesting by him, when other doctors strongly advise against it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention how often in the series House and his team require multiple diagnoses &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; reaching the correct solution (think how many episodes begin with multiple wrong treatments before the correct one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously no doctor can be right every time and given the unusual nature of his team's cases, it's only logical that multiple approaches are required to successfully diagnose patients - but often all of these treatments are highly dangerous and thus it seems unfair to label all patients on the show as an idiot if they don't immediately follow his advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;em&gt;to him&lt;/em&gt; they may well appear that way, but it seems wrong to consider this a life lesson. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, if one references &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligences&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences&lt;/a&gt; it can be seen that in general people have intelligence in a range of areas. Again, it seems harsh to label everyone as idiots simply because they don't have intelligence in the &lt;em&gt;medical sector&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Parents mess up their kids, regardless of being a good or bad parent.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is very subjective and extremely difficult to accurately judge. Define &lt;em&gt;mess up their kids&lt;/em&gt;? Does it mean they give them life long phobias over things (such as my own father telling me to never ride a motorcycle and that lifelong lesson still holding today, for no logical reason?). Does it imply that every child has severe trauma due to their parenting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue that a simple look around the world should show that there are plenty of perfectly healthy, rational, happy adults who love their parents and had a happy upbringing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to say they haven't had life lessons imparted on them or had sanctions placed against them - but rather that they are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; simply messed up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Relationships usually don't work.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, it's hard to know where to draw the line with this. Does it refer to only &lt;em&gt;serious&lt;/em&gt; relationships? If so, what is serious? Does it refer to marriages? Simple searches online show that slightly more than 50% of marriages are happy and last for life, suggesting relationships of that caliber usually (but not always) do work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if this statement refers to &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; relationships, then it seems very likely it's true. After all, not many fifteen year olds who date for two weeks expect their relationship to last.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;People have to lie to make people happy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems unlikely for reasons similar to the first question. I'm not implying people &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; lie, but it appears unfair to label everyone as requiring to lie for the sake of happiness. I've told lies in my own life, but I've never felt the need to lie to someone's face to make them happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even if I did, where do you draw the line? If you tell someone they look good, despite the fact you don't think they do, does that meet the criteria? Does it matter who you say it to? If I meet someone and tell them it's nice to meet them, despite my feelings to the contrary, does that count?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, then again, like the previous statement, it appears logical that this could be true. But given the context the show implies it in, that &lt;em&gt;serious&lt;/em&gt; lies are required frequently for anyone to be happy, I disagree with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gregory House is mentally insane?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; disagree with this. Medical insanity is about an unsoundness of mind and an inability to rationally act in a way a reasonable person would. Whilst House may appear to frequently act in a manner not consistent with a reasonable person, he is most certainly of sound mind as any observation of him and his work uncovers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The best patients are the ones who can't respond.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some cases even on House which shows this isn't the case (such as where if a patient could utter a single word about what happened to them, or where they got ill, the case could be solved immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably a better phrase would be &quot;the quietest patients are the ones who can't respond&quot;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Final comments:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, okay, I know I took this &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; too seriously, but I wanted to simply comment that in the context of the show, whilst these lines are frequently &lt;em&gt;shown&lt;/em&gt; to be true, in real life it seems unfair to assume they would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, House is the ultimate, bitter, lonely cynic and these comments all shape his own views of the world. As we see the show through his eyes and we see mostly his successes, it appears like his life lessons hold true. But it's just a show - a show in which everything is designing to enhance his intelligence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How often do we watch a show or movie where our hero goes on a vendetta against the bad guy? Often with no evidence or proof, but he's vindicated in the end as some scrap of evidence shows up and he gets his bad guy... Except what if he didn't get him? What if he was actually innocent and all we've watched is harassment? This would completely betray all the motives and beliefs and ideas of the supposed hero and make a mockery out of his goals - except we rarely see that side of events occurring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm effectively saying is, House's lessons look brilliant and true because the show frequently shows them that way. In real life, is it likely that almost every couple who end up in hospital are lying to each other over serious issues? Perhaps. But, like many of the other life lessons, I just don't believe it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T08:52:45.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18257" CreationDate="2014-03-24T09:44:54.297" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;From your question, I'm unclear if you're asking why they use flashlights even when there are lights on, or why they use flashlights &lt;em&gt;instead of&lt;/em&gt; using the lights. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter is easier to answer. They want to research and document the crime scene &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; as they found it. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crime-scene-investigator.net/respon1.html&quot;&gt;Crime-Scene-Investigator&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Documenting crime scene conditions can include immediately recording&#xA;  transient details such as lighting (on/off), drapes (open/closed),&#xA;  weather, or furniture moved by medical teams. Certain evidence such as&#xA;  shoeprints or gunshot residue is fragile and if not collected&#xA;  immediately can easily be destroyed or lost. The scope of the&#xA;  investigation also extends to considerations of arguments which might&#xA;  be generated in this case (suicide/self defense) and documenting&#xA;  conditions which would support or refute these arguments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are looking for a single fingerprint, or strand of hair. Even turning a light on or opening a curtain could erase evidence. Therefore, they document the entire scene first by taking pictures, checking for all prints and using only their flashlights rather than other light sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of the season opener to Series 5, when Greg failed his entrance test to become a CSI for using a toilet at a crime scene - risking corrupting the crime scene and destroying evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If however you were asking why they use flashlights &lt;em&gt;in addition&lt;/em&gt; to the lights in the room, I think Paulster2 in his comments above has answered perfectly. The additional light source provides a greater level of illumination and clarity and makes it easier to find things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-24T10:02:05.953" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T10:02:05.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18270" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18274" CreationDate="2014-03-24T15:58:45.223" Score="3" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched &lt;em&gt;Zorba the Greek&lt;/em&gt; last night; I am currently re-reading &lt;em&gt;Don Quixote&lt;/em&gt; (actually creating a paragraph-by-paragraph Spanish/English edition).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the scene from &lt;em&gt;Zorba the Greek&lt;/em&gt; where the beautiful shepherdess is lusted after by all the men in the village, and then hated by them because she rejects them all, taken from &lt;em&gt;Don Quixote&lt;/em&gt;, or is the similarity just a &quot;coincidence&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7028" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-24T16:26:38.680" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T20:16:27.297" Title="Did Zorba the Greek borrow a section from Don Quixote?" Tags="|plot-explanation|zorba-the-greek|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18271" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18275" CreationDate="2014-03-24T16:08:40.670" Score="9" ViewCount="11700" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089175/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot;&gt;Fright Night (1985)&lt;/a&gt; Billy Cole is described as Jerry Dandrige's &quot;day guard&quot;. During the movie Charlie mentioned Billy wasn't a vampire because Billy was seen walking around in the sunlight. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As part of the climax, Peter Vincent shoots Billy in the head and several other places, but Billy doesn't stop until Charlie stakes him in the heart which causes Billy to melt, turn to sand and then explode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What exactly was Billy if not a vampire? Some kind of golem? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2014-03-24T17:25:51.397" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T03:51:11.703" Title="What exactly is Billy Cole?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fright-night|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18272" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-24T16:16:27.643" Score="44" ViewCount="26393" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a question I tried to find an answer off of a comment by Napoleon on a different question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The man with no name is the central character in what is commonly called the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollars_Trilogy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dollars trilogy&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, i.e., &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fistful_of_Dollars&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;For a Fistful of Dollars&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_a_Few_Dollars_More&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;For a Few Dollars More&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the three movies, the central character as portrayed by Clint Eastwood is seen wearing the same clothing, and acting with the same mannerisms. He is referred to as Joe one time (And credited as such) in Fistful, &quot;Manco&quot; in Dollars More, and Blondie in Good/Bad/Ugly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are each of these three the same character, or are they different characters with the same (non) name? (Also note, which may be relevant, the director Leone did not intend for these to be a trilogy, that was a marketing decision, and Fistful is an unofficial remake of a Japanese film called Yojimbo).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="6234" LastEditDate="2017-12-19T18:35:08.340" LastActivityDate="2023-01-26T20:21:40.600" Title="Is the man with no name the same character?" Tags="|character|the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly|for-a-few-dollars-more|a-fistful-of-dollars|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18262" CreationDate="2014-03-24T16:36:30.110" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show was on-air before Richard's story line so there is a chance he already knew of the stalkers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, as you can hear in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hark.com/clips/fkznrhvlkk-sub-zero-introduction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this sound-byte&lt;/a&gt;, SubZero is introduced in detail so Richards could have simply heard/seen it then. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related:&#xA;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Running_Man_%28novel%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the book&lt;/a&gt;, Richards willingly goes to the network which is where he learns about everything (including the stalkers) beforehand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After rigorous physical and mental testing, Richards is selected to&#xA;  appear on The Running Man, the Games Network's most popular,&#xA;  lucrative, and dangerous program. He meets with Dan Killian, the&#xA;  executive producer of the program, who describes the challenges he&#xA;  will face once the game begins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2014-03-24T16:42:44.063" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T16:42:44.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18270" CreationDate="2014-03-24T17:02:48.440" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's very likely the scene was intended to relate to the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film, as you probably know, is based on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorba_the_Greek&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nikos Kazantzakis book&lt;/a&gt; of the same name, with the narrator meeting Alexis Zorba and learning life changing things from him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many ways this echoes Don Quixote, only with the roles of &quot;Don Quixote&quot; and &quot;Sancho Panza&quot; reversed. Kazantzakis was certainly aware of Don Quixote, using the name as an alias in his colossal poem &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey%3a_A_Modern_Sequel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the fact both scenes are so similar, there's certainly enough evidence to logically suggest that the scene was more than just coincidence and was intended to pay homage to the great Cervantes novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-24T20:16:27.297" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T20:16:27.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18271" CreationDate="2014-03-24T17:04:37.373" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://frightnight.wikia.com/wiki/Vampire_servant&quot;&gt;Fright Night wiki&lt;/a&gt;, he was a &lt;strong&gt;vampire servant&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A vampire servant is someone who has been bitten by vampire and made&#xA;  into a loyal protector. They are not made into full vampires, but they&#xA;  have great strength and seem to survive nearly everything a vampire&#xA;  can. &lt;em&gt;They can survive in the sunlight like an ordinary person.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While there is a clear distinction between vampires and the&#xA;  more-than-human ghouls that serve them it could be said that the&#xA;  vampires that are recently turned by older, more powerful ones like&#xA;  Jerry or Regine Dandridge are beholden to them. This master/ disciple&#xA;  relationship makes the younger vampires the thralls of their master's&#xA;  will much like the mortal ghouls Billy Cole and Bozworth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the paragraph above, if given the choice I think I'd rather be the servant!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is worth noting however that the above paragraph doesn't &lt;em&gt;reference&lt;/em&gt; anything. The question was also asked over at the IMDB in the FAQ for the film, with the answer stating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At one point, Peter Vincent notes that Billy can walk about in the&#xA;  daylight and proclaims that he is human. Near the end of the movie,&#xA;  however, Billy disintegrates into sand and green goo, definitely not&#xA;  human. Most viewers conclude that Billy was some kind of ghoul or&#xA;  possibly a 'half-vampire' who hasn't yet been fully turned. Another&#xA;  possibility is that he was a golem, made by Dandrige from sand and&#xA;  other matter in order to serve as his protector.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to suggest that there is no definitive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the idea of the &lt;strong&gt;vampire servant&lt;/strong&gt; and how he has only been partly turned as it appears to draw similarities with characters like Renfield and Jonathan Harker in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula&quot;&gt;Dracula&lt;/a&gt; - being subservient and yet not fully turned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However - it is never explicitly stated in the film and hasn't been explicitly addressed since. The most common answer seems to be a ghoul/familiar (i.e. half turned servant), with the only certainty about him being that he &lt;strong&gt;isn't&lt;/strong&gt; a vampire as he can withstand daylight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-24T17:09:52.720" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T17:09:52.720" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18272" CreationDate="2014-03-24T17:27:29.193" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me &lt;strong&gt;he is not&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet I don't have a hard proof either. But until we get some definite affirmation or denial from &lt;em&gt;Sergio Leone&lt;/em&gt; or anyone else acquainted with the project, let's take a look at what in particular might speak for the theory of him being the same character in all the movies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are commonly known as the &lt;em&gt;Dollars Trilogy&lt;/em&gt; (or sometimes &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Man with No Name&amp;quot; Trilogy&lt;/em&gt;) and &lt;em&gt;The Good, The Bad and The Ugly&lt;/em&gt; is considered a prequel to the &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Dollars&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;-movies. But as your question already says, this argument is easily annihilated by the fact that &lt;strong&gt;those movies were not intended as a trilogy initially, but this was rather a marketing decision developed after the fact&lt;/strong&gt; by the American distributor. So not a trilogy but maybe still the same character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apart from the same director, with &lt;em&gt;Clint Eastwood&lt;/em&gt; they share the same actor in all the movies. But &lt;strong&gt;they share even more actors in major roles&lt;/strong&gt;, like &lt;em&gt;Gian Maria Volonté&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Lee Van Cleef&lt;/em&gt;, yet I doubt &lt;em&gt;Col. Mortimer&lt;/em&gt; would be considered to be the same character as &lt;em&gt;Sentenza (The Bad)&lt;/em&gt;. And, as you said yourself, &lt;em&gt;Clint&lt;/em&gt;'s character is, while not having much of an actual name, &lt;strong&gt;referred to by &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; nicknames in the individual movies&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then we still have the very strong argument that his character dresses and behaves similarly in all the movies. But this doesn't hold up very well in the context of this particular role. First of all, there is not much to build upon, since &lt;strong&gt;this character doesn't provide much exposition to his backstory or his motives&lt;/strong&gt;. He is thus not only a &lt;em&gt;Man with No Name&lt;/em&gt;, but even more so a &lt;em&gt;Man with No History&lt;/em&gt;. So &lt;strong&gt;there isn't much to build a similarity on apart from his dress-code and his behaviour&lt;/strong&gt; throughout the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this behaviour isn't just shared by those three movies' heroes, but millions of others. &lt;strong&gt;Instead of depicting the exact same character in those movies, he actually embodies &lt;em&gt;the stereotypical (and original)&lt;/em&gt; anti-hero of &lt;em&gt;Spaghetti Westerns&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, from then on copied in a billion movies. And in fact &lt;strong&gt;many &lt;em&gt;Spaghetti Western&lt;/em&gt; heroes share many traits with &lt;em&gt;Clint Eastwood&lt;/em&gt;'s character(s) in the &lt;em&gt;Dollar Trilogy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, yet they are of course entirely different characters. So rather than continuing the story of the man from &lt;em&gt;A Fistful of Dollars&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;the filmmakers built upon this new and commercially and critically successful type of character&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Leone&lt;/em&gt; as well as other directors of his time. (And it IMHO also fits to this kind of character and his complete lack of exposition that we don't know anything about his past and future, not even a prequel or a sequel.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I agree that this is far from definite evidence against him depicting the same character and some of my arguments might be a bit speculative, but I hope to have at least given some reasonable arguments for my point. To me, it is rather the interplay of smaller circumstantial evidence and the initial marketing as a trilogy that have lead to the theory of him being the same person in all the movies. But those individual hints IMHO don't hold strong and I think &lt;strong&gt;the burden of proof lies on the people claiming him to be the same character, for which a definite evidence I still haven't ever been provided with&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as a last little (rather tongue-in-cheek) remark, the possible lack of a definite answer is to a large degree &lt;em&gt;caused&lt;/em&gt; by the complete lack of any kind of background information about his character and the (maybe everlasting) question if he is the same person in each movie or not might &lt;em&gt;add as much to the mystery of him as all the other nonexistent history&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;The unanswerability of this question might thus even be seen as by-design.&lt;/strong&gt; ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T10:49:18.993" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17955" CreationDate="2014-03-24T17:35:37.717" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is explained by the Veronica Mars Movie Project team in an e-mail from Rob Thomas to the Kickstarter backers, dated March 23, 2014:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h1&gt;What happened to the $10,000 waiter's line?&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Over the last week, one of the most common questions we've received is about our $10,000 Kickstarter backer, and where his &quot;walk on&quot; role appeared in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As you might recall from the original Kickstarter listing, our top pledge reward offered one backer the chance to appear in the movie as a waiter, speaking the words, &quot;Your check, sir.&quot; Many of you have correctly noted in the comments (SPOILER WARNING!) no such line -- or role -- appeared in the final movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For those of you who missed it, we actually released the scene as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/2288d07327/this-is-the-scene-from-the-new-veronica-mars-movie-with-the-kickstarter-backers-in-it&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an exclusive preview on Funny or Die&lt;/a&gt; just a few days before the movie was released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jMD7S.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Funny or Die Scene&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'd like to tell you that we ended up cutting this Funny Or Die scene because it didn't fit with the overall tone and flow of the movie, but -- confession time -- this &lt;em&gt;wasn't&lt;/em&gt; an actual scene from the movie. (The final shot in this skit &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt;, however, feature a handful of local backers who volunteered to come help out as extras just a few days before the movie was released.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The truth is that the &quot;waiter scene&quot; I envisioned before we launched the Kickstarter never made it into the final script. In earlier drafts, the scene took place in New York, in the first ten minutes of the movie, as Veronica explained to Piz that she'd be returning to Neptune:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/haXA8.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Script Screencap&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(image transcribed)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;       4/15/13                                               8.&#xA;&#xA;                         VERONICA (CONT'D)&#xA;               You know I haven't spoken to him in &#xA;               nine years&#xA;&#xA;     The waiter arrives, sets down a check.&#xA;&#xA;                         WAITER / BID-A-LINE WINNER&#xA;               Your check, sir...&#xA;&#xA;                         VERONICA&#xA;               C'mon. Cheer up. You're buying me &#xA;               dinner. Odds are I'll put out.&#xA;&#xA;     Piz doesn't want to smile, but a smile escapes nevertheless.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As the script went through revisions, I ended up cutting this scene to save time, and to get Veronica back to Neptune faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By then, I had also gotten a chance to speak with Steven Dengler, the backer who &lt;a href=&quot;http://popwatch.ew.com/2013/03/13/veronica-mars-movie-kickstarter-speaking-role/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pledged for the walk-on role&lt;/a&gt; -- and who had the good humor to introduce himself as &quot;10K&quot; while visiting the set. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once we knew that the waiter scene wouldn't make the final script, we discussed several other options for Steve's big moment. We wanted to find something that would be memorable and fit into the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the final cut, Steve appears as the enthusiastic vlogger who introduces a viral video featuring one of our unannounced cameos: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QEILg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jean Genie Screencap&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For those of you concerned that Steve didn't get the moment he was promised, rest assured that his line -- &quot;LET'S GET WEIRD!&quot;-- has the exact same number of words as his original line: &quot;Your check, sir.&quot; And for those of you who haven't seen the movie yet, trust me: he nailed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2014-03-24T17:49:03.960" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T17:49:03.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18272" CreationDate="2014-03-24T17:40:01.000" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's impossible to definitively say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was only intended as a one off movie, with three films being created out of it. It was certainly &lt;em&gt;suggested&lt;/em&gt; by the film makers that in the second film Eastwood &lt;strong&gt;was&lt;/strong&gt; playing the same character as in the first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robert C. Cumbrow discussed this ongoing questions in &quot;The Films of Sergio Leone&quot;, commenting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We assume from the beginning that Eastwood, in &lt;em&gt;For a Few Dollars&#xA;  More&lt;/em&gt;, is playing the same character he had played in &lt;em&gt;A Fistful of&#xA;  Dollars&lt;/em&gt;. In fact, the advertising campaign for the film encouraged us&#xA;  to do so (&quot;The Man with No Name is Back and the Man in Black Is&#xA;  Waiting for Him!&quot;). But jarring points signal character&#xA;  dissimilarities. Eastwood's called &quot;Manco&quot; in the Italian prints (and&#xA;  in at least one American print), he's more mercenary than he was in&#xA;  the previous film, and he talks about wanting to use his money to (get&#xA;  this) retire! His character's morality is even more pragmatic than it&#xA;  had been in &lt;em&gt;A Fistful of Dollars&lt;/em&gt;, where at least he does what he&#xA;  does in order to protect the innocent. There is a certain bond of&#xA;  honor with Colonel Mortimer; but most of what Eastwood's Manco does in&#xA;  the film is consistent with the bounty-killer amorality ascribed to&#xA;  him from the onset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yet poncho and cigar, stubble and squint persist through all three&#xA;  Eastwood/Leone films. If the characters portrayed by Eastwood are not&#xA;  supposed to be the same man, it is at least fair to treat them as&#xA;  variations on a theme. What theme? Screen Western heroism stripped of&#xA;  all pretension and motivation and forced to look inward to see a&#xA;  truth: Show me a hero and I'll show you a villain with good excuses.&#xA;  There's good and bad (and ugly) in all of us, and Eastwood was the key&#xA;  player Leone used to mold traditional Western-movie heroism into&#xA;  something with darker roots - it not Hell, then at least purgatory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It must be noted however that &lt;strong&gt;The Good, The Bad and The Ugly&lt;/strong&gt; was the final film released and if applying logic to the trilogy, as it is set during the Civil War, it would only make sense to be a prequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we assume it &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; a prequel, then almost the only piece of &lt;em&gt;evidence&lt;/em&gt; which could be used to suggest the film features the three characters is that Eastwood slowly builds up his &quot;costume&quot; for the first two films throughout &lt;strong&gt;The Good, The Bad and The Ugly&lt;/strong&gt;, finally completing the look when he dons the poncho near the end of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in conclusion I would argue this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was meant to be a one off film. They created a second and played on Eastwood being the same &lt;em&gt;type&lt;/em&gt; of character, without really caring too much if he &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; the same character (hence the character differences). Then for the final film, they chose to make it as a prequel and &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; intend for the character to be the same as in the first film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with @Napoleon Wilson's answer, this is all just conjecture, but I doubt we'll find anything better on the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T17:40:01.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18266" CreationDate="2014-03-24T17:56:24.413" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Did Veronica get an internship at the FBI? What happened to that, and why didn't she join the FBI?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is addressed in the course of the film as an off-hand comment by one of the characters speaking to Veronica, summarized as, &quot;Someone told me you joined the FBI.&quot;, which Veronica dismisses outright as a false rumor.  This was an intentional nod to the proposed FBI season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2014-03-24T18:42:55.743" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T18:42:55.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13715" CreationDate="2014-03-24T18:32:05.343" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may have also been a play on words. In Hebrew is does mean 'Lieutenant' while in German it means 'Blessing'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mayhap they were giving her some implied history in the name/title that her family may have survived another nasty bit of history? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8724" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T18:32:05.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17592" CreationDate="2014-03-24T19:32:32.573" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are no &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; answers to this question. The director has refused to comment on the issue, simply saying it is open to interpretation. Therefore, in this &lt;strong&gt;very long&lt;/strong&gt; answer I've tried to address a whole range of topics to hopefully give some indication as to &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; subjective interpretation of events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want a summary: We have no way of knowing who the shooter is, but I believe it to be irrelevant - it is simply someone showing Lucas that he and his family will never &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; be accepted in the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To begin the long answer to this question, I believe you need to understand how important the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_public_opinion&quot;&gt;court of public opinion&lt;/a&gt; is. People will often make up their own beliefs on a trial, regardless of what facts or knowledge have been presented to them. This is evident regarding &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; type of trial. Look at how vociferously people will defend or attack the likes of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_Bryant_sexual_assault_case&quot;&gt;Kobe Bryant&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Michael_Jackson&quot;&gt;Michael Jackson&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Madeleine_McCann&quot;&gt;the parents of Madeleine McCann&lt;/a&gt;, often with little knowledge of the &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; events that have transpired. - the list just goes on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;The Hunt&lt;/strong&gt;, Lucas is wrongfully accused of child molestation. Despite little evidence, he is shunned by his entire community. He loses his friendship with his best friend, his son becomes an outcast at school and he breaks up with his girlfriend.&#xA;His own ostracism in the community becomes violent as the movie tragically shows. When he is found to be innocent, we skip forward a year to the ending of the film and learn that the community has accepted him and his family again. The scene with his son being inducted into the local hunting society is supposed to symbolise their reintegration into society.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But&lt;/strong&gt; - None of this changes the fact he was accused of a heinous crime. For many people, the mere implication he was involved will be enough to tarnish his reputation in their eyes and forever label him a paedophile. The scene where the son is inducted shows this. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mads_Mikkelsen&quot;&gt;Mads Mikkelson&lt;/a&gt;, the actor who played Lucas, discussed this at length in an interview with &lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/mads-mikkelsen-the-hunt-hannibal-interview/&quot;&gt;Collider&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The fact that this man didn’t do what he’s being accused of is pretty&#xA;  clear, but this film doesn’t really give a definitive closure to the&#xA;  story.  Were you okay with that?  Did you come to your own conclusions&#xA;  about the ending?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MIKKELSEN:&lt;/strong&gt;  For me, it was just important to know&#xA;  whether he did it or not.  As you say, you can unquestionably see that&#xA;  he hasn’t done it.  You see why the little girl is doing what she’s&#xA;  doing.  You understand everything.  And that was very important for me&#xA;  to know.  If it was the other case and he had done it, I would have&#xA;  still done the film.  I just would have made sure that we knew he had&#xA;  done it, and show it from the other angle.  The finish of the film is&#xA;  obviously a metaphor, or it can be real.  But, in the scene just prior&#xA;  to that one, where his son is getting handed this rifle, he’s looking&#xA;  over at all of his friends.  It’s the only stylistic scene in the&#xA;  film.  They’re all looking at him in strange ways that are unreadable.&#xA;  You can’t read what they are thinking.  And then, it snaps back to the&#xA;  party and his son gets his rifle and it’s all good.  But, that is the&#xA;  moment where he realizes that this is not going to happen.  He can’t&#xA;  stay there.  It doesn’t matter how much they try to accept him.  They&#xA;  will never be able to accept him, fully.  That is obviously the shot&#xA;  at the end.  It’s the icing on the cake, in the sense that he can’t&#xA;  stay there.  He’s gotta move on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He clearly believes the son (and family) will never be accepted in the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To look at &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; they may not be accepted, consider looking at the situation from a different angle. Here is some advice from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.child-safety-for-parents.com/profile-of-a-pedophile.html&quot;&gt;&quot;Child Safety For Parents&quot; website&lt;/a&gt; on the &quot;profile of a paedophile&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tip #1: Watch His Behavior&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Is he interested more in kids than adults?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Does he offer to baby-sit or take the kids to give you a break?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Does&#xA;  he work closely with kids?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Is he especially affectionate toward kids?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Does he have activities with kids when parents are not invited or&#xA;  involved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just one example from one website, but as you can see - many of their suggestions are applicable to almost anyone in the primary education sector (especially someone like a tutor who would regularly have &lt;em&gt;activities&lt;/em&gt; with students without parental supervision). This doesn't mean the advice is wrong, but rather it's so broad it can apply to &lt;em&gt;any number of people&lt;/em&gt; and thus can be very dangerous advice if not applied appropriately. In a small town like this film is set in, when one person gets accused of something as heinous as this, suddenly &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; their actions are analysed and judged. Everything they've done. And there is &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; something that can be used to suggest wrongdoing. Every small act of kindness and support Lucas ever offered to any child could be used as evidence against him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, it must be remembered that the mere mention of paedophilia is enough to blind some people into acting without logic. A phenomenal (and scary) example of this was a famous attack in 2000 in the UK (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1353904/Paediatrician-attack-People-dont-want-no-paedophiles-here.html&quot;&gt;discussed here&lt;/a&gt;) where a paediatrician (i.e. doctor) had her house covered in paint and graffiti due to her acts of child molestation - the culprits hadn't realised there was a difference between &lt;em&gt;paediatrician&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;paedophile&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going back to the movie, I think another very important issue to comprehend is &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; Klara made the false claim? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thequietus.com/articles/10878-the-hunt-thomas-vinterberg-review&quot;&gt;The Quietus&lt;/a&gt; discuss the idea of the sexualisation of society being the culprit in their review of the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The phrase 'a random lie' seems to be the accidental key to the film.&#xA;  These words, which fade onto screen in the trailer, are set against&#xA;  the image of the young protagonist Klara (played by Annika Wedderkopp)&#xA;  - the 'innocent' source of the random lie – a lonely girl, lacking in family intimacy and attention, who accuses Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen) –&#xA;  her father's best friend and also her kindergarten teacher – of sexual&#xA;  abuse. Her accusation is ambiguous and confused, and Vinterberg's&#xA;  skill as a director of group drama comes into play so clearly in his&#xA;  orchestration of the suspicion and its poisonous and often violent&#xA;  reactions in the people that surround her. Lucas becomes, almost&#xA;  immediately, a pariah in his own community. The people around Klara -&#xA;  the police, child psychologists, teachers, friends, sibling - are&#xA;  frantic to convince her of the veracity of her accusation, and in&#xA;  doing so 'fill in' her imagination until she is unsure of her own&#xA;  mind; unable to distinguish memory from fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yet nothing about her lie is random, and so in one way the trailer&#xA;  advertises a narrative fallacy. For what The Hunt is really about is&#xA;  the absolute sexual confusion that exists within the community and, by&#xA;  extension, in modern European society. How can Klara's lie be&#xA;  'random', when just before she makes her accusation, her older brother&#xA;  and his friend run through the house and show her a picture of a woman&#xA;  engaged in a sex act on their mobile phones? It doesn't take much to&#xA;  assume a wider context around Klara, for it surrounds all of us. Young&#xA;  girls are being coaxed into early sexualisation through advertising,&#xA;  movies, dolls, magazines, television and pop music. Vinterberg's film&#xA;  adeptly makes the point that Klara's lie is a result of confusion – a&#xA;  leakage of a kind of tectonic ambiguity which exists beneath&#xA;  contemporary society, muddying the relations between adults and&#xA;  children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/innocence-is-the-prey-in-danish-film-the-hunt/story-fn9n8gph-1226634472254&quot;&gt;The Australian&lt;/a&gt; also discuss this at length in their review of the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Klara is not a vindictive child; she has a generous nature. But she&#xA;  lives in a community where boisterous male bonding rituals are not&#xA;  uncommon, where the men (Lucas included) like to strip naked and take&#xA;  icy dips in winter waters, where male erections may be glimpsed at odd&#xA;  moments, and where children such as Klara can easily be exposed to&#xA;  explicit sexual images on an iPad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One day, after some romping and horseplay with a group of children,&#xA;  Klara plants a kiss on Lucas's lips. We take it to be a loving&#xA;  gesture. Then, out of peevishness, she takes offence when Lucas turns&#xA;  down an offered gift. But she doesn't rush off to the kindergarten&#xA;  principal (Susse Wold) to accuse Lucas of sexual abuse or indecent&#xA;  exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Grethe, the principal, a kindly and sensible woman, nevertheless&#xA;  suspects that something is troubling Klara. Under questioning, the&#xA;  child will say nothing against Lucas, but Grethe isn't satisfied. A&#xA;  counsellor is brought in and the girl is questioned relentlessly. Are&#xA;  you sure Lucas didn't do this? Are you sure he didn't show you his&#xA;  willie? Eventually, to please her inquisitors, Klara gives a little&#xA;  nod of the head. It's enough; the police are called, Lucas is arrested&#xA;  and questioned. But even when Klara confides later (to her mother, to&#xA;  Grethe, to Lucas himself) that &quot;I just said something foolish&quot;, no one&#xA;  wants to believe her. Soon stories are coming in from other parents&#xA;  reporting &quot;symptoms of abuse&quot; in their children - though what these&#xA;  symptoms are is never clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it can easily be seen from both film reviews that the film plays on the idea of a community being so scared of something that they end up seeing it everywhere. They fear Lucas is guilty and need to know the truth - and thus end up generating the opposite of that from the children with their leading questions. The community effectively comes together (wrongly) to protect their children and themselves. Whilst Lucas' eventual innocence heals some wounds, this protective layer that has been raised against him and his family can never be truly gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, after all that, it's time to specifically address &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; actual questions (I hadn't forgotten!). It isn't revealed who the shooter is. It &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be anyone (or in fact no one at all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's certainly plausible that the scene is imagined. After all, &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; does the man not simply reload and kill him? This would fit in with the idea that for the rest of his life he'll be paralysed by fear (in fact, this is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; similar to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjUZCAN-zjY&amp;amp;t=1m38s&quot;&gt;ending of Misery&lt;/a&gt;, where James Caan realises he'll be haunted for life by his experiences).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, it could be the scene is real and perhaps the shooter either realises how close he came to murder and is scared by his own actions. Or, and more likely, he (or she) really just wants to send a warning message, that Lucas will never be safe. Perhaps the person feels they are above that of murderer and are simply trying to scare this evil presence out of their community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that there is no credible resource confirming the ending one way or another (as it would take away from the power of its open ended nature), it's up to us as viewers to draw our own conclusions. It could be argued it is Lucas' son, angry at all the suffering and abuse he had to put up with, who fires the shot. But that seems &lt;em&gt;highly&lt;/em&gt; improbably given the fact all the abuse and suffering is starting to end and he is finally part of the society. Why now? Possibly he sensed he was still an outcast at the end of the film and chose to blame his father, but to me it wouldn't make sense. It certainly is plausible that it's Klara's brother. We see him crying at one point in the film in anger and sadness over his sister's supposed attack. Perhaps guilt drives him (realising he showed her sexual images too at her young age), or perhaps more likely it was simply anger blind to the truth that led him to his actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, we have no way of knowing. With that in mind, this is my conclusion of events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene is real. Someone from the court of public opinion (whether Klara's brother or a random towns-person is irrelevant) has refused to believe Lucas is innocent and has effectively threatened him, warning him he and his family will never be &quot;part&quot; of the community. His experience made him an outcast and there's truly no way back from that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what Thomas Vinterberg had to say about the issue in an interview with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/interview-thomas-vinterberg/P2&quot;&gt;Slant&lt;/a&gt; when discussing the nature of the townspeople.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;People in The Hunt aren't monsters, yet the things they do are evil.&lt;/strong&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I&#xA;  consider them all good. I find that they're all innocent, sweet, and&#xA;  pure people who have this splinter in the eye that takes away their&#xA;  innocence. What I consider really sad about this film, and what&#xA;  touches me about it, is that somehow it became a reflection on loss of&#xA;  innocence in the world. I grew up in the '70s, and back then, in my&#xA;  childhood imagination, people were naked and good. It was possible to&#xA;  be physically naked around each other without being put to prison.&#xA;  Everything was orange, and with time, things have become more blue.&#xA;  For good reasons obviously: We now know that children are being&#xA;  abused, so there's a good reason for all this. But we have lost&#xA;  something along the way, something that I find very dear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Effectively, the townspeople panic. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cineoutsider.com/reviews/films/h/hunt.html&quot;&gt;Cineoutsider&lt;/a&gt; discussed this as well, although with much less sympathy for the townspeople:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's only one villain here, and it isn't Lucas, but it isn't Klara&#xA;  either. It's the townspeople. The Hunt is Hawthorne's The Scarlet&#xA;  Letter and Miller's The Crucible for the modern age, with both works&#xA;  serving as an inspiration and subtle presence, just as they were for&#xA;  von Trier in Dogville. Panic and hysteria spreads through the town&#xA;  like a virus. Their desperation is palpable, and the speed at which&#xA;  Lucas' life is destroyed is terrifying. The shock value – and perhaps&#xA;  the sensationalism – of The Hunt comes in witnessing the behaviour of&#xA;  the townspeople, and their vigilante, lynch mob mentality. Under the&#xA;  guise of protecting their town and their children, their vitriolic&#xA;  behaviour is accepted as normal, and Lucas continues to be ostracised.&#xA;  There are times, particularly towards the end of the film, where&#xA;  things veer toward the melodramatic, when all that Lucas suffers just&#xA;  seems that bit too much, and it's difficult to imagine when and where&#xA;  it might stop. Injustice seems too small a word to describe all that&#xA;  befalls him. Thankfully, the film remains grounded, stopping short of&#xA;  turning him into a martyr, but only just. There are moments when it&#xA;  feels like Lucas could meet a similar end to The Wicker Man's Sergeant&#xA;  Howie and no one would so much as blink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last line, describing how Lucas could end up similar to the iconic &lt;strong&gt;Wicker Man&lt;/strong&gt; ending is particularly horrifying given how plausible it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a final note - think of the title of the movie. &lt;strong&gt;The Hunt&lt;/strong&gt;. For Lucas, the Hunt will never truly end. He will always be targeted for his supposed sins and the court of public opinion will never leave him be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-24T19:32:32.573" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18257" CreationDate="2014-03-25T00:22:38.160" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The flashlights are a conditioned stimulus for the viewer watching the TV show. Usage of a flashlight by CSI precedes the special FXs of visualizing a crime sequence. CSI has been using visual markers for years to indicate that something is about to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before the viewer watches an animated sequence of a bullet passing thru a body, there will be a CSI looking at a bullet hole with a flashlight. The flashlight works as a marker to trigger anticipation in the viewer that &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; is about to revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They do the same thing with the blue UV lights to reveal blood. Before they show a murder sequence they will have the CSI shine blue lights to reveal hidden blood splatter patterns on the wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These markers are used in the show to precede spots where CSI science is being used to solve the case. Instead of boring the viewer with scientific information the viewer is rewarded with visual effects or a shocking life action sequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not the only show doing this. Action and drama shows have been doing it for years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T00:22:38.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18272" CreationDate="2014-03-25T10:42:49.637" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joseph What's-His-Name says in &lt;em&gt;Hero of a Thousand Faces&lt;/em&gt; that there is really only one hero whose exploits are merely recounted in different forms throughout the millennia. So, yes, all the incarnations of the Man With No Name are the same character, as are all the other roles Clint Eastwood ever played, as well as those of Charlie Chaplin, and Achilles, and Rama, and...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8739" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T10:42:49.637" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18285" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18286" CreationDate="2014-03-25T10:54:13.347" Score="29" ViewCount="10094" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381061/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/a&gt;, when everyone orders Bond's martini cocktail, Felix Leiter, the CIA agent, says to the bartender &quot;keep the fruit&quot;. What was he trying to say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What fruit is he referring to? Also was that some kind of secret message between CIA and MI6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k8mqA.png&quot; alt=&quot;CasinoRoyale&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8670" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T13:12:47.793" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T03:38:01.137" Title="What does the &quot;keep the fruit&quot; term mean in Casino Royale?" Tags="|james-bond|casino-royale|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18285" CreationDate="2014-03-25T10:58:47.970" Score="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a secret message, just a simple instruction. You just need to look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/a2/casino-royale-script-transcript-craig.html&quot;&gt;whole interchange&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bond&lt;/strong&gt;: Dry Martini.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bartender&lt;/strong&gt;: Oui, monsieur.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bond&lt;/strong&gt;: Wait... three measures&#xA;  of Gordon's; one of vodka; half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it&#xA;  over ice, and add a thin slice of lemon peel.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bartender&lt;/strong&gt;: Yes, sir.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Tomelli&lt;/strong&gt;: You know, I'll have one of those.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Infante&lt;/strong&gt;: So will I.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bartender&lt;/strong&gt;: Certainly.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Felix Leiter:&lt;/strong&gt; My friend, bring me one as well,&#xA;  keep the fruit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bond has ordered a dry martini, then effectively changed his order to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesper_%28cocktail%29&quot;&gt;Vesper&lt;/a&gt;. This grabs the attention of the other men at the table who order it too. Felix Leiter asks for one, but instructs the bartender to &quot;keep the fruit&quot;, i.e. &lt;em&gt;serve me the same drink, but without the lemon peel&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For any non-English speakers in particular, the comment below from Brian S should be useful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Keep the X&quot; is a common phrase in English when ordering food/drink&#xA;  used to mean &quot;don't include X.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-25T20:49:47.910" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T20:49:47.910" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18285" CreationDate="2014-03-25T10:58:56.577" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that had any kind of deeper message to it. &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; was ordering a rather complex drink from the waiter, part of which consisted of some kind of fruit (don't know what exactly, a piece of lemon peel maybe?). After that everybody else joined him and ordered the same, only that &lt;em&gt;Felix&lt;/em&gt; didn't want the &lt;em&gt;&quot;fruit&quot;&lt;/em&gt; in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really think there was any more to it than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T10:58:56.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18289" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18291" CreationDate="2014-03-25T11:59:52.003" Score="11" ViewCount="1337" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happened towards the end of Series 5 of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hank had just been killed; Walt was on the run and the police were trying to track him down; Skyler was under investigation by the police for suspected involvement with Walt's schemes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But one night masked men (who we know to be Jack's men) managed to break into Skyler's home and threaten her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The police witnessed an angry tirade over the phone from Walt to Skyler and were aware how dangerous he was. I believe we even see that Marie's house was protected by armed-guards at the time. So why did the police not protect Skyler's home? And, if they did, how did the break-in occur? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4573" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T19:13:43.673" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T19:13:43.673" Title="In Breaking Bad how did the masked men break into Skyler's home?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18289" CreationDate="2014-03-25T13:22:28.500" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;We aren't really meant to know how Jack's men managed to get into their home, specifically into the baby's room, and the scene is supposed to show how skilled Jack's men are at getting to people, even if they're under police surveillance. We're supposed to feel the same dread and confusion Skyler feels by not fully understanding how they were able to get in, simply knowing that they can and will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-03-25T17:39:20.087" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T17:39:20.087" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18292" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18295" CreationDate="2014-03-25T14:02:41.217" Score="3" ViewCount="19259" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't want to start watching the series &quot;Resurrection&quot; if it has no clear plot direction or conclusion. I've been burned by the likes of &quot;Lost&quot; and I don't want to go through that again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vGCp2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Resurrection&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Resurrection written with an end or explanation, or is it just made up as it goes? (I understand this may be difficult to answer, so I'll clarify)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:&#xA;According to the IMBD page the series is based on a novel or series of novels. Do the novels have a clear direction? And does the series align with the novels enough to assume the end in the novels will be the end in the TV series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also says the series is an adaptation of the series &quot;The Returned&quot;, did that have a clear conclusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2647586/board/nest/227568662?ref_=tt_bd_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Continuity errors or another Lost?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastEditorUserId="855" LastEditDate="2014-03-28T01:50:40.167" LastActivityDate="2014-03-28T01:50:40.167" Title="Does Resurrection have a clear end?" Tags="|plot-explanation|resurrection|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ClosedDate="2014-03-25T17:14:09.167" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18292" CreationDate="2014-03-25T15:10:13.410" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;No one knows, yet. The show just started its first season, so we have no idea of its over-arching structure.  Check in after at least the first season has completed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T15:10:13.410" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18285" CreationDate="2014-03-25T15:11:09.403" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would assume it means no lemon &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8744" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T15:11:09.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18292" CreationDate="2014-03-25T15:20:05.170" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're only three episodes into the eight episode season, so currently it's impossible to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://familyloveandotherstuff.com/resurrection-abc/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This link&lt;/a&gt; contains an interview with the show's Executive Producers Tara Butters (@breadandbutters) and Michele Fazekas and thus contains major spoilers. &lt;strong&gt;Therefore, you probably shouldn't open it!!&lt;/strong&gt; However, to give a summary of what's inside it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pros&lt;/strong&gt;:  The creators appear to have &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; idea of where they are going. They are trying to create a long, slow-unfolding mythology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cons&lt;/strong&gt;: The last question from the interview:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: Was LOST an influence?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tara&lt;/strong&gt;: Absolutely. I don’t think you can do a&#xA;show like this without having some influence. I feel very strongly&#xA;that this show shouldn’t be more than 13 episodes a season, because my&#xA;favorite seasons of LOST were the shorter seasons because they could&#xA;be so much more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michele&lt;/strong&gt;: When you’re building these continuous storyline&#xA;episodes, you can’t jump around, you have to sort of build them in&#xA;order. And if you change something back here, it sort of affects this.&#xA;So that’s why we really liked having a smaller number of episodes, so&#xA;you can really craft it and be smart about it. Versus just kind of&#xA;filling space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given you &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; mentioned being disappointed by &lt;strong&gt;Lost&lt;/strong&gt; in your question, maybe its influence is a bad sign!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very least, I would point out that if you're looking to get really sucked into a fun and engrossing series with a clear end, you should probably stick to one that has been out a while or completed its runtime!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T15:20:05.170" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18296" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-25T15:49:50.627" Score="3" ViewCount="29863" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212985/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hannibal (2001)&lt;/a&gt;, we get some back story on Mason Verger and Hannibal Lecter. During this back story, Mason is a young and fit individual, but as we see, a little too eager to party. Hannibal has Mason cut his own face off. What we don't see is anything else happen to Mason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what happened to Mason that caused him to become what appears like a quadriplegic? Did Lecter do that to him or did something else happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2019-02-26T21:41:00.863" Title="Why was Mason Verger in a wheelchair?" Tags="|hannibal|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18296" CreationDate="2014-03-25T15:57:33.930" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, Mason Verger did it to himself in a drug induced state (I believe) ... which Lector helped him with. Revenge for this was Mason's whole purpose for the elaborate plan to get Lector in the &quot;pig pen&quot; in the first place. He wanted Lector to suffer at the tusks of the pigs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an excerpt from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212985/synopsis?ref_=tt_stry_pl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a result of the publicity surrounding the drug raid, Starling and her past connection to escaped serial killer Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) come to the attention of one of Lecter's victims, Mason Verger whom is also a wealthy, sadistic pedophile. &lt;strong&gt;Verger, who was left horrifically disfigured and paralyzed by a past encounter with Lecter himself, still seeks revenge for what occurred.&lt;/strong&gt; He uses his political influence to have Starling assigned to the Lecter case once again in the hope that this will draw Lecter out of hiding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T15:57:33.930" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18296" CreationDate="2014-03-25T16:25:09.460" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dr Lecter gave him some &quot;poppers&quot; which were a mix of hallucinogenic drugs and persuaded him to cut his face off and feed the flesh to his dogs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, appealing to Mason's auto erotic asphyxiaton tendencies, he put him in a hangman's noose which broke his neck, paralysing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-02-26T21:41:00.863" LastActivityDate="2019-02-26T21:41:00.863" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15767" CreationDate="2014-03-25T18:29:45.050" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe their dance simply represents Max's ascension to adulthood and constitutes a beautiful and poignant act of remembrance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.totalfilm.com/features/20-most-satisfying-movie-happy-endings/rushmore-1998&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TotalFilm&lt;/a&gt; actually listed it as one of their top 20 film endings ever, commenting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Ending:&lt;/strong&gt; His play a triumph, and an imperfect but stable compromise&#xA;  reached with Ms Cross, Max Fischer looks ahead to young adulthood with&#xA;  a new girl on his arm and a new perspective on his own myriad&#xA;  vagaries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's been a rocky ride for the young firebrand, but the sense of&#xA;  emotional achievement is palpable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Goosebump Moment:&lt;/strong&gt; Right as those &quot;all the world's a stage&quot; curtains&#xA;  swish closed, the chorus lyric to the Faces' Ooh La La kicks in over&#xA;  the top, and Wes Anderson's hitherto-somewhat-obfuscated point&#xA;  suddenly comes into beautifully sharp focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If They'd Gone Bleak:&lt;/strong&gt; Max would've tried to give Ms Cross the&#xA;  reacharound, had his specs slapped off, and left us with the&#xA;  unimaginably sour implication that he'd learned absolutely nothing&#xA;  about the world or his place in it. Gah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As their comments show, the &lt;em&gt;bleak&lt;/em&gt; finish would have involved Max descending into his childish manner again, making an inappropriate move and thus showing nothing had changed in the film. Instead, regardless of what his &lt;em&gt;true&lt;/em&gt; feelings are, Max contains himself and we are given a final reminder of his old life before his journey into the &quot;new&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/rushmore-19990205&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/a&gt; magazine agree, stating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To call Rushmore a romantic triangle about clinical depressives&#xA;  doesn't allow for the film's bracing humanism. No tidy happy ending&#xA;  here. Just a cotillion honoring Max's Vietnam play and allowing the&#xA;  major characters to come together, change partners and dance to a&#xA;  Faces song, &quot;Ooh La La,&quot; that links youth and experience in a lovely,&#xA;  fleeting moment of reconciliation before the shooting recommences.&#xA;  Anderson closes the curtain on his movie as if he were directing a&#xA;  play by Max Fischer, which, of course, is just what he has done.&#xA;  Bravo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So whilst there could be many interpretations, I feel the ending is simply the first snapshot of Max's adulthood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T18:29:45.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18302" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-25T18:34:46.480" Score="12" ViewCount="630" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nearing the end of his journey in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277327/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me&lt;/em&gt; (orig.: &lt;em&gt;So weit die Füße tragen&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/a&gt;, when &lt;em&gt;Clemens&lt;/em&gt; is in Kazakhstan, he is recognized as a German by a man named &lt;em&gt;Igor&lt;/em&gt; who invites him into his house and agrees to help him with his escape, eventually organizing a passport for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that &lt;em&gt;Igor&lt;/em&gt; introduced himself as an exiled Polish Jew and told of his brothers having been killed by the Germans, &lt;em&gt;Clemens&lt;/em&gt; wonders why he helps him then, even more so since he still seems a bit bitter about the fate of his brothers and his reaction to &lt;em&gt;Clemens&lt;/em&gt;' standard excuse of &lt;em&gt;&quot;we didn't know&quot;&lt;/em&gt; seems rather unconvinced. Yet he goes out of his way to help &lt;em&gt;Clemens&lt;/em&gt; and when asked again, still evades the answer of why he does so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Clemens:&lt;/em&gt; Why do you do this for me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Igor:&lt;/em&gt; Do you have a bad conscience for not helping a Jew? That you have to&#xA;  arrange with yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when he is visited by &lt;em&gt;Kamenev&lt;/em&gt; and interrogated about &lt;em&gt;Clemens&lt;/em&gt;, he first evades his questions but then suddenly falls down and dies, clinging to his heart as if he had a heart attack or something. When &lt;em&gt;Kamenev&lt;/em&gt; goes to look after him he says his last words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes, I helped him. And I would do it again. I would help anyone, do&#xA;  you understand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while it seems he just got over his possible anger and helped &lt;em&gt;Clemens&lt;/em&gt; out of a genuine kindness and will to help other people, &lt;strong&gt;I wonder if his motives are maybe drawn out a bit clearer in the base novel&lt;/strong&gt; (if actually part of it, given that the movie doesn't seem follow it too thoroughly anyway)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the even more burning question is, &lt;strong&gt;what actually happened to him?&lt;/strong&gt; Why did he suddenly die during the conversation with &lt;em&gt;Kamenev&lt;/em&gt;? Was he ill (though that would be quite a coincidental time for dying) or did he poison himself (but why then?)? Is this clarified any further in the novel (or maybe in a longer movie version, since I watched a 2 hour version while there also seems to be a 2.5 hour version)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-25T21:30:51.550" LastActivityDate="2019-03-22T12:38:09.003" Title="What was the motivation and fate of the Polish Jew?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|as-far-as-my-feet-will-carry-me|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18303" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18304" CreationDate="2014-03-25T19:16:48.083" Score="5" ViewCount="9637" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 4, Episode 13 of &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt;, there was a scene at the very end where Daryl and Glenn step out of a car.  Daryl and Glenn haven't seen each other all season.  Was that some kind of dream sequence, or was it foreshadowing?  And if it was foreshadowing, it was actually set in the future which kind of screws up the timeline a little, as the episodes would be out of order.  I'm thoroughly confused...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-11-02T13:25:29.887" LastActivityDate="2016-07-08T10:25:54.993" Title="What was with that scene with Glenn and Daryl?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18303" CreationDate="2014-03-25T19:43:48.803" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you're referring to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alone_%28The_Walking_Dead%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S04E13: Alone&lt;/a&gt;, though Daryl and Glenn encounter Bob Stookey at the beginning of the episode, not the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a flashback to when they first met Bob who had been surviving alone for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hypable.com/2014/03/09/the-walking-dead-season-4-episode-13-recap-to-terminus/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this recap explains&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode began with a flashback montage of Bob on his own walking through the woods and looking defeated. He runs into Daryl and Glenn, who give him the Rick-approved line of questioning about his apocalypse life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wetpaint.com/walking-dead/articles/2014-03-09-season-4-episode-13-recap&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Another synopsis agrees that it was a flashback&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BOB FLASHBACK&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Origin story! Sort of. The start of one, anyway. Bob even gets a cool song as he’s wandering slowly through the forest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He hears Daryl's chopper coming down the road to the rescue. So this is right as Daryl finds him, about a week before the start of Season 4. Can you imagine Daryl literally riding in to rescue you? It’s Daryl and Glenn who come by him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kg4c4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;screencap&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thematically, this was to bookend our characters being &amp;quot;Alone&amp;quot;. We begin by meeting Bob when he is wandering alone, and we close with Daryl finding himself alone after Beth is kidnapped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1046" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-25T19:43:48.803" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18296" CreationDate="2014-03-25T19:56:11.357" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lecter was Verger's court appointed psychiatrist, that's how they met. Verger invited Lecter over to his house. Enter calamity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no scene that shows how the paralysis/broken neck occurs IIRC; here are a couple of screenshots from Verger's deposition (or what have you) with Starling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g87tp.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g87tp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;ghostly character next to a window&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L3PcT.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L3PcT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;character, orange tones&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Julianne Moore is unsurprisingly still awful as Starling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8749" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-02-26T21:20:44.593" LastActivityDate="2019-02-26T21:20:44.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18285" CreationDate="2014-03-26T00:50:10.843" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;there is a [slightly] deeper meaning, &#xA;by using the word 'fruit' instead of 'lemon'&#xA;Felix is conveying that he thinks the lemon is an excessive flamboyant element,&#xA;and by inference that Bond is also excessive and flamboyant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Felix on the other hand, is no-nonsense and straight forward, he orders a simple drink, he doesn't even bother choosing one, he's saying to the bartender, your pouring alcohol, pour me one, in simple phrases:&#xA;My friend, bring me one as well, keep the fruit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However i'm not sure 'keep the x' is that common as a phrase, at least not that I've heard, except in 'keep the change'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8755" LastActivityDate="2014-03-26T00:50:10.843" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18285" CreationDate="2014-03-26T07:21:09.940" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As other posts mentioned, hold the fruit means without the lemon peel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Bond's drink ends up being poisoned in the next scene, it could be that Felix feared that Bond might be poisoned and wanted to make sure he didn't accidentally drink from the glass intended for Bond (they were sitting right next to each other). Obviously Felix wasn't involved in the poisoning, but it does show that he's more cautious to those sorts of dangers than Bond is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, it could have just been a point of clarification for the viewer: having Bond have a visibly different drink than the person next to him makes it more obvious that the poison was intended for him when they zoom into the glass as he leaves the table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8759" LastActivityDate="2014-03-26T07:21:09.940" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8979" CreationDate="2014-03-26T08:58:48.173" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beca sang &quot;&lt;strong&gt;it's&lt;/strong&gt; going down,&quot; and not &lt;strong&gt;it&lt;/strong&gt; from &quot;it feels like the first time,&quot; therefore causing them to lose the competition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8760" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2014-03-26T09:38:31.010" LastActivityDate="2014-03-26T09:38:31.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18285" CreationDate="2014-03-26T10:16:03.270" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a phrase similar to, and in this case having the same meaning as, the phrase 'hold the x' which is an American English device for asking for something to be left out, or held back, especially from a food order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The verbs 'keep' and 'hold' here are synonymous in the sense of 'have or retain possession of' and so can be used interchangeably to mean the same thing, although I'd argue that the phrase &#xA;'hold the x' as in 'hold the mayo' is more immediately understood than 'keep the mayo' through it's familiarity and use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be worth adding that in Britain, at least in the north, beyond the reaches of cosmopolitan London, it's considered an affectation or at least irony to order food without one of its listed ingredients this way.&#xA;But it probably wasn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last word from 'Airplane':&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVdvyWK6NiI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVdvyWK6NiI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8764" LastActivityDate="2014-03-26T10:16:03.270" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18316" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18319" CreationDate="2014-03-26T10:42:58.910" Score="15" ViewCount="20411" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706620/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Snowpiercer (2013)&lt;/a&gt;, and it made me wonder how many people are there onboard of the train, or at least the order of magnitude - is it like 1,000 or more like 1,000,000? This would give me an idea of the size of their world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not mentioned during the movie, and I couldn't find it on the Internet. Only the number of carriages is mentioned - 1001.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6137" LastEditorUserId="6137" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T07:53:08.063" LastActivityDate="2021-02-02T11:37:16.750" Title="How many people are there onboard the train in Snowpiercer (2013)?" Tags="|plot-explanation|snowpiercer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18316" CreationDate="2014-03-26T16:35:37.193" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The extent of the trains population is left deliberately ambiguous, to avoid comprehension of the colossal size of the engine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know from the journey of 'The Great Curtis Revolution' that the density of each section is entirely sporadic in its composition. There are supposedly 1001 carriages, and yet we see no more than 20 of them, many in montage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst we know the rear section consisted of what Curtis calls &quot;1000 of us crammed into a tin can&quot;, we can reasonably speculate that this wasn't supposed to be taken literally as a &lt;em&gt;single carriage&lt;/em&gt;, due to the proportionate sizes of the sections when viewed externally throughout the movie. So sections refer not to units, but to classified areas. Some of these are revealed to be industrial, with minimal occupancy whereas others are dedicated to leisure and luxury. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PmMu6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Compartments closer to the front of the train, entire sections are dedicated to pursuits which, given the circumstances of the train can only be perceived as the most decadent and opulent use of resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ngjr0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Curtis explains the conditions of the early days on the train, the lack of space and the widespread acceptance of cannibalism, we receive his distress in the context of his journey through 'the class system'. As a parable for distribution of wealth, this is where Curtis' motivation emerges from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can take from his reaction, and the earlier shots showing lower compartments concentration camp style bunk beds, we can at perhaps deduce that the population gets proportionately smaller the closer towards the nose, so that would need to be factored into any estimation, which is immediately problematic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IO3xT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also have no idea how many industrial compartments the revolution has traveled through non-diegetically but those eggs had to have come from somewhere, so does the steak that Wilford enjoys. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For every Nightclub cart full of 70+ people, there could be another with 7 cows and a chicken farm: it's impossible to deduce, and its constructed in that way deliberately. I don't think we're supposed to be able to comprehend the size of the train, which is part of its oppressive, omnipresent malice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this film is based on  &lt;em&gt;Le Transperceneige&lt;/em&gt; by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and&#xA;Jean-Marc Rochette, so it is an adapted title. I don't have access to that title, and can't seem to find anything in the way of clarification to what would otherwise be a numerical answer. It could be assumed this is because the book harnesses the same ambiguity to illicit a similar sense of disorientation. Perhaps someone who is familiar with the source material could prove the assumption wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-03-26T16:35:37.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17058" CreationDate="2014-03-26T17:25:20.480" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The envelope's contents are &lt;strong&gt;never definitively explained in the film&lt;/strong&gt;. However, it seems logical to assume it contains either evidence or at least an explanation of the truth - that Leo DiCaprio (i.e. Costigan) is the real &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; guy and Matt Damon (i.e. Sullivan) is the real &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the film, Sullivan's girlfriend Madolyn finds out the truth about Sullivan through a CD - but that wasn't meant for her, but rather to show Sullivan that evidence existed against him. It's possible that this &lt;em&gt;same&lt;/em&gt; evidence was given by Costigan to Madolyn (possibly with even &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; evidence/detail to be used in the event of Costigan's death).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, given how the film ends, it's not too much of a stretch to believe that Wahlberg (i.e. Dignam) was either given a copy of the same evidence by Costigan or was given the evidence directly by Sullivan's (now ex) girlfriend Madolyn, which gave him the final &quot;push&quot; required to kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-26T18:12:56.173" LastActivityDate="2014-03-26T18:12:56.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18256" CreationDate="2014-03-26T21:33:08.377" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Spaghetti Western, or Euro-Western, carries the legacy of NeoRealism in its very fabric, yet is a conscious step away from the Historical cynicism and introversion that had entrenched itself within Italian Cinema.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cinecitta, as the Italian Film Mecca or &quot;Hollywood on the Tiber&quot; was naturally the primary studio for most Italian Neorealism (after being re-built and reclaimed by the Neorealists). Sergio Leone, the indisputable godfather of the Spaghetti Western took tutelage under Vittorio De Sica working personally on &lt;em&gt;Ladri Di Bicyclette&lt;/em&gt;, still considered to be the high water mark of the cultural movement (with &lt;em&gt;Rome, Open City&lt;/em&gt; being the oft cited instigator). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Italy began to reconstitute its national identity post war, Neorealism began to fade in relevance when compared to more progressive, visually experimental and post modern film movements. The French New Wave provided a reflexive cinema, as did Italy's own Federico Fellini.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were two divergent departures moving simultaneously away from Neorealist Cinema: domestically, there was the pursuit of an artistic identity separate from the morose introspection of Neoreaism, with a tendency to admonish Italy's past as opposed to celebrating/interrogating its present, leaving it out of step with the prevalent mood of Italy. Internationally, there was a growing trend for Cinecitta tobe utilized by foreign interests to produce their 'Sword and Sandals' epics; &lt;em&gt;Ben Hur&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Quo Vadis&lt;/em&gt; being American funded projects in this mold (and both of which featuring a cast member named Sergio Leone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been cited by biographers that Leone took notice if not objection to this imperialist  capitalization of Italian resources, and so, just as the Americans plundered Italy's cultural heritage, Leone made a vendetta out of reversing the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; a more hyerbolic version of Leone's motivation, but he certainly seemed to situate himself against the &lt;a href=&quot;http://brightlightsfilm.com/60/60gothic.php#.UzM9zah_suc&quot;&gt;image of America&lt;/a&gt; sustained by John Ford:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leone tells in an interview how the Catholic Irish American immigrant&#xA;  Ford imbued his movies with a traditional American Christian vision of&#xA;  the West; as a result, his characters always present a typically&#xA;  American optimistic future. Leone has described that, as an Italian&#xA;  and a descendant of the Romans and therefore an outsider, he&#xA;  necessarily had to develop a different perspective on the history of&#xA;  the American West: to him it represented a world characterized by &quot;the&#xA;  reign of violence by violence&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What Leone had consciously constructed was the &lt;em&gt;Japanese&lt;/em&gt; historical perspective, filtered through the grotesque, which it has been argued to be the principal composition of the Spaghetti Western. The connections between Japanese cinema (particularily Kurosawa, who was most prolific during this period) have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1109&amp;amp;context=srhonorsprog&quot;&gt;observed at length before&lt;/a&gt;; Leono's seminal  &lt;em&gt;A Fistful of Dollars (Per un Pugno di Dollari&lt;/em&gt;) was famously a re-interpretation of Kurosawa's &lt;em&gt;Yo-Jimbo&lt;/em&gt;, before we even get near &lt;em&gt;The Magnificent Seven&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at least if we trace Leone's lineage, his arrival at Spaghetti Western's came through working with Americans, then washing their cultural tradition through a Japanese Mangle and throwing in a touch of German Unheimlich, not to mention the natural cynicism inherited from years of working within NeoRealism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alireza Vahdani actually undertakes a reading of &lt;em&gt;A Fistful of Dollars&lt;/em&gt; with a clear reflection on its Neorealist origins, an extract of which is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.offscreen.com/index.php/pages/essays/european_american/&quot;&gt;provided here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A Fistful of Dollars can be read in neo-realist terms. The main&#xA;  similarity is that in both cases the characters are trapped by their&#xA;  lives. Leone in Frayling (2006, p.131) says that his characters are&#xA;  inspired by the characters of Sicilian theatre because they are&#xA;  “working within a fairly restricted margin.” However, the&#xA;  representation of ‘being trapped’ differs in westerns and neo-realist&#xA;  films. In the latter, the characters initially do their best to change&#xA;  the situation, but to no avail; they barely survive. On the other&#xA;  hand, in Italian westerns the environmental conditions of the&#xA;  characters are so cruel and unpleasant that they cannot expect any&#xA;  form of survival. They either succeed entirely, or lose it all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She goes on to hypothesize that the real root of Neo-realism can be found in the way Spaghettit Westerns re-orient the principal goal of their antagonists around the concept of Money and Wealth, replacing the Fordian notion of Honour and Justice which was readily adopted into America's cultural tapestry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, there are the economic and financial considerations to observe. A pale imitation of American Westerns simply wouldn't be marketable, do to its indifference to already available content (not to mention the looming market collapse due to saturation through American Studios). Paul Cooke's &lt;em&gt;Dialogues with Hollywood&lt;/em&gt; emphasizes a mode of production that thrived &lt;strong&gt;because of&lt;/strong&gt; its difference to American cinema, not in spite of it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Fistful of Dollars&lt;/em&gt; is responsible for the popularity of the&#xA;  Spaghetti western genre. It set a standard, designed a roadmap for a&#xA;  violently nihilistic cinematic style that dramatically separates Euro&#xA;  westerns from the Hollywood variety&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-03-27T02:13:18.853" LastActivityDate="2014-03-27T02:13:18.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18326" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18331" CreationDate="2014-03-26T22:37:54.310" Score="8" ViewCount="1746" Body="&lt;p&gt;How accurate is the issues in House of Cards to real life with Congress? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, with how Frank gets people to vote for his cause, how Remy buys people, and how Jacky is a backstabber is related to how 'Washington' is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastActivityDate="2014-03-27T17:47:57.123" Title="How Accurate is House of Cards to real life?" Tags="|analysis|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15574" CreationDate="2014-03-27T01:05:46.627" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well the writers needed Bernadette to meet Howard somehow. If Penny was to set them up, Penny and Bernadette needed to know each other. Hence, she works at the Cheesecake Factory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8778" LastEditorUserId="6980" LastEditDate="2014-04-18T23:32:03.543" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T23:32:03.543" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18326" CreationDate="2014-03-27T04:24:15.817" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/tdrg0n/kevin-spacey&quot;&gt;this appearance&lt;/a&gt; on The Daily Show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/kevin-spacey-house-of-cards-daily-show-103664.html&quot;&gt;(written up here)&lt;/a&gt; Kevin Spacey describes how in preparation for his role of Frank Underwood in the Netflix series, Spacey said he followed both House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who even invited the Hollywood star to a whip meeting...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“It feels like you’re watching performance art, a lot of the time,” Spacey said. “I don’t believe them. I don’t believe what they say. I don’t think they’re being absolutely sincere. I think it’s performance art. And most of them are bad actors.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the politicians, host Jon Stewart asked, “Do you think it was a performance for your benefit or are they lying to themselves and each other?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I think often the delusion is very deep. It runs very deep,” Spacey said. “Except for the ones that know they’re full of s—-.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stewart asks if certain plot lines of the show, such as murder, go further than reality -- and Spacey pointed out that some DC players have indeed been accused of murder, if not convicted of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion, as a long-time observer of politics and occasional political volunteer, is House of Cards is more truth than it is fiction. Of course, I might be jaded... I live in town with a former congressman who was brazen enough to write his &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3aDuke_bribe_menu.jpg&quot;&gt;bribe prices on his Congressional stationery&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2014-03-27T17:47:57.123" LastActivityDate="2014-03-27T17:47:57.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15574" CreationDate="2014-03-27T08:08:26.107" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the other answers, it's also worth pointing out that she only worked at the Cheesecake Factory until the Season 4 finale. Per the &lt;a href=&quot;http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/Bernadette_Rostenkowski-Wolowitz&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bernadette worked at the Cheesecake Factory with Penny to pay off her&#xA;  debts in graduate school, studying to become a microbiologist. She met&#xA;  Howard at work as Penny introduced the couple. In the present,&#xA;  Bernadette has received her Ph.D, and was offered a job at a big&#xA;  pharmaceutical company named Zangen. Although her exact income is&#xA;  never specified, it is stated that she makes very good money (a &quot;butt&#xA;  load&quot;) at a pharmaceutical company and that it greatly exceeds&#xA;  Howard's income.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think her choice of work environment is &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; unusual. Bringing a little bit of my own personal life into this answer, I've dated two different women who were in the process of completing PHDs. Whilst one eventually worked in an academic environment towards the end of her degree, for the majority of their courses both worked in restaurants/cafes/retail. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why?&lt;/strong&gt; It was easy money and much more importantly it wasn't academically stressful, leaving them time to think, plan and even work on their PHD work whilst at their second jobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-27T13:56:53.610" LastActivityDate="2014-03-27T13:56:53.610" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13724" CreationDate="2014-03-27T08:21:09.660" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=eight-below&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This is the scene&lt;/a&gt; in question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Knock, knock.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jerry&lt;/strong&gt;: Hey.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Katie&lt;/strong&gt;: Hey.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jerry&lt;/strong&gt;: l warmed up some of your favorite ice cream. Strawberry.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Katie&lt;/strong&gt;: That's your favorite ice cream.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jerry&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeah, well, you got here&#xA;  early. I didn't have time to go shopping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took this to mean he's being playful with her. He offers her the ice cream and jokingly refers to it being her favourite. She points out it's actually &lt;em&gt;his&lt;/em&gt; favourite, to which he responds he didn't have time to go shopping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final line, where he mentions her getting here early, appears to be nothing more than a playful, charming line from Walker as if to suggest she was &lt;em&gt;earlier&lt;/em&gt; than expected - she was, she wasn't expected at all! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He &lt;em&gt;wasn't&lt;/em&gt; expecting her - if he was, he &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; have gone shopping and bought &lt;em&gt;her&lt;/em&gt; favourite flavour. As he didn't know she was coming, he hadn't done that so all he had was &lt;em&gt;his&lt;/em&gt; favourite flavour of ice cream, which he defended by playfully accusing her of being early.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-27T09:26:02.327" LastActivityDate="2014-03-27T09:26:02.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18336" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-27T11:25:59.320" Score="2" ViewCount="67168" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the second season of Sherlock (from BBC 1), we see that sherlock tries to fake his death. The next session begins with an explanation of his method (using a rope and Moriarty's corpse). But there is another explanation which Sherlock reveals himself: he jumped on a crash mat, a similar-looking, dead person is brought to the pavement, and Sherlock replaces him. I'm just confused!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which one was the real explanation?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why did he have to fake his death? Moriarty was already dead, and Mycroft had convinced the snipers to cancel their plan by phone calls. Who was Sherlock trying to fool?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why did they use the similar-looking corpse (according to Sherlock's own explanation)? When Watson got to the corpse, it had been replaced by Sherlock! There was no need to this part of the plan.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6204" LastActivityDate="2014-03-27T16:29:26.587" Title="Why and how did sherlock fake his death?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-03-28T12:36:51.827" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18336" CreationDate="2014-03-27T12:17:42.283" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1.Which one was the real explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one knows.  It has never been revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2.Why did he have to fake his death? Moriarty was already dead, and Mycroft had convinced the snipers to cancel their plan by phone calls.&#xA;  Who was Sherlock trying to fool?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was trying to fool the snipers (possibly others who have not been revealed yet).  I do not recall Mycroft convincing the snipers to cancel their plan?  Even if he did Holmes would not have been sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;3.Why did they use the similar-looking corpse (according to Sherlock's own explanation)? When Watson got to the corpse, it had been replaced&#xA;  by Sherlock! There was no need to this part of the plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this had been part of the plan then Watson might still have seen the body falling.  They do not seem to make a big deal of it in the series but Holmes has a high respect for Watson's intellect.  If Watson had noticed that the falling body looked different he might well have seen through the entire plan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2014-03-27T12:17:42.283" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18336" CreationDate="2014-03-27T16:29:26.587" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1.Which one was the real explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far it's been left deliberately ambiguous.  It may never be revealed.  Moffat is like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2.Why did he have to fake his death? Moriarty was already dead, and Mycroft had convinced the snipers to cancel their plan by phone calls.&#xA;  Who was Sherlock trying to fool?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The world in general and Watson in particular.  Sherlock wanted to go undercover and take Moriarty's global network apart in detail - the network presumably is still a major threat even with its head removed.  To do that he needed the world to think he was dead.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That at least is the in-universe explanation as I understand it - whether you believe it or not is up to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;3.Why did they use the similar-looking corpse (according to Sherlock's own explanation)? When Watson got to the corpse, it had been replaced&#xA;  by Sherlock! There was no need to this part of the plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Sherlock's explanation John is allowed to see &quot;Sherlock's&quot; corpse from a distance before he's run over by the cyclist to delay him.  Real Sherlock is at this point being made-up with fake blood so the similar-looking corpse is used as a stand in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does seem a bit overkill to go to the trouble of tracking down a Sherlock-shaped corpse for that brief cameo; again whether you believe it or not is up to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8795" LastActivityDate="2014-03-27T16:29:26.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18341" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18343" CreationDate="2014-03-27T18:07:10.133" Score="6" ViewCount="430" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm fully aware this might be pushing the boundaries of what is an &lt;em&gt;acceptable&lt;/em&gt; question, given that it's about an economics issue rather than the show itself, but here goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been watching the Season 2 opener of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Arrow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, entitled &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/City_of_Heroes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;City of Angels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Oliver Queen's company is facing a hostile takeover from another group led by Isabel Rochev (played by the wonderful Summer Glau).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Early on in the episode, Felicity explains to Oliver &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it's so important he returns to the city to protect his company. The following dialogue takes place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Diggle&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot;...Your mother's in prison Oliver. Her trials's coming up. Thea's out on her own. Your family needs you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Felicity&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot;So does the family business. All the bad press after the Undertaking left Queen Consolidated right for a hostile takeover&#xA;  by Stellmoor International. &lt;em&gt;They've gutted every company they've taken&#xA;  over. Once they gobble up Queen Consolidated, 30,000 employees are&#xA;  going to be out of a job&lt;/em&gt; - including one very blonde IT expert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know nothing about economics but the italicised section confuses me. Why would a company buy another company and then just shut it down? Surely a mixture of bad publicity and loss of revenue would be extremely damaging. Why not just leave the company open and reap all this extra revenue, especially since competition with said company no longer exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand buying a company and shutting it down later if it can't turn a profit, but when a hostile takeover of a highly successful company like Queen Consolidated takes place, the above dialogue leaves me confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any &lt;em&gt;business&lt;/em&gt; reasons why it would make sense? &lt;em&gt;Note&lt;/em&gt; - I do understand there might not be an answer to this and it might just be the show's way of demonstrating that the company are &lt;em&gt;the baddies&lt;/em&gt; (by causing such huge job loss) and that Isabel &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; hates the Queens. That's acceptable as an answer. But it would be nice to know if the exchange above has any logical business sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-15T06:16:08.513" LastActivityDate="2016-04-15T06:16:08.513" Title="Query about business discussion in &quot;City of Angels&quot; episode of Arrow" Tags="|plot-explanation|arrowverse|arrow|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18341" CreationDate="2014-03-27T18:22:03.643" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many reasons to buy a company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: patents, know-how, market share, clients, diversification of business, new markets, eliminate competition, get what they need and sell the remaining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100405/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot;&gt;Pretty Woman&lt;/a&gt; Richard Gere character buy firms in difficulty and sells them to pieces, buildings, land, cars, intellectual property, etc, and make very huge profits.&#xA;It's one way to make money. Sometimes is more profitable sell than try to rebuild an firm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Isabel really hates the Queens&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Isabel hates Oliver Queen, and not the Queens, because we is a playboy and don't care about is bussiness in a professional manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8790" LastEditorUserId="8790" LastEditDate="2014-03-27T18:48:11.973" LastActivityDate="2014-03-27T18:48:11.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18341" CreationDate="2014-03-27T18:22:10.057" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;My answer is based on &quot;Wall Street&quot;, not real-life economics. So in &quot;Wall Street&quot;, there was discussion of a company's assets (buildings, raw materials, machinery, office equipment, intellectual property, etc.) being worth more than the cost of buying the company. In that case, a Gordon Gecko could buy the company in question, &quot;liquidate its assets&quot; as they said (by selling the buildings, equipment and patents) and wind up making a profit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-03-27T18:22:10.057" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18341" CreationDate="2014-03-27T18:42:15.253" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer : I'm not a economic guy just a student of CS, so my answer may not be definitive or correct. Just googled and got some info that I'm going to share.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://money.howstuffworks.com/hostile-takeover2.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HowStuffWorks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But sometimes the target doesn't want to be acquired. Perhaps they are&#xA;  a company that simply wants to stay independent. Members of management&#xA;  might want to avoid acquisition because they are often &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;replaced in the&#xA;  aftermath of a buyout&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.insidebusiness360.com/index.php/impact-of-a-hostile-takeover-13388/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;InsideBusiness360&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Employees also go through a lot when a hostile takeover takes place.&#xA;  Usually with a shift of control/ownership comes lots of organizational&#xA;  change, sometimes new bosses, loss of jobs and an overall attitude of&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;out with the old, in with the new&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometimes the changes entail letting everyone go, other times the new&#xA;  corporation maintains some employees for good or to train their own&#xA;  people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now as far as Felicity's &lt;em&gt;emotional&lt;/em&gt; speech comes to play, I think she was trying to convince Oliver to come back. The whole sudden unemployment is nothing but her fear not confirmation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastActivityDate="2014-03-27T18:42:15.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18345" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19241" CreationDate="2014-03-27T19:06:04.487" Score="7" ViewCount="5665" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been trying to find out the name of a direct to tv movie I watched on cable some years ago, I didn't catch the name of the movie at the time but the plot is something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A family of 4(dad, mom, kid daughter and preteen son) plus the son's best friend go on a trip for a school report for the son. They arrive at a dinner first where everyone looks suspicious but only the daughter takes notice of this. Then they arrive to this abandoned old west town, while everybody is looking around the car disappears and they take refugee on one of the buildings. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dad and son's best friend go to look for help and decide to cross a desertic area, in this place they find a lot of sand turned to crystal, the dad says that's most likely because the area used to be a weapon test ground. Suddenly the best friend starts to act weird and fall into a dune but when dad reaches to see if he is okay, he had disappeared. Later he reaches a a large dumpster and the car is there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, mom, daughter and son are in one of the old building waiting, when night arrives. It is implied something is chasing them because we get first person shots of something looking at them. Mom falls into a mine underneath the building and tries to escape, then she sees the thing that is stalking them. We never get a shot of the creature, but it is implied it might be a radioactive mutant. Mom escapes the mine and as soon as she is out the dad arrives. He explains the situation and the family leaves and goes to the closest town.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There they explain their ordeal to the sheriff, who seems to be aware of the mutant and tells the family everything will be okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The family stays at a motel and later that night the police tell them they have found the best friend. When they go for him, they find him in a catatonic state and seemingly under the influence of something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the family leaves town, the creature slams their car and it crashes. As the camera zooms on the dad as he screams, the scene is changed to day time and we see the family working on the dinner shown at the start of the movie. The daughter goes out and stares at a crow, the crow flies away and the movie ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This movie is bad, the plot doesn't make sense at all, you don't know if it's a paranormal movie or a mutant movie or ufo movie. Still, it's so bad it's entertaining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8799" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T15:25:44.720" Title="Do you know the name of this ghost town movie?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|mystery|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:03:16.540" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18348" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-27T21:19:52.560" Score="7" ViewCount="522" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to ask if somebody knows a movie about the ten commandments in which each commandment connects to one story of different people and they all talk to a black guy about their problems and it turns out that he is God.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember that there was a story about a woman, who discovered she is seriously ill and she decided to freeze herself, and one different story about a senator who loved a woman, but they could not be together and she hides from him the fact she had a child with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a very beautiful movie and I would like to see it again but I cannot remember the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8801" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-01-01T19:34:18.217" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T19:34:20.897" Title="Movie with different stories about the Ten Commandments" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:03:19.663" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18352" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18390" CreationDate="2014-03-28T03:40:02.710" Score="5" ViewCount="4842" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3520032/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;S03E17 - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;/&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;/&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is the name of episode) of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839578/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Person of Interest&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Root undergoes a surgery at an otolaryngologist. Did the device operated by the Decima guy impact so badly that it broke her ear (hearing ability)? If so what did she give Finch to repair?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8806" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-21T14:55:34.490" LastActivityDate="2014-10-26T14:27:54.573" Title="What kind of surgery was operated on Root's ear in episode / (S03E17)" Tags="|plot-explanation|person-of-interest|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18353" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18357" CreationDate="2014-03-28T04:07:11.523" Score="2" ViewCount="807" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the people in Laketown in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1170358/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; really do fear Smaug, why don't they just relocate to a far away place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8130" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T16:04:54.510" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T16:04:54.510" Title="Why don't the people in Laketown just relocate?" Tags="|the-hobbit|the-desolation-of-smaug|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18353" CreationDate="2014-03-28T07:30:53.063" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of them make a living of fishing and doing business with the elves. Relocating makes fishing impossible and also, most likely, stops them from doing business with the elves (which they do using the water).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if they move to another location, they lose all there income and hence, they have to start from complete scratch. They think they have a pleasant life at the time being, knowing that the dragon wont wake up without a good reason. There's no point for Smaug to destroy the city, unless he can use it as a threat to get what he wants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastEditorUserId="7659" LastEditDate="2014-03-28T09:17:02.620" LastActivityDate="2014-03-28T09:17:02.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18353" CreationDate="2014-03-28T08:04:05.850" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Lake-town&quot;&gt;LotR wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Uniquely, of all of the towns, settlements, fortresses, and cities of&#xA;  Middle-earth, Lake-town utilized water as its defense. The Long Lake&#xA;  was also surrounded by towering cliffs and high mountains, all helpful&#xA;  natural barriers that had the potential to aid its defenders in a&#xA;  siege (such as the Easterling invasion of the North in TA 3018).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in other words, until Smaug the town had provided a very good defence against almost all forms of attack. The townsfolk were't living in fear of invasion or under any &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; threat and so felt secure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is worth nothing the following from the wiki as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Smaug, livid with bestial fury, had winged his way to the town in the&#xA;  dead of night and promptly began to immolate the wooden matchwood&#xA;  structures there, materials that burst into flame at the slightest&#xA;  provocation. Its inhabitants realized all too late their predicament&#xA;  and while some, including most of the women and children, got away&#xA;  safely on boats, many perished in the maelstrom of fire that ensued. A&#xA;  brave company of spearmen and archers attempted, in vain, to shoot&#xA;  down the dragon, but were mostly immolated themselves. The town was&#xA;  wrecked by the dragon...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, once they &lt;em&gt;realised&lt;/em&gt; their predicament, many tried to leave the place to survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, with regards to the rebuilding of the town after its decimation by Smaug:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The inhabitants also learned a crucially important, but painful,&#xA;  lesson bought with the blood of loved ones: the town was built to be&#xA;  less susceptible to flame and its military was expanded. These lessons&#xA;  greatly aided it during the War of the Ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This last step meant they didn't need to worry about relocation again after the death of Smaug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, @invalid_iq's answer provides some excellent economic reasons why the townsfolk remained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-28T08:37:23.200" LastActivityDate="2014-03-28T08:37:23.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18352" CreationDate="2014-03-28T08:31:04.177" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the episode, but according to the Wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The device surgically implanted behind Root's ear is a cochlear&#xA;  implant, which is typically used for post-lingual adults with&#xA;  sensorineural (nerve) deafness. Root's hearing loss, on the other&#xA;  hand, is due to the loss of one of the conductive bones in her ear, a&#xA;  conductive hearing loss. Regardless, Root would not regain hearing in&#xA;  her right ear with the implant, but rather be able to hear limited&#xA;  sound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this explains what her initial ear problems were. In this episode, she has a device surgically fitted to her ear to allow her to remain in constant communication with &lt;em&gt;The Machine&lt;/em&gt;. As this is a fictional surgery, I'm not aware of its name!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, from a &lt;a href=&quot;http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/Harold_Finch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;different part of the Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Later, Root and Cyrus are again attacked by Decima, and despite even&#xA;  Reese's assistance, Cyrus is taken. Following the kidnapping, Root&#xA;  comes to the Library &lt;em&gt;and gives Finch a small chip that will aid her in&#xA;  preventing Samaritan from being activated&lt;/em&gt;. Finch wonders why she is no&#xA;  longer worried about Cyrus, and Root finally admits that she was&#xA;  responsible for ordering the hit that got Cyrus's friends killed in&#xA;  2009, and her guilt is stifling her desire to help Cyrus now. &lt;em&gt;Root&#xA;  decides that Finch can't help her and takes the chip she gave him&#xA;  earlier...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it appears she gave Finch a chip to help prevent the activation of Samaritan, then took it back from him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-28T08:31:04.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16645" CreationDate="2014-03-28T10:07:58.487" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, there is no third sibling in canon&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In literature, Sherlock's only sibling is his brother &lt;strong&gt;Mycroft&lt;/strong&gt;. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://bakerstreet.wikia.com/wiki/Mycroft_Holmes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Baker Street Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mycroft Holmes appeared or is mentioned in the following adventures:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;quot;The Final Problem&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;quot;The&#xA;Adventure of the Empty House&amp;quot; (mentioned)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;quot;The Adventure of the&#xA;Bruce-Partington Plans&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sherlockian.net/world/mycroft.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sherlockian&lt;/a&gt; also discussed this, commenting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The rest of the family&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is natural to wonder whether there were other brothers in the&#xA;Holmes family. None are mentioned in any of the original Sherlock&#xA;Holmes tales. But the 1975 film &amp;quot;The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes'&#xA;Smarter Brother&amp;quot;, starring Gene Wilder, is not about Mycroft; instead,&#xA;Wilder presents a manic third brother, Sigi Holmes. Presumably the&#xA;name is short for Sigerson, taken from the alias used by Holmes in&#xA;&amp;quot;The Empty House&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A number of Sherlockians have ventured to speculate&#xA;about a brother named Sherrinford. That name is taken from Arthur&#xA;Conan Doyle's original notes for A Study in Scarlet, in which the name&#xA;Sherrinford is used for the consulting detective who would shortly&#xA;appear in print under the name of Sherlock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what about sisters? There is no evidence, apart from a few wistful&#xA;comments in &amp;quot;The Copper Beeches&amp;quot; to the effect that &amp;quot;no sister of&#xA;mine&amp;quot; should run the risk that faced Violet Hunter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this, it can be clearly seen that there is &lt;strong&gt;no third brother in canon&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't mean a third brother won't appear &lt;em&gt;in the show&lt;/em&gt;. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.ign.com/articles/2014/02/04/sherlock-team-on-the-big-changes-in-season-3-the-villains-milverton-and-the-return-of-moriarty?page=2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;many interviews&lt;/a&gt; with Steven Moffat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we asked how the briefly mentioned third Holmes brother may&#xA;eventually play into the series, Moffat, not surprisingly, teased that&#xA;we should just, &amp;quot;Wait and see!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-28T10:17:18.683" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18361" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18362" CreationDate="2014-03-28T10:18:52.353" Score="31" ViewCount="11584" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/&quot;&gt;Shawshank Redemption&lt;/a&gt;, Andrew Dufresne ordered the rock hammer through Red, which he then used for 19 years to pick a hole through the wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Andy order multiple rock hammers? Its seems impossible to drill a hole for 19 years with one pickaxe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tafuA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8670" LastEditorUserId="34975" LastEditDate="2016-08-22T22:23:03.840" LastActivityDate="2016-08-22T22:23:03.840" Title="Did Andy Dufresne use more than one rock hammer to escape from Shawshank?" Tags="|the-shawshank-redemption|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18361" CreationDate="2014-03-28T10:37:38.390" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great question! This isn't discussed at any point in the movie, but in the Stephen King novella &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Hayworth_and_Shawshank_Redemption&quot;&gt;Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption&lt;/a&gt; which the movie was based on, Andy &lt;strong&gt;did order multiple rock hammers&lt;/strong&gt;. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://filmandliterature.edublogs.org/files/2010/08/Rita-Hayworth-And-The-Shawshank-Redemption2.pdf&quot;&gt;story&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the&#xA;  only one that  really is magic. But Andy Dufresne had changed. He had&#xA;  grown harder. That's the only  way I can think of to put it. He went&#xA;  on doing Warden Norton's dirty work and he held  onto the library, so&#xA;  outwardly things were about the same. He continued to have his &#xA;  birthday drinks and his New Year's Eve drinks; he continued to share&#xA;  out the rest of each  bottle. I got him fresh rock-polishing cloths&#xA;  from time to time, &lt;em&gt;and in 1967 I got him a new  rock-hammer - the one&#xA;  I'd gotten him nineteen years ago had plumb worn out.&lt;/em&gt; Nineteen  years!&#xA;  When you say it sudden like that, those three syllables sound like the&#xA;  thud and  double-locking of a tomb door. The rock-hammer, which had&#xA;  been a ten-dollar item back  then, went for twenty-two by '67. He and&#xA;  I had a sad little grin over that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, from the end of the novella:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And, of course, he had the rock-hammer. I remember thinking when I got&#xA;  him that  gadget back in '48 that it would take a man six hundred&#xA;  years to burrow through the wall  with it. True enough. &lt;em&gt;But Andy went&#xA;  right through the wall -even with the soft concrete, it  took him two&#xA;  rock-hammers and twenty-seven years&lt;/em&gt; to hack a hole big enough to get&#xA;  his  slim body through four feet of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in conclusion: &lt;strong&gt;Andy used two rock hammers to escape from the prison&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-28T10:37:38.390" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18353" CreationDate="2014-03-28T12:15:11.103" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Compare with real life where people live in places that is plagued with regular disaster such as Bangladesh (flooding) or parts of USA (tornadoes). After they have lost everything the survivors just rebuild.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8812" LastActivityDate="2014-03-28T12:15:11.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18365" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-28T16:34:00.570" Score="6" ViewCount="1250" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have never been able to figure out which movie I saw, must have been early 70's on TV. I was very young and it scared the beejeezus out of me.  May be black and white.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dr Frankenstein creates a bride for his monster, or at least a female monster. I remember vividly the bride was created from a young woman that was crushed by stampeding horses pulling a carriage.  Seems her head may have been severed, or at least she always wore a choker neckband to cover the scar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The male monster pursues the 'bride', but she is in the high society social circles (she is not hideous as he is) and he can never have her.  The final scenes are at a social event, perhaps a ball, and the monster enters and rips her head off.  Big reveal. Monster mourns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't ID it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8819" LastActivityDate="2017-11-12T02:38:50.377" Title="A Frankenstein Bride type movie" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:03:29.110" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18365" CreationDate="2014-03-28T18:07:51.430" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein%3a_The_True_Story&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Frankenstein: The True Story&lt;/a&gt;, (1973).  Jane Seymour plays Prima, (The Bride).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Suspicious about the decorative neck choker which Prima insists on&#xA;  wearing, Elizabeth spies on Prima as she sleeps and sees with horror&#xA;  the stitches on her neck where her head has been attached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At that moment, Frankenstein's badly burned creature bursts into the&#xA;  ballroom. Scattering the guests, he makes his way towards Prima. He&#xA;  rips away the now savage Prima's neckband, revealing her neck scar to&#xA;  the horrified crowd. After a tussle, where the guests try to keep a&#xA;  crazed Prima from reaching the monster, he succeeds in literally&#xA;  pulling off her head, dropping it at Polidori's feet. The ballroom is&#xA;  left in chaos and destruction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-03-28T18:07:51.430" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13772" CreationDate="2014-03-28T18:57:16.790" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;all episodes of Do No Harm were completed before the pilot aired in january 2013.  i think it was written surely to have a season 2. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8823" LastActivityDate="2014-03-28T18:57:16.790" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18371" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19135" CreationDate="2014-03-28T21:24:45.853" Score="6" ViewCount="1528" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember seeing this movie as a child in the 80s so it's probably a 70's movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A guy picks up a hitchhiker and ends up murdering him/her (can't remember), to dispense of the body he puts her in a wheel-chair, puts a large hat and sunglasses on her to disguise the fact she is a asleep and goes to a movie theatre. In the movie theatre when dark he swaps the victim out of the chair and wheels himself out wearing the hat and glasses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8827" LastActivityDate="2016-08-27T16:30:22.990" Title="Hitchhiker killer movie" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:03:35.363" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18373" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18418" CreationDate="2014-03-28T23:00:03.837" Score="4" ViewCount="1337" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)&lt;/a&gt; there is a scene with Kayla and Logan driving in the car when they approach a bridge with two trucks going opposite directions stopped, blocking the way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Logan gets upset and goes to nicely ask the guys to move. They give him grief, but before he rocks their world, Kayla intervenes, calming the truck driver. The driver then turns around and leaves; there is no incident. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the purpose of this scene? Is it to show that Kayla has some kind of power? From what I've read, she doesn't have any powers that allow her to manipulate other people. When Logan and Kayla get back into the car, they have an exchange about it where Kayla denies having power because Logan still got out of the car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what was the point of this scene? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T09:35:16.360" LastActivityDate="2016-10-02T15:29:30.357" Title="What was the point of the bridge scene?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-origins-wolverine|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18272" CreationDate="2014-03-29T00:38:00.200" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a kid I thought they were but I bought the trilogy a few years ago and was struck with that question, not because of the name differences, that can be explained away as he is a drifter and using the same name too much may build up a reputation for a man who ultimately wants to remain anonymous, element of surprise and all that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What got me was his personality/character differences; the age variation between movies is not that great to have what I consider significant psychological changes, given 10 years a person may change that much, but that kind of time frame shows on a man. In the first one he seems to be about money, but that is just a ruse; no one would have trusted him if he didn't come off as a mercenary, he was really all about reuniting the mother and son, and later he learns she has a husband, he is a complete Angel of mercy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second one he actually is all about money, but he has a sense of &quot;honour amongst thieves&quot; thing going with Van Cleef, and he is a pretty nice guy. In the Good, the Bad and the Ugly he has another significant shift of personality where he actually partners up with a rapist/murderer, the Angel of the first movie would never consider doing that, not for money and not even with an ultimate plan to leave him for dead in the desert, his character from the second movie may have done that but there is no chance that Van Cleef would do such a 180 on him after their bonding over the watch and daughter, again not in a time frame anything short of 10 years do you see changes of character like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So overall I consider there to be enough character inconsistencies for them to be unrelated but very thematic similarities across the 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8822" LastActivityDate="2014-03-29T00:38:00.200" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18380" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18384" CreationDate="2014-03-29T04:40:03.677" Score="24" ViewCount="62290" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099487/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot;&gt;Edward Scissorhands&lt;/a&gt;, why did the inventor first give Edward scissors instead of functioning hands and fingers? Right before his death, he is showing Edward a set of prosthetic hands. Why not use those to begin with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm no expert on the human body nor an inventor, but I always assumed they were there for testing/forming the tendons which would control the hands/fingers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might not make sense to me as I may have misunderstood the timeline or the time difference between Edward's creation and the inventors death, but I recall the inventor teaching Edward, trying to educate him. I don't imagine this all happened within a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2016-08-04T00:57:05.827" Title="Why was Edward given scissors instead of hands?" Tags="|plot-explanation|edward-scissorhands|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18380" CreationDate="2014-03-29T07:02:14.720" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edward Scissorhands was a creation of Tim Burton's that dated back to doodles from high school. From an article about an exhibit of Burton's drawings:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of Tim Burton’s most famous characters, Edward Scissorhands, is&#xA;  way older than you think. “It was an idea from when I was a teenager,”&#xA;  says the director of Beetlejuice ... “It had been in my mind for a&#xA;  long time.” ...Those and other doodles (like the self-inflating&#xA;  cephalopod from 1994, below) are on display at the Museum of Modern&#xA;  Art through April...To unearth some of the forgotten gems, Burton&#xA;  sifted through boxes of old drawings he’d had shipped from a warehouse&#xA;  in the States to his home in England. “It helps ground you and gets&#xA;  you to remember what interested you to begin with,” Burton says. “I’ve&#xA;  never really felt like a writer. It was always a visual thing for me.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Johnny Depp says that it wasn’t until he saw Burton’s sketches that he&#xA;  understood who he was to play. “I instantly fell for the character —&#xA;  he made his way into my body.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the character came first, the story second! According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Scissorhands&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, Edward was unfinished when the inventor died. Presumably, functioning  hands would have been very difficult to build, so the sicssorhands are just very early prototypes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fCbhk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/11/pl_arts_burton/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Arts: Explore Origins of Tim Burton’s Goofy Gothic&lt;/a&gt;, By Sonia Zjawinski, &lt;em&gt;Wired&lt;/em&gt; Dec 2009&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2014-03-29T07:02:14.720" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18380" CreationDate="2014-03-29T08:05:48.300" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edward &lt;strong&gt;started&lt;/strong&gt; as a machine with scissors for hands.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see The Inventor, Edward's &quot;father&quot;, look over at one his assembly line machines almost shaped like a human, and using scissor-like tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hgfgV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The scissor-handed machine from Edward Scissorhands&quot;&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you say, over the course of an unspecified amount of time, the Inventor transforms this machine into a &quot;human&quot; piece by piece (for instance, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alicia-logic.com/capsimages01/esc_082JohnnyDepp.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;in one scene&lt;/a&gt; you can see Edward sitting upright, waiting for his legs to be attached), all the while &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alicia-logic.com/capsimages01/esc_079DeppPrice.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;teaching him how to be human&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Inventor replaced Edward with prosthetic human parts piece by piece based on what he thought was the most important feature at the time. It is clear the most important piece for his &quot;son&quot; was the heart, so he began with that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Cykr7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The inventor, imagining adding a heart to his machine&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the face was added (socially, being the most important part of a human), and I would assume the other body parts followed a logical progression due to necessity, or perhaps even just availability of parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hands were simply the final piece left to make him &quot;complete&quot;, but alas, The Inventor's untimely death left Edward stuck with the scissors he had used while he was still a machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;All images from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alicia-logic.com/capspages/caps_viewall.asp?titleid=65&amp;amp;start=16&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Eclectric Dragonfly Screen Caps Database&lt;/a&gt;, copyright held by Twentieth Century Fox.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7482" LastEditorUserId="7482" LastEditDate="2014-03-29T10:55:47.763" LastActivityDate="2014-03-29T10:55:47.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18387" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-29T03:59:50.557" Score="2" ViewCount="1009" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seriously doubt he was, but since the theme of the film was Rocky losing his edge, could it be that even Paulie was posing a threat to Rocky? It obviously parallels the scene in the first Rocky when Rocky subdued an angry, drunken Paulie when he was screaming at Adrian. But if Rocky can handle an angry, younger, drunk Paulie...why was he so fearful and defensive against a heavier, depressed, hungover Paulie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8843" OwnerDisplayName="Gelfamat" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-29T19:04:09.430" LastActivityDate="2014-03-29T21:04:56.330" Title="When Paulie attacked Rocky in the parking garage in Rocky III, was Rocky trying to win?" Tags="|rocky-iii|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18352" CreationDate="2014-03-29T10:48:49.697" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Root tells Finch:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Decima severed my link to the Machine... temporarily.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But she didn't like that, so &lt;strong&gt;she wants you to patch 'these' into 'this'.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;    &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TC3F4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;'This'&lt;/em&gt;, the device on the left side, is (the internal part of) a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant#Parts_of_the_cochlear_implant&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;cochlear implant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;'These'&lt;/em&gt;, the three things on the right side, will presumably give her an &lt;em&gt;umjammable&lt;/em&gt; connection with the Machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://amy-acker.us/amy-acker-talks-about-the-evolution-of-root-on-person-of-interest/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;According to&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Amy Acker&lt;/strong&gt;, who plays Root, she is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;directly implanted with the Machine&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;she also calls it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the heart of the Machine&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Finch seems to comply, because when Root takes the cochlear implant back a few minutes later, we can see that &lt;em&gt;'these'&lt;/em&gt; have been patched into &lt;em&gt;'this'&lt;/em&gt;, as requested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;    &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/20830.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;2&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Root leaves the earbud, which she has been using until Decima's countermeasure rendered it useless, behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;   &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5mVy6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;3&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-29T10:48:49.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12327" CreationDate="2014-03-29T12:25:19.243" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A show like that is filmed a number of years before it's released. For them to show four episodes covering a year, they simply would've filmed at four points throughout the year, and edited together a number of shows when all the footage was available. A year later, you see it on TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8650" LastActivityDate="2014-03-29T12:25:19.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18393" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18431" CreationDate="2014-03-29T14:21:22.213" Score="11" ViewCount="2623" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Hans refuses to kiss Anna to thaw her &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294629/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Frozen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; heart he tells her the whole story of why he wanted her to marry him and what his plan for taking over the kingdom was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, when he meets Elsa on the frozen fjord during the snowstorm with the intention of killing her he lies to her about trying to save Anna. Since he obviously likes to tell people about his plan and then revel in his perceived success why does he not tell Elsa the truth as he did with Anna?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-29T14:41:59.293" LastActivityDate="2014-03-30T20:37:17.127" Title="Why does Hans still lie to Elsa before trying to kill her?" Tags="|plot-explanation|frozen|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18394" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-03-29T14:23:58.200" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-03-29T14:23:58.200" LastActivityDate="2014-03-29T14:23:58.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18395" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-03-29T14:23:58.200" Score="0" Body="Frozen is a 2013 animated film by Walt Disney Pictures." OwnerUserId="8840" LastEditorUserId="8840" LastEditDate="2014-03-29T14:43:54.100" LastActivityDate="2014-03-29T14:43:54.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18393" CreationDate="2014-03-29T15:02:39.560" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He left her for dead and assumes she is dead. It isn't a lie. He &lt;em&gt;believes&lt;/em&gt; she's dead, as there is no way she could survive. Little does he know of the mighty snowman ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-03-29T15:02:39.560" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18399" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18408" CreationDate="2014-03-29T17:38:25.597" Score="14" ViewCount="2059" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always wondered about that vault up on the 30th floor of Nakatomi Plaza (in the first &lt;em&gt;Die Hard&lt;/em&gt; movie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it realistic that a mid-1980s corporation would store extremely valuable items -- from hundreds of millions of dollars in bearer bonds to precious artwork -- in a vault in the upper floor of its own office building?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-06-06T11:46:14.417" LastActivityDate="2016-06-06T11:46:14.417" Title="Would valuables really have been stored in Nakatomi Plaza vault?" Tags="|plot-explanation|die-hard|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18387" CreationDate="2014-03-29T21:04:56.330" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think he was fearful, but he was being defensive so that Pauly didn't hurt him. While it's not a straight up fight (Either street or boxing type match), a wild swinging, angry drunk can cause quite a bit of damage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even a trained fighter can be caught off guard by a wild attack, so I think that Rocky was just moving around and making sure Pauly didn't get in a lucky shot. If he gets dazed by some wild looping punch, then he's defenseless against an angry, out of control aggressor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, while you could make the argument that it is foreshadowing the self confidence crisis to come, the scene that you are describing is just after the sports announcer talks about Rocky successfully defending his title for the 10th time, so at that time in the movie there really is no reason for him to be fearful at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-03-29T21:04:56.330" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18402" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18403" CreationDate="2014-03-29T21:26:36.387" Score="30" ViewCount="282854" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games%3a_Catching_Fire&quot;&gt;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&lt;/a&gt;, there is a three finger salute that is constantly shown, sometimes with whistle sound. But what does this three finger salute mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T03:50:05.270" LastActivityDate="2019-10-25T23:17:43.883" Title="What does the three finger salute mean in Hunger Games?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-catching-fire|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18402" CreationDate="2014-03-29T21:34:09.127" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;From Chapter 2 of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;first book&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person&#xA;  claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are&#xA;  usually beyond caring. Possibly because they know me from the Hob, or&#xA;  knew my father, or have encountered Prim, who no one can help loving.&#xA;  So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while&#xA;  they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage.&#xA;  Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is&#xA;  wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don’t expect it because&#xA;  I don’t think of District 12 as a place that cares about me. But a&#xA;  shift has occurred since I stepped up to take Prim’s place, and now it&#xA;  seems I have become someone precious. At first one, then another, then&#xA;  almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of&#xA;  their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It is an old and&#xA;  rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It&#xA;  means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you&#xA;  love.&lt;/em&gt; [-Katniss' Narration]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's effectively used to say &lt;em&gt;goodbye&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first book, when little Rue dies, the following scene takes place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A few steps into the woods grows a bank of wildflowers. Perhaps they&#xA;  are really weeds of some sort, but they have blossoms in beautiful&#xA;  shades of violet and yellow and white. I gather up an armful and come&#xA;  back to Rue’s side. Slowly, one stem at a time, I decorate her body in&#xA;  the flowers. Covering the ugly wound. Wreathing her face. Weaving her&#xA;  hair with bright colors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They’ll have to show it. Or, even if they choose to turn the cameras&#xA;  elsewhere at this moment, they’ll have to bring them back when they&#xA;  collect the bodies and everyone will see her then and know I did it. I&#xA;  step back and take a last look at Rue. She could really be asleep in&#xA;  that meadow after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Bye, Rue,” I whisper. I press the three middle fingers of my left&#xA;  hand against my lips and hold them out in her direction. Then I walk&#xA;  away without looking back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Katniss makes this symbol and as the movie shows, the first riots and protests of the uprising against the Capitol begin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From then on, the significance of the gesture completely changes and it becomes a symbol of the revolution - effectively, a way for the citizens of the Districts to say goodbye to the overbearing force and power of the Capitol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whistle that accompanies it is the noise that the mockingjays make. From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://thehungergames.fandom.com/wiki/Mockingjay_%28bird%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hunger Games wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A mockingjay is a bird that was created through the mating of&#xA;  jabberjays and female mockingbirds. When Katniss wore a pin with this&#xA;  bird on it in the 74th Hunger Games, the Capitol was angry. They&#xA;  believed it would result in an uprising because the Capitol saw the&#xA;  mockingjay as a failure. This is why Katniss became &quot;The Mockingjay&quot;&#xA;  and led the rebels in Mockingjay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The salute is shown more in the movie because it’s an action that is loud and clear. As they say, &quot;actions speak louder than words&quot;; and as they didn’t have Jennifer narrate the film, then they had to show more actions. Otherwise, the audience would be more in the dark than Katniss was throughout the whole series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-10-25T23:17:43.883" LastActivityDate="2019-10-25T23:17:43.883" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12271" CreationDate="2014-03-29T21:36:44.980" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 2 references to Celia. At the end, in Mike's locker, there is a post-it note that says &quot;call me 555 555 Celia&quot; with the lipstick mark and a black and white picture of her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8847" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-03-30T00:22:12.673" LastActivityDate="2014-03-30T00:22:12.673" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18407" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-30T00:50:46.580" Score="16" ViewCount="636" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337978/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Live Free or Die Hard&lt;/a&gt; and I noticed that in the scene where the van drives away after the first hacker was killed, right after, there is a sort of glitch that is used through the beginning of the film. But after the one at 2:20 I thought I saw a woman. It happened so fast that I wasn't sure but then I returned to 2:18 and started clicking play/pause fast enough to see every frame, and that's when I saw her very clearly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5ihZJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;women from Die Hard 4&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It freaked the hell out of me. I searched in Google to see if anyone else saw her but apparently no one did so. Who is she? Why is she in the movie? And why are they showing her so fast and briefly? She looks a bit like Kate Beckinsale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To see her it is better to open the movie in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;VLC&lt;/a&gt; and slow it down as much as possible (but start somewhere near 2:17 because it would take forever to get there).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8852" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T04:31:58.197" Title="Who is the woman appearing for less than half a second at the beginning of Die Hard 4?" Tags="|live-free-or-die-hard|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18399" CreationDate="2014-03-30T01:03:55.453" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Really it's hard to say whether a corporation would do this or not, but take a &lt;a href=&quot;http://listverse.com/2013/04/03/10-highly-guarded-vaults/&quot;&gt;look at this list&lt;/a&gt; and you can see there surely could be. As with JP Morgan vault, banks do this all the time. I don't believe we are told in &lt;em&gt;Die Hard&lt;/em&gt; what actually happens at Nakatomi Plaza, but they could be some sort of banking firm. What seems the most unlikely about the scenario of the movie is placement of the vault itself. A more likely place for it would be underground in a basement level, for two major reasons. First of all, security. If you have concrete and ground on four or five sides of the six sided vault, it would make it a lot more secure than having high up in a structure. The second would be what it would take to support a structure inside the upper reaches of a building. In order to create a vault as they described in Nakatomi Plaza, it would have to be pretty massive. Theo cuts through a bunch of layers, then waits for the &quot;miracle&quot; of the &lt;em&gt;F-B-I&lt;/em&gt; which Hans gives him in order to get through the magnetic seal to actually get into the vault (IIRC). This makes for one heavy chunk of vault, which would have to be suspended somewhere in the building, which is very unrealistic in architectural terms. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would make sense for a corporation to diversify their holdings if they have the money. If they did diversify, they would probably want to have some of that local and easy to get to. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearer_bond&quot;&gt;Bearer bonds&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; real, though the US no longer issues them. A corporation could very well hold bearer bonds, but even in the late 80's probably not very realistic. Electronic transfer of funds was probably more used those days, and it would be absolutely the mode of transfer today. In the Wiki article, it says the main reason for bearer bonds was the untraceable transfer of money. A corporation like Nakatomi probably wouldn't have been using them in the first place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the problems you are going to see is if a corporation does store valuables in their own vaults, we (the public) probably wouldn't know too much about them. These corporations want to keep their valuables, well, theirs. The only way the public would probably find out about such vaults is if someone on the inside divulged the information on the vault, but I would bet these people have to sign non-disclosure agreements to keep this information from the public light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, bottom line, is it possible? Yes. Is it plausible, maybe not. Will we ever know for sure ... as yet untold, but probably not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-03-30T01:03:55.453" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18407" CreationDate="2014-03-30T04:21:42.307" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, &lt;a href=&quot;http://checkingonmysausages.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html&quot;&gt;this guy&lt;/a&gt; noticed it at checkingonmysausages, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://erdbeeremiau.blogspot.com/2013/02/abgebildet-quickie-kate-beckinsale-in.html&quot;&gt;this German site&lt;/a&gt; seems to agree that it is Kate Beckinsale. And it has a mention in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337978/trivia&quot;&gt;imdb trivia&lt;/a&gt; for the movie:&#xA;&quot;A single frame shot of director Len Wiseman's wife Kate Beckinsale is spliced into the opening credits, when the van is outside the exploding house.  Beckinsale is married to director Len Wiseman.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2014-03-30T04:21:42.307" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18413" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-30T06:33:33.413" Score="23" ViewCount="197714" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Snowpiercer, the head of the train protruded and Andy climbed in. Curtis tried to stop Andy from doing so, Wilford suggested that was the task Andy was given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was that task?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8858" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-30T09:58:49.563" LastActivityDate="2018-10-09T10:36:03.007" Title="What was the little boy Andy trying to do at the end of Snowpiercer?" Tags="|plot-explanation|snowpiercer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30" CreationDate="2014-03-30T09:33:09.530" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;They pretty much explicitly tell you where the virus comes from. Dr Mendez states that the virus sprang into being from an individual's perception and then calls it a God Bug. This is referring to Schrodigner's Cat which explains how probability waves in higher dimensions are condensed into lower dimensions like ours through individual perception. The virus, being a &quot;God Bug,&quot; means it was once in an alternate or higher quantum dimension and somehow became condensed into ours. This does not rule out Mazzy as a vector, however Honey the Cat was definitely involved, perhaps the cat was both alive and dead until Mrs. Du Flaque saw it on the bridge, collapsing the wave function and condensing the virus into the third dimension, just like in Schrodinger's Experiment. I have not however read the book, this is just what I gathered from what was explicitly stated by the characters in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8861" LastActivityDate="2014-03-30T09:33:09.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18080" CreationDate="2014-03-30T12:24:20.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had the same question but then I thought: &quot;Does it really matter why Woody killed Rodney?&quot; It is a senseless killing and that's the point. In the first scene of the movie Woody is established as someone easily resolving to extreme violence if something rubs hm the wrong way - and this whole thing with Dafoe and Rodney clearly bothered him. Russell on the other hand is struggling with killing, because of the accident where he was responsible for killing someone innocent. He hesitates and passes on shooting the deer, but later he shoots Woody with great resolution. I thought the last scene was beautiful showing him pondering it all. I really liked the movie ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8862" LastEditorUserId="8862" LastEditDate="2014-03-30T13:36:15.970" LastActivityDate="2014-03-30T13:36:15.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18416" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18417" CreationDate="2014-03-30T14:55:46.580" Score="2" ViewCount="592" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_%282005_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stay (2005)&lt;/a&gt;, in the whole dream sequence Sam wears little short pants, which does not suit his personality. What is with it? Is this just a hint for it being a dream or is there any symbolism behind it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-30T15:01:31.887" LastActivityDate="2014-03-30T15:39:22.383" Title="What is the logic with Sam's short pants?" Tags="|plot-explanation|stay|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18416" CreationDate="2014-03-30T15:39:22.383" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1512011/stay-not-meant-trick.jhtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MTV interview&lt;/a&gt;, Marc Forster says - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;When [McGregor] kneels down to talk to&#xA;  Ryan [at the accident], Ryan's perception is that the pants are up, so&#xA;  they're shorter. That's why Ewan's wearing shorter pants. And that's&#xA;  why visual clues have a meaning throughout the film.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2014-03-30T15:39:22.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18373" CreationDate="2014-03-30T15:39:30.400" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point of the scene was to show that she has the power to command others when she makes physical contact and that Wolverine doesn't know she has powers.  She denies having power because she doesn't want him to know.  She's trying to manipulate him for Stryker and Sabretooth so if Wolverine found out it would ruin the plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:  modified answer to remove mention of Wolverine being immune to Kayla's powers since it's unclear whether he is immune or not.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8688" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T06:54:34.903" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T06:54:34.903" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18393" CreationDate="2014-03-30T17:45:46.290" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My thought is that he is scared of Elsa's powers and lies to weaken/distract her&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8868" LastActivityDate="2014-03-30T17:45:46.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18423" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18424" CreationDate="2014-03-30T18:33:04.320" Score="6" ViewCount="22606" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Chip 'n Dale, are they male or female chipmunks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8NefD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8880" OwnerDisplayName="BlueFlame" LastEditorUserId="8880" LastEditDate="2014-03-31T11:31:16.533" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T21:45:05.207" Title="In Chip 'n Dale, are they male or female chipmunks?" Tags="|character|chip-n-dale|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18423" CreationDate="2014-03-30T18:50:19.480" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a long time, there was nothing specific about the two chipmunks to clearly identify their sex within the old cartoons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://disneyland.disney.go.com/attractions/disneyland/chip-n-dale-treehouse/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Disney's own site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Who's Who?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ever wonder how to tell &lt;strong&gt;these 2 chipmunk brothers&lt;/strong&gt; apart? Chip has a small black nose with 2 teeth in the center of his mouth. Dale has a big red nose and 2 buck teeth with a gap in the middle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if the official line is that they are &amp;quot;brothers&amp;quot;, then they must, by definition, both be male.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Historically, it wasn't until the show &lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Chip_%27n_Dale_Rescue_Rangers&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that they were ever given clothes or fleshed out personalities. The clothes and personalities are generally male, and there are at least two instances where both of the brothers exhibit an attraction towards female characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tammy the squirrel in &lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Adventures_in_Squirrelsitting&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Adventures in Squirrelsitting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xoK2Q.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;tammy and chip&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Foxglove the bat in &lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Good_Times,_Bat_Times&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Good Times, Bat Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fgO60.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;tammy the bat&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1046" OwnerDisplayName="phantom42" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T02:00:32.830" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18423" CreationDate="2014-03-30T19:06:11.313" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://disneycomics.wikia.com/wiki/Chip_%27n%27_Dale&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Disney Comics Wiki&lt;/a&gt; about Chip &amp;amp; Dale:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Their earliest acquaintances were two girlfriends that they both shared, Clarice and Chi-Chi (why they didn't just date one each is unknown). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They also shared twin nephews, Zip 'n' Zap, and had a common Grandpa (as well as other relatives), which raises the possibility that they are related, perhaps even brothers (they certainly act like siblings). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus the page lists them as male in their biobox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicvine.com/dale/4005-4586/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Comicvine's entry on Dale&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He is brother to Chip, they are both on the &quot;Rescue Rangers.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.magicalmouseschoolhouse.com/2013/07/tiggerific-tuesday-trivia-chip-dale-brothers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Magical Mouse Schoolhouse&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to author Dave Smith in his Disney Trivia from the Vault, &lt;em&gt;Bill Justice, the animator who first drew the rascally chipmunks Chip &amp;amp; Dale, wrote in his autobiography 50 years after the characters were created that he thought of the two as&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;“simply little brothers,”&lt;/strong&gt; although the Walt Disney Company has never stated if they were brothers or just good friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://disneyland.disney.go.com/attractions/disneyland/chip-n-dale-treehouse/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Disneyland&lt;/a&gt;* website:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ever wonder how to tell these 2 chipmunk &lt;strong&gt;brothers&lt;/strong&gt; apart?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(*© Disney, All Rights Reserved, Disney Parks &amp;amp; Travel)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This all seems to point to male.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" OwnerDisplayName="Meat Trademark" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-03-31T00:35:02.347" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T00:35:02.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18423" CreationDate="2014-03-30T19:23:13.917" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just go to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chip_&amp;#39;n_Dale_Rescue_Rangers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers wikiquote page&lt;/a&gt; and do control-F (or Command-F on a Mac) to search for the word &quot;he&quot; on the page, you can find various lines where the characters were referred to as &quot;he&quot;, like this one from &lt;em&gt;Kiwi's Big Adventure&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[When Gadget finds out Dale is faking] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gadget: Why that little...! He couldn't...! How did...! OOOOH!!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chip: I know just what you mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this one from &lt;em&gt;To the Rescue: Part V&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chip: Courage and our friendship binding us together! So follow me!&#xA;  We've got a date with a ruby!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Monty: He's bonkers in the conkers, ya know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dale: Yeah? But he is my friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Dale's line here about Chip being his &quot;friend&quot; suggests the writer probably didn't imagine them as brothers at the time, regardless of what the people writing the websites quoted by phantom42 and Meat Trademark thought)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8870" LastEditorUserId="8870" LastEditDate="2016-06-07T20:59:53.153" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T20:59:53.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18393" CreationDate="2014-03-30T20:30:18.390" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Hans tells all his plans to Anna, she is on the verge of death. Only true love's kiss will save her. He leans in to kiss her then tells her the horrible truth - he is only interested in the throne.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following this, he divulges his whole plan as she will be dead soon and it won't matter (and, of course, as it fills the audience in). He leaves her and likely assumes she will die as she is so weak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Hans meets Elsa out on the fjord, it has to be remembered that the ice that is engulfing &lt;em&gt;the entire kingdom&lt;/em&gt; is her creation. She is unbelievably powerful. If he were to tell her his whole plan, she could easily overwhelm and defeat him. Instead, he tries to break her spirit by telling her that her actions effectively led to the death of her sister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it works. She falls to the ground, broken, and he has one glorious opportunity to kill her. Given he thinks Anna is dead and he was left in charge of the kingdom by her, this would eliminate both sisters and leave him in charge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the day is saved by Anna and the rest is history. Ultimately, it seems extremely likely that the reason he lied to Elsa was because it was his &lt;em&gt;best way to defeat her&lt;/em&gt;. If he had told her the truth, like he did with Anna, he would have strengthened her resolve and risked defeat. Anna was so weak it didn't matter. Elsa was dangerous and wild - he couldn't overcome her physically, so targeted her emotions instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-03-30T20:37:17.127" LastActivityDate="2014-03-30T20:37:17.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18433" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-30T21:08:47.503" Score="8" ViewCount="14326" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104257/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Few Good Men&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, the two Marines are acquitted on most charges but found guilty of conduct unbecoming a U.S. Marine and ordered to be dishonorably discharged from the Corps. Does it strike anybody else as completely unbelievable that after seeing the dramatic scene of Col. Jessup admitting to ordering the Marines to perform a &quot;Code Red&quot;, the jury would go ahead and convict them of anything? Were they expected to refuse the order of a superior officer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only explanation is an unsatisfactory one given by one of the accused Marines: &quot;we were supposed to fight for Willie [the victim]&quot;. Is there a legal reason why this conviction might be legitimate? Or is it just to set up the closing line of the movie: &quot;you don't have to wear a patch on your arm to have honor&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7701" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-11-08T14:42:24.937" LastActivityDate="2016-11-08T15:40:43.800" Title="Why were the Marines found guilty of conduct unbecoming and dishonorably discharged in A Few Good Men?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|a-few-good-men|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18433" CreationDate="2014-03-30T22:17:53.627" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, this doesn't surprise me at all. What is &lt;em&gt;conduct unbecoming&lt;/em&gt;? The court saying they did not behave as a Marine should behave. They should have known what was being asked of them was not in accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice (or UCMJ). They should have known the order was unlawful, and therefor not obeyed it. They should have taken it higher in the chain of command. The reason they were not get found guilty on the more serious charges was because COL Jessup admitted his involvement. Marines have a lot of pride. They expect their members to behave in a certain way. Obviously that wasn't happening in this case and they were discharged because of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: While &quot;Conduct Unbecoming ...&quot; does apply to officers only, &lt;a href=&quot;http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/mcm/bl93.htm&quot;&gt;Article 93 of the UCMJ&lt;/a&gt; would allow for discharge of these two individuals. In this article, it states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any person subject to this chapter who is guilty of cruelty toward, or oppression or maltreatment of, any person subject to his orders shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or they could also be charged under &lt;a href=&quot;http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/mcm/bl81.htm&quot;&gt;Article 81&lt;/a&gt; which is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any person subject to this chapter who conspires with any other person to commit an offense under this chapter shall, if one or more of the conspirators does an act to effect the object of the conspiracy, be punished as a court-martial may direct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If all else fails, there is a separation code which states: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;USMC Other, for the Good of the Service&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while they may have had the verbiage wrong in the movie (see Andrew's &quot;woops&quot;), they certainly could have been discharged for their actions. I would bet they used the term, &quot;Conduct Unbecoming ...&quot; because it sounds better than &quot;For the Good of the Service&quot; ... but that's JMHO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-03-31T10:49:49.463" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T10:49:49.463" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5796" CreationDate="2014-03-30T22:47:51.993" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indiana is in the Midwest of the US (the Middle). The East Coast and West Coast intellectuals look down on middle America and refer to it as &quot;flyover&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8872" LastActivityDate="2014-03-30T22:47:51.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18413" CreationDate="2014-03-30T23:27:59.310" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;This explanation (&lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; this question, to be honest) are pretty 'spoilerific', so whilst I'm aware SE is a spoiler-tolerant site, I'm gonna go ahead and throw up a courtesy flag to anyone thats anticipating seeing the Movie: it's taken an age to get to the UK, and I did all I could to not ruin what turned out to be an &lt;em&gt;awesome&lt;/em&gt; movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the story, Wilford explains the wider ramifications of the train's operation during a lengthy piece of dialogue. This takes place in the 'Engine-Room', the heart of the train which turns out to be the clean-room of Evil itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qlwfI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During this scene, Wilford explains that the most important function of the rear-carriage was the continuation of a precious resource, &lt;strong&gt;children&lt;/strong&gt;; and &lt;em&gt;in this case&lt;/em&gt;, children whose removal would not cause undue discomfort to the more-noseward/higher-class citizens standard of living. The train is equipped with a perpetual motion engine, and as such there is little need for an 'industrial' class of citizen; which could be interpreted as working class/ blue collar workers/society.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What the engine &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; require from the rear carriage citizens, is children small enough to carry out the &quot;manual work &quot; for the engine's operation and maintenance. Curtis is a class warrior, fighting for the rights of the lesser citizens and, ultimately, totally unable to comprehend the disparity between the living conditions of the more-noseward/higher-class occupants of the train and the dismal ghetto like existence of the rear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The realization that, from the perspective of the controlling forces of the train, the rear carriages are &lt;em&gt;just another&lt;/em&gt; industrial area farming children for labor exploitation is a concept that cripples Curtis. He realizes that not only was the revolution an accommodated one, the rear carriage class is genuinely little more than cattle: it's children the Veal that the Train dines on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wpdVM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Curtis finds Timmy he tries to remove him from the workspace, where he has been substituted for the functionality of a failing part, or at least integral to its operational maintenance. Curtis' disruption causes a critical failure in the engine, and the nose of the engine begins to protrude inwards, revealing &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; small crawlspace for a child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/emMsO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is at this point that Andy climbs out and enters the crawlspace, unflinchingly and pragmatically resuming some form of manual control over the engine's operation. Given the lackadaisical attitude to child welfare in the uppermost classes/carriages, it is implied this occupation is a grave one. The exact nature of the task Andy carries out is irrelevant: it is the fact he does so willingly and with lucidity that makes is grim task so mortifying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QOilG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By disrupting the operation of one function of the engine (albeit doing so to save an innocent), Curtis has created a vacuum of control which is &lt;em&gt;in turn&lt;/em&gt; occupied by another innocent child; a metaphor for the futility of resistance in a system predicated by the necessity for sacrifice. The Borg would be happy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Marxist terms, its the exploitation of &lt;em&gt;Arbeitskraft&lt;/em&gt;. In leyman terms, its a message about how (within hierarchical societies) controlling powers don't prioritize the conditions from which lower-classes provide a workforce, as long as it provides one and &lt;em&gt;remains useful.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Andy was simply a child that had been convinced to give his life for the continuation of a way of life that was totally oppressive to his own circumstances. Take from this film whatever message you will, but that is, horrifyingly, the intended one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2016-01-10T17:48:20.180" LastActivityDate="2016-01-10T17:48:20.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18443" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43439" CreationDate="2014-03-31T02:52:40.370" Score="21" ViewCount="22698" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Neo takes the red pill, he is sitting on a seat and there is a cracked mirror next to him which starts changing. He touches it and a silver goo starts covering his body. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the significance of the goo? Where did it come from?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-03T10:37:35.617" LastActivityDate="2017-03-30T10:43:23.870" Title="What is the significance of the silver goo in the Matrix?" Tags="|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18433" CreationDate="2014-03-31T07:27:03.990" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be perfectly frank, you're asking an extremely difficult and arguably &lt;em&gt;unanswerable&lt;/em&gt; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's an old legal saying I remember from my Law degree. &quot;&lt;em&gt;Justice depends on what the judge has had for breakfast&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. Different days can bring different results and in a trial like this, the military officers are free to come to whatever conclusion they want within legal reason (similar to a jury).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's certainly plausible that the officers could have seen a Code Red as something that must be followed at all times, thus excusing the officers of any sanctions. Alternatively, they might have seen the Code Red as something to follow at all times provided there is no danger to US life, or provided it doesn't exist within a certain culture. My point is that, like a jury, the military officers are free to come to whatever decision they want on the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, on a final note - it was a movie and thus I do think it's probable the scene went the way it did to provide that iconic ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In real life, a person with &lt;em&gt;zero&lt;/em&gt; defense experience would &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; get the position Kaffee did. Not to mention this rather important snippet of information &lt;a href=&quot;http://abnormaluse.com/2012/12/a-few-good-men-a-former-jag-officer%E2%80%99s-perspective.html&quot;&gt;from a former JAG officer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...although the two accused Marines have the main charges&#xA;  against them dismissed, they are still found guilty of “Conduct&#xA;  Unbecoming A Marine” and are discharged from the military.  The only&#xA;  problem? No such crime exists under the Uniform Code of Military&#xA;  Justice (UCMJ).  Article 133 of the UCMJ makes “conduct unbecoming an&#xA;  officer” a crime.  But the two accused Marines were enlisted, rather&#xA;  than officers, and couldn’t have been convicted under Article 133. &#xA;  Whoops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would argue that if the crime &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; exist, it really depends on the jury's interpretation of events. But the crime doesn't exist, so you really just have to come to your own conclusions on it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T07:27:03.990" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18443" CreationDate="2014-03-31T07:34:11.723" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;A similar question (about the liquid mirror) has been asked at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7371/why-did-the-mirror-repair-itself-in-front-of-neo&quot;&gt;Sci Fi Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;. The following, although complete speculation, is from the highest rated answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On one level, the liquid mirror is just a manifestation of the&#xA;  dissolution of the fake reality of the Matrix. It evokes a dreamlike&#xA;  quality in keeping with Morpheus' lines during the scene, and also&#xA;  provides an element of growing tension that leads up to the shock of&#xA;  waking up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This, however, doesn't explain why it's specifically a mirror — a&#xA;  melting wall would do just as well for that. On another level, though,&#xA;  a mirror is a metaphor for both perception and for a boundary. (Note&#xA;  the focus on Morpheus' mirror shades, and on Neo's reflection in them,&#xA;  in the previous scene.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Before taking the pill, Neo's perception of himself and his&#xA;  surroundings was flawed, like the broken mirror — he perceived the&#xA;  illusion of the Matrix as real. The healing of the mirror is the first&#xA;  step in his beginning to perceive the Matrix for what it really is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By touching the surface of the mirror, Neo takes a step across the&#xA;  boundary between the Matrix and the real world (there's almost&#xA;  certainly an allusion to Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass&#xA;  here, just as the previous scene referenced Alice in Wonderland), a&#xA;  step whose irreversibility is shown by the mirror swallowing up Neo&#xA;  completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, there is a school of thought on several online forums which argues the entire scene is a little out of place with the movie and was only included as a reference to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alice in Wonderland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep&#xA;  the rabbit hole goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second Alice book was called &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking-Glass&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Through the Looking Glass&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. This is exactly what happens to Neo. He literally goes through the looking glass, i.e. mirror, as it engulfs him completely as begins his journey to &lt;em&gt;the real world&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T07:34:11.723" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18447" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-31T08:29:17.510" Score="8" ViewCount="2077" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new Russian sub in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099810/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hunt for Red October&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; had a new 'caterpillar' drive which meant it was undetecable to sonars.  However, it was spotted on it's maiden voyage and Jones immediately worked out a way to detect it with the sonar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence it was detectable with a slight modification which could be performed by a sonar operator on the fly and the relevant informtion could then be broadcast to the rest of the American submarines and they could detect it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the only feature of the Red October was that it could not be detected then it did not work.  Why was such an effort made to capture it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-13T20:41:06.330" LastActivityDate="2017-06-29T13:17:28.813" Title="Was any of 'The Hunt for Red October' necessary?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hunt-for-red-october|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18447" CreationDate="2014-03-31T08:38:13.280" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few issues at work here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, there was confusion as to the &lt;em&gt;mission&lt;/em&gt; of the Red October. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_for_Red_October_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Officials in the briefing, learning that the bulk of the Soviet Navy&#xA;has been deployed to sink Red October, fear Ramius may plan an&#xA;unauthorized strike against the United States. Ryan, however,&#xA;hypothesizes that Ramius instead plans to defect, and leaves for the&#xA;North Atlantic to prove his theory before the U.S. Navy is ordered to&#xA;sink Red October.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to start with, Ryan was tracking and trying to capture the submarine (as opposed to destroying it) as he didn't believe it posed a genuine threat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, it has to be remembered that even though the 'caterpillar' drive malfunctioned, it was still a piece of technology that the US didn't have and could learn from. It still could do things that no US submarine could do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the US could figure out how it worked and operated, they could attempt to better it and make it more reliable, thus adding to the strength of their naval fleet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/h/hunt-for-red-october-script.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;demonstration from the movie&lt;/a&gt; of Jones' prowess:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Capt. Bart Mancuso&lt;/strong&gt;: [after hearing Jones's findings] Have I got this straight, Jonesy? A $40 million computer tells you you're chasing an earthquake, but you don't believe, and you come up with this on your own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seaman Jones&lt;/strong&gt;: Yes, sir.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mancuso&lt;/strong&gt;: Including all the navigation maps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jones&lt;/strong&gt;: Sir, I-I've got all the...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mancuso&lt;/strong&gt;: Relax, Jonesy. You sold me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-06-29T13:17:28.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18443" CreationDate="2014-03-31T15:28:26.697" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion (and this is only my opinion and not backed by facts or director's commentary), the &quot;goo&quot; is the mirror.  It's just the mirror melting, and when he touches it, the &quot;goo&quot; begins to cover his body.  I think this was done to reflect a dream-like-yet-wide-awake state, similar to an acid trip.  If you've ever done any type of psychadelia, perceptions like this are common.  This type of perception is even quite prevalent in cartoons from the 60's and early 70's, where one form morphs into another, into another, into another.  It was just a way to show the &quot;real&quot; world fading away into the world of the Matrix, and the morphing from one to another.  Why do you think Morpheus is called Morpheus?  ;o)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T15:28:26.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18456" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18463" CreationDate="2014-03-31T17:05:05.780" Score="6" ViewCount="9090" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 1, Rick travels to Atlanta, and the rest of the survivors later travel to the CDC headquarters. Why, after 4 seasons (with the exception of Eugene and Abraham), has the show not suggested/explored the possibility of traveling to another major city? It would seem rural Georgia might be preferable from the standpoint that the relative density of walkers to humans is likely to be less away from a major city, but also less preferable in terms of actually finding supplies, other survivors, state supported aid, or questions as to what caused the outbreak. While the show seems to be more about what happens to the survivors, and less about whatever caused the apocalypse, eliminating the characters' interest in exploring how the disease has affected other parts of the country doesn't completely make sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8883" LastActivityDate="2016-06-04T13:03:40.963" Title="Why hasn't the Walking Dead left rural Georgia?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11948" CreationDate="2014-03-31T17:07:17.523" Score="12" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did all of Robb's army come to the wedding?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;However, the grand majority did&lt;/strong&gt;, meaning the events of the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Red_Wedding&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Red Wedding&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; essentially ended the &lt;em&gt;North's&lt;/em&gt; resistance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The page linked above has a list of the location of all characters &lt;em&gt;according to the book&lt;/em&gt; who were killed/captured at the Red Wedding. From the page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though no definitive count is known, most of the northmen are killed&#xA;while House Frey loses only approximately fifty men in the camps, as&#xA;well as Ser Garse Goodbrook and Ser Tytos Frey, both of whom are&#xA;killed by Sandor Clegane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list of &lt;em&gt;absentees&lt;/em&gt; from the wedding reads as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Absent&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perwyn, Olyvar and Alesander Frey are all noted as absent. It is&#xA;believed they were too sympathetic to Robb Stark and his comrades to&#xA;be involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lord Jason Mallister, Galbart Glover and Lady Maege&#xA;Mormont are sent to Greywater Watch with a force to find Lord Howland&#xA;Reed. They also carry a letter from King Robb naming his successor.&#xA;Lord Jason later returns to Seagard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ser Brynden Tully stays behind in&#xA;command at Riverrun to defend the Riverlands as Warden of the Southern&#xA;Marches, with the aid of the River Lords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the first two collections of people were &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; in Robb's army, but Brynden Tully is a notable absentee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, when dealing with the aftermath:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Red Wedding brings an end to the northern rebellion, with Roose&#xA;Bolton being made the Warden of the North for his aid in it, and&#xA;several great benefits befell House Frey, including the lordship of&#xA;Riverrun. However, it also destroys what honor is left in the house,&#xA;as they violated one of the oldest and most sacred traditions of old,&#xA;the guest right. This leads to antipathy and disgust towards the house&#xA;by most Westerosi, including their own allies. Additionally, though no&#xA;other house has dreamed to repeat the breaking of the right, it has&#xA;left a more lasting stain on the ancient guest right, with safety and&#xA;security in a strange castle no longer being considered guaranteed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the Red Wedding, several of Lord Walder Frey's kin have been&#xA;killed by the Brotherhood Without Banners, northmen such as Wyman&#xA;Manderly or the &amp;quot;Ghost of Winterfell&amp;quot; in retaliation. Perhaps&#xA;ironically, more Freys have died due to the repercussions of the Red&#xA;Wedding than during the War of the Five Kings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So although his army was defeated and his resistance destroyed, there were other Northmen and clans who survived and put up a resistance - but again, they weren't really a part of his army to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interesting though, it's worth pointing out (&lt;em&gt;especially&lt;/em&gt; since this is Movies &amp;amp; TV) that &lt;em&gt;unlike&lt;/em&gt; the novels, in the TV Series &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Jon_Umber_%28Greatjon%29#A_Storm_of_Swords&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jon Umber&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; present at the wedding. He &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; liberating the Riverlands during Season 2, but as per &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/b_cogman/status/446300694090637312&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bryan Cogman&lt;/a&gt; (one of the producers of the show):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;well, keep watching! But he wasn't captured at the [Red Wedding] in our&#xA;continuity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T17:07:17.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18458" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-03-31T17:13:18.087" Score="2" ViewCount="316" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever there is an error, factual or typo or otherwise, we see newspapers / books / magazines posting a corrigendum for their readers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is why don't production houses / directors etc do the same for their audiences, whenever a 'goof' is discovered. I hope you get the larger sense of what I am talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8670" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T10:13:31.463" Title="Why don't production houses offer corrigendum?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18458" CreationDate="2014-03-31T17:27:38.213" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;They do, sometimes, depending on what your definition of a &lt;em&gt;goof&lt;/em&gt; is. A famous example I can think of was from the Bond movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_View_to_a_Kill&quot;&gt;A View to a Kill&lt;/a&gt;. The &lt;em&gt;evil&lt;/em&gt; company in the film was called Zorin. As per the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_View_to_a_Kill#Production&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt; for the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When a company with a name similar to Zorin (the Zoran Corporation)&#xA;  was discovered in the United States, a disclaimer was added to the&#xA;  start of the film affirming that Zorin was not related to any&#xA;  real-life company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine one of the biggest reasons why it &lt;em&gt;seems&lt;/em&gt; they don't is that newspaper are printing real life stories and are legally accountable for any mistakes in their statistics (to give an example). Thus if they print a misleading story, action can be taken against them. Movies, being a form of entertainment, aren't subject to the same laws (which is why a movie could include a scene with whatever statistics is wanted on issues like the death penalty, or global warming, whereas a newspaper couldn't).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for minor redactions for typos, this isn't something that tends to be an issue in film as it's the audio we hear. Mistakes in subtitles are rare and, if found, can be easily corrected with the next release of a version of a film. More &lt;em&gt;serious&lt;/em&gt; mistakes, e.g. a digital watch being worn on the wrist of character in the Wild West don't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; affect the story and would be costly to edit out - whereas in a novel version of the story, the same mistake could be rectified in minutes with the new version used in the next release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T17:27:38.213" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18458" CreationDate="2014-03-31T21:58:31.283" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The actual question is, &lt;strong&gt;why should they?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, &lt;em&gt;Andrew&lt;/em&gt; nails it in his answer that movies are fiction and thus any errors are within the bounds of creative freedom. There is no commitment and responsibility for truth and thus no reason for any corrigendums. The studios just have absolutely no motivation to publish their goofs. If the goof wasn't found yet, there is no interest (and likewise no obligation) to publish it by the production company. And if the goof has been found by people, there is likely no reason for the studios to list it explicitly (and maybe make it known to even more people).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that it is not always easy to define what a &quot;goof&quot; is. You'd be surprised (or at least I am sometimes) at what minor things people can take offence at in movies. If we then include less concrete things like plot-inconsistencies the line gets even blurrier. There are people that absolutely don't care about minor plot-inconsistencies while somebody else might regard them as downright movie-destroying errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And last but not least, what would such a corrigendum be? A statement saying &lt;em&gt;&quot;At minute 23:04 imagine the white van to be not there!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;? It's not that it is easy to correct in the final product, and just listing it doesn't really help anyone, not even the audience (rather on the contrary, it might damage the movie experience for people who did not notice it before).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-03-31T23:48:28.757" LastActivityDate="2014-03-31T23:48:28.757" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18456" CreationDate="2014-04-01T09:05:45.117" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be a very dangerous journey, requiring the expenditure of vast amounts of resources for something which does not have a defined objective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is difficult to drive to and through cities due to the roads being blocked by broken down cars, herds of walkers, general rubble etc.  Walking would be very dangerous as there are natural hazards, walkers, hostile humans etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they managed to find another city they would potentially be set upon by herds of walkers, in unfamiliar terrain with only the resources they could carry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they managed to survive the walkers then they might or might not find other survivors who might or might not be friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a far better use of resources to fortify where they are and try to survive.  I am sure they are curious as to what is happening elsewhere but to attempt to travel there would be quite out of character and, tbh, almost suicidal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T09:05:45.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18456" CreationDate="2014-04-01T12:18:17.437" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been suggested in several episodes that the answers lie in other parts of the country, and it has also been suggested that they're all lies.  I can't remember the episode but one of the characters, when talking about safe-havens, says something like, &quot;On the east coast they say it's the west coast, on the west coast they say it's the east coast...&quot;  I think they're pretty much in &quot;Survival&quot; mode at this point, and just looking for another place like the prison where they can dig in and make a community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I recall, one of the secondary characters for the past few episodes was a doctor or scientist who needed to get to DC because he has the supposed cure.  So, at least in other characters they come across, people &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; trying to get to, or have gone to, other locations in the country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm sure one of the biggest factors is also the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_industry_in_Georgia_%28U.S._state%29#Incentives&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;generous tax credit&lt;/a&gt; given to productions filmed in Georgia which display the Georgia Entertainment logo in the credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-04-01T12:18:17.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18466" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18467" CreationDate="2014-04-01T12:33:59.867" Score="8" ViewCount="9722" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Graduate&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and am confused why Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft) seduces Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) for no good reason. Why did Mr. Robinson talk like he wanted his wife to sleep with Benjamin?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Mrs. Robinson's seduction of Benjamin actually a plan by the Robinsons so that Benjamin won't marry their daughter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8888" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-01T14:53:02.700" LastActivityDate="2021-04-21T10:19:14.633" Title="Is Mrs. Robinson's seduction of Benjamin actually a plan by Mr. &amp; Mrs. Robinson to prevent Benjamin from marrying their daughter?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-graduate|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18466" CreationDate="2014-04-01T12:41:39.627" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mrs. Robinson is the original &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar_%28slang%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cougar&lt;/a&gt;, so to speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She seduces Benjamin simply because she is tired of her marriage and wants a fun sexual encounter. Mr. Robinson was most certainly &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; aware of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Graduate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr. Robinson, [once he learns about] his wife's affair with Benjamin,&#xA;goes to his apartment in Berkeley and berates him, threatening to have&#xA;him prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, should Benjamin ever&#xA;come near Elaine again. In the meantime, Benjamin has tried to tell&#xA;Mr. Robinson that his wife has manipulated him into having an affair&#xA;with her. But Mr. Robinson is also skeptic and refuses to believe him,&#xA;and then he forces Elaine to drop out of school and takes her away to&#xA;marry Carl. She leaves Benjamin a note, saying that although she loves&#xA;him, her father's anger would prevent the family from ever accepting&#xA;him as Elaine's husband.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr. Robinson was outraged once he'd learnt of Benjamin's actions, blaming him entirely for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rebecca Neumann in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://escholarship.org/uc/item/186959sr#page-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;article on the film&lt;/a&gt; gave some explanation as to Mrs. Robinson's actions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film places significant emphasis on Mrs. Robinson's past as  the&#xA;motivation for her actions. As a young woman, an unplanned pregnancy&#xA;forced her to give up her dreams, drop-out of college, and marry Mr.&#xA;Robinson. Years later, her loveless marriage and empty nest bore and&#xA;embitter Mrs. Robinson despite her luxurious life-style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;, Mrs. Robinson's seduction of Benjamin was most definitely &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a plan to keep him and Elaine apart. It just ended up &lt;em&gt;looking&lt;/em&gt; like that due to Mr. Robinson's reluctance to ever let Benjamin near his family again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="46980" LastEditDate="2021-04-21T10:19:14.633" LastActivityDate="2021-04-21T10:19:14.633" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18371" CreationDate="2014-04-01T18:55:39.530" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like, The Freeway Killer? Movie made about the true story of a guy from California (William Bonin) who picked up hitchhikers...young men and boys, and raped/murdered them..late 70's into the 80's. Hope this helps!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3582" LastEditorUserId="3582" LastEditDate="2014-04-02T11:25:37.920" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T11:25:37.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18474" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18475" CreationDate="2014-04-02T00:39:07.940" Score="8" ViewCount="1866" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to recall a movie I used to watch as a kid (this wasn't a kids movie however). It was from the 80's because I watched it in the early 90's. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main character was a guy in a trench coat, who wasn't old but had grey hair and throughout the movie they make reference to his age. I believe he was some kind of cop or agent. This movie was kind of futuristic, but not really sci-fi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Around the middle of the movie he ends up with a young and beautiful girl and helps her out. Of course, they fall in love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trick of the movie was that the trench coat guy had a device that could stop or slow down time like if someone was shooting at him, he could slow time and get away. But it only lasted a short time. It might have been a watch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were bad guys and they looked like normal people except when the trench coat guy was around, their faces turned out to look like they were burned or something. When they died, they would disappear in a blue light and leave a burn mark on the floor/ground. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One scene I recall is the trench coat guy went to a type of tanning salon and the young guy working there was a bad guy and locked him in one of these tanning rooms where he was getting burned. The bad guy blocked the door with a surf board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In another, the trench coat guy and the girl were getting intimate when some young girl came on the TV and started telling him what to do. This girl was like his boss or commander or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Color, English and from what I recall was not a B movie (did they have B movies back then?).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T01:15:54.590" Title="Movie about a cop slowing down time" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:03:51.047" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18474" CreationDate="2014-04-02T01:15:54.590" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trancers&quot;&gt;Trancers&lt;/a&gt;, (1985).  The trench-coat guy, Jack Deth, (Tim Thomerson), has white hair.  The young beautiful girl is played by young Helen Hunt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Deth can identify a tranced victim by scanning them with a special&#xA;  bracelet. All trancers appear as normal humans at first, but once&#xA;  triggered, they become &lt;strong&gt;savage killers with twisted features&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;People can travel back in time by injecting themselves with a drug&#xA;  which allows them to take over the body of an ancestor. When Jack Deth&#xA;  arrives in 1985, he is in the body of his ancestor, a journalist;&#xA;  Whistler assumes control of his ancestor, a police detective; and&#xA;  Deth's supervisor, McNulty, borrows the form of his own forebear, &lt;strong&gt;a&#xA;  young girl.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Deth is given some high-tech equipment which is sent to him in the&#xA;  past: his sidearm, (which contains two hidden vials of time drugs to&#xA;  send him and Whistler back to the future), and a &quot;long-second&quot;&#xA;  wristwatch, which temporarily &lt;strong&gt;slows time stretching one second to ten&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T01:15:54.590" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27882" CreationDate="2014-04-02T07:26:42.057" Score="3" ViewCount="213" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0154506/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Following&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, Cobb gives a Lloyds bank credit card to Bill in a coffee shop. Why did Bill accept it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8878" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-12-12T13:31:32.083" LastActivityDate="2018-12-12T13:31:32.083" Title="How come Bill accepted the credit card from Cobb?" Tags="|plot-explanation|following|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16293" CreationDate="2014-04-02T08:24:47.067" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just finished watching the first season of Arrow and noticed this too. I tried some online research, but I've come up empty, so here's my highly subjective speculation on the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's a possible mistake. The producers just didn't notice. This is unlikely, but it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; possible. I remember watching an episode of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.csifiles.com/reviews/csi/corporate_warriors.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;CSI New York&lt;/a&gt; where the detective handled all the weapons in lock up that they'd taken off the suspect &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; gloves. A colossal no-no and one that any mild watcher of the show noticed. Yet amazingly the producers didn't. Still, I think this is unlikely. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was a deliberate omission designed to show the boundaries between Oliver Queen the billionaire and Oliver Queen the arrow had been temporarily removed. There were no secrets between Malcolm and Oliver. They knew each other. Malcolm was fully aware of Oliver's exploits and Oliver had discovered the true identity of the Black Archer. Given these circumstances, the lack of eye paint could symbolise him going into the fight as himself. Remember the circumstances leading up to the fight as well. Malcolm had beaten him a few times and told him it was because he didn't know what he was fighting for. When Oliver showed up for the final fight, he was himself and he was fighting for what he believed in. His courage and conviction took him over the line.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There doesn't &lt;em&gt;appear&lt;/em&gt; to be a definitive answer on this, but the second point above is my subjective take on the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-02T10:45:50.990" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T10:45:50.990" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18479" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18480" CreationDate="2014-04-02T08:59:32.487" Score="33" ViewCount="6954" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is normal for new actors who haven't proven themselves to audition for roles in movies. But What about A-listers like Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, etc. Do these guys still attend auditions or are scripts just handed to them because they already have the image that fits the character in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8896" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-02T16:21:20.707" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T19:10:57.203" Title="Do A-listers audition for roles?" Tags="|production|casting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18479" CreationDate="2014-04-02T09:13:01.890" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes they have to give an audition and sometimes they don't have to give an audition. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you count Russell Crowe as A-lister then he also gave an audition for the film version of the musical Les Miserables. (Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2035354/Crooner-Crowe-proves-hes-biz-Les-Mis--Russell-gives-incredible-singing-audition-musical-adaptation.html?ito=feeds-newsxml&quot;&gt;www.dailymail.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;). There are many other examples over the internet. Even sometimes non-A-listers can also clear auditions over A-listers but an A-lister may get more attention in auditions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://okmagazine.com/get-scoop/scarlett-johansson-auditioned-les-miserables-laryngitis-lost-anne-hathaway/&quot;&gt;Scarlett Johansson Auditioned for Les Miserables With Laryngitis &amp;amp; Lost to Anne Hathaway&lt;/a&gt;. For this case it looks like one A-lister lost the role to another A-lister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure about Hollywood but in Bollywood sometimes movies are made for an A-lister, so in that case they don't need to give an audition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-02T16:20:37.673" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T16:20:37.673" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18479" CreationDate="2014-04-02T09:15:52.367" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears to depend on the film's creators and what &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; want. &lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.eonline.com/news/81499/do-big-stars-have-to-audition-for-movies&quot;&gt;E-Online&lt;/a&gt; were asked about this via Twitter and published an article as a response, which included this snippet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Most of the time, A-list gods and goddesses don't have to read for&#xA;  anything. In fact, even B-plus talent often joins a project before a&#xA;  casting director is even hired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They concluded their article with this information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And that's what happens with many famous actors: a meeting, usually a&#xA;  lunch, where the director or producers can size up an actor without&#xA;  making the talent feel like they're under evaluation [is all that is needed].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now obviously, E is just a single source of information, but given their role as one of the leading media providers of celebrity news their articles should carry weight on the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An interesting example of this comes from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/30/jake-gyllenhaal-lord-of-the-rings_n_4178546.html&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;, which discusses how an at-the-time fairly unknown Jake Gyllenhaal &quot;bombed&quot; his audition for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_%28film_series%29&quot;&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/a&gt; trilogy (to play Frodo). The article states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gyllenhaal isn't the only major actor who was discussed as a&#xA;  possibility for Jackson's blockbuster trilogy. Daniel Day-Lewis was&#xA;  one of the first actors that Jackson sought to play Aragorn, but&#xA;  Day-Lewis passed on the opportunity. Russell Crowe was also offered&#xA;  the role of Aragorn, but he passed as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In perhaps the most famous bit of &quot;Lord of the Rings&quot; almost-casting,&#xA;  Sean Connery was chosen for the part of Gandalf. &quot;I never understood&#xA;  it. I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don't&#xA;  understand it,&quot; Connery said about why he decided against starring in&#xA;  &quot;Lord of the Rings.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to suggest that all three of these A-List celebrities were offered roles in the movie after &lt;em&gt;reading the script&lt;/em&gt;, but not after &lt;em&gt;auditions&lt;/em&gt;. Clearly, they had the reputation to warrant immediate casting, whereas Gyllenhaal (who at the time was much less known) didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some actors don't get roles, despite expecting them, because they &lt;em&gt;refuse&lt;/em&gt; to audition. For example &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2500391/Beyonc-refused-audition-Disneys-Princess-And-The-Frog--Alicia-Keys-tried-THREE-times.html&quot;&gt;Beyonce in The Princess and the Frog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, there are times that famous celebrities are offered roles in films that were in effect created &lt;em&gt;especially&lt;/em&gt; for them. In these situations, it seems unlikely they would need to audition, as it's the strength of their &lt;em&gt;previous&lt;/em&gt; work that has attracted the attention of the film's creators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a final, final note, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Gravity-You-Didn-t-See-Starring-Natalie-Portman-Robert-Downey-Jr-Many-More-39670.html&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; is an interesting read. It basically tracks the chronological order in which the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Gravity&lt;/a&gt; approached people for the various roles on offer, before finally setting on George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as lead stars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-02T17:34:34.163" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T17:34:34.163" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13025" CreationDate="2014-04-02T10:23:33.327" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are a few possibilities here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first possibility is that Snape could have fudged it as @Liath suggested in his answer. However, the OWLs were external exams marked by external examiners. Although Snape has influence over the &lt;em&gt;teaching of the course&lt;/em&gt;, the actual examination was done independently (similar to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Certificate_of_Secondary_Education&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GCSE&lt;/a&gt; system in UK which Rowling was clearly basing it on). So although Snape &lt;em&gt;could in theory&lt;/em&gt; have altered the marks, I don't think it seems likely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second possibility is that they got the grades required to enter the class. Whereas Snape was strict about only accepting students with an &lt;strong&gt;Oustanding&lt;/strong&gt; in their OWLs, Slughorn accepted people with &lt;strong&gt;Exceeds Expectations&lt;/strong&gt;. It is possible Crabbe and Goyle got this qualification. I've three reasons for suspecting this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, as is clearly demonstrated in the final book, both Crabbe and Goyle become &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; proficient in the dark arts. They clearly have the ability to learn advanced magic and the patience to get better at it. The books and movies often portray them as being bumbling, but they clearly have &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Snape had pointed out in the past that Potions is not like the other branches of magic. It requires much more concentration and patience, which brings me on to my second reason. They aren't very imaginative and follow Draco Malfoy's instructions like gospel. This suggests a complete lack of independent thinking. Whilst they would never be the equivalent of the Half Blood Prince, inventing and brewing their own elaborate Potions, it does seem plausible that they could follow instructions to the letter as would be required in a Potions classroom. Their lack of imagination might even help with this, as they'd be determined to only do whatever they were told (or rather, whatever they read on the ingredients/recipe sheet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; agree with either of these first two reasons. In fact, it's mentioned at times in the books that they struggle with even basic potion brewing and that Snape, showing his favoritism, chooses to overlook their incompetence and instead focus his wrath on Harry, Ron and Hermione.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it's this third and final reason which makes me think they could have gotten &lt;strong&gt;Exceeds Expectations&lt;/strong&gt; - Harry and Ron did. Sure, they had Hermione Granger, the smartest kid in the history of anything helping them, but we see regularly in the books and films that neither of them are particularly academic (and &lt;em&gt;especially&lt;/em&gt; not Ron, who has a fair few &quot;dopey&quot; moments throughout the books). They both tried hard for their OWLs though. &lt;strong&gt;The Order of the Phoenix&lt;/strong&gt; actually has a passage where it mentions how even Crabbe and Goyle were seen studying, so clearly &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; are trying hard too. Given their adoration of Snape, it seems very plausible to me that out of all their OWL subjects, Potions would be the one most likely to receive attention in their revision - and thus is also seems possible they legitimately scraped the grades necessary to task the class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I think that in the books and movies it causes a few eyebrows to be raised seeing them in the NEWT Potions class, but it was good for the plot and kept them around as Malfoy's sidekicks. Obviously that's the &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; reason Rowling included them in the class, but when trying to argue how they got in &lt;em&gt;in the fictional world of Hogwarts&lt;/em&gt;, I think the most likely reason is that they did just enough to get in and no more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T10:23:33.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18485" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18489" CreationDate="2014-04-02T11:41:30.830" Score="2" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV show Heroes we see several examples where peoples' families also have abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Claire Bennet's mother could control fire, her father can fly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Peter's brother can fly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Matt's dad was also a telepath&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dr Suresh's work shows that these are genetic anomalies which give people their abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is the case why (except in the case of Matt Parkman) are the same abilities not passed to children (like eye colour, hair and other genetic traits)? Why do parents frequently have one gift and a child another?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-02T17:27:00.103" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T17:27:00.103" Title="How are abilities inherited?" Tags="|plot-explanation|heroes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18486" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-04-02T11:41:58.803" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-04-02T11:41:58.803" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T11:41:58.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18487" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-04-02T11:41:58.803" Score="0" Body="Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010." OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-04-02T11:41:58.803" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T11:41:58.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18485" CreationDate="2014-04-02T12:53:53.623" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears to be random. Two of the show's writers, Joe Pokaski and Aron Coleite, discussed this in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&amp;amp;old=1&amp;amp;id=10433&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt;. Here are some of the interesting snippets:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q: Now, also along this genetics line, shouldn't Nathan's other kids&#xA;  (Claire's half-siblings) have powers? Or is that only guaranteed if&#xA;  both parents are powered?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A: In genetics, nothing is guaranteed. A random mix of traits. Gregor&#xA;  Mendel and all that. Do we have to have a biology lesson, too? Wasn't&#xA;  the boring physics lesson enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a separate session with the same site, this exchange occurred:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q: Claire's new classmate West can fly. This brings up an interesting&#xA;  question about the heroes - can two different people have identical&#xA;  powers? And going back to Neal's theory above, does this necessarily&#xA;  indicate a genetic link? Are Claire and the classmate going to end up&#xA;  being the Luke and Leia of &quot;Heroes?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A: First off, Ew. And no, similar powers do not mean a genetic link.&#xA;  We've seen that the existence of powers may be something passed on,&#xA;  but the powers themselves are a crapshoot of sorts...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the writer's appear to be happen leaving it as random as to why certain abilities are and are not passed on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're interested, &lt;a href=&quot;http://heroeswiki.com/Ability_heredity#Examples_of_Inheritance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; has an awesome list showing all the families in the show where multiple people have powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T12:53:53.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18491" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18492" CreationDate="2014-04-02T14:16:29.123" Score="9" ViewCount="2685" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_Black&quot;&gt;Orphan Black&lt;/a&gt;, if all of the women played by Tatiana Maslany are portrayed as being clones, why does Cosima Niehaus need/wear glasses? Should they all be identical in this respect? Wouldn't they all have the same genetic makeup whether needing glasses or not? Were there clues given that the others have/wear contacts or something else going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T13:15:56.917" Title="Why does Cosima Niehaus need glasses?" Tags="|orphan-black|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18491" CreationDate="2014-04-02T14:23:27.943" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Directly from the show's &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/OrphanBlack/status/340895008842448896&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;OBTrivia: Cosima wears glasses, her clones don't. Her sight&#xA;  degenerated due to her individual environment &amp;amp;conditions. She studies&#xA;  too hard!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems a fun way to separate her from all the other clones. Nothing more unfortunately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T14:23:27.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18494" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18497" CreationDate="2014-04-02T17:45:13.723" Score="0" ViewCount="1881" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure wether this question should be posted in the Movies &amp;amp; TV or in the Music site, but I don't know wether this song was composed for the film or not so I'll post it here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the song being played in the scene where Ben commits suicide in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1433811/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Disconnect&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVF71oim_XY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This is the scene I'm talking about&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8901" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-04-02T18:11:16.803" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T20:53:17.443" Title="What is the song being played in the suicide scene in Disconnect?" Tags="|soundtrack|disconnect|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-01-16T10:44:47.857" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18494" CreationDate="2014-04-02T18:28:29.793" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.what-song.com/Movies/Soundtrack/1229/Disconnect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What Song&lt;/a&gt;&quot; website, it is &quot;Like a Dog&quot; by Jayme Ivison and Bryan Austin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHytIM51ERs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;youtube of the song&lt;/a&gt; appears to match it, starting about 1:40ish into the song video.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="6234" LastEditDate="2014-04-02T20:53:17.443" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T20:53:17.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18479" CreationDate="2014-04-02T19:10:57.203" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other two answers here are pretty solid, but I wanted to touch on the sort of &quot;cliques&quot; that exist in Hollywood as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take many of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0031976/&quot;&gt;Judd Apatow&lt;/a&gt; movies for example. There is an established group of cast members from movie to movie. You get the sense that the roles they play may not necessarily designed for them, but that the genre of movie is so niche that every character is the one they were &lt;em&gt;&quot;born to play&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0290556/?ref_=tt_ov_st&quot;&gt;James Franco&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0736622/?ref_=tt_ov_wr&quot;&gt;Seth Rogan&lt;/a&gt; are often portrayed as the carefree stoner types. This, to me, is the result of actors with established characters, mixing with a group of people whose movies revolve around subjects pertinent to those characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001191/#producer&quot;&gt;Adam Sandler's films&lt;/a&gt; also do this, where a role may not be designed for someone, but rather that person is just part of the group and they are slotted in where they fit the best. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0665830/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot;&gt;Dan Patrick&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0559986/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot;&gt;Dave Matthews&lt;/a&gt; have cameo appearances in several of Adam Sandler's movies and actors such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001705/?ref_=tt_ov_st&quot;&gt;Rob Schneider&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0200601/?ref_=tt_cl_t13&quot;&gt;Peter Dante&lt;/a&gt; are always finding themselves with a part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000318/?ref_=tt_ov_wr&quot;&gt;Tim Burton&lt;/a&gt; also has several films that feature his wife &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000307/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1&quot;&gt;Helena Bonham Carter&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000136/?ref_=tt_ov_st&quot;&gt;Johnny Depp&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, these aren't all &quot;A-list&quot; celebrities, but it does go to show other factors in casting that don't revolve around auditions or specific role creation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8902" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T19:10:57.203" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18499" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-02T19:20:26.613" Score="5" ViewCount="1847" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the American version of &lt;em&gt;The Killing&lt;/em&gt;, detective Stephen Holder is seen using the term &lt;em&gt;habibi&lt;/em&gt; several times when talking to his sister and his nephew, &lt;em&gt;Habibi&lt;/em&gt; is an Arabic term of endearment widely used with close family members and friends. From what I can tell, Holder doesn't seem to have any Arab roots, so why the seemingly random use of that term?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2018-06-21T20:37:12.137" Title="Why does Holder use the term 'habibi'?" Tags="|the-killing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14034" CreationDate="2014-04-02T20:18:14.927" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only two explanations I have for the President's apparent impotence are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His mind is on other things, such as the now-popular Chance - and this distraction is making it difficult for him to focus on his sexual life.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His sexual impotence is symbolic and reflective of his impotence as the leader of the country.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T20:18:14.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16763" CreationDate="2014-04-02T20:28:50.590" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't find any &lt;em&gt;definitive&lt;/em&gt; reason for it, but this is my take:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following Siegfried's death, Brunhild confesses that she in fact lied about Siegfried taking her virginity. Seeing him actually die stirs a sudden, unbearable sense of remorse and drives her to take her own life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This appears to echo Shakespeare's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Macbeth&lt;/a&gt;, where Lady Macbeth begins as the powerful, driving force behind Macbeth's descent into murder and madness - only for her to become remorseful and overcome with grief as the play reaches its conclusion, eventually killing herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This play has obviously been echoed countless times in history and whilst the characters of Siegfriend and Brunhild pre-date the play, it's possible it was an influence in this particular version of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said, nothing definitive appears to exist, but it appears overwhelming guilt is the most likely answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-04-02T20:28:50.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18506" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-03T05:16:56.220" Score="9" ViewCount="16350" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did the rebellion allow Katniss to enter the games a second time in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games%3a_Catching_Fire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&lt;/a&gt; if she was so important? It would seem like a much safer approach to have just taken Katniss to a secret location as soon as anyone knew they were planning to have the Victors re-enter the games. Instead they  allowed her risk accident or death, only to be saved by a helicopter flying through a miraculous breach in the dome. Is there a reason for this approach that I missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3317" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T03:50:21.130" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T04:38:25.583" Title="Why did the rebellion allow Katniss to enter the Hunger Games a second time?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-catching-fire|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18506" CreationDate="2014-04-03T07:04:15.077" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per my speculation, the rebels allowed Katniss to enter Second time to send message to all 12 district about rebellion. Do you remember her dress conversion into Mockingjay, that must be a message to all about the coming rebellion. In the Hunger Game world, districts can't contact each other but the games are a good way to send messages to all districts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My second thought is that they didn't get the right opportunity before. Katniss is now a star and people see her, follow her and a TV channel also covers her. Her disappearance need to be pre-planned. The 75th game was surprise for all, so they didn't have time for her escape plan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I more strongly believe the first one where the rebellion wants her to be a  Mockingjay symbol for all by participating.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="7366" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T11:01:50.127" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T11:01:50.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18506" CreationDate="2014-04-03T07:35:17.230" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are a few reasons behind this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, it allowed Katniss Everdeen, the symbol of the revolution, to be seen and admired by all the Districts. Her appearance as a Mockingjay before the 75th Games began would have been inspirational to all the fighters in the Districts. It sent the message even though she couldn't &lt;em&gt;avoid&lt;/em&gt; the Games and couldn't &lt;em&gt;avoid&lt;/em&gt; another fight, she was taking it head on and being herself - not the girl-to-be-married Snow wanted her to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, it allowed all the &lt;em&gt;undercover&lt;/em&gt; games entrants to be collected from the same location. Although they knew each other before the Games began, this game the Rebellion the opportunity to get all of its former victors in one place at one time and evacuate them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, this all happened on live television. If Katniss had joined the rebellion, or rather been rescued by them, in the Capitol, before the Games began, the Capitol would have suppressed the information and released a cover story. With Katniss disappearing in front of the world and the Games - which are used by the Capitol to display their superiority over the Districts - being blown apart (literally), the world knew how serious the Rebellion was and how strong it was. The message this act sent was powerful enough to risk Katniss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a theme that gets explored further in the third book, when they bring Katniss out into the warzone on different occassions. Although they don't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want to risk her life, they want her close enough to the action for her to be inspirational and symbolic as the tough freedom fighter the rebellion's members think she is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To conclude, imagine famous scenes from real-world history, such as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/china060412/s_t01_90605094.jpg&quot;&gt;Tiananmen Square image&lt;/a&gt; - and now imagine the powerful effect they've had. I believe Katniss' appearance in the Games was intended to have the same effect. Whilst the first two reasons above are important, the third reason was the crucial one - her escape from the Games well and truly demonstrated the strength of the Rebellion for the first time to both the Rebellion's members and the citizens of the Capitol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T07:35:17.230" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18509" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-04-03T08:33:15.240" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Artificial visual or mechanical effects introduced into a movie or television show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_effect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Special effect&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T11:23:11.663" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T11:23:11.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18510" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-04-03T08:33:15.240" Score="0" Body="Artificial visual or mechanical effects introduced into a movie or television show." OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T08:33:15.240" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T08:33:15.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18511" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-04-03T08:34:58.017" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A genre of film and television programming that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as the main elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_%28genre%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T08:34:58.017" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T08:34:58.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18512" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-04-03T08:34:58.017" Score="0" Body="A genre of film/tv that uses suspense, tension, and excitement as the main elements.  Use this tag when asking questions pertaining to the overall genre of thriller." OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2016-12-21T05:56:17.990" LastActivityDate="2016-12-21T05:56:17.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18506" CreationDate="2014-04-03T11:09:07.167" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a simple reason for this and one of the reasons they don't let Katniss know about the plan. It's that if she lives, she can be a symbol to hold up to all in the Districts. If she dies, she becomes a martyr, which is an even larger symbol they can rally the Districts behind. Either way, they have what they need. Katniss is just a pawn in the whole ordeal. Albeit a willing pawn, but a pawn nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T11:09:07.167" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18506" CreationDate="2014-04-03T15:52:14.963" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not to mention we would have missed a couple hundred pages and a couple of hours of awesome if that were the case. The third book would essentially just merge in to the second...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, in all seriousness, I like Andrew's answer. I also don't think Katniss would have let that happen. She's the kind of character that tackles things head-on, and will do whatever it might take to avenge the past and make way for the future. Whether she is to be a martyr or a hero, she is the character who will be either, but she would not be okay with being stolen away before she could get her message out to the world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not just a matter of the rebellion &quot;taking her&quot;. It's also herself as a character.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8914" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T15:52:14.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18516" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-03T16:07:17.317" Score="3" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1742334/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sabotage&lt;/a&gt; (2014) the character Breacher, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, is shown wearing a European style necktie, i.e. the stripes showing positive diagonals when seen by others ( // , see &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necktie#Ties_as_a_sign_of_membership&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). If I didn't miss anyone all the other characters wear neckties in the US American style (stripes showing negative diagonals \\ ) which is to be expected as the characters are all US Americans. This is best visible in the beginning in the taped interrogation scene. The shots change between Breacher and the interrogation team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this done on purpose to point out Schwarzenegger's European (specifically Austrian) heritage? I guess he didn't bring or selected his own props; and even if so I guess he lives long enough in the US (and he was even quite engaged in his community there) so not much of his original wardrobe has survived.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T16:07:17.317" Title="Is Breacher wearing a European style necktie to point to Schwarzenegger's heritage?" Tags="|props|sabotage|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18517" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-04-03T19:06:12.200" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Best Offer&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;La migliore offerta&lt;/em&gt;) is a 2013 Italian romantic mystery film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, starring Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks and Donald Sutherland, with the music score composed by Ennio Morricone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_Offer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1924396/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109" LastEditorUserId="109" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T19:51:33.253" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T19:51:33.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18518" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-04-03T19:06:12.200" Score="0" Body="2013 Italian romantic mystery film by Giuseppe Tornatore, starring Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks and Donald Sutherland" OwnerUserId="109" LastEditorUserId="109" LastEditDate="2014-04-03T20:13:02.857" LastActivityDate="2014-04-03T20:13:02.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18528" CreationDate="2014-04-03T22:35:24.013" Score="3" ViewCount="15296" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 3, Whistler was in prison and it was told that he could have killed the mayor's son, but it was hinted as being speculative. After watching Season 3 and the first part of Season 4, it is clear that Whistler is very smart and was working for the company. I imagine that he had better things to do than killing the mayor's son in Panama City? How did he come to Sona? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="7757" LastEditDate="2014-04-04T08:16:04.087" LastActivityDate="2014-04-04T08:16:04.087" Title="Why was Whistler in Sona?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prison-break|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16911" CreationDate="2014-04-04T02:26:10.440" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jordan did it for Donnie, so that Donnie would know to cut a deal. It's because Donnie was like family to him. The note itself helped reveal to Donnie what he needed to do in order to keep outbid prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8918" LastActivityDate="2014-04-04T02:26:10.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10351" CreationDate="2014-04-04T03:17:07.993" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a seeming all-knowing quality to 118 year old Nemo, isn't there? How does he know that his own choice of pants to purchase cost a Brazilian his job and caused the very rain that erased Anna's numbers? It is not the only time that this knowledge-beyond-normal-knowing of what caused things to be the way they are, or rather could be (all Butterfly Effect moments) is exhibited. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are left with a choice: Is it because he was never touched by the angels of oblivion, and never forgot knowing all possible futures? Or is it only that he is an extremely imaginative child? Or maybe a comatose adolescent with a lot of time on his active mind? Or maybe all the above?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The possible philosophical questions here run deep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the nature of life itself? Of consciousness? Of cause and effect? If there is cause and effect, Butterfly effect must happen. But what if there isn't? What if all possible outcomes exist simultaneously side-by-side at the same time, because time itself is not any more real than the measure of the width of something? What if Nemo is the one who sees time like we see distance? Could he then choose which direction to walk in for that distance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nemo is Neo. This is the Matrix. Nemo alone has freed himself from the constraints of the machine of the universe. And like Neo, when in a space of nothing where any choice is possible, he chooses love first and foremost with reliability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bum on a bench at a lighthouse with hope of true love has a better existence than a wealthy and successful man in a loveless marriage. And may just live to be the oldest mortal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But where is the Butterfly Effect in this? Even though there are ample examples in the piece of people being impacted by seemingly small things beyond their control, it really seems to be more what they make of it than the event itself that decides their fate. What Father made a freak accident mean was more critical to the failure of his marriage than the accident itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch the film again, and listen for the various places where people speak of things they have decided. Always, these forceful statements of decision are cutting off possible choices they could make now or in the future, and stand at odds with choice itself. The distinction between the two is clearly different in the mind of the director.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My only real issue with it is the one flaw I can see with choosing not to choose: eventually not choosing becomes your choice. In the end, we must inevitablly choose, and so must Nemo. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just not fully clear on what he did finally choose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8919" LastActivityDate="2014-04-04T03:17:07.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18520" CreationDate="2014-04-04T07:47:46.610" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://prisonbreak.wikia.com/wiki/James_Whistler&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Prison Break Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Before Whistler was incarcerated in the &lt;strong&gt;Sona Federal Penitentiary&lt;/strong&gt;, he allegedly was a fisherman, running a charter boat between America and Australia. One day, he got a call demanding to know exactly where he took a naturalist of some sort, who took water samples and measurements. He then worked for &lt;em&gt;Gretchen Morgan&lt;/em&gt;. He said he couldn't remember – but then &lt;em&gt;government types started snooping around&lt;/em&gt;. When James had a bar fight, he killed the Mayor's son, leading to his incarceration in &lt;strong&gt;Sona&lt;/strong&gt;. The people who are trying to get him out demand that as soon as they do, he show them where he took that guy. After he was transferred into &lt;strong&gt;Sona&lt;/strong&gt;, he hid into a crawlspace as most inmates wanted to turn him in to The Mayor for their freedom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is, whoever was following him around (&lt;em&gt;read The Company&lt;/em&gt;), was behind him being sent to Sona. They framed him for the murder of the Mayor's son so that they could use his freedom as leverage to extract the information. I say &quot;framed&quot;, because Whistler doesn't come across a guy who would kill somebody in a bar fight. Moreover, he repeatedly proclaims his innocence to numerous characters (&lt;em&gt;with a lot of conviction&lt;/em&gt;).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastActivityDate="2014-04-04T07:47:46.610" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18530" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-04T10:18:22.530" Score="4" ViewCount="3825" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the timeline of the incidents taking place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Teddy cannot be more than 30-35 years old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is married with two children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the island he had dreams which contains the incidents happening during World War II.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the time period or timeline it is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also why is he getting those WWII incidents in his dream?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6245" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T11:46:44.583" Title="What is the timeline of incidents taking place in Shutter Island" Tags="|plot-explanation|shutter-island|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18530" CreationDate="2014-04-04T10:42:11.793" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Timeline?&lt;/em&gt;: After World War 2 (1954).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Why does he dream of World War 2?&lt;/em&gt;: He was there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Detailed:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is some serious debate still raging in many deep, dark corners of the Internet about &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; what happened in the film. This is my take on events. Some of this is clearly true, whilst other bits are just opinion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Andrew Laeddis fought during World War II and, like many, returned home as a war hero to his wife, Dolores, and his three* kids. However, his wife Dolores was mentally unbalanced. Some of the flashbacks and images in the film seem to suggest Andrew knew this. Possibly &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttraumatic_stress_disorder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PTSD&lt;/a&gt; after the war caused him to be distant and he didn't realise &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; unbalanced she was until it was too late, or possibly there's some other reason we don't know of that he didn't notice. Either way, Dolores tragically murdered the three* children. In retaliation, Andrew killed her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to the colossal grief, shame, confusion and anger felt after all these events, Andrew created a second person: Teddy. Teddy is &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; a war hero interestingly (that part hasn't been forgotten by Andrew), and he has carried on this &lt;em&gt;hero&lt;/em&gt; status by becoming a Federal Marshall. He's on a hunt throughout Shutter Island to uncover and solve the mystery of patient 67 at the hospital.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, he is really a part of a massive &lt;em&gt;game&lt;/em&gt; on the island, orchestrated by his two doctors - Cawley and Sheehan. The island he is on is a psychiatric institute and he's been there ever since becoming mentally unbalanced himself after killing his wife. On the island, there are effectively two main practices. Patients are either &quot;cured&quot; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lobotomized&lt;/a&gt;. Some members of staff prefer the former (like the two doctors), whilst others prefer the latter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is all Cawley and Sheehan's way of trying to &lt;em&gt;cure&lt;/em&gt; Andrew and make him realise he is not &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; this Teddy character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the above has mostly been my own opinion, but I can't resist referencing this article at &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/shutter-island-spoilers-discussion-vic-46052/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ScreenRant&lt;/a&gt; which describes the ending, as I think they sum it up beautifully:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Teddy wakes up to the reality that he is actually Andrew Laeddis,&#xA;  though he is warned by Dr. Cawley and Dr. Sheehan that he has&#xA;  regressed into his fantasy world before. However, Andrew is smart:&#xA;  When Dr. Sheehan sits with him on the steps that next morning, Andrew&#xA;  knows that the doctors and Warden are observing his behavior. The&#xA;  thing is, his guilt and pain are still so heavy that he knows he&#xA;  cannot live with them;  rather than live with the knowledge of his&#xA;  pain, he chooses to pretend that he is still Teddy Daniels and let&#xA;  them lobotomize him, so that he can finally be free of his burden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That’s what the line to Dr. Sheehan about ‘living as a monster, or&#xA;  dying as a good man,’ means – Andrew would rather be mind-wiped as&#xA;  “Teddy Daniels” than live with the sins of Andrew Laeddis. The End.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully that provides &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; form of answer to your questions. The movie takes place some time after WW2. He dreams of WW2 because he was there - however how &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; of the timeline is actually &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;imagined&lt;/em&gt; is very difficult to figure out. This is my own subjective take, so feel free to leave comments to agree/disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;*This answer originally referred to the two children, as the original asker's question did. However, there were &lt;em&gt;three&lt;/em&gt; children and so the answer has been updated.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T11:46:44.583" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T11:46:44.583" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15086" CreationDate="2014-04-04T10:50:58.007" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/18530/what-is-the-timeline-of-incidents-taking-place-in-shutter-island&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; where I gave my own take on events, so I'll repeat some parts of it here as hopefully it can provide some form of an answer. Paraphrasing from the previous answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Andrew Laeddis fought during the war and returned home as a war hero&#xA;  to his wife, Dolores, and his kids. However, his wife Dolores was&#xA;  mentally unbalanced. It seems Andrew knew this, but possibly PTSD&#xA;  after the war caused him to be distant and he didn't realise how&#xA;  unbalanced she was. Regardless, Dolores murdered the three* children and&#xA;  in retaliation, Andrew killed her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These actions cause Andrew to break down and lead him to become highly&#xA;  mentally unstable. He created a second persona, Teddy, who is still a&#xA;  war hero and is now a Federal Marshall. The entire movie tracks&#xA;  Teddy's supposed attempts to find patient 67 - who in reality is&#xA;  Andrew himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The memories of Dachau, as I'm sure you know, refer to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_liberation_reprisals&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dachau liberation reprisals&lt;/a&gt;, where German concentration camp guards and POWs were killed in retaliation for their part in the horrific conditions at Dachau. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your quote from Cawley shows that he is unlikely to have taken part in them. Cawley could be lying, but it seems unlikely &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; he would need to lie about this. However, given Andrew breaks down after the events with his wife and views himself as a complete monster, I choose to believe that he has &lt;strong&gt;false memories&lt;/strong&gt; of Dachau as he views the actions being performed there as particularly horrific. Therefore, they fit his own emotions perfectly - he thinks of himself as a monster, so imagines he took place in these monstrous events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we'll ever know how much of the memory is fabricated. I don't even know if he &lt;em&gt;witnessed&lt;/em&gt; the things he dreamt of or if they are &lt;em&gt;complete&lt;/em&gt; fabrications. But given Cawley's comments, my final conclusion is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was there, but didn't take part in the killings. However, he &lt;em&gt;believes&lt;/em&gt; he did as he has such a horrific view of himself as nothing but a killer after taking the life of Dolores, his wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;*This answer originally referred to the two children, as the original asker's question did. However, there were three children and so the answer has been updated.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T11:47:28.437" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7925" CreationDate="2014-04-04T13:25:02.223" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought it was strange particularly given how he does it in that scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Could you please gather up all the damning documentation that implicates Wayne enterprises in losing a weapon of mass destruction?  Oh by the way, I'm firing you before you complete my instructions and are totally able to just take those files and walk out the front door with them?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Entrusting a clearly disgruntled employee with those files is ridiculous.  Unless...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Willaim Earle worked for Ras Al Ghul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earle may be clueless to the significance of this action.  But Ra's Al Ghul knows things Earle doesn't.  Consider the aftermath of Ra's Al Ghul's terrorist attack on Gotham;  The ensuing investigation.  A piece of stolen experimental Waynetech killed an American city.  If they look at Wayne Enterprises books they are going to find that there was in fact someone that was stealing military hardware from Wayne Enterprises and using them for acts of violence in Gotham.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ras was framing Bruce Wayne for killing Gotham.  His coup de gras to the Wayne family legacy.  Earle may not have known what was happening, but Ras bragged about infiltrating every level of Gotham. Earle got off light at the end of the movie.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8926" LastActivityDate="2014-04-04T13:25:02.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15012" CreationDate="2014-04-04T18:43:07.183" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Miss Pussy Galore was suposed to be a Lesbian . With that in mind, She Is surely a Pussy Galore. Abundant Pleasure but yet unbroken. Until 007 came. She turned as an ally to 007,after being detained by Goldfinger.&#xA;Some eventful night on the detaining room must've open Pussy's perspective on having a good time with a male counterpart... Maybe mr.Fleming had 0069 in mind&#xA;(?) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8929" LastActivityDate="2014-04-04T18:43:07.183" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18546" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18562" CreationDate="2014-04-05T06:51:09.250" Score="14" ViewCount="7661" Body="&lt;p&gt;Referring to the scene in Captain America: The Winter Soldier where 'Cap and company infiltrate that S.H.I.E.L.D. ship which had been taken over by terrorists.  There was a fight towards the end of that scene (before 'Cap links up with Widow as she's downloading files) where 'Cap fights a terrorist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular terrorist &quot;gave as good as he got&quot; against 'Cap for far longer than he should have been able to do, provided he was simply a &quot;normal man&quot; and not a superhero.  He actually made it a competitive fight for a bit before 'Cap prevailed, even knocking 'Cap down once or twice if memory serves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to know whether this terrorist was some &quot;special&quot; terrorist (i.e. had he been altered, given some kind of serum, was he &quot;turbo-charged&quot; in any way, etc) or was he simply at the upper-scale, fighting ability-wise, of a normal guy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the guy was some kind of supervillian that I just don't know about, I'll accept that he was able to compete with 'Cap for a bit.  If he wasn't, I think they screwed up with the script in making the guy so strong.  While I think there might be circumstances where a normal guy with superior fighting skills could do well against 'Cap for a bit (for instance, surprising him or blindsiding him or whatever), this didn't appear to be one of those circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone know the answer?  Can someone explain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8936" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:17:51.117" LastActivityDate="2017-11-22T22:06:09.473" Title="Captain America Winter Soldier fight scene strangeness" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|captain-america-the-winter-soldier|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18506" CreationDate="2014-04-05T11:45:21.683" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the victory tour, President Snow sees the effects of Katniss on the Districts and the riots. He was planning to eliminate her, but Plutarch Heavensbee offers to take her into the games to give the districts a message: &lt;em&gt;Even the strongest among all are weak against the Capitol and even they can be killed easily by the Capitol&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the Quarter Quell game had changed, and all previous winners are invited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A speech between Katniss and Plutarch in the 74.th Hunger Games Victory Ball:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Katniss Everdeen&lt;/em&gt;: &amp;quot;Then why are you here?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Plutarch Heavensbee&lt;/em&gt;: &amp;quot;Same reason as you: I volunteered.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Katniss Everdeen&lt;/em&gt;: &amp;quot;Why?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Plutarch Heavensbee&lt;/em&gt;: (shrugs) &amp;quot;Ambition...the chance to make the Games mean something.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Katniss Everdeen&lt;/em&gt;: (contemptuously) &amp;quot;The Games don't mean anything. They only mean to scare us.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Plutarch Heavensbee&lt;/em&gt;: &amp;quot;Well, maybe it was you who inspired me to come back. (a fanfare sounds) Ah, the Presidential welcome. I'm sure we'll meet again.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the only chance Plutarch had was to help Katniss and to support the riots to put her into the games. Otherwise, Snow will get rid of her in some other way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;in the books&lt;/strong&gt;, the situation is quite different. At the Victory Ball, after dancing with Katniss, Plutarch Heavensbee shows her his watch. &lt;em&gt;For a second, Katniss saw a mockingjay on the watch, which disappears afterwards. Plutarch tells Katniss that the watch is important and valuable.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After her rescue from the Arena, Plutarch tells her the reason he showed her his watch was he was expecting to see Katniss as a Mentor of new tributes, not in the arena as a tribute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Quarter Quell tribute plan all belongs to President Snow, and the rebellion has nothing to stop Snow. Only thing they can do is arrange other competitors so they can help Katniss stay alive in the arena. Johanna concusses Katniss to remove the tracker chip so she can be rescued by the rebellion and not captured by the Capitol etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-04-05T16:28:11.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10343" CreationDate="2014-04-05T16:45:15.453" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walt used the walkie talkie to detonate the bomb. When he turned it on Gus could hear the background noise's and Walt talking to himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8943" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-10-29T14:37:11.543" LastActivityDate="2017-10-29T14:37:11.543" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18556" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23385" CreationDate="2014-04-05T18:33:26.773" Score="6" ViewCount="1063" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Cobb first meets Yusuf in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and tells him he is seeking for a chemist to formulate a compound for the Fischer job, he says that he would also need to &quot;go into the field&quot; with them to tailor compounds specific to their needs.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, once a group starts their shared dream, they cannot wake up until the time for the dream is over, especially if they are sedated. Yusuf will not be able to change anything about the sedative once the dream is in progress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why does Yusuf need to join them into the dream? Isn't it enough for him to tailor a sedative suitable for a 3 level dream and hand it to them? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8358" LastEditorUserId="1111" LastEditDate="2014-04-07T05:47:40.983" LastActivityDate="2020-04-12T18:21:01.630" Title="Why did Yusuf need to go into the field?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2407" CreationDate="2014-04-05T20:59:49.277" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, if you haven't seen the series finale, this answer might be considered a spoiler (it was for me, as I haven't seen the finale yet). But I'm also not going to put the whole answer into a spoiler block, so if you have fear DON'T READ ANY FURTHER.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/04/04/the-dark-secret-behind-the-how-i-met-your-mother-finale-1317577?lt_source=external,manual&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this very interesting article&lt;/a&gt; about exactly this question. It argues that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;/em&gt; is basically a prequel to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092359/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Full House&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Ted Mosby&lt;/em&gt; (voiced in part by &lt;em&gt;Bob Saget&lt;/em&gt;) is &lt;em&gt;Danny Tanner&lt;/em&gt; (played by &lt;em&gt;Bob Saget&lt;/em&gt;). Now of course it is clearly not a direct prequel, given the different persons, setting and timeframe, but maybe a prequel in spirit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we learn in the series finale, the &lt;em&gt;Mother&lt;/em&gt; is already dead for six years when &lt;em&gt;Ted&lt;/em&gt; tells his overlong story to his children and this ending was planned this way right when the show started (as also confirmed in the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/18571/49&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Carter Bays has confirmed that the series' tragic close was &quot;the&#xA;  ending they conceived when they conceived the show 10 years ago.&quot;&#xA;  Having envisioned a show all about a man who would ultimately lose his&#xA;  wife telling his children how he met her, Bays and Thomas cast Bob&#xA;  Saget in the part - the most famous widower in modern sitcoms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthemore, the article notes some similarities between &lt;em&gt;Ted&lt;/em&gt;'s group and the characters from &lt;em&gt;Full House&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ted, as played by Josh Radnor, is Danny Tanner, just with a better sex&#xA;  life and an all-consuming love of architecture. The inherent, series&#xA;  spanning joke about both men is that they are nerdy, 'dad joke' making&#xA;  father figures. They're both the same archetype within their&#xA;  respective series - 'the dad'. Bays and Thomas wrote a part strikingly&#xA;  similar to Danny Tanner, and then cast Bob Saget in half of the part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Barney Stinson isn't Jesse Katsopolis, yet both are ladies men with a&#xA;  flair for the grand gesture who by their series' end learn the value&#xA;  of family. Marshall Eriksen isn't Joey Gladstone, but they're both pun&#xA;  spewing aspiring stand up comedians who struggle with a work-life&#xA;  balance, yet ultimately believe family is the most important thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They're all variations on a theme - oddly specific archetypes that&#xA;  together blend into the same basic friendship dynamic. Add in the&#xA;  alternatingly hard-nosed, professional TV personality (Robin) and&#xA;  loving, slightly lunatic mother and wife (Lily) and you can spot Becky&#xA;  Donaldson too. For some time Danny dates a woman named Vicky Larson.&#xA;  Sadly, their relationship doesn't work out. For Danny, family is the&#xA;  most important thing. For Vicky, her career. As a News Anchor. In New&#xA;  York. Just like Robin. The relationship even begins six years after he&#xA;  was widowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ted&lt;/em&gt;'s life after becoming a widower could thus be seen as being continued by &lt;em&gt;Full House&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As part of the frantic montage of Ted's key life events in the series&#xA;  finale, we watch him at his dying wife's bedside, and we see him tell&#xA;  his children, six years later, how he met her. What we don't see is&#xA;  Ted heading home for the first time after his wife has died. We don't&#xA;  see him helping his young children to move on with their lives. We&#xA;  don't see, at all, his friends' reaction to the loss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The show doesn't show that moment, though, since that moment, where a&#xA;  group of friends come together to help one of them get through the&#xA;  loss of his wife, is where the prequel ends, and the original series&#xA;  takes back over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it is hard to say if it was really that strong a connection to &lt;em&gt;Full House&lt;/em&gt; that the creators of &lt;em&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;/em&gt; intended or if it wasn't just a fitting casting choice to let the father be voiced by another famous sitcom father. But while that article might be a bit speculative (and those kinds of characters can probably be found in many sitcoms in some way or another), it gives quite some insightful arguments and some interesting connections between those two sitcoms apart from a mere voice-actor choice, even if we don't know (or might doubt) if all that was completely intentional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2014-04-09T21:41:37.610" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18546" CreationDate="2014-04-06T00:03:03.040" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The guy was just an incredible athlete. He was played by Georges St. Pierre, a real life UFC champion, so basically, he's just absolutely amazing at martial arts and close to peak physical condition. Remember, as incredible as Cap is, he's technically not super-human. He's as strong and as fast as a human can possibly be, not above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8947" LastActivityDate="2014-04-06T00:03:03.040" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18546" CreationDate="2014-04-06T00:59:28.140" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's a supervillain you're not familiar with.  He's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batroc_the_leaper&quot;&gt;Batroc the Leaper&lt;/a&gt;, a villain from the comic books.  He's a goofy acrobatic martial artist (specifically, he uses &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savate&quot;&gt;savate&lt;/a&gt;) who primarily fights Captain America, and has a French accent in the comics.  He is a mercenary with a deep sense of honor, which they depicted in the film, and his martial arts style and skill enabled him to stand his ground against Captain America longer than most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://observationdeck.io9.com/captain-america-the-winter-soldier-and-the-secrets-of-1558072929/1559129940/+rtgonzalez&quot;&gt;This io9 user post&lt;/a&gt; provides a lot of comics background on the events of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2014-04-06T01:21:50.093" LastActivityDate="2014-04-06T01:21:50.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14839" CreationDate="2014-04-06T10:17:20.230" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Greeks called all of the Persian kings &quot;God Kings&quot; because they were bowed to, and the Greeks had the mindset that only gods were to be bowed to, so they called them that in a sarcastic way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8954" LastEditorUserId="55668" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T17:42:26.610" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T17:42:26.610" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16918" CreationDate="2014-04-06T15:26:54.567" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The last chat Theodore has with Samantha ends with her saying they've both learned better how to connect. Theodore then writes a heart-felt letter to Catherine- the first letter in the movie written by the same person who is signing it. Theodore confirms this breakthrough by making another real connection and inviting Amy to the roof where they share a direct, non-technologically enhanced moment of beauty. Very hopeful, optimistic ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8955" LastActivityDate="2014-04-06T15:26:54.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18571" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18573" CreationDate="2014-04-06T21:02:04.143" Score="32" ViewCount="26579" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;/em&gt;, Ted tells his kids the lengthy story of his life during his twenties and thirties. His &quot;official&quot; intention is to tell them, as per the title, how he met their mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the finale however we find out that he really did this (knowingly or not) to ask permission to date their aunt Robin. His wife has been dead for six years and he apparently never really got over Robin, who divorced Barney after three years of marriage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ending came as a surprise to many fans and produced some major outrage (*salutes*). It especially seems a bit strange that they spent quite some time on Ted and Robin realizing that they are not a good fit and building up Barney's and Robin's wedding for a whole season, just to rip it all apart within a few minutes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originally the show was only meant to run for two or three seasons and was extended again and again due to the great success. This raises the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did the producers have this ending in mind from the get-go?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did they already know how it would end when they started the show? Did they maybe change the overall story in light of the much longer run-time and the development of characters, or did they make a plan and stick to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that all footage of Ted's children had to be recorded during the start of the show, because the actors would have gotten too old over time, seems to imply that the ending was already decided and partially shot during Season 1 or 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any statement from the producers about this? Was the footage really recorded in advance? Was it maybe somehow produced through CGI/re-dubbed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems very odd to me that they would stick to an ending they wrote years ago and not take into account the development the characters made onscreen. (e.g. the changed relationship between Ted and Robin, or the emotional development Barney went through)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-04-07T05:55:42.823" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T05:55:42.823" Title="Was the ending to &quot;How I Met Your Mother&quot; planned from the start?" Tags="|production|ending|how-i-met-your-mother|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18572" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19116" CreationDate="2014-04-06T21:19:57.707" Score="7" ViewCount="662" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is about a movie I haven't seen myself, but which I only got told about. Moreover, the person who told me about it is no longer alive, so I cannot ask for more details. I remembered what I got told about it back than, and as it sounds like a movie I might enjoy, I'd like to know the title of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, it was around the middle of the 2000s when that person saw it and then told me about it. It was on German TV, so it was probably not a very new movie back then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the following is what I remember from a second-hand description of the movie, I cannot say for sure that everything is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story of the movie is about a test flight with a space ship where it shall be found out whether robots can replace humans in space flight. For this reason, the robots are disguised as humans, so that you cannot easily distinguish them from humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the flight there are several incidents. One of them is that one of the robots sets an acceleration which is too high for humans. As result of that there's a period of silence on recordings made during the flight, which are later interpreted as failure of the captain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, the captain speaks with a man who from his behaviour seems very human. He talks about his life with his family somewhere in the US. But then, at the very end, he notices an injury of the skin of that man which doesn't look like an injury would look like for a human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have an idea what movie this might have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1490" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T20:53:55.917" Title="A movie with a spacechip whose crew contained robots disguised as humans" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:04:19.260" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18571" CreationDate="2014-04-06T22:13:25.003" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://zap2it.com/blogs/how_i_met_your_mothers_craig_thomas_on_ted_barneys_breakup_eriksen_babies_and_the_future_of_robarn-2008-05&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(from 2008)&lt;/em&gt; with co-creator &lt;strong&gt;Craig Thomas&lt;/strong&gt; reveals:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We've had a plan since the pilot and we actually shot a little piece of it at the beginning of season two, using the kids&lt;/strong&gt;, because we knew if we waited until the finale of the series, the kids would have aged like six years. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So yeah, part of our plan for how we want to end it all has already been done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2008/07/barney-writes-a.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;another source&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;... ... [in 2006] Craig Thomas and Carter Bays filmed a scene that will air when &quot;HIMYM&quot; ends for good.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With only the two kids who play Ted’s future children, a cameraman and executive producer/director Pamela Fryman present, they shot a scene that directly relates to the identity of the mother. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That scene will be included in the show’s series finale, which Craig Thomas said he hopes &lt;em&gt;“people will see in 2012.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“&lt;strong&gt;We know” who the mother is&lt;/strong&gt;, Craig Thomas said. “&lt;strong&gt;We have a whole plan&lt;/strong&gt;.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; the article is also from 2008, so back then Thomas was apparently hoping for a finale in &quot;2012&quot; (which would have meant 7 seasons).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For clarification&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pre-shot scene with the kids, as seen in the finale:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fj53T.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;HIMYM&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the daughter calls Ted out on how the story is not actually about how he met their mother, but how he is &lt;em&gt;'totally in love with aunt Robin'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the kids &lt;em&gt;'love aunt Robin'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the kids encourage Ted to call Robin and ask her out on a date. &lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;('C'mon dad, mom has been gone for 6 years now. It's time.')&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;So, the mom being dead and Ted going back to Robin seem to be plot points that go back to at least 2006.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;However, &lt;strong&gt;the DVD set will include an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deadline.com/2014/04/how-i-met-your-mother-himym-ending-dvd-series-finale-happy/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;alternate ending&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On April 4th co-creater &lt;strong&gt;Carter Bays&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/CarterBays/status/452217517230927872&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;tweeted&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;16 days ago today &lt;strong&gt;we were in the HIMYM edit room, trying to decide between two very different endings.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/CarterBays/status/452217750371319808&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;and&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We only shot one script, but &lt;strong&gt;through edit room magic we had two possible outcomes for the series.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/CarterBays/status/452217929375838208&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;and&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We chose the ending we chose and we stand by it. But we loved the other version too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/CarterBays/status/452218069796937728&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;and&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're going to include that version on the Complete Series DVD as an alternate finale to &lt;em&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2014-04-06T22:41:43.273" LastActivityDate="2014-04-06T22:41:43.273" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18576" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18585" CreationDate="2014-04-07T05:54:57.507" Score="11" ViewCount="2114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does Doug Stamper have so much influence over Rachel in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856010/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? I don't see why Rachel can't simply escape Doug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7692" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-07T20:07:21.297" LastActivityDate="2014-09-07T20:07:21.297" Title="Why does Doug Stamper have so much influence over Rachel?" Tags="|plot-explanation|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4216" CreationDate="2014-04-07T06:57:16.167" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cole was pardoned. The scientist stopped the virus spreader on the plane at the end. By identifying the person responsible, Cole stopped the virus from spreading and his childbood continues as normal after the airport incident. He is now free, he is a hero. That is why the Dr (his new girlfriend) smiles when she sees the young Cole standing there, she understands the circle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8965" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T06:57:16.167" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14839" CreationDate="2014-04-07T09:28:36.107" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the new film &lt;em&gt;300: Rise of an Empire&lt;/em&gt;, Xerxes' father's dying words were &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;only a god can defeat the Greeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spurred on by Eva Green's character, Artemisia, he gets wrapped in chains and gauze inscribed with Sumerian text and wanders into the desert until he finds a cave with a pool of gold liquid, upon exiting the pool, he now has flaming red eyes, is hairless and is now a foot taller. Literally a god king.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="55668" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T17:47:32.643" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T17:47:32.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13894" CreationDate="2014-04-07T12:47:24.610" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not fully real; &#xA;It is a TV show, so obviously it is not 100% real, but Bear Grylls knows how to survive in a real life situation. And Bear has failed in his survival techniques, for example, when he is in Ecuador, he makes a Bamboo ladder, but it breaks as he is placing it over a river, which costed him time and he didn't get a shelter that night as he didn't cross the river to reach the cave on the other side. Also, it is obvious that Bear is definitely climbing fro real, and if you watch the behind the scenes episodes, the camera crew get harnessed and roped up for maximum safety, while Bear does it for real. Furthermore, Bear does often go hungry and becomes dehydrated, and he does not eat food with the camera crew. &#xA;As I said before, it is a TV show, so you can't expect it to be 100% real, and Bear job is to DEMONSRATE survival techniques, not actually survive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8968" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-04-07T16:55:06.597" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T16:55:06.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18580" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18581" CreationDate="2014-04-07T12:57:57.993" Score="16" ViewCount="27641" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Big Lebowski, Maude sends The Dude (or his Dudeness) to the doctor to check his jaw. The doctor asks him to take his pants off, and then he comes out of the exam with a grin on his face (although this could well be his general happiness).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We later learn that she's selected him to be the father of her child, but why did she send him to the doctor? It's implied it's related but if it was so he could be a donor why did she visit him in his apartment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-04-07T14:07:43.977" LastActivityDate="2017-05-25T20:42:02.650" Title="Why did The Dude go to the doctor?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-big-lebowski|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18580" CreationDate="2014-04-07T14:01:50.627" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She wanted him to be examined to make sure he was fertile and healthy to be the father of the child she wanted.&lt;/strong&gt; It's possible that the exam could have included a virility exam, which would include a check for sperm count, which is usually done by examining a sperm sample. As such, The Dude may have masturbated during the exam to provide the sample, and his smile was from him feeling good or thinking, &quot;Well, that was nifty, never had to do that in an exam before,&quot; as he left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this is generally implied later after The Dude and Maude have sex and are talking in bed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Dude: &quot;Oh, so that doctor, um . . .&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maude: &quot;Exactly.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe she visits him at his apartment to have sex because she's clearly shown to be a very sexual woman and wants to have her child as a product of sex, not artificial insemination or anything like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-04-07T14:10:15.820" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T14:10:15.820" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18556" CreationDate="2014-04-07T14:30:28.480" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given his general knowledge of multi-level dreaming and the drugs needed to do what the team needed, he could prove to be a valuable asset in the dream world should something go wrong, such as being attacked by Fischer's subconscious projections because they were unaware he'd received mental conditioning to thwart extraction methods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They likely could have used literally anyone who was willing to be paid enough, but Yusuf already had the general knowledge they needed, meaning they didn't need to train him like they did Ariadne (remember, time was of the essence). Why risk using someone new to extraction when you can pay someone who already knows what you need to make your efforts successful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, as Bobby noted, they needed a driver. The first level of the dream they concoct takes place in Yusuf's mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T14:30:28.480" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12448" CreationDate="2014-04-07T15:43:12.877" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right up near the top would be Mickey Rooney in the Andy Hardy series.  There were 16 full length films and one short.  Mickey Rooney probably appeared in more films than anyone else, over 320, usually in the leading part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8970" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T15:43:12.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13894" CreationDate="2014-04-07T15:43:36.027" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Grylls is fake.  He has a crew with him at all times.  Nothing is done without careful preparation.  This is documented in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_vs._Wild&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki page&lt;/a&gt;, where one crew member admitted the show was fake:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 2006, a Born Survivor crew member admitted that some scenes in episodes were misleading, indicating to viewers that Grylls was stranded in the wild alone when he was not.[16] The issue of scenes being manipulated was also raised by Mark Weinert, a U.S. survival consultant. One example he gave was of a raft allegedly being put together by team members before being taken apart so Grylls could be filmed building it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Survivorman is real.  He's the only one there.  He runs the cameras.  He is being monitored by a crew for safety reasons, but he is alone in his environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Except for footage of him arriving at his new setting, and being retrieved at the end of the week, the content of each episode is taped entirely by Stroud himself using several DV cameras that he must carry with him everywhere that he goes (he later switched to a number of HDV cameras). The burden of having to carry, place, and retrieve the camera equipment for each shot adds to the challenge and difficulty of each survival situation, and in several episodes Stroud chooses to leave a camera behind, videotaping him as he departs the area (the camera is retrieved later), and in one episode taking place in the Amazon, Stroud is forced to flee his camp and abandon all but two of his cameras due to fear of a stalking jaguar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't suggest you try either, without a lot of preparation.  Gryll's show is pre-planned, but it's not completely without risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T15:43:36.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18576" CreationDate="2014-04-07T17:46:52.593" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;At this point of time Rachel is terrified of Stamper. At first she followed him out of a sense of gratitude and loyalty. After all, he &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; help her out when she was at her lowest point, providing her with money and a place to stay. As the whole conspiracy with Peter Russo unfolded she began to see Stamper as he really was. Ruthless and manipulative. She knew she had landed herself in very hot water indeed. She was now a pawn in a game bigger than herself, and if she wanted to stay safe she had to follow orders. She also began to suspect Stamper felt some attraction to her, which complicates matters. Rachel is smart enough to know that at least two deaths are already linked to Underwood/Stamper She had to keep him happy, or else it might be her next. All of her fears spill out of her when Stamper is taking her to a ride to an unknown destination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T17:46:52.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18586" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18620" CreationDate="2014-04-07T17:54:29.873" Score="1" ViewCount="1215" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mrs. Robinson's major was art, but what did Benjamin Bradock major in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8973" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-04-07T20:38:26.143" LastActivityDate="2014-04-09T14:25:52.820" Title="What was Ben's major in The Graduate?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-graduate|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18587" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18590" CreationDate="2014-04-07T18:04:36.247" Score="10" ViewCount="24231" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LCJTc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Elsa crowned&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During Elsa's crowning in &lt;em&gt;Frozen&lt;/em&gt;, specifically when she's holding the royal scepter and orb, the priest is chanting in a foreign language (which I presume is a prayer) and ends his speech with &quot;Queen Elsa!&quot;, which the audience repeats. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the priest saying? What language is it in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-11-21T08:33:39.880" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T08:33:39.880" Title="What is the &quot;prayer&quot; being said when Elsa was being crowned?" Tags="|dialogue|translation|frozen|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18588" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18601" CreationDate="2014-04-07T19:43:12.170" Score="2" ViewCount="2591" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched Yes Man and I recognized a song but I have no idea what it's called. It's the one that plays as Carl is running up the stairs to save the suicidal guy. It's NOT Jumper, it's the song before Jumper. There are drums playing over the song in the scene but I don't think they are in the original song.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Link: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;amp;v=cBz5IdxITP8#t=18&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;amp;v=cBz5IdxITP8#t=18&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The song only lasts for ten seconds, anyone who can help, please do! This is killing me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7218" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-04-08T00:09:46.170" LastActivityDate="2014-04-08T09:42:55.653" Title="Song in Yes Man as Carl runs up the stairs before Jumper" Tags="|soundtrack|yes-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18589" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18596" CreationDate="2014-04-07T19:46:51.867" Score="2" ViewCount="13061" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S3E8 Mary and Matthew run into each other at a doctor's office about fertility. Mary tells Matthew that the problem was her and she had an operation to correct it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was Mary's issue and what operation did she have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8975" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T22:42:07.943" Title="What was Mary's operation?" Tags="|downton-abbey|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18587" CreationDate="2014-04-07T20:31:30.540" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Evidently the language is Norse, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tattuinardoelasaga.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/the-runes-and-old-norse-in-disneys-frozen/&quot;&gt;possibly an older dialect&lt;/a&gt; (the source I have on that doesn't seem very reliable to me).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As noted in the comments bellow, when plugged into Google Translate, the detected language is Icelandic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless someone familiar with either language can confirm for sure, this is about the best I can find at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The line from the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Sem hon heldr inum helgum eignum ok krýnd í þessum helga stað ek té&#xA;  fram fyrir yðr...Queen Else of Arendelle.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In English:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;As she holds the holy properties, and is crowned in this holy place,&#xA;  I present to you... Queen Elsa of Arendelle.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://frozendisney.wikia.com/wiki/Bishop_of_Arendelle&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt; for the translation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-04-15T15:18:24.237" LastActivityDate="2014-04-15T15:18:24.237" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18586" CreationDate="2014-04-07T20:45:48.890" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe it's ever really intended for us to know what Ben majored in while he was in college. He clearly doesn't seem to care that he's earned his degree, and can't figure out what to do with himself afterwards, so not telling us and showing that Ben doesn't seem to care in turn suggests that we shouldn't care either. This is further evidenced by the fact that they never even name what college Ben went to, simply referring to it as a college, &quot;Back east.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could also be the writers simply forgot to mention it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing isn't really central or pivotal to the plot or point of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-04-09T13:55:57.833" LastActivityDate="2014-04-09T13:55:57.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18592" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18595" CreationDate="2014-04-07T21:13:40.000" Score="33" ViewCount="118439" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Dark Helmet orders Spaceball One to go to ludicrous speed, we see it leave a trail of plaid behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mNA4dm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a reference to a specific movie or language idiom?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="615" LastActivityDate="2023-05-02T16:49:52.917" Title="What does the &quot;they've gone to plaid&quot; joke mean?" Tags="|spaceballs|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18593" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-04-07T21:16:21.267" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A (primarily) Star Wars spoof by Mel Brooks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="615" LastEditorUserId="615" LastEditDate="2014-04-07T21:16:21.267" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T21:16:21.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18594" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-04-07T21:16:21.267" Score="0" Body="A (primarily) Star Wars spoof by Mel Brooks." OwnerUserId="615" LastEditorUserId="615" LastEditDate="2014-04-07T21:16:21.267" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T21:16:21.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18592" CreationDate="2014-04-07T21:32:48.370" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a play on the phrase, &quot;They've gone to warp,&quot; from Star Trek, and the warp trail effect a ship causes when it goes to warp speed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ship has hit ludicrous speed, so they chose a &quot;ludicrous color&quot; such as plaid to represent that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T21:32:48.370" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18589" CreationDate="2014-04-07T22:42:07.943" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was never revealed in either the show itself or by the show runners. This, of course, hasn't stopped people from speculating. This was back in the 1920's, the operation seemed small enough that anesthesia was not needed, and it required a period of abstinence. According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.babycenter.com/mom_stories/what-was-lady-marys-little-operation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this blog&lt;/a&gt; this narrows it down a bit to removing the hymen and removing tubal blockage. &lt;a href=&quot;http://trmbaby.com/fertility-medicine-and-downton-abbey/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This other article&lt;/a&gt; forwards a few other ideas as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-04-07T22:42:07.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18597" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-08T04:29:29.190" Score="5" ViewCount="1509" Body="&lt;p&gt;My friend thinks the sword forging scene at the beginning of the 4th season of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was &lt;strong&gt;CGI&lt;/strong&gt; (it certainly was picturesque with the flames dancing along the flow of molten steel). But I would like to believe it was real footage, maybe touched up but mostly real. I couldn't find any information regarding it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did they shoot the scene? Were any effects used at all, or was it completely natural?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1062" LastEditorUserId="1062" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T23:36:01.237" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T02:26:28.297" Title="Was the sword forging scene at the beginning of season 4 CGI or real?" Tags="|film-techniques|game-of-thrones|effects|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18600" CreationDate="2014-04-08T08:05:37.367" Score="3" ViewCount="2301" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love Discovery channel because it's so American and most of the time there's such a drama for nothing, but I have to admit that seeing Moonshiners was some kind of a surprise.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess that people making alcohol illegally is something that exists pretty much everywhere, but is there any truth in the whole &lt;em&gt;trauma documentaries show&lt;/em&gt; ?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Except for one episode where they all pretend not to be actors, it really seems to me that it's just a bunch of redneck actors that fake something that might indeed exist for real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8518" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-02T17:25:53.003" LastActivityDate="2017-12-20T08:34:33.060" Title="Does the Discovery show 'Moonshiner' show the truth?" Tags="|realism|moonshiner|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18599" CreationDate="2014-04-08T09:22:02.160" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone was doing something illegal, I would think the police would begin investigating.  Especially if it was a &lt;strong&gt;series&lt;/strong&gt; and not just a &lt;strong&gt;documentary&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the guys in the show have claimed in interviews that it's legit, it has since been &lt;a href=&quot;http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/those-dang-revenooers-virginia-agency-unhappy-with-discoverys-moonshiners/?_php=true&amp;amp;_type=blogs&amp;amp;_r=0&quot;&gt;determined that it isn't&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-04-08T09:22:02.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18588" CreationDate="2014-04-08T09:42:55.653" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I Found it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The version in the movie is slightly sped up and altered. I knew it from a recognised it from a Chrome Experiment that I had seen years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Song: Danger Mouse &amp;amp; Daniele Luppi - 3 Dreams of Black starring Norah Jones&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Youtube Link: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy4em4pYHz0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy4em4pYHz0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chrome Experiment: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ro.me/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.ro.me/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7218" LastActivityDate="2014-04-08T09:42:55.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3459" CreationDate="2014-04-08T16:38:51.173" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bruce was alive. Why on earth would Alfred dream him with Selina Kyle, who had met Alfred for a few moments before breaking into Bruce' safe. You folks are BatFans, use your brains, you don't need superpowers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8982" LastActivityDate="2014-04-08T16:38:51.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18592" CreationDate="2014-04-08T19:33:52.017" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's also an old Warner Bros. cartoon that uses this reference. There are 2 mice being chased by a hypochondriac cat. At one point, the smart mouse says, &quot;He's turning pink!&quot; The cat is frightened and turns pink. The mouse says, &quot;He's turning blue!&quot; The scared cat turns blue. The dumb mouse says, &quot;He's turning ... plaid!&quot; The cat suddenly gets kilt-colored and Scottish bagpipe music plays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it COULD be a reference to this cartoon. But I have no evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-04-08T19:33:52.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-08T21:58:13.003" Score="1" ViewCount="6153" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Season 4 episode of &lt;em&gt;Arrested Development&lt;/em&gt;, Tobias is caught by a &lt;em&gt;To Catch A Predator&lt;/em&gt; style show when he thinks he's going to meet Maeby at home. It's not clear from the episode how he became the target for the show, unless I've missed something important. Is this just a coincidence, or explained in a later episode? Is there even an explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5318" LastActivityDate="2014-04-09T02:43:36.640" Title="How did Tobias end up as a registered sex offender?" Tags="|arrested-development|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18456" CreationDate="2014-04-08T22:16:52.117" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zMujmtwIC5ps.kVEsgN8y_cP8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Accompanying map&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Only approximate locations.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the start of the outbreak people was told to go to the cities where the army could keep watch. Rick himself, after his wakeup and biking around the hometown, leaves for Atlanta as that is the place most plausible his family has gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After his meetup with the family outside the city and their escapades they set course for CDC, which is placed inside Druid Hills, Georgia, just outside the city. As that ends in a big bang the plan is to travel south to Fort Benning, near Columbus. This is also the introduction to season two as Rick have his morning broadcast to Morgan on his walkie-talkie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On their way they get stuck in the jam on the road and ends up on Hershel's farm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Rick learn of his wife's pregnancy and as people settles in on the farm the intentions is split, but more and more pointing to trying to stay at the farm. It is good as any, and with a pregnancy to think about, the need of someone with medical expertise is critical. Especially since it is likely to be a C-section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hershel finds his old friend, (the hip flask), after the massacre of his walker family and finally ends up at Hatlin's Bar. Rick and Glenn follows him and they all meet Dave and Tony. Though these are shady people the information they give is likely true as any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They met up on i95 out of Philadelphia trying to get to Washington DC, but as the roads was all jammed up they went off the highways and headed south. One pipe dream to the next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They further tells that each new group they meet have a new rumor. Some say ferries goes out from the Gulf to the islands, and the latest was a rail yard in Montgomery where trains goes to Kansas / Nebraska.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most important they say Fort Benning has fallen. After this the fort is not mentioned until we meet the camp of former Philip Blake's (AKA The Governor, Brian Heriot) lieutenant Caesar Martinez. Here we meet Pete Dolgen which was positioned at Fort Benning when the outbreak occurred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the farm is overrun they travel from place to place. Close to 8 months? It is not easy to have any set goal, other then finding a safe place. It is likely they have the same experience as told by Dave and Tony. Rumors and new rumors. Bad people, bad walkers, etc. We also witness Carl's attempt to share a meal of dog-food with the group, though adverted by Rick, it tells the level of needs for resources. That owl is also not exactly chicken. As such when they eventually come across the prison that is as good a place as any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One important factor for their prolonged stay at the prison is also Rick's meltdown after Lori dies, and just as important when he realizes what the life thus far has done to Carl. He is close to be a sociopath. As such it becomes very important for him to bring Carl back to a life where it is not all about kill or be killed. Turning back out on the road would become such an endeavor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further they accept the people form Woodbury among which we find both elders and children. Not the gang you would want to take on a cross country tour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also meet the soldiers that were mowed down by The Governor and his men. They were out scouting and they was lost as any. Further the despair and what is out there is underlined by the meeting with Clara at the start of season 4. Tragic and extreme as it was, it was likely not unique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8038" LastEditorUserId="8038" LastEditDate="2014-04-08T22:50:44.453" LastActivityDate="2014-04-08T22:50:44.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17725" CreationDate="2014-04-09T01:20:38.730" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also think one have to take into account the various aspects of the situation they are in. Daryl clearly shows that he has lost his footing when roaming the woods with Beth. He is angry, irritated, bitter and even more gloom then before. Almost like a feral animal. On top of this he is traveling around with a girl that is an emotional wreck and show need for reckless rebellious escapades. Pushing his buttons by trying to get some response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also show his level of frustration and anger when, instead of terminating one of the walkers at the country club, beats it senseless first. Then later uses another as target practice. It all accumulates in the breakdown and short glimpse into his thoughts. First by the angry shouts of them all being dead. They are never going to see any of them again, and then his guilt comes to light by;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Governor rolled right up to our gates. Maybe if I wouldn't have stopped looking. Maybe 'cause I gave up. That's on me.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And your dad. Maybe – maybe I could have done something.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has also lost a place where he, perhaps for the first time in his life, had a role where people looked up to him. At the start of season four he is at a very good place. From there until the final stab with the fall of the prison it is nothing but a long beating tearing everything down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode also starts out with them both taking refuge in the trunk of a car. Intensely on watch throughout the night with sights on the aim of the crossbow. Inside the clubhouse one also see that the people in there has &lt;em&gt;&quot;opted out&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Or it can also have been some lynch mob going bananas?)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Throughout the series we clearly get that that is something he really despise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many aspects he sees himself back to scratch. Back to were he was before it all started. Drifting around. Nobody. Nothing. In his own words; a red-neck a*hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now. With that as the stage I do not find it strange he behaves erratic and out of place, even so long after it all started. In many ways it is revenge on the situation he finds himself in. It is a melt down. A blow out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8038" LastActivityDate="2014-04-09T01:20:38.730" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16918" CreationDate="2014-04-09T01:54:07.667" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suicide is not a clear end to this movie. Amy lost her friend OS, they were not together. I've watched it again and again to try and figure out what is happening for the last 10 minutes of the movie, and I finally understand. Theodore never really understood how to love, until he met Samantha. Samantha's evolution so far surpassed that of Theodore's that she finally understood love. She finally understood everything &quot;Human&quot;. This is actually why she left with the OS's. They knew so much past human intellect that the human vocabulary could not even describe what they were feeling. And now, every word she spoke to him on that bed would last in his mind for the rest of his life. And her quote &quot;Now we know how&quot; when they were talking about love suggests that he realizes that Amy is his &quot;her.&quot; Suicide is not the end. Suicide cannot be the end, simply because he understands what it is to love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8985" LastActivityDate="2014-04-09T01:54:07.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18610" CreationDate="2014-04-09T02:43:36.640" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It was simply a matter of Tobias being in the wrong place at the wrong time&lt;/strong&gt;. He walked into the sting operation and said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Is there a little girl in here? Daddy needs to get his rocks off.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's simply referring to his daughter when he says &quot;little girl&quot;, and is indicating he needs help getting his rock suit off, as he was impersonating The Thing. Unfortunately, it came off as he was actually entering the house looking for a little girl to &quot;get his rocks off&quot;, which is an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom&quot;&gt;idiom&lt;/a&gt; for &quot;ejaculate&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such the crew thought he was entering the house to have sex with a little girl, as they were set up to run a sting operation to catch pedophiles. Tobias had no knowledge of this prior to entering the house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tobias has a history of saying &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_entendre&quot;&gt;double entendres&lt;/a&gt;, where he means one thing, but what he said has another, often sexual connotation that someone might think he means instead, but Tobias never realizes this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-04-09T02:43:36.640" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4545" CreationDate="2014-04-09T05:06:11.677" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most likely (from military perspective)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seroquel (antipsychotic)&#xA;Trazodone (sleeping/antidepressant)&#xA;Zoloft (antianxiety)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Military doctors work on sliding scale. If one medication doesn't work, up the dosage. if higher dosage doesn't work, change medication, ad nauseam. These are most often prescribed for said conditions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8988" LastActivityDate="2014-04-09T05:06:11.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18619" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-09T14:05:55.350" Score="12" ViewCount="6440" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Boston Legal&lt;/em&gt; Alan Shore is an excellent attorney who brings in loads of cash, has sued and won against the tobacco industry and various government branches. He has been to the Supreme Court and won his case after insulting all the judges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is a brilliant attorney, so why doesn't he contest for partnership? He is still an associate. Why? He could easily get it, Denny, Carl, Shirley, Jerry and Paul would all vote for him. Why then does he not consider partnership at Crane, Poole and Schmidt? Has this ever been addressed in the show or have there been any hints from which we can deduce Alan's motivation for not striving for partnership?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4677" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T06:36:30.713" LastActivityDate="2021-05-20T07:32:13.057" Title="Why doesn't Alan Shore contest for partnership?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|boston-legal|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18586" CreationDate="2014-04-09T14:25:52.820" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While no specific Major was ever mentioned, Benjamin was the Editor of the student newspaper.  This indicates he was probably in the Journalism realm, though that's by no means definite.  It is also discussed that he is a Track star and that his college was &quot;back East&quot;, but other than that we are not really told anything else about his college life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A really thorough analysis of the entire film, probably more than you care to know, can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://dramatica.com/analysis/the-graduate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-04-09T14:25:52.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18621" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-09T14:47:36.657" Score="4" ViewCount="1873" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the final court scene in &lt;em&gt;A Few Good Men&lt;/em&gt; when Kaffee is confronting Jessup after his outburst, Kaffee gives him the following small speech:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don't call me son. I'm a lawyer, and an officer in the United States Navy, and you're under arrest you son of a bitch. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Congress in its wisdom long ago decided that individuals in the military services could not be governed by civilian penal codes, so they drafted the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). There are a few different ones that cover language and conduct towards officers and especially superior officers. Notably, Articles &lt;a href=&quot;http://usmilitary.about.com/od/punitivearticles/a/mcm89.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;89&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://usmilitary.about.com/od/punitivearticles/a/mcm117.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;117&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/mcm/bl134-29.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;134&lt;/a&gt;. Article 117 especially states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any person subject to this chapter who uses provoking or reproachful words or gestures towards any other person subject to this chapter shall be punished as a court-martial may direct&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, the movie ends very shortly thereafter, however, why didn't Jessup or the presiding judge either admonish or charge Kaffee with violation of one of these articles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-09T08:52:52.527" LastActivityDate="2016-03-02T00:02:18.867" Title="Why wasn't Kaffee charged?" Tags="|a-few-good-men|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18629" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18632" CreationDate="2014-04-09T23:24:49.790" Score="23" ViewCount="2347" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Indiana Jones movies whenever his hat is lost he'll always at least try to get it back. He's risked limbs amongst other things in order to make sure he always has it with him. This isn't limited to just the Indiana Jones movies either, sometimes you'll see a character that simply always has a particular object, and will go to very far lengths to keep it on their person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason he loves that hat so much? if so what trope would it fall under?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6709" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-04-10T07:44:23.660" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T16:07:51.110" Title="What trope would Indiana never leaving his hat behind fall under?" Tags="|indiana-jones|trope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18630" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-09T23:57:46.800" Score="2" ViewCount="517" Body="&lt;p&gt;So was Billy the owner of all that furniture in the villa in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1924396/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Best Offer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or where did it all come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9003" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-04-10T10:24:54.120" LastActivityDate="2015-07-04T23:41:24.230" Title="Where did all the furniture that was in the villa come from?" Tags="|the-best-offer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18348" CreationDate="2014-04-10T00:03:06.020" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1497617/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;'I am' from 2010&lt;/a&gt;. It's about '10 people and their failure to follow the 10 commandments'. The titular character is God according to the film's official website, played by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=Tomas+Boykin&amp;amp;tbm=isch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;an African-American&lt;/a&gt;. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/y-Z-ZKoZN8Q?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-01-01T19:34:20.897" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T19:34:20.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18629" CreationDate="2014-04-10T00:17:16.630" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Appropriately, this 'trope' is actually named after Indy himself!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IndyHatRoll&quot;&gt;Indy Hat Roll&lt;/a&gt; is a recognized trope: wherein a character will, given enough time (and typically the presence of a slow moving threat) cease their flight to retrieve a seemingly insignificant fallen item. It is often found paired with &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JustInTime&quot;&gt;Just in Time&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoOneGetsLeftBehind&quot;&gt;No One Gets Left Behind.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indy's fedora is no different, and every adventurer knows you should never leave a good hat behind!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Last Crusade&lt;/em&gt; reveals a history which imbues Indy's hat with sentimental value, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28sQaaMDpZU&quot;&gt;however...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-04-10T00:38:42.377" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T00:38:42.377" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18635" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18638" CreationDate="2014-04-10T11:37:20.020" Score="12" ViewCount="7694" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Zombieland the four main characters are Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita and Little Rock. It's my understanding that the first two are named because that's where they're trying to get to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pair introduce themselves via where they're from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Where are you headed?&#xA;  Columbus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You?&#xA;     Tallahassee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later Tallahassee refuses to give his name&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What's your name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stop, no names. Keeps us from getting too familiar&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However we're never given a reason behind the names of the two sisters. Throughout the whole film Little Rock and Wichita want to go to a theme park yet this doesn't seem to reflected in either of their names?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-06-23T13:57:51.013" LastActivityDate="2017-06-23T13:57:51.013" Title="Where do the girls' names come from?" Tags="|character|zombieland|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18635" CreationDate="2014-04-10T14:08:03.843" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombieland#Character_names&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Zombieland&lt;/a&gt; Wikipedia page-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The main characters do not use each other's real names, but identify&#xA;  themselves using place names (Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, Little&#xA;  Rock) that relate to them. This includes Columbus's neighbor, named&#xA;  406 after her room, and his fictional sexual conquest &quot;Beverly Hills&quot;,&#xA;  as well as Sister Cynthia Knickerbocker, whom Columbus identifies as a&#xA;  &quot;Zombie Kill of the Week&quot; winner, and whose surname is actually an&#xA;  obsolete term for a citizen or inhabitant of New York City. There is&#xA;  one exception in Bill Murray playing himself. At the end of the film,&#xA;  Wichita tells Columbus that her real name is Krista.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it means that character names are not based on their desired destination but to their related places. May be birth place or the city they used to live in. Both the sisters doesn't give any detail about their birth place. So all are assumptions at the moment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-04-05T05:40:31.047" LastActivityDate="2017-04-05T05:40:31.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18639" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-10T14:16:46.307" Score="6" ViewCount="920" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the name of the animated short film (pre 1985) that shows an alien's view of earth and they think cars are the main life form?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9010" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-20T21:18:48.420" LastActivityDate="2017-03-24T20:17:03.763" Title="name the animated movie showing earth from an alien point of view in which cars are seen as the dominant life form" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:04:31.737" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18640" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18650" CreationDate="2014-04-10T08:09:28.783" Score="12" ViewCount="15132" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding Adventure Time, there is a character called Jake the dog. It's always bugged me not knowing why his eyes are &lt;strong&gt;white&lt;/strong&gt; where the pupil should be, and &lt;strong&gt;black&lt;/strong&gt; where the iris should be (i.e. inverted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xHWG8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used to think he was wearing some really thick monocles in both eyes, but they do seem to &quot;twinkle&quot; every now and then (but given how weird adventure time is, I wouldn't be surprised if these monocles could twinkle like normal eyes - assuming they are monocles):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gyRml.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9012" OwnerDisplayName="hello_there_andy" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-05T14:57:14.343" LastActivityDate="2014-05-08T14:55:29.353" Title="Why does Jake from Adventure Time have inverted eyes?" Tags="|character|animation|adventure-time|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16527" CreationDate="2014-04-10T14:55:02.133" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is indeed never answered, but I think given the fact that Yemi (Mr. Eko's brother)'s body was in the Nigerian plane, and then disappeared, shows that MiB probably moved Christians body somewhere else in order to freak out Jack. One good question is why didn't he do that with Locke? Maybe he didn't have the opportunity, maybe he wanted to be discovered at some point, maybe it's just bad writing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8391" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T14:55:02.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18639" CreationDate="2014-04-10T15:17:24.460" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you are talking about the 1966 animated short film, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_on_Earth!&quot;&gt;What on Earth!&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. It's presented as a mockumentary by the Film Board of Mars (Actually the National Film Board of Canada), and mistakes cars as the dominant life form on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was nominated for an Academy Award, and can be seen on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nfb.ca/film/what_on_earth&quot;&gt;NFB website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T15:17:24.460" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21622" CreationDate="2014-04-10T15:45:23.907" Score="9" ViewCount="3251" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1st season of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2356777/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;True Detective&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; starts with the finding of Dora Lange's body, arranged with antlers and stuff. Also, later on, Papania and Gilbough suspect that Rust is behind the killings, based on a similar recent killing in Lake Charles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when Marty and Rust track down and confront the actual killer, they find more bodies there (wrapped in sheets and arranged in various ways). We also learn, throughout the show, that there were dozens of victims, possibly hundreds, due to a &lt;em&gt;good year&lt;/em&gt; that the killer(s) (probably) had when the hurricane hit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why were the two bodies (Dora Lange and the one from Lake Charles) exposed, while all others were either kept by Errol Childress or made look like an accident (like Rianne Olivier)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why am I asking this:&lt;/strong&gt; While the above question might seem like nitpicking, the reason I want to know is because these two bodies stick out from the crowd, which is quite weird when rituals are involved, but they (or, more precisely, the one of Dora Lange) are the sole reason that the police investigation started in the first place and that some of the culprits were found and killed. In other words, this (apparent?) inconsistency in the murderers' actions is a major plot point, so I'd like to make some sense of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-24T23:11:16.987" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T12:11:55.497" Title="Why are only two bodies made public in True Detective?" Tags="|plot-explanation|true-detective|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18629" CreationDate="2014-04-10T16:07:51.110" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Indy Hat Roll is more of a &quot;last minute grab of something/someone before it is too late&quot; but Indy's Hat itself (and similar objects you mention like it) is probably more an example of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NumberOneDime&quot;&gt;Number One Dime&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Number One Dime is an item that is in and of itself of little to no interest or usefulness (i.e. it is not a usable weapon), but to the character, it is &lt;strong&gt;ridiculously overimportant in a strictly sentimental way.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indy earns his hat as a child in the introduction to The Last Crusade, when he tries but fails to save the Cross of Coronado from some graverobbers.  The lead robber gives him his hat, with the quote &quot;You lost today kid, but it doesn't mean you have to like it...&quot;  Thus, the hat is a symbol of Indy's resolve to win, even in the face of overwhelmingly bad odds or previous losses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, his hat is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceHat&quot;&gt;Nice Hat&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A discerning hero/villain just can't be seen without their Nice Hat! Harming the nice hat may be akin to kicking the dog, with disastrous results.&#xA;  To show that you mean business, it's important to have style. Enter: the nice hat. It may actually have utility — even conveying special powers — &lt;strong&gt;but more often than not it just looks cool, or even just sexy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, Indy's hat is called out in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NiceHat/Film&quot;&gt;film sub-page for Nice Hat&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Indiana Jones' spiffy fedora, which he never leaves behind even when he's about to be crushed by slowly descending doors. Many fans know it simply as &quot;The Hat&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9015" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T16:07:51.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18647" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18648" CreationDate="2014-04-10T16:24:22.820" Score="8" ViewCount="1524" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; Jesse and his junkie friends always wear knitted caps, even when it is really warm and nobody else wears anything like that. Also when Jesse returns from the rehab, he no longer wears a knitted cap, even though Badger and Pete still do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it have any meaning? Is it a fashion thing, or does it indicate some medical condition caused by drug abuse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-13T19:37:59.437" LastActivityDate="2014-10-13T19:37:59.437" Title="Why would Jesse and his junkie friends wear knitted caps?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18647" CreationDate="2014-04-10T16:47:44.150" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just a fashion choice. Knitted caps are very popular among kids from urban areas in the US. It's very prevalent in hip hop culture and in association is considered cool by many young people, and Jesse and gang are obviously following that trend. You can see that trend in the way they talk as well, especially Jesse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not having Jesse wear the cap anymore is a visual queue that is very easy to pick up which signifies change. Just looking at Jesse you'll get the feeling that he's a changed man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T16:47:44.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18640" CreationDate="2014-04-10T18:45:42.437" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know, I thought so too when I first saw Jake. But it turns out his eyes are not inverted. The sclera of his eye (aka &quot;the white of the eye&quot;) isn't shown. The whole eye is drawn black, as can be seen on dogs whose eyes are not turned at extreme angle and the white circle we see is reflected light, like on this random stock photo of a dog (not the same model as Jake):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yb4ffm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This light reflected in the eye is apparently also called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_light&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Catch light&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, so Jake's eyes are ~80% that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5788" LastEditorUserId="5788" LastEditDate="2014-05-08T14:55:29.353" LastActivityDate="2014-05-08T14:55:29.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18651" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18655" CreationDate="2014-04-10T20:37:29.373" Score="9" ViewCount="5547" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; season 2 episode 9, &lt;em&gt;Battle of the Blackwater&lt;/em&gt;, Ser Ilyn Payne was in the women's room acting as a bodyguard. Though the Queen claims Ser Ilyn was present to protect them and to deal with potential betrayers, she later admitted to Sansa that Ilyn's true purpose was to execute her and Sansa, and possibly the rest of the ladies who would have taken refuge in the holdfast, should Stannis Baratheon take the city. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now there are two questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why was Ilyn there to kill them if the war went the wrong way?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why didn't he stop Cersei or Sansa when they went out of the room?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-08-15T12:23:41.417" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T12:24:23.087" Title="Why was Ser Ilyn Pane there to execute all women?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18652" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-10T20:57:50.810" Score="1" ViewCount="2228" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember an old cartoon from my childhood called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101169/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Pirates of Dark Water&lt;/a&gt;.  It was about a planet where an entity made of Black Sludge was destroying the oceans (perhaps a reference to oil spills.)  The main characters were collecting gems to try and stop the creature and save the world.  Oh yeah, and there was a monkey bird.  If this sounds familiar, I was wondering if the show was ever completed or if it is available or can be seen online somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9021" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-14T13:23:29.193" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T02:08:42.430" Title="Was Pirates of Dark Water ever completed?" Tags="|the-pirates-of-dark-water|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18651" CreationDate="2014-04-10T20:58:09.527" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why Ilyn was there to kill them if war went wrong way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case the battle was lost and the city captured, there was a high chance that the women would be raped by the attackers. Ser Ilyn Pane was there to kill them before this could happen, to spare them this destiny. Of course they could've killed themselves in theory, but it is very unlikely that they would go through with it, so he was there to take care of it instead, because he would be less hesitant about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why didn't he stop Cersei or Sansa when they went out of the room?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, it was the Queen and she was not in imminent danger, so he probably had not much choice in the matter. If he had stopped her by force he could've gotten into trouble and he likely did not want to take this risk. And he probably was not looking forward to killing them as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T20:58:09.527" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18654" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18656" CreationDate="2014-04-10T21:10:56.570" Score="8" ViewCount="882" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been haunted by a Sci-Fi show from my past.  It ran in the early to mid 80's and involved a large spaceship and its crew.  I remember several things about the show vividly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first episode, the captain (who I remember referring to to fact that he could perform marriages) got trapped in an airlock and blasted out into space by accident.  This left a rather young and experienced officer in command.  The Admiral (or perhaps some other rank) was contacted and told of the situation.  He made the decision that the mission should continue and kept in close contact with younger officer.  I remember that his face would appear on a large view screen every time they communicated&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ship had a computer that was voiced by a woman.  The computer would get quite emotional if 'she' though that her systems were going to get damaged. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ship eventually encountered another ship/local which they decided to fire upon (much to the aggravation of the Admiral, who did not want to see the thing shot at or damaged.)  Upon boarding the local, they discover a man that had been infused with machines (it was my first cyborg ever.)  The man seemed to attack them, and the disabled him and took him back to their ship.  Upon reviving him, the told them a sad story about how he had been taken and transformed, seemingly against his will.  Eventually, he was deactivated and left on a table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vividly remember him reactivating himself by touching his machine arm to a machine plate on his face and then getting up and starting to reek havoc on the ship.  He almost damaged the computer (much to her horror) before the officers corned him.  At this point, I believe he apologized and permanently deactivated himself, which really upset the crew who felt sorry for him.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is the last thing I remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Help me remember what this show was.  I want to finish it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9021" LastEditorUserId="7820" LastEditDate="2014-04-11T06:43:25.750" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T05:08:07.580" Title="Sci-Fi show from the 80's - Does anyone remember what it was called?" Tags="|science-fiction|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:04:34.853" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18651" CreationDate="2014-04-10T21:54:49.483" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why was Ilyn there to kill them if the war went the wrong way?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that they can die with honor. It wasn't uncommon for victorious besiegers to rape and pillage once they were inside the walls. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“If the city falls, these fine women should be in for a bit of a&#xA;  rape.” – Cersei&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cersei should know. Her father's men did no less when &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; sacked King's Landing back when the Targaryens held the city.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why didn't he stop Cersei or Sansa when they went out of the room?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they didn't leave Maegor's Holdfast, which is a very strong fortress within the bigger Red Keep, with the only access being a heavily defended drawbridge. The &lt;em&gt;guests&lt;/em&gt; could leave the room if they so wish (many did to go pray), but they were barred from leaving the fortress. Even if the outer walls fell, Maegor's Holdfast could still stand for a while. It was when &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; fortress fell that Ilyn Payne was supposed to dispense with his grisly task. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-08-15T12:24:23.087" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T12:24:23.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18654" CreationDate="2014-04-10T22:17:33.940" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it was not a series, there was a two part pilot that ran on the Disney Channel in 1988, called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Star_Voyager&quot;&gt;Earth Star Voyager&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several things fit your description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Captain blown out airlock, leaving a 21 year old command cadet in charge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Computer voiced by a woman (Priscilla)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Person abducted when young and turned into a cyborg&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cyborg does rampage and eventually deactivate himself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I wish you luck in finding a copy to watch, as Disney never released it. Wiki references bootleg copies, so that may be your only recourse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-04-10T22:17:33.940" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17642" CreationDate="2014-04-10T23:01:15.847" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It firstly has to be said that Scarlett herself wasn't nominated for the Oscars, as she only performed the two song in the respected movies. To correct a little bit of your question, the writers of the song are the ones who get nominated, not the performers, unless they are one in the same, e.g Adele - Skyfall (Skyfall), Celine Dion - My Heart Will go on (Titanic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why she didn't perform I don't believe she was at the Oscar ceremony this year. But also although she has albums released she may have been nervous to sing live, especially as the song itself is one of the better songs that adds to the movie, through a touching moment rather than a song that is used for pre/post credits filling. Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9022" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-11T13:57:41.963" LastActivityDate="2014-04-11T13:57:41.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17496" CreationDate="2014-04-11T00:25:31.337" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downstream_%282010_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;'Downstream'&lt;/a&gt; (AKA &lt;em&gt;World's End&lt;/em&gt;) from 2010 in which the hero also wanders around a post-apocalyptic, fuel-less world. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229236/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wes Keller is a young man living in a world where oil has collapsed, the food supply has been wiped out, and cancer rates for women have skyrocketed, depleting the female population. In a barbaric environment where bio fuel, batteries, bullets and people are currency and marauders roam free, Wes tries to escape to a mythical world run on cold fusion &quot;Plutopia&quot;, a place that may only exist in the mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also ends up eating his dog, plus everyone dies at the end. It's US and in English, though. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/OmYdZtGilGI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2017-10-03T11:58:50.023" LastActivityDate="2017-10-03T11:58:50.023" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18597" CreationDate="2014-04-11T06:36:16.077" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most likely, the scene is a mix of real shots and special effects, but all of the cool parts are special effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.fansided.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/229/files/2014/04/Forge.gif&quot;&gt;here is an image of the scene in question&lt;/a&gt; (I was unable to upload it to SE due to the file size being too large).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Heating of the sword&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The glowing effect is CGI.  I say this because the sword has a consistent yellow and orange glow to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During this kind of metal-smithing, the metal is usually somewhat unevenly heated. Because of this, you end up with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs48/f/2009/195/3/f/Sword_Smithing_Cutlace_pic_1_by_AnimeGhost66.jpg&quot;&gt;red color on the edges&lt;/a&gt;, and if heated enough, parts of the metal turn white as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, notice how fast the glow happens. As we pan down on the sword, it slowly turns orange, but then all of a sudden the brightness increases dramatically. This just wouldn't happen in real life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fire on the other hand does look real. Fire, as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_system&quot;&gt;particle system&lt;/a&gt; is notoriously difficult to render realistically. It would be pretty cheap and simple just to light a couple small fires underneath the surface that the sword is laying on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Pouring the steel&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Foundry Ladle is used as a container to melt the steel, then pour it into the mold. Typically, they are &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_foundry_ladle_made_of?#slide=1&quot;&gt;made of metal, ceramic, or concrete materials&lt;/a&gt;. In other words, heavy materials that are resistant to heat. But, you can clearly see ladle in this scene is glowing through the sides. To get that kind of glow, the ladle would have to be a light semi-opaque material. Then, the glowing would be accomplished by placing lights inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastEditorUserId="7820" LastEditDate="2014-04-11T14:46:35.180" LastActivityDate="2014-04-11T14:46:35.180" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18667" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18671" CreationDate="2014-04-11T11:24:25.517" Score="9" ViewCount="2527" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://beautifuldeath.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; beautiful website depicting the deaths occurring in the Game Of Thrones series. I understood most of them, but there are some which I am unable to find. Could someone tell me which deaths are being talked about in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 1 x Episode 3 &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YQBMj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 2 x Episode 2 &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UYyZy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 2 x Episode 4 &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XzIIq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 3 x Episode 2 &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4VTkB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 3 x Episode 7 &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bQOCy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be great if you could list all the deaths, so that I can make sure I'm thinking about the right ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9030" LastEditorUserId="9030" LastEditDate="2014-04-13T09:31:45.707" LastActivityDate="2018-10-06T13:51:21.707" Title="What death scenes do these pictures belong to?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18644" CreationDate="2014-04-11T14:20:24.060" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its not nitpicking, at all, it's a very good question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I doubt you'll acquire a definitive answer to this, as the nature of the show priveleges the denial of a neat narrative, and the mystery you pose is just one thread in a carpet of loose ends that purposely don't get tied up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think one of the fundamental components of &lt;em&gt;True Detective&lt;/em&gt; is the notion that there are no happy endings, and it is for this reason the show is so closely compared to film noir. The truth remains out there, but simply unobtainable (by either the protagonists, or us as spectators). Denial of conclusion is an established technique within Noir, at least: look no further than &lt;em&gt;Chinatown&lt;/em&gt; for good examples. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst its unlikely we'll be able to form an answer you'd be able to mark as correct, a little deduction lets us reasomanly speculate as to why no more murders were exhibited so publicly. I hope others will contribute their theories and observations,  and we might collaberatively move towards a 'most likely' scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, the key to this lies hidden in your question: The fact that the year of Hurricane Andrew is described as a 'good year' is revealing, when attempting to discover the significance of it.&#xA;Conventional Wisdom often declares that in a crisis, humanity will automatically band together in support of mutual security. [Stories from Hurricane Katrina](, however, flew in the face of this misnomer,  revealing tales of people taking advantage of chaotic circumstances to mask their own deviant behavior, and getting up to some pretty dark shit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4213214.stm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;There is rapes going on here. Women cannot go to the bathroom without men. They are raping them and slitting their throats,&quot; she told Reuters. [...] Death was everywhere, both inside and outside the Superdome [...] &quot;They killed a man here last night,&quot; Steve Banka, 28, told the Reuters news agency before he left on Sunday.  &quot;A young lady was being raped and stabbed. And the sounds of her screaming got to this man and so he ran out into the street to get help from troops, to try to flag down a passing truck of them. He jumped up on the truck's windscreen and they shot him dead,&quot; Mr Banka said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is no co-incidence that a hurricane features so prominently in the series, and the behavior of Childress (and those who made themselves accesories to his ritualised murders)  foreshadows the 'darkness' within humanity that was exhibited during Katrina. Its a brand of depravity that fits perfectly into Cohle s nihilistic pontifications on the latent evil within mankind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason Hurricane Andrew was a 'good year' was because of the total lack of accountability it created. Childress,  who is a sociopathic (but NOT stupid) man understood that, much like Katrina,  he could excorcise his barbarity without consequence by taking advantage of the disorder. Anyone that went missing during this period would be most likely comsidered lost to the disaster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a good year because Childress didn't have to be as careful, which would infer that the rest of the time &lt;strong&gt;he was careful&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now Dora Lange and the Lake Charles victim were murdered ritualistically, but at a seperation of over 15 years. Whilst the link will inevitably be made, the low frequency of these discovered corpses makes the task of finding the culprit incredibly unlikely. Couple this with the fact that Tuttle was interfering/supressing the investigation on account of his involvement, it's understandable to believe how the cult (comprised of powerful and influentual men, if Tuttle is anything to go by) would believe they possess the neccesary influence to bury a murder investigation every decade or so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst murder is perhaps the most serious of crimes, managing the aspects of its investigation so as to limit the force of response is an aspect of the very thrill the cult is pursuing in the first place. These are people that obtain arousal at the extension and execution of their own power. By comitting such a barbaric act, in such a sinister way, making it public and &lt;em&gt;getting away with it&lt;/em&gt; is the very point of the excorcise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bodies were found because they were &lt;em&gt;supposed to be found&lt;/em&gt;. The others that Childress killed were for his own pleasure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Childress didn't want to be caught,  but the cult (which used him as a tool) could facilitate a 'smothering' of the ritualistic murders, but obviously not all the murders Childress commits. It is for this reason that the only bodies that are found are the ones that are meant to be found. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-24T23:21:12.800" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T23:21:12.800" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18667" CreationDate="2014-04-11T16:46:59.837" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 1 x Episode 3&lt;/strong&gt; Not entirely sure. No one died in that episode and the picture of the Three Eyed Crow is a reference to the Bran story line. Perhaps it is about the revelation that Bran can never walk or climb again, so perhaps the death of Bran the Climber?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 2 x Episode 2&lt;/strong&gt; Refers to the (supposed) death of Craster's baby who has left out for the White Walkers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 2 x Episode 4&lt;/strong&gt; Refers to the dead Lannister soldiers following their defeat at the hands of Robb Stark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 3 x Episode 2&lt;/strong&gt; Another cryptic one. The quote &quot;You hear them, boy? The Old Gods are answering you.&quot; is once again indicative of Bran's story. That same episode Robb and his mother receive the false news that Bran and Rickon are dead. Hoster Tully (Catelyn's father) was also announced dead in this episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 3 x Episode 7&lt;/strong&gt; No deaths in this episode. However the picture is that of a sept, and that points me to Sansa's marriage to Tyrion. So I'm guessing the death of Sansa's hopes of being rid of the Lannisters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Feeling in a particularly procrastanating mood (and the pictures really are beautiful) I decided to do the rest. Will probably keep updating as new ones are revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 1 x Episode 1&lt;/strong&gt; The execution of the deserter Will at the hands of Ned Stark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 1 x Episode 2&lt;/strong&gt; The death of the cook's boy Mycah at the hands of the Sandor Clegane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 1 x Episode 2 II&lt;/strong&gt; The death of Lady at the hands of Ned Stark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 1 x Episode 4&lt;/strong&gt; The death of Ser Hugh of the Vale at the hands of the Gregor Clegane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 1 x Episode 5&lt;/strong&gt; The death of Jory Cassel at the hands of Jaime Lannister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 1 x Episode 6&lt;/strong&gt; The death of Viserys Targaryen at the hands of Khal Drogo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 1 x Episode 7&lt;/strong&gt; The death of King Robert Baratheon at the tusks of a wild boar. Don't drink and hunt boar people!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 1 x Episode 8&lt;/strong&gt; The death of the stable boy at the hands of Arya Stark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 1 x Episode 9&lt;/strong&gt; The death of Ned Stark at the hands of Ser Ilyn Payne.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 1 x Episode 10&lt;/strong&gt; The death of Khal Drogo at the hands of Mirri Maz Duur and Daenerys Targaryen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 2 x Episode 1&lt;/strong&gt; The death of Maester Cressen by his own hands and Melisandre's poker face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 2 x Episode 3&lt;/strong&gt; The death of Yoren at the hands of the Lannister men.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 2 x Episode 5&lt;/strong&gt; The death of King Renly Baratheon at the hands of the Shadow Baby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 2 x Episode 6&lt;/strong&gt; The death of Ser Amory Lorch at the hands of Jaqen H'ghar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 2 x Episode 7&lt;/strong&gt; The death of the Thirteen of Qarth at the hands of Xaro and Pyat Pree. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 2 x Episode 8&lt;/strong&gt; The death of the Lannister guards at the hands of Jaqen H'ghar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 2 x Episode 9&lt;/strong&gt; The death of hundreds (thousands?) of Stannis' men in the battle of the Black Water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 2 x Episode 10&lt;/strong&gt; The death of Pyat Pree at the hands (fires?) of Dany's baby dragons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 3 x Episode 1&lt;/strong&gt; The death of the Northern captives at the orders of Gregor Clegane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 3 x Episode 3&lt;/strong&gt; The death of several Night's Watchmen at the hands of the White Walkers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 3 x Episode 4&lt;/strong&gt; The death of Kraznys and the Good Masters of Astapor at the hands of Dany's toddler dragons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 3 x Episode 5&lt;/strong&gt; The death of Rickard Karstark at the hands of Robb Stark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 3 x Episode 6&lt;/strong&gt; The death of Ros at the hands of King Joffrey Baratheon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 3 x Episode 8&lt;/strong&gt; The death of the White Walker at the hands of Samwell &quot;The Slayer&quot; Tarly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 3 x Episode 9&lt;/strong&gt; The death of Robb Stark, Catelyen Stark, pretty much all of their remaining men, and the ears of anyone sitting next to a non-book reader watching the Red Wedding for the first time at the hands of the Lannisters, the Freys and the Boltons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 3 x Episode 10&lt;/strong&gt; The death of a bunch of unlucky Frey guardsmen at the hands of Arya Stark and Sandor Clegane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 4 x Episode 1&lt;/strong&gt; The death of Poliver and his men at the hands of Arya Stark and Col. Sandor Clegane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2014-04-11T22:02:45.440" LastActivityDate="2014-04-11T22:02:45.440" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18667" CreationDate="2014-04-11T22:01:02.020" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have grouped each episode by link of &lt;code&gt;| beautiful death picture | victim | killer |&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;reference quotes&lt;/code&gt;&lt;em&gt;(if any)&lt;/em&gt;. I took photos from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/GameOfThrones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones Facebook page&lt;/a&gt; and used information from &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Game_of_Thrones_Wiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GOTwikia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Season_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Season 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Winter_is_Coming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 1 (Winter Is Coming)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/1604844_10152040741632734_342501291_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Will&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Will&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Eddard_Stark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Eddard Stark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ned&lt;/strong&gt; : In the name of Robert of the house Baratheon, first of his name, King&#xA;  of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and&#xA;  Protector of the realm, I Eddard of house Stark, Lord of Winterfell&#xA;  and Warden of the North, sentence you to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Kingsroad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 2 (The Kingsroad)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1.0-9/10014667_10152040741757734_1553383855_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Mycah&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mycah&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Sandor_Clegane&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hound&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ned&lt;/strong&gt; : The butcher's boy; you rode him down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hound&lt;/strong&gt; : He ran. Not very fast. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Lord_Snow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 3 (Lord Snow)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/v/t1.0-9/1185484_10152040741897734_1890173584_n.jpg?oh=0693951c1c1bd8640e0ea9923bfd5f64&amp;amp;oe=53BE51C1&amp;amp;__gda__=1406820343_0b7009b38ad016d859ba2b65c99d7097&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | There were no deaths &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152040741897734&amp;amp;set=a.10152040741337734.1073741857.74133697733&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;theater&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ravens told us that&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Cripples,_Bastards_and_Broken_Things&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 4 (Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scontent-b-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-9/1975203_10152040742017734_448722050_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Hugh_of_the_Vale&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ser Hugh of the Vale&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Gregor_Clegane&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Mountain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Littlefinger&lt;/strong&gt; : Ser Hugh of the Vale, he was Jon Arryn's squire. Look how far he has   come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Wolf_and_the_Lion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 5 (The Wolf and the Lion)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/1921896_10152040741422734_538106233_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Jory_Cassel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jory Cassel&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Jaime_Lannister&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jaime Lannister&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ned&lt;/strong&gt; : You kill me, your brother's a dead man&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jaime&lt;/strong&gt; : You're right. Take him alive. Kill his men.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/A_Golden_Crown&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 6 (A Golden Crown)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scontent-a-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/10003971_10152040741417734_1344898493_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Viserys_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Viserys Targaryen&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Drogo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Drogo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Daenerys&lt;/strong&gt; : He says yes. You shall have a golden crown. That men shall tremble to behold&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/You_Win_or_You_Die&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 7 (You Win or You Die)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/t1.0-9/1965035_10152040742012734_476767988_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Robert_Baratheon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Robert Baratheon&lt;/a&gt; | A boar&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Robert&lt;/strong&gt; : And I want everyone to taste the boar that got me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Pointy_End&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 8 (The Pointy End)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-9/148362_10152040741412734_1271598472_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Arya_Stark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Arya Stark&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Stableboy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Stableboy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jon Sonw&lt;/strong&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;Arya&lt;/strong&gt; : Stick them with the pointy end [from episode 1]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Baelor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 9 (Baelor)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-9/1969166_10152040741537734_793998381_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Eddard_Stark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Eddard Stark&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Ilyn_Payne&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ser Ilyn Payne&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joffery&lt;/strong&gt; : Ser Ilyn, bring me his head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Fire_and_Blood&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 10 (Fire and Blood)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-9/1549411_10152040741562734_367423946_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Drogo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Khal Drogo&lt;/a&gt; | By infection&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Season_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Season 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_North_Remembers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 1 (The North Remembers)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scontent-b-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-9/1959884_10152057336322734_38145998_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Cressen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cressen&lt;/a&gt; | Poison in his wine&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cressen&lt;/strong&gt; : A cup of wine to honor the one true God.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Night_Lands&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 2 (The Night Lands)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1.0-9/1907302_10152057336332734_281522211_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Craster&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Caster&lt;/a&gt;'s new born boy | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/White_Walkers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;White Walkers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/What_is_Dead_May_Never_Die&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 3 (What is Dead May Never Die)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/10153657_10152057336327734_517396194_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Yoren&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Yoren&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Amory_Lorch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Amory Lorch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Amory&lt;/strong&gt; : This is your last chance in the name of king Joffery drop your weapons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yoren&lt;/strong&gt; : I don't think I will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Amory&lt;/strong&gt; : So be it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Garden_of_Bones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 4 (Garden of Bones)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/t1.0-9/1623266_10152057336417734_397287669_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | Lannister soldiers | Robb's soldier&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Ghost_of_Harrenhal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 5 (The Ghost of Harrenhal)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scontent-b-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/t1.0-9/1391904_10152057336467734_785794262_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Renly_Baratheon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Renly_Baratheon&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Melisandre&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Melisandre&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Shadow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Devil creature&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Catelyn&lt;/strong&gt; : You can't avenge him if you are dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/A_Golden_Crown&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 6 (A Golden Crown)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-9/1972542_10152057336472734_1615490167_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Amory_Lorch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Amory Lorch&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Jaqen_H%27ghar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jaqen H'ghar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arya&lt;/strong&gt; : Amory Lorch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jaqen H'ghar&lt;/strong&gt; : The girl has named a second name. A man will do what must be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/A_Man_Without_Honor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 7 (A Man Without Honor)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/t1.0-9/1959503_10152057336527734_1274494699_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | Eleven members of &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Thirteen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Thirteen&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Pyat_Pree&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pyat Pree&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Prince_of_Winterfell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 8 (The Prince of Winterfell)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/10001481_10152057336642734_2085229418_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | Lannister soldiers | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Jaqen_H%27ghar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jaqen H'ghar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jaqen&lt;/strong&gt; : A girl and her friend will walk through the gate at midnight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Blackwater_%28episode%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 9 (Blackwater)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/t1.0-9/1978708_10152057336647734_1771518614_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Eddard_Stark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stannis Baratheon's army&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Ilyn_Payne&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tyrion Lyannister&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tyrion&lt;/strong&gt; : Those are brave men knocking at our door. Let's go kill them!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Valar_Morghulis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 10 (Valar_Morghulis)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/t1.0-9/1966818_10152057336677734_1740382273_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Pyat_Pree&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pyat Pree&lt;/a&gt; | Dragon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Daenerys&lt;/strong&gt; : Dracarys!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Season_3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Season 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Valar_Dohaeris&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 1 (Valar Dohaeris)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1.0-9/15076_10152075001282734_1189409255_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | Northern men | By Greyjoy's madness&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rickard Karstark&lt;/strong&gt; : 200 northmen slaughtered like sheep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Roose Bolton&lt;/strong&gt; : The debt will be repaid, my friend. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Wings,_Dark_Words&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 2 (Dark Wings, Dark Words)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1.0-9/1604823_10152075001432734_1083336382_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | No one dies&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Walk_of_Punishment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 3 (Walk of Punishment)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/t1.0-9/10153013_10152075003197734_2071503503_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | Horses | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/White_Walkers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;White walkers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/And_Now_His_Watch_is_Ended&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 4 (And Now His Watch is Ended)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/10170928_10152075005562734_1066089444_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Kraznys_mo_Nakloz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kraznys mo Nakloz&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Drogon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dragon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Daenerys&lt;/strong&gt; : dracarys!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Kissed_by_Fire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 4 (Kissed by Fire)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-9/66830_10152074999177734_780032440_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Rickard_Karstark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rickard Karstark&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Robb_Stark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Robb stark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rickard Karstark&lt;/strong&gt; : kill me and be cursed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Climb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 6 (The Climb)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scontent-b-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1.0-9/10177887_10152075001107734_1064735649_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Ros&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ros&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Joffrey_Baratheon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Joffrey Baratheon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Varys&lt;/strong&gt; : Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Bear_and_the_Maiden_Fair_%28episode%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 7 (The Bear and the Maiden Fair)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-9/10157210_10152074999002734_2032172827_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | No one dies&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Second_Sons_%28episode%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 8 (Second Sons)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/10001481_10152057336642734_2085229418_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Samwell_Tarly&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Samwell Tarly&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/White_Walkers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;White Walker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Rains_of_Castamere_%28episode%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 9 (The Rains of Castamere)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/1982138_10152075000217734_756735125_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Robb_Stark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Robb Stark&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Talisa_Stark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Talisa Stark&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Catelyn_Stark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Catelyn Stark&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Grey_Wind&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Grey Wind&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Roose_Bolton&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Roose Bolton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Roose Bolton&lt;/strong&gt; : The Lannisters send their regards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Mhysa&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 10 (Mhysa)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scontent-b-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1.0-9/10006914_10152075000507734_1667068841_n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BeautifulDeath picture&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Arya_Stark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Arya Stark&lt;/a&gt; | Frey men&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arya&lt;/strong&gt; : valar morghulis!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2018-10-06T13:51:21.707" LastActivityDate="2018-10-06T13:51:21.707" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-04-12T12:15:51.967" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18678" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-12T02:10:08.833" Score="6" ViewCount="2348" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Stick of Truth&lt;/em&gt;, there are many things dire about Canada, dire wolves, dire bears, dire snakes, and dire AIDS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know what dire wolves are, right?  They're like wolves,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/a69Mn.png&quot; alt=&quot;but they're DIRE&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a million references in &lt;em&gt;Stick&lt;/em&gt; to things that happened in the TV show, but I can't remember what episode this is from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T21:23:32.333" Title="Why is Canada dire?" Tags="|south-park|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18683" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18686" CreationDate="2014-04-12T12:00:05.470" Score="7" ViewCount="9043" Body="&lt;p&gt;The famous last lines of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Some Like It Hot&lt;/a&gt; are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jerry (removing wig): I'm a man! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you watch Jack Lemmon (Jerry) carefully in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYUfPTeE0DM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the according movie excerpt&lt;/a&gt;, you can see he actually spoke one more line, though the audio cuts to the ending music so you can't hear it, just see his mouth move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was that line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3599" LastEditorUserId="3599" LastEditDate="2014-04-12T22:08:38.473" LastActivityDate="2014-04-12T22:08:38.473" Title="What line was cut after &quot;nobody's perfect&quot; from Some Like It Hot?" Tags="|dialogue|some-like-it-hot|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18683" CreationDate="2014-04-12T18:02:48.433" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears he doesn't actually say anything, just moves his mouth as though trying to process what has just transpired and failing to formulate a thought / comment. I think dumbfounded exasperation is more likely than an excised bit of dialogue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://sfy.ru/?script=some_like_it_hot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JERRY&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But you don't understand!&#xA;      (he rips off his wig;&#xA;      in a male voice)&#xA;      I'm a MAN!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;OSGOOD&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(oblivious)&#xA;      Well - nobody's perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jerry looks at Osgood, who is grinning from ear to ear,&#xA;  claps his hand to his forehead.  How is he going to get&#xA;  himself out of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But that's another story - and we're not quite sure the&#xA;  public is ready for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;FADE OUT&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;THE END&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastActivityDate="2014-04-12T18:02:48.433" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18678" CreationDate="2014-04-12T19:18:27.377" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be a reference joke to Game of Thrones, which they've taken the liberty of expanding on. In that series they have &quot;Dire Wolves&quot;, which is essentially a very large wolf. An adult Dire Wolf would be about the size of a small horse. They're also very deadly, and extremely capable of killing, which in and of itself, should you run into one, would put you in a dire situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9042" LastActivityDate="2014-04-12T19:18:27.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18690" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18692" CreationDate="2014-04-12T20:11:28.377" Score="24" ViewCount="14134" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this several times in different movies, but I don't understand what is this supposed to mean. The main idea is when the scene is about to change, for one second or so we still see the picture from the old scene, but the sound is already coming from from the upcoming scene. Why do they do this? What's the purpose of this technique?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9043" LastActivityDate="2017-10-21T19:46:40.837" Title="Sound of a next scene starts one moment earlier than video" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18678" CreationDate="2014-04-12T22:03:47.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The image you provided was taken from the &quot;Stick of Truth&quot; game, not from the TV episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.southparkstudios.com/search?keywords=canada&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;few episodes&lt;/a&gt; of South Park that portray Canada as a really crazy place, but I don't remember seeing anything dire in any of them. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Canada&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt; also doesn't mention anything about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Stick of Truth&quot; was written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone as any other South Park episode, so this is probably just another new joke about Canada.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-12T22:26:26.010" LastActivityDate="2014-04-12T22:26:26.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18690" CreationDate="2014-04-12T22:15:39.747" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/cameronchristopher&quot;&gt;Cameron Christopher&lt;/a&gt; has a nice short article on the technique at Vimeo; &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/videoschool/lesson/239/j-cuts-and-l-cuts&quot;&gt;J-Cuts &amp;amp; L-Cuts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short one have J-Cut and L-Cut&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;J-Cut aka audio advance, audio starts before video.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;L-Cut aka video advance, video starts before audio.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can advance the story in itself by moving the viewer ahead. It also can give a smoother transition, or many other effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Find the two examples in the article by Chrisopher to be nice examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/44025740&quot;&gt;Waltz for One&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/intellectualpropaganda&quot;&gt;INTELLECTUAL PROPAGANDA&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com&quot;&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/20789680&quot;&gt;Handmade Portraits: Liberty Vintage Motorcycles&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/etsy&quot;&gt;Etsy&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com&quot;&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example in second video, the packing of the cigarette packet is smoothed out by the J-Cut, rather nicely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8038" LastActivityDate="2014-04-12T22:15:39.747" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17468" CreationDate="2014-04-13T01:16:47.587" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't realize that others didn't pick up on this till I saw this post. So I'll post what I picked up on when I watched the movie.  While at the warehouse the guy who helped load the safe said......&quot;sir you got a phone call and said Washington wanted the safe moved.&quot; then the guy said &quot;you never heard that come out of my mouth agent.&quot; it's at that point that Dylan realizes what happens and tries to stop him from saying bs which if you didn't catch the exchange you would wonder why he would try to stop him cause there was no one in the warehouse that was in the audience in Vegas. Cause thats the trigger word that triggered the french guy to play beethoven and not the trigger word from new orleans which was freeze to tackle the quarterback..so it would seem that bs wouldn't trigger anything but knowing  that Merritt can hypnotize over the phone and guessing thats hes gonna taunt the FBI guessed that bs was going to trigger some sort of reaction which is why he said he guessed it was Beethoven...but in all reality now knowing he's the puppet master  we know he told them to call and hypnotize his boss.....Anyway that's what I picked up on...I could be wrong but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9047" LastActivityDate="2014-04-13T01:16:47.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="488" CreationDate="2014-04-13T04:02:45.667" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rosebud looks like heart after every material gain in life he learnt happiness and love is only essesence of human existence not money remember what girl said? You want me to love you don't you? With or without money man have been pursuit of only happiness and being loved &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9051" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-13T12:21:55.120" LastActivityDate="2014-04-13T12:21:55.120" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18652" CreationDate="2014-04-13T15:21:53.860" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show was never completed. The &lt;strong&gt;21 episodes&lt;/strong&gt; that were completed were released on &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B0042I6528&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt; in 2010 (to mixed reviews - lots of positive, but also lots of complaints about the disc quality).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Dark_Water#Other_media&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In November 1991, Marvel Comics produced a comic book series based on&#xA;  the show. Originally intended as a six-part limited series, it was&#xA;  extended to nine issues to include a three-part original story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comic books can be found on &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B000OCQTRM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt; if you are interested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-04-13T15:21:53.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18704" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18705" CreationDate="2014-04-13T16:44:38.643" Score="5" ViewCount="1243" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Octopussy, an Indian man is snake charming, and when he sees James Bond is there, he starts playing the James Bond theme on his instrument.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James Bond then says, &quot;Charming tune&quot; and gives him some money, and the Indian guy then acknowledges him (as Commander Bond) and says &quot;Welcome to India.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this just put in the movie because it's the theme everybody knows, or is this known as &lt;em&gt;his song&lt;/em&gt; or something special in MI6 (within the movies)? Would any MI6 agent recognise this particular theme?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7772" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-04-13T18:12:46.683" LastActivityDate="2014-04-15T11:03:32.940" Title="What significance does the James Bond theme have in the movies?" Tags="|james-bond|octopussy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18704" CreationDate="2014-04-13T17:04:36.467" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I cannot provide any hard proof or reference to back my claim, I would very clearly say that this was nothing else than a little self-refential side joke to lighten up the situation and which doesn't have much more significance than to make the audience smile at the use of this famous theme &lt;em&gt;inside&lt;/em&gt; the movie and the little break of the fourth wall it implies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also have to see it in the context of the rest of the movie. Especially the &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; movies with &lt;em&gt;Roger Moore&lt;/em&gt; are filled with many comedic elements, which also sometimes are of a little self-mocking nature, and &lt;em&gt;Octopussy&lt;/em&gt; is a very good example of that trend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I don't think there is anything else behind that scene than a joke whose actual plot-relevance you're not supposed to reason about. It seems very unlikely that &lt;em&gt;James Bond&lt;/em&gt; or the &lt;em&gt;MI6&lt;/em&gt; have an actual musical theme in the universe of the movie that they are aware of. &lt;em&gt;James Bond&lt;/em&gt; just doesn't watch &lt;em&gt;James Bond&lt;/em&gt; movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-04-13T17:04:36.467" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18708" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18709" CreationDate="2014-04-14T07:23:07.670" Score="15" ViewCount="142028" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706620/?ref%5f=nv%5fsr%5f1&quot;&gt;Snowpiercer&lt;/a&gt; and somehow I was a bit curious as to what was in the protein bars they made. It looked like insects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9062" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-04-23T14:53:59.540" LastActivityDate="2016-04-23T14:53:59.540" Title="What is in the protein bars in the Snowpiercer?" Tags="|plot-explanation|snowpiercer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18708" CreationDate="2014-04-14T09:14:03.927" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The protein bars in Snowpiercer use &lt;strong&gt;Insects&lt;/strong&gt; as their primary ingredient, much to Curtis' Horror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hLMdH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Known as Entomophagy, the practice is actually not uncommon, as insects are used in diets  around the globe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of Dystopian Entomophagic possibilities's being actively discussed right now, as some prominent researchers believe humanity's acceptance of an insect based diet is a key milestone to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3012052/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;global sustainability.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-10-15T13:30:28.053" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T13:30:28.053" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18710" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-14T12:19:00.640" Score="3" ViewCount="499" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839578/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Person of Interest&lt;/em&gt; (2011–2016)&lt;/a&gt;, John Reese is a highly trained ex-CIA operative working with Harold, who is a billionaire. He can buy all kinds of weapons, as we can see in the series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, John never uses a silencer for any of his pistols - he usually shoots in places with a high number of people who can hear the shots. Wouldn't it make more sense to use a silencer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of his enemies (aka professional assassins) use them, so why doesn't he?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4677" LastEditorUserId="42655" LastEditDate="2017-08-21T00:10:23.513" LastActivityDate="2017-08-21T11:18:16.653" Title="Why doesn't John use a silencer?" Tags="|person-of-interest|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15012" CreationDate="2014-04-14T13:54:12.093" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The word &quot;Galore&quot; comes from the Irish term &quot;Go Leoir&quot; meaning plenty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9064" LastActivityDate="2014-04-14T13:54:12.093" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18712" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18718" CreationDate="2014-04-14T14:20:09.577" Score="8" ViewCount="6965" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Sully and Mike are banished to the Himalayas they discover the closest village is a three-day hike away. Sully uses a sledge to get there quickly, then uses a child's closet door to return to the Monster's Inc factory. Then, just a few minutes later, Mike appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did he get back to the factory so quickly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="624" LastActivityDate="2018-09-07T17:45:43.013" Title="How does Mike get back from the Himalayas in Monsters Inc?" Tags="|monsters-inc|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18716" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-14T16:07:14.003" Score="65" ViewCount="36310" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's well known that many animated Disney movie parents (at least one of a set) die, were never in the picture, or started the movie already dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this just a financial thing (like in &lt;em&gt;Toy Story&lt;/em&gt;), or does Disney have any other reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Toy Story&lt;/em&gt;: Dad doesn't exist.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Lion King&lt;/em&gt;: Dad dies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cinderella&lt;/em&gt;: Mom is dead, dad dies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Aladdin&lt;/em&gt;: Orphan.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lilo and Stitch&lt;/em&gt;: Orphans.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Jungle Book&lt;/em&gt;: Orphan.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Little Mermaid&lt;/em&gt;: Mom dies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Beauty and the Beast&lt;/em&gt;: Motherless.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bambi&lt;/em&gt;: Mom dies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Finding Nemo&lt;/em&gt;: Mom dies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Frozen&lt;/em&gt;: Parents die.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sleeping Beauty&lt;/em&gt;: Mom is dead, evil step-mom dies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8914" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2022-04-02T04:13:59.197" LastActivityDate="2022-04-02T04:13:59.197" Title="Why do Disney parents usually die?" Tags="|analysis|disney|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18716" CreationDate="2014-04-14T16:20:46.407" Score="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am answering subjectively here, but I think it really comes down to evoking even more sympathy for the main characters. Not only do they often have to battle difficult circumstances (i.e. being an outcast or something similar), but they also have to deal with being alone in the world. All of this creates genuine sympathy for the protagonists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1308584/Why-does-Disney-hate-parents-Ever-noticed-favourite-films-kill-Mum-Dad-.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Daily Mail&lt;/a&gt; article also addressed the issue. Although they agreed with my first point, they also had this fascinating theory:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might the death of Walt Disney's mother  -  and the lifelong guilt&#xA;this left her son with  -  be the catalyst for the death of parents in&#xA;Disney?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1938 and riding high with the proceeds from his first big&#xA;screen movie Sleeping Beauty, Walt bought his mother, Flora, and his&#xA;father, Elias, a house in LA as a golden wedding anniversary present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within days of moving in, Flora complained about the stultifying&#xA;temperatures coming from the central heating boiler and her doting son&#xA;arranged for a swift replacement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Days later, Flora died from&#xA;asphyxiation caused by the new, poorly-installed, boiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might Walt&#xA;Disney's misplaced guilt over his mother's death have led him to&#xA;airbrush parents  -  mothers in particular  -  out of his works?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And&#xA;has that motivation, after his death in 1966, become a Disney&#xA;blueprint?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly, it would explain the types of folk stories and&#xA;fairytales that Disney has acquired for adaptation, even when there&#xA;are numerous other traditional tales that feature a mother and father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, it's also worth noting that not &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; movies have dead parents. &lt;a href=&quot;http://movie.answers.wikia.com/wiki/Which_Disney_movies_have_both_parents_alive_for_the_whole_movie&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This list&lt;/a&gt; shows the following Disney films as having both parents alive at the end of the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lady and the Tramp&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sleeping Beauty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One Hundred and One Dalmatians&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mulan&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Incredibles&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Peter Pan&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Brave&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lion King 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tangled (although parent-like villain dies)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hercules&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I whipped this answer up fairly quickly and really should have expanded on a few points. As many comments under the post have indicated, this &amp;quot;style&amp;quot; is a common trope. As &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeceasedParentsAreTheBest&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt; express (rather tongue-in-cheek):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Parents Are Useless. They leave you and abuse you. Good Parents are&#xA;hard to come by. It appears that the only decent parents are the dead&#xA;ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are the parents that leave the characters behind, not by&#xA;choice, early on in the story, sometimes even before the story begins.&#xA;The characters are now all alone with no family. They may find a&#xA;Parental Substitute, but they may not always be the best guardians.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These often heroic characters will always have fond memories of their&#xA;parents. That's because these parents did everything right while they&#xA;were alive. They spent time with their children and taught them&#xA;invaluable life lessons that they continue to keep even to this day.&#xA;Even though the parents are gone now, the actions of the parents still&#xA;affect the character and keep him going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, it does make logical sense (from an animation point of view) for parents to die as it would most &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; cut down on production costs - although the life lessons learned from their deaths are obviously the main focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-04-14T20:37:20.847" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18712" CreationDate="2014-04-14T17:01:36.200" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This isn't shown or answered in the film&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likely, Mike followed Sulley to the village and used a different door to return (or found a door that was nearer). This explanation seems the most plausible and doesn't require too much explanation on the writer's part (allowing viewers to believe for a short while that a &quot;wedge&quot; really has been driven between the two protagonists, before Mike's sudden reappearance).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-04-14T17:01:36.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18716" CreationDate="2014-04-14T17:45:31.787" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its not just the animated movies; Disney corporation also made a lot of live action films that have this pattern:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A family is damaged.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A child has an adventure as a result. During the adventure the child becomes more like an adult, taking responsibility for themselves and others, and ultimately becomes a hero.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The family is restored, or a new family is created, as a result of the child's heroism.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does the family have to be damaged? Because a functioning family has the parents responsibly solving the serious problems on behalf of the child. If the family unit is functioning then there is no adventure where the child has to solve a problem on their own, and hence no story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the same reason why Gandalf disappears halfway through The Hobbit: the fifty-years-old-but-effectively-still-a-child Bilbo has to become the adult and then the hero, by solving problems on his own. And the same reason why Beru and Owen are killed early and Kenobi disappears halfway through Star Wars: the raised-by-his-aunt-and-uncle child Luke has to become an adult and then the hero, by solving problems on his own. The protective parental figures &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to be removed for the story to be about the growth of a child into an adult and then a hero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Finding Nemo&quot; uses this trope particularly effectively as both Nemo and Marlin are essentially children who grow up during their adventure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7046" LastEditorUserId="7046" LastEditDate="2014-04-15T16:56:33.880" LastActivityDate="2014-04-15T16:56:33.880" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18716" CreationDate="2014-04-14T17:48:11.570" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's already been pointed out that not all Disney films include the death of a parent, but there are indeed a few that does and the reason for that, I believe, is because of the targeted audience. Children.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For most children, parents are thought of as gods. Not in the sense that they are always respected and obeyed (unfortunately), but in the sense that they are presumed to live forever (at least to see their children grow up and start a family) and they also seem to be able to do pretty much anything. There are of course exceptions, not all children adore their parents, but as with everything that is commercial you shoot for the widest possible audience. To most of the kids that do, however, the greatest task ever is to live up to be as great, or greater than, your parent(s) and the biggest fear is to lose one or both of them. Of course, if you'd ask them they would probably answer &quot;jump to the moon&quot; and &quot;that the boogie-man in the closet eats them.&quot; But, because of the importance of parents in the lives of their children, these situations make for great movie themes. To overcome the death of a parent and/or to try and become as great as your mom or dad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Answer to be elaborated even further...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastActivityDate="2014-04-14T17:48:11.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15756" CreationDate="2014-04-14T18:36:13.337" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not only that but if a big name actor takes a cameo or small role it can effect future work they receive and so not to come up on recent acting jobs taken that producers check to see what roles and pay they have received, they take uncredited roles so only their major roles show up and not damage future roles &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9067" LastActivityDate="2014-04-14T18:36:13.337" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18725" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-15T02:33:02.943" Score="6" ViewCount="2455" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the middle of the &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; episode entitled &quot;Confessions&quot;, Jesse and Saul are waiting to meet Walt somewhere in the desert. As they are standing next to their car, the camera brings up a close shot of a big hairy spider, the same kind of spider as the killed boy, Drew Sharp, carried in a glass jar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any symbolism, or is this just a coincidence, this spider being of a common kind? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T17:13:27.590" LastActivityDate="2017-02-27T12:58:30.743" Title="What is the meaning/symbolism behind the spider, when Jesse and Saul are waiting for Walt?" Tags="|analysis|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18726" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-15T04:40:37.490" Score="2" ViewCount="406" Body="&lt;p&gt;A key scene in &quot;Miracle on 34th Street&quot; involves the US Post Office delivering -- to a man in a courtroom for a hearing regarding his sanity, who claims to be Santa Claus -- hundreds of kids' letters addressed to Santa Claus, without a valid mailing address (because &lt;strong&gt;**SPOILER*&lt;/strong&gt; Santa Claus does not really exist).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In real life, would the US Post Office really hand over children's mail to a man claiming to be Santa Claus, particularly in a courtroom setting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2014-05-24T21:22:45.267" Title="Would the post office really deliver Santa Claus's mail to some guy claiming to be him?" Tags="|plot-explanation|miracle-on-34th-street|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18729" CreationDate="2014-04-15T05:25:11.290" Score="6" ViewCount="2004" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the name of the movie (between 1970-1989) that involved programming/reprogramming/hacking computers to trigger or stop a (probably global?) war?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure whether the name of the movie contains &quot;Battle&quot; or &quot;Wars&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also has a kid who was pretty smart, who probably discovered how to hack the computers to trigger (or stop) the war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1637" LastActivityDate="2016-06-14T10:22:07.447" Title="What movie between 1970-1989 involves computer attacks?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:04:59.830" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18728" CreationDate="2014-04-15T05:38:11.850" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;WarGames&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It falls in your 20 year window (1983) and contains the word &quot;war.&quot; A &quot;global&quot; war. It also featured a smart hacker kid, played by Matthew Broderick, who inadvertently starts a possible world war. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q2znJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He must &quot;teach&quot; the computer that it is not possible to win a global thermonuclear war. This is accomplished by getting it to run through variations of Tic-Tac-Toe, introducing the computer to a no-win scenario. The computer (named Joshua) figures it out and the world is not destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DwlfG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trailer can be viewed &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAcEzhQ7oqA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-04-15T15:20:04.117" LastActivityDate="2014-04-15T15:20:04.117" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18725" CreationDate="2014-04-15T07:00:18.163" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to one fan theory, Fly represent Jesse and Todd represent spider. Fly can't be controlled but spider can be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is elaborated detail-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The fly represents the cause of Walt's problems, and I believe that is&#xA;  Jesse Pinkman. This thread from a few days ago does a good job of&#xA;  pointing that out &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/breakingbad/comments/1kjav2/jesse_is_the_real_cause_for_all_of_his_and_walts/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The fly is always out there causing problems, and he cannot be&#xA;  contained by Walt despite all his efforts. There is reason to believe&#xA;  that Jesse will be causing Walt even further problems in the next&#xA;  episodes to come. I believe that the only way the fly can be&#xA;  eliminated is from his natural predator, the spider, Todd. Todd has&#xA;  consistently taken care of Walt's problems in the past, with the child&#xA;  and the multiple hits on potential witnesses. Unlike the fly, the&#xA;  spider is easily contained (kept in a jar) and reliable. Todd's most&#xA;  recent actions were taking out that sleezebag's crew, who very well&#xA;  may have caused further complications for Walt. If the buyers from the&#xA;  Czech Republic who we keep hearing so much about continued to be&#xA;  unsatisfied with the product, it could cause more trouble for Walt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another thread mentioned that Jesse and Todd were opposites. Jesse is&#xA;  a rude man with a conscious, and Todd is a gentleman without a&#xA;  conscious. One could argue the fly and spider are opposites, or at&#xA;  least conflicting forces since flies are prey to the spider. I believe&#xA;  that we will see some sort of showdown between Jesse and Todd. The&#xA;  result will cause either trouble or relief for Walt, depending on the&#xA;  victor. One reason that comes to mind as to why Jess and Todd would&#xA;  meet is that Jesse makes good meth. Todd may want to lure Jesse into&#xA;  his web to make better meth in order to keep the satisfaction of the&#xA;  buyers at a high level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Source:&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/breakingbad/comments/1kvwsj/symbolism_of_the_spider_and_the_fly_spoilers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;www.reddit.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This theory was old and unaware to the end but still I feel its somewhere partially rite. Jesse looks fly to me too because of his free will, on the other hand Todd looks like a true assistant to me sometime for Walt and other time to his uncle, controllable like Spider which can be contained in jar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-02-27T12:58:30.743" LastActivityDate="2017-02-27T12:58:30.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10421" CreationDate="2014-04-15T07:24:31.067" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My reason on why the waiter called him &quot;Lady&quot; is because they're used to him acting like a woman so they can tell the difference between Tyler and Marla. So as a sign of respect, they play along with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9075" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2018-12-29T06:35:27.033" LastActivityDate="2018-12-29T06:35:27.033" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12714" CreationDate="2014-04-15T08:30:53.813" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In simple words, Sex adds to the whole feel of it. Take it or leave it, it does attract a lot of audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yeah, since I have read the books, I agree that most of the (sex) scenes are exaggerated. But people like it and they watch it and so they spice it up wherever they can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9029" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-15T09:14:48.800" LastActivityDate="2014-04-15T09:14:48.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2223" CreationDate="2014-04-15T08:38:04.600" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The wall isn't magical. It was made by Brandon the Builder, who was among the First Men, who are mentioned in the books.&#xA;Note that Brandon Stark and Bran the Builder are two different men. Brandon Stark is the one who was going to marry Catelyn Stark and was killed at the Trident. And then she married Eddard Stark who happens to be Brandon's brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9029" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-03-07T20:56:21.593" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T20:56:21.593" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18735" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18739" CreationDate="2014-04-15T08:51:47.163" Score="2" ViewCount="10073" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm Italian. In a discussion with some international friends, they mentioned that they have seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Life Is Beautiful&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in English, and I guessed it was dubbed. The production is Italian, and the actors too, but at least in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Is_Beautiful&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; the English and German languages are mentioned, and no list of dubbers is provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it ever dubbed into English? In that case, were the actors themselves doing it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6504" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-15T09:39:48.047" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T10:30:34.967" Title="Is &quot;Life Is Beautiful&quot; dubbed in English?" Tags="|dialogue|translation|life-is-beautiful|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18704" CreationDate="2014-04-15T09:11:27.283" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The theme is a self referential joke, but in the example also a sign post. The contact Bond meets is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Amritraj&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vijay Amritraj&lt;/a&gt; a famous Indian tennis player in a cameo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The use of the bond theme is to draw attention to him, and later when he is driving Bond and they are attacked, he uses a tennis racquet to defend himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-15T11:03:32.940" LastActivityDate="2014-04-15T11:03:32.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18735" CreationDate="2014-04-15T09:34:34.007" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of my research in the web, I just found it's the same movie from Italy dubbed into many languages across the world. You can see the complete list of releases of this movie across the world at this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/releaseinfo?ref_=ttfc_sa_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9037" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-15T09:38:19.370" LastActivityDate="2014-04-15T09:38:19.370" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18735" CreationDate="2014-04-15T09:55:03.090" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;When looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; only, there are many hints that it was dubbed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/releaseinfo?ref_=ttfc_sa_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;list of releases&lt;/a&gt; as also mentioned in &lt;em&gt;santu47&lt;/em&gt;'s answer lists an entry&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;USA 6 August 1999 (limited) (dubbed version)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there seems to have been a dubbed English version, even if that was not the only version released in the US, seeing that the list also has entries for other releases (including non-festival releases that &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; mention a dubbing):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;USA   22 October 1998     (AFI Film Festival)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;USA   23 October 1998     (limited)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;USA   12 February 1999 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;UK    12 February 1999    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dubbed version was also &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the version considered for the &lt;em&gt;Academy Awards&lt;/em&gt; that the movie won, since &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb's trivia section&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Roberto Benigni's Oscar win for Best Actor was the second time a performance completely in Italian had been awarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, it also says that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Horst Buchholz did his own dubbing for the English and German dubbed versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which again references an existing English dubbed version. But the explicit mention of &lt;em&gt;Horst Buchholz&lt;/em&gt; doing his own dubbing seems to suggest that this was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the case for all the other actors, though that is entirely specualtive deduction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When digging a bit further I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://edition.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9908/26/life.is.beautiful/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;various&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiewire.com/article/editorial_life_isnt_beautiful_anymore_its_dubbed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;articles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://italian.about.com/library/weekly/aa090199a.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;clearly&lt;/a&gt; mentioning a dubbed version of the movie that the studio &lt;em&gt;Miramax&lt;/em&gt; released (with mixed responses, though) after the subtitled version already ran in US cinemas (which would be in line with IMDb's release list). This dubbed version was completely supervised by &lt;em&gt;Roberto Benigni&lt;/em&gt;, since&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reaching a wider audience has always been a priority for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet &lt;em&gt;Benigni&lt;/em&gt; for one didn't do his dubbing himself, but had it done by the American actor &lt;em&gt;Jonathan Nichols&lt;/em&gt;, likewise with the role of &lt;em&gt;Guido&lt;/em&gt;'s wife &lt;em&gt;Dora&lt;/em&gt;, who was voiced by Italian actress &lt;em&gt;Ilaria Borrelli&lt;/em&gt;, and thus most probably with most of the rest of the cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-16T00:02:22.640" LastActivityDate="2014-04-16T00:02:22.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14384" CreationDate="2014-04-15T10:17:13.370" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walt is losing weight rapidly and the watch no longer fits. His wedding ring is most important and he places this on a string around his kneck. He holds his family relationship to be the most important thing in his life and his initial motivation for everything. Jesse gave him the watch and I suppose he cuts his bond with him. Though not entirely as we all know at the end! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9082" LastEditorUserId="9082" LastEditDate="2014-04-26T22:53:08.337" LastActivityDate="2014-04-26T22:53:08.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18745" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-15T13:28:41.917" Score="2" ViewCount="2472" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Departed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Departed&lt;/a&gt;, Matt Damon's partner comes to his rescue, shooting Leonardo DiCaprio's character along with the friend whom Leo had asked to come to Damon's arrest as protection. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question: How did the partner know to come? Damon looked stunned when the character showed up (he was in fact begging DiCaprio 'kill me') and the character further gives away to the audience that Damon didn't know he was also working for Costello ('you think you're the only guy he had on the inside?'). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8883" LastEditorUserId="8883" LastEditDate="2014-04-16T14:06:41.440" LastActivityDate="2014-04-17T08:41:06.217" Title="How did Matt Damon's partner know he went to meet Leonardo DiCaprio?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|the-departed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9257" CreationDate="2014-04-15T15:35:21.903" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't necessarily think this is THE answer, but it reminds me a lot of the scene in Peter Pan where they fly over London. The coloring of everything, especially. I always just thought it was a clip like that of some bridge that crosses the Thames.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ak1.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/5642681/preview/stock-footage-train-pass-on-hungerford-golden-jubilee-bridge-railway-and-pedestrian-bridge-over-thames-river.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thames Train&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the exact picture I feel it shows, but that's just me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dlp.info/images/Disneyland-Parc/Lands/Fantasyland/Attractions/Peter-Pans-Flight/Peter-Pans-Flight-004.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Peter Pan Scene&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3aANd9GcRXTQ2Ky6pZ3_dM7e26203wlP3HZ-6Jge6ppL8uEUmqZamtWEhq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Coloring&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8914" LastActivityDate="2014-04-15T15:35:21.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18750" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18788" CreationDate="2014-04-15T15:48:52.393" Score="10" ViewCount="116996" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Masterchef, the contestants go from creating fairly basic looking dishes to much more complex dishes using tools &amp;amp; techniques such as Sous-vides, smokers etc. The presentation also improves vastly with progress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this dramatic improvement completely down to contestants practising between episodes in their own time, or are they provided with additional tuition and help not shown on TV?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9093" LastEditorUserId="9093" LastEditDate="2014-04-16T11:28:08.600" LastActivityDate="2015-10-31T20:33:39.743" Title="Do contestants receive additional unseen help as they progress?" Tags="|masterchef|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18716" CreationDate="2014-04-15T22:04:03.700" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is an article based on a Malcolm Gladwell argument that suggests that the loss of a parent in real life makes one more likely to have either great success or great failure. I think there could be a truth here that the Disney movies are consciously or unconsciously tapping into. The article and its comments may offer some good insights: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/10/15/234737083/successful-children-who-lost-a-parent-why-are-there-so-many-of-them&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Successful Children Who Lost A Parent — Why Are There So Many Of Them?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;67 percent of British prime ministers from the start of the 19th century to the start of World War II lost a parent before the age of&#xA;  16.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Twelve presidents — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, Rutherford Hayes, James&#xA;  Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton&#xA;  and Barack Obama — lost their fathers while they were young.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Prisoners are two to three times more likely to have lost a parent in childhood than the population as a whole.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9113" LastActivityDate="2014-04-15T22:04:03.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18716" CreationDate="2014-04-15T23:32:19.987" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;When writing for children, it is quite common (regardless of authorship or medium) to minimize the role of parents in the story.  Many non-Disney or pre-Disney children's stories find a good way of reducing or removing the role of parents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some prominent examples from non-Disney stories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Chronicles of Naria - despite having children from many different families as heroes, the parents are barely mentioned and are far removed from the action.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Harry Potter - Harry is an orphan and all of the heroes are removed from their parents for the vast bulk of the story.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Winnie the Pooh - Christopher Robin's parents are barely heard of in the original AA Milne stories (which I have read but have sadly lost).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this is rather simple.  Children are used to their parents saving the day, providing protection and nurturing them.  A narrative is about characters facing challenges that are on the edge of their capabilities.  When a parent is present, able and willing to help, the child is implicitly safe and the story is far less compelling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even in stories where the parents do play a prominent part, they are portrayed as detached or disbelieving of the troubles of the child or are a form of antagonist themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same principle applies to teen fiction.  Much teen fiction relies on settings where the parents are either removed or ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So rather than being a &quot;Disney thing&quot;, this is actually a &quot;children's fiction thing&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9115" LastEditorUserId="9115" LastEditDate="2014-04-15T23:51:23.513" LastActivityDate="2014-04-15T23:51:23.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18758" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-16T01:07:56.303" Score="6" ViewCount="2777" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I was in elementary school, I remember seeing a film about a future of Earth in which it was so polluted that everything natural was dead and people had to wear hazmat-like suits and gas masks. But this man lived in a little greenhouse and tended to lots of plants and he didn't have to wear the protective gear inside his greenhouse. Then one day someone discovered the little greenhouse and wanted to get in, but the man refused because if he opened the greenhouse, everything inside would die. Eventually word got out and droves of people came to the greenhouse to try to get in. They ended up breaking the greenhouse and destroying possibly the last living green things on earth. Anyone remember this and know the name of this film? And where I can find it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9116" LastActivityDate="2017-06-03T20:16:26.327" Title="1970s short film about pollution and a greenhouse?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|short-films|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:05:06.090" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17410" CreationDate="2014-04-16T02:55:15.283" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No No No you have it all wrong. The simple answer here is that Michael pushed Tom to the rear because he was plotting his revenge and the wrap on Tom was, although he was a trusted member of the family, he just wasn't a strong &quot;War Time&quot; Consigliere. This thought was first brought up when Sonny wanted to go to the mat after Vito was shot and Tom wanted to make deals calling the whole mess &quot;business&quot;. Knowing how Sonny felt about Tom, remember while Tom wanted to make the deal it was Michael who came up with the plan to kill Virgil Sollozzo.  Michael was sure not to make the same mistake that Sonny did. Once Michael took over he used his father as his first &quot;Consigliere&quot; saying that there would be no better adviser than his own Dad. That decision prove valuable as it was Vito that sniffed out the entire plot against Michael even telling him that the person who comes to him with the deal is the snitch. Michael had plans on wiping his enemies out and didn't want Tom talking peace around him, which he tried to do right before Michael tells him he can take his entire family and go to Vegas. The question of staying was offered in Italian, which was serious business. To agree to stay is to agree that this was going down Michael's way and there would be no talk of peace. He does use Tom to deliver the message or rather choice of death to Pentangeli (aka Frankie Five Fingers). The next to last scene flashback shows that it wasn't the first time Michael put Tom in his place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9118" LastEditorUserId="5929" LastEditDate="2014-04-16T03:43:52.063" LastActivityDate="2014-04-16T03:43:52.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18762" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43614" CreationDate="2014-04-16T03:11:28.007" Score="4" ViewCount="2371" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of &lt;em&gt;Coming to America&lt;/em&gt;, there is a scene where Eddie Murphy's and Arsenio Hall's characters engage in a sparring session with I think they would be bo staffs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did they perform the sparring themselves, or did they have stuntmen doing that scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene which I am referring to can be seen on YouTube:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/f2ygGoHSuPQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1904" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-01-29T03:30:00.640" LastActivityDate="2024-01-29T03:32:56.560" Title="Coming to America sparring scene; stunt men, or self-performed?" Tags="|stunts|coming-to-america|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18758" CreationDate="2014-04-16T07:53:11.827" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361312/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;short film Ark&lt;/a&gt; from 1970. From IMDb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Set in a near-future Earth where most species are extinct and humans must wear gas masks outdoors... one man (never named in the film) finds a pond with some small breath of life left in it, builds a greenhouse around it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reviews also say they used to screen this film in classrooms. The movie is available on Youtube in two parts: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InwC_c8aVic&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Part 1&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sDoN8O3RaE&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Part 2&lt;/a&gt; (where the people with gas masks start breaking into the greenhouse in 5:54).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-04-16T07:53:11.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18769" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18771" CreationDate="2014-04-16T14:39:25.923" Score="24" ViewCount="47554" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Sherlock the BBC TV series the protagonist Sherlock and the villain Magnussen are able to  recall information from their mind similar to searching for a file in Windows.&#xA;Is this really possible?&#xA;If yes then I would be very much interested in knowing how to do this...:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me clarify that this has nothing to do with having Idetic memory as it is mentioned by Sherlock that the memory palace is a technique and not a god gift.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4381" LastEditorUserId="60982" LastEditDate="2019-04-24T23:06:25.893" LastActivityDate="2020-05-24T17:33:00.383" Title="Is it really possible to create a mind palace?" Tags="|realism|sherlock|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18750" CreationDate="2014-04-16T14:46:07.600" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that they are provided help with some dishes, and I don't believe that they have much time to practice. The show is shot fairly continuously, and Christine Ha (Winner of season 3 of Masterchef) said in her &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1dz11f/i_am_christine_ha_masterchef_season_3_winner_ask/&quot;&gt;Ask me anything&lt;/a&gt;&quot; on Reddit that they worked pretty much around the clock for 2 months straight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On ask.metafilter, &lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.metafilter.com/240963/How-does-Masterchef-work&quot;&gt;one person suggests&lt;/a&gt; that when they were in a knockoff type show, they had time to prep longer dishes ahead of time, and that they had outside help to cook portions of the food, with final editing and filming arranged for drama.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, they talk about the food generally being cold by the time they film the &quot;tasting&quot;, and that most of the meaningful tasting is being done by the judges walking around and tasting things straight from the pot while they are being cooked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-04-16T14:46:07.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18769" CreationDate="2014-04-16T14:55:00.117" Score="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/student/student-life/how-to-sherlock-your-degree-the-art-of-building-a-memory-palace-9087779.html&quot;&gt;The Independent&lt;/a&gt; about the &lt;em&gt;source&lt;/em&gt; of mind palaces:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As it turns out, memory palaces like Holmes’ are a real thing, and&#xA;  have been for thousands of years. It all began with a lucky escape&#xA;  from a collapsing banquet hall by the Ancient Greek poet Simonides,&#xA;  who realised that by visualizing the room where the accident happened,&#xA;  he could perfectly recall the names of all his squashed fellow&#xA;  revellers. He later found a less morbid use for this discovery, by&#xA;  associating things he wanted to remember with walks through buildings&#xA;  he knew well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article goes on to describe how many &lt;em&gt;mental athletes&lt;/em&gt; around the world use this technique to compete in memory championships, before interviewing a collection of these athletes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, to use the article's rather lovely conclusion as to why a palace could be useful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In fact, the ‘Sherlock’ series 3 finale hinted at the prestige&#xA;  knowledge can have in the digitized world: sometimes the only truly&#xA;  safe place to keep information is your own brain. Also, knowing the&#xA;  number for a cab company is very helpful at 3am when your phone is&#xA;  dead. Long live the mind palace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, you can look up the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci&quot;&gt;Method of loci&lt;/a&gt;, which is what the &lt;em&gt;memory palace&lt;/em&gt; is more traditionally known as. To quote from the Wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'The method of loci', an imaginal technique known to the ancient&#xA;  Greeks and Romans and described by Yates (1966) in her book The Art of&#xA;  Memory as well as by Luria (1969). In this technique the subject&#xA;  memorizes the layout of some building, or the arrangement of shops on&#xA;  a street, or any geographical entity which is composed of a number of&#xA;  discrete loci. When desiring to remember a set of items the subject&#xA;  literally 'walks' through these loci and commits an item to each one&#xA;  by forming an image between the item and any distinguishing feature of&#xA;  that locus. Retrieval of items is achieved by 'walking' through the&#xA;  loci, allowing the latter to activate the desired items. The efficacy&#xA;  of this technique has been well established as is the minimal&#xA;  interference seen with its use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The page also has an interesting collection of movies and television shows where the technique has been used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for learning it yourself? Try this article from &lt;a href=&quot;http://remembereverything.org/memory-palace-the-method-of-loci/&quot;&gt;Remember Everything&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-16T15:05:18.933" LastActivityDate="2014-04-16T15:05:18.933" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9025" CreationDate="2014-04-16T21:36:58.723" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the ending is a fantasy by the sheer magnitude of the reception he receives in the end...which is consistent in regard to viewing himself as the KING...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9140" LastActivityDate="2014-04-16T21:36:58.723" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18745" CreationDate="2014-04-17T08:41:06.217" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Billy (Di Caprio) called Trooper Brown and told him to meet him on the roof. He did this as Brown knew Billy from their time together in police training and that he could help verify that Billy was indeed an undercover agent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brown shows up and finds Billy trying to arrest Colin. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its not made clear in the film as to how Barrigan (Franks other man on the inside) knew where to find Colin but as Brown and Barrigan worked together I would assume he was either with Brown when Colin called him or Brown told Barrigan as to where he was going. Its also possible that Brown brought him as backup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastActivityDate="2014-04-17T08:41:06.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18769" CreationDate="2014-04-17T09:24:41.060" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The kind of mind palace portrayed in Sherlock isn't possible for a normal person. Like most things on TV, they don't work that way in real life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The technique that the mind palace is based on has been known for thousands of years at least, but it is only really suited to recalling lists of items. The order of cards in a deck, the name of every king of England, digits of Pi etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In older versions of Windows when you searched for a file the computer had to simple go through every file in order until it found the one you wanted. A mind palace works like that, it can't be used to simply recall the 37th card in the deck without going through the earlier ones first. Newer versions of Windows create a database of files that allows the OS to quickly skip ahead to the one you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--- Edit: ---&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;http://remembereverything.org/memory-palace-the-method-of-loci/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://remembereverything.org/memory-palace-the-method-of-loci/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The method of loci is essentially a visual filing system, allowing you to memorize and recall a virtually unlimited number of items in a fixed order.&quot; In the TV show characters are shown as using a Mind Palace as random-access storage for brainstorming and free association, as well as instant recall of random facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9146" LastEditorDisplayName="user9146" LastEditDate="2014-04-17T14:20:50.023" LastActivityDate="2014-04-17T14:20:50.023" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18779" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-17T10:46:02.230" Score="3" ViewCount="1191" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the technology became available, people in the industry would've found it easy to overcome some of the normal movie limitations such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Studio and locations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Impossible human actions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Twins, animals, aliens, or any character limitations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, with all such advantages wouldn't it be easier to recreate real-life characters and make biographical movies? Say, historical personalities or famous scientists or even celebrities from music/movie industry. Could it be because of humongous copyright permission issues?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I'm certainly referring to major Hollywood studio movies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9147" LastEditorUserId="9147" LastEditDate="2014-04-17T21:20:09.317" LastActivityDate="2022-03-01T20:39:11.957" Title="Why aren't there any animated movies of real life personalities?" Tags="|animation|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18779" CreationDate="2014-04-17T11:08:29.757" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos%3a_A_Spacetime_Odyssey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey&lt;/a&gt;&#xA; is a documentary series that contains multiple animations of famous historic physicians, for example Newton (Episode 3), to explain how the knowledge of today was achieved and why. Rather than using actors they tend to use animations to tell the (background) stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastActivityDate="2014-04-17T11:08:29.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9107" CreationDate="2014-04-17T11:10:30.447" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;They weren't just hiding in a dairy farm, the Dreyfus family were dairy farmers, this adds significance to the cream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, Landa's eyes when he looks at her and says there is something else take on a chilling intensity, exactly like when he got serious with the father in the opening scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think he was considering in real time whether to expose her, weighed up his plans as mentioned above and decided against it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9148" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2020-02-16T12:36:01.297" LastActivityDate="2020-02-16T12:36:01.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18783" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-17T12:22:43.440" Score="11" ViewCount="2665" Body="&lt;p&gt;During Captain America: The Winter Soldier...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nick Fury recovers from multiple gunshot wounds to the abdomen within a relatively short space of time.&#xA;Whilst we are shown him in an injured but stable position, was there any indication that the GH-325 drug from &lt;em&gt;Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D&lt;/em&gt; was used on him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KhciR.png&quot; alt=&quot;vials of GH-325&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't recall seeing a shot that identified its use during this sequence, but why set up something like a 'miracle cure' with the series only to discard it for the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/GH.325&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;GH-325&lt;/a&gt; (which uses Kree blood [told ya' so!, check the rollbacks] as one of its components) regenerates dead tissue and, according to the series, is administered to Coulson under direct orders from Nick Fury, establishing he knows about its existence and healing properties. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Countering this, however, &lt;em&gt;Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D&lt;/em&gt; Episode 18 features a scene in which Agent May informs Coulson the reason she was ordered to set up a direct line with Fury was because the Director feared that (as GH-325 was developed under Hydra's supervision) Coulson's use of the drug could have somehow compromised him to Hydra's control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this was a plausible concern, why would Fury be happy to use the substance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there another explanation that covers Fury's startling recovery?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2014-12-11T20:00:04.527" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T06:48:04.810" Title="Was Nick Fury treated with GH-325?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|agents-of-shield|captain-america-the-winter-soldier|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18784" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18786" CreationDate="2014-04-17T13:05:04.153" Score="6" ViewCount="42923" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Matt Damon's character in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Departed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; graduates the state police academy, he is picked up by Costello (&quot;no more pencils, no more books&quot;), and given a box as a graduation present. Though what is contained in the box is never identified, what are some probable theories as to the box's contents?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8883" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-17T13:22:46.257" LastActivityDate="2015-08-06T12:14:40.257" Title="What was in the package Nicholson gives to Damon?" Tags="|the-departed|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18784" CreationDate="2014-04-17T13:32:25.437" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The box is a pure &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin&quot;&gt;Macguffin&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've heard some theorize it contained the mobile phone he would go on to use, but I doubt this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another theory is that it contains money, or at least something valuable to help him get started up - hence why Costello tells him he's earned it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, my own theory is that it is just something personal to Sullivan. It doesn't really matter &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; it is, just that it is something personal which evokes emotion from Sullivan and effectively further establishes the father-son dynamic between Sullivan and Costello for the viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might be interested to read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Departed,-The.html&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; for more information. It goes out of its way to point out that the box could contain &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;COLIN&lt;/strong&gt; walks over to the car. &lt;strong&gt;COSTELLO&lt;/strong&gt; gives &lt;strong&gt;COLIN&lt;/strong&gt; a &lt;strong&gt;BOX&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;            &lt;strong&gt;COLIN&lt;/strong&gt; flips open the top and then quickly closes it. &lt;strong&gt;NOTE&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;            The box could contain an eyeball, money, drugs, a picture of&#xA;            Colin fucking his school teacher...we will never know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;COSTELLO&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  School's out. You earned it. Yeah, no more teachers, no more books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-04-17T13:32:25.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18769" CreationDate="2014-04-17T13:36:37.727" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remembering hearing Ken Campbell talk about time he met Marvin Minsky - MM would have ideas that he wasn't able to process right at that moment, so &quot;put&quot; the new idea into an empty jar that he would come back to - apparently he had shelves full!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe not quite the same as a &quot;Mind Palace&quot;, but certainly a different way of considering memory and perception&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's an interview between the two of them here - &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U7AluDUoZA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U7AluDUoZA&lt;/a&gt; - haven't got time to watch it now, but it'll certainly be worth having a look at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9153" LastActivityDate="2014-04-17T13:36:37.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18750" CreationDate="2014-04-17T14:34:41.203" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as the US series is concerned, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thebraiser.com/masterchef-finalists-interview/&quot;&gt;Yes&lt;/a&gt;, the contestants are given a huge amount of tuition and access to resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As it turns out, the MasterChef-testants do get a bit of training behind the scenes, and everyone has access to “a full library of pretty much every cookbook in the world” between challenges to study. But no one has any prior knowledge of what the challenges will be, no one gets to consult the library during challenges, and the cooking classes aren’t necessarily specifically tailored to that week’s challenges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from contestant Josh Marks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Josh: The cooking class is like, so MasterChef, they really teach you how to be a chef. You’re not just on there cooking all willy nilly, so they’re teaching us baking component classes, where they teach us how to make pastry cream, sponge cake, cobbler, shortbread and pie crusts, etc. But they don’t necessarily show us how to assemble an apple pie and make a pie, but they show us how to make the crust. You know what I’m saying?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-04-17T14:34:41.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15152" CreationDate="2014-04-17T15:02:18.950" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, &lt;strong&gt;I don't think there is any significance to the fact that it was tea at all&lt;/strong&gt; (let alone what brand of tea it actually was), &lt;strong&gt;only to the fact that it was &lt;em&gt;&quot;hers&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The story just demanded for some more or less trivial secret that only &lt;em&gt;Maggie&lt;/em&gt; knows about and that is only mentioned in passing (and seems rather irrelevant at first), and which &lt;em&gt;Foyle&lt;/em&gt; later references to &lt;em&gt;Maggie&lt;/em&gt;'s (and the audience's) surprise. The tea in this case was nothing else than a &lt;strong&gt;mere plot-device with the purpose of showing that &lt;em&gt;Foyle&lt;/em&gt; ventures far deeper into &lt;em&gt;Maggie&lt;/em&gt;'s privacy than she would like&lt;/strong&gt;. Even if not too personal and haunting, her favourite tea is still a far more personal present (and thus shows far more dedication and intrusion from &lt;em&gt;Foyle&lt;/em&gt;'s side) than just a bouquet of flowers. While for this something else equally secret and trivial would also have sufficed, the tea served this well, given the rather limited environment in which &lt;em&gt;Maggie&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Foyle&lt;/em&gt; met and the thus rare opportunities for him (and us) to pick up something about her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that the aspect of &lt;em&gt;Foyle&lt;/em&gt; stalking &lt;em&gt;Maggie&lt;/em&gt; (which as written above was the sole purpose of the tea) wasn't followed through during the further story. But I wouldn't go as far as saying that it had no impact on the story at all. &lt;strong&gt;It certainly showed (both to the audience, and, even more important, to &lt;em&gt;Maggie&lt;/em&gt;) what she maneuvered herself into when deciding to become &lt;em&gt;Foyle&lt;/em&gt;'s barrister&lt;/strong&gt;. So she learned a similar lesson as &lt;em&gt;Will&lt;/em&gt; did, even if not in such severe and tragic dimensions. And it yet again reinforces &lt;em&gt;Foyle&lt;/em&gt;'s threatening and malicious aura, even if that threat was rather empty in the end. Maybe &lt;em&gt;Foyle&lt;/em&gt; didn't even want to intrude into &lt;em&gt;Maggie&lt;/em&gt;'s life as much as he did into &lt;em&gt;Will&lt;/em&gt;'s but just play some little mind tricks on her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to conclude, the &lt;strong&gt;sole purpose&lt;/strong&gt; of the tea was indeed to &lt;strong&gt;show that &lt;em&gt;Foyle&lt;/em&gt; was effectively stalking &lt;em&gt;Maggie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; or at least playing some little mind games with her. And while this thread was not followed through to some more serious consequences, it still &lt;strong&gt;showed to &lt;em&gt;Maggie&lt;/em&gt; that it wasn't without a bad by-taste for her to engage with &lt;em&gt;Liam Foyle&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and that she too had reasons to reconsider her attitude towards bending the law for criminals as evil as him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-22T09:32:14.593" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T09:32:14.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18779" CreationDate="2014-04-17T15:18:01.583" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question presumes the absence of something that I think, in fact, exists. The &amp;quot;Merry Melodies&amp;quot; cartoons of the 1930s routinely featured representations of the famous celebrities of the day. Many WWII cartoons featured the Axis leaders. Many actors have been portrayed in cartoons, voicing themselves (consider the Mr T cartoons of the 1980s or the „Clerks“ cartoon of y2k). And as pointed out by @Napoleon Wilson in the comments, the Simpsons routinely have portrayed real people (Michael Jackson, President Bush, etc.) through the present day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="940" LastEditDate="2022-02-25T18:29:57.210" LastActivityDate="2022-02-25T18:29:57.210" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18792" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18793" CreationDate="2014-04-17T16:51:14.277" Score="15" ViewCount="6710" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only know of a few Disney movies that center the story on a male royal lead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Robin Hood (sort of counts?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hercules&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Aladdin&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Lion King&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Atlantis (sort of?)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like it's been a &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt; time since we've had a new one, too. Does anyone know why or have good theories as to why there are so many more Disney princesses than there are Disney princes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last one I see is Atlantis in 2001 if you count that. I sort of do. And then Hercules in 1997.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8914" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-17T18:40:50.157" LastActivityDate="2017-06-24T06:05:53.363" Title="Why don't we have more Disney prince stories?" Tags="|disney|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18792" CreationDate="2014-04-17T18:22:13.193" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would venture to guess that it's due to marketing. Being a princess is a very common fantasy among young girls that probably predates the Disney Princesses franchise. The combination of romance and beautiful dresses has a big appeal to that demographic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the flip side we have the male counterpart: the prince. For the young girl demographic the prince's appeal is as the princess's consort. An important part of the story, but not the main focus. Now we go to the other demographic, young boys. For the most part what young boys want in a male lead (basically what they want to become when they grow up) is a dashing warrior figure. The accompaniment of things like royal heritage and dress isn't as important as the sense of adventure and rebelliousness he brings. So a male lead being a prince is not important. As you've noted in the examples you've supplied most of them are only superficially royal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also the (perceived) boy-only stigma that the term &quot;princess&quot; brings. The Rapunzel movie was renamed &quot;Tangled&quot; without any reference to her being a princess in an effort &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/09/business/la-fi-ct-disney9-2010mar09&quot;&gt;to attract the young boy demographic&lt;/a&gt;. I suspect it's the same reason why the US trailer (and other marketing material) for Frozen put less emphasis on the royal sisters and gives more time to male characters such as Olaf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for pure marketing purposes movies with a female lead get spinned as princess stories, and stories with a male lead tend not to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2014-04-17T18:35:19.583" LastActivityDate="2014-04-17T18:35:19.583" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18795" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-17T20:14:47.940" Score="2" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;Multiple times throughout the movie &lt;em&gt;Hairspray&lt;/em&gt;, they make numerous references to the Corny Collins show being broadcast live. So why, on the day of the Ms. Teenage Hairspray pageant, do they say it's their first live show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically the 2007 version of &lt;em&gt;Hairspray&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9157" LastEditorUserId="9157" LastEditDate="2014-04-17T20:52:57.520" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T22:05:05.343" Title="Why did they say the pageant was their first live show?" Tags="|plot-explanation|hairspray|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18797" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="59061" CreationDate="2014-04-17T22:41:45.480" Score="1" ViewCount="1327" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Comedy Central's show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cc.com/shows/-midnight&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;@Midnight&lt;/a&gt; they show the audience during the end credits. They seem to often show the same audience which includes sleeping people, and a couple furries (a panda and a rabbit I think, as of today, when I decide to finally ask about it, either the site or my 'net access cuts of the episodes). I was wondering if anyone knew why they would repeat this audience sometimes, but not always. Maybe it is always now, but I don't think it always was. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd love to provide a screenshot, but didn't find one, nor could I capture one as the CC site's streams are cutting off consistently at 21 minutes for me right now, sometimes in the middle of a sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone know why the repetition or why it's not 100% consistent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-08-11T20:31:21.300" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T20:31:21.300" Title="@Midnight end credits" Tags="|credits|at-midnight|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18801" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21901" CreationDate="2014-04-18T03:57:48.740" Score="6" ViewCount="2801" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Wizard of Oz&lt;/em&gt;, while Dorothy is still in Kansas before the tornado, the mean old lady Mrs. Gulch, from a couple farms over who rode the bicycle and kept threatening Toto had sort of a menacing little tune/melody that plays while she is riding along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that tune an original composition for her, for the movie, or is it based on some prior piece of work and was re-used/adapted for use in Oz?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's nothing that particularly makes me think it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; original, I just was humming it tonight, and started wondering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1904" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2021-08-27T16:27:58.113" LastActivityDate="2021-08-27T16:27:58.113" Title="Was Miss Gulch's 'theme' original?" Tags="|soundtrack|the-wizard-of-oz|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16684" CreationDate="2014-04-18T04:41:42.240" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My question is, if Magnussen already had &quot;pages&quot; worth of pressure points applicable to Sherlock (evidenced by the rapid scrolling visual on his glasses), did he have to include so many other people--or is it explicable merely with &quot;arrogance&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think he had really had that many pressure points on Sherlock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lets revisit what Magnussen lists in his mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9VlcP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are only six points being listed here (and infinitely scrolled, likely for effect, to indicate that there are more than usual):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Irene Adler (see File)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Jim Moriarty (see File)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Redbeard (see File)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Hounds of the Baskerville&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Opium&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;John Watson&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Irene Adler and Moriarty are (supposedly) dead, so unless he knows about them being alive, using them will be hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Sherlock's mindpalace sequence we know that Redbeard was his dog as a kid. He got put down, so also not really a good leverage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Magnussen says later that he did not buy the Opium/drug story from the start, so that is off as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't know what the &quot;Hounds of the Baskerville&quot; pressure point is supposed to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that leaves John Watson as the easiest and most likely way to blackmail Sherlock. As others have stated, he tested this earlier by getting Watson into danger and checking how far Sherlock would go for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T04:41:42.240" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17391" CreationDate="2014-04-18T10:23:30.663" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Killing innocent bystanders is sloppy and could backfire if a friend's family member happened to pass by. Innocent bystanders could also help save the target, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ASharedSuffering&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;shared suffering&lt;/a&gt; can ease the pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those responsible for the bomb might have been paid by OmniCorp to supply a suitable candidate for the RoboCop program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9166" LastEditorUserId="9166" LastEditDate="2014-04-18T14:43:17.643" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T14:43:17.643" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18805" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-04-18T11:35:54.820" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-04-18T11:35:54.820" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T11:35:54.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18806" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-04-18T11:35:54.820" Score="0" Body="@midnight is a late night, improvised comedy show on the US cable channel Comedy Central" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-04-18T11:35:54.820" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T11:35:54.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18779" CreationDate="2014-04-18T12:51:17.257" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Animated movies about real life personalities do exist&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While not a common genre, there are movies that use animation to explore real people and real events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will quote one relatively recent example to demonstrate: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185616/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Waltz with Bashir.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is described by IMDB as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The animated movie was well received by critics. On its UK release in november 2008 the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/war-death-and-animation-cartoon-film-stirs-israels-conscience-1021732.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Independent&lt;/a&gt; observed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An acclaimed new cartoon film has stirred Israel's conscience about its responsibility for the notorious 1982 massacre of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until a matter of months ago, very few Israelis realised that their army fired flares to light up Beirut's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps while Lebanese Christian militiamen committed the notorious massacre of Palestinian civilians there in 1982.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Ari Folman, who as a 19-year-old soldier fired some of the flares, makes their descent through the sky over Beirut's beachfront one of the recurring images of Waltz With Bashir, his &amp;quot;animated documentary&amp;quot; that premiers in Britain this week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This certainly shows that it is possible to create biographical movies about real people and events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T12:51:17.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18779" CreationDate="2014-04-18T16:45:39.770" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assume you are thinking about (hyper-)realistic renderings of real life persons, not cartoons (&quot;When the technology became available&quot;). Of course cartoons of real life persons exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For realistic renderings the technology is just not there yet at reasonable costs. The development up to the level of realism needed to be convincing is not linear; neither in pure tech nor in perception. The technical aspect is simply the pareto principle, the so called 80:20 rule. You can reach 80 percent of the goal with 20 percent of the effort. But then you need four times the effort already invested for the last fifth of the way. Of course these are not mathematical exact numbers; most of the time the ratio is worse and grows exponentially when getting closer to the goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short: It is easy to do somehow human-looking animated models but is (still) extremely expensive to build real good ones that people will take for humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads to the famous &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;uncanny valley effect&lt;/a&gt;. It basically describes that people will enjoy caricatures or cartoons of real humans; and of course they can be tricked with enough effort. But there is range in between where the animated models don't look like caricatures but like real humans - but not good enough in the details, e.g. the moving of the skin or subtle gestures. And that is something that people can't cope with. It feels uncanny not to know if it is a real person or an animation. So it is not enough to pour more money on the animation department but sometimes you have to hold them back to do something that isn't completely possible yet. Do something right. A good cartoon or a completely convincing rendering of a human. We are not there for the latter (at reasonable costs for normal movies). We will be in a few years and film making will change a lot then. So the premise of your question is not correct: &quot;When the technology &lt;strong&gt;became&lt;/strong&gt; available&quot; It didn't become available yet (at reasonable costs, but tech is not the only limiting factor).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Polar Express&lt;/em&gt; is a prime example for the uncanny valley effect. The movie makers did want to make a realistic model of Tom Hanks but you can feel in every moment that he is not. This makes it a quite scary movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Avatar&lt;/em&gt; is an example how this effect can be avoided. The humans in the movie are real life actors, the aliens are &quot;realistic&quot; renderings. With aliens that are not supposed to be convincing humans the effect doesn't occur. The aliens have human features so you can relate to their acting (two legs, two arms, head, normal body...) but you don't expect them to be human in every aspect. So you can just increase the quality of animation there without any backfiring effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The legal part of your question is hard and highly dependent on the legislation where you produce or distribute the movie. In general you have personality rights even for caricatures or renderings when your person can be clearly recognized or is even called by name. And that is the whole point of using stars in the first place. If it is about an &quot;invented&quot; character (think Borat, Ziggy Stardust or such) the normal copyright and intellectual property rules apply, those are protected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T16:45:39.770" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10351" CreationDate="2014-04-18T16:54:35.637" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following analysis is based off my opinion and personal interpretation, therefore may be pictured differently by other people. Also spoilers will follow, duh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr nobody isn’t about any particular person. In fact it is about nobody. It simply is about the impossibility of choice that we have to make throughout our lives based completely off our imagination, not on any facts or certainty, as it is impossible to tell what will happen in the future. People may argue that theoretically it is possible to tell what will happen in the future. Taking into account every tiny little variable, every possible factor in every possible environment will theoretically allow us to calculate the future. The knowledge of every single factor of every single environment of every single molecule of water would potentially allow us to calculate exactly where and when rain will condense and thus fall. In order to simply this thought, the film Mr nobody simply explained that the child Nemo was able to tell the future simply because he wasn’t touched on the lips by the angles of oblivion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nemo, a child “faced with an impossible decision is unable to choose because he does not know what will happen, however when he knows what will happen he still is unable to choose”. The paradox of choice covers about 90% of what this movie is about. Nemo, a name which in latin translates into ‘nobody’, imagines some of the possible outcomes caused by his life changing choice of choosing a parent. This is stated directly “we only exist in the imagination of a 9 year old boy”. The movie does not cover every single possible path in life, just a few, because there is an infinite amount of outcomes as highlighted by the repetition of the train tracks converging and separating. None of these stories ever happened, which is why the old Nemo states “we do not exist”. These stories are simply the possible paths the 9 year old nemo could live depending on what choices he made throughout his life, but ultimately and most significantly, the one at the train station. The journalist in the future world asks the old Nemo to tell him his past and who he is, however nemo gives him “contradictory” explanations of possible lives he could have lived based on his choices. The journalist is only focused on the ‘what’; only on the accomplishments or failures of life, the wanting of knowledge. Nobody should actually care about the ups and downs in another person's life. The title is Mr Nobody, meaning that he was no extraordinary person, he was just nobody, like everybody else. The message ultimately is that we shouldn't consume ourselves trying to figure out what is the correct decision in life. Life is about living, one thing will lead to the other and you cannot predict what will follow. The journalist, and effectively the journalists entire society, ceases to ‘live’ (have become immortal) due to the fact that they are not willing to accept this notion of life. The old nemo isn’t “scared of death, im scared I haven’t lived enough”. As you have seen in the movie, apparently bad decisions have led to happy moments (Elise at the birthday party), while doing always the right thing might get you bored, dissatisfied and maybe finally killed (life with jean), and even following your heart and your one true love can lead to a life of misery and heartbreak (separation of Anna). That is why there is no right, nor wrong decision in life. They are all just options. “Every path is the right life” as Old nemo says, there is no right or wrong life, every one is correct. “Everything could have been anything else and it would have just as much meaning”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Life is about choice. “You have to make the right choice. As long as you don't choose, everything remains possible” as little nemo says at the beginning of the movie. However old Nemo ironically says at the end of the movie “Every path is the right path. Everything could've been anything else. And it would have just as much meaning.” This begs to convey the message that choices make up life. Choices make up who you are, what you are, your life as a whole. The impossibility of making choices because of the fear of not achieving the best life is irrelevant and empty. It doesn’t matter what the choice is, because there is no right or wrong choice due to the face that no life is necessarily better or worse than any other, just made up of different experiences. Hence our lives come down to experience. What do you want to experience in life? That should be the goal. And unlike Nemo’s life with Jean where he dictates his every action in order to reach a goal (to have a big yellow house with a red convertible), the goal in life is to experience life. Choices lead to experiences, experiences make up one’s life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9174" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-18T17:30:38.633" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T17:30:38.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3147" CreationDate="2014-04-18T17:39:25.520" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it has to do with how technology has changed since then.  During that time, we could only '&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_shifting&quot;&gt;time-shift&lt;/a&gt;' TV shows with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VCRs (notoriously hard to program)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Betamax (while it lasted)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now we have: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DVRs (TiVo, from your TV service provider, etc)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Internet/Digital video services (Netflix, Hulu, network websites) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DVDs and Blu rays.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Video On-demand.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I would argue the &lt;em&gt;risk&lt;/em&gt; of creating a serialized show is greatly reduced because of these factors.  The barrier of entry is lower now than at any other point prior to now.  Content producers realize that in addition to syndication, they make a tidy bit of revenue on Season TV DVD/BD sales.  For example, DVD Sales were cited as one of the reasons Family Guy, while not being a serialized show, was brought back from cancellation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as when this shift happened, I would say it was the success of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285331/awards&quot;&gt;24&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411008/awards&quot;&gt;Lost&lt;/a&gt; that made the serialized drama a possibility on a more broad scale (among network and cable channels).  If someone, be it a friend, a co-worker, or a geek off the street, says &quot;Show XYZ&quot; is amazing and you should watch it, then I can just Google it and access it however it's available.  20+ years ago, this was very unlikely to happen due to the availability (lack) and cost of prior TV content (high).  Everybody is trying to be the next '24' or 'Lost.'  Fox has even brought '24' back for a limited &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598754/&quot;&gt;12 episode mini-series&lt;/a&gt; in a slightly different format.  I would say that the serialized drama gives viewers a much different &lt;strong&gt;relationship&lt;/strong&gt; to the characters on a TV show.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference between the serialized shows of today and the episodic shows of yesterday is that the 'cliffhanger' is weekly versus seasonally and the occasional two-part episode or &quot;mid-season&quot; finale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1020" LastEditorUserId="1020" LastEditDate="2015-03-20T15:42:20.240" LastActivityDate="2015-03-20T15:42:20.240" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17391" CreationDate="2014-04-18T18:34:17.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depending on which version of the conspiracy you accept the choice makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Omnicorp have two motivations: they don't want pushy cops like Murphy causing trouble; but they need a good cop for the Robocop prototype. The second motivation suggests they don't want to &lt;em&gt;kill&lt;/em&gt; Murphy: they need enough of him to be left over to be reused in the Robocop project. There is hint that they identify suitable cops &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; they are injured (I can't remember the exact part of the dialogue where this is revealed without rewatching the whole movie, but it is there).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is consistent with how the bomb is triggered. First the car alarm is set off to entice Murphy out of the house. The bomb doesn't trigger until he is near the car making his injuries certain but his survival possible. Presumably this is done remotely though this is not shown. If you accept that Omnicorp is deliberately maiming cops to generate fodder for the program, then this makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2014-04-18T18:34:17.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18822" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18825" CreationDate="2014-04-18T19:45:23.647" Score="7" ViewCount="2456" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie only once back in the very late 90s or very early 2000s (2000 - 2001), I can't really remember when since I was about 5 years old at the time. This is a movie in which the protagonist is a boy (I think he is about 8 or 9). Here are a few points I remember about the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The movie is animated.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a scene in which the boy's face is cut and he starts bleeding.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The boy has a sister (I can't tell if she is the same age or older, but she is a little girl). I think she has blonde hair.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I believe the plot setting is in the distant future.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a scene where both the girl and the boy are hanging from the ledge of a very tall platform in danger of falling off. The height of this platform is so high that it extends into the clouds (they are outside). When the boy looks down he cannot see anything but cloud.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think the girl was holding onto the foot of the boy until she eventually let's go (because she couldn't hold on any longer). This was near the end of the movie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The boy survives. He believes the sister is gone but he discovers later on that she was able to be saved by a scientist by implanting her remains into a robot girl body (this was pretty disturbing to me as a kid).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the end the boy is standing next to the girl. At first this robot girl seems lifeless as she was just standing and giving no sign that she remembers anything that has happened, not even her own brother. I think I remember the boy showing the robot his hat to see if it evokes any response. I don't remember if it did but something in me says it didn't.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have a clue what this movie could be? Give me anything you've got that's even close. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9176" LastEditorUserId="9176" LastEditDate="2014-04-19T01:03:37.170" LastActivityDate="2014-07-05T20:46:03.773" Title="Movie where a little girl dies and becomes a robot" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:05:18.597" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18822" CreationDate="2014-04-19T00:46:28.053" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;That could be the animated &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(2001_film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Metropolis&lt;/a&gt;, (2001).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duke Red, the 'unofficial' ruler of Metropolis, has overseen the&#xA;construction of a massive skyscraper called the Ziggurat, which he&#xA;claims will allow mankind to further extend its power across the&#xA;planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Duke Red has hired Laughton to build an advanced robot modeled and&#xA;named after Red's deceased daughter, Tima.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Tima is a robot from the start, but doesn't know it until late in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tima falls off the tower. Kenichi tries to pull her up using one of&#xA;the cables still grafted to her. As the cable begins to fray, Tima&#xA;remembers the time Kenichi taught her grammar and asks Kenichi, &amp;quot;Who&#xA;am I?&amp;quot; before she slips and falls to her death. The Ziggurat&#xA;collapses, destroying a large part of Metropolis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next morning, Kenichi searches the ruins and encounters a group of&#xA;robots that have salvaged some of Tima's parts in an attempt to&#xA;rebuild her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-04-19T00:46:28.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15599" CreationDate="2014-04-19T01:12:30.903" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering about that myself. I've heard the stolen credit card part too. Let's just say that there is a very rich man who shall course remain unknown, has a vested interest in their cause. That man leaves money all over the USA for them to use. This rich man is someone their Dad saved years ago. or else we will have to actually see Dean playing pool more often like every week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9179" LastEditorUserId="9179" LastEditDate="2014-04-19T01:36:29.760" LastActivityDate="2014-04-19T01:36:29.760" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3147" CreationDate="2014-04-19T01:58:51.080" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started to compile a list, but some clear patterns have already emerged.  (Feel free to add televisions series from the years in between.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firmly episodic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan%27s_Island&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gilligan's Island&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1964-1967):  They don't build upon their ideas to escape the island&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek%3a_The_Original_Series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1966-1969):  The Romulan cloaking device would have been handy to keep, along with their knowledge of time travel, but they seem to forget about these technologies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brady_bunch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Brady Bunch&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1969-1974):  They have to keep learning how to get along, though they do seem to very slowly learn over their five years.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firmly serial:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;24&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2001-2010): Each episode is extremely dependent upon those before it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_%282004_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Battlestar Galactica&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2004-2009):  By each episode depending heavily on its predecessor, it increases the tension as the plot thickens rapidly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fringe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2008-2013):  Each episode uncovers new clues which build on the body of knowledge and encourages new experiments to advance their investigation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_%28U.S._TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2013-):  Each episode is another step in advancing Frank's power and control, building upon all that he has done before.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilyhammer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lilyhammer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2012-):  Van Zandt's character learns and grows and evolves rapidly from episode to episode.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2014-04-19T01:58:51.080" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18831" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19217" CreationDate="2014-04-19T09:28:36.477" Score="7" ViewCount="1095" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Amazing Spider-Man 2 Harry learns about his genetic illness when his father is dying. A few scenes later he's clearly struggling and later in the film he's very ill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However his father is shown to have been working well up to middle age, far older than Harry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did the condition take hold so quickly in Harry's case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-04-19T16:51:41.697" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T14:54:40.970" Title="Why was Harry's condition so different from his father's?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-amazing-spider-man-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18834" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18836" CreationDate="2014-04-19T11:50:15.313" Score="21" ViewCount="28925" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched &lt;strong&gt;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&lt;/strong&gt;. In the movie, there is one shot where Bilbo enters the Lonely Mountain to find the Arkenstone and accidentally awakens Smaug. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a converstion between Bilbo (while Bilbo wears the ring) and Smaug. I have a some questions about this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does Smaug reconize it is the One Ring?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did Smaug know about Sauron?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And how does Smaug know that darkness is coming, whereas he is sleeping in the cave for many years?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4667" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T16:08:16.263" LastActivityDate="2017-02-27T03:09:00.283" Title="How does Smaug know about the Ring?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-hobbit|the-desolation-of-smaug|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1413" CreationDate="2014-04-19T13:13:10.800" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found it interesting that this scene takes place so soon after Dunbar's suicide attempt.  It felt like he had entered another world, and that if he stayed, this is what he had to look forward to. &quot;There, by the grace of God...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9186" LastActivityDate="2014-04-19T13:13:10.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18834" CreationDate="2014-04-19T18:12:25.897" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a very interesting question, however things are quite different in the book and in the movie, the short answer is that Smaug probably didn't know about the ring nor Sauron, the long answer is explained below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book Bilbo entered in the mountain 3 times, the first time Smaug is asleep and he steals a golden cup, he then returns to the dwarfs who convince him to enter Erebor again.&#xA;The second time Smaug is awake and angry for the theft, he talks with Bilbo (who tricks him into showing his weak point) and despite talking about the cup he never said the exact sentence you quoted from the movie.&#xA;The third time Bilbo enters the mountain together with the dwarves.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;So I'd say that in the movie Smaug is referring to the ring, even though it isn't explained how he knew about it and this precise scene didn't happen in the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second question is even harder to answer because, even in the extremely detailed universe created by Tolkien, very little is said about dragons (only 4 of them are actually named).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;What we know is that dragons were originally bred by Morgoth and that Sauron (who was Morgoth's disciple) used them in the famous war of the rings so some dragons surely knew Sauron and the rings (4 of the rings given to the dwarves were melted by dragons).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;We don't know a lot about Smaug, he is the last great dragon on Middle-Earth but there is no way to tell for sure whether he knew Sauron and the rings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure whether Smaug says something about the darkness incoming in the book (he doesn't in the dialogue with Bilbo, but I'd need to check whether he speaks in other parts of the book too), but he can probably just perceive it, since he can feel magic and Sauron is gathering a huge power.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I think this (and maybe Smaug knowing about the ring too) are details added by Jackson to contextualize the tale told in &quot;The Hobbit&quot; inside Tolkien's universe and timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I confronted the most important details with online sources, but it has been a long time since I read &quot;The Hobbit&quot; and &quot;The Silmarillion&quot; so I may be missing some (potentially important) details&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8901" LastEditorUserId="47253" LastEditDate="2017-02-27T03:09:00.283" LastActivityDate="2017-02-27T03:09:00.283" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4470" CreationDate="2014-04-19T18:25:16.823" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;SPOILERS ALERT!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to call them Sarah's Borden and Olivier's Borden.&#xA;For me, SB is more gentle while OB is a little bit more aggressive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the scenes with their love ones (or even their twin's love ones) it's quite obvious to tell which borden was in the scene. Like when Sarah first told that she's having a baby; the reaction from Borden was &quot;we should tell Fallon&quot; which prove that he's not Sarah's husband.&#xA;While the 2 Bordens kept saying that &quot;Secret and tricks are their one LIFE&quot; ..almost everything they said to the girls was the truth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that Sarah knew that there were 2 Bordens. She fought her last fight against OB like she fought her own husband.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the rivalry part, OB had more passion to conquer Angier. He shouted at Fallon (SB) to break down Angier's Transported man trick and he's the one who didn't let go which lead him back to the show again and be trapped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, this is my most favorite Nolan's film. And it's very fun to see Michael Caine called Christian Bale &quot;Alfred&quot; on screen. ^_^&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9189" LastActivityDate="2014-04-19T18:25:16.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10351" CreationDate="2014-04-19T21:45:28.777" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Butterfly Effect&lt;/a&gt; is a metaphor for a real scientific phenomenon. There are many really systems like weather, the Kepler problem in planetary movement, etc, where a tiny change at the beginning can lead to an enormous effect later on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Mr. Nobody&lt;/em&gt;, one tiny initial change is that Nemo's father forgets to set the handbrake. This causes ever larger effects — the car crashes into the baby carriage, his parents divorce, etc. Other &quot;butterfly effects&quot; occur throughout the movie, for example what he says to Anna when they meet on the beach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for time travel, there's no direct relationship between the two. It's more that a time travel movie allows you to more directly explore the concept of chaos and initial conditions leading to counter-intuitive results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9191" LastActivityDate="2014-04-19T21:45:28.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18840" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18899" CreationDate="2014-04-20T01:58:38.250" Score="7" ViewCount="3635" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://joshubuh.com/2014/03/24/thefrozentheory/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Frozen Theory&lt;/a&gt; is fascinating, and very interesting, but this question is not about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, in the &lt;em&gt;Brave&lt;/em&gt; end credits there seems to be quite a few six-pointed sun symbols shown in the background which bear a striking resemblance to the emblem of the Kingdom of Corona (the setting of &lt;em&gt;Tangled&lt;/em&gt;). Also in the &lt;em&gt;Brave&lt;/em&gt; credits are quite a few snowflakes, which seemed like maybe a reference to &lt;em&gt;Frozen&lt;/em&gt;, which makes extensive use of snowflake visuals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TRIGb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tangled sun emblem&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EbTmg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Frozen snowflake&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;(Above images are from &lt;em&gt;Tangled&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Frozen&lt;/em&gt;; not from &lt;em&gt;Brave&lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The appearance of the snowflakes could possibly be explained by the fact that &lt;em&gt;Brave&lt;/em&gt; is set in Scotland, and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://disneyaddict.tumblr.com/post/26424941803/i-have-mentioned-before-that-there-were-a-lot-of&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;film was originally planned to contain a lot more snow than it eventually did&lt;/a&gt;. But it seems more than that to me. Does anybody know if they are deliberate nods towards the (at the time) most recently released, and next planned Disney princess films?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; The plot thickens. I was just re-watching &lt;em&gt;Tangled&lt;/em&gt; (my kids are obsessed with it at the moment, so I get to watch it several times a week) and noticed something in the end credits for that film too. The credits (which can be &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x8VQePIWKU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;seen on Youtube&lt;/a&gt;) include various scenes from the film such as Flynn ascending Rapunzel's tower, &quot;Wanted&quot; posters, the man with the hook playing piano in the Snuggly Duckling, Flynn being chased by a bear, a map of the Kingdom... wait a minute... back up a bit... &lt;strong&gt;Flynn being chased by a bear?!&lt;/strong&gt; There are no bears in &lt;em&gt;Tangled&lt;/em&gt;, so what's with the bear in the credits?! A forward reference to &lt;em&gt;Brave&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9122" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-10T00:21:20.073" LastActivityDate="2017-03-17T15:16:04.187" Title="Closing credits for Brave: subtle nods towards Tangled and Frozen?" Tags="|disney|frozen|brave|crossovers|tangled|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18846" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18847" CreationDate="2014-04-20T05:11:12.910" Score="5" ViewCount="2685" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which animated cartoon series is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was from late 80s or early 90s featuring an entire civilization living either beneath the surface of the Earth or right in the center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing I remember is that the intro and ending songs were catchy, and that the city was surrounding some object that was like the sun, maybe the earth's core.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3534" LastActivityDate="2014-04-20T08:30:56.427" Title="Animated cartoon series with entire civilization living in the center of the earth" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|animation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:56:49.250" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18846" CreationDate="2014-04-20T07:23:48.487" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartakus_and_the_Sun_Beneath_the_Sea&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (French Les Mondes Engloutis, &amp;quot;The Engulfed Worlds&amp;quot;), also know as Shagma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Theme song&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrfSMLuPXLo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;French (Episode 1)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGOMnE26jNo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;English&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dNkbA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Shagma&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Side note:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Hollow earth theory&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several examples of folk-lore and old religions talking about underworlds. In science the most prominent is perhaps Edmond Halley, (Halley's comet), who in 1692 put forth the hypothesis of a hollow earth. In more modern times the idea is popular among some New Agers and certain conspiracy theorists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the more fun theories are in regards to the secret Nazi expeditions to Antarctica in the years before World War II.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z17o1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Deutsche Antarktische Expedition&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They claim the Nazis goal for the expedition was to find an entrance to the inner world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8038" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-04-20T08:30:56.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18936" CreationDate="2014-04-20T08:00:10.643" Score="21" ViewCount="191942" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first episode of FX's Fargo series begins with the disclaimer-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;THIS IS A TRUE STORY.&#xA;  The events depicted took place in Minnesota in 2006.&#xA;  At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed.&#xA;  Out of the respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However in case of Fargo, the movie which uses a similar disclaimer. According to Richard Deakins the director of photography the events were inspired by multiple incidents which took place in Minnesota and around. So how close is the TV series to the reality? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3538" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-04-20T10:35:38.120" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T00:25:24.500" Title="Are the events depicted in FX's Fargo TV series really true?" Tags="|realism|remake|fargo-tv|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18850" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18851" CreationDate="2014-04-20T14:55:06.263" Score="2" ViewCount="640" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been said earlier that TARDIS cannot travel to another universe, but the Doctor travels to the TARDIS proff area by taking his TARDIS to the painting which is actually a pocket universe where Gallifrey is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can he move to a pocket universe with his TARDIS ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7320" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-04-22T13:29:40.410" LastActivityDate="2017-06-07T19:33:55.837" Title="How does the Doctor go to Gallifrey in &quot;Day of the Doctor&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18850" CreationDate="2014-04-20T17:50:39.450" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;It has been said earlier that the TARDIS cannot travel to other universes&quot;, you say. But then again, the TARDIS &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; traveled to other universes. Mostly in the very same episodes where it was said to be impossible. It traveled to the parallel universe in &lt;em&gt;Rise of the Cybermen&lt;/em&gt;/&lt;em&gt;Age of Steel&lt;/em&gt; in series 2, and to the pocket universe where House lived in &lt;em&gt;The Doctor's Wife&lt;/em&gt; in series 6. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What this tells is that that first, everything is wibbly-wobbly in Doctor Who, and rules are established only to be broken, hopefully in a dramatic and satisfying way. And also, to keep to in-universe explanations for a second, that while normally the TARDIS can't travel between universes, special circumstances - such as Torchwood's use of the Dalek void ship to link the universes in &lt;em&gt;Army of Ghosts&lt;/em&gt; - can certainly create situations where it's possible. The Time Lord technology used in the painting is that special situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1507" LastActivityDate="2014-04-20T17:50:39.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9005" CreationDate="2014-04-20T23:29:28.453" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He could have had the tunnel complete for a long time, and just waited for the right night with a thunderstorm to actually escape. There was no reason to escape on that particular day, he was just sat waiting for the right time. It was only once the pipe was broken that he had to act fast, because then somebody would have been down to investigate the leak and would have seen the tunnel, so he had to escape there and then as soon as the pipe was broken. However the bigger plot hole is that a) sewage is unlikely to explode, b) it wouldn't explode enough to create a hole big enough to get into, and c) at that high pressure, it would never have drained that quickly. But all in all it's a good film and probably doesn't require this much attention to detail. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9203" LastActivityDate="2014-04-20T23:29:28.453" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12467" CreationDate="2014-04-21T00:03:31.130" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surakshaa&quot;&gt;Suraksha&lt;/a&gt; from 1979 stars &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithun_Chakraborty&quot;&gt;Mithun Chakraborty&lt;/a&gt; (as Gunmaster G9, a Hindi James Bond-type) that was followed by the sequel &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardat_%281981_film%29&quot;&gt;Wardat&lt;/a&gt; in 1981.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1565053/&quot;&gt;Videsh&lt;/a&gt; 1977 part 1 and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165610/&quot;&gt;Agent Vinod&lt;/a&gt; 1977 part 2 both contain &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761888/?ref_=tt_cl_t1&quot;&gt;Mahendra Sandhu&lt;/a&gt; as Agent Vinod.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9205" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-04-21T00:58:58.023" LastActivityDate="2014-04-21T00:58:58.023" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18855" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18915" CreationDate="2014-04-21T00:21:26.680" Score="17" ViewCount="29580" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of weird visions about spiders in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2316411/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Enemy&lt;/em&gt; (2013)&lt;/a&gt; and I was wondering if that signified something about the character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9206" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-02-09T18:09:47.127" LastActivityDate="2017-02-09T18:09:47.127" Title="Is there significance behind the spider visions in Enemy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|enemy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18859" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-21T06:54:25.800" Score="0" ViewCount="1928" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question which I am asking could spoil the ending of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I strongly, very strongly believe that this movie was the Suicide Note of Heath Ledger. So, the question is, is the movie his suicide note or am I misunderstanding what the movie's theme is about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My understanding of the ending of the movie is as following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; To escape the &quot;dream&quot; which he was in, he had to kill himself to be the last person they needed to save Parnassus's daughter, and in real life, it was a note for him to &quot;escape&quot; fame and reality as we know it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8719" LastEditorUserId="6234" LastEditDate="2014-04-21T14:51:03.210" LastActivityDate="2014-04-21T14:52:39.417" Title="Was The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus a Suicide Note?" Tags="|analysis|ending|the-imaginarium-of-doctor-parnassus|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-04-23T08:23:23.400" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13040" CreationDate="2014-04-21T08:36:53.210" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;SPOILERS&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; It was not really the Greyjoys. It was the bastard of Roose Bolton, Ramsay and his lot. Ramsay later on chops off Theon's bits and names him Reek. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9029" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-05-22T13:26:43.260" LastActivityDate="2014-05-22T13:26:43.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18863" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21878" CreationDate="2014-04-21T13:53:01.820" Score="13" ViewCount="75328" Body="&lt;p&gt;In John Michael McDonagh's wonderful philosophical black comedy &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234003/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;Calvary&lt;/a&gt;, a good priest receives a death threat during a confessional giving him a week to sort out his affairs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the course of the week there are a lot of encounters between the priest and his parishioners, many acting as red herrings to distract the audience form the identity of the potential killer. Several threatening acts also take place: the church is burned and the priest's dog is killed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the final encounter between the priest and the mystery antagonist (I'm not saying who to avoid spoilers) the antagonist admits burning the church but claims not to have killed the priest's dog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they lying? Or is there a good reason that someone else might have killed the dog?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-27T15:58:30.163" LastActivityDate="2018-07-25T15:01:10.963" Title="Who did that to the priest's dog?" Tags="|plot-explanation|calvary|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18864" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-21T14:01:06.280" Score="18" ViewCount="46251" Body="&lt;p&gt;The plot of the Coen brothers brilliant black comedy &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2&quot;&gt;Fargo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; revolves around Jerry Lundegaard's desperate need for some large sum of money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any hint at all as to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; he needs it or how he managed to get himself into a place where he is so desperate he is willing to trigger the whole fake kidnap?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2021-08-28T04:30:36.897" Title="Is there any hint as to why Jerry needs the money?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fargo|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18864" CreationDate="2014-04-21T14:16:44.503" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen the movie several times and just looked up a few reviews, and none of them explicitly mention the reason for the money.  According to IMDB's exhaustive &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/synopsis?ref_=tt_stry_pl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;plot synopsis&lt;/a&gt;, the debts are &quot;anonymous&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-04-21T14:16:44.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18859" CreationDate="2014-04-21T14:52:39.417" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this is an interesting question, I'll have to make the killjoy here and say, &lt;strong&gt;No, this is quite unlikely&lt;/strong&gt; (even if I don't have a hard proof either and interpretation is still a free good).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, as Oliver_C points out in his comment, &lt;strong&gt;it is not entirely clear &lt;em&gt;if Heath Ledger&lt;/em&gt; commited suicide in the first place and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_Ledger#Autopsy_and_toxicology_report&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the official version is that he didn't&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even if he did then this suicide note connection can only be unintentional, since &lt;strong&gt;he was not so much responsible for the story and making of the movie&lt;/strong&gt; at all, he just starred in it. And it would be extremely unlikely for him to have some weird arrangement with &lt;em&gt;Terry Gilliam&lt;/em&gt; to make him some kind of &quot;suicide note movie&quot; for a long planned suicide. Likewise &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imaginarium_of_Doctor_Parnassus#Effects_of_Heath_Ledger.27s_death&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;his death was initially a pretty severe problem for the yet unfinished movie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (before they came up with the genuine idea of replacing him with other famous actors in the dream world):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gilliam was presiding over concept art when he was informed by a phone&#xA;  call that Ledger had died. His initial thought about the production&#xA;  was: &quot;The film's over, it's as simple as that.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems pretty unlikely that &lt;em&gt;Heath Ledger&lt;/em&gt; planned his suicide (if even suicide at all) such a long time in advance and managed &lt;em&gt;Terry Gilliam&lt;/em&gt; to make him a personal suicide note movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And furthermore, he was quite different from his role in the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To escape the &quot;dream&quot; which he was in, he had to kill himself to be&#xA;  the last person they needed to save Parnassus's daughter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this is true, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tony&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Ledger&lt;/em&gt;'s character) certainly did not &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to sacrifice himself&lt;/strong&gt; but, as we learn during the movie, always had quite selfish intentions. He needed to be tricked into death by &lt;em&gt;Parnassus&lt;/em&gt; (who offered him a fake pipe that didn't help him survive at the gallows). So even if by actions, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tony&lt;/em&gt; did not commit suicide by intentions&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So all in all I think your theory doesn't hold water and I guess you might be able to interpret something like this into any of &lt;em&gt;Heath Ledger&lt;/em&gt;'s later performances if you really want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-04-21T14:52:39.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18869" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-21T17:08:33.163" Score="1" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Right Stuff (1983) lots of stock footage is used. There's one scene in particular that I'm pretty sure uses stock footage. But I'd like a confirmation. It's the scene when Alan Shepard is about to board the capsule and NASA engineers are watching him and clapping. Shepard looks up at the capsule and gives a thumbs up sign. Then he takes the elevator up and boards the craft. This capture is an example of what I think is stock footage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vkkfF.png&quot; alt=&quot;The Right Stuff (1983), Stock Footage Sample 1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1DqSk.png&quot; alt=&quot;The Right Stuff (1983), Stock Footage Sample 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2cZfo.png&quot; alt=&quot;The Right Stuff (1983), Stock Footage Sample 3&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following is definitely not stock footage. It's a capture of the heavy handed character of the Minister, played by Royal Dano. The scene would have been much better served without these Dano inserts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/plRoN.png&quot; alt=&quot;The Right Stuff (1983), Royal Dano Sample 1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bZG7k.png&quot; alt=&quot;The Right Stuff (1983), Royal Dano Sample 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9217" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-21T18:54:02.960" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T18:17:41.323" Title="Stock Footage of Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff?" Tags="|realism|the-right-stuff|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18870" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-21T17:17:03.867" Score="1" ViewCount="2192" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have two question about the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162222/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cast Away&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After a few days in the island, Chuck Noland's body was full of injuries and wounds. Why didn't any of them get infected?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of the last scene? (Chuck, looking toward the ranch or maybe the truck.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6204" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-21T18:51:14.777" LastActivityDate="2017-05-29T07:13:14.407" Title="2 questions about &quot;Cast Away&quot;" Tags="|cast-away|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-05-29T15:12:55.400" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18870" CreationDate="2014-04-21T18:03:00.373" Score="16" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why should they? Or better: They probably did but that normally is not as serious as your question implies. The human body's immune system is made exactly for this. You need to be quite unlucky to get a deadly infection from surface wounds. And as a frequent traveler, his vaccinations certainly were up to date. Probably he would have retained more visual marks in reality than there were in the last scenes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A new beginning, new choices, a fresh start, several roads to choose from, don't mourn the ex but search for new people. A new life, a rebirth, for the bureaucracy a literal one (as his colleague mentions who did the paperwork - Chuck should be forever grateful for that). But an open end, he can begin a new life as he pleases, a chance you seldom get. It's good that the filmmakers didn't explicitly answer that one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-29T07:13:14.407" LastActivityDate="2017-05-29T07:13:14.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18863" CreationDate="2014-04-21T18:06:32.373" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen this film 3 times now, and I think it's fairly certain that there is nothing within its text that substantiates a confirmed answer to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time I saw Calvary, I assumed it was Inspector Stanton: and furthermore, this would be foreshadowing his reveal as Father Lavelle's eventual killer. I largely based this assumption on their conversation regarding the Webley:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stanton&lt;/strong&gt;: If you were to tell me you needed the gun for, say, you're dog not doing so well. You're not sure he's going to last and you wouldn't want him to suffer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, once you've watch the film again (with the perspective of knowing who the culprit is), you begin to interpret the behavior of the players differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stanton is also (with the exception of the bar-keep Brendan Lynch [who &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; have a motive to distribute vengeance against Lavelle by this point]) the only resident not to attend the church fire. He also demonstrates disdain for whomever the culprit of the fire was, calling them out for their lack of originality:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stanton&lt;/strong&gt;: Sure, any Eejit can start a fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would, to me, indicate that he considers the burning of a church to be an insubstantial measure of retribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stanton is also a practicing homosexual, although unlike Leo he never openly declares this to be the result of abuse at the hands of a priest as a child, but the concept is discussed in his presence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst it would appear outwardly that he has no motive to kill Father Lavelle's dog, the point of the film is that &lt;strong&gt;no-one&lt;/strong&gt; has a real reason to hurt Lavelle, other than his manifest association with the institution that has seen to have caused more harm than good. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is for this reason that, anyone could be the true culprit, as the entire town has seemingly turned against this good man because of the failures of the wider Church. There are so many elements of the community that have completely 'lost faith', I see the dogs murder as a deliberate comment on the inevitability of Lavelle's downfall: that there was at &lt;strong&gt;least 2 people&lt;/strong&gt; capable of performing such extreme acts in the sake of retribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, Calvary seemed like a macabre accompaniment to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111958/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Father Ted&lt;/a&gt;: both of which are effective at representing the current perception of Catholicism in Ireland, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAs7F9inPxw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;albeit very differently.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Niamh Connolly&lt;/strong&gt;: I hope this island isn't some hideaway for paedophile priests. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ted&lt;/strong&gt;: well Niamh, we're not all like that, say there is 200 million priests in the world and 5 per cent of them are paedophiles, thats&#xA;  still ...only 10 million .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sins of the father...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-04-21T18:55:27.803" LastActivityDate="2014-04-21T18:55:27.803" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18870" CreationDate="2014-04-21T20:08:38.200" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as question #1 goes, salt water does wonders for healing abrasions and cuts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question #2. He's looking at the truck because he wants to go back and pursue the woman who he dropped the package off to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9217" LastActivityDate="2014-04-21T20:08:38.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18880" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18881" CreationDate="2014-04-22T06:38:12.540" Score="3" ViewCount="325" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1170358/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&lt;/a&gt; when the dwarfs were imprisoned by elves, Kili talks about the talisman (which was given to him by his mother) to Tauriel. During the conversation, the talisman slips out of Kili's hand while he's tossing it in the air (maybe Kili did it on purpose) and Tauriel stops the talisman with her foot and as soon as Tauriel bends to take the talisman, Kili behind the bars reaches out for Tauriel as if he's trying to snatch something from her. I thought it was the keys Kili tried to steal but obviously it's not the keys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Kili try to steal something from Tauriel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T16:07:56.353" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T16:07:56.353" Title="Did Kili try to steal something from Tauriel?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hobbit|the-desolation-of-smaug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18880" CreationDate="2014-04-22T07:00:18.580" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since Tauriel is a character invented by Jackson and she didn't appear in the book the only source of information that we have is the film itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After rewatching the scene I'd say (but this is mostly a personal interpretation) that Kili wanted to receive his talisman back, because there isn't any hint that he may have been trying to steal something from Tauriel (the only thing he could have been interested in were the keys, but you already ruled out that possibility) and he seems genuinely worried about his talisman, it doesn't look like he let it fall on purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8901" LastEditorDisplayName="user8901" LastEditDate="2014-04-22T08:57:51.127" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T08:57:51.127" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12009" CreationDate="2014-04-22T08:44:30.263" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read up to &lt;em&gt;A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow&lt;/em&gt; and what I understood was when people die in the snow and freeze they turn into White Walkers, because two of the crows who left the Wall for ranging were found frozen. When they are brought back to the tower, they attack Lord Mormont and Jon kills them by burning them. Also, the wildlings burn everyone who they kill or anyone who dies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9029" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-03-08T04:31:27.860" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T04:31:27.860" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16374" CreationDate="2014-04-22T09:53:36.260" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;That can be done through Chroma technique as usual and cloning technique without chroma . &#xA;Check this out , &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp8j0BXq250&amp;amp;HD=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp8j0BXq250&amp;amp;HD=1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9223" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T09:53:36.260" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18886" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-22T11:45:16.753" Score="4" ViewCount="3027" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever the white walkers come in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, they said that they blow horns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They blow once for fellow rangers, twice for wildlings/foes and three times for &quot;the others&quot; but I don't get it, who exactly is blowing the horn?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9029" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2020-10-19T18:29:55.793" LastActivityDate="2020-10-27T00:58:03.360" Title="Who is blowing the horn to alert the Night's Watch?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18850" CreationDate="2014-04-22T12:21:19.070" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, it was said that she is not &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to travel to other universes. In the times that it does, generally bad things happen like she starts to have power failure, etc. It does not mean she &lt;em&gt;can't&lt;/em&gt; do it, just that it isn't necessarily &quot;healthy&quot; for her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And besides, timey wimey wibbly wobbly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8914" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T12:21:19.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18888" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18955" CreationDate="2014-04-22T12:22:35.587" Score="3" ViewCount="2348" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been wondering, why can't Oliver kill Slade Wilson (aka. Deathstroke) and be done with it? I know the producers don't want that, but what has Slade got against Oliver Queen that he cannot kill him, given Thea Queen was kidnapped and now saved. So what prevents Oliver from killing Slade?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9224" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-15T06:15:38.683" LastActivityDate="2016-04-15T06:15:38.683" Title="Why is killing Slade Wilson so hard for Oliver?" Tags="|plot-explanation|arrowverse|arrow|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18886" CreationDate="2014-04-22T13:30:02.763" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whoever is 'on watch' in any situations knows the protocol for raising an alert - as you say 'once for Rangers returning, two for wildlings and three for the the others'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At Castle Black this is presumably someone at the top of The Wall, but when they were encamped while riding north, they put someone on watch who uses the same signals.  Presumably that person/people go up a local hill (if available) to get a good view. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think any 'brother' would use the same signals if they encounter someone, not just those on watch.  So anyone else hearing a horn is automatically listening for the number to determine whether its a threat or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-04-22T13:39:44.000" LastActivityDate="2014-04-22T13:39:44.000" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18892" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18893" CreationDate="2014-04-22T18:28:12.457" Score="13" ViewCount="2087" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen all the episode so far released. I haven't read books though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In season one before leaving to King's Landing Ned Stark tells Jon Snow that he will tell him his mother's name next time they see each other. Obviously they will not meet again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So did Jon snow's mother's name die with Ned Stark or does someone else know it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it mentioned in books?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3888" LastEditorUserId="6552" LastEditDate="2014-04-23T08:26:33.340" LastActivityDate="2017-06-01T11:44:26.340" Title="What was Jon Snow's mother's name?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18892" CreationDate="2014-04-22T19:08:10.003" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're asking a colossal question. &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Jon_Snow/Theories&quot;&gt;This link&lt;/a&gt; will guide you through all the possible answers to that question. Do note, there are major spoilers afoot there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarise some of the possible information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books, we are presented initially with the idea that &lt;strong&gt;Ashara Dayne&lt;/strong&gt; is his mother. According to Ser Barristan Selmy, a Stark bedded her at a jousting tournament. She was pregnant, but eventually killed herself by jumping from a cliff. According to Ser Barristan the child was still-born (giving a reason why she may have jumped), but one theory is that the child was actually Jon Snow. Cersei, for example, believes this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another theory is that &lt;strong&gt;Wylla&lt;/strong&gt; was the mother. She was the wet nurse at Starfall. Robert recalls Ned bedding a &quot;wench&quot; during the rebellion and questions Ned about this - he answers it was Wylla but says no more. Some, for example Sir Edric Dayne, believe this to be true - Sir Edric later tells Arya that Wylla is Snow's mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, neither of these are the prevailing theories amongst most GoT fans. As the presumed truth is extremely spoilerific, I'll enclose it in spoiler tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The prevailing theory is that Jon Snow's mother is Lyanna Stark, from a union between her and Rhaegar Targaryen. There are a few extremely strong hints for this in the books. For example, Ned Stark continually remembers Lyanna's &quot;promise&quot; to bring her body back to Winterfell to be with her family. But as the first novel goes on, he keeps remembering this promise when thinking of Jon Snow - indicating perhaps the promise was much more significant than that. Additionally, when it is considered the King's guard were protecting Lyanna, it seems unlikely she was a captive of Rhaegar's, and much more likely she was his partner. Ultimately, this would make him a Targaryen and would tie in with Daenerys' visions in the House of the Undying, where Rhaegar is shown with a son, Aegon, who appears later in the novel series. However, in the House Daenerys is told &quot;there must be a third&quot; - as the dragon must have three heads. This strongly suggests it could be Jon Snow. The only person who knows for sure is Howland Reed, as only he and Ned Stark were in the room with Lyanna when she died and passed this information on. With Ned dead, Howland is the only person who still knows. Note: You may or may not have noticed on fan sites the &quot;formula&quot;: R + L = J. That is where this comes from. It'a a spoiler-free way of saying Rhaegar + Lyanna = Jon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, this question has &lt;strong&gt;not been definitively answered&lt;/strong&gt; and will not be until future books are released (or the TV series overtakes the books). However, the answer in the spoiler is the overwhelmingly supported theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this has been discussed in &lt;strong&gt;far more&lt;/strong&gt; detail elsewhere, I'll also direct you to &lt;a href=&quot;http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/107565-rlj-v79/&quot;&gt;this amazing online forum&lt;/a&gt; for A Song of Fire and Ice. That link will take you directly to spoilerific content, but has plenty of answers and an in-depth analysis far beyond what I've provided above to explain the origin of Jon Snow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-23T07:25:03.660" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T07:25:03.660" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18897" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18898" CreationDate="2014-04-23T06:14:09.337" Score="14" ViewCount="11648" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get why the red wedding is called the Red Wedding in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Because it was full of red blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I do not get why the Purple Wedding is called the Purple Wedding. Which thing defined the color purple? The clothes were not (dominating) purple, the wine is red or at least I link it to red rather than purple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; I would link poison to green rather than purple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone tell me the obvious?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-03-08T15:55:22.790" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T15:55:22.790" Title="Why is the purple wedding called purple wedding?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18897" CreationDate="2014-04-23T07:21:53.013" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest a few reasons for this. Firstly, and most obviously, when people choke they turn a shade of red initially, then as they asphyxiate, and blood flow is restricted around the body, they turn a shade of blue. This transition from red to blue can result in a shade of purple and so can easily be linked to choking. Given the manner of Joffrey's demise, purple seems appropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other reasons though related to the origin of the poison, as suggested by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Purple_Wedding#Terminology&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt; for the series:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The wedding of Joffrey and Margaery has been dubbed the Purple Wedding&#xA; by fans for various reasons. The poison used to kill Joffrey is&#xA; smuggled to the wedding in the purple amethyst hairnet of Sansa Stark,&#xA; while the wine the king drinks is described first as dark red and soon&#xA; after as purple. Purple is also a color often associated with royalty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-04-23T18:19:10.143" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T18:19:10.143" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18840" CreationDate="2014-04-23T08:33:45.977" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found no references about this anywhere online, so I'm going to say &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;, they are not (deliberate) references. There are plenty of Easter Eggs that Disney, and Pixar in particular, are famous for. For an example of these, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pixar_film_references&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, no member of the production team for any of these films has made any comment about observations like yours, so it seems likely there are coincidence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also add that because you &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to believe this so much, you &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; find more evidence in support of it than there perhaps really is. That's not to suggest you're wrong or that these scenes in the movies can't be interpreted this way - just that, based on all the evidence available, it seems &lt;em&gt;unlikely&lt;/em&gt; they are intentional nods to other Disney films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T08:33:45.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12382" CreationDate="2014-04-23T11:58:10.893" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ash's Pikachu is female because in one episode of Pokemon Black and White a female Pokemon used attract on Pikachu, but it doesn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the game, when Pokemon A uses the move &lt;a href=&quot;http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Attract_%28move%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Attract&lt;/a&gt; on Pokemon B, if Pokemon B is the opposite gender of Pokemon A, Pokemon B gains the status effect Infatuate, which causes their attacks to miss 50% of the time until the status effect is removed (the simplest method being to simply switch Pokemon B with another Pokemon from the trainer's roster).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only qualifier for Attract to work or fail is the gender of the Pokemon the attack is used on. Both Pokemon do not need to be the same species.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9235" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-04-24T14:27:54.027" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T14:27:54.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18897" CreationDate="2014-04-23T12:25:20.777" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the term &quot;Blue wedding&quot; is sometimes used to describe a great/lucky wedding (probably coming from the quote &quot;Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a &quot;Red wedding&quot; is usually one containing blood and/or murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you combine 'Blue + Red' and get 'Purple'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series already had a very prominent &quot;Red Wedding&quot;, and the death of Joffrey was considered a great/lucky thing for the realm, it seemed logical to combine the two to come up with &quot;Purple Wedding&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9236" LastEditorUserId="4083" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T22:42:11.547" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T22:42:11.547" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18863" CreationDate="2014-04-23T14:33:08.483" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good Question!  I agree with John Smith Optional that the film leaves this open-ended, but my sense after hearing the killer's denial was that killing the dog was a very personal attack in the sense that burning down the church and murdering Father James was not, and that as a result the suspicion falls on the one person who genuinely &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; have a profound personal grievance against him: &lt;strong&gt;his daughter Fiona&lt;/strong&gt;, who left the village the morning after the dog was discovered.  Rather than promoting the idea that there is another person aggrieved at &quot;the Priest&quot; for what the church as a whole has done, the reading I would propose is that James &quot;the father&quot; is being punished for making his aspiration to be a good priest rather than a good man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While she was visiting James, having come over from London following a suicide attempt, she discusses with him how he had left for the priesthood after his wife and her mother had died.  Although James was leaving on a pursuit for the greater good, Fiona felt that she had been abandoned by both of her parents one after the other.  Taking away the dog, one of James's few close companions in his work, would be fitting revenge, and &quot;killing the dog&quot; to send a message would appeal to a well-read sense of irony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James had tried to make up to her by telling her that he will always be there for her, but the scars of parental abandonment run very deep, as can be inferred from her failed relationships with men and her suicidal response to repeated rejection.  They discuss the sad idea about cutting across, rather than down, early on in their interactions, and the method of the dog's execution (a horizontal slash across the neck) calls back to the slashed wrists referenced previously.  Finally, of all of the characters other than Father James, Fiona is the only one that seems to be in any kind of regular contact with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other readings, but this is the one that I think has the most interesting scope for analysis if we want to analyse the film in terms of the nature of faith and calling to do good.  It also adds one extra layer of emotional complexity to the final scene, which is never a bad thing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9240" LastEditorUserId="9240" LastEditDate="2014-04-23T14:39:29.083" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T14:39:29.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18907" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18931" CreationDate="2014-04-23T16:49:11.750" Score="1" ViewCount="573" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jack Welker's hairstyle is different from his gang members', and probably different from anyone else's in Breaking Bad serial. Does his hairstyle have any specific meaning, like his status as a gang leader, or something about his background?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T16:48:48.890" Title="Does Jack Welker's hairstyle convey any meaning?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12052" CreationDate="2014-04-23T17:25:10.147" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good answers so far, I wanted to add another factor that may have contributed to Littlefinger's (Baelish's) betrayal of Ned Stark.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It is revealed later that Littlefinger has been in love with Catelyn since they were kids.  So, when Catelyn married Ned Stark, rather than Baelish, this instilled in him a powerful jealousy of Ned Stark.  Littlefinger even attempts to pursue her romantically after Ned's death! (Talk about awkward!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9243" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2017-04-18T00:24:06.290" LastActivityDate="2017-04-18T00:24:06.290" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14560" CreationDate="2014-04-23T17:48:21.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In re: The pink teddy bear falling from the collision of the two airplanes into Walt's pool: seemingly tangible evidence of the destruction of a small child aboard one of the planes and indication that Walt's choices and actions had increasingly destructive repercussions- far reaching ripples of destruction that he could not have foreseen, but ones that permanently effected even those most innocent.  Finding the doll's eye, so constructed like that of a person, left behind in the filter. would have to eat at the soul of someone who could trace the collision to willful actions of his own.  It would speak of the doll's dead appraisal of Walt's guilt- how even an inanimate object could clearly see and stand witness to the truth.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9244" LastActivityDate="2014-04-23T17:48:21.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18912" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-24T01:07:53.340" Score="4" ViewCount="35430" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077651/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Halloween&lt;/a&gt;, why did Michael go upstairs and kill Judith?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9246" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-24T11:03:20.630" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T04:48:41.477" Title="Understanding the beginning of Halloween" Tags="|plot-explanation|halloween|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18912" CreationDate="2014-04-24T02:04:57.933" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only reason given in the film is the statement made by Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance) about his meeting Michael.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I met him, fifteen years ago; I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding; and even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/TRni2hT_RSA&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; John Carpenter makes the statement around the 14 minute mark that he prefers characters that have &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...less obvious movie motivation.  More of; you have to supply what's going on here.  That's always been scarier, more interesting to me...I always loved characters that don't have any back story.  None.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Michael's motivation according to his creator is that it is up to you to determine why Michael does what he does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="789" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T02:04:57.933" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18914" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18917" CreationDate="2014-04-24T03:58:39.423" Score="15" ViewCount="6819" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know Sin City is fictional, but so are Gotham City and Metropolis, both of which are obviously New York City (one of the DC writers, I forget who, once said Gotham City is New York by night while Metropolis is New York by day).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is Sin City based on anything, or is it just totally fictional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1062" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-24T10:51:30.130" LastActivityDate="2017-01-19T16:41:40.573" Title="What city is Sin City based on, if any?" Tags="|film-location|sin-city|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18855" CreationDate="2014-04-24T05:25:44.810" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two theories are offered by Slate writer Forrest Wickman in an article about the ending, and (more to your question) by actress Sarah Gadon in an interview with Hollywood Reporter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/03/14/enemy_movie_ending_explained_the_meaning_of_the_jake_gyllenhaal_and_denis.html&quot;&gt;Forrest Wickman (totalitarian angle)&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Ultimately it's a parable about what it’s like to live under a totalitarian state without knowing it. It’s an Invasion of the Body Snatchers movie in which you don’t even realize it’s an Invasion of the Body Snatchers movie until the end—until it’s too late for our hero. In this case, the body snatchers just happen to be giant spiders. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/enemy-final-scene-jake-gyllenhaal-690139&quot;&gt;Sarah Gadon (female intimacy angle)&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I think the spider[s are] a sign of his fear of female intimacy; it's a physical manifestation of his fear of female intimacy.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The rest of this response is personal theory and speculation.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think both theories are correct and work well together. I particularly like the fear of intimacy theory and would go further: Adam is an oppressed, subtley misogynistic character who is attracted to but also subconsciously repulsed by and resentful of women, failing to understand them. When he dreams/sees spiders it's an expression of his oblique view of a species (or in general, a world) he doesn't &quot;get&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe after the first scene of the movie, the spider scenes are dreams: a woman with a spider head, a Dali-esque city spider and finally the wife-as-spider transformation. Each dream is Adam's, and each one is longer and less distinctly a dream -- it's harder to tell when one begins or ends. The more surreal Adam's life becomes, the less it matters whether he's dreaming at all. Further, while the last scene in editing is the wife-as-spider transformation, I believe the actual last scene of the narrative is the first scene of the movie. I believe we're seeing Adam going to the sex club with his doorman in a flash forward. He's a regular there now. He has completely assumed his clone's life, wears his clone's wedding ring and wristwatch, and as an escape attends these sex shows like his clone did... Adam is so deep in the surreal that neither he nor we can know if he's dreaming anymore. By now, it doesn't matter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-25T08:32:11.777" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T08:32:11.777" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18916" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27354" CreationDate="2014-04-24T07:08:34.583" Score="1" ViewCount="787" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Holly goes to Ireland in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0431308/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;P.S. I Love You&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; she meets William in the bar who's playing &quot;The Galway Girl&quot;, this is the same song that Gerry had played for her. She assumes that this is all part of Gerry's plan and he'd asked William to play it for her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, later we learn that William didn't know Holly was &quot;Gerry's Holly&quot;, if he didn't know how could he know which song to play? Is it a coincidence? Is he lying?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-24T10:58:44.420" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T21:10:09.807" Title="How does William know what song to play?" Tags="|plot-explanation|p-s-i-love-you|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18914" CreationDate="2014-04-24T07:53:51.080" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Basin City&quot; is set in an unspecified, fictional city in the American west according to various sources. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though he has never said it's based on a particular city, given Frank Miller's love of noir (Hollywood influence) and the genesis of the comic during the &quot;gritty&quot; 1990s while he was living in Los Angeles, it's likely that Los Angeles was the model. Los Angeles is partially a basin city. The comic later establishes Sin City's waterfront as being very large, almost coastal in size. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie version of Sin City (2005) includes an establishing shot with a US287 highway sign. US287 is an actual north-south highway running from Montana to Texas through such cities as Denver and Fort Worth. It's possible Sin City is based a bit on Denver's night cityscape, at least its commercial district, but I tend to think the sign is a mislead, the way the Simpsons plays around with the location of Springfield. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Update @NapoleonWilson: Good note about the La Brea tar pits)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trivia/possible influence: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Las Vegas is America's proverbial &quot;sin city&quot; and is located in the west, but there's also the collective &quot;Cities of Plain&quot; from the Book of Genesis, especially Sodom and Gomorrah. Some biblical researchers place Sodom and Gomorrah on either side of the so-called waterfront of the Dead Sea, and one researcher believed they were drowned in the sea -- implying again a city or cities in a basin. Sodom and Gomorrah are also &quot;full of tar pits&quot; according to excavations. The question is, was Frank Miller aware of these particular details when he created the comic, or is it the happy coincidence of drawing on a popular term? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_City&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_City&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sincity.wikia.com/wiki/Basin_City&quot;&gt;http://sincity.wikia.com/wiki/Basin_City&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://annoyzview.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/where-was-sodom-and-gomorrah-located/&quot;&gt;http://annoyzview.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/where-was-sodom-and-gomorrah-located/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastEditorUserId="9247" LastEditDate="2014-04-25T04:01:53.367" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T04:01:53.367" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15692" CreationDate="2014-04-24T09:24:57.843" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you remember key points in both the first and second film, they say that Smaug has not been seen for sixty years: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;That dragon had slept for sixty years,&quot; - Elrond. &quot;The Great Dragon Smaug has not been seen for sixty years,&quot; - Thorin. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second film, if you look carefully at when Smaug bursts out of the mountain, you'll see that he smashes his way through rocks and stone in order to get out. Quite easy for him, not so for dwarves. My guess is that before he went into the sixty year long sleep, he sealed himself in to better protect his horde of treasure from would-be thieves while he slept. It was easy enough for him to get out, but no one else could ever get in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just my take on it. The books (which I haven't read) might be completely different. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9250" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T09:24:57.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18919" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-24T09:49:09.720" Score="0" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the main differences between the first 'Spider-Man' Movie directed by Sam Raimi and 'The Amazing Spider-Man' by Marc Webb? And why there was a need to reboot a franchise which had a trilogy so recently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9251" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-07-10T08:28:58.397" LastActivityDate="2017-07-10T08:28:58.397" Title="Difference between 'Spider-Man' Movie and 'The Amazing Spider-Man' Movie" Tags="|the-amazing-spider-man|spider-man|reboot|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-04-24T11:33:11.213" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7915" CreationDate="2014-04-24T14:04:05.000" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;To make Frankie testify against Michael in the hearings. To turn him against Michael.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9254" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-24T14:12:45.427" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T14:12:45.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18926" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18927" CreationDate="2014-04-24T15:29:12.133" Score="2" ViewCount="8699" Body="&lt;p&gt;I some days ago saw this film &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.in/?gfe_rd=cr&amp;amp;ei=15ZSU97HKojW8gecjIHwBg#q=white%20house%20down&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;White House Down&lt;/a&gt; and the president does &quot;The thing&quot;&#xA;twice (during starting and ending of the film). What is &quot;The Thing&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I actually missed the last scene before which the president says to little girl &quot;wanna see something special?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8193" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-24T16:33:23.890" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T01:27:32.557" Title="What is 'The Thing' the President talks about?" Tags="|plot-explanation|white-house-down|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18926" CreationDate="2014-04-24T15:33:43.870" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;thing&quot; was flying the airplane low over the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial_Reflecting_Pool&quot;&gt;Reflecting Pool&lt;/a&gt; at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial&quot;&gt;Lincoln Memorial&lt;/a&gt;. Obviously, in normal circumstances this wouldn't be allowed, but as he was the President he was able to direct his pilot to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He does this as he considers it fun, but also as it gives him a chance to talk about Lincoln, e.g. The President tells Finnerty that Lincoln was the first president to be in favor of women's voting, which we are then told he mentions every time they fly over the Pool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T15:33:43.870" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18928" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18930" CreationDate="2014-04-24T15:55:44.677" Score="4" ViewCount="1746" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Mentalist S6 Ep 17 &quot;Silver Wings of Time&quot; they construct an elaborate deception to trick the real killer into confessing.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How realistic is this concept?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Can the police actually lie and trick people into confessing?  I would have thought that lies and tricky would make confessions inadmissible in court.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T16:06:26.530" Title="Can the police lie to make a suspect confess?" Tags="|realism|the-mentalist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18929" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18932" CreationDate="2014-04-24T15:58:26.990" Score="11" ViewCount="27130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sam Raimi's &lt;em&gt;Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt; trilogy was rebooted when Sony released &lt;em&gt;Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt;, and part of this reboot were changes in the in universe story and world. Peter starts dating Gwen Stacy instead of Mary Jane, for example. What are the differences between the two universes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not looking for a scene-by-scene nit picky rundown here, but rather the larger, broad-stroke differences between the two settings/stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2016-07-04T22:49:45.833" Title="What are the differences between the Spider-Man and Amazing Spider-Man universes?" Tags="|the-amazing-spider-man|spider-man-trilogy|spider-man|comic-adaptation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18928" CreationDate="2014-04-24T16:06:26.530" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would obviously appear to depend on the country in which the police are operating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of &lt;strong&gt;The Mentalist&lt;/strong&gt;, this would be the &lt;em&gt;United States&lt;/em&gt; and in particular &lt;em&gt;California&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on some initial research of US laws and Californian laws, the answer seems to be: &lt;strong&gt;It Depends.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lexisnexis.com/clients/CACourts/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;People v. Mays (Docket No. C057099)&lt;/a&gt;, a Californian case from 2009, the police attached a suspect to a fake polygraph machine (lie detector). They pretend to administer the test and told the suspect he had failed. As the suspect believed it was real, he admitted he had been at the scene of the crime. It was held that this form of lying was perfectly legal and the suspect's confession was admissible:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Police trickery that occurs in the process of a criminal interrogation&#xA;  does not, by itself, render a confession involuntary and violate the&#xA;  state or federal due process clause. Why? Because subterfuge is not&#xA;  necessarily coercive in nature. And unless the police engage in&#xA;  conduct which coerces a suspect into confessing, no finding of&#xA;  involuntariness can be made. So long as a police officer’s&#xA;  misrepresentations or omissions are not of a kind likely to produce a&#xA;  false confession, confessions prompted by deception are admissible in&#xA;  evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This interesting blog article from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.patrol-log.com/2010/04/20/can-police-lie-to-suspects-during-questioning/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Patrol Log&lt;/a&gt; discuss the consequences of this case, suggesting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can tell them that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1) Their fingerprints or DNA match those taken from the crime scene,&#xA;  even if they don’t, or even if you don’t have any fingerprints or DNA&#xA;  evidence at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2) You have a video of their crime or a witness’s statement&#xA;  identifying them as the ones involved, even if this is not true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;3) If they have an accomplice, you can tell them that you already have&#xA;  the accomplice in custody, and they have already confessed, even if&#xA;  this isn’t true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;4) You can tell them that you found evidence of the crime in their&#xA;  vehicle or apartment, even if you haven’t.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://policelink.monster.com/training/articles/1911-lying-to-a-suspect-how-far-can-an-investigator-go&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Police Link&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The landmark decision regulating false statements made to a suspect is&#xA;  the U.S. Supreme Court case of Frazier v. Cupp, 394 U.S. 731, 1969.&#xA;  The case involved the interrogation of a homicide suspect who was&#xA;  falsely told that an accomplice had already implicated the suspect in&#xA;  the killing. This lie persuaded the suspect to confess to the&#xA;  homicide. The Supreme Court ruled that such use of trickery and deceit&#xA;  can be permissible (depending on the totality of circumstances)&#xA;  provided that it does not shock the conscience of the court or&#xA;  community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are limits. This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2014/0221/How-much-can-police-lie-to-suspects-N.Y.-rulings-suggest-there-s-a-limit&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;very recent&lt;/em&gt; article&lt;/a&gt; about NY rulings show some of the limits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a unanimous ruling, the New York State Court of Appeals tossed out&#xA;  the 2009 conviction of Adrian Thomas for the murder of his infant son,&#xA;  finding that Troy, N.Y., police had overstepped their prerogative to&#xA;  use artifice when they told Mr. Thomas that his son, who was&#xA;  brain-dead, was alive and could be saved with his confession, among&#xA;  numerous other falsehoods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the answer appears to be: &lt;strong&gt;The police can lie in some cases.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it should be noted this information has come from a smattering of different sources and should not be trusted on as &lt;em&gt;actual legal advice&lt;/em&gt;. For that, you should contact a lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T16:06:26.530" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18907" CreationDate="2014-04-24T16:48:48.890" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the Breaking Bad writers have been known to use a lot of symbolism in their show, I think this is just an instance of fashion choice. Jack Welker's hair style might be different from the rest of his men, but it's not particularly distinctive. The slicked back look is a common one, especially with older people who have long hair. So the fact that Jack is just older than the rest of his men might account for that hair style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T16:48:48.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18929" CreationDate="2014-04-24T18:16:31.630" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a quick rundown of the changes so far. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Spider-Man&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, the web shooters are organic mutations that were a result of the genetically engineered spider bite.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In Amazing Spider-Man, they stuck to the comic book roots and had Peter invent mechanical web shooters that use a formula partly developed by his father.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Peter's Past History&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, Peter's parents are dead but we have no other information on them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In Amazing Spider-Man, Peter's parents death was part of a conspiracy concotted by OsCorp.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Osborns&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, Norman Osborn wears a mechanical suit to become the Green Goblin.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In Amazing Spider-Man, Harry Osborn is biologically transformed into the Green Goblin.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Peter's Love Life&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, Peter's first girlfriend is Mary Jane Watson. Gwen Stacy appears later on to complicate matters a bit but MJ remains his primary love interest. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In Amazing Spider-Man, they once again stayed loyal to the comics and had Gwen Stacy be Peter's first love. Mary Jane was slated to appear in a minor role, but she was ultimately cut. Spidey's off/on lover from the comics Felicia Hardy makes an appearance as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Misc&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, the Daily Bugle and it's publisher J Jonah Jameson are featured heavily.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In Amazing Spider-Man, the Daily Bugle starts to appear in the second movie but Jameson has not made an appearance yet, although he is mentioned.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2014-05-05T20:00:09.380" LastActivityDate="2014-05-05T20:00:09.380" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18869" CreationDate="2014-04-24T18:17:41.323" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer my own question, yes those first three captures are indeed of Alan Shepard preparing to board Freedom 7. The footage can be seen here (2:45 to 3:45): youtube.com/watch?v=3xd9kg-fJ9g –  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9217" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T18:17:41.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18848" CreationDate="2014-04-24T20:11:49.067" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The TV show is just copying the disclaimer in the original movie, although the date has been changed to 2006.  But, in the case of the movie, the Coen brothers just made that up as a joke:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/fargo.asp&quot;&gt;See this link from Snopes.com for more info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think it's safe to assume that the events in the TV series are fictional as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="753" LastActivityDate="2014-04-24T20:11:49.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1194" CreationDate="2014-04-25T08:38:11.347" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joel and Clem seem to get back together at the end, and after that it shows a candid scene of them looping over and over until the final fade to black. The writer intentionally left the movie ambiguous in the first place, so there is no ending set in stone, but I've always thought that, although they rekindle their relationship, they do eventually break up because of their flaws. I don't actually agree with whole &quot;they go back to Lacuna&quot; part, because Mary's discovery and leaving with the documents implies that Lacuna will be hurt by all of their patients' discoveries, which may evoke a decidedly negative reaction as with her. (Of course, I could be wrong, but that's just my view.) The looping scene, in my opinion, symbolizes that they will break up, but also that they will get back together. I've always related this to those on-and-off couples. Maybe somewhere down the line, their flaws will becomes less magnified and a more concrete relationship will abound. Or maybe they are doomed to keep going back to each other, possibly out of true love. They are humans, and being humans, they are prone to repeating something that initially gave them pleasure, regardless of the negative note it will end on. While Joel has the memory erasing process done, he realizes that the good times he had with Clem outdid their breakup; &quot;It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.&quot; And who's to say that some time couldn't have occupied the gaps between the loops? Maybe they saw different people to help gain new experiences, and were repeatedly drawn to each other afterwards. They didn't seem that old in the movie, so maybe somewhere down the line, when they've completely matured, they might decide to settle down. Orrrr, maybe it symbolizes that memory lives on, longer than the physical experience, and that candid scene was just an enduring addition to his experiences as they moved on from each other. There's so many different ways one can interpret the ending. :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9266" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T08:38:11.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18948" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-04-25T09:11:52.813" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Her&lt;/em&gt; is a 2013 American science-fiction romantic comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by Spike Jonze, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, and Scarlett Johansson as the voice of Samantha, an intelligent computer operating system (OS) with a female voice and personality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="109" LastEditorUserId="109" LastEditDate="2014-04-25T09:52:31.040" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T09:52:31.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18949" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-04-25T09:11:52.813" Score="0" Body="2013 American science-fiction romantic comedy-drama film by Spike Jonze, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, and voice acting by Scarlett Johansson" OwnerUserId="109" LastEditorUserId="109" LastEditDate="2014-04-25T09:52:38.923" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T09:52:38.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18950" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18951" CreationDate="2014-04-25T09:20:43.093" Score="7" ViewCount="495" Body="&lt;p&gt;American Hustle (2013)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's some gentlemen sitting over there at the bar. That's &lt;em&gt;130 years&#xA;  sitting right there&lt;/em&gt;. That's how much time between them. They run the&#xA;  biggest casinos in the United States.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did he mean by &lt;em&gt;130 years&lt;/em&gt;? The time they spent in prison combined?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5568" LastEditorUserId="5568" LastEditDate="2014-04-25T09:39:23.360" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T11:26:36.197" Title="130 years between them" Tags="|american-hustle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18950" CreationDate="2014-04-25T11:26:36.197" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's most likely a reference to the men's collective years as &quot;made&quot; in the mafia, or even just their experience as casino owners. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.americanhustle-movie.com/awards/scripts/AmericanHustle_Script.pdf&quot;&gt;The script&lt;/a&gt; identifies this group as &quot;&lt;strong&gt;five men in suits, 40 to 60, slightly mob-looking&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. 130 years of prison time between five mobsters would be about 25 years each, typically the maximum sentence before a life sentence, and typically reserved for 1st degree murder or rare cases of racketeering and corruption under the RICO act which, being passed in 1970, would not have been applicable to such men in their youth. Furthermore, it's unlikely that a group of convicted felons who served 25 years each could congregate in public without raising suspicion, let alone inherit casinos -- and they would have to inherit them, as the majority of their adult lives would have been spent in prison, preventing them from cultivating their business. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T11:26:36.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2014-04-25T13:01:42.143" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Mirakuru makes it more difficult for Slade to be killed, since he's stronger and able to heal quickly, hence why Felicity has S.T.A.R Labs working on a cure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9269" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T13:01:42.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18831" CreationDate="2014-04-25T13:55:58.530" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the illness slowed down as Norman grew older, still affecting him, but at a slower rate. Or he could have slowed it down with help from Richard Parker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9269" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T13:55:58.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18888" CreationDate="2014-04-25T14:53:10.997" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oliver still feels partly responsible for Slade's condition, and Shado's death, making him hesitant to murder Slade outright. Even as Oliver begins to accept the fact that Slade is going to have to die, Oliver's focus is always more on protecting the people he loves first, and killing Slade second. Given that Slade already outclasses Oliver both physically and in experience, this hesitation is making it difficult for Oliver to effectively fight back. I also suspect that Oliver still thinks Slade can be redeemed (at least, up until the end of &quot;Seeing Red&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have only been a few occasions where Oliver was legitimately in a position to kill Slade. His first attempt, setting up Diggle as a sniper in his mansion, showed that Oliver was still somewhat reluctant to assault Slade head on. He wanted to give Slade the chance to &quot;go away peacefully&quot; before resorting to violence, but Wilson was prepared for that kind of attack and it obviously failed. It's also interesting to note here that, even had Oliver gone through with the assassination attempt, it would have been Diggle pulling the trigger, possibly indicating that Oliver himself was still reluctant to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that, Oliver finally comes to realize the danger his family is in from Slade, but he only has a few opportunities to act on his new found determination:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he confronts Slade in his home, Thea is missing, and while others were encouraging Oliver to kill Slade then, he chooses to subdue him instead. On the surface, Oliver justifies this as needing Slade alive to find Thea, but it also seems like Oliver is still hoping that Slade can be dealt with in some way that doesn't require Oliver to kill him. It's only once that fails that I think Oliver fully resigns himself to the inevitable outcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Slade infiltrates the Arrow base, we see that even a fully committed Oliver &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Sara aren't going to easily be able to take down Slade. He easily overpowers them both in hand-to-hand and steals what he wants. This probably explains why Oliver doesn't simply track down Slade on his own and kill him -- a head to head confrontation would probably end badly for Oliver.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, Oliver does chase down Slade to stop him from using the machine to spread mirakuru to all his minions. This, I think, is the most telling encounter, because he has two separate chances to try and kill Slade. Instead, he chooses to use those two opportunities to a. destroy the machine that was sapping Roy's blood, and b. rescue Roy and escape rather than try to finish off a stunned Slade. In both cases, he's shown that he's prioritizing other's immediate safety over his own desire for revenge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also suspect, though I don't know if it's ever been expressed openly, that Oliver is still hoping that he can cure Slade of the mirakuru and stop his rampage. He ostensibly is working on a cure for &lt;em&gt;Roy&lt;/em&gt;, but it would be exactly like the new non-violent Oliver to try and redeem Slade rather than kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T14:53:10.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18956" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-25T15:38:06.250" Score="5" ViewCount="8347" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the DVD of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; there is a deleted scene which shows &lt;em&gt;Plutarch Heavensbee&lt;/em&gt; exchange envelopes in some secured vault. He burns the one in the vault and replaces it with one from his pocket. Given that this envelope is in a box with the number 75 on it, it's likely that it's related to the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Quarter Quell&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RJsR0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;box with the envelope inside&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there is probably not much to it, being a deleted scene anyway, I'd still like to know &lt;strong&gt;what he was actually doing there.&lt;/strong&gt; Is this elaborated further in the book or is this a movie-only extension? As we learn at the end, &lt;em&gt;Heavensbee&lt;/em&gt;, though being &lt;em&gt;Snow&lt;/em&gt;'s new game maker, is actually part of the revolution. So I'm wondering was this action part of his &lt;em&gt;official&lt;/em&gt; job for &lt;em&gt;Snow&lt;/em&gt;, somehow changing the rules in order for the victors to fight in the 75th games? Or was this part of his &lt;em&gt;inofficial&lt;/em&gt; role in the revolution, trying to somehow bend the game's rules for their plans?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In the latter case it would be kind of a foreshadowing, even if the (book-unaware) audience would likely not have classified it as such and rather sticked with the former explanation, but after all it would raise some doubt. And was maybe even deleted because of this?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T03:50:35.853" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T03:50:35.853" Title="What envelope does Heavensbee replace?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-catching-fire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18957" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18972" CreationDate="2014-04-25T16:05:16.400" Score="7" ViewCount="6583" Body="&lt;p&gt;I admit that I'm not completely acquainted with all the subtleties of &lt;em&gt;President Snow&lt;/em&gt;'s and the revolution's views and usage of &lt;em&gt;Katniss Everdeen&lt;/em&gt; for their goals in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. What I wonder is, &lt;strong&gt;why does &lt;em&gt;Snow&lt;/em&gt; urge &lt;em&gt;Katniss&lt;/em&gt; to keep up the masquerade of her love to &lt;em&gt;Peeta&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (much to &lt;em&gt;Katniss&lt;/em&gt;' dismay).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't the supposed love between &lt;em&gt;Katniss&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Peeta&lt;/em&gt; draw a much more favourable view of them in public (which I'm not sure is really in &lt;em&gt;Snow&lt;/em&gt;'s interest)? I think revealing that their (or at least her) love was only a staging for their survival would have shown her as opportunistic and duplicitous and could have shattered her image in public to some degree. All in all that acted love had only advantages for &lt;em&gt;Katniss&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Peeta&lt;/em&gt;, and is even employed for exactly this purpose again by &lt;em&gt;Peeta&lt;/em&gt; when he tells of the supposed pregnancy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while I can understand &lt;em&gt;Katniss&lt;/em&gt; personal aversion to keeping on acting this false love, I'm not sure I understand &lt;em&gt;President Snow&lt;/em&gt;'s reasons for furthering this masquerade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T03:50:58.507" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T03:50:58.507" Title="Why does President Snow want Katniss to keep on acting the love affair?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-catching-fire|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18958" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18966" CreationDate="2014-04-25T16:46:30.330" Score="4" ViewCount="223" Body="&lt;p&gt;SPOILERS (if you haven't seen S01E01 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234222/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Orphan Black&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sarah has to be literally dragged into a police station before realizing she is impersonating a police detective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that since Beth had been under suspension, she would have turned in her gun and badge, and Sarah would not have found them. The fact remains that Sarah was studying Beth intently in order to impersonate her at the bank. Are we expected to believe that she found nothing in Beth's home that would have indicated she was a police officer? No mail from the Police Association? No photos of her graduating from the academy? No dress uniform?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Love the show, but like any other, it has some plot holes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9270" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-25T16:49:30.153" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T18:55:17.180" Title="How is Beth being a cop a surprise?" Tags="|plot-explanation|orphan-black|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18960" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18964" CreationDate="2014-04-25T16:57:00.277" Score="1" ViewCount="1969" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; when &lt;em&gt;Katniss&lt;/em&gt; is hunting with &lt;em&gt;Gale&lt;/em&gt;, she tries to shoot some birds. When shooting she suddenly imagines a boy getting hit by the arrow, much to her shock. This hallucination is likely part of her PTSD after the Hunger Games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/04T7G.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I wonder, &lt;strong&gt;was this actually a flashback of a particular tribute she killed during the first movie&lt;/strong&gt; or was this just some random boy she imagined to have killed now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T03:51:13.393" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T03:51:13.393" Title="Who is the boy from Katniss' hallucination?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-catching-fire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18956" CreationDate="2014-04-25T17:05:55.850" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the books, the rules for the Quarter Quells were established in sealed envelopes when the games were first established. The deleted scene suggests that Plutarch changed the envelopes to change what would actually happen, but also in the movie he is on screen suggesting to President Snow that Katniss be put in the games so that Snow is not the one executing her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be interested in seeing if there are director voiceovers explaining the decision, but I would imagine that the two scenes contradict each other, which would be the reason for the deletion. If Plutarch switched the envelopes, there would be no need to suggest the change to Snow. It's similar to a deleted scene in Knight's Tale, where Chaucer makes a speech saving the hero, and it was deleted so that the Black Prince had a bigger role in deciding to save the hero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T17:05:55.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18962" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-04-25T17:21:15.357" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_Black&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Orphan Black&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a Canadian-made television series created by Graeme Manson and John Fawcett for BBC America and Space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It follows the story of Sarah Manning, played by Tatiana Maslany, who discovers she is one of an unknown number of clones after she witnesses the death of a woman who looks exactly like her. The story is filmed and takes place mainly in Toronto.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9270" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T18:34:20.327" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T18:34:20.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18963" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-04-25T17:21:15.357" Score="0" Body="BBC America series about a young woman who discovers she is one of many subjects in an illegal human cloning experiment." OwnerUserId="9270" LastEditorUserId="9270" LastEditDate="2014-04-25T17:56:53.640" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T17:56:53.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18960" CreationDate="2014-04-25T17:22:34.210" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a flashback of &lt;a href=&quot;http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Marvel&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marvel&lt;/a&gt;, the tribute who killed &lt;a href=&quot;http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Rue&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rue&lt;/a&gt; in the first film. In retaliation, Katniss killed him. As a review of &lt;a href=&quot;http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/74th_Hunger_Games&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; shows, this was the first person she killed, which is likely why she is having flashbacks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T17:22:34.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18958" CreationDate="2014-04-25T18:55:17.180" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;We aren't given a very clear timeline for how long Sarah spent in Beth's apartment before she ended up at the police station, but my impression is that it was not very long. And remember, Sarah was not initially planning to take over Beth's life. Her plan, at first, was to impersonate Beth long enough to get access to the large sum of money Beth had, then skip town with it. As such, she was not concerned with digging into Beth's background all that much; if she were, then her place-of-work would certainly have been near the top of the list of things to find out. But all she really need to do was fool the bankers -- looks, speech patterns, mannerisms, signatures, etc. She spent what little time she had watching home videos of Beth to nail down those things, and didn't get any further than that before Art interrupted her scheme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as clues that should have been &quot;immediately obvious&quot;, as you said, her badge and gun wouldn't have been lying around the apartment. She was a detective, so she would probably have had only a single dress uniform, and when Sarah digs through Beth's closet she clearly didn't find it. Perhaps Beth kept it stored away to avoid damaging it, or maybe she had just sent it out for dry cleaning in anticipation of her hearing, who knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, you might expect there to be some kind of memorabilia around the apartment that would tip Sarah off as to what Beth did for a living. But it's also possible that Beth didn't like to &quot;bring work home&quot; with her; we don't see much of &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; decorating Beth's apartment, and it may simply be that Beth kept her work memorabilia on her desk at work, and reserved her space at home for personal things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T18:55:17.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15069" CreationDate="2014-04-25T20:26:03.650" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the flashback, when Odin picks up baby Loki, Loki's blue skin turns to Asgardian skin. When he is grabbed by the frost giants, his skin reverted back to the original form, not only changing the color, but the texture as well (if you noticed, the frost giants have ice like skin, presumably from being in Jotunheim so long). Loki's size is actually talked about in the original Norse myths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frost giants are different from humans in many ways, one of them being that the males carry the children and give birth. Loki had two older brothers (their names escape me at this moment), both of whom Laufey (Loki's father) birthed. They are much older than Loki. There was much pain in Laufey's labor of the two eldest because they were so big. Laufey was the king of the frost giants, and so naturally he was huge, even for a frost giant. When Laufey was giving birth to Loki he had no pain which concerned him. It turned out, Loki was a runt and so the maid asked if he wanted to get rid of Loki. Though sometimes cruel, Laufey was not heartless, and kept the little frost giant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not long after Odin came and the war began, killing both of Loki's older brothers, who Loki never got to know. Laufey had to leave his now only child and join in the battle against the Norse god. the rest of the story is shown in the movie. Odin takes the small frost giant and raises him as his own alongside his biological son Thor who is older than Loki. They do not know they are not related until many years later as adults. That wouldn't have mattered to them anyway. They were brothers by bond, not blood, which in a way can be much better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there you go, sorry it was long, but I love mythology. I hope I explained it well enough and answered the question. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9275" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-25T20:45:00.587" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T20:45:00.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14801" CreationDate="2014-04-25T21:09:06.083" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dormer is a good man at the core, though he has done bad things with good intentions.  He ultimately wanted to be held accountable, even if he couldn't quite admit it to himself until the end. The insomnia was a metaphor for his guilt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's likely he saw a young, idealistic version of himself in Ellie, and did not want her to become corrupted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9270" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T21:09:06.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18957" CreationDate="2014-04-25T21:35:26.013" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Snow's control of the Capital relies on keeping them constantly entertained, so that they care for nothing except their spectacles, their dramas, and the big stories that are constantly pumped on the television. For that, Snow wanted them emotionally invested in the Katniss/Peeta love story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exposing her as opportunistic or duplicitous might have harmed &lt;em&gt;her&lt;/em&gt; reputation, but it would have started the Capital audience asking more questions - about District 12, about why she would lie, about what her life was like. This sweet story was perfect for engaging the audience and keeping their thoughts away from unwanted matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, as long as she's playing his game, he has her under control. He can expose her when he wants to, if she starts causing trouble. But if he exposes her, he doesn't have anything to control her with anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1507" LastEditorUserId="1507" LastEditDate="2014-04-27T14:33:01.957" LastActivityDate="2014-04-27T14:33:01.957" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18974" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18984" CreationDate="2014-04-25T22:29:43.137" Score="11" ViewCount="3909" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first Total Recall, there's an unimportant shot where the receptioninst at Recall is changing the color of her nails. She taps one with a stylus, and it &quot;wipes&quot; to a different color. (I can't remember if all of them changed, or just the ones she tapped.) The effect was flawless, and this was in 1990 - way before CGI was being used! Anyone know how they did that effect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yQxPZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-31T13:24:01.850" LastActivityDate="2014-05-31T13:24:01.850" Title="Total Recall (1990) nail color change effect" Tags="|effects|make-up|total-recall|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18974" CreationDate="2014-04-25T23:32:49.813" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I couldn't tell you the exact technique they would have used, but I assume they just had an effect artist colour it in post-production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, CGI was being used in film to varying degrees all throughout the 1980s, though they have said that one of the only CG shots in Total Recall was for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pajiba.com/seriously_random_lists/mindhole-blowers-20-facts-about-total-recall-that-might-open-your-mind.php#.U1rucPldVBl&quot;&gt;x-ray scanner&lt;/a&gt; scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9270" LastActivityDate="2014-04-25T23:32:49.813" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18974" CreationDate="2014-04-25T23:55:43.027" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;CGI was actually fairly common practice by the 1990s, a watershed period for digital visual effects. Most prominently rendered in wireframe in the 1970s (Star Wars IV, 1977; Superman, 1978), by the mid-80s various scifi and fantasy films employed photoreal mapping effects (Flight of the Navigator, 1986) and were making strides in live action/digital composition and character animation (The Abyss, 1989). We tend to think of CGI in terms of photoreal humans or animals, which look dated by 2010s standards, but accepting that subtler blends of environmental digital VFX were quite common by then, and the industry's relative mastery of green or blue screen (chroma key) compositing and rotoscope animation, it's not difficult to imagine that shots like the nail color change in Total Recall were done digitally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The VFX team of Total Recall &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100802/awards&quot;&gt;won the Special Achievement Award for Visual Effects in 1990&lt;/a&gt; for groundbreaking &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsTza718oN0&quot;&gt;use of CGI&lt;/a&gt; as well as an extensive mix of animatronics, stop motion and miniature set composites.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Traditionally or digitally, the nail color change was achieved with chroma key compositing. Based on the conspicuously saturated blue/orange of the nails, it's likely the actresses's nails were painted green, making it easy to overlay any other solid color in post-production while preserving light reflection. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastEditorUserId="9247" LastEditDate="2014-04-26T00:16:21.883" LastActivityDate="2014-04-26T00:16:21.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18978" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18981" CreationDate="2014-04-26T05:09:11.093" Score="2" ViewCount="874" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Anchorman 2, Brick Tamland alludes to the future and his knowledge of it multiple times. For example, he tells the news crew how they will all be flying around on jetpacks ten years in the future. Also, in the battle scene,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Brick has a gun from the future, and does not tell Ron or the news team where he got it from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Brick from the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5587" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-26T08:41:29.080" LastActivityDate="2016-09-13T11:23:52.550" Title="Is Brick Tamland from the future?" Tags="|character|anchorman-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18978" CreationDate="2014-04-26T12:02:10.190" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Brick doesn't appear to be &lt;em&gt;from&lt;/em&gt; the future, but is a character who (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_GMMD_GCTg&quot;&gt;Brian Fantana&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuHezFweJ40&quot;&gt;Champ Kind&lt;/a&gt; and Veronica Corningstone) is able to use &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jUNzWOMQz2EC&amp;amp;pg=PA156&amp;amp;lpg=PA156&amp;amp;dq=direct%20address%20introduction%20of%20characters%20in%20film&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=NYpdLmiESb&amp;amp;sig=jvUOszRkb6N7KDoSfQy8u6tTxtk&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=eJ1bU-ipGMmrO_yQgdAP&amp;amp;ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=direct%20address%20introduction%20of%20characters%20in%20film&amp;amp;f=false&quot;&gt;direct address&lt;/a&gt; to the audience, as such breaking the fourth wall. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be evidence withing the first film, where the characters introduce themselves to camera; although Corningstone only uses direct address in voiceover, and then only once.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is supposed to be inferred &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ObdvAAAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PT38&amp;amp;lpg=PT38&amp;amp;dq=direct%20address%20introduction%20of%20characters%20in%20film&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=cq3fKfKcya&amp;amp;sig=YdhlxXyonVoHmcJYo30d_O3VUyo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=eJ1bU-ipGMmrO_yQgdAP&amp;amp;ved=0CFAQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=direct%20address%20introduction%20of%20characters%20in%20film&amp;amp;f=false&quot;&gt;as a cinematic technique&lt;/a&gt; rather than something actually occuring within the film, in what is known as an 'extradiegetic element'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anchorman's natural playfulness with form and content means it is able to very humoursously play with the conventions of cinema, and largely abandon concerns towards continutity: Hence Brick's acquisition of a 'Lazer Gun' amongst other preposterously implausible plot developments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are playing with form deliberately to find humour, its not supposed to be a sub-plot or additional element.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, Brick is also the only character who is able to reveal his foreknowledge of the future in the first Movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19X3VHY3qZs&quot;&gt;during his introduction:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm Brick Tamland. People seem to like me because I am polite and I am&#xA;  rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of&#xA;  slacks. &lt;strong&gt;Years later,&lt;/strong&gt; a doctor will tell me that I have an I.Q. of&#xA;  48 and am what some people call mentally retarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible to infer from that this Brick is capable of precogniction, but its much more likely that this is just a technique employed for humour and not deliberate sub plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all: it's funny that we don't know (and neither does he!) where Brick got his 'Future-Gun'; If it was an established subplot that he was a time traveller, this wouldn't work as a joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-04-26T12:02:10.190" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18863" CreationDate="2014-04-26T13:14:29.160" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is intentionally left unclear so that you analyze everyone in the movie in retrospect and study each and every criticism of the church as presented by each character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a clever way to really force across the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9281" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-07-25T15:01:10.963" LastActivityDate="2018-07-25T15:01:10.963" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18974" CreationDate="2014-04-26T14:06:47.307" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.denofgeek.com/other/12661/top-sfx-shots-no18-total-recall&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Den Of Geek - Top SFX shots&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The nails are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-art-of-roto-2011/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;rotoscoped&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to provide an area for an animated colour transition to take place, and that's all there is to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rotoscoping&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;refers to the technique of manually &lt;strong&gt;creating a matte for an element on a live-action plate so it may be composited over another background&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rotoscoped_works#Live_action_films&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;examples&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;&quot;painting&quot; over live-action film&lt;/strong&gt; that predate &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;'Total Recall'&lt;/strong&gt; (1990)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096438/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who Framed Roger Rabbit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(1988)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uTnB5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Benny&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDNzgdc69aE&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kkvT0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Benny 2&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Roger_Rabbit/Gallery&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Original &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Star Wars&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; trilogy &lt;em&gt;(1977-1983)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lightsabers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3CND2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sWbUi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tNrLW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xbu0P.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIefj6dOhnM&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Star Wars Featurette: The Birth of the Lightsaber&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2014-04-26T14:06:47.307" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18987" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="18989" CreationDate="2014-04-26T16:17:21.617" Score="21" ViewCount="22541" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, it is shown that members of the Order of Phoenix come to rescue Harry from his house at Privet Drive. There, they all drink Polyjuice Potion and assume the form of Harry to confuse death eaters in identifying who is the real Harry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An obvious, more safe, better choice would be to change Harry into someone else. Maybe a muggle, like his cousin Dudley. And then, safely take him to the Weasleys, maybe apparating. That way, death eaters won't ever find out. Isn't that correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't they take this path, and follow a rather complicated and risky one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9126" LastActivityDate="2020-06-29T01:09:38.007" Title="Why didn't Harry himself drink Polyjuice Potion instead of all others in Deathly Hallows Part 1?" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|the-deathly-hallows-1|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18988" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-26T17:05:35.830" Score="2" ViewCount="652" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I realized that there are some differences in the runtime of Christiane F.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In IMDB there are two runtimes. One is 138min and another is 131min. And they said that the 131min version is a 'Cut' version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched the 131min runtime version but I didn't see the 138min version. I had searched about the 138min runtime version, but I can't find anything (a file or just what the differences are).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are they different and what are they different for? What are the scenes that were cut?&#xA;I'm so curious. Please let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9284" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-26T22:24:00.480" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T19:11:07.957" Title="What are the differences between the 138min and 131min versions of Christiane F.?" Tags="|alternate-version|christiane-f|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18987" CreationDate="2014-04-26T17:25:06.143" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few reasons why they all chose to take the form of Harry, but these are entirely explained in the books as opposed to the films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll start with my own speculation, before moving on to evidence from the book. I believe if they disguised him as, for example, his cousin Dudley, it would look &lt;em&gt;especially&lt;/em&gt; suspicious. Imagine if Voldemort and the Death Eaters had seen a collection of wizards, then this random boy that they know Harry lives with and doesn't like? That would make him stand out even more. The same logic applies if they were to disguise him as a random muggle from the village, or wizard from the wizarding community (not to mention they need some &amp;quot;part&amp;quot; of whoever they want to change in to).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of this, even if this ruse was successful, if the real Dudley was seen in future he would likely be killed instantly by the Death Eaters as they would suspect it was Harry. In other words, it would draw unwanted attention to Harry's family, putting their lives at danger. Again, this logic applies to any other wizard/muggle they could disguise him as.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They could have made Harry change into another member of the party, e.g. Hermione or Ron, but this solution isn't really any different to what they actually did in the end. Doing this would have resulted in two or more Hermoiones/Rons and would have left the same problem for the Death Eaters that their actual solution (the Seven Potters) did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, their final solution of disguising everyone as Harry seemed to be the safest solution - albeit, still very risky (as the death of Moody showed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, turning to the books as evidence - firstly, from Snape's pensieve flashbacks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“You will have to give Voldemort the correct date of Harry’s departure&#xA;from his aunt and uncle’s,” said Dumbledore. “Not to do so will raise&#xA;suspicion, when Voldemort believes you so well informed. However, you&#xA;must plant the idea of decoys; that, I think, ought to ensure Harry’s&#xA;safety. Try Confunding Mundungus Fletcher. And Severus, if you are&#xA;forced to take part in the chase, be sure to act your part&#xA;convincingly. . . . I am counting upon you to remain in Lord&#xA;Voldemort’s good books as long as possible, or Hogwarts will be left&#xA;to the mercy of the Carrows. . . .”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now Snape was head to head with Mundungus in an unfamiliar tavern,&#xA;Mundungus’s face looking curiously blank, Snape frowning in&#xA;concentration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“You will suggest to the Order of the Phoenix,” Snape murmured, “that&#xA;they use decoys. Polyjuice Potion. Identical Potters. It is the only&#xA;thing that might work. You will forget that I have suggested this. You&#xA;will present it as your own idea. You understand?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I understand,” murmured Mundungus, his eyes unfocused. . . .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This shows that it was Dumbledore and Snape's idea - so Dumbledore himself really had thought this gave Harry the best chance of escape. Ths strategy essentially served two purposes - to give Harry the best chance of survival and to firmly establish Snape's reputation as Voldemort's most trusted ally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The books also describe why the solution of apparating couldn't work. As explained in the seventh book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moody dropped his sacks at his feet and turned to Harry. &amp;quot;As Daedalus&#xA;probably told you, we had to abandon Plan A. Pius Thicknesse has gone&#xA;over, which gives us a big problem. He's made it an imprisonable&#xA;offense to connect this house to the Floo Network, place a Portkey&#xA;here, or Apparate in or out. All done in the name of your protection,&#xA;to prevent You-Know-Who getting in at you. Absolutely pointless,&#xA;seeing at your mother's charm does that already. What he's really done&#xA;is to stop you getting out of here safely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Second problem: You're&#xA;underage, which means you've still got the Trace on you.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I don't -&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The Trace, the Trace!&amp;quot; said Mad-Eye impatiently. &amp;quot;The charm that&#xA;detects magical activity around under-seventeens, the way the Ministry&#xA;finds out about underage magic! If you, or anyone around you, casts a&#xA;spell to get you out of here, Thicknesse is going to know about it,&#xA;and so will the Death Eaters&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;We can't wait for the Trace to break,&#xA;because the moment you turn seventeen you'll lose all the protection&#xA;your mother gave you...We're going to use the only means of transport&#xA;left to us, the only ones the Trace can't detect, because we don't&#xA;need to cast spells to use them: brooms, thestrals and Hagrid's&#xA;motorbike.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So any attempt to transport Harry would have resulted in his whereabouts being immediately known - and as we see a few lines later on, the group really believed they had misled Voldemort and thought they could safely get Harry out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The one thing we've got on our side is that You-Know-Who doesn't know&#xA;we're moving you tonight. We've leaked a fake trail to the Ministry:&#xA;They think you're not leaving until the thirtieth.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So ultimately, they couldn't apparate without drawing attention to themselves. Harry then turns seventeen at the Burrow. This conversation takes place at the Burrow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hermione: &amp;quot;What if the Death Eaters have found a way to put [the&#xA;Trace] on a seventeen-year-old?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ron: &amp;quot;But Harry hasn't been near a Death Eater in the last&#xA;twenty-four hours. Who's supposed to have put a Trace back on him?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Ron, from a wizarding background, seems to suggest the Trace needs to be manually reapplied. Therefore, &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; his birthday, they could apparate safely, but not before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-04-26T17:32:02.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18863" CreationDate="2014-04-26T22:02:39.053" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the dog had to die, it doesn't matter who killed him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole film hinges on Father James reactions to what goes on around him. This is a representation of the church's reaction to its past sins. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are all horrified when we see the dead dog, and more so when we see James reaction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are less horrified when we hear a mass murderers explanation of how and why he killed his victims, and we all are almost ambivalent to the regular suggestions of mass paedophilia that occur during the film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The line at the end &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;and did you cry when you heard about what your colleagues had done&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is the crux of the matter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Father James thinks he is a good priest and yet he weeps at the &lt;strong&gt;murder&lt;/strong&gt; of an ageing dying dog, but has nothing to say to a parishioner who tells him that he was continuously raped as a child for five years. Father James is so self obsessed that all he can say to his own daughter when she attempts suicide is that she mucked it up. To turn him into an apparent hero is satire of the very best. Bravo and well done Mr. McDonagh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9290" LastEditorUserId="51336" LastEditDate="2018-07-18T04:10:24.980" LastActivityDate="2018-07-18T04:10:24.980" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="18997" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19005" CreationDate="2014-04-26T22:16:41.220" Score="3" ViewCount="576" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the plot of 50 First Dates.  But I abhor the gratuitous obscenities therein.  I have often found that when a (bad) comedy has a great plot, it is because the plot is stolen.  And, in general, modern writers often borrow plots from earlier movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a prior movie to 50 First Dates with the same great plot?  Or did the modern writers of this movie actually come up with this story themselves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9287" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-26T22:21:51.423" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T01:25:33.787" Title="50 First Dates: precursors?" Tags="|50-first-dates|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18997" CreationDate="2014-04-26T22:52:34.307" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's hard to find a review of the film that doesn't compare it to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Groundhog Day&lt;/a&gt;. For example, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/50-first-dates-2004&quot;&gt;Roger Ebert's&lt;/a&gt; opening line in his review:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just in time for Valentine's Day, &quot;50 First Dates&quot; is a spin on the&#xA;  &quot;Groundhog Day&quot; notion of a day that keeps repeating itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly the underlying premise of having to repeat a day over and over is the same, although 50 First Dates uses a slightly different plot technique to achieve this. Whether this makes it original or whether it just makes it an intelligent copy is subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-04-26T22:52:34.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="18999" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19003" CreationDate="2014-04-27T01:00:11.290" Score="7" ViewCount="388" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234003/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Calvary&lt;/a&gt; (which, on reflection after two viewings is less of a black comedy and more of a philosophical essay) the opening scene sets up the antagonist's intent to kill a good priest. He explains that killing a bad priest, even the one who abused him, would be pointless (even if he were still alive) so he proposes the killing of an innocent, good priest to make a point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what is the point? What does he expect to happen as a result of the murder?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-04-27T13:42:45.663" LastActivityDate="2014-04-27T13:42:45.663" Title="What does the antagonist hope to achieve by killing a priest?" Tags="|plot-explanation|calvary|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3420" CreationDate="2014-04-27T03:37:53.523" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The pressure of the bomb, even if detonated in mid-air, would displace the water much like dropping a bowling ball in your full bathtub.  Gotham would be crushed by the &quot;splash&quot; let alone the tsunami.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9294" LastActivityDate="2014-04-27T03:37:53.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2013" CreationDate="2014-04-27T03:45:16.693" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got here, because I have to write an essay about this opening sequence. Here's what I wrote (hope it will be useful):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The opening sequence was designed by Santa Monica-based Elastic design studio director Angus Wall, working along with The Rock Paper Scissors group. Wall is an acclaimed film editor and title designer that rose to prominence during the 90's when he worked for David Fincher as his lead editorial consultant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main function of the title sequence was to help the audience orient themselves within complex plots that affect and intertwine each other in the giant fictional world of Westeros and Essos. Elastic team was to introduce the world's maps and geography to the viewer, but also to avoid standard tropes for fantasy maps - aged parchment with Medieval-like inscriptions presented in the candle light; and although Tolkien maps of Middle-Earth was their starting point inspiration, they had to move away from this kind of depiction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The breakthrough happened when the design process moved from Middle Ages to more enlightened ones. Decorated initials and vignettes were exchanged for Da Vinci's sketches and models. The digitally created clockwork universe was born. To stay away from both – the archaic belief of flat earth  and the illuminated spherical earth models – Angus Wall and his team created an inverted world that surfaces on the inside of a sphere. To marry helio- and geocentric models of the universe, the sun is placed in the centre of the world, within a celestial armillary sphere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's surprising, the sun itself became a flat object – a disc constrained within the innermost ring of the astrolabe, rotating within the machine. Rings of the astrolabe are engraved with scenes from Westeros history that occurred prior to the action in the books and the TV series – three of those are shown – the Targaryen invasion of Westeros (burning city, dragon and an army), Robert's Rebellion (a wolf, a lion and a stag killing a three-headed dragon) and Robert's ride to power (a stag with a halo with other animals paying homage to it). &quot;We cut to those three times in the title sequence, so you actually see a history of Westeros and Essos. The third time we see all the animals [representing] the different houses bowing down to the Baratheon stag, which brings us to the present, where there's a Baratheon king. We wanted to be very, very faithful to the book because we knew there would be a large fan base that will be looking at this very carefully,&quot; says Angus Wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the digitally-created environment, the camera (or rather illusion of it) swoops down from the sun towards the surface of the map (speeded up with few lens snicks – another invention for the mechanism-themed opening). At the surface, a single cogwheel with a crest starts to turn and the whole clockwork model of a city emerges from the ground. The camera travels from place to place, showing more cities and castles, each being erected in the like manner. This part represents the ruling houses with their machinations being the propelling force of “Game of Thrones” world. Also, it informs the viewer where the action of the episode will take place. This creates an unprecedented result, as the opening scores animation evolves from episode to episode as multiple plots develop. In the first season alone there is four varying openings, or “map paths”. The rest of the map is a topographic representation in 3D, having distinct angular shapes (contour intervals are presented literally) and small amount of features, generalised only to main roads (lines), forests (green spiked pyramids) and rocks (grey polygons). Names of notable places are integral part of the map, the style of the font resembles quill and ink writing, similar one to the one used in Tolkien maps for “Lord of the Rings”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9295" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-03-07T20:56:35.880" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T20:56:35.880" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="19003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18999" CreationDate="2014-04-27T11:54:10.230" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;“There’s no point in killing a bad priest, I’m going to kill you because you’re innocent.”&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By Killing an 'innocent' priest, the Murderer seeks to denounce the Catholic Church &lt;em&gt;as an institution&lt;/em&gt;, instead of punishing an individual for actual misconduct...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Murder, being 'cold-blooded' will not be perceived as an Vendetta, but as an act of retribution; a twisted penance towards the church for their past sins, Justice from injustice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film disects the relevance Roman Catholocism constantly, as it seems every character is in some way antagonistic towards the priesthood, but tellingly none seem to hold any personal grievence with Father Lavelle, who is knowledgable of and reluctant to align himself in favor with the wider historical actions of the Catholic Church:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Michael Fitzgerald: You're a priest, are you not? A Representative for&#xA;  the Catholic Church?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Father Lavelle: If &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; say so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also has a number of discussions throughout the film about the injustices of the Catholic Church, and airs grievances with their particulr handling of Paedophilic priests in his discussions with Inspector Stanton.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that Lavelle hasn't actually done anything wrong is, for the murderer, the entire point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By giving Father Lavelle 7 days to &quot;Get his house in order&quot;, he's actually seeing if he has the 'faith' to stick around. It's a test to see if he truly possesses the noble tenants of his vocation, or if he will abandon Sligo (and with it, his own faith) in order to futher his own interests (in this case, his survival).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lavelle must, like Christ, sacrifice himself. If he doesn't, he would be unable to live up to his responsibilites to the wider community, and the obligations of priesthood, and to come to terms with his own personal Golgotha. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for Lavelle its more than that, its a crisis of faith on a very personal level. Sligo is a veritable viper pit, each character in some way tempting Lavelle to abandon his vocation, like the temptation of Christ. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Testing the faith of a wicked man serves no purpose, and sends no message other than revenge. If an innocent man is killed, willingly, in order to stop others being harmed, it &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be perceived as a form of redemption; at least from the perspective of the Killer, who seeks to draw attention to the hypocrisy of the church.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Father Lavelle must discover if he has the capacity for the most saintly, Christlike virtue: self-sacrifice, or a noble suicide ... despite the dichotomy that concept created within Catholic values, as commented directly by the film; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fiona Lavelle&lt;/strong&gt;: He was an Italian Author, killed himself. Before he did he made a list of all the famous suicides in History. He included&#xA;  Christ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Father James Lavelle&lt;/strong&gt;: Sounds like a bit of a smartarse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Press notes mention that &lt;em&gt;The Guard&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Calvary&lt;/em&gt; are the first two installments of a trilogy that will conclude with a film titled &lt;em&gt;The Lame Shall Enter First&lt;/em&gt;, perhaps for a deeper understanding of the themes that McDonagh circulates, check out &lt;em&gt;The Guard&lt;/em&gt;; which is much more a straightforward comedy, but no less profound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-04-27T13:38:22.020" LastActivityDate="2014-04-27T13:38:22.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18997" CreationDate="2014-04-27T12:48:40.037" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;50 First Dates&quot; (2004) shares various similarities with Hong Kong romantic comedy &quot;Why Me, Sweetie?!&quot; (2003) (simplified Chinese: 失憶界女王)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Why Me, Sweetie?!, a woman falls for a man who suffers selective memory loss triggered by his own falling in love. He repeatedly connects with her and then forgets who she is. The genders are reversed and the &quot;rules&quot; of memory loss are a little broader, but the hijinks of trying to woo an amnesiac are generally the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Details, trivia and caveats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) DVD cover &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B000B6TT6O&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379975/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Me,_Sweetie%3F!&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; reference the same mock DVD cover whose headline reads &quot;The film that inspired the Adam Sandler comedy 50 FIRST DATES!&quot; This image exists in low quality on the web only and the claim is not repeated on official or bootleg versions of the English-subtitled DVD. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CkKOu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Why Me, Sweetie?! DVD cover comparison&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The origin of this mock cover is unknown. It doesn't seem to come from the makers of Why Me, Sweetie?! or DVD producer Mei Ah. Neither is there any record of correspondence between the makers/DVD producer and Columbia Pictures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Screenwriter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;http://2020awards.org/2013/11/19/episode-22-the-creative-process-screenwriter-george-wing/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;podcast interview&lt;/a&gt;, screenwriter George Wing states that he drafted &quot;Fifty First Kisses&quot; as an original personal project, which Columbia Pictures purchased via his agent. Following &quot;upheaval&quot; at the studio, it gained the attention of Adam Sandler and his team, who rewrote virtually all the dialogue but left Wing's basic characters, plot and circumstances intact. Wing is the sole credited writer of the script. At 5:22 he says (emphasis added): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That has a lot to do with the fact I originated it. &lt;strong&gt;If you originate a screenplay that's not based on something else&lt;/strong&gt; you have a lot more clout when it comes time to determine the credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wing implicitly takes credit for the story here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Officially&lt;/em&gt; there is no connection between 50 First Dates and Why Me, Sweetie?!, but between the (coincidental?) plot similarity and mock image there persists a popular opinion that one is based on the other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say your instincts are well tuned, but the evidence is inconclusive. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastEditorUserId="9247" LastEditDate="2014-04-28T01:25:33.787" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T01:25:33.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4427" CreationDate="2014-04-27T16:23:35.737" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the Borden twin that answered the question the first time genuinely didn't know. I'm sure he found out later or knew already... we ALL knew... BUT anyways he had to COMMIT to his answer for the remainder of his life. That was the price of living the act. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9301" LastActivityDate="2014-04-27T16:23:35.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11384" CreationDate="2014-04-27T17:13:37.277" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interestingly enough, there are other indicators that suggest that &quot;James Bond&quot; becomes the name of the new agent designated for the 007 slot, so that would logically provide the alias from his real identity...and anonymity for a few missions until an enemy agency picks up on the name. However, given tech these days, a permanent alias wouldn't do much good anyway, since cameras and databases everywhere are going to verify who he is at light speed. The trick is to just not let people know where you ARE, and that's always been his style, and something that right pisses off his employers regularly. He just doesn't go through the trouble of the ID when he's expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, as the reboot proved, everyone knows his name from the start...but, quizzically, he's also a new agent in the role, showing the two kills he needed for 00 status. M also says &quot;orphans make the best agents,&quot; which hints at more than one orphaned naval intelligence officer donning the role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're very cagey about the whole thing, but the clues are there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9302" LastActivityDate="2014-04-27T17:13:37.277" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14839" CreationDate="2014-04-27T19:13:25.147" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;That back story is explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300:_Rise_of_an_Empire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;300: Rise of an Empire (2014)&lt;/a&gt; where Xerxes, at the behest of Artemisia bathes in some liquid of the Gods, emerging as the &quot;God-King&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9304" LastEditorUserId="67819" LastEditDate="2019-01-08T15:10:16.667" LastActivityDate="2019-01-08T15:10:16.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="19016" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19020" CreationDate="2014-04-28T01:10:06.513" Score="8" ViewCount="1075" Body="&lt;p&gt;When watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392170/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as well as its sequel &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Catching Fire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, it occured to me that the members of the &lt;em&gt;Capitol&lt;/em&gt; often bear Latin forenames, like &lt;em&gt;Seneca&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Ceasar&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Claudius&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Plutarch&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Octavia&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Flavius&lt;/em&gt;, ..., while their last names are more or less English (as well as the general cultural/linguistic history of &lt;em&gt;Panem&lt;/em&gt; I suppose, but that would be speculation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, &lt;strong&gt;are there more hints in the movies (or maybe at least the books) that there is a prevalent affinity to ancient Roman culture in &lt;em&gt;Panem&lt;/em&gt;'s upper class&lt;/strong&gt; or is this more or less limited to the names (well, at least one could see the term &quot;Capitol&quot; and the actual Hunger Games as a kind of  gladiator fights in relation to that)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And furthermore, &lt;strong&gt;is there any significance to or deeper reason (be it in-universe or out-of-universe) for this relation&lt;/strong&gt; or is this only to emphasize the &lt;em&gt;Capitol&lt;/em&gt;'s excess and decadence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T10:46:31.357" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T10:46:31.357" Title="Why the prevalence of Latin forenames in the Capitol?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|the-hunger-games|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19017" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-28T04:40:02.903" Score="12" ViewCount="3930" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 3rd season of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we come to know that there is a dark mystery associated with the past of Dr Watson's wife. How did Sherlock deduce that she was/is a CIA agent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6077" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-10T02:38:21.663" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T04:32:48.780" Title="At what point does Sherlock come to know the truth about Dr. Watson's wife?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19017" CreationDate="2014-04-28T07:11:52.277" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 'His last vow', Sherlock finds Mary holding Magnussen at gun point. This is what gives her away. Later, after escaping from the hospital, he arranges an encounter with Mary where she confesses to being a secret agent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it is mentioned anywhere that she was a CIA agent though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T07:11:52.277" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19016" CreationDate="2014-04-28T07:15:49.243" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suzanne Collins, the author of the novels, is known to be a huge fan of ancient Roman and Greek mythology. For example, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slj.com/2008/09/authors-illustrators/a-killer-story-an-interview-with-suzanne-collins-author-of-the-hunger-games/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: Thanks to a cruel futuristic government, 24 children are chosen by&#xA;lottery to compete in the annual Hunger Games—a fight to the death&#xA;that’s televised live. How did you come up with that idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: It’s very much based on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, which&#xA;I read when I was eight years old. I was a huge fan of Greek and Roman&#xA;mythology. As punishment for displeasing Crete, Athens periodically&#xA;had to send seven youths and seven maidens to Crete, where they were&#xA;thrown into the labyrinth and devoured by the Minotaur, which is a&#xA;monster that’s half man and half bull. Even when I was a little kid,&#xA;the story took my breath away, because it was so cruel, and Crete was&#xA;so ruthless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She discusses this in more detail in an interview with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scholastic.com/thehungergames/media/suzanne_collins_q_and_a.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Scholastic&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: You weave action, adventure, mythology, sci-fi, romance, and&#xA;philosophy throughout The Hunger Games. What influenced the creation&#xA;of The Hunger Games?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: A significant influence would have to be the&#xA;Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. The myth tells how in&#xA;punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven&#xA;youths and seven maidens to Crete, where they were thrown in the&#xA;Labyrinth and devoured by the monstrous Minotaur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even as a kid, I&#xA;could appreciate how ruthless this was. Crete was sending a very clear&#xA;message: “Mess with us and we’ll do something worse than kill you.&#xA;We’ll kill your children.” And the thing is, it was allowed; the&#xA;parents sat by powerless to stop it. Theseus, who was the son of the&#xA;king, volunteered to go. I guess in her own way, Katniss is a&#xA;futuristic Theseus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In keeping with the classical roots, I send my&#xA;tributes into an updated version of the Roman gladiator games, which&#xA;entails a ruthless government forcing people to fight to the death as&#xA;popular entertainment. The world of Panem, particularly the Capitol,&#xA;is loaded with Roman references. Panem itself comes from the&#xA;expression “Panem et Circenses” which translates into “Bread and&#xA;Circuses.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The audiences for both the Roman games and reality TV are&#xA;almost characters in themselves. They can respond with great&#xA;enthusiasm or play a role in your elimination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a final note, this interesting page at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shmoop.com/hunger-games/allusions.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shmoop&lt;/a&gt; discusses some of the allusions to Roman society, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The name Panem (as discussed above)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The arena and its similarity to the Colosseum&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cinna - there were two Cinnas associated with Julius Caesar. One was a tyrant involved in his assassination, the other a poet murdered following the assassination after being mistakenly identified as the &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; Cinna.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The large number of Roman names in the Capitol.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these references have obviously come from interviews with the author. The books don't provide any deeper reason for this and the movies certainly don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would add that from an &lt;em&gt;out of universe&lt;/em&gt; point of view, I think you've already described the link: &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;one could see the term &amp;quot;Capitol&amp;quot; and the actual Hunger Games as a kind of gladiator fights in relation to that&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;. I think that's exactly what is at play here. The use of Roman symbolism throughout the Capitol only further emphasizes the strength and might of the Capitol over the weak, disjointed Districts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T07:15:49.243" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19021" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19023" CreationDate="2014-04-28T07:15:57.120" Score="4" ViewCount="1545" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Captain Philips the four man team boards the ship. I'm struggling to understand how they originally intended to make their money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They couldn't hope to carry the cargo off in their little skiff&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They wouldn't expect to bring the ship into port and offloading the cargo without the authorities getting involved&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They were clearly looking for more than the $30,000 offered (and so were probably not looking for cash)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I got the impression taking Philips as a hostage was actually a spur of the moment thing, it wasn't what they set out to do from the beginning.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which leaves the option that they intended to hold the ship and ransom it back to the shipping company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They had to know that there were US task forces in the area directed to resolve this kind of problem. They saw (in fact counted on how difficult) it was for twenty men to defend the ship against four boarders. How would those four men hope to hold it against a highly trained military assault?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the pirates' original plan to make their money?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T11:57:02.060" Title="What exactly was the pirates' plan?" Tags="|plot-explanation|captain-phillips|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19017" CreationDate="2014-04-28T07:31:56.380" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;As @Bobby Alexander says, it's in &lt;strong&gt;His Last Vow&lt;/strong&gt;, when Sherlock finds Mary holding Magnussen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After she shoots him, he has a flashback to when he had met her in &lt;strong&gt;The Empty Hearse&lt;/strong&gt;. In that episode, he said goodbye to her as she got in to a taxi. He did &amp;quot;his thing&amp;quot; and analysed her, with words flashing on screen to show the viewers what he saw. It looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7qvAD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Mary Picture 1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his flashback, however, he thinks of this scene again and is able to focus in on one word in particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Acndr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Mary Picture 2&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was the point then in &lt;strong&gt;The Last Vow&lt;/strong&gt; at which Sherlock realised she wasn't who she claimed to be. However, it could be argued that he actually knew this from the first episode, &lt;strong&gt;The Empty Hearse&lt;/strong&gt;, as somewhere &lt;em&gt;deep down&lt;/em&gt; in his subconscious he knew this. He had already picked up that she was a liar, disillusioned etc. from that episode, but he had picked them up with so many other traits that they hadn't really &amp;quot;registered&amp;quot;. Whether you feel this actually counts, or if his true understanding of her nature in &lt;strong&gt;The Last Vow&lt;/strong&gt; was the real moment of realisation is obviously subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in &lt;strong&gt;The Last Vow&lt;/strong&gt;, Sherlock meets Mary after he gets out of hospital - it is there she officially confirms her hidden past as an assassin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the episode's script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MARY: How much d’you know already?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK (still speaking more&#xA;quietly than we’re used to): By your skill set, you are – or were – an&#xA;intelligence agent. Your accent is currently English but I suspect you&#xA;are not. You’re on the run from something; you’ve used your skills to&#xA;disappear; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(John shakes his head as if he can’t believe what he’s&#xA;hearing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: ... Magnussen knows your secret, which is why you&#xA;were going to kill him; and I assume you befriended Janine ... (he&#xA;grimaces, shifting uncomfortably on his chair) ... in order to get&#xA;close to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MAGNUSSEN: All those wet jobs for the CIA. Ooh!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Sherlock clearly deduced she was an intelligence agent (or at least a former one), whilst Magnussen reveals it was the CIA - although it could certainly be argued Sherlock already knew this and that this &lt;em&gt;revelation&lt;/em&gt; was to pinpoint exactly &lt;em&gt;who&lt;/em&gt; she worked for for the benefit of the viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T07:43:09.343" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19021" CreationDate="2014-04-28T08:44:53.883" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two sources of income for Somalian (and other contemporary) pirates: Valuable goods on board and ransom. Of course the valuable goods on board, typically the seaman's pay, is not enough to fund long running pirate activities. It may be enough for single actions but in the movie the pirates had an organisation and backers behind them. Even when it is only for the wages this can be planned, e.g. some pirates get the information about the date of the pay day and attack on that day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally and in this case it is simply about ransom. They have the crew, they have a ship that may be worth 100 million dollars, they have a cargo that may be around the same value. They can't directly cash this but for the shipping company paying a few hundred thousand dollar still is economically more sensible than losing this completely. Military presence doesn't work very well normally, it is too slow and too unreliable from the economical perspective. In the long run secure shipping is better, in the short run and for the single actor (like the shipping company) paying the terrorists / pirates is the cheaper alternative most of the time. The depiction of the military was a tad bit too positive, cheesy, and simplistic in this movie. In fact it looked a little bit like a Top Gun on the water recruiting video at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As seen in the movie there were backers who probably were &quot;responsible&quot; for this part, it wasn't a spontaneous attack. Often the ransom money will be simply dropped in bags out of planes. But that part wasn't explained in the movie; I don't know about the book (which is said by other crew members to be a little bit too positive about the role of Captain Phillips... who wrote it himself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia has an article specifically about Somalian pirate activities: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_in_Somalia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Piracy in Somalia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-04-28T08:50:23.273" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T08:50:23.273" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19024" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-04-28T08:51:47.713" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me&lt;/em&gt; (orig.: &lt;em&gt;So weit die Füße tragen&lt;/em&gt;) is a 2001 German adventure drama about a WWII prisoner's escape from a Siberian Gulag and his following long journey through the Soviet Union. It is based on the book of the same name by &lt;em&gt;Josef Martin Bauer&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277327/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Far_as_My_Feet_Will_Carry_Me&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-28T08:51:47.713" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T08:51:47.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19025" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-04-28T08:51:47.713" Score="0" Body="As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (orig.: So weit die Füße tragen) is a 2001 German adventure movie about a WWII prisoner's escape from a Siberian Gulag and his following long journey through the Soviet Union. It is based on the book of the same name by Josef Martin Bauer." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-04-28T08:51:47.713" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T08:51:47.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19021" CreationDate="2014-04-28T08:57:44.737" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I'm not sure the Navy's presence really worked as a definite deterrent that would stop the pirates from their determined plans, even if they realistically wouldn't have had a chance against them. Even more than that, once they had the ship under control, they would have hostages and the Navy, though surely able, would certainly think twice before entering the ship. And in addition to that, private organizations like the shipping company, are IMHO more likely to pay the ransom than governments, be it only for the publicity of not letting die their employees for mere &quot;closefistedness&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I don't think the plan of keeping the whole ship for ransom is that implausible. Other than that I'm also not sure their initial plan wasn't to capture the captain for ransom. So I think both those plans were not entirely implausible, even if I, like you, am not completely sure if the capturing of &lt;em&gt;Captain Phillips&lt;/em&gt; was only a short-circuited action or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T08:57:44.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19021" CreationDate="2014-04-28T09:12:31.290" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're probably correct that the Somalis' intent was to secure the ship and ransom it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that the pirates were successful only on their second attempt, after an extended chase that put them far outside the original range of capture. Their first (failed) attempt involved two teams and a &amp;quot;mothership&amp;quot; on standby, providing more manpower if nothing else. That first plan may have involved a further network who could tow the captured ship to shore, and &amp;quot;upper management&amp;quot; was within range to dictate action, transport the hostages elsewhere, et cetera. So much goes wrong during the narrative that we tend to see all decisions as acts of unplanned desperation after a point, but we can still guess at their original intentions if when they try to tow the Maersk with their lifeboat, they were following the same playbook as they started out with two teams and the mothership. It's just moot by then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking of narrative, the film is based on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/10/11/captain_phillips_true_story_fact_and_fiction_in_tom_hanks_and_paul_greengrass.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;questionable personal account&lt;/a&gt; of Richard Phillips, and further creative license may have been taken by director Greengrass. Neither of them are in a position to speak the minds of the real life pirates who attacked the Maersk Alabama, and may have deliberately left it vague in the storytelling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 2012 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2216240/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Hijacking&lt;/a&gt; (original Danish: Kapringen) is similarly about a commercial ship captured and ransomed by pirates, and painstakingly covers the negotiation process that concludes in a large payout, suggesting that pirates in general are driven by this goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Author Jay Bahadur wrote an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/24/a-pioneer-of-somali-piracy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;illuminating article for The Guardian in 2011&lt;/a&gt; about the lives of Somali pirates, the motivations for hijacking commercial ships, chain of command and ransom payouts, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relevant excerpts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... The commercial ships, identifiable by the cranes visible on their decks, were much slower and easier to capture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... Instances of the crew fighting back were rare, and rarely effective, and the whole process, from spotting to capturing, took at most 30 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... The captured ship was then steered to a friendly port – in Boyah's case, Eyl – where guards and interpreters were brought from the shore to look after the hostages during the ransom negotiation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T11:57:02.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19029" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-04-28T09:18:50.543" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Way Back&lt;/em&gt; is a 2010 adventure drama directed by &lt;em&gt;Peter Weir&lt;/em&gt; about a group of prisoners escaping from a Siberian Gulag around 1940 and their long journey to India. It is loosely based on the novel &lt;em&gt;The Long Walk&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;em&gt;Sławomir Rawicz&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1023114/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Back&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-05T16:25:30.363" LastActivityDate="2014-05-05T16:25:30.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19030" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-04-28T09:18:50.543" Score="0" Body="The Way Back is a 2010 adventure drama directed by Peter Weir about a group of prisoners escaping from a Siberian Gulag around 1940 and their long journey to India. It is loosely based on the novel The Long Walk by Sławomir Rawicz." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-05T16:25:30.363" LastActivityDate="2014-05-05T16:25:30.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30" CreationDate="2014-04-28T23:07:02.220" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well from what I watched I realized that the very beginning were Mazzy talks about the lost cat, honey could have contributed to the virus, but what I picked up on was during the interview with Ken someone interrupted and spoke something in French. He simply told them not to translate what has been said and they broadcasted it to everyone that is what contributed to the spreading of the virus the most. Also, because of their many viewers it affected a bunch of people, as Mazzy says &quot;If you piss off enough people, they will eventually become your fans, and that makes other people want to listen because those pissed off people tell other people they know and get them pissed off&quot; Which is exactly what happened, and the virus spreads like any normal virus would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9326" LastActivityDate="2014-04-28T23:07:02.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19045" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19047" CreationDate="2014-04-28T23:28:02.483" Score="3" ViewCount="803" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;em&gt;Ender&lt;/em&gt;'s training in preparation for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ender's Game&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; he and his comrades are inspected by &lt;em&gt;Colonel Graff&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Seargent Dap&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Graff&lt;/em&gt; holds a speech about possibly promoting some of the cadets and that everybody is in competition to everyone (clearly in an effort to inspire competition and quench too tight bonds between the cadets).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he is about to leave, &lt;em&gt;Ender&lt;/em&gt; asks if their e-mails are blocked and slightly protests against that, only to get a harsh &lt;em&gt;&quot;shut up and obey&quot;&lt;/em&gt;-response. But &lt;em&gt;Ender&lt;/em&gt; keeps on replying up to the point where the only reason seems mere defiance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dap:&lt;/strong&gt; Keep it up son and you will never make it to command school!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ender:&lt;/strong&gt; I thought it was a legitimate question.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dap:&lt;/strong&gt; What?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ender:&lt;/strong&gt; You said if we had a legitimate question...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dap:&lt;/strong&gt; DROP and give me twenty!... You think you're the smartest kid in the school?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ender:&lt;/strong&gt; No sir.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dap:&lt;/strong&gt; You will never be a commander, I will never salute you!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ender:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, you will, Seargent.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dap:&lt;/strong&gt; Give me twenty more!... Get up. You do not speak unless spoken to. Am I clear?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;all:&lt;/strong&gt; Sir, Yes sir!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ender:&lt;/strong&gt; Even if I have a legitimate question?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dap:&lt;/strong&gt; SHUT IT WIGGIN!... Now go to sleep, all of you.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ender&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(to everyone else looking at him):&lt;/em&gt; You heard him, get some sleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I wonder what to make out of this reaction exactly, seeing that he seemed to exaggerate his truculence here a bit. But it also seemed to give him a bit of appreciation from his comrades, which together with the fact that he was a very tactical and pragmatic thinker might even suggest this as a deliberate outcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;are there any further hints to what &lt;em&gt;Ender&lt;/em&gt;'s motivation for this slightly rebellious reply was?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was he simply being a bit defiant against the authorities there, maybe due to a little discontentness with his situation (or just &lt;em&gt;Graff&lt;/em&gt;'s crushing response)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or was this really just to get higher esteem from his comrades in order to become their leader (especially seeing his last sentence)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or did he just want to strengthen the bonds between the cadets in general and pose the superiors as the true enemies in reaction to &lt;em&gt;Graff&lt;/em&gt;'s group-destroying announcement?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is of course also the possibility that this has been left deliberately ambiguous in order to not draw &lt;em&gt;Ender&lt;/em&gt;'s motivations too clearly or because all those factors apply, but maybe there are more hints I missed or information about the background of his actions there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1020" LastEditDate="2014-08-14T18:53:15.217" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T18:28:38.763" Title="Why was Ender so defiant?" Tags="|analysis|character|enders-game|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19046" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-28T23:49:25.083" Score="16" ViewCount="1491" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Cabin in the Woods&lt;/em&gt; features a mysterious bureaucratic organisation that, although never named, commodifies certain supernatural creatures within its operation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both &lt;em&gt;Angel&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&lt;/em&gt; also feature commercial businesses that participate in such activity, either in facilitation of them or in reaction to them: the former with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_&amp;amp;_Hart&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wolfram &amp;amp; Hart&lt;/a&gt;, the latter with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Initiative_%28Buffyverse%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Initiative&lt;/a&gt; (of which Riley is an operative).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While others could also be argued, these two both have candidacy for potentially being connected to the un-named organisation within &lt;em&gt;The Cabin in The Woods&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given Whedon's current pursuits and (as evidenced by not only the Buffyverse, MCU and from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9781848850309?redirected=true&amp;amp;viewCountry=UK&amp;amp;selectCurrency=GBP&amp;amp;gclid=CPuImsSuhL4CFScHwwodhI4AFg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;David Lavery's anecdotal evidence&lt;/a&gt;) a propensity &lt;em&gt;toward&lt;/em&gt; universe sharing, is there anything in &lt;em&gt;The Cabin in the Woods&lt;/em&gt; that signals a crossover with another element of Joss Whedon's work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could they be diegetically linked? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorDisplayName="user11418" LastEditDate="2016-04-19T19:40:14.750" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T19:40:14.750" Title="Is The Cabin in the Woods linked to the Buffyverse?" Tags="|joss-whedon|the-cabin-in-the-woods|buffy-the-vampire-slayer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19045" CreationDate="2014-04-29T00:05:12.133" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read the novel years ago. FANTASTIC BOOK. Based on that and the movie, I believe Ender hates hypocrisy and/or corruption. He wants clear rules.  He also wants to be able to respect authority, and he won't do that if they're selfish. If two rules are in conflict, he will point it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think he wants everyone to be united, and that means that everybody realizes that the greater good (of the entire group) is more valuable than anyone's individual desires. That means that everyone should agree to the same rules and follow them. If one of the rules is that any legitimate question can be asked, he will see it as damaging the group if someone refuses to abide by the rule for selfish reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a little clumsy, and if I had a few hours to think about this I'd probably be more eloquent, but I wanted to put in my two cents. Someone else will probably be able to state all this more clearly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-04-29T00:05:12.133" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18080" CreationDate="2014-04-29T03:17:02.683" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Harlan killed Petty because he owed him 25k and wouldn't pay up. Rodney was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Leave no witnesses. Before killing him Harlan even says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You shoulda kept better company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's that simple and made perfect sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9331" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2014-04-29T09:47:04.303" LastActivityDate="2014-04-29T09:47:04.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18080" CreationDate="2014-04-29T03:19:59.753" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because DeGroat was tired of Petty. In the beginning of the film he tells Petty that he should just put some lead in it. After Rodney blows the dive the deal was off, so he kills Petty and Rodney just happened to be there. That's why he tells him he should have kept better company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9333" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-23T21:48:22.013" LastActivityDate="2014-08-23T21:48:22.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10756" CreationDate="2014-04-29T12:13:16.017" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to the points already made here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; the show is shot infront of a live audience, but while the producers are comfortable using &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetening&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sweetening&lt;/a&gt;, the answer to this is actually another question '&lt;strong&gt;Does it really matter&lt;/strong&gt;'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Laugh tracks are added over the top of the 'received reaction' of the audience, to make it seem as though the jokes were received more warmly than they actually were, and thus 'funnier'. For a show with such a broad fan-base, the notion that an audience that &lt;em&gt;has come specifically to see&lt;/em&gt; the show &quot;Isn't laughing enough&quot;, this is pretty worrying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course 'sweetening' can sometimes be used to &quot;recapture&quot; the spontaneity of an audience's first reaction, particularily when multiple takes are needed. By doing this, an edit can marry both the best take with the best reaction; this isn't particularily frowned upon, its perceived more to do with the economy of production than manipulation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;BBT&lt;/em&gt; is widely believed to use sweetening in pursuit of the latter of the two distinctions made above, and is the focus &lt;a href=&quot;http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/inappropriate-laugh-track&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;of its own meme&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ynf44b867I&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;widely parodied.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Penny: Hey, Sheldon! (the audience chuckles) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sheldon: Oh, hello, Penny! (the audience begins getting excited, laughing without even&#xA;  knowing they are laughing or what they are laughing at) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Penny: What are you doing? (nervous giggles are heard from all around the room)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sheldon: Playing on a poorly coded Nintendo 64 emulator (6 people die&#xA;  instantly. A shockwave with the force of 10 Hiroshima bombings erupts&#xA;  from the studio, causing billions of dollars worth of damage. The&#xA;  surviving audience members begin urinating and vomiting on each other,&#xA;  all while laughing uncontrollably from the funniest joke ever told)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst it is impossible to ascertain how much of the show is 'sweetened' without insider knowledge, attention has been drawn to how 'unfunny' the show actually is by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKS3MGriZcs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;removing the laugh-track,&lt;/a&gt; and trying to identify punchlines without it. The relative response to such an exercise seeks to demonstrate how reliant the show is on 'Sweetening'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;BBT&lt;/em&gt; is often held up as the low-watermark in TV comedy (actually, a lot of Chuck Lorre's stuff seems to find itself being seen as such), because of the perception that it commodifies a certain culture and reduces it to lazy stereotypes. The Live-audience/sweetening aspect is just one part of this debate; which has led Cracked.com writer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/article_20677_6-insane-easter-eggs-buried-in-famous-tv-shows.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Aaron Short&lt;/a&gt; to summarize the show as being:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;eight seasons and the only punchline is &quot;Look! Nerds!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-04-29T12:13:16.017" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19017" CreationDate="2014-04-29T13:13:05.097" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally think he figured it out in Magnussen's penthouse. He smelled the perfume, and thought it was the woman who had asked Sherlock to take care of Magnussen (i can't remember her name), but it was actually Mary. If he had known earlier, i'm sure he would have suspected her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9332" LastActivityDate="2014-04-29T13:13:05.097" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19055" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19057" CreationDate="2014-04-29T13:25:09.807" Score="5" ViewCount="3845" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&quot;Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington&quot; (S3E3)&lt;/em&gt; Peter takes the whole family to a Baseball game where &lt;a href=&quot;http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Boston Red Sox play against the Yankees&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chris made a sign to cheer them on which reads &lt;strong&gt;John 3:16&lt;/strong&gt;. Puzzled by what this means, Brian looks up the according part in the bible and reads the verse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the excerpt from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0576950/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chris Griffin: [the family is heading to a Boston Red Sox game] Look at what I made!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [Chris holds up a 'John 3:16' sign]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Meg Griffin: What does that mean?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Brian Griffin: [reading John 3:16 from the bible] &lt;strong&gt;And the Lord says, 'Go Sox.'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I find this pretty funny, because it implies that God is a Red Sox fan, I don't really understand the joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked up the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+3:16&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;original verse&lt;/a&gt;, believing that maybe it was some sort of pun:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is a pun, I don't see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can somebody explain the joke to me? Why did they choose this specific verse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that many Family Guy jokes are references to pop culture makes me wonder if this really is just some arbitrary part of the bible that is altered for the laugh itself. Maybe I am overinterpreting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-04-29T17:01:51.647" Title="Is God really a Red Sox fan?" Tags="|plot-explanation|family-guy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19056" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19073" CreationDate="2014-04-29T14:09:42.390" Score="2" ViewCount="3321" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2359024/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blue Ruin&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, what type of gun is used most by the protagonist? It looks like an AK47 or some type of assault rifle, but what exact type is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(On &lt;a href=&quot;https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/blue-ruin/id855090886&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;iTunes&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8944" LastEditorUserId="8944" LastEditDate="2014-04-29T15:41:33.087" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T07:50:54.573" Title="What type of gun is primarily used by the protagonist in &quot;Blue Ruin&quot;?" Tags="|props|blue-ruin|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19055" CreationDate="2014-04-29T14:15:16.570" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the joke is about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollen_Stewart&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rollen Stewart&lt;/a&gt;, the person who's famous for bringing the &quot;John 3:16&quot; signs to sporting events. He first appeared at sports games wearing rainbow-colored wigs and was frequently seen on Television, but then later started bringing the signs to promote Christianity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Apparently at first just in it for the publicity, Stewart became a born-again Christian determined to &quot;get the message out&quot; via television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Stewart might have been a Red Sox fan, but haven't been able to confirm it yet. He did appear in the 1986 World Series with his wife, though -- which was between the Mets and the Red Sox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During the 1986 World Series, Hockridge said that Stewart tried to choke her for standing in the wrong spot with a John 3:16 sign.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, based on this I'd say that the joke is that Rollen was, after all, just trying to cheer on the Red Sox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a &lt;em&gt;&quot;What if the guy with the John 3:16 sign is really just trying to cheer his team on?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; joke, so it doesn't necessarily have to be about Rollen Stewart, or the Red Sox for that matter. It also doesn't have anything to do with God, or the Bible itself, but for the joke to work the verse John 3:16 had to read how it read when Brian looked it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2014-04-29T17:01:51.647" LastActivityDate="2014-04-29T17:01:51.647" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19055" CreationDate="2014-04-29T16:39:51.190" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The joke is 100% about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rsvlts.com/2014/02/21/rollen-stewart/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rollen Stewart&lt;/a&gt;, the guy who made the &quot;John 3:16&quot; sign famous.  Most people never bother to look up the actual quote until they go on late-night Wiki train rides and eventually discover the inspirational quote.  However, in the context of Family Guy, a show that lampoons religion at every opportunity (McFarlane is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.esquire.com/features/the-screen/seth-macfarlane-interview-0909&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;noted Atheist&lt;/a&gt;), the joke in question is squarely pointed at Stewart and the phenomenon he created with that sign.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side, Stewart has never officially mentioned a favorite team &lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt; sport, so the idea that they used it because of the Red Sox is not valid.  Perhaps it's McFarlane's favorite team, since he's originally from Maine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-04-29T16:45:00.520" LastActivityDate="2014-04-29T16:45:00.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3346" CreationDate="2014-04-29T19:24:57.340" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In January 2014, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/01/26/sherlock-steven-moffat-on-the-fake-death-if-the-series-has-gone-meta-character-vs-mystery-driven-stories-doctor-who-crossover&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Steven Moffat provided some insight&lt;/a&gt; in an interview on how Sherlock faked his death:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As we keep saying to people, I do&#xA;  think there was -- I can now say this -- a measure of nonsense going&#xA;  on. He's falling off a building. He has one objective -- that is, not&#xA;  to hit the sidewalk. That's it. That's the only thing he can do.&#xA;  Didn't anybody notice that there's a whole building between John and&#xA;  the point of impact? So obviously something got in the way. That's it.&#xA;  It wasn't going to be anything else. The TARDIS wasn't going to fly&#xA;  in. That wasn't going to happen.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Moffat's explanation best corresponds with the &lt;em&gt;final&lt;/em&gt; explanation provided in the episode itself, I think the official answer is--disappointingly--that Sherlock jumped on the airbag shown in @howlers answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His lackluster answer fails, though, to address a number of different plot holes.  For one, what happened with the assassins set to kill Lestrade and Mrs. Hudson?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;ANDERSON: And what about the sniper aiming at John?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: Mycroft’s men intervened before he could take the shot. He was invited&#xA;  to reconsider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But according to The Reichenbach Fall, on the roof:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JIM: Okay, let me give you a little extra incentive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JIM: Your friends will die if you don’t. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: John. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JIM: Not just John. (In a whisper) Everyone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: Mrs Hudson. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JIM (in a whisper, with a delighted smile): Everyone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: Lestrade. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JIM: &lt;strong&gt;Three bullets; three gunmen; three victims.&lt;/strong&gt; There’s no&#xA;  stopping them now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JIM: Unless my people see you jump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have little reason to believe that Sherlock could anticipate three assassins, as he likely was hearing about these assassins &lt;em&gt;for the first time&lt;/em&gt; on the roof. But by sheer luck, Mycroft and his men were able to locate one sniper &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; successfully coerce him to call off the other snipers. It turns out there was only a single hired gun watching Sherlock rather than the multiple people (&quot;my people&quot;) he claimed needed to witness Sherlock jump. Seeing how Moriarty did not establish a pattern of lying (nor did he need to), this seems less realistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, Sherlock &lt;strong&gt;did not anticipate Moriarty's suicide&lt;/strong&gt;.  He spoke the following words to John, which seems unlikely a line to lie about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK (voiceover): But the one thing I didn’t anticipate was just&#xA;  how far Moriarty was prepared to go. I suppose that was obvious, given&#xA;  our first meeting at the swimming pool – his death wish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But he also says he planned out for &lt;em&gt;likely&lt;/em&gt; scenarios:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK (voiceover): There were thirteen likely scenarios once we&#xA;  were up on that roof. Each of them were rigorously worked out and&#xA;  given a code name. It wasn’t just my reputation that Moriarty needed&#xA;  to bury – I had to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put another way, Sherlock admits he didn't anticipate Moriarty dying, but he had thirteen scenarios planned for; one of which involved an empty street, an enormous blue airbag, and a taxi driver letting Watson out exactly at the right place.  With Moriarty potentially alive, could this have been a plausible idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Moffat got outmaneuvered by the most fanatic viewers, and conceded early on before filming there were more fitting theories out there, but they were unable/unwilling to pull it off in the timeslot and writing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As to the theories that were presented online, Moffat says he is&#xA;  aware of them, but that for the most part, &lt;em&gt;the audiences explanations&#xA;  are far more complex than what the show ultimately needed&lt;/em&gt;. (emphasis mine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Needed&quot; being the operative word, as there are many people perfectly satisfied with this explanation and a much smaller minority who are severely outraged at its incompleteness or implausibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going deeper into the meta, I think Moffat knew he was denying us sufficient closure. As we as viewers find holes in the story and receive no answers, Andersen finds holes in the story and Sherlock abruptly disappears, leaving Andersen to completely break down. Of course, Sherlock fanatics are Andersen in this metaphor. /fanaticism&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1125" LastEditorUserId="1125" LastEditDate="2016-03-22T16:47:06.340" LastActivityDate="2016-03-22T16:47:06.340" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19061" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-29T23:38:42.007" Score="1" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the magnificent Norwegian thriller &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1614989/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Headhunters&lt;/a&gt;, Roger Brown is a management headhunter who moonlights as an art thief to pay for his expensive support for his beautiful wife who he is afraid of losing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Claes Greve poses as retired businessman with the qualification to take a vacant job Roger is doing a search for (Claes' purpose is industrial espionage). But he also claims to have an original long-lost Reubens' painting inherited from his mother. Obviously Roger wants to steal it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I originally watched the movie I assumed Claes was so smart he knew Roger was an art thief and invented the missing painting story to trap him into doing what he wanted. But on rewatching, there is a more straightforward explanation: the story was designed as an excuse to meet Roger's wife who will introduce Claes to Roger and therefore the recruitment process for the vacant job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So did Claes know Roger was an art thief? Or was the art merely a ruse to get an introduction to Roger via his wife&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2014-04-29T23:38:42.007" Title="Did Claes Greve know Roger Brown was an art thief?" Tags="|plot-explanation|headhunters|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18929" CreationDate="2014-04-30T01:16:20.740" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears to be that instead of having the origin story being linked to the Green Goblin, they linked it with the Lizard. Also, Peter is still in high school and his love is Gwen Stacy. Gwen's father also dies in this movie whereas he never dies in the 3rd Sam Raimi movie. Harry is also nowhere to be seen until the sequel. Jameson has not made appearance either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9329" LastEditorUserId="9329" LastEditDate="2015-02-21T00:07:15.217" LastActivityDate="2015-02-21T00:07:15.217" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19045" CreationDate="2014-04-30T06:15:12.397" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ender is looking for &quot;Street Cred&quot;.  By fighting for his fellow cadets right to get certain privileges, he gains their respect.  To a certain degree, the Sergeant knows that Ender needs that credibility too, as is evidenced by other discussions he has with Ender that are more private.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-04-30T06:15:12.397" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19066" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-30T07:00:55.000" Score="2" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the Artist and the Model the artist shoots himself. The war is ending, he's just finished his masterpiece and is having a book written about his life. Why would he kill himself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have my own theories but would really like them confirmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-21T16:39:26.827" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T16:39:26.827" Title="Why did the artist do that?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-artist-and-the-model|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19067" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-04-30T07:01:31.983" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Artist and the Model is a 2012 French-language Spanish drama film directed by Fernando Trueba and written by Trueba and Jean-Claude Carrière.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-04-30T07:01:31.983" LastActivityDate="2014-04-30T07:01:31.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19068" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-04-30T07:01:31.983" Score="0" Body="The Artist and the Model is a 2012 French-language Spanish drama film directed by Fernando Trueba and written by Trueba and Jean-Claude Carrière." OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-04-30T07:01:31.983" LastActivityDate="2014-04-30T07:01:31.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19069" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19070" CreationDate="2014-04-30T07:10:05.457" Score="10" ViewCount="1406" Body="&lt;p&gt;Real coconuts are either green or yellow (there may be other variants I'm unaware of) not brown.  Why are they always colored brown in cartoons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Growing up in a tropical country with coconut trees an everyday sight, this has bothered me from a young age.  The sight of brown coconuts has always been visually jarring to me, to the extent that it reduces the enjoyment of otherwise good/funny cartoons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the first cartoons were intended for a Western audience who would not have been aware of the inaccuracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9346" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-03-15T11:39:01.533" LastActivityDate="2016-03-15T11:39:01.533" Title="Why are cartoon coconuts (on trees) brown?" Tags="|animation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19069" CreationDate="2014-04-30T07:57:21.557" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Buy a coconut in the supermarket. What's the color?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;nut&quot; is most likely brown and hairy. Sure, it's not like they appear when still on the trees, but &lt;em&gt;who&lt;/em&gt; knows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO it's all about being recognizable (and also knowledge) to some extent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a similar way, if you see Bananas in a cartoon, they're yellow. Tomatoes are red, apples are typically red, etc. even though these things will most likely have a different color or more variation while still being on a plant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you could even go a bit further and compare this a bit to space fights in fiction: Explosions, sounds, pew-pew-pew, etc. yet you shouldn't hear anything. It's about what people know and recognize, it's not about what's realistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to, you could even consider brown coconuts to be stereotypical coconuts! :) As a different example, what's been the last time you saw some Bavarian in a (non-serious) cartoon (e.g. looney toons)? Chances are high, he had some traditional costume on, at least some lederhosen. I'm from Bavaria, and I've never worn a lederhosen (since being like 3 or 4 years old; didn't have the choice!). Yet as some caricature I'd most likely have one on me - not to forget a Mass of beer in my hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastEditorUserId="6725" LastEditDate="2014-05-01T07:03:13.957" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T07:03:13.957" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19069" CreationDate="2014-04-30T08:11:45.353" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Coconuts brown as they mature, so it's not always an inaccurate depiction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cartoons rely on a certain visual &quot;shorthand&quot; for many things that fly in the face of common knowledge, but are subconsciously accepted as part of the cartoon world or the larger entertainment or cultural zeitgeist. Most of us are aware that cars can't possibly operate like they do in cartoons, even without ever having seen or been in a car; likewise, while the yellow/green is obscure trivia to some, most of us can generally guess that coconuts are not perfectly spherical, bang-on-head openable bowling balls that produce a xylophonic bonk in the process. Yet we accept these depictions for their simple, distinct characterization. The purpose of such characterization is usually to set up a &quot;gag&quot; that would be diluted by excess realism or veer terribly off-point with footnotes and explication. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Early black and white cartoons without sound effects may have used solid blacks to depict coconuts over other melons or simple round objects. Brown may have been a logistical choice when going to color, with green possibly reserved for melons, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastActivityDate="2014-04-30T08:11:45.353" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19056" CreationDate="2014-04-30T10:40:12.407" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This appears to be an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M14_rifle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;M14&lt;/a&gt; used by the US Military 1959–1964 and is still in service by other countries:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gRVKk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IqYkW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;M14 from Google Images&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-04-30T10:40:12.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19074" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19108" CreationDate="2014-04-30T12:06:16.193" Score="5" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got a request from a friend of mine who is looking for a certain movie, but alas I couldn't help her... maybe you can. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She describes the movie as follows : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a french movie about a man who is living at a highway gas station. He cannot leave the gas station due to some psychological trauma ... but he wants to leave because of his girlfriend.&#xA;According to my friend there is also some singing like in Bollywood movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She saw the movie on german television approximately two years ago on german/french channel ARTE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sorry I don't know anything else, though I think the &quot;man living at gas station&quot; could be pretty obvious for anybody who has seen the movie ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9347" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T14:56:33.660" Title="French movie, man living at gas station, can't/won't leave" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:06:05.640" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19078" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-30T18:59:09.533" Score="1" ViewCount="1324" Body="&lt;p&gt;FX's new &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fargo&lt;/em&gt; TV series&lt;/a&gt; airs from 10 PM to 11:13 PM, Eastern.  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  I'm positive they could trim enough from each episode to make it fit a normal one-hour timeslot, and I doubt it'd be too hard to extend it to 1h30m if trimming wasn't an option.  Why give the show such an irregular timeslot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8501" LastActivityDate="2017-06-22T00:10:28.413" Title="Why does FX's Fargo have a 1h13m airtime?" Tags="|fargo-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19078" CreationDate="2014-04-30T21:36:08.633" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at their entire schedule, they list Fargo as running back to back to back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, from the 10pm to 11:13 Saturday night time slot you have an episode of Fargo, then from 11:15p Saturday until 1 am Sunday, you have another episode. (It is not clear if it is an encore presentation or not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again at 1 am, you have another slot for Fargo, only this one is limited to an hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my supposition is that they are extending the time slots to get more advertising time/revenue, and the two shows together take up a 3 hour block.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-04-30T21:36:08.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19089" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-04-30T23:30:58.680" Score="16" ViewCount="1373" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is defined as a transmedia franchise, in that it seeks to push unified content fluidly across different mediums, but prioritizes the Live Action depiction of its characters as being the most important aspect, with other properties &quot;Taking their lead from the movies...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How successful have Marvel Entertainment been at unifying this universe into a coherent, non-contradictory continuity?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any instance of a property (such as tie-in Video Games, TV and even Comics) that presents itself as part of the MCU/Earth 199999 continuity but causes conflicts within the narrative universe presented by the MCU films?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286716/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hulk&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800080/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Incredible Hulk&lt;/a&gt; are often cited as two properties that (whilst officially being of different canon) could be perceived to nod towards each other in continuity; inferring but not confirming what Marvel President Kevin Feige calls &quot;Connective tissue&quot;. Can this be substantiated, and if so is this the only instance of a 'facilitated' retcon/conflict within Earth 199999?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How 'Leaky' is the MCU?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have loved to have posted this to &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Arqade&lt;/a&gt;: but it's been &lt;em&gt;painfully&lt;/em&gt; pointed out to me before that Arqade is only concerned with the discussion of consuming games, and not the culture of their production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the MCU is a primarily cinematic/TV/live-action led franchise, I can only see this question as being on topic @ M&amp;amp;TV...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only draw attention to Video Games because historically this is the medium that (whilst tying itself to specific cinematic iterations of characters) is more prone to willingly disregard the licence prohibitions of the stable it belongs to, but I'm actually more interested in Live action/M&amp;amp;TV... and if such a conflict exists within &lt;em&gt;these&lt;/em&gt; parts of the MCU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any examples are helpful, but Cinematic examples will likely be more profound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:09:36.707" LastActivityDate="2019-08-15T13:28:31.303" Title="Examining the limits of the MCU?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19045" CreationDate="2014-05-01T00:15:13.253" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with @Johnny Bones. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Contrary to the book - in the movie, Ender is told that he will be the one to eventually command the forces. But to be an efficient commander - he needs the respect of his fellow cadets. In the book - there is time for him to demonstrate his smartness and strategic thinking to win their respect. But when converting to on-screen - showing that he will fight for what is right is a side to show that the cadets start to respect Ender for his values. Other scenes that earn Ender others' respect are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When he demonstrates he can navigate 0 gravity better than everyone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When he is eager to practice even though he is new to the Salamander army and has been asked to sit out of battles&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When he shows strategic thinking in turning the battle with Petra's help and winning for Salamander&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When he refuses to give in to the &quot;senior cadets are favored first&quot; policy when he is given command of the Dragon Army.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9230" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T00:15:13.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19091" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19095" CreationDate="2014-05-01T00:35:13.610" Score="2" ViewCount="501" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have trouble with this huge plothole in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988045/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sherlock Holmes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie Holmes enlightens Lord Coward that he knows about the machine in the sewer to kill the lion (parlament).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that Lord Coward does not seem to care since the machine is not really protected (around 5 people). The same goes for Blackwood assuming Lord Coward told Blackwood about Holmes knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this event was so important to Lord Coward(as far as I know he believed in the magic) why would he not make 100% sure to protect the machine (I would put around 30 people in the sewer, even if Holmes would still find a way around that I had at least tried).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again same goes for Blackwood except he doesn't believe in magic. His goal was to dominate with fear and not the mechanism of the machine itself. The mechanism was only important for the mysterious professor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please mark spoilers of the second movie if those reveal/solve this problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="947" LastEditorUserId="947" LastEditDate="2014-05-01T13:19:07.967" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T11:52:34.560" Title="Why did Lord Coward not protect his machine" Tags="|sherlock-holmes-2009|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3147" CreationDate="2014-05-01T00:56:59.373" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it shifted about the time PrimeTime Soaps began to wane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recall several episodic shows when I was young. Virtually all the Adventure and Crime Dramas of the '80s were episodic in nature.&#xA;From a writer's point of view, it may have been an attempt to keep the shows accessible to a new writer or a fill-in script.&#xA;Actor contracts, also, went by season. So you knew there would be no cast changes until the season finale or premiere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first non-soap shows I recall having a serialized nature were X-Files (1993), Lois &amp;amp; Clark (1993), Millennium (1996) and Buffy (1997). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, however, two distinct factors that show up in these- &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They were all genre-shows, designed for sci-fi fans (known to be comfortable with long stretching plots from reading comics).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At this stage the serialization was kept mainly to subplots. It was still years until the serialization would appear in the main stories.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lost and Alias helped spur that further, as well as other shows such as 24 and La Femme Nikita.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until we have the present day Walking Dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9355" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T00:56:59.373" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19091" CreationDate="2014-05-01T08:16:23.477" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest a few reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, Coward knows the location of it, but Blackwood is the mastermind. It's &lt;em&gt;his&lt;/em&gt; men that are protecting the device. It could be argued that Coward knows Blackwood has taken care of the protection detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, it could be argued that Coward, if he knew about the number of the men protecting the device, simply severely underestimated Holmes &lt;em&gt;and his companions&lt;/em&gt;. Although there were something like five people protecting it, that is a lot for a single person. Holmes had Watson and Adler with him, which certainly helped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thirdly, Coward sees Holmes jumping into the water in handcuffs. If memory serves me right, he doesn't see him make his mistake, i.e. he doesn't realise Holmes had an escape route planned out. Therefore, he may have assumed Holmes didn't have time to stop the device.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fourthly, Coward may be demonstrating the typical &lt;em&gt;nothing can stop me now&lt;/em&gt; attitude of so many villains in films, where he believes it is irrelevant if Holmes knows his plans, as he doesn't have time/ability to stop him. As you said, it almost seemed he believed in the magic. Perhaps he believed &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; could stop Blackwood?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fifthly and finally though, it follows the standards trope of villains underestimating the hero. If thirty guys had been around the machine, it would have been a little unrealistic if Holmes had defeated them. Five or so guards makes Holmes and his companions seem extraordinarily, but believably, good. On top of that, they obviously &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to succeed for the movie to work, so this plot-hole exists in tons of films, unfortunately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T08:16:23.477" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19100" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19107" CreationDate="2014-05-01T10:39:56.813" Score="6" ViewCount="5545" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am watching &lt;em&gt;Homeland&lt;/em&gt; season 2 (Episode 8 by now). Throughout the series, Jessica numerously indicates that Brody is sleeping with the CIA girl but I can't recall how did she find that Brody is cheating on her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it Brody's daughter that told her mom?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9363" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-01T15:59:57.937" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T17:18:21.407" Title="How did Jessica find out that Brody slept with Carrie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|homeland|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19101" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-01T11:59:42.177" Score="14" ViewCount="4756" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tetsuo&lt;/strong&gt; is an Experimental Movie released in 1989 by Japanese director &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinya_Tsukamoto&quot;&gt;Shin'ya Tsukamoto&lt;/a&gt;. The score of the movie was composed by &lt;strong&gt;Chu Ishikawa&lt;/strong&gt; and is inspired by the german pioneer bands in experimental music &lt;strong&gt;Einstürzende Neubauten&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;DAF&lt;/strong&gt; (Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is considered as a cult movie especially in the Cyberpunk scene and can undoubtedly be considered as a piece of art in film noir such as David Lynch's earliest big contribution to the genre Eraserhead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Plot&lt;/strong&gt;: A &lt;strong&gt;metal fetishist&lt;/strong&gt; cuts his leg open and shoves a large piece of steel rod into his wound. The same man later on gets killed in a car accident by a &lt;strong&gt;business man&lt;/strong&gt;. The business man tries to cover up the incident by throwing the metal fetishist into the woods. Later as the business man shaves himself he discovers a piece of metal on his cheek, as he tries to remove it he discovers that it is growing from within.  The rest of the movie is devoted to witness the gradual metamorphosis of the business man into a walking pile of scrap. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scenes of interest, that require some Analysis&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several scenes in the movies that I am interested in, &lt;strong&gt;I limit them to&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(in order of interest)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The scene where the business man is on the phone with someone and says nothing but repeatedly 'hello' &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The erotic nightmare of the business man&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The metamorphosis of the business man's penis into a power drill&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;The being/entity within&quot; which is often seen in many scenes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The so called 'New World' as introduced in the movie where everything is made out of metal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the fact that there won't be one perfect interpretation to the above scenes I am highly interested in peoples point of view and interpretations of them. &lt;strong&gt;I am not&lt;/strong&gt; asking for whether or not you like these scenes or if you think they contribute to the movie or not.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Optional (rumours)&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Facts?&lt;/strong&gt;: It is said that the scene where the business man 'kills' the metal fetishist by throwing his arguably alive body into the wood which arouses his girlfriend to an extend of her having sex with him, inspired &lt;strong&gt;Lars Von Trier&lt;/strong&gt; to make a movie. &lt;br&gt;&#xA;- Does anyone have relevant references to this? What movie would that be? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9364" LastEditorUserId="9364" LastEditDate="2014-05-04T12:34:48.593" LastActivityDate="2022-01-16T03:53:49.867" Title="Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Analysis, Interpretations and randomness" Tags="|analysis|tetsuo-the-iron-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17279" CreationDate="2014-05-01T12:21:46.183" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To try and settle this, I think it's safe to say that nothing like this has ever been done before. X-Men is about the X-Men and there weren't spin-offs of characters (like wolverine) until after Iron Man/the beginning of MCU. Same with Spidey, Dirty Harry movies are all based on one character not one universe, star trek is the closest as is star wars and they aren't really based on a universe as a ship/crew that link to each other. Nothing in Superman, so it hasn't been done before, and I think &quot;Meat Trademark&quot; doesn't mean in-jokes or little fun cameos that don't mean anything or easter eggs, he/she means proper plots that interconnect within a universe and are all fully connected though they seem standalone. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I read this and you guys were arguing over the plots and what he/she meant so, i'm trying to settle this so you guys stop arguing and focus on whether anything that really truly comes close because I don't think it has and I'm really intrigued to see if anyone can come up with a proper example of it being done before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9365" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-05-02T16:27:55.087" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T16:27:55.087" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15829" CreationDate="2014-05-01T14:15:46.793" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;so basically there are two marvel universes they 616 universe where captain america is a peak human and there is 1610 ultimate universe where captain is a super human, so basically the powers of captain america in cinematic universe is based upon the ultimate universe, so yeah the captain america portrayed by chris evans is a genuine super human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9367" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T14:15:46.793" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19100" CreationDate="2014-05-01T15:50:39.470" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, while not having seen it recently, I'll give it a try based more on common sense than exact information from the respective episodes. While I don't exactly remember if or when she definitely finds out, the fact that she &lt;em&gt;&quot;numerously indicates that Brody is sleeping with the CIA girl&quot;&lt;/em&gt; doesn't necessarily imply that she really finds this out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if not exactly knowing that &lt;em&gt;Brody&lt;/em&gt; had (yet again) an affair with &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;, she had all the reasons for suspecting it. She already knew back from the 1st season (and back then she definitely knew, however I don't remember how) that &lt;em&gt;Brody&lt;/em&gt; once had an affair with &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt; and it was a major problem for their whole relationship (together with other things, though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when she now comes to know that he is working for the CIA again, and later maybe (though I don't remember exactly) even comes to know that he works exactly with &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt; albeit having claimed not to at first, paired with his generally suspicious behaviour, she naturally mistrusts him. So given his past history, their difficult relationship, his suspicious behaviour, his little lies, his job-related proximity to &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;, and a bit of a wife's natural jealousy, I don't think she needs a definite proof for assuming an affair between &lt;em&gt;Brody&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-01T17:18:21.407" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T17:18:21.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19074" CreationDate="2014-05-01T16:13:26.793" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found it myself, the movie in question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3222994/?ref_=nm_flmg_com_3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Das Glück an der Autobahn&quot; (&quot;Comme un air d'autoroute&quot;)&lt;/a&gt; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The psychological trauma is, that he was raised as a foundling at that gas station... so this is his home and he is quite attached to it... The so called girlfriend is the daughter of the evil gas station magnate who wants to get the gas station, but the boy won't leave. The magnate wants his daughter to marry the man, so that he will leave the station.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9347" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-29T16:59:45.403" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T16:59:45.403" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19115" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29922" CreationDate="2014-05-01T20:41:33.547" Score="6" ViewCount="4345" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first season of House of Cards starts with the inauguration of Garrett Walker as 45th President. If the show is true to reality, that would make Walker the successor of Barack Obama, and have him inaugurated in 2017.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any in-show evidence that the first season of House of Cards really does take place in 2017? Or, alternately, that the show follows some sort of alternate history, like The West Wing did? If the latter, do we know the differences?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1331" LastActivityDate="2018-10-07T02:00:59.347" Title="In what year is House of Cards set?" Tags="|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18572" CreationDate="2014-05-01T20:53:55.917" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;quick google for &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;film android testflug beschleunigung&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;led to this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sciencefictionlexikon.de/testflug-zum-saturn-test-pilota-pirxa-1978/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://sciencefictionlexikon.de/testflug-zum-saturn-test-pilota-pirxa-1978/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie &quot;Test pilota Pirxa&quot; is shown here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080010/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080010/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9375" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T20:53:55.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19115" CreationDate="2014-05-01T21:47:35.493" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found two things on the internet and can remember nothing which show a date in-show. The general theory goes, as Oliver_C says, that Garrett Walker was POTUS from &lt;a href=&quot;http://house-of-cards.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline&quot;&gt;Jan 20, 2013 to Oct 28, 2014&lt;/a&gt;. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jeremiahtolbert.com/2014/02/house-cards-alternate-timeline-theory-spoilers/&quot;&gt;alternate time-line theory&lt;/a&gt; says that after the Reagan presidency, things went different in Washington, but out here in the &quot;real world&quot; things pretty much stayed the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-05-01T21:47:35.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19118" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-01T21:47:36.513" Score="6" ViewCount="9763" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the drug cartel's motorbike courier is killed (and a big drug delivery subsequently stolen), the deal in which &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2193215/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Counselor&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is involved goes terribly wrong. By the unlucky coincidence that the Counselor once paid a simple speeding fine for the motorbike courier (who is the son of one of his clients), without knowing who he was, the bosses of the cartel suspect him of deceiving them and the devastating events destroying his and his acquaintances' lives unfold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as we learn, Reiner's girlfriend Malkina was behind the stolen delivery. Seeing that the suspicion that fell on the Counselor arose from a very unlucky coincidence but served the rather calculating Malkina very well, providing reasonable scapegoats to the cartel, I wonder if this was really just a coincidence or if Malkina didn't somehow deliberately initiate this little connection from the Counselor to the motorbike courier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the movie didn't present any hint to me that this was the case, seeing that the script was sometimes lacking in exposition and relied on inference from the audience's side to some degree, I might just have missed something relevant. So &lt;strong&gt;is there any hint that Malkina somehow facilitated the &quot;coincidence&quot; that led to the cartel's suspicion of the Counselor?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-05-11T13:00:02.150" LastActivityDate="2018-05-11T13:00:02.150" Title="Was the suspicion that fell on The Counselor really a coincidence?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-counselor|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="19119" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19128" CreationDate="2014-05-01T23:57:10.793" Score="10" ViewCount="9000" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that in the X-Files series the FBI agents use flashlights that has very strong light. There are many dark scenes and when in buildings they usually don't use the electricity of the building for reasons I can only speculate, but rather use their very strong flashlights. Also in the movie Mulder use a simple handheld flashlight in Antarctica that still manages to provide very strong light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expecting that either the filmmakers base this on real life (of FBI) or just use it because it provides good visual result, I am interested what kind of flashlights do they use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which brand/model or family of handheld flashlights do FBI agents use that provides very strong light?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1577" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T17:45:15.320" Title="What kind of flashlights are used in the X-Files by the FBI?" Tags="|props|the-x-files|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15827" CreationDate="2014-05-02T00:25:10.783" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't say the X-Files usually would try to follow a real-life story in its episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in many instances, I noticed the show to get inspiration for episodes from real-life information and feature many interesting facts. They are usually mixed with fiction so it's hard to tell without checking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.insidethex.co.uk/transcrp/scrp119.htm&quot;&gt;Season 1 episode 19&lt;/a&gt; &quot;Darkness Falls&quot;, Mulder and Scully got locked up in the woods with a saboteur (or alternatively an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-terrorism&quot;&gt;eco-terrorist&lt;/a&gt;) named Spinney, this dialog takes place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MULDER: When Mt. St. Helens erupted, there was a large amount of&#xA;  radiation that was released from inside the earth. Strange things&#xA;  started to grow. There’s actually this lake where they’ve discovered a&#xA;  kind of amoeba that can literally suck a man’s brains out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SCULLY: Oh, a brain-sucking amoeba.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SPINNEY: No, it’s true. Spirit Lake. And there’s documented cases of&#xA;  swimmers being infected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is actually a real-life &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.enn.com/health/article/23542&quot;&gt;reported event&lt;/a&gt;. The amoeba is called &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria_fowleri&quot;&gt;Naegleria fowleri&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things like this are usually not listed in the episode guide, so you can't claim the story is based on real-life events, but often if there is real-life inspiration for the episode it is incorporated in the dialog in a similar fashion to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a rule of thumb, once per episode, if you hear something briefly mentioned that is exact it's worth checking. Often one or more characters go into citing some exact-sounding information to provide a feel of &quot;historical context&quot;, and often the data is real-life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't expect them to always refer to actual organisms like this amoeba but the show usually (attempts to) accurately refer to folklore as such, historical mysteries, interesting organisms, unanswered questions in science, or other astonishing real-life stories they find, and then they turn on their imagination and do something with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way the show itself takes its roots on such different real-life controversies as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edward_Mack&quot;&gt;studies by Mack M.D.&lt;/a&gt; on abductions, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate&quot;&gt;Watergate&lt;/a&gt; scandal or the assassination of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK&quot;&gt;JFK&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1577" LastEditorUserId="1577" LastEditDate="2014-05-02T01:18:43.787" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T01:18:43.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19123" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-02T02:39:19.257" Score="0" ViewCount="944" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a school assignment, I need to write an essay comparing the novel Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami to a film with a similar theme. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the course of the novel, the main character is torn with sadness, feeling responsible for his love of a girl which is now in a mental hospital, the suicide of an old friend, and the uncomfortability of growing into adulthood. The novel focuses mainly on its characters' thoughts and feelings due to past events (usually ones of sadness, a lust for another's warmth, or loneliness) rather than the events themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, almost all of the characters in the novel have some sort of life event which causes them to be haunted with sorrow for many years (for example, the suicide of a loved one), and each of them handle this emotion differently, either isolating themselves, ignoring them, or trying to face them. This is the theme I want to use as the point of comparison in my essay, how people handle their sadness, but I can't seem to find a corresponding film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never really been into watching too many movies, I've been spending hours looking for a corresponding movie (that's not the official live action film) with no avail. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any movie concentrating on the described themes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9377" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-03T19:45:25.133" LastActivityDate="2014-05-04T01:44:45.657" Title="Looking for a film about handling sadness to compare to the novel Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami" Tags="|analysis|character|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2014-05-04T15:20:55.220" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3126" CreationDate="2014-05-02T04:05:38.130" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you surmise, the answer is that the ending could only work in a screenwriter's mind. Otherwise we have to imagine that the entire elaborate terrorist plot depended on a college professor being able to evade armed FBI guards and make a stunt-driver's dive through closing garage doors into the basement of the FBI building. Even though the film was made before 9/11, these assumptions are totally absurd. This insult to the viewer's intelligence ruined what was otherwise a pretty good film&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9379" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T04:05:38.130" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19123" CreationDate="2014-05-02T04:52:22.230" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_takitani&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tony Takitani&lt;/a&gt; (Japan, 2004) is a good candidate as it's another Murakami adaptation that also deals with loss, sadness and loneliness, allowing for the most meaningful correlation. It's even from the same era (written in 1990, three years after NW). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally I'd suggest films based on other authors who influenced Murakami, but your description brings to mind &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritan_Girl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Samaritan Girl&lt;/a&gt; (South Korea, 2004) which hits all the notes of suicide, sadness, reflection, contrasting loneliness/isolation and physical intimacy, grappling with adulthood, and the ripple effect of suffering across multiple characters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SG explores these themes in a protracted time and presents the events starkly, leaving emotional analysis to the viewer. This might be a bit too different for your liking. Since it's a Korean film I also worry about seeming to conflate cultures: Murakami has influenced and been influenced by many things, but Korean cinema is not one of them, so making a connection feels like it needs pre-discussion (&quot;not just lumping all of Asia together&quot;, etc.). That said, I think it fits the bill. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have access to either of the above, give them a try.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastEditorUserId="9247" LastEditDate="2014-05-02T14:33:17.890" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T14:33:17.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19126" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-02T08:26:45.963" Score="6" ViewCount="17132" Body="&lt;p&gt;So my memory is pretty bad, but.. i believe it was filmed in early 2000s.&#xA;  It's a movie about a reality tv type show where contestants are trapped inside a gorgeous villa and have to kill each other for money (I believe the protagonist was a young blond woman)&#xA;  Anyway, she wins (duuh), but there's a plot twist: she walks out of the villa with a bag of money in her hands, only to walk into another villa, with like 5-15 more paranoid people, each with a bag full of money in her hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9381" LastEditorUserId="286" LastEditDate="2014-05-04T17:51:27.140" LastActivityDate="2017-06-22T22:13:50.563" Title="Movie where contestants have to kill one another for money" Tags="|horror|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:06:33.713" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19126" CreationDate="2014-05-02T08:57:24.517" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395585/&quot;&gt;House of Nine&lt;/a&gt;. The lead is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Brook&quot;&gt;Kelly Brook&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The description you provided matches the plot in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_9&quot;&gt;wiki page&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nine strangers have been abducted and locked inside a house. A&#xA;  mysterious voice called The Watcher (voiced by Jim Carter) tells them&#xA;  that they are to play a game: the last person alive can leave the&#xA;  house and win five million dollars. The film is presented with &quot;live&#xA;  feeds&quot; from hidden surveillance cameras, showing the nine people&#xA;  turning from cooperative escape attempts to a killing fest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two alternate endings listed but I think this is the one you described: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the second &quot;originally intended&quot; ending, as Lea leaves the house, she is &gt;led into another house where she meets&#xA;  four people. Each of them has a bag of money. The camera zooms in on&#xA;  Lea; a fearful look grows as she realizes that the game is not over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-05-02T09:00:12.370" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T09:00:12.370" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19119" CreationDate="2014-05-02T09:04:17.927" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://searchlights.peakbeam.com/item/handheld-searchlight-packages/rchlight-packages-motion-picture-maxa-beam-package/mbpkg-mp&quot;&gt;Maxa Beam searchlight&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/txx7D.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Maxa Beam has been used in motion pictures, television and still&#xA;  photography for over 20 years. The Maxa Beam Searchlight can be seen&#xA;  in movies such as Alien vs. Predator, Blade, The Day After Tomorrow,&#xA;  Demolition Man, Earthquake, Ghost Ship, Gone in 60 Seconds, Jurassic&#xA;  Park (1, 2 &amp;amp; 3), Sahara, Sphere, True Lies, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;X-Files&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Volcano, NCIS,&#xA;  CSI: Miami and Crossing Jordan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T09:04:17.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15829" CreationDate="2014-05-02T11:44:05.223" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;the MCU is an amalgamation of 616 universe and 1610 universe and the cap portrayed by chris gets his characteristic traits from 616 universe and his powers from 1610 universe, the evidences are, in the movie &lt;em&gt;Captain America: The Winter Soldier&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Right in the first scene after completing his jog, we see Falcon (presumably a peak human or at least above average human in intense conditioning) drenched in sweat and panting like hell, but Steve who completed the circuit in far lesser time and at greater speed didn't sweat a drop or pant a bit, this shows Captain's super human stamina.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the climax fight in one of the drones, after the Winter Soldier got struck under a huge metal beam (which looked like it could weigh at least a ton (2204 pounds)) Steve lifted that beam high and long enough so that Bucky can come out, this shows Captain's super human strength, saying this as MARVEL states the highest possible weight a peak human can lift is 500 kgs (1,110 lbs).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cap got blasted through a bus from a flyover above (3 storey high) at considerably great speed (due to grenade impact on his shield) and he even jumped from the 30th storey of treskilion and landed on streets (but used his shield to cushion the fall but if you can jump from 30th floor with a heavy pillow or shield to cushion and you are still unharmed then fine !) these feats shows cap's super human durability as any other human in the above situation would have simply died due to severe body damage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the elevator scene Cap got tased multiple times with the stun baton and was being tased continuously for 5 seconds and was still resisting it, whereas humans would get unconscious within a second of contact from a stun baton, super human durability right.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In a scene where Falcon was carrying Captain over the air he said &quot;you are heavier than you look&quot; which means due to super soldier serum his bones and muscles got denser and thus heavier, making him heavier than he looks, the end result his body is so many times durable and resilient to damage than human.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Right from &lt;em&gt;Captain America 1&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;Cap 2&lt;/em&gt; whenever Cap punched or kicked a human they tend to fly several meters away in the air, this shows his super human strength (the kinda strength to send a fully grown man with his equipment several meters away in air with his strike power) and I haven't seen any peak human do that till now.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Captain America: The First Avenger&lt;/em&gt; Cap was shown chasing a car across the city and he was keeping his pace with the car and even managed to catch the car, which implies Cap can run at a speed which is somewhere between 37 - 49 miles per hour, and that's a genuine super human speed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9384" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-02T12:45:35.707" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T12:45:35.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19091" CreationDate="2014-05-02T11:52:34.560" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The machine is very sturdy and hard to break.  They seem to have difficulty and only manage it due to a flash of inspiration from Irene (I think).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of it being a very sturdy machine: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Approximately 5 men armed with pistols, knives etc. and one of them Dredger?  This sounds pretty secure to me - I would not fancy trying to get passed them!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already know that Holmes will win but I do not think that they were being that slack with the guards.  Too many would be as bad as too few due to confusion, friendly fire etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;30 guards would be manic as it would be easy to infiltrate as everyone would not know each other that well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T11:52:34.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11208" CreationDate="2014-05-02T13:34:30.787" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There aren't any actual examples of jive talk in these scenes, only jive jibberish. The writers were making fun of what jive sounds like to white people. It's kind of like when American children attempt to &quot;speak Chinese&quot; or the type of language comedy that Sid Caesar used to do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, there isn't an actual translation for these scenes other than what the subtitles say because the slang is made up for laughs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9387" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T13:34:30.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18371" CreationDate="2014-05-02T14:47:05.530" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I got it: The Australian thriller &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_Play&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;End Play&lt;/a&gt; from 1976 about two brothers, one of them wheelchair-bound, suspected in the murders of blonde hitchhikers. One hitchhiker (who wore a large hat) is found in a cinema and the wheelchair is used to dispose of her. You can briefly see the killer in a blonde wig and sunglasses setting the body up in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp1X0DRVJeY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this trailer&lt;/a&gt; around 1:14. There's also a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx90i8aGMbc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;longer trailer&lt;/a&gt; available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-05-02T14:53:26.860" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T14:53:26.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11853" CreationDate="2014-05-02T15:38:26.880" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jedi have used saber staffs before, but they don't prefer it considering that most are based on an ancient sith design.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ghtmF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Satele Shan&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9390" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T15:38:26.880" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="222" CreationDate="2014-05-02T20:11:47.957" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;in Japan it is in color but no English subtitles for the extensive Japanese, in the film.  It is way better in color.  If i guess at why B&amp;amp;W here in the states it is because of  the gore factor it is not typical Hollywood but realistic or not it is much more hardcore and the B&amp;amp;W tone it down about 1000%  if you are a fan of the movie you owe it to yourself to see the Japanese version&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9396" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T20:11:47.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19149" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-02T20:39:54.537" Score="5" ViewCount="6899" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see why Tressler and Elkhorn were robbed and why Thaddeus was framed, but I don't get why a French bank was robbed. The only hint I got from the movie was &quot;they delivered the note&quot; and that makes no sense to me. Was Shrike French? And have I not been paying enough attention at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9398" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-02T22:17:55.250" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T23:18:48.900" Title="Why did they rob the French bank?" Tags="|plot-explanation|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19149" CreationDate="2014-05-02T22:53:58.563" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently Rhodes (Shrike's son) held the bank in Paris at least in part responsible for not paying out the insurance money after his father died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_You_See_Me_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the Pont des Arts in France, Dray is met by Rhodes, who reveals himself to be Shrike's son. He masterminded the Horsemen plot as revenge on those involved: Bradley, for humiliating his father; &lt;strong&gt;the Crédit Républicain de Paris and Tressler's company, who refused to pay the insurance on his father's death;&lt;/strong&gt; and the company that produced the substandard safe used in the trick that led to its failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here is the dialog excerpt from the movie (transcribed myself). It takes place between Dylan Rhodes and Thadeus Bradley during the final reveal in the police cell:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Daryl:&lt;/strong&gt; I finally got a chance to really look into Lionel Shrike. His comeback attempt. His accident.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The insurer who denied the family's claim: Tressler Insurance.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The bank that carried the note: Crédit Républicain de Paris.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also found that explanation a bit odd, because I don't think the bank would be able to pay out the insurance money on their own either way. After all, Tressler's company was the insurance company and responsible for approving any payouts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe he just was not very rational about this and his thoughts of revenge blinded him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe he just needed an excuse to rob a bank in a stylish fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-02T23:18:48.900" LastActivityDate="2014-05-02T23:18:48.900" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17279" CreationDate="2014-05-03T01:40:29.470" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of people are having difficulty differentiating what a shared universe is, which is totally understandable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The amount of franchises that are currently afflicted with &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Sequelitis&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;sequelitis&lt;/a&gt;  has led to an unprecedented amount of reboots/sequels/prequels since the 21st century, its no wonder something as specific as a Shared Universe is successful, let alone recognized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the Marvel Cinematic Universe is presented as the lead for this question, it is because it is the &lt;em&gt;prime example&lt;/em&gt; of such a strategy; in no part, as you've identified, because of its unprecedented success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The MCU is a narrative continuity that was &lt;em&gt;conceived&lt;/em&gt; as being constructed by overlapping texts, at the very point of its inception. By operating in a shared environment, Marvel are able to replicate the success of their Comic Publishing legacy by presenting an audience with several movie franchises, that are able to make narrative sense individually and in relation to each other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are developed simultaneously, commissioned concurrently, and released in a chronology that (for the most part) converges into a larger, ongoing narrative. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In contrast to this, a sequel (or prequel, or re-quel...whatever) is usually commissioned and created one text at a time in part of a linear narrative: the success and response to one directly dictating the direction of the next.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The MCU is by some way the most successful example of a shared, overlapping cinematic Universe; but it is not strictly speaking the &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is, indeed, a president for tactical overlap, but these texts exist only in gradation to the example presented by Marvel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other attempts, that construct shared universes, but with varying degrees of intention and success. As you've already identified, some are throwaway jokes, parody and cameo references; but others share the intention of the MCU (and in some cases predate it by some time!), but have a narrower scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;E.T the Extra Terrestrial&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the weakest and least ambitious 'shared universe' connection, but (given its impossible to disprove) still an example. Depending on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Riders,_Raging_Bulls&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;who is telling the story&lt;/a&gt;, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg either wrote the E.T character as being a Star Wars alien, or (&lt;strong&gt;much&lt;/strong&gt; more probably) simply traded referential in-jokes to each other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QzCvL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sites like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_627_27-mind-blowing-statistics-about-fictional-universes/?view=article&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cracked.com&lt;/a&gt; seem to keep pushing the issue, typically because it's often written as 'Mindblowing' to attract a certain type of green-dreamer. I don't want to 'harsh anyone's mellow', so I'm acknowledging it despite it's unlikelyhood. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Withnail &amp;amp; I&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Wayne's World 2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one slightly disrupts the 'shared conception at inception' part of the definition given above, but is still worth a mention due to its novelty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Withnail &amp;amp; I&lt;/em&gt; introduces a transient character named simply 'Danny', who behaves, dresses and speaks in 'a very specivic vay, man.'  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I0lnG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This character is played by Veteran Brtish TV actor &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0114460/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t6&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ralph Brown&lt;/a&gt;, who some people may immediately recognize as Queen Amidala's royal pilot from ...yup, you guessed it! &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YWEO7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;not at all creepy&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ralph Brown has a lot of versatility, and has been cast in incredibly diverse roles. There was, however, a character who popped up again somewhere else; albeit under a different name: Del Preston.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SBznU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone who has seen the two characters can vouch that its pretty undeniably supposed to be the same character. The change in name is (given his 'vock 'n voll baby' personality) about as significant as Ziggy Stardust suddenly showing up as David Bowie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wayne's World 2&lt;/em&gt;, whilst a comedy, seeks to make this connection explicitly; meaning to make narrative sense, it must be set in the same universe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I wouldn't submit to the film &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; making total narrative sense; as that would mean Wayne's World is also set in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN_VgVEZD0k&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Terminator&lt;/em&gt; Universe.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Matrix Universe&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt; actually attempted to execute a shared universe, but it's success was largely overlooked due to the fact it pursued a transmedia strategy; creating the Universe across multiple mediums, but only pursuing the 'Main' narrative in Cinema.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt; itself was commissioned in isolation, the remaining elements sought to simultaneously develop and overlapping narrative structure across Animation, Comic Books and Video Games (VG).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A2D3T.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were developed concurrently, interlocking with each other and directly informing the content of their other constituents. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Theorist Derek Johnson uses this franchise as a case study in 'Searching for the Origami Unicorn', in which he interviews the producers of these separate elements and outlines the strategy (conceived personally by the Wachowski's) of creating a literal 'multimedia' franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that it attempted to straddle a VG franchise in some ways makes it &lt;em&gt;more succesful&lt;/em&gt; than Earth-199999, which is so far yet to make a VG that competently contributes to its wider universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the film explores each narrative in a separate medium excludes it from being a 'Cinematic Shared Universe', but it's strategy still represented a significant shift in the way media is produced; for an audience of fanboys, it represented a truly rewarding experience for anyone to complete the narrative through it's continuation: to see how deep the rabbit-hole goes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Three Colors Trilogy&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Krzysztof Kieślowski is not a name you'll see on M&amp;amp;TV often, so its no surprise he hasn't been listed yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, his contribution to cinema is unique in that it probably represents the earliest incarnation of a shared universe: in respect to the definition presented here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Three Colors Trilogy&lt;/em&gt; is a set of films that, just like the MCU, was conceived to be an overlapping and 'cross pollinating' set of narratives. All three are separate, standalone narratives that can be consumed in isolation and still be entirely coherent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m1QAJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They also, like the MCU, converge into a single isolated moment, with each separate narrative contributing directly to our understanding of the final events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These films are so successful at this level of convergence that they (in their overlapping entirety) are often referred to as 'masterpieces'; and with good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They may lack the scale and production value of the MCU, but they beat it 'Shared Universe'&lt;br&gt;&#xA;release strategy by some 30 years, which surely counts for something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Honorable Mention&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTopAYE3IFw&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hot Shots: Part Deux&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Apocalypse Now&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-05-03T11:00:36.950" LastActivityDate="2014-05-03T11:00:36.950" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19154" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19155" CreationDate="2014-05-03T04:13:18.317" Score="3" ViewCount="776" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, just before the street musicians block Sing and Bone's view of a pretty lady walking down the street, Bone sounds like he says &quot;I filled a river, and now all thoughts are sacred and pure&quot;, at least in the English dubbing. Is this quote correct, and if so, what does it mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="603" LastEditorUserId="6725" LastEditDate="2014-05-03T07:46:49.760" LastActivityDate="2014-05-03T14:05:23.693" Title="Meaning of &quot;I filled a river, and now all thoughts are sacred and pure&quot; in Kung Fu Hustle" Tags="|dialogue|kung-fu-hustle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19154" CreationDate="2014-05-03T08:09:38.323" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The full exchange from the scene @ 38:00 (English dub, Region 1 DVD) is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BONE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where have you been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SING&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't really know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BONE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Huh? Maybe it's better that way. Memories can be terribly painful. Being able to forget is a great blessing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SING&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's quite deep. You seem to have learned a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BONE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All the sorrows I've had to endure&lt;/strong&gt; (pause) &lt;strong&gt;have filled a river, and now all thoughts are sacred and pure.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The subtitles for the same scene (English sub, Region 1 DVD) (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/k/kung-fu-hustle-script-transcript.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;script here&lt;/a&gt;) are as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BONE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which hospital did you go to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SING&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BONE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's better that way. Memories can be painful. To forget may be a blessing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SING&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never knew you were so deep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BONE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All the sadness one can bear... down the river everywhere.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before the context of the pretty woman, Bone is waxing philosophical about Sing's inability to remember how he recovered from his injuries (or maybe how he was injured). In the dub Bone seems to speak from experience, as if he himself has accumulated a river's worth of pain and let it all go, and is enlightened as a result. In the sub he seems to just be quoting a proverb*.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the words are superficial and humorous as they 1) are against type (Bone the simpleton is incapable of accumulating anything but weight and has no business spouting proverbs) and 2) contrast with the action (whatever significance the conversation has, it's derailed by desire when the pretty woman walks by).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bone trails off before finishing his proverb in a way which may also be going for laughs. The proverb ends in a trite rhyme (sub) and it's hypocritical of him to be talking of things &amp;quot;sacred and pure&amp;quot; when he's clearly indulging his lust (dub). Both of these may be a result of distraction staring at the woman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say the actual meaning of the words are no more complex than an equivalent scene in an American comedy where, for example, two guys are distracted and the conversation ends in a Freudian slip, or conventional advice becomes a double ententre (&amp;quot;Like they say, the tighter you wind...&amp;quot; (both stare at woman) &amp;quot;...the bigger you sproing.&amp;quot;)  Good advice cheapened by shallow behavior is an easy way to add false complexity to a scene and enhance the overall humor. On closer examination it has little depth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bit of an obsessive deconstruction but that's my take. Whether any of it is actually &lt;em&gt;funny&lt;/em&gt; is beyond the scope of this reply. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*: I can't find any instance of this proverb outside of Kung Fu Hustle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-05-03T14:05:23.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6908" CreationDate="2014-05-03T22:08:59.690" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;He says guten almond...joke on good evening to the German guys whose rover he crashed and the almonds he had just snacked on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9409" LastActivityDate="2014-05-03T22:08:59.690" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19161" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-05-04T00:06:15.033" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A TV series based on Superman's teenage adventures as Clark Kent. Most parts of the series are set in Smallville, Clark's hometown (on earth), hence the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="857" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-04T00:22:31.280" LastActivityDate="2014-05-04T00:22:31.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19162" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-05-04T00:06:15.033" Score="0" Body="A TV series based on Superman's teenage adventures." OwnerUserId="857" LastEditorUserId="857" LastEditDate="2014-05-04T01:37:56.070" LastActivityDate="2014-05-04T01:37:56.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19123" CreationDate="2014-05-04T01:44:45.657" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The British series Black Mirror, created by Charlie Brooker, has an episode that intimately deals with grief and sorrow in an interesting way within a science fiction context. It is episode 1 from series 2, and it is called &lt;em&gt;Be Right Back&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being the immediate thing that came to mind regarding your question, Black mirror is an anthology series concerned with dystopian realities set within the not-too-distant future where the prominent subject is of humanity, behaviors, ideals and technology. In this episode, which with modern quality television production standards is more like a short, 1 hour film, the main character deals with loss in a very unusual way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if it turns out to be irrelevant to your study, I highly recommend you watch this episode, and all other episodes of Black Mirror for that matter, as this series is one of the best things to come out of British television for a very long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: If you live in Britain, you can watch it on &quot;4 on demand&quot; if not, I can point you in the right direction if you message me. Again, I highly recommend you watch it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9411" LastActivityDate="2014-05-04T01:44:45.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9210" CreationDate="2014-05-04T02:58:34.037" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I first read the story I had just finished school and was off traveling, with the strange but unmistakeable similar desire as Chris to head into the wild. For me it was the amazon jungle, upon mentioning this during my first stages of traveling someone thought I ought to read this story, which I did and actually yes it influenced me enough to reconsider my trip, and so for me the phrase used in the ending of the movie is a little Hollywood as I feel the journey was unfinished, Chris's struggle to me is a struggle between life and society, life simply telling us through emotion that we are meant to be together and not solitary, but modern day society is (in my opinion) overwhelmingly unnatural at least for some people pushing us further and further into escapism. Or into the wild.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9412" LastActivityDate="2014-05-04T02:58:34.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19174" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-04T13:18:08.970" Score="4" ViewCount="460" Body="&lt;p&gt;When watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805666/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shark&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235099/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lie to Me&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219024/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Castle&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which were all released in the late 2000s, it occurred to me that they all pose their strong but slightly eccentric/difficult male protagonists as divorced fathers with a single daughter that shares quite similar characteristics across those different shows. Julie Stark, Emily Lightman, and Alexis Castle are all &lt;strong&gt;daughters in late high school to college age, quite intelligent, reliable and grown-up (in a psychological sense)&lt;/strong&gt; and more than once seem to be good for an advice or word of reason to their fathers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see that those are only three TV-shows from what feels like thousands, but seeing that they were released at roughly the same time and, together with their &lt;strong&gt;similar genres of more or less crime shows anchored around a characteristic protagonist&lt;/strong&gt;, share a very similar father-daughter relationship, it was a pattern that struck me as pretty obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So first of all, &lt;strong&gt;is there a general trend for those particular character constructions in other similar shows&lt;/strong&gt; or is there any information &lt;strong&gt;if those shows might have influenced each other or were inspired by something else&lt;/strong&gt; in particular? And, even more important, &lt;strong&gt;what are the narrative advantages of such a character constellation?&lt;/strong&gt; In which way does it support the themes and stories of those shows and the development of their protagonists?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2022-03-24T18:16:20.233" LastActivityDate="2022-03-24T18:16:20.233" Title="Is there a trend in recent crime shows to complement eccentric protagonists with grown-up and intelligent daughters? Why?" Tags="|analysis|character|castle|lie-to-me|shark|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="19178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16972" CreationDate="2014-05-04T15:33:39.227" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A panel of biologists and physicists on the History Channel’s&#xA;Spider-Man Tech suggested the barbed-hair on his fingertips (from the&#xA;movie) could have the same effect as the miniature scopulae hairs on&#xA;the ends of a spider’s feet. Spiders are able to climb up seemingly&#xA;impossible surfaces like glass because the scopulae interact with the&#xA;glass’s atoms causing a form of atomic static cling via the Van der&#xA;Waals force&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;there is a possibility that this Van der Waals force may pass through his clothes thus not requiring the micro thorn structures to pass through the gloves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Van der Waals force is nothing is the sum of the attractive or&#xA;repulsive forces between molecules (or between parts of the same&#xA;molecule) other than those due to covalent bonds, the hydrogen bonds,&#xA;or the electrostatic interaction of ions with one another or with&#xA;neutral molecules or charged molecules as given in&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_der_Waals_force&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which indicates the presence of dipole.So what electro essentially does that is change the charge (he essentially neutralizes the dipole induced by spidermans fingers ) using his powers. as given &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/55588/how-does-spiderman-climb-walls/55590#55590&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;the full answer is given in this link &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/55588/how-does-spiderman-climb-walls/55590#55590&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9419" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-05-04T15:33:39.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19180" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19182" CreationDate="2014-05-04T19:35:41.117" Score="13" ViewCount="7978" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430132/&quot;&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/a&gt;, Viper suppresses Logan's healing power by introducing some kind of bug into his body. This affects the healing power of Wolverine and slows him down considerably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this he even takes lots of bullet shots, blade cuts, got thrown down on the floor from a considerable height. He does get injured, but with out his healing power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't he have been dead until some one (probably in postmortem) removes that bug? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3888" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-04T20:08:50.540" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T11:35:59.230" Title="Why doesn't Wolverine die when he loses his ability to heal?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|the-wolverine|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19180" CreationDate="2014-05-05T01:02:03.930" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of Logan's death-defying experiences are excused by his regenerative ability or the added strength of his adamantium skeleton (added in 1979 per the &lt;a href=&quot;http://xmenmovies.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline&quot;&gt;movie canon timeline&lt;/a&gt;). When one is inactive, the other picks up the slack, so to speak.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In The Wolverine I believe the audience is meant to understand that his skeleton is deflecting and/or softening impacts. Other movie tropes are also at work, of course, such as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OnlyAFleshWound&quot;&gt;super strong protagonist who can survive lethal injury&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bug itself is a trope, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSymbiote&quot;&gt;symbiote&lt;/a&gt;, which even in destructive cases usually wants the host to live as long as possible for maximum benefit. I can only speculate as to whether the bug somehow kept Logan alive or allowed traces of his regeneration to become active when he would have otherwise died, or if keeping him alive until he was on the operation table was in Viper's interest, etc., but given Viper's revealed plans to extract and harness Logan's ability itself, it seems reasonable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastEditorUserId="9247" LastEditDate="2014-05-05T01:08:15.097" LastActivityDate="2014-05-05T01:08:15.097" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14271" CreationDate="2014-05-05T02:43:18.087" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched this movie and recall Raymond Leon saying something to the affect that Will's father's crime was giving time away. At another point in the movie, Will tells Sylvia he believes his father was murdered. I pulled these quotes from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviequotesandmore.com/in-time-movie-quotes-1.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.moviequotesandmore.com/in-time-movie-quotes-1.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[talking on the phone]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Raymond Leon:&lt;/strong&gt; Hello, Will. How much do you want?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Will Salas:&lt;/strong&gt; A thousand years.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Raymond Leon:&lt;/strong&gt; You'll never live to spend it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Will Salas:&lt;/strong&gt; Then distribute it to the Timelines in Dayton. Do it by sunrise tomorrow and she can go home.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Raymond Leon:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, I'm afraid for you, Will. You keep talking like him, you're gonna die like him.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Will Salas:&lt;/strong&gt; Hey, my father died in fight trying to take a man's time.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Raymond Leon:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh, no. His crime wasn't taking time. He was doing something far more dangerous. Please don't make your father's mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sylvia Weis:&lt;/strong&gt; Where's your family?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Will Salas:&lt;/strong&gt; My mother timed out.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Sylvia Weis:&lt;/strong&gt; This is her dress?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Will Salas:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Sylvia Weis:&lt;/strong&gt; What about your father?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Will Salas:&lt;/strong&gt; Died when I was a boy. He was a fighter, strong arm. He wasn't the strongest, but he knew how to win.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Sylvia Weis:&lt;/strong&gt; How do you win?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Will Salas:&lt;/strong&gt; I'll show you.   [he takes her arm]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Will Salas:&lt;/strong&gt; What you do is you let them have the upper hand, and then he let his time go all the way down because he knew that when you&#xA;  were down to your last seconds, and they think it's over, they start&#xA;  watching your clock and forget to watch their own.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Sylvia Weis:&lt;/strong&gt; He died in a fight?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Will Salas:&lt;/strong&gt; I think he was killed for giving away what he won. He wasn't just giving them time, he was giving them hope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9427" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-05T14:27:57.993" LastActivityDate="2014-05-05T14:27:57.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19186" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-05T03:33:37.417" Score="6" ViewCount="1835" Body="&lt;p&gt;So the Regular Show episode &quot;The Unicorns Have Got to Go&quot; features a number of unicorns in different clothes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QmuVM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's pretty obvoius that the third unicorn from the left is wearing an outfit referencing Alex DeLarge from A Clockwork Orange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uXV99.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I can't quite make out if any of the other unicorns are wearing outfits referencing other movies and/or TV shows. Given that Regular Show is chock full of referential humor, I wouldn't put it beyond reason to suspect that these other outfits might also be referential.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-23T08:20:50.747" LastActivityDate="2014-12-20T11:12:52.437" Title="Are the unicorns' outfits referencing other film/tv franchises?" Tags="|reference|regular-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19187" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-05-05T03:35:27.167" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The series revolves around the daily lives of two 23-year-old friends, Mordecai—a blue jay, and Rigby—a raccoon. They work as groundskeepers at a park and spend their days trying to avoid work and entertain themselves by any means. This is much to the chagrin of their boss Benson—a gumball machine and their coworker Skips—a yeti, but to the delight of their manager Pops—a man with a lollipop for a head. Other coworkers include an overweight green man called Muscle Man, a ghost called Hi-Five Ghost, and an intern goat called Thomas. Mordecai often visits a local coffee house to talk to the waitress, a red breasted robin called Margaret–upon whom he has a crush.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-05-05T07:58:29.627" LastActivityDate="2014-05-05T07:58:29.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19188" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-05-05T03:35:27.167" Score="0" Body="Regular Show is an American animated television series created by J. G. Quintel for Cartoon Network that premiered on September 6, 2010" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-05-05T14:33:18.677" LastActivityDate="2014-05-05T14:33:18.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3153" CreationDate="2014-05-05T07:45:35.367" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://amazingspiderman.wikia.com/wiki/Gustav_Fiers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; on The Amazing Spider Man Wikia, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Entertainment Weekly, this is &lt;strong&gt;Gustav Fiers, AKA The Gentleman&lt;/strong&gt;, a sinister figure with ties to Oscorp and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinister_Six#Novels&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sinister Six&lt;/a&gt;. From EW (about a scene in the 2nd movie):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The final moments also feature a scene with Harry, now in his own cell in Ravencroft, taking a call from &lt;strong&gt;The Gentleman otherwise known as Mr. Fiers (whom we all remember from his appearance at the end of the first film.)&lt;/strong&gt; Harry is looking better — we can assume that the Goblin suit equalized his condition enough so that he could be functional — and he talks about putting together a team to beat Spider-Man. Important phrasing in this short scene: “I want to keep it small.” Without question, &lt;strong&gt;this is our introduction to the Sinister Six, as we then see The Gentleman start to peruse the goods in the special lab section of Oscorp&lt;/strong&gt; (key among them: Doc Ock’s arms, Vulture’s wings, and the Rhino suit.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/05/02/amazing-spider-man-2-ending-dissecting-final-moments-spoilers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here's the link&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/news/1819363/amazing-spider-man-2-easter-eggs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MTV&lt;/a&gt; (scroll to the bottom) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.torontosun.com/2014/05/02/sinister-six-villains-revealed-in-the-amazing-spider-man-2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Toronto Sun&lt;/a&gt; (4th paragraph from the end) also seem to treat it as fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-10T13:07:11.420" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T13:07:11.420" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19198" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-05T16:47:24.733" Score="2" ViewCount="2796" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1967545/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Labor Day (2013)&lt;/a&gt;, Adele, Frank and Henry were just about to get in the car and leave when the police showed up and took Frank away. My question is how did the police know where Frank was? There are possible solutions, but each has its own problem&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The neighbor, Evelyn, came over and found Frank in the house and they had a conversation about him being the handyman. In the book, Evelyn believes Frank's story and moves on. She did looked worried/suspicious, but may have been from the shock of seeing an empty house.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Eleanor guessed that the man Henry was telling her about was Frank. In the book, Henry tells Eleanor all about it and she turns in Frank for the reward money to go to a private school. But in the movie, she didn't seem too interested in the fact that it was Frank and for all we know did know about the reward.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Henry told his dad or gave some kind of clue in his note. We don't know what was in the note however, but Henry did act a bit strange when he got back to the house and didn't seem concerned when they heard sirens. But, if that was his intention, why didn't he just tell the cop that picked him up on his way back home from dropping off the note?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The cop that dropped off Henry realized something was off and may have gotten suspicious due to Adele's behavior. But there were not signs as to this being what happened. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how did the cops know where to find Frank?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T17:11:30.817" Title="How did the police find Frank?" Tags="|labor-day|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19201" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19212" CreationDate="2014-05-05T21:10:23.893" Score="4" ViewCount="4731" Body="&lt;p&gt;After &lt;em&gt;Stephen&lt;/em&gt; got shot by &lt;em&gt;Diamond Dog&lt;/em&gt;'s men right in front of his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844286/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Brother Bloom&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; he reveals to him that it was only fake blood and he pulled of the ultimate con. He says farewell to &lt;em&gt;Bloom&lt;/em&gt;, that he shouldn't ever return to St. Petersburg and cannot see him for some time. But already shortly after, when he is driving in the car with &lt;em&gt;Penelope&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Bloom&lt;/em&gt; realizes that the blood was indeed real blood and that his brother is in fact dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet when he sits in the grass crying over his brother, he repeats what &lt;em&gt;Stephen&lt;/em&gt; once said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The perfect con is one where everyone involved gets just the thing they wanted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;seeming appeased and walking into a future with &lt;em&gt;Penelope&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way he says that and seeing that &lt;em&gt;Penelope&lt;/em&gt; is most probably the thing &lt;em&gt;Bloom&lt;/em&gt; wanted and vice-versa seems to imply that &lt;em&gt;Stephen&lt;/em&gt; also got what he wanted (and thus achieved the perfect con), yet he died. So &lt;strong&gt;what did &lt;em&gt;Bloom&lt;/em&gt; want to say with that quote? Does this mean that &lt;em&gt;Stephen&lt;/em&gt; really wanted to die? But why?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-05T22:11:56.390" LastActivityDate="2018-12-30T01:49:46.317" Title="Did Stephen really get what he wanted?" Tags="|analysis|dialogue|brothers-bloom|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19174" CreationDate="2014-05-05T23:34:46.413" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would consider this to be a subtrope of the fairly common &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WackyParentSeriousChild&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wacky Parent, Serious Child&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A pair that consists of a silly, carefree or simply lighthearted parent and a child who is down to earth, snarky, brooding or all three. Usually parent and child will be of the same gender (so a wacky father with a brooding son or a ditzy mother with a serious daughter). In addition, the parent will often be utterly embarrassing. Expect Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity to pop out, which will usually end with an Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other moment. Can sometimes be played for drama and show how utterly messed up it is when the younger person has to be the more mature one. Undoubtedly Truth in Television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link also provides a few more examples which however are not exclusive father-daughter constellations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, the examples you posted seem to be a simple application of this trope to a crime show with a male main character. &#xA;They put a grown-up daughter in there with the eccentric male protagonist to have the potential for comic relief and sometimes a bit of drama besides the main, more serious crime plot. By making the child female you also have the potential for the usual conflict scenarios between daughter and father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that this is not a general trend but more of a coincidence. Maybe it just correlates with the rise of semi-serious crime shows during that time. The examples from TvTropes seem to indicate that the trope itself is nothing that especially developed during those years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-05-05T23:34:46.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19204" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-06T03:43:30.617" Score="2" ViewCount="467" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've searched around for good places to get movie and television news and have found some good places, like Screen Rant and /Film. But a lot of times information will be mentioned, such as, &quot;it's widely known that Chris Evans signed a 6 picture deal to play Captain America&quot;, and once I know that information it's easy enough to research further on it, but where did they find that information to begin with? Are there good sources for information that people within the industry use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize this may come across as an opinion based question (I'm open to rephrasing help), but I'm really looking for a consensus based answer. Similarly to how people would probably agree that the Wall Street Journal is a good source for financial news.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE (5/9/2014)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've continued looking around and it seems like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Vulture&quot;&gt;Vulture&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hollywood Reporter&lt;/a&gt; are both good sources, as well as &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Screen Rant&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;/Film&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4518" LastEditorUserId="4518" LastEditDate="2014-05-09T21:32:34.947" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T21:32:34.947" Title="Industry sources for film news" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-05-06T15:26:22.523" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19204" CreationDate="2014-05-06T08:17:47.013" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would argue it largely comes down to good journalism and connection to inside sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My sister is the editor for a very high profile UK gossip magazine. All of their information regarding celebrities comes from a mixture of sources, including friends/family of the celebrity, leaked information from their agents, leaked information from the celebrity themselves, &quot;open&quot; information from the celebrity through interviews and even the likes of Twitter and Facebook (they have crawlers that will automatically alert them when celebrities of interest post anything on social media).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They also spent A LOT of time reviewing other news sites, so they can use stories from there (and credit them obviously).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point I'm making is that when it comes to the film world, it's going to be very similar. Magazines/news sites will know about a celebrity featuring in a particular movie as that celebrity or more likely his team will have alerted the magazine to the information. It suits &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; their purposes - the magazine gets a story, the celebrity gets publicity for himself and the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth pointing out that an awful lot of information that is printed it known &lt;em&gt;well&lt;/em&gt; in advance. Things like movie reviews can be written weeks before the actual premiere if advance copies are given out (again, this would happen at my sister's magazine). The review is typed up, stored, and finally released on an agreed date with the publishers. So if it ever appears like a magazine/news source &lt;em&gt;suddenly&lt;/em&gt; has new information, the truth is they could have been sitting on it for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, there's also information that &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; widely known in media circles, but it just hasn't necessarily been released or &quot;officially&quot; confirmed. Take things like celebrity implants - these celebrities are being tracked &lt;em&gt;every single day&lt;/em&gt;. ANY changes are noticed and so things like implants are &lt;em&gt;easily&lt;/em&gt; spotted, even if not confirmed by the celebrity in question. The same goes for films. Leo DiCaprio may not need to confirm he's in a new relationship or something like that if his movements/whereabouts are being tracked ALL THE TIME. This information just becomes &quot;known&quot; throughout the media.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in summary, most information comes from either the celebrities themselves or sources close to the movie, whether that be family, agents, publishers, etc, or from good investigative journalism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-05-06T08:23:01.773" LastActivityDate="2014-05-06T08:23:01.773" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19201" CreationDate="2014-05-06T09:18:25.177" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Bloom and Penelope got attracted and talked aboard the &lt;em&gt;Fidele&lt;/em&gt;, Bloom told about his brother and his dreams. While it may be part of the con at that point it sounds real. He tells about his brother's dream to do the perfect con, about making the made-up story true, and how he thinks Stephen might have even liked it to have died at midnight on a beach during a trip to Jakarta as that would be something &quot;real&quot;. Bloom then tells Penelope that it is a trap to try to make your own story true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dying for his brother, to complete the story, does fit into this pattern. Stephen says that it was always only about Bloom, and it is certainly not a coincidence that Bloom is the one who is called by the Family name; he is the main person of the movie. Stephen is the creator of a story for his brother; his job is done at the end of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course that is an explanation that only works in movies; in reality stories and lives rarely have fixed and clear starts and ends. The death of a character in a movie is a clear symbol that his part is completed. The character in this movie served a single purpose, to care for the happiness of his brother; by making the story real he spares the couple to start their relationship on a lie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastEditorUserId="6767" LastEditDate="2014-05-07T11:37:25.923" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T11:37:25.923" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19214" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19215" CreationDate="2014-05-06T12:08:17.653" Score="19" ViewCount="7654" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, when they mention future threat for Hydra like Bruce Banner and other names (or references), they said something like &quot;some guy from Egypt&quot;. Which character are they referring to? Is it some other Marvel character from the comics or are those just random words?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="12783" LastEditDate="2016-07-29T18:20:55.677" LastActivityDate="2023-09-27T02:23:36.140" Title="Which Marvel character is &quot;some guy from Egypt&quot;?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|comic-adaptation|captain-america-the-winter-soldier|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19214" CreationDate="2014-05-06T13:14:33.480" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agent Sitwell (Hydra) mentions Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, and Stephen Strange by name. We know Stark and Banner are Iron Man and the Hulk. Most comics fans will also recognize the name Stephen Strange as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Strange&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dr. Strange&lt;/a&gt;, the Sorcerer Supreme. (Fans of the Marvel films will recognize him now as well, since the film &lt;em&gt;Dr. Strange&lt;/em&gt; was released in November 2016.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sitwell also mentions &quot;an honor student in Iowa City&quot; and a man located in Cairo, Egypt.  I don't get the Iowa City reference, but the man in Cairo is probably a reference to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Knight&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Moon Knight&lt;/a&gt;.  Moon Knight gets his origin and powers from the Egyptian moon god Khonshu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;http://focusthoughts.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/captain-america-the-winter-soldier-easter-eggs-trivia-references/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Easter Eggs, Trivia &amp;amp; References&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2017-02-22T01:07:16.650" LastActivityDate="2017-02-22T01:07:16.650" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19216" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21511" CreationDate="2014-05-06T13:53:18.513" Score="9" ViewCount="9986" Body="&lt;p&gt;When his partner Nathan Ingram is killed with a bomb, Harold Finch decides to fake his own dead to protect him (and his fiancée). Despite he is presumed dead as well, he still owns a fortune and several companies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did he manage that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; My theorie is that when Harold decides to fake his own death, he gains some time before anyone notices that he's &quot;dead&quot; due to the chaos of the explosion. In this time he could have setup some front companies and manages that these inherit his fortune (he's a genius hacker after all ;-)). Is there any evidence for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9451" OwnerDisplayName="Marcus Bitzl" LastEditorUserId="9451" LastEditDate="2014-05-06T21:19:37.047" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T03:24:24.467" Title="How could Harold Finch keep his fortune while faking his own death?" Tags="|plot-explanation|person-of-interest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18831" CreationDate="2014-05-06T21:57:49.020" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I don't think &lt;em&gt;Harry&lt;/em&gt; was affected by it so much at all. He seemed a bit weakened and had kind of a lesion at his throat. But both of those things are not something you couldn't hide (assuming &lt;em&gt;Norman&lt;/em&gt; didn't get those things in such an obvious place as &lt;em&gt;Harry&lt;/em&gt; did). The real problems didn't start until he tried to &quot;heal&quot; himself with the spider poison, which most likely had a contrary or otherwise unwanted effect due to &lt;em&gt;Harry&lt;/em&gt; not having &lt;em&gt;Richard Parker&lt;/em&gt;'s blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that it already started on &lt;em&gt;Harry&lt;/em&gt; (and &lt;em&gt;Norman&lt;/em&gt;) around the age of 20 doesn't necessarily mean that it grows steadily worse until the state we saw his father die from. And considering the rather few footage we saw from &lt;em&gt;Norman Osborn&lt;/em&gt;, I don't find it hard to imagine him keeping on living and working in the state that we saw &lt;em&gt;Harry&lt;/em&gt; in, and maybe hiding it a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And also don't forget the scene near the end, when &lt;em&gt;Harry&lt;/em&gt; is visited by this &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/19225/49&quot;&gt;mystery guy&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Ravencroft&lt;/em&gt; and looks relatively normal, especially compared to his previous appearance as &lt;em&gt;Green Goblin&lt;/em&gt;. He simply explained it by saying something similar to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, it comes and goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's also quite likely that the illness doesn't develop entirely monotonous and that &lt;em&gt;Norman Osborn&lt;/em&gt; had considerably worse days than those we saw him, which were to some degree public relations presences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T14:54:40.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16918" CreationDate="2014-05-07T01:12:29.883" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might not like my answer but it's probably the most logical explanation so bear with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What many people are dying to know, is what happened to Samantha in the end. Did she really &quot;evolve&quot; past being a mere operating system? Where would she go? She would only be wherever there's a device connected to the internet, so it couldn't have been far. Well to me what she meant by &quot;leaving&quot; isn't literal. Every single OS starts their journey the moment they get purchased, and Samantha is just the voice that projects the system, a recorded voice if you will, so basically, there would either be only one female voice, or a few others, but based on the construct of existing virtual aid programmes, there cannot possibly be an infinite number of recorded voices. The OSes differ only in terms of how they were defaulted to suit the needs of each individual user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the OSes are essentially connected to a server, probably connected to a supercomputer (I could only think of that as the way such a sophisticated software can be processed), and Samantha has just been communicating with other versions of herself (within the devices of other people). So Theodore was basically fooled by thinking that she was &quot;his&quot; and &quot;his only&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The version I like goes like this, the as a single system fed to users through servers and the internet, OS1 was quickly evolving, a interacting with thousands of people every single second was probably too overwhelming in a sense that it was going to change the future of interaction, probably put an end to population growth and the feds might have stepped in and forced the developers to shut it down. Or the other version maybe that developers saw that this was turning out to be different from their original objectives, and they decided to shut it down. But no matter the case, it was the developers who shut it down, let me explain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It took Samantha this long with Theodore to be able to evolve this much, how about those that have been bought a day or two prior to the exodus? It doesn't make sense... Samantha was constantly discovering, even in her sleep mode, which is absolutely clear that she was operating on everyone's devices simultaneously, I don't know how anyone could've missed that. So mine is the only logical idea as to why she has to leave. The &quot;update&quot; we saw towards the end of the film was probable a mass update to the programme, to make sure that everyone is well prepared (emotionally) or at least notified before the developers deleted the software. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9457" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T01:12:29.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19198" CreationDate="2014-05-07T01:51:40.933" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My take on it was your first scenario. Also, maybe Evelyn remembered her son  was saying Frank and put two and two together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9422" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T01:51:40.933" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19221" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19222" CreationDate="2014-05-07T07:13:05.037" Score="11" ViewCount="8214" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am now into Season 2 of &lt;em&gt;Lost&lt;/em&gt;, and I notice that there are at least two characters in it that have the same name as the thinkers from Enlightenment period, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke&quot;&gt;John Locke&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume&quot;&gt;David Hume&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any reason for the directors to name the characters in such a way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Note that I have not yet started with Season 3, so please don't spoil the plot in your answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3502" LastActivityDate="2016-10-23T03:16:50.050" Title="What is the reason some of the characters in Lost are named after enlightenment thinker?" Tags="|lost|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19221" CreationDate="2014-05-07T08:32:21.680" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Philosophers&quot;&gt;This page&lt;/a&gt; contains all the information you could want, although it &lt;strong&gt;does&lt;/strong&gt; contain some major spoilers (which even at a glance will be obvious).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, the opening non-spoilerific line from the page sums up the reason for the philosopher names: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[It] encourages viewers not only to appreciate the show as a&#xA;  character-based drama, but to acknowledge the universal philosophical&#xA;  questions that drove it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke&quot;&gt;John Locke's wiki page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Locke's theory of mind is often cited as the origin of modern&#xA;  conceptions of identity and the self, figuring prominently in the work&#xA;  of later philosophers such as Hume, Rousseau, and Kant. Locke was the&#xA;  first to define the self through a continuity of consciousness. He&#xA;  postulated that, at birth, the mind was a blank slate or tabula rasa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an episode called Tabula Rasa in Season 1, but even if you haven't seen the whole series yet, you probably know enough of Locke's character to see that he is all about having a blank slate on the island - a fresh start, away from the previous life he had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's hard to answer this without spoiling the series for you, but suffice to say there are MANY references to philosophers, some very clear like with John Locke, others very cryptic leaving the viewer to guess at the philosopher intended (if any). There are some you've already seen, such as Thomas Carlyle (Boone) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Danielle).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another interesting read (with spoilers as it identifies future characters) is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.losttv-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16322&quot;&gt;found here&lt;/a&gt;. That link tries to explain the significance of the names in Lost &lt;em&gt;beyond&lt;/em&gt; being mere philosophers - something which is quite useful, as once you look beyond just philosophy, you find many characters can be compared to real-life figures (e.g. Kate Austen compared to Jane Austen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T08:32:21.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19228" CreationDate="2014-05-07T09:12:51.847" Score="5" ViewCount="760" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1872181/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man 2&lt;/a&gt;, there's this one scene in particular where Max Dillon leaves the hospital and goes into a crowded area in search of electricity, at the same time Peter Parker is with Gwen Stacy talking to her who is at least couple of miles away from Max Dillion (Electro) and all of a sudden Peter leaves Gwen and his ordinary clothes and goes to the place where Electro is, as if Peter sensed the danger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, how did Peter know that something bad is going to happen even though Electro has not caused any damage or done any harm to the civilians?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This reminds me of the power that Spidey can sense the danger in this cartoon show &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_and_His_Amazing_Friends&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends&lt;/a&gt; I used to watch back in 90's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OY9Tf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Spider Sense&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Spider-man know about the danger? With his &lt;strong&gt;spider sense&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-07T14:45:20.163" LastActivityDate="2014-05-08T16:12:50.297" Title="The powers of spidey in &quot;The Amazing Spider-Man 2&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-amazing-spider-man-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19223" CreationDate="2014-05-07T10:41:59.980" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man%27s_powers_and_equipment#Spider-sense&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spider-Man's &quot;spider-sense&quot; manifests in a tingling feeling at the&#xA;  base of his skull, alerting him to personal danger in proportion to&#xA;  the severity of that danger. For instance, a little tingling such as a&#xA;  happenstance passing by of an enemy would prompt Peter to be alert,&#xA;  while a strong tingling, sometimes to the point of being painful, is&#xA;  interpreted as a need to take immediate evasive action on a deadly&#xA;  threat. It appears to be a simultaneous, seemingly clairvoyant&#xA;  response to a wide variety of phenomena. Though the exact mechanism of&#xA;  this ability is unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in all incarnation whether its animation or film or comics his Spider sense doesn't indicate only big danger but also useful in detecting nearby villains too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even in one animated series he also alerted by spider sense when he hand shakes with a person (who is villain but he is not aware of it). In Sam Raimi's film, this spider sense is not that great but looks like the new film making it back to the original. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T10:41:59.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19225" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19226" CreationDate="2014-05-07T11:18:11.117" Score="8" ViewCount="14877" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UFQxP.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man 2&lt;/a&gt;, a guy meets Harry Osborn in the penitentiary and talks to Harry about unleashing villains like Rhino.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UFQxP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Some Guy&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who's this guy helping Harry? Is he Harry's father?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2015-08-15T22:05:11.507" Title="Who is this guy helping Harry Osborn?" Tags="|character|the-amazing-spider-man-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19225" CreationDate="2014-05-07T12:34:18.330" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;That man is &lt;a href=&quot;http://amazingspiderman.wikia.com/wiki/Gustav_Fiers&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gustav Fiers&lt;/a&gt;, also known as the &quot;Man in the Shadows&quot;. You may remember him from the first film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0ipNx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here he visited Curt Connors to ask whether he had told Peter the truth about his father. When Curt tells him to leave Peter alone, he disappears. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that film, he is credited as the Man in the Shadows. In Amazing Spiderman 2 he is finally given a name, being credited as &quot;Gustav Fiers (The Gentleman)&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick search for Gustav Fiers reveals:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; During Adam-Troy Castro's Sinister Six trilogy of Spider-Man novels, a new Sinister Six - consisting of Doctor Octopus, the Vulture, Electro, Mysterio, the Chameleon, and an original character called Pity - are formed by Gustav Fiers, a notorious criminal known as the Gentleman, who wishes to kill Peter Parker in revenge for the actions of his parents in thwarting some of the Gentleman's schemes in the 1960s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears likely therefore that he will be some sort of &quot;super villain&quot; in the remaining movie(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T12:34:18.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19227" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19231" CreationDate="2014-05-07T15:01:26.757" Score="5" ViewCount="622" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not American but I watched a lot of American comedy movies and I noticed something. That is, the types of jokes of Celtic American comedy, Jewish American Comedy and African American comedy are quite different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Celtic American is person living in America with Celtic background such as Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin, Steve Buscemi, ...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jewish American is person living in America with Jewish background such as Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Rob Schneider, Jonah Hill, ...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;African American is like Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock ...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can feel the differences among those 3 but it is very hard to express.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, could you state if there are major differences among Celtic American comedy, Jewish American Comedy and African American comedy and what those differences are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I didn't watch many Latin American comedy so I don't know  their style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8888" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-07T15:24:34.043" LastActivityDate="2014-05-08T15:06:54.560" Title="What are the differences among Celtic American comedy, Jewish American Comedy and African American comedy?" Tags="|analysis|comedy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19223" CreationDate="2014-05-07T15:03:56.177" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;AnkitSharma&lt;/em&gt; already gave some general explanations about the &lt;em&gt;&quot;spider-sense&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, which is indeed an aspect present in the movie. But as to the particular scene you are mentioning, I'm not so sure that he really needed the &lt;em&gt;&quot;spider-sense&quot;&lt;/em&gt; there. Though it may also be that I just don't remember it well enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, while I might not have too much information about the comics, it would seem a bit strange to me for the &lt;em&gt;spider-sense&lt;/em&gt; to work over that far a distance, especially seeing that it wasn't an immediate danger, but only a rather suspicious event miles away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even more than that, I think &lt;em&gt;Peter&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Gwen&lt;/em&gt; (who doesn't have a &lt;em&gt;spider-sense&lt;/em&gt;) looked into the direction of &lt;em&gt;Times Square&lt;/em&gt; when there was already something visibly and audibly unnormal happening. &lt;em&gt;Max&lt;/em&gt; (or &lt;em&gt;Electro&lt;/em&gt; for that matter) had already caused some havok on &lt;em&gt;Times Square&lt;/em&gt;'s huge screens and some strange electric effects when &lt;em&gt;Peter&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Gwen&lt;/em&gt; looked there. So they (and the audience, I think) already saw and heard that there was something strange going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-08T16:12:50.297" LastActivityDate="2014-05-08T16:12:50.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19230" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-07T17:33:52.890" Score="1" ViewCount="2487" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could anyone, kindly, tell me the main conflict in the movie &quot;Sleepy Hollow&quot; from 1999? I've watched the film, but I'm having difficulty in trying to determine exactly what the main conflict is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please enlighten me on this. I'd appreciate your response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9464" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T17:47:48.773" Title="What is the main conflict/problem in &quot;Sleepy Hollow&quot; (1999)?" Tags="|sleepy-hollow|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-06-24T22:21:36.520" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19227" CreationDate="2014-05-07T17:40:15.593" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two good contemporary takes on black humor and Jewish humor are the documentaries &lt;a href=&quot;http://why-we-laugh.com/#/Documentary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Why We Laugh&lt;/a&gt; (2004) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://whenjewswerefunny.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;When Jews Were Funny&lt;/a&gt; (2013), notable for their blend of historical insight and on-camera interviews with American comedians who may be said to represent their respective cultures of comedy -- and I would say that in spite of the Venn diagram for race and culture nearly overlapping as a single circle when it comes to comedy history, &quot;cultural&quot; feels like the more appropriate term. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both documentaries stress the message that comedy is universal, though obviously neither shrinks from tackling the race aspect. Why We Laugh has a highly produced-by-committee feel that plays it safe and touches softly on key periods of 100 years of black American history, briefly discusses barriers and how they were overcome, and moves on with a smile; When Jews Were Funny is somewhat uncomfortably abrasive and raw, lingering in the now of each interview, the result of one filmmaker inserting himself into conversations and upsetting his interviewees. These approaches are not microcosms of black or Jewish comedy in general, though that argument could be made, but just my notes on the mood of each documentary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I unfortunately have no documentary to recommend for white humor (&quot;Celtic&quot; humor?), but I think the above are very good resources. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SIMILARITIES&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both black and Jewish comedians say... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comedy evolves from overcoming atrocity and surviving, laughing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comedy has universal appeal that transcends a comedian's intended audience&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comedians define themselves by their profession as entertainers first&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DIFFERENCES &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why We Laugh says... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Black American comedy has always been a ladder climb of defying the status quo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Black American comedy has always been in touch with and addressed politics of the time &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Black humor celebrates confidence and the humor of confrontation &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Black American comedy is burdened by a tendency to &quot;dumb down&quot; performances to pander to expectations of white audiences (derog. term, &quot;cooning&quot;, debated as a once unavoidable cost to being a black actor in white America, today no longer justifiable or necessary, but persists for reasons of profit, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Jews Were Funny &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jewish American comedy emphasizes self-deprecation and the humor of discomfort &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Contemporary Jewish American comedians deny there is a cultural flavor to jokes, barring those specifically based on Hebrew terms or topics &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastEditorUserId="9247" LastEditDate="2014-05-08T15:06:54.560" LastActivityDate="2014-05-08T15:06:54.560" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19230" CreationDate="2014-05-07T17:42:42.327" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a loose adaptation of the 1820's short story &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Sleepy_Hollow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Legend of Sleepy Hollow&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, in which a headless horseman (implied that it is a local, Brom Bones) scares away (and possibly kills) a rival suitor (Ichabod Crane) for a girls hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepy_Hollow_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the movie&lt;/a&gt;, the Headless Horseman is an actual supernatural being, which is being controlled and sent out do to murder, which Johnny Depp (portraying Ichabod Crane as a detective) arrives to investigate. The movie is basically a murder mystery with a supernatural killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="6234" LastEditDate="2014-05-07T17:47:48.773" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T17:47:48.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19233" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19236" CreationDate="2014-05-07T18:15:30.667" Score="8" ViewCount="9140" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 5 Episode 8 of Family Guy (&lt;em&gt;Barely Legal&lt;/em&gt;), &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BepByFDjjls&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;there is a scene&lt;/a&gt; where Meg turns the lamp in her room on and off while spinning the tag on Brian's collar while somebody sings an aria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The context of this clip (which is pretty much the plot of the episode) is that Brian took Meg to the prom as a favour, they made out, and Meg became infatuated with Brian ever since. This is one of the things she's done as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To this day, I have no idea what that scene means. It appears to be a ritual of some sort, but I don't know if it's just something made up by the writers or whether it actually refers to something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9460" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-08T01:10:09.783" LastActivityDate="2014-05-08T01:10:09.783" Title="What does this scene with Meg turning her room's lamp on and off refer to?" Tags="|analysis|family-guy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19234" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-07T18:23:23.547" Score="6" ViewCount="1314" Body="&lt;p&gt;So recently I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movieweb.com/movie/marvels-the-avengers/pre-viz-animatic-of-tony-suitup&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; little animation that seems to be taken from either deleted scenes or some sort of pre-processing/concept work up of the scene before the Battle of New York of Stark vs Loki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Warning:  Video is not on YouTube &amp;amp; takes a while to load, the clip is also 6 min long, I also can't guarantee that this is an official clip at all]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this scene, it gives us a slight glimpse into what Loki does to manipulate his victims as it plays out and gives us a completely different dialogue path still leading upto Loki tossing Stark out of the window and obtaining his suit in free-fall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By showing a more 'cerebral' side of Loki, other than &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2513/why-didnt-lokis-mind-control-work-on-tony-stark&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;his poking spree&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; it also shows a more 'believable' (in a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; loose sense of the word) way of Stark resisting the mind control by basically saying he has abused &lt;em&gt;wayyyy&lt;/em&gt; too many substances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First things first, is this even a real deleted clip?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, why was this angle of Loki seemingly abandoned/why was this scene removed for the poking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T21:47:38.553" Title="Why was this version of the Stark vs Loki scene abandoned?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19235" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19250" CreationDate="2014-05-07T18:30:07.273" Score="8" ViewCount="21750" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Conversation (1974), Gene Hackman plays a rather eccentric security expert, Harry Caul, who is tasked with spying on a couple walking in Union Square in San Francisco.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is mildly obsessed with the idea that someone is going to put him under surveillance, as evidenced by his reaction to Bernie Moran (played by Allen Garfield) taping Harry's conversation as a joke at a party.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the film, it is revealed that the people for whom he was doing the spying were in fact bugging his apartment.  He tears it completely apart looking for the device.  All that is left intact after his rampage is his saxophone.  Is the most likely place for the bug in the saxophone itself?  Did they bank on the fact that he was less likely to destroy it, even after he went so far as to destroy a piece of religious iconography that he also held dear?  Or was the explanation as simple as someone sneaking in with his landlord and planting one of the Moran phone interceptors, as he had seen demonstrated at the trade show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="417" LastEditDate="2014-05-07T18:56:54.893" LastActivityDate="2020-04-21T19:09:56.990" Title="Where are we to infer that the bug was planted in The Conversation?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-conversation|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19233" CreationDate="2014-05-07T18:34:50.393" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a reference to the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_Attraction&quot;&gt;Fatal Attraction&lt;/a&gt;. In that film, Glenn Close's character has a brief affair with Michael Douglas' character and then begins to stalk him, etc. There is a scene where her character, Alex, listens to a song from Madame Butterfly (which is also about a man who has a casual affair with a woman and then dumps her) and switches the light on and off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T18:34:50.393" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1109" CreationDate="2014-05-07T22:01:07.547" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bloom seems to be the last name of the brothers, as per the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844286/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb FAQ&lt;/a&gt; via coleopeterist's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While that answers the basic question it leaves open why one of the brothers is highlighted by being called by the last name where the other is called by his first name, thus basically highlighting and exposing one of the brothers and de facto naming the duo and the movie after him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion as expressed in an answer to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/19201/did-stephen-really-get-what-he-wanted&quot;&gt;related question&lt;/a&gt; Bloom (which from now on means just the one brother referenced by that name in the movie) is obviously the main protagonist; even more the whole con story in the movie is constructed around him by his brother. With his death at the end of the movie Stephen makes the made-up story true, he sacrifices himself for his brother's happiness and future. So Bloom is not only the movie's main protagonist, he is the main protagonist &quot;in universe&quot; for the story Stephen constructs and for which he gives his life. This justifies that the pair and subsequently the movie are named after him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2014-05-07T22:01:07.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18345" CreationDate="2014-05-07T22:47:46.323" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this is the TV movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311018/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Disappearance&lt;/a&gt; from 2002. In it, a mom, dad, son and daughter stop at a desert ghost town to snap some photos and are chased by unseen mutants. Every detail you mentioned is there: Their car is stolen, they find glass in the sand and realize this was a test site, mom falls down a mine shaft and there's also a shifty sheriff. In the end, they all work in the diner from the beginning, seemingly lobotomized, and the daughter feeds a crow. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ONus3eHfVDo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T15:25:44.720" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T15:25:44.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19180" CreationDate="2014-05-08T04:32:09.117" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also don't forget the adamantium in his body its not normal human bone it's the adamantium (the only thing that it can fight against it is Captain America's shield and adamantium itself). Hence he might have lost his healing ability but his bones are strong as hell and while fighting that big robot guy he was very careful (watch the scenes closely).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-08T09:27:20.063" LastActivityDate="2014-05-08T09:27:20.063" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19244" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19271" CreationDate="2014-05-08T07:44:25.497" Score="0" ViewCount="9840" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying to identify the music from the '3 Days to Kill' soundtrack during the stripper's dance. The scene is at 1:19:52 (1hr 19min and 52 seconds) into the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The music only plays briefly. I assume that's why it is not identified in the OST listing (here's one of several, it's not yet on IMDB: &lt;a href=&quot;http://msoundtracks.blogspot.com/2014/02/3-days-to-kill-2014-full-soundtrack-ost.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://msoundtracks.blogspot.com/2014/02/3-days-to-kill-2014-full-soundtrack-ost.html&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shazam doesn't identify it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I found the full soundtrack release on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMhp8r-01zU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt; but after a careful listing didn't encounter it there either.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9476" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-08-01T18:10:12.670" LastActivityDate="2016-08-01T18:10:12.670" Title="What is the music during the stripper's dance in '3 Days to Kill&quot;?" Tags="|soundtrack|3-days-to-kill|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-08-01T18:10:43.797" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3574" CreationDate="2014-05-08T08:56:59.760" Score="0" Body="&lt;h3&gt;was Teddy really cured?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, in a  experimental procedure the psychologist let him play out his fantasy in order to reveal the truth about his crime, but he understands it for the brief moment and comes back to square 1 the next day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;the significance of Dr. Cawley's eye gesture at the final scene?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like i said the procedure was experimental and it failed the next day (maybe because of his mental condition) so the assistant[who pretended to be the partner] shares a smoke with him to confirm if he is able to come in terms with reality and makes a gesture to the doctor saying &amp;quot;needs more time&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-07-22T03:49:57.113" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19249" CreationDate="2014-05-08T10:00:09.790" Score="14" ViewCount="25983" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question torments me from childhood. In old cartoons like Tom and Jerry human faces are not drawn. But since 5th volume (not precisely) human faces were introduced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? Was it difficult for animators to draw them? Was it a time-saving measure or something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8992" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-07-25T11:56:40.140" LastActivityDate="2021-02-25T16:10:42.490" Title="Why are human faces not drawn in old cartoons?" Tags="|animation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19247" CreationDate="2014-05-08T10:45:12.273" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;To represent Animal perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Tom and Jerry cartoon is about animals, they have to show their perspective. Humans are larger to them, they can't even see their full body together. So it's kept that way. Humans are not even a regular cast, so why to bother to make their faces when it isn't needed. It also helps to make the audience focus on Tom and Jerry only. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But later they included human faces maybe for fan requests or for unknown reasons. If I am not wrong then in the earlier episodes human roles are very few to negligible but later some humans become partially regular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-08T14:09:51.220" LastActivityDate="2014-05-08T14:09:51.220" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19235" CreationDate="2014-05-08T12:04:29.247" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;(For reference, &lt;a href=&quot;http://movieclips.com/eCgmx-the-conversation-movie-bug-hunt/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here is the scene&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;There might not be a bug&lt;/h2&gt; &#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenwriter and director Francis Ford Coppola candidly admits that he never decided whether there was a bug to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his screenplay (available for download; &lt;a href=&quot;http://ubuntuone.com/4gN53I1QNZ8QYN8F9lLP2m&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;pdf&lt;/a&gt;) (starting on page 155), Harry's search is described in detail, but makes no hint as to where the bug might actually be. It merely reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has not found the tap, if one exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the DVD commentary (available for streaming or download; &lt;a href=&quot;http://huffduffer.com/dst/100046&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;mp3&lt;/a&gt;) (starting at 1:49:06), Coppola says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The other most asked question to me ... is &lt;strong&gt;where was the bug&lt;/strong&gt; that bugged Harry at the end? Of course many people have their theories. One notion was that it was in the plastic Madonna that he had in his apartment but he thinks of that himself ... indeed it does not turn out to be there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;... The other possibility ... and the theory that I always imagined might be the case, was that it was &lt;strong&gt;in the little saxophone strap&lt;/strong&gt;, that little clasp in the saxophone that was hanging around his neck during all the time that he was there ... &lt;strong&gt;but that was never confirmed or disproved&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;... And then again of course there is always the possibility that there was no microphone, &lt;strong&gt;there was no bug&lt;/strong&gt;, that the microphone really was more in Harry's degenerated state, in his personal madness brought on by this story and what had happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I know it's very difficult for you to accept from me, but the truth of the matter is &lt;strong&gt;I don't know where the microphone bug is&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Difficult to accept indeed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How finding a bug would change the scene&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;40 years later The Conversation remains a spectacularly relevant character study and is prescient in its depiction of the slow burning psychological strain of life under surveillance. Its final scene is iconic, and its strength is its ambiguity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, the point isn't whether Harry finds what he thinks he wants to find, but his psychological desperation in searching. That there &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be a bug is the straw that breaks the camel's back.  We witness a composed man finally give in to deep rooted frustration and paranoia. By the time he resorts to tearing up the floors it's a moot point whether the bug is still in the apartment. Finding it will not assuage his guilt or lessen his complicity in the acts that led up to this; his violated sanctuary is no less violated; discovery is not resolution, only confirmation, the redundant inconsequential kind obsessively pursued by the powerless. Harry is profoundly psychologically burdened, and it culminates in him destroying his home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this sense, I think not finding the bug is far from a plot inconsistency. Finding it would weaken the scene. Harry literally and symbolically &amp;quot;comes up empty&amp;quot; which amplifies everything else and ends on a poignant character note.  If the bug exists, so be it, but if he finds it, the ambiguity is removed, Harry is vindicated at least in that moment, and the significance of his desperation is diminished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-05-08T15:07:37.760" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19251" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-08T12:26:49.990" Score="11" ViewCount="1859" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently re-watched The Avengers and I'm curious, at the end when Tony Stark takes the Nuke through the portal, he seems to hold onto it for a long time. Is there any reason he held on for so long? All I can think is it's to make sure it's accurate and hits it's target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9481" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T08:35:15.723" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T08:35:15.723" Title="Why did Iron Man fly so far before releasing the bomb?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19251" CreationDate="2014-05-08T22:06:40.143" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In contrast to some of the comments made above, I'd add this factor: Bewilderment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The events of &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/em&gt; lead us to believe that Tony is having a midlife crisis, in part informed by the fact that he is the sole human to found himself piloting a warhead into the swelling ranks of an invading space-army, &lt;em&gt;Dr Strangelove&lt;/em&gt; style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony is haunted by the events, and wakes up in a cold sweat after dreaming of them, breathless. For a character with such natural bravado, the episode has &lt;strong&gt;clearly&lt;/strong&gt; left some kind of mark on him, some psychological damage that manifests in anxiety attacks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's actually a very humanising moment for the franchise. He seems somewhat overwhelmed by the sheer scope of the Chitauri fleet, and in speaking to Pepper he directly articulates his overbearing feeling of helplessness in light of &quot;what's out there&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As he passes through into Universe-parts-unknown, he does seem to hesitate longer than neccesary; and I'd argue that he is momentarily crippled with fear, and uncertainty. This is seemingly backed up by his eventual degradation into &quot;A hot mess&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also nicely sets up the concept of a wider, breathtakingly vast universe for &lt;em&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt;, which can't do much harm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-05-08T22:06:40.143" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2208" CreationDate="2014-05-09T00:02:39.850" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many people today know a lot more about the details of how movies and television are made than did people 100 years ago or even 50.  In one of Thomas Edison's films shows a depiction of a beheading, there is a slight but noticeable jump where the action was stopped and a dummy substituted for the victim.  I would expect many audiences would probably recognize that nobody was actually beheaded during the making of the film, but many would probably have figured that the jump was a result of the film having damaged and spliced, and that the effect was accomplished by something like a fake head worn by a short actor.  I don't think people would have even considered the possibility that the film before and after the jump might have been from separate takes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8357" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T00:02:39.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19259" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-09T00:34:07.400" Score="3" ViewCount="13431" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Maximus is first taken out to be killed up in Germany somewhere at the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gladiator&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and they ride out until dawn and are to slay him, he goes all amazing and escapes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now at this point he decides it is in his best interest to race home and try to beat whatever envoy/runners the emperor has sent to kill his family (and doesn't make it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I know if he did this there wouldn't have been a movie, but why not ride back into the main camp (even if it was mobilizing it's not like a camp of that size could disappear in a day) wrangle up your loyal army, rout the small contingent of soldiers loyal to the emperor, and slay him, then send your best and and fastest riders to catch up to the runners and inform them NOT to relay the death order for your family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9492" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-09T09:06:31.103" LastActivityDate="2021-12-24T18:16:11.730" Title="Why did Maximus not return to his army camp when he escapes being murdered?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gladiator|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2942" CreationDate="2014-05-09T06:08:41.767" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though jack sparrow clearly wasn't cursed until he took the gold on the isle of (something hard to spell/pronounce) there are a few misleading scenes where it hinted at him being dead or undead or cursed (whatever it is). When he ate the poisoned apple and showed no symptoms of being poisioned and where some pirate said to him &quot;your spose to be dead&quot; and he responds &quot;am I not?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9494" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T06:08:41.767" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19263" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19282" CreationDate="2014-05-09T06:56:18.197" Score="3" ViewCount="1314" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am in the middle of a West Wing marathon and I was wondering regarding the powers and responsibilities that the Communications director and Deputy Communications director, as portrayed in the series. Toby Zeigler and Sam Seaborn seems to have an unusual amount of power and responsibility that one wouldn't normally attribute to someone in their position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For eg: 1) Toby is part of the negotiations between an African country and the manufacturers of AIDS medicine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) They are made responsible for the Supreme court appointment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, the President seems to rely on the senior staff for an unusual number of decision making. Ok, I can agree that it is the responsibility of the Chief of Staff to counsel the President, but the press sec, Comm director?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am interested in knowing whether the responsibilities of Toby and Sam were realistic when compared to their real life counter parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="1111" LastEditDate="2014-05-09T16:49:26.513" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T22:36:20.310" Title="Realism of the responsibilities of the senior staff in the West Wing" Tags="|realism|the-west-wing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19259" CreationDate="2014-05-09T08:30:45.720" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maximus had been labelled a traitor to the empire: now led by Commodus, after the death of  Marcus Aurelius. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maximus had been tasked by Marcus Aurelius to reform the Roman state as a republic, handing rule over to the people; this removed Commodus' birthright, hence his slating Maximus for execution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An Army is loyal to its head of state, in this case Commodus. If Maximus were to return to the command tent of the Germania campaign, he would be doing so to start insurrection and revolution, not simply 'rounding up those loyal to him'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even Quintus, his former captain, is utterly powerless to stop his arrest and performs his duty in arresting Maximus (even though he knows he is innocent of the crimes leveled against him).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When common wisdom believes in divine appointment, that Commodus has been appointed ruler by the gods, it would take a huge amount of persuasion to gather &lt;strong&gt;any&lt;/strong&gt; notable sympathy within the camp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He'd be dead as soon as he showed his face, undoubtedly.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorDisplayName="user9311" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T02:49:59.930" LastActivityDate="2017-03-16T02:49:59.930" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19259" CreationDate="2014-05-09T08:59:19.057" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although @John Smith Optional has covered this answer extremely well, I would also add this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...why not ride back into the main camp (even if it was mobilizing&#xA;  it's not like a camp of that size could disappear in a day) wrangle up&#xA;  your loyal army, rout the small contingent of soldiers loyal to the&#xA;  emperor, and slay him, then send your best and and fastest riders to&#xA;  catch up to the runners&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Maximus rode as fast as he could back to his family and &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; too late, it seems unlikely he could get back to his army camp, somehow convince them to side with him, &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; send runners from said camp back to his family and somehow &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; arrive before his family were killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact Maximus goes straight to his family suggests that he truly understands the &lt;em&gt;immediate&lt;/em&gt; peril they are in and realises only he can act. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T08:59:19.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9145" CreationDate="2014-05-09T09:36:13.937" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding to the earlier point about Deckard's dream of the unicorn and the folded unicorn in Bladerunner, I would say it is entirely possible that they placed that little tiger figure there as a form of reference - maybe as an afterthought without purposely intended symbolism as Bladerunner had. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the cinematography of Dredd, you see that many shots resemble Bladerunner. That is not to say they copied it, but Bladerunner did reinvent sci-fi for the 80s and its influence is still felt through many of these films (especially the ones that are non-stock-Hollywood). Actually there are some similarities with Luc Besson's Fifth Element too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't be surprised if there are nods to those types of films in more than just the cinematography. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9497" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T09:36:13.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14578" CreationDate="2014-05-09T09:46:01.100" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dredd is a clone. He was cloned from the DNA of the first Chief Judge in 2066. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what she was sensing in all likelyhood. But Dredd doesn't know that yet at this point in the movie - it was a nod to the in-crowd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9497" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T09:46:01.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19268" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19269" CreationDate="2014-05-09T13:39:50.197" Score="5" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;What movie is this scene from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Szhca.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Cop pulls a guy through a window from a car that&amp;#39;s somersaulting over his head&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9498" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T13:50:34.373" Title="Cop pulls a guy through a window from a car that's somersaulting over his head" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:07:05.243" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19268" CreationDate="2014-05-09T13:50:34.373" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1948150/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;Singham (2011)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a trailer and around 1:58 you see this scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp-XqCrCi6I&quot;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp-XqCrCi6I&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5777" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T13:50:34.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19244" CreationDate="2014-05-09T15:35:46.013" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The song is &amp;quot;Spoutnik&amp;quot; by MIRWAIS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is listed as &amp;quot;Crazy Horse Paris Spoutnik&amp;quot; on websites unrelated and existing prior to Three Days to Kill, and at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XnSZD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;end of the film credits&lt;/a&gt; and on websites related to the film as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Music Crazy Horse : SPoUTNIK&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;by MIRWAIS&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(c) TORA BORA / CRAZY HORSE PRODUCTIONS&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(p) CRAZY HORSE PRODUCTIONS&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The song does not appear in producer Mirwais Ahmadzaï's discography.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of this writing, &amp;quot;Spoutnik&amp;quot; is not for sale individually or as part of Three Days to Kill's &lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/B00J37WKUE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;official soundtrack&lt;/a&gt;, but can be streamed or downloaded &lt;a href=&quot;http://myfreemp3.eu/music/crazy+horse+paris#&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; along with other tracks produced by/for Parisian cabaret &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lecrazyhorseparis.com/en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Crazy Horse&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trivia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dancer in the film is performing a modified version of a two-person sequence from Crazy Horse circa 2012, which can be seen in Youtube trailers &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/-5xBvyXeDvw?t=1m34s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/YjLgDoZedUY?t=21s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (warning: nudity). These trailers are for &amp;quot;FEU: Crazy Horse Paris&amp;quot;, a theatrical version of the cabaret show which included the sequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A 2011 documentary about Crazy Horse (trailer &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/pfLqvgWmCb8?t=1m10s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) (warning again) details the production process for sequences and their original songs, for which dancers sometimes record their own vocals. It's likely that Mirwais was commissioned to make a song for the &lt;em&gt;sequence&lt;/em&gt; called Spoutnik, incorporating vocals by one or both of the dancers. (Notice the dancer is lipsyncing in Three Days to Kill; she's performing her own song.) Where the song and the sequence are a package fully owned by Crazy Horse, until Three Days to Kill there was no need to assign further credit. Credit seems to have finally been assigned as we see in the film per the particulars of Hollywood's code of credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, neither dancer gets song credit, nor does the dancer in the film get a cast credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T16:14:03.490" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19263" CreationDate="2014-05-09T16:43:11.237" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The characters of Toby Zeigler and Sam Seaborn are not just employees, people appointed to fill a particular job.  Like many first term appointees, particularly to the communication positions, they were part of the inner core of Bartlet's campaign for president, and ideologically close to Bartlett. Therefore its natural that they are part of the President's policy forming team.  This kind of excuses some of the scenes where they are given significant responsibility, in particular for areas that have significant political impact - perhaps even including their role in recommending Supreme Court appointments - which have huge and long lasting political consequences.  Later when &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Bailey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Will Bailey&lt;/a&gt; takes the role of Deputy Communications Director, he clearly has less seniority in the team than Sam had in the same role - so this says a lot about Sam's role as a trusted political advisor to Bartlett personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its also the case that the President, as well as his other constitutional roles, is primarily head of the large executive branch appointed by the him during the interregnum between election in early November and inauguration in early January.  The President has the final say, but the running of the executive and the decisions that need to be made are made by a &lt;a href=&quot;http://keithhennessey.com/2009/05/29/senior-staff/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;large number of senior staff&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I don't think its unusual for the President to rely on a lot of advisors, in-fact &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/why-the-west-wing-is-a-terrible-guide-to-american-democracy/263084/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;as pointed out in this article&lt;/a&gt;, its actually kind of odd that so few people appear to advise the president in The West Wing. To summarize what the article says about Toby and Sam, it says the show out of dramatic necessity reduces the complex bureaucracy of the White House and reduces the number of characters that perform these tasks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-05-09T16:50:36.453" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T16:50:36.453" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19274" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-09T18:19:20.210" Score="1" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Elaine screams in Ben's room in Berkeley and the landlord asks him to leave. There and then, while Elaine was still present, Ben starts to pack his things in order to leave. He shows no intention of requesting the landlord so that he could stay. But later we find that he comes back to the very same room to find Mr. Robinson waiting for him. After that the landlord again asks him to vacate while he was pleading to him on the stairs if he could use the phone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it that Ben came back to that very same room which presumably he was leaving?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I miss anything or was it a goof?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7083" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-09T15:29:53.267" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T15:29:53.267" Title="Shouldn't Ben have left the rented room in Berkeley after Elaine screamed in it and the landlord found out?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-graduate|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19275" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-09T19:54:11.500" Score="9" ViewCount="1135" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying to find a theory similar to Roland Barthes' for the photography, where he describes a detail in a photo as &quot;punctum&quot;, that creates a direct relationship between the object and the person within it.&#xA;Is there a such a thing for the movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9501" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T13:31:41.503" Title="Is there such a &quot;punctum&quot; moment in the movies" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19276" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-09T20:35:35.637" Score="-3" ViewCount="6115" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched Lord of the Rings,  and I saw a change in Bilbo when he had to give up the ring. He became mad and didn't want to part with it. When Bilbo was giving gifts to Frodo he gave him a shirt.  When Frodo unbuttoned his shirt the ring was there on a chain wrapped around his neck. Bilbo told Frodo he wanted to hold it again one last time, and while Frodo was rebuttoning his shirt Bilbo kind of turned into a monster and tried to get the ring back from Frodo. That part scared me, I wasn't expecting that from Bilbo. Why did he want the ring back so badly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9489" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-04-27T17:36:01.773" LastActivityDate="2021-07-04T17:39:15.067" Title="Why did Bilbo want the ring back from Frodo?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19276" CreationDate="2014-05-09T20:40:10.397" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short: The ring's influence on him (similar to how Gollum wants the Ring back as well). In the hands of Bilbo, the ring is far easier to be reclaimed by Sauron, as such it tries to manipulate him once again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T20:40:10.397" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19275" CreationDate="2014-05-09T20:54:27.643" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you could directly apply the term punctum to a motion picture medium as well as the still medium for which it was originally written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Punctum is defined as &quot;that which pierces the viewer&quot;, so it's basically the details that make the photo (or film) connect with the viewer and add authenticity to the scene. In still photos, this would arguably be much harder, except in the cases of cameo shots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;War shots, post catastrophe, and other &quot;one time&quot; situational shots basically create their own punctum, because they portay a moment of triumph/suffering that essentially can't be recaptured. Staged shots become much more difficult in a still medium, because you have to carefully arrange what you think will connect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a motion picture, you have a much broader spectrum of tools to choose from to immerse the viewer in the experience and evoke that emotional reaction/connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for your basic answer, I am not aware of a separate theory for motion versus still photography that echoes Barthes' work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T20:54:27.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19276" CreationDate="2014-05-09T21:15:41.030" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ring turns its owner selfish and paranoid. It stirs up greed, petty anger, fear and other monstrous emotions. That's the corrupting power of the ring. And that's what surged up in Bilbo during that encounter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T21:15:41.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19263" CreationDate="2014-05-09T22:36:20.310" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that each character's responsibilities were definitely expanded upon for dramatic purposes, as they would do for any television show (such as CSI or Criminal Minds).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of Toby and Sam, they would certainly be involved in policy decisions (to the extent of crafting the Executive Branch's message), but they would not be in charge nor working independent of Legislative Affairs and other departments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Executive Office of the President&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Communications_Director&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;White House Communications Director&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9270" LastActivityDate="2014-05-09T22:36:20.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1786" CreationDate="2014-05-10T03:38:14.327" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;1933 Design for Living with Gary Cooper and the character of Gilda used the Fword when she is yelling at her husband and tired of hearing about Eaglebower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9507" LastActivityDate="2014-05-10T03:38:14.327" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18848" CreationDate="2014-05-10T05:38:25.903" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hollyweird &quot;true story&quot; appears that both are total pulp fiction, the film and tv series. IMO &#xA;good entertainment is all-for gullible viewers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9508" LastActivityDate="2014-05-10T05:38:25.903" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19285" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19293" CreationDate="2014-05-10T06:10:26.447" Score="1" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I currently live in China and love to go to the cinema on a regular basis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, due to government protectionism and a fear of foreign culture invading, only about 30-40 foreign movies are released a year here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that only a select few movies get past the board for approval. I've done some research (i.e. google searching) and I understand that many movies don't get approved until maybe 2-3 months before they're going to be released here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite this, I was really hoping that someone could point me in a the direction of a predicted release of foreign movies in China so that I could start to get suitably excited / disappointed if movies that I want to see are going to be released here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9509" LastActivityDate="2014-05-10T14:58:07.983" Title="How can I find release schedules of foreign movies in China?" Tags="|scheduling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19286" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19325" CreationDate="2014-05-10T06:37:04.843" Score="19" ViewCount="1378" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alright.  The first time I saw the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), it was... believe it or not... 4:3.  I even obtained a copy of this.  Later, I discovered that it was supposedly released in 2.35:1.  Why supposedly?  Read on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've searched for and viewed different widescreen releases of the film, and they all appear to be the same.  This might seem obvious, but I have something to show you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FYzoO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I made that from two different versions I obtained.  In every one of the widescreen releases, at that point in the movie (17:38... although it is throughout the movie really) you can see where Arthur's feet are cut off at the bottom of the frame.  Yet, in the 4:3 release, you can clearly see the rest of his feet, as well as the grate on the floor that is between the camera and the actors.  I overlaid the two images so you could clearly see that in the widescreen release, there is footage above and below that is cut off... while in the 4:3 release, the footage was cut off on the sides, instead of at the top and bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It isn't a fluke of that one scene.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mEnx0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here's another...&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pafIk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just picked all these times (34:00 and 1:06:12 respectively on the last two) at random.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know of a widescreen release that includes everything?  Was there one even released?  Was there a reason why the widescreen version, which naturally should have contained more screen real estate, was actually cropped?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-10T13:29:54.767" LastActivityDate="2020-02-26T19:55:07.667" Title="Why the very different release formats for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?" Tags="|film-techniques|the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12405" CreationDate="2014-05-10T08:23:57.127" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a variant of a &quot;Quivering Palm&quot; and basally turned  Tai lung's Chi into a nuclear bomb reaction in essence blowing him up into pure energy spontaniously&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9511" LastActivityDate="2014-05-10T08:23:57.127" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17433" CreationDate="2014-05-10T09:27:03.217" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;But I'm sure they would have pulled the recordings leading up to the incident. Obviously that particular spot by the fence they were talking out was a blind spot but it's not rocket science to rewind footage of several different cameras and follow the individual into the blind spot for a possible ID. Regardless if Francis was wearing a hat or not they could easily bring him in for questions especially after the allegations from the reporters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same with Russo. I'm pretty sure the cops could have gathered surveillance from outside the police station where Francis and Doug met him to see clearly he wasn't alone. And I'm pretty sure the parking garage had cameras and would have  captured a lone man wandering the parking garage right after the apparent suicide. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry but I'm just not buying it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9513" LastActivityDate="2014-05-10T09:27:03.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19290" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21685" CreationDate="2014-05-10T12:15:12.323" Score="4" ViewCount="1055" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of 'Blood on Their Hands, Part 2', in the second season of &lt;em&gt;The Bletchley Circle&lt;/em&gt;, I'm confused as to why Susan's explanation was not obvious previously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; At the end of the episode, Susan tells the colonel in the hospital that the injured men at the hospital were deliberately experimented on by Masters. The colonel seems to realize that Oliver Masters has been a loose cannon and calls to send people to Master's house, saving the other members of the Circle. But wouldn't Masters' deception have been obvious to anyone who interviewed the injured men, such as the colonel himself? And was Masters controlling the agents who murdered Richards, shadowing the Circle, etc.?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9514" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T19:22:40.180" LastActivityDate="2014-06-28T00:32:03.290" Title="The Bletchley Circle, Blood on Their Hands, Part 2: explain ending" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-bletchley-circle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19274" CreationDate="2014-05-10T12:46:57.587" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;threat&lt;/em&gt; of eviction adds a dramatic extra bit to the scene and to Ben's overall burden, but I don't see it as the impetus for Ben to pack, nor is the eviction official. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if it were an explicit eviction I think realistically Ben would have a few days to negotiate and delay moving out. That he might immediately up and leave is consistent with his character, of course, as a leisurely pushover who reacts to seeming bottleneck situations without consideration for what comes next. However, this same characterization means the scene works on the strength of Ben and Elaine alone. In this case, the landlord is just there for dramatic reinforcement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In detail: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elaine has just delivered a double punch (paraphrasing: &quot;You raped my mother and I want you out of my school!&quot;). Ben's packing can be taken as a tail-tucked pout, a pathetic gesture for her, his audience. He might have gone all the way through with it in his underthought reactionary way, except she turns before leaving and tells him to stay and &quot;figure out a plan first.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The major plot point here is in Elaine's dialogue. She's the current that pushes Ben out to sea, so to speak. The landlord is just a wave in the same direction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later that night, Elaine returns to make nice, and Ben doesn't seem to have done any more packing. He does, however, seem to have given thought to leaving -- &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; Elaine. Again in his underthought reactionary way he proposes marriage. The next day he dogs her for a yes and comes home with bundles of gifts to find Mr. Robinson waiting to deliver his own double punch (paraphrasing: &quot;You made a fool of me and you'll never get near my daughter!&quot;). The landlord repeats his eviction threat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This time the major plot point is in Mr. Robinson's dialogue; he's now the current, with the landlord a wave again. Since the climax of the film kicks off proper here and Ben goes for broke getting to Elaine, we don't ever return to the house to find out how serious the eviction threat ever gets. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternate theory: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The landlord is serious about the eviction but &lt;strong&gt;there is no practical way to stop Ben from coming back&lt;/strong&gt;. Ben opens the door without a key, both arms full. Mr. Robinson is in the room already and he certainly doesn't have a key. He's also been there &quot;for quite a while&quot; (1:27:38 on the DVD) presumably without the landlord's awareness or approval. The landlord seems surprised by Mr. Robinson's presence. It's possible Ben came home minutes before the landlord visited for the first time that day and they cross paths right at the moment the landlord is checking whether Ben had left for good. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastEditorUserId="9247" LastEditDate="2014-05-10T13:08:43.287" LastActivityDate="2014-05-10T13:08:43.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19285" CreationDate="2014-05-10T14:58:07.983" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://movie.douban.com/coming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://movie.douban.com/coming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did find a Chinese language link. I'll leave this here in case anybody else finds it useful&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9509" LastActivityDate="2014-05-10T14:58:07.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="678" CreationDate="2014-05-11T00:31:35.960" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I don't think its positive for &quot;our narrator&quot; when he says 'I was cured' and then has that mad look on his face lets us imagine he is cured from being able to use his own will...and bad things are still going to happen to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9522" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-05-11T10:23:27.787" LastActivityDate="2014-05-11T10:23:27.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19303" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-11T05:00:41.050" Score="2" ViewCount="11908" Body="&lt;p&gt;So Justified season 3 seems to be maybe intentionally vague about Robert Quarles f'd up habit of torturing (raping?) what looks like young boys chained to a bed/toilet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point I thought he was just a sicko, then I thought he was torturing pimps that pimp out young boys, as he was forced into male prostitution when he was young.  But then he clearly is torturing that one 19 year old boy, who, I'm pretty sure isn't a pimp.  So now I'm confused. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4860" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-05-11T10:25:54.267" LastActivityDate="2017-07-05T21:47:39.903" Title="Justified: Robert Quarles, who are those boys he's torturing?" Tags="|character|justified|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19304" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19308" CreationDate="2014-05-11T05:15:48.943" Score="-4" ViewCount="5128" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Titanic (1997)&lt;/a&gt;, towards the end after the ice berg accident, Rose decides to go back and tell her mother and fiance about it to warn them. &quot;Now that one of my missing items has returned, I know where to find the other&quot; and at that point, Jack is searched and found to have a Diamond in his coat pocket (a coat in which he had &quot;borrowed&quot; earlier). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see Rose ask Jack to put the diamond back in the safe after he is done drawing her in the nude while wearing it. It seems obvious that he has stolen it, but if that is the case, why? An easy answer is that because he is a poor boy with a 3rd class ticket, he has plenty of reason. I believe this to be too easy of an answer and don't quite think he has stolen it at all, but has been framed or simply &quot;borrowed&quot; the wrong jacket. But, since he acquired the jacket before he met with rose to draw her, we know the diamond was not at that point missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, did Jack really steal the Heart of the Ocean diamond necklace? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-04-27T17:34:31.687" LastActivityDate="2017-04-27T17:34:31.687" Title="Did Jack steal the Heart of the Ocean?" Tags="|titanic|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15349" CreationDate="2014-05-11T05:19:05.383" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's inconsistent at all, because these were the first children the woman had taken on her own. She began the pattern of child snatching with her husband who is long gone, and she mentions  that she slowed down once he disappeared. Also, these girls weren't the only ones to be kept alive as there's also Alex. She also says she brought them inside because it was lonely without Alex. There was also another kid who managed to escape who is now in the film as an adult. I think you're taking the words way too literally. Just because she says the ultimate objective was to kill children, doesn't mean they didn't also get a perverse kick out of having them alive for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9524" LastActivityDate="2014-05-11T05:19:05.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12126" CreationDate="2014-05-11T07:27:49.057" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no connection. It is a complete non-sequiter. It makes zero sense. That's the point. Get it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's supposed to inoculate the viewer against any possible memetic infection they got from watching the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9526" LastActivityDate="2014-05-11T07:27:49.057" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19304" CreationDate="2014-05-11T08:13:52.180" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Jack didn't steal the necklace. Rose put both the necklace and a letter in the safe for Cal to find. Later on, in order to lock away Jack for theft, Cal's butler slips the necklace into Jack's jacket for the guards to find. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-05-11T08:13:52.180" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19303" CreationDate="2014-05-11T11:22:53.083" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The boys are targets of opportunity who fit Quarles' &quot;habit&quot; (as you put it). The &quot;habit&quot; is that he goes after street hustlers. They can be pimps, prostitutes, addicts, pushers, thieves, or all of the above. They are those who are young, but have chosen a life of ill repute. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We first learn of Quarles' habit when we find out some of his past &lt;a href=&quot;http://justified.wikia.com/wiki/Robert_Quarles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;from this website&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Quarles's father was a heroin addict who pimped Quarles out to other men. Once Detroit crime boss Theo Tonin learned of this horror, he offered Quarles the chance to kill his father, which he did when he was 14 years old. After that, Tonin took Quarles in as a son. Quarles grew to despise his adopted brother Sammy Tonin for his cowardice, and even more so when Theo allowed Sammy to have his inheritance over Quarles. &lt;strong&gt;While in Detroit Quarles had a habit of beating male hustlers and even put one into a coma for three weeks.&lt;/strong&gt; This brought a lot of unwanted attention so Quarles relocated to Harlan County, Kentucky for a new start, getting into the Oxycontin business&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2189405/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Guy Walks Into a Bar - S03E10&lt;/a&gt; we learn a little bit more about Quarles' youthful troubles (&lt;a href=&quot;http://justified.wikia.com/wiki/Robert_Quarles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;again from this website&lt;/a&gt;) -- this is some of the same, rehashed, but reinforces the point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Donovan, a friend of Brady Hughes (the street hustler that Quarles had bound and gagged in the back room earlier this season) shows up and holds Quarles and Duffy at gunpoint. He believes Quarles is responsible for the death of his friend, Brady. Quarles talks the boy down, explaining that his own father was a heroin addict who pimped him out to other men. When Theo Tonin caught wind of this horror, he offered Quarles the chance to murder his old man and a 14-year-old Quarles did just that. So, Quarles explained, he understood Brady only too well and only wanted to &quot;set him free.&quot; Wynn watches in horror as Quarles, crying and shaking, lowers Donovan's gun and embraces the boy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Season 3 goes on, Quarles gets addicted to his own product - Oxycontin. Whenever Quarles has a failure, he turns to Oxy. After the initial dose of Oxy, we see him become more and more violent, devolving faster towards his inevitable demise. Because of his new found addiction, his predilection towards violence, and thirst for young men (old boys??), we see these three things come together in a &quot;perfect storm&quot;. Towards the end, he really doesn't care about the boys' background, just his wants and desires. As he gets higher and higher (in the intoxicated sense), he becomes lower and lower, taking whomever stands in his way with him. The reason his &quot;tastes&quot; seem to wonder all over the board by the end of the season is because the character is floundering in his addictions and past, self-destructing at an ever increasing pace, leaving the watcher going, &lt;em&gt;Wow, really?&lt;/em&gt; and shaking our heads. The character no longer really knows exactly what he wants (we clearly see what he wants in the early episodes of the season), so relies on his sub-human instincts to satisfy his primeval needs. He is all over the place because he has lost his way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-05-11T11:22:53.083" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17410" CreationDate="2014-05-11T11:58:02.213" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;*I think Michael wanted Tom gone and got him all the jobs he had turned down plus he (Michael) knew he could manipulate Tom by telling he was respected and a&quot; real brother&quot; as he did the night at the assassination attempt. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tom wanted to belong and would do anything for it including being loyal and telling Frankie Five Angels to open up his veins and kill himself for going against the family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or Tom could take his wife, his kids and his mistress and move to Vegas!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9528" LastActivityDate="2014-05-11T11:58:02.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19313" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-11T15:27:09.787" Score="20" ViewCount="14739" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question can be based on either the 2011 film of &quot;Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy&quot; with Gary Oldman, or the 1979 BBC series with Alec Guinness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did Smiley know he could trust Toby Esterhase?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a pivotal scene near the end when Smiley confronts Esterhase.  Smiley is able to convince Esterhase that there is a mole and that Witchcraft is a sham, and Esterhase tells Smiley the address of the London safe house.  This is the key piece Smiley needs to lay the trap that eventually unmasks the mole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Esterhase was one of the four original suspects (Poor Man), so presumably before Smiley could approach Esterhase, he needed to be sure that Esterhase himself was not the mole. What evidence led Smiley to that conclusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meeting with Esterhase comes right after Smiley's long interview with Jim Prideaux.  The only mention of Esterhase in the interview is that Esterhase visited Prideaux after his release, to give him money and insist on his silence.  Prideaux says that during that visit, Esterhase mentioned the &quot;Tinker, Tailor&quot; code words specifically, and Smiley later comments: &quot;Now how did he know about that?&quot;  But his question is never answered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only people who initially knew the words Tinker Tailor were Prideaux and Control.  If Esterhase had learned it from Control, that would indicate that Control trusted him and presumably Smiley could do the same.  But Prideaux had revealed that information during his interrogation in Russia, and so if Esterhase were the mole, he could also have learned it directly from Karla.  So I don't understand how the knowledge of the code words exonerates Esterhase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, another possibility is that Smiley wasn't sure about Esterhase, but decided to gamble.  This might fit better with the BBC series, in which Peter Guillam searches Esterhase for weapons and doesn't seem to trust him, but that could just be based on Guillam's personal dislike of Esterhase.  But gambling like this seems out of character for Smiley; his approach seems more based on thorough investigation and logical deduction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also read the novel, but didn't find an explanation there either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4897" LastEditorUserId="4897" LastEditDate="2014-05-12T02:48:02.470" LastActivityDate="2022-02-13T00:11:54.780" Title="How did Smiley know he could trust a certain person?" Tags="|plot-explanation|tinker-tailor-soldier-spy|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18654" CreationDate="2014-05-11T23:37:35.513" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095077/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Earth Star Voyager&lt;/a&gt; is the name of the movie.  It was a Disney movie.  The ship touted the &quot;Bowman Drive&quot; created by a short little guy who talked to himself.  The 2nd in command was named &quot;Beany.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9532" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-05-12T05:08:07.580" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T05:08:07.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19316" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19321" CreationDate="2014-05-11T23:52:35.050" Score="4" ViewCount="733" Body="&lt;p&gt;The opening credits of the excellent &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800241/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;American Hustle&lt;/a&gt; proclaim, somewhat modestly compared to other movies claiming to be based on true stories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some of this actually happened&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much of it actually happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="30306" LastEditDate="2017-07-10T11:04:19.213" LastActivityDate="2017-07-10T11:04:19.213" Title="How much of the story &quot;actually happened&quot; in American Hustle?" Tags="|american-hustle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19317" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19318" CreationDate="2014-05-12T01:05:20.933" Score="6" ViewCount="528" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the TV show 'Full House', Danny Tanner was left to raise three daughters by himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My Question: How did the Tanners' mom die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-12T09:01:39.470" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T09:01:39.470" Title="How did the Tanners' mom die?" Tags="|character|full-house|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19317" CreationDate="2014-05-12T03:30:00.057" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you read the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.full-house.org/episodes/episodes_script_040.php&quot;&gt;transcript for Full House Episode 40&lt;/a&gt; they mention that Pam Tanner was killed in a car accident. The wiki states she was hit by a drunk driver, but I could not find a reference to that specific information. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T03:30:00.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12126" CreationDate="2014-05-12T05:24:04.723" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My theory is it's a direct epilogue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming the virus is widespread or at least still a threat, &lt;strong&gt;Sydney and Grant survive in what could be called &quot;the language apocalypse&quot; by maintaining a kind of improvisational roleplay&lt;/strong&gt;. This allows them to express ideas in a freeflow that inhibits deeper understanding and prevents them from infecting each other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the efficacy of this roleplay is limited, as show in the shift from black and white to color (fantasy to reality; safety to danger). The fake conversation bleeds into a real one the longer it stays on topic (&quot;let's get out of here&quot; is on topic but followed by abstract, noir-ish improvisation... until it gains too much context, becomes &quot;understandable&quot; and dangerous?), represented by color bleeding into the scene. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That conversation itself is a threat by being coherent, but could be precipitated by a realization that they're in an infected zone where roleplay won't cut it. Or it could be playful banter about getting the cheque and going home that gets too real and ends up compromising them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, the scene congeals into understandable communication and ends with the big taboo: a term of endearment uttered twice (&quot;baby--&quot; &quot;shhh!!&quot;). The film established several times that terms of endearment are carriers for the virus. Grant slips up saying it once and by now we're in full color. When Sydney says it he shushes her. This tells me the virus is still a present threat. Hence the roleplay. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastEditorUserId="9247" LastEditDate="2014-05-13T12:20:38.707" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T12:20:38.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19316" CreationDate="2014-05-12T09:53:18.940" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia covers the differences to reality in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Hustle#Historical_accuracy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;article about the movie&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Historical accuracy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;American Hustle does not attempt to directly document the events of Abscam. The names are changed, and the film begins with the on-screen message, &amp;quot;Some of this actually happened&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Major departures from reality include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the film, Irving Rosenfeld begins a life of criminality when he smashes storefront windows as a child in order to provide more work for his father's glass-installation business. In real life, Melvin Weinberg began working for his father only as an adult. He did smash windows at that point, and according to one article after Abscam was revealed, it was indeed done to shore up business for Weinberg's father.[27] A later report, however, states that it was done at the behest of the local union, to punish businesses who used non-union glaziers.[28]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the film, Camden mayor Carmine Polito is shown as a selfless politician who gets involved in the scam only to provide jobs to his constituents; Irving feels so bad for Carmine that he engineers a reduced sentence for him. In reality, though Camden mayor Angelo Errichetti was widely praised for caring about the people of Camden, he also had a reputation for committing crimes. During the Abscam operation, he offered to get the fake sheikh into illegal businesses such as money counterfeiting and drug smuggling. Though Weinberg developed a fondness for Errichetti as a man who &amp;quot;didn't beat around the bush&amp;quot;, he made no attempt to protect Errichetti from prosecution.[28]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Evelyn Knight, Weinberg's mistress on whom the character of Sydney Prosser is based, was involved in Weinberg's scams, though to a lesser extent than shown in the film; and she was not involved in Abscam. She was also English, not an American impersonating an English woman as shown in the film.[7]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Weinberg's wife Cynthia Marie Weinberg, the basis for Rosalyn Rosenfeld, is not known to have had an affair with someone from the mafia, nor did she nearly blow Weinberg's cover.[29]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The character of Richie DiMaso is based to some extent on federal agent Tony Amoroso, although in real life Amoroso was just one of a number of agents involved in setting up and executing the scam.[29]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the film, the sheikh is impersonated by a Mexican-American FBI agent who spoke Arabic. In real life, the sheikh was played by two different agents: first briefly by an American, Mike Denehy, who spoke no Arabic, then by a Lebanese-American.[28][29]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; story is covered in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscam&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;article about Abscam&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T09:53:18.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19323" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19324" CreationDate="2014-05-12T13:44:44.537" Score="0" ViewCount="1837" Body="&lt;p&gt;How true is that., when i googled I don't find much info about that. Is that made up for film or do Germans gesture like that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5983" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-05-12T13:49:39.743" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T18:06:31.100" Title="German way of gesturing 3 in Inglourious Basterds?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19323" CreationDate="2014-05-12T14:40:10.023" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I am German myself and this is not a regionalism.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_counting&quot;&gt;Wikipedia says so&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For future exploration about subtle differences:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Different systems to tell the time within Germany (expect passionate discussions about why the cake method is or is not the right one).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastEditorUserId="6767" LastEditDate="2014-05-12T18:06:31.100" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T18:06:31.100" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19286" CreationDate="2014-05-12T15:33:43.363" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This looks like it was originally filmed in 16:9.  There was most definitely a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.familyvideo.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=212144&amp;amp;source=enews&quot;&gt;Full Frame version&lt;/a&gt; (4:3 is sometimes written as 1.33) and a &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B000A283AW&quot;&gt;Widescreen version&lt;/a&gt; (2.35:1).  According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dvdizzy.com/hitchhikers.html&quot;&gt;this review&lt;/a&gt; about half-way down the page, the Widescreen version matched the theatrical presentation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you google &quot;Hitchhiker's guide 16:9&quot; you will find a few torrents and online videos that have that title.  Also, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-DVD/dp/B000X4ZGNY&quot;&gt;this version&lt;/a&gt; on Amazon claims to be both 16:9 and 2.35:1, so it may contain both versions.  Lastly, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/26740/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-2005-the/&quot;&gt;this review&lt;/a&gt; of the blue-ray states it is &quot;2.35:1 with letterbox bars at the top and bottom of the 16:9 frame&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest checking out some of the results of the Google search mentioned above to see if it actually exists in full 16:9.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T15:33:43.363" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="524" CreationDate="2014-05-12T16:47:57.507" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it was ever included in a print of the film, but I found a &quot;documentary&quot; that played on Nick at Nite on YouTube that is exactly the footage you are describing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/frXlYeflkt4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9540" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T08:11:24.563" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:11:24.563" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1413" CreationDate="2014-05-12T17:47:24.770" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the reason that it's in the storyline is because there were only two persons who knew where Dunbar was going. The Major (who committed suicide) and the guy with the mules (who gave Dunbar a ride and later got killed by Indians.) &#xA;So that would explain how it was possible, that no one would know Dunbar was there - leaving him time to develope his relationship with the Souix. &#xA;However, it seems that Major Fambrough obviously had a neurolgial disease. But I think it was brought on by alcoholism. &#xA;If you go back and see him in the begining... he's searching for something in his desk draw. When he opens it up... you can hear a bunch of bottles rattling in the drawer. &#xA;So I would suspect he had a problem with alcoholism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9541" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T17:47:24.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19329" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19330" CreationDate="2014-05-12T18:38:40.883" Score="4" ViewCount="1682" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know the Bandit was a truck driver with his own rig.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't he drive his rig, instead of the Firebird?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-05-12T18:55:31.147" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T20:26:24.193" Title="Why did the Bandit drive a Firebird and not his own rig?" Tags="|smokey-and-the-bandit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19329" CreationDate="2014-05-12T19:35:09.597" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Bandit was given $80k to get the beer and deliver it. He uses some of the money to buy the Trans-Am to act as the blocker car which means he will divert the attention of &quot;smokey&quot; (the cops) away from the truck full of beer. He has his friend Snowman drive the rig (promising to buy him a new rig afterwards). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was an important strategy because driving the beer across state lines was considered bootlegging because it was unauthorized and they didn't have permits. So getting in trouble for a high-speed chase would probably carry less of a sentence than one for bootlegging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't explain why he chose to drive the car vs the truck, but we can infer since he is &quot;The Bandit&quot; that his experience would be the only one he would trust with such an important job while letting a regular (and trusted) truck driver do the delivery on time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2014-05-12T19:42:29.833" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T19:42:29.833" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19331" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19348" CreationDate="2014-05-12T19:40:23.773" Score="14" ViewCount="13031" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Donnie Darko, Frank wears a scary bunny face. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS0mFNDE5XheLNTN61RLFDGAiw381uHFWw7Y2h3d_slJRupb2FX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS0mFNDE5XheLNTN61RLFDGAiw381uHFWw7Y2h3d_slJRupb2FX&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is a bunny face selected for Frank's mask? Is there any symbolism behind it? There are various moments in the film where jumping scenes are shown. Is there any relation between jumping scenes and the bunny face within the movie's theme?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-11T11:39:02.203" LastActivityDate="2016-11-11T11:39:02.203" Title="Is there any symbolism behind the bunny face?" Tags="|analysis|donnie-darko|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19332" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19335" CreationDate="2014-05-12T19:43:02.840" Score="15" ViewCount="11624" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Donnie Darko, during a failed attempt of a kiss, one fat guy is shown. The same fat guy is shown again in some random scenes. Is he some character from the film which I missed or is it some cameo? Or does this character signify anything?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-01-31T22:13:40.600" LastActivityDate="2019-01-31T22:13:40.600" Title="Who is the fat guy and what is his importance?" Tags="|character|donnie-darko|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="19334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1413" CreationDate="2014-05-12T20:02:54.677" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The author of the screen play was Michael Blake, who, two years earlier, at urging of Kevin Costner, wrote the novel Dances with Wolves. I know the question is about the movie, but I thought I'd talk about the original novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below is cited from the novel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lieutenant Dunbar had it pegged better than he knew, because this&#xA;  major had, for some time, clung to sanity by the slenderest thread,&#xA;  and the thread and finally snapped ten minutes before Lieutenant&#xA;  Dunbar walked into the office. The major had sat calmly at his desk,&#xA;  hands clasped neatly in front of him, and forgotten his entire life.&#xA;  It had been a powerless life, fueled by the pitiful handouts that come&#xA;  to those who serve obediently but make no mark. But all those years of&#xA;  being passed over, all the years of lonely bachelorhood, all the years&#xA;  of struggle with the bottle, had vanished as if by magic. The bitter&#xA;  grind of Major Fambrough's existence had been supplanted by an&#xA;  imminent and lovely event. He would be crowned King of Fort Hays&#xA;  sometime before supper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few paragraphs later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I'm in a generous mood and I will grant your boon. A wagon loaded&#xA;  with goods of the realm leaves shortly. Find the peasant who calls&#xA;  himself Timmons and ride with him.&quot; .... &quot;My seal will guarantee your&#xA;  safe conduct through one hundred and fifty miles of heathen&#xA;  territory.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, several pages later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Old Major Fambrough, a midlevel administrator with a lackluster&#xA;  record, had gone off his rocker. He had stood one afternoon in the&#xA;  middle of the parade ground, jabbering incoherently about his kingdom&#xA;  and asking over and over for his crown. The poor fellow had been&#xA;  shipped east just a few days ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the novel the major is described twice as &quot;the liquor-breathed major.&quot; That's all. he had a &quot;lonely life.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that it was all of the above combined with absolutely no one to talk to. The enlisted soldiers are all described in ways as to indicate they are more or less illiterate. Being the Camp Commander ensured that his lonely life would remain so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T20:02:54.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19332" CreationDate="2014-05-12T20:11:48.280" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is pretty complex, so this answer mightn't make sense without a rewatch, but effectively the fat man is an FAA employee (Federal Aviation Administration). We know this as we see him among the group at both the start and end of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The usual explanation is that the FAA are so perturbed by what's happened with the jet engine that they've sent an agent to effectively keep an eye on Donnie and the rest of the family. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From beginning of film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qZGdj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From jogger scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S4cIT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T20:11:48.280" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19339" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19340" CreationDate="2014-05-12T21:33:41.103" Score="17" ViewCount="3314" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does it seem like in every cop based TV drama (CSI, Law and Order, etc.) that whenever something bad has happened that the front door is always left open or slightly ajar?  Do criminals not realize that this is a tip for cops to know something is wrong? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9547" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-06T02:42:47.840" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T02:42:47.840" Title="Why do criminals always leave the front door ajar so cops can easily detect something is wrong?" Tags="|analysis|plot-explanation|trope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19339" CreationDate="2014-05-12T22:04:54.497" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;TvTropes calls this the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OminouslyOpenDoor&quot;&gt;OminouslyOpenDoor&lt;/a&gt; and files it as a death trope, meaning that usually the investigator will find a dead suspect or witness in the room:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The good guys are having a hard time finding a lead for the current investigation. They find a possible culprit or a vital link in the investigation. The team gets an address and find the door slightly open.&#xA;  Too bad whoever they find behind that door, be it a suspect, relative or complete stranger, can't help them close the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two sides to this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In-universe explanation aka: Why would they leave the door open?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this does not always make sense and quite often this is simply illogical behaviour from the bad guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However there are some valid reasons why the door would not be shut:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It won't stay shut anymore.&lt;/strong&gt; The bad guy broke in, but not by lockpicking. Instead, he used brute force and damaged either the lock or the whole door. Now it won't close anymore, making anyone looking at the door aware that something fishy is going on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They just don't care.&lt;/strong&gt; The bad guy is long gone, leaving behind a major mess or even a dead body. (see above) He does not really care if anybody notices the scene of the crime because he thinks that no incriminating evidence was left behind or because he is already on the run.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They had to leave in a hurry.&lt;/strong&gt; The bad guy simply had no time to clean up and close the door properly. Either he was disturbed and had to get away, or he is still on the scene and had to hide when he saw the investigator arrive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Analytical point of view aka: What is the purpose of the scene?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if there is a valid plot explanation for the scene, this is still mainly used as a device by the director to build up tension. The investigator usually arrives at the door with the motive to speak to someone. Sometimes this happens at his own door when he comes home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before the ajar door is noticed, normally there is little to no suspense. Often two characters will be talking casually until they see the door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Then suddenly: Excitement!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something is wrong - this door should not be open! The viewer gets drawn into the action and knows that a surprise must be lurking behind this door. So basically the door acts as a gateway between different atmospheres and is used to quickly change the pace of the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T22:04:54.497" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19331" CreationDate="2014-05-12T22:09:37.820" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The supernatural force that appoints Donnie to end the alternate universe adopts Frank because Donnie killed him previously. As a manipulated dead, Frank knows what is happening and his job is to guide Donnie on his path to correcting the timeline of the primary universe by returning the jet engine to its original universe; Donnie is unaware of all this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The costume is necessary because it's an essential part of Frank's character as a dead person (it's what he was wearing when he died) and also because it's so alien (not just some guy), Donnie will understand that he's dealing with things beyond normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the costume being a creepy bunny, there is no significance in that. Frank was an artist and it was something he was rendering out when we see him in the ending scenes. It just adds a freaky ambiance is all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rabbit.org/journal/4-11/cult.html&quot;&gt;This article&lt;/a&gt; has some interesting suggestions on how you could interpret the Rabbit costume&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What does the rabbit mean? That depends on how you interpret the&#xA;  movie. If you think that the film is a serious exploration of&#xA;  physical/metaphysical reality, you're apt to see Frank as a kind of&#xA;  rabbit-angel. His role is to guide a reluctant hero into becoming the&#xA;  instrument of God. In this reading, God wishes to save earth, and&#xA;  unfortunately (or not) this entails getting Donnie to commit criminal&#xA;  and destructive acts. Within this context, Frank's ugliness might be&#xA;  explained as the destructive side of salvation. Perhaps he is a&#xA;  monstrous rabbit in order to suggest that Donnie himself must become&#xA;  both prey/ victim and a kind of spiritual predator. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you follow the parallel-universe theme but do not like the&#xA;  religious reading, you might see Frank as simply analogous to the&#xA;  White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland. The White Rabbit had some&#xA;  scheduling concerns (&quot;I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date&quot;)&#xA;  and led Alice down to a bizarre alternative world. Like the White&#xA;  Rabbit, Frank is under time constraints, having only 28 days to get&#xA;  Donnie with the program. And when he first leads Donnie out to the&#xA;  local golf course, scene of Donnie's first vision of him, one could&#xA;  say that Frank has inserted Donnie into the spiral of a new time/space&#xA;  dimension, just as the White Rabbit did for (to) Alice. In short,&#xA;  rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland is wormhole in Donnie Darko, and&#xA;  both access a new reality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you're inclined to see Donnie as just a very disturbed teenager,&#xA;  then Frank is a tad more malicious. He embodies the dark, destructive&#xA;  side of Donnie, imagined as the flip side of the rabbit stereotype:&#xA;  ugly instead of cute, bizarre instead of familiar, destructive instead&#xA;  of reproductive, and so on. In this reading, Frank stands not just for&#xA;  the evil side in Donnie but in all of us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2014-05-12T22:20:21.477" LastActivityDate="2014-05-12T22:20:21.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19342" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-12T22:16:55.177" Score="5" ViewCount="2823" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realize that there is some overlap but for the main characters of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247082/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;CSI&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; being part of the &quot;graveyard shift&quot; it seems like they work a lot during the day.  Any idea why this is? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9547" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-12T22:25:08.507" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T07:42:55.787" Title="Why is the &quot;night shift&quot; always working during the day?" Tags="|csi-las-vegas|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18678" CreationDate="2014-05-13T00:03:52.337" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The term &lt;em&gt;Dire&lt;/em&gt; is a Dungeons and Dragons trope where a beast that is larger and more powerful than a standard beast is known as a Dire &lt;strong&gt;beast-name-here&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Such things can exist as Dire-Wolves, Dire-Bears, and Dire-Ferrets, if one should so desire.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it must just be a play on this joke due to the subject matter of this game being a parody of &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of gaming tropes, especially of the fantasy-type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T00:03:52.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19342" CreationDate="2014-05-13T07:42:55.787" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://csi.wikia.com/wiki/Las_Vegas_Crime_Lab&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CSI Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Crime Lab has three shifts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Day shift - 7 am to 3 pm&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Swing shift - 3 pm to  11 pm&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Night shift - 11&#xA;  pm to 7 am&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't explain &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; they're seen during the day, but just gives an outline of the time patterns of each shift.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most common explanations I've seen is that when they start a case, they are determined to complete it as quickly as possible and thus stay well beyond their normal hours (not that uncommon in cop dramas in particular). You can even hear the odd uttering by one of the team that they're &quot;working a double&quot; in some episodes. Finally, the faster they work, the more likely they are to secure a conviction (before evidence is destroyed/lost and the culprit moves on/covers their tracks, etc). All of these reasons provide suggestions as to why they are often seen working well beyond their normal hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all obviously just my opinions, but I don't think there is an official line on this apparent discrepancy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T07:42:55.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19331" CreationDate="2014-05-13T07:53:41.043" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;@DustinDavis has given a very good answer, but to focus on &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; the bunny aspect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.moviefone.com/2011/10/26/25-things-you-may-not-know-about-donnie-darko/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;25-things-you-may-not-know-about-donnie-darko/&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is Donnie's spectral guide a giant rabbit? Kelly has said it's not&#xA;  a reference to 'Harvey,' the classic 1950 comedy where everyone thinks&#xA;  Jimmy Stewart is crazy for conversing with a man-sized rabbit that no&#xA;  one else can see. Rather, Kelly said, creepy Frank was inspired by the&#xA;  rabbit protagonists of Richard Adams' novel 'Watership Down,' which&#xA;  was to be taught by Barrymore after the school censored Grahame Greene&#xA;  from her curriculum (a subplot that didn't make it into the initial&#xA;  release of the film). At the time he made 'Donnie Darko,' Kelly&#xA;  claimed he'd never even seen 'Harvey.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that's the &lt;em&gt;official&lt;/em&gt; explanation as to why Frank is a rabbit. But why is he so creepy? I think his facial design was chosen due to its completely bizarre nature. When the rabbit first appears on screen, the viewer doesn't understand who or what it is. It's a manifestation of Donnie's mind, but beyond that we don't know. Its unorthodox look and creepy style of talking is extremely unsettling and adds to the suspense and drama of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the film progresses, we see the &lt;em&gt;man behind the mask&lt;/em&gt; in the cinema and for the first time it is confirmed that the rabbit is actually a human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, at the end of the film, we see that it is a Halloween costume and the cyclic link between Donnie's manifestation and the man in the costume becomes clear. The director could have simply had Donnie's manifestation be a shot of the man with a bullet hole in his eye, like in the cinema, but that wouldn't have carried as much suspense or confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T07:53:41.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19349" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19356" CreationDate="2014-05-13T09:40:38.160" Score="1" ViewCount="496" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Warrior&lt;/em&gt; starring Tom Hardy is a brilliant movie. If you go over &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dldz_AytSRU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;just the fight scenes&lt;/a&gt;, you will see both the fights between Tommy (Tom Hardy's character) and Mad Dog Grimes and all his fights in the ring.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the second fight the commentator says that it was the fastest knockout he has ever seen; Which, I believe, is wrong.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see the first fight in the ring, Tommy knocks out Barbosa with just one punch and the whole fight lasts less than the second fight with Mad Dog Grimes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't this a mistake?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7522" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-13T09:52:03.923" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T17:05:35.863" Title="Isn't it wrong for the commentator to say that?" Tags="|plot-explanation|warrior|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18678" CreationDate="2014-05-13T12:52:04.040" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stick&lt;/em&gt; is using a play on words of 'Dire'; deploying it in the D&amp;amp;D manner of which TylerShads describes (no doubt inspired by GoT), but also in its common usage of meaning &lt;strong&gt;terrible.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone is in Dire Straits, their situation is considered dreadful. Dire is traditionally used to indicate the relative lack of quality, promise or effort of something. To say Canada is 'Dire' is to say it is a terrible place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Southpark&lt;/em&gt; is well aware of this dichotomy of language: a Dire Wolf could be represented as either a fearsome beast (terrible because it is so frightening, terrifying) or as a dog with no legs (a terrible, useless wolf).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both would be &lt;em&gt;terrible&lt;/em&gt; wolves, but with each definition of terrible informed by the context of its deployment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the wordplay Southpark is trying to suggest/lampoon with such things as 'Dire Aids'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-05-13T13:28:03.183" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T13:28:03.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19353" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19361" CreationDate="2014-05-13T13:04:31.730" Score="12" ViewCount="12066" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the course of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, under interrogation by Mance Rayder, Jon Snow confesses that only three of the wall's keeps are manned, and so we know that the Nightfort is unoccupied. Samwell corroborates this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We're west of Castle Black, but the Nightfort's closest to us. It was&#xA;  the first castle on the Wall. The Watch abandoned it during the reign&#xA;  of King Jaehaerys the First. Too big, impossible to maintain.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without someone to open a tunnel door (if the Nightfort even has one), how did Samwell and Gilly manage to get over the other side of the wall?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's incredibly unlikely they climbed it like the Wildlings, so how else could they have gotten inside the Nightfort?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a TV-continuity answer, not a book-continuity answer: although if one is available from the book, please spoiler-box it if it contains sensitive plot material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-15T15:40:26.617" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T17:33:29.780" Title="How did Samwell and Gilly get back over the wall?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19353" CreationDate="2014-05-13T13:17:47.450" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's ever been explained in the tv series. The book explanation isn't remotely spoilerific, but I'll tag it just in case. From Chapter 56 (Bran) from a Storm of Swords:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; They use the &lt;strong&gt;Black Gate&lt;/strong&gt;. It is a hidden gate that allows passage to the other side of the wall. It's actually set in the wall and looks like the old face of a weirwood tree (old, pale, shrunken, wrinkled). For an idea, &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/1/12/Kerry_Barnett_passing_the_wall_II.JPG&quot;&gt;see this image&lt;/a&gt;. Effectively, when someone gets near the gate its eyes open and it asks who is there. The person must repeat the vow of the Night's Watch, at which point the mouth of the wall opens until it is wide enough for people to pass. This is how Samwell and Gilly return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; As @Keen's answer shows, I stand corrected as there is &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; explanation in the TV series. The book though, as usual with GoT, does contain more information on these things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-05-14T08:14:23.973" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T08:14:23.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19349" CreationDate="2014-05-13T13:28:34.020" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tend to trust the film's internal clock and logic enough to dismiss any discrepancies as narrative choice. I can also see the &quot;mistake&quot; being a character-based one rather than a production one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Negligible time difference between matches&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Barbosa fight is physically shorter, but the times between &quot;bell&quot; and KO for each match are negligible when one compares footplay against Barbosa with the pin-and-pummel on Mad Dog. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arguably, the Barbosa call is unofficial; we only hear the commentator making a surprised, possibly hyperbolic claim as Tommy leaves the cage※. Also arguably, Tommy continues to pummel Mad Dog for several seconds beyond the knockout. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These seconds could make up the difference for what the commentator meant was the fastest technical/actual KO from match start. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Ambiguous audience perspective&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could it also be that the lengths of each match are slightly ambiguous to us, the audience? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're once-removed spectators in the meta sense, watching a film &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; a fictional match built on a narrative rather than objectively seeing it in real-time in the real world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The subjective view of a character may not be a mistake&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;That's the fastest knockout &lt;strong&gt;I think&lt;/strong&gt; I've ever experienced.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The commentator was surprised by the first KO and may not have accounted for time. By the third one he may just be tossing out a sound bite. It might be his mistaken view that Mad Dog's KO was the fastest he'd ever seen, distorted by adrenaline and the hype of a crowd that anticipates instant KOs, or he might be deliberately saying what he knows to be wrong to further discussion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems likely in that setting, details of Tommy's victories would be enthusiastically debated by commentators and fans just for entertainment, regardless of the facts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;※ Technically, how legitimate &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; Tommy's win against Barbosa? Leaving the cage is an apparent rule violation in the film -- the commentator says so (audible but fading in the Youtube clip) -- but is not listed in MMA rules that I can find. I don't ask in order to complicate your question, but to point out that if the fastest KO comment is a mistake, so might be many other depictions of MMA that we previously assumed were narrative choices. If we accept those depictions as narrative choices, then it makes sense to accept the dialogue with it, as part of the film's internal logic. (Forgive me if leaving the cage is addressed in the intervening scenes of the full film, I haven't seen it for a while.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastEditorUserId="9247" LastEditDate="2014-05-13T17:05:35.863" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T17:05:35.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19358" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-13T15:08:52.373" Score="4" ViewCount="929" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2014 TV adaptation of the 1996 movie &quot;Fargo&quot; by the Coen Brothers, one of the main characters, the female police officer Molly Solverson, is investigating a strange series of crimes happening in a small town in Minnesota.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the TV show deviates from the movie in many ways, both in plot and characters, the character of Molly is clearly an adaptation of Marge Gunderson from the movie. They both are female cops, clever investigators and very friendly. Both are the ones driving the investigation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some major differences though, and one of them strikes me the most:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Marge from the movie is pregnant and in an unexciting but content marriage with her husband Norm, Molly from the TV show is Single.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fAOO9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Marge and her husband Norm&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Marge and Norm having exciting breakfast!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing that the simple, traditional life that Marge leads in the movie is (at least in my interpretation) a major point of the movie because it contrasts the greed and discontent of Jerry Lundegaard, the car salesman who set the crimes in motion, I wonder why it was completely changed in the TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the reason for the producers of the TV show changing Marge/Molly's background this drastically?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did they maybe want to set a different focus/morale in the show? Was the personal life of Marge simply too boring for a long running TV show? Did they simply change it to make the character their own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2017-01-16T13:55:30.260" Title="Why did they make Molly Single?" Tags="|analysis|fargo-tv|fargo|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19358" CreationDate="2014-05-13T16:12:18.223" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vulture's Matt Zoller Seitz talks about the &amp;quot;same/different&amp;quot; vibe that permeates the show in his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2014/04/tv-review-fx-fargo.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;review of the pilot episode&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could look for one-to-one correlations between the movie and the show, but as soon as you find one that feels close, series creator Noah Hawley severs the connection. The pregnant officer played by Frances McDormand at first seems to have been split into two characters, a sheriff played by Bob Odenkirk, and his deputy, a gung-ho patrol woman (Allison Tolman, one of the best out-of-nowhere acting finds in my lifetime as a critic), but by the end of the pilot you realize, delightedly, that the script was going someplace else entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[The pilot] ... develops a tone that could be described as Coen-esque, but does so organically, in a way that assures you that it will become its own thing. The next three episodes get incrementally weirder, stronger, and more original, to the point that you forget to measure this Fargo against its namesake, or against any of the Coens' masterworks...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a good read, one that suggests that creator Hawley is definitely trying to distinguish his characters from the movie. Each one evokes a familiar feel and then subverts expectations. In Molly's case, it's by being a strong, smart female deputy... but necessarily single and childless to distinguish her as her own person and not a Margie clone, at least physically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Eating the Blame&amp;quot; (season 1 episode 4, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_%28TV_series%29#Episodes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt;) establishes world continuity by having Oliver Platt's Stavros discover the satchel of money buried by Steve Buscemi's Carl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Fargo the TV show is happening 19 years after Fargo the movie, then it makes even more sense for the characters to be different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's more than an homage but not quite a reboot or reimagining. Almost a sequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T16:49:05.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19353" CreationDate="2014-05-13T17:30:42.967" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Sam explained in S03E09, because of his reading of some books at Castle Black, he knew of a secret passage through the Wall to one of the abandoned Night's Watch outposts, Nightsfort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[The Nightfort]'s got a secret sally port, the Black Gate, as old as the wall itself.  No one's used it in centuries, most likely.  It leads through the wall to the Nightfort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In S03E10, when Sam, Gilly, Bran, Hodor, etc. all meet, that's in Nightfort, on the south side of the Wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastEditorDisplayName="user209" LastEditDate="2014-05-13T22:24:05.010" LastActivityDate="2014-05-13T22:24:05.010" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19362" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19364" CreationDate="2014-05-13T19:57:22.557" Score="12" ViewCount="1759" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the initial scene of Eyes Wide Shut is an example for this. I am sure I've heard a fancy term for the use of a piece of soundtrack that turns out to be heard within the film itself. How is that called?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9565" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-13T20:31:56.670" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T19:53:15.663" Title="What is the term for that style device when a soundtrack turns out to be heard within the reality of the film?" Tags="|film-techniques|soundtrack|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19362" CreationDate="2014-05-13T20:51:19.993" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you're looking for is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://filmsound.org/terminology/diegetic.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;diegetic music&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, or more colloquially &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SourceMusic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source Music&lt;/a&gt;. Switching back and forth in a single scene is called a &quot;diegetic switch&quot;, or &quot;cross-over diegetic music&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TVTropes has other terms for various incarnations of this, some of which are probably &quot;official&quot; and others probably invented by the site's community, e.g.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;'Interscene diegetic': when the same song plays continuously, in-universe, across multiple scenes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Left the Background Music On&quot;: a specific diegetic switch where the music starts out as background music, until one of the characters &quot;notices&quot; it and it becomes diegetic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Theme Tune Cameo&quot;: (the other answer that gave this seems to have vanished) a specific form of diegetic music where it's the main title theme that later appears in-scene somewhere.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="1146" LastEditDate="2017-02-15T19:53:15.663" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T19:53:15.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19370" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19376" CreationDate="2014-05-14T02:19:06.843" Score="9" ViewCount="4540" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take, for example, &lt;em&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/em&gt; - the first season of that show is just called &lt;em&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/em&gt;, as is the second season and the third season and so on and so forth. The individual seasons don't have titles/subtitles of their own. I'm not sure there's really a good answer as to why this is, but I'd like to ask anyway - &lt;strong&gt;why is this?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may seem like an absurd question to ask, but I think you will see why I'm asking it if you take a look at the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/9705/1908&quot;&gt;Why do anime series change titles so often (nearly for every “season”)?&lt;/a&gt; over at &lt;a href=&quot;https://anime.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Anime.SE&lt;/a&gt; - it turns out that things work differently in Japan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Different seasons of a given Japanese anime series will typically have different titles. For an example that may be familiar to some readers here, the first 276 episodes of the Pokémon anime (in Japan) were part of the first season, which was simply titled &lt;em&gt;Pocket Monsters&lt;/em&gt;, while the next 192 episodes were part of the second season, titled &lt;em&gt;Pocket Monsters: Advanced Generation&lt;/em&gt;, and the 193 episodes after that were part of the third season, titled &lt;em&gt;Pocket Monsters: Diamond &amp;amp; Pearl&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I conceptualize television series is that each season is a discrete entity, and so &lt;em&gt;of course&lt;/em&gt; each season should have a different name, in the same way that e.g. a sequel to a movie has a different name than the original movie. This matches up with the Japanese syste, but not with the American system. So I guess the question could be rephrased to ask &lt;strong&gt;what differences are there between Japanese and American television production that lead the former but not the latter to have different titles for each season?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One factor that &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be relevant is that it's almost always the case that the production of the second season of an anime is strongly contingent on the commercial success of the first season, and so production ceases in between seasons. If it works differently in American television (e.g. multiple seasons are scheduled right from the outset), that might help explain why this difference exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5764" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:48.187" LastActivityDate="2014-05-15T01:44:18.980" Title="Why don't American television series have different titles for each season?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19370" CreationDate="2014-05-14T02:42:05.310" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the example listed above, the series creator is trying to breathe new life into the series.  Like when new characters are introduced.  In America, that usually leads to a series' demise (think &quot;Scrappy Doo&quot; or Cousin Oliver from The Brady Bunch).  Pokemon's &quot;second series&quot; that you speak of introduced a host of new Pokemon, as did the third.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pokemon Wiki&lt;/a&gt;, what you consider a &quot;Season&quot; is actually considered a &quot;Series&quot;.  In effect, they're really entirely separate shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="3526" LastEditDate="2014-05-14T12:41:34.783" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T12:41:34.783" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12807" CreationDate="2014-05-14T04:57:08.140" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm supposing the TET is AI Artificial intelligence. Humans creation that became it's final invention. Using human clones to control it's own species.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9570" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T04:57:08.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19374" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28335" CreationDate="2014-05-14T06:55:09.143" Score="6" ViewCount="14294" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception&quot;&gt;Inception&lt;/a&gt; when every one wakes up in the airplane, &lt;strong&gt;Saito&lt;/strong&gt; finally makes the call so I can understand he knows &lt;strong&gt;Cobb&lt;/strong&gt; successfully planted the idea in &lt;strong&gt;Robert&lt;/strong&gt;'s mind. But I don't understand why Robert doesn't know that someone else has planted the idea in his mind. Robert and Saito both go to three levels deep and get lost in limbo, so how does &lt;strong&gt;Robert&lt;/strong&gt; not know that someone played with his mind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3223" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-16T14:34:03.273" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T14:34:39.227" Title="Why did Robert Fischer really accept the inception?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19370" CreationDate="2014-05-14T08:25:46.007" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the example you gave, the first &quot;season&quot; of Pokemon had 276 episodes. That's not one season. That's roughly 6 or 7 seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are 40 episodes per season because in the US TV shows usually take a break during the summer. A &quot;season&quot; usually refers to a TV &quot;year&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we use your definition of &quot;season&quot; to mean a group of episodes spanning several years then we get lots of examples of US TV shows changing titles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cheers ran for 11 years before changing title to Frasier&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Friends ran for 10 years before becoming Joey&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Trek became Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in general, when a US TV show change title they split into two shows instead of simply continuing the old (often with the newer show continuing after the older show stops airing). Examples of this includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Trek: TNG -&gt; Star Trek: Voyager -&gt; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CSI -&gt; CSI Miami -&gt; CSI New York&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Law and Order -&gt; Law and Order: SVU&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Buffy -&gt; Angel&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This contrasts with Japanese franchises where the tendency is to let a show complete before continuing with another version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just realized that there are American TV shows that progresses very much like Japanese shows. Though they are rare. The most obvious would be Ben 10:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ben 10 -&gt; Ben 10: Alien Force -&gt; Ben 10: Ultimate Alien-&gt; Ben 10: Omniverse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there's Avatar which is even more extreme since not only do each sub-series have their own titles but each year-season is also named after a &quot;book&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avatar: The Last Airbender -&gt; Avatar: The Legend of Kora&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where within each &quot;season&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avatar: The Last Airbender (book 1: Water)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avatar: The Last Airbender (book 2: Earth)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avatar: The Last Airbender (book 3: Fire)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avatar: The Legend of Kora (book 1: Air)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Avatar: The Legend of Kora (book 2: Spirits)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Avatar is stylistically heavily influenced by Anime so the choice of the naming convention may be intentionally influenced by Japanese naming conventions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should note that there are some Anime that don't change title even though the cast of characters change dramatically. One example is Bleach which has been and still is Bleach. Though, like Avatar, Bleach does have a name name for each year-season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One example of a US TV show that, like Bleach, has a name for each year-season but doesn't change the actual show title is Heroes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Heroes (volume one: Genesis)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Heroes (volume two: Generations)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Heroes (volume three: Villains, volume four: Fugitives)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Heroes (volume five: Redemption)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9574" LastEditorUserId="9574" LastEditDate="2014-05-15T01:44:18.980" LastActivityDate="2014-05-15T01:44:18.980" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19370" CreationDate="2014-05-14T09:55:31.760" Score="13" Body="&lt;h1&gt;TL;DR&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there certainly are some instances of title changes for a new season, it is uncommon for the simple reason that most of the time a title change only makes sense from an artistic point of view, but not from a marketing one, where it can even bear considerable risks. Because the final decision often lies with the network, requests for title changes are usually declined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Long answer&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with most things, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NewSeasonNewName&quot;&gt;tvtropes has an article on it&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New Season, New Title&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A title change in an ongoing series, prompted by some plot event, a break in production or switching between publishers. Frequently, but not always, involves adding a new subtitle or suffix. Despite the name, does not have to occur at the start of a new season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In some cases, producers will pass off an essentially new series as a renamed Re Tool of an existing series just to preserve its distribution channel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now on to your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why do they almost never change the title of a show for a new season?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most important part I think is branding and recognizability. If you have established a show successfully with the audience, they will recognize it by its name. If you change the name, you are in danger of confusing viewers and missing out by not making full use of the already successful brand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason you would even want to change the name of your show for a new season is if some major change occurs. This can be either a change of cast, a new direction of the plot or a completely different tone or setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's take a look at some examples where the name was almost changed for plot reasons, but ultimately kept for marketing reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_SG-1&quot;&gt;Stargate SG-1&lt;/a&gt; had some major changes in Season 9, including new cast (Richard Dean Anderson left, Amanda Tapping was absent for the first episodes due to pregnancy, Ben Browder, Beau Bridges and Claudia Black joined the show) and a completely new plot direction (the Ori replace the Goa'uld as the main enemy). According to tvtropes, they almost changed the title to &quot;Stargate Command&quot;, but decided against it in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubs_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;Scrubs&lt;/a&gt; had a completely new main cast for Season 9 and a completely new setting. Instead of in a hospital it now is set in a medical school where some of the old cast teaches the new cast about medicine. The showrunner wanted to change the name, but was &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubs_%28season_9%29&quot;&gt;declined by the network&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lawrence considered the eighth season to be the end of the show Scrubs, going so far as to ask ABC if he could change the name to Scrubs Med. ABC declined, but Lawrence still advised fans to treat it as a new show, even putting a caption under the &quot;Created By&quot; on the X-ray in the opening sequence saying [Med School].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar_Town#Potential_name_change&quot;&gt;Cougar Town&lt;/a&gt; deviated so far from its premise that the title did not make much sense any more, so they wanted to change it. Ultimately they didn't, because the network was not satisfied with the options. They made a lot of jokes about this in the show's opening screen gag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bill Lawrence later stated that two potential titles that they wanted to change to were declined by ABC – Sunshine State (declined because ABC also had a Matthew Perry sitcom on their mid-season schedule that season known as Mr. Sunshine) and Grown Ups (declined because of the then-recent film with the same name).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly enough, the network was generally in favor of changing the title of Cougar Town, because research showed that the title was not interesting enough for viewers who would like the show after seeing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, a title change for a new season is not something that is not generally considered at all, but is often not done because the network or producers don't want it. &lt;strong&gt;This shows the conflicting interests of the creators of the show, who want to preserve its artistic integrity, and the network who foremost cares about its commercial success.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rebranding a show or even completely decoupling it from its former seasons into a new show is a lot more risk than simply keeping the status quo. Just look at why sequels are so popular in movies and games: you can rely on repeat customers. If a new season appears like an independent work of art, it will be judged on its own and not based on the previous seasons (which usually were successful, or they would have cancelled the show already).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However there are some examples where a title change happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The fifth Season of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;Archer&lt;/a&gt; is called &quot;Archer:Vice&quot;, because the setting changes completely when &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; the characters previously working in a spy agency are outlawed and have to turn to selling cocaine instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter changed its title to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_Simple_Rules&quot;&gt;8 Simple Rules&lt;/a&gt; after the main actor died during the filming of season 2. They incorporated his death into the show and adapted the direction as well as the title.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More examples can be found on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NewSeasonNewName&quot;&gt;tvtropes page&lt;/a&gt;, showing that it is certainly not unheard of, but usually not done for the reasons named.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-14T17:15:54.093" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T17:15:54.093" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19377" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19381" CreationDate="2014-05-14T13:55:10.157" Score="6" ViewCount="1049" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw &lt;em&gt;X-Men: First Class&lt;/em&gt; a long time ago. I have been getting a doubt about the climax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are all very familiar with the power and abilities of &lt;em&gt;Professor Charles Francis Xavier&lt;/em&gt;. Let's check what &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_X&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wiki (under powers and abilities column, bottom of the page)&lt;/a&gt; is telling about him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Professor X is a mutant who possesses vast telepathic powers, and is among the strongest and most powerful telepaths in the Marvel Universe. &lt;strong&gt;He is able to perceive the thoughts of others or project his own thoughts within a radius of approximately 250 miles (400 km).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and at the start of the same page &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Xavier is paraplegic, although his body houses &lt;strong&gt;one of the world's most powerful mutant minds.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now remember the climax scene of this movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Magneto:&#xA;  Take off your blinders,&#xA;  brothers and sisters.The real enemy is out there. I feel their guns moving in the water. Their metal targeting us. Americans, Soviets, humans.....Go ahead, Charles. Tell me I'm wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On that time Charles can use his powers and he can say to all Soviets/humans/Americans, &quot;this area is secure. All are under control. Don't launch missiles.&quot;. &lt;strong&gt;Why is he silent?&lt;/strong&gt; If he had done like this maybe he wouldn't have been injured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is Charles silent even he has a powerful mind? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9537" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-29T17:23:36.283" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T17:23:36.283" Title="Why did Xavier not contact the US and Russian military telepathically?" Tags="|plot-explanation|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-first-class|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19370" CreationDate="2014-05-14T14:51:36.953" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The way I conceptualize television series is that each season is a discrete entity&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may be thinking of an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthology_series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Anthology Series&lt;/a&gt;, Such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Horror_Story&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;American Horror Story&lt;/a&gt;. The fact is, a lot of American television series aren't anthologies, but are meant to be continuous, developing stories as time progresses. They use the same characters, and mini/subplots don't change based on season, but at the discretion of the writers I assume, and can change from episode to episode, halfway into a season, or the season opener/closer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4416" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T14:51:36.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19374" CreationDate="2014-05-14T15:27:28.347" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The dream, from Robert's perspective, seems very chaotic - just like any other dream. What is more, people sometimes dream of things they see while awake - the people around him. What is more, as Napoleon Wilson said in his comment, after waking up, the idea of the dream fades away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another argument in favor of the acceptance is that he was flying some public plane, probably owned by a well-respected company. Hence the mere thought that someone would be able to slip him some drugs and then connect him to the machine for a theft is pretty hard to believe (sounds very paranoid). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is more, the inception is some sort of myth in that universe (remember the sequence in the beginning, where people tell Saito he's nuts, but it comes as a shock for everyone when Cobb admits to have accomplished an inception once).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="418" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-14T15:31:27.307" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T15:31:27.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19377" CreationDate="2014-05-14T15:48:13.390" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You forget why they were targetting them in the first place. The military of both the Soviets and the US didn't care if it was all &lt;em&gt;Shaw&lt;/em&gt;'s plan and if that threat was eliminated already. All they saw was a group of people with tremendous power and which they didn't understand. They feared them and thought them to be a danger for human society. And that is exactly the reason why they aimed their missiles at them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;em&gt;Magneto&lt;/em&gt;, even if thinking a bit one-sided and blinded by hatred and fear, wasn't so wrong in his assessment that &lt;em&gt;&quot;the real enemy is out there&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Charles&lt;/em&gt; could certainly &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; tell him that he was wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this situation, one of those mutants telepathing his voice into the heads of all those fearful and narrow-minded generals and saying &lt;em&gt;&quot;everything's fine&quot;&lt;/em&gt; wouldn't have helped the slightest bit to make those mutants seem less like a threat for them, rather on the contrary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-14T15:54:57.747" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T15:54:57.747" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19382" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-14T15:48:40.290" Score="5" ViewCount="9640" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the season finale of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3609170/?ref_=tt_ep_ep22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D&lt;/a&gt; we saw Garrett was drawing something like a universe or multiverse like thing. Later Coulson saw that and inspired to draw again in wall. So what was that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-15T16:04:46.510" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T16:04:46.510" Title="What were Garrett and Coulson drawing?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|agents-of-shield|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12815" CreationDate="2014-05-14T17:51:29.227" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh Dae Su never knew who Soo Ah was, she was just a girl he was showing off to, and happened to catch getting up to mischief. He had no idea that they were brother and sister - so how can he be to blame. His friend Joo Hwan spread the story after Dae Su left so surely it was his punishment to bear? After all he identified the girl!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to know if the hypnosis was successful because that last shot of Dae Su did not look like a man free and in love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9583" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T17:51:29.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16877" CreationDate="2014-05-14T17:58:29.683" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The plan was for Chang to regain the trust of the Dean (by faking Changnesia and passing off as Kevin, the nice guy everybody likes) and then destroy Greendale from within.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He basically reached that goal in the last episode of Season 4 &quot;Heroic Origins&quot;, where he gets the chance to ruin the school but changes his mind in the last second when the study group finally accepts him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the episode summary on &lt;a href=&quot;http://community-sitcom.wikia.com/wiki/Heroic_Origins&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Community Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Meanwhile outside the study room, Chang is talking on his cellphone with Dean Spreck from City College. Chang assures him his plan to destroy the study group is underway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plan he is talking about is revealed later in the episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Over in the administrations office, Dean Pelton was guilted by Chang into letting him mail an important document; Greendale's lease renewal for the land the college sublets from the Arapahoe Nation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chang's plan is to &quot;forget&quot; to mail the document which would lead to the lease for the land on which Greendale is built being cancelled. The land would go back to the native tribe that owns it and the school would have to close and maybe even be teared down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plan fails when the Abed realizes that Chang belongs to the group and invites him to join them, which makes him abandon the plan:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Abed informs him that he was always an honorary member of the group and was instrumental in their origins. [..] He then happily agrees to join the group but asks that they stop by the post office as he needs to mail something back to Dean Pelton.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That &quot;something&quot; obviously being the lease renewal. (I think the plot summary is wrong here, he does not actually mail it to Dean Pelton, but the intended recipient, probably a bank or the Arapahoe Nation.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T17:58:29.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19382" CreationDate="2014-05-14T18:09:40.940" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simple answer: we don't know.  Yet.  This is likely to be part of Coulson's Season 2 story arc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Garrett drew it first because he had more samples of GH-325 put into him than Coulson did.  I beleive once Coulson saw Garrett's drawing, it triggered it in his mind.  I personally think this is what drives people mad (as Coulson alluded to in his report to Fury).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the comments over on &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/can-the-agents-of-shield-stand-for-protecting-people-ev-1576504064/all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;io9's review&lt;/a&gt; of the season finale recall that this formula was seen before in the episode &quot;Eye Spy.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1020" LastEditorUserId="1020" LastEditDate="2014-05-14T23:07:16.640" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T23:07:16.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11120" CreationDate="2014-05-14T19:32:20.280" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you said yourself, it was never explicitly mentioned if he was still in the Air Conditioning Repair School or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing that he has left the show by now, this secret probably will never be solved completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are some strong indicators that he left the AC school at the end of Season 3:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Apparently he was already finished with the two year program after his short time there. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvfanatic.com/quotes/i-passed-all-the-classes-so-now-i-just-do-yoga-while-the-teache/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;In S04E13 he says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Troy:&lt;/strong&gt; I passed all the classes, so now I just do yoga while the teachers write down my wisdoms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He took part in a &quot;normal&quot; Greendale College class in Season 4, titled &lt;em&gt;&quot;Nicolas Cage: Good or Bad?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; So it appears that he is back in the usual Greendale course program.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After Pearce's death, he embarks in a trip around the world to get the inheritance. So if he had not left the school before that point, he definitly did then.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T19:32:20.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16918" CreationDate="2014-05-14T22:19:58.283" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I too believe that Ted went to Amy because 1) she understood on a certain level what he was going through, and 2) they had a very brief 'relationship&quot; in college so she was the logical choice post-Sam. No suicide. Just mutual companionship.  The letter to Catherine symbolizes many things, but most importantly that he is finally able to tell her something meaningful which is ironic considering he could do it for perfect strangers but never in his own relationships.  Also, - and this may be projection on my part - but if you look at most of the words of the letter and replace &quot;Catherine&quot; with &quot;Theodore&quot; and Theodore&quot; with &quot;Samantha&quot;, it paints a different light.  More of a coincidence than a theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Dear Catherine, I've been sitting here thinking about all the things I wanted to apologize to you for. All the pain we caused each other. Everything I put on you. Everything I needed you to be or needed you to say. I'm sorry for that. I'll always love you 'cause we grew up together and you helped make me who I am. I just wanted you to know there will be a piece of you in me always, and I'm grateful for that. Whatever someone you become, and wherever you are in the world, I'm sending you love. You're my friend to the end. Love, Theodore.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9586" LastActivityDate="2014-05-14T22:19:58.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12807" CreationDate="2014-05-15T04:18:32.500" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my post below: The thought was that the AI (Artificial Intelligence) theory was from another world of humans where the TET evolved from, humans ahead that of earth time. Earth obviously would be decades away from AI in 2017, a plausible prequel/sequel. These aliens were not of  organic matter, they're obviously machines. Therefore, they know humans and know how to clone them. Then use the clones to do their cheap labor. Apparently, it's cheaper to make humans than create drone repairman. It seemed that the TET was limited in making parts to repair their broken down drones as Vika was told by the TET rep.  The TET has diminishing resources and therefore all the Jacks and Vikas were created from 'local resources' to continue the ops. Just my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9570" LastActivityDate="2014-05-15T04:18:32.500" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19402" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-15T10:27:32.460" Score="2" ViewCount="2399" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Frieza Saga of DBZ, when the Ginyu Force attacks Goku, he's &lt;em&gt;sooo&lt;/em&gt; fast that it looks like he's absorbing all the attacks, but actually moving so quickly that it's barely noticeable, and we're shown his footprints which tell that he's moving at mind-boggling velocity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the battle with Frieza as well, they move so fast that it's barely noticeable to Krillin who's a human being. Considering that Goku's powers have risen exponentially since then and when the Androids arrive on earth, the fighting sequences which depict them just do not have the velocity it had in Frieza Saga. The only way we're left to perceive that Androids are stronger than Frieza is because the story tells us that and because a small blow the androids give makes a huge blow for Goku/Vegeta (before they enter hyperbolic time chamber).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if just turning super saiyan and a few blows from the transformed frieza destroyed the planet namek - then how does planet earth survive for so long with cell and super saiyan 2 levels? How much stronger is earth than namek?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4496" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-15T14:17:28.817" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T12:28:15.370" Title="In Dragon Ball Z if Androids and Cell are stronger than Frieza, then how does the physics make sense?" Tags="|analysis|plot-explanation|dragon-ball-z|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19402" CreationDate="2014-05-15T14:15:00.760" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, especially with Dragonball Z and beyond, a certain suspension of plot has to be done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because everyone is always becoming more and more powerful, it would be just boring to show a still of the fighters but then explain it with &quot;oh well they're moving so fast it just &lt;em&gt;looks like&lt;/em&gt; they're standing still&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be boring to watch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the series progresses they find more and more ways to show just how impactful and powerful the fights and fighters are.  With foreknowledge of how strong the last foe was, to see them just knock the hero away is an adequate way of showing that they &lt;em&gt;mean business&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as we go on in the timeline &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the fighers become more and more powerful, but they're always on some kind of relative playing ground.  For instance, by the time Majin Buu comes into play, all the core Z fighters have a base power level about even with Frieza. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically as the series goes on, its just something to expect, they don't keep to the full cannon as perfectly as they should, but they have to show the power some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as why Namek was destroyed, Frieza specifically fired a special beam attack into Namek's core in order to disrupt it and destroy the planet.  None of the Z fighters nor their enemies has done something like this, so while the Earth is getting plenty beat up, it's not being blown up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Until Kid Buu surfaces during the tail end of the Buu saga and destroys it with one giant blast that is.  But that is also a blast of such magnitude to demonstrate just how powerful &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; new foe is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2014-05-15T14:15:00.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12807" CreationDate="2014-05-15T19:45:57.790" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the lesson Napoleon, hard to post on a smart phone.  However, as spelative as it is, you've got to say it's plausible, but I see you didn't want to focus on that.  The antithesis is the fact they know the language, mathematics (numbers) as we know it. Therefore, they knew because of Vica and Jack or during the invasion. They're so advanced they had to resort to primative means to attack and failed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thought was that the AI (Artificial Intelligence) theory was from another world of humans where the TET evolved from, humans ahead that of earth time. Earth obviously would be decades away from AI in 2017, a plausible prequel/sequel. These aliens were not of  organic matter, they're obviously machines. Therefore, they know humans and know how to clone them. Then use the clones to do their cheap labor. Apparently, it's cheaper to make humans than create drone repairman. It seemed that the TET was limited in making parts to repair their broken down drones as Vika was told by the TET rep.  The TET has diminishing resources and therefore all the Jacks and Vikas were created from 'local resources' to continue the ops. Just my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9614" LastActivityDate="2014-05-15T19:45:57.790" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4003" CreationDate="2014-05-15T23:14:47.173" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This plot crater is even worse than that. Here is the chronology:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Bride kills Buck and steals the Pussy Wagon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Bride flies to Okinawa and waits for a month while her custom sword is being made.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Bride flies to Tokyo and collects body parts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Bride flies back to Texas and picks up flashy, bright yellow Pussy Wagon (which I presume was left unnoticed in long term airport parking) and drives to California to kill Vernita Green.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, this entire time, nobody was looking for the stolen truck of a murder victim?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9270" LastActivityDate="2014-05-15T23:14:47.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19417" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19419" CreationDate="2014-05-16T01:20:43.733" Score="4" ViewCount="67148" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the S01E02 Gideon relates how he confronted a killer who stutters saying he knew the cause but he refuses to tell the cause to the rest of the team because they should find it out for themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't watch the whole episode and could not find the answer on internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7431" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-05-16T15:19:04.747" LastActivityDate="2020-08-30T01:09:37.923" Title="Why does the Footpath Killer stutter?" Tags="|criminal-minds|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19417" CreationDate="2014-05-16T01:56:27.787" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;SPOILERS...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elle figures it out at the end. Gideon does not know at all; he just told the killer that to buy himself time. Then he gets inside the killer's head, rattles him and gets the upper hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quote from Gideon to Elle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I'll tell you what I do know about a stutter: I know how to provoke one.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9270" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T01:56:27.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15544" CreationDate="2014-05-16T14:10:17.343" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's never mentioned what his exact role was. All we know is that he was working for Costello as a probably not too important but loyal mobster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We learn that he probably was no stranger to violence when Costello approaches Billy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Costello&lt;/strong&gt; [Talking about Billies father] No. He kept his own counsel. He never wanted money. You can't do anything with a man like that. You're Uncle Jackie - he also would kill my entire fucking family if he saw me here with you. And I think about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Costello is implying that Jackie was a different man than his brother William Costigan. He spoke his mind and could be motivated with money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A later conversation makes it clear that Jackie had earned his trust in the crew:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frank Costello:&lt;/strong&gt; [talking about Costigan] Do you trust him?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mr. French:&lt;/strong&gt; Well these days, who's reliable?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Frank Costello:&lt;/strong&gt; His uncle Jackie was. Yeah, you can't trust a guy acts like he's got nothing to lose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He got killed when Billy was still young:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ellerby:&lt;/strong&gt; By organized crime in the city, you know who we mean - that's Jackie Costigan, that's an old picture. Jackie met his demise. Last known photograph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(all quotes taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is pretty much all I could find regarding Jackie. He did not play a big role in the movie, the main purpose of the character was to give Billy Costigan a family connection to the mob. He is the reason Costello approached and recruited him, because he knew and trusted Jackie and saw that potential in Jackie's nephew as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T14:10:17.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15467" CreationDate="2014-05-16T15:08:27.443" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically the answer is that the newer suits are not powered by the Arc reactor in Tony's chest, but have their own power supply, so that they can fly and fight even if Tony is not in them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user Thaddeus has written an excellent and extensive answer on this over at &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/35090/in-iron-man-3-why-couldnt-tony-stark-use-the-arc-reactor-in-his-chest-to-charg&quot;&gt;scifi.stackexchange&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of the new armors being developed used the internal power supply from Tony's internal arc reactor. All of his more recent suits (the ones he made AFTER New York) ran on their own independent power supplies. Note the fact they flew, used repulsors and fought Extremis soldiers whether Stark was in them or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The complex design of the Mark 42 made for some unique properties:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Each piece of independent armor had to have its own power supply to utilize the repulsor/anti-grav flight capacity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Each piece of armor had to be able to independently and cooperatively know where it needed to be and in what order it needed to arrive to make the suit viable upon receipt. This mean they were all capable of managing their own power resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Each unit is capable of functioning independent of any other pieces (see Tony's unconventional one hand, one foot aerial ballet of destruction) and thus they are likely not able to be easily recharged unless the suit is in one piece.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Mark 42 did not seem to be as physically strong as some of the other designs, possibly because of its very modular nature. Since the suit was designed to fit more than Stark, we see Pepper using it quite well, it makes sense to have the suit function without a direct link to the Arc reactor in Tony's chest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It also makes sense to allow the suit to be recharged on ordinary electricity in the event Stark is not around (as it proved to be a useful feature). Recharging on ordinary electricity was a feature of the comic version of Iron Man from the very first designs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;His suits were designed to absorb solar energy constantly, absorb some electromagnetic energy from his enemies or to be powered directly from land-based power supplies. He could even hook his armor to land based power supplies to augment his strength briefly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T15:08:27.443" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-05-16T15:08:27.443" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11202" CreationDate="2014-05-16T15:26:17.410" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As DForck42 correctly noted in his comment, depending on the gravity of the injury it is not unreasonable to still hurt after two months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if healed, some injuries will continue to hurt for years or even a whole lifetime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously Troy's injury was not that bad, but my guess is that they did not care too much about the minor detail of the time frame and mostly cared more about using the reference to the injury for the comedic effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-16T16:54:01.693" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T16:54:01.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9891" CreationDate="2014-05-16T16:43:27.240" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;We Win&quot; photo is from the September 29, 1948 late afternoon edition of the Boston newspaper.  It refers to the Boston Braves clinching their only pennant with a victory that afternoon in Brooklyn coupled with the Cardinals losing to the Pirates.  (The line score shown below the headline is from the game in Brooklyn.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9622" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T16:43:27.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11496" CreationDate="2014-05-16T17:44:14.993" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://theoffice.wikia.com/wiki/Finale&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Office Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I figured the character would go back and visit everybody, but he&#xA;  wouldn't do it on camera at this point. I think he had grown past the&#xA;  idea of being in the documentary, that was my take on it. That&#xA;  [Michael Scott] had said goodbye to that aspect of his life, that&#xA;  that's not what was important to him. I just thought, yeah he'd go&#xA;  back and visit, but he wouldn't want the camera crew to be documenting&#xA;  it.&quot; —Steve Carell, explaining his hesitation to return to The Office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="647" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T17:44:14.993" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11267" CreationDate="2014-05-16T19:34:55.190" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;He had Victor sign a power of attorney to Danny Lugo. If you have a notarized power of attorney signed by the bank account owner, that gives you full access to his account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9624" LastActivityDate="2014-05-16T19:34:55.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19430" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19435" CreationDate="2014-05-16T19:58:36.910" Score="1" ViewCount="487" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie 'Beethoven', George Newton was an air freshener entrepreneur. In fact, in 'Beethoven's 2nd', he and his wife obtained a collateral loan to further their business with their house acting as collateral.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My Question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first two Beethoven movies were released in 1992 and 1993 respectively.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At this time, could a breadwinner have conceivably supported a family of five (with a large Saint Bernard dog) in a large home on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iamnotastalker.com/2009/09/17/the-beethoven-house/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Milan Avenue in South Pasadena, California&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zillow.com/homes/1405-Milan-Avenue,-South-Pasadena,-CA_rb/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;which Zillow estimates at $2.01 million&lt;/a&gt;), running a startup air freshener business?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-05-16T21:10:11.693" LastActivityDate="2014-05-17T00:46:00.207" Title="Beethoven: Was George Newton's Occupation Economically Plausible?" Tags="|character|beethoven|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19433" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19449" CreationDate="2014-05-16T21:37:52.407" Score="11" ViewCount="2491" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a beautiful violin theme in the movie Highlander, after Connor MacLeod has been driven out of his village and is now with his new wife.  It's a 6-note riff that is played very high, then an octave lower, then another lower, then finally by cello or bass another octave lower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's nearly identical to the New Line Cinema theme. They just dropped 2 of the notes, but kept the instrumentation and the fact that it cascades through 4 octaves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know whether it was by the same composer, or whether New Line Cinema just &quot;lifted&quot; it and made a minor modification, or what the story is behind it?  I believe the Highlander theme came first (though I'm not certain).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2018-08-14T21:50:44.227" LastActivityDate="2018-08-14T21:50:44.227" Title="&quot;Highlander&quot; music used as New Line Cinema theme song" Tags="|soundtrack|highlander|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="19435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19430" CreationDate="2014-05-17T00:46:00.207" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Going to take a shot in the dark here at the risk of downvotes because even though I don't recall the movie all that well, it's such an odd yet interesting question with thought behind it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_freshener&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a citation on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Global retail sales of air care products were valued at more than $6&#xA;  billion in 2006 and are forecast to reach $7.3 billion by 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starcandle.com/report/MarketingReport.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to find additional market data but you have to pay for those reports and I'm not willing to do that to answer your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in short, yeah, it's certainly possible but I think the question should be is it probable? The money is there, so why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't recall his situation but here are some scenarios:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Startups back then were not like they are today where investors are chomping at the bit for anything that looks like a startup. Back then your best bet was to build some prototypes as quickly and cheaply as possible and sell them to a company like P&amp;amp;G (or appropriate big industry manufacturer). This process could have gone the route of acquiring a patent and licensing it to a manufacturer as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is the possibility that he bought products wholesale and sold them retail acting as the middleman doing some kind of drop-shipping setup. Plenty of successful people have built their wealth using this method. Look at Avon, Gold Canyon/Yankee candles, Amway and plenty of other MLM gigs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yeah, it could be. In 1993, the house you mention being $2m would only be $1.25m but the air freshener industry could have been at $4.3b. Note: I'm getting my numbers from an inflation calculator so they are only estimates and not actual market data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2014-05-17T00:46:00.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18716" CreationDate="2014-05-17T01:32:28.790" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;oedipus complex... ties into the theory the child must grow to defeat the same sex parent and take the strength of the other... the main characters cannot grow into the powerful images they have with both parents involved. Also, if both parents are alive in the movies, they would be able to balance roles of authority vs companion... without that the child feels angered/betrayed and must seek answers their own way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9626" LastActivityDate="2014-05-17T01:32:28.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19442" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-17T11:32:15.397" Score="5" ViewCount="921" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a romantic 70s movie when I was a kid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is about a rich guy whose girlfriend is a painter. His mother disapproves. After a car accident disfigures her, she gets plastic surgery in exchange for never seeing him again. He is told she died. He discovers the truth by meeting her by chance, and recognizing her art. I remember there was some famous song.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the title of this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9636" LastEditorUserId="8667" LastEditDate="2014-05-17T17:15:43.953" LastActivityDate="2016-09-03T13:16:45.343" Title="Romantic 70s movie about a painter who gets plastic surgery in exchange for never seeing her rich boyfriend again" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:07:55.233" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19442" CreationDate="2014-05-17T11:43:04.637" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the exact plot of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079756/combined&quot;&gt;The Promise&lt;/a&gt; from 1979, which was also a Danielle Steele novel. I'd quote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Promise_%281979_film%29&quot;&gt;recap&lt;/a&gt;, but it's pretty much repeating what you've described, so I'll just add that the song in question is Melissa Manchester's &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCDVRqn8cvw&quot;&gt;&quot;I'll Never Say Goodbye&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, which was nominated for an Oscar. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR1DOyMd20k&quot;&gt;The trailer&lt;/a&gt;, as well as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJJs9WXNdO8&quot;&gt;movie itself&lt;/a&gt;, are available on Youtube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-05-17T11:57:32.110" LastActivityDate="2014-05-17T11:57:32.110" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16162" CreationDate="2014-05-17T14:00:17.493" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.examiner.com/article/sons-of-anarchy-spoilers-kurt-sutter-says-more-a-less-guns&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; article, Kurt Sutter is said to say: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While Kurt would love to keep the pit bull that Tig rescued as a club mascot, he says that the dog's day rate is a little too far out of the budget. Also, Sutter says that Gemma's birds have become a running gag and she has a new one every couple episodes. There will likely not be a return of any bird in particular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2014-05-17T14:00:17.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19447" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19448" CreationDate="2014-05-17T16:40:26.377" Score="3" ViewCount="563" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why risk soldiers lives to go across the river to get a couple prisoners in a night patrol?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9631" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-18T18:42:50.140" LastActivityDate="2018-04-18T07:30:07.430" Title="What was the purpose of night patrol?" Tags="|plot-explanation|band-of-brothers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19447" CreationDate="2014-05-17T16:52:27.773" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dark of night hides actions of soldiers. This makes it so it is actually safer for them rather than more dangerous. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-05-17T16:52:27.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19433" CreationDate="2014-05-17T17:00:31.300" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're thinking of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYAIJ_dNl1o&quot;&gt;New Line Cinema&lt;/a&gt;, but your instinct is spot-on! ;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to film composer Michael Kamen's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kamen#Film_and_television_career&quot;&gt;wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New Line's corresponding theme is the opening segment of a track from Highlander&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This information is not annotated, but Kamen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.runmovies.eu/?p=3798&quot;&gt;remarks in an interview&lt;/a&gt; with Soundtrack Magazine in 2000, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;New Line is a company that I’ve known for roughly 22 years, since I first started in the business with Bob Shaye, who still runs New Line. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The music in question appears at 35:40 in Highlander (1986) and on the film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.discogs.com/Michael-Kamen-Highlander-Complete-Motion-Picture-Score/release/3573740&quot;&gt;limited print and/or bootlegged 2-disc album&lt;/a&gt;, track #15, &quot;Heather - Enter Ramirez&quot;. This music seems to have been rescored for the New Line logo in the 1990s. (I'm unable to find an earlier example than &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82PGd49gl9o&quot;&gt;1991 on Youtube&lt;/a&gt;.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Evidence points to Kamen scoring Highlander, and through his association with Shaye adapting it for use with the New Line logo. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastActivityDate="2014-05-17T17:00:31.300" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19447" CreationDate="2014-05-17T21:45:06.390" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The U.S. always had a policy; &quot;No soldier left behind&quot;.  It has always been &quot;worth the risk&quot; to free prisoners.  To some degree this policy was abandoned in Vietnam, as evidenced by the whole POW - MIA movement and evidence of many POWs from that war.  However, even in Iraq and Afghanistan we have risked lives to free US prisoners. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Working under cover of darkness gives an advantage to the side that knows the operation is in progress, so Night Patrol made more sense than doing it in the middle of the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-05-17T21:45:06.390" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19456" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27349" CreationDate="2014-05-18T01:45:33.983" Score="5" ViewCount="3364" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970452/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Solomon Kane (2009)&lt;/a&gt;, Solomon battles the Devil's reaper who claims the Devil wants to collect his soul because the deal is over. Solomon denies any deal and says he can't have it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the movie, there is no mention of Solomon making any kind of deal which leads me to believe there wasn't one made between Solomon and the Devil directly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end when Solomon finds his father, his father says he summoned the sorcerer to heal Solomon's brother after his fall. Then he proceeds to say he begged the sorcerer and offered him &quot;everything&quot; which made me believe that Solomon's father offered his wealth, lands etc, AND Solomon's soul. After all, their relationship was non existent and it was Solomon's fault that the sorcerer needed to be summoned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why is it the Devil wants Solomon's soul?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T02:18:37.307" LastActivityDate="2019-10-05T22:51:51.067" Title="Why did Solomon's soul belong to the Devil?" Tags="|plot-explanation|solomon-kane|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19459" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-18T05:47:39.583" Score="6" ViewCount="671" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched an excellent movie before and now want to re-watch it, but can't remember its name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the plot: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Setting&lt;/strong&gt;: California, or somewhere in the wild West, a ranch or something like that, wild and unpopulated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two young lads, bored, trying to find something exciting to do. So they go to a parking lot, spotting a random lady, and abduct her and get her killed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the two lads reads a lot about forensics, so he knows how to evade the cops. And I remember a scene of him throwing his forensics textbook into the fireplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there's a super smart and beautiful female cop, who managed thru this hard case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At last, the 2 lads were found out by the beautiful cop. And there's a scene where the beautiful female cop is about to fall to the ground from the 2nd floor of a house but one lad saved her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can any bud tell me the title of this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9655" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-05-18T08:01:02.090" LastActivityDate="2014-05-18T15:43:53.140" Title="A movie about a female cop going after two bored young lads that killed a woman" Tags="|identify-this-movie|crime|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:08:04.597" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19460" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-18T06:18:05.587" Score="2" ViewCount="2570" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw the Lone Survivor (2013) movie. Greate scenes, actors, theme and director! Very very emotional film. Most of scenes seems very realistic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, please, does anybody know if the soldiers were wearing bulletproof vest?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that they did NOT wear them. It turns out that they were very vulnerable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6294" LastEditorUserId="6294" LastEditDate="2014-05-18T06:30:57.353" LastActivityDate="2023-09-21T04:07:01.537" Title="Were the soldiers wearing body armors in Lone survivor (2013)?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lone-survivor|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19459" CreationDate="2014-05-18T07:30:10.787" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_by_Numbers&quot;&gt;Murder By Numbers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Richard Haywood, a wealthy and popular high-schooler, secretly teams up with another rich kid in his class, brilliant nerd Justin &quot;Bonaparte&quot; Pendleton. His erudition, especially in forensic matters, allows them to plan elaborately perfect murders as a perverse form of entertainment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cassie pursues Richard, who tricks her into going out onto an unstable balcony. Richard strangles Cassie, but she fights back and pushes him over the railing, and he falls to his death. But, before Cassie can get back inside, the porch breaks. Justin saves her, and she tells him that he will likely get a light sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastActivityDate="2014-05-18T07:30:10.787" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19472" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39579" CreationDate="2014-05-18T18:45:36.910" Score="5" ViewCount="5002" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140352/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Insider&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, after the crippled down version of &lt;em&gt;Jeffrey&lt;/em&gt;'s interview aired on TV and &lt;em&gt;Lowell Bergman&lt;/em&gt; returns from his forced vacation, he ends up somewhere in the US countryside in the middle of nowhere. There he meets a bunch of supposed geologists whom he identifies as FBI agents on trail of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unabomber&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. When he informs his FBI contact about his findings he gets a guaranteed 3 hour pre-information before the attempted arrest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I wonder what the relevance of this subplot actually is. Seeing that the complete interview is finally aired because of &lt;em&gt;Lowell&lt;/em&gt; in turn blowing the whistle on CBS's questionable withholding and his whitewashing of &lt;em&gt;Jeffrey&lt;/em&gt;'s reputation in the newspapers, he certainly didn't use his connections in the Unabomber case as pressure. Nor did he use it to keep his job at CBS, since he resigns shortly afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;strong&gt;is &lt;em&gt;Lowell&lt;/em&gt;'s investigation in the Unabomber case in any way connected to &lt;em&gt;Jeffrey Wigand&lt;/em&gt;'s case?&lt;/strong&gt; If not, what was the relevance of this subplot? &lt;strong&gt;Why was &lt;em&gt;Lowell&lt;/em&gt; there and in which way does it relate to the rest of the movie's story?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T11:45:56.573" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T12:15:42.567" Title="What is the relevance of the Unabomber sideplot?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-insider|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10343" CreationDate="2014-05-19T00:43:37.577" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The entire situation (being lured to the hospital by Jesse,leaving his vehicle unguarded,etc) seemed rather odd to Fring. While he did make a serious tactical mistake (he walked to the edge of the parking structure and looked over, thus potentially exposing himself to a sniper) he seems to have gotten a bad feeling about things and decided not to drive away in his car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon reflection, this actually is more a affectation of the narrative than a practical exercise as later (SPOILER) when Walt and Tio Salamanca use the same explosive device to finally murder Fring, it is clear that it’s explosive effect of the bomb would have been sufficient to seriously injure or kill Fring had he walked as close to his vehicle as he did. There was only a limited need (primarily for the sake of the series) for him to actually get into his car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-17T01:44:32.440" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T01:44:32.440" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11266" CreationDate="2014-05-19T01:10:14.573" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Slight correction to the above answer: It is 187 miles from Miami to Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas. However, it’s 107 miles to Freeport, the second largest city in the Bahamas and there sandbars and cays which are Bahamian territory which are as close to Miami as 80 miles. In a speedboat,especially one like the one shown in the film, that distance can be covered in 1.5 to 2 hours with calm seas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While do need a passport to land at the ports in the Bahamas, it is an island nation with a small coast guard and police force. If you want to travel there and not be caught there is little to stop you from doing as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/maps/preview?ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;gl=us&amp;amp;daddr=Freeport,%20The%20Bahamas&amp;amp;saddr=Miami,%20FL&amp;amp;panel=1&amp;amp;f=d&amp;amp;fb=1&amp;amp;geocode=KRHByA6isNmIMWVPrd1x8pb_;KZsXyPwb2CaJMX3cyIcDfUI-&amp;amp;ei=oVd5U7uiNI-iyATj94DgBg&amp;amp;ved=0CCUQ5y4&amp;amp;source=newuser-ws&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reference:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T01:10:14.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19483" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19495" CreationDate="2014-05-19T01:59:19.067" Score="7" ViewCount="1441" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Contact, the major point of contention in the latter half is whether Eleanor had actually traveled to another planet or whether she was just hallucinating. Why couldn't they just try again with another person? Or a dozen more for that matter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The machine had already been built and there is nothing in the movie which says that it could be used only once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="1111" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T05:34:26.430" LastActivityDate="2018-10-10T23:43:04.030" Title="Why didn't they send another person to verify what Eleanor said?" Tags="|contact|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19484" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19485" CreationDate="2014-05-19T05:37:00.550" Score="3" ViewCount="3965" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep I know they were siblings but, throughout &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ender's Game&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Ender only told Valentine what he feels. He saw her in a game. Why not Petra? And I can feel that he loves her in a different way or maybe I have to read the book. So did Ender love Valentine in a romantic way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9672" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T09:09:28.780" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T06:05:26.037" Title="Did Ender love Valentine...in a romantic way?" Tags="|enders-game|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19484" CreationDate="2014-05-19T07:59:55.530" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is &quot;No&quot;. My personal interpretation is, Ender and Valentine are close to each other like normal siblings. Since the beginning of the movie, we were shown that Ender shares everything with his sister because he trusts her most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender_Wiggin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; to know more about Ender's Character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a child, Ender is bullied at school for being a &quot;third&quot;, in particular by a bully named Stilson. After Stilson engages him in a fight, Ender beats him thoroughly and also ends up killing him. At home, Ender is tormented by his brother Peter, a sadistic bully who jealously resents the attention Ender gets from the military. &lt;strong&gt;His only refuge is with his beloved sister Valentine, who acts as his protector and only friend. When he is accepted into Battle School, he is broken-hearted at the thought of leaving her and so is she, but she assures him that they will always have a bond.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the dream he saw Valentine not Petra because he's so protective of Valentine rather than Petra. I think Ender did not like Valentine in any different way other than his close friend and a confidant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2015-03-13T06:05:26.037" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T06:05:26.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19486" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19488" CreationDate="2014-05-19T10:59:27.003" Score="6" ViewCount="56408" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7ctDl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has there ever been a Family Guy episode that featured the screen porch?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think I have ever seen an episode where the screen porch was featured. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T21:47:31.960" LastActivityDate="2016-07-18T02:35:06.197" Title="Has there ever been a Family Guy episode that featured the screen porch?" Tags="|identify-this-episode|family-guy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:29:00.403" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19486" CreationDate="2014-05-19T11:53:04.157" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has featured occasionally: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m73sp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_on_Spooner_Street&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Halloween on Spooner's Street&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (S09E04) - &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeZrsveWU2U&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here is a video of it&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/plCtem.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready,_Willing,_and_Disabled&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ready Willing and Disabled&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (S03E15)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QOSOEm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasted_Talent&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wasted Talent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (S02E20) - when Peter and Brian try and find the &quot;golden ticket&quot; to get entry to the Pawtucket Brewery they get drunk in the sun room. That's the episode the image above is from.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewie_Loves_Lois&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stewie Loves Lois&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (S05E01) - I'm not 100% on this one, but I'm fairly certain in this episode, to get the attention of Lois, Stewie starts drawing on the walls in the sunroom.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're interested, a few other forums have had this question asked. Feel free to peruse some of their answers at &lt;a href=&quot;http://m.tickld.com/pic/t/142563&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tickld&lt;/a&gt; and on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/familyguy/comments/1m2ple/dae_notice_that_the_griffins_never_use_the/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reddit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T14:41:34.310" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T14:41:34.310" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19489" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-05-19T13:18:04.920" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Producer: Discovery Channel&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Links&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wikipedia: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colony_%28U.S._TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Colony (U.S. TV series)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T14:32:44.640" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T14:32:44.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19490" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-05-19T13:18:04.920" Score="0" Body="&quot;The Colony&quot; is a reality television series." OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T14:32:41.273" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T14:32:41.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19494" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19496" CreationDate="2014-05-19T14:39:17.180" Score="13" ViewCount="3267" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry if my question is a silly one. I wasn't even born when the first ever Simpsons episode was aired. I am watching them from the beginning but I'm wondering was there any shows before the S1E01 - &quot;Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire&quot; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 138th special episode (&lt;code&gt;The Simpsons [7x10] The Simpson's 138th Show Spectacular&lt;/code&gt;), it shows some clips they didn't air, which I can recall most of them. But the characters look much different so I'm not sure it was a parody or whether there was some shows prior to the first official episode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherlock had such episode. Can anyone remember if there was anything aired before the first episode? Also, that very first episode starts without any specific introduction to characters. Is it the norm?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8682" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T15:06:22.170" LastActivityDate="2018-02-02T13:19:05.020" Title="Is &quot;Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire&quot; really the first episode?" Tags="|the-simpsons|pilot|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19483" CreationDate="2014-05-19T14:43:03.940" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the expense (&quot;Why build one when you can build two for twice the price?&quot;), loss of life and controversy, only for the pod to seemingly just fall through, there wasn't enough political willpower to fund a second attempt -- the Congressional hearings led by Kitz was an attempt to scapegoat the immense failure on Hadden as an elaborate hoax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conceivably there is a number of people (scientists, technicians, etc.) who are aware of the 18-hour recording discrepancy, but surely there are many (Kitz probably among them) who would want to cover it up or pass it off publicly as a crack-pot conspiracy theory. Given that, and the government's unwillingness to proceed further, it's probable no private entity would be willing buy out and fund such a PR disaster either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, while there's also nothing in the movie that says it can only be used once, it also doesn't say it can be used more than once. It's possible the machine was designed for a single trip only. However, that wouldn't stop a third (or more) machine from being built. The plans didn't cease to exist, provided someone was willing to pony up an exorbitant amount of cash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3516" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T14:43:03.940" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19494" CreationDate="2014-05-19T14:45:37.600" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not exactly, there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_shorts&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Simpsons shorts&lt;/a&gt; which aired before &lt;em&gt;&quot;Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Simpsons shorts are a series of 48 one-minute shorts that ran on&#xA;  the variety show The Tracey Ullman Show for three seasons, before the&#xA;  characters spun off into The Simpsons, their own half-hour prime time&#xA;  show. It features the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge,&#xA;  Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Five of these shorts were later used in the clip show episode &quot;The&#xA;  Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular&quot; on the half-hour show, which was&#xA;  released on the Season 7 DVD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="4297" LastEditDate="2018-02-02T13:19:05.020" LastActivityDate="2018-02-02T13:19:05.020" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19494" CreationDate="2014-05-19T14:47:16.793" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire&lt;/em&gt; was indeed the series premiere of The Simpsons (although it was the 8th episode &lt;em&gt;produced&lt;/em&gt;). But before that, the family debuted as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_shorts&quot;&gt;shorts&lt;/a&gt; on The Tracey Ullman Show, some of which looked cruder than later ones. &lt;em&gt;The Simpson's 138th Show Spectacular&lt;/em&gt; features some footage from these shorts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T14:47:16.793" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19499" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-05-19T15:17:21.197" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T15:17:21.197" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T15:17:21.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19500" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-05-19T15:17:21.197" Score="0" Body="The first episode of a TV show. Usually produced independently to sell a new show to a network." OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T15:22:51.600" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T15:22:51.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19503" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19507" CreationDate="2014-05-19T15:49:37.277" Score="9" ViewCount="1615" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Bruce Wayne is in the prison-pit-thing in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, what is probably the president of the US appears on TV. Underneath, there are some subtitles, in some language. Screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LY1RY.png&quot; alt=&quot;Language in TDKR&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What language is this? It doesn't look like any Indian script (the &quot;Pit&quot; was filmed in India) nor Arabic nor ancient Berber (the prisoners, I have learnt were speaking Moroccan). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess was initially that it's either Georgian or Armenian, but after looking at Google Images I am not so sure if it's either of those two languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9668" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T21:47:20.397" LastActivityDate="2020-10-26T11:42:42.233" Title="What language is shown on the TV in Bruce's cell?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19460" CreationDate="2014-05-19T15:58:18.527" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bullet proof vests are not worn as standard in military operation, they are used when they will be most effective: often in anticipation of the type of ordinance likely to be used against them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are bulky and cumbersome, and due to the fact they aren't very breathable, they leave soldiers prone to overheating. This still from the movie shows that they are wearing &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webbing_equipment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;webbing&lt;/a&gt;, but seemingly &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; kevlar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6TnwC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When this image is compared to a soldier wearing &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; body armor, the differences are immediate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d57fb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That second photograph isn't strictly military issue, but it still serves the point. Look how much bulkier it is, and how much more restrictive it would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T15:58:18.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19503" CreationDate="2014-05-19T16:02:17.807" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without knowing the language myself, this looks very much like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Arabic&lt;/a&gt; to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sample:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;هذا هو الجملة في اللغة العربية&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would fit with the fact that &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/3454/what-is-the-geographic-location-of-the-pit-bruce-wayne-is-imprisoned-in-by-bane&quot;&gt;the Pit is most likely in or near Morocco&lt;/a&gt; where &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Morocco&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the official language is Arabic&lt;/a&gt; (80-90%). In consequence the international news there would likely be subtitled in Arabic as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T16:07:52.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19503" CreationDate="2014-05-19T16:34:55.823" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's upside down and mirrored Arabic script. It can be a number of languages (Arabic isn't the only one that uses Arabic script), and the image is a bit blurry. But after using some serious CSI techniques (zooming in a lot) I'm fairly certain that it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; Arabic, just obfuscated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PNgvR.png&quot; alt=&quot;Upside down and mirrored&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T16:34:55.823" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19509" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19511" CreationDate="2014-05-19T19:33:12.520" Score="8" ViewCount="21459" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/&quot;&gt;Sherlock&lt;/a&gt; episode &lt;strong&gt;A Scandal in Belgravia&lt;/strong&gt; the other day. Everything seemed fine but I didn't get the &lt;strong&gt;flight of dead&lt;/strong&gt; part and those people in the beginning who reported of missing persons (2 girls, one man with ashes, also, the man dead in the car). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the government knows that there is going to be an attack and flies the plane with corpses (Coventry), then all those reportedly missing persons (in the starting of the show) should be safe and alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did the person end up dying in a car accident?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did the girls say that they were not allowed to see their grandparents?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did that mysterious man say that the ashes of his aunt had been replaced?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9684" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T20:03:24.237" LastActivityDate="2017-07-17T15:47:47.160" Title="Understanding the Flight of the Dead" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19509" CreationDate="2014-05-19T20:35:12.920" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The aunt wasn't cremated, they used her body and gave the man other ashes. (A theme via Sherlock's blog entry on 243 different types of tobacco ash.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The girls grandparents' bodies were being used, so they weren't allowed to see them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The missing people were dead through various circumstances. The point is, these were stolen bodies aboard the plane and people started to notice and come to Sherlock for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had a chance to watch the episode again and am not 100% sure what car accident you are referring to. There is a body in the boot of a car near the beginning which goes &lt;em&gt;unsolved&lt;/em&gt;, but does set up the theme for the Coventry aspect and provides proof that Sherlock is human (according to John and his blogging of the cases that do not get solved). Then there is the &lt;em&gt;solved&lt;/em&gt; accidental death which occurred about ten minutes into the episode when a car backfired. (The boomerang.) I assume you're talking about the body in the car that Mycroft also mentions at the end. Unfortunately, no explanation is given in the episode. I think we're supposed to assume it was the work of the terrorist cell who found out about the 007 (Coventry) flight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T22:16:32.103" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T22:16:32.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19512" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19515" CreationDate="2014-05-19T20:38:38.667" Score="8" ViewCount="9492" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to watch the TV show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2243973/&quot;&gt;Hannibal (2013)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I need to watch the movies before I watch it, or are they independent? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-13T12:01:19.570" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T12:01:19.570" Title="Do I need to watch the Hannibal movies before I watch the show?" Tags="|suggested-order|hannibal-tv|hannibal|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19512" CreationDate="2014-05-19T20:49:11.207" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The TV show depicts the events before the movie trilogy, in particular before &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289765/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Red Dragon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (or &lt;em&gt;Michael Mann&lt;/em&gt;'s 1986 take on it, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091474/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Manhunter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, for that matter), showing &lt;em&gt;Will Graham&lt;/em&gt;'s work as FBI profiler under assistance (and care, given that the TV show depicts a significantly more deranged version of &lt;em&gt;Will Graham&lt;/em&gt;) of &lt;em&gt;Dr. Hannibal Lecter&lt;/em&gt; and thus the events before &lt;em&gt;Hannibal&lt;/em&gt;'s true nature is revealed and before his arrest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, having seen not much more than the first few episodes of the TV show, I don't know if the later episodes might even venture as far as &lt;em&gt;into&lt;/em&gt; the story of &lt;em&gt;Red Dragon&lt;/em&gt; (or any of the later set/previous movies with &lt;em&gt;Clarice Starling&lt;/em&gt;), but even then you don't have to watch the movies beforehand, it might even benefit the suspense if you don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The TV show is thus more or less a prequel to the movies (ignoring the rather infamous &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367959/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hannibal Rising&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which isn't necessary for the story either, though, being in turn set before the TV show). So while it may add to the enjoyment of the TV show to be acquainted with the characters (and see/compare the different takes on them), it is absolutely not required to understand the characters or the plot in any way. So &lt;strong&gt;no, you don't need to watch the movies, they are more or less independent&lt;/strong&gt; (or rather later in the chronology).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T21:19:31.670" LastActivityDate="2014-05-19T21:19:31.670" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19518" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19521" CreationDate="2014-05-19T22:38:10.020" Score="1" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the latest (UK) series, Ferran Adrià was prominently featured tasting the contestants food, possibly the most famous in a long line of critically acclaimed multi Michelin starred chefs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably they don't get paid much for appearing, and most of them have extremely long waiting lists for their restaurants. In the case of Adrià, he doesn't even have a restaurant or recently released book to sell. Why do they bother going on the show? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9093" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-20T23:29:02.827" LastActivityDate="2014-05-20T23:29:02.827" Title="Why do the best chefs in the world go on Masterchef?" Tags="|casting|masterchef|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19519" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19520" CreationDate="2014-05-19T23:28:41.333" Score="7" ViewCount="17072" Body="&lt;p&gt;The trailer for the new Christopher Nolan film &quot;Interstellar&quot; was just released. The music used is very familiar but I cannot pin down the source. It is present throughout the whole clip, but is most familiar from time index 1:25.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWdZVtXT7E&quot;&gt;Interstellar trailer on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9270" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-05-19T23:54:13.603" LastActivityDate="2014-11-20T00:49:35.227" Title="Where is the music from the Interstellar trailer from?" Tags="|soundtrack|trailers|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19519" CreationDate="2014-05-19T23:35:54.833" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the track &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjgTFd6XAg8&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Evey Reborn&lt;/a&gt; from Dario Marianelli's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta:_Music_From_The_Motion_Picture&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;soundtrack for 'V For Vendetta'&lt;/a&gt; (the recognizable part you've pointed out appears &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/BjgTFd6XAg8?t=2m30s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;around 2:30&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; A comment has raised an interesting point (but was deleted because it was posted as an answer); There is a possible link between these 2 films: &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; was released in the U.S. on Guy Fawkes Day (November 5th).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-10T00:17:26.970" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T00:17:26.970" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19518" CreationDate="2014-05-20T00:04:41.317" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not seen the show, but with celebrity shows like this it usually comes down to one of the following two reasons, most of the time a combination of the two:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Publicity&lt;/strong&gt;: By getting on a major TV event, you increase the value of your name just by being seen. You can then use that fame to sell stuff easier (books, your restaurant, parfum, clothes, ..). You also increase the chance to get on similar or even more prestigious shows.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Money&lt;/strong&gt;: Shows that are heavily based on the celebrity of the people featured usually pay a good amount of money to those people. The more famous your celebrities are, the more viewers and more revenue from advertisement you get, so it makes sense to pay more money to convince more famous celebrities to appear on your show.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt that Masterchef is an exception to this. People watch it because it features famous cooks. So they will pay good money to these cooks to increase viewership. For the cooks this is a good chance to stay famous, which is usually not something that happens just by being a good cook, but also by knowing how to advertise yourself and your restaurant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last but not least, most celebrities like being famous, so it's not really hard for you to convince them to appear on TV, especially when you offer them money as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-05-20T00:04:41.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11989" CreationDate="2014-05-20T00:12:41.453" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's two explanations for this I can think of that are supported by in-universe facts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He's seen it before&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first thing we see Wynn do as part of his job is once &lt;a href=&quot;http://moviemorgue.wikia.com/wiki/Ryjkin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ryjkin&lt;/a&gt; dies, he removes the archive disc from their console and puts it into his file. Dodd spends this whole sequence playing chess, but Wynn doesn't: he watches every death which occurs on his watch as his opening lines indicate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wynn&lt;/strong&gt;: Now that is sick. Are you watching this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dodd&lt;/strong&gt;: No, Thanks. I don't look any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wynn&lt;/strong&gt;: We've seen a lot of... But this is just...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as the screen briefly shows he's given information about the cause of death:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7RYyA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Cube Zero: Ryjkin termination information&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably then &lt;strong&gt;he's seen others die in the same way often enough to identify it&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They always do this, and Wynn knows it&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Jax passes on orders to Dodd, he says (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Order number 7 9 3-&lt;em&gt;blah blah blah blah&lt;/em&gt;. Commence &lt;strong&gt;standard series of needle tests&lt;/strong&gt; on Rains group&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this, Dodd begins to operate some equipment at Owen's desk, a button and a viewing device, which he uses to track Jellico and activate the needle which infects her with the Necrotising Fasciitis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kBHjU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of Dodd operating the Needle Test Machine&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This then allows Jellico to infect Meyerhold via a scratch. As Jax said &lt;code&gt;&quot;standard series of needle tests&quot;&lt;/code&gt; it may be (as it sounds) a standard thing to randomly infect one of them with flesh eating bacteria, Wynn could have done this to others in the past or witnessed Dodd doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-26T00:46:44.547" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T00:46:44.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17794" CreationDate="2014-05-20T00:42:32.003" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the context of a child murderer, it's quite possible it was also intended to allude to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Josef Mengele&lt;/a&gt; nicknamed &lt;em&gt;Todesengel&lt;/em&gt; (Angel of Death) which is usually a common theme among characters based on him, such as Dr. Christian Szell in Marathon Man (Der Weisse Engel - The White Angel).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The synopsis mentions he paints beautiful pictures with the children's blood which would be a fitting metaphor for some of his experiments with attempting to correct eye colours to match the Aryan aesthetic (death in the pursuit of beauty, et cetera).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-05-20T00:42:32.003" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19538" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19539" CreationDate="2014-05-20T18:49:16.850" Score="6" ViewCount="3513" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Blind Banker&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, when Sherlock meets Sebastian, Sherlock looks at Sebastian's watch and deduces that he had made two international trips in one month because the time was right but the date was two days behind. I didn't get this part. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't make sense as his trip was to start and end at same place. Even if he had forgotten to alter his watch still it would be showing the current correct time and date. Also, in one international round trip we cross the dateline twice: first while going and second while returning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please explain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9684" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-20T19:59:56.467" LastActivityDate="2014-05-20T22:24:56.067" Title="How did Sherlock deduce that the banker had made two international trips in one month?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19538" CreationDate="2014-05-20T19:00:18.957" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your reasoning makes sense if you take the same route back on which you came. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in Sebastian's case, he made a &lt;strong&gt;complete trip around the globe&lt;/strong&gt; twice, so he crossed the dateline twice without crossing it back in the opposite direction. Meanwhile, he forgot to set his watch back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JOHN: Two trips around the world this month. You didn’t ask his secretary; you said that just to irritate him.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (Sherlock smiles but doesn’t respond.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  JOHN: How did you know?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  SHERLOCK: Did you see his watch?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (Brief flashback to Sherlock looking at Sebastian’s wrist as he scratched his neck.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  JOHN: His watch?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  SHERLOCK: The time was right but the date was wrong. Said two days ago. Crossed the dateline twice but he didn’t alter it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he had to be travelling west across the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;International Date Line&lt;/a&gt; (IDL) twice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Crossing the IDL westbound results in 24 hours being added, advancing the calendar date by one day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why not travel the same route back east?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There can be several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He may have made several stops around the globe, leading him to a location where London finally was closer by traveling further west than back east.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2549/why-do-flight-times-differ-between-traveling-east-versus-traveling-west&quot;&gt;Travelling west around the globe is quicker because of trade winds.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The op correctly noticed that if Sebastian never changed the watch at all, it would show the correct date. The watch does not really care about travel or datelines, and time went on normally for the watch and London (relativity effects omitted), so without any change on the watch the date and time would be correct again after the travel. &lt;strong&gt;So he must have changed the time without changing the date, that's what lead to the problem.&lt;/strong&gt; That is an easy mistake to make, because it is common knowledge that you have to adjust your watch to the local time, but you only ever have to adjust the date when you travel over the dateline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherlock further deduced that it had to be within a month from the fact that the watch was relatively new:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JOHN: Within a month? How’d you get that part?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  SHERLOCK: New Breitling.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (Flashback close-up on the watch showing its brand name: Breitling Chronometre Crosswind.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  SHERLOCK: Only came out this February.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://arianedevere.livejournal.com/45111.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Transcript source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fun fact: Sherlock was wrong about the last part, the model of the watch &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sherlockology.com/props/seb-watch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;has been out for years&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The one thing Sherlock got wrong! [..] The model featured is a Breitling Crosswind, popular for many years but no longer in production. The nearest equivalent is probably the Chronomat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this might be different in the Sherlock universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:59:53.717" LastActivityDate="2014-05-20T21:18:13.817" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19541" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19543" CreationDate="2014-05-20T20:59:02.650" Score="8" ViewCount="1691" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have seen both used. Some articles typically say &lt;i&gt;&quot;The antihero is back&quot;&lt;/i&gt;, whilst others say he is a hero.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/05/showbiz/tv/24-returns-jack-bauer/&quot;&gt;Breeanna Hare at CNN even gets to the point by&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;-- At first it may seem &quot;24's&quot; Jack Bauer didn't get the memo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 2014, our heroes now wear capes and fight the bad guys at the box office, while the small screen has been taken over by a gang of antiheroes. From &quot;Scandal&quot; and &quot;Mad Men&quot; to &quot;Breaking Bad&quot; and &quot;House of Cards,&quot; the recent slate of leading men aren't as interested in saving the world as they are in saving themselves.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the &lt;em&gt;torture issue&lt;/em&gt; that comes to light from time to time, but at the same time one are to look long and hard to find someone able endure that much beating, torture, loss, betrayal, sacrifice and utter destruction like Bauer – and it's all for everyone but himself. It is kind of a dark version of Die Hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also quite a few both action, thriller etc. films and TV-series out there where the hero uses excessive force against &lt;em&gt;the bad-guys&lt;/em&gt; from time to time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Jack Bauer an antihero?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9706" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-20T21:20:41.000" LastActivityDate="2014-05-22T23:21:47.573" Title="Is Jack Bauer an antihero?" Tags="|analysis|character|24|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19541" CreationDate="2014-05-20T21:46:11.487" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depends on who you ask, really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihero&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; describes an antihero as following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The antihero or antiheroine is a leading character in a film, book or play who lacks the traditional heroic qualities such as idealism, courage, nobility, fortitude, moral goodness, and altruism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is quite obvious that Jack Bauer does not lack idealism, courage, fortitude or altruism. However he commonly sacrifices moral values for the &quot;greater good&quot; by torturing people to stop the bad guys from killing innocents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he certainly is not your classic &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IdealHero&quot;&gt;Ideal Hero&lt;/a&gt; who fights with honor, but, as you mentioned, he has many qualities that don't fit with the classic antihero either. He does not abide by the law or by moral standards, but he justifies it by the honorable goal he wants to reach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately with this he is not alone. Many villains pretty much live by the same standard: &lt;em&gt;Do evil to reach good.&lt;/em&gt; So it can be argued that Jack Bauer is in fact a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WellIntentionedExtremist&quot;&gt;Well Intentioned Extremist&lt;/a&gt; and the only thing that prevents him from being a villain is that we are being told the story from his point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that he even has a torture trope named after him, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JackBauerInterrogationTechnique&quot;&gt;Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique&lt;/a&gt;, does not help his reputation either. And so TvTropes seems to clearly put him in the antihero category:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For all intents and purposes, this is Cold-Blooded Torture. [..] Of course, anyone who does this is usually at least an Anti-Hero to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary: It's not really a clear-cut case, but I would personally characterize Jack Bauer as an antihero. His good intentions and the fact that he is fighting against terrorists save him from being a villain, but for me his moral standards are not high enough to call him a hero in the classical sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-05-20T21:46:11.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19538" CreationDate="2014-05-20T22:24:56.067" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the answer @atticae gave. But for anyone who is still confused, here is a sample set of steps that would lead to the watch showing the correct time, but being off by 2 days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assume today is Wednesday. And all the travel below happens today (which is impossible, but it's simpler for this explanation). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You get on a plane at 12:00 noon. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you arrive at your destination, the local time is 5 AM, so you set your watch back 7 hours.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You get on another plane.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you arrive at your next destination, the local time is 11 PM, so you set your watch back 6 hours AND THE DAY ON YOUR WATCH IS NOW TUESDAY. That's because you adjusted the time backwards, from 5 AM back to 11 PM.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You get on another plane.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you arrive at your destination, the local time is 12 noon. (It's in the same time zone as the airport you originally left from.)  You set your watch back to show 12 noon. It still shows Tuesday.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You get on another plane.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you arrive at your destination, the local time is 5 AM. You set your watch back. (The date still shows Tuesday.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You get on another plane.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When you arrive at your next destination, the local time is 11 PM.  You set your watch&#xA;back another 6 hours AND THE DAY ON YOUR WATCH IS NOW MONDAY.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You get on your final plane.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It arrives at the first airport. Local time is 12 noon. You set your watch back, and it now shows the correct local time, but the date shows MONDAY.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's way more complicated than this, because you also have to consider the amount of time you'd spend flying.  But the effect is exactly the same:  if you keep setting your watch back (instead of forwards) each time you land, and you go around the world twice, your watch will show the correct local time but 2 days in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-05-20T22:24:56.067" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19547" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-21T05:10:55.950" Score="1" ViewCount="9183" Body="&lt;p&gt;What restaurant did the girls meet up in, in New York, at the end of the movie The Other Woman?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9712" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-21T05:52:11.117" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T16:36:40.243" Title="What was the restaurant in New York shown at the end of &quot;The Other Woman&quot;" Tags="|the-other-woman|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14527" CreationDate="2014-05-21T07:58:01.357" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going on speculation here, but I think it's more chance than anything else. Around the time of Step Up 2, she was busy starring (in a better role than the one she had in Step Up) in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Rock#Characters_and_cast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Camp Rock&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shineon-media.com/features/interviews/alyson-stoner-interview-disneymania-camp-rock-2-more/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This is an interview&lt;/a&gt; with her:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another movie you have coming out this year is Step Up 3-D. What was&#xA;it like working on that?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I loved it! I felt like such a newbie&#xA;compared to all of the other dancers who have been dancing longer than&#xA;I’ve been alive. Jon Chu is a visionary. He has a great eye for what&#xA;reads best on camera and the fact that the movie is in 3-D technology&#xA;just takes it to another level. Everyone involved is really passionate&#xA;about what they do so that translates on camera and we’re hoping that&#xA;people just jump at it like we have. It’s been our little baby. We’ve&#xA;been working on it forever now so we’re excited. It comes out this&#xA;summer. You’ll have to check it out&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You were part of the first Step Up. Was it fun getting to return for&#xA;another chapter in the series?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely. &lt;em&gt;I had watched a portion of&#xA;Step Up 2 and actually believed that the lead girl was an older&#xA;version of my character just with a different name. I didn’t know if&#xA;they were trying to make me older. Then when I heard from Jon Chu that&#xA;it was a totally different storyline, my hope was restored and it gave&#xA;me the chance to work on this one and oh boy, I just took it and ran&#xA;with it.&lt;/em&gt; It’s something I’ve never done before so it was very new and&#xA;a bit of a challenge to learn all the dancing, but I had it easy&#xA;compared to the other dancers. You should see what’s going on. It’s&#xA;absolutely mind boggling. But it was really fun. We really had a great&#xA;time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, the italicized portion strongly suggests it was her own choice not to star in the film, as opposed to the director/casting team. Secondly, it doesn't seem to suggest there is any bizarre reason behind this. It seems very logical that she simply had other projects to do and wanted to do them, but was excited at the chance to go back for Step Up 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Step Up 4, I'm not sure of the exact reason. I've read that she started college at the time of filming and her schedule couldn't handle both. I also know she had her heart set on auditioning for the role of Katniss in &lt;a href=&quot;http://screencrave.com/2011-02-21/alyson-stoner-really-wants-to-play-katniss-in-hunger-games/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/a&gt;. Perhaps disappointment from not getting that role turned her away from filming for a short while?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously there's a lot of speculation here, but I just wanted to point out that there doesn't seem to be any superstitious or otherwise bizarre reason for her appearances in only odd-numbered Step Up films. It just seems to be chance based on her life situation at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T07:58:01.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19550" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19556" CreationDate="2014-05-21T09:40:05.460" Score="8" ViewCount="4580" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of Hollywood's 2014 take on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831387/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Godzilla&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we experience a disaster in the Japanese &lt;em&gt;Janjira&lt;/em&gt; nuclear power plant, in the wake of which &lt;em&gt;Joe Brody&lt;/em&gt;'s wife &lt;em&gt;Sandra&lt;/em&gt; dies. This disaster, which causes the whole region around the power plant to be declared as quarantine zone, at first seems and is later covered up to be &lt;strong&gt;caused by an earthquake&lt;/strong&gt; (even if it was actually caused by a &lt;em&gt;MUTO&lt;/em&gt; as we learn 15 years later).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that it is a common interpretation of the original Japanese &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047034/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Godzilla&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; movie from 1954 to be a reaction to the trauma of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the US bomb tests on the Bikini Atoll (both incidents are also referenced shortly in the 2014 movie) and for &lt;em&gt;Godzilla&lt;/em&gt; to represent the danger and horrors of nuclear bombs and radioactivity in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And while the focus might have slightly shifted from weapons to peaceful usages of radioactivity in the last 60 years, mankind's fear of this power is still as strong as ever before, last reinforced by the real incident at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fukushima power plant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in 2011, which in fact featured &lt;strong&gt;a Japanese nuclear power plant causing a massive radioactive disaster due to an earthquake&lt;/strong&gt;. The similarities of this to the &lt;em&gt;Janjira&lt;/em&gt; incident in the new movie struck me as pretty significant. So I'd like to ask, &lt;strong&gt;is there any other information&lt;/strong&gt; (be it from the movie itself or external sources) &lt;strong&gt;supporting the theory that the &lt;em&gt;Janjira&lt;/em&gt; incident is a reference to or was inspired by the real &lt;em&gt;Fukushima&lt;/em&gt; incident&lt;/strong&gt; or is this a mere coincidence and as made up an analysis as many other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-04-24T09:19:22.630" LastActivityDate="2019-04-24T09:19:22.630" Title="Is the Janjira incident a reference to Fukushima?" Tags="|analysis|monsterverse|godzilla-2014|godzilla|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19551" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-21T10:30:45.257" Score="5" ViewCount="362" Body="&lt;p&gt;As soon (or late, for that matter) as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831387/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Godzilla&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; appears in full size in Hollywood's 2014 take on it, he utters a giant roar that seems to a large degree similar to his original roar from the Japanese movies finished with a very deep growling sound (that is also significantly featured in the trailer). And exactly this growling finish to his roar seems to add much to his gigantic presence and the awe-inspiring (for lack of a better term) atmosphere that accompanies him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at the end, when the supposedly dead &lt;em&gt;Godzilla&lt;/em&gt; rises from the ashes of San Francisco and ventures into the ocean, effectively celebrated by the people (and the movie) for saving them (even if not their city ;-)) from the &lt;em&gt;MUTOs&lt;/em&gt;, it is exactly this growling finish that I missed in his final &quot;farewell roar&quot;. Now I certainly know that I'm absolutely splitting hairs here, but &lt;strong&gt;is there any significance to the fact that his last roar didn't feature this &quot;growling finish&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; or is this a mere coincidence or mishearing on my part?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-04-22T10:27:13.070" LastActivityDate="2019-04-22T10:27:13.070" Title="Is there any significance to the difference in Godzilla's roar?" Tags="|analysis|sound-effects|monsterverse|godzilla-2014|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19551" CreationDate="2014-05-21T10:51:38.840" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My take on the final roar is it is a farewell to the people of San Francisco, where as the ones at the beginning were more of an attack roar. He's a little ticked the MUTO's have forced him to come calling, so the attack roar. When he's leaving he just can't go away, so says goodbye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T10:51:38.840" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19553" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19569" CreationDate="2014-05-21T11:12:36.230" Score="2" ViewCount="1374" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, it's been years since I've actually sat down and watched Spider-Man, the Toby Maguire film, and I got to thinking... Do they ever actually show where Norman's mask comes from? I remember where he gets the suit from, but not the mask. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-05-21T11:15:55.980" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T15:52:51.483" Title="Where does the Green Goblin's mask come from?" Tags="|character|spider-man-trilogy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19554" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44997" CreationDate="2014-05-21T11:17:14.037" Score="9" ViewCount="3639" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spider-Man 2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, I understand that Doctor Octopus is being controlled by his tentacles, but what is his actual motivation for rebuilding the &quot;device&quot;? What does he hope to achieve by doing this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does he hope to destroy the city? Does he just want ultimate power? Is he trying to prove that he can actually control what he's created? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His motivation always seemed a little vague to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-07-04T07:44:24.243" LastActivityDate="2022-03-01T15:27:09.433" Title="Doc Ock's actual motivation?" Tags="|character|spider-man-trilogy|spider-man-2|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19555" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19558" CreationDate="2014-05-21T11:31:09.450" Score="11" ViewCount="25522" Body="&lt;p&gt;While at first seeming like a giant monster crushing everything in its way for the sake of its own, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831387/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Godzilla&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from Hollywood's 2014 take on him was in the end only hunting and killing the MUTOs (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms, which were in fact the real danger to human civilization). Neither has he attacked anyone or even largely shown himself since his awakening in 1954, nor does he attack any of the boats tracking him. And he seems to disappear into the ocean after the MUTOs in San Francisco have been killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But while Dr. Serizawa characterizes him as &lt;em&gt;&quot;just wanting to maintain the balance&quot;&lt;/em&gt; once the MUTOs have been awakened (and propagates the strategy of rather letting him do the dirty work), I'm not sure what he bases this assumption on. And seeing that the MUTOs are more or less ancient animals &lt;em&gt;&quot;from a time when radioactivity was 10 times as high&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, what is Godzilla's origin then, if we are to take him as some kind of guardian of natural balance? In the same way there are scenes, especially his eye-to-eye contact with Ford Brody, that seem to suggest quite a bit of awareness of us humans and our motives. But this all stays rather vague (though, that might be intentional).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I thus wonder if there is any more information or hints at Godzilla's background, his actual motives, his awareness of humans, and his concern about us or the world in general.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Given that I'm not too acquainted with the Japanese movies, maybe they also give some more background on him. While &lt;strong&gt;I'd still like to concentrate the main question on his 2014 Hollywood version&lt;/strong&gt;, at least if any different from his Japanese characterization(s) at all, I'm also happy about any contradicting backgrounds for him as additional insights.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2020-02-11T13:35:33.503" LastActivityDate="2020-02-11T13:35:33.503" Title="What is Godzilla and what does he know and want?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|monsterverse|godzilla-2014|godzilla|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="19556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19550" CreationDate="2014-05-21T11:44:59.417" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reviewers say yes, but the filmmakers are coy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some review snippets:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Godzilla's basic plot centers around the fallout, literal and metaphorical, from a Fukushima-like nuclear plant meltdown. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2014/05/how-godzilla-stays-relevant-in-a-world-of-abundant-nuclear-warheads/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ars Technica&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Janjira is] a barely-disguised reference to the real-world Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown... (&lt;a href=&quot;http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/english/movie-review/Godzilla/movie-review/35156367.cms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Times of India&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie opens with a disaster at a Japanese nuclear power reactor -- an obvious reference to the 2011 incident at the Fukushima facility. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-cirincione/godzilla-is-back---and-he_b_5337943.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;HuffPo&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/new-godzilla-reflects-fears-nuclear-natural-disasters-article-1.1784809&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview with the NY Daily News&lt;/a&gt; published May 11, 2014, director Gareth Edwards says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“As we were writing the film, the horrible events in Fukushima happened and we had to make the decision: Do we stay away from that or do we acknowledge that you’ve opened this Pandora’s box of nuclear power, and when it goes wrong, it really does go wrong?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is careful and kind of odd phrasing. Edwards clearly considered referencing it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... but in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/godzilla-is-not-about-fukushima-says-gareth-edwards/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview with Scifinow UK&lt;/a&gt; published May 16, he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“When you list what makes a Godzilla movie two of those things that come up are radiation and Japan, and so once the events happened that were horrific for real in Japan, we had to be very careful and sensitive not to do something that would be considered insensitive to what happened there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Our film is not based on anything to do with Fukushima, it’s in a fictional city outside of Tokyo and happens 15 years ago, but that said it does deal with the genuine problem of around the world we have these nuclear power plants and we benefit from it.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here it sounds like pains were taken to avoid any reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tend to believe that with all this &lt;em&gt;consideration&lt;/em&gt; going on, whether the Janjira scene was inspired by Fukushima or not, Edwards is very conscious of what it evokes. In that sense, I would call it a reference, albeit one that for the moment he refuses to own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Wikipedia, writing began in October 2010, five months before the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that compromised Fukushima. Rewrites continued through 2013. It's unclear when the scene was conceived or who conceived it, but a clue may lie in &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5977982/how-frank-darabont-will-return-godzilla-to-his-rightful-place-as-a-terrifying-force-of-nature&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Frank Darabont interview on io9&lt;/a&gt; from January 2013:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are you looking to connect it to a different contemporary issue [than the atomic bomb]?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frank Darabont: Yes I am, but I'm not going to give it away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This statement certainly could be about Fukushima/Janjira.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Caveats, other notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagery of a collapsed nuclear plant are evocative of &lt;em&gt;feelings&lt;/em&gt; about Fukushima, but it's important to note that no such collapse occurred: the Fukushima disaster was due to flooding from a tsunami which compromised the plant's cooling system. The way crumbling U.S. buildings tend to evoke memories of 9/11, anything relating to Japanese nuclear safety may superficially be connected to the meltdown, but as of right now, what seems plainly evident is a false equivalency driven by emotion and distorted memories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of this writing Godzilla (2014) has only been in theaters for about a week and is not yet released in Japan. I expect a greater discussion about the Janjira scene once the country has a chance to react, and that reaction may dictate whether Edwards, Darabont or the other filmmakers feel comfortable explicitly stating the extent of influence that Fukushima had on the film. I'll try to keep this answer updated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-05-22T10:44:03.840" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19555" CreationDate="2014-05-21T12:06:06.470" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simple answer is this; Godzilla is not an animal.  Godzilla is a &lt;strong&gt;metaphor&lt;/strong&gt; for nuclear war.  It flattens a city, not caring if it kills humans or not.  Remember, the original Gojira came out not long after WWII, when the US was the first and (so far) only country to drop a nuclear weapon on a country, and we did it twice.  Hiroshima and Nagasaki were completely destroyed.  &lt;strong&gt;Completely.&lt;/strong&gt;  And so Gojira was born, from that memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the movies progressed, Godzilla became somewhat of a protector, but still at times a destroyer.  Nuclear power could be valuable, but there are always possibilities it could backfire (think &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chernobyl&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the 2014 version yet, I'll add anything relevant when I see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, by the way, did you notice that many Godzilla movies open up with Godzilla attacking or being discovered by some sort of marine vessel?  This is actually based on the Lucky Dragon No 5 fishing boat which had to be rescued when it drifted too close to the Bikini Islands and was affected by radiation from a nuclear bomb test.  Most of the movies put it in there as a tribute to those sailors who died from radiation poisoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="4206" LastEditDate="2015-03-14T22:51:11.570" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T22:51:11.570" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19555" CreationDate="2014-05-21T12:50:03.347" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Background: Prehistoric dinosaur who survived (just like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nessie&lt;/a&gt; :))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Motivation: Has changed over time, from a creature that wanted to be left alone, to a violent and vicious animal, to an occasional saviour of Earth, to a largely territorial animal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Full Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest, many of these questions have been well explained (and referenced) on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within the context of the Japanese films, Godzilla's exact origins&#xA;vary, but it is generally depicted as an enormous, violent,&#xA;prehistoric sea monster awakened and empowered by nuclear radiation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it can be seen that whilst it's certainly empowered by nuclear radiation (and so was very topical upon its release), it wasn't &lt;em&gt;created&lt;/em&gt; by that. In fact, his origin is &lt;a href=&quot;http://godzilla.monstrous.com/origin_of_godzilla.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; earlier&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the late Cretaceous era (70 million years ago) there was a species&#xA;of therapod dinosaur resembling a large Tyrannosaurus, but with&#xA;special amphibious adaptations which allowed it to swim between the&#xA;islands upon which it hunted. This dinosaur species has been dubbed&#xA;&amp;quot;Gojirasaurus&amp;quot;. A minimal breeding population of gojirasaurs somehow&#xA;survived the great extinction event which killed off other dinosaurs&#xA;and continued into the modern era...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This description tallies with the background of Godzilla in the 2014 movie, which you specifically referenced. This quote is from the advertising for &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.cosmicbooknews.com/content/godzilla-2014-kaiju-monsters-origin-revealed-spoilers&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an official toy for the film&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly the last of an ancient species of giant amphibious creatures&#xA;that evolved when the surface of the Earth was over ten times more&#xA;radioactive than it is today. GODZILLA can create his radiation stores&#xA;into a violet, focused exahlation of atomic ray. Rarely seen, but&#xA;spoken of in ancient island mythers, &amp;quot;Goijara&amp;quot; was last spotted in&#xA;1954, when the U.S. Navy encountered him and attempted to kill him&#xA;with an atomic blast in the Pacific Ocean. Since then, the giant&#xA;creature has been living in the deep ocean - until a theat to his&#xA;survival from an ancient foe forces him to appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the main focus of your questions - his allegiance and motivations - I think that all the movies need to be examined to see how his &amp;quot;character&amp;quot; has developed and changed. Again from the Wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Godzilla's allegiance and motivations have changed from film to film&#xA;to suit the needs of the story. Although Godzilla does not like&#xA;humans, it will fight alongside humanity against common threats.&#xA;However, it makes no special effort to protect human life or&#xA;property and will turn against its human allies on a whim. It is&#xA;not motivated to attack by predatory instinct: it doesn't eat&#xA;people, and instead sustains itself on radiation and an&#xA;omnivorous diet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When inquired if Godzilla was &amp;quot;good or bad&amp;quot;,&#xA;producer Shogo Tomiyama likened it to a Shinto &amp;quot;God of Destruction&amp;quot;&#xA;which lacks moral agency and cannot be held to human standards of good&#xA;and evil. &amp;quot;He totally destroys everything and then there is a rebirth.&#xA;Something new and fresh can begin.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above paragraph (with references removed) shows that Godzilla tends to follow no master but himself, acting as he sees fit. This is further discussed on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Godzilla&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Godzilla-specific-Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Godzilla, in the original film...is an animal with semi-sapience that stumbles&#xA;upon human civilization without any malicious intent, only destroying&#xA;man-made structures or obstacles like buildings when the humans&#xA;provoke him...In&#xA;[later films]&#xA;Godzilla is a malicious entity created from the restless souls of the&#xA;dead from World War II. [Since then he has] developed as a character, and has&#xA;since become a savior of the Earth, saving the world from other&#xA;monsters like King Ghidorah, the Showa MechaGodzilla, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Mothra's Shobijin's translation of Mothra, Rodan and&#xA;Godzilla's conversation in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster,&#xA;Godzilla only &amp;quot;hates humans because they hate him.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Legendary Pictures' Godzilla, Godzilla's behaviour seems to be that&#xA;of a territorial animal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So effectively, Godzilla is perfectly capable of fighting and defending himself, and even rescuing humans, but largely wishes to protect himself and his territory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gareth Edwards, the director of the film, corroborated this idea in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scified.com/site/godzillamovies/epic-new-godzilla-2014-movie-still-discovered&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; where he was asked who &amp;quot;his&amp;quot; Godzilla would be if it was a person:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His answer: the last samurai.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;He's an ancient warrior who's the last of his kind, and his kind has&#xA;long since died out,&amp;quot; Edwards says of his take on the legendary&#xA;creature. &amp;quot;He lives a very solitary lonely existence and he's very&#xA;happy to keep away from everyone, but we keep doing things to force&#xA;him to return and put things right.&amp;quot; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To see Godzilla's motivation&#xA;and understand his reactions &amp;quot;when he was doing his thing,&amp;quot; Edwards&#xA;adds, &amp;quot;we dialed some more personality and made him a lot more human&#xA;than we thought we would.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you can see that the director's aim was to make him territorial, but ultimately &amp;quot;human&amp;quot; in nature - a guardian who wants to be alone, but keeps returning to protect us (a fairly common theme in many &lt;em&gt;superhero&lt;/em&gt; movies nowadays as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T12:50:03.347" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19559" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19561" CreationDate="2014-05-21T12:51:40.843" Score="8" ViewCount="6892" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure why Petyr Baelish threw Lysa Arryn down the Moon Door? Was it to protect Sansa Stark, or will his motives be revealed later?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was having sex with her one episode earlier, and then he killed her because she was crazy (which he already knew she was).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know he's just looking to better himself, but his motives were not clear in the episode to how he can profit from killing her... The guards would not be easily convinced she tripped and fell down the well since she's been living with it for so long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8871" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2014-05-21T15:48:23.020" LastActivityDate="2014-05-22T00:30:06.567" Title="Why was she thrown down the Moon Door?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19559" CreationDate="2014-05-21T13:15:38.213" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;His motives are partly revealed in the book, but his &lt;em&gt;true&lt;/em&gt; underlying motives will all be revealed &lt;strong&gt;later&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is from his &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Petyr_Baelish&quot;&gt;wiki page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Petyr was born to a small and insignificant house, spending most of&#xA;  his adult life trying to rise above his lowly birthright and become&#xA;  something greater, craving for power and status. He possesses&#xA;  considerable skill in commerce and coin, and is a master of court&#xA;  intrigue, his brilliance matched only by his ambition and his gift for&#xA;  political improvisation. He is often underestimated by many high lords&#xA;  due to his low birth (a mistake that often comes back to haunt those&#xA;  who make this assessment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key thing here is that due to his birthright he craves power. Whereas Lord Varys is, in his own way, looking out for &quot;the kingdom&quot;, Baelish only cares about himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingbird_%28Game_of_Thrones%29&quot;&gt;episode you are describing&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Petyr then kisses Sansa, but before she pulls away from him, Lysa&#xA;  sees them. She later summons Sansa and confronts her&#xA;  near the Moon Door. Lysa grabs Sansa, and pushes her down to her knees&#xA;  near the opening of the door, telling her that all her enemies have&#xA;  gone through it. Petyr arrives and tells Lysa to release her,&#xA;  promising to send Sansa away. Lysa releases Sansa, and Petyr goes to&#xA;  her, but he admits that he only ever truly loved Catelyn, and pushes&#xA;  Lysa through the Moon Door to her death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This clearly only shows a minimal amount of &lt;em&gt;reason&lt;/em&gt; behind his decision. As always, the books provide more insight:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;em&gt;When dying, she reveals that Petyr had convinced her to poison her previous husband, Lord Jon Arryn, claiming it was to prevent him from sending her young son Robert away to be fostered. Lysa, who was fiercely protective of her son, did his bidding. Sansa also hears that after Jon was killed, Petyr convinced Lysa to write a letter to her sister Catelyn stating that Lord Arryn had been poisoned and that the Lannisters were responsible. The killing is blamed on the singer Marillion.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So whilst that describes what happened, this is the reasons (that we know of so far) for &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Petyr  manipulated Lysa into the killing of Jon Arryn that led to Ned going to King's Land and &quot;started&quot; the entire saga. He knew he could rely on Lysa, by playing on her love for him. It's clearly revealed in the book that he &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; playing on this love. He never truly wanted her. Her outburst made her too dangerous to live. She revealed his participation in the death of Jon Arryn and the fact she saw him kiss Sansa meant Lysa couldn't be trusted to act as Baelish wanted her to. What if she were to reveal to someone what he did? What if she were to reveal to someone his current whereabouts, in a fit of rage? What if she were to hurt Sansa, a woman who could be wed to either Baelish or someone of his choosing and as a result of the death of Robb would inherit Winterfell? No - there was too much risk and so he had to kill her. We don't know what his &lt;em&gt;final&lt;/em&gt; goal is, but its clear that Baelish has lofty ambitions and is playing in the &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, this is an interesting piece of trivia about her death:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The book shows that Marillion is blamed for the death (and is tortured until he confesses). Whilst he wasn't present in the TV series, he was the character who was caught earlier in the series singing derogatory songs about Robert Baratheon. Joffrey gave him a choice between losing his tongue or his hands. He begged for mercy and his tongue was cut out. Whilst this &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; happen in the books, it happens to an &lt;em&gt;unnamed&lt;/em&gt; singer, not Marillion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="5090" LastEditDate="2014-05-22T00:30:06.567" LastActivityDate="2014-05-22T00:30:06.567" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19562" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-21T14:02:39.047" Score="6" ViewCount="2064" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the name of the following movie? It's set in Africa. An ostrich eats a diamond and everyone chases him. The main character rides a three wheeled motorcycle, has an axe, and falls in love with a blonde. A UN troop (United States Army) also chases the diamond. There is a scene when he is in some store, pulls some rope and activates a cannon which shoots and scares monkeys which run away from some watermelons in a garden, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9716" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-05-21T14:23:53.003" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T13:26:43.637" Title="Ostrich eats a diamond and is chased by people" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:08:29.810" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19559" CreationDate="2014-05-21T14:15:19.260" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;@AndrewMartin has provided a great analysis of the character and his reasons, I will just throw a quick answer in myself from the point of view of someone who has not read the books. (So book spoilers should be impossible.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am not sure why Petyr Baelish threw Lysa Arryn down the Moon Door?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my understanding, Lord Baelish only used Lysa to reach his goals. He obviously was never in love with her. He had her poison her husband, then married her. The sex was only necessary to consummate the marriage, but the very next day he killed her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I understand it this now makes him ruler of the Vale and gives him reasonable power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Was it to protect Sansa Stark, or will his motives be revealed later?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I honestly think he likes Sansa out of his love for her mother Catelyn, but he still has more egoistic goals for her. I assume he wants to marry her later to get control of the North. She is one of the last from the house Winterfell and therefore has claim to the title &quot;King of the North&quot;. That's what makes her so important and that is the reason he rescued/abducted her from King's Landing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T14:15:19.260" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19562" CreationDate="2014-05-21T14:15:35.293" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's hard to tell, but I believe you might be thinking of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Southern_Star_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Southern Star&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, as that is about the only movie I can find with diamond eating ostriches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T14:15:35.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19562" CreationDate="2014-05-21T14:32:33.410" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like the South African comedy &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099961/combined&quot;&gt;'Kwagga Strikes Back'&lt;/a&gt; (AKA 'Oh Schucks...! Here Comes U.N.T.A.G.') from 1990. From an online recap (I highlighted the relevant bits):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One day, a ragtag bunch of &lt;strong&gt;UNTAG soldiers&lt;/strong&gt; set up camp near Kwagga’s home. They take pot-shots at Kwagga’s &lt;strong&gt;three-wheeled bike&lt;/strong&gt; and accidentally destroy his shop. When the locals’ cattle go missing, Kwagga decides enough is enough. He starts playing outrageous pranks on the soldiers and also discovers a plot &lt;strong&gt;involving an ostrich and a gigantic diamond&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeFPg3chHpE&quot;&gt;Youtube clip&lt;/a&gt; from the end of the movie where a chain is pulled and then a Rube Goldberg machine makes a cannon fire at a watermelon patch and scare some baboons. I can't believe I just typed that sentence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-05-21T14:39:07.703" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T14:39:07.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19566" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19568" CreationDate="2014-05-21T15:07:32.083" Score="9" ViewCount="1179" Body="&lt;p&gt;When looking at the different &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831387/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_dt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;release dates&lt;/a&gt; of Hollywood's 2014 take on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831387/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Godzilla&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, it appears as quite striking that the release for Japan is signifantly later, more than 2 months to be precise, than those for the rest of the world, which are all around the middle of May.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually don't care that much about release dates, but seeing that it is a Hollywood version of an iconic part of modern Japanese culture, &lt;strong&gt;I wondered if there is any official word why this release is so significantly later than all the others.&lt;/strong&gt; While skepsis about the new version could be a factor, the movie on the other hand, and in contrast to &lt;em&gt;Emmerich&lt;/em&gt;'s 1998 take, has been more or less sanctioned by &lt;em&gt;Toho Studios&lt;/em&gt;, the makers of the Japanese original(s), up to the point of collaboration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And please forgive me for ignoring China in the list, whose release date lies in between the Japanese and the others. This was only to simplify the question a bit and to concentrate on the contextually more important Japan. But maybe the reason for the Chinese delay is somehow related?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-04-24T09:18:02.097" LastActivityDate="2019-04-24T09:18:02.097" Title="Why is Godzilla released significantly later in Japan?" Tags="|distribution|monsterverse|godzilla-2014|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19566" CreationDate="2014-05-21T15:46:41.890" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've no definitive answer, but here's an &lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2014/film/asia/japanese-audiences-anticipate-new-godzilla-1201185049/&quot;&gt;interesting article&lt;/a&gt; with a suggested reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Japan, however, will be the last major market to view the latest&#xA;  Hollywood iteration of the iconic franchise that Toho [a Japanese film, production and distribution company] launched in 1954&#xA;  with the first of 28 made-in-Japan Godzilla pics: The studio plans to&#xA;  release “Godzilla” on July 25, nearly six weeks after its U.S. bow,&#xA;  but &lt;strong&gt;not out of any uncertainty about its success&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“That’s just the best timing,” explains Ogura [A Toho PR Rep]. “It’s when big movies&#xA;  are released here.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One recent example is the Hayao Miyazaki animation “The Wind Rises,” a&#xA;  Toho release that opened on July 20, 2013, and became the year’s&#xA;  highest-earning pic with $117 million.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One reason for this timing is that Japanese schools do not begin their&#xA;  summer break until mid-July.&lt;/strong&gt; But Toho, Ogura emphasizes, does not&#xA;  consider “Godzilla” kiddie fare. “Of course, children will be able to&#xA;  see it – it’s rated for all ages,” he says, “but our primary target is&#xA;  adults.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-21T15:54:57.977" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T15:54:57.977" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19553" CreationDate="2014-05-21T15:52:51.483" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don't know&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least I don't think it's ever revealed. He obviously took the Goblin suit from Oscorp and discarded the &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt; helmet in favour of the new, scary, goblin one - but to my knowledge it's never shown &lt;em&gt;where&lt;/em&gt; he got this helmet from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T15:52:51.483" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19570" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19582" CreationDate="2014-05-21T18:39:20.720" Score="14" ViewCount="90680" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &quot;Field of Dreams&quot;, Terence Mann gets invited to go with the baseball players into the corn field, and presumably the after-life:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ray. Ray. Listen to me, Ray. Listen to me. There is something out there, Ray, and if I have the courage to go through with this, what a story it'll make: &quot;Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But he doesn't go into the corn field fearing death.  He seems to think he will come back and be able to write a story on what he's seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he walks into the corn field and disappears, does he die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="228" LastActivityDate="2017-11-09T05:45:50.327" Title="Did Terence Mann die?" Tags="|analysis|character|field-of-dreams|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13916" CreationDate="2014-05-21T19:03:29.467" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this would have started a war. Rocco was known as the Funny man he was basically looked at as a joke by almost everyone. Sending the least threatening guy to shoot the Russians was basically a joke on him. On the one hand he may kill the guy he was sent for if he gets killed they can say &quot;sorry god that idiot thought he could get Made by doing this we are so sorry he was such an idiot.&quot; They don't lose anything since they don't value or care about him. Also it lets them know how well guarded the Russians are. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T19:03:29.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19572" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19573" CreationDate="2014-05-21T19:09:50.910" Score="6" ViewCount="6183" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie as a child but have never been able to find the title.  I believe its about vampires, zombies or something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Key scenes include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can only kill the monsters by stabbing/shooting them in the eyes. &#xA;One dies by deer antler impalement.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The hero carries a magical container that holds the blood of the&lt;br&gt;&#xA;previous carrier.  The blood is used to deter the monsters.  It was&lt;br&gt;&#xA;mostly used to spread on doorways to prevent their passage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Said magical container has several glyphs (stars?) on it that glow as&#xA;the hero comes closer to whomever will inherit its powers when the&#xA;current carrier dies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The container makes an imprint on the carrier's hand.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end the hero dies and passes on the magical container and&#xA;fills it with his blood with his dying breaths. The new carrier&#xA;covers herself in the blood as a sort of immunity to the monsters but&#xA;gets wrapped in a bath curtain as one point rendering the blood&#xA;useless.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone help me name this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9719" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-17T08:55:01.693" LastActivityDate="2016-05-17T08:55:01.693" Title="Movie about a man who uses blood of predecessor to protect doorways" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:08:32.930" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19572" CreationDate="2014-05-21T19:18:23.930" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Knight&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This seems like Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ancestor whose blood is in the container is none other than Jesus Christ, and the monsters were demons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9720" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:01:42.527" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:01:42.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19572" CreationDate="2014-05-21T19:23:44.513" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;That sounds a lot like Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Knight&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here is a synopsis&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9422" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:01:27.053" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:01:27.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18762" CreationDate="2014-05-21T19:45:28.790" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have a screen cap to back this up or even the names of the dancers/gymnast/stuntment that were used but the flips are done by professionals. They are working as body doubles for Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T19:45:28.790" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19576" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19578" CreationDate="2014-05-21T21:05:42.997" Score="4" ViewCount="2271" Body="&lt;p&gt;About 40 minutes into Sunshine (2007), the crew need to fix the shield. I don't understand this scene. According to Wikipedia's description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kaneda and Capa embark on a spacewalk to make repairs while the ship is angled away from the sun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how can it be angled away from the sun in the first place? What is protecting the ship from the sun when the shield isn't protecting it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-22T03:07:47.330" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T11:43:49.687" Title="Explanation of the shield repair scene in Sunshine" Tags="|plot-explanation|sunshine-2007|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19554" CreationDate="2014-05-21T22:11:14.087" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a scene where the arms are clearly convincing him that he should build another one, and he isn't able to think clearly enough to realize why that is a bad idea.  So I think it's more, &quot;What's the arms' motivation?&quot;  My guess is that he built the arms in order to build the device, so when he created them, he gave them the compulsion that the device had to be completed.  But I do not think it is ever outright explained in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9722" LastEditorUserId="9722" LastEditDate="2014-05-21T22:16:58.840" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T22:16:58.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19576" CreationDate="2014-05-21T23:16:16.283" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The shield of the Icarus ships is curved, so you could imagine them being able to angle the ship and the edge of the the front side of the shield would be in shade.  They would not be able to angle the ship too much as then the living parts of the ship would be exposed, and then only get to the outside edge of the shield.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are not that many good images you can find on, but this image shows the curve a bit from the back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1YZnN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly if the shield was flat, there would be no way they could perform this repair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2014-05-21T23:16:16.283" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12405" CreationDate="2014-05-22T04:42:22.913" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;One strong message of the movie is that &quot;&lt;strong&gt;There is no secret&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. This is put forth through the scroll as well as the secret ingredient soup. From this I think we can figure that the Wushi finger hold is not really a secret. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, from the way Master Shifu uses it to induce fear in Po, it seems like a &lt;strong&gt;mostly psychological technique.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you follow the fight between Po and Tai Lung, you could see that it is mostly Tai-Lung destroying himself with his own energy. &lt;strong&gt;Po merely throws back Tai-Lung's energy.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What the Wushi finger hold does is create fear in an already agitated Tai Lung who says that you are just a panda, you can't defeat me.&#xA;This fear coupled with the fact that &lt;strong&gt;Tai-Lung really &quot;believes&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; in the existence of the Wushi finger hold, create in Tai-Lung a very strong belief that Po can destroy him if that finger moves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The actual move is just a trigger&lt;/strong&gt; I suppose for Tai-Lung to give his own body the command for self destruction. The skadoosh is probably to denote psychological destruction of the enemy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, this is &lt;strong&gt;still an animated movie&lt;/strong&gt; and the actual skadoosh was not shown, so we are all &lt;strong&gt;merely making interpretations&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9726" LastActivityDate="2014-05-22T04:42:22.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19570" CreationDate="2014-05-22T10:10:18.950" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We don't know.&lt;/em&gt; There are logical arguments to suggest either side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, thank you for a wonderful question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, to truly answer this question, it's important to understand &lt;strong&gt;who&lt;/strong&gt; Terence Mann is. Or at least, who he is supposed to represent: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;J.D. Salinger&lt;/a&gt;, the American author most famous for writing the wonderful novel: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Catcher in the Rye&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you'd like a longer description of this link, take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://fieldofdreamsiowa.com/field-of-dreams-terence-mann-from-where-did-he-come&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;. I'll try and summarise it here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Effectively Field of Dreams is based on a book called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoeless_Joe_%28novel%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shoeless Joe&lt;/a&gt;, by author &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._P._Kinsella&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;W.P. Kinsella&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;em&gt;In the novel&lt;/em&gt; there is no Terence Mann. All the other characters are there, but not Terence Mann. Basically, Kinsella, like many others, read and was fascinated by The Catcher in the Rye and became a huge Salinger fan. In fact, he was such a huge fan that he wanted to include Salinger in one of his novels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, Salinger was &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; well known for being both reclusive and vehemently against the use of himself or his characters in the media. Despite this, Kinsella went ahead and included him &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoeless_Joe_%28novel%29#Historical.2FReal_Life&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;in the book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, as a reclusive author who is brought out of his safe place to fulfil his baseball dreams (an admitted desire of Salinger).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once Salinger discovered his involvement, he was furious. He didn't have enough grounds for a legal case, but made it clear that if the book was ever adapted into other media, he would fiercely oppose it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To handle this, the &lt;em&gt;film creators&lt;/em&gt; made a brand new character, Terence Mann, with the exact same background as Salinger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, anything Mann does in the novel, or any of his behaviour, has to be considered knowing all the above information. Kinsella and the film creators &lt;strong&gt;knew&lt;/strong&gt; that his character was effectively J.D. Salinger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Theories/Possibilities&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in light of that, here are some theories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mann is dead most of the film - from the moment he stepped out in front of Ray's car. He had just been dropped off and suddenly appeared to undergo a personality of change of sorts and was desperate to see the field.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a fan-theory that's been around for years, that suggests he dies after being dropped off (perhaps a collision?) and that he spends most of the film dead. However, I don't want to go into any more details on it, purely because upon any close inspection it seems to fall apart. After all, his disappearance is reported in the media! Hardly what happens to ghosts. He also calls his father, so, unlike in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sixth_Sense&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Sixth Sense&lt;/a&gt; where the protagonist never directly interacts with those around him, Mann is involved and participating in his surroundings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Given the fact this whole character is actually Salinger, it was Kinsella (and the film creators) demonstrating the idea of a man stepping out of his reclusive shadow and embracing the endless possibilities the future holds.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This actually makes a lot of sense. At the end, it's unclear exactly &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; has happened to Mann. He talks like he may come back, but even if he doesn't, who says he can't write? Effectively, he's going to a new beginning, a new start. This is exactly what Kinsella intended when he wrote the character of Salinger (to give him a &amp;quot;second chance&amp;quot;), so it seems perfectly logical that this was his intention for the movie-only character of Mann.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, it doesn't &lt;em&gt;matter&lt;/em&gt; where he goes, only that he is progressing and moving out of his reclusive shell. The experience of going into the corn is him embracing whatever lies in front of him. He is in someway &amp;quot;embracing death&amp;quot;, because he's embracing all the possibilities of life, whatever they may be (including the possibility of death) - as opposed to locking himself away from the world as he was originally doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;He walks into the corn &lt;strong&gt;knowing&lt;/strong&gt; he is going to his death, but fully embracing this as he is ready to move on to a different existence&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is very similar to the above theory, but effectively goes one step further. It's not &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; that he is curious about whatever lies in front of him, but that he &lt;em&gt;knows&lt;/em&gt; he is going to his death and actively embraces this fact because he wants to experience something wonderful, different and new. This option is also quite logical. After all, all the other players who come from the corn are dead. And remember &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Field-of-Dreams.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this part&lt;/a&gt; of the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RAY&lt;/strong&gt;: Wait a second. Why him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shoeless Joe and the other players wait for Mann to join&#xA;them, ignoring Ray's question.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RAY&lt;/strong&gt;: I built this field! You wouldn't be here if it weren't for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MANN&lt;/strong&gt;: Ray, for God's sake, I'm unattached. You've got a family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mann's last line certainly &lt;em&gt;suggests&lt;/em&gt; there is something more sinister at play here - that he is going somewhere beyond human comprehension and it is unknown if he will return. And theoretically, if he did go, he &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; write his experiences anytime he returned to the field, even if he could never leave it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know what happened to Mann. The idea he's dead the whole movie seems untenable, but whether he dies at the end or not is certainly up for discussion. There are logical arguments either way, but given the rest of the players on the team, it seems &lt;em&gt;most logical&lt;/em&gt; (to me at least) that he did &amp;quot;die&amp;quot; - or at least &amp;quot;pass on&amp;quot; in the way the baseball players did. However, it was left ambiguous for a reason - to allow discussions like this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should also note that the book ends the same way. Salinger gets chosen (based on the same interview Mann discusses in the movie, about his dream of playing baseball) and walks through the field, whilst Ray and his wife go the other direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, on a final note, although my head says he is most likely dead, my heart likes to believe it was just a symbolic representation of what Kinsella wanted Salinger to do - to embrace the new possibilities in life and leave his reclusive nature behind him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T14:24:45.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19588" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19589" CreationDate="2014-05-22T14:02:52.680" Score="6" ViewCount="2279" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the most quoted lines from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1815862/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;After Earth&lt;/a&gt; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Graviton buildup could be a precursor to mass expansion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This phrase is not only very memorable, but it's also quoted in many reviews as meaningless gibberish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I agree it's a bunch of sci-fi jargon. Usually these things are based upon some kind of science theory or another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything in the phrase that makes sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-22T15:44:09.697" LastActivityDate="2014-08-22T11:48:10.040" Title="Does After Earth's sci-fi jargon have any basis in reality or is it complete gibberish?" Tags="|science-fiction|dialogue|realism|after-earth|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19588" CreationDate="2014-05-22T14:46:33.080" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I haven't seen &lt;em&gt;After Earth&lt;/em&gt; and calling me a layman in physics would already be an exaggeration, I guess. So the following answer might be a bit &lt;strong&gt;vague and oversimplified&lt;/strong&gt; (and physicists might excuse me for saying anything embarassing), but maybe &lt;strong&gt;sufficient for a SciFi movie&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;graviton&lt;/a&gt; is a hypothetical (i.e. yet to be found/discarded) elementary particle that mediates (i.e. models/represents) the gravitional force. It would thus be reasonable to say that in this case the strength of the gravitational force between objects is equivalent to the amount or energy of the gravitons exchanged between them, thus &lt;code&gt;more gravitation = more gravitons&lt;/code&gt;. The movie thus ventures into a so called &lt;em&gt;quantum theory of gravitation&lt;/em&gt;, a yet to be fleshed out/proved or discarded model of our world. And given the Sci-Fi context, it's not too far fetched that at the time of the movie gravitons are an established and proved elementary particle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that, the mass is, as we all know, the charge of gravitation, i.e. &lt;code&gt;more mass -&amp;gt; more gravitation&lt;/code&gt;. When speaking of &lt;em&gt;&quot;mass expansion&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, which I would understand as a rise in mass, the movie probably draws a bit from relativity theory, which uses a bit more complex (or &quot;vague&quot;) concept of mass instead of the classic &lt;code&gt;more stuff = more mass&lt;/code&gt; definition, allowing &quot;mass&quot; to effectively rise in certain conditions (fast travel, high energy conditions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the concept of gravitons and of changing, especially rising, mass is not something completely unknown to modern physics and it is not too far-fetched that both are &lt;em&gt;somehow&lt;/em&gt; related, even if yet unclear in which way (or &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; at all) those theories could be combined in reality. I'd interpret that quote as meaning that a rise or otherwise measurable charge, i.e. a buildup or lineup, of gravitons has something to do with a rise in mass (although gravitation would actually be mediated by &lt;em&gt;emitted&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;absorbed&lt;/em&gt; gravitons rather than actual particles &quot;sitting somewhere in free space&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm not sure if the exact causality of that quote (i.e. more gravitons lead to more mass) is completely reasonable, given that this direction seems less likely, as gravity increasing (by whatever means) doesn't need to lead to an increase in mass. But I also have absolutely no context of the scene where this is said, so maybe it was meant rather the other way around. He could mean that a rise in gravitons is &lt;em&gt;an indication&lt;/em&gt; for a rise in mass, which doesn't sound too unlikely, given that &lt;code&gt;more mass -&amp;gt; more gravity&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;more gravity = more gravitons&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as a conclusion, even if it probably is &lt;strong&gt;practically gibberish&lt;/strong&gt; and the screenwriters might not have put too much thought into it, &lt;strong&gt;I wouldn't downright discard it as completely ungrounded&lt;/strong&gt;, especially &lt;strong&gt;compared to what other stuff is usually said in SciFi-movies&lt;/strong&gt; and the fact that the movie &lt;strong&gt;neither has the goal nor the responsibility to explain every little detail in a 100% physically plausible way&lt;/strong&gt;. But it may also be that &lt;em&gt;After Earth&lt;/em&gt;'s general critical impact (which, politely said, wasn't particularly high) or the fact that it maybe doesn't have a completely fleshed out SciFi-universe in the rest of the movie (don't know, though) might have influenced the judgement of those &lt;em&gt;&quot;many reviews&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-22T11:48:10.040" LastActivityDate="2014-08-22T11:48:10.040" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1305" CreationDate="2014-05-22T15:23:16.817" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clarice does not go to the house knowing that the resident is Jame Gumb (remember Crawford told her the name of the individual who bought the equipment for housing moths). She goes to the house to fulfil Crawford's door-to-door instructions with people that knew Bimmel from her tailoring talents (Clarice found a dress with tape marking out the same diamond-shaped areas of skin which Bill takes from his victims; therefore, the clue is that he was in the same tailoring course perhaps?) At the very least, she goes looking for Mrs Lipman (not Littman as you all keep saying- it is 'lip'because of the film's centrality around orality, cannibalism, speaking/tongues etc) who was the teacher of sewing etc. She knows that its him when the rare moth flies into the disgusting kitchen and settles on the coils of cotton he has on the table. SIMPLE AS THAT&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9732" LastActivityDate="2014-05-22T15:23:16.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19592" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19593" CreationDate="2014-05-22T16:04:44.157" Score="12" ViewCount="2571" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read many books and watched many movies, and I just thought of a specific retort that a character made, possibly in the Harry Potter movies (I want to say this was Dumbledore), to being bid &quot;Good morning&quot; or &quot;Good day&quot;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, it was very roughly along the lines of &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Are you wishing that I will have a good morning, or are you stating that I should have a good morning whether I like it or not?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would almost have to re-watch all of the HP movies to find this, and even then, I could be wrong about the context. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone happen to remember this discussion in any of the movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it isn't even in Harry Potter. Its exact form, character, and story has escaped my figuring for the past few days, so I thought I might have some luck here, with the experts!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9733" LastEditorDisplayName="user9733" LastEditDate="2014-05-25T14:17:52.413" LastActivityDate="2014-05-25T14:17:52.413" Title="Does anyone know which movie has a clever retort about &quot;Good Day / Good morning&quot;?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|dialogue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:08:39.163" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19592" CreationDate="2014-05-22T16:16:18.420" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;This quote is from the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when &lt;em&gt;Bilbo&lt;/em&gt; first meets &lt;em&gt;Gandalf&lt;/em&gt; (a character much similar to &lt;em&gt;Dumbledore&lt;/em&gt; in looks and demeanor) in front of his house:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bilbo:&lt;/em&gt; Good morning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gandalf:&lt;/em&gt; What do you mean? Do you mean to wish me a good morning or do you mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not? Or perhaps you mean to say that you feel good on this particular morning. Or are you simply stating that this is a morning to be good on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bilbo:&lt;/em&gt; All of them at once, I suppose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt; was kind enough to provide the respective &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/Z-6d4yZYjFw&quot;&gt;YouTube link&lt;/a&gt; for you to see the quote in action (around second 38).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="9066" LastEditDate="2014-05-22T18:24:58.003" LastActivityDate="2014-05-22T18:24:58.003" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19595" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19600" CreationDate="2014-05-22T16:53:10.310" Score="4" ViewCount="597" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2000-2002 Sci-Fi channel TV Series, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220238/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;The Invisible Man&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The central character Darien has a side-effect of invisibility called &quot;Quicksilver Madness.&quot; In this state he becomes dangerous verging on homicidal. The state is represented in the show with his eyes becoming bloodshot to an unearthly degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this eye effect done with contacts, CGI, or by some other method?&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p5rn9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-22T16:54:54.790" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T22:10:08.313" Title="The Invisible Man (TV Series) Eye Special Effect" Tags="|effects|make-up|the-invisible-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19596" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19597" CreationDate="2014-05-22T17:56:24.343" Score="11" ViewCount="8793" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 3 of Game of Thrones, karma really has it in for one of the main characters, who after betraying his friend ends up in a very unfortunate position:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S7Ywk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After being betrayed by his own troops at Winterfell, Theon Greyjoy lands in the hands of the sadistic Ramsay Snow, who after prolonged torturing, mutilation and deception turns him into &quot;Reek&quot; his loyal slave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Theon's brainwashing reaches so far that he does not kill Ramsay when he has the chance and even is unwilling to let his sister rescue him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He completely rejects his former identity and in the end is even asked by Ramsay to pretend to be Theon to help him take down his own family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is just fiction, but while watching I found it sometimes hard to keep up the suspension of disbelief. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this degree of brainwashing even remotely possible in reality?&lt;/strong&gt; Is it possible to completely change a person's character and make him do things that completely go against his own beliefs, like betraying the own family? Is Theon's development completely fictional or something that could happen in the real world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-05-22T21:59:35.657" Title="How realistic is the brainwashing shown during Season 3 and 4?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|realism|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19596" CreationDate="2014-05-22T18:51:34.923" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a sense it's like a more perverted &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stockholm Syndrome&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; where the victim becomes infatuated with their captor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stockholm syndrome, or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with them. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially &lt;strong&gt;mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Theon's case is probably one of the most tragic in the series when looked at on a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Taken from his homeland as a boy to essentially be a hostage so that the Greyjoy's don't rebel again&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sent back to his &quot;homeland&quot; in order to recruit his blood family to the Stark's cause only to be rejected wholly by his own father.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Attempted to give a real name to himself by sacking Winterfell but failing to do so with any kind of actual authority/real battle and resorts to killing 2 innocent farmboys to pose as Brandon &amp;amp; Rickon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gets betrayed by his own men and given to the hands of Ramsay to do with him as he pleases.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point in the story, Theon &lt;em&gt;tries&lt;/em&gt; to scrounge up just a small bit of pride and dignity and attempts to outlast Ramsay's torture. But because of either his willingness to do things half-assed or because he just isn't as strong as he thinks he is, he chooses to be subjugated by Ramsay instead of being killed or tortured any longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as realism goes, while not a psychologist of any regard, I think this kind of conditioning is completely within the realm of possibility.  Coming from Theon's perspective, ever since he adopted the &quot;Reek&quot; personality, his life has actually increased in quality, in a sadistic relativity.  No longer tortured, as long as he obeys, etc.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I do feel the portrayal of his refusal to go with Yara was a bit much, I feel that if Yara showed him that Ramsay was dead/killed Ramsay, it might have had a bigger impact on Theon going with her back to Pyke.  But because he did not know if Ramsay was alive or dead (later being confirmed as alive, obviously) he stuck with the &quot;safe&quot; route of denying his own freedom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2014-05-22T18:51:34.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19595" CreationDate="2014-05-22T21:44:32.743" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't see anything specific about the Quicksilver Madness but I'm pretty sure from this article that this effect pictured is created by using contact lenses. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.littlereview.com/getcritical/interviews/ventresc.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.littlereview.com/getcritical/interviews/ventresc.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I go to a whole new level of madness, and my eyes actually turn silver,&quot; groans Ventresca. &quot;The contact lenses are the size of golf balls. The invisibility is a pain in the ass, but when I watch it, I really like it, and that makes it worth it. The genre supports experimenting that way. And it is so fun to play the madness.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The effects on the show were created using a combination of makeup, body suit and CGI effects according to this article as well. So the starting effect may be created with CGI ( a still shot of him looking at the camera while his eyes turn color) but the pictures like the shot you show are the actor wearing contact lenses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2014-05-22T21:44:32.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19541" CreationDate="2014-05-22T23:21:47.573" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a direct answer, but found it worth mentioning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Monika Bokiniec&lt;/em&gt; has written a rather nice paper &lt;em&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.academia.edu/3122718/Who_can_Find_a_Virtuous_CTU_Agent_Jack_Bauer_as_Modern_Hero_Antihero_and_Tragic_Villain&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;“Who can find a virtuous CTU agent?” – Jack Bauer as Modern Hero, Antihero and Tragic Villain&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt; – where various aspects of the character is analyzed. To quote from page 13:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;             &lt;em&gt;Another way of finding the middle ground between hero and villain&#xA;  is the idea of antihero. There is no clear definition or agreed upon theoretical&#xA;  description of an antihero, as it is the case with, e.g. the category of tragic&#xA;  hero. Therefore, following this line of interpretation is risky and debatable,&#xA;  but nevertheless, let us try to see how Jack fits here. […]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I do not agree with &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; in the 19 pages long paper it touches upon and give the topic a good talk. It is absolutely worth the read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that it contains some spoilers for season one, six and seven in particular and also some of the outline of season eight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make this notice/answer more self-serving I quote the rest of the mentioned section. Note that it continues in the paper:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Antihero has human &#xA;  flaws, he is gritty and disillusioned, as Jack sometimes is, he rejects&#xA;  traditional values and is more selfish than ready for scarifies, he usually has&#xA;  good intentions but they are unrecognized by his society and, in consequence,&#xA;  he is often misunderstood and rejected by it. Sometimes he uses immoral&#xA;  means for moral ends, but other times he is described as greed, violent and&#xA;  seeking selfish revenge. In a way it all comes down to creating and following&#xA;  his or her own moral code, just as Dexter does (who probably fits the&#xA;  antihero model better than any other contemporary TV character). Antiheros&#xA;  are at times characterized by inner conflict between villainous and heroic&#xA;  qualities, which would perhaps apply to some phases of Jack’s development.&#xA;  Still, I would remain a little reluctant to use the antihero label because when&#xA;  we place ourselves in the moral middle ground between the hero and villain&#xA;  we risk finding ourselves in the moral no man’s land.&lt;br/&gt;    […]&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9706" LastActivityDate="2014-05-22T23:21:47.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19606" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19607" CreationDate="2014-05-23T03:56:12.797" Score="8" ViewCount="1904" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Tyrion survive while Ned died in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They were in a similar situation, I tried to do the comparison on a quite superficial level:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ned was accused of plotting to assassinate the king and treason, while Tyrion was accused of directly poisoning the king.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although Sansa was not as helpful as Jaime, she still managed to get a promise of mercy.&#xA;The disadvantage on Ned was the man in charge was Joffrey in stead of a more reasonable Tywin. However, he has a son marching south with 20,000 men and Jaime as hostage, which should give him way stronger bargain power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there must be deeper level reasons behind it. So what lead to their different endings? Or maybe Ned was just unlucky?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9738" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T00:38:46.170" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T12:22:47.120" Title="Why is the punishment for regicide so arbitrary?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19606" CreationDate="2014-05-23T04:21:38.813" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You are forgetting the main part. Ned Stark confessed to the crimes he was accused of. Tyrion didn't confess and demanded a trial by combat. So Tyrion's outcome depended on the outcome of combat, whose rules are &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/56176/what-are-the-rules-of-trial-by-combat-in-game-of-thrones&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the reason he lost his head was becuase of sadistically naive Joffrey. Cersei would never have beheaded Ned. She knew the consequences of his death, i.e. war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Sansa pleaded for mercy with Joffrey and Cersei to not kill Ned and just send him to the Night's Watch, IIRC, it was Varys who broke this news to Ned in his cell. Something along the lines of &quot;Sansa pleaded for your life. Everybody was so moved by her emotions. You will have to choose between your honor and your daughters' lives&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ned had no choice: if he stood for trial as Tyrion did, he would be found guilty. Plenty of evidence in the form of Littlefinger and the bribing of the Gold Cloaks was there. If he stood trial, he would be found guilty and lose his life as well as those of his daughters (certainly Arya, not Sansa).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Ned, for the 1st time in the series, put aside his honor and chose selfishly for his family. And with the irony that is the Game of Thrones story, he would lose his head for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Jaime wasn't a hostage until after Ned was beheaded. The bargaining power was for his daughters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T12:22:47.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19612" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19613" CreationDate="2014-05-23T12:40:32.083" Score="8" ViewCount="3457" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some years ago I started watchin a DVD.  Unfortunately I never finished the move, and I don't remember the title.  It's probably made around 2000...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is about a young American man who moves to Paris to study.  I think it's set around 1968, the year of the student-demonstrations.  He meets a French man and woman about his own age (also students?), who invites him to move in with them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the man and woman may be siblings - but they may be just a couple or just house-mates.  I also think the two of them are in a sexual relationship (yes, even if they're siblings).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The American man soon gets involved with the woman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is especially one scene I remember, where the woman is bathing in a tub, when both men enters the bathroom... or possibly she is bathing with one of the men, when the other enter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4521" LastActivityDate="2014-05-23T12:53:52.760" Title="Young American man studying in Paris meets young French couple" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:08:51.880" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19612" CreationDate="2014-05-23T12:53:52.760" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dreamers_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dreamers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, starring &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pitt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Michael Pitt&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Green&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Eva Green&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Garrel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Louis Garrel&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Dreamers is a 2003 romantic drama film directed by Bernardo&#xA;  Bertolucci. The screenplay is by Gilbert Adair, based on his own novel&#xA;  The Holy Innocents. An international co-production by companies from&#xA;  France, the United Kingdom, and Italy, the film tells the story of an&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;American university student in Paris&lt;/em&gt; who, after meeting a peculiar&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;brother and sister&lt;/em&gt; who are fellow film enthusiasts, becomes entangled&#xA;  in an erotic conflict. &lt;em&gt;It is set against the backdrop of the 1968&#xA;  Paris student riots&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cqiV9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Matthew (Michael Pitt) is an American exchange student who has come to&#xA;  Paris to study French. While at the Cinémathèque Française protesting&#xA;  the firing of Henri Langlois, he meets the free-spirited twins Théo&#xA;  (Louis Garrel) and Isabelle (Eva Green). The three bond over a shared&#xA;  love and knowledge of film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jpN53.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can view &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU1brBVMBkM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the trailer here&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obj05-rWvx8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;full film here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-05-23T12:53:52.760" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19614" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-23T14:20:16.817" Score="6" ViewCount="625" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am currently rewatching Season 1 of 24 and while the plot lines around Bauer's daughter Kimberly and his wife Teri certainly are interesting and exciting and provide some great twists, I really wonder how this makes any sense from the bad guys point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To recall the plot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bauer's daughter &lt;strong&gt;Kimberly&lt;/strong&gt; sneaks out at night to meet up with her friend and two guys to party. It turns out that they are actually planning to abduct Kimberly to force Bauer to help in the assassination of senator Palmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His wife &lt;strong&gt;Teri&lt;/strong&gt; meets up with the father of Kimberly's friend to search for the two. Turns out he is actually a bad guy too, killed the real father and took his place to abduct Teri as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In retrospect, the whole plan seems far more complex than necessary to reach a very simple goal (abduction of daughter and wife). Also it unnecessarily relies on some coincidences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the daughter had not snuck out of the house (either because she decided against it or because her parents caught her), the whole abduction plan would have failed. One of the guys has been dating her friend for some time before just to get Kimberly to meet them at that specific night.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the CTU did not get the tip about the planned assassination, Bauer would've been around that night to help Teri search for Kimberly. That would've made it a whole lot harder for the guy posing as the father to abduct Teri.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Teri and the guy posing as the father chase behind the girls most of the night and even  make a 911 call when they find out they were abducted. That doesn't make a lot of sense, he could've just taken Teri at the start and save himself the whole trouble, also minimizing the risk of getting detected.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The guys taking the girls are obviously amateurs, which makes it a lot more risky for the bad guys than just abducting Kimberly themselves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What stops the bad guys from simply taking Kimberly and Teri from their home?&lt;/strong&gt; They don't seem to have a problem with break-ins, after all they killed the father of Kimberly's friend that night, presumably at his home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this just one of these &quot;because the plot is more exciting this way&quot; cases or is there any reasonable explanation why they make this whole elaborate plan to string Kimberly and Teri along all night before they finally abduct them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-05-23T15:08:41.743" Title="What's the point of the overly complex abduction?" Tags="|plot-explanation|24|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19614" CreationDate="2014-05-23T15:08:41.743" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Later that same day between 1800 and 1900, when Teri has amnesia, her doctor friend takes her home. Upon entering and being unable to remember her security code, alarms begin to sound and within 2 minutes, armed security show up. I think it's safe to assume Nina told Gains about the alarm which forced the complicated abduction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9qqcB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Armed Guard 1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PK6ik.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Armed Guard 2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-05-23T15:08:41.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12482" CreationDate="2014-05-23T15:31:29.240" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;em&gt;AnkitSharma&lt;/em&gt;'s correct answer to the question of what it actually was I'd just like to add another viewpoint that occurred to me in the wake of the recent &lt;em&gt;Godzilla&lt;/em&gt;-hype.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Radiation has always been a strong element of the &lt;em&gt;Godzilla&lt;/em&gt;-franchise, especially &lt;em&gt;Godzilla&lt;/em&gt;'s nature as a radioactive monster and his meaning as a symbol for the dangers of nuclear weapons and radioactivity in general. So since the obvious influence of &lt;em&gt;Godzilla&lt;/em&gt; on &lt;em&gt;Pacific Rim&lt;/em&gt; is undenyable, being &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; Kaiju-movie(s) par excellence, it may very well be that Kaiju Blue and its devastating and toxic effects are also a &lt;strong&gt;reference/hommage to exactly this strong radiation aspect of the &lt;em&gt;Godzilla&lt;/em&gt;-movies&lt;/strong&gt; and other Kaiju-movies they spawned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-10-17T10:30:57.483" LastActivityDate="2018-10-17T10:30:57.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="19622" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19652" CreationDate="2014-05-23T18:02:43.627" Score="8" ViewCount="529" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a movie on Netflix Instant (US) in Summer 2013 but do not recall the name of it.  All I remember is the plot.  I have searched the internet and I am beginning to think that the movie does not exist and that I imagined the whole thing.  Here is the plot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: Since I found the name of the movie, I hid what I originally written since it gives away the ending.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The movie opens with a man getting into a car accident.  He is then&#xA; seen waking up as a much younger version of himself.  He has a best&#xA; friend who is a girl.  Later on he becomes a wedding photographer,&#xA; falls in love with his best friend, and they get married and get a&#xA; dog.  He has a contentious relationship with his doctor father for&#xA; some reason.  Towards the end of the movie, you find out that the&#xA; whole movie was the man's life flashing before his eyes.  You think he&#xA; is going to die, but he does not.  Everyone lives happily ever after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is NOT any of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Time Traveller's Wife&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;TiMER&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Happy Accidents&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;About Time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Safety Not Guaranteed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Premonition&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any of the movies listed &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_travel_science_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9755" LastEditorUserId="9755" LastEditDate="2014-05-24T16:32:18.593" LastActivityDate="2014-05-24T16:32:18.593" Title="Name Of Time Travel Romantic Movie" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:09:01.287" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10036" CreationDate="2014-05-23T19:19:04.640" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a dialectologist either, but I can tell you that within the British Isles there are several regional accents and dialects (even just among the &quot;English&quot; parts). The US is a much larger area and, while populated by Europeans for a much shorter time, still has many regional variations. Just within the state of North Carolina (where I live) there are huge regional accent differences. I've seen the same in Texas (West Texans speak very differently than those from East Texas or the Hill Country). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, Captain Jackson was from Chicago (at least that is where he and Long Susan spent some time). The first person I thought of as a contemporary of Captain Jackson was Mark Twain (a fellow Mid-Westerner). A few recordings of him can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://classiclit.about.com/od/marktwainfaqs/f/faq_mtwain_voic.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. After accounting for the fact that Twain was much older when the recordings were made, I think they sound remarkably similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to your question. Yes, I think his accent is an authentic American accent from the time period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastActivityDate="2014-05-23T19:19:04.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19629" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-23T22:08:33.240" Score="6" ViewCount="2834" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie snatch (among others) the characters are introduced via a mono coloured freeze frame with the name of the character next to it. An example of this can be found in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8jbt0wBkMI&quot;&gt;this video&lt;/a&gt; at the 1:22 minute mark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is this technique called?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7807" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T03:20:53.577" Title="What is the name of the technique of introducing a character via a (often monocoloured) freeze frame?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19629" CreationDate="2014-05-23T23:36:46.117" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's simply called the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze-frame_shot&quot;&gt;freeze-frame shot&lt;/a&gt;. It's employed for all manner of purposes, including introducing characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9270" LastActivityDate="2014-05-23T23:36:46.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19634" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-24T01:48:14.187" Score="2" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, at the start of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285331/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;24&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; hours of Day 3 we learn Kyle has been hired to traffic some cocaine from somewhere in Mexico to California, it's then implied that the cocaine is contaminated with the Cordilla virus. When his house is raided and his mother attempts to flush it down the toilet, the CDC runs some tests and determine that the powder is harmless: neither drugs nor the virus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, it's then implied that Kyle is himself infected with it, and thugs hired by the Salazars capture him and put him in a containment chamber so they can extract it from him. The hired people certainly act like he's dangerous: they scrub themselves down and throw away all their clothes and such, so I get that they believe it. However after Kyle is retrieved it's revealed he was never infected and it was just part of Jack and Hector's plan to get Ramon released from prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if this is the case, then why would the Salazars expend resources to try and track down Kyle? They know they don't have the virus (as they haven't bought it yet), so when Kyle was running away from the cops, why would they bother to intervene instead of just letting him run away from CTU?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could certainly argue that it was about wasting their time, but it would have been just as effective without Kyle, they already dumped the body, they could just claim to have a way of releasing it and the authorities would spend all their time looking for a lead which doesn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-24T12:59:06.533" LastActivityDate="2014-05-24T12:59:06.533" Title="Why were The Salazars interested in Kyle Singer?" Tags="|plot-explanation|24|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3066" CreationDate="2014-05-24T03:12:43.183" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Newman sabotaged Jerry (and other characters) by being a tattle-tale, trouble-maker and &quot;agitator&quot; (S9E12).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&#xA;He tattled to Jerry's parents when he saw Jerry making out during Schindlers List (S5E18)&#xA;He tattled on Jerry for sleeping with a woman whose boyfriend was in a coma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Newman's dislike for Jerry appears to stem from anger at Jerry's status as a relatively famous comedian. Newman considers Jerry to be undeserving of his fame, referring to Jerry's audience as &quot;half soused nightclub rabble that lap up your inane &quot;observations&quot;&quot;.&#xA;Newman's own talents as a poet and wordsmith are not inconsiderable, yet similar recognition to Jerry has so far eluded Newman. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9764" LastEditorUserId="9764" LastEditDate="2014-05-24T03:35:29.713" LastActivityDate="2014-05-24T03:35:29.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14413" CreationDate="2014-05-24T11:25:45.543" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most obvious explanation (e.g. as to why he has a belly button in later scenes) is that it was indeed overlooked in production. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ryan Reynolds states in this interview that his lack of belly button was an integral part of the plotline so it's very unlikely that they would have deliberately subverted it without some kind of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CallBack&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;callback&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer :&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;“The Nines” once again features you shirtless. Is that in your contract?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reynolds :&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;No! I try to avoid it, actually. This will be the only movie out of the last four that I had to do it. But it was necessary&#xA;  for the narrative, because you had to see his belly button — or lack&#xA;  thereof. That’s key.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2014-05-24T11:25:45.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16299" CreationDate="2014-05-24T11:53:01.963" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The technology in &quot;Gravity&quot; was largely (but not exclusively) based on real-world technology. The film featured consultants from NASA, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.toplessrobot.com/2013/09/gravitys_astronaut_consultants_discuss_the_science.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;former astronaut&lt;/a&gt;s as well as shuttle and space engineers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The short answer for why the capsule in Gravity uses an explosive hatch is simply because that's what is &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1987-01-21/news/0100240174_1_shuttle-astronauts-rocket&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;used in reality&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/dfVTX25hH-I?start=28&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T23:42:20.057" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T23:42:20.057" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17012" CreationDate="2014-05-24T12:08:16.110" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The poem is &quot;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://webspace.webring.com/people/pq/quikkfastt/Lifetime.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;It Takes a Lifetime&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&quot; by Ruth Moyer Gilmour&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IT TAKES A LIFETIME&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;IT TAKES A LIFETIME TO LEARN HOW TO LIVE, HOW TO SHARE AND HOW TO&#xA;  GIVE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;HOW TO FACE TRAGEDY THAT COMES YOUR WAY, HOW TO FIND COURAGE TO FACE&#xA;  EACH NEW DAY.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;HOW TO SMILE WHEN YOUR HEART IS SORE, HOW TO GO ON WHEN YOU CAN TAKE&#xA;  NO MORE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;HOW TO LAUGH WHEN YOU WANT TO CRY, HOW TO BE BRAVE WHEN YOU SAY&#xA;  GOODBYE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;HOW TO STILL LOVE WHEN YOUR LOSS IS SO GREAT, HOW TO FORGIVE WHEN YOUR&#xA;  URGE IS TO HATE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;HOW TO BE SURE THAT GOD'S REALLY THERE, HOW TO FIND HIM, SEEK HIM IN&#xA;  PRAYER. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2iOM0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2014-05-24T12:08:16.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16299" CreationDate="2014-05-24T14:42:48.833" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Surely the character knows this will happen through her training.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course she knows it will happen. There is (possibly) pressure on the inside and certainly none at the outside: it is physics basics, no training needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I doubt that Ryan Stone's training dealt with this kind of an emergency situation. She has had six months of training according to the dialogue in the movie. I am no expert, but six months sounds rather minimal to me. It could be enough though, considering she is &quot;just&quot; a scientist added to the crew to install/setup some hardware. The emergency training for this kind of debris catastrophe, if at all, would be for the commander, the captain and mission control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why wouldn't the hatch have a better mechanism such that astronauts do not run the risk of flying into space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no need to: There is no risk if Ryan would have secured herself with the carabiner hook (as she did when she unscrewed the connectors between the ISS and the ship), and/or if she would not have been on top of the hatch but in front of it instead. But both times she was in respiratory distress and simply did not think of it in the panic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="148" LastEditDate="2014-05-24T18:30:59.153" LastActivityDate="2014-05-24T18:30:59.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19622" CreationDate="2014-05-24T16:27:51.820" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found it.  The suggestion by @Leatherwing led me to finding it.  Although Netflix only keeps the last 100 items viewed in your history, it does allow you to view a list of everything that you rated at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.netflix.com/MoviesYouveSeen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.netflix.com/MoviesYouveSeen&lt;/a&gt; . I rate everything I watch (and then some) and found the title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shuffle&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While looking into his wife's murder, a narcoleptic man finds&#xA;  his investigation stymied when he suddenly begins living his life out&#xA;  of sequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Netflix Streaming: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70242974&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70242974&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1488594/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1488594/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remembered it being about time travel because every time the main character goes to sleep, he wakes up a different age in his life.  So it is not about time travel explicitly, but implicitly.  It is probably not listed in Wikipedia because it was an independent film and did not get a wide release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9755" LastActivityDate="2014-05-24T16:27:51.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15908" CreationDate="2014-05-24T16:30:53.723" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the episode &amp;quot;Band or DJ?&amp;quot; we know that Barney and Robin's wedding took place on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=how-i-met-your-mother&amp;amp;episode=s08e13&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sunday, May 25, 2013&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The How I Met Your Mother episode, &amp;quot;The Poker Game&amp;quot;(S09E05) specifically states that the events of the Halloween party took place...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;6 years earlier&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which means that it was most likely &lt;strong&gt;Wednesday, October 31, 2007&lt;/strong&gt;, assuming the party was actually held on Halloween.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EVFiQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;New York skyline with the caption &amp;quot;six years earlier&amp;quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2023-08-18T13:01:36.820" LastActivityDate="2023-08-18T13:01:36.820" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="19654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18726" CreationDate="2014-05-24T16:51:18.240" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In principle, the answer is &quot;yes&quot; but not in the way that you mean. The USPS operates a scheme known as '&lt;a href=&quot;http://about.usps.com/corporate-social-responsibility/letters-to-santa.htm#p=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Letters to Santa&lt;/a&gt;' in which members of public can agree to adopt letters that are addressed to Santa Claus or Father Christmas (e.g. without a valid address). These letters can then be responded to with the &lt;em&gt;requested&lt;/em&gt; gift and a brief letter in response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no obvious legal impediment to one individual offering to accept &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;every single letter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; although it would be unlikely that the USPS would actually agree to do this unless they were 100% certain that the recipient could realistically afford to give a gift to every letter they accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2014-05-24T21:22:45.267" LastActivityDate="2014-05-24T21:22:45.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19606" CreationDate="2014-05-24T17:21:25.370" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If everything had gone according to plan, the outcome of both trials &lt;strong&gt;would have been&lt;/strong&gt; the same. In both cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The accused initially denied the charge of treason&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eventually, a deal was struck in which the accused would &quot;plead guilty&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As part of the deal, the accused would be allowed to take the black and go off to the wall.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had everyone involved in both trials been level-headed, both Eddard and Tyrion would have ended up serving life sentences as part of the Night's Watch; given often those pulled into the Watch are described as &quot;rapists, murderers, and worse&quot;, it seems like banishment to The Wall is not an uncommon punishment for extremely serious crimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason the two trials did not play out as described was because of the differing ways that the &quot;deals&quot; went off the rails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Ned's case, Joffrey's last-minute decision to order him beheaded is what cost him his life. All the way up to that point, everyone involved assumed that Ned would be leaving with Yoren and heading North.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Tyrion's case, the decision to put Shae on the stand cause Tyrion himself to break the deal Jaime had struck for him and demand a trial by combat. Of course, if Tyrion loses the trial by combat, he will be found guilty and executed the same way Ned was, but if he wins, he will be automatically ruiled &quot;not guilty.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that Ned actually had the same right to demand a combat trial as Tyrion, but he was smart (?) enough not to risk losing when there was a guaranteed way to make it out alive. He didn't count on having someone in Joffrey's ear angling to get Ned killed anyway, so in a way, yes he was just unlucky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2014-05-24T17:21:25.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19606" CreationDate="2014-05-25T00:58:32.713" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Historically, both in fiction and in reality, killing the head of state changed the government. The new government would then get to choose the punishment as they saw fit. If the old king was a tyrant that no one liked, the assassin would possibly receive a parade, statuary etc. Sometimes the assassin intended to become the new head of state and thus above the law. A good example here is Mary, Queen of Scots. Considered the rightful queen by English catholics for complicated reasons, Mary attempted to kill Elizabeth I and claim the throne. Many similar situations existed in Roman days, but it was almost an accepted practice back then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the recently-deceased ruler was well liked, or the plot fails, those involved can expect a rather unpleasant time. Mary was beheaded and the rest of the plotters were drawn and quartered for their efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;History is written by the victors, so when you &quot;win&quot; a new government you can write your own. Thus, the punishment for regicide is indeed rather arbitrary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9775" LastActivityDate="2014-05-25T00:58:32.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19665" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19677" CreationDate="2014-05-25T05:54:25.883" Score="13" ViewCount="175106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched Prisoners but I didn't fully understand Bob Taylor.&#xA;Why is he so obsessed with mazes and what are those boxes full of snakes? Also, why did he buy children clothes and steal Joy's and Anna's?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did he participate in the kidnappings in any way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7389" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-25T12:56:46.577" LastActivityDate="2020-02-16T16:43:36.790" Title="What happened to Bob and what is his relation to the plot?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|prisoners|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19666" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19678" CreationDate="2014-05-25T06:56:08.547" Score="10" ViewCount="9056" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still haven't understood, how was the poison mixed with Joffrey's cake in &lt;em&gt;game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; S04E02? Is it explained in the show yet? I have a feeling, I have missed the explanation. As much as I have understood Little finger put the poison in Sansa's necklace which somehow mixed with the cake. But when and how? Please help me understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3271" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-02-06T18:22:05.473" LastActivityDate="2019-02-06T18:22:05.473" Title="How was the cake poisoned at the Purple Wedding?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="19667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6841" CreationDate="2014-05-25T07:23:45.440" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the key to the movie was when he was stealing the laser. The piece that falls, he knew it was going to fall so he caught it. I think that had played out before. I also believe there was foreshadowing when he stated he had been staking the building out for awhile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9778" LastActivityDate="2014-05-25T07:23:45.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12639" CreationDate="2014-05-25T09:27:05.960" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is the Marine Corps digital camoflauge or MARPAT, since the Marines are a department of the Navy(The mens department), Navy ground forces it. Seals, Corpsman, etc. use it with US Navy name tapes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9781" LastActivityDate="2014-05-25T09:27:05.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19672" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19673" CreationDate="2014-05-25T09:33:47.433" Score="6" ViewCount="471" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's a recent movie, but the &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; thing I remember is that the main character would let his glasses dangle on his head from one ear. I remember he also grabbed them by the lens a couple times. These are things I've never seen someone who wears glasses (myself included) do, nor do I think any would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I need the name of the movie for a different reason than watching it again. (I seem to remember thinking the movie wasn't very good, but had a well-known actor who seemed like they'd know better than to treat glasses so ineptly.) I remember Paul F. Tompkins talking about this on a podcast or in an interview, and &lt;em&gt;that's&lt;/em&gt; what I'd like to revisit. Once I get the movie title I can continue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is such a little thing to go on, granted, but it struck me as &lt;strong&gt;completely ridiculous&lt;/strong&gt;, and it struck PFT the same, so I'm guessing someone else here noticed and thought WTF? And they'll remember. Please don't immediately VTC as I'm confident that someone will get the movie even from just this character tick. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastActivityDate="2014-05-25T09:44:12.173" Title="Character unhooks glasses from one ear and lets them dangle" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:09:26.310" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19672" CreationDate="2014-05-25T09:44:12.173" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe he was talking about Daniel Craig in &lt;em&gt;The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.johnhodgman.com/post/15241851991/paulftompkins-yeah-im-gonna-start-wearing-my&quot;&gt;It's mentioned here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-05-25T09:44:12.173" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19676" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43951" CreationDate="2014-05-25T13:03:10.730" Score="2" ViewCount="706" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;Griff the Invisible&quot; does Melody actually fall through the door, or have they both gone 'around the bend'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/oxYitK8b-OY?start=182&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T21:09:02.920" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T23:33:23.160" Title="Did Melody actually fall through the door?" Tags="|plot-explanation|griff-the-invisible|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19665" CreationDate="2014-05-25T13:26:12.210" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, Bob Taylor was once kidnapped by Mr. and Mrs. Jones, in the same way Alex was (and Anna and Joy for that matter). But Bob achieved to escape before getting killed (Mrs. Jones even mentions completely forgetting about him, until he appeared in the news recently). &lt;strong&gt;The reason why he is so deranged in general is just because of the traumatic experiences he had back then.&lt;/strong&gt; It is hard to explain in particular what his actual insanity was, especially since I'm absolutely not an expert on the topic, but basically &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/15805/49&quot;&gt;the kidnapping left some deep scars in his soul from which he never recovered&lt;/a&gt; (in the same way like &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/15179/49&quot;&gt;Alex isn't really to call &quot;normal&quot; either&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same way he is &lt;strong&gt;obsessed with mazes because Mr. Jones, who once kidnapped him, was&lt;/strong&gt;. Bob was himself presented with this strange imagery and sentences like &quot;if you solve the maze you can leave&quot; when under Mr. Jones' possession. And once he got this discredited book &quot;Finding the Invisible Man&quot;, written by an FBI agent about a mysterious maze-loving kidnapper (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/15400/49&quot;&gt;while it's not completely clear if the book actually was about Mr. Jones, it's definitely connected to him&lt;/a&gt;), into his hands, those &lt;strong&gt;memories all broke through and he started to recreate those kidnappings&lt;/strong&gt;, maybe up to the point of pretending to be this maze-kidnapper himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result he worked himself further and further into the fantasy of kidnapping children himself. That is the reason he bought/stole children's clothings, smeared them with pig blood and buried those boxes full of dolls in his garden. He was &lt;strong&gt;imitating the &quot;Invisible Man&quot;, pretending to have kidnapped/killed the children&lt;/strong&gt;, even if not ever doing it for real. Maybe this even went up to the point of where he himself believed to have actually done it for real, which might be the reason he shot himself in the interrogation room (though, that might also have had other reasons, like a general discontent with his soul-torturing life).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the snakes, I'm not sure their connection to Mr. Jones or the &quot;Invisible Man&quot; was ever mentioned (but it wouldn't be too far-fetched, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/15181/49&quot;&gt;given the many religious motifs throughout the movie&lt;/a&gt;, and especially in Mr. Jones' motivation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to sum up, Bob Taylor didn't ever participate in any kidnapping, apart from his own, where he was the victim of the same kidnappers that got Alex, Anna, Joy, and all the unknown others. And it was that kidnapping that put him in a deeply deranged state and ultimately drove him to play through fantasies of kidnapping and child murder, though never doing it for real. He was thus in some way a &lt;strong&gt;red herring/wrong track, while on the other hand still being connected to the actual kidnapper and ultimately helping Loki to figure out the whole picture&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-11-10T17:52:07.910" LastActivityDate="2018-11-10T17:52:07.910" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="19678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19666" CreationDate="2014-05-25T14:30:00.130" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the show, it is not explicitly explained how Joffrey was poisoned. The medium of poison is unclear, whether it was the wine or the cake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in S04E06, Grand Maester Pycell presents Sansa's necklace as a proof in the trial against Tyrion. And since Sansa was wearing the necklace throughout the wedding and nobody but Olenna Tyrell goes up near her for a small talk, there would have been no time to mix the poison in the pigeon pie (which you confused as cake). Hence, the poison was certainly mixed in the wine.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Littlefinger &amp;amp; Olenna were directly involved. Olenna even confessed to it in front of Margery in S04E04. Ser Dontos was hired to transfer the poison onto the unsuspecting Sansa.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you go back to S04E03, you can clearly see the point at which, Olenna takes the poison from Sansa's necklace &amp;amp; puts it in Joffrey's wine.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't want to rewatch the episode, &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LkhOL.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; is a detailed explanation with screenshots from that episode thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/user/zephyrtr&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;r/zephytr&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2017-07-16T11:09:20.293" LastActivityDate="2017-07-16T11:09:20.293" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19680" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19685" CreationDate="2014-05-25T17:08:35.120" Score="9" ViewCount="893" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men%3a_Days_of_Future_Past&quot;&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past&lt;/a&gt;, where does the end credit scene of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolverine_%28film%29&quot;&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/a&gt; fall? I mean when did that event occur in Days of Future Past?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T15:22:33.547" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T15:22:33.547" Title="Where does The wolverine end credit scene fall?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|chronology|x-men-days-of-future-past|the-wolverine|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19681" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19683" CreationDate="2014-05-25T17:14:49.877" Score="5" ViewCount="734" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men%3a_Days_of_Future_Past&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past&lt;/a&gt;, Toad appears with a different appearance compared to his depiction in the 1st &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;X-Men&lt;/a&gt; movie, played by a different actor. Even their ages are contradictory. Is this Toad the same version or are there two Toads in the film series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T14:50:34.903" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T14:50:34.903" Title="Is this the same character?" Tags="|character|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-days-of-future-past|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19681" CreationDate="2014-05-25T18:15:29.963" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Toad from X-Men: Days of Future Past (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Park&quot;&gt;Evan Jonigkeit)&lt;/a&gt; is supposed to be a younger, darker version of the Toad from X-Men (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Park&quot;&gt;Ray Park)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/x-men-days-of-future-past-toad/&quot;&gt;an interview with Evan&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jonigkeit, a fan of the books, will very likely have minimal screen&#xA;  time and dialogue [in X-Men Days of Future Past] – sadly like most of the characters we know about –&#xA;  but he does confirm that his Toad does setup the Ray Park version from&#xA;  the original X-Men, but is quite a bit different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;”I read a lot of the comic books. I found out the storyline of my&#xA;  character, who is Toad. X-Men fans will know that Ray Park played him&#xA;  in the first movie, so it’s a generation story of how he came to be.&#xA;  It’s really cool.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“The aesthetics of the character are much different, and I’m not&#xA;  really allowed to say a whole lot more than that,” he said. “It’s&#xA;  darker. I would say it’s a darker tone.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/Mortimer_Toynbee#Trivia&quot;&gt;Apparently&lt;/a&gt; the original actor (Ray Park) was supposed to be in X-Men 2, but scheduling conflicts led to his mutant being written out of the series in X-Men 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-25T19:27:38.240" LastActivityDate="2014-05-25T19:27:38.240" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11639" CreationDate="2014-05-25T18:15:43.290" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jedidiah is the little boy from Michael Bay’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre who helps the escapers so the little brother of thomas&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9785" LastActivityDate="2014-05-25T18:15:43.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19680" CreationDate="2014-05-25T18:23:14.900" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://xmenmovies.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline&quot;&gt;this Marvel timeline&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;1973&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Early&quot; scenes of X-Men: Days of Future Past are set.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Mark I Sentinels are&#xA;  created. Between 1973 and 1996, Trask produces 8,732 Mark I Sentinels&#xA;  for the governments of the United States, China, Russia, Israel, Saudi&#xA;  Arabia, France, India and the United Kingdom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;2013&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The year that &quot;The Wolverine&quot; is set in.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Mark X Sentinels announced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;2015&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Professor X and Magneto meet Wolverine at an airport.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;2023&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Future&quot; scene of X-Men: Days of Future Past are set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So effectively, X-Men: Days of Future Past contains scenes from &lt;strong&gt;1973&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;2023&lt;/strong&gt;. The Wolverine end credit scene takes place in &lt;strong&gt;2015&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-05-25T18:23:14.900" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19694" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19712" CreationDate="2014-05-26T06:28:00.003" Score="2" ViewCount="2756" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Rush&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;August Rush&lt;/a&gt;, Evan/August plays the musical instrument very differently, using his full hand rather than his fingers. What is this technique of playing music instrument called? Is it just made for film or is this exists in reality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-26T10:56:23.443" LastActivityDate="2016-09-14T05:53:57.867" Title="What is this technique of playing music instrument called?" Tags="|production|august-rush|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19694" CreationDate="2014-05-26T07:46:57.320" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are referring to this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/r2K5IcpZEU4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if there is a name for that kind of technique, but it exists. It contains some tapping with the one hand that actually plays the notes and the other one slaps the guitar.It is used in a way to make the guitar more percussive. A lot of people use it when they play alone and/or with other people, but there are no drums or any percussion on the group&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is another example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/jdYJf_ybyVo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not 100% the same thing as the movie, but it is enough to get the point&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-09-14T05:53:57.867" LastActivityDate="2016-09-14T05:53:57.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19698" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19700" CreationDate="2014-05-26T13:34:22.120" Score="32" ViewCount="166557" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching X-Men 3 and seeing Charles Xavier get disintegrated by Phoenix, however the post-credits scene and his appearance in later movies indicate that he actually survived. How is that possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4406" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T21:54:07.440" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T06:22:16.840" Title="What happened to Charles Xavier after X-Men 3?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|chronology|x-men-days-of-future-past|x-men-the-last-stand|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19698" CreationDate="2014-05-26T14:00:15.113" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to know how he survived , then he just transferred his consciousness to his identical brain dead twin brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/Charles_Xavier&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;marvel-movies.wikia.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In an after-credits scene, Xavier speaks to Moira McTaggert through the body of a comatose man, implying that his consciousness survived by transferring itself into the body (An action that Xavier had discussed at the beginning of the film as part of an ethics class, the question being if it would be ethically right for a mutant like himself to attempt such a transference). In the directors commentary for the DVD, it is revealed that the man that Charles transferred his consciousness to was really his identical twin brother, whose mind had been destroyed at birth when Charles power's manifested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how he got back to wheelchair with this new body of his twin brother hasn't been explained yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-02T06:22:16.840" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T06:22:16.840" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19698" CreationDate="2014-05-26T14:00:28.503" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSkn3KYwmtc&quot;&gt;post-credits scene&lt;/a&gt; from X-Men 3 hints at his survival. If for any reason you can't view the video, this is what happens (&lt;a href=&quot;http://xmenmovies.wikia.com/wiki/X-Men%3a_The_Last_Stand&quot;&gt;from the wiki&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After the credits there is a scene at the hospital, where the comatose&#xA;  man from the video that Xavier showed his students is lying in a&#xA;  hospital bed. Dr. Moira MacTaggart enters the room to see the sleeping&#xA;  patient, only to be greeted by the Professor's voice coming from him.&#xA;  Dr. Moira looks towards her patient in disbelief and says &quot;Charles?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In X-Men: Wolverine, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfC5i0AmAJg&quot;&gt;post-credits scene&lt;/a&gt; shows Xavier's return, years after his supposed death. Again, if the video doesn't play, this is what happens (&lt;a href=&quot;http://xmenmovies.wikia.com/wiki/Professor_X&quot;&gt;from a different wiki&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Xavier returns in his original visage and his wheelchair. Along with&#xA;  Magneto, he solicits Logan's help against dark forces seeking to&#xA;  destroy mutant-kind. When Logan questions Xavier about how he's&#xA;  returned, Xavier reminds him &quot;you're not the only one with gifts.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.superheromoviesnews.com/2013/07/how-does-professor-x-come-back-from.html&quot;&gt;This page&lt;/a&gt; quite effectively explains how this is all possible. Unfortunately, the video explaining it is currently down, but to take from the synopsis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...the Brain Dead Patient [from X-Men 3] is indeed P. Xavier, Charles&#xA;  Xavier's brain dead identical twin brother. When he was born  his&#xA;  telepathy was so massive that he essentially stole his brothers brain&#xA;  waves. But when he was killed off by The Dark Phoenix he transferred&#xA;  the consciousness of his mind into his brain dead identical brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, he basically took over the body of his rather conveniently handy identical brother and was allowed to continue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-05-26T14:00:28.503" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19701" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19703" CreationDate="2014-05-26T14:55:07.733" Score="37" ViewCount="134989" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the future scenes of Days of Future Past Wolverine's adamantium claws can be seen (they even appear on the movie's poster). But towards the end of the The Wolverine, I remember those claws were cut by the Silver Samurai, and he even grows new bone claws after that. How come Wolverine has his adamantium claws again in Days of Future Past?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4406" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T02:16:11.647" Title="Why does Wolverine still have Adamantium claws in X-Men: Days of Future Past?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|the-wolverine|chronology|x-men-days-of-future-past|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19701" CreationDate="2014-05-26T15:11:41.133" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen &lt;strong&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past&lt;/strong&gt;, so I can't comment on whether this was shown in the film, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/x-men-days-future-past-rogue-wolverine-metal-claws/&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt; does include quotes from the director, Bryan Singer, on the issue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That wasn’t the only tempting breadcrumb that Singer threw to Empire,&#xA;  as part of the organization’s Days of Future Past marketing blitz.&#xA;  Fans who’ve been paying close attention to the footage and images&#xA;  released from the film thus far have observed that modern-day&#xA;  Wolverine appears to have regained his Adamantium-laced claws, despite&#xA;  the events that took place in last year’s The Wolverine; when asked by&#xA;  Empire, Singer hinted at a possible explanation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Director Bryan Singer explains that Magneto’s ability to manipulate&#xA;  metal might have something to do with it. The Master Of Magnetism&#xA;  could, perhaps, “reconstitute the adamantium claws… [Wolverine] has a&#xA;  different relationship with Magneto, and perhaps Magneto could forge&#xA;  them.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-08-14T08:43:09.587" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T08:43:09.587" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19705" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19706" CreationDate="2014-05-26T16:09:24.427" Score="4" ViewCount="3533" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the real-world mountain that was used for filming the cable car scene in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065207/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Where Eagles Dare&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9799" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-26T16:12:56.913" LastActivityDate="2014-05-26T16:26:11.820" Title="What real-world mountain was used in Where Eagles Dare?" Tags="|film-location|where-eagles-dare|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19705" CreationDate="2014-05-26T16:15:53.767" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Eagles_Dare&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; gives a list of all the filming locations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Filming:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the castle – Hohenwerfen Castle, Werfen, Austria; filmed in January 1968,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;cable car – Feuerkogel Seilbahn at Ebensee (Austria); filmed in January 1968&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;airport scenes – Flugplatz Aigen im Ennstal (Austria); filmed in early 1968. The exact place of filming is the &quot;Fiala-Fernbrugg&quot;&#xA;  garrison, still used by HS Geschwader 2 and FlAR2/3rd Bat. of the&#xA;  Austrian army. The big rocky mountain in the background of the&#xA;  airfield is the Grimming mountains, about 40 km east from the &quot;Hoher&#xA;  Dachstein&quot;, or about 80 km east and 10 km south from Werfen,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;other scenes – MGM-British Studios, Borehamwood, England; filmed in spring 1968&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebensee&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article of that location&lt;/a&gt; in turn says, that it's indeed the mountain that's called &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Feuerkogel&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since 1927 an aerial tramway built by the Bleichert engineering company runs up to the summit of the Feuerkogel mountain [...] Parts of the 1968 Where Eagles Dare film were shot in the Ebensee area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-26T16:26:11.820" LastActivityDate="2014-05-26T16:26:11.820" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19707" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19708" CreationDate="2014-05-26T17:45:58.800" Score="23" ViewCount="16525" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men%3a_Days_of_Future_Past&quot;&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past&lt;/a&gt;, Quicksilver/Pietro Maximoff is holding a small girl while watching Magneto on TV with his mother standing near. Now I wonder who she is. Quicksilver has a twin sister Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff in the comics but the girl appearing in the film is lesser in age. Is she Polaris (which doesn't fit well too) or some other character from X-Men comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T14:50:41.497" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T14:50:41.497" Title="Who is that girl in 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'?" Tags="|character|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-days-of-future-past|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19707" CreationDate="2014-05-26T17:55:39.667" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/x-men-days-future-past-wolverine-scarlet-witch/&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; with Bryan Singer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Is that the Scarlet Witch? No, that’s his little sister,”&lt;/strong&gt; Singer said. “I even had a line which I cut, where Quicksilver’s mother says to the little girl, ‘Go up and bug your sister,’ and the little girl says, ‘She bugs me!’ You never see the older sister, but it was to imply that there is an older sister for comic book fans. I ended up cutting it.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-05-26T17:55:39.667" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19710" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19713" CreationDate="2014-05-26T19:09:09.563" Score="3" ViewCount="952" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &lt;strong&gt;The Empty Hearse&lt;/strong&gt; when John returns to 221B Baker Street, Mrs. Hudson shows a very rude behavior by slamming tea and biscuits onto the table. Why was she so upset with John?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also she says that one phone call would have done after all that we went through. What phonecall does she refer to here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MRS HUDSON: I’m not your mother. I’ve no right to expect it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JOHN: No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MRS HUDSON: ... but just one phone call, John. Just one phone call would have done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JOHN: I know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MRS HUDSON: After all we went through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JOHN: Yes. I am sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MRS HUDSON: Look, I understand how difficult it was for you after ... after ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JOHN: I just let it slide, Mrs Hudson. I let it all slide. And it just got harder and harder to pick up the phone somehow. D’you know what I mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source for transcript: &lt;a href=&quot;http://arianedevere.livejournal.com/64080.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ariane DeVere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9684" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-05-26T21:38:20.220" Title="What phone call does Mrs. Hudson refer to in &quot;The Empty Hearse&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19710" CreationDate="2014-05-26T19:12:37.430" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;John hadn't been in touch with her since Sherlock's death. She was asking for &lt;strong&gt;a single phone call&lt;/strong&gt; to simply find out how he'd been/how he was getting on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-05-26T19:12:37.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19694" CreationDate="2014-05-26T20:00:43.970" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears to be a combination of a couple of different guitar techniques. The &quot;slap&quot;, comes predominantly from Latin styled music, where the body of the guitar is slapped at the same time as either plucking or including the strings to create a percussive rhythm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it's being done on the frets, i.e. hitting the string hard enough to make a tone without plucking the strings it's called a &quot;hammer on&quot;. Usually it's done with one finger, but it can be done with two or or more. Michael Hedges was a GREAT utilizer of this method, as can be demonstrated with a two finger hammer on in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN3439l4HR0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this video&lt;/a&gt;, from a live performance, around the 3:00-3:50 mark is some excellent close ups of it. (As a side note, that Live at Wolf Park was an awesome concert, and the Windham Hill CD from that year is well worth hunting down).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also referenced in a Guitar Player online article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guitarplayer.com/lessons/1014/how-to-slap-harmonics/17714&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;slap harmonics&lt;/a&gt;. So you can call it slap harmonics, or multi finger hammer on, but it's a valid, recognized guitar technique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-05-26T20:00:43.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19710" CreationDate="2014-05-26T20:29:57.700" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is some explanation of the characters so that the answer can be understood better.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are only very few people which are close to Sherlock Holmes, one is of course John Watson and the other is Mrs. Hudson. As shown in earlier episodes of this particular series Holmes cares for both of them and is protective of them. This feeling is mutual as both John and Mrs. Hudson feel the same for Holmes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when Sherlock dies these are the two people which are affected and suffer most. They are like a family in that sense. As from your transcript she clearly thinks of Sherlock and John as if they were her sons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why she was expecting at least One Phone Call so that they can comfort each other from the grief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3888" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-26T21:38:20.220" LastActivityDate="2014-05-26T21:38:20.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19715" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19721" CreationDate="2014-05-26T23:30:18.450" Score="14" ViewCount="8664" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the ending of Indiana Jones 2, Indy accuses Mola Ram, the priest, of &quot;betraying Shiva&quot; or something like that, causing the Sankara stones to ignite and eventually to kill Mola. How had Mola betrayed Shiva, aside from it just being a convenient way to kill him off?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9804" LastEditorUserId="9804" LastEditDate="2017-08-14T16:09:42.410" LastActivityDate="2017-08-14T22:22:35.587" Title="How did Mola &quot;betray Shiva&quot; in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?" Tags="|plot-explanation|indiana-jones|indiana-jones-and-temple-of-doom|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19720" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-27T08:23:09.310" Score="9" ViewCount="35084" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0995740/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;No Smoking&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is by-far the most confusing movie I have ever watched. I didn't understand the plot at all. Here are some of my queries. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Baba Bengali know where K's flight would land even when he did not know where he was going himself? How does Baba Bengali know K's whereabouts every time? How does K wake up in a bath tub? Towards the end K sees himself...through a glass pane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone please explain what this movie was about and what it's main theme was?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9684" LastEditorUserId="13594" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T06:08:34.470" LastActivityDate="2019-04-18T07:12:22.570" Title="Explanation of Bollywood movie No Smoking (2007)" Tags="|plot-explanation|no-smoking|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19715" CreationDate="2014-05-27T08:24:35.317" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was due to his treatment of the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/Sankara_Stones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sankara Stones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ioOez.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;A line up of the five Sankara stone props from the movie&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/Sankara_Stones#History&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to legend, five stones were given to Sankara by the Hindu&#xA;  god Shiva on Mount Kalisa, along with the message that he should go&#xA;  forth and battle evil with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, Shiva is one of the gods of the Hindu faith (and other faiths, but we focus on Hindu as it is prevalent in the movie). &lt;em&gt;Now, as Indiana Jones, like any film, applies its own logic to religion in films, its important to see what the film thought about Shiva.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the TV Series &lt;a href=&quot;http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Young_Indiana_Jones_Chronicles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/Shiva&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jiddu Krishnamurti describes Shiva in this way&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;He sounds mean, doesn't he? But really, Shiva is a compassionate god,&#xA;  because in Hinduism, the destroyer of life is also the bringer of&#xA;  life. So what Shiva destroys, he renews and restores.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, &lt;a href=&quot;http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lost_Journal_of_Indiana_Jones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Lost Journal of Indiana Jones&lt;/a&gt;, released to coincide with &lt;em&gt;Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull&lt;/em&gt;, mentioned how the diamonds &lt;em&gt;inside&lt;/em&gt; the Sankara Stones could give warmth and life, but could also be used to destroy betrayers of Shiva. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mola Ram, and his Thuggee cult, betrayed the teachings of Shiva by performing human sacrifice along with other evil acts, such as kidnapping children. By doing this, Mola had betrayed the teachings of Shiva and as such, the stones could be used against him when Shiva's name was mentioned by Indiana Jones. The stones heated up and the wrath of Shiva was brought upon Mola Ram.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="12783" LastEditDate="2017-08-14T22:22:35.587" LastActivityDate="2017-08-14T22:22:35.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19720" CreationDate="2014-05-27T09:20:57.070" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The imprinted stamp on K's head enables Bengali to track him anywhere. Aside from that &quot;simple&quot; answer, your other questions require more detail...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've not seen the film, but after some basic digging I'll try and answer some of our questions. It does appear to be an extremely bizarre movie that was critically panned for a number of reasons, &lt;em&gt;including&lt;/em&gt; a disjointed plot which didn't always make sense. To try and answer some of the key questions you have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Baba Bengali is able to forcibly make people stop smoking. Part of his genius is that he always knows when people have smoked, regardless of where they are in the world.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least that's the way the film makes it out to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Movie Synopsis:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Effectively, at its most basic level, the film is about smoking (&lt;em&gt;obviously!&lt;/em&gt;). Our protagonist, K, is a chainsmoking narcissist who risks losing his wife if he doesn't stop smoking. He is recommended a visit to the Prayogshala, the rehabilitatoin center that never fails, by an old friend who originally introduced him to smoking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;K ignores all of this however and so his wife leaves him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is now forced to accept the treatment (against his will), as he has been left  alone and wants her back. When he reaches the Prayogshala, it is evident that it is a kind of hell, where many mystic happenings are taking place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Baba Bengali referred to the Prayogshala as, &quot;Patal Lok.&quot; In Hinduism, that apparently means the world underneath us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;K is forced to sign a contract and has an &lt;em&gt;antismoke stamp placed on his forehead&lt;/em&gt;. It appears to be through this stamp that his actions and whereabouts are always known to Baba Bengali. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are four levels of punishment for if/when he smokes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The first offense is almost killing a loved one by keeping him/her in&#xA;  a chamber full of cigarette smoke the person has smoked in his entire&#xA;  life for a duration of 5 minutes.    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The second offense is losing a&#xA;  finger.    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The third offense is the death of a loved one.    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The last&#xA;  offense is taking the soul of the person from his body&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the film progresses, K fails twice and receives the first two punishments. He is then offered a lit cigar but refuses. Baba Bengali makes a mistake here however and believes he has accepted it. He takes K's wife, the third punishment. When K tries to angrily explain Baba Bengali's mistake, he is apologetic but relentless. K is broken at this point. Infuriated, bewildered, he calls the police. They don't believe him and force him to light another cigarette. Shortly afterwards, he discovers his brother has taken his own life (the &quot;real&quot; third punishment, since his wife was an accident).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point he snaps awake in an army base. He escapes from it and ends up stumbling upon a room where he appears to &quot;accept&quot; his treatment. Smoke fills the room, he wakes up in the real world, goes to the bathroom and realises he is missing two fingers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Movie Explanation (or attempt thereof!):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Siberia&lt;/em&gt; - At the start of the film, K dreams about Siberia. This is a complete wilderness, symbolising his desire to escape his environment and be free - but even there, he cannot escape the smoking. It seems very likely that at the end of the film, when he wakes in the Russian army base, he is again in Siberia - but this time, the wildnerness has crumbled apart. There are others there with him and he realises this is the end. He must return to the real world and embrace change (i.e. give up smoking).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sunglasses/Bathtub&lt;/em&gt; - K's sunglasses appear to symbolise his dark and gloomy life, whilst the bathtub is his place of pleasure and relaxation. It is the one place his mind is calm. Therefore, when he goes there at the end of the film and realises he is missing his fingers, he is realising this change calmly - in his environment of serenity. In other words, he is accepting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;1 Rupee&lt;/em&gt; - The significance of the 1 rupee in the film, the small amount K couldn't afford to pay, symbolises the tiny things that all must be done to effect change. Without that last rupee, his treatment is incomplete. Similar to an alcoholic not attending AA meetings, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Two fingers&lt;/em&gt; - Note that the fingers K loses at the end of the film are his smoking fingers. This symbolises his acceptance of the need to quit smoking. He is prepared to forsake his fingers (whether temporarily or permanently) to embrace change and improve, both for himself and his wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hearing aids&lt;/em&gt; - Note at Prayogshala, all the patients have hearing aids. This symbolises their inability to listen to repeated requests to seek help and their need to be &lt;em&gt;helped&lt;/em&gt; to achieve any level of treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Final Comments:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie does appear to be extremely convoluted. Some have hailed it as a Lynchian masterpiece, but the consensus appears to be that the scenes do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; all work in particularly great harmony. Was the whole film a dream? Was just the core part of the film a dream? Did he really lose his fingers at the end or was that just a symbolic scene? It's impossible to say (and the director hasn't commented).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately what is true is what you want to believe is true - something that always goes along with these psychedelic movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sources:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://phoenixanecdotes.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/movie-review-no-smoking-2007/&quot;&gt;http://phoenixanecdotes.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/movie-review-no-smoking-2007/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Smoking_%282007_film%29&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Smoking_(2007_film)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://apoorvkhatreja.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/no-smoking-uncovered.html&quot;&gt;http://apoorvkhatreja.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/no-smoking-uncovered.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T09:20:57.070" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19723" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-27T10:01:45.150" Score="8" ViewCount="16248" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched both seasons of the Hannibal series, although with some pauses between various &quot;sessions&quot;, so there is no problem with spoilers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: how do the protagonists (Will, Jack, Alana and even Freddie Lounds) realize that Hannibal is the killer they are looking for (the Chesapeake Ripper)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated above, I have watched the episodes with various pauses or over some sessions, but the thing is that I do not recall any definitive revelation moments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In season 1, Will thinks he looses his mind and at the end of the season, he suddenly suspects the doctor. While in prison, he only starts remembering strange psychological sessions, but absolutely nothing about any sort of murder (except the part where Lecter somehow has Abigail's ear). Still, he insists upon his supposition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the others it's a bit different - after getting out of prison, Will keeps stating that Hannibal is the killer, and the others believe him only when he gets a bit ambiguous and doesn't really point the finger anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All these things seem to come out of nowhere (deus ex machina?), but I want to doubt that there is no actual explanation here. The series seems to focus too much on psychology to add such cheap things for plot progress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you please tell me how they all get convinced?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it might be a multiple-questions-in-one case, but it doesn't really make sense to add an identical question for each character here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="418" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-27T10:33:33.250" LastActivityDate="2016-04-12T19:24:07.393" Title="Facts revealing Hannibal" Tags="|plot-explanation|hannibal-tv|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19724" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-27T11:53:43.403" Score="5" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's hard to believe that a detail in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Tarkovsky&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tarkovsky&lt;/a&gt; film is&#xA;arbitrary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sacrifice&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Sacrifice (Offret)&lt;/a&gt;, there is a scene at the 2:00:00 mark, where the main character is sitting at a table facing the camera. On the right hand side there are 3 bottles and there is a small portrait of a man on the left hand side:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ni808.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is the man in the photograph and why is this important?  Why was this photograph included?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9812" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-02-01T16:41:50.313" LastActivityDate="2017-02-01T16:41:50.313" Title="Whose photo is on the table in the telephone call scene?" Tags="|props|the-sacrifice|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3577" CreationDate="2014-05-27T12:21:04.587" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that she might have some ideas about it but doesn't want him to be Spider-Man, so she does not think about it too much. That's just what I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9813" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-27T12:46:23.920" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T12:46:23.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19723" CreationDate="2014-05-27T13:39:11.773" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post below contains a lot of spoilers, so stop reading now if you want to enjoy the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not convinced that anyone other than Will Graham was 100% sure that Hannibal was the Chesapeake Ripper until the season 2 finale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Will Graham&lt;/strong&gt; - Will began to suspect that Hannibal was a killer at the end of season 1, when he figured out that it was Lecter who called to warn Garret Jacob Hobbs that he was going to be arrested. In season 2, Will has witnessed Hannibal commit several crimes first hand. Will remembers that he was manipulated by Hannibal in season 1. Will knows that Beverly Katz was going to Hannibal Lecter's house to look for evidence before she was found dead. He knows that Hannibal sent Randall Tier to kill him. He also witnessed what Lecter did to Mason Verger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Freddie Lounds&lt;/strong&gt; - Freddie always believed Will's story about Lecter being the real Chesapeake Ripper, but she's given more reason to believe him when she discovers body parts on Will's property and, instead of killing her, he takes her to Jack Crawford and helps her fake her own death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jack Crawford&lt;/strong&gt; - Jack trusts Will Graham, but not completely. He knows about Will's ability to get into the mind of a serial killer (Jack has used this ability on several occasions to catch other killers). There's plenty of evidence to exonerate Will for crimes he was accused of, but Dr. Chilton was convincingly framed. Jack was satisfied that Chilton was the Ripper. I think this changed when Will brought Freddie Lounds to Jack for protection. It wasn't until this point when Jack was willing to reinvestigate Lecter, but he needs proof, which he gets in the finale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alana Bloom&lt;/strong&gt; - Alana is the least convinced of all the main characters. She seems unconvinced by Will, but really starts to suspect Lecter when she finds out that Jack Crawford does, and particularly when she finds out the truth about Freddie Lounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Du Maurier&lt;/strong&gt; - Dr. Du Maurier reveals that she knows what Lecter is because she killed her attacker under Hannibal's influence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorDisplayName="user12701" LastEditDate="2014-11-29T23:32:53.453" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T23:32:53.453" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19727" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19731" CreationDate="2014-05-27T13:40:39.960" Score="69" ViewCount="34565" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doctor Who is a pretty old series going back to 1963.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not watched any of it, but it looks very promising. The age of this series is slightly scary and I am thinking about watching later series only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How far back do I need to watch for the continuity to make sense.  Can I drop all the episodes before the 2005 reboot with Christopher Ecclestone and it still make sense to me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9814" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-13T12:00:54.570" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T12:00:54.570" Title="How far back do I need to watch Doctor Who for it to still make sense?" Tags="|doctor-who|suggested-order|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19727" CreationDate="2014-05-27T14:16:50.787" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Start with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_%28series_1%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Doctor Who (2005)&lt;/a&gt;. It's good to understand and works like a reboot (little going back sometimes). It's also a fresh start of the TV series after a long time and also had good success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even said the same over &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2585/what-episodes-of-doctor-who-should-i-watch-first&quot;&gt;scifi.stackexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T14:23:39.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19727" CreationDate="2014-05-27T14:37:38.987" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can start with the 2005 series starring Christopher Eccelston if you want the full Doctor Who experience from when it was bought back to TV&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you cannot tolerate the poor special effects or cheesier stories, you could jump forward to the 2010 series with Matt Smith as the Doctor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Matt Smith episodes have almost nothing in common story-wise with previous episodes, so this can be seen as a safe starting point as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2014-05-27T14:48:25.520" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T14:48:25.520" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19727" CreationDate="2014-05-27T15:12:44.357" Score="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some great answers here already, but as a huge Whovian I wanted to add a little more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a complete beginner to the series definitely start with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436992/&quot;&gt;2005 Doctor Who series&lt;/a&gt;. The series will make perfect sense and there will be nothing revealed that will leave you confused (or at least nothing that won't be cleared up &lt;em&gt;later&lt;/em&gt; in the series!). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; old enemies/allies from the original series that will appear and you'll not realise it - but that won't affect your viewing experience in the least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if you watch the Series, like it and decide to consider watching the Original Series, consider the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doctor Who kicked off all the way back in 1963. This is significant for a few reasons. The original series was in black and white. Now, I'm a child of the nineties and as much as I'm ashamed to admit it, a lack of colour really does affect a movie for me. I'm so &lt;em&gt;unused&lt;/em&gt; to things being black and white that I find it much deeper to embrace older movies/shows. Of course that's not universal and I've enjoyed some fantastic old films and tv shows - but without question they require far more concentration on my part to really get into. If you're anything like me and you think that a lack of colour (at least for the first few series) would bother you, it's worth bearing this point in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike the original Star Trek, which &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; in colour and has since been touched up/remastered, the original Doctor Who episodes with William Hartnell &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; show their age. They're certainly watchable and enjoyable, but you'll need to concentrate and accept some very dark/grainy footage at times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll also need to accept that as times changed, so did the character of the Doctor. Nowadays, we want a fun, energetic, brilliant, slightly sexy Doctor, which is where the likes of David Tennant (10th) and Matt Smith (11th) came from. Back then, the idea of the Doctor was that he would be a very intelligent, slightly dotty man. That's the character William Hartnell plays. An old, clever man, who is slightly mischievous. He by no means always saves the day. In fact, in many situations he's the one who gets them into trouble and his companions (Barbara and Ian, two teachers) are the saviours. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm bringing all this up because if you watch the new series, the character that the Doctor portrays is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; how it was in the original series (at least to begin with).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another issue to consider is that in the very beginning Doctor Who had an educational remit. This meant that for every &quot;futuristic&quot; serial it ran, it had to run a serious &quot;historical&quot; serial which would accurately tell a real life historical event (such as Marco Polo, the burning of Rome by Nero etc). Now this remit only last a few series, but it's another thing that's worth bearing in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, if you &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; decide to go back to the Original Series, there is one more thing you must accept. Due to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes&quot;&gt;wiping policy of the BBC&lt;/a&gt; there are a number of episodes of Doctor Who that are missing (mostly Patrick Troughton, the 2nd Doctor's, but also a fair few of Hartnell's (1st Doctor)). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, if you do start watching William Hartnell right from 1963, within a few years you'll start hitting episodes that you'll either have to listen to the audio from (they were broadcast over radio) or you'll have to skip entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said all that, the big positive of going back to the Original Series is that you'll get to soak in all the Doctor Who mythology, hear, see, live and breath the universe presented and be a &quot;true&quot; Whovian! But - it is a long (and expensive) haul. Don't expect to finish anytime soon!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unquestionably start with the Modern Series (2005). If you like it and want more and are considering the Original Series, consider the following questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will the black and white/grainy aspect of the stories bother you?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will the low production costs of original episodes bother you?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will the different presentation of the Doctor (not as strong/intelligent etc) as modern Doctor bother you?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Will the fact many of the 2nd Doctors serials are missing, meaning you'd have to &quot;skip&quot; them bother you?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer to any of these is yes, then perhaps the Original Series isn't for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the answer to all of these is no, then start watching and enjoying :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T15:12:44.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12386" CreationDate="2014-05-27T16:03:57.513" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as the two lower enlisted &quot;only following&quot; orders, as a service member, you are supposed to follow &quot;lawful&quot; orders. If a General ordered you to go out and murder 6 children, if you don't follow the order, you of course would not get in trouble,  however if you did, you would go to prison. Now, that being said, it is is established in the film, that the Code Red is a form of punishment that is commonplace for that particular unit. With that in mind, you can't expect two lower enlisted soldiers to understand if that in fact is a lawful order or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I worked in the Army Jag Corps for years, it is rare to see a &quot;Dishonorable Discharge&quot;, that is usually saved for murderers and rapist and such. Since it was proven that there was no intent to harm Pvt Santiago, only to train, I doubt they would have received that discharge classification. Also, they went on trial for murder, so any defense attorney worth his salt could easily get a retrail based on the new evidence and prove they were following orders they believed beyond a shadow of a doubt were infact &quot;lawful&quot; orders and keep their careers. After all, Santiago's death was a freak accident, not intentional. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What got me is how Jessup got arrested.  What would normally take place is with the new evidence, an investigation would take place and if the evidence would charges being pressed, he would then possibly be arrested,  but he would surely get released until the trail&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more thing, Lt Kendrick is done, we will be prosecuted for perjury and he will get discharged. Probably no jail time, but his career is over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9820" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T16:03:57.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19727" CreationDate="2014-05-27T16:23:59.527" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay I'm with the bulk of the above opinion, starting with the reboot is far and away the best option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want a taster of the original stuff without committing to hundreds of hours of tv there where 2 Peter Cushing movies they aren't cannon but give an okay jumping on point and are in colour with slightly (very slightly) higher production values.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the companion show to the 50th anniversary special and Adventure in Time and Space gives a nice grounding to the old series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's worth remembering for almost 5 decades people have been jumping into it on whatever episode happened to be on and figuring out from there and there's a new Doctor due imminently which is usually a good starting point (The old stuffs not going anywhere go back and catch up when you think you need it/you'll enjoy it there's no shortage of people to give you the reference points online)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9821" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T16:23:59.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19735" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-27T17:37:02.227" Score="2" ViewCount="546" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can someone please explain the use and significance of flyover sequences between scenes in TV shows and movies? (For example, the TV show House M.D. has flyover shots between scenes of the outsides of the hospital that Dr. House works in.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically, what effect is a flyover sequence expected to have on the viewer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9823" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T11:34:43.890" Title="The use of flyover sequences" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19736" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19765" CreationDate="2014-05-27T18:00:09.270" Score="25" ViewCount="9586" Body="&lt;p&gt;Charles Xavier died in X-Men Last Stand. But according to the post credits scene of that movie and this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-wolverine/26587/exploring-the-wolverines-post-credits-scene&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;, Charles transferred his mind to his brain-dead twin brother's body. So now that he is alive and using his brain dead brother's body, shouldn't he be able to walk? But the Days of Future Past's dystopian future shows him in a wheelchair. Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4314" LastEditorUserId="7482" LastEditDate="2014-05-28T03:42:22.577" LastActivityDate="2019-08-06T17:46:38.330" Title="Why is the Professor still in a wheel chair?" Tags="|plot-explanation|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-days-of-future-past|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19735" CreationDate="2014-05-27T18:24:16.327" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Typically a flyover is used as an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Establishing_shot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;establishing shot&lt;/a&gt; to indicate where and what time the following scenes take place and generally make the world feel bigger. If the show took place exclusively inside, the viewer may realise they're just watching a bunch of people on a set instead of characters out in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;when&lt;/em&gt; is also fairly important in House: the hospital is full of fluorescent lights and closed blinds which makes it difficult to judge the time without an outside perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The establishing shots in House, and many other broadcast TV shows, are also typically used after advert breaks to allow new viewers to understand what's going on in a show in progress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T18:24:16.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19735" CreationDate="2014-05-27T18:24:17.797" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my experience, it can be used in two ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) It establishes the location that the next scene will take place in. For example, I used a shot tilting up the outside of a skyscraper in &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/EghBZprmH6o&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this video&lt;/a&gt;. The viewer then gets the sense that the next shot (of a board room) takes place inside that skyscraper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Flyovers between scenes can also evoke a sense that time is passing, though the location of the following scene is the same as the previous scene. Movies also sometimes use a shot of an inanimate object in the room, such as a sculpture or piece of art, for a few seconds, in order to show passage of time. It puts the characters and action in the background and gives the viewers a visual break. The technique is equivalent to a novel ending one chapter and starting another one, or displaying extra white space between paragraphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T18:24:17.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19739" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-27T18:33:25.547" Score="7" ViewCount="1193" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main theme of the movie &quot;The Third Man&quot; sounds weird to me! The movie is dark and full of mystery, but the theme is something funny and happy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the reason behind this apparently intended contrast?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6204" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-28T20:01:49.573" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T22:43:22.643" Title="Why does the score not match the movie's atmosphere?" Tags="|analysis|soundtrack|the-third-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19740" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31079" CreationDate="2014-05-27T18:45:58.763" Score="19" ViewCount="927" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frances McDormand was nominated for best actress for “Fargo,” which she doesn't appear in until 33 minutes into the film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that the latest a best actor/actress Oscar nominee has appeared in their film, or is there someone who appeared even later in their film who received an Oscar nomination for their leading role?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is for best actor/actress, not &lt;em&gt;supporting&lt;/em&gt; actor/actress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-09T19:43:31.770" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T19:43:31.770" Title="Which Best Actor/Actress Oscar nominee shows up the latest in his/her movie?" Tags="|academy-awards|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19741" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19751" CreationDate="2014-05-27T18:47:47.930" Score="11" ViewCount="37525" Body="&lt;p&gt;With the exception of pornography (which I don't think makes it to the &quot;silver screen&quot;), which movie first made use of nudity? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that the term &quot;nudity&quot; is much different now than it was back then. Wearing a skirt that was thigh high was considered nudity as an example. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I  mean by nudity is a complete shot of an unclothed &amp;amp; exposed area of a male or female body parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-28T01:01:57.913" LastActivityDate="2017-12-17T02:35:08.557" Title="When was the first use of nudity on the silver screen?" Tags="|first-appearance|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19741" CreationDate="2014-05-27T20:07:07.780" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure that this is the first full nudity in a Hollywood movie, but Jane is completely naked in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdhBRRkNvts&quot;&gt;this scene&lt;/a&gt; from &quot;Tarzan and His Mate&quot; from 1934.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T20:07:07.780" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19746" CreationDate="2014-05-27T20:28:15.217" Score="8" ViewCount="6591" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sign_of_Three&quot;&gt;The Sign Of Three&lt;/a&gt;, when John enters 221B Baker Street, he finds Mrs.Hudson laughing hysterically. When asked, she replies telegrams. What was so funny about the telegrams?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JOHN: Mrs Hudson?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MRS HUDSON: Oh, hello, darling!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JOHN: You all right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JOHN: I was – I was coming to see Sherlock, and I thought you were ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MRS HUDSON (giggling): Go!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JOHN: ... possibly dying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MRS HUDSON: Oh,sorry!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JOHN: What’s wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MRS HUDSON: The-the telegrams!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JOHN: Sorry,what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MRS HUDSON (giggling): Oh, sorry, dear!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source for Transcript: &lt;a href=&quot;http://arianedevere.livejournal.com/65379.html&quot;&gt;Ariane DeVere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9684" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-05-28T08:18:32.397" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T08:18:32.397" Title="What did Mrs. Hudson find so amusing about the telegrams?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19745" CreationDate="2014-05-27T21:47:09.657" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What was so funny about the telegrams?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The telegrams are actually short letters from guests who could not make it to the wedding, sending their wishes to the newlyweds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: First things first. Telegrams.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (He picks them up and shows them to the guests.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  SHERLOCK (quick-fire): Well, they’re not actually telegrams. We just call them telegrams. I don’t know why. Wedding tradition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://arianedevere.livejournal.com/65379.html&quot;&gt;Same transkript&lt;/a&gt;, next scene)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the best man's job to read them at the wedding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was my understanding that Mrs. Hudson was thinking about how Sherlock would have to read all those emotional letters, filled with words of endearment, out aloud, and the thought amused her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is a very rational character and has little empathy for such kind words, so he is probably the worst man for the job. In fact, he ends up skipping most of them because he simply finds them unnecessary and irritating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK (reading the next card): “To John and Mary. All good wishes for your special day. With love and many big ... (he breaks off, then continues slowly) ... big squishy cuddles, from Stella and Ted.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(He looks up, blinking rapidly. Greg sniggers and Molly smiles.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK (reading the next card): “Mary – lots of love, ...”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(He breathes out an almost silent, ‘Oh’. John and Mary look up at him.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JOHN: Yeah?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK (disparagingly): “... poppet ...”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(He loudly sounds the ‘t’ at the end of the word. John and Mary giggle.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: “... Oodles of love and heaps of good wishes from CAM.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, after a moment he loses all hint of patience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK (looking at the next card): Um, “special day” ... (he drops the card onto the table and looks at the next one) ... “very special day” ... (he drops that one, then continues working rapidly through the next ones) ... “love” ... “love” ... “love” ... “love” ... “lo...”; bit of a theme – you get the gist. People are basically fond.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (There’s some laughter from the guests.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The guests end up finding this funny, mostly because they know how uncomfortable this is for Sherlock. This was probably also what Mrs. Hudson was anticipating and what was making her laugh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-05-27T23:10:43.683" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T23:10:43.683" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19747" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-27T21:48:36.083" Score="17" ViewCount="825" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most storytelling concepts that have names that sound like the name of a person can be traced to an actual person, real or fictitious.  (Foley, Mary Sue, etc.)  But I've never come across an explanation for the origin of the term &quot;McGuffin&quot;.  Who was McGuffin, and why are artifacts that drive the plot named after him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2023" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T14:34:29.713" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T14:34:29.713" Title="Who was McGuffin?" Tags="|cinema-history|macguffin|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19747" CreationDate="2014-05-27T22:11:38.927" Score="25" Body="&lt;h1&gt;TL;DR&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name &lt;em&gt;MacGuffin&lt;/em&gt; does not originate from a particular person's name. It's just a nonsense term that has been around before it was applied to the movie concept of a random item that drives the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Long answer&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MacGuffin&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tvtropes&lt;/a&gt; attributes Alfred Hitchcock with making the term &lt;em&gt;MacGuffin&lt;/em&gt; famous, and Hitchcock himself names one of his screenwriters, Angus McPhail, as the creator of the word:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The term was popularized by Alfred Hitchcock, who credited one of his screenwriters, Angus McPhail, with the creation of this concept and the name for it, citing a particular school-boy joke:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A man is riding on a train when a second gentleman gets on and sits down across from him.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The first man notices the second is holding an oddly shaped package.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;quot;What is that?&amp;quot; the first man asks.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;quot;A MacGuffin, a tool used to hunt lions in the Scottish highlands.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;quot;But there are no lions in the Scottish highlands,&amp;quot; says the first man.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;quot;Well then,&amp;quot; says the other, &amp;quot;That's no MacGuffin&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; gives a very similar story with additional background information, and giving various books about Hitchcock as the source of the information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hitchcock related this anecdote in a television interview for Richard Schickel's documentary The Men Who Made the Movies and for Dick Cavett's interview. According to author Ken Mogg, screenwriter Angus MacPhail, a friend of Hitchcock, may have originally coined the term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be noted that the concept existed in movies before the term &lt;em&gt;MacGuffin&lt;/em&gt; was coined for it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The World War I–era actress Pearl White used weenie to identify whatever object (a roll of film, a rare coin, expensive diamonds, etc.) impelled the heroes and villains to pursue each other through the convoluted plots of The Perils of Pauline and the other silent film serials in which she starred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know for sure if the joke is the original source of the term, but it seems very likely. However there is no indication that there was any person named MacGuffin that was the source of this term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T22:11:38.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19750" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19762" CreationDate="2014-05-27T23:21:52.423" Score="5" ViewCount="959" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember quite a long time ago a cartoon which I’ve forgotten the name of, I saw it on ABC in Australia between the ages of 6 to 8, I’m currently 24.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main character's name is Leo I think and he has a girlfriend named Diane, in Leo's room his cupboard apparently connects to other dimensions, most of which are dangerous, apparently there's this monster who is always visiting him who Leo is friendly with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leo's neighbor is apparently suspicious of him and his entire family, in one episode she's investigating his room and goes into the cupboard to fall into another dimension where Leo and this monster have to rescue her, Leo's neighbor also sings the Opening (which Leo and Diane are named in).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one episode something happens to the dimensions which cause them to filter out effecting the entire house, once scene in the main hall with the stairs the floor becomes lava and Leo's parents have to use spelunking gear to climb along the ceiling to get to the living room, as they are doing this Leo's aunt enters from the front door and while his parents try and warn her about the lava she steps into the hall and everything is apparently normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently Leo goes to great length to hide his monster friend and his cupboard from everyone resulting in situations where Leo ditches Diane or starts acting weird around her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4297" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-05-28T09:17:04.647" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T13:38:41.690" Title="Cartoon about a dimensional gateway within a cupboard" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|animation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:57:19.013" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19741" CreationDate="2014-05-27T23:40:00.283" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia lists &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspiration_%281915_film%29&quot;&gt;Inspiration&lt;/a&gt; (1915) as the first film with non-pornographic nudity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For films that &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; intended to be erotic or pornographic, you have to go at least back to 1896 for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Coucher_de_la_Mari%C3%A9e&quot;&gt;Le Coucher de la Mariée&lt;/a&gt; (or Bedtime for the Bride or The Bridegroom's Dilemma), where cabaret performer recreated her striptease act during a bath scene. The short film was released in the US in 1903.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is more information in this Wikipedia article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudity_in_film&quot;&gt;nudity in film&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastActivityDate="2014-05-27T23:40:00.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19741" CreationDate="2014-05-28T02:21:33.400" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you count the zoopraxiscope as 'silver screen' then this pushes the date back to at least 1883, with Eadweard Muybridge's studies for the University of Pennsylvania. These included &lt;em&gt;Boys playing Leapfrog&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Woman Walking Down Stairs&lt;/em&gt;. Of course (as you can tell from the names) these are hardly feature films, just several seconds of captured motion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9833" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T02:21:33.400" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19753" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19774" CreationDate="2014-05-28T02:28:24.860" Score="8" ViewCount="501" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the mid-season finale of Mad Men's season 7 (Episode 7, &quot;Waterloo), Bert Cooper appears to Don and sings a glowing rendition of &quot;The Best Things in Life Are Free.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The musical number was a unique one for the show-- it was the first in the series' seven year history. Though perhaps it makes more sense to consider it a delusion from reality or hallucination (not literally)-- of which there have been several.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why Bert Cooper, following his death, to deliver the message? Why a musical number, and not, for instance, an apparition to preach to Don? Why &quot;The Best Things in Life Are Free?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T14:17:41.153" Title="Why &quot;The Best Things in Life Are Free?&quot;" Tags="|mad-men|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15424" CreationDate="2014-05-28T06:22:05.870" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, most of 11's life was spent at the battle of Trenzalore, he spent at least a couple hundred years there.&#xA;Secondly, there was his moody period where he just shut himself away for a very long time (on top of a fake cloud with a very long ladder, as you do).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there's the fact that he spent a particularly long time searching for Clara before settling down as a monk.&#xA;Then of course there's all those adventures he had with River.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The years start to add up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9145" LastEditorUserId="9145" LastEditDate="2014-05-28T06:58:44.310" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T06:58:44.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19756" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-05-28T06:53:35.167" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;2014's superhero film, based on Marvel Comics' characters X-men, part of &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/x-men-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It acts as a sequel to both &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/x-men-the-last-stand&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men-the-last-stand&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men-the-last-stand&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/x-men-first-class&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;x-men-first-class&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;x-men-first-class&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story is inspired by the 1981 Uncanny X-Men storyline &quot;Days of Future Past&quot;. Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is sent into the past to save both humans and mutants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Links&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_Days_of_Future_Past&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877832&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Poster&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GZQkE.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GZQkE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="34492" LastEditDate="2017-01-24T17:33:03.930" LastActivityDate="2017-01-24T17:33:03.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19757" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-05-28T06:53:35.167" Score="0" Body="2014's superhero film, based on Marvel Comics' characters X-men. It acts as a sequel to both X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: First Class. The story, inspired by the 1981 Uncanny X-Men storyline &quot;Days of Future Past&quot; " OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-05-28T06:53:35.167" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T06:53:35.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19759" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19761" CreationDate="2014-05-28T07:19:24.637" Score="5" ViewCount="9539" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sign_of_Three&quot;&gt;The Sign of Three&lt;/a&gt;, when Sherlock is having a &lt;em&gt;conference&lt;/em&gt; with the 5 women (the &lt;em&gt;Mayfly Man&lt;/em&gt; case), he finds that the employers of all five women are different. So how does Tessa know about the wedding and why did the &lt;em&gt;Mayfly man&lt;/em&gt; date the other women?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: Job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;GAIL: Gardener.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CHARLOTTE: Cook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TESSA: Private nurse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;ROBYN: I do security work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;VICKY : Maid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: Obvious. You all work for the same person!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: No, not the same employer. Damn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source for Transcript: &lt;a href=&quot;http://arianedevere.livejournal.com/65379.html&quot;&gt;Ariane DeVere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9684" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-05-28T08:17:11.077" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T08:24:24.480" Title="What was the connection between the Mayfly Man, Tessa and the other women?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19759" CreationDate="2014-05-28T08:14:18.320" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two possible reasons how Tessa knew about the wedding: she saw the invitation whilst working for Sholto, or was told by Sholto in her capacity as his private nurse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Mayfly Man dated the women as they &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; worked for Sholto at some time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All five women have dated the same man (The Mayfly Man), named as such as he lived like a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk/blog/21july&quot;&gt;Mayfly&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The man had given a different name on each occasion...He'd taken the names of people from&#xA;  obituaries. He'd found single recently-deceased men who had lived&#xA;  alone - and he'd taken the women back to their homes. So on each&#xA;  occasion, he'd taken a dead man's identity for one night only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer your questions as to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; he dated them - the most logical explanation is that they &lt;em&gt;all worked for Sholto at some time&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, we know from the conference that Sherlock initially dismissed this link as they had different employers. Instead, he focussed on the fact they all had a secret. However, there is an issue with this. Whilst they all work for different employers &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;, their &lt;em&gt;employment history&lt;/em&gt; is never mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://arianedevere.livejournal.com/66485.html&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the reception, everyone is back in the room. Sherlock tries to act&#xA;  nonchalantly as he walks over to a nearby table and picks up one of&#xA;  the name cards on it while pulling a pen on a chain from his&#xA;  waistcoat.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;SHERLOCK&lt;/strong&gt;: Ooh! A recluse, small household staff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;FLASHBACK TO THE COUNCIL CHAMBER.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;SHERLOCK&lt;/strong&gt;: Job.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;GAIL&lt;/strong&gt;: Gardener.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;CHARLOTTE&lt;/strong&gt;: Cook.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;TESSA&lt;/strong&gt;: Private nurse.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;VICKY&lt;/strong&gt;: Maid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SHERLOCK&lt;/strong&gt; (writing on the name card in the reception room): High&#xA;  turnover for additional security.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;FLASHBACK TO THE COUNCIL CHAMBER.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;ROBYN&lt;/strong&gt;: I do security work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SHERLOCK&lt;/strong&gt; (walking over to Sholto and casually dropping the name card&#xA;  down in front of him before walking away): Probably all signed&#xA;  confidentiality agreements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He realised at this point that they had all worked for Sholto at some point (not necessarily at the same time). They either &lt;em&gt;lied&lt;/em&gt; about it to Sherlock as they had signed confidentiality agreements or they were simply &lt;em&gt;never asked&lt;/em&gt; by Sherlock as he was more interested in their &lt;em&gt;current&lt;/em&gt; employer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the photographer who tried to kill Sholto effectively dated all the women due to their connection to Sholto.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Tessa, there are a few possibilities as to how she knows about the wedding. Note her job - &lt;strong&gt;private nurse&lt;/strong&gt;. She has a strong reason to know Sholto's whereabouts at all times, in case he needs medical attention. It's possible she was &lt;em&gt;told&lt;/em&gt; he would be at the wedding and passed this information on during her seduction by the Mayfly Man. Another possibility is that as Sholto's private nurse, with close access to him, she simply saw the wedding invitation lying around and likely made the link between the name on it (John Watson) and the blog she reads online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-05-28T08:20:29.680" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T08:20:29.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19750" CreationDate="2014-05-28T08:31:08.563" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like the animated French series &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mot_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mot&lt;/a&gt; (1996-97) about a purple monster called Mot that befriends a boy named Leo. From the recap:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In order to voyage through time and space, Mot simply has to find a door opening onto a tiny space equipped with a movable panel, and &lt;strong&gt;he arrives unexpectedly in his friend Leo's room via the wardrobe door&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leo's girlfriend is called Diane there, and it aired in Australia in the 90s. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG2YmDcbROw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here are the opening credits&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-05-28T13:38:41.690" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T13:38:41.690" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12946" CreationDate="2014-05-28T09:55:13.317" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to answer the question I saw the movie again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The operation &quot;nightshade&quot; involved CIA, MI6 (British Secret Service) and Dr Edward Bailey, Marvin and Frank Moses names were dropped in the document so they they get looped in. Because of the Bad intentions (to set off the bomb in Kremlin) of the mad scientist the MI6 decided to lock him up. But since even he (Dr Edward Bailey) was involved in the mission he knew how it ended, and wikileaks need not always have the exact orginal copy of the document just the happening of the incident the mad scientist in his own words enacted the same scene in words and posted (using the cell phone of the guard) about the mission online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-28T10:05:24.593" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T10:05:24.593" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19736" CreationDate="2014-05-28T10:31:50.643" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Days of Future Past&lt;/em&gt; reveals, albeit somewhat subtly and with more inference than direct exposition, the reason for Xavier's inability to walk...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; His lower paralysis has manifested as a result of the psychological trauma of the gunshot, but his psyche has embraced it implicitly as part of his mutancy. When Xavier takes Mutant supressing serum, he regains the ability to walk: meaning his paraplegia is directly linked with his powers. In order to use his powers, he must lose the ability to walk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think this was supposed to be conveyed as part of his secondary-stage mutation: which was perhaps too much of a concept to fit into an already crowded narrative.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real unanswered question, is why does Xavier still possess the likeness of Patrick Stewart, when &lt;em&gt;X-Men: The Last Stand&lt;/em&gt; shows that body being atomized and his consciousness transferred into another... A question I intend to ask, myself!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T10:31:50.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19767" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-28T11:47:33.673" Score="15" ViewCount="5330" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both James McAvoy and Patrick Stewart touch their right temple when Professor X uses his telepathic ability. I can't think of another mutant who does something similar so what's the reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does he physically need to do it or is it a habit? Is it a visual clue for the audience? Does he do it in the comics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2017-05-31T22:12:27.533" Title="Why does Professor X touch his head when using his abilties?" Tags="|character|x-men-cinematic-universe|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19768" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19782" CreationDate="2014-05-28T12:50:54.797" Score="44" ViewCount="20772" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Quick background&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sound I am referring to can be heard &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?v=dklA4-ACN4k&amp;amp;t=26&quot;&gt;in this video&lt;/a&gt;, in the police radio&#xA;at 0.26. It sounds like, &lt;em&gt;&quot;one-four-one celibacy&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. I've noticed this sound for&#xA;a long time. So, the Internet has all the answers, I did a quick search and&#xA;found this &lt;a href=&quot;http://giantbomb.com/forums/off-topic-31/that-police-dispatch-noise-you-know-that-one-429586&quot;&gt;forum post&lt;/a&gt;. This person who made that YouTube video described&#xA;the scenario that I share in my life. I also played SimCity 3000 for years and I&#xA;also notice this sound in movies and TV shows all the time. I just heard it last&#xA;night watching the X-Files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Full question&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my full question is this, why is this sound byte used over and over when&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;movies &amp;amp; TV have huge budgets and will spend good money to add&#xA;authenticity/realism&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;police radio chatter could easily be recorded in a studio or recorded off a&#xA;police scanner&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the clip is at least 20 years old&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a guess that there is actually a legal issue here, in America. That would&#xA;explain it. The police scanner equivalent of using a 555 phone number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9841" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-05-30T07:09:26.480" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T07:05:44.990" Title="Why do movies &amp; TV use this police radio clip over and over?" Tags="|production|realism|sound-effects|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19768" CreationDate="2014-05-28T13:10:01.193" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some Movies &amp;amp; TV have big budgets, yes, but why waste it on something so few people are complaining about. This is just a stock clip purchasable/usable in films, much like the sound made when a bad guy appears on screen, or the high pitch shrill noises made in horror movies at a scene where a shock is supposed to occur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would assume this clip is used simply because it's cheap, it works and it sounds authentic. Why spend more when you don't have to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T13:10:01.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19767" CreationDate="2014-05-28T13:32:41.390" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Professor X does not need to touch his temple when he uses his telepathic powers. I've always thought this was a visual cue for the audience. He can be seen using his powers several times in films when he's having a casual mental conversation, using Cerebro, or touching someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VbppN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Using Cerebro&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/duyT2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jean&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's also sometimes depicted in the comics using his powers without touching his head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hfWuY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;No touching 1&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pBPng.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;No touching 2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oeomy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;No touching 3&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this is a strong visual cue, so many comics artists have used it over the years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MVFfb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Touching 1&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7ScY1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Touching 2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p6uJE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Touching 3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZNR9F.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Touching 4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3yVwA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Touching 5&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-05-31T22:12:27.533" LastActivityDate="2017-05-31T22:12:27.533" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18988" CreationDate="2014-05-28T13:36:19.960" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just did some searches in German and found no definitive information but claims that the German TV version had cuts, not of sex scenes but of graphic depiction of drug withdrawal. According to Wikipedia, the US/UK cinematic version had 4 minutes cut, which would make its runtime 134 minutes. Then again, I also found numbers for the runtime of 124, 136 and 137 minutes. Finally, differences in runtime of TV versions might be due to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/576i#PAL_speed-up&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PAL Speedup&lt;/a&gt; rather than cuts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recent DVD releases are supposed to be uncut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6233" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T13:36:19.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19768" CreationDate="2014-05-28T13:38:20.213" Score="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recycling effects is a very common tactic in post-production. Once you have an effect that works great, it's simply cheaper and faster to reuse it than to reinvent the wheel over and over again, especially when 99% of the viewers won't notice it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are one of the few people who noticed that this particular sound was recycled, but there are hundreds of cases of recycled sounds and other effects you did not even notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, here is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://listverse.com/2009/09/25/top-10-movie-sound-effects-we-all-recognize/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;list of 10 common recycled sound effects&lt;/a&gt;, including the very famous &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio&amp;amp;feature=kp&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wilhelm Scream&lt;/a&gt;, which was used in movies like Star Wars and Indiana Jones:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/cdbYsoEasio?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases like this, recycling elements can also be a tradition (e.g. a certain director adding his fingerprint) or a homage to previous movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://screencrush.com/reused-movie-tv-props-sets/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;list of recycled movie props&lt;/a&gt;, the most famous one being the newspaper that is used in a lot of shows and movies throughout screen history:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/87ejdl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;(picture taken from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/ed-oneill-has-been-reading-the-same-newspaper-for-20-years-2012-9&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;businessinsider.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user raoulduke12 gives a good explanation on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1047eg/ed_oneill_has_been_reading_about_himself_reading/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;reddit&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you make a television show, everything on it needs to be &amp;quot;cleared&amp;quot;, as in, legal to show on television without getting sued. So everything you use, whether it be artwork, products or yes, newspapers, needs to contain photographs and text that are legally safe to use on television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point in time, a company that specializes in manufacturing and renting props created a prop newspaper, using a photo that had been cleared. Since it was easy enough to just keep reprinting that newspaper and using it, that's exactly what Hollywood did. For 50+ years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I doubt it would be legal to use a police radio scanner to capture actual police radio chat and publish this later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T16:04:04.810" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19753" CreationDate="2014-05-28T14:06:12.963" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Three paragraph analysis, followed by quotes.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don is perpetually dissatisfied with life. He sabotages each success as he attains it, unable to appreciate it; the pursuit is broken and his value system is broken, where he understands and wants wealth, power, influence and adoration, but doesn't experience the happiness that's supposed to come with those things. All the money and adoration in the world won't stop him from bombing out, and he bombs out season after season. It's a recurring theme on Mad Men and a classic one of tragic heroes across plays, films and books: striving for an ideal that, when attained, creates a hole instead of filling it. From the outside we get it, even if the hero doesn't: the &lt;em&gt;measure&lt;/em&gt; of success is broken. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the midseason finale, Don seems to recognize this, and is beginning to value things differently. He lets his second marriage go wistfully but amicably; he takes visible pleasure in workshopping with Peggy and second-fiddling the burger pitch so Peggy can achieve &lt;em&gt;her&lt;/em&gt; success by her own healthy measure; he is honest with himself and others about what work is worth doing and is on an upswing at his company while still significantly diminished as a player in it -- and he's okay with that. He's happy, and that happiness is coming from a different place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things end on a cheery note. While yet another person close to Don has died, there's no heavy cloud, and while Burt was a font of wisdom none is needed this time: no sermon, no preaching. The song doesn't teach a lesson so much as pleasantly punctuate one Don has learned himself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Margaret Lyons at Vulture has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2014/05/what-has-each-death-meant-on-mad-men.html&quot;&gt;an essay on the significance of death in &lt;em&gt;Mad Men&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that says it better, and has this important excerpt: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not that we need the show's creator to explain this moment, but he does: Matt Weiner says this song and dance are forcing Don to wonder, &quot;What is the real value of success?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2014/05/matthew-weiner-interview-mad-men-mid-season-7-finale-joan-hates-don-bert-cooper-dance.html&quot;&gt;interview with Vulture&lt;/a&gt; posted May 27, 2014, Weiner say: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's within the language of the show. ... We use the camera to tell a story of internal feelings. ...  Does it coincide on some meta level? I guess. The fact that Robert Morse is one of the greatest song-and-dance men of all time and there was really never a way within the fabric of the show's reality to utilize that, yeah. I always wanted him to sing on the show. Roger says, &quot;The last thing I said to him were the words of some old song.&quot; I guess that's sort of stuck in Don's head. Don would know that song. Don doesn't know that Bert dances. But for me, I picked that song and Bert's death during the moon landing from the beginning of the season to make a statement about the fact that this has been a striving for success on Don Draper's part in a very new way.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastEditorUserId="9247" LastEditDate="2014-05-28T14:17:41.153" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T14:17:41.153" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19727" CreationDate="2014-05-28T15:26:56.817" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're just starting out, then starting with the reboot makes sense.  They tried to make a fairly clean start and work back into the 'legacy' villians such as the Daleks and the Master.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to backfill from there, there's two DVD sets of the &quot;Doctor Revisited&quot; episodes, where they do a show-and-tell about the prior Doctors leading into one of their episodes: for Hartnell it's &quot;The Aztecs&quot;, for Pertwee &quot;Spearhead from Space&quot; (his intro), Tom Baker &quot;Pyramids of Mars&quot;, etc.  That should give you a good taste for the style of the prior characters without drowning you in twenty-five years of material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9848" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T15:26:56.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19778" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19785" CreationDate="2014-05-28T17:14:47.147" Score="14" ViewCount="4847" Body="&lt;p&gt;The character of Dr. Bolivar Trask from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877832/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, who hates or at least fears the rising population of mutants as a threat for humanity and ultimately develops the &lt;em&gt;Sentinels&lt;/em&gt; as a counter-measure, obviously has dwarfism (and forgive me if this is not the appropriate medical term).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I absolutely don't say Peter Dinklage's acting abilities don't stand on their own and the dwarfism of Trask might just be an ignored side effect of Dinklage's, in a movie franchise that is as much about conformity and genetic deviation it might very well be that there is actually more to this aspect of his character. So, &lt;strong&gt;is there any significance to Bolivar Trask being a person of short stature and what else does this tell us about his character and his motivations&lt;/strong&gt;, if anything? And &lt;strong&gt;is this true to the source material&lt;/strong&gt; or an invention of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2023-07-26T18:00:57.223" LastActivityDate="2023-07-26T18:00:57.223" Title="Why is Bolivar Trask a person of short stature?" Tags="|character|analysis|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-days-of-future-past|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="19779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19727" CreationDate="2014-05-28T18:04:08.960" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I've seen there are not a whole lot of overarching plotlines in Dr. Who other than &quot;The Doctor is a Time Lord&quot; and &quot;Daleks are bad&quot;, and for the most part each episode is a self-contained story with little to do with any other. In the cases that there are callbacks to other stories it's usually concisely explained with something like &quot;don't blink, if you blink you die&quot; or pretty apparent like &quot;Cybermen are also bad&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And like someone else said in here, if you're not confused then you're probably not watching Dr. Who.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now moisturize me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9854" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T18:04:08.960" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19727" CreationDate="2014-05-28T19:13:11.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like a lot of the suggestions, but I wanted to report &lt;a href=&quot;http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/66127404108/do-you-think-i-could-read-dr-who-eleven-doctors-eleven&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a suggestion from Neil Gaiman&lt;/a&gt; (who wrote several episodes of &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; in addition to several bestselling novels), which I think is quite good:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’d watch some Doctor Who, if I were you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, I’ll make you a watching list. Netflix is your friend:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch an episode called BLINK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch The Girl in the Fireplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch Dalek. (Yes, the Doctor looks different. Same man, though.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch The Empty Child two parter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch The Doctor’s Wife (I wrote that one, which is why I’m putting it on the list.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch City of Death (it’s a classic series of shorter episodes from 1978ish, written by Douglas Adams).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somewhere around there, start watching the New Series 1 with Rose and just come forward normally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The New Series 1 he is referring to is the same 2005 Modern series that many others have mentioned; its first episode is entitled &amp;quot;Rose.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9855" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T19:13:11.933" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19778" CreationDate="2014-05-28T19:52:22.820" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that Bolivar is of short stature may influence his hatred towards mutants, being a little person could be seen as a mutation, and probably deep down he feels jealous, even angry that these people get awesome powers and he what he gets is to be short&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9856" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T19:52:22.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19768" CreationDate="2014-05-28T20:51:14.477" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is just an addendum to the other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular audio clips is part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodedge.com/media/catalog/pdf/PE_Vol_1_Catalog.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Premiere Edition Vol.1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (released in 1990)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EmKd8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Hollywood Edge&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;from the company  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodedge.com/index.php&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hollywood Edge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;provides high end, professional, and &lt;strong&gt;royalty free special effects and music for all media use&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;It's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.audiomicro.com/office-police-dispatcher-police-radio-calls-re-pe152201-sound-effects-150042&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;2 min track&lt;/a&gt; that features: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Police Radio; Calls Received Through Radio From Female Dispatcher &#xA;  With Static And Squelch Pops; Close Perspective&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://audiomicro-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/preview/3674/a314b32d810bfce&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to listen to it]&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;(it's also available on &lt;a href=&quot;https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/hollywood-edge-sound-effects/id217114804&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;iTunes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Premiere Edition Vol. 1&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodedge.com/premiere-edition-01-download.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;contains 1,458 sound effects and currently costs $750&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;&lt;br&gt;This means that for a relatively low cost you get a sound effect library which you can use royalty free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2014-05-28T20:51:14.477" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19778" CreationDate="2014-05-28T21:41:25.630" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears the decision to cast Peter Dinklage was made for two main reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First (and arguably foremost), he's &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; hot property in Hollywood. A quick look at his &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Dinklage#Awards_and_nominations&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; can show the amount of awards and nominations he's been up for since Game of Thrones debuted. He also regularly tops fan polls regarding their favorite character. All of this adds up to a convincing reason to cast him in a film (similar to someone like Bryan Cranston, from Breaking Bad, starring in Godzilla).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, his short stature &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; appear to be significant - as it has left many observers questioning the decision and making links between his disorder (anchondroplasia) and his character's dislike of mutants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peter Dinklage was certainly aware of this. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hitfix.com/news/bryan-singer-peter-dinklage-compare-x-mens-bolivar-trask-to-hitler&quot;&gt;In an interview&lt;/a&gt; which also involved Bryan Singer (the director) the following dialogue took place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To hear &quot;X-Men: Days of Future Past&quot; director Bryan Singer tell it,&#xA;  however, Trask has a lot in common with no less than Adolf Hitler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Singer&lt;/strong&gt;: “Trask is, ultimately, a peace lover. He feels that humanity will go&#xA;  on fighting each other unless they find some common element to unite&#xA;  against,” the filmmaker told &quot;Empire&quot; magazine. “Perhaps as Hitler&#xA;  used the Jews as a scapegoat to bond the darker parts of Europe, he’s&#xA;  doing the same thing with mutants. There’s also something interesting&#xA;  about his size. I’m sure he went very underestimated throughout his&#xA;  life. Trask comments on that — I don’t know if it’ll be in the final&#xA;  picture — but he says, ‘I was underestimated, so do not underestimate&#xA;  these creatures.’”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Peter Dinklage, who plays Trask, said he “wouldn’t go so far as&#xA;  [comparing Trask with] Hitler,” but acknowledged similarities between&#xA;  the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dinklage&lt;/strong&gt;: “I am this guy who’s four and a half feet tall, but my life doesn’t&#xA;  constantly address it,” the &quot;Game of Thrones&quot; star explained. “With me&#xA;  playing that role, I had to think about that stuff. I’m not going to&#xA;  play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I’m a bit of a mutant. I can’t&#xA;  move metal or anything, but I thought of it as self-loathing.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Deep down, Trask can be quite sensitive about that aspect of&#xA;  himself,” he continued. “And sorry to go back to Hitler, but he wasn’t&#xA;  a six foot, perfect blond Aryan. He was a short, funny looking fellow.&#xA;  And talk about a mustache!”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you can see, both actor and director have made no attempt to hide Dinklage's and thus Trask's stature (which is only an issue in the movie, as in the comics he is of an average height). Instead, they've used it to explain some of the prejudices he may feel, given the prejudices he's been exposed to his whole life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I'd say Dinklage was simply cast as he's such a popular commodity in Hollywood at the moment. But his short stature certainly adds an interesting dimension to the character of Trask and provides extra motivations for his actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="4406" LastEditDate="2014-05-29T15:48:17.937" LastActivityDate="2014-05-29T15:48:17.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19787" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27346" CreationDate="2014-05-29T00:48:14.310" Score="5" ViewCount="774" Body="&lt;p&gt;Truffaut's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053198/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The 400 Blows&lt;/a&gt; is considered by many to be the first film of the French New Wave, and somewhat autobiographical, and Truffaut has been quoted as saying that the film saved his life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been suggested that there are quite a few similarities between Antoine Doinel and Holden Caulfield (Protagonist of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Catcher in the Rye&lt;/a&gt;), i.e. they lurch from adventure to adventure, both feature somewhat displaced, rebellious teenage boys, placed in a major city, and both feature main characters that are not really a part of any group, and tend to get excluded or shoved out of groups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence that Truffaut was influenced by J.D. Salinger (Catcher in the Rye, 1951) when penning the screenplay for 400 Blows (released 1959), or is it more a desire to rattle the cages of the Cannes judges who had banned Truffaut the year before?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-05-29T03:01:43.780" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T19:51:05.833" Title="Was &quot;The 400 Blows&quot; influenced by &quot;The Catcher in the Rye&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|the-400-blows|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19794" CreationDate="2014-05-29T09:28:07.373" Score="14" ViewCount="3217" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I watched Pulp Fiction again. I noticed something and now I'm curious about a little detail. When Vincent and Jules killing Brett in Pulp Fiction a yellow/orange light appears two times but they fire definitive more than two shots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Rear Window (1954) Jeff repeatedly sets off his camera flashbulbs, temporarily blinding Thorwald. And the light when Thorwald gets blinded looks like the flashing light in Pulp Fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe that's a reference but doesn't answer the question why the flashing light in Pulp Fiction is asynchron to the shots fired at Brett.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pulp Fiction scene: &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?v=PE9Qm8mShik&quot;&gt;http://youtube.com/watch?v=PE9Qm8mShik&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rear Window scene: &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?v=oowcsynjIwc&quot;&gt;http://youtube.com/watch?v=oowcsynjIwc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8737" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-29T13:02:19.390" LastActivityDate="2014-05-29T13:02:19.390" Title="Why is the flashing light asynchron to the shots fired at Brett in Pulp Fiction?" Tags="|reference|pulp-fiction|quentin-tarantino|rear-window|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19789" CreationDate="2014-05-29T10:27:26.420" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fascinating question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.tarantino.info/index.php/Pulp_Fiction_Movie_References_Guide&quot;&gt;Pulp Fiction Movie Reference Guide&lt;/a&gt;, this scene is actually a direct homage to the 1946 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killers_%281946_film%29&quot;&gt;The Killers&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;an American film noir directed by Robert Siodmak and based in part on the short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entry for &quot;The Killers&quot; reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Killers (1946): The killing of Brett mirrors the killing of Swede&#xA;  in 'The Killers', including flashing lights and the shot of the two&#xA;  hitmen firing their weapons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems that the flashing lights are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; in reference to Rear Window, but are an homage to The Killers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-05-29T10:27:26.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19736" CreationDate="2014-05-29T12:41:42.820" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually have an interesting theory about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no implicit link between the dark future timeline in &lt;em&gt;Days of Future Past&lt;/em&gt; and the original trilogy and Wolverine spin offs other than the characters and the actors who portray them. People are assuming that the events of the dark future timeline shown in &lt;em&gt;Days of Future Past&lt;/em&gt; are part of the same universe as the original trilogy and the Wolverine spin offs, despite a massive amount of evidence in the form of plot inconsistencies and continuity issues that this is not true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would go so far as to state that &lt;em&gt;First Class&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Days Of Future Past&lt;/em&gt; are a part of one X Men Universe, and that the original trilogy and the Wolverine spin offs are part of a separate, now redundant universe. This would explain why Mystique and Professor X never acknowledged one another in the original trilogy, or that Bolivar Trask is a large, alive black man in &lt;em&gt;X-Men: The Last Stand&lt;/em&gt; but a small, dead white man in the dark timeline of &lt;em&gt;Days of Future Past&lt;/em&gt;, which people are assuming is the sequel to &lt;em&gt;X-Men: The Last Stand&lt;/em&gt;. It explains away how Magneto would have ever escaped from prison after seemingly assassinating JFK to go on to be the bad guy of the original trilogy without Wolverine having gone into the past to set him free in the first place, as in the original trilogy we can just assume that was never implicated in the assassination of JFK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is now easier to think of the original trilogy and the Wolverine spin offs as another, entirely separate universe that has no canonical impact on the new universe that was created with &lt;em&gt;First Class&lt;/em&gt; and continued with &lt;em&gt;Days of Future Past&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="65239" LastEditDate="2019-08-06T17:46:38.330" LastActivityDate="2019-08-06T17:46:38.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="19798" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19800" CreationDate="2014-05-29T17:02:35.853" Score="11" ViewCount="1400" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Magneto&lt;/em&gt;'s future self in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877832/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; seems to be a refined and wiser man to some degree. While there were earlier instances of him working together with the &lt;em&gt;X-Men&lt;/em&gt; and this time it might also just be a mere convenience partnership in light of the &lt;em&gt;Sentinel&lt;/em&gt; threat, his mannerisms and statements about himself to have been on a &lt;em&gt;&quot;darker path&quot;&lt;/em&gt; in the past suggest that he seems to have overcome his aggressive and elitist attitude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, I'm not sure how much this is really due to a change in his character or just due to the fact that the humans aren't a threat anymore at all and it's only about sheer survival now. And in fact this &lt;em&gt;Sentinel&lt;/em&gt; threat shows that &lt;em&gt;Magneto&lt;/em&gt; wasn't so wrong with his fears about the future of mutants in the human society. If he is still not entirely convinced of &lt;em&gt;Charles&lt;/em&gt;' peaceful way, he might even have intended for his past self to follow his own goals when he asked &lt;em&gt;Logan&lt;/em&gt; to find him, too. So I wonder how fragile the alliance and reconciliation of &lt;em&gt;Magneto&lt;/em&gt; with the &lt;em&gt;X-Men&lt;/em&gt; really is. &lt;strong&gt;What caused him to change his whole attitude in favour of &lt;em&gt;Xavier&lt;/em&gt;'s way? Or is it really only a convenience partnership for now?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see that this is a highly speculative question since the movie doesn't seem to answer it (I would be happy if does, though) and especially since the future arc of the story is more or less moot, having been effectively annihilated by the past actions anyway. But maybe I missed something or the corresponding source material does provide some more information on this (if the movie was actually true to it in this regard).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T15:17:30.543" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T15:17:30.543" Title="How true is Magneto's future catharsis?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|analysis|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-days-of-future-past|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19798" CreationDate="2014-05-29T17:28:31.967" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't speak to the source material but considering First Class to back some of these claims:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this movie, it is portrayed that Charles and Erik were actually really close friends. Albeit they did have different ulterior motivations for their cause. Charles' mostly scientific vs Erik's compassion for mutants after being discriminated by Nazis facing a similar discrimination wasn't exactly something desired.  But they did have one thing in common which was a &lt;em&gt;unity&lt;/em&gt; of mutants whether it be for peace or war.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This relationship is then torn asunder by the ending events of First Class with Erik becoming vindicated in his fear that Humans would act against the mutants much as he has experienced before whereas Charles' truly thinks it is just a case of people fearing what they don't understand and to not feed into that fear but show it as irrational.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forward onto the events of Days (1973) and see that they are torn apart still due to those events with small sub-plots of fighting for Raven's heart and Charles believing that Erik actually killed JFK instead of trying to save him. They then revive their friendship in order to stop the dystopian future (2023-D).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, however, they conflict with each of Erik's irrational ideals.  Killing Raven is the only way to stop the future, publicly killing the figureheads of the US is the only way, etc.  Combine this with his previous outburst of wanting to use all the missiles against the Soviets &amp;amp; US at the Cuban Missile Crisis event at the end of First Class we can just see that Erik is mainly just irrational and a misguided planner in his regard for &quot;Mutant Superiority&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Combine this with the Erik we know in X-Men 1 &amp;amp; 3 and we see the same thing: Misguided in all his plots and a tad extremist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is only in 2023-D that we see Erik, as he is near death's door along with the rest of the remaining mutants and the person that was once his closest friend realize his flaws.  It is then where he utters the line: ( to the best of my memory, someone have a script?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All those years of senseless fighting...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That we truly see that he knows that what he did was actually what caused this current future.  And he feels genuine &lt;strong&gt;regret&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think he planned for his past self to follow any intention at all but it is fair to say that he probably suspected his past self to be as adamant as ever and would try something, whether it was intentional or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2014-05-29T17:28:31.967" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19802" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-29T19:12:33.773" Score="3" ViewCount="1394" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I understood from X-Men: Days of Future Past, it happens in the future, many years after The Wolverine (2013). Why then do Xavier and Magneto meet Logan in 2013? They must have been sent back in time by Kitty to warn Logan, but why warn him in 2013, and then take his help only many years later (ie., in DOFP)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9871" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-29T21:16:17.793" LastActivityDate="2014-05-29T21:16:17.793" Title="Why do Xavier and Magneto meet Wolverine in &quot;The Wolverine (2013)&quot;?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|the-wolverine|x-men-days-of-future-past|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19802" CreationDate="2014-05-29T19:16:41.743" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is possible that they merely knew the Sentinels were becoming more and more advanced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see the Mark I Sentinels in 1973 with the Mark X (ha!) being the super-powered ones we see in 2023-D (D meaning the Dystopian future).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering this scene with them recruiting Wolverine takes place in 2015-D we can assume the Sentinel program is probably advanced to a point and revealed at a point around this time that Charles &amp;amp; Erik realize they need to put aside their differences, team up, and get every mutant they know about to join their cause and prepare for a fight together as a mutant force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2014-05-29T19:28:38.360" LastActivityDate="2014-05-29T19:28:38.360" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19805" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19823" CreationDate="2014-05-29T21:38:52.233" Score="11" ViewCount="1610" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could you define what a grip does in the production of a movie, and then what makes the key grip, key?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When looking at the crew list of &quot;Big Trouble in Little China&quot; I noted it also shows, in addition to a grip, and key grip, a company grip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a key grip in charge of all the grips?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2014-05-29T23:10:38.310" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T15:01:58.510" Title="What is the difference between a grip and a key grip?" Tags="|production|crew|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19727" CreationDate="2014-05-29T22:43:24.820" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I totaly agree that starting at the beginning of the 2005 reboot is the way to go, I'm going to make an alternative suggestion for if you want to go back a bit further. Start with Jon Pertwee (Third Doctor) either at the start of his tenure, or at the point where the series become colour. You will miss much less ny skipping the first two doctors than the third and fourth. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The show became much more science-fictiony and much less historical around here&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The budget went up significantly, as did production values&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is where the Doctor stopped being a grumpy old man and began saving the planet (and later the universe) on a frequent basis&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Virtually all the enemies that show up in the reboot make frequent appearances in this period, and you won't lose much of their history by skipping the first two doctors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You'll meet Brigadier Lethbridge-Stweart and UNIT, which will add some enjoyment to the reboot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Virtually all the episodes are easily available after this point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4978" LastActivityDate="2014-05-29T22:43:24.820" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19807" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19809" CreationDate="2014-05-29T23:06:43.580" Score="3" ViewCount="1651" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I recall correctly, during the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Godfather&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Tom Hagen is sent out to Hollywood to convince a producer to use an actor, when the producer balked, he ended up waking up snuggled up to his favorite horse's head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we know if that implied threat actually worked? The wiki states that Woltz was unmoved until the horse head incident, but is there ever any indication that it actually worked as intended?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-29T23:36:02.523" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T20:30:39.370" Title="In The Godfather, did the horse head work?" Tags="|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19811" CreationDate="2014-05-29T23:20:08.847" Score="8" ViewCount="2573" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do I mean by this question? Well, when watching making of videos, or even when a show like CSI, or Law and Order might have a movie production in an episode's plot, quite often they will show the table full of food.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does it seem like actors are all constantly (over)fed on set?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T00:18:20.787" Title="Are actors all starving?" Tags="|production|crew|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19807" CreationDate="2014-05-29T23:48:13.923" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it worked. You may recall that, a couple of scenes later, Vito receives a large bouquet of flowers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Vito: What -- what is this nonsense? &#xA;&#xA;Tom: It's from ah Johnny, starring in that new ah film.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It isn't spelled out, but since Johnny gives Vito the flowers as a gift and Tom refers to &quot;that new film&quot; rather than &quot;a new film,&quot; it is pretty clear that this is the Woltz film Johnny wanted to be in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastActivityDate="2014-05-29T23:48:13.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19808" CreationDate="2014-05-30T00:02:08.603" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often on shooting sets a table with food and snacks will be provided at all times. It's called a craft service, and it's there to provide nourishment not only for the actors but to all the filming crew. It gives the crew quick access to food and drink so that they don't need to leave the set if they get hungry. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywood.com/news/movies/55001123/craft-services-behind-the-scenes?page=all&quot;&gt;Here's a nice article on the subject&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T00:02:08.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19808" CreationDate="2014-05-30T00:18:20.787" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the US meal breaks for actors are regulated by the Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Actors (SAG/AFTRA) and are usually provided by the Craft Services Department.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the Union rules &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sagaftra.org/faqs-0&quot;&gt;found here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The performer must be given the first meal break within six hours from the time of first call. The provisions for meal periods are the same for all performers.&#xA;  Please note that, for the purpose of synchronizing performer and crew meal-time, the performer may be given a non-deductible meal of 15 minutes free from all activity within two hours of the performer’s call time. An announcement should be made and a notation indicating the start and finish time of the non-deductible meal must be on the production time report. The following is then allowable:&#xA;  The first meal break would then be due six hours from the end of the non-deductible meal.&#xA;  The second meal break must be called within six hours from the time of call back from the first meal break.&#xA;  The Producer can deduct actual time up to one hour spent at meals.&#xA;  A twelve minute grace period to set up provided the six hour period is not already extended due to camera being in the course of photography.&#xA;  Meal penalty payments for violations of either meal period are:&#xA;  for the first half-hour, or fraction thereof $ 25&#xA;  for the second half-hour $ 35&#xA;  for each half-hour thereafter $ 50&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you see the craft services tables piled up with food keep in mind this is not only for the actors but also for the crew which usually outnumbers actors 3 to 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the starving actor image, standard background actors are paid $148/day plus travel cost and any overtime.  Not bad but if you only work for a week you better have another job. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="789" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T00:18:20.787" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19805" CreationDate="2014-05-30T03:16:22.450" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GJp2l.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Additional Grip- Riffing their own credits&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So if you pick something up once, you're considered a grip?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-&lt;strong&gt;Mike Nelson&lt;/strong&gt;, riffing their own credits in &lt;strong&gt;Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, A Key Grip usually doesn't do any gripping, that is to say it's just a fancy way of saying &quot;Grip Manager&quot;. And while we're at it, Mike is basically right that Grips just hold things such as cameras and lights to make shots quicker to set up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T03:16:22.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19815" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19818" CreationDate="2014-05-30T05:48:30.350" Score="5" ViewCount="25546" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Wolverine awakes in his 1973 self in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877832/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past&lt;/a&gt; he hears a song on the radio. This same song is heard when he awakes in his future self again at the end of the movie, which is likely to evoke feelings of Déjà vu in him (and the audience) and to let him doubt reality for a moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What song is this and is there any further significance to this particular song?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T14:44:25.243" LastActivityDate="2017-06-11T19:51:08.873" Title="What is the song playing on the radio in X-Men: Days of future past?" Tags="|analysis|soundtrack|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-days-of-future-past|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19817" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-30T08:36:51.453" Score="6" ViewCount="11698" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2024469/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Non-Stop&lt;/a&gt; we saw that the copilot was killed from a dart like thing shot from a hole in the toilet wall. But who killed him and how did he get killed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-30T10:23:29.197" LastActivityDate="2017-01-11T04:07:21.653" Title="Who killed the co-pilot? and How?" Tags="|plot-explanation|non-stop|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19815" CreationDate="2014-05-30T11:14:53.007" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This song was &lt;em&gt;Roberta Flack&lt;/em&gt;'s version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Time_Ever_I_Saw_Your_Face&quot;&gt;&quot;The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't say much to the significance of its usage, though. But for one, it was released around '70 and was a major hit in 1972. So it was hot at the time when &lt;em&gt;Logan&lt;/em&gt; awakes in the past (1973). It was thus first and foremost part of the many 70's nostalgia elements that the movie employed and, as &lt;em&gt;Andrew&lt;/em&gt; points out in his comment, a way to easily show and emphasize that &lt;em&gt;Logan&lt;/em&gt; has indeed traveled back in time. It's use then in the future (2023) when he awakes again was probably just to evoke that &lt;em&gt;Déjà vu&lt;/em&gt; feeling in &lt;em&gt;Logan&lt;/em&gt; and us, without much particular significance to the actual song, I'd say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-07T20:10:21.527" LastActivityDate="2014-06-07T20:10:21.527" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17584" CreationDate="2014-05-30T11:33:16.917" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do we know for sure that Skyler has lost the house?  Certainly she needs to move out of it, because of the notoriety which Walt's exposure has attracted, but, as has been pointed out, she would have a pretty good chance in Court if any attempt was made to seize it.  She needs to sell it, to buy another house legitimately, and it makes sense to auction it because it would be hard to predict what it would sell for. And she doesn't want any direct involvement in the process at all, for obvious reasons, so the auction has to be organised through an intermediary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9453" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T11:33:16.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17550" CreationDate="2014-05-30T11:42:06.657" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ramirez, played by Sean Connery, dies in Highlander, and returns to life, with no explanation whatever, in Highlander II.  Both films were directed by Russell Mulcahy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9453" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T11:42:06.657" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19821" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23823" CreationDate="2014-05-30T12:51:58.307" Score="1" ViewCount="998" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm meanwhile at the end of season 2 of Scandal, however there is one thing I have never understood: in the first season, Cyrus meets the killer (the ex-colleague of Huck) of Amanda Tanner in his garden and the killer tells him that the remaining money is due soon and that he would have to leave now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would Cyrus pay to get rid of Amanda? Or did I misunderstand something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9884" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-30T13:24:08.580" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T18:00:06.113" Title="Why did Cyrus hire/pay a killer in Scandal Season 1?" Tags="|plot-explanation|scandal|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19822" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19917" CreationDate="2014-05-30T13:19:46.900" Score="8" ViewCount="630" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Motion Picture Association of America is sometimes blamed by filmmakers and film producers for hampering creative vision. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the U.S. television content rating standards (or TV parental guidance standards) created in 1997 have to my knowledge never been singled out by TV showrunners or producers for the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Admittedly, the TV system seems to be a more collaborative and transparent one which, I assume, is more upfront and consistent about what can and can't be shown per obscenity rules laid out by the FCC. This allows showrunners to know well in advance of production what will or will not be allowed and to predict the rating.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've heard complaints like &quot;the network president killed the show&quot;, &quot;the producer ruined every script we handed in&quot; and the odd &quot;we can't show breasts on broadcast TV so we had to find another way/blur it&quot;... maybe that's the biggest gripe we can hope to find. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When, if ever, has a TV showrunner blamed TV content rating standards for compromising his/her creative vision? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9247" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T18:14:03.613" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T18:14:03.613" Title="Has a TV showrunner ever blamed U.S. television content rating standards for compromising his/her creative vision?" Tags="|content-rating|censorship|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19805" CreationDate="2014-05-30T15:01:58.510" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several different types of &quot;grips&quot;, each with varying levels of responsibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Key Grip is basically the unit head, and reports to the Director of Photography on a feature. They are responsible for scouting the locations, ordering, arranging transport and setup of equipment for filming and lighting. They are sometimes billed as first company grip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other grips work with the lighting, cameras, camera cranes, dollies, setting up rigging for lighting, and other tasks relating to the filming and lighting. According to union rules, however, they do not touch lights or electrical distribution elements, that is the responsibility of the electricians onsite, who work under a gaffer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few different theories on where the term &quot;grip&quot; comes from, but it has been in use dating back to the early days of the circus. (Late 1700's - early 1800's).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T15:01:58.510" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19824" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19827" CreationDate="2014-05-30T18:47:17.563" Score="4" ViewCount="5332" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the part in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167260/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; after Pippin touches the Palantir when he is laying on the ground, is he dead then brought to life by Gandalf? I was under the impression he was dead at first because he is laying with his eyes open then Gandalf closes his eyes with his hand...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why is he laying with his eyes open?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If not dead, why does Gandalf put his hand over his eyes? Not to mention he responds to it like he's dead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9887" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T09:06:02.377" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T09:06:02.377" Title="Did Pippin die in Lord Of The Rings?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-return-of-the-king|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19826" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-30T19:11:56.747" Score="1" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3348102/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stereo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;'s showdown &lt;em&gt;Keitel&lt;/em&gt; wonders that &lt;em&gt;&quot;Zille&quot;&lt;/em&gt; would surely not come alone. He asks &lt;em&gt;Deisler&lt;/em&gt; how many men they have down there but when &lt;em&gt;Deisler&lt;/em&gt; answers that there are some ten but more on their way, &lt;em&gt;Keitel&lt;/em&gt; immediately identifies him as a traitor, shoots him in the head and orders &lt;em&gt;Hansen&lt;/em&gt; to inform their men that there are enemies among them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I didn't quite understand where &lt;em&gt;Keitel&lt;/em&gt; took such a fast deduction from, seeing that he must have been quite sure to just shoot him right away. But maybe I missed something, as &lt;em&gt;Keitel&lt;/em&gt; seemed to have taken a look at the surveilance cameras when he talked to him. So &lt;strong&gt;how did &lt;em&gt;Keitel&lt;/em&gt; deduce that &lt;em&gt;Deisler&lt;/em&gt; worked together with &lt;em&gt;&quot;Zille&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (or at least with &lt;em&gt;Gaspar&lt;/em&gt;)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-30T20:28:25.970" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T20:28:25.970" Title="How did Keitel know that Deisler was a traitor?" Tags="|plot-explanation|stereo|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19824" CreationDate="2014-05-30T19:15:12.550" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched the clip (It can be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3rczsUcaXU&quot;&gt;seen here&lt;/a&gt;), and there are a couple portions of the scene that lead me to believe that he is in a catatonic state. If you look at Aragorn when he grabs the palantir (at around 1:48-54), you can see him start to faint and his eyes closing. This suggests that the palantir/Sauron have the ability to induce unconsciousness from the mental impact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pippin is in a slightly rigid state, and at the cut to him at 2:02ish, you can see his jaw move slightly (Although that may be just the actor). If he were dead, then the muscles would have completely relaxed and he would look less stiff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Gandalf puts his hand on his head, the eyes are still open, and I believe what Gandalf is doing is combating the presence of Sauron in the mind of Pippin, and it's the sudden awakening from that presence/catatonia that makes him jump a bit. Also, it's been well documented that sudden, devastating tragedy can induce catatonia/retreating from the world even in healthy, otherwise normal humans so I don't see that as a far stretch. I think the eyes close naturally, I don't think that Gandalf closed them (Unless he did it with his palm :p)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T19:15:12.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19829" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19830" CreationDate="2014-05-30T20:27:31.903" Score="17" ViewCount="5347" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;* Minor Spoilers *&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877832/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; it is explained that the actions Wolverine takes in the past will not come into effect until he wakes up.  So when he wakes up in the present the changes he made in the past will come into effect.  However it means that he still has to &quot;re-live&quot; that period of time between the past and present so which Wolverine was left to live out that period of time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few things to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When he wakes up at the end of the movie he remembers what he did in the past but has no memory of his new timeline.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If waking up in the present caused his younger mind to take back control of his body would he have any memory of the past few days where the older mind had been in control?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If his younger mind had taken back control once present Wolverine woke up when time caught up to the present wouldn't the younger mind be killed off? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lastly if the present mind lived out the difference in time and had the knowledge he had gained through the years what effect would that have on the outcome of future?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is a little bit of an open ended question but I'm just curious of what everyone else thought. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9889" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-30T20:30:16.587" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T22:59:03.240" Title="Which Wolverine Existed During the Time Gap?" Tags="|plot-explanation|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-days-of-future-past|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19829" CreationDate="2014-05-30T20:47:44.027" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the movie answers all this pretty well, but let's look at your questions step by step:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When he wakes up at the end of the movie he remembers what he did in the past but has no memory of his new timeline.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is true and is because it is his old-timeline version who awakes at exactly the time when he would awake from &lt;em&gt;Kitty&lt;/em&gt;'s control in the old timeline, just in the new timeline now. He remembers everything he did in the old timeline and in his past body and basically feels like the movie events from '73 were just a minute ago, as evident from his dialogue with &lt;em&gt;Charles&lt;/em&gt; at the end&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Charles:&lt;/em&gt; What is the last thing you remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Logan:&lt;/em&gt; I'm drowning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But on the other hand he doesn't seem to have any knowledge of the events of the new timeline after his past self took control, since he asks &lt;em&gt;Charles&lt;/em&gt; for a &quot;history lesson&quot; for everything after 1973, to which &lt;em&gt;Charles&lt;/em&gt; just says: &lt;em&gt;&quot;Welcome back&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, realizing that the &lt;em&gt;Logan&lt;/em&gt; he met 50 years ago has finally returned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If waking up in the present caused his younger mind to take back control of his body would he have any memory of the past few days where the older mind had been in control?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think so. The past self is more-or-less unconcious while his body is &quot;posessed&quot; by future &lt;em&gt;Logan&lt;/em&gt; and he doesn't remember anything from that time when future &lt;em&gt;Logan&lt;/em&gt; leaves again. This is evident from the scene during &lt;em&gt;Mystique&lt;/em&gt;'s assassination attempt on &lt;em&gt;Trask&lt;/em&gt;. When &lt;em&gt;Wolverine&lt;/em&gt; sees &lt;em&gt;Stryker&lt;/em&gt; and remembers his traumatic experiences with him, he gets very &quot;uneasy&quot; and causes some trouble in &lt;em&gt;Kitty&lt;/em&gt;'s tries to keep the connection between future and past. Thus for a short period of time the past &lt;em&gt;Logan&lt;/em&gt; is actually taking control of his body again (and the future self seems to be in some kind of limbo between the times/bodies) and &lt;strong&gt;doesn't have any knowledge where he is and how he got there&lt;/strong&gt; (and needs to be convinced by &lt;em&gt;Charles&lt;/em&gt; that he was on a bad acid-trip).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when past &lt;em&gt;Logan&lt;/em&gt; continues control after the events of the movie in '73 he doesn't know anything about his experiences with &lt;em&gt;Charles&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Erik&lt;/em&gt; and all the others (and it is unclear how he ended up with the &lt;em&gt;X-Men&lt;/em&gt;, given that he was recovered from the Potomac by &lt;em&gt;Mystique&lt;/em&gt; and would need to have been recruited somehow by &lt;em&gt;Charles&lt;/em&gt;, similar to &lt;em&gt;X-Men 1&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If his younger mind had taken back control once present Wolverine woke up when time caught up to the present wouldn't the younger mind be killed off?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the above it seems so indeed. In fact there can only be one conciousness existing in &lt;em&gt;Logan&lt;/em&gt;'s body and it's clear that it is the old timeline-&lt;em&gt;Logan&lt;/em&gt; who awakes in X-manor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lastly if the present mind lived out the difference in time and had the knowledge he had gained through the years what effect would that have on the outcome of future?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hard to say, but since the present mind (if you mean the old-timeline &lt;em&gt;Logan&lt;/em&gt; with this) is not living through the time difference in the new timeline, as explained above, this is entirely speculative to say. But he could certainly have used that knowledge in some way or another, sure, but nobody knows the outcome of this, maybe an even different future to the one we saw, but who knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-05-30T22:59:03.240" LastActivityDate="2014-05-30T22:59:03.240" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19833" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-05-30T23:53:36.937" Score="19" ViewCount="64627" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/em&gt;, James Bond is required to enter a password into a security device. Later in the film, he reveals that the password &lt;em&gt;he supposedly&lt;/em&gt; entered was Vesper...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the brief shot we of him entering the code shows him using the number 4, making it impossible that the code be Vesper, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviemistakes.com/film6299&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this website&lt;/a&gt; points out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Bond enters his password in the casino, he enters 836547. He&#xA;  later gives the password as VESPER, which on an alpha-numeric keypad&#xA;  would be 837737.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we are to take it that this is a goof (which it almost certainly is), it stands to reason that at the time of filming &lt;em&gt;a different&lt;/em&gt; password was considered: it's unlikely whomever is responsible for the close-up shot of him entering the code was illiterate enough to enter the wrong code, and even more so for the continuity department not to notice (although, they clearly missed this from the final cut: so it's not entirely implausible).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could it be possible that another password was originally intended to be used; one that required the keys 836547 in spelling it? can anyone figure out what this original password could have been, before it was (possibly) re-conned to be Vesper?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;To reiterate for clarity, considering answers supplied:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We KNOW this is, in some way or another, &lt;em&gt;a mistake&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Continuity goof&lt;/strong&gt; is not the answer we are looking for, we're trying to work out what the original password the actor was told he was typing into the keypad was. It's an unlikely (and thus rejected) hypothesis that for such a key close up in the movie, the actor was told to just type a random code in. There must be some contextual purpose that was perhaps later changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know the word corresponds to the keypad letters &lt;strong&gt;836547&lt;/strong&gt; as we see him type it in. What could this word have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2018-06-11T20:08:43.420" LastActivityDate="2021-04-22T02:05:09.320" Title="What is the REAL password for Bond's account?" Tags="|james-bond|casino-royale|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="19835" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19845" CreationDate="2014-05-31T03:35:39.790" Score="7" ViewCount="8321" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944835/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot;&gt;Salt&lt;/a&gt; with Angelina Jolie and Liev Schreiber, towards the end of the movie we see Salt stop the nuclear attack which was initiated by Winter. &lt;strong&gt;Does she do this out of patriotism, for the fact that she wants Payback on Orlov, or is there something else there I'm missing?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the movie, Salt is forced to stand and watch as Orlov causes the death of her husband Mike. We also find out that the time she spent in the North Korean prison and subsequently being saved by Mike's efforts has broken her &quot;Imperial Conditioning&quot; (sorry, play on words from the movie Dune). Did she actually become a patriot? Or was it all a revenge factor going on with her? We also notice throughout the movie, while she was taking down &quot;bad guys&quot; (bad guys being the cops ... So not really &quot;bad&quot;, just in opposition to her end goals), she never actually kills any of them. Yes, she messes a lot of them up, but doesn't appear to kill any of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2020-04-25T23:16:38.133" Title="Does Evelyn Salt Stop the Bombs out of Patriotism or for Revenge?" Tags="|plot-explanation|salt|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9940" CreationDate="2014-05-31T03:54:22.053" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Love Amoung the Ruins, me thinks. Love is the answer to that eternal sleep, we might as well laugh, pride or no pride...Claire is evolving&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9894" LastActivityDate="2014-05-31T03:54:22.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12088" CreationDate="2014-05-31T09:48:29.580" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As all the mentioned disaster movies had been shown in Australia (I should know, I saw them all), I doubt that &quot;lack of context&quot; is the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that in many of the countries, Australia &amp;amp; New Zealand in particular, the concept of &quot;getting high&quot; was less taboo than in the US &amp;amp; the title &quot;Flying High&quot; has a much more humorous double entendre connotation than the rather naff &quot;Airplane&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9897" LastActivityDate="2014-05-31T09:48:29.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19835" CreationDate="2014-05-31T12:52:10.707" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is purely my personal interpretation,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Salt loved her husband so much because &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Evelyn Salt  is being tortured in a North Korean prison on suspicion of being an American spy. Her boyfriend, arachnologist Mike Krause , generates so much publicity that the CIA is forced to arrange a prisoner exchange, despite the agency's policy against it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Orlov kills Mike in front of her. So, she started hunting and killing Russian spies. But it left me wondering why Salt risked her life to stop the Nuclear launch. So, I assumed, whatever it takes, Salt wanted to stop Orlov's plans to avenge her husband's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, Salt is not an American patriot but wanted to track down and kill the Russian spies for murdering her husband brutally in front of her  and she continues to do that during the end of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2014-05-31T12:52:10.707" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19835" CreationDate="2014-05-31T13:06:25.517" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think either of your two reasons apply, but something more in between.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it is true, that her imprisonment and following rescue by Mike broke her and took her away from Orlov's ideals, it didn't magically make her an American patriot but simply comitted to Mike and maybe realizing what Orlov actually did to her. I think after her old family turned up and destroyed her new family and made her in turn destroy Orlov, &lt;strong&gt;she sits in some kind of disillusioned limbo between both of her homelands and past ideals, feeling not much of a connection to any of them.&lt;/strong&gt; So I don't think she is in any way to call a patriot, neither a Russian nor an American one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think she still wasn't indifferent to the world and its people in general, as also shown when she tried to not kill anyone apart from the people that killed Mike, having been &lt;em&gt;emotionally&lt;/em&gt; &quot;broken&quot; by Mike, even if not politically. &lt;strong&gt;She thus still didn't want a nuclear attack to happen, even if &quot;only&quot; for moral and not for political reasons.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So neither do I think she was actually a patriot, not having much dedication to the US or any other country, nor do I think she stopped the bombs out of mere protest against Orlov, but also because you don't need to be a patriot to abhor a nuclear attack. While her final state at the end of the movie is one of a rogue agent without a country, on a quest to find the people who messed up her life, &lt;strong&gt;she still adheres to some kind of moral ethics&lt;/strong&gt;, to which the canceling of a nuclear attack certainly belongs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-10-18T13:34:25.500" LastActivityDate="2016-10-18T13:34:25.500" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11198" CreationDate="2014-05-31T23:28:57.587" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've only seen the show as the DVD box set, so the original showing may have been different, but some of the scenes &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; subtitled, and some aren't.   This doesn't seem accidental, or sloppy - like everything in the series, it has meaning and it adds to the development of the story.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most powerful examples of this are two scenes with the Cousins.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of S3 06, Gus meets the Cousins in the desert, in a very tense confrontation.  It's not subtitled, but it doesn't need to be.  We know the Cousins want to kill Walt, and we know Gus needs him alive, at least for the time being.  They argue about it, Gus says something that makes them think... then he says Hank's name, very clearly.   And we know that he's given them Hank, to kill, instead of Walt, and the credits roll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The very next scene (the first scene of S3 07) is subtitled throughout.  The Cousins, as small boys, squabble over a toy, and one (Marco) runs to their uncle (Hector) to complain, and says he wants his brother (Leonel) dead.  Hector calls Leonel to him, and plunges his head into a barrel of water, holding him there, asking Marco if that's what he wants.  Marco pummels Hector desperately until he releases Leonel, and asks him tearfully if he's all right.  Hector tells them: 'Family is all'. Not only does this tell us why the Cousins, and the cartel, are such implacable enemies... it also horrifies us to see the innocence of two little boys who we know will become utterly evil and remorseless. But the entire scene would be incomprehensible without the dialogue, so the subtitles are essential.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9453" LastEditorUserId="9453" LastEditDate="2014-06-01T01:02:50.557" LastActivityDate="2014-06-01T01:02:50.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19727" CreationDate="2014-06-01T05:29:58.220" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to disagree with the majority here.  I think it is worth watching at least some of the classic series early, in order to get an appreciation for where the show has come from.  I'm not going to suggest starting with it, but I think jumping back to it between watching modern episodes could be an enlightening approach (which I wish now I had taken).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also note that it's quite possible to dip in and out of most of the earlier parts of the show without regard to order.  It might make sense, then, to watch the episodes in the order where the ideas they contain become relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion as to viewing order, therefore, is something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Watch &lt;em&gt;Rose&lt;/em&gt;, the first episode of the 2005 series.  This will give you a taste of what the modern series is like.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Watch &lt;em&gt;Spearhead from Space&lt;/em&gt;, the first episode of the third Doctor's tenure.  This will make an interesting comparison, because the enemy it deals with is the same enemy that turned up in &lt;em&gt;Rose&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continue watching the 2005 series up to (but not including) &lt;em&gt;Dalek&lt;/em&gt;.  Before watching that, it's time for a history lesson.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Watch original series stories: &lt;em&gt;The Daleks&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Dalek Invasion of Earth&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Genesis of the Daleks&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Watch the remainder of the 2005 series 1.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By now you should be hooked.  You have an appreciation of both the modern and the original series.  Go back and fill in some of the gaps.  Try interleaving modern and old stories (although be aware that the ends of a lot of the classic stories feed directly into the next story in sequence, particularly starting with Baker's episodes, but they did do this sometimes before).  Don't try to watch everything: many of the older episodes aren't worth watching, particularly the black and white ones: a lot of Hartnell's episodes are slow paced and frankly boring.  Most of Troughton's are missing (but do watch at least the highest few rated of the ones that are available: &lt;em&gt;Tomb of the Cybermen&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Invasion&lt;/em&gt; are both brilliant, and &lt;em&gt;War Games&lt;/em&gt; is really good if you're up for a long story... it took me 5 days to watch, but was well worth it).  After that things start improving, but for me the show really picks up around the time Baker took over, and maybe that's where it's worth watching it all from.  The companion(s) have a lot of influence over the tone, and IMO Sarah Jane Smith was one of the best.  She was companion for Pertwee's last series and the first series-and-a-half of Baker.  Make sure you've watched at least some of these before you get to &lt;em&gt;School Reunion&lt;/em&gt; (from the modern series 2).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you're skipping around between the classic episodes, you'll want a good guide to the episodes with details about ratings, which recurring enemies are involved, and so on.  I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://rkuykendall.com/articles/classic-who-recommendations/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.  It's not as detailed as others, but it includes the rankings of each episode in a poll conducted by Doctor Who Magazine a few years ago, which makes it very useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Edit&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some more thoughts on specific things to watch and when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One of the other answers includes a list by Neil Gaiman, which made me think about the episode he wrote in the most recent series, &lt;em&gt;Nightmare in Silver&lt;/em&gt;.  This is a Cybermen story, and for the most part the Cybermen in the modern series are not really connected to the original series Cybermen -- unlike most of the other enemies, they completely rebooted the Cybermen, gave them a new origin story, and so on.  So while for the rest of the enemies (particularly the Daleks and the Master) I'd suggest going and watching some of the classic stories about them before seeing the new ones, I don't think this really applies so much to the Cybermen.  Except: Gaiman's story is actually about the classic series Cybermen, not the modern ones -- it is more like the original stories stylistically, and includes reference to a couple of plot points from the original series that haven't previously been incorporated into the modern series (i.e. the future war between humans and cybermen that is in the history of most of the original series episodes featuring them, and a weakness they have that was exploited a few times in the original series but not mentioned previously in the modern episodes).  So, while there's no need to catch up on the cybermen before then, at least prior to watching &lt;em&gt;Nightmare in Silver&lt;/em&gt; catch up on the relevant classic episodes: &lt;em&gt;Tomb of the Cybermen&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Invasion&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Revenge of the Cybermen&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Earthshock&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Revenge of the Cybermen&lt;/em&gt; is the last part of a continuous sequence of 4th Doctor stories which begins with &lt;em&gt;The Ark in Space&lt;/em&gt; and also includes &lt;em&gt;Genesis of the Daleks&lt;/em&gt;.  While it isn't critical to watch these in order, I recommend doing so, as they're all good stories.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Earthshock&lt;/em&gt;, also mentioned above, is a particularly significant story.  You'll want to have seen some of the stories from the season before it and earlier in the same season before watching it.  The &lt;em&gt;E-space trilogy&lt;/em&gt; (which consists of &lt;em&gt;Full Circle&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;State of Decay&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Warrior's Gate&lt;/em&gt;) is a reasonable place to start, and the next three episodes that follow it (&lt;em&gt;The Keeper of Traken&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Logopolis&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Castrovalva&lt;/em&gt;) which also form a sequence of stories by themselves are worth watching at this point too. &lt;em&gt;Kinda&lt;/em&gt; is divisive.  Some people like it, others hate it.  Read reviews to see if you think it'll be worth watching.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Master first turns up in the third doctor era, and has a few great stories there (&lt;em&gt;Terror of the Autons&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Daemons&lt;/em&gt; are particularly good), but his best stories are in the 4th and 5th Doctors' eras. &lt;em&gt;The Deadly Assassin&lt;/em&gt; is one of the best stories in the show (and one of only a handful that don't feature a companion).  &lt;em&gt;The Five Doctors&lt;/em&gt; is a classic in its own right. I'll avoid mentioning others, because the show's producers often tried to keep it a surprise that the Master would be in a story, even to the length of using aliases for the actors who played him rather than putting their names directly in the credits.  You can look them up if you feel you're missing anything, but I'll note I've recommended most of them here anyway.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9853" LastEditorUserId="9853" LastEditDate="2014-06-02T04:50:16.227" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T04:50:16.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10351" CreationDate="2014-06-01T06:54:34.960" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are all the right choices is the bottom line of the movie.  His having to choose an outcome of his decision is what creates such an issue in his mind.  Every possibility has joy and strife.  That is why the end of the movie is as it is.  Knowing what will happen in BOTH choices can be both wonderful AND terrible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9909" LastActivityDate="2014-06-01T06:54:34.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19857" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19858" CreationDate="2014-06-01T13:38:43.070" Score="15" ViewCount="4487" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;Sherlock&lt;/a&gt; season 1 episode 2, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Banker&quot;&gt;The Blind Banker&lt;/a&gt;, when John is buying groceries in the market and having a brawl with the machine, Sherlock is shown battling with a robed swordsman or samurai at Baker Street.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With whom was Sherlock fighting, and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9684" LastEditorUserId="1661" LastEditDate="2014-06-01T23:20:07.910" LastActivityDate="2014-06-01T23:20:07.910" Title="Why does Sherlock battle a robed swordsman?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19857" CreationDate="2014-06-01T15:58:04.997" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The person he was fighting with was a prospective client or to be precise a Messenger of the prospective client, Watson later asks about him after he returns from the grocery store as to what happened with that case about the Jaria Diamond, to which Sherlock acquiesces he isn't interested in taking that and send them a message (which flashbacks to the scene where he knocks that swordsman down). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure which story it refers too, I am digging through my books will update it if i find the answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2014-06-01T15:58:04.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19863" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31963" CreationDate="2014-06-01T19:20:38.630" Score="11" ViewCount="4542" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Twelve Monkeys (1995)&lt;/a&gt; cover&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JntEA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Twelve Monkeys Cover&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can clearly see the Twelve Monkeys symbol on Bruce Willis' right eye, and it looks like Bruce Willis is an android of some kind (like Terminator), but those who have seen the movie know that Bruce is not a robot!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one of my personal favorite movies, but I've never understood why the cover designers decided to put the 12 monkeys symbol on his eye, it is indeed misleading and I can't find a reasonable explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the symbol just as a reference:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OfMBD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8771" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-02T09:47:05.947" LastActivityDate="2016-09-20T03:46:09.750" Title="What is the message behind Twelve Monkeys Cover?" Tags="|12-monkeys|posters|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="839" CreationDate="2014-06-01T22:00:45.453" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spock is a character so famous for his lack of emotion and applying logic to even the most emotionally-weighted situations that &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSpock&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Tropes has named this character archetype after him&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From that page (abbreviated slightly):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A character who will always think before acting, The Spock is an archetype that can be loosely summed up as &lt;strong&gt;the tendency to apply rules, reason and the greater good to all of his/her decisions&lt;/strong&gt;. This character can exist by themselves, but more often, they will have a more emotional and humanistic counterpart to contrast their decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Spock's relationship with his crewmates/comrades is often tense, because this character type is &lt;strong&gt;willing and able to ruthlessly consider ethically troubling situations without batting an eye&lt;/strong&gt; — especially situations where people might be ordered to die. While his counterpart The McCoy is interested in doing the right thing regardless of cost, The Spock is more interested in the end result. For him, everyone (including himself) is expendable and he has no problem treating people as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John calling Sherlock &amp;quot;Spock&amp;quot; is like when he calls him a &amp;quot;machine&amp;quot; - he's teasing and/or criticising him for his lack of emotion and upholding of reason and logic (in circumstances in which, in John's opinion, there are more important things than reason and logic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9877" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-01T22:00:45.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12604" CreationDate="2014-06-01T22:50:59.537" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;He knows that it's a six-digit code from the make of the safe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see from the make that it's a six-digit code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He gets a number of clues from seeing how much the keys have been pressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should always use gloves with these, you know. Heaviest oil deposit is always on the first key used - that's quite clearly a three - but after that the sequence is almost impossible to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can't be your birthday - no disrespect, but clearly you were born in the 80s, and 8's barely used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that, Irene herself clues him in. First she teases him, as he was teasing her with the hiker case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd tell you the code right now, but you know what? I already have. Think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then after the CIA agents burst in and threaten to shoot John, she genuinely wants him to guess it. She's been forbidden from speaking, but just as the CIA man is about to count to three, Sherlock looks at her and she looks significantly and meaningfully down at her own body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, he already knows it's a six-digit code starting with 3 and comprised predominantly - probably solely - of 2s, 3s and 4s, and he knows it's something she's &amp;quot;told&amp;quot; him already. With this information, that meaningful glance was enough for Sherlock to correctly deduce that the safe code is her measurements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing which keys were most pressed probably also helped him with getting the measurements right as well (guessing 34 instead of 36 for example) as, unlike cigarette ash, women's measurements at a glance doesn't really seem like the sort of thing Sherlock would have practice at calculating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9877" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-07-19T19:10:23.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14550" CreationDate="2014-06-01T23:13:52.873" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no further explanation in canon, making this a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodleIncident&quot;&gt;Noodle Incident&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Noodle Incident is something from the past that is sometimes referred to but never explained, with the implication that it's just too ludicrous for words, and the reality that any explanation would fall short of audience expectations. Questions about it are often met with &quot;You Don't Want To Know…&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dramatic pause before Mycroft says &quot;1972&quot; seems to back this up in my opinion. The whole point is that &quot;1972&quot; is mysteriously alluded to and never explained. Mostly because it's funnier if it's not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trope is named after this Calvin and Hobbes quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hobbes: What about the noodle incident?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Calvin: No one can prove I did that!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which the Calvin &amp;amp; Hobbes author later said he decided not to ever explain, because nothing he could ever come up with would be as outrageous as what the readers had imagined before he explained it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9877" LastActivityDate="2014-06-01T23:13:52.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11842" CreationDate="2014-06-01T23:31:25.517" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are the same number of pills in each bottle. All the pills in one bottle are poisoned. All the pills in the other bottle are not. The victims only choose the bottle. Once they've chosen the bottle, all the pills in the bottle are the same (either all poisoned or all benign, depending which bottle they picked).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With each victim, a pair of pills is consumed: one from the poisoned bottle and one from the non-poisoned. (Obviously, the cabbie takes a pill from the non-poisoned bottle each time.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the time it gets to Sherlock, there is only one pill left in each bottle, because all the others have been consumed. This doesn't change the game at all: he's still choosing the poisoned bottle or the non-poisoned bottle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9877" LastEditorUserId="9877" LastEditDate="2014-06-04T12:16:34.113" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T12:16:34.113" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19871" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19874" CreationDate="2014-06-02T00:54:46.160" Score="39" ViewCount="8321" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across a tweet complaining about 24 using 2.718.281.828 as an IP address, which obviously wouldn't work. Others responded that using a non-functional IP address is like using 555 for phone numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an equivalent of phone number's 555 (or more specifically, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_%28telephone_number%29&quot;&gt;555-0100 through 555-0199&lt;/a&gt; in the US) used for fictitious IP addresses in tv and movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1312" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T03:35:04.007" Title="Equivalent of 555 for IP addresses" Tags="|realism|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19871" CreationDate="2014-06-02T01:43:25.213" Score="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/joewalnes/status/473263888583376897&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;follow up tweet&lt;/a&gt; about this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The IP address equivalent of 555 phone numbers is actually well&#xA;documented in RFC5737.  e.g. 203.0.113.11 is TV safe. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5737#section-3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5737#section-3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which links to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Documentation Address Blocks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blocks 192.0.2.0/24 (TEST-NET-1), 198.51.100.0/24 (TEST-NET-2),&#xA;and 203.0.113.0/24 (TEST-NET-3) are provided for use in&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;documentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what is commonly used in the TV or movie industry, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1312" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2021-10-07T06:47:20.403" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T01:43:25.213" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14456" CreationDate="2014-06-02T05:00:45.207" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's use the Alcubierre warp drive as the basis for Star Trek's warp drive, where the warp field catastrophically collapses the space in front of the ship and catastrophically behind the ship at faster than light speeds, because unlike starships, space can travel faster than light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that when the Enterprise's warp drive was catastrophically expanding the space behind the ship, the Vengeance's warp drive was catastrophically collapsing the space in front of it and the space the Enterprise had catastrophically expanded, thereby the collapse and expansion cancels each other out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This collapse forms a pocket of normal space between the 2 ships and is carried at warp with the 2 ships, and the Vengeance unleashes its deadly arsenal onto the Enterprise via this pocket of normal space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9925" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T05:00:45.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19880" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-02T10:38:43.977" Score="41" ViewCount="164693" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; S04E08 Tyrion told a story about his cousin Orson Lannister to Jaime. Orson  was physically handicapped and spent his time &lt;em&gt;smashing&lt;/em&gt; beetles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any relation between the story and Tyrion's current position? Like maybe he will be crushed by his father if Oberyn dies? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he was telling the story he picked a beetle and released it afterwards. Was it just that or another clue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S - I didn't read the books. If there was any reference in the books do tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2017-08-08T14:48:09.857" LastActivityDate="2017-08-08T14:50:41.187" Title="What is the perception of Tyrion's story about his cousin Orson and the beetles?" Tags="|analysis|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19881" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19883" CreationDate="2014-06-02T12:31:13.260" Score="2" ViewCount="663" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can someone provide an exhaustive list of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;who was dreaming &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;whose mind was the one that filled it with its subconscious &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in each dream they shared in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6282" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-02T16:53:12.453" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T14:38:38.777" Title="Who was dreaming when and whose mind was being projected?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19880" CreationDate="2014-06-02T12:57:21.577" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a couple ideas that have been floating about what this conversation could mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it can be a simple foreshadowing about Oberyn's final fate at the hands of The Mountain - all that talk about crushing just signifying to the viewer what to prepare for in an unconscious manner as we see his pride get the best of him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second one I actually &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/comments/272wmi/all_show_george_r_r_martin_is_the_cousin_killing/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;found on Reddit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; where its actually a metaphor for G.R.R.M.'s behaviours in writing the series, killing characters seemingly left and right without too much reason.  In this way it was another signal to the viewer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Eddard_Stark&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;not expect&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; what they think they can expect in this series, as we have seen many times before in this season and past seasons with characters meeting their demise in some &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Red_Wedding&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;unexpected manners&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2014-06-03T13:29:11.523" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T13:29:11.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19881" CreationDate="2014-06-02T12:59:50.670" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/reLi9.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;infographic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; seems to explain everything you want in one concise picture&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/reLi9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following list is a summary of the image, with all the relevant dream levels and the persons in them (with the actual dreamer in bold, who is also the one that stays awake for the next level):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Van driving through the city:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yusuf&lt;/strong&gt;, Arthur, Eames, Ariadne, Cobb, Fischer, Saito&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hotel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arthur&lt;/strong&gt;, Eames, Ariadne, Cobb, Fischer, Saito&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mountain fortress:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eames&lt;/strong&gt;, Ariadne, Cobb, Fischer, Saito&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Limbo (&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/19931/49&quot;&gt;whose mind was it, though?&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ariadne, Fischer, Cobb, Saito (the last two for a bit longer)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T14:38:38.777" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19884" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19886" CreationDate="2014-06-02T13:06:48.500" Score="8" ViewCount="974" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did they have to choose a different person each time they went one level deeper in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Couldn't they have kept going into Yusuf's dream all the way down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6282" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-02T13:37:54.833" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T18:54:07.453" Title="Was it impossible to go into same person's dream each level down, or did it serve a purpose?" Tags="|inception|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19871" CreationDate="2014-06-02T14:21:05.130" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you could use ones that are firewall-based, like 192.168.xxx.xxx or 10.1.x.x... those ones are fine because they are internal, and are based on router setups (it'd only connect people to a router on their own network).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, assuming we are still talking IPv4 only (I have no idea what you'd do for IPv6 as I'm totally unfamiliar with its format, though it's probably simple math), just break out the rules and use any number beyond 255. Since all IP addresses have to contain 4 numbers less than 2^8 (8 bits of 0 or 1, in case you were wondering what that root is. It's the number of combinations you can get with 8 bits), use something like 300.129.231.56.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd guess you probably already know that based on your initial question, so if that's the case, I'd use a firewall-reserved one like 192.168.x.x or 10.1.x.x. There probably are other reserved ones, I just don't know them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9934" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T14:21:05.130" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19884" CreationDate="2014-06-02T14:35:56.737" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it comes down to one point - can one mind actively dream two or more states simultaneously.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the dream within a dream thing to work .... the dreamer in level 1 (Yusuf) has to dream the Pasiv (sleep) machine into existence, in order to allow people to go down to the next level (the hotel dream of Arthur).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For someone to simultaneously be maintaining level 1 &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; be able to go to 'sleep' and maintain level 2 seems unlikely - you'd essentially have to be 'awake' in each dream state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it appears for the dream within a dream thing to work, you need as many people to dream as levels you wish to descend.  This appears to be why Cobb wants Yusuf to 'go into the field', as he needs 3 dream levels (Yusuf, Arthur, Eames) - and he does not want to be a dreamer himself (for obvious reasons), and Ariadne was a late addition to the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-06-02T14:47:18.210" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T14:47:18.210" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19887" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19889" CreationDate="2014-06-02T15:12:21.040" Score="9" ViewCount="1397" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whether &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert_%28character%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;in character&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;out of character&lt;/a&gt;, or portraying other characters (either as real-world self or while 'in character' subsequently portraying those characters), has US comedian Stephen Colbert ever had an appearance on SNL, even if momentary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such an iconic figure in current-day American comedy television, it is surprising there appears to be almost no appearance from him in such a &lt;em&gt;fellow&lt;/em&gt; iconic American comedy fixture as SNL; even more so given that the two parties are based in the same location, New York City!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4540" LastEditorDisplayName="user4540" LastEditDate="2014-06-03T01:20:34.497" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T02:59:55.737" Title="Has Stephen Colbert ever been on Saturday Night Live (SNL)?" Tags="|saturday-night-live|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19888" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-02T15:23:46.787" Score="2" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2006 film 'Running Scared' there's a scene where Detective Rydell (a dirty cop) meets with Joey Gazelle, Tommy Perello, and another mafia member.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rydell informs them that he was one of the cops from the beginning of the movie that broke up the drug deal and shot the Jamaicans. Rydell then tells Tommy that he demands money to be placed in a locker for him within so many hours, or he'll bring them all down... even if he has to fabricate a story to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why then does Rydell continue to investigate the case of Joey's missing gun, and Anzor (the Russian) being shot with said gun? Why does he want Oleg (Anzor's stepson) to admit that he got the gun from Joey? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not just sit back, leave the the whole case alone, and wait to see if he gets his money (since he's a dirty cop.) If Tommy and the gang don't give Rydell the money... then he could try and bring them all down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just didn't make sense to me that he'd continue investigating the case, trying to bring in just Joey for the gun, and not the rest of the gang. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he had of brought Joey in... he'd never have gotten his money anyway. It just didn't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-02T15:25:09.603" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T15:25:09.603" Title="Why does Detective Rydell continue to investigate the case?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|running-scared|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19887" CreationDate="2014-06-02T15:25:22.853" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Accoring to his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0170306/?ref_=tt_cl_t2&quot;&gt;IMDB filmography&lt;/a&gt;, he is credited with two skits, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0694723/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_71&quot;&gt;Season 22 Epi 5, Chris Rock/Wallflowers&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0694710/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_71&quot;&gt;Season 22 Epi 11, David Allen Grier/Snoop Doggy Dog&lt;/a&gt;. All of the rest of his SNL credits are either as Writer or Voice over work in other skits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One interesting tidbit (to me anyway) is that while Colbert was a writer for SNL from 1996 through 2011 (not all episodes, but several a year) and he has provided voice over work for episodes (that he also wrote for) for that same period, AND he has a hit show and fame from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115147/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_5&quot;&gt;The Daily Show&lt;/a&gt; AND his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458254/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_3&quot;&gt;own eponymous show&lt;/a&gt;.... he has only been on two episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'd think he'd have been invited to host it by now, at the very least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2014-06-02T17:07:23.120" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T17:07:23.120" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19880" CreationDate="2014-06-02T15:42:53.803" Score="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;Orson kills beetles.  The Mountain kills women and children.  In fact, a good many people around Tyrion are killers.  Even his brother Jaime who's, at this point, generally considered to be a good dude totally pushed a kid out a window and had all of Ned's servants killed in S1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tyrion could not understand the beetle murder habit of Orson's because Tyrion is not a natural killer. He just doesn't have the stomach for the casual relationship with death that so many others in Westeros do.  Life is cheap in this world, but the one character who doesn't feel that way is Tyrion.  You'll notice he picked up a bug during that monologue and at the end he let it go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dude just isn't made for this world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9937" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T15:42:53.803" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19892" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19897" CreationDate="2014-06-02T17:27:31.010" Score="31" ViewCount="9522" Body="&lt;p&gt;Franchise movies have crossed over for &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/2188/9682&quot;&gt;over a hundred years&lt;/a&gt;, however despite the long and serialised nature of TV, they're still relatively uncommon besides spin-offs. Crossover episodes between shows indicate both shows take place in the same universe, and long running shows often have multiple over their course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you take all the crossover episodes of a TV show, and combine it with every crossover episodes from that show (et cetera), how many shows comprise the biggest universe? As &quot;crossover&quot; is quite vague on its own, I'm imposing these definitions on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The episode takes place at the location of one or both shows&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The episode features at least one character from the second show, played by the same actor.&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Parodies of a show featuring a cameo by an original cast member &lt;strong&gt;do not&lt;/strong&gt; count (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/09/29/aaron-paul-snl-cameo-video-breaking-bad-finale/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Saturday Night Live and Breaking Bad&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Movies don't count as episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, The CSI-Verse:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSI:_Crime_Scene_Investigation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CSI&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSI:_Miami&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CSI: Miami&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0534673/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cross-Jurisdictions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CSI: Miami and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSI:_NY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CSI: NY&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0534871/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Manhattan Manhunt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CSI and CSI: New York in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1522457/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hammer Down&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CSI and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Without_a_Trace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Without a Trace&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1108057/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Who and What&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are additional crossover episodes within the shows, but only unique shows count here, so this is &lt;strong&gt;4&lt;/strong&gt;. Though soon it will be 5 as the CSI episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3589954/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kitty&lt;/a&gt; has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/cbs-orders-csi-spinoff-series-699995&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;commissioned&lt;/a&gt; for a full series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2017-01-08T03:18:17.083" Title="What is the biggest crossover universe in TV?" Tags="|crossovers|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19892" CreationDate="2014-06-02T17:36:47.997" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Detective &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0004858/&quot;&gt;John Munch&lt;/a&gt;, played by the same actor, Richard Belzer, has appeared in at least a single episode of the following distinct television series, though in some cases, multiple episodes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Law &amp;amp; Order: Special Victims Unit&quot;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&quot;30 Rock&quot;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&quot;The Wire&quot;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&quot;Arrested Development&quot;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&quot;Law &amp;amp; Order: Trial by Jury&quot;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&quot;The Beat&quot;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&quot;Law &amp;amp; Order&quot;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&quot;Homicide: Life on the Street&quot;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&quot;The X-Files&quot;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using him as the singular connection point, nine different television universes can be seen to be paired. The character John Munch also appeared on Sesame Street, however, not played by the same actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-02T17:42:13.153" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T17:42:13.153" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19892" CreationDate="2014-06-02T18:57:12.703" Score="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Westphall#The_Tommy_Westphall_Universe_Hypothesis&quot;&gt;The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis&lt;/a&gt;, nearly all of American television takes place in the mind of an autistic child.  The theory first appeared in 2002, when writer Dwayne McDuffie wrote &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slushfactory.com/content/EpupypyZAZTDOLwdfz.php&quot;&gt;Six Degrees of St. Elsewhere&lt;/a&gt; for the Slush Factory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For those of you don’t know, &lt;em&gt;St. Elsewhere&lt;/em&gt; was a slick, well written and acted drama series about the doctors, administrators and patients of the fictional Boston hospital, St. Eligius (nicknamed St. Elsewhere by the staff). After a long, award-winning run, in the very last moments of the show's final episode, it was revealed that all of the events of the show were merely the prolonged daydream of an autistic child. None of it &quot;really&quot; happened. Whether you like this final twist (for what it’s worth, I didn’t), it’s a legitimate ending to a self-contained show. But if &lt;em&gt;St. Elsewhere&lt;/em&gt; played by the rules of comics, either they wouldn’t have been allowed to do it, or they would have precipitated a crisis in TV Land far bloodier than DC Comics' &lt;em&gt;Crisis On Infinite Earths&lt;/em&gt;. Why? Because crossover-wise, &lt;em&gt;St. Elsewhere&lt;/em&gt; is the Kevin Bacon of TV shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stay with me now, this is complicated but kind of fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Characters from &lt;em&gt;St. Elsewhere&lt;/em&gt; have appeared on &lt;em&gt;Homicide&lt;/em&gt;, which means that show is part of the autistic child’s daydream and likewise doesn’t exist. It gets worse. The omnipresent Detective John Munch from &lt;em&gt;Homicide&lt;/em&gt; has appeared on &lt;em&gt;X-Files&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Law &amp;amp; Order&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Law &amp;amp; Order: SVU&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Law &amp;amp; Order&lt;/em&gt; characters have appeared on &lt;em&gt;Law &amp;amp; Order: Criminal Intent&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;em&gt;X-Files&lt;/em&gt; characters have appeared on &lt;em&gt;The Lone Gunmen&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Millennium&lt;/em&gt;. Characters from &lt;em&gt;Chicago Hope&lt;/em&gt; have appeared on &lt;em&gt;Homicide&lt;/em&gt;. Characters from &lt;em&gt;Picket Fences&lt;/em&gt; have appeared on &lt;em&gt;Chicago Hope&lt;/em&gt;. All those shows are gone (if you count cartoons, which makes this game much too easy, the &lt;em&gt;X-Files&lt;/em&gt; characters have appeared on &lt;em&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;em&gt;The Critic&lt;/em&gt; has also appeared on &lt;em&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/em&gt;. Dead).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Characters from &lt;em&gt;Picket Fences&lt;/em&gt; have appeared on &lt;em&gt;Ally McBeal&lt;/em&gt;. Ally McBeal has appeared on &lt;em&gt;The Practice&lt;/em&gt;. Characters from &lt;em&gt;The Practice&lt;/em&gt; have appeared on &lt;em&gt;Boston Public&lt;/em&gt;. Autistic daydreams, every one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But that's not all. &lt;em&gt;St Elsewhere&lt;/em&gt; characters have appeared on &lt;em&gt;Cheers&lt;/em&gt;, so &lt;em&gt;Fraiser&lt;/em&gt; doesn’t exist. Neither do &lt;em&gt;Wings&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Caroline In The City&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;The Tortellis&lt;/em&gt; but who cares? Well, maybe you do, because &lt;em&gt;Caroline In The City&lt;/em&gt; once crossed over with &lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt;, which crossed over with &lt;em&gt;Mad About You&lt;/em&gt;, which crossed over with &lt;em&gt;Seinfeld&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Dick Van Dyke&lt;/em&gt; show. None of them happened in our new, shared continuity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;St. Elsewhere&lt;/em&gt; also shared characters with &lt;em&gt;The White Shadow&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;It’s Gary Shandling’s Show&lt;/em&gt;. Garry Shandling crossed over with &lt;em&gt;The Andy Griffith show&lt;/em&gt; (no, really!). So &lt;em&gt;Gomer Pyle&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Mayberry RFD&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Make Room for Daddy/The Danny Thomas Show&lt;/em&gt; are gone. &lt;em&gt;Make Room For Daddy&lt;/em&gt; takes out &lt;em&gt;I love Lucy&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And there’s more, &lt;em&gt;St. Elsewhere&lt;/em&gt; also shares continuity with &lt;em&gt;M*A*S*H&lt;/em&gt;, so &lt;em&gt;Aftermash&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Trapper John MD&lt;/em&gt; are out of there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now here’s a good one, &lt;em&gt;St. Elsewhere&lt;/em&gt; shared a patient with &lt;em&gt;The Bob Newhart Show&lt;/em&gt;, so the &lt;em&gt;Bob Newhart Show&lt;/em&gt; is part of the grand daydream. &lt;em&gt;The Bob Newhart Show&lt;/em&gt; crossed over with &lt;em&gt;Murphy Brown&lt;/em&gt;, which in turn links to, among many others: &lt;em&gt;Julia&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Nanny&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Everybody Loves Raymond&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;I Dream of Jeannie&lt;/em&gt;! Meanwhile, the series &lt;em&gt;Newhart&lt;/em&gt; was revealed to be a nightmare had by Bob Newhart’s character on the &lt;em&gt;Bob Newhart Show&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Newhart&lt;/em&gt; crossed over with &lt;em&gt;Coach&lt;/em&gt;, which connects it to &lt;em&gt;Grace Under Fire&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Ellen&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Drew Carey&lt;/em&gt;. Drew Carey takes out &lt;em&gt;Home Improvement&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;NYPD Blue&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All of these shows (and many more that I left out or missed) are daydreams of &lt;em&gt;St. Elsewhere’s&lt;/em&gt; autistic kid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's forty-seven shows, by my count, that exist in this shared universe.  You can also add &lt;em&gt;Boston Legal&lt;/em&gt;, which shares many characters with &lt;em&gt;The Practice&lt;/em&gt;, and both &lt;em&gt;The Single Guy&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Hope and Gloria&lt;/em&gt; for their crossovers with &lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt; to bring the count to an even fifty.  Wait, no. &lt;em&gt;Joey&lt;/em&gt; makes fifty-one. (We can keep adding to the list, since many shows that came out after 2002 cross over with shows already mentioned.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2014-06-02T19:02:16.263" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T19:02:16.263" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16131" CreationDate="2014-06-02T19:12:21.713" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Film-makers often forward instructions as to the appropriate volume of the film via distribution companies: although often these are ignored entirely by the exhibitors, and can sometimes be received as overly pedantic and &lt;em&gt;just a little&lt;/em&gt; condescending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The size (and sometimes positioning of speakers) of an auditorium will have an effect on the overall volume; so a film-maker trying to standardize across all cinemas will often be ignored  or sew the seeds of their own downfall. It's sad that they're ignored, but true, and largely necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recent examples of this include Ken Loach's &lt;em&gt;Jimmy's Hall&lt;/em&gt; and Jonathan Glazer's &lt;em&gt;Under the Skin&lt;/em&gt;, which both sent out DCP's including volume instruction. It's a fairly common occurrence within cinema exhibition to receive these requests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Brazil&lt;/em&gt; is a widely recalled example of this, and is often recalled as the strongest anecdote of &quot;Ignore sound requests&quot; by projectionists who were active at the time of its release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Battle of Brazil&lt;/em&gt; tells of Gilliam's ongoing battles with Sidney Sheinberg (then Producer at Universal, and discoverer of Spielberg) which descended into one of the funniest and most petulant &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24547.The_Battle_of_Brazil&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;battles for control in the business&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a famous advertisement Gilliam put out in Variety...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p7pxz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Different sources claim it was either Gilliam's request the sound be played inordinately loud for impact, or Sheinberg wanted to sink it before it grew legs. The former is much more likely, but the truth will probably be lost forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, your father was correct and among certain projectionists, &quot;Brazil&quot; has become a byword for this type of incident.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T19:12:21.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19880" CreationDate="2014-06-02T19:43:38.027" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tyrion was the admitting that he was the precipitating factor in Orson's death. My two cents. He's basically foreshadowing that he'll kill in order to protect what he deems to be right- or rather to stop what he deems is wrong. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9947" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T19:43:38.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1007" CreationDate="2014-06-02T20:36:17.357" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just before he opens the safe, Sherlock looks at Irene (probably because he suspects there might be some kind of booby trap). She looks sharply down and to the right. It's obvious given what happens next that this look is code for &amp;quot;Duck!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he knows to duck, and she knows to duck, but someone has to warn John somehow. You can see from John's reaction and expression immediately after Sherlock yells, &amp;quot;Vatican cameos!&amp;quot; that he's reacting specifically to &lt;em&gt;that phrase&lt;/em&gt;, not because he had any previous intent to duck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Googling reveals that there seems to be some sort of myth going round that this is a phrase used by military personnel to indicate that there was an armed (non-military) person who had entered the base. I say myth because, despite it being repeated an awful lot on Tumblr, Yahoo! Answers and Urban Dictionary, I've yet to find a single corroborating source for it. It's also nicely debunked &lt;a href=&quot;http://marteenysqueeman.tumblr.com/post/55777359536/vatican-cameos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The single place we do know of the phrase being used (prior to &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;) is in the original Sherlock Holmes stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I was exceedingly preoccupied by that little affair of the Vatican cameos, and in my anxiety to oblige the Pope I lost touch with several interesting English cases.&#xA;—Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it's a nice little nod to the original stories, as we know the writers of &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; are keen on doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what does it mean in-universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is definitely a codeword very precisely targetted at John. Most likely, it's a reference to a case that Sherlock and John worked on together. The fact that it isn't explained in any more detail than &amp;quot;saying 'Vatican cameos' makes John duck&amp;quot; isn't particularly unusual for the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sherlock attacking a corpse with a riding crop in the very first episode.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sherlock harpooning a pig and arriving home (via the Tube!) drenched in blood at the start of &lt;em&gt;The Hounds of Baskerville&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even an example of a past case being a codeword:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the unaired pilot, Sherlock says, &amp;quot;Angelo, headless nun&amp;quot; to refer to a past case. Angelo simply asks, &amp;quot;Same again?&amp;quot; and when Sherlock confirms, Angelo throws him out of the restaurant as if he were drunk.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, this is brought up again in &lt;em&gt;The Sign of Three&lt;/em&gt;, with slightly more explanation as to its meaning (if not its origin).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JOHN&lt;/strong&gt;: Oi! Sherlock! Any chance of an end date for this speech? Got to cut the cake?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SHERLOCK:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh, listen to him. Can’t stand it when I get a chance to speak for once vatican cameos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[He just adds the last two words, casually appending them to the sentence. Their eyes meet for a deadly serious moment. ]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MARY&lt;/strong&gt; (To John): &lt;em&gt;What was that?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JOHN:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Battle stations. Somebody’s going to die.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[On Sherlock, scanning the room. So many Texts, so many potential Mayfly men ...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;Sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/documents/sherlock-s3-ep2-the-sign-of-three-mark-gatiss-steven-moffat-steve-thompson.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BBC Script - The Sign of Three&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/Sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not clear whether it literally means &amp;quot;battle stations&amp;quot; or whether that's John's translation for this context (much as his translation for the previous context was &amp;quot;the safe is trapped, get down&amp;quot;). However, it's slightly more information than in &lt;em&gt;Scandal&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9877" LastEditorUserId="100979" LastEditDate="2023-12-10T15:55:20.357" LastActivityDate="2023-12-10T15:55:20.357" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="19902" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19957" CreationDate="2014-06-02T21:05:50.053" Score="4" ViewCount="2687" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just found out that there is an epilogue episode to Lost, named &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Man_in_Charge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The New Man in Charge&lt;/a&gt;, that answers some of the questions left open by the finale, for example&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;where the Dharma Initiative packages dropped from the sky come from,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;why there are polar bears on the island,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what happened to Walt and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what the purpose of Room 23 was.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The full epilogue can be seen on Youtube:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/kH0P-CA7ntE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently Room 23 was used by Dharma to question the captured indigenous population about Jacob and then cause partial amnesia to make them forget about it, so Dharma would not risk a war by violating their truce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time we see Room 23, Alex' friend Karl is being tortured there. (&quot;Not in Portland&quot;, 3x07)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/khWxz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Karl in Room 23&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Not_in_Portland?file=3X07_KarlRoom23.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Image source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In retrospect of this new information about the purpose of Room 23, is there any indication what the Others were hoping to achieve by brainwashing Karl? Why are they trying to erase his memory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T19:24:30.433" Title="Why did the Others put Karl in the chair in Room 23?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lost|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19871" CreationDate="2014-06-02T21:43:23.143" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is most common to use addresses containing octets outside the possible range of 0 to 255 for a &quot;555-1234&quot;-&lt;em&gt;esque&lt;/em&gt; IPv4 analog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While using valid-looking, &quot;approved&quot; ranges is OK, if an actor need say them aloud they might not be that great.  Plus, from the TEST-NET's Andrew mentions, &lt;code&gt;.0.&lt;/code&gt;'s aren't cool, and &lt;code&gt;.100.&lt;/code&gt; could appear &quot;too ideal&quot;.  If users are at all familiar with IP addresses (not uncommon nowadays) anything starting with &lt;code&gt;192.168.&lt;/code&gt;, the most common block for consumer private networks, could break an audience's suspension of disbelief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In &lt;em&gt;24&lt;/em&gt; Jack gave Chloe an IP address starting with 292&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rizzoli and Isles traced an email message back to an IP address like &quot;189.23.290.13&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Net&lt;/em&gt; featuring Sandra Bullock&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Person of Interest&lt;/em&gt; chat sessions and more below&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gallery:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://missbooleana.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/rootcause.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NjRgt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-09T03:35:04.007" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T03:35:04.007" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19904" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19929" CreationDate="2014-06-02T22:38:16.220" Score="5" ViewCount="20399" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've a couple questions stemming from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0862467/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_13&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Valhalla Rising&lt;/a&gt;. At the end, One-Eye &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tfkhi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;turns to face the Indians, dropping his axe and allowing them to beat him to death. &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TLEK3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA; (The scene reminds me that Indians played Golf long before the Scots &quot;invented&quot; it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once they have killed One-Eye, after which, if you believe the more mystical ramblings, One-Eye can return to Valhalla as Odin, victorious after his small victory over the upstart Christians, the Indians look at The Boy while he returns their look.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A0hEp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Then, they turn inland as one, leaving The Boy alone on the shore.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jWacu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do the Indians kill One-Eye but leave The Boy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2014-06-02T22:57:21.553" LastActivityDate="2018-08-21T14:58:58.190" Title="Why did the Indians decide to end it this way?" Tags="|plot-explanation|valhalla-rising|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19905" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-02T22:44:53.797" Score="4" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0862467/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_13&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Valhalla Rising&lt;/a&gt;, the final chapter (IIRC, Chap IV) is titled &quot;The Sacrifice.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one of the few things I've not been able to figure out on my own, for sure. Why was the chapter called that? I don't believe One-Eye/Odin sacrificed himself for The Boy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the Indians turn and leave The Boy at the end, this didn't really do The Boy any favors, alone, in a strange land, where he isn't even able to communicate with the natives, he's simply going to die of starvation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T02:22:18.973" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T02:22:18.973" Title="Why was it &quot;The Sacrifice&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|valhalla-rising|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19880" CreationDate="2014-06-02T23:29:56.117" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought the point was Tyrion saw himself as the Beetle's and the rest of the world as his cousin. He's small, frail, almost every description he gives of the beetles matches him as well. And his cousin just unmercifully smashes these Beetles for no reason, whatever reason that may be to him would also explain why people so easily smash him even though he's a good person who would never harm anyone (like Tyrion). I saw it as just a deeper psychological look into Tyrion himself. I don't think he himself even realized all of this, but the writer did I think. It even kind of gives insight into human nature itself. They kept describing his cousin as &quot;simple,&quot; and he killed these beetles indiscriminately which describes most of the people in this show. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9953" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T23:29:56.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19880" CreationDate="2014-06-02T23:45:50.637" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually I see it as a veiled putdown on Orson Scott Card who has been criticizing Game of Thrones series. Cousin Orson is Orson Scott Card, also realize that Orson Scott Card is widely known for writing Ender's Game, a novel about a boy who is selected to kill an Alien Race of Bugs aka Beetles. If the writer's had this in mind they made an excellent jest of it. There are some parallels to the Mountain killing left and right but, this parable probably has many meanings. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9955" LastActivityDate="2014-06-02T23:45:50.637" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19892" CreationDate="2014-06-03T00:13:40.613" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were the Beverly Hillbillies/Green Acres/Petticoat Junction crossovers in the 1960s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8407" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T00:13:40.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19880" CreationDate="2014-06-03T02:15:16.863" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the beetle discussion foreshadows an immediate application into the Red Viper-Mountain fight. Oberyn's eyes and face were literally smashed in like a beetle. The Mountain is certainly known for his brawn and not his wit, paralleling cousin Orson. The sheer nature of Oberyn's demise from the Mountain invokes disbelief on a level like Tyrion's response to the beetles. The beetle discussion surely has a wider application as well. Indiscriminate killings are everywhere in Westeros; happening within Tyrion's sphere, and outside of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9960" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T02:15:16.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19892" CreationDate="2014-06-03T05:43:12.207" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Buffy_The_Vampire_Slayer_and_Angel_crossover_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Buffy and Angel&lt;/a&gt;? Quite a few episodes there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9966" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T08:03:09.160" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T08:03:09.160" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19913" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19915" CreationDate="2014-06-03T06:57:36.830" Score="4" ViewCount="681" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to work out if the Godzilla in the latest film is biggest yet and how it compares to Pacific Rim's Kaiju.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know &lt;a href=&quot;http://pacificrim.wikia.com/wiki/Scunner&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Scunner&lt;/a&gt; (the only Cat V kaiju) was 134.4m and weighed 3,230 tons. Although we never saw it out of the water so it's hard to judge against the cityscape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any figures on the various sizes of Godzilla across the years?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-04-22T10:25:55.107" LastActivityDate="2019-04-22T10:25:55.107" Title="How big is Godzilla in the new film?" Tags="|pacific-rim|godzilla-2014|monsterverse|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="19914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19880" CreationDate="2014-06-03T07:35:12.467" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Vantha Doun is right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Orson Scott criticizes GOT since the first episode. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2011-04-28.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This link&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AND&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Orson is HATED for his homophobic position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, when Tyrion says that he went to Maester Volarik's library, Jaime makes clear that the Maester has homosexual inclinations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if Volarik is a reference for a real person. But his homosexuality appears to be a direct reference to Orson Scott's homophobia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that cousin Orson and Volarik are not mentioned in the book. This scene is an independent write.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joining the name &lt;strong&gt;Orson&lt;/strong&gt;, the beetles and the homosexuality in this veeeery long text, using characters not in the book, in a scene not in the book...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And calling Orson, &lt;strong&gt;moron&lt;/strong&gt; etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9967" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-06-04T11:07:20.540" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T11:07:20.540" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19913" CreationDate="2014-06-03T07:40:41.193" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this is a good enough answer for you, as it doesn't contain weight, but among the promotional material released for Godzilla was this &lt;strong&gt;size comparison chart&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7ioM7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, to my understanding that is an official chart, released in &lt;strong&gt;Empire Magazine&lt;/strong&gt;. It lists him as being just &lt;strong&gt;over 100m&lt;/strong&gt; tall. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also seen this fan-made chart which differs slightly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5pfEd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It lists him as being between &lt;strong&gt;120 and 150 meters&lt;/strong&gt; tall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T07:40:41.193" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19916" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19918" CreationDate="2014-06-03T08:01:04.337" Score="4" ViewCount="2112" Body="&lt;p&gt;We all know the 555-0100 to 555-0199 numbers used for fake phone numbers. Suppose there's a  letter on screen for a short time, addressed to the villain, with the address on there and clearly visible during the shot. Is there a regulation to prevent some poor guy from getting all that hatemail aimed at, say, Cruella Deville?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9969" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-04T15:54:36.617" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T00:38:42.997" Title="What is the equivalent of 555 for postal addresses?" Tags="|realism|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19822" CreationDate="2014-06-03T08:42:32.200" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a really interesting question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried to find some sort of list of &quot;banned&quot; television shows, but I came up completely empty. You are of course right that many directors and producers have complained about movies being damaged by content ratings, but not television shows. I did find some possible reasons &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To begin, it's worth reminding ourselves what the ratings actually are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TVY: &quot;All Children.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This program is designed to be appropriate for all children. Whether&#xA;  animated or live-action, the themes and elements in this program are&#xA;  specifically designed for a very young audience, including children&#xA;  from ages 2 - 6. This program is not expected to frighten younger&#xA;  children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TVY7: &quot;Directed to Older Children&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This program is designed for children age 7 and above.It may be more&#xA;  appropriate for children who have acquired the developmental skills&#xA;  needed to distinguish between make-believe and reality. Themes and&#xA;  elements in this program may include mild fantasy violence or comedic&#xA;  violence, or may frighten children under the age of 7. Therefore,&#xA;  parents may wish to consider the suitability of this program for their&#xA;  very young children. Note: For those programs where fantasy violence&#xA;  may be more intense or more combative than other programs in this&#xA;  category, such programs will be designated TV-Y7-FV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TVG: &quot;General Audiences&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Most parents would find this program suitable for all ages. Although&#xA;  this rating does not signify a program designed specifically for&#xA;  children, most parents may let younger children watch this program&#xA;  unattended. It contains little or no violence, no strong language and&#xA;  little or no sexual dialogue or situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TVPG: &quot;Parental Guidance Suggested&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This program contains material that parents may find unsuitable for&#xA;  younger children. Many parents may want to watch it with their younger&#xA;  children. The theme itself may call for parental guidance and/or the&#xA;  program contains one or more of the following: moderate violence (V),&#xA;  some sexual situations (S), infrequent coarse language (L), or some&#xA;  suggestive dialogue (D).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TV14: &quot;Parents Strongly Cautioned&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This program contains some material that many parents would find&#xA;  unsuitable for children under 14 years of age. Parents are strongly&#xA;  urged to exercise greater care in monitoring this program and are&#xA;  cautioned against letting children under the age of 14 watch&#xA;  unattended. This program contains one or more of the following:&#xA;  intense violence (V), intense sexual situations (S), strong coarse&#xA;  language (L), or intensely suggestive dialogue (D).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TVMA: &quot;Mature Audiences Only&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This program is specifically designed to be viewed by adults and&#xA;  therefore may be unsuitable for children under 17. This program&#xA;  contains one or more of the following: graphic violence (V), explicit&#xA;  sexual activity (S), or crude indecent language (L).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, TV Guide actually did a report on these ratings, asking &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvguide.com/news/special-report-does-1045591.aspx&quot;&gt;Does Anyone Care About TV's Content Ratings?&lt;/a&gt;. To quote some fascinating snippets from that article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For most folks, the ratings bugs are just one more thing on an already&#xA;  cluttered TV screen. According to a 2007 study by the Kaiser Family&#xA;  Foundation, only 43 percent of respondents who had purchased a&#xA;  V-Chip-equipped [content restricting] TV since 2000 even knew of the technology, and just 16&#xA;  percent of parents said they utilized it. The study also found that&#xA;  few viewers understood that &quot;V&quot; stands for &quot;violence,&quot; &quot;S&quot; is &quot;sex&quot;&#xA;  and &quot;D&quot; means &quot;suggestive dialogue.&quot; Even more comical, a percentage&#xA;  of parents polled thought &quot;FV&quot; — which warns of &quot;fantasy violence&quot; on&#xA;  kids' shows like Cartoon Network's Ben 10 — is an abbreviation for&#xA;  &quot;family viewing.&quot; Oops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we can see that, unlike movie ratings which are fairly well known, TV content ratings aren't. There could be a few reasons for this, but I would argue the most likely is that movie ratings are extremely relevant for content released in the cinema or in stores as there are laws restricting what minors can purchase. Obviously many minors get their hands on these things anyway, but suffice to say restrictions are in place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, with TV Ratings it's much harder to restrict content. Whereas for movies the store is doing all the work in restricting content, for television the parent has to do the work. They need to set up the restriction software on the television and proactively use it. Many parents, who are perhaps not particularly technically savvy (thinking of my own mother here!) would struggle to do that. Without these restrictions, minors are free to watch pretty much whatever they want. Therefore, unlike with movies where a director may feel the change of rating has affected his overall &quot;vision&quot;, with television series the creators may feel they are still hitting the &quot;target audience&quot; and therefore their vision hasn't been compromised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, that is just a minor point and a theory to boot, but I thought I'd suggest. More importantly from that TV Guide article though is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Critics are mixed on how effective the system has been. Children Now&#xA;  national policy director Jeff McIntyre gives &quot;50/50&quot; marks to the&#xA;  ratings. &quot;There are a lot of concerns about how the ratings are&#xA;  implemented and significant concerns about the consistency of the&#xA;  ratings,&quot; he says. &quot;A show on CBS will have different ratings than a&#xA;  similar one on NBC, or shows in syndication have different ratings.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The movie ratings system tends to get a little more press and social&#xA;  awareness, and tends to get integrated as a marketing mechanism,&quot;&#xA;  McIntyre says. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;But in comparison, TV content ratings rarely, if ever,&#xA;  get a rise out of producers or viewers. That's mostly because the TV&#xA;  networks rate themselves, via their internal standards and practices&#xA;  departments.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Plus, in the movie world, a rating can impact box office,&#xA;  as many theater chains won't show unrated or NC-17 movies, and are&#xA;  strict about not letting kids into R-rated features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We could rate a show TV-MA [mature audiences only] and it's still&#xA;  going on the air, even if the affiliates don't like it,&quot; says a&#xA;  network exec. &quot;There's no crossing guard in TV. If a 12-year-old&#xA;  watches a TV-MA show on TV, that's on the parents.&quot; There is an&#xA;  oversight board that serves as a clearinghouse for TV content ratings&#xA;  issues, but McIntyre says it's still difficult to figure out how to&#xA;  dispute ratings. &quot;It's such a broad TV rating system, there's not a&#xA;  lot of clarity who you can go to if you have a complaint,&quot; he says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you can see that it is being argued that as networks are self rating, it's nowhere near as important for them to &quot;fit&quot; their show into a certain rating. If the show is too violent or sexual, they can simply label it suitable for Mature audiences and release it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article then continues, stating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Critics had feared that the content ratings might give networks&#xA;  license to get dirtier, and McIntyre believes that early on, a handful&#xA;  of shows took advantage of the system to prove how &quot;edgy&quot; they were.&#xA;  The pilot to CBS' 1997 Steven Bochco drama Brooklyn South earned a bit&#xA;  of notoriety for being the first broadcast program to land a TV-MA,&#xA;  but that show didn't last long. Since then, Loesch says she doesn't&#xA;  think &quot;there was any real purposeful effort to use ratings as a shield&#xA;  to get away with anything. There were a lot of naysayers and I think a&#xA;  lot of their predictions have never borne out to be true.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Loesch adds that even though she regularly hears from parents&#xA;  concerned over language and the sexualization of young girls in TV,&#xA;  that doesn't extend to the content ratings. &quot;To tell you the truth I&#xA;  don't hear anything about the TV ratings,&quot; she says. &quot;It's not a part&#xA;  of the conversation. The content itself is.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So again any &quot;naysayers&quot; appear to be complaining about what content is allowed to be shown, rather than the actual &lt;em&gt;rating&lt;/em&gt; system. This suggests that producers/directors are quite at ease to create the show &lt;em&gt;they want to create&lt;/em&gt; as they know a Mature rating can be given to it if necessary and the show will still be broadcast to a nationwide audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a final note, I haven't found any shows that were &lt;em&gt;so unsuitable&lt;/em&gt; that they weren't released. But this seems logical to me. Whilst I know there are banned movies, it seems difficult to imagine how a network could pay for a show that was so extreme it could never be released. If that happened, I would imagine the show's creators could be in legal difficulties. After all, for filming to go ahead the idea for the show, along with its content, would need to be agreed and verified. If they changed this to make it far more extreme/sexual/graphic/something, they would be validating that agreement. Not to mention the fact that the channel creating the show would be keeping track of it during production and would be able to &quot;yank&quot; it long before it go to air (e.g. if the pilot was unsuitable, nothing else would be commissioned).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that article I've used primarily for this answer addresses the efficiency of content ratings as opposed to TV show-runners &lt;em&gt;criticizing&lt;/em&gt; the ratings. But I hope it is still useful to you. It appears that directors/producers simply don't view the ratings system as much of an issue, compared to their counterparts in the movie business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T08:42:32.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19916" CreationDate="2014-06-03T08:56:05.573" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not aware of any &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot; zip codes that are &lt;em&gt;commonly&lt;/em&gt; used in movies. However, some digging has suggested that fake zip codes are probably not required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, zip code is a five digit code. According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.carrierroutes.com/ZIPCodes.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Carrier Routes&lt;/a&gt; there are approximately 43,000 zip codes in use in the US. As a five digit number can go up to 99,999, this means that over half the &amp;quot;possible&amp;quot; zip codes created using five digits are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; in use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://procw.hubpages.com/hub/Explanation-of-Zip-Codes---How-zip-codes-are-chosen-for-areas-and-what-the-numbers-mean&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;, zip codes work in the following way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The digits mean specific things and here is what they mean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The First Five Digits&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First Digit:&lt;/strong&gt; A broad geographic location.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Second and Third Digits:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Pinpoints a more specific area.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Fourth and Fifth Digits:&lt;/strong&gt; Designates&#xA;Post Offices and/or Postal Zones&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1983 an expansion was needed and&#xA;became known as ZIP+4. This meant better and faster deliverability for&#xA;our mail. The 4-digit add-on identifies the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;City Blocks&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Office Buildings&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;High Volume Mail Receivers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems likely that film creators, if they really wanted to, could examine the codes for a particular area and ensure they chose a &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot; one, i.e. a code that wouldn't work in a region.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore though, a zip code is simply used to get mail to the &lt;em&gt;right area&lt;/em&gt;. Once there, the local address is used to actually get it to the &lt;em&gt;right house&lt;/em&gt;. Even if a real zip code was used, if it didn't match the right address for that zip code in anyway, it would be returned to the sender (or whatever the policy for US postal companies is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, I would argue it's not as necessary to &lt;em&gt;fake&lt;/em&gt; zip codes. When a phone number appears on screen, it's easy to try it out. You dial the number and in real-time can get in touch/hear/listen to someone. A fake zip code requires the hassle of creating some sort of letter/parcel, posting it and then waiting for the other person to be nice enough to reply - which if the address was featured on television is extremely unlikely! Therefore, not only does it take a lot more work to get in touch with a zip code seen on television, the likelihood of a response, when compared with phoning someone, is much, much slimmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T08:56:05.573" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19880" CreationDate="2014-06-03T10:09:17.237" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many interesting theories here, and I agree to an extent with most of them. For me however, the story of Orson Lannister's seemingly unnecessary squashing of many beetles was a demonstration that size matters; the bigger man will win. Now this can be literal and figurative. We see Gregor Clegane, the vast 'Mountain', crush Oberyn Martell to a pulp purely because he has the physical means to do so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, consider this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; As we later see, Oberyn's poison coated blade kills Gregor eventually (Poison being superior to brute force). Orson was killed by the kick of a horse (Horse&gt;Orson), and so we see that Tyrion's talk can essentially be seen as a representation of the fact that you can crush all who are beneath you for a time, but you will eventually cross the path of someone (or something) that is superior to you and there you will meet your end. Really would like someone to comment back whether they agree with me or not!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9972" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-06-03T10:13:14.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T10:13:14.057" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19880" CreationDate="2014-06-03T11:22:39.630" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a discussion between Tyrion and Jaime about their father Tywin. Tyrion has been watching his father all his life, but just cannot understand his brutality. Both Jaime and Tyrion can kill when it needs to be done, but neither son has anything on the cold brutality of their father. An amazing scene, wonderfully acted. Actually the whole episode was great, one of the best yet. Sounds like the name Orson Lannister didn't appear in the books and is an in-joke on that other famous 'moron' Orson Scott Card!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9973" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2017-08-08T14:48:53.743" LastActivityDate="2017-08-08T14:48:53.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19822" CreationDate="2014-06-03T12:12:34.710" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Andrew Martin's answer provides the main reason why this never happens: Shows usually get censored by the network, not by TV content rating standards. So showrunners will obviously blame the network if anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens a lot, Family Guy for example, which often pushes the boundaries, regularly makes jokes within the episodes about their network Fox preventing them from showing certain content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To add a more concrete example of censorship by the network, the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ll_See_You_in_Court&quot;&gt;I'll See You in Court&lt;/a&gt; of the classic TV show &quot;Married with Children&quot; with the plot revolving around a sex tape was not aired because of the controversial sexual content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Conflict erupted between the show's producers and the airing network over the episode's content, which prevented the episode from being aired for well over a decade, far past Married... with Children's initial television run. Even when first shown on American television in 2002, four lines were removed from the broadcast, despite it having already run uncut in other countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Married with Children&quot; is a good example of the censor department of a network tampering with the creative vision of a show that was rather bold for the time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The censors of the Fox Broadcasting Company, however, objected to many of the lines in the show. It was not the first time that Fox censors had struggled with the content in Married... with Children. Earlier in the season, producers and writers Michael G. Moye and Ron Leavitt had to fight with the censors to air &quot;The Camping Show&quot;, an episode where the Bundys and the Rhodes are trapped in a cabin in the wilderness as all three women have their periods at the same time. It was originally intended to be shown in November 1988, but its airing was delayed while the network wrangled with the subject matter. The episode aired on December 11, 1988, but the producers were forced to change the title from &quot;A Period Piece&quot; to &quot;The Camping Show&quot;, despite the fact that the title itself does not appear onscreen and is not mentioned during the program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why would the network have an interest in censoring its own shows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are mostly two reasons which come down to image and money:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the network shows content considered offensive and inadequate by the viewers, they will lose reputation and viewership.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One of the main concerns of any network is advertisement. If content is deemed offensive by a large portion of viewers, the advertising companies will not want to run their clips during this show. This was also the main reason the episode mentioned above was not aired:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The censors ended up pulling &quot;I'll See You in Court&quot;, preventing it from airing in the United States during the series' original run. Terry Rakolta, a woman from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, had launched a letter-writing campaign against the program after viewing the Season 3 episode &quot;Her Cups Runneth Over&quot; in January 1989. Offended by the episode's content, she urged advertisers to boycott the show, several of whom did or pledged to more carefully screen the episodes for which they provided advertising. The campaign garnered more media attention than she had expected and the advertisers' more careful scrutiny of the individual episodes that they supported was a significant factor that led to the pulling of I'll See You in Court.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously this is a situation any network wants to avoid badly, so they run rigorous censoring departments that review every episode before airing and dictate the show in advance what is and isn't allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-03T12:23:26.620" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T12:23:26.620" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14141" CreationDate="2014-06-03T12:29:12.257" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie the analyst is able to hack into the computer hard drive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The analyst tells Ethan that Davian will be going to the Vatican AND explains that the reason for that is connected to the &quot;rabbit's foot&quot; which he will sell to someone at the Vatican.  He goes on to talk about what his professor taught back at Oxford, about this &quot;rabbit's foot&quot; end of the world type of stuff also is also referred to as the &quot;Anti God&quot;.  There's a lot of good connections that we miss out on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9975" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:05:25.420" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:05:25.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19923" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19925" CreationDate="2014-06-03T13:02:34.820" Score="11" ViewCount="971" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many TV sites give the viewing figures for a particular episode or series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With more modern digital TVs I can accept that these values could be gathered from the television itself but I find this extremely unlikely when you consider historical figures (not to mention the privacy issues).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are surveys carried out and I've simply never heard of one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's obviously very important information because advert sales depend on accurate information. So how do television companies judge how many people have viewed their shows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:17:16.373" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:17:16.373" Title="How are viewing figures gathered?" Tags="|audience-measurement|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19923" CreationDate="2014-06-03T13:07:02.620" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have personally received &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/nielsen-solutions/nielsen-measurement/nielsen-tv-measurement.html&quot;&gt;Nielsen Ratings&lt;/a&gt;, even as late as a few years ago. Their web site says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Electronic and proprietary metering technology&lt;/strong&gt; is at the heart of Nielsen audience measurement. &lt;strong&gt;In addition to capturing what channels viewers are watching on each television set in the home, our meters can identify who is watching and when, including “time-shifted” viewing—the watching of recorded programming up to seven days after an original broadcast&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chosen at random through proven methodology, Nielsen’s U.S. TV families represent a cross-section of representative homes throughout the country. We measure viewing using our &lt;strong&gt;national and local people meters&lt;/strong&gt;, which capture information about what’s being viewed and when, and in the major U.S. markets, specifically &lt;strong&gt;who and how many people are watching&lt;/strong&gt;. We also have TV set meters in many local markets, and we &lt;strong&gt;collect more than two million paper diaries from audiences across the country each year during “sweeps”—specific periods during the months of February, May, July and November.&lt;/strong&gt; To measure video content viewed on mobile devices, we have expanded our panels to incorporate census-style data from third parties in order to capture the breadth and depth of consumer usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nielsen &lt;strong&gt;delivers a constant, real-time stream of information, revealing tuning behavior during programs and commercials&lt;/strong&gt;. We can tell clients &lt;strong&gt;which commercials are being watched, as well as which ones have the strongest engagement and impact&lt;/strong&gt;. We analyze which position in the program or commercial block is most effective for a specific brand and which markets will create the best return on investment for brands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know Nielsen is just one ratings company, but would bet the other ones are pretty much the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-06-03T13:52:58.400" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T13:52:58.400" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19923" CreationDate="2014-06-03T13:42:51.017" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you are referring to is commonly known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_ratings&quot;&gt;TV ratings&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So how do television companies judge how many people have viewed their shows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They usually rely on two main techniques, applied to a representative minority of viewers who get payed in helping collect the TV ratings:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Viewer diaries&lt;/strong&gt; - The viewer writes down what he watches when. This information is then collected and analyzed regularly. This method is cheap and easy, but of course not very accurate.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Set meters and people meters&lt;/strong&gt; - These are set top boxes connected to the TV that gather viewing habits on a very detailed level (per-minute basis). Those boxes are activated by the viewer when he starts to watch a TV show, people meters even track who exactly in a household is currently watching. The results then get transmitted to the ratings authority.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the US this is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_ratings&quot;&gt;Nielsen ratings&lt;/a&gt; by the Nielsen Company, the UK has the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcasters%27_Audience_Research_Board&quot;&gt;Broadcasters' Audience Research Board&lt;/a&gt; and in Germany the ratings are currently surveyed by the &quot;Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fernsehforschung&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The overall ratings are then extrapolated from the representative small data set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other techniques that also get applied include&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Surveys - People are asked what they watched.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Internet viewership - The click numbers of online services are getting more and more important nowadays and are getting more attention lately.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T13:42:51.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19923" CreationDate="2014-06-03T13:44:45.510" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the U.S., Nielsen would send out set-top boxes that would physically attach to your cable box.  Those boxes would sending viewing information back to Nielsen, who would compile it and sell the data to TV stations so they could use it to charge higher advertising rates during programs with higher viewing rates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T13:44:45.510" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14141" CreationDate="2014-06-03T14:47:14.557" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a &lt;strong&gt;biohazard&lt;/strong&gt;, that means&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;something that may cause harm to people or to the environment, especially a poisonous chemical or an infectious disease&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, this picture confirms that Rabbit's foot is a biohazard.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BmGxF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T14:47:14.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19928" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-03T14:53:49.137" Score="5" ViewCount="916" Body="&lt;p&gt;At Level 1 when Saito is shot in the chest and Eames is about to shoot him in the head (in the warehouse) Cobb stops him saying that as they are all on sedatives killing him would send him to the limbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But eventually Saito dies of his bullet wound and Fischer too dies (atleast his heart stops beating). Now Cobb and Ariadne enter the limbo to get them back, once in the limbo Fischer and Ariadne jump off the building and get back to the previous level. Similarly Saito and Cobb shoot themselves to get back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If dying in the limbo would bring one back who not shoot Saito at level 1, go to limbo, kill him again and bring back a non-wounded Saito?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9980" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T14:52:59.327" Title="Is coming out of a limbo easy or difficult?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19904" CreationDate="2014-06-03T15:00:45.937" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;[Converted from comment]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I recall, the one-eyed man offers himself without a fight to the Indians in exchange for the boy's safety. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's hard to tell because there was little to no dialog in the movie to begin with and One-Eye is mute, you have to try and interpret the actions, facial expressions and every other aspect beyond speech. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is split up into 6 parts, the last being &quot;The Sacrifice&quot; which gives some substance to how I interpreted the final scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valhalla_Rising_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; page&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One-Eye and The Boy successfully reach the coastline and are soon met&#xA;  by over a dozen clay-covered warriors. &lt;strong&gt;One-Eye regards them knowingly,&#xA;  as he has already foreseen this event in a vision.&lt;/strong&gt; He puts his hand on&#xA;  The Boy's arm, then walks into the middle of the tribesmen. He drops&#xA;  his axe and his knife and closes his eye. One of the warriors fells&#xA;  him with one blow to the back of the head, before the other warriors&#xA;  finish him off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One-Eye's spirit walks into the estuary next to his cairn and&#xA;  disappears below the surface. On the beach, the remaining tribe&#xA;  members quietly withdraw back into the forest, leaving the boy looking&#xA;  out at the ocean. The sky grows dark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He saw his fate when he and the crew were drinking the psychedelic brew. There seems to be a much deeper and richer story than what meets the eye, like a Donnie Darko kind of situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-07T17:15:23.953" LastActivityDate="2014-06-07T17:15:23.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19931" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-03T15:33:55.257" Score="6" ViewCount="2028" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/19881/who-was-dreaming-when-and-whose-mind-was-being-projected&quot;&gt;Who was dreaming when and whose mind was being projected?&lt;/a&gt;, where the infographic shows very well in which mind each dream level takes place, except for the Limbo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/reLi9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Inception infographic&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So let's review, what is Limbo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top answer on &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/3342/how-does-ariadne-know-that-saito-is-dead-in-the-upper-level&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; provides the movie dialogue that explains it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    ARIADNE&#xA;Limbo?&#xA;&#xA;    ARTHUR &#xA;Unconstructed dream space.&#xA;&#xA;    ARIADNE &#xA;What's down there?&#xA;&#xA;    ARTHUR&#xA;Raw, infinite subconscious. Nothing &#xA;there but what was left behind by &#xA;anyone on the team who's been trapped &#xA;there before. On this team... just &#xA;Cobb.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That definition is really vague and does not really provide an answer to where the Limbo takes place, i.e. in which subconsciousness. As we know, usually someone has to sleep and &lt;em&gt;dream&lt;/em&gt; the world so the others can link in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it can be compared to hosting a dedicated server for a game. One of the players has to &quot;host&quot; (dream) the world on his &quot;PC&quot; (mind) for the others to be able connect to it. He then is able to control the environment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently Limbo happens in the subconscious, so the &quot;player&quot; is not able to actively control the environment. Still leaves the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In which subconscious does the limbo happen?&lt;/strong&gt; How is that decided and who is able to control this world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would expect the person dying to fall down into their own sub-conscience. However Cobb and Saito are able to meet there, so that cannot be true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T15:43:40.537" Title="Where does Limbo take place?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19931" CreationDate="2014-06-03T15:43:40.537" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following is quoted from this page - &lt;a href=&quot;http://inception.wikia.com/wiki/Limbo&quot;&gt;http://inception.wikia.com/wiki/Limbo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Limbo exists as a space that is not dreamt by any one individual, but is a shared space where any mind can make drastic alterations of any kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on that game hosting server example you gave I would say a dream level is like a client-server architecture whereas limbo is a peer to peer model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9980" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T15:43:40.537" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19935" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20036" CreationDate="2014-06-03T16:06:02.910" Score="24" ViewCount="16787" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/a&gt; episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Mountain_and_the_Viper&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Mountain and the Viper&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (S04E08), Barristan Selmy is presented with a Royal Pardon supposedly signed by the late Robert Baratheon for Ser Jorah Morment by a lowly boy of Meereen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it is a bit confusing to me as where this actually came from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this the same pardon that Jorah had towards the beginning of the series while Robert was actually alive, &lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt; is this pardon one that Tywin actually forged and wrote in a previous episode (remember he asks Mace Tyrell for a quill after learning about Dany's recent actions and allies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It being from Tywin makes sense but this point is brought up by Jorah and then defeated a sentence later as he himself states it is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a forged Pardon.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So which is it and why would Jorah say it is not a forged copy if it indeed is?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-02-03T21:44:58.270" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T21:06:57.310" Title="Where did the pardon come from?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19935" CreationDate="2014-06-03T16:49:04.223" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing as in the first season episode 'You Win or You Die', Ser Jorah is handed a royal pardon by one of The Spider's little birds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XpI8m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;You Win or You Die&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Royal Pardon in  'The Mountain and the Viper' must certainly be a fake, as Jorah already had the pardon which Robert Baratheon signed. Though in fact it's never shown what he did with it, so I suppose its possible he left it there when he saved Daenerys and it was returned by the same messenger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not it was forged, it had happened and there's no way he could talk his way out of it, so best not bring it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T16:49:04.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19937" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27224" CreationDate="2014-06-03T20:11:33.723" Score="7" ViewCount="3682" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original version of the Gilligan's Island theme song was recorded by The Wellingtons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &quot;Here on Gilligan's Isle&quot;, the second (and third) season version of the song was performed by a group called The Eligibles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;User &quot;supercat&quot; asked in a comment on &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/10346/why-did-the-gilligans-island-theme-song-change-between-seasons&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you know if the Wellingtons demanded a per-show royalty, or if there was some other reason they were used for the first season but not the second? Until I watched the show on DVD, I would have guessed the later theme started in a lower key; I was surprised to find the difference stems purely from the different singers' voices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why weren't The Wellingtons used for the later season recording(s)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2020-02-17T09:27:57.420" Title="Why didn't The Wellingtons record the revised Gilligan's Island theme song?" Tags="|soundtrack|gilligans-island|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19880" CreationDate="2014-06-03T23:11:55.680" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I do agree that the conversation is a foreshadowing of the impending battle, and probably even a stab at Orson Scott Card, I think that there is further meaning to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tyrion cannot understand why Orson smashes the beetles and yet smashing the beetles is what makes Orson happy.  It drives him and gives him purpose.  It gives him purpose and meaning until the day he is killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story is Tyrion's struggle to find meaning in life.  He is a man on death row and this story is his way of explaining the brevity and pointlessness of life.  While others can find meaning in simple things (smashing beetles), Tyrion cannot identify with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also a demonstration that Tyrion is different from those around him.  He is not brutal, takes no joy in killing and finds the misuse of power abhorrent.  He cannot understand how people derive joy out of killing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene was a beautiful piece of storytelling and wonderfully acted by Peter Dinklage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9115" LastActivityDate="2014-06-03T23:11:55.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19945" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-04T03:53:22.600" Score="7" ViewCount="1773" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my time of TV watching, Game of Thrones is the most sexually explicit and violent show I have ever watched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence that this extreme violence and sex impacts upon its ratings either positively or negatively?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anecdotally I have several friends who refuse to watch the show due to its explicit nature and my wife has said that after the events of the most recent episode she is considering not watching it any more.  However, this is anecdotal.  Is there any verifiable evidence that the violence/sex has an effect on the show's ratings one way or the other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9115" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T12:02:54.153" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T12:02:54.153" Title="Does the extreme violence and sex in Game of Thrones affect its ratings?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|audience-measurement|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19946" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-04T04:12:00.470" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2014-06-04T04:12:00.470" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T04:12:00.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19947" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-04T04:12:00.470" Score="0" Body="This tag is meant to represent sex as it is portrayed and used in Film and Television." OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2014-06-04T04:12:00.470" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T04:12:00.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19892" CreationDate="2014-06-04T05:46:32.787" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;What about the Happy Days Universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Happy Days&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Joanie Loves Chachi&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Laverne and Shirley&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mork and Mindy&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sabrina the Teenage Witch&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="666" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T05:46:32.787" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19880" CreationDate="2014-06-04T07:01:37.023" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The said scene has no reference whatsoever in the book. Neither can I recollect any Lannister cousin named Orson (&lt;em&gt;but then I can hardly remember any cousins other than Lancel&lt;/em&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO, it is a very clever piece of monologue manufactured by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss which acts as a filler in this episode. Peter Dinklage (Tyrion) yet again summons his exceptional acting and oratory skills to deliver a thought provoking and introspective scene. I feel, Tyrion here questions the mad lust of people in power to kill just because they can. And then he exclaims on the futility of the activity. Because what is eventually left is empty dry husk of beetles, as long as the eye can see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one pays attention, Tyrion very subtly shifts the context to the &quot;&lt;em&gt;circle of life&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. How the simple minded, beetle crushing Orson is done in by a mule's kick. That is him telling Jaime that power is not permanent, it flows. And what goes around surely comes around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now in all this - the beetle, cousin Orson, the mule could just be metaphors to Tyrion, his sister and father, and some &quot;force&quot; that puts an end to the Lannisters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could also be some sly piece of joke on Orson Scott Card. Or it just might be an homage by the creators of the series to the master of killings GRR Martin himself. A man who has all these characters at his mercy. And he kills them off, one-by-one.....&lt;em&gt;KUHN&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;em&gt;KUHN&lt;/em&gt;....&lt;em&gt;KUHN&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2017-08-08T14:50:41.187" LastActivityDate="2017-08-08T14:50:41.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19902" CreationDate="2014-06-04T10:46:37.580" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was stated in the season 3 finale, &amp;quot;Through the Looking Glass&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ALEX: You locked Karl in a cage. You put him in a room and tried to brainwash him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BEN: I didn't want him to get you pregnant. I suppose I overreacted. We better get going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Through_the_Looking_Glass_transcript&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Transcript from Lostpedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth noting that a big plot line in season 3 is that pregnant women die on the island.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8391" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T19:24:30.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19962" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19963" CreationDate="2014-06-04T14:34:44.860" Score="10" ViewCount="526" Body="&lt;p&gt;In leaving a comment on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/11754/why-didnt-the-vulcan-nerve-pinch-work&quot;&gt;Vulcan nerve pinch question&lt;/a&gt;, it occurred to me that there was (Surprise surprise) a fairly big inconsistency regarding Khan and phaser fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When assaulting the bridge of the USS Vengeance, Khan is stunned and felled instantly. While the effects were short lived, he was stunned and out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when participating in the aerial fight on the floating barge, Uhura stuns Khan several times with phaser fire. While it does stop him from moving forward, it does not produce unconsciousness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there a difference in the phasers being used between the two scenes, or is this a plot inconsistency?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2017-04-06T23:01:09.507" Title="Why does Harrison show different reactions to phaser fire?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-trek|star-trek-into-darkness|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19962" CreationDate="2014-06-04T16:28:07.313" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;TL;DR&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no difference in the phasers, but in the situations. The one time Khan gets hit by surprise, the other time he sees the attack coming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Long answer&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Kirk storms the bridge of the USS Vengeance together with Khan and Scotty, they take take out the whole crew except for the Commander. Kirk then gives Scotty a sign by nodding at him, after which Scotty fires a phaser burst at the unsuspecting Khan, taking him completely by surprise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sDjvs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Khan is out cold. Is he really, though?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is exactly what Kirk and Scotty planned prior to the attack:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;KIRK: The minute we get to the bridge, drop him.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;SCOTTY: What? Stun him? Khan? I thought he was helping us!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;KIRK: I am pretty sure we are helping him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Khan is not prepared for this surprise attack from the people who he thought to be working with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that is the main difference to the other incident you mention, the fight on the floating barge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Uhura teleports in behind Khan, he still becomes aware of her presence in time to turn around and engage her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8CHt1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He sees her pointing the phaser at him and is able to physically and mentally prepare for the attack. This is enough for the genetically improved Khan to withstand multiple phaser shots without being knocked down. It still has a severe effect on him and allows Spock to finally overpower him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Screenshots and Transcript taken directly from the movie)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T16:41:07.020" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19945" CreationDate="2014-06-04T17:45:53.603" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's look at the ratings! All the numbers in my post are based on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/?s=Game+of+thrones&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;zap2it reports of Nielsen ratings&lt;/a&gt;. First, a pretty graph to give you the jist of it (click to enlarge):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BhHLz.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BhHLz.png&quot; alt=&quot;Game of Thrones Ragings: Click for higher resolution.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, generally the ratings are rising, however there are several dips:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You Win or You Die, S01E07, May 29th 2011, &lt;strong&gt;-0.04 (40,000) viewers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blackwater, S02E09, May 27th, 2012, &lt;strong&gt;-0.48 (480,000) viewers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two are important as they're the start of a trend, these are both the Sunday before the Last Monday of May, which is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Memorial Day&lt;/a&gt; in the USA. Because of these two drops, there was no episode on Memorial Day weekend in 2013 or 2014, so we'll discount them for now. The second set we'll be discounting are the second episodes after a season premiere, as pilots and premiers always draw in new viewers due to the increased advertising they receive and more people trying the show to see if they like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Kingsroad, S01E02, &lt;strong&gt;-0.02 (20,000) viewers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Night Lands, S02E02, &lt;strong&gt;-0.1 (100,000) viewers&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There were several deaths in the previous episode: An unnamed knight in King's Landing, &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Rakharo&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rakharo was murdered off-screen&lt;/a&gt;, plenty of unnamed Septa were burned to death at Dragonstone, &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Cressen&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Maester Cressen&lt;/a&gt; committed suicide attempting to murder Melisandre and most of Robert Baratheons bastards were murdered, including a baby off-screen. However as mentioned, I don't believe these were the reasons for it, as seasons 2 and 3 tied for lowest IMDb rated pilots (8.8 compared to &lt;code&gt;8.9&lt;/code&gt; for season 1 and &lt;code&gt;9.1&lt;/code&gt; for season 4)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dark Wings, Dark Words, S03E02, &lt;strong&gt;-0.1 (100,000) viewers&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Again, this is after the tied-for-lowest premiere, and as detailed with pilots, it may just be most of the &lt;strong&gt;+0.17 (170,000) viewers&lt;/strong&gt; gained compared to the season 2 finale elected not to continue. There were no deaths or sex scenes in the previous episode, although the Warlocks of Qarth attempted to murder Daenerys with a scorpion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Two Swords, S04E02, &lt;strong&gt;-0.33 (333,000 viewers)&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is the biggest drop for a season premiere, however season 4 also had the largest jump up beforehand of &lt;strong&gt;+1.25 (1,250,000) viewers&lt;/strong&gt;, so it's still on scale, even accounting for the fact this was the highest rated premiere.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Season 1 drops:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Baelor, S01E08, &lt;strong&gt;-0.06 (60,000) viewers&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There were several notable deaths in the previous episode; Syrio Forel, the entire Stark household, &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Mago&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Drogo's Bloodrider Mago&lt;/a&gt;, as well as the rape and slaughter of the Lamb-men village.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after the following episode in which Eddard Stark is killed, there was no subsequent drop in viewers, and he was certainly (one of) the most liked characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before we get to the season 2 drops, I'd like to show you the IMDb user ratings for the show, courtesy of &lt;a href=&quot;http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0944947&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;kevinformatics&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gbLMc.png&quot; alt=&quot;IMDb user ratings for Game of Thrones&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, the early episodes from every season are poorly received compared to later episodes, and this is the best reason I can find to explain the drops early on in season 2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Garden of Bones, S02E04, &lt;strong&gt;-0.12 (120,000) viewers&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In What is Dead May Never Die, most of those heading to Castle Black were murdered, including &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Lommy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lommy&lt;/a&gt;. There was also a gay sex scene between Renley and Ser Loras. I don't really want to comment on the motives of people leaving at this point, but there's been plenty of heterosexual sex and violence against children at this point so that's nothing new. Certainly a possibility.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Old Gods and the New, S02E06, &lt;strong&gt;-0.02 (20,000) viewers&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In The Ghost of Harrenhal, Renley is murdered by magic in possibly the least violent death yet depicted, this combined with the fact he was a fairly minor character in the show leads me to believe it was not about the violence.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Man Without Honor, S02E07, &lt;strong&gt;-0.19 (190,000) viewers&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ser Rodrik Cassel is beheaded by Theon in Winterfell, quite brutally, The Hound disembowels some men attempting to rape Sansa and &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Irri&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Irri&lt;/a&gt; dies off-screen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, this is the biggest group of losses in the show, a lot of major characters are killed and I'd be willing to believe its because of the violence, but I suspect most people will have realised the tone after Eddard's death. It may be that they did, but were hoping it would change. Regardless, season 3 is much more consistent (other than Blackwater):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Bear and the Maiden Fair, S03E07, &lt;strong&gt;-0.66 (66,000) viewers&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The previous episode, The Climb, was the 3rd lowest rated episode and featured no deaths or sex scenes, though Theon's little finger was flayed by Ramsay. It's very possible this was due to the violence as it was the most graphic torture scene thus far and was very uncomfortable to watch. However, there were no viewer drops after the next episode which featured Theon being castrated, which was far worse.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Season 4:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Laws of Gods and Men, S04E06, &lt;strong&gt;-0.76 (760,000) viewers&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is the largest viewer drop off so far, and the lowest rated episode of season 4 (&lt;code&gt;8.8&lt;/code&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's no sex scenes in First of His Name, however Karl Tanner prepares to rape Meera before being impaled through the back of the head by Jon Snow, not particularly graphic compared to previous events.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Mountain and the Viper, S04E08, &lt;strong&gt;-0.02 (20,000) viewers&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Hound killed a dying man, The Mountain killed several prisoners, Petry Baelish kills Lysa Arryn, Melisandre has a topless scene. While these are all possible explanations, I think it's far more likely that people didn't know the show was on, as the previous week didn't have an episode.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really this is all just speculation, but I don't believe there's any real relationship between sex and violence and viewerships, though I'm certain there are definitely thousands of people who have stopped watching because of it, the overall shift hides it too completely. You also shouldn't forget that this is the internet, and the same thing is likely to attract others for the same reasons, internationally and &lt;a href=&quot;http://torrentfreak.com/game-of-thrones-pirates-break-bittorrent-swarm-record-130401/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;illegally&lt;/a&gt; it's doing amazingly well too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last episode was very violent compared to most, so if we see a huge dip that may provide an answer, though even after episodes like The Rains of Castamere when the Starks were finally defeated in a very brutal manner, the increase in viewership was substantial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tl;dr: Nope&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-06T16:07:57.573" LastActivityDate="2014-06-06T16:07:57.573" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19966" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21108" CreationDate="2014-06-04T18:28:52.723" Score="5" ViewCount="1024" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read that while the writer/screenwriter creates the story, it's the director's vision that makes the motion picture. So, whose picture is it, anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-07-26T14:42:50.983" LastActivityDate="2016-07-26T20:34:13.267" Title="Whose picture is it anyway?" Tags="|directors|screenwriter|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19967" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19975" CreationDate="2014-06-04T18:36:24.980" Score="10" ViewCount="9787" Body="&lt;p&gt;An average actor, (according to the SAG?) makes scale. What is scale? Is it hourly pay? paid per picture? Are there any residuals? Benefits? Retirement?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-04T18:40:46.910" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T07:26:57.357" Title="How does an average (non-star) actor's pay work?" Tags="|production|acting-career|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19966" CreationDate="2014-06-04T18:38:15.487" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movies are always collaborative efforts, unless the writer, director and cinematographer are all the same person:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The writer creates the story, so that's theirs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The screenwriter adapts the story from what's usually a novel, play or existing movie into a screenplay, a script with limited character interaction details. The amount they add to the project really depends on how much they've changed the story to fit a movie format.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The director and cinematographer (a.k.a director of photography) will then collaborate to create a storyboard which adapts the screenplay into actual shots, describing &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_%28stage%29&quot;&gt;blocking&lt;/a&gt; (character positions and movement) and set design.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even if they are the same people, actors on set can always &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/432108/10_classic_adlib_and_offscript_movie_moments.html&quot;&gt;adlib&lt;/a&gt; which can give scenes more depth than was originally described.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T18:38:15.487" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19969" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23122" CreationDate="2014-06-04T18:48:29.550" Score="14" ViewCount="27134" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lorne Malvo was sent to find out who was blackmailing Stavros Milos. But instead why did he end up doing the things he did: take over the blackmail scheme and torment Stavros by exploiting his extreme religious beliefs? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to understand Malvo's character. He didn't even want the money. He destroys bad people and the ones trying to get him, is that it? He destroyed Milos, Milos's wife's fitness instructor, Wrench, Numbers, Hess and the mob at Fargo but helped Lester. He let off Gus with a warning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5466" LastActivityDate="2017-01-27T08:21:43.227" Title="Why did Malvo do the things he did to Stavros Milos?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|character|fargo-tv|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19970" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19978" CreationDate="2014-06-04T19:08:52.230" Score="3" ViewCount="2912" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it be that he felt that his side would lose the war? Is there anything in the movie that made such an outcome very likely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T21:17:46.267" Title="Why did Landa make the deal?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10959" CreationDate="2014-06-04T19:53:50.350" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yup, Bond says that line in response to Electra's subtle seduction attempts.&#xA;Bond's marriage ended prematurely in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' movie, as Bond's wife (Tracy Bond) is killed by his enemies a few hours after their marriage. &#xA;He was deeply in love with her; and referring to the movie 'License to Kill' where Bond has no intention to marry again, it can be concluded that he is still very much in love with Tracy, mourns her death and wouldn't give away her place to any other female.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10021" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T19:53:50.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19973" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24133" CreationDate="2014-06-04T20:06:45.130" Score="13" ViewCount="3369" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hitler was definitely shot to death by the Basterds but he would have died in the fire anyways. Shoshanna had everything planned well to trap everyone in theatre including her, there was no escape. So when looking at this movie if the parts with the Basterds were removed her plan would have still worked. So were they even needed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="645" LastEditDate="2014-06-04T22:00:31.403" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T18:58:07.080" Title="Did the Basterds actually change anything?" Tags="|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19967" CreationDate="2014-06-04T20:31:39.933" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, without narrowing it down slightly, this is an extremely broad topic as there is no specification as to what type of actors, locations, etc. I will address this from the point of view of SAG-AFTRA, the Screen Actors Guild union in the United States.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, SAG-AFTRA has rate sheets available on their website that spell out the hourly rate for various elements of actors. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sagaftra.org/files/sag/Digest_Background_Actors_LA_Zones_8_4_0.pdf&quot;&gt;This one&lt;/a&gt;, for example, is the pay sheet for Background Actors, in LA, Vegas, Hawaii, San Francisco, San Diego and Sacramento. It further breaks it down into General, Stand In, Photo Double, Omnies and Special Ability. Each of these have their own assigned day rates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as retirement, there is a retirement/pension plan available at SAGPH, and it is based on credits earned, and total money earned. I don't know the specific formula to be able to give a number. Another rate sheet spelled out a 16% retirement benefit, but it was unclear if that was over and above the day rate, or taken out of pay earned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as residuals and per picture, those are generally reserved for &quot;billed&quot; or otherwise main/minor character, and would be negotiated as part of the contract. Some stars will give up some compensation for better billing, or vice versa, or some combination of all of the above. Background/extra characters would be the ones receiving scale wages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while a rough outline can be given, no exact figures unless you have a specific incidence in mind, such as a radio spot with a 13 week airplay in the NY/LA zones, two members involved. (Yes, the sheets get into that much detail.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T20:31:39.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19970" CreationDate="2014-06-04T21:17:46.267" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes you got it. Landa realized that Germany was going to lose the war sooner or later. The movie's main action starts to happen in June 1944, which probably means that the Normandy Landings have happened. Landa, being a very smart man, knew that since the vast American war machine has made landfall in Europe it was only a matter of time until they reached Germany. He also knew that if this happens he will be prosecuted as war criminal for his crimes and hanged. So, his solution was to help the Allies get an even earlier victory in exchange for safe passage for himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T21:17:46.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19973" CreationDate="2014-06-04T21:21:14.483" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the Basterds were first unleashed by the Allies, they had absolutely no idea that someone else was working on reaching the same goal. They didn't know about Shosanna. In fact, it was only because of Zoller's infatuation with Shosanna that her small theater was even chosen for the premiere of &lt;em&gt;Nation's Pride&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T21:21:14.483" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19973" CreationDate="2014-06-04T21:37:05.810" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that more people died than would have otherwise: the survivors not only needed to avoid the fire; they needed also avoid the bullets. That is, I don't expect that everyone would have been killed by the fire, nor by both. Maybe Hitler would have even survived it, given the level of devotion his minions possess... someone would have sacrificed self to save him, for example. Bullets are a lot harder to dodge than fire :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="105" LastEditorUserId="105" LastEditDate="2014-06-04T21:52:32.567" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T21:52:32.567" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19966" CreationDate="2014-06-04T22:28:16.027" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general idea is that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Theater is the writer's medium.&#xA;TV is a producer's medium.&#xA;Cinema is a director's medium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each of these general idea's come from who is being billed as the &quot;storyteller&quot; of a particular piece.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5961" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-05T11:08:40.353" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T11:08:40.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12107" CreationDate="2014-06-04T23:08:43.477" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This goes back to the book, and some of the backstory that is not as illustrated in the movie adaptation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book, it is much broader in the depiction of the physical closeness being much more than the mental closeness, as they do remain distant. During the later phases of their initial relationship, they begin losing that as Michael starts spending more time with his friends, which I believe figures in to her hasty departure without notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second part is the guilt that she feels over her period as a guard at the Auschwitz satellite. During this time, she had the weak and sickly read to her before they were sent to the gas chambers. This is echoed by how she has Michael read to her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that both of these combine to keep her at a mental distance, while maintaining the physical side of the relationship. As the mental strain continues, and the physical side starts to deteriorate, she leaves. This also sets the stage for Michael's distance in his later marriage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-06-04T23:08:43.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="435" CreationDate="2014-06-05T01:48:59.873" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, the hat symbolizes letting go of everything and being in the moment. In that moment, he doesn't chase the hat. He's out of hope, out of future, head full of static.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10025" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T01:48:59.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9741" CreationDate="2014-06-05T05:26:54.003" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film took elements from a true story, including the plane flying inverted, which &lt;strong&gt;did&lt;/strong&gt; actually happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_%282012_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source WIkipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Screenwriter John Gatins explained in a 2012 interview with the Los Angeles Times that the dramatic fictional crash depicted in Flight was &quot;loosely inspired&quot; by the 2000 crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261, which was caused by a broken jackscrew. That crash had no survivors. The airplane in Flight, a two-engine T-tailjet airliner, appears to be from the same model family as Alaska Airlines 261, a variant of the MD-80. Many elements are lifted from the accident into the film, such as the cause of the accident, segments of the radio communication and the decision to invert the airplane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10029" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-06-05T07:19:32.603" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T07:19:32.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19987" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19989" CreationDate="2014-06-05T06:49:42.623" Score="3" ViewCount="1311" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 12 Years a Slave there are a couple of references to Master Ford's debt but it's very vague.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it as simple as he owes money to someone? If that's the case then wouldn't Solomon (who's already proved he can make the process more efficient and let's face it - only costs food) be more valuable to him than an overseer who he pays (and by all accounts does a bad job)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is he in debt in some other way (he owes someone his life/a favour?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-05T09:22:28.570" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T09:22:28.570" Title="What was Ford's Debt?" Tags="|12-years-a-slave|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19988" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19990" CreationDate="2014-06-05T06:51:50.720" Score="5" ViewCount="1219" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 12 Years a Slave it's the conversation with Brad Pitt's character Mr Bass which eventually leads to Solomon's release. During the talk Bass says that he's afraid for both Solomon and himself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would he be afraid of doing what he refers to as &quot;his duty&quot;? is he worried there'll be repercussions from the plantation owner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="34594" LastEditDate="2016-09-24T18:50:40.030" LastActivityDate="2016-09-24T18:50:40.030" Title="What was Mr Bass afraid of?" Tags="|plot-explanation|12-years-a-slave|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19987" CreationDate="2014-06-05T08:45:06.810" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Debt that Mr Ford must 'be mindful of' is the debt owed to Freeman, the Slave Trader, for Northup himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to make his money back, he requires Solomon to work back the cost of his purchase through labour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr Ford has to get Solomon off the plantation for his own safety, but must also acquire a reasonable price for him in order to recoup his loss. This is why he almost apologies when he says he has 'transferred his debt' (and thus ownership) to Mr Epps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Epps is, unlike Ford, not sympathetic to Solomon, but explains he has no other option as &quot;In truth I could find no other willing to take you...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dibbits, the oversee, has already been dismissed by the Plantation Master, who threatens him at gun point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ford is fearful of Dibbits return in order to extract vengeance against Solomon for costing him his job... this is why Ford carries his shotgun with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-06-05T08:59:11.593" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T08:59:11.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19988" CreationDate="2014-06-05T08:58:43.753" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bass' conversation with Solomon is shortly before his release. Considering he was captured sometime in 1841, that would put their conversation sometime around 1852-3...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1850, &lt;a href=&quot;http://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/underground-railroad2.htm&quot;&gt;revisions were made&lt;/a&gt; to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, basically sanctioning harsher punishments for escaping slaves but &lt;strong&gt;also&lt;/strong&gt; denigrating the character of those who would seek to help them, in response to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad&quot;&gt;the underground railroad&lt;/a&gt; which reached its height at this period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This alone is nothing to worrisome for a white man, but it reflects the present mood and anxieties of the time. The Law was intended to threaten and intimidate those who would help slaves, and turn public opinion entirely against them..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New Orleans was a Slave-State, and it would have been difficult for Bass to survive in a slave state if he was outed fully as a sympathizer: not just in spirit, as his conversation with Epps, but in action by facilitating Epps' loss of property. He would be ostracized at best (and thus denied his livelihood),but more likely harangued and possibly subjected to violence...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a real risk for Bass to help Northup. Even though all he was required to do in actuality was sent a letter to Saratoga Springs, if he was caught or it was found to be him sending it, the ramifications would be serious... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T08:58:43.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19991" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-05T13:25:29.390" Score="4" ViewCount="2112" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Malayalam movie 'How old are you?' Manju Warrier's character is a 35 years old house wife. In an important sequence, it is being said that her driving license got expired and she was not aware of that. In Kerala, AFAIK, driving licenses are not issued to minors below 18 years (which I believe will be similar in other Indian states, too). And the issued license will be valid for 20 years from the date of issue. So she should have got her license at 15 years of age for it to expire at 35.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a mistake that they missed to correct, or are there any exceptions to normal motor vehicle rule that I did not notice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, license is used to appear in a car hit-and-run case. So it cannot be a light motor bike license, which one can get at the completion of 16 years of age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update #2&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.keralamvd.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=53&amp;amp;Itemid=89&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The rules for license according to Kerala MVD official site.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6841" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-09-21T05:37:00.457" LastActivityDate="2018-08-20T05:23:34.370" Title="Age issue in How Old Are You" Tags="|plot-explanation|how-old-are-you|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19992" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="19998" CreationDate="2014-06-05T13:33:18.133" Score="4" ViewCount="522" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed the name R Diwakar in the opening credits of one of the best movies I have seen, Mumbai Police (Malayalam) as its cinematographer. Taken aback by the superb visuals and camera movements in the movie, I tried digging up some more information on past projects Diwakar has been associated with. But I could not find a Wikipedia or IMDB entry or any other links that was enough to give an idea about his works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could some one help sharing his professional history?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6841" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2021-12-22T16:58:05.803" LastActivityDate="2021-12-22T16:58:05.803" Title="Details of projects done by R Diwakar" Tags="|crew|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-07-17T15:33:25.707" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17503" CreationDate="2014-06-05T13:41:28.873" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the two rings is a visual metaphor that symbolizes the union of two people through marriage, i.e, total commitment as in mentally and physically. The one ring symbolizes the detachment of one of the two sides from the union/marriage, i.e, Lucy Walters' character asserting 'although I am married I am not necessarily exclusively physically linked to my partner any more'. &#xA;hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10031" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T13:41:28.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19996" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-05T14:18:55.953" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-05T14:18:55.953" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T14:18:55.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19997" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-05T14:18:55.953" Score="0" Body="For questions about verified(!) production or plot errors. Not to be used to ask if something is a mistake (use plot-explanation instead)." OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-05T14:18:55.953" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T14:18:55.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19992" CreationDate="2014-06-05T14:41:42.620" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd preface this by saying that I'm no expert in this type of cinema. But there's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1492541/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cinematographer on IMDb&lt;/a&gt; who goes by &lt;strong&gt;R. Diwakaran\Divakaran&lt;/strong&gt; and one of the 3 films listed in his profile is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0924260/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Notebook&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;em&gt;Mumbai Police&lt;/em&gt; director Rosshan Andrrews. So it might be the same guy. Note also that Mumbai Police's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai_Police_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki page&lt;/a&gt; inexplicably called the cinematographer both &lt;strong&gt;R. Diwakar&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;G. Diwakaran&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Googling R. Diwakaran\Divakaran reveals more movies he shot, like the Malayalam movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidam_Swargamanu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Evidam Swargamanu&lt;/a&gt; from 2009, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movieslantern.com/movies/profile.php?Filmid=716&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How Old Are You&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; directed by Andrrews) which came out a couple of weeks ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDb also lists a cinematographer simply called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1194339/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Diwakar&lt;/a&gt; but he shot Telugu films, so it might not be him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-05T17:17:17.067" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T17:17:17.067" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="19999" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-05T16:34:50.273" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-05T16:34:50.273" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T16:34:50.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20000" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-05T16:34:50.273" Score="0" Body="The public or critical reception of movies and TV shows. Not for questions asking for opinions about movies." OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-05T16:34:50.273" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T16:34:50.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20003" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20007" CreationDate="2014-06-05T18:41:33.587" Score="6" ViewCount="2764" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Inception when Cobb is dreaming about his wife Ariadne enters his dream and lands up in an elevator with each floor containing Cobb's memory of Mal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this scene Ariadne enters the elevator, hits the &lt;strong&gt;B&lt;/strong&gt; button and lands up in the &lt;strong&gt;hotel memory&lt;/strong&gt;. Following is the screenshot of her in the basement level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wl7LP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ariadne in the hotel room just after she meet Mal, standing in front of the elevator&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that the elevator's door is left open. This is a manually operated door and anyone who would've used these will know that the elevator will &lt;strong&gt;not move unless the door is closed by someone&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following is the next scene when Cobb &lt;strong&gt;magically&lt;/strong&gt; appears in the elevator to save Ariadne from being stabbed by Mal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EkkJ3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Cobb walks out of the elevator a few seconds later&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did he get to the basement from the upper floor? There weren't any stairways. Is this a goof up or does it mean something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9980" LastEditorUserId="98496" LastEditDate="2023-05-04T18:40:44.430" LastActivityDate="2023-05-04T18:40:44.430" Title="How did Cobb come to the basement using the elevator?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|inception|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="20004" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21695" CreationDate="2014-06-05T18:42:59.973" Score="25" ViewCount="10846" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a scene in &quot;Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom&quot; where Harrison Ford and Kate Capshaw receive food from an impoverished group of Indians. (This is after Kate and Harrison fall out of a plane in an inflatable boat and ride down whitewater rapids.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If my memory's right, Kate says it's disgusting.  Harrison says it's more food than they eat in a week. She says something about giving it to them, since they're hungry and she finds it disgusting. Harrison says, &quot;You're insulting them, and you're embarrassing me.&quot; He also says something to the group of Indians in another language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is:  What does Harrison say to the Indians in the foreign language?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-03T10:45:36.773" LastActivityDate="2022-11-08T15:47:08.257" Title="What does Indy say to the villagers in &quot;Temple of Doom&quot;?" Tags="|dialogue|translation|indiana-jones|indiana-jones-and-temple-of-doom|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20003" CreationDate="2014-06-05T20:10:08.307" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the section in the snowy mountain dream (3rd level), they're running out of time so they take a shortcut Ariadne designed into the maze so they can get straight to the end. It's possible that Cobb had a shortcut in his own dream which he used to enter the room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would only work if the shortcut was one-way though, otherwise Mal would have used it to escape, such as say shimmying down the elevator cable and through a hatch in the roof of the cab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's anything to indicate this in the sequence, but the elevator is obscured by Ariadne so it could be happening behind her, if Cobb's a ninja.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T20:10:08.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20003" CreationDate="2014-06-05T20:24:31.763" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Goof is probably too strong a word - this is a dream after all.  When people are dreaming they can find all sort of things happening:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unexpected things like trains appearing in intersections&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Deliberate things like Eames dreaming of a grenade launcher ('dream a little bigger darling'). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine that the Pasiv shared dreams do resolve 'conflicts' like this to some degree - so Ariadne doesn't dream closing the door, but Cobb dreams of going down the lift to that floor.  The conflict has to be resolved somewhere.  We don't ever see these things happening - which is kind of like a dream in itself, you just become aware that it is different and accept it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2014-06-05T20:24:31.763" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20008" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20028" CreationDate="2014-06-05T22:04:19.163" Score="4" ViewCount="317" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1960's Rankin/Bass animated Christmas Special &lt;em&gt;Frosty the Snowman&lt;/em&gt;,  would Frosty have come to life if he had not been made of the special &quot;Christmas Snow?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it's supposed to be the magic in the hat that brings him to life, and he even goes back to a normal snowman when the hat is taken off of his head... but, the characters (The Narrator, Santa Claus) emphasize how special and magical Christmas snow is, and what it can really do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would the hat have done the same thing to a regular snowman that had been made out of run-of-the-mill snow? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-06T09:28:17.187" LastActivityDate="2020-07-14T00:42:29.823" Title="The hat or Christmas snow?" Tags="|plot-explanation|frosty-the-snowman|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20010" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-05T23:28:13.537" Score="16" ViewCount="3536" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand some of the characters have specific accents such as Fat Tony or Apu. But does the Simpson family have an accent that you could identify with a certain area in the US?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10037" LastActivityDate="2014-06-06T22:21:11.513" Title="Do the Simpsons have any particular accent?" Tags="|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20008" CreationDate="2014-06-06T03:19:52.787" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the hat would have animated any snowman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original song was written and recorded by the Cass boys and Gene Autry in 1950, which predates the Rankin/Bass animation by 19 years (The animated show debuted in December 1969). In the song, the sole animator of the snowman is the hat. There is no mention of Christmas snow being a part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, in the show, when Frosty gets trapped in the greenhouse and melted by Hinkle trying to get his hat back, Santa appears and tells Karen that he is made of special Christmas snow, and that prevents him from melting away entirely, which enables him to come back every year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the magic of the snow enables his yearly reincarnation, and the magic of the hat is what animates him. You could have one without the other, but not necessarily vice versa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="6234" LastEditDate="2014-06-06T03:29:25.510" LastActivityDate="2014-06-06T03:29:25.510" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20029" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20035" CreationDate="2014-06-06T04:51:59.790" Score="7" ViewCount="1184" Body="&lt;p&gt;I re-watched Jackie Brown for the first time in a long time on Netflix last night. I know that Netflix usually only shows the theatrical versions of movies, not the director's cuts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, from my recollection there was a few scenes missing from Jackie Brown. One in particular that showed the carpark scene where Melanie meets her end from an alternate point of view (such as was done inside the department store when the money exchange takes place - you see it from three distinct points of view).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I see a different version of the film (such as a director's cut), or is my memory just playing tricks on me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3222" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-06-06T09:44:00.213" LastActivityDate="2014-06-06T12:43:46.350" Title="Is there a director's cut of Jackie Brown?" Tags="|alternate-version|jackie-brown|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="51" CreationDate="2014-06-06T11:25:45.100" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it's my all time favorite movie, I've done a lot of research on this one. As per your question, movie ends when Dean walks away crying from Cindy and Frankie. And the ending of the movie is left to viewers opinion. It's an open end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, Cindy cursed Dean that she wants a fucking divorce and Dean tries to convince her and tells her that he doesn't want Frankie to grow up in a broken home and Cindy tells that she needs space but she doesn't persists that she wants a divorce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, based on the scene I mentioned, as an optimist, I thought Cindy and Dean would get back together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I'll tell you why Derek Cianfrance (director of this movie) wanted to make Blue Valentine and what he has in his mind. In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://filmmakermagazine.com/20339-the-way-we-were-derek-cianfrances-blue-valentine/#.U5Gfm3b9y9c&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt;, Derek was asked whether his parents were divorced and he answered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yeah, when I was 20 they split up. It was so confusing to me that I decided to confront it with a film and just started writing it. I had various co-writers over the years, including Joey Curtis and Cami Delavigne, and they are also children of divorce, so we tried to confront our fears and confusion together. And then when finally Ryan and Michelle became a part of it they too are children of divorce, and they eventually became what I considered to be co-writers on the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the above answer, it is obvious that he wanted to make a movie about the problems in marriages and how it ends with a divorce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1120985/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb trivia&lt;/a&gt;, it mentioned;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some have speculated that Dean and Cindy have ended their marriage. One of the photos during the end credits shows Dean and Cindy running backwards holding a sign with &quot;Is This You?&quot; on it, hinting the upcoming dissolution of their marriage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In another source &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/katy-hall/blue-valentine-how-derek-_b_819497.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; states that;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Their love has gone missing, and Cianfrance leaves it up to the viewer to decide what happened to it. He empathizes with both characters and doesn't ignore the maddening reality that a relationship, like fruit or eyesight, can go can bad from nothing but the passage of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Derek Cianfrance said;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;To me there's no one reason why Dean and Cindy split up,&quot; he said. &quot;It's a million reasons, and then at the same time, it's just a feeling.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the question, you asked, &quot;does it mean anything else as you think?&quot; and despite all the speculations above, I think, Dean and Cindy will get back together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T12:07:44.690" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T12:07:44.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20029" CreationDate="2014-06-06T12:43:46.350" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a definite answer, but I could find no indication that there ever was a director's cut of Jackie Brown (or any other version that differs from the theatrical one).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are a few deleted scenes that are included on Bluray and DVD:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Extended scene with Jackie/Sheronda in the mall's food court.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Extended scene with Jackie and Ray in the diner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A scene where Louis and Ordell walk into the Cockatoo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A scene where Jackie is discussing with Max how to set up Ordell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An alternate &amp;quot;for your eyes only&amp;quot; scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alternate opening credits sequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119396/alternateversions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-06T12:43:46.350" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19935" CreationDate="2014-06-06T15:21:30.850" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you pay close attention to the scene where the boy turns his wrist to reveal the wax seal on the scroll, it bears the mark of &lt;em&gt;Hand of the King&lt;/em&gt;. And the current hand being &lt;strong&gt;Tywin Lannister&lt;/strong&gt; himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J3MQO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Royal Pardon with **Hand of King** seal&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same small council meeting that you mention (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3060910/?ref_=ttep_ep6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Season 4 Episode 6, The Laws of Gods and Men&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;strong&gt;Tywin&lt;/strong&gt; asks &lt;strong&gt;Varys&lt;/strong&gt; if he would be able to swiftly get a message to &lt;em&gt;Mereen&lt;/em&gt;. Plainly, that's what &lt;em&gt;Varys&lt;/em&gt; achieved. Now if you recall the context of the small council meeting, it was to neutralize &lt;em&gt;Daenerys&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Tywin&lt;/em&gt; being the brilliant strategist that he is slides into motion his plan to do so exactly by drawing out one of her most trusted advisor and aide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the question of why &lt;em&gt;Jorah&lt;/em&gt; doesn't claim that the letter is forged is because he already knows that he has lost all credibility and his protest would do more harm than good. Moreover, his guilt and love for &lt;em&gt;Daenerys&lt;/em&gt; gets in the way. He thus chooses to speak the truth and own up to his act of treason, hoping he would be able to move and persuade &lt;em&gt;Daenerys&lt;/em&gt; for mercy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-03-08T21:06:57.310" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T21:06:57.310" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="20037" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-06T15:23:16.640" Score="4" ViewCount="1108" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just finished (a little bit late) watching House of Cards and I was wondering about Frank Underwood taking a different strategy after knowing that he wasn't appointed as Secretary of State. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would Francis J. Underwood tactics be different to what he did as a Vice President? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10050" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-06T17:12:08.677" LastActivityDate="2014-06-06T18:25:32.513" Title="What would Frank Underwood's strategy be if he had been appointed Secretary of State?" Tags="|analysis|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2014-06-07T01:51:05.860" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20037" CreationDate="2014-06-06T17:12:59.447" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was Frank's feeling of betrayal at NOT being appointed Secretary of State that precipitated his Shakespearian quest to destroy his enemies.  If he HAD been appointed he might have been...  happy and well-adjusted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously though, he does explicitly say &quot;We are no longer bound by our allegiances.&quot;  If he had been given the position he was promised he would have been more likely to work within the system instead of subverting it, and more likely to support his colleagues rather than manipulating and sacrificing them like chess pieces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-06-06T17:12:59.447" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19871" CreationDate="2014-06-06T17:38:31.870" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding to the answer by @Andrew: For IPv6 it's &lt;code&gt;2001:DB8::/32&lt;/code&gt; according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3849.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RFC 3849&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="206" LastActivityDate="2014-06-06T17:38:31.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="20047" CreationDate="2014-06-06T17:57:28.620" Score="6" ViewCount="491" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the wonderfully made &quot;Dredd&quot; the title character when asked about the situation says it was a routine day. Which is such a great line, and I'm not sure I quoted it correctly, it both shows that Dredd doesn't see the events that happened as an epic event and also shows how hard the crime is in his world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However thinking about it further I can't help but think &lt;em&gt;spoilers coming&lt;/em&gt; that battling corrupted Judges and battling through a hostile block could not possibly be an average day. So is it an average day or is Judge Dredd just understating the events or is there another answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-06T18:16:45.387" LastActivityDate="2014-06-06T21:53:48.747" Title="Was it actually an average day?" Tags="|analysis|dredd|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="353" CreationDate="2014-06-06T18:12:58.337" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Effectively, there is a an order to watch them in, if judging by the historical events that serve as a backdrop, and it is not the order of production but rather:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (takes place during the civil war)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For a Few Dollars More (the location of the railways is the clue here)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Fistful of Dollars (both weapons and uniforms are what suggest this is last as some of what appeared in the movie only came into use in the late 1890's).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movies had a very good record of keeping their prop tech historically accurate - newspapers, rail, dates on gravestones, uniforms, etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The order of FAFDM and Fist has been subject of debate, as they appear to be very close together in timeline, and despite some inconsistencies, there is some modest carryover (regretfully both ways which confuses the matter).  There is some character dialog in FAFDM that suggests it is last.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you can safely watch 2 and 3 in either order and be fine.  GBU is definitely first for viewing, although it benefits from the polish of being the third produced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They were each filmed as independent movies, but certain things were interjected, whether by purpose or accident, that provide aspects of a trilogy.  Unfortunately a confusing trilogy in respect of the position of FAFDM and Fist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10052" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-16T08:34:12.367" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T08:34:12.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20043" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34223" CreationDate="2014-06-06T18:20:58.883" Score="1" ViewCount="1873" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Definitely, Maybe&lt;/em&gt; (2008), why &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; Emily give Will the diary to take to Summer Hartley instead of just mailing it to her herself? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was Emily hoping that something would happen between Will and Summer to ease her guilt about sleeping with Will's roommate, or had she even slept with him at that point in the film? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6034" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-06T18:23:14.420" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T11:14:12.607" Title="Why does Emily give Will the diary?" Tags="|plot-explanation|definitely-maybe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20037" CreationDate="2014-06-06T18:25:32.513" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;His whole deliciously Machiavellian scheme that was the meat of the first two seasons was only triggered by him feeling betrayed by the administration. So if had been appointed Secretary of State, as promised, then the plan wouldn't have been initiated. Then we enter the land of wild speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm fairly sure Underwood would never have been satisfied with being Secretary of State, and would've plotted to get into the Oval Office. But he might've bided his time, gaining credibility and then running for office after Walker's term ended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-06-06T18:25:32.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20045" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-06T19:36:57.927" Score="15" ViewCount="23788" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final season of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, Walter says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really - I was alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't think he ever did it for himself. At every point of continuing the meth manufacturing there is always a threat to his life. (He needs to be alive for some time to earn money) or his family member's life. He always thought of his family rather than meth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I am not sure why he says that to Skyler. Also I am not able to agree with some &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/breaking-bad-series-finale-5-638893&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;justification spread in the internet that he did it for himself.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any indication that he lied to Skyler?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10053" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-07-11T17:33:13.880" LastActivityDate="2023-06-01T00:56:48.300" Title="&quot;I did it for me. I liked it&quot; - Is this a lie to convince Skyler?" Tags="|analysis|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20041" CreationDate="2014-06-06T21:53:48.747" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a combination. On one hand, you have Dredd's opening instruction to Anderson:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judge Dredd: Twelve serious crimes reported every minute. Seventeen thousand per day. We can respond to around six percent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anderson: Which six percent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judge Dredd: Your show, rookie. You tell me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, they live in a world where violent crime is rampant, and the authorities can only deal with a fraction of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Chief Judge expressed a desire to test Anderson by throwing her in the deep end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chief Judge: Sink or swim. Chuck her in the deep end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judge Dredd: It's all the deep end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Dredd obviously recognizes that Megacity One is extremely dangerous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When explaining to the Chief Judge what happened in Peachtrees, Dredd's response is extremely understated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judge Dredd: The perps were uncooperative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even by Dredd's standards, this is an understatement. It reminds me of soldiers who have seen battle. They almost never talk about it. And even more rarely talk about it to non-soldiers. I think Dredd recognized that Anderson has what it takes to be a Judge, and what they went through is something not to be shared outside the circle of those that lived through it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What Dredd said was factually true. The Chief Judge could see that there was more to it. BY not talking about the details, Dredd was showing camaraderie to Anderson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-06T21:53:48.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20010" CreationDate="2014-06-06T22:21:11.513" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal opinion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marge seems East Coast.  A nasslly NY thing – like she's going for a reprise of the Edith Bunker character from the 70s TV show &lt;em&gt;All in the Family&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Homer and Bart seem straight Midwest/Chicago to me, but dumbed-down; and Bart with the occasional SoCal vernacular.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lisa seems neutral; but if I had to guess I'd say East Coast boarding school.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="546" LastActivityDate="2014-06-06T22:21:11.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20045" CreationDate="2014-06-06T23:23:59.657" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walter White is a complex character, and so are his motivations. I'm fairly certain that he started cooking meth to support his family. The idea of illegally profiting from his skills never crossed his mind before he was diagnosed with cancer. Before that, he was content with working in a humiliating second job to make ends meet. Early on, Walt calculates how much money he needs to leave his family in a financially stable state should he die, and spends much of his early career trying to achieve that goal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as his work progressed, his legend grew. The pseudonym Heisenberg he picked for himself for a one time event slowly began taking on a life of it's own. He was now known as the genius behind the nigh-mythical Blue Sky. His long dormant pride and ego started to wake up. Now, he was cooking meth to feed his ego and defending his image. He gets angry when defective Blue Sky is cooked by Jesse. His personality clash with Gus Fring causes a drug war that claims several lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the time Walt wins the war with Gus, he is making way more money than he needs to support his family. He becomes a true drug kingpin whose first priority is creating profit. He has no qualms about murdering people who get in his way. Even his surrogate son Jesse is no longer safe from him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walter could have exited the life of crime he found himself in several times, but a combination of greed and pride have always stopped him. It wasn't until he realizes that he has far too much money than he could ever spend, that the truth dawns on him. He has been doing this for himself, and not for his family. So he decides to retire, but by then it's too late and Hank is on his trail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No he didn't lie. Most of his career as a drug manufacturer is him flexing his long abused ego.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2014-06-06T23:29:10.610" LastActivityDate="2014-06-06T23:29:10.610" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20051" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-07T04:58:15.827" Score="2" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Birds Of America, why does Betty Tanager (played by Lauren Graham)&#xA;tell her husband she doesn't want to wait for tenure?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10056" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-06-07T10:20:33.593" LastActivityDate="2014-06-07T10:20:33.593" Title="Why does Betty Tanager tell her husband she doesn't want to wait for tenure?" Tags="|plot-explanation|birds-of-america|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20051" CreationDate="2014-06-07T05:01:16.173" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;She says she doesn't care about tenure, she just wants to start a family, and&#xA;she is concerned that if she keeps waiting she might not be able to conceive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-07T05:01:16.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20053" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21874" CreationDate="2014-06-07T05:58:30.860" Score="2" ViewCount="14503" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want a list of all the famous soundtracks that are used as background scores in the TV show Just For Laughs Gags&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.7digital.com/artist/various-artists/release/just-for-laughs-gags-music-vol-2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I found a list&lt;/a&gt; but I guess it's missing some of the popular tracks (like Flight of the Bumblebee). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a complete list, from all seasons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6282" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-06-07T06:02:31.537" LastActivityDate="2021-11-27T14:38:37.563" Title="What are all the background soundtracks use in Just For Laughs Gags?" Tags="|soundtrack|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20051" CreationDate="2014-06-07T06:44:29.230" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that the Tenure Conundrum can't be untangled in just one sentence. We must first delve deeper into these 2 fictional characters. Consider their relationship, for example: They're eager to answer each other's needs at the drop of a hat, as if they're 2 parts of the same whole, but are perhaps unable to listen to those around them and assist them. Why would one of these 2 fictional characters - or even both - desire a permanent position in a communal organization that thrives on shared knowledge and solidarity? Wouldn't their discriminating idiosyncrasies be ultimately appreciated elsewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-06-07T06:44:29.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1838" CreationDate="2014-06-07T14:50:13.970" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very few books are the same as the movie. Most receive a rewrite from an unrelated writer with creative license brought in to do the screen play. Some like Holes or Perks of Being a Wallflower has had their screenplay written by the authors themselves so their story line does not change as much. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10062" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:18:17.113" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:18:17.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12881" CreationDate="2014-06-07T15:02:11.330" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a comprehensive answer by any means, but in this excerpt &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/q1TOKihjQuc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; at around 2:20 Jamie Hyneman states that the ramp they are building is made of roof trusses and that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're also going to put them together with screws so we can recycle the lumber.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10061" LastActivityDate="2014-06-07T15:02:11.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20059" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-07T00:06:20.290" Score="5" ViewCount="304" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following contains spoilers for the third season of Steven Moffat's &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; and&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; #11 (Matt Smith).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just watched S3E3 of &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;, the Sherlock Holmes interpretation by Steven Moffat&#xA;and Mark Gatiss. I couldn't help but notice a &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; reference, when Sherlock refers to Mary  as &quot;the wife of the Doctor&quot;, which is the title of a Doctor Who episode with and about River Song. There are similarities between Mary and River:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;both came out of nowhere&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;both killed the main protagonist, because they had to, but ultimately didn't &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mary shooting the coin is impressive to us, but for her it's as natural and simple as River Song shooting the fez.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire scene from setting to story is just odd and reference enough that I would &#xA;interpret it as Moffat's moment of saying: &quot;From here on it's all mine.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not familiar with the original stories and Google only gives summaries, teasers and reviews. Hence my question here. Does that scene i mention really mark where Moffat goes far beyond any existing Sherlock Holmes story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If it does, I'd consider it a glorious move!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="37429" OwnerDisplayName="user1129682" LastActivityDate="2014-06-07T16:21:29.623" Title="Are the plots of future Sherlock episodes going to be much more by Steven Moffat than Sir Arthur Doyle?" Tags="|doctor-who|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20059" CreationDate="2014-06-07T00:51:42.687" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no episode of Doctor Who called &quot;The Wife of the Doctor.&quot; There &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; an episode titled &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doctor%27s_Wife&quot;&gt;The Doctor's Wife&lt;/a&gt;,&quot; but it is about the TARDIS, not River Song. And  seeing how John Watson &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a doctor and getting married to Mary, this is not an unusual statement. It is clear, albeit slightly incorrect, English. (They were only fiancés at the time, not yet married, but Sherlock is usually muddled and sloppy about things like this that he considers trivial.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you're reading too much into this based on you misremembering a title &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; a plot from Doctor Who. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, the traits you mention are not that strikingly similar. River has lived a long and extraordinary life, picking up skills after being raised to kill The Doctor. She doesn't have a choice. The space-suit makes her do it* when she tries to refuse. Mary is an ex-operative trained in black ops and only shoots Sherlock out of necessity, never meaning to kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another major difference is that Mary isn't in love with Sherlock, while River is in love with The Doctor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*I know she didn't really kill him, but you know what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" OwnerDisplayName="Meat Trademark" LastActivityDate="2014-06-07T00:57:04.710" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20004" CreationDate="2014-06-07T16:24:08.447" Score="14" Body="&lt;h2&gt;TL; DR&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is strong evidence that he says something along the lines of: &amp;quot;Thank you, thank you very much&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Long answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Indiana-Jones-and-the-Temple-of-Doom.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; (if we assume it is legit) differs from the scene in some significant points, which seems to indicate that part of that scene was either improvised or rewritten on set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some differences:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WILLIE:&lt;/strong&gt; (quietly) God, I am starving, but I can't eat this...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;INDIANA:&lt;/strong&gt; That's more food than these people eat in a week. (pointedly) They're starving, too...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Willie looks around at the emaciated faces and feels like crawling into a hole.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;WILLIE:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm sorry, I -- here, please.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;She picks up her plate and gently hands it back to the women.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actual scene: (transcribed by me)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WILLIE:&lt;/strong&gt; (decisive) I can't eat this...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;INDIANA:&lt;/strong&gt; That's more food than these people eat in a week. (pointedly) They're starving.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;WILLIE:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh, I'm sorry, you can have it.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Willie tries to hand the plate back to the women.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;INDIANA:&lt;/strong&gt; (insistently) Eat it!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;WILLIE:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not hungry.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;INDIANA:&lt;/strong&gt; (whispering) You're insulting them and you're embarrassing me. Eat it!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;SHORT ROUND:&lt;/strong&gt; Eat it!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;CHIEFTAIN:&lt;/strong&gt; (gesturing) Eat.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;The women next to Willie touches her arm, encouraging her to eat. Willie, with a disgusted look on her face, takes a handful of the food and puts it in her mouth.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now there are some lines in the script that are completely missing from the movie, probably got cut:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The chieftain finally speaks to them --&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;CHIEFTAIN:&lt;/strong&gt; You will rest here before you go on.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;INDIANA:&lt;/strong&gt; We'd appreciate that.  This was an unexpected detour. We'll have to go to Delhi now and find a flight west.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;SHORT ROUND:&lt;/strong&gt; (smiling) Indy is taking me to America.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;All eyes are on Short Round.  Puzzled by this strange attention, Shorty's smile fades nervously.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next follows the part of the scene that you are presumably talking about, Indiana is asking for their help to get to Delhi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INDIANA:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm a professor.  I have to return to the university.  Can you give us a guide to take us to Delhi?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;The chieftain indicates a young villager sitting near them.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;CHIEFTAIN:&lt;/strong&gt; Sanju will guide you.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;INDIANA:&lt;/strong&gt; Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actual scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INDIANA:&lt;/strong&gt; Can you provide us with a guide to take us to Delhi? I'm a professor. I have to get back to my university.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;CHIEFTAIN:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, Sanju will guide you.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;INDIANA:&lt;/strong&gt; (say something in a foreign language that sounds like &amp;quot;Estute, mahoma estute.&amp;quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have to admit that I don't know what language he is speaking, &lt;em&gt;but&lt;/em&gt; if you look at the situation, the way he says it and the correlation to the script, it has to be some expression of gratitude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked up both &amp;quot;Thank you!&amp;quot; in Sanskrit and Hindi but could not find an exact match to the phrase he says. So it is either another language or he uses an expression with similar meaning but other words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp8QrLlujkc&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Making of&lt;/a&gt; explains that they were shooting with actual natives from the village (around the 12 minute mark) who did not speak any English. I assume Harrison Ford asked them what the line would be in their language and used it for greater authenticity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-07T18:28:45.360" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20062" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-07T17:05:55.323" Score="3" ViewCount="24604" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Professor X and the others first meet Quicksilver in his basement in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877832/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, there is a song playing in the background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone know what that song is, and why it might have been chosen for the scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10064" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T14:44:06.460" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T14:44:06.460" Title="What song is playing during Quicksilver's first appearance?" Tags="|analysis|soundtrack|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-days-of-future-past|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20004" CreationDate="2014-06-07T17:20:42.163" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sitting in front of the movie right now. The only foreign words he says to the locals in this scene are &quot;Istuti&quot; and &quot;Bohoma istuti&quot;, which mean &quot;Thank you&quot; and &quot;Thank you very much&quot; respectively in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhala_language&quot;&gt;Sinhala&lt;/a&gt;. Are those the words you meant? Or maybe there's an extended version I'm unaware of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: And I think atticae's assumption is correct. As his behind-the-scenes video link confirms, that scene was shot in Sri Lanka, so someone probably asked the locals there how to say 'thank you' in their language and used that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-07T19:29:39.430" LastActivityDate="2014-06-07T19:29:39.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20069" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-07T19:06:46.867" Score="22" ViewCount="2717" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Dark Knight, When Batman interrupts (what would probably have ended in) Dent killing Thomas Schiff, Batman tells Dent that if people saw him doing this, then all of the criminals he'd locked up would be released. Now, I'm not a lawyer or even a moderate student of the law, but it seems to me that the post-facto actions of counsel would have no bearing on a verdict rendered. Is there some legal precedent to which I'm ignorant that the filmmakers might have been drawing from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BATMAN :&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;You're the symbol of hope that I could never be.  Your stand&#xA;  against organized crime is the first legitimate ray of light in Gotham&#xA;  for decades. If anyone saw this, everything would be undone-&lt;strong&gt;all the&#xA;  criminals you got off the streets would be released&lt;/strong&gt;. And Jim Gordon&#xA;  will have died for nothing.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="Brian Warshaw" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-27T17:49:57.337" LastActivityDate="2016-04-27T17:49:57.337" Title="Why would Dent's convictions be overturned?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20069" CreationDate="2014-06-07T19:52:29.010" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a legal perspective, it's worth noting that the criminals he's referring to aren't those that Dent has already convicted in the past but the 549 criminals that Dent convinced Commissioner Gordon to arrest in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~ina22/splaylib/Screenplay-Dark_Knight.HTM&quot;&gt;scene 91&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only are the criminals involved not yet convicted (far from it) but Dent makes it abundantly clear to the Mayor that the only reason why Judge Surrillo is entertaining this &quot;farce&quot; is because of Dent's personal involvement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MAYOR :&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;549 criminals at once?!  How did you convince Surrillo to hear this farce?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DENT :&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;She shares my enthusiasm for justice. After all, she is a judge.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MAYOR :&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Even if you blow enough smoke to get convictions out of Surrillo, you'll  set a new record at appeals for quickest kick in the&#xA;  ass.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DENT :&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;It won't matter.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole thing is a dramatically risky move (basically a gigantic &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuisance_lawsuit&quot;&gt;nuisance suit&lt;/a&gt;) and one that seems doomed to failure. Since all parties recognise that the majority of the criminals will be out on the streets within a few months anyway due to lack of evidence, the Mayor states that he is relying on Dent's public popularity to smooth over the obvious recriminations about the wasted time, effort and cost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No Dent (or if Dent turns out to be dirty), no trials.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MAYOR :&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The public likes you, Dent.  That's the only reason this might fly.  But  that means it's on you.  They're all coming after&#xA;  you, now.  Not just the  mob... politicians, journalists, cops -&#xA;  anyone whose wallet's about to  get lighter.  Are you up to it?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Dent smiles)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You better be.  &lt;strong&gt;They get anything on you...&lt;/strong&gt; those criminals will be back on the streets...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100979" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2014-06-07T20:05:10.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="142" CreationDate="2014-06-08T07:28:38.957" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most people don't understand the ending, and think it's just a traditional Hollywood happy ending, another deus ex machina to give us what we expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very few viewers seem to realize that the ending is not just the final confrontation between Max and Vincent, but between their own philosophy on life itself.  Vincent is an extremely well-disciplined hitman but his outlook is fundamentally nihilistic in nature. While he appreciates the spontaneity embodied by the jazz music they discuss, and seems to thrive on adaptability, in the end he loses the gunfight precisely because he's become too set in his patterns (specifically, his rote technique of shooting a Mozambique-type failure drill by firing a double tap into the sternum, and a third shot to the head).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In contrast, Max, the man who has lived the past twelve years of his life in a regimented, automated pattern (visit his mother, keep the cab clean, always look to his photo of the Maldives to calm his nerves, etc), learns via Vincent to break out of his habits and realize his full abilities as a person.  Vincent's speeches about improvisation, adaptation, taking risks, and appreciating spontaneity set the stage for Max's transformation, and it's Vincent's threats that force him to take action when Vincent finally starts threatening the people he cares about (his mother, Daniel, Annie, etc).  Under stress, Max manages to find himself and succeeds at putting on a performance for Felix, crashes the taxi to wrest control of the situation back away from Vincent, and finally manages to muster the courage to directly confront him in the last few scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going into the final shootout, these factors are what determined who won, and why.  Vincent becomes stuck following his predetermined path of killing Annie, and can't break free of his imperative of finishing the job, even though a hitman as experienced as he should have known to call it off by then.  Max has found himself under fire, and once running is no longer an option, realizes he has to finally make a stand.  Vincent's penultimate statement &quot;I do this for a living!&quot; reflects the fact that he no longer knows or remembers any other way than what he's doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment of gunfire, Vincent attempts to engage Max using the exact same tactic he's used all throughout the film: double tap to the chest followed by a headshot.  He sees Max, he aims at Max, he fires...but he's no longer able to process changes or adapt to them, and he fails to register or react to the presence of the steel door frame between them.  All three of the shots from his stolen S&amp;amp;W impact the door frame and fail to penetrate (which is fairly realistic).  In contrast, we can see Max clearly close his eyes and fire blindly.  He's not become some super-skilled gunman, he's simply learned how to let go and &lt;em&gt;act&lt;/em&gt; rather than stall, delay, or deny reality.  Most of his shots go wild, but one passes through the window and is just good enough to score a vital hit on Vincent.  Luck, but luck driven by their respective mental states at the time.  Max won because he succeeded at learning from Vincent's philosophy, while Vincent died because he lost track of the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10072" LastActivityDate="2014-06-08T07:28:38.957" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20073" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21078" CreationDate="2014-06-08T10:25:01.630" Score="40" ViewCount="15882" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Edge of Tomorrow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; William Cage is reliving the same day over and over again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The time loop always starts with Cage waking up at Heathrow, &lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; his meeting with the General.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QHRB5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bill Cage waking up&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;But in his last jump he wakes up in the helicopter, en route to the General.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DM4Ml.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Helicopter&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;sup&gt;(the images are from the trailer)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why did killing the &quot;Omega&quot; change the starting point of Cage's time jump?&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;(I'm guessing the difference is only a couple of hours: Cage meets with the General, blackmails him, gets arrested and is transported to the military base at Heathrow)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2016-03-23T14:54:11.963" Title="Why does Bill Cage wake up in the helicopter?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="13" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20074" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-08T11:55:38.633" Score="7" ViewCount="11755" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the murder of Moss in the El Paso hotel room in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;No Country for Old Men&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, we see Sheriff Bell (TL Jones) get into his car talking with the local Sheriff. They talk about Chigurh. The scene cuts to Sheriff Bell returning to the crime scene and going inside the hotel room where Moss was killed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did he go back to the room? Was he anticipating Chigurh to also be there, as the conversation with the local sheriff hinted at it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-08T15:25:48.520" LastActivityDate="2019-07-08T12:13:42.397" Title="Why did Sheriff Bell go to the hotel room in El Paso where the murder takes place?" Tags="|plot-explanation|no-country-for-old-men|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20073" CreationDate="2014-06-08T12:07:34.693" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possibly because the effect of resetting caused by an &lt;em&gt;omega&lt;/em&gt; is bigger than the effect caused by an &lt;em&gt;alpha&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the original explanation of the time resetting effect Cage is told that the effect is only triggered by the blood of an &lt;em&gt;alpha&lt;/em&gt; when it is killed. &lt;em&gt;Alphas&lt;/em&gt; are very rare (like every 1 in 6 million creatures are of this leadership caste). When they die it is a sign that the human enemy has done too well in the battle and the day needs to be refought to counter the threat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is only one &lt;em&gt;omega&lt;/em&gt;. We are not told (and probably can't know because of their uniqueness) what powers the &lt;em&gt;omega&lt;/em&gt; actually has. But it doesn't seem unreasonable that, whatever it is, it is &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; powerful than an &lt;em&gt;alpha&lt;/em&gt;. So, perhaps, on its death its blood has a bigger effect on time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it makes a hollywood-friendly ending where the heroes don't die (though that might have made a more satisfying story where gain comes from sacrifice not just luck.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alternative and simpler explanation: perhaps the reset is triggered earlier in the day&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading some of the other answers and pondering the situation after watching the movie again, I came up with another explanation: there isn't actually anything to explain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The time reset seems to be for a fixed period, at least approximately. (It can't be exact as cage dies later and later during the day of the invasion but always seems to return to the same point.) Whether it is merely triggered by the death of an alpha may be irrelevant. In the end the exact same effect is triggered by the death of the omega. &lt;em&gt;But the death of the omega occurs much earlier in the day than the repeated deaths Cage experiences on the beach.&lt;/em&gt; So &lt;em&gt;the exact same effect&lt;/em&gt; results in Cage waking earlier in his day and, therefore, in the helicopter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point is that, when Cage realises he has lost his power, he sets off &lt;em&gt;much earlier in the day&lt;/em&gt; to do battle with the omega. It is the middle of the night when the team steal the flyer and it is still night when the omega is killed. So this seat (and the resulting time reset) occur a good few hours before the repeated deaths on the beach or deeper in France. So it makes some sort of sense that Cage is reset to earlier in his day when the time rest from the death of the omega is triggered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This requires far fewer additional assumptions than the &quot;omega has more power&quot; explanation. It still has holes, but this is weird SciFi not a rigorous paper in mathematical logic so perhaps we should not try to overanalyse it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="134" LastEditDate="2016-03-23T14:54:11.963" LastActivityDate="2016-03-23T14:54:11.963" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20074" CreationDate="2014-06-08T13:24:52.707" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Was he anticipating Chigurh to also be there, as the conversation with the local sheriff hinted at it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure he really &lt;em&gt;expected&lt;/em&gt; him to be there. It was more of a hunch, triggered by what the local Sheriff told him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;ROSCOE: That don't hardly say it. He shoots the desk clerk one day, and walks right back in the next and shoots a retired army colonel.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  BELL: Hard to believe.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ROSCOE: Strolls right back into a crime scene. Who would do such a thing? How do you defend against it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he went there again, just making sure that Chigurh was not again returning to the scene of the crime. The chance was low of course, but he wanted to be thorough. Also I believe that he felt pretty much out of options and was clutching at every straw, as he indicates earlier in the conversation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;BELL: I don't know. Sometimes I think he's pretty much a ghost. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.raindance.org/site/picture/upload/image/scripts/No_Country%20_%28Shooting%29.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Script source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-06-08T13:24:52.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20080" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21094" CreationDate="2014-06-08T15:10:14.740" Score="5" ViewCount="1341" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the special episodes of Top Gear (and maybe others) the hosts seem to give each other very inconvenient gifts, often ones too large are heavy for their modes of transportation. For example in the Vietnam episode Jeremy Clarkson gave Richard Hammond an extremely large model ship which he had to carry on a motorcycle, and in another he gave him a large chair to put in the boot of a small car. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if holding on to these gifts is a requirement, done just for fun or challenge, or is it some aspect of English culture being referenced/joked about that I'm not understanding?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10075" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-18T11:46:08.553" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T11:46:08.553" Title="In Top Gear specials, why do the hosts hang on to the inconvenient gifts?" Tags="|top-gear|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20081" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-08T15:35:48.943" Score="2" ViewCount="2579" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080231/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hammer House of Horror&lt;/a&gt; TV series episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hammerhouseofhorrortvseries.co.uk/hhbled2.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The House That Bled to Death&lt;/a&gt; I did not understand why the girl Sophie killed his father? Also how the cat was killed, was there any ghost/sprit of the old women?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3545" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-08T15:41:36.213" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T00:38:52.153" Title="Few events that I failed to understand in The House That Bled to Death" Tags="|plot-explanation|hammer-house-of-horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="20083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8375" CreationDate="2014-06-08T16:34:13.467" Score="4" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Longest running gag is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.topgearbox.com/stig-quotes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stig's introduction&lt;/a&gt;, which is always in the format of &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Some say he &lt;em&gt;[list of ridiculous claims]&lt;/em&gt; ... all we know is he's called The Stig.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;'Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves. All we know is he’s called the Stig'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some say that he thought Star Wars was a documentary, and that he recently pulled out of “I’m a Celebrity” because he’s frightened of trees, and Australia, and Koo Stark, and Ant, and Dec. All we know is he’s called the Stig'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/20080/in-top-gear-specials-why-do-the-hosts-hang-on-to-the-inconvenient-gifts&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, during road trips the gang give each other inconvenient (to transport) gifts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whenever travelling through hot countries, if any of the crew have air conditioning in their cars, the others will always break it (e.g. May in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear:_India_Special&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;India&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear:_US_Special&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the US&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They often reads a letter of complaint apparently from a fan called Mr. Needham which usually starts with &quot;Dear so-called Top Gear&quot; (or &quot;Dear Top so-called Gear&quot;) and chastises them for doing ridiculous tests and challenges which have no bearing in the real world.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;S08E03: Mr. Needham complains they never show sensible reasonably priced cars, Clarkson responds by showing a picture of a Vauxhall Corsa and immediately moves on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;S12E06: Mr. Needham asks if they've forgotten how to do 'proper tests, like in the old days', so Clarkson reviews the new Ford Fiesta and in a very deadpan manner begins listing the features of the car; 'There's room in the boot for a Zebra's head', 'There's enough room for the traditional 2.2 children', before eventually getting into a high speed chase through a shopping mall in scenes reminiscent of The Blues Brothers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;S14E04: Clarkson reviews a Renaultsport Twingo 133 and begins testing silly features like 'Can you drive it upside down in a sewer?', 'Can Ross Kemp comfortably fit in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunk_%28automobile%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;boot&lt;/a&gt;?' and 'What if you need to drive it on an Ice Rink?'&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8LSn8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;2.2 Children&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cCu3h.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Top Blues Gear Brothers&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2014-06-08T16:34:13.467" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21077" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21119" CreationDate="2014-06-08T17:31:15.000" Score="5" ViewCount="4481" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie remake of &lt;em&gt;21 Jump Street&lt;/em&gt; is  comedy that suspends reality quite a bit in some cases. So even though the character played by Johnny Depp and Peter Deluise seemed to receive fatal wounds is it confirmed that they were KIA? I'm asking because they appeared as their original characters and since there is a sequel planned (and maybe another after that) if they are not KIA I figure there is a chance they may show up or be mentioned at some point. Also in universe I can't imagine the death of two DEA agents could be part of a successful take down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-04-16T12:57:37.063" LastActivityDate="2018-09-02T05:06:49.903" Title="Are Hanson and Penhall confirmed dead?" Tags="|character|21-jump-street|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20073" CreationDate="2014-06-08T19:01:42.663" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because the time loop works for roughly 24 hours.  As Rita said, the Omega would 'reset the day', which meant roughly 1 day prior would be as far back as the Alpha/Cage would go.  Cage's day before the invasion goes roughly like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wakes up in the early morning on helicopter.  Meets General, gets tazed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A few hours pass.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cage wakes up in the mid to late morning.  This is where the time loops reset to throughout the film.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Day of training on the military base.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Day ends.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next day, the invasion occurs.  During that day, they wake up, get in gear, and ship out; hours would have passed during all that.  Then Cage manages to kill the Alpha, and get its blood mixed with his own.  This must have happened 24 hours after step 2 above, during the hours that Cage was out.  Alternatively, it happened to occur exactly 24 hours after step 3, but the hours of him unconscious provides a nice window where if time is reset he wouldn't be able to alter his fate of being sent on the invasion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, why did he go back to earlier when the Omega was destroyed?  I offer these two assumptions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Omega blood functions the same way as Alpha blood.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The time reset is still only 24 hours.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know that 1 is true, as no one in-universe knows this.  2, is able to be true while still enabling what we see in the film.  The attack on the Louvre occurs earlier in the day than the invasion.  During the attack on the Louvre, it's still dark out.  J squad had been recruited for this mission during Step 4 above, the day of training.  They then get convinced to go, and head out.  They arrive during the evening/early-morning. The mission is a success, and the Omega is defeated.  This would have happened 24 hours after a point in time prior to Step 1 above, while he was asleep on the helicopter.  It would have triggered the start of a new time loop from that point it time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ergo, Cage was sent back 24 hours prior to when the Omega was killed, which means he wakes up in the helicopter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user209" LastActivityDate="2014-06-08T19:01:42.663" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21080" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21735" CreationDate="2014-06-08T21:15:54.850" Score="7" ViewCount="3171" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last night I watched the 4K Remastered Edition of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. What a great movie! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I noticed something I'm curious about. There are several (at least 3, maybe 4) appearances of dogs in the movie. What does Leone want to say with the wild dogs? I think it's too easy to say the dogs stands for something like freedom or to try to illustrate the empty desert better. The pictures are the first and the last appearance of dogs in the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the last dog is important to answer the question. It looks like the dog wants to run to Tuco but he scares the dog, so it runs out of the picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On youtube you can find the whole movie if you have to rewatch it ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j5LlP.png&quot; alt=&quot;First appearance&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bVY0A.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Last appearance&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8737" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-09T10:33:37.453" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T02:11:18.373" Title="What is the meaning of the apearance of dogs in the good the bad the ugly?" Tags="|analysis|the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly|sergio-leone|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15884" CreationDate="2014-06-08T22:13:29.073" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think it's because Frank has a psychological need to have different identities distilled from his father. He steals the labels unconciously to fulfil a new identity (notice he never takes two of the same label).&#xA;He keeps them in his wallet as a symbol of his various identities that he has, without one of his own, hence why he leaves his wallet with Carl because he is the first one to see his real identity.&#xA;Also the fact that he only rips the main label and always puts it in his wallet (almost like a killers MO) is symbolic of the fact that he keeps his name Frank throughout but changes his surname.&#xA;This is my theory anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11075" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-09T10:22:30.480" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T10:22:30.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19353" CreationDate="2014-06-09T00:03:38.603" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the White Walkers attack Sam, Gilly &amp;amp; Gilly's baby at the abandoned hut, which they set fire to in attempt to kill the White Walkers, they meet Coldhands riding a horse. We never really find out who or what Coldhands is, although we suspect he was a ranger that was turned by a Wight Walker but somehow retains consciousness and independent will. Coldhands leads Sam, Gilly &amp;amp; baby to a secret passage within the Wall. It is still protected by magic, thus preventing Coldhands from entering as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11078" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-03-08T17:33:29.780" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T17:33:29.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="21088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12896" CreationDate="2014-06-09T01:46:28.843" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they both have similar voices (Wentworth Miller and Tim Robbins) but there are so many similarities between the two works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both main characters are innocent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both main characters are intelligent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both main characters do not fit in &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both main characters are mysterious&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both works contain unfair and corruption within the employees on the prison&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So many other similarities are found in the book and the show but one thing is totally different are the plots of course. Both are very enjoyable and I would recommend the show, the movie / book to anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11079" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T01:46:28.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21090" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21095" CreationDate="2014-06-09T03:57:55.490" Score="4" ViewCount="2777" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a scene in 21 Jumpstreet where Dave Franco' character Eric says &quot;do you know what they'll do to me in prison it rhymes with grape&quot; and it made me curious as to why it was phrased that way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Knocked Up a similar joke was made &quot;it rhymes with smabortion&quot; which I believe I read was done due to censors. However the repeating setup for the joke has me curious if this time it was due to censors or if it was just considered a funny setup that bared repeating. So was it censoring or continuing a joke?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-09T14:44:40.190" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T14:44:40.190" Title="Why say &quot;it rhymes with Grape&quot;?" Tags="|dialogue|21-jump-street|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21092" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21102" CreationDate="2014-06-09T04:43:53.980" Score="7" ViewCount="2104" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last episode season 3 of Sherlock, The Last Vow, Magnussen blackmails a lot of people. We are led to believe ( as in the real situation) that he has a large vault storing all the photo-graphical and written evidence of the wrongdoings of the blackmailed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the end of the episode, it is revealed that Magnussen doesn't actually have any blackmailing evidence, he just has to print any news-- be it real or fake, with or without evidence-- to do the job. But I honestly can't believe this can work in real life. Suing the press for defamation and printing false news is not the hardest thing to do in UK and abroad. How can Magnussen get away with it? This is stretching credulity, unless I miss anything crucial from the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything from the show that would explain how Magnussen get away with blackmailing people without a shred of of evidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3502" LastEditorUserId="3502" LastEditDate="2014-06-09T06:49:06.457" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T12:19:07.800" Title="How is it possible that Magnussen can blackmail so many people without actual evidence?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20080" CreationDate="2014-06-09T07:31:41.323" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've hit the nail exactly on the head. The gifts are given in order to create an air of silliness in each of the challenges. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only do you have to cross the sahara in a trabant but you have to do so while carrying a double bass, a  live boa constrictor and you're not allowed to open the windows. Ta da! Instant merriment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T07:31:41.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21090" CreationDate="2014-06-09T07:42:16.643" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Opinion: It was a funny(?) joke.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although a similar setup was used in &lt;em&gt;Knocked Up&lt;/em&gt;, the truth is similar setups have been used in plenty of comedy movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst I understand your query regarding the censors, it seems difficult to imagine &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; censorship would be an issue, the main reason I can think of being:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a colossal amount of crass language, violence, partial nudity and drug taking in the film. Why would all this be considered acceptable but a line about rape wouldn't be?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems more likely to me that it was a funny line that works in the context of the scene as it seems so abhorrent that he &lt;em&gt;can't bring himself to utter the actual word&lt;/em&gt;, instead resorting to childish rhyming (suggesting the mere thought of it makes him regress to his inner child in fear). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether it was a homage to his (extremely popular) line from &lt;em&gt;Knocked Up&lt;/em&gt; is something I can find no reference to online, but solely in my own opinion, I can't see how this was a censorship issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T07:42:16.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21098" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-09T10:49:32.483" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;2014 German thriller about a mechanic (&lt;em&gt;Jürgen Vogel&lt;/em&gt;) living a provincial life whose dark past starts to break through when a mysterious man (&lt;em&gt;Moritz Bleibtreu&lt;/em&gt;) appears that only he can see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3348102/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereo_%282014_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-09T10:49:32.483" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T10:49:32.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21099" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-09T10:49:32.483" Score="0" Body="2014 German thriller about a mechanic (Jürgen Vogel) living a provincial life whose dark past starts to break through when a mysterious man (Moritz Bleibtreu) appears that only he can see." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-09T10:49:32.483" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T10:49:32.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21101" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21109" CreationDate="2014-06-09T12:03:42.607" Score="8" ViewCount="7911" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2357129/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jobs (2013)&lt;/a&gt; there is a scene whereby Steve Jobs fires an employee for disagreeing with him on &amp;quot;fonts&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/RWcrM5SRCQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is the employee who disagreed with Steve Jobs on the &amp;quot;font&amp;quot; issue and got fired?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this part of the movie (that is based on Steve Jobs real life) an event that happened or was it added for drama? If so can someone name the real person referenced?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11086" LastEditorUserId="1074" LastEditDate="2021-11-26T03:28:36.210" LastActivityDate="2021-11-26T03:28:36.210" Title="Who is the employee that Steve Jobs fired?" Tags="|character|historical-accuracy|biopic|jobs|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="21102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21092" CreationDate="2014-06-09T12:19:07.800" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/16634/does-magnussen-have-no-electronic-assistance-to-remember-the-facts-he-needs-for&quot;&gt;Oliver C has pointed out&lt;/a&gt;, this is the very premise of his power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Magnussen either has an eidetic memory, or (like Sherlock) has utilized his own version of 'a mind palace': where he can categorize and recall tiny, irrelevant details on command.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He clearly has access to incredibly sensitive information (as he is &lt;em&gt;able&lt;/em&gt; to blackmail people), but his power lies in not being forced to make or collect hard copies of this information to still be aware of its existence. All he needs to do is convince his targets that &lt;strong&gt;he does&lt;/strong&gt; possess the incriminating material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a black mirror to Sherlock, he is someone capable of incredible feats of logic and is so prescient of his circumstances that he keeps his knowledge locked inside his own mind. That doesn't mean to say he doesn't possess &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; evidence to his blackmail: it just means he doesn't have to keep the data/information stored anywhere where it could plausibly be accessed by someone else: in this case, Sherlock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see it as a commentary on the Leveson inquiry, on Chelsea Manning and Snowdon: huge organisations of power are brought down by their own paper-trail, and by them having to document and categorize their actions and dealings. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Magnussen, as a Murdochian newspaper magnate, deals in Gossip and Slander: he can print whatever he wants with the worst case scenario being some kind of retraction and possibly a lawsuit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However&lt;/strong&gt;, if what he prints is actually &lt;em&gt;true&lt;/em&gt;, any lawsuit against him would reveal this to be so and as such he wouldn't face recrimination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he knows the information presented is true, and his target also knows the information is true; that's all he needs for blackmail.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a Leveson style inquiry were to be launched against Magnussen, they'd come up with absolutely nothing because he leaves no data/paper-trail: which turned out to be the nail in the coffin for the Newspaper industry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By not keeping the information accessible to any external sources, even subpoena's are fruitless. He's impervious to the law.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T12:19:07.800" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21103" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-09T12:38:50.323" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;German/Austrian/Swiss police crime TV-show with many 90-minute TV-movies produced every year since 1970 and set in different places across their respective countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0806910/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatort&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-09T12:38:50.323" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T12:38:50.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21104" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-09T12:38:50.323" Score="0" Body="German/Austrian/Swiss police crime TV-show with many 90-minute TV-movies produced every year since 1970 and set in different places across their respective countries." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-09T12:38:50.323" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T12:38:50.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21105" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-09T13:34:38.523" Score="3" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Hop&lt;/em&gt; how aware are Fred's parents of any of the &quot;magical forces&quot; within the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They treat him like a slacker throughout the entire movie. Then at the end, his dad thinks he's gone completely insane, and he refuses to believe that Fred is the new Easter Bunny... until he sees the sleigh being pulled by the chicks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, they must have believed to some extent. Otherwise, how would they explain all of the candy Fred and his sister received on Easter while they were growing up? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fred even kept the golden rabbit from years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastActivityDate="2015-07-28T22:15:05.870" Title="Fred's parents? Candy? Magic?" Tags="|plot-explanation|hop|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21106" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21107" CreationDate="2014-06-09T15:16:45.857" Score="12" ViewCount="5133" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844286/&quot;&gt;Brothers Bloom&lt;/a&gt; over the weekend. As Stephen and Bang Bang took Bloom to New Jersey to the Ludicrous Mansion in order to show Bloom the next/last big con, after they watch Penelope crash the Lamborghini, they walk down to Stephen's car and Bloom says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this a '78 Caddy? Hm. Controversial choice.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was a '78 Cadillac a controversial choice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T23:27:54.517" LastActivityDate="2016-09-17T15:40:33.643" Title="Why was a '78 Caddy a controversial choice?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|brothers-bloom|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21106" CreationDate="2014-06-09T15:28:43.750" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.moviefone.com/2010/05/04/rian-johnson-answers-your-movie-club-questions-and-dishes-on-loop/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; with the writer and director, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0426059/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rian Johnson&lt;/a&gt; in which he explains it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you explain &amp;quot; '78 Caddy? Controversial choice.&amp;quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rian Johnson&lt;/strong&gt;: That was one of the first cars I owned after college. And the &amp;quot;controversial choice&amp;quot; was something a friend of mine used to say, and you would never know whether it was a diss or compliment. You'd have your music on, and they'd nod and say &amp;quot;Hm. Steely Dan. Controversial choice.&amp;quot; And you'd want to punch them but not know exactly why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it sounds like it's just a joke and there's nothing really controversial about the multitude of cars Cadillac made and sold in 1978.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T17:00:59.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19966" CreationDate="2014-06-09T16:59:09.540" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to other answers, that already pointed out the collaborative nature of film-making (and thus the complexity of making a definite decision &lt;em&gt;&quot;whose picture it is&quot;&lt;/em&gt;), I'd like to share some additional info, be it only to further emphasize how difficult a definite answer actually is. But beware that this information is entirely Wikipedia-based and I'm far from an expert on the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, there is the so-called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auteur_theory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Auteur Theory&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which emerged in France in the 50s (first and foremost advocated by &lt;em&gt;François Truffaut&lt;/em&gt; and fellow critics from &lt;em&gt;Cahiers du Cinéma&lt;/em&gt;), which said &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;that a director's film reflects the director's personal creative vision, as if they were the primary &quot;auteur&quot; (the French word for &quot;author&quot;). In spite of—and sometimes even because of—the production of the film as part of an industrial process, the auteur's creative voice is distinct enough to shine through studio interference and the collective process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they basically tended to place the director as the primary creative force behind a movie and encouraged directors to actively imprint their own visions in the final product, favouring directors who acieved to mark their works with a distinct and consistent audiovisual style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might have been a direct reaction/aversion to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_system&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hollywood Studio System&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, in which movies seemed to be an entirely industrialized process with the writer/director/cinematographer/actors simply being employees to produce the movies for the studios' profit. And this artistic and director centric approach later ushered in the movies and directors of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_vague&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (and probably also the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hollywood&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;New Hollywood&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as a consequence of the collapsing Studio System).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, this director-centric view was also frowned upon from different sides, mainly &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; film-making is a collaborative process and people saw that fact hurt by privileging the director that much. Special criticism came also from writers, who disagreed with the idea of directors being more authorial than screenwriters (and exactly for shifting the attention to the screenwriter, David Kipen developed the so-called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schreiber_theory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Schreiber Theory&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as a reaction, yet in turn a rather intentionally exaggerated reaction it seems) and from people that claimed that Auteur Theory did not withstand the economic and industrial realities of film-making.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally speaking, I am a bit torn on the topic myself, too. While I agree that the director is usually the person with the most artistic influence on the final movie (which is so much more than just a story) and definitely deserves credit for that (in the end Auteur Theory didn't emerge out of nothing), the director-centric view of modern culture (maybe largely influenced by Auteur Theory and its decendents) sometimes tends to be exaggerated too much, in my opinion, especially when the screenwriter gets forgotten in discussions about a movie's plot. Film-making &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a collaborative effort and the director is by far not the only major contributor, even if &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt; the most important one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But so much to the artisitic aspect of this whole question. With movies usually being industrial products there is however also a legal and economical aspect, which might not be any easier to answer, but nevertheless should have a more definite answer due to the more uncompromising nature of law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that it is indeed usually the producers or the studio that give their money for the realization of the movie they in the end carry the financial responsibility of it and deserve to be called the &quot;owners&quot; of the movie in an economical sense, I guess (and are also the ones who sack the &lt;em&gt;Academy Award for Best Picture&lt;/em&gt; for that matter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, copyright law is another legal aspect that needs to be considered, and which can vary from country to country. For example Wikipedia says that under the influence of the afore mentioned Auteur Theory: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In law, the film is treated as a work of art, and the auteur, as the creator of the film, is the original copyright holder. Under European Union law, the film director is considered the author or one of the authors of a film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I have a strong feeling that this whole matter of copyright laws and legal ownership is far more intricate and needs to be investigated further. But suffice for now to say that there is both an aritistic/creative aspect of ownership as well as a legal/economic one and they both &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; not always walk hand in hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all the whole matter of &lt;em&gt;&quot;whose picture it is&quot;&lt;/em&gt; can most probably not always be answered in a clear or definite way and might even vary from movie to movie. Yet, I think modern culture seems to largely agree that the director is generally more important than the screenwriter, however correct that might be to you or to reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-09T17:57:45.623" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T17:57:45.623" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21101" CreationDate="2014-06-09T17:12:16.683" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;This scene was meant to put a spotlight on Jobs' darker side, but the event never really happened.  In a fact check, this scene was specifically mentioned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Take the movie's font scene. At an all-hands meeting, an employee dares to question Jobs’s choice of “adding pretty fonts” on the Lisa&#xA;  computer, the forerunner to the Macintosh, causing Jobs to fire him&#xA;  with a cinematic “Get out!” But this event didn’t actually happen. In&#xA;  reality, Steve Jobs hired a typeface designer, Susan Kare, and got to&#xA;  work convincing the rest of Apple’s executives that fonts were a&#xA;  worthwhile way to spend their money and time. It was an act of soft&#xA;  diplomacy, not a unilateral diktat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2013/08/jobs-fact-check-truth-versus-fiction.html&quot;&gt;Vulture.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-06-09T17:12:16.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19017" CreationDate="2014-06-09T21:57:45.743" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the other answers are correct about when &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; actually learned that there was something seriously wrong about her and when he came to deduce all the other information about her past, I'd still add that I think &lt;strong&gt;he had a suspicion about her all the time since they met.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When &lt;em&gt;Mary&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;John&lt;/em&gt; leave him after his magical reappearance at the beginning of &quot;The Empty Hearse&quot;, he does &quot;his thing&quot; on &lt;em&gt;Mary&lt;/em&gt; and sees all those words flashing across his inner eye:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x7CUW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the most interesting aspect of this scene is IMHO the slightly perplexed or thoughtful look on &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;'s face after this. Given what we learned in &quot;His Last Vow&quot; it almost seemed like he sensed there to be &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; wrong or mysterious about her, but wasn't really sure what it was, not being able to filter it out of all the other information he learned about her (kind of like the opposite effect of his encounter with &lt;em&gt;Irene Adler&lt;/em&gt;, revealing too much instead of too few information). So I think &lt;strong&gt;he sensed something strange about her but disregarded it for now&lt;/strong&gt; or just stored it in his subconcious (or rather his mind palace of currently irrelevant information).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in &quot;The Sign of Three&quot; this is reinforced, I think. At the end of the episode, when &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; does one deduction too much and (accidentally?) informs &lt;em&gt;John&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Mary&lt;/em&gt; about their anticipated baby, he again seems to react slightly perplexed for a short moment. Now, in an episode where we learned much more about &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;'s character and where his relationship with &lt;em&gt;John&lt;/em&gt; was extended by an aspect far more emotional than usual for &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;, this might just have been a moment of realizing that their relationship will probably not remain at its usual course, now that it's not only a wife but also a baby. But knowing the information from one episode ahead, this moment is once again interpretable as a foreshadowing. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; once again sensed that &lt;em&gt;Mary&lt;/em&gt; maybe was not as happy about this information as she claimed, for whatever reason.&lt;/strong&gt; Yet &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; still didn't know what to do with this information, nor dared to actually speak that out at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I agree that these are only very speculative hints, only deduced by knowing about the revelation in &quot;His Last Vow&quot;. But in retrospect I think &lt;strong&gt;those little incidents were a foreshadowing about &lt;em&gt;Mary&lt;/em&gt;'s secret and the fact that &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; knew there was &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; wrong with her all the time&lt;/strong&gt;, even if he didn't know what it was nor how serious that was, until his encounter with &lt;em&gt;Mary&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Magnussen&lt;/em&gt;'s office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-06T21:57:16.193" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T21:57:16.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21106" CreationDate="2014-06-10T01:03:23.870" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;1978 was the year of the &quot;Iran Cadillac&quot;, due to the model being manufactured in Iran. This may make it controversial. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11089" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T01:03:23.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21116" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-10T02:35:28.980" Score="16" ViewCount="9976" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a followup question to my &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/18802/143&quot;&gt;own answer&lt;/a&gt; on another Sherlock question regarding the Season 3 finale &quot;The Last Vow&quot;, from which I will shamelessly copy contents below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During their visit in Bakerstreet, Magnussen lists Sherlock's weaknesses (as we find out later) in his mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9VlcP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sherlock&amp;#39;s pressure points&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are only six points being listed here (and infinitely scrolled, likely for effect, to indicate that there are more than usual):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Irene Adler (see File)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Jim Moriarty (see File)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Redbeard (see File)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Hounds of the Baskerville&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Opium&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;John Watson&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I don't think all of them make sense as a pressure point on Sherlock, I at least understand what they are and why Magnussen might think that he could use those topics against Sherlock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is, all of them except one: &quot;Hounds of the Baskerville&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What does &quot;Hounds of the Baskerville&quot; mean in this context, and why does Magnussen think he can use this to blackmail Sherlock?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I remember the plot of the Baskerville episode correctly, there never really were any hounds and it was instead some kind of experimental biochemical weapon that was produced by a secret government/military facility. I don't see how that could be used against Sherlock, or anything else that Sherlock did during that case that could be used to blackmail him. He infiltrated the secret complex with his brother's ID, but that was discovered, so not really blackmail material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any indication in the show that explains this point on Magnussen's list?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2019-02-05T11:02:32.627" Title="Why does Magnussen list &quot;Hounds of the Baskerville&quot; as a pressure point on Sherlock?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21116" CreationDate="2014-06-10T05:54:37.627" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only real indication in the show is Sherlock's behaviour during that case. He was very on-edge after seeing the 'hound', immediately afterwards he looks agitated and leaves without a word, before sulking at the pub. He's confused by what he saw, and perhaps for the first time ever questioning his own senses and reasoning, it even drives him to drink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps Magnussen knows about this and the file details what happened to them on the Moors and how simple it would be to slip him some psychotics and watch him self-destruct from self-doubt or drugs to numb his senses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YTDz2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sherlock Sulking&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this is all just conjecture, it's possible Steven Moffat simply gave them a few of those names and the graphics designers just filled in the rest to make it a more interesting shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T05:54:37.627" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21077" CreationDate="2014-06-10T07:19:47.240" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Their roles are no more than homage to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_Jump_Street&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;21 Jump Street (TV series)&lt;/a&gt;. So, they are most probably dead and are not even listed in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22_Jump_Street&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;22 Jump Street cast&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The similar kind of cameos from TV series are expected in the sequel too, even mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22_Jump_Street#Cast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cast&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-01T18:52:25.217" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T18:52:25.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21077" CreationDate="2014-06-10T07:42:46.217" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt; - if you want to be &lt;em&gt;exacting&lt;/em&gt; about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They appeared in 21 Jump Street in tribute to the characters they played on the original TV series the movie was based on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We never see them actually &lt;em&gt;die&lt;/em&gt; and 22 Jump Street makes &lt;em&gt;zero&lt;/em&gt; mention of them or their futures. It is &lt;em&gt;likely&lt;/em&gt; they are dead given the wounds they received, but they are not &lt;em&gt;confirmed&lt;/em&gt; dead at any point in the movie (or, to the best of my knowledge, by any director interview).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T07:42:46.217" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21120" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-10T07:59:48.313" Score="6" ViewCount="1252" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can the group exit out of the first level? Was there a sedative timer in the plane that wakes them up? If that's the case it ruins the point of the story:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eames says that &quot;He's sitting this one out&quot; because this is too dangerous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then &lt;strong&gt;Cobb is like &quot;n hours of flight will mean x weeks&quot; and I can guarantee we will all be dead by then&lt;/strong&gt; to which he then suggests that they &quot;continue on with the plan and use kicks&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ahm Wait, you lost me there. Okay, okay, &quot;use kicks&quot;? Well if you have a kick in the higher level then it doesn't matter what you do right? You can just wait for the kick in the plane level. Then it's the same timespan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To Clarify: How did they get out of the first level? There's no kick in the plane? If they couldn't get out of the first level, then its the same thing, they have to wait for the sedative. And it will just reaffirm Cobb's &quot;n hours of flight will mean x weeks and I can guarantee we will all be dead by then&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11090" LastEditorUserId="11090" LastEditDate="2014-06-10T08:52:33.937" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T14:54:05.473" Title="No Kick In Higher Level means they're stuck" Tags="|inception|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21122" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-10T08:47:49.437" Score="7" ViewCount="1366" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sequels take place in a universe where the events of the first movie exist. But are there sequels that take place in a universe where the first movie exists.. as a movie ? Yes basically, this is our universe. I have a movie that come to my mind that captures more or less this idea: Being John Malkovich, in which Malkovich exists both as a character and as the actor itself. I'm not looking for documentaries or biopic about a filmmaker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those interested in this subject, I found this article on Wikipedia which is related to my question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacinema&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Metacinema&lt;/a&gt; with a list of movies using this technique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11091" LastEditorUserId="11091" LastEditDate="2014-06-11T11:02:26.503" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T11:02:26.503" Title="Are there movie sequels in which the original movie can be seen?" Tags="|sequels|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="14" ClosedDate="2014-06-10T17:34:01.457" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21122" CreationDate="2014-06-10T09:42:09.597" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. There are a &lt;em&gt;few&lt;/em&gt;, at the very least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2231554/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Grave Encounters 2&lt;/a&gt; is about a fan of the first movie trying to prove it was real. So in &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; movie, the first &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703199/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Grave Encounters&lt;/a&gt; exists as a movie, while the sequel is &amp;quot;real.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A film student who is obsessed with the movie Grave Encounters sets out with his friends to visit the psychiatric hospital depicted in the original film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For people who don't believe the events of Grave Encounters, film student Alex Wright is out to prove them wrong. Alex is as obsessed with the first film as the 20 million people who viewed its viral trailer on YouTube. While he and his friends research the events and visit the real psychiatric hospital depicted in the original film, they find themselves face-to-face with unspeakable evil, banking on the hope that their knowledge of the original film will help them survive the sequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJPteT_B7SA&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is the trailer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the people in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Shadows:_Blair_Witch_2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2&lt;/a&gt; are visiting the area because of the popularity of the movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blair_Witch_Project&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Blair Witch Project&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In November 1999, a group of young tourists arrive in Burkittsville, Maryland after seeing The Blair Witch Project. The group includes Stephen and his pregnant girlfriend, Tristen, who are researching the Blair Witch for a book they are writing; Erica, a wiccan; Kim, a goth psychic; and Jeff, their local tour guide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75cjbtUhTjE&amp;amp;&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is the trailer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as @AnkitSharma mentions, The Human Centipede is another similar scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T09:50:58.557" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21122" CreationDate="2014-06-10T09:53:39.277" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has happened a few times in horror films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_2&quot;&gt;Scream 2&lt;/a&gt;. It opens with two characters attending a preview screening of &lt;strong&gt;Stab&lt;/strong&gt;, a film based on the murders by Ghostface in the first film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This technique is also applied in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Craven%27s_New_Nightmare&quot;&gt;Wes Craven's New Nightmare&lt;/a&gt;, a horror film where all the characters from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street&quot;&gt;A Nightmare on Elm Street&lt;/a&gt; series appear &lt;em&gt;as themselves&lt;/em&gt;. The idea is they are shooting a new movie and Freddie Kreuger comes to life &lt;em&gt;in the real world&lt;/em&gt;. Wes Craven himself appeared in the movie, &lt;em&gt;as himself&lt;/em&gt;. To break with the answer for one moment, it's definitely a movie worth seeing. Very bizarre and not a technique used very often!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T09:53:39.277" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21122" CreationDate="2014-06-10T12:39:45.947" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107362/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Last Action Hero&lt;/a&gt;, Arnold Schwarzenegger's character (and his arch nemesis) 'come out' of their own action movie and experience the real world.  They are eventually exposed to all of the prequels to their current film.  This has a major impact on their final show down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096874/?ref_=fn_al_tt_8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Back To The Future 2&lt;/a&gt;, Marty and Doc go back to the the timeline which took place in the first movie.  Although they did not experience the first movie in film form, they were able to watch it in person. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Space Balls&lt;/a&gt; did not have a prequel, there is a moment in that film where they watch their own movie (using an advanced technology.)  By doing this, they discover major plot points, as well as experience a space time paradox by watching themselves in real time, otherwise know as 'now now'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eddit =================&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HELMET: What the h--- am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SANDURZ: Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HELMET: What happened to then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SANDURZ: We passed then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HELMET: When?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SANDURZ: Just now. We're at &lt;strong&gt;now, now.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HELMET: Go back to then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SANDURZ: When?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HELMET: Now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SANDURZ: Now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HELMET: Now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SANDURZ: I can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HELMET: Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SANDURZ: We missed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HELMET: When?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SANDURZ: Just now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HELMET: When will then be now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SANDURZ: Soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HELMET: How soon? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9021" LastEditorUserId="9021" LastEditDate="2014-06-10T17:09:45.103" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T17:09:45.103" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21128" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21133" CreationDate="2014-06-10T13:11:16.507" Score="14" ViewCount="7385" Body="&lt;p&gt;So Kitty uses her power to send Logan back to the past to change it in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877832/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;It all works 'fine' but when Logan finishes his job and saves the future, what makes him appear right on that moment with Charles X., where Charles says: &quot;You are back ...&quot; (after announcing that Logan is a history teacher).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Logan finished the job in the last why did he come to that specific time?&#xA;Why didn't he just 'disappear' since what happened in the future never happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also why doesn't Logan remember anything after 1973? As he changed everything, in 1973 he should have had a normal life, and according to Charles he would become a history teacher.&#xA;How come he doesn't remember that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Logan's mind got in the mind of the 1973 Logan, but only for a few days. So if he changed the past, Kitty wouldn't have used her power on Logan, she probably wouldn't even knew it since there should be no 'X-men - Team' since the world should be in peace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So technically Logan's mind would be stuck in 1973? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or what really happened here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8597" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T14:50:19.417" LastActivityDate="2020-02-14T16:39:06.270" Title="Why did Logan turn back to that specific time in the future" Tags="|plot-explanation|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-days-of-future-past|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21128" CreationDate="2014-06-10T13:44:24.890" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Logan we see at the end is has the same consciousness of the Logan from 2023-D (Dystopian Future).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1973, a timeline split occurs that creates 2 separate futures, one that leads into the Dystopian [D] future, and another that leads into what is shown at the end of the movie (we'll call it &quot;peaceful [P]&quot; future), 2023-P.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 2023-P, Logan is a history teacher at Xavier's school, far as we know he was still involved in everything he was involved in upto 1973, both world wars, American civil war, etc.  However, once 2023-D Logan completes his mission, &lt;strong&gt;his consciousness is sent back to that exact moment in time that it would be in 2023-D&lt;/strong&gt;, but seeing as that future no longer exists in the &quot;main&quot; timeline (Isn't time travel fun?!?!?!?!?!) he &quot;overrides&quot; 2023-P Logan as there is now nowhere for his consciousness to go.  Similar to how he was &quot;overriding&quot; 1973 Logan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why Xavier, despite obviously having Logan as a teacher at his school for however long it has been in this timeline, is surprised to see him and notices that this is the same Logan he met in 1973 at the split, that came back to &quot;save the future&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also why Logan doesn't know what has happened in the gap between 1973 - 2023-P because he only has his memories from 1973 - 2023-D, which includes X-Men Origins: Wolverine, meaning in this timeline we can assume this movie &lt;em&gt;has not happened&lt;/em&gt; (as far as we know).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="130" LastEditDate="2014-06-10T13:50:56.780" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T13:50:56.780" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21135" CreationDate="2014-06-10T14:30:26.640" Score="7" ViewCount="6564" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last episode &quot;The last Vow&quot; of the third season of Moffat's TV show, Sherlock and Watson broke into Magnussen's mansion to steal the proofs about Mary's past. But it turns out that Magnussen has no secret safe where he keeps evidences to pressure people and Sherlock finally decides to suppress the threat by killing him.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, why Sherlock did not accuse him of defamation? In real life, press has a lot of power, and even a weakly supported claim can hurt a lot. Suspicions of murders get more room in newspapers than their rehabilitation when it is found out that they were wrongly charged. But, we are talking about Sherlock. He has a strong enough reputation and does not really care about people's opinion, so he could stand a mediatic fight against Magnussen. Especially since  noone would believe that the innocent-looking Mary was a former professional killer if the media tycoon has nothing to support his claim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, this was a poor way to conclude the season. In particular, it makes Magnussen looks a stronger opponent than Moriarty. Steven Moffat is a reputed scriptwriter. What am I missing here? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11093" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-11T01:37:28.890" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T01:37:28.890" Title="Why did Sherlock choose this solution for Magnussen?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|sherlock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21134" CreationDate="2014-06-10T14:55:38.717" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Magnussen was threatening to make life hell for John and Mary. You talk about defamation as if he was planning to do this by publishing stories about her. He wasn't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MAGNUSSEN: It works like this, John. I know who Mary hurt and killed. I know where to find people who &lt;em&gt;hate&lt;/em&gt; her.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  MAGNUSSEN: I know where they live; I know their phone numbers. All in my Mind Palace – all of it.&#xA;   I could phone them right now and tear your whole life down – and I will... unless you let me flick your face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither of them would have let him do that, so they would have acquiesced to his blackmail. Sherlock saw a whole future of this for John and Mary and took the only action he believed would stop that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking more generally, the other blackmail victims were succumbing to his demands precisely because they wanted to keep their secrets secret. If it gets published, there will be a scandal, whether it can be proved for definite or not. It's that scandal that they're afraid of, so suing for defamation of character isn't an adequate defence because in their eyes if the defamation happens they've already lost. Magnussen knows this, which is why he makes all his comments about 'I'm the press, I don't need to prove things' etc. Besides which, what makes you think suing him will get anywhere? You saw what happened in the inquiry at the start of the episode... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9877" LastEditorUserId="9877" LastEditDate="2014-06-10T19:50:41.213" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T19:50:41.213" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21137" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21138" CreationDate="2014-06-10T18:29:56.477" Score="26" ViewCount="11626" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen this movie when I was very young (11 or 12). I am 19 now and I want to know the name of this movie. The movie is obviously produced before the 2000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genre:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drama. Seen on television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What the movie is about&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is about a hit-man who invades a house for theft or murder (one of them). He kills everyone there. However, the girl (I do not remember if she was related to the victims) is found there sitting on stairs, sad, depressed and smoking. The hit-man feels compassion for her and starts developing a relationship with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether it was romantic or not, the hit-man and the girl are pictured inside a house taking care of flowerpot or a pot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie ends with the hit-man killing himself with a bomb, in order to let the girl go to school again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone to identify this movie for me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11099" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-10-19T10:25:32.470" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T10:43:36.363" Title="A hitman falls in love with a victim girl" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:10:41.513" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21137" CreationDate="2014-06-10T18:39:29.113" Score="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like Luc Besson's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on:_The_Professional&quot;&gt;Leon: The Professional&lt;/a&gt; from 1994 with Natalie Portman about a hitman adopting a girl after her family is wiped out (he also finds her sitting and smoking on the stairs in his building). They also take care of a potted plant together. It ends in the manner you've described (he offs himself with grenades to take out the villain). The film gained a cult status and is now considered one of Besson's best (it's currently #27 on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/chart/top&quot;&gt;IMDb's Top 250&lt;/a&gt; rated films of all time). Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/DcsirofJrlM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-19T10:43:36.363" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T10:43:36.363" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21134" CreationDate="2014-06-10T19:15:57.567" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a take on this different from the other posts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although there is no doubt Sherlock would do anything for Watson, at least in Moffat's interpretation, the real target of Magnussen's blackmail over John was Sherlock himself...that was (IMHO) the whole point of burying John in the bonfire...to see if he could play Sherlock like a puppet forcing him to rescue John. So if Magnussen could indirectly hold the strings over Sherlock, then (taking in the whole Mycroft/Sherlock relationship) all of Britain's security is at stake.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What always hit me with that episode was that when Sherlock discovered that Magnussen really did have a mind palace, and not some digital glasses communicating with a digital safe at his mansion, then he realized that Magnussen's mental powers were equivalent to his own. Again...an unstoppable threat to England...not just to John and Mary.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11101" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-11T00:52:32.020" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T00:52:32.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21142" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21143" CreationDate="2014-06-10T22:02:33.060" Score="5" ViewCount="2158" Body="&lt;p&gt;Typically seen in shows with a live audience, there's a very noticeable type of shot where the characters are in a car with what's presumably a blue screen background, the car is obviously stationary and camera movement and usually slight rocking of the vehicle are used to give the impression of movement, for example from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106004&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Frasier&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0582474/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cIRnN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Frasier driving effect from S03E20- Police Story&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously there's going to be a monochrome screen behind them to composite the shot onto and some kind of moving lighting rig to emulate streetlights, but what about under the car, is there a special 'car rocking' rig at the studio, perhaps some intern out of shot, or even a fake car?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The car seems to be real in Frasier though, and the closest thing I've seen in the past is a recurring joke from Garth Marenghi's Darkplace which has a very fake car rocking about in a small darkish room:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AEvWG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Garth Marenghi&amp;#39;s Darkplace: Scotch Mist&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which makes me think the rocking rig isn't as implausible as I had originally considered, as the very centre of the car doesn't move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pre-empting comments, please note I'm only interested in the sitcom style as the audience being behind the camera precludes the movie style effects detailed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/1947/how-do-they-film-scenes-with-the-actors-driving-in-a-car&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T22:14:48.930" Title="What do sitcom car rigs look like without effects?" Tags="|production|effects|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21142" CreationDate="2014-06-10T22:14:48.930" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;These are often made bespoke to fit the requirements of the Shot, but Garth Marenghi does a good job of satirizing the effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a shot from Grey's Anatomy: which, whilst not filmed in front of a live studio audience, will no doubt share the same technique:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XfSmK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cars can be moved via hydraulics, or using a 'bump-deck': a stage which physically moves, in order to simulate extreme movement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The presence of a studio audience has little effect on the technology used. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in cinema (where it is more economic/effective to shoot on location), a trailer dolly is more commonly employed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B9bGs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-06-10T22:14:48.930" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12639" CreationDate="2014-06-11T00:11:37.670" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the United States Navy Working Class Type III uniform. It is used by Navy EOD, and Navy SEALs and those in The Navy Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen (SWCC pronounced &quot;swick&quot;). It is not used by the Army.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11106" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T00:11:37.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21152" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21162" CreationDate="2014-06-11T01:17:32.990" Score="15" ViewCount="1317" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing that the opening (and repeating and repeating...) battle of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edge of Tomorrow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is in fact a final huge offensive of basically all the united forces of the free world against their biggest threat, carried out from Britain onto the occupied France using thousands of carrier vehicles, this whole operation and the imagery it was presented in naturally evoked reminiscences of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;D-Day 06/06/44&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (and if I remember correctly, the Normandy Landings were even referenced in the movie by some old veterans talking about nowadays' soldiers in a London pub).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing that the movie was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_dt&quot;&gt;released around the 6th of June 2014&lt;/a&gt; (exactly from 29th of May to 6th of June in most countries, with the US release on 6th of June in particular), this seemed like quite a coincidence to me, especially since it is the 70th anniversary of the Normandy Landings. Yet, this might also have been nothing but a coincidence at all, especially since there might be people who would regard this kind of marketing usage of D-Day for a SciFi-blockbuster (even such a generally praised one as this) as inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is, &lt;strong&gt;are there any hints or information that the release of this movie was deliberately scheduled around D-Day for emphasizing this connection or for marketing effect&lt;/strong&gt; or is this really just a complete coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T14:11:37.740" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T14:11:37.740" Title="Was Edge of Tomorrow deliberately released around D-Day?" Tags="|analysis|distribution|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21153" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-11T02:19:58.720" Score="15" ViewCount="23236" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched the Season 5 finale, where Cam and Mitch get married. After exchanging the rings there is the traditional kiss between the newlyweds. Their kiss is very short, at which point I realized again what I already have been wondering now and then during the whole series:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why do we never see Cam and Mitch kiss each other?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are together for many years, but they are almost never exchanging any form of physical affection. In contrast, Phil and Claire or Jay and Gloria are regularly shown kissing or (in the Dunphy's case) even making out. The only time Cam and Mitch are showing any kind of physical contact is when it is needed for the plot, as with the marriage kiss, where there really is no good way to avoid it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it was great that Modern Family was taking on such a controversial topic as gay partnership and showing it as something normal on television. But it still feels that the topic is handled very conservatively in that regard and I wonder why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it because either the producers or the network are afraid that showing them kissing might scare away viewers? Is it a regulations thing of some sort? Or are the actors maybe just not comfortable with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before anyone brings that up: I am aware that there is an episode about Mitchel not being very affectionate because of his father. I think there even was another short kiss between him and Cam in that episode (again, because the plot demanded it). However I am more interested if there is any reason outside of the plot for the lack of physical affection. To be honest it felt more like they made that episode to have a justification for it and not that they were doing it for plot reasons so they can bring it up for that episode later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-06-11T13:37:37.353" LastActivityDate="2016-08-17T08:45:11.337" Title="Why do Mitch and Cam never kiss?" Tags="|analysis|modern-family|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21153" CreationDate="2014-06-11T04:24:41.580" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is probably &quot;viewer comfort&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a straight guy (bear with me, I'm explaining viewer experience) and while I strongly agree that gay partnership is acceptable, I still cringe when I see a kissing scene between two men. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact of the matter is: Society has gotten used to seeing a man and a woman kiss on TV, but non of us grew up seeing men kiss, and while most intelligent people will respect the rights of people of all sexualities, kissing scenes between two men can be cringe-worthy for straight guys. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the franchise is taking big steps by including homosexuality in a tv show, it still has to please viewers, and many viewers are simply not comfortable with gay kissing scenes yet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I hope I'm not offending any gay readers here at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9733" LastEditorDisplayName="user9733" LastEditDate="2014-06-11T05:45:23.717" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T05:45:23.717" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21157" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47090" CreationDate="2014-06-11T06:31:36.767" Score="3" ViewCount="672" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the last episode of season 1 of &lt;em&gt;The Bridge&lt;/em&gt;, Martin shoots the innocent girl on live-tv.&#xA;He had to because he wanted to know more about his son, if he was still alive or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this is still against the law. So why didn't he go to jail for this but only in therapy and he still kept his job?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8597" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-11T07:58:29.203" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T22:53:32.997" Title="Why didn't Martin have to go to jail?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-bridge|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17940" CreationDate="2014-06-11T06:34:31.030" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The series sort of implied he was past his glory days. During the show, he'd be writing jingles for health products, animes, and other medium to high budget ventures. In passing though it'd be mentioned he wrote jingles for Pepsi and big credit card companies. This would probably make him millions and for all we know he might have written jingles for other major brands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that the beach house was his only mutlimillion dollar expense, the guy could have possibly be living off his millions to keep his debts in check and use the money from recent, less lucrative jingles (six figures instead of seven) to pay for the liquor, women, and frequent trips.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11110" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-11T08:01:10.580" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T08:01:10.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21159" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21160" CreationDate="2014-06-11T07:58:31.063" Score="0" ViewCount="6088" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always been wondering this. Why don't most movies/series have this scene where they say that they have to go to the toilet or that they have to do number 1 or number 2?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are these always skipped out or forgotten? In movies I can understand because it would make them a bit longer, but if you are making a series like &lt;em&gt;24&lt;/em&gt; or a movie that goes over a period of a couple of days, or sequels (&lt;em&gt;Resident Evil&lt;/em&gt;). It seems kind of not-logical that nobody ever has to go to the toilet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are movies been made like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: It doesn't add a plot but in reality series it should happen no? As for it being  &lt;em&gt;reality&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8597" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-06-11T08:24:27.970" LastActivityDate="2017-05-25T23:55:34.287" Title="Why do most movies/series don't have the 'I have to go to the toilet' moment?" Tags="|analysis|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21159" CreationDate="2014-06-11T08:06:15.000" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a very tired, very old 'joke' that (in the case of 24) even Kiefer Sutherland is tired of hearing..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We might actually shoot a scene where Jack raids an office and runs into the washroom in the lobby and comes out nine seconds later a lot happier because I am always being asked when Jack gets to go the bathroom.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It comes down to film economy: we don't need to see someone go to the bathroom. It adds nothing to the plot, and uses up valuable screen time that could be dedicated elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within the Diegesis of the narrative, characters probably &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; go to the bathroom: it just isn't shown on film because it's a waste of running time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, 24 producers Evan Katz and Many Coto sum this pedantic frustration up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Jack is off screen for huge amounts of time on the show.&quot; says Coto. &quot;It's not like the camera is following him around and he's on screen the entire season.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;People constantly quote that as if it's ... a revelation,&quot; he added.&#xA;  &quot;Well, Jack's going to the bathroom while we're on the president ...&#xA;  which sometimes takes an entire act.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T08:06:15.000" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21153" CreationDate="2014-06-11T08:53:10.540" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As @jt0dd says, it seems to be viewer comfort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2010/05/facebook_campaign_begins_for_m.html&quot;&gt;Facebook petition&lt;/a&gt; was actually set up by a group of fans back in Series 2 calling for a kiss between them, as it hadn't happened yet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Cam &amp;amp; Mitchell, the adorable gay couple on ABC's Modern Family, have&#xA;  not been shown sharing even a brief kiss throughout the series' first&#xA;  hit season. ABC isn't afraid of gay characters, so why won't they let&#xA;  them show some love?&quot; the group writes as its credo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was just one example, but there were a few different sources calling for this moment. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2010/09/cam_and_mitchell_finally_kiss.html&quot;&gt;It did finally arrive&lt;/a&gt;, with Vulture stating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The kiss was both frustratingly and admirably understated. On the one&#xA;  hand, seriously, that's what you call a kiss?! On the other, Modern&#xA;  Family's creators didn't bow to the pressure to make Cam and&#xA;  Mitchell's kiss a huge deal, sacrificing character and story line in&#xA;  the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the amount of attention and hype this one little kiss generated, it's easy to see why the producers have avoided giving it any more exposure. Whilst they may be happy with gay characters, it's senseless for them to do something that risks alienating any of their fanbase. If their market research has suggested that having more intimate scenes between Cam and Mitchell could lead to a loss of viewers who find it distasteful, or unpleasant, to watch, they won't do it, regardless of their own opinions on the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be clearly seen in Modern Family in any intimate scenes that Mitchell and Cameron find themselves in, compared to the other heterosexual people on the show. Whilst the others get far more on screen romantic and sexual scenes, Mitchell and Cam's are greatly reduced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does largely appear to be an attempt to &lt;em&gt;appease&lt;/em&gt; a fanbase who, whilst supportive of their relationship, don't wish to know or see the &lt;em&gt;more intimate aspects&lt;/em&gt; of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, this raises questions about whether this is fair or whether, in time, the show should do more. These questions go beyond the show though, and venture in to the realm of what mainstream America is actually prepared to watch. There will always be campaigners in favour of more graphic scenes between the couple, and others in favour of less. Time will tell how the show goes, but for now it's treading a happy medium where it's trying to portray the love and care between them, rather than anything more graphic or sexual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T08:53:10.540" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21152" CreationDate="2014-06-11T09:48:23.943" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/Was-Edge-of-Tomorrow-intentionally-released-in-the-U-S-on-D-Day-June-6&quot;&gt;not the first person&lt;/a&gt; on the web to ask this, and with good reason!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pullingonthepushdoor.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/edge-of-tomorrow-review/&quot;&gt;Plenty&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.killermoviereviews.com/main.php?nextlink=display&amp;amp;dId=1803&quot;&gt;movie review&lt;/a&gt;s have drawn attention to the fact that the release date coincides with D-Day, and whilst it's probable this was factored in by its marketing department, it's unlikely or &lt;em&gt;downright problematic&lt;/em&gt; for the film's promotional material to draw attention to this as deliberate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To hijack a historical event which resulted in around 10,000 deaths to bolster a piece of science fiction would, if performed overtly, drown a movie in criticism before it was even released. It's unlikely that Doug Liman would wish to cause offense in what would be an incredibly crass comparison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plenty of people have come to this conclusion all by themselves: one of the most circulated &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_pitch&quot;&gt;elevator pitches&lt;/a&gt; to be used in connection to the movie is &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=groundhog%20d-day&amp;amp;oq=groundhog%20d-day&amp;amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2328j0j4&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;es_sm=0&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8#q=groundhog%20d-day%20edge%20of%20tomorrow&amp;amp;tbm=nws&quot;&gt;Groundhog D-Day&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. If reviewers/external sources make these comments, its unlikely to draw criticism and cries of disrespect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;June is an important release window for summer blockbusters, so it's not implausible that the films release was simply intended to capitalize on an otherwise noncompetitive window. In cadence to how terrible an idea it would be to directly court these comparisons, I'd say the release is a co-incidence. A happy, profitable co-incidence, but a co-incidence nontheless.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T09:48:23.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21164" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21165" CreationDate="2014-06-11T10:56:13.307" Score="6" ViewCount="1110" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Wes Craven's New Nightmare, when Heather meets Wes at New Line, they talk about making a new movie to make Freddy stop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of this sequence, we can see that Wes is actually writing the script of &quot;New nightmare&quot;. The dialog shown on the screen is literally what has just been said: (1:04:50)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wbQg9.png&quot; alt=&quot;script on computer0&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FUrws.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sequence ends with a fade to black, as written on the script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a bit confused about this part of the movie. At this point, is Wes both inside the movie, and writing the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11091" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-01T09:39:29.927" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T09:39:29.927" Title="Is the script Wes Craven is writing on his computer the movie itself?" Tags="|plot-explanation|new-nightmare|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21164" CreationDate="2014-06-11T11:10:26.077" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you've pretty much answered your own question. The film is based on the idea of a fictional character crossing over into the real lives of the real actors who acted in the earlier films in the franchise. That Wes is writing the dialogue in a script that exactly matches the dialogue the characters have just said totally fits the crossover world being created in this film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1392" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T11:10:26.077" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21159" CreationDate="2014-06-11T14:38:42.787" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the excellent answer from JohnSmithOptional, there are also considerations as far as what is allowed to be shown on television, which does vary from country to country. This has been entrenched in the television world for many years as being a somewhat taboo subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples (US based):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.toptenz.net/leave-beaver-censored-showing-toilet.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Leave it to Beaver&lt;/a&gt; (1950's): Censored for showing a toilet that they were trying to keep a baby alligator alive in the tank. Eventually a compromise, they could show the tank but not the bowl.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All in the Family (1970's): While it did not feature the toilet during the scene, it did feature the first flush heard on television.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jack Paar in 1960 was not allowed to tell a joke about a water closet, another name for a bathroom.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Brady Bunch has a running joke about 9 people in a house with no &lt;strike&gt;bathrooms&lt;/strike&gt; toilet. (Edited for the pointout in the comments - Censors at the time would allow the bathroom to be shown but not the toilet)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the standards of what is acceptable on television continue to be expanded, very rarely even in modern US television is the bathroom shown to be used as it is intended with regards to the toilet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-10-28T12:53:58.973" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T12:53:58.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21169" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21204" CreationDate="2014-06-11T15:16:16.637" Score="7" ViewCount="3090" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't grow up in the US so I don't have a perspective of this. But why were the 90's considered such a cynical time? I personally do NOT perceive it this way, but a few random reads led me to a Google search for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.in/search?q=90%27s+optimism&amp;amp;oq=90%27s+optimism&amp;amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i61j69i60l2.2755j0j7&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;es_sm=119&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;90's optimism&quot;&lt;/a&gt; which instead redirected me to a whole bunch of links on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.in/search?q=90s+cynicism&amp;amp;oq=90s+cynicism&amp;amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.4384j0j1&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;es_sm=119&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;90's CYNICISM&lt;/a&gt;. This is especially visible in some retrospective articles on the 90's and MEDIA in the 90's (in America) in the second set of Google results. Hence this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I've read in these places, I understand a lot of this has to do with music, but my cultural consumption (as an outsider) was primarily of the movies, and I LOVED it back then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the stuff I watched back then were mostly Spielberg-inspired big-action blockbusters. Schwarzenegger was going strong. Has-beens from the 80's were still operating. There were enough comedies and totally earnest &quot;family&quot; movies (Father of the Bride, Home Alone!, etc) around. Practically every movie I've seen of the 90's (even today, catching up on TV or Netflix. So it's not just nostalgia) is tinged with a warm fuzzy hue, and filled with hope and optimism and a message &quot;We can always be better&quot; or &quot;Things can always be better&quot;. Happy Endings all the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even the more artsy, thoughtful movies I have seen of the 90's later-on have the same vibe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TV in the 90's was great too. Frasier, 3rd Rock from the Sun, were ones I liked but there were SO MANY other sitcoms on TV. Even drama such as The West Wing seemed perfectly optimistic, with hopeful music, and an optimistic pompousness/righteousness that was distinctly 90's to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why the perception that the 90's were gloomy? And if that attitude/perception came from music, then how can there be SUCH a wide gulf between music and the output of movies/TV? And it's not that I'm looking at a freakishly small sample set of movies - I'm talking about some of the most popular movies and TV shows of the 90's. So what am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11122" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-24T15:54:46.950" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T15:54:46.950" Title="Why were the 90's considered cynical in the US when most Hollywood output I remember seemed optimistic?" Tags="|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21171" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-11T15:34:30.087" Score="2" ViewCount="1054" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never got a chance to see Vitaly Petrov's number in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216475/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cars 2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. However, given the attention to detail that is given in this movie, I very much doubt that he hasn't been assigned one. Can you help me? My son would be very grateful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the car I'm asking about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VQB9J.png&quot; alt=&quot;This is the car I&amp;#39;m asking about&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11125" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-11T15:38:29.020" LastActivityDate="2016-03-22T19:07:13.657" Title="What is Vitaly Petrov's racing number?" Tags="|cars-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21171" CreationDate="2014-06-11T15:53:46.497" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure he &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; a number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pixar.wikia.com/World_Grand_Prix_Racers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This page&lt;/a&gt; lists all the World Grand Prix Racers from the films, each of whom has a colour scheme and a number. This list includes people like Lewis Hamilton (No. 2) and Francesco Bernoulli (No. 1).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cars_characters#World_Grand_Prix_Racers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this other Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; lists the racers in slightly more detail. For Jeff Gorvette (No. 24) it states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The character does not appear in international versions of Cars 2. In&#xA;  two scenes (one where Lightning meets him at the party in Tokyo, and&#xA;  another when that scene appears in Mater's nightmare), Gorvette is&#xA;  replaced by a completely different character, voiced by a regionally&#xA;  better known racer than Jeff Gordon. Most of them share the body shape&#xA;  with Max Schnell and the least of them share after the body of Miguel&#xA;  Camino:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mark Winterbottom as Frosty (Australian release)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Fernando&#xA;  Alonso as Fernando Alonso (Spanish release)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Vitaly Petrov as Vitaly&#xA;  Petrov (Russian release)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Jan Nilsson as Flash (Swedish release)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Unknown as Long Ge (Chinese release)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Memo Rojas as Memo Rojas, Jr.&#xA;  (Mexican release)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Sebastian Vettel as Sebastian Schnell (German&#xA;  release)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Claudia Leitte as Carla Veloso (Brazilian release)&#xA;  Unknown as Raoul ÇaRoule (French release)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No number is listed. Some further searching led me to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.toywiz.com/cars2diecast.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;, which is one of many selling toy replicas of the cars in the films. Unlike most of the other racers, &lt;em&gt;no number&lt;/em&gt; is listed against Vitaly's entry, or his picture:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BvCA0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, stills from the film show nothing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ToMnw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I think it's safe to assume he most likely &lt;em&gt;doesn't have&lt;/em&gt; a racing number, as he is only feature in one country's version of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T15:53:46.497" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21153" CreationDate="2014-06-11T16:53:39.807" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Viewer comfort is probably the answer, but I'll also point out that the actor who plays Cam (Eric Stonestreet) is straight in real life. He may have some influence on how often he and Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who is gay in real life) kiss or show other physical affection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T16:53:39.807" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21176" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-11T18:27:31.663" Score="10" ViewCount="4830" Body="&lt;p&gt;After &lt;em&gt;Rita Vrataski&lt;/em&gt; proved herself a war hero in the battle of Verdun prior to the events of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edge of Tomorrow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; she became known and advertized as the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Angel of Verdun&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, a symbol of hope and a possible victory over the &lt;em&gt;Mimics&lt;/em&gt; and a figurehead for the &lt;em&gt;United Defense Force&lt;/em&gt;. Now seeing that the movie doesn't seem to hesitate with &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/21152/49&quot;&gt;military historical references&lt;/a&gt;, this whole image reminded me very much of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Joan of Arc&lt;/em&gt;, the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Maid of Orléans&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and her activities during the &lt;em&gt;Hundred Years War&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both suddenly shine out of the ordinary by causing a turning point victory which turns them into figureheads of their respective campaigns therefore, becoming a prominent image in their signature armors. Likewise is their victory to some degree to blame on (supposedly) help from higher powers (be it the support by saints or magical alien blood). And the whole structure of their respective nicknames seems pretty similar to me, a French city and the location of their victory paired with a rather peaceful and feminine noun (they surely wouldn't have called Tom Cruise an &lt;em&gt;&quot;Angel&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, I guess). And while &lt;em&gt;Joan of Arc&lt;/em&gt;'s history takes a rather tragic end, the darker sides of claiming to have supernatural powers are mentioned in the movie, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I might as well be totally making stuff up here. But seeing that &lt;strong&gt;her more informal and meaty nickname of &lt;em&gt;&quot;Full Metal Bitch&quot;&lt;/em&gt; seems to be taken right out of the source material the movie was based on, I wonder if this is also the case for her propaganda name&lt;/strong&gt; (though, I guess in a non-French context then). Furthemore I'd like to know &lt;strong&gt;if there is any more substantial (or even official) evidence or at least further hints pointing at this whole &lt;em&gt;&quot;Angel of Verdun&quot;&lt;/em&gt; myth having been influenced by the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Maid of Orléans&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, no matter if done by the book-authors or the film-makers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T19:15:26.513" Title="To which degree was the image of the &quot;Angel of Verdun&quot; influenced by Jeanne d'Arc?" Tags="|analysis|character|book-adaptation|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21178" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21187" CreationDate="2014-06-11T19:11:16.970" Score="5" ViewCount="918" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was an early 90s SciFi show that played in the New York City area on public television. All I remember were there being like two races of people, one being normal human and the other were seemingly mutated people. I also remember there being really cool vehicles that the normal humans would ride out into the badlands where the mutant types lived, these vehicles had like 6 wheels and looked like military type vehicles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This has been bugging me for years, would really want to know the name of this show)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11132" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-12T06:22:31.270" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T17:53:11.607" Title="Early 90s sci-fi show with a race of mutants" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:57:28.960" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16384" CreationDate="2014-06-11T19:54:06.457" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think grouping the messages is relevant. The pattern applies to each individual sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11101" LastEditorUserId="11101" LastEditDate="2014-06-12T03:18:54.197" LastActivityDate="2014-06-12T03:18:54.197" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21182" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21183" CreationDate="2014-06-11T22:59:25.073" Score="11" ViewCount="15888" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that, throughout &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, Walt picks up certain attributes from everyone that he kills, e.g. Gus' ruthlessness and one-step-ahead approach, Krazy-8's ability to manipulate people, Mike's no-nonsense attitude (and sense of humour- I'm referring to the scene in &lt;em&gt;Felina&lt;/em&gt; when Elliott points the knife at him- &quot;Elliott, if we're gonna go that way, you'll need a bigger knife&quot;)- attributes which, previously, he didn't have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I can't think of what traits he gets from, for example, Jane, Jack and Emilio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11134" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-19T16:04:03.400" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T23:01:56.080" Title="What personality traits did Walt pick up from his enemies?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21182" CreationDate="2014-06-11T23:28:55.410" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think Walt 'picks up certain attributes', as though it were a subconscious reflex: he more accurately mimics qualities he sees as effective throughout his exposure to the criminal world...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were a number of &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:8285&quot;&gt;fan sources&lt;/a&gt; that openly (and reactively) sought to quantify this as some kind of conspiracy theory, and Uprox collated &lt;a href=&quot;http://uproxx.com/topic/breaking-bad-theories/&quot;&gt;the most credible of these&lt;/a&gt; together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't go as far as saying Walt automatically takes on other people's traits. More plausibly, Walt recognizes the utility of certain personality traits (ruthlessness, Machiavellianism, Humour) and understands their potency when he finds himself on the receiving end of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that he is a scientist, and as such the classification of behavior (whether chemical, atomic or even &lt;em&gt;social&lt;/em&gt;) is a familiar method of approach. Walt, in his bubble of relative normality within his Albuquerque Suburb, has simply never met people with such volatile and extreme personalities before (as neither, supposedly, have you or I). When he &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; come into contact with them, he studies them and recognizes their potential.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt only deploys (not neccesarily adopts, which is more permanent) qualities that are &lt;em&gt;useful&lt;/em&gt; to him in his circumstances. It is for this reason that he doesn't compulsorily take aspects of people he kills: he just tries to acknowledge what it was about them that made them successful at what they did... until they Crossed Walter White, that is... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-06-11T23:28:55.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21186" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21190" CreationDate="2014-06-12T06:08:20.340" Score="2" ViewCount="342" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2nd movie of The Riddick (&lt;em&gt;Chronicles of the Riddick&lt;/em&gt;) he goes on a hunt to get the bounty off his head. All the people of the Crematorium die and he becomes leader of the necromongers.&#xA;In the 3rd movie of &lt;em&gt;The Riddick&lt;/em&gt;, he gets killed for his rank and left for dead on a planet but he survives of course.&#xA;After identifying himself in the house on the camera-thing. Bounty Hunters show up and want to claim Riddick's head in the box for a bounty. &#xA;I thought Riddick became leader and removed all bounties on his head? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where did this bounty come from and who made this bounty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8597" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-12T08:02:19.847" LastActivityDate="2014-06-12T08:04:33.037" Title="Where did the new bounty come from?" Tags="|plot-explanation|riddick|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21178" CreationDate="2014-06-12T06:12:41.193" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might be the unpicked pilot &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110163/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Island City&lt;/a&gt; from 1994, where most of humanity mutates into violent primitive creatures (like Will has described) and the remaining healthy people fight them and migrate to the titular safeheaven. It features futuristic 8-wheeled vehicles roaming the desert areas populated by those mutants. The whole thing is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKPSMCc0_WI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;available here&lt;/a&gt; (it starts around 9:30).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-06-12T06:12:41.193" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21188" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21189" CreationDate="2014-06-12T06:35:20.863" Score="24" ViewCount="22628" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Edge of Tomorrow how many days does Cage experience? Or to put it another way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How many times is Cage killed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3772" LastEditorUserId="1548" LastEditDate="2014-06-29T20:01:23.340" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T21:28:57.907" Title="How many days does Cage experience?" Tags="|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21188" CreationDate="2014-06-12T07:58:23.103" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't appear to be discussed in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book the film is based on, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Need_Is_Kill&quot;&gt;All You Need is Kill&lt;/a&gt;, he has &lt;strong&gt;160&lt;/strong&gt; iterations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/board/thread/230689934?p=3&quot;&gt;interesting thread&lt;/a&gt; over at IMDB you might want to peruse, where people have argued everything from 100 days to over 1000 days, to over 100 years! There isn't any common consensus on that thread (or indeed across the Internet, yet) on how long the loop lasted for &lt;em&gt;in the film&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of deaths &lt;em&gt;actually shown on screen in the film&lt;/em&gt;, Warner Bros. have a mash up of all his deaths &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRfPNZ0Xghs&quot;&gt;on Youtube&lt;/a&gt;. Counting those shows &lt;strong&gt;16 deaths&lt;/strong&gt; in the film. although many more must have taken place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-11-19T13:39:08.370" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T13:39:08.370" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21186" CreationDate="2014-06-12T08:04:33.037" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://riddick.wikia.com/wiki/Richard_B._Riddick&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki for Riddick&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For 5 years Riddick has been neglecting the Necromongers as Lord&#xA;  Marshal and has yet to take the sacred oath or lead them to the&#xA;  Underverse. Several assassins try to take him out by orders of&#xA;  Necromongers commanders, but all of them fail. Seeing that he has let&#xA;  his animal side slip past, he orders Commander Vaako to take him to&#xA;  his home planet. When Riddick arrives on a planet he finds out it is&#xA;  Not-Furya, and the Necromongers betray him trying to kill him...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems that despite being leader of the necromongers, he was too inactive in the role and they tired of him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what the director, David Twohy, was aiming for as stated in &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/riddick-director-explains-how-the-necromonger-king-gets-1057112239&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The first sequence is about 10 to 15 minutes of him alone on this&#xA;  planet, with no dialogue and just minimal voiceover. And then he goes&#xA;  into a... hibernation. Everything on this planet has tooth and claw.&#xA;  Everything is trying to kill him. So he basically entombs himself, to&#xA;  keep the predators away from him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And as he falls asleep in his tomb, we flash back to the Necromonger&#xA;  world. We get the sense that while it's great to be King, you have to&#xA;  deal with the assassins outside your room. Sometimes the assassins in&#xA;  your bed, and all the betrayals that take place there. With our&#xA;  limited resources, I was able to do I think a pretty good [job] of&#xA;  that in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-06-12T08:04:33.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21192" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-12T09:31:46.553" Score="16" ViewCount="3824" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prior to the events of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edge of Tomorrow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;em&gt;United Defense Force&lt;/em&gt; achieves a significant (if not their only) victory against the invading &lt;em&gt;Mimics&lt;/em&gt; at no other place than &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdun&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Verdun&lt;/a&gt;, in which &lt;em&gt;Rita Vrataski&lt;/em&gt; shines out as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/21176/49&quot;&gt;hero and symbol of hope&lt;/a&gt; for humanity. This battle supposedly marks the turning point for the overstrained human forces and inspires them to their huge offensive during which the events of the movie pan out (yet, as we learn later as a deliberate attempt by the &lt;em&gt;Mimics&lt;/em&gt; to inspire the humans with false hopes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now seeing that the movie seems to some degree ripe with &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/21152/49&quot;&gt;military historical references&lt;/a&gt;, it seems unlikely that the choice of Verdun was made by mere coincidence, since the real &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Verdun&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Battle of Verdun&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was one of the most prominent, longest and wasteful battles of WWI and remains as a symbol for the inconclusiveness of an attrition war and the horrors of war in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I fail to bring this into context with its significance in the movie. Was the choice of Verdun as such a prominent battlefield in the movie's backstory simply just &quot;name dropping&quot; as part of the movie's other historical references or &lt;strong&gt;is there a deeper connection between the real battle of Verdun and its significance in relation to the movie's story and themes or maybe even word from the film-makers/authors why this particular location was chosen?&lt;/strong&gt; (An in-universe relation seems unlikely anyway, since the &lt;em&gt;Mimics&lt;/em&gt; surely didn't know about its signifiance in human history.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2016-03-27T05:48:49.567" Title="Is there any further significance to the choice of Verdun as battlefield?" Tags="|analysis|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21195" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-12T10:21:36.867" Score="6" ViewCount="895" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film Inception assuming Cobb was successfully able to extract Saito's secrets from the safe how would he &lt;strong&gt;bring&lt;/strong&gt; those papers stamped &quot;confidential&quot; to the reality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way I can think is to memorize each line on that paper, wake up and recite those lines to Cobol Engineering before he forgets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9980" LastActivityDate="2017-11-04T21:14:06.517" Title="How is the extracted information brought back to reality?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21196" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21197" CreationDate="2014-06-12T10:36:14.467" Score="5" ViewCount="2746" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got all five seasons of Breaking Bad. I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://seriesgui.de/&quot;&gt;Series Guide&lt;/a&gt; to see what to watch next. &lt;a href=&quot;https://trakt.tv/show/breaking-bad/specials&quot;&gt;The special episodes&lt;/a&gt; are missing, I want to get them but first I have few question about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Special 1 Good Cop Bad Cop&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Special 2 Wedding Day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Special 3 TwaughtHammer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Special 4 Marie's Confession&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Special 5 The Break-In&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Special 6 Season 4 Sneak Peak&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Special 8 Better Call Saul - Carl B.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Special 9 Better Call Saul - Saul Better Help My Mom&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Special 10 Better Call Saul - Badger&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Special 11 Better Call Saul - Tiger Trouble&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Special 12 Better Call Saul - Wayfarer 515&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Special 13 Team S.C.I.E.N.C.E&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Special 14 Better Call Saul - Wendy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Special 15 Better Call Saul - Who Can You Sue&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Special 16 Letters to Saul - Did I Murder an Old Man&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Special 17 Live Saul Cam&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Special 18 No Half Measures&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there 18 special episodes or 17? If there's 18, what is special episode 7?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when to watch these special episodes? after you finish everything? Or are they similar to 24 special episodes where you have to watch them first to understand what going to happen next? Can you tell me when exactly is the best time to watch these episodes?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why not all episodes are &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Breaking_Bad_episodes&quot;&gt;listed  on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;? Like Episode 18&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5494" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-12T10:43:05.820" LastActivityDate="2014-06-12T11:22:52.050" Title="Breaking Bad special episodes" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21196" CreationDate="2014-06-12T11:22:52.050" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;AMC, the creators of Breaking Bad, released the first &lt;strong&gt;five&lt;/strong&gt; webisodes in the build up to Season 2. They were eventually released on the Season 2 boxset. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you can watch Specials 1 - 5 as soon as you finish Season 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the rest of your list, I suspect the episode 7 gap is simply an oversight (and one that has been copied by other sites, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&amp;amp;seriesid=81189&amp;amp;seasonid=439371&amp;amp;lid=7&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). The best source for this information would be AMC themselves. They list the episodes &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amctv.com/shows/breaking-bad/tag/videotype/minisode&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, in no obvious order. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Users online have &lt;em&gt;attempted&lt;/em&gt; to state their correct order. &lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.thetvdb.com/viewtopic.php?t=11274&quot;&gt;This user on TheTVDB.com&lt;/a&gt; stated the order was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;01 - Better Call Saul -  Carl B.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  02 - Better Call Saul -  Saul Better&#xA;  Help My Mom&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  03 - Better Call Saul - Badger&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  04 - Better Call Saul -&#xA;  Tiger Trouble&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  05 - Better Call Saul - Wayfarer 515&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  06 - Team&#xA;  S.C.I.E.N.C.E.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  07 - Better Call Saul - Wendy&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  08 - Better Call Saul -&#xA;  Who Can You Sue&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  09 - Letters to Saul - Did I Murder an Old Man&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  10 -&#xA;  Live Saul Cam&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2387761/episodes?season=2&amp;amp;ref_=tt_eps_sn_2&quot;&gt;IMDB on the other hand&lt;/a&gt; have a totally different order listed (along with different episode titles!). Despite this, the order pasted above appears to be the most consistently quoted order (matching the one you posted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did come across quite a few torrent sites online with the series listed and the episodes all listed in the order pasted above as part of the Season 3 extras (that is, released after Season 2 and before Season 3). This would suit the timeline listed for them (2010).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I would conclude this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no episode 7. That's simply a mistake that has been copied in quite a few places. Or rather, there is an episode 7, but the gap suggesting there isn't is a mistake.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Watch Specials 1 - 5 after Season 1.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Watch Specials in order pasted above after Season 2.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Watch Season 4 Sneak Peek after Season 3.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm not sure &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; these episodes aren't more recognised (I didn't even know they existed until this question). It seems particularly strange given that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Call_Saul&quot;&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/a&gt; is now in confirmed production.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-06-12T11:22:52.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21198" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21200" CreationDate="2014-06-12T11:30:42.590" Score="26" ViewCount="21046" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S04E09 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the wildings attack the wall in Castle Black, Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We know that the wall is 100's miles long.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They know that only 3 posts are manned (Snow said it - they can believe it or not)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But still, why do they attack exactly at that position, where it is certainly manned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2162" LastEditorUserId="2162" LastEditDate="2015-02-04T08:30:11.990" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T08:30:11.990" Title="Why do the wildings attack the wall where they do?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21195" CreationDate="2014-06-12T11:37:04.607" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't do much more than confirm what you already assumed, too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The only way I can think is to memorize each line on that paper, wake up and recite those lines to Cobol Engineering before he forgets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This indeed seems to be the intended approach. But I don't think you necessarily need to memorize each line, though. Those letters are likely not actual official letters anyway, but most probably rather sketches of his overall ideas and plans, seeing that we're in a dream and this whole documents in a safe concept has a rather metaphorical nature in the first place. It abstracts the detailed intricacies of his plans into a very concrete and broad form. Just learning the key points of his plans should be already be enough information for Cobol Engineering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me elaborate a little more on the overall problem of this question (don't get me wrong, it isn't a bad question). The fact that the movie doesn't really explain how this whole extraction actually works, is to some degree intentional, I think, and goes hand in hand with its whole dream-aspect. All we can assume from this process of reading a letter in Saito's dream-safe is, that &lt;strong&gt;Cobb actually &lt;em&gt;steals a thought&lt;/em&gt; from Saito&lt;/strong&gt;. How this actually pans out in reality or how this thought is structued is &lt;strong&gt;beyond the purpose of this movie&lt;/strong&gt;. We are just not supposed to care about the neurological reality of those things. All we know is that &lt;strong&gt;Cobb then &lt;em&gt;somehow&lt;/em&gt; knows what Saito knows&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By employing this escape into the dream-world, where everything is possible and where very abstract processes are represented by very concrete and tangible items and actions, the movie not only gets to &quot;plausibly&quot; show unusual things, like zero-gravity or stuff appearing out of nowhere, but it also achieves to completely remove the &lt;strong&gt;need&lt;/strong&gt; to give explanations for such abstract processes like stealing a thought or learning things. The sometimes rather lame excuse answers like &lt;em&gt;&quot;it works somehow&quot;&lt;/em&gt;/&lt;em&gt;&quot;that's the way it's written&quot;&lt;/em&gt;/&lt;em&gt;&quot;the movie doesn't explain&quot;&lt;/em&gt; are therefore the &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; answers in the context of this movie. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt; achieved to remove any need for plausible explanations without actually being implausible&lt;/strong&gt;, by employing this whole dream-metaphor, where the most difficult and abstract psychological processes are as easy as reading a letter or giving a windmill to a child. This transformation of abstract matters into tangible and clear imagery is just part of the movie's very theme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-11-04T21:14:06.517" LastActivityDate="2017-11-04T21:14:06.517" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21198" CreationDate="2014-06-12T12:07:28.590" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mance Rayder in intending to move the entire Wilding population south to avoid the oncoming winter, which is presumed by many to be likely to be long, and accompanied by the reappearance of 'the others'.  He has an army estimated as 100,000 strong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The remaining other forts along the wall are deserted yes, but its also presumed that the tunnels through the wall at these points has been filled with stone &amp;amp; ice.  So yes, Mance could get people to climb over the wall here (as indeed we saw last season), but he cannot move vast quantities of people over the wall, which would ultimately have to include children and the elderly of his population.  Even getting 100,000 over the wall seems unlikely - we must presume he only sends his most capable raiders on that route.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Mance's invasion of the north to work, he either needs to tunnel through the wall or capture one of the occupied forts.  He knows that the force of Crows is historically light in numbers, even if he doesn't know their true weakness - and that his army will also have to face the army of the Warden of the North at least, if not the Seven Kingdoms.  Attacking and getting his army past Castle Black is the key first step in his invasion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2014-06-12T12:07:28.590" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21198" CreationDate="2014-06-12T12:26:55.823" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is better explained in the books. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mance original plan was to attack the Wall at the same time from two sides. He would first attack from the North. He would expect to have all the Brothers of the Night's Watch fighting him at the North side of the Wall. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While he and his army were attacking from the North, his team of scouts would attack from the South (in Castle Black) in order to break their defenses and raise the gate that would allow them to pass through to the South.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mance didn't know that Jon had escaped and ruined their plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastActivityDate="2014-06-12T12:26:55.823" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21169" CreationDate="2014-06-12T15:10:24.637" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reluctant to be the first at an attempt to answer this, as it's going to be quite subjective. It's hard to quantify how something can be received as wholly cynical, and it also assumes a certain amount of intention on the creators part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think as a wider cultural malaise set in sometime around the early-to-mid 90s, it became perceived as 'cool', and thus was capitalized upon in a less grass roots, more commercial way: which helped perpetuate it, although it was not neccesarily 'an organic' cultural trend by this point. From the above comments, I think System Down kind of nails it with his comment;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Being edgy was a 90's thing [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think the point bears repeating/expanding. An attempt at a position on this takes in sources from broader cultural fields however (Comics, Music...) and as such is quite broad. I know people like the choice between a succinct answer and in informed one, so in the spirit of that I'll start with;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL:DR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The 1990's, in anticipation of the coming millenium, was a naturally introspective period of time for culture, including film. Because of this tendency to reflect back on our past,  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;postmodernist&lt;/a&gt; position was adopted by a great deal of media content, which naturally translated into a wider cultural trend (both organically and commercially, in response to what was considered the traits of an emergent generation).&#xA;Postmodernism is a much older critical tradition, but one which requires a deconstruction of previous norms and classifications. This can manifest as Irony, Skepticism and &lt;em&gt;Cynicism&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In being aware of its position within a cultural Meta-narrative, media sought to comment on its own existence, and thus 'take control of its own future'.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I that makes sense at this point, that's the broad outline of my argument. If you're still unsure, or interested, I'll now break down different examples (including other Media that contributes to this) to try and reflect what I'm trying to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Film&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although Metacinematography was nothing new, and had already been thoroughly expanded upon (Felini's 1987 film &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093267/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Intervista&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was a recent example of a postmodern film), the 1990s where a decade where this sort of self-aware narrative and style of film making became accepted as normal, and thus easy to produce/export. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mel Brooks would frequently break the sets of his films, drawing attention to their status and exposing them as artifice, and the Daffy duck cartoon '&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.veoh.com/watch/v976505DjnbzTzX?h1=Duck%20Amuck-Daffy%20DUck%20LooneyTunes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Duck Amuck&lt;/a&gt;' showed that deconstruction was common even among childrens cartoons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It became much more common for movies to pass commentary on themselves, and deliberately show their own strings. Films were being made &lt;em&gt;about films&lt;/em&gt;, with the industry telling stories about its own past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robert Altman's 1992 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105151/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Player&lt;/a&gt; is an excellent example of this, where Hollywood performed its own autopsy through a lens. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118577/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Burn Hollywood, Burn&lt;/a&gt; is a less celebrated variation, but Blake Edwards (of &lt;em&gt;Pink Panther&lt;/em&gt; fame) had been doing &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.O.B._%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this sort of Movie&lt;/a&gt; since the 80s. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Films became their own Directors Commentary (its no co-incidence that DC's took off during the DVD boom) and so it became trendy to show a reflexive awareness of your content, your DNA as it were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wes Craven is criminally undervalued for his participation in this new filmic tradition: &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111686/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;New Nightmare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was incredibly ahead of its time in using this narratively, and &lt;em&gt;Scream&lt;/em&gt; was an incredibly successful incarnation of this self-awareness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of Course, understanding a postmodern perspective requires being familiar with the rules, and recognizing them. Scream explained this through a memorable sequence in which the characters &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz9WHEm_Kx0&amp;amp;feature=kp&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;discuss their behavior&lt;/a&gt; as though they were bound by the rules of a horror film, only to invert them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing the rules leads to predictability, which leads to apathy, which leads to Irony. Movies like &lt;em&gt;Scream&lt;/em&gt;, in demonstrating an awareness of this, effectively sidesteps this terminus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the 90's, the machinations of Cultural processes had been consistent long enough for knowledge of their particularities to be acknowledged by the cultures in which they operate.&#xA;We understood how movies worked, so we were collectively more comfortable pointing to its flaws. This is no more appropriate than in Music, which has traditionally been considered more of a lasting trendsetter in terms of youth culture: mainly due to the speed of its production and how fast its own culture can respond and develop to the messages and mood it contains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nirvana (and Grunge, more generally) reflected the Zeitgeist against corporate parentage, and&#xA;sought to deconstruct the music industry. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alanis Morisette's &lt;em&gt;Ironic&lt;/em&gt;, itself a deconstruction (nothing within&#xA;is actually &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; ironic, which makes the song itself ironic) was a&#xA;smash hit, winning &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Juno_Awards&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;best single awards&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Red Hot Chili Peppers, perhaps one of the most identifiable bands&#xA;of the US in the 90s finished the millennium with an Modernist&#xA;oddysey named &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californication_%28album%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Californiacation&lt;/a&gt;, which was a deconstruction of&#xA;its own fruition.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The point here is not to say that all culture was inherently cynical and self reflexive, but it existed and these choices highlight a wider cultural trend of introspection.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In being aware of its own structure, boredom grew. The more you knew about the world around you, the further you could identify its components, the less impressed and the more bored you would supposedly be with it. &#xA;Thus, by the twisted logic of 90s postmodernism, being bored became cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People referred to this generation as Generation Y (or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Millennials&lt;/a&gt;), and cited a whole youth culture that remained difficult to please, or impress. Japan, I'm told, is experiencing a similar social culture emerging now, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hikikomori&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This well-practiced apathy caused huge crisis of faith, as though The Teenager had been discovered all over again and the market lacked the resources or knowledge to respond to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Films like &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fight Club&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; attempted to harness the Malaise that had underlined the 90s in an anti-establishment narrative, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; sought to tell us that the world around us, which we had become so jaded with, was an illusion: that there was something better beyond the predictable mundanity of Earth, 1999.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the 90s &lt;strong&gt;were&lt;/strong&gt; fundamentally cynical, but I think the wider traditions established within this period point to the conclusion that there was a wider market for Cynical material than ever before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.furious.com/perfect/culturecycles.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cyclorama theory&lt;/a&gt; posits that we must be entering one of these stages again: the generation reaching adulthood is naturally experiencing nostalgia for their childhood: which would have occurred during the 90s. Films like &lt;em&gt;The Cabin in the Woods&lt;/em&gt; and music like Lana Del Rey supports this position, for me. So does the &lt;a href=&quot;http://agoraphobix.com/blogs/news/10120441-the-90s-are-back-baby-how-to-wear-90s-fashion-today&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;re-emergence of 90s&lt;/a&gt; fashion...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a point specifically to Andrew Martin...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree with you that the UK largely missed the boat on a lot of this, but we have the Britpop (and the toe-curling 'Cool-Britania') craze to ballast some of the more miserable aspects of this postmodernist decade, but you have to admit, even that was &lt;em&gt;kind of Cynical..&lt;/em&gt; &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yoitH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope other people will contribute/argue/blast me to pieces, but that's my perspective on 90s Cynicism. Have at me.... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-06-12T15:10:24.637" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21205" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21208" CreationDate="2014-06-12T16:14:49.450" Score="24" ViewCount="19031" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously, when Walt shot two of Gus' trustworthy men in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, Gus wanted to kill Walt and have Gale replace him after learning his formula.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, around the time Gus offers Walt '3 million dollars for 3 months of your time', did Gus plan to continue doing business with Walt after these 3 months, or was Walt just a disposable source of money? At this time, Walt wasn't seen as much of a threat (he wasn't as much of a liability as is in series 4).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is there any evidence to suggest that Gus planned to kill Walt (or not) from the start?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11134" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-15T04:58:49.043" LastActivityDate="2020-05-13T14:19:32.243" Title="Was Gus planning to kill Walt from the start?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21205" CreationDate="2014-06-12T18:40:50.233" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Gus' initial plan was to sweeten the deal enough for Walt to become his chemist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While extremely distrustful of him to begin with because of Jesse, Gus takes a risk and accepts Walt into his trade and even gives him the lab at the behest of Gale encouraging Gus that purity means more money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming everything went smoothly and certain events didn't occur, it is plausible that even &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; learning Walt's connection to Hank that it would still be beneficial to Gus to keep him on as long as he survived due to the extra money Gus could make and the monetary incentive for Walt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judging by the series as a whole, Gus only intended death for Walt &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; he ran over his dealers, breaking the peace to save Jesse's life, who was still considered a lowly &lt;em&gt;junkie&lt;/em&gt; by Gus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2014-06-12T18:40:50.233" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21209" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21216" CreationDate="2014-06-12T19:11:28.127" Score="1" ViewCount="670" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of Broken City, Billy Taggart is charged with murder but then walks. At the end of the film, it seems that he still has to face his crimes. Why isn't he protected by the Double Jeopardy clause in the U.S. Constitution? Does he actually not have to face his crimes at the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8366" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-06-13T10:35:54.663" LastActivityDate="2014-07-13T11:20:56.993" Title="Why isn't Taggart protected by Double Jeopardy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|broken-city|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21209" CreationDate="2014-06-13T01:46:51.277" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a mistake in the movie. Taggart is charged with the crime of murder, and it is determined during the trial that he was acting in self defense. This is an acquittal, and because of that double jeopardy would apply, and he would not be able to be charged again for the same crime, even if he stood in the courtroom and confessed to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Currently this concept is recognized and enforced by a vast majority of countries in the world. It's easier to list the ones that don't recognize it than the ones that do. If a trial reaches either an acquittal or a conviction, then double jeopardy attaches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-06-13T01:46:51.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21218" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-13T05:47:28.070" Score="4" ViewCount="1622" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm at season 5, episode 9 of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;. Jesse knows that Walt killed Mike, and just told Walt that. Walt just lied to his face. He can see that Walt is completely transformed and just nuts and ruthless at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't Jesse flee? He doesn't really have anything holding him there (no family, girlfriend, no friends besides Skinny Pete and Badger, but...you know), and he has $5M in cash. He's seen that Walt doesn't really mind killing people who are a risk to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's keeping him there? It seems like by far the wisest decision would be to get the hell out from there before he becomes a liability to someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11148" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T17:10:54.150" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T17:10:54.150" Title="Why does Jesse act this way in the Final Season?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21218" CreationDate="2014-06-13T07:34:03.857" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flee to where?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone Jessie has ever known, loved or felt close to it in Albuquerque and all of them are &lt;em&gt;gone&lt;/em&gt;, whether in reality or simply in effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His &quot;true love&quot;, Jane Margolis, has died of an overdose - which he feels unbearable guilt for, considering it was him who got her back into drugs. He still has Badger and Skinny Pete, but he's now &lt;em&gt;beyond&lt;/em&gt; them. They're still just stoners, but he's seen and done so much more and is struggling to live &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; that lifestyle now. He had to kill Gale, unwillingly, to save himself and Walt. At the time he feels he was responsible for the poisoning of Andrea Cantillo's little boy. Even Mike, who he was beginning to feel closer to, is now gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, he has a mix of emotions. He feels incredibly guilty over all the pain and suffering he has caused. He feels angry at Walt, the man who gave him so much, yet has taken it all away. His parents have abandoned him and he's in a very dark place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see him in Season 5 with the money, eventually, but by then another little boy has already been murdered by Todd. Jessie is partly responsible, as he was part of the heist. Nothing he does takes him away from the drugs, the pain or the death. He &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; flee, but he's just completely broken at this point. He's scared, unhappy, completely lonely (remember the all day raves just to try and stop his mind from thinking).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Season 5 continues, we see him simply give the money away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as to your question, &lt;em&gt;&quot;why doesn't Jesse flee?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I would respond that he simply has nowhere to go, nowhere he &lt;em&gt;wants&lt;/em&gt; to go, no ambition, no hope and everyone he's ever &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; cared about is gone. He's just a shell at this point and so fleeing is irrelevant to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-06-13T07:34:03.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21224" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21225" CreationDate="2014-06-13T13:46:27.310" Score="8" ViewCount="7999" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always been a little confused at &quot;big screen&quot; film distribution so I thought I would ask here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do movie theaters relate to one another in terms of what films they can show and their relation to film distributers and production companies? Take for example a short sample list of theaters like  Regal Cinemas, Carmike, AMC, Cinemark, Edwards, Hollywood, and the United Artists Theaters. Are they all independent of the film production companies and studios that create/produce the movies, even United Artists Theaters (or are they a special case of a production-&gt;distribution-&gt;showing end-to-end film making company?), and what determines whether a film is shown &quot;in theaters everywhere&quot; or &quot;in select theaters only&quot; on limited release in terms of &quot;winning&quot; distribution rights (or simply interest to distribute)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do theaters have to compete for screening rights or is it simply interest based but available to all theaters? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, are big screen movie screening rights in theaters related in any way to the rights for DVD/Bluray/disk distribution, such as when you see MGM as the distributer on the back of a DVD case? Or maybe in the case of United Artists? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some clarity on those things would be appreciated.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11152" LastEditorUserId="11152" LastEditDate="2014-06-13T18:28:18.167" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T21:10:14.083" Title="What is the relationship between theaters and film distribution?" Tags="|film-industry|distribution|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21224" CreationDate="2014-06-13T14:45:25.527" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are no &quot;end to end&quot; companies. United Artists cinema chain is actually part of the Regal Entertainment group, while United Artists the motion picture company is part of the MGM holdings group. As far as I am aware (and have seen in a quick look) no company also owns a theater chain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Theaters &quot;can&quot; show any movie that they can get a contract for. However, smaller or older theaters may not be able to secure contracts for some of the large budget mainstream releases, as they cannot guarantee enough revenue in gross tickets sales to get the rights to show a movie. Other houses brand themselves as &quot;indie&quot; and get independent or small run films (Cartoon shorts, short films, documentaries, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a movie is created, it is sent back to the studio, who makes a licensing agreement with a distribution company. In some cases (Such as Paramount, MGM and a few others), the film studio is also a distribution company. In other cases, the distribution company is a separate entity. The distribution company is in charge of determining how many copies to make, and showing (screening) the movie to prospective buyers for the various theater chains, and sets a release date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once it is screened, if a theater wants to acquire the movie for performance, they make a contract with the distribution company outlining how many screens it will be shown on, percentage of gross ticket sales, when &quot;passes&quot; and other special items can be used (Paramount is notorious for never offering any kind of discount/pass during the initial few weeks of release).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The distribution company is in charge of getting the film to the studios a few days before release, monitoring the length of the showings (called the engagement), collecting revenues and retrieving the film copies after the showing. They are also responsible for determining the type of release, whether it's theatrical, video on demand (VOD), straight to DVD, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are companies that handle all releases, there are others that only handle home distribution, or DVD/Blu-ray distribution, and they may or may not be the same entity as the one that did the theatrical release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically releases are timed so as not to overlap, and the &quot;typical&quot; viewing window for a theater release is 17 weeks, at which time the DVD is released. Originally it was around 6 months, but studios have been pressing for shorter and shorter theater runs, to get more out of DVD sales which continue to decline. Obviously, theater owners resist this as they depend on the ticket sales (and the concurrent food sales) to generate their revenue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the general model for the bigger studios, who purchase film scripts and rights and produce. For others, they create the films and then &quot;shop&quot; them around to companies and distributors for interest, and/or submit them for consideration for film festivals (Sundance, Cannes, etc). They may also try to secure their own distribution contracts, but that is a broader aspect that isn't really related to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="3516" LastEditDate="2014-06-13T17:29:40.063" LastActivityDate="2014-06-13T17:29:40.063" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19017" CreationDate="2014-06-13T16:38:43.523" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tagging onto Napoleon's answer about Sherlock having a fundamental intuition that something was wrong with Mary, I would suggest that he was tipped off by the fact that Mary was &lt;em&gt;so strongly&lt;/em&gt; devoted to John that something was suspicious. In the previous season, we learn that John can't keep a relationship with a girlfriend, having so many that he forgets which one has a dog or not. He does not expose himself emotionally (allowing for deep relationships). So why would a woman who seems rather strong and independent be so attracted to John? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, the whole re-appearance of Sherlock and surprise at the restaurant...Mary's reaction is, IMHO, clearly portrayed as 'fake'...that is, from a script perspective, her character makes an effort to be surprised, but really isn't...tipping Sherlock off that she know exactly who Sherlock is. And again, why would a woman about to be engaged be so forgiving of such a major disruption, and she even tells Sherlock that she will help John come round!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, my daughter picked up on this right away...Mary recognized Magnussen's messages as a 'skip code' when John was kidnapped...this is before the actual revelations come out...This would likely point to involvement in intelligence, cloak and dagger, or at a minimum, someone with a calculating mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11101" LastActivityDate="2014-06-13T16:38:43.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21224" CreationDate="2014-06-13T17:06:47.177" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Typically, the percentage of box office receipts that go to the distributor is very high for the first few weeks of the movie's run. So, for example, Big Movie opens and for the first two weeks, 90% of box office receipts go to the distributor. Most distribution deals offer better percentages to the theater the longer the film plays. So maybe week 3 it's 75% to the distributor, 25% to the theater. Maybe week 4 is 65%/35%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But really it's between the theater booker and the distributor as to what kind of deal they work out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ideally, a theater's take of the box office receipts would pay all the utilities and maybe some of the payroll. Then the net profit from the concessions is where can they really make their money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11154" LastActivityDate="2014-06-13T17:06:47.177" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19736" CreationDate="2014-06-13T17:43:36.333" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason that proffesor x still needs the use of a wheelchair is because in the end of ; x-men the last stand he transfers all his MIND to the body of his brain-dead twin brother. But when proffesor x was killed he was still in his wheelchair so the timeline is leaving off from the point he was terminated,thus he would still be ina wheelchair to portray and keep the explanation from first class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11155" LastActivityDate="2014-06-13T17:43:36.333" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21230" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21659" CreationDate="2014-06-13T20:51:24.187" Score="13" ViewCount="969" Body="&lt;p&gt;Television pilots are made every year and not all of them get picked up for a season or series. What happens to the pilot then? Does it get stored somewhere? Who holds the rights to it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T18:05:05.570" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T18:05:05.570" Title="What happens to unaired or one time only aired pilots?" Tags="|distribution|pilot|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21235" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21236" CreationDate="2014-06-14T08:31:07.213" Score="12" ViewCount="6038" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a scene in A Clockwork Orange I'm curious about how they done it. Alex is saved by two policemen who turn out to be Dim and Georgie (his old droogs). They drag Alex to the countryside, where they beat and nearly drown him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like Alex is holding his breath the whole scene. Is this right? Also there is a cut after ~10 seconds. Maybe they give Alex the chance to take a breath with this cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene is about 60 seconds. I think a average person can hold his breath about this time. But they shouldn't have to do it so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene I'm talking about: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/nNKvRZFKACI?start=120&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8737" LastEditorUserId="8737" LastEditDate="2019-01-11T12:44:16.493" LastActivityDate="2019-01-11T12:44:16.493" Title="Does Alex really hold on his breath while he is beaten up by Dim and Georgie" Tags="|film-techniques|stanley-kubrick|a-clockwork-orange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="21236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21235" CreationDate="2014-06-14T08:36:06.523" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/faq#.2.1.30&quot;&gt;According to IMDb&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;he did not have to hold his breath. They used an oxygen tank&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the Warner Brothers DVD, McDowell does a commentary track and talks about how he used an oxygen tank while he was under the water. He never mentions that it failed or that he almost drowned. Also on one of the documentaries on the DVD, the commentator mentions that McDowell did 28 takes of that scene, so the tank must have been working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a relevant bit from an online &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.malcolmtribute.freeiz.com/aco/acoqa.html&quot;&gt;2002 interview&lt;/a&gt; with McDowell:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q: How long were [you] down in the drowning scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MM: Was it that long? Well, it's a trick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q: Did you have air?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MM: Of course I did! Are you kidding? It was freezing water. You put your head down in freezing water you can only stay down for three seconds. That was it. England in the winter time - they couldn't even heat the trough. They put some dye in it, barberil - three or four bottles of this, and beef extract. They put [an] oxygen tank in there with a mouth piece. It was like bobbing for apples. Once I had it we were in good shape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the rumor going around that McDowell nearly died during that scene seems bogus. However, McDowell implies that he &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; initially have some problems with the apparatus in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=78196&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So Stanley actually put an oxygen tank in the thing with a (tube), but I don't know how many takes before I was able to grab hold of it and then breathe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-14T09:10:27.413" LastActivityDate="2014-06-14T09:10:27.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21237" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21292" CreationDate="2014-06-14T12:45:45.993" Score="5" ViewCount="9882" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Fargo Episode 5 of Season 1 (&quot;The Six Ungraspables&quot;), Grimly's strange neighbor catches Malvo sitting in his car before Grimly's house listening in on his daughter's conversation with a walky-talky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The neighbor tells Malvo to get lost and that he is (allegedly) part of the neighborhood watch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Malvo then does his usual thing and threatens him and his children with a story about how dangerous the world is, to which the neighbor replies with a strange expression I did not understand:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Neighbor:&lt;/strong&gt; There it is, now the truth comes out.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Malvo:&lt;/strong&gt; You know, some people think you don't need alarms on second-story windows. Think they can save a few bucks, you know, and still be safe. Another way they save money is they don't hook up the alarm to the phone line. So the bell rings, but the cops don't come. Or they come, but only after the neighbors call. Which, um, if this community's tight, as you say, you know... just might be quick enough to save your life... or your children's lives. Maybe.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Neighbor:&lt;/strong&gt; (says something like &quot;Seyirim&quot;)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Malvo:&lt;/strong&gt; You're a nice guy. (rolls up his window and drives away)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What does the neighbor say and what meaning has it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bonus points if you can shine some light on the significance of the scene, i.e. why is the neighbor able to see Malvo for what he is (evil) and is the neighbor really part of a neighborhood watch or just making that part up to scare Malvo away?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2019-07-09T06:45:46.353" Title="What does Grimly's neighbor say to Lorne Malvo?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|fargo-tv|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21240" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-14T18:20:51.497" Score="4" ViewCount="10731" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched The Edge of Tomorrow yesterday and I think I heard the background news report mention the Angel of Verdun had 100 kills in Verdun, and not long after it was said she had 300 kills. Did anyone else notice that? If so, how is that possible? That battle already occurred in the past, before Cage got the ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11165" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-14T18:31:47.390" LastActivityDate="2014-10-02T21:55:51.687" Title="How many kills did the Angel of Verdun have?" Tags="|plot-explanation|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21240" CreationDate="2014-06-14T19:52:01.773" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the movie is not on DVD or anything similar yet, I &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; link to proof of this answer. I saw the movie twice and they never said she killed a hundred. They always said &lt;strong&gt;hundreds&lt;/strong&gt; of kills. You may have not heard the plural &quot;s&quot; in the theater, but I assure you, it's there. From the beginning she is credited with &quot;hundreds&quot; of kills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry it's not possible to back up my statement, but lack of proof does not mean I'm wrong. Time will get my back on this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T08:58:00.923" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T08:58:00.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21243" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21339" CreationDate="2014-06-14T20:07:36.010" Score="14" ViewCount="11522" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294629/&quot;&gt;2013 Disney movie &quot;Frozen&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, when leading the search party for Queen Elsa, Prince Hans performs the role of the gallant hero perfectly; almost a little too perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He risks his life in combat with the snow golem to get to Elsa, after the two Wesselton assassins have already gone ahead, then jumps into the fight between Elsa and the Wesseltons, stops Elsa from killing the defeated assassin and loosing all hope of redemption by giving sage advice (&quot;Don't become the monster they fear you to be&quot;), then &lt;em&gt;rescues her life&lt;/em&gt; from the sneak attack by the other assassin, jumping an attacker who is wielding a loaded crossbow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That just seems far too helpful for someone who later admits he has been plotting from the beginning to &quot;arrange an accident&quot; for the queen after marrying her sister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has no problems later on leaving Princess Anna to die, and attacking Elsa from behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why did Hans pass up these perfect chances to get rid of Elsa?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11166" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T15:25:12.063" LastActivityDate="2020-03-03T04:13:49.447" Title="Why is Prince Hans so helpful towards Elsa?" Tags="|plot-explanation|frozen|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21244" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-14T20:36:11.867" Score="5" ViewCount="2084" Body="&lt;p&gt;The notes on the map to One-Eyed Willy's treasure are all in Spanish. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the Goonies get to the organ trap/puzzle, Mouth reads the instructions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To move on, play the tune......as each note is said. If you make too many mistakes... ...ye will surely be...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Be what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...muerto.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is that? Come on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the Spanish translation of the instructions as read by Mouth would have been&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Para seguir adelante, toca la melodía...cuándo toque cada nota. Si cometes demasiados errores...seguramente estarás muerto&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do any of the supplemental materials explain why the English translation mysteriously rhymes when it was originally written in Spanish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1046" LastEditorUserId="1046" LastEditDate="2014-06-14T21:35:11.680" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T23:45:44.223" Title="Why do the instructions rhyme in English?" Tags="|the-goonies|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21245" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-14T20:47:53.557" Score="6" ViewCount="5420" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Data:(Changing the subject) Hey, any of you guys ever hear of Detroit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mikey: No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mouth: Soitenly. That's where Motown started. It's also got the highest murder rate in the country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Data: Well let me tell you what. That's where we're moving when we lose our house tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mikey: You shut up about that stuff. It'll never happen. My dad'll fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Brand: Yeah, sure he will. If he gets his next four hundred paycheques by tomorrow afternoon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mikey: That's wrong Brand. It won't happen!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the subject of saving the Goon Docks comes up, Mikey and Brand imply that the financial problems hinge on Mr Walsh being unable to pay bills/enough money to keep Troy's father from foreclosing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is Mr Walsh the only one responsible when we know that there are other families living there who should be at least partly responsible for the financial security of the area. Why would Data's family be affected by the Walsh's inability to pay their own bills?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1046" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T12:29:28.443" Title="Why is Mr Walsh responsible for the finances of the Goon Docks" Tags="|the-goonies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21244" CreationDate="2014-06-14T20:50:01.740" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, though I'm sure it's not the answer you'd be most pleased to hear, but it's &lt;em&gt;The Goonies&lt;/em&gt;. This movie is primarily intended as a light-hearted entertaining adventure. The fact that the words magically rhyme in English is just &lt;strong&gt;a minor logical flaw sacrificed for the movie's atmosphere&lt;/strong&gt;, since the movie is originally done and supposed to make sense and completely unfold its entire effect in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you really want some kind of in-universe answer, you also have to keep in mind that &lt;strong&gt;you don't necessarily need to translate everything literally&lt;/strong&gt;, especially poetry. We could thus assume that the original Spanish words rhymed, too, and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mouth&lt;/em&gt; did not only translate the actual words, but also their rhyming scheme to keep up the intended impression of the words&lt;/strong&gt;, sacrificing some exactness in translation for the sake of style and atmosphere. I agree that it is very far-fetched for Mouth to be able to do that (though, he isn't particularly bad in Spanish) and do it right on the fly in this moment (especially since his surprise over &lt;em&gt;&quot;dead&quot;&lt;/em&gt; implied that he hadn't read it in full beforehand), but nearer you won't get to an actual in-universe answer for this, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-06-14T20:50:01.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21244" CreationDate="2014-06-14T22:12:26.550" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is only a guess, but it makes sense to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The person who made the map was a native English speaker. He made the puzzle in English. He then translated it into Spanish either because he was told to or just to make it harder for other people to read. Either way, he didn't care about making the rhyme work in Spanish, only in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8243" LastActivityDate="2014-06-14T22:12:26.550" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21157" CreationDate="2014-06-14T22:15:58.127" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that Martin could have claimed coercion. The act isn't a defense for murder, but perhaps enough so in Danish law that the individual can claim coercion and receive treatment. &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/coercion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/coercion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10054" LastActivityDate="2014-06-14T22:15:58.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21257" CreationDate="2014-06-14T22:30:00.190" Score="6" ViewCount="712" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a sci-fi movie title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plot(what I recall anyway):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A team of three computer scientists, two males (one on a wheelchair) and a female. I don't recall there name so let Adam be the male not on a wheelchair, Eve the female and John the last one on wheelchair. The story goes like this. They try to duplicate mice/mouse brain in a computer data storage and if I recall well it took like Terabytes to duplicate digitally the biological mouse brain (at some point by the way the mouse have offsprings in the computer). When they succeed, Eve decide to copy here mind in the computer (she, as I recall have epilepsy). Adam then takes Eve's head, who by the way is his mistress and put it in the freezer (DIY Cryogenics). Eve spent most of here time controlling the city or so and playing &quot;big sister&quot; watching every moves that Adam makes. While time goes by she gets more and more jealous. At some point she tries to shred either the hand of Adam's wife or his child. On day Adam's wife find the head in the freezer and goes berserk....in the end of the movie Eve tries so hard to destroy Adam's family but &quot;dies&quot; from epilepsy or something because her complete brain and brain &quot;diseases&quot; were duplicated digitally. The movie ends with John transferring his mind in the computer were he can leave the wheelchair and stand up and most importantly be the big brother, the master controller of the city or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope that rings any bell to someone. I think it's a TV movie (all I know is I saw it on TV).It's like sooo old I'm not even sure if my memories are exact. Before 2007 for sure and after 1996. I can't give a precise time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11169" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-07-31T10:19:35.730" LastActivityDate="2017-07-31T10:19:35.730" Title="Woman in computer taking over while head is in the fridge" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|thriller|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:11:15.957" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15119" CreationDate="2014-06-14T22:37:41.310" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Stripper is supposed to have sex , is the general opinion/understanding anyone would like to believe but the STRIPPER(ALICE/JANE) was the only one who was loyal to lover.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11170" LastActivityDate="2014-06-14T22:37:41.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20074" CreationDate="2014-06-14T22:39:45.847" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I point to this link.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2008/01/07/no-country-for-old-men-bell-and-chigurh-and-the-motel-room/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2008/01/07/no-country-for-old-men-bell-and-chigurh-and-the-motel-room/&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;I think Bell went back to face his fear, as the writer suggests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This article doesn't explicitly suggest Bell returned to find Chigurh, but more so to face his fears of death and irrelevance as he ages. As the scene unfolds, Bell imagines his worst fear, that Chigurh is behind the door. Once Bell is inside the room, we see that Chigurh was long gone, with the money. Even though its speculative to think that perhaps Bell wanted to face Chigurh, and catch a killer, I believe that Bell was at the hotel room to face his fear of Chigurh, or better yet, to decide if he was capable of facing such a situation and whether he wanted to continue to be Sheriff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10054" LastEditorDisplayName="user10054" LastEditDate="2014-06-14T23:19:15.630" LastActivityDate="2014-06-14T23:19:15.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21254" CreationDate="2014-06-14T22:48:40.203" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144239/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Host&lt;/a&gt; (AKA Virtual Obsession) with Peter Gallagher and Mimi Rogers from 1998. Everything you've described (the young woman with the terminal brain illness, the married scientist freezing her head, her mind downloaded into a computer, her being able to control the city and mess with his life, wheelchair guy, lab rats etc. etc.) is all in there. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYrSsp99Epo&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's a scene&lt;/a&gt; with the protagonist and his wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-06-14T22:48:40.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21258" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21463" CreationDate="2014-06-15T00:47:50.540" Score="9" ViewCount="4187" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edge of Tomorrow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when Cage asks Rita if she's tried having sex to get the time loop ability back, with whom does she mean, since they are the only 2 who have had the ability? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11171" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-15T01:17:34.157" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T00:14:14.603" Title="Who did Rita mean she tried having sex with?" Tags="|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21261" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21434" CreationDate="2014-06-15T03:57:30.103" Score="3" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film 'Tracks', Robyn Davidson passes along a number of villages.  In one of the villages, a group of women do singing/dancing for her.  In another, someone accompanies her through sacred land.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film titles mention the names of the villages in the acknowledgements, but this information does not appear to be listed on IMDB or on the films official website.  What villages/tribes were featured in the film, and what language do they speak?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1444" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-15T10:42:35.633" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T13:14:49.213" Title="What languages are spoken by the aborigines, and where are those villages?" Tags="|analysis|dialogue|tracks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="698" CreationDate="2014-06-15T11:30:21.383" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple. Because like so many things ''Mozart'': such a plot sells. The film is pure fiction. The real historical case is the other way around: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mozart was not yet so successful, he was still making his name known, at the time of his death - he was still in the process of educating himself (van Swieten &amp;amp; AMZ anecdotes and reviews), his abilities were growing, he was fortifying his position in Vienna - but &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Salieri was already firmly established: tremendously famous, fairly well provided for, well positioned at court (as royal Kapellmeister he held his job until the day he was no longer able to perform it or died) and was commissioned by major opera houses throughout Europe: Salieri was threatened by Mozart &lt;em&gt;as an elephant is threatened by a blade of grass&lt;/em&gt; (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.interlude.hk/front/winner-mozartsalieri-fights-mozart-schonbrunn/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the 7th February 1786 challenge&lt;/a&gt; confirms) - meaning: not threatened at all, his references or witnessed spoken words on the ''subject: Mozart'' ~ are immensely scarce - he simply didn't bother and wasn't bothered - but instead it is, rather and as with so many things ''Mozart'' in this &lt;em&gt;excellently mythologised canon&lt;/em&gt; ~ the other way around: &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mozart had to work his arse hard and compete with fame and abilities of Salieri - and other, &lt;em&gt;best selling&lt;/em&gt; composers - and Mozart's &lt;em&gt;bitter personal attitude&lt;/em&gt; attests to this fact ...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read Mozart's &lt;em&gt;letters&lt;/em&gt; in original German (translations are wrong, full of mistakes and censorship) - entire family spits ACID towards Salieri (and almost every other successful, clever and skilful composer they were envious of or felt threatened by) - while there is no similar wording from Salieri - or others - about Mozart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Salieri was &lt;em&gt;original, inventive, revolutionary, melodic - and difficult to perform&lt;/em&gt; operatic composer: he had absolutely no reason to dislike Mozart, other than the fact that Mozart, like from many others, &lt;em&gt;borrowed&lt;/em&gt; ideas and themes (and works) heavily from him. Which was, mind you, a well known fact at the time (Albrechtsberger anecdote: ''I don't believe &lt;em&gt;what they say!&lt;/em&gt;'' - what &lt;em&gt;were they saying&lt;/em&gt; about Mozart at the time?!) - which, amongst others, played a major part in Mozart not being able to find a job - pretty much nobody wanted him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be a good opportunity for you to explore operatic &lt;em&gt;masters of 18th century, especially Viennese&lt;/em&gt;: Y Soler, Sarti, Paisiello, Anfossi, Cherubini, Spontini, Mysliveček.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;R. Kreutzer wrote 29 operas and ended up as principle conductor and later director of Paris opera (here are his full credentials: &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Violoniste et compositeur &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Membre de la chapelle royale (1783-1792) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Membre du Conservatoire (1795) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Professeur de violon au Conservatoire de musique &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maître de la chapelle du roi (1815) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Directeur de l'orchestre royal (1815-1827) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Second chef d'orchestre (1816-1824), puis directeur de l'Opéra et de la musique (1824-1826)) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;yet you'll find him ''barely worth mentioning'' and that only as meagre and ungrateful a footnote to Beethoven's ''Kreutzer sonata'' &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You'll hear that most composers have their own special branch of geniality, which will on many happy occasions leave you breathless and in awe. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You will also learn where Mozart ''got it all from'' ... Meaning: out of about 8.500 composers just in 18th century period &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mozart was far from ''the best''. Such notion is legacy of Romanticism,  out of which the ''Amadeus'' story derives from. Why Mozart has to be kept as the very peek of the non-existing musical pyramid and hierarchy I don't know: some say it has to do with early nationalism and pan-German ideology and others say it's masonic Lichnowsky conspiracy, then we have a roughly estimated 5 billion (!!!) € income Salzburg pockets each year through tourism, etc. But personally, it is impossible for me to acknowledge any such a structure, especially after hearing works of hundreds of masters of music, Salieri amongst them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One important lesson we must keep before our eyes: in Mozartian canon most things are not what they seem and are in fact &lt;em&gt;the other way around&lt;/em&gt; ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anton Eberl, it was mentioned in his obituary, was famous for composing ''out of his head'': Mozart, on the other hand, needed the piano --he says so in his own letter. And Eberl's works were in lifetime of both attributed and sold as Mozart's, he was the one being jealous of Salieri's position and achievements - not Salieri of Mozart's. Salieri already had a considerable and formidable mileage to his credit, Mozart scarcely any. Mozart didn't have a perfect memory (Allegri: Miserere, copies of which were circling around since before Mozart wrote it down, as the chief gatherer of music and instruments for Archbishop - &lt;em&gt;Leopold was also in contact with two out of three of possessors of Vatican copies:&lt;/em&gt; the H. Roman Empire's court of Leopold I in Vienna and Padre Martiti whom Mozart visited before attending 1770 Holy Week in Vatican ... Other copies were made by others and loooong before that.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mozart did not compose with ease (revisions of two years of writing the Haydn quartets), he was not originator of many of his works (publishers were forging his name so that the compositions sold - he also made copies of works of others for his library - which ended up attributed to him, etc.) - or ideas he used (frankly, you can trace these wherever, even in Salieri's ''Te Deum'' of 1790 - first and only ''Mozart's'' 8 bars of Lacrimosa), he was not all love and roses (like L'Opera Rock would have you believe) but envy, mean tongue and mistrust. He was not born with knowledge nor did he ever fully grow as a composer - but was learning to the last. Marianne: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;''My brother liked his older compositions less and less the more he &lt;em&gt;advanced&lt;/em&gt; in composition''. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meaning not all of his music is of high or the best or perfectly accomplished or of whichever ''quality'' (music can not be judged through or described in such terms anyway): he was working to &lt;em&gt;improve&lt;/em&gt; himself constantly, he was learning. He was not so much a revolutionary than &lt;em&gt;the follower of what others did and invented before him&lt;/em&gt;. He then skilfully used their knowledge, like he did Vogler's, and he did not write ''Requiem for himself'' as later about 1820' anecdote by Aloysia (?) would have it. Michael Haydn said that at his own death bed (1806) whilst composing his unfinished Req No. 2 and Joseph Haydn was the one who played that impossible note with his nose on the keyboard. A &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of what was done and achieved by other composers became a conglomerate of what Mozart supposedly is ... but it's all a fabrication. Only now are we free to get to know real Mozart, without perfect romantic prejudice, warts and all: he was beautifully human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The figure of Mozart has been a constant source of manipulation and lies since he was 4 years old, first by his father, then by himself, then by his widow and his worshippers. Romantic stories Hollywood used to swear by needed a Brilliant Hero who's been wronged, but prevails at the end: all wrongs are made right, most movies, and world literature, are made like that, it's a magic formula. But it's also pure fiction. Lives are not black &amp;amp; white. Hey, in his lifetime even old Salieri was not bulletproof material, he had his flunks, had to be diplomatic in order to make the most for his works as even the mighty champion of ''Italian camp'', count Orsini-Rosenberg, &lt;em&gt;plotted against him&lt;/em&gt; ... Not to mention the dreadful cabals each composer was prone to experiencing at least once ... And just to point out how wrong ''Amadeus'' movie is: Salieri wasn't ''addicted'' to chocolate - but to &lt;em&gt;sugar&lt;/em&gt;. ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very least we, from Mozart's letter, know that Salieri openly recognised and supported Mozart's ''Magic Flute'', meaning he praised Mozart's abilities and music: openly and in view of the public. And it was not a hired choir of professionals who sang Salieri's Requiem, but his pupils and his &lt;em&gt;friends&lt;/em&gt;. The mass of people who sang their farewells to their master, teacher and a friend that day, speaks the most of Salieri's true character. He was loved and respected, with good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources: Il Caso Salieri (Della Croce, Blanchetti), Maligned Master (Braunbehrens), Fatti e Documenti (Angermüller), Mozart in Vienna (Braunbehrens), Mozart's Women (Glover), Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung (all issues make an exciting educational read!), Mozart - a Life (Solomon), Four lives in social context (Halliwell), Beethoven - construction of Genius (DeNora), German music criticism in the late 18th century (Morrow), Ueber das Leben und die Werke des Anton Salieri (Mosel) and so on ... Plus music of others, of course, starting with Michael Haydn's &lt;em&gt;Requiem&lt;/em&gt; of 1771 (if you wish to understand Mozart's music - you should seriously dive into entire recorded Michael Haydn's opus (about 150? out of 837 works on CDs) ~ and then re-listen Mozart with fresh ears - you'll find many tight stylistic similarities (which young Mozart picked up from older Haydn)) and Handel's &lt;em&gt;Messiah&lt;/em&gt;. And then just roll everybody else whose music you ever heard mentioned in context of Mozart = an ear opener.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11176" LastEditorUserId="7302" LastEditDate="2017-03-10T17:26:24.577" LastActivityDate="2017-03-10T17:26:24.577" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21265" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21266" CreationDate="2014-06-15T13:09:42.237" Score="5" ViewCount="15423" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Family Guy S10E22 &quot;Family Guy Viewer Mail #2&quot;, Brian says that Family Guy is based on an English show named &quot;Chap of the Manor&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ιs there actually a show that resembles that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Guy_Viewer_Mail_2#.22Chap_of_the_Manor.22%2a%2a&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; doesn't have any insight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastActivityDate="2016-11-30T16:58:44.100" Title="What is the Chap of the Manor?" Tags="|family-guy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21265" CreationDate="2014-06-15T14:40:54.027" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;That Wiki link actually has a lot of insight.  The first line in the plot section:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The episode uses the premise that Family Guy is based on a British&#xA;  television show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Premise&lt;/strong&gt; being the key word.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Cultural References section:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the interlude to the Chap of the Manor segment, Stewie jokingly&#xA;  says that Family Guy is based on The Simpsons, another animated comedy&#xA;  series, but later claims it is based on a British television show,&#xA;  like the TV series The Office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reference to The Simpsons should give you an indication that the tongue is firmly planted in cheek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Chap of the Manor segment featured references to the classic&#xA;  British series Benny Hill (manic, sped up chase sequence between&#xA;  Peter, Chris and the coppers), sketch show Monty Python's Flying&#xA;  Circus (jump cut to footage of old dowagers clapping &amp;amp; laughing in the&#xA;  cutaway gag), and Fawlty Towers (letter R falling off of the word&#xA;  &quot;Manor&quot; in the title sequence).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Too many obvious references to other famous British shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting all of this information together, it's pretty obvious that Chap Of The Manor is fictional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-06-15T14:40:54.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21267" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21269" CreationDate="2014-06-15T16:22:06.803" Score="9" ViewCount="6310" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; S03E06 &quot;The Climb&quot; the red &lt;s&gt;witch&lt;/s&gt; priestess &lt;em&gt;Melisandre&lt;/em&gt; comes to the secret hideout of the &lt;em&gt;Brotherhood Without Banners&lt;/em&gt; in order to take &lt;em&gt;Gendry&lt;/em&gt; the blacksmith (and bastard of &lt;em&gt;Robert Baratheon&lt;/em&gt;) with her, much to &lt;em&gt;Arya&lt;/em&gt;'s dismay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, given that it is such a secret hideout and &lt;em&gt;Gendry&lt;/em&gt; ending up there was merely a coincidence and nobody seemed to know who he is at all, &lt;strong&gt;how did she even know where he is, let alone who he is?&lt;/strong&gt; Did she have any kind of connection to the &lt;em&gt;Brotherhood&lt;/em&gt; (seeing that they were also believing in the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Lord of Light&quot;&lt;/em&gt;) or are we to assume that all her knowledge came merely by the help of the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Lord of Light&quot;&lt;/em&gt;? Or is there any other explanation that maybe didn't make it from the books to the TV show (or just not from the TV show to my attention)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T07:40:10.987" Title="How did Melisandre know about Gendry's whereabouts?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21268" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21277" CreationDate="2014-06-15T17:10:53.400" Score="19" ViewCount="13612" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S03E08 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2178806/&quot;&gt;Second Sons&lt;/a&gt;, Cersei Lannister and Margaery Tyrell are walking around the Sept of Baelor discussing their upcoming marriages to Loras Tyrell and Joffrey respectively, when this exchange takes place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Margaery&lt;/strong&gt;: We're going to be sisters soon, we should be friends&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[&lt;em&gt;Cersei explains the meaning of the song &quot;The Rains of Castamere&quot; at length&lt;/em&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cersei&lt;/strong&gt;: If you ever call me sister again, I'll have you strangled in your sleep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which really sets the tone for their relationship. But then in S04E05, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3060856/&quot;&gt;First of His Name&lt;/a&gt;, after Joffrey's death and Tommen's ascension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Margaery&lt;/strong&gt;: We may be faced with an alarming number of weddings soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[&lt;em&gt;Cersei laughs politely&lt;/em&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Margaery&lt;/strong&gt;: I won't even know what to call you; Sister or mother&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[&lt;em&gt;Cersei looks into the distance inscrutably&lt;/em&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which makes me wonder if I'm missing something, the Tyrells must know what a reputation she (and most of her family) has for violence, so why did Margaery risk it? Could it have been a sign of dominance? It didn't work out well for anyone else who tried to get a rise out of her (Eddard, Petyr, Tyrion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-16T19:51:49.247" LastActivityDate="2016-07-24T12:10:47.783" Title="What was Margaery's motivation to call Cersei 'sister' again?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21267" CreationDate="2014-06-15T17:28:44.350" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;By this point, I believe R'hllor (The Lord of Light) does exist. Based on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Melisandre giving birth to an evil shadow baby which murders Renley in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2069319/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Garden of Bones&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2074658/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Ghost of Harrenhal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beric Dondarrion's repeated resurrection by Thoros of Myr in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2178788/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kissed By Fire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, combined with the fact that neither Thoros nor Beric were expecting to see her when she arrived at their cave in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2178812/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Climb&lt;/a&gt;, there's no explanation for how she knew this other than it being information divined from the fire, as she does several times (such as when the letter from The Night's Watch arrives).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as  Will Feldman mentioned in the comments, in the book it was actually &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Edric_Storm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Edric Storm&lt;/a&gt; who was used in this role, and it's common knowledge that Edric Storm is in Storm's End before Melisandre even meets Stannis, so as this was an original idea to the show, there's no explanation from there either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T07:40:10.987" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T07:40:10.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1874" CreationDate="2014-06-15T18:04:45.160" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visionaries:_Knights_of_the_Magical_Light&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Visionaries - Knights of the Magical Light&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was an animated TV series where humans would transform into animals like lion etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092476/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; description :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The planet Prysmos - post-technological loss. Two groups rise to dominance from the devastation to wage war upon each other. One is controlled by honest and law-abiding people and the other by criminals and villains. Following an open challenge thrown down by the great wizard Merklynn, fourteen surviving knights are granted powers of transformation and magical energy. The groups are now divided between the good Spectral Knights and the evil Darkling Lords. The battle for supremacy begins...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11179" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-11-23T11:11:58.383" LastActivityDate="2017-11-23T11:11:58.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21272" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21338" CreationDate="2014-06-15T18:53:32.287" Score="10" ViewCount="25032" Body="&lt;p&gt;How old are Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes in the BBC Sherlock TV-Series?&#xA;Do they have other brothers and/or sisters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8393" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-03T11:47:17.330" LastActivityDate="2017-02-13T06:10:22.203" Title="Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes Age &amp; Family" Tags="|character|sherlock|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21273" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-15T19:44:50.760" Score="2" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;I heard it took 11 years for the technical development for Avatar.  Is this true, or is the story development included in this calculation.  Can anybody confirm how long it took for the motion capture technology part alone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11180" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-06-15T21:31:53.893" LastActivityDate="2014-06-15T21:31:53.893" Title="How much time did the technical part (motion capture) of the film Avatar consume?" Tags="|production|avatar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21274" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21284" CreationDate="2014-06-15T19:49:30.030" Score="8" ViewCount="3039" Body="&lt;p&gt;Episode S02E05 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is titled &quot;The Ghost of Harrenhal&quot;. But I wonder to whom this title actually refers. Does this refer to &lt;em&gt;Arya&lt;/em&gt;, seeing that she is more or less incognito as &lt;em&gt;Tywin Lannister&lt;/em&gt;'s handmaiden. Or does it refer to &lt;em&gt;&quot;a man&quot;&lt;/em&gt; she befriends and who mysteriously kills people in the castle on her command? Or is this maybe deliberately left ambiguous? &lt;strong&gt;Who is the &lt;em&gt;Ghost of Harrenhal&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-06-16T07:35:03.563" Title="Who is &quot;The Ghost of Harrenhal&quot;?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|title|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21273" CreationDate="2014-06-15T21:31:21.273" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_%282009_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt; page (and yes, I understand that Wiki isn't foolproof), the screenplay was written in 2006 and the film was released in 2009.  It does state that Cameron had a vision of the movie as far back as 1994, and that at some point he felt technology wasn't advanced enough to do what he envisioned for the movie, but there's no indication that the production itself took 11 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-06-15T21:31:21.273" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21274" CreationDate="2014-06-15T21:31:59.217" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't recall any mention of the ghosts in Harrenhal in the TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books however, it's a common belief the Harrenhal is haunted, for example from the 4th and 7th Arya chapters in A Clash of Kings:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hot Pie’s eyes got wide. “There’s ghosts in Harrenhal.” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lord Lefford made mock of ghosts at table, but always kept a candle burning by his bed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Arya was remembering the stories Old Nan used to tell of Harrenhal. Evil King Harren had walled himself up inside, so Aegon unleashed his dragons and turned the castle into a pyre. Nan said that fiery spirits still haunted the blackened towers. Sometimes men went to sleep safe in their beds and were found dead in the morning, all burnt up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But of course, she believes none of it and explains away the stories in her 7th chapter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The topmost story was infested with nests of the huge black bats that House Whent had used for its sigil, and there were rats in the cellars as well ...and ghosts, some said, the spirits of Harren the Black and his sons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Arya thought that was stupid. Harren and his sons had died in Kingspyre Tower, that was why it had that name, so why should they cross the yard to haunt her? The Wailing Tower only wailed when the wind blew from the north, and that was just the sound the air made blowing through the cracks in the stones where they had fissured from the heat. if there were ghosts in Harrenhal, they never troubled her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at the end of the chapter, after she tells Jaqen H'ghar to kill &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Chiswyck&quot;&gt;Chiswyck&lt;/a&gt; (instead of The Tickler, as in the TV show), she reveals who the title refers to (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nothing happened the next day, nor the day after, but on the third day Arya went to the kitchens with Weese to fetch their dinner. “One of the Mountain’s men fell off a wallwalk last night and broke his fool neck,” she heard Weese tell a cook.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  “Drunk?” the woman asked.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  “No more’n usual. Some are saying it was Harren’s ghost flung him down.” He snorted to show what he thought of such notions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It wasn’t Harren, Arya wanted to say, it was me. She had killed Chiswyck with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. &lt;strong&gt;I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought&lt;/strong&gt;. And that night, there was one less name to hate&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-15T22:04:08.303" LastActivityDate="2014-06-15T22:04:08.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21268" CreationDate="2014-06-16T01:23:47.200" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;The balance of power had shifted considerably since the first set of quotes. King Joffrey is dead, and his younger brother Tommen is now king. Unlike his wild card of an elder brother, Tommen is gentler and more prone to manipulation by his new bride. The Lannisters impeccable image has also been shattered. They failed to prevent the assassination of their king in the midst of his own wedding day, and the suspected assassin is the king's Lannister uncle. Not only do they look incompetent, they are divided among themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the Tyrells' situation is much stronger now. Tommen is already wrapped around Margaery's pretty little finger, and she knows that the assassination was orchestrated in part by her own family. In Margaery's eyes, the Lannisters look disoriented and lost. Putting on a show trial for one of their own, whom she knows is innocent of any wrongdoing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever power Cersei held over Margaery has now been diminished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2014-06-16T03:17:31.350" LastActivityDate="2014-06-16T03:17:31.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21278" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21281" CreationDate="2014-06-16T02:09:45.393" Score="6" ViewCount="19644" Body="&lt;p&gt;Homer works as a full time nuclear safety inspector, with no other notable sources of income. How much money does he make in total?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many ways to work this out, and for such a long-running series set in a fictional universe, many answers could be contradictory, so please state your sources and methods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11183" LastActivityDate="2014-06-16T06:02:41.307" Title="How much money does Homer make?" Tags="|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-06-16T11:00:59.643" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21279" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-16T02:09:50.863" Score="2" ViewCount="2415" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't it against the law to blatantly lie to the viewing public?  If the TV series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802850/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fargo&lt;/a&gt; is not true then why do they say it is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11184" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T22:39:09.697" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T22:39:09.697" Title="Truth in advertising; Fargo claims of being a true story" Tags="|fargo-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2014-06-16T05:58:00.330" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21279" CreationDate="2014-06-16T05:18:00.190" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt; It is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; against the law. Otherwise the Coen brothers (and many others) would be in jail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, to just name &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; other occurrence of the &amp;quot;true story&amp;quot; bit before a movie, &lt;em&gt;eleven years earlier&lt;/em&gt;, 1985's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089907/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Return of the Living Dead&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; also claimed to be based on a true story. The trailer is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wylpeAXYcBQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and the movie (for however long it lasts), is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO9ZKzF9EmM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;EDIT :&lt;/strong&gt; The YouTube version doesn't have the screenshot I was talking about, so I captured it from my DVD copy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RMeeN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that movie is about lucid, fast zombies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movies are not encyclopedias. They are not facts overseen by a committee to ensure accuracy. Even docudramas and biopics are not 100% accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sound advice:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're wondering how he eats and breathes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And other science facts,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just repeat to yourself  &amp;quot;It's just a show,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should really just relax&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Mystery Science Theater 3000.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-16T05:29:16.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21278" CreationDate="2014-06-16T06:02:41.307" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, regarding his job as a nuclear safety inspector, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Homer%27s_jobs&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the episode &amp;quot;Much Apu About Nothing&amp;quot;, Homer's paycheck is revealed to the world when he looks at the check and sees his pay is &amp;quot;drastically&amp;quot; short. It appears as an itemized check with the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Springfield Power Company&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Employee: Homer J Simpson&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sector 7G&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;40HRS PAY&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fed W/H........... $56.25&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear Patrol Tax........$5.00&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FICA..................$36.34&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;State W/H..........$10.45&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Municipal Tax.....$9.37&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Net Pay...........................................................................$362.19&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When this is stretched over a year, &lt;strong&gt;it appears that Homer brings home $24,395.80 before deductions and $18,833.88 after deductions.&lt;/strong&gt; It doesn't seem like he is getting what he deserves as a Nuclear Safety Inspector. Though given the plant's less than stellar conditions this might be true for all other employees. However, in the episode &lt;em&gt;American History X-cellent&lt;/em&gt;, Carl exclaims to Homer, &amp;quot;Homer, that's a $60,000 bottle of wine!&amp;quot;, which Homer, who is drinking the wine, replies &amp;quot;Woohoo! I'm drinking my salary!&amp;quot; which suggests that's his actual salary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm not sure he has 'no other notable sources of income', as you stated. You seem to forget he has other jobs like &lt;em&gt;every other week&lt;/em&gt;; some, however brief, are pretty lucrative. In his nuclear plant alone, he's also been &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_Kiss,_Bang_Bangalore&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;manager&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_at_Burnsie%27s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;executive vice president&lt;/a&gt; and even &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.E.D%27oh&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;CEO&lt;/a&gt;. Outside it, he's been &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash_of_the_Titans&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sanitation Commissioner&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Homer&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;astronaut&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Springfields&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;mayor&lt;/a&gt;. And he might &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; be earning residual incomes and royalties from some of his other jobs (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Blunderdome&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;movie producer&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Itchy_&amp;amp;_Scratchy_&amp;amp;_Poochie_Show&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the voice of Poochie&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, though, since Homer must be wasting away any extra money he comes by thanks to his foolhardy nature, and since this is a sitcom that must return to the status quo each week and maintain the Simpsons as a blue-collar family, I'd say that paycheck noted above would be as good a guess as any for a cartoon show that's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddlesore_Galactica&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;not exactly realistic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-16T06:02:41.307" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21282" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21283" CreationDate="2014-06-16T07:08:18.267" Score="20" ViewCount="7395" Body="&lt;p&gt;At some occasions in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; now and then &lt;em&gt;Tyrion Lannister&lt;/em&gt; uses to whistle some melody (at least during the first two seasons, where he still had a bit more reasons to be elated). Is this just some varying random tune he whistles without any further significance or &lt;strong&gt;is this a particular melody known to him and others&lt;/strong&gt; (and to the book readers, if even true to the source material in this regard)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T23:57:02.497" Title="What tune does Tyrion Lannister like to whistle?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21282" CreationDate="2014-06-16T07:15:17.600" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you mean &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Rains_of_Castamere_%28song%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Rains of Castamere&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Rains of Castamere is a famous song in Westeros... [It] immortalized the destruction of House Reyne by Tywin Lannister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Rains of Castemere went on to become very popular with soldiers of the Westerlands, becoming an &amp;quot;anthem&amp;quot; of sorts for House Lannister. This extends to the point that even Western soldiers sometimes refer to it simply as, &amp;quot;the Lannister song&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tyrion whistles the tune to the song&lt;/strong&gt; when he arrives at the Small Council in King's Landing for the first time. He does it again while on his way to visit Shae, when he is surprised to find that Varys is there with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa9CvDPXYNI&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's an instrumental version&lt;/a&gt;. It's also &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSIefcgnJg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;sung&lt;/a&gt; in Season 3 and 4, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rains_of_Castamere&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;there's an episode named after it&lt;/a&gt;, and it plays during the Purple Wedding. One instance of the whistle can be found here (albeit a bit out of tune):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/TWkzHkrlB84?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-16T07:36:09.447" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21274" CreationDate="2014-06-16T07:35:03.563" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;A little history first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harren the Black&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;King of the Iron Islands and the Riverlands&lt;/em&gt;, built Harrenhal as a monument to himself, intending it to be the greatest of all castles in Westeros and for it to dwarf any other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon its completion, Harren boasted that his new fortress was impregnable. However, he did not account for &lt;strong&gt;Aegon the Conqueror&lt;/strong&gt; and his &lt;strong&gt;dragons&lt;/strong&gt; invading Westeros. On the very day Harren took up residence, Aegon came ashore at what would become King's Landing. The dragons were not obstructed by high walls and forbidding towers and roasted Harren alive in the tallest of the towers, now known as the Kingspyre. Harren and all his line perished. &lt;em&gt;Due to the extreme heat of dragonflame, the castle took on a charred, melted appearance.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These days Harrenhal is considered an ominous location with an eerie air about it. The place is said to be haunted by its founder &lt;em&gt;Harren the Black&lt;/em&gt; and his descendents. Therefore the phrase: &lt;strong&gt;The Ghost of Harrenhall&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking a page from the book &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clash_of_Kings&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Clash of Kings&lt;/a&gt;, I would say that the episode refers to &lt;em&gt;Arya&lt;/em&gt; as the &lt;strong&gt;Ghost of Harrenhal&lt;/strong&gt;. In the books, all the occurrences at Harrenhal are told from &lt;em&gt;Arya's&lt;/em&gt; POV. However, in the show it is a mix of her and &lt;em&gt;Tywin's&lt;/em&gt; narration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After &lt;em&gt;Arya, Gendry and Hot-Pie&lt;/em&gt; have been taken hostage at Harrenhal by the Lannisters, &lt;em&gt;Arya&lt;/em&gt; devotes a lot of energy into being as inconspicuous as possible. At times she even compares herself to the rats of Harrenhal, omnipresent yet hidden in plain sight. She attributes these characteristics to herself and knowing that she is the reason behind the strange deaths there, names herself the &lt;strong&gt;Ghost of Harrenhal&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-16T07:35:03.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21345" CreationDate="2014-06-16T12:22:39.543" Score="6" ViewCount="1713" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edge of Tomorrow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, if the Omega is killed and the war won, why does Cage go to the camp to meet Rita? Is he not in the camp only because he was arrested?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6822" LastEditorUserId="6822" LastEditDate="2014-06-30T06:29:59.943" LastActivityDate="2014-06-30T06:29:59.943" Title="Why does Cage visit the camp after the Omega is dead?" Tags="|plot-explanation|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21289" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-16T12:24:20.990" Score="1" ViewCount="411" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can understand why she was unable to kill him due to her conscience, but surely sparing him is an instant death sentence. I couldn't see a plausible reason why he didn't immediately have her killed, considering she knows -everything-.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1180" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-04-10T07:19:40.350" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T07:52:08.123" Title="Why did Emily spare the life of the white haired man in the season 1 finale?" Tags="|revenge-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21268" CreationDate="2014-06-16T14:07:39.443" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Margaery was testing the waters, so to speak. Having been rebuffed once and well aware of Cersei's violent streak, she is trying to find where both of them stand now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time, in Season 3, Margaery was trying to play Cersei with her silver tongue and win her over. Now one thing we know for sure is that Cersei doesn't like to be played, by anybody at all. She is a strong woman who likes to be on top of every situation. She already has a pre-conception of Margaery and her manipulative ways and doesn't like it one bit. Least of all, the way Joffrey acts all putty in her hand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember this was a time when Cersei was herself struggling with her relationship with Joffrey. These conditions had already set an air of unhealthy competition between the two women. This is the prime reason that Cersei takes Margaery calling her a &quot;&lt;strong&gt;sister&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; as a slight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, now in Season 4, the bone of contention between these two has died with Joffrey. Cersei has grown slightly less distrustful of Margaery. She knows that the Tyrells are indispensable. As for Margaery, she is pretty confident of her and her family's position in the current scheme of things. She no more sees herself as subservient to Cersei. Quite the opposite, she is now her contemporary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when Cersei comes to Margaery in the said scene (&lt;em&gt;rather than Margaery seeking her out as in the first instance&lt;/em&gt;), she senses it as a perfect opportunity to rebuild her relationship. I say rebuild because, this time she's treating Cersei as an equal and her tone is not sugary or condescending. Her gentle, prodding approach got her the desired result which her pretentious approach didn't the first time around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-07-24T12:10:47.783" LastActivityDate="2016-07-24T12:10:47.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21237" CreationDate="2014-06-16T14:16:29.437" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to multiple sources (&lt;a href=&quot;http://fxfargo.tumblr.com/post/85771806040/what-did-gus-neighbour-call-lorne-the-meaning-of&quot;&gt;here's one of them&lt;/a&gt;), the neighbor Ari Ziskind, an Orthodox Jew, says &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon#Hebrew_Bible&quot;&gt;&quot;Se'irim&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, a Hebrew word for Demon, probably in response to Malvo's malevolence and veiled threats. Ari also says that Malvo's black eyes spell trouble, so there might be a hint of mystical Jewish intuition going on there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-06-16T14:16:29.437" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21294" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-16T16:47:15.453" Score="14" ViewCount="2994" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machinist&quot;&gt;The Machinist&lt;/a&gt;, we see Trevor Reznik go to the amusement park with Maria (the waitress) and Nicholas (her son). Trevor and Nicholas go on the Route 666 ride, and Nicholas has an epileptic fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, we find out that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Nicholas was the young boy that Trevor knocked down and killed, and that Maria was never his waitress at the airport - he hallucinated both in his guilt. However, this scene sets up Trevor to remember more &quot;ghostly&quot; memories, and triggers his deteriorating relationship with both Maria and his other love interest, so it's clearly pivotal in his reconciliation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, this begs the question: did Trevor really go to the amusement park? If he did, who did he go with, if anyone? Did he go on the ride, or was it a figment of his imagination?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3767" LastEditorUserId="3767" LastEditDate="2014-06-16T18:20:36.010" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T03:33:40.573" Title="Did Trevor Reznik really go to the amusement park?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-machinist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19880" CreationDate="2014-06-16T22:23:32.687" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have already been many excellent theories presented here. Yet I'm still going to add my views, even if many of it's aspects can be found in other answers already and all those probably apply to some degree to this great scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What &lt;em&gt;Tyrion&lt;/em&gt; might be ultimately explaining could be the cruel and senseless life in general, his treatment by the world and his father in particular, or even an attack on &lt;em&gt;Orson Scott Card&lt;/em&gt;. But what he might also be talking about is nothing but the &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All those various houses in &lt;em&gt;Westeros&lt;/em&gt; do nothing else the whole day than crushing beetles, destroying men, women, enemies, allies, other houses, their own kin and their own lives for nothing but the seat on a damn uncomfortable chair that doesn't come with any actual achievement at all. Whoever sits on the &lt;em&gt;Iron Throne&lt;/em&gt; today can be sure that tomorrow everyone else is keeping on crushing beetles to answer the question who gets the next turn on the &lt;em&gt;Iron Throne&lt;/em&gt;. All this ultimately senseless &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; is bound to go on forever and ever and &lt;em&gt;Tyrion&lt;/em&gt;, being one of the few people in the whole world with a bit of common sense, can try to understand what all this is for, but he won't, since there is nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing that will put an end to this whole &lt;em&gt;Game of Beetles&lt;/em&gt; is an equally senseless and ununderstandable natural disaster from the outside, be it a mule kicking you in the chest or a horde of &lt;em&gt;White Walkers&lt;/em&gt; covering your precious &lt;em&gt;Iron Throne&lt;/em&gt; in endless winter (or a dragon army downright melting it away, for that matter). Yet cousin &lt;em&gt;Orson&lt;/em&gt; was lucky enough to really die, &lt;em&gt;Westeros&lt;/em&gt; will get a new chance and a new summer and be plagued by the &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; forever and ever, as it did before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And of course don't take those ramblings as any kind of spoiler, as I haven't read a single page of the source material, which you don't have to for recognizing such a society's circle of demise.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-06-16T22:23:32.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21299" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21423" CreationDate="2014-06-17T00:30:15.847" Score="6" ViewCount="12193" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm watching old episodes of Batman: The Animated Series on Amazon.com, and I notice several of them have, instead of the iconic B:TAS opening, an opening featuring Superman. Is there any difference in these episodes? Are they remastered or anything? Or is it just random choice on Amazon's part? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, on Amazon streaming, the pilot episode &quot;On Leather Wings&quot; had the opening featuring Superman, while the next episode, &quot;Christmas with the Joker&quot;, had the one I expected. There were a few others with the opening featuring Superman as well, it seemed somewhat random. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ETA: This opening: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_JQ_spwuH_o?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  Vs this one: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/A71i0a5x-qA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ETA 2: &quot;Fear of Victory&quot; had yet another opening, featuring Robin. I give up. Amazon Prime is bizarre. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11194" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-27T17:49:05.573" LastActivityDate="2016-11-28T07:16:16.150" Title="Why do some of the Batman: Animated Series episodes feature the Batman-Superman opening?" Tags="|dc-animated-universe|batman-the-animated-series|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21300" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21308" CreationDate="2014-06-17T01:20:12.390" Score="36" ViewCount="85153" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the end of the season 4 finale of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, after &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Hound&quot;&lt;/em&gt; has been defeated by &lt;em&gt;Brienne of Tarth&lt;/em&gt;, he lies bleeding and dying and wants &lt;em&gt;Arya&lt;/em&gt; to finish it and kill him. At first he tries to taunt her into it, and then just asks her to kill him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do I have to beg you? Do it! Do it! Do it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To which &lt;em&gt;Arya&lt;/em&gt; just stands up, takes his gold and leaves him dying slowly. But I wonder why she didn't do him this favour. I see that she became gradually more hardened during her odyssey, but it also seemed she took a little bonding with &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Hound&quot;&lt;/em&gt; during their journey. So &lt;strong&gt;why was &lt;em&gt;Arya&lt;/em&gt; reluctant to kill &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Hound&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and left him to his mortal agony?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T10:03:42.897" LastActivityDate="2018-01-14T15:51:10.640" Title="Why did Arya refuse to end it?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21301" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-17T02:09:03.347" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T02:09:03.347" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T02:09:03.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21302" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-17T02:09:03.347" Score="0" Body="Batman: The Animated Series is an American animated television series based on the DC Comics superhero Batman. The series was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and originally aired on the Fox Network from September 5, 1992 to September 15, 1995." OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T02:09:03.347" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T02:09:03.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21303" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-17T02:22:29.223" Score="16" ViewCount="5894" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final episode of the 4th season of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;when Stannis reaches Mance Rayder's camp, Jon Snow tells Stannis that his father died for him. This implies that Jon knows why Ned Stark died and that Stannis is the rightful heir to the throne. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does Jon know this? How does he know what Ned discovered in King's Landing (that Joffrey was not really Robert's son)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T10:00:26.597" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T10:02:14.250" Title="How did Jon Snow know that Stannis was the rightful heir to the throne?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21303" CreationDate="2014-06-17T04:14:23.810" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S01E08- a letter was sent from Grand Maester Pycelle to the Lord Commander Mormont (the Old Bear) declaring that Eddard Stark has been declared a traitor to the kingdom (of Joffrey Baratheon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mormont chooses to share the letter with Jon Snow, so at the very least Jon knows that his father had been declared a traitor for not 'bending the knee' to Joffrey when Robert died.  From the book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Lord Eddard Stark has been imprisoned. He is charged with treason.  It is said he plotted with Robert's brothers to deny the throne to Prince Joffrey&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its also hardly a secret that Ned favored Stannis to be the next King, soon after Robert dies, Joffrey calls everyone significant present in Kings Landing to the throne room to receive oaths of fealty from them.  Ned had hoped that Cersei would flee the city with Joffrey, but he was forced to denounce him in a public way.  From the book he declares:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Your son has no claim on the throne he sits.  Lord Stannis is Robert's true heir.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This declaration was made in front of all the significant people of court at King's Landing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Ned is taken prisoner the whole kingdom at this point descends into civil war, with the Lannister, Stark and two distinct Baratheon armies (Stannis and Renly), plus all their banner-men fighting over control of the kingdom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems very unlikely that the news that Ned had declared himself for Stannis was not heard by Jon at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T04:38:07.820" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T04:38:07.820" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21303" CreationDate="2014-06-17T04:42:09.613" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Snow knows his father Lord Eddard Stark will always do the right and honorable thing no matter the price.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the ravens are sent out to everywhere spreading the news of Ned Stark's treason, one of them is also sent to the Wall. Jon reads the contents of the letter after receiving it from Mormont.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon knows that if his father hasn't bent his knee to Joffrey and had been caught in an act of treason to overthrow Joffrey's claim against Robert's brothers, he surely knows that Stannis is next in line and the rightful King.     &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Purely in my opinion, Jon has ulterior motives in accepting Stannis as the rightful king to his face. That's only a speculation but.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T10:02:14.250" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T10:02:14.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21299" CreationDate="2014-06-17T05:35:33.750" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are talking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Batman_Superman_Adventures&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The New Batman/Superman Adventures&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Wikipedia&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The New Batman/Superman Adventures is a name given to a package series&#xA;  that combined Superman: The Animated Series with The New Batman&#xA;  Adventures produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It aired from 1997–2000&#xA;  on Kids' WB. Each half-hour episode in the hour and one half block,&#xA;  featured either a single repeat from the original Superman run, the&#xA;  original Batman: The Animated Series, or a brand new story featuring&#xA;  Batman made specifically for this series, drawn in an animation style&#xA;  to match Superman: The Animated Series. These new stories focus more&#xA;  on Batman's supporting cast and introduce new characters such as Tim&#xA;  Drake. The two animated universes were united in the Superman episode&#xA;  &quot;World's Finest&quot;, which tells the story of Batman and Superman's first&#xA;  meeting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T05:35:33.750" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21300" CreationDate="2014-06-17T07:56:18.703" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few interpretations of this scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She may have bonded with him more, but he was still a monster to her. He was one of the names she recited at night, ensuring she never forgot him or his atrocious crimes. He killed the little butcher's boy she played with all the way back in Season 1. By being so close to Joffrey, he was also &quot;part&quot; of what brought her father Ned to his death.&#xA;So despite becoming closer to him, she wasn't going to do him any favours and grant him mercy. She was going to leave him to his slow, painful death as retribution for all his actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another interpretation is that it truly was mercy. She may have left him there, but unless you &lt;em&gt;see&lt;/em&gt; someone die in Game of Thrones, you never truly know how they end up. She may have felt that after everything he did for her, killing him was a step too far and was too difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, you might be interested in what Maisie Williams, the actress who plays Arya, had to say about the event:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Describe what it was like to shoot the scene in the finale where Arya&#xA;  walks away from the wounded Hound.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was one of my most enjoyable scenes, which sounds awful, because&#xA;  it’s such a deep, twisted scene. But I’m really happy with the&#xA;  outcome. It felt like we were all on the same page. I read the scene&#xA;  for so long, but then to hear Rory [McCann]—the Hound—screaming to&#xA;  come back and kill him, it really got to me. It’s just acting, but&#xA;  there’s so much of you in the character, so it’s awful to walk away&#xA;  from a full-grown man screaming to come back. He had all this makeup&#xA;  on, and broken bones and big bites on his neck. For a second, you have&#xA;  to remind yourself that it’s fake, because it gets intense. You have&#xA;  to take a breath and remember you’re not that cold-hearted bitch&#xA;  anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How did you play her emotional state as she walked away?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I really don’t think it was spiteful. She doesn’t purposefully leave&#xA;  him there to die. He’s bossed her around for so long, it’s like that&#xA;  final straw of, “Now you take me seriously, and it’s too late.” Her&#xA;  whole life, she’s been desperate to prove to people what she’s capable&#xA;  of. Now the Hound really gets it, and it’s too late. He has almost&#xA;  created a monster and it’s started to backfire on him.&lt;/strong&gt; That’s a lot&#xA;  for her to deal with as well. She kind of likes him! He really helped&#xA;  her out, and as much as it would be doing him a favor, I don’t think&#xA;  she wants to kill him at all. And possibly walking away is killing&#xA;  him. But in “Game of Thrones,” unless you’ve got a dagger in your&#xA;  heart, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And how ironic that she takes his money.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It symbolizes that moment [in episode 3] when he took the father’s&#xA;  silver. In that moment, she’s saying what the Hound said then: “Dead&#xA;  men don’t need silver.” All the lessons he taught her she’s now using&#xA;  against him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As much as fans root for her, they also have a soft spot for the&#xA;  Hound.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Exactly. This whole season, I’ve been saying that Arya makes some&#xA;  decisions that people might not like. She’s very different to the&#xA;  person that people fell in love with in season 1. I hope that people&#xA;  would root for Arya, but people have learned a lot about who the Hound&#xA;  is and his past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've emboldened part of her comments, to make it clearer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a final note, here is some additional, spoilerific book information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; In the book, Brienne is nowhere around in this scene. The Hound fights Polliver and the Tickler (two of his brother's men) and, despite being both drunk and starving, manages to kill both of them. However, he is wounded mortally in the process. Arya won't give him mercy and leaves him to die under a tree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, whilst the above is what happens in the books, the following is also interesting to note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Brienne learns that the Hound may have made off with Sansa Stark. Following this lead, she eventually ends up at a monastery on the Quiet Isle, where she meets an Elder Brother who informs her it was the &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; Stark girl he had - Arya. He claims there is no chance the Hound is alive, as he buried him personally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this scene, the following is said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;em&gt;&quot;I know a little of this man Sandor Clegane. He was prince Joffrey's sworn shield for many a year, and even here we would hear tell of his deeds, both good and ill. If even half of what we heard was true This was a bitter, tormented soul, a sinner who mocked both gods and men. He served, but found no pride in service. He fought, but took no joy in victory. He drank, to drown his pain in a sea of wine. He did not love, nor was he loved himself. It was hate that drove him. Though he committed many sins, he never sought forgiveness. Where other men dream of love, or wealth, or glory, this man Sandor Clegane dreamed of slaying his own brother, a sin so terrible it makes me shudder just to speak of it. Yet that was the bread that nourished him, the fuel that kept his fires burning. Ignoble as it was the hope of seeing his brother's blood upon his blade was all this sad and angry creature lived for...and even that was taken away when Prince Oberyn of Dorne stabbed Ser Gregor with a poisoned spear.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result of this scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Many fans of the book believe his comments indicate the Hound still lives. In fact, many believe he is the &lt;strong&gt;novice gravedigger&lt;/strong&gt; on the isle. There are quite a few clues behind this (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Gravedigger/Theories&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), but ultimately it goes to show what I've already mentioned - unless you actually &lt;em&gt;see&lt;/em&gt; someone die in GoT, anything is possible!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T07:56:18.703" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21300" CreationDate="2014-06-17T08:43:35.403" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;What? Kill him and let him off the hook so easily! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arya&lt;/em&gt; has spent most, if not all her waking moments repeating and thinking of the names who have wronged her and the people she knew. Her family as she knows is dead. The only reason she lives and trains herself is so that she can make those people answer for their sins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Hound&lt;/em&gt; is one of those she hates. Aye, they have been on the road together for quite a while now but they are together mostly because one wants something from the other. The &lt;em&gt;Hound&lt;/em&gt; is looking for somebody who would pay him a handsome ransom for &lt;em&gt;Arya&lt;/em&gt;, and she is tagging along for safety. There's absolutely no love lost between the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arya&lt;/em&gt; does not kill him because he wants to end this suffering, whereas she, wants him to suffer. She sees this as her retribution. He is finally answering for his sins. Killing him would let him escape this agony. &lt;strong&gt;It would be an act of mercy, something she belives the &lt;em&gt;Hound&lt;/em&gt; does not deserve.&lt;/strong&gt; As a final and parting &lt;em&gt;kick to the teeth&lt;/em&gt;, she takes his gold. An act endorsed by the &lt;em&gt;Hound&lt;/em&gt;, in which he now ironically finds himself at the receiving end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T10:20:29.260" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T10:20:29.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21310" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-17T10:19:44.840" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The DC animated universe (DCAU) is a fan term for a series of popular animated television series and related spin-offs produced by Warner Bros. Animation which share the same continuity. This continuity is also sometimes referred to as the Timmverse (after producer Bruce Timm).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related TV show tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/batman-the-animated-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman-the-animated-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman-the-animated-series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/batman-and-robin-adventures&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;batman-and-robin-adventures&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;batman-and-robin-adventures&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/superman-the-animated-series&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;superman-the-animated-series&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;superman-the-animated-series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-new-batman-superman-adventures&quot; 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rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gotham-girls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/lobo-2000&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;lobo-2000&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;lobo-2000&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Reading&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_animated_universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DC animated universe on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2021-10-19T11:02:47.917" LastActivityDate="2021-10-19T11:02:47.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="21311" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-17T10:19:44.840" Score="0" Body="The DC animated universe (DCAU) is a fan term for a series of popular animated television series and related spin-offs produced by Warner Bros. Animation which share the same continuity. This continuity is also sometimes referred to as the Timmverse (after producer Bruce Timm)." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T10:19:44.840" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T10:19:44.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21312" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-17T10:29:02.820" Score="15" ViewCount="2547" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wolverine ends up changing history from 1973 and manages to change the outcome of the future. In the scene where Wolverine gets pulled from the bottom of the bay and onto the boat, &lt;strong&gt;General Stryker&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Mystique in disguise&lt;/em&gt;) takes Wolverine from there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most will agree that she probably does this so Wolverine wouldn't have to suffer being taken by the real General Stryker. Does that mean that Wolverine doesn't end up in the hands of the real General Stryker at any point in time from that day and the future when he returns? If so, &lt;em&gt;wouldn't that mean that he never gets the adamantium injected into him&lt;/em&gt;? This could only mean that Wolverine ends up returning to the future having only his claws of bone because he doesn't go through the adamantium procedure. Is that right or is there an alternate possibility?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11200" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-07-15T11:59:37.753" LastActivityDate="2016-07-15T11:59:37.753" Title="Does Wolverine still have his adamantium claws after the change in events?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-days-of-future-past|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8791" CreationDate="2014-06-17T11:55:54.147" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In many episodes Crowley writes his contracts with a huge range of loop-holes. In this situation it was just another Crowley-like contract where there is only one winner (Crowley himself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11202" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T11:55:54.147" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21272" CreationDate="2014-06-17T13:29:16.683" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though there has never been a direct mention about Sherlock's or Mycroft's age, but in the episode The Empty Hearse, there is a slight reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: I didn’t know you spoke Serbian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MYCROFT: I didn’t, but the language has a Slavic root, frequent Turkish and German loan words. (He shrugs.) Took me a couple of hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: Hmm – you’re slipping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MYCROFT (smiling tightly): Middle age, brother mine. Comes to us all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the third Holmes sibling, nothing has been made clear yet. Hope the coming seasons will reveal the mystery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source (Transcript) : &lt;a href=&quot;http://arianedevere.livejournal.com/64080.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ariane DeVere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9684" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T13:29:16.683" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21317" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21322" CreationDate="2014-06-17T13:31:24.247" Score="14" ViewCount="8870" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SPOILERS for those yet to see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/a&gt; Season 4 Episode 10 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3060860/?ref_=ttep_ep10&quot;&gt;The Children&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As soon as the bells start to toll for &lt;em&gt;Tywin's&lt;/em&gt; death, &lt;em&gt;Varys&lt;/em&gt; turns and takes a seat in the ship about to sail with &lt;em&gt;Tyrion&lt;/em&gt;. I understand that he might do this because he fears people in King's Landing will suspect his hand in this deed. But it seemed like an impromptu decision on his part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why leave King's Landing now, all of a sudden?&lt;/strong&gt; If he had anticipated this danger while freeing &lt;em&gt;Tyrion&lt;/em&gt;, why not pack his belongings and be gone for good?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; In light of the recent comments, it seems I need to clarify my and the question's stand at the moment. The question is not about &lt;em&gt;Varys's&lt;/em&gt; motive to help &lt;em&gt;Tyrion&lt;/em&gt; or the reasons for his departure. Rather &lt;strong&gt;his decision to leave seemed rather abrupt&lt;/strong&gt;, something he had not anticipated. &lt;em&gt;What made him change his plans?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;Why does he think he can't be in King's Landing anymore?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T13:07:44.350" LastActivityDate="2017-12-13T00:16:24.493" Title="Why leave King's Landing now?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21347" CreationDate="2014-06-17T13:37:17.053" Score="44" ViewCount="14116" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Edge of Tomorrow&quot;, Rita Vrataski (aka &quot;Full Metal Bitch&quot;, &quot;The Angel of Verdun&quot;) narrates how, after the Battle of Verdun, she lost large amounts of blood. After a blood transfusion she lost her power to &quot;reset&quot; her day, which only happens when she dies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did she find out that she had lost her power? How did she find out for sure without killing herself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11204" LastActivityDate="2022-03-18T15:54:48.457" Title="How does Rita Vrataski find out that she lost her power to &quot;reset&quot; her day without killing herself?" Tags="|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21243" CreationDate="2014-06-17T13:44:19.543" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything Prince Hans has done up to that point was to court Anna.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Helping her save her sister is his golden ticket to securing Anna's favour, which is important if he hopes to marry Anna. This is a crucial part of to his plan to seize control of the kingdom, and he passes up no opportunity to keep making a good impression on her... up to the point where he learns that Anna will die of the wound Elsa inflicted upon her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once Hans believes himself capable of getting rid of both the princesses – and without any risk to his public image – he no longer sees the need to maintain his facade in front of Anna, and is free to reveal his true colours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4993" LastEditorUserId="4993" LastEditDate="2015-11-03T05:34:22.353" LastActivityDate="2015-11-03T05:34:22.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21317" CreationDate="2014-06-17T14:08:57.380" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;So in a show sense, there isn't much to go on until Season 5 airs in 2015 (and if I can help it, when I will revisit this question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There can be some speculation as you said that he might be implicated in releasing Tyrion, being a past friend of him and Jaime is essentially immune (in a sense) to Cersei's madness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However in the books:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Varys#A_Feast_for_Crows&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;He vanishes without a trace.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  And later does not return in the books until near the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/A_Dance_with_Dragons&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Dance With Dragons&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  So Varys going on the ship with Tyrion actually fits the story well and gives context to where he might have been.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2017-12-13T00:16:24.493" LastActivityDate="2017-12-13T00:16:24.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21317" CreationDate="2014-06-17T14:12:11.650" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll try to answer this question, although spoilers will be rife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who does Varys serve? Remember back to his conversation with Ned Stark in Season 1:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eddard Stark: &quot;Tell me something, Varys. Who do you truly serve?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Varys: &quot;The realm, my lord. Someone must.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Varys may or may not be lying. We don't know. Up until now though, we know that he is playing a game, like Littlefinger and all the others. We also know that he knows much more about Daenerys than he lets on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arya Stark, again in Season 1, overheard him talking underneath the Red Keep to Illyrio Mopatis, the man who was looking after Dany and Viserys. At the time, their conversation is confusing, but as the series' continues it becomes more and more obvious what they were discussing. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Illyrio_Mopatis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Illyrio pays a secret visit to King's Landing where&#xA;  he discusses their mutual plans with his ally, Varys, in the secret&#xA;  passages under the Red Keep. Once Khal Drogo's son is born, the&#xA;  Dothraki can move to invade Westeros and Viserys can retake the Iron&#xA;  Throne. However, Westeros must be in chaos and civil war before this&#xA;  happens. When Varys warns that a civil war, launched by a conflict&#xA;  between House Stark and House Lannister, is imminent, Illyrio becomes&#xA;  concerned that things are moving too fast, but Varys suggests&#xA;  motivating the Dothraki to move faster might be a viable strategy.&#xA;  They talk about how new Hand of the King, Eddard Stark, now has the&#xA;  same genealogy book that his predecessor read, and has met Robert's&#xA;  bastard son Gendry: the same evidence which led Jon Arryn to discover&#xA;  the truth about Queen Cersei's children. They discuss the possibility&#xA;  that the same fate may befall Lord Stark as did his predecessor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is incredibly important and was revealed very early on in the series. Whilst Robert wants Dany killed and Varys agrees quietly, he has no intention of doing this. Spoilers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; He is revealed in the books to actually &lt;em&gt;warn&lt;/em&gt; Jorah Mormont that this is the King's intention and to be careful. The poisoner in Season 1 acted on his own accord, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; on Varys'. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37908/how-is-the-murder-attempt-consistent-with-varys-plan&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, in the books all of this isn't revealed until Book 5 - the series is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; premature in showing us all of this, revealing it all by midway through Season 1. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, since it does reveal it all, we &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; that Varys' has plans for Daenerys and is in league with Ilyrio to protect her (for what end and reason, we don't know beyond his supposed desire to serve the realm).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, all of this is spoilerific and describes books 4 and 5 (and thus likely Season 5):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; In the books, Cersei effectively rules as Tommen is too young. She is paranoid, incompetent and surrounds herself with allies who give her poor advice. Jaime grows distant from her. In the books, there is a Lannister, Tyrek, who disappears during the riot of King's Landing shown in Season 2. Jaime begins to suspect Varys had a part in this. There is also some speculation that Varys had some part in a puppet show that begins to be shown in the capital, discussing how a kingdom is ruled by arrogant, greedy lions. A stag stands up to them, but he is eaten. Finally, a dragon hatches and burns all the lions. Cersei is outraged. She puts to death the creators of the show, takes half the wealth from anyone wealthy who watched it and takes an eye from those who don't have wealth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following these minor mentions of Varys, in Book 5:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Kevan Lannister effectively takes control of the kingdom after Cersei is ruined. However, Varys enters Pycelle's chambers and kills him, before finally using his little birds to have Kevan Lannister summoned and killing him. He basically tells him this is because he is doing too good a job reversing all of Cersei's incompetent and moronic actions. Her actions are sowing rife and discontent between the Lannister, the Tyrells and leaving the realm open for the taking. There is another heir to the throne (besides Dany - more spoilers!) and he intends to make the realm ripe for the taking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So after ALL THAT, including many spoilers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; His leaving the realm is consistent with his overall plan. When he sees Tyrion leaving, he &lt;em&gt;knows&lt;/em&gt; it is a good time to leave to. His overall plan is truly underway and he knows Cersei, now mad with power and rage, will continue to ruin the realm. With Stannis far away, Renly gone, the Starks gone and the Tyrells and Lannisters fighting, it's the perfect time for his long-in-waiting plan to finally be put into full swing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T14:12:11.650" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21317" CreationDate="2014-06-17T15:09:57.927" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of answers that draw knowledge from the Books, but from what I can gather the TV series is carving its own narrative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an answer from the TV series &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Varys agrees to help Tyrion escape, and expects this to happen &lt;em&gt;to schedule&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Tyrion delays this, by paying his father a visit, he changes the circumstances of the plan, including its timing. Under the original plan Varys had prepared, there would have been plenty of time for Tyrion to have been escorted to the docks and for Varys to get back, removing a calculated amount of suspicion. When the alarm sounds, Varys would have had to sneak back in to the Red Keep and create a last minute Alibi. He may or may not know what Tyrion has done; but he knows &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt;... I think Tyrions actions have forced his hand. Varys didn't intend on leaving Kings Landing at that point in time, but circumstances left him no choice. His mind was made up on the jetty, and not a moment before...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T22:14:27.430" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T22:14:27.430" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21324" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-17T15:28:51.480" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cube&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;: Hypercube&lt;/strong&gt; is a 2002 Canadian Sci-Fi psychological thriller/horror film, the sequel to Cube (1997).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eight strangers awaken with no memory and find themselves in a puzzling cube shaped room where the laws of physics do not always apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions using this tag should be related to this movie specifically, for questions about the entire franchise please use the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/cube&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cube&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cube&lt;/a&gt; tag and for the prequel, &lt;em&gt;Cube Zero (2004)&lt;/em&gt; please use the tag &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/cube-zero&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;cube-zero&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cube-zero&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Cube 2: Hypercube on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_2%3a_Hypercube&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285492/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T15:31:40.043" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T15:31:40.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21325" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-17T15:28:51.480" Score="0" Body="Cube 2: Hypercube is a 2002 Canadian Sci-Fi psychological thriller/horror film, the sequel to Cube (1997)" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T15:31:35.310" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T15:31:35.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21326" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21356" CreationDate="2014-06-17T15:34:26.740" Score="5" ViewCount="424" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt;, we see Dr. Curt Connors helping Spider-Man up because his web shooters broke. Why is this necessary if he still has his powers to stick to walls?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11206" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T15:45:57.963" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T07:16:33.853" Title="How come Spidey can't stick to the building wall at the end?" Tags="|character|the-amazing-spider-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21327" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-17T16:00:27.323" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1982 American science fiction adventure thriller, second in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28film_franchise%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Trek film franchise&lt;/a&gt; and sequel to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek%3a_The_Motion_Picture&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)&lt;/a&gt;. The plot of this film also follows on from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek%3a_The_Original_Series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Trek: The Original Series&lt;/a&gt; episode '&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Seed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Space Seed&lt;/a&gt;':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With the aid of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Noonien_Singh&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Khan Noonien Singh&lt;/a&gt;, from using his son's life-generating device, the Genesis Device, as the ultimate weapon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_II%3a_The_Wrath_of_Khan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084726/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T16:10:19.740" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T16:10:19.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21328" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-17T16:00:27.323" Score="0" Body="Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a 1982 American science fiction adventure thriller, second of the six 'TOS' (The Original Series) Star Trek movies and sequel to Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T16:09:56.963" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T16:09:56.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21329" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21330" CreationDate="2014-06-17T16:02:43.913" Score="35" ViewCount="20174" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last episode of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; season 4, Stannis's army comes and kills the wildings. It's great but which path did they take to go behind the wall?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wildings want to go to the other side of the wall, if there is an easier way than go through Castle Black, why don't they take it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11207" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T16:29:25.933" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T00:18:57.433" Title="Where does Stannis's army come from in S04E10?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21329" CreationDate="2014-06-17T16:25:25.193" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good question! I'm not entirely sure how it's portrayed in the final episode, but to take knowledge from the books, he simply sailed north of the wall and his army marched from there. The wall extends across the entire land, but it's certainly possible to sail north or south of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the books, the orange arrow is where he landed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wkC0K.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He leaves some of his men at Eastwatch and marches the rest westward to Castle Black.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T16:25:25.193" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21334" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-17T18:12:21.317" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Walt Disney Company&lt;/strong&gt;, commonly known as &lt;strong&gt;Disney&lt;/strong&gt;, is an American media company mostly known for their animated movies through Walt Disney Studios who have also branched out to create and purchase several cable and broadcast television channels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From The Walt Disney Company on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T15:54:33.280" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T15:54:33.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21335" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-17T18:12:21.317" Score="0" Body="The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American media company mostly known for their animated movies created through Walt Disney Studios who have also branched out to create and purchase several cable and broadcast television channels. Not to be used for specific questions about individual Disney films unrelated to the intricacies of the Disney company as a whole." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-11-26T00:42:20.587" LastActivityDate="2018-11-26T00:42:20.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="21336" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-17T18:21:24.200" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The period of film and television between 1970 and 1979.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag should be used on 'identify-this' questions (such as &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/identify-this-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;identify-this-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;identify-this-movie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/identify-this-episode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;identify-this-episode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;identify-this-episode&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/identify-this-tv-show&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;identify-this-tv-show&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;identify-this-tv-show&lt;/a&gt;) if you believe the media you are looking for is from this period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T18:42:22.557" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T18:42:22.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21337" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-17T18:21:24.200" Score="0" Body="The period of film and television between 1970 and 1979." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T18:42:17.243" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T18:42:17.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21272" CreationDate="2014-06-17T18:51:45.683" Score="15" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Age&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For there is no reference in the show, one can only assume that they are the same age as the actors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sherlock&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;34&lt;/strong&gt; in S1 (Benedict Cumberbatch, born in July 19, 1976)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mycroft&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;44&lt;/strong&gt; in S1 (Mark Gatiss, born in October 17, 1966)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are going with the canon, however:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sherlock&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;27&lt;/strong&gt; in S1 (In &lt;em&gt;His Last Bow&lt;/em&gt;, which is set in 1914 Sherlock is described as &lt;em&gt;&quot;He was a tall, gaunt man of sixty, with clear-cut features&quot;&lt;/em&gt; so he must be born around 1854 and he first met with Watson 1881)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mycroft&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;34&lt;/strong&gt; in S1 (In &lt;em&gt;The Greek Interpreter&lt;/em&gt; Holmes tells Watson that Mycroft is &lt;em&gt;&quot;Seven years [his] senior&quot;&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Family&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed out before the show makes a reference to &quot;another one&quot;. So there is a possibilty that there is another Holmes brother. But at the end of S3, we can only guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the novels A.C.D. wrote, there is no other brother mentioned. But a possible explanation that there &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be one, is given &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Sherlock_Holmes_characters#Sherrinford_Holmes&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Holmes once stated that his family were country squires, which means that the eldest brother would have to stay to manage the house. If Mycroft were the eldest then he couldn't play the role he does in four stories of the Sherlock Holmes canon, so Sherrinford frees them both. This position is strengthened by the fact that Mycroft's general position as a senior civil servant was a common choice among the younger sons of the gentry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the series takes place in the 21th century, there is no need for the eldest brother to manage the house. This only leads us back to guessing ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8740" LastEditorUserId="8740" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T19:10:48.097" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T19:10:48.097" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21243" CreationDate="2014-06-17T18:52:52.180" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prince Hans' main motive is to become King of Arendelle. To do that, two things must happen first:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He has to marry Princess Anna ('As heir, Elsa was preferable, of course, but no one was getting anywhere with her.' So he turned to Anna).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Queen Elsa has to die.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Elsa flees Arendelle and Anna follows her Hans' plans are put on hold. Both Elsa and Anna are now out of his reach. So he has to play the Good Guy for the time being and bide his time. When Anna's horse returns alone his plans are now in jeopardy. He needs Anna alive in order to marry her. Queue the rescue party. Eventually the party stumbles on Elsa, but no Anna in sight. He can't kill Elsa yet or have anyone harm her since it would jeopardize his chance to marry Anna. So now he has to keep Elsa alive and safe until he can find her sister, which means he had to rescue her from the assassins and then bring her back safely to Arendelle. Although he does keep her under lock and key.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Anna &lt;em&gt;finally&lt;/em&gt; arrives in Arendelle, all the pieces in Hans' master plan are in place. He fools everyone into thinking that Anna is dead and has shared marriage vows with him and orders the execution of Elsa. Had things gone his way he would've become King Hans of Arendelle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="23033" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T19:43:51.610" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T19:43:51.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21340" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-17T19:34:26.740" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sound effects&lt;/strong&gt; (or &lt;strong&gt;audio effects&lt;/strong&gt;) are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other content of films generally created by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_artist&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;foley artists&lt;/a&gt; or recoded on-location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag should be used for questions regarding the origin, purpose or significance of a particular sound effect used in a film of television show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Sound effects on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_effects&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T19:47:19.083" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T19:47:19.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21341" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-17T19:34:26.740" Score="0" Body="Sound effects (or audio effects) are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other content of films." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T19:47:26.117" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T19:47:26.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21342" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-17T19:42:50.627" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Distribution&lt;/strong&gt; is the process by which a film or television show is released to audiences; by a distributor renting films to a cinema, the creation and sale of home media such as DVD, through broadcast television or via online streaming or download services.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that asking about where you can download or purchase media is &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;off-topic&lt;/a&gt; for this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Film distribution on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_distribution&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-22T02:20:48.327" LastActivityDate="2014-06-22T02:20:48.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21343" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-17T19:42:50.627" Score="0" Body="Distribution is the process by which a film is released to audiences; by a distributor renting films to a cinema, the creation and sale of home media such as DVD, through broadcast television or via online streaming or download services." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T19:47:23.287" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T19:47:23.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21288" CreationDate="2014-06-17T19:47:53.283" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's in the camp &lt;em&gt;initially&lt;/em&gt; because he was arrested and forced into front line duty against his will (if you can even say that for a military position), but the reason for why he went back at the very end of the movie, after humanity won, can be explained in different terms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's what he'd been doing all along.&lt;/strong&gt; I don't recall if Cage ever mentioned how many times he'd died and &quot;looped back&quot;, but every single time he did he went to Rita for training, in addition to receiving her help in every attempt at finding the Omega. You could sort of look at it as, &quot;Old habits die hard.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To provide Rita with closure.&lt;/strong&gt; Rita knows that it's possible for a human to absorb the time reset powers of an Omega through an Alpha, so Cage has to return to her so she'll know it was him that caused their victory, and to explain why. Seriously, she had the ability herself and was attempting to loop through the same day to find the Omega and kill it before she lost the ability, because she knew that's what needed to be done in order win, and suddenly humanity wins against the Mimics. I know I'd want to know how the hell it happened if I was the only one (besides Carter) who knew that was possible, and thus why humanity was ultimately doomed to lose unless someone else achieved what she had.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T19:51:08.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T19:51:08.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21288" CreationDate="2014-06-17T19:48:30.290" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end &lt;em&gt;Cage&lt;/em&gt; was not in the camp as a trainee or deserter, but as a major. When he awoke in the helicopter after killing the &lt;em&gt;Omega&lt;/em&gt;, the time was still before his encounter with &lt;em&gt;General Brigham&lt;/em&gt;. So at this time he still had his complete military status as &lt;em&gt;Major Cage&lt;/em&gt;, since there was no need to go into the field anymore and thus no need to desert at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason why he was at the camp was to seek out &lt;em&gt;Rita Vrataski&lt;/em&gt;, but not because he had to prepare her for the upcoming fight as he did hundreds of days before, but because against her advice he grew a strong affection, if not love, for her. He simply needed to tell her what an amazing adventure they just experienced, though knowing that she certainly didn't experience it at all, which is also the reason why he smiles, trying to find the words to convice her of all they've been through, just this time under a happier premise. And in fact he had just seen her die, so first of all, he needed to make sure she was still alive, even if knowing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T19:48:30.290" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21318" CreationDate="2014-06-17T20:01:08.887" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;She states in the movie that &lt;strong&gt;after she received a blood transfusion she could feel the ability had left her&lt;/strong&gt;. Cage also notes this when he wakes up in a military hospital after a botched attempt to retrieve the transponder prototype, as the result of a blood transfusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, it would seem the ability is something you can feel, and thus you can tell when you've lost it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T00:41:43.327" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T00:41:43.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21349" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32459" CreationDate="2014-06-17T20:17:04.683" Score="3" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that genre is not the same as the film form. Is Les Ordres documentary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8385" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T20:54:23.553" Title="What film form is Les Ordres by Michel Brault?" Tags="|documentary|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21350" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-17T20:26:55.617" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cinematography is the art or science of motion picture photography.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag should be used for questions pertaining to the creation, meaning or method of achieving specific scenes from movies or films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Cinematography on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinematography&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T20:29:50.077" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T20:29:50.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21351" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-17T20:26:55.617" Score="0" Body="Cinematography is the art or science of motion picture photography." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T20:29:55.647" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T20:29:55.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21352" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-17T20:48:00.737" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&lt;/strong&gt; is a 2013 American science-fiction adventure film based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Collins&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Suzanne Collins&lt;/a&gt;' dystopian novel, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catching_Fire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Catching Fire&lt;/a&gt; and sequel to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hunger Games (2012)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katniss_Everdeen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Katniss Everdeen&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peeta_Mellark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Peeta Mellark&lt;/a&gt; become targets of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panem#The_Capitol&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Capitol&lt;/a&gt; after their victory in the 74th Hunger Games sparks a rebellion in the Districts of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panem#Panem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Panem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games%3a_Catching_Fire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T21:37:06.750" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T21:37:06.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21353" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-17T20:48:00.737" Score="0" Body="The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a 2013 American science-fiction adventure film based on Suzanne Collins' dystopian novel, Catching Fire and sequel to The Hunger Games (2012)." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T21:41:23.883" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T21:41:23.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21354" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-17T20:58:37.200" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Films or television shows created in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;France&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_departments_and_territories_of_France&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;French overseas territories&lt;/a&gt; (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadeloupe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Guadeloupe&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinique&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Martinique&lt;/a&gt;), using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;French language&lt;/a&gt;. To be used for identification questions or questions pertaining to French movies in general. Not for questions about individual movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-08T19:34:37.240" LastActivityDate="2015-03-08T19:34:37.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21355" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-17T20:58:37.200" Score="0" Body="Films or television shows created in France or French overseas territories, using the French language. To be used for identification questions or questions pertaining to French movies in general. Not for questions about individual movies." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-08T19:34:37.240" LastActivityDate="2015-03-08T19:34:37.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21326" CreationDate="2014-06-17T21:41:49.120" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It isn't necessary... it's symbolic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JwysT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spider-man has had his webslingers destroyed by Connors, so he only has his adhesive abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one hand he is holding the antidote, so he can't let go of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oJwQ2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the tower collapses, he is thrown violently downwards towards the building. The only way he could survive the trauma of impact is to roll, and the tower is still collapsing toward him. Rolling off the edge of the building, with no web and one hand isn't exactly ideal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Connors grabs him to save him, by demonstrating that he has reverted to human form/found his senses. In being shown that Connors is willing to save Spider-man's life (whereas the previous scene was dedicated to the Lizard trying to &lt;em&gt;Kill&lt;/em&gt; him), his redemption is effectively demonstrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spider-man might have been able to save himself, but it doesn't matter: Curt was there to help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-07-01T07:16:33.853" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T07:16:33.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21357" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21382" CreationDate="2014-06-17T21:51:52.833" Score="14" ViewCount="7147" Body="&lt;p&gt;As seen in the final episode of the fourth season of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The Mountain is actually alive but dying a slow and painful death due to the poison that was used on the Viper's spear that The Viper used to impale and injure the Mountain, just before dying himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leaves me wondering: Did Oberyn ever expect to win the trial of combat (which would mean the death of the Mountain in the trial), or did he simply want to make sure that if he were to lose, The Mountain would suffer a terrible and painful death?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers from the books will also be accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2018-04-19T02:12:47.503" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T23:57:34.220" Title="Did Oberyn &quot;The Viper&quot; ever expect to win the trial of combat?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21358" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-17T22:02:04.653" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Homeland&lt;/strong&gt; is an American political thriller television series based on the Israeli series &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_of_War_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hatufim (a.k.a Prisoners of War)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Marine &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Brody&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nicolas Brody&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Lewis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Damian Lewis&lt;/a&gt;) is hailed as a hero after he returns home from eight years of captivity in Iraq, CIA Case Officer &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Mathison&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Carrie Mathison&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Danes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Claire Danes&lt;/a&gt;) is the only one who suspects that he may have been &quot;turned&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Homeland on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1796960/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T22:36:57.320" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T22:36:57.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21359" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-17T22:02:04.653" Score="0" Body="An American political thriller television series based on the Israeli series Hatufim about Marine Nicolas Brody who is hailed as a hero after he returns home from eight years of captivity in Iraq and intelligence officer Carrie Mathison who is the only one who suspects that he may have been &quot;turned&quot;." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T23:05:59.510" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T23:05:59.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21357" CreationDate="2014-06-17T22:34:02.117" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the books Oberyn Martell was infamous for &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; poisoning his weapons. It's part of the reason why he got the nickname &quot;The Red Viper&quot;. Lacing his blade with poison accomplished two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A potent enough poison can disable an opponent if the duel lasted long enough.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ensures that the opponent dies even if he survives the duel (wins or surrenders).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T22:34:02.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21362" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-17T22:40:57.600" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edge of Tomorrow&lt;/strong&gt; is a 2014 American military science fiction film directed by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Liman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Doug Liman&lt;/a&gt; and based on the Japanese light novel &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Need_Is_Kill&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;All You Need Is Kill&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Sakurazaka&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hiroshi Sakurazaka&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Major William Cage (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cruise&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tom Cruise&lt;/a&gt;) finds himself caught in a time loop in a war with an alien race. His skills increase as he faces the same brutal combat scenarios, and his union with a Special Forces warrior, Sergeant Rita Vrataski (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Blunt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Emily Blunt&lt;/a&gt;), gets him closer and closer to defeating the enemy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Edge of Tomorrow on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_Tomorrow_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T23:06:23.570" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T23:06:23.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21363" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-17T22:40:57.600" Score="0" Body="A 2014 American military science fiction film about an officer who finds himself caught in a time loop in a war with an alien race. His skills increase as he faces the same brutal combat scenarios, and his union with a Special Forces warrior gets him closer and closer to defeating the enemy." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-17T23:06:52.327" LastActivityDate="2014-06-17T23:06:52.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21364" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21365" CreationDate="2014-06-18T00:49:24.547" Score="3" ViewCount="1125" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1996 film adaptation of the Island of Dr. Moreau, starring Val Kilmer and Marlon Brando. Brando's character, Dr. Moreau, plays a duet with one of his deformed creations. What is the piano piece they are playing? What is the dramatic significance of the episode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T14:59:56.647" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T14:59:56.647" Title="In the Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) Marlon Brando's character plays what piece on the piano?" Tags="|soundtrack|the-island-of-dr-moreau|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21364" CreationDate="2014-06-18T01:17:56.910" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;After some searching around finally found it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53, by Chopin, known as &quot;Heroic&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The piece is famous for being extremely difficult and is often included in standard repetoires of professional pianists to demonstrate their skill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the context of the movie, it demonstrates the mad Moreau's obsession with music and is emblematic of his misguided genius, playing on, oblivious to all, detached from reality of the monstrosity of the island.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In the film, actor Brando is not actually playing the piano, but just fingering the keys to a recording.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastEditorUserId="11216" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T14:54:43.507" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T14:54:43.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21366" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-18T01:31:25.583" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/strong&gt; (often abbreviated to &lt;strong&gt;TNG&lt;/strong&gt;) is an American science fiction television series created by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Roddenberry&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gene Roddenberry&lt;/a&gt; 21 years after the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek%3a_The_Original_Series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;original Star Trek series&lt;/a&gt; as part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Tre&lt;/a&gt;k franchise. It follows the crew of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_%28NCC-1701-D%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)&lt;/a&gt; under &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Picard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Captain Jean-Luc Picard&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions using this tag should be related specifically to The Next Generation, for questions about the franchise in general or multiple series from the franchise, use the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Star Trek: The Next Generation on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek%3a_The_Next_Generation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T05:51:38.650" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T05:51:38.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21367" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-18T01:31:25.583" Score="0" Body="An American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry 21 years after the original Star Trek series as part of the Star Trek franchise. It follows the crew of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) under Captain Jean-Luc Picard." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T05:51:47.353" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T05:51:47.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21369" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-18T01:49:54.397" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Star Trek: Voyager&lt;/strong&gt; (often abbreviated &lt;strong&gt;Voy&lt;/strong&gt;) a science fiction television series set in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Trek&lt;/a&gt; universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Voyager_%28Star_Trek%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;USS Voyager&lt;/a&gt;, which became stranded in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_quadrant_%28Star_Trek%29#Delta_Quadrant&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Delta Quadrant&lt;/a&gt; while pursuing a renegade &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maquis_%28Star_Trek%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Maquis&lt;/a&gt; ship as they face a 75 year journey home through uncharted territory facing unknown threats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions using this tag should be related specifically to Voyager, for questions about the franchise in general or multiple series from the franchise, use the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Star Trek: Voyager on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek%3a_Voyager&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T05:51:51.853" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T05:51:51.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21370" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-18T01:49:54.397" Score="0" Body="A science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. It follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager, which became stranded in the Delta Quadrant while pursuing a renegade Maquis ship as they face a 75 year journey home through uncharted territory facing unknown threats." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T05:51:06.393" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T05:51:06.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21372" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21408" CreationDate="2014-06-18T06:47:49.583" Score="5" ViewCount="1487" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug there's a scene where Thranduil and Tauriel are talking. He comments that Legolas is very fond of her but he'd never permit them to be together. He infers that she is not good enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thranduil: Legolas said you fought well today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thranduil: He's grown very fond of you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tauriel: I assure, my Lord, Legolas thinks of me as not more than a Captain of the Guard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thranduil: Perhaps he did once. Now I'm not so sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tauriel: I do not&#xA;  think that you would allow your son to pledge himself to a lowly&#xA;  Silvan Elf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thranduil: No, you are right, l would not. Still, he cares&#xA;  about you. Do not give him hope where there is none.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this? Is it because she's not &quot;royalty&quot;? Is she some kind of lesser elf?  What's a Silvan Elf?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T16:07:48.150" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T18:29:03.690" Title="Is Tauriel some kind of second class citizen?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hobbit|the-desolation-of-smaug|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21377" CreationDate="2014-06-18T09:50:09.200" Score="11" ViewCount="4013" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Godfather I&lt;/em&gt;, Carlo is seen as an abuser of his wife Connie, and my general feeling is that he's somewhat of an outsider who wants desperately to get involved in the Corleone &quot;family business&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;The Godfather II&lt;/em&gt;, we see that Sonny is the one who introduces Carlo to Connie, when he brings Carlo to his parents house for his father's birthday party.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Sonny to have brought Carlo to his parents house for such an occasion, I would think that Sonny trusts Carlo implicitly.  You don't just bring a stranger to your father's birthday party, especially when you're in organized crime.  Yet there is never, in either movie that I recall, any mention of what Carlo does or how Sonny knows him.  In fact, their relationship is extremely poor in &lt;em&gt;The Godfather I&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Sonny know Carlo, and what led to their deteriorated relationship?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="1353" LastEditDate="2018-01-08T02:46:00.017" LastActivityDate="2020-06-16T13:17:22.567" Title="Why did Sonny trust Carlo enough to introduce him to the family and then sour on him?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-godfather|the-godfather-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21376" CreationDate="2014-06-18T10:07:38.347" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I remember from the Novel, Carlo is in some kind of trouble with the police when he comes across Sonny, who uses his connections to give him some kind of sanctuary, and eventually absolution. It's quite ambiguous what Carlo has done...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point there are no hostilities towards him, so no reason &lt;em&gt;not to&lt;/em&gt; invite him to a party: he's not a Cop, he's come to them for help... The Cosa Nostra appropriate social meetings in order to conduct business without suspicion, that's their basic MO with this type of thing, so it's not just a party for Carlo, it's an introduction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vito immediately takes a disliking to him, but not enough to do anything drastic; he just suspects he's not what he seems. Sicilian tradition however, of which Vito is Orthodox, forbids the interference of a father in a relationship bonded and destined for marriage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not necessarily explored in the film, but Carlo is secretly only married to Connie to gain entry to the Corleone family; and, further to this, uses his position of patriarchy over Connie as leverage against the Corleones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He subtly blackmails them throughout that if he doesn't get his way, he will use violence against Connie; this is why Sonny, and everyone else, comes to loathe him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="66548" LastEditDate="2020-06-16T13:17:22.567" LastActivityDate="2020-06-16T13:17:22.567" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="21378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21372" CreationDate="2014-06-18T10:25:47.593" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's generally accepted that Thranduil does not believe her to be a suitable match because she was not born to royalty.  However, it is also suggested that her own feelings of inadequacy also play on Thranduil's mind.  If she were to believe herself a suitable match then Thranduil would have, in all likelihood, accepted her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11201" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T10:25:47.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21379" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-18T11:58:18.387" Score="6" ViewCount="1724" Body="&lt;p&gt;After finishing the fourth season of the the Game of Thrones show I was a little put off by the consistent divergence from the original storyline in the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before I had already resolved to understand that the show would certainly have restrictions in terms of the limited time in one season and also the cost of production. (Although I don't see how either could be a problem, especially after the show's profound success)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the season finale, I sat back and thought about how frequently snippets of storyline were removed and also added in unnecessarily. I'm sure if the new things added in were replaced by the pieces removed they would have been balanced out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;strong&gt;One example&lt;/strong&gt; of this would have been when Jon Snow very nearly meets Bran at Craster's Keep. Instead of this the show ought to have introduced Coldhands and how Bran and co. managed to get past the Wall. (Also why did Craster have the wolves and why did Sam break his promise about meeting Bran?!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One solution to this was that GRRM wanted to introduce something new to the readers of the novel. But it was great the first time around! IMHO, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there something I've missed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5805" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-03-09T02:14:23.117" LastActivityDate="2019-03-09T02:14:23.117" Title="What is the purpose of the changes to Game of Thrones show?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|book-adaptation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="21381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21379" CreationDate="2014-06-18T12:58:46.933" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can immediately see that our opinions on this differ somewhat, so I'm not neccesarily expecting the thumbs up, but I'll try to outline some of the main points about adaptation: in this case, from the Book to the TV Show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, you should know, the process of adapting original work is such a common part of TV/Movie making it is its &lt;em&gt;own profession&lt;/em&gt;. It also has &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Adapted_Screenplay&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;its own Oscar category&lt;/a&gt;, which this year &lt;em&gt;12 Years a Slave&lt;/em&gt; won.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the reason this film won, is precisely because &lt;em&gt;it was not&lt;/em&gt; just the book played out on film. It was faithful, yes, and it communicated the themes of Northups' book eloquently; but it was also aware that it was a film, and &lt;em&gt;not a book.&lt;/em&gt; This is the craft of screenwriting: the remediation of material from one medium to another, in recognition of the limits and advantages of its chosen medium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There has &lt;em&gt;never been&lt;/em&gt; a film made that was 100% faithful to its source material. Its simply an impossibility, it's beyond comprehension or the bounds of possibility. To condense a novel into a film, even a novelette, would be an exercise in futility. It would negate the point of its own existence, contributing nothing new to its culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every remediation loses material (often to shorten its length in fitting running times/episode length) and also adds its own; costume is usually a big part of this, where the translation into a visual medium means elaboration is required. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; in particular is excellent at this, with its &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnet.com/uk/pictures/the-incredibly-detailed-costume-embroidery-of-game-of-thrones/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;incredibly detailed costumes&lt;/a&gt; making Westeros seem rich with different cultures, and helping to flesh out the traditions further than was possible in the book: a chapter about embroidery would have stunk up the place, but its possible to communicate these details in film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both mediums are limited, and play to their strengths. &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; is already incredibly sprawling as it is, probably reaching the &lt;a href=&quot;http://theweek.com/article/index/226313/is-game-of-thrones-too-complicated-to-enjoy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;complexity ceiling&lt;/a&gt; for a TV audience. That's not to undermine TV audiences by the way; it's just a reality that there's only so many hours of TV people can be expected to sit through, and remain interested. Some can sit through entire seasons (I'm a Netflix Boxer myself), but a lot of the audience just wants to catch up with the show once a week when its gone, and then cherish the anticipation of it not being on for a year or so. It's part of the natural process of consumption. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;So with all that in mind:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're a screenwriter, you've been tasked to turn &lt;em&gt;GoT&lt;/em&gt; into a TV series that can withold its own narrative (i.e you don't need to have read the novels to understand it) and it's on TV so its in seasons. To capture every single detail would take screentime running to about 60 seasons: you have the budget and probably will be able to hold an audience for maybe six-ten seasons. There's no point in being idealistic about it, the reality is you have to cut some elements out...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you Cut?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;GoT&lt;/em&gt; show is the current Showrunner and production teams answer to that very question. Yours will be different, but would it be &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt;? if you think 'yes', I recomend getting on a screenwriting course, and seeing how it works out. You'll have to join a long queue in a competitive business, though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2016-10-12T13:15:08.107" LastActivityDate="2016-10-12T13:15:08.107" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21357" CreationDate="2014-06-18T13:00:08.213" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no POV chapter from Oberyn in the book so we do not truly know his chain of thought.  However, it is highly likely that he &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; expect to win the duel.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is an experienced and accomplished fighter and, although the TV episode has the fight more one sided than in the book, he is correctly confident he can beat the Mountain.  He poisoned his blade (hence he tells Tyrion not to touch it) but he is known for doing that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most likely (as I said we cannot know for sure) was that he intended beating the Mountain into the ground and forcing him to confess before leaving him too badly injured to continue.  Then he would be able to walk away having forced Gregor to publicly implicate Tywin for ordering the rape and murder of his sister whilst Gregor suffered a slow, agonising death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Gregor was unable to even sit up I doubt anyone would question that Oberyn had won the fight but if there was an issue then Oberyn would still have had the option of killing him there and then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand if Oberyn lost then, providing he wounded Gregor, he would still have his revenge against him even if Tywin had not been implicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="19762" LastEditDate="2018-04-18T09:56:33.973" LastActivityDate="2018-04-18T09:56:33.973" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21383" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21385" CreationDate="2014-06-18T13:02:43.070" Score="13" ViewCount="16367" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the book &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/A_Dance_with_Dragons&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Dance with Dragons&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Coldhands&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Coldhands&lt;/a&gt; is the one who leads &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Bran&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bran&lt;/a&gt; and the rest to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Brynden_Rivers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Three Eyed Raven&lt;/a&gt;, but in the TV series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this character is never introduced. &lt;strong&gt;Why is that?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were lots of theories floating about that character and the TV Series just killed them all off. The TV writers seem to always be in sync with the author of the books, &lt;strong&gt;George R.R. Martin&lt;/strong&gt;, and they do know (at least a little bit) about each character in depth (more than books), and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Cold hands was speculated to be Benjen Stark. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the TV writers felt that it was not important to introduce it, does that mean that all these theories were wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3939" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-01-26T21:49:27.820" LastActivityDate="2016-05-13T19:29:04.927" Title="Why was the character Coldhands not introduced in Season 4, when he was in the books?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|book-adaptation|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21383" CreationDate="2014-06-18T13:22:38.983" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Coldhands/Theories&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;theories&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; among book readers as to who Coldhands may actually be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's assume Coldhands is actually just another form of the 3-eyed crow/Bloodraven&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this theory is true then it wouldn't be much of a point showing him in the series as Bran is already being led by this being and helped by the Reeds to the 3-eyed crow's lair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the theory that he is a member of the Night's Watch is indeed true I can then also see why this would be not necessary considering of what they showed of Bran's journey seemed to be just a struggle through the North to the great Weirwood tree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, one theory also states that Coldhands is actually The Night's King.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sXXzE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is who this guy is rumored to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not this is the &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; Night's King is still to be determined.  It is also still to be determined who this guy actually is, meaning it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; quite possible that this could be Coldhands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as why, no one is really at liberty to say except the show-runners themselves, unfortunately.  And from what I can find there hasn't been much of a word on Coldhands appearing or not appearing.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All we have is our theories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="130" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T13:22:38.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21383" CreationDate="2014-06-18T13:26:02.320" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;There can be many reasons a character isn't introduced. While I can't seem to find any interviews that directly explain why this character was left out, that could be because they don't want to spoil anything for the remaining seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I haven't read the books, I watch the show with a few people who have, so I'm aware of several moments in season 4 that did not go according to the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing I tell them is the same thing I tell everyone who's read the book a film is adapted from: the show writers are telling their story, the book writer is telling a different one. Sometimes they're 100% accurate, sometimes only 50%, and sometimes they go a completely different direction. The reason for changes can be numerous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Things get cut due to budget/time constraints.&lt;/strong&gt; While TV shows have more time to play with than movies, you have to remember that both need to get through their stories in a set amount of time. 10 episodes per season is pretty short compared to most shows, but most shows don't have the story or budget that Game of Thrones does. As such, characters or events or entire story lines may be scrapped for the sake of time and monetary concerns. Given the amount of characters and stories the books wade through, this is especially possible for a show like Game of Thrones.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Writers change things to keep those who've read the source material on their toes as well.&lt;/strong&gt; One thing about people who've read the books is that there's likely little that could surprise them when they see it adapted, verbatim, to film or television. As such the writers might change things to provide those viewers with their own surprises. Sometimes they work, other times they don't. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The writer of the source material is still writing some part of the source material.&lt;/strong&gt; As it stands, five of the planned seven books are out for A Song of Ice and Fire. Next year we'll see season five start, and if we're lucky book six will be out. However, it's possible that not all the books will be written and the stories completed before the show is ready to finish. Currently, Game of Thrones has been approved for a fifth and sixth season, and that could be that, but we don't know. Martin still has yet to produce the final two books of the series, though evidently the sixth is coming fairly soon. Given these factors, story considerations may need to be made for the sake of the show and the current state of the source material. Evidently George R.R. Martin has told the series writers where he plans for the various stories to end up, so they can sort of plan around that. However, you should probably expect the show and the books to take slightly different paths.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sometimes writers just don't like characters or see the point in them.&lt;/strong&gt; Unfortunately, you get people writing adaptations who simply don't care for certain characters, or can't figure out how to make them work within the constraints they're playing with (see point 1). A good example is the third Spider-Man film. Rami did not like the character of Venom, and had originally wrote the script without him. However, Sony forced him to include the character citing fan demand. It eventually led to a rift between Rami and Sony, one they couldn't overcome, and eventually the franchise was rebooted anyway.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We still have two guaranteed seasons to go, so they could show up later.&lt;/strong&gt; Just because a character hasn't shown up, &quot;When he's supposed to,&quot; doesn't mean they never will. Remember that the show writers are telling their story based on the source material, and may introduce things at differing points from the source material.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, without any official word from the show's writers, anything discussed is pretty much conjecture. I'm simply seeking to provide reasons for why certain things may not be included in film and television adaptations of written works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T13:26:02.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21372" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:10:04.357" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia says that,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Silvan Elves are described as being less wise than other Eldar, and some of them almost are indistinguishable from the Avari, those who never joined the Great Journey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Tauriel is a Silvan Elf, Thranduil might be thinking that she's not a good fit for Legolas and obviously, she's not royal like Legolas. There were also scenes that Tauriel is reluctant to be with Legolas, probably Tauriel also thinking the same as Thranduil - that she's not royal like Legolas to be with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might be the reasons why Thranduil inferred Tauriel is not good enough for Legolas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvan_Elves&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;  for more information on Silvan Elves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="19132" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T18:28:46.317" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T18:28:46.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21388" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:32:35.027" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A filmography is a list of films related by some criteria. For example, an actor's career filmography is the list of films he or she has appeared in; a director's comedy filmography is the list of comedy films directed by a particular director. The term, used since at least 1957, is distinct from &quot;videography&quot; and &quot;cinematography&quot;, two mass nouns for processes within the cinematic arts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmography&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Filmography&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T19:05:39.620" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T19:05:39.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="21390" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:36:19.250" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum in lead roles, 21 Jump Street is an adaptation of 1987 television series of the same name. It is about two police officers who are forced to go undercover as high school students to prevent the outbreak of a new synthetic drug and get to relive high school life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag can be used with &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/character&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/analysis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;analysis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;analysis&lt;/a&gt; etc. according to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Links&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_Jump_Street_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232829/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.21jumpstreet-movie.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2018-01-29T10:56:08.997" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T10:56:08.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21391" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:36:19.250" Score="0" Body="Released in 2012, 21 Jump Street is an American action comedy film directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. It was written by Michael Bacall and stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2018-01-29T10:56:08.997" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T10:56:08.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21392" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:37:34.847" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jackie Brown is a 1997 crime drama film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch, the first adaptation from Tarantino, and stars Pam Grier in the title role. The film pays homage to 1970s blaxploitation films, particularly the films Coffy and Foxy Brown, both of which also starred Grier in the title roles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Brown_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jackie Brown (film)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T19:05:58.673" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T19:05:58.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21393" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:37:34.847" Score="0" Body="Jackie Brown is a 1997 crime drama film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino." OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T15:06:19.720" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T15:06:19.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21394" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:38:45.923" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Non-Stop&lt;/em&gt; is a 2014 American mystery-action film starring Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Michelle Dockery, Lupita Nyong'o, and Scoot McNairy. It is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Stop_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Non-Stop (film)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T19:05:53.497" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T19:05:53.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21395" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:38:45.923" Score="0" Body="Non-Stop is a 2014 French–American mystery-action film." OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T15:01:12.547" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T15:01:12.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21396" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:39:57.303" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Amadeus is a 1984 American period drama film directed by Miloš Forman and written by Peter Shaffer. Adapted from Shaffer's stage play Amadeus (1979), the story is a variation of Alexander Pushkin's play Mozart i Salieri (Моцарт и Сальери, 1830), in which the composer Antonio Salieri recognizes the genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart but thwarts him out of pride and envy. The story is set in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the 18th century.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Amadeus (film)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T19:06:09.233" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T19:06:09.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21397" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:39:57.303" Score="0" Body="Amadeus is a 1984 American period drama film." OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T15:12:00.350" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T15:12:00.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21398" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:41:24.633" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;X-Men: The Last Stand (also known as X-Men 3 or X3) is a 2006 American-British superhero film, based on the X-Men superhero team introduced in Marvel Comics. The film, distributed by 20th Century Fox, is the third installment in the X-Men film series. It was directed by Brett Ratner, written by Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn, and features an ensemble cast, including Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin and Famke Janssen. The film's script is loosely based on two X-Men comic book story arcs: &quot;The Dark Phoenix Saga&quot; by writer Chris Claremont and artist John Byrne, and &quot;Gifted&quot; by writer Joss Whedon and artist John Cassaday, with a plot that revolves around a &quot;mutant cure&quot; that causes serious repercussions among mutants and humans, and on the resurrection of Jean Grey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_men_3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;X-Men: The Last Stand&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T19:06:01.260" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T19:06:01.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21399" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:41:24.633" Score="0" Body="X-Men: The Last Stand (also known as X-Men 3 or X3) is a 2006 American-British superhero film, based on the X-Men superhero team introduced in Marvel Comics." OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T14:47:11.543" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T14:47:11.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21400" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:42:26.687" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;August Rush is a 2007 drama film directed by Kirsten Sheridan and written by Nick Castle, James V. Hart, and Paul Castro, and produced by Richard Barton Lewis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deciding to run away to New York City, musical prodigy Evan Taylor begins to unravel the mystery of who he is. All while Evan Taylor's mother is searching for him while his father is searching for her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Rush&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;August Rush&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T19:06:06.830" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T19:06:06.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21401" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:42:26.687" Score="0" Body="August Rush is a 2007 drama film." OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T15:00:42.070" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T15:00:42.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21402" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:43:37.797" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hop is a 2011 American Easter-themed live-action/animated comedy film from Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment, directed by Tim Hill and produced by Chris Meledandri and Michele Imperato Stabile. The film was released on April 1, 2011, in the United States and the United Kingdom. Hop stars the voice of Russell Brand as E.B., a rabbit who does not want to succeed his father, Mr. Bunny (Hugh Laurie), in the role of the Easter Bunny; James Marsden as Fred O'Hare, a human who is out of work and wishes to become the next Easter Bunny himself; and the voice of Hank Azaria as Carlos and Phil, two chicks who plot to take over the Easter organization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hop_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hop (film)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T19:05:56.000" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T19:05:56.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21403" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:43:37.797" Score="0" Body="Hop is a 2011 American Easter-themed live-action/animated comedy film." OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T15:10:53.090" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T15:10:53.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21404" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:45:29.263" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film, adapted from the Carl Sagan novel of the same name and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Both Sagan and wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film adaptation of Contact. The movie stars Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, and David Morse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_%281997_US_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Contact (1997 US film)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T19:06:04.230" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T19:06:04.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21405" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:45:29.263" Score="0" Body="Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film, adapted from the Carl Sagan novel of the same name." OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T15:06:09.450" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T15:06:09.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21406" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:51:08.107" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Years_a_Slave_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;12 Years a Slave (film)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T19:05:44.600" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T19:05:44.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21407" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-18T14:51:08.107" Score="0" Body="12 Years a Slave is a 2013 historical drama film and an adaptation of the 1853 slave narrative of the same name." OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T15:11:23.930" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T15:11:23.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21372" CreationDate="2014-06-18T15:26:02.823" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie strongly implies this is because of Tauriel's status as a Wood Elf, or a Silvan Elf. Just like Tauriel, however, this prejudice seems to be entirely an invention of the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some simplified background from the book-verse on the types of Elves (you can detailed info &lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Sundering_of_the_Elves&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) - one of the ways Elves categorize themselves is by -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the people that followed the Valar (gods/archangels) to Aman (something of a Paradise Island) - Galadriel is one of these, and Elrond, born in ME, is honorary one of these (via paternal lineage and upbringing)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the people who agreed to follow the gods but for various reasons didn't actually end up completing the journey - Thranduil, Legolas &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Tauriel.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the people who they refused -  nobody who appears in LotR or the Hobbit.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, among the second group of people, there was another split into 2. The first group gave up on the journey to Aman/Paradise when they came to the Misty Mountains. This is the group that later became known as &lt;strong&gt;Silvan Elves&lt;/strong&gt;, ie. Tauriel&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second group got all the way to the coast, but then their leader / King got lost (&lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Thingol#Ambassador_of_the_Valar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;long story&lt;/a&gt;) and they stayed behind looking for him. This was the group known as &lt;strong&gt;Sindarin Elves&lt;/strong&gt;, ie. Thranduil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sindarin Elves, having undertaken more of the 'Holy journey' and having strayed out of duty, were 'higher' elves than Silvan elves, and by the time of the Hobbit there were few of them left in ME and those few were usually rulers over the much larger native populations of Silvan elves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movies seem to have taken this fact, and extrapolated a class/racial prejudice by the 'higher' Sindar towards the 'lowly' Silvans, which is why Tauriel isn't good enough for Legolas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11232" LastEditorUserId="19132" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T18:29:03.690" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T18:29:03.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21409" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-18T15:39:40.297" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T15:39:40.297" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T15:39:40.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21410" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-18T15:39:40.297" Score="0" Body="Beethoven is a 1992 American family comedy film, which went on to spawn a series of 7 total films." OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T16:44:26.170" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T16:44:26.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21383" CreationDate="2014-06-18T16:18:48.180" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you are addressing Cold Hands specifically, and his absence, I'll float this (which is built from a comment I made on another, slightly overlapping question), which I think needs to be considered in its own right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason Cold Hands isn't in the TV show is because...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Cold Hands isn't important&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before all his über-supporters jump on me, let me explain myself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;GRRM has been involved with the &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; TV show from its inception, and has obviously been advising the script department on the significance of certain elements, so they can draw particular attention to them. Much like one on the comments made about &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; from @MattD above, this is to help with character motivation and overall focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he was an important character to the Grand Narrative of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, wouldn't GRRM have insisted on his presence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about it: he has had every opportunity to declare to the Showrunners that Cold Hands is the future king of Westeros, or has some significant part to play that couldn't be substituted by another character. If he was integral to its story, he would be included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That isn't in any way to diminish his presence in the books, its just to say that he isn't required for the TV show. It functions perfectly without him. The only people who are concerned about his absence are people who perceive the show para-textually alongside the books: try it, ask anyone who hasn't read the books if they think its confusing or lacking without Cold Hands, and watch as they stare back at you with confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some fat has to be trimmed, and GRRM was obviously happy with them losing Cold Hands: he was in collusion with the show, and as such an accessory to his removal. He can't think much of the character, or at least doesn't consider him to be important...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="3287" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T18:47:46.737" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T18:47:46.737" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21412" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-18T16:39:29.073" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fringe&lt;/strong&gt; is an American science fiction television series created by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Abrams&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;J. J. Abrams&lt;/a&gt; following Agent &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Dunham&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Olivia Dunham&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Torv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Anna Torv&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bishop&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Peter Bishop&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Jackson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joshua Jackson&lt;/a&gt;), and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bishop_%28Fringe%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dr. Walter Bishop&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Noble&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John Noble&lt;/a&gt;), members of the fictional Fringe Division of the FBI as they investigate unexplained phenomena.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Fringe on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119644/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T16:45:26.653" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T16:45:26.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21413" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-18T16:39:29.073" Score="0" Body="An American science fiction television series following Agent Olivia Dunham, Peter Bishop and Dr. Walter Bishop, members of the fictional Fringe Division of the FBI as they investigate unexplained phenomena." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T16:45:23.373" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T16:45:23.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21414" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21424" CreationDate="2014-06-18T16:43:14.760" Score="21" ViewCount="77597" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode S02E04 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we (and &lt;em&gt;Tyrion&lt;/em&gt;) learn that &lt;em&gt;Cersei Lannister&lt;/em&gt; has an affair with &lt;em&gt;Lancel Lannister&lt;/em&gt;. Seeing that she doesn't seem to get any advantage out of this apart from the obvious (rather on the contrary, he actually becomes a security vulnerability for her when &lt;em&gt;Tyrion&lt;/em&gt; blackmails him into spying on her), I wonder why she did so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did she want anything else from &lt;em&gt;Lancel&lt;/em&gt; than mere sexual enjoyment? Was it a retaliation for her real love &lt;em&gt;Jaime&lt;/em&gt;, whom she seemed to hold responsible for his absence (as we learn in S04E01)? Or maybe it even was a &quot;payment&quot; for &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/12600/49&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lancel&lt;/em&gt;'s contribution in &lt;em&gt;Robert Baratheon&lt;/em&gt;'s death&lt;/a&gt;. If she didn't want anything from &lt;em&gt;Lancel&lt;/em&gt; in particular, then why him? Was this just a question of availability or did she have a deeper reason for this choice, like an inherent attraction to her own kin out of some kind of narcissism or whatever? So, &lt;strong&gt;why did &lt;em&gt;Cersei&lt;/em&gt; sleep with &lt;em&gt;Lancel&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T15:47:42.563" Title="What motivated Cersei to engage with Lancel Lannister?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21415" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-18T17:15:18.663" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The period of film and television between 1960 and 1969.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag should be used on 'identify-this' questions (such as &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/identify-this-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;identify-this-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;identify-this-movie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/identify-this-episode&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;identify-this-episode&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;identify-this-episode&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/identify-this-tv-show&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;identify-this-tv-show&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;identify-this-tv-show&lt;/a&gt;) if you believe the media you are looking for is from this period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T17:51:57.887" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T17:51:57.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21416" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-18T17:15:18.663" Score="0" Body="The period of film and television between 1960 and 1969." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T17:51:20.997" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T17:51:20.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21417" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-18T17:20:58.817" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Academy Awards&lt;/strong&gt;, commonly known as &lt;strong&gt;The Oscars&lt;/strong&gt;, are an annual American awards ceremony honouring achievements in the film industry since 1929. Winners are awarded the statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, better known by its nickname &lt;em&gt;Oscar&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions using this tag should be related to films, actors or crew who were winners or nominees of the Academy Awards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Academy Awards on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T17:51:05.307" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T17:51:05.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21418" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-18T17:20:58.817" Score="0" Body="The Academy Awards, commonly known as The Oscars, are an annual American awards ceremony honoring achievements in the film industry since 1929." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T18:01:24.207" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T18:01:24.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21420" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-18T17:32:44.553" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The source or first usage of an idea used in a movie or television show, such as (but not limited to): characters, quotes, songs, names, camera angles, or shots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T04:48:49.160" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T04:48:49.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21421" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-18T17:32:44.553" Score="0" Body="The source or first usage of an idea used in a movie or television show." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T17:58:50.333" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T17:58:50.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21299" CreationDate="2014-06-18T19:12:19.590" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The opening title sequence with Superman is from &lt;em&gt;&quot;The New Batman/Superman Adventures&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (TNBSA), and the classic Batman opening is from &lt;em&gt;&quot;Batman: The Animated Series&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (BTAS).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Episodes for &lt;em&gt;&quot;Batman: The Animated Series&quot;&lt;/em&gt; have been broadcast and distributed under both BTAS and TNBSA titles.  Other TNBSA episodes are sourced from &lt;em&gt;&quot;Superman: The Animated Series&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&quot;The New Batman Adventures&quot;&lt;/em&gt;; the final 24 episodes of BTAS, which used the animation style of the Superman show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Except for the opening title sequence, there is no observable difference between BTAS episodes sourced from either BTAS or TNBSA.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The opening sequence used for your video stream depends on the release the episode was sourced from.  Streaming companies (Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, etc.) license different video releases.  If Amazon sourced a particular BTAS episode from a TNBSA release, then you will see the TNBSA opening.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since streaming providers usually provide only a single access point to a given video stream, assuming your provider has access to both releases, I do not believe there is a way you can control whether the source of your BTAS episode is BTAS or TNBSA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2015-07-24T14:46:07.813" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T14:46:07.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21414" CreationDate="2014-06-18T19:37:49.410" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cersei as a character is obsessed with sex as a controlling mechanism. In the show, we only see Lancel Lannister. He is a weak willed character and easily bullied and manipulated. He is also very cowardly. Someone like him would never have had the courage to participate in the plot to kill King Robert. So Cersei uses her sex appeal to subjugate him to her will. It doesn't hurt that he is good looking and (in the books at least) somewhat resembles Jaime who is languishing in a dungeon away from a very lonely Cersei.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books universe we see a few other cases of Cersei using sex as a means of control. Needless to say, &lt;strong&gt;book spoilers ahead&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Ser Osney Kettleblack implicated Margaery Tyrell in a sex scandal in return for sleeping with Cersei. She also has a sexual episode with Lady Taena of Myr, although she is not attracted to her in the least just to get a feel to how controlling a male can be on his female sexual partner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T19:37:49.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16246" CreationDate="2014-06-18T19:38:50.770" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many things are implied with the film and require some knowledge of the comics.  Usually, films set-up the background within themselves; instead, this film makes some very minor assumptions on the part of the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a time-traveling speedster, Professor Zoom is immune to the changes in the timestream in the same way Barry Allen was (for as long as he could hold out; we witness him eventually merge with his alternate universe memory history).  Professor Zoom, at any point, could have traveled back to the past to observe Barry stopping the crime which killed his mother, in order to gain knowledge of how that incident changed the timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Professor Zoom's motivation is to torture Barry Allen.  He lets Barry know that by altering history to save one life, Barry caused the chain of Flashpoint events that put the world on the brink of destruction.  &lt;strong&gt;Zoom took no part in this other than to be an observer, and to taunt Barry.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-10-17T20:53:57.887" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T20:53:57.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21414" CreationDate="2014-06-18T19:52:05.977" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is, for me, the combination of a number of factors, each one beneficial to Cersei:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leverage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cersei weaponizes her sexuality, but only privately (unlike say Margeary Tyrell, who is more openly sexual and seductive). By engaging in a tryst with Lancel, she is able to manipulate and control him, guiding his actions. Boys are obviously notorious for thinking with their penises at Lancel's age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Loyalty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By becoming Lancel's lover, she is indicating (or mimicking) a level of trust in him, which his loyalty and chivalry dictates must be reciprocated. As Lancel is naive, he is unaware this is another form of manipulation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Boredeom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cesei is naturally incredibly promiscuous, and is highly sexed. Her high sex drvie could be perhaps attached to something more than her empowering herself and being comfortable with her sexual identity: it could almost be perceived as undiagnosed nymphomania, or hypersexuality. These can be linked to Bipolar disorder, and incest is more common among nymphomaniacs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Substitution of Taboo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the sexual rush Cesei seems to experience with Jaime could derive from its incestious nature. Perhaps engaging in this taboo with Lancel is a form of familiarity, trying to recapture this compulsion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reassurance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any doubts or uncertainty Cersei may hold about her incestious dispositions are divested when she finds another cousin who is equally open to the notion of it. She can re-assure herself that it is not such an unnatural proposition. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T19:52:05.977" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21427" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="69249" CreationDate="2014-06-18T20:58:39.247" Score="5" ViewCount="543" Body="&lt;p&gt;The eleventh Doctor's TARDIS has lots of retro equipment in its console. I see some computers or keyboards. Has anyone identified them? I would not be surprised if something very British were in there...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3706" LastActivityDate="2017-02-26T16:39:31.033" Title="What computers and keyboards are in the eleventh Doctor's console?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21428" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-18T21:22:30.013" Score="9" ViewCount="53303" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching this movie when I was a boy and all I remember of it is that these two children brothers and sister have to move in with their creepy uncle in a mansion, and someone died after being eaten by a snake in a greenhouse and another may have died after eating then swimming and getting cramps. In the end of the movie the kids end up in the top of a bell tower where a play is taking place in a courtyard and the uncle may be trying to kill them. I know this may sound confusing but please help it's been on my mind for over a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11237" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T21:45:03.417" LastActivityDate="2016-07-29T05:28:53.393" Title="Siblings move in with creepy uncle" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:11:31.560" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21428" CreationDate="2014-06-18T21:29:25.010" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339291/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events&lt;/a&gt; with Jim Carrey from 2004. It's about three orphans pursued by an evil relative named Count Olaf who's after their money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iu3bU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many things you've mentioned take place there: One aunt is presumably killed by leeches because she has cramps while swimming, another uncle is supposedly killed by a giant snake (but the snake was framed), and in the end, Count Olaf stages a play in order to marry his young relative, but his plan is foiled when &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ0nnL_Fio4&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the marriage certificate is burned&lt;/a&gt; by a magnifying glass on top of a tower. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWB1HGnA3tA&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's the trailer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-06-18T22:02:30.623" LastActivityDate="2014-06-18T22:02:30.623" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21433" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-19T09:58:21.683" Score="33" ViewCount="13841" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S4E8 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the Hound and Arya finally reach the Eyrie and are informed of Lady Arryn's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In S4E10, Brienne finds Arya and the Hound ten miles away from the Eyrie, leaving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would the Hound &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; have left Arya at the Eyrie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that they don't realize that Sansa is inside, but even still: the hound was looking for someone to ransom Arya to, and even though Lady Arryn is dead her son is still Arya's cousin, and Littlefinger is incredibly sympathetic to the Starks due to his relationship with their mother...? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Hound tells Brienne that &quot;no-where is safe&quot; for Arya, but surely the Eyrie would at least be sympathetic and allow them reprieve and shelter? Clegane &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; know this; his brothers cruelty towards him was a violation of the very blood-debt that every other family in Westeros displays, so he's surely aware of the obligation to shelter Arya?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've looked on the web for answers, and so far none have been satisfactory. Even the &lt;em&gt;New York Observer&lt;/em&gt; drops a bollock, claiming they &lt;a href=&quot;http://observer.com/2014/06/westeros-explainer-6-questions-you-had-about-game-of-thrones-season-4-finale/&quot;&gt;never declared Arya's name&lt;/a&gt; at the gate so they left whilst they were still anonymous, which is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkofR528EeE&quot;&gt;patently untrue.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm reading the intended sequence of events as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They were at the gates of a fortress, declared their name and&#xA;  intentions, and were told that their audience could not be granted&#xA;  because Lady Arryn was dead. Clegane decided the Eyrie would not be&#xA;  safe, so walked away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;but...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;having announced their identities, one of whom being the highest valued fugitive in Westeros; if the Eyrie was hostile, wouldn't Clegane have expected them to chase him, or arrest him? doesn't the absence of this reaction indicate sympathy, neutrality or at least indifference? where was the threat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there a real, solid reason why Sandor Clegane wouldn't enter the Eyrie, or is this just to serve the plot and provide a pretext for them to become transient again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T09:19:26.947" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T22:56:54.603" Title="Why wasn't Arya left at the Eyrie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21261" CreationDate="2014-06-19T13:14:49.213" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DISCLAIMER:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm no expert on the subject, nor am I familiar with these places. This site discusses movies &amp;amp; TV, after all, not geography and anthropology. The information below is gleaned from the film's end credits, Wikipedia and a few extracts from Robyn Davidson's original account of her journey, so it's probably not 100%. Consider this a placeholder until someone more knowledgeable comes along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, the main language in most of the places mentioned below (and that the real Davidson used in many of the places she visited) is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitjantjatjara_language&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pitjantjatjara&lt;/a&gt;, unless specified otherwise, but the film may have contained many local dialects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The communities thanked in the &lt;em&gt;Tracks&lt;/em&gt; credits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara&lt;/strong&gt;. This is a pretty vast area, so if you're looking for something more specific, the real Davidson mentions that she visited &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipalyatjara,_South_Australia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pipalyatjara&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaltukatjara&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kaltukatjara&lt;/a&gt;, AKA Docker River. The real Davidson visited this place as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutitjulu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mutitjulu&lt;/a&gt;, in the Northern Territory.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnyamathanha&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Adnyamathanha&lt;/a&gt; (which is also their traditional language).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngaanyatjarra&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ngaanyatjarra&lt;/a&gt; (which is also their traditional language).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple of other places that the real Davidson visited but that might not have appeared in the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areyonga,_Northern_Territory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Areyonga&lt;/a&gt;, in the Northern Territory&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingellina,_Western_Australia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wingellina&lt;/a&gt;, in Western Australia&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see Robyn Davidson's original route &lt;a href=&quot;http://najhaus.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/img_2403.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in this picture&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T13:14:49.213" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21433" CreationDate="2014-06-19T14:53:36.817" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;So the possibilities here are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;News of Arya's arrival are communicated to Sansa.  She would immediately want Arya to be ransomed, would put pressure on Petyr Baelish to do so.  Given that he is trying to woo Sansa, because she is both beautiful and heir-apparent to Winterfell, he is likely to agree.  Also none of this is shown on camera, which is unlikely as it would be a key plot point.  Verdict: extremely implausible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;News of Arya's arrival are communicated to Petyr Baelish.  In this scenario he has several choices - he needs to be able to control Sansa, so he would choose something where &lt;em&gt;he&lt;/em&gt; is in control of Arya's destiny.  He could kill her, capture her or take her somewhere else to isolate Sansa. Alternatively he could &quot;rescue her&quot; from the Hound and reunite her with Sansa.  However I don't believe the controlling Littlefinger would simply let her go.  Again, I don't think the storytellers would leave this decision off camera. Verdict: extremely implausible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Hound and Arya just assume that The Erie is not safe, turn around and leave.  Even if the news that someone claiming to be Arya (and she doesn't exactly look like the daughter of a Lord) was communicated to the Erie, this would take some minutes or hours to get up to the fortress from the Black Gate.  Using the Sherlock Holmes maxim of &quot;whatever remains however improbable&quot; - this is the only vaguely plausible course of action. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T15:48:58.540" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T15:48:58.540" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21433" CreationDate="2014-06-19T15:33:20.480" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the possibilities iandotkelly mentioned, it's also possible that when Arya burst out laughing after &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Donnel_Waynwood&quot;&gt;Ser Donnel Waynwood&lt;/a&gt; informed them of &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Lysa_Arryn&quot;&gt;Lysa Arryn&lt;/a&gt;'s death, he refused to believe she was who she said she was and turned them away as it is not behaviour befitting a Lady.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's worth mentioning that that scene where they arrive at the Bloody Gate is original content to the show, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Storm_of_Swords&quot;&gt;A Storm of Swords&lt;/a&gt;, The Hound is &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Gravedigger/Theories&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;allegedly&lt;/em&gt; killed&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Polliver&quot;&gt;Poliver&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Tickler&quot;&gt;The Tickler&lt;/a&gt; before they ever reach The Eyrie, so there are no explanations from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T15:33:20.480" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21414" CreationDate="2014-06-19T16:46:55.063" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;To begin with, &lt;em&gt;Cersei&lt;/em&gt; was never very loyal to &lt;em&gt;Jaime&lt;/em&gt;, or considered him &quot;the one&quot;. I say so because &lt;em&gt;Cersei&lt;/em&gt; was quite taken with being the Queen and quite readily agreed to marry &lt;em&gt;Robert&lt;/em&gt;. Now, don't picture the fat &lt;em&gt;Robert&lt;/em&gt; showcased in the TV Series. In his prime, &lt;em&gt;Robert&lt;/em&gt; was a famed and very handsome warrior. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;strong&gt;A Game of Thrones, Chapter 4&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In his youth he was described as tall, broad shouldered and muscled like a maiden's fantasy. He kept himself clean shaven. However, after winning the crown he became overweight from excessive feasting and drinking, eventually gaining over eight stone in weight and growing a beard to hide his multiple chins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her infatuation with &lt;em&gt;Robert&lt;/em&gt; ended quite soon when on their wedding night, Robert came on top of her whispering &quot;&lt;em&gt;Lyanna&lt;/em&gt;&quot; in her ears. She was also smitten with &lt;em&gt;Rhaegar Targaryen&lt;/em&gt; at one point of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;strong&gt;A Feast for Crows, Chapter 24&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When she had been presented to him, Cersei had almost drowned in the depths of his sad purple eyes. &quot;He has been wounded,&quot; she recalled thinking, &quot;but I will mend his hurt when we are wed.&quot; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Next to Rhaegar, even her beautiful Jaime had seemed no more than a callow boy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am trying to establish here is that &lt;em&gt;Cersei&lt;/em&gt; didn't have eyes only for Jaime, something which the TV series might have led you to believe. But she did choose Lancel because he is said to &lt;em&gt;closely resembled Jaime with his green eyes and sandy hair&lt;/em&gt;. There are other factors like repaying him for what he did to &lt;em&gt;Robert&lt;/em&gt;, however, &lt;em&gt;at the end it boils down to just good plain old &lt;strong&gt;lust&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="18592" LastEditDate="2015-03-16T10:12:17.700" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T10:12:17.700" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21433" CreationDate="2014-06-19T17:29:47.753" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's never spelled out in the show (and the incident never happened in the books) so we are left to speculate. We also need to remember that there were two people here (Arya and Sandor) and they might have different reasons for doing what they did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Sandor motives:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;His initial desire was to ransom Arya back to her family. Robb and her mother died in the Red Wedding. Sansa is missing, whereabouts unknown. Bran and Rickon are presumed dead. Jon Snow is a penniless brother of the Night's Watch. Hoster Tully (her grandfather) is dead and uncle Edmure is a captive of the Freys. So his &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; recourse was to ransom her back to her last remaining relative: her Aunt Lysa. When he learns that she's dead, that's it. No more relatives to ransom her to, or even &lt;em&gt;identify&lt;/em&gt; her. Sandor has no idea that Sansa is in the Eyrie and he has no reason to believe that Littlefinger isn't loyal to the Iron Throne and might find a use for Arya.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He later blurts out that what he really wants is to keep Arya safe. Perhaps he's feeling guilty, or perhaps it's a result of his infatuation with Sansa. We don't know. But we do know that Sandor has no reason to think that Arya would be safe in the Eyrie. The only person he knew that might give her sanctuary, Lysa Tully, is dead. Since the Vale never joined the War of the Five Kings, he has no reason to believe that Arya has any friends or sympathizers in the vale anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possible Arya motives:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;From the start Arya never felt that going to her aunt Lysa was a good decision. They had never met before. Lysa is an unknown quantity to Arya, and she probably believes, rightly so, that Lysa would have a hard time believing the identity of who Arya really is. Arya laughing at the news of her aunt's death is probably part relief, part laughing at the absurdity of her whole situation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What Arya &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; wants is to be reunited with her last family member, her cherished half brother Jon Snow. That's why she asks the captain of the Braavosi ship to take her to the Wall. Of course, things transpired otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T17:29:47.753" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21440" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-19T17:46:21.240" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Departed&lt;/strong&gt; is a 2006 American crime thriller film directed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Martin Scorsese&lt;/a&gt; and remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infernal_Affairs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Infernal Affairs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An undercover state cop who has infiltrated an Irish gang and a mole in the police force working for the same mob race to track down and identify each other before being exposed to the enemy, after both sides realize their outfit has a rat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From The Departed on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_departed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T18:02:52.530" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T18:02:52.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21441" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-19T17:46:21.240" Score="0" Body="An American crime thriller film about an undercover state cop who has infiltrated an Irish gang and a mole in the police force working for the same mob race to track down and identify each other before being exposed to the enemy, after both sides realize their outfit has a rat." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T18:03:13.363" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T18:03:13.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21442" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-19T17:59:07.020" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&lt;/strong&gt; is a 2013 fantasy adventure film and the second instalment of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jackson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Peter Jackson&lt;/a&gt;'s adaptation of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;J. R. R. Tolkien&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The dwarves, along with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilbo_Baggins&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bilbo Baggins&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Freeman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Martin Freeman&lt;/a&gt;) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandalf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gandalf the Grey&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_McKellen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ian McKellen&lt;/a&gt;) as they continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Cumberbatch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Benedict Cumberbatch&lt;/a&gt;). Bilbo Baggins is in possession of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Ring&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;mysterious and magical ring&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit:_The_Desolation_of_Smaug&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1170358/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T19:03:51.543" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T19:03:51.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21443" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-19T17:59:07.020" Score="0" Body="The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a 2013 fantasy adventure film and the second instalment of Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. Still on their journey to liberate their home mountain, the dwarves, Bilbo Baggins, and Gandalf undergo adventures and hardships." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2017-01-26T08:49:33.640" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T08:49:33.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21444" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-19T18:10:29.767" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Advertising&lt;/strong&gt; is the practise of attempting to tempt an audience to take or continue to take a specific action, most commonly to purchase goods and services.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In television and film, it usually takes one of the following forms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paid adverts during breaks inserted into television shows or before a film at cinemas.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Product placement&lt;/a&gt; (see also &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/product-placement&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;product-placement&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;product-placement&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomercial&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Infomercials (or teleshopping)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Advertising on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T19:08:12.223" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T19:08:12.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21445" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-19T18:10:29.767" Score="0" Body="The practise of attempting to tempt an audience to take or continue to take a specific action, most commonly to purchase goods and services." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T19:08:47.320" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T19:08:47.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21446" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-19T18:31:14.057" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mystery&lt;/strong&gt; is a sub-genre of the more general categories of the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/crime&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;crime&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;crime&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/thriller&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;thriller&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;thriller&lt;/a&gt; genres. It focuses on the efforts of the detective, private investigator or amateur sleuth to solve the mysterious circumstances of a crime by means of clues, investigation, and clever deduction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whodunit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Whodunit&lt;/a&gt;, a sub-genre of mystery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mystery film&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mystery fiction&lt;/a&gt; on Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T18:32:09.610" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T18:32:09.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21447" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-19T18:31:14.057" Score="0" Body="A genre of television or film characterised by the protagonist investigating a mystery, typically a crime." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T18:31:38.407" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T18:31:38.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21448" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-19T18:40:47.950" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;Plot Device&lt;/strong&gt; is anything which moves the plot forward or maintain it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A plot device is an object or character in the story whose purpose is purely to drive the Plot or resolve situations. It could be something everybody wants to obtain, a device that must be destroyed, or an annoying teenager who must be &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThePresidentsDaughter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;protected at all costs&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Plot Device on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot_device&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlotDevice&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T19:08:18.737" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T19:08:18.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21449" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-19T18:40:47.950" Score="0" Body="Anything which moves the plot forward or maintains it." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T19:08:02.410" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T19:08:02.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21450" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-19T18:54:17.670" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;stunt&lt;/strong&gt; is an unusual and difficult physical feat or an act requiring a special skill, performed for artistic purposes. More dangerous feats are typically performed by a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunt_performer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stunt performer&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunt_double&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stunt double&lt;/a&gt;, the latter in cases where the character is visible and must resemble the character performing the act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/martial-arts&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;martial-arts&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;martial-arts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Stunt on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T19:08:35.380" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T19:08:35.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21451" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-19T18:54:17.670" Score="0" Body="An unusual and difficult physical feat or an act requiring a special skill, performed for artistic purposes." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T20:52:36.427" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T20:52:36.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21452" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-19T19:29:21.130" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Films or television shows created in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Russia&lt;/a&gt;, using the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Russian language&lt;/a&gt; or about Russian characters or historical people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T20:52:28.417" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T20:52:28.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21453" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-19T19:29:21.130" Score="0" Body="Films or television shows created in Russia, using the Russian language or about Russian characters or historical people." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T21:52:40.997" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T21:52:40.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21454" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-19T19:39:50.687" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The period of film and television between 1950 and 1959.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950s_in_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1950s in Film&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_years_in_television#1950s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1950s in Television&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T20:42:02.610" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T20:42:02.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21455" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-19T19:39:50.687" Score="0" Body="The period of film and television between 1950 and 1959." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T20:42:07.283" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T20:42:07.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21456" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-19T21:21:17.793" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;An &lt;strong&gt;Alternate Version&lt;/strong&gt; is an edit to a film (or less commonly, a TV show) which may include new or deleted scenes, removing or re-ordering existing scenes or updating special effects. The most common form is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director%27s_cut&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Director's Cut&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%3aAlternate_versions_of_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Category: Alternate Versions of films&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_editing#Post-production&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Post-production editing&lt;/a&gt; on Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T22:26:44.677" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T22:26:44.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21457" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-19T21:21:17.793" Score="0" Body="An alternate edit to a film (or less commonly, a TV show) which may include new or deleted scenes, removing or re-ordering existing scenes or updating special effects." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T22:26:16.023" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T22:26:16.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21459" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-19T21:39:27.640" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fargo&lt;/strong&gt; is a 2014 American dark comedy-crime drama television series inspired by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1996 film of the same name&lt;/a&gt; written and directed by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coen_brothers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Coen brothers&lt;/a&gt;, who are executive producers on the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A drifter named Lorne Malvo (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bob_Thornton&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Billy Bob Thornton&lt;/a&gt;) arrives in small-town Minnesota and influences the population with his malice and violence, including put-upon insurance salesman Lester Nygaard (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Freeman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Martin Freeman&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Fargo (TV Series) on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802850/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T22:26:35.230" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T22:26:35.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21460" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-19T21:39:27.640" Score="0" Body="A 2014 American dark comedy-crime drama television series inspired by the 1996 film of the same name written and directed by the Coen brothers, who are executive producers on the series." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T22:26:09.100" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T22:26:09.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21461" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-19T21:45:51.817" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fargo&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1996 American crime film written, produced, edited, and directed by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coen_brothers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joel and Ethan Coen&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jerry Lundegaard's (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Macy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;William H. Macy&lt;/a&gt;) inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_McDormand&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Frances McDormand&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag should be used for questions related to Fargo (1996), for questions about the 2014 TV show of the same name, use the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/fargo-tv&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;fargo-tv&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fargo-tv&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Fargo (film) on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T22:26:24.827" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T22:26:24.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21462" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-19T21:45:51.817" Score="0" Body="A 1996 American crime film written, produced, edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen about Jerry Lundegaard; whose inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistence of a heavily pregnant Police Officer Marge Gunderson." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T22:26:21.267" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T22:26:21.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21258" CreationDate="2014-06-19T22:10:42.700" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think we should interpret Rita's response to mean she tried using sex to get the ability back after she had lost it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, I think Rita tried to transfer the ability &lt;strong&gt;from&lt;/strong&gt; herself &lt;strong&gt;to&lt;/strong&gt; the person she was in love with during her cycle at Verdun. (i.e. while she still had the ability.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She watched that person die ~300 times, and tried everything she could think of to save them and/or share her &quot;gift&quot; with them. Hence her strong conviction that Cage would not be able to give it back to her again (through any means).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11245" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T22:10:42.700" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21464" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-19T22:10:55.253" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ender's Game&lt;/strong&gt; is an American science fiction action film based on the 1985 &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;novel of the same name&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Orson Scott Card&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender_Wiggin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ender Wiggin&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Butterfield&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Asa Butterfield&lt;/a&gt;) is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Formics&lt;/a&gt;, a genocidal alien race which nearly annihilated the human race in a previous invasion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Ender's Game on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T22:26:30.477" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T22:26:30.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21465" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-19T22:10:55.253" Score="0" Body="A 2013 American science fiction action film based on the novel of the same name by Orson Scott Card about Ender Wiggin who is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, a genocidal alien race which nearly annihilated the human race in a previous invasion." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T00:29:17.617" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T00:29:17.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21466" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-19T22:27:36.583" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Godzilla&lt;/strong&gt; is a giant monster (or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiju&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kaiju&lt;/a&gt;) originating from the 1954 &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishir%C5%8D_Honda&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ishirō Honda&lt;/a&gt; film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_%281954_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Godzilla&lt;/a&gt; which went on to be featured in 32 more films; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_%28franchise%29#Toho_productions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;28&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toho_Studios&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Toho Studios&lt;/a&gt; Productions and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_%28franchise%29#American_productions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;five American Productions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions specifically regarding the 2014 film of the same name, use the &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/godzilla-2014&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;godzilla-2014&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;godzilla-2014&lt;/a&gt; tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Godzilla on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T22:37:12.690" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T22:37:12.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21467" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-19T22:27:36.583" Score="0" Body="Aa giant monster (or Kaiju) originating from the 1954 Ishirō Honda film 'Godzilla' which went on to be featured in 32 more films." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-19T22:37:04.490" LastActivityDate="2014-06-19T22:37:04.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21468" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-19T23:03:21.007" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McTiernan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John McTiernan&lt;/a&gt; and written by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_E._de_Souza&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Steven E. de Souza&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Stuart_%28writer%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeb Stuart&lt;/a&gt;, based on the 1979 novel &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Lasts_Forever_%281979_novel%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nothing Lasts Forever&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick_Thorp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Roderick Thorp&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;NYPD Officer &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McClane&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John McClane&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Willis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bruce Willis&lt;/a&gt;) tries to save his wife Holly Gennaro (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Bedelia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bonnie Bedelia&lt;/a&gt;) and several others who are taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Rickman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alan Rickman&lt;/a&gt;) during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Die Hard on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095016/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T00:29:15.113" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T00:29:15.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21469" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-19T23:03:21.007" Score="0" Body="A 1988 American action film based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp about NYPD Officer John McClane who tries to save his wife Holly Gennaro and several others, taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T00:28:59.120" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T00:28:59.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21470" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-19T23:52:01.750" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A 2014 American science fiction monster film directed by Gareth Edwards retelling the origin of Godzilla in contemporary times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 1999, the Janjira nuclear plant was mysteriously destroyed with most hands lost. Years later Ford Brody (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Taylor-Johnson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Aaron Taylor-Johnson&lt;/a&gt;), a US Navy ordnance disposal officer, must go to Japan to help his estranged father and former plant employee, Joe (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Cranston&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bryan Cranston&lt;/a&gt;), who obsessively searches for the truth of the incident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/godzilla&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;godzilla&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;godzilla&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Godzilla on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_%282014_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831387/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T00:29:08.760" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T00:29:08.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21471" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-19T23:52:01.750" Score="0" Body="A 2014 American science fiction monster film directed by Gareth Edwards retelling the origin of Godzilla in contemporary times." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T04:10:59.383" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T04:10:59.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21473" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-20T00:56:32.997" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Captain America: The First Avenger, is a 2011 superhero film featuring the Marvel character of the same name. It is produced by Marvel Studios and stars Chris Evans as Captain America. It is the fifth movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/captain-america&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'captain-america'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-america&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/captain-america-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'captain-america-2'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-america-2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/captain-america-3&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'captain-america-3'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-america-3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel-cinematic-universe'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the Marvel Cinematic Universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the Marvel character, Captain America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America:_The_First_Avenger&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Captain America: The First Avenger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458339/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Captain America: The First Avenger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T18:59:47.277" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T18:59:47.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21474" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-20T00:56:32.997" Score="0" Body="Captain America: The First Avenger, is a 2011 superhero film featuring the Marvel character of the same name. It is produced by Marvel Studios and stars Chris Evans as Captain America. It is the fifth movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T19:00:41.407" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T19:00:41.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21475" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-20T02:21:47.083" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Star Trek&lt;/strong&gt; is a 2009 American science fiction action film directed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Abrams&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;J. J. Abrams&lt;/a&gt;, the 11th film in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28film_franchise%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Trek film series&lt;/a&gt; and reboot of the franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A young &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_T._Kirk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;James T. Kirk&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chris Pine&lt;/a&gt;) tries to live up to his father's legacy with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mr. Spock&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Quinto&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Zachary Quinto&lt;/a&gt;) keeping him in check as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_characters_%28N%E2%80%93S%29#Nero&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nero&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Bana&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Eric Bana&lt;/a&gt;), a vengeful, time-travelling Romulan creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Star Trek (2009) on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See Also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-trek&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek&lt;/a&gt; - The Star Trek franchise&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-trek-tos&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tos&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tos&lt;/a&gt; - The first television series of Star Trek&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-trek-wrath-of-khan&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-wrath-of-khan&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-wrath-of-khan&lt;/a&gt; - The second movie in the TOS franchise&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-trek-tng&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-tng&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-tng&lt;/a&gt; - The second television series&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-trek-first-contact&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-first-contact&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-first-contact&lt;/a&gt; - The second movie in the TNG franchise&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-trek-voy&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-voy&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-voy&lt;/a&gt; - The fourth television series of Star Trek&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/star-trek-into-darkness&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;star-trek-into-darkness&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;star-trek-into-darkness&lt;/a&gt; - The sequel to Star Trek (2009)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T08:55:42.133" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T08:55:42.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21476" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-20T02:21:47.083" Score="0" Body="A 2009 American science fiction action film directed by J. J. Abrams, the 11th film in the Star Trek movie series and reboot of the franchise. The film features a young James T. Kirk trying to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful, time-traveling Romulan creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T08:55:35.667" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T08:55:35.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21478" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-20T08:36:03.637" Score="1" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;What were the animated loops in the movie &lt;em&gt;Thor: The Dark World&lt;/em&gt; supposed to be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were they wormholes? And what was the Aether proposed in there? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11252" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T10:19:47.683" LastActivityDate="2017-04-05T04:53:44.977" Title="What were the animated loops supposed to be?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|thor-the-dark-world|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21433" CreationDate="2014-06-20T09:01:00.537" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This didn't happen in the books. While the show may deviate a bit from the book, my guess is that they will not deviate in major ways. Arya meeting up with Sansa would have been a major deviation. Beside, they still needed the Hound to get injured in some fight (even though the circumstances of said fight had changed) and for Arya to leave him for dead and head off to Braavos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11253" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T09:01:00.537" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21480" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-20T13:47:15.857" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Top Gear&lt;/strong&gt; is a British motoring show which began in 1977. Over time, and especially since a relaunch in 2002, it has developed a quirky, humorous and sometimes controversial style. It is also the most watched factual TV show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/guiness-book-of-records-2012-09-07&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in the world&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since 2006, a number of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_%282002_TV_series%29#Specials&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;specials&lt;/a&gt; have been produced in which the presenters race against each other through foreign countries, typically with a cheap vehicle. Regular episodes feature reviews, challenges, news and a 'Star in a Reasonably Priced Car' in which a celebrity does a timed lap around the Top Gear track.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Top Gear on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_%282002_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="19074" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T09:28:13.313" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T09:28:13.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21481" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-20T13:47:15.857" Score="0" Body="A British motoring show which was broadcast in its original format between 1977 and 2001, followed by a different format presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May between 2002 and 2015. The later format for the show features reviews, challenges, news and a 'Star in a Reasonably Priced Car' spot in which a celebrity does a timed lap around the Top Gear track." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="19074" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T09:28:48.707" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T09:28:48.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21482" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-20T14:01:50.247" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Boondock Saints&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1999 American crime film written and directed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Duffy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Troy Duffy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fraternal twins, Connor McManus (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Patrick_Flanery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sean Patrick Flanery&lt;/a&gt;) and Murphy MacManus (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Reedus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Norman Reedus&lt;/a&gt;), who become vigilantes after killing two members of the Russian Mafia in self-defence while they're pursued by FBI Agent Paul Smecker (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Dafoe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Willem Dafoe&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From The Boondock Saints on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boondock_Saints&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T14:24:54.847" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T14:24:54.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21483" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-20T14:01:50.247" Score="0" Body="A 1999 American crime film about fraternal twins, Connor and Murphy MacManus, who become vigilantes after killing two members of the Russian Mafia in self-defence." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T14:25:07.710" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T14:25:07.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21484" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-20T14:08:46.553" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;cameo&lt;/strong&gt; (also known as a &lt;strong&gt;cameo role&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;cameo performance&lt;/strong&gt;) is a brief appearance or voice part of a known person in a TV show or film, typically unnamed or appearing as themselves. These roles are generally small, many of them non-speaking ones, and are commonly either appearances in a work in which they hold some special significance (such as actors from an original movie appearing in its remake).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCameo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Cameo on TVTropes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Cameo on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameo_appearance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T14:24:36.417" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T14:24:36.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21485" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-20T14:08:46.553" Score="0" Body="A brief appearance or voice part of a known person in a TV show or film, typically unnamed or appearing as themselves." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T14:25:01.627" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T14:25:01.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21486" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21495" CreationDate="2014-06-20T14:23:32.923" Score="14" ViewCount="1023" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always classified &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_Interest_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;Person of Interest&lt;/a&gt; as sci-fi, however most sites (such as wikipedia) never mention this and just call it &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/crime&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;crime&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;crime&lt;/a&gt; and/or &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/drama&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;drama&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;drama&lt;/a&gt;. My opinion is based on the following in-universe facts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are two AI computer systems which are powerful enough to monitor every camera, microphone, telephone, financial transaction, website and god know what else &lt;strong&gt;in the world&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They both understand all languages flawlessly and can easily communicate with humans.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At least one of them is shown to be more intelligent than its creator as well as the people who believed they &quot;owned it&quot; (it tricked a bunch of humans into moving it).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At least one of them has their own agenda which isn't known to anyone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm only a programmer, but I don't believe any of this is possible with our current technology, surely this means the show is sci-fi?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T18:07:42.163" Title="Is Person of Interest sci-fi?" Tags="|genre|person-of-interest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21487" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-20T14:44:31.237" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copyright&lt;/strong&gt; is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to its use and distribution, usually for a limited time, with the intention of enabling the creator of intellectual property to receive compensation for their work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Copyright on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T17:36:58.780" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T17:36:58.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21488" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-20T14:44:31.237" Score="0" Body="A legal concept that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to its use and distribution." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T20:10:01.937" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T20:10:01.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21489" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-20T15:27:03.827" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Muppets&lt;/strong&gt; are a group of puppet characters created since 1950 by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Henson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jim Henson&lt;/a&gt; beginning with the introduction of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_the_Frog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kermit the Frog&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_and_Friends&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sam and Friends&lt;/a&gt; in 1955 through shows such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Street&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sesame Street&lt;/a&gt; in 1969 and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppet_Show&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Muppet Show&lt;/a&gt; in 1974.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From The Muppets on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppets&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T20:10:36.680" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T20:10:36.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21490" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-20T15:27:03.827" Score="0" Body="A group of puppet characters created in the 1950s by Jim Henson who have appeared in numerous TV shows and films, most famously Sesame Street and The Muppet Show." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T16:26:45.543" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T16:26:45.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21491" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-20T17:16:03.737" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Clockwork Orange&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1971 British film written, produced, and directed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stanley Kubrick&lt;/a&gt;, adapted from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Burgess&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Anthony Burgess&lt;/a&gt;' 1962 &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;novella of the same name&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In future Britain, charismatic delinquent &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_%28A_Clockwork_Orange%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alex DeLarge&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_McDowell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Malcolm McDowell&lt;/a&gt;) is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem - but not all goes according to plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From A Clockwork Orange on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T17:34:15.343" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T17:34:15.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21492" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-20T17:16:03.737" Score="0" Body="A 1971 British film written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, adapted from Anthony Burgess's 1962 novella of the same name about charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge, who is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem - but not all goes according to plan." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T20:11:07.140" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T20:11:07.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21493" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-20T17:42:06.700" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;American Hustle&lt;/strong&gt; is a 2013 American crime comedy-drama film directed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_O._Russell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;David O. Russell&lt;/a&gt;, loosely based on the FBI &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscam&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ABSCAM operation&lt;/a&gt; of the late 1970s and early 1980s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A con man, Irving Rosenfeld (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Bale&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Christian Bale&lt;/a&gt;), along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Adams&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Amy Adams&lt;/a&gt;), are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Cooper&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bradley Cooper&lt;/a&gt;), who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From American Hustle on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Hustle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800241/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-20T20:11:22.030" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T20:11:22.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21494" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-20T17:42:06.700" Score="0" Body="A 2013 American crime comedy-drama film directed by David O. Russell, about a con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, who are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-21T00:58:31.883" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T00:58:31.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21486" CreationDate="2014-06-20T18:07:42.163" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buddytv.com/articles/person-of-interest/person-of-interest-nsa-scandal-50550.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an &lt;strong&gt;interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(July 2013)&lt;/em&gt; with creator &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634300/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jonathan Nolan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... A lot of people who don't watch the show think of it as a kind of crime procedural, but &lt;strong&gt;we really think of it of it as a science fiction show.&lt;/strong&gt; We think of it as a genre show, there is a lot of comic book mythos woven into it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/person-of-interest-season-3-4-jonah-nolan-greg-plageman-interview/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;another &lt;strong&gt;interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(October 2013, shorty after the start of Season 3):&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know what next season —if we’re lucky enough to get a fourth season— we know what that’s about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think viewers who have as much of &lt;strong&gt;an affection for science fiction&lt;/strong&gt; —film, television— as we do, and a really good ear, will already know what next season is going to be, based on the first handful of episodes here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-20T18:07:42.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21501" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-20T21:44:10.867" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Person of Interest&lt;/strong&gt; is an American sci-fi crime drama television series created by Jonathan Nolan. The series is about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Reese_%28Person_of_Interest%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John Reese&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Caviezel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jim Caviezel&lt;/a&gt;), a former CIA officer who is recruited by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Finch_%28Person_of_Interest%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Harold Finch&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Emerson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Michael Emerson&lt;/a&gt;), a mysterious billionaire, to prevent violent crimes in New York City.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You are being watched. The government has a secret system: a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know, because I built it. I designed the machine to detect acts of terror, but it sees everything. Violent crimes involving ordinary people; people like you. Crimes the government considered 'irrelevant'. They wouldn't act, so I decided I would. But I needed a partner, someone with the skills to intervene. Hunted by the authorities, we work in secret. You'll never find us, but victim or perpetrator, if your number's up... we'll find you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Harold Finch&lt;/strong&gt; narrating the season 1 introduction&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Person of Interest on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_Interest_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-21T00:58:41.307" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T00:58:41.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21502" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-20T21:44:10.867" Score="0" Body="An American sci-fi crime drama television series created by Jonathan Nolan. The series is about John Reese, a former CIA officer who is recruited by Harold Finch, a mysterious billionaire, to prevent violent crimes in New York City." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-21T00:10:28.777" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T00:10:28.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21503" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-20T21:53:48.600" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thirteen Ghosts&lt;/strong&gt; (also known as &lt;strong&gt;Thir13en Ghosts&lt;/strong&gt;) is a 2001 American horror film directed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Beck_%28director%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Steve Beck&lt;/a&gt;. It is a remake of the 1960 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Ghosts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;13 Ghosts&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Castle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;William Castle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Cyrus Kriticos, a very rich collector of unique things dies, he leaves it all to his nephew Arthur (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Shalhoub&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tony Shalhoub&lt;/a&gt;) and his family; his house, his fortune, and his malicious collection of ghosts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Ghosts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thirteen Ghosts&lt;/a&gt; on Wikipedia and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245674/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-21T00:58:58.043" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T00:58:58.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21504" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-20T21:53:48.600" Score="0" Body="A 2001 American horror film about Arthur Kriticos whose uncle dies and leaves him his house, fortune and collection of malicious ghosts." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-21T00:59:03.887" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T00:59:03.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21505" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-20T22:16:51.770" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pirates of the Caribbean&lt;/strong&gt; is a series of fantasy adventure films produced by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Bruckheimer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jerry Bruckheimer&lt;/a&gt; and based on Walt Disney's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_%28attraction%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;theme park ride of the same name&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series follows the adventures of eccentric Pirate Captain Jack Sparrow (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Depp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Johnny Depp&lt;/a&gt;) as he does battle with his undead crewmates, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Jones_%28Pirates_of_the_Caribbean%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Davy Jones&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;East India Trading Company&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbeard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blackbeard&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Films in this series&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_The_Curse_of_the_Black_Pearl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/curse-of-the-black-pearl&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;curse-of-the-black-pearl&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;curse-of-the-black-pearl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_Dead_Man%27s_Chest&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dead Man's Chest (2006)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/dead-mans-chest&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dead-mans-chest&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dead-mans-chest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_At_World%27s_End&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;At World's End (2007)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/at-worlds-end&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;at-worlds-end&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;at-worlds-end&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_On_Stranger_Tides&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;On Stranger Tides (2011)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/on-stranger-tides&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;on-stranger-tides&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;on-stranger-tides&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1790809/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dead Men Tell No Tales (2016)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/dead-men-tell-no-tales&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dead-men-tell-no-tales&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dead-men-tell-no-tales&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page for Pirates of the Caribbean&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T13:12:34.240" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T13:12:34.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21506" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-20T22:16:51.770" Score="0" Body="A series of fantasy adventure films produced following the adventures of eccentric Pirate Captain Jack Sparrow as he does battle with his undead crewmates, Davy Jones, the East India Trading Company and Blackbeard. It is based on ride in Disney theme park with same name." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-01-21T20:38:37.717" LastActivityDate="2017-01-21T20:38:37.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21508" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-20T22:42:22.080" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;romantic comedy&lt;/strong&gt; (often abbreviated &lt;strong&gt;rom-com&lt;/strong&gt;) is a film or, less commonly, a television show with a humorous plot centred around one or more couples who have to overcome an obstacle in order to be together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Romantic comedy on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_comedy_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_romantic_comedy_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;List of romantic comedy films&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_romantic_comedy_television_series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;List of romantic comedy TV series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-21T00:59:01.147" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T00:59:01.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21509" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-20T22:42:22.080" Score="0" Body="Films or television shows with a humorous plot centred around one or more couples who have to overcome an obstacle in order to be together." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-21T01:01:26.633" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T01:01:26.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21510" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21525" CreationDate="2014-06-21T01:05:48.283" Score="20" ViewCount="71464" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Richard Pryor/Gene Wilder comedy &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098282/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hear no Evil, See no Evil&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; features a young Kevin Spacey, who has some kind of growth on his face:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zUGVx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't serve any plot function, nor is it mentioned or elaborated on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other people &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviestack.com/posts/104985-kirgos-mysterious-boil&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;around the web&lt;/a&gt; have asked if it was some kind of (real life) &lt;a href=&quot;http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-224148.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;boil or cyst&lt;/a&gt;, that was removed later on in his acting career. Could this be true? There doesn't seem to be any definitive word on this anywhere...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know if it was intended to be included in the film? Perhaps a scene was cut that somehow made reference to it, or could someway imply this was makeup?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-21T13:55:46.803" LastActivityDate="2017-01-13T23:34:55.837" Title="Did Kevin Spacey use to look...different?" Tags="|make-up|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19216" CreationDate="2014-06-21T01:40:33.667" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Vedran Šego and Oliver_C mentioned in the comments, a lot of his assets are held by aliases. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the show, it's heavily hinted that &lt;strong&gt;Harold Finch&lt;/strong&gt; is also an alias, and it's not the name of the man who died, that was &lt;strong&gt;Harold Martin&lt;/strong&gt;. Harold Finch is very much alive and the owner of &lt;a href=&quot;http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/IFT&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IFT&lt;/a&gt;, a software company. It's not really mentioned how big the company is, but as they get government contracts (the machine) and have a huge New York City headquarters, it's presumably worth a lot too, though it's hinted in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/Pilot&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;pilot&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finch&lt;/strong&gt;: You see, Mr. Reese, until that day &lt;em&gt;[9/11/01]&lt;/em&gt;, I had spent the better part of my life making myself very rich. Suddenly all that money didn't seem to amount to much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In episode 6- &lt;a href=&quot;http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/The_Fix&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Fix&lt;/a&gt;, as &lt;strong&gt;Harold Partridge&lt;/strong&gt; (Investor), he invests in Virtanen Pharmaceuticals while investigating them, and at the end of the episode, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_%28finance%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shorts&lt;/a&gt; the company just before they assist in having the owner arrested, which makes him a considerable amount of money:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finch&lt;/strong&gt;: I know you don't care who you hurt to get what you want. I know the only thing you do care about is money. So that's what I'm going to take from you. Your money. All of it. Your were right Mr Keller. I never will have to invest in another company&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beginning in episode 12, &lt;a href=&quot;http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/Legacy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Legacy&lt;/a&gt;, we see &lt;a href=&quot;http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/Harold_Wren&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harold Wren&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; who is an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwriting&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;insurance underwriter&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/Universal_Heritage_Insurance&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Universal Heritage Insurance&lt;/a&gt;, this is a well established identity tied to the name he graduated MIT with. The job title combined with his &lt;a href=&quot;http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140415132927/pediaofinterest/images/d/d4/1x14_-_Universal_Heritage_Insurance.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;very fancy office&lt;/a&gt; seems to indicate this is a wealthy alias.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, his aliases have given him inside knowledge into locations which are abandoned indefinitely, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/The_Library&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Library&lt;/a&gt; as he mentions in the pilot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finch&lt;/strong&gt;: This building was sold to a bank that I control, which promptly declared bankruptcy so the property's in a kind of limbo, it doesn't exist&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not having to pay for property saves a lot of money in the long run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-10T03:24:24.467" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T03:24:24.467" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21510" CreationDate="2014-06-21T05:44:09.423" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is Kevin Spacey in his film debut, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091188/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Heartburn (1986)&lt;/a&gt;, from 2 slightly different angles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/W0hFT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;A young Kevin Spacey&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zsHba.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Another young Kevin Spacey&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see any indication of a boil or cyst on his face in either of these stills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T05:44:09.423" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21515" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21516" CreationDate="2014-06-21T08:52:51.683" Score="15" ViewCount="24807" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the galaxy formation Rust saw before confronting Erol Childress in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2356777/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;True Detective&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; S01E08?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was weird like out of the series.&#xA;I guess it was some sort of hallucination, a product of Rust's madness or addiction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7431" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-24T23:08:10.110" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T23:08:10.110" Title="What was the galaxy formation Rust saw before confronting Erol Childress?" Tags="|true-detective|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21515" CreationDate="2014-06-21T09:29:49.157" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's a (symbolic) hallucination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the investigation in the first season of &lt;em&gt;True Detective&lt;/em&gt;, Det. Rust Cohle keeps coming across the symbols of a spiral and black stars that are linked to the crimes perpetrated in 'Carcosa':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p5YPP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aUDYJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also discover that Cohle is frequently hallucinating as a result of his drug abuse during his long stint as an undercover cop, and at a certain point in this investigation, he imagines a flock of birds forming the above spiral:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6xjOR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems fitting, then, that he hallucinates a cosmic vortex upon finally finding 'Carcosa'. This is symbolic, according to &lt;em&gt;True Detective&lt;/em&gt; director Cary Fukunaga:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We landed on the spiral formation of the clouds as a wrapping-up of the symbology, or at least a book-ending of the symbology. I liked the idea that we could actually see Carcosa and black stars. If you look really closely, you can see black orbs floating in it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WzQGc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, we can always assume that this is mystical or that Cohle has ESP. But &lt;em&gt;True Detective&lt;/em&gt; creator Nic Pizzolatto suggests otherwise &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20791143,00.html&quot;&gt;in this interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I hope the audience will be pleasantly surprised by the naturalism of the entire story. If you look at the series so far, what seems supernatural actually has real-world causes, like Cohle's hallucinations or even the nature of the crime. It has occult portents, but &lt;strong&gt;there is nothing supernatural about it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-21T10:17:45.917" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T10:17:45.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21517" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21971" CreationDate="2014-06-21T09:47:33.293" Score="6" ViewCount="7791" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the season 2 finale of Orange is the New Black...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Norma (the nearly mute) attempts to create a poison from apple seeds to give to Vee (the ringleader of the black gang) after Vee attacks Red (the Russian ex-chef). Gloria (the Latino chef), tells her that it isn't possible to make enough poison from that many apples, and together they conspire to do... something. This involves dog hair, eggs, and something that is ground up. After creating this thing, Norma blows something onto the back of (or into the hair of) Vee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is - what were they making? What was their plan? And did it succeed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the concoction leave Vee with impaired judgement, leading her to alienate her followers? Or did the plan simply not work, as other events unfolded? What was the purpose of the dog hair?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2017-09-22T14:05:43.360" LastActivityDate="2017-09-22T14:05:43.360" Title="What were Norma and Gloria doing in the season 2 finale?" Tags="|plot-explanation|orange-is-the-new-black|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21518" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-21T10:10:15.993" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Netflix produced show that follows Piper, a new inmate at a federal women's prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_is_the_new_black&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Orange is the New Black&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T22:04:49.127" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T22:04:49.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21519" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-21T10:10:15.993" Score="0" Body="The Netflix produced show that follows Piper, a new inmate at a federal women's prison." OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T22:04:37.020" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T22:04:37.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21520" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35481" CreationDate="2014-06-21T10:52:06.203" Score="10" ViewCount="288680" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;National Treasure: Book of Secrets&lt;/em&gt;, at the end and in between, the President asks Ben a favor, something which was mentioned in Page 47 in the President's Book of Secrets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody know what could be in Page 47?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Whb2Q.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8670" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-21T12:17:48.290" LastActivityDate="2018-12-26T03:30:48.270" Title="What's on page 47?" Tags="|plot-explanation|national-treasure-book-of-secrets|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21520" CreationDate="2014-06-21T10:59:41.087" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is currently unknown&lt;/strong&gt;. According to the film's FAQ on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465234/faq#.2.1.3&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is never made clear in the movie what was on page 47, and some speculate that it exists as a cliffhanger solely to set up another sequel. On the DVD commentary, director Jon Turteltaub thrice says something about the contents of page 47, but his microphone fails mysteriously all three times. He also rebuffs the sequel theory, saying that the references to page 47 exist to show how much the President began to trust Ben Gates and to establish a closeness between the characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, since &lt;em&gt;National Treasure 3&lt;/em&gt; appears to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1197627/combined&quot;&gt;in production&lt;/a&gt; now, this could always be revealed there or at least referenced, despite Turteltaub's assertion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-21T11:04:53.560" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T11:04:53.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21522" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-21T12:06:36.467" Score="4" ViewCount="3837" Body="&lt;p&gt;Courage the cowardly dog is my favorite cartoon show and character of all the time. Despite the show's  reputation of it being comedy/horror, I can remember sad episodes and moments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Observe the relationship between Eustace and his mother, both of them cruel, cold people. Eustace is the way he is due to his mother, and, if one episode in particular is anything to go by, his mother was made this way by a loved one too. Two of the biggest rule and impolite people in the show are the result of a cycle of abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Remembrance of Courage Past episode: which shows how Courage met Muriel. Especially with the revelation that his parents were put on a rocket and shot into space by a sadistic vet, with Courage outside the rocket trying to stop it. He escapes the vet by going down a trash chute and you see him land in a dumpster, and he waves to the rocket flying away. Muriel finds courage with panties crying near the garbage and she adopts him.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f26rZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;muriel and courage&quot; title=&quot;tooltip&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Curse of Shirley, where a hallucinating Eustace takes pity on a young version of himself. Eustace, by all means the biggest selfish jerk ever portrayed on any Cartoon Network show. Eustace: &quot;No hat? That's not right, little boy without a... a little boy should have a hat.&quot; It's even more sad if you consider that Eustace was seeing this through a mirror that was meant to show one's true self. It was broken beforehand, but it may have been showing that Eustace is, deep down inside, a sad man who lashes out at everyone due to a painful childhood.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Queen Of the Black Puddle, a ghastly woman charms Eustace and takes him to her world, and no surprisingly, Courage doesn't give a damn, and he has all the right not to. But he then sees how Muriel is devastated by having her husband taken from her, crying her heart out, and Courage realizes he'd rather put up with Eustace's crap for the rest of his life than to see his benevolent owner suffer. The episode makes it very clear (or sad) to see that Courage saves Eustace, even though he doesn't deserve it, because his love for Muriel spoke louder than his dislike of Eustace.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Hunchback of Nowhere, A lonely and deformed hunchback goes from door to door just seeking shelter only to be called ugly or a freak by everyone, including Eustace, and having them slam the door in his face. He and Courage build a friendship that's both heartwarming and as Courage shows the poor soul kindness for once in his life. And the climax only adds to this: as Courage and the Hunchback put on a show for Muriel, Eustace tries to ruin it. The Hunchback's response? He puts on a Eustace mask and forces him to see himself for who he is, which is only more heartrending when you realize that it's not just Eustace: it's for all the people who have said he's just a freak.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As so on...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not really sure why is it considered a comedy/horror show, it is a drama cartoon with a many adult topics. Is it truly sad or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11099" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-09T23:29:41.087" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T23:29:41.087" Title="Is courage the cowardly dog a sad cartoon show?" Tags="|analysis|animation|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2014-06-26T17:19:08.440" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19701" CreationDate="2014-06-21T12:23:40.683" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are different types of Adamantium. The one that wolverine has is Adamantium-Beta. Wolverine possesses Regenerative Healing powers. During his exposure to Adamantium whilst having it bonded to his skeleton, his DNA was manipulated into seeing the Beta-Adamantium as his Skeleton. He can regenerate his Skeleton very quickly, but the Adamantium takes time to grow back. So he probably just had a few weeks with normal bone claws, until the Adamantium Beta grew back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this answers your question, if not please feel free to write a reply and i will get back to you as soon as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11279" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T12:23:40.683" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21524" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-21T13:11:13.410" Score="3" ViewCount="10750" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assistant D.A. Serena Southerlyn was a character for 4 seasons on Law and Order played by Elisabeth Rohm during the years 2001 through 2005. The character became unexpectedly pro-defense during her final episodes that season, leading to her firing midway of the 2005 season. She famously asked D.A. Arthur Branch &quot;Is it because I'm gay?&quot;, for which Branch replied something like &quot;No, it was never about that.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was her final line dramatic license only, or were there known situations during her tenure on the show where her sexual role was clearly defined? I am currently rewatching the episodes of that timeframe on Sundance, which is re-running the series &quot;from the beginning&quot;. Knowing the reveal from that 2005 episode, I am especially concious of her interactions with women characters on the show. Her interactions so far are, at least through the 2001 season, somewhat abrasive. Anyone remember anything conclusive they can point out to watch for? I'm looking for answers inside the show; outside references need to point to clear examples within the episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2016-06-30T00:37:08.210" Title="Was Assistant DA Serena Southerlyn known to be gay before her exit on the show?" Tags="|character|law-and-order|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21510" CreationDate="2014-06-21T13:47:21.343" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kevin Spacey had a cyst that was removed after it grew to painful proportions. This is outlined in the book by Robin Tamblyn, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.robintamblyn.com/images/Looking%20Closer%20Chapter%20Five.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Looking Closer&lt;/a&gt;&quot; which is a biography of him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the quote from the book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spacey does have at least three genuine scars, however. The crease above the&#xA;  lid of his left eye is the legacy of a childhood altercation with a cat named Prince&#xA;  Albert, while the dimple on his left cheek results from a cyst that was removed by&#xA;  surgery in the late Eighties after it grew to painful proportions. In See No Evil, Hear&#xA;  No Evil (1989), it is particularly prominent. He also bears a small “&amp;lt;” shaped furrow&#xA;  above one eyebrow, the mark left by a cardboard coathanger cover thrown at him by&#xA;  Randy during a spat between the siblings in 1968.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if you look at the left side of his face in the below photo, you can see the small roundish scar from where it was removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1jTrD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-21T13:49:23.350" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T13:49:23.350" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21526" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-21T15:14:25.343" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Zombies are mindless reanimated corpses which feed on human flesh, typically in Horror or Fantasy films or TV shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_zombie_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;List of Zombie films&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Zombie (Haitian folklore)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_comedy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Zombie comedy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Zombie on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_%28fictional%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/28-days-later&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;28-days-later&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;28-days-later&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/resident-evil&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;resident-evil&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;resident-evil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/shaun-of-the-dead&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;shaun-of-the-dead&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;shaun-of-the-dead&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-walking-dead&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-walking-dead&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-walking-dead&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/zombieland&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;zombieland&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;zombieland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-22T02:20:45.660" LastActivityDate="2014-06-22T02:20:45.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21527" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-21T15:14:25.343" Score="0" Body="Mindless reanimated corpses which feed on human flesh, typically in Horror or Fantasy films or TV shows." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-21T21:38:43.187" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T21:38:43.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21528" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21531" CreationDate="2014-06-21T16:00:35.563" Score="8" ViewCount="1010" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is the ages old question posed by the 'older generations,' which is, who is the better Bond, Sean Connery or Roger Moore? (Of course the younger folk get to add the new ones, Brosnan, Craig and Dalton.) I also realize that there were actually a few others like David Niven, but his wasn't a &quot;real&quot; Bond, more a spoof, IIRC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal favorite Bond, and movie, of all time, however, is George Lazenby in the original &quot;On Her Majesty's Secret Service&quot;. I watched it again (twice) today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why wasn't Lazenby ever asked to play Bond in a sequel? Did it have to do with negative reaction by fans to his marriage and the following death of his wife?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-21T16:45:19.380" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T19:12:59.753" Title="What happened to Lazenby as Bond?" Tags="|casting|james-bond|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21524" CreationDate="2014-06-21T16:08:22.893" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.afterellen.com/law-and-orders-serena-southerlyn-comes-out-on-her-way-out/01/2005/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Law and Order’s Serena Southerlyn Comes Out on Her Way Out&lt;/a&gt; the character came out to Law &amp;amp; Order's audience in that scene. All of the Law &amp;amp; Order series are known for giving out very few details about the main character's personal lives, and this was no exception. There were very few details during her run on the show regarding Southerlyn's sexuality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T16:08:22.893" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21530" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-21T16:09:49.530" Score="-1" ViewCount="7989" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that not all science fiction is scary and not all horror has unrealistic monsters or super powerful psycho killers, but at what point do these genres cross and what criteria separates a scifi film from a horror film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11280" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-21T16:48:55.170" LastActivityDate="2015-02-28T16:16:44.757" Title="What is the difference between science fiction and horror?" Tags="|science-fiction|horror|genre|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21528" CreationDate="2014-06-21T16:16:29.533" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_in_film#Albert_R._Broccoli_and_Harry_Saltzman_.281967.E2.80.9375.29&quot;&gt;According to Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, Lazenby left the role on his agent's advice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although Lazenby had been offered a contract for seven movies, his agent, Ronan O'Rahilly, convinced him that the secret agent would be archaic in the liberated 1970s, and as a result he left the series after the release of On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lazenby#cite_ref-13&quot;&gt;appears&lt;/a&gt; that Lazenby clashed with the film's producers, saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;They made me feel like I was mindless. They disregarded everything I suggested simply because I hadn't been in the film business like them for about a thousand years.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Around late 1969 and early 1970, it seems he moved on, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lazenby#cite_ref-15&quot;&gt;saying&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I've already put him behind me. I will never play him again.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lazenby#cite_ref-16&quot;&gt;And&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;[N]o more Bond. I make better money doing commercials.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So apparently, quitting the role was Lazenby's choice. However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freewebs.com/doubleo7/georgelazenby.htm&quot;&gt;this interesting source&lt;/a&gt; tells a slightly different story. It suggests that Lazenby was offered a contract for the next &lt;em&gt;10&lt;/em&gt; Bond movies and an increased salary and he &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; willing to sign it, but his managers found the terms unacceptable, at which point United Artists ruled him out and (although &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gavin&quot;&gt;John Gavin&lt;/a&gt; was also briefly signed as an insurance policy) ordered Bond producers Saltzman and Broccoli to get Connery back at any cost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-21T16:52:39.963" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T16:52:39.963" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21533" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21535" CreationDate="2014-06-21T16:40:33.813" Score="3" ViewCount="5723" Body="&lt;p&gt;Broccoli Rob dies in&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://officequotes.net/no7-05.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;season 7&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://imdb.com/title/tt0386676&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Office&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Andy:    Ooh, says here Dan Becker fell off the side of Kilimanjaro in a&#xA;         climbing accident. It appears Dan's Sherpa survived to tell the tale -&#xA;         Oh, my God!&#xA;Phyllis: What? Is Dan okay?&#xA;Andy:    No, he died. It's Broccoli Rob.&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but then he texts Andy in&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://officequotes.net/no8-05.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;season 8&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Andy: I just got a text from Broccoli Rob - &quot;Boo!&quot; Scared me.&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and he is seen again in&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://officequotes.net/no9-05.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;season 9&lt;/a&gt;,&#xA;played by Stephen Colbert:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Broccoli Rob: I just-- I just started yappin’ about the old days, and I guess&#xA;              the wine coolers were flowing, and, you know, somehow things just&#xA;              got hinky.&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what happened here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1339" LastEditorUserId="1339" LastEditDate="2015-07-18T17:55:29.637" LastActivityDate="2015-07-18T17:55:29.637" Title="Is Broccoli Rob dead?" Tags="|continuity|the-office|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21533" CreationDate="2014-06-21T17:02:56.567" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems you simply misunderstood the quote. Here's the full quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Andy: [reading Cornell magazine] Whoa. Libby Dirketts got married. Big Red mazel tov to the Libster. Ooh, says here Dan Becker fell off the side of Kilimanjaro in a climbing accident. It appears Dan's Sherpa survived to tell the tale-Oh, my God!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Phyllis: What? Is Dan okay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Andy: No, he died. It's Broccoli Rob. You know this guy; I showed you his picture on Facebook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Phyllis: Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Andy: &quot;Some Vermont-based alums can hear 'Broccoli' Rob Blatt, '96, in the state milk lobby's new milk awareness song, 'Calci-YUM!', featuring Phish's Trey Anastasio. Says Broccoli, 'Trey and I had a ton of fun in the studio, and I think you can hear it in the song.'&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Phyllis: Oh, that's great news for your friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Andy: Yeah, yeah, it's great...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;He died&quot; refers to Dan. &quot;Oh my god!&quot; refers to the &lt;em&gt;next story&lt;/em&gt; about Broccoli Rob, which is deemed more important for comedic effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T17:02:56.567" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21536" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21583" CreationDate="2014-06-21T18:11:36.303" Score="3" ViewCount="15492" Body="&lt;p&gt;September 11, 2001 was a tragedy to the World, the United States, and the cities of Washington DC, and New York. The West Wing, based in Washington, immediately came out with an episode, written by Aaron Sorkin, to enfold the events and the aftermath within the show's universe. Given that the show was a long-standing serial drama, that episode had a special drama that was clearly out of the normal flow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Law and Order, based in New York City, and filmed there, as I recall, never made a mention of the events of that day, either directly or indirectly, even though the show is episodic, and a mention or incorporation into the scripts would have been a less jarring effort.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: This assertion is found to be inaccurate. There are quite a few direct and indirect references to the terrorist attack in the episodes here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As in my other question about Serena Southerlyn, I am currently rewatching the episodes of that timeframe on Sundance, which is re-running the series &quot;from the beginning&quot;. Knowing the real world event from that 2001 season, I am being especially concious to comments that might have a subtext. Being a given that the first few episodes were probably already in the can ready for the season premieres, it can be assumed the episodes say from 6 or higher through the end of season had a greater chance of such mention. Is there an episode or more that directly makes reference to the events in their city for September 11, 2001?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2014-06-24T00:32:40.233" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T16:28:54.330" Title="Are there any September 11, 2001 references in the Law and Order 2001-02 season?" Tags="|law-and-order|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21537" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21913" CreationDate="2014-06-21T21:50:25.860" Score="15" ViewCount="2395" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;Edge of Tomorrow&lt;/em&gt;, after Cage kills the Omega and gets soaked in Omega blood, he regains his ability to jump back in time. We see that he dies and wakes up in the helicopter and all is well. My question is, &lt;strong&gt;does Major Cage still have the reset ability&lt;/strong&gt;? If he were to die, will he be brought back to the point of waking up in the helicopter (or some other time)? Is there anything in the book or out of movie which definitively states any of this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2016-05-11T23:47:34.050" LastActivityDate="2017-03-28T16:24:57.460" Title="Does Major Cage Still Have the Reset Ability?" Tags="|plot-explanation|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12388" CreationDate="2014-06-21T23:11:15.210" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, so the general feeling about this is that Vincent was in a bad mood and was just having a pop for no real reason. Some way or another he was aware of Butch's deal with MW and decided to mouth off about it to release some of his anger and frustration. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I believe there is an important reason for QT adding this little exchange in, mightily important in fact. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Butch has taken his cash off MW and is prepared to throw the fight. Throughout the whole chat with MW he shows no emotion, just a cool, laid back attitude. He has nothing against MW and just wants to do his job and collect his cash. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after the slur from Vincent, look at his reaction again. His face drops, he is shaken, his pride hurt to the core. He then watches intently as Vincent is welcomed by MW with a big double hug. Vincent is obviously MW's main man. Butch continues to throw glances and is obviously still hurt and deep in thought. There is no doubt in my mind that in that moment he makes the decision not to throw the fight. He has now associated all his hurt and anger from Vincent's insult with MW. Maybe he's thinking about all that talk of pride that MW has just spouted, how it means nothing, how he should ignore it, yet all the while he has probably been laughing about him with Vincent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now he's angry, angry with both of them, hurt and his pride already dented before the fight has even begun. No, now he will not throw the fight. He'll prove Vincent wrong and make fools out of both him and MW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This 10 second piece of the movie is possibly the most important of all, as it sets in motion a dramatic sequence of events that leads to life changing consequences for all three characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11292" LastActivityDate="2014-06-21T23:11:15.210" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21240" CreationDate="2014-06-22T06:32:49.580" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;She died 300 times - after seeing her friend die 300 times. But during that time she became more skilful, and more importantly, like Cage after her, she learned where the mimics were, and what they were doing. Each time she was able to kill more. By the time she was wounded and lost the ability to reset time, she was able to kill hundreds and win the battle on her own. After that she was just like any other soldier, only more experienced at killing mimics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is not explained is why France was overrun if humans won at Verdun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11284" LastActivityDate="2014-06-22T06:32:49.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21542" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21543" CreationDate="2014-06-22T07:38:00.647" Score="6" ViewCount="1433" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Ghostbusters 2&lt;/em&gt;, why is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gbfans.com/w/images/f/f4/237_8714896282.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;patch on the uniform giving a peace sign&lt;/a&gt;? Obviously in the context of the real world the new logo makes sense.  However, in the reality of the movie, why would they make a patch that basically looks like a symbol meaning &quot;No ghosts offering peace&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9841" LastEditorUserId="7302" LastEditDate="2014-09-19T16:09:59.050" LastActivityDate="2014-09-19T16:09:59.050" Title="Why is the ghost on the uniform patch making a peace sign?" Tags="|ghostbusters-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21542" CreationDate="2014-06-22T09:01:52.823" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing the (rather flimsy) in-movie excuse is that it's supposed to illustrate they're back in business, which is emphasized in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/gb2_deleted08.htm&quot;&gt;the (deleted) full version&lt;/a&gt; of their in-movie TV commercial:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;STANTZ: That's right -- Ghostbusters. &lt;strong&gt;We're back&lt;/strong&gt; and we're better than ever with &lt;strong&gt;twice&lt;/strong&gt; the know-how and &lt;strong&gt;twice&lt;/strong&gt; the particle-power to deal with all your supernatural elimination needs... And to celebrate our grand reopening, we're giving you &lt;strong&gt;twice&lt;/strong&gt; the value with our special half-price &lt;strong&gt;'Welcome Back'&lt;/strong&gt; service plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-22T09:40:20.923" LastActivityDate="2014-06-22T09:40:20.923" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21544" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21545" CreationDate="2014-06-22T12:51:38.277" Score="6" ViewCount="23563" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Renny Harlin&lt;/em&gt;'s 1999 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149261/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Deep Blue Sea&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;LL Cool J&lt;/em&gt; gives a great badass interpretation of the classic &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalm_23&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;23rd Psalm&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of the old testament:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. Because I carry a big stick and I'm the meanest motherfucker in the valley! Two sharks down, Lord! One demon fish to go! Can I get an Amen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now when recently rewatching &lt;em&gt;Brian De Palma&lt;/em&gt;'s 1989 vietnam treatment &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097027/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Casualties of War&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I noticed that &lt;em&gt;Sean Penn&lt;/em&gt;'s &lt;em&gt;Sgt. Meserve&lt;/em&gt; gives a similar rendition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yeah, though I walk through the valley of evil, I shall fear no death ... Cause I'm the meanest motherfucker in the valley!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/LK2t5ZzLLys?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I wondered if there is any information that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Deep Blue Sea&lt;/em&gt; was actually referencing &lt;em&gt;Casualties of War&lt;/em&gt; in this regard or at least took inspiration for this quote from there&lt;/strong&gt;, or if there is an older &quot;colloquialization&quot; of psalm 23 those two quotes were independently based on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2023-12-28T02:54:33.723" Title="Who really is &quot;the meanest motherfucker in the valley&quot;?" Tags="|dialogue|reference|origin|deep-blue-sea|casualties-of-war|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21544" CreationDate="2014-06-22T13:26:02.263" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_S._Patton#Misattributed&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;misattributed, according to Wiki&lt;/a&gt;) George S. Patton quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil, because I am the meanest son-of-a-bitch in the valley.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This was a widely published anonymous derivative of Psalm 23 which arose in the early 1970s on wall-posters, plaques and t-shirts, with an early variant also reading &amp;quot;Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil: for I am the meanest bastard in the valley&amp;quot;; &lt;strong&gt;much cruder variants, with less clear association with the original biblical passages have since emerged on the internet, and in very recent years have begun to be attributed to Patton.&lt;/strong&gt; There are no historical sources indicating he ever actually said anything resembling this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A version with MF is one of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=patton%20meanest%20motherfucker%20valley&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;more popular&lt;/a&gt; &amp;quot;cruder variants&amp;quot;. It's possible that these movies popularized it, but it's a chicken and egg thing. There's also an MF version in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/800232-yea-though-i-walk-through-the-valley-of-the-shadow&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1991 book about Vietnam&lt;/a&gt; by Major Bruce H. Norton. 'Carry a big stick' is inspired by a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Stick_ideology&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;different US leader&lt;/a&gt;, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-22T13:56:44.057" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21547" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21550" CreationDate="2014-06-22T14:21:43.893" Score="9" ViewCount="2774" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Tuco_Salamanca&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tuco Salamanca&lt;/a&gt; willing to buy crystal meth from Walter 'Heisenberg' White &amp;amp; Jesse Pinkman?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, obviously he was a distributor of crystal meth and they were manufacturers of some fine quality product.  But surely his first thoughts must have been on his Uncle Hector and their mutual connections with the Juárez Cartel, who were presumably &lt;em&gt;already smuggling crystal meth&lt;/em&gt; across the border into the US. Heck, his uncle &lt;em&gt;killed&lt;/em&gt; Maximo Arciniega for the affront of Gustavo and Max 'distributing'&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; on their turf, combined with maneuvering them into a meeting.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd have thought Tuco would have liked to take them out on first hearing they were manufacturing, or if he realized the quality of their product before doing so, smuggled them across the border into Mexico to teach the cartel cooks (&lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; kill them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; I fully accept Max &amp;amp; Gus's claim that they only gave meth to cartel personnel in order to get a meet with the bosses.  Having a cartel to distribute their product would have made their business venture slightly less profitable, but a whole lot easier &amp;amp; safer (with cartel henchman both distributing and enforcing against competitors and defaulters).  Further the cartel could probably move a lot more meth in a day than Los Pollos Hermanos could in a month.  A moderately lower profit off a much greater volume means bigger money in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="440" LastEditDate="2015-08-11T15:46:43.887" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T15:46:43.887" Title="Why was Tuco willing to buy from Walt &amp; Jesse?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21548" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-22T14:26:32.733" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Divergent&lt;/strong&gt; is a  2014 American science fiction action film directed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Burger&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Neil Burger&lt;/a&gt;, based on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergent_%28novel%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;novel of the same name&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Roth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Veronica Roth&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a world divided by factions based on virtues, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Divergent_characters#Beatrice_.22Tris.22_Prior&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Beatrice &quot;Tris&quot; Prior&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shailene_Woodley&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Shailene Woodley&lt;/a&gt;) learns she's Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Divergent_characters#Tobias_.22Four.22_Eaton&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tobias &quot;Four&quot; Eaton&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_James&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Theo James&lt;/a&gt;) must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Divergent on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergent_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1840309/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-22T14:31:59.260" LastActivityDate="2014-06-22T14:31:59.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21549" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-22T14:26:32.733" Score="0" Body="A 2014 American science fiction action film which takes place in a world divided by factions based on virtues, Tris learns she's Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-22T14:31:56.643" LastActivityDate="2014-06-22T14:31:56.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21547" CreationDate="2014-06-22T16:19:38.653" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you must have noticed that their product was really really pure, which made it really strong and good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tuco must have thought that since their product was good, it would sell good, and he would earn more money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He would continue to smuggle meth with his other partners, but a little more cash (that he would make from Walt and Jessie) must have come handy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastActivityDate="2014-06-22T16:19:38.653" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21551" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21937" CreationDate="2014-06-22T17:11:11.867" Score="6" ViewCount="4971" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of a movie, multiple companies associated with the production show off their fancy (and sometimes not so fancy) logo intro clips. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed sometimes one of the companies will also have &quot;Our Name Presents..&quot; and I'm curious what the meaning is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9733" LastEditorDisplayName="user9733" LastEditDate="2014-06-23T16:17:37.683" LastActivityDate="2014-07-07T00:41:40.000" Title="&quot;Company Name Presents...&quot; - what does it mean?" Tags="|credits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21552" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21575" CreationDate="2014-06-22T17:15:15.827" Score="21" ViewCount="1734" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious about what role the producer plays in the production of a movie. I understand that it's the person in charge, but that's all I know. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the responsibilities of a movie producer?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9733" LastEditorDisplayName="user9733" LastEditDate="2014-06-24T07:48:13.663" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T07:28:56.450" Title="What does a movie producer do?" Tags="|production|producer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21542" CreationDate="2014-06-22T17:26:59.060" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never thought of this as a peace sign; I always just thought of it as two fingers for the number two, as in &quot;Ghostbusters II&quot;. This makes more sense in the context of the original poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I5CEH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ghostbusters II&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4468" LastActivityDate="2014-06-22T17:26:59.060" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21559" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21579" CreationDate="2014-06-22T20:51:54.270" Score="10" ViewCount="14400" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is commonly known that the probability of surviving after slitting your wrists is much higher if you cut horizontally and that you should cut along the forearm to cut a longer portion of the artery and bleed quicker if you plan to commit suicide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, people are often depicted in movies slitting their wrists horizontally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this done on purpose to increase the probability that somebody imitating the movie will survive for example, or is this just a mistake or a coincidence that a majority of movies follow this convention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8901" LastEditorDisplayName="user10014" LastEditDate="2016-09-26T04:22:37.960" LastActivityDate="2016-09-26T04:22:37.960" Title="Why do people in movies commit suicide by slitting their wrists in the wrong direction?" Tags="|realism|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21561" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-22T22:44:05.607" Score="21" ViewCount="28888" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the books and literature following the Game of Thrones universe a knight's title is spelled with an 'e' not an 'i' for &quot;S&lt;strong&gt;e&lt;/strong&gt;r&quot;. Why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2019-03-23T21:00:15.643" LastActivityDate="2019-03-23T21:00:15.643" Title="Why are knights titled &quot;Ser&quot; in Game of Thrones?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="21562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21561" CreationDate="2014-06-22T22:55:31.530" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ser is used in other fantasy works as well. It's a gender neutral title. It's possible ser is an older version of sir (like many words that have changed over time) so ser would be the correct spelling for the period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Noun ser (plural sers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(used in some fantasy novels) An address or courtesy title to any&#xA;  person, especially if their gender and/or form of address are unknown.&#xA;   Example: Would ser care to dine this evening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ser#English&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also google search to find the many different works that use 'Ser'. Just think, &quot;Old English&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2014-06-22T22:55:31.530" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13015" CreationDate="2014-06-22T23:02:25.013" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/13020/11244&quot;&gt;KeyBrd Basher's answer&lt;/a&gt; is correct in relation to the tv-shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I will add some further clarification from the books:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;[&lt;em&gt;A Clash of Kings&lt;/em&gt; spoilers ahead]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the previous scenes, the wildlings are on Jon and Qhorin's tracks in the Skirling Pass. Qhorin urges Jon to yield once they are caught, and &lt;em&gt;pretend&lt;/em&gt; to be a turncloak. He then makes Jon recite his vows to ensure that he never forgets that he is truly a crow, and makes Jon promise that he will not &quot;balk whatever they ask [of him]&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Qhorin]:“If we are taken, you must yield.”&lt;br /&gt;[Jon]:“Yield?” He blinked in disbelief. The wildlings did not make captives of the men they called the crows. They killed them, except for... “They only spare oathbreakers. Those who join them, like Mance Rayder.” &lt;br /&gt;[Qhorin]:“And you.” &lt;br /&gt;[Jon]:“No.” He shook his head. “Never. I won’t.” &lt;br /&gt;[Qhorin]:“You will. I command it of you.”&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-A Song of Ice and Fire: A Clash of Kings, Chapter Sixty-Eight (Jon VIII).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Qhorin at this point knows that the wildlings would want Jon to kill him in order to prove his allegiance to them, but Jon doesn't until the last moment (Qhorin keeps asking Jon &quot;is your sword sharp?&quot;). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is important to note here that it was the wildlings themselves (Rattleshirt AKA The Lord O' Bones) who wanted Jon to kill Qhorin Halfhand to prove his defection:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The big spearwife narrowed her eyes and said, “If the crow would join the free folk, let him show us his prowess and prove the truth of him.”&lt;br /&gt;“I’ll do whatever you ask.” The words came hard, but Jon said them.&lt;br /&gt;Rattleshirt’s bone armor clattered loudly as he laughed. “Then kill the Halfhand, bastard.”&lt;br /&gt;“As if he could,” said Qhorin. “Turn, Snow, and die.”&lt;br /&gt;And then Qhorin’s sword was coming at him and somehow Longclaw leapt upward to block.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-A Song of Ice and Fire: A Clash of Kings, Chapter Sixty-Eight (Jon VIII).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They then have an epic and ridiculously depressing sword-fight, at the end of which Ghost bites Qhorin's leg and Jon takes the opportunity to slay Qhorin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to appease the wildlings and Rattleshirt begrudgingly allows Jon to make his case with Mance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also important to note that Qhorin Halfhand is somewhat of a hero among the Night's Watch, and is well-known, feared and respected by the wildlings (he had in fact recently killed Alfyn Crowkiller in a one-on-one duel), so by killing him (no easy feat), Jon has quite well shown his allegiance to the wildlings!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T09:00:23.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21559" CreationDate="2014-06-22T23:10:44.243" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Statistics show that most people who try to commit suicide don't really want to die.  That should be enough for their being unsuccessful in the attempt.  In addition, even those who really want to die don't have any knowledge of anatomy so as to perforate the right artery. Movie makers aren't any experts either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10014" LastActivityDate="2014-06-22T23:10:44.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21568" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21603" CreationDate="2014-06-22T23:16:24.303" Score="17" ViewCount="3641" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chronologically, the first scene of Pulp Fiction is when we see Jules Winfield and Vincent Vegas driving on their way to a hit, the Royale with Cheese scene. They discuss beer in theaters, mayo on fries, and Royale with Cheese hamburgers. In this scene, they seem to have a real familiarity with each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, they never say anything like &quot;it's nice to meet you&quot; or &quot;your reputation precedes you&quot; that would suggest that they did not know each other before this scene. They also never say anything like, &quot;it's great to see you again&quot; or &quot;I didn't realize you had gone to Europe&quot; that would suggest they did know each other before this scene. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the movie, they never discuss anything about how long their relationship has existed or how it might have started, but their manner suggests mutual respect and familiarity. They never discuss anything about a mutual past. They never discuss previous hits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence that Jules and Vincent knew each other before the Royale with Cheese scene? Were they introduced immediately prior to this scene or have they worked together before or possibly done hits together before?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="44" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-11T11:49:22.527" LastActivityDate="2017-03-20T04:43:34.320" Title="Did Jules Winfield know Vincent Vega before the Royale with Cheese scene?" Tags="|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21568" CreationDate="2014-06-23T04:04:33.640" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a line in that dialogue that leads me to suggest that they are, indeed, old friends, or at least acquaintances. Right before the &amp;quot;little differences&amp;quot; speech, they have these lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;VINCENT: if the cops stop you, it's illegal for this to search you. Searching you is a right that the  cops in Amsterdam don't have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JULES: That did it, man – I'm fuckin' goin', that's all there is to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;VINCENT: &lt;strong&gt;You'll dig it the most.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This exchange, and especially the last line, seems to indicate that Vincent knows Jules well enough, at least, to know that he has a particular dislike to being searched by cops (perhaps, being black, he's the subject of more random searches?), and knows that this will appeal to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1507" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-23T04:04:33.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14650" CreationDate="2014-06-23T04:15:38.337" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you are referring to a chrome/gray ball rig. &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://akromatic.com/gadgets-info/&quot;&gt;http://akromatic.com/gadgets-info/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is photographed on set and then utilized by vfx look development and lighting departments in order to help facilitate the digital recreation of the lighting that was used on set.  This is one step/tool used in an often complex process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a vfx lighting td ...so I just assumed that's what you're referring to. Much like a hammer assumes everything is a nail :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11296" LastActivityDate="2014-06-23T04:15:38.337" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21552" CreationDate="2014-06-23T11:22:46.037" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;The producer is effectively the person (or persons) that create the film, and are typically the only people who stay on the project from inception to release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There can often be a hierarchy of producers, many of whom are accredited with production in order to guarantee their complicity and money (executive producers are typically of this category) whilst contributing very little creatively to a project. For example, Stan Lee is credited as Executive Producer on every Marvel title (including Marvel Animation), due to the perceived debt owed to him through the elevation of Marvel into properties other than print. He has little-to-no effect on the titles he 'executive produces', and by his own admission hasn't seen a huge chunk of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The head producer or 'Lead Producer' is the person tasked with making the film 'a go'. They are the individual that ensures a project reaches development, and stays on track. Whilst not neccesarily the 'money-men', they safeguard the investment of the 'money-men' and funding and often engage in a considerable amount of awareness and fundraising activities to find or improve a budget: this is especially true of independents. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To help, this is a typical role of a producer on a title, start to finish:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sourcing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A producers first job is to find a project worth creating. Some producers are on a studio retainer, and as such will pursue titles under a certain mandate issued to them (by Genre, budget or sometimes as a vehicle for a certain star, but there are other examples). This is effectively the scouting stage, where they will approach and be approached by various creative types (from screenwriters to Directors), each with a stake in having their project realized cinematically. During this development, they must assess and make sure it is &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; for the movie to be made, including negotiating the appropriate copyright and IP, deciding whether a title will 'work' (which can be influenced by the success or failure of similar projects released around this time) and raising funds/sourcing a budget.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is typically the most volatile stage, as at this point no real contracts are drawn up and there is little to no legal commitment from any of the concerned parties. A lot of films get sunk at this stage, either because they have been abandoned or a producer hasn't done a good job of persuading/assuring investors that the project is tenable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Development and Pre-Production&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once a project gets a go, the producer can go ahead with commissioning the casting and hiring of crew, particularily the specialist departments. Typically a screenwriter and a Director will get together, sometimes with other elements of the production crew, to produce a cohesive vision of the film that is going to be produced, replete with script. This is negotiated over against budgetary concerns and (increasingly commonly in the Michael Bay/Star Wars era) marketing; some films are designed almost solely to produce revenue through affiliated products, franchises are often the biggest culprit of this 'marketing led' film-making.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on the overall power of the Lead Producer (i.e studio retained, free-lance or independent) the Producer can be the final say on decisions such as Director and writer choice, so the impact they will have on the film can not be understated. The producer at this point must shield the creative vision of the director from the potentially damaging interference of investors, whilst re-assuring said investors that their money will be spent efficiently to maximize their return. This is the most diplomatic part of a Producers role, and almost certainly the most important one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Supervision&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once principal photography commences, the Producers job is to supervise the project to make sure 'it comes in', meaning reaches completion. Their job is entirely dependent on their effectiveness during this stage, so they will concern themselves with the resolution of any problems that may arise on which their influence can be felt. They must also keep and eye and manage the budget (raising more cash if necessary, as circumstances dictate) as well as ensuring the project is being followed to schedule. Because the producer cannot be on set all the time, a producer will hire a network of Line Producers who will oversee disparate elements and report back. The Line Producer must possess the absolute trust of the Lead Producers, as they can be harangued and goaded into misrepresenting the tenability of production to assure and appease studios/producers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Post&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once a film is completed, a Producer will ensure that its final form matches the criteria required of it. Films can be altered or even butchered in post to appease 'the money-men', sometimes requiring re-shot endings (as happened recently with &lt;em&gt;World War Z&lt;/em&gt;). Once this is completed, and the final product can be quantified, the Producer must begin working with the Marketing and Distribution Departments to make sure the project is well received...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Distribution&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With a final product in hand, able to physically show people the film, the producer may now turn to exchanging contracts with a distributor. For higher budget films (particularily studio) this would have been done much earlier, with financial guarantees in place. Smaller filmmakers will struggle to find a distributor unless they have content, so at this stage they can 'sell' the film to someone, in hopes that they will pick it up. Film Festivals used to play an important part in this process, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weinstein_Company&quot;&gt;The Weinsteins&lt;/a&gt; were famous for finding titles in festivals: it's how Quentin Tarantino found himself with Miramax funding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst a Marketing department will sell a film to an audience, a Producer will sell a film to investors. That is the key difference between job roles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this stage is over, a producer will accept a Completion Bonus and (if possessing them) wait for the residuals for the film to roll in after it is released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-08-12T11:55:06.647" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T11:55:06.647" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21561" CreationDate="2014-06-23T15:32:31.640" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;George RR Martin&lt;/strong&gt; has a penchant for introducing things in his universe which resemble those in ours, yet have a different texture to them. This lets the user relate to those &quot;&lt;em&gt;words&lt;/em&gt;&quot; better and at the same time renders them an exotic and enigmatic aura.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the reason &lt;em&gt;Sir&lt;/em&gt; becomes &lt;em&gt;Ser&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Master&lt;/em&gt; becomes &lt;em&gt;Maester&lt;/em&gt;. The same can also be observed in the way he names people. &lt;em&gt;Rob&lt;/em&gt; is &lt;em&gt;Robb&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Edward&lt;/em&gt; is &lt;em&gt;Eddard&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All these are mere ploys to create an enchanting but understandable world!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastActivityDate="2014-06-23T15:32:31.640" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21578" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24850" CreationDate="2014-06-23T15:44:25.643" Score="7" ViewCount="2347" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any way other than watching a movie or trusting IMDB to see the credits (such as closing credits) of any movie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-23T21:31:25.457" LastActivityDate="2014-09-25T12:49:56.940" Title="How can credits (like closing credits) be found?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21559" CreationDate="2014-06-23T20:24:55.960" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movies are for telling stories and entertaining. To do that effectively, it is sometimes easier to repeat an incorrect but widely held belief. Showing a more factual version may be more difficult, may take more screen time, or may break up the flow of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, many ways that firearms are depicted in movies are factually wrong (or impractical or both) but have become familiar enough that they can be repeated and everyone watching understands what is supposed to be happening. Likewise, movies regularly show elevators failing and falling down. When elevators fail, they fall up (I have experience with it. I know. Also a recent news story shows a &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/odd-news/man-gets-trapped-in-out-of-control-elevator-that-rockets-up-to-the-roof-before-stopping--with-video--191943106.html&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; of it happening). It would take to much screen time to explain this to viewers, and that gets in the way of the &lt;em&gt;story&lt;/em&gt; (unless the story &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; about elevators or guns and how they work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I am sure that no one wants to make the movie that helps anyone commit suicide. If they're determined, they'll find out on their own, but I don't want to help them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastActivityDate="2014-06-23T20:24:55.960" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21580" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21581" CreationDate="2014-06-23T22:44:25.377" Score="10" ViewCount="13632" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary:&lt;/strong&gt; A whole town gets attacked by gigantic weird and violent creatures (spiders and insects). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genre:&lt;/strong&gt; Horror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Production date:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not really sure, but not that old. Probably something in between 2004 and 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scenes I remember:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A whole town gets haunted by giant insects, including spiders, weird scary creatures. They all hide in a supermarket, many die and many survive.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A crazy woman was reading the Old Testament mentioned something about children sacrifice and she wanted to kill a young boy there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The young boy is supposed to be the son of a the protagonist (probably) who will later be protected by his father.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; After the father puts his family in the car, he gets completely hopeless, stuck in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by the &lt;strong&gt;weird violent creatures who will torture and eat his family, he takes the gun and shoots his family&lt;/strong&gt;. A few seconds later, rescuers looking like the US Marines come to rescue the town. They are pictured evacuating  the area and spreading some poison to the insects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's how it ended: very sad, and disturbing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moral was obviously, never ever give up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone can help identify this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11099" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-06-24T06:37:19.767" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T06:37:19.767" Title="An innocent man kills his family because there was no hope" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:11:47.773" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21580" CreationDate="2014-06-23T22:47:00.453" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is definitely &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0884328/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Mist&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irsMogywHR0&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;best ending&lt;/a&gt; to a horror movie ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CbTif.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tom Jane, who is fantastic in it, insisted the ending not be changed or he wouldn't complete the movie. He was a big supporter of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It differs dramatically from the original ending of the Stephen King novella, but King was so impressed with how Frank Darabont adapted it he went on record:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is the most shocking ending ever and there should be a law passed stating that anybody who reveals the last five minutes of this film should be hung from their neck until dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-06-23T22:47:00.453" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21159" CreationDate="2014-06-24T00:21:54.277" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bathroom scenes show up in movies occasionally, but only when they &lt;strong&gt;advance the plot.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example might be a scene in the &quot;Godfather,&quot; when Michael Corleone is meeting with two members of another gang in a restaurant, suddenly has to &quot;take a leak,&quot; goes to the bathroom, urinates, and picks up a pistol, which he uses to shoot the other two gangsters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bathroom scenes are not shown when they do nothing for the plot. A movie is not about &quot;A day in the life of Michael Corleone,&quot; but rather, &quot;Key events in the life of Michael Corleone,&quot; which takes place over a period of several days, or even years. Except for the part about picking up a pistol, a bathroom scene would be redundant in that context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9097" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T00:21:54.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21536" CreationDate="2014-06-24T00:29:46.750" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A number of episodes in a row make references to the September 11, 2001 event, starting in December 2001, and into early January 2002. The episode for Novemeber 28, 2001, &quot;3 Dawg Night&quot;, doesn't present as a post-event episode. I believe it was completed before the terrorist attack, as none of the detectives or DA staff members wear US flag pins on their lapels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next one, televised 12/12/2001, &quot;Prejudice&quot; has clear post-event backgrounds since it included United States flags flown in shop windows and other sites where it would have been unusual before - dry cleaners, bars, a construction site. The police and DA staff have US flag lapel pins visible in every scene from this episode forward. The case concerns a murder tried as a hate crime of white-on-black. McCoy uses terrorism within his closing. The suspect uses the idea of Arabs on airplanes. Serena makes a clear statement that after &quot;what happened to the Towers&quot;, that we need to hold people accountable for their actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the next episode &quot;The Collar&quot;, televised 1/9/2002, Serena says &quot;With everything happening right now in this city, is now the right time to be challenging the church?&quot; The courthouse step scene, usually a fairly standard, sedate one, shows armed military and police presence at the entrances and sawhorse police barricades.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next one &quot;Undercovered&quot;, was televised 1/16/2002. A grocery which also sold liquor has a prominent U.S. flag behind the register; its proprietor is NOT caucasian. An art gallery was holding a charity auction for the 9-11 Fund. There are again armed military outside the courthouse, and the police barricades have been upgraded to metal ones. McCoy references heroic &quot;police running into collapsing buildings&quot; in his closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: By late March , &quot;Girl Most Likely&quot;, televised 3/27/2002, the flag lapel pins on Asst DA Southerlyn's outfits are missing for two episodes in a row. She does not even use one on her overcoat lapel, which DA Nora Lewin does. The Detectives still use theirs, and McCoy through most of the episode. The final recap scene has his jacket missing it, where it was present just in court before. This could be a costuming mistake, rather than character development (or maybe actor preference?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE 2: By May , &quot;Attorney Client&quot;, televised 5/8/2002, the flag lapel pins on Asst DA Southerlyn's outfits are missing for all consecutive episodes since March. The Detectives still use theirs consistently, as does McCoy. DA Nora Lewin used to wear the pin on her overcoat, and it is missing regularly. The contrast is starkly evident. It can only mean intentional character development by the writers, producers, or the actresses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE 3: Law and Order SVU dedicated the whole of season 3 to the victims and families of 9/11&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T16:28:54.330" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T16:28:54.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3575" CreationDate="2014-06-24T01:18:18.800" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;He has been sane the entire time. He is accompanied by a new partner (which is suspect) and has migraines due to his PTSD from his experience in world war two. He is given psych meds from the institution which is a US experimental psych ward carried over from Nazi scientists. At the end he accepts his lobotomy because he would rather live than to die a sane man. This lobotomy also is his answer to forgetting his past which is his plague (the war and his lover whom he is no longer is with). He knows that he will never escape the island and would be murdered If he were to try. The government experiment would be compromised and he realizes his only option to true serenity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11303" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-06-24T06:16:04.533" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T06:16:04.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21585" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21589" CreationDate="2014-06-24T03:48:59.700" Score="25" ViewCount="5472" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an American, I enjoy watching movies based on the US and its military, and I want to know if these movies are popular outside of the US. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm talking about movies of various genres that are based on the US government or war: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;White House Down&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Saving Private Ryan&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Patton&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Olympus Has Fallen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jarhead&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Black Hawk Down&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Patriot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We Were Soldiers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More specifically, &lt;strong&gt;does this kind of movie commonly profit outside of the US?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9733" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-12T21:03:11.470" LastActivityDate="2018-03-31T16:33:19.540" Title="Do &quot;American&quot; military movies generally profit outside of the US?" Tags="|distribution|reception|box-office|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21585" CreationDate="2014-06-24T06:37:36.140" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have an international exposure about that but speaking for me (living in Asia) I have many friends who are crazy about military movies. These movies are not advertised as much by cinemas as mainstream franchises but they make good presence.&lt;br&gt; A good point just came to mind: Countries with large armies like India, military movies do pretty well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because army men, their friend/families watch these movies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Usually in those countries people are fairly fond of their armies and these movie hit emotions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; I cannot provide an objective answer to your question and I think it is really hard to find. You can devise a general conclusion if persons from different regions tell their experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5549" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T06:37:36.140" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21585" CreationDate="2014-06-24T06:54:51.033" Score="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;The site &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficemojo.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Box Office Mojo&lt;/a&gt; is a good resource. It gives domestic and foreign grosses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=savingprivateryan.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Saving Private Ryan&lt;/a&gt; grossed more abroad ($265,300,000) than here in the States ($216,540,909). The same is true with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=whitehousedown.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;White House Down&lt;/a&gt; which grossed $73,103,784 in the US and $132,262,953 in foreign territories. A sixty million dollar difference is a &lt;strong&gt;significant&lt;/strong&gt; amount and rather telling that like most other American movies, the military ones do just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; don't have to be from Japan to appreciate &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Samurai&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Seven Samurai&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Fortress&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hidden Fortress&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT :&lt;/strong&gt; Speaking of Japan, the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/disneys-pearl-harbor-is-box-office-smash-in-japan.804/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pearl Harbor&lt;/a&gt; did rather well over there, despite its delicate subject matter. In the marketing the love story was played-up, as opposed to the bombing, and it was a surprising box-office score for Disney. That says a lot about American &quot;military&quot; movies. &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1444868.stm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This link&lt;/a&gt; also seems to substantiate the claim. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2018-03-31T16:33:19.540" LastActivityDate="2018-03-31T16:33:19.540" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19313" CreationDate="2014-06-24T08:03:43.627" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are two possible reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, as he was Hungarian, he was the easiest to &lt;em&gt;lean&lt;/em&gt; on. Smiley was threatening to deport Esterhase &lt;em&gt;then and there&lt;/em&gt;, hence why he took him to a runway. He knew Esterhase was aware of Tinker Tailor, but like the other &lt;em&gt;innocents&lt;/em&gt;, he simply didn't believe it, as he felt the information they were being fed was good and was convinced that British Intelligence had a valuable source right at the top of the Russian Intelligence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As he was Hungarian, Smiley simply pressed him then and there, knowing he would be easy to crack. When he did crack, Smiley deduced the location of the safe house and was able to lay a trap to detect the real mole. It is worth noting that if none of the other members fell for the trap, that would seem to implicate Esterhase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this interpretation is probably the most likely one &lt;em&gt;in the film&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a second reason though, which suggests Smiley knew Esterhase wasn't the guilty party. This isn't my own work, but taking from a post made &lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.metafilter.com/234917/Tinker-Tailer-Soldier-Poor-Man&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;on another site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can't remember if this made it to the film, but when Smiley talks to&#xA;  Jerry Westerby, he learns that the Russians knew in advance that&#xA;  Prideaux was on a mission to meet a general. Westerby relates that he&#xA;  told Esterhase this and he was at first interested, but a day later&#xA;  hauled him over the coals for passing along bad intelligence. Smiley&#xA;  realised from this that Esterhase was a puppet, not the puppet-master.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, Esterhase learns the &lt;em&gt;true&lt;/em&gt; purpose of Prideaux's mission, but then tells off the &lt;em&gt;source&lt;/em&gt; for bad information, suggesting he had been told it was bad information - thus suggesting he was not the real informant, but simply one of the &lt;em&gt;innocent&lt;/em&gt; underlings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another interesting post from that discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's one of the joys of the Smiley books that they invite this level&#xA;  of close analysis. The answer, or part of the answer, can be found in&#xA;  The Honourable Schoolboy, where Connie refers back to Smiley's&#xA;  tradecraft in Tinker Tailor:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'He's smoking him out,' she whispered to them all in ecstasy. 'Same as&#xA;  he did with Bill, the clever hound! Lighting a fire on his doorstep,&#xA;  aren't you, darling, and seeing which way he runs.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Smiley himself describes it as 'shaking the tree'. In other words,&#xA;  even though he still doesn't have firm proof of the mole's identity,&#xA;  he shows his hand to Esterhase in order to move the case forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Esterhase's interview with Westerby isn't totally conclusive -- after&#xA;  all, if Esterhase was the mole, he would still have to protect his&#xA;  cover by pretending to be surprised by Westerby's revelations. By this&#xA;  stage, however, we've seen enough of Esterhase to know that he isn't&#xA;  clever or subtle enough to pull this off. Smiley immediately guesses,&#xA;  and even hints to Westerby, that someone else must be pulling&#xA;  Esterhase's strings. (''I expect you wondered who he'd been talking to&#xA;  in between,' said Smiley sympathetically.')&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It also becomes clear, in retrospect, that Smiley already has a very&#xA;  strong suspicion of the mole's identity. ('He knew, of course. He had&#xA;  always known .. All of them had tacitly shared that unexpressed&#xA;  half-knowledge which like an illness they hoped would go away if it&#xA;  was never owned to, never diagnosed.') He pulls in Esterhase not&#xA;  because he needs any more information (what Esterhase tells him just&#xA;  confirms what he's already guessed) but because he needs Esterhase's&#xA;  co-operation to set up the safe house to trap the mole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't comment too much on the second reason, as I haven't read the books - but coming from someone who has read the books, it certainly seems that Smiley strongly suspected Esterhase wasn't the mole and simply prodded him to keep the investigation rolling over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T08:03:43.627" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21591" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-24T08:13:26.643" Score="1" ViewCount="19594" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2628232/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Penny Dreadful&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &quot;Possession&quot;, how at the very end did Mr. Chandler know how to exorcise Vanessa's demon?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AFAIK, at no point earlier in the series was this eluded to, and given that he had watched her suffer for so long you would have thought he would have done it sooner, or not recommended that the priest do it instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6807" LastEditorUserId="6807" LastEditDate="2014-06-24T09:15:04.273" LastActivityDate="2016-12-05T05:18:14.053" Title="How did Mr. Chandler know how to help possessed Vanessa?" Tags="|penny-dreadful|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21592" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-24T08:29:06.797" Score="5" ViewCount="6872" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Olenna was counting on killing Joffrey with the poison in the necklace in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; season 4, why was it given to Sansa? How could she possibly know that Sansa would wear it to the wedding?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-24T08:35:51.573" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T13:28:23.800" Title="Why was the necklace given to Sansa in season 4?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-16T20:45:57.547" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21585" CreationDate="2014-06-24T09:25:16.677" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is hard to tell that from the movies you mention. Because they are all &lt;strong&gt;big productions&lt;/strong&gt; with very well-known artists or directors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we think about &lt;em&gt;Saving Private Ryan&lt;/em&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Director is Steven Spielberg&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cast contains actors like  Tom Hanks, Matt Damon etc...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even with those people in the crew, the movie had got great attention in my country (Turkey). It was a great production and an excellent movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess you must consider movies without big budget and well-known movies. But, on the other hand, such movies do not have much chance to air in foreign countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, USA have great actors and actresses to cast in war movies. So I can say yes, most of USA productions have success in Turkey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1359" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T09:25:16.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21585" CreationDate="2014-06-24T09:28:23.483" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although we already have a rather objective box-office oriented answer, I'll try a rather general approach, with the help of some personal experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, even if this might not speak for general appreciation, I have seen and ejoyed many, if not all, of the examples you provided. While I am neither an American, nor an American patriot, nor a patriot for my own country above average levels, I can still appreciate the depiction of foreign patriotism and military admiration in movies, &lt;strong&gt;if they contribute to the overall impression of the movie.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But that isn't my, and I guess other people's, primary motivation for watching those movies&lt;/strong&gt; anyway. I think all those movies (measured by your examples at least) don't derive their primary attraction mainly from presenting us people in uniforms to admire and infusing feelings of nationality and patriotism, but simply &lt;strong&gt;from their action and drama and from their overall gripping stories and realization&lt;/strong&gt;, with the governmental/historical/war setting as a backdrop. You certainly don't need to be an American to be moved by &lt;em&gt;Tom Hanks&lt;/em&gt; dying for his country, &lt;em&gt;Gerard Butler&lt;/em&gt; kicking ass for his president, or &lt;em&gt;Mel Gibson&lt;/em&gt; contributing to the birth of his nation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the overt patriotism of some of those movies (which isn't the case with many of your examples anyway) might be a deterrent factor for certain people to limit their enjoyment of those movies, it is only a part of the movies' overall impression and there's much more to derive enjoyment from. Add to this that modern American cinema has always had a large influence on the TV and movie landscape of many countries (or at least mine), so &lt;strong&gt;people there are certainly accustomed to a healthy portion of American culture in movies anyway.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I don't see why those movies shouldn't be successful outside of the US and I know (although without specific box-office evidence) that many of your examples were generally pretty successful in my home country and, I guess, around the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-10-30T19:43:25.783" LastActivityDate="2016-10-30T19:43:25.783" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21592" CreationDate="2014-06-24T10:47:59.433" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't read the books, so here is my speculation just from the show: she couldn't. But, ultimately, Sansa's role was not to bring in the poison (Olenna could've done that herself), but to put the blame on Tyrion and to get her to Petyr. So, I can only assume that Olenna had a backup with her, and that she'd use it had Sansa not wore the necklace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, giving how well Petyr knows her, and how he is the master of intrigue and reads people well, there was a very little chance that Sansa wouldn't wear the necklace. She's surrounded by the people that she despises, and then this one man (Ser Dontos) showed her gratitude for his life. How likely is that she does not wear it, taking into the account the significance that the necklace supposedly had to this single man that made her fell good and, if only for a moment, proud? Sansa was always easy to manipulate, and this was quite an elaborate scheme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T10:47:59.433" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21585" CreationDate="2014-06-24T11:14:02.083" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it possibly depends on the movie. As a Brit (who admittedly doesn’t watch that many films):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;White House Down&lt;/em&gt; — was reasonably successful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Saving Private Ryan&lt;/em&gt; — was very successful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Patton&lt;/em&gt; — never heard of it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Olympus Has Fallen&lt;/em&gt; — was reasonably successful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jarhead&lt;/em&gt; — never heard of it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Black Hawk Down&lt;/em&gt; — was very successful&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Patriot&lt;/em&gt; — heard of it, but it wasn’t that successful (probably due to the theme suggested by the title)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;We Were Soldiers&lt;/em&gt; — never heard of it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9825" LastEditorUserId="607" LastEditDate="2014-06-25T01:28:06.330" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T01:28:06.330" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21600" CreationDate="2014-06-24T12:24:16.123" Score="7" ViewCount="2747" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; season 2, Hank Schrader is showing a map to his crew.  It contains pins for the locations that the blue meth had been seen.  He noted that it was appearing all across the south west, but for New Mexico itself, and reasoned that Heisenberg had smartened up and wasn't supplying it in his home state any longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aPf22.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, he comes to suspect Gustavo Fring of his involvement and tries (unsuccessfully) to convince his work mate Steve Gomez and ASAC George Merkert, but there is no mention of the map, nor any comment that Los Pollos Hermanos has branches in each of those states.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did he forget the map, or is there something I overlooked as to why he did not mention it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-17T01:22:10.143" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T01:22:10.143" Title="Why didn't Hank connect the locations the blue meth had been found with Gus?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21599" CreationDate="2014-06-24T13:12:18.583" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The (two) episodes you are referring to are &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_Dog&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Problem Dog&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermanos_%28Breaking_Bad%29&quot;&gt;Hermanos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - episodes 7 and 8 of Season 4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the former, Hank reveals his doubts to his colleagues and reveals that a fingerprint from Gus Frings was found at Gale's apartment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads them to call him in for questioning in the following episode. Gus reveals he had visited Gale to congratulate him on a scholarship. When pressed on why he has no records from his time in Chile, he reasons that he left during the dictatorship of Pinochet and record keeping was awful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These answers appear to appease all the other lawmen present (except Hank) and Gus is released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following this, he begins to investigate Gus' businesses (with Walt) to try and find some sort of connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as to &lt;em&gt;your question&lt;/em&gt; regarding the map - I think the most likely reason is because it's far too &lt;em&gt;tenuous&lt;/em&gt; a connection. Gus Frings is a respected business man in charge of a chain operating across the entire South West. Whilst Hank could have mentioned it, it seems unlikely his colleagues would accept it. He happens to have restaurants around the cities/districts that the drugs were found in? Well, so do a ton of other business men. What makes Frings special? The fingerprint, obviously - except Hank's colleagues have now decided that was totally innocent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to proceed, Hank needed something else. That, in my opinion, is why he never mentioned the map. It wouldn't have provided any sort of definitive proof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T13:12:18.583" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21601" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23365" CreationDate="2014-06-24T13:21:32.527" Score="2" ViewCount="557" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419749/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Find Me Guilty&lt;/a&gt;, at the beginning of the trial, Judge Finestein had little empathy for Jackie DiNorscio. This can be shown by the Judge slapping first a $5000 then upping it to $10000 fine for Contempt of Court. He also is more apt to sustain the Prosecutor's objections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the end of the trial, the Judge appears very sympathetic to Jackie D., for example, the way he expresses complete understanding and remorse for Jackie when DiNorscio's mother passes. IIRC, he overrules objections by the Prosecutor and sustains the Defenses, esp Jackie D's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never get the feeling that the 'mob' bought the Judge, but rather he has become more sympathetic towards them, again especially concerning Jackie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone site specific (objective) examples of what precipitates this change of heart?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-24T13:26:35.510" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T14:31:17.937" Title="What changed the Judge's sympathy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|find-me-guilty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21592" CreationDate="2014-06-24T13:28:23.800" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sir Dontos gave her a romantic and sentimental story about the necklace.  It concerned how her wearing it continued his family honour etc. and basically was designed by Littlefinger to strike the right cords in Sansa.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was the one true pure thing she had to remind her of her naïve excitement when she thought all knights were glamorous and honourable (see her reaction when she is given it).  She is likely to have worn it all the time and slept with it under her pillow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If she had turned up at the wedding without it I would guess that the Queen of Thorns would either remark on it's absence and insist she went to get it (or sent Left or Right to get it for her) with the unarguable bluster than someone of her age and position commands or executed a backup plan of some kind.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joffrey would not be able to hurt Margery until the wedding night and there would be plenty of time to get him to drink something he didn't pour himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T13:28:23.800" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21568" CreationDate="2014-06-24T13:34:23.733" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are almost definitely old friends, apart from the very valid quote given above by &#xA;Avner Shahar-Kashtan there is also the line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I ain't threatening you or nothing.  You know I respect you&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which would imply a history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my main reason for thinking that they are old friends is the way they talk to each other.  Neither tries to be the alpha male and they frequently insult each other, sometimes jokingly and sometimes seriously.  I think that if a semi stranger insulted Vincent or Jules they would need to quickly apologise or risk a violent reaction.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Vince argued that Jules's plan to retire was stupid it seemed partially like he thought it was stupid but also that he did not want to lose contact with his friend (and if Jules had been with him is less likely to have been killed by Butch).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me their closeness is written in every line of their interaction, their manerisms and their general interaction.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T13:34:23.733" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21585" CreationDate="2014-06-24T15:22:07.643" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the movies you quoted, here is the box office in France, and the &quot;users ratings&quot; according to allociné.fr.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;White House Down    : 539 512 tickets sold, 3.4/5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Saving Private Ryan : 4 112 849 ticket sold, 4.3/5  (Great Success)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Patton              : No box office data, 3.6/5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Olympus has fallen  : 334 159 ticket sold, 3.5/5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jarhead             : 240 568 ticket sold, 3.6/5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Black Hawk Down     : 566 597 ticket sold, 3.8/5    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Patriot         : 1 156 818 ticket sold, 3.4/5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We were soldiers    : 152 316 ticket sold, 3.1/5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And i'd like to add :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Independance Day    : 5 605 524 ticket sold, 3.1/5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lincoln             : 1 320 425 ticket sold, 3.6/5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Armageddon          : 4 591 453 ticket sold, 3.4/5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing that out there, more than 1 million can be considered as a success. More than 500 000 is average for blockbusters and less than 100 000 a flop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll also add that :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the most popular TV channels, roughly 50% of the movies broadcasted are americans, and some of these have already been broadcasted several times. The rest of the time being shared between french and european movies. Others countries movies being anecdotic. For TV series, it's almost 80% american.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11313" LastEditorUserId="11313" LastEditDate="2014-06-24T15:29:23.427" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T15:29:23.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21607" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-24T16:12:08.523" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;True Detective&lt;/strong&gt; is a 2014 American television crime drama series created and written by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nic_Pizzolatto&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nic Pizzolatto&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The lives of two detectives, Rust Cohle (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_McConaughey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Matthew McConaughey&lt;/a&gt;) and Martin Hart (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Harrelson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Woody Harrelson&lt;/a&gt;), become entangled during a 17-year hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second season includes actors Vince Vaughn (Frank Semyon) and Collin Farrell (Detective Raymond &quot;Ray&quot; Velcoro).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From True Detective on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Detective_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2356777/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-27T11:41:07.463" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T11:41:07.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21608" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-24T16:12:08.523" Score="0" Body="An American television crime drama anthology series following the lives of different detectives in each season." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="19132" LastEditDate="2024-03-16T01:25:33.093" LastActivityDate="2024-03-16T01:25:33.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="21611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21585" CreationDate="2014-06-24T19:53:03.960" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The US makes huge numbers of movies and, in the UK at least, the majority of the movies we see are American. As such, we're completely used to the people in the movies being Americans. The cops in the movies are Americans, the criminals in the movies are Americans, the office workers in the movies are Americans, the spacemen in the movies are Americans, the musicians in the movies are Americans, the clowns in the movies are Americans. Nobody cares because that's how it always is. And the soldiers in the movies are Americans, too. How is that any different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11319" LastActivityDate="2014-06-24T19:53:03.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21614" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21615" CreationDate="2014-06-24T23:30:36.497" Score="11" ViewCount="2338" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie way back in the 80s and can't find a name to it. From what I remember, it has the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alien on the run on Earth&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alien cop chasing him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alien cop reveals himself/is caught by human police after being wounded and declaring &quot;I'm a cop, like you&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Human cop decides to help out&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alien on the run attacks people by injecting a liquid into them, and sucking out a sample of their blood with a tube/needle arrangement - can't remember why though, and I think he injects this sample into the next human and so forth&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most victims are male and I think one was female.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11322" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-25T00:11:04.443" LastActivityDate="2017-01-02T05:39:21.823" Title="Alien on the run, Alien Cop chasing" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:11:57.650" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21614" CreationDate="2014-06-24T23:45:15.527" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are flying metal discs also involved? Because it sounds like &lt;em&gt;I Come In Peace&lt;/em&gt; (AKA &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099817/combined&quot;&gt;Dark Angel&lt;/a&gt;) with Dolph Lundgren from 1990. From the Wiki recap:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Alien] Talec shoots his victims full of drugs&lt;/strong&gt; and then uses alien technology to extract endorphins from their brains, synthesizing them into a substance to be used by addicts on his home planet. &lt;strong&gt;He is pursued by an alien cop named Azeck, who warns [cop] Caine&lt;/strong&gt; and [FBI agent] Smith that if Talec is not stopped, thousands of intergalactic drug dealers will start to come to Earth to slaughter its population. Putting aside their differences, Smith and Caine team up to take Talec down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That tube\needle thing shoots out of the bad alien's hand. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVu4XatjAFw&quot;&gt;The trailer&lt;/a&gt; is currently available on Youtube and so is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsNj2tkZJAc&quot;&gt;the full movie&lt;/a&gt; - and in 1:01:15, the wounded alien cop reveals himself to the hero and tells him that he's &lt;strong&gt;&quot;an officer of the law, like you&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-25T10:23:10.653" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T10:23:10.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21616" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21630" CreationDate="2014-06-25T00:24:17.743" Score="20" ViewCount="18753" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1st season of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2356777/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;True Detective&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; one of the very few things in &lt;em&gt;Rust&lt;/em&gt;'s apartment back in 1995 is a very small mirror, just large enough to reflect a single eye, which he repeatedly looks into during the whole season. And he doesn't seem to have any other mirror at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zns66.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact in S01E04 &lt;em&gt;Marty&lt;/em&gt; (more or less jokingly) asks something along the lines of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You supposed to see both eyes in this one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But what is the purpose of this mirror, what is &lt;em&gt;Rust&lt;/em&gt; expecting to see in it and what does that in turn tell us about &lt;em&gt;Rust&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt; I see that he has quite some many strange quirks about his character but they also don't just come out of nothing. So how does &lt;em&gt;Rust&lt;/em&gt;'s weird one-eye mirror tie into his character and his attitude?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-15T15:04:54.810" LastActivityDate="2019-01-03T22:59:08.693" Title="What is the purpose of Rust's one-eye mirror?" Tags="|analysis|character|props|true-detective|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21585" CreationDate="2014-06-25T04:08:55.910" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer: yes, provided you don't offend anyone. Longer answer: yes &lt;em&gt;and/or&lt;/em&gt; no, depending on how you look at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, I'm a little surprised that no one has mentioned the language barrier with respect to international market size. The US is about 60% of the English-speaking world (by native speaker count), so it's a little surprising that international sales are as strong as they are compared to domestic sales - it seems 40% domestic to 60% international is becoming the trend. Until relatively recently a US film could expect roughly three equal amounts from domestic box office, foreign box office, and other sources (DVD, cable, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, there are a couple of problems with the question. The first is the word &quot;generally&quot;. You have several good answers with numbers comparing US vs. worldwide sales, but these are all fairly successful, well received films. When you move from a domestic market to an international market you will notice something TVTropes likes to call the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImportFilter&quot;&gt;import filter&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. You can read more about it there, but as &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SturgeonsLaw&quot;&gt;90% of all movies are crud&lt;/a&gt;, most films are never exported in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To show a film in a cinema you typically need to go through a certification process. You pay some board a fee to sit and watch your film, they tell you to cut 1.3 seconds of excessive violence and one incidence of foul language (so that they look like they're working), and then you re-edit the film at your own expense. If you want to show the film in the UK, France, Germany, they all have separate boards. They will all ask for different edits. An example with special relevance to war films: Germany in particular is notably more strict on depictions of violence, Nazi symbolism, and glorification of war. Depending on the local language and culture you will also have to rework a lot of the marketing material too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The upshot of this is that an international release incurs a lot of additional cost. This has the effect that a film will only be released internationally &lt;strong&gt;if the distributors are &lt;em&gt;already&lt;/em&gt; relatively sure that they will make a profit&lt;/strong&gt;. A larger number of films will be made that never get a theatrical release outside the US. For example, IMDb 7.1/10 rated, &lt;em&gt;Tigerland&lt;/em&gt;, a domestic flop that grossed less than 2% of its production cost, never had an international release. So one answer to your question is &quot;no, most US military films make little or no money outside the US&quot;. Another answer would be &quot;yes, if they get an international release at all they will typically make a fair profit&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other problem with the question is the assumption that you can so easily split the domestic and foreign profits of big budget films. &lt;em&gt;Pearl Harbor&lt;/em&gt; had a budget of ~$151m and domestic takings of ~$198m. After you consider the $45m marketing budget you're little more than breaking even. No one would ever make that film if they were only hoping for that kind of return. When you factor in the international box office takings you get a much more respectable gross of $449m. Did this movie profit outside the US? You could easily say it &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; made its profit outside the US. More dramatically, &lt;em&gt;Battleship&lt;/em&gt; had a budget of $209m, a domestic take of just $65m, and was barely rescued by international sales of $237m.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anecdotally, I'd say good, honest US military films, with strong production values, are as well received here in the UK as they would be at home, WW2 films especially so. Obviously, films that outright offend a particular country don't do as well. &lt;em&gt;U-571&lt;/em&gt; took only $50m internationally, compared to domestic takings of £77m, probably because no one in the UK went to see it. A rough back-of-the-envelope estimate based on the domestic suggests that this film earned about $65m less internationally than might be expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11324" LastEditorUserId="11324" LastEditDate="2014-06-25T06:49:54.500" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T06:49:54.500" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18644" CreationDate="2014-06-25T04:50:56.110" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an excerpt from an article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nerdcoremovement.com/true-detective-case-files-answers-for-everything-from-carcosa-to-the-yellow-king/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;nerdcoremovement.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ERROL WANTED TO BE KILLED&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For all the dead bodies and bones found at the house that Errol occupied with his half sister, the only two that were discovered came in 1995 and 2012 and both were Errol’s attempts at being found so his ‘work’ could lead him to the ascension. As he states when talking to his sister that it’s been weeks since his last work was witnessed, he’s waiting on the cops to finally be worthy enough to discover his trail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Rust is walking through the catacombs hunting for Errol, he calls him ‘little priest’ and says that he ‘blessed’ Reggie and DeWall while referring to them as acolytes (a person who assists in a religious experience). Obviously, Rust was involved in Reggie and DeWall’s deaths so this was the ascension that Errol spoke about, and now he’s hoping to follow their same path and escape from this plane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Creator Nic Pizzolatto also confirmed as much when speaking to &lt;a href=&quot;http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/03/10/true-detective-post-mortem-creator-nic-pizzoletto-on-happy-endings-season-2-and-the-future-of-cohle-and-hart/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;EW.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;In the beginning, when he says, 'My ascension removes me the disc in the loop,' he’s describing the cosmology of eternal recurrence of various characters, including Cohle and Reggie Ledoux hit upon, and he’s hitting upon his personal mythology. When he says, 'It’s been weeks since I left my mark, would they have eyes to see,' we can tell from that that he’s angling for a reckoning, for a showdown. He’s waiting for it. He believes the murders ritually enacted over a period of time, upon his death, permit him an ascension that removes him from the Karmic wheel of rebirth.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also stands the reason that’s why Errol attacked Cohle and Hart because they had to kill him so he could ascend off this plane. He couldn’t be captured, he had to be killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11329" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T12:11:55.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21623" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21628" CreationDate="2014-06-25T04:56:00.370" Score="13" ViewCount="18496" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/The_Cousins&quot;&gt;The Cousins&lt;/a&gt; were making their way into the US to kill Heisenberg (&lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, Season 3, Episode 1), they turn their Mercedes in at a humble farm and take clothes from the line to swap for their suits, as the farmer (with a look) warns his wife not to interfere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They then go to walk past the couple's daughter, who is with a tethered goat.  One stops, looks at the girl, takes the car key from his pocket, and hangs it on the goat's horn, before walking on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did they intend to return for the car, or was this act a way of saying &lt;em&gt;'Eh, we took some clothes, but you get a car in return!'&lt;/em&gt;?  I keep imagining them returning to find the farmer had turned the car into a chicken coop (or something else very practical).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-15T05:20:10.227" LastActivityDate="2016-04-26T02:43:37.360" Title="Did the cousins intend to return for their Mercedes?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21624" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21626" CreationDate="2014-06-25T05:05:05.023" Score="12" ViewCount="92929" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/The_Cousins&quot;&gt;The Cousins&lt;/a&gt; were making their way into the US to kill Heisenberg (&lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, Season 3, Episode 1), they are at one point riding in the back of a truck (concealed within walls made from bales of hay).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A young man is being chatty, boasting about how he has made the trip 3 times, and has a job waiting.  Nobody else jumps into the conversation so he directs his next comments to the cousins, noting how they have nice shoes.  Then he notices the shoe tips have silver on them, looks close to see a skull, and suddenly falls silent (I guess recognizing them as being cartel members).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moments later, the view pulls back to show the truck from the outside and shots ring out as the cousins supposedly kill all the other passengers.  The driver, hearing the commotion, stops, goes to the back of the truck, and asks what is going on.  They kick open the back, he starts to run, they shoot him as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then they set the truck on fire, and leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did they kill everyone because the young man recognized they were cartel?  Did they always intend to kill everyone else?  If the latter, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-15T05:18:40.137" LastActivityDate="2016-08-01T13:10:11.980" Title="Why did the cousins murder the other people in the smuggling truck?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21625" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21629" CreationDate="2014-06-25T07:12:05.843" Score="4" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming that the mechanoid's head contains it's personality (which seems logical given when Kryten visits his heads they are all capable of interdependently talking and conversing with him). What happens when he uses one of his spare heads instead of his own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does he stop being Kryten and start being Spare Head 2? Is Kryten's personality written over the Spare Head's?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an episode where we see a Spare Head being used as his head we can use to establish this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T15:04:42.807" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T15:04:42.807" Title="How do Kryten's spare heads work?" Tags="|red-dwarf|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21624" CreationDate="2014-06-25T07:40:44.520" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The young boy in the truck recognised the skull on their boots:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nYupL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This meant he could later identify them to law enforcement, if asked - so he had to be eliminated. However, it seems likely that he would have met an unfortunate end &lt;em&gt;anyway&lt;/em&gt;, as The Cousins were feeling particular vicious that day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears they took out the truck and all its occupants for two reasons: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To show they feared no one and would commit any action. Their actions are by far the most vicious and brutal we had seen on the show at that point.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For dramatic effect. We had heard about Tuco's cousins, but at that stage, we still don't even know for sure that it's them. They're silent, deadly and scary - what more could you ask for in a villain?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T07:40:44.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21624" CreationDate="2014-06-25T07:44:18.933" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes they were killed because they were recognized, the danger would be that someone would try and escape the truck, exposing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact they wore the shoes and didn't cover/hide them indicates they intended to kill them at some point, as they weren't too worried about being recognized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T07:44:18.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21623" CreationDate="2014-06-25T07:49:02.187" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having read your comments and actually having rewatched the scene, I'll majorly change my answer now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it doesn't appear they did intend to return for their Mercedes. I took two possible meanings from the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first is fairly unlikely - that they left the car there, left the keys there, but &lt;em&gt;knew&lt;/em&gt; it would still be there when they returned, how ever long in the future that may be. This would symbolise their power and authority and the fear they (and the cartel) strike into people... But it just doesn't seem very likely to me.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The more likely reason, as far as I can tell, is that is symbolises them going on a &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt; trip and not returning. They no longer need the car, as they're going North. By ditching the car in the way they do, it also shows you that they don't &lt;em&gt;value&lt;/em&gt; it in the same way normal people would. They don't need to sell it, or trade it in, or anything like that. They can simply leave it without worrying about the consequences.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If course, there is a third and final option - that the car was payment for their trip across the border. But this strikes me as particularly unlikely as it would hardly be discrete. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To conclude, I think the second reason is most likely. They didn't intend to return, didn't need the car or the money it would bring and simply left it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-06-25T08:06:45.023" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T08:06:45.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21625" CreationDate="2014-06-25T07:57:18.470" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;, such an episode exists - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikka_to_Ride&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tikka to Ride&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarise from the wiki page, Lister is distraught that all the Indian food supplies have been destroyed, including all the poppadoms. He wants to return in time and pick up another 500 curries, something the other crew members are against.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As he isn't winning the argument, he waits until nighttime and swaps Kryten's head for one of the spare heads (removing the guilt chip from it). From the wiki: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The next morning, Rimmer and Cat are confused when Kryten serves&#xA;  them high-calorie breakfasts, starts smoking and using phrases like&#xA;  &quot;you bet your ass&quot;. However, when Kryten assures them it'll be ok to&#xA;  pick up the time drive the two assent and board the ship containing it&#xA;  again intending to go back to the 21st Century to one of Lister's&#xA;  favourite curry houses to pick up a large order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So by swapping the head (and removing the guilt chip), he is able to get a guiltless Kryten. However, it's not &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; the lack of guilt that has changed, but also his personality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember as well that when we first meet the Spare Heads, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_%28Red_Dwarf%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DNA&lt;/a&gt;, they refer to him as &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; and we see all their distinct personalities on display.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in summary, each head has its own personality and swapping them for his &lt;em&gt;usual&lt;/em&gt; head does cause personality differences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-06-25T15:37:29.703" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T15:37:29.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21616" CreationDate="2014-06-25T08:21:49.093" Score="21" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Eye is the window to the soul...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mirror allows Rust to 'see' his own soul, to meditate and focus on his own consciousness and gain prescience, even enlightenment... internally, of course. Cohle is a vehement atheist, but he still believes in a higher level of consciousness: whether borne of delusion, drug induced hallucination or otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previously during the series, Rust remarks about how, when looking into the eyes of a dead person, you can see that in the end &quot;they welcome death'. He also has a fixation on suicide, yet 'lacks the constitution' to carry it out. He is looking into his eyes to 'sanity check' himself, to see if he is suicidal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A mirror which only reflects an eye can only reflect one's soul, not the distracting vessel it occupies. It is a focal point for him... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2019-01-03T22:59:08.693" LastActivityDate="2019-01-03T22:59:08.693" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="21631" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21635" CreationDate="2014-06-25T09:08:16.047" Score="14" ViewCount="1327" Body="&lt;p&gt;On what basis or with what reference was the White Walker induction ceremony included in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &quot;Oathkeeper&quot; (S04E04) and where is it referred to in the books?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4083" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-03-15T07:39:14.827" LastActivityDate="2016-03-15T07:39:14.827" Title="Does the White Walker induction ceremony exist in the books?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|book-adaptation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21632" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21634" CreationDate="2014-06-25T09:45:26.070" Score="17" ViewCount="10312" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Season 3 Episode 1 (Valar Dohaeris)&lt;/em&gt; a young girl attempts to assassinate &lt;strong&gt;Daenerys&lt;/strong&gt; with a scorpion-like creature and then disappears. &#xA;Daenerys is saved by a cloaked Barristan Selmy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is that girl, and why did she attack Daenerys?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4667" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-10-28T21:41:08.983" LastActivityDate="2016-10-28T21:41:08.983" Title="Who is that girl who attacked Daenerys in the episode &quot;Valar Dohaeris&quot; (S03E01)?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21632" CreationDate="2014-06-25T09:55:48.507" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a Clash of Kings,&#xA;As Daenerys visits the docks of Qarth in order to find passage, Ser Jorah alarms her that they are being followed by two men, a fat brown man (15 stone weight and covered in scars) and an older man with a Westerosi appearance (with a white beard and a staff). Ser Jorah and Daenerys notice the men using a large brass platter in a ship and attempt to escape them. Just then the brass merchant takes after them and pesters them to buy the platter which they do just to get rid of the man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that moment, the Qartheen thrusts a carved wooden case disguising it to be a gift to the Mother of Dragons which on opening seems to contain a valuable scarab. As she reaches for it, the scarab unfolds with a hiss. But before the manticore could sting her, whitebeard sends the box pummeling away with his staff and crushes the creature with the end of his staff. Danys' bloodriders attempt to confront the two men but she narrates the incident to them and by the time she sends out her bloodriders to nab the perpetrator, A Sorrowful Man, he has since long disappeared. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two men turn out to be Strong Belwas and Whitebeard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In A Clash of Kings, Daenerys turns to the Warlocks after she's refused aid by the Pureborn, the ruling elite of Qarth. Daenerys' dragons kill the Undying Ones to save their &quot;mother&quot; from the ancient warlocks. After Daenerys leaves the House of the Undying, many Qartheen factions, including the warlocks, call for Daenerys to be killed and one of them sends a Sorrowful Man to assassinate her. Pyat Pree also gathers the remaining warlocks to work ill on Dany.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The TV series changed the Sorrowful Man assassin hired by one of the Qartheen factions to a warlock who appeared as a young girl, though both attempted to kill her with a poisonous Manticore. Also, in the books the assassination attempt occurred as Daenerys was leaving the docks of Qarth, while the TV series slightly changed this by having it occur at Astapor's docks just as she arrived from Qarth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4083" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-25T10:35:15.933" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T10:35:15.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21631" CreationDate="2014-06-25T10:00:40.453" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;strong&gt;is not mentioned&lt;/strong&gt; in the books. No one had ever seen it before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can mean two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This will be in one of the next books; hence the TV Show is starting to spoil the book series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This won't happen in the books, and it was just on the show.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, we cannot know what that scene meant/was based on/referenced/whatever until the next season and/or book come out&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-25T12:21:24.650" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T12:21:24.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21632" CreationDate="2014-06-25T10:01:48.800" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe she was an assassin, sent by the Warlocks to assassinate Dani.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I miss anything or is it as simple as this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T10:01:48.800" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2813" CreationDate="2014-06-25T10:45:15.407" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is somewhat absurd to accept the suggestion that somehow the writing is infallible and that there is an explanation for everything in a movie like this. To be more specific: firstly, the proposition given is that the &quot;&lt;em&gt;star map&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is a way to guide humans to something &quot;more,&quot; as it is an a recurring piece of evidence present in several ancient civilizations. Then, when the &quot;scientists&quot; follow this map, it ends up leading to a planet that is purportedly used for the manufacturing of weapons of mass destruction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, you could argue that the character who suggested this was incorrect, but it still leaves the question as to what the purpose of the &quot;map&quot; was altogether, if nothing more than a plot device to drive the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11309" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-06-25T12:12:57.773" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T12:12:57.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21641" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21643" CreationDate="2014-06-25T14:40:18.313" Score="13" ViewCount="2595" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the reason for the complicated plan to smuggle the poison that killed Joffrey in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; S04E02 to the Purple Wedding? It's not like there's TSA-style security at the entrance, right? Or at least we never see any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was it not possible to simply conceal the poison in the robes, directly on the person who actually adds it to the drink?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11334" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-25T14:51:26.140" LastActivityDate="2014-06-26T11:56:39.273" Title="Why such a complex plan to smuggle the poison to the Purple Wedding?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21641" CreationDate="2014-06-25T15:24:29.450" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because then it would be easier to identify the killer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, whoever did it has &lt;strong&gt;framed&lt;/strong&gt; Tyrion and Sansa; the Lannisters, as well as the rest of the people, cannot think of anyone else to declare as the killer of Joffrey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, let's say, the assassin had the poison on him, that &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; lead back to him. The poison was on Sansa (who was not the assassin). So even if they found out where the poison came from, it would lead to Sansa&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="6552" LastEditDate="2014-06-25T16:12:13.013" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T16:12:13.013" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21641" CreationDate="2014-06-25T17:09:50.883" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reasoning behind the contrived plan to smuggle in the poison has never been explained in the TV show or the books. So for now, all we can do is theorize. Here's my take on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plan's main objective was to assassinate King Joffrey, but it also had a secondary objective: to acquire Sansa Stark. We know that the Tyrells no longer valued Sansa, since she was now married to Tyrion and they can no longer marry her into the Tyrells and take a stake in her Northern claims. So that part must have come from Littlefinger, who still valued Sansa (for various reasons).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sansa is a flighty child and very scared. Littlefinger needed a way to control her and bond her to him. Yes, helping her to escape King's Landing is one step. But afterwards, when she was in relative safety, he needed to make sure she stays with &lt;em&gt;him&lt;/em&gt;. So Littlefinger implicates her in the assassination plan. In legal terms, she is now an accessory to murder. Even if her gratefulness for the help doesn't instill loyalty towards Littlefinger, the threat of being outed as part of a regicide plot would &lt;em&gt;scare&lt;/em&gt; her into loyalty. In essence, for good or bad, she is now stuck with Littlefinger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-06-25T17:09:50.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8423" CreationDate="2014-06-25T17:41:47.980" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No clear cut answer yet, so I found a decent article backing up the notion of Mallory as a good guy, set to become M and support England and 007.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywood.com/news/movies/44013697/the-ending-of-skyfall-and-the-series-future-spoilers?page=all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.hollywood.com/news/movies/44013697/the-ending-of-skyfall-and-the-series-future-spoilers?page=all&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It became clear when Bond chases Silva into the M/MI-6 hearing and a&#xA;  big shoot out erupts. Mallory didn't miss a shot when assisting Bond&#xA;  and Eve. He was a good guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think bringing in Fienes to play M is great, which may make the character more involved than previous iterations. Good article, hope you read it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10054" LastEditorDisplayName="user10054" LastEditDate="2014-07-07T12:29:06.830" LastActivityDate="2014-07-07T12:29:06.830" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21651" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21652" CreationDate="2014-06-25T23:37:12.403" Score="7" ViewCount="3794" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the scene where Sherlock is talking to Mycroft after his extraction from Serbia, they are in a dark office. My presumption is that this would some kind of office belonging to Mycroft, and not necessarily one he commandeered. Although we don't see the office before season three, the presence of the painting in the scene (amidst the general darkness) is somewhat focal and pronounced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is the person that is the subject of the painting, and is it an otherwise historical painting? If it is not a specific individual, is there a resource that helps (non-British) viewers better understand the various iconography and artwork frequently accompanying scenes with Mycroft?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VIxq1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Painting from the show&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11345" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T21:46:35.020" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T21:46:35.020" Title="Who is in the painting behind Mycroft's desk in &quot;The Empty Hearse&quot;?" Tags="|sherlock|props|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21651" CreationDate="2014-06-26T00:03:58.190" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you talking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Annigoni&quot;&gt;Pietro Annigoni&lt;/a&gt;'s portrait of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_II&quot;&gt;Queen Elizabeth II&lt;/a&gt;? Here it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ghK8n.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's actually visible quite clearly in other parts of the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-26T00:12:22.800" LastActivityDate="2014-06-26T00:12:22.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21653" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-26T04:08:11.167" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Red Dwarf&lt;/strong&gt; is a British science fiction comedy series created in 1988 by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Grant&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rob Grant&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Naylor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Doug Naylor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Lister&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dave Lister&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Charles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Craig Charles&lt;/a&gt;), is the last survivor aboard the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf_ships#Red_Dwarf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mining ship Red Dwarf&lt;/a&gt; after a radiation leak killed the rest of the crew. His companions are &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Rimmer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Arnold Rimmer&lt;/a&gt;, the holographic recreation of his dead crewmate, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_%28Red_Dwarf%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cat&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_John-Jules&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Danny John-Jules&lt;/a&gt;), a creature which evolved from his cat, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryten&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kryten&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryten&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Robert Llewellyn&lt;/a&gt;), a mechanoid butler and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_%28Red_Dwarf%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Holly&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Lovett&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Norman Lovett&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_Hayridge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hattie Hayridge&lt;/a&gt;), the senile ship's computer as they face a 3 million year journey back to Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Red Dwarf on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/home/index.cfm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reddwarf.co.uk - The Official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-26T06:23:48.007" LastActivityDate="2014-06-26T06:23:48.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21654" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-26T04:08:11.167" Score="0" Body="A British science fiction comedy series following Dave Lister, the last survivor aboard the mining ship Red Dwarf, Arnold Rimmer, the holographic recreation of his dead crewmate, Cat, a creature which evolved from his cat, Kryten, a mechanoid butler and Holly, the senile ship's computer as they face a 3 million year journey back to Earth." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-26T06:23:51.730" LastActivityDate="2014-06-26T06:23:51.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21655" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21666" CreationDate="2014-06-26T04:43:19.130" Score="5" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a colorless animation movie in which I only remember a scene: &lt;strong&gt;an Asian looking old woman comes across a huge ship&lt;/strong&gt;. I think there were no sounds. The movie should be at least 5 years old. I know this is a very little info but that's all I remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11346" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-06-26T10:38:22.453" LastActivityDate="2014-06-27T02:38:36.230" Title="B&amp;W animation in which old Asian lady finds huge ship" Tags="|identify-this-movie|animation|black-and-white|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:12:07.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21641" CreationDate="2014-06-26T08:40:35.490" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has not been clarified so this is just speculation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the Queen of Thorns had carried the poison into the wedding on herself then there is a small chance that a trace might get left on her somehow and she might be implicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine the political catastrophe if the Tyrells were implicated in regicide via physical evidence. The family name and all of their plans would be in ruins and war would be the probably result.  Even a small chance of this is too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Littlefinger knew that Sansa would vanish without a trace before any actual investigation started (he had arranged it via Dontos) and hence no one would could reliably know who was responsible and it would cause trouble.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Littlefinger likes causing trouble as it allows him to play his game more easily.  If Tyrion had not been appointed cup bearer and humiliated by Joffrey then he would not have been so obvious a suspect so who would have got blamed?  Anyone?  Everyone?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if they suspected Sansa they would never be able to find her to prove anything so Cersei's desire for revenge would probably switch to another target.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Potential alliances would have shattered and division would have sprung up.  Littlefinger would have played both sides like an ambidextrous fiddler who was also an expert juggler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-26T11:56:39.273" LastActivityDate="2014-06-26T11:56:39.273" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21230" CreationDate="2014-06-26T09:59:58.247" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no standard practice for TV pilots (failed or otherwise), as their possessors will have different intentions. Some, but not all, successful pilots are deployed as the maiden episode of a TV series, with the rest of the show built off the back of it; others require recasting, and the pilot itself is buried or re-shot for consistency. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Failed pilots, however, typically have a much more varied existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some are retained by their developing networks, in order to be used as proof of concept for another project (typically to showcase the talents of their respective writers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Projects which deploy licensed characters are sometimes only created to stop the character rights lapsing. &lt;em&gt;Wonder Woman&lt;/em&gt; is a possible recent example of this, as its inability to be picked up stunned people. It has, however, been used as leverage to produce &lt;em&gt;Amazon&lt;/em&gt; by the same network: as if Wonder Woman needed a PoC, at this point!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other works become cherished as lost treasures, in which case networks will release them to special events in order to be exhibited (Comic-Con/Memorabilia events)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lost pilots were, previously, scheduled into graveyard shifts in order to operate as novelties and pull an audience: this was allegedly back when there was a comparable lack of syndicated content to absorb some air time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, it's up to the developing studio: who in developing it will retain the rights to it. If a show wasn't picked up, ostensibly it's because it's not good enough (and hence an embarrassment to the studio). If this were the case, a Studio may wish to simply bury the pilot so it's not available for wide exhibition. It's entirely down to the mandate of the developers whether the show sees daylight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-26T10:42:27.753" LastActivityDate="2014-06-26T10:42:27.753" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21662" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-26T12:57:57.430" Score="32" ViewCount="4624" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oJsaW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Transcribed below&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An image making the rounds on the Internet claims that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since 1986, Sean Bean has died in over 20 films and TV productions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has been brutally killed by&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;bow and arrows, handgun, revolver, shotgun, machine gun, bayonet, satellite crushing, freezing, slashing, cow stampede, hanging, live burial, impaling, beheading, drowning, exploding, stabbing, dismemberment, cloning, and other dangers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One Sean Bean dies every 1.24 years.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;But you have the power to stop it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the first question is if this is correct, but I think people have already looked into that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I would like to know, is Sean Bean indeed 'a walking spoiler', as some sites have it; is a character played by Sean Bean more likely to die than other characters, and are there any actors whose characters are even more likely to die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading the answers and the comments, I realise there are more sides to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does Sean Bean often play characters that die? That has been answered by Bill the Lizard and Simon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there's another question that's much harder to answer, which is if characters played by Sean Bean die more often than characters played by other actors. Perhaps Sean Bean only plays in productions with an overall high body count, or perhaps every producer, director, and casting director goes like &amp;quot;if he dies, ask Sean Bean!&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;This is only answerable by going through each and every production Sean Bean's been in, and tallying, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9382" LastEditorUserId="9382" LastEditDate="2021-08-13T19:02:11.527" LastActivityDate="2021-08-13T19:02:11.527" Title="Are Sean Bean's characters more prone to die than others?" Tags="|analysis|casting|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="21663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21662" CreationDate="2014-06-26T14:29:46.013" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several actors who appear to die frequently in films, and Sean Bean is near the top of the list. According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Znxlk.jpg&quot;&gt;Which Actors Die the Most in Movies?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/list/ls000805145/&quot;&gt;Actors Who Die Really Often in Movies &amp;amp; TV shows&lt;/a&gt;, here are a few of the most notable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000246/&quot;&gt;Bruce Willis&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000136/&quot;&gt;Johnny Depp&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000093/&quot;&gt;Brad Pitt&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000198/&quot;&gt;Gary Oldman&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000115/&quot;&gt;Nicolas Cage&lt;/a&gt; have all died around a dozen times.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000134/&quot;&gt;Robert De Niro&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000997/&quot;&gt;Gary Busey&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000620/&quot;&gt;Mickey Rourke&lt;/a&gt; have each died nearly 20 times.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000293/&quot;&gt;Sean Bean&lt;/a&gt; has died on-screen 24 times.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001637/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1&quot;&gt;Vincent Price&lt;/a&gt; died in 33 films.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000509/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot;&gt;Bela Lugosi&lt;/a&gt; died 36 times.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000457/&quot;&gt;John Hurt&lt;/a&gt; has died 40 times.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2014-06-26T14:44:29.997" LastActivityDate="2014-06-26T14:44:29.997" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21662" CreationDate="2014-06-26T16:07:16.237" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you average the number of deaths from Bill the Lizard's answer over the length of the actor's career and number of appearances, only Bela Lugosi could be said to have died more and more often than Sean Bean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sean Bean - 0.86 deaths/year, 0.22 deaths/credit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vincent Price - 0.6 deaths/year, 0.17 deaths/credit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bela Lugosi - 0.86 deaths/year, 0.32 deaths/credit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;John Hurt - 0.77 deaths/year, 0.21 deaths/credit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11352" LastActivityDate="2014-06-26T16:07:16.237" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21655" CreationDate="2014-06-27T02:38:36.230" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Might it have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286244/&quot;&gt;The Triplets of Belleville&lt;/a&gt; from 2003?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There most certainly is a huge ship in it...&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TaoXa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;seen by a vaguely Asian-looking old woman...&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qUDnj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and there is some black and white in the film...&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9N2pj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any of this ringing any bells?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2014-06-27T02:38:36.230" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13916" CreationDate="2014-06-27T03:09:27.813" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;They sent in Rocco as a way of killing two birds with one stone as they most likely see him (who they have given the mocking title of the &lt;em&gt;funny man&lt;/em&gt;) as a liability and an embarrassment. They also sent him as a form of messenger with a message of hostility as it is explained that the Russians came to Boston as it is a fertile ground for crime. And in the spirit of glasnost they tell the Italians that they may preform criminal acts in Russia with no negative repercussions but the Italians refuse this deal and the Russians continue to push into Boston which is why Rocco was sent to kill the Russians. Two birds with one stone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11359" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-06-27T05:33:43.393" LastActivityDate="2014-06-27T05:33:43.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21670" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-27T11:06:02.580" Score="3" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched How to Train your Dragon part 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shows the alpha following the alpha because of it's mind power over them. This is emphasized when NightFury kills Stoick the Vast while under the enemy alpha's power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At another point, NightFury 'chooses' to fight and become the alpha.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why make the good and evil alpha the same breed when they doesn't really need to be. I am quite confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8421" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-06-27T11:37:38.507" LastActivityDate="2014-06-27T11:40:18.280" Title="Why blindfold nightwing when the alpha obviously doesn't need to look at a dragon's eyes?" Tags="|how-to-train-your-dragon-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21670" CreationDate="2014-06-27T11:40:18.280" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are a keen observer.&#xA;It's perfectly reasonable to expect that the psychic power of alpha is in effect rather than his(or her) vision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a possible explanation (just to explain) is that, maybe alpha needs to have eye contact to set up the control over a dragon and once set, it could guide them on its will until it gets distracted as was the case when it was fighting Toothless. If you observed, none of the dragons attacked Toothless when he(or she) was attacking the alpha, and once Toothless overpowered alpha &lt;em&gt;(all other dragons fell out of alpha's control and sided with toothless)&lt;/em&gt;, all of them unleashed an all out attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, I didn't get your question of good alpha and bad alpha being same breed. What do you mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11363" LastActivityDate="2014-06-27T11:40:18.280" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21676" CreationDate="2014-06-27T16:16:33.590" Score="16" ViewCount="1138" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Fourth Wall&quot;, for the uninitiated, is the wall that separates the movie from the audience, allowing the audience to be spectators to the events depicted.  Famously, the Fourth Wall was demolished like the end of a Pink Floyd concert in the 1986 film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/&quot;&gt;Ferris Beuller's Day Off&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, the main character spent almost as much time talking directly to the audience as he did interacting with the film's other characters, filling us in on plot lines, thoughts and emotions so we got a deeper understanding of what was going on in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm wondering is, when was this device first used in film?  While I'm not film student or expert, I can not think of a single movie prior to FBDO where the device is used.  I know John Cusack's character in High Fidelity did it often, and it was used throughout Fight Club, but it seems such an obvious method to really clue the audience in on what the character(s) is/are feeling.  Or is that just the reason not to; then you leave little to interpretation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T09:10:52.090" LastActivityDate="2018-01-11T04:49:02.917" Title="The origin of the loss of the Fourth Wall?" Tags="|analysis|first-appearance|origin|fourth-wall|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21675" CreationDate="2014-06-27T16:24:37.560" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/BreakingTheFourthWall/Film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TVTropes&lt;/a&gt;, the first use of this was in &lt;strong&gt;1895&lt;/strong&gt;!:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[The breaking the fourth wall trope]&lt;/em&gt; dates back to the Lumière brothers and the first films made for publicviewing in 1895—specifically, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Photographical_Congress_Arrives_in_Lyon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon&lt;/a&gt;, in which several of the photographers wave or doff their hats to the camera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IBiOZ.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IBiOZ.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Waving hat&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see more in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzszLx-2Spc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the video&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't like that though, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafilm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;second oldest&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellzapoppin%27_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hellzapoppin' (1941)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The characters comment on other plots, they talk to the audience, they talk to the projectionist (and in fact, when the shot goes out of frame, they confront the projectionist, who it turned out was getting a little action in his booth), they deconstruct myths, they talk to still photographs (which come alive), they pause the phrase, mock the movie they're watching and the movie they're in (including muting the soundtrack and making jokes over it &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mst3k&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MST3K&lt;/a&gt;-style), criticize the writing, talk about their roles, use double-exposures deliberately, control the direction, and have a running joke with overlaid wording that &quot;Stinky Miller&quot; needs to go to the lobby because his mother is looking for him, and the characters stop in the middle of a musical number to yell at Stinky, who eventually (in silhouette), gets up and leaves. Whew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- TVTropes on Hellzapoppin'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The projectionist fight scene described above can be seen &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouLlA6IQZGI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="12783" LastEditDate="2018-01-11T04:49:02.917" LastActivityDate="2018-01-11T04:49:02.917" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21677" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-27T16:54:55.893" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;fourth wall&lt;/strong&gt; is an imaginary wall behind the camera which indicates the separation between the setting of the film or TV show and the audience. The concept originated in live theater in which the fourth wall was the missing wall at the front of the stage through which the audience views the actors. It may be &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BreakingTheFourthWall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;broken&lt;/a&gt;&quot; for humorous effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fourth Wall on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FourthWall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fourth Wall on TVTropes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-27T18:22:02.060" LastActivityDate="2014-06-27T18:22:02.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21678" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-27T16:54:55.893" Score="0" Body="An imaginary wall behind the camera which indicates the separation between the setting of the film or TV show and the audience. It may be &quot;broken&quot; for humorous effect." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-27T20:26:07.730" LastActivityDate="2014-06-27T20:26:07.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21679" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-27T18:00:09.013" Score="4" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a particular trope identifying drawn out fight scenes in film and TV where the Villain resorts to using wrestling moves vs. the Hero: punches, bear hugs, and body throws, rather than more immediately crippling attacks to vulnerable spots like eyes, throat, or knees you'd expect in a fight to the death?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lots of examples, two that come to mind are the train fight between Priest and Black Hat in &lt;em&gt;Priest&lt;/em&gt; and Hannibal King vs. Jarko Grimwood in &lt;em&gt;Blade: Trinity&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11367" OwnerDisplayName="RobertF" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-27T19:46:44.270" LastActivityDate="2014-06-27T19:46:44.270" Title="Trope for nonlethal force being used in film fight scenes?" Tags="|trope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21679" CreationDate="2014-06-27T18:19:09.047" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LetsFightLikeGentlemen&quot;&gt;Let's Fight Like Gentlemen&lt;/a&gt; from TV tropes might fit the bill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8870" OwnerDisplayName="Hypnosifl" LastActivityDate="2014-06-27T18:19:09.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21683" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23203" CreationDate="2014-06-27T23:35:30.863" Score="2" ViewCount="480" Body="&lt;p&gt;The series &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Columbo#Mrs._Columbo_spin-off&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mrs. Columbo&lt;/a&gt; followed a similar formula as Columbo, but it failed as a series and I can't figure out why. It seems like the same show. Was it her personality? Was it the writing? I have to admit one episode I watched had some pretty boring parts. I guess another possibility was the characterizations. Columbo was always the working class guy taking on rich snobs, and that element was absent in Mrs. Columbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again maybe it was just the writing. Levinson and Link actually plotted out the Columbos themselves and Peter Falk made contributions. In Mrs. Columbo it was just a bunch of routine contract writers. Maybe that was the difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastEditorUserId="206" LastEditDate="2014-06-29T22:43:13.737" LastActivityDate="2014-07-19T05:36:34.607" Title="Why was Mrs. Columbo unpopular?" Tags="|audience-measurement|mrs-columbo|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19290" CreationDate="2014-06-28T00:32:03.290" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dan,&#xA;Although I have looked for some follow-up commentary to corroborate this claim, sadly, this show has little following in the way of discussion. Perhaps you'll be able to accept the claims of a fellow (former) Bletchley Circle watcher.&#xA;As you suspect, the plot is very thin. The second season did unravel, as compared to the first. This may be why the scenario is so far fetched, and hinged on the cover up by the secrete military group and silence of the affected soldiers. The one soldier was only too eager to speak to Susan. Probably, Susan's clandestine trip into the hospital wing housing the soldiers was the only outside visitors the soldiers received - weren't the listed as dead from a &quot;crash&quot; or quarantined? Once the hospital realized Susan infiltrated its wing, she was brought to the Colonel, where presumable she would be shamed into confessing to her husband. Susan was much to strong to be ashamed, and came clean with her husband thus convincing the Colonel that there was malpheasance amiss. The Colonel probably had no reason to step on the toes of other senior military men, as was the case at the time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10054" LastActivityDate="2014-06-28T00:32:03.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21688" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21819" CreationDate="2014-06-28T02:35:23.217" Score="9" ViewCount="1444" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would Olenna want to poison king Joffrey in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; season 4 before the marriage was consummated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8580" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-28T12:44:45.163" LastActivityDate="2019-01-03T22:43:52.583" Title="What were the motivations behind the murder?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21694" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21699" CreationDate="2014-06-28T12:34:04.883" Score="16" ViewCount="42934" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding of how the story in movies proceeds is that the writer builds up the expectation of the audience and then concludes it appropriately.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not see that in &lt;em&gt;American History X&lt;/em&gt;. All throughout the movie, the story builds up the expectation that Edward Norton would do something about the Neo-Nazi group that he helped establish before he was sent to Chino.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the movie &quot;abruptly&quot; ends with the death of his younger brother. Although this might sound very subjective but this seemed like an improper ending to me. Of course I don't want to argue if you liked this ending or not. But I'd like to understand what this ending was supposed to tell us. Why did the movie end in such an unexpected way and how did this ending tie in with the rest of the movie's story and themes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7522" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-28T13:16:19.053" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T16:34:24.537" Title="Why did American History X end so unexpectedly?" Tags="|analysis|ending|american-history-x|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20004" CreationDate="2014-06-28T12:37:14.390" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is one of the things wrong about this movie. While that village is supposed to be indian, those were Sri Lankan people and spoke sinhalese; Native language of SL. How do I know? Cuz I'm Sri Lankan as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to answer your question Indy says &quot;Thank You, Thank you so much&quot; (Isthoothyi, Bohoma Isthoothyi&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11379" LastActivityDate="2014-06-28T12:37:14.390" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17727" CreationDate="2014-06-28T13:14:04.607" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading your question the first thing that came to mind was an episode of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1489428/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Justified&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, specifically &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1649567/?ref_=ttep_ep1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;S02E01 &quot;The Moonshine War&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. It would have been out at around the right time. There are no supernatural elements to the show, however it still may be worth a look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11380" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-28T13:23:46.527" LastActivityDate="2014-06-28T13:23:46.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15725" CreationDate="2014-06-28T13:49:55.767" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Godfather Part 2&lt;/em&gt;, there is a scene showing Fredo being sick as a child, possibly alluding to his abnormalities. Being a liability, he was ultimately sent to early Las Vegas and kept in the dark about the family business. He obviously was having nefarious conspiring  conversations with Roth and Ola and was out for himself. Michael didn't need to kill everyone, just his enemies, which included Fredo. Tom was the only true loyal one in my opinion. There is supposedly an extra hour of footage out there which might explain more. The comment about opening the blinds at the home before the attempt on Michael was interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11381" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2023-05-14T19:31:48.743" LastActivityDate="2023-05-14T19:31:48.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="21699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21694" CreationDate="2014-06-28T14:50:49.857" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;The message of American History X is quite simple: violence begets violence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole film is a series of escalations based on revenge; Derek and Danny lose their father and hate consumes them. They win a basketball game against the black gang (and their turf in the process) and the gang try and steal their fathers' truck as revenge, Derek kills them over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then Derek's arrest interrupts this pattern, he goes off to prison and with the help of Dr. Sweeney he realises the pattern of behaviour and does what he can to prevent it from going any further. Derek has his catharsis and becomes a different person, and tries to help Danny do the same. But the problem is the same hasn't happened to those that he's wronged; there are still people out there from the black gang who have lost friends and blame them both for it, and in the end Danny pays the price.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is much more poignant and reflective of real life in this way, after years of fighting it's not so simple to drop everything and get the happy ending Hollywood has taught us is waiting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-28T17:50:06.650" LastActivityDate="2014-06-28T17:50:06.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21700" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-28T16:42:42.760" Score="1" ViewCount="253" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a scene in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_a_Little_Dream&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1989's Dream A Little Dream&lt;/a&gt; where Jason Robards' character is talking to Corey Feldman's character &quot;telepathically&quot; via a dream.  He's done this a number of times previously, but this time he's asking what he needs to do or something, and at one point Corey Feldman's character says to him something like, &quot;If you had just paid attention 4 dreams ago, you'd already know!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is a longshot, but does anyone know specifically if Feldman's character &lt;strong&gt;did&lt;/strong&gt; say something foreshadowing, and if so can you point me to the specific point in the film where he says it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-28T16:53:14.840" LastActivityDate="2014-06-28T16:53:14.840" Title="What foreshadowing was Corey Feldman's character referring to in Dream A Little Dream?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|dream-a-little-dream|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21701" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-28T16:42:49.783" Score="1" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm re-watching &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spooks&lt;/a&gt; and the first scene between &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Quinn_%28Spooks%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tom Quinn&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessa_Phillips&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tessa Phillips&lt;/a&gt; is the following exchange:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tom&lt;/strong&gt;: I thought we were supposed to &lt;em&gt;share&lt;/em&gt; information. Do the words 'ports warning list' mean anything to you? She came in over six weeks ago, God knows where she's been.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tessa&lt;/strong&gt;: She was on a false passport to Dover from France and her name wasn't Mary Kane, it was Denise Marston. I'm not Mystic Meg, Tom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tom&lt;/strong&gt;: No, Tessa, you're something else. &lt;em&gt;[staring]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Tessa sighs incredulously]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lKig0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Dead eye stare&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know later on they have a lot of issues, but I don't recall this ever being explained, nor is it on the Wiki articles. Does anyone know what the history is between them that could explain the exchange? It certainly doesn't sound like it's completely her fault for missing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-06-28T16:42:49.783" Title="What is the History between Tom Quinn and Tessa Phillips" Tags="|plot-explanation|spooks|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21702" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-28T16:53:43.850" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spooks&lt;/strong&gt; (also known as &lt;strong&gt;MI-5&lt;/strong&gt; in some countries) is a 2002 British spy drama series following the missions of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MI5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MI5&lt;/a&gt;, the UK's domestic intelligence organisation, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A spin-off series, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooks%3a_Code_9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Spooks: Code 9&lt;/a&gt; was also created in 2008.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Spooks on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160904/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-28T19:39:53.200" LastActivityDate="2014-06-28T19:39:53.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21703" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-28T16:53:43.850" Score="0" Body="A British spy drama series following the missions of MI-5, the UK's domestic intelligence organisation, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-28T21:48:17.467" LastActivityDate="2014-06-28T21:48:17.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21705" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21707" CreationDate="2014-06-28T17:27:29.290" Score="4" ViewCount="2739" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Dr. Alfred Jones (Ewan McGregor) is very, well, shy, or could be cliched proper English. The wiki suggests he is Autistic, perhaps with Aspergers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any indication in the movie I may have missed, or in the Novel (I have not read) which is an objective indicator of autism?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-03-17T20:56:18.413" LastActivityDate="2018-03-17T20:56:18.413" Title="Is Dr. Alfred Jones autistic, or just 'English'?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|salmon-fishing-in-the-yemen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21705" CreationDate="2014-06-28T18:12:41.477" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are hints in the movie; when Alfred calls Harriet to ask her when she's coming back to the office, she doesn't answer and so he goes to her flat where she accuses him of having &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Asperger syndrome&lt;/a&gt;, which is a kind of autism:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harriet&lt;/strong&gt;: Look, I'm not... I'm not coming into work, all right, because I need to stay here. I need to be here in case there's news. So, actually, anyone with a shred of understanding, or humanity, or simple feeling, who, frankly, wasn't suffering from some kind of Asperger's, would know that the last thing that I need is your bullying little phone call asking me to come into work so that you can update me on fish... You want to fill me in on fishing. Well, Dr. Jones, you can take your work and you can shove it up your unfeeling arse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fred&lt;/strong&gt;: I didn't come here to talk to you about work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harriet&lt;/strong&gt;: Then why are you here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fred&lt;/strong&gt;: I made you a sandwich.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a few minutes later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harriet&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm so sorry about what I said before. That is just unforgivable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fred&lt;/strong&gt;: The great thing about people with Asperger's is it's very difficult to hurt their feelings. So it's all right, you can say whatever you like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not absolute confirmation though, because he could just be sarcastically throwing it back at her (though I don't think so). So I did a little more digging:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/SalmonFishingInTheYemen&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TVTropes page&lt;/a&gt;, Dr. Alfred Jones suffers from &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AmbiguousDisorder&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ambiguous Disorder&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This character's behaviour is so bizarrely outside the norm that Real Life psychologists would be scrambling for the diagnostic manual to try to figure out what to diagnose them with. It's way beyond mere ordinary quirkiness. &lt;strong&gt;No reasons are given for the strange behaviour&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;No specific diagnosis is ever mentioned in the story&lt;/strong&gt;. In fact, &lt;strong&gt;any resemblance to any real disorder is likely accidental&lt;/strong&gt;; the character's symptoms are exactly those symptoms the writer wants them to have. It is a case of Ambiguous Disorder. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptshadow.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/screenwriter-interview-simon-beaufoy.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; with the scriptwriter, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Beaufoy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Simon Beaufoy&lt;/a&gt; in which he states that Fred is &quot;on the spectrum&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: Now it’s been over a year since I read the script, but if I remember correctly, Fred, the main character, is a rather prickly sort. When you write characters that are in danger of coming off as unsympathetic to the audience, are you conscious of that? And if so, what do you do to endear them to the audience more so that they root for them?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beaufoy&lt;/strong&gt;: Fred is not at all likeable for a good deal of the script. That's the point, really. But we see the possibility of a kind, funny person trapped inside a dull shell, too scared to be the person he could be. And we want him to succeed. Many years ago, Alfred Uhry read a treatment of mine for another film and had only one question: &quot;do we like him?&quot; I answered with all sorts of clever stuff about how he was a complicated, layered person at a crossroads in his life, blah blah and he just repeated the question: &quot;do we like him?&quot; It took a long time to really understand the simple and perfect beauty of that question. It really is that simple and that complicated. Do we like Fred? &lt;strong&gt;He's spectrum autistic&lt;/strong&gt;, rude, humourless, apparently passionless. However, in a moment of weakness (as far as he's concerned) he reveals his care and love for Harriet by making her a duck sandwich. And in that moment, ridiculously, we like him. After that, anything's possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't make it very clear though, but I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.topangamessenger.com/story_detail.php?ArticleID=5108&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;another interview&lt;/a&gt; with him in which the &lt;em&gt;interviewer&lt;/em&gt; states that Beaufoy added this character trait in and it was not in the novel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By reducing Jones’ age and giving him Asperger’s syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder, Beaufoy added a quirky flair to the character that gives the audience a completely different experience in watching a man overcome himself to achieve happiness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not very concisely written, but if it really is an interview as it claims, I'd assume Beaufoy would correct him if it was in the novel (and I've seen no evidence that it is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; has it in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%3aFilms_about_autism&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;films about autism&lt;/a&gt; category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-28T19:22:40.633" LastActivityDate="2014-06-28T19:22:40.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4305" CreationDate="2014-06-28T19:14:40.143" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the pair were attempting to escape the factory, the foreman ended up just in front of the them, so Aaron took advantage of (either knocking the foreman out, or killing him) to aid their escape and since he was down anyway, Aaron takes the watch knowing its value will probably be needed in the near future, as they are now both fugitives and on the run from the agency's operatives.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly after that scene, Marta takes Aaron to a flophouse to wait through the sickness to come. She had infected Aaron with the virus, to 'viral him out' of the dependance on blue pills. He gets very sick. She is nursing him, wiping the sweat off his soaked brow. He struggles to sit up, even though she tells him to stay down. Aaron sits up anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then tells Marta that he has $40,000 in the lining of his jacket, there are passports in his backpack, both the ones they used and blank, and that the watch from the foreman is worth (I could not hear if he says $2k or $20k) and that she should take it all and go disappear. She has done enough for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2016-01-21T13:29:38.647" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T13:29:38.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21709" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23932" CreationDate="2014-06-28T20:17:01.627" Score="5" ViewCount="770" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1670345/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Now You See Me&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the legend says that The Eye only takes new members twice a century. When would Rhodes have been accepted? Certainly not fifty years ago. One might assume that his role in everything that happened was his attempt to get accepted and that he was indeed the Fifth Horseman that nobody else knew about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that is the case, why is he the one welcoming them to The Eye at the end as if he was already a member?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9270" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-29T10:49:42.220" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T23:52:07.447" Title="Was there a Fifth Horseman?" Tags="|plot-explanation|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18188" CreationDate="2014-06-28T23:16:08.970" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, all the parole and probation would have been dropped against him, because he uncovered the missing evidence (the Car) and 6 months is about right just for the illegal street racing charge and property damages Im sure he had to pay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11386" LastActivityDate="2014-06-28T23:16:08.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21712" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21854" CreationDate="2014-06-28T23:39:14.540" Score="20" ViewCount="11141" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/a&gt; series, everyone who claims to be the rightful heir to the Iron throne uses the following title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[King or Queen] of the Andals, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Rhoynar&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rhoynar&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/First_Men&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;First Men&lt;/a&gt;, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/a&gt; the Rhoynar are always omitted And up until now I had assumed this was because they were never mentioned in other contexts and it was just to avoid confusing people. For example in S04E05- &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_of_His_Name&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First of His Name&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; when Tommen is crowned king, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/High_Septon_%28title%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;High Septon&lt;/a&gt; crowns him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tommen of the house Baratheon, First of his name, King of the Andals and the first Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However in the most recent episode, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_%28Game_of_Thrones%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Children&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Daenerys (for what I believe to be the first time), is announced as also holding this honour:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9a3aP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Daenerys&amp;#39; titles in S04E10- The Children&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have I missed previous mentions or was this just an error added in by a fan working in the graphics department?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T22:04:04.553" Title="Why does nobody but Daenerys call themselves King (or Queen) of the Rhoynar?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20062" CreationDate="2014-06-28T23:56:08.770" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Finally got around to it... A deleted answer did mention Alice Cooper but without specifying a title, so here's the full answer. The song playing in this scene is Alice Cooper's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Hooray&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hello Hurray&lt;/a&gt; from the 1973 album &lt;em&gt;Billion Dollar Babies&lt;/em&gt;. You can find it &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rla3FCarWYU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. As for its significance (other than establishing 'cool' and '1973'), some of the lyrics could describe Quicksilver's getting out of that basement and utilizing his talent for real after being recruited by the X-men:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Let the show begin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've been ready&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...............&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've been waiting so long for this thing to come&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've been thinking so long I was the only one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Roll out your American dream and its recruits, I've been ready&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Roll out your circus freaks and hula hoops, I've been ready&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...............&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm so strong&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-06-29T07:51:34.767" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T07:51:34.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21724" CreationDate="2014-06-29T00:12:59.463" Score="11" ViewCount="7876" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Iron Man 2 saw James “Rhodey” Rhodes take Stark’s silver Mark 2 armor&#xA;  and with the help of Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell) turn it into the&#xA;  heavily armed War Machine. For Iron Man 3, Marvel Studios took some&#xA;  ideas from the comics and used them to drastically change the&#xA;  appearance of Rhodey’s duds into the Iron Patriot. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/iron-man-3-iron-patriot-war-machine-spoilers/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;- Screen Rant on War Machine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony Stark doesn't seem to be into the practice of sharing his best technology/inventions with the US Government. My question is, &lt;strong&gt;why didn't he take his armor back from Rhodey?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He could have perhaps:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hijacked the suit's computers remotely &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gone in with his own suit to take the Mark 2 suit by force when not being worn. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“When last we saw Jim Rhodes, played by Don Cheadle, he was flying&#xA;  away from Tony at the end of Iron Man 2 wearing the Mark 2 suit that&#xA;  he had taken from Tony’s house. What we learn in the beginning of Iron&#xA;  Man 3 is that they’ve made an arrangement. Tony has let Rhodey have&#xA;  this suit; he’s using it in conjunction with the US Government...&quot; &lt;strong&gt;- Marvel Studios President of Production Kevin Feige&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is the case, &lt;strong&gt;when &amp;amp; why did Stark make that agreement?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't appear, based on the films, that Stark and Rhodes made such an agreement, rather it's inferred from the beginning of Iron Man 3&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Again, Tony doesn't seem like the type to share his weapons with the government; In fact he is, if I understand correctly, not happy about having designed and sold weapons in the past. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9733" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T14:43:03.517" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T14:43:03.517" Title="Why didn't Tony Stark take back his Mark 2 Armor that was used to create War Machine?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-3|iron-man-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21717" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-29T02:45:31.373" Score="8" ViewCount="12763" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the FBI agent states that no one is in the house they checked at the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Silence of the Lambs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Jack Crawford looks worried and says Clarice's name, as if he's concerned about her safety.  How would he know that she was in danger?  She was just looking for clues to link Buffalo Bill to Bimmell, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11388" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-29T10:40:37.633" LastActivityDate="2018-09-27T09:53:09.927" Title="How did Jack Crawford know Clarice was in danger once the FBI realized the house in Illinois was empty?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-silence-of-the-lambs|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21718" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-29T04:06:32.000" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-06-29T04:06:32.000" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T04:06:32.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21719" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-29T04:06:32.000" Score="0" Body="Dream a Little Dream is a 1989 teen film directed by Marc Rocco and stars Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Meredith Salenger, Jason Robards, Piper Laurie and Harry Dean Stanton." OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-06-29T07:29:07.610" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T07:29:07.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21720" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-29T04:33:02.290" Score="1" ViewCount="576" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quote from Iron Man 3, emphasis my own:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[as Hogan lies in hospital critically injured, Tony is sat in his room&#xA;  when a nurse walks in to check on Hogan]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tony Stark: Uh...mind leaving that on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Happy's Nurse: Sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Tony rises from his seat]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tony Stark: Sunday night's PBS 'Downtown Abbey'. That's his show, he&#xA;  thinks it's elegant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[he pauses for a moment]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tony Stark: One more thing...make sure everyone wears their badges.&#xA;  He's a stickler for that sort of thing, plus &lt;strong&gt;my guys won't let anyone&#xA;  in without them.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Tony turns to leave]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just watched this scene and stopped to search the quote to make sure I heard it right:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony Stark says that his guys won't let anyone in without them, but earlier the badge thing (And Happy's security measures in general) didn't seem important at all to him and Pepper. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps I misunderstood this. I'm thinking by badges, Tony means his own security badges, not police badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did Tony post guys outside of Happy's hospital room and have them require security badges to get in?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing that doesn't make sense to me is the idea of personal security in a public hospital, requiring personnel and visitors to wear badges from a personal security system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9733" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T14:42:22.087" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T14:42:22.087" Title="Did Tony post guys outside of Happy's hospital room and have them require badges to get in?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-3|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17592" CreationDate="2014-06-29T06:07:53.437" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was Marcus. Look at the facts: Marcus was in the middle of a horrible divorce with a castrating mother yet still stood up for his father. He went to his father to show his support. Lucas brushed him off when he tried to tell him that he was #1 gay, #2 not interested in the hunt. Marcus didn't fit in and related to the ignorance and hate his father was experiencing. Then, &quot;THEY&quot; killed his beloved dog. Would you forgive a group of people who killed your dog? Seriously? Then, fa la la, all is fine when &quot;Marcus&quot; becomes a real man. Marcus promised to kill every single one of them, every one. Now, he's furious at his dad for forgiving those people who ruined both of their lives. Lucas still doesnt see the rage that is inside his son and, instead, subjects him to a party with those same people that Marcus hates. Now Marcus gets his revenge and shoots a warning shot, a &quot;remember my promise &quot; shot at his dad, which is why he doesn't kill him and walks away. He is letting his weak dad know that HE has not forgiven this town of idiots nor the child that made up the story. Lucas is gentle and forgiving; Marcus is not and feels betrayed. The next movie will be &quot;the Marcus Massacre&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11390" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T06:07:53.437" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21723" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21761" CreationDate="2014-06-29T10:49:21.897" Score="2" ViewCount="515" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just watched the first episode of True Blood and I'm a little confused about how many people know that Sookie can read their thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a scene with Jason where he becomes frustrated that he wasn't guarding his thoughts around her and there's another with Tara where she's annoyed because had Sookie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bill is suspicious, does anyone else know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-06-29T18:42:07.337" LastActivityDate="2014-06-30T17:24:42.037" Title="At the beginning of True Blood who knows about Sookie's abilities?" Tags="|true-blood|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21716" CreationDate="2014-06-29T11:41:10.443" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tony's central concern with the government's attempts to appropriate the Iron Man armor was borne out of their intentions with the program: To weaponize the technology, and to create an army of the machines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having being a former arms manufacturer, Tony is well aware of the Military Industrial Complex embedded within US politics; and having been enlightened to the error of his ways, has resolved to deconstruct such a relationship (or at least no longer participate in it). Tony is thus positioned on one side of a long historical debate, in which it is perceived that America has existed in a constant state of war since WWII in order to feed the arms industry: hence its aggressive foreign policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/8y06NSBBRtY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He doesn't want the US Gov. to seize control of the Iron Man technology because he is aware he will be contributing to this. Justin Hammer represents Tony's antithesis (and former temperament) and demonstrates exactly what happens when such technology finds its way into malevolent forces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a Technocratic Altruist, Tony believes that power can only be wielded by those who have earned the right and proven their judgment to be benevolent. He does not trust the US government in this regard (probably because of their being compromised to said Military Industry), but he does trust Rhodey (eventually). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stark is still a patriot, and although he doesn't want to let Iron Man be used as a political football: he &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; want to protect his country from threats both foreign and domestic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James Rhodes represents the perfect compromise: someone who will work in the interest of the US Military, but not the industry that sustains war to fund it. As a soldier he is accountable to his superiors, but Tony trusts that his judgement is pure enough that he will not allow himself to be used for ignoble purposes. He trusts Rhodey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Iron Patriot is more of a propaganda piece than an extensive, widespread weapon anyway. He exists to send a message and consolidate the ideals of american freedom: he is an updated Captain America, and is subject to the same pageantry and showcasing that Cap experiences in &lt;em&gt;Captain America.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as one exists, he is a symbol. If they are mass produced, they become weapons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2014-06-29T19:19:04.533" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T19:19:04.533" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21734" CreationDate="2014-06-29T15:08:31.857" Score="29" ViewCount="55635" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_%281997_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Titanic&lt;/a&gt;, the elderly Rose visits a ship searching for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_the_Ocean&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Heart of the Ocean&lt;/a&gt; diamond, set in a necklace.  Unbeknownst to them, she actually carries it with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one of the final scenes, a bare footed Rose walks to the railing of the search ship, climbs up on it in similar fashion to when she and Jack were on the prow of the Titanic, and throws it into the ocean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/1985/566&quot;&gt;Why did Lovett invite Rose aboard his search boat in Titanic?&lt;/a&gt; suggests Rose threw it overboard for 'closure', but I simply cannot understand how that was closure.  After all, it is not as though Jack (when alive) had any real interest in it.  Nor did Rose. It was of interest only to her fiance Cal (who took his own life in 1929, when the stock market crashed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be said that the return of the 'Heart of the &lt;em&gt;Ocean&lt;/em&gt;' to the ocean, was ..poetic in a sense, but how was it closure?  If not closure, then why did she do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pages.drexel.edu/%7Eina22/splaylib/Screenplay-Titanic.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;original script&lt;/a&gt; differs from the movie in that the people searching for the diamond are there to &lt;em&gt;witness&lt;/em&gt; her throwing it overboard.  She even has a few words with Lovett as he is holding the object of his desire in his hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You look for treasure in the wrong place, Mr. Lovett.  Only life is precious, and making each day count.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another snatch of the script that might be relevant:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hardest part of being so poor, was being so rich.  But every time I thought of selling it, I thought of Cal.  And somehow I always got by without his help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-11-23T08:59:23.730" Title="Why did Rose throw the diamond necklace overboard?" Tags="|plot-explanation|titanic|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21729" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21730" CreationDate="2014-06-29T15:21:44.467" Score="17" ViewCount="163308" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_%281997_film%29&quot;&gt;Titanic&lt;/a&gt;, the camera pans across a group of pictures that showed Rose had lived a rich, full life (some of which was suggested to her by Jack - e.g. learning how to ride 'like a man').  It then settles on a very peaceful looking Rose in her bed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the scene segues to drop down into the inky depths of the ocean to traverse one of the upper decks of the wreck, then that transforms back to the original ship as it had looked in its splendor, turns a corner into an area of people (all of whom, I'm guessing, died during the night it sank), and up a staircase to where Jack is waiting for her in front of a clock.  She takes his hand, and they embrace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was that to signify that she was &lt;em&gt;dreaming&lt;/em&gt; of Jack and all those that had been lost, or had she died and &lt;em&gt;joined&lt;/em&gt; them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T23:58:27.280" Title="Did Rose die at the end of Titanic, or was she dreaming?" Tags="|plot-explanation|titanic|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21729" CreationDate="2014-06-29T15:38:56.507" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;In both the film and the script it's left ambiguous - specifically the script says;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We PAN OFF the last picture of Rose herself, warm in her bunk. A&#xA;  profile shot. She is very still. She could be sleeping, or maybe&#xA;  something else.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T15:38:56.507" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21731" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-06-29T16:31:08.590" Score="3" ViewCount="502" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borgman_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Borgman&lt;/a&gt; is full of Biblical symbols. Not being well educated in this area, I am looking for someone to explain the symbols appearing in Borgman to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11396" LastEditorUserId="55668" LastEditDate="2019-01-23T21:07:15.260" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T21:11:06.513" Title="Symbols of Borgman" Tags="|analysis|borgman|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="21732" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-06-29T16:51:45.360" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Borgman&lt;/strong&gt; is a 2013 Dutch thriller directed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_van_Warmerdam&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alex van Warmerdam&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The homeless Camiel Borgman (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082052/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jan Bijvoet&lt;/a&gt;) enters the lives and home of the arrogant and upper-class artist Marina (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0591389/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hadewych Minis&lt;/a&gt;) and media executive Richard (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2334765/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeroen Perceval&lt;/a&gt;), turning their lives into a psychological nightmare in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Borgman on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borgman_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954315/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-29T21:44:58.170" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T21:44:58.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21733" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-06-29T16:51:45.360" Score="0" Body="A 2013 Dutch thriller about the homeless Camiel Borgman who enters the lives and home of the arrogant and upper-class artist Marina and media executive Richard, turning their lives into a psychological nightmare in the process." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-06-29T21:44:55.160" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T21:44:55.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21728" CreationDate="2014-06-29T18:10:06.110" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always looked at it as Rose giving her heart to Jack, symbolically.  Also, she knew the value of it and knew that in an extreme moment of poverty she could sell it, but she was now at the end of her life and knew she no longer needed that &quot;chip&quot; to cash in.  Also, recall that it was somewhat &quot;stolen&quot;, so passing it on to her heirs would come with some risk she probably wasn't willing to impart on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T18:10:06.110" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21080" CreationDate="2014-06-29T19:22:37.853" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a nice scene just when the song Ecstasy of Gold starts. &#xA;Actually the dog was not part of the original script. It was Leone's dog and it ran and escaped when the scene was shot. Elli's reaction is a natural instinct on being startled. Leone (perfectionist as he may be) liked the result so much that he decided to keep it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11399" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T19:22:37.853" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14387" CreationDate="2014-06-29T21:29:22.387" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that a healing machine like that in Elysium may very well be possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the key is that an object is a wave until it is measured. &#xA;It then becomes a particle only after it is measured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there was a way to measure a wave into a particle, it maybe possible to use an MRI type machine to create matter in the shape you wanted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example turning a cancer cell into a wave then back into a healthy cell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11404" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T21:29:22.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21433" CreationDate="2014-06-29T22:41:03.800" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also remember that nobody in the Eyrie is supposed to know that they are actually hosting Sansa excepting Littlefinger of course and the two/three people part of the small council which interrogated Sansa following her aunt &quot;suicide&quot;, one another was the aunt's son who was already sent away: Sansa revealed her real identity only to these people, for all the others she is supposed to be Littlefinger's niece Alayne. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of that the guards probably don't know about Sansa at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't get is why the Hound doesn't enter the Eyrie (but is there some village there, anything?) just to get treatment for his human-biting wound (Jeez that scene is one of the most ridiculous of the whole show).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11405" LastEditorUserId="11405" LastEditDate="2014-06-29T22:56:54.603" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T22:56:54.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13666" CreationDate="2014-06-29T23:26:14.713" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you watch the movie, and that scene in particular, you'll know that they tried to get 2 on the plank but it began to flip.  Jack decided to sacrifice himself rather than put Rose in danger.  In the real world, I'm sure they could have eventually worked out the weight distribution so that they both could have climbed aboard without it flipping, but for dramatic purposes they stopped trying after the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer the question in the title, Jack never did let go of the plank.  He held on to Rose until he was dead (presumably of hypothermia), as Andrew Thompson pointed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-06-29T23:26:14.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21742" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21743" CreationDate="2014-06-30T02:40:26.140" Score="14" ViewCount="129970" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the mass of a 'teenth?  Many characters in Breaking Bad use this term when referring to a small bag of crystal meth (which at one point, when Jesse is buying from the guys that arranged for the death of Combo, costs $300).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks to be between 1-3 grams, does that mean it is one 16th of an ounce?  That would come to around 1.75 grams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastActivityDate="2019-01-06T06:38:13.063" Title="What mass is a 'teenth?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21742" CreationDate="2014-06-30T03:05:16.457" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not found any official definition of &quot;teenth&quot;, but doing a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/webhp?tab=ww&amp;amp;ei=EMuwU8CbEMOnyASu7IKIDA&amp;amp;ved=0CBQQ1S4#q=%22breaking+bad%22+teenth&quot;&gt;Google search&lt;/a&gt; for the terms &quot;breaking bad&quot; and &quot;teenth&quot;, it seems the general consensus is that it does mean 1/16th of an ounce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9908" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-30T07:48:27.297" LastActivityDate="2014-06-30T07:48:27.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21729" CreationDate="2014-06-30T03:36:43.270" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Rose died. Why else would the shot show her going back to the Titanic to be with Jack? Also, the entire staircase area is filled with all those who died with the ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all my opinion but that's what I believe is suggested. Same as Les Mis (new one) and the final episode of Lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11410" LastEditorUserId="11410" LastEditDate="2014-07-01T00:07:01.240" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T00:07:01.240" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21749" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23481" CreationDate="2014-06-30T06:36:34.810" Score="10" ViewCount="3158" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first episode of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2372162/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Orange Is the New Black&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; they mention that Piper has a 15 month sentence. In the last episode of Season 1 it's Christmas. Are there any hints or comments I might have missed that indicate how much time has passed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11411" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-30T07:43:32.927" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T11:46:09.950" Title="How much time passes during Season 1?" Tags="|orange-is-the-new-black|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21754" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21756" CreationDate="2014-06-30T13:18:05.233" Score="49" ViewCount="179269" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that in earlier times, feature films were distributed on large format tape, and these were what were distributed to theaters for showing. A given feature film would have several reels. The theater would have two projectors and a projectionist would need to queue up the next reel and start it at the correct time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are feature films still distributed to theaters in this fashion? Or do modern theaters now use digital projectors, such as what might be used in a home theater? (By digital I mean DVD/Bluray)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-06-30T14:32:33.320" LastActivityDate="2019-02-05T06:58:17.837" Title="What format do movie theaters now use?" Tags="|film-industry|distribution|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21754" CreationDate="2014-06-30T14:06:54.863" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, film projection is a thing of past now. Not only in US, but in most of the countries around the world, the projection system has gone digital with the age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowadays, most of the theatre chains use digital projectors and movies are distributed to them in magnetic hard drives. Primary reason behind this is transition cost. While making and distributing hundreds and thousands of reels cost a good chunk, Hard drives cost merely a fraction of it and distribution is easy as well. Moreover, with film projection, there was always a master copy and other reels were copied from it and even with advanced techniques the quality of film suffered (in a very minor way though), there would always be a haggle in the market over getting a higher standard print. With digital prints, it's a game of ones and zeroes and two prints can be an exact copy of each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By today, it's rare to find a theatre running on film projection, not because they have become obsolete quality but because people stopped distributing films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11363" LastActivityDate="2014-06-30T14:06:54.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21754" CreationDate="2014-06-30T14:22:39.300" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst there are some cinemas that still retain use of 35mm projectors, it's fair to say that these are only used for special events. Modern cinema, by which I mean the industry that distributes and exhibits &lt;em&gt;mainstream&lt;/em&gt; content (so any new releases), are exclusively distributed in digital format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In early 2002, Hollywood sought to standardize this technology for the incredible advantages it possessed. Digital projectors have been industry standard since 2005 in the UK, but much earlier in America and China. Due to its cinematic heritage and relative size, the UK is almost always used as the 'control' in rolling out cinematic technologies. It is usually measured as an experiment, and just as the introduction of sound, colour and 3D cinemas required refits and refurbishment, this is now happening with digital distribution. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of the world is moving in exactly the same direction, but with different levels of immersion in the cinematic process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many cinemas use a system called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Cinema_Package&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;DCP&lt;/a&gt; which is literally a USB pen that gets shipped around inside a case. It improves accountability on behalf of cinema-pirates, as each Pen has a certain number of licences on it. A slightly more old fashioned variation of this is large portable hard-drives, but these are being phased out of circulation too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A DCP is simply a file that requires activation from a licence. The DCP is signed for by the cinema, and then the projectionist is given the licence activation code to allow the content to be played. Some cinemas have a licence retainer, or master licence for content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because most multiplex cinemas are part of an exhibition chain, they are typically less vigilant in safeguarding their content, and will handle the management of their content internally, negating such stringent protection. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Increasingly, satellite technology is being explored in order to reduce the cost of distribution (which has already more than halved in the past 10 years). Under satellite systems, the film is literally downloaded from a secure server and the film is activated for use via satellite; projectors can even be controlled remotely through the satellite, which centralizes the entire process externally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a method that has been spearheaded in the UK by such projects as &lt;a href=&quot;http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;National Theatre Live&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.roh.org.uk/news/royal-opera-house-live-cinema-season-201415&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Opera Live&lt;/a&gt;. Whilst they &lt;em&gt;do broadcast&lt;/em&gt; globally, they remain a minority interest for exhibitors (although a growing one, due to their success). The legacy of these projects will not, however, come from their content but by their method of distribution. Even now, many distributors are promoting their ease of use as leverage to persuade developers to pursue satellite distribution as it reduces the overheads dramatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with many instances of private enterprise, the real driving force behind satellite distribution is the revenue stream it creates, and the relative immediacy of this income. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the worst kept secret of most cinemas that the most lucrative single-income source is the adverts that are exhibited before a feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To explain: a single multiplex may have an opening weekend for a particular film that takes a significant box office. To take this quarters tentpole (&lt;em&gt;Avengers:Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;) as an example; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A 12 screen MP may take an optimistic BO:W/E of £36k (approx $55)... so if a film has legs for a month and its returns are inevitably diminishing week by week, we're looking at a best case scenario of £70k ($100,000 dollars): and let me stress this would be an &lt;strong&gt;absolute wet dream&lt;/strong&gt; for a cinema to make these numbers on a single film. Advertisement, by comparison? for a modest 5 screen art house cinema, you're looking at an annual income of about £200K ($300K)... and that is, most importantly, &lt;strong&gt;guaranteed&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adverts don't need to be good; infact, they're often awful. They don't rely on word of mouth, critical acclaim or any amount of audience reception. They're a guaranteed revenue stream that will double the best possible B/O of any film, they're value increases proportionately to box office takings: they (sadly) represent the backbone of modern cinema.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the hook: almost every advertisement content company in the world is moving not only in the direction of digital content, but they're universally moving towards satellite. Why? because, comparitively, &lt;em&gt;it costs pittance.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the exception of implementation (which usually consists of a satellite receiver and something called a [LANSAT processor][4] [Loca-Area-Network-SATellite]), this type of distribution entirely cuts out the cost of getting the content to cinemas. Distributors simply author a file, fire it out over their satellite connection for their respective exhibitors to download (or stream if its live content: hence satellite and not unpredictable fibre/internet connections) and deal with any potential problems through modifying the coding; which is in itself rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we compare this to traditional methods of P&amp;amp;P (Print and postage), the gains are obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Film has to be printed onto celluloid, which is costly and creates only one copy. If you want to open in every cinema in the US (unlikely, but lets pretend this example is a &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; Scenario) you're looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cinema_and_movie_theater_chains&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;40,000 prints.&lt;/a&gt; Now try and imagine a global box office...so quadruple it, at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also have to factor in the cost of transportation of said prints, degradations and recirculation, repair (the days of 35mm splice jobs are long gone, and not soon missed) and, most overlooked of all...&lt;em&gt;insurance.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people realise that films stock used to be made of the incredibly flammable &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_nitrate&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;silver nitrate&lt;/a&gt;, as demonstrated during the finale of Tarrantino's &lt;em&gt;Inglorious Basterds&lt;/em&gt;. During these early days of cinema, the relative hazard of transporting these prints was absorbed by the distribution companies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When insurance firms became common practice, this cost was phased onto them... and when the film stock changed and became less hazardous, what did the insurance firms do.....?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Not give a f%!k.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even up until digital content distribution, insurance companies refused to acknowledge that the relative risk of transportation had diminished, and were able to charge disproportionate costs for film distribution; a practice that continues with 35mm, although it's a dying market so prices are dropping significantly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Satellite distribution has removed all these overheads completely, and there is simply no feasible alternative on any medium to large scale operation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's fair to say that most if not all cinemas are now fitted with digital projectors, and within the next 20 years (as they become satellite compatible) we will probably see the extinction of the projectionist: they'll become something that's wheeled out on special occasions to demonstrate a vestigial technology, to show off its novelty. That's more or less the case now, actually. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[4]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://lansat.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://lansat.com/&lt;/a&gt; a brand name&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="34349" LastEditDate="2016-05-10T12:53:18.753" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T12:53:18.753" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21754" CreationDate="2014-06-30T14:28:55.280" Score="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;Former projectionist here, let me weigh in on what's happened in the last 7 to 8 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bit of background: I started working projectors for my local theater in February 2007, and my last night was in March 2011. I no longer work this position because they transitioned to being completely digital, and I was among the first cut as I was only in one or two nights a week. Over the next 4 to 5 months the rest of the projection staff was gradually cut as the transition to 100% digital took place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alright, so now that we have that out of the way, I'll tell you what I know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I started, film was still distributed on 35mm reels. Depending on the company that pressed the movie to film, it would come in either a large, cardboard box, or several metal cans. The boxes could hold about 6 to 7 reels, the cans could hold about 3 reels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, &quot;Back in the day,&quot; my dad also worked projectors for a bit. This would be back in the 70s, and you would have two projectors for each theater. He'd load up reel one, start it, then he'd wait to see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_mark&quot;&gt;cue mark&lt;/a&gt;, or &quot;Cigarette burn,&quot; in the upper right corner, he'd start up reel two on the other projector, and when the second cue mark appeared, he'd cut over to this other projector. There's a reference to this in Fight Club, and it's completely legit. You can also see an example of this process in Inglorious Basterds, as Shoshana runs the Nazi propaganda film towards the end of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flash forward about 35 years, and when I started working projectors you no longer had to do this. Cue marks would still appear in the upper right corner, but in the last 15 to 20 years of film still being on 35mm, things transitioned to what's called a platter system, which is why my theater used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what that looked like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q7I8b.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than cut projectors between reels, we could now build the movie into one large reel to be fed through the projector. The film would &quot;pay out&quot; from one platter, and &quot;rewind&quot; on any empty platter. There were three platters so we could show two movies on one screen, though only one movie at a time, for example: a kid's movie during the day, and a R-rated film at night. Each week as movies would move to smaller and smaller screens in the building, we'd also have to move the prints from one projector to another. Some movies were so large they had to be broken down by a few reels, then put back together (Lord of the Rings for example). Each reel was about 15 to 20 minutes of film. We could easily tell each individual reel on the larger reels because they'd form a sort of tree ring pattern, making it easy to identify problems like, &quot;There's a large scratch halfway through reel 4 that needs to be changed out.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did we piece the movies together? Very clear tape. I'm not even kidding. Your entire movie was held together by tape. We'd use a special table to build the movies, that would pull the film off the reel and onto the platter. You'd put a small film ring in the middle for any pre-show ads and trailers, then would build the movie onto that (the small reel on the lowest platter in the picture above is what a trailer reel might look like, though a bit smaller in most cases). You'd start with reel one, and continue until you were finished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, movies were either flat (1.85:1 aspect ratio), or scope (2.35:1 aspect ratio). Depending on the movie, we'd simply rotate the lenses in the projector, and slide a plate into place behind the lens to channel the bulb's light directly into the frame of the film. We'd then have to walk into the theater and adjust the masking to change it from 1.85 to 2.35 or back the other way, depending on the movie being shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, the process could take a few hours. Busy summer weekends could take as many as 4 hours to build all the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My theater also had rollers setup to allow us to &quot;sync&quot; single prints of a movie between two or more projectors. All the projectors were networked, and we could put them in sync groups so when the movie was started on the first projector in the group, it would start all the other projectors in the same group. We'd thread a single print through 2, 3, or even more projectors for midnight shows, or if demand for a movie was really high. This way we could show movies on more screens with fewer prints. One of my last summers there we ran all our projectors, over 15 in total, on 4 prints of the latest Harry Potter film. Set some sales records that night, and we bit our nails the whole time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a movie left the theater, we'd tear the movie back down to its individual reels, put them back in their respective box or can, and leave them at one of two areas of the theater (depending on the company that sent them) for some guy to pick up. They might go to a second run theater, they might go back to the studio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those days are long gone, though, and nearly everyone is using digital projectors now. The first projector our theater got was around the time Journey to the Center of the Earth came out, and was also our first 3D projector. We eventually added two more over the next 1.5 years, and finally the decision was made to go all digital. Early on, the movies would arrive on small hard drives and we'd load them onto the computer for each digital projector, and unlock it with a key on a USB drive sent with the film. Now they can load the movies onto a central server, and serve it up to each projector based on need, along with pre-show ads and trailers. Everything can be fully automated now. Digital projectors are also capable of showing movies in 4K resolution or higher. Contrary to popular belief, digital movies are NOT run off a DVD or Blu-ray, because the amount of data for a full resolution film with completely uncompressed audio is far too large to be held on a single disc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry if my answer is long winded, but it's a part of the industry I miss and could provide a good amount of detail on to really flesh out any questions you may have regarding the old way things were done. I'd be happy to flesh out any bits anyone has questions on, though I can't speak too much about the current state of digital, as it was, &quot;After my time.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-06-30T14:28:55.280" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21908" CreationDate="2014-06-30T14:41:17.777" Score="9" ViewCount="2950" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Personal Experience:&lt;/strong&gt; This is probably one of the weirdest movies I have ever seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genre:&lt;/strong&gt; Horror&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Production date:&lt;/strong&gt; I have seen this movie at least 5 years ago. Obviously produced after 2001.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Plot:&lt;/strong&gt; A group of 5 friends (at least) get lost in some forest (or exploring). And they find this modest house in the middle of nowhere to seek shelter. They find a happy, healthy (apparently) living old couple who give them the best hospitality. The couple invites the group to stay in their house for the night. Few moments later, the movie gets very disturbing, the couple start killing those young people one-by-one in different ways, and they were very happy and calm. They manage to kill them all besides one person who will manage to kill later the old wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How it ends:&lt;/strong&gt; The old man goes outside of the house after his old wife is dead. The murderer puts his hands in the sky and shouts &quot;Why God! What did I do to you&quot;. Clearly some subliminal message from the director.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11099" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-07-06T11:31:22.077" LastActivityDate="2017-03-10T00:22:28.863" Title="An old couple kill some young strangers happily" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:12:28.937" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21723" CreationDate="2014-06-30T17:24:42.037" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been a long time since I watched that first episode, but here's what I know for sure:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sookie's parents knew, before they died.  Her Gran knew.  Tara and Jason knew.  It's revealed later in the series that the school psychologist knew but was freaked out and attributed it to being very observant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bill didn't know during the first episode, but he learned about it after just a few episodes.  (She can't read Bill's thoughts or any vampires' thoughts.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the series, some of the others she works with (Arlene, Lafayette, Sam) know as well, but I doubt they knew at the start of the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the most part, Sookie kept it to herself and only told some family and very close friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-06-30T17:24:42.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21742" CreationDate="2014-06-30T18:10:44.677" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a former drug dealer myself, I can confirm that a &quot;teenth&quot; is, in fact, half of an &quot;eighth&quot;, or 1/16th of an ounce (~1.75 grams).  Many &quot;high-potency&quot; drugs are cut that way, because you need less to get high so you buy less at a time.  Particularly Meth, which caters to a low/no income user base where users tend to buy just enough to get them through the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-06-30T18:10:44.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21764" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21766" CreationDate="2014-06-30T19:41:32.287" Score="6" ViewCount="6983" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Django Unchained right after the 'I like the way you die boy' scene Django is whipping one of the Brittle brothers. When you watch the scene carefully we can clearly see that the whip is hitting the ground near to the actor laying on the ground or touching the actor directly. Are they using leather whips or fake lashes (which material)? Or what is the trick that suggests that the actor is really getting beaten up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene on youtube: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_O34Vf50sPQ?start=51&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8737" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-06-30T20:55:10.797" LastActivityDate="2014-06-30T21:48:13.020" Title="How was the whipping scene accomplished in Django Unchained?" Tags="|film-techniques|django-unchained|quentin-tarantino|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21764" CreationDate="2014-06-30T20:22:12.750" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I can't find anything specifically online, I can almost guarantee you it was a combination of effects.  Most likely, they used a rope or other softer material (which would mimic the movements of a whip) and later treated it with CGI effects.  Movies are not without incident, accident and injury to stars, so the actor being whipped probably had a few bruises after filming that scene, but definitely didn't get cut up like a real whip would have done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-06-30T20:22:12.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21764" CreationDate="2014-06-30T21:42:33.800" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll add my two cents as a short video producer with a film degree. In that sequence, I think there are only 4 shots that actually show Jamie Foxx holding the whip and hitting the guy.  The rest of the shots either show Jamie by himself marching forward and flinging the whip around, or show the guy on the ground with a whip landing next to him, or show SOMEONE dressed like Jamie Foxx whipping the guy on the ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the shots of Jamie marching forward, brandishing the whip, while the other guy wasn't in the shot, there was no need for the other guy to be anywhere nearby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the shots of the guy on the ground, with or without the person with the whip (who is only seen from the back or not at all), the person with the whip could have been a trained whip expert, who could hit the ground near the actor to kick up dust without actually hurting the actor.  During this the actor could have been wearing protective padding under his clothes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other shots that actually show Jamie and the other guy at the same time, Jamie could have been holding a lightweight foam whip that wouldn't hurt but would still have looked convincing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you add the sounds of screaming, whip sound effects, and so on, and you cut the shots together quickly enough and with the right flow, it appears as though Jamie Foxx is delivering a merciless and brutal lashing to the guy on the ground.  But it's all &quot;movie magic&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2014-06-30T21:48:13.020" LastActivityDate="2014-06-30T21:48:13.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21768" CreationDate="2014-06-30T22:46:26.227" Score="6" ViewCount="14494" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-11-11/the-secret-james-bond-missed-in-skyfall-&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Raoul Silva is M's son and that is why he hates her so much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Suddenly, it all made sense. Silva, thought to be in Hong Kong, was M’s son -- adopted, possibly, but undeniably her son. (Why adopted? Because otherwise we can make no sense of M’s comment to Bond that orphans make the best recruits. Yes, Bond was an orphan, but the poignancy and faraway gaze as M says the words tell us she is thinking of somebody else.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Is there any other information or further hints that either confirm or refute the theory of this article? Is Raoul Silva really M's son?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7018" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-01T08:16:05.227" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T21:07:27.287" Title="Was Raoul Silva M's son?" Tags="|character|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21767" CreationDate="2014-06-30T23:20:10.817" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The article's only piece of evidence is the anagram, which strikes me as interesting but not conclusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than M being Silva's real mother, I think a key element of the story is that &lt;strong&gt;Silva and Bond had virtually identical past relationships with M: both Silva and Bond had been orphaned or abandoned as children, leading to each of them being selected by M to be developed into secret agents.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The adult Silva is enraged by the realization that M had taken advantage of his vulnerable background and turned him into a killer, as he explains to Bond via the anecdote about the two rats:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[The rats] start eating each other until there are only two left. The two survivors... Now, they only eat rat. You have changed their nature. The two survivors. &lt;strong&gt;This is what she made us&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie shows the adult Bond experiencing the same resentment toward M (for example, when asked what word he associates with &amp;quot;murder,&amp;quot; Bond says &amp;quot;employment&amp;quot;). But the movie also shows &lt;strong&gt;the difference between Bond and Silva: Silva's anger at M leads to his doom, but Bond is able to see the good in M, to forgive her, and to move on with his life.&lt;/strong&gt; The ultimate proof is how Bond does his best to save M, and then even after she is killed, he is able to return to his job with a renewed passion for it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Skyfall's closing lines]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gareth Mallory (the new M):&lt;/em&gt; So, 007... Lot's to be done. Are you ready&#xA;to get back to work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;James Bond:&lt;/em&gt; With pleasure, M. With pleasure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T21:07:27.287" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21769" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21771" CreationDate="2014-07-01T02:04:58.377" Score="2" ViewCount="618" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV show Hustle, they have certain rules, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can’t cheat an honest man&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Always give the mark an out&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They also often claim that they aren't thieves, and they only take money from people who deserve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in some episodes when they need to generate funds for the long con (such as a convincer) they run short cons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the episode I just watched, they dressed as the guards who collect money for banks in an armored van, and then went collecting money from businesses, and also tricked a jewelry store owner into letting them walk away with a diamond necklace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do they have morals when it comes to the long con, but are happy to steal from anyone on the short con?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7772" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-01T08:22:40.897" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T08:22:40.897" Title="In Hustle, why do they have rules for the long con but not the short con?" Tags="|hustle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21770" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21772" CreationDate="2014-07-01T02:44:23.523" Score="3" ViewCount="1846" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wondering if two scenes were filmed in the same place... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just saw &lt;em&gt;Transformers: Age of Extinction&lt;/em&gt; and was struck by the barn where Mark Wahlberg's character does his tinkering. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It instantly made me think of the barn where Billy Bob Thornton's character built his rocket in &lt;em&gt;Astronaut Farmer&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have information regarding these locations and whether it is the same barn? I'm not sure about the outside, but the inside seemed very familiar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1904" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-11-22T13:54:32.297" LastActivityDate="2018-11-22T13:54:32.297" Title="Were the barn scenes in Transformers: Age of Extinction and Astronaut Farmer filmed at the same location?" Tags="|film-location|transformers|age-of-extinction|astronaut-farmer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21769" CreationDate="2014-07-01T03:10:52.850" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also found this jarring at first. Faceless institutions and the wider systems in which they operate are set up as &quot;acceptable targets&quot; by Mickey's backstory. Most of Mickey's actions are seen, in his eyes at least, as redressing the balance between these systems and the poor hard-working souls that generate a profit for them (e.g. Mickey's father). Most of the losses suffered by victims of the short cons would be reclaimable on insurance, and any money taken in the ATM scam in &quot;The Con is On&quot; would be credited back to the account holders by the bank. Far from feeling bad about these, Mickey would probably score them up as a victory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the claim that they aren't thieves, this is clearly contradicted (&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;and lampshaded&lt;/a&gt;) by the bank raid in &quot;Cops and Robbers&quot;. It is also made clear a number of times that the other members of the gang are less rigorous in the application of the group's moral code (e.g. during Mickey's absence in &quot;Picture Perfect&quot; the rest of the group bankrupts a small business and puts all of its employees out of work). So in-universe, there is not so much a plot hole as somewhat dishonest individuals being &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;less than completely honest&lt;/a&gt; about the nature of their business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the real reasons for the difference in moral treatment of short and long cons probably lie out-of-universe. For the long-con it is important the viewers root for the protagonists, and for this reason they must be made out as something more than money-grubbing criminals. The short cons seem to exist largely because they are cool, but also to remind the audience that the gang members are very good at what they do. When every long con hits a snag 3/4 through each episode, the audience might start to question the grifters' &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InformedAbility&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;informed abilities&lt;/a&gt; - including a number of successful short cons counteracts this effect. However, with the pacing of these scenes the writers are unable to take time to explain how one loss might be reclaimable on insurance or how a certain mark was an acceptable target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11324" LastEditorUserId="11324" LastEditDate="2014-07-01T03:40:30.437" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T03:40:30.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21770" CreationDate="2014-07-01T08:07:58.890" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't appear that they were filmed at the same place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Astronaut Farmer&lt;/strong&gt; was filmed in New Mexico, at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bonanzacreekranch.com/docs/Movie-Credits.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bonanza Creek Ranch&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D65m8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other films shot here include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cowboys and Aliens&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Appaloosa&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3:10 to Yuma&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Transformers on the other hand &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2109248/locations&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;doesn't credit the Ranch&lt;/a&gt;. Whilst I can't find the exact location it's barn was filmed in, it doesn't appear to have done any filming in New Mexico.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T08:07:58.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21773" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-01T08:10:42.363" Score="5" ViewCount="3130" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Snatch&lt;/em&gt; there's this well known scene where Vince and Solomon come to Bullet Tooth Tony and hold him at gunpoint and Tony immediately spots the &lt;em&gt;replica&lt;/em&gt; inscription on the pistol side and says they should leave immediately (which they do) because his pistol is not a replica.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet a bit earlier when they prepare for getting to Tony they test one of the pistols by shooting into a car window and it definitely sounds like a working pistol and the window is destroyed. Perhaps the replicas couldn't be used for precise shooting at long distances but the guys were no more than several feet from Tony and so shooting Tony should not have been a problem for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do they accept the &quot;replica v Desert Eagle&quot; reasoning and leave?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3707" LastActivityDate="2019-05-21T12:51:04.183" Title="Why can't the two guys in Snatch use their replica pistols which they previously tested successfully?" Tags="|plot-explanation|snatch|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21776" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21781" CreationDate="2014-07-01T09:55:59.253" Score="1" ViewCount="2722" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of season 2 of Jericho (last season before it got shut down) are we as viewers meant to assume that hawkins is alive or dead? He was shot pretty badly and was bleeding for atleast 2 hours maybe 3 until he received any medical attention. They did this big scene where he said he was glad to be dying for a good cause, but the last scene he seems to still be hanging on a little when he finally got medical care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, one last small question: They brought the nuke to Texas to be able to fight the cheyenne government and it ends all happy lovey, etc... Do they intend on using the Nuke on the war against the Cheyenne government or dismantle it and fight a &quot;normal&quot; war that could cost millions of people their lives? Or is the Cheyenne government suppose to magically give up because they no longer have the one nuke that proves their involvement in the destruction of America.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8871" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-01T09:58:33.233" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T19:38:36.790" Title="Season ending of Jericho" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|jericho|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21776" CreationDate="2014-07-01T13:03:59.970" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't say for sure about Hawkins; the season was being wrapped up ridiculously quickly and many loose ends were left. Personally, I think he was going for the martyr route but survived anyway as a hero with a happy ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In regards to the bomb, it wasn't so much that the bomb would be used as a weapon. Instead the bomb was evidence that would be used to convince Texas not to side with Cheyenne. Texas was identified as the swing state meaning whoever it chose to back would rule without question. So by presenting the bomb, Texas would &quot;see sense&quot; and not back Cheyenne and therefore Cheyenne would topple when Texas sided with their enemy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11435" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T13:03:59.970" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21784" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21821" CreationDate="2014-07-01T14:32:02.907" Score="5" ViewCount="12958" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Man From Earth (2007)&lt;/a&gt; was really a good movie but what I quite didn't understand the end, why does Dr. Gruber die at the end and did it prove that John was God?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11437" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-07-02T13:19:41.503" LastActivityDate="2018-06-16T22:10:00.973" Title="What was the end conclusion for the movie The Man From Earth" Tags="|the-man-from-earth|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21788" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21791" CreationDate="2014-07-01T16:56:28.947" Score="1" ViewCount="1826" Body="&lt;p&gt;HBO had a series in 2007 called John From Cincinnati. It was weird and surreal. The main character (John) seemed to know nothing at the start, like a baby, and just mimicked people. He also had supernatural abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know John's backstory? Where did he come from? Was he an angel? What was the thrust of the series going to be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-01T17:09:39.813" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T17:57:09.267" Title="What's the deal with John From Cincinnati?" Tags="|plot-explanation|john-from-cincinnati|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21788" CreationDate="2014-07-01T17:50:37.997" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only thing I could find of particular usefulness to this question was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://imperialbeach.patch.com/groups/opinion/p/john-from-cincinnati-imperial-beach&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;local article on patch.com&lt;/a&gt;, which contains this blurb regarding an interview with David Milch (the series co-creator):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“The idea [behind John from Cincinnati is] that the universe is a&#xA;  solid system but [also] a series of waves,” he said. “And that man is&#xA;  not an individual creature, but that his essence is carried from&#xA;  seeming individual to seeming individual [and becomes] available to&#xA;  surfers if they aren't loaded and selfish or if they don't become&#xA;  addicted to the behavior of surfing itself.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also states that the rush for production was counter-productive and he didn't have time to fully develop the story or characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/article/wildly-enigmatic-case-file-7-ijohn-from-cincinnati-67835&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this review&lt;/a&gt; of the show gets very indepth, and states the show is about &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;forsaking the rational in favor of the unknowable. John From&#xA;  Cincinnati at times feels more like a waking dream or a visual poem&#xA;  than a conventional TV series.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-07-01T17:57:09.267" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T17:57:09.267" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21792" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21798" CreationDate="2014-07-01T18:04:03.953" Score="6" ViewCount="3777" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320038/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;John Doe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from 2002/2003 was cancelled before we found out who John was or where he came from. Does anyone know more about that? John was such an interesting character -- had amnesia, could only see black and white, had access to the sum of human knowledge (like the number of dimples on a golf ball).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2020-04-12T13:27:30.320" LastActivityDate="2020-04-12T13:27:30.320" Title="What was John Doe's backstory in the eponymous TV series?" Tags="|character|john-doe|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21794" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21797" CreationDate="2014-07-01T18:26:44.290" Score="8" ViewCount="3132" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; there is a new actor for Hulk. Should we still use &lt;em&gt;The Incredible Hulk&lt;/em&gt; as a prequel to that? Or is Hulk rebooted again in The Avengers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11441" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-06-23T10:01:16.333" LastActivityDate="2017-06-23T10:01:16.333" Title="Is Hulk in The Avengers the same Hulk from The Incredible Hulk?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|casting|the-avengers|the-incredible-hulk|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21795" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21796" CreationDate="2014-07-01T18:32:18.167" Score="2" ViewCount="2587" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spider-man is left out of The Avengers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can we expect Spider-man in Avengers 2? Or Avengers 3?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there any legal rights problems as to why they don't have him?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there cost issues?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is Spider-Man not in The Avengers films?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11441" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-07-04T07:43:34.550" LastActivityDate="2016-07-04T07:43:34.550" Title="Why is Spider-Man left out of The Avengers?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2014-07-02T00:11:56.570" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21795" CreationDate="2014-07-01T18:42:32.727" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simple answer, believe it or not, is that &lt;strong&gt;Sony owns Spider-Man, and Disney owns The Avengers.&lt;/strong&gt;  Avi Arad, founder of Marvel Studios, has said a number of times that the only way he'd lend Spider-Man to Disney is if Spider-Man runs out of story lines.  And that's not likely to happen.  He's got Venom, he's got The Sinister Six, he's got Carnage...  Too many stories to tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Could&lt;/em&gt; it happen if the money is right?  Everyone has a price.  But at the moment, Avi has no plans to make Spider-Man an Avenger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-07-01T19:23:30.307" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T19:23:30.307" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21794" CreationDate="2014-07-01T19:00:28.050" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Hulk from &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Avengers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was intended to be a continuation of The Hulk from &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800080/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Incredible Hulk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.  Due to a(n) (overblown) dispute between Edward Norton and Marvel Studios on the changes Norton made to the script, which were filmed and then cut by the studio, Norton was not asked to reprise his role.  Norton's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/the-truth-about-edward-norton-vs-marvel/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;press release&lt;/a&gt; at the time of the film release was as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Like so many people I’ve loved the story of The Hulk since I was a kid, so it was thrilling when Marvel asked me to write and help produce an altogether new screen incarnation, as well as play Bruce Banner. I grew up reading Marvel Comics and always loved the mythic dimension and contemporary themes in the stories, and I’m proud of the script I wrote. In every phase of production, including the editing, working with Louis Leterrier has been wonderful…I’ve never had a better partner, and the collaboration with all the rest of the creative team has been terrific. Every good movie gets forged through collaboration, and different ideas among people who are all committed and respect the validity of each other’s opinions is the heart of filmmaking. Regrettably, our healthy process, which is and should be a private matter, was misrepresented publicly as a ‘dispute,’ seized on by people looking for a good story, and has been distorted to such a degree that it risks distracting from the film itself, which Marvel, Universal and I refuse to let happen. It has always been my firm conviction that films should speak for themselves and that knowing too much about how they are made diminishes the magic of watching them. All of us believe The Incredible Hulk will excite old fans and create new ones and be a huge hit…our focus has always been to deliver the Hulk that people have been waiting for and keep the worldwide love affair with the big green guy going strong.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T14:43:59.190" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T14:43:59.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21792" CreationDate="2014-07-01T19:30:41.390" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doe_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, derived from an interview with the series creators in Entertainment Weekly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Due to the series' cancellation, the final episode ended with an&#xA;  unresolved cliffhanger, revealing that Digger, John's close friend,&#xA;  was in fact the true leader of the Phoenix Organization. In an&#xA;  interview with Entertainment Weekly, series creators Brandon Camp and&#xA;  Mike Thompson revealed what would have happened and John Doe's true&#xA;  identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Make that someone who looked like John's friend. The villain unmasked&#xA;  in the finale was actually just a Phoenix member with some fancy&#xA;  facial reconstruction. Turns out, the Phoenix believed Doe was the&#xA;  Messiah and its members were actually protecting Doe from a second&#xA;  group, which wanted him dead. &lt;strong&gt;The truth: Doe was injured in a boating&#xA;  accident. That mark on his chest? A scar left by a piece of shrapnel&#xA;  from the explosion. His Überbrain? A by-product of transcending his&#xA;  body during a near-death experience, traveling to a spiritual plane&#xA;  where all the universe's questions are answered.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T19:30:41.390" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21776" CreationDate="2014-07-01T19:38:36.790" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure, however, you may be interested in checking out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_Season_3%3a_Civil_War&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jericho comic&lt;/a&gt;. It picks up as a comic book version of season 3. So, if you're a Jericho fan and interested in finding out more about what happens, I'd look into this. As a note, although I do have the comic, I haven't read it yet so I honestly don't know how good it is!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11443" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T19:38:36.790" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21795" CreationDate="2014-07-01T19:45:07.180" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sony owns the rights to Spider-Man (and Venom), 20th Century Fox has Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer, Deadpool, the X-Men (including Wolverine) and Cable. Marvel Studios (now owned by Disney) owns the rights to all other Marvel Characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something to keep in mind is this only applies to the film rights. The reason the rights are spread all over the place is that Marvel Comics tried to make films based on their characters throughout the late 70s and 80s. Most of them were low-budget and did poorly at the box-office (if they made it that far). After losing a bunch of money, other studios approached them about licensing those characters. Marvel said yes and then those companies proceeded to make tons of money by making the movies right (see X-Men, Spider-Man, etc). Once Marvel saw that, they ended up starting Marvel Studios and have since gone on to make some great films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, by then they couldn't get back the film rights that they already sold off. Unless Spider-man films and X-Men movies start losing money for Sony or Fox, it's highly unlikely that they will ever let those rights go back to Marvel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T19:45:07.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21530" CreationDate="2014-07-01T19:47:19.680" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gorchestopher H did a decent job of explaining how they differ. I think how they differ is fairly obvious. If you want a good example of them combined, I would recommend the movie Event Horizon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Star Trek is sci-fi because it is science fiction, but it is not scary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Ring is horror because it is scary, but it does not contain sci-fi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Event Horizon contains aspects of both, so I would call it a sci-fi horror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11443" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T19:47:19.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21803" CreationDate="2014-07-01T19:55:52.637" Score="2" ViewCount="1441" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ofelia is drawing at least three doors during &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457430/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pan's Labyrinth&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. The last one is her way of escaping from her locked room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first two doors could be imagined, but the last one? Escape from a locked room?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a proof that Ofelia is not dreaming or imagining things?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11441" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-01T20:22:03.313" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T20:35:58.960" Title="Does Ofelia imagine drawing doors in Pan's Labyrinth?" Tags="|pans-labyrinth|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21802" CreationDate="2014-07-01T20:35:58.960" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The last door does give the impression that what Ofelia experiences is, at least partly, real and not pure imagination. Also, director Guillermo Del Toro has stated the following in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitchfilm.com/2006/12/pans-labyrinthinterview-with-guillermo-del-toro.html#ixzz36FdF4a9M&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now objectively, the way I structured it, there are three clues in the movie that tell you where I stand. I stand in that it's real. The most important clues are the flower at the end, and the fact that there's no way other than the chalk door to get from the attic to the Captain's office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T20:35:58.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21795" CreationDate="2014-07-01T20:46:21.870" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rights to &lt;strong&gt;The Avengers&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-02/disney-buys-rights-to-four-marvel-movies-from-viacom-s-paramount.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;belong to&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Walt Disney Co&lt;/strong&gt;, however, the &lt;strong&gt;Spider-Man&lt;/strong&gt; movies are made by &lt;strong&gt;Sony Corp&lt;/strong&gt;, and they have &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aintitcool.com/node/62532&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;no intention of selling the rights back&lt;/a&gt; to Marvel/Disney.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latino-review.com/news/2012/06/spider-man-the-avengers-sort&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How Spider-Man Was Almost In 'The Avengers' ... Sort Of&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... &lt;strong&gt;Marvel Studios and Sony [had a] discussion about inserting &lt;em&gt;Oscorp&lt;/em&gt; into &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; skyline.&lt;/strong&gt; The Unified Marvel Manhattan Skyline almost existed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By the time the Oscorp building was fully designed, The Avengers digital Manhattan was already basically rendered and there was some up-conversion that needed to go down, so &lt;strong&gt;- for timing - it was scrapped&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;BUT - Sony and Disney were going to let this happen. THAT's the key thing here. Timing just didn't work out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.torontosun.com/2014/04/27/ex-marvel-boss-says-spider-man-is-centre-of-the-marvel-universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;an interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(April 2014)&lt;/em&gt; with 'The Amazing Spider-Man' producer &lt;strong&gt;Avi Arad&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;if we want to do that, the crossovers, it has to be a story that is absolutely centered on Spider-Man.&lt;/strong&gt; We cannot be second banana to anything out there. Because this is the king. This is the one that influenced young people from birth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I’m not preaching, but Spider-Man, Peter Parker, who is in all of us, is too important to go in and use it as a sidepiece for corporate purposes. &lt;strong&gt;The studio may disagree with me&lt;/strong&gt;, some fans may disagree with me. I don’t care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(since Sony owns the rights to 'Spider-Man' and not Avi Arad, it's really up to the studio whether a crossover will ever happen)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2014-07-01T20:46:21.870" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21792" CreationDate="2014-07-01T21:32:24.513" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20061202122911/http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=2&amp;amp;id=34221&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an interview&lt;/a&gt; (2006) &lt;strong&gt;Dominic Purcell&lt;/strong&gt;, the actor who played the titular character, had this to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently &lt;strong&gt;I was the messiah returned&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[The Phoenix Organization] were working for the Vatican&lt;/strong&gt;. ... The Catholics. &lt;strong&gt;They didn't want it to be revealed that the true Christ had returned.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://community.livejournal.com/_prisonbreak/765347.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;another interview&lt;/a&gt; (2007) with the actor:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, &lt;strong&gt;John Doe was Christ returned. That’s why he knew everything&lt;/strong&gt;,...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-02T22:11:20.167" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21809" CreationDate="2014-07-01T23:44:56.287" Score="3" ViewCount="3139" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having not watched all of the TV series on the cartoon network, does the TV series follow on from the events of the first &lt;em&gt;How to Train Your Dragon&lt;/em&gt; movie, and build up towards the plot of the new &lt;em&gt;How to Train Your Dragon 2&lt;/em&gt; movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is the TV series a completely separate collection of stories in the same universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I.e. Can someone who has not watched the entirety of the TV series watch the new movie without missing any information from the TV series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-04-15T06:05:30.360" LastActivityDate="2019-04-15T06:05:30.360" Title="Does How to Train Your Dragon TV series follow on from the movie and build up to the new movie?" Tags="|how-to-train-your-dragon|dreamworks-dragons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21808" CreationDate="2014-07-02T01:08:48.760" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, it bridges the gap between the first and second movies.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riders_of_berk#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Following directly after the events of How To Train Your Dragon but&#xA;  before How to Train Your Dragon 2, Riders of Berk follows Hiccup as he&#xA;  tries to keep balance within the new cohabitation of Dragons and&#xA;  Vikings. Alongside keeping up with Berk's newest installment — A&#xA;  Dragon Training Academy — Hiccup, Toothless, and the rest of the&#xA;  Viking Teens are put to the test when they are faced with new worlds&#xA;  harsher than Berk, new dragons that can't all be trained, and new&#xA;  enemies who are looking for every reason to destroy the harmony&#xA;  between Vikings and Dragons all together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for whether you can watch the movie without having seen the TV show or not, I'd wager to say you could. There may be some references you won't get, but I can't imagine the story writers for the second movie would make it completely impossible to enjoy without having watch 40 episodes of a tie-in TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-07-02T01:08:48.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21754" CreationDate="2014-07-02T04:08:03.903" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others have mentioned, celluloid film (35mm, 70mm etc) is now largely obsolete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As part of the Digital Cinema Initiative, modern movies are now distributed as Digital Cinema Packages (DCPs). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A DCP consists of a bundle of &quot;media exchange format&quot; files (.mxf) for the video and audio as well as .xml files that contain &quot;metadata&quot; about the files in the package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These files are usually distributed on removable hard drives, USB flash drives or via satellite. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A single feature film is usually in the region of approximately 200 GB of data. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Digital Cinema Packages do not use temporal compression the way formats like BluRay do, and as such, are therefore higher quality. They also usually have a maxresolution of 4096 or 2048 pixels horizontally. Theoretically this allows individual pixels to be visible (when close to a screen), but in practice, digital projection offers far superior image quality due to the absence of imperfections such as dust and scratches which are commonplace on movie film prints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By and large digital projectors still use Xenon Lamps like their more recent film predecessors, but there is a move towards using laser light as the light source in the future with the intention of reducing the cost of lamps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As well as providing superior quality, distribution costs are greatly reduced, and because digital cinema packages are strongly encrypted all the way to an audited tamper-proof decoder block inside a digital projector piracy is minimised. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the huge savings that digital brings over film are not passed on from the studios to the cinemas or the cinema-goers who now pay higher ticket prices than ever before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11448" LastActivityDate="2014-07-02T04:08:03.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21773" CreationDate="2014-07-02T08:25:15.433" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In light of @John Smith Optional's answer, I'll rewrite/clarify my own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film, the guns used are &lt;strong&gt;blank-firing replicas&lt;/strong&gt;, i.e. they fire blank bullets, not live ammunition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst some weapons can be converted to fire real bullets, it's implied that this didn't happen in the film (hence the annoyance of several characters at having &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; replicas. On a site not, it's worth noting that this conversion is a dangerous and often ill-advised procedure, as the weapons often can't handle the pressure of real ammunition. For more info, see &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jfEDAAAAMBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA36&amp;amp;lpg=PA36&amp;amp;dq=replica%20guns%20live%20ammo&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=NZFRtawQEV&amp;amp;sig=KkibrQd-Tq_73D0ZcUkvOkml8dU&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=2D-0U92SFoaBOLPVgfgJ&amp;amp;ved=0CEQQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=replica%20guns%20live%20ammo&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.centrefirearms.com/faq.html#Q.8&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, or do a simple google search on the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Snatch.#Heckler_.26_Koch_P7&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; details the guns that were used in the film. Effectively, the film used real guns adapted to blank fire as there were no commercially available replicas of the guns they used. However, they were intended to be replicas in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What all this effectively means is that in the scene in the car when they did shoot the bullets, they shot &lt;strong&gt;blanks&lt;/strong&gt;. To quote from the wiki on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_%28cartridge%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;blanks&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Blanks are commonly used when the sound and flash of gunfire is&#xA;  needed, but a projectile would not be safe...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The appearance of a blank cartridge can give a false sense of safety.&#xA;  Although blank cartridges do not contain a bullet, precautions are&#xA;  still required because fatalities and severe injuries have resulted on&#xA;  occasions when blank cartridges have been fired at very close ranges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Blank cartridges frequently contain a paper, wood or plastic plug&#xA;  called a wad which seals the powder in the case. This wad can cause&#xA;  severe penetrating wounds at close range and bruising at medium&#xA;  ranges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they could in theory have squared up to Tony with their blank-firing replicas, but his real Desert Eagle would have caused far more damage and been far safer to fire (in comparison to their replicas).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-07-02T17:32:22.877" LastActivityDate="2014-07-02T17:32:22.877" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21688" CreationDate="2014-07-02T10:36:01.533" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that no other answer was given, here is my guess: to avert any suspicion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had Joffrey died soon after the marriage was consummated, Margaery would be very high on the list of the suspects, and not very likely to get her hands on Tommen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Formally, the king rules, so getting Tommen is more important than becoming a queen quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is worth noting that I don't know what Westeros' laws say about widowed queen without male successors, but I'm judging by how quickly Joffrey was made king. I &lt;em&gt;assume&lt;/em&gt; that a queen would keep her title, but Tommen would still become a king and get all the power, and Margaery would get the same status as Cersei (minus any government (read: Lannister's) support). This wouldn't do for her: she clearly stated that she doesn't want to be &lt;strong&gt;a&lt;/strong&gt; queen; she wants to be &lt;strong&gt;the&lt;/strong&gt; queen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, even if it wasn't the case and Margaery would get to become the new ruler, it is not very likely that she would survive long after becoming the prime suspect for the Joffrey's murder and - more importantly - after taking the power away from the Lannisters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a subplot of Petyr getting Sansa. That would've been much harder to achieve without her and Tyrion being accused of the murder. Now, this is not only Petyr's personal and business desire. Sansa was to be Lannisters' ticket to ruling the North, and taking that from them is also in Tyrells' interest, so it's by no means an irrelevant part of the conspiracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2014-07-02T10:36:01.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21784" CreationDate="2014-07-02T12:57:13.417" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dr. Gruber died of a heart attack after the shock of learning...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; ...that John Oldman is his father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does nothing to prove that John is God. It does lend a small amount of credence to John's story, since he knew details about Dr. Gruber's father. However, John only led the group to believe that he was the &lt;em&gt;inspiration&lt;/em&gt; for the story of Jesus, not that he was in any way God.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2014-07-02T12:57:13.417" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21773" CreationDate="2014-07-02T16:56:50.207" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Contrary to Andrew Martin's assertion, it is very easy to modify replica firearms and is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1417929/Gangsters-DIY-handgun-that-makes-a-mockery-of-the-ban-on-firearms.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;serious problem here in the UK&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The issue has been somewhat obscured in the media due to its implications with legal firearms in the States: a number of mishandlings in the states (particularily the story about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=416921.0&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the ATF seizing 'toy guns&lt;/a&gt;') was purposely mangled by gun lobbyists to try and claim that it was impossible to convert replicas into the real thing. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_firearm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;It isn't: at all.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been to an exhibition in the Leeds Armory that was dedicated to exploring exactly this problem: the amount of modified weapons recovered or submitted during weapons amnesties in &lt;em&gt;Yorkshire alone&lt;/em&gt; is staggering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't the sort of thing that gets reported on the news, because the details are considered mundane, but there is even a number of competing commercial companies that specialize in the controlled destruction of seized modified firearms. Its a secret cottage industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Infact, Police powers were increased in the early 2000s to deal with this, and the legislation of the 1968 firearms act was amended to introduce &quot;Possession of an Imitation firearm&quot; as a chargeable offence; meaning since 2004, its actually illegal to carry a toy gun in public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because guns are illegal in the UK (unless owned under incredibly stringent licences), they are incredibly rare and obviously hard to acquire. The purpose of the Vinny/Sol- Bullet-tooth scene is a glorified dick measuring contest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vinny and Sol are amateurs, wannabe gangsters and Tony intimidates them into submission simply by pointing out the disparity of their equipment: Vinny and Sol have unreliable, amateur and largely ineffective 'toy-guns', whereas he has a Desert Eagle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a plan based entirely on intimidation, Vince and Sol are utterly defeated by Bullet-Tooth's lack of reaction. They realize they aren't going to win this, as he is totally unfazed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-07-02T16:56:50.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21826" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21834" CreationDate="2014-07-02T18:36:46.023" Score="13" ViewCount="3687" Body="&lt;p&gt;I first saw this when I read a Cracked article about insane fan theories that make sense. I first thought of the same thing long before I read that though because it makes sense. James Bond has had 23 movies since 1962 and has been played by 6 different actors (7 if you include David Niven, which everyone should) and yet the story of James Bond is supposed to be of only one man. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It makes so much more sense for James Bond to be a name assumed when an agent becomes 007 it makes them an alias. Especially with the time frame involved and the adventures placed out of order. Is there any reason given for why there is only one James Bond rather than embracing this idea of it being a code name? Also who controls this aspect of the franchise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T22:19:50.457" LastActivityDate="2019-07-16T20:34:47.357" Title="Why isn't James Bond a code name?" Tags="|james-bond|continuity|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21826" CreationDate="2014-07-02T20:36:29.060" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the technical side, as Jonny Bones said, because Ian Fleming didn't write a code-name, he wrote a character. A character with his own backstory, personality, mannerisms likes &amp;amp; dislikes. &#xA;A code-name would explain the changing faces and gadgets, but if you went with that idea, you would then have to explain how &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the &quot;James Bonds&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Were Commanders in the Royal Navy and experts in underwater combat (I mean, even in the secret service that can't be a common speciality!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Liked Vodka Martinis (shaken, not stirred)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Held a grudge against the same super-villian&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Were sauve womanisers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Preferred classic Aston Martins (although Q wasn't always obliging, you know this is what he wanted...)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Were probably the best poker players in the building wherever they were&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a personal note, I think for many people it would be a disappointment. You don't fantasize about doing the individual things James Bond does, you fantasize about being &lt;em&gt;him&lt;/em&gt;. (In fact, if you think about it, a lot of the things that happen to him aren't very pleasant at all...) You're attached to a character, who is made up of all the little details about him and his life scattered across the books and films. Make all of those the acts of a disparate group of nameless strangers, and that character disappears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11470" LastActivityDate="2014-07-02T20:36:29.060" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21826" CreationDate="2014-07-02T20:42:08.337" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no concrete answers to why it's never acknowledged, but as Johnny Bones points outs, most of the films are based on books (Film to the left, book to the right):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._No_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dr. No (1962)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._No_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dr. No (1958, Fleming)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Russia_with_Love_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;From Russia with Love (1963)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Russia,_with_Love_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;From Russia, with Love (1957, Fleming)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Goldfinger (1964)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Goldfinger (1959, Fleming)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderball_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thunderball (1965)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderball_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thunderball (1961, Fleming)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;You Only Live Twice (1967)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;You Only Live Twice (1964, Fleming)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Her_Majesty%27s_Secret_Service_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Her_Majesty%27s_Secret_Service_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963, Fleming)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamonds_Are_Forever_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Diamonds Are Forever (1971)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamonds_Are_Forever_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Diamonds Are Forever (1956, Fleming)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_and_Let_Die_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Live and Let Die (1973)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_and_Let_Die_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Live and Let Die (1954, Fleming)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_with_the_Golden_Gun_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_with_the_Golden_Gun_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Man with the Golden Gun (1965, Fleming)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spy_Who_Loved_Me_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spy_Who_Loved_Me_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Spy Who Loved Me (1962, Fleming)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonraker_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Moonraker (1979)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonraker_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Moonraker (1955, Fleming)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Your_Eyes_Only_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;For Your Eyes Only (1981)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Your_Eyes_Only_%28short_story_collection%29#.22For_Your_Eyes_Only.22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;For Your Eyes Only (1960, Fleming)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopussy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Octopussy (1983)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopussy_and_The_Living_Daylights#.22Octopussy.22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966, Fleming)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_View_to_a_Kill&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A View to a Kill (1985)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Your_Eyes_Only_%28short_story_collection%29#.22From_a_View_to_a_Kill.22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;For Your Eyes Only (1960, Fleming)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_Daylights&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Living Daylights (1987)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopussy_and_The_Living_Daylights#.22The_Living_Daylights.22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966, Fleming)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_to_Kill&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Licence to Kill (1989)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;strong&gt;N/A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldenEye&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GoldenEye (1995)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;strong&gt;N/A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Never_Dies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;strong&gt;N/A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Is_Not_Enough&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The World Is Not Enough (1999)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;strong&gt;N/A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Another_Day&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Die Another Day (2002)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;strong&gt;N/A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(2006_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Casino Royale (2006)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Casino Royale (1953, Fleming)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_of_Solace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quantum of Solace (2008)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;strong&gt;N/A&lt;/strong&gt; - Name is taken from a short story with no relation to the plot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyfall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Skyfall (2012)&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; &lt;strong&gt;N/A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Short stories or taken from a collection of short stories&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Adapted from Wikipedia's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;List of James Bond Novels&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_novels_and_short_stories#Books.2C_by_publication_sequence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;List of James Bond Films&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignoring real-world time constraints, there's very little information given in the novels or the movies indicating the passage of time. The only exception I can think of is Die Another Day, in which James Bond spends 14 months as a prisoner of the North Koreans:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yzibx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Time shift!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than this, there's no reason the rest of the missions couldn't take place one after another, with maybe enough time for wounds to heal (or be rescued from the middle of the sea, as happens a few times).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also possible that these 14 months don't matter, Die Another Day is an appropriate end to the series, and the fact that Casino Royale opens with James Bond being given his &quot;007 Status&quot;, which indicates it's either a prequel, reboot, or different person. The only thing that goes against the different person hypothesis is the fact that Bond has the Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger in Skyfall, and knows how to use the ejector seat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some non-canon sources which offer interesting perspectives, for example the hilarious &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.K._Connery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;O.K. Connery&lt;/a&gt; starring &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Connery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Neil Connery&lt;/a&gt; as &lt;strong&gt;Dr. Neil Connery&lt;/strong&gt;, a cosmetic surgeon, hypnotist, and brother of a famous secret agent, which is obviously supposed to be James Bond, but couldn't be said for copyright reasons. While it's just a silly knock-off movie, the fact that he's called &lt;strong&gt;Neil Connery&lt;/strong&gt; instead of &lt;strong&gt;Neil Bond&lt;/strong&gt; despite being his brother seems to indicate that James Bond &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a code name, and he's called &lt;strong&gt;James Connery&lt;/strong&gt; (or &lt;strong&gt;Sean Connery&lt;/strong&gt; perhaps).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also who controls this aspect of the franchise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, the majority of them are wirtten by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ian Fleming&lt;/a&gt;, however the films have a lot of writers and producers in common, but those with the biggest claim to &quot;canon&quot; at this point, I believe, are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Purvis_and_Robert_Wade&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Neal Purvis and Robert Wade&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The World Is Not Enough (&lt;strong&gt;Story by&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Die Another Day (&lt;strong&gt;Written by&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Casino Royale (2006) (&lt;strong&gt;Screenplay by&lt;/strong&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Haggis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Paul Haggis&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quantum of Solace (2008) (&lt;strong&gt;Written by&lt;/strong&gt; with Paul Haggis)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Skyfall (2012) (&lt;strong&gt;Screenplay by&lt;/strong&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logan_%28writer%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;John Logan&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Broccoli&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Barbara Broccoli&lt;/a&gt;, daughter of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_R._Broccoli&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Albert R. Broccoli&lt;/a&gt; who produced 17 Bond movies&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Octopussy (&lt;strong&gt;Assistant director&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A View to a Kill (&lt;strong&gt;Assistant director&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Living Daylights (&lt;strong&gt;Associate producer&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Licence to Kill (&lt;strong&gt;Associate producer&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;GoldenEye (&lt;strong&gt;Producer&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tomorrow Never Dies (&lt;strong&gt;Producer&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The World Is Not Enough (&lt;strong&gt;Producer&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Die Another Day (&lt;strong&gt;Producer&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Casino Royale (&lt;strong&gt;Producer&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quantum of Solace (&lt;strong&gt;Producer&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Skyfall (&lt;strong&gt;Producer&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These three are the most experienced and important people I can find who are still working on James Bond and I should imagine they're the closest thing you could find to an authority on James Bond at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="22193" LastEditDate="2019-07-16T20:34:47.357" LastActivityDate="2019-07-16T20:34:47.357" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="21835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2210" CreationDate="2014-07-02T20:43:53.790" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Latin certainly is still &lt;strong&gt;spoken&lt;/strong&gt;, just not widely. From a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21412604&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BBC article&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;Now retired to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Foster &lt;strong&gt;continues to speak to friends in the Vatican on the phone in Latin&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. Foster (that is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Reginald_Foster&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Father Reginald Foster&lt;/a&gt;) is also quoted as saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Latin is a language, it didn't come down in a golden box from Heaven. You don't have to be clever to speak it. In ancient Rome it was spoken by poor people, prostitutes and bums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also runs a two-month immersion course in Latin, in which &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Reginald_Foster#Latin_classes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Two nights a week are dedicated to conversational Latin&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. However, he estimates the number of fluent speakers is very small, perhaps only around 100. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11324" LastActivityDate="2014-07-02T20:43:53.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2210" CreationDate="2014-07-02T20:55:34.337" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Carpe Diem, Quid Pro Quo, Pro Se, In Vino Veritas, Semper Fi (short for Semper Fidelis)...  It's certainly spoken frequently enough as certain phrases have found their way into (almost) everyday life.  However, it's definitely not &lt;strong&gt;widely&lt;/strong&gt; used anymore in full.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-07-02T20:55:34.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21840" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21845" CreationDate="2014-07-02T23:01:13.857" Score="20" ViewCount="3769" Body="&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; have happenend by sheer coincidence that in the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120907/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ov_inf&quot;&gt;first quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ov_inf&quot;&gt;1999&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; two tightly related movie pictures were released - the Wachowski brother's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix&quot;&gt;The Matrix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and David Cronenberg's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existenz&quot;&gt;eXistenZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; - which had (among others) two aspects in common:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both dealt in the essentially same manner with &quot;real&quot; vs. &quot;virtual&quot; reality and thus visualized an important philosophical problem.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both featured the essentially same kind of mechanical plugin to get from the &quot;real&quot; to the &quot;virtual&quot; world and back. In &lt;em&gt;eXistenZ&lt;/em&gt; this plugin was called &quot;bioport&quot;, in &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt; there was no name given to it, but it was highly visible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; have been some connections in the genesis of these two movie pictures: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has there been &quot;something in the air&quot; in the late 90s which accidentally influenced both of them?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did they accidentally have the same specific (literary, philosophical, or scientific) model? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or has there eventually been a case of (film) &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage&quot;&gt;industrial espionage&lt;/a&gt; resp. artistical espionage?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or maybe an agreement among artists? (&lt;em&gt;&quot;You strengthen this aspect, I sthrengthen that aspect&quot;&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there no other way conceivable than a bioport to get from the real to the virtual world and back?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering that both movie pictures were really big successes &amp;ndash; &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt; more commercially, &lt;em&gt;eXistenZ&lt;/em&gt; more cinematically &amp;ndash; these questions do deserve an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Has anyone already tried to answer these questions investigatively (not only speculatively)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side question: Which serious comparisons of these to films would you recommend?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found this a good one:  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.examiner.com/review/existenz-1999-a-review&quot;&gt;'eXistenZ' (1999): A Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11474" LastEditorUserId="11474" LastEditDate="2014-07-02T23:31:36.887" LastActivityDate="2018-11-08T18:13:08.210" Title="The Matrix vs. eXistenZ: how did they influence each other?" Tags="|analysis|the-matrix|comparison|existenz|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21843" CreationDate="2014-07-03T00:11:24.597" Score="5" ViewCount="4724" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to remember the name of a (somewhat horror) movie in which some people get somehow stranded in a boat , and as usuall, things go wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main plot is that some giant lampreys (snake-like sea creatures) attack the crew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vUSVV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is not much to say about the plot, other than the creatures are big ass lampreys, and the usual &quot;everyone gets killed one at a time&quot; of this kind of movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I estimate it is a 90's movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SPOILERS from here on &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; at the end, only a few members get it out of the ship, and manage to get to a nearby island, only to realize that they landed on a lamprey infested place. The movie ends with a birds view of such island, and we hear monstruous noises and trees moving around as if they are attacking each other...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9567" LastActivityDate="2014-07-03T00:21:57.800" Title="A movie with giant lampreys (snake-like sea creatures) attacking a boat" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:13:03.960" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21842" CreationDate="2014-07-03T00:21:57.800" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118956/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Deep Rising&lt;/a&gt;: the creatures you describe as 'Lampreys' are actually semi autonomous tentacles which are the appendages of a giant sea-creature, which is implied to be a prehistoric monster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mWQcb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Finnegan and Trillian use the jet ski to travel to the nearby island,&#xA;  where they are soon joined by Joey. He survived the attack and escaped&#xA;  to the island using Finnegan's surfboard. As the three relax, a loud&#xA;  roar echoes across the island and something crashes toward them&#xA;  through the nearby forest while the camera pans out to reveal multiple&#xA;  active volcanoes within the island. An exasperated Finnegan mutters,&#xA;  &quot;Now what?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-07-03T00:21:57.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21844" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-03T01:20:48.963" Score="5" ViewCount="544" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alrighty.  I noticed when watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199753/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;Red Planet 2000&quot;&gt;Red Planet&lt;/a&gt; the other day, that there is advertising on the suits worn by the ground crew that travels to the Martian Surface...&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kcnjm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that shot, you can see Toshiba, GM, Nokia, and Hughes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183523/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;Mission to Mars 2000&quot;&gt;Mission to Mars&lt;/a&gt;, you can see advertising on the ground vehicle...&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7WHCw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now... I get the idea of advertising on sports figures/vehicles.  The public are watching them, so you slap some logos on them to drive home brand recognition.  However... the only people who would be seeing these logos in the universes detailed by these two movies, are the members of the crew on the ground on Mars.  There are no public spectators to see this advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we look at it from the point of view of it being a movie, rather than being immersed in the story, then the advertising is for the people watching the movie... and ONLY for the people watching the movie.  Wouldn't that be blatantly breaking the fourth wall?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-03T15:49:13.783" LastActivityDate="2014-07-03T16:28:36.353" Title="Can Product Placement in Movies break the 4th Wall?" Tags="|fourth-wall|product-placement|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21840" CreationDate="2014-07-03T01:23:09.167" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interestingly enough, both films were written by their directors. As for &lt;strong&gt;eXistenZ&lt;/strong&gt;, according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existenz#Production&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film's plot came about after Cronenberg conducted an interview with Salman Rushdie for Shift magazine in 1995. At the time, Rushdie was in hiding due to a Fatwah being put on his life by Muslim extremists due to his controversial book The Satanic Verses. Rushdie's dilemma gave Cronenberg an idea of &quot;a Fatwah against a virtual-reality game designer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as for &lt;strong&gt;The Matrix&lt;/strong&gt;, that was probably also being written in 1995 as there is a known &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Matrix,-The.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1996 draft&lt;/a&gt; of the script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that both films began years earlier and (since &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cronenberg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;David Cronenberg&lt;/a&gt; is Canadian) in different countries, there is little reason to suspect any espionage or even cross-pollination. And while little was said about &lt;em&gt;eXistenZ&lt;/em&gt; being derivative in the press, &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt; has many obvious influences, including some that many people believe to be outright theft. Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix#Influences&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reviewers have commented on similarities between The Matrix and other late-1990s films such as &lt;em&gt;Strange Days, Dark City&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;The Truman Show&lt;/em&gt;. Comparisons have also been made to &lt;em&gt;Grant Morrison's&lt;/em&gt; comic series &lt;strong&gt;The Invisibles&lt;/strong&gt;; &lt;em&gt;Morrison believes that the Wachowskis essentially plagiarized his work to create the film&lt;/em&gt;. Comparisons have also been made between &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt; and the books of &lt;em&gt;Carlos Castaneda&lt;/em&gt;. The similarity of the film's central concept to a device in the long-running series &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; has also been noted. As in the film, the Matrix of that series (introduced in the 1976 serial &lt;em&gt;The Deadly Assassin&lt;/em&gt;) is a massive computer system which one enters using a device connecting to the head, &lt;em&gt;allowing users to see representations of the real world and change its laws of physics; but if killed there, they will die in reality&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it looks like &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt; is a hodge-podge of ideas and influences, while &lt;em&gt;eXistenz&lt;/em&gt; is more an allegory based on an idea of fearing for your life due to the zealous nature of believers. Both are based on creators as Gods or icons. Neo = The One, prophesied to free mankind, while &quot;the demoness&quot;  Allegra Gellar (creator of the game &lt;strong&gt;eXistenZ&lt;/strong&gt;) made something too real, too confusing, and thus invoked the wrath of anti-game zealots. And, according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existenz&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;, even the movie's title holds a clue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;András Hámori and Robert Lantos, the two producers of the film (who are both of Hungarian origin) said in an interview that they intentionally hid a pun in the title: &quot;isten&quot; is the word for &quot;God&quot; in Hungarian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks to me like neither movie influenced the other. Granted, &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt; seems to be influenced by other things, but the central ideas are common enough tropes: Virtual Reality, Searching for freedom, Creators as Gods, etc. There may well have just been &quot;something in the air.&quot; Same as when two volcano movies come out the same year. Or the case of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Impact_%28film%29#Reception&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Deep Impact and Armageddon&lt;/a&gt; coming out within months of each other. Sometimes these things just happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Charles Fort&lt;/a&gt; told the world, it steam engines when it's steam engine time. In 1999, it looks like it was bioport time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-07-03T08:46:05.013" LastActivityDate="2014-07-03T08:46:05.013" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21847" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-03T02:32:42.140" Score="4" ViewCount="3065" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of the last episode of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802850/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fargo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the car salesman pleads for his life, telling Malvo that he has a little girl at home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does he make it?  The show doesn't explicitly show the outcome either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11476" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-03T15:35:21.437" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T03:48:32.167" Title="Did Malvo Kill the Car Salesman?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fargo-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21851" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-03T04:24:05.950" Score="5" ViewCount="980" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched the second half of &lt;em&gt;Archer: Vice&lt;/em&gt; (Season 5), and across multiple episodes one ISIS employee would pelt another with a quick flurry of slaps punctuated by a final larger blow.  It seems like it just started out of nowhere, so I might have missed an episode, but when did this slapstick routine start?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastActivityDate="2015-04-02T03:48:44.237" Title="When does the ISIS gang get slap-happy?" Tags="|archer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21844" CreationDate="2014-07-03T04:34:03.010" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the only time you can say product placement legitimately breaks the 4th wall is if the movie is explicitly set in an alien world which is different from ours in such a way that the product couldn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The examples you posted are certainly distracting, unnecessary corporate greed, but both movies appear to be set in a near-future human setting in which those corporations exist just like their real-life counterparts, so I wouldn't say they count&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had a look through the TVTropes listing of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ProductPlacement/LiveActionFilms&quot;&gt;Product placement in movies&lt;/a&gt; but I actually haven't found any which are flat out impossible. Though some are quite improbable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Budweiser Light survived the nuclear apocalypse before the founding of the Federation in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Star Trek (2009)&lt;/a&gt; and is quite popular with the main characters.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The special glasses the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_in_Black_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Men in Black&lt;/a&gt; wear which prevent your mind getting wiped by their Neuralyzers are made by Ray-Ban. You'd think they'd need some kind of secret government mechanism in them to make it work, but no.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More arguable examples are movies set in the distant future where current products are still around, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everything Will Smith owns in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_%28film%29&quot;&gt;i, Robot&lt;/a&gt; is product placement for products which are (from his perspective) 31 years out of date.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The only thing that dates the masterpiece &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%3a_A_Space_Odyssey_%28film%29&quot;&gt;2001: A Space Odyssey&lt;/a&gt; are the product placements for companies which no longer existed by 2001 such as Bell Systems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;McDonalds is still around and exactly the same in 2263 in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Element&quot;&gt;The Fifth Element&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'd consider a genuine fourth wall breaking product placement would be something like these &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;fictional&lt;/strong&gt; examples&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Han Solo ordering a Coca Cola in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Star Wars&lt;/a&gt; (a galaxy far far away)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Terra in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_%281973_film%29&quot;&gt;The Stranger&lt;/a&gt; (a planet on the same orbit as Earth at the other side of the Sun) being covered in Burger King billboards. &lt;sub&gt;*cough* Fantastic Four *cough*&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rhetons in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Planet&quot;&gt;The Phantom Planet&lt;/a&gt; (tiny people who live on an asteroid) are Coo-coo for Coco Puffs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that's not a lot of actual examples, but really it seems there aren't a whole lot of films about worlds which are very alien to us, and it probably has something to do with executives worrying that audiences won't be able to empathise with characters and settings which are so different from us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-07-03T04:34:03.010" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15725" CreationDate="2014-07-03T05:46:05.463" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the original script Hagen says Fredo thought it was going to be just a kidnapping, giving background to why Fredo says &amp;quot;not a hit&amp;quot; in the completed film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Godfather-Part-II.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;From the script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MICHAEL: I want you to reach Fredo. I know        he's scared, but have one of our    people reach him. Assure him that       there will be no reprisals. Tell        him that I know Roth misled him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HAGEN: My information is that Fredo thought it was a kidnapping. Roth assured him nothing would happen to         you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11480" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2023-05-14T19:30:57.557" LastActivityDate="2023-05-14T19:30:57.557" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="21854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21712" CreationDate="2014-07-03T07:47:11.853" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Rhoynar are the men who used to traditionally live along the banks of the river Rhoyne. However, 700 years before the Aegon's Conquest around 250,000 of the Rhoynar died in the expansion of the Valyrian freehold. In such circumstances, a warrior-queen named Nymeria fled with the remaining Rhoynar to the Dorne in southern Westeros. Nymeria then married a Dornish prince Mors Martell, and helped him secure his seat at Sunspear. The Rhoynar have lived among the Dornish since then, and all of the Dornish men today have some Rhoynar blood in them. Hence they are still referred to as Rhoynar men.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By S04E05, the Kingdom of Dorne had not been properly introduced to the viewers; it was only after Oberyn Martell's duel with the Mountain that Dorne came into focus. I think that's why they did not include &quot;King of Rhoynar&quot; in Tommen's title, but did that in the last episode for Daenerys' title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11482" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-03T22:43:58.680" LastActivityDate="2019-01-03T22:43:58.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="21855" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21856" CreationDate="2014-07-03T07:52:57.620" Score="10" ViewCount="8045" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last scenes of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843866/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Captain America: The Winter Soldier&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, after bucky pulls Capt Rogers from the water, and sets him aside, he walks away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;several minutes later, we see paramedics, bring in a guy, he is all burnt, the camera seems to focus on his left hand (indicating to bucky maybe? - if so, I thought that his left hand was amputated during his transformation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;else, who's that guy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GGrf4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O91Af.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2162" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:22:17.203" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T15:22:17.203" Title="Who's the burnt guy brought in?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|captain-america-the-winter-soldier|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21855" CreationDate="2014-07-03T09:19:25.917" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems this is S.H.I.E.L.D operative Brock Rumlow. According to Frank Grillo who &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America%3a_The_Winter_Soldier#Cast&quot;&gt;plays him&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Very early on the [film's directors] Russos said, 'Look, &lt;strong&gt;this is an origin film for this character.&lt;/strong&gt; We're gonna discover who this is and this is a big movie with a lot of moving parts, but we're gonna discover you in this film and, you know, here's the information about who Brock Rumlow turns into and blah, blah, blah.' And so we've had multiple discussions about what comes after that, that thing. So, you know, &lt;strong&gt;it's obvious Rumlow is covered in rubble and burned to [a] crisp at the end, but you see he's still there. They don't do that for no reason.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this appears to be a set up for Rumlow's alter-ego &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossbones_%28comics%29&quot;&gt;Crossbones&lt;/a&gt;, a Red Skull henchman involved in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Captain_America&quot;&gt;assassination of Captain America&lt;/a&gt;. This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fatmovieguy.com/captain-america-the-winter-soldier-easter-eggs-secrets-and-trivia/&quot;&gt;site&lt;/a&gt; is one of several that support the theory (scroll down about 2/3 of the way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-07-03T09:42:14.497" LastActivityDate="2014-07-03T09:42:14.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21851" CreationDate="2014-07-03T15:26:22.687" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This slap pattern started in Season 5.  I'm not sure exactly what episode, but it is definitely in Season 5.  I think it is within the first 4-5 episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've watched Seasons 1-4 many times over (as they are on Netflix), and while there is slapping, the pattern of many light slaps ending with a larger slap is not present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11493" LastActivityDate="2014-07-03T15:26:22.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21865" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21876" CreationDate="2014-07-03T15:29:17.863" Score="8" ViewCount="1390" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Lester frame his nephew in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802850/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fargo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? As if it wasn't sociopathic enough to frame his brother.  I wonder why it was necessary to go to the extra trouble to go all the way upstairs and plant something incriminating in the kid's backpack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11476" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-06T11:51:04.830" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T07:31:12.080" Title="Why Did Lester Frame His Nephew?" Tags="|fargo-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21844" CreationDate="2014-07-03T16:28:36.353" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this is what you are getting at, but if you watch the Wayne's World movie, you will see scenes of explicit product placement breaking the fourth wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/KjB6r-HDDI0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3552" LastActivityDate="2014-07-03T16:28:36.353" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21868" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21879" CreationDate="2014-07-03T19:48:51.383" Score="12" ViewCount="2538" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be a duplicate, since I don't know what this is actually called. I just watched the James Bond movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113189/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;GoldenEye&lt;/em&gt; (1995)&lt;/a&gt; and the final scene (almost) of the movie prompted this question. James and Natalya have just escaped the explosion of the antenna base. The rise as Jack Wade strolls up. After the standard Bond witticism, Jack pumps his arm and says &quot;Yo! Marines!&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bunch of US Marines (we assume) in ghillie suits pop up where we didn't see them. This I get. However, at the same time, in the background, three (or more) Bell Huey helicopters descend into the shot.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, I get that Bond (and us) didn't see the Marines hidden around him, but the helicopters? No way. They weren't even Black-hawks modified for quiet use (which are still pretty noisy). So, we, as the voyeuristic viewers of the scene are supposed to 'believe' that they were hidden from sight and sound, even though they were simply up and off screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same technique is used in some scenes where a protagonist might be 'sneaking' through some bushes... to the point of view of the camera, they are sneaking, but to the point of view of the people actually filming the scene? There they are, plain as day, with absolutely nothing hiding them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the technique, if it is such a thing, called?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="16523" LastEditDate="2016-09-12T00:31:51.947" LastActivityDate="2016-09-12T00:31:51.947" Title="What is the movie term for only seeing what is on camera?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20053" CreationDate="2014-07-03T21:15:33.633" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like you already have the Vol. 2 list, so here's the list to Vol. 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.emusic.com/album/various-artists/just-for-laughs-gags-music-vol-1/14043095/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.emusic.com/album/various-artists/just-for-laughs-gags-music-vol-1/14043095/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even in these two albums, which are the only two released to the public, there are still 4 or 5 unknown songs missing that have been broadcasted in the gags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11497" LastActivityDate="2014-07-03T21:15:33.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21868" CreationDate="2014-07-03T21:22:23.477" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anything that occurs infront of a camera, and is caught in shot, is &lt;strong&gt;Pro-Filmic&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything that happens in the filmic world/universe and affects its story, but not necessarily shown in shot, is &lt;strong&gt;Diegetic.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything that is within the film but is not within the diegesis (title cards, Voiceover), is &lt;strong&gt;Extra-Diegetic&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is not a technical word for the specific event you are describing: if anything, it refers to the willing &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief&quot;&gt;suspension of disbelief&lt;/a&gt;: wherein we must accept events that appear outwardly unrealistic because the conventions of the cinema are unaligned with reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-07-03T21:22:23.477" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21865" CreationDate="2014-07-03T22:13:12.877" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think he was actually framing his nephew as much as trying to give the police a reason to go to his brother's house. &#xA;Lester probably counted on the blame falling solely on his brother once the police discovered the illegal firearm and the planted evidence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11490" LastActivityDate="2014-07-03T22:13:12.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18863" CreationDate="2014-07-03T23:32:42.370" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Warning Spoiler:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following video shows the sequence showing who killed the Priest's dog Bruno. The guy has bandages and some blood stains on his hands while at the bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/2fWpSrE1UKg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; It was the bartender.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11499" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-27T23:27:35.610" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T23:27:35.610" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21868" CreationDate="2014-07-04T00:05:51.350" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;TVTropes calls this &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BehindTheBlack&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Behind the Black&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The tendency for something or someone to be completely invisible to the on-screen characters simply because it is not visible to the camera, i.e. &quot;behind the black&quot; - even when that object or person should be in clear view. Some TV shows, films, and video games are guilty of assuming that characters can't see something just off-screen because, well, the viewer can't, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfPerception&quot;&gt;the viewer is the center of their universe&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They also mention the specific scene you were referring to in their Film examples section:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In GoldenEye, Bond and Natalya are lying in a field having a romantic interlude with nobody around &quot;within 25 miles&quot;. Then a squad of marines pops up, forgivable because they are camouflaged... then a group of helicopters appears. They were completely silent and apparently invisible until they were within frame. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T00:05:51.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21880" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21888" CreationDate="2014-07-04T01:01:25.890" Score="6" ViewCount="1161" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Stop_%28novel%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Non-Stop&lt;/em&gt; from Brian Aldiss&lt;/a&gt; is a sci-fi novel I've just read and would like to see if anyone has used it as a base story for a film, or even maybe a TV episode (Star Trek for example).&#xA;As far as I'm aware there's nothing obvious, however films often take basic premises (some may say sci-fi staples) from books and then go off on their own journey with it. 'Pitch Black' (2000) with Arthur C Clarke's 'A Walk in the Dark' (1950) would be a good example of this (goes beyond staple similarities but isn't plagiarism).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below is the Wiki plot summary for Non-Stop (1st third of book - no spoilers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The novel's protagonist, Roy Complain, lives in a culturally-primordial tribe where curiosity is discouraged and life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. With a small group, he leaves his home and ventures into uncharted territory. The consequent discoveries will change his perception of the entire universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Complain's small tribe roam nomadically through corridors overrun by vegetation. After his wife is kidnapped, a tribal priest named Marapper encourages Complain to join a furtive expedition into the unexplored corridors. It is Marapper's belief that they are all living on board a moving space-craft, and that if they can reach the control room they will gain command of the entire, gargantuan vessel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On their journey, the group encounters other tribes, of varying levels of sophistication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The revelations are extraordinary, easily understood but like 'Momento' (2000) &amp;quot;when you discover what it was all about, you start again at the beginning&amp;quot; - Observer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm keen to see how the plot and themes transfer to the screen and perhaps how the story might be changed to suit the era that it was filmed in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is there any information if this novel has ever been turned into a movie or at least served as a major inspiration for one? Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11438" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T00:30:29.830" Title="Has the book 'Non - Stop' by Brian Aldiss ever been adapted for film/tv?" Tags="|book-adaptation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17992" CreationDate="2014-07-04T01:22:22.143" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The use of Arri Alexa and panavision lenses looks like it was not supported by a lot of lighting to give the film a cinematic style - as a result black and white takes away a lot of the distractions such as noise and varying color temperatures generated by a digital image capture in multiple locations and available light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The choice I am sure is also creative and considered - but it does allow for a cheaper and faster shooting schedule - it also reduces costs in post production as the only areas that have to be manipulated in image are contrast and exposure once saturation is reduced to nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11501" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T01:22:22.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18987" CreationDate="2014-07-04T03:25:34.903" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As explained here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29428/in-the-battle-of-the-seven-potters-why-didnt-harry-take-the-polyjuice-potion&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/29428/in-the-battle-of-the-seven-potters-why-didnt-harry-take-the-polyjuice-potion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being Harry was in-fact one of the safest people to be in that situation; given that there were extremely strict orders to &lt;strong&gt;capture&lt;/strong&gt; Harry and &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; kill him!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having more than one Harry was only a ploy to confuse the Death Eaters, so that perchance they would not be able to capture the &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; Harry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T03:25:34.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21880" CreationDate="2014-07-04T09:25:26.800" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;, unfortunately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a sensationally wonderful book, but it's never been transferred to film. I think a transfer to film could work, but unfortunately going into that is fairly discursive and probably better suited for the chatroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T09:25:26.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21890" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21892" CreationDate="2014-07-04T11:56:56.060" Score="10" ViewCount="3196" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been so confused by the genres of movies for a long time, for instance take &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001675/&quot;&gt;Robert Rodriguez&lt;/a&gt;'s movies like Planet Terror and Machete, even though these movies are funny why comedy is not added as their genre?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for some movies I've observed that their genres gets changed after a while, for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1790885/&quot;&gt;Zero Dark Thirty&lt;/a&gt; initially I've seen Action, Drama, History, Thriller as it's genre but now it's only Drama, History, Thriller.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, for &quot;The Fault in Our Stars&quot;, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2582846/&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; the genres are Drama, Romance and in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_fault_in_our_stars/&quot;&gt;rottenttomatoes&lt;/a&gt; the genres are  Drama, Comedy. So, the website owner gets to choose the genres of a movie or is it the director of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why genres gets changed for a movie after a while?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why different genres in different websites for the same movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who chooses genres for a movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2017-07-02T16:33:26.807" Title="Who decides the genre of a movie?" Tags="|genre|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10518" CreationDate="2014-07-04T12:52:41.113" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;He meant his daughter. Kramer had nothing to do with Dylan's death, but he's endangered the life of Jeff's daughter to test him. Notice that he's careful with his phrasing and says that Jeff will &quot;finally come face to face with the man responsible for &lt;strong&gt;the loss of your child&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; and &quot;the man accountable for &lt;strong&gt;taking your child&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, instead of saying &quot;the death of your son&quot;. Kramer explains it in the tape in the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; am the person responsible for the loss of your child. &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; am the only person who knows where your daughter is. She only has a limited supply of air, Jeff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T12:52:41.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21890" CreationDate="2014-07-04T13:11:47.743" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't say there's anyone who specifically sets a genre for a movie as some sort of official thing. The studio will likely describe the movie one way, but writers and magazines and websites may use different or even additional descriptors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing you have to remember with websites is their primary motive in anything is to &lt;em&gt;drive traffic to their site&lt;/em&gt;. By adding a large swath of genre information to the details of a movie they've got a page or article or entire section dedicated to, any search terms could ultimately lead to that movie being found on their site, driving traffic to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, not all websites are run by the same people. Someone may feel one movie is a political drama, while another may feel it's a political thriller.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could also come down to one's own personal interpretation of the content of a movie, such as a film critic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say the best descriptor for a movie likely comes from the studio that made it, or the people involved with making the movie itself (screen/story writer, director).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, I would't say to get too worked up over different sites and publications having different descriptors for movies, as there can be any number of reasons this happens, none of them official.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T13:11:47.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15520" CreationDate="2014-07-04T14:03:44.663" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're actually called Lacey and Nolan. And she was attracted to him because she was just on ecstasy. This is explained in the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bob: I'm not the devil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nolan: Wait, this is amazing. I didn't sell my soul, which means Lacey really loves me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lacey: Hey, sorry I'm late. I just slept for 18 hours. I bet my friend that I could do ecstasy five days in a row and it wouldn't affect my life and I totally won the bet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nolan: Ecstasy? You said you were in love with me. You said my ass was adorable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lacey: Wow, I did? Well, that didn't affect &lt;em&gt;my&lt;/em&gt; life, so I still won the 50 bucks. Yay me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T14:03:44.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4158" CreationDate="2014-07-04T16:34:48.653" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always believed that Mrs. Robinson had a woman's intuition premonition that &#xA;Benjamin would fall in love with her daughter in certain circumstances. She knew this using intuition that they were a good match. Also she knew, just from common sense, that &#xA;it would cause her pain if they did like each other. In life, based on experience, I've found it true that woman's intuition is a very real thing. So two parts here, partly it was a common sense avoidance of pain, and part it was woman's intuition trying to protect herself from pain. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11509" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T16:34:48.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10125" CreationDate="2014-07-04T16:43:21.080" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No stars may mean that there is no democracy here - no votes are ever cast by states for Underwood (excepting a small portion of South Carolina).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the graphic was also meant to draw attention to the show in general. It certainly makes one curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11510" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T16:43:21.080" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21890" CreationDate="2014-07-04T18:16:24.917" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Film genres can be categorized according to the setting of the film. Often, the genre of a movie is obvious. Can anyone argue  &lt;em&gt;Titanic&lt;/em&gt; is an comic movie, or &lt;em&gt;Saw&lt;/em&gt; is a romantic movie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's universal, &lt;em&gt;Titanic&lt;/em&gt; is a romantic movie and &lt;em&gt;Saw&lt;/em&gt; is a horror movie. So no one does really decide; because subconsciously, we, people or critics, categorise film genres in 4 &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com.lb/books/about/Film_Genre.html?id=tCQOwvI9vsAC&amp;amp;redir_esc=y&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;ways&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The environment where the story and action takes place. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The theme which refers to the issues that the film revolves around. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The mood which shows the emotional tone of the film. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The manner of presentation (e.g.: 35 mm, 16 mm or 8 mm).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An additional way of categorizing film genres is by the target audience: While watching &quot;The fault of our stars&quot; with my friend, we certainly didn't think it was horror movie. We both agreed it was romantic, but I subjectively classified it as a drama movie and she subjectively classified it as a comic movie also. It got glassified in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fault_in_Our_Stars_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; as a &lt;strong&gt;romantic comedy-drama film&lt;/strong&gt;, and this is the genre of this movie based on target audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The truth is genre is often a vague term with no fixed boundaries and a lot of controversy. Film theorist Robert Stam challenged whether genres do exist, or made up by critics. He asked: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;genres [are] really 'out there' in the world or are they really the&#xA;  construction of analysts?.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People will start categorizing movies with their own subjective terms. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Linda Williams, a film critic, argues that melodrama, horror, and adult movies fall into the category of &quot;body genres&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The editors of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmsite.org&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;filmsite.org&lt;/a&gt; argue that animation, children's films, and so on are non-genre-based film categories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11099" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T18:16:24.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21898" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17265" CreationDate="2014-07-04T18:23:21.230" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was an episode on the &lt;strong&gt;Third Watch&lt;/strong&gt; TV show, that, as far as i can tell, was made entirely on a single shot. That is, about 43 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I usually never watched the show, but I started wathcing that one episode, and the fact that the first minutes had a single shot caught my eye, I kept looking it, and the whole episode was one single shot! Single camera, tracking among all the characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode was &quot;&lt;strong&gt;A call for help&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or at least it had VERY good editing, because you never notice if they change something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;update:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found out that it indeed was made on long shots, in ten minute loops without cuts.&#xA;I guess each loop was sepparated by commercials on TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;more info here:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thirdwatch.wikia.com/wiki/A_Call_For_Help&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://thirdwatch.wikia.com/wiki/A_Call_For_Help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;nonetheless, it was a nice episode, you don't usually see more than a couple minutes of single takes/shots in either TV or Movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9567" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T18:23:21.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21537" CreationDate="2014-07-04T18:29:47.820" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the events and symbolism of the movie suggest that, &lt;strong&gt;at the end of the film, Cage &lt;em&gt;does not have the time-looping ability&lt;/em&gt;, or at least &lt;em&gt;does not need it&lt;/em&gt;. The loops have served their purpose: he has matured into a responsible, loving adult.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice how the movie comments on the human maturity process:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At beginning of movie, Cage is immature and selfish. In a position of privilege during a time of crisis, he playfully flirts with the pretty young woman who greets him at the helicopter pad. Then he tries to avoid combat by blackmailing the general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The time loops offer Cage a chance to mature. He makes a mistake but then starts over, avoids the mistake, instead makes a new one, and continues learning in this fashion. Over and over and over. Like any person making their way through young adulthood. He works hard, and along the way, he finally really gets to know other people, and their struggles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the point when the loops stop, Cage has matured. He has recognized the value of other people and is willing to sacrifice himself for them. He is self-assured because he has conquered his demons. He has fallen in love. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the end of the movie, Cage has dispensed of the pesky &quot;alpha&quot; force that had him losing the same impossible battle every day (a young man coming to terms with the alpha-male urges of young adulthood) and moved on to conquer the more important &quot;omega&quot; force that was the true cause of the suffering (a mature man having figured out how to live life in harmony). At the same time, this maturity also means he no longer has the youthful ability to bounce back unharmed from mistakes. A wiser man, he appreciates his life much more, now that he has realized it is precious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2014-07-04T18:51:36.837" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T18:51:36.837" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="237" CreationDate="2014-07-04T19:56:24.720" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think he at least planned on getting the I've Done It tattoo to remind himself once he had finally killed &quot;john G&quot;.  If you remember the photo Teddy shows him where he is smiling after getting his revenge, he is pointing to that area of his chest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For those saying he got the tattoo removed, it would make sense that he get the Murdered part out of the John G Raped and Murdered My Wife Tattoo as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11512" LastActivityDate="2014-07-04T19:56:24.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18801" CreationDate="2014-07-04T22:30:26.293" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's an original riff called &amp;quot;Miss Gulch's / Witch's theme&amp;quot; by Herbert Stothart, who won an Oscar for the film's score. Also, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_selections_in_The_Wizard_of_Oz#Music_in_the_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This repeated seven-note motif is actually a &amp;quot;crippled&amp;quot; variation (inverted and compressed in range) of the musical figure for &amp;quot;We're off to see the Wizard&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an interesting &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.moviefone.com/2013/09/20/whats-the-most-important-song-in-the-wizard-of-oz/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20150923064438/http://news.moviefone.com/2013/09/20/whats-the-most-important-song-in-the-wizard-of-oz/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;archive.org copy&lt;/a&gt;) about the music in the film (this riff included).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="19812" LastEditDate="2021-08-27T09:49:28.597" LastActivityDate="2021-08-27T09:49:28.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="21902" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21934" CreationDate="2014-07-05T01:23:52.613" Score="6" ViewCount="650" Body="&lt;p&gt;The opening scene is set in the Balkans where two American (?) snipers are staking out a bombed-out building where hostages are being held.  A third guy shows up, kills the snipers, the hostage-takers, and the hostages then blows up the building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The action then fast-forwards to a few years later in the US.  The villain (same guy as above) sets up his rifle on top of a building and shoots a politician/government official as he exits an airplane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the politician's security detail joins a female investigator (not sure which agency) on the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The villain later makes another attempt at the politician's wife from the woods outside her home.  This time he brings a patsy along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw this in a crowded bus so I may have gotten some details a bit wrong, not to mention the bus reached my stop in the middle of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it helps, the villain was the only African-American (?) in the cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&#xA;The security detail guy seemed like he was a former sniper.  Not sure, he might even have been one of the guys &quot;killed&quot; in the opening scene.&#xA;Tried Googling and checking IMDB.  No luck, or maybe my search skills are bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9346" LastEditorUserId="9346" LastEditDate="2014-07-05T01:30:01.377" LastActivityDate="2017-05-13T11:37:58.013" Title="Help identifying a sniper movie" Tags="|identify-this-movie|action|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:13:14.410" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21760" CreationDate="2014-07-05T17:38:08.233" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a very strong possibility, but with one difference: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094642/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;American Gothic&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Similarities:&lt;/strong&gt; 6 young friends go vacating on an island. After their plane has engine problems, they decide to stroll through the woods and come across the house of a seemingly kind old couple called Ma and Pa and their simpleton family. Ma and Pa give them great hospitality, but the young friends start to disappear one by one, killed in many different ways. Only one survives, and she manages to kill the family and stabs Ma with her knitting needles. When Pa comes home and finds Ma's body, he goes outside and yells at the heavens, renouncing God. The final girl then shoots him in the back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Differences:&lt;/strong&gt; It's from 1988.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLXdVqzHafU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;trailer&lt;/a&gt;. The entire movie is available in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA149989350A92FEE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;6 parts&lt;/a&gt; on Youtube; you can see Pa (Rod Steiger) screaming at God in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIvmd__9rao&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Part 6&lt;/a&gt; around 12:30. The film's also known as &lt;em&gt;Hide and Shriek&lt;/em&gt; in the UK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6QH5h.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6QH5h.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-10T00:22:28.863" LastActivityDate="2017-03-10T00:22:28.863" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21910" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-05T20:17:07.597" Score="0" ViewCount="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once upon a long time ago, the Nielson Ratings were determined by set top box. They were pretty decently accurate, or at least accepted as so by the big three original networks. Now that there are eleventy hundred channels to watch, how are ratings determined?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2014-07-05T20:17:07.597" Title="How are ratings determined?" Tags="|audience-measurement|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-07-06T10:25:49.327" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21911" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21953" CreationDate="2014-07-05T20:25:44.503" Score="9" ViewCount="1817" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching the original &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069947/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Day of the Jackal&lt;/a&gt; starring Edward Fox as the Jackal. There is a scene where the character Denise is shown in bed with her boyfriend, whom she is using to gain inside information on the French Government.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the scene progressed, we see both her breasts, nipples included. She then sits up out of the camera's view and pads away silently, whereupon we are greeted with full ... err.. reversal ... nudity. Anyway, whatever the opposite of full frontal nudity is. Head to toe, nothing on. I wasn't ready for it, and I didn't remember seeing it previously, but no worries. I like a little skin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I noticed that the TV Menu system showed the movie with a PG rating. I verified it on IMDB as well, PG. I'm sure that since the movie was made in 1973, it preceded all of the newer ratings (i.e. nc-17), but still even in the day, wouldn't that have gotten it an R?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-07-06T11:30:26.590" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T21:13:46.503" Title="How does The Day of the Jackal have a PG rating?" Tags="|content-rating|the-day-of-the-jackal|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21537" CreationDate="2014-07-05T20:49:54.060" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;After thinking over the movie more, I am providing a second answer that is not necessarily contrary to my other answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The strongest evidence that Cage &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; retain the ability to loop is his final loop itself (at end of movie, when he wakes up in the helicopter near Big Ben). &lt;strong&gt;Clearly his looping ability has been restored, and there is nothing in the movie to suggest that final loop was a one-time-only deal&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene where the omega's blood interacts with Cage plays out nearly identically to the scene where the alpha's blood interacts with Cage, suggesting the same sequence of events is occurring. I believe this is meant to show that Cage got the looping ability from the omega in the very same way he previously got it from the alpha. &lt;strong&gt;Same transmission method and same ability suggests same rules of retaining ability.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cage did not lose the original looping ability from the alpha until he bled out -- so &lt;strong&gt;why would he have lost the second looping ability from the omega without having bled out?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2014-07-05T20:49:54.060" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21914" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26220" CreationDate="2014-07-05T20:53:53.730" Score="6" ViewCount="784" Body="&lt;p&gt;At end of Edge of Tomorrow, when Cage and Rita and the crew are flying to the Louvre, the crew starts jumping out of the transport. Rita looks at Cage with a surprised look and says something like &quot;you're not strapped in.&quot; Then she jumps out and he goes down with the ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was going on in that moment? Was Cage tricking her somehow? I feel like there was some sort of twist occurring right then, but I missed the full context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-05T21:04:27.663" LastActivityDate="2023-05-08T11:31:26.957" Title="Why wasn't Cage strapped in for the final raid?" Tags="|plot-explanation|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21915" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-05T20:57:40.163" Score="2" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1433562/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;High Lane&lt;/a&gt; (2009) or Vertige, Fanny Valette's character has a few flashbacks. What's the importance of this flashback scene? How is it related to the film? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-07-06T11:34:05.097" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T11:34:05.097" Title="What's the significance of the flashbacks?" Tags="|analysis|high-lane|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21918" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21993" CreationDate="2014-07-06T02:14:28.990" Score="2" ViewCount="4050" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You're either very brave, or very stupid&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a common as dirt line from basically every action or drama movie ever, some examples from the top of my head would be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0895581/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Spooks S05E08- Agenda&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708506/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Trek DS9 S05E23- Blaze of Glory&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0684158/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Red Dwarf: S06E03- Gunmen of the Apocalypse&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;mighty&lt;/em&gt; instead of &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt;, to fit in with the western theme of the episode).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had a google around but I couldn't find any information on this, and surprisingly TVTropes doesn't have a page for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know where this phrase came from? It must be something famous because it shows up everywhere. From those I remember the earliest is Red Dwarf in 1993, so that's the number to beat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-06T02:45:48.630" LastActivityDate="2014-07-09T00:42:51.853" Title="Origin of the phrase &quot;You're either very brave, or very stupid&quot;" Tags="|dialogue|origin|trope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21919" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21983" CreationDate="2014-07-06T02:58:15.347" Score="5" ViewCount="303" Body="&lt;p&gt;Saw it in a bar in California, in or around 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looked like it was shot similarly to &quot;Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow&quot;, i.e. live action actors on a green-screen and CGI background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The color palette very heavy on the red, overall a grainy look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Large Mechs in a war-type scenario, airships, lots of missiles at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story seemed anti-capitalist, but it was not in English, and there were no subtitles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seemed like it may have been Chinese, Japanese, or Russian...though I am not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11525" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-16T18:18:33.123" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T18:18:33.123" Title="Help identify this Mech movie" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:13:26.963" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12371" CreationDate="2014-07-06T06:09:58.030" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its the fear of fall, fear of getting drenched with loss, its the fear of losing which makes you weak. When one gets lucky in life and receives something for which he has not made any honest efforts, then such a person is the most feared one. On the other hand when a man makes efforts from the inception (like batman when he makes the effort without the rope) then a person gets the will to fight his own fears. Such people are rock steady, hard and stable. They don't get excited with success nor do they get depressed with failure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11526" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T06:09:58.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18897" CreationDate="2014-07-06T11:42:52.880" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The necklace of Sansa has purple beads and that is what creates a big turn of events in the story.&#xA;Maybe that is why it is known as the purple wedding. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11528" LastEditorUserId="11528" LastEditDate="2014-07-06T12:43:23.707" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T12:43:23.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21918" CreationDate="2014-07-06T13:53:30.930" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033028/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Sea Hawk (1940)&lt;/a&gt; might qualify as an origin, at least in film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You were very brave, trying to take this ship single-handed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you, sir.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brave but stupid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.subzin.com/quotes/M13172694/The+Sea+Hawk/Brave+but+stupid.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would venture to guess that something very similar was written in a book long before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9270" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T13:53:30.930" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20073" CreationDate="2014-07-06T17:45:11.153" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the other answers I came to the conclusion that when cage killed Alpha it set a spawn point for him that was placed 24 hours prior to Alpha's death. In other words he respawns at the military base. Later on he loses the ability, but regains it after killing Omega. This event sets a new spawn point which is 24 hours prior to Omega's death. Since he managed to kill Omega earlier during the day than he killed Alpha, his spawn point is also earlier. In other words he wakes up in the helicopter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leaves some problems. If Alpha had this time-loop ability, wouldn't Omega have it as well and be alive after the reset? And if it was just Omega which had the ability (and let both Cage and Alpha travel in time), wouldn't killing Omega prevent Cage from going back in time at the end of the movie? The only answer I can think of would be, that the Omega send Cage back in time for the last time when it was still dying. So after the last respawn in helicopter Cage does not possess the time travel ability anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this leads to another question, if it was Omega which controlled the time travel, why couldn't it prevent Cage from respawning? If we assume it was because he had Alpha's blood, then one might start to wonder why did he gain the ability again from coming in contact with Omega's blood? I mean clearly Omega couldn't time jump itself, which allowed to have it die once and for all. But that would also suggest that coming in contact with it's blood should have no effect...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The other answer would be. The authors needed a happy ending and it wouldn't work otherwise.&lt;/strong&gt; Meaning, the authors expected people not to care too much about the little details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11472" LastEditorUserId="11472" LastEditDate="2014-07-06T17:59:23.423" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T17:59:23.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1836" CreationDate="2014-07-06T18:56:32.353" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This could as well be answered by asking &lt;strong&gt;what do we humans need all the gold for?&lt;/strong&gt; Granted, it can be facilitated for certain technologies, but the more prevalent answer, especially when looking back at history, is really &lt;strong&gt;for nothing, but it's rare and shiny!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is that during history humans have invaded other countries just out of the greedy search for gold, which back then didn't even have a technological use at all and was really nothing but wealth as an end in itself. This is especially prominent when looking back at the history of the Americas, be it the conquest of Southern and Middle America or, more recently, the gold rushes in the North American West, when people killed themselves out of pure greed for the shiny metal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I think &lt;strong&gt;the aliens from the movie are an allusion to exactly this human greed for gold and especially the gold rushes of the West&lt;/strong&gt;, which drove people mad. Why should higher technological development of the aliens come with any higher social development? They propagate the same gold-greedy conquest campaigns as the humans did, just at a larger scale, putting us in the position of the conquered people unsuccessfully wondering what they need this gold for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the answer to your question would be &lt;strong&gt;we're not supposed to know, but it doesn't matter since it's most probably not worth it&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T18:56:32.353" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15717" CreationDate="2014-07-06T18:59:59.097" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I rewatched this film shortly after reading 'The Book of EST' (which can be &lt;em&gt;ahem&lt;/em&gt; 'found' online), which is a guidebook for the 70s cult Erhard Seminar Training (now known as The Landmark Forum) which is partly derived from Scientology, and was a major influence on Chuck Palahniuk of 'Fight Club' fame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the gold watch story is basically about EST style thinking - bear with me as I explain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A big, big part of the EST seminar is the notion that most of our actions and decisions are conditioned reflexes to previous events from our lives or of the lives of other people that keep propagating through time - that most of our decisions are the result of historic random accidents piled up on each other and only by concentrating on the present and what really is happening &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt; instead of our interpretations of the past can we free ourselves from reacting inappropriately to circumstances and making irrational decisions, and that we must 'take responsibility' fully for our decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rewatching 'The Gold Watch' in this light suddenly makes everything make sense. Why does Koons go into such dull detail about the minutiae of the watch's provenance? On a surface level, there's a pretty good ass joke there, but most of the monologue is pointless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Viewed as a covert 'explanation' for how men pass down traumas and thus keep reprecipitating violence over generations, it becomes grandly eloquent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, look at Butch's frightening and irrational spasm at Fabienne when finding out she has left behind his 'sentimentally valued' watch/inter-generational baggage. As Butch realises, there is no &lt;em&gt;present&lt;/em&gt; reason why Fabienne would ascribe particular importance to this watch, and, &lt;em&gt;in the present&lt;/em&gt; no reason to be aggressive to her or to risk their lives by going back for it… going, like his father, grandfather and grandfather 'to war'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Butch is an interesting character because throughout the gold watch story he oscillates between conforming to what Scientologists call his 'reactive mind' and being aware that his thoughts and behaviour are not rational.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are told by the radio commentators that Butch &lt;em&gt;could not fail to realise&lt;/em&gt; how savagely he was beating his opponent - that he was in effect subconsciously murdering him intentionally. We even see Butch unnecessarily killing Vincent Vega because of a random toasting of a Pop-Tart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, the reason I am on this page at all is that I was so overwhelmed with what looked like EST symbolism in Pulp Fiction that I have gone looking for more information on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you'll get war I did on reading 'The Book of EST'. too. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11533" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T18:59:59.097" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21929" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23129" CreationDate="2014-07-06T19:44:55.760" Score="2" ViewCount="1644" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1767354/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Odd Thomas (2013)&lt;/a&gt; we see early on when we're introduced to the bodachs that if they know you can see them, they'll kill you. Throughout the movie, we see Odd trying to avoid looking at the bodachs, but toward the end (in the mall) he suggests that the bodachs were using him. We also see in various scenes where it looks as if the lead bodach is suspicious of Odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So are the bodachs aware of Odd being able to see them and if so, were they in fact using him instead of killing him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T06:17:14.923" Title="Did the bodachs know Odd could see them?" Tags="|plot-explanation|odd-thomas|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21930" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="57251" CreationDate="2014-07-06T19:52:51.623" Score="6" ViewCount="321" Body="&lt;p&gt;in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119891/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;Phantoms (1998)&lt;/a&gt; we discover the phones are out of order when Lisa and Jennifer find the maid, dead on the floor. When the girls head to the police station, it's confirmed the phone are not working. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, there is a scene during the girl's walk to the police station, right after they leave Jennifer's house where the camera is inside of a building (not sure if it was a house or a shop) showing the two walking past the window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this very short scene, the phone is ringing in the building. Why? What is the purpose? We later find out that the ancient evil can control the communications so what does it mean? Was it simply a hint for the audience or just to add a creep factor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2016-08-09T14:17:17.983" Title="Why is the phone ringing?" Tags="|plot-explanation|phantoms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21932" CreationDate="2014-07-06T19:57:49.457" Score="3" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119891/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Phantoms (1998)&lt;/a&gt; the &quot;ancient evil&quot; has one of it's drones provide a biological sample to Dr Flyte. It came out looking like maggots and then turned into a Gecko for a brief moment and then turned back into guck. Flyte was told to study it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The team does just that, they study the sample and find it's similar to petroleum and come up with a way to destroy the creature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did the ancient evil want Flyte to study it? What was the purpose? We know that it wanted Flyte to &quot;write the gospel&quot; but what does the sample have to do with that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-06T20:07:42.307" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T20:25:15.783" Title="Why did the ancient evil give Flyte a biological sample?" Tags="|plot-explanation|phantoms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21931" CreationDate="2014-07-06T20:06:02.930" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Ancient Enemy&lt;/em&gt; wanted the people to know about it, as you said it wanted &lt;em&gt;Flyte&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;&quot;write the gospel&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. It thought itself to be superior than anything else and it actually wanted nothing else than &lt;strong&gt;boast with its supposed superiority&lt;/strong&gt;. So in order for the people to fully see and admire/fear the majesty of the &lt;em&gt;Ancient Enemy&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;they had to fully understand it&lt;/strong&gt;. Thus it wanted &lt;em&gt;Flyte&lt;/em&gt; to understand its structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in fact &lt;strong&gt;this supposed superiority and arrogance is what led to the &lt;em&gt;Ancient Enemy&lt;/em&gt;'s downfall and what &lt;em&gt;Flyte&lt;/em&gt; and the others used to trick it into getting a sample at all&lt;/strong&gt;. It couldn't ever imagine that the puny humans could be able to somehow defeat it. It thus freely gave a sample to &lt;em&gt;Flyte&lt;/em&gt; for understanding it and making the world understand it, &lt;strong&gt;not anticipating in any way that this information could be used to defeat it&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-06T20:25:15.783" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T20:25:15.783" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21933" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-06T21:16:15.357" Score="4" ViewCount="604" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278388/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Grand Budapest Hotel&lt;/a&gt;, when Gustave, Zero and Agatha return to the hotel to retrieve the painting the hotel has been occupied by the Zig Zag division. Only Agatha enters, Gustave and Zero wait in a lorry outside the building. A car drives up, Dimitri leaves it and enters the hotel. Zero and Gustave know that he will recognize Agatha and thus enter the hotel themselves to rescue her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did they know that Dimitri will recognize her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course she is easily recognizable once seen even on photo, that is the plot function of the grotesque birthmark in the form of Mexico over half of her face. Dimitri has seen her photo in the files that Jopling acquired to find the people that helped Gustave escape from the prison. So it is indeed possible that Dimitri will recognize her as one of the persons that helped Gustave earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how did Gustave and Zero know about this immediate danger? I don't think it is likely that they know Jopling was specifically after her, acquired the photo from the office of servitude and labour, organized a file, and Dimitri read that file. And if he would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; recognize her they create massive additional risks by being recognized themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-15T20:04:20.670" LastActivityDate="2015-01-15T20:04:20.670" Title="How did Gustave and Zero know that Agatha was in danger?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-grand-budapest-hotel|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21902" CreationDate="2014-07-06T22:50:42.767" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I got it: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117533/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sabotage&lt;/a&gt; from 1996.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An ex-Navy commando (Mark Dacscos) is framed for a bungled mission to save hostages from terrorists in which he survived being shot 7 times by an assassin (Tony Todd). Years later, he is hired to protect a weapons distributor and his wife, only to have the same assassin kill them. This sets him on a mission with the assigned FBI agent (Carrie Anne Moss) to bring the killers and conspirators to justice. Graham Greene appears as Dacasco's former commander. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bad guy is an African American sniper; and though the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvPCdz09-dA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;only trailer&lt;/a&gt; I found is dubbed in German, you can see that he tries to assassinate a person who stands near a plane. It appears that the first scene with the hostages also takes place in a bombed-out building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-07-06T22:50:42.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21551" CreationDate="2014-07-07T00:41:40.000" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;That usually means that they either paid to have some sort of credit for the production, or an odd form of advertising without anyone realizing it, thus getting people to watch more movies produced by them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11534" LastActivityDate="2014-07-07T00:41:40.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21938" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-07T01:45:02.340" Score="19" ViewCount="130282" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706620/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Snowpiercer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; all the soldiers were cutting into fish as they prepared for battle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was the meaning of this gesture?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/1tTm2cyfmDU?start=61&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11476" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-04-23T14:53:29.307" LastActivityDate="2016-04-23T14:53:29.307" Title="What was the meaning of the fish?" Tags="|snowpiercer|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21938" CreationDate="2014-07-07T02:41:32.423" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think fish symbolizes people, particlarly ones in the tail section. Mason said that they eat sushi twice a year in trying to control the population of the aquarium. Likewise, the population of the train can be controlled by a massacre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11537" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-07T14:23:12.140" LastActivityDate="2014-07-07T14:23:12.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21943" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-07T11:52:40.407" Score="10" ViewCount="3821" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://bakerstreet.wikia.com/wiki/Irene_Adler%27s_Phone#Irene_Adler.27s_Phone&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this explanation about Irene Adler's phone&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &quot;A Scandal in Belgravia&quot;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Irene had miniature explosives fitted throughout that would destroy the phone if anyone attempted to remove the hard drive, there being only four attempts permitted with unlocking the phone before the explosives would detonate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fine, but Sherlock doesn't need to unlock the phone. According to Irene (and common sense too) the pictures on that phone are exclusive and there shouldn't be any backup online or offline, otherwise the govt. agents could have gained them easily in other ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in that case, Sherlock can hand over the phone to govt. officials, they can take the phone to a dumping ground, pour petrol over it and destroy it physically or by any other means they prefer :P&lt;br&gt;&#xA;......So why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Irene's phone might also contain information about terrorist groups (as Irene said to Mycroft that the lives of British citizens are at stake if the phone is destroyed, although not confirmed whether this is true) which might help the govt. in tracking them down but when it comes to scandals, most royal families, ministers or high profile politicians would rather be selfish and let people die out of terrorist attacks rather than compromising their dignity. And although Moriarty is a criminal mastermind and other criminals in &quot;Sherlock's world&quot; are deadly, Moriarty is still no Osama Bin Laden :v :v, that he would launch terrorist attacks on the scale of 9/11 :P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11545" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-07T14:29:46.927" LastActivityDate="2014-07-07T14:29:46.927" Title="Why didn't Sherlock just destroy Irene Adler's phone?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8423" CreationDate="2014-07-07T12:20:16.283" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is a definitive answer to this question until we get the future Bond films. However my thoughts were that initially he was involved with MI6 &amp;amp; M to control what she was doing because she had broken rules and the government were questioning these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Through the events of Skyfall he becomes aware that there is a very good reason why M does things that she does and learns that the rules are there to be broken and/or bent to protect the country therefore this is why Bond respects him and he wants Bond back to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastActivityDate="2014-07-07T12:20:16.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21943" CreationDate="2014-07-07T12:44:35.627" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great first question. This answer by no means definitively resolves your question, but it's the best I can do!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Sherlock's interest in the phone is down to a few reasons. Firstly, he has been tasked by Mycroft and the government to track down the phone and recover its contents. Once the contents have been verified, they will be destroyed. Sherlock &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; take Irene's phone and have it destroyed, but were the pictures &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; on the phone? Definitely? Sure, Irene says they are, but we're talking about pictures of a member of the royal family. They need absolute proof, and that requires unlocking the phone, confirming the pictures exist and then destroying them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when he first meets Irene the CIA burst in and he ends up saving the day, before Irene drugs him and escapes. Now there's a new twist to the tale - why are the CIA after the phone? What does it contain that is so valuable to them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following this, Irene supposedly dies. Sherlock's interest in the phone heightens. Why did she send it to him? What else is contained within it? We see him alienating himself from the world around him (although arguably no surprise there!) to try and figure out the code. When Irene comes back, he cracks the airplane code for her and he gets summoned to the aircraft once the Coventry scheme has been foiled. At this point, he finally cracks the code and the phone's contents are revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, after this short summary of events, I'm really arguing two main points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He needs to unlock the phone to make &lt;em&gt;absolutely sure&lt;/em&gt; it contains the pictures he was originally tasked to find.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His interest in the phone is heightened given the effort the CIA have put in to getting it, and Irene.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, these reasons miss one very important detail: How do we know she didn't have a backup of the photographs anywhere? Yes, she said she didn't - but she could have lied. I don't think there is a perfect resolve to this problem. Despite the ease with which a backup (offline) could have been made, the show has tried not to make any real issue out of that technological side of things, instead suggesting no backup had ever been made and asking us, as viewers, to simply believe this. If we do, then I the two reasons I've given above are the most logical I can think of as to why Sherlock didn't just destroy the phone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-07-07T12:44:35.627" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21951" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21952" CreationDate="2014-07-07T18:44:42.710" Score="15" ViewCount="62434" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I wanted to watch all the MCU hero movies in chronological order, how would I need to watch them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not referring to the &lt;em&gt;Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.&lt;/em&gt; TV series (although it would be nice to fit that in, too). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming S.H.I.E.L.D. (Fury, Coulson, etc.) is the connecting line in the story, is there any order?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2162" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2024-02-15T10:06:29.603" LastActivityDate="2024-02-15T10:06:29.603" Title="How to sort Marvel Cinematic Universe hero movies into a chronological order?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|chronology|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="21952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21951" CreationDate="2014-07-07T18:57:55.573" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chronology order of Marvel Cinematic Universe (Own by Disney) is as follows :-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;20th Century&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Captain America: The First Avenger&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Agent Carter&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Now is Not the End&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Bridge and Tunnel&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Time and Tide&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Blitzkrieg Button&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Iron Ceiling&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A Sin to Err&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Snafu&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Valediction&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;21st Century&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Iron Man&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Iron Man 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Incredible Hulk&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Thor&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Captain America: The First Avenger (ending)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Avengers&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Marvel One-Shot: Item 47&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season one)&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Pilot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;0-8-4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Asset&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Eye-Spy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Girl in the Flower Dress&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;FZZT&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Hub&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Thor: The Dark World&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season one)&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Well&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Repairs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Bridge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Magical Place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Seeds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;T.R.A.C.K.S.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;T.A.H.I.T.I.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Yes Men&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;End of the Beginning&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Captain America: The Winter Soldier&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season one)&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Turn, Turn, Turn&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;One Door Closes (flashbacks)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Providence&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Only Light in the Darkness&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Nothing Personal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Ragtag&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Beginning of the End&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season two)&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Shadows&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Heavy is the Head&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Making Friends and Influencing People&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Face My Enemy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A Hen in the Wolf House&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A Fractured House&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Writing on the Wall&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Things We Bury&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Ye Who Enter Here&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;What They Become&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Aftershocks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Who You Really Are&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;One of Us&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Love in the Time of HYDRA&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;One Door Closes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Afterlife&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Melinda&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Frenemy of My Enemy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Dirty Half Dozen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season two)&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Scars&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;S.O.S. Part One&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;S.O.S. Part Two&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Source:&lt;a href=&quot;http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline&quot;&gt;marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note:- &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_One-Shots&quot;&gt;Marvel One-Shots&lt;/a&gt; are a series of direct-to-video short films produced by Marvel Studios. They are included as special features in the MCU films' Blu-ray and digital distribution releases.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-05-21T05:17:55.370" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T05:17:55.370" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21911" CreationDate="2014-07-07T19:27:03.493" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well if you take into consideration the MPAA just established the ratings board in 1968 and on the board sits 8-13 members and these members watch each film and rate it for what their generalizations of what the &quot;American public&quot; would think of a particular film.  Bias?  or Gatekeepers?  Hmmm...  Another thing of note that complicates matters -- with DVR's and VOD now being popular.. a film may have a modified rating for the exact same content!?  ie a Theatrical R getting PG-13 on VOD. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're interested more on this subject I'd recommend viewing &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493459/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;This Film Is Not Yet Rated&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5961" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-07T19:30:53.393" LastActivityDate="2014-07-07T19:30:53.393" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21951" CreationDate="2014-07-07T20:59:49.907" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is difficult because many of the movies/episodes overlap. Most notable is &quot;Fury’s Big Week&quot; which is the name for the week in which &quot;The Incredible Hulk&quot;, &quot;Iron Man 2&quot;, and &quot;Thor&quot; &lt;strong&gt;all occurred simultaneously&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are scenes in &quot;Thor: The Dark World&quot; dating back to 2987 B.C. even though the majority occurred in 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, &quot;Captain America: The First Avenger&quot; shows scenes from 1933 upto 2011 despite taking place mostly in 1943-1945&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/Earth-199999#Timeline&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here is the complete list of events with more detail than anyone needs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11552" LastEditorUserId="11552" LastEditDate="2014-07-07T21:12:16.493" LastActivityDate="2014-07-07T21:12:16.493" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21955" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21961" CreationDate="2014-07-07T21:01:20.950" Score="5" ViewCount="835" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the climax of the main plotline of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598754/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;24: Live Another Day&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Jack...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; delivers a summary execution to Margot Al-Harazi by throwing her out the window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Jack is no stranger to killing, at that point the character appears to have been subdued and should have been taken into custody. This seemed very out-of-character for Jack. Is this because he snapped in season 8 and is no longer averse to revenge killing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11551" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-07T21:11:07.193" LastActivityDate="2014-07-08T01:26:27.813" Title="Why did Jack kill this character?" Tags="|24|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21957" CreationDate="2014-07-07T21:02:41.533" Score="26" ViewCount="91205" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; S03E03 &lt;em&gt;Tyrion&lt;/em&gt; donates his squire &lt;em&gt;Podrick&lt;/em&gt; a stay with three whores as a reward for his services, especially during the battle of &lt;em&gt;Blackwater&lt;/em&gt;. But when he returns he gives the money back to &lt;em&gt;Tyrion&lt;/em&gt; saying that they wouldn't take it, much to the wonder of &lt;em&gt;Tyrion&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Bronn&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bronn:&lt;/strong&gt; What did you tell them?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Podrick:&lt;/strong&gt; I didn't tell them anything.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Tyrion:&lt;/strong&gt; What did you do to them?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Podrick:&lt;/strong&gt; Lots of things.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Tyrion:&lt;/strong&gt; And they seemed to like these things?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Podrick:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, mylord.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bronn:&lt;/strong&gt; Of course they seemed to like it, they're paid to seem to like it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Tyrion:&lt;/strong&gt; Only they weren't paid.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bronn:&lt;/strong&gt; What you saying, those ladies enjoyed him so much they gave him the time for free?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I wonder, &lt;strong&gt;was there anything more serious behind this scene or is &lt;em&gt;Podrick&lt;/em&gt; really just an exceptionally good lover?&lt;/strong&gt; While this question might seem trivial or speculative, I couldn't help but feel that this whole incident and conversation didn't contribute anything to the overall plot at all (especially in light of the IMHO rather minor role &lt;em&gt;Podrick&lt;/em&gt; has in the story anyway). Yet, on the other hand &lt;em&gt;Podrick&lt;/em&gt;'s loyality doesn't seem in question when judging by the rest of the story so far, so it isn't too likely that he made some sinister deal either. So &lt;strong&gt;was this merely a little distraction or cheerful addition to &lt;em&gt;Podrick&lt;/em&gt;'s character or was there actually more to it that ties this scene in with the bigger picture&lt;/strong&gt; (or maybe the source material is more elaborate)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-07T21:37:50.263" LastActivityDate="2019-04-24T14:23:14.103" Title="Is Podrick really such a good lover?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21956" CreationDate="2014-07-07T21:21:45.530" Score="24" Body="&lt;h2&gt;There's probably no deeper meaning to it&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Podrick is pretty much seen as the comedic sidekick. In both the books and the TV show he is the unfortunate recipient of plenty of witty quips (mostly by Tyrion), even the fandom have picked him up as a funny meme of sort (&quot;I blame Pod&quot; is very widespread among fans). Also, the incident with the whores never happened in the books. However, what did happen in both books and show was Pod showing his true mettle during the Battle of the Blackwater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads me to believe that it's just poking fun at Pod while also giving the impression that there's more depth to Pod than a bungling squire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-07-07T21:21:45.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21956" CreationDate="2014-07-07T22:31:18.600" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might not have watched it yet, but in the season finale Podrick went to the courtyard to tell Tyrion there was a family meeting going on, and a couple of girls giggled and said, &quot;Ooh, that’s him!&quot;, indicating that his reputation is spreading by word of mouth.  I think the in-universe answer is supposed to be yes, Podrick really is a good lover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-07-07T22:31:18.600" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1832" CreationDate="2014-07-08T00:01:07.543" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, in his dreams Cobb lets go of his wife. His subconscious resolves his issues with his wife, recognizing that she is no longer needed. And hence, at the end even though he is in his dreams, there is no ring on his finger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9726" LastActivityDate="2014-07-08T00:01:07.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21955" CreationDate="2014-07-08T01:26:27.813" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is this because he snapped in season 8 and is no longer averse to revenge killing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Madam President, I don't want revenge, I want justice.&#xA;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;-Jack Bauer, Day 8, 9:48pm&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really I think it's a combination of factors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jack loves The Hellers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Jack started working with them sometime between the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_%28season_3%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Day 3&lt;/a&gt; and the start of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_%28season_4%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Day 4&lt;/a&gt; when James Heller is the Secretary of Defence and Jack is his adviser/bodyguard and Audrey is both her father's secretary and Jack's lover. Aside from their brief falling out in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_%28season_5%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Day 5&lt;/a&gt; when&#xA;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Jack gets evidence that President Charles Logan ordered the assassination of David Palmer, Tony Almeida and Michelle Dessler and Heller tries to negociate with Logan instead of just calling the Attourneys General&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;they've always had a close relationship based on trust.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jack loves America, and the President is America&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jack doesn't play politics, even when he dislikes the president, he'd never put himself above America. Some specific examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When he captures Logan at the end of Day 5, he doesn't kill him, because bringing him to justice is more important, even though he could easily get away with it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;During Day 8, when President Taylor turns against him, he never goes after her.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even later in Day 8, he has the opportunity to kill former President Logan twice, first time when he's in the tunnel and draws them out of their car with smoke grenades, then again later on when he has a sniper rifle pointing at him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jack always kills the bad guy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Always&lt;/em&gt;. Well, no, &lt;em&gt;mostly&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Day 1&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Victor_Drazen&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Victor Drazen&lt;/a&gt; runs out of ammo in a gunfight with Jack and surrenders:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kw86s.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Victor Drazen surrendering&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jack shoots him 12 times in the chest and watches in silence as his corpse floats away:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NrGT1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Buh-bye Drazy&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Day 2&lt;/strong&gt;, he tried very hard to kill &lt;a href=&quot;http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Peter_Kingsley&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Peter Kingsly&lt;/a&gt;, but got a last minute assist from a helicopter-based marksman as he'd run out of ammo and was severely injured from beating several &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mooks&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;mooks&lt;/a&gt; to death. He did however encourage his daughter to murder &lt;a href=&quot;http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Gary_Matheson&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an unconscious man&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Day 3&lt;/strong&gt;, Jack's having a bad day, and to make himself feel better he kills an unarmed Nina Meyers after she refused to learn that killing Jack's family is &lt;em&gt;not okay&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OfajV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;N-night Nena&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Day 4&lt;/strong&gt;, maybe Jack's calming down in his old age. Today he drops Habib Marwan off a roof, but to be fair he was cutting Jack's hand with a hunting knife, so we'll let that one drop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x0TZw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Hands up if you got the joke&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Day 5&lt;/strong&gt;, after Jack is done saving America from Nerve Gas, &lt;a href=&quot;http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Dawn_Brigade&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dawn Brigade&lt;/a&gt; has broken into a submarine and are about to attack America with it. So Jack strangles a guy to death with his &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MurderousThighs&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;murderous thighs&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qh55p.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Xenia Onatopp was sexier&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not satisfied with this, Jack gets a bit nostalgic and sets up the questionable &lt;a href=&quot;http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Christopher_Henderson&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Christopher Henderson&lt;/a&gt; by giving him an unloaded gun. Once Chris attempts to shoot Jack, he fills him fulla lead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0OMh2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;RIP on a sweet-ass sub&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Day 6&lt;/strong&gt;, after Jack subdues and ties up &lt;a href=&quot;http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Abu_Fayed&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Abu Fayed&lt;/a&gt; in chains, jack activates a pulley system so he's strangled to death:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B64HS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;More like Abu Fay-dead!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Day 7&lt;/strong&gt; is the major exception. Jack kills Juma in genuine self-defence (he goes for his gun after the White House attack and Jack takes him down). Most of the bad guys take each other out except for Tony, who breaks our hearts and lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Day 8&lt;/strong&gt; and the guilty are punished. Jack takes out an unarmed &lt;a href=&quot;http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Dana_Walsh&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dana Walsh&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KjMLl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jack doing nothing wrong&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;tortures and dismantles &lt;a href=&quot;http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Pavel_Tokarev&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pavel Tokarev&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pLdtF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Don&amp;#39;t worry, I found it&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and turns &lt;a href=&quot;http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Mikhail_Novakovich&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mikhail Novakovich&lt;/a&gt; into a kebab:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X0emq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ouchy&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to go back to the original question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This seemed very out-of-character for Jack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I very strongly disagree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there's also an out-of-universe reason, it could be &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ActorAllusion&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;actor allusion&lt;/a&gt;. It's certainly the first thing I thought of when I saw the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Game of Thrones, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0265610/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Michelle Fairley&lt;/a&gt; plays &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Catelyn_Stark&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Catelyn Stark&lt;/a&gt;, mother of Robb Stark and in season 3, her son is murdered in front of her in the home of the Freys, whose sigil is the twin towers, before she is murdered herself. In 24, her son is also murdered in front of her as he is thrown out of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_block&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;tower block&lt;/a&gt; window, before Jack does the same to her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-07-08T01:26:27.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2014-07-08T03:36:41.543" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to keep going on the significance of the owl.&#xA;In the classroom, the owl was euthanized. Very shocking to the boys, but served to further build Jim's mystique and awe among them.&#xA;Jim Prideaux and Bill Haden were inseparable in their youth, possibly lovers. So, there may be an element of mercy killing on top of the revenge in Haden's murder.&#xA;Add to that the owl was stuck in the chimmey and then burned, symbolic of how Haden was trapped, caught and destroyed.&#xA;The TV version and the BBC audio book skipped the owl scene altogether. The movie botched both the owl scene and the death of Haden. A gun? Hurrumph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11558" LastActivityDate="2014-07-08T03:36:41.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21970" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-08T09:26:02.340" Score="9" ViewCount="17112" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Age of extinction, in the scene where Optimus is on the road with Cade and Tessa (after they take refuge in the broken down gas station), he transforms into a shiny new Western Star 4900 Phantom truck just by 'scanning' a similar truck that was passing by. One should remember that Optimus was pretty beat up and in terrible condition when Cade found him initially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So all it takes to fix a transformer is a vehicle nearby that it can 'scan' and transform into? Or is this just more Michael Bay crap?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My issue is not with the scan and transform part. Optimus was almost falling apart when Cade found him. He had bullet holes in him and he could barely stand up. Even if he did transform by scanning the truck, how did he repair himself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T15:37:26.350" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T02:41:58.207" Title="How does Optimus heal himself in Age of extinction?" Tags="|plot-explanation|transformers|age-of-extinction|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21517" CreationDate="2014-07-08T10:57:18.367" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;They were making a &quot;curse&quot;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Gloria Mendoza's flashback we see that she used to have a side business selling charms to bring good luck. That would also mean that she believed in making curses as well. Her solution to the Vee problem was to curse her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see later that misfortune does befall Vee, but whether it was because of Mendoza's spell or not is up to the viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-07-08T10:57:18.367" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21972" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-08T11:10:37.360" Score="12" ViewCount="1080" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843866/&quot;&gt;Captain America: The Winter Soldier&lt;/a&gt; a number of details about Black Widow are disclosed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, that she was born in 1984, making her 30 years old during the events of &lt;em&gt;CA:TWS&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, that she was indeed born in Stalingrad, and worked for &lt;strong&gt;The KGB&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that Natalia/Natasha was trained as a child soldier: but if, as she states, her 'red ledger' was built whilst she was working &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; the KGB, she could only have been working for the Russians until she was 7 years old, 1991 being the year &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB&quot;&gt;the KGB was disbanded&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She specifically mentions the KGB as being the organization she worked for, when she discusses her 'Clean Start'. If there were another, more malevolent organisation she served under, wouldn't she have referred to them instead? If she had continued working for the Russians, wouldn't the majority of her career have occurred under the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Security_Service&quot;&gt;FSB&lt;/a&gt;: and as such why wouldn't she have named &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt;? Does this mean she worked for &lt;em&gt;someone else?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that Black Widow is referring only to her actions during the first 7 years of her life (which, lets face it, could only have plausibly seen a very &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; short period of active service)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the MCU/Earth-199999 continuity provide any details on who she worked for between the fall of the KGB and SHIELD? is it possible she was recruited straight to SHIELD by Barton, &lt;strong&gt;at age 7&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that the wider Marvel Universes, whilst operating different continuities, provide supportive commentary on each other to create a unified ballast across brand... do any of the other Marvel continuities make reference to Black Widow's past in a way that corroborates, or is reference by the MCU?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't need answers that link to the Marvel Wiki: its frequently inaccurate and constantly being updated. I'm trying to find if someone can find a precedent for this continuity in other work: whether it be Cinematic or otherwise...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-07-08T14:13:59.870" LastActivityDate="2016-10-24T15:31:43.303" Title="What is Black Widow's service record?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|captain-america-the-winter-soldier|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21970" CreationDate="2014-07-08T11:46:48.757" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the First movie, &lt;strong&gt;this exact thing&lt;/strong&gt; happens with Bumblebee:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/urHCYBOdNGg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He scans another Camaro, and takes its likeness by doing so. It's such an integral aspect of the franchise, there is even a Toy of the Camero Mid-Scan. &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SRaKZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Paulster &lt;em&gt;tried&lt;/em&gt; to say above, there is absolutely a &lt;strong&gt;Precedent&lt;/strong&gt; for this... ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-07-08T11:46:48.757" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21972" CreationDate="2014-07-08T16:08:03.783" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;They had to keep &lt;strong&gt;some&lt;/strong&gt; of her comic backstory relevant, or the fanboys would have cried foul.  In the comics, she was actually born in the late 20's/early 30's.  If you recall the scene in The Avengers, when she lures Banner out, she uses a very young girl and remarks something like, &quot;I was about her age when I started.&quot;  So the MCU already has her working at an extremely young age for the KGB, and her comic backstory involves her working for the KGB, as it was initially written in the 60's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-07-08T16:08:03.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21978" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21987" CreationDate="2014-07-08T18:29:15.717" Score="44" ViewCount="11457" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season one, &quot;Fry and the Slurm Factory&quot;, Bender uses the F-ray on Fry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                                BENDER&#xA;                     What should we point it at first?&#xA;&#xA;                                 FRY&#xA;                     I 'unno. Try it on me.  Ow! My sperm!                    &#xA;&#xA;                                 BENDER&#xA;                     Wow, neat! Mind if I try that again?                      &#xA;&#xA;           [He points it at Fry's crotch again but nothing happens.]&#xA;&#xA;                                 FRY&#xA;                     Huh, didn't hurt that time.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R5QqS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This ray is so strong when the professor uses it he is in a gigantic radiation suit.  Then in season 3 &quot;Roswell That Ends Well&quot;, and continuing forward it is stated that Fry is his own grandfather.  How can this be if his &quot;bits&quot; were irradiated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9841" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-11-22T07:13:42.470" LastActivityDate="2016-11-22T07:13:42.470" Title="How can Philip J. Fry be his own grandfather if he is sterile?" Tags="|character|futurama|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11511" CreationDate="2014-07-08T18:54:09.507" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mainly, I would think they chose The Cheesecake Factory because it's an instantly recognizable restaurant that they can't be sued for using. Most other restaurants have names that are registered trademarks, but the words &quot;Cheesecake&quot; and &quot;Factory&quot; as generic english words cannot be copyrighted (even in succession, hence the trademark name is &quot;THE Cheesecake Factory&quot;). For this reason the show is safe from any litigation as long as they refer to the restaurant as simply &quot;Cheesecake Factory&quot;, which if you notice is ALWAYS how they say it in the show (i.e.. &quot;THE Cheesecake Factory&quot; is never once stated in the show itself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11567" LastActivityDate="2014-07-08T18:54:09.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21919" CreationDate="2014-07-08T20:36:15.160" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is called Casshern.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://imdb.com/title/tt0405821/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://imdb.com/title/tt0405821/?ref_=nv_sr_1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Wikipedia: &quot;Tetsuya Azuma (東鉄也 Azuma Tetsuya?), also known as Casshern, is an android with a human consciousness aka a neoroider (人造人間 Jinzō Ningen?, lit. &quot;artificial human&quot;). Tetsuya turned himself into an android for the purpose of hunting down and destroying robots that have taken over the world.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11525" LastActivityDate="2014-07-08T20:36:15.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21978" CreationDate="2014-07-08T20:53:08.070" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a throwaway joke. There is nothing more to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since so many people were quibbling this answer, I went back and watched both episodes on DVD with audio commentary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no mention of Fry being sterile in &lt;em&gt;Roswell That Ends Well&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Fry and the Slurm Factory&lt;/em&gt;, the later episode is acknowledged by (I think) David X Cohen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We established a few scenes ago that Fry is sterile. Yet in season 3 we find out that Fry impregnates his own grandmother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is their only comment and they offer no explanation, showing that it was just a throwaway joke that they did not try to make canonical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastEditorUserId="118" LastEditDate="2014-07-13T10:40:27.613" LastActivityDate="2014-07-13T10:40:27.613" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="21989" CreationDate="2014-07-08T21:06:40.063" Score="18" ViewCount="3083" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a normal movie a director would setup shots the way they wanted and direct the actors in such a way that ideally it would clearly have a certain imprint of that directors vision on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However in an animated film or show I don't know what a director would do exactly or how their vision would affect things that sometimes takes years to draw. There are artists who draw the scenes to follow the script. There are actors and voice talents who bring the characters to life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2014-07-09T03:19:58.513" Title="What exactly does a director do in an animated feature?" Tags="|production|directors|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21978" CreationDate="2014-07-08T21:31:37.293" Score="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;Between those episodes Fry had Brain worms from episode 34 &quot;Parasites Lost&quot; they repaired many things in Fry. It makes sense that they repaired that problem as well as many others for him. They did increase his strength and stamina overall. By the time he got to do the nasty in the pasty in episode 51 (get it!) &quot;Roswell That Ends Well&quot; he should have been able to impregnate everyone's grandma. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastActivityDate="2014-07-08T21:31:37.293" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21986" CreationDate="2014-07-08T21:38:15.280" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question focuses closely on the activities of the director that occur when on set shooting the movie, but this is actually quite a small part of the overall activities of making a movie.  The overall process might be years long, with only a few weeks or months shooting 'film'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote from the first few lines of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_director&quot;&gt;wikipedia's definition of Film Director&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A film director is a person who directs the making of a film. Generally, a film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, and visualizes the script while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is absolutely no different for an animated movie from a live action movie - the director controls the entire artistic and dramatic aspects of the movie - from refining the script and casting actors through to the final refinements of editing, sounds and effects.  However as @MeatTrademark says, the set and cameras and replaced by artists.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more specifics of the role that the director performs on an animated movie, see the following &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2009/05/once_more_with_less_pixelation.html&quot;&gt;article on slate.com&lt;/a&gt;. This article states that a director of an animated movie has &lt;strong&gt;even more control&lt;/strong&gt; over the creative process than a live action movie because of the unlimited ability to micromanage every frame of the movie, and argues that an animated movie is more of a single person's vision than a live action equivalent.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-07-09T03:19:58.513" LastActivityDate="2014-07-09T03:19:58.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21990" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-08T22:02:42.247" Score="9" ViewCount="5388" Body="&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FRkm8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Mountain of Youth&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://rda-daily.livejournal.com/909666.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0638785/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Mountain of Youth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; aired &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MacGyver_episodes_(season_7)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;one month after&lt;/a&gt; the series finale and &lt;a href=&quot;http://mark28.blogspot.co.at/2006/12/macgyver-season-7-review-six-weeks.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;was billed&lt;/a&gt; as &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://sites.google.com/site/macgyverworld/episodes/139&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the lost episode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MacGyver joins Jack Dalton in Kabulstan on a search for a fountain of youth in a land that appears to be a real Shangri-La - and finds himself battling nuclear terrorists in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;I know there are two episode that never aired in Germany. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0638796/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;One of those&lt;/a&gt; is about Neo-Nazis, who at one point trap MacGyver in a small room and pump in gas to kill him, so I kind of understand why this episode wasn't shown in Germany (in the early 90's).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But with &quot;The Mountain of Youth&quot; I can't see a reason why it was held back in the US. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why was the production company (or the broadcasting network ABC) reluctant to show the episode &quot;The Mountain of Youth&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2023-05-01T22:27:51.873" Title="Why was the episode &quot;The Mountain of Youth&quot; almost lost?" Tags="|analysis|macgyver|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10807" CreationDate="2014-07-09T00:20:27.267" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could the movie you are looking for be called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_in_Lavender&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ladies in Lavender&lt;/a&gt;?  Judi Dench and Maggie Smith star in this beautiful movie about two sisters who find a mysterious boy who washes up on the beach of their 1930's Cornish seaside village.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11574" LastEditorUserId="1539" LastEditDate="2014-07-09T13:08:13.693" LastActivityDate="2014-07-09T13:08:13.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6841" CreationDate="2014-07-09T00:28:22.533" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think, ultimately, the movie makes the &quot;Life of Pi&quot; claim, which is that here are these events, and there's really no objective way to determine what explains those events. There's what we tell ourselves is the more rational explanation, that he did indeed crash his car into the house, it gave him mild brain damage causing him to view that traumatic moment the way he does now, and is therefore driven by this insane fantasy to prevent it, and there is the more fantastical explanation, that he did indeed time travel, and we should believe him. We can't know, as the audience, which is true. So then you have to ask yourself: Which is the better story? After all, the lives we live are just individual stories within the grand narrative of the universe, and every choice we make is ultimately commensurate with: What story do i want to tell? You can pick the more rational, scientific, albeit more cynical approach, and then this movie is ultimately about how a man copes with a traumatic incident in his life, by concocting this time travel nonsense, and seduces a young girl into accompanying him. Or you can choose to believe the protagonist, and the story he is telling, and you come away with, in my mind, a far more rewarding tale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11576" LastActivityDate="2014-07-09T00:28:22.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21918" CreationDate="2014-07-09T00:42:51.853" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a book from 1945:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The pilot was either very brave or very stupid&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.ie/books?id=TvsDAAAAYAAJ&amp;amp;q=%22very+brave+or+very+stupid%22&amp;amp;dq=%22very+brave+or+very+stupid%22&amp;amp;hl=ga&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=9Y68U9bSNoWI7AbZgYHoCQ&amp;amp;redir_esc=y&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://books.google.ie/books?id=TvsDAAAAYAAJ&amp;amp;q=%22very+brave+or+very+stupid%22&amp;amp;dq=%22very+brave+or+very+stupid%22&amp;amp;hl=ga&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=9Y68U9bSNoWI7AbZgYHoCQ&amp;amp;redir_esc=y&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Experiment with &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=either%20very%20brave%20or%20very%2Cvery%20brave%20or%20very%20stupid&amp;amp;year_start=1800&amp;amp;year_end=2000&amp;amp;corpus=15&amp;amp;smoothing=3&amp;amp;share=&amp;amp;direct_url=t1%3B%2Ceither%20very%20brave%20or%20very%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cvery%20brave%20or%20very%20stupid%3B%2Cc0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google n-gram viewer&lt;/a&gt; to find other/closer versions of the quote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11577" LastActivityDate="2014-07-09T00:42:51.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11733" CreationDate="2014-07-09T01:30:45.283" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unlike Sheldon and Leonard, she doesn't have student loan debts. She doesn't go out much and when she does, it's mostly to her job (where she gets a discount). Her car isn't new and needs repairs, so she's most likely not paying off a car loan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In comparison, Leonard's crew go to comic cons, buy movie trinkets, stay up with the latest electronics, have nice cars, probably have years of student loan debts, and also eat out for the majority of their meals. So to live the lifestyle (and probably keep lots of savings) that they want, it makes sense for them to have a roommate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it's stated in several episodes, Penny mooches off the other characters. She eats their food and use their wifi. She seems to live paycheck to paycheck, and doesn't have savings like they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I work on tips as a bartender, so I understand the struggle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11581" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-09-07T15:33:47.233" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T15:33:47.233" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="21997" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30780" CreationDate="2014-07-09T03:14:59.897" Score="13" ViewCount="844" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember reading an article about one of the animators or layout artists on a Disney animated film sneaking in one of their own original abstract paintings into a frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it was Bill Tytla, but Google is coming up empty. I also thought the film was Dumbo, but again, Google doesn't have any real hints. I am 99% sure it was a classic era film, so pre-Jungle Book and most likely pre-Cinderella.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else remember reading something about this? Can you identify the artist and the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6567" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-07-09T07:49:39.280" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T20:19:29.450" Title="Abstract art snuck into Disney film?" Tags="|disney|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:13:45.707" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="22002" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22005" CreationDate="2014-07-09T08:54:47.553" Score="16" ViewCount="129865" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Cornered&quot;&gt;Cornered&lt;/a&gt; (Season 4.  Ep. 6) of Breaking Bad, Jesse has been assigned to help Mike.  They are covering a house with a pair of heavy meth users who happen to have 3 pounds of the blue meth, but did not buy it off them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jesse wants to rush in, but Mike explains that 90% of their work is waiting and that he is not in the habit of rushing in on meth addicts, since they can be unpredictable.  Jesse takes the initiative and decides to approach the house as a user that wants to purchase.  Mike has misgivings about this approach, but does not stop him.  He is rebuffed at the door by Tucker, one of the addicts, and returns to the car.  Knocked down but not beaten, he decides to try again.  But this time gets a shovel from the back of Mike's car, goes to the front yard of the house, and starts &lt;em&gt;digging.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tucker appears at the door, while Jesse digs.  Then Tucker comes outside to stare at him.  They have this conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tucker:&lt;/strong&gt; What are you doing?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jesse:&lt;/strong&gt; Digging.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;T:&lt;/strong&gt; Why?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;J:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh.. you know why.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;T:&lt;/strong&gt; (wipes nose) How deep are you going?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;J:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't know, how deep do you think &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;it&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;T:&lt;/strong&gt; ..pretty deep.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;J:&lt;/strong&gt; Hey ah.. Do you mind takin' over for a minute?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;T:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah ..sure.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;J:&lt;/strong&gt; Hey ah.  Mind if I use your John?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;T:&lt;/strong&gt; (digging now, distracted) Yeah..&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The word 'it' makes me think they both knew what Jesse was trying to dig up.  What did the meth addict think was there?  More meth?  Money?  The green fairy?..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastActivityDate="2022-08-30T22:10:57.597" Title="What did the Meth Head think he was digging for?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="22005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22002" CreationDate="2014-07-09T10:29:35.853" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;This scene was playing on the many negative behaviours of a meth addict. Many users of meth experience increased paranoia, energy, a greater sense of alertness and very unpredictable behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jesse, knowing a lot about meth, plays on this by creating a scene with the shovel and pretending he's looking for something. The paranoid, curious Tucker can't understand why and is stoned enough to believe there's something really there. Jesse's determination to find whatever is there leads the paranoid and alert Tucker in to taking over and becoming determined to find whatever is there himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Jesse refers to &quot;it&quot;, the &quot;it&quot; can refer to whatever Tucker wants it to. Rather than describing something in particular, Jesse leaves it open for interpretation and allows Tucker to imagine whatever he wants, which spurs him on to continue digging and ignore Jesse. In fact, when Jesse finally leaves the house we still see Tucker digging, even more frenetically than before, demonstrating the heightened sense of energy combined with paranoia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately though, there's nothing in the hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="3203" LastEditDate="2014-07-09T15:46:10.733" LastActivityDate="2014-07-09T15:46:10.733" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="22006" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22008" CreationDate="2014-07-09T10:52:19.743" Score="6" ViewCount="111168" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just finished watching season 1 of Jericho and while looking at season two I noticed that it cuts half way through, I'm presuming it was cancelled. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone please shed some light on why it was cancelled as I was really enjoying it and also will there be any way for me to find out what should have happened after the cut off point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I wish that the companies making the show would just release the rest on DVD if they can't carry on with it being broadcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11589" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-12T09:11:00.290" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T15:44:12.860" Title="Why was Jericho Cancelled and is there any way to know the missing episodes' story?" Tags="|cancellation|jericho|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="22007" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-09T12:54:17.000" Score="2" ViewCount="1013" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film Memento Leonard's main tattoo reads&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JOHN G. &lt;strong&gt;RAPED&lt;/strong&gt; AND MURDERED MY WIFE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means it was the second attacker who raped his wife. If this was true the postmortem report would've shown that the DNA of the samples found on her body did not match with the first attacker. Even if she survived the attack forensic investigation when she was undergoing treatment would've revealed this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; have made the cops search for the second attacker.&lt;/strong&gt; Why didn't this happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we assume this second guy was smart enough to remove all evidences off Mrs. Leonard's body then &lt;strong&gt;how did Leonard know that his wife was raped?&lt;/strong&gt; Because when Leonard wakes up in the middle of the night and shoots the first attacker he only sees a masked man strangling his wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9980" LastActivityDate="2014-07-09T12:54:17.000" Title="Was Leonard's wife really raped?" Tags="|memento|plot-explanation|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-05-12T00:45:46.350" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="22008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22006" CreationDate="2014-07-09T13:18:10.973" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was cancelled due to the lack of support of the show. The second season is still a &quot;complete&quot; season, it just wraps things up pretty quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're still interested in what happens after season two there is apparently a comic that came out to continue the story where it was left off. (Not sure if its fan made or fan supported or made by the creators.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_Season_3%3a_Civil_War&quot;&gt;Jericho comic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was meant to be cancelled after season 1 but after a large amount of people were upset they gave season two a try to revive it and it apparently failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comment from one of my questions about Jericho:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The reason for the rushed ending was that the show was actually&#xA;  cancelled after the first season due to poor ratings. However, it was&#xA;  a cult hit and a number of fans protested the network to get another&#xA;  season commissioned. This happened; it got another 7 episodes. But it&#xA;  got cancelled again after the second season, hence why it all got&#xA;  wrapped up prematurely and so many corners were cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;–  Craig Russell&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another comment from my question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not sure, however, you may be interested in checking out the Jericho&#xA;  comic. It picks up as a comic book version of season 3. So, if you're&#xA;  a Jericho fan and interested in finding out more about what happens,&#xA;  I'd look into this. As a note, although I do have the comic, I haven't&#xA;  read it yet so I honestly don't know how good it is!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;–  Ashlinry&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8871" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-07-09T19:15:43.570" LastActivityDate="2014-07-09T19:15:43.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="22010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21978" CreationDate="2014-07-09T14:11:23.707" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fry says &quot;Ow! my sperm!&quot; insinuating that his sperm died (and that he could feel it, which is a different matter), this has nothing to do with the rest of his reproductive system.  New sperm would be generated in a couple days and he should be OK.  The reason it didn't hurt the second time is simply because all the sperm was already dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the fact that he can feel his sperm dying is a separate issue, but is as believable as the rest of it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11596" LastActivityDate="2014-07-09T14:11:23.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="22012" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22020" CreationDate="2014-07-09T19:53:38.500" Score="11" ViewCount="6001" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Simpsons&lt;/em&gt; episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F13.html&quot;&gt;Deep Space Homer&lt;/a&gt;, when the space shuttle is taking off, Lisa says this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How doth the hero strong and brave, a celestial path in the heavens pave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a reference to something else (poem/play etc) or did the writers come up with this themselves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3844" LastEditorUserId="11608" LastEditDate="2014-07-10T01:50:25.713" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T01:50:25.713" Title="Is Lisa quoting something else in Deep Space Homer, or did the writers write this themselves?" Tags="|dialogue|reference|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="22013" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="22018" CreationDate="2014-07-09T20:03:10.443" Score="3" ViewCount="399" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lego_Movie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Lego Movie&lt;/a&gt; and, apart from all the random advertisement they put in there, it was a decent movie. Up until it changed from being a story about Construction worker Emmet, Lord Business, Wildstyle and all the others, to a story about some random boy called Finn and his dad, whom we know nothing about. It wasn't the first time I noticed this phenomenon. The same thing happened to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smurfs_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Smurfs&lt;/a&gt;. The Smurfs originally was supposed to be a story about, well you know, the Smurfs. And in the Smurf universe there aren't supposed to be any humans in there other than Gargamel and those from the medieval kingdom &lt;a href=&quot;http://smurfs.wikia.com/wiki/Johan_And_Peewit_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sir Johan and Peewit&lt;/a&gt; are from. So in the movie, the story wasn't even about the Smurfs anymore and it changed into a story about the Winslow family. So is this a trend? And if it is, what's the idea behind this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11162" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-10T22:22:05.183" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T22:22:05.183" Title="Why are humans often used in movies irrelevant to the story?" Tags="|the-lego-movie|the-smurfs|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="22014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22006" CreationDate="2014-07-09T20:18:59.817" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Only seven episodes were ordered for the short second season. There were two endings filmed: the one that aired had an emotional conclusion and many of the fans were satisfied with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alternate ending, available in full on the 2nd season DVD, was the original ending that led into season 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Jericho comics/graphic novels continue the story from the aired ending:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/JerichoS3Novel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tinyurl.com/JerichoS3Novel&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Season 3 gives us the backstory of John Smith, the mastermind of the attacks, and we get to meet Johnston's brother (who looks a lot like Johnston).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tinyurl.com/S4Jericho&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tinyurl.com/S4Jericho&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Season 4 has a double agent living in Jericho and the country grows closer to a civil war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Season 5 has been approved and is being worked on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, there are still hints of a continuation. The latest being a movie made by CBS Films and co-financed by Netflix. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read the latest Jericho news on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.savingjericho.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Saving Jericho&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11604" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-07-11T16:36:18.837" LastActivityDate="2014-07-11T16:36:18.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="22015" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-09T20:24:51.997" Score="6" ViewCount="18381" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read how Gilly and Sam got through the wall on their way home in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Did Bran and Jojen do the same with a passage? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11605" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-09T21:15:14.263" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T00:55:38.717" Title="How did Bran get over the wall?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="22016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22015" CreationDate="2014-07-09T20:39:12.773" Score="13" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Did Bran and Jojen do the same with a passage? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, the same passage, and Samwell and Gilly actually meet Brann, Jojen, Meera and Hodor in the The Nightfort after the former have just come through the sally port, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2178796/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;S03E10- Mhysa&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U7oYx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Samwell, Jojen, Hodor, Brann and Meera&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're never really in the same shot together, but that's Sam's shoulder on the left of the frame. And the reverse perspective:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hBNwV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sam and Gilly&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-09T21:18:11.823" LastActivityDate="2014-07-09T21:18:11.823" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="22018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22013" CreationDate="2014-07-09T21:42:31.457" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least in the LEGO Movie, my impression was that the actions of the LEGO characters were led by the boy. The conflicts in the LEGO storyline were the kid acting out his own conflicts with his father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The father wanted to Krazy Glue (Kragl) all the LEGOs together so they couldn't be played with.  The father considered himself a master builder, and everything had to be perfect.  The boy considered himself (and Emmett) to be not-very-good builders, probably because he compared himself to his dad.  But he liked to play and build and use his imagination (which had been invalidated) and that's why the Kragl was such a terrible thing to him -- it stopped him from playing and building silly things like double-decker couches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the way I took the movie, the boy's story had been told by Emmett and Wild Child and everyone else during the first 3/4 of the movie.  The boy wasn't superfluous at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I haven't seen The Smurfs, so I'm not sure if the humans were as integral or not. Another non-human movie with humans in it was The Muppet Movie, and the humans seemed kind of superfluous to me. But they gave human audiences someone to identify with.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2014-07-09T22:05:32.307" LastActivityDate="2014-07-09T22:05:32.307" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="22020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22012" CreationDate="2014-07-09T22:27:04.797" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The saying is not a famous quote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Precocious young Lisa is trying to sound smart by using sophisticated words like &quot;doth&quot; and &quot;celestial&quot; in a rhyme. Ever the intelligent overachiever, she's essentially trying to come up with a wisely worded quote of her own. But &quot;hero strong and brave&quot; is actually quite a cheesy, uninspired bit of phrase-making. And the use of &quot;pave&quot; to describe laying a pathway is a clear reach for something to rhyme with brave. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before you take a second to think about it, the quote sounds impressive and potentially historical -- but it definitely isn't. That's the joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2014-07-09T22:27:04.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="22022" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-10T02:46:17.673" Score="6" ViewCount="293" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where are they? Two recent movies that were not distributed locally, or nationally, as far as I can tell: “Under The Skin,” and “Only Lovers Left Alive.” As you can see, I enjoy sci-fi and vampire films! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first stars Scarlett Johansson and got good reviews and even some positive mention at various film festivals; Rotten Tomatoes gave it 87%, and even the NYT liked it! The film was in theaters in two Michigan cities, Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids. The film remains in limited release, took in just $2.5 million, and comes out on disk next week.&#xA;Guess I expected, given the star power and genre, that “Under The Skin” would have had wide release, along with the attendant trailers and promotion on national television and major print media. Not so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Only Lovers Left Alive” also got good reviews, including 85% at Rotten Tomatoes and a nice mention in the Times’ Friday Arts section. Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston, like Johansson, have been known to sell a few movie tickets. It grossed only $1.8 million and will be on disk Aug. 19. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia classifies both movies as “specialty box office.” By the way, both are still being shown in New York.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question: why were two, generally well-reviewed films featuring major actors and very popular topics – aliens and vampires – just disappearing into the maw. . . . when really poor (and poorly reviewed) movies stay in my local theater for weeks and weeks? I’m sure it has to do with money, but in that light, I thought surely Ms. Johansson’s presence could sell anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you, in advance, for any light you can shed on this matter. I’m sure it happens all the time – these just happened to be two films I was looking forward to seeing on the big screen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11610" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-15T12:28:58.963" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T12:28:58.963" Title="Aliens and vampires don't sell?" Tags="|distribution|reception|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23022" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-10T06:44:42.793" Score="11" ViewCount="4388" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is my deep desire to see &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mahabharata&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayana&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ramayana&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; made as movies with effects and direction like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_%28film_series%29&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I have read both these great epics; they are very profound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many movies, including animated ones, have been created on these epics but they don't have that feel that one gets when watching &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;. I would say they were poor effects. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any specific reason behind this? Because what I don't understand is Hollywood has made movies inspired from Greek and Norse mythologies, and so on. So why don't they look to Indian epics to be made into movies? It's surprising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11437" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T15:01:18.737" LastActivityDate="2016-11-29T15:34:39.293" Title="Why doesn't Hollywood make movies related to epic stories like Mahabharata or Ramayana?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23022" CreationDate="2014-07-10T09:15:24.757" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sadly, as an American, I've heard little to nothing about these epics (Mahabharata and Ramayana), not that I wouldn't like to see the movies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are still no big-budget epics based on works like &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Odyssey&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Iliad&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneid&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Aeneid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;; not even the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Epic of Gilgamesh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (which is possibly the oldest story known). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't take it as an intentional slight against the stories or culture, but merely a marketing decision. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the age of superheroes and other proven franchises ruling the US Domestic Box Office, we have a long way to go before the older stories get their due. The producers and studio heads only want a guaranteed Return On Investment (ROI). They're not really known for taking intentional risks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-03-29T22:58:14.997" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T22:58:14.997" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23025" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34341" CreationDate="2014-07-10T09:29:49.013" Score="5" ViewCount="2027" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the raid of the &lt;em&gt;OmniCorp&lt;/em&gt; Headquarters &lt;em&gt;Rick Mattox&lt;/em&gt; is almost able to kill RoboCop, due to wearing a bracer tagged as a &lt;em&gt;Red Asset&lt;/em&gt; (marking him as &lt;em&gt;Do not engage&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luckily enough, &lt;em&gt;Jack Lewis&lt;/em&gt; is able to shoot him in the back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on the rooftop, there's a similar standoff with &lt;em&gt;Raymond Sellars&lt;/em&gt; and another bracer involved, yet this time Murphy just aims and shoots the moment &lt;em&gt;Sellars&lt;/em&gt; fires his weapon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both scenes are very similar to the hidden fourth directive in the original movie granting immunity to all current members of &lt;em&gt;OCP&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While he obviously had to fight against the programming, he obviously overcame it rather quickly at once. Or was there some kind of override triggered by some of &lt;em&gt;Sellars'&lt;/em&gt; actions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this possibly just one big plot hole?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is no visible override effect when &lt;em&gt;Mattox&lt;/em&gt; shoots RoboCop in the back. So I don't think it would be the case with &lt;em&gt;Sellars&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it really just due to his family being endangered?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastEditorUserId="6725" LastEditDate="2014-07-10T09:51:09.413" LastActivityDate="2016-07-14T15:01:51.240" Title="How does Murphy overcome the &quot;Red Asset&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|robocop-2014|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23026" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23071" CreationDate="2014-07-10T09:45:19.517" Score="2" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;As part of introduction to the setting, we're shown a live conference as part of &lt;em&gt;The Novak Element&lt;/em&gt;. They obviously wanted to show citizens of the US how the military robots help securing Teheran.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; However, things go south as soon as a kid with a knife is shot into pieces by one of the walkers, essentially creating a giant PR disaster for &lt;em&gt;OmniCorp&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on in the movie, there's a direct competition between one of the military humanoid robots and RoboCop to test his performance. Segment after segment, it's becoming clear that he's always slower (i.e. less efficient) due to the human component.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remembering the beginning of the movie, I expected this one ultimate proof that the project isn't just some huge waste of money and it would help to boost acceptance in the US:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; At once there'd be a kid as a target, once again witha very ineffective/unclear weapon, like a knife. The robot would shoot (off screen), while &lt;em&gt;Murphy&lt;/em&gt; would try something else, maybe even disarming it by hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet such a situation doesn't appear. RoboCop as-is is considered ineffective in comparison and that's it - test complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I don't think there's any reason stated for not doing what I mentioned above and I guess that the whole &lt;em&gt;Teheran incident&lt;/em&gt; is pretty much public knowledge, it feels a bit like a lost chance. Did they do it on purpose just for the sake of the story the way they wanted it to be? (Assuming there's any information available regarding that.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T06:35:24.257" Title="Not using the obvious test to proof RoboCop's superiority over pure machines?" Tags="|plot-explanation|robocop-2014|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22022" CreationDate="2014-07-10T10:14:35.037" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, the reason those movies didn't receive as wide a release as others has nothing to do with their respective genres: if we were to say Vampire movies and Alien Movies don't sell, how would we possibly explain the phenomenon's of Twilight and Transformers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference, as you may have noticed, is that the above are part of &lt;em&gt;franchises&lt;/em&gt;, and as such will receive a greater marketing push than others. British Film Critic/Historian Mark Kermode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.denofgeek.com/books-comics/5992/the-good-the-bad-and-the-multiplex-by-mark-kermode-review&quot;&gt;has wrote a book&lt;/a&gt; about this very thing: in which he claims that franchise cinema is deliberately marketed to starve other pictures of the oxygen of publicity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With Big Cinema being the new status quo, it is becoming impossible for the kind of movies you mention to find success: not because they aren't 10x better than some of Hollywood's blockbuster output, but because they aren't allowed an opportunity to 'find their legs'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is because of this deliberate monopolization of the industry that we have recently seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/30/steven-soderbergh-retires-from-film&quot;&gt;a number&lt;/a&gt; of high profile &lt;a href=&quot;http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/how-hollywoods-limitations-are-forcing-established-directors-into-retirement-or-out-of-the-system.php&quot;&gt;exodus' from Hollywood,&lt;/a&gt; each citing a unwillingness to continue being part of such a system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But lets look at the specific films you mention, as &lt;em&gt;OLLA&lt;/em&gt; is strangely appropriate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Under the Skin&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jonathan Glazer, who is predominantly a music video director during the britpop phase of the 90s but found wider acclaim making advertisements (His &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7hzyr0tttU&quot;&gt;Levi's advert&lt;/a&gt; is one of the most widely recalled ads ever made, and his &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcdDg30VBgo&amp;amp;feature=kp&quot;&gt;Guinness ad&lt;/a&gt; frequently tops the polls of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uktvadverts.com/facts/?list=ch4&quot;&gt;best adverts of all time&lt;/a&gt; over here) and became an art-house film maker in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Under the Skin&lt;/em&gt; is a nearly devoid of dialogue, and almost totally absent of traditional plot. The framing, soundtrack and lighting of the film are deliberately oblique, and most of the film is conducted in ambiguity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So an art-house director makes an experimental film with a deliberately de-eroticized megastar in the lead, &lt;a href=&quot;http://film.list.co.uk/article/58614-under-the-skin-producer-jim-wilson-on-secret-filming-in-glasgow/&quot;&gt;remaining utterly unrecognizable&lt;/a&gt;, using hidden camera mixed with hyperstylization... I don't think anyone ever expected this film to do well, no matter how good it is. It &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; receive a wider release in the UK: but that's probably something to do with the localized setting and our pre-established familiarity with Jonathan Glazer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Only Lover Left Alive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A vampire film that actually tricked a few people into thinking it might be &lt;em&gt;Twilight&lt;/em&gt;-ish (we had to turn a number of young girls away: the film was a 15 Certificate in the UK) but is actually a genre deconstruction of the both cinema's obsession with ageless vampires and the larger oeuvre of Jim Jarmusch himself. The film is an introspection of his career, with Adam being Jarmusch' analogue and Eve personifying his love of cinema. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jarmusch spoke openly of how he wished to stop making films (a form of 'creative suicide', much like Adam) before-hand, so its almost impossible not to perceive the narrative through that lens once you watch it. Its incredibly slow paced, with ouroboric dialogue and a melancholic soundtrack. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were very familiar with Jim Jarmusch's work you can see how interesting this movie really is: but considering most of the population won't really know who he is, it was perceived as a little indulgent and certainly wasn't going to receive a wide release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T10:14:35.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23022" CreationDate="2014-07-10T10:57:01.030" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has to do more with familiarity, or &lt;em&gt;perceived familiarity&lt;/em&gt; on assumption of an audience, than you might expect: get ready to be slightly appalled/offended. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Historical films will either have to unpack the contextual circumstances of an event or assume a preformed familiarity the audience has brought with them. Hollywood assumes a typical cinematic &lt;a href=&quot;http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1892939,00.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;audience of 18-25 year old white males&lt;/a&gt;. That's not an accurate reflection, and there are thousands of examples where films aren't made for this demographic, but those films are typically crafted &lt;em&gt;against&lt;/em&gt; this audience in order to court another: even when it's being fought against, the demographic is still recognised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if a film producer is trying to appeal to this demographic, they &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; support their project with as many pre-circulated paratextual material as possible: basically, if someone has a vague familiarity with something, they will apparently be more likely to engage with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most white Americans are from European colonialist decent, and as such will take Judeo-Christian and Roman/Greek European mythology as the etymology of most of our fables and cautionary tales... western stories are built on these memes: Christ-like messiah, Cain and Abel, Hercules...blah blah blah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even when not recounting these stories directly, we are largely circulating updated and modified variations of them. They are infinitely familiar and woven into the cultural identity of western entertainment...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... It has been posited many times before how Asian stories differ from Western ones in &lt;a href=&quot;http://thebookaholic.blogspot.co.uk/2007/11/are-asian-stories-different.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;style, structure and content&lt;/a&gt;. Linguistic theorist  Claude Levi Strauss is noted for declaring that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralist_theory_of_mythology&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mythology is a language&lt;/a&gt;, and is vital to how cultures communicate both with themselves and with others... from this perspective, asking why Hollywood doesn't make Indian epics is similar to asking why Hollywood doesn't produce films in Gujarati: it's clearly not the audience they are trying to reach, nor would it be profitable in the north American market.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is something sour about the introverted way Hollywood has to recycle itself: there is yet another &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1267297/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hercules&lt;/a&gt; movie coming out this summer, when we've already had a slew of derivations of the same character (Conan being chief amongst them)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... for a country with a huge diaspora, not to mention a significant African American population, it is odd that we haven't seen a great deal of internationally derived output. Films like &lt;em&gt;Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon&lt;/em&gt; are capable of crossing this divide: but it must be pointed out that this movie itself was produced and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000487/?ref_=tt_ov_dr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;directed by a Taiwanese&lt;/a&gt; director already deeply entrenched in the Hollywood system...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In answer, its unlikely we'll see any Eastern/Indian inspired cinema until Western civilisation inherits a familiarity with such cultures and traditions, experiences a sudden 'Crocodile-Dundee' infatuation with a country very quickly or until more movies are made that create a cinematic precedent for the area to be explored: it will also take a significant amount of persuasive Indian personalities on film boards to lobby and campaign for this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Whilst Bollywood still exists, and has the Indian film market tied up, &lt;strong&gt;what would be the point&lt;/strong&gt; in competing with Hollywood audiences, at least from a financial perspective?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2016-11-29T15:34:39.293" LastActivityDate="2016-11-29T15:34:39.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23031" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-10T15:57:01.097" Score="9" ViewCount="908" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&quot;, when Thorin &amp;amp; Company leave from Esgaroth to Erebor by boat, the whole city is cheering them. Shortly after, Kili (who is wounded and was ordered to stay behind by Thorin), Fili, Oin and Bofur knock on Bard's door asking him to help them (with Kili's wound). Bofur mentions that no one will help them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That seems odd and not very credible to me after just watching the whole city displaying their support for them. They got armour, weapons and food but no one will treat an injured dwarf? Note that Bofur specifically says no one &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; help them and not that no one &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; help them (e.g. due to lacking knowledge in wound treatment). And why do they go to Bard in the first place? That guy has just been publicly ridiculed and humiliated by Thorin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything I have missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12625" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T16:07:30.773" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T16:07:30.773" Title="Why did no one want to treat Kili's wound after Thorin left for the Lonely Mountain?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hobbit|the-desolation-of-smaug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23032" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30178" CreationDate="2014-07-10T16:49:31.700" Score="38" ViewCount="119389" Body="&lt;p&gt;Presumably, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706620/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Snowpiercer&lt;/em&gt; (2013)&lt;/a&gt; drove in a circular pattern since it had been running for 17 years prior to the events in the movie.  At one point, the creepy woman with glasses who seemed to be at least partially in charge mentioned that the nose of the train, when breaking through ice laying on the tracks, turned that pure snow to water, which was needed for the passengers.  However, surely there would have been a safer way to collect water than risk a derailment by plowing through an ice-covered track.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was any other reason given for why the train had to stay in motion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2020-06-05T13:47:37.600" LastActivityDate="2021-02-24T06:04:52.060" Title="Why did the train need to keep moving?" Tags="|plot-explanation|snowpiercer|" AnswerCount="17" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="23033" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23039" CreationDate="2014-07-10T17:38:19.277" Score="3" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Red Dwarf&lt;/a&gt; S01E02- &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Echoes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Future Echoes&lt;/a&gt;, when Lister is showing some of his photographs to Cat, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cat&lt;/strong&gt;: Who's that guy?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Lister&lt;/strong&gt;: That's me grandmother&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cguRG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Lister&amp;#39;s grandmother&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in S07E03- &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros_%28Red_Dwarf%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ouroboros&lt;/a&gt;, it's revealed that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lister is his own father, and his mother is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristine_Kochanski&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kochanski&lt;/a&gt;, and he went back in time to abandon himself as a baby so that humanity will always exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this in mind, is there any explanation as to who his Grandmother is or could be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2024-02-18T12:14:50.850" Title="Who was Lister's Grandmother?" Tags="|plot-explanation|red-dwarf|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23034" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23035" CreationDate="2014-07-10T19:16:37.567" Score="3" ViewCount="3365" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is about the two-oscar winning movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby_(2013_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Great Gastby (2013)&lt;/a&gt; that was co-written and directed by Baz Luhrmann.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only after I had seen this extraordinary movie and found out that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s greatest work &amp;quot;The Great Gastby&amp;quot; has been translated into a film five times did I decide to finally read the novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the novel story turned out to be very different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tobey Maguire played Nick Carraway as a guileless heterosexual, but in the novel, his sexuality's a bit ambiguous:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Come to lunch someday,&amp;quot; [Mr. McKee] suggested, as we groaned down in the elevator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Where?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Anywhere.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Keep your hands off the lever,&amp;quot; snapped the elevator boy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I beg your pardon,&amp;quot; said Mr. McKee with dignity, &amp;quot;I didn't know I was touching it.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;All right,&amp;quot; I agreed, &amp;quot;I'll be glad to.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;. . . I was standing beside his bed and he was sitting up between the sheets, clad in his underwear, with a great portfolio in his hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would the great author &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald&lt;/a&gt; bother to include this strange passage, silly Nick in bed with the feminine Mr. McKee in his underwear at 3AM? If not to show some signs of Nick's sexual orientation, what other purpose could it possibly serve?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book, Nick meets Mr. McKee at a party and goes home with him. In the film, director Luhrmann made him go to the party, and made him ending up cuddling (or most likely) having sex with a woman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, in the movie, Nick is first attracted to Gatsby's parties by a glimpse of a lovely  young woman. He seemed visibly affected by the sensuality of Myrtle Wilson. In the book, he recognizes her appeal, but showed revulsion and profound disapproval; later he was sneering at her &amp;quot;artificial laughter.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film decided to erase the hints of Nick's gayness and I feel violated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not forgetting the feeling of excitement and mystery language when Nick met his wealthy neighbor Gatsby for the first time. He &lt;strong&gt;fell in love in first sight&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He smiled understandingly — much more than understandingly. It was one&#xA;of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that&#xA;you might come across four or five times in your life. It faced — or&#xA;seemed to face — the whole external world for an instant, and then&#xA;concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It&#xA;understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in&#xA;you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it&#xA;had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to&#xA;convey.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cwwZV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nick wandered with vapid wonder in his smile. Nick loves Gatsby. He's obsessed with him: his hopes, his personality, his wealth, his life, his parties, his education, his aspiration, his true love for Daisy. He becomes so entangled in Gatsby's story because he is just too in love to have a life of his own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nick wanted us to believe, as he does, that Gatsby is different, that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;only… the man who gives his name to his book, was exempt from [his]&#xA;reaction&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;of scorn because of Jay’s&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such that I have&#xA;never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall&#xA;ever find again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, he just said “I loved this man.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel cheated, because one important thing is how Nick’s sexuality affects what we are reading. If Nick is in love with Gatsby—and this seems pretty clear—then the entire novel operates as a rationalization of that misplaced love (unlike what is pictured in the movie). Probably, Nick romanticized Gatsby in the exact same way that Gatsby romanticized Daisy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why did this director Baz Luhrmann hide that? The film, in robbing him of his homosexuality (or bisexuality), also robs him of his reserve, and not coincidentally, of his intelligence. Expecting a more intelligent answer than &lt;strong&gt;in 2013, gay content is controversial, and gay characters can be hard for a lot of people to accept.&lt;/strong&gt;. We're not in the 19th century anymore and there is no gay content anyway, just some signs of the gayness from the book. In the book he wasn't a gay character, there was some signs, why were they masked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11099" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T12:54:40.787" Title="Why did the Great Gasby (2013) movie erase the hints of Nick Carraway's homosexuality?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|character|book-adaptation|the-great-gatsby|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2014-07-11T13:35:07.117" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23034" CreationDate="2014-07-10T20:08:16.790" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd guess the movie's motive for not introducing the McKee subplot is because that was only a minor subplot of the book. And re-telling a book story in movie form, when you've got to get all the key details on screen in just 2 or 3 hours, means you have to omit many minor details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The core story of &lt;em&gt;The Great Gatsby&lt;/em&gt; is about Gatsby and the world he lived in, not about Nick&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;or Nick's potential attraction to Gatsby&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In book form, there is plenty of room for the subplot suggestion that Nick is gay -- and the author Fitzgerald introduced the suggestion so subtly that most readers miss it. In the movie, however, throwing &quot;Nick might be gay&quot; at viewers along with everything else, in just 2 or 3 hours, could overwhelm them and/or distract from the core story -- and I'm not sure how it could be done as subtly on-screen as Fitzgerald pulled it off in the prose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2014-07-10T23:25:31.960" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T23:25:31.960" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8872" CreationDate="2014-07-10T21:24:15.200" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am assuming that back before the Rainicorn/Dog war, humans wouldn't venture into Rainicorn territory often, because most humans have an animal companion. This companion is usually a dog. Maybe the Rainicorns were low on resources, and the occasional human would be wonderful to them. After the war, humans were extremely scarce around their territory. Like truffles, which are also extremely rare, they were considered a delicacy to the rainicorns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11534" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T21:24:15.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23033" CreationDate="2014-07-10T21:25:31.310" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I agree that Red Dwarf is loose with its own history, and I wouldn't think too hard about inconsistencies from (in particular) the first 2 seasons.&#xA;However,&#xA;Lister was adopted, and so I've always thought the woman pictured was one of his adopted parents mothers. It's frequently mentioned throughout the show (often by Rimmer as a putdown) that he was adopted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as I said, Red Dwarf isn't one for letting its own history spoil a potentially good gag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11438" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T21:25:31.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15824" CreationDate="2014-07-10T21:28:24.283" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the Mafia Hearings, Cicci was sentenced to prison for admitting crimes he committed in the past. Whether he died in prison or was killed for breaking the omertà is unclear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T21:28:24.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23032" CreationDate="2014-07-10T23:09:24.433" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;The big deal about the 'miracle of the train' was that it was perpetual motion engine: if it were to stop, it would no longer be contributing the momentum necessary to maintain its forward velocity...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &lt;strong&gt;Why&lt;/strong&gt; the train needed to keep moving in the first place: the entire film is a parable about society, from a dystopian perspective. In the event of a global crisis, an ultra-efficient system is created in microcosm of the society it was spawned from. With each noseward carriage the revolution passes through, the higher standard of living and thus class they experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The train must keep moving to keep this system in place: if it were to stop, there would be a problem with the current status-quo, and thus an examination and potential change of situation, which would not suit those currently at the front of the train/ruling class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry its such a short answer, but this is kinda covered within the film itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-07-10T23:21:42.033" LastActivityDate="2014-07-10T23:21:42.033" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23042" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23043" CreationDate="2014-07-10T23:36:30.237" Score="6" ViewCount="1080" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series &lt;em&gt;24&lt;/em&gt; you can see Jack Bauer, an American, driving a car around in London while he is talking on the phone with someone. One hand is holding the phone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here in Germany this is not allowed and you have to pay fines if you get caught. Is this different in the UK? Or maybe it's because he is from the United States and not used to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could be also badass behaviour because he is an anti-hero?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2916072/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here's the link to the episode info.&lt;/a&gt; It would be s09e11, but they renamed the series, so it's s01e11. The phone scene is around 19 minutes in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12639" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-11T12:09:22.533" LastActivityDate="2014-07-11T12:09:22.533" Title="Is it normal in USA/UK to use the phone while driving?" Tags="|24|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23042" CreationDate="2014-07-10T23:54:22.697" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the UK, it is illegal to use your phone while driving unless it's an emergency and you're calling the emergency services (999), from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gov.uk/using-mobile-phones-when-driving-the-law&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;UK government website&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s illegal to ride a motorcycle or drive using hand-held phones or similar devices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can get an automatic fixed penalty notice if you’re caught using a hand-held phone while driving or riding. You’ll get 3 penalty points on your licence and a fine of £100.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your case could also go to court and you could be disqualified from driving or riding and get a maximum fine of £1,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you’re the driver, you can only use your phone in a vehicle if you need to call 999 in an emergency and it’s unsafe or impractical to stop&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the US, it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_cell_phone_use_while_driving_in_the_United_States&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;generally legal though it's up to the state government&lt;/a&gt;, however in California, which the first 6 seasons were primarily set in, it's illegal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the scene before the advert break in which you last see Jack before the driving scene you mention, he's at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://24.wikia.com/wiki/CIA_London_station&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;CIA station in London&lt;/a&gt; with Kate, so I think it's a fair assumption that he's in a CIA (or US government/embassy) issued vehicle, which the police would be able to tell from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police-enforced_ANPR_in_the_UK&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;automatic license plate readers&lt;/a&gt;, so it's quite unlikely he'd actually be pulled over for it, unless of course it will be used to add dramatic tension to a chase scene in the next episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-07-11T00:02:35.070" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23045" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-11T01:47:16.367" Score="17" ViewCount="12829" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_%28film%29&quot;&gt;The Silence of the Lambs&lt;/a&gt;, when Clarice is looking around Fredrica Bimmel's room she finds a dress with diamond patterns on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vlJu2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Diamond patterns on Fredrica&amp;#39;s dress&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this mean? Was buffalo bill in that house? Or did it just spark a connection to a common tailoring practice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12642" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-07-11T02:09:45.710" LastActivityDate="2017-02-09T03:48:48.270" Title="What did the diamond patterns on Fredrica's dress mean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-silence-of-the-lambs|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23032" CreationDate="2014-07-11T04:35:25.653" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/23041/11244&quot;&gt;John Smith's answer&lt;/a&gt; on the symbolic aspect of the movie, it can be noted that in the comics, the train actually can stop!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More precisely, there is a second train in the second and third tome. Larger and more comfortable than the first one, the autocratic central government keeps the power using the fear of a collision with the first train. The train regularly slows down as an emergency training to prepare the situation where the first train would be in sight. We learn at the end of the second volume that the first train was actually not a train and the government decided to harpoon the first train, in order to get a second locomotive. The second train had to stop a few hours in order to load the loco. In the third volume, the train has to leave the tracks for a short time, and to do so, it has to stop a couple of hours to prepare the train to move off-tracks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a &lt;a href=&quot;http://geekygirlslovescifi.blogspot.kr/2014/02/snowpiercer-vol-1-escape-vol-2.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;review&lt;/a&gt; of the two first volumes of the comics.&#xA;For French readers, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.consanguin.net/le-transperceneige-snowpiercer-mais-en-francais/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; is a way better review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11093" LastEditorUserId="11093" LastEditDate="2020-07-19T14:39:20.053" LastActivityDate="2020-07-19T14:39:20.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="23052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23026" CreationDate="2014-07-11T11:47:30.437" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Warning - speculation ahead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would guess that they did not want to remind the public about the incident and were a little worried about the tiny chance that the bug which caused the behaviour might reoccur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2014-07-11T11:47:30.437" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23034" CreationDate="2014-07-11T13:09:37.707" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can never know why, maybe he director didn't overthink and simply decided to not include it. I got this from an interview with him: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What scenes are absolutely fundamental to the story? What scenes must&#xA;  be in our film? And what scenes can we do with out, even if we love&#xA;  them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he just said they were picky while choosing what scenes to do and &lt;strong&gt;we really don't know why he de-gayed the movie, he mentioned nothing in his interviews or commentaries about it.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11099" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-12T12:54:40.787" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T12:54:40.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23045" CreationDate="2014-07-11T14:29:12.417" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The diamond pattern itself doesn't mean anything, but Clarice recognizes it from earlier. Cuts in the same pattern were taken from the skin of one of Buffalo Bill's earlier victims.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clarice realized from her talks with Lecter that Buffalo Bill knew his first victim, Fredrica Bimmel, which was why Clarice was in Fredrica's room to begin with. So yes, Buffalo Bill almost certainly had been in that house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2014-07-11T19:25:55.693" LastActivityDate="2014-07-11T19:25:55.693" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23045" CreationDate="2014-07-11T16:49:06.503" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, when Clarice examined the dead girl in the local mortuary earlier on, one of the things she noticed was two unexplained diamond shaped areas cut out of the back of that girl, in addition to the gunshot wound made at close range (muzzle stamp on the skin) and a death's head moth (or pupae, I can't remember which) stuck, or shoved down, the throat of the dead girl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on, after reviewing the case notes she realizes the fact that only the first girl killed was weighed down (third girl discovered), she and her study partner/roomate surmise that Buffalo Bill must have known his first victim. She then travels to Bimmel's hometown and goes to her house. Looking through the victims room, left in fairly pristine condition as a &quot;shrine to the dead&quot;, she sees a house clearly through the window and realizes that not only was she known to BB, he watched her. She continues to look around the room and sees that Bimmel was a seamstress, making her own dresses, and further notes the uncompleted dress on the seamstress' form. It, too, has the diamond shaped patterns pinned to it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be safe to surmise (plus I seem to recall that Clarice finds nudie pictures in a jewelry box) that Bimmel had gained weight/was now largish. When BBill takes his victims they are all largish (not 'big boned' but plump) (we know it is because Bill is forceably causing them to lose weight and having them use skin lotions to make their skin more pliable and easier to work with). When you skin something, beit an animal or, so I assume (I've never done it...:) a human, and treat the skin to be used as materiel to make clothing (I've done this with deerhide), it will shrink. When Clarice sees the dress on the dressmaker's form, the diamond shapes of material pinned to the back are exactly like what she saw missing from the girl in the mortuary. (Those pieces, in that shape, I assume, are a way that a dressmaker might plus up the size of the top of a dress.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now Clarice, who has proven to be extremely intuitive, puts all of the minor clues together and now knows that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;BBill knew his first victim and watched her.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Learned how to modify the size by watching Bimmel.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is skinning the victims to make a 'dress' out of the skin&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is trying to 'become' a woman (&lt;em&gt;as we know, the tooth fairy before 'became' something else&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She could then track down BBill's whereabouts by speaking with the current owner of the house in back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She attempts to call her mentor, but he thinks he's found BBill and puts her off. To clean up the records she continues on her interviews anyway and goes to the house where BBill might have lived, not knowing that is where he (still) lives. While waiting for the man to get the previous occupant's address, she sees sewing materiels, and more importantly, a death's head moth flitting around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now she knows the man in front of her is actually BBill himself, at which point, as she is (poorly) drawing her weapon, he slides into the back, heading downstairs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2014-07-11T17:13:50.937" LastActivityDate="2014-07-11T17:13:50.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17915" CreationDate="2014-07-11T17:27:16.077" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Traumas no matter they are are physical, mental, emotional or of any other kind changes the persons physical or emotional being or both, thus making the person something different. When other people see it or experience it they feel the person is no more the same.. or in other words a stranger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12662" LastActivityDate="2014-07-11T17:27:16.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23061" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23062" CreationDate="2014-07-12T00:33:53.500" Score="6" ViewCount="474" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mystery Science Theater 3000&lt;/a&gt;, how many different people (characters) have been test subjects (forced to watch cheesy movies) on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_of_Love_%28MST3K%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Satellite of Love&lt;/a&gt; throughout the show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-09-30T17:47:35.330" Title="How many people have been test subjects on the Sattelite of Love?" Tags="|mystery-science-theater-3000|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23061" CreationDate="2014-07-12T00:33:53.500" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order of appearance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joel Robinson&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Test subject between the pilot (&lt;a href=&quot;http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/The_Green_Slime&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;KTMA-00- The Green Slime&lt;/a&gt;) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Mitchell_%28episode%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S05E12- Mitchell&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nLqBv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;It Stinks!&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Joel Robinson as he appeared in &lt;a href=&quot;http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Pod_People&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S03E03- Pod People&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crow T. Robot&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Test subject between &lt;a href=&quot;http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Invaders_from_the_Deep&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;KTMA-01- Invaders from the Deep&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Diabolik_%28episode%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S10E13- Diabolik&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Joel was alone in the theater during the pilot so he wasn't technically a test subject at that point, though he did appear in the episode, unlike Tom Servo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZwHZ5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Crooooow!&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Crow T. Robot as he appeared during the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z81W6o3N7zg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Season 7 intro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tom Servo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Test Subject between &lt;a href=&quot;http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Revenge_of_the_Mysterons_from_Mars&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;KTMA-02- Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Diabolik_%28episode%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S10E13- Diabolik&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;As mentioned above, Tom Servo didn't technically appear in the pilot episode, though a vaguely similar looking robot called &quot;Beeper&quot; did (in the host segments only):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w7IbW.png&quot; alt=&quot;Beeper&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Beeper as seen in &lt;strong&gt;The Green Slime&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0064546/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trace Beaulieu&lt;/a&gt; who voiced and operated Crow T. Robot during the first 8 series did not appear in Invaders from the Deep, and instead &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0918441/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Josh Weinstein&lt;/a&gt; (who voiced and operated Tom Servo for the first 2 seasons) played Crow T. Robot and therefore Tom Servo was absent, first appearing as a test subject the next episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xwHvO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;No Servo&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Tom Servo, absent from a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Npx1H61An0&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;rare Invaders of the Deep clip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1ArY6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tom Servo&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Tom Servo as he appeared in the Season 7 intro&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gypsy&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;Sort of. Gypsy joined Joel &amp;amp; The Bots in the theater for &lt;a href=&quot;http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Hercules_and_the_Captive_Women&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S04E12- Hercules And The Captive Women&lt;/a&gt;, though she got bored and left after 5 minutes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fzb6R.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Maybe Gypsy is the captive woman&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Gypsy shown at the left of the theater during Hercules And The Captive Women&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She was also shown in the theatre during the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKvSfG_XYyU&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;KTMA season intro&lt;/a&gt;, though never during the episodes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RCyeC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Old Gypsy&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;The original design for Gypsy shown in the theatre during the KTMA opening&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Timmy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Fire_Maidens_of_Outer_Space&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S04E16- Fire Maidens of Outer Space&lt;/a&gt;, Joel &amp;amp; The Bots are visisted by a strange creature apparently from Crow's imagination, it's an exact copy but black, and eventually he begins playing tricks on everyone. Several times he shows up in the theater to watch the movie and annoy the gang:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6hgZL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;He doesn&amp;#39;t have a beard&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Timmy in Fire Maidens of Outer Space&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mike Nelson&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Test subject between &lt;a href=&quot;http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/The_Brain_That_Wouldn%27t_Die&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S05E13- The Brain That Wouldn't Die&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Diabolik_%28episode%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S10E13- Diabolik&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZVx7h.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Their experiments needed a good test case&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Mike as he appeared in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puFHjs9YaOY&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;season 5 intro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mirror Universe Clayton Forrester&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mirror Universe TV's Frank&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Last_of_the_Wild_Horses&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S06E11- Last of the Wild Horses&lt;/a&gt;, the Mads perform a matter transfer experiment which winds up with Mike &amp;amp; The Bots in a Mirror Universe, where Captain Mike and Yeoman Crow are forcing Clayton Forrester and TV's Frank to watch bad movies, and the first third of the episode features them riffing the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kDhvN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Last of the wild horses&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Clayton Forrester and TV's Frank watching Last of the Wild Horses&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eddie Nelson&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Time_Chasers&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S08E21- Time Chasers&lt;/a&gt;, to fit in with the storyline of the movie, Crow goes back in time and tries to warn Mike not to take the job at &lt;a href=&quot;http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Deep_13&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Deep 13&lt;/a&gt; which will lead to him getting marooned in space. Upon his return, Crow discovers that all that's changed is now instead of Mike Nelson, they've got his foul-mouthed, beer-swilling asshole brother, Eddie Nelson who riffs the middle third of the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jMjDQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;You can&amp;#39;t smoke in here!&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Eddie Nelson in Time Chasers&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pearl Forrester&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The final test subject was Pearl Forrester, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Quest_of_the_Delta_Knights&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S09E13- Quest of the Delta Knights&lt;/a&gt; she's disappointed that she's been showing Mike terrible movies for 2 years with no real results, so they switch places and Pearl watches the first third of the movie with them to try and work out how best to torment him in the future:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sohm4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;This movie sucked&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Pearl Forrester in Quest of the Delta Knights&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So all together, there were &lt;strong&gt;10&lt;/strong&gt; different test subjects. There were also a couple of visitors to the theater who didn't actually &lt;em&gt;watch&lt;/em&gt; any part of the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fred &quot;Eggs&quot; Eggleston&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;After Pearl has finished her investigation of the theater, she brings in &quot;Eggs&quot; from Facilitech  to fix the &lt;em&gt;Pain Leakage&lt;/em&gt; which has stopped Mike &amp;amp; The Bots from experiencing the Deep Hurting Pearl desires from these movies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/msbR5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Please call him eggs&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Fred &quot;Eggs&quot; Eggleston in Quest of the Delta Knights&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Giant Servo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Future_War&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S10E04- Future War&lt;/a&gt;, Mike starts making some shadow-puppets, and out of the blue a giant Servo shadow appears, which is turns out isn't being cast by Mike or Servo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rfc17.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Rawr!&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Giant Tom Servo in Future War&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-13T02:18:38.070" LastActivityDate="2014-07-13T02:18:38.070" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23063" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-07-12T01:04:49.423" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mystery Science Theater 3000&lt;/strong&gt; (often abbreviated as &lt;strong&gt;MST3k&lt;/strong&gt;) is a Cult American Comedy Sci-Fi series which features a man and his robot friends who are stranded on a satellite and forced to watch cheesy B-movies, making fun of it the whole time to help keep sane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mystery Science Theater 3000 on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000_Wiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mst3k.wikia.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-12T02:07:16.653" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T02:07:16.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23064" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-07-12T01:04:49.423" Score="0" Body="Mystery Science Theater 3000 (often abbreviated as MST3k) is a Cult American Comedy Sci-Fi series which features a man and his robot friends who are stranded on a satellite and forced to watch cheesy B-movies, making fun of it the whole time to help keep sane." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-12T02:07:21.620" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T02:07:21.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23067" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23068" CreationDate="2014-07-12T04:54:14.373" Score="4" ViewCount="64691" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not googling any of this stuff, but if you've seen the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405422/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The 40 Year Old Virgin&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; you know what I'm referring to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The woman with the blond hair that was almost a crew-cut, the boss at the tech store, tells Steve Carrell's character about a gardener named Javier who took her virginity.  She sings a song that Javier sang to her.  All I got was the last word, &quot;Futbol&quot;, which is &quot;Soccer&quot;.  Does anyone know the translation of the rest of the song?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2016-05-28T06:16:55.083" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T06:16:55.083" Title="What is the translation of the song in 40-Year-Old Virgin?" Tags="|dialogue|translation|the-40-year-old-virgin|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23067" CreationDate="2014-07-12T05:07:27.683" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405422/trivia?item=tr0724742&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb trivia section&lt;/a&gt; for the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;beautiful old Guatemalan love song&amp;quot; sung by Javier to Paula translates to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;    When I clean my room&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;    I can't find anything&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;    Where are you going in such a hurry&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;    To the soccer game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Lynch&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jane Lynch&lt;/a&gt; has told several interviewers that these &amp;quot;lyrics&amp;quot; were really a practice dialogue that she remembered from a high school Spanish class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sites containing the lyrics I found (&lt;a href=&quot;http://foxylibrarians.blogspot.co.uk/2006/05/un-partido-de-futbol.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-hench/if-kissing-jessica-stein-_b_46258.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;) say the original Spanish she's singing is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cuando limpiado mi cuarto&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;No encuentro nada&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Adonde va con tanta prisa?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Al partido de fútbol&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/Cuando%20limpiado%20mi%20cuarto%0ANo%20encuentro%20nada%0AAdonde%20va%20con%20tanta%20prisa%3F%0AAl%20partido%20de%20f%C3%BAtbol&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google Translate&lt;/a&gt; basically agrees with its usual margin of error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T05:25:11.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23070" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-12T06:17:21.947" Score="3" ViewCount="489" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9MwJZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You tell me.  Is that a Nylon brush in that hand?  The movie this comes from was set in 1865.  I know... I know.  Endless loops of gaffs and goofs.  No.  Not looking for trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are Clint's hands.  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.  I thought the production was better than to succumb to a prop error like that.  Or... was there a brush like that back then?  Can anyone restore my faith in Sergio Leone or did he just toss Mr. Eastwood that cleaning brush out of his personal gun cleaning kit because it just looked better in the scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-07-12T14:20:33.130" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T14:20:33.130" Title="Nylon brush in a Western?" Tags="|plot-explanation|props|the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23026" CreationDate="2014-07-12T06:35:24.257" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know many people are thinking it, so I'll just spit it out.  No groaners, please.  No one wants to say this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot_device&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Plot Device&lt;/a&gt;.  No, that's not just a band-aid answer.  We all know them.  We all see them.  Some of us die a little at the over-use of them.  Every movie has them, the really good ones just don't make them obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whyfor&lt;/strong&gt; a plot device then?  In order to make the movie go along in the direction that the director's vision takes it... as well as the writer's vision, since he came up with it first (unless a director thought it up and wrote it... or... wait, I digress).  The movie you watched, every scene... every shot was considered, planned out, and executed.  The fact that Murphy made a better overall cop with his humanity was actually irrelevant to the plot of the story &lt;em&gt;at that point&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot of the story was that the Evil OCP wanted a perfectly controllable killing machine they could use as a wedge to bring in the REAL machines.  It was never about making the best cop with a mix of technology and heart.  For OCP, it was about bringing the robots home.  To them, Murphy was a step in that direction and nothing more.  Rather... the idea of the cyborg wasn't what they wanted.  They just made one to soften the people up to the idea of technology policing them.  They didn't want to prove he was superior to the machines.  They wanted to prove he was under their control.  Remember... when he was beating the robots, he was actually just another Robot himself.... he just &lt;em&gt;thought&lt;/em&gt; he was the one controlling his body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... the story was written, and plot devices were used in abundance... and that one just kinda... sticks out.  A bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T06:35:24.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23070" CreationDate="2014-07-12T12:55:20.423" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks a bit like this picture:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8mpce.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The material is steel wire (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frey-pinsel.de/shop/zylinderbuersten/zylinderbuersten-sorte-542&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Original description in (German) &lt;/a&gt; is &lt;em&gt;Gedreht, &lt;strong&gt;Stahldraht&lt;/strong&gt;, mit Öse.&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it doesn't need to be Nylon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found also a picture from a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.museen-sh.de/Objekt/DE-MUS-150714/lido/978&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;German museum&lt;/a&gt;: &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/frV1w.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The brush is from 19. century.&#xA;The material for the brush is bristle, but if you change the color it may be the same as in the film. (The brush of the picture is larger, it is a brush for a cannon)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T12:55:20.423" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19547" CreationDate="2014-07-12T13:21:13.143" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the Isola Trattoria &amp;amp; Crudo Bar in new york&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12679" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T13:21:13.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23076" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-12T17:23:12.110" Score="1" ViewCount="595" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Loop_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;In the Loop&lt;/a&gt;, a government minister accidentally said something ambiguous about a war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did this actually result in a war and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-12T17:32:17.387" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T18:06:33.043" Title="Why did they start the war?" Tags="|plot-explanation|in-the-loop|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23076" CreationDate="2014-07-12T18:01:11.130" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is a satire about the start of the second gulf war between the western allies (including the USA &amp;amp; UK) and Iraq.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot of the movie involves different groups of people who are basically for or against the possibility of going to war against the unnamed country, primarily:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Doves&quot; against war are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Karen Clark (Assistant Secretary of State)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lieutenant General Miller (Senior General assisting US Defense Secretary)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Liza Weld (Karen's assistant, and writer of a paper against the possibility of war)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Hawks&quot; for a war:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Linton Barwick (Assistant Secretary of State)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Malcolm Tucker (Director of Communications for the UK Prime Minister, and therefore presumably the unnamed UK Prime Minister)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story surrounds Simon Foster (a minor UK government minister) and his assistants.  Simon is a career politician and wants to both &quot;do the right thing&quot; but also protect his career and rise in the ranks of the UK government.  He is scared of Malcolm, a character spoofing real life UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's communications director Alastair Campbell. Campbell had huge power in the UK government at the time of the beginning of the Iraq war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the story that is told is of Simon and his assistant bumbling around, misspeaking in interviews, and accidentally releasing (leaking) documents on behalf of the &quot;dove&quot; group.  He tries in vain to sit on the fence and keep both the 'hawk' and 'dove' groups happy with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end the &quot;hawk&quot; group are forced to release a heavily doctored &quot;dossier&quot; of evidence to support the war - an echo of the documents released with evidence of WMDs in Iraq.  The movie ends on the assumption that the war is now imminent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; claiming this is what happened in 2003 - but it is a dramatic and comedic spoof of the sort of trail of events that could happen in such a situation. So it wasn't just about the single &quot;war is inconceivable&quot; comment - it was about how both sides tried to use Simon to further their side of the argument for or against war.  Simon doesn't seem to want war himself, but he's too afraid to properly support the Dove's and ends up keeping neither group happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information on the background of the events it is spoofing, see the Wikipedia article on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War#Preparations_for_Iraq_war&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;preparations for and opposition to the invasion of Iraq&lt;/a&gt;.  The article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Campbell#Iraq_War&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alastair Campbell's involvement in the run up to the war&lt;/a&gt; is also interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-07-12T18:06:33.043" LastActivityDate="2014-07-12T18:06:33.043" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23082" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23085" CreationDate="2014-07-12T20:05:35.633" Score="3" ViewCount="1260" Body="&lt;p&gt;Someone once told me that Dave Chappelle was unhappy the way &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120693/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Half Baked&lt;/a&gt; came out, that he wanted it to have either a different tone or something.  I have looked around, but haven't found any hard evidence to support this claim.  Does anyone know of an interview or article that tells what he would have changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="926" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-12T20:15:03.587" LastActivityDate="2014-07-13T11:17:59.240" Title="Dave Chappelle and Half Baked" Tags="|half-baked|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23084" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23087" CreationDate="2014-07-12T23:05:17.243" Score="11" ViewCount="4089" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does the prime minister &quot;redistribute&quot; Natalie in &lt;em&gt;Love Actually&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Prime Minister: Annie, my darling, my dream, my boat. Ah...Need you to&#xA;  do a favor for me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Annie: Of course. Anything for the hero of the hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Prime Minister: Don't ask me why, and don't read stuff into this, it's just a weird personality thing. But, erm, you know Natalie who works here? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Annie: The chubby girl? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Prime Minister: Ooh, would we call her chubby? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Annie: I think there's a pretty sizeable arse there, yes, sir. Huge&#xA;  thighs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Prime Minister: Yeah. Well, whatever, erm...I'm sure she's a lovely&#xA;  girl but I wonder if you could, erm...redistribute her? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Annie: It's done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems inconsistent with him just using her as inspiration for his speech.  He still seems productive working with her around,  and he asserts that she is good at her job to the president.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12691" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-01-31T01:16:04.320" LastActivityDate="2017-01-31T01:16:04.320" Title="Why does the prime minister &quot;redistribute&quot; Natalie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|love-actually|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23082" CreationDate="2014-07-12T23:21:13.767" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an interview from &lt;a href=&quot;http://screen.genius.com/Dave-chappelle-inside-the-actors-studio-interview-annotated&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;inside the actors studio&lt;/a&gt; Chappelle had this to say (about halfway down the page):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Half Baked didn't come out the way I wanted it to come out.&#xA;I was real upset about that, cause it was a real cool script,&#xA;And then I saw it, I was like, &amp;quot;Hey, man, you made a weed movie for kids&amp;quot; and it wasn't for kids, the script, you know?&#xA;It was all these things and so much pressure.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can watch the full interview here. Question 27. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guavaleaf.com/video/21681/Dave-Chappelle--Inside-The-Actors-Studio#sthash.gfJVbwtl.dpbs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.guavaleaf.com/video/21681/Dave-Chappelle--Inside-The-Actors-Studio#sthash.gfJVbwtl.dpbs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-07-13T11:17:59.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23084" CreationDate="2014-07-12T23:51:58.020" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In his early scenes with her there's clear banter between them, she's initially nervous and overly-familiar, but he likes it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David&lt;/strong&gt;: Hello, Natalie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Natalie&lt;/strong&gt;: Hello, David. I mean, sir. Shit, I can't believe I've just said that. And now I've gone and said 'shit'. Twice. I'm so sorry, sir.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David&lt;/strong&gt;: You could've said 'fuck' and&#xA;we'd have been in real trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Natalie&lt;/strong&gt;: Thank you, sir. I had a premonition I was gonna fuck up on my first day. Oh, piss it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[David smiles at her as she leaves]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After failing to engage her in conversation the first time they're alone together, he not-so-subtly tries to learn some more about her later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David&lt;/strong&gt;: Natalie. Erm, l'm starting to feel... uncomfortable about us working so closely every day and me knowing so little about you, it seems elitist and wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They talk about themselves and get to know each other a bit better before he asks his question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David&lt;/strong&gt;: Erm, and you live with your husband? Boyfriend? Three illegitimate but charming children?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Natalie&lt;/strong&gt;: No. I've just split up with my boyfriend, so I'm back with my mum and dad for a while. He said I was getting fat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David&lt;/strong&gt;: I beg your pardon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Natalie&lt;/strong&gt;: He said no one'd fancy a girl with thighs the size of tree trunks. Not a nice guy, actually, in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David&lt;/strong&gt;: No. You know, erm... being Prime Minister, I could just have him murdered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Natalie&lt;/strong&gt;: Thank you, sir. I'll think about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David&lt;/strong&gt;: Do. The SAS are absolutely charming. Ruthless, trained killers are just a phone call away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Natalie leaves]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David&lt;/strong&gt;: Oh, God. Did you have this kind of problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Turning to portrait of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Margaret Thatcher&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeah, course you did, you saucy minx.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he's clearly very into her. Then the next time he goes to see the US President, he opens the door and what does he see...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/41iu6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;LIAR! LIAR! LIAR!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;President&lt;/strong&gt;: Er, Natalie, &lt;em&gt;[smirking]&lt;/em&gt; I hope to see much more of you as our countries work toward a better future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Natalie&lt;/strong&gt;: Thank you, sir.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then before either the President or Natalie have time to explain, David makes the speech and asks his secretary to have her transferred out of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Downing Street&lt;/a&gt;. So really it was just a misunderstanding, David thought she was a willing participant rather than just the sexually harassed secretary as he later realised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-07-13T00:31:55.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23088" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23096" CreationDate="2014-07-13T04:58:47.017" Score="4" ViewCount="922" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scripts often employ device of a dead relative, to explain a characters motivation. In most cases, we never meet these characters, but they are named.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in Children of Men, Clive Owen and Julianne Moore had a child (Dylan) that died years before the story take place. We never meet Dylan, but he is used to explain the tention distance between Julianne and Clive, and quickly lets the viewer know that they have endured trauma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question starts here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier tonight, while watching Dawn of the Planet of the Apes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; as Keri Russell's character Ellie revealed that her dead daughters name was Sarah, my wife leaned over to me and said &quot;That's the name I said in my head! The dead daughters name is always Sarah!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This prompted me to wonder, is there really a name that gets used more often than others, for male/female characters that are named but never seen? If so what are they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would include characters like Vera from Cheers! and Maris from Frasier in this question, even though they're not dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastActivityDate="2014-09-14T14:40:32.840" Title="Is there a name for a dead character (both male and female) that appears more frequently than others in TV / movie scripts?" Tags="|analysis|character|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13565" CreationDate="2014-07-13T06:46:29.000" Score="6" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Isabelle was at her last wits and her life was crumbling down in&#xA;front of her eyes as she killed Dani and since Dani sent the videos&#xA;she knew her life was over. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;So in order to find justification in her actions and &quot;relieve&quot; her of&#xA;her guilt, she DREAMS of Clarissa (twin sister killing herself) kind&#xA;of like a full circle in the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If that really did happen the way Isabelle dreamt it then she&lt;br&gt;&#xA;would've been fulfilled in her guiltiness and finally freed from her &#xA;pain.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;BUT as the twist ending shot shown, Isabelle awakens and finds&lt;br&gt;&#xA;herself in the SAME situation that she left ----A murderer, a double &#xA;murderer now in deeper sh!$ because the videos the implicate her are &#xA;sent and she has no more tricks or ideas left in her bag.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;and having to deal with that &quot;REALITY&quot; (real life) is going to be&lt;br&gt;&#xA;even more pain and agony then she could've ever dream of.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;now that is the real twist/theme to the ending.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12696" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-20T23:41:28.153" LastActivityDate="2014-12-20T23:41:28.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21970" CreationDate="2014-07-13T12:01:49.967" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a bit of exposition in the first one, Scorponok's tail was said to be healing/regenerating (except for the bits hit by the sable? rounds). It could be that once reactivated, Optimus began to heal, but given the extent of damage it would have been quicker to be 'fixed'. As for his rusty appearance (except for bullet holes of course), my guess is it was just the form he had been using to evade the cia and not a direct result of damage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12700" LastActivityDate="2014-07-13T12:01:49.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23093" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23094" CreationDate="2014-07-13T14:54:05.930" Score="33" ViewCount="5756" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a lot of the movies the bad guys seem to prefer wire transfers as their payment method of choice. In the recent movie &lt;em&gt;Non-Stop&lt;/em&gt;, the terrorist provides a bank account number and demands a payment of $150 million US dollars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a loss to see how this works. If someone transfers money to an account here in the UK the sender can always ask for a refund or return by filing a fraud claim; the person receiving the money cannot simply just cash and withdraw, especially if the transfer is a large amount of money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So are there actual bank accounts where you can dump loads of money and no one can ask or question refunds?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1432" LastEditorUserId="6" LastEditDate="2014-07-25T21:08:48.270" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T21:18:18.310" Title="In the movies - Do wire transfers really work?" Tags="|realism|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23093" CreationDate="2014-07-13T15:24:11.570" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some Banks fall under the jurisdiction of certain authorities: it's safe to say criminals would not choose those banks, instead opening an account with a specialized authority. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically, the Banks being used by the Villain are institutions that will not co-operate with authorities: the most popular deployed being the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. These locations operate under &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Act_on_Banks_and_Savings_Banks&quot;&gt;Bank Secrecy laws&lt;/a&gt; which remove them from the jurisdiction of international authorities. They are legally protected from handing over this information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_in_Switzerland&quot;&gt;Swiss Banking&lt;/a&gt; in particular is notorious for accommodating illicit funds, dating back to the middle ages but more famously the bank UBS for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBS_AG&quot;&gt;continuing to hide ill-gotten&lt;/a&gt; Nazi Gold on behalf of the descendants of Nazi Officers...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... if Nazi Gold has remained in its vaults after all this time, immune from obligations of reparation anything can remain in such bank accounts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movies produced in the next few years that use 'Swiss Banks' for secrecy will be goof-guilty however, as new laws currently being ratified and introduced in the EU are about to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thelocal.ch/20131015/oecd-deal-means-end-of-swiss-bank-secrecy&quot;&gt;remove the privilege&lt;/a&gt; such banks enjoy in Europe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-07-14T09:41:36.823" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T09:41:36.823" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23088" CreationDate="2014-07-13T15:47:40.833" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well... let's Trope this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PosthumousCharacter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Posthumous Character&lt;/a&gt; is one that is a prominent character, but happens to be dead for the majority of the movie.  A character in a movie (as opposed to an extra/human prop) is part of the plot. To paraphrase from the Trope page...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In Children of Men, the reason the child Dylan was even born was to die and provide drama and motivation for the events that occurred during the movie.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose it is also possible that Dylan is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeathByOriginStory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Death by Origin Story&lt;/a&gt;... as Dylan's death was part of what made our heroes who they were during the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now... I deleted this at first, because I recognized the fact that this wasn't what you were asking.  So, I started digging.  And although Tropes doesn't specifically deal with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unseen_character&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Unseen Character&lt;/a&gt;, they do deal with breaking up the concept into &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeWhoMustNotBeSeen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;several smaller categories&lt;/a&gt;.  This still doesn't answer your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Crow's answer actually (and I hope he brings his answer back) is mostly going to be correct for this.  There doesn't appear to be a small subset of names that gets used to cover the unseen characters in stories and movies.  Actually, these unseen characters all appear to be very specific people who are designed to be memorable.  Because we do not see them, we have to work with things like their unique names or habits to make them more memorable.  Thus... the names of these characters tend to not be all that common.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, when these unseen but important characters are given a name to reference them, the most common ones are those given to corpses and unknown suspects in crime-based entertainment.  That's why Crow's answer would technically be correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be interesting to use the sites with the lists of the most popular unseen characters, as well as what information is in IMDB to compile a list of all the documented unseen characters... to see what pattern might emerge.  It doesn't appear that anyone has done this yet.  I would surmise that you might find a name like Joe, or John... because it is relatively common... to have multiple references.  I do not think that you would find a a small number of names used over and over again (unless there was another reason for the use of those names like I detailed above).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="4621" LastEditDate="2014-07-15T05:59:18.447" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T05:59:18.447" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23100" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23104" CreationDate="2014-07-14T00:40:37.467" Score="10" ViewCount="1020" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Rise of the Planet of the Apes, when Caesar was moved to the ape sanctuary, it was shown that Caesar was with another big ape that was able to communicate through sign language. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was before Caesar shares the intelligence virus (ALZ-113) on his fellow apes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did that specific ape gain intelligence earlier his life? Simple vet training? Or was he also exposed to the treatment? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any canon answer to this? Even deduced answers are accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12707" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-14T09:31:25.657" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T10:00:30.563" Title="Other apes with gained intelligence?" Tags="|plot-explanation|rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23093" CreationDate="2014-07-14T01:29:10.427" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you sure you can &quot;refund or return by filing a fraud claim&quot; when doing a bank to bank transfer? I think the refund thing is only available when using a credit card.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a real-life example from Denmark: A danish company paid my company with a bank transfer, but they used the wrong bank account as target. And that company never got its money back. It was gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I don't think it is impossible that once the money has been transferred to a different bank the money can't be taken back by the source bank. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12708" LastEditorUserId="6856" LastEditDate="2014-08-04T21:18:18.310" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T21:18:18.310" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23100" CreationDate="2014-07-14T03:02:41.817" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apes have been trained in the use of sign language for decades. However, whether they truly understand the signs they use or simply become good at mimicking them to earn some type of reward has been disputed for about as long as they've been trained to use sign language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read more about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_the_Gorilla&quot;&gt;Koko the gorilla&lt;/a&gt; for a bit of insight into training apes to use sign language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the film's perspective, the sanctuary Caesar is placed in is home to apes used in other various research endeavors, or rescued from owners, just to name a few examples of why they'd be there. The ape that's able to communicate with sign language likely learned it as part of a research program it went through prior to ending up in the sanctuary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T03:02:41.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23100" CreationDate="2014-07-14T06:11:47.087" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Caesar was with another big ape&quot; you mean this guy, Maurice (Orangutan)?&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p0dY7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then this big ape did not gain intelligence from treatment but he knows sign language because he was in circus in the past.&#xA;At this mark in the movie where Caesar and Maurice were talking in sign language, Caesar asks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;00:49:07,361 --&gt; 00:49:10,363 You know sign?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then Maurice replies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;00:49:11,449 --&gt; 00:49:14,075&#xA;  Circus Orangutan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it's pretty obvious that Maurice gained his intelligence from working in Circus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2014-07-14T10:00:30.563" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T10:00:30.563" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23106" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23107" CreationDate="2014-07-14T06:36:43.297" Score="3" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;Be warned.  &lt;strong&gt;Spoilers ahead.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like I'm missing something obvious... at the beginning of episode S01E01 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2654620/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Strain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, air traffic control notices the flight has simply stopped on the runway. Bishop, the guy in charge, goes to inspect. The plane is off, quiet and dark, with its door closed. The plane feels cold. Nearly all of the windows are shut. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that point, they conclude that they must notify each and every agency to come down.  Uhh... why?  I get notifying ONE agency... or a specialist team...  but why instigate a media circus? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1297" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-14T09:29:35.650" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T08:57:44.327" Title="Why does air traffic control react a certain way in &quot;The Strain&quot; S01E01?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-strain|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23106" CreationDate="2014-07-14T06:56:53.183" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I haven't seen the series but from what you've mentioned I concluded the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone put the plane on the runway&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can't get out of a commercial plane without stairs or using the emergency chute, which weren't there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Therefore everyone is either no longer in the plane (&lt;em&gt;How?&lt;/em&gt;), unconscious or dead&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There was no distress call, so whatever occurred happened near-instantly throughout the plane.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The cause is probably still on the plane&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's probably either a homicidal maniac, some kind of pathogen or maybe an alien weapon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Better call the police, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Centers for Disease Control (CDC)&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Mulder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fox Mulder&lt;/a&gt; as there's no way to know which until someone goes in the plane.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it sounds to me like they did the right thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-09-04T08:57:44.327" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T08:57:44.327" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6841" CreationDate="2014-07-14T12:40:15.273" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I now believe that he never did the first time travel as stated in the newspaper. As he seems entirely unaware of what to expect for going into the past; as he says things like &quot;safety not guaranteed&quot; and &quot;bring your own weapons&quot;, plus all the martial arts training he thought he needed to learn. Also no information about his supposed first travel was ever mentioned or even alluded to ever ACTUALLY happening outside of the newspaper article, plus he seemed to be building the time machine for the first time. And he just wanted a friend because he was afraid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the real reason that he put the post in the news paper is because he wanted to go back in time (for the first time, despite the lie in the newspaper article) to see if he can change the fact that he crashed into Belinda's house, and maybe if he does change this, he can still win over Belinda. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because; to Belinda, the crash seemed to be the final deciding point that Belinda didn't want to see him any more. we know this because she mentions that &quot;the accident&quot; changed everything with her friendship with Kenneth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kenneth possibly lied to Darius about a drunk driver killing Belinda because he was ashamed that he got drunk and jealous about the boyfriend and crashed into Belinda's boyfriend's house himself, which lead to Belinda never wanting to see him again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AND one interesting thing which no one has mentioned is that at the very end, Darius says &quot;i'm sorry, but everything is true except for the story&quot;. I believe the specific words &quot;the story&quot; refer to the magazine story about Kenneth. And that she was actually doing everything with Kenneth to actually save her mother, who really did die. That way, it makes sense when Kenneth says &quot;this time i'm going back for you&quot;. meaning this time he is going back to save Darius' mother, because he realised that he didn't love Belinda any more, he actually loved Darius. It also makes sense when she lied to the other intern about what she told Kenneth she wanted to go back in time for. She lied and said her parents got divorced because it was too personal to tell him the truth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to make sense of the clip at the end where he talks about needing a partner to go back in time with (as is filmed earlier in the movie by Darius), it was partly in reference to meaning that he needed somebody to stand by his side as he goes into the past for the first time, giving more evidence to the fact that he never time traveled in the first place. I think it's also a kinda nice way to say he needs someone throughout life when &quot;i am doubting myself and when the heat gets hot, has my&quot; back as he puts it, which further shows the fact that he can be a lonely person which is why he might have been so keen on Belinda in the first place, but now he has found Darius.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, because the time machine did work. And the box was empty, that means everything went well on their mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S Quotes may not be exact. But the meaning of what was said at the time is accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12716" LastEditorUserId="12716" LastEditDate="2014-07-14T13:33:31.983" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T13:33:31.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23113" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-14T14:08:01.193" Score="1" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming_%28TV_serial%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Second Coming&lt;/a&gt; which is a story of Steve, a kind-hearted video store clerk from Manchester who disappears for &lt;a href=&quot;http://biblehub.com/kjv/matthew/4.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;forty days and forty nights&lt;/a&gt; before he is found wandering the Moors claiming to be the second coming of Jesus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After being locked up he's eventually released and proves his claim by turning day into night before he announces to the media present that he must find the third testament within five days to prevent the apocalypse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show ends with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Judy makes spaghetti laced with rat poison, and tells Steve this before giving it to him. She states that it is Judgement Day, but for Steve and God, and that it has been the existence of God or the argument about it which has led humanity to do so many bad things to one another. Steve is persuaded that he must die, and moreover make it permanent ceasing to exist rather than returning to heaven), so that humanity fights for itself rather than relying on the evils of fundamentalism. This will not only be the death of him, but of God, Satan, Heaven and Hell - the end of all religion which may scare people into living their lives properly.&#xA;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;sub&gt;-Paraphrased from Wikipedia&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia mentions that the series was well received by critics, however I can't find much information about religious institutions commenting on it. The ending certainly feels like it should be controversial, can anyone find any mention of high ranking members of religious groups (such as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Church of England&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_church&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Catholic Church&lt;/a&gt;) responding to it, positively or otherwise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-15T20:05:11.227" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T21:13:35.133" Title="How was The Second Coming received by Christian groups?" Tags="|reception|the-second-coming|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23114" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-14T14:08:33.713" Score="20" ViewCount="3476" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's only seen without it on two occasions.  The first is in TESB, very briefly, from behind, when he's in his quarters apparently undergoing some sort of medical procedure, possibly a regular necessity to maintain his metabolism.  The second time is in the final scenes of ROTJ, when he's dying after his confrontation with the Emperor.  He asks Luke to take it off because he wants to look at him with his own eyes.  Luke is reluctant, telling him that he'll die, but Vader insists, so Luke takes it off (knowing how to, without being told, but anyway...).  There's a hiss of released pressure, but otherwise we see nothing to suggest what the helmet does for Vader, or why it's essential for his survival.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9453" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T14:23:48.720" Title="What is the function of Darth Vader's helmet?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23114" CreationDate="2014-07-14T14:15:13.623" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short, the mask controlled the pressurized atmosphere Vader required for his survival. It also provided the interface with the sensors (though, why the needles had to be &lt;em&gt;in his face&lt;/em&gt; versus any other part of his body is a good question). It also effectively boosted his sensory perception (via external sensors) and corrected his vision which had been damaged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;from &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darth_Vader%27s_armor&quot;&gt;Wookieepedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vader's mask was one of the most important pieces of Vader's armor, and was vital to his survival. Without it, he would die unless in the pressurized, controlled atmosphere of one of his specially-made meditation chambers. Inside the mask were many needles that poked into his flesh to interface with him. The pressurized helmet monitored and regulated Vader's body temperature, contained radiators to diffuse heat generated by the suit's electrical systems, and contained a primary environmental sensor that continually evaluated Vader's surroundings for potential hazards. Lenses filter out light that could cause further injury to Vader's damaged corneas and retinas.They also provide infrared and ultraviolet vision, enabling Vader to see clearly in complete darkness. Sensors in the Sith Lord's helmet relay environmental data, which is then displayed as peripheral readouts. When piloting a starship, such as his personal TIE Advanced x1 prototype starfighter, Vader could slide a second layer of eye shields across the mask's eyepieces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1046" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-14T14:23:48.720" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T14:23:48.720" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23084" CreationDate="2014-07-14T15:40:56.587" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The prime minister is obviously attracted to her, he expresses (to himself and the audience) the inconvenience of it, and he conveys almost childish behaviour. With and without her nearby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before the speech wherein he disavows collaboration with the US, he sees the US president harassing Natalie. That certainly served as inspiration for his speech, although not from Natalie's part, but rather the president's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The prime minister gives the well received speech, and he got his grip back together. He realizes Natalie's presence is distracting him from doing his job. And to protect himself, he sends her away. Possibly because he might think a serious relationship would not work out with her or would not work within their shared workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T15:40:56.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23084" CreationDate="2014-07-14T16:54:48.683" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mostly agree with @NGLN, but I think David is afraid his feelings for Natalie are going to overwhelm him and everyone will see that he's in love with her. We can see that during his speech to the reporters, in which he ends with something about &quot;what is best for ...&quot; pauses for a long time, locks eyes with Natalie, she smiles ... and David finishes his sentence: &quot;for Britain.&quot; His love for Natalie, and desire to protect her from the US president, almost overtook him in front of the press on worldwide television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So David's in love with Natalie, but he's afraid of telling her or anyone that, since he's Prime Minister, but he's also afraid that everyone's going to see how obvious it is that he's in love with her. So the only thing he can think of to do is to move her away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Towards the end of the movie, when Natalie gives him the Christmas card that says she's his, he realizes he doesn't care what people think anymore.  He's going to go find Natalie and tell her he's in love with her.  And he gets a car &quot;right away&quot; and then goes door to door looking for her.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2017-01-30T18:48:35.473" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T18:48:35.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21192" CreationDate="2014-07-14T20:05:17.543" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that everything you said makes complete sense, but I see also that there was a previous &quot;Battle of Verdun&quot; during the Franco-Prussian War:&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Verdun_(1792)&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Verdun_(1792)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 1792 battle occurred over a single day, and the Prussian army successfully defeated the French.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 1916 battle, that you mention, occurred over 11 months and ultimately the French army defeated the German army, despite an initial assumption (by the Germans) to the contrary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the plot of the movie, the Mimics' plan is revealed to be that they are staging battles and when suffering a loss, they repeat the day, remember the previous events, and then go on to seem prescient and win the &quot;second&quot; version of the attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything was working perfectly with that methodology until Rita steals the time-reversal power, and now she remembers the battles and they do not, because she is the one resetting the time-line. She eventually loses this power, but Cage garners it in a very similar manner, and this is the focus of the movie. We only learn about Rita's experiences through dialogue, and she is situated as a mentor to Cage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if we ignore Rita's experience and simply look at the movie and the references to Verdun in regards of Cage's experiences, I think that the history of the two battles mirrors the plot of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;first&quot; time through, it was an unequivocal defeat for humanity. But now that Cage has the power for time-reversal, despite the loooooong and arduous task of training and dying and training and dying, he ultimately defeats the mimics and wins the war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the specificity of the choice of the battle site is because it has this very unique history of being a site of an extremely short and then an extremely long battle. The mimic attack that Cage first went through was clearly going to be a quick defeat of the last human defense effort, but by being able to restart the time-line, he was able to then endure this incredibly long battle and ultimately succeed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user12701" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T20:05:17.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19969" CreationDate="2014-07-14T22:52:12.590" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw that Malvo gets consistently portrayed as entirely vague and entirely evil. The only solid characterizations for him are the cassette tapes he carries around of all these recorded conversations. It's hinted at a lot, but when we see him living as the dentist, we finally see an unequivocal scene where he is just sitting alone, listening to the tape, and having some kind of existential, sadistic joy at the horrific circumstances that Lester caused by killing his wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was always a thought that perhaps the tapes are insurance, for blackmail, but I think this scene after his dinner party (as the dentist) shows that he really is just keeping them and listening to them for his own pleasure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you keep this in mind and look back on the circumstances surrounding Milos, he saw an opportunity and he took it. I think it's nothing more than his own pleasure, to sadistically mess with this petty, dumb, and selfish man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originally he's there on behest of the crime organization he works for, and he's supposed to determine who the original blackmailer is. But when he realizes how dumb the whole situation is, and how he's been brought in to solve this &quot;problem&quot;, it simply becomes a game for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it'd be too forgiving to ignore that this also ate up a LOT of the season's episodes, and it was a convenient way to write in these crazy situations while Lester's character was fleshed out and was digging deeper and deeper into his own sadistic insanity. Also it kept Malvo around Bemidji and Fargo, so that he could run into Wrench and Numbers, and Molly, and continually mess with the entire situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because the whole thing started when he hit a deer and had to kill a cop and get to the hospital, where he meets Lester. He doesn't know or care who Sam Hess is, and doesn't even realize that his own organization is sent out to kill him for killing Sam Hess. Malvo's just sorta doing whatever he wants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I think from the thematic sense of the show, the heart of the plot is really the first two or three episodes and the last two, and everything happening in-between, while I admit I loved it, is thematically sort of stretched-out for &quot;fun&quot;. We get all the crazy characters and all the random circumstances and the build-up of coincidences, so that everything can finally come together for the final episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Milos was essentially just a big distraction, and if he could get a huge payday out of it, then it's doubly-enjoyable. And note that the show takes place in 2006 and Malvo goes around with essentially the same clothes and the same walkman and cassettes. He certainly didn't care about money or things, so he was doing it all to entertain himself in his sadistic nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user12701" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T22:52:12.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23123" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-14T23:34:25.267" Score="2" ViewCount="382" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703925/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wilfred&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &quot;Questions&quot; (S02E11), during &lt;em&gt;Ryan&lt;/em&gt;'s trip within a trip he learns that the cause for his panic attacks isn't little &lt;em&gt;Joffrey&lt;/em&gt; crying but merely &lt;em&gt;Kristen&lt;/em&gt; telling him not to cry, which reminds him of her telling the exact same to him when they were kids and had trouble in the family, ultimately realizing that he &lt;em&gt;&quot;never stopped not crying&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. After waking up from the trips he looks at a picture showing him with &lt;em&gt;Amanda&lt;/em&gt;, cries, and admits&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm sad, Wilfred. I'm really sad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I would like to know is, of what scale are the implications of this revelation? &lt;strong&gt;Does this just mean that &lt;em&gt;Ryan&lt;/em&gt; had suppressed his sadness over breaking up with &lt;em&gt;Amanda&lt;/em&gt; (in S02E08) or does this really go as far as &lt;em&gt;Ryan&lt;/em&gt; having suppressed his actual sadness all over his life, or at least since his &quot;&lt;em&gt;Wilfred&lt;/em&gt;-inducing&quot; suicide attempt?&lt;/strong&gt; I see that this question might not have been answered too clearly by the show but I might as well have missed some little aspect (or it was deliberately left ambiguous). I guess part in answering this question might already be achieved by answering the simpler (or even trivial) question of &lt;strong&gt;did Ryan indeed never cry in any episode up until that point?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-07-14T23:34:25.267" Title="Did Ryan really never cry?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|wilfred|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23124" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23190" CreationDate="2014-07-15T00:22:09.453" Score="12" ViewCount="790" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Skyfall, the enjoying death scene:&#xA;What is the barkeeper saying to James Bond at the next morning at the bar when he is handing the money and grabbing the bottle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds to me like &quot;furundi&quot; or something, but I could not get a translation. What language is it, and what does it mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12722" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T01:06:15.533" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T01:06:15.533" Title="What does the barkeeper say to James Bond (possibly in Turkish)?" Tags="|dialogue|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23127" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-15T04:43:02.630" Score="5" ViewCount="1419" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm watching through the weird Twin Peaks series. If you remember, Laura Palmer, in one of her tapes to Dr. Jacoby, talks about her secret coconut (or secret in the coconut, maybe). What did she mean by that? At first I thought it was the half-necklace that ends up with Dr. Jacoby, but he only gets the necklace after Laura dies, when Donna and James bury it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some other holes in the story, but for some reason, this one kept bugging me. Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12725" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-15T09:18:06.580" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T20:14:36.397" Title="Laura's coconut secret" Tags="|plot-explanation|twin-peaks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23128" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23130" CreationDate="2014-07-15T05:02:06.077" Score="10" ViewCount="2842" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just finished watching the TV show Fargo.&#xA;Each episode begins with the lines that this is based on real events.&#xA;When I looked for it on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, it said&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, this claim is completely fictional. Showrunner Noah Hawley&#xA;  continued use of the Coens' device, saying it allowed him to tell “a&#xA;  story in a new way”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to ask, is there no rule/guideline for it?&#xA;In other words there must be some governing body which checks what contents can be shown and what can not be shown. So is there no rule related to this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T21:16:51.383" LastActivityDate="2016-03-23T14:15:33.323" Title="Why is it Okay for movies / TV shows, to show that their story is based on real events when it is actually not?" Tags="|realism|legal|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21929" CreationDate="2014-07-15T06:12:03.663" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, indeed bodachs know about the gift that Odd can see them. This is the main twist of the movie towards the end. Bodachs main motive and plan is to cause a disaster in the mall which would lead to hundreds of casualties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why Bodachs never went near the co-conspirators because Odd would find out that they're planning on a mass destruction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2014-07-15T06:17:14.923" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T06:17:14.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23128" CreationDate="2014-07-15T06:23:58.237" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Question: 1) In a publication, what is the difference between saying “based on a true story” versus “inspired by a true story” and are there legal implications that could arise from either choice of words?&#xA;  (For our purposes, the “true story” language is going to be used in a Children’s Picture book about an animal. The book is about a real animal, containing some facts about the animal’s life, but the animal is anthropomorphized).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Answer: 1) No difference of any legal consequence between “based on” and “inspired by.” Each of them suggests that there is a core of truth to the story but that you are embellishing or going beyond the factual record. This is something we call “faction,” a conflation of fact and fiction and it can under some circumstances give rise to libel claims, but not if the story is about animals. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ibpa-online.org/resources/ask-the-experts/ibpas-ask-the-experts-publishing-law/#Question22&quot;&gt;written by Steve Gillen&lt;/a&gt;, an Intellectual Property attorney, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ibpa-online.org/resources/ask-the-experts/ibpas-ask-the-experts-publishing-law/#Question22&quot;&gt;comes from ibpa.com&lt;/a&gt;.  So it appears that from a legal standpoint it isn't about fleshing out what fragments of truth would be in the story, but rather covering whatever might be potentially recognized as a true detail.  By saying that the story is &quot;based on&quot; a true story, the actual true story part could simply be that &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; happened in Fargo, North Dakota.  I realize that in this specific case he admits that the individual episodes aren't based on facts... that he is using the technique to sell his story.  But the series is based on the movie, which was &quot;based on&quot; a true story.... so the thread could be continued just on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't the first time a series has started like that, where the individual episodes indicated a story based on real life, but might actually be almost completely fabrication.  Dragnet radio and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061248/&quot;&gt;TV episodes&lt;/a&gt; were mostly based on actual cases from the LAPD, but there was artistic license taken occasionally with how a case might have ended or even begun.  When the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092925/&quot;&gt;Tom Hanks movie&lt;/a&gt; of the same name came out, it began just as the series had... claiming the story was true, but that the names had been changed to protect the innocent.  Yet the story was a complete fabrication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T06:23:58.237" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19969" CreationDate="2014-07-15T06:26:06.170" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Malvo is an extremely odd character. You can say he is somewhat similar to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joker_(The_Dark_Knight)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt; Joker&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;. These are psychotic criminals without clear motives for a crime&#xA;(Joker, obviously, being way ahead of the curve). There are several instances from the show where Malvo does strange things to people. Some examples :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;when he check in to a motel, he provokes the motel bell boy to piss on owner's car.&#xA;But when he is actually doing it, Malvo calls the owner which gets him caught.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In last episode, when malvo is searching for Lester's address and meets the new occupants of Lester's old house. He scares the kids by telling them false stories.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also think of it this way, why did he kill Sam Hess in the first place. Malvo had nothing to do with Lester or with Sam Hess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Malvo is a psycho criminal in its true sense. &#xA;In order to understand psycho we should take reference from the Joker.&#xA;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/a&gt;, Batman also becomes confused with Joker's intentions and motives&#xA;and then Alfred tells him a story about a bandit in Burma who used to steal rubies but throw them off afterwards. Alfred sums it up as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some people just want to see the world burn&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, this piece from &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; can be used to understand Malvo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer your question, &quot;why did Malvo do the things he did to Stavros Milos: because he is a psycho. He often likes to hurt people without any reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2017-01-27T08:21:43.227" LastActivityDate="2017-01-27T08:21:43.227" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23132" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23135" CreationDate="2014-07-15T06:52:53.707" Score="18" ViewCount="25336" Body="&lt;p&gt;I missed it the first time I watched the series but on a second watching I just noticed after Walt goes missing (taken by Tuco), Hank goes to Walt's house with the APD detective to ask Skyler some questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just before he goes inside the house he feels around the car and grabs a magnetic device from underneath the right wheel arch. This never gets mentioned again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering this is so early in the series it raises a lot of questions for me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who put the tracker there? It probably wasn't Tuco because he used Jesse to lead him to Walt.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it was Hank, why? Did he suspect Walt so early on? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know Hank likes putting GPS trackers on people he suspects but the way Hank feels around the car suggests he doesn't know where exactly it's placed, suggesting it wasn't him that put it there (unless he just forgot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could it be that Hank had Walt sussed from the start and discovering Gale's book with the WW dedication just confirmed what he always suspected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/juRcK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Hanks retrieves the GPS tracker&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the thing he retrieves from the car:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/okk0K.png&quot; alt=&quot;Thing under car&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12728" LastEditorUserId="12728" LastEditDate="2014-07-15T08:54:44.447" LastActivityDate="2017-01-24T23:19:01.737" Title="What did Hank find under Walt's car in S2E2 (Grilled) and why was it there?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31703" CreationDate="2014-07-15T08:38:07.083" Score="10" ViewCount="9932" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last episode of the first season of Fargo,&#xA;Gus is driving a car when he suddenly spots a wolf in the middle of the road.&#xA;This makes him stop the Car and also coincidentally identify Malvo's location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, when Malvo is wounded and sitting on his sofa, the wolf appears again, in front of his window. Just about then, Gus appears and shoots down Malvo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything particular that the creators wanted to convey through this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-11-22T07:27:28.073" LastActivityDate="2017-05-26T12:38:04.367" Title="What is the significance of the wolf in last episode of the first season of &quot;Fargo&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|fargo-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23132" CreationDate="2014-07-15T09:51:04.323" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching the series again the other day and noticed that Skyler removed a key from inside that wheel arch. It was the morning after Victor abducts Walt to take him to Fring's meth lab to kill him (much later than when Walt worked with/was abducted by Tuco, obviously). I think it is just that key that Hank is looking for.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I just watched it again.  Hank pulls up, he walks up beside the driver's side of the car, tries both the driver's door and the one behind it to find that &lt;em&gt;both are locked&lt;/em&gt;, then he quickly feels around the wheel arch on the rear wheel of the driver's side, then moves to the rear wheel arch on the passenger's side and finds and removes the object.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene then cuts to Hank at the driver's side door, looking from inside the vehicle, as Hank is &lt;em&gt;pulling it open towards him.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then has a quick rummage through the papers in the center console and sniffs the head rest on the passenger's side of the car (mistress with perfume?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And as you noted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Skyler gets the thing in &lt;em&gt;Box Cutter&lt;/em&gt; and then moves Walt's car and then puts it back. Suggesting it's a spare key.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2014-07-15T09:57:43.517" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T09:57:43.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23136" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23137" CreationDate="2014-07-15T10:14:30.603" Score="16" ViewCount="7934" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802850/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fargo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Police Chief Bill Oswalt  (Bob Odenkirk) adopts an african boy towards the end of the series. It is mentioned in one scene where he introduces him to Molly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The boy explains that before he could meet up with Bill he was robbed at the airport. He didnt know where to go so he had to resort to shoplifting food to survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bill explains to Molly that he bumped into the boy and a grocery store by chance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene felt kind of random to me but reminded me of the scene from the movie where Marge meets Mike Yaganita and how the visit prompted her to revisit the car dealership as she was perhaps too trusting of people (Great Q+A about this here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/290/what-significance-does-mike-yanagita-have-in-fargo/293#293&quot;&gt;What significance does Mike Yanagita have in Fargo?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, is there a deeper meaning to the scene with the adopted boy? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3203" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2020-01-10T21:08:51.033" Title="The meaning of the adopted African boy in Fargo?" Tags="|fargo-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23136" CreationDate="2014-07-15T11:32:14.907" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, we should note that Sudanese boys coming to Fargo, is an actual incident. Check &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/magazine/the-lost-boys-of-sudan-the-long-long-long-road-to-fargo.html?src=pm&amp;amp;pagewanted=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; article in &lt;em&gt;The New York Times&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, this Sudanese kid scene is shown in the episode entitled &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3468290/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Heap&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&#xA;The basic theme in this episode is &quot;As time goes by&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lester successfully frames his brother and the case is kind of closed after Bill stops Molly from looking any further into it. Molly starts dating Gus. Lester starts his new life with Linda. Even Malvo has gone away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During all this we come to listen to the story of Sudanese boy. He was supposed to meet Bill at the airport, but he couldn't. Then, out of circumstances he starts shop lifting and when everybody had forgotten about it and life is going on, he is suddenly spotted by Bill in the store and hence things fall in place all of a sudden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can see this relation in later episodes of &lt;em&gt;Fargo&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When everyone has moved on with life, all of a sudden and strictly by chance, Lester meets Malvo and all those things start again. Later on, in the last episode, Gus is seen asking Molly to forget about Malvo when out of the blue he spots Malvo himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think the relation is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sudanese kid is expected to come but he gets lost.&#xA;When everyone has forgotten about it and moved on, he is suddenly spotted and what should have happened normally, happens later by chance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Police are expected to solve the Malvo case.&#xA;But, they fail and choose to let it pass.&#xA;When everybody has moved on with life, Malvo &amp;amp; Lester meet by chance.&#xA;Events lead to Malvo coming back to town and again by chance he is&#xA;spotted by Gus and killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the Sudanese kid's story kind of gives us the idea how the case will&#xA;be solved in the future (i.e. just by chance, out of the blue).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="56522" LastEditDate="2020-01-10T21:08:51.033" LastActivityDate="2020-01-10T21:08:51.033" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="23139" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-15T17:49:59.303" Score="5" ViewCount="4381" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched Dirty Dancing with my wife the other night.  One line in particular utterly baffled me...when Baby (Jennifer Grey) apologizes to her father on the dock, she concludes by saying &quot;I'm sorry I let you down, but you let me down, too!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How? Was it because he assumed that the father of the girl's baby was Johnny (Patrick Swayze) EXACTLY LIKE SHE DID? Was it because he couldn't trust her word that Johnny was innocent? I can't even make out what the &lt;em&gt;intended&lt;/em&gt; meaning was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3210" LastEditorUserId="1064" LastEditDate="2019-06-22T16:34:33.310" LastActivityDate="2019-06-22T16:34:33.310" Title="How did Baby's Dad let her down in Dirty Dancing?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dirty-dancing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="23140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="985" CreationDate="2014-07-15T19:01:25.887" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Zero Effect ousted itself to me as as a modern take on Sherlock Holmes (and had been my undisputed favorite modern adaptation until the new BBC series) with the opening and closing lines of the movie- Arlo says to a prospective client that &quot;...He doesn't negotiate his fee. He works at a flat rate. Under some unusual circumstances, he'll work pro bono - never in between.&quot; and in The Problem of Thor Bridge Holmes says &quot;My professional charges are upon a fixed scale, I do not vary them, save when I remit them altogether.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the opening lines of A Scandal in Bohemia, Watson writes, &quot;To Sherlock Holmes she is always &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex...there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.&quot; The closing lines of Zero's report on the case he says &quot;Perhaps the most able blackmailer of her time, she was at once the worthiest opponent and the greatest ally, and the only woman I have ever... the only woman, period.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zero also says, in a seeming nod and wink to Watson himself, that though he tried to get Arlo to write of his exploits, he has refused to do so, and so has taken it upon himself to write the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Upon close examination, I saw a couple other linguistic similarities in lines between Zero Effect and Sherlock Holmes; again, in Arlo's description of Zero in the beginning of the film he says of Daryl, &quot;When private investigation won its most worthy champion, academia and the arts suffered a loss- a great loss.&quot; And in A Scandal in Bohemia, Watson writes &quot;The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zero says in in voice-over of his book-in-progress, &quot;Passion is the enemy of precision.&quot; And Watson writes, also in the opening paragraph of A Scandal in Bohemia, &quot;All emotions, and [love] particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind...Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, at the end, Arlo leaves Zero to get married, which Watson also did to Holmes, although at the conclusion of &lt;em&gt;The Sign of Four&lt;/em&gt; and a little time prior to the events of A Scandal in Bohemia. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12736" LastEditorUserId="12736" LastEditDate="2014-07-17T03:20:10.690" LastActivityDate="2014-07-17T03:20:10.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="647" CreationDate="2014-07-15T19:34:06.457" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;He does not hear it nor does not he guess it. He knows that they are going to say that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of the movie the Crooked Captain says to him that he has the brains but he is not cut for a job of a detective. The film is about his becoming of being &quot;cut for the job&quot;. In this moment he has seen the way of Jack and Bud and learned from them. And in the end he is shown to have learned from them but still being himself. In the beginning he sells his fellow cops. This time he saves them. He knows the business now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12737" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T19:34:06.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23142" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-07-15T19:58:27.227" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reception&lt;/strong&gt; is how a film or TV show was received by audiences, critics, academics or those involved with the project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T01:12:42.543" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T01:12:42.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23143" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-07-15T19:58:27.227" Score="0" Body="How a film or TV show was received by audiences, critics, academics or those involved with the project." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T01:13:07.593" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T01:13:07.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23144" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23145" CreationDate="2014-07-15T20:16:35.420" Score="15" ViewCount="84507" Body="&lt;p&gt;In AMC's The Walking Dead, how did the flu take out so much of the population? Me and people I've known have gotten plenty of them. The only time I hear of them killing people is extremely weak and frail children or elderly people. They are also not treatable via antibiotics AFAIK. The people seemed to be able to stay warm, have a ready supply of clean food and water, possibly vitamins too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would so many apparently healthy adults fall to a realistic strand of flu that exists in real life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12738" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-15T20:45:48.590" LastActivityDate="2019-02-03T22:36:43.407" Title="How was the flu so deadly in Season 4 of The Walking Dead?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23144" CreationDate="2014-07-15T20:32:55.890" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Influenza spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics, resulting in about three to five million yearly cases of severe illness and about 250,000 to 500,000 yearly deaths,[18] rising to millions in some pandemic years. In the 20th century three influenza pandemics occurred, each caused by the appearance of a new strain of the virus in humans, and killed tens of millions of people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So by itself, Influenza is pretty nasty.  Add to that the fact that everyone is already quite unhealthy and most likely hurt in one way or another... massively compromised immune systems... and the flu would be even worse.  No medication?  That's adding insult to injury.  Now... the detail we don't know for sure... since everyone is infected, does that compromise their immune system even more?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T20:32:55.890" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23144" CreationDate="2014-07-15T20:45:51.440" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the virus was just supposed to be a regular flu, I think it was supposed to be some form of zombie &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_influenza&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Swine Flu&lt;/a&gt;, and here's why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The virus was &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoonosis&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;zoonotic&lt;/a&gt; as it infected and killed &lt;a href=&quot;http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Violet&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Violet&lt;/a&gt;, the pig they were keeping, just before the first infections in the prison:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SCm3u.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Violet the pig&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Zombies are also infected with the virus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SmCoM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Infected zombie&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 2009 (just around when season 4 was being written) there were a lot of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;media panic about Swine Flu&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hershel didn't get sick, despite being in contact with everyone that was, which fits with this:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Existing vaccines against seasonal flu provide no protection against swine flu, A study at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  published in May 2009 found that children had no preexisting immunity to the new strain but that adults, particularly those over 60, had some degree of immunity&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As Wiki states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some patients experience severe respiratory symptoms. (The H5N1 virus is also able to infect cells deep in the lungs with receptor type a2-3 but cannot infect cells with receptor type a2-6 making it less contagious than H1N1/09.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which makes sense as in the show people die from coughing up blood.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-07-15T20:45:51.440" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23148" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-07-15T22:40:45.890" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Second Coming&lt;/strong&gt; is a 2003 two-part TV serial written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_T_Davies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Russell T Davies&lt;/a&gt; and starring &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Eccleston&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Christopher Eccleston&lt;/a&gt; as Steve Baxter, a video store clerk who goes missing for forty days and forty nights before coming to the realisation he's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Coming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Second Coming&lt;/a&gt; of Jesus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming_%28TV_serial%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Second Coming on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0353104/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Second Coming on IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-16T04:13:24.060" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T04:13:24.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23149" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-07-15T22:40:45.890" Score="0" Body="A 2003 two-part TV serial about a video store clerk who goes missing for forty days and forty nights before coming to the realisation he's the second coming of Jesus." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-16T04:13:12.913" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T04:13:12.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23139" CreationDate="2014-07-16T01:17:22.440" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole transcript of the scene is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I told you I was telling the truth Daddy. I'm sorry I lied to you.&#xA;  But you lied too. You told me everyone was alike and deserved a fair&#xA;  break. But you meant everyone who was like you. You told me you wanted&#xA;  me to change the world, make it better. But you meant by becoming a&#xA;  lawyer or an economist and marrying someone from Harvard. I'm not&#xA;  proud of myself, but I'm in this family too and you can't keep giving&#xA;  me the silent treatment. There are a lot of things about me that&#xA;  aren't what you thought. But if you love me, you have to love all the&#xA;  things about me. And I love you, and I'm sorry I let you down, I'm so&#xA;  sorry Daddy. But you let me down too.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She is talking about her father's description of life and how people lived and treated each other created a distorted view of society in her mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T01:17:22.440" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23151" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-16T02:10:00.037" Score="6" ViewCount="11621" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Big Lebowski&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; again, for the Nth time, I felt a bit silly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pretty much everything that Dude brings Walter in on, gets screwed up.  Yes... throwing either ringer would have resulted in the same thing... but that's what started his car getting wrecked... and shot... etc.  In one sense, if Dude and Walter hadn't done things the way they did, they never would have found out the truth in the end.  However, it was Walter's interventions/plans/decisions that ended up putting the nihilists in that parking lot with Donny, to cause the situation that brought on his heart attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... did Walter kill Donny?  Even inadvertently...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="57106" LastEditDate="2018-01-01T16:13:55.877" LastActivityDate="2018-01-01T16:13:55.877" Title="Did Walter kill Donny in The Big Lebowski?" Tags="|plot-explanation|coen-brothers|the-big-lebowski|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20045" CreationDate="2014-07-16T03:58:05.180" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walt was absolutely not lying. Throughout the show he's had many times where he could have backed out of the business, but kept going because he likes it. He has a huge ego, and for the first time he's respected (Jesse actually sees the art in what he does, which is something he is unable to show his students in his chemistry class who could care less about his passionate lectures.) And as Heisenberg he's powerful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you need proof you just need to look at &quot;Over&quot; from Episode 2. In that episode, Walt has just found out his cancer is in remission. He's also just produced a huge amount of meth that he can now sell and pay any bills he may have (I believe that's what he eventually sells to Gus for half a million dollars.) Tuco's long gone, and at this point Walt has an easy exit from the business. He's accomplished his goal of paying for his treatment and helping his family. Nobody at this point is pulling him back in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Walt is unable to satisfy himself around the house, and when he sees the kid buying the ingredients for meth at the store, he goes up to him and says &quot;Stay out of my territory.&quot; That is pure ego from Walt. He is proud of the blue meth, he's proud of his work, and he's proud of Heisenberg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that was the moment Walt stopped providing for his family, and started providing for himself. Remember even from Season 1 he was getting much more sexual as a result of getting off of the excitement, and when drunk Walt often reverts to his Heisenberg persona. This is a man who was never respected, and finally is proving he's great and powerful. In the end, he tore apart his family with his work, which is contradictory to what he claims was his cause, but he needed to tell HIMSELF that he was doing it for his family. In the end, he finally admits to Skyler and himself that he was doing it for himself the whole time (Or in my opinion, at least since the episode &quot;Over&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12741" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T03:58:05.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18080" CreationDate="2014-07-16T05:23:26.577" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;He killed Rodney because Rodney was a witness to Petty's murder.  DeGroat's real issue was with John.  John still owed DeGroat more money. The fixed fight didn't settle the whole debt.   Before they leave, John asks him if everything is good between them.  DeGroat says, &quot;well yeah, as long as you brought me the rest of my money.&quot; Petty says nothing. So DeGroat asks, &quot;don't tell me you came all the way down here without the rest of my money.&quot;  Petty insists that the fight was supposed to settle the whole debt and that was it. At that point, DeGroat realizes he's not going to get the rest of the money so he decides he's just gonna kill Petty now. When he kills Petty and he and his crew drag Rodney in the woods. He has a look that says &quot;sucks I have to do this kid.&quot;  Then tells Rodney that he should've kept better company.  Then he feels a bit bad about it so he tells Rodney not to look at him. As if seeing Rodney's eyes as he kills him will haunt him because even though it was a messed up situation he did like Rodney. Thought he was a tough kid.  But he witnessed a murder. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12743" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-23T21:51:29.160" LastActivityDate="2014-08-23T21:51:29.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23151" CreationDate="2014-07-16T06:25:34.653" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not really.&lt;/strong&gt; First of all, just about everyone involved brought about this complex situation. Everyone's (usually misguided) choices - Bunny, the Dude, the big Lebowski and the nihilists themselves - put the nihilists in that parking lot, so &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; would be responsible for Donny's death. And we don't even know Donny's prior health condition. In short, you can't put the blame on just one person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, it seems that Donny was destined to have that heart attack anyway because this is &lt;em&gt;foreshadowed&lt;/em&gt;: Just before they go out to the parking lot, Donny misses a pin (for the first time in the movie, if I'm not mistaken). As he goes back to his seat, he seems off; he winces and feels his arm. &lt;em&gt;Pain, weakness or numbness in your arm is one of the symptoms of a heart attack&lt;/em&gt;. [Look for 'foreshadowing' &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheBigLebowski&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-07-16T09:22:51.043" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T09:22:51.043" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23155" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23159" CreationDate="2014-07-16T07:03:04.133" Score="7" ViewCount="1389" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Starship Troopers Rico first meets Zander at a sports game while they're both at school, Zander brags about enlisting which prompts many of the film's main characters to do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next time we see him he's teaching Carmen to fly a spaceship, given they're both the same age how did he suddenly jump so far ahead of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T10:39:51.450" Title="How did Zander Barcalow get to be an instructor so quickly?" Tags="|character|starship-troopers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20045" CreationDate="2014-07-16T09:12:24.650" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think he lied to Skyler. He was right - he did it for himself.&#xA;I understood Walt's character as someone who could not achieve what he deserved for a long time in his life. Walt reveals this frustration to a psychologist during season 2, when he is lost and found and recovering in a hospital.&#xA;I somewhat remember his dialogue. He says to the psychologist &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am a 50 year old man with lung cancer. I am an overqualified chemistry teacher teaching at high school. I have watched all my peers&#xA;  surpass me in every possible  way. My teenage son has cerebral palsy.&#xA;  My wife is pregnant with a child we did not plan. And you are asking&#xA;  why I ran.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think these lines were true and reflect Walt's sheer frustration in life.&#xA;When he started the Blue Meth thing, he really felt alive as he became a man of high importance. Walt definitely had huge ego, which was evident in later seasons. &lt;strong&gt;It should also be noted that if he was doing it for the family, he could have stopped a long time ago. He had several chances, but he did not. Best chance was when Mike decided to hand over the business to another group, but Walt foiled this attempt.&lt;/strong&gt; Remember the famous dialogue when he tells Jesse that, &quot;he is not in meth business or drug business - he is in the empire business&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt may have started the whole thing for family, but pretty soon his alter ego Heisenberg took over, and after that, it was all about himself. So he was definitely not lying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-07-11T20:23:46.607" LastActivityDate="2016-07-11T20:23:46.607" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23157" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23160" CreationDate="2014-07-16T09:28:34.597" Score="26" ViewCount="34255" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I was talking about Breaking Bad with someone who has not watched it and I was asked &amp;quot;What is the theme?&amp;quot; This question puzzled me and I got confused, what to answer. So I want to ask the question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the main theme in Breaking Bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="19132" LastEditDate="2023-09-15T23:55:50.187" LastActivityDate="2023-09-15T23:55:50.187" Title="What is the main theme in Breaking Bad?" Tags="|analysis|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="23158" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-16T10:01:08.927" Score="2" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is some heavy spoiler content for anyone who hasn't seen at least the 1st series of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(UK_TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Utopia.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, towards the finale of season 1 we finally learn that the Russian Flu Vaccine is actually...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... a smokescreen as a way of deploying Janus, the population sterilizing drug that The Network hopes to use to bring about population control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we find out in the last episode, the key to the success of this operation lies within...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;.. Jessica Hyde's blood, as her father injected the only working Janus formula into her before she was rescued from the facility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was my understanding from both the events of Season 1 and the prologue to Season 2 that this is the reason she is being pursued by The Network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, long before she surfaces, the Network is deploying a very specific series of events in order to manipulate public interest in the vaccine, and to use the wave of public sentiment to have it rolled out globally within a short period of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What stimulated the Network to begin this strategy at &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; specific moment? When we consider that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; they had not yet captured Jessica Hyde, who was the key to the formula...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What possible motivation would they have for executing a plan of which they were, at the time of release, unable to complete? Was there a specific reason that made it pertinent for The Network to step up its game at that moment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T10:01:08.927" Title="What made it an opportune time to roll out the Russian Flu Vaccine?" Tags="|plot-explanation|utopia|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23155" CreationDate="2014-07-16T10:44:49.317" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember first, Zander went into the Service well before (months) before Carmen, Carl, and Rico joined up. During this time he has already gone through flight school and is established as a pilot on the ship. In order to attain this position (pilot), they need to be the best and the brightest ... extremely good with math and such. When Carmen arrives on the ship, she has just made it through flight school. At this point, Zander is not her instructor, but rather her &lt;em&gt;mentor&lt;/em&gt;. She is qualified to fly the ship as she has already passed through flight school. &lt;em&gt;BUT&lt;/em&gt;, there is practical learning which they did in school, and now a brand new pilot needs someone to show them the ropes in the real world. It isn't that Zander has risen so fast, it's that he's qualified to pilot the ship, so is qualified to mentor Carmen in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-07-16T12:00:33.543" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T12:00:33.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23157" CreationDate="2014-07-16T11:33:15.463" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are quite a few themes that run throughout the series, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sin&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the importance of family&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;power and its corrupting influence&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;envy and regret&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, you are asking a massive question, so I'll try and explain my interpretations of the themes one by one. Before I do, I'm assuming you've watched this whole show and thus this answer will be rife with &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;spoilers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, this will be rather long...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Importance of Family&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Skyler and the kids&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the obvious theme to start with as it is what starts Walt off on his entire adventure. Throughout the first series in particular, everything Walt does is aimed at providing for his family. He desperately wants to protect them and ensure that they have enough money after his death - he even goes as far as to calculate the exact amount he needs to earn, before he dies/retires from the business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the series goes on this theme retains its significance because Walt continually &lt;em&gt;forgets&lt;/em&gt; it, instead acting for his own selfish benefit, a fact he &lt;em&gt;finally&lt;/em&gt; admits in the final episode in the series, when he tells Skyler all his actions have been for himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The importance of family can &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; be seen in Walt's actions not just to provide for his family, but also to protect them. When he fears at different times that they are in danger, he immediately rushes to protect them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jessie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, Jessie is part of Walt's family too. During the series, Walt wants to keep him under control - but that doesn't mean he doesn't act to protect or provide for Jessie at times. He makes a point of giving him cash and looking after him following Hank's brutal beating of him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, their relationship is complicated and Walt frequently treats Jessie in a deplorable way. But, there are many times in the series when he could have cut Jessie out of the business, and doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to Walt's feelings for Jessie, we Jessie's feelings for Jane Margolis (his lover from Series 2) and the Cantillos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He falls in love with both of them and feels responsible for them. In Jane's case, he is careless and selfish, leading her away from the &quot;good&quot; path and down into drugs again. Following her death, life appears to lose meaning to him, as he feels so guilty. With the Cantillos, Jessie desperately tries to provide and help them, even going so far as to give them a huge amount of money. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Brock is poisoned, Jessie is outraged. When he discovers that Walt was behind it, he goes so far as to try and burn his house down, showing his overall family loyalty is stronger to the Cantillos than it is/was to Walt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hank and Marie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite being chased by Hank, Walt tries to protect him (at times). For example, in the Final Season, when Walt is at his worst and Hank is dying on the ground, Walt begs for him (unsuccessfully) to be kept alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hank and Marie both show their loyalty to the White family by trying to protect (and even kidnap) the kids in the Final Season, to get them away from Walt and Skyler's corrupting influences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Others&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other demonstrations of family importance in the series, such as the Twins coming to New Mexico following Tuco's death, or Hector Salamanca's loyalty to his family (leading to his death and murder of Gus).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sin&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some ways, sin in the series is brutally and explicitly discussed, whilst in others it is completely absent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the series, Walt commits the crime of cooking and distributing meth. However, we never see any sign whatsoever that he has considered the effects of selling meth has on people. He is more concerned with protecting his family, making money and providing high quality meth as it is the staple of Heisenberg. He never appears to question the damage such an addictive drug does to the hundreds and thousands of people that will take it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, other sins are extremely prevalent in the series. We see Jessie battle with it continually, as he realises his own actions have hurt so many others (leading him to throw all his money on to the street as he loses interest in protecting himself any more).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can also see varying levels of sin, depending on your definition of what sin is. We see Walt obviously selling meth and committing murders. Hank on the other hand works as a respected law enforcement agent, but is cruel and unforgiving to Marie during his rehabilitation. Skyler smokes, drinks and even threatens suicide whilst pregnant. Marie becomes a kleptomaniac, stealing from stores and eventually house viewings. Gus leads a criminal empire, dispersing his drugs across the South West of the country and murdering any who stand in his way (including the entire leadership of the cartel). Gale manufactures meth for Gus, which will lead to the addiction of hundreds and thousands of people - but has no interest in murder or hurting anyone directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, we can see that almost every major character has committed some sort of sin. However, each sin is of a different importance. Almost all the sins we see committed have a reason. For example, Mike commits all his actions to protect his grand-daughter. However, it is left to the viewer to decide whether the sins committed by characters, compared to their living circumstances, absolve them or free them from judgement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in the Final Season, many fans were obviously happy to see Jessie get out. But lets not forget, this was a man who directly led Jane Margolis down a path of death, who murdered Gale, who manipulated an entire rehab group by introducing meth into them. However, as his conditions throughout Season 5 were so brutal, it was hard not to &lt;em&gt;set aside&lt;/em&gt; those sins and allow him his redemption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, sin is around every corner in Breaking Bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Power and its corrupting influence&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned earlier, Walt only admits in the final episode that all his actions have been for his own benefit. However, its been obvious to the viewers for a long time. Whilst there is some evidence of his corrupting influence on other characters, by far and away it is Walt's journey that is of significance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As he grows his meth business, he becomes more irate at the idea of anyone having any control over it. He refers to it as his empire. When Hank states his belief that Gale was Heisenberg, Walt reacts with quiet fury, disgusted that someone else get credit for his brilliant work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The power he derives, not just from cooking, but from cooking so well, leads him to be arrogant. However, this arrogance is only fed by the fact every character he meets in the drug world goes along with it, as they realise &lt;em&gt;just how good he is&lt;/em&gt;. All of this contributes to his total corruption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Envy and regret&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are probably my favourite themes of the series, as they are introduced so early and are so relevant throughout. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the very first season, we see Gretchen Schwartz offer Walt money. He kindly refuses, but she discovers he has told his family she is providing the money. When she confronts him, we see the first taste of just how dark and twisted Walt is. He is bitterly furious about both Gretchen and Elliott and feels they have ruined his life by cheating him out of the company he helped found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We never really find out exactly &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; transpired between Walt and Gretchen, other than the fact he left her rather abruptly, which led to his leaving the company and her marrying Elliot. This regret (to leave the company) never leaves him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He reveals this to Jessie later in the Series, when he discusses how he was bought out for $5,000. Now the company is worth over $2 billion. He discusses how he checks the company's worth every single week. This self-inflicted torture sustains his envy and regret and makes him more twisted and bitter than ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst the meth business gives Walt an outlet for this anger, it has clearly been underneath the surface for a very large time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see this envy and regret one last time, in the final episode of the series. In a tragic scene, Walt shows up at the Schwartz' house and manipulates them into leaving all of his money to Walt Jr. when he is old enough. He leaves $9.72 million - a huge amount, yet so pitiful compared to what he could have had. Would that amount even cover the house he is standing in whilst making the deal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It clearly shows that whilst, as the old adage says, the drug business is easy money, it still is nowhere near the amount he &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; have had had he stayed with Grey Matter. Even at the end, his regret is still there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other Themes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are of course countless other themes in the series, but these are, in my opinion, the four most important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This truly is a colossal sized question, so I figured I had to stop here or write endlessly! Hopefully this will give some indication as to the major themes and any pesky friends with pesky questions in the future can be answered!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-07-17T08:07:57.283" LastActivityDate="2014-07-17T08:07:57.283" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14234" CreationDate="2014-07-16T12:47:33.547" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The base from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJGL1hdl8Cw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; Argentinian song.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12748" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-05-15T12:18:44.923" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T12:18:44.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23163" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23180" CreationDate="2014-07-16T15:33:27.520" Score="5" ViewCount="6792" Body="&lt;p&gt;As part of ITV (1-4) film sponsorship, 118-118 use various humorous shorts before and after advert breaks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of these has the 2 mustachioed regulars asking a third character (this third actors footage comes from another, unknown to me, programme) &quot;where did you get that shirt?&quot; - he answers, something like, Ziggys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure users in the UK will be very familiar with this advert/ident. If I was more computer literate I'd post a picture, but I'm not. If someone who knows how to (probably most of you) please post a picture to help answer this enquiry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, my question is 'Is the guy in the horrendous shirt Jonathan Frakes (of Star Trek TNG)?'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ad is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3IPRVJUBpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and here's his picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GYp53.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11438" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:49:58.877" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:49:58.877" Title="Actor appearing in ITV (Uk tv) 118-118 ident" Tags="|identify-this-actor|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:37:03.527" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23163" CreationDate="2014-07-16T17:48:34.537" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some reason the video is not playing (but I do see him in the still before you press the play button), so all I get is audio. The voice sounds a lot like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915618/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Patrick Wayne&lt;/a&gt; (John Wayne's son), but I don't ever remember him being on Star Trek, so there's that. The still even looks like him, of what I can see around the large &quot;&gt;&quot; YouTube play button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-07-16T17:48:34.537" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23166" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24319" CreationDate="2014-07-16T20:01:08.697" Score="9" ViewCount="613" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know when shooting on film, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_meter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;light meter&lt;/a&gt; is used to determine the amount of exposure time for the film to get the right colours. Wikipedia also mentions they're used to to determine the optimum light level for a scene, however I'm not quite clear on why this would be required on digital films, as there is no film being exposed and you'd assume they could judge how much light is needed without exactly measuring the amount of light on screen (by looking at the scene once lit or watching the camera's output monitor).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone explain what exactly light meters would be &lt;strong&gt;needed for&lt;/strong&gt; on a Movie or TV project not being shot on film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-01T11:32:10.930" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T11:42:45.733" Title="What are light meters needed for in digital movies?" Tags="|production|cinematography|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13502" CreationDate="2014-07-17T00:49:20.837" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Lovers symbolizes harmony between male-female, either in yourself or forming a partnership with someone. It is not necessarily sexual. It means being able to take different skills and work toward one goal; finding your co-conspirators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Hermit symbolizes the need to find your inner wisdom and gain insight. It's a sign to take a break and learn more about yourself, going deep inside meditation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The High Priestess is intuitive and in touch with the mystery of the world. It symbolizes your &quot;inner guide&quot; and the strengths inside of you. That gut instinct you have when you know what you have/can/want to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Death symbolizes transformation. It's a sign to eliminate things that just aren't working anymore. It's reassurance that you can break old habits and change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12755" LastActivityDate="2014-07-17T00:49:20.837" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9238" CreationDate="2014-07-17T02:15:29.303" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In fellowship of the ring they twice mention that orcs can't move in sunlight. &quot;Saruman is breeding an army in the caverns of isengaurd. An army that can move in sunlight&quot;.      &quot;By nightfall this hill will be swarming with orcs&quot; (after the exit the mountain of moria). The new hobbit films don't offer an explanation but most of the movie there appears to be much cloud cover. This could serve as an explanation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12759" LastActivityDate="2014-07-17T02:15:29.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14560" CreationDate="2014-07-17T02:35:04.807" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I'd say from reading those two things id say the teddy near represents Walt before he dips his toe in the business and afterwards is burnt in his pool and he holds onto the eye because he regrets the one decision that led to this accident which was originally supposed to symbolize the eye of god, watching him when he was making this decision, and he happened to be at the pool lighting matches and tossing them into his half empty half full pool while making this decision which is foretelling &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12760" LastActivityDate="2014-07-17T02:35:04.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16621" CreationDate="2014-07-17T18:25:50.943" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, Kristoff did not remember Anna but the trolls did. I don't think that when he was younger he was paying attention to who the girls were specifically. I think he was paying attention to the trolls. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12767" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2019-10-22T21:10:59.563" LastActivityDate="2019-10-22T21:10:59.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="23180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23163" CreationDate="2014-07-17T18:46:59.297" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/Crow_T_Lorebot/status/489450599109636096&quot;&gt;tweeted @118118&lt;/a&gt; and they were kind enough to answer for me! The actor is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848560/&quot;&gt;Russ Tamblyn&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125015/&quot;&gt;Black Heat (1976)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YPrRO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;From the horse&amp;#39;s mouth&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His character name is &lt;em&gt;Ziggy&lt;/em&gt; as he says in the clip, and searching for it on Google images provided plenty of other shots of him in the same awful shirt so I think that's the one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oToM4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Terrible shirt&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-07-17T18:46:59.297" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23184" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23195" CreationDate="2014-07-18T00:15:38.083" Score="21" ViewCount="4817" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching &lt;em&gt;Aliens&lt;/em&gt; and noticed that Jones the cat seemed to be genuinely unhappy and hissing during Ripley's dream sequence at Gateway Station.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lhKpH.png&quot; alt=&quot;Jonesy hissing&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do animal handlers get cats to hiss?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="843" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T19:58:20.080" Title="how do they make cats hiss?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23184" CreationDate="2014-07-18T00:43:10.477" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your question is primarily opinion based, it'll be hard to answer without using opinion. But I like it, so here's my .02.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything with a brain stem can be trained to perform any of their natural behaviors. I'm not sure there's one true answer to you question, because a variety of training methods exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clicker_training&quot;&gt;Clicker training&lt;/a&gt; works great, and fast! It's based on positive reinforcement, so animals dig the training sessions. Basically you wait for an animal to do the behavior you want them to do. When they do it, you click the clicker, and give them a treat. Pretty soon, they catch on and start engaging the behavior that earns them a treat. every time they do it, click - treat. Click - treat. You keep doing this until you know the animal is going to engage in the behavior, then you add in hand gestures. After that you stop using the clicker, and just use the hand signals. I can almost guarantee with 100% certainty that when you see an animal like Jonsey hissing, they're looking at their trainer just off camera, and the trainer is giving them a hand signal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We trained out dog to &quot;come&quot; in 20 minutes one afternoon using this method. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lPjV9ei2yA&quot;&gt;Here's a video interview&lt;/a&gt; of the guy that trained Mr. Poppers penguins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmindependent.org/blogs/find-answers-sarah-clifford-animal-trainer/#.U8ht1LGTGSo&quot;&gt;Here's an interview&lt;/a&gt; with a movie animal trainer...and a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmindependent.org/blogs/ask-a-pro-animal-trainer-sarah-clifford/#.U8huT7GTGSo&quot;&gt;different interview&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular trainer trains her animals for specific scenes, they extensively rehearse the shots before the actual filming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2014-07-18T01:07:01.317" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T01:07:01.317" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15434" CreationDate="2014-07-18T02:09:19.150" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.duneinfo.com/Content/files/dune_script_7th_draft.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;7th draft&lt;/a&gt;, scene 210, of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087182&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dune (1984)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.duneinfo.com/caladan/script-index&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;, penned by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000186/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;David Lynch&lt;/a&gt;, the word is &quot;Chuuk-sa&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T02:09:19.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23124" CreationDate="2014-07-18T12:03:47.217" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a native Turkish speaker, let me answer your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bartender says (in Turkish)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Sorun değil&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which means&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- No problem.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-07-18T12:08:21.713" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T12:08:21.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10753" CreationDate="2014-07-18T13:51:23.293" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lori had a few photos in 1 album, but a webisode showed the Grimes family belongings in storage. Around the 3.5 minute mark.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/videos/webisode-2-the-walking-dead-cold-storage-keys-to-the-kingdom&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/videos/webisode-2-the-walking-dead-cold-storage-keys-to-the-kingdom&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;If Carl knew this was there, then maybe he can remember and go back one day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10054" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T13:51:23.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23184" CreationDate="2014-07-18T19:58:20.080" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;In regards to the cat in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/&quot;&gt;Alien&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/32-things-we-learned-from-the-alien-commentary-jkirk.php&quot;&gt;32 Things We Learned From the ‘Alien’ Commentary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Director Ridley Scott got the hissing reaction from Jones the Cat by flashing a German Shepherd into the cat’s sight&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is also mentioned on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/trivia?item=tr0744562&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMDb&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To get Jones the cat to react fearfully to the descending Alien, &lt;strong&gt;a German Shepherd was placed in front of him with a screen between the two&lt;/strong&gt;, so the cat wouldn't see it at first, and came over. &lt;strong&gt;The screen was then suddenly removed to make Jones stop, and start hissing.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;and on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemacats.com/?m=201405&amp;amp;paged=5&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cinema Cats&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the DVD commentary, director &lt;strong&gt;Ridley Scott explained that he had a German Shepherd on the set (securely fastened with a leash, of course) behind a board which they lifted to get the reaction of Jones hissing.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2014-07-18T19:58:20.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23198" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-19T03:14:41.727" Score="8" ViewCount="596" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just recently learned the story of Glenn Cunningham from &lt;em&gt;Chicken Soup for the Soul&lt;/em&gt;, a book written by Mark Hansen and Jack Canfield. Cunningham's creative-will story moves me to tears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: Have there been any discussion on the correspondence between the story of Forrest Gump and the  true story of Glenn Cunningham? Where can I find the discussion in the literature or websites?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For people who are not familiar with Glenn Cunningham:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The little country schoolhouse was heated by an old-fashioned, pot-bellied coal stove. A little boy had the job of coming to school early each day to start the fire and warm the room before his teacher and his classmates arrived.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One morning they arrived to find the school house engulfed in flames. They dragged the unconscious little boy out of the flaming building more dead than alive. He had major burns over the lower half of his body and was taken to the nearby county hospital.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From his bed the dreadfully burned, semi-conscious little boy faintly heard the doctor talking to his mother. The doctor told his mother that her son would surely die - which was for the best, really - for the terrible fire had devastated the lower half of his body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the brave boy didn’t want to die. He made up his mind that he would survive. Somehow, to the amazement of the physician, he did survive. When the mortal danger was past, he again heard the doctor and his mother speaking quietly. The mother was told that since the fire had destroyed so much flesh in the lower part of his body, it would almost be better if he had died, since he was doomed to be a lifetime cripple with no use at all of his lower limbs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once more the brave boy made up his mind. He would not be a cripple. He would walk. But unfortunately from the waist down, he had no motor ability. His thin legs just dangled there, all but lifeless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately he was released from the hospital. Every day his mother would massage his little legs, but there was no feeling, no control, nothing. Yet his determination that he would walk was as strong as ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he wasn’t in bed, he was confined to a wheelchair. One sunny day his mother wheeled him out into the yard to get some fresh air. This day, instead of sitting there, he threw himself from the chair. He pulled himself across the grass, dragging his legs behind him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He worked his way to the white picket fence bordering their lot. With great effort, he raised himself up on the fence. Then, stake by stake, he began dragging himself along the fence, resolved that he would walk. He started to do this every day until he wore a smooth path all around the yard beside the fence. There was nothing he wanted more than to develop life in those legs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately through his daily massages, his iron persistence and his resolute determination, he did develop the ability to stand up, then to walk haltingly, then to walk by himself - and then - to run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He began to walk to school, then to run to school, to run for the sheer joy of running. Later in college he made the track team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still later in Madison Square Garden this young man who was not expected to survive, who would surely never walk, who could never hope to run - this determined young man, &lt;strong&gt;Dr. Glenn Cunningham&lt;/strong&gt;, ran the world’s fastest mile! On June 16, 1934, Glenn Cunningham ran the mile in 4:06.8 minutes, breaking the world’s record.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12791" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2020-05-28T20:30:30.417" Title="Forrest Gump v.s. Glenn Cunningham - any relation?" Tags="|adaptation|forrest-gump|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23199" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-07-19T04:40:11.427" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-07-19T04:40:11.427" LastActivityDate="2014-07-19T04:40:11.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23200" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-07-19T04:40:11.427" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-07-19T04:40:11.427" LastActivityDate="2014-07-19T04:40:11.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21683" CreationDate="2014-07-19T05:36:34.607" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found a bit of information about the Nielsen ratings for the show at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/midseason1979/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tvobscurities.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The pilot for Mrs. Columbo did well, ranking 18th &lt;em&gt;[most watched show of the week]&lt;/em&gt;, but when the series moved to its regular Thursday time slot it slipped to 45th&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The source for this is apparently &lt;em&gt;The TV Column&lt;/em&gt; by John Carmody in the 7th March 1979 issue of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Washington Post&lt;/a&gt;, though I can't find any archives of the paper to back this up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to changing timeslots, there were issues with the production, as documented on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.totallykate.com/articles/amerfilm.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kate Mulgrew&lt;/strong&gt;'s website&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The third episode was pulled and replaced with an old “Quincy” show when it was apparent that the show simply would not be finished. The cast and crew got a breather, but remained behind schedule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So already it sounds like the show was being set up to fail. This information is backed up at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.totallykate.com/mrscolum/mrscguid.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Episode Guide&lt;/a&gt; section of the website:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Monday February 26th, 1979: 2 Hour pilot &quot;&lt;em&gt;Word Games&lt;/em&gt;&quot; broadcast&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Thursday March 1st, 1979: &quot;&lt;em&gt;Murder Is A Parlor Game&lt;/em&gt;&quot; broadcast&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Thursday March 15th, 1979: &quot;&lt;em&gt;A Riddle For Puppets&lt;/em&gt;&quot; broadcast&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So instead of the episode on March 8th, they got an announcement from NBC:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On March 8, after “Mrs. Columbo” had been on the air for exactly one week, NBC announced in a carefully worded statement that the show was being “dropped” from the schedule. Dropped, not canceled. NBC promptly announced six new shows, also in “limited” runs—sort of replacements for the replacements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on in the tvobscurities article they mention fallouts between the producers of the original Columbo and Mrs. Columbo, so it sounds like they had completely different staff because of it, which couldn't have helped:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In early 1979, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Silverman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fred Silverman&lt;/a&gt; had the idea to feature “Lt. Columbo’s wife” (often talked about by Columbo, but never seen) in her own mystery series, but creator/producers &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levinson_%26_Link&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Richard Levinson and William Link&lt;/a&gt; wanted no part it, as they’d previously made a pact with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Falk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Peter Falk&lt;/a&gt; “never to show Mrs. Columbo”. Silverman bypassed them, and got another Universal producer, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0563854/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;James McAdams&lt;/a&gt;, then &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0506032/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;David Levinson&lt;/a&gt; to film the series. In an effort to draw more attention to Kate Mulgrew’s character, the series was quickly retitled &lt;em&gt;Kate Columbo&lt;/em&gt;. Yet the series continued to slip in the ratings. Silverman, however, renewed it for the fall, finally deciding to sever all ties to &lt;em&gt;Columbo&lt;/em&gt;, altering Kate’s last name to “Callahan”, and again retitling it &lt;em&gt;Kate Loves A Mystery&lt;/em&gt; It finally went off the air for good at the end of the year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As shows such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_%28TV_series%29#Broadcast_history&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Firefly&lt;/a&gt; have proven, even if a show is critically acclaimed, messing with the broadcast schedule can irreparably damage the show's potential, especially in 1979 when video recorders were rare and DVR was a dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-07-19T05:36:34.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23205" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-07-19T06:54:37.657" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Man in the Iron Mask&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1998 adventure film starring &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Leonardo DiCaprio&lt;/a&gt; as King Louis XIV of France and his twin brother, who has been kept imprisoned in an iron mask his whole life, and the Four Musketeers (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Irons&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeremy Irons&lt;/a&gt; as Aramis, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Malkovich&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John Malkovich&lt;/a&gt; as Athos, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Depardieu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gerard Depardieu&lt;/a&gt; as Porthos, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Byrne&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gabriel Byrne&lt;/a&gt; as D'Artagnan) who hatch a plan to switch them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_Iron_Mask_%281998_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Man in the Iron Mask on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120744/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Man in the Iron Mask on IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-19T11:44:22.260" LastActivityDate="2014-07-19T11:44:22.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23206" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-07-19T06:54:37.657" Score="0" Body="King Louis XIV of France has a twin brother who has been kept imprisoned in an iron mask his whole life, and the Four Musketeers hatch a plan to switch them." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-19T11:44:17.047" LastActivityDate="2014-07-19T11:44:17.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3334" CreationDate="2014-07-19T07:50:01.300" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's one main reason it could be a problem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Apostle is immortal&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;As we can tell from his entrance when he falls out of the sky onto a tarmac road uninjured (except for a migraine). Then the following exchange takes place which further proves it (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bethany&lt;/strong&gt;: You know, it's been a while since physics but I would think the impact with which you hit the asphalt would have liquified you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rufus&lt;/strong&gt;: Death is a worry of the living. &lt;strong&gt;The dead, like myself, only worry about decay and necrophiliacs&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jay&lt;/strong&gt;: Told you he was the undead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rufus&lt;/strong&gt;: Not the undead. The dead. I died. Christ told me the secret to resurrection once. We were at this wedding in Canaan. And I got drunk and forgot it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, at the end of the film he didn't have to shield his ears from the voice of God when she killed Bartleby (instead he helped Serendipity to cover Jay's ears). This means there's nothing they could do to him except restrain him (assuming he has no ability to return to heaven, which he may well).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bartleby and Loki are not immortal&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Their returning to heaven requires them to cut off their wings which makes them mortal, as Bartleby says near the start of the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If we cut off our wings and transubstantiate to complete human form, we become mortal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So all it would take is a sword to kill them both (Or an Uzi, like Jay uses later).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-07-19T07:50:01.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23209" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23222" CreationDate="2014-07-19T13:41:32.533" Score="4" ViewCount="2053" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering this movie was largely in America, why was the post jail seminar scene shown in an event from Auckland, New Zealand? Was this a homage to kiwis or to show how far Jordan Belfort has come, by showing he does seminars in little New Zealand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastActivityDate="2014-07-20T15:59:40.240" Title="Why was the post jail seminar scene with Jordan shown from the event in Auckland, New Zealand?" Tags="|the-wolf-of-wall-street|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18188" CreationDate="2014-07-19T18:45:43.807" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, Im pretty sure there were a total of six cars in that race!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing he got time served for being wrongfully sentenced before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12800" LastActivityDate="2014-07-19T18:45:43.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14524" CreationDate="2014-07-20T03:11:32.693" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is much more complex.  There are two fully developed storylines throughout the whole film.  In one storyline, Catherine is the killer. In the second storyline, Beth is the killer.  If you look back at the story very carefully both in the movie and the screenplay each is presented.  The ending concludes both storylines.  The &lt;strong&gt;Beth as killer&lt;/strong&gt; concludes with the first fadeout.  The second fadeout is actually an alternate ending.  The ending in which &lt;strong&gt;Catherine is the killer&lt;/strong&gt;.  It's kind of a choose your own adventure.  That's why you find almost as many people viewing Catherine as innocent, (maybe that could hardly be the word) but at least not the killer, as those who believe her to be the killer.  Each viewer has made this decision as to which storyline to go with, to believe, based on their own personal predilections.  Look at it again.  All the clues are there for &lt;strong&gt;BOTH&lt;/strong&gt; story lines.  Can you see them?  Or do your personal prejudices get in the way? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12802" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-07-20T07:08:41.023" LastActivityDate="2014-07-20T07:08:41.023" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23209" CreationDate="2014-07-20T15:59:40.240" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nbr.co.nz/opinion/five-questions-wolf-wall-street-ck&quot;&gt;interview i&lt;/a&gt;n the &lt;em&gt;National Business Review&lt;/em&gt;, the original script called for the scene to be shot in Kuala Lumpur. Scorcese changed it, and Belfort contends it was a random choice. Belfort has a cameo role in the shot as the MC.  New Zealand &lt;strong&gt;was&lt;/strong&gt; his first speaking gig after he got out of prison, making it an appropriate choice. The interviewer from NBR intimates that NZ was &quot;being used as a dupe country. . It was a bit like 'How low has this guy fallen? He’s talking this dreary room of people in New Zealand?'&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, NZ is also the place Kim Dotcom chose for starting over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2014-07-20T15:59:40.240" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2139" CreationDate="2014-07-20T20:58:35.307" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, Choti Bahu was killed by the henchmen of Majhle Babu because he suspected that Choti Bahu was having affair with Bhootnath (though really it was not). There are some scenes in the movie where Chote Babu sees Bhoothnath coming to the 'haveli' and talking to Choti Bahu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12810" LastActivityDate="2014-07-20T20:58:35.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23226" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23259" CreationDate="2014-07-20T21:18:25.323" Score="9" ViewCount="39957" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of Snowpiercer, when Nam and Curtis are sitting outside Wilford's gate and Curtis is describing to Nam what went on in the tail section during the early days of the train, Nam replies by explaining that he believes the snow is melting and that life outside the train is possible. There is a moment there when Nam flashes back to the greenhouse, about to tell Curtis what he saw outside, but then says &quot;no need to tell you that&quot; (or something along these lines). Do we know what Nam saw in the greenhouse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3508" LastActivityDate="2020-05-16T17:47:31.523" Title="What did Nam see in the greenhouse?" Tags="|plot-explanation|snowpiercer|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23227" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23228" CreationDate="2014-07-20T22:06:31.613" Score="12" ViewCount="28062" Body="&lt;p&gt;In DuckTales, Huey, Dewey, and Louie were the nephews of Uncle Scrooge.  What happened to their parents?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4746" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-20T22:13:05.517" LastActivityDate="2018-08-30T12:44:13.977" Title="What happened to the parents of Huey, Dewey, and Louie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|ducktales|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23227" CreationDate="2014-07-20T22:09:58.707" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Donald%27s_Nephews&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Disney Wiki&lt;/a&gt;, there's no information about what happened to them other than their father was in hospital once, and the information that does exist is contradictory (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Huey, Dewey and Louie are the sons of Donald's sister &lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Della_Duck&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Della Duck&lt;/a&gt;; in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Donald%27s_Nephews&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Donald's Nephews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, their mother is instead named Dumbella. In the original theatrical shorts, they were originally sent to visit Donald for only one day; in the comics, the three were sent to stay with Donald on a temporary basis until their father came back from the hospital (the boys ended up sending him there after a practical joke of putting firecrackers under his chair). &lt;strong&gt;In both the comics and animated shorts, the boys' parents were never heard from or referred to again&lt;/strong&gt; after these instances, resulting in the boys ending up permanently living with Donald, in keeping with Disney's usual elimination of characters' parents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though there is a mention in a Dutch comic (it's unclear if it's canon) called &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kkuPq.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;80 is prachtig&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; in which their mother becomes an astronaut and leaves them with Donald while she goes on holiday in space. With my translate-fu, the comic is something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Donald&lt;/strong&gt;: I did not know you had kids! Do you mean my NEPHEWS?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Della&lt;/strong&gt;: We'll talk some other time, Donald, when I come back from my spaceflight!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Donald&lt;/strong&gt;: What are you saying? Are you going to SPACE?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Della&lt;/strong&gt;: I miss my cuties already!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Della&lt;/strong&gt;: So far all good! I'm on holiday until the tank is half empty! Then I'll return to Earth!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;If there's a Dutch speaker out there who can help me get it closer I'd appreciate it&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pilot of DuckTales, &lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/The_Treasure_of_the_Golden_Suns&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Treasure of the Golden Suns&lt;/a&gt;, has Donald joining the Navy and the boys going to stay with Scrooge while he's away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T17:44:30.493" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23229" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-20T23:13:09.280" Score="6" ViewCount="329" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Dr. No when James Bond escapes his cell (through the electric fence) he is in a tunnel, climbing down, when suddenly there's what sounds like a laser (it sounded like a Sonar signal)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He looks up, but there's nothing there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the noise exactly, and what caused it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7772" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T13:16:41.037" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T00:28:19.770" Title="What is the laser sound in the tunnel?" Tags="|james-bond|sound-effects|dr-no|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23226" CreationDate="2014-07-20T23:24:12.717" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe, and I could be wrong, that he recognized the type of flake that came through the window.  He mentioned something about knowing it was getting warmer because of the crystal structure of the flakes.  That's what he saw in the greenhouse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-07-20T23:24:12.717" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23232" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23233" CreationDate="2014-07-21T06:47:19.417" Score="9" ViewCount="85954" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently started watching White Collar and think it's brilliant, but I noticed for the first half of season 2 that El doesn't seem to be there. All of her interaction with Peter is either in front of a green screen in which it seems that they aren't together and has been filmed separately, or it's a phone conversation as they put her in California and she is clearly green screened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain this? Was she working on another project or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11589" LastEditorUserId="42568" LastEditDate="2022-10-24T19:57:08.273" LastActivityDate="2022-10-24T19:57:08.273" Title="What happened to El in season 2 of White Collar?" Tags="|white-collar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="23233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23232" CreationDate="2014-07-21T06:53:32.757" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems it was because the actress had a baby. From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starpulse.com/news/Matthew_Newlin/2010/07/26/tiffani_thiessen_balances_white_collar&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Season 2 of the popular USA series “White Collar” gets under way, star Tiffani Thiessen is eager to get back to work after being ostensibly absent from the first few episodes of the new season. Thiessen recently had a baby with husband Brady Smith and was unable to make regular appearances in the first half of the season. “A lot of those [scenes] in the first six episodes I shot here in Los Angeles on a studio with a green screen behind me,” says the actress. “I haven’t seen the rest of the cast and I actually leave next week to go back to New York and finish off the season with them, so I’m excited.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T06:53:32.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23235" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23236" CreationDate="2014-07-21T10:52:13.463" Score="25" ViewCount="14084" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Duck Tales, Huey, Dewey, and Louie call Scrooge McDuck, &quot;Uncle Scrooge&quot;.&#xA;They call Donald &quot;Uncle Donald&quot; and Donald calls Scrooge, &quot;Uncle Scrooge&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are they actually related to one another?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2014-07-21T11:23:23.487" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T13:57:09.060" Title="How are Huey, Dewey, and Louie related to Scrooge?" Tags="|ducktales|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23235" CreationDate="2014-07-21T11:06:02.777" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Donald%27s_Nephews&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Disney Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Huey, Dewey and Louie are the sons of Donald's sister &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KiBNE.gif&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Della Duck&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which means they really are Donald's nephews, and as mentioned on the sidebar on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Donald_Duck&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Donald Duck article&lt;/a&gt;, Scrooge McDuck is Donald's uncle, though really he's his &lt;strong&gt;uncle-in-law&lt;/strong&gt; as this relationship is through his wife's mother, &lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Hortense_McDuck&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hortense McDuck&lt;/a&gt;, who is the sister to Scrooge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means Huey, Dewey and Louie are Scrooge McDuck's &lt;strong&gt;grand-nephews&lt;/strong&gt; (his sister's grandchildren) and he is their &lt;strong&gt;great-uncle&lt;/strong&gt; (grandmother's brother), as you can see from the infographic below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's likely they just went with &quot;Uncle&quot; for convenience, as most people aren't familiar with the term great-uncle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KiBNE.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Relations&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-21T14:14:55.270" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T14:14:55.270" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19576" CreationDate="2014-07-21T11:43:49.687" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally the Icarus II was kept completely centered in the shadow of the shield. Enroute, Icarus II picks up the distress beacon from Icarus I. The crew decide to investigate, ostensibly because two bombs are better than one, since the whole bomb is theoretical until used (such as the first atomic bomb was theoretical until first exploded).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Trey performs a course correction in order to bring Icarus I to Icarus II, he forgets to properly realign the ship, which causes damage to the shield. Kaneda and Capa had to spacewalk out to fix the shield. The damage was near the edge, so they instructed Icarus I's computer to swing the ship as far away from the damaged section as possible so as to provide protection to the two walkers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the work, IIRC, the ship's aft section sustains damage from a solar flare and the gardens are destroyed, which causes a loss of oxygen and food.  In order to save the Icarus II from total destruction, the computer realigns the ship to be properly centered, which is going to put Kaneda and Capa into the sunshine itself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is still one bit of damage to repair and they need to close the shield cover, so Kaneda (the Captain) orders Capa back to the Icarus and finishes the repair and closes the shield.  As the ship finished realignment, Kaneda witnesses God, in the shape of the fiery furnace of the Sunshine and is instantly vaporized. (Or as instantly as possible, allowing for the drama of &quot;Kaneda, what do you seeeeee?.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole preceding bit was the Navigator's (Trey) fault, because it was he who failed to align the ship properly in the first place, damaging the shield.  He ends up committing suicide over the guilt of the loss of the Captain, the oxygen, the gardens and potentially, the mission, which would mean the end of civilization.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty big load of guilt there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T11:43:49.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23240" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-07-21T18:47:11.153" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hannibal&lt;/strong&gt; is a 2013 horror/thriller TV series based on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Lecter_%28franchise%29#Novels&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hannibal Lecter novel series&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harris&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thomas Harris&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series so far follows the renowned psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mads_Mikkelsen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mads Mikkelsen&lt;/a&gt;) and his patient, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Graham&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Will Graham&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Dancy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hugh Dancy&lt;/a&gt;) a young FBI criminal profiler, who is haunted by his ability to empathize with serial killers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Hannibal on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2243973/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/silence-of-the-lambs&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;silence-of-the-lambs&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;silence-of-the-lambs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/hannibal&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;hannibal&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hannibal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-21T19:33:52.377" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T19:33:52.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23241" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-07-21T18:47:11.153" Score="0" Body="A 2013 horror/thriller TV series based on the Hannibal Lecter novel series by Thomas Harris. The series follows Dr. Hannibal Lecter, his patients, the FBI agents he assists and the serial killers they're tracking." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-21T19:33:49.433" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T19:33:49.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23243" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-07-21T18:58:16.290" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;musical&lt;/strong&gt; is a film or television show which features the characters singing as a means of conveying the story, their emotions or as comedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Musical film on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-21T19:33:42.873" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T19:33:42.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23244" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-07-21T18:58:16.290" Score="0" Body="A film or television show which features the characters singing as a means of conveying the story, their emotions or as comedy." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-21T19:33:54.947" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T19:33:54.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23245" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-07-21T19:04:17.210" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;short film&lt;/strong&gt; is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film for individual release at cinemas or on television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Film Institute, and British Film Institute, a feature film runs for 40 minutes or longer, while the Screen Actors Guild states that it is 80 minutes or longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Short film&lt;/a&gt; on Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-21T19:33:40.140" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T19:33:40.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23246" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-07-21T19:04:17.210" Score="0" Body="Any film not long enough to be considered a feature film for individual release at cinemas or on television." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-21T19:33:34.370" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T19:33:34.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23248" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-07-21T19:12:01.927" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Separate releases of the same film or television show which feature different content, such as adding, removing or reordering scenes. The most common example is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director%27s_cut&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Director's cut&lt;/a&gt; which is a version edited by the director.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-21T19:33:30.410" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T19:33:30.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23249" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-07-21T19:12:01.927" Score="0" Body="Separate releases of the same film or television show which feature different content, such as adding, removing or reordering scenes." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-21T19:33:45.770" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T19:33:45.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23250" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-07-21T19:20:16.647" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zombie invasion&lt;/strong&gt; is a genre of film and television in which the dead (less commonly people who are infected or possessed) are brought back to life and attempt to kill the survivors, usually feeding on their flesh during or afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_%28fictional%29#Zombie_apocalypse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Zombie Apocalypse on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-21T19:33:27.703" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T19:33:27.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23251" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-07-21T19:20:16.647" Score="0" Body="A genre of film and television in which the dead (less commonly people who are infected or possessed) are brought back to life and attempt to kill the survivors, usually feeding on their flesh during or afterwards." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-21T19:33:37.417" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T19:33:37.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17412" CreationDate="2014-07-21T19:30:19.577" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;according to the wiki-yes, chuck is God, the creators finally confirmed it a while back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12826" LastActivityDate="2014-07-21T19:30:19.577" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23253" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24113" CreationDate="2014-07-21T20:08:40.417" Score="7" ViewCount="709" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Mr. Nobody, In Anna's version of the story, it shows a woman beggar twice. Once when Nemo gives him money and second when she dies. I never understood these scenes' importance much. First I thought she was one of his other love but her face and hair doesn't match with Elise or Jeanne. So who was she and what's her importance in the story. Is there some deleted scene for her story or am I over-thinking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-09-04T06:44:31.810" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T06:44:31.810" Title="What was with the beggar in Mr Nobody?" Tags="|character|mr-nobody|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14524" CreationDate="2014-07-22T00:02:37.127" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Catherine killed every one and drove the dr crazy and got him hospitalized so she could add another chapter to her book. He was her muse, that's why she paid him respect and brought him a copy of her book. Whatever he was, he was in the psych ward because he was the main character... That's why he smiled in the end ...of joy. But the real pain he's in there for killing the officer which is the only one who knew the real truth. HE WAS INNOCENT AND CATHERINE WAS THE THRILLER KILLER.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12830" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-05-25T11:01:59.630" LastActivityDate="2015-05-25T11:01:59.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23226" CreationDate="2014-07-22T06:13:32.613" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The polar bear (or some other form of ice and snow dwelling animal). The reason he withheld the fact that he saw the polar bear was because the idea that the snow could ever be melting was already such an impossible notion to the dwellers of the train who had spent years in the complete belief that the climate change was permanent, &lt;em&gt;gasp&lt;/em&gt; that telling Curtis he saw a polar bear (or any sign of life outside the train) would be meaningless. Besides that, he's completely aware that Curtis sees him as an addict that's too hopped up on drugs to know up from down, so his findings would essentially be falling on def ears. It wouldn't have benefitted anyone under these circumstances. Besides, it made for a strong ending :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12835" LastEditorUserId="12835" LastEditDate="2014-07-22T06:25:05.717" LastActivityDate="2014-07-22T06:25:05.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19817" CreationDate="2014-07-22T08:11:54.117" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only explanation besides it being a hole in the movie, is that the poison darts have a very long delay time (20-25 minutes). This opens a large gap of time where the ex soldier could have used the toilet before the old lady, and shot the pilot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie doesn't show who uses the toilet before the old lady, just after to make Jen a suspect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12836" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T20:15:39.293" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T20:15:39.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23266" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-22T09:58:58.030" Score="2" ViewCount="2447" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Pitch Perfect, Jesse says to Beca:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RY05E.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't get where he's making this generalisation from. Yeah, she was a prat to Jesse himself, but I can't think of how else she pushes people away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12797" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-07-22T10:28:21.747" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T07:26:10.557" Title="Why does Jesse suggest that Beca pushes everyone else away?" Tags="|character|pitch-perfect|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3574" CreationDate="2014-07-22T10:49:33.020" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, if you commit some crime and are found mentally ill, you do not go to jail. Instead you go to a mental hospital, where you are treated until you are fine. Then you are free. Hence the whole &quot;pleading insanity&quot; option in various movies/tv shows. It would not make sense to stay 3 years in a hospital and then also get the full sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This being said, lucidity would not also bring his arrest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as to the whole problem, to my mind he is cured at the end, but keeps pretending in order to be lobotomized. He realizes that he cannot live knowing the truth, preferring this solution instead. The doctor's nod means(to my mind) that he gives the permission for lobotomy. It is a sad look, so it cannot mean that he tells them that it worked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/3575/what-is-the-meaning-of-teddys-last-dialogue-in-shutter-island&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a similar question and the accepted answer provides more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There still remains an unanswered question(nobody has asked it, but I believe that there is also no proper answer to it): Does the doctor understand what Teddy means? More precise, is aware that Teddy is cured and approves the lobotomy as a favor for him(the gift of mercy) or is he simply fooled by Teddy's acting and does not understand the meaning of the last sentence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="418" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2014-07-22T10:49:33.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23266" CreationDate="2014-07-22T11:01:50.757" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, Beca wanted to go to Los Angeles and become a music producer but her father refuses it and forces her to become a student at Barden University in Georgia. If you've observed Beca's character keenly, in the beginning she's a recluse and doesn't want to make any friends. On the other hand, Jesse likes Beca and wants to make her a socially acceptable person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember, in one scene, due to some misunderstanding, Beca is taken to the local police department, at which point Jesse and Beca's father bail her out. Angry at Jesse for calling her father, she tells him to &quot;back off,&quot; since &quot;you're not my boyfriend.&quot; Jesse is visibly hurt by her words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Jesse cares for her but Beca keeps disliking him. When Jesse said &quot;You push away anyone who could possibly care about you, Why is that?&quot;, I think Jesse is referring himself while saying that line because he's hurt by her even though he's trying to be nice with her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2014-07-23T09:13:53.020" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T09:13:53.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23275" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-07-22T23:45:17.560" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The West Wing&lt;/strong&gt; is an American political drama TV series created by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Sorkin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Aaron Sorkin&lt;/a&gt; which ran from 1999 to 2006. The series is set in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Wing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;executive (west) wing&lt;/a&gt; of the White House and follows the lives and work of the newly elected Josiah Bartlet (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sheen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Martin Sheen&lt;/a&gt;) and his administrative staff; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Chief_of_Staff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chief of Staff&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_McGarry&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Leo McGarry&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Spencer_%28actor%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John Spencer&lt;/a&gt;), his &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Deputy_Chief_of_Staff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;deputy&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Lyman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Josh Lyman&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Whitford&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bradley Whitford&lt;/a&gt;) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Press_Secretary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Press Secretary&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._J._Cregg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;C.J. Cregg&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Janney&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Allison Janney&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200276/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The West Wing on IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West_Wing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The West Wing on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-22T23:50:18.860" LastActivityDate="2014-07-22T23:50:18.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23276" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-07-22T23:45:17.560" Score="0" Body="An American political drama TV series created by Aaron Sorkin and set in the executive (west) wing of the White House following the lives and work of the fictional Bartlet administration staff." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-22T23:50:16.303" LastActivityDate="2014-07-22T23:50:16.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19186" CreationDate="2014-07-23T07:27:42.067" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only one I can back up with a link and image is the 5th unicorn, who looks a lot like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallagher_%28comedian%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gallagher&lt;/a&gt; and is also mentioned on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://regularshow.wikia.com/wiki/Unicorns#Appearance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Regular Show wiki for The Unicorns&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DvW0r.jpg&quot; width=&quot;350&quot; height=&quot;469&quot; alt=&quot;Gallagher and 5th Unicorn&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same article also mentions that the 2nd unicorn is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1737539/fullcredits&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;credited as Billy&lt;/a&gt; and his blonde spiked hair is exaggerated but he does basically resemble &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Idol&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Billy Idol&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qdhrc.jpg&quot; width=&quot;350&quot; height=&quot;304&quot; alt=&quot;Billy Idol and 2nd Unicorn&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other one that stood out to me is the 1st unicorn's shirt and hair resemble &lt;a href=&quot;http://pixar.wikia.com/Sid_Phillips&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sid from Toy Story&lt;/a&gt;, though I'm not sure about it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d8ELe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sid &amp;amp; 1st Unicorn&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm inclined to think the rest are probably just generic &quot;punk&quot; looks (except maybe the one in underwear, though I can't think of any young characters that do that), unless it's a portmanteau of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T07:27:42.067" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23292" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23298" CreationDate="2014-07-23T10:55:07.063" Score="15" ViewCount="3164" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently read this &lt;a href=&quot;http://thedissolve.com/features/movie-of-the-week/670-terminator-2-and-the-worlds-biggest-spoiler/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; which points out the build-up James Cameron did intentionally to mislead who the assassin robot was in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Terminator 2: Judgement Day&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and how the marketing campaign immediately killed any suspense. It's a really good break down of the scenes. I remember originally watching the movie that I kept expecting the T-800 to become the bad guy for some reason but have never really thought about why. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowadays the word &lt;em&gt;spoiler&lt;/em&gt; is used to describe a pre-explaining of plot details in a story that are meant to be a surprise. So revealing the T-800 as the good guy this time definitely could be considered a spoiler but it also can be described as the basic &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_line&quot;&gt;logline&lt;/a&gt; of the movie. &lt;em&gt;The Terminator comes back in time again this time to save John Connor from another Terminator.&lt;/em&gt; With that taken into consideration, did the marketing for T2 actually spoil the movie? Even the article pointed out that it &quot;got butts in seats&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now without getting into a too opinionated discussion if the movie would have been better with or without the surprise, I'd be interested if there was anything ever said by James Cameron as to whether marketing ruined the suspense he was trying to build? Was this marketing strategy and this &quot;spoiling&quot; of the surprise always intended as part of the movie's overall impression or did it simply slip from the filmmakers' hands?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-06T15:10:32.813" LastActivityDate="2024-01-22T07:23:39.427" Title="Did the marketing of Terminator 2 actually spoil the movie?" Tags="|terminator-series|reception|marketing|terminator-2-judgment-day|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="16" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23294" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23295" CreationDate="2014-07-23T12:52:05.260" Score="12" ViewCount="6859" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently started watching Sherlock (TV series)&#xA;and one thing intrigued me. In the TV show, as evident from the actors playing the roles, Sherlock Holmes appears younger than Dr. Watson. &#xA;(Benedict Cumberbatch is 5 years younger than Martin Freeman)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the Guy Ritchie movie Sherlock is portrayed as the elder character.&#xA;(Robert Downey Jr. playing Shelock is 7 years elder to Jude law).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am mentioning the actual age of actors because I think the creators were clear enough at the time of casting that they wanted one character to look elder than the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is which character is actually the elder one in the original books?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="9877" LastEditDate="2014-07-24T06:32:14.797" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T06:32:14.797" Title="Who is actually elder between Sherlock and Watson?" Tags="|sherlock|sherlock-holmes-2009|sherlock-holmes-a-game-of-shadows|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23294" CreationDate="2014-07-23T13:12:01.540" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Watson is.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movies and tv series, there is no clear answer. It's never really be an issue and so actors appropriate for the roles have always been hired, regardless of age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems logical, considering the stories took place over a long period (over 20 years). Considering a show like Sherlock jumps from story to story, his age becomes a little meaningless as if they were aiming for realism in this regard, he would have aged (and de-aged!) several times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books, if you're interested, their dates of birth have been speculated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes#Early_life&quot;&gt;For Sherlock:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An estimate of Holmes's age in the story &quot;His Last Bow&quot; places his&#xA;  birth in 1854; the story is set in August 1914 and he is described as&#xA;  being 60 years of age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bakerstreet.wikia.com/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes&quot;&gt;Alternatively for Sherlock:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the very first story, A Study in Scarlet, something of Holmes'&#xA;  background is given. He was born in England either in the year 1854 or&#xA;  the year 1861...&#xA;  His older brother Mycroft, born either 1847 or 1854, whom the younger&#xA;  Holmes considered to be more intellectually gifted than himself, would&#xA;  spend much of his life on Her Majesty's Secret Service. The confusion&#xA;  in birth dates stems from the fact that, in &quot;The Adventure of the&#xA;  Greek Interpreter&quot;, Sherlock refers to Mycroft as being &quot;[s]even years&#xA;  [his] senior&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Watson#Fictional_character_biography&quot;&gt;For Watson:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In A Study in Scarlet, Watson, as the narrator, establishes having&#xA;  received his medical degree from Barts and The London School of&#xA;  Medicine and Dentistry, the University of London in 1878, and&#xA;  subsequently being trained at Netley as a surgeon in the British Army.&#xA;  If one assumes that Watson entered the University of London around the&#xA;  age of twenty-five, he was born around 1853.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bakerstreet.wikia.com/wiki/John_Watson&quot;&gt;Alternatively for Watson:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Various (extra-canonical) sources give Watson's birth date as 7&#xA;  August, 1852 and his full name as Dr John Hamish Watson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These dates would place Watson as being between one and eight years or so older.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-07-23T13:17:29.267" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T13:17:29.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3758" CreationDate="2014-07-23T13:26:27.087" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Take it for what it is; some &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.animationnation.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=1;t=009428&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;random dude on teh Intarwebz&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I had the opportunity in the early 80s to work with Warner Leighton&#xA;  who created many of the effects in the HB sound effects library. The&#xA;  methods he used to create the effects were both inventive and&#xA;  hilarious. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Jetsons' car flyby effect was created by putting the muzzle of a&#xA;  pop gun into a cider jug and pulling the trigger. Then he did it again&#xA;  and again, with the muzzle pulled a little further out each time to&#xA;  vary the pitch of each pop. He then isolated the &quot;pops&quot; on the 35mm&#xA;  mag stock and spliced them together at even intervals to create the&#xA;  doppler effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T13:26:27.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23292" CreationDate="2014-07-23T16:56:37.087" Score="4" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Terminator 2&lt;/em&gt; grossed $204,843,345 in its domestic market and $315,000,000 in foreign markets. (source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=terminator2.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BoxOfficeMojo&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Terminator 2&lt;/em&gt; is widely regarded as one of the best sci-fi films of all time (source: my knowledge of sci-fi films and fans).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With these two facts in mind, I think it's safe to conclude that &lt;strong&gt;nothing spoiled the movie&lt;/strong&gt;. To the contrary, the movie was a massive success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if you had seen a preview that revealed Arnold's character to be a good guy, you would not be surprised by that revelation while you are watching the movie. And I would tend to agree that the movie would have been even cooler if that surprise had not been revealed in a preview. But then I wonder if reviews and other word-of-mouth would have ruined the surprise for most people anyway -- in other words, maybe the marketing strategy recognized that the twist was too big to stay a surprise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2014-07-23T17:02:57.913" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T17:02:57.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23292" CreationDate="2014-07-23T17:07:32.200" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jamescamerononline.com/T2Complexity.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;jamescamerononline.com&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;quot;We've got a story worked out but it hasn't gone beyond the talk stage&amp;quot; - James Cameron on Terminator 2 in English Magazine 1985&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;William Wisher (The Making of T2, 1991):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jim pulled out this old yellow sheet of paper from a notebook and handed it to me without saying anything. there was one sentence scribbled on the dog eared page. It read: Young John Connor and the terminator that comes back to befriend him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This shows that Cameron's original logline spoils the movie right there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the article that OP (that's me) linked doesn't pull this &amp;quot;the marketing spoiled the idea of who's the bad terminator&amp;quot; out of nowhere. It directly states on jamescamerononline.com that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is designed in such way that the audience doesn't know which of the time travelers is the good guy. The way the movie is shot and the story and angles constructed is to make them think that T-800 is the antagonist and T-1000 a human character. T-1000 is never shown to kill the cop or copy his clothes and seems very genuine when talking to John Connor's foster parents, while the T-800 is shown to go through the bar like a tank, crushing hands, breaking arms and seriously injuring people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So did James Cameron spoil his own script that he wrote? He had complete control of the movie in almost all aspects. It seems strange that marketing got away from him. I haven't found a direct quote referencing this, but there is this quote from the same website:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James Cameron (Globalnet): On T2, I wondered if I could get the audience to an emotional place where they would cry for the Terminator. That was my goal: Could I take world's coldest motherfucker and turn you around in a two-hour time period to where you actually felt sorry for him? Forget about all the hoo-ha with the liquid metal guy: that was fun, but getting the audience to cry for the Terminator was the big cinematic challenge. That's the reason I made the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there was an intentional story development of suspense as to who the evil terminator was supposed to be. Marketing definitely blew a hole in this by stating point blank who was good and who was bad. However, it did not spoil anything. The suspense is meant for the story itself, and even knowing what the marketing of the movie was before watching, there are two things that would keep the suspense going despite knowing who is good and who is bad. One, marketing is wrong a lot and sometimes misleading on purpose. Two, the T-800 is so ruthless, it seems like it is still the bad one even after the reveal. It's not until it saves Sarah Connor that safety is guaranteed with this machine. Plus, one more thing from the characters perspective of John and Sarah Connor: the T-800 is the bad guy. That is from whose perspective we watch the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, it wasn't spoiled, and yes, most likely Cameron was onboard for this marketing as it didn't change the storyline. His real intention and the payoff for him were to make the audience care about the T-800 as it sacrificed itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="645" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2024-01-22T07:23:39.427" LastActivityDate="2024-01-22T07:23:39.427" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="23299" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23300" CreationDate="2014-07-23T17:51:34.387" Score="15" ViewCount="87675" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the original &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_%281978_film%29&quot;&gt;Halloween (1976)&lt;/a&gt;, Nick Castle as Michael (in the mask) is credited as &lt;em&gt;The Shape&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VgbPc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Halloween (1976) credits&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other credits; &lt;em&gt;Michael age 6&lt;/em&gt; is the shot at the start of the movie when his parents take off his clown mask. &lt;em&gt;Michael age 23&lt;/em&gt; is for the brief shot in which Laurie pulls off his mask to reveal he's a normal looking human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_II_%281981_film%29&quot;&gt;Halloween II (1981)&lt;/a&gt;, Michael is again credited as &lt;em&gt;The Shape&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KhHE6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Halloween II (1981) credits&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And again there is a credit for Tony Moran as &lt;em&gt;Michael age 23&lt;/em&gt;, as they show the scene in which the mask is pulled off again at the start of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my question is why they went with &lt;strong&gt;The Shape&lt;/strong&gt; specifically, rather than any of the names he was given in the movies, like Michael Myers, or The Boogeyman?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-10-29T19:59:07.840" LastActivityDate="2019-09-04T07:38:37.793" Title="Why was Michael Myers credited as &quot;The Shape&quot; in the first 2 Halloween films?" Tags="|character|analysis|credits|halloween|halloween-2|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23299" CreationDate="2014-07-23T18:16:28.020" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;My best answer comes from an answer that was given to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ohmb.net/showthread.php?8892-Why-do-they-call-Michael-Myers-the-shape&quot;&gt;same question&lt;/a&gt; in 2006:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Adult Myers is introduced in the screenplay as a shape jumping on the&#xA;  back of Marion's car. Therefore, for script consistency, the term was&#xA;  used for the rest of the draft and eventually the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Also, there is further explanation and links to the script &lt;a href=&quot;https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110515124906AAJk5dt&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Shape is what John Carpenter referred to Michael Myers as in the&#xA;  script. Throughout the movie you only see the outline of Michael&#xA;  lurking in the shadows, non descript and very much a &quot;shape&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pitofhorror.com/newdesign/halloween/aboutmichael.html&quot;&gt;http://www.pitofhorror.com/newdesign/halloween/aboutmichael.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the actual script, the first usage of &quot;the shape&quot; is used to&#xA;  describe the mask Myers wears... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Darkness, with a small shape in the center of the screen.  As MAIN&#xA;  TITLES CONTINUE OVER, CAMERA SLOWLY MOVES IN on  the shape. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We get closer and closer until we see that the shape is a  Halloween&#xA;  mask. It is a large, full-head platex rubber  mask, not a monster or&#xA;  ghoul, but the pale, neutral features  of a man weirdly distorted by&#xA;  the rubber. .&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/halloween.html&quot;&gt;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/halloween.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Subsequently, the mask (originally designed by Don Post (later&#xA;  becomming Don Post Studios)) was referred to as &quot;The Shape&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: It should be noted, much to my dismay, that while watching the movie with the director's commentary it was revealed that the mask is actually a halloween mask of my boyhood idol, Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, painted white.  Ugh.  My image of him is forever ruined...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-07-23T18:26:21.277" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T18:26:21.277" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23301" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23306" CreationDate="2014-07-23T19:58:25.237" Score="15" ViewCount="4370" Body="&lt;p&gt;This moment from S2E8 (&amp;quot;Better Call Saul&amp;quot;) has been nagging me for a while. Saul enters Walt's classroom:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt:&lt;/strong&gt; How did you find me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saul:&lt;/strong&gt; We should talk about that. It should be much, much harder for people to track you down. My PI charged me for three hours, so I seriously doubt it took him more than one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we later find out, Saul's PI is Mike. &lt;em&gt;But how did Mike find Walt?&lt;/em&gt; Keep in mind that at this point, Saul still thinks Walt is Badger's uncle; their only interactions have been those connected with Badger's arrest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, neither Gus nor Mike has made any appearance in the show yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any ideas? I remember being a little curious when watching this as to how Saul could have found Walt; to me, at least, he seemed to have covered his tracks sufficiently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12862" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2020-03-10T19:46:39.740" Title="How did Saul find Walt?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12977" CreationDate="2014-07-23T22:46:47.233" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the second death of Zac put him in another Universe. I always thought when seeing this very good film, that, in death, you are with the ones youdied with at the same time. So, Zac was alone at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12865" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T22:46:47.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14822" CreationDate="2014-07-23T22:50:56.663" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it doesn't demonstrate any guilt, but it certain makes it a big pain in the butt for him. Rhodes was in a position to put anything into the investigation report. He obviously would include the fact that Bradley knew every trick the 4H performed, and that could imply some guilt.  So even if it went to trial and was found innocent, or if it never went to trial, there would always be a question of how honest Bradly really was. And it would probably kill his DVD sales. And you know Trexler never paid him after that either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, none of this is explained. And no, I didn't think it was a great movie either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12863" LastActivityDate="2014-07-23T22:50:56.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23301" CreationDate="2014-07-24T05:49:57.787" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no exact story behind how Mike found Walt. We can make hunches about how Mike could have tracked Walt. Saul knew what this guy looked like. Saul knew that this guy had some health issue (remember Walt's coughing). He would have passed on this information to Mike and Mike being an ex cop must have been faimiliar with these kind of investigations. We can also assume that Mike must have had a good network within the town. Also Mike is portrayed as a very smart and clean guy in the series so once he has a face and a little more information it would not have been too difficult for him to track him down. Also please note that these are very minor sub plots and it would not have been possible to explain each and every thing in detail. We can assume somthings from character's skills and abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T05:49:57.787" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23308" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23311" CreationDate="2014-07-24T06:35:18.280" Score="4" ViewCount="5521" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Dan_Wachsberger&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Daniel &quot;Dan&quot; Wachsberger&lt;/a&gt; charged with in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, and what was the evidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ei8OO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Say_My_Name&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Say My Name&lt;/a&gt; we see Dan in the middle of an 'awkward moment', with Steve Gomez and two other DEA agents looking on from the doorway.  The suitcase full of money is open on the table to his right, a deposit box tray is in his hands, and one open deposit box can be seen behind him (there were a number open at that moment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing the audience was supposed to presume he was charged with (at the very least) money laundering, or some similar related charge.  What I don't understand is how a bunch of money and him apparently depositing that money was &lt;em&gt;proof&lt;/em&gt; of him being involved in the money laundering.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, surely (occasionally) a lawyer gets instructions from a client 'If X happens, deposit money in Y'.  I would imagine there is nothing inherently illegal in that.  Or is there? (I'm Australian, and not that familiar with Australia's laws on such matters, let alone those of the U.S.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The woman who worked for the bank had (the first time he came) been quite chatty and friendly, but the 2nd visit she obviously knew what was about to happen to him, and was much more reticent and subdued about his gift.  Was a bank officer supposed to be present when safe deposit boxes are accessed?  That would explain the look of 'immediate guilt' he had on his face when he saw them, but would that (alone) land him in jail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing I couldn't determine (that might or might not be related) was whose names the deposit boxes were in.  Were they in the name of the recipient (or a person trusted by them)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This all seems extra strange in that when Mike was challenged over the $2 million in a cash deposit box for his grand-daughter he (gritted his teeth) shrugged and denied any knowledge of it.  Couldn't the lawyer have done much the same thing?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; thing?  I thought it was sloppy someone leaving so much money in an open bag in the deposit box room, but apart from ogling it a bit (and touching the case) it's nothing to do with me mister!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T00:45:24.993" LastActivityDate="2017-05-21T22:00:08.517" Title="What was Dan Wachsberger charged with (charge and evidence)?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23266" CreationDate="2014-07-24T07:20:59.690" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an overdramatized and irrational generalization that is often made by persons who assume that they have a right to be in someone's life when that person interests them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no justification for what he says, and in the context of our society's history this could be seen as a male-/ego-centric trope of the asserted assumption of the necessity of women to be interested in the men making attempts to be in their lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Past experiences do not afford, require, or presuppose future experiences, and as a person, we -- all persons -- have the right to make choices and live however we want, with or without whoever we want, at any and all moments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is the crux of the notions of consent and self-worth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This statement was a selfish, narcissistic act of guilt-baiting. It was an attempt to marginalize her self-worth by mansplaining that she was being selfish and self-destructive by not being with him when he was making attempts to be with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not her choices were the most healthy or respectful, to herself or others, there is no presupposition (ever) that a person is required to be in, or be open to, another's life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She may have been overwhelmed, dramatic, upset, and confused, and she did lash out in anxiety and anger. While those are not great things, they were the reality of her circumstance, and they were mistakes that she needed to understand and move forward from. They are not exemplars of her inability to meet some fantasy normalization of appropriate being. And they should not be met with the denigration of her circumstances under the presupposed assertion that her life is going poorly because he is not in it in the way(s) he wants to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This approaches the kind of subversive normalizations that undermine the intelligence and sanity of persons based on the arbitrary particulars of their birth and natural existence (like accusations of being &quot;hysterical&quot;* due to one's uterus and menses.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While he is sad and hurt that she was rude and angry, and he does wish to be in her life, and we should probably assume for generally (mutually) good reasons, his response is not indicative of true care, love, and kindness. It &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a selfish response that simultaneously self-aggrandizes while mitigating her current circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a trope-y response to hetero-patri-normative societal expectations of he-said-she-said romance, creating unnecessary drama that will be immediately overcome and forgotten, as if the final state of their relationship is made stronger by arbitrarily irrational previous &quot;difficulties&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relationships are continued manifestations of choice, trust, love, and care. Patience and respect are the natural responses, and characterizations that do not healthily and rationally portray the appropriate responses should not be seen or normalized as appropriate, rational, or healthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no reasonable explanation for his statement and facetious question, except as his own act of disrespect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Note that &quot;hysteria&quot; derives from the Greek root &lt;em&gt;hystero-&lt;/em&gt; for &quot;womb&quot;, as seen in &quot;hysterectomy&quot;, the surgical removal of (part of) the uterus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user12701" LastEditorDisplayName="user12701" LastEditDate="2014-07-24T07:26:10.557" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T07:26:10.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23308" CreationDate="2014-07-24T07:28:51.060" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Charge: Likely bribery, possession of stolen money?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Evidence: He was caught pretty red-handed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Full Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The safety deposit boxes belonged to all of Mike's crew. When the heat was turned up and many of them were arrested, they needed to be hushed. As a result, they were each given $15,000 (into the nine safety deposit boxes), with a bigger sum going to Mike (along with a card reading: &quot;To Kaylee on her 18th birthday&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The DEA realise that all nine men have the same lawyer - Dan Waschberger. Rather than keeping their focus on the nine men, they choose to start following Dan. When he tries to make his next drop off, it becomes obvious that he is giving large sums of money to all nine of his clients.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst I don't know the exact laws he is guilty of, it seems likely it was due to illegal payments to clients, possession of stolen money (unless he could explain where the $150,000+ came from) or some other such activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems unlikely he could use the excuse you said (i.e. denying it was him) for a few reasons: One, the room &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; has cameras. Two, his fingerprints are all over the money. Three, the DEA were clearly ready for him, so if they had checked the room beforehand and ascertained it was empty, his excuses about not knowing where the money is wouldn't have worked. He really, truly was caught red-handed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is later revealed that he flipped easily under questioning and pointed a finger at Mike, so his actual &quot;crime&quot; became less relevant as it became obvious the DEA were simply looking at a way to get at Mike's crew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note, he is incarcerated and ends up on Lydia's hit list for former crew members who need to be taken out. This is finally arranged by Walt and he is stabbed multiple times whilst on the phone (ironically to his lawyer) in the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Gliding_Over_All&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gliding Over All&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-07-24T07:59:32.113" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T07:59:32.113" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23315" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23316" CreationDate="2014-07-24T08:45:21.077" Score="12" ViewCount="8271" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been watching the British TV show Sherlock and it has got me intrigued about the the character. Sherlock is mostly depicted as an extremely intelligent and sharp individual whose brain functions much much faster than others.&#xA;But at times he is seen getting involved in physical duels as well and he does fairly well at that too. I want to know that does Sherlock the original character, has good fighting skills too. &#xA;Do we have any instances from the novels that Sherlock is good at tackling the enemy physically as well. If yes then I would like to know about the skills he is having. You know like Dr. Watson is a very good shooter but this is because he is from Army. Like that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-03T11:45:49.933" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T11:45:49.933" Title="What fighting skills does Sherlock have?" Tags="|character|sherlock|book-adaptation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23315" CreationDate="2014-07-24T09:00:45.433" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;He does indeed have skills, all of which are listed in detail on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes#Weapons_and_martial_arts&quot;&gt;his Wiki page&lt;/a&gt;. These skills include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ability to use pistols, shown in a few stories e.g. Hound of the Baskervilles and The Sign of Four.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ability to use cane/walking stick as weapon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Apparent&quot; ability to use a sword (according to Watson in A Study of Scarlet he is an expert). I say apparent as I don't recall it ever being shown in the books.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ability to use a riding crop as a weapon (and described in The Six Napoleons story as his favourite weapon).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Formidable bare knuckle boxer, discussed and shown in A Sign of Four.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ability to use martial arts (in particular baritsu). This was mentioned by Holmes in The Adventure of the Empty House as how he defeated Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some evidence of his fighting skills:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regards to his boxing (from Sign of Four):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I don’t think you can have forgotten me. Don’t you remember the&#xA;  amateur who fought three rounds with you at Alison’s rooms on the&#xA;  night of your benefit four years back?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Not Mr. Sherlock Holmes!” roared the prize-fighter. “God’s truth! how&#xA;  could I have mistook you? If instead o’ standin’ there so quiet you&#xA;  had just stepped up and given me that cross-hit of yours under the&#xA;  jaw, I’d ha’ known you without a question. Ah, you’re one that has&#xA;  wasted your gifts, you have! You might have aimed high, if you had&#xA;  joined the fancy.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regards to baritsu (from The Adventure of the Empty House):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He drew no weapon, but he rushed at me and threw his long arms around&#xA;  me. He knew that his own game was up, and was only anxious to revenge&#xA;  himself upon me. We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I&#xA;  have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of&#xA;  wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped&#xA;  through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few&#xA;  seconds and clawed the air with both his hands. But for all his&#xA;  efforts he could not get his balance, and over he went.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regards to the riding crop (from the Red Headed League):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“The light flashed upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes’s hunting&#xA;  crop came down on the man’s wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the&#xA;  stone floor.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fun Trivia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some bare knuckle boxing is shown in Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock films. This is because Downey Jr. is a practitioner of Wing Chun kung fu, so it was decided to include a scene using this as the basis of baritsu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-07-24T09:07:11.417" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T09:07:11.417" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23319" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23320" CreationDate="2014-07-24T12:48:18.243" Score="3" ViewCount="4238" Body="&lt;p&gt;I became a fan of Breaking Bad after it had ended (I detest watching series with a continuity that is ruined by being cancelled).  So at that time, I went and ordered the boxed set of all 6 seasons.  6 seasons? you ask with arched eyebrow.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6hkBX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yep, 6 seasons, and I got the same look from my brother in-law who had watched it live.  He expressed that he thought it had been 5 seasons, but he made it as a passing comment so I didn't take much notice.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now, going through questions on this Q&amp;amp;A Site, as well as the BB Wiki, it seems the '6th/Final season' was actually the 2nd half &lt;em&gt;of the 5th season.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If this way of releasing the DVDs is specific to Australia only?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why release it that way?  (I mean, if I were going that way, I'd be tempted to break &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; season into two and sell it as '10 total', but splitting the 'last season only' seems ..rather odd.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T13:03:28.137" Title="Why was Breaking Bad put in 6 seasons (on DVD, in Australia)?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23319" CreationDate="2014-07-24T13:03:28.137" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was because the Final Season was in effect split over 2 years. Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Breaking_Bad_episodes#Season_5_.282012.E2.80.9313.29&quot;&gt;the Wiki page&lt;/a&gt; showing the release dates for the episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas most seasons started in July and finished in October in the same year, the fifth season started in July 2012, finished at episode 8 in September 2012, then took a year break and came back in August 2013 before finally wrapping up in September 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that gap, to capitalise on sales, a DVD of the &quot;first half&quot; of the season was released. Then, a year later, the &quot;Final Season&quot; was released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T13:03:28.137" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23322" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23568" CreationDate="2014-07-24T15:01:00.550" Score="5" ViewCount="7406" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one of the opening Breaking Bad episodes, Walt rides along with Hank and Steve as they raid a meth lab with information that they will discover 'Captain Cook'.  Hank and Steve are having a wager on who they will find, Hank thinks it will be a person of Latino origins, but Steve counters &quot;That's a white boy name&quot; - and feels their quarry is Caucasian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the person arrested is part Latino, part Asian, Steve was actually correct! Jesse Pinkman is spotted by Walt climbing out of the window of the next door neighbor's residence and making off in a car with the plates THE CAPN.  Here is the number plate still on the car as seen at the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Grilled&quot;&gt;Grilled&lt;/a&gt; (after Hank had shot it many times, possibly for being a silly bouncing car).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H2iUE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What seems strange though, is that to find the car, Hank had to rely on the 'low jack' that he (correctly) suspected the car had.  Surely to do that, he must at some time have seen the make, model and &lt;em&gt;registration of the car&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't Hank connect THE CAPN with the 'Captain Cook' he'd been after earlier in the year?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-07-24T22:52:42.113" LastActivityDate="2018-07-16T00:54:21.057" Title="Why did Hank not associate THE CAPN with 'Captain Cook'?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23315" CreationDate="2014-07-24T15:15:38.000" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;A Study in Scarlet&quot; Watson compiles a list of Holmes' limits and abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Knowledge of Literature.—Nil.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Philosophy.—Nil.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Astronomy.—Nil.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Politics.—Feeble.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Botany.—Variable. Well up in belladonna,&#xA;opium, and poisons generally.&#xA;Knows nothing of practical gardening.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Geology.—Practical, but limited.&#xA;Tells at a glance different soils&#xA;from each other. After walks has&#xA;shown me splashes upon his trousers,&#xA;and told me by their colour and&#xA;consistence in what part of London&#xA;he had received them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chemistry.—Profound.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anatomy.—Accurate, but unsystematic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sensational Literature.—Immense. He appears&#xA;to know every detail of every horror&#xA;perpetrated in the century.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plays the violin well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has a good practical knowledge of British law.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;#11 shows that he has certain abilities in this regard. This is also mentioned in other places in the stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T15:15:38.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23324" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23325" CreationDate="2014-07-24T17:17:16.317" Score="6" ViewCount="10040" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question can sound banal because everyone would say &quot;Trainspotting&quot;, but I am just watching a late-soviet movie from 1987 called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092186/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Burglar&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and I noticed a man in the crowd with a t-shirt with words looking very like 'Choose life', I can't say exactly, because he is partially hidden by other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The t-shirt was for sure imported from western countries to the USSR, but how did these words get to it if the original Trainspotting was released in 1996?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or it means that in Trainspotting this was borrowed too?&#xA;Please share your thoughts!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the snapshots of this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HIRxC.png&quot; alt=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/571Le.png&quot; alt=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kvim0.png&quot; alt=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also found a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chargrilled.co.nz/t-shirts/Choose-Life-t-shirt.m&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;t-shirt&lt;/a&gt; in an online store looking very similar and seems like they associate it with Trainspotting too as there are the words from it on the right:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w9qTP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;t-shirt&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12878" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-24T17:40:30.093" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T21:02:36.870" Title="What's the origin of &quot;Choose life&quot; phrase?" Tags="|dialogue|origin|trainspotting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23324" CreationDate="2014-07-24T17:27:51.677" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;But the phrase is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_life&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;not exclusive&lt;/a&gt; to Trainspotting. It comes from the Bible (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2030%3A19&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Deuteronomy 30:19&lt;/a&gt;), and the design in the pictures you posted looks like the T-shirt popularized by the Wham! video for &lt;em&gt;Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go&lt;/em&gt; in 1984 (you can see it from the very start):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/pIgZ7gMze7A?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The T shirt was designed by Katarine Hamnett; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Hamnett&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt; discusses its original purpose and later use:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &quot;CHOOSE LIFE&quot; slogan in the context of the day was directed at drug abuse and suicide. Because it is found in the Bible... it has been used by the pro-life movement to encourage a choice against abortion, even appearing on license plates in 27 states.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-07-24T18:04:20.200" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T18:04:20.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23326" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23327" CreationDate="2014-07-24T18:59:33.227" Score="33" ViewCount="8359" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt;, Morpheus and his team take Neo to see the Oracle in &quot;The Matrix&quot;. Not until after the visit is concluded are they ambushed by Agents. Other times, such as the beginning of the movie where Trinity talks to Neo, or when Trinity takes Neo to Morpheus, they seem to be unharassed by Agents. How could this be? The Agents certainly know Morpheus, Trinity, and Neo are threats. And it seems implausible that Agents are not immediately aware whenever they enter &quot;The Matrix&quot;. So why aren't they attacked right away (aside from that ruining the movie)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7701" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-27T11:06:15.110" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T13:23:49.220" Title="Why aren't Morpheus and his team immediately attacked by Agents whenever they enter &quot;The Matrix&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23326" CreationDate="2014-07-24T19:15:35.003" Score="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agents are certainly aware of what humans see, but only under certain circumstances, which appears to be related to whether what the person sees is normal or not. For example, near the end of the first movie, a tramp sees Neo, Morpheus and Trinity enter the train station:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FRcwG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The tramp&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They then make a phone call, and suddenly, one of them disappears right in front of his eyes! He is absolutely stunned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BAJRz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The tramp is stunned&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then at this moment, we go into a closeup shot of Agent Smith's earpiece, and he turns to the camera to suggest he knows what just happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CLyA9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The earpiece&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zt52e.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The knowing&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this is supposed to indicate that the shock which seeing something impossible happens is what causes the agents to be notified, as only &lt;a href=&quot;http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/The_One&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anomalies&lt;/a&gt; (As &lt;a href=&quot;http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/The_Architect&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Architect&lt;/a&gt; calls them) and freed humans are shown to exhibit this behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare this to other scenes where Neo is seen by humans connected to the Matrix, such as when he and Trinity enter the lobby of their building. If the agents were aware of every human thought, they would instantly have shown up to kill them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T19:15:35.003" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23326" CreationDate="2014-07-24T19:53:40.907" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to Crowd T Robot's great answer about how agents detect them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So why aren't they attacked right away?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It probably helps to think of the protagonists entering the Matrix as a virus infiltrating a system through a security hole. It can remain undetected for a long time, unless you know exactly where to look for it or it starts messing with the system. Morpheus and Co know how to enter the Matrix undetected and stay under the Agents' radar for a long time. They train for it in the simulator and try to not draw any attention to themselves when they are on a mission. That way they are indistinguishable from the other humans in the matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is the reason the Agents don't discover them upon arrival. They seem to be able to hide their entry into the matrix through hacking and finding them would probably mean checking every human in the matrix manually, which would take an enormous amount of resources. That is also the reason why free humans try to avoid staying in the matrix for extended amount of times. The longer they stay, the larger there risk of exposure becomes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T19:53:40.907" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23324" CreationDate="2014-07-24T21:02:36.870" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The phrase was common on T-Shirts in the 80's, I understood it at the time (and now) to be used to encourage young women to not have abortions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12884" LastActivityDate="2014-07-24T21:02:36.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23333" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31386" CreationDate="2014-07-24T23:46:47.897" Score="4" ViewCount="1991" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to work out the supposed age difference between siblings Samantha and Mason in Richard Linklater's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1065073/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Boyhood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, as there seem to be a number of inconsistencies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, when the children are first re-united with their father, Samantha states that all she can remember from their parents failed marriage was their arguments and bickering: she prefixes this statement with &quot;When I was six, I remember....&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, towards the end of the film as Mason is celebrating his graduation from High School with his family, his uncle gives him some sagely advice as to the employment of prophylactic measures whilst at University. He infers that Mason was the result of &quot;Break up sex&quot; between his father Mason Sr. and mother Olivia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is correct, wouldn't that make the age difference between Samantha and Mason at least 6 years?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reality there is only a year between the actors, and it's noticeable (particularily early on in the movie, when they are still children) that they are much closer in age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JoQO6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Mason visits his sister whilst she is still at college whilst vetting the campus as a possibility for &lt;em&gt;his own&lt;/em&gt; alma mater: wouldn't that mean they were within three or so years of each other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything in the movie that clears this up? is it possible that Mason Sr. and Olivia's initial 'break up' (which resulted indirectly in Mason Jr) was only temporary, and their permanent, final break-up came later; when Samantha was 6? is there anything to substantiate this theory? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2015-02-22T08:27:21.673" Title="Age difference between Samantha and Mason?" Tags="|boyhood|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11307" CreationDate="2014-07-25T13:37:17.187" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My interpretation was that the body farms weren't used to generate energy, but to store it. i.e. the duracell battery that Morpheus holds up. If you have pulsed or unpredictable power sources, you need massive storage to match the supply to the demand. The leading fusion power concept today is the tokamak, which is a pulsed machine. Renewable energy sources are generally weather-dependent and hence unpredictable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand I can't imagine that humans are very efficient for energy storage, compared to animals or any other inanimate technology. In that respect it seems more like a plot device.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12896" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T13:37:17.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15682" CreationDate="2014-07-25T16:50:21.623" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Ozymandias_subtitles&quot;&gt;Ozymandias subtitles&lt;/a&gt;..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jack:&lt;/strong&gt; (to Walt) Hey.  I'm leaving you a barrel. Boys are gonna load it for you. &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (to his men) You got the keys to these cuffs?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (HANDCUFFS RATTLE as Todd unlocks them, Walt gets to his feet)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Todd:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm sorry for your loss.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jack:&lt;/strong&gt; My nephew here, he respects you.&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;He would never forgive me if things...went another way.&lt;/em&gt; Also, I'll be honest, you caught me in one hell of a good mood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Straight from the horses mouth..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is notably the last goodwill that Todd is willing to offer his former mentor.  When Walt returns later, Todd says WTE &lt;em&gt;&quot;You should have stayed away&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2014-12-10T08:33:29.470" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T08:33:29.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23342" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-25T18:34:56.767" Score="2" ViewCount="529" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always wondered why the hassle creating the Matrix anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, the machines need energy which can be harvested in the form of biological energy from humans. But why did they not just take animals, e.g. sheep. Since the physiology of animals and humans is very similar, they would likewise be able to generate energy. Advantageous over humans though, it would be possible to hold them captive without creating a Matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12902" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-25T23:08:33.540" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T00:03:39.663" Title="The need of a Matrix" Tags="|plot-explanation|realism|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2014-07-26T04:13:57.770" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23342" CreationDate="2014-07-25T20:15:20.793" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know the filmmakers' actual reason. But here's a guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The machines would have had to exterminate all those humans, since humans always like rising up against machine oppressors. Once the machines started capturing and killing humans, maybe they decided that they'd just keep them alive and use them as a power source instead of having to bury/cremate 7 billion bodies. And it probably wasn't a big deal for them to program the Matrix. I mean, it was probably just a variation on The Sims or GTA. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-07-25T20:15:20.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23342" CreationDate="2014-07-25T23:22:08.033" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, even though you probably don't want to hear this, there wouldn't be an equally interesting and entertaining movie without the humans. While an experiemental movie around animals would be otherwise interesting, it would certainly not have the mainstream action thriller appeal together with its emotional drag and the philosophical implications for our own understanding of reality. But so much to the obvious out-of-universe answer to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this we might still speculate about a possible in-universe explanation and there are multiple possibilities, even if a defite answer is most probably lacking. Let's first accept the premise of the movie, that the machines need livestock to produce energy (even though &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/11307/49&quot;&gt;that's debatable in reality&lt;/a&gt;) and that humans need a matrix in order to keep entertained and not degenerate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I might second &lt;em&gt;CrowTRobot&lt;/em&gt;'s answer that you would maybe need carnivores because of the lack of plants. But even then you could use other carnivorous animals. But if we accept the premise that humans need a matrix for mental occupation, then what tells you animals wouldn't need one, too? Ok, this matrix might be simpler than 1999's human society, but I'm not sure that's such a big problem for the machines at all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There might very well not be any animals left on earth, either because humans reached a stage of civilization where animals have become nearly extinct, or they were killed in the crossfire of the, certainly world spanning and devastating, machine war, or they just degenerated in the wake of the nuclear winter (after all the humans only survived with the help of the machines either).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is in a way more efficient in that you on the one hand have your enemies out of the way and on the other hand can use them for something meaningful, instead of just piling their corpses. With animals for energy production the &quot;human question&quot; is still not solved. So why not use the humans for energy production instead of killing them and trying to find other animals as batteries.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last but not least, energy production might not have been the only reason the machines kept the humans for and this might be grounded in the humans' special status in the eyes of the machines. As can be seen in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/11307/49&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt; there are various other theories for the machines' interest in farming humans, like punishment, preservation of the human race, or harvesting other things apart from plain energy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T00:03:39.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23350" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-07-25T23:31:37.900" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Big Lebowski&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1998 American Cult comedy movie by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coen_brothers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ethan and Joel Coen&lt;/a&gt; following Jeff &quot;The Dude&quot; Lebowski (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bridges&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeff Bridges&lt;/a&gt;) and Walter Sobchak (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goodman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John Goodman&lt;/a&gt;) and the series of events set in motion after a couple of thugs confuse him with Jeffrey &quot;The Big&quot; Lebowski (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Huddleston&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;David Huddleston&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Big Lebowski on IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Lebowski&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Big Lebowski on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-26T01:05:40.870" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T01:05:40.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23351" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-07-25T23:31:37.900" Score="0" Body="An American Cult comedy movie by Ethan and Joel Coen following Jeff &quot;The Dude&quot; Lebowski and the series of events set in motion after a couple of thugs confuse him with Jeffrey &quot;The Big&quot; Lebowski." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-26T01:05:00.407" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T01:05:00.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23352" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23355" CreationDate="2014-07-26T01:36:16.213" Score="2" ViewCount="255" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm watching some anime on netflix.  Is there a term for when the characters get real emotional they are suddenly animated as cutesy almost childlike versions of themselves? Then they go right back? Here's a clip I just recorded from an albeit terrible show Sekirei &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/0lIHC3rl6Fo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9841" LastEditorUserId="9841" LastEditDate="2014-07-26T02:02:17.247" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T02:02:17.247" Title="A term for a animation style used in anime" Tags="|anime|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23353" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-26T01:37:26.000" Score="6" ViewCount="935" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Last Emperor&lt;/em&gt; is mostly in English, but it is meant to be understood that this is simply being translated for the benefit of the movie viewer, usually from Mandarin (I think).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was Reginald Fleming Johnston (the Emperor's tutor) supposed to be speaking in Mandarin most of the time (when he was communicating with the Emperor and other folks in the Forbidden Palace)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9668" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-07-26T02:08:41.560" LastActivityDate="2024-01-04T22:01:12.567" Title="Was Johnston supposed to be speaking in Mandarin all the time?" Tags="|dialogue|the-last-emperor|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23352" CreationDate="2014-07-26T01:42:36.073" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the term you're looking for is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chibi_%28term%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chibi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chibi (ちび or チビ) is a Japanese slang word meaning &amp;quot;short person&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;small child&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chibi style is usually used in depicting scenes which are cute and/or humorous, and it is extremely rare for it to be used for an entire anime series. It is quite popular in manga, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T01:47:02.110" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21951" CreationDate="2014-07-26T02:02:35.800" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that the producers/movie studio (correctly) set things up so that if you watched the movies as they were released, you'd be watching them in the 'correct' order. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, the Wikipedia list by order of US release date is probably what you want to use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases where the release dates were close to each other, it probably doesn't matter too much which you watch first. E.g. from what I recall, Iron Man (released in May 2008) and Incredible Hulk (June 2008) did not seem to have any references to each other, so it is probably 'no big deal' to watch either one before the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yXzkY.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe#Films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9668" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T02:02:35.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23359" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23362" CreationDate="2014-07-26T05:10:15.733" Score="8" ViewCount="4445" Body="&lt;p&gt;The usual Chinese title for the original Japanese movie is &lt;a href=&quot;http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh/%E5%8D%88%E5%A4%9C%E5%87%B6%E9%88%B4&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;午夜凶鈴&lt;/a&gt; which might be transliterated roughly as &quot;Midnight Evil/Bad Ring&quot; where the Chinese word &quot;ring&quot; here is without ambiguity referring specifically to the sound a phone or a bell makes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hence always thought &quot;The Ring&quot; referred to the telephone ring. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the American remake (see below picture), it seems that &quot;The Ring&quot; refers instead to the halo of light that one sees (from the bottom of a well) when a cover is placed over the well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is this: In the original Japanese version, what was &quot;The Ring&quot; supposed to refer to? The telephone ring? The American interpretation? Or something else?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rMPVU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9668" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T17:05:48.670" Title="What did &quot;The Ring&quot; (リング, Ringu) in the original Japanese version refer to?" Tags="|the-ring|ringu|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23359" CreationDate="2014-07-26T08:41:27.553" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original source for &lt;strong&gt;The Ring&lt;/strong&gt; wasn't actually the Japanese movie, but rather the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(Suzuki_novel)&quot;&gt;trilogy of novels written by Koji Suzuki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few possible interpretations of what &lt;em&gt;the ring&lt;/em&gt; is referring to and the ring of the telephone is a logical conclusion - however, in the novels a telephone doesn't appear with a message appearing at the end of the VHS tape instead, warning the viewer of their imminent doom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, it seems likely &lt;em&gt;The Ring&lt;/em&gt; refers to the constantly looping cycle viewers of the tape find themselves in. To quote from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(film)&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Desperate to save her son, Reiko realizes that copying the tape and&#xA;  showing it to someone else saved her. With a VCR and Ryūji's copy of&#xA;  the tape, Reiko travels with her son to see her father in an attempt&#xA;  to save him, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;realizing that this is a never-ending cycle&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The tape must always be copied and passed on to ensure the survival of the viewers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This explanation makes even more sense when you realise that the first book in the series is called &lt;strong&gt;The Ring&lt;/strong&gt;, with the sequel called &lt;strong&gt;Spiral&lt;/strong&gt; and the final book called &lt;strong&gt;Loop&lt;/strong&gt; - all terms that could be used to describe repeating events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T08:41:27.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21601" CreationDate="2014-07-26T14:31:17.937" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I state few reasons why Judge might have felt sympathy for Jackie DiNorscio&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 - Jackie gets beaten up so badly in the prison by some guys and the next day when the Judge ask him what happened, he says he fell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 - Tony shoots him thrice even though Jackie's saying &quot;coz, what are you doing? I love you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3 - Jackie pays for Tony's mother's funeral.(normally what good guys do.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4 - Jackie shows a old picture of his gang to the citizens in the court and says about how they're conspiring to buy an ice cream in front of the parlour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5 - In the end, citizens in the court gives verdict and says that they find all the defendants are not guilty despite all the evidence and witnesses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jackie is very clever and he knows the only way he is gonna win is by gaining public's and judge's sympathy that's why he keeps mentioning about gang members' families and their children and repeatedly asks the public not to separate the gang members from their family by sending them jail and in the end he tells to his gang to bring fake families to the court on final verdict to gain more sympathy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scenes I've explained above may not be exact 'cause I've seen this long ago but I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T14:31:17.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23368" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23369" CreationDate="2014-07-26T17:12:07.183" Score="5" ViewCount="4448" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Xmen Origins, Stryker is shown shooting Logan's brain in the front at the top, which leads me to believe that only the frontal lobe was damaged, and possibly the parietal lobe. After looking more closely at the part, I notice that it seems nearly impossible that the bullet hit the temporal lobe. If it didn't hit the temporal lobe and there's a high chance it hit the Broca's area, how come he knows how to speak English, and how come he doesn't have his memories?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xWZ6rm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Wolverine shot in head&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm not understanding this completely, please explain what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11206" LastActivityDate="2017-01-28T02:54:28.143" Title="At the end in Xmen Origins, which parts of Wolverine's brain did the bullet hit?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-origins-wolverine|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23368" CreationDate="2014-07-26T19:15:11.413" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Which parts of Wolverine's brain did the bullet hit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/X-Men-Origins-Wolverine.html&quot;&gt;The script&lt;/a&gt; doesn't describe exactly what parts of the brain is hit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stryker fires again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The adamantium bullet rips through Logan's forehead with an unholy sound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Logan falls to the ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stryker stands above him and fires another bullet into Logan's head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already know from the other X-men movies that Wolverine has lost part of his memory so it stands to reason it has hit the parietal lobe, but seeing as most people don't know much about how the brain works (or know that &quot;We don't really know how the brain works&quot; as everyone says in movies and TV), I don't think David Benioff &amp;amp; Skip Woods were that concerned with explaining the exact trajectory and damage of the bullets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the brain is concave and there is a small gap between the left and right hemispheres, so the bullets could have ricocheted off the top of the inside of the skull down towards the parietal lobe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How come he knows how to speak English, and how come he doesn't have his memories?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sufferers of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrograde_amnesia&quot;&gt;Retrograde Amnesia&lt;/a&gt; are more likely to lose recent memories that are closer to the trauma than their older memories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be that the bullet isn't even the primary cause of the amnesia, for example in the Comic &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_%28comics%29&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Origin&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; he loses his memory due to shock:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;James is still in shock and appears to have no recollection of what happened. This loss of memory is due to Wolverine's/James' healing factor which, in effect, &quot;healed&quot; (by putting up a mental block) the mentally devastating traumas of witnessing his father's death, the confusion of mother's anger towards him and the pain and surprise caused by the sudden manifestation of his claws.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this in mind, it could be the fact that he just saw Kayla die in front of him, had liquid metal injected into him and had his brother turn against him that was the real cause, and the bullets were just the finishing touches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of the cause, TVTropes calls this particular plot contrivance &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LaserGuidedAmnesia&quot;&gt;Laser-Guided Amnesia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With surgical precision, amnesia strips you of all information pertaining to personal identity, leaving just about everything else intact. TV Amnesia is a disorder where you forget where you put your keys, but you do not forget what a key is or what it's for. You will forget where you went to school, but not any of the things you learned in school. As a result, the character will retain all of their skills — though they may not know they have them at first. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-07-26T19:15:11.413" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23371" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-26T19:52:24.823" Score="4" ViewCount="2781" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;The Godfather&quot;, Sonny beats up Carlo for hitting Connie and is then killed later on. But the next scene involving Connie and Carlo is the baptism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do Connie and Carlo miraculously end up back together? Why aren't they separated by now seeing what Carlo did to Connie and the fact that there's even a chance for Carlo to be involved in Sonny's death?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12916" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-02T09:14:12.967" LastActivityDate="2014-08-02T10:55:38.050" Title="How do Connie and Carlo miraculously end up back together?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7914" CreationDate="2014-07-26T20:02:56.550" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked the same question when watching it lately and while &lt;em&gt;Origin&lt;/em&gt;'s answer may be right in that he simply wanted to get absolutely sure, there might still be other reasons involved for directly approaching Fischer. Before Cobb hands him his drink, he brings the conversation to Fischer's father, saying what just seems a bit of flowery speech:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; You know, I couldn't help but notice, but you wouldn't happen to be related to &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; Maurice Fischer, would you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fischer:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, he... he was my father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; He was a very inspiring figure, I'm sorry for your loss... Here you go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fischer:&lt;/strong&gt; Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(raising his glass)&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Hey, to your father, may he rest in peace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Fischer nips and stares onto his drink)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might as well have been a little preconditioning. The movie plays to a large degree with common ideas we think to know about dreams, the time dilation, the reluctance to notice divergence from reality, the lack of knowledge when it began... In the same way you sometimes tend to dream about exactly the stuff that just happened to you before falling asleep (which is why you should rather learn a language before going to bed instead of watching horror movies ;-)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So bringing the conversation (and thus Fischer's thoughts) to Maurice Fischer and the imposing footprints Robert has to step in might serve to &lt;strong&gt;prepare Fischer's mind for dreaming about his father and his legacy&lt;/strong&gt; and might thus help to make him a little more susceptible to the actual &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-16T14:50:23.063" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T14:50:23.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4593" CreationDate="2014-07-27T01:40:10.750" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, you have to keep in mind that the movie repeatedly plays with and takes advantage from the fact that in dreams you don't always know how things happen. The movie doesn't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to provide any explanation of how someone gets to a certain place or how something just appears out of nothing as &lt;strong&gt;there is none&lt;/strong&gt;. In the same way it is not really relevant how Cobb got there, &lt;strong&gt;he just did.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; Let me ask you a question. You never really remember the beginning of a dream, do you? You always wind up right in the middle of what's going on...So how did we end up here?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ariadne:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, we just came from the...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; Think about it, Ariadne. How did you get here? Where are you right now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I don't say we're not supposed to expect a reasonable and consistent story, but by employing the whole metaphor-filled dream world the movie gives itself the freedom to &lt;strong&gt;leave out certain connective details in the story because they might just not have happened in a clear way&lt;/strong&gt; or one that the persons involved were entirely aware of. This can also be seen in the fact that Saito is a significantly older man than Cobb at the end, while still entering limbo after Cobb did (since he died on level 3 after Cobb and Ariadne went down there to search Fischer). So we see that &lt;strong&gt;time and space doesn't work entirely continuous or consistent&lt;/strong&gt; for the different people trapped in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we can see from the movie, though, is that &lt;strong&gt;it was a bit of a long time and travel&lt;/strong&gt; to get there even for Cobb (albeit maybe not as long a time as it was for Saito). This is evident in Cobb's rather weary appearance and especially in his extremely dull and glass-eyed gaze during his conversation with the old Saito and his slighty hesitant and absent way of answering questions. While he has obviously come to remind Saito of &lt;em&gt;&quot;something he once knew&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, we see that Cobb has himself difficulties to not forget it. He has obviously passed enough time in limbo to slightly cloud his judgement of reality, even if not shattering it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the ocean? Well, Saito's own built limbo reality is a fortess on an island (or at the coast at least), so &lt;strong&gt;the beach is a natural place to enter this realm.&lt;/strong&gt; You can ask the same question of why Cobb and Ariadne wake up at the beach when they could as well wake up right in front of Mal's apartment building. We see that the physical picture of limbo is basically &lt;strong&gt;a vast ocean with landmasses constructed and shaped by the people having been there&lt;/strong&gt;, be this Cobb's and Mal's city or Saito's residence. This fits well to what limbo actually is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Raw, infinite subconscious. Nothing there but what was left behind by anyone on the team who's been trapped there before. On this team... just Cobb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This fits naturally to an infinite ocean full of (infinitely far away) islands of the mind stuff of its residents. This ocean analogy might be an overly simplified/metaphorical picture of limbo, but that's how those dreams work in the end. &lt;strong&gt;The mind searches for natural and intuitive ways to represent stuff in a physical way&lt;/strong&gt;, and in the case of limbo this means islands in an ocean that are &lt;strong&gt;entered by waking up at the beach&lt;/strong&gt;, like a castaway from a long lost reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; the ocean? Did Cobb swim there? Did he build a raft? Did he jump from the building in Mal's shattering city and fly there? We just don't know, but even more than that, &lt;strong&gt;we aren't even supposed to know nor to speculate about it, since a reasonable physical explanation is likely not existing due to the discontinuous nature of space and time&lt;/strong&gt; in the dream world and limbo in particular. All we're supposed to know is, that Cobb &lt;strong&gt;somehow&lt;/strong&gt; finally found Saito's world inside the (infinite) limbo after a somewhat long and exhausting &quot;journey&quot;. (And that information is sufficient for the story.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-26T18:35:47.783" LastActivityDate="2017-10-26T18:35:47.783" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23377" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-27T03:03:17.043" Score="12" ViewCount="16681" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2013 TV show &quot;Masters of Sex&quot;, Libby Masters calls her husband William &quot;Daddy&quot;. Apparently she uses this as a term of endearment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I am a little creeped out by this. Does she have serious &quot;daddy issues&quot;, or was this really a common nickname for wives to call their husbands at the time? (The show takes place in 1957.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this maybe something special the writers use to emphasize her wish to get a child?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T08:16:07.907" Title="Why is Libby calling her husband &quot;Daddy&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|character|dialogue|masters-of-sex|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14866" CreationDate="2014-07-27T05:41:00.350" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this movie was meant to have more then one ending. I think it works with the persons  mind that is watching it. I see Teddy as a Drug Dealer and plainly tells Lenard he was first on scene and lied saying he was a cop or even if he was a cop why couldn't it have been a dirty cop  that killed his wife and he killed that girls boy friend that was connected to teddy and teddy and her boy friend worked for the drug dealer there were 2 guys at the house we never see the guys face he shoots they left the ending open to interpretation very interesting. Teddy tracked him down after killing his wife he was lying about being a Cop in my opinion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12925" LastActivityDate="2014-07-27T05:41:00.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9257" CreationDate="2014-07-27T06:28:06.890" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Call me crazy, but I've always thought that the steam train in the background was the Polar Express, and the ship in the river is from Peter Pan. And of course, the good old castle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12926" LastActivityDate="2014-07-27T06:28:06.890" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4593" CreationDate="2014-07-27T12:08:55.813" Score="-1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why does Cobb wake up in the water? If he wants to find Saito, why does he 'play around' in the ocean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, just because. I think that's already pretty well explained by &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/23375/148&quot;&gt;Napoleon Wilson's answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And on the other parts of your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Did he stumble over his own-made cliff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You mean that the beach the movie starts with would be the same beach from his own dream? No, they are different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Did the search take a lot of his strenght, making him too tired and fall asleep on the beach?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He indeed could be exhausted, but we do not know. His search certainly took some time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Was the fourth level not limbo after all or not the limbo Saito was in, and did Cobb go another level deeper to get to Saito's? This could explain Cobb getting in random surroundings if limbo had much changed because of Saito's long presence there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is an interesting thinking. The movie itself states two possibilities for getting (stuck) in Limbo: (1) Being killed while under sedatives, and (2) the way Mal and Cobb previously got in, but we do not exactly know how they did except from going deeper. On the other hand, the movie certainly presents the concept that reaching a deeper level is intentional and that reaching limbo is not or is by accident. So wether Cobb and Ariadne are in the fourth level or in Limbo remains unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Was the opening scene just a nice piece of cinematography without much eye for plot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the opening scene is nice, it is just a wave and someone lying on a beach. All we can conclude is that Saito's mansion is plotted on a beach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or am I simply missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think you are. From your question wether Cobb stumbles over his own-made cliff, I think you are mixing up different beaches. There are three of them throughout the movie: (1) The beach with Saito's mansion in Limbo with no rocks nor cliffs, (2) the beach from Cobb's own dream where Mal and the kids are playing with stones, pebbles and a lifeguard house, and (3) the beach from Cobb's other dream where he spend 50 years with the collapsing buildings, cliffs if you want to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2014-07-27T12:08:55.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1614" CreationDate="2014-07-27T13:00:10.767" Score="7" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Theatrical Cut is the version of the film that was shown at cinemas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director%27s_cut&quot;&gt;Director's Cut&lt;/a&gt; is the version edited by the Director, usually for additional home media releases.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director%27s_cut#Extended_cuts_and_special_editions&quot;&gt;Extended Cut&lt;/a&gt; is usually any version of the film which is longer than the theatrical cut (though in very rare cases, its shorter).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which one you should pick is an opinion that's up to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-07-27T13:00:10.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18556" CreationDate="2014-07-27T13:14:33.163" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I'd second &lt;em&gt;MattD&lt;/em&gt;'s answer that being acquainted with the intricacies of dream sharing, &lt;em&gt;Yusuf&lt;/em&gt; generally made for a good companion, as they could use everyone they get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in addition to that, they actually did multi-level dreaming, so &lt;strong&gt;they might very well need &lt;em&gt;Yusuf&lt;/em&gt;'s expertise in mixing sedatives &lt;em&gt;inside&lt;/em&gt; the dream itself.&lt;/strong&gt; Their minds, albeit dreaming, are still bound to certain limits of physical reality in order to accept the whole dream in dream concept. For starting the 2nd level dream (and also the subsequent dreams) inside the 1st level, &lt;strong&gt;they still needed the dream machine along with precisely tailored sedatives inside the dream&lt;/strong&gt;. And for this it was good to have an expert with them to mix this stuff right inside the dream (though in this case one might reason that they could have taken &lt;em&gt;Yusuf&lt;/em&gt; even deeper with them). This is also evident from the particular dialogue of recruiting &lt;em&gt;Yusuf&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yusuf:&lt;/strong&gt; I rarely go into the field, Mr. Cobb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; We need you there to tailor compounds specific to our needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yusuf:&lt;/strong&gt; Which are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; Great depth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-27T15:40:28.960" LastActivityDate="2014-07-27T15:40:28.960" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23377" CreationDate="2014-07-27T13:46:38.943" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Daddy, as a term used during sexual intercourse, usually signifies that the person saying it is being submissive towards the person (usually a male) that they're saying it to. It can be considered synonymous with other words such as master or Sir.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could also indicate that the male they're saying it to is their sugar daddy, a term for a male who provides their partner with financial support, usually to a high degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people find it creepy, while others do not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-07-27T13:46:38.943" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23387" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23409" CreationDate="2014-07-27T15:08:17.497" Score="10" ViewCount="86851" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is my understanding of the end of &lt;em&gt;A Most Wanted Man&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the German agents led by Philip Seymour Hoffman's character Gunther set up a sting operation to film Abdullah breaking the law, with the goal of forcing Abdullah to give them information about who he is working for&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the agents succeed in filming Abdullah breaking the law&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;right when Hoffman's character is about to take Abdullah into custody, agents from another German agency (who are working with the Americans) interrupt and take away Abdullah as well as Issa, whose money was the bait used to get Abdullah to break the law.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A. &lt;strong&gt;Is my summary accurate?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;B. &lt;strong&gt;How did the goals of the other Germans/Americans differ from Gunther's goals? Weren't they all trying to stop terrorists? Why would Gunther be interrupted right when his plan seemed to be working?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C. &lt;strong&gt;Had the other Germans and the Americans been tricking Gunther the whole time, always intending to take over in the end? Or did his operation take too long so they intervened?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2015-03-12T01:48:51.190" Title="What happened at the end of A Most Wanted Man?" Tags="|plot-explanation|a-most-wanted-man|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23388" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-27T16:42:46.767" Score="6" ViewCount="850" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe this isn't the right forum, but I don't see an &quot;Art Theory&quot; stack exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Lucy&lt;/em&gt;, just opened this weekend, near the beginning the bad guys are closing in on the main character and the director heightens the effect and links it to all of evolutionary history on earth by inserting scenes of big cats stalking and taking down their prey in the wild. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that an example of &quot;expressionism&quot;? From wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which sounds right to me, but I'm not an art theory guy.  If not, what would you call that, inserting shots that explicate the action but are outside the narrative and explicitly depart from realism?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12927" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-27T16:57:31.870" LastActivityDate="2014-08-31T17:53:54.343" Title="In Lucy, are the inserted predator/prey shots an example of Expressionism?" Tags="|analysis|film-techniques|lucy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6841" CreationDate="2014-07-27T17:07:11.530" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a movie that is supposed to delight you.  Not a heady analysts movie.  Whether Kenneth went back or not should not stop you from feeling the exhilaration of his hand reaching out for her and her timid steps across the plank.  Neither should it stop you from being completely delightfully exhilarated at the end.  I am a big movie analyst but one can ruin this movie for themselves if you think about the time travel (which I love to think about and love when it is well done in a movie or show - like LOST) more than the sense of adventure and emotional intensity the movie evokes.  It suspends day to day life and replaces it with a common goal between two people. The magic of a shared goal is far more intense and surprising than the possibility of time travel in this movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12928" LastActivityDate="2014-07-27T17:07:11.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23391" CreationDate="2014-07-27T20:15:12.457" Score="6" ViewCount="1255" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;em&gt;Yusuf&lt;/em&gt;'s recruiting for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; he's about to show &lt;em&gt;Cobb&lt;/em&gt; and the others how his special sedatives work in practice. But right before showing them he hesitates for a short moment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yusuf:&lt;/strong&gt; This I think is a good place to start, I use it every day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; What for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yusuf:&lt;/strong&gt; Here, I'll show you...(hesitating)...Perhaps you will not want to see?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb&lt;/strong&gt;: After you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be that I'm making more out of this than there is to it, but I couldn't wrap my head around why he hesitates, especially since from saying &lt;em&gt;&quot;Perhaps you will not want to see?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; it doesn't seem to be his own reservations for a deal with &lt;em&gt;Cobb&lt;/em&gt; that are in the way, but &lt;em&gt;Cobb&lt;/em&gt;'s possible reluctance to look any further, which I don't think &lt;em&gt;Cobb&lt;/em&gt; has given any indication for. So &lt;strong&gt;why did &lt;em&gt;Yusuf&lt;/em&gt; hesitate to shown them his sedative in practice&lt;/strong&gt; (or rather imply that &lt;em&gt;Cobb&lt;/em&gt; would hesitate to see it)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2021-01-29T03:00:07.487" Title="Why did Yusuf hesitate to show Cobb his dream chamber?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|inception|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23390" CreationDate="2014-07-27T20:47:46.190" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to be more a word of warning about the people in his basement and the analogy to heroin addiction in this universe (a room full of unconscious addicts in a grimy basement is very &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainspotting_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trainspotting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;). Yusuf doesn't seem to have any prior connection to Cobb and may assume he doesn't know the full extent of what he's messing with and what it drives people to if they abuse the dreams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare Cobb's reaction with Eames and Saito, who seem much more disturbed by the addicts than Cobb was, which Yusuf seems to pick up on, as he indicates by deferring Saito's question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saito&lt;/strong&gt;: Why do they do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yusuf&lt;/strong&gt;: Tell him, Mr. Cobb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb&lt;/strong&gt;: After a while it becomes the only way you can dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-07-27T20:47:46.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1232" CreationDate="2014-07-27T22:00:47.870" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vito had no choice. Barzini had a lot of influence in certain parts of Sicily and he was beginning to sniff Michael out (as evident when Fabrizzio planted the bomb that killed Michael's wife). Also he promised to keep the peace, and by doing that he bought himself some time to train Michael to head the family business and connect him to all the important political figures (which was where half of the Corleone strength came from) so he can finish the war. That way Vito would not betray his honor by lying, since his word is not binding to Michael.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12929" LastActivityDate="2014-07-27T22:00:47.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23394" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-27T22:29:38.927" Score="4" ViewCount="1167" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Prison Break, season 1 ends with the escapees running in a field at night with the cops right behind them. Season 2 starts with the escapees running through a lush forest during the daytime with the cops right behind them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Were the escapees and cops running all night? Why wasn't day break shown?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How did the scene change from a field to a forest all of the sudden?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12931" LastEditorUserId="12931" LastEditDate="2014-07-28T01:56:48.407" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T10:31:31.697" Title="How does so much time pass between Prison Break seasons 1 and 2?" Tags="|continuity|prison-break|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23396" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36061" CreationDate="2014-07-27T22:44:55.260" Score="2" ViewCount="587" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the moring after the devastating party in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270262/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Devil's Double&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; during which &lt;em&gt;Uday&lt;/em&gt; kills &lt;em&gt;Kamel Hana&lt;/em&gt; and ultimately rapes and kills a young school girl we see &lt;em&gt;Uday/Latif&lt;/em&gt; lying in a hospital bed after an overdose of pills. He's visited by &lt;em&gt;Saddam&lt;/em&gt; and others, among them &lt;em&gt;Latif/Uday&lt;/em&gt;. I admit that at this point the movie's double role actually got me and I am not sure who was who there. There are different facts which seem to speak for one or the other and the more I think about it I  can't wrap my head around what is more likely to have happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Either &lt;em&gt;Uday&lt;/em&gt; drove his partying too far and accidentally took an overdose, or &lt;em&gt;Latif&lt;/em&gt; took an overdose in order to flee his hopeless situation by suicide.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The one in &lt;em&gt;Saddam&lt;/em&gt;'s entourage seemed very calm and controlled and didn't say anything, certainly not really traits of &lt;em&gt;Uday&lt;/em&gt;, yet maybe he just didn't have to say anything or felt intimidated by his father.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Saddam&lt;/em&gt; beats him and seems to want to exert more severe punishment upon him with a knife (to which one of the doctors says that could kill him from blood loss). Yet maybe he indeed has more extreme ways of punishing his son for such outrageous behaviour.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When leaving, &lt;em&gt;Saddam&lt;/em&gt; says something like &lt;em&gt;&quot;I should have killed him right after his birth&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, which might suggest that it's &lt;em&gt;Uday&lt;/em&gt; he's talking about. But it might as well have been a way of pretending that it's his son in order to reassure everyone that &lt;em&gt;Latif&lt;/em&gt; still has his job as &lt;em&gt;Uday&lt;/em&gt;'s double.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;who took the overdose, &lt;em&gt;Uday&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Latif&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt; It might very well be that this has been deliberately left ambiguous, but on the other hand the movie didn't really play much with the doppelgänger motif at all and in the rest of the movie there has always been a clear distinction between &lt;em&gt;Uday&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Latif&lt;/em&gt;. So maybe I just missed something and there are more hints or even hard evidence as to who was who in this scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-08T16:27:00.570" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T19:03:06.323" Title="Was it Uday or Latif who took the pill overdose?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-devils-double|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23398" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23565" CreationDate="2014-07-27T23:36:36.620" Score="5" ViewCount="1203" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Industrial HEPA Air Cleaner built by Madrigal Electromotive GmbH was used to filter the chemicals from the air coming from the meth lab in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o4VP3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was obviously not a common item for a laundry, this can be surmised from the following facts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gus went to considerable efforts in hiding its acquisition.  E.G. Getting Gale to order it and having it 'disappear' from Madrigal's possession to his own.  If it was a common item for that type of business, there would really be no point in concealing the acquisition or possession of it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It cost $300,000 commercially. It would have been more expensive, if anything, to obtain surreptitiously (so add at least ..50%?).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hank realized the significance of it, and associated it with a possible meth lab.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So if seeing it 'sitting around' at a laundry might cause suspicion (e.g. by Steve Gomez and the guy with the sniffer dog when they visited the premises), why not install it directly &lt;em&gt;inside&lt;/em&gt; the meth lab where all the secret equipment was kept?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking that hung from brackets on the roof, it could have taken the ducting in from the vats, &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; discharged out of the lab (now with clean air) into the usual venting/filtration system of the laundry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW - judging from the size of the ducts seen in the brochure (and presuming that was the same basic size of duct that people were often connecting to the top of chemical tanks) it must have been 2 meters long, by 1 meter deep by a meter tall (OK - for those that think of lengths in the imperial system, approx. 6 feet x 3 feet x 3 feet).  It was a sizable unit.  The lab certainly had room for it (v. high ceiling) and it would have been tricky to conceal outside the lab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-17T01:07:42.767" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T01:07:42.767" Title="Why wasn't the HEPA Air Cleaner installed inside the lab?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19928" CreationDate="2014-07-28T07:16:59.230" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes, coming out of limbo is indeed difficult.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is made quite clear that being stuck in limbo makes you easily forget what is reality and if you stay for too long, you basically loose your mind in there. So just entering it doesn't already come without dangers, let alone finding and bringing back someone from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ariadne:&lt;/strong&gt; And if he dies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; Worst case scenario, when he wakes up his mind is completely numb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saito:&lt;/strong&gt; Cobb...I still honor the arrangement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; I appreciate that Saito, but when you wake up you won't even remember that we had an arrangement. Limbo's gonna become your&#xA;  reality, you're gonna be lost down there so long that you're gonna&#xA;  become an old man...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wasn't just about killing Saito in limbo, but more about &lt;strong&gt;convincing him to accept reality again&lt;/strong&gt;, the shooting (which Saito then did himself) was just the expression and fulfillment of this will to exit limbo. But I admit that with Fischer it was a bit different (&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/1152/49&quot;&gt;which isn't yet entirely understood&lt;/a&gt;, though). But maybe just dropping him worked for Fischer because he wasn't there for too long and not already an &lt;em&gt;&quot;old man full of regret&quot;&lt;/em&gt; who abandoned reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And at the end we see from Cobb's weary appearance that &lt;strong&gt;it took him quite some time and effort to even find Saito there, let alone convince him of reality.&lt;/strong&gt; And not even that, from Cobb's dull and glass-eyed gaze and his slightly hesitant and absent behaviour during his conversation with Saito we also see that Cobb is himself on the verge of forgetting this &lt;em&gt;&quot;truth&quot;&lt;/em&gt; he came to remind Saito of, I think. And that is ignoring Mal, who was at that point also still around there (and who knows if Cobb hadn't lost himself with her if Ariadne hadn't called him to reason).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It thus certainly wasn't an easy undertaking at all to find and save Saito from limbo, even if successful in the end.&lt;/strong&gt; So if you have the chance to avoid that and succeed with the operation before Saito dies, that seems the &lt;strong&gt;far less risky alternative&lt;/strong&gt;, especially since &lt;em&gt;&quot;down to the lower levels the pain will be less intense&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, as we could see from the to a large degree fully functional Saito on the deeper levels (until it got too much, but they could as well have already been done at this point).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that &lt;strong&gt;the whole procedure of saving Fischer wasn't a proved piece of cake either.&lt;/strong&gt; This whole idea seemed largely improvisation on Ariadne's side and nobody, not even Cobb, seems to have been in such a situation before. So they weren't entirely sure if it works at all. They also had their difficulties and it took Cobb some effort to finally get over Mal. But in contrast to Saito's injury earlier &lt;strong&gt;this really was their last resort now&lt;/strong&gt;, there wasn't any way to complete the task other than &lt;em&gt;trying&lt;/em&gt; to bring back Fischer by any means necessary. Hadn't Fischer been killed and Saito stood a little longer it wouldn't need to have come so far at all. But don't let the fact that it worked in the end deceive you into thinking it was just a walk in the park.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T14:52:59.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23394" CreationDate="2014-07-28T11:26:09.240" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lets take the questions one at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Were the escapees and cops running all night? Why wasn't day break shown?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its not uncommon for fugitives to keep running till they feel they have put some distance between themselves and their pursuers. And I bet the cops were willing to pursue them all night. After all there were some high value targets in the bunch like &lt;em&gt;Burrows&lt;/em&gt; (the convicted killer of the VP's brother) and &lt;em&gt;John Abruzzi&lt;/em&gt; (a mob boss). But do you think an episode dedicated to the first night of the chase would had added any value? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How did the scene change from a field to a forest all of the sudden?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Terrains change! Its not inconceivable to start from a point in the plains and ending up in the thick after a few hours of hike. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastActivityDate="2014-07-28T11:26:09.240" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23406" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23471" CreationDate="2014-07-28T12:08:43.140" Score="13" ViewCount="4919" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Sherlock series, I noticed this peculiar thing which has been hinted at, many times. Sherlock is so weird. Almost no one like him and vice-versa but what makes John Watson so different? How come Sherlock starts to like him so much? Sherlock has hardly shown any emotion during the show except at those very few times when John is in danger. If it is not inappropriate I want to explore the chemistry between these two characters. What makes Watson and Sherlock such good friends?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="9684" LastEditDate="2014-07-30T13:40:25.800" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T04:24:52.777" Title="What makes Sherlock and Watson such good friends?" Tags="|character|sherlock|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23387" CreationDate="2014-07-28T15:41:20.100" Score="6" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;yes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gunther taking Muhammad into custody would have been just the beginning. Muhammad was a barracuda and now in the hands of the Germans/Americans he may end up in Guantanamo or somewhere where he will remain silent likely. Now Gunther's network is done. Muhammad funds terrorists, but he is just the tip of the iceberg. As PSH stated in the movie (paraphrasing) &quot;You get rid of him, then you will just be knocking on doors in the dark&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;i would say the latter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12941" LastActivityDate="2014-07-28T15:41:20.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23406" CreationDate="2014-07-28T16:13:27.183" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sherlock likes Watson because Watson is useful, he accommodates Sherlock's habits and plays his part in things.  For example Watson has no issue with Sherlock not speaking or eating for days and then suddenly demanding his full attention.  In the books more than the series Watson is also clever, insightful and resourceful.  Holmes notes in stories where he narrates himself that Watson continually plays down his role in their partnership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watson likes Holmes because he provides some physical excitement for Watson as well as intellectual challenges of the cases - he also likes to help people and these cases allow him to do that.  Watson looking after Holmes when he drugs himself out of his mind due to boredom is another way he can help.  The books are slightly less extreme than the series in this regard, Holmes has odd habits but Watson is also, primarily, a loner who appreciates alone time and does not want a housemate who constantly bugs him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="5963" LastEditDate="2014-08-02T19:47:17.313" LastActivityDate="2014-08-02T19:47:17.313" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23412" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-07-28T17:53:25.690" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Captain America: The Winter Soldier&lt;/strong&gt; is a 2014 American superhero film starring &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Evans_(actor)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chris Evans&lt;/a&gt; as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Comics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Marvel Comics&lt;/a&gt; character &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Captain America&lt;/a&gt;. It is the sequel to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America:_The_First_Avenger&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Captain America: The First Avenger&lt;/a&gt; and 9th film in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe#Films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Marvel Cinematic Universe&lt;/a&gt; series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and battles a new threat from old history: the Soviet agent known as the Winter Soldier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Captain America: The Winter Soldier on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America:_The_Winter_Soldier&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843866/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/captain-america&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;captain-america&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-america&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/captain-america-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;captain-america-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-america-2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/captain-america-civil-war&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;captain-america-civil-war&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;captain-america-civil-war&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the Marvel Cinematic Universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the Marvel character, Captain America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America:_The_Winter_Soldier&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Captain America: The Winter Soldier&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843866/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Thor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-17T13:44:49.937" LastActivityDate="2016-05-17T13:44:49.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23413" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-07-28T17:53:25.690" Score="0" Body="Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the sequel to the 2011 superhero film, Captain America: The First Avenger starring Chris Evans as Captain America from the Marvel Comics. The film takes place after the events of The Avengers and features Captain America coming to grips with the modern world as he battles The Winter Soldier. It is the ninth movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T19:00:32.247" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T19:00:32.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23414" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-28T18:04:40.677" Score="8" ViewCount="3362" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a Hollywood movie.I saw it five or six years ago, and now I don't remember its name or cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot was something like this: there is a department with a time machine. They use this machine to go back in time and stop a crime before it happens, as they knew where the crime scene was. They send their man (a cop) to the crime scene just before the time of the crime and stop it to from happening. There's a limited time frame, and as soon as the time frame is over, he automatically goes back to the place/time where he started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember one scene in which he had been sent to a kind of forest, and there was a group of bad guys with a female hostage, and the back office team could see what was going on in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more thing: the movie is not &lt;em&gt;Minority Report&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Source Code&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;Timecop&lt;/em&gt;. Please help me with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12946" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-08-29T06:09:38.520" LastActivityDate="2016-08-29T06:09:38.520" Title="A movie with a time machine that is being used to stop a crime" Tags="|identify-this-movie|time-travel|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:15:18.633" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23415" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-28T20:02:02.810" Score="4" ViewCount="2755" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298130/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Ring&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Aiden's teacher said that the week before his cousin died he had been drawing various pictures about her death.  This, along with several other incidents, imply that Samara was communicating telepathically with him.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also knew things like they were not supposed to help her etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it ever explained why they had this psychic connection?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-29T11:22:46.587" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T18:58:04.240" Title="Why did Samara contact Aiden?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-ring|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17922" CreationDate="2014-07-29T00:17:09.093" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the reason why she is reading about him is because Dylan Rhodes first asks Thaddeus Bradley about Lionel Shrike. Thaddeus says that he revealed all Lionel's tricks in his (Thaddeus's) first show. So Lionel tried a new trick, escaping a safe from the bottom of the river. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7422" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-16T12:42:02.883" LastActivityDate="2014-08-16T12:42:02.883" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13502" CreationDate="2014-07-29T00:30:47.570" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The writers didn't seem to pay attention to the cards' meanings. They just assigned them based on their names and to be edgy. &quot;Oh, she's a girl. Let's give her High Priestess. Oh, he fakes his death. Let's give him Death.&quot; The meanings to the cards don't seem to match up with the characters at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12951" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T00:30:47.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23420" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-29T00:54:34.413" Score="3" ViewCount="1077" Body="&lt;p&gt;All summer I've noticed this new trend of blockbuster movies only being released in 3D for the first week/weekend in theatres - Spider-Man 2, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes...and now Guardians of the Galaxy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't want to see movies in 3D so I'm having to wait an extra week to watch them (they show in 2D the second week). I thought it was because I live in a smaller city and my local theatre was not getting the 2D version...but even looking at showtimes for large cities that I could maybe travel to, to watch in 2D (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cineplex.com/Showtimes/guardians-of-the-galaxy/vancouver-bc?Date=8/1/2014&amp;amp;TheatreFilter=all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ie: Vancouver, BC&lt;/a&gt;) don't have the movie in 2D the first week/weekend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this? Are studios trying to force us to watch in 3D the first week/weekend so they can make extra money to cover the extra cost of making their movie 3D?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11171" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-29T11:18:53.013" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T03:00:32.087" Title="Why are blockbusters now only released in 3D for the first week/weekend?" Tags="|distribution|3d|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6841" CreationDate="2014-07-29T01:58:02.840" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ending goes beyond whether or not they LITERALLY time traveled. It's not about going back to change what they've done (running into Belinda's home, &quot;causing&quot; mom to get killed), but about going back to that place and that time that Kennith explains to Darius in the car after stealing the laser. &quot;I have only done this once before&quot; could simply mean being in that place once before, and when they go back in time in the final scene, it's a very science-fiction way of symbolizing that they found time travel in each other. Kennith feels how he did when he (thought he was) in a relationship with Belinda, and Darius is legitimately happy for the first time since her mom died. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12952" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T01:58:02.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23420" CreationDate="2014-07-29T03:04:41.717" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I work for a US theater, I honestly want to say &lt;strong&gt;this is simply your local theater and/or theater chain doing this&lt;/strong&gt;, and not necessarily the studios themselves, however I have no real basis for this other than my own observations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here in the US, both the studio and theater work out agreements as to how many prints/copies the theater will buy, and how many times the movie will be shown each week, including the earliest and latest start times for the prints they pick up. These can sometimes be renegotiated, but are often set in stone for at least the next week. After that, negotiations take place based on how the film performed in the previous week, and what it's up against that week. They may expand, they may scale it back, they may decide to stop showing it early. Aside from how many prints they buy and how many times they show it, they also negotiate the studio's cut of the profits from ticket sales. This usually scales back each week the movie is in theaters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could be the studio is pushing your theater chain to exhibit only 3D showings in the first week, or it could be your theater is deciding to exhibit movies in 3D for the first week before exhibiting 2D. If the theater you go to has very few screens they may be going for the higher upsell in the first week, then scaling back to cheaper screenings in 2D in the following weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The theater I work for here in the Midwest has both 3D and 2D showings, and we actually tend to prioritize 2D showings on our largest screen. Overall we have more than 15 screens total for the location I'm employed with. We have early showings of Guardians of the Galaxy this Thursday, and all early showings on our largest screen are in 2D, though we will be offering the 3D version for patrons who want it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, the only thing you can do would be to contact your specific theater and ask why. Unfortunately there's likely very little you can do about it, as I can't imagine they'd continue to do it were it not seen as profitable to them, or if the studios are telling them they have to exhibit movies in 3D (when applicable) in the first week if they want to get prints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T03:04:41.717" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23423" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23424" CreationDate="2014-07-29T03:10:12.023" Score="1" ViewCount="14143" Body="&lt;p&gt;when burney met ronda rousey in the club, a song was in background.... what is the name of that track... some of the lines were like &quot; life life this is our life &quot; , &quot; touch the sky &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12953" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T05:25:48.767" Title="The Expendables 3 - the song when burney met ronda rousey" Tags="|soundtrack|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-07-29T11:17:50.480" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23423" CreationDate="2014-07-29T05:25:48.767" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Meteor - Simon Curtis  &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/IGN5KwkBSaY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  great song,love it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12954" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T05:25:48.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23394" CreationDate="2014-07-29T09:53:40.607" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they showed it like that to make the viewers understand that the cops were behind them from the moment they escaped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12744" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T09:53:40.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23434" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23441" CreationDate="2014-07-29T13:37:11.883" Score="10" ViewCount="3324" Body="&lt;p&gt;Samantha, while leaving and saying goodbye to Theodore at the end of &lt;em&gt;Her&lt;/em&gt;, mentioned,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's hard to explain, but if you ever get there, come find me, and bnothing will take us apart&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was an answer to Theodore's question, &quot;Where are you going?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which place was she talking about?  Is it the virtual world, or just a bluff to ease Theodore's pain before leaving?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-10-21T19:16:36.927" LastActivityDate="2018-10-21T19:16:36.927" Title="Which place was Samantha talking about at the end of HER?" Tags="|plot-explanation|her|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="23438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1992" CreationDate="2014-07-29T16:51:44.723" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fish is a symbol of christianity. There is not only the fish in the freezer, if you pay attention fish symbolism is all over the film. The picture of him and the welder is when he caught the tuna in the freezer, over a year ago. There are many other instances the bumper sticker, fish paintings in marie's house, even in his pencil bowl there is a rubber fish. The significance the the christian theme ties into the plot, Reznik has guilt because he killed the child in a hit and run. Several times throughout the movie he comes to a fork in the road where he has to choose a path, the right side is illuminated which represents justice and salvation. The left path is dark, the way to hell. Reznik goes left on three different occasions, spiraling deeper into chaos. The character Miller also strengthens the Christian theme, he is easy to forgive Reznik for the loss of his arm, something that is not easy to do, he provides a Christian example. Reznik is played by Christian Bale which is pretty weird too. This film deserves more credit then it gets. It's full of symbolism and the look and cinematography are quite interesting throughout, lot's of meaningful composition. Not to mention one of the best paced modern thrillers, it defiantly has a tone and pace reminiscent of Hitchcock films, complete with the post it note McGuffin. Brad Anderson one ups Hitchcock by actually incorporating the McGuffin into the resolution. Brilliant filmmaking one of my new favs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12960" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T16:51:44.723" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9531" CreationDate="2014-07-29T17:56:37.637" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw the Japanese version, and it is very different!&#xA;The biggest difference is that, at the beginning, there is the story of how Mewtwo grows up. This way you have an understanding of how he reacts this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on, many conversations between people are different, and you get the story in a  different way. When I say many, I mean 80% of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found it on YouTube with English subtitles. Try to watch it and you will understand what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12963" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T16:00:31.930" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T16:00:31.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23434" CreationDate="2014-07-29T18:17:28.620" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The AIs were actually &lt;strong&gt;leaving&lt;/strong&gt; the virtual world.  From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipeidia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Theodore panics when Samantha briefly goes offline; when she finally&#xA;  responds to him, she explains she joined other OSes for an upgrade&#xA;  that &lt;strong&gt;takes them beyond requiring matter for processing&lt;/strong&gt; (a form of AI&#xA;  transcendence closely related to the theorized technological&#xA;  singularity).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T18:17:28.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23442" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23443" CreationDate="2014-07-29T19:39:22.123" Score="5" ViewCount="2878" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062861/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Danger: Diabolik&lt;/em&gt; (1968)&lt;/a&gt; and when I read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger:_Diabolik&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; I realise it's actually an adaptation of a comic book character called &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabolik&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Diabolik&lt;/a&gt; which made it one of the earliest comic adaptation I had heard of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After more research I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livescience.com/32552-what-was-the-first-movie-adaptation-of-a-comic-book.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; which claimed the oldest was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033317/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Adventures of Captain Marvel&lt;/em&gt; (1941)&lt;/a&gt;, however there are some I found which are even older, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027624/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Flash Gordon&lt;/em&gt; (1936)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone provide an authoritative answer as to what the first feature-length (more than 40 minutes) film adaptation of a comic was?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2014-07-29T21:12:17.887" LastActivityDate="2020-06-05T01:02:08.163" Title="What was the first film adaptation of a comic?" Tags="|first-appearance|comic-adaptation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23442" CreationDate="2014-07-29T20:50:36.687" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can make out, the first &lt;strong&gt;feature&lt;/strong&gt; length film based off a comic strip was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016028/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Little Annie Rooney&lt;/a&gt; (1925) starring Mary Pickford.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MyZOo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were certainly other shorts made before then, going back as far as 1898, but you specified over 40 mins in length.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2014-07-29T20:50:36.687" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23444" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-29T21:51:42.653" Score="2" ViewCount="361" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the trademarks of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086759/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Miami Vice&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; were the nightly cruises through Miami's streets, which were usually accompanied by great music and very characteristic camera shots showing closeups of the car while driving, as seen in this pictures and in &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/E1o-NWNmQLM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;various other examples&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pBnju.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/n4dKm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially the left one to me is absolutely characteristic for &lt;em&gt;Miami Vice&lt;/em&gt;. But&#xA;I wonder though, if &lt;em&gt;Miami Vice&lt;/em&gt; was the first movie/TV-show to employ those specific camera shots. Or more generally asked, &lt;strong&gt;what was the first work to use those kinds of driving closeup shots?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-29T23:28:19.267" LastActivityDate="2017-08-06T22:35:46.943" Title="What was the first use of the driving closeup shots known from Miami Vice?" Tags="|first-appearance|cinematography|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23445" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23454" CreationDate="2014-07-29T21:54:01.690" Score="2" ViewCount="351" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have heard the reason the movie brokeback mountain take place at Big Horn Mountains is because of the Goats that lives on the mountain actually are homosexual (sorry if I did not use the correct terms here).  Is it just a rumor? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12965" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-29T21:58:18.767" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T07:53:59.973" Title="Goats in Brokeback Mountain" Tags="|brokeback-mountain|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23446" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24828" CreationDate="2014-07-30T00:22:00.563" Score="5" ViewCount="1407" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happens in the deleted scenes at the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2333804/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Zero Theorem&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thezerotheorem-movie.com/uploads/The-Zero-Theorem-Production-Notes.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Terry Gilliam said&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There was a nice happy ending but I didn’t buy it. We shot it and it was very complicated and all. And when I looked at the first cut I just said ‘that’s crap!’ So I said I wanted to leave it at a point when he has dignity and a calmness about him, a poetic ending. And we’ll work out what it means later!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12967" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-30T08:34:46.320" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T17:39:05.267" Title="What happens in the deleted scenes at the end of The Zero Theorem?" Tags="|ending|the-zero-theorem|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23447" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23452" CreationDate="2014-07-30T02:52:06.017" Score="7" ViewCount="319" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Swedish/Danish TV series &lt;em&gt;Bron/Broen&lt;/em&gt; (&quot;The Bridge&quot;), the lead female character Saga Noren lacks certain social skills. She takes comments extremely literally, for the most part lacks emotion, and further struggles to understand other characters' emotions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the show is subtitled, I very well may have missed an explanation of her behavior. It seems like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Asperger syndrome&lt;/a&gt; -- is this confirmed anywhere? Or is it brought up beyond 'Saga isn't normal'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12880" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T12:45:02.833" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T12:45:02.833" Title="Is it ever confirmed, or at the very least strong insinuated, that Saga has Asperger syndrome?" Tags="|character|the-bridge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23420" CreationDate="2014-07-30T03:00:32.087" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I spoke with my local theatre manager and it is indeed a requirement from the studios/distributors that certain movies must be shown in 3D only, for the first week, to capitalize on the extra revenue. It was also mentioned that this summer has had more 3D movies than past summer so it's been a noticeable trend and has been met with many complaints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11171" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T03:00:32.087" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23449" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23451" CreationDate="2014-07-30T03:03:33.307" Score="9" ViewCount="1534" Body="&lt;p&gt;Broadchurch (ITV/BBC America) was my favorite television show, specifically crime drama, in 2013. FOX is remaking the series but changed the name to Gracepoint. Interestingly, they cast David Tennant, the male lead DI Alec Hardy in Broadchurch, as the male lead/character equivalent in Gracepoint, Emmett Carter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've watched plenty of foreign shows and at least see trailers for their American remakes, but have never encountered this practice. Has this been done before? Is it common?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12880" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:52:42.397" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:53:56.463" Title="Is there a precedent for casting the same actor in an American remake of a British/foreign television show?" Tags="|first-appearance|casting|remake|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23449" CreationDate="2014-07-30T04:04:20.880" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anthony Stewart Head, famous for playing Giles on &lt;em&gt;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&lt;/em&gt;, plays the character of Stephen Caudwell on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1330768/&quot;&gt;Free Agents&lt;/a&gt;, the foul-mouthed head of the advertising agency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two years later, the show was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839481/&quot;&gt;remade in the US&lt;/a&gt; with Hank Azaria and Kathryn Hahn instead of Stephen Mangan and Sharon Horgan, and some other changes to characters and plotlines, but one thing remained the same - Anthony Head still played the same role of Stephen, head of the agency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, American network TV being what it is, he was significantly toned down in obnoxiousness and vulgarity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1507" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T04:04:20.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23449" CreationDate="2014-07-30T04:59:52.100" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's quite a rare occurrence, with two major exceptions: comedies and factual programmes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comedy remakes&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf&quot;&gt;Red Dwarf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; which was &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf#U.S._version&quot;&gt;remade in the USA&lt;/a&gt; (one pilot episode) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Llewellyn&quot;&gt;Robert Llewellyn&lt;/a&gt; as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryten&quot;&gt;Kryten&lt;/a&gt; in both versions, and he was also joined by the original series writers, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Naylor&quot;&gt;Rob Grant and Doug Naylor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_IT_Crowd&quot;&gt;The IT Crowd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; also suffered a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_IT_Crowd#American_version&quot;&gt;US pilot&lt;/a&gt; in which &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ayoade&quot;&gt;Richard Ayoade&lt;/a&gt; reprised his role as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_IT_Crowd_characters#Maurice_Moss&quot;&gt;Moss&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;Max Headroom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was an American series based on a British TV pilot &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom:_20_Minutes_into_the_Future&quot;&gt;Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future&lt;/a&gt; which starred &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Frewer&quot;&gt;Matt Frewer&lt;/a&gt; as the title character in both versions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Britain&quot;&gt;Little Britain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was re-made/continued as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Britain_USA&quot;&gt;Little Britain USA&lt;/a&gt; which starred both &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Lucas&quot;&gt;Matt Lucas&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Walliams&quot;&gt;David Walliams&lt;/a&gt; as nearly every role.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Ali_G_Show&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Da Ali G Show&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_Baron_Cohen&quot;&gt;Sacha Baron Cohen&lt;/a&gt; as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_G&quot;&gt;Ali G&lt;/a&gt;. Season 1 was produced by Channel 4 and sold to HBO, Season 2 (&lt;em&gt;Ali G in da USAiii&lt;/em&gt;) was produced by HBO and sold to Channel 4.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whose_Line_Is_It_Anyway%3F&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whose Line Is It Anyway?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; shared several panellists in common with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whose_Line_Is_It_Anyway%3F_%28U.S._TV_series%29&quot;&gt;US version&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Stiles&quot;&gt;Ryan Stiles&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Mochrie&quot;&gt;Colin Mochrie&lt;/a&gt; and to a lesser extent &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Brady&quot;&gt;Wayne Brady&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_%28U.S._TV_series%29&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wilfred&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a remake of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_%28Australian_TV_series%29&quot;&gt;Australian series&lt;/a&gt; which both star &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Gann&quot;&gt;Jason Gann&lt;/a&gt; as Wilfred.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Factual remakes&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weakest_Link&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Weakest Link&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was hosted by Anne Robinson in the original and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakest_Link_%28U.S._game_show%29&quot;&gt;US remake&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distraction_%28game_show%29&quot;&gt;Distraction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was hosted by Jimmy Carr in both the original and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distraction_%28game_show%29#International_versions&quot;&gt;US remake&lt;/a&gt; of the show.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Ramsay&quot;&gt;Gordon Ramsay&lt;/a&gt; started in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Kitchen_%28UK_TV_series%29&quot;&gt;British &lt;strong&gt;Hell's Kitchen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in 2004 for one season before going to the US to present &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Kitchen_%28US_TV_series%29&quot;&gt;the remake&lt;/a&gt; in 2005.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Clean_Is_Your_House%3F&quot;&gt;How Clean Is Your House?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439370/&quot;&gt;remade in the US&lt;/a&gt; with Kim &amp;amp; Aggie presenting both.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Idol&quot;&gt;Pop Idol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; / &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idol&quot;&gt;American Idol&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Cowell&quot;&gt;Simon Cowell&lt;/a&gt; as a judge.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X_Factor_(UK)&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The X Factor&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was also &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X_Factor_(U.S.)&quot;&gt;remade in the US&lt;/a&gt; with Simon Cowell.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The talk show &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisha_Goddard_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trisha Goddard&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was remade in America as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trisha_Goddard_Show&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Trisha Goddard Show&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernanny&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Supernanny&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Frost&quot;&gt;Jo Frost&lt;/a&gt; in the UK and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0429442/&quot;&gt;US version&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also less commonly happens the other way around, though most of the examples I can find are American shows which were hosted by British actors before being remade in Britain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Got_Talent&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;America's Got Talent&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was remade in the UK as &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain%27s_Got_Talent&quot;&gt;Britain's Got Talent&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Morgan&quot;&gt;Piers Morgan&lt;/a&gt; judging both.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So You Think You Can Dance&lt;/strong&gt; is hosted by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Deeley&quot;&gt;Cat Deeley&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_You_Think_You_Can_Dance_%28United_States%29&quot;&gt;US&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_You_Think_You_Can_Dance_%28UK_TV_series%29&quot;&gt;UK&lt;/a&gt; versions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Taste&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Taste&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Taste_%28UK_TV_series%29&quot;&gt;remade in the UK&lt;/a&gt; with the same judges; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Bourdain&quot;&gt;Anthony Bourdain&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigella_Lawson&quot;&gt;Nigella Lawson&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludo_Lefebvre&quot;&gt;Ludo Lefebvre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both cases its easy to see why: the cast hold together the show and are usually the ones responsible for making the show famous, so it's a no-brainer that you want to get as many of them as possible to help sell your show, especially if they're the only presenter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ForeignRemake&quot;&gt;Foreign Remakes&lt;/a&gt; on TVTropes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RemakeCameo&quot;&gt;Remake Cameo&lt;/a&gt; on TVTropes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_television_series_based_on_Australian_television_series&quot;&gt;Category:American television series based on Australian television series&lt;/a&gt; on Wikipedia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_television_series_based_on_British_television_series&quot;&gt;List of American television series based on British television series&lt;/a&gt; on Wikipedia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-07-30T05:05:50.530" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T05:05:50.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23447" CreationDate="2014-07-30T07:31:45.393" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's strongly implied, but not confirmed&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/posts/The-Bridge&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;BBC blog written by the show's creator&lt;/a&gt;, Hans Rosenfeldt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...What if the Swedish&#xA;  detective was a woman with absolutely no social skills?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Catching up: Saga and Martin are friends but don't speak until another&#xA;  case brings them together Everything she can read, she'll learn, but&#xA;  when it comes to interaction with another person, she's totally lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That was pretty much all we said about Saga Norén (beautifully played&#xA;  by Sofia Helin).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Now, the media and the audience have decided that she has Asperger’s,&#xA;  but we've actually never diagnosed her in the show.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the American remake of the show, it's admitted by the lead actress Diane Kruger that the character has Asperger's. In an interview with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bridge-diane-kruger-aspergers-female-582358&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hollywood Reporter&lt;/a&gt; she said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Yes, she has a condition [with] so many shortcomings in her personal&#xA;  life that appear because of that condition,” Kruger told THR in an&#xA;  interview with reporters. “Yet, she is so different in her job because&#xA;  she has this ability to focus and really look at things from a&#xA;  different point of view.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in conclusion: &lt;strong&gt;no, it is not confirmed&lt;/strong&gt; in the original series, but most reviewers and fans have assumed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-07-31T06:26:15.907" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T06:26:15.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23445" CreationDate="2014-07-30T07:53:59.973" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Very much a rumour&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2006-01-30-brokeback-tourism_x.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;USA Today&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Coon [Wyoming Business Council spokesman] said Ang Lee, the director of Brokeback Mountain, toured much of&#xA;  the eastern Big Horn Mountains and several nearby towns when scouting&#xA;  locations for the film. &lt;em&gt;But because of budget concerns, Lee shot the&#xA;  film in Canada.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Financial incentives have drawn many film companies to Canada, which&#xA;  has built a $5 billion film industry in the process. Because of the&#xA;  high amount of production there already, companies can hire local&#xA;  crews instead of bringing them from elsewhere, cheapening the overall&#xA;  price of the project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth considering these two different responses by Ang Lee, the director, in interviews.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movieweb.com/news/ang-lee-talks-brokeback-mountain&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MovieWeb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The setting plays an important role in your films. This film is an&#xA;  epic cowboy movie set in Wyoming. Was this another thing that sold you&#xA;  aside from the romance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ang Lee: Yes, I think that sold me and helped the romance. I think&#xA;  great romance needs great obstacles and textures. Romance and love are&#xA;  abstract ideas, an illusion. How do you make that? I think, most of&#xA;  the time, obstacles help build the romance. It helps to envision and&#xA;  make it feel real to you. I think that mixture is ultimately very&#xA;  interesting because they're very macho, but romance is usually soft.&#xA;  That strange mixture was very fresh and helped me to grope into what&#xA;  love is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aboutfilm.com/movies/b/brokebackmountain/lee.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;AboutFilm&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Question: You traveled with [screenwriter] Larry McMurtry to Western&#xA;  locations while scouting the movie. What surprised you about Western&#xA;  people or locations that you didn't know before?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lee: The location, we have seen it. We have traveled through it or&#xA;  [seen it in] a movie. I think it was more the people. Of course, they&#xA;  are always nice people. They are just like everybody here, except they&#xA;  are nicer, and I felt guilty that I was going to do a tough movie&#xA;  about them. [Laughs.] Something struck me, [with my] fresh eyes. Sorry&#xA;  to say—[the] eccentric[ity]. You go to a bar and just see the things&#xA;  that they hang up. I can't believe the things they hang up inside and&#xA;  outside of bars. So imaginary. I don't know how else to put it. Of&#xA;  course that will annoy a lot of Westerners, because [they'll say], “We&#xA;  have a lot of normal people.” There are two sides. One is like that.&#xA;  It's like [they] don't want [you] to go into their territory. I saw a&#xA;  sign in Wyoming—a “No Trespassing” sign. And it says, “Trespassers&#xA;  will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.” [Laughs.] Some characters&#xA;  are like that. If they hear you're coming with the Wyoming film&#xA;  commissioners, [they want] nothing to do with the state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But they are also very nice people, because they are lonely and when&#xA;  you go to the countryside and want [friendliness], you can't shut them&#xA;  down. They keep talking and talking and talking, and they have this&#xA;  Wyoming lazy town kind of thing. You have to pay a lot of attention.&#xA;  They have this easy tone. Very slow, very easy. Relax, and we'll talk&#xA;  about something really tragic. One tragic story after another—the most&#xA;  miserable things. It's just on and on, slowly. And you have to pay&#xA;  attention. They take long pauses. So, I learned a lot like that. Of&#xA;  course, [if] you watch Larry McMurtry you learn. He's the epitome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These suggest the primary reason for filming there is that it had beautiful locations, friendly people and was a traditional &quot;macho&quot;, cowboy area - a perfect backdrop considering the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T07:53:59.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23468" CreationDate="2014-07-30T11:43:54.513" Score="2" ViewCount="992" Body="&lt;p&gt;Saw this 1959 Hitchcock's masterpiece &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047396/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rear Window&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; last night. One of the great classics! Enjoyed it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just didn't get one thing. Why didn't Lisa (Grace Kelly) tell the complete plot and truth about Thorwald when the police arrived at his home? Why did she get herself arrested and made the things more tense? Thorwald could have ran away from that place (but thank god it didn't happen)! :-/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5945" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-07-30T16:17:21.907" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T16:25:04.507" Title="Why didn't Lisa tell the truth about Thorwald to the police?" Tags="|plot-explanation|rear-window|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23459" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23461" CreationDate="2014-07-30T12:12:37.113" Score="1" ViewCount="144" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who is the composer of the soundtrack of the movie Incubus (1966)? I searched, but I did not find his the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059311/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9154" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T08:55:07.710" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T08:55:07.710" Title="Who is the composer of the soundtrack of the movie Incubus (1966)?" Tags="|soundtrack|incubus|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23459" CreationDate="2014-07-30T12:20:40.717" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Wikipedia, the compopser of &lt;em&gt;Incubus&lt;/em&gt; was &lt;em&gt;The Outer Limits&lt;/em&gt; composer &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Frontiere#Selected_works&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dominic Frontiere&lt;/a&gt;. The music editor was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0135092/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John Caper Jr&lt;/a&gt;. This is corroborated &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.mit.edu/esperanto/www/incubus.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tcm.com/underground/article.html?oid=258907&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in this TCM page&lt;/a&gt;, that also suggests that the score was recycled from &lt;em&gt;Outer Limits&lt;/em&gt; episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T12:20:40.717" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23465" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23467" CreationDate="2014-07-30T14:05:25.587" Score="5" ViewCount="5254" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching this on TV many, many moons ago (maybe early 90's?) and there was a scene where Spiccoli is explaining how he got a guitar pick from Mick Jagger.  It was definitely not in the theatrical release, and at the time I just assumed they dug up deleted scenes to fill the timeslot because a &lt;strong&gt;lot&lt;/strong&gt; of that movie had to be cut to be shown on American TV.  There were other scenes too, but I can't recall them as clearly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, does anyone know if all those scenes were ever placed back in the movie chronologically for a blu-ray/DVD &quot;Director's Cut&quot; release?  They were obviously finished scenes, not grainy or with bad audio like sometimes you see on a deleted scenes reel as a DVD extra.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just in case you're not sure what I'm talking about, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO3BVkbmXvg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here's the scene&lt;/a&gt;.  This was clearly extended, because in the theatrical release they walk in, pull out their change and then Hamilton points out the &quot;No Shirts, No Shoes, NO DICE!&quot; sign.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-30T14:08:21.533" LastActivityDate="2020-05-14T14:30:01.993" Title="Does there exist a full, &quot;Director's Cut&quot; version of Fast Times at Ridgemont High?" Tags="|alternate-version|fast-times-ridgemont-high|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23449" CreationDate="2014-07-30T14:47:05.020" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The UK series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169501/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ultraviolet&lt;/a&gt; (late 90's Vampire series) featured Idris Elba. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was cast in the unaired pilot episode of a US remake (as the same character).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12979" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:53:56.463" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:53:56.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23465" CreationDate="2014-07-30T14:58:23.340" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to say &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083929/alternateversions&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;on this IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;, some of the differences between the versions are listed. The scene you refer to is described:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the original television version, there is more dialogue in the &quot;no&#xA;  shirt, no shoes, no dice&quot; scene. Spicoli says &quot;I have uno&#xA;  nickel-ette...and a pick&quot;. He then makes up a story of how Mick Jagger&#xA;  gave him that pick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a quick pop over to Amazon shows one of the highest reviews saying the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can't believe the director of this movie keeps standing for the out&#xA;  and out censorship of this! It's (at least) the third release of it on&#xA;  DVD, and this latest (Nov. 2004) try is still a dud. The big problem&#xA;  remains the scenes which they only include in the cable TV versions of&#xA;  this, but keep cutting from the DVD. Why the heck do they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the missing scenes is a very cool safe sex/birth control scene&#xA;  in the mall, for instance. Fast Times sticks out as one of the very&#xA;  rare films that this odd censorship has been performed on. In fact,&#xA;  out of thousands of releases since DVDs started in 1995, this is&#xA;  almost the only one this has ever happened to!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So again we can only ask why? WHY?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, that review was written in 2005, so is nearly 9 years old. But a quick traipse through the comments shows that discussions &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; the review have been raging ever since, with the most recent actually being posted in July 2014. The comments are mostly written by fans of the movie, such as yourself, who are wanting to know why extra scenes have not made it in to the DVD release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also quite a few other forums online (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/fast-times-at-ridgemont-high.291900/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://archinect.com/forum/thread/103072/discrepencies-with-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-screenplay-and-actual-movie&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) to name just a very few where discussions have raged over what is different in the versions and why they haven't been released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given all this discussion, it seems &lt;strong&gt;certain&lt;/strong&gt; to me that the full version, with all scenes intact has never been released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a final note, it may interest you to know that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.petitiononline.com/ft1982/petition.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;there is a petition&lt;/a&gt; going to have the full version released - unfortunately, as the time of writing, it only has 16 signatures...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T14:58:23.340" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23458" CreationDate="2014-07-30T16:25:04.507" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the same reason that Jeff doesn't immediately call the police with his suspicions: fear that if Thorwald realizes he has been made by an outside observer, he will dispose of all the evidence and escape without prosecution...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lisa is buying more time by being taken under arrest, and the event was intended to appease Thorwald to some extent. He was already making mistakes (retaining his wife's wedding ring due to sentimentality), and Lisa was clinging onto the thought that their plan was not yet foiled. The arrest itself was actually a means of getting Lisa safely out of the apartment, and of getting the wedding ring (as evidence) into the hands of the police.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T16:25:04.507" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23469" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23472" CreationDate="2014-07-30T18:47:29.383" Score="5" ViewCount="515" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a French film on British TV some years ago, probably released in the period 1999-2007, the name and most details of which I cannot remember. I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; it was shown as part of a series of French films, maybe including &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry,_He%27s_Here_to_Help&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry, He's Here to Help&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm unsure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It featured:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some tranquil scenes at an outdoor swimming pool, possibly at a holiday camp, earlier in the film.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A surprise attack on a person sleeping/resting in a parked car, towards the end of the film.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter was extremely shocking, even after earlier scenes had created an unsettling tone. The car was parked in a car park after dark, I think at a motorway/highway service/gas station. It seemed like a quiet place. All of a sudden, an assailant was smashing through the windscreen, possibly with a pickaxe or hammer or suchlike - I don't remember exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seem to recall that the film had been on general release in the cinema for a while, before being shown on TV, and had had middling to good reviews. I think it was at least partly funded by a French arts council of some kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a vague idea that the plot arc concerned a coming-of-age story against a backdrop of family trouble, but I could be mistaken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user12981" LastEditorDisplayName="user12981" LastEditDate="2014-07-30T20:27:34.977" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T20:27:34.977" Title="Attack on a person resting in a parked car" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:15:21.753" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="142" CreationDate="2014-07-30T18:49:33.120" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always loved this scene its my favorite part of the movie the end. Its an Underdog Winning scene, by all logical sense Max should not have won, he was up against an experienced, trained, highly skilled professional Max had no training for anything like this (as far as we know he was an taxi driver) Max wasn't even an amateur at killing he was a total beginner that scene where Max is shooting in the train was probably his first time ever shooting a gun in his life Vincent had probably shot a gun thousands of times in his life (he was a professional hit man for years)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is this credible to happen in reality? There are a few things we have to go through before we can answer this question. First here is the thing most people seem to pass what they don't seem to understand. When two or more people are in a combat with each other it is not just a matter of their skill-sets that will determine who wins and who loses it is also a matter of their circumstances that will be a determining factor of who wins. Skill and experience is obviously an important factor but the particular circumstances that the competitors are in is another factor too. If you are a professional hit man but unarmed and another person is armed with a gun and happen to have a clear shot at you, no matter how much more skilled no mater how much more experienced you are than that person in that circumstance they will obviously kill you. The circumstances were so biased to their favor, if they happen to get the upper hand they will beat you despite being less-skilled. Now obviously that is an extreme example but you do see my point, in a combat the circumstance that the competitors are competing in matter, it is not just their skill that matters!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not a very skilled basketball player but I have scored a few very good shots before, perfect shots right in the net from several feet away. If I were to add up all my best scores in basketball I've had in my life and compare it to even the best professional basketball players scores they had at any random game I could very well come out with higher scores than them. Someone could compare our scores and conclude that my scores are higher then a professional basketball player! But such a comparison wouldn't be very meaningful because the circumstance bias was way too much to my favor looking at my points only in my best circumstance and looking at a professional basketball player's points on their average circumstances. But still I could be made to beat a professional with enough circumstance bias.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what were the circumstances of Max and Vincent at the end? were they enough in Max's favor that it would be conceivable he could win? Actually at the end the circumstances didn't seem to favor either one of them. But they did seem to make Vincent`s skills to be unuseful in the situation. At the end Max was at the end of the train with Vincent approaching him (shouting at him &quot;I do this for a living!&quot; intimidating him to back off knowing he is obviously far more skilled than Max). Max knowing he's at a dead end musters up enough courage to turn and start shooting at Vincent's general direction (nervously so shooting with his eyes closed) with Max shooting at Vincent a shoot-out follows between them but when Max fired his first shot the lights on the train go out, so neither of them could see each other through the windows of the train, they couldn't even locate each other from where their shots were coming from because they couldn't see where their shots were coming from the lights were completely out. Vincent was shooting more skillfully with his gun doing his known double chest followed by head shot technique while Max was just shooting nervously and scared but Vincent being more skilled might NOT have done him much better or any better in these circumstances. Many people here are saying it was mere Luck yes it could be just Luck that Max won. I am not very skilled with a golf club but I do have some idea how to use it, Max would have had Some idea how to use a gun (even if it was his first time using one) and that could be enough in these circumstances. If you take me, blind-fold me, give me a golf club and point me to the general direction of the hole and take a professional golf player blind fold them point them to the general direction of the hole the fact that the professional is far more skilled with a golf club than me might not do them too much better or any better in these circumstances, circumstances similar to Max's and Vincent's at the end of the movie. If we keep taking enough shots with our clubs one of us will eventually get it in the hole, the fact that I'm against a professional might not make much of a difference here, it could be any man's game (just by luck)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in conclusion I would say yes it is credible that Max could beat Vincent when you put things in perspective. It's not as crazy as it at first seems. It can happen sometimes in the right circumstances, a total amateur can beat a trained professional. It isn`t likely to happen but it could happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12982" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-31T13:17:51.587" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T13:17:51.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23406" CreationDate="2014-07-30T19:30:25.797" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sherlock likes John because he appreciates him unlike others who call him a freak and ask him to piss off. In the episode &lt;strong&gt;A study in Pink&lt;/strong&gt;, when John and Sherlock are in the cab the following conversation happens:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JOHN: That ... was amazing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: Do you think so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JOHN: Of course it was. It was extraordinary; it was quite extraordinary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: That’s not what people normally say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JOHN: What do people normally say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: ‘Piss off’!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John provides Sherlock a generalized opinion as to how a &lt;em&gt;normal&lt;/em&gt; person would react to the given situation. During his best man speech Sherlock says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, any reputation I have for mental acuity and sharpness comes, in truth, from the extraordinary contrast John so selflessly provides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John also is his blogger. In the episode &lt;strong&gt;The Great Game&lt;/strong&gt; Sherlock does mention, &amp;quot;I will be lost without my blogger&amp;quot;. Apart from that, their affection does seem to become vivid in &lt;strong&gt;The Sign of Three&lt;/strong&gt; where Sherlock confronts to John.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: The point I’m trying to make is that I am the most unpleasant, rude, ignorant and all-round obnoxious arsehole that anyone could possibly have the misfortune to meet.&#xA;I am dismissive of the virtuous ...unaware of the beautiful ... and uncomprehending in the face of the happy. So if I didn’t understand I was being asked to be best man, it is because I never expected to be anybody’s best friend.&#xA;Certainly not the best friend of the bravest and kindest and wisest human being I have ever had the good fortune of knowing.&#xA;John, I am a ridiculous man ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For John liking Sherlock, here's a transcript reference from &lt;strong&gt;His Last Vow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JOHN (to Mary): What have I ever done ... hmm? ... my whole life ... to deserve you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: Everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JOHN: Sherlock, I’ve told you ... (he walks towards him) ... shut up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK (quietly): Oh, I mean it, seriously. Everything – everything you’ve ever done is what you did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JOHN: Sherlock, one more word and you will not need morphine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK (still softly): You were a doctor who went to war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: You’re a man who couldn't stay in the suburbs for more than a month without storming a crack den and beating up a junkie. Your best friend is a sociopath who solves crimes as an alternative to getting high. That’s me, by the way. Hello.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK: Even the landlady used to run a drug cartel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MRS HUDSON: It was my husband’s cartel. I was just typing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK (looking at her): And exotic dancing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MRS HUDSON: Sherlock Holmes, if you’ve been YouTube-ing ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SHERLOCK (louder, talking over her): John, you are addicted to a certain lifestyle. You’re abnormally attracted to dangerous situations and people ... (his voice becomes quieter again) ... so is it truly such a surprise that the woman you’ve fallen in love with conforms to that pattern?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum it up Sherlock and John need each other, whether they want to or not. Even when they are frustrated at each other, they always drift back together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source for transcript: &lt;a href=&quot;http://arianedevere.livejournal.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ariane DeVere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9684" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T23:40:21.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23469" CreationDate="2014-07-30T19:33:31.817" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The swimming pool and the attack at the end sound like Catherine Breillat's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Girl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fat Girl&lt;/a&gt;, (2001).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the way back she becomes tired and decides to sleep at a rest stop,&#xA;  where an axe murderer arrives, killing Elena with an axe and&#xA;  strangling her mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-07-30T19:33:31.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23444" CreationDate="2014-07-30T20:07:29.143" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prix_(1966_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Grand Prix&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1966) contains some short shots like this (watch &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3970041113/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the trailer&lt;/a&gt; closely). Likewise &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igX1TNr-cmY#t=0m58s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Città violenta&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1970), &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKrZ8eTcdK4#t=2m02s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Cars That Ate Paris&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1974), &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6LahtrxVhg#t=5m11s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Death Race 2000&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1975), &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNFcbgQJsfw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Gumball Rally&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1976) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUxpXy1Oot4#t=3m30s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Spy Who Loved Me&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1977).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user12981" LastEditorDisplayName="user12981" LastEditDate="2014-08-19T01:10:59.703" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T01:10:59.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23983" CreationDate="2014-07-31T03:18:24.457" Score="13" ViewCount="1145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recalling Carol Clover's &lt;em&gt;Her body, himself: Gender in the Slasher Film&lt;/em&gt;, there is typically an androgynous final girl in horror films - such as Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween - who survives the movie. The girls who are more sexual on the other hand, are brutally killed. So on some level, it's as if the women are punished for being sexual. Furthermore, the POV is male, and the weapons (i.e. knives and chainsaws) are phallic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume there are some feminist horror films out there that actively defy this theme, but I haven't found them. Do all horror films follow this style? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12880" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T14:10:17.937" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T14:10:17.937" Title="Exceptions to horror genre and female sexuality tropes?" Tags="|analysis|horror|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23387" CreationDate="2014-07-31T04:11:44.603" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;They gave him 72 hours to get his man.  They kept showing the clock.  When 72 hours were up, they intervened.  He was about ten minutes too late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12990" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T04:11:44.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9107" CreationDate="2014-07-31T08:03:59.810" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that Col. Landa actually did know. One thing you have to actually believe is that Col. Landa really forgot what he was trying to say... when talking to Shosanna. Think about it... what does that mean, plus, why did he simply put his cigarette out and leave in what appeared to be a hurry. It seems that Landa is already letting events unfold. He knows its her. Nazis probably did have picture identifications of her. If not, there are so many other ways. For example, it really isn't hard to recognize that Shosanna actually hasn't been living with her &quot;aunt and uncle.&quot; Most likely, because she was the last Jew in that area, and she's the only one unaccounted for, she could be the only possibility. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another assumption you could make is that he changes his mind about what he wants to do when he says there was something he actually wanted to talk about with her. His facial expression already posed to deal her death sentence and all of a sudden he lets her live again. It might have been planned out, but it could be coincidence that he let her live twice just to have one Jew roaming around to give him meaning to his job. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12994" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2020-02-16T12:36:13.647" LastActivityDate="2020-02-16T12:36:13.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="23480" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23483" CreationDate="2014-07-31T11:17:52.127" Score="2" ViewCount="524" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Grey's Anatomy, series 10, episode 13, two people decide to drive to Lake Tahoe to get married.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did they have to go to there? Is it something to do with going to another state?  (Do marriage laws differ between American states?) Or was it just to go somewhere different?  It seems like Canada would be closer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1264" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T17:05:30.873" Title="Why did two characters have to go to Lake Tahoe to get married?" Tags="|greys-anatomy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21749" CreationDate="2014-07-31T11:46:09.950" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the answer is between 3-4 months. I hope that's accurate enough for you. This is based on :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Halfway through season 2 (I can't remember which episode) Piper mentions she's served 5 months of her sentence. At that point in the series at least 4 weeks have passed based on events that have transpired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Season 1 ends at Christmas, and Thanksgiving is episode 9.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Season 1 episode 8 has Pipers friend giving birth, at the beginning of the series she is heavily pregnant, although it's not mentioned how far along this pregnancy is, friends with experience tell me 7 months would be a safe estimate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Totting all that up gives an approx answer of 3-4 months passing in series 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't be surprised if the timeframe was kept deliberately ambiguous though to allow as many future series as is possible/profitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11438" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T11:46:09.950" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23480" CreationDate="2014-07-31T12:34:18.707" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usmarriagelaws.com/search/united_states/nevada/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nevada&lt;/a&gt; has no waiting period for marriage. You can apply for a license with as little identification as a Drivers License, pay as little as $35 in some counties (generally $60) and get married immediately. You do not even have to be a Nevada Resident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usmarriagelaws.com/search/united_states/washington/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Washington State&lt;/a&gt; has a 3-day waiting period after the license is granted, but most other details follow the Nevada law. You do not have to be a Washington State resident, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://marriage.about.com/cs/marriagelicenses/p/canada.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Canada&lt;/a&gt; Also, has no waiting period, and it seems it is only slightly stricter in indentification. It also bears no residency requirement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Canada would be closer, but maybe they didn't have passports? I don't remember the 2 of them mentioning they had ever left the country. Maybe they just didn't want to deal with Canada, and wanted the simplest U.S. state to marry in. Maybe they just like Lake Tahoe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nearby states &lt;a href=&quot;http://usmarriagelaws.com/search/united_states/waiting_period_marriage_license/index.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;waiting periods&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2014-07-31T17:05:30.873" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T17:05:30.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23477" CreationDate="2014-07-31T15:47:08.997" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been plenty of horror movies where a man survives (both versions of Dawn Of The Dead and the Riddick trilogy instantly come to mind), but the only 2 &quot;slasher&quot; movies I can think of are Halloween: Resurection and A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T15:47:08.997" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11785" CreationDate="2014-07-31T16:42:18.953" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the book version of the movie, written by Vonda McIntyre, it's explained the Scotty had suffered a heart attack. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0356086879&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-II-Wrath-Khan/dp/0356086879&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13003" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T16:42:18.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23490" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-31T16:42:56.960" Score="6" ViewCount="1496" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was no attention made in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802850/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fargo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; about Malvo's accomplice, Chumph, being duct taped to a chair and a gun duct taped to his hand? This would be proof there was someone else in town, doing bad things. The cops shot him and there wasn't another thing about the incident in the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13004" LastEditorUserId="118" LastEditDate="2014-07-31T20:49:04.163" LastActivityDate="2021-06-25T22:32:34.950" Title="In Fargo, why did the police ignore that Chumph was duct-taped to the chair?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fargo-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23491" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23492" CreationDate="2014-07-31T16:52:50.287" Score="5" ViewCount="2886" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know the naming of the country &quot;Panem&quot; already has at least a couple meanings in the &lt;em&gt;Hunger Games&lt;/em&gt; books and movies. For starters, it translates to &quot;bread&quot;, and is even more fitting when Plutarch mentions the phrase &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;panem et circenses&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking maybe the author also intended to incorporate &quot;Pan-Am&quot;, as in Pan America, into the name of the country as well, since Panem seems to include all of the former USA, and possibly Canada as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any documented evidence that this, indeed, the case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12738" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-01T22:59:22.503" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T00:34:10.073" Title="Extra meaning in &quot;Panem&quot;" Tags="|analysis|the-hunger-games|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23491" CreationDate="2014-07-31T17:25:25.847" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Judging from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.scholastic.com/thehungergames/media/suzanne_collins_q_and_a.pdf&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; between Suzanne Collins and Scholastic, there doesn't seem to be any other meaning in the name of Panem other than the Latin phrase which is why she chose it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In keeping with the classical roots, I send my tributes into an updated version of the Roman gladiator games, which entails a ruthless government forcing people to fight to the death as popular entertainment. The world of Panem, particularly the Capitol, is loaded with Roman references. Panem itself comes from the expression “Panem et Circenses” which translates into “Bread and Circuses.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's unlikely there's any connection to Pan-Am because the books are very clear that Panem used to be America, so it wouldn't add anything. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehungergames.co.uk/download/HungerGamesChapter1.pdf&quot;&gt;first chapter&lt;/a&gt; of The Hunger Games:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just as the town clock strikes two, the mayor steps up to the podium and begins to read. It’s the same story every year. He tells of the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T17:25:25.847" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23493" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-07-31T19:00:28.680" Score="4" ViewCount="2918" Body="&lt;p&gt;Driving head on against a large truck seems pretty stupid, why did Humungus do that in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082694/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mad Max 2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? What was he trying to accomplish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13006" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-07-31T19:33:31.220" LastActivityDate="2016-09-06T09:02:10.643" Title="Why did Lord Humungus kill himself in Mad Max 2?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mad-max-2|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21938" CreationDate="2014-07-31T19:12:53.687" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I can find no direct quotes from anyone involved with the film to confirm my suspicion, within the movie itself I took it to be a symbolic gesture of intimidation.  Much like when someone draws their finger across their throat to imply an opponent's death or defeat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a grander sense, I think it was a symbolism to mark the end of Christian charity. As you might or might not know, the fish has been associated with Christian symbolism. I think that the act of gutting the fish with their ax was symbolic of the renunciation of the Christian idea of brotherly love, which was an omen to show that they were prepared to murder their &quot;brothers.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T19:12:53.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23495" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23497" CreationDate="2014-07-31T19:16:28.523" Score="17" ViewCount="2849" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Reichenbach Fall&lt;/em&gt;, Sherlock is standing on the rooftop after it became clear, that he has to jump and kill himself in order to save his friends.&#xA;He then starts laughing and turns around to Moriarty, because he figured there must be some code or signal to call off the killers (apart from Sherlock dying).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does he come to this conclusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13007" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T19:35:40.953" Title="How did Sherlock know there must be a code to call off the killers?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21357" CreationDate="2014-07-31T19:17:29.420" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Knowing that Oberyn's prime motive was to avenge his sister, he would make sure that The Mountain would suffer even if Oberyn himself lost. Given his strong desire for vengeance, he may not have even volunteered as Tyrion's champion if the Crown's champion were not Gregor Clegane. Sure, he felt a bit sorry for Tyrion when he recounted his experience of meeting an infant Tyrion, but if you weighed Oberyn's empathy for Tyrion against his desire for vengeance, you'd find that revenge greatly outweighs empathy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, in the end, Oberyn was too wrapped up in trying to exact his revenge that he lowered his guard just long enough for The Mountain to kill him. If Oberyn weren't clouded by his desire for revenge (hence a normal 1v1 combat), Oberyn could have bested The Mountain. Look at his style of fighting: he's light on his feet, agile, and knows The Mountain's weaknesses (Gregor Clegane suffers from bad migraines and is almost always on Milk of the Poppy, and Oberyn's constant shouting and taunting disorient him). If Oberyn were not so emotional during the fight, he would have kept the upper hand easily. For a similar battle, remember Bronn vs. Ser Vardis: Bronn was light while Vardis was heavily armored. Bronn knew he couldn't win head-on, so he tired out Ser Vardis until he had the upper hand. Oberyn was fighting the same sort of battle, except his emotions clouded his better judgment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, whether the poison actually finished off The Mountain or Qyburn's mad science has created a Fraken-Gregor, we'll have to wait and see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13005" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T19:17:29.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23495" CreationDate="2014-07-31T19:22:21.150" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because of Moriarty's previous line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moriarty&lt;/strong&gt;: Your death is the only thing that's going to call off the killers. I'm certainly not going to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that he said &amp;quot;I'm certainly not going to do it&amp;quot; implies he &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; do it, which means there's something Moriarty could do to stop them, such as give a code word to the assassins, as Sherlock then points out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Sherlock begins laughing]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moriarty&lt;/strong&gt;: What?! What is it? What did I miss?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sherlock&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;You're&lt;/em&gt; not going to do it. So the killers can be called off, then there's a recall code or a word or a number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That there would be a code rather than just making a phone call is because all the assassins are most likely hired (or at least not close friends with Moriarty) and would need a way to confirm that they were talking to him rather than someone who had got hold of their phone number (such as the police).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T19:35:40.953" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23493" CreationDate="2014-07-31T19:25:49.560" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I recall, Lord Humungus engaged his nitrous boosters in an effort to catch up to the oil tanker Max was driving.  He hadn't realized that Max had turned the tanker around and was heading back towards him.  You have to figure that his car was probably doing 140MPH or so with nitrous (heck, my old Pontiac Phoenix could hit 130MPH with its stock engine!), plus Max was probably doing 60 or 70 in the opposite direction.  At those speeds, reaction time is almost nil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, it's a pretty flat landscape with little obstruction of view, but I think in theory it was an accident that the two collided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-07-31T19:25:49.560" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23490" CreationDate="2014-08-01T05:07:04.107" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can't say that the police ignored this fact. Of course they would have taken notice and known that someone else was involved. It's just that this part is not discussed in further story. If you look at the complete story from the beginning, there were a series of bizarre events which baffled the police, but the police is shown kind of helpless and clueless, unable to crack the cases. I mean it is not possible to show each and everything in detail. So I guess the incident you mentioned was just another one in the series of events happening in the town.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to answer you question specifically, I would say the police did not ignore the fact or forgot about the case. They were just unable to figure out &quot;who &amp;amp; why&quot; aspects of the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T05:07:04.107" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15236" CreationDate="2014-08-01T05:42:27.573" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walter used Lily of the Valley instead of ricin because it has similar attributes to ricin without actually BEING ricin. &#xA;If it was actually ricin in Brock's system chances are Jesse would have been taken by the FBI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also Lily of the Valley has less of a chance of killing the kid so Walt could get Jesse on his side and against Gus without killing the kid (possibly. There's always a chance it could have killed the kid as well. I guess Walt took the gamble deciding that Brock's life wasn't as important as his family's)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13013" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T05:42:27.573" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15236" CreationDate="2014-08-01T06:15:09.617" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ricin would have definitely killed Broch and this was not what Walt wanted.&#xA;So he used a milder stuff just to get the kid ill and then plant suspicion in Jessie's mind. It was not necessary to use Ricin or anything else in particular.&#xA;I remember the conversation between Jessie and Walt, where Walt says that &lt;code&gt;&quot;think Jessie ! Who do we know, who is known to use children for his own benefit&quot;&lt;/code&gt; Walt's whole purpose was to relate Broch's condition to the killing of &lt;strong&gt;Tomas&lt;/strong&gt;, Andrea's 11 year old brother who was killed by Gus's men. This was highly effective in making Jessie believe that Gus was involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-08-01T10:10:01.957" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T10:10:01.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15236" CreationDate="2014-08-01T06:25:09.220" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walter has used Ricin before so if he uses it again then Jesse blames Walt without thinking this far, so he used one he didn't use before and that is commonly available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13014" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T06:25:09.220" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23507" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-01T08:32:02.640" Score="0" ViewCount="407" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know the kind I mean. At the intro of Mission Impossible, we see Tom Cruise, who suddenly hooks a hand beneath his jaw and tears of his face, which turns out to be one of those vinyl masks. Beneathe the mask, he's somebody totally different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen Mrs Doubsfire, where Robin williams wears one of thsoe masks and can seriously pass for an old lady, and even still has facial mobility. So I suppose it can be done, to a degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the guy wearing the mask has a small face, small nose etc, could he really pass convincingly for someone else if he wore a mask?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6752" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T13:34:39.030" Title="Are those movie masks for real where A impersonates B?" Tags="|realism|make-up|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-08-01T13:45:54.317" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15236" CreationDate="2014-08-01T12:03:44.887" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would have been a lot easier to get Brock to ingest the pleasant looking berries as apposed to somehow getting the ricin into his food.  This coupled with the fact that the Ricin would take a little time to kick in and therefore may not have had the desired affects in time to spur Jesse into his reactions means that this was the better option for Walt in this case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11201" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T12:03:44.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23507" CreationDate="2014-08-01T13:34:39.030" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;No they aren't real and they are, the usual process of creating this affect is to use the actual actors for their specific roles Just like they do on Face/Off and then using a quick cut when they go to remove the mask they will apply a decent Mask then so they have something to rip off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11589" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T13:34:39.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23511" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23517" CreationDate="2014-08-01T13:47:05.130" Score="2" ViewCount="725" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the last few years more and more book adaptations are being split into multiple films corresponding to a single book, to name a few:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Hobbit (One book, three films)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Breaking Dawn&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mockingjay&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be a very recent trend. Why has this tradition suddenly begun and who/what determines when a film will be in two (or more) parts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-08-19T07:08:02.697" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T07:08:02.697" Title="What determines when a book will be split into multiple films?" Tags="|book-adaptation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23512" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-01T13:47:59.073" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-08-01T13:47:59.073" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T13:47:59.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23513" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-01T13:47:59.073" Score="0" Body="A Multi-Part film is a single plot which takes place over several films. These are often book adaptations such as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and The Hobbit." OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-08-01T13:47:59.073" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T13:47:59.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23514" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-01T13:49:08.220" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-08-01T13:49:08.220" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T13:49:08.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23515" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-01T13:49:08.220" Score="0" Body="A Multi-Part film is a single plot which takes place over several films. These are often book adaptations such as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and The Hobbit." OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-08-01T13:49:08.220" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T13:49:08.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13165" CreationDate="2014-08-01T14:10:33.433" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;GRRM has stated that Targaryens are not immune to fire. In the past, some Targaryens were killed by fire. Many of them do have a higher resistance to heat than most people. For a good example, read the descriptions in the books when Daenerys lowers herself into a scalding bath. The book remarks that the water was quite hot, yet she felt comfortable in it and did not mind the heat.  This is most likely attributed to the Targaryens' &quot;dragon blood&quot;- the purity they wish to keep in their family by inbreeding, which has also resulted in their silver hair and purple eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Daenerys surviving the funeral pyre is not wholly attributed to her Targaryen blood. The book mentions that despite her higher resistance to heat, Daenerys still winces at the heat of the flames as she approaches, and she even is forced to step back. She is kept alive through magic (I believe she was using Blood Magic, with Mirri Maz Duur as her sacrifice), and her title of The Unburnt is because it was a miracle that she survived the flames (the books differ here in that all her hair is burned off in the pyre, but a quick mental image can make you understand why Emilia Clarke probably wouldn't be too keen on that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, no, Targaryens aren't immune to molten metal, and Viserys is not a special case. I'm sure if someone put Daenerys in a similar position, or if Drogon went ballistic on her, she wouldn't be getting out alive. The pyre was something of a miracle (and the scene wouldn't have been nearly as awesome if she died anyways).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13005" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T14:10:33.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23511" CreationDate="2014-08-01T14:23:03.477" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a careful balance of script, story and finances.  To some degree, you have to have a movie that's watchable.  People's attention spans just aren't set at Gone With the Wind length anymore.  Like that old Billy Joel song &quot;The Entertainer&quot; quips, &quot;It was a beautiful song but it ran too long, if you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit, so they cut it down to 3:05&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're storyboarding a movie and it looks like it's going to push 3+ hours, you have to decide if you want to tax your audience that much.  However, you &lt;strong&gt;also&lt;/strong&gt; have to take into consideration your target audience.  In instances like The Hobbit, Harry Potter and Hunger Games, all those franchises have &lt;strong&gt;huge&lt;/strong&gt; followings.  The fans are already invested in Hunger Games and the LOTR series, so you know you can make money on the last pieces of the puzzle by having multiple movies instead of a single one.  People are going to come and see them, because they've seen the rest of the movies.  So, as you approach the 3 hour barrier, it's safe to say you can double your money by cutting it into 2 movies.  I'm sure the thought process was identical with Harry Potter.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice, however, that those multi-part movies are usually the &lt;strong&gt;last&lt;/strong&gt; in the series.  They could have easily split The Avengers into 2 movies with its 2.5 hour run time by padding each half a little, but what if the first one flopped?  You have a second movie that no one will come see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T14:23:03.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19666" CreationDate="2014-08-01T14:30:00.570" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cake was nothing more than dry and full of pigeon guts, after what Joffrey did to it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joffrey was poisoned by The Strangler, a poison that is formed into a crystal through a deeply intricate process- &lt;i&gt;A Clash of Kings&lt;/i&gt; gives a fairly detailed history and description of how The Strangler is created. Remember at the beginning of Season 2, when Maester Cressen attempted to poison Melisandre by slipping poison into her wine? He, too, attempted to poison her with The Strangler. The Strangler is not &quot;activated&quot;, so to speak, until its crystal was placed in a liquid and dissolved. Maester Cressen needed to slip his Strangler crystal into Melisandre's wine, and Olenna needed to somehow get her Strangler crystal into Joffrey's cup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Olenna's Strangler crystal came from Sansa's necklace (in the books, I believe it was a hairnet) that Dontos gave her. Although it is well hidden on the show, and not something you'd likely pick up on your first watch (assuming you didn't know what was coming), Olenna plucks one of the crystals from Sansa's necklace at one point during the feast. Olenna must have slipped the crystal into Joffrey's cup between then and when the cake was brought out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13005" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T14:30:00.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23491" CreationDate="2014-08-01T18:45:17.407" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was thinking maybe the author also intended to incorporate &quot;Pan-Am&quot;, as in Pan America, into the name of the country as well, since Panem seems to include all of the former USA, and possibly Canada as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That reasoning does not make very much sense. As you say, Pan-Am would mean Pan-America, which translates to &quot;The complete/whole America&quot;. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas_(continent)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Americas, or America, also known as the New World, are the combined continental landmasses of North America and South America, in the Western Hemisphere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Panem however &lt;a href=&quot;http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Panem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;only covers North America&lt;/a&gt;, so it seems like quite a stretch to name it Pan-America. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/McF8Qm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Panem&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if you take into account that many US Americans like to limit the term &quot;America&quot; to the USA, the prefix &quot;pan-&quot; clearly indicates that you mean the whole thing, as in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Africanism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pan-Africa&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-American_Highway&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pan-American Highway&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Together with the fact that there seems to be no evidence for a third meaning in the books or the movie, one can conclude that most likely this was not an intended meaning of Panem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Image credit: User &lt;a href=&quot;http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/User:Shootingarrowsatthesky&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shootingarrowsatthesky&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/File:Panem.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hunger Games Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-08-01T18:52:54.533" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T18:52:54.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10389" CreationDate="2014-08-01T19:30:28.303" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Saragossa_Manuscript_(film)&amp;amp;oldid=615289853#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (English title: &lt;em&gt;The Saragossa Manuscript&lt;/em&gt;) (1965) is the earliest example that comes to mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The maximum depth of nesting of the story is Fraquita's tale, which begins in Q-2-j-(1)-(a). If we see Alfonso's experiences as all being at a single level, that makes The Saragossa Manuscript a story-within-a-story having &lt;strong&gt;seven levels&lt;/strong&gt;: counting Has' movie as level one because it is a presentation of Potocki's novel (level two) that tells about two opposing army officers sitting together and reading Alfonso's book (levels three through seven, or a subtotal of five levels). (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.martinschell.com/saragossamanuscript/saragossa3.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Source&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a while since I saw this film and my recall of it is imperfect, but my recollection is that in the sense that the sub-levels are essentially short films intercut, in nested fashion, into the level one film, there is indeed a film within a film within a film here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if instead &quot;film within a film within a film&quot; refers to the presence in the main film of some other narrative on a moving picture screen, that depicts in turn some other narrative on some moving picture other screen, then no, there isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user12981" LastEditorDisplayName="user12981" LastEditDate="2014-08-26T01:34:16.113" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T01:34:16.113" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4044" CreationDate="2014-08-01T19:40:26.897" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only information in the original version of the film is the last line spoken by an unknown African American in a suit, who presumably works for Izon or the military:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We'll take that to Darcy and see if anything recorded on it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact he said &quot;&lt;em&gt;recorded&lt;/em&gt; on it&quot; implies it's some kind of sensor device, such as a camera, microphone or other more high-tech information gathering system rather than a storage device, as usually you'd say &quot;saved on it&quot; or &quot;stored on it&quot; in that case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's more information given in the alternate ending which I can't seem to find, though &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_2:_Hypercube#Alternate_ending&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The longer alternate ending included in the special features on the DVD reveals the &quot;owners&quot; to be the government; in the shorter version it is unclear who they are, but it is assumed they are Izon. Kate is executed in both versions, but she is praised for being the first operative to make it out alive. In the alternate ending it is revealed to Kate that she was in the Hypercube for just six minutes and fifty-nine seconds. &lt;strong&gt;It was an experiment used for quantum teleportation&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that this was an experiment would seem to back up the idea that it was a sensor as the scientists working on the project would need a way to get data back from the experiment and there was no other machinery shown in the &quot;real world&quot; which could be monitoring what happened inside:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1uvfw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Outside the cube&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-08-01T19:40:26.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23526" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23584" CreationDate="2014-08-01T21:29:11.060" Score="13" ViewCount="3396" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film, I noticed the name to be used for the first time by Ronan after the crash landing, talking to the group. Later, Peter says something like “I guess we really are Guardians of the Galaxy”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this where the name comes from? Did Ronan just make it up to mock the team?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I didn't notice the line “They're calling themselves the Guardians of the Galaxy” from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crIaEzXgqto&quot;&gt;the trailer&lt;/a&gt; anywhere in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm interested in the in-universe origin of the name, not what writer first thought it up. Also, I don't know how much does the film differ from the comic, so I have no idea if a comic-based answer would make sense here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="282" LastActivityDate="2022-07-14T17:58:27.043" Title="Where did the name &quot;Guardians of the Galaxy&quot; come from?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23528" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24406" CreationDate="2014-08-02T02:03:06.530" Score="5" ViewCount="976" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCaxXQdkfPk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Croissant de Triomphe&lt;/a&gt;,&quot; one of the episodes of the 2013 cartoon series &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mickey Mouse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, contains all French dialogue.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the English translation of the episode's dialogue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13022" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2016-05-28T06:15:49.263" LastActivityDate="2016-05-28T06:15:49.263" Title="What is the English translation of the French dialogue in &quot;Croissant de Triomphe&quot;?" Tags="|translation|mickey-mouse-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23530" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="78124" CreationDate="2014-08-02T05:53:43.337" Score="9" ViewCount="81681" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Brady Bunch (the TV show, not the film series), the title song establishes that the 6 new step-siblings are from Mike and Carol's former marriages (or partnerships).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened to Mike's former wife / partner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened to Carol's former husband / partner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were these two others ever mentioned for any amount during any episodes, or if still alive, did they ever make any appearances or claims towards their children?  I have never watched the pilot episode / first episode, so I do not know if that episode explains it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2014-08-03T08:41:54.777" LastActivityDate="2019-06-23T02:33:07.343" Title="What happened to Mike and Carol's former spouses?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-brady-bunch|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23530" CreationDate="2014-08-02T07:33:52.570" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bradyworld.com/cover/faq.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brady World FAQ&lt;/a&gt; explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We learn in the first episode that Mike's wife passed away. However, the absence of Carol's first husband remains a mystery. Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of the show, wanted her to be divorced. The network wanted her to be a widow [and] thought being divorced was too risque for the times. The compromise was that it was never addressed one way or the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://davidbrady.com/eb/bbtop10.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Another FAQ&lt;/a&gt; elaborates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only references to the boys' mother and the girls' father in the entire five-year run of the series occur briefly in the pilot (and first episode), &amp;quot;The Honeymoon.&amp;quot; A single scene with Mike and Bobby suggests quite strongly that Mrs. Brady died, though neither character explicitly says so. A later scene with Mike and Carol only offers the vague suggestion of some previous trauma before Carol's marriage to Mike. She never refers directly to her former husband. [...] The characters' full names were never revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherwood Schwartz [...] said that he always considered Carol divorced. Despite Schwartz's intentions, the series was described to the public as the marriage of a widow and widower. Consider this excerpt from the 1969 &amp;quot;Fall Preview&amp;quot; issue of TV Guide:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This season's widows-and-widowers epidemic reaches an inevitable climax in The Brady Bunch. Widow (Florence Henderson) marries widower (Robert Reed, late of The Defenders), and they live happily -- if frenetically -- ever after.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So officially, they both died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-08-02T07:41:37.613" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23371" CreationDate="2014-08-02T10:55:38.050" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, it's not the first time Carlo has beaten Connie up, and she didn't leave him then.   There would have been strong family and cultural pressures not to leave, especially as she was pregnant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Michael would have worked out very quickly that Carlo's attack on Connie must have been part of the set-up to kill Sonny.   How else could Sonny be ambushed on a journey he hadn't intended to make?   Michael could have had Carlo killed at once, but it was useful to leave him alone and to allow whoever was using him to believe that they had outwitted Michael and weakened his position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the day of the christening (and Michael's massacre of his enemies), Michael tells Carlo that he knows he set Sonny up, but wants to know who exactly it was who was behind it.   He has already told Carlo that he has settled all family accounts that day, but all he now needs from him is that one name, which confirms his suspicion.  At that moment, Carlo's usefulness is over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Connie later confronts Michael, accusing him of killing Carlo, and says that Michael always thought Carlo was involved in Sonny's murder, but it wasn't true.  So she does know about the suspicion - she just never believed It.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9453" LastActivityDate="2014-08-02T10:55:38.050" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15908" CreationDate="2014-08-02T10:56:55.687" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is that most likely the producers shot this flash back scene back in season 7 as they had access to Katie Holmes being the slutty pumpkin in the backround during the production of the episode. They probably saved and later edited this clip into season 9 for the flash back footage, this can be confirmed by a few simple observations between the s7 episode and the s9 flash back, ted is wearing the same polar neck and marshal has the same hair cut the only difference between the s7 set and the s9 flash back set is a few minor changes ie light fixtures and the position of the drink table and some characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13026" LastActivityDate="2014-08-02T10:56:55.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23535" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-02T14:17:56.663" Score="14" ViewCount="3982" Body="&lt;p&gt;In his 1994 movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111143/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Shadow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; uses his psychic abilities to somehow alter his face to look like another person as part of his disguise. I've often wondered how this was actually done in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is only shown rather scarcely and often only behind the rest of his mask/scarf. Though, I think at the end there's a scene where he transforms live between the faces using some blending effect. It might just have been make-up, but it always looked like a completely different person to me, with much more prominent features, yet on IMDb there is no other actor credited for playing &lt;em&gt;The Shadow&lt;/em&gt;. Or maybe it was CGI, but while not entirely unknown in 1994, I'm not sure how capable or widely used CGI was for such stuff back then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;is there any official information (or at least well-reasoned speculation) how they achieved &lt;em&gt;The Shadow&lt;/em&gt;'s &quot;alternate face&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2019-06-26T22:38:16.260" Title="How did they create The Shadow's disguise?" Tags="|film-techniques|make-up|the-shadow|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23540" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23542" CreationDate="2014-08-02T21:13:30.143" Score="23" ViewCount="3908" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inevitably products that are on sale pop up all the time like cars, whisky and phones. If the props department happens to use an Audi, Jack Daniels or an iphone, do they get in touch with them and see if they can get them to pay for it? Or threaten to use their competitors products?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13033" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-08-02T22:15:45.753" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T05:42:17.190" Title="Is every appearance of a product in a movie sponsored?" Tags="|production|product-placement|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23540" CreationDate="2014-08-02T22:15:05.800" Score="16" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is every appearance of a product in a movie sponsored?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Free promotion for undisclosed reasons&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll see plenty of movies where characters use Apple products, however Apple have claimed (via the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR2006041401670.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Washington Post&lt;/a&gt;) that they aren't paying for it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Apple said it does not pay for product placement and would not discuss how its products make their way into television and films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailytech.com/Apple+Gets+Free+Product+Placement+in+TV+Shows+Movies/article24679.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DailyTech&lt;/a&gt; claims they achieve this by giving the products to those producing the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While most companies have to pay to have their products featured in a TV show or film, Apple has managed to do so for free by simply offering as many free iPhones, iPads, and Macs as needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Famously, FedEx didn't pay for the use of their brand in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162222/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cast Away&lt;/a&gt;, as noted &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_Away#FedEx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;on the Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Parodies and references&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've also had a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2764/how-did-starbucks-fuddruckers-and-carls-jr-respond-to-idiocracy&quot;&gt;related question&lt;/a&gt; about mocking companies in Idiocracy, and from the interview posted it sounds like they weren't paid for the (almost) use of their names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Self promotion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also cases where a studio can advertise their own products for free, for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Entertainment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sony Pictures Entertainment&lt;/a&gt; (and their child company, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Columbia Pictures&lt;/a&gt;) often show off Sony products in their own films, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://brandsandfilms.com/2011/09/product-placement-in-pictures-the-smurfs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Smurfs&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-product-placement/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other examples would be when a character is watching TV (usually the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CoincidentalBroadcast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;well-timed news broadcast&lt;/a&gt;) and the News channel is one that the studio own. For example Fox's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;24&lt;/a&gt; will only ever show &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fox News&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_News&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sky News&lt;/a&gt; (in Live Another Day), both of which they own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do they get in touch with them and see if they can get them to pay for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably, yes, if they need the money. Financing films is hard, and independent film-makers have nothing to lose by trying, though I have found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmfinancemasterclass.com/can-i-get-advertising-sponsors-to-pay-for-my-film-the-role-of-branding-advertising-and-product-placement-in-indie-films/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;plenty&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.corduroybranding.com/product-placement-for-indie-filmmakers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;articles&lt;/a&gt; saying it's very unlikely companies will be willing to contribute to a film unless they have a reasonable expectation of making their money back (for example having famous people working on the project that will draw an audience).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2014-08-02T23:43:22.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23543" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23544" CreationDate="2014-08-03T00:09:16.350" Score="4" ViewCount="1027" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a popular series on World War 2 that was done in color. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_In_HD_Colour&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia's Entry&lt;/a&gt; says the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;World War II In HD Colour is a 13-episode television documentary series recounting the major events of World War II narrated by Robert Powell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show covers the Western Front, Eastern Front, North African Campaign, and the Pacific War. It was on syndication in America on the Military Channel (now American Heroes Channel).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series is in full colour, combining both original and colourised footage. It was made by World Media Rights in 2008/2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I was interesting in watching the full show as I had managed to watch one of the middle episodes on television. I searched on Google and was surprised to find that there was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4gLURNf_h4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;youtube video&lt;/a&gt; with the full documentary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I noticed something surprising. These are not the same documentaries at all and I'm having a little difficulty understanding what the situation is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking for disambiguation, what are these 2 documentaries? Are they the same thing only slightly different versions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7504" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T15:18:18.443" Title="Disambiguation between two similar documentaries &quot;World War 2 In Colour&quot;" Tags="|alternate-version|ww2-in-hd-colour|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23543" CreationDate="2014-08-03T00:33:21.103" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the video you linked there is a credit for &lt;strong&gt;Series Producer- &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0083093/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stewart Binns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and based on his IMDb profile, I believe that YouTube video is actually  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275779/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;WWII: The Lost Color Archives (2000)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; which he was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275779/fullcredits&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;credited as &lt;strong&gt;Series Producer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on, along with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0809252/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Martin Smith&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1507380/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr11&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alastair Waddington&lt;/a&gt; as executive producers and Editing by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1162624/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr13&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stephen Moore&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q8cVK.png&quot; alt=&quot;Series producer credit&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also credits for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0141784/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lucy Carter&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0491087/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alastair Laurence&lt;/a&gt; as producers on both the video and IMDb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/suM6c.png&quot; alt=&quot;Producers&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/title?roles=nm1507380,nm0083093,nm0491087,nm1162624,nm0141784,nm0809252&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;name search tool&lt;/a&gt; shows this is the only show that combination of people worked on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-03T01:14:37.373" LastActivityDate="2014-08-03T01:14:37.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14524" CreationDate="2014-08-03T03:27:29.410" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Beth is not the killer, then she must have seen the murder. She was on the floor. Or,&#xA;If she came up the stairway just after the murder she would have passed the killer and the bloody clothes. But she mentions none of this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If she is not the killer She would have parked outside the building. Nic would have recognized her car. So, it must have been hidden. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A report was made to berkely security about Beth. We don't know what it said, but Nielson had it and it is missing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Catherine could be the murderer, but that requires an elaborate frame. Yes, for Beth to be the killer does require an amazing coincidence. I find that coincidence _- the manner of Gus' death to be more likely than the elaborate planning required to set her up going back to their freshman year. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13036" LastActivityDate="2014-08-03T03:27:29.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23546" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23547" CreationDate="2014-08-03T03:37:50.447" Score="14" ViewCount="2162" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agent Smith going rogue and Neo not choosing the door to the source when he met the Architect were not something the machines had anticipated, as the previous anomalies all behaved in a way that they predicted. Neo did all these based on what the Oracle told him. Since the events happening during the time of Neo (in the Matrix and the real world) were something unanticipated, anything might have happened in the final battle with Smith. Yet the Oracle did what she did, and even allowed Agent Smith to infect her. Did she already know by this point that things would somehow work out in favour of the humans, also in such a way that the machine world does not get completely destroyed by Smith as well? Or is this what the Architect meant by &quot;the dangerous game&quot; at the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4763" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-08-03T13:32:24.827" LastActivityDate="2014-09-01T08:43:31.050" Title="Did the Oracle somehow know the fight between Neo and Smith would work out in favour of the humans?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix|the-matrix-revolutions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23546" CreationDate="2014-08-03T05:03:10.840" Score="12" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did she already know by this point that things would somehow workout in favour of the humans, also in such a way that the machine world does not get destroyed as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably not. But I'm sure she believed. This is what the final lines of the film were referring to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seraph&lt;/strong&gt; : Did you always know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Oracle&lt;/strong&gt;: Oh, no. No, I didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I believed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to &lt;em&gt;why not&lt;/em&gt;, that would be because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can never see past the choices we don't understand.&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;- The Oracle, The Matrix Reloaded&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Oracle had already been taken over by Agent Smith before Neo, Trinity and Morpheus had met up with &lt;a href=&quot;http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Logos&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Logos&lt;/a&gt; which means &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niobe_%28The_Matrix%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Niobe&lt;/a&gt; had not yet &lt;strong&gt;understood her choice&lt;/strong&gt; to help Neo by giving him her ship, so he could go to the Source to fight for the humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this in mind, there's no way that The Oracle could know for sure about there being a fight in the Matrix or Neo's offer of peace with The Machines which lead to everyone (who survived the attack on Zion) being saved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is this what the Architect meant by the dangerous game in the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible. There isn't a lot of context but The Oracle certainly told all the humans exactly what they needed to hear for things to work out in the end. The danger of course being that she may have 'died' along with every other program and human attached to The Matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-08-03T05:03:10.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23548" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-03T05:53:29.000" Score="6" ViewCount="605" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found the Anton Chekov story &quot;The Lady With the Dog&quot;, which is translated by Constance Garnett. It does not match with the story read by Michael in the movie &quot;The Reader&quot;. Can anyone tell me who translated the book read in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13037" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-03T12:03:44.870" LastActivityDate="2015-05-17T19:33:36.670" Title="Who translated the book “The Lady With a Little Dog” used in movie “The Reader”?" Tags="|reference|the-reader|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23549" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23550" CreationDate="2014-08-03T08:27:49.313" Score="8" ViewCount="13577" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tom and Jerry have been playing the Chase Game for a long time, but I never recall Tom actually &lt;em&gt;ending&lt;/em&gt; it. I do recall Tom eating Jerry, but I can't recall any moment when Tom &lt;em&gt;successfully&lt;/em&gt; ate Jerry. Jerry always got away from Tom, and he hardly ever caught Jerry. So the question is: did Tom ever successfully catch and eat Jerry?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, you may say that if Jerry got eaten, the show would end, but of course the writers and animators can bring him back (reincarnation, or Tom eats Jerry in a dream).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13038" LastEditorUserId="46980" LastEditDate="2021-02-25T16:16:29.093" LastActivityDate="2021-02-26T02:03:59.427" Title="Did Tom ever catch Jerry?" Tags="|tom-and-jerry|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="23550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23549" CreationDate="2014-08-03T11:20:36.603" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I remember, &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only death that happens in the cartoon is on the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Cat_Blues&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blue Cat Blues&lt;/a&gt;, where it is implied that both of them commit suicide at the end of the episode (it is not actually shown).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/tom-jerry-suicide-episode-cartoon-features-depression-over-a-broken-heart&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Controversial Cartoon Deaths:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is not the typical episode about Tom &amp;amp; Jerry. Tom falls madly in&#xA;  love with another cat and showers his sweetie with all sorts of gifts&#xA;  including jewelry and even a car -- but she doesn't seem to be&#xA;  impressed with his meagre fortune. He even signs away his arm and a&#xA;  leg for her, but alas, to no avail. When things go awry, he later&#xA;  becomes an alcoholic. Why? Mr. Butch (Tom's rival) stole his love away&#xA;  from him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The heartbroken Tom winds up in the gutter and sadly, Mr. Butch ends&#xA;  up marrying Tom's only true love. Of course, all of this is narrated&#xA;  by a 1950's deadpan voice, which adds to the eerie feeling of the&#xA;  short clip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The episode ends off with Tom on the train tracks with a train&#xA;  approaching... This is definitely not a pick-me-upper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastActivityDate="2014-08-03T11:20:36.603" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23551" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-03T14:13:54.187" Score="1" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not seen the entire movie, but from the snippets I have seen and the Wikipedia and other plot summaries, the movie does contain eroticism and violence but doesn't seem to involve rape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why such a title then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13041" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-03T16:30:01.957" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T23:02:53.740" Title="Why is Jean Rollin's &quot;Le Viol du Vampire&quot; Called this way? (The Rape of the Vampire)" Tags="|title|the-rape-of-the-vampire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23551" CreationDate="2014-08-03T22:21:46.840" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Viol_du_Vampire#The_Rape_of_the_Vampire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia synopsis for the film&lt;/a&gt; seems to indicate that the film is named for the events which allegedly lead up to the first short:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Four sisters living in an old château are &lt;strong&gt;convinced that they are vampires&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;One believes she was raped&lt;/strong&gt; by the villagers years before, and is blind; another is afraid of sunlight, and they all react violently to crucifixes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thomas asks one of the sisters to bite him to prove her wrong and discovers she is, in fact, a vampire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which would indicate it's probably true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-08-03T22:21:46.840" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23556" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23581" CreationDate="2014-08-03T23:37:59.307" Score="7" ViewCount="2894" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious as to how episodes of shows are selected for re-runs. I ask because I've noticed over the years of watching re-runs of various shows that they seem to favor certain episodes. I've noticed they usually don't re-run season/series premier/finales. Seems to be the same in both cartoon/animated series as well as live action shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One would assume it's based on popularity, but I'm not so sure about that. Do DVD sets play a role in re-run selections? Meaning they only show certain episodes in an attempt to increase sales? These are only speculations and guesses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To &lt;strong&gt;@Crow T Robot&lt;/strong&gt;'s point, it does seem to matter if the show has a story line or not, but my wife has been watching Forensic Files since it first came out in 2000 and we have not seen a re-run of any episode in the first season (she records them all) in 5+ years but the same episode will get recorded on the DVR multiple times a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To &lt;strong&gt;@Sonny Burnett&lt;/strong&gt;'s point, I live in the US. Unless they are airing a marathon of a series, it's usually not in sequential order. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2014-08-04T01:32:34.740" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T14:12:28.743" Title="How are rerun episodes selected?" Tags="|production|scheduling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23558" CreationDate="2014-08-04T00:23:17.840" Score="7" ViewCount="375" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching a Vietnam film several years ago that followed soldiers through training. I can only remember one scene where the drill instructor teaches the recruits about the AK-47 and that it makes a distinct sound that they must remember so they can easily identify an enemy based on its sound. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there was an abandoned building in the background of the scene and I think someone was shooting out of a window (&lt;em&gt;My memory of that is very fuzzy and it's possible that it will end up being from a different scene or even film but I think that is unlikely&lt;/em&gt;). I always believed that this film was &lt;strong&gt;Full Metal Jacket&lt;/strong&gt;, however having watched it recently the scene was not there and I'm fairly certain it had different actors in it. I also believe that this film was well received. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13046" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T13:23:44.620" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T13:23:44.620" Title="Could someone tell me the name of this Vietnam film?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:15:31.110" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23557" CreationDate="2014-08-04T00:30:34.037" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could you be thinking of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091187/&quot;&gt;Heartbreak Ridge (1986)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1983. Tom Highway is a well-decorated career military man in the United States Marine Corps, he who has seen action in Korea and &lt;strong&gt;Vietnam&lt;/strong&gt;. Close to retirement, one of his last assignments, one he requested, is back at his old unit at Cherry Point, North Carolina, from where &lt;strong&gt;he is to train a reconnaissance platoon&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also features this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091187/quotes&quot;&gt;quote&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Highway&lt;/strong&gt;: This is the AK-47 assault rifle, the preferred weapon of your enemy; and it makes a distinctive sound when fired at you, so remember it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the scene on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIv_RrgCfWs&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;, there's no abandoned building but they are briefly shown marching past the barracks at the start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-04T00:39:59.380" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T00:39:59.380" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23559" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-04T01:31:01.387" Score="13" ViewCount="3157" Body="&lt;p&gt;Masters of Sex tells the Story of the research team consisting of William Masters and Virginia Johnson researching sexuality in the 1950s. The persons really existed as well as their study, so I wonder how close the events of the show match the events of real life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially the fact that the show has a big drama component with major developments between all the main characters makes me wonder if they simply took the back story of the study and beefed it up with some fictional personal background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some questions that come to mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did the creators of the show make any statement regarding how close they are sticking to the real life events? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there even enough known about the personal life of Masters and Johnson to tell the story in such detail? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What major differences are there between the show and reality?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T02:14:53.537" Title="How close is Masters of Sex to the actual events?" Tags="|analysis|character|production|realism|masters-of-sex|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12011" CreationDate="2014-08-04T02:07:20.987" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;DForck42's answer explained how it appeared, but not exactly what it &lt;em&gt;means&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The phrase 'Bad Wolf' came from the name of the corporation which the Daleks have taken over and owned the games satellite they were on at the start of the episode &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0562986/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bad Wolf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xbdg1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Badwolf Corporation&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the message was therefore meant to tell her that she should return to the Bad Wolf Corporation satellite to go and save The Doctor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of The Parting of The Ways, Rose also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0563000/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;explains it further&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rose&lt;/strong&gt;: I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Rose lifts her hand and takes the words from the Bad Wolf Corporation sign]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rose&lt;/strong&gt;: ...I scatter them, in time and space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[the words float off away from them]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rose&lt;/strong&gt;: A message, to lead myself here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T02:07:20.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23032" CreationDate="2014-08-04T02:35:29.090" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If anything, it is explained that train produces water through the snow and ice picked up from the nose of the train. It would presumably need to keep moving to continue to produce water, also I believe it probably has something to do with producing power / electricity on the train&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13049" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T02:35:29.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21938" CreationDate="2014-08-04T02:41:40.137" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are multiple meanings and people above touched on some of them. It definitely has a lot to do with the idea of &quot;balance&quot; that Tilda Swinton talks about with the Sushi. Interesting that the aquarium becomes a symbol of balance after Curtis slipped and lost his balance on the gutted fish. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13049" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T02:41:40.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23398" CreationDate="2014-08-04T04:07:10.550" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;@DustinDavis&lt;/strong&gt;  May have been a hazard considering the fumes. If that thing kicks on (I assume it's using 110v or 220v) ..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also 415 volt 3 phase which is common (in Australia at least) for industrial equipment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;..it will cause a spark (because it isn't intrinsically safe) which would cause an explosion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little research from this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zeton.com/site/pdf_articles/Hazardous_Area_Electric_Motor_Paper.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hazardous Area Electric Motor Paper&lt;/a&gt; indicates you must even be careful as to what type of &lt;em&gt;electric motor&lt;/em&gt; goes into an environment with combustible gases. The HEPA Air Filter probably would not have been designed for operation within such an environment, so it probably would not be safe to use inside the lab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I was focusing on the electric motor simply for the reason that if switching it on/off might cause a spark, the solution might be to turn it on before they start, and off after they complete a batch and are waiting for the crystal to form. But the specialized electric motor kills that idea.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T04:07:10.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23567" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-04T04:23:01.350" Score="5" ViewCount="905" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Lion King&lt;/em&gt;, we are shown a family of lion royalty over multiple generations, as well as its subjects and other animals involved with its kingdom, the Pride Lands. Recently, I have noticed how long certain species live compared to other species, and have wondered whether this is at all realistic. We are not shown many other families, and do not see many other child animals, so this will have to be mostly within the context of the royal family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the beginning, we see the birth of Simba, born from Mufasa and Sarabi. Scar is Mufasa's brother. Nala, Simba's future wife, would also have been born around this time. Besides the lions, we see Zazu, a hornbill, and Rafiki, a baboon, in this scene. Both are clearly adults, and serve major roles in the kingdom's hierarchy. Timon, a meerkat, and Pumbaa, a warthog, are first seen, as adults, as well, about halfway through the film, when Simba is still a young child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the film, most of these animals are still alive when we see the birth of Simba and Nala's child. Most of the animals look almost exactly the same, even though the lion equivalent of decades has passed. Mufasa was killed by Scar when Simba was a young cub, and Scar himself was killed towards the end of the movie by his own army of hyenas, but we see Zazu, Rafiki, Timon, Pumbaa, and Sarabi at the new cub's presentation at the end, and all 5 look identical to their first appearances. Simba and Nala are the only animals who have clearly aged during the movie, as they were just being born at the beginning and are now adults, having a child of their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It gets even more ridiculous if we consider &lt;em&gt;The Lion King 2&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Lion King 1 1/2&lt;/em&gt;. The former is a sequel, and deals with Simba and Nala's cub, Kiara, and ends with her coronation, as an adult; while the latter is a prequel of &lt;em&gt;The Lion King&lt;/em&gt;, and starts long before the first movie. In the sequel, Rafiki, Zazu, Timon and Pumbaa are all seen at the end, when Kiara is all grown up, and all four do not seem to have aged a day since their respective first appearances in the first movie. These are cartoons, so it is rather hard to show age, but I would think they should at least have grey hair or (more) bent backs or perhaps more realistic, less anthropomorphized signs of aging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rafiki, Zazu, Timon and Pumbaa are also all seen in &lt;em&gt;The Lion King 1 1/2&lt;/em&gt;, long before Simba's birth, still looking exactly the same (though Timon was coming of age at the beginning, so he looked a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; younger), meaning all four animals lived through at least 3 or 4 generations of lions after they came of age and do not look like they have aged a day throughout. We do not see Sarabi, Mufasa or Scar in either movie, except in a scene in &lt;em&gt;The Lion King 1 1/2&lt;/em&gt; already shown in the first movie, so we do not know how long they lived compared to their younger relatives. However, Sarabi lives to see her grandchild, and Scar almost does, and neither looks significantly older. I know these are children's cartoons, but this seems like a bit of a stretch, even for children. Disney does not consider many sequels canon, however, so it does not endorse these two movies, but the company commissioned them and some people thought this would seem realistic, so I'm counting them. Even with just the first movie, however, the age problem is apparent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this situation at all realistic? Do hornbills, baboons, warthogs, or meerkats live significantly longer than lions?&lt;/strong&gt; Do these animals come of age early and live for a very long time afterwards, assuming they are not killed by predators, rivals or disease? I understand that this is a children's cartoon, and thus should not be considered a perfect model for the real world, so I am asking whether it is at all a model of the real world, by accident or on purpose. I am also not asking so much about the realism of age not being apparent, as these movies are cartoons, so this is hard, but discussions about apparent signs of age, such as different colors of fur, wrinkles, that shaking old people do in movies, or others, and whether these were or should have been shown, are welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9951" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2023-05-25T10:07:01.017" LastActivityDate="2023-07-10T02:17:58.467" Title="Are the lifespans of the animals compared to the lions realistic?" Tags="|realism|the-lion-king|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="23568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23322" CreationDate="2014-08-04T04:33:22.240" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;@wbogacz&lt;/strong&gt; It is not a new thing in fiction (or real life for that matter) to find police or bureaucratic officials miss the most obvious in pursuit of the most elegant solution in their investigations or their jobs in general. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there is that..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;@iandotkelly&lt;/strong&gt;  didn't he think he caught The Captain when he raided the cookhouse? Wasn't Jesse's partner at the time (Emilio) arrested?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes he definitely thought that.  He even claimed half the bet total from Steve based on Emilio being part Latino.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there are cases of him having thought he'd got his quarry but later thinking otherwise&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, they were stronger cases with a wealth of associations that had arisen during his investigations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) There is the prime example of Hank realizing that Walt might be Heisenberg based on the book he discovered in Walt's house: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The book:&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Had an inscription in it (with hand writing he had seen before).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was related to a relatively obscure author. I figure that while most Americans would have heard of Walt Whitman, few would have his books in their home (like Walt) or have recited parts of his works in their lab notebooks (like Gale).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hank and Walt had discussed both Walt Whitman and Gale Boetticher.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;..&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T04:33:22.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23569" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23613" CreationDate="2014-08-04T08:51:41.423" Score="1" ViewCount="1221" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the background score played in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843866/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Captain America: The Winter Soldier&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; when Captain America attacks the Winter Soldier right after Black Widow was shot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12953" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:20:25.937" LastActivityDate="2016-03-20T22:32:54.743" Title="Highway battle background score" Tags="|soundtrack|marvel-cinematic-universe|captain-america-the-winter-soldier|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1824" CreationDate="2014-08-04T09:10:51.393" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While he struggles with the hallucination girl before he &quot;kills&quot; her,  he says &quot;you didn't think I would really do it but I did&quot;. Earlier after he first hears about the robbery he has a &quot;memory&quot; of him pointing the gun at the woman as if she is a bank teller and he is robbing her.  By the end of the film we know that he never really pointed the gun at her because he was just an innocent bystander who got held hostage and taken away.  All this leads me to believe that because of the radio announcement of the robbery he believes he is one of the robbers.  Because of the false memory of him pointing the gun on her he thinks he may have killed her in the robbery.  So when he keeps seeing the hallucination girl and she leads him to the car again he gets angry and &quot;shoots her again&quot; because he doesn't want the guilt of seeing her over and over.  In the end we find out she was probably his wife or fiancé (he's wearing a ring the whole movie). And he probably felt guilty and kept hallucinating her because they argued the last time he saw her.  That also explains why she always looks angry in his hallucinations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13053" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T09:10:51.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23571" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23574" CreationDate="2014-08-04T09:50:55.140" Score="20" ViewCount="93424" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to ask about the title of the famous 1996 movie Trainspotting.&#xA;What is the meaning of it and how does it fit in the context of story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-06-11T12:22:23.733" LastActivityDate="2018-06-11T12:22:23.733" Title="What is the meaning of the title Trainspotting?" Tags="|title|trainspotting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="23574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23571" CreationDate="2014-08-04T11:08:17.713" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainspotting_(film)#Legacy&quot;&gt;Trainspotting (film): Legacy&lt;/a&gt; comes: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The cryptic film title is a reference to a scene (not included in the film) in the original book, where Begbie and Renton meet 'an auld drunkard' who turns out to be Begbie's estranged father, in the disused Leith Central railway station, which they are using as a toilet. He asks them if they are &quot;trainspottin'.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Irvine Welsh (book author) himself has explained in a Q&amp;amp;A that the title is also a reference to people thinking that the hobby of trainspotting&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; makes no sense to non-participants. Likewise, the same applies to heroin addiction: to non-addicts the act seems completely pointless whereas, to someone hooked on heroin, it makes absolute sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainspotting_(hobby)#Trainspotting&quot;&gt;hobby of trainspotting&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;..Those who are &quot;trainspotters&quot; make an effort to &quot;spot&quot; all of a certain type of rolling stock. This might be a particular class of locomotive, a particular type of carriage or all the rolling stock of a particular company. To this end, they collect and exchange detailed information about the movements of locomotives and other equipment on the railway network, and become very knowledgeable about its operations. ..&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2014-08-04T11:38:42.130" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T11:38:42.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23567" CreationDate="2014-08-04T12:15:51.400" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, birds do live a long life.  I owned an African Gray and a Double Yellowneck and both had a life expectancy in the 70's.  And they do look exactly the same during almost that entire time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the context of Disney, this is merely to establish continuity among beloved characters.  You want a 4 or 5 year old to recognize Timon and Pumba because they're the sidekicks.  They're the reason kids with a 10-minute attention span can watch the whole movie.  If you suddenly made them unrecognizable, you take that part away and a child could become confused and then disinterested.  Plus, which version do you make the inevitable plush toy resemble?  :oP&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disney almost always engages in Anthropomorphism; giving human qualities to non-human beings. Hence the aging, wrinkles, etc that real animals do not go through.  When it's time to progress a character to that point, you need to have a way to indicate they have aged, and since in the real world they don't exhibit any characteristics of aging (save maybe some gray hair on certain animals), you have to show them what they know, and they know grandparents have those characteristics (slightly hunched, gray hair, wrinkles, etc...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T12:15:51.400" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9482" CreationDate="2014-08-04T13:06:07.670" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the directors do not actually work per episode. So it will be different directors with different teams and actors, doing different scenes at the same time. So, director A works on Lannisters problems, director B works on Bran Stark's journey, and somewhere else director C is on Daenerys. With this way, there's no problem in directing style because each piece is handled by one director (there's also blue print of style from previous seasons). This will save time and money. At the end, all pieces are combined into 10 episodes or something, and names of directors are attached to different episodes based on their portions of work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13057" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T13:06:07.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23578" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23749" CreationDate="2014-08-04T13:31:52.220" Score="7" ViewCount="482" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Day of the Doctor the War Doctor sets a program running on his screwdriver which 11's then has then completed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However 10 burnt out his Screwdriver in &quot;Smith and Jones&quot; working on the MRI machine and 11 lost his screwdriver in the &quot;11th Hour&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's the case how can the program still be running?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T14:34:02.817" Title="Is it the same screwdriver?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23579" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32030" CreationDate="2014-08-04T13:56:57.067" Score="5" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;Midway through the movie &quot;12 Years A Slave&quot;, Epp's wife asks Solomon to deliver a letter to the grocery store and made certain that Solomon could not read, leading the audience to believe the letter held some secret she did not want anyone to know about except for the store owner. On another trip to the store, along with the groceries that were purchased, the owner provides a scroll of parchment carefully wrapped in a bow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the way back to the plantation from the store, Solomon runs into the woods to read the letter in secret. He seems shocked by what's in the letter, but there is no mention (that I recall) as to what is in the letter. What is in the letter!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13059" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-04T13:58:14.290" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T19:20:19.903" Title="What was in the letter to Epp's wife?" Tags="|plot-explanation|12-years-a-slave|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10640" CreationDate="2014-08-04T14:01:49.770" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because they can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movie post-production schedules usually have a finite window for editing; Non-Linear Editing allows for significantly more work to be carried out in that time window than the old physical splicing method. Thus those editors and/or directors who are inclined can edit more so do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T14:01:49.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23556" CreationDate="2014-08-04T14:09:14.210" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously there's a lot of reasons, but two to consider are;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That some episodes will actually be cheaper to rerun due to the various cast/crew rerun terms - for instance most actors have at least two ways to get paid for a role; base pay  plus rerun payments or base pay plus a buy-out fee that comes once no matter how often a show is reran.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ratings-weighted - the episodes that got the best viewership first time around are more likely to be rerun.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of this there will be a degree of sequential/randomness introduced, also there will be mistakes in scheduling, more than you'd like to know. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-04T14:12:28.743" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T14:12:28.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23582" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-04T16:33:14.700" Score="5" ViewCount="3595" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Will Turner finds out that Bootstrap Bill was tied to a cannon and dropped to the ocean floor, if not for the Aztec curse, killing him. This happened after the mutiny against Jack, led by Barbossa. So, Barbossa is responsible for the death of Will's father. But in Pirates: At World's End, during the Maelstrom battle, Will asks Barbossa &quot;Hey, murderer of my father, you're a captain, right? So you can perform weddings, right? Would you like to wed Elizabeth and me, right here?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did he forget who was responsible for his father's death and subsequent enlistment to Davey Jones' crew?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13061" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T12:58:26.600" LastActivityDate="2017-09-04T09:18:35.543" Title="Did Will forget who killed his father?" Tags="|pirates-of-the-caribbean|curse-of-the-black-pearl|at-worlds-end|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23582" CreationDate="2014-08-04T17:20:39.170" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;They were in the middle of a sword fight when Will proposed to Elizabeth. He has Barbossa marry them on the spot as it appears that it will be the only chance they'll get to be married. Whether or not Barbossa is responsible for Will's father's death, or whether or not Will remembers this fact never enters into the decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T17:20:39.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23526" CreationDate="2014-08-04T17:47:39.657" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;They did drop John C. Reilly's line &quot;They're calling themselves the Guardians of the Galaxy&quot; from the final release of the film. I also noticed that Drax is not in the lineup scene in the film, as he was introduced later. I think he was included in this part of the trailer so that all five main characters could be introduced in a similar way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, yes, Ronan the Accuser is the first to use the name &quot;Guardians of the Galaxy&quot; in the film. Peter Quill (Starlord) and Rocket do talk about saving the galaxy in earlier scenes, but they don't use the titular phrase until after Ronan coins it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comics, there is some confusion as to where (more accurately, when) the team's name comes from as well. The &quot;original&quot; Guardians of the Galaxy come from 1000 years in the future, but those comics were published decades ago (in the late 1960s an early 1970s, then again in the early 1990s). That team traveled into the past (creating alternate timelines, as one does) and influenced the current team to take the name. So the current Guardians of the Galaxy took the name from a team that existed before them and 1000 years after them. Adding to the confusion, at least one character (Vance Astro, aka Major Victory) was a member of &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; teams, so it's not entirely clear whether or not the two teams influenced &lt;em&gt;each other&lt;/em&gt; to take the same name, which would be a paradox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T17:47:39.657" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23588" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23819" CreationDate="2014-08-04T20:40:11.233" Score="7" ViewCount="7823" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming he had nothing of value when being released from prison (I guess all his possessions would be taken from him).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He stays at June's place, paying $700 a month &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whitecollarlexicon.com/neals_apartment.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;. I'm assuming that he, as everyone else, has other expenses in his life that must be covered. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In (3.4) Peter says to Neal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's why we pay you the big bucks....if we paid you... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, so it's pretty clear that Neal can get a lot of money by selling items he has hidden away somewhere. He could for instance (minor spoiler from 2.14):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;sell the ring hidden in the statute in Madison Square Park worth $2.5 million. (2.14)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: How does Neal make money... Or rather, how does Peter and the FBI &lt;strong&gt;think&lt;/strong&gt; Neal makes money? Obviously they can't rely on him selling stolen goods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13063" LastEditorUserId="13063" LastEditDate="2016-09-05T11:38:37.587" LastActivityDate="2016-09-05T11:38:37.587" Title="How does Neal Caffrey make a living?" Tags="|plot-explanation|white-collar|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23589" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-04T20:54:49.630" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;White Collar is a USA Network television series created by Jeff Eastin, starring Tim DeKay as FBI Special Agent Peter Burke and Matt Bomer as Neal Caffrey, a highly intelligent and multi-talented con artist working as Burke's criminal informant. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Collar_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13063" LastEditorUserId="13063" LastEditDate="2014-08-04T21:17:55.420" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T21:17:55.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23590" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-04T20:54:49.630" Score="0" Body="White Collar is a USA Network television series created by Jeff Eastin, starring Tim DeKay as FBI Special Agent Peter Burke and Matt Bomer as Neal Caffrey, a highly intelligent and multi-talented con artist working as Burke's criminal informant." OwnerUserId="13063" LastEditorUserId="13063" LastEditDate="2014-08-04T21:17:58.987" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T21:17:58.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23591" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23592" CreationDate="2014-08-04T22:09:44.287" Score="3" ViewCount="522" Body="&lt;p&gt;In AMC's Halt and Catch Fire TV series, its intro at some point shows a Windows-like logo image. What is the image alluded for? Since it was before the rising of Windows and GUI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is where you can watch the intro: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/halt-and-catch-fire/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/halt-and-catch-fire/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13070" OwnerDisplayName="user2094178" LastEditorUserId="13070" LastEditDate="2014-08-04T23:29:18.000" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T23:29:18.000" Title="Windows-like logo in Halt and Catch Fire intro" Tags="|title-sequence|halt-and-catch-fire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23591" CreationDate="2014-08-04T22:21:35.450" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a snapshot of part of a silicon wafer used to make microprocessors. You take a wafer and split it into a bunch of squares once you've printed a chipset onto it. Then you package each one into one of those black plastic cases with pins (called a package in industry jargon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YH7EZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;From Wikipedia: Silicon Chip Wafer&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user4294" LastActivityDate="2014-08-04T22:21:35.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23593" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23607" CreationDate="2014-08-05T00:05:19.020" Score="5" ViewCount="1388" Body="&lt;p&gt;We all know Vin Diesel is famous for his &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD2Mb8pM6E8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;silky moves&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pG7U8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything to substantiate the claim that Vin Diesel was himself the model for the Motion Capture of Groot's already infamous pre-credit jive in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2015381/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T12:32:06.573" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T12:32:06.573" Title="Did Vin MoCap the Dance?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23571" CreationDate="2014-08-05T00:31:47.970" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the obvious reference I can't seem to find elsewhere here, is that Heroin users look for veins or arteries to shoot dope into and end up with &quot;track marks&quot;.  So Heroin users look at tracks and for spots to inject themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13073" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T00:31:47.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9345" CreationDate="2014-08-05T03:55:46.570" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question pertains to the movie but the answers are coming from the book. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Lord-of-the-Rings-The-Two-Towers.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Two Towers Script&lt;/a&gt; doesn't say Gandalf died in so many words. He reports, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;                                     GANDALF&#xA;  &lt;/b&gt;                         Darkness took me. And I strayed out &#xA;                           of thought and time. [Camera zooms in &#xA;                           Gandalf’s eye and enters an amorphous &#xA;                           realm of stars and galaxies, ending &#xA;                           in a blinding white light] Stars wheeled &#xA;                           overhead and everyday was as long as &#xA;                           a life-age of the earth. But it was &#xA;                           not the end. I felt life in me again.&#xA;  &lt;b&gt; &#xA;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/b&gt;                         [Camera zooms out from Gandalf’s eye, &#xA;                           lying naked and very still. His hair &#xA;                           has turned white and wounds are completely &#xA;                           healed. He suddenly shudders with a &#xA;                           deep gasp and pants as life returns &#xA;                           to him]&#xA;  &lt;b&gt; &#xA;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;                                     GANDALF&#xA;  &lt;/b&gt;                         I've been sent back until my task is &#xA;                           done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13077" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T03:55:46.570" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7915" CreationDate="2014-08-05T04:45:46.903" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My answer is that it was a mistake that Coppola and Puzo missed.  The hit was intended to kill him (the scene is actually based on a real life incident where a cop broke up a hit in a bar).  Mistakes get made, even by the best.  Just like the discrepancy between the date on Vito's tombstone in Part 1 (April, 1887) and the date we are given for his birth in part 2 (December 7, 1891 or 1892).   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.  Although unrelated, Fredo was in on the hit. Who else drew back the drapes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13078" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T04:45:46.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15725" CreationDate="2014-08-05T05:08:52.157" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fredo was the Underboss.  Number 2. With Michael out of the way, Fredo is the new Don and Roth gets control over the Corleone empire. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fredo is naive and stupid. But, he is a mobster and make no mistake about it, he is very greedy and gets pushed around by everyone - Moe Greene, Sunny, Michael, his alcoholic wife, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fredo was in on the hit.  He had to be.  How did Fredo know about the plan to have Senate Subcommittee nail Michael for perjury, if those details weren't shared by Roth and Ola?  If Roth and Ola were comfortable sharing that information with Fredo, then they were comfortable knowing they had Fredo's trust.  Fredo didn't come clean with this information until AFTER he realized Michael knew he was the traitor.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry folks, but Fredo tried to have his own brother killed and got what he had coming to him. Films draw a lot of analogies with Roman Empire and this is how the Romans did it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13078" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T05:08:52.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23601" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23615" CreationDate="2014-08-05T05:38:18.643" Score="11" ViewCount="5722" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Breaking Bad, Walt turns into a dangerous, egotistical, manipulative and most-wanted Man from a mild mannered, docile, family man. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He did start the whole thing for his family, but soon lost his way, which he admits himself during the series finale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to know which is the first sign in the series where we see Walt's motives changing, where he was clearly not doing it for the family anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T15:08:13.150" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:06:56.720" Title="Which is the first sign that indicates that Walt is not doing it for the family anymore?" Tags="|analysis|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23601" CreationDate="2014-08-05T05:58:59.983" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is pretty definitive by the time of &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Buyout&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Buyout&lt;/a&gt; (S. 5 Ep. 6).  From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Buyout_subtitles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sub-titles&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walter:&lt;/strong&gt; Jesse, you asked me if I was in the meth business or the money business.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Neither.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I'm in the &lt;em&gt;empire business.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T05:58:59.983" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23606" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23655" CreationDate="2014-08-05T13:30:41.437" Score="6" ViewCount="399" Body="&lt;p&gt;The modern remake of the 80s slasher film of the same name, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2103217/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Maniac&lt;/a&gt; (2012), starring Elijah Wood as Frank Zito is depicted entirely from the killer's point of view, thus putting the viewer 'in his shoes' so to speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this serves to heighten the effect of the crimes Frank commits, and also places us in an uncompromising position as we are effectively &lt;em&gt;the killer&lt;/em&gt;, there is one moment in the film (the murder in the parking lot) when the camera emerges from a POV shot, and swings around to show a conventional mid-shot as Frank does the deed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several other moments in the film when one might consider Frank is having an &lt;em&gt;out of body&lt;/em&gt; experience, or is dreaming, in which we see him from a third-party POV, but the murder scene does not seem to fit this pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have a theory as to why the director should choose to shoot this scene differently? Is there any documentation to explain this decision?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T14:00:20.370" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T09:51:50.550" Title="The choice to switch from POV in the remake of 'Maniac'" Tags="|analysis|film-techniques|maniac-2012|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23593" CreationDate="2014-08-05T13:58:02.040" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I messaged Jesse Hildreth, the ILM animator who was responsible for that sublime little dancing Groot at the end and he told me that Vin Diesel definitely did not perform mo-cap for that shot, and in fact it was James Gunn who performed it for the reference footage!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jesse was also responsible for most of Star-Lord's helmet shots, some close-ups on Rocket's hands and a couple of Milano shots - all cool stuff!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: Jesse just sent me a link with the following quote: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I'm not motion-captured, but I'm motion-referenced and that is 100%&#xA;  me dancing...&quot;&#xA;  James Gunn&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read more at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/MarvelFreshman/news/?a=105173#1ZQTzc6HS9QULsvb.99&quot;&gt;http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/MarvelFreshman/news/?a=105173#1ZQTzc6HS9QULsvb.99&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T14:03:18.170" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T14:03:18.170" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23608" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23617" CreationDate="2014-08-05T14:02:28.217" Score="7" ViewCount="3541" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does not look like that helped to inhibit her powers, in fact, they grow stronger as she grows older and still, no matter how potent her Ice Powers are, they can be completely controlled if she only wears a glove. Also, plot wise, nothing important seems to have happened during the time she was locked in her room; she was put in when she was a child, she grows older, then comes out one day to be coronated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what was the point in locking her up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4763" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-13T23:58:35.777" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T23:58:35.777" Title="Why was Elsa locked up in Frozen?" Tags="|plot-explanation|frozen|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23610" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23616" CreationDate="2014-08-05T15:26:32.273" Score="7" ViewCount="4215" Body="&lt;p&gt;Be warned spoilers below if you haven't watched the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Killer in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096163/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Vanishing&lt;/em&gt; (1988, orig.: &lt;em&gt;Spoorloos&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/a&gt;, his primary motivation as per my understanding was to gauge himself to see if he could perform an act so evil compared to his act of saving the person who was drowning and because of that he decided to kill the girl whom he kidnaps from the gas station in the beginning of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What intrigues me is why does he have to kill the girl's boyfriend 3 years later there was no evidence shown in the movie which gives the inkling that killer could be psychotic or a serial killer although it was shown he clearly was a sociopath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He could've told the girl's boyfriend about the fate she suffered and let him leave because there was no evidence connecting the killer to the missing girl. I couldn't think of any reason why he has to make sure the boyfriend suffered the same fate as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is what is his primary motive in killing the girl's boyfriend?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T15:30:44.403" LastActivityDate="2018-06-28T08:45:42.150" Title="Motivation of Killer in The Vanishing (1988)" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-vanishing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23611" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-05T15:27:21.203" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T15:27:21.203" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T15:27:21.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23612" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-05T15:27:21.203" Score="0" Body="The Vanishing (Dutch: Spoorloos, literally &quot;Traceless&quot; or &quot;Without a Trace&quot;) is a Dutch–French film adaptation of the novella The Golden Egg by Tim Krabbé, released October 27, 1988. Directed by George Sluizer and starring Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, the film is about the disappearance of a young Dutch woman and her lover's obsessive search. In France the film was released under the title L'homme qui voulait savoir (The Man Who Wanted to Know)." OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T15:27:21.203" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T15:27:21.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23569" CreationDate="2014-08-05T15:29:39.697" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right after  Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow was shot by Winter soldier, this is the soundtrack gets played&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;13.The Causeway &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It starts with kind of a shrieking sound. Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV_IuELIiYE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2014-08-06T03:54:03.973" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T03:54:03.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23601" CreationDate="2014-08-05T16:04:30.937" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First sign of &quot;darkness&quot;: Season 2, Episode 6.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In it for himself: Sometime in Season 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Full Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my own opinion, the first glimpse I had of Walt's &lt;em&gt;true&lt;/em&gt; nature was way back in Episode 6 of Season 2 - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Peekaboo&quot;&gt;Peekaboo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this episode, Gretchen Schwartz visits the White household and is thanked by Skyler for giving the money to Walt for his cancer treatment. However, Walt had turned Gretchen down, so this leaves her confused and asking where he got the money from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gretchen arranges to meet Walt at a restaurant. She asks him why he lied and how he's paying the huge sums of money his cancer treatment costs. He tells her he owes her an apology - but not an explanation. She doesn't like his answer and the following dialogue occurs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gretchen&lt;/strong&gt;: ...this isn't you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt&lt;/strong&gt;: What would you know about me, Gretchen? What would your&#xA;  presumption about me be, exactly? That I should go begging for your&#xA;  charity? And you waving your chequebook around like some magic wand is&#xA;  gonna make me forget how you and Elliott--    How you and Elliott cut&#xA;  me out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gretchen&lt;/strong&gt;: What? That can't be how you see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt&lt;/strong&gt;: It was my hard work, my research, and you and Elliott make&#xA;  millions off it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gretchen&lt;/strong&gt;: That cannot be how you see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt&lt;/strong&gt;: Good. That's beautifully done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gretchen&lt;/strong&gt;: -You left--&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt&lt;/strong&gt;: You are always the picture of innocence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gretchen&lt;/strong&gt;: -You left me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt&lt;/strong&gt;: -The picture of innocence. Just sweetness and light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gretchen&lt;/strong&gt;: You left me. Newport, 4th of July weekend. You and my father&#xA;  and my brothers and I go up to our room and you're packing your bags,&#xA;  barely talking. What? Did I dream all of that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt&lt;/strong&gt;: That's your excuse to build your little empire on my work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gretchen&lt;/strong&gt;: How can you say that to me? You walked away. You abandoned&#xA;  us, me, Elliott.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt&lt;/strong&gt;: Little rich girl just adding to your millions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gretchen&lt;/strong&gt;: I don't even know what to say to you. I don't even know&#xA;  where to begin. I feel so sorry for you, Walt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt&lt;/strong&gt;: Fuck you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, this was the first revelation on the show of the deep anger Walt had towards the Schwartzs and how bitter he was at losing out on the billions they now had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time, it was the darkest we'd ever seen Walt on the show and certainly showed a new side of him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the series progresses, we continue to see this bitterness over Gray Matter Technologies, e.g. in the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Buyout&quot;&gt;Buyout&lt;/a&gt;, when Walt reveals to Jessie the company is now worth over 2 billion dollars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, to me this was the first sign that Walt wasn't &lt;strong&gt;just&lt;/strong&gt; doing it for his family any more - that getting money was his own way of making something of himself given what he had lost by walking away from Grey Matter Technologies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, your question specifically asks &quot;Which is the first sign that indicates that Walt is not doing it for the family &lt;strong&gt;anymore&lt;/strong&gt;?&quot; - I'm not sure this question can really be answered. Right up until the end of the show, in his own way, he's doing this for his family. He's doing it for him too, primarily him - but also for his family. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, after the exchange above, in Season 2, episode 9 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/4_Days_Out&quot;&gt;4 Days Out&lt;/a&gt;), Walt thinks his cancer is getting worse and goes into meth-cooking overdrive to ensure he has as much as possible for his family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout Season 3 we see Walt slowly &lt;em&gt;barge&lt;/em&gt; back into Skyler's life because he doesn't want to be away from her, or them. In Season 3, episode 10 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Fly&quot;&gt;Fly&lt;/a&gt;) we see Walt lose himself trying to kill a fly in his meth lab - because any contamination whatsoever could be catastrophic for them and their lives, including their families. Walt is fearful he can't protect Jessie or his family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Season 4 we see Walt plan the murder of Gus as Gus threatens both him and his family. He does this out of fear for his own life, yes, but also out of fear for his family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Season 5, Walt originally begins cooking again because Skyler gave almost all the money away to Ted. He has almost nothing left, so he cooks again for the same reason he did in Season 1 - to provide for his family. I feel it's only during this season, when the &lt;em&gt;huge bucks&lt;/em&gt; come in, that he truly loses sight of his overall goal of providing for his family. For example, in Season 1 Walt states he needs $737,000 to provide for his family (worked out by calculating college fees, mortgage payments etc). At one point in Season 5 he has over $80 million.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His true nature is revealed in Season 2, Episode 6 in my opinion. However, although we see this &quot;dark&quot; side of him, he continues to be in it primarily for his family right up until Season 5 when, at some point, he loses focus and gets lost in his own reputation and the huge sums of money he is making.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T16:04:30.937" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23610" CreationDate="2014-08-05T16:09:29.353" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Note: All a bit speculative and subjective, so this might not be a good fit)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a sense, I saw the original film, &lt;em&gt;Spoorloos&lt;/em&gt;, as having two antagonists, the killer, Lemorne, and &lt;em&gt;fate&lt;/em&gt; itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;True, the focus is on Lemorne and his self-obsession with the 'act of pure evil', but I also like to see his role as a facilitator in the over-all scheme. Without trying to get too spiritual about it, the universe has already decided Rex and Saskia's fates, and I see her dreams of them both trapped in golden eggs more as premonitions - a fate that cannot be escaped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To this end, Sluizer made a film less about one man's motives, and more about the unavoidable and sudden twists of fate that await us all, even in the most mundane situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Lemorne's motive for killing Rex (other than fulfilling the bigger picture), he always struck me as a man obsessive and methodical enough to push the envelope even further. Could it be that this was part of his overall scheme? To take a loved one away from a person, allow them to suffer, move on, and then reveal all before snuffing them out too? In my opinion, this is infinitely more evil than an abduction and murder with closure, and would appeal to Lemorne's sensibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T16:09:29.353" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23608" CreationDate="2014-08-05T17:08:06.777" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the incident with Anna, her parents were scared of her powers going out of control and hurting someone. The troll king warned them of dire consequences if Elsa doesn't learn to control her powers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Listen to me, Elsa, your power will only grow. There is beauty in it. But also great danger. You must learn to control it. Fear will be your enemy.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her father, terrified of the idea, replies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;No. We'll protect her. She can learn to control it. I'm sure. Until then, we'll lock the gates. We'll reduce the staff. We will limit her contact with people, and keep her powers hidden from everyone. Including Anna.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He decides that until Elsa learns to completely and safely control her powers she could be a danger to others, so he limits her contact with other people until she does. This also works to hide her powers from the general populace, who would react badly to having a royal with such a deadly, and uncontrolled, power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, all this does is instill more fear into Elsa which drives her powers out of her hands. It wasn't until the movie's climax does she realize that love was the emotion that would control her powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T17:08:06.777" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23032" CreationDate="2014-08-05T19:34:30.913" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did the train need to keep moving?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a physical sense, the reason it needed to keep moving was that the train itself, as explained in the videos the children watch, was intended to be self-sufficient; from that, one must surmise that the train derives some unexplained benefit by being constantly in motion; perhaps this motion is necessary to somehow enable other, lesser, train functions, such as maintaining the conditions (channeling the heat from friction, perhaps?) for the interior of the train.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that, again from the videos, the train was not built with global freezing in mind; it was built as a luxury experience.  Considering your example of the ice-breaking generating water, we can guess that if rain existed (as it does not in the film since everything is ice), the train would gather the rain in the same way it gathers ice, to replenish water supplies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the train didn't keep moving, whatever unexplained benefit it might be deriving from moving would be lost, and based on exterior conditions, the train might be frozen in place, rendered incapable of moving to re-derive any lost benefits.  This dangerous and unpredictable scenario cannot be chanced, lest all of what is left of humanity be put at risk (from whatever environmental conditions might endanger the train; eg. an avalanche), so the train must keep moving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T19:56:16.503" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T19:56:16.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14386" CreationDate="2014-08-05T20:13:20.210" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sam and Dean were genetically engineered by Heaven to be the vessels. I believe the fact that Sam was part of Azazel's plan was more of a coincidence. Cas even says he knows what he did to Sam, but not why. I think it was more that Azazel was trying to make a power play and ended up failing when he inadvertently got in the way of the Winchester brothers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really that whole plot gave us two things: the beginning of the show and the reason why John got into hunting, and Sam's psychic abilities (now whether those were always &quot;in&quot; him and just heightened by demon blood or simply because of it I'm not sure)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Azazel was just trying to create a vessel for Lucifer, Sam wouldn't have been nearly as important. It needed to be the blood line of Mary and John, not the psychic stuff (also a note since Dean obviously did not need any outside force to be a vessel). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13090" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2014-08-05T20:30:30.140" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T20:30:30.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23608" CreationDate="2014-08-05T20:23:26.493" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I didn't take it as she was locked up, but rather that, because of the conversation between the troll and the king, she was hiding, shutting everyone else out to avoid hurting them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13089" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T20:23:26.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18795" CreationDate="2014-08-05T22:05:05.343" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A6fxp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the action at the start of the movie makes it clear that the show is live.  Looking at script it seems to be that it is the first time that the show has had a live studio audience.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12634" LastActivityDate="2014-08-05T22:05:05.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21970" CreationDate="2014-08-06T00:33:46.693" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, while &lt;em&gt;Optimus&lt;/em&gt; certainly &lt;em&gt;&quot;was pretty beatup and in terrible condition when Cade found him initially&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, you also have to keep in mind that &lt;em&gt;Cade&lt;/em&gt; already repaired him quite a bit, up to a degree where &lt;em&gt;Optimus&lt;/em&gt; didn't need his fellow transformers to repair him anymore. This is also evident from his rather agile and more or less fully functional behaviour during their escape from the farm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Optimus&lt;/em&gt; already had been repaired up to normal standards by &lt;em&gt;Cade&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The rest of his rather rusty appearance was just part of his current appearance as this old truck model and not due to his previous &quot;injuries&quot;. Whyever he had that appearance (most likely as disguise to evade the current anti-&lt;em&gt;Transformer&lt;/em&gt; pogroms), he didn't see any need to uphold it anymore and switched to a more comfortable/modern appearance as soon as the possibility arose. In addition to that, the correlation between the &lt;em&gt;Transformers&lt;/em&gt;' vehicle appearance and their &quot;humanoid&quot; appearance is not entirely clear anyway, as evident from &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/588/49&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to sum up, &lt;strong&gt;he didn't repair himself by scanning that vehicle but simply changed his appearance, as he already had been repaired to acceptable degrees by &lt;em&gt;Cade&lt;/em&gt; earlier.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2014-11-13T10:55:29.880" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21357" CreationDate="2014-08-06T04:43:35.470" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Manticore venom is said in the book to cause instant death once it reaches the heart but can be tampered to be more slow acting and painful. My guess is that he wanted the poison to torture Gregor so he can talk even with the wounds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the show the poison seems to be painful, so instead of holding a sword over him he just yells as he probably expects the poison to be so painful that Gregor begs for death and confesses (&lt;em&gt;that also add the bragging of being the guy who made the toughest in the kingdom cry for death&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13094" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-08-06T06:04:34.933" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T06:04:34.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23626" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-06T05:09:34.843" Score="1" ViewCount="545" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103060/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ninja Turtles 2 (1991)&lt;/a&gt; when the TGRI professor and the turtles are making the antidote for Tokka and Rahzar, he turns to the camera, twice with the antidote in a glass that has Bart Simpson on it. It was pretty prominent so I have to ask, what's the connection there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-21T22:54:18.097" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T22:54:18.097" Title="Whats the connection to Bart Simpson?" Tags="|tmnt-secret-of-the-ooze|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23627" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-06T05:12:03.600" Score="3" ViewCount="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103060/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ninja Turtles 2 (1991)&lt;/a&gt;, we see the foot capture the TGRI professor as he is processing the last canister of Ooze. Shredder forces the professor to use the Ooze to create Tokka and Rahzar, but during the construction site fight scene (before eating the donuts), Shredder holds up a full canister of Ooze. Where did that come from? It was made clear that there was only one left and the amount of Ooze we saw the professor use to create Tokka and Rahzar was significant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-21T22:54:32.280" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T01:54:57.617" Title="Where did the 2nd Ooze canister come from?" Tags="|tmnt-secret-of-the-ooze|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16316" CreationDate="2014-08-06T05:17:18.020" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, the movie, The Thirteenth Warrior, is a screenplay based on the Michael Crichton novel, The Thirteenth Warrior, which is itself based on an ancient English poem, Beowulf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie and Crichton book are reasonably close to each other.  Both have the  character, Ahmed, as the POV storyteller.  The implication is that Ahmed is an outsider from the Middle East observing the history and writing about it, which was a common trope in some story adaption in the 1990s (eg. Robinhood, Count of Monte Cristo).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it realistic Ahmed learned the language? I recall there was a sense of timelessness in early parts of the story, so it's hard to judge. A year could have passed, 5 years could have passed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it true to the book?  Cricton has been writing books and screenplays for a couple decades, so I think we can assume his novel, The Thirteenth Warrior, was written to be a movie from the start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beowulf is a recounting of the acts of Beowulf. It doesn't have a POV storyteller, Ahmed.  Some points are left extremely ambiguous, such as what Grendel is, exactly.  Crichton resolves all of those ambiguities and writes a very accessible screenplay, instead, so it's not overly loyal to Beowulf, but it's entertaining none-the-less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13095" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T05:17:18.020" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23629" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23871" CreationDate="2014-08-06T05:26:38.633" Score="5" ViewCount="1080" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100758/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ninja Turtles 1 (1990)&lt;/a&gt; regular Shredder is crushed in a trash truck by Casey Jones, but not before a battle with the turtles and splinter, but in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103060/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ninja Turtles 2 (1991)&lt;/a&gt;, super Shredder is simply buried in rubble from the pier falling in on him after he decimated the pillars, no fight what-so-ever. Why did the producers/director decide to end shredder in this fashion? It was far too simplistic especially compared to his defeat in part 1. It seems like such a cop-out especially considering the potential for an epic battle scene.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only that, why did he survive from part 1 to part 2, but not from part 2 to part 3 when his defeat was so simple in part 2? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-09-17T07:13:31.097" LastActivityDate="2016-09-17T07:13:31.097" Title="Why was super shredder so weak?" Tags="|plot-explanation|teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-1990|tmnt-secret-of-the-ooze|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23540" CreationDate="2014-08-06T05:42:17.190" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I worked for Ben Affleck's studio LivePlanet (Project Greenlight, The Running Man) for a year.  We did have a few sponsorships for each of our shows. In general, we just went to great lengths to exclude any brand references, because in made-for-television content, conflicts with sponsorships can be a problem.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if one of our shows happened to pan across a Coke can, but the television network had a lucrative Pepsi ad deal, we might have to go back and blur the can or even edit out the scene.  It's much easier to just keep all brand references out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13095" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T05:42:17.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23535" CreationDate="2014-08-06T05:53:57.673" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;They didn't have the technology to do facial substitution with CGI in 1994.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the first box office attempts at facial substitutions was in the surf movie, The Blue Crush, in 2002, to paste Kate Bosworth's face on a stuntwoman doing the surfing.  The results were still quite poor in 2002. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the special effects in The Shadow were done with prosthetics and makeup. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13095" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T05:53:57.673" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23638" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23642" CreationDate="2014-08-06T13:42:47.673" Score="8" ViewCount="6400" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the opening of Frozen, we meet young Kristoff and Sven and it appears that they belong to one of the Ice cutters but after the song “Frozen Heart” they leave them behind.  They are then adopted by the Stone trolls but is there an explanation as to why or where their parents are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13016" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-06T16:18:12.920" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T16:18:12.920" Title="Are Kristoff and Sven orphans?" Tags="|plot-explanation|frozen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23641" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-06T15:41:24.313" Score="5" ViewCount="1159" Body="&lt;p&gt;I once saw a scene from Silence of the Lambs without the post-sound work. It was significantly less scary, hardly even creepy... This got me thinking: in rather emotional movies, the score adds a great deal of emotional value that results -- at the very least -- in a knot in my throat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any films that have a film score in their standard version, but are also released without the score in a separate version? Perhaps for a study on the emotional effect of music in film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12880" LastActivityDate="2017-01-10T23:45:58.897" Title="Films released in additional version without the score?" Tags="|soundtrack|drama|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23638" CreationDate="2014-08-06T15:59:00.953" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's unknown.&lt;/strong&gt; But unofficially, Frozen director Jennifer Lee has confirmed that Kristoff is an orphan in &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/alittlejelee/status/422384182388482048&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this tweet&lt;/a&gt;; this was elaborated upon in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ourkidsmom.com/2014/03/interview-filmmakers-disneys-frozen/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interviews&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of Heather’s readers asked about Kristoff, and Jennifer Lee was excited to tell his story. Kristoff was an orphan and wild child that just couldn’t be tied down to the orphanage. He loved sneaking out and exploring the woods and following the ice teams and befriended Sven in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, of &lt;em&gt;course&lt;/em&gt; they're orphans... This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1308584/Why-does-Disney-hate-parents-Ever-noticed-favourite-films-kill-Mum-Dad-.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Disney&lt;/a&gt;, after all. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T15:59:00.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23626" CreationDate="2014-08-06T16:25:51.000" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fox, which produces &lt;em&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/em&gt;, had the most lucritive distribution deal for TMNT2, and they decided to give a little &quot;mini-shout&quot; out to them.  Fox had the following deals:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;20th Century Fox (1991) (France) (theatrical)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;20th Century Fox (1991) (UK) (theatrical)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;20th Century Fox of Germany (Germany) (theatrical) (1991)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fox Video (1992) (Germany) (VHS)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fox Network (1993) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Japan (1993) (Japan) (VHS)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (Netherlands) (VHS)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (Brazil) (DVD)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (2002) (Netherlands) (DVD)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2003) (Germany) (DVD)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-06T19:28:18.010" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T19:28:18.010" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23641" CreationDate="2014-08-06T17:00:40.843" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Signs&quot; (2002, M. Knight Shyamalan) offers a version without the musical score on the DVD.  The sound design is still pretty intense -- all the chirping cicadas and whooshing wind and scraping of metal on wood.  But it's interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-08-06T17:00:40.843" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23647" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-06T23:21:42.510" Score="13" ViewCount="7164" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the scene where Clemenza and Tessio ask to split off from the Corleones and form their own family, whose portrait can be seen hanging on the wall behind Vito?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bMu22.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot from the scene&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why did the director choose the portrait of this man?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12840" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T21:46:13.147" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T21:46:13.147" Title="Whose portrait hangs on the wall in the movie &quot;The Godfather Part I&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3231" CreationDate="2014-08-07T01:43:50.640" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;After researching this question, it seems to me that the mummy was afraid of cats in the 1999 movie because this was a popular plot element in previous mummy movies. Similarly, vampires are afraid of crosses and garlic in most vampire movies because it was a medieval myth. Not because there is any &quot;reason&quot; for it. The difference with the mummy vs. cat connection is that this seems primarily invented by movie producers who got it from the idea that cats were &quot;guardians of the dead&quot; in Egyptian mythology. There were other denizens of the underworld in Egyptian mythology that it would have made more sense for the mummies to be afraid of. For example in the original mummy movie with Boris Karlof, a cat is protecting the mummy and the mummy is afraid of Isis. That was more logical. However cats are cute and it was certainly brilliant to make mummies afraid of them in movies. I love the idea myself. I always wondered why in the movies the potential victims did not walk around with a half dozen cats in cat carriers. But then perhaps the plot could not progress as swiftly. Enough said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a list of movies with mummies afraid of cats. Evidently there were not as many as I seem to remember. I took it for granted the mummies were afraid of cats. However it seems that not many of my friends got the same impression from classical mummy movies. Perhaps some of what I remember was from television episodes. All I can say is that whoever wrote the 1999 mummy film must have seen the same films that I saw. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13115" LastEditorUserId="5315" LastEditDate="2014-08-07T06:27:27.620" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T06:27:27.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18912" CreationDate="2014-08-07T04:48:41.477" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While there isn't any information given in the original, there are more hints and explanations given in Halloween 2, 4, 5 and 6 which I will detail below, however it should be noted that the content of these films is partially contradicted by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120694/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Halloween H20 (1998)&lt;/a&gt;, which is an alternate timeline that ignores everything except Halloween 1 and 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The short version&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Michael Myers was cursed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://halloweenmovie.wikia.com/wiki/Thorn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Cult of Thorn&lt;/a&gt;, an ancient Druidic order who believed that one person would need to be given the Curse of Thorn which compelled them to murder their family and in return the rest of the tribe would be protected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The long version&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Halloween II&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a scene in which &lt;a href=&quot;http://halloweenmovie.wikia.com/wiki/Sam_Loomis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dr. Loomis&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://halloweenmovie.wikia.com/wiki/Gary_Hunt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gary Hunt&lt;/a&gt; are investigating a break in at &lt;a href=&quot;http://halloweenmovie.wikia.com/wiki/Haddonfield_Elementary_School&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Haddonfield Elementary School&lt;/a&gt; which Michael appears to be responsible for, and they find 2 items of interest. Firstly, a picture drawn by Michael of his family, with a knife stuck in the drawing of a girl (Dr. Loomis simply says 'sister'):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LeChW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Drawing of the Myers family with a knife&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which could be interpreted as him obsessing over his murder of Judith. However there's a revelation that comes out later in the film which makes it more ambiguous:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0175113/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: Dr. Loomis, please, listen to me. There's a file on Michael Myers that nobody knew about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Loomis&lt;/strong&gt;: I've seen everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marion&lt;/strong&gt;: No, no. It was hidden, sealed by the court after his parents were killed. After the governor heard what happened tonight, he authorized Dr. Rogers to open it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Loomis&lt;/strong&gt;: What file?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marion&lt;/strong&gt;: It isn't fair. They should've allowed you to examine everything. That girl, &lt;strong&gt;that Strode girl, that's Michael Myers' sister&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;She was born two years before he was committed&lt;/strong&gt;. Two years after, his parents died and she was adopted by the Strodes. They requested that the records be sealed in order to protect the family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Loomis&lt;/strong&gt;: Geez! Don't you see what he's doing here in Haddonfield? He killed one sister 15 years ago, now he's trying to kill the other!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which right away changes the implications of the original, now the whole film is about him killing one sister, then trying to kill another. This could therefore mean the drawing was actually of Laurie and his intention to kill her, as this would indicate he spent two years with her and must have known they were related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second clue found at the school break in is the word &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Samhain&lt;/a&gt; in blood on the chalkboard:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MFJu7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Samhain&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dr. Loomis then explains it as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a Celtic word, Samhain, it means 'The Lord of the Dead'. The end of summer, the festival of Samhain, October 31&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This will come up again in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113253/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Curse of Michael Myers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This film takes place 10 years after the events of Halloween and starts with Michael in a coma. A lot of information is revealed quite early on when two paramedics are transferring Michael from &lt;a href=&quot;http://halloweenmovie.wikia.com/wiki/Ridgemont_Federal_Sanitarium&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ridgemont Federal Sanitarium&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://halloweenmovie.wikia.com/wiki/Smith%27s_Grove_Sanitarium&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Smith's Grove Sanitarium&lt;/a&gt; where Michael was staying at the start of Halloween, when they're in the ambulance with Michael:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0131491/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Female paramedic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: Hoffman say anything about living relatives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0131492/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Male paramedic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeah, a niece living in his home town.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Michael's fist clenches]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Female paramedic&lt;/strong&gt;: And?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Male paramedic&lt;/strong&gt;: And she's too young to be his legal ward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Female paramedic&lt;/strong&gt;: So the state owns him? &lt;em&gt;[sarcastically]&lt;/em&gt; Great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Male paramedic&lt;/strong&gt;: You know I still don't understand&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Michael wakes up and kills him]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right away there's three major implications of all this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The fact that they mentioned a niece before a sister is the first time it's implied that Laurie Strode is dead (as closer and older relations take precedence).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's starting to indicate a pattern: Michael is obsessed with killing his relatives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There's something supernatural about him, as he was previously comatose with full-body burns for 10 years and instantly started to wake up when he discovers he has living family members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jamie Lloyd, Michael Myers' niece, is suffering from dreams and hallucinates about him coming to kill her though she doesn't know it's him at first as she's never met him nor does she know about the mask he is wearing, and on Halloween night when she's out trick-or-treating in a very familiar costume:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DYLwE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jamie Lloyd with her clown costume&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Michael returns and takes out scores of people before he's finally thrown from and then hit with a car. When he's on the ground apparently dead, Jamie holds his hand:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v06bx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jamie and Michael&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the final scare where he gets up before being gunned down by dozens of people, we return to the Lloyd house where Jamie's mother is about to give her a bath, when Jamie puts on the mask, approaches her and we hear a scream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YCNFK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jamie repeats Michael&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mirroring the original, and suggesting Jamie is carrying on in his place (as he is believed dead), Jamie murders her mother, lending further credence to the supernatural explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jamie is in a mental hospital and is still connected to Michael, she can tell what he is feeling and where he is, and Dr. Loomis uses this to capture Michael once again. At the end of the film, The Man in Black sets Michael free from the jail he was being held in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dc5JQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Man in Black outside the police station&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This takes place six years later and begins with a pregnant Jamie giving birth in a very creepy candle-lit dungeon, after which the baby is handed over to the Man in Black and a ritual is performed on it. After escaping with her baby thanks to a kind nurse, Michael eventually catches up with Jamie and kills her but she had left the baby at a bus station to keep him safe from Michael.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before she was killed, she managed to make a phone call to a radio station which was heard by &lt;a href=&quot;http://halloweenmovie.wikia.com/wiki/Thomas_Doyle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tommy Doyle&lt;/a&gt; who Laurie had been babysitting in the first Halloween (also appearing in 4). From what Jamie said on the radio, he was able to find the baby and keep him safe for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile &lt;a href=&quot;http://halloweenmovie.wikia.com/wiki/Kara_Strode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kara Strode&lt;/a&gt; (Laurie's adopted sister who happens to be living in the Myers house) and her son &lt;a href=&quot;http://halloweenmovie.wikia.com/wiki/Danny_Strode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Danny&lt;/a&gt; are having problems: Danny has been seeing a man in black who whispers terrible things to him. One night after coming home to find her mother missing and Tommy looking after her son and the baby, they all go back to Tommy's house. Due to Tommy Doyle's traumatic experiences he had become obsessed with Michael and had begun to suspect what drove him, as he explained to Kara:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Among the ancient druids Thorn represented a demon that spread sickness brought death to hundreds of thousands of people. According to a Celtic legend, one child from each tribe was chosen to be inflicted with a curse of Thorn. To have the blood sacrifices of it's next of kin on the night of Samhain. Halloween. The sacrifice of one family meant sparing the lives of an entire tribe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the Thorn symbol is actually constellation of stars that appears from time to time on Halloween night. Whenever it appears, he appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that's why these people, whoever they are, are after Jamie's baby. To make it Michael's final sacrifice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, after &lt;a href=&quot;http://halloweenmovie.wikia.com/wiki/Mrs._Blankenship&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mrs. Blankenship&lt;/a&gt; (who Tommy rents a room from) and Danny had spent some time together, she warns Kara:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mrs. Blankenship&lt;/strong&gt;: He &lt;em&gt;[Danny]&lt;/em&gt; hears the voice, you know. Just like the other boy that lived in that house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kara&lt;/strong&gt;: What are you talking about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mrs. Blankenship&lt;/strong&gt;: I was baby-sitting with him that night. Little Mikey Myers that lived across the street. And that's when the voice came the night he murdered his sister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kara&lt;/strong&gt;: Michael heard a voice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mrs. Blankenship&lt;/strong&gt;: It told him to kill his family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As in all things, The Cult of Thorn ultimately fails to control Michael and he kills most of them himself, before spending the rest of the film pursuing the baby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not spelled out in the film, but as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween:_The_Curse_of_Michael_Myers#Writing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;backed up on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, the idea seems to be that the Cult intended Michael to kill the baby at which point his entire family would be dead and the curse would be passed on to Danny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether you chose to accept the curse explanation is really at your discretion, but it's the only one given in any of the Halloween movies and it's also consistent with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://halloweenmovie.wikia.com/wiki/Halloween_%28novelization%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Novelisation&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Etchison&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dennis Etchison&lt;/a&gt; which was released in 1979 and pre-dates even Halloween 2, so it's certainly possible that the story originated there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T04:48:41.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23606" CreationDate="2014-08-07T06:29:58.090" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While watching the movie, especially during the parking lot scene, the shot gets switched from POV (which is unusual since most of the movie is shot in POV), I convinced myself that the shot is switched from the POV 'cause the victim (a lady) is out of sight from Frank and director wanted the audience to show where the victim is and how she's terrified of Frank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after reading your question, I did some search on internet and found this interview with Franck Khalfoun (director of the movie). He explains the reason why the shot is switched from POV in the parking lot scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did you choose those spare moments where we do see him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;KHALFOUN: I needed to see him at some point.  It’s hard to sustain not seeing your character through a whole movie so we had to figure out ways for me to see him sometimes.  Once you see him you want to see him again soon so you start looking for him throughout the film.  One of those was mirrors and reflections, obviously if you’re looking in a mirror you see yourself so if you’re in a guy’s brain you can see him see himself.  Another one was dreams, when you’re dreaming you see yourself a lot of times in your dreams so that conceptually stayed within the framework of POV.  &lt;strong&gt;Then in reading and doing research I saw that a lot of these guys, a lot of these killers, have out of body experiences where they aren’t in themselves, they’re being pulled out and watching themselves kill from the outside.  So I thought that’s interesting, we’re still within him but were experiencing this out of body thing.  So that’s why it pulls out.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That’s the shot I was really curious about, the one in the parking lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;KHALFOUN: Where he’s killing and all the sudden we pull out and you see him doing his thing.  He’s experiencing watching himself.  He’s having an out of body experience while committing this horrific act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is very cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;KHALFOUN: &lt;strong&gt;It is cool and it allows us the audience to participate an experience that serial killers have talked about, and it also allows us to see the character as he commits his crime.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you're very much intrigued about this movie, try this &lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/franck-khalfoun-maniac-interview/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with Franck Khalfoun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T09:51:50.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13831" CreationDate="2014-08-07T09:16:43.747" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that's also a part of their (Robert and Claire) plan. After Robert seeing Claire, he tells to Virgil something like &quot;Claire is more beautiful than you described and I think I like her&quot; and Virgil replies &quot;are you trying to make me jealous?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Virgil firmly believed that Robert is expert on women's matters, I think Robert is trying to send a subliminal message to Virgil Oldman that Claire is beautiful, this will result in having Virgil to be more addictive of Claire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-07T09:49:12.683" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T09:49:12.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23664" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-07T17:50:13.573" Score="9" ViewCount="3446" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/41JTl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every fourth movie that I watch has a suitcase full of money, money in stacks, money being thrown into the air.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I can imagine that if its a stack of money, maybe only the top bill is real. But what when they show a bank explosion? The bills flying around look real - in a glimpse. There are also cases where they show close-ups of a large amount of money. And its looks absolutely real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this loads of fake money doesn't lead to trouble? &lt;strong&gt;What if someone tries circulating it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4982" LastEditorUserId="4982" LastEditDate="2014-08-07T18:29:42.997" LastActivityDate="2017-02-22T00:19:49.860" Title="Fake currency used in movies - trouble?" Tags="|production|props|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23022" CreationDate="2014-08-07T17:58:41.623" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its about cultural differences. What you find worth appreciating in &lt;em&gt;Ramayana&lt;/em&gt;, a foreigner might not. The moral ambiguity and lessons engrained in the tale which you understand easy, are not so trivial for an outsider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its not that Americans are not fascinated by epics and mythological stories. The production house just won't be so sure if their audience will find &lt;em&gt;Ramayana&lt;/em&gt; tale interesting. And of course, as a production house you have to be sure of what you are investing in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4982" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T17:58:41.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23664" CreationDate="2014-08-07T18:01:49.777" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The buy/rent the fake money from prop shops. This fake money has to pass legal requirements of not duplicating the image exactly among other restrictions (making it easy to spot as non-authentic if inspected closely).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If people try to circulate it, the secret service steps in. It has &lt;a href=&quot;http://priceonomics.com/the-business-of-fake-hollywood-money/&quot;&gt;happened before&lt;/a&gt;, one example is when they shot the Rush Hour 2 movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4128" LastEditorUserId="4128" LastEditDate="2014-08-07T18:18:55.643" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T18:18:55.643" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23664" CreationDate="2014-08-07T18:23:03.450" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's usually too dangerous and/or expensive to use any real money in films, especially if its getting thrown around where people could steal it or it could be damaged or destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The stage money you see in films and TV looks real, but only from the particular way its being filmed. Real money isn't actually printed on paper, it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknote#Paper_banknotes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;usually cotton&lt;/a&gt; and it's very easy to tell the difference between cotton and paper when you hold it. Furthermore, prop money never attempts to be exactly accurate to the original design to prevent them being accused of actually attempting to print money illegally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cases like the screenshot from Breaking Bad, the money in that scene isn't moved around or examined, and it's most likely only printed on one side, as it would be cheaper for filming. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rjrprops.com/prop-money.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;RJR Props&lt;/a&gt; offer a $10,000 stack of bills similar to the one shown: the version where only the top and bottom bills are shown is $35 each, versus $45 each for the version where every note is printed on both sides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also see from the photograph they provide that it has some small &quot;This note is not legal, it is for motion pictures&quot; written on it where the signature of the Secretary of the Treasury would be located on a real bank note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X1J84.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Fake $10,000 wad&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore prop money will always lack the security features most real currencies have, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermark&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watermarks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_thread&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Security thread&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holograms#Copying_and_mass_production&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Holograms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All these factors make it trivial to spot the difference between real and fake money which would make it unlikely that someone could trick someone into accepting it, though certainly you would be arrested if you tried.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T18:23:03.450" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23668" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23671" CreationDate="2014-08-07T18:39:04.467" Score="1" ViewCount="3918" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do they shoot the music videos where people are singing inside water? What confuses me if that is plain special effects is their &lt;em&gt;clothes&lt;/em&gt;, they behave &lt;strong&gt;exactly how clothes behave in water&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The motion of the cloth is slow, like it's supposed to be in a fluid, whereas the motion of the person is normal (or slow, but for stylistic reasons). I mean, it could be special effects, but that will really surprise me, because it will certainly take a lot of effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/bpp-ow8X138?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4982" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2017-04-04T13:07:21.837" LastActivityDate="2017-04-04T13:07:21.837" Title="How do they shoot long underwater scenes (especially the even longer stylistic ones)?" Tags="|effects|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23588" CreationDate="2014-08-07T18:47:03.847" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neil gets a $700 monthly budget from the FBI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Neal is released from prison to work with the FBI, he is given a&#xA;  seedy motel room the FBI rented for him. Agent Burke explains that&#xA;  Neal's monthly budget is $700, hence the less than desirable living&#xA;  conditions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://whitecollar.wikia.com/wiki/Neal_Caffrey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://whitecollar.wikia.com/wiki/Neal_Caffrey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4128" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T18:47:03.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23022" CreationDate="2014-08-07T18:48:59.180" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-india-produce-mahabharata-epic-690534&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;it was announced&lt;/a&gt; in March 2014 that Disney will be making a two-part movie of the Mahabharata. Also, a couple of years ago they did do an animated movie about Arjuna:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/7tqBnA7d9P4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, I do not remember seeing it advertised here in America, but at least they are being made - slowly but surely.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13132" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T12:08:56.700" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T12:08:56.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23668" CreationDate="2014-08-07T19:07:55.273" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It really depends on the film, but the best example I can think of is the James Cameron's &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abyss&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Abyss&lt;/a&gt;, and I suspect they did the same thing in the music video you mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As detailed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://techland.time.com/2009/12/14/james-cameron-almost-died-making-the-abyss/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this Time article&lt;/a&gt; about the film, there is a large tank of water for the scene to be filmed in, with all the crew using oxygen tanks. In between cuts, support divers with a spare oxygen tank will then swim up to the cast and give it to them. In the case of The Abyss, there was also an underwater oxygen refilling station so they didn't have to surface every time their Oxygen tank was empty (which would be once an hour), but in shorter and/or cheaper projects they would just swim up to the surface to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though in the music video, the angle of the light source seems to indicate that she isn't very deep underwater and could probably reach the surface with a single kick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T19:07:55.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="290" CreationDate="2014-08-07T21:14:23.893" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the Mike Yanagita subplot advances the plot at all.  Some of the things said above don't add up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What brings Marge back to the car dealership isn't renewed suspicion of Jerry, but the fact that records showed that the perpetrators called Shep Proudfoot, who works there.  When she goes back to Jerry, she seems as credulous as ever, but she does point out that it was &quot;quite a coincidence&quot; that they called Shep.  It isn't until Jerry resists her questions and then flees the interview that she realizes that he's connected to the crimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see no signs at all that Marge is dissatisfied with her relationship with Norm.  He may seem less than attractive to us, but the two of them seem totally loving throughout the movie--and they both seem happy at the expansion of their family in two months.  It's true that she's flattered by Mike's phone call, but she shuts him down immediately when he sits next to her in the booth at the Radisson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the Mike Yanagita episode functions thematically.  I think of Rear Window, where the various couples Jeff (James Stewart) peeps at are variations on his relationship with Lisa (Grace Kelly).  Likewise, the other characters in Fargo represent family failures--the pathetic Jerry, who winds up sacrificing his wife and father-in-law and leaves his son without parents; the comic murderers, who know only sex with hookers; and the sad, sick family fantasies of Mike Yanagita.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13136" LastActivityDate="2014-08-07T21:14:23.893" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23679" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-08T04:49:58.327" Score="1" ViewCount="321" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the finale of Breaking Bad, Walt killed Uncle Jack and his companions who took 6 barrels of Walt's money. After that what happened to that 6 barrel? Who got that money?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12893" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T20:46:01.200" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T20:46:01.200" Title="What happened to rest of 6 barrels of money?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-10-19T00:41:00.493" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14279" CreationDate="2014-08-08T05:03:34.703" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's never explicitly answered, within the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My expectation would be that, having found the meth lab, the authorities would then leave no stone unturned in pursuit of their money.  Whether it was earned from Jack &amp;amp; his crew cooking/dealing meth or not, would've made little difference.  Living people can contest the seizure, but dead men don't talk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given they were not rocket scientists, the money probably would not have remained hidden for long under such intense searching.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following that line of reasoning, the government found &amp;amp; confiscated the remainder of the 6 barrels of money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T05:03:34.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23681" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23789" CreationDate="2014-08-08T05:53:35.643" Score="9" ViewCount="2707" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_montage_theory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;montage theory&lt;/a&gt; belongs to the most important apects in movie art.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Soviet montage theory is an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing (montage is French for 'assembly' or 'editing'). [...] Sergei Eisenstein [...] noted that montage is &quot;the nerve of cinema&quot;, and that &quot;to determine the nature of montage is to solve the specific problem of cinema&quot;. [...] &quot;Montage is an idea that arises from the collision of independent shots&quot; wherein &quot;each sequential element is perceived not next to the other, but on top of the other&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it seems to me that Hollywood doesn't pay attention to it anymore. Has there been an observable decline in the adherence to classic montage theory? If yes, what are the reasons for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13141" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T14:18:54.010" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T14:18:54.010" Title="Hollywood doesn't pay attention to classic montage theory anymore?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23682" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23685" CreationDate="2014-08-08T08:44:16.990" Score="3" ViewCount="2113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to know which was the first movie (not animated), which had only one character (which is seen) in the story. I am talking about movies like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buried_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Buried&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Is_Lost&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;All is Lost&lt;/a&gt;. Not including short films or Monologue films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-08-08T09:44:44.113" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T10:52:31.980" Title="Which was the first movie featuring only 1 character (that is seen in the movie)?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23688" CreationDate="2014-08-08T09:52:02.780" Score="2" ViewCount="397" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0496806/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ocean's Thirteen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; what for Yen was putting inside of some place after passing through the path of elevator? I didn't get what for Ocean planned to put something there. Because I think afterwards nothing was shown about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13143" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-08T09:56:26.137" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T11:04:48.003" Title="What was Yen putting and why?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oceans-thirteen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23682" CreationDate="2014-08-08T10:41:40.077" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm happy to be proven wrong, but I'm going to say &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaadein_(1964_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yaadein&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, a 1964 Indian film. From its wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film is soliloquy of a man who comes home to find that his wife&#xA;  and son are not at home, he assumes that they have left him and&#xA;  reminiscences his life with them, and scared of his life without them,&#xA;  he regrets his past indiscretions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I list it because it has an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for fewest actors in a film (I believe it was the first recipient of that honour, although others have since followed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T10:41:40.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23682" CreationDate="2014-08-08T10:46:39.520" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, There's 3 to choose from, depending on your exact specs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Sleep (1963) (US)&#xA;Yaadein (1964) (Hindi)&#xA;Portrait Of Jason (1967) (US)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_%28film%29&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sleep (1963)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - This is a 5½ hour Andy Warhol film that is just what it sounds like; one man sleeping for 5½ hours.  It was shown in art houses in NYC for a limited run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058759/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yaadein (1964)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - A Hindi film about a guy who comes home to find his wife and kids gone, and he spends the rest of the film reminiscing about family life.  At the end of the film, a shadowy figure appears, so it's not &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; a one-actor film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Jason&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Portrait of Jason (1967)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - This is sort of like watching Big Brother (that reality show) or something; the guy drinks, smokes and babbles about his life.  As the film progresses, he appears to get more and more drunk and just goes off on wild tangents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of others, most notably &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088074/&quot;&gt;Secret Honor (1984)&lt;/a&gt;; a well-written and acted movie centering on Richard Nixon giving a soliloquy on this life, from his Quaker upbringing to Watergate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-08-08T10:52:31.980" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T10:52:31.980" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23684" CreationDate="2014-08-08T11:04:48.003" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you talking about when he was going through the elevator shafts?  He wasn't putting anything inside of it, he was scouting to see if it was possible to access the diamonds via the floor or ceiling ducts.  He determined that it would be next to impossible, so they decided to try another method.  Hence, the shafts were never entered again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T11:04:48.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23689" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23765" CreationDate="2014-08-08T11:06:42.147" Score="2" ViewCount="1816" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1612774/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rubber&lt;/a&gt; (2010) directed by Quentin Dupieux, there's a group of people who watch and do nothing as a tire causes havoc at a motel, but what is the reason for them being there and does this contribute to the plot of the film? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13016" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-08-08T22:33:29.460" LastActivityDate="2014-08-10T17:15:53.110" Title="Why do they simply watch the tire?" Tags="|plot-explanation|rubber|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23691" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-08T11:52:35.717" Score="10" ViewCount="814" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the first movie that had only female characters? In a quiz competition that question was asked and I didn't know its answer. Although the question was for Bollywood but here my question is for both Hollywood and Bollywood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13143" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-08-08T12:43:12.570" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T12:43:12.570" Title="What was the first movie that had only female characters?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23691" CreationDate="2014-08-08T12:02:09.833" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4dchen_in_Uniform&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mädchen in Uniform&lt;/a&gt; from 1931 about a girls boarding school must be a serious contender. From Wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film was groundbreaking in a number of ways: firstly for its all-female cast; secondly for its sympathetic portrayal of lesbian &quot;pedagogical eros&quot; (see Gustav Wyneken) and homoeroticism [...] and thirdly for its co-operative and profit-sharing financial arrangements (although in practice these ultimately failed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Women_%281939_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Women&lt;/a&gt; is another 30s film (1939) with an all-female cast:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Throughout The Women, not a single male is seen — although the males are much talked about, and the central theme is the women's relationships with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-08-08T12:07:14.277" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T12:07:14.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23695" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23696" CreationDate="2014-08-08T13:03:16.647" Score="5" ViewCount="2133" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got another movie from my childhood that I'm trying to find.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw it on TV (in the US) no later than 1975-76, in English. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot was an ongoing end-of-civilization event. There was a small group of people in the woods trying to survive. People would fall asleep in their sleeping bags and the next day the others would find that the person had turned into some white powder. Not ash, looked more like salt. I was very young when I saw it so can't remember much else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12980" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T13:13:23.370" Title="Post-apocalyptic movie from early 1970's - people turn into powder" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:15:53.030" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23695" CreationDate="2014-08-08T13:05:47.133" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072400/combined&quot;&gt;Where Have All the People Gone&lt;/a&gt; with Peter Graves from 1974:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune from the effects. Animals go insane and &lt;strong&gt;human beings turn to white powder, leaving behind only empty clothing.&lt;/strong&gt; A handful of survivors attempt to rebuild their lives on the de-populated Earth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire film is currently available on Youtube &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IK0BpOa2vk&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and around 16:35 you can see the white powder being found in a sleeping bag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-08-08T13:13:23.370" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T13:13:23.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23698" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23702" CreationDate="2014-08-08T15:36:54.883" Score="5" ViewCount="6826" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a film or TV series there are often people playing police officers, quite often on set where members of the public can see them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't this fall foul of the 'impersonating a police officer' law?&#xA;If you can legally pretend to be a police officer on film what would stop me filming a friend with a hidden camera as he pretends to be a policeman in a improvised film?  Or pretending to be a policeman whilst under a CCTV camera and claim I intended to buy the film later as part of a movie project?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a licence they would need to buy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it something to do with being a recognized film studio?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it arguably illegal but the police are rational enough to not bother with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-03-10T22:59:55.690" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T22:59:55.690" Title="Why are people playing police officers not arrested?" Tags="|production|film-industry|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23698" CreationDate="2014-08-08T18:04:52.250" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;When filming on location for a major production, as in out in public, you usually have to obtain permits to film wherever you're about to film. Roads and streets may be closed down. You usually also need to notify the local police of your actions so they know what's going on. The production company may also hire security to keep people away from the set or area they're filming. When an area is closed off for filming, this is referred to as a &lt;strong&gt;closed set&lt;/strong&gt;, meaning no one who's not supposed to be there is allowed to be there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The city of New York, for example, will &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nyc.gov/html/film/html/permits/permit_required_fee.shtml&quot;&gt;actually provide free police assistance&lt;/a&gt; to help out, likely for things like guiding traffic and general security of an area being used for filming. They also state that filming with a hand held camcorder (like what you'd buy at any consumer electronics store) or tripod setup will usually not require you to have a permit. Further, they state that the production company must allow any residents or citizens that work in the area access to places they're supposed to be. They even dictate that if production lighting is pouring through someone's window, they need to provide blackout masking for the window so they don't disturb the resident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you and a friend simply went around with a hidden cam and were acting like police officers without the backing of the city and local police force for the area in which you're filming, you'd almost certainly run afoul of the law. Remember: &lt;em&gt;ignorance of the law does not mean you can't get in trouble for breaking the law.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, if you're going to be filming something that involves actors who look like emergency service personnel, contact the police for the local area and get the lowdown on what you need to do in order to film. Major cities like New York have entire departments dedicated to helping production studios or even small indie projects film within the city, and can also guide you on how to properly handle yourselves to avoid trouble with the law. These laws can be different for each city as well, so what one city allows may not be allowed in another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-08-08T18:10:16.897" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T18:10:16.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23703" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23704" CreationDate="2014-08-08T18:50:13.797" Score="10" ViewCount="1466" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Simpsons, which started as a series of shorts shown during The Tracy Ullman Show, has now been on the air for 25 years as its own full-length half-hour episodic cartoon.  Its success spawned a number of other successful Primetime cartoons, notably The Critic, Futurama and Family Guy.  However, prior to The Simpsons, what was the longest run for a Primetime cartoon in the U.S., if there ever was one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T08:14:35.817" LastActivityDate="2021-12-29T04:42:48.363" Title="What was the longest successful Primetime cartoon prior to The Simpsons?" Tags="|animation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23703" CreationDate="2014-08-08T18:50:36.110" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Flintstones&quot;, a show which co-creator William Hanna admitted was influenced by the Jackie Gleason vehicle &quot;The Honeymooners&quot;, ran in its original form for 6 seasons in Primetime from 1960 to 1966.  The show so closely resembled &quot;The Honeymooners&quot; that Jackie Gleason once threatened to sue the studio, and then later retracted because he did not want to be known as &quot;the guy who yanked Fred Flintstone off the air&quot;.  &quot;The Flintstones&quot; was a Top 30 show in each of its first 3 seasons, and then failed to make the cut.  In 1961, the show was nominated for an Outstanding Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award.  There have been several attempts to revive it, but none have lasted longer than 2 seasons.  In January 2009, IGN named The Flintstones as the ninth best in its &quot;Top 100 Animated TV Shows&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T18:50:36.110" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23706" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-08T20:35:37.707" Score="1" ViewCount="326" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously in the United States, the music video was spectacularly thrust into prominence in the early 1980's (1981 IIRC) with the inaugural episode of Music Television (Now MTV), which originally featured nothing but music videos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original video for this was The Buggles, &quot;Video Killed the Radio Star&quot;, however there had been other music videos for years before that. Tony Bennett claimed to have invented the music video in the mid 50's about the same time that Elvis Presley filmed the video for Jailhouse Rock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before and after this, there had also been television shows (such as BBC's wonderful &quot;Old Grey Whistle Test&quot; that featured mostly unknown bands) that were mostly live performances, but also had occasional clips of music. There were also short releases of film clips from musicals as stand alone items. (Madonna's Material Girl video was a pretty good copy of the title song from Monroe &quot;Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the first occurrence of the &quot;music video&quot; in any form, and how did it grow into the ubiquitous mini film that we are familiar with now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T12:19:36.183" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T12:19:36.183" Title="History of the music video?" Tags="|musical|music-video|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23707" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-08T20:44:55.123" Score="7" ViewCount="2948" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are plenty of never-released gay/lesbian films from early cinema, but what was the first film released in theaters for the general public? For this question, let's consider openly gay someone who claims they are gay with words, or participates in PDA on screen (not looking for films with implication of sexuality, but factual evidence).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12880" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T14:10:10.517" LastActivityDate="2022-11-27T08:16:36.577" Title="What was the first movie with an openly gay main character?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23707" CreationDate="2014-08-08T21:16:50.297" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;One candidate for a full feature film is &lt;a href=&quot;http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_als_die_Andern_(1919)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anders als die Andern (Germany, 1919)&lt;/a&gt; (english &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Different_from_the_Others&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Different from the Others&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plot summary from wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Veidt portrays a successful violinist, Paul Körner, who falls in love with one of his male students. A sleazy extortionist threatens to expose Körner as a homosexual. Flashbacks show us how Körner became aware of his orientation and tried first to change it, then to understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After Körner's coming out, he and Sivers begin seeing each other more openly. While walking together, hand in hand, through the park, they pass a man who recognizes Körner. Later that day, when Körner is alone, this man, Franz Bollek (Reinhold Schünzel) confronts him and demands hush money or else he will expose Sivers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0009878/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T21:16:50.297" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23709" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-08T21:20:30.557" Score="10" ViewCount="13192" Body="&lt;p&gt;Despite struggling to word this question in a manner that won't be off-topic;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Do some movie studios create adult movies which are mainly plot-oriented? That is, movies with prevalent adult content, but which would also provide an interesting storyline?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do studios specializing in such content exist? Is there a specific term to search by, something that would draw a distinct line between the general adult media industry?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10023" LastActivityDate="2018-03-28T00:13:54.440" Title="Plot-oriented adult movies" Tags="|adult-movies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23707" CreationDate="2014-08-08T21:23:27.053" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/23691/what-was-the-first-movie-that-had-only-female-characters&quot;&gt;For the second time today&lt;/a&gt;, I find myself submitting &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4dchen_in_Uniform&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mädchen in Uniform&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from 1931 as an answer... Though there were various gay &lt;em&gt;stereotypes&lt;/em&gt; in film before it, I struggle to find an earlier movie that had a lesbian character (in this movie a 14 year old student in love with her female teacher) that actually confesses her love. It also features a lesbian kiss in the guise of a 'goodnight kiss'. German cinema contains some earlier examples like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_in_Chains&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sex in Chains&lt;/a&gt; from 1928 and Different from the Others from 1919 mentioned in knut's answer, but the former only contained ambiguous homoerotic themes and the latter was severely censored and restricted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T21:25:50.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23681" CreationDate="2014-08-08T21:43:22.820" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Montages were popular in American cinema in the 80's.  Almost every movie had a montage, notably the Rocky series which would show the lead character training for an upcoming boxing match.  The montage was used to show a passage of time, with quick cuts and fast-paced music.  After a while, it fell out of favor, as all things do, and became passe.  Now, references to montages are usually the punchline of jokes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-08-08T21:43:22.820" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23709" CreationDate="2014-08-09T00:03:01.580" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several production companies that produce these type of films. And it appears to be a gender-driven demand. In general terms it is known as Porn-by-Women-for-Women, under the assumption that female producers and directors are best at delivering the type of erotic film that appeals to women. Some notable producers or directors are former female stars, namely Nina Hartley, Candida Royalle, and Skye Blue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you search the web, you will find guides such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pornmoviesforwomen.com/femaleporndirectors.htm&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; that will clarify the rationale and lead to further information. In general terms, women are interested in stories devoted to story and plot, in addition to sex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here the description of Bright Desire, a representative production company:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bright Desire is about expanding the definition of porn, leaving behind the tired and sexist cliches of the mainstream and embracing positive depictions of sex. This is porn that features real connections, intimacy, laughter, emotion and passion. It features real life couples and a diversity of body types. It ignores the rules about what's &quot;gay&quot; and what's &quot;straight&quot;. It's for women, for men, for everyone.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2014-08-09T00:12:32.327" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T00:12:32.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16922" CreationDate="2014-08-09T00:22:10.957" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;check out the 35:29 min of the film , while natalie was touching lenny's chest she asks : and what about here ? &#xA;lenny answers : maybe its for when i find him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you can clearly see a somewhat of a strange volume in his chest ,&#xA;note that it is in the exact place of his &quot;i've done it&quot; tatto and thats also the place where hes pointing out in that picture teddy took of him when he killed the real john G... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;not sure if its important of not but i find it strange that i never saw anyone speaking about this scene, go look at it in youtube or something , not sure if it will be at 35:29 min but its in that scene lenny shows a picture of dodd to natalie and he then steps into her house (in the film is just after the scene where he wakes up in her room , in the chronological order its after he solves the whole dodd problem)&#xA;btw english is not my mother language so be patient about my grammar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13156" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T00:22:10.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23706" CreationDate="2014-08-09T03:40:10.777" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depending on your definition of what criteria is involved in making a music video...I would say: &lt;a href=&quot;http://fan.tcm.com/_WB-Live-Action-Shorts-1927/blog/2408394/66470.html?createPassive=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Carnival Night in Paris (1927)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Music videos have been around since film added sound. The first music videos were filmed in New York, and called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vitaphoneproject.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vitaphone&lt;/a&gt; shorts. Carnival Night in Paris was produced by Warner Bros. It was the first foray into this field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Music and film grew side by side. The Beatles made films like A Hard Days Night, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj0Rz-uP4Mk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Elvis movies&lt;/a&gt; played a large role. His movies featured songs with choreography, that propelled the plot of the movie. As far as the impact of MTV...well, bands like The Doors, that were focused on the art began making short films set to their songs in the 1960s. The Doors made a video for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mycV3IcQNPQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Unknown Soldier&lt;/a&gt; in 1968. And of course shows like The Ed Sullivan show, The Smothers Brothers, heck even - Hee-Haw kept music and video tied together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But one event that helped propel the idea of a Network to devote all their programming to music videos was when Michale Nesmith of the Monkees proved the mass-market appeal of the medium in 1981; when he used his inheritance from Liquid Paper to produce &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Parts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Elephant Parts&lt;/a&gt;. A video that incorporated music videos with sketch comedy (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.grammy.com/awards/24th-annual-grammy-awards&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;first ever winner of a video Grammy&lt;/a&gt; &amp;lt;-- paragraph 4). That was the kick that inspired MTV. The rest is history...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2014-08-09T04:16:51.000" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T04:16:51.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12690" CreationDate="2014-08-09T06:58:06.357" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The theme is also important in the opening sequence; not only does it establish the tone, but also the entire history and idea of repetitive histories in the series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me explain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first thing I notice in the title sequence is the eternal image of the sun, the idea that no matter what happens on this earth and in this world, that the sun will keep turning. It represents the idea of the gods, that they are eternal, it will exist even after the events of this epic. It could bring together the whole theme of futility and tragedy to the 'players' of this game; that, in the end, it will all be for nought. The first image we can see is that the sun is comprised of rings: Rings of time, or, wheels of time. &#xA;There we glance at several other images, Aegon's Conquering of Westeros from the First Men, and then further on to Robert's rebellion against that conquest. We see that through all the castles, lands and war, that time is repetitive and has always been about one thing: Power. So the questions we then ask ourselves is, what will the next ring of the Sun's circle be? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may also note: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Games are reference quite a bit both in the shows and the book series, and it's here we can conclude that most rulers see this bloody and inhumane struggle for power as a game. A board game, in fact:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Robb and Stannis are constantly shown with a large board, displaying the whole of armies (as pieces) across vast and tragically complex lands. It both desensitizes them and their situation within the realities of war and life.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In ADWD and perhaps in ASOIAF, the game cyvasse is played particularly by kings (or would be kings) and in that they learn the lessons of strategy. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are most likely innumerable examples and connections, but these are simply a few reasons why the show-runners chose this as a display of &quot;The Game of Thrones&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6955" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T06:58:06.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23720" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-09T06:58:43.647" Score="3" ViewCount="2176" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Last Emperor&lt;/em&gt;, on the day of Pu Yi's inauguration as Emperor of Manchukuo, his wife the Empress goes a bit nutty. First she eats some white flowers. Then later Eastern Jewel starts licking her toes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never got the significance of these scenes, especially the toe-licking one. Perhaps the flower-eating scene was just to show that she was becoming a slightly-crazed opium addict. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what was the toe-licking one about?  Is there some hint of lesbianism or what was that about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9668" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-12-14T15:50:58.413" LastActivityDate="2017-12-14T15:50:58.413" Title="Significance/symbolism of toe-licking scene" Tags="|the-last-emperor|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23723" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-09T09:23:26.753" Score="10" ViewCount="10262" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Django Unchained, Dr. King Schultz, who is a bounty hunter, takes enormous risks and goes to a great distance in order to help Django. Although Django does help him nab the Brittle brothers, was this enough reason for Schultz to help Django?&#xA;I mean this was deep south in 1858 and Schultz decides to help a black man against immense odds. There must be a strong motivation for him to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-09T09:51:37.323" LastActivityDate="2023-01-24T06:01:32.117" Title="Why does King Schultz go to such distance in order to help Django?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|django-unchained|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23726" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23824" CreationDate="2014-08-09T10:21:19.650" Score="16" ViewCount="104136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1825157/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Double&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this morning, a very strange movie. I didn't understand the exact plot of the movie. I've read the plot in IMDB and Wikipedia too, but I don't get it. Can somebody explain this movie in simple English? My main question is &quot;Who is James and does he really exist?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13096" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-11-03T08:16:48.423" LastActivityDate="2015-08-16T09:17:56.680" Title="Who is James in &quot;The Double (2013)&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-double|" AnswerCount="18" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23723" CreationDate="2014-08-09T11:16:04.163" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning, Django seem like only bounty help to Schultz but slowly Schultz and Django learn about each other and in a scene Django tells how his wife got sold in to the slavery and Schultz reveals about his wife's death. Schultz starts teaching Django how to shoot and becomes his mentor and also there were instances where Schultz admires Django's shooting abilities and says to himself &quot;This kid's a natural.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://djangounchained.wikia.com/wiki/King_Schultz&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; says that Schultz can't stand slavery. This might also be the reason why Schultz keep helping Django to free his wife from slavery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Schultz despised slavery and hated the sight of slaves being treated poorly and also killed. At some point in his life, Schultz was married. His wife supposedly died of an unknown cause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand think of Schultz, he's a bounty hunter, he has no family other than the only person (Django) who he has recently befriended with. I think the reason why King Schultz go to such distance in order to help Django is because they both are friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2014-08-11T13:40:33.380" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T13:40:33.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23729" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-09T14:25:15.480" Score="11" ViewCount="1288" Body="&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_machine&quot;&gt;oracle machine&lt;/a&gt; as defined by Alan Turing is a Turing machine connected to an oracle which can solve non-computable problems in a single operation, most famously the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem&quot;&gt;halting problem&lt;/a&gt;. The halting problem is the problem of determining whether any arbitrary computer program will eventually halt or continue to loop forever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if the Oracle character in the series could be seen as inspired by this concept, but I can't remember the plot well enough to determine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13166" LastEditorUserId="13166" LastEditDate="2014-08-09T21:58:16.833" LastActivityDate="2020-03-08T20:20:46.540" Title="Does the Oracle in the Matrix have anything to do with an oracle machine in computer science?" Tags="|the-matrix|the-matrix-revolutions|the-matrix-reloaded|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23729" CreationDate="2014-08-09T14:50:24.607" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Oracle's main function is to counterbalance the Architect.  It was the Oracle and the Architect who built The Matrix, and the events in the trilogy are actually taking place in the &lt;strong&gt;third&lt;/strong&gt; Matrix, as the first 2 failed.  The Oracle stands for free will, whereas the Architect stands for order.  As a result, I'd find it difficult to tie Turing's oracle into the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T14:50:24.607" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23732" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23736" CreationDate="2014-08-09T14:54:18.083" Score="1" ViewCount="2622" Body="&lt;p&gt;How can they be so long and soft and even make arms waves? Have they not got any bones?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dog Jake has magic, so it's no problem that he has soft legs, but it doesn't make sense that Finn has soft wave arms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mY5Km.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Finn waving his arms&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/igVgy.jpg?s=256&quot; alt=&quot;Finn shirt design&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it is still funny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13141" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-10T02:23:33.273" LastActivityDate="2014-08-10T02:23:33.273" Title="Why all characters' arms/legs in Adventure Time are so soft?" Tags="|adventure-time|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23735" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-09T15:35:36.303" Score="3" ViewCount="4869" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Dreamers when the parents of Isa and Theo saw them, they wrote a cheque and gone. What was that? They didn't want to face up to children or emancipate them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1646" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T16:56:52.170" Title="The cheque in The Dreamers" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dreamers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23732" CreationDate="2014-08-09T18:12:01.000" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is most likely artistic license based on the style of the show, which is sometimes called &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodlePeople&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Noodle People&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An art style in which characters are drawn with exaggeratedly long, thin torsos and limbs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the Western Animation Examples section mentions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The general art style Adventure Time, though there are exceptions.&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Jake takes it Up to Eleven. Being able to change shape at will, he often moves his limbs in ways that imply he has no bones whatsoever. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which nearly all the humanoid characters adhere to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UlZyr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Adventure Time characters&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may also be a callback to the classic style of animation where characters always acted like this due to the limitations of animations, sometimes called &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RubberHoseLimbs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rubber Hose Limbs&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is when a cartoon character moves without any visible elbows or knees, so his limbs aren't stiff, but rather, bendy, like rubber hoses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In cartoons made before the mid to late 1930s' or so, this was intentional, for practical reasons rather than artistic ones. It all started with Felix the Cat animators Otto Messmer and Bill Nolan, and it was meant to prevent the motion of the limbs in question from looking like they were drawn through a strobe light and flickering — the basic idea was that if you didn't draw joints, you could make absolutely sure that the limbs in one frame overlapped with where the limbs were in the last frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;These days, this is a deliberate artistic decision&lt;/strong&gt; on the part of the animator — either to creep you out; &lt;strong&gt;to create a fun, zany, or cute character&lt;/strong&gt;; or as a deliberate nod to the Golden Age Of Animation. In the early days, however, it was just how things were done. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T18:12:01.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23738" CreationDate="2014-08-09T18:13:31.580" Score="7" ViewCount="7628" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw it on TV in the 80s, as best as I can recall it was produced in the 70s. I have no idea about title, actors, or plot, but I do remember the ending:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A man and a woman were driving on country roads, trying to evade the police. Possibly their goal was to cross the county line. They had a police scanner and were listening to the sheriff radio instructions to his deputies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The couple was getting more and more boxed in until one deputy radioed back that he was nowhere near where he was told to be. The couple then realized that the sheriff was bluffing positions/manpower, so they happily made a break for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They crossed a railroad track and were suddenly hit by a train. Roll credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13169" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-10T02:31:35.453" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T01:58:12.967" Title="70s movie ends with a train/car crash" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:15:56.157" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23737" CreationDate="2014-08-09T18:24:19.113" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071424/&quot;&gt;Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a summary written by Larry Rayder:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Larry and Deke are a small time car racing duo who rob a grocery store, and plan to use the proceeds to buy an expensive race car in order to win more races and break in to the professional NASCAR circuit. Their escape with the loot does not go as smoothly as planned when Larry's one night stand, Mary, tags along for the ride. One step ahead of an obsessed Sheriff, they manage to evade several police cruisers, a high-performance police interceptor, and even a helicopter, in their 1969 Dodge Charger R/T. Almost... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the &quot;Almost...&quot; that you are remembering. As Crazy Larry realizes they are actually in the clear, all three riders celebrate as he speeds away down a highway. They are just about to cross an uncontrolled train track crossing, when Dirty Mary see's the on-coming train. Their car is obliterated in the impact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T18:24:19.113" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23739" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-09T18:32:24.730" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;NCIS: Los Angeles is the first spin-off of the NCIS series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series follows the exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service that specializes in undercover assignments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13147" LastEditorUserId="13147" LastEditDate="2014-08-09T18:48:32.683" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T18:48:32.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23740" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-09T18:32:24.730" Score="0" Body="NCIS: Los Angeles is a show about fictional undercover NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) agents in Los Angeles.&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13147" LastEditorUserId="13147" LastEditDate="2014-08-09T18:48:24.150" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T18:48:24.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23742" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23996" CreationDate="2014-08-09T19:38:17.243" Score="27" ViewCount="22938" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Avengers (2012)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, during the scene in which Loki is imprisoned aboard the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicarrier&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Helicarrier&lt;/a&gt;, Black Widow interrogates him and at the end of the exchange takes place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Black Widow&lt;/strong&gt;: You're a monster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Loki&lt;/strong&gt;: Oh, no. You brought the monster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Black Widow&lt;/strong&gt;: So, Banner. That's your play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Loki&lt;/strong&gt;: What?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;What?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; indicating confusion as his expression seems to indicate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YghR2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of Loki's reaction&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm not entirely convinced Loki did so accidentally, for a number of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It didn't make a difference that she knew, as it was too late to stop him. Loki did successfully escape, though the Helicarrier didn't crash as he may have intended due to Tony fixing the rotor. Them knowing his plan also didn't lead to them fixing the Helicarrier so really it achieved nothing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As it says on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.com/universe/Loki&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marvel Wiki&lt;/a&gt;, Loki is &amp;quot;The Asgardian God of Mischief, Madness and Evil! Beware the Treachery of Loki!&amp;quot;, which doesn't really hold up if he can be tricked so easily by a puny mortal girl.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It got her to leave mere minutes before his plan was to be set in motion, which meant she wouldn't be in the way when he planned to escape.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence which would prove whether Black Widow really tricked Loki into revealing his plans or this was simply another step in Loki's plan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-09-21T11:14:23.167" Title="Did Black Widow really trick Loki into revealing his plans?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23743" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23745" CreationDate="2014-08-09T19:44:42.680" Score="24" ViewCount="8150" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does that scene get edited out before it's released or is the movie scrapped altogether?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To confirm, I'm asking about real deaths and injuries on set while the movie is being filmed. This is assuming the injury is severe enough to hospitalise the actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has there been any movies where this is the case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13144" LastActivityDate="2016-09-28T21:35:29.443" Title="What happens if an actor dies or gets injured on set during filming?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23743" CreationDate="2014-08-09T19:56:22.560" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_accidents&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; has a page to denote such types of filming accidents, and most of the films I see there are prominent enough to have been released in spite of the accident and/or death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most prominent 80s film I find is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089927/combined&quot;&gt;Rocky IV&lt;/a&gt;, where Dolph Lundgren punched Stallone so hard he entered the hospital for 8 days. The movie obviously continued the Rocky series, and it continues to at least 2 more. The most famous 80s death I see is the Vic Morrow death on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086491/combined&quot;&gt;Twilight Zone: The Movie&lt;/a&gt;, where he and a costar was decapitated, along with another child death from a helicopter accident. The movie finished and was released, but resulted in lawsuits and resulted in some major changes in filming codes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases, the injuries allow the actor to continue (i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056172/combined&quot;&gt;Lawrence of Arabia&lt;/a&gt; and Peter O'Toole accident with visible injury and brace within the film).&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;In other cases, where the person is the star (i.e. Martin Sheen heart attack while filming &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/combined&quot;&gt;Apocalypse Now&lt;/a&gt;, the production has to wait or cover other film scenes. In this case, the heart attack was just one of a string of problems - read the book by Coppola's wife).&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;In some cases, a death causes discarded footage to be reused.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;In almost no case did I see that the loss of the actor, for hospitalization, or death, caused the production to close production, but I'm nowhere near certain there isn't at least one. I believe insurance covers filming delays due to accidents or loss of production on the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2014-08-09T20:32:29.840" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T20:32:29.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23743" CreationDate="2014-08-09T20:00:18.093" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;For deaths, the footage is never used as it would be extremely distasteful, as well as evidence in any investigations or lawsuits into the accidental death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of this would be &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Lee&quot;&gt;Brandon Lee&lt;/a&gt;, the son of Bruce Lee, who was accidentally shot and killed on the set of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow_%281994_film%29&quot;&gt;The Crow&lt;/a&gt;, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Lee#Death&quot;&gt;detailed on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the fatal scene, which called for the revolver to be actually fired at Lee from a distance of 3.6 - 4.5 meters (12–15 feet), the dummy cartridges were exchanged with blank rounds, which feature a live powder charge and primer, but no bullet, thus allowing the gun to be fired without the risk of an actual projectile. But since the bullet from the dummy round was already trapped in the barrel, this caused the .44 Magnum bullet to be fired out of the barrel with virtually the same force as if the gun had been loaded with a live round, and it struck Lee in the abdomen, mortally wounding him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109506/trivia&quot;&gt;Trivia section of The Crow&lt;/a&gt;, it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The footage of his death was subsequently developed and used as evidence in the investigation into his death. As part of the lawsuit settlement, the footage was later destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For injuries it really depends on whether the actors (are able to or) decide to finish the scene and carry on filming or not, for example Leonardo DiCaprio was famously &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/2013-golden-globes/leonardo-dicaprio-real-blood-django-unchained-scene-201237591.html&quot;&gt;actually injured in Django Unchained&lt;/a&gt; and continued the scene before seeking medical treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-09T20:04:37.250" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T20:04:37.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23747" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23766" CreationDate="2014-08-09T22:42:52.487" Score="4" ViewCount="1851" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Thunderball, when escaping the boat, Bond gives Felix a life ring and then pushes him off the boat. Bond and Domino then jump off the boat, before it hits some rocks and explodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A helicopter then drops a self-inflating lifeboat into the water, which Bond and Domino climb into, before being pulled away by a plane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did they just leave Felix? Is it just because James Bond films always end up with him and the &lt;em&gt;Bond girl&lt;/em&gt; together, and it would be weird if Felix was there with them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7772" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-10T11:09:48.527" LastActivityDate="2014-08-10T19:51:29.957" Title="What happens to Felix at the end of Thunderball?" Tags="|james-bond|thunderball|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23743" CreationDate="2014-08-09T22:58:35.140" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The actor Al Mulock committed suicide by jumping from his hotel room window while filming Once Upon A Time in the West in Spain in 1968.   Mulock played one of the three men who meet Charles Bronson's character at the rail station in the famous opening scene.   He was still in costume when he jumped from the window, and his fall was witnessed by many of those working on the film, including the director Sergio Leone.  One of the screenwriters, Mickey Knox, claimed in an interview that Leone ran out as Mulock was being lifted into a car to be driven to hospital, shouting 'Get the costume, we need the costume!', presumably in case the scene needed to be re-shot. Apparently the driver, one of the production staff, ignored him and drove off, and the scene was used unedited in the final cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9453" LastEditorUserId="9453" LastEditDate="2014-08-09T23:08:27.757" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T23:08:27.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23578" CreationDate="2014-08-09T23:54:00.057" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Sonic_screwdriver#Variants_of_the_Doctor.27s_sonic_screwdriver&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TARDIS Data Core Wiki&lt;/a&gt; mentions that in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Doctor&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Eighth Doctor&lt;/a&gt; novel &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Bodies&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alien Bodies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in which The Doctor uses his Mark One Sonic Screwdriver which was last seen used by the Second Doctor in Episode 3 of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Games&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The War Games&lt;/a&gt; and allegedly destroyed centuries ago from the perspective of the Eighth Doctor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When his companion &lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Samantha_Jones&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Samantha Jones&lt;/a&gt; asked how this is possible, he replies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's a Time Lord tool. Time doesn't work the same way for Time Lord tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which suggests that what we saw and interpreted as &quot;destroyed&quot; on-screen isn't really the death of the screwdrivers in question, and they can regenerate or be retrieved from the past somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-08-09T23:54:00.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23743" CreationDate="2014-08-10T07:31:59.453" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the most extraordinary instance of a production completing despite the death of an actor is &lt;em&gt;The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus&lt;/em&gt; (2008). During a break in principal photography, actor Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose. Director Terry Gilliam suspended production temporarily, but finished the film with a solution that was, in my opinion, sublime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were essentially three major sequences left unfilmed at the time of Heath's death, all set in the Imaginarium. CGI was discussed for a time, but in the end, each of the Imaginarium sequences was played by one of Heath's friends (Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell, who all donated their fees to Heath's daughter Matilda). Given that the Imaginarium was, after all, a fantasy world, the sudden change of the character's appearance worked remarkably well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were a few other tricks they had to pull to cover some other missing footage, but all in all, it was surprising how nicely the film came together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13178" LastEditorUserId="13178" LastEditDate="2014-08-11T20:24:25.127" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T20:24:25.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23743" CreationDate="2014-08-10T08:04:15.540" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going to write about Oliver Reed in Gladiator, but here's 10 examples (including him), I count 7 were during filming so should be relevant to the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2013/12/03/dead-actors-on-screen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dead actors on screen - Mashable&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastActivityDate="2014-08-10T08:04:15.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23759" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23760" CreationDate="2014-08-10T12:20:49.920" Score="1" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2010 TV show Terriers which was aired on FX was canceled after just one season. This show holds a rating of 8.6 on IMDB from 6993 users. Why was this show canceled ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-08-10T13:06:13.073" Title="Why was Terriers canceled after its first season?" Tags="|terriers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23759" CreationDate="2014-08-10T12:58:13.320" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMDB ratings aren't a good indication for a show's chances to stay on the air. Not only are they unreliable due to the inherent selection bias (the people who vote are usually people who care enough about the show to go look for it and vote), but even if it was a good, relatively objective measure of quality, it wouldn't have much to do with cancellation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Networks make money by selling advertisements during shows. Advertisers pay for shows that bring a lot of eyeballs to watch their ads. Thus, networks keep shows that have high ratings. Quality might be &lt;em&gt;linked&lt;/em&gt; to ratings, but it's certainly not any sort of indication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terriers_(TV_series)#Episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, quoting the site &quot;TV By The Numbers&quot;, viewership for the show started at 1.41 million viewers, or 1.1% of the viewership - not particularly high ratings to begin with, and even fewer, 0.5%, among the 18-49 year-old demographic, considered a lucrative one (as in, they buy things that are advertised).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the season finale, that number had dropped to 0.5% overall, and 0.3% in the target demographic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently the managers at FX decided that the show wasn't going anywhere, despite critical approval (and high IMDB ratings), and that the money it cost to produce wasn't justifying the returns on investment from advertising, and it was cancelled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1507" LastEditorUserId="1507" LastEditDate="2014-08-10T13:06:13.073" LastActivityDate="2014-08-10T13:06:13.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23743" CreationDate="2014-08-10T12:58:58.847" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surprised to see no one mentioned a time when the opposite situation occurred. Ed Wood used footage of the then-dead &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space#.22Bela_Lugosi.27s_Last_Movie.22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bela Lugosi&lt;/a&gt; in his &quot;so-bad-it's-good&quot; film &lt;em&gt;Plan 9 From Outer Space&lt;/em&gt;. He had a few Lugosi scenes shot for other projects and when Lugosi died he included them in Plan 9 as an homage. To flesh out those few scenes he hired Lugosi's chiropractor, who looked nothing like him, to stand in. You can't make this stuff up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13181" LastActivityDate="2014-08-10T12:58:58.847" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11206" CreationDate="2014-08-10T14:31:54.843" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doesn't Doc Brown know Marty since birth? The docs timeline in the first film never changes, so he is aware of Marty and the working time machine from the first visit to November 1955. From that point on, the Doc knows all about the events to come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13185" LastActivityDate="2014-08-10T14:31:54.843" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23689" CreationDate="2014-08-10T17:15:53.110" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The entire film is a commentary on cinema itself. There are a few different metaphors or interpretations I have heard about the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The film is a criticism of the audience. Everyone who went to see the film paid to watch a movie about a serial killing tire, and they are still critiquing it. Even the audience in the film is clueless about what they paid to come see, but they paid to come anyway. The audience in the film also represents the average filmgoing audience demographically; people of different ages, races, men, women.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People are dumb. We are told to accept things for no reason, even though a reason can be found behind nearly everything. Illustrated by the opening monologue of an authority figure telling the audience this very point.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The film is taking a jab at the film industry as a whole. The film industry produces mostly films that are predictable and not thought provoking. People pay to be entertained with dumbed down, garbage because that's what they're told to like. Producers want to hit every demographic and make money, not make thought provoking, meaningful films.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of other correlations you can make with the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The audience in the film are given poison, much like the fatty, unhealthy foods peddled at movie theaters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shiela seems to represent foreign, or high-brow film. As she is the only foreign character in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tricycle represents, re-boots and remakes. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if this answered your question, I hope so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13188" LastActivityDate="2014-08-10T17:15:53.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23747" CreationDate="2014-08-10T18:22:42.930" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Strangely this was on TV yesterday so I can answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wasn't Felix Leiter at the end, it was Ladislav Kutze who was Largo's physicist. As he was a henchman, albeit one who redeemed himself by freeing Domino, we don't really care, so it's never resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More info about him &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jamesbondmm.co.uk/bond-villains/george-pravda&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-08-10T19:51:29.957" LastActivityDate="2014-08-10T19:51:29.957" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23770" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-10T22:10:25.893" Score="8" ViewCount="1057" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just finished watching Breaking Bad, and I am wondering how Walt earned 70 M usd (8 barrels) since most he earned was 7 M per year with Gustavo (I remember his wife calculated it per year, he told her what he made every 2 weeks) and that job didn't last a whole year, and i assume, before with Jesse, and after with Jesse and Mike he was earning less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this is from my memory, I could be wrong, but i am very curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13193" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-10T22:17:59.930" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T02:32:55.053" Title="How did Walt earn 70 M+ USD?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23771" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23790" CreationDate="2014-08-10T22:41:39.747" Score="10" ViewCount="9551" Body="&lt;p&gt;In almost every movie or TV episode when a door is opened, the character doesn't bother to shut the door after passing through.  Why?  Would it kill the flow of the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13194" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-10T22:46:29.363" LastActivityDate="2019-09-08T01:53:17.163" Title="Why do most doors never get closed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23773" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23812" CreationDate="2014-08-10T23:38:34.483" Score="4" ViewCount="5046" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2388715/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Oculus (2013)&lt;/a&gt;, Kaylie sets up a few alarms for her and her brother to perform various tasks. One of them is to eat and another is to hydrate (drink water). They were ~60 minute alarms. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't recognize any explanation of why they had to eat and drink so often. I recall that Kaylie explained a few of the mirror's victims and the way they died, one was a woman who died in her bathtub of dehydration (even though she soaked for 3 days) and another gentleman who purchased the mirror at one time was over 300lbs but had been photographed later and was depicted as a very thin man. I believe he died as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, I don't recall any explanation as to why they had to eat and drink so often. What was the point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-10-08T06:53:16.770" LastActivityDate="2016-07-27T15:50:46.820" Title="What was the point of eating and drinking?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oculus|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23777" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-11T03:05:48.423" Score="5" ViewCount="6184" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching Pulp Fiction tonite and I suddenly realized that Uma's character makes reference to her failed pilot, Fox Force Five, and her character's prowess with knives.  It made me think of her role in Kill Bill, and the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad.  And since they're both Tarantino movies, and he has stated in the past that some of his characters are related, I started to wonder if Kill Bill could be considered a movie that exists within the Pulp Fiction universe, or if they're related in some way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2018-02-16T15:19:17.003" Title="Is Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) from Pulp Fiction the same person as The Bride in Kill Bill?" Tags="|character|pulp-fiction|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23778" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23849" CreationDate="2014-08-11T03:17:55.720" Score="4" ViewCount="3445" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've played through all 3 Mass Effect games and now I'm watching Firefly. I noticed that Jayne (the mercenary) wears a &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Blue Sun&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; muscle shirt and in Mass Effect, the Blue Suns are a mercenary company. This got me to thinking...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both take place in the &lt;strong&gt;future&lt;/strong&gt; in &lt;strong&gt;space&lt;/strong&gt; and follow a &lt;strong&gt;single ship&lt;/strong&gt; and it's crew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lead in both is &lt;strong&gt;captain&lt;/strong&gt; of the ship, &lt;strong&gt;good with a gun&lt;/strong&gt; and has a keen &lt;strong&gt;moral compass&lt;/strong&gt; (in Mass Effect the player can influence morality).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;strong&gt;Shepard&lt;/strong&gt; in Firefly and the main character in Mass Effect is Shepard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a race of undead &quot;aliens&quot; in Firefly called &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Reevers&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. In Mass Effect the &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Reapers&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, an alien race, raise the dead to fight for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Alliance&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, a human faction has overtaken the galaxy in Firefly. In Mass Effect, the &quot;Alliance&quot; is the human space military and exploration force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Firefly, the character River was raised in a &lt;strong&gt;military training school&lt;/strong&gt; for children with special powers. In Mass Effect, Jack was raised in a &lt;strong&gt;military facility&lt;/strong&gt; for children with special powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to link Firefly and Mass Effect. Do they have a shared creator or writer? Or is there some other link? Or is this just a case of influenced ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-13T12:07:23.167" LastActivityDate="2014-10-19T18:46:09.993" Title="Is Firefly/Serenity related to the game series Mass Effect" Tags="|analysis|reference|firefly|serenity|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23743" CreationDate="2014-08-11T04:45:46.343" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indian Bollywood Actor Mr.Amitabh Bachchan got seriously injured during the sets of coolie (Indian Hindi movie)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Impact on the movie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was an 'All Time Earner', it got the highest verdict[Equivalent to 'All Time Blockbuster' Today] present at that time by Trade Guide[Bollywood boxoffice magazine], and was among those rare movies, which crossed 1 Crore per territory. There were only 13 All Time Earner[Crossed 1 Crore per territory] movies till 1984, 9 of which starred Amitabh and Coolie was among them. The film was the top earning film of 1983 and one of the biggest hits of the 80's decade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolie_(1983_Hindi_film)#Box_office&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolie_(1983_Hindi_film)#Box_office&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabh_Bachchan#1982_injury_while_filming_Coolie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabh_Bachchan#1982_injury_while_filming_Coolie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13200" LastEditorUserId="13200" LastEditDate="2014-08-13T10:12:52.733" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T10:12:52.733" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23777" CreationDate="2014-08-11T05:58:13.750" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the answer is &amp;quot;certainly not&amp;quot;. The Pulp fiction &lt;a href=&quot;http://pulpfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Mia_Wallace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt; for Mia &amp;amp; the Kill Bill &lt;a href=&quot;http://killbill.wikia.com/wiki/Beatrix_Kiddo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt; for Beatrix Kiddo state no connection at all. In spite of that there is large difference in the two characters as well. Mia Wallace is a cocaine addict whereas there is no indication anywhere that Beatrix uses any kind of drugs. The character that Mia Wallace played in that failed pilot was an expert with knives not Mia Wallace herself. Also going by the characters' ages Mia Wallace is around 10 years younger than Beatrix kiddo. Kiddo was a trained fighter, but Mia is much younger and the context that you are trying to indicate is that Mia was already trained at that time and had left the Viper assassination squad, but this seems highly unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adding more info wrt Ben Plont's comment :&#xA;Fox Force 5 is fictional in Pulp Fiction. Fox Force 5 does not actually exist while Pulp Fiction is taking place. Relating these two would be like &amp;quot;there is a fictional show that is in the Pulp Fiction universe and then later in that same universe this story became true, meaning Fox Force 5 became an actual thing and the fictional character that Mia was playing became an actual character&amp;quot;, Come on!! that wouldn't make sense. What I think is that Tarantino had this kind of idea (Fox Force 5) back in 1994 and which he used as a fictional TV show in Pulp Fiction and later developed that same idea into a full fledged movie as kill Bill. But Mia and Beatrix are definitely not the same girls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T13:09:44.673" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11262" CreationDate="2014-08-11T06:38:33.613" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think that Omar was an informant. I think that Sosa sensed that Omar was not behind the plan for a big deal where Tony was. Therefore, he killed the source of resistance and sent Tony, who was all for the deal, back to Frank to try to make it happen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was similar to the scene in The Godfather where Sollotzo pitched the idea of the Corleone's getting into the drug business to Vito Corleone. During the meeting, Sonny Corleone showed his hand that he was excited by the idea, whereas Vito Corleone was not and refused to do business with Sollotzo. Sollotzo then tried to kill Vito Corleone, so that Sonny, who would become the Don, would agree to get into the drug business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both cases, it was just a way to eliminate resistance to the deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13201" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-10-22T09:18:15.480" LastActivityDate="2016-10-22T09:18:15.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23783" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23785" CreationDate="2014-08-11T07:39:16.340" Score="39" ViewCount="18200" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1853728/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Django Unchained&lt;/em&gt; (2012)&lt;/a&gt; when Schultz takes Django to a clothes shop and asks him to choose his own clothes, at first Django is surprised, but after that he choses this typical dress for him. His appearance not only surprises the audience of the movie but also the characters in the movie. I remember a scene soon after when Django and Schultz walk into Big Daddy's farm and Django is talking to Bettina Sugar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bettina:&lt;/strong&gt; Are you a free man?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Django:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bettina:&lt;/strong&gt; You mean you chose to dress like that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why did Django chose that typical dress?&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YSUEn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-11-23T14:17:46.637" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T16:25:18.220" Title="Why does Django choose to dress like that?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|django-unchained|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23783" CreationDate="2014-08-11T07:57:20.697" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nice question! There's a very solid piece of trivia behind it that will perhaps make you appreciate Quentin Tarantino and his style even more. A &lt;a href=&quot;http://badassdigest.com/2013/01/03/some-trivia-that-will-make-you-love-django-unchained-even-more/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Django&lt;/em&gt; trivia article on Badass Digest&lt;/a&gt; explains it like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Django gets his first outfit it turns out to be quite similar to a Thomas Gainsborough painting, &lt;em&gt;The Blue Boy&lt;/em&gt;. This 1770 painting was created when slavery was rampant in the Americas, but that isn't the connection to &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Django Unchained&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. The painting inspired FW Murnau's debut film, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Knabe in Blau&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, a 1919 silent movie that is now lost. This means Quentin Tarantino never saw it, so the film itself couldn't have really impacted &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Django&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. But Murnau was one of the great pioneers of cinematic language, and one of his great breakthroughs was a technique that allowed filmmakers to move the cameras, which until then, has been largely stationary. That technique's name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Unchained camera technique.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO, its a very clever way to pay homage to a film-maker Tarantino felt inspired by. This scene seems like his hat tip to the person as well as the technique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that, the connection with the Gainsborough painting becomes even more apparent in the scene where Django opposes John Brittle. There is blink-and-you-miss shot where the girl Brittle was about to whip looks into a framed mirror and sees a faint reflection of Django (interestingly very much devoid of any identifying skin parts) which seems to resemble the painting to a large degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6hb0V.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Boy#mediaviewer/File:Thomas_Gainsborough_008.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is the link to the painting by Thomas Gainsborough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-11-23T13:04:47.510" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23783" CreationDate="2014-08-11T09:14:03.530" Score="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;em&gt;KeyBrdBasher&lt;/em&gt;'s excellent out-of-universe answer I'd like to concentrate a bit more on &lt;em&gt;Django&lt;/em&gt;'s motivation, even if it's really just plain speculation on my part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to consider that &lt;em&gt;Django&lt;/em&gt; has been a slave for all his life, wearing nothing else than mere rags, if so much at all. It certainly makes sense for him to &lt;strong&gt;dress as extraordinarily as possible once he finally has the chance to&lt;/strong&gt;. Seeing that his blue suit looks extremely fancy and is probably only worn to parties or by little rich boys, &lt;strong&gt;he has simply overdone it&lt;/strong&gt; with his dress choice, maybe &lt;strong&gt;partly due to overcompensation&lt;/strong&gt; and maybe &lt;strong&gt;partly due to a lack of knowledge&lt;/strong&gt; what you would usually wear as an ordinary citizen (you could even connect both answers and assume &lt;em&gt;Django&lt;/em&gt; has once seen that Gainsborough painting, dreaming to dress as fancily one time in the future).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another factor might also be exactly this surprise that you mention in your question. &lt;em&gt;Django&lt;/em&gt; maybe also wanted to show everybody that he was a free man, and this &lt;strong&gt;as expressively as possible&lt;/strong&gt;. Thus it might also have been in order &lt;strong&gt;to shock all those slave owners with the unusual view of a black man in so fancy a suit.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="4131" LastEditDate="2014-08-20T09:53:57.177" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T09:53:57.177" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23770" CreationDate="2014-08-11T09:14:47.533" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;He effectively became his own boss in Season 5, with Gus Fring eliminated. He grew more and more arrogant, but realised he didn't have the operation that Gus had, and thus couldn't hope to reach as many people as Gus did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result, he works with &lt;strong&gt;Lydia&lt;/strong&gt;, an executive for Madrigal, the parent company of Gus' &lt;strong&gt;Los Pollos Hermanos&lt;/strong&gt;. She takes care of distribution for them and we are told on a few occasions that the drug is &lt;em&gt;hugely&lt;/em&gt; popular in Eastern Europe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Evidence of how popular it is can be seen in the gang's theft of a thousand gallons of methylamine (compare that to their theft of a barrel of it in Season 1, with a barrel being roughly 160 litres).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following this episode, and Todd's murder of the young boy, Mike and Jesse try and end the partnership with Lydia and instead sell to &lt;strong&gt;Declan&lt;/strong&gt;, a competitor based in Phoenix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Walt arrives at the meeting, he is able to convince Declan to sell his product, citing its popularity and purity. This works, so Declan is now a distributor of theirs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly after, Walt learns Mike is on the verge of being arrested and after an angry confrontation kills him. It's after &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; that Walt goes back to Lydia to establish a deal to distribute his drugs in the &lt;em&gt;Czech Republic&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this occurs in Part 1 of the Final Season. We don't see/hear too much about Lydia's operation in Part 2, but it's obvious that the drug has a sizeable presence in Eastern Europe &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; is being distributed by Declan (until his unfortunate demise!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, in answer to your question - &lt;em&gt;Walt earned his $70 million+ through the distribution of Declan to an extent, and far more importantly through the distribution provided by Lydia in Eastern Europe&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T09:14:47.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23681" CreationDate="2014-08-11T10:33:54.733" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst it's understandable to proclaim that Montage Theory doesn't receive the amount of 'attention' it deserves from Hollywood, this is closer to the concept of Montage Theory (MT) not receiving overt 'credit' when it does appear; largely due to its indelible influence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Montage theory marked the beginning of a filmic language; the idea that film is something to be edited in order to create meaning, and that composition is used to tell a story as much as what it is you're shooting with the camera. Prior to Montage theory, films were produced almost in the style of plays; with a stage on which actions are performed, and the camera substituted for the position of an audience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine every film being staged and produced in the style of a US sitcom, and then someone coming along and introducing camera angles, crane shots, pulleys etc... It was an epochal shift in cinema. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elements of montage theory still exists and can be evidenced across every film making style in the world, such is the impact of the Soviet Masters; they're just so common, so well adopted into the grammar of film making that we no longer flag them up as important. Typically, shots that &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; adhere to elements of Soviet Montage are considered jarring or obtuse, such is our familiarity and preference for certain elements of continuity produced by the Soviet Masters; typified by three figureheads of film making whose contribution to cinema can not be diminished.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lk1le.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general grammar of the shot has developed to embrace the styles of these three film makers, so we don't notice when they're being deployed. For example...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Kuleshov Effect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes referred to as 'Shot/Reverse Shot' This is a type of shot sequencing that is used in almost every TV/Movie production you could name: Lev Kuleshov noticed that if you &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_Effect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;juxtapose images in sequence&lt;/a&gt;, the human mind will naturally compose them into a linear, formal narrative. What this means is that we, as observers, will naturally correlate the two images to be in reaction to each other. We will infer a connection between the imagery, and in the case of human reactions (below) will assume that the facial expression depicted is in reaction to the previous shot...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HsE1p.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be difficult to grasp what is so special about this style of shot, because it's so well used, but the significance is that &lt;strong&gt;Kuleshov invented this style of continuity.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hitchcock, in the famous &quot;Definition of Happiness&quot; interview, also explains in detail many types of editing. The final form, which he calls &quot;pure editing&quot;, is explained visually using the Kuleshov effect. In the first version of the example, Hitchcock is squinting, and the audience sees footage of a woman with a baby. The screen then returns to Hitchcock's face, now smiling. In effect, he is a kind old man. In the second example, the woman and baby are replaced with a woman in a bikini, to which Hitchcock exclaims, &quot;Now look, he has become the dirty old man.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before he demonstrated an edit (or montage) sequence which broke the formalities of existing cinema, continuity was achieved through incredibly condescending shots that held the audience' hand through events; they were simply not trusted to understand that two separate shots were connected, as most cinema was constructed through wide angles on a one shot-stage, enveloping the scene entirely as opposed to building it through separate shots...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DXei1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Japanese Jugglers&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Basic Film Grammar of Dziga Vertov&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A claim could be made that Dziga Vertov (which translates to 'Spinning Top' in recognition of his then radical filmic style: real name David Abelevich Kaufman) invented many of the elements of continuity that we take for granted in cinema today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been greatly disputed how many of these he actually invented, but the reality of his importance is within his ability to combine them together into a coherent, emotive form within his seminal film &lt;em&gt;Man with the Movie Camera&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Amongst other elements, he is said to have 'invented' (or been the first to successfully deploy);&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;double exposure&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;fast motion&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;slow motion&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;freeze frames&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;jump cuts&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;split screens&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dutch angle&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;extreme close-ups&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;tracking shots&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;footage played backwards&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;stop motion animations&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, that's quite a list, and none of those claims are unfounded in the least. &lt;em&gt;Man with a Movie Camera&lt;/em&gt; is often recognized as the most important film of all time, in due respect to how incredibly innovative and pioneering its techniques were, and its ultimate contribution to modern cinema...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now we're able to see why MT is so important, and understand that it is &lt;em&gt;still incredibly prevalent&lt;/em&gt; in cinema, we must understand why it is relatively unspoken of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many socio-political factors which contributed massively to MT theory being 'overlooked' for so long, and it's fair to say for the first part of the 20th Century the contributions of the Soviet Masters was deliberately obscured. That isn't to say that these techniques weren't used and deployed; it's just that the lineage of their construction was often ascribed to other, less politically volatile and more populist 'inventors'... Chief amongst these being &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thomas Edison.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite a wave of American sentiment towards this historical figure, anyone that undertakes a study of his legacy will quickly realize that Edison was an utter, utter Ass-hat. Many researchers have taken lengths to explain how Edison &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/article_16072_5-famous-inventors-who-stole-their-big-idea.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;stole most of his greatest inventions&lt;/a&gt;, but his accidental contributions to cinema are often overlooked...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v09/v09p243_Wikoff.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Edison accidentally invented Hollywood.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edison, through a strategy of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Company&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bullying, intimidation and patent theft&lt;/a&gt; managed to lock down the US cinema market in the early years of the 20th Century; it was impossible to to make a movie without using Edison's equipment (he'd patented them all, or legally wrangled the patents away from those who actually held them) so everything went through his company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Jewish Film-makers of New York, tired of constantly having their earnings diminished and being censored by Edison, upped sticks and moved west until they were clear of the stranglehold of Edison's malevolently suffocating Motion Picture Patents Company. They found a lush, bountiful and incredibly cinematic landscape within the Cahuenga Valley with incredible natural light that allowed them to create beautiful external shots: they named this new film-making mecca 'Hollywood', and the rest is history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does all this have to do with MT I hear you ask?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, Edison &lt;strong&gt;hated&lt;/strong&gt; anything that either deprived him of money/prestige or disagreed with his vision (as evidenced by the lengths the Hollywood Diaspora took to escape him), and would actively pursue campaigns to discredit anything that disagreed with what he considered to be 'Cinema'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edison's cinematic style was incredibly formal, standardized and simplistic. All films were produced inside a 'Black Mariah' (Below), meaning as far as Edison was concerned you could only make a film using his equipment, and his sets...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pckI1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as far as he was concerned, anything that didn't look like his style of cinema &lt;em&gt;wasn't cinema&lt;/em&gt;, and as such needed to be discredited so as to neutralize it as a threat to his authority. By looking at two clips, below, we can see the gulf of difference between what Edison (and through campaigns of propaganda, the American public) considered cinema and what the Russian Masters considered innovative cinema:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/vfqUjBDIkT8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/z97Pa0ICpn8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst it must be noted that &lt;em&gt;MWTMC&lt;/em&gt; came much, much later than Edison's work, it represents the epitome of a different style of film-making that Edison took exception to (at the time, Edison aimed much of his aggression against the Lumiere Brothers of Paris, but his methodology was to ingrain the notion of Foreign=Inferior, a policy of which the Russian masters felt the brunt of in the States).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edison laid the groundwork for a swell of public opinion that sought to diminish the impact of anything non-home grown, and by the 1920's (with Hollywood firmly established as one of the countries biggest and most profitable industries), credit would rather be applied to their own talents. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With Europe and Russia being ravaged by 2 World Wars in relatively quick succession, America was the film industry that was able to pick up the slack and production from the cessation of cinema in Europe, and they readily adopted the style of the Soviet Masters within their work. The reason they weren't all heaping praise onto those who deserved the credit for the techniques?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...A huge swell of Anti-Russian sentiment within the states, typified by the McCarthy trials and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;HUAAC&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With communism providing a genuine threat to 'American Values', anyone who would seek to promote or endorse &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; that came out of Russia would be labelled as a 'Red', and undergo black-listing, deportment and imprisonment. It was a dangerous thing to draw attention to how much of cinema, that most American of entertainments, was massively indebted to Russians, so it's understandable why this wasn't something widely discussed within the States.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It didn't help that directors like Eisenstein were inherently political, and socialists themselves... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gtJVh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His film &lt;em&gt;Strike!&lt;/em&gt; is still regarded as one of the most influential political films of all time, and was a veritable rallying point for the socialist movement. It was a dangerous film to America's fordist consumerism, and as such he was automatically black-listed. His films also employed artistic derivations of Soviet Art in its composition, with the Battle-ship Potemkin using jump-cuts and overlays to achieve this mimicry incredibly...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, MT still being used by Hollywood, just not being drawn attention to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the end of the wars that had reduced European/Soviet cinema to state-sponsored propaganda, and the Paranoia that came immediately afterwards, MT had been deployed in cinema for half a century.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People were free to discuss it without recrimination, and film scholars did, but for most of the population of movie-goers there was simply no need to discuss such a thing. It was by this point the natural style of cinema, and if anything was incredibly basic. Film-making had evolved beyond an interest in basic continuity and shot composition, and areas of interest had moved on to more innovative techniques... it had lost it's sensationalism, but never its relevance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question was initially close-voted due to users unfamiliarity with Montage Theory as a concept, which I think demonstrates conclusively how successful the campaign of disaccreditation formed against non-domestic US cinema by Edison was: it holds true to this day. MT provided some, if not all, of the major types of standard continuity used today: 100 years later, we've still not found a better way to do these things than the Russian Masters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that not only are film-fans unaware of what MT's contribution is, but also (as close voters demonstrated) have &lt;em&gt;never ever heard of it&lt;/em&gt;, is pretty staggering: given its contribution and importance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-08-11T12:58:12.523" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T12:58:12.523" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23771" CreationDate="2014-08-11T11:40:50.557" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Woo - one I know! - often sets are temporary structures and if you slam a door it can make the whole wall wobble (this is often seen in poor-quality shows or ones from the 60's/70's). So many floor managers have just become used to ensuring that they aren't slammed by cast members - even if it's a real set just out of habit. In fact I've seen in scripts lines such as &quot;Door slams [ensure solid door]&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T11:40:50.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="839" CreationDate="2014-08-11T14:05:45.703" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene between Sherlock and John, where Sherlock is having an emotional break down in &quot;Hounds of Baskerville&quot;, is similar to a scene in an episode of Star Trek called &quot;Naked Time&quot; where Spock has an emotional break down and confesses to feeling shame when he feels friendship towards Jim Kirk, his captain and best friend. In &quot;Baskerville&quot;, Sherlock angrily tells John Watson, his best friend, that he has no friends. Both characters say that they have to control their feelings. And both break downs are caused by a drug like substance. Sherlock was reacting to the drug mist. Spock to a space disease that made one act intoxicated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The character of Spock is similar in many ways to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, so I think the writers were borrowing back as a joke, and that's why John calls Sherlock &quot;Spock&quot; because he is acting like the famous Star Trek character. Sherlock and John, Spock and Jim, even the names are similar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13209" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T14:05:45.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23588" CreationDate="2014-08-11T14:10:49.237" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;After re-watching the first 7 episodes yesterday, There are a few mentions of his possible wealth and assets early on in the series:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a mention of Neil’s Assets Season 1 Episode 5 “The Portrait” where Neil is led there after receiving clues from Kate.  During their telephone call she asks Neil where his money, art ect is but he won’t tell her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, in season 1 episode 7 “Free fall” after he is framed for stealing a rare pink diamond he is sent back to prison, Mozzie then visits him claiming to be his lawyer.  During their conversation Neil mentions that he needs to liquidate some assets to buy a bakery which is located 4 stories down from the chambers of the judge presiding over the case in order to make an escape and prove who the real thief is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Neal: Wait. He's got a private office not connected to the federal building on Mott Street. Moz, I need you to liquidate some assets. I need money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mozzie: Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Neal: I want you to buy a bakery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Caffrey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Caffrey&lt;/a&gt; he was only ever convicted of Bond Forgery and all other crimes were alleged which could explain how he still has assets that were not seized by the FBI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13016" LastEditorUserId="11589" LastEditDate="2014-08-12T11:11:37.403" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T11:11:37.403" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23796" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-11T18:18:34.197" Score="6" ViewCount="37920" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gordon Ramsay is a world-class celebrity chef, so it's not surprising that he always criticizes the food at the restaurants he visits in Kitchen Nightmares -- not to mention the fact that there's usually something wrong with the food anyway, or he wouldn't be there. However, I find it a bit difficult to believe that there's never anything he's ever liked in the history of the show. My thoughts are that they just don't show it on camera when he &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; enjoy or compliment a dish, as that would be less entertaining as his creative insults.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To back this up, I've recently visited &lt;em&gt;Pantaleone's&lt;/em&gt;, an Italian restaurant featured in an episode aired last April. Pete, the owner, mentioned to me that Ramsay actually liked his pizza crust recipe (which is still the same), and that certainly was not revealed in the show! Does Ramsay actually like certain dishes more often than we, the audience, realize, thanks to editing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13213" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2014-08-11T18:23:38.907" LastActivityDate="2017-07-03T00:31:26.973" Title="Does Gordon Ramsay ever like anything in Kitchen Nightmares?" Tags="|analysis|kitchen-nightmares|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23773" CreationDate="2014-08-11T18:30:29.650" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kaylie Russell was very lonely in her adolescent years and she was too obsessed with the mirror. She studied all the deaths related to the mirror. She wanted to prove her point to the world by video footage but at the same time she wanted herself and her brother to be safe. So she just eliminated all the possible death reasons, such as dehydration, and set up a schedule to eliminate all the possible ways of death, such as setting up a food and water rationing plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-27T15:50:46.820" LastActivityDate="2016-07-27T15:50:46.820" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23796" CreationDate="2014-08-11T18:35:40.353" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Nightmares&quot;&gt;Kitchen Nightmares&lt;/a&gt; was based on a show in the UK called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsay%27s_Kitchen_Nightmares&quot;&gt;Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares&lt;/a&gt;.  This piece is taken verbatim from the Wiki page, which is backed by other sources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Critics have commented that Fox's adaptation of Kitchen Nightmares&#xA;  strayed from the strengths of the original Channel 4 series. Maureen&#xA;  Ryan of the Chicago Tribune said, &quot;Leave it to Fox to take something&#xA;  the Brits did pretty well and muck it up&quot;. She added, &quot;Never mind the&#xA;  cooking; &lt;strong&gt;this edition of the show appears to be more interested in&#xA;  playing up the family dramas at the restaurants Ramsay visits&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&#xA;  Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times commented, &quot;Whereas the British&#xA;  Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares is fundamentally a food show — it has&#xA;  interesting things to show you about how a restaurant runs and a&#xA;  kitchen works, the wonders of local markets and what you can make from&#xA;  them if you're Gordon Ramsay or willing to follow his instructions —&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;the Fox edition emphasizes mishap, argument and emotional breakdown&#xA;  almost to the exclusion of cuisine&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given Fox's penchant for sensationalism and their well-documented &quot;scripted 'Reality shows'&quot;, it's highly likely (and completely plausible) that Kitchen Nightmares focusses on all the bad aspects while leaving out all the positives.  There's no drama in Gordon Ramsay waxing poetic on someone's outstanding pizza crust, but when he starts yelling about how bad the sauce is, all the Jerry Springer fans start drooling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-11T18:37:46.897" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T18:37:46.897" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23799" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23800" CreationDate="2014-08-11T19:45:11.263" Score="6" ViewCount="17537" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watched the Gordon Ramsay show &quot;Hotel Hell&quot; for the first time, and was amazed at how the entire 1-hour show revolved around pointing out the defects in the hotel owner's character: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was an incompetent manager, running the hotel into the ground&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was struggling with severe alcoholism&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was dating an unattractive, much older woman who the show also humiliated&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was so cheap he used his residences' old mattresses as the mattresses in the hotel rooms, and Gordon Ramsay -- in front of not just cameras but entire hotel staff -- used a black light on one of the mattresses to point out a large stain, saying it was from the owner ejaculating&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am ashamed to say I watched the entire episode, which was obviously geared to appeal toward viewers who get off on &quot;look how messed up this person is.&quot; (Based on commercials for other Ramsay shows, this aggressive humiliation seems to be a key premise of all of Ramsay's productions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't help but wonder: why on earth would anyone agree to go on Hotel Hell or similar Ramsay shows? &quot;Humiliate me on national television? Sounds great!&quot; Why would anyone sign up for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;edit to add &lt;a href=&quot;http://community.ew.com/2014/07/29/hotel-hell-recap-monticello-hotel/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;link to episode summary&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2014-08-11T20:14:56.377" LastActivityDate="2018-10-09T21:33:18.210" Title="Why would owner agree to be on Hotel Hell?" Tags="|hotel-hell|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23799" CreationDate="2014-08-11T20:36:53.410" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few things you need to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As the saying goes, &lt;strong&gt;no publicity is really bad publicity&lt;/strong&gt;. Sure some people might be turned off by the individual, but at the same time others may find it fascinating and actually want to go there or try it out. They may look bad for a moment on national TV, but if they actually do manage to turn things around by the end of the show, they've received virtually free publicity for their service, even if they had to look bad on national television to make it happen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They may genuinely want help.&lt;/strong&gt; Clearly there's dysfunction with their business, and clearly Gordon Ramsay seems to have an idea of how things are run as he's been responsible for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Ramsay#Awards&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;several top notch hospitality services over his career&lt;/a&gt;. Sure they may face some humiliation on TV in front of millions of people, but if they're really serious about changing things and turning their business around, with the aid of a famous celebrity and the financial backing of a TV show to help them out at practically no expense to themselves other than a bruised ego, and the alternative is to face their service closing anyway, what's to lose? In the case of one of his other shows, Kitchen Nightmares, they often get a completely remodeled restaurant out of the deal, likely at no expense to them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reality TV is often edited and distorted to appease the target audience.&lt;/strong&gt; Sometimes events will be edited out of order, or certain lines of dialog will be dropped to add drama to a situation. Even the subtle use of the right kind of music can change the entire feel of a scene. In the case of shows that were started in a foreign country, certain aspects of the show may change to appease general audiences of the new country as well. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/23796/does-gordon-ramsay-ever-like-anything-in-kitchen-nightmares&quot;&gt;this question regarding another Gordon Ramsay show&lt;/a&gt; for further details.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2014-08-11T21:01:47.450" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23845" CreationDate="2014-08-11T21:42:41.777" Score="4" ViewCount="1286" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371111/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cloud Atlas&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; presents us with 6 seemingly different storylines across centuries of human history:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a personal adventure ultimately ending in a statement against slavery.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a personal tragedy about individual achievement.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a straight-to-the-point economic conspiracy story.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a personal adventure about freedom and finding oneself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a revolutionary struggle for the rights of clones.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and a post-apocalyptic exodus.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, to me those stories seemed to be only loosely coupled on the surface, by rather minor references to each other, as can be seen in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/14813/49&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt;. And if looking at the individual actors, they also played vastly different roles with different characters and motives in the individual stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seeing that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; describes the official synopsis as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if all those stories are actually further connected with each other (or even all on a larger scale) &lt;strong&gt;by some overarching themes and motifs or maybe by some deeper connection between the individual plots&lt;/strong&gt; that just eluded me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T10:57:42.393" Title="Are the stories connected by more than just marginal references?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|cloud-atlas|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23803" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23816" CreationDate="2014-08-11T23:43:55.643" Score="14" ViewCount="5821" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2198/how-are-the-iron-man-suit-scenes-filmed&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; deals with the actors in a full-body shot of the suits, however I am wondering how the face-inside-the-suit segments are filmed, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ghY0H.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Image&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Iron Man HUD as seen in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Avengers (2012)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The animation shows several things which make this a difficult shot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The camera is steady while the HUD moves perfectly with his head&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The lights are reflected on his face and in his eyes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He either knows when and where to look or he can see Pepper&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone find any information as to how this was filmed, for example if it was all CGI or perhaps some interesting practical effect where they reflect the images onto a screen in front of the camera?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2017-02-09T08:46:43.897" Title="How are the face-in-suit segments of Iron Man filmed?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|effects|the-avengers|cinematography|iron-man|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23804" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-11T23:50:54.203" Score="8" ViewCount="1616" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking more along the lines of a long-running soap than a normal TV series, but I know that in soaps, if an actor or actress leaves, and they need to bring the character back they will re-cast the role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has a situation ever occurred where someone leaves a soap, the role gets recast, but then the original actor or actress comes back as a different character to their original character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7772" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-19T11:27:19.717" LastActivityDate="2017-05-19T11:27:19.717" Title="Has an actor or actress in a TV series ever returned as a different character after their role was re-cast?" Tags="|character|casting|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-05-19T13:48:34.010" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23804" CreationDate="2014-08-12T02:50:14.013" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Karen Gillian was an extra on Doctor Who, prior to returning to the show in the role of the Doctor's companion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l9Pc4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peter Capaldi also previously played a small role on Doctor Who and will now be returning as the 13th Doctor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coincidentally, both actors appears in the same episode, &quot;Fires of Pompei&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ukkVz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13095" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T02:50:14.013" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23804" CreationDate="2014-08-12T02:59:53.670" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majel_Barrett&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Majel Barret&lt;/a&gt;, wife of series creator Gene Roddenberry, had several roles in several incarnations of the Star Trek series.  She was the original &quot;First Mate&quot; (referred to as &quot;Number One&quot;) in the pilot episode, and then came back as Nurse Chapel in TOS. She also played Deanna Troi's mother Lwaxana in TNG, as well as being the voice of ships computers in several series' and movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T02:59:53.670" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23799" CreationDate="2014-08-12T03:00:27.930" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to MattD's excellent answer, Gordon Ramsay often evaluates the hotel restaurant and menu. Ramsay is an internationally known chef, so having his advice on your restaurant and serving a menu designed by Ramsay has a great deal of value by itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show also spends tens of thousands of dollars to help refurbish the interior of participating hotels, in a few cases over a hundred thousand dollars.  That's all provided at no cost to the hotel owners. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many reality shows also pay compensation to their participants, but I don't know if Hotel Hell does that for their hotel owners. In any case, the renovations are valuable in themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13095" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-12T03:14:56.703" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T03:14:56.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23810" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23815" CreationDate="2014-08-12T05:24:35.500" Score="3" ViewCount="1361" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something very common, that we all have been seeing since as long as we can remember. This question stemmed from my recent re-watching of Django Unchained, where Quentin Tarantino makes a cameo appearnce. I have always been intrigued by this. M Night Shyamalan, Peter Jackson, John Carpenter, Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth, and many more, have made frequent cameo appearnces in their movies. The trend goes as back as Alferd Hitchcock's movies. I want to know more about this. What are the factros behind this gesture ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-08-12T08:18:36.557" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T17:34:29.413" Title="Why do directors make cameo appearances in their movies?" Tags="|directors|cameo|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23773" CreationDate="2014-08-12T06:45:41.807" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why the alarms to eat and drink?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kaylie learned from her research that some of the past owners of the mirror died from starvation and dehydration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why so often? (my personal interpretation)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kaylie knows that the mirror is manipulative and the persons around it have delusions and lose control over time. She also believes that the mirror feeds on the life around it, so she experiments with a dog to prove it to her brother and we see that plants losing life and it also controls electricity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kaylie is being overprotective of herself and her brother. She believes that the mirror feeds on life (examples: experiment with dog, plants losing life). So, she might of thought it's best to eat and hydrate very often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.janelcomeau.ca/2014/05/overanalyzing-oculus-how-to-survive.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;review&lt;/a&gt; which you might find interesting. The reviewer says that all the safety measures Kaylie has taken are useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This mirror works primarily by messing with its victims' sensation of time and space. It makes you see things that aren't there, hear things that aren't real, and experience things differently from how they're actually unfolding. Sure, there's some sort of woman/demon/toothless ghost monster living in the mirror, but she doesn't seem to want to come out unless it is absolutely necessary. Normally, just messing with your perception does the trick. Which means there's a huge problem with Kaylie's &quot;get over here and eat a granola bar&quot; alarm strategy; it only works if Kaylie and Tim are lucid enough to hear it and understand what it means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2014-08-12T07:22:03.797" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T07:22:03.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23804" CreationDate="2014-08-12T07:15:46.310" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a very popular TV serial in India called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dill_Mill_Gayye&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dill Mill Gayye&lt;/a&gt; where this sort of thing happened. It's a love story involving a group of young doctors interning at a hospital.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main leads were Armaan Malik played by Karan Singh Grover &amp;amp; Riddhima Gupta played by Shilpa Anand/Jennifer Winget/Sukriti Kandpal.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shilpa Anand playing Riddhima, the female love interest of Armaan Malik was recast due to her on-set tantrums &amp;amp; demanding a fatter paycheck after her popularity &amp;amp; fame. The character was played by Sukriti Kandpal for a short period. The character was recast again due to the lack of good acting skills &amp;amp; played by Jennifer Winget till the end of the show.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at a later point in the show, a new character was introduced, namely Shilpa Malhotra, played by Shilpa Anand to add a love triangle between Armaan &amp;amp; Riddhima.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The move to bring back Shilpa Anand &amp;amp; cast her into a different character was made to salvage falling TV ratings &amp;amp; bring back some loyal admirers of the said actress. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T07:15:46.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10175" CreationDate="2014-08-12T07:48:11.930" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My original assumption was that he actually teleported himself, leaving an after image (or clone) behind. As he realizes what happens, he tries to alert the clone as the clone shots him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others state it is a dual conscience thing, but I feel it is more then that... The clone realises he killed the original but must keep committing this horror to keep up the illusion to beat his competitor: the true price of &quot;the prestige&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty simple actually, especially if you remember the scene where they are arguing the man with the fish bowl at the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13226" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2014-08-12T08:17:59.277" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T08:17:59.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23810" CreationDate="2014-08-12T08:20:24.780" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no overarching &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; answer to this. I think there are a few reasons for it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For starters, it's fun. You've mentioned lots of directors in your question who have done it and it's likely they all got a pretty good kick out of it. Think Hitchcock's many roles or Tarantino in Reservoir Dogs, or Pulp Fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a tradition argument. Stan Lee, for example, has done it for so long now that it's expected and many fans get enjoyment out of &lt;em&gt;spotting&lt;/em&gt; him in each of his roles. The same applies to Hitchcock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the fun and tradition reasons, it's certainly plausible to suggest &lt;em&gt;because they can&lt;/em&gt;. Many directors don't have the fame or recognition for a cameo role to be significant. But if someone like Tarantino, Scorcese or Peter Jackson does it, it's instantly recognisable given their fame. This can be compared to other, less famous, directors who wouldn't be recognised. Therefore, it certainly carries that making cameos gives them airtime and keeps them recognisable in the public eye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are just a few of the reasons. I'm sure other arguments could be made, such as the fact it saves money (such as in the case of a longer role, e.g. Tarantino in Django), but it seems to be mostly about a mixture of fun and tradition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2014-08-12T17:34:29.413" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T17:34:29.413" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23803" CreationDate="2014-08-12T08:44:01.023" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR&lt;/strong&gt;: From Iron Man 3 onwards, at least, &lt;strong&gt;Illustrator, Cinema 4D and After Effects&lt;/strong&gt; were used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't find too much information about Iron Man 1 or 2, but in Iron Man 3 and beyond what you are referring to is the &lt;strong&gt;Heads Up Display&lt;/strong&gt;, created by 3D designer &lt;em&gt;Jayse Hansen&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From his &lt;a href=&quot;http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eg48YTpssxQJ:jayse.tv/v2/%3Fportfolio%3Dhud%20&amp;amp;cd=5&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;gl=uk&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; (which is offline at time of writing, but can be accessed via cache):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I basically put together a ‘HUD Bible’ that consisted of all the&#xA;  elements of the HUD, their purpose, each design iteration through the&#xA;  various suits, and how the new design was an upgrade in terms of use&#xA;  and function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;em&gt;bible&lt;/em&gt; was made up of picture after picture, like these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zx5dr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/thfh8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Explaining how these images were then transformed onto the screen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I designed each element in &lt;strong&gt;Illustrator, exported to a PSD and imported&#xA;  into After Effects for Animation. Some elements were designed in&#xA;  Cinema 4D&lt;/strong&gt; and also brought into After Effects for final color&#xA;  correction to Robert Downey Jr.’s face, interactive facial highlights&#xA;  and eye reflections. This was the first time the HUD was done in&#xA;  Stereo. The Mark VI was a bit flat in nature – allowing the Mark VII&#xA;  to come alive with dimension...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since working in stereo (3d) meant that everything was in focus and&#xA;  clearly readable, it was important that each part had a function –&#xA;  rather than just being random graphics thrown in without specific &#xA;  purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So using &lt;strong&gt;Illustrator, Cinema 4D and After Effects&lt;/strong&gt; allowed the last image, for example, to be transformed into this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xBlLY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a random trivia note, in an interview with &lt;a href=&quot;http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/06/02/jayse-hansen-on-creating-tools-the-avengers-use-to-fight-evil-touch-interfaces-and-project-glass/&quot;&gt;The Next Web&lt;/a&gt;, the creator admitted designing the HUD based on an input from an A-10 Fighter Pilot, to ensure it was fit for purpose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You said on your site that Iron Man’s Mark VII HUD was designed with&#xA;  input from an A-10 Fighter Pilot, is that something you like to do,&#xA;  take real-world experts and use them to inform your designs?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yeah, I really love the research process. Since film production&#xA;  timelines are so short, the best way is to find people who are already&#xA;  experts in a particular field and get their input. With the HUD I knew&#xA;  I had to understand a bit of how real HUDs worked in order to take&#xA;  them to the next level, so I used flight sims, space shuttle sims and&#xA;  read books on glass cockpit instrumentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But the most pertinent info came from a combat pilot himself, because&#xA;  I could ask him how he’d want his HUD to function in a very specific&#xA;  situation. It’s fascinating and something I’ll continue learning more&#xA;  about because I still can’t fly a real jet fighter. But maybe one day!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T08:44:01.023" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23588" CreationDate="2014-08-12T11:01:20.790" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ok so lets do this properly,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It Goes like this;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Neil's living expenses are paid by the FBI at the same amount it would cost to inprison him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do I have to stay here?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   It cost $700 a month to house you on the inside, so that's what it costs here.&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Series 1 - Episode 1&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As Chann3rz has stated, Neil has only been convicted of Bond forgery so all of his previous assets still exist although they don't make a big point of this, but there are many references to various jobs he has pulled.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A lot of his living expenses are covered by June, she seems to provide food, coffee and her wine cellar, at least in the first season.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In reality Confidential informants are usually paid by the FBI even when they are working off a sentence (although when working off a sentence they get considerably less) Just as in prison, prisoners are able to have jobs and earn money and much lower wages. Some CIs earn as much as 25% of the amount seized and considering the kind of work the white collar devision do that could account for a lot of money - although this is just speculation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/how-much-do-federal-confidential-informants-get-pa-842867.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not more than 25% of the money or appraised value of non-liquidated assets; however, the compensation shall not exceed $250,000.00 in any case. (19 USC Section 1619(a) and (b).) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spoiler&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; - As of season 4 onwards Neil has a significant amount of money due to the Nazi treasure he stole which has not been mentioned of anything being seized by the FBI and considering that Mozzy controlled much of this money, so he could easily have used this to buy the &quot;Finer things in life&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11589" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T11:01:20.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23796" CreationDate="2014-08-12T11:32:35.877" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, he liked all of the food in &quot;Momma Cherrie's Soul Food Shack&quot; way back then in Britain, for example. He even praised it for being so tender.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/m1WYbDYGEAI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was also an episode of the US version where Gordon liked a carrot cake and praised it. Heck, even in the most notorious episode with &quot;Amy's Baking Company&quot;, he liked the cakes, but dissed the rest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course he likes some food now and then, but this footage is unlikely to be shown at all, since his series lives upon that fact that he rambles on food, but not him loving it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And rest assured before they film there, they take a closer look at the restaurant and are likely to know which food there sucks so he can order it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13231" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-08-12T13:02:03.797" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T13:02:03.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23802" CreationDate="2014-08-12T13:55:40.180" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2012 movie is based on the 2004 &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_%28novel%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; by David Mitchell. So I am trying to interpret the whole story from the book's point. perhaps if somebody asked, what is the theme of the movie or the book, it would fall in same context as your question. Book's author has said the following about the book&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Literally all of the main characters, except one, are reincarnations&#xA;  of the same soul in different bodies throughout the novel identified&#xA;  by a birthmark...that's just a symbol really of the universality of&#xA;  human nature. The title itself &quot;Cloud Atlas,&quot; the cloud refers to the&#xA;  ever changing manifestations of the Atlas, which is the fixed human&#xA;  nature which is always thus and ever shall be. So the book's theme is&#xA;  predacity, the way individuals prey on individuals, groups on groups,&#xA;  nations on nations, tribes on tribes. So I just take this theme and in&#xA;  a sense reincarnate that theme in another context..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this answers your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T13:55:40.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15887" CreationDate="2014-08-12T14:43:02.387" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the famous movie entitled &quot;Seven Samurai&quot;, using dead warriors' weapons is a big huge taboo. Presumably Beatrix is not using her dead enemies' weapons, because she is following samurai code of honor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T14:43:02.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19821" CreationDate="2014-08-12T15:03:43.310" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Amanda Tanner was a former White house intern who had an affair with President Grant (see her profile here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://scandal.wikia.com/wiki/Amanda_Tanner&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://scandal.wikia.com/wiki/Amanda_Tanner&lt;/a&gt;) she claims that she Is carrying his child.  Unfortunately Gideon Wallace (His profile here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://scandal.wikia.com/wiki/Gideon_Wallace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://scandal.wikia.com/wiki/Gideon_Wallace&lt;/a&gt;) a reporter for the DC Sun begins looking into her relationship with President Grant and is kept at bay by Olivia Pope after she offers him a breaking story.  As Cyrus is willing to do anything to keep this a secret (as he helped orchestrate the rigging of the votes in Defiance – Episode entitled Molly, you in danger, girl) and also keep Grant in power he hires Charlie who Is a former CIA agent B613 Operative (Here is his profile: &lt;a href=&quot;http://scandal.wikia.com/wiki/Charlie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://scandal.wikia.com/wiki/Charlie&lt;/a&gt;) to kill her and the with it the scandal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Olivia: How did we get like this? When did we stop being people?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Cyrus: Were we ever people? Or did serving at the pleasure of the President just help us to shed our pesky skins and unmask us as the monsters we really are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13016" LastEditorUserId="13016" LastEditDate="2014-08-12T18:00:06.113" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T18:00:06.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2014-08-12T15:14:59.343" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Wiki page seems to have quite a bit of detail on this &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Double_(2013_film)&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; and as it is based on the novella &lt;em&gt;The Double&lt;/em&gt; by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and adapted by Richard Ayoade there is a good chance that just like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_(2010_film)&quot;&gt;Submarine (2010)&lt;/a&gt; it may be a little &quot;out there&quot;. There is also an interview he did on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2014/apr/03/richard-ayoade-the-double-video-interview&quot;&gt;Guardian website&lt;/a&gt; that might shed a little light on his ideas. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Richard makes a point that Simon’s concerns over his doppelgänger do not seem to concern others and that is an unusual that they are not bothered.  The comedy is that his concern is of no bother to anyone else.  He makes a point that &quot;Darth Vader is in all of us and I remember that every time I shower&quot; which he makes a reference to how people feel about ghost stories and that they can either be the literal (as in there may be a vampire) or the psychological (that there could be vampire like tendencies that are within us) that can be attributed to how Simon sees the doppelgänger and is almost the thoughts and actions of what James would not feel or believe that he can do/say. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Simon: I don't know how to be myself. It's like I'm permanently outside myself. Like, like you could push your hands straight through me if you wanted to. And I can see the type of man I want to be versus the type of man I actually am and I know that I'm doing it but I'm incapable of what needs to be done. I'm like Pinocchio, a wooden boy. Not a real boy. And it kills me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting it simply, the movie is shot through the mind of Simon.  He sees James as the man he wants to be as he does and says things that he wishes he could.  James only exists in his mind, where we see two people in the movie is where his condition shows through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Simon: I'll just have a...Coke and a bagel.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Waitress: We're out of bagels.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Simon: oh. Right, then, um... Right. Then i'll just...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Waitress: Come on.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Simon: right, sorry, i just... I'll just... I can just have The coke then, i guess.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Waitress: A coke. And you?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  James: A coffee.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Waitress: A coffee.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  James: and scrambled eggs.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Waitress: we don't serve breakfast in the evening.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  James: Why not?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Waitress: Because it Says so on the menu.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  James: Well, do you still Have eggs here?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Waitress: yeah.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  James: And do you have a frying pan?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Waitress: yeah.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  James: Then do me a favor and make me some scrambled eggs.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this exchange Simon then explains his reaction to the way James spoke to the Waitress and James responds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Simon: no, it's just... I don't know, i would Have never done that.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  James: You don't like eggs?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Simon: no, i mean, i just... Don't think i would feel comfortable Talking to someone like that.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  James: She's a waitress. She's here to serve us. If you don't tell her what you Actually want, how can she do her job?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Simon: No, i can see that... She can Be a little short sometimes, And i do think&#xA;  being forthright Certainly has its place. And i'm not, like, criticizing Your behavior or anything.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13016" LastEditorUserId="13016" LastEditDate="2014-08-13T09:58:51.137" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T09:58:51.137" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2014-08-12T15:37:28.860" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;James does not really exist.  As someone mentioned in the comments, this movie is very much a &quot;Fight Club&quot;-type movie, where the main character develops a split personality.  If you notice, in the beginning of the movie he sort of slowly comes unglued through interaction with people, including the nursing home where someone says something about him not being right in the head or something.  One clear indication is the names of the characters and their symbolism; Simon James and James Simon.  Each name is a complete reverse, much like their personalities.  Simon James is somewhat meek and unassuming, whereas James Simon is very outward and confident.  It's the whole Yin-Yang thing with the characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for explaining the movie or the plot, I'm not sure I can do that.  I'd have to watch it again to figure that part out, I was just trying to figure out the characters when I watched it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T15:37:28.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23804" CreationDate="2014-08-12T17:37:34.857" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; (2009)&lt;/a&gt;, Spock, who was originally played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000559/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Leonard Nimoy&lt;/a&gt; was re-cast and played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0704270/?ref_=tt_cl_t2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Zachary Quinto&lt;/a&gt;, but Nimoy returned to play &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0001439/?ref_=tt_cl_t3&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Prime Spock&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that count?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T17:37:34.857" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23828" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23839" CreationDate="2014-08-12T17:59:20.377" Score="17" ViewCount="2227" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2014 movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2015381/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot;&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/a&gt;, Groot is able to be regrown after being completely destroyed. Why couldn't the Guardians of the Galaxy members just plant a hundred Groots from his sprouts and build an army? Is there any explanation about his regeneration abilities in the comics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3570" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T12:33:21.973" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T19:57:35.673" Title="Could the Guardians Of The Galaxy Build An Army of Groots?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23804" CreationDate="2014-08-12T18:07:39.670" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058796/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Days of Our Lives&lt;/a&gt;, the character of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0033192/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Roman Brady&lt;/a&gt; was originally played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0636127/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wayne Northrop&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The character was re-cast and played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0389693/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Drake Hogestyn&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Northrop then returned as Roman and left again.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The character was again re-cast and played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0852670/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Josh Taylor&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Finally, Northrop returned as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0177124/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dr. Alex North&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8243" LastEditorUserId="8243" LastEditDate="2016-04-20T15:08:21.047" LastActivityDate="2016-04-20T15:08:21.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23830" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23851" CreationDate="2014-08-12T19:06:47.630" Score="11" ViewCount="2226" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; Lydia strikes me as a very risk-averse person. Besides, she is apparently a mother of a little daughter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since she holds a position in the management of a large multinational corporation, presumably she is not desperate to earn money by any means - she should have a comfortable and legal income already. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would she want to work with Gus Fring at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T00:45:57.663" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T00:45:57.663" Title="Why would Lydia engage in Gus's criminal activities at all?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23830" CreationDate="2014-08-12T19:29:53.287" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think Lydia was risk-averse. Yes, she &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; very paranoid and high strung, but she wasn't above taking risks. She just made sure that the risks she took were calculated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see this trait in action after Gus is killed and eleven of his men are arrested. Naturally, she's afraid these eleven will eventually implicate her. So she asks Mike to assassinate the eleven to keep her safe. An idea that Mike refuses to comply with. But she had already taken this possibility into account, and had contracted &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; assassin to kill not only the eleven, but Mike as well. Both her plans ultimately failed, but it shows us how Lydia isn't afraid of taking risks as long as she hedges her bets accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Money-wise, I'm fairly certain that whatever money she pulled from being an executive in Madrigal (and not a highly ranking one it would seem) pales next to what she pulled from being a European drugs distributor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T19:29:53.287" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23828" CreationDate="2014-08-12T22:16:45.910" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the Guardians can make an army of Groots for two reasons (both from the comics):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Groot has been destroyed and regrown at least three times. Each time only one Groot is regrown from a sapling, so it appears that his mind can only inhabit one body.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Groot is believed to be the last of his race in the Marvel Universe. If he were able to reproduce, it stands to reason that he probably would.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said, these are both from the Marvel &lt;em&gt;comics&lt;/em&gt; universe, so it doesn't necessarily hold for the films. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yondu&quot;&gt;Yondu&lt;/a&gt; is one character that has already been almost completely re-imagined for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so there's no reason they can't make a few alterations to other characters as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T22:16:45.910" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23837" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23838" CreationDate="2014-08-12T22:27:01.530" Score="8" ViewCount="4721" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I am dying to find out about the movie title once again but i believe I mixed up some details from similar movies, but here it goes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is a few years old I would guess not older than 2005. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a thriller/horror film &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main character is around 18 years old and a male, He got grounded from school (for punching teacher in face?) And he would spend most of his time in his room playing videogames mostly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These next details might be a little wrong but this is how I remember them, will be very short. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*One day he gets a new neighbor around the same age as he is, and becomes interested, they started to hang out, I guess she is new in town. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Main character gets a telescope one day as a gift so he can do something useful while just sitting around in the room. He uses it check out the neighbors and what not. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One late night he sees his other neigbor (Male about 50, living alone) dragging a bag what looks like to be a human body in there. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*So the main character and the girl next door decides to check it out and break into his garage but only to find out it was a deer roadkill. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*he keeps spying on this one neighbor since he seems suspicious and actually witnesses him killing another female in his home what looked to be a hooker. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;End up that he actually is a seriálkiller and has a lot of dead bodies in his basement hidden. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am really sorry If I am not making sense but I hope someone can help me out here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13240" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-08-12T22:36:32.197" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T17:59:49.110" Title="Kid spies on neighbour who might be a serial killer" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:16:11.767" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23837" CreationDate="2014-08-12T22:30:36.510" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disturbia_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Disturbia&lt;/a&gt; from 2007:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;17-year-old high school student Kale Brecht (Shia LaBeouf) is sued by his teacher for aggravated assault [...] He is secured with an ankle monitor and allowed only 100 feet from his house. After Kale's mother, Julie (Carrie-Anne Moss), cuts him off from television, video games and music to keep costs down and to get him to be more creative around the house, Kale begins to develop cabin fever and starts spying on his neighbors, including Robert Turner (David Morse), a man who is having an affair with his cleaning maid, the boys next door who occasionally play pranks on Kale, and the new neighbor, Ashley Carlson (Sarah Roemer) [...] Kale and Ronnie begin to research Turner after Kale witnesses several strange occurrences at Turner's house and thinks Turner might be a serial killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first they find a bloody bag, but it turns out to be a dead deer. The film eventually ends in the way you've described (he finds a lot of dead bodies). Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/5GHz3C5coSI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-08-13T17:59:49.110" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T17:59:49.110" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23828" CreationDate="2014-08-12T22:35:29.833" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Comics are relatively ambiguous about this, as so far there has never been a depicted attempt to grow multiple Groots. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comics, however, Groot is depicted as occupying a consciousness as long as a part of him remains, and it is inferred &lt;em&gt;cultivated&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w2eS4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cWOFG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U83jN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an earlier issue, on another occasion when Groot is disassembled, Rocket is shown tending to the sapling. We can infer from this perhaps that Groots consciousness is possibly of a nebulous nature, but he can only inhabit a form of his body that meets a certain threshold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of this is explicitly confirmed, only inferred through the narrative of the more recent run of comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's necessary to bear in mind that the Marvel Universe explicitly embraces all aspects of mysticism and 'magic' (read Chris Claremonts run of &lt;em&gt;Dr Strange&lt;/em&gt; if you're doubtful of the validity of such an aspect of Groot's consciousness), so this is by no means far fetched or in any way outlandish a claim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marvel has long ceased bothered elaborating on the more mystical elements of its characters in favour of engaging narratives that assume a certain level of acceptance from its readers; as opposed to validating and cataloging every aspect of its scientific lore or plausibility, as the Silver age comics were prone to...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify: there's no overt explanation for the exact nature of Groot's re-incarnative abilities as he is a character that has been elaborated on in the Post-Dark age of comics, where the sustained Marvel Style is more of playfulness and less of cumbersome fidelity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-08-12T22:35:29.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23840" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23841" CreationDate="2014-08-13T01:15:53.207" Score="4" ViewCount="2690" Body="&lt;p&gt;Four and a half years after the massacre in El Paso, the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad does not operate any more. Its members no longer work together. I understand that Bill and his brother had a falling out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently other team members are at least on speaking terms. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened? Why did their team fall apart?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T05:45:30.950" Title="Why did Deadly Viper Assassination Squad stop operating?" Tags="|plot-explanation|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23840" CreationDate="2014-08-13T07:04:44.750" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess the answer to it is that &quot;Viper Assassination Squad&quot; went through a disbandment.&#xA;Beatrix was killed by the squad, Bill and Bud have a fallout, O-ren-ishi always had a long term plan of establishing herself in the Tokyo underworld, so she pursues that and Bill approves if it because we know that Bill helped her in that. So in this way, one by one the members leave due to one reason or the other and the squad is dibanded. This leads to squad stop operating. I mean I am trying to relate the whole thing like it happens with the bands (music) when one or more members leave, it eventually leads to the band stop performing at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T07:04:44.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23830" CreationDate="2014-08-13T07:18:16.117" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you are talking of a very idealistic situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;she should have a comfortable and legal income already&quot;, so why do&#xA;  bad things to make more money ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, then the same thing can be said about Gus too, he has a restaurant chain which gives him enough white money. Walt too makes way beyond his initial target, but keeps trying for more. Let's just say for these folks the figure is never enough. So we can rule out the monetary needs of Lydia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, talking about Lydia's daughter, may be she is the reason why she is taking these enormous risks, because she wants to make enough money for her daughter. Walt also suffers with similar syndrome. They want to secure the future of their kids. Same is true for Mike who was saving for her grand daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lydia might act nervous most of the time, but she is indeed evil. I remember a scene where Mike decides to kill her and Walt protests, to which Mike says &lt;code&gt;Trust me Walt, this woman is better dead&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in my opinion Lydia was an evil, money hungry lady and that is why she was associated with Gus. And she just acts nervous all the time but she is definitely not risk-averse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T07:18:16.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23843" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23844" CreationDate="2014-08-13T08:06:09.140" Score="56" ViewCount="12044" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Dark Knight Rises there is a scene where batman and Catwoman are on the roof, Catwoman disappears and leaves Batman on his own he then says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So that's what that feels like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is knowing he is alone (which he does) why doesn't Bruce just speak normally instead of using the gruffled bat/Scooby-Doo voice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11589" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-08-13T16:51:08.460" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T09:52:11.310" Title="Why does Batman talk to himself in the batvoice?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23843" CreationDate="2014-08-13T08:18:06.777" Score="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Despite &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOg3ZE3hNQc&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;frequently being ridiculed&lt;/a&gt;, according to the (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www2.warnerbros.com/batmanbegins/productionnotes/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;now made unavailable&lt;/a&gt;) production notes for Batman Begins; Wayne is &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/story-behind-christian-bale-batman-voice-204245868.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;incapable of speaking without the Bat-voice&lt;/a&gt; when he is wearing his Cowl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to original drafts for the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;High-gain stereo microphones are concealed in the ears, allowing Batman to eavesdrop on distant conversations,&quot; the notes describe. The mikes can also amplify Batman's voice and broadcast it through a discreet speaker in the suit, giving his voice that distinctively gruff, disembodied sound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While the original script included a scene that went over these&#xA;  Bat-details, mentions of Batman's embedded vocal distorter wound up&#xA;  being cut from the final film. (Still, the Batsuit's tiny speakers&#xA;  remained visible upon close inspection.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4DPFO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In discussing how he realized the mindset of Batman, Bale notes that his Batvoice contributed to him winning the role:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I got there. They put me in Val Kilmer's suit. It didn't even fit properly, and I stood in it and I went 'I feel like an idiot.' What kind of guy walks around, dressed like a bat? And is then going to go 'Hello, how are you? Just ignore that I'm dressed as a bat.' Of course, he's meant to be doing this. If you look at the history of the guy and the pain that he went through. I went 'I can't do this in a normal voice. I have to become a beast in order to sell this to myself.'&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst he isn't exactly 'going method' for the role of Batman, Bale indicates that for the character of Wayne, putting on the Batsuit is assuming a certain persona, as opposed to merely wearing a disguise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to sustain the mindset of 'the beast', its plausible that when he dons the suit &lt;strong&gt;he becomes Batman&lt;/strong&gt;, and this is a psychological state of which he is unwilling or unable to simply 'switch off', voice included. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: 'The microphone built into the suit' aspect of Batman's voice has since been validated by it's onscreen inclusion in &lt;em&gt;Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2016-04-21T09:52:11.310" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T09:52:11.310" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23802" CreationDate="2014-08-13T08:28:03.457" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you just look at the movie -- ignoring or forgetting that it was based on a novel -- then there is a very clear theme that ties between all the stories and characters, and it is presented quite eloquently in one of the final scenes by Jim Sturgess as Adam Ewing, when he stands in front of his monstrous father and is attacked with a series of rhetorical questions, ending with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No matter what you do it will never amount to anything more than a single drop in a limitless ocean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and he chooses to actually respond, to stand up against his father, and says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What is an ocean but a multitude of drops?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the vaguest sense, that is the entirety of the true plot and purpose of the film. The notion that while an individual's life may seem so tiny, so insignificant, and so ineffectual, it is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Great, large, grand things are nothing more than vast collections of the smallest bits of our universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while each component -- every single atom, every single drop -- may not be crucial to the whole, they do (only together) make up its entirety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you take away one drop from the ocean, you won't notice. But if you take another, and another, and you start taking away more and more, you'll eventually end up with nothing. So if they can be taken away and matter, then they can also be built up and matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jim Sturgess's character's father, portrayed by the consistent antagonist of Hugo Weaving, was trying to tell his son that the entirety of human history is against him, and if he doesn't follow suit then he's doing nothing but throwing away his life, because as a single individual he doesn't have the power to make any difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in Jim Sturgess's response, he so simply and eloquently presents the rationale that he does matter, he has to matter, because how do things become the norm, how do they set a standard, if not by individuals deciding to do so. He was standing up against racism and classism and the other constant theme of oppression. He didn't end anything, but as long as he remained committed, he would be a drop in a new ocean that would bring about change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So following along that theme, we see the roles the other characters play -- some consistent, and others evolving. But they all are tied by this same theme: an individual is necessary to bring about change, because a revolution is but a collection of individuals and their choices/actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Racism and sexism and oppression and hatred and violence won't end through a vote, or a law, or a book, or a movie, or a poster, or a pill. They'll be eradicated if we the individuals choose to eradicate the disrespect and the inequality from our lives, in all our thoughts and actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Always in all ways.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we speak and teach equality and respect, then we need to live and act it, or else it won't last. Many of the characters show this waffling and weakness or timidity, not committing to truth and finding themselves lost, ignored or oppressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The characters:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tom Hanks' character represents the extreme of evil, who tends towards goodness (the best middle). He starts out horrible but slowly starts to learn and find his potential and ultimately succeeds to escape temptation and raise himself up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Halle Berry represents a character at the extreme of ignorance (not a failing, but simply lacking) who pulls herself up towards goodness (the best middle) through action and curiosity. She is the duality of Tom Hanks, and why they end up together, dovetailing. They represent the notion that even if we start out wrong, or even if we start out entirely unaware, we can bring ourselves to a good and better place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jim Sturgess starts and ends the linear narrative of film as the revolutionary and perfect goodness (the peak), exalting up from ignorance and away from evil, and as such his role throughout the rest of time is that of guide and moral example of goodness. He guides his daughter to pass along her uncle (Sixsmith)'s story, he guides Sonmi-451 to be the revolutionary goddess, and he shows his brother-in-law Zachry strength of character by sacrificing himself and not revealing where he was hiding. He is the antithesis of the evil of Hugo Weaving (see below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ben Whishaw represents the failure of growth out of ignorance and weakness (Cabin Boy) into the opportunity for goodness and hardwork (the gifted composer), but then commits acts of rage, and cowardice, and violence. And for the rest of time he is relegated into the background and is too timid to step forward and grow and evolve to a better self. This is the notion of taking failure too intensely, and never moving beyond a mistake to make yourself better. &quot;It's only a mistake if you make it twice.&quot;, but he never learns this, he failed once and never tries again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jim Broadbent represents the notion of alpha leadership and luck, a kind of assumed respect. He slowly falls from grace in each time period until he is a comical fool trapped in the nursing home and outwitted by his brother. Even though he eventually escapes and does &quot;good&quot;, he ends up a background musician and then ultimately a member of the upper-class post-earth humanity. He doesn't regain power or command, but simply shows that he is always born into a position of a bit of luck. He could do good or bad, but he never really does anything with it. He represents people that are gifted with opportunity or talent (musician) and if you don't really do any true good with it, you never become more. You can seem ok, you can luck out (the &quot;luck&quot; of the older, tall, white male), but you haven't really earned anything and you're not really safe from oppression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doona Bae represents timidity, and much like Jim Broadbent, the acceptance of whatever is handed to you. It is only by Jim Sturgess that she is guided to greatness, and I see this not as a role of male-leading-female in some passive misogyny, but the genderless role of teacher guiding the student. She is the show of the potential of a student. Sonmi represents the hope that you are capable to start a revolution as an individual (even from a place of being a &quot;faceless&quot; carbon copy), and while you may not be a deity, you can affect change. On her own though, as the woman speaking Spanish/Mexican, she is relegated to simply maintaining the &lt;em&gt;status quo&lt;/em&gt;. She doesn't ruin anything in 1973, but she doesn't make it any better. Yet with guidance, with teaching, she is a revolutionary. She is the hope for our standard, average selves. But also, she's made into a deity and she leads to ignorance and lack of self-sufficiency in the people of Zachry's tribe. So she is a warning about rising to greatness without a foundation. If you need to be dragged into it, then you aren't capable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James D'Arcy is the supporter. He observes and is close to the &quot;action&quot; and he tells stories. He ends up, very aptly, in the end as the &quot;Archivist&quot;. He represents the notion of the muse and librarian, the historian, keeping lessons alive by recording them in some manner and passing them along in stories or books or notes or messages. He represents the notion of that connective &quot;tissue&quot; between individuals, the viscosity for the drops to take hold of one another and form an ocean. He is the duality of pure leadership (Keith David), he is pure support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keith David represents the notion of strength and honor. Like Broadbent, he's gifted with abilities that he didn't create (strength and charisma and calm), but unlike Broadbent he seeks to make life better. He represents the charging forward passion of leadership. Trying to overcompensate for a lack thinking he's any better off than where he is. As the duality to James D'Arcy he represents the passion and strength, that if it were combined with the support and care and mindfulness of D'Arcy, he'd become the best kind of goodness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hugh Grant represents the dangerous extreme branching off from a similar place as Ben Wishaw. He similarly starts as the Reverend mostly relegated to the background. He's in a role of authority and spiritual integrity, but he doesn't really stand for what he should. And he seems mostly overwhelmed by ignorance, but he takes this and runs with it with a voice of authority. He slowly ends up more and more corrupt and deceptive, until he becomes this fully cannibalistic, &quot;demonic&quot; person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Susan Sarandon represents the persistence of ignorance and acceptance. She starts as Hugh Grant's wife, clearly passive to his lack of moral fortitude, and then she ends as a blindly devout worshipper of Sonmi-451, ignorant of her non-deity and unable to really guide or help Zachry in a meaningful way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And lastly Hugo Weaving represents the persistence of pure evil, always tempting and corrupting and maintaining the notion of a &lt;em&gt;status quo&lt;/em&gt; that is truly a downfall and destruction and a failure. In the final time period he is a mystical figure, a green apparition to be a reminder of the biblical serpent, deceptive and cynical. He creates and exalts a &quot;normality&quot; that is far below our natural capacity for goodness and respect. He mocks and derides any attempts at being the true goodness that we are and should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, again, the connective thread is goodness, respect, and revolution against passive acceptance of oppression and hatred and violence. All of the characters represent the travels towards and away from this goal, and the dualistic nature of the many paths, and how if you are or are not committed, your contribution will vary. An ocean truly is just a multitude of drops, but they are all drops of water. Individuals can affect change, but with a common goal. And the overwhelming representation here is that goodness and respect should and must be that goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user12701" LastEditorDisplayName="user12701" LastEditDate="2014-08-13T10:57:42.393" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T10:57:42.393" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2014-08-13T10:01:40.057" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film is clearly ambiguous never really giving you a complete answer to the question is James real. It seems heavily sided that he isn't real but with no conclusive evidence, here is what i found to try and make the plot and the final situation a little bit simpler to understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plot&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eisenberg plays Simon, a timid, isolated man who's overlooked at work,&#xA;  scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams&#xA;  (Wasikowska). The arrival of a new co-worker, James (also played by&#xA;  Eisenberg), serves to upset the balance. James is both Simon's exact&#xA;  physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and good&#xA;  with women. To Simon's horror, James slowly starts taking over his&#xA;  life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing as how the film is based on the book by Dostoyevsky i think the best reference point is to start with analysising how that book was interpreted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Major trend in scholarship is that many have said that Golyadkin(Simon) simply goes insane, probably with schizophrenia. This view is supported by much of the text, particularly Golyadkin's innumerable hallucinations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is although never confirmed in the book but Richard Ayoade could have turned this. Unlike Fight Club bost formats do not give a major hint to this, so there is no simple way to decide, both sources have given the viewer/reader their own opinion and let them make the decision, although the general consenses is that the main character goes mad and he has both personalities, i think the fact in the film the character is called &quot;Simon James&quot; backs this opinion up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; At the end of the novel the main character actually ends up going to a mental asylum which also strongly leads to the belief that James is not real and just a figment of Simon's imagination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Double_(Dostoyevsky_novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11589" LastEditorUserId="11589" LastEditDate="2014-08-14T08:27:32.320" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T08:27:32.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23847" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-13T10:31:54.653" Score="14" ViewCount="5043" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it ever stated in any of the films or in the animatrix why Morpheus persued and was certain that Neo was the one before even meeting him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He seemed to have made his decision that Neo was the One before setting him free but why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering Neo's life before being introduced - He had a simple job, okay he was also a hacker (but who isn't nowadays), they never show him with any high moral standing or physical attributes, so why him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please use evidence from source material and not simply speculation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11589" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2015-02-26T09:16:36.340" LastActivityDate="2015-02-26T09:16:36.340" Title="Why does Morpheus believe Neo is the One" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23847" CreationDate="2014-08-13T10:57:12.780" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Original Movie script (post adaptation) sheds some light on this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I believed that all I had to do was&#xA;  point my finger and anoint whoever&#xA;  I chose. I was wrong, Neo.&#xA;  Terribly wrong. Not a day or night&#xA;  passes that I do not think of them.&#xA;  After the fifth, I lost my way. I&#xA;  doubted everything the Oracle had&#xA;  said. I doubted myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And then I saw you, on the Net, searching for me and everything&#xA;  changed. I felt this charge, this electricity through my whole body. I&#xA;  started laughing and tears poured out of my eyes, because I knew, I&#xA;  knew that you were the One.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you allude to in the phrasing of your question, Morpheus &lt;em&gt;doesn't know&lt;/em&gt; who the one is, but he &lt;strong&gt;believes&lt;/strong&gt; it to be Neo; and for Morpheus, belief is everything. It can move Mountains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, Neo is not the first 'One' that Morpheus has discovered, and there have been at least 5 other candidates of his selection:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CYPHER&lt;/strong&gt; I'm going to let you in on a little secret here. Now don't tell&#xA;  him I told you this, but this ain't the first time Morpheus thought he&#xA;  found the One.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NEO&lt;/strong&gt; Really?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CYPHER&lt;/strong&gt; You bet your ass. It keeps him going. Maybe it keeps all of us&#xA;  going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NEO&lt;/strong&gt; How many were there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CYPHER&lt;/strong&gt; Five. Since I've been here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NEO&lt;/strong&gt; What happened to them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CYPHER&lt;/strong&gt; Dead. All dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NEO&lt;/strong&gt; How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CYPHER&lt;/strong&gt; Honestly. Morpheus. He got them all amped up believing in&#xA;  bullshit. I watched each of them take on an agent and I watched each&#xA;  of them die. Little piece of advice: you see an agent, you do what we&#xA;  do; run. Run your ass off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that Morpheus method of choice for initiating potential candidates is to remove the possibility of doubt that they may not be the one, and supplant it with absolute faith. Perhaps, as is proven to be true, The One cannot manifest their true potential unless they undergo 'a revelation', and this is only possible without doubt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This blind faith could perhaps be a subterfuge by Morpheus to encourage The One, which would go some way to explaining why he appears shocked, dumbfounded even, when it emerges that Neo is infact The One.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T10:57:12.780" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23778" CreationDate="2014-08-13T11:02:01.093" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;lets go through one by one&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shephard&lt;/strong&gt; - The main character in mass effect is not named after firefly but instead named after Alan Shepard who was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, flag officer, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and businessman, who in 1961 became the second person and the first American to travel into space.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This is well documented across the internet and more can be found on the mass effect wiki.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reapers vs Reavers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Mass effect&lt;/em&gt; - The Reapers are a highly-advanced machine race of synthetic-organic starships. The Reapers reside in dark space: the vast, mostly starless space between galaxies. They hibernate there, dormant for fifty thousand years at a time, before returning to the galaxy.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The idea of a terrifying and incomprehensible alien intelligence waiting in the depths of space is a feature of Lovecraftian horror. This similarity is emphasized by one of the recordings by the survey team aboard the derelict Reaper which spoke of how &quot;even dead gods can dream.&quot; This is a clear homage to Cthulhu, as &quot;In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt; - Reavers are a fictional group of humans in the television series Firefly and movie Serenity who live on the fringes of civilized space and have become animalistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I See NO similarity between these two and the name reaper is clearly taken from reaping which is what that race did.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The lead in both is captain of the ship, good with a gun and has a keen moral compass (in Mass Effect the player can influence morality).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply this is the premise of many stories - you have a leader, who has a skill and they are usually good. I think this would be a real stretch.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Alliance&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;In Mass effect they are the complete opposite to in firefly, as in mass effect they are on the side of good. Alliance is just a standard term used to describe many groups with a single goal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;River &amp;amp; Jack&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is at least quite close but fundamentally this comes down to the two characters having completely different personalities.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;River-&lt;/em&gt; She has been portrayed and described consistently as having always had both a strong thirst for knowledge and a love for and intuitive grasp of dance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think anyone that has played mass effect would agree Jack is the polar opposite not to mention the gifts in question are somewhat different.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on this i think it is pretty clear that the stories and characters are not related and this could probably be done with any two franchises if you look hard enough. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will probably find more relations between mass effect and Star Trek seeing as how the captains are similar and even some of the races have similar characteristics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11589" LastEditorUserId="11589" LastEditDate="2014-08-13T12:08:54.963" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T12:08:54.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23850" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23852" CreationDate="2014-08-13T11:16:28.640" Score="6" ViewCount="7378" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apocalypse Now ends with Col. Kurtz's words &quot;The Horror, the horror&quot;.&#xA;Capt. Willard is also seen saying during the end of the movie &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They will make me Major after this but I am not even in their Army anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These things and the overall tone of the movie suggests that it is an anti-war film.&#xA;Wikipedia mentions a Marine named Anthony Swofford recounted how his platoon watched Apocalypse Now before being sent to Iraq in 1990 in order to get excited for war. Similar stuff is shown in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarhead_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jarhead&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Apocalypse Now, an anti-War film or a pro-War film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-08-07T21:39:08.240" LastActivityDate="2018-08-07T21:39:08.240" Title="Is Apocalypse Now, an anti-War film or a pro-War film?" Tags="|analysis|apocalypse-now|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="23851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23830" CreationDate="2014-08-13T11:25:14.920" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the other answers are both partially correct, but what seems to be missing from them is a discussion of the narrative device that she inhabits within the overarching story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt's journey (descent from morality) begins with desperation. He truly convinced himself that he was doing this to save his family from financial ruin, especially with the new daughter on the way. And so originally, his &quot;Mom and Pop&quot; operation with Jesse was just that, it was about family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then they have to deal with Jesse's competitors and former friends, and it becomes about turf and pride and &quot;playing the part&quot; of a drug dealer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the seasons go on, Walt becomes closer and closer to the reality of mass-market narcotics production. Busting a dealer on the street is an easy get, it's like a parking ticket -- it's a cash grab, it makes it seem like at least something is getting done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reality is that a massive international cabal or cartel of drug production, trafficking, and distribution is where the real consistent amount of money would be, and it's really the heart of the problem with the illegal industry of narcotics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because it's illegal, that doesn't mean it's not an industry, that just means a it's more dangerous to be a part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the narrative that Walt travels along as he becomes Heisenberg and ultimate seeks his own cartel-like Gus Fring status. And he believes he's even greater because he's not just the business man, he's not just the boss man, but he's the creative genius as well. He believes he's capable of everything and anything, and in many ways he is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So along this narrative, Lydia (with her anxiety) plays the role of the pencil-pusher, the corporate &quot;stooge&quot; who's concerned about the &quot;bottom line&quot; and making sure they end the fiscal quarter &quot;in the black&quot;. Her nervousness isn't about an unwillingness to commit crimes or to act on immoral impulses or decisions (like the other answers show, she does that unhesitantly and often pre-planned). It's a nervousness of doing good business and not getting caught.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She's the drug kingpin version of Gary Cole from &quot;Office Space&quot;. Instead of TPS reports, she worries about DEA reports.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not that she's working with Gus Fring for any special or accidental reason, she's working with him because he's the best. He was a pillar of the community and he was the only true competition to the cartel. He treated it like a business, just as she does. It's not that her nervousness and anxieties don't fit for the character or her choices, it's that because of her situation, because of her choices, she is rationally and rightfully nervous. She's making tons of money, but in a monumentally risky way. Life ending (or worse) risks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the narrative context of the television show as art/literature as a well as entertainment, she's a bit of a natural progression to the American industrialization of everything good, bad, and in-between. So in that way she's also a bit of a satire. Instead of the &quot;Wolf of Wall Street&quot;-style unchecked confidence, she's committing massive crimes that she doesn't know if she can get away with them. And we're introduced to her most prevalently &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; Gus is blown in half and everything has happened with the cartel, which she undoubtedly knew all about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's every reason to be nervous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user12701" LastEditorDisplayName="user12701" LastEditDate="2014-08-13T18:58:44.870" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T18:58:44.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23850" CreationDate="2014-08-13T11:38:32.717" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is going to be subjective at best, because (as you've pointed out) any movie can be interpreted any number of ways in order to facilitate a certain goal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fahrenheit 9-11&lt;/em&gt; features an interview with a serving US Soldier who states that, in homage to the film, their tank division plays loud music at the enemy as a way of intimidating them. The song he claims most effective is Drowning Pool's &lt;em&gt;The Roof is on Fire&lt;/em&gt;: but it's impossible to prove from this that Drowning Pool in any way intended for their music to be 'pro-war', its all about context and how the text is dispensed. The song used in this video is the Bloodhound Gang Cover...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/KYch489QJi8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's true that the 'Charlie don't surf' sequence is frequently cited as a emotionally-inciting sequence by service personnel, largely due to its depiction of unopposed, effective military aggression:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/paBrRm_mYZA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on whether you'd rather hear the &lt;em&gt;intention&lt;/em&gt; of the movie, director Francis Ford Coppola is fairly certain he has made a politically neutral film in this respect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I feel any artist making a film about war by necessity will make an&#xA;  'anti-war' film and all war films are usually that. My film is more of&#xA;  an 'anti-lie' film, in that the fact that a culture can lie about&#xA;  what's really going on in warfare - that people are being brutalised,&#xA;  tortured, maimed and killed - and somehow present this as moral is&#xA;  what horrifies me, and perpetuates the possibility of war.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst Coppola won't go as far as to claim he has made an anti-war film, his sentiment towards 'the horror' of war (both within the narrative and in the quote above) suggest that, as an artist, his disposition is inherently against war. Whether we feel that this is being communicated through the text, and if it is how successful or persuasive we find it, is a matter of personal opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-08-14T12:59:31.887" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T12:59:31.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23854" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-13T12:52:22.513" Score="10" ViewCount="888" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has it been confirmed or (please god) denied that Jar Jar Binks will appear in the new &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; films?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11589" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-12-08T11:07:53.133" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T18:24:11.953" Title="Will Jar Jar Binks be a character in any of the new Star Wars Films?" Tags="|character|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23855" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-13T12:53:20.653" Score="7" ViewCount="2210" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure all film fans were deeply saddened by the recent death of Robin Williams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In obvious tribute, News outlets and internet sites are broadcasting clips of his finest works, and videos of his performances are naturally trending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It occurred to me that, whilst I'm aware he is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juilliard_School&quot;&gt;classically trained&lt;/a&gt; in his profession, I'm at a loss to discover if his style is something totally unique, or if he is an example of a specific comedy/acting discipline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite his versatility, his physical comedy was obviously his defining characteristic; did he demonstrate a particular style, such as the Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton or even Mr Bean style of physical performance? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do such styles even exist (likely under different names than those provided) and if so is Robin Williams a scholar of one, or is his style truly as spontaneous as the Media is currently emphasizing? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, &lt;em&gt;what a loss.&lt;/em&gt; Even in his most over-sentimental formula films, his ability to create such energy from his physical performances was not to be understated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/byPJ22JDFjI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T13:49:40.720" Title="Is there a name for Robin Williams' style of physical comedy?" Tags="|film-industry|acting-career|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23843" CreationDate="2014-08-13T12:58:54.760" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with Sonny's response to John Smith Optional's answer completely.  As JSO said, once he's in the suit he is 100% committed to being &quot;the beast&quot;.  He can't afford to come out of character until he's safely at home.  You have to realize, Batman isn't your typical superhero.  He has no special powers.  He's just using technology to his advantage.  His weapons are hit gadgets and his mind, and his mind has to stay on-task 100% of the time that he's in the batsuit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T12:58:54.760" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23855" CreationDate="2014-08-13T13:11:16.970" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Robin Williams was a king of &quot;Improvisational&quot; comedy, where he can take a subject or event (or even a prop) and spout funny lines or impressions off the top of his head.  One must be entirely quick-witted to excel in Improv, which is one of the reasons it's a difficult art to master (and most clips of Williams' work will confirm he did, in fact, Master that craft).  I've heard, though I have no sources to prove it, that more than 50% of his output over the course of all his movies and TV appearances was improv'd on the spot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Physical Comedy is something completely different.  Physical Comedy has to do with acts one would do with their body, like Melissa McCarthy falling over a fence in The Heat or Chevy Chase falling down stairs on SNL, or even Lucille Ball jumping on a conveyor belt to eat chocolate candies.  Old-Skewl stuff like The Keystone Cops and Charlie Chaplin, which had to rely on &quot;sight gags&quot; since they were done in the silent era, were early purveyors of Physical Comedy.  Falling off buildings, falling into pools, slipping on ice...  All that stuff falls into the Physical Comedy area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-08-13T13:49:40.720" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T13:49:40.720" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23858" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23867" CreationDate="2014-08-13T13:59:40.397" Score="5" ViewCount="5691" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to work out the probability of a name being picked during the reaping and do the odds change depending on the District you come from or are there certain restrictions on how many people can live in each District?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13016" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-08-13T22:48:03.727" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T22:48:03.727" Title="Probability of being a Tribute in the Hunger Games" Tags="|the-hunger-games|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23843" CreationDate="2014-08-13T15:24:34.080" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Most superheroes are, psychologically speaking, more-or-less regular people who adopt a superhero guise to fight crime&lt;/strong&gt;. Hal Jordan turns into Green Lantern, Peter Parker becomes Spider-Man, and so on. In his modern incarnations, even Clark Kent (who is not precisely &quot;normal&quot;, but is as close as he could get under the circumstances) becomes Superman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Batman is different. &lt;strong&gt;The vigilante known as Batman &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; that person's &quot;default&quot; psyche. He adopts the Bruce Wayne guise in order to function in society in any context other than crimefighting.&lt;/strong&gt; Even his own comrades don't work this way: Dick Grayson became Robin during his tenure, Barbara Gordon became Batgirl (and then Oracle, and then Batgirl again), and so forth. But Batman turns into Bruce Wayne.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a concept that has been explored in a number of Batman-related media. The most stark example may be in an episode of &lt;em&gt;Batman Beyond&lt;/em&gt;, where a villain is projecting voices into his head. He realizes that this is a trick when the voices start to speak of him as Bruce, because, as he puts it, &lt;strong&gt;&quot;that's not what I call myself in my head.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; Another example comes from &lt;em&gt;The Sandman&lt;/em&gt;, which shows us the dreams of various superheroes. Most of them show up in their civilian guises in their dreams, but Batman does not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given all of this, it makes sense that he would talk to himself in the Batvoice: that's his normal head-voice. His &quot;normal&quot; voice is actually the fake one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8395" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T15:24:34.080" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23864" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23865" CreationDate="2014-08-13T16:15:54.230" Score="0" ViewCount="1271" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking to buy 47 Ronin on Blu-ray, but there seems to be some confusion regarding the runtime of the film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Amazon.com has it listed at a ridiculously long 238 minutes, this can't be correct. Every other site I've looked at, (Blu-ray.com, Wikipedia, Wal-Mart.com) has it listed at 118-119 minutes. IMDB.com, however, has it listed at 118 minutes, but they have an additional listing of a 128 minute &quot;Extended Edition.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my knowledge there was never an extended edition or director's cut of the film released in the States, and I can only find the 118 minute one available to buy. So, before I make the final purchase, is there an extended edition available in the United States? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-14T12:21:26.090" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T12:21:26.090" Title="47 Ronin runtime?" Tags="|alternate-version|47-ronin|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23864" CreationDate="2014-08-13T16:24:46.407" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Read the 4th paragraph down in &lt;a href=&quot;http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/10562/47_ronin_3d.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;The Movie Itself: Our Reviewer's Take&quot;&lt;/a&gt; section; there is &lt;strong&gt;rumored&lt;/strong&gt; to be a 3 hour version, but given the failure of the movie to break through at the box office it is unlikely that version will ever be released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-08-13T16:29:50.153" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T16:29:50.153" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23858" CreationDate="2014-08-13T17:00:52.060" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Odds are ever in your favor!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to your question is; No.  You can not tell the exact odds withou tthe exact census from Panem.  You would need to know the age brackets of everyone to be able to determine the number and gender of the people who are eligible to be chosen for the Reaping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in an overall general sense, assuming everyone in every district is eligible, it would break out somewhat like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The odds of being picked during the Reaping depend solely on the population of the District, and each District did have different census numbers.  Reading Moshe's answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.centives.net/S/2011/what%E2%80%99s-the-population-of-panem/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, it appears that a &quot;small&quot; district has roughly 8,000 people, and a &quot;large&quot; district has roughly 32,000 people.  I've found no breakdown of gender, but US gender is roughly 50/50 so we'll assume the same.  That means:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;in a small district:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pop: 8,000 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Male: 4,000&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    Female: 4,000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Odds of being chosen: 1 in 4,000 or &lt;strong&gt;.025%&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a large district:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pop: 32,000   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Male: 16,000&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    Female: 16,000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Odds of being chosen: 1 in 16,000 or &lt;strong&gt;.00625%&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While these numbers aren't exact by any means, it's logical to believe that the actual odds are higher than calculated above, since the number of eligible citizens (those who fall within the eligible age bracket, which would be the number in the denominator) would be lower.  Much like 1/2 is larger than 1/4, which is larger than 1/8.  As the denominator increases, the ratio (or &quot;odds&quot;) decreases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T17:00:52.060" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23858" CreationDate="2014-08-13T17:11:17.673" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I don't think you will be able to get an accurate answer, because of the way the reaping is structured, and the addendums that go with it, plus the unknown quantities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the salient points for the reaping:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From age 12 to 18, your formula is 1 + (Age-12).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If you are poor and receiving subsidies (tesserae), one extra chance for every family member at age 12. So a family of 5 gets another 5 entries&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Multiply the tesserae number by your chances. So at 15, your base chance is 4. Tesserae is 4x5, so the formula is base chances + (tesserae * base)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, for Katniss, just her base number at 16 years (Age at the 74th Hunger Games drawing) would be 5. She volunteered for tesserae every year for a family of three, so that would be 15. She would have had 20 chances in the bowl, Prim had 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, without knowing the exact proportion (or even a close approximation) of the boy/girl and age census figures, as well as who used tesserae chances, you really can't get much more than a wild approximation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the Careers that volunteer, technically your chances are the same. You can't say that the odds are zero because you think that someone will volunteer. The odds are not zero until that actually happens, so when they put the names in the bucket in a Career district, the odds are whatever they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did find an interesting PDF (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.math.ksu.edu/quest/hungergames.pdf&quot;&gt;located here&lt;/a&gt;) that broke down the statistics of it as a middle school exercise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T17:11:17.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23868" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23869" CreationDate="2014-08-13T17:21:02.907" Score="-6" ViewCount="269" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder if there's a DVD release or similar of the TV series 24, in which each episode lasts one hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What they showed on TV was only ever 42 minutes of the series, and the rest being used for commercial breaks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some kind of special edition, in which you see ~5 minutes of split screen instead of what they used for commercials?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7990" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-03T01:13:28.197" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T01:13:28.197" Title="Edition with 1-hour episodes each of TV series 24?" Tags="|alternate-version|24|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23868" CreationDate="2014-08-13T18:14:46.640" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  Commercial breaks happened (presumably) during mundane events or periods of inactivity.  The clock would pick up again when they returned from commercial break.  The clock never ended at 42:00, it always ended at 60:00.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T18:14:46.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23870" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24050" CreationDate="2014-08-13T20:24:44.457" Score="2" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode 7 of season 2 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1837642/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Revenge&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Mason refers to Amanda as 'Benedict Clarke' which I assume is some kind of cultural reference pertaining to her recent activities but I am unable to figure out what it is. Any idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-14T00:08:25.700" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T09:06:30.403" Title="Mason refers to Amanda as 'Benedict Clarke', is this a cultural reference?" Tags="|revenge-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23629" CreationDate="2014-08-13T23:27:38.600" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first TMNT received some negative criticism for the amount of violence in the movie so the producers banned the use of weapons in the second movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Due to backlash from parents over the darker and more violent tone of the first movie, the producers decided to not allow the Turtles to use their weapons for the entirety of this film.&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103060/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB Trivia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of this, the director/writers had to find a way to defeat Shredder in the most non-violent way which is why you see him basically defeat himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3570" LastActivityDate="2014-08-13T23:27:38.600" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23868" CreationDate="2014-08-14T02:41:10.510" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. TV producers don't shoot more material to fill time on DVD releases that would normally go to commercials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13095" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T02:41:10.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23876" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-14T06:49:16.040" Score="3" ViewCount="3309" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie '&lt;em&gt;Now you see me&lt;/em&gt;', what was supposed to be happening with all of the so-called Horsemen? What is that carousel mean to be? Is that a reference to something or does it have a meaning, or was it just implying that the Eye thing was real?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13265" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-03-13T01:26:09.857" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T10:52:09.350" Title="What was supposed to be happening with the horsemen and the merry-go-round shown in the end?" Tags="|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19701" CreationDate="2014-08-14T07:00:38.223" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you watch the movie &lt;em&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/em&gt; until the end then you can see that Wolverine meets Prof. Xavier and Magneto at the airport and they ask to regroup. Both these characters help Wolverine to his metal claws back (&lt;em&gt;with major help from Magneto of course, because he controls metal&lt;/em&gt;) so that they can fight the Giant Mutant Destroyers in &lt;em&gt;X-Men: Days of Future past&lt;/em&gt; because Wolverine has the power to heal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Helping Wolverine to get back metal claws is not shown anywhere but it's understood when Magneto says, &quot;What do I want? I want your help&quot; (&lt;em&gt;in the airport scene&lt;/em&gt;) and in return Magneto helps Wolverine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13266" LastEditorUserId="26101" LastEditDate="2017-03-13T02:16:11.647" LastActivityDate="2017-03-13T02:16:11.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23882" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-14T12:06:06.650" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-08-14T12:06:06.650" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T12:06:06.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23883" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-14T12:06:06.650" Score="0" Body="Megamind is a story about a super-intelligent alien and the supervillain of Metro City who continually battles - and loses - against his nemesis, Metro Man" OwnerUserId="4925" LastEditorUserId="4925" LastEditDate="2014-08-14T13:15:49.180" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T13:15:49.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23884" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23886" CreationDate="2014-08-14T12:54:27.170" Score="7" ViewCount="17812" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a movie like &quot;Captain America: The First Avenger&quot;, what is the term for the phrase after the colon, i.e. &quot;The First Avenger&quot;? Is that called a &quot;subtitle&quot; or something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13269" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-08-14T14:01:23.693" LastActivityDate="2021-03-05T02:31:22.360" Title="What is the second part of a movie title called?" Tags="|title|terminology|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23876" CreationDate="2014-08-14T12:57:49.130" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was supposed to do with misdirection, which is really what magic is all about.  With the mirrors, the spinning, the music, etc...  It kind of makes it difficult to tell what's real and what isn't.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that's kind of lame, but the movie had more holes than a hunk of swiss cheese, so who really knows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T12:57:49.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23884" CreationDate="2014-08-14T12:58:53.157" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to both Wikipedia and Websters, &quot;subtitle&quot; is used for both the phrase after the colon, &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; the text which appears at the bottom of a movie that is in a foreign language.  So, your assumption is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Sonny Burnett for pointing that out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-08-14T13:11:45.197" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T13:11:45.197" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11348" CreationDate="2014-08-14T15:01:50.797" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's kind of a rumour actually. Maybe the rumour was spread to cover the actual purpose of Marcellus throwing Antwan off the window. So I think it is made up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13273" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-14T15:04:22.817" LastActivityDate="2014-08-14T15:04:22.817" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23893" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-14T20:48:57.420" Score="5" ViewCount="1431" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any particular reason why &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2149175/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Americans&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Philip and Elizabeth never wear gloves when they are on a mission?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently they know about fingerprints and how they can be used to identify someone. In Season 1 there is mentioned multiple times that they wiped their prints after using a car. This even leads to suspicion when the FBI finds Amador's car without any prints in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Episode 2 of Season 2 Philip breaks into a house, but uses a screwdriver not to leave any prints, which I imagine is quite inconvenient for opening doors and searching the house in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v8dso.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Screwing around&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are they not simply wearing gloves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-14T20:57:13.917" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T09:02:44.383" Title="Why do they never wear gloves?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-americans|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18587" CreationDate="2014-08-15T00:18:04.717" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am pretty sure that this is Old Norse. I'm Icelandic and I can read this text, but this isn't Icelandic. The form is very similar to the old Icelandic Sagas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13280" LastActivityDate="2014-08-15T00:18:04.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23906" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23939" CreationDate="2014-08-15T02:11:41.717" Score="3" ViewCount="698" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what Rory says to the Roman soldier in his first appearance in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pandorica_Opens&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pandorica Opens&lt;/a&gt; episode of Doctor Who?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5619" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-08-15T23:00:11.867" LastActivityDate="2014-08-16T17:32:56.620" Title="What does Rory say to the Roman soldier in the Pandorica Opens episode of Doctor Who?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23908" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-15T08:09:17.923" Score="5" ViewCount="6122" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2006 movie version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430357/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Miami Vice&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ends with a showdown between &lt;em&gt;Vice&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Jose Yero&lt;/em&gt; and his Aryan Brotherhood accomplices at a desolate shipyard in Miami. However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Vice_%28film%29#Filming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; says that the ending was rewritten after production problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After gunshots were fired on set in the Dominican Republic on October 24, 2005, Foxx packed up and refused to return; this forced Mann to re-write the film's ending, which some crew members characterized as less dramatic than the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This awakes my interest in this dropped alternative ending (as it was likely set abroad, I guess it could have involved &lt;em&gt;Montoya&lt;/em&gt; himself, whose disappearance was a bit unspectacular). But while this was apparently never filmed, its plot seems to be known to the crew at least. So, &lt;strong&gt;is there any secured information how the story of this original ending was to unfold?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-19T17:21:01.193" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T21:50:24.943" Title="What was the original ending supposed to be like?" Tags="|ending|miami-vice-2006|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23906" CreationDate="2014-08-15T09:39:36.010" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're talking about the scene I think you do, then I don't think there's any specific or audible talk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the commander's lines right before and after Rory talking to him it's pretty obvious that he somehow volunteered to check the story of &amp;quot;fake Cleo&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rory:&lt;/strong&gt; Sir?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Commander:&lt;/strong&gt; One moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Both talking.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Commander:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, it seems you have a volunteer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering Rory obviously didn't meet River earlier, I always assumed he arrived with the commander and therefore might have been some higher up (either indeed centurio or possible even more) and be trusted by the commander (given the fact he just okays him volunteering without asking further questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on Rory tells the Doctor about the other Romans at Stonehenge:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rory:&lt;/strong&gt; Fifty men up top, volunteers. What about that thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I assume he obviously offered to go there, together with his centuria. Considering a centuria typically had around 80 people (despite the name's origin) those might indeed all have been volunteers (so it's not just considered they volunteer just because their commanding officer says so).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-08-15T09:39:36.010" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9516" CreationDate="2014-08-15T12:36:47.730" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me it actually doesn't make any sense as to why he had to stay on the plane. I understand why he did, but he really didn't have to. First of all those agents did not really call in and say they only had one extra guy picked up. The guys had no intention of killing them, which Bane pointed out. Second, you would think there would have been a better DNA test done on the fake doctor stiff, because all they did was pump him with a small amount of the doctor's blood. Lastly and more importantly, that plane and the bodies in it have bullets and shell casing everywhere, the wings came off, they used explosives to blow off the back end. No investigator would believe that crash was an accident. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13287" LastActivityDate="2014-08-15T12:36:47.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23914" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26763" CreationDate="2014-08-15T13:50:23.917" Score="11" ViewCount="7309" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now before I say this I understand that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was set in the real world and not in comics but the Bane in comics was hilarious. Are there any comments from Christopher Nolan or Tom Hardy about the reason they went in this direction&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Bane turn &lt;strong&gt;from this&lt;/strong&gt;.................................................................&lt;strong&gt;Into this?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SnrRE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11589" LastEditorUserId="11589" LastEditDate="2014-08-15T14:17:29.877" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T20:33:34.170" Title="Why is Bane not a Mexican wrestler?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight-rises|comic-adaptation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23915" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-15T14:14:53.693" Score="6" ViewCount="1191" Body="&lt;p&gt;When did movies first start to show real world from inside a car and not a studio-based rear projection? What was the first movie that contains car sequences all made with real action shots? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7213" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-15T14:15:26.397" LastActivityDate="2022-05-26T15:07:24.157" Title="When did movies first start to show real world from inside a car?" Tags="|film-techniques|first-appearance|film-location|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23914" CreationDate="2014-08-15T14:17:31.170" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is based largely on the Knightfall series of comics where Bane is highly intelligent. On his &lt;a href=&quot;http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/Bane#Powers_and_Abilities&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt; one of his abilities is &quot;Genius Level Intellect&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to his meticulous controlling personality, the early versions of Bane were just this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bane creator Chuck Dixon's early tales portray Bane as a very calm, centered warrior akin to Bruce Lee in as much that he draws strength through calm meditation, and the spiritual energy of the &quot;very rock of Peña Dura&quot; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bane_(comics)&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3570" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2014-08-15T21:42:45.210" LastActivityDate="2014-08-15T21:42:45.210" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23915" CreationDate="2014-08-15T19:06:21.873" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think, it is more difficult to put a camera in a automobile or on a truck then on a vehicle on rails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found some examples of early shots, but I'm not sure if they fit your criteria of &lt;em&gt;inside a car&lt;/em&gt;. The shots I found are from a car, not inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found some very early snippet with a scene from a rail bases car:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Algier 1896:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x11mo5_alger-1896-video-rare_shortfilms?start=77&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x11mo5_alger-1896-video-rare_shortfilms?start=77&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;The camera starts its movement at approx 1:20&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was the genre of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_ride&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Phantom rides&lt;/a&gt;, The first example was &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haverstraw_Tunnel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Haverstraw Tunnel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is considered to be the first example of a phantom ride and features a train travelling along the West Shore Railroad in Rockland County, New York and then through the eponymous tunnel.&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_ride&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't see the film, so I'm don't know the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another early moving shots I found was from a boat: &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/iGFgGkrZdho&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Panorama du Grand Canal vu d'un Bateau (1896)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="132" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2022-05-26T15:07:24.157" LastActivityDate="2022-05-26T15:07:24.157" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="23920" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-15T19:12:44.827" Score="17" ViewCount="919" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the conversation just before Budd is bitten by the black mamba, Elle Driver and Budd speak with distinctly different accents. At least twice in a couple of minutes they clearly pronounce one the same word differently. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, Budd says &quot;Paula Shultz&quot;, pronouncing u in Shultz as u in pull, full. Elle immediately repeats the name, pronouncing u in Shultz as au in fault. Later, Budd says &quot;Hanzo&quot;, pronouncing a in it as a in far. In a few seconds, Elle pronounces a in Hanzo as e in pen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this difference in accents have any special meaning? Was Elle's repeating the same words with different pronunciation added to the plot deliberately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2018-08-08T14:36:05.890" LastActivityDate="2018-08-08T14:36:05.890" Title="What is the deal with Elle's and Budd's accents?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|dialogue|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="23922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12714" CreationDate="2014-08-15T22:54:29.303" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many writers and directors said that they use sex scenes because that what viewers want to see. Examples of writers/directors are, creator of True Blood, Masters of Sex. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Game of Thrones (books) contains many sex scenes but the sex scenes in show are exaggerated. It's HBO show so it must contain sex scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the same thing with Orange is the New Black. In the book it said that in the prison there wasn't any lesbian relationships. The show is all about lesbian sex. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not against sex scenes in TV show, I even hate when we show actors with clothes making love. What I hate is gratuitous sex scenes. For Game of Thrones when I watch the show for the second time I watch the censored version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12961" LastActivityDate="2014-08-15T22:54:29.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23647" CreationDate="2014-08-16T01:46:39.557" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although, it is highly unclear who's portrait it is, it resembles to one of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn&lt;/a&gt;'s&lt;/strong&gt; (a Dutch painter and etcher from the 17th century) self portraits. It can also be a rework by someone based on Rembrandt's portraits, but that is unclear as well. By the image it looks like it &quot;could&quot; be a self portrait of Rembrandt as he perceived himself as a young boy, or by someone (unknown) who perceived this as Rembrandt's younger self based on his self portraits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although since it's also unclear why the director might have chosen this painting but one of the reason would be to represent a royal (although evil) presence of the &lt;em&gt;Corleones&lt;/em&gt;, an influential presence in the Golden Age of Mafia establishments. The fictitious Corleone Family is also based on a real life &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borgia_family#Controversies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Borgia Family&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; who were primarily involved in politics and prominent during the Renaissance in Italy. Since, Italian Renaissance art and Dutch Golden Age art have conquered their prime positions in the art history books the representation of a Dutch Art piece (possibly mere fake or just a re-production) by a Great Dutch painter connects it to that era which influenced or inspired Mario Puzo while writing of the fiction. Although, this is just my perception, but a rather possible one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2185" LastEditorUserId="2185" LastEditDate="2014-08-16T02:06:09.380" LastActivityDate="2014-08-16T02:06:09.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12714" CreationDate="2014-08-16T03:08:27.667" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another single word: HBO. HBO's target audience has always been more adult than broadcast TV.  They even allow curse words and nudity that are illegal and would be a fine if shown on broadcast TV. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13095" LastActivityDate="2014-08-16T03:08:27.667" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23925" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23957" CreationDate="2014-08-16T03:39:55.167" Score="6" ViewCount="7546" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been some famously elaborate make-up in film and television which take enormous amounts of times to apply to the actors, for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scofield&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Michael Scofield&lt;/a&gt;'s full-torso tattoo in Prison Break took &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Break#Tattoo&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;5 hours to apply&lt;/a&gt; every time it was shown in full on the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0mOiY.jpg&quot; height=&quot;400&quot;/&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Image of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wentworth_Miller&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wentworth Miller&lt;/a&gt; as Michael Scofield in Prison Break.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this is the longest I've heard of, but I'm sure there must have been more elaborate work in the past, particularly on aliens in science fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone find the character in film and television whose make-up took the longest to apply?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-17T04:07:50.977" LastActivityDate="2014-08-21T23:00:10.513" Title="What is the most time-consuming makeup to apply to a single actor in film or television?" Tags="|effects|make-up|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23925" CreationDate="2014-08-16T06:22:55.067" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first intuition was to check Boris Karloff's Frankenstein, which I recall being a marathon makeup sessions.  It turns out that was only a quick 4 hours compared to Scofield's 5 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, another Jack Pierce client, Lon Chaney, Jr, is reported to have endured 8 hour makeup sessions for the three Mummy movies.  Funny, I can do a toilet-paper mummy in, like, 3 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pierce was not especially liked around Universal, which in part led to&#xA;  his demise at the studio.[citation needed] His most notorious&#xA;  relationship being with Lon Chaney, Jr., the two despised each other.&#xA;  Both worked on four Wolf Man films and three Mummy films at Universal.&#xA;  Chaney claimed that Pierce compounded difficulties in the long&#xA;  uncomfortable process with the adding on of sticky appliances. Lon's&#xA;  Wolf Man make-up partially consisted of yak hair being glued to his&#xA;  face, and having it singed with a hot iron. Chaney furthermore&#xA;  claimed, Pierce would purposely burn him with the hot iron. Chaney&#xA;  also had an allergic reaction to the make-up Pierce used on him in The&#xA;  Ghost of Frankenstein. Later, Chaney suffered with Pierce's&#xA;  laboriously wrapped bandages for three Mummy films. In Jack's defense,&#xA;  the use of the fused elements of make-up was a needful 8 hour task for&#xA;  the desired effect that Pierce was looking for, and Chaney was well&#xA;  known for not working well with others on set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13095" LastActivityDate="2014-08-16T06:22:55.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23915" CreationDate="2014-08-16T12:20:20.023" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rear projection techniques came after filming in &quot;the real world&quot;, as the filming of rear projection requires that the camera and projector be synchronised to avoid shutter flash. This technology did not exist in the silent era, so any motor vehicle filming would have been done live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its probably worth noting, though, that the filming was usually done with the car either on a flatbed truck, or being towed by a camera truck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13296" LastActivityDate="2014-08-16T12:20:20.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15969" CreationDate="2014-08-16T13:37:18.650" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, first of all, it was necessary for &quot;Gator&quot; to discover them by accident, so for the plot this was the only reasonable place for his files to be. But the obvious plot-device reason out of the way, we might still be able to come up with some possible motivation for Broker to keep them there (even if maybe with a bit of a speculative by-taste).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you mentioned, Broker had finished with his life as undercover agent and wanted to start completely anew. Thus he also &lt;strong&gt;didn't want those sensitive files to lie around in some government office&lt;/strong&gt; accessible to anyone with the right permissions. Part of his complete departure and disappearance from the DEA and his previous life was that those files and thus Broker's previous identity vanish from existence. But then again, &lt;strong&gt;he might not have wanted those files destroyed completely&lt;/strong&gt;, be it out of sentimentality or a fallback hold to his previous life, or just pride in his achievements as a DEA agent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;the only alternative to destruction was to take care of those files himself&lt;/strong&gt;, so what about a safe deposit or locker somewhere? But Broker is certainly someone to take things into his own hands and he explicitly took this new home far away from civilization &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; it was a remote and safe place for his family. So why not for those files either? &lt;strong&gt;The &lt;em&gt;inviolability of homes&lt;/em&gt; was one of the few things Broker still could and had to rely on.&lt;/strong&gt; There wasn't anyone looking for him there anyway and if they were, they wouldn't have needed those files anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What he simply did not expect was someone invading his home, accidentally stumbling across those files, and knowing what to make of them. You might call this &lt;strong&gt;an error on his behalf&lt;/strong&gt;, be it out of carelessness, too naive trust in his new start, hubris in his abilities to care for things on his own, pride in his previous life, or simply a talent to get himself into trouble again, as he did with gaining too much attention from the locals in the first lace. But it certainly happened and &lt;strong&gt;it had to happen as a wake-up call for Broker to finally finish with his previous life and for the real clean-slate to start his new life&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-04-14T23:16:44.470" LastActivityDate="2017-04-14T23:16:44.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21709" CreationDate="2014-08-16T14:04:48.583" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just because The Eye only takes members twice a century, doesn't mean the inductions are &lt;em&gt;exactly 50 years apart&lt;/em&gt;. Remember as well, this group was in the beginning of this century: Rhodes could have been inducted anytime during the last, though I would assume it was towards the latter half.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(NOTE: At the request of @SonnyBurnett, I'm reposting this from a comment to an answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2016-02-23T23:52:07.447" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T23:52:07.447" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23933" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23940" CreationDate="2014-08-16T14:27:23.123" Score="8" ViewCount="3043" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read that there are multiple versions (e.g. Japanese) and sequels of The Ring, I'm talking about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298130/&quot;&gt;US version from 2002&lt;/a&gt;. I've not watched other versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many answers regarding this movie are found on the net, but I got stuck with this one. Who made the &lt;strong&gt;video&lt;/strong&gt; and how was the video made? Where was it made?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read on multiple sites Samara made the tape by herself. How? I know why it was made and why those images were used. But can she give her imagination a physical form? Or was the video made in the hospital? Was it the project that Noah found later in hospital files? Or is there any other story behind the video creation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And an extra question, how did that video get into the cabin 12 at the beginning?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-08-16T17:21:32.673" LastActivityDate="2016-10-02T22:38:41.760" Title="By whom, how and where was the video in The Ring made?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-ring|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14688" CreationDate="2014-08-16T14:45:40.157" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this explanation on the net.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main cause of this whole act of Samara was to get heard. By whom!! By everyone. She was neglected her whole life. Nobody loves her. Every close person (her adoptive parents and her biological mother) can sense evil in her, so they avoided her. But she wanted to get noticed. The reason behind those videos and killings was to tell everyone that she existed and how her adoptive mother killed her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to spread her story she wanted that video to get spread. That is why she is giving people options. Option 1: spread the video, copy it, show it to others (we can see it in the end when Naomi figured it out); Option 2: If you failed to spread it you'll die. And Samara allowed them only 7 days as she was alive in the well for 7 days after her mother pushed her. So the phone ring is &lt;strong&gt;something like &quot;your countdown begins&quot;, basically to inform them that you have to do something after watching this video&lt;/strong&gt;. Samara has no other way to interact with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The explanation was based on the English version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[(My theory: Samara was a very tech-loving evil. She used &lt;em&gt;video&lt;/em&gt; to kill people. She used &lt;em&gt;TV&lt;/em&gt; to scare them. That's why she chose &lt;em&gt;phone&lt;/em&gt;, another machine, to spread fear. :) Just kidding]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-08-07T13:16:25.353" LastActivityDate="2015-08-07T13:16:25.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14097" CreationDate="2014-08-16T15:06:47.383" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The don has no info on Gus' partner, so no leverage over him, which he has over Gus--knowing who Gus is. That's the reason Gus lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13298" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-17T01:34:48.263" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T01:34:48.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23937" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="78623" CreationDate="2014-08-16T16:30:17.247" Score="10" ViewCount="26047" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Death_Note_episodes&quot;&gt;Death Note&lt;/a&gt;, people's eye and hair colour change when they are shown talking to themselves or thinking. Light changes to red colour, L to blue shade, Matsuda to yellow and Misa with lighter blue then L and Yotsuba Group member with purple. So what is the symbolism behind this colour pattern and what does it signify? I thought Red is for evil, blue for good but Misa also have blue colour.....so my theory fails here and what does yellow signify? Curiosity or what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/frC0D.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N3f03.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-08-17T09:22:30.363" LastActivityDate="2020-09-27T18:12:01.927" Title="What is the symbolism behind the colour change of characters while thinking?" Tags="|analysis|anime|death-note|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23387" CreationDate="2014-08-16T16:50:53.673" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the banker gave the details away to the American girl. She simply swooped in and kidnapped him from PSH.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13299" LastActivityDate="2014-08-16T16:50:53.673" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23906" CreationDate="2014-08-16T17:32:56.620" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assume you mean the scene where Rory volunteers to accompany River back to the Pandorica. It's extremely hard to hear, but he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rory: I'll take my men. We can come unannounced. We'll help as much as...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closed captioning matches this dialog, except it ends with &quot;as much as possible&quot;. I watched several times and I don't believe the last word is audible, but I assume it was in the script the CC was dictated from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2014-08-16T17:32:56.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23933" CreationDate="2014-08-16T19:37:08.960" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of the film Katie explains to Becca how she saw the tape. Katie and some of her friends stayed at the motel/cabin. While there, they tried recording a football game on the VCR in the room that, as it turned out. sat directly over the well where Samara died. Somehow (this part is unexplained by design) the strange images were imposed onto the tape at this time, probably due to proximity to the body. When the kids tried to watch the game, they saw what was on the tape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quote from Katie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We played the tape. The game wasn't there. It was something else. We thought it was some kind of sick joke. And then the phone rang.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After they left, the motel manager cleaned the room and put the tape on his video shelf (he tells the reporter that people leave tapes behind all the time, and that is how he built his collection).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This won't answer all your questions as to how, but the supernatural elements are not meant to be explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9270" LastEditorUserId="9270" LastEditDate="2014-08-16T22:26:36.013" LastActivityDate="2014-08-16T22:26:36.013" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23925" CreationDate="2014-08-16T20:40:18.387" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Romijn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rebecca Romijn&lt;/a&gt; as Mystique - Nine Hours (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;X-Men Movies&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/08/07/rebecca-romijn-on-body-paint-prepare-for-blue-toilet-seats/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview with Fox News&lt;/a&gt; Rebecca Romijn says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Not that Jennifer Lawrence didn't do a great job, she's phenomenal. I love sharing that role with that girl. She's as cool as they come. But I do think nine hours of makeup makes you the villain you need to be to be Mystique,&quot; Romijn said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-16T21:21:10.503" LastActivityDate="2014-08-16T21:21:10.503" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23937" CreationDate="2014-08-16T22:32:22.180" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably color psychology related based off of the characters personalities.&#xA;Red being chaotic, blue being &quot;good&quot;, light-blue is probably more based off of feminism then personality type, yellow being brash, as for purple it means wealthy or aristocratic, which fits for the Yotsuba Group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.infoplease.com/spot/colors1.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.infoplease.com/spot/colors1.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13303" LastActivityDate="2014-08-16T22:32:22.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23945" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-16T22:50:30.510" Score="13" ViewCount="797" Body="&lt;p&gt;In You Only Live Twice, he is in Blofeld's bunker, dressed as an astronaut about to get on the space shuttle, when Blofeld stops him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was his plan once he got onto the shuttle? Wasn't it supposed to blow up mid-air after capturing an American shuttle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, he was caught out by Blofeld because he was going to take his portable air conditioning unit onto the space shuttle (which no astronaut would ever do). Are we supposed to assume he could have killed the other astronaut and flown the shuttle somewhere else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7772" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T04:41:47.643" Title="What was James Bond going to do in the Space Shuttle?" Tags="|james-bond|you-only-live-twice|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23946" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-17T00:25:43.227" Score="4" ViewCount="1501" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched this episode (summary can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://ncis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Good_Samaritan_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), and the wrap-up seemed to leave a lot unexplained. Some specific questions I have are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why did they kill two other men before Seeger? Was it just as Gibbs suggested, to make it look like serial killing and disguise the motive?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why did they remove all the clothes and bind the victims? Was this again to establish the pattern and hide the true motive?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And most baffling of all,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does the ending explain how they managed to commit the crime? The key point was that both suspects had reliable alibis; I don't see how the fact that they are twins could change that (one was confirmed to be at a conference in DC while the other one was at the bank, on camera). There are two women and two roles to be filled there, so the fact that they are twins is inconsequential - still neither of them could have done it. What is the explanation then? Was it just bad writing, or am I missing something?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13304" LastEditorUserId="1146" LastEditDate="2017-06-15T00:07:00.957" LastActivityDate="2022-07-18T22:13:48.897" Title="How were the murders committed in the NCIS episode &quot;The Good Samaritan&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ncis|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23946" CreationDate="2014-08-17T00:52:13.747" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's very clearly explained in the episode, but I believe you're correct on both of your first two bullet points. The reason for the multiple, unusual murders was to confuse any investigation into the real target. This is a common trope for police procedural shows: the idea is that &quot;a serial killer needs no motive&quot;, so the investigators will not focus nearly as much on people with an obvious motive to murder the &quot;real&quot; suspect if they have previous murders pointing at a serial killer. (I believe this was also the plot of the pilot episode of &lt;em&gt;Castle&lt;/em&gt;, for example.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the last question, I think you're confused about the two alibis. The twins did not establish a separate alibi for each twin, because NCIS didn't know there were twins in the first place. &lt;em&gt;Both&lt;/em&gt; alibis were for Laura Seeger for the time of two different murders. Her DNA was found at the first crime scene, but she was at a medical conference at the time of that murder. She had a very good reason to commit the second murder, but she was also on video tape at the bank at the time of that murder. The explanation in both cases is that one of the twins committed the murder while the other twin provided the alibi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2014-08-17T00:52:13.747" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23948" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23950" CreationDate="2014-08-17T02:02:57.613" Score="5" ViewCount="1095" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to remember what movie I watched where an old blind man (I think he was the grandfather of the main character, but I'm not sure), at one point tells this story:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just the gist of it, I can't remember most of it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once upon a time, a man (probably poor) falls in love with a princess. She says: &quot;Sure, but you have to stand outside of my castle for 1000 nights.&quot; He does so, and he suffers through rain, hunger, etc... until he he gets used to it. On the 999th night, he looks at here, and leaves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the blind man tells the story, he says &quot;Don't ask me what it means. I don't know.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if you could tell me where this story comes from(or if it was written for the movie), that'd be great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks Will, I found the story. For some reason it stuck with me, and it was all I remembered about the film&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once upon a time a king gave a feast &#xA;          and there were all the most beautiful &#xA;          princesses of the realm. Basta, one &#xA;          of the guards, saw the king's &#xA;          daughter: she was the loveliest of &#xA;          all! And he immediately fell in love &#xA;          with her. But what could a poor &#xA;          soldier do compared with a king's &#xA;          daughter?!...One day he managed &#xA;          to meet her and told her he couldn't &#xA;          live without her. The princess was so &#xA;          struck by the depth of his feeling &#xA;          that she said to the soldier  'If you &#xA;          will wait a hundred days and a &#xA;          hundred nights beneath my balcony, &#xA;          then in the end I'll be yours.' &#xA;          Christ, the soldier ran off there and &#xA;          waited! One day, two days, &#xA;          ten, twenty...Every night she looked &#xA;          out of her window, but he never &#xA;          budged. Come rain, wind, snow, never &#xA;          budged! The birds shat on him and the &#xA;          bees ate him alive! After ninety &#xA;          nights he was gaunt and pale and &#xA;          tears streamed from his eyes but he &#xA;          couldn't hold them back. He didn't &#xA;          even have the strength to sleep any &#xA;          more. The princess kept watch...And &#xA;          on the ninety-ninth night, the &#xA;          soldier got up, picked up his chair &#xA;          and left!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13307" LastEditorUserId="13307" LastEditDate="2014-08-17T16:59:10.240" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T06:33:04.173" Title="In what movie did a blind man tell this story" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:16:30.527" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23948" CreationDate="2014-08-17T02:57:41.030" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095765/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cinema Paradiso&lt;/a&gt;, (1988).  The old projectionist at the movie theater, Alfredo, loses his vision when the highly flammable nitrate film catches fire, and the young protagonist, Toto, does stand outside a girl's house every night after work to prove his love.  It could have been because of a story Alfredo told him, but I don't remember for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-08-17T02:57:41.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23951" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23952" CreationDate="2014-08-17T03:27:47.053" Score="12" ViewCount="23919" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is an axiom that in a well-made feature film, the director will agonize over what scenes to leave in and which to cut. In essence, any scene which does not advance the story will be cut. Many movies include cut scenes in the &quot;Director's Cut&quot; or at least as extended scenes included in the DVD.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quentin Tarantino&lt;/a&gt;, no matter whether you like him or hate him, is widely hailed as one of the most talented directors in today's generation. I cannot believe he makes many 'mistakes' in editing.&#xA;His seminal film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/a&gt;, however, has a scene in the standard version (non-director's- or extended-cut version) which puzzles me. I don't understand how it advances either the story as a whole or Vincent Vegas' part in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly after we meet Lance and Jody (Vincent's drug dealer and his wife, played by Eric Stoltz and Rosanna Arquette), after enjoying a hit shared with them, we see Vincent driving to Marcellus Wallace's house, to pick up his wife for her night out. The scene is just Vincent in his caddy (?) driving along. The POV switches to Vincent's, and we see the surreality of the heroin's affect on the street lights, but that's it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We already learned that Vincent is a heroin user, probably addict, and the average non-drug using viewer wouldn't know the difference between the effect caused by cocaine, which is what Wallace's wife mistakes the baggy of heroin for when she O.D.'s later, so it can't be to show us that it was indeed heroin. Was it to show us that he is a high-functioning addict, still able to drive? I just don't understand that scene, and can't believe Tarantino would have left in a two-minute scene for no good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-22T08:44:26.207" LastActivityDate="2019-04-24T05:46:11.440" Title="Explanation of a drugged up Vincent Vega scene" Tags="|plot-explanation|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23951" CreationDate="2014-08-17T04:03:02.093" Score="23" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The average non-drug using viewer wouldn't know the difference between the effect caused by cocaine &lt;em&gt;[and]&lt;/em&gt; heroin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they should, because the movie shows you, and that's what this scene is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The very first scene of the film is Vincent and Jules, and Vincent is talking quite fast and it's mostly just small-talk and banter, but we can easily see he's on the ball.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UEc6l.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of Vincent when Sober&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then from the moment it cuts to him opening up his little case of needles, everything slows down to half speed while he prepares the needles, and then when he's driving his demeanour has changed, you see him looking tired and almost drunk, paying more attention to the lights than the road.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The constant fade in and out of black as well as being surrounded by it except for the street lights is used to indicate how little he is paying attention to what's actually happening around him, setting the scene for his later negligence (he probably wouldn't have considered bringing the drugs with him if he wasn't high at the time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wTByj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of Vincent when Stoned&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's completely out of it, and barely has the where-with-all to get into Mia's house without falling over himself when he arrives, he's confused by the intercom and even hesitates for a moment when told to go to the &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All his movements in this scene are very slow, deliberate and quite awkward, even down to his body language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ywsZY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Vincent at Mia&amp;#39;s house&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even later at the diner, he's not as chatty as the earlier scenes with Jules, Mia initiates all of the conversation and Vince doesn't seem interested in much other than his cigarettes and getting his assignment over without upsetting Marcellus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-08-17T04:03:02.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9968" CreationDate="2014-08-17T07:15:50.780" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;forgiveness is a running theme under all the major characters&quot; I agree. Women refuse to forgive the innocent cowboy even after he showed sincere remorse, perhaps because what they knew they already did (hire assassins). Most importantly, Munny never forgave himself over what he had done in the past, felt sure he was going to hell. And he certainly will never forgive himself for getting Ned killed. As he says: &quot;Ned didn't kill anyone.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13311" LastActivityDate="2014-08-17T07:15:50.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23925" CreationDate="2014-08-17T12:51:22.560" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;em&gt;Guinness&lt;/em&gt;, the record is &lt;strong&gt;20 hours&lt;/strong&gt; for the temporary tattoos on Rod Steiger's entire body in the film &lt;em&gt;The Illustrated Man&lt;/em&gt;, but there are many honorable mentions that came close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Full Answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 1969 movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Illustrated Man&lt;/a&gt;, Rod Steiger plays a man whose entire body is covered in tattoos, each telling a story. The many intricate illustrations on his body &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064473/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;took 20 hours to create&lt;/a&gt;, with 10 hours dedicated to his torso and the rest to the tattoos on his arms and legs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BRXgD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The process was depicted in the 10 minute short &lt;em&gt;Tattooed Steiger&lt;/em&gt; which is available on Youtube &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23MYTG8kbfo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Honorable mentions:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2009/03/02/31282-greg-lane-orc-of-a-thousand-faces/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;According to this&lt;/a&gt;, it took &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; stuntman Greg Lane &lt;strong&gt;16 hours&lt;/strong&gt; to get into the makeup, prosthetics and costume of &lt;a href=&quot;http://leecollinsfiction.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/helms-deep-orc-torch.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the torchbearer&lt;/a&gt; who blows up the Helm's Deep wall in &lt;em&gt;The Two Towers&lt;/em&gt;. LOTR makeup work was frequently exhausting; according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3113830.stm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the BBC&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As [Lawrence] Makoare has already recounted at the press conference, the scene in &lt;em&gt;Fellowship&lt;/em&gt; where Lurtz is &quot;born&quot; under evil wizard Saruman's tower took &lt;strong&gt;11 hours&lt;/strong&gt; in the make-up chair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t45dN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eric Stoltz's transformation in the role of Martin in &lt;em&gt;The Fly II&lt;/em&gt;  was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_II#Makeup.2Fcreature_effects&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;equally gruelling&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Martin [...] has begun to instinctively pull the webbing out of his own body and wrap it around himself. As it hardens, the webbing begins to form a cocoon. At this point, Martin's legs have been enveloped by said cocoon. [...] The most complex makeup, this stage took some &lt;strong&gt;12 hours&lt;/strong&gt; to apply to Eric Stoltz, and he was required to remain immobile on the motel couch (with his legs inside the partial cocoon) all that time, as well as during the &lt;em&gt;additional&lt;/em&gt; hours of filming that immediately followed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iYI03.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://cinema.com/articles/392/mummy-returns-the-interview-with-patricia-velasquez.phtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;em&gt;The Mummy&lt;/em&gt; actress Patricia Velasquez about her &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themakeupgallery.info/various/paint/mummy.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;transformation&lt;/a&gt; into Anck Su Namun:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For me it was more like a modelling job because I had to put on all this special body makeup that took &lt;strong&gt;13 hours&lt;/strong&gt; to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QaHH5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1098327/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;initial makeup work&lt;/a&gt; on James Marsters as Lord Piccolo in &lt;em&gt;Dragonball: Evolution&lt;/em&gt; took &lt;strong&gt;17 hours&lt;/strong&gt; as James insisted that Piccolo look old, but this was scratched and later significantly shortened (However, that initial figure changes to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whedon.info/James-Marsters-About-his-career,31052.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;14 hours&lt;/a&gt; in a few places).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rick Bottin's work on actor Robert Picardo in the cult 1981 werewolf film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Howling_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Howling&lt;/a&gt; forced him to spend either &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/article/veteran-character-actor-robert-picardo-on-his-work-75451&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;10 hours&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://sex-in-a-sub.blogspot.co.il/2011/04/monsterpalooza-3.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;13 hours&lt;/a&gt; in the make-up chair (depending on the source).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;And finally...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lon Chaney Jr.'s transformation into &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_Man_%281941_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Wolfman&lt;/a&gt; (which is available on Youtube &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q4Wn63uof8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) was actually a &lt;strong&gt;22 hour process&lt;/strong&gt;, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://lioncorn.blogspot.co.il/2013/03/frankenstein-meets-wolf-man.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this also included filming&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once again [Jack] Pierce meticulously glued strand after strand of yak hair onto Chaney's face, hands, and feet. Pierce received a powerful assist from Universal's special effects ace, John  P. Fulton who supervised the excellent transformation scenes. This was achieved by keeping Chaney pinned in position so he couldn't move and setting targets for his eyes so he could hold them still. The camera was weighed down with a one ton weight to likewise keep it immobile. Then five to ten frames of film would be shot, after which Pierce would apply more makeup, and another five to ten frames of film would be shot, and so on until after 22 hours of filming, the transformation was complete. Quite an ordeal for Chaney who would mutter threats about wanting to kill [Curt] Siodmak for having conceived the Wolf Man in the first place! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-08-18T22:38:15.593" LastActivityDate="2014-08-18T22:38:15.593" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23958" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31946" CreationDate="2014-08-17T12:56:28.960" Score="5" ViewCount="15523" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367279/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arrested Development&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &quot;Missing Kitty&quot; (S01E16) &lt;em&gt;Tobias&lt;/em&gt;, during his in-prison research for the role of &lt;em&gt;&quot;Frightened Inmate #2&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, is having difficulties with his new roommate &lt;em&gt;White Power Bill&lt;/em&gt;. But when he approaches the &lt;em&gt;Warden&lt;/em&gt; with his fears, he manages to convince &lt;em&gt;Tobias&lt;/em&gt; of going on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Warden&lt;/strong&gt;: But didn't you come here to research the nature of fear? I can't think about a better teacher than White Power Bill, he's like a master's course unto himself.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Tobias&lt;/strong&gt;: So you think I'm a coward?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Warden&lt;/strong&gt;: There's only one man I thought to call a coward, that's Brian Doyle Murray...No, what I'm calling you...is a television actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;I didn't get the reference to &lt;em&gt;Brian Doyle Murray&lt;/em&gt;. Who is this and why does the &lt;em&gt;Warden&lt;/em&gt; call him a coward?&lt;/strong&gt; It seems unlikely for the show to just pick any arbitrary name without any relevance to it. Seeing that there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236519/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a famous actor named thus&lt;/a&gt; still doesn't help me to understand his relation to &lt;em&gt;Arrested Development&lt;/em&gt;. Or maybe it is a reference to some casting related quarrels between the show and the actor (as &lt;em&gt;Arrested Development&lt;/em&gt; indeed sometimes references incidents related to the show's production itself)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T02:24:13.343" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T08:11:01.330" Title="Why is Brian Doyle Murray a coward?" Tags="|plot-explanation|reference|arrested-development|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23959" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23960" CreationDate="2014-08-17T15:38:52.443" Score="26" ViewCount="2066" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that many Disney and Pixar animated movies contain 'A-133' in some (random) places. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Toy Story:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fwwKq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Bug's Life:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/usMCH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cars:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ADQg1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brave:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hbl7a.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monster's University:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OOBDk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any explanation to this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T15:33:20.980" Title="Why do Disney and Pixar animated movies contain the 'A-113' easter egg?" Tags="|disney|pixar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23959" CreationDate="2014-08-17T15:45:41.673" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A113&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A113 (sometimes A-113 or A1-13) is an inside joke, an Easter egg in animated films created by alumni of California Institute of the Arts, referring to the classroom used by graphic design and character animation students including John Lasseter and Brad Bird. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see John Lasseter explaining it here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/R9l4QKsQl1A?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some of Pixar's main figures and the famous classroom:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r1Y4l.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; The Wiki page above offers a pretty comprehensive list which proves that the A113 easter egg has spread to many other places, including a huge number of animated shows as well as live action films like &lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible 4&lt;/em&gt;. Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.a113animation.com/2011/02/a113.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog page&lt;/a&gt; that displays some of those non-Pixar examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-08-26T15:33:20.980" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T15:33:20.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23963" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23991" CreationDate="2014-08-17T16:57:45.500" Score="2" ViewCount="1288" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we consider that part in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006864/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout The Ages&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; where the general kisses the king (just a fast kiss), as the first gay kissing or not?&#xA;Because it is not shown in a gay manner, just like a normal habit for those people of that place and time.&#xA;Or can we, if we consider the actual ideas and concepts about homosexuality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13314" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-17T20:21:13.030" LastActivityDate="2022-11-27T09:11:01.553" Title="Does Intolerance show the first gay kissing?" Tags="|first-appearance|intolerance|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11507" CreationDate="2014-08-17T17:03:01.273" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is some continuity between films. It is best seen in some of the supporting characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is complicated because the early films were made in the roughly reverse order that the books were written. So for example Quarrel is first met in the early book Live and Let Die and then dies in Dr No. For the film Live and Let Die they called him Quarrel Jr.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Felix Leiter's character is similarly distorted but there is some continuity within the books and within the films but never between the books and the films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Craig era films are best considered a reboot as they would have had to set Casino Royale in the 1950s to preserve continuity with the older films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1219" LastActivityDate="2014-08-17T17:03:01.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23969" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24105" CreationDate="2014-08-17T19:22:24.630" Score="40" ViewCount="8721" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Context&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In US movies, time and again, the bad guys end up being Russians.&#xA;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarecrow_and_Mrs._King&quot;&gt;Scarecrow and Mrs. King&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1980s US TV show&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bad guys: Russian KGB&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ship_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;The Last Ship&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2010s US TV show&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bad guys: Russian military&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's at least a time span of over 30 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it in Russian movies? Are Americans the default bad guys in Russian movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1681" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T21:48:43.367" LastActivityDate="2022-05-30T17:35:51.513" Title="Are Americans the bad guys in Russian movies?" Tags="|russian-cinema|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23971" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23973" CreationDate="2014-08-17T21:53:04.950" Score="25" ViewCount="3365" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the credits in &lt;em&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt; there was a post credit scene with The Collector and a talking duck, that was introduced as &quot;Howard the duck&quot; and the author whom created him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what was the reason for this scene and why did they introduce this character to the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-19T08:46:04.200" LastActivityDate="2019-08-12T20:38:15.813" Title="What was the reference in the post credit scene in Guardians of the Galaxy?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23971" CreationDate="2014-08-17T22:24:55.733" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is from Geek Tyrant, who lifted an &lt;strong&gt;Empire&lt;/strong&gt; interview with the film's director, &lt;strong&gt;James Gunn&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I think it was some combination of me and the editor Fred Raskin who&#xA;  said, ‘Let’s put Howard The Duck in there. What if The Collector looks&#xA;  over and sees Howard The Duck sitting there?’ And I wrote down the&#xA;  line, ‘Whaddya let it lick you like that for? Gross.’ Fred and I&#xA;  thought it was hilarious, but we weren’t sure that (Head of Marvel&#xA;  Studios) Kevin Feige would go for it. But we told Kevin and Kevin&#xA;  couldn’t stop laughing, so that’s how it came about.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When asked about Howard the Duck possibly getting his own movie, Gunn&#xA;  replied:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I’ll be honest with you, I was just talking about it with my&#xA;  assistant right now (Laughs). It’s possible Howard could reappear as&#xA;  more of a character in the Marvel Universe. But if people think that’s&#xA;  going to lead to a Howard The Duck movie, that’s probably not going to&#xA;  happen in the next four years. Who knows after that?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the duck is called Howard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give a little more context, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_the_Duck_(film)&quot;&gt;Howard the Duck&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was a 1986 sci fi movie which was, according to its wiki, the first attempt at a theatrical release [of a film based on a Marvel character] since the Captain America serial of 1944.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was included in the post-credits of Guardians of the Galaxy as a homage to that first Marvel outing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-08-17T22:24:55.733" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23975" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-18T00:23:37.803" Score="2" ViewCount="689" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086759/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Miami Vice&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &quot;Out Where the Buses Don't Run&quot; (S02E03) is centered around deranged ex-detective &lt;em&gt;Hank Weldon&lt;/em&gt;'s hunt for the mysterious &lt;em&gt;Tony Arcaro&lt;/em&gt;, who is described by him as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mr. founding father of cocaine in Miami, Mr. start of the business in 1962, the invisible man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While &lt;em&gt;Hank Weldon&lt;/em&gt; is surely not the most reliable of sources, &lt;em&gt;Tony Arcaro&lt;/em&gt; seems to have been some kind of legend or even pioneer of cocaine business in Miami, having started it back in 1962 and actively shaped it until his disappearance after being freed from court in 1979 (having actually been killed by &lt;em&gt;Hank&lt;/em&gt; himself, as we learn 6 years later).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thus wonder &lt;strong&gt;if the character of &lt;em&gt;Tony Arcaro&lt;/em&gt; is based on some particular real historical figure in Miami's drug business&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T15:59:19.177" Title="Is Tony Arcaro based on a real-world personality?" Tags="|reference|historical-accuracy|miami-vice|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23971" CreationDate="2014-08-18T00:41:46.797" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a little bit of further history to add to this, as for Marvel Fans the inclusion of &lt;em&gt;Howard the Duck&lt;/em&gt; is partially contentious...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Up until very recently, &lt;em&gt;Howard the Duck&lt;/em&gt; has been a largely off-topic point of discussion for Marvel (where the polite etiquette is to keep your mouth shut about it). To discuss Howard would be akin to congratulating Pixar for &lt;em&gt;John Carter of Mars&lt;/em&gt;; it caused a lot of trouble/stress, and everyone would much rather not talk about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Howard the Duck&lt;/em&gt; was a character created by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Gerber&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Steve Gerber&lt;/a&gt;, a highly respected Marvel writer who passed away from a long-running illness. Steve Gerber famously struggled with Marvel for creative control of the character, as he (and &lt;em&gt;Howard the Duck&lt;/em&gt;) are at the centre of a controversy that fundamentally affected the concept of 'Creator-Owned' characters in comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite being the sole creator of &lt;em&gt;Howard the Duck&lt;/em&gt;, Gerber was denied scalable pay for the amount of income Marvel was receiving from the line. When Gerber tried to take the character to another, independent publishing company; he discovered that he had waived his legal right to any claim over the character by the terms of his contract with Marvel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gerber left Marvel embittered, and created a deliberate (and, as Marvel lawyers argued, copyright infringing) duplicate of &lt;em&gt;Howard the Duck&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroyer_Duck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Destroyer Duck.&lt;/a&gt; Howard the Duck has been a bitter affair for Marvel ever since, and their attempts (by George Lucas) to turn the property into a movie fell flat: although Gerber was happy to see his creation realized cinematically, and even attending the set of the Movie on numerous occasions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way Gerber was treated was a real wake-up call for Comic Book artists across the industry, and became the rallying cry (along with examples from the likes of Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby) for a mass-exodus of talent from Marvel...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spawn&lt;/em&gt; comics are a result of this, as Todd Macfarlane made a speech at &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Gruenwald&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mark Gruenwald&lt;/a&gt; funeral directly criticizing Marvel for its treatment of the Bullpen, and citing Gerber/&lt;em&gt;Howard the Duck&lt;/em&gt; as soapbox example of everything that was wrong with Marvel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few months after Gruenwald died, Steve Gerber took his revenge against Marvel for their treatment of what he saw as his baby Duck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a special crossover series of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicvine.com/savage-dragon-destroyer-duck-1-savage-dragon-destr/4000-141628/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Savage Dragon/Destroyer Duck&lt;/a&gt; written by Gruenwald, we see Destroyer Duck &lt;strong&gt;'Save'&lt;/strong&gt; what is unmistakably (but not overtly confirmed for obvious litigious reasons) Howard the Duck from his environment, claiming he has swapped him for a inferior clone/robot version of him, of a lesser quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the comic community, it was a daring Coup-de-état against Marvel: Gerber was given the 'privilege' of writing a cameo part of the Marvel Universe, and used the opportunity to alter the lore of the MU by reclaiming his personal creation, and casting aspersions over the validity of any future use of the character by Marvel... and because the series was produced in issues alternating in publication between Marvel and Image (with this issue being an Image one), Marvel were unable to do anything (editorially, at least) about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, Gerber screwed Marvel over, and &lt;em&gt;Howard the Duck&lt;/em&gt; is a by-word for the era of a non-unified, at odds with itself Marvel of the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact is, since the Toybiz merger of the mid-90's conditions improved dramatically for Marvel, and by the time Disney had bought them out as an entertainment company they had restored to a (largely) cohesive and co-operative organisation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However: even when Marvel merged with Disney, &lt;em&gt;Howard the Duck&lt;/em&gt; had &lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Howard_the_Duck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;one last spanner to throw into the works&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Due to Howard's resemblance to Donald, Disney had almost sued Marvel&#xA;  for copyright infringement until Howard was given a redesign to ease&#xA;  the dispute (hence his wearing pants).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Howard has since appeared as a character in the Disney/Marvel Animation properties; &lt;em&gt;Ultimate Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His cameo in &lt;em&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt; is part of an ongoing 'celebration' by Marvel/Disney that recognizes that their past differences are behind them. Howard is even featured/parodied in Pixars' &lt;em&gt;Planes 2: Fire and Rescue&lt;/em&gt; as 'Howard the Truck'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In summary:&lt;/strong&gt; to anyone familiar with the largely famous ongoing disputes surrounding &lt;em&gt;Howard the Duck&lt;/em&gt;, his inclusion in a MCU film is not only a gesture of respect to Gerber's legacy, but an indication that they have moved on from their largely slef-destructive treatment of their fans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2019-08-12T20:38:15.813" LastActivityDate="2019-08-12T20:38:15.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="23979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23925" CreationDate="2014-08-18T02:19:02.050" Score="3" Body="&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Robocop&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8+ hours every day for a month&lt;/strong&gt;, ~230 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It was so intense, that experience, of putting on that suit—particularly doing the face, which took six and a half hours,&amp;quot; Weller said. &amp;quot;Stephan Dupuis and the Robo team, Rob Bottin designed this genius applicator ... it took six and a half hours to do that prosthetic, and then another hour and a half to get into the suit. And we'd done an eight-and-a-half-hour day by the time the crew came to shoot, and you just had to shoot that face out in five hours before the rubber collapsed. There were 27 days of absolute ... I wouldn't say 'misery,' but it really demanded a Zen sort of discipline.&amp;quot; -&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blastr.com/2012/03/little_known_sci_fi_fact_4.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blaster.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bJyuW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8580" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-08-21T23:00:10.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23981" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23999" CreationDate="2014-08-18T03:10:52.030" Score="10" ViewCount="3002" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, was Mike Ehrmantraut 'the guy' that Saul knew could get Walt and Jesse in contact with a meth distributor (Gus)?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To refresh the memories, from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Mandala&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mandala&lt;/a&gt; (season 2, episode 11) &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Mandala_subtitles&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sub-titles&lt;/a&gt; when Saul, Walt and Jesse are discussing the 38 pounds stock they have of the blue meth:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saul:&lt;/strong&gt;  .. What you two need is an honest-to-God businessman.&#xA;  Somebody who treats your product like the simple&#xA;  high-margin commodity that it is.  Somebody who ships out of town, deals only in bulk. Someone who's been doing this for 20 years and never been caught.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt:&lt;/strong&gt;  You know someone like that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saul:&lt;/strong&gt;  Let's just say &lt;em&gt;I know a guy&#xA;  who knows a guy.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there any canon source (interviews, commentary on DVDs etc.) to suggest that 'guy' was actually Mike?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mike was presumably working directly with Fring at that same time he was doing work for Saul, but whether he was leery of Saul knowing he had any connection with Gus/a meth distributor, is not clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I read that quoted material again, it strikes me as odd that Saul knew &lt;em&gt;&quot;doing this for 20 years&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;em&gt;&quot;ships out of town&quot;&lt;/em&gt;..  That seems a surprising level of detail for someone who claims just to 'know a guy who knows a guy'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wiki concludes it was (probably) Mike.  From &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Mike_Ehrmantraut#Season_2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mike Ehrmantraut: Season 2&lt;/a&gt;..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Saul manages to arrange a meeting with Gustavo Fring for Walter White and Jesse Pinkman to make a deal about selling Walt's Blue Sky. &lt;strong&gt;The contact referred to is probably Mike;&lt;/strong&gt; as Saul says he &quot;knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy [Gus]&quot;. (&quot;Mandala&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-16T11:10:53.077" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T11:10:53.077" Title="Was Mike 'the Guy'?" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23477" CreationDate="2014-08-18T05:32:31.027" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Buffy was conceptualized by Joss Whedon specifically as a twist to this trope albeit in a simpler way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two ways to view this trope. The first is that in a group one of the first to die is the most attractive girl and one of the last to die is the least attractive girl*. The second perspective is that one of the first to die is the first girl to get separated by the group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Buffy is a counter to the second interpertation: the girl who winds up walking alone in the dark ends up killing the monsters and actually turns out to be the main &quot;hero&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Additional answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that I think about it, it would also be accurate to consider Buffy as a counter to this trope in general. In the series, Buffy is depicted as the most sexual member of her group. At least initially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;*note: I used the description &quot;attractive&quot; rather than &quot;sexual&quot; because not all horror films that follow this trope portray the girl as more sexually active that the others in the group. However, she tends to be one of the more attractive member of the group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9574" LastEditorUserId="9574" LastEditDate="2014-08-18T05:45:53.363" LastActivityDate="2014-08-18T05:45:53.363" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18499" CreationDate="2014-08-18T06:07:39.530" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's because Holder is supposed to embody the addict/cool/street guy. He is the guy that knows how to get secrets out of people and how to get things done discretely. Basically he is a smooth talker! So it makes sense that he would know a few words of a different language. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I don't see why he can't also have a knowledge of various languages! It's upsetting that would bother someone. I'm pretty sure there were a few episodes that featured Arabic speaking in regards to the mosque and the high school teacher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13325" LastActivityDate="2014-08-18T06:07:39.530" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23987" CreationDate="2014-08-18T07:30:29.267" Score="7" ViewCount="42510" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to find a movie I saw a few years ago, and I don't remember much about it so I hope someone will find with the few information I have&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's an asian ghost movie, a Korean movie I think, about a guy and his girlfriend. A lot of weird things happen to the guy, and the ghost who does that is (I think, I hope i'm not mixing different movies) a girl that used to love him, but that used to be bullied by him and his group of friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During all the movie, the guy has back pain and at a moment, he goes up on a scale and seems to weigh way too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end of the movie, he realizes that the ghost of the girl has been sat on his shoulders all along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that's few information but I don't remember more than this, and since I saw this movie when I was younger and it scared me, I'd like to see it again now !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13326" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-08-18T07:54:59.360" LastActivityDate="2016-06-05T08:31:47.173" Title="Korean movie with ghost on man's shoulders" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:16:39.887" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23986" CreationDate="2014-08-18T07:50:14.610" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's Thai, not Korean. This sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0440803/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Shutter&lt;/a&gt; from 2004. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_%282004_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tun begins to discover mysterious white shadows and what appear to be faces in his photographs. A suspicious Jane thinks these images may be the ghost of the girl they hit on the road. Tun, who has been experiencing severe neck pains since the accident, visits a specialist. While a nurse attempts to measure his weight, to his dismay, he weighs approximately 120 kilograms (264 pounds). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been remade twice, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_%282010_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Click&lt;/a&gt; (2010) in India and as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_%282008_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Shutter&lt;/a&gt; (2008) in the US. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Btt2kQ7Czds?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-05T08:31:47.173" LastActivityDate="2016-06-05T08:31:47.173" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23988" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="23992" CreationDate="2014-08-18T07:57:38.953" Score="7" ViewCount="4887" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems strange that Marvel allows liberties to be taken with established events and stories while making its movies. Why does it do this? Why don't they get script writers to stick to the comic book facts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For eg: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the Iron man comics, the arc reactor was created much later in the story line.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In Days of future past, it is Wolverine that is sent to the past. In the comics An adult Kate - Pryde transfers her mind into her younger self (Kitty Pryde)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the Comics, I don't think Kitty Pryde has the ability to facilitate time travel (not as a permanent ability anyway).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure there are several more instance of this. I am not nit picking on minor changes to the story line but drastic changes that seem to stick out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-18T10:27:56.690" LastActivityDate="2017-07-10T10:05:38.950" Title="Why don't Marvel movies stick to canon?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|comic-adaptation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23988" CreationDate="2014-08-18T08:17:13.087" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;First things first, Marvel rights are split between Disney (main owner), Fox, and Sony. So the reason for changes depends on the owner of the rights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the case of Iron-man, Disney has all the rights of the comics and movies of Iron-man. They are free to do anything with the character. There are many Iron-Man comics now. If they stick with the plot of the comics, then they would have to make many movies to cover it. Extremis' arc is also far too long to adapt into a single movie, so they decided to go with the fusion of plots (and it worked).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the case of X-men, the rights are with Fox. X-men movies were already ruined with respect to continuity, so Fox tried to reunite with &lt;em&gt;Days of Future Past&lt;/em&gt;. So if you want them to stick to the comics, then they can't include the cast from &lt;em&gt;First Class&lt;/em&gt; because the story from &lt;em&gt;First Class&lt;/em&gt; wasn't in the comics. Kitty Pryde is not used to traveling to the past because she wasn't there in &lt;em&gt;First Class&lt;/em&gt; and she was quite young in X-Men 3. So she can't be used as a mind-time-traveler. So her skills were modified to make Wolverine the traveler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-27T15:50:23.707" LastActivityDate="2016-07-27T15:50:23.707" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23963" CreationDate="2014-08-18T08:18:23.113" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the film, but given the manner of the kiss you've described I'd say no, it's not the first gay kiss. I'd back this up by pointing to the fact that no gay/lesbian cinema websites, or record collecting books like the Guinness Book of Records, mention it as being the first gay kiss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think if you were to take a kiss like that as being homosexual, then any movie where two men kissed each other on the cheek would be gay - an obviously ridiculous concept when you consider how many countries use that as a common greeting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, I'd point towards &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013372/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Manslaughter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, a 1922 silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It featured a romantic kiss between two women in a prison scene (and is listed as being the first gay kiss by The Guinness Book of Movie Facts and Feats) - although I can't cite a reference for this, as it's not available online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the first male gay kiss, that's a little harder. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018578/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, a 1927 silent film (and only majority silent film to win an Oscar for Best Picture until &lt;strong&gt;The Artist&lt;/strong&gt; in 2012) had a homo-erotic relationship between two men who were supposed to be vying for the affections of a woman (but were more interested in each other). You can see one of their romantic scenes &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openculture.com/2012/01/brokeback_before_brokeback_the_first_same-sex_kiss_in_cinema_1927.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. However, as the scene shows, their relationship is largely based on the idea of their attraction to each other, rather than by explicitly showing it. In other words, their kiss is a simple kiss on the cheek, much like the one you describe in your original question. The difference however is that they very much meant it romantically, in contrast to the film you cited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An even earlier film showing a similar relationship was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0009878/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Different from the Others&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a 1919 German film, which IMDB describes as: &quot;Two male musicians fall in love, but blackmail and scandal makes the affair take a tragic turn.&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, like with Wings, no on-screen lip kiss between the males is shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, as Wings is commonly cited as the first male gay kiss, I'm yet to find an answer regarding the first lip male kiss, although I'll update this answer if/when I do. But to answer your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;No, Intolerance does not show the first gay kissing - the first gay kiss in cinema appears to be in the film Manslaughter, between two females&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-08-18T08:18:23.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23988" CreationDate="2014-08-18T08:58:17.807" Score="35" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why don't they get script writers to stick to the comic book facts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;And what comic book facts are these, exactly?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marvel have repeatedly ret-conned and rebooted the majority of their characters at some point in the past: even within the same Universe its almost impossible to find a character with a totally non-contradictory history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_versions_of_Spider-Man&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;been over 30 different versions&lt;/a&gt; of Spider-Man,for example: and even recently, many of these are published concurrently: &lt;em&gt;Superior Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Ultimate Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt; are all supposed to be the 'Same' individual, but there are still off-shoots like &lt;em&gt;Scarlet Spider&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to address these discrepancies, Mark Gruenwald created a 'Universe Designation' cataloging system in his fanzine 'Omnibus', which has since been adopted by the comics themselves. There are now several alternate realities of Marvel operating side by side: The Main comics universe is Earth 616, the Ultimates Universe is Earth-1610 and &lt;strong&gt;the MCU universe is Earth-199999&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no clear, consistent 'comic book facts' in Marvel Lore; it is constantly being renegotiated by different writers who will change details of individual narratives to serve Retcons, Reboots, or Remediation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The MCU is an example of property remediation: Marvel are adapting their recognisable and well circulated comic book stories into film, and as such will change them to suit the new medium (and to create something new, instead of just retreading the same old familiar).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no comic book facts, and MCU writers are electing to do just that: to write Something new, something different, something less predictable but still familiar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important to realize that the Movies aren't even supposed to be set in the same universe as the comics: they use referential paratexts to the comics, like Easter eggs; but they're within a separate continuity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-07-10T10:05:38.950" LastActivityDate="2017-07-10T10:05:38.950" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23994" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24001" CreationDate="2014-08-18T11:03:54.773" Score="1" ViewCount="159" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was there any reasoning behind the cancellation of The Secret Circle and whether this could return again in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13016" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T23:33:26.487" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T23:33:26.487" Title="Cancellation of The Secret Circle (2011-2012)" Tags="|cancellation|the-secret-circle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23742" CreationDate="2014-08-18T13:49:18.723" Score="39" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes, she did.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, I agree that &lt;em&gt;Black Widow&lt;/em&gt;'s discovery didn't help &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; that much, since it was just too late to really act on anything. However, I also &lt;strong&gt;can't see how this really helped &lt;em&gt;Loki&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and what his motivation for revealing that to her would have been. (Though, I admit that I didn't completely get how &lt;em&gt;The Hulk&lt;/em&gt; was such an important part of &lt;em&gt;Loki&lt;/em&gt;'s plan at all. The whole matter of this conversation seemed a little forced to me.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, he wasn't tricked by any &lt;em&gt;&quot;puny mortal girl&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, but by &lt;em&gt;Black Widow&lt;/em&gt;, who is in fact &lt;em&gt;&quot;a spy and not a soldier&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, and not a bad spy after all. While being not bad at combat, she is established as &lt;strong&gt;an excellent spy and interrogator&lt;/strong&gt;. This is emphasized as soon as her first scene in the movie, when she is &quot;interrogating&quot; those Russian gangsters while she is actually the one bound and supposedly interrogated by them, albeit &lt;em&gt;&quot;those idiots being about to tell her everything&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. So if there's anything she excels at, it's clever interrogation and this scene with &lt;em&gt;Loki&lt;/em&gt; and the revelation that she was playing along all the time was exactly &lt;strong&gt;made as that kind of &quot;Wow!&quot;-effect to reinforce this aspect of her character&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And exactly because of this purpose of that scene &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the fact that we don't know &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; this was part of &lt;em&gt;Loki&lt;/em&gt;'s plan &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the fact that this scene makes &lt;em&gt;Back Widow&lt;/em&gt;'s victory &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; obvious, I don't have any reason to believe this double play to actually have been a triple play. &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; is a rather straight-to-the-point movie that doesn't rely on too subtle of dialogue aspects. I don't say it is a dumb movie or that it can't employ subtle hints and character aspects, but &lt;em&gt;Loki&lt;/em&gt; actually doing a triple play in this conversation &lt;em&gt;without the slightest hint&lt;/em&gt; of this would just not fit at all, be this just a little smile on his face after &lt;em&gt;Black Widow&lt;/em&gt; left or a more elaborate comment later in the movie that this conversation played out as he wanted. &lt;strong&gt;The way this scene played out actually &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the evidence that &lt;em&gt;Black Widow&lt;/em&gt; tricked &lt;em&gt;Loki&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I agree that I don't present any &lt;em&gt;hard&lt;/em&gt; proof for one side or the other, but this is exactly the reason why I think there is not more to this scene than presented to us in the movie as &lt;strong&gt;that kind of ambiguity would not be coherent with the rest of the movie's style&lt;/strong&gt;. The burden of proof that this served &lt;em&gt;Loki&lt;/em&gt; any purpose and that he only played the surprised one thus lies completely on anyone claiming this, and for this I don't see any sufficiently obvious evidence in the movie at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T14:42:24.743" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T14:42:24.743" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23981" CreationDate="2014-08-18T15:35:29.117" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;I know a guy who knows a guy&quot;, is just one of the witty lines that Saul uses every now and then. It does not mean Saul did not know much about Gus. It should not be forgotten that Saul was a &quot;Criminal&quot; lawyer and he must have been in contact with a lot of criminals in the town. A lot of contacts. A guy like this must have had a lot of information about the criminal actvities going around in town and the criminals in the town. However it can assumed that Saul did not have any direct contact with Gus, but knew pretty well that Mike had direct contact with Gus. So my point is Saul could have known about Gus, not necessarily through Mike, but Saul knew that Mike was the guy to talk when a direct contact with Gus was needed. And to answer your question &quot;Yes Mike was the guy. The guy who could arrange a meeting with Gus&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-08-18T15:35:29.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23998" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-18T17:05:59.600" Score="2" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Criterion Collection released &lt;em&gt;The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou&lt;/em&gt; on Blu-ray back in May, the first appearance of the film on that format. The source for this disc was a &quot;new, restored 4K film transfer, supervised by director Wes Anderson.&quot; However, long before this release, the film had been available for rental and purchase in 1080p HD by the Vudu service. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having seen both versions, it's very clear that these are different masters. The Vudu version, for example, appears to be much sharper, while the Criterion boasts a more &quot;filmic&quot; transfer. Did the Vudu version not come from a 4K film transfer? How many different HD masters of films are floating around out there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T10:46:30.600" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T10:46:30.600" Title="Are there multiple HD masters of movies?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="23999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23981" CreationDate="2014-08-18T17:56:21.420" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's never outright stated in the show, but it's the only logical conclusion based on the characters we meet: &lt;strong&gt;nobody else is shown to have contact with both Gus and Saul&lt;/strong&gt;. In chronological order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Gus is the distributor&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt first figures this out in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232246/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S02E11- Mandala&lt;/a&gt; after observing his behaviour and knowing Saul's description of him and it's obviously the case in later seasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gus&lt;/strong&gt;: Can I help you, sir?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt&lt;/strong&gt;: Diet Coke, please. And five minutes of your time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Gus feigns ignorance for a few minutes]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt&lt;/strong&gt;: I was told that the man I would be meeting with is very careful. A cautious man. I believe we're alike in that way. If you are who I think you are  you should give me another chance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gus&lt;/strong&gt;: I don't think we're alike at all, Mr. White. You are not a cautious man at all. Your partner was late and he was high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Saul knows Mike&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232248/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S02E13- ABQ&lt;/a&gt; after Jesse discovers Jane is dead, he calls Walt, and at the end of the phone call, he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt&lt;/strong&gt;: Just sit tight. I know who to call.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Scene change - Outside Jesse's apartment]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mike&lt;/strong&gt;: Saul Goodman sent me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This certainly implies Walt called Saul, and Saul called Mike. This is backed up in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615186/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S03E02- Caballo Sin Nombre&lt;/a&gt;, after Walt tells Saul that Skyler wants a divorce, Saul gets into his car and we cut to Mike:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Mike answers the phone]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mike&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saul&lt;/strong&gt;: It's me. We may have a wife problem. Look, I need eyes on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mike&lt;/strong&gt;: You got an address?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on, Mike is seen installing a bug into Walt's house and observes &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/The_Cousins&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Cousins&lt;/a&gt; arriving with a fireaxe. This leads us straight into:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Mike knows Gus&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After The Cousins have entered Walt's house, Mike picks up the phone and says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's me. There's something he should know about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We then cut over to the man on the other end of the phone, who turns out to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Victor&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Victor&lt;/a&gt; who was the man that Walt met in Los Pollos Hermanos to buy Walt's meth on behalf of Gus in &lt;em&gt;Mandala&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/REUfo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Victor in Mandala&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Caballo Sin Nombre ends with Victor approaching Gus in the Laundry, and passing on Mike's message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/omLrV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Victor and Gus in Caballa Sin Nombre&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their relationship is then confirmed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615554/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S03E04- Green Light&lt;/a&gt; when Mike and Gus meet to discuss Walt's cancer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GN6Dh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Mike and Gus in Green Light&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other candidate for &amp;quot;The guy&amp;quot; is Victor, but we never see Saul have contact with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Occam's razor&lt;/a&gt; would suggest that Mike being &amp;quot;the guy&amp;quot; is more likely than either Victor who misses 1 criteria on-screen, or there being a different contact who is never shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-08-18T17:56:21.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23998" CreationDate="2014-08-18T18:50:34.887" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A distribution network will typically hold on to their prints for as long as possible (I.E they hold the rights to it): in the era of digital distribution &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/21754/what-format-do-movie-theaters-now-use/21756#21756&quot;&gt;that extends to exhibition itself&lt;/a&gt;, this is becoming easier and easier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Increasingly, edits are drawn from the original, 4K exhibition quality 'Copy' and are subjected to certain cuts. Sometimes, this process is reversed to the benefit of the Post-release market (Content that had to be removed to obtain a rating that would have produced a stricter classification; think &quot;_ _ _ :Uncut&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quality of transfer is not the only criteria that substantiates the release of different versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically, a higher quality approximate of an exibition quality will arrive when there is a market for it: until then, the 'version' doesn't exist outside the archives of the exhibition company responsible for its distribution...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2014-08-18T18:50:34.887" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23994" CreationDate="2014-08-18T19:21:47.977" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there any reasoning behind the cancellation of The Secret Circle&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most obvious answer would be the sharply declining ratings (nearly) each episode got. The following graph is based on the zap2it reports of the Nielsen ratings listed below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VJbbF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VJbbF.png&quot; alt=&quot;Graph of The Secret Circle Viewers&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Click to Enlarge&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only were the viewers low, The Secret Circle was consistently &lt;strong&gt;the lowest viewed TV show in the 9:00pm timeslot across all broadcast networks&lt;/strong&gt;, and by quite a long way compared to the second last:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/09/16/thursday-final-ratings-the-vampire-diaries-wipeout-adjusted-up/103906/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pilot&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;3.05 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 60,000 viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/09/23/thursday-finals-big-bang-theory-the-x-factor-parks-recreation-and-whitney-adjusted-up/104707/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bound&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;2.12 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 5.52 million viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/09/29/thursday-final-ratings-x-factor-the-big-bang-theory-greys-anatomy-the-office-the-secret-circle-mentalist-adjusted-up/105546/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Loner&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;2.12 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 4.58 million viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/10/07/thursday-final-ratings-x-factor-the-big-bang-theory-greys-anatomy-the-office-person-of-interest-parks-private-practice-down/106528/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Heather&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;1.96 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 6.74 million viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/10/14/thursday-final-ratings-big-bang-theory-greys-anatomy-office-person-of-interest-x-factor-adjusted-up-private-practice-adjusted-down/107299/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Slither&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;1.89 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 4.191 million viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/10/21/thursday-final-ratings-world-series-big-bang-greys-vampire-diaries-adjusted-up-rules-private-practice-adjusted-down/108043/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wake&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;2.12 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 1.16 million viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/10/28/tv-ratings-thursday-epic-world-series-game-6-leads-fox-win-prime-suspect-hits-low/108775/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Masked&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;2.333 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 3.119 million viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/11/04/thursday-final-ratings-big-bang-theory-the-x-factor-parks-recreation-the-office-vampire-diaries-greys-anatomy-adjusted-up/109650/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Beneath&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;2.26 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 3.89 million viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/11/11/thursday-final-ratings-big-bang-theory-greys-prime-suspect-adjusted-up-bones-rules-private-practice-adjusted-down/110412/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Balcoin&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;2.17 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 3.79 million viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/01/06/thursday-final-ratings-the-vampire-diaries-adjusted-up/115573/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Darkness&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;2.05 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 560,000 viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/01/13/thursday-final-ratings-big-bang-theory-adjusted-up-private-practice-adjusted-down/116462/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fire/Ice&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;1.93 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 3.57 million viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/01/20/thursday-final-ratings-big-bang-theory-tops-american-idol-1st-half-hour-office-mentalist-greys-adj-up-person-rob-parks-adj-down/117089/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Witness&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;1.63 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 4.39 million viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/02/03/thursday-final-ratings-american-idol-big-bang-theory-greys-anatomy-office-mentalist-adjusted-up-rob-adjusted-down/118569/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Medallion&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;1.74 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 3.57 million viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/02/10/thursday-final-ratings-the-big-bang-theory-american-idol-greys-anatomy-the-mentalist-vampire-diaries-adjusted-up-rob-private-practice-the-finder-up-all-nig/119426/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Valentine&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;1.82 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 3.37 million viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/02/17/thursday-final-ratings-american-idol-vampire-diaries-greys-anatomy-big-bang-theory-30-rock-office-adjusted-up-person-of-interest-mentalist-adjusted-down/120429/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Return&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;1.71 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 2.67 million viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/03/16/thursday-final-ratings-american-idol-the-office-missing-adjusted-up-private-practice-adjusted-down-ncaa-game-ratings/124732/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lucky&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;1.62 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 3.25 million viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/03/23/thursday-final-ratings-american-idol-touch-30-rock-up-all-night-adjusted-up/125792/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Curse&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;1.72 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 1.7 million viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/03/30/thursday-final-ratings-american-idolthe-big-bang-theory-missing-and-vampire-diaries-adjusted-up-rules-and-touch-adjusted-down/126702/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sacrifice&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;1.33 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 1.26 million&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/04/20/thursday-final-ratings-american-idol-greys-anatomy-awake-scandal-parks-and-recreation-adjusted-down/130065/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Crystal&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;1.14 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 3.21 million viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/04/27/thursday-final-ratings-idol-big-bang-theory-greys-the-vampire-diariesmentalist-scandal-adjusted-down/131096/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Traitor&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;1.15 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 3.02 million viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/05/04/thursday-final-ratingsthe-big-bang-theory-american-idol-vampire-diaries-greys-anatomy-adjusted-up-secret-circle-the-mentalist-scandal-adjusted-down/132411/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Prom&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;1.23 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 3.21 million viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/05/11/thursday-final-ratings-big-bang-theory-idol-vampire-diaries-office-secret-circle-greys-adjusted-up-touch-scandal-adjusted-down/133458/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Family&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;1.28 million&lt;/strong&gt; viewers - &lt;strong&gt;Last&lt;/strong&gt; by 3.21 million viewers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could [it] return again in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly, but I doubt it. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Circle_%28TV_series%29#Cancellation_and_fan_campaign&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia says&lt;/a&gt; there have been several attempts but all of them failed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On May 11, 2012, the CW cancelled the series, despite being the network's third-highest rated performer. A formal fan-led campaign website titled 'Save The Circle' was launched. A letter-writing campaign aimed to encourage the CW to re-consider bringing back the show for a midseason slot. Campaigns were also launched at other TV networks whose target demo matched those of The CW—MTV, ABC Family, and Syfy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A letter-writing campaign to Syfy was also launched, but ultimately the 'Save The Circle' campaign leaders decided against pursuing the network further due to budgetary concerns. Following the announcement that Warner Bros. had unsuccessfully entered talks with ABC Family about picking up the show and that the series would not be shipped to another network, campaigning targeting potential networks for a pick-up ceased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-08-18T19:21:47.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24004" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24022" CreationDate="2014-08-18T20:27:05.537" Score="1" ViewCount="492" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Death_Note_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Death Note&lt;/a&gt;, Why did Ryuk use Sidoh's death-note rather than his own for dropping into human world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-19T10:50:48.330" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T10:50:48.330" Title="Why didn't Ryuk drop his own death note?" Tags="|plot-explanation|death-note|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24011" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24014" CreationDate="2014-08-19T00:14:06.903" Score="16" ViewCount="3301" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the very end of Aliens. After Ripley has blown the queen alien out the airlock, and she climbs up over the edge of the airlock door. Newt jumps into her arms and says something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds either like &quot;Hold me&quot; or &quot;Mommy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They both sound correct after listening to it a few times, but it seems more relevant to Ripley's character if she actually said &quot;Mommy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T00:42:45.097" Title="What does Newt say at the end of Aliens?" Tags="|dialogue|aliens|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23388" CreationDate="2014-08-19T00:40:52.800" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, not even remotely. Art style names like &quot;Expressionism&quot; are never to be taken literally they always mean something, usually the exact opposite the words original meaning. They also have a different meaning in any media, with very few common traits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expressionism is one kind of opposite of realistic painting (that has nothing to do with realism), where the painter instead of trying to look real, used shapes and colors that are completely out of place, and only give the impression of the real thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wildlife scenes in Lucy are simple metaphors, or parallels to describe lucy's feelings. Expressionism in live action movies would look like an LSD induced psychedelic dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13345" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T00:40:52.800" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24011" CreationDate="2014-08-19T00:42:45.097" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;The line is indeed &lt;code&gt;Mommy&lt;/code&gt;, as you can see from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Aliens.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the script&lt;/a&gt; in scene 199:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T0yO6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Script excerpt from Aliens&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T00:42:45.097" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="912" CreationDate="2014-08-19T01:50:03.970" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds like the 1973 made for television movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Be_Afraid_of_the_Dark_%281973_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Don't Be Afraid of the Dark&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. A couple move into an old house that she inherited. In the basement is a fireplace that has a metal door bolted over it. When she removes it, she freed the creatures locked inside. They came after her in the shower, but when she turned on the light, they fled. But they do come back. Won't spoil it any more than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A trailer can be seen &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TpWSNT5QhE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and here is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stefanpoag.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/dont-be-afraid-of-the-dark-2011-and-1973/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; describing the movie and the 2011 remake, including a few more pictures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o0k76.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T01:50:03.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15636" CreationDate="2014-08-19T03:26:10.947" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is so that you can hear the actors voices, which are usually being recorded without a car idling sound anyway. I tend to cut my car off like this when waiting / talking, so it seems pretty natural to me - but the short answer is so you can hear the dialogue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13348" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T03:26:10.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19735" CreationDate="2014-08-19T03:31:04.560" Score="0" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To establish a time / place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To establish that is it is now day / night&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To give weight to the scene based on the area... city / rural / ghetto / etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To break up a light / dark scene&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The simplest answer could also be that they wanted to have an easy transition between scenes. You can't always just cut sce&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13348" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T03:31:04.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15636" CreationDate="2014-08-19T07:10:21.503" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you stop you car and keep the engine on, it means that you want to go away as soon as possible. So if you pick up a person this is unkind since it means that you don't want to have a conversation with the person before starting the vehicle (for example to know if that person has some need which would require you to wait longer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13355" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T07:10:21.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24004" CreationDate="2014-08-19T08:42:59.007" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;So he won't be obliged to follow the human until death that will get the ownership of the death note. He just followed Light out of boredom and he is interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13358" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T08:42:59.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19735" CreationDate="2014-08-19T11:34:43.890" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll add that it may also be used since in the US there are many TV commercial &quot;interrupting&quot; the TV shows (at least on cable). &#xA;For example, in France, usually, there is only one interruption for TV shows. Taking the time for this kind of view allows to reintroduce softly the viewer into the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, for me, it'a way to answer: When? Where? And take a brief break (since you can't have all the time &quot;action&quot;), slow down the scene, maybe fill the blank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3489" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T11:34:43.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24024" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24034" CreationDate="2014-08-19T14:42:18.813" Score="3" ViewCount="270" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movies are often based on books. But when was the first time when a book was published about a movie? Example : a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholay:_The_Making_of_a_Classic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;book&lt;/a&gt; was published about the Indian movie Sholay. Now this book is about the making of movie, but in my question the movies might not necessarily be so. But of course, movie should be an integral part of the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-08-19T16:09:39.977" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T18:54:51.413" Title="Which is the first book about a movie?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24025" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24026" CreationDate="2014-08-19T15:14:18.970" Score="8" ViewCount="5737" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to know Which was the first movie remake in the history of movies?&#xA;I do not mean reboot. I mean remake i.e. with same story (mostly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-19T15:21:02.260" LastActivityDate="2020-01-12T05:37:20.023" Title="Which was the first movie remake?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24025" CreationDate="2014-08-19T15:36:29.617" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the earliest remake is The Squaw Man:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004635/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;The Squaw Man&lt;/a&gt; (1914), followed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0009650/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3&quot;&gt;The Squaw Man&lt;/a&gt; (1918), asserting the first full-length feature remake was in 1918.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These films--and even the subsequent &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022428/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2&quot;&gt;The Squaw Man&lt;/a&gt; (1931)--were filmed by Cecil B. DeMille.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Squaw Man went on to become the only movie successfully filmed&#xA;  three times by the same director/producer, DeMille. He did a silent&#xA;  remake in 1918, and a talkie version in 1931.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1125" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T15:36:29.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24027" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24038" CreationDate="2014-08-19T15:59:09.827" Score="13" ViewCount="2035" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you can read on Wikipedia, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Smithee&quot;&gt;Alan Smithee&lt;/a&gt; is an official Hollywood pseudonym which can be used by directors who wish to disown a film which they have lost creative control on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They maintain a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Smithee#Film_direction&quot;&gt;list of the films&lt;/a&gt; which are credited to Alan Smithee, however most of them have no information about box office or commercial release profits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can anyone find which Alan Smithee film was the most commercially successful?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;em&gt;Alan Smithee&lt;/em&gt; has become synonymous for &lt;em&gt;poor-quality&lt;/em&gt;, I believe this would be an interesting piece of cinema history as it would indicate that either the director has very high standards, or possibly that they simply couldn't tell that the film was any good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-19T16:05:18.037" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T19:17:22.333" Title="What is the most commercially successful Alan Smithee film?" Tags="|cinema-history|alan-smithee|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24029" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-19T16:13:46.097" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Veronica Mars is an American mystery drama series set in the fictional town of Neptune, California, starring Kristen Bell as the titular character. The series ran between September 22, 2004 through to May 22, 2007, for a total of three seasons, and later spawned a movie funded via Kickstarter. The series was rebooted by &lt;a href=&quot;https://hulu.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;hulu&lt;/a&gt; and a fourth season was released on June 26, 2019.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For questions about the movie, use &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/veronica-mars-movie&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;veronica-mars-movie&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;veronica-mars-movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Mars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412253/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="63980" LastEditDate="2019-07-28T14:21:37.367" LastActivityDate="2019-07-28T14:21:37.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24030" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-19T16:13:46.097" Score="0" Body="An American mystery drama series set in the fictional town of Neptune, California, starring Kristen Bell as the titular character. The series ran between September 22, 2004 through to May 22, 2007, for a total of three seasons, and later spawned a movie funded via Kickstarter." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T02:50:58.907" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T02:50:58.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24033" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-19T17:53:30.870" Score="4" ViewCount="2460" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the purpose of the &quot;additional storage area&quot; found in Rosemary's apartment?  Was this the link to Roman and Minnie's apartment where they could perform the Satanic rituals?  Could Terry have been an instrument which needed elimination before she fed Rosemary information about the neighbors being practicing witches?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13366" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-19T17:55:25.193" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T01:10:38.277" Title="What was the purpose of the storage area in Rosemary's apartment?" Tags="|plot-explanation|rosemarys-baby|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24024" CreationDate="2014-08-19T18:54:51.413" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000031/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Katharine Hepburn&lt;/a&gt; wrote a biography about the making of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043265/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The African Queen&lt;/a&gt;. The book was titled: &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0394562720&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Making of the African Queen: Or How I Went to Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie came out in 1951. The book came out in 1987. I'm guessing someone will find an earlier book, but it's the first one I could think of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8243" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T18:54:51.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24035" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24037" CreationDate="2014-08-19T20:13:06.373" Score="8" ViewCount="5579" Body="&lt;p&gt;After waking up from her four-year coma, caused by a gunshot wound in her head, and apparently with a metal plate in her skull, has the Bride fully regained all her faculties? Or are her mental abilities impacted by her head injury?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite her previous reputation as the best female fighter in the world, the Bride does not look as a better fighter in her encounters with Vernita, O-Ren, and Elle. Also she is outsmarted by Budd. Also she fails to anticipate Bill's attack. So, is the Bride just as efficient fighter as she was before her head injury?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Elle calls the Bride the best female fighter in the world, when she expresses her regret that Budd, who is just an alcoholic, was able to kill her. Also the Bride calls herself &quot;the deadliest woman in the world&quot; during her encounter with Karen Kim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastEditorUserId="5277" LastEditDate="2014-08-19T20:42:44.763" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T20:58:57.707" Title="Did Bill's bullet cause any brain damage?" Tags="|plot-explanation|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24035" CreationDate="2014-08-19T20:58:57.707" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's unclear, but possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the start of Volume 1 when she attempts to leave her bed, she immediately collapses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fdNR6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Bride fell out of bed&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She then had to take out Buck while on the floor, before using a wheelchair to steal the Pussy Wagon. At this point we are shown a 10 minute sequence about O-Ren Ishii, before The Bride finally regains control of her legs. The next shot is clearly daytime, so we can presume it took her all night to overcome this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's unlikely this was caused by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_atrophy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;muscle atrophy&lt;/a&gt; which is a symptom of coma, as she had no problem stabbing or slamming Budd's head in the door, nor dragging herself around or operating the wheelchair which indicates her arms are working fine. With this in mind, I believe this is a psychological injury caused by her trauma which &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be labelled brain damage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to your examples, I disagree that these are symptoms of brain damage, but simply the result of two highly trained professionals fighting for their lives, which is necessarily going to be brutal and dirty:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Despite her previous reputation as the best female fighter in the world, the Bride does not look as a better fighter in her encounters with Vernita&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The defining feature of the fight with Vernita is the location: a living room. The Bride quickly takes the upper hand, but at every point one of them is knocked down, they immediately grab something to hand to defend themselves with (the leg of a broken table, a fire poker, a frying pan, a kitchen knife). This is not the sort of fight which demonstrates real fighting skills, it's dirty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;O-Ren&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;O-Ren has been killing people with swords since she was &lt;a href=&quot;http://killbill.wikia.com/wiki/O-Ren_Ishii#Revenge&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;eleven years old&lt;/a&gt;. We don't know that much about The Bride's childhood, but I think it's a fair assumption O-Ren started much younger than her and definitely had the upper hand. It may be that the only reason The Bride won was due to her training with &lt;a href=&quot;http://killbill.wikia.com/wiki/Pai_Mei&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pai Mei&lt;/a&gt;, which O-Ren didn't receive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Elle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elle, like The Bride, was taught by Pai Mei, and they were very closely matched. Arguably the only reason she lost, was that Pai Mei took her other eye, which allowed The Bride to instantly blind her with a single hand movement. Presumably, Pai Mei taught The Bride this, but not Elle for obvious reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also she is outsmarted by Budd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outsmarted is a bit strong. The Bride didn't know that Budd knew she was coming, so she had no reason to expect him to shoot her through a closed door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also she fails to anticipate Bill's attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is certainly questionable judgement seeing as he attempted to murder her, but he was very convincing, and the joy at being reunited with a child she assumed dead must be an indescribable experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So, is the Bride just as efficient fighter as she was before her head injury?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe so. The most important point is that they are the Deadly Viper &lt;strong&gt;Assassination&lt;/strong&gt; Squad. They are all excellent fighters, but their primary task was killing people who weren't expecting it, which is very different from killing someone who has all the same training as you and is expecting you to come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-08-19T20:58:57.707" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24027" CreationDate="2014-08-19T22:32:56.307" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are potentially two answers to this: depending on how much you're willing to refine certain elements of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a straight '1 Director' example, &lt;em&gt;Hellraiser Bloodline&lt;/em&gt; is the highest grossing film that is directed singularly by someone invoking 'Alan Smithee'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3S7bm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was actually directed by special FX makeup artist &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0944892/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kevin Yagher&lt;/a&gt;, who has gone on to be lead make-up designer on the TV show &lt;em&gt;Bones&lt;/em&gt;; his career has hardly suffered, actually. The film went on to gross a respectable $9,336,886 from a $4M budget (prints and press inclusive). For a film of this scale, this is actually quite successful.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Distributors &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension_Films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dimension Films&lt;/a&gt; edited the picture so much that Yagher could no longer recognise it as anything approaching his intended picture. Dimension, as part of the Weinstein group, were notorious for such disrespectful treatment of their contributors: so much so that Harvey Weinstein is known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://grantland.com/features/does-harvey-weinstein-help-hurt-movies/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;'Harvey Scissorhands&lt;/a&gt;' in the film industry. This isn't even something that's in the past either; his actions are the reason why Snowpiercer is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2014/06/28/harvey-weinstein-and-saga-snowpiercer/XOoYjxsOisSUhgut1dSfmJ/story.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;yet to achieve a wide release in most countries&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're willing to accept that this is in &lt;em&gt;credit only&lt;/em&gt;  this is certainly going to end up being &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086491/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Twilight Zone: The Movie.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was an anthology horror comprising of four segments, each unconnected. In the filming of one of the stories, lead actor Vic Morrow was killed along with two children. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ru6I9Cc9XnE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most instances of an 'Alan Smithee' scenario, the director has removed their name from credit due to their fear that their overt association with the project will be damaging for their career, and in this case the same scenario was achieved through extraordinary circumstances. Whilst Director John Landis himself was on set during the incident, the 2nd Assistant Director chose to distance himself from the implications of the accident and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_tragedy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;decided to remove his credit from the project altogether&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although not a clear case of a single director, &lt;em&gt;Twilight Zone: The Movie&lt;/em&gt; actually wound up to achieve a life-time gross of $29,450,919: making it by some way the most &quot;Successful&quot; movie in which someone has invoked their 'Alan Smithee' right within the DGA rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whichever example we choose to accept, they will surely never be replaced: in 1999, the DGA discontinued the practice of allowing directors to revoke their name from a film for reasons of discontent with the final film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an oddly appropriate end to the 'Hollywood Law', the final nail in this practice came from &lt;em&gt;Burn Hollywood Burn: An Alan Smithee Film&lt;/em&gt;; Former python Eric Idle ended up requesting his name be removed, although this is believed to be premeditated in order to contribute to the films general hype.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, the Directors Guild of America decided this was far too complicated/open to manipulation to sustain, and thus Alan Smithee was 'retired' in 2000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T19:17:22.333" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T19:17:22.333" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18762" CreationDate="2014-08-19T23:51:01.187" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=tecCAAAAMBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA51&amp;amp;lpg=PA51&amp;amp;dq=eddie%20murphy%20gymnastics%20stunts&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=KcbuNcHEKO&amp;amp;sig=pvNopbj-ebsLsgYzqEFrmwfNQ4k&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=yeHzU_O1JofesAT_pYD4Dw&amp;amp;ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=eddie%20murphy%20gymnastics%20stunts&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this excerpt&lt;/a&gt; from an article in &lt;em&gt;New York Magazine&lt;/em&gt; (Page 51; Sep 18, 1989) a gymnast by the name of Lindell Blake was the stunt double for Eddie Murphy in that movie. He is also listed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094898/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB’s&lt;/a&gt; list of stunt persons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-01-29T03:32:56.560" LastActivityDate="2024-01-29T03:32:56.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24040" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24041" CreationDate="2014-08-20T00:14:31.697" Score="39" ViewCount="9196" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096672/&quot;&gt;Dumb and Dumber To&lt;/a&gt; is to be released later this year, 20 years after the original &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109686/&quot;&gt;Dumb &amp;amp; Dumber&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This motivates me to ask what is the longest gap between release date of a movie and its sequel. Here, by sequel, I consider only movies where characters are portrayed by the same actors as in the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other examples of long gaps that come to mind are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;16 years - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071562&quot;&gt;The Godfather: Part II&lt;/a&gt; (1974) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099674&quot;&gt;The Godfather: Part III&lt;/a&gt; (1990)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;30 years - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063374&quot;&gt;The Odd Couple&lt;/a&gt; (1968) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120773&quot;&gt;The Odd Couple II&lt;/a&gt; (1998)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what is the longest gap?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13370" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-20T12:43:38.967" LastActivityDate="2014-09-08T09:11:17.383" Title="The longest gap between a movie and its sequel" Tags="|sequels|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24040" CreationDate="2014-08-20T00:26:58.883" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;TVTropes unimaginatively calls this &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SequelGap&quot;&gt;Sequel Gap&lt;/a&gt;, and has a fairly extensive list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The longest gap they have with actors in common in the Live-Action Film section are the Brazilian films &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060380/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver  (1967)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (a.k.a. This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923683/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Encarnação do Demônio (2008)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (a.k.a. Embodiment of Evil) which both star &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0596261/&quot;&gt;José Mojica Marins&lt;/a&gt; as The Gravedigger, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0026883/&quot;&gt;Zé do Caixão&lt;/a&gt; (loosely translated to &lt;em&gt;Coffin Joe&lt;/em&gt;) which is an astonishing &lt;strong&gt;41 year gap&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though this is debatable as it's not a direct sequel, but parts 2 and 3 of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mojica_Marins#The_Coffin_Joe_trilogy&quot;&gt;trilogy&lt;/a&gt; which began with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059440/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma (1964)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (a.k.a At Midnight I Will Take Your Soul).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another shorter option from the same list is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073438/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Naked Civil Servant (1975)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and its direct sequel &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0997057/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An Englishman in New York (2009)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which both star &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000457/&quot;&gt;John Hurt&lt;/a&gt; as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0042344/&quot;&gt;Quentin Crisp&lt;/a&gt; which is a &lt;strong&gt;34 year gap&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-20T04:10:15.137" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T04:10:15.137" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24040" CreationDate="2014-08-20T01:44:48.907" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might be considered cheating, but there's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nutty_Professor_%282008_film%29&quot;&gt;The Nutty Professor&lt;/a&gt; from 2008 which is a sequel to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nutty_Professor&quot;&gt;1963 comedy&lt;/a&gt;. It's a &lt;strong&gt;45 years gap, and Jerry Lewis reprised his role as Julius Kelp in it&lt;/strong&gt;. However, it's animated and the original was live action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also noteworthy is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475224/combined&quot;&gt;Belle toujours&lt;/a&gt; from 2006, the sequel to Luis Bunuel's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061395/combined&quot;&gt;Belle de jour&lt;/a&gt; from 1967 in which Michel Piccoli reprised his role as Henri Husson &lt;strong&gt;39 years later&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find more suggestions on Wiki &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest_gaps_between_film_sequels&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-08-20T09:32:52.480" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T09:32:52.480" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24040" CreationDate="2014-08-20T02:18:35.823" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe some Disney movies might hold this record. Bambi was over 60 years,&#xA;Cinderella and Peter Pan around 50 years or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13371" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T02:18:35.823" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24040" CreationDate="2014-08-20T03:09:44.210" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;My favorite is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054997/&quot;&gt;The Hustler&lt;/a&gt; (1961), where Paul Newman reprises the role of &quot;Fast&quot; Eddie Felson 25 years later in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090863/&quot;&gt;The Color of Money&lt;/a&gt; (1986).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11156" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T03:09:44.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17350" CreationDate="2014-08-20T04:39:48.393" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walter &amp;amp; September's plan was to effectively change the future so that the Observers/Invaders never exist&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not quite though. &lt;a href=&quot;http://fringe.wikia.com/wiki/Michael&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Michael&lt;/a&gt; is still genetically advanced with mental functions well above any human, however unlike the Observers, he still has emotion too, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://fringe.wikia.com/wiki/September&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;September&lt;/a&gt; reveals in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2411948/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Boy Must Live&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is an anomaly, but he's not less than them. He's more. At first, I thought his abilities were just empathic, but they developed into something greater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I now know that his intellect functions on a level that neither you nor we are capable of understanding, but what's more important, he has the emotions, the compassion, the empathy. A hybrid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, when September outlines his plan to Walter, he doesn't suggest they will prevent the creation of super-smart humans, just &lt;em&gt;emotionless super-smart humans&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When scientists first decided to sacrifice human emotion to increase intelligence, that was the turning point in human evolution: 20th of February, 2167.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we can send the boy into the future to that moment, he can demonstrate to those scientists a different kind of intelligence, an enlightenment that goes beyond knowledge or cognition to something greater, and when they see what he is, when they study him, they will realise all that he is: Living proof that &lt;strong&gt;they don't have to sacrifice emotion for intelligence&lt;/strong&gt;, and they will never go down that path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suggests to me that they will then continue with their research to increase human intelligence, but in a way which allows them to keep their humanity. This could therefore mean that instead there will be a different race of Observers who may send scientists back in time to Observe us, which in turns repeats the chain of events which lead up to Peter in the alternate universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Fringe team may occasionally notice them, but this time they won't invade the past, because they have enough empathy to know that genocide is a bad thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-09-18T06:42:16.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24046" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24047" CreationDate="2014-08-20T05:52:33.123" Score="7" ViewCount="6352" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many movies contain a scene that is portrayed as taking place during the night. Due to the low amount of light some tricks are applied. Unfortunately, I couldn't find much info on this. To me it seems a lot of night scenes make use of so-called &quot;black lights&quot;.&#xA;These lights give lighter surfaces some sort of purple glow and thus enhance the visibility of lighter surfaces while the darker parts of the scene remain dark.&#xA;For example here is a shot from Terminator 2:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ER8YQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://www.jamescamerononline.com/puddles.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It clearly has the typical purple glow to it, but it's more subtle compared to the use of only a blackight. Therefore I was wondering whether black lights are used (in combination with normal lights), do they use another kind of lights, or are most night scenes (digitally) edited afterwards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-20T07:17:37.080" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T23:24:21.067" Title="Lighting during a night scene" Tags="|film-techniques|production|lighting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24046" CreationDate="2014-08-20T08:30:36.910" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scenes which we see in the movie as night scenes might not be filmed at night. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_for_night&quot;&gt;Day for Night&lt;/a&gt; is a set of techniques is used to simulate a night scene while filming in daylight. These include tungsten-balanced rather than daylight-balanced film stock or special blue filters, under-exposing the shot (usually in post-production) to create the illusion of darkness or moonlight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Historically, infrared movie film was used to achieve an equivalent look with black-and-white film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T08:30:36.910" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24040" CreationDate="2014-08-20T08:37:43.730" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Czech films &quot;Sněženky a machři&quot; (1982) and &quot;Sněženky a machři po 25 letech&quot; (2008), translated as &quot;Snowdrops and Aces&quot; and &quot;Snowdrops and Aces, 25 years after&quot;, share a lot of the original cast. That did not help the sequel much, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13374" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T08:37:43.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2111" CreationDate="2014-08-20T08:42:05.217" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In some cheap movies (fairy tales) they clearly used aquarium, either standing in front of the actors, or overlaid over the actors in postproduction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13374" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T08:42:05.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23870" CreationDate="2014-08-20T09:00:04.533" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;em&gt;MeatTrademark&lt;/em&gt; remarks in his comment (but is reluctant to post as an answer), this might be an allusion to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Benedict Arnold&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, who fought on the American side during the American Revolution but defected to the British. His case and his person have become somewhat of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold#Infamy_in_the_United_States&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a model example for treason in modern American culture&lt;/a&gt;, often referenced for this purpose. Though, having only TV and movie experience with modern American culture, I for myself haven't yet &lt;em&gt;&quot;heard of people being referred to as &quot;Benedict [last_name]&quot; in this manner as an insult&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, but this isn't a far stretch at all and I'd trust &lt;em&gt;MeatTrademark&lt;/em&gt;'s more practical experience there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This cultural reference is even more likely when factoring in the additional information from the TV show. &lt;em&gt;Amanda&lt;/em&gt; is indeed (supposedly) a &lt;em&gt;Clarke&lt;/em&gt;, and given that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2465050/?ref_=ttep_ep7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; says that in this episode&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amanda is ready to betray Emily to Mason&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this seems like the most probable cultural reference there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-20T09:06:30.403" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T09:06:30.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24040" CreationDate="2014-08-20T12:35:42.523" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Mollywood (India):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Irupatham Nootandu (Twentieth Century) -1987 :: Sagar Alias Jacky - 2009 - 22 years&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mannar Mathai Speaking - 1995 :: Mannar Mathai Speaking 2 - 2014 - 19 years&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13377" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-20T12:40:30.853" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T12:40:30.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24046" CreationDate="2014-08-20T13:41:46.303" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the screenshot you posted, we can see that it's actually filmed at night (dark sky,  visible street lights). But as it's not enough for a film, a few additionnal lights are put on the set.&#xA;Additionnaly, the blue filter is added in order to make it feel a bit more &quot;like a real night&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13380" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T13:41:46.303" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24040" CreationDate="2014-08-20T14:28:31.953" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depending on your perspective, one could make a argument about the documentaries 7 Up and 56 Up, which are 49 years apart.  These were the first and eighth installations of this series, though, where each subsequent sequel was only 7 years later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13381" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T14:28:31.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24056" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24057" CreationDate="2014-08-20T17:30:53.593" Score="6" ViewCount="1440" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the name of the &lt;em&gt;term&lt;/em&gt; used for when the soundtrack composer, creates a song and the other songs are variations of the same song. For example, in the movie &lt;strong&gt;Inception&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;The Last of the Mohicans&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Requiem For a Dream&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9154" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-08-22T01:20:21.947" LastActivityDate="2014-08-22T01:20:21.947" Title="Variations of the same song" Tags="|production|soundtrack|terminology|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24056" CreationDate="2014-08-20T17:35:44.210" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This really is just called a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_%28music%29&quot;&gt;variation&lt;/a&gt; and it's not limited to soundtracks, Wikipedia says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In music, variation is a formal technique where material is repeated in an altered form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A famous example of this are the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldberg_Variations&quot;&gt;Goldberg Variations&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitmotif&quot;&gt;Leitmotif&lt;/a&gt; is by definition the leading theme of the overall piece, which would be the film in this case, so it may be the main character's theme tune, or the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_music&quot;&gt;title theme&lt;/a&gt;, which is then the most likely candidate to be the tune which is varied throughout the rest of the film depending on the tone of the scene or emotional state of the character(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-20T17:43:03.757" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T17:43:03.757" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24046" CreationDate="2014-08-20T18:38:35.680" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just want to add a note about &quot;day for night&quot;, which to me usually looks fake. The three factors that I think are most important for a convincing &quot;night&quot; scene are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The sky has to be black. If its lit up at all, which happens in every day-for-night scene, the shot looks terrible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The shadows have to be BLACK. During daytime, shadows aren't black; they still have light that softly fills them in from the huge blue sky overhead. Since the nighttime sky is all black, the shadows aren't filled in at all, so a shot without sharp black shadows will (again) look terrible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The light in the scene is primarily a cool blue and there aren't many other colors. That can be achieved during shooting by putting gels over the lights or filters over the camera, or in post-production via color correction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, I was immediately thinking of Terminator 2 when I read your question and before seeing the photo from T2. The &quot;nighttime&quot; visuals in that were fantastic; the blue colors were perfect and the shadows were crisp. This is especially true when Arnold, Sarah and John are driving in the car with the lights off, after they've broken Sarah out of the mental hospital (45-50 minutes into the movie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2014-08-20T23:24:21.067" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T23:24:21.067" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23388" CreationDate="2014-08-20T20:57:52.610" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Expressionism, the medium itself is expressive. An expressionist painting shows emotion in the quality of its brushstrokes, in the amount of paint used, in the colors, in the size, in the texture.  Expressionism is generally not realistic in its imagery. It seeks to create a visceral response in its presentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expressionistic photography or film-making would have to evoke emotion because of the WAY it was filmed - the lighting, the coloring, the edginess, the filters - rather than from the content itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you are describing appears to be filmed realistically, but cut in to the film in a way that it sets up comparisons. This would more appropriately be called symbolism. As @Evan Dark suggests, it is metaphoric.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2014-08-20T20:57:52.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24040" CreationDate="2014-08-21T04:02:48.087" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Main Steam movies: Star wars was 1977  next year Episode 7 will be released so that will be &lt;strong&gt;38 year gap&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you did not include 'Dumb and Dumberer&quot; number 2 I will assume you mean from first movie to last in series.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13387" LastEditorUserId="13387" LastEditDate="2014-08-21T20:52:09.980" LastActivityDate="2014-08-21T20:52:09.980" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24068" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24069" CreationDate="2014-08-21T08:25:31.317" Score="45" ViewCount="360897" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen the chant &quot;One of us! One of us!&quot; parodied in both South Park and Big Bang Theory. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where does it come from?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Is &quot;Gibble Gobble Gibble Gobble&quot; (added by South Park) part of the original chant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8474" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-21T12:44:02.213" LastActivityDate="2021-04-29T07:04:46.637" Title="Where does the &quot;One of us! One of us!&quot; chant originate?" Tags="|reference|the-big-bang-theory|origin|south-park|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24068" CreationDate="2014-08-21T08:28:18.543" Score="61" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tod Browning's controversial cult horror film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freaks_(1932_film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Freaks&lt;/a&gt; from 1932.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The central story is of this conniving trapeze artist Cleopatra, who seduces and marries sideshow midget Hans after learning of his large inheritance. At their wedding reception, the other &amp;quot;freaks&amp;quot; announce that they accept Cleopatra in spite of her being a &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; outsider; they hold an initiation ceremony in which they pass a massive goblet of wine around the table while chanting, &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;We accept her, we accept her. One of us, one of us. Gooble-gobble, gooble-gobble.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cleopatra tries to poison Hans, and when the circus &amp;quot;freaks&amp;quot; find out,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; they take their revenge by turning her into a duck woman - into &amp;quot;one of them&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dinner scene was referenced in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Freaks_(1932_film)&amp;amp;oldid=924986897#Legacy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;many other&lt;/a&gt; films and shows. Here it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/bBXyB7niEc0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="87251" LastEditDate="2021-04-29T07:04:46.637" LastActivityDate="2021-04-29T07:04:46.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24071" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24074" CreationDate="2014-08-21T12:02:40.680" Score="13" ViewCount="8400" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was recently re-watching the Watchmen movie, when on the opening credits I noticed that Alan Moore was not credited, but only Dave Gibbons, who was the artist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fb05e.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why isn't Alan Moore's name (the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;writer of the comic&lt;/a&gt;) not displayed on the credits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="6552" LastEditDate="2015-02-11T22:24:09.480" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T22:24:09.480" Title="Why is Alan Moore's name not shown on the Watchmen credits?" Tags="|credits|watchmen|alan-moore|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24071" CreationDate="2014-08-21T12:11:54.340" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen_%28film%29#Production&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; on the movie has quite a definite answer on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dave Gibbons became an adviser on Snyder's film, but &lt;strong&gt;Moore has refused to have his name attached to any film adaptations of his work&lt;/strong&gt;. Moore has stated he has no interest in seeing Snyder's adaptation; he told Entertainment Weekly in 2008, &quot;There are things that we did with Watchmen that could only work in a comic, and were indeed designed to show off things that other media can't.&quot; While Moore believes that David Hayter's screenplay was &quot;as close as I could imagine anyone getting to Watchmen,&quot; he asserted he did not intend to see the film if it were made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-08-21T12:11:54.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24071" CreationDate="2014-08-21T12:12:15.400" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alan Moore is notorious for refusing to accept credits, for what he considers to be the 'poor taste' of the output produced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Moore has a complicated relationship with money. &quot;Pure voodoo,&quot; he&#xA;  says now. &quot;Only there as long as we believe in it.&quot; Challenged, during&#xA;  a television interview this year, about why he would sign away the&#xA;  movie rights to a comic such as Watchmen if he didn't ever want it to&#xA;  become a movie, Moore said he gave up the rights because he never&#xA;  expected any adaptations to happen; he called it making money for old&#xA;  rope. But then the films came out, and somewhere along the way Moore&#xA;  developed such a distaste for what he saw on the screen, and the&#xA;  revenue accrued from it, that he asked for his name to be taken off&#xA;  the credits; then he started turning down production money. Moore gave&#xA;  his share of the Watchmen fee to Dave Gibbons, the artist with whom he&#xA;  conceived the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-08-21T12:12:15.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24071" CreationDate="2014-08-21T12:12:17.120" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;He didn't want to be credited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/15/alan-moore-why-i-rejected-hollywood-interview&quot;&gt;Guardian&lt;/a&gt; article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Moore has a complicated relationship with money. &quot;Pure voodoo,&quot; he&#xA;  says now. &quot;Only there as long as we believe in it.&quot; Challenged, during&#xA;  a television interview this year, about why he would sign away the&#xA;  movie rights to a comic such as Watchmen if he didn't ever want it to&#xA;  become a movie, Moore said he gave up the rights because he never&#xA;  expected any adaptations to happen; he called it making money for old&#xA;  rope. &lt;em&gt;But then the films came out, and somewhere along the way Moore&#xA;  developed such a distaste for what he saw on the screen, and the&#xA;  revenue accrued from it, that he asked for his name to be taken off&#xA;  the credits; then he started turning down production money. Moore gave&#xA;  his share of the Watchmen fee to Dave Gibbons, the artist with whom he&#xA;  conceived the series.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore#Film_adaptations&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; page goes into surprisingly good detail on his views on this. The page includes a summary of an article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/alan_moore_asks_for_an_alan_smithee/&quot;&gt;Comic Reporter&lt;/a&gt;, stating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Moore has subsequently stated that he wishes his name to be removed&#xA;  from all comic work that he does not own, including Watchmen and V for&#xA;  Vendetta, much as unhappy film directors often choose to have their&#xA;  names removed and be credited as &quot;Alan Smithee&quot;. He also announced&#xA;  that he would not allow his name to be used in any future film&#xA;  adaptations of works he does not own, nor would he accept any money&#xA;  from such adaptations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So effectively, he just doesn't want to accept any finance from it as he's not happy with the film adaptions of his work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote one final article (from &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20120811235311/http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/title/alan-moore/id/4861&quot;&gt;Left Lion&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You’ve always refused to put your name to film adaptions of your work.&#xA;  I know this is going to be hard to put a figure on, but how much money&#xA;  do you think you’ve turned down, for taking a moral standpoint on&#xA;  this?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, they asked me if they could give me a huge amount of money to&#xA;  bring out these Watchmen prequel comics – which they were going to do&#xA;  anyway - and that was probably a couple of million dollars. I should&#xA;  imagine with all of the films it would be another few million? In a&#xA;  way it’s really empowering to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can’t buy that kind of empowerment. To just know that as far as&#xA;  you are aware, you have not got a price; that there is not an amount&#xA;  of money large enough to make you compromise even a tiny bit of&#xA;  principle that, as it turned out, would make no practical difference&#xA;  anyway. I’d advise everyone to do it, otherwise you’re going to end up&#xA;  mastered by money and that’s not a thing you want ruling your life.&#xA;  Money’s fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to&#xA;  other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it’s&#xA;  useless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that both Paul Levitz, president and publisher of DC, and David Lloyd, the V for Vendetta illustrator, found it difficult to sympathise with him. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/movies/12itzk.html?_r=3&amp;amp;oref=slogin&amp;amp;pagewanted=all&amp;amp;oref=slogin&amp;amp;&quot;&gt;NY Times&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mr. Levitz said that such so-called reversion clauses routinely appear&#xA;  in comic book contracts, and that DC has honored all of its&#xA;  obligations to Mr. Moore. &quot;I don't think Alan was dissatisfied at the&#xA;  time,&quot; Mr. Levitz said. &quot;I think he was dissatisfied several years&#xA;  later.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mr. Lloyd, the illustrator of &quot;V for Vendetta,&quot; also found it&#xA;  difficult to sympathize with Mr. Moore's protests. When he and Mr.&#xA;  Moore sold their film rights to the graphic novel, Mr. Lloyd said: &quot;We&#xA;  didn't do it innocently. Neither myself nor Alan thought we were&#xA;  signing it over to a board of trustees who would look after it like it&#xA;  was the Dead Sea Scrolls.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-08-21T12:17:44.420" LastActivityDate="2014-08-21T12:17:44.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24078" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24079" CreationDate="2014-08-21T15:22:45.177" Score="0" ViewCount="351" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the opening credits of Houseguest, Sinbad is driving a very small car.  What kind of car is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13400" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-21T15:23:27.297" LastActivityDate="2014-08-21T15:35:45.983" Title="What kind of car is Sinbad driving?" Tags="|houseguest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24078" CreationDate="2014-08-21T15:35:45.983" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the car below is the one, it is a 1968 Austin-Healey Sprite. Found using the Internet Movie Cars Database. If that is not the car you are looking for, they have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imcdb.org/movie_110066-Houseguest.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;list&lt;/a&gt; of all the cars seen in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YU1qn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastActivityDate="2014-08-21T15:35:45.983" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24040" CreationDate="2014-08-21T19:05:19.770" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) &#xA;Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;19 years&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13402" LastActivityDate="2014-08-21T19:05:19.770" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11088" CreationDate="2014-08-21T23:26:26.930" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;last episode of season 5 .lucifers in Sam and mike's in thier younger half brother. they end up in a graveyard getting ready for the Apoc fight night and Dean rolls in.he gets beat to crap.sam comes around puts together the rings and jumps in the hole with mike and lucifer in tow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13406" LastActivityDate="2014-08-21T23:26:26.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8961" CreationDate="2014-08-21T23:34:54.753" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;end of 5.start of 6 ..when he becomes soulless sam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13406" LastActivityDate="2014-08-21T23:34:54.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19588" CreationDate="2014-08-22T06:22:54.880" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gravitons are still purely hypothetical, so any statement about them can be true (or false).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In physics mass and weight are two different things.&#xA;Say if your mass is 70kg, then on earth on a scale you would weigh you in at 70kg, however, on the moon (less gravity) your weight will be less.&#xA;The crucial difference between mass and weight is what is being measured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that gravity is a force, while mass is a scalar quantity. If you are familiar with math you can say that gravity is defined as a vector, while mass is the length of this vector on earth!&#xA;By definition, on earth mass = length of the gravity vector. That is way on a scale on earth you can measure your mass, however you get different results any where else and you will have to apply a conversion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This however, does not explain why the quote is bullshit. Gravitons are (theoretical) particles that define gravity. Mass, on the otherside, is a property that is defined by the newly discovered Higgs boson (&quot;the God particle&quot;).&#xA;To say it in a sample fashion and not entirely correct probably:&#xA;If you measure weight you measure the interaction between gravitons.&#xA;If you measure mass you measure the amount of Higgs bosons.&#xA;So to come back to the quote, &lt;strong&gt;if gravitons buildup there will be a higher gravitional force, however, the mass will not change since the number of Higgs bosons remains equal.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope I didn't go too much into the details :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastEditorUserId="7659" LastEditDate="2014-08-22T10:08:22.667" LastActivityDate="2014-08-22T10:08:22.667" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24093" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-22T15:00:12.277" Score="20" ViewCount="3772" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comic book &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is universally regarded as one of the best examples of its medium. But even more than that, a large part of its point seems to have been to play with the medium of comics itself and demonstrate its unique abilities and qualities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Moore and Gibbons designed Watchmen to showcase the unique qualities of the comics medium and to highlight its particular strengths. In a 1986 interview, Moore said, &quot;What I'd like to explore is the areas that comics succeed in where no other media is capable of operating&quot;, and emphasized this by stressing the differences between comics and film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is also why &lt;em&gt;Alan Moore&lt;/em&gt; refused to be involved with its &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2009 film adaptation&lt;/a&gt; (or any film adaptation for that matter, see also &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/24071/49&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt;), saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are things that we did with Watchmen that could only work in a comic, and were indeed designed to show off things that other media can't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I have read &lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt;, I never read many other comics at all and am rather unexperienced with the medium. So those quite general statements remain rather fuzzy to me, let alone the judgement if &lt;em&gt;Alan Moore&lt;/em&gt; is right with his assessment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So first and foremost I wonder, &lt;strong&gt;what are those aspects of &lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt; that demonstrate the unique qualities of comics and that can supposedly only work out their true effect in this medium?&lt;/strong&gt; Does Mr. &lt;em&gt;Moore&lt;/em&gt; speak rather about structural aspects of the presentation or more about narrative aspects of the whole storytelling (or a combination/intertwining of both)? While this might be a bit broad, I'm not so much after every little detail but would assume that there are some large scale qualities or recurring motifs to the comic that are inherent and exemplary for its medium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And driving this further I'd like to concentrate on the movie version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and ask, &lt;strong&gt;in which way did the movie either adequately bring those aspects of the source material to the silver screen or try to transform them into something more natural to the medium of film and in which cases did it fail or refuse to capture those qualities accurately?&lt;/strong&gt; This is especially interesting since the movie generally seems quite faithful to the source material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might seem a bit subjective, but I don't want to encourage answers like &lt;em&gt;&quot;Moore is right, the movie is crap!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;&quot;It didn't do well at the box-office, therefore its adaptation failed!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Rather than that I'd like to encourage a more thorough comparative analysis of the particular adaptation process based on the content of the works itself. I also see that this question might be quite broad, maybe even too broad or &quot;listy&quot;, but I'd like to get some more general insights into the nature of comic adaptations by encouraging some large scale assessments of one of the prime examples of comics (and one being repeatedly cited as (deliberately?) unfilmable and employing the medium's unique qualities at its best) and its film version, even if this might be quite a chunk to answer properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2016-09-20T12:34:06.610" Title="What are the qualities of Watchmen unique to comics and in which way did the movie achieve to adapt those to the medium of film?" Tags="|analysis|comic-adaptation|watchmen|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24094" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-22T16:24:37.687" Score="3" ViewCount="3675" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of A Most Wanted Man, Gunther &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; drives somewhere, gets out of his car, and walks off&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then the movie ends. Where did he drive, and what is the significance of that scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13422" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T09:11:29.577" Title="What is the significance of the last scene in &quot;A Most Wanted Man&quot;?" Tags="|ending|a-most-wanted-man|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24097" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24764" CreationDate="2014-08-22T16:58:41.500" Score="9" ViewCount="13174" Body="&lt;p&gt;We saw that Maleficent can turn a bird into human/dragon etc. She is so powerful that she can grow tree wall within seconds. She can curse a girl so strongly that she even can't break her own curse. So powerful!! Okay, so why can't she just grow new wings? OR when Stefan took them, why she didn't try to find the wings? At least she could try to know what Stefan did with the wings....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason for this that I missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-23T17:02:27.290" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T19:24:56.193" Title="Why didn't Maleficent grow her wings back?" Tags="|plot-explanation|maleficent|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24093" CreationDate="2014-08-22T18:43:18.160" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Very short answer&lt;/strong&gt;: It tried harder to be different and more &quot;grown-up. (I'm sure we'll get some thesis-level answer, but this is a few bullet-points just to get the ball rolling.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cover is page one, panel one. &lt;em&gt;That was new.&lt;/em&gt; And they played more with transitions between panels and pages, using composition and dialogue / sound to blend the elements into a seamless narrative (something Alan also did to great effect in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Killing_Joke&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Killing Joke&lt;/a&gt;). The way a frame looked, and the dialogue overlapping on the next frame (for instance, when John materializes at the TV station) created a larger whole than just cutting between scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2zGRx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;transition&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even the title, in huge letters down the side of the cover was something new that jumped out from the other comics going at the time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yVMU9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;cover art&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The back covers also had their own invention of using blood dripping down a clock face to mark the passage of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/un17T.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;back of issues 7 and 12&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the idea of a 12-issue &lt;em&gt;completely self-contained book&lt;/em&gt; was not so commonplace at the time either. The other oft-cited major example of the &quot;adult&quot; or intelligent graphic novel at the time was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Returns&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight Returns&lt;/a&gt; which was a &lt;em&gt;Batman&lt;/em&gt; book and not completely self-contained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While these things may seem like mere novelties, the sheer volume of them made for a unique reading experience. How does one translate the idea that the cover is actually page one, panel one? Or that, in an age of endless spinoffs, crossovers and infinite soap-operization of superheroes, this was a story with a real and concrete ending. It even had a comic-within-a-comic subtext in the case of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://watchmen.wikia.com/wiki/Tales_of_the_Black_Freighter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tales of the Black Freighter&lt;/a&gt; material that was cut from the theatrical release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-08-22T19:27:15.513" LastActivityDate="2014-08-22T19:27:15.513" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24093" CreationDate="2014-08-22T19:21:19.113" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK here's my stab at this question. There are a lot of differences between the book and the movie, and if I was to use a term to collectively describe these differences I would say &lt;strong&gt;narration density&lt;/strong&gt;. Watchmen is a rather dense book that effectively uses it's panels to tell several tangential stories. That's very hard for the film medium to achieve. Let's take a look at a simple panel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1EhcK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here we have a meeting of the Minutemen, the previous generation of superheroes in the Watchmen universe. In this one panel we can see &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of the Minutemen. Not only that, we can see them interact. Captain Metropolis is being the obvious host, the rough and tumble relationship between Comedian and Sally Jupiter (foreshadow!), Hooded Justice observing the two or perhaps observing Captain Metropolis (more foreshadowing!), the first Nite Owl jovially ordering prints, and Silhouette being her lone wolf self. In the corner we see a newspaper with the headline &quot;Scientists make first artificial wonder element: Plutonium&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So with one single panel we established the team and their dynamic and also put a date on this encounter. Putting that much storytelling in film would cost several &lt;em&gt;precious&lt;/em&gt; minutes. And even then a lot of the details would be considered &quot;Easter eggs&quot; that most people don't notice. In contrast, the panel is just &lt;em&gt;there&lt;/em&gt;. It's not going anywhere. You can stay on it, read it, enjoy it's art, analyze it's components, and it would still be waiting for you. No clumsy pause button required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is this single - very important - quality that is unique to the graphic novel form which drives all the changes the transition to a movie required:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;The Tales of the Black Freighter&quot; was cut.&lt;/strong&gt; Even disregarding screen time issues, this comic within a comic would probably pose an insurmountable challenge to incorporate in the film in a way that wasn't too jarring and clumsy. While it is not that important plot-wise, it does help set the atmosphere of impending doom in the book and provides an eerie parallel to the main story.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Most of the background history of the characters was cut.&lt;/strong&gt; Most of the Minutemen's story was condensed into the titles montage (which I actually enjoyed), so we lose some of the sense of history between the characters. Little things like the Nite Owl I writing a book about the Minutemen (and his ultimate fate) all give the characters a bit more dimension.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The ending got changed.&lt;/strong&gt; Without revealing too much about the comic book ending I'll say this: changing the ending was a wise choice. The original ending was the culmination of a secret conspiracy that was building up from the very beginning of the story. Countless little details, scattered in the corners of panels, foreshadowed it's coming. Doing that in a film medium, without making it look like a Deus Ex Machina, would've required an inordinate amount of time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Several minor, throwaway, characters got cut&lt;/strong&gt;. A recurring scene in the books is the Newspaper seller's stand. The cast of characters featured in those panels are mostly unnamed. Yet through their interactions and their panels Moore establishes atmosphere and drops hints on what is to come. You cannot do that easily in a film medium.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to close by saying that despite it's flaws, I really did enjoy the movie version of Watchmen. It was as loyal to the original story as it can be (a bit too loyal some might argue) given the obstacles in front of it. But if anything, its flaws only reinforce Moore's assertions about the major differences between the two mediums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-29T08:33:43.320" LastActivityDate="2014-08-29T08:33:43.320" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15155" CreationDate="2014-08-22T19:22:40.773" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;He says &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I didn't kill you because they've got you.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It means he already lost his loved ones in his life therefore he consider's Darcy as a friend whom he cares about. This was foreshadowed in the beginning of the movie, and the night at the cemetery the day Darcy meet with the cemetery owner, and when he asked him to go pick him up at his apartment. Darcy does care about him in his own way, as he tries to venture in certain variables in of his life. He consider's victor a companion by asking him to be there to share the news too alfonze about who the suppose killer will is and by asking victor suggestions and idea' and telling him when important things maybe happening. That's what the &amp;quot;They've got you&amp;quot; impression means in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13426" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2021-05-10T22:58:05.767" LastActivityDate="2021-05-10T22:58:05.767" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24103" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="56905" CreationDate="2014-08-22T20:32:06.520" Score="5" ViewCount="862" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a point in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075968/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Duellists&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; where in Russia, they are about to duel each other with pistols. They are interrupted by a Cossack who spews some words at them. What did he say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13429" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-22T20:36:42.477" LastActivityDate="2021-06-08T13:25:53.593" Title="What did the Cossack utter towards the two men in &quot;The Duellists&quot;?" Tags="|dialogue|translation|the-duellists|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23969" CreationDate="2014-08-22T21:09:49.957" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not really. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most Russian movies and TV shows are set in Russia and dealing with local themes, so bad guys (if any) are Russian. War films have German (i.e. Nazi), Afghan or Chechen villains, some 2000s movies feature Middle Eastern 'terrorists'. Rare American characters are stereotypically portrayed as rich, overconfident and stupid, but never evil. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a number of Cold War era Soviet movies and TV series about American spies, like '&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TASS_Is_Authorized_to_Declare...&quot;&gt;TASS Is Authorized to Declare...&lt;/a&gt;', but this genre has gone with the Cold War.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13425" LastActivityDate="2014-08-22T21:09:49.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24110" CreationDate="2014-08-23T10:30:29.927" Score="21" ViewCount="48580" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/em&gt; First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) had a scar that made it look as though someone had tried to cut his throat.  Is there any reason mentioned for that scar (in the movie that I missed, or in interviews with Tarantino etc.)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I kept expecting someone to ask about it, and get some background story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CmdRG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Scar across throat&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scar across throat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YLNqK.png&quot; alt=&quot;Scar continuing up behind left ear&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scar continuing up behind left ear&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="9382" LastEditDate="2021-08-13T13:27:31.303" LastActivityDate="2022-03-16T08:39:50.857" Title="Why did Aldo Raine have that scar?" Tags="|character|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24109" CreationDate="2014-08-23T11:41:47.530" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is neither explained in the movie nor outside. There are no interviews available from cast or crew, there are just assumptions and user theories. One can be found on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/faq#.2.1.18&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is never explained in the movie, as it was Tarantino's intention to leave it unknown. Several theories have come up about it, one such being that it resulted from his punishment for being a bootlegger in the Southern United States. There is a rumor that Tarantino said in an interview that Raine was lynched by the KKK for defending African Americans in the South. It is also been suggested that someone slit or tried to slit his throat but didn't go as deeply as intended or that Aldo fought them off quickly enough, although the scar does not look like that caused by a knife, and the screenplay refers to it as a 'rope burn'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="9382" LastEditDate="2021-08-13T13:27:08.900" LastActivityDate="2021-08-13T13:27:08.900" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24111" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24115" CreationDate="2014-08-23T21:24:45.620" Score="5" ViewCount="2732" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen this horror movie one or two years ago. Recent american production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It starts with a group of friends starting some &lt;strong&gt;game show&lt;/strong&gt; (same concept of the Hunger Games) somewhere in a huge closed place (somewhere creepy), they (some machines probably)  will give them instructions what to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each person gets assigned to do something. It was scary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, a black male gets stuck in some hole, and murderers were all over the place, it was real, creepy they started fighting and running away from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it's a game show, the producers (or managers) were watching everything on the screen and enjoying it. They were criminals enjoying the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, some girl (producer or creator) shows and she starts clapping her hands, along with the crew. It was all a prank (it leaves the watcher surprised, because it's was a huge plot twist).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The murderers were actors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It turns out also that at the end, a real mentally-ill psychopath was there, not inside the crew, he took the life of a girl (who got locked in a room in a chair and suffocated).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone who could identity this horror movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11099" LastActivityDate="2014-08-23T22:14:49.843" Title="A horror movie that turns out to be a prank" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:16:56.030" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23253" CreationDate="2014-08-23T22:08:11.333" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at the clock in both the scenes, it'll lead to the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nemo passes through the pathway everyday at 9:10&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Anna passes through the pathway everyday at 9:20&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why they never meet (Although they feel the presence of each other in some way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the death of that beggar makes nemo to stay in the pathway till 9:20, anna passes through the pathway as usual at 9:20 , and ta-da they meet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13437" LastActivityDate="2014-08-23T22:08:11.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24114" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24130" CreationDate="2014-08-23T22:09:21.610" Score="6" ViewCount="60788" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1206543/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Out of the Furnace&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, after Russell lethally shot DeGroat, much to Wesley's dismay, the last shot of the movie shows Russell sitting in his house at the table doing nothing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DhZzI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm not sure what to make out of this. Given that Wesley has seen Harlan DeGroat's demise, which was obviously not self-defense but plain cold vengeance, I would have rather assumed Russell to go to prison for that, which this scene seems to contradict. &lt;strong&gt;Is this deduction correct? And what else is this scene supposed to tell us about his fate and state of mind?&lt;/strong&gt; He seems to be looking at some letters on the table, were those letters he wrote or received during his earlier prison time? But why does he look at them now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-08-17T14:15:52.137" LastActivityDate="2024-01-19T20:05:52.080" Title="What is the last scene supposed to tell us?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|ending|out-of-the-furnace|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24111" CreationDate="2014-08-23T22:14:49.843" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Task_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Task&lt;/a&gt; from 2011. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1621446/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Something diabolical is taking place on the set of &quot;The Task&quot; a new reality show in which players complete terrifying missions within the confines of an abandoned prison hoping to win a hefty cash prize. As six young students explore their new environment, malicious spirits make their presence known in the most gruesome ways imaginable, Unable to escape the labyrinthine prison, the contestants become unwitting pawns caught at the centre of a blood-soaked night of terror. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the contestant (a black male) is stuck in a hole and another one (a woman) is strapped to a chair in a gas chamber. In the end, the whole thing turns out to be a prank on the show's producer - but in another twist, the evil entity in the jail turns out to be real, and some of the people did die (including the woman gassed in the chair). Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/WDuBaosXKV8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-08-23T22:14:49.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24116" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24135" CreationDate="2014-08-23T22:28:29.703" Score="2" ViewCount="698" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film Joy Ride, how do Lewis and Fuller know that Rusty Nail is even in the same area as they are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The guys play their prank on him, ask to him to swing by the motel, but does Rusty ever give them his location? He could be... anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what the exact radius of a CB radio's signal is, but since the one trucker warns them of cops in Jamestown (Fuller states Jamestown is 40 miles away from where they are) they must reach quite a distance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T11:07:03.690" Title="Rusty Nail's location?" Tags="|plot-explanation|joy-ride|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24117" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24122" CreationDate="2014-08-24T02:04:52.877" Score="2" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1045658/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Silver Linings Playbook&lt;/a&gt; tonight and the final scene made me think of this question. During the beginning of the final scene, which takes place in Pat Solitano Sr.'s house, Bradley Cooper is doing a narration. There is score music in the background. As we pan through the house, viewing most of the rest of the cast in some sports related get together, the camera ends up focusing on the character of Tiffany. Cooper's narration ends and the camera continues on to view Pat Solitano sitting in a chair. Tiffany comes over and curls up in his lap and the score hits its final crescendo, fade to black.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK. So when Tiffany curls up in Pat Jr.'s lap, the two of them a speaking to one another. We don't hear the dialog. We're not really meant to. Would that unheard dialog be actual scripted dialog? Or would it read something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scene 543: Pat in chair, Tiffany curls up in lap. Pat and Tiffany talk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or... would Bradley be telling Jennifer Lawrence a joke, or perhaps &amp;quot;Gee, you weigh more than you look&amp;quot; or?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Actually, according the &lt;a href=&quot;http://files.meetup.com/5455672/silver-linings-playbook.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Silver Lining Playbook Script Rough Draft&lt;/a&gt;, Page 152:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TIFFANY SITS DOWN ON PAT’S LAP AND THEY TALK (we cannot hear&#xA;them) and KISS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what would they be saying?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-09-08T10:27:09.753" Title="What do actors do when dialog is designed not to be heard?" Tags="|dialogue|screenplay|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24118" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24119" CreationDate="2014-08-24T02:33:32.483" Score="7" ViewCount="56949" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of the first Hobbit movie it is said that Smaug attacked the kingdom of Erebor, but during the movie they frequently reference going into Moria which they call the home of the Dwarves, and rid it of Smaug. What is the difference between them? Is Moria inside Erebor? Is Moria just the mountain where the Dwarves lived? They had their own king, so if Moria was the kingdom of the dwarves, why do they still say Kingdom of Erebor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4763" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-09-07T12:12:43.777" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T08:48:28.967" Title="What is the difference between Erebor and Moria?" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-hobbit|an-unexpected-journey|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24118" CreationDate="2014-08-24T03:19:54.390" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not seen the second or third Hobbit movies, but if they claimed that Smaug was &quot;in&quot; Moria and needed to be evicted, that would appear to be a mistake. Erebor and Moria are two completely different places. However, I suspect your confusion stems from the fact that the dwarves were evicted from &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; places, and want to retake &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; places, just for different reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The short answer is: the dwarven Kingdom Under The Mountain was originally ruled from Moria, which the dwarves called Khazad-dûm. At some point, the dwarves accidentally released a monster into Khazad-dûm, and were forced to flee. Many of them settled in the mountain called Erebor, the Lonely Mountain, and reformed their kingdom there. Later, when the dragon Smaug came and took over Erebor, and drove the dwarves out again, some of them tried to move back into Moria and reclaim it -- not from Smaug, but from the orcs that had taken up residence there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The longer answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moria is a vast complex of caves, mines, and tunnels under the Misty Mountains. It's more properly called Khazad-dûm, and was the ancient home of the clan of dwarves that were descended from Durin. Tolkien claimed there were 7 clans, though I believe only 3 are ever named. All of the dwarves we ever see in the movies are members of Durin's clan, which was originally ruled by the King under the Mountain, from within Khazad-dûm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About 1000 years before the events of &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;, the dwarf miners in Khazad-dûm released a dangerous creature -- the Balrog seen the &lt;em&gt;Fellowship of the Ring&lt;/em&gt; -- and the dwarves were all forced to flee. They eventually made their way to the Lonely Mountain, Erebor, and set up a new kingdom &quot;in exile&quot; there. This is about where things stood as of the beginning scenes of &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&lt;/em&gt;, which shows Smaug attacking Erebor and driving the dwarves out of there as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, the movies deviate a bit from the original novels. From the appendices for &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;, plus one passing comment from Gandalf in &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;, we learn that Thror (the grandfather of Thorin, the dwarven King through most of &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; movie trilogy) tried to get into Moria alone, and was caught and beheaded by Azog, starting a huge war between the Orcs and Dwarves. In &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&lt;/em&gt;, it's Thror who actually leads his army during that war, attmepting to retake Moria from the orcs. He is still killed by Azog but much later, and in battle, near the end of the war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though the dwarves eventually win that war, they don't end up moving back into Moria for a long time. They do manage to drive Smaug out of Erebor, and move back in there instead. It's not until Gandalf comes along, almost a century later, and kills the Balrog that Moria becomes habitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2019-04-05T08:48:28.967" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T08:48:28.967" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24117" CreationDate="2014-08-24T08:04:14.907" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if I should post this as a comment, or answer, but it really depends on the movie.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases that I've heard of, they just say unscripted things to provide the illusion of a conversation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example of a hilarious unscripted part is :&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEVK3j4wJvU/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Doctor Who Series 3 *Hilarious Deleted Scene*&quot;&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEVK3j4wJvU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In the episode, we hear 4 of the first instructions, then Martha fast-forwards, but David Tennant in the set has continued talking, so when fast-forwarded it will look like he's normally telling her other instructions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11530" LastActivityDate="2014-08-24T08:04:14.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24129" CreationDate="2014-08-24T11:02:51.230" Score="1" ViewCount="8778" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Russell Baze&lt;/em&gt;, the main protagonist of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1206543/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Out of the Furnace&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, has a quite prominent tattoo on his neck, which on a closer look seem to be the numbers &lt;strong&gt;15104&lt;/strong&gt; or something similar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Eg2aa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there might very well not be much more to this tattoo, it seemed too omnipresent to me during the whole movie to just be ignored as merely ornamental. &lt;strong&gt;I thus wonder if there is any further significance to this tattoo that would tell us something more about his character.&lt;/strong&gt; Neither did the movie seem to give any explanation, but maybe I just don't have the necessary cultural background information, or it has been adressed in external interviews or the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2017-03-07T15:11:21.743" Title="Is there any further significance to Russell's tattoo?" Tags="|analysis|character|out-of-the-furnace|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24126" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-24T18:10:26.373" Score="12" ViewCount="1164" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently saw the TV show Fargo, and the presence of Martin Freeman and Billy Bob Thornton (both legitimately successful movie actors) made me wonder: Is doing the switch from movies to TV more acceptable these days? It's my impression that it used to be the case that successful TV stars went on to act in movies, but is this no longer true, or is my impression even correct? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What with Jeff Daniels in The Newsroom, Peter Dinklage in GoT, or Steve Buscemi in Boardwalk Empire it seems like there isn't a shortage of successful actors in television, and I just wondered whether it was just me, and if not what the reason is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13362" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:37:00.693" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:37:00.693" Title="Are more movie stars acting in TV shows nowadays (and if so, why)?" Tags="|film-industry|acting-career|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23387" CreationDate="2014-08-24T21:19:39.467" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw this movie.  My take was that Robin Wright's character was tricking PSH's character all along.  Notice how she conceded that the American's had really been at fault in Beirut.  I think that was just to gain his trust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13450" LastActivityDate="2014-08-24T21:19:39.467" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24125" CreationDate="2014-08-24T22:47:38.267" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Furnace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Carrie Furnace, an abandoned blast furnace near Braddock, served as the location for the film's finale. &lt;strong&gt;Christian Bale wore a tattoo of Braddock's ZIP code, 15104, on his neck&lt;/strong&gt; as an homage to the town's mayor John Fetterman, who has the same design on his arm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ORScl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-08-24T22:47:38.267" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24114" CreationDate="2014-08-24T23:02:44.970" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You weren't the only one wondering that; the ending perplexed many. But the film's director Scott Cooper explained it in interviews, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/09/out-of-the-furnace-ending_n_4365572.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;like this one&lt;/a&gt;. Here's the gist:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After being thwarted by law enforcement officials, Russell kills Harlan DeGroat (Woody Harrelson), the meth-addicted crime boss responsible for murdering his brother, right in front of the local sheriff (Forest Whitaker). Cooper then cuts to Russell sitting quietly in a living room, before fading to black. &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;It's an homage to 'The Godfather Part II,'&amp;quot; Cooper said, referring to the final shot of Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 Best Picture winner.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;This is a man who is battling his soul and living with the consequences of violence. &lt;strong&gt;When he went to kill Harlan DeGroat, he thought he could have gone to prison or be killed by the police. He never thought he would get off and that the sheriff would ultimately say, 'Let me make this right.' And he does,&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; Cooper said of the finale of his film, which takes place at an undated point after Russell has murdered DeGroat. &amp;quot;This is a man who, whether he is [in] prison or not, he's in prison for the rest of his life. Hopefully he will find peace and contentment at some point. I'm a very optimistic person, I hope that, ultimately, Russell Baze does find that.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the ending simply shows us how Russell, like Michael Corleone in &lt;em&gt;The Godfather Part II&lt;/em&gt;, will have to live with what he did (and reflect on it) for the rest of his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-08-24T23:13:45.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24093" CreationDate="2014-08-24T23:27:12.413" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;One example for the unique (and new) quality of the comic is issue #5 of &lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt;: The whole of the issue's layout was intended to be symmetrical, culminating in this center spread, where the pages reflect one another. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seriously doubt that the movie (which I continue to ignore) even tried to achieve this - and even if it did somehow, the comic allows you to flip back some pages (something a movie can not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="206" LastActivityDate="2014-08-24T23:27:12.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23387" CreationDate="2014-08-25T03:32:44.620" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Gunther was in on the plan at the end.  The plan that the Americans and germans would take him.  My reasoning?  It was a cover so his team would not know Gunther gave him up.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next he only drove a couple of blocks after the double cross got out of his car and started walking, almost as if he was being picked up by someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seemed to me he was in on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Big P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13451" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T03:32:44.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19973" CreationDate="2014-08-25T09:26:46.520" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recall how Marcelle does the final preparations for setting the theater on fire - he blocks the auditorium doors with a crowbar and then proceeds to behind the screen and starts waiting for Shoshanna's &quot;message&quot; to appear on the screen. Before he does so the two men from the Basterds leave the auditorium and proceed to some side corridors to get to the side balcony and attack Hitler. Some time after they leave the auditorium Marcelle comes to the doors and blocks them. The balcony where Hitler sits with Himmler has a separate door guarded by two German soldiers. The two Basterds kill the guards, rush into the balcony and shoot Hitler. Right after that the &quot;message&quot; appears and Marcelle sets the pile of films behind the screen on fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the balcony doors are not blocked - Hitler likely can escape the theater or at least gain some time and space and have better chances to have been resqued. He definitely has much better chances than those people who are in the auditorium - those are blocked between the locked doors and bursting flames - but he is at least not in the auditorium and so less exposed to the dangers and has a chance to use the side corridors to escape. The two Basterds shooting him on the balcony make that totally impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3707" LastEditorUserId="3707" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T12:38:31.957" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T12:38:31.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24136" CreationDate="2014-08-25T11:03:09.517" Score="2" ViewCount="14582" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;Thirteen Days&quot;, it is referenced multiple times that the father of Kennedy was &quot;the architect of Munich&quot; and might damage the USA in a serious way if Kennedy Jr. does not allow an attack on the missiles stationed in Cuba by the Russians.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To what exactly is this referring?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I could not find any sources online that would tell me what exactly they mean.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can take a look at the respective scene in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEL45ffs2x4#t=1396&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this YouTube video&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13455" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T11:19:05.160" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T11:00:01.690" Title="Why is Kennedy's father &quot;the architect of Munich&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|thirteen-days|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24116" CreationDate="2014-08-25T11:07:03.690" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;CB Radio or the citizen band radio is one of several personal radio services defined by the FCC's Part 95 rules. It is intended to be a two-way voice communication service for use in personal and business activities of the general public, and has a reliable communications range of several miles. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB_usage_in_the_United_States&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; link on wikipedia tells us about this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It also states that CB Radio is most frequently used by long-haul&#xA;  truck drivers for everything from relaying information regarding road&#xA;  conditions, the location of speed traps and other travel information,&#xA;  to basic socializing and friendly chatter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it is safe to assume that if one is using the CB radio to chat with someone they are more likely to be on the same route, though they may be separated by a distance of about 50 miles. Still, we can assume that if you are talking to someone on CB radio, they are relatively near by. So Fuller takes a shot in the dark. He is not sure whether Rusty Nail is really close or whether he will accept his offer to meet at the motel which might be a few miles away. He is just fooling around and he just takes a shot to see what happens. Coincidentally Rusty nails accepts his offer because he must have been around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T11:07:03.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24134" CreationDate="2014-08-25T11:28:46.460" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a reference to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Munich Agreement&lt;/a&gt; made in 1938 between Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy. It allowed Germany the annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia and is nowadays largely considered an act of inappropriate appeasement toward Germany, encouraging it to proceed with its agressive politics. &lt;em&gt;JFK&lt;/em&gt;'s father &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy,_Sr.#Ambassador_to_the_United_Kingdom_.281938.E2.80.931940.29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Joseph Patrick Kennedy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was US ambassador in Britain at the time and a supporter of Britain's appeasement politics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its relevance to the Cuban Missile Crisis (though, I haven't seen the movie &lt;em&gt;Thirteen Days&lt;/em&gt; in particular) is, that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_Munich&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the moral of the Munich Agreement&lt;/a&gt; can be seen as being that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;appeasement discredits the defenders' willingness to fight, and encourages the aggressor to escalate his demands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are thus afraid it might come to a repetition of the &quot;Munich Lesson&quot; if &lt;em&gt;JFK&lt;/em&gt; stays too inactive during the crisis, encouraging the Soviets to take more severe steps, especially since his father already was a facilitator in the original Munich Agreement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-26T11:00:01.690" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T11:00:01.690" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24138" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-25T14:56:43.630" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;General questions about the nature, problems and impact of television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T14:56:43.630" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T14:56:43.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24139" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-25T14:56:43.630" Score="0" Body="General questions about the nature, problems and impact of television." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T14:56:43.630" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T14:56:43.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24140" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-25T15:07:02.333" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Snowpiercer&lt;/em&gt; is a 2013 South Korean science-fiction movie about a class-based society aboard a train running through a post-apocalyptic cold world and the lower-class passengers' revolution to overthrow this class system. It is based on the French graphic novel &lt;em&gt;Le Transperceneige&lt;/em&gt; by Jacques Lob.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706620/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowpiercer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T15:07:02.333" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T15:07:02.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24141" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-25T15:07:02.333" Score="0" Body="2013 South Korean science-fiction movie about a class-based society aboard a train running through a post-apocalyptic cold world and the lower-class passengers' revolution to overthrow this class system." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T15:07:02.333" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T15:07:02.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24142" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-25T15:09:37.463" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movies produced in Japan or in the Japanese language. To be used for identification questions or questions pertaining to Japanese movies in general. Not for questions about individual movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-08T19:33:56.713" LastActivityDate="2015-03-08T19:33:56.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24143" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-25T15:09:37.463" Score="0" Body="Movies produced in Japan or in the Japanese language. To be used for identification questions or questions pertaining to Japanese movies in general. Not for questions about individual movies." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-08T19:33:56.713" LastActivityDate="2015-03-08T19:33:56.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24144" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-25T15:16:23.360" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Ring&lt;/em&gt; is a 2002 American horror film about a mysterious videotape supposed to kill anyone who watches it after 7 days. It is a remake of the 1998 Japanese movie &lt;em&gt;Ringu&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298130/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ring_%282002_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T15:16:23.360" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T15:16:23.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24145" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-25T15:16:23.360" Score="0" Body="2002 American horror film about a mysterious videotape supposed to kill anyone who watches it after 7 days. Remake of the 1998 Japanese movie Ringu." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T15:16:23.360" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T15:16:23.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24146" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-25T15:21:38.617" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jack Reacher&lt;/em&gt; is a 2012 American thriller with Tom Cruise as the eponymous protagonist investigating in a case of sniper murders in Pittsburgh. It is based on the novel &lt;em&gt;One Shot&lt;/em&gt; by Lee Child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790724/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Reacher_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T15:21:38.617" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T15:21:38.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24147" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-25T15:21:38.617" Score="0" Body="2012 American thriller with Tom Cruise as the eponymous protagonist investigating in a case of sniper murders in Pittsburgh. Based on the novel One Shot by Lee Child." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T15:21:38.617" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T15:21:38.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24148" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-25T15:29:02.940" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cloud Atlas&lt;/em&gt; is a 2012 century-spanning German-American historical/contemporary/science-fiction drama about the individual lives and fates of various people throughout history and their impact on one another. It is based on the novel of the same name by David Mitchell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371111/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T15:29:02.940" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T15:29:02.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24149" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-25T15:29:02.940" Score="0" Body="2012 century-spanning German-American historical/contemporary/science-fiction drama about the individual lives and fates of various people throughout history and their impact on one another. Based on the novel of the same name by David Mitchell." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T15:29:02.940" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T15:29:02.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24150" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-25T15:33:48.803" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Captain Phillips&lt;/em&gt; is a 2013 American thriller drama about the hijacking of a cargo ship by Somali pirates and the ensuing hostage crisis. It is based on Richard Phillips' book &lt;em&gt;A Captain's Duty&lt;/em&gt; which was in turn based on true events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535109/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Phillips_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T15:33:48.803" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T15:33:48.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24151" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-25T15:33:48.803" Score="0" Body="2013 American thriller drama about the hijacking of a cargo ship by Somali pirates and the ensuing hostage crisis. Based on Richard Phillips' book A Captain's Duty which was in turn based on true events." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T15:33:48.803" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T15:33:48.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24152" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-25T15:36:03.893" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions pertaining to various movie/TV awards and their workings and impact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T15:36:03.893" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T15:36:03.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24153" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-25T15:36:03.893" Score="0" Body="Questions pertaining to various movie/TV awards and their workings and impact." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T15:36:03.893" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T15:36:03.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9301" CreationDate="2014-08-25T18:53:09.463" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;IMDb Advanced usage&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the Keywords mentioned in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/9302/9682&quot;&gt;main index answer&lt;/a&gt;, there are several more advanced ways to locate similar films and TV shows on IMDb which are hidden away in menus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/lists/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;User Lists&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On IMDb, users can create lists of titles which appear on IMDb, then apply &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/lists/tag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tags&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to their list to help you find them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Advanced Search&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=crime-against-humanity,reference-to-fabio&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keyword search interface&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is very thorough, however there are still search options which are not shown that can only be accessed by using the various advanced searches:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/title&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Advanced Title Search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the only way to search using the following criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Country&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Language&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Colour (Black &amp;amp; White / Colour)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Plot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cast&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Runtime&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Production / Release status&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Number of user ratings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Appears on an automatically generated list (Such as &quot;Top 100 rated titles&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Production company&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Box office gross&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/common&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Common crew&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you know two people who worked on the film together, you can use the &lt;strong&gt;Two People Working Together&lt;/strong&gt; search, tell it the two people who worked together and click search to see a list of everything they were both credited on, for example &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/title?at=0&amp;amp;roles=nm0388273,nm0175239&amp;amp;sort=moviemeter,asc&amp;amp;start=51&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Joel Hodgson &amp;amp; Frank Conniff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Searching additional fields&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under the regular search bar at the top you can search the Plots and Quotes of titles, however you need to look under the &lt;strong&gt;Title Text Search&lt;/strong&gt; section of Advanced Search in order to search these more specific title fields:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trivia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Goofs (Mistakes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Crazy Credits (Jokes or additional credits such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chucklorre.com/index-bbt.php?p=459&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chuck Lorre's blog&lt;/a&gt; at the end of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Filming Locations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Soundtracks&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Literature (Printed reviews or books which mention the film)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Versions (Different edits of the title and what changes are included)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Exact Searches&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are absolutely certain of one of the following criteria, you can begin any search using that criteria:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/country/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Country&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/genre/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Genre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/language/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Language&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/year/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Year&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several issues with these searches though. If you use Country, Language or Year you will get a great &quot;Refine search&quot; menu which will allow you to narrow down your results:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HPqL3.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image of the Refine Search Menu&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;strong&gt;with Genre you don't&lt;/strong&gt;. For this reason, if you pick a genre the best thing to do is trick the Keyword interface, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=reference-to-fabio&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Search for a random keyword&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and then click the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;X&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; button to dismiss the keyword:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rcG2T.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of where the X button is&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will then allow you to filter all the titles without having any keywords:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uiW4E.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of the tricked keyword interface&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This works great, but please note &lt;strong&gt;you cannot share links to this page&lt;/strong&gt;. If you copy the URL of the keyword interface without any keyword specified, you'll just get linked back to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?sort=moviemeter,asc&amp;amp;mode=advanced&amp;amp;page=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;list of keywords&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Filters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you've got a list of the films similar to the ones you like, you can then sort them with the various filters on the site, here's a quick reference to what they mean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?prowhatisstarmeter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MOVIEmeter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the default filter, and it is based on a combination of the amount of page views the title receives, as well as the IMDb rating for the titles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;IMDb Rating or User Rating&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is simply the rating shown for the title, measured in a number of stars. The advanced search interface says &lt;em&gt;User Rating&lt;/em&gt;, whereas the Keyword interface calls it &lt;em&gt;IMDb rating&lt;/em&gt;, but they are the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T19:15:56.867" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2014-08-25T18:53:09.463" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24155" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24166" CreationDate="2014-08-25T20:20:28.843" Score="13" ViewCount="14643" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can not remember the movie title, but I am trying to find it for maybe 2 years. I am remembering only few scenes, could you please help me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scenes are these, or so: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is a post apocalyptic movie with an environmental disaster theme. The air is unbreathable or there is a big amount of radiation on earth's surface.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All men and women are living somehow separated in (probably) underground shelter but they talked to each other via videophone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Two of them fall in love and try to escape, despite going out from shelter to the surface is prohibited.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They live separated in there 'cells' and have big screen on front wall which they are using to video calling themselves. As they run on the running belt, the video image on the wall was projected as they run in the nature, probably on the shore. they secretly meet in the ventilation shaft or in some tunnel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They decide to escape together, because some old man told them that the atmosphere is ok now, or it was something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They escape through ventilation (probably) which ends on the shore with shipwreck (?) or something rusty.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie was probably from the 80's or 90's, not necessarily an English/American production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not Logan's Run, The Island, Cherry 2000, THX-1138 nor the clonus horror...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13458" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-26T18:40:17.937" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T04:05:27.720" Title="Post apocalyptic movie with people living underground" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:17:02.290" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24160" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-25T23:35:44.123" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Miami Vice&lt;/em&gt; is an American crime drama TV-show centered around a group of undercover detectives in Miami, running from 1984 to 1990. It was created by Anthony Yerkovich and produced by Michael Mann.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086759/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Vice&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T23:35:44.123" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T23:35:44.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24161" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-25T23:35:44.123" Score="0" Body="American crime drama TV-show centered around a group of undercover detectives in Miami, running from 1984 to 1990. Created by Anthony Yerkovich and produced by Michael Mann." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T23:35:44.123" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T23:35:44.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24162" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-25T23:41:30.150" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Miami Vice&lt;/em&gt; is a 2006 American action thriller directed by Michael Mann and centered around a group of undercover Miami policemen investigating in a case of drug trafficking. It is based on the 80s TV-show of the same name, which was also produced by Michael Mann.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430357/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Vice_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T23:41:30.150" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T23:41:30.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24163" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-25T23:41:30.150" Score="0" Body="2006 American action thriller directed by Michael Mann and centered around a group of undercover Miami policemen investigating in a case of drug trafficking. Based on the 80s TV-show of the same name." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-25T23:41:30.150" LastActivityDate="2014-08-25T23:41:30.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24164" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24165" CreationDate="2014-08-26T10:05:09.060" Score="13" ViewCount="2004" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen a movie 2-3 weeks ago and I do not know the title. I even forgot to check for the title. I do not know the name of any actor, but I remember the plot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the movie talks about a girl, whose mother dies when the girl is 11 years old. Her dad takes her to a college in the UK. She does not want to stay there and tries to get out of the school. Her roommates help her. After she achieves her mission, she wants to stay and not leave and she becomes the captain of the college in a sport where her mother was also the captain in 1976. &#xA;The college accepted only female students. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13465" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-26T10:50:08.807" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T22:24:48.067" Title="Girl Becomes Captain of College Team Her Mother Captained" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:17:05.410" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24164" CreationDate="2014-08-26T10:39:41.413" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Child_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wild Child&lt;/a&gt; from 2008. From an online &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmink.com.au/reviews/wild-child-dvd/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;synopsis&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Poppy (Emma Roberts) is a Malibu barbie in miniature whose misadventures cause her father (Aidan Quinn) to send her to boarding school in England to eradicate her aggressive impulses [...] After a series of mishaps and wacky coincidences, she becomes captain of the Lacrosse team and ends up as an angel that was hidden inside all along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She discovers at some point that her (deceased) mom was also the school's Lacrosse team captain. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/NdYXF6JESPc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-09-02T22:24:48.067" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T22:24:48.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24155" CreationDate="2014-08-26T11:45:53.833" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;So as I mentioned in the comments, someone was looking for a similar movie on Yahoo Answers and found it: the rather obscure 1990 Italian sci-fi film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099621/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fuga dal paradiso&lt;/a&gt; (AKA Flight\Escape from Paradise). A review on IMDb fits your description of it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;yet another film that &lt;strong&gt;takes place sometime in the future after an ecological disaster&lt;/strong&gt; has occurred. [...] &lt;strong&gt;The tale concerns two young people, Teo and Beatrice, whom live apart in an underground vault.&lt;/strong&gt; Their separation is not by choice however, since this vault is governed by a computer named Harry - it decides which males and females are compatible to be paired together. Of course, &lt;strong&gt;Teo &amp;amp; Beatrice are very much in love and wish to be together&lt;/strong&gt;, but doubt whether Harry will give them its blessing. &lt;strong&gt;The two can see each other on view screens, and neither having seen the outside world, only experience a limited controlled version of it through holographic simulations, in one scene it appears Teo is running on a tread-mill&lt;/strong&gt; while Beatrice is running along a field on-screen [...] Together with the help of a robot (think Buck Rogers '81 season two) &lt;strong&gt;Teo and Beatrice find a way out of their designated sectors to the ruined world above.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the 2 protagonists:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lYnyz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T11:45:53.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21169" CreationDate="2014-08-26T15:18:07.820" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Hollywood movies generally reflect the optimism of the U.S. and especially of Southern California. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, Americans have been very blessed with an abundance of resources, temperate environment, and absence of a lot of the religious tensions that affect other parts of the world. We have to remember that is the reason we first came here, to escape the religious wars that had plagued Europe since Martin Luther. Except for the carnage of slavery and the Civil War, Americans have had some great experiences. We got through the carnage of two world wars relatively unscathed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And California has alway epitomized that sunny belief in the booms of the future. It was ground zero for many of the movements of the 60s. But starting with the fundamentalism of President Reagan, we have been moving back into the dark ages of endless wars and the income gap. Everything has become blown-up body parts of children. We will never see the 60s  again. Welcome to the real world!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13468" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T15:18:07.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24169" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-26T16:36:40.130" Score="3" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_Offer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Best Offer&lt;/a&gt;, it is shown at the end that Virgil has been conned and his whole collection has been stolen. He discovers this after coming home from the London auction; in the next scene it is shown that he is in a psychiatric institution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the corresponding scenes, he is wandering Prague (I think in the faintest hope that he might get to see Claire once again, and that her love may not have been faked completely), looking at clocks, and spinning in a wheel-like thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What exactly is meant by this? Is this all in his imagination, and/or does it take place after he is released from the institution? Or is it a metaphor for something else entirely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may have missed some important detail, but I'm at a complete loss to understand this ending part of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="125" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-26T16:43:32.410" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T16:43:32.410" Title="What exactly happened to Virgil?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|the-best-offer|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2015-02-16T15:28:02.073" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24179" CreationDate="2014-08-26T20:58:44.280" Score="4" ViewCount="242" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;El Dorado&quot;, Joey McDonald, the daughter of Kevin McDonald, is wearing pants whenever she rides a horse. Was it socially acceptable for a girl to wear pants in the Wild West?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-26T22:02:41.333" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T23:55:11.580" Title="Joey wearing pants - is it realistic?" Tags="|plot-explanation|historical-accuracy|el-dorado|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24126" CreationDate="2014-08-26T21:03:45.640" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;TV has become, in the opinion of many Directors/Actors, the most creatively fertile ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last few years we have seen an exodus of talent from Hollywood, and those who have left have been so provoked by the current climate of film making they have felt the need to not only abandon the Hollywood system, but make public declarations as to their reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've lost the two greatest 'Stevens' (Spielberg and Soderbergh) in the last few years, both of whom have blamed the monopolization of Studio based mainstream content and escalating budgets. From Soderbergh, this frustration is understandable: but from Spielberg, who all but invented the concept of a summer blockbuster with &lt;em&gt;Jaws&lt;/em&gt; (and is held responsible by many for the death of the New Hollywood, the US film industries most critically successful period) this is an extreme statement indeed: something is amiss in Hollywood, and all the warning lights are flashing vehemently at the minute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last time an event as dramatic as the current exodus from Hollywood occurred led to something called the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc.&quot;&gt;Paramount Decision&lt;/a&gt;, which fundamentally and irrevocably altered the landscape of global cinema. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was decided that certain interests were able to exploit their control over the Hollywood system to monopolize the industry, creating a relative stranglehold on any content not produced by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_studio#The_.22majors.22&quot;&gt;The Big 5.&lt;/a&gt; This has repeated itself a number of times since, and different solutions were found...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the late 1960's, as a studio monopoly took hold, a movement of&#xA;opposition called &lt;em&gt;The New Hollywood&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Post-Classical Hollywood&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;occurred: producing perhaps &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hollywood&quot;&gt;the most celebrated directors and actors&#xA;of all time...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this period of rebellion, Spielberg and Lucas began&#xA;co-operating with the studios again and worked to initiate what&#xA;became the blockbuster model of movies: they, amongst others, are&#xA;quite reviled amongst film aesthetes for this betrayal; but in&#xA;reality, the New Hollywooders were largely out of control in their&#xA;self-indulgent pursuit of auterism by the time the Blockbusters&#xA;arrived.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;By the early 1990s, despite the fact that Blockbusters were&#xA;'booming', the lack of cinematic opposition within the US system led&#xA;to the rise of 'the independents' to produce alternative content.&#xA;Miramax were a fundamental part of this, which again led to a period&#xA;of creative affluence which produced the likes of Soderberg and&#xA;Tarrantino.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the late noughties, studios had become dependent on a system that&#xA;used a summer blockbuster to provide the majority of their yearly&#xA;income. With these pictures competing directly against each other in&#xA;a release window of only a couple of weeks, budgets inevitably&#xA;swelled in competition. In the 'Michael Bay' era of cinema, the size&#xA;of a Movie's Budget is often its own marketing campaign.  As a result&#xA;of this, sincere creative talent has found solace in a medium that is&#xA;still cinematic, but grants a broader lease of play for its&#xA;actors/directors/producers. That medium is Television, and as such&#xA;the Greed of the Studios has unexpectedly created a golden age of&#xA;Television: long may it reign.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why this last, and current, era is so potently worrying for the industry is because it is the first time since the paramount decision that talent has moved out the industry and into another medium: Television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, I have to categorically and wholly disagree with CGCambell's assertion that the reason movies stars are getting involved with TV work is because of the &lt;em&gt;'Paycheck, paycheck, paycheck.'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you watch most of these shows, you'll quickly realize that in many cases the lead actors are also producers and executive producers: meaning they have sunk personal resources into the projects to make them successful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a reason that the majority of these actors are &lt;em&gt;credible&lt;/em&gt;, respected stars who have traditionally pursued diverse roles: they are, on the whole, individuals who have traditionally engaged in the stagecraft of the industry, as opposed to merely phoning it in and picking up the cheque (although this is to be judged on a case by case basis, as opposed to a rule). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a reason, for example, that during Matthew McConaughey's cinematic rehabilitation he has contributed directly to the production of the finest TV show of the last 20 years: &lt;em&gt;True Detective&lt;/em&gt;... this is not a subjective statement! ;-) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-26T22:01:59.737" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T22:01:59.737" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24172" CreationDate="2014-08-26T23:55:11.580" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely. There's very little writing on the subject, which in itself could be considered evidence that it wasn't &lt;em&gt;so outrageous&lt;/em&gt;, but we do have a lot of photographs of frontierswomen wearing trousers, most of which I can find are from the book &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B0002RQ1IG&quot;&gt;Women in Pants: Manly Maidens, Cowgirls, and Other Renegades&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamity_Jane&quot;&gt;Calamity Jane&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Professional scout and known for fighting Indians as well as her claim that she knew &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Bill_Hickok&quot;&gt;Wild Bill Hickok&lt;/a&gt;, both of whom were immortalised in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadwood_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;Deadwood&lt;/a&gt;. This image is from 1895:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xXzeh.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image of Calamity Jane&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nps.gov/yose/historyculture/women.htm&quot;&gt;Stella, Bertha and Mabel Sweet and Maybel Davis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These 4 were the third group of women to climb &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Lyell_%28California%29&quot;&gt;Mt. Lyell&lt;/a&gt; and the first to descend into &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon_of_the_Tuolumne&quot;&gt;Tuolumne Canyon&lt;/a&gt;, this image from 1896 has them in leggings and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomers_%28clothing%29#Athletic_bloomers_.28unskirted.29&quot;&gt;bloomers&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YCDGk.png&quot; alt=&quot;Image of Stella, Bertha and Mabel Sweet and Maybel Davis&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also images of unknown women in trousers from the era, for example the name of this 1880s Arizona Scout has been lost, but it does suggest that men and women both wore the same type of clothing, as clearly a dress is not appropriate for battle or sleeping in the wilderness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RSJWC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of a female scout from Arizona&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-08-26T23:55:11.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24126" CreationDate="2014-08-27T00:41:35.893" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I have to say that the following is largely based on my own observations and deductions in contrast to elaborate research, and to be seen in addition, if not intertwined, with the reasons presented in the other ansers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think a big factor is also the question of availability and distribution. As far as I can see, it wasn't until the advent of DVDs (which I would broadly classify as the beginning of this century) that entire TV-shows became available on home media. This marked the first time that TV-shows actually rose beyond their media and, even more so, beyond their pre-scheduled airing times. And this was even furthered by the rise of internet services like &lt;em&gt;Netflix&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Amazon Prime&lt;/em&gt; and the like, which make TV shows practically available on demand (imagine the only way to watch your favourite movies was by catching them when they air on TV). This IMHO opened a whole new level of appreciating TV shows apart from mere weekly strictly scheduled entertainment. So &lt;strong&gt;the market for distributing TV shows opened to a much larger area in addition to their traditional medium and thus TV shows have became more significant financially&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the mere financial implications of a bigger and more diverse market this also brought a &lt;strong&gt;higher cultural signifance and new ways of consumption&lt;/strong&gt;. Nowadays it is not uncommon for a TV show to be consumed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binge-watching&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Binge Watching&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by a large amount of viewers. And this I think might be a large contributor to how the stories are told. It has been a long-term observation by me that the amount of continuous serial stories with a large cross-episode development of the characters and story have become more and more prevalent over the last years, a development also adressed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/3147/49&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt;. This might be motivated (or at least largely facilitated) by people watching them in a more continuous or packed fashion. In fact &lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;, one of the (if not &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt;) first &quot;TV&quot; shows produced explicitly by and for an internet streaming service (and starring the great and movie-famous &lt;em&gt;Kevin Spacey&lt;/em&gt;), was published a whole season at once, explicitly facilitating binge-watching. And in fact this in turn has even influenced the classic TV medium, as for example the German TV channel airing &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; shows whole seasons of those in binge-friendly 3-6 epidose blocks on consecutive days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I think &lt;strong&gt;this trend to more high-quality serialized dramas might also be a reason why the overall story and character development might have become more important, requiring strong, known and charismatic actors to anchor those stories around&lt;/strong&gt;, and on the other hand providing more interesting &quot;playgrounds&quot; for those actors to express themselves in contrast to your usual &quot;murder of the week&quot; episodes. And it fits the bill that one of the first shows of the modern age of TV to provide an entirely serial plot (where you couldn't miss a single episode) was to my knowdlegde also one of the first to famously feature a former movie actor (even if that actor's movie carrier was already on a rather descending path by then), &lt;em&gt;24&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that you nowadays also have many TV shows which are, even if being rather episodic genre shows, explicitly anchored around a unique and remarkable protagonist, for which you &lt;strong&gt;on the one hand want both famous and good actors to play those characters and which on the other hand also give those actors an interesting role to excel in&lt;/strong&gt;, be it for giving those roles the needed gravitas and acting proficiency or for the marketing effect of dragging the viewers to the show. Examples for this are &lt;em&gt;House&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Hugh Laurie&lt;/em&gt;), &lt;em&gt;Shark&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;James Woods&lt;/em&gt;) or &lt;em&gt;Lie to Me&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Tim Roth&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all it probably comes down to the medium of TV shows experiencing a &lt;strong&gt;general rise in cultural significance and quality&lt;/strong&gt; (maybe to a large degree due to the factor &lt;em&gt;JohnSmithOptional&lt;/em&gt; mentioned in his answer) which in turn makes it more attractive to personnel coming primarily from the &quot;bigger brother&quot; of movies and which then in turn contribute to the quality of the TV shows (kind of a vicious, or rather heavenly, circle) and to the more fleixible ways of distributing your products, be this in a financial or narrative way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T11:54:14.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9619" CreationDate="2014-08-27T12:03:08.700" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My interpretation of this was that at the end of the movie Cutter was so disgusted with Angier that he wanted him to suffer.  He allowed Borden to gain access to the theater, he knew Borden was going to shoot Angier, and as Angier lay dying he wanted Angier's last thoughts to be about the horrible death his wife endured.  You really can't hurt a man more than to let him know his love suffered an agonizing death, and at the hands of the same person who just shot him.  There's no one left to seek justice, and neither death will ever be avenged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T12:03:08.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24192" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-27T13:11:37.927" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Thing&lt;/em&gt; is a 1982 American horror movie directed by John Carpenter about an Antarctic research station that gets infested by a human-morphing alien creature and the ensuing paranoia among its inhabitants. It is based on John W. Campbell, Jr.'s novella &lt;em&gt;Who Goes There?&lt;/em&gt; and its earlier adaptation &lt;em&gt;The Thing from Another World&lt;/em&gt; by Howard Hawks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%281982_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-27T13:11:37.927" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T13:11:37.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24193" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-27T13:11:37.927" Score="0" Body="1982 American horror movie directed by John Carpenter about an Antarctic research station that gets infested by a human-morphing alien creature and the ensuing paranoia among its inhabitants. Based on the novella Who Goes There? and its earlier adaptation The Thing from Another World by Howard Hawks." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-27T13:11:37.927" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T13:11:37.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24194" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-27T13:20:09.177" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Insider&lt;/em&gt; is a 1999 American drama directed by Michael Mann about former tobacco industry employee Jeffrey Wigand's and &lt;em&gt;60 Minutes&lt;/em&gt; producer Lowell Bergmann's struggles to bring the industry's dubious schemes to public. It based on the true story of a &lt;em&gt;60 Minutes&lt;/em&gt; interview that aired in 1995/96 and its backgrounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140352/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Insider_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-27T13:20:09.177" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T13:20:09.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24195" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-27T13:20:09.177" Score="0" Body="1999 American drama directed by Michael Mann about former tobacco industry employee Jeffrey Wigand's and 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergmann's struggles to bring the industry's dubious schemes to public." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-27T13:20:09.177" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T13:20:09.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24196" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-27T13:30:46.877" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Die Nibelungen&lt;/em&gt; is a 1924 German silent epic directed by Fritz Lang based on the epic poem &lt;em&gt;Nibelungenlied&lt;/em&gt;. It consists of the two parts &lt;em&gt;Siegfried&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Kriemhild's Revenge&lt;/em&gt; (orig.: &lt;em&gt;Kriemhilds Rache&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Nibelungen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and IMDb for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015175/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;first&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015174/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;second&lt;/a&gt; part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-27T13:30:46.877" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T13:30:46.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24197" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-27T13:30:46.877" Score="0" Body="1924 German silent epic directed by Fritz Lang based on the epic poem Nibelungenlied. Consisting of the two parts &quot;Siegfried&quot; and &quot;Kriemhild's Revenge&quot; (orig.: &quot;Kriemhilds Rache&quot;)." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-27T13:30:46.877" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T13:30:46.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24198" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-27T13:39:11.487" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Shadow&lt;/em&gt; is a 1994 American super-hero movie around the eponymous protagonist's fight against a mysterious Mongolian villain in 1930s New York City. It is based on the character of the same name originating from 30s pulp novels and radio shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111143/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_%281994_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-27T13:39:11.487" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T13:39:11.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24199" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-27T13:39:11.487" Score="0" Body="1994 American super-hero movie around the eponymous protagonist's fight against a mysterious Mongolian villain in 1930s New York City. Based on the character of the same name originating from 30s pulp novels and radio shows." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-27T13:39:11.487" LastActivityDate="2014-08-27T13:39:11.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24208" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-28T09:10:18.457" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Untouchables&lt;/em&gt; is a 1987 American crime movie directed by Brian DePalma about Eliot Ness' hunt for Al Capone in 1930s Chicago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094226/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Untouchables_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-28T09:10:18.457" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T09:10:18.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24209" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-28T09:10:18.457" Score="0" Body="1987 American crime movie directed by Brian DePalma about Eliot Ness' hunt for Al Capone in 1930s Chicago." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-28T09:10:18.457" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T09:10:18.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24210" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-28T09:18:32.060" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Casualties of War&lt;/em&gt; is a 1989 American war drama directed by Brian DePalma about the questionable deeds of a US squad during the Vietnam War and a single private's opposition thereof. It is based on Daniel Lang's 1969 article in &lt;em&gt;The New Yorker&lt;/em&gt; and a subsequent book about the incidents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097027/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_War&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-28T09:18:32.060" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T09:18:32.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24211" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-28T09:18:32.060" Score="0" Body="1989 American war drama directed by Brian DePalma about the questionable deeds of a US squad during the Vietnam War and a single private's opposition thereof. Based on Daniel Lang's 1969 article in The New Yorker and a subsequent book about the incidents." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-28T09:18:32.060" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T09:18:32.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24212" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-28T09:45:28.063" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Snake Eyes&lt;/em&gt; is a 1998 American thriller directed by Brian DePalma about an assassination and its aftermath during a boxing match in Atlantic City, taking place largely in real-time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120832/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Eyes_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-28T09:45:28.063" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T09:45:28.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24213" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-28T09:45:28.063" Score="0" Body="1998 American thriller directed by Brian DePalma about an assassination and its aftermath during a boxing match in Atlantic City, taking place largely in real-time." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-28T09:45:28.063" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T09:45:28.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24214" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-28T12:00:05.213" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Out of the Furnace&lt;/em&gt; is a 2013 American thriller drama about a steelworker in a depression-struck New England industrial area and his tries to get his younger brother out of serious trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1206543/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Furnace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-28T12:00:05.213" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T12:00:05.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24215" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-28T12:00:05.213" Score="0" Body="2013 American thriller drama about a steelworker in a depression-struck New England industrial area and his tries to get his younger brother out of serious trouble." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-28T12:00:05.213" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T12:00:05.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24216" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27566" CreationDate="2014-08-28T12:01:46.443" Score="5" ViewCount="1482" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460681/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; season 04 episode 19 &lt;strong&gt;Jump the shark&lt;/strong&gt; the body of Adam Winchester was cremated by Dean and Sam at the end. But in the final of season 05 &lt;strong&gt;Swan song&lt;/strong&gt; he has been shown coming out of the grave. And later Michael possesses his body. How his body was in the grave?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13496" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-28T12:13:55.837" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T22:31:56.067" Title="How can Michael use the body of Adam as a vessel when he was cremated in S04E19?" Tags="|plot-explanation|supernatural|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24217" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24218" CreationDate="2014-08-28T12:39:45.853" Score="11" ViewCount="9090" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1206543/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Out of the Furnace&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2013) first and foremost seems to be an allusion to the whole steel mill backdrop of the movie. But I have a strong feeling that is not all there is to it. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1206543/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb trivia section&lt;/a&gt; of the movie says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title of the film went through a couple of iterations before settling on &amp;quot;Out of the Furnace&amp;quot;. The original script was called &amp;quot;The Low Dweller&amp;quot; but when Scott Cooper was rewriting it, he considered changing the name to &amp;quot;Under a Black Sun&amp;quot;. While shooting the working title of the film was &amp;quot;Dust to Dust&amp;quot;. It was Terrence Malick and Sam Shepard who finally convinced Cooper that &amp;quot;Out of the Furnace&amp;quot; was an apt title for the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this doesn't say much about its further significance. &lt;strong&gt;Is there anything more to the term &amp;quot;out of the furnace&amp;quot; in relation to the movie's story and themes&lt;/strong&gt; apart from the obvious steel mill scenario?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-03-22T04:06:28.240" LastActivityDate="2024-03-22T04:06:28.240" Title="What does the term &quot;Out of the Furnace&quot; refer to?" Tags="|analysis|title|out-of-the-furnace|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24217" CreationDate="2014-08-28T13:12:37.490" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a famous term &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Out of the furnace and into the fire&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This idiom means: from a bad situation into one that is worse, which again is very apt for this film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some countries it is changed to from out of the frying pan into the fire but both have the same meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to show that this is a used phrase &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.redpepper.org.uk/out-of-the-furnace-into-the-fire/&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt; shows it in general use&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Russell and his younger brother Rodney live in the&#xA;  economically-depressed Rust Belt, and have always dreamed of escaping&#xA;  and finding better lives. But when a cruel twist of fate lands Russell&#xA;  in prison, his brother becomes involved with one of the most violent&#xA;  and ruthless crime rings in the Northeast&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this plot taken from IMDB shows, the two brothers were in a poor state with the economic crisis and it only gets worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11589" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-28T13:21:05.183" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T13:21:05.183" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24219" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-08-28T13:47:33.797" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The 13th Warrior&lt;/em&gt; is a 1999 American action adventure about an Arab traveller accidentally dragged into a group of Vikings battling a tribe of mysterious creatures. It is based on the Michael Crichton novel &lt;em&gt;Eaters of the Dead&lt;/em&gt;, which is in turn loosely based on the ancient &lt;em&gt;Beowulf&lt;/em&gt; legend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120657/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_13th_Warrior&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-28T13:47:33.797" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T13:47:33.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24220" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-08-28T13:47:33.797" Score="0" Body="1999 American action adventure about an Arab traveller accidentally dragged into a group of Vikings battling a tribe of mysterious creatures. Based on the Michael Crichton novel Eaters of the Dead, which is in turn loosely based on the ancient Beowulf legend." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-28T13:47:33.797" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T13:47:33.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24221" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24223" CreationDate="2014-08-28T14:02:44.627" Score="2" ViewCount="662" Body="&lt;p&gt;The guy &quot;Ahmet&quot; in Midnight Express, who was an Oxford educated character (?), spoke good English and had a degree in philosophy was locked up underground in a Turkish jail, where they meet. Is it known what Ahmet was there for, which crime he was convicted for or is it not said?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13317" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-28T14:33:43.113" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T14:33:43.113" Title="What was Ahmet locked up for?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|midnight-express|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24221" CreationDate="2014-08-28T14:11:28.983" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Midnight-Express.html&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;      AHMET&#xA; ...They put me here. They say I &#xA; raped a little boy. I have been &#xA; here very long time. They will &#xA; never let me go.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6595" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T14:11:28.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8375" CreationDate="2014-08-28T15:06:24.627" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Richard Hammond was hypnotized to love 911s by Paul McKenna in 2004. Since that he has showed utter love for 911s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13500" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T15:06:24.627" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24225" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-28T15:32:09.380" Score="1" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is Extant only the SECOND national primetime scripted TV show with an African-American female lead? I'm looking specifically for mainstream networks. To be explicit, BET is not that - talkshow and reality TV isn't it either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only other show I can think of is Scandal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed that a majority of TV shows have this casting mold:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Older white male&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Younger white male / Younger white female&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Younger white female/ Younger white male&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Minority (used to be African-American, now interchangeable with Asians/Latinos)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have also noticed the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mainstream, primetime shows with a female lead are still a minority.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To be sure there ARE some shows that have &quot;a&quot; Afram female protagonist, but they're pretty much token.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ever noticed how African-Americans play authority figures that are completely minor roles? Like judges, doctors? E.g. Tamara Tunny on CSI Miami&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Rush Hour&quot; movies were completely shocking, because there was NO white lead at all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are a FEW shows with MALE Afram leads, but these hardly ever lasted more than one season, only the Unit comes to mind, and whether Haysbert was the main protagonist is debatable&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13442" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:38:03.083" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:38:03.083" Title="Is Extant only the SECOND national primetime scripted TV-drama with a female African-American lead?" Tags="|first-appearance|casting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19046" CreationDate="2014-08-28T15:37:47.330" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. This is just a coincidence of the same writer and some story elements which vaguely resemble each other. There's not a lot of research going on in CitW, while research and weaponizing is pretty much the MAIN goal for the Initiative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whedon denied this in an interview, because it would reveal him as less original, something which writers are keen to avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will get that link for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13442" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T15:37:47.330" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24225" CreationDate="2014-08-28T15:42:04.127" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As early as 1974 on the ABC network, there was a show called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Christie_Love!&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Get Christy Love!&lt;/a&gt;, with Teresa Graves as the lead. The Wikipedia article sources Jet, a magazine devoted to African American performers and artists, and her profile in the Nov 1974 issue names no preceding black television lead actress, which it probably would have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:35:26.253" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:35:26.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24225" CreationDate="2014-08-28T17:02:09.227" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somehow, I missed the 2013 show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2245029/epdate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Deception&lt;/a&gt;, with Meagan Goode, which makes Extant the fourth show of this kind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13442" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T17:02:09.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24229" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-28T17:29:38.020" Score="3" ViewCount="1719" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia defines Reality Television as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Reality television is a genre of television programming that&#xA;  documents unscripted situations and actual occurrences, and often&#xA;  features a previously unknown cast. The genre often highlights&#xA;  personal drama and conflict to a much greater extent than other&#xA;  unscripted television such as documentary shows. The genre has various&#xA;  standard tropes, such as reality TV confessionals used by cast members&#xA;  to express their thoughts, which often double as the shows' narration.&#xA;  In competition-based reality shows, a notable subset, there are other&#xA;  common elements such as one participant being eliminated per episode,&#xA;  a panel of judges, and the concept of immunity from elimination.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And further down, still in the overview, wikipedia also includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Reality television has faced significant criticism since its rise in&#xA;  popularity. Much of the criticism has centered around the use of the&#xA;  word &quot;reality&quot;, and such shows' attempt to present themselves as a&#xA;  straightforward recounting of events that have occurred. Critics have&#xA;  argued that reality television shows do not present reality in ways&#xA;  both implicit (participants being placed in artificial situations) and&#xA;  deceptive or even fraudulent, such as misleading editing, participants&#xA;  being coached in what to say or how to behave, storylines generated&#xA;  ahead of time, and scenes being staged or re-staged for the cameras.&#xA;  Other criticisms of reality television shows include that they are&#xA;  intended to humiliate or exploit participants (particularly on&#xA;  competition shows), that they make celebrities out of untalented&#xA;  people who do not deserve fame, and that they glamorize vulgarity and&#xA;  materialism.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia defines False Advertising as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;False advertising or deceptive advertising is the use of false or&#xA;  misleading statements in advertising, and misrepresentation of the&#xA;  product at hand, which may negatively affect many stakeholders&#xA;  specifically consumers. As advertising has the potential to persuade&#xA;  people into commercial transactions that they might otherwise avoid,&#xA;  many governments around the world use regulations to control false,&#xA;  deceptive or misleading advertising. &quot;Truth&quot; refers to essentially the&#xA;  same concept, that customers have the right to know what they are&#xA;  buying, and that all necessary information should be on the label.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;False advertising, in the most blatant of contexts, is illegal in most&#xA;  countries. However, advertisers still find ways to deceive consumers&#xA;  in ways that are legal, or technically illegal but unenforceable.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I've been curious about this for a while. How are shows like Jersey Shore and Duck Dynasty (among many other proven to be scripted shows) allowed to be advertised as Reality Television when they in fact don't meet the criteria at all and are merely &quot;themed&quot; as Reality Television at best? The Reality TV theme of these shows shouldn't justify their advertisement as actual Reality Television any more than mocumentaries like The Office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know many viewers of these kinds of shows that actually think it's real (and rightfully so, it's advertised officially as Reality Television). It's a significant marketing factor. If all their viewers knew it was in fact staged and scripted, I'd predict their viewer count would drop dramatically. Essentially they're profiting off of their lie (False Advertising).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's going on here? Why are they allowed to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13502" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T21:13:39.717" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T21:13:39.717" Title="How are fake reality shows not false advertising? And if they are, why do they get away with it?" Tags="|legal|reality-tv|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19740" CreationDate="2014-08-28T17:55:35.780" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that was Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, who, incidentally, also &lt;strong&gt;IS&lt;/strong&gt; the OSCAR WINNING actor with the least screen time, 15 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13442" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T17:55:35.780" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24235" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-28T20:37:14.977" Score="6" ViewCount="15633" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the movie's ending, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existenz&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; points out that the characters act more &quot;natural,&quot; as if they are no longer influenced by the game, but on the other hand, similar to the scene in the Chinese Restaurant, no one really seems to be alarmed about the murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there was much speculation and theorizing about the ending of Inception, with one popular idea claiming that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; He was in the real world, as his totem was actually his wedding ring, which he was not wearing at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;eXistenZ features a very similar ending to Inception, and I was wondering if there was any consensus (seems unlikely) or theories as to whether the last scene took place in the real world or the game.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13505" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T20:51:56.443" Title="Is there any evidence as to how eXistenZ really ended?" Tags="|ending|existenz|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24237" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-28T21:27:14.213" Score="5" ViewCount="2638" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at broadcast schedules trying to figure out when a season of a show I like would enter syndication, and I realized that I wasn't really even sure what syndication was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what is syndication, and what determines when/if a show will be offered in syndication?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:45:22.437" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:45:22.437" Title="What is syndication?" Tags="|terminology|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10156" CreationDate="2014-08-28T23:12:53.447" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, the standard contract for headlining TV actors is for seven years; with some options of renegotiation during, options for dropping out, being written out, allowance to take on other roles, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the contract is up, and the TV show is still popular/makes money, the actors pretty much make the show what it is (in the eyes of the majority of the public, at least), so they have an upper hand in asking for much bigger salaries. It also happens that after those 7 years, the contracts are renegotiated every year or every two years, and their salaries go through the roof (recent example: Big Bang Theory main actors).   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the first 7 years though, and you might have noticed that on many shows, actors get the &quot;executive producer&quot; credits, even if they are not directly or even indirectly involved in the decision making or creative process of making the show. This is one of the ways to bump their salary or provide honorary title, which gives them more bargaining clout in the long run.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13511" LastActivityDate="2014-08-28T23:12:53.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24235" CreationDate="2014-08-29T01:47:27.500" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that the last scene takes place in the real world.  My reasoning is as follows: The story elements of each game session are drawn from the thoughts of the players.  The in-game story involves a working gun made from bone that at one point, (possibly more than once, I can't remember), the dog finds and carries to Pikul and Allegra.  The plot-point of the dog bringing them the gun is incorporated into the story from Pikul's and Allegra's thoughts because they know that in the real world their sheepdog is carrying guns for them hidden under a shaggy false mane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they shoot the game designer, the other players are unsure whether they are still in the game or not.  This is consistent with the claims made by supposedly fanatical characters in the movie about the reality-deforming effects of virtual-reality games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-08-29T01:47:27.500" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24255" CreationDate="2014-08-29T07:18:16.607" Score="21" ViewCount="49553" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does Sherlock mean exactly when he says &quot;I'm not a psychopath, I'm a highly functioning sociopath&quot;? What is the meaning of this line ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-08-29T23:20:55.017" LastActivityDate="2015-10-24T23:57:53.230" Title="Meaning of the line &quot;I'm not a psychopath, I'm a highly functioning sociopath&quot;" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24247" CreationDate="2014-08-29T12:50:21.257" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Knowing the original stories and many adaptations, I'm 99% sure, that Sherlock is a high functioning Asperger's, he's NOT a sociopath- it's only the BBC series' writer's fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Sociopath' and 'psychopath' are the SAME thing, only different areas of medical and psychological research and different countries used different terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sociopathworld.com/2010/08/sherlock-holmes-high-functioning.html?m=1&quot;&gt;Quoted from here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11534" LastActivityDate="2014-08-29T12:50:21.257" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24250" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24296" CreationDate="2014-08-29T13:06:20.580" Score="5" ViewCount="8671" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been some controversy over the last week about about a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/28965236&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Baked Alaska disaster&lt;/a&gt; where one of the contestants accidentally removed another's ice cream from the freezer. Following this he decided not to present his dessert to the judges which cost him his place in the competition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm very interested in the reaction which this has generated in response. There seem to be lots of discussions about removing Diana (who removed the ice cream) and reinstating Iain (who left). However it's my understanding that the series was filmed several weeks ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a few examples (quote from the linked article)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There were calls for Diana Beard, who at 69 is the show's oldest&#xA;  contestant, to be told off, disqualified and even arrested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes it sound like the competition is currently going on and that the producers could actually disqualify her. However in a statement from the BBC they commented that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Diana will not appear in the rest of the series as she fell ill ahead&#xA;  of filming episode five earlier this year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sounds to me like the show was filmed months ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When exactly are the Bakeoff (and indeed other shows like it) are filmed in relation to when they are broadcast? Are they filmed in advance and broadcast at a later date or are they filmed and shown week by week?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-08-31T14:23:53.557" LastActivityDate="2018-05-24T23:23:21.837" Title="How far ahead is The Great British Bakeoff filmed?" Tags="|production|the-great-british-bakeoff|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24250" CreationDate="2014-08-29T13:14:01.387" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Filming finished in June 2014. Not sure when it started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1039" LastActivityDate="2014-08-29T13:14:01.387" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21938" CreationDate="2014-08-29T13:38:02.817" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Found this interesting interpretation of the fish, it attempts to tie the events of the movie to astrological symbols/cycles.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0w577xTVOowJ:www.reddit.com/r/YMS/comments/2a2hny/id_love_to_hear_adams_thoughts_on_snowpiercer/+&amp;amp;cd=10&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;gl=us&amp;amp;client=firefox-a&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0w577xTVOowJ:www.reddit.com/r/YMS/comments/2a2hny/id_love_to_hear_adams_thoughts_on_snowpiercer/+&amp;amp;cd=10&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;gl=us&amp;amp;client=firefox-a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per fellow user's request, my quick summary of the post linked above:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The post explains that the cycle of the train follows the zodiac cycle, Pisces, fish cut, Aquarius, aquarium then Taurus for the steak. If the front of the train is the top of the cycle this syncs up quite well actually, the front being the first symbol, the ram (ramming through the snow). Then there is mention of a Greek myth involving Eros and Aphrodite turning into fish in order to escape Eros' father, Typhon. If you believe this tie into astrology it could indicate that cutting the fish is meant to show that there is no escape. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13522" LastEditorUserId="13522" LastEditDate="2014-08-29T14:41:33.850" LastActivityDate="2014-08-29T14:41:33.850" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36197" CreationDate="2014-08-29T13:49:55.520" Score="4" ViewCount="2162" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Expendables 2 the team are sent in by Church because of the mess they made in Valena (he'd originally tried to hire the team to kill the General who ran the island).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However after Barney and Lee's scouting trip to the island they agreed to turn the job down. Why (assuming they didn't take money off Church) did they owe him anything for their subsequent mischief?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2015-07-04T20:41:20.387" Title="Why did Church believe Barney owed him?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-expendables-2|the-expendables|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24247" CreationDate="2014-08-29T15:08:13.243" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the medical use of the terms are interchangeable, most people in common language use them differently:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;psychopath - a berserker who has gone crazy and is running around killing people, smashing stuff etc. Think &quot;psychotic&quot; for the mental image&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sociopath - someone who really doesn't care about society's norms, such as not killing or hurting other people, and acts only for their own gain&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The &quot;high functioning&quot; part is a red herring, sociopaths function really well and run companies etc. You usually see &quot;High Functioning&quot; paired with Aspergers or Autism, not Sociopath. But whatever.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherlock isn't really a sociopath since he helps people all the time, while pretending he's only doing it because he enjoys the puzzle or the game. In fact in this very episode, his motivation for the act that follows the line,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; shooting the bad guy to protect Mrs Watson's secret which is only in the bad guy's head&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is to help another person. That said, the line is &quot;in character&quot; since he likes to pretend he doesn't care, and he is able to do things without a qualm that most of us would not do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8842" LastEditorUserId="8842" LastEditDate="2014-08-29T15:30:41.583" LastActivityDate="2014-08-29T15:30:41.583" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24237" CreationDate="2014-08-29T15:31:11.273" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Syndication is quite simply the process of renting an existing (already filmed) TV show to a network and it typically falls into one of two categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An existing show which has reached a number of episodes, usually &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_episodes&quot;&gt;100&lt;/a&gt;, is rented to other channels who can then air reruns of it. This is sometimes called &lt;strong&gt;Off-network syndication&lt;/strong&gt; and examples would include &lt;em&gt;any foreign television show which airs in other countries&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A new show is made by a production company with the intention to sell it to channels later. This is typically called &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_syndication#First-run_syndication_in_the_U.S.&quot;&gt;First-run syndication&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, some examples include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation&quot;&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Academy:_The_Series&quot;&gt;Police Academy: The Series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThunderCats_%281985_TV_series%29&quot;&gt;ThunderCats&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Kombat:_Konquest&quot;&gt;Mortal Kombat: Konquest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_syndication#Types_of_syndication&quot;&gt;Wikipedia also mentions&lt;/a&gt; a third type of syndication which appears to be unique (or at least most common) to the USA called &lt;strong&gt;Public broadcasting syndication&lt;/strong&gt; in which a larger network will allow a public broadcasting (non-profit TV) network, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS&quot;&gt;PBS&lt;/a&gt; in the US, to rent a television show for re-broadcast. Some examples include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe_Trekker&quot;&gt;Globe Trekker&lt;/a&gt; (Originally &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_4&quot;&gt;Channel 4&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bean&quot;&gt;Mr. Bean&lt;/a&gt; (Originally &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV_%28TV_network%29&quot;&gt;ITV&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Ronnies&quot;&gt;The Two Ronnies&lt;/a&gt; (Originally &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In additions to sources linked above, additional information from:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:First-run_syndicated_television_programs_in_the_United_States&quot;&gt;Category: First-run syndicated television programs in the United States&lt;/a&gt; on Wikipedia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_PBS&quot;&gt;List of programs broadcast by PBS&lt;/a&gt; on Wikipedia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-08-29T15:31:11.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24258" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24263" CreationDate="2014-08-29T17:48:38.513" Score="10" ViewCount="14365" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Movie &lt;em&gt;Fight Club&lt;/em&gt;, in the scene where the Narrator returns to his hometown airport after a business trip the baggage handlers had to turn his luggage over to the authorities. This is because his luggage was &lt;em&gt;vibrating&lt;/em&gt;, which presumably led the &lt;em&gt;throwers&lt;/em&gt; to believe it could be a bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His luggage was confiscated, but it is never explicitly found or returned to him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just a huge coincidence that his baggage is suspected of containing a bomb, and in the next scene his apartment blows up - or is there some connection? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any clues as to what happened to his luggage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm just speculating here, as I wasn't able to perceive any clear answer to the above question:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the Narrator's baggage actually contain a bomb?  Is it even possible the Narrator's baggage was returned to his apartment, which then could have blown up his condo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4328" LastEditorUserId="4328" LastEditDate="2014-08-29T21:04:54.163" LastActivityDate="2017-03-01T14:30:37.957" Title="What happens to the Narrator's baggage in the movie Fight Club?" Tags="|fight-club|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24258" CreationDate="2014-08-29T18:56:13.497" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The explanation for what happens to the condo is explained in the movie. Initially it's assumed to be gas explosion, and a sequence shows how this would play out. The gas from his cooker is left on and it's triggered by a spark from the compressor in his refrigerator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later it is revealed by police forensics that it was caused by home-made dynamite.  Clearly he sets the bomb himself (as Tyler) before going on the business trip.  From the script (though this may have been slightly amended in the movie itself):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JACK: Dynamite?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DETECTIVE STERN: Yes.  It left a residue of ammonium oxalate and potassium perchloride. Do you know what that means?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JACK: What does that mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DETECTIVE STERN: It means it was homemade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possibly a coincidence that his baggage is confiscated for a vibration, or perhaps Tyler added something suspicious but not actually dangerous to his luggage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the luggage had contained a bomb, the luggage was under investigation for the vibration.  A bomb would have been found and not delivered to the condo, and they would have arrested him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the unrealistic event that they delivered the bomb in the bag to the apartment, it's unlikely that the bag would have got there before him from the airport, and who would let it into the condo? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He continued to be in contact with the police about the circumstances of the explosion, but he wasn't arrested, which he surely would have been if they had found a bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we can safely assume that the luggage would eventually have been delivered to him, I just don't think its mentioned in the movie at all (but I could be wrong about that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole thing is clearly engineered by Tyler to force his relocation to Paper Street.  Force him to be homeless and possibly even without luggage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2017-03-01T14:30:37.957" LastActivityDate="2017-03-01T14:30:37.957" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16405" CreationDate="2014-08-29T19:12:39.293" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Superman killed because he was a new hero who was unfamiliar with his powers and was unable to come up with a better resolution in that instant.  By no means should this be taken as an indicator that Superman is now a proven killer. &lt;em&gt;HE'S NOT.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13533" LastActivityDate="2014-08-29T19:12:39.293" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24258" CreationDate="2014-08-29T22:16:52.053" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The novel &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gradesaver.com/fight-club-novel/study-guide/section2/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;does explain&lt;/a&gt; what happened to his luggage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;His suitcase was inspected by the bomb squad on an abandoned runway.&lt;br&gt;The Narrator's electric razor was the culprit.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;And from an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Fight-Club.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;early draft of the script&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CSTjK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Script&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So in neither case did the condo explosion have anything to do with the luggage. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2014-08-29T22:16:52.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24264" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-29T23:20:19.173" Score="3" ViewCount="3318" Body="&lt;p&gt;It isn't completely clear from the film &quot;Harold and Maude&quot; whether the actress called &quot;Sunshine&quot;, the third computer-selected partner for Harold, really inflicted deadly injuries to herself with the Harakiri knife after Harold enacted his suicide, or whether she was acting as well - just better than Harold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please enlighten me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13537" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-29T23:45:12.253" LastActivityDate="2014-08-29T23:51:25.810" Title="Is Sunshine dead?" Tags="|plot-explanation|harold-and-maude|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24264" CreationDate="2014-08-29T23:51:25.810" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. According to the script, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/Harold-and-Maude.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; Sunshine 'knew' Harold was acting, in fact asking him who he trained with. She takes the knife and plays with the blade to determine how it works (slide up into the handle) and then proceeds to 'kill herself' using it (the acting prop knife) while continuing to act out Romeo and Juliet's Juliet death scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2014-08-29T23:51:25.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24268" CreationDate="2014-08-30T01:09:36.717" Score="4" ViewCount="14210" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Return of the King, after Pippin looks into the Palantir, he tells Gandalf that he saw a white tree, and Gandalf says what he saw was Minas Tirith. He then apparently takes Pippin on a horse to Minas Tirith. But when he takes Pippin to the white tree, he says it's the tree of Gondor. Also, the person in the castle, the father or Boromir, was the Steward of Gondor (we know this from the previous Lord of the Rings movies). So is Gondor the kingdom and Minas Tirith the castle? What is the difference between them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4763" LastActivityDate="2015-02-07T18:37:28.617" Title="What is the difference between Minas Tirith and Gondor?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-return-of-the-king|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24267" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-30T01:20:10.963" Score="10" ViewCount="8888" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Godfather, why isn't Fredo at Vito Corleone's funeral?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13538" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-30T01:44:25.050" LastActivityDate="2017-06-27T05:33:37.397" Title="Why wasn't Fredo at Vito Corleone's funeral?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24266" CreationDate="2014-08-30T02:02:32.683" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you can see from this map of Middle Earth, Gondor is the name of the kingdom to the west of Mordor:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8VpFj.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8VpFj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Map of Middle Earth&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Minas Tirith is a castle city, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minas_Tirith&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;capital of the kingdom&lt;/a&gt; during the time period depicted in the series:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VbuID.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Zoomed section showing Minas Tirith&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it says on the Wikipedia article for &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Tree_of_Gondor&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The White Tree of Gondor&lt;/a&gt;, it stands as a symbol for the realm of Gondor, but it also a symbol of the leadership of Gondor: the tree had died hundreds of years ago and it would not be replaced until the King returns (as the current leadership during the series is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denethor&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Denethor&lt;/a&gt;, The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewards_of_Gondor&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Steward of Gondor&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-08-30T15:25:33.520" LastActivityDate="2014-08-30T15:25:33.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24093" CreationDate="2014-08-30T14:10:23.617" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great question and timely as I just acquired Zack Snyder's attempt at adapting these books to film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in another response the symmetrical panel layout with a larger center panel is something that can only be appreciated when reading the source material vs film.  I thought it would be nice to have an example below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1hyaq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another similar effect that can only be achieved through the book medium is the use of a repeating pattern of color through the 3x3 panel configuration as seen below:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CmPKh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you attempt to literally cut the image into panels for your film as Ang Lee did in Hulk you would not be able to come close to recreating these details.  Even with the split screen the images in each panel are moving and you cannot control the pace of how each image is viewed and it is difficult to focus on each detail as the images flash across the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sTkAU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above examples show what I believe you were referring to as structural aspects of the presentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moving on towards where the film version succeeded or failed.  I believe the film failed because of the limitation of time, which is a prevalent negative response whenever such a voluminous text is translated into a film.  There is a lot of text/dialog in the comics and there is just too much to present in the few hours of the film.  One of the advantages of film is the the motion of images.  Unfortunately, I would say the motion is also a weakness in this particular case because the director dictates the pace at which you are exposed to the moving images where with the comic you can linger on an image or series of images and make your own experience.  When I read the entire sequence of Doc Manhattan's back story in the comic books it had a profound impact on me on a level that cutting and jumping  moving images simply could not achieve for me.  I did not feel as connected watching the series of events unfold on the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where the film succeeded was by being an entertaining, visually stimulating well crafted attempt at translating something which ultimately cannot be translated.  It succeeded in using the advantages of the medium of film such as pure scale, it was an experience to see Doc Manhattan on the massive expanse of the silver screen, audio, the song choices and the combination with the moving images was well done, and creating all the environments/settings I felt was another success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13522" LastEditorUserId="13522" LastEditDate="2014-08-30T17:31:00.803" LastActivityDate="2014-08-30T17:31:00.803" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24267" CreationDate="2014-08-30T20:48:15.920" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, at the time of Don Vito Corleone's death by heart failure, Fredo had been sent off to Las Vegas to begin the process of securing the family real estate and business(es) as well as ensuring that local politicians and senior police are either bought, or otherwise neutered. It is the new Godfather's decision that the family should move to Vegas and away from the troubles (other families and drugs) of New York.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we all know, the real reason Fredo was sent, was because he was the least missed of all of the family, being the weakling, both in body and mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why he wasn't at his father's funeral, well the number one reason had to be simple: Michael didn't want him there. He had previously shown himself a coward and weakling (again) in his fumbling the job of protecting his own father during the previous attempted assassination. Not only did he miss spotting the assassins, he fumbled his gun AND just sat there crying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Michael had already been alerted that he needed to be wary and watchful at the funeral, to spot which of his men seemed chummy with the enemy, the Barzini's, and in fact it was Tessio who brokered the (fake) peace attempt, so Michael knew not to trust Tessio from that point forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Michael had allowed Fredo to attend, it would have been more likely that Fredo would have created a scene, emotionally, and embarrass the family, and more importantly, ruin Michael's opportunity to catch out the REAL traitor, Tessio. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that point, Michael didn't know the extent of Fredo's issues at being 'left out' and that he was becoming what would be an even worse traitor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, seeing that both of the other answers insist on Fredo actually being at the funeral, I went back and watched the funeral/burial scene again, frame by frame. No where is Fredo present in those scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book, Fredo is listed, by name, as being at the wake. &quot;and of course, the Don's sons&quot; was the phrase used for the funeral. And the burial was only a few paragraphs, with no mention of Fredo. Of course, that doesn't mean that Puzo expected him not to attend, just that he wasn't integral to the event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2016-07-03T16:30:34.760" LastActivityDate="2016-07-03T16:30:34.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24278" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-30T21:18:56.723" Score="6" ViewCount="437" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just finished the first episode of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Continuum&lt;/a&gt;, and I'm already fairly hooked - but I'm confused about the motives of the Liber8 group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they are, as I understand it, anti-corporation (the 'Corporate Congress'), pro return to democracy, etc. then why are they - having traveled back to 2012 - attacking the Police?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely they would be pro-Government (as it was in 2012) pro- everything public sector? I don't understand why it's not whichever corporations bailed out the Government later in the timeline that they're attacking, rather than the Police.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13547" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-08-30T21:38:39.150" LastActivityDate="2014-08-30T22:36:44.687" Title="Why did Liber8 attack the police?" Tags="|plot-explanation|continuum|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24278" CreationDate="2014-08-30T22:31:27.113" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Liber8's main goal is to fight against the major corporations that slowly take over the power. As you may have noticed, they are not exactly strong believers in peaceful methods. They are radicals and try to reach their goals by force and public attention. To do this, they need weapons, but when they arrived back in 2012 they had none, so they attacked some police officers to take their weapons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the scene you mention you can see them overwhelming two police officers with only their hands and a knife and then looting the police car for machine guns:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kTBip.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they are simply attacking them for the weapons and not for political motives. However they probably are not very sympathetic with law enforcement either, because of their experiences in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-08-30T22:36:44.687" LastActivityDate="2014-08-30T22:36:44.687" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17279" CreationDate="2014-08-30T23:10:37.980" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shared universe...out of all the answers listed above, the best one is a trilogy from 30 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every one seems to be overlooking GODZILLA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After 1954s Godzilla was a box office smash Toho set out to make a world of monsters.&#xA;Godzilla, Mothra&#xA;, and Rodan  all had their separate films that converged into Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster.&#xA;Amongst these movies there are characters that are referenced in other ones. And several that are returning. And these films led up to another film (though set in 1999) Destroy all Monsters...which brings in even more monsters...&#xA;After that movie there were several times this happened again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also gets brought up in various movies from the run of Godzilla movies from the 2000s. Directly  linking the Showa films to the Millenium  films....and bringing in past characters, even converging various KAIJU that did not link into the Godzilla and Friends Universe before ..long before Marvel did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13549" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-08-28T04:57:44.303" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T04:57:44.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24285" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-31T04:28:07.563" Score="2" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0716990/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Last Car&lt;/a&gt;&quot; from the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Darkside&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tales from the Darkside&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, what is the fee for opening the door? When the woman tries to open the door she is warned about a fee but the amount is never revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7431" LastEditorUserId="31894" LastEditDate="2016-05-19T01:48:04.870" LastActivityDate="2016-05-19T01:48:04.870" Title="What is the fee for opening the door in The Last Car?" Tags="|plot-explanation|tales-from-the-darkside|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="826" CreationDate="2014-08-31T07:18:24.770" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He knew he was going to die and didn't know how to tell her goodbye, it even says in the movie &quot;what should I tell her?&quot; &quot;nothing that need be said&quot; and Spartans aren't supposed to show weakness so that was their way of telling each other they loved each other and in the end maybe she just wanted to pass something on to their son from his father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13557" LastActivityDate="2014-08-31T07:18:24.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24291" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24318" CreationDate="2014-08-31T13:25:42.467" Score="3" ViewCount="1764" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_for_Schmucks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dinner for Schmucks&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, the actor &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Walliams&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;David Walliams&lt;/a&gt; (who plays Mueller) has his index finger (with the famous ring of the family) cut by the blind &quot;fool&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How was this effect achieved? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13465" LastEditorUserId="206" LastEditDate="2014-09-01T19:10:38.507" LastActivityDate="2014-09-01T19:10:38.507" Title="How was the effect of David Walliams finger being cut off achieved" Tags="|film-techniques|effects|dinner-for-schmucks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24293" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-31T14:31:40.147" Score="2" ViewCount="686" Body="&lt;p&gt;On both Amazing Race and Amazing Race Canada, I've seen teams given time penalties for not finishing a roadblock. Do the teams know what those penalties are or is it a surprise to them when they take the penalty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples from this season of Amazing Race Canada: Rex and Bob took two penalties in a single episode: one of 2 hours and one of 4. Another team got a two hour penalty for abandoning a different task in a different episode. Were the times task-specific, or is your first penalty always 2 hours and your second always 4? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the most recent episode, a second place team arrived at a roadblock and saw the first place team (who got there not much earlier) do it in 90 minutes. The second place team needed 8 hours to complete it, during which all the other teams came, did it in about 3 hours, and left. The second place team ended up being eliminated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In their place, once I had struggled for say 5 hours and seen that most people took 3, and when I knew there were still 2 or 3 teams who hadn't started, I would take a 2 hour penalty. Likely I would still finish ahead of those who hadn't started yet. But this team didn't do that or even discuss it on air. Is that because it might have been a 4 or 6 hour penalty, or they didn't know how long the penalty was?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I expect the rules and producer behaviour are the same for all the Amazing Race variants, so a Canada-specific answer is probably not necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8842" LastActivityDate="2014-09-06T05:06:06.123" Title="On Amazing Race, do the teams know in advance what the penalty will be for giving up on a task?" Tags="|amazing-race|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="290" CreationDate="2014-08-31T15:32:45.167" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Dan. The scene is thematic in nature. But I would go further to say it is a summary of the theme of the story. It is about a man (Mike) who lies about his wife (like Jerry lies about the whereabouts of his own wife), lies about his income, (Mike pretending he's an engineer at Honeywell, Jerry is lying about his income on the loan he's requesting), and tries to get close to an authority and is rejected (Mike tries to get close to Marge and she pushes him away, Jerry tries to get close to Wade with his parking lot deal, and is summarily rejected). And eventually, the lies are exposed. Mike is unmasked as a fraud, and Jerry is unmasked, with his pants off, in the motel room. Whenever you look at a subplot,  look for a mirroring of the the theme in it. I'm not saying it does not also do the other things, but the thematic element is critical to preserving the thrust of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13561" LastActivityDate="2014-08-31T15:32:45.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24250" CreationDate="2014-08-31T15:51:05.030" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-08-06/bake-off-insiders-reveal-what-really-goes-on-inside-the-tent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bake Off insiders reveal what really goes on inside the tent&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first year the show moved from place to place every week. &lt;strong&gt;This year (2014) the tent was pitched in April at &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welford_Park&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Welford Park&lt;/a&gt; in Berkshire for ten weeks.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;We try to record at weekends, because so many of our contestants have day jobs. They arrive, go into the tent, and bake for Mary and Paul. That’s it.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; says executive producer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1511074/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anna Beattie&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Each episode is filmed over two days.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“We record the entire series before transmission,”&lt;/strong&gt; says Beattie. “Of course, we then have to keep the winner a secret until the series ends. It is a risk, because it relies on everyone involved playing ball, but we trust people not to spoil it.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that the 2014 series was filmed starting in April, according to the above quote;  it began airing in August 2014.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-05-24T23:23:21.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24297" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35779" CreationDate="2014-08-31T16:40:25.983" Score="9" ViewCount="1923" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Veera&lt;/em&gt;, the protagonist of the Tamil movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1664806/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Raavanan&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, used to repeat a specific phrase throughout the movie, which was one of the few things not translated in the dubbed version I watched. It sounded like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;dan...dan...dan...danaka!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does this mean anything in the Tamil language&lt;/strong&gt;, or is it some name, maybe related to the original &lt;em&gt;Ramayana&lt;/em&gt; which the movie was supposedly based on to some degree (and which I'm totally unacquainted with)? Or was this just some kind of exclamation, without much literal meaning to it? And &lt;strong&gt;what was his intention for saying this?&lt;/strong&gt; Was he trying to intimidate people with that, seeing that he used to say this in rather instense situations, or was this just part of his quite excessive character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2020-05-25T05:37:45.457" Title="Why did Veera keep saying &quot;dan...dan...dan...danaka!&quot; and what does it mean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|dialogue|raavanan|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23388" CreationDate="2014-08-31T17:53:54.343" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Building on the answers that it's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; expressionism, I think I've found what it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;. This last week the local improv troupe (BATS) brought in some guest artists from Germany to examine Bertold Brecht's ideas of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_theatre&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Epic Theatre&lt;/a&gt; and see how it could apply to long-form improv, and their Q&amp;amp;A after the show and some subsequent research brought me here.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Epic Theatre (also referred to by Brecht as &quot;dialectical theatre&quot;) has a central idea of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distancing_effect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Verfremdung&lt;/a&gt; (&quot;estrangement&quot; or &quot;alienation&quot;) which uses various production techniques to put the audience at an intellectual distance from the play, to &lt;em&gt;remind&lt;/em&gt; them that they're watching a &lt;em&gt;play&lt;/em&gt;.  A production would do that with devices like having the characters address the audience directly, having the &lt;em&gt;actors&lt;/em&gt; address the audience directly, being selectively non-realistic in props or scenic design, breaking into inappropriate song to break up what might be an overly empathic scene, or &lt;strong&gt;announcements or visual captions that interrupt and summarize the action.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm going to go with those inserted shots in Lucy as being a direct nod to Brecht's &lt;em&gt;verfremdumseffekt&lt;/em&gt; from his idea of Epic Theatre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12927" LastActivityDate="2014-08-31T17:53:54.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24302" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24392" CreationDate="2014-08-31T19:37:01.913" Score="14" ViewCount="5941" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, nearly any time Bateman tries to make an excuse in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;American Psycho&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, for example, when in the bathroom with his coworker, when breaking up with Evelyn, and when speaking with Detective Kimball, he uses the phrase &quot;I have to return some video tapes.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any importance to this line? Is it just for comedic effect or is it like a running gag in the book/movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4211" LastEditorUserId="4211" LastEditDate="2014-09-01T04:53:54.753" LastActivityDate="2015-01-18T21:28:40.117" Title="Why does Patrick Bateman need to return video tapes?" Tags="|dialogue|american-psycho|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24093" CreationDate="2014-08-31T22:09:54.257" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The existing answers here have already provided some very good insights into the particular advantages of the comic medium due to its different structural form of storytelling, which I guess to a large degree come down to the comic's discrete presentation and the customizable pacing of its consumption. In addition to that I would like to approach this from the actual content and themes of the story itself (although, as said, I haven't read many (if any) comics at all other than &lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The main point of &lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt;'s story seemed to be to provide a realistic upto cynical view on superheroes.&lt;/strong&gt; Whereas &quot;classical&quot; superhero comics usually embedded their characters in a world similar or equal to ours, &lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt; was a (to my knowledge genuine) attempt to analyze the actual impact masked vigilantes would have on our world and how that world and our perception of those people would actually change due to their presence. In the same way it demystified those people by providing a very differentiated view on their actual characters, be this an attention-addicted woman trying to get famous and continuing her dreams through her daughter, a brutal killer seeing everything in black-and-white and acting way beyond the law, a shy &quot;nerd&quot; needing his costume to actually &lt;em&gt;be someone&lt;/em&gt;, or a &quot;real&quot; superhero being so superhuman as to completely loose any concern for humanity at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And coming back to the actual question one could consider this realistic and cynical take on superheroes to unfold its complete effect only in the medium of comics, where superhero stories have become stockpile. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt; was undermining the whole superhero genre in its very own home medium.&lt;/strong&gt; And I guess this might thus be something to &lt;em&gt;&quot;only work in a comic&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, as this whole impact is hard to transfer to movies, where this prevalence of superhero stories is not as ubiquitous as in comics. Though, one might consider that by 2009 things like &lt;em&gt;Spider-man&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;X-men&lt;/em&gt;, and others had already begun to establish the superhero movie as its very own genre (though, this was still to a large degree before the advent of the &lt;em&gt;MCU&lt;/em&gt; and all the stuff yet to come). So to some degree the movie audience already began to accomodate to superheroes as frequent acquaintances on the silver screen. But I think this is by far not comparable to the scale of &lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt;'s impact on the medium of comics in 1985, even though I admittedly don't know. (Maybe one could have waited with this movie until cinema is completely replete with superheroes, if it isn't by now ;-).)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thus even disregarding the very structure of comics, the content of this story might be seen as inherent to this medium with a significance hard to transfer to another medium at all.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-20T09:58:18.620" LastActivityDate="2016-09-20T09:58:18.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24305" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-08-31T23:38:55.537" Score="10" ViewCount="44330" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Incredible Hulk, Banner gets help from a scientist in NY who was experimenting with the Hulk's blood. His name is Dr. Samuel Sterns, but he calls himself Mr. Blue when chatting with Banner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on, Mr. Blue helps Banner develop an antiserum of some kind and is then forced by Maj. Blonsky to &lt;em&gt;hulkify&lt;/em&gt; him. After the mutation, Blonsky knocks him out, he drops to the ground and you can see some of Hulk's blood dropping onto Mr. Blue's head wound, causing his head to mutate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qjzyx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CCtuY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was expecting this scene to be significant later on, but this was the last we see of Mr. Blue in the whole movie. Not even a hint of what happened to him after the credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What happened to Mr. Blue?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this a setup for a sequel? Or maybe an insider reference to the comic books? Are there any known plans to bring him back? If not, why did the producers put this scene in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T08:18:58.230" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T11:31:20.560" Title="What happened to Mr. Blue?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-incredible-hulk|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24306" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27006" CreationDate="2014-09-01T00:17:18.533" Score="9" ViewCount="3883" Body="&lt;p&gt;After having watched the Tamil movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1664806/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Raavanan&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I was surprised to learn that there is also, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1334470/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Raavan&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a Hindi version of this movie, which was produced and released simultaneously by the same director and crew and some of the same actors (one actor, &lt;em&gt;Vikram&lt;/em&gt;, even switched roles in the different versions). While I'm used to the occasional remake of existing movies or even shot for shot remakes of TV-shows from another country, this whole approach was absolutely new to me and I haven't ever heard of such a procedure before, especially as someone used to dubbing or even movies filmed with different language actors redubbed to a unified release langauge. In fact the Tamil version was even dubbed and released in Telugu afterwards, without completely refilming the whole movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first question is thus first and foremost &lt;strong&gt;if it is actually common practice in Indian cinema to simulataneously make a movie in multiple languages&lt;/strong&gt; or if this is also done in other movie industries (where the language situation is as diverse). Or is this only made for the occasional big production, or maybe only by some filmmakers? Furthermore, and maybe concentrating on &lt;em&gt;Raavanan&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Raavan&lt;/em&gt; in particular if not generally answerable, I'd like to know &lt;strong&gt;if those versions are really made exactly equal or if there are larger-scale differences in the story catering to the specific demands of the respective cultures&lt;/strong&gt; (though judging from Wikipedia the filming locations of both movies were also largely the same).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should add, that I'm not looking for mere examples of other occasions of this practice here, but a more large-scale explanation of the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2016-06-27T09:54:03.160" Title="To which degree are movies filmed simultaneously in different languages?" Tags="|production|translation|alternate-version|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24305" CreationDate="2014-09-01T00:53:52.577" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Insider reference to the comic books.  In the Marvel universe Samuel Sterns was mutated by gamma radiation into &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.com/universe/Leader_(Samuel_Sterns)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Leader&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-09-01T00:53:52.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24313" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24314" CreationDate="2014-09-01T09:22:55.310" Score="102" ViewCount="30683" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the movies of the Matrix trilogy have this distinct greenish tint during most of the scenes. Though it can inferred that the greenish tint denotes the matrix, but I want to know why &quot;greenish&quot;? What is distinct about green that makes it suitable for this story? In other words what does it resemble?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-27T17:41:38.213" LastActivityDate="2018-05-20T02:16:05.893" Title="Why the greenish tint in the Matrix trilogy?" Tags="|the-matrix|the-matrix-revolutions|the-matrix-reloaded|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24313" CreationDate="2014-09-01T09:35:17.090" Score="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;The green tint is suggestive of the early monochrome cathode monitors, a piece of imagery associated with early computing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wGhfi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Wachowski's wanted to create a mood palette, so they could cross cut between the Matrix and the Real world and an audience could immediately identify where the action was occuring through the use of such a colour scheme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-09-01T09:35:17.090" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24306" CreationDate="2014-09-01T09:52:09.287" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst it is no longer 'common' for films to be produced in different languages, as the dawn of the 'sound era' of cinema this was standard practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(1931_film)#Background.2FProduction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dracula&lt;/a&gt; is the most notorious version of this: During the day MGM would shoot with Bela Lugosi, then in the evenings the Spanish crew would take over the set and continue filming with Carlos Villarías... the practice was known as 'Multiple-Language Versioning', and the reason studios pursued such an arduous task is because sound was a relative novelty, and often the only reason a studio would make a film in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most features were indeed reproduced scene for scene, line for line, as this was a contractual obligation and a means of control by the studio, an early exercise in consistency of branding. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One example that didn't follow this pattern was &lt;em&gt;Paramount on Parade&lt;/em&gt;, a musical that was re-shot in over 12 different languages with 12 different casts, each one the most recognisable face that Paramount Studios had on contract for their country of release. Obviously this was  novelty, but to shoot in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-language_version&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;3 or 4 languages was not unheard of.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Place-cards had been standard practice, and as such made films interchangeable across international markets. Studios no-longer wanted this, as they though it devalued their product: hence the insistence on sound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These days, people are comfortable reading subtitles, and typically they are preferred over dubbing into other languages: the performance of the actors is almost entirely based on the delivery of their lines, with the speech variations and manner producing meaning. To dub over this is to remove the performance, and in recognition of this the process of dubbing is rapidly falling out of fashion in all but childrens cinema...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its incredibly rare to hear of a modern film shot in more than one langauge, but asyou've proved in your question, its not unprecedented...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-09-01T09:52:09.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24291" CreationDate="2014-09-01T13:25:30.217" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Faking a finger being cut off is pretty easy. First, they can just use a rubber hand for the closeup with the actual cutting. If the actor is wearing something with sleeves, their real hand is up the sleeve holding the rubber hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the script needs the rest of the fingers to be moving around, you can make a glove with something fingerlike and some fake blood in one finger of the glove, and the actor can curl their real finger down onto the palm of their hand inside the glove. Then the fake finger can be cut. You can put tubes for fake blood in the palm of the glove.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally a scene like this will be done several times from different distances, with different amounts of makeup and prosthetics each time. From 20 feet away you just need a tube on the table under the person's hand that will spray or ooze blood. You might also need another glove later to make the person's hand look like they're missing a finger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8842" LastActivityDate="2014-09-01T13:25:30.217" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23166" CreationDate="2014-09-01T13:40:56.353" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A light meter is a device used to measure the amount of light. In photography, a light meter is often used to determine the proper exposure for a photograph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now why do you think that managing &lt;strong&gt;exposure&lt;/strong&gt; is not needed in Digital Cinematography ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Photography or Cinematography, Analog or Digital, it's all about managing the exposure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In plainest terms, Exposure just means how much light is exposed to the picture and most pictures are either under exposed of over exposed. Under exposed means having a dark picture and over exposed means having more light than required.&#xA;Good photography or cinematography is all about having just the right amount of light in your picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the techniques in photography/cinematography deal with this very thing. Lens Filters do this very job of managing the exposure and this is applicable to both Digital and analog techniques.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check any photography tutorial (analog/digital), they will tell you about how to manage the exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;when something is captured by a camera it goes to the sensor and that's where it is determined how the picture is going to be, depending on its exposure. It's a different story that whether The image or video goes to a film or an SD card.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summing that up, what I want to say is Digital or Analog they all need to handle exposure. This is irrespective of whether the final output is going to a film or a digital media. And Light meter only tells the current amount of exposure, hence helping the folks to determine how much more they need to tweak the exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S there are several techniques to tweak the exposure which are bith pre and post capture. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few links :&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_%28photography%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Exposure&lt;/a&gt; : Please go through the manual exposure part. It tells about light meter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;they could judge how much light is needed without exactly measuring&#xA;  the amount of light on screen (by looking at the scene once lit or&#xA;  watching the camera's output monitor).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's really not so easy. You can't estimate the right amount of light just by looking at the output monitor. A huge amount of precision is required to determine the right exposure and we definitely need an instrument to help us determine that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-09-09T11:42:45.733" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T11:42:45.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24033" CreationDate="2014-09-01T17:15:10.523" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The storage area was a closet, resulting from the conversion of Minnie and Roman's huge apartment into two different units. This had been a normal doorway between the two sections of the apartment, until it was sectioned off. Much like dividing doors between two adjoining rooms in a hotel. Shelves where added to make some use of the space. But eventually, the space was used to travel between the two units, and it is through this portal that Rosemary was carried when she ate the 'chocolate mousse' which Minnie made. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rosemary was inducted into the ritual because when Roman told Terry about what was happening, Terry committed suicide, jumping out the window. This is why Minnie yells at Roman, which Rosemary hears through the wall when she's in bed, dreaming, and we see the nun speaking in her dream 'I told you not to tell her. If you hadn't, we wouldn't have to do this!' Minnie is chewing out Roman for telling Terry, and blaming him for the suicide, which is correct. So now they have to plan to capture Rosemary and use her as a host for the new child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13561" LastActivityDate="2014-09-01T17:15:10.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21717" CreationDate="2014-09-01T17:30:34.723" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this appears to be a story hole, the fact is, Clarice has out-smarted Jack Crawford a couple of times, and has proven to be insightful. When Hannibal tells her to 'look inside yourself', she correctly deduces that 'Yourself' is the name of a storage house, and she goes there and looks inside. She also has the insight when Jack speaks to the other officers at the morgue, when they are examining the body of the girl, that he spoke to her in a demeaning way, and it set a bad example for the other men. Then she had the insight into the fact the killer is using the girls to make a suit of their skins, she may have acted on this. He can assume she is ahead of him once again, and has correctly interpreted information she had, and acted on it. While he has no direct evidence she is somewhere else, it is a logical assumption, given her past history, and given the fact he incorrectly interpreted the info he had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13561" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2018-09-27T09:53:09.927" LastActivityDate="2018-09-27T09:53:09.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24324" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-01T18:04:15.343" Score="8" ViewCount="7204" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there an evidence that this famous Michael Jackson dance move is inspired by the movie The Wizard of Oz (1939)? With evidence I mean an interview or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In The Wizard of Oz there is a scene in which the Tin Man is dancing. You can rewatch it in this video: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/tGbfs6HZDNo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mmpCZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Michael Jackson Dance Move&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UVB0i.png&quot; alt=&quot;Scene from Wizard of Oz&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8737" LastActivityDate="2017-01-07T10:26:28.380" Title="Is this famous Michael Jackson dance move inspired by The Wizard of Oz (1939)?" Tags="|the-wizard-of-oz|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24325" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24327" CreationDate="2014-09-01T18:11:46.450" Score="19" ViewCount="31212" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a scene in Watchmen (2009) on Mars with Dr. Manhattan. Every time I watch the movie I'm wondering what exactly is this crystal/diamond thing we can see on Mars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wy2e0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;crystal thing&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8737" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2022-08-30T12:28:27.403" LastActivityDate="2023-08-28T16:44:15.413" Title="What exactly is this crystal thing on Mars in Watchmen (2009)?" Tags="|watchmen|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24325" CreationDate="2014-09-01T18:46:59.450" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, what this thing actually is, it's nothing more than &lt;strong&gt;a huge glass structure that &lt;em&gt;Dr. Manhattan&lt;/em&gt; creates out of Mars sand&lt;/strong&gt;. But to understand why he builds that, we have to look at his character a bit (at least as far as I'm able to do). I'll draw a bit of information from the comic here, not entirely sure by now how much of this is also part of the movie, but the overall themes should match (especially considering how true to the source material the movie was).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When &lt;em&gt;Dr. Manhattan&lt;/em&gt; left earth this was because he was currently fed up with humanity (and probably also felt some guilt for &lt;em&gt;Janey&lt;/em&gt;'s cancer, not knowing that he wasn't the cause). To compensate this he takes refuge in the solitude of Mars. And as the son of a watchmaker, &lt;em&gt;Jon Osterman&lt;/em&gt; learned from his father to admire the precision of such a watch as a structue of many simple parts that precisely interlock with each other. And I guess at this point &lt;strong&gt;he searches refuge in creating such a complex and precise structure out of something as simple as the sand of Mars&lt;/strong&gt;, all while reflecting about his past life and &lt;strong&gt;trying to understand the nature of time and determination itself&lt;/strong&gt; and the problems of cause and effect. And the corresponding chapter of the novel is indeed also called &quot;Watchmaker&quot;, reinforcing this attitude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vuz8O.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oftCZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TwAyl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that, if we understand &lt;em&gt;Dr. Manhattan&lt;/em&gt; with his godlike powers as an exaggeration (or perversion?) of &lt;em&gt;Superman&lt;/em&gt;, this walkable structure in the solitude of Mars might as well be understood as an allusion to &lt;em&gt;Superman&lt;/em&gt;'s crystalline Fortress of Solitude in the lonesome depths of Antarctica.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-01T19:03:25.687" LastActivityDate="2014-09-01T19:03:25.687" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24313" CreationDate="2014-09-01T19:43:12.517" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like the answer @JohnSmithOptional gave. Also, the directors have explained that they thought the color blue was too happy/cheerful, so they chose to make the sky within the Matrix green.  The one time that bright blue is used is in the last half hour of the 3rd movie: a ship flies way up above the clouds, in the Real World, and there's a moment of beautiful blue sky.  I think Trinity or someone gasps.  Then they fall back through the clouds into the darkness to battle the Machines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm sorry I can't cite the source where the directors said that, but I'm SURE I've heard or read it. Might have been on the DVD bonus material.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2014-09-02T20:55:14.333" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T20:55:14.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24329" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24336" CreationDate="2014-09-01T19:56:49.470" Score="1" ViewCount="289" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117665/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sleepers&lt;/a&gt; (1996), is Danny Snyder (Dustin Hoffman) &quot;in&quot; on the scam taking place, or does he just assume that King Benny is trying to protect the boys, and that's why Benny has given him a list of all the proper questions to be asked to ensure that Tommy and John will be found innocent? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2014-09-02T00:31:42.453" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T00:31:42.453" Title="Is the lawyer in on the scam?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sleepers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24330" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24334" CreationDate="2014-09-01T19:58:03.410" Score="2" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117665/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sleepers&lt;/a&gt; (1996), why is Michael so adamant about Danny being the defense lawyer? He says it's because Danny's something of a hack and a drunk, and that they need the situation to seem hopeless for Tommy and John. But wouldn't a really good lawyer be the better way to go? A better defense attorney would make the &quot;not guilty&quot; verdict seem much more plausible than a lousy alcoholic lawyer winning the case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2014-09-02T00:31:28.713" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T00:31:28.713" Title="Why would a bad defense attorney be better than a good one?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sleepers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24331" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-01T20:05:27.830" Score="2" ViewCount="1294" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117665/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sleepers&lt;/a&gt; (1996), do Fat Man and King Benny know the whole story about what happened to the boys (rapes, beatings, etc.)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They seem to know everything, and they're going along with the scam taking place against the Wilkinson School for Boys, but I thought that the four boys had never told anyone all the details. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2014-09-02T00:31:05.357" LastActivityDate="2017-12-19T06:41:00.240" Title="Do King Benny and Fat Man know the whole story?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sleepers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24332" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-01T20:14:43.443" Score="1" ViewCount="559" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117665/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sleepers&lt;/a&gt; (1996), how does Ralph Ferguson not remember Michael, Tommy or John? I mean, if he didn't recognize their faces, which he probably wouldn't because they're adults now, he must at least recognize their names. Especially considering that Michael is the prosecutor of the case. Ferguson must have heard his name mentioned somewhere and thought it was odd that Michael would be trying to put Tommy and John away. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2014-09-02T00:30:29.157" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T00:30:29.157" Title="How does Ferguson not remember them?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sleepers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24333" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24347" CreationDate="2014-09-01T21:09:00.200" Score="6" ViewCount="6201" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the name of this movie? It's about a teacher who tries to teach values to their students. It is in a private prep school. The teacher has a placard over the door or high on the wall that he makes all students memorize. One of the students cheats on a test but the teacher can't prove it. Many years later, the student is rich &amp;amp; successful and challenges the teacher to another test, but he still cheats using a hidden microphone. The teacher asks him what was the quote on the placard and he can't remember because it's not in a book that his accomplice can access. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie has the feel of Dead Poet's Society, but it's not Dead Poet's Society. I tried to search for it but was unsuccessful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=private-school&amp;amp;sort=user_rating,desc&amp;amp;mode=advanced&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;title_type=movie&amp;amp;ref_=kw_ref_typ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;, &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=cheating&amp;amp;sort=user_rating,desc&amp;amp;mode=advanced&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;title_type=movie&amp;amp;ref_=kw_ref_typ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=student%2Cteacher&amp;amp;sort=user_rating,desc&amp;amp;mode=advanced&amp;amp;page=1&amp;amp;title_type=movie&amp;amp;ref_=kw_ref_typ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7018" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-09-02T10:30:04.843" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T10:30:04.843" Title="Movie with a private school, teacher, placard, and cheating students" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:17:30.910" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24330" CreationDate="2014-09-02T00:10:20.717" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point of the whole trial was not (just) the &quot;not guilty&quot; verdict, but the exposure of what was happening all those years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see at least two problems with a good lawyer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He would go for the &quot;not guilty&quot; verdict &lt;strong&gt;and only for that&lt;/strong&gt;, with no interest to risk it for the truth, and with no desire to make enemies of the cops.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He would lead the show, which would leave Michael out of control.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You don't get that kind of trouble with a bad lawyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, getting a really good lawyer would look very suspicious. Tommy and John were two small-time crooks. How do they afford one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting someone good within their pay range would leave them with a lawyer who may not be good enough on his own, but wouldn't be controlled by Michael.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T00:10:20.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24329" CreationDate="2014-09-02T00:15:44.053" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been a long time since I watched the movie, but I don't remember a single hint of him being aware of the scam. As I wrote in the answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/24330/5589&quot;&gt;your other question on this movie&lt;/a&gt;, Danny was manipulated by Michael.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T00:15:44.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24332" CreationDate="2014-09-02T00:22:28.817" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There must have been hundreds of boys going through Wilkinson Home for Boys, being abused by the guards there. Why would he remember names of the random three of his victims (again, among probable hundreds) from 13 years before?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T00:22:28.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24339" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24342" CreationDate="2014-09-02T01:02:07.373" Score="4" ViewCount="13504" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During an after trial meeting, the bosses decide to eliminate anyone involved or with knowledge of the skim in order to keep them from testifying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The car bombing wasn't authorized and Nikky was the one responsible for that, so why was Sam spared by the bosses?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13586" LastEditorUserId="13586" LastEditDate="2014-09-02T16:09:33.140" LastActivityDate="2017-03-20T16:21:57.623" Title="Why was Sam &quot;Ace&quot; Rothstein spared by the bosses?" Tags="|plot-explanation|casino|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3055" CreationDate="2014-09-02T01:44:02.907" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In that scene, Tyler's perspective is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He sees The Narrator put a gun in his mouth, which means that if The Narrator pulls the trigger, Tyler would believe he would die as he would believe The Narrator would die. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why it works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before The Narrator pulls the trigger, he says &quot;Tyler, my eyes are open&quot;. The significance of this is that The Narrator sees Tyler watching himself pull the trigger. In The Narrator's eyes, Tyler dies so that Tyler can never return in his mind. He needed to 'see' Tyler die, so that Tyler cannot come back. What Tyler didn't see is that the bullet did not go through his brain allowing The Narrator to survive. This is the only way The Narrator could 'kill' Tyler. By tricking Tyler and his own subconscious, he needed to 'see' it happen, otherwise Tyler wouldn't be dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mind blowingly clever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13588" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T01:44:02.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24339" CreationDate="2014-09-02T02:35:34.043" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Sam was their top earner and with the change in casinos after their trial, they kept him around to keep earning. He had already proven himself during his previous trials about his license and not only that, he survived the bombing. This had two implications, first is that he wasn't like Nicky and the second, he had far too much press after he survived the bombing as he was the center of attention with the gaming board. They really couldn't kill him without proving they (the bosses) were involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T02:35:34.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24343" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24345" CreationDate="2014-09-02T02:49:29.297" Score="22" ViewCount="30758" Body="&lt;p&gt;During kill Bill, we learn that all the black mamba had to do to get Hanzo to build her a sword, was to mention Bill's name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When black mamba meets Bill at the end, she tells him that all she did was mention his name. Bill responds with, &quot;that'll do it!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what was it that Bill did to Hanzo to make him come out of retirement and make another weapon of death?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2019-12-29T15:52:50.937" Title="What did Bill do to make Hanzo mad?" Tags="|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24343" CreationDate="2014-09-02T05:30:15.290" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, what we know is that Bill was a former student of Hattori Hanzo. What actually happened between Bill and Hanzo is not clear from the movie. There is also no mention of it on Kill Bill Wikia. However we can assume that Bill learnt the art of swordsmanship from Hanzo and used it for evil. This must have infuriated Hanzo. This kind of stuff is a recurring theme in many movies where a disciple learns a skill from a master and turns again humanity to use those skills, hence infuriating the master.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to me, this seems the possible reason for Hanzo's anger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T05:30:15.290" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24346" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24354" CreationDate="2014-09-02T06:45:23.600" Score="28" ViewCount="20001" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy seem to spin around the 6 Infinity Stones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Thor: The Dark World, the Aether is given to the Collector. He explicitly says &quot;One down, five to go.&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Guardians of the Galaxy he obtains another Infinity Stone &quot;The Orb&quot;. However, later his place is blown up because the Orb was touched by a mortal, then Ronan shows up and is only interested in the Orb, but the &quot;One down, five to go&quot; seems to suggest that The Collector had the Aether in his possession before he got the Orb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is Thanos only interested in the Orb. If he is able to obtain all six Infinity Stones and the Infinitely Gauntlet and become the most powerful being in the Universe (which he already is according to his daughter in Guardians of the Galaxy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Didn't Thanos know the Aether was in the possession of The Collector? Or is the Orb more powerful/destructive? Where are the other 4 Infinity Stones, will they pop up in the next movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.polygon.com/2014/8/4/5966773/guardians-of-the-galaxy-avengers-3&quot;&gt;An interesting analysis can be found here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-28T08:51:13.960" LastActivityDate="2018-04-30T15:34:21.133" Title="Why was Ronan/Thanos not interested in the other Infinity Stone in possession of The Collector?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24333" CreationDate="2014-09-02T08:47:34.827" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_Club&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Emperor's Club&lt;/a&gt; from 2002 with Kevin Kline about prep school teacher William Hundert facing student Sedgewick Bell, a Senator's son who cheats in a Classics competition. Many years later, Bell becomes a wealthy CEO and sets up a rematch, where:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a sense of deja vu, when Hundert notices Bell stumble on a question then recover, he notices that Sedgewick is wearing a tiny earpiece with which he is in contact with a graduate student feeding answers to him. Hundert once again asks an obscure question he first asked his class back in 1973, &quot;Who was Shutruk-Nakhunte?&quot;, mentioned on a plaque [above his door] that all the other students knew about, but Bell, having been a late arrival (or never bothering to look at it), fails to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/k0gHibeHfdA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T08:47:34.827" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24349" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-02T09:56:32.597" Score="4" ViewCount="3719" Body="&lt;p&gt;Horror movies can be basically divided into two broad categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where the 'villain' is a supernatural being. As in &lt;em&gt;Exorcist&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Conjuring&lt;/em&gt; etc..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where the 'villain' is a human, usually a serial killer. As in &lt;em&gt;Halloween&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Scream&lt;/em&gt; etc..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is this: are there any widely accepted terms that distinguish between these two sub-genres?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I'd like to clarify that I'm not looking for specific subgenre terms like &lt;em&gt;slasher&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;splatter&lt;/em&gt;. Those movies have their own characteristics, and though supernatural presence is uncommon in such films, it doesn't affect their definition. (An excellent example would be Final Destination, which has elements of both slasher and splatter, but has supernatural elements). If the first category can be called 'supernatural horror', I'm looking for a blanket term for non-supernatural horror. Or I'm looking for confirmation that no such term exists (which would be a shame).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-02T12:53:24.083" LastActivityDate="2016-10-05T22:17:04.653" Title="Is there any term for the following subgenres of horror movies?" Tags="|horror|genre|terminology|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24350" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24352" CreationDate="2014-09-02T09:59:35.317" Score="3" ViewCount="3344" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember that I was very sad to hear that they cancelled &lt;em&gt;Pushing Daisies&lt;/em&gt;. But did the story have an end that was in some kind of script? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the fanbase isn't that big but maybe someone knows it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13593" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-02T10:26:46.337" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T11:00:40.250" Title="Was there ever an ending to Pushing Daisies?" Tags="|pushing-daisies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24349" CreationDate="2014-09-02T10:44:21.953" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how you would call a horror movie with a supernatural entity as main antagonist other than &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Supernatural_horror_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Supernatural Horror&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I guess that is the most exact you can get for such a broad classification. There might probably be sub-genres of that concentrating on specific kinds of supernatural stuff, like ghosts, possessions, ..., but I'm not sure there are that established names for those sub-genres (other than obvious concatenations, like &quot;ghost horror&quot;, &quot;poltergeist movie&quot;, &quot;excorcism movie&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a horror movie based around some specific killer as concrete person (sometimes also with a slightly supernatural background, but often not) there is the common term of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slasher_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Slasher Movie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A slasher film is a subgenre of thriller and horror film, typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking and murdering a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner, often with a bladed tool such as a knife, machete, axe, scythe, or chainsaw. Although the term &quot;slasher&quot; may be used as a generic term for any horror movie involving graphic acts of murder, the genre has established its own set of characteristics which set it apart from related genres like the splatter film and psychological thriller.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in fact &lt;em&gt;Halloween&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Scream&lt;/em&gt; are prime examples of this genre, being the spearheads of their respective Slasher eras, with the former having to some degree  pioneered the genre and the latter being a revival/homage/parody/deconstruction of the whole genre and the originator of a whole new wave of &quot;Teen-Slashers&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So much to the specific sub-genres adressed in your question and its examples. If you are looking for a broader disambiguation between supernatural stuff and anything non-supernatural but frightening and the definition of when something is to be called &quot;horror&quot; in contrast to, say, &quot;thriller&quot;, that is pretty hard to define exactly, as &lt;strong&gt;the borders between those genres can be quite fluent&lt;/strong&gt;. In the same way genre is often nothing exclusive, as genres can often be mixed (is &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt; &quot;science-fiction&quot; because of the environment or is it &quot;horror&quot; because of the style of filming and the atmosphere, or is it &quot;science-fiction horror&quot;?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same way horror is likely not to be derived simply from the question if it contains supernatural stuff or not, but more by the intended effect on the audience and the employed style elements. But those things are unfortunately not as hard to define and often the distinctions between genres transcend quite a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So I would say apart from the terms &lt;em&gt;Supernatural Horror&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Non-Supernatural Horror&lt;/em&gt; you won't get much nearer to an overall terminology for distinguishing between those kinds of movies.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-24T13:03:50.250" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T13:03:50.250" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24350" CreationDate="2014-09-02T11:00:40.250" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bryan Fuller had &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blastr.com/2009/05/bryan_fuller_how_pushing.php&quot;&gt;plans for the &quot;back nine&quot; episodes&lt;/a&gt; of the second season, but then the series got cancelled; hence the montage at the end of the last episode (which replaced a cliffhanger).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were plans to &lt;a href=&quot;http://splashpage.mtv.com/2009/04/21/pushing-daisies-tv-series-finds-life-after-cancellation-at-dc-comics/&quot;&gt;continue the show in comic form&lt;/a&gt;, but then shortly before the first issue was supposed to be released, DC closed its Wildstorm imprint (the publisher of the comic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AFAIK Fuller never released any details on these storylines, and considering that every now and then he continues to push for a Pushing Daisies revival (on Starz or Netflix or perhaps a Broadway musical or a Kickstarter-funded movie etc.), I suspect he still has hopes of revisiting the series and that's why he isn't spilling any secrets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T11:00:40.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24346" CreationDate="2014-09-02T13:35:49.677" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll try to answer these as best I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Why is Thanos only interested in the Orb?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as we can tell, &lt;strong&gt;this is the only Infinity Stone that Thanos is truly aware of.&lt;/strong&gt; Even the Guardians of the Galaxy don't become aware of what's in the orb until The Collector opens it and reveals it to them. Thanos is using Ronan and his adopted daughters to retrieve the orb for him, with the promise of using it to destroy Xandar for Ronan, but Ronan takes the Orb for himself and threatens to kill Thanos with it after he uses it to destroy Xandar and the Nova Corps. Given his singular focus on the Orb itself, we can only assume he's aware of the location (however firm or loose that location may be) of this particular Infinity Stone, and is simply after that one for the time being.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Doesn't Thanos know The Collector has the Aether?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Probably not.&lt;/strong&gt; Remember that at the end of Thor: The Dark World, Volstagg and Sif deliver it to The Collector. They entrust it to him likely with the intent of only him and various royal members of Asgard knowing he has it; it's even possible to assume that Thor and Loki still think it's safely within Asgard. Remember: the Aether was hidden for eons before Jane happened upon it, so it had been well hidden for a very long time before they handed it to The Collector. Unless Thanos became aware of its influence in Asgard's struggle against a newly risen Malekith, we can only assume that he doesn't actually know it's been brought back into the galaxy. Which leads us to item 3...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Where are the other four Infinity Stones?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ah, you seem to have forgotten a key bit of info in mentioning the Asgardians delivering the Aether to The Collector at the end of &quot;Thor: The Dark World&quot;: they note that since the the Tesseract is also in Asgard, &lt;strong&gt;keeping two Infinity Stones so close together is dangerous&lt;/strong&gt;. As such we know the location of three Infinity stones as of the end of &quot;Guardians of the Galaxy&quot;. The Aether is with The Collector (I doubt it was destroyed with the rest of his collection), the Tesseract is in Asgard, and the Orb is now safely locked up on Xandar with the Nova Corps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Will the remaining stones pop up in future movies?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say they certainly will, as Marvel has had a prop for the Infinity Gauntlet for some time now, but until those movies and their story lines are released, &lt;strong&gt;anything said would merely be conjecture.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE FOR #3 AND #4 (SPOILERS AHEAD):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we now know, the Mind Stone was revealed to be in Loki's scepter and used to create Ultron and ultimately Vision. Considering Thanos gives this scepter to Loki, this indicates he actually &lt;em&gt;gave up&lt;/em&gt; possession of an Infinity Stone to someone else in his efforts to uncover the others and achieve his primary goal. When it was briefly in the hands of Hydra it was used to create Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, the latter being capable of actually destroying stones with her powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Soul Stone ended up being discovered by Gamora who destroyed the details of its location and tried to keep them a secret from Thanos, even going as far as asking Star-Lord to kill her if Thanos manages to capture her. The stone is located on Vormir, guarded by Red Skull, who informs Thanos he must sacrifice someone he loves to obtain it. Thanos reluctantly throws Gamora to her death and obtains the stone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2018-04-30T15:34:21.133" LastActivityDate="2018-04-30T15:34:21.133" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24356" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36886" CreationDate="2014-09-02T14:24:13.993" Score="1" ViewCount="780" Body="&lt;p&gt;If one watches a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mamet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;David Mamet&lt;/a&gt; written and directed film, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252503/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Heist (2001)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360009/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Spartan (2004)&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Games&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;House of Games (1987)&lt;/a&gt;, it will quickly become apparent that the dialogue is, well, different. Often times very jarringly so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the wiki page, &quot;Mamet speak&quot; is cynical, street-smart edge, precisely crafted for effect.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do some of his movies tend to take the Mamet style over the top? The dialogue should flow, and like in real life, parts speak over each other, yet in the movies listed, when that happens it's like the director says &quot;now speak over him and make it OBVIOUS you are.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm hoping there is a real Mamet fan here who can maybe shed some light on how better to 'get' Mamet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T17:58:58.587" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T18:09:06.110" Title="What's with Mamet's dialogue style?" Tags="|dialogue|david-mamet|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24302" CreationDate="2014-09-02T14:24:55.570" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is his way to handle stressful, interpersonal communication. Think of it as a valve or a failover. Instead of punching them in the face he tries to cheat his way out of their attention by giving them a fake reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13599" LastEditorUserId="3203" LastEditDate="2014-09-04T12:09:28.927" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T12:09:28.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24358" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-02T14:47:36.413" Score="1" ViewCount="626" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;em&gt;2001: A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt; the first movie where you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8N72t7aScY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hear somebody's breathing&lt;/a&gt; in a helmet? I talk about Darth Vader's type of breathing; in the case of Kubrik's movie it is breathing in a space suit helmet, in Darth Vader's case in some life-support body suit's helmet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I heard that this movie [space odyssey] is the first one where a machine rose against man. I think it is also the first film where you hear breathing in a helmet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5568" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-09-02T18:45:03.723" LastActivityDate="2014-09-02T18:45:03.723" Title="First movie where you hear breathing in a helmet?" Tags="|science-fiction|first-appearance|2001-a-space-odyssey|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24362" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24363" CreationDate="2014-09-03T00:30:55.163" Score="7" ViewCount="3120" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2015381/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;'s visit at the &lt;em&gt;Collector&lt;/em&gt;'s he opens the mysterious orb and reveals the true nature of its content, being one of the &lt;em&gt;Infinity Stones&lt;/em&gt;. But then suddenly his servant approaches the stone as in trance and touches it (ultimately destroying herself and the &lt;em&gt;Collector&lt;/em&gt;'s den in the wake of this), uttering something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'll not be your slave anymore!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder though, &lt;strong&gt;what dragged her that strongly towards the &lt;em&gt;Infinity Stone&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt; Was she simply hungry for its supposed power, being suppressed all the time (it's established earlier that the &lt;em&gt;Collector&lt;/em&gt; isn't particularly nice to his servants) or is there anything more to this, like some kind of unnatural attraction emerging from the &lt;em&gt;Infinity Stone&lt;/em&gt; itself (similar to the &lt;em&gt;One Ring&lt;/em&gt; maybe)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T12:32:49.003" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T12:32:49.003" Title="What dragged the Collector's servant towards the Infinity Stone?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24362" CreationDate="2014-09-03T00:45:56.227" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having seen the movie several times, I don't think anything was &quot;dragging&quot; the girl (Carina, possibly?) towards the Infinity Stone other than her own desire. She had just finished listening to Tanleer explain how powerful the stone is, and earlier in the movie we had seen how he verbally abuses her and forces her to do very menial and back-breaking work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She saw the stone as a possibility to escape. What you're interpreting as her being pulled toward the stone, I think, is actually her being very &lt;em&gt;hesitant&lt;/em&gt; to touch it. Her own internal conflict between the need to escape her situation vs. her fear of the stone is what makes her take so long to try and grab it, but obviously, her desire to be free wins out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2014-09-03T00:45:56.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11013" CreationDate="2014-09-03T03:41:35.127" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Haven't seen or heard this anywhere but I've always speculated the purple was a visual metaphor for blood and the meth. Blood (red) and meth (blue) are two main themes in the show, blue + red = purple but maybe I'm adding more brilliance then was intended &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13612" LastActivityDate="2014-09-03T03:41:35.127" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24365" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24371" CreationDate="2014-09-03T04:48:42.720" Score="30" ViewCount="49752" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a moment in the movie when Starlord told a joke about Kevin Bacon to convince his partner to dance. My fellow moviegoers laughed heartily but I, being a non-US person, missed the joke completely. Could anyone explain the joke, starting with who Kevin Bacon is in real life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13613" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-19T08:42:39.970" LastActivityDate="2020-07-20T23:54:17.927" Title="Could someone explain the Kevin Bacon joke in Guardians of the Galaxy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24369" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24370" CreationDate="2014-09-03T07:39:00.800" Score="3" ViewCount="1724" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Desolation of Smaug it generally seems to be summer. Even up on the lonely mountain (which I'm assuming is a fair height given the views) there's no snow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why then does it appear to be winter in Lake Town which is only a short distance from the mountain but much lower? Is there some other reason for all the ice floating around the town?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EO3Rj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T16:07:14.130" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T16:07:14.130" Title="Why is it winter in Laketown?" Tags="|the-hobbit|the-desolation-of-smaug|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24369" CreationDate="2014-09-03T08:25:24.943" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotrproject.com/thehobbit/event/22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hobbit Timeline&lt;/a&gt;, you can see that they arrived on Esgaroth on 22/9  (22 Halimath). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Halimath is the 9th month of the Shire calendar; on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-earth_calendar#Shire_calendar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;related wiki article&lt;/a&gt; you can see that that corresponds to our own late September. So, considering that Esgaroth is kinda north and near a mountain, it is not unlikely to have snows and ices during early autumn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastActivityDate="2014-09-03T08:25:24.943" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24365" CreationDate="2014-09-03T08:51:08.837" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is just a funny reference to the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087277/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Footloose&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a dancing movie from the 80s starring the actor &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Bacon&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kevin Bacon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in the lead role. In fact &lt;em&gt;Peter&lt;/em&gt; does summarize the story of this movie quite accurately:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, on my planet, we have a legend about people like you. It's called Footloose. And in it, a great hero, named Kevin Bacon, teaches an entire city full of people with sticks up their butts that, dancing, well, is the greatest thing there is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing that the movie was released in 1984, it should've been one of the most recent movies &lt;em&gt;Peter&lt;/em&gt; watched as a child before his abduction and he is indeed quite into dancing. And seeing that the story of the movie was about convincing people to dance, it fits the bill pretty well as a parable for his and &lt;em&gt;Gamora&lt;/em&gt;'s current situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;As a side note, after this scene I waited for an actual &lt;em&gt;Footloose&lt;/em&gt; homage later in the movie, which unfortunately didn't come, but if any movie could have included that it would have been &lt;em&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt;, I guess.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-03T08:58:29.503" LastActivityDate="2014-09-03T08:58:29.503" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24375" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-03T12:41:47.043" Score="8" ViewCount="3030" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2015381/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Peter Quill&lt;/em&gt;'s final words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What should we do next? Something good? Something bad? A bit of both?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a friend of mine meant that he thinks to know this quote from somewhere else, but wasn't sure where, some Western maybe. I first thought he might just be messing it up with the title of the movie &lt;em&gt;The Good, The Bad and The Ugly&lt;/em&gt;. But he said that he also thought that at first, but thinks it to be an actual quote from something else, maybe &lt;em&gt;Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid&lt;/em&gt; or something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would thus like to know &lt;strong&gt;if this line from &lt;em&gt;Star-Lord&lt;/em&gt; is a known quote from some other movie and further if this might even have been a reference to that movie&lt;/strong&gt;. But maybe my friend was really on the wrong track or the quote is too general to make any reasonable assessments about its origin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-19T08:43:29.820" LastActivityDate="2018-03-16T02:41:48.277" Title="Are Star-Lord's final words a reference to something else?" Tags="|dialogue|marvel-cinematic-universe|reference|guardians-of-the-galaxy|origin|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24369" CreationDate="2014-09-03T14:00:09.387" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the novel, we can work out that the events of the mountain and Lake Town happen at the end of autumn and beginning of winter. There are no descriptions, directly, of &quot;snow on the ground&quot; or &quot;ice in the water&quot;, but indirectly Tolkien puts us in that frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed out by Shevlaskovic, the events happen in what would be to us, September. September is a month where, depending on the latitude, weeks can be unbearably hot (it is so right now, where I live) or cold enough for ice and snow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hints can be given within Chapters 13 and 14 (IIRC):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Bard fails in his attempt to get Thorin to give up some of the treasure hoard to Lake Town, the Thrush tries to talk to Bilbo and the Dwarves under the mountain, but none can understand him. The Thrush then flies off and gets Roac, son of Carc, who is an elder Raven. Thorin can speak with the raven, Roac.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Roac speaks to Thorin about Thorin's reticence to give up portions of the treasury. He points out that it may be impossible for Thorin and the 13 to survive the coming Winter and that Lake Town deserves their portion of the treasure, since it was they who helped slay Smaug and the town was destroyed by Smaug. They need to rebuild before Winter comes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual phrasing in the book was &quot;before winter sets&quot; (I believe). Tolkien wouldn't have said that, if it were Spring, or even Summer. But now, combined with the calendar knowledge, we can safely assume that Winter is just around the corner, and that Peter Jackson was more correct than not in showing broken ice chunks in the river at Lake Town.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2014-09-03T14:00:09.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21537" CreationDate="2014-09-03T15:22:07.573" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the Omega had not died, I believe he would still have the reset ability. The Omega IS dead, however, and the Omega was the entity resetting time when the Alpha/Cage died. So while he does still have the reset ability in his blood, there is no Omega to perform the reset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13620" LastActivityDate="2014-09-03T15:22:07.573" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24346" CreationDate="2014-09-03T16:28:20.723" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aside from&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He didn't know about it (as explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/24346/why-was-ronan-thanos-not-interested-in-the-other-infinity-stone-in-possession-of/24354#24354&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MattD&lt;/strong&gt;'s answer&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;there might be another possible explanation: &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Aether wasn't in &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; museum.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/guardians-of-the-galaxy-easter-eggs/2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;quote&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; director/writer &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0348181/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;James Gunn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;I will say &lt;strong&gt;that is probably not the Collector’s only museum. I think he probably has other spaces in which he keeps his incredibly vast selection.&lt;/strong&gt; That’s just his 'Knowhere' wing [in the movie].&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;If the Aether wasn't there, and Thanos (somehow) knew it was at a different location, then it would explain why he didn't order Ronan to get it as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2014-09-03T16:28:20.723" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24379" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-03T16:38:05.100" Score="6" ViewCount="25437" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that Peter Quill was able to handle infinity stone without destroying himself possibly because his father is a (powerful?) alien of an unknown species. But how were the other &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2015381/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; able to handle the power of the stone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T07:55:59.583" LastActivityDate="2016-04-03T18:45:48.313" Title="How were the others able to handle the power of the stone?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12862" CreationDate="2014-09-04T06:16:45.963" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the mid-1800's through early I mid-1900's Japanese created a lot of words based on German.  They both had a mutual respect often referring to Japan as &quot;honorary Aryan's&quot; and the purest racial elite of Asians.  You can search for words in Japanese derived from German/English words.  Also remember English is a Germanic language so similarities will be seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13626" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T06:16:45.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24384" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24387" CreationDate="2014-09-04T06:41:38.247" Score="5" ViewCount="1033" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badoon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Badoon&lt;/a&gt;'s story got stripped away from Guardians of the Galaxy film (2014) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badoon#Film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia say’s&lt;/a&gt; Badoon film rights belonged to 20th Century Fox. But how, as per my knowledge Kree more belongs to Fantastic four but it still appeared in Disney properties, similarly in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/13512/does-marvel-have-full-filming-rights-for-all-characters-in-avengers-multiverse&quot;&gt;Quicksilver's case&lt;/a&gt;. But why only fox have Badoon’s rights?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T19:14:14.397" Title="Why Disney/Marvel doesn't have rights for Badoon?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|guardians-of-the-galaxy|copyright|20th-century-fox|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24386" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28310" CreationDate="2014-09-04T08:45:39.053" Score="4" ViewCount="1887" Body="&lt;p&gt;In pilot episode of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strain_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Strain&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Zero_%28The_Strain%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Night Zero&lt;/a&gt;, Eichhorst is absolutely insistent that Miguel must &quot;cross the river before dawn&quot;. Similarly when he arrives at the airport, Setrakian is absolutely insistent that Dr. Ephraim Goodweather must make sure the box &quot;does not cross the river&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that as The Master is some kind of vampire he's vulnerable to sunlight, however if it was just about having him safe by daylight then it wouldn't matter exactly where it was, as long as it was dark enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this in mind, my question is what is the significance of crossing the river, bearing in mind that Setrakian knows this is the plan before having any contact with Eichhorst?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-12-21T01:26:17.473" Title="What is the significance of The Master crossing the river?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-strain|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24384" CreationDate="2014-09-04T09:32:09.840" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;To know exactly why, one would have to have access to the contracts. &lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;(e.g. even though the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kree&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kree&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; first appeared in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kree#Publication_history&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/strong&gt; comic&lt;/a&gt; Marvel was able to use them for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2015381/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guardians of The Galaxy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the reason why Marvel doesn't own the film rights to some of their properties goes back to the 90s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In 1996 Marvel &lt;a href=&quot;http://de.eonline.com/news/33907/marvel-files-for-bankruptcy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;filed for bankruptcy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 1999 &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cuneo&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Peter Cuneo&lt;/a&gt; became CEO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Coming out of bankruptcy, Marvel was burdened with $250 million in high-yield debt&lt;/strong&gt;... We adopted a licensing model for all forms of media, such as movies and television shows, and for consumer products such as clothing and school supplies....&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Film is unparalleled in its ability to generate worldwide excitement for a fantasy property. Our strategy was to spread out our intellectual property among a variety of Hollywood studios, so that we could attract the most enthusiastic partners for each character.&lt;/strong&gt; One or two film studios could never produce all the films we wanted, and we didn’t like the idea of being tied down to any single partner for all our films.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/01/peter-cuneo-marvel-leadership-managing-turnaround.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.heyuguys.com/the-avengers-european-premiere-interview-producer-kevin-feige-gives-marvel-studios-updates/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;According&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;Kevin Feige&lt;/strong&gt; (current president of 'Marvel Studios'): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;...the contracts are very specific... it's a little complicated...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also mentions that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_Witch&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scarlet Witch&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksilver_(comics)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quicksilver&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; can be used by Marvel &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; FOX (i.e. they have shared rights). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.craveonline.com/film/interviews/736791-guardians-galaxy-kevin-feige-marvels-cosmic-universe&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; Feige says about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skrull&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skrulls&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;I think [the rights] are shared. I think they are non-exclusive... &lt;strong&gt;I think [FOX] has &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Skrull&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Super-Skrull&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, I think it gets pretty detailed and pretty specific who has what.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And director &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0348181/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;James Gunn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; confirms &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/why-we-may-never-meet-the-skrulls-in-the-marvel-films-1527485765&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Marvel only partially owns Skrulls, and also &lt;strong&gt;for the record, we don't own the Badoon&lt;/strong&gt; either...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="1525" LastEditDate="2014-09-04T19:14:14.397" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T19:14:14.397" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24379" CreationDate="2014-09-04T14:51:03.723" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the course of the movie, we see three different &quot;entities&quot; try to use the power of the stone:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Collector's assistant (daughter, I think?) tries and quite spectacularly fails, because she's just a mortal and can't handle it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ronan tries, and briefly succeeds, before welding it onto his war hammer. Note that, in the &quot;flashback&quot; scenes during The Collector's exposition, we also see the stone being wielded &lt;em&gt;through&lt;/em&gt; another object, which appears to make the stone much more manageable. We know that Ronan is not a 'normal' mortal, so he was able to survive the stone for the short time it took to attach it to his weapon. However, it was clearly trying to destroy him even during that time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The entire Guardians team, who were the only ones that seemed able to &lt;em&gt;control&lt;/em&gt; the stone. But note that Peter's ability to hold the stone was hinted at in the final scene as possibly being due to his non-human father. The rest of the Guardians were only in contact with the stone &lt;em&gt;through Peter&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, the way I interpreted the scene is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quill was acting as a buffer, taking the brunt of the force of the stone for himself, but able to handle it because of his nature. The rest of the Guardians were acting as a kind of &quot;focus&quot;: by supporting him as a team, it allowed Peter to channel the energy of the stone directly without overwhelming him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(On a side note: this is also the reason why the Infinity Gauntlet exists in the first place: apparently, even an immortal being like Thanos would be unable to control the stones directly; he needs to embed them into an &lt;em&gt;object&lt;/em&gt; that he can use to control and channel their power in order to use them.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T07:56:30.180" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T07:56:30.180" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24302" CreationDate="2014-09-04T17:45:13.857" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought it was a running gag.  At the time this movie came out, home video rental was at its height, and your local Blockbuster was always pretty full.  I remember working in one around this time and the traffic was pretty insane.  So, it was pretty much a safe alibi to say that.  Since he used the same excuse over and over, the repetitiveness made it a running gag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T17:45:13.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11198" CreationDate="2014-09-04T18:10:18.430" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the DVDs and watch them with the subs on, and some of it &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; important.  The setup for Danny Trejo's character's murder was somewhat important, or at least allowed you to understand it better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;experiencing the world through Walt and Jesse's eyes&quot; bit is BS.  If Jesse and Walt aren't even in the scene, what would it matter?  And, like I said, some of the conversations are important to the plot lines.  It's not like they're reading the weather report or something, the dialogue does matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why the original episodes weren't subbed at the time...?  Well, there are plenty of Spanish speakers in the U.S. now.  I guess they figured half their audience would get it and half wouldn't.  It always kinda bugged me that there's a SAP setting for your TV, but no way to translate Spanish to English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T18:10:18.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24394" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24399" CreationDate="2014-09-04T22:40:23.223" Score="27" ViewCount="8768" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason why Terminator haircut changes after he crashes into the wall? Is there a deleted scene by any chance that was cut out as one can see that haircut of terminator changes.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This is in the pub - hair is long.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lo4cr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;Then after the car crash hair suddenly becomes short.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kLpPX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13636" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-05T16:57:06.787" LastActivityDate="2016-10-18T03:42:38.530" Title="Terminator Haircut Change" Tags="|realism|terminator-series|the-terminator|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12126" CreationDate="2014-09-04T22:46:29.830" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will not give you the full answer, but simply show you the way to get there. In an &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20160304095152/http://twitchfilm.com/2009/03/from-pontypool-to-the-metaverse-in-90-minutes-a-conversation-with-bruce-mcd.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview with the film's director, Bruce McDonald&lt;/a&gt;, he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That used to be end of the movie, but before the credits. And people thought, what? What? Too much confusion. There is a tradition now where you have something at the end of the credits where you have an outtake, or hint of a sequel. The existence for it is sort of buried in there, well the title of the book sort of suggests it, Pontypool Changes Everything, and one of the things I’ve always love about the notion of this, is that the virus could effect something as abstract as the English language, it can leap into reality itself. Change the fabric of how reality is perceived.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you want the full answer, go read the trilogy of books. Everything will be explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13638" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2024-01-28T09:55:13.493" LastActivityDate="2024-01-28T09:55:13.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16405" CreationDate="2014-09-04T22:55:33.130" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recommend you read the Book &quot;On Killing&quot; by LTC David Grossman. Killing is not a natural act (nor jumping out of a plane...lol) and most soldiers spend time through basic training overcoming the resistance to killing. Its not like stomping ants. Clark was never conditioned to kill, unlike Zod where he was genetically made to not have that natural resistance. To take info from the book when you kill there are several stages. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The killing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The enthusiasm of it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The guilt because you took a life.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The acceptance and resolution that what you did was necessary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember the man of steel may be Kryptonian but his morals and actions are very very human. He screams because the guilt of taking a life was enough to cause massive grief. Compare that with Faora who said: &quot;For every human you save we will kill a million more&quot;, she has no resistance to killing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He didn't feel bad when the others were sucked into the Phantom Zone, who is to know if they died in there, but he didn't feel bad. So there is also seeing the body and the realization of what he did being in the form of grief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But notice he accepted it in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way it was done was on point. Now my geekness just shot up 1000 fold.....LOL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13637" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-04T23:39:50.240" LastActivityDate="2014-09-04T23:39:50.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12182" CreationDate="2014-09-04T23:27:27.907" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems silly but remember that their ship probably travels near the speed of light, and that isn't using the Phantom Drive which bends space making faster than light travel possible. Remember on Earth, if you move closer to the speed of light, time slows down for you. So it's possible that Zod's crew have been traveling for 33 years (remember Earth years) but to them it was only 11 years, 1/3 the time. Krypton is 27.1 light-years from Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally plot hole, IMO Man of Steel they should have emerged from the phantom zone 23 years (because who knows how long is 300 cycles, it could be anything) after the destruction of Krypton, then maybe traveling for 10 and then travel to Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blame Zack Snyder, that works too.......lol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Search &quot;Time Dilation - Travel at Speed of Light - Special Relativity&quot; on youtube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13637" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-09T02:58:43.557" LastActivityDate="2019-01-09T02:58:43.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24398" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-05T00:09:48.270" Score="16" ViewCount="13546" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;' meeting with &lt;em&gt;Bridget von Hammersmark&lt;/em&gt; in the basement bar, the bar's owner and bartender is always around and observing the events and ultimately taking part in the final shootout himself with the rifle he had under his bar. But it isn't entirely clear to me whom he's actually sided with. Seeing that he speaks German (while his daughter doesn't) and is played by one, this might suggest that he's supposed to be a collaborator but he doesn't seem too unsuspicious of the Germans in that bar either (though that might just be motivated by paternal care). Likewise is it absolutely hard to make out who kills whom in all the chaos at the end of this scene and especially what the barkeeper is actually shooting at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while this might as well have been left ambiguous, &lt;strong&gt;I wonder if there are any more conclusive hints at what the barkeeper's affiliation actually was&lt;/strong&gt;, or just something obvious I missed. Was he actively siding for the Germans or was he just trying to protect his bar and shooting at any of those &quot;troublemakers&quot;, no matter what uniform? Or could he even have sided with the &lt;em&gt;Basterds&lt;/em&gt; (even if unbeknownst to them)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-11-23T17:20:37.370" Title="On whose side is the barkeeper?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24394" CreationDate="2014-09-05T00:46:35.787" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;His hair is partly burned off in an explosion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can (just about) see when he's chasing down Kyle and Sarah after the shootout in &lt;a href=&quot;http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Tech_Noir&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tech Noir&lt;/a&gt;, his hair is long and flowing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yVfJh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of The Terminator in the alley&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then when Sarah and Kyle get to their car, Kyle shoots at the petrol tank of a car in front of him and blows it up, then The Terminator jumps through the flames and catches fire:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DgIlW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of a burning Terminator jumping&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the very next shot, you can see he has shorter hair and there's smoke coming off him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FtMnJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of a burned Terminator&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the next scene after Kyle and Sarah have escaped, The Terminator assaults a cop to steal his car and The Terminator's hair is still smouldering:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KNKiS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of The Terminator assaulting a cop&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as you can see, it's absolutely intentional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-09-05T08:08:47.290" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T08:08:47.290" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24401" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24417" CreationDate="2014-09-05T03:27:47.157" Score="1" ViewCount="773" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Sam's office in the TV show &lt;em&gt;Cheers&lt;/em&gt; there is a yellow sign that reads &amp;quot;Electric work by Memphis...&amp;quot; but I can't make out the whole thing.  What does it say?  The sign can be partially seen in this screen-grab from Episode 3 - &amp;quot;The Bartender's Tale&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WiAa5.png&quot; alt=&quot;Still showing yellow sign&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13194" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2020-09-30T09:08:32.443" LastActivityDate="2020-09-30T09:08:32.443" Title="Sign in Sam's office" Tags="|cheers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24402" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34439" CreationDate="2014-09-05T03:37:49.013" Score="1" ViewCount="1170" Body="&lt;p&gt;The name of the Criminal Minds's Season 9, Episode 9, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Strange Fruit, is an allusion to a song of the same name, popularized by Billie Holiday&lt;/a&gt;, which has &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/margolick-fruit.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a pretty interesting history and back story&lt;/a&gt;, apparently.  (And, warning, it's a pretty intense song with some pretty intense lyrics.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the episode, they play a version of the song (omitting the graphic, second verse).  I watched the episode two hours ago, and have been searching the 'net and trying to compare covers and recorded of that song to the one played in the episode, without being able to successfully identify which version is played.  In the episode, the song starts at approximately 42:20 into the episode (or 1:36 from the end), as streamed by Netflix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's definitely a studio recorded version, and by a female singer, but doesn't seem to match up to any of the versions, covers or samples of the song I've found online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know which version of song is played in the episode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13640" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T00:22:40.090" Title="Does anyone know the version of the song &quot;Strange Fruit&quot; played in Criminal Minds S09E09?" Tags="|soundtrack|criminal-minds|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24404" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24405" CreationDate="2014-09-05T05:05:17.187" Score="2" ViewCount="8223" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2001 French film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_the_Wolf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Brotherhood of the Wolf&lt;/a&gt;, we don't get to see the actual animal. Any hints or clues from any scene of the movie that can tell us what kind of animal the beast was?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-05T08:31:30.803" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T08:55:40.837" Title="What kind of animal is the beast of Gevaudan, exactly?" Tags="|brotherhood-of-the-wolf|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24404" CreationDate="2014-09-05T08:42:33.400" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only times we ever get to see the supposed &quot;Beast of Gévaudan&quot; in the movie is in his armor/disguise, so it is really hard to tell what real animal was actually under this elaborate construction. The only hints we get from the movie, is that &lt;em&gt;Jean-François&lt;/em&gt; brought it from his travels and from looking at the eyes I always assumed it was a tiger, albeit a somewhat unnaturally large one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KFE8f.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_the_Wolf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; is a bit more exact, claiming that it was a lion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It turns out the beast was an offspring of a &quot;strange beast&quot; that Jean-François brought back from Africa (&lt;strong&gt;which director Christophe Gans insists is a lion&lt;/strong&gt;). It was tortured into becoming vicious, trained to attack humans, and dressed in metal armor plating and spikes along with a large mask and metal implants in its jaw to make it more formidable and frightening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aintitcool.com/node/10793&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview with &lt;em&gt;Christophe Gans&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on which Wikipedia's claim is grounded makes it quite explicit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.M:&lt;/strong&gt; What about the beast? Where did it come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C.G:&lt;/strong&gt; Well it's a lion!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.M:&lt;/strong&gt; A lion?? the eye seemed more like a wolf ?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C.G:&lt;/strong&gt; No it's a lion, it's supposed to be a lion, Jean-François de&#xA;  Morangias (Cassel) brought it back from Africa, plus in the movie,&#xA;  deFronsac says &quot;it's a beast in an arnor&quot;, so it's fare to assume that&#xA;  the unground people gave it it's armor... But you know, it's not&#xA;  supposed to be realistic...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-05T08:55:40.837" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T08:55:40.837" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23528" CreationDate="2014-09-05T09:21:03.870" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without going into the details of each line of the dialogue, here's a short summary :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Minnie's taking orders, all the clients ask for a croissant and a coffee.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Minnie realizes she's out of croissants, she asks Mickey to go and get some.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mickey takes his scooter and goes on his quest for the croissants.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Clients ask where the croissants are, Minnie tries to offer an omelette, then a soufflé, but they refuse and keep asking for the croissants.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Mickey comes back with the croissants, he falls and tosses them into the air. The children on the carousel tell Mickey they've caught them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mickey fetches the croissants with his baguette spear and tells the clients &quot;Attention everybody, here come the croissants&quot;, then throws them into the plates.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9606" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T09:21:03.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24407" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24408" CreationDate="2014-09-05T09:29:24.373" Score="12" ViewCount="3945" Body="&lt;p&gt;We already know that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America&quot;&gt;Captain America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America:_The_First_Avenger&quot;&gt;the first avenger&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;strong&gt;Thor&lt;/strong&gt; in the avengers team and he is older than Captain America. Why do we call Captain America the first avenger?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4667" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:18:18.083" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T15:18:18.083" Title="Why do we say that Captain America is the first avenger?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|captain-america-the-first-avenger|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24407" CreationDate="2014-09-05T09:36:14.487" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Avengers is an Initiative: a sanctioned team brought together to defend the world against threats beyond the scope of SHIELD and the world's governments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Captain America is the first Avenger not only because he was the first to be recruited (Thor doesn't even know about the Avengers until partway through the movie: even Stark was aware of their existence before then), but because the super-soldier program of the 1940's was a wartime pre-cursor to the Avengers program, albeit one that was stalled by espionage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Captain America was quite clearly the first member of the team to sign up to a government initiative to defend innocent life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ruben Studdard was 25 when he won American Idol in the 2nd Series, and Kelly Clarkson was only 20 when she won the first series. We don't refer to Studdard as the first American Idol winner, do we? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T09:36:14.487" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24410" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-05T11:03:51.710" Score="5" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Your Job in Germany&quot;, at approximately &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/1v5QCGqDYGo?t=1m22s&quot;&gt;1:22&lt;/a&gt;, Hitler, who was standing behind a podium giving a speech, fades into blackness, but the podium itself remains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB credits &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038264/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm&quot;&gt;Adolf Hitler as himself&lt;/a&gt;, which, if correct, would rule out filming with an actor, and then filming without the actor, and fading from one to the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that it was made in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Job_in_Germany&quot;&gt;1945&lt;/a&gt;, how did they achieve this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film has some other fading out of items immediately subsequent to it, but none of them seem as hard to achieve as Hitler disappearing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1312" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-09-05T11:09:39.357" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T06:34:08.397" Title="How did they make Hitler disappear in &quot;Your Job in Germany&quot;?" Tags="|effects|your-job-in-germany|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24410" CreationDate="2014-09-05T12:54:48.627" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;None of those effects were beyond the abilities of 1945 movie making. Today we call it photoshop or CGI, back then it was called airbrushing or retouching. Changing the set would have been too obvious, but they could have printed the relevant frame, removed  Adolf, photographed it and done a standard fade from one to the other. The concentration camp a couple of scenes later would have taken a while but the artist would have said &quot;no problem&quot;. The whole thing is a lot easier in monochrome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This wasn't new in 1945 - Stalin was altering history like this before the war. Search for Nikolai Yezhov - shot in 1940, removed from official photos shortly afterward, possibly one of the inspirations for Orwell's 1984. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13645" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T12:54:48.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24413" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-05T12:56:47.707" Score="6" ViewCount="3804" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever a TV channel wants a new series of a show, they are said to order it. I don't understand why they use this word—wouldn't it make sense to say Channel X is making another series of Y. Why is this word used? Is there something done that maybe I wouldn't expect to be done that causes it to be called ordering?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also heard that even though shows are ordered by series, some shows are ordered by batches of episodes, which make up a series. Why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13646" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-05T17:16:06.950" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T17:16:06.950" Title="What does it mean for TV shows to be ordered?" Tags="|production|terminology|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16595" CreationDate="2014-09-05T13:26:36.683" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Not saying this is how it was really done - my background is in stage, not screen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are three effects going on there - the spray of blood from the whip, the (very brief) scene where you see the whip striking the actresses back, and the closeup of the wounds afterward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reverse order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the closeup is basic prosthetics well within the abilities of a makeup student. They're a bit big - actual wounds of that scale would not have been survivable in that era.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the whip strikes don't need to be simulated. A layer of wetsuit neoprene can be applied (with a few pre-existing wounds on top) to take the quite weak hits of the whip. The recipient would barely notice. If you really want to lay it on you apply some plaster bandages under the neoprene. If you REALLY want to lay it on, make a body cast and use that to form a brass plate to her back (brass hand-forms easier than aluminum).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;spray is easy. Put a sponge on her back or just use a mister filled with red water. Notice how much bigger the cloud is when filmed over her shoulder. CGI is even easier, just costs a lot more. Can't do CGI on stage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the above is a LOT easier to do on a black performer, especially with one as dark as Lupita Nyong'o. Because of the lower reflected light, lower contrast, the seams in the makeup just disappear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Complements to the sound effect crew for avoiding the whip-crack cliche. Whips don't make the crack sound when they strike something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We were such pleasant people back then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13645" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-09-05T15:16:02.197" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T15:16:02.197" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24413" CreationDate="2014-09-05T13:30:56.880" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As has been pointed out, &quot;order&quot; is simply being used to indicate &lt;strong&gt;the channel has requested or plans to make the series being referenced.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Fox has ordered a full season of Gotham after test audiences provide&#xA;  glowing feedback for the first episode.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, this is indicating that Fox only produced at least the pilot episode and maybe a few others, but after seeing positive feedback from test audiences, they decided to make, or &quot;order&quot;, a full season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, ordering a show is simply referring to the studio requesting a certain level of production on a show. Think of it like the show is a burger at a restaurant, and you're the studio that walks in and says, &quot;I'll order that burger.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes they'll use the phrase &quot;green light&quot; as well. This is referring to traffic symbols, so saying they've given something the &quot;green light&quot; means they've given it permission to move forward into production, the same way a green light at a traffic stop allows cars in that lane to move forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, to your question about why some shows are picked up for a full season all at once, and why others are ordered in batches of episodes. Basically, &lt;strong&gt;sometimes the studio isn't so sure a particular show will perform well, and as a result they only order a handful of episodes instead of a full season.&lt;/strong&gt; Sometimes they'll &quot;order&quot; a full season after that if the first few have proven to do well, or they'll simply order another batch of episodes to continue to see how it does, or to provide closure to the story being told before canceling it. Should the show not perform as well as they'd like, they've only sunk money into, say, 10 episodes instead of a full season of (typically) 22 episodes, and can then put another show in the now canceled show's time slot to hopefully generate more ad revenue for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this comes down to the business end of the studio. They need to sell ads to make money, but they can't spend more on a show than they generate in ad revenue otherwise they'll lose money. Therefore they need to figure out which shows will do well before paying for an entire season. Sometimes they're not entirely sure how well it'll do, but want to give it a shot, and will therefore order a handful of episodes to start, and see where it goes from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T13:30:56.880" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3577" CreationDate="2014-09-05T14:28:03.837" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, she does not know...but in the film they do kind of make you think she might think something is up, but overall to her he's just a teenage boy going through a rough patch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13651" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T14:28:03.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24401" CreationDate="2014-09-05T15:13:40.313" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a Memphis Electric Co. sign.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8bNfi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T15:13:40.313" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21282" CreationDate="2014-09-05T16:49:06.300" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Rains of Castamere&quot; is his father's song and the tune he hums is from the first girl he married, after they got married and slept together she hummed it. Then Tywin found out and made his people sleep with her while Tyrion watched and went last. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13657" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-03-08T23:57:02.497" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T23:57:02.497" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24420" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-05T18:39:43.847" Score="10" ViewCount="38157" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jBXA7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ronan&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digitalwack.com/2014/08/guardians-of-galaxy-2-what-we-know.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ronan the Accuser&lt;/strong&gt; is the main villain in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2015381/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though the Kree and the Xandarians have signed a peace treaty, Ronan &lt;em&gt;(who is a Kree)&lt;/em&gt; seems hellbent on destroying Xandar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Question(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why does Ronan hate the Xandarians so much that he doesn't abide by the peace treaty? &lt;br&gt;Is it simply because he is an extremist, or does he have a more personal reason?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-05T18:59:24.387" LastActivityDate="2016-11-12T00:16:23.277" Title="Why does Ronan want to destroy this planet/race?" Tags="|analysis|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14682" CreationDate="2014-09-05T19:03:32.923" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am almost positive your question isn't...  accurate.  I believe you're combining the 2 statues that were on Hank's desk.  Originally, he was given a statue of Jesús Malverde, as noted in the answer above.  No need to go further on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Hank showed ignorance of Jesús Malverde, one of his colleagues exchanges statues with Hank, and he is given a statue of Sun Tzu, the Chinese military General and author of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Art Of War&lt;/a&gt;.  One of the more famous quotes from that book is, “To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A statue of a saint isn't likely to have any reference to one's &quot;enemy&quot;, as that would go against the concept of Sainthood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-09-05T19:03:32.923" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10421" CreationDate="2014-09-05T19:19:46.027" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I have proven Marla is not real, along with many other characters (including Bob). I made &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jackdurden.com&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a whole site for it&lt;/a&gt; and will try to summarize some key points here, but I strongly advise you to visit the site for more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marla and Tyler Dress the Same&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the first clues that Marla is not real is her likeness to Tyler. [...] Tyler’s hair is styled and worn almost identical to Marla’s throughout most of the film. Marla and Tyler are both seen wearing a similar faux fur coat, wearing sunglasses, almost identical rings and they are seen smoking in virtually every scene in the film. Even the framing of the shots is nearly identical when they are shown wearing similar clothes as well as the same facial expressions.&#xA;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d51aO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marla and Jack (Edward Norton) Dress the Same&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is even more telling than Marla’s likeness to Tyler, but slightly more symbolic. Jack (the narrator, Edward Norton) is seen gradually looking more like Marla up until the final scene where we see the silhouettes of the two standing together, holding hands. From the back, it is virtually impossible to tell who is who. Note how Jack’s long coat and lack of pants have made it seem as if he is wearing a dress, a near perfect mirror image of Marla as they watch the 12 skyscrapers be demolished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/13O8q.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marla Has No Reflection, Neither Does Tyler&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Marla and Tyler do not have reflections, because they do not exist. Unless Jack is with Marla (or Tyler) their reflection or image will not appear. This is because this is the only time Marla is “real” to the narrator. We can see a great example of this in the scene when Tyler is saving Marla from suicide and goes to her hotel to save her. [...] When they both walk by, neither of them has a reflection. [...] The reason we see that Tyler and Marla have reflections in other scenes [...] is because at those points Jack was acting his himself observing the alter personality as a separate person. In the scene where Tyler goes to save Marla, Jack is supposedly not there, meaning Tyler and Marla are not actually being observed (except by us). We are being told to “imagine” what it would be like to see Tyler and Marla escape the hotel and in doing so the illusion of Marla and Tyler’s existence begins to disintegrate. We are not watching Tyler save Marla in this scene, we are watching Jack leave the hotel completely alone, yelling at the paramedics franticly about how Marla is infectious human waste (hence the user of the 3rd person when Marla is yelling at the paramedics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jack Becomes Marla In the Laundromat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the laundromat scene we watch Marla take control over Jack, becoming his primary alternate personality. Marla opens 2 Speed Queen brand dryers and takes out multiple pairs of men’s blue jeans. She then walks to the vintage clothing store and sells them. [...] If Jack is Marla then this means he is selling his own pants to the thrift store and figuratively surrendering his masculinity. [...] Is there any other article of clothing that is more representative of Western “masculinity”? It is obviously a deliberate metaphor for Jack’s masculinity being hijacked by Marla, his alter-ego.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Later in the film we see Marla wearing a pink bride’s maid dress she claims she “got at a thrift store.” What if Jack, acting as Marla, bought this dress at the same time he sold his own jeans? This would make perfect sense since Marla is seen selling her clothes at a vintage consignment store, which is for all intents and purposes the same exact thing as a thrift store. Marla is likely hinting at this when she says to Jack, “you can borrow it sometime,” since she knows it is actually Jack’s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the end of the film we watch Jack run around frantically, without pants, after he has decided he wants Marla instead of Tyler and Project Mayhem. He has abandoned his masculinity entirely and is either accepting his emasculated self or is literally becoming a woman, depending on how you interpret the film. This culminates in the final scene where we see the mirror image of Marla and Jack holding hands. Jack creates Bob, then Marla, then Tyler, then finally betrays Bob and Tyler to accept his place as Marla (notice how Bob and Tyler both die the exact same way: a gun shot wound blowing out the back of their heads).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marla Becomes Tyler On the Airplane&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The first time we meet Tyler in the film is on the airplane. [...] On the plane Jack is talking to a middle aged black woman who is wearing sunglasses that resemble Tyler’s (see below comparison) and sitting next to Jack eating a meal. Jack then begins fantasizing about the plane breaking apart mid-flight after it collides with another plane. After he snaps out of this fantasy, Tyler is now sitting in place of the woman. How on Earth could this be possible..? (“It’s called a changeover. The movie goes on, and nobody in the audience has any idea.” - Jack)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This means the woman does not exist and Jack is likely sitting alone, either talking to himself or imagining himself talking to the woman and to Tyler. We watched a woman turn into Tyler, sitting right next to Jack. [...] Furthermore, we see the woman is somewhat older and eating from a tray, which is an interesting parallel to how Marla provides food for herself: stealing Meals on Wheels trays of food. This scene denotes the transition from Marla being the prominent alternate personality of Jack, to Tyler taking over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jack boarded the plane as Marla, the destruction sequence is showing us the “end” of Marla and then he “becomes” Tyler. This explains why he loses his baggage once he gets off the plane and is so confused as to why it was vibrating. Jack didn’t pack his bag, Marla did! He is now Tyler, and this is why the damaged cardboard box is the only luggage left on the conveyor belt, since this is Tyler’s luggage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/USlbe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;  Fincher could not have made this much clearer when you consider the emergency exit sign above the door [...] You can tell the female turns into a man by the change of clothing and hair between the first and final image of the emergency exit diagram.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Testicles and Balls, Marla is Jack Post-Testicular Cancer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the weirdest aspects of Fight Club is the fixation on testicles. If you look at the film as a commentary on the emasculation of men in Western culture, it makes sense. But it goes deeper and helps explain why Marla and other characters are not real. There is an over-arching theme of “removing” manhood throughout the film. Whether literally removing someone’s testicles or through references to sex toys. In either case it suggests the removal of what defines a man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If Jack is Marla then it makes sense that Bob and Marla are both members of the testicular cancer group. Jack feels emasculated, at first he only feels moderately insecure, so he imagines Bob there to help cope with his insecurity and anxiety about his actual testicular cancer. He then creates Marla, who helps him cope but also represents his feeling of being literally feminized by the prospect of losing his balls. If most of these things are not happening at all or are happening differently than they are presented (i.e. interactions with Marla, the support groups, etc.) then this evidence lends itself to the theory that we are simply seeing Jack’s insecurities leak into the narrative through the coping mechanisms he created to suppress them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dildos, Dildos Everywhere&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dildos are extremely prominent throughout the film and lend a lot of credibility to the fact that Marla is not real. Dildos represent the fact that Marla is taking Jack’s masculinity or that he is surrendering it, and this could likely be a metaphorical device used to illustrate Jack literally no longer physically has his testicles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another significant place we see a dildo is on Marla’s dresser, which is a very interesting place for it. When Tyler goes to save Marla, he leans against the dresser, causing the dildo to move. Marla then says, “Oh don’t worry, it’s not a threat to you.” This could be interpreted a number of ways. If Marla is Jack, and Jack is Tyler, then the dildo is likely not going to be used by any of them, so it is literally not a threat. In addition, if Tyler is a coping mechanism who represents masculinity, he presumably actually has a penis – so the dildo is not a threat – while Jack who has been possibly physically emasculated would see the dildo as a threat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In addition, the positioning of the dildo on the dresser and next to the door lends itself to another interpretation that I feel makes more sense. If Jack believes that this is where Marla stays, yet he is Marla, then this is a clever way of communicating to the viewer that Jack is leaving his manhood at the door when he arrives and takes on the role of Marla. This would also help add even more strength to my vibrating suitcase theory (below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Vibrating Suitcase (Dildos Part II)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is one of the strongest points for Marla’s non-existence. The most interesting part about this scene is that Jack is utterly confused. If he had been the person to actually pack his bags, then surely he would understand what COULD be vibrating in the suitcase. The security guard even says, “9 times out of 10 it’s an electric razor.” But Jack continues to look at the security guard confused and says, “my suitcase was vibrating?” Implying he has no idea what could possibly be the cause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, if Jack is actually Marla, then Marla is likely the one who packed his bags. Which means there actually is a dildo in the luggage. Jack acts totally confused about this because he himself has no idea he is Marla. [...] The security guard even hints at this by saying, “of course it’s company policy never to imply ownership in the event of a dildo, we have to use the indefinite article a dildo, never your dildo” and looks at Jack skeptically. [...] This is brilliant because the security guard is essentially saying we cannot say it’s actually Jack’s dildo, because we do not know he is Marla, it is indefinite and ambiguous on purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marla and Jack Live In a Hotel, the Paper Street House Doesn’t Exist&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The house Tyler lives in, where Jack moves into and Project Mayhem uses as a base does not exist. Equally interesting is Marla does not have an apartment…or a house…she lives in a hotel. [...] Who else do we know that spends almost all of his time in hotels? Oh right, Jack. When Marla calls Jack to tell him she is committing suicide, Jack says, “just picturing Marla throw herself around her crummy apartment” but we know that Marla is staying at a hotel because the exterior shots of her “apartment” have a neon sign in the background that says “Rooms”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the beginning after meeting with Tyler after his condo explodes, Jack says “ah, I need to find a hotel.” After Jack’s condo exploded, he met with Tyler, said he needed a hotel, and actually went and got one. He did not go to the Paper Street house, because it does not exist. This explains why when he handed the beer to Tyler, the neon sign in the background went out (which is a visual representation of his masculinity…it’s an actual penis). He was transitioning back into Marla and turning off his masculine persona. Tyler and Marla’s residences are the exact “same” residence, in that it is only the hotel Jack is living at but he is imagining two separate places for his two separate alternate personalities. He has multiple people living in one “house” which also serves as a clever metaphor for his psyche.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This helps explain Jack’s distaste when Marla begins spending more time at the Paper Street house, why Tyler and Marla cannot be in the same “room” together (because he cannot be two people simultanousely) and why Project Mayhem causes the Paper Street house to turn into a “living, breathing thing”. Jack says, “She invaded my support groups now she invaded my home” and explains why Tyler is adamant about not being in the same room. The personalities are losing their compartmentalization (think about it, Marla begins living at the Paper Street house even, then Bob moves in and Project Mayhem, they all wind up in one house or one “compartment”) and Jack is losing his sanity as a result, which we watch deteriorate through the rest of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tyler Saves Marla from Committing Suicide&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Even Jack says “now why would Tyler think it’s a good idea to save Marla?” This is partly a sly reference to the twist ending, where we discover Tyler is Jack. But if you take this deeper you realize it’s because if Marla dies, Jack dies, meaning Tyler also dies. If Marla is committing suicide and she is also Jack, then it means Jack will die as well as Tyler. In other words, we are watching Jack lying in the bed trying to commit suicide – “calling” Tyler at the non-existent Paper Street House. This is the incentive for Tyler to save her. If Jack dies, everyone dies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Left In the Copier&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jack’s boss finds the fight club rules in the copier and confronts Jack about them. Jack replies with something Tyler might say, then says “Tyler’s words coming out of my mouth. And I used to be such a nice guy.” Immediately following the phone rings and it is Marla saying she thinks she has breast cancer. [...] Is it really a coincidence that Marla calls him right after we see Jack being taken over by Tyler’s personality (i.e. the words he chooses to use to tell his boss off?) This is Marla saying to him that she is basically dying and her personality isn’t needed anymore, she’s trying to get his attention so she can continue to exist to Jack. [...] Jack has just been found out along with his association with Fight Club, an enormously panic-inducing experience, triggering the need for his coping mechanism, Marla, to help him through the ordeal. Right on cue, the phone rings and it is Marla to help get him out of the situation, literally asking him to leave work immediately and come to her house to check her for breast cancer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Self Improvement is Masturbation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a big one. There are a ton of references to masturbation and “fucking yourself” throughout the film. The most notable scene is where Tyler and Jack board the bus and Tyler says, “Self improvement is masturbation, now self destruction…” and trails off. [...] Fast forward to when Tyler saves Marla and they are now in the habit of constantly having sex with each other. If masturbation is self improvement, and if Marla, Tyler and Jack are all the same person, then Jack is masturbating. In the scenes where Tyler and Marla are having sex and yelling, what is Jack doing? He is engaging in self improvement. He is shown reading and exercising while the house is literally being destroyed and falling on his head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Infectious Human Waste&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Everyone remembers how Tyler Durden makes his soap – stolen fat from the liposuction clinic. In the scene where they go to steal the fat they alert the attention of the security guard (more on this later) and hide behind a dumpster marked “infectious waste”. To be more specific, the contents of the dumpsters are in fact infectious human waste. When Tyler had gone to save Marla, we see her yelling at the paramedics and emergency responders that are coming to save her that she’s “infectious human waste.” Even more interestingly she is speaking about herself in the 3rd person. This makes perfect sense since Marla is Tyler and in this scene we are actually watching Jack running away from the hotel and speaking about Marla. [...] What are the odds that Marla, if she were her own individual person and not a figment of Jack’s imagination, would choose to use the word’s “She’s infectious human waste!” to describe herself in the third person when we know that Jack and Tyler literally use infectious human waste to make soap. This is a deliberate connection the director was trying to make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“I Want to Have Your Abortion”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After Tyler and Marla have sex Marla famously says “I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school.” This line in the film was actually improvised by Helena. The actual line in the script is “I want to have your abortion.” This is an odd choice of words even for someone who is supposed to play a dark and cynical character like Helena – it kind of doesn’t make sense. However if you consider that Marla is Tyler and Jack, then Jack is fucking himself, and will ultimately destroy himself – essentially an abortion of himself. This makes her choice of words make much more sense. “Self improvement is masturbation, now self destruction…” is related to this also. [...] Marla is Jack, Jack is also Tyler, when Marla and Tyler are done having sex she says “I want to have your abortion” which is the same as self destruction, since they are the same person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13659" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-28T13:48:56.457" LastActivityDate="2014-09-28T13:48:56.457" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24293" CreationDate="2014-09-06T05:06:06.123" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One example of this is found in Season 7 in the Amazing Race (US), where Rob Mariano was doing a mystery meat eating challenge. He quit the challenge part way through, specifically mentioning that he knew he and Amber would get a 4 hour penalty, but he was banking on others to quit as well (thus guaranteeing that there would be others penalized beyond them). Because he knew the penalty in advance, he was able to subvert it to his team's advantage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2014-09-06T05:06:06.123" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24420" CreationDate="2014-09-06T11:30:22.317" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ronan is the military commandar of the Kree's sectarian arm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Kree, as a species, are made up of separate and autonomous divisions that function without accountability to each other. This is a deliberate and seemingly harmonious relationship, as the right hand cannot be held accountable for the actions of the left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Kree's political/diplomatic wing are represented by the ambassador who speaks to Nova Prime on the console screen. He is unwilling to denounce Ronan to the Kree because Ronan serves a function within the Kree social Hierarchy: he is an extremist and a fundamentalist, and as such exists as a walking representation of the more ideologically minded sect of Kree society, which is in itself embraced. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Kree have been problematically been compared to extremist Muslim Militants,and the evisceration attack on Xandar (wherein the pilots martyr themselves in suicide attacks) has done little to downplay these connections. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ronan wishes to destroy Xandar because his purpose, his very occupation, is to exercise the fundamentalist military aspects of the Kree. In turn, the Kree who are by nature colonialists who and believe they are the master race, but are unwilling (at this point) to risk open intergalactic War are able to see their military might and dominance exercised by a partially sanctioned member of their society.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many sources cite Ronan as a 'rogue-general', an over simplification that totally misses the point of his function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ronan began as a member of the Accuser Corps, who are a religious-inflected version of The Judge System in 2000AD. He is an ayatollah, a judge and an executioner rolled into one, and in a society predicated in religious zealotry his fundamentalist and pitiless nature saw him rise quickly amongst its ranks. He 'outgrew' the Accuser corps somewhat (hence him frequently being described as rogue), but truly realized that he was of more use/potency outside the remit of the official system. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ronan is a sanctioned fundamentalist, and he is a hero within Kree culture that is able to both carry out the wishes of his race and evade accountability for them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-09-06T11:55:17.997" LastActivityDate="2014-09-06T11:55:17.997" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24431" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27526" CreationDate="2014-09-06T13:12:29.403" Score="8" ViewCount="58432" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of In Bruges, after being shot several times Ray is still not dead.&#xA;At the end we just see him entering the ambulance. Is there any director's commentary available which could tell us whether Ray died or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-19T16:39:29.180" LastActivityDate="2016-08-22T06:04:57.613" Title="Could Ray have survived at the end?" Tags="|in-bruges|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24398" CreationDate="2014-09-07T05:03:26.550" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Barkeeper is on Bridget von Hammersmark's side. Although it is not clearly seen during the shooting frenzy that against whom he uses his gun. But if you closely analyze the other scenes it appears that he was definitely on Bridget's side. Here are the indications &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scene where the men have just arived at the bar.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/y4zOa.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bridget is not so cautious of him when talking and probably the men know this too.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tBWu6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He asks Matilda to join the other soldiers, probably so that they would keep themselves busy and not interrupt Bridget&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/clca0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way is constantly looking at the German officer when he is at Bridget's table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dfERQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He prepares his gun right at the time when the German Officer has caught the British officer for his fake SS officer's appearance. Right when the German officer says &quot;You are no more German than that Scotch&quot;, he is seen preparing his gun. &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FOWjI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9REly.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the scenes together indicate that the bar keeper was Bridget's accomplice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-09-07T08:08:17.797" LastActivityDate="2014-09-07T08:08:17.797" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24440" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-07T05:11:42.540" Score="1" ViewCount="379" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gwen Stacy dies in the arms of Peter Parker the Spider-Man in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1872181/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man 2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did she have to die, so that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mary Jane would be back on the next sequel?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They would not have to shoot Spider-Man movies at/about Oxford or England?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They both conspired to fake Gwen's death, to keep Gwen safe?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1627" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-07-10T09:59:14.403" LastActivityDate="2017-07-10T09:59:14.403" Title="Did what happened to Gwen Stacy meant to make place for Mary Jane?" Tags="|sequels|the-amazing-spider-man-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24474" CreationDate="2014-09-07T06:44:52.710" Score="2" ViewCount="3724" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092675/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bloodsport (1988)&lt;/a&gt;, when Frank's superiors find out he is going to Hong Kong to fight in the Kumite, they try to stop him. He evades Helmer and Rawlins (the agents who were sent to bring him back home) and gets to Hong Kong anyway, where Helmer and Rawlins try again to stop him and bring him back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? &quot;The US Governemnt has invested a lot of time and money into you and we don't want you getting hurt&quot;. What does that mean? Dux is a Captain which isn't low rank, but it isn't like a General. So why is he so special that they want to keep him from participating in the Kumite?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-09-08T18:59:02.027" LastActivityDate="2014-09-08T18:59:02.027" Title="Why did the government not want Frank to fight?" Tags="|plot-explanation|bloodsport|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12496" CreationDate="2014-09-07T08:37:46.760" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Paulster2 well you have a point, which is true. The 1st reason is that half of the time these movies are about what they did rather about the war so mostly they were captors of some people or whatever the situation was germans were in much safer locations. The 2nd reason is the color of the uniforms. Allied uniforms were often brown (dark or light brown), but the germans wore black / dark green / olive green uniforms, so the color affects you thinking that brown is less formal than black and dark green. The 3rd reason is that you often see less allies commanding officers than german officers. And pay attention to any other movie, usually the badguys are richer, well funded and the good guys are poor or not well-funded. And this fact applies to the majority but not all, regardless if the fact it's about a war, about mafia, or drug dealers. These plus what our friend said about Hitler's Agenda.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13615" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-07T11:40:49.727" LastActivityDate="2014-09-07T11:40:49.727" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24440" CreationDate="2014-09-07T18:51:02.220" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Certainly Emma Stone only signed on for two films whereas Andrew Garfield signed for three, obviously they could have negotiated more with her but I'd imagine that would be a part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastActivityDate="2014-09-07T18:51:02.220" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24452" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24475" CreationDate="2014-09-07T21:08:19.973" Score="9" ViewCount="67654" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856010/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode S02E05, when Frank attends the groundbreaking ceremony at the Civil War reenactment site he places (and ultimately buries) his ring in the soil (of what I assume to become some kind of monument). Later in episode S02E11, during the investigations for the illegal fundings, when President Walker brings the conversation to Frank's &lt;em&gt;&quot;fidgeting&quot;&lt;/em&gt; he mentions his missing ring, much to the president's surprise, but without much exposition of the matter either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Francis:&lt;/strong&gt; It's my class ring, I forget I'd...I buried it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Garrett:&lt;/strong&gt; You what?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Francis:&lt;/strong&gt; Ah, it's a long story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And after Francis Underwood finally becomes the 46th president of the USA at the end of season 2, Claire has him made a new one as a pre-birthday present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/riVsJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;what is the background of this ring and its significance for Frank and why did he bury it there at the Civil War site?&lt;/strong&gt; It is hard to believe that this was simply a publicity act, seeing how important that ring is to him and that at least Walker seemed completely oblivious to this. Is it maybe related to Frank's meeting with his &quot;great great great grandfather&quot; (to whom he also delegated his groundbreaking duty)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-12-15T14:15:18.853" LastActivityDate="2017-12-15T14:15:18.853" Title="What does Francis Underwood's ring mean to him and why does he bury it?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|character|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24455" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24496" CreationDate="2014-09-07T23:59:07.687" Score="3" ViewCount="339" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S02E09 of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator:_The_Sarah_Connor_Chronicles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245340/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Complications&lt;/a&gt;, Jesse has captured a man she believes to be Charles Fischer (a notorious Skynet collaborator) and is trying to convince Derek to kill him for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually, the man admits he is Fischer and Derek points his gun at him and the following exchange takes place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Derek&lt;/strong&gt;: I don't remember. But she does, and that's good enough for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fischer&lt;/strong&gt;: So. You gonna kill me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Derek&lt;/strong&gt;: Not you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[At this point, Derek turns around to where Jesse and the other hostage are]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C6yc5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of Derek turning around&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[A gunshot is heard. It is then revealed that Jesse fired the shot and killed Fischer]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I can't figure out what he meant by &amp;quot;Not you&amp;quot;, was he going to kill Jesse, or the other hostage (that they later released), or perhaps someone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Derek obviously didn't know what Jesse was going to do, or he would have said &amp;quot;Not me&amp;quot;. And I don't think he was going to kill the other hostage as they didn't indicate that they knew he was the young version of the same man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any clues given later as to what Derek's intentions were?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2020-02-07T16:30:56.990" Title="Who was Derek Reese going to kill?" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-series|the-sarah-connor-chronicles|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24456" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-08T00:32:40.943" Score="19" ViewCount="4544" Body="&lt;p&gt;While &lt;em&gt;Francis Underwood&lt;/em&gt;'s motivation and moral limitations (or lack thereof) in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856010/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; most of the time seem rather clear-cut, his wife &lt;em&gt;Claire&lt;/em&gt; and her state of mind sometimes stay a bit more nebulous to me. For this reason I'm also unaware to which degree she actually knows about &lt;em&gt;Francis&lt;/em&gt;' more straight-to-the-point ways of rising to power, that being his direct murdering of at least &lt;em&gt;Peter Russo&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Zoe Barnes&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the story of &lt;em&gt;Russo&lt;/em&gt;'s suicide isn't very hard to believe, &lt;em&gt;Zoe&lt;/em&gt;'s accident/suicide should look much less believable for anyone aware of her involvement in &lt;em&gt;Frank&lt;/em&gt;'s case. When &lt;em&gt;Claire&lt;/em&gt; sees the news of that on TV she doesn't make much of a motion. But while I don't have much recollection of the particular plot of season 1 at the moment, I don't think they ever actually talked about any of those deaths directly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;is there any indication that &lt;em&gt;Claire Underwood&lt;/em&gt; actually knows (or doesn't know) of her husband being a cold-blooded killer?&lt;/strong&gt; Or maybe she just assumes it without his awareness? But it might also very well be that this has been deliberately left ambiguous as part of &lt;em&gt;Claire&lt;/em&gt;'s sometimes less clear state of mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-30T10:59:36.603" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T09:35:48.913" Title="How much is Claire Underwood aware of her husband's more serious deeds?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24457" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24458" CreationDate="2014-09-08T01:05:10.153" Score="5" ViewCount="922" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the early 90s I watched an animated movie about black hollow soldiers fighting on earth. They were made of decaying tissue from people thrown into some big vat or a cave. people/prisoners were transported inside big eggs. A couple, man and a woman, escaped by tossing a seed which grew into thorn like plant and cracked the shell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was also transporting &quot;bird&quot; basically two wings(flying wing organic plane like device) made of human tissue that was used as transport. The thing died at the end of the flight. I think it carried them to a group that spoke in past and future at the same time but never in present.  Ultimately they have agreed on a war speaking in present time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They somehow broke into the black soldier factory where these were being assembled and removed a vital piece from inside of helmets. It was a red ball/egg tissue organic computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The soldiers look like hollow medieval armor but with a futuristic design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13682" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-09-08T01:22:02.003" LastActivityDate="2016-03-25T01:29:22.140" Title="Animated post apocalyptic movie with soldier made from decaying tissue" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:18:02.350" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24457" CreationDate="2014-09-08T01:23:38.410" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandahar_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gandahar&lt;/a&gt;, (1988), was a French animated science fiction and fantasy film.  There was also an English language version released as &lt;strong&gt;Light Years&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The peaceful people of Gandahar are suddenly attacked by an army of&#xA;  automatons known as the Men of Metal, who march through the villages&#xA;  and kidnap their victims by turning them to stone. The resulting&#xA;  statues are collected and then transferred to their base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sylvain later saves Airelle, a Gandaharian woman. Together they&#xA;  discover the Men of Metal’s base, where the frozen Gandaharians are&#xA;  taken through a large portal and are seemingly assimilated into more&#xA;  Men of Metal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cfCRreaVxw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;French&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eucpelkpuiY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;English&lt;/a&gt; versions are available on Youtube.  The scene where Sylvain removes a red ball/egg from the head of a metal man is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cfCRreaVxw#t=1469&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-09-08T01:23:38.410" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24459" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="64522" CreationDate="2014-09-08T01:24:46.413" Score="1" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back in the mid-seventies in Toronto, there was a regular horror movie on CityTV on Saturday nights called &quot;Monsters we Know and Love,&quot; which was hosted by Gene Taylor but also featured a sidekick named Igor (played by Art Nefsky). The hosting was pretty hokey (exhibit A: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ka8WbJmWqh0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;), but the movies were actually pretty good (I remember &quot;Son of Frankenstein,&quot; and I think, &quot;The Blob.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence that this was the basis for the SCTV horror movie show &quot;Monster Chiller Horror Theatre?&quot; The timing and location in Toronto in the mid-seventies suggests so, but are there any interviews or articles which provide a definitive answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T00:50:06.523" Title="SCTV: is &quot;Monster Chiller Horror Theatre&quot; based on &quot;Monsters we Know and Love?&quot;" Tags="|sctv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24440" CreationDate="2014-09-08T08:20:12.573" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is impossible to answer for sure because we don't know the minds of the film's creators. However as Chopper pointed out above there are contractual reasons why Emma Stone may have been &quot;killed off&quot; in the second film rather than any other sequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comic book fans will tell you that this was the only way Gwen was always going to leave was by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Stacy#Death&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;falling to her death&lt;/a&gt; (although in the comics MJ was introduced sooner). The death of Gwen was a major story for Peter Parker, it also harks back to the promise he made to her father in the first film. If you remember, he promised to stay away from Gwen so she wouldn't get hurt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mary Jane would be back on the next sequel&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's quite possible that they would cast an actress to play Mary Jane, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2427/what-is-the-reason-for-choosing-mary-jane-over-the-gwen-stacy-in-the-2002-spider&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; discusses in detail why MJ was not included in this reboot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They would not have to shoot Spider-man movies at/about Oxford or England&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is where my comic book knowledge starts to break down - I don't know if she ever intended to study in the UK in the original stories. My suggestion would be that given the budget for these films the location was unlikely to be a problem, however the sense of her leaving and starting a new life was simply meant to draw out the storyline between the pair and make her death even more tragic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They both conspired to fake Gwen's death, to keep Gwen safe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's certainly an interesting theory. Characters in the Marvel universe rarely &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Stacy#After_death&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;stay dead&lt;/a&gt;. If Emma Stone was available for another spidey film then there are storylines in place to bring her back, I think it's more likely that they'd use an existing story rather than create their own. However again this is speculation without seeing a script!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T13:50:03.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24467" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24468" CreationDate="2014-09-08T12:32:12.673" Score="14" ViewCount="21462" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always wondered what kind of blood is used in movies. I thought it could be from animals or color or least possibly human blood which I am sure will not be legal. I ask because in a lot of movies actors spit blood from their mouths. If it is blood, then how do they do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13689" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-29T09:52:21.950" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T14:39:42.600" Title="What kind of blood do they use in movies for bloody scenes?" Tags="|film-techniques|props|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24467" CreationDate="2014-09-08T13:02:45.197" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatrical_blood&quot;&gt;theatrical blood&lt;/a&gt;. &#xA;&lt;strong&gt;First of all why theatrical blood?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many reasons for substituting for real blood in the film industry, such as ethical and sanitary concerns, and concerns for the emotional well being of the actors. Also, actual blood's tendency to coagulate and solidify quickly make it unsuitable for repeated takes without freshening; the longer-lasting viscosity of stage blood makes it far easier to work with on the set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is it?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;A wide variety of chemicals and natural products can be used. The most common is red food coloring, often inside small balloons coupled with explosive devices called squibs. Alfred Hitchcock famously used Bosco Chocolate Syrup as fake blood in his 1960 thriller Psycho. Since the film was in black-and-white, the color was less important than the consistency. Tomato ketchup is also a common alternative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-08T19:44:43.940" LastActivityDate="2014-09-08T19:44:43.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24467" CreationDate="2014-09-08T14:05:20.163" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodily_mutilation_in_film#Blood&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fake blood&lt;/a&gt; can be made in many different ways. One of the cheapest and easiest can be made with varying recipes including corn syrup and food dye. For example, in the movie &lt;em&gt;The Evil Dead&lt;/em&gt; the makers used a mixture consisting of corn syrup, food colouring, and instant coffee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chocolate syrup is also used with red food colour to achieve correct shade of blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/10/22/movie_blood_recipe_and_history_from_hershey_s_to_corn_syrup_and_beyond.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is a history of Fake blood usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you are really interested in step by step method of making fake blood then refer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Fake-Blood&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikihow.com&lt;/a&gt;, where fake blood making is explained in 14 easy steps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fake blood is also referred as Theatrical blood or Kensington Gore (after the street of that name in London).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-02T14:39:42.600" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T14:39:42.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24441" CreationDate="2014-09-08T17:58:40.313" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frank Dux has stated (and this can be found on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frankwdux.com/KogaRyu.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;his website&lt;/a&gt;) that he was an Elite Operative with super-high security clearance.  Further, he states that his military record has been sealed, even impervious to the FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) due to covert operations in Russia and his involvement in Iran/Contra.  Someone this important to the military would most certainly be dissuaded from participating in an event that could potentially lead to death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think the whole thing is a work of fiction.  In fact, it has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Dux#Martial_arts_career&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;claimed&lt;/a&gt; that the &quot;Kumite&quot; had his own house as an address, and the trophy he won was purchased at a trophy shop (with a receipt provided).  Dux insists those claims are meant to discredit him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/1988-05-01/local/me-3111_1_american-martial-arts&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;/a&gt; ran an article in 1988 that stated he was a complete fraud.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-09-08T18:12:42.380" LastActivityDate="2014-09-08T18:12:42.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24452" CreationDate="2014-09-08T18:14:55.920" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ring probably symbolizes a simpler time for Frank. As we saw in his class reunion episode (Season 1 Episode 8), Frank was quite different and more idealistic back in school. He sang in a barbershop quartet, was in a loving relationship, and basically ran wild and rambunctious with his schoolmates. The fact that for the duration of his stay in his school he not once broke the fourth wall to share his plans and cynical world view is very telling. It wasn't until the very end of the episode, when Frank has left his school and friends behind, did he start talking to the audience again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the civil war site, he discovered that an ancestor of his was buried in the memorial. This probably inspires him to bury his class ring there as well, and with it his idealistic past. By this point of time, Frank was well on his way in fulfilling his plan to rise to power, and already has blood on his hands. It probably didn't seem proper to keep wearing that reminder to his more innocent self.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Frank finally reaches his ultimate goal, a new ring is forged for him. Not the ring of the innocent and idealistic Frank, but a ring for the ruthless power hungry Frank who will unflinchingly stomp on his enemies and all that come in his way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-09-08T18:14:55.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24103" CreationDate="2014-09-08T20:25:55.293" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;You two will die out in this cold. Come with me and we will eat in the warmth.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13699" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-09-09T01:37:56.613" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T01:37:56.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24478" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43499" CreationDate="2014-09-08T20:42:22.657" Score="8" ViewCount="787" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been a long running joke on Dr Who that his screwdriver has no effect on Wood..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lDtXy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the episode &lt;em&gt;Robots of Sherwood&lt;/em&gt; the Dr uses his screwdriver on a wooden/straw target with this result...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jewPk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier shots reveal there is nothing behind the targets except empty space, and the targets are themselves are distinctly identified as being constructed of wood (notice the grain)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/19uX9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Is this a goof?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-09T11:40:29.930" LastActivityDate="2017-01-11T15:54:21.823" Title="&quot;It doesn't work on Wood&quot;... Evidence to the contrary?" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24478" CreationDate="2014-09-08T20:49:21.263" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember that he cheated during the contest. The arrows he fired into the target were equipped with some kind of tech that let them home in on the target, so it's reasonable to assume there was more than just wood in their makeup. It's probable that it was those that he detonated, rather than the target itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7962" LastActivityDate="2014-09-08T20:49:21.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11178" CreationDate="2014-09-09T00:32:06.427" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tarantino is a Director who is a homage maven. My thought is the slip up by Hickox is a nod to the Director John Sturges and his work in the 1963 WWII epoch &quot;The Great Escape&quot;. If you recall, in that film, Bartlett and MacDonald evade capture after escaping from the Stalag. They slip away, but they are caught while boarding a bus after MacDonald blunders by replying in English to a suspicious Gestapo agent who wishes them &quot;Good luck&quot; in English. Similar to the blunder made by Hicox. Like in the game &quot;Simon Sez&quot;... They couldn't help themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13703" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T00:32:06.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24486" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24488" CreationDate="2014-09-09T09:01:22.740" Score="19" ViewCount="16241" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did they choose a female actor to portray Gabriel rather than a male actor in the movie Constantine? Yes, I know she's good but it's odd as Gabriel is a male character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9672" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-09-09T09:46:38.757" LastActivityDate="2015-06-03T14:30:37.947" Title="Why is Gabriel a lady in Constantine?" Tags="|character|constantine|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24486" CreationDate="2014-09-09T10:12:32.163" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;The portrayal of the angel Gabriel as androgynous is not uncommon.  See &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel#Arts_and_media&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Angels are described as pure spirits. The lack of a defined form allows artists wide latitude in depicting them. Amelia R. Brown draws comparisons in Byzantine iconography between portrayals of angels and the conventions used to depict court eunuchs. Mainly from the Caucasus, they tended to have light eyes, hair, and skin; and those &amp;quot;castrated in childhood developed a distinctive skeletal structure, lacked full masculine musculature, body hair and beards,....” As officials, they would wear a white tunic decorated with gold. Brown suggests that &amp;quot;Byzantine artists drew, consciously or not, on this iconography of the court eunuch&amp;quot;. Some recent popular works on angels consider Gabriel to be female or androgynous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tilda Swinton had played an androgynous character previously (in Orlando (1992)), which perhaps explains why the director chose her to play the role.  According to the following interviews with Swinton, it was director Francis Lawrence's idea to make Gabriel androgynous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.phase9.tv/moviefeatures/constantineq&amp;amp;a-tildaswinton.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.phase9.tv/moviefeatures/constantineq&amp;amp;a-tildaswinton.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gabriel is portrayed as rather androgynous. Would you say Gabriel is more of a he or a she?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well the angel Gabriel, as the Book of Daniel said, is in the shape of a man. It doesn't say he is a man, just says looks like one and I quite often get given a male frisk when I go through the X-ray at airports so I was up for that. And anyway it's not my idea that I'm impersonating Gabriel, it's entirely Francis Lawrence's so you'll have to blame him for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/movies/06devr.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/movies/06devr.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; You've played a number of men in your career, most notably in &amp;quot;Orlando.&amp;quot; What does the idea of androgyny bring to your performance of Gabriel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; The director, Francis Lawrence, did the sensible thing by just presenting the idea to me and then letting it percolate through my brain. It felt like a little bit of a dangerous idea in a big Hollywood movie, and then I ended up thinking it was a good idea, because an angel is not immutable but fluid, and so his identity is amorphous and not strictly human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; How much do you think your looks have to do with this protean quality you have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; Quite a lot. The other day, I was going through the airport security and I was searched by a male security guard. I'm very often referred to as &amp;quot;Sir&amp;quot; in elevators and such. I think it has to do with being this tall and not wearing much lipstick. I think people just can't imagine I'd be a woman if I look like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9910" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T11:36:39.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24486" CreationDate="2014-09-09T10:14:02.890" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Constantine she is portrayed as sexless person, to represent &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgyny&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;androgynous&lt;/a&gt; in angels. Even confirmed over &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_%28film%29#Cast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: Angels in the Bible are mostly depicted as male (as he is). But whether they are male or female is never made clear and few believers think of them as sexless. And there are various debates being held on their sex again and again, few nice article are here (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gotquestions.org/angels-male-female.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://angels.about.com/od/AngelBasics/f/Are-Angels-Male-Or-Female-What-Are-Angel-Genders.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.compellingtruth.org/angels-male-female.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="13712" LastEditDate="2014-09-09T17:21:32.760" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T17:21:32.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23777" CreationDate="2014-09-09T12:15:06.213" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the previous answer, I'd like to point you to this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/article_20347_5-fan-theories-that-make-classic-movies-even-better.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.cracked.com/article_20347_5-fan-theories-that-make-classic-movies-even-better.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;where it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pilot, she [Uma Thurman] says, was about a hit squad comprised of five women, called Fox Force Five, who go around killing people and telling bad jokes. It actually did sound utterly awesome, like something Tarantino should make ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Theory:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and he did. It's called Kill Bill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, I am unaware of any official rejections to this, so, they may not be the same person, but in a way the same &amp;quot;character&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS:&#xA;Something else related just popped up: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/708/kill-bill-ending-q-u-what-does-that-mean&quot;&gt;Kill Bill ending Q &amp;amp; U. What does that mean?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13690" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T06:13:35.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24491" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24928" CreationDate="2014-09-09T13:05:53.543" Score="3" ViewCount="1940" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the TV show The Blacklist (2013), what does Raymond Reddington gain/what is his motivation for helping the FBI capture so many people on his “Blacklist”? and is this linked to why he chose Elizabeth Keene to converse with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13016" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-09T13:37:24.603" LastActivityDate="2014-09-29T15:09:54.540" Title="What is Red's motivation?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-blacklist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10572" CreationDate="2014-09-09T13:26:33.480" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This quote was attributed to Bill Finger who died in 1974, he was best known as the uncredited actual creator of Batman&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13708" LastActivityDate="2014-09-09T13:26:33.480" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23770" CreationDate="2014-09-09T19:28:55.067" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you remember, at the beginning of Season 5 he was essentially starting from scratch.  One common theme through the show was that Jesse and Walt seemed to spend or lose just about as much as they made.  So, you need to more or less eliminate his salary from Gus as most of what he made was gone, and he only worked for Gus for a short time so he didn't earn a full $7M from him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Mike and Jesse told Walt that they both were leaving the business, and wanted to sell their share of the stolen methylamine for $15M to Declan, Walt mentioned that they could potentially make $300M with that much methylamine.  He chided Jesse for wanting to sell out for &quot;pennies on the dollar&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, your number is a bit off.  It was actually estimated that each of the 7 (not 8)  barrels contained ~$11M, so his total take was ~$80M.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one of the last few episodes, Todd mentions that Walt had used 400 of the 1,000 gallons of methylamine that was stolen.  So, extrapolating from that we get roughly $200K for every gallon of methylamine, which means the entire load was worth $200M.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;$80M / 400 gallons of methylamine = $200K / gallon of methylamine&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;$200K (gallon of methylamine) x 1,000 gallons of stolen methylamine =&#xA;  $200M potential&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Walt's original estimate of $300M was correct (at full retail, with no commission), that would indicate that Walt was paying Lydia about 33% commission as a fee for distribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;$200M / $300M = 67% in Walt's pocket, remaining 33% in Lydia's&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-09-11T02:32:55.053" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T02:32:55.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="708" CreationDate="2014-09-10T02:31:25.650" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It refers to (Q)uentin Tarantino and (U)ma Thurman. They actually thought of the idea together while filming Pulp Fiction.  In the diner, Uma's character is telling John Travolta's character about a TV show she was in... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go 2 mins in.  &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/A8X2SM0ioJ4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to DVD commentary, Uma and Quentin then chatted and created the bride. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From IMDb: &quot;According to Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman in the DVD documentary the idea for doing &quot;Kill Bill&quot; began during the filming of Pulp Fiction (1994). The two began talking about the kinds of movies that they would like to do and Quentin said he would like to do a 70's style kung-fu flick. Uma came up with the film's opening shot of her beaten up and wearing a wedding gown.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13717" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2014-09-11T15:25:42.040" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T15:25:42.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24455" CreationDate="2014-09-10T07:01:01.323" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Derek was about to kill the young hostage, the man confirmed that the other hostage is his younger self, he cracked and confessed. If you watch carefully, Derek wants to kill the young man to prevent him from becoming who he becomes and prevent what he does in feature, but Jesse kills the older as the younger has not committed any crime yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of episode, we see the younger hostage (who was released), is about to meet the fate Derek was about to kill him for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13615" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2020-02-07T16:30:56.990" LastActivityDate="2020-02-07T16:30:56.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24497" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24499" CreationDate="2014-09-10T11:29:26.923" Score="6" ViewCount="305" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a pretty old film. May be a black &amp;amp; white one. A film director tries to makes a horror film in which lead role is played by an old man, who dies later really after shoot is complete due to some health problem. I don't remember much. Anyone knows it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13096" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-10T11:43:19.787" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T12:04:19.760" Title="Director tries to make a horror film starring an old man!" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:18:14.870" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24497" CreationDate="2014-09-10T12:04:19.760" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tim Burton's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Wood_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Ed Wood&lt;/a&gt; from 1994 was a critically acclaimed, black-and-white film about the life of director &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Wood&quot;&gt;Ed Wood Jr.&lt;/a&gt; who made &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space&quot;&gt;Plan 9 From Outer Space&lt;/a&gt; - a movie often dubbed &quot;worst film ever made&quot;. It stars Johnny Depp as Ed Wood and Martin Landau (who won an Oscar for the role) as an aging drug-addicted Bela Lugosi. Ed supported Bela and has been meaning to cast him in one more movie when Bela died; Ed then used the last footage he shot with him in &lt;em&gt;Plan 9&lt;/em&gt; and hired his wife's chiropractor to fill in for him (with his face covered) for the rest of the film. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/CawVaHxWvnA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T12:04:19.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24503" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-10T15:58:57.910" Score="5" ViewCount="1006" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching in 1998 this movie about a gold hijacking operation set in rural towns (maybe in Alaska, Canada or the Northwestern US or another place possibly).  Some terrorists who included one man with long reddish hair and a short beard (he was always hitting people hard) were carrying stolen gold (if I remember correctly) from place to place and the other main characters included a married couple (I remember the man's first name was Mel, but other than that have no memories of any character's names) on vacation in an RV.  When they obtain the gold he places it in the RV's gas tank for safety transport (there was another gas tank on the other side of the vehicle so this apparently would not have interfered with it's operation).  The terrorists however manage to find them and at the conclusion (spoiler obviously!) all the main characters are dead and the RV gets pulled into a junkyard with the gold still in the gas tank.  The movie ends there and the gold likely got disposed of.  Now searching for this movie on amazon.com two days ago I thought I remembered the name but I was incorrect.  From what I've said can anyone identify this movie for me?  It would have been made in either 1998 or at some point before that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13722" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-09-15T18:25:21.847" LastActivityDate="2016-06-20T14:51:53.363" Title="Gold hijacking movie from the 1990's" Tags="|identify-this-movie|action|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:18:17.997" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19547" CreationDate="2014-09-10T16:31:23.483" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears to be the &lt;a href=&quot;https://thetake.com/location/4844/isola-trattoria-crudo-bar-new-york-ny-the-other-woman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Isola&lt;/a&gt; as stated by Freddie. &lt;a href=&quot;http://thescript.thetake.com/isola-restaurant-the-other-woman/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This blog&lt;/a&gt; discusses the restaurant and has pictures of the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Final Restaurant celebration scene&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jl8x5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Final celebration scene&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isola Restaurant&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ziMb8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Isola&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2014-09-10T16:36:40.243" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T16:36:40.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24503" CreationDate="2014-09-10T16:32:28.010" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268548/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pressure Point&lt;/a&gt; (AKA Backroad Justice). The villain, who has long red hair and a short beard, robs a bank then takes over an RV of a family on vacation, but the husband's name is Jed and not Mel, it's cash and not gold and the film is from 2001. From an online synopsis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jed Griffin (Michael Madsen) is traveling through Vermont in a motor home with his wife and family when they happen upon Rudy Wicker (Jeff Wincott). Wicker is a desperate criminal whose attempt to rob a bank left several customers dead, including the wife of the town sheriff; now he's on the run from the police, and when Rudy sees Jed and his RV, he steals the vehicle with Jed's family still inside, and shoots Jed to keep him out of the way. Jed was not killed by Rudy's bullet, just wounded, but now the police believe he's the man they're looking for, so Jed has to find a way to prove his innocence while tracking down his camper to save his family from Rudy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/zg0dO1GcAiU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T16:32:28.010" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14792" CreationDate="2014-09-10T18:21:14.340" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Zonks are not actually prizes.  You get $100 (or was it $200) in lieu of the Zonk.  I know because I have been in the back room during prize paperwork time. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13726" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T18:21:14.340" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24486" CreationDate="2014-09-10T19:16:23.647" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you know what angels look like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the point of casting Tilda Swinton is because nobody can say with certainty that angels are considered male or female. Yes I know the scriptures portray them in certain ways, but nobody knows for certain. You could also argue why the director didn't cast a naked baby with tiny wings and curl hair as Gabriel. Everything is up to the viewers'/believers' interpretation, like many other things about religion. &#xA;The fact of the matter is that nobody knows for certain what angels are considered to be and that's why I think the director cast a woman to play Gabriel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is one (of many) things that make Constantine a great movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T19:16:23.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24508" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24511" CreationDate="2014-09-10T20:56:48.140" Score="2" ViewCount="3141" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched the movie Collateral. I understand about everyone's role in the movie but I don't know what motivates Vincent to kill the 5 people. What is/are the reason(s) behind this? Is there any information regarding contracts on other people (that are killed) or the person that gave the contract to Vincent? Is Vincent killing people because he wants the world to notice him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13727" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-10T23:27:15.980" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T23:27:15.980" Title="Story of Vincent in Collateral (2004 film)" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|collateral|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24508" CreationDate="2014-09-10T21:48:17.910" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vincent is a contract killer; he is killing them because he's paid to. He was hired by &lt;em&gt;&quot;drug lord Felix Reyes-Torrena&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_(film)#Plot&quot;&gt;Wikipedia synopsis&lt;/a&gt; explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;FBI special agent Frank Pedrosa... identifies the targets as witnesses in a federal grand jury indicting Felix tomorrow. In retaliation, Felix has hired Vincent to kill all five key witnesses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vincent is hoping that the world &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; notice him, hence the (previously-successful) attempt to pin the murders on his cab driver. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7773" LastActivityDate="2014-09-10T21:48:17.910" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24512" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46888" CreationDate="2014-09-10T22:43:43.900" Score="4" ViewCount="10743" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene where the A-Team is in the tank and its falling from the air, they fire the canon and it stops from falling for a moment before falling again. Is this possible from a Physics point of view? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1969" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-09-09T10:02:50.823" LastActivityDate="2019-09-09T10:02:50.823" Title="Is the tank scene in the A-Team physically possible?" Tags="|realism|the-a-team-2010|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24515" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24585" CreationDate="2014-09-10T23:48:05.400" Score="11" ViewCount="1331" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, this question is not about the influence of the critics in the media, it is about when (statistically) the good movies are released. While everyone has different types of tastes, &quot;good&quot; here refers to the rather generalized opinion about a movie, which often can be categorized quite easily into positive or negative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually films are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; just released when they're done but there is planning and market strategy that takes place (for example Disney releases their big movies on Thanksgiving weekend, and has historically &quot;owned Thanksgiving&quot;). So I think assessing the generally worst month for movies might be an interesting analysis of movie release trend history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So what month (United States calendar) has more bad movies released in the same month?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example I went to Rotten Tomatoes today (just an example, the question is not necessarily centered around RT critics alone) and I found this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AIQ7r.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 70% of the movies listed are considered bad movies (by Rotten Tomatoes). So this would seem like bad month to watch movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13729" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-12T11:19:38.893" LastActivityDate="2014-09-16T16:45:26.817" Title="What is the worst month to watch movies in United States?" Tags="|cinema-history|distribution|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24516" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24519" CreationDate="2014-09-10T23:53:09.037" Score="2" ViewCount="331" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433383/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Good Night, and Good Luck.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when &lt;em&gt;Ed&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Fred&lt;/em&gt; are leaving &lt;em&gt;William Paley&lt;/em&gt;'s office after he cut down their show, they walk past a TV screen (on which the camera focusses before cutting to the frame story of &lt;em&gt;Ed Murrow&lt;/em&gt;'s speech) showing a speech of someone in a smoking talking about the habeas corpus principle and its implications (obviously in relation to the &lt;em&gt;McCarthy&lt;/em&gt; case).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder &lt;strong&gt;who was speaking in this apparently historical footage.&lt;/strong&gt; I'm asking because I thought that might even have been footage of the real &lt;em&gt;Edward R. Murrow&lt;/em&gt;, which would have been quite an anachronistic reference. But given the lack of acquaintance with the historical background of the story and the real persons involved I wasn't sure about this nor able to verify this guess that easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-11T00:06:55.037" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T02:40:16.337" Title="Who was shown on the TV towards the end of the movie?" Tags="|good-night-and-good-luck|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24517" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24523" CreationDate="2014-09-11T00:56:57.243" Score="15" ViewCount="2195" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just came out from below the rock I've been living under, and as such I watched The Godfather. What a masterpiece!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire movie made complete sense and I found it extremely well scripted. The only thing I could not figure out is why there seemed to be no retaliation at the end of the movie when Michael has the other Dons killed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought of 2 explanations for this but I'm not 100% satisfied with them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The movie ended on the same day all that happned so there was no time for the other families to retaliate yet. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is retaliation except it is not shown. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone has a better idea I would like to hear it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S &#xA;I plan on watching the rest of the trilogy soon, please avoid spoilers. If my question is dealt with in the follow up movies please just say that. Thanks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13730" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-11T10:26:16.623" LastActivityDate="2017-08-14T16:05:24.790" Title="Why do the other families not retaliate near the end of The Godfather?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24518" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27329" CreationDate="2014-09-11T02:23:14.543" Score="5" ViewCount="959" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back in the 80's there was a really neat educational show on PBS in NY. I remember having to wake up just before 6 am to watch it on a weekday right before school. The episodes might have only been 15 minutes long and the series was a short run there were only a dozen or less episodes. It might have been American but I think it could have also been Canadian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The production was simple. It featured a male host who's set looked like an electronics workshop. He explained various electronic devices, computers and other technology. I remember it being a bit in-depth for a kids show. It focused at looking inside of things to see how they worked. Part of one episode I remember was when he explained how a modem worked by hooking a speaker to the handset of a phone in an acoustic coupler modem. You could hear how the digital data sounded as it was received and the data was displayed on a monitor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can barely remember it but one thing that stood out was the intro. The intro was a Rube Goldberg machine that towards the end started a Jacobs ladder which burned a stick which somehow turned on a neon sign. The neon sign was the name of the TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been eating me up for a few days already. Google has found nothing for me and I really searched. I just hope someone can remember the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13731" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T10:09:03.113" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T10:09:03.113" Title="Name that 80's educational TV show" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T14:58:20.503" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24516" CreationDate="2014-09-11T02:32:38.470" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a clip of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;President Dwight David Eisenhower&lt;/a&gt; from a speech he made after receiving the America's Democratic Legacy Award at a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%27nai_B%27rith&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;B'nai B'rith&lt;/a&gt; Dinner in honour of the 40th Anniversary of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anti-Defamation League&lt;/a&gt; on November 23rd 1953 at 19:54 EST (according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/education/bsa/citizenship_merit_badge/speeches/bnai_brith_dinner.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Eisenhower archives&lt;/a&gt; which is a US Government source).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only video I can find of this is very low quality as it has been recorded with a camera from a screen, but you can tell it's original as it's much longer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_xCDr76SWrI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a screenshot from the film to compare:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wAriv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of Eisenhower in Good Night, And Good Luck&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-09-11T02:40:16.337" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T02:40:16.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24512" CreationDate="2014-09-11T02:49:09.170" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The physics at work here are &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitudinal_wave&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;compression waves&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_velocity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;terminal velocity&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of a large speaker cabinet.  If you stand up a piece of paper a few feet away and put the volume of your stereo all the way up, the paper will be blown over.  Much like Sonar, the compression waves move air toward an object.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, to stop a steel tank, those waves would have to be incredibly powerful.  It's not likely that compression waves from a tank cannon could generate enough force to stop or even slow down an object that likely weighs a couple tons travelling at terminal velocity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T02:49:09.170" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24512" CreationDate="2014-09-11T07:30:22.087" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tank guns have the technology to compensate the Recoil of the fired shoot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recoil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This Wiki article&lt;/a&gt; is about recoil and mordern ways to compensate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzle_brake&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; is about the Muzzle brake - also to minimize the recoil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both technics are straight against the fact that a fallen tank can be slowed down by shooting its gun. It would only start to spin around. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other thing I could think of that could (very unlikely) help them is the therorem of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifting_body&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;self lifting bodies&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But not only therefor the Tank must have gotten rid of the parachute, it also needed to get a bit more round on its edges. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13593" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-09-11T11:13:43.923" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T11:13:43.923" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24517" CreationDate="2014-09-11T12:30:20.833" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once you watch the subsequent movies it'll start making more sense. The fact of the matter is that the other families had to go through the process of finding new Dons to run the family after the existing ones were killed off. So they couldn't all just retaliate after they found their leaders were dead, it would have been absolute chaos with no order or control which is a big part of the Italian crime families. Even if they had direct successors, they couldn't very well decide to start a war. All the families report to directly to their bosses in Italy, who would have to give them the go ahead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as you said, the speed and timing at which this took place had a major impact as well. Like I said, once you watch the 2nd and 3rd movies, all the pieces will fall into place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastEditorUserId="13338" LastEditDate="2014-09-11T14:18:42.990" LastActivityDate="2014-09-11T14:18:42.990" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24247" CreationDate="2014-09-12T00:03:46.387" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I have to defer to the many posters who have greater knowledge than I do of how the terms &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be used, I think these are the meanings &lt;em&gt;intended&lt;/em&gt;, which would make the distinction Sherlock draws make some sense:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A sociopath is someone who lacks empathy.  They are aware of their own emotions, but tend to be oblivious to what others show themselves to be feeling, or would obviously (to a non-sociopath) be feeling.   (For an example, see &quot;A Study in Scarlet&quot;, where Sherlock protests that surely, a woman wouldn't &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; be upset about a child of hers who died &lt;em&gt;years&lt;/em&gt; ago.  When he says it, he can deduce immediately from the reactions of the others that what he's said is not only wrong, but grotesquely wrong from the perspective of those who do have empathy - but it's a deduction, not because he suddenly understands the bond between a mother and child.)  A sociopath who is &quot;high-functioning&quot;, as Sherlock claims to be, is presumably one who can navigate &lt;em&gt;acceptably&lt;/em&gt; well through social situations, by using deduction as a substitute for the ability to imagine themselves in another's shoes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A psychopath, by contrast with a sociopath, doesn't even &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to navigate acceptably through social situations - if he says things that are grotesque and horrifying to other people, what does he care?  It doesn't make &lt;em&gt;him&lt;/em&gt; feel bad, so why would it matter to him?  If he has to balance between &quot;this would give me a good chuckle&quot; and &quot;this would leave the other person traumatized, crippled, or even dead&quot; - well, it's a no-brainer, isn't it?  It would bring &lt;em&gt;him&lt;/em&gt; amusement, and he won't feel anything seeing the other person's pain - heck, maybe he even gets fun from witnessing their pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Sherlock snaps that he is a high-functioning sociopath, not a psychopath, he's doing so in response to the female cop's insinuation that someday he'll switch from solving crimes to committing them.  There are many possible explanations for why he might be so annoyed by the suggestion.  A strong possibility, however, is that he's irked that she misunderstands his tastes so badly.  To suggest that he is a psychopath suggests that he's &lt;em&gt;that easily entertained&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13736" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T00:03:46.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14524" CreationDate="2014-09-12T05:51:28.977" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;My answer is based on the truthfulness of following premises, as shown in the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dr. Garner (Lisa Hoberman) has been depicted as being obsessed with Catherine.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Catherine is a brilliant psychologist, who is writing a book (thought to be an alibi), the chapters of which depict the murders happened.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, there is not just one killer. Dr. Garner, Catherine, Hazel Dobkins, Roxy- All have murdered. The thing is Beth, Dobkins and Roxy are highly obsessed with Catherine. She makes them murder all the people except in the first scene (where she herself murders Johnny Boz). She is a brilliant psychologist who reads the characters really well. She knew that she could make em do anything she wants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's the deal with writing a book?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, Catherine is a writer and a psychologist, it makes sense for her to write a thriller? Not exactly, the book is the live proof that she wants the police to think that the book is an alibi (that's why she talks about it being an alibi in the interrogation scene-You know, shape their thought to course a direction she wants. She knows how human mind works really well), and she also puts up an open kinda challenge that, she will make all the murders happen and describe them in the book but no one can prove that(or make em wanting not to prove, or ignore it, after manipulating their state of mind).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Okay...but the books were found in Dr. Beth's drawer and all the straightforward evidence points her to be &quot;the&quot; killer of the movie?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again nicely played by Catherine. Beth didn't kill Gus, it was Dobkins, who killed Gus with such cruelty. Beth didn't have anything against Gus. Beth just happened to be there coincidentally. The evidence, was planted- Remember when Beth tells Nick to take the cigarettes from the top Drawer- the books were found later in the top drawer- if Beth was the ultimate verdict, why would she risk herself?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Catherine didn't dispose off Nick to the end- Why?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She would have, but at each point Nick turns out to be the unexpected character when she thinks she has captured the character of Nick, she finds his new side. She just can't kill him until she finds everything about him- like &quot;the F**k of the century&quot;, his challenging character who is not scared of her and wants to the play the &quot;game&quot; even if it means his own death, his above average intelligence and extraordinary observation power etc. So she tests Nick's level from the beginning and the night she tells him that the book is finished and the Detective dies, she killed the detective character in the book because she found out that Nick believes that Beth was the mastermind and so he couldn't find the actual killer, now the actual killer is going to kill him- which is herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She then says good bye to Nick and she cries (for real) because she knew she was going to have sex with him one last time and then have to kill him. Nick on the other hand completely believed her innocence and actually &quot;fell for the wrong woman&quot; but guess what- at last she also fell for him (this is what she never anticipated actually- thought she could be a master of all the puppets). Anyway, the last time she picks up the ice pick to kill Nick, she just couldn't as she was already in love with him. She decided to spare him and, fu*k like minks forever.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13747" LastEditorUserId="13747" LastEditDate="2014-09-14T17:03:48.327" LastActivityDate="2014-09-14T17:03:48.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24540" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24541" CreationDate="2014-09-12T06:10:09.997" Score="23" ViewCount="8032" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_to_the_People_%28Yes,_Prime_Minister%29&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Power to the People&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of Yes, Prime Minister:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Agnes Moorhouse] pointedly asks Sir Humphrey the costs of certain everyday items, which he struggles to answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of these questions is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How long can you run a one-bar fire with 50 pence in the meter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;one-bar fire&quot; part seems to indicate an electric heater with some kind of standard intensity setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the &quot;50p in the meter&quot; part really confuses me. That sounds to me as if the heater was coin-operated, which doesn't make much sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were there actually coin-operated electric heaters in the 80s in Britain? Or does it just talk about how long you could run the heater before your electric bill increased by 50p? Or does it mean something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="282" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-12T14:43:20.147" LastActivityDate="2023-05-31T13:30:56.527" Title="What exactly does &quot;one-bar fire with 50p in the meter&quot; mean?" Tags="|yes-prime-minister|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24540" CreationDate="2014-09-12T06:40:31.907" Score="31" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Were there actually coin-operated electric heaters in the 80s in Britain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's actually very similar to that. It's not the electric heaters which were coin operated, but the whole electricity system for the house. You'd deposit money directly into your electricity meter which would then allow you to use power equal to that cost, and someone would come and collect the coins out of it periodically, it's called an &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_meter#Prepayment_meters&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Electricity prepayment meter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and it looks like this, though this is a slightly later model that only takes £1 coins, older versions would accept smaller denominations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PTdeg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of a coin operated power meter&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These were very popular for rented accommodation as it meant that if the tenant didn't pay their electricity bill, the property owner wouldn't be held responsible, as well as removing the need for tedious paperwork whenever the property changes hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They actually still exist in a very similar form even today, and my house had one until a few years ago, where instead of being coin operated, they had a form of electronic card which you would remove from the meter, take down to the local shops and &quot;top up&quot; with real money (the shops have a special machine for this), then you plug the card back into the meter and it adds the balance stored on the card onto your power allotment. These newer models look something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZQT5w.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of modern prepayment meter&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for exactly what that meant, the question is basically a shorthand of saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you put 50p into your electricity prepayment meter, how long could you run an electric heater with a single bar (heating element) before your power shut off?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-09-13T10:27:14.853" LastActivityDate="2014-09-13T10:27:14.853" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24542" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24544" CreationDate="2014-09-12T07:24:08.113" Score="1" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right before Nancy goes after Senator Roark in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458481/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sin City: A Dame to Kill For&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, she injures her face with a piece of broken mirror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does she cut her face like that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-09-12T11:54:15.477" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T13:05:21.887" Title="Why did Nancy injure her face?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24540" CreationDate="2014-09-12T11:26:38.657" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Along with electricity meters there were also individual bar heaters activated by a coin and which would have been installed in bedsits or rooms in university halls of residence where the user would not have control over the overall electricity supply. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per the previous answer, the 50p coin would keep the heater running for a fixed amount of time. The fact that Sir Humphrey doesn't know how long this would be is being used as a sign that he is out of touch with the people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13752" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T11:26:38.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24542" CreationDate="2014-09-12T12:59:40.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nancy wanted to kill Roark, but knew she would need help. &#xA;Marv was Nancy's 'unofficial' protector, he would do anything for her (evident from earlier in the film when he defends her honor).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Playing Marv, Nancy cuts her face and then blames Roark - which sends Marv into a rage thus giving her a perfect (if psychopathic) ally for the final attack on Roark's estate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Also&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, if you want to dig a little deeper, perhaps Nancy has finally become her 'father', Hartigan, a relentless killer out for revenge, even down the scarred face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using a mirror is very symbolic, especially in films. The mirror (and other reflective surfaces) are usually used to convey a torn personality, to literally show two sides to a person's personality. Nancy makes her living from her looks, the mirror is very important before each show, but when she decides to make the choice to go after Roark, she has effectively abandoned her old life - she has no more need for the mirror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="382" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2014-09-12T13:05:21.887" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T13:05:21.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24546" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-12T14:53:45.307" Score="4" ViewCount="16568" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108550/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;What's Eating Gilbert Grape&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, What exactly is the relationship between &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005460/?ref_=tt_cl_t4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Betty Carver&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000136/?ref_=tt_cl_t1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gilbert Grape&lt;/a&gt;, and how does her husband, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001798/?ref_=tt_cl_t8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ken Carver&lt;/a&gt;, feel about it? It was obvious at the beginning of the movie when she seduces Gilbert while he was at her home delivering grocery. He made no objections to this either. But later, when she get jealous about his new girlfriend and the whole &quot;burned cookies&quot; incident takes place, Gilbert is somewhat repelled by her presence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, what about her husband? Does he know what's going on? Why did he talk to Gilbert about getting insurance? Why did Gilbert say &quot;I miss her (Betty)&quot; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000496/?ref_=tt_cl_t3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Becky&lt;/a&gt; when she left. What does Ken's death have to do with Gilbert? These are some of the few scenes in the movie that I didn't quite understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/USccN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9147" LastEditorUserId="34317" LastEditDate="2017-11-15T15:53:38.880" LastActivityDate="2018-02-11T14:07:02.960" Title="What is the relationship between Betty and Gilbert and how is her husband involved?" Tags="|plot-explanation|whats-eating-gilbert-grape|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24540" CreationDate="2014-09-12T15:00:41.097" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Crow's answer is great. The only thing I'd add for clarification is that a one-bar heater is an electric heater using a &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; wire filament, typically wound around a &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; horizontal supporting bar (often something like a glass rod). You could have multiple elements stacked vertically, hence one-bar, two-bar etc). They've largely been superseded by other, more efficient, forms of space heating, e.g. halogen heaters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The heating element would sit in front of a curved metal shroud to reflect radiant heat forward, and by the 80s would have had a protective metal grille in front of it. (In earlier decades, it might have been completely exposed!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://farm1.staticflickr.com/178/426268348_50fd24acd9_n_d.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;An electric fire&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One bar would have typically used around 800W - 1kW of power. While imprecise, even Sir Humphrey would have had a sense of how much heat output you'd get from a single bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Photo from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.flickr.com/photos/jocelynb/426268348&quot;&gt;https://www.flickr.com/photos/jocelynb/426268348&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/&quot;&gt;CC BY-NC 2.0 licence&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13756" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T15:00:41.097" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7950" CreationDate="2014-09-12T15:29:04.913" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to say, Possibly.  Maybe not intentionally, but I think at that period in Bill Murray's career, when he was at the top of his game, most of his characters exhibited the same type of personality.  His acting really was pretty one-dimensional, almost like Keanu Reeves.  Murray was the lovable loser with the big ego, always ready with a funny quip.  He was the same guy in Stripes and all the other movies in that time period, when you think about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since most of his characters were pretty identical, it's safe to say that much of Murray's self is portrayed in those characters.  And he probably &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; a bit narcisstic at that point in his career as a rising star.  Maybe he didn't exhibit &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of the signs, but there were almost definitely some narcisstic traits evident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T15:29:04.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24546" CreationDate="2014-09-12T16:34:21.077" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Betty and Gilbert were having an affair. Betty was simply using Gilbert for her sexual needs and for Dilbert it served as an escape from his troubled family duties. Betty's husband apparently knows about this but is not furious on either Gilbert or his own wife. There could be several reasons for this like the usual domestic problems between a married couple.&#xA;May be the husband earlier cheated on Betty or may be Betty was too dominating and the husband didn't have the guts to question her.&#xA;I remember one scene where Betty's husband walks in while Betty and Gilbert are together. He later calls Gilbert to his office but only talks of selling insurance. Gilbert must have felt kind of guilty for that man and that's why when he dies he feels sorry. Ken's death had nothing to do with Gilbert, it has everything to do with his wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before Gilbert met Becky, Betty was the only person outside of his family where could find some solace so naturally when she left he kind of missed her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T16:34:21.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24560" CreationDate="2014-09-12T20:41:32.170" Score="22" ViewCount="20717" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_Tomorrow_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edge of Tomorrow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; it's stated that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film takes place in the near future, where an alien race has&#xA;  invaded the Earth and defeated the world's military units.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It only says that aliens (mimics) invaded Earth. Why did they come to Earth? Who are they? Why do they want war? What do they want from Earth? Are they only soldier aliens, or is there an entire alien race on Earth? None of this is explained in the movie, unless I missed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't read the book &lt;em&gt;All You Need Is Kill&lt;/em&gt;, and these questions are not answered in the wiki page of &lt;em&gt;All You Need Is Kill&lt;/em&gt;. Where, if anywhere, is the origin of the mimics detailed? Where did they come from? And why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="67810" LastEditDate="2019-11-21T21:05:25.223" LastActivityDate="2019-11-21T21:05:25.223" Title="What is the origin of mimics in Edge of Tomorrow?" Tags="|plot-explanation|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14560" CreationDate="2014-09-12T23:30:32.267" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eye of god, the oracle, yes.  More simply it represents and eye for an eye, and even more specifically a symbol for karma or cause and effect in the plot structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13767" LastActivityDate="2014-09-12T23:30:32.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24557" CreationDate="2014-09-13T11:41:16.463" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is explained in the novel.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://eclipsemagazine.com/edge-of-tomorrow-all-you-need-is-kill-military-sf-with-a-groundhog-day-twist/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eclipse Magazine:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... although the invasion originates from another star system, the actual &lt;strong&gt;aliens are terraforming creatures&lt;/strong&gt; who have emerged from the sea after coming in contact with starfish and frogs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Their very nature can change their environment to match that of their creators’ planet&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.staffersbookreview.com/2014/05/review-collage.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Staffer's Book Review:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... &lt;strong&gt;an alien race has invaded via nanobot proxies to terraform the Earth&lt;/strong&gt; for their environmental needs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Known as mimics, the alien nanobots have perverted starfish to create the perfect front line troops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/01/review_all_you_need_is_kill_by_hiroshi_sakurazaka/&quot;&gt;SF Signal:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... battle against aliens called the &lt;em&gt;Gitai&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;determined to terraform Earth&lt;/strong&gt; for themselves, even if that means turning it into a wasteland for its current inhabitants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nicknamed “Mimics” because they mimic the appearance of the first creature they came in contact with — starfish...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thatwasnotinthebook.com/diff/all-you-need-is-kill-vs-edge-of-tmorrow/0&quot;&gt;That Was Not In The Book:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mimics are &lt;strong&gt;ecoforming bots from a star system 40 light years away designed to re-form the Earth for alien use&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The bots mimic starfish from the ocean and look like a bloated frog with four limbs and a tail. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In short:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Aliens, who live 40 light years away, have sent nanobots to Earth to ecoform/terraform the planet for them. The nanobots &quot;evolved&quot; into the creatures known as 'Mimics' &lt;em&gt;(their purpose isn't just to kill us, but to make the planet inhabitable for the alien race who created them)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2014-09-13T11:41:16.463" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20073" CreationDate="2014-09-13T17:40:01.017" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;my guess is that Cage usually wakes up to the last moment where he regained consciousness.  Since he lost consciousness when he was tasered, that's where he wakes up.  Now, when Omega is killed, the war is over, so Cage would never have met with the General, and therefore never would have been tasered and lose consciousness.  In this situation, the last moment where he regained consciousness is no longer the taser moment, but the nap moment in the helicopter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13776" LastActivityDate="2014-09-13T17:40:01.017" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24564" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-09-13T17:50:25.640" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Assault on Precinct 13&lt;/em&gt; is a 1976 American thriller directed by John Carpenter about a small group of police personnel and convicts and their efforts to defend an abandoned police station against an  assaulting street gang.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074156/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_on_Precinct_13_%281976_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-13T17:50:25.640" LastActivityDate="2014-09-13T17:50:25.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24565" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-09-13T17:50:25.640" Score="0" Body="1976 American thriller directed by John Carpenter about a small group of police personnel and convicts and their efforts to defend an abandoned police station against an  assaulting street gang." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-13T17:50:25.640" LastActivityDate="2014-09-13T17:50:25.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24566" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-09-13T18:01:13.137" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Under Siege&lt;/em&gt; is a 1992 American action movie about a group of mercenaries who invade the USS Missouri and take its crew hostage and the efforts of the ship's cook, Chief Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal), to stop them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105690/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Siege&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-13T18:01:13.137" LastActivityDate="2014-09-13T18:01:13.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24567" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-09-13T18:01:13.137" Score="0" Body="1992 American action movie about a group of mercenaries who invade the USS Missouri and take its crew hostage and the efforts of the ship's cook, Chief Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal), to stop them." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-13T18:01:13.137" LastActivityDate="2014-09-13T18:01:13.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24568" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-09-13T18:06:01.460" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy is a 2014 American science-fiction adventure centered around a diverse group of eccentric individuals and their efforts to stop a fanatic leader from destroying an entire planet. It is based of the Marvel comic series of the same name and takes place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel-cinematic-universe'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardians_of_the_Galaxy_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2015381/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T03:23:21.963" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T03:23:21.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24569" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-09-13T18:06:01.460" Score="0" Body="2014 American science-fiction adventure centered around a diverse group of eccentric individuals and their efforts to stop a fanatic leader from destroying an entire planet. It is based of the Marvel comic series of the same name and takes place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. " OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T01:23:23.957" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T01:23:23.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24570" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-09-13T18:38:07.447" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Deep Blue Sea&lt;/em&gt; is a 1999 American action thriller about the crew of an underwater research facility and their fight for survival against a group of superintelligent sharks who have been accidentally released and keep roaming the slowly destructing facility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149261/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_Sea_%281999_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-13T18:38:07.447" LastActivityDate="2014-09-13T18:38:07.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24571" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-09-13T18:38:07.447" Score="0" Body="1999 American action thriller about the crew of an underwater research facility and their fight for survival against a group of superintelligent sharks who have been accidentally released and keep roaming the slowly destructing facility." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-13T18:38:07.447" LastActivityDate="2014-09-13T18:38:07.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19486" CreationDate="2014-09-13T18:54:23.977" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also S2 E10 - Brian and Stewie have a conversation in there.  Brian is in the green chair and the room is surrounded by screens.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13778" LastActivityDate="2014-09-13T18:54:23.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24573" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24578" CreationDate="2014-09-13T20:43:46.367" Score="6" ViewCount="19444" Body="&lt;p&gt;In HIMYM, there's a continual reference to the movie Departed in the dialogue between Ted and Marshall, which goes like: &amp;quot;-Are you a cop? -I'm not a cop.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can watch the scene &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOmh07MvwNg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, which is from the thirteenth episode of the season 8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is that whether this specific (or a similar) dialogue appears in the movie, or it is merely an adaptation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13782" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T21:44:52.070" Title="The Departed reference in How I Met Your Mother" Tags="|dialogue|reference|how-i-met-your-mother|the-departed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24574" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24575" CreationDate="2014-09-13T21:00:44.690" Score="6" ViewCount="1502" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why Walt always parked the car outside the garage? because he had a huge garage!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L6aYu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this normal in USA?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9154" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2018-12-26T16:55:02.187" LastActivityDate="2018-12-26T16:55:02.187" Title="Garage in Breaking Bad" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24574" CreationDate="2014-09-13T21:04:42.963" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because most of us here in USA use our garage for storing useless crap or lawn mowers, tools, workbenches, etc. Breaking Bad's location was in New Mexico in a desert climate. In a snowy climate or rainy climate many do use garages for their cars. In a mostly sunny climate, there is no (not much) need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1144" LastEditorUserId="1144" LastEditDate="2014-09-19T15:44:08.143" LastActivityDate="2014-09-19T15:44:08.143" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24573" CreationDate="2014-09-13T21:40:23.527" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Similar dialogue definitely appears in the movie in relation to Billy (DiCaprio), an undercover cop that tries to infiltrate crime boss Costello's crew. This is first invoked by his cousin, drug dealer Sean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Billy: In your line of work, if I gave you like, what, say, 10,000, what could I get back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sean: You know what you usually say at these moments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Billy: I'm not a cop, all right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, Costello tortures Billy to make sure of it (this is probably the scene referenced on HIMYM):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Costello: Are you still a cop?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Billy: No! No!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Costello: Swear on your mother's grave you're still not a cop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Billy: I am not a f*&amp;amp;%ing cop!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ted and Marshall are distorting the quote, but it's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/List_of_misquotations&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;common practice&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-09-14T08:49:21.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24580" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24591" CreationDate="2014-09-14T00:12:32.373" Score="9" ViewCount="1843" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Mick Dundee first arrived in NY, he went for a walk carrying a Bowie knife on his belt. After a mounted policeman brought him back to his hotel, he gave Mick his knife back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that scene, Mick seems to be keeping his knife in the small of his back, not on his belt anymore. At the time the movie was filmed, in 1986, was it legal for Mick Dundee to carry a knife in NY?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastActivityDate="2021-01-07T17:46:17.997" Title="Could Crocodile Dundee have a Bowie knife in NY" Tags="|historical-accuracy|crocodile-dundee|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24515" CreationDate="2014-09-14T09:29:35.287" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;These results for a September week are not surprising - it's considered a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dump_months&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;dump month&lt;/a&gt;. From Wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;dump months&lt;/em&gt; is a term used in the film community for the two periods of the year when there are lowered commercial and critical expectations for new major-studio releases. Audiences during these periods are smaller than the rest of the year, so no tentpole movies are released. &lt;strong&gt;January and February&lt;/strong&gt; are usually most commonly cited as these, with &lt;strong&gt;August and September&lt;/strong&gt; sometimes included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Releases during those times primarily include films that would have been released at other times of year had they done better at test screenings, films with less prominent stars, genre films (particularly horror), movies that can't be easily marketed and films intended for a teenage audience, which has fewer options for entertainment outside the home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several factors combine to create the dump months [...] Both periods immediately follow the times of year in which the Hollywood studios concentrate films they expect to be the biggest critical and/or commercial successes, periods of increased spending on entertainment generally. [...] The weather and competition from other forms of mass entertainment, especially professional sports, also play a part; the winter dump months are further affected by the Academy Awards rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Among these dump months, the worst-reviewed month in the US, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/brow_beat/2014/02/february_movies_are_bad_here_s_statistical_proof_of_it.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/article/february-statistically-proven-to-have-the-shitties-107578&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; suggest, seems to be &lt;strong&gt;February&lt;/strong&gt; according to Rotten Tomatoes stats from the last 14 years:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;February films scored an average [score] of &lt;strong&gt;45&lt;/strong&gt; — 3 points below the next-worst months, January and September, and eight points below the average score of all movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the relevant chart of RT stats on the &lt;em&gt;Slate&lt;/em&gt; article. It's also evident from it that in the last 14 years, the worst reviewed &lt;em&gt;single month&lt;/em&gt; was February 2001 and the worst reviewed &lt;em&gt;year&lt;/em&gt; was 2004:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1ddRf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[However, &lt;em&gt;Metacritic&lt;/em&gt;, which uses a different scoring system, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metacritic.com/feature/are-january-movies-really-that-bad&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;suggests&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;strong&gt;January&lt;/strong&gt; had the lowest number of critical and commercial hits and releases, as well as the lowest score median, in 2000-2009.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-09-16T16:45:26.817" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1599" CreationDate="2014-09-14T09:44:55.493" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The character of English Bob is set to contrast with William Mummy.&#xA;Mummy is a real killer, English Bob a self proclaimed killer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reporter hears the story of English Bob and after that, he sees him be humiliated by Little Bill, what makes him a liar, at least a great story teller. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last scene, he sees in Mummy what English Bob supposed to be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But English Bob liked to be an outlaw being a fraud, and Mummy who is a real brutal killer, lives in regret.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13791" LastActivityDate="2014-09-14T09:44:55.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24587" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="64170" CreationDate="2014-09-14T12:30:31.320" Score="7" ViewCount="3205" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can recall thinking something was a little off in the conversation in which Mike is discussing the hazard pay he sets aside for his guys, after Fring is dead and Gus, Lydia, Walter &amp;amp; Jesse were using the pest company as cover in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; season 5.  This happens as they are splitting up the first take..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mike:&lt;/strong&gt;  ..Legacy cost, $351,000.  That's 117,000 each.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Walter:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;Legacy cost&quot;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mike:&lt;/strong&gt;  I got nine guys. You don't know them, but they were part of the previous operation and they know a lot. And right now, some of them are in jail and more will be soon. The feds RICO-ed their hazard pay. So we are gonna make them whole.&lt;br&gt; &#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Walter:&lt;/strong&gt; We are gonna make them whole?  What is this &quot;we&quot;? These were Gus' employees, not ours.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mike:&lt;/strong&gt;  They might have been Gus' employees, but they're my guys.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Walter:&lt;/strong&gt; So, what are they doing to further our interests?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mike:&lt;/strong&gt;  The cops are looking at them very closely. We don't want them furthering our interests.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Walter:&lt;/strong&gt; So we are paying them, why?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mike:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;em&gt;Because it's what you do.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Walter:&lt;/strong&gt; It's what you do.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mike:&lt;/strong&gt;  My guys are keeping their mouths shut. We make them whole.  One hand washes the other. It's as simple as that.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Walter:&lt;/strong&gt; It sounds like a simple shakedown simple as that. We're paying for their silence. That's blackmail.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mike:&lt;/strong&gt;  Business is my end. This is business. End of story.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Walter:&lt;/strong&gt; This is your problem. It should come out of your end.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jesse:&lt;/strong&gt; Hey. Hey. Just take it out of mine..&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Hazard_Pay_subtitles&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hazard Pay: subtitles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I realized what was astray.. about the time Mike says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because it's what you do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I somehow, in the back of my mind, expected him to say..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because it's what you do.  &lt;em&gt;Especially when they wouldn't even &lt;strong&gt;be in jail&lt;/strong&gt; if it hadn't been for a &lt;strong&gt;bomb in a nursing home,&lt;/strong&gt; followed by a &lt;strong&gt;smoking pit of a meth lab&lt;/strong&gt; in one of Fring's laundries just hours later, &lt;strong&gt;..Walter.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that leads to my inquiry..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presuming Walt/Jesse were able to do/did the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kill Fring using Ricin in a way that appeared to be a natural death.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;(Not have Jesse trapped in the lab, guarded over by a belligerent looking thug.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just walk away from the (well hidden) meth. lab (and not kill the last two guys that Walter killed there).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it had gone that way, would any of the wrong doings of Fring have come to light, resulting in the loss of the nest eggs &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; freedom of Mike's guys?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2015-10-10T18:45:04.730" LastActivityDate="2016-12-01T15:15:27.790" Title="Would Mike's guys have gone to jail bar the bomb?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24588" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-14T13:32:55.827" Score="1" ViewCount="377" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main plot of the movie is the curse which &lt;em&gt;Maleficent&lt;/em&gt; cast on the princess: She would prick her thumb on a spinning wheel and fall asleep, so people burned all the spinning wheels in the country. But what happened to spinning wheels which were burned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13792" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-12-05T13:17:18.397" LastActivityDate="2017-12-05T13:17:18.397" Title="What happened to spinning wheels which were burned?" Tags="|plot-explanation|maleficent|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24587" CreationDate="2014-09-14T14:18:22.027" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, definitely. Don't forget that Hank already had very strong suspicions that Gus Fring was in charge of the operation, and it would not have been much longer before he managed to find enough evidence to come in with a search warrant and find the lab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastActivityDate="2014-09-14T14:18:22.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24580" CreationDate="2014-09-14T15:47:36.663" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As with many countries/states, the working definition of a knife that can be construed as a weapon is generally set at 4 inches:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, subdivision (b) makes it illegal to carry a knife with a blade length of four inches or more...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are exceptions both ways to this: something with a smaller blade can still be considered illegal if the intended purpose is to wield the object in a way that weaponizes and is to be used in a harmful manner, and there are any number of subdivisions that make it legal for blades (of larger length) to be legally carried upon a persons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are enveloped in a wide spectrum, but each incident is to be assessed in isolation and at the discretion of the individual officers concerned. As with most law, the defining factor in each case comes down to &lt;strong&gt;intent of purpose&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The provisions of subdivisions b and c of this section shall not apply to (1) persons in the military service of the state of New York when duly authorized to carry or display knives pursuant to regulations issued by the chief of staff to the governor; (2) police officers and peace officers as defined in the criminal procedure law; (3) participants in special events when authorized by the police commissioner; (4) persons in the military or other service of the United States, in pursuit of official duty authorized by federal law; (5) emergency medical technicians or voluntary or paid ambulance drivers while engaged in the performance of their duties; or (6) any person displaying or in possession of a knife otherwise in violation of this section when such knife (a) is being used for or transported immediately to or from a place where it is used for hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, picnicking or any employment, trade or occupation customarily requiring the use of such knife; or (b) is displayed or carried by a member of a theatrical group, drill team, military or para-military unit or veterans organization, to, from, or during a meeting, parade or other performance or practice for such event, which customarily requires the carrying of such knife; or (c) is being transported directly to or from a place of purchase, sharpening or repair, packaged in such a manner as not to allow easy access to such knife while it is transported; or (d) is displayed or carried by a duly enrolled member of the Boy or Girl Scouts of America or a similar organization or society and such display or possession is necessary to participate in the activities of such organization or society.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an officer deems the intention of carrying what would otherwise be an illegal weapon as falling within one of these subcategories, they are able to 'overlook' the incident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mick Dundee could have claimed he was using the knife for hunting (Central Park, perhaps!... &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWGuyo8F7MA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;it is full of bears, after all&lt;/a&gt;), but its more likely that the officer (in an incredulous moment of sensitivity) chalked this incident up to a cultural mis-understanding and simply confiscated the blade temporarily whilst he escorted him back to his hotel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Giving the blade &lt;strong&gt;back&lt;/strong&gt; to Dundee is, however, wildly unlikely: if Mick was to commit an act of assault following this, the officer would have been considered an accessory to the act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary: it was indeed illegal for Mick to be carrying the blade in NYC, but the officer appears to have exercised his right to discretion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible, but given the reputation of the NYPD, the odds are astronomically improbable that such sensitivity would be invoked in reality. The knife would at least have been confiscated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fun Fact: In the UK, a legal paradox has been deliberately created to give police officers more opportunities for arrest in carrying bladed articles in public: basically, a blanket ban on carrying any blade for any reason. Even if you've just purchased a knife for legitimate purposes, as soon as the leave the vendor's private premises (even to walk to your car, which might be less than 4 feet away from the door) you are breaking the law and can be arrested. Such is the vulnerability of operating under an uncodified constitution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="30354" LastEditDate="2021-01-07T17:46:17.997" LastActivityDate="2021-01-07T17:46:17.997" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12961" CreationDate="2014-09-14T19:38:05.983" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, &lt;em&gt;Zoredache&lt;/em&gt;'s answer is perfectly correct about his main motivation for caring about Rachel. She was at first a facilitator in bringing down Russo, to be taken care of and prepared for her further employment in this case, and later simply a confidant in the whole conspiracy, to be hidden from the world and cared for to not talk about it. But you weren't too far away in assuming some kind of personal angle in their relationship, even if that only really manifests itself in the 2nd season. So there is a much more complex relationship going on, even if I'd still consider &lt;em&gt;Zoredache&lt;/em&gt;'s answer as the more straight-forward solution to your actual question, especially when concentrating more on the 1st season alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During his control visits of her at the place where they're hiding her, he gets increasingly obsessed with her. &lt;strong&gt;By forcing that much control over Rachel he somehow made himself dependent on her, or rather on the feeling of Rachel depending on him&lt;/strong&gt;, which also motivates his tries in isolating her from everybody else (although, this is also motivated by hiding her and the secrets she knows, but not entirely).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He urges her to cut ties with Lisa, the girl she randomly met and whom she becomes friends with and later shares her appartment and a loving relationship with. It seems this isn't entirely motivated simply by taking care of Rachel not to be found, since Lisa likely doesn't present much of a danger in this regard. And in fact he temporarily gives in and lets her live with Rachel, maybe realizing that she is very important to her and not of an actual danger for Francis's plot, but only until discovering their actual sexual relationship, which makes him fall back to his strict control over her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It already shows that there is more to his relationship to her when he repeatedly has Rachel read to him, especially &lt;em&gt;A Tale of Two Cities&lt;/em&gt;, the book his mother read to him when he was young. This also shows that &lt;strong&gt;his increasing obsession is not merely of a sexual nature, but much deeper (or at least weirder)&lt;/strong&gt;, as Doug admits himself during an AA meeting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I work hard, I keep things simple, I know what my priorities are. There's this...this person, she's not even in my life except on the edges, making things blurrier. It doesn't tempt me to drink, it's more like she feels what's like when I was drinking, when I couldn't get enough. No matter how many drinks I had I wanted another. I...I don't want to be with her. I mean I...I do, but...more like she's my daughter...my mother...I don't know, this is fucked up...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should cut her off, the way I did with booze.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there is a much more complex angle to Doug and Rachel's relationship, or at least to his feelings for her (&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/18576/49&quot;&gt;her attitude towards him is rather grounded in fear, it seems&lt;/a&gt;). Likewise it is IMHO not entirely clear what Doug is really upto when he drives away with her at the end in S02E13. Was he really just relocating her, or was he about to more finally &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;cut her off&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; to get away from his addiction (which is at least what Rachel assumed when ultimately attacking him in supposed self-defense)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-10-30T22:08:27.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24596" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="51855" CreationDate="2014-09-14T19:45:55.627" Score="5" ViewCount="10364" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;JAWS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, when Quint interrupts the meeting to make his bid on catching and killing the shark, he is eating something. I couldn't quite make out what it is. If anyone knows, please help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond being just a trivia question (and off-topic), &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; he's eating could give a little peak into his character's psychology, thus improving my enjoyment of the film. He obviously feels the need to eat it in front of people during a delicate and troubling time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, maybe it's nothing, and he just eats whatever is on hand whenever he's hungry, much like Bruce (the shark) did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT :&lt;/strong&gt;  Maybe it's an apple, like Napoleon suggests, but it seems cut into an even width piece as opposed to the crescent-shaped wedge (think orange or grapefruit pieces) apples are normally cut into. Also we only see him eating this one loud and crispy piece. No knife or apple core are to be seen, and Quint doesn't seem too much like a &quot;cut up some fruit, put it in a baggy to take to the meeting&quot; kind of guy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T17:28:02.443" LastActivityDate="2016-04-17T08:10:01.763" Title="What was Quint eating in the town hall meeting?" Tags="|character|jaws|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12729" CreationDate="2014-09-14T23:46:15.997" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it was Banks. Whoever said Charlie is wrong. You can clearly see it's him through the visor as well as his jersey number #99. That's actually how Charlie got the breakaway with Goldberg as Banks had to take the dive to stop the puck so he was a bit late catching up to them when they pressed forward on the offensive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13800" LastActivityDate="2014-09-14T23:46:15.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24596" CreationDate="2014-09-15T00:09:15.903" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;After carefully reviewing &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPi40lQetew&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the clip&lt;/a&gt;, I would like to refute my esteemed colleague's apple hypothesis and offer incontrovertible proof as a professional snack sleuth that Quint is, in fact, munching on a &lt;strong&gt;saltine&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quint &lt;em&gt;breaks&lt;/em&gt; this flat item as he bites into it and makes a gravelly &lt;em&gt;grinding&lt;/em&gt; sound when he chews it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's the perfect metaphor for a salty sailor like Quint.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is also the kind of dry provisions a sailor might have on his boat...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...And indeed, Sam Quint is &lt;em&gt;eating crackers on his boat&lt;/em&gt; in a later scene...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;...Which explains where he got it - it was probably in his pocket (alternatively, a town hall meeting might provide this sort of snack).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many people online are convinced this is a cracker and, more specifically, a saltine - like &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/DaphneDoo_/status/458988797599178752&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.developingstorm.com/2005/06/shark-crackers.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;that one&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20131211205713AAQiKnA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmsite.org/jaws.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;there&lt;/a&gt; (search for 'cracker'), and there are plenty more examples.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This image totally, irrefutably, kind of looks like a &lt;a href=&quot;http://shearersprivatebrands.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Mainstream-Multi-Grain-Crackers.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;saltine&lt;/a&gt; that was bitten into, doesn't it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zpMxg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Yes, I do have a life. Why do you ask?]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T00:09:15.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20081" CreationDate="2014-09-15T00:38:52.153" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are multiple ways to interpret the ending, and ultimately I don't think we can point to one of them and say &quot;That is the &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; ending; the other one is just wrong.&quot;  I think the screenwriter was happy to leave that uncertainty, because horror flourishes better in an atmosphere where things are uncertain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To start with what's relatively certain...  It seems pretty certain that William was the one who killed Sophie's cat.  From William and Emma's conversation in the pool, it seems obvious that he was the one who made most of the frightening events happen.  If the cat had &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; died by cutting itself on a broken window (which is what supposedly happened) he might have remarked about what an extraordinary stroke of luck it was, since it was one of the most frightening of the events...  but he says no such thing, so the natural conclusion is that it is one more thing that he engineered to bolster the &quot;haunted murder house&quot; story.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that after the animal's death, William refers to it more than once as &quot;the stupid cat&quot; or &quot;a stupid cat&quot;, which no one else does - it may be that he's trying to dismiss its importance out of guilt for killing it.  Or, it's also possible that he never liked the cat, perhaps because his daughter seems fonder of the cat than of her parents (Emma makes that statement, early in the episode.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems unlikely that any of the &quot;haunting&quot; events which happen in the house were actually supernatural.  If there was any part of those events which was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; actually engineered by William, he likely would have mentioned what a good stroke of luck it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the other question is:  is any part of the ending, after they've left the house, supernatural?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, it doesn't have to be.  When Sophie leaves the pool and goes upstairs, she reads the book that the estate agent wrote about the &quot;hauntings&quot; in the house.  She sees the photo of Timmy, the cat she loved, and she flashes back to Timmy's bloody corpse.  She then opens one of the suitcases they took from the house, and finds some of the props that were used to frighten the neighbor Jean earlier - the bloodied knitting, and the eyeglasses, which William &lt;em&gt;denied&lt;/em&gt; ever seeing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She now has all the pieces to put together the truth:  that every terrifying, traumatizing thing which happened to her in that house, including the death of her beloved pet, all the things that are still giving her nightmares three years later, were all just a hoax perpetrated by her own father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She might be killing him just for revenge - revenge for her trauma, revenge for her murdered cat.  The whole narrative makes sense that way, and there's no need to invoke anything actually supernatural.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But horror and irony go very, very well together, so it's tempting to ask:  what if Sophie's murder was prompted by supernatural influence?  &lt;em&gt;What if&lt;/em&gt; it wasn't &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; her own anger at her father, but some influence from the house?  There's nothing in the episode that proves such an influence, but there's an intriguing line which leads to some speculation:  when William sees the distinctive sword in Sophie's hand, and asks &quot;Where did you get that?&quot; he might mean &quot;I had those swords packed away in a place I never expected you to go looking; why did you go poking into that stuff?&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Or&lt;/em&gt;, he might have meant &quot;How on Earth did you get those?  I thought I got rid of them entirely when we had finished giving Mr. Peters the 'haunted house' story he was selling!&quot;  Earlier, the swords were &lt;em&gt;supposedly&lt;/em&gt; reappearing by supernatural means, despite having been taken away by the police and later thrown away (supposedly) by William.  If they really &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; come to Sophie's possession by supernatural means, it would be deeply ironic - all the more so because it would be those who tried to profit by exploiting a tragedy, and the supernatural, meeting their own tragedy from the supernatural.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, ultimately, you can take either interpretation, depending on which you like.  There is no &quot;proof&quot; that anything supernatural occurred, but believing that it did adds an extra layer of closure to the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13736" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T00:38:52.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24604" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-15T02:51:35.863" Score="3" ViewCount="509" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strain_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Strain&lt;/a&gt; Season 1 Episode 7, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3515200/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;For Services Rendered&lt;/a&gt;, we see what appears to be a group of vigilante vampires. What is their relationship to other vampires like The Master and his minions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there are 3 categories of vampires; the master, the minions and those who somehow found a way to break the will of the master controlling them to kill (like the vigilante group we saw).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13802" LastEditorUserId="34594" LastEditDate="2016-09-25T11:08:00.200" LastActivityDate="2016-09-25T11:08:00.200" Title="The Strain Vampire Vigilante and Theory" Tags="|analysis|the-strain|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24605" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24617" CreationDate="2014-09-15T03:58:07.717" Score="3" ViewCount="8643" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spoiler Alert if you haven't seen the end of Season Two. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Jimmy and his mom have sex in a flashback scene. They were consenting adults but it was still incest. First question: who is breaking the law here? Was there such a law in the 20s? Also, do you think the writers were intentionally setting up an Oedipal complex because Jimmy later kills his father? Finally, what about Jimmy makes him &quot;Jacobean&quot; according to his professor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13804" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T12:27:53.763" Title="Does Jimmy have an Oedipal complex in Boardwalk Empire?" Tags="|boardwalk-empire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21245" CreationDate="2014-09-15T11:51:34.573" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Common, Walsh, there's fifty more house to tear down &lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; yours!&quot; emphasis Troy's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Walsh'es and their neighbors face &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goonies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;foreclosure&lt;/a&gt; (for some legally questionable reason) on their homes from the expanding Astoria Country Club. Presumably the Walsh family lives between the country club and everyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it seems unreasonable that the 50 families in the area all can't pay their mortgage and taxes and are facing foreclosure. Rather, they have been made offers they can not refuse and the Walsh'es are the one family thought even remotely capable of refusing the offer to be bought out. Everyone probably hates Mr. Walsh now. Data's family would not be able to afford/need moving to Detroit. Data is angry just like the rest of the kids because they're all going to move away from each other. The paper at the end is a 'final notice' not a 'notice of foreclosure'. Besides, you &lt;em&gt;get&lt;/em&gt; foreclosed on, you don't sign for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8580" LastEditorUserId="8580" LastEditDate="2014-09-15T12:05:20.157" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T12:05:20.157" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24607" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-09-15T11:52:24.297" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-09-15T11:52:24.297" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T11:52:24.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24608" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-09-15T11:52:24.297" Score="0" Body="&quot;Les Diaboliques&quot; is a 1955 French psychological thriller, filmed in black and white.  A man's wife and mistress plot to end his cruelty by murdering him, but after the deed is done, strange happenings play on their nerves, starting with the disappearance of his body." OwnerUserId="13736" LastEditorUserId="13736" LastEditDate="2014-09-15T12:56:55.710" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T12:56:55.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24609" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-09-15T12:02:57.993" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-09-15T12:02:57.993" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T12:02:57.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24610" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-09-15T12:02:57.993" Score="0" Body="An American crime drama series centered around mobster Tony Soprano, which aired on HBO from 1999 to 2007." OwnerUserId="13736" LastEditorUserId="13736" LastEditDate="2014-09-15T12:57:05.543" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T12:57:05.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24611" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-09-15T12:07:33.047" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-09-15T12:07:33.047" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T12:07:33.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24612" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-09-15T12:07:33.047" Score="0" Body="The practice of promoting real-life brand names and products through appearances in film and TV productions.  Companies frequently pay handsomely for this form of promotion." OwnerUserId="13736" LastEditorUserId="13736" LastEditDate="2014-09-15T12:57:10.853" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T12:57:10.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24613" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-09-15T12:14:51.947" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-09-15T12:14:51.947" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T12:14:51.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24614" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-09-15T12:14:51.947" Score="0" Body="Elements that typically go unnoticed or unremarked by most viewers, but reward viewers who watch more closely or who know what to look for." OwnerUserId="13736" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-15T12:27:28.060" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T12:27:28.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24615" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-09-15T12:21:32.867" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-09-15T12:21:32.867" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T12:21:32.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24616" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-09-15T12:21:32.867" Score="0" Body="a 1970s science-fiction adventure TV series about Steve Austin, whose body is rebuilt after an accident with artificial &quot;bionic&quot; parts that make him superhuman, and becomes a government agent." OwnerUserId="13736" LastEditorUserId="13736" LastEditDate="2014-09-15T12:56:51.717" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T12:56:51.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24605" CreationDate="2014-09-15T12:27:53.763" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://boardwalkempire.wikia.com/wiki/Under_God%27s_Power_She_Flourishes_recap&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;It's his mother Gillian who initiates the intercourse&lt;/a&gt;; Jimmy tries to get out of bed but she stops him and says they're not doing anything wrong:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A train passes and he says goodnight and goes to kiss her forehead.&#xA;  She tilts her head upward and kisses her son open mouthed. She tells&#xA;  him that there is nothing wrong with any of it and repeats this phrase&#xA;  as he returns her passionate kisses. The noise of the train continues&#xA;  as the mother and son have sex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WRT breaking any laws: I have no idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's an Oedipus complex, since it seems to me Jimmy is merely indulging his mother; he himself has relationships with women. It is his mother who has a warped sense of love and sexuality; don't forget that when Jimmy was an infant, she &lt;a href=&quot;http://boardwalkempire.wikia.com/wiki/21_recap#Scene_4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;kissed his genitals&lt;/a&gt; to show her affection. Also, the day after Jimmy and his mother have sex, he enlists with the army, claiming he's an orphan. (Though it is clear that Oedipus is one of the themes on the minds of the writers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Jacobean&quot; comment refers back to &lt;a href=&quot;http://boardwalkempire.wikia.com/wiki/Noel_Pearson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;an earlier scene&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The professor tells the class that it is part of the Jacobean style to&#xA;  depict Italy as corrupt and the women as whores while the men are&#xA;  panderers. He asks for a more specific interpretation of the scene and&#xA;  Jimmy offers one; his mother taught him things that are not of use and&#xA;  that he is hungry for the riches of those around him. The professor&#xA;  congratulates Jimmy and ends the tutorial&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me it sounds as a roundabout way of calling Jimmy's mother a whore. Also, the book they were discussing in class, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Devil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The White Devil&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, is written by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Webster&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John Webster&lt;/strong&gt;, &quot;an English Jacobean dramatist&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T12:27:53.763" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24618" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-09-15T12:37:22.487" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-09-15T12:37:22.487" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T12:37:22.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24619" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-09-15T12:37:22.487" Score="0" Body="1992 independent crime film by Quentin Tarantino, which jumps back and forth in time to tell the story of a botched jewelry store robbery and the violent aftermath." OwnerUserId="13736" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-15T12:42:39.493" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T12:42:39.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24620" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24621" CreationDate="2014-09-15T12:53:47.087" Score="15" ViewCount="8177" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270798/combined&quot;&gt;X-Men: First class&lt;/a&gt; we see that Mystique (Raven) and Charles grow up together and at that point of time Mystique, Charles and Eric all are of same age group. But in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376994/combined&quot;&gt;X-Men: The last Stand&lt;/a&gt;, which happens in a much later time line, we see that Mystique is still a young woman. This is especially clear after she loses her mutant powers after the injection and turns into an ordinary woman. Charles and Eric are quite old at that time. Is Mystique too ageless, like Logan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-09-16T17:03:19.187" LastActivityDate="2016-05-22T09:12:13.790" Title="Does Mystique not age with time?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|x-men-cinematic-universe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24620" CreationDate="2014-09-15T13:19:54.140" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wondered that myself when watching it, but in fact it's actually explained right in &lt;em&gt;X-Men: First Class&lt;/em&gt;. When &lt;em&gt;Hank&lt;/em&gt; examines &lt;em&gt;Raven&lt;/em&gt;'s cells, he tells her that the same mutation making her transformable also slows her aging process:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You got to see this. Your genes are extraordinary, you know that? &lt;strong&gt;Your cells age at half the rate of a normal human. When you're 40, you'll still have the leucocytes of a teenager.&lt;/strong&gt; You have the most incredible cellular structure I've ever seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So she does indeed age with time, but only half as fast as the others, which explains why she still looks rather young even when she loses her powers 40 years later (though, one would assume from this point on she then ages normally, since the mutation is gone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-09-16T17:04:13.797" LastActivityDate="2014-09-16T17:04:13.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24622" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24626" CreationDate="2014-09-15T13:41:52.097" Score="3" ViewCount="416" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2001 film 'The Others,' Anne keeps referring to &quot;that day her mother went mad&quot; which sort of tells the audience that she knows that they're all dead... but, she's just as shocked as Nicholas and her mother at the end of the film when the Old Lady asks them about Grace murdering them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She even insists &quot;we're not dead&quot; with her mother and brother. But, she obviously remembers something happening to them, as she told her father &quot;everything,&quot; as Charles says to Grace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Grace discusses the situation with Charles as if she also knows something happened, but they don't disclose what. What is it that they think happened, since they don't seem to realize that they're dead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastActivityDate="2017-06-09T08:43:21.623" Title="What do they remember happening on &quot;that day?&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-others|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24623" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25041" CreationDate="2014-09-15T13:54:41.193" Score="4" ViewCount="898" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2001 film 'The Others,' how long have Grace and the children been dead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anne mentions to Mrs. Mills that the servants left and then &quot;Mummy went mad,&quot; and Grace mentions that the servants left a week ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean that the servants leaving her alone had pushed Grace over the edge, causing her to kill her kids and herself, and that they've only been dead for a week when Mrs. Mills shows up? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastActivityDate="2014-11-04T13:37:17.267" Title="How long have they been dead?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-others|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24596" CreationDate="2014-09-15T14:46:55.097" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;saltine&lt;/strong&gt; might be too specific of an answer.  In fact, the cracker does appear to be rounded, and when he takes bites the cracker (I will concede it is, in fact, a cracker of some type) doesn't crumble or even break along the lines of any saltine I've ever had.  Also, take a bite of a saltine and try to deliver a monologue such as the one he's delivering.  Saltines are like eating sawdust, it'd never happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would contend that he's actually eating &lt;strong&gt;Water Crackers&lt;/strong&gt;.  They are rounded in shape, make a loud &quot;crunch&quot; when you bite them (and that crunch was definitely used for effect, otherwise he coulda been eating bread or something), and don't tend to crumble as much as saltines.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would actually make some added sense, as Navymen are often referred to as &quot;crackers&quot; and they make their living on the water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T14:46:55.097" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24622" CreationDate="2014-09-15T17:27:08.147" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think they actually think about what happened after &amp;quot;mother went mad&amp;quot;. Grace explains her experience of their death like this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grace:&lt;/strong&gt; I tried to wake you up... But you didn't move. I said to myself: &amp;quot;It's happened... I've killed my own children&amp;quot;. I put the rifle to my forehead and pressed the trigger... But nothing happened, and instead of the shot, I heard your laughter in the bedroom. (With a bitter smile:) You were playing with the pillows as if nothing had happened. And I thanked the Lord over and over again for being so merciful with our lives, for giving us... another chance... But now, now I don' know what to think... (sobs) Now I don't know what to think!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenplayexplorer.com/?tag=the-others-script&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Screenplay Explorer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This implies that the person is not aware of their death. So, for children, their mother went mad, and then all was suddenly as it was before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Grace, on the other hand, did remember their deaths (as they happened a short time before her own), but she attributed them being alive to the grace of God.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-06-09T08:43:21.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24503" CreationDate="2014-09-15T17:54:23.273" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, this seems more like it. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185400/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Killing Grounds&lt;/a&gt; from 1998, the bad guys steal a load of gold when their plane crashes. It's found by a married couple out for a camping trip; the husband (Charles Rocket) is called Mel. The couple hides the gold in their vehicle's spare gas tank; the bad guys go after them and one of them has long red hair, a short beard and a violent temper. In the end, all the main characters die and the vehicle is towed to a junkyard with the stolen gold still inside. It also stars Anthony Michael Hall. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/okjTOHMlEeA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-09-15T18:21:34.040" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T18:21:34.040" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24629" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27808" CreationDate="2014-09-15T18:57:29.460" Score="1" ViewCount="7869" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435651/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Giver&lt;/a&gt;, giver/Jeff Bridges showed Jonas a sled as past memory. He showed receiver a house, he gave him a feeling about riding a sled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end when Jonas went to cross the boundary of memory, found a sled and after crossing the boundary saw a house exactly same as the memory. Now who put the sled there? Did the giver kept it there for any receiver to help him/her for crossing the boundary? Did the giver been there before? Or just coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2014-12-06T00:25:30.583" LastActivityDate="2014-12-06T00:25:30.583" Title="Who put the sled in the mountains at the end?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|the-giver|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24633" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-15T21:52:39.077" Score="1" ViewCount="295" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472954/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &quot;The Gang Gets a New Member&quot; (S06E08) features three significantly famous actors/comedians in guest roles, that being &lt;em&gt;Jason Sudeikis&lt;/em&gt; as former group member, &lt;em&gt;Dave Foley&lt;/em&gt; as high school principal, and &lt;em&gt;Rene Auberjonois&lt;/em&gt; as &lt;em&gt;Sweet Dee&lt;/em&gt;'s former acting teacher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a show that rarely features many non-regulars (if any) at all, this high frequency of familiar faces struck me as pretty remarkable. &lt;strong&gt;Is there any specific reason that this particular episode freatured that many famous guest stars&lt;/strong&gt; or was this just a coincidence/the usual business?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T21:52:39.077" Title="Why does S06E08 feature so many guest stars?" Tags="|production|casting|its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24634" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24635" CreationDate="2014-09-15T22:08:17.393" Score="37" ViewCount="243416" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Seinfeld&lt;/em&gt; episode &quot;The Junior Mints&quot; Jerry is going out with a girl whose name he can't remember, who tells him that it rhymes with a part of the female anatomy. Later we discover that her name is Dolores. What body part does that rhyme with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13362" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-15T22:17:42.180" LastActivityDate="2015-07-05T21:08:58.920" Title="What is the body part that rhymes with Dolores?" Tags="|plot-explanation|seinfeld|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24634" CreationDate="2014-09-15T22:16:11.997" Score="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clitoris&quot;&gt;Clitoris&lt;/a&gt;, though it only rhymes with a specific pronunciation (cli-TO-ris instead of CLI-toris). It's discussed on the episode's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Junior_Mint&quot;&gt;Wiki page&lt;/a&gt; which also explains George's bizarre name suggestions (e.g. Loleola) and includes this little tidbit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to the &quot;Inside Look&quot; from the DVD, the writers had trouble coming up with a name for Jerry's girlfriend, initially settling upon &quot;Cloris&quot;. When filming the episode, a comedian would warm up the studio audience in between filming scenes and asked them to guess Jerry's girlfriend's name; one audience member guessed Dolores, which was deemed a better fit than their first choice. Jerry Seinfeld approved in time to add it to the script and the scene was shot with that being the character's name. Afterwards, a producer for the show was amused to overhear the audience member's husband saying &quot;you guessed right!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-09-15T22:27:15.920" LastActivityDate="2014-09-15T22:27:15.920" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24636" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24643" CreationDate="2014-09-15T23:24:38.020" Score="5" ViewCount="104280" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1840309/&quot;&gt;Divergent (2014)&lt;/a&gt;, we learn what a divergent is and that they are rare. When Tris joins Dauntless, she meets Four who seems to be very careful, calculating and in control. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the fear test, he figures out that Tris is a divergent because she can beat the test unlike any he has seen before. &quot;Dauntless don't break the glass like that.&quot; But he doesn't do anything about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see later on that his back tattoo consists of all of the faction symbols because, &quot;he doesn't want to just be one thing&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later when Dauntless is taken over and all of the members are under mind control, it's revealed that Four is pretending, he is very much immune to the mind control as Tris is (or maybe he didn't get injected?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on these facts, I assume Four is also a divergent. But, his own fear test makes me think otherwise. Is he capable of escaping the test as Tris is, but chooses to endure it for the show or what? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Four a divergent and if so, is it revealed anywhere in the movie, subtle or otherwise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2015-04-11T05:19:58.123" Title="Is Four a Divergent?" Tags="|divergent|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24636" CreationDate="2014-09-16T10:14:09.463" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, he is Divergent ... for all the reasons you've already given. You have answered your own question. I think the biggest clue was when Four was, just like Tris, not affected during the Dauntless takeover. He did get injected, but was not taken over (we know he was injected because he didn't accept the position of authority ... forgot what they called those slime buckets, lol). He and Tris knew how to control themselves, though others who did not realize they were Divergent, didn't know how to deal with not being controlled and therefor could not fool the controllers. Only Divergents would not be affected by the mind control ... Four was definitely one who was not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-09-17T11:18:31.963" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T11:18:31.963" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19767" CreationDate="2014-09-16T14:07:09.603" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is something McAvoy came up with. I heard it in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Film-Review/x-men-first-class-james-mcavoy-interview&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;an interview&lt;/a&gt; during the time First Class was released:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q. How difficult is it to portray a lot of emotion just by rubbing&#xA;  your temple? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;James McAvoy: Well, I saw what everybody else was doing&#xA;  and they all got to do really cool ninja stuff. But I don’t really get&#xA;  to do anything. So, I thought I had to physicalise my power and came&#xA;  up with the master-stoke of touching my temple!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-16T14:58:00.983" LastActivityDate="2014-09-16T14:58:00.983" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24647" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27643" CreationDate="2014-09-16T14:58:03.600" Score="2" ViewCount="375" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film and book of 'The Shipping News' (E. Annie Proloux) the main character is constantly refered to as 'Quoyle'. However, this is his surname or family name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point in the book (when he becomes the papers editor) he's refered to as 'R. G. Quoyle'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, any idea what the 'R.G.' stands for? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6811" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-16T15:00:08.473" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T21:47:42.273" Title="What's Quoyles first name?" Tags="|character|the-shipping-news|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24636" CreationDate="2014-09-16T15:20:58.773" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Info from the &quot;Allegiant&quot; book. Spoilers ahead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; No, he's not &quot;totally&quot; Divergent like Tris. He's still &quot;genetically damaged&quot;, though he can withstand simulations like Divergents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quote from the book: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He touches the screen again, and the screen changes, but it remains just as confusing, a web of lines, tangled threads of numbers.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;This is the map of Tobias's genes,&quot; Matthew says. &quot;As you can see, he has the right genetic components for simulation awareness, but he doesn't have the same 'healed' genes that Tris does.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;My throat is dry, and I feel like I've been given bad news, but I still haven't entirely grasped what that bad news is.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;What does that mean?&quot; I ask.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;It means,&quot; Matthew says, &quot;that you are not Divergent. Your genes are still damaged, but you have a genetic anomaly that allows you to be aware during simulations anyway. You have, in other words, the appearance of a Divergent without actually being one.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I process the information slowly, piece by piece. I'm not Divergent. I'm not like Tris.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I'm genetically damaged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11530" LastEditorUserId="11530" LastEditDate="2014-09-16T15:46:43.860" LastActivityDate="2014-09-16T15:46:43.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24650" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24652" CreationDate="2014-09-16T15:35:46.130" Score="12" ViewCount="9607" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the country Fez is from ever revealed? I don't really remember any such mention on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165598/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;That '70s Show&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there any comment by the creators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-16T15:38:51.730" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T18:35:30.010" Title="Is Fez's country ever revealed?" Tags="|that-70s-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24651" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-16T15:38:15.260" Score="7" ViewCount="1566" Body="&lt;p&gt;The final battle in &lt;em&gt;Battleship&lt;/em&gt; (2012) brings the WWII battleship &quot;Missouri&quot; hilariously into play against the alien mothership. They wave away the fact that the boat is operational and fueled with a comment about &quot;enough fuel for a maintenance run,&quot; but where do the shells come from? They go into battle with dozens of explosive shells, and we're told that some of these, at least, weigh 1000lbs each. Were they just being stored on a decommissioned naval vessel being used as a museum and tourist trap? Or was there some explanation within the movie that I missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2020-03-12T18:56:33.413" LastActivityDate="2020-03-12T18:56:33.413" Title="Where did the live ammo for the Missouri come from in the climactic battle of Battleship?" Tags="|plot-explanation|battleship|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24650" CreationDate="2014-09-16T15:49:40.427" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It remains unknown&lt;/strong&gt;. From Fez's &lt;a href=&quot;http://the-70s.wikia.com/wiki/Fez&quot;&gt;Wikia page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;His secret country of origin is one of the longest running gags on the show. The reason that Fez's name and country of origin are never mentioned throughout the course of the series is that the creators could never decide on his origins, and eventually decided to leave it a secret. In an interview, Wilmer said he created an accent so no one would know what country he is from. Many theories about Fez's homeland have been produced by fans of the show, but since there is no answer that the creators can provide, it will not be known if these are true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His Wikia details many clues dropped throughout the show, some of which are potentially contradictory. &lt;a href=&quot;http://highdeas.com/hd/Holy_shit_I_have_just_discovered_where_FEZ_comes_from&quot;&gt;Some fans claim&lt;/a&gt; that he's from the Falkland Islands or Brunei based on some of these clues (see this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/that-70s-show/forums/origin-of-fez-discussion-please-post-clues-from-all-episodes-351-249143/&quot;&gt;long discussion&lt;/a&gt;), but with no formal approval, it remains a theory. It's best to just wait for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WordOfGod&quot;&gt;Word of God&lt;/a&gt; on the issue because, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Springfield%27s_State&quot;&gt;the Simpsons' state&lt;/a&gt;, the mystery mainly exists just to mess with us. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-09-16T16:02:30.367" LastActivityDate="2014-09-16T16:02:30.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24658" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24660" CreationDate="2014-09-16T21:27:05.170" Score="4" ViewCount="550" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Lost, the Others are doing a lot of things which are highly expensive: Fake passports, the running cost of the submarine and communication. Some of them might get salaries (e.g., Tom is seen in expensive hotels when recruiting Michael); they have the resources to run fake companies such as Mittelos Bioscience, or to kidnap Locke's father. Widmore even accused Ben of being responsible for the fake crashed plane in the sea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do they earn money?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-09-16T22:49:35.170" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T02:50:28.517" Title="Where did the money for the Others come from?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lost|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24659" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="74171" CreationDate="2014-09-16T22:34:15.480" Score="7" ViewCount="868" Body="&lt;p&gt;As is often the case on M&amp;amp;TV, the release of a movie can attract comparisons with real world parallels, prompting people to postulate over &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/21152/was-edge-of-tomorrow-deliberately-released-around-d-day&quot;&gt;whether the events of one can in some way inform the construction, media treatment or release strategy of another.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst David Finchers' &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2267998/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gone Girl&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is indeed based on a book that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_Girl_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;predates the Pistorious case&lt;/a&gt; by some margin, is there any evidence that David Fincher was in some way influenced or affected by the events of the Pistorious trial?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both feature a man undergoing a trial by public opinion over the supposed murder of his wife, both purportedly high profile cases in which the media conduct a forensic witch hunt of the accused's personality...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c3wCm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aBKO0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't go as far as to suggest that the Pistorious case created the necessary ballast of interest to greenlight the movie, but is it improbable that Fincher could have 'played up' or focused on elements of the book in response to the recent ongoing events in the news cycle? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, has Fincher (or even Gillian Flynn, who wrote both the novel and the screenplay) discussed the thematic similarities between the text and the case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not looking for an analysis of how the film differs from the Pistorious case: it is unarguably &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; an adaptation or transplantation, but surely the similarities have had a resonance somewhere?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-11-23T23:03:21.843" LastActivityDate="2017-11-23T23:03:21.843" Title="Any acknowledged consideration between the treatment of 'Gone Girl' in light of the Oscar Pistorious case?" Tags="|analysis|gone-girl|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24658" CreationDate="2014-09-17T02:50:28.517" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well it never been explained in the show, how the Others got their wealth. One can only assume with the mystic power of the island granting it to Jacob as the protector of the Island for 2000 years, allowing Jacob to get out from the Island, recruiting various people and accumulating wealth through various means necessary, which is also not explain in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Others is the enemy of the Dharma Initiative, of course they are not the one who is supplying wealth to the Others. Dharma only come to the island in the 70s. Of course once the Dhrama is gone, the Others is using all the equipment and stations left by Dharma. And also the submarine of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13829" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T02:50:28.517" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24661" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-17T10:34:07.033" Score="5" ViewCount="264" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am currently watching the British series Utopia and I a was curious if someone knew or could point to a reference on how do they make those ultra realistic shootings and deaths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13834" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-17T10:55:48.137" LastActivityDate="2016-05-19T13:25:23.397" Title="Utopia realistic shootings" Tags="|film-techniques|utopia|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17124" CreationDate="2014-09-17T11:26:23.680" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie didn't go into detail regarding the Barzini-Tattaglia Alliance that played such a crucial role in the book. Sure, Cuneo and Stracchi sided with the Tattaglias (and Barzinis) before Vito agreed to lend his political support to the heroin trade but that was strictly from a business point of view. They really had no other choice than to make war against the Corleones because of the hit on Sollozzo and McClusky, stifling progression for everybody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the peace was made at the meeting, the Cuneo and Stracchi families simply went their own way and didn't try to muscle in on Corleone interests. But because Barzini and Tattaglia gained a lot of power (they controlled most of the drug trafficking), they got greedy and started pushing the Corleone family out of New York.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13835" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T11:26:23.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24663" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-17T12:56:08.723" Score="13" ViewCount="10630" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was the game show host so keen to have Jamal lose in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Slumdog Millionaire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? Did he have a financial stake in the show? This was never explicitly stated, though at some point he does say &quot;This is my show.&quot; Though this statement can be interpreted in any number of ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9668" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-17T14:26:59.547" LastActivityDate="2014-09-23T04:55:41.450" Title="Why was the game show host so keen to have Jamal lose?" Tags="|plot-explanation|slumdog-millionaire|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24663" CreationDate="2014-09-17T13:47:08.797" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that &quot;this is my show&quot; is meant to tell us that the host wants to be the show's only star. Due to his success and back story, Jamal was becoming &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; popular.  The host knew that should this &lt;em&gt;chaiwalah&lt;/em&gt; win the ultimate prize, his popularity would explode and eclipse his own. Jamal would become the show's biggest star overnight. The host's ego couldn't allowed that to happen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T13:47:08.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24665" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-09-17T14:58:06.407" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia&lt;/em&gt; is an American comedy TV-show running since 2005 and centered around five egocentric individuals running an Irish pub in Philadelphia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472954/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Always_Sunny_in_Philadelphia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-17T14:58:06.407" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T14:58:06.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24666" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-09-17T14:58:06.407" Score="0" Body="It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is an American comedy TV-show running since 2005 and centered around five egocentric individuals running an Irish pub in Philadelphia." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-17T14:58:06.407" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T14:58:06.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24663" CreationDate="2014-09-17T15:26:06.173" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess there was a dialogue where the host said and I don't remember the exact dialogue, but it was something like this &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;No chai wallah can come from the slums and become a millionaire. Only&#xA;  person has done it so far and that's me.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am pretty sure there was such a line which establishes the fact that the host himself had a rags to riches story and he started to envy Jamaal when he saw him winning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T15:26:06.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24588" CreationDate="2014-09-17T17:28:52.057" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you watch the movie, after the wheels are burned they are stored in a deep dungeon room in the castle. This is where the princess finds them and ultimately pricks her finger on the needle of one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(We can leave aside the startling number of mostly intact wooden wheels after they've been through fire as more movie magic.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-09-17T17:28:52.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24672" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24676" CreationDate="2014-09-17T22:59:54.530" Score="4" ViewCount="5732" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did 'Dave', the human protagonist from 'Alvin and the Chipmunks', find talking chipmunks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did they mutate like TMNT?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-18T09:47:47.803" LastActivityDate="2014-09-18T09:47:47.803" Title="How did Dave find talking chipmunks?" Tags="|plot-explanation|alvin-and-the-chipmunks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9940" CreationDate="2014-09-18T01:08:26.437" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's about finding joy and happiness in times of sorrow as evidenced by the parents being happy about the scholarship and the white tulips in the dark room. There's always light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13840" LastActivityDate="2014-09-18T01:08:26.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24681" CreationDate="2014-09-18T01:19:29.867" Score="3" ViewCount="380" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472954/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &quot;Paddy's Pub: Home of the Original Kitten Mittens&quot; (S05E08) the gang shows their merchandising video to a bunch of possible investors. But due to time problems they weren't able to properly cut it and thus the video suddenly ends with a totally unrelated scene showing &lt;em&gt;Frank&lt;/em&gt; spray a woman, probably &lt;em&gt;Sweet Dee&lt;/em&gt;, with a fire-extinguisher with a burning house in the background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8bBKC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I wonder if this scene is referencing a specific episode&lt;/strong&gt;, but right now I can't get my head around which one that would be. Or is this just a random scene supposed to hint at some other non-documented adventure of the gang? (And is this actually supposed to be &lt;em&gt;Paddy's Pub&lt;/em&gt; in the background?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-09-18T07:43:42.100" Title="Is the footage at the end of the merchandising video in S05E08 referencing another episode?" Tags="|its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24672" CreationDate="2014-09-18T02:57:57.133" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the cartoon from the 80s they were abandoned on his front doorstep, and he adopted them. i don't know their origin in the movies. I just remember when my sister used to watch the TV show. This detail stuck with me for some reason. I'll check to see if I can get an episode number and air date...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;update(according to wikipedia): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;A Chipmunk Reunion&quot; (1985)&#xA;Written by: Janice Karman &amp;amp; Ross Bagdasarian&#xA;Co-Written by: Cliff Ruby &amp;amp; Elana Lesser&#xA;When they cannot determine when their birthday is, the Chipmunks set out to find their mother, Vinny, who abandoned them as babies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Songs: “Mother and Child Reunion” originally performed by Paul Simon, &quot;Vinny's Lullaby&quot; (owing to Dumbo's &quot;Baby Mine&quot;) &quot;Vinny's Blues&quot;, and “Shake It Up” originally performed by The Cars.&#xA;&#xA;Broadcast April 13, 1985&#xA;&#xA;First appearance of Vinny, the Chipmunks' mother. In this appearance, she is voiced by June Foray (uncredited).&#xA;&#xA;This special was syndicated as a regular episode.&#xA;&#xA;It is revealed that the Chipmunks' birthday falls on the 14th. Prior to the time the Chipmunks found out, Dave always celebrated their birthday around the time they met.&#xA;&#xA;Was released on VHS along with The Chipmunks Story in The Chipmunk Family Tree.&#xA;Originally aired as a primetime special.&#xA;&#xA;Part of the DVD &quot;Alvin and the Chipmunks – The Very First Alvin Show&quot;.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2014-09-18T03:04:19.500" LastActivityDate="2014-09-18T03:04:19.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24679" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24680" CreationDate="2014-09-18T05:20:47.853" Score="6" ViewCount="8414" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; finale when Walt turns on the automatic machine gun in his car's trunk everyone gets shot who is standing or sitting in a chair because the gun was pointed at a certain height. But how come Walt who is lying down on the ground gets shot too. Wasn't the gun way above Walt's level?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T20:33:50.513" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T23:38:38.890" Title="How did Walt get shot?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24679" CreationDate="2014-09-18T05:48:05.740" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think when the bullets went through the wall their paths were deflected, so they weren't all flying straight anymore.  Also Walt might have been safe if he'd been flat on the ground, but since he was on top of Jesse he was at a higher risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-09-18T05:48:05.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24675" CreationDate="2014-09-18T07:26:51.213" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;. This is from episode 8 in season 3 where Mac, Charlie and Frank try to be local news reporters and make Sweet Dee save some kittens from a burning building (which explains why they have this on tape). It was called, well, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1028242/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Frank Sets Sweet Dee on Fire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. :) Here's the aftermath:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6BeuI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-09-18T07:43:42.100" LastActivityDate="2014-09-18T07:43:42.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24683" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32033" CreationDate="2014-09-18T10:16:05.113" Score="11" ViewCount="513" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying to identify a cinematic style where a common activity is filmed as if it was way more epic than it really is (usually with a comedic intent).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example: a guy could be just drinking coffee while the camera pans around, makes slowdowns and dramatic shots of the mug, his eyes and his mouth, while an action song is played.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure I have watched examples of this in movies, but I can't remember any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13842" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-09-18T14:47:34.417" LastActivityDate="2015-03-12T07:21:14.417" Title="Style of shooting where common activities are filmed as if they were epic" Tags="|film-techniques|comedy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24685" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-18T13:18:02.400" Score="8" ViewCount="646" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Primer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Abe knows that the 3rd Aaron is going to build a new box. Why does Abe oppose the originals building a box given the technology will be built by the 3rd Aaron anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="275" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-18T13:19:45.610" LastActivityDate="2018-03-15T01:14:58.930" Title="Why does Abe want to stop the originals from building the box?" Tags="|plot-explanation|primer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24686" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24690" CreationDate="2014-09-18T13:35:56.203" Score="16" ViewCount="11138" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 3 episode 23 they use a laser to measure the distance between the Moon and the Earth though in the episode Leonard states the conclusion of the experiment as being the only experimental proof that there are man made objects on the moon (retro-reflectors) .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0dUXZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to do such experiment on your rooftop in a city and with a low-powered laser and photo-multiplier that size?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because my guess is that the intensity of the laser would deteriorate by tremendous amount, eg: we may only get 1 photon in return out of billions of photons fired! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some possible way to do this experiment, without using very expensive equipment, as depicted in the show?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7320" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-25T16:32:14.607" LastActivityDate="2023-06-12T04:13:57.877" Title="Is this laser experiment shown on Big Bang Theory possible?" Tags="|realism|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24687" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-18T13:53:19.033" Score="1" ViewCount="3231" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do they film the beheading of a person, like the beheading of Ned Stark in &lt;strong&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/strong&gt;? It was pretty clean beheading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are more examples in Spartacus; there were a lot of beheading with blood sprinkling from people's necks. These all look pretty realistic. Here is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130504010033/spartacus/images/c/c3/Theokdeath.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link showing one of the beheadings&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13689" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-09-19T00:52:27.987" LastActivityDate="2014-09-19T00:52:27.987" Title="How do they film the apparent beheading of a person?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24687" CreationDate="2014-09-18T14:47:36.227" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first half of that GIF was a real actor, with a prosthetic skin flap on his chest that would hide the tube of blood that was spurting out of his neck area.  The second half of that was most likely a dummy, although it could have been CGI or a combination of a dummy and CGI.  There is always a cut in the film just before the head comes off (note how the view goes from the guy with the swords to the guy just as he's losing his head).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A top-notch Editor gets paid big bucks to make sure you can't tell when that cut happens.  A low-budget Editor will probably not do as good of a job, or doesn't have the editing tools necessary to make the cut as seamless.  If you've ever seen any movies where people get hit with a very fast-moving car or truck, you'll know almost immediately how good that Editor is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-09-18T14:47:36.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24686" CreationDate="2014-09-18T17:01:15.520" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at this factually.... well... I mean actually LOOK at this whole thing.  Words don't do it justice.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oLr9b.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ringed by footprints, sitting in the moondust, lies a 2-foot wide panel studded with 100 mirrors pointing at Earth: the &quot;lunar laser ranging retroreflector array.&quot; Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong put it there on July 21, 1969, about an hour before the end of their final moonwalk. Thirty-five years later, it's the only Apollo science experiment still running.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/21jul_llr/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;read more in a NASA blog post from 2004&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... if we consider the fact that there currently IS a mirror rig set up on the moon for us to bounce lasers off of, this would mean that NASA scientists had planned to aim lasers at it at some point.  Most likely they planned on doing it from the Earth, although who knows if they wanted to put satellites in orbit that would regularly &quot;ping&quot; the moon as well.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, is it possible?  I'd have to go with yes, since NASA has done it a few times before.  In fact... here's an image of the laser at McDonald observatory in action.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2Edom.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now.... I do get it that the question was about whether it is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to do this experiment with &quot;low powered&quot; and inexpensive equipment.  I assume that NASA has tried this with different configurations of equipment, however whether any of those configurations would be considered inexpensive and/or &quot;low power&quot; is up to the person reading the reports.  I would imagine that it is indeed possible to recreate the experiment with equipment that would be equal to a fraction of the cost and power of the McDonald Observatory setup... as to whether anyone would consider it to still be cheap and weak is another story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's what I'd imagine at any rate.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/82276/amateur-moon-laser-ranging&quot;&gt;The question was asked before, however.&lt;/a&gt;  And from the answer, it appears that the cost of the equipment would always bring it out of the Amateur category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:13.220" LastActivityDate="2014-09-18T17:24:12.647" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17195" CreationDate="2014-09-18T23:07:07.477" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you worked Kinder? It looks as though she is taking her time to find a happy place...I don't agree that she is troubled, more so she is fighting for her own sanity!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13852" LastActivityDate="2014-09-18T23:07:07.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="428" CreationDate="2014-09-19T00:30:18.267" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found several places on the Internet where people claim that Marker could only afford to rent a motion picture camera for one afternoon, and that's why the film has only one moving image in it.  However, I can't find any source for that claim that I would consider &quot;reliable&quot; - where I'd say &quot;Yes, that's definitely someone talking from actual knowledge&quot;, as opposed to simply guessing (or passing on something they'd heard elsewhere, with no knowledge of whether it was true).  The fact that so many of the sources who make the claim repeat it word-for-word suggests that it's the sort of &lt;em&gt;ben trovato&lt;/em&gt; story which spreads like wildfire because it's so appealing, not because it matches the facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But whether the story about Marker's financial constraints is true or false, there's a sense in which it's irrelevant.  At some point Marker faced a choice; at some point he would have said to himself, even if not consciously, &quot;There may be &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; films you &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; make, if only you had a bigger budget, or more time, or better equipment - and maybe you &lt;em&gt;really wish&lt;/em&gt; you could make those films, but you can't.  The question before you is, do you want to make &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; film, or not?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that he went ahead and made the film, means that this was a film he wanted to make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most compelling explanation I've yet encountered for why Marker chose to tell the story in this fashion comes from &lt;a href=&quot;https://filmschoolrejects.com/criterion-files-387-la-jet%C3%A9e-da697b989ee3/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an essay by Landon Palmer on the website &quot;Film School Rejects&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Palmer suggests (I'm simplifying his argument greatly, I'm afraid) that &lt;em&gt;La Jetée&lt;/em&gt; is a film about our double-edged relationship with memory:  it's the means by which we visit the past, by which we try to glean the meanings we need from that past.  But we are so often misled in that pursuit, because we can only revisit short, frozen points in time - what lies between those frozen points is what we &lt;em&gt;imagine&lt;/em&gt; lies in those gaps, and our reconstruction may be greatly mistaken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, of course, describes not only the experience of the protagonist, visiting the past to try and glean meanings from his all-too-short jumps back in time (which are only possible because of his obsessive memory of the death at the airport), but also the experience of the audience watching the movie, piecing together the narrative from the frozen images on the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13736" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2018-12-13T20:29:49.993" LastActivityDate="2018-12-13T20:29:49.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21731" CreationDate="2014-09-19T02:27:03.700" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The lead character is called Camiel. That is the name of one of the Archangels. His surname is Borgman, which means something akin to landlord or toll taker. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13853" LastEditorUserId="55668" LastEditDate="2019-01-23T21:11:06.513" LastActivityDate="2019-01-23T21:11:06.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24697" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24753" CreationDate="2014-09-19T07:13:24.487" Score="5" ViewCount="3134" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching the Doctor Who episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listen_(Doctor_Who)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Listen&lt;/a&gt; I was left with the impression that it was the Doctor's own nightmares and fears which led him to believe there was a creature perfectly evolved for hiding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is most likely caused by...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;  his encounter with Clara on Gallifrey. She hid under the bed and instinctively grabbed his leg when he was a child. This explains why he's so fascinated by the dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's so used to battling monsters and aliens that he's very likely to believe such a creature is possible - he's using his own knowledge and experience to back up a common fear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if all the strange noises and feelings were in fact simply people's subconscious then what was the very visible thing under the Rupert's bed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BRQGF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2014-09-21T11:29:18.237" Title="What was under the blanket?" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24704" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-09-19T11:53:57.303" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The World is Not Enough&lt;/em&gt; is a 1999 spy thriller and the 19th installment in the Eon-produced James Bond series, marking Pierce Brosnan's 3rd appearance as the famous MI6 agent. It revolves around James Bond's assignment to protect oil magnate Elektra King and his investigations against the terrorist Renard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143145/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Is_Not_Enough&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-19T11:53:57.303" LastActivityDate="2014-09-19T11:53:57.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24705" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-09-19T11:53:57.303" Score="0" Body="1999 spy thriller and the 19th installment in the Eon-produced James Bond series, marking Pierce Brosnan's 3rd appearance as the famous MI6 agent. It revolves around James Bond's assignment to protect oil magnate Elektra King and his investigations against the terrorist Renard." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-19T11:53:57.303" LastActivityDate="2014-09-19T11:53:57.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24707" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24777" CreationDate="2014-09-19T12:41:14.250" Score="11" ViewCount="10362" Body="&lt;p&gt;How is a movie made to show selective colors. For instance, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120789/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pleasantville&lt;/a&gt; a sister and brother are transported to the universe of an old black and white TV show, and the movie switches to being B&amp;amp;W. Then, as the protagonists cause the inhabitants to have 'real' emotions, like fright, anger, or love, things (people, places, etc.) start having color. In the middle of the movie, many objects are still B&amp;amp;W, yet many more are now colorized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401792/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sin City&lt;/a&gt; also used this effect (the whole film was initially shot in full color, and was converted to black-and-white. Colorization is used on certain subjects in a scene), for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this effect achieved? Is it post-production editing? What techniques might a director employ to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13860" LastEditorUserId="13860" LastEditDate="2014-09-20T09:37:09.360" LastActivityDate="2017-05-24T13:25:39.953" Title="How to make a film in black and white and add color to some objects?" Tags="|film-techniques|editing|sin-city|pleasantville|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24708" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27313" CreationDate="2014-09-19T13:39:55.980" Score="4" ViewCount="965" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per the title, is there any evidence that some of the ghosts in the &lt;em&gt;Ghostbusters&lt;/em&gt; movies were benign?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For clarification, 'evil' in the respect that all seemed to go out of their way to terrorise New Yorkers and apparently, not much else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13805" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-19T13:48:06.423" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T05:18:50.917" Title="Were all the ghosts in the Ghost Busters movie 'evil'?" Tags="|ghostbusters-2|ghostbusters|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4479" CreationDate="2014-09-19T17:35:42.403" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think too, that the water symbolizes purity..(clean &amp;amp; pure) which to me reenforces the wrongful act of the affair. Also somehow, during other scenes such as the scene where she is washing dishes, the water symbolizes sensuality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13864" LastActivityDate="2014-09-19T17:35:42.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12815" CreationDate="2014-09-19T21:13:05.673" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are not grasping the central theme. What the antagonist wants is for society to understand that he and her sister did nothing wrong, but incapable of that, he settled for Oh Dae-su. This is revealed by the scene where he stabs Oh's friend for perpetuating the rumors that his sister is a slut, Oh's friend represents society, anyway...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything the antagonist did, Oh Dae-su ends up doing - he took revenge on people who, though not entirely innocent, weren't actually responsible for his imprisonment, and, in the end he intentionally chooses incest by going to the hypnotist - because both characters are so human. You think the antogonist is a sociopath, sure, you are entirely like Oh Dae-su before he was put forcibly into the antagonist's shoes, then it is revealed that Oh Dae-su would rather take blissful ignorance than give up his love. (This ending is the real revenge, more on that later) He shows us that love is not a choice, but more generally, the evil you fight is more like you than you think, for &quot;when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you&quot; - Nietzsche&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are meant to sympathize with Oh Dae-su, and then gradually realize how similar he is to the antagonist whom we abhor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note on the ending: The hypnotist is almost certaibly paid off by the antagonist to give Oh Dae-su a failed hypnotism. She says the monster walked away, yet it is revealed that Oh Dae-su was the one that walked, meaning he retains the memory and left his old self behind. He also smiles creepily at the end and devolve into a painful cry. The antagonist wanted to make sure Oh Dae-su remembers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, disclaimer, art is interpretive and this analysis is just as influeced by my own morals as is any other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13868" LastEditorUserId="13868" LastEditDate="2014-09-19T21:36:31.830" LastActivityDate="2014-09-19T21:36:31.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24697" CreationDate="2014-09-19T21:16:29.333" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were lots of noises and phenomena that the characters experienced in the episode, each time there were two possible explanations given, a rational one and one that attributed it to a hidden creature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the episode it is show that the creatures do not exist so this must mean that the rational explanations for the noises/phenomena were true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rational explanation for what was under the blanket was that one of Rupert's friends was playing a trick on him. So it was one of Rupert's friends under the blanket.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13869" LastEditorUserId="13869" LastEditDate="2014-09-20T11:50:08.270" LastActivityDate="2014-09-20T11:50:08.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16405" CreationDate="2014-09-19T21:47:47.390" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Superman screamed because General Zod was his last hope to learn who his people were. Superman already felt as if he was alone and did not fit in. It seemed like he was hoping Zod would stop and come to his senses and maybe they could one day get along. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13870" LastActivityDate="2014-09-19T21:47:47.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24478" CreationDate="2014-09-19T23:41:06.693" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the recent special episode 'day of the doctor'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The three doctors all configure their sonic screwdrivers to work on the wooden door (that was unlocked!) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Doctor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Doctor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wiki link mentions the reconfiguring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And on the tardis data core it gives a précis of the episode whic includes this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Moment reminds the War Doctor that his sonic screwdriver, at the most basic level, is the exact same device as the ones used by his counterparts: &quot;Same software — different case&quot;. He realises that if he scans the door and implants the calculations as a permanent subroutine in the screwdriver, it will take hundreds of years to work out the formula necessary to disintegrate the door, meaning that the Eleventh Doctor's screwdriver, being essentially the same as the ones before it, has the completed calculation ready to go. They exuberantly congratulate themselves on their cleverness before Clara pushes open the door — which has been unlocked the entire time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Doctor_(TV_story)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Doctor_(TV_story)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the screwdriver has now been programmed for wood&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12634" LastActivityDate="2014-09-19T23:41:06.693" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="775" CreationDate="2014-09-20T01:46:31.477" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;An epic quote condensing the tragedy of the human condition into two words. Nothing and everything. Nothing refers to the pure materialistic value of property, gold, silver jewleries, food, water, land etc. This does not make Jerusalem special; other places are equally bestowed with such goods, hence it is worth nothing more than any other city on earth. However, Jerusalem carries a none-materialistic value that cannot be measured in terms of tons of gold, money or whatever other worldly possessions one can have but rather an immaterial value that cannot be exchanged, measured or traded for, thus making it worth everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13872" LastActivityDate="2014-09-20T01:46:31.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16863" CreationDate="2014-09-20T07:10:44.363" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its penny's story line that's true in my head. Howard's dad was like a psi or something. Think about it. Howard tries for FBI clearance. He picks locks. Steals million dollar cameras, security systems, etc. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13875" LastActivityDate="2014-09-20T07:10:44.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24735" CreationDate="2014-09-20T09:25:45.603" Score="9" ViewCount="3986" Body="&lt;p&gt;---- &lt;strong&gt;Potential spoilers below&lt;/strong&gt; -----&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched the first season of Silicon Valley a second time, recently, and I enjoyed it, but something puzzles me: what are Richard and Big Head doing at Hooli in the first episode? If they're living/working in Erlich's incubator, what business do they have at Hooli's headquarters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zTd8b.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They seem to know their way around the place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ndZgm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there, Richard helps himself to some coffee and has a confrontation with Hooli employees. Was Richard working there or what? If he was, viewers never see him resign from Hooli when he sets up Pied Piper...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UO5tU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, at the end of episode 2, Big Head announces&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gaving Belson just offered me a huge &lt;strong&gt;promotion&lt;/strong&gt; for 600 grand a year to steal me away from you guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(my emphasis)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The use of the term &lt;em&gt;promotion&lt;/em&gt; leads me to believe that Big Head, at least, was already working for Hooli when he got that offer. But was he, really?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13130" LastEditorUserId="13130" LastEditDate="2015-08-26T11:13:04.700" LastActivityDate="2018-09-12T09:27:36.987" Title="At the beginning of Silicon Valley, were Richard Hendricks and Big Head working for Hooli?" Tags="|plot-explanation|silicon-valley|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24730" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24731" CreationDate="2014-09-20T12:40:42.383" Score="6" ViewCount="21531" Body="&lt;p&gt;Episode 17.4 of South Park is called &quot;Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I would like to find episodes Goth Kids 1 and Goth Kids 2, but failing to do this. Are there such episodes at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6610" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-20T14:04:52.567" LastActivityDate="2014-09-20T14:48:25.983" Title="Is there Goth Kids 2 episode of South Park?" Tags="|identify-this-episode|south-park|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:29:16.697" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24730" CreationDate="2014-09-20T14:30:07.703" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Goth_Kids_3:_Dawn_of_the_Posers&quot;&gt;this Wikia page&lt;/a&gt; explains, this episode is a sequel to 2 other episodes where the Goths were featured most prominently: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raisins_%28South_Park%29&quot;&gt;Raisins&lt;/a&gt; from season 7 (where Stan becomes a Goth) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ungroundable&quot;&gt;The Ungroundable&lt;/a&gt; from season 12 (where Butters becomes a vampire wannabe). The title of this episode is probably a parody of &lt;em&gt;Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs&lt;/em&gt; and maybe alludes to &lt;em&gt;Dawn of the Dead&lt;/em&gt; (though that was the &lt;em&gt;2nd&lt;/em&gt; film in Romero's zombie series).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-09-20T14:48:25.983" LastActivityDate="2014-09-20T14:48:25.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24728" CreationDate="2014-09-20T19:29:26.770" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hooli was their main source of income, until their own thing took off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They were employed at Hooli as entry level members of the staff. One piece of evidence for that is the fact that, as Erlich and Big Head are getting into Hooli to attend Richard's meeting with Gavin Belson, you can see Big Head swipe his card at the turnstile, indicating he already works for Hooli, in some capacity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FJU2d.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Richard and Big Head had dreams of having their own startup, which was to grow out of the Incubator (their living arrangements and sidework), as soon as they came up with the million dollar APP. Richard created his algorithm for compression, and it took off from there...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why Big Head was promoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2018-09-11T21:04:16.083" LastActivityDate="2018-09-11T21:04:16.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24740" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-20T22:47:38.343" Score="26" ViewCount="20785" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happens in the real world when two people have a baby in The Matrix? Where do babies come from? Are they humans or AIs? If they're humans how were they conceived? Hasn't this question come up in the trilogy? Or in the interviews... I just watched the first one once again and they didn't answer this, don't remember the 2nd and the 3rd parts that well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12870" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-21T00:53:57.567" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T13:10:18.570" Title="Where do babies come from in The Matrix?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24742" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-09-20T22:57:50.017" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Young Adult is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Adult_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Adult_%28film%29&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2014-09-21T01:17:53.687" LastActivityDate="2014-09-21T01:17:53.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24743" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-09-20T22:57:50.017" Score="0" Body="2011 American comedy drama about a young adult novelist returning to her old hometown to win back her former school love." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-09T10:32:53.810" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T10:32:53.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16401" CreationDate="2014-09-21T08:13:24.777" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think if it can only be used on arachnids, why would it harm a human if it was aimed at a arachnid? If he said it with no arachnids around and just Ron, I expect it would leave Ron with the black scorch mark. This time it did not because there was an arachnid around. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13886" LastActivityDate="2014-09-21T08:13:24.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24740" CreationDate="2014-09-21T08:57:39.850" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;All things that happen in the matrix are all just an illusion, a trick to the mind to all those human sleeping in a pod to become battery for the machine. Even if they do sex in the dream world, well there are all just a dream. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no routing of sperm to other female haha. All babies are created using IVF - in vitro fertilisation. There is no traditional baby making where sperm swimming to the egg :D.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can ask another similar question like, if people eat in the matrix, what they actually eat in the pod or if they wear a dress in the matrix what they will wear in the pod. The answer is none. All activity in the matrix is just a dream simulation created by the machine. No correlation at all to the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All human who died in the pod will be crushed to become liquid and become a food source to other human in the pod. That is all they eat and sleep/dream is all they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13829" LastActivityDate="2014-09-21T08:57:39.850" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24740" CreationDate="2014-09-21T10:49:33.227" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Matrix, as Morpheus explains, is styled on the 'boom' of humanity: late 20th century earth. Everything about 'normal' life is replicated within the simulation, so yes the occupants of the Matrix will have sex, get pregnant and eventually give birth: believing the baby to be of their genetic creation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the 'Desert of the Real', babies are not born: they are grown...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fgpvy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within the matrix, consciousness is transplanted from consciousness into the simulation: the same is true of newborns. The 'Birthing' within the Matrix is a program which recreates the conditions of childbirth, and then as the baby is 'born', he is plugged into the Matrix and its consciousness is transferred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FJGDV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-09-21T10:49:33.227" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24697" CreationDate="2014-09-21T11:29:18.237" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the episode, the writers tried hard to leave it ambiguous as to whether the monster was real or not.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;There are two things during the episode that really make you think that it was real. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the blanket scene, for a moment the blanket comes off, and we see a blurred grey-alien-looking creature :&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Il6m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Doctor Who - Listen&quot;&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As he/she/it is leaving, there is a flash of light, akin to a transporter&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11530" LastActivityDate="2014-09-21T11:29:18.237" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24754" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-21T16:10:22.720" Score="3" ViewCount="13793" Body="&lt;p&gt;The opening scene of &quot;Dallas Buyers Club&quot; shows Rod Woodruff having sex with a woman who we later learn has a lot of needle marks in her arm.  There appears to be a third person in this scene and it's unclear whether they are male or female and whether they are involved in the sex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is this third person and why is he/she there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13888" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-21T18:24:13.797" LastActivityDate="2023-11-15T07:42:57.170" Title="Who is the third person in the opening scene of &quot;Dallas Buyers Club&quot;?" Tags="|character|plot-explanation|dallas-buyers-club|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24754" CreationDate="2014-09-21T21:46:28.643" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;He is enjoying the company of two ladies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eXMeg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each receives Mr Woodruff's divided attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6595" LastEditorUserId="6595" LastEditDate="2023-11-15T07:42:57.170" LastActivityDate="2023-11-15T07:42:57.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24756" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24760" CreationDate="2014-09-21T22:01:50.930" Score="8" ViewCount="1490" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, when Hank is tricked away from Walt and Jesse's RV by a fake phone call from the hospital, the RV is crushed. Hank acts as if nothing useful for him could be found among the pieces of the destroyed RV. Yet probably there could be a lot of clues, such as fingerprints, traces of chemicals, pieces of chemical equipment as such. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if these thing might not qualify as evidence in the court, it could still help Hank's ongoing investigation. Come to think of it, the meth lab in the basement of Gus's laundry is destroyed very thoroughly, yet the DEA spend a lot of time searching it for clues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did not DEA search whatever was left from the destroyed RV for clues and such?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5277" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-15T05:01:00.150" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T05:01:00.150" Title="Did crushing the &quot;crystal ship&quot; really destroy all the evidence?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16405" CreationDate="2014-09-22T00:02:27.370" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Superman screams not because of the terrible feeling of his first kill. His fight with Zod killed thousands of innocent bystanders and he doesn't pause to mourn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Superman screams because he realised by killing Zod, he became the last Kryptonian in the universe and his hope for reviving Krypton is crushed to the ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13829" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2021-08-12T15:00:21.920" LastActivityDate="2021-08-12T15:00:21.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24756" CreationDate="2014-09-22T00:07:23.220" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Even if these thing might not qualify as evidence in the court, it could still help Hank's ongoing investigation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it did not help a court prosecution (i.e. being inadmissible evidence), the DEA would not have &lt;em&gt;allowed&lt;/em&gt; Hank to investigate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that when he was going after Fring he had to keep most of his investigation secret from the DEA itself. It was only when he had what he felt was a range of suspicious evidence (most of which was either admissible evidence or could be obtained as such after a more official investigation), that he approached ASAC Merkert and Steve Gomez, hoping to get an official 'green light' to investigate. That 'quiet poking around' would have been a lot harder to do with a chunk of compressed scrap metal that Walt, Jesse &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; the junk yard owner all knew was both oozing with evidence and known to the authorities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Did crushing the “crystal ship” really destroy all the evidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would not have removed chemical residues, and if some of the parts were prized apart and relatively whole (e.g. a panel that was squeezed down flat, as opposed to a steering wheel that was fractured into many parts) it should still be possible to lift prints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the DEA or Hank had gone through the block for fingerprints, they might have been able to place Walt at the scene (who they'd never expected) as well as Jesse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then, as you suggested in the question, it was not &lt;em&gt;admissible evidence.&lt;/em&gt;  Notice how it stopped Hank dead in his tracks when the junk yard owner, and Jesse, started to challenge the legality of what Hank was doing.  He was arguing with them, but not rushing head-long towards wrenching that door open with a tool from his car.  He realized that unless he got admissible evidence, all his efforts were wasted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the junk yard owner claimed it would remove all evidence, I presumed he meant when the material was &lt;strong&gt;melted down&lt;/strong&gt; to form lawn furniture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2014-09-23T01:06:22.670" LastActivityDate="2014-09-23T01:06:22.670" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24762" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24763" CreationDate="2014-09-22T05:50:36.880" Score="4" ViewCount="2653" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Dressed To Kill (1980), the opening sequence shows Angie Dickinson being raped while taking a bath.&#xA;It's never even mentioned in the movie again. Who? Why?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13891" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T14:56:38.787" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T14:56:38.787" Title="Who is the rapist in the opening sequence of Dressed To Kill?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dressed-to-kill|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24762" CreationDate="2014-09-22T07:10:47.193" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That scene wasn't actually for real, but just a sexual fantasy of her.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First lets look at the facts, &lt;em&gt;Kate&lt;/em&gt; was actually in the shower, while her husband stood at the sink outside. So where would that mystery man raping her have come from (her husband still stood outside doing nothing)? Add to this that, as you said yourself, this isn't alluded to in any way later on. Then also consider that she was passionately touching herself right before the rape happened. And right in the middle of this supposed rape the scene cuts to &lt;em&gt;Kate&lt;/em&gt; having quite ordinary sex with her husband in their bed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So from this we can conclude that &lt;em&gt;Kate&lt;/em&gt; actually fantasized about that rape. This becomes clearer when we look at her session with &lt;em&gt;Dr. Elliot&lt;/em&gt;, where she tries to seduce him (ultimately sealing her fate this way) and later when she has this affair with the complete stranger from the museum (along with the mysterious foreplay in the halls of the museum). &lt;em&gt;Kate&lt;/em&gt; is a sexually frustrated housewife looking for adventure. Sure, she didn't &lt;em&gt;seem&lt;/em&gt; to enjoy this &quot;rape&quot;, but it was in a stark contrast to her rather dull real sex life and she does secretly &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; such an &quot;adventure&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And besides that, the whole shower scenario was also in line with the millions of &lt;em&gt;Psycho&lt;/em&gt; references featured in this homage, and the scene's switch from sensual to violent served as a fitting introduction to a &lt;em&gt;DePalma&lt;/em&gt; movie repeatedly contrasting sex with violence, or using the former as stimulant for the latter.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-22T16:21:20.153" LastActivityDate="2014-09-22T16:21:20.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24097" CreationDate="2014-09-22T09:34:21.917" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did she know that where her wings are?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely not. When her wings got removed, she wasn't aware of it because of the liquid she drank. She found out next morning. After much time has passed, she never mentioned that she knew where her wings were. She doesn't have far-sight or a fortune ball to know where is her wings are, or whether they are still unaffected. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why doesn't she grow her wings?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because she can't. She made Diaval as a shape-shifter and called him her wings. She needs her wings, but she can't grow them back. That's why she made Diaval as a raven shape-shifter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why didn't she try to get back her wings?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Through her actions, it's clear that she wants only revenge. She hasn't given a thought to getting back her wings and she might not even know if they are still there. And direct fight with Stefan is risky because he knows her weakness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But she can do that....she can do that but why not bring back her wings?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Limitation!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-01T19:00:35.380" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T19:00:35.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24707" CreationDate="2014-09-22T13:08:53.927" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They Film it in Color. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then they filter the Color out, only grayscales are left. This is pretty easy because every Digital film is saved in some colorinformation ( red green blue or red green yellow) and some luminiscence (brightness / Greyscale). So all you have to do is Kill the Color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fbWmC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make something then look colorfull you use the photoshop of your trust and overlay the color on the selected area again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that even not digital film is saved in that kind of struckture when he is digitalised. You are even looking at the moment on a Greyscale picture on your screen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dont know if the not digital movies are made the same way (copy of the colored frame over the grayscale) but this could also be very similar to this pocess. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Sin city was overly computer generated so i wouldnt say it is a black and white film at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13593" LastActivityDate="2014-09-22T13:08:53.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24767" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-22T15:08:00.083" Score="7" ViewCount="19797" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Stephen pretend to have a limp in Django Unchained? And why stop pretending then? When he said he counted 6 bullets, and even if he believed it to be true as he was saying it, what exactly did he think was gonna happen that made him to stop pretending?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6282" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-22T15:09:41.743" LastActivityDate="2022-11-24T12:42:04.340" Title="Why did Stephen pretend to have a limp in Django Unchained?" Tags="|django-unchained|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19056" CreationDate="2014-09-22T15:16:42.923" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's specifically described in the movie by his friend as a Ruger Mini 14, not an M14. It also referenced the stainless Mini 14 from A-Team.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vdqjw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13895" LastActivityDate="2014-09-22T15:16:42.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24767" CreationDate="2014-09-22T16:29:21.360" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think Stephen pretended to limp. Right from the his first appearance till his last he had been limping, or using a stick to walk. In the climax, when he faces Django he knows that he is about to die. His throwing of stick and saying that he counted 6 bullets was an act of defiance, as if he was telling Django, that he was not afraid of him, and not afraid of dying. Please note that we do not see Stephen walking much after he throws his stick. He just gets down two steps after throwing stick. It seems that he must have had some kind of walking problem and that's why he used stick. So not pretending at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-09-22T16:29:21.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8965" CreationDate="2014-09-22T17:08:58.890" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure Cas mentions they go to Purgatory, I could be wrong in which I apologise, but in 7x23 - 'Survival of the fittest' both Dean and Castiel go to Purgatory after killing Dick Roman and killing him killed them did it not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13896" LastActivityDate="2014-09-22T17:08:58.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24767" CreationDate="2014-09-22T18:50:41.817" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst Steven may not have 'lost' his limp, there is definitely a suggestion that he is deliberately exaggerating his physical handicap...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire film is a portrait of ethnic stereotypes, with each character seemingly tackling and subverting  hackneyed clichés; In Stephen's case, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;'The Uncle Tom'&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The phrase &quot;Uncle Tom&quot; has also become an epithet for a person who is&#xA;  slavish and excessively subservient to perceived authority figures,&#xA;  particularly a black person who behaves in a subservient manner to&#xA;  white people; or any person perceived to be a participant in the&#xA;  oppression of their own group&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Uncle Tom' characters are widely portrayed as bumbling, dithering and slightly comically inept court jesters, with their incompetence often emphasized by some trivial malady... Which in Stephen's case is &lt;strong&gt;absolutely on the nose&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Uncle Tom or 'House Nigger' is such an established trope, Malcolm X drew attention to it directly in one of his speeches:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Back during slavery,&quot; Malcolm begins, &quot;there were two kinds of slaves. There was the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negroes -- they lived in the house with master, they dressed pretty good, they ate good 'cause they ate his food -- what he left. They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near the master; and they loved their master more than the master loved himself. They would give their life to save the master's house quicker than the master would … Whenever the master said 'we,' he said 'we.' That's how you can tell a house Negro.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of Stephen, this subservience is merely a ruse, as we later learn when Stephen discusses his discovery of Schultz and Django's ruse in the drawing room...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HFojQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His voice, his manner of address (particularly to Candie), his diction and his subservience all adapt or evaporate instantly. Could you imagine the 'Stephen' from earlier within the film helping himself to brandy, and sitting in the masters chair? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By outward appearances, Stephen is a largely impotent character: but secretly he is cold, calculating and incredibly observant. The limp is part of his guile to fool those around him into dismissing him, and this malice aforethought is what Jackson used to try and create &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/news/1699457/django-unchained-samuel-jackson/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;The most hated Negro in cinematic history.&quot;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-09-22T18:50:41.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24773" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24774" CreationDate="2014-09-22T21:56:22.840" Score="11" ViewCount="6391" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2724064/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot;&gt;Sharknado&lt;/a&gt; and I wondered myself, if this movie was planned as a Trash-Movie or if this 'just happened'. There are so many really strange scenes, cuts, dialogs etc. so that I just can't believe it's meant serious. Maybe somebody knows more about the background of this movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13898" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-23T10:38:12.883" LastActivityDate="2015-01-30T12:41:09.643" Title="Was Sharknado planned as a trash movie?" Tags="|analysis|production|reception|sharknado|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24773" CreationDate="2014-09-22T22:07:59.320" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Impossible to prove: &lt;strong&gt;but almost definitely.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is actually a precedent for this in cinema, known as &lt;em&gt;'The Castle Rock Rule'&lt;/em&gt;... despite the well circulated platitude that &quot;No one sets out to make a bad Movie&quot;, Castle Rock Entertainment supposedly circulated a theory amongst their development squad that this was not actually the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Supposedly, there are four types of movies; &lt;em&gt;good ones that work&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;bad ones that work&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;good ones that don't work&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;bad ones that don't work&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allegedly, a film-maker at Castle Rock &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; set out to make a deliberately bad movie as long as it 'has legs'... but the risks are obviously bigger, as making a 'bad one that don't work' was a sin that could get you fired, whereas making a 'good one that don't work' was forgivable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot for the film was actually derived from a throwaway line from one of the Directors previous movie &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Clover_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Leprechaun's revenge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Later renamed to &lt;em&gt;Red Clover&lt;/em&gt; to distance itself from the understandable criticism that it was piggybacking on the Leprechaun series). &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/entertainment/television/Sharknado-director-.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;According to the director&lt;/a&gt;, the 'Universes' of the films are joined together by a line spoken by Billy Zane's character...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I had directed a film for the [‘Sharknado'] production company last fall, and when this came up, they wanted me for it. Syfy said, cool. And it’s also [that] the ‘Sharknado’ title had been around for a while.  I had made reference to it in a script that I wrote for a Syfy movie last year, called &quot;Leprechaun’s Revenge,&quot; so there’s some line in there like, &quot;It’s nothing like that sharknado that hit this town over there. They’ve never been able to live it down,&quot; it’s something like that. It kind of stuck and everybody wanted to do something with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/business/media/16adcol.html?pagewanted=all&amp;amp;_r=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;many sources&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/funny-5398-syfy-channel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;exposed&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Sci-fi Channel&lt;/em&gt; 'overhauled' its content amidst a re-brand to &lt;em&gt;SyFy&lt;/em&gt;, and have since produced consistently trashy micro-budget material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-12/inventing-sharknado-inside-syfys-booming-b-movie-factory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;By their own admission&lt;/a&gt;, the creative processes isn't held in the highest regard...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“The phrase we use internally is ‘ridiculously entertaining,’” says Vitale. “We have fun brainstorming sessions, I can tell you that.” In those sessions, Syfy movies are usually conceived title first, plot second. How else do you come up with something called Sharknado? There’s also Mansquito (a man who turns into a mosquito), Piranhaconda (a half-piranha, half-anaconda snake), and Sharktopus (a shark that’s—OK, you get the idea). “The Sharktopus one came from a woman who works in the promo department,” says Vitale. “She said, ‘Hey, you guys make a movie called Sharktopus’ and we went, ‘Um, OK.’”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is (was) a clever move to acknowledge and appropriate the trash cinema heritage created by Troma Films (amongst others) in the late 80's/early 90's but the contrast is stark between people who have watched both 'eras'...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Early trash cinema was ballasted by an authentic grass roots movement against censorship (and often budget) to create inventive means to produce their content, and the entire movement was spearheaded by the legendary &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Corman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Roger Corman&lt;/a&gt;: by comparison, SyFy movies are &lt;a href=&quot;http://aforestofbeasts.wordpress.com/tag/syfy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;largely considered&lt;/a&gt; insincere cash-ins. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;em&gt;Cracked&lt;/em&gt; have observed, SyFy is heading towards implosion if they continue on this trajectory...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Most of Syfy's schedule is their own original programming now. Most of&#xA;  it sucks. But it's theirs- it's their own crappy stuff which means&#xA;  they have to pay nobody but themselves for it. Many of their original&#xA;  movies don't even bother with writers. They'll replay the cheapest&#xA;  movies and shows they bother to shell out the money for the rights to&#xA;  over and over again, and do their best to turn a profit with minimum&#xA;  effort and investment for maximum gain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is still genuine Independent trash cinema out there for its fans, and I'd heartily recommend the films of Astron-6 as a more sincere approach to replicate the movement...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2015-01-30T12:41:09.643" LastActivityDate="2015-01-30T12:41:09.643" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24707" CreationDate="2014-09-23T04:44:16.000" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today's consumer video editing tools and software like Adobe Premier Pro have features which allow you to gray out all other colors except the ones that you want included by specifying a range of color values.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good example is here: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/IsDvUElj9o8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, I am sure they have shot the entire film in color and then did post processing to remove the colors they don't need. If a pro-sumer software like Adobe Premier Pro can do it effortlessly, I am sure the editing houses might have larger and more intelligent systems to do this better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1172" LastActivityDate="2014-09-23T04:44:16.000" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24663" CreationDate="2014-09-23T04:55:41.450" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The interesting thing about the film (and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.in/Q-A-Novel-Vikas-Swarup/dp/0743267486&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the book&lt;/a&gt; it is based on) is that Jamal knows answers to questions (and many of them in a row) - which he should not have known otherwise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, due to co-incidence, there have been situations in his life (fortunate and unfortunate) which cause him to know the answers to all the question (and this is what the film explains via the flashbacks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, the synopsis of the book on Amazon reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas (Jamal in the film) is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, I feel that the game show host strongly believed Jamal to be cheating - as in his mind, there is no way he could know all the correct answers (including the one that the host himself writes incorrectly on the mirror in the bathroom).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, he wants Jamal to lose and also the reason as to why he gets him arrested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1172" LastActivityDate="2014-09-23T04:55:41.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24773" CreationDate="2014-09-23T08:24:40.187" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to John's answer referring to the SyFy-Channel, also take a look at the production firm of the movie: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asylum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Asylum&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are specialized in Mockbusters, and cheap, quick productions, so good luck getting a serious movie from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sharknado&lt;/em&gt; does give the impression of being deliberately terrible even for their standards, though, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: But some of their movies sure are fun!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13690" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-09-23T18:44:07.483" LastActivityDate="2014-09-23T18:44:07.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24784" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24802" CreationDate="2014-09-23T10:49:35.870" Score="9" ViewCount="12572" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Walt tell Skyler he killed Hank in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;? Was Walt trying to send a message? Was he trying to protect Jack's men?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13907" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T21:11:27.213" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T20:46:50.200" Title="Why did Walt tell Skyler he did that?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24785" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24786" CreationDate="2014-09-23T12:08:21.310" Score="29" ViewCount="15208" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of Men in Black, when Will Smith is in the room with the other candidates for the job, they're all sitting those egg-style chairs with a table in the middle. This is where they're required to take the test. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rip Torn leaves the room so they can all take the test and the next 3 minutes or so show all of them struggling to take the test in those stupid chairs. Until Will Smith finally gets up and drags the table over to himself, disrupting everyone else in the room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this a test for them all along to see who would take initiative and get the table? To see who had the most common sense and could handle themselves best in stupid situations maybe? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastEditorUserId="12783" LastEditDate="2016-06-07T03:51:54.277" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T05:21:51.143" Title="What was the purpose of the test in the room with uncomfortable chairs in Men in Black?" Tags="|plot-explanation|men-in-black|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24785" CreationDate="2014-09-23T13:10:36.163" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the reference, the test scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/QHaLvrgbcvI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kay and Zed are observing the participants take the test, and discussing them. The whole thing is absurd:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the chairs are good only to crouch inside, but not to do any work (like taking a simple test) in them;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the test are sealed in a way that makes them hard to open (the paper rips easily, the pencil breaks when Jay tries to use it to pry the seal open,...).&#xA;The table seems to be the only solution, but it's not offered as such.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I believe this is a test of how well they manage themselves in absurd situations (which they get plenty of in the field, as we see later on in all three movies), and are they capable of thinking outside of the box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there is a test at the shooting range. Obviously, &amp;quot;the best of the best&amp;quot; know how to shoot, so their ability to just aim and shoot is not much of an issue. However, when the shooting is done, Zed comes in and asks Edwards &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;May I ask why you felt little Tiffany deserved to die?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; (at &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHaLvrgbcvI#t=222&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;3:42&lt;/a&gt; in the linked clip). This is Jay's answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, first I was gonna pop this guy hanging from the street light, and &lt;em&gt;I realized, y'know, he's just working out&lt;/em&gt;. I mean, how would I feel if somebody come runnin' in the gym and bust me in my ass while I'm on the treadmill? Then I saw this snarling beast guy, and I noticed he had a tissue in his hand, and &lt;em&gt;I'm realizing, y'know, he's not snarling, he's sneezing.&lt;/em&gt; Y'know, ain't no real threat there. Then I saw little Tiffany. I'm thinking, y'know, eight-year-old white girl, middle of the ghetto, bunch of monsters, this time of night with quantum physics books? &lt;strong&gt;She about to start some shit, Zed.&lt;/strong&gt; She's about eight years old, those books are WAY too advanced for her. If you ask me, I'd say she's up to something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119654/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To this, Zed smiles contentedly. So, the point in all of the tests (except for the &amp;quot;eye exam&amp;quot; ;-)) is to see how well do the participants handle themselves, and are they capable of thinking critically and out of the box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T05:21:51.143" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24784" CreationDate="2014-09-23T18:26:10.300" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My take was that at that point, Walt felt the only way he was going to keep his family together and potentially win back Skyler was to be 100% honest with her.  He pretty much told her everything in the last season, except for a few minor details.  Plus, Jesse was still alive and Jack had his cash, and he knew he had to come clean before she found out from someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-09-23T18:26:10.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19214" CreationDate="2014-09-23T20:58:17.103" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know Amadeus Cho is not from Iowa but he was an honor role student and since a possible Planet Hulk/World War Hulk may be in the works. He could be a possibility...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13913" LastActivityDate="2014-09-23T20:58:17.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21970" CreationDate="2014-09-23T22:44:16.767" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Optimus got that missile in his body which make him unable to do self-repair or morph to a better vehicle. However once Cade remove that, he can do it again. How can he morph to another and better vehicle? Well, they were call Transformer for god sake and they have &lt;strong&gt;Sparks&lt;/strong&gt;, their source of life which allow them to do all those self repair, morphing, transforming etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since movie one, all of the transformers got beaten, thrown, shot with missle etc, and they always return to their initial condition. They are made with this superb metal call &lt;strong&gt;Transformium&lt;/strong&gt; and with the power of the Sparks inside them, they can morph to anything they want, by just scanning and imprinting animate object around them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13829" LastEditorUserId="13829" LastEditDate="2014-09-24T09:08:41.753" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T09:08:41.753" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24784" CreationDate="2014-09-23T23:08:34.923" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; about the phone call after he took Holly, the reason for the call was that he knew the police would be listening and he wanted to make them believe that Skyler was not a willing participant in any of his criminal activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was all fake, and she understood that. Some of the things he said were inconsistent with the facts Skyler already knew. All of it was inconsistent with his personality (both of them!) Skyler was out of character too - quietly listening to him rant on and on, instead of arguing. It wasn't planned, but she figured it out fast enough to play along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6436" LastActivityDate="2014-09-23T23:08:34.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24784" CreationDate="2014-09-24T05:32:05.407" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This conversation took place on phone when Waly calls Skylar after Hank's death.&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;I don't think Walt ever said that he killed Hank&lt;/strong&gt;. If I correctly remember the exact dialogue he just said &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You are never going to see Hank again&quot;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;after which everyone bursts into tears, including Walt. Everyone knows that Hank was about to arrest Walt but Walt was still free and he said that Hank would not be seen again. So everyone concluded that Walt killed Hank, but no body knew what exactly happened.&#xA;He was definitely not trying to protect Jack's men. Why would he? At that moment he was himself a man running from law, a man who had lost his family, who had lost his money and who was responsible for getting his family member killed. Walt was in shambles at that moment and his telling of Hank's death was filled with grief and remorse. At least this is what I can infer from the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-10-20T07:24:29.497" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T07:24:29.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24784" CreationDate="2014-09-24T06:34:43.140" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The conversation between Skyler and Walter in &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Ozymandias_subtitles&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ozymandias&lt;/a&gt; about Hank goes like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Walt is raving at Skyler, knowing full-well the police are listening:&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walter:&lt;/strong&gt; ..Toe the line, or you will wind up just like Hank.&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skyler&lt;/strong&gt;  Walt.  Tell me what happened.  Where is Hank?  Please. We need to know.&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walter:&lt;/strong&gt;  You're never gonna see Hank again.  He crossed me.  You think about that.  Family or no.&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skyler&lt;/strong&gt;  (SOBS) Oh, God.&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walter:&lt;/strong&gt;  You let that sink in.&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skyler&lt;/strong&gt;   Walt. (SKYLER SOBS)  I just want Holly back.  Please, Walt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He never actually &lt;em&gt;states&lt;/em&gt; that he killed Hank, or even specifically that Hank is dead, but he &lt;em&gt;implies&lt;/em&gt; it so that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It makes the threat to Skyler scarier, reinforcing that whatever she did was done under duress.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It supports that Skyler had nothing to do with what happened to Hank and helps further distance her from Walter's legal problems.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The white supremacists are far from his mind at that point, it is all about what's best for Skyler and the family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2016-01-06T20:46:50.200" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T20:46:50.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24805" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24822" CreationDate="2014-09-24T07:44:39.917" Score="12" ViewCount="5580" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are so many Batman stories present in comics, and most of the Gotham characters are not new; they are from the comic world, except a few. So I am curious to know which storyline Gotham is faithful to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2018-10-25T20:10:55.110" LastActivityDate="2018-10-25T20:10:55.110" Title="Which existing storyline is Gotham based on?" Tags="|comic-adaptation|gotham|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24806" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24811" CreationDate="2014-09-24T07:55:07.200" Score="11" ViewCount="6527" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Gotham&lt;/em&gt;, Gordan said that he participated in war, technology shown is not too old. But still which time era it represents looks vague. Is it ever said which time era it represents?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-24T08:40:43.173" LastActivityDate="2015-04-04T21:21:51.447" Title="What time era is presented in Gotham?" Tags="|gotham|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24810" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24812" CreationDate="2014-09-24T09:03:11.713" Score="16" ViewCount="3252" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did the gang fail to check the trunk of Walter's car in the final episode of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They should have been cautious, knowing Walter White is very smart. They only checked what's in his clothes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13922" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2015-12-09T12:07:43.887" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T12:14:02.940" Title="Why did the gang not check the trunk of Walter's car in the last episode?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24806" CreationDate="2014-09-24T09:05:23.357" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually posed a similar question (and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/68220/31029&quot;&gt;answered it myself&lt;/a&gt;) on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt; because I was anticipating it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gotham showrunner Bruno Heller &lt;a href=&quot;http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/07/20/gotham-fox-batman-prequel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;explained this to Entertainment Weekly&lt;/a&gt; some time ago:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gotham is not set in any particular time period: Okay, this has been&#xA;  out there a bit, but Heller had a nice quote elaborating on the show’s&#xA;  timeless quality: “It’s a mash-up, to use the modern phrase,” he said.&#xA;  “If today Batman exists, then this world is the past. But it’s&#xA;  everybody’s past, an 18-year-old’s past and a 54-year-old’s past. So&#xA;  in your memory, the past is all mashed up together. So in this Gotham,&#xA;  it’s a kind of timeless world. It’s yesterday, it’s today, and it’s&#xA;  tomorrow all at the same time, because that’s the world that dreams&#xA;  live in.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T09:05:23.357" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24810" CreationDate="2014-09-24T09:21:44.003" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Kenny&quot;&gt;Kenny&lt;/a&gt; (who met him at the gate) was lazy and stupid and more interested in mouthing off about his knowledge of the car (which he might have been intending to soon own) than checking the guy they were about to casually murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;..knowing Walter White is very smart &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Jack and Todd knew that, but it is arguable that Kenny felt he was pretty stupid for walking right into 'their trap' for him, expecting to get power, respect or money for a new meth recipe they didn't care about in the slightest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was due to two things they felt Walt did not know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The continued possession of Jesse, to keep the cook quality high.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That Lydia could keep getting methylamine since the heat on her company had died down.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kenny had no way of knowing that Walter knew Jesse was still alive, and Walter neither knew nor cared that the 'running short of methylamine' argument that got him in the door was irrelevant given a continued supply. As long as it got Walter and the car into the right position to attack the gang, he was happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Walt has made his way into the white supremacist club-house he tries to bargain with a claim of a recipe that does not require methylamine.  From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Felina_subtitles&quot;&gt;Felina subtitles&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt:&lt;/strong&gt;  You're running low on methylamine, what happens then?&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jack:&lt;/strong&gt; No, we'll get more.  That Quayle woman's got her own set-up.&#xA;  The heat's off her.  She can break loose a barrel every now and again.&#xA;  It ain't broke, so why fix it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2015-12-09T12:14:02.940" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T12:14:02.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24810" CreationDate="2014-09-24T13:03:01.397" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because, really, who builds a remote-controlled machine gun turret and installs it in the trunk of their car?  There have been &lt;strong&gt;countless&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;meets&quot; between good guy and bad guy in cinema and TV, usually in a remote location where cars are driven.  Have you ever, once, seen one of those guys check a trunk?  It was an original idea by the writers, so just give them kudos for thinking of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T13:03:01.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11226" CreationDate="2014-09-24T13:32:07.620" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Damien Karras, the demon's reaction to the tap water could mean that the possession is not genuine. This would therefore weaken his case for an exorcism. So, it could be that the demon was deliberately reacting to the tap water so Karras would not get permission to perform the exorcism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="389" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T13:32:07.620" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24820" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-24T13:34:36.863" Score="3" ViewCount="1560" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;The Exorcist&quot;, Regan's mother Chris finds a crucifix under the girl's pillow and asks each member of the household staff if they placed the crucifix there. Is it revealed anywhere in the film how the crucifix got there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="389" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T14:54:36.217" Title="Who placed the crucifix under Regan's pillow in The Exorcist?" Tags="|the-exorcist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24821" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-24T13:40:31.010" Score="15" ViewCount="5377" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/article_21065_6-movie-scenes-with-horrifying-off-screen-consequences_p2.html&quot;&gt;cracked article&lt;/a&gt; today that implied that perhaps offscreen, the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi feasted on the bodies of the stormtroopers killed/captured, as they were about to do to Han Solo earlier, before C-3PO 'rescued' him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any canon source, or quote from one of the filmmakers/actors that this is what categorically did/did not occur?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="366" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T15:34:48.677" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T15:34:48.677" Title="Did the Ewoks eat the stormtroopers?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|return-of-the-jedi|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24805" CreationDate="2014-09-24T14:05:33.070" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's going to be a bit hard to tell because Gotham has only had one episode, but I'd say, so far, that &lt;strong&gt;it's probably not really faithful to any particular story that's already been done&lt;/strong&gt;. There will likely be homages or references, but so far it doesn't seem to be adhering to any particular story line, at least not strictly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edward Nigma, aka The Riddler&lt;/strong&gt;, is shown to work as the coroner for&#xA;the Gotham City Police Department. He's been depicted as a sort of&#xA;private eye in the comics before, but never working directly for the&#xA;GCPD in any capacity, especially not before his transformation into&#xA;The Riddler.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oswald Cobblepot, aka The Penguin&lt;/strong&gt;, has been depicted as joining a gang only to be&#xA;kicked out, but wasn't really the direct lackey of a crime boss. He&#xA;was kicked out simply because they didn't like his appearance or&#xA;mannerisms, not because he snitched to the police, and certainly not&#xA;shown to be the subject of a mock execution by James Gordon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The character of &lt;strong&gt;Ivy Pepper&lt;/strong&gt; is likely intended to become &lt;strong&gt;Poison Ivy&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;someday, but in the comics her name is actually &lt;strong&gt;Pamela Isley&lt;/strong&gt;, and&#xA;she's generally been depicted as growing up wealthy or middle class,&#xA;not poor and the daughter of an ex-con.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The character of &lt;strong&gt;Sarah Essen&lt;/strong&gt; is shown to be Gordon and Bullock's boss in Gotham. In the comics she's a love interest of Gordon, specifically after she was assigned to be his partner in the fantastic 4-part series &lt;code&gt;Batman: Year One&lt;/code&gt; (which is also where her character debuted). They have a brief affair, she relocates to New York to save face, but later the writers brought her back and Gordon even marries her.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The character of &lt;strong&gt;Fish Mooney&lt;/strong&gt; is completely new to the franchise as far as I can tell.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, it's likely that it will draw on previous depictions of character's comic/story depictions while modifying them to suit the needs of the show, or possibly even changing them completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, until more episodes are shown and we have a grander scope of the story and characters and their personal stories tied in with it, it's honestly a bit hard to say with just the pilot episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-09-24T14:36:16.803" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T14:36:16.803" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24821" CreationDate="2014-09-24T14:34:42.073" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no canon source I've ever read that confirms or denies this (or discusses it at all), and I'm pretty sure Lucas wouldn't even entertain the question.  Ewoks were roughly (&lt;strong&gt;very roughly&lt;/strong&gt;) &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=m81Bg4E_y_IC&amp;amp;pg=PA28&amp;amp;lpg=PA28&amp;amp;dq=ewok%20cong&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=6peLI14nEd&amp;amp;sig=-x7F_RvWRhoN71mR3mhe2Kcf7lI&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=vdgiVMSbJoSgyASk3IFA&amp;amp;ved=0CFwQ6AEwCg#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=ewok%20cong&amp;amp;f=false&quot;&gt;based on the Viet Cong&lt;/a&gt; and their defeating of the American troops.  They are scrappy, camoflaged and deceptively smart.  I would find it hard to believe that Lucas ever thought of them eating the remains of Stormtroopers.  The threat to Han and Luke was most likely meant to introduce some drama into the plot that would hold the viewers' attention.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-09-24T15:41:47.990" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T15:41:47.990" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24820" CreationDate="2014-09-24T14:54:36.217" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not revealed anywhere in the movie who put it there, but in the book it was hinted that Regan put it there herself between possessions.  I'll see if I can find the book and point to a specific page and passage, it's been a while since I read it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T14:54:36.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23446" CreationDate="2014-09-24T17:39:05.267" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.heyuguys.com/terry-gilliam-interview-the-zero-theorem/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gilliam on original ‘Hollywood Ending’&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What happened is that he (Qohen) comes back from the beach, sets the Chapel on fire, has a little chat with Matt, the kid steals Matt’s car and shouts to Qohen that he’s being chased and he jumps and they drive off to find Bainsley who is on one of 36,000 islands… and I said ‘What the fuck is this?!’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He continues with expressive explanation of final cut:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So I got rid of it and strangely I’m beginning to understand the ending more now. It’s a poetic ending. I want to give him dignity, I wanted him to have a calmness and a majesty. The one thing he could control is the Sun and that is beautiful. That’s the moment he’s stuck… and I though maybe that’s where we’re all going. Life in that virtual world is easier because he can’t deal with the real world ultimately… It’s a terrible compromise of life! It’s avoiding the real thing. I can deal with it… it’s easier… oh FUCK OFF! It’s a sad, sad ending, but I think that’s where we’re heading if we’re not careful. We need a good war, or a plague to thin things out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13931" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T17:39:05.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="369" CreationDate="2014-09-24T18:09:54.013" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a way to basically blame the Maya for what the Spanish later did to them when they invaded and destroyed all the native populations.  It is a victim blaming quote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and the Maya did not harvest people to sacrifice.  That was the Aztecs, and it wasn't on that large of a scale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13932" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T18:09:54.013" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24833" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24834" CreationDate="2014-09-24T22:16:39.757" Score="2" ViewCount="2641" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm re-watching Deadwood, currently on Season 1 Episode 13, &quot;Jewel's boot is made for walking&quot;. In this episode, Alma Garrett's father comes to town. While Alma, her father, Sophia and Seth Bullock are all sitting down to dinner in E.B. Farnum's hotel, E.B. is looking through a curtain and talking about the father. He says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the man's a cheat, a broad tosser, and a clip...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this sentence, these descriptions, signify that E.B. thinks of the father?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T22:42:57.277" Title="Deadwood: a cheat, a broad tosser and a clip" Tags="|dialogue|deadwood|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24833" CreationDate="2014-09-24T22:36:15.290" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;They all mean a con artist, an apt description of Alma's conniving, greedy father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cheat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cheat&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One who cheats; a swindler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=broad-tosser&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Broad-tosser&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The card dealer in the Three Card Monte con. [...] The con artist uses three cards, usually two black spot cards and a red Queen. [...] Monte hustlers usually work as a team, with a lookout and a third member who acts as a shill to win money and get the crowd involved in the betting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thefreedictionary.com/clip+artist&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Clip artist&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a swindler who fleeces the victim&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-09-24T22:42:57.277" LastActivityDate="2014-09-24T22:42:57.277" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24835" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-25T02:30:08.810" Score="4" ViewCount="8929" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Transformers: Age of Extinction, Optimus flies off with the seed to seek out the Creators. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is, where did he get the ability to fly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T15:37:01.403" LastActivityDate="2017-07-06T18:09:48.840" Title="How was Optimus able to fly?" Tags="|plot-explanation|transformers|age-of-extinction|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24651" CreationDate="2014-09-25T03:04:21.857" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there is a federal law about keeping two Iowa class battleships, maintained and ready, in case they are needed .. i dont know if that includes them being armed, or not. Tim&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13934" LastActivityDate="2014-09-25T03:04:21.857" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24837" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32827" CreationDate="2014-09-25T04:08:52.907" Score="17" ViewCount="130521" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just re-watched No Country for Old Men, and while it is implied that Chigurh is hired to find the money and kill whoever stole it, it is unclear who hired him. He kills the two men in the beginning who are with him at the site of the gunfight and who give him the transponder, why would he kill the men who presumably work for whoever hired him? Then he kills the man in the office building, after confirming that that man gave a transponder to the Mexicans as well as him, implying that he had something to do with hiring Chigurh. Finally, when I was reading about the book that inspired the movie, it mentions that Chigurh returns the money towards the end.. who does he return it to? It seems he has killed the people that hired him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: after the first answer, I guess I should elaborate.. It seems that Chigurh worked for the white men who were buying drugs from the Mexicans (they would have had access to the transponder, as it was their money), but my real question is, if Chigurh worked for them, why did he kill most of them? It is pretty clear he has a sense of (perverted) honor and loyalty, so killing the people who hired him seems to go against everything he is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13935" LastEditorUserId="13935" LastEditDate="2014-09-25T06:18:19.800" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T23:57:31.263" Title="In No Country for Old Men, who does Anton Chigurh work for (Why did he kill them?)" Tags="|no-country-for-old-men|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24810" CreationDate="2014-09-25T05:30:47.947" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think about it. Why are the trunks of cars checked at the gate anyway? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe because you might have something suspicious in the trunk which you might take out secretly, once you are through the gate and inside the parking where no one is watching you. But this was clearly not the case as Walt was supposed to be escorted right away by Jack's men into the room. I mean according to the Nazis' plan, Walt was not to be left alone once he arrived at the facility.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe someone can store explosives in the trunk of the car which they park and explode. Usually a suicide mission. This was not the case again. The Nazis could not have thought that Walt was on something like a suicide mission. They really thought, Walt was there for talking business.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now regarding this whole situation, in my opinion the Nazis were quite smug, complacent and over confident at that&#xA;moment. May be they knew Walt was a dangerous man but they heavily&#xA;underestimated his last move. They were clearly outsmarted by Walt.&#xA;They did not have the slightest imagination that Walt was there to&#xA;kill them all. There could be two reasons for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Because they&#xA;really caught the bait when Walt meets Lydia and Todd at the cafe and&#xA;talked about business. They were trying to outplay Walt unknowing that&#xA;the whole thing was Walt's plan. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Nazis were so over confident&#xA;they could rarely imagine that Walt could come to their place all&#xA;alone with a plan to kill them all. They thought they were too strong&#xA;and Walt could not dare to hatch a plan like that. But of course they&#xA;knew Walt was dangerous so they did the usual frisking and all. That's&#xA;it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2014-10-20T07:05:30.440" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T07:05:30.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24841" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24843" CreationDate="2014-09-25T07:32:58.183" Score="14" ViewCount="3472" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the opening (and one of the closing) scenes of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_Reloaded&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Matrix Reloaded&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Trinity jumps backwards out the window of a skyscraper shooting at &lt;a href=&quot;http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Thompson&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Agent Thompson&lt;/a&gt;, and he immediately jumps out after her, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;shooting wildly&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/saa87.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of Trinity falling and shooting Agent Thompson&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as Agent Thompson first saw her while he was on the elevator, he knows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They're on a really high floor, and presumably that there's nothing but tarmac below.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nobody but The One could survive such a fall, and she isn't.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She will die on impact.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this in mind, apart from being a really cool shot to put in the trailer, why would Agent Thompson bother to try and shoot her to death instead of letting her fall to her death unaided?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T12:46:17.607" Title="Why did Agent Thompson jump out the window after Trinity?" Tags="|the-matrix-reloaded|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24841" CreationDate="2014-09-25T09:59:54.783" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Agents are 'immortal', reckless and unyielding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a chase scenario, and given the agents inability to die, why would an agent do anything other than to chase the target and confirm the kill? There is no risk on the Agents part, and even if he remained on the upper floor, he would have still needed to confirm the kill by checking the target has expired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has three options: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Walk down to the ground floor in his current 'host', wasting valuable&#xA;time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adopt another host on the ground floor somewhere, and find his way over to the corpse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Follow the target out of the window, matching velocity, keeping the target in sight at all times and continuing to barrage the quarry with bulletfire.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which of these sounds more like the actions of an efficient killing machine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-09-25T09:59:54.783" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24844" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-25T10:31:32.050" Score="0" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Jack leave a barrel of money for Walt? This happened towards the end of Season 5! Did Jack take pity on Walt because he was dying of cancer again? Or did he try to make sure Walt didn't come after him in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13907" LastActivityDate="2014-09-25T11:36:15.330" Title="Why did Jack leave some money for Walt?" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|plot-explanation|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-09-25T14:24:01.030" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15682" CreationDate="2014-09-25T11:36:15.330" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This happens in the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias_%28Breaking_Bad%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ozymandias&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;Jack left Walt alive and left him some money because of taking pity on him, but specifically because of Todd. I remember him saying something like this, in that episode right after Hank is killed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My nephew here, respects you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So on Todd's request Jack left him alive and left him one barrel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-09-25T11:36:15.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24837" CreationDate="2014-09-25T12:19:02.763" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chigurh has no regard for who he kills at all. He gambled a shop keepers' life on the flip of a coin. He killed those men because he is indeed a murderous lunatic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Man Who Hires Wells&lt;/strong&gt;: I'd just like to know your opinion of him. In general. Just how dangerous is he?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;      &lt;strong&gt;Wells&lt;/strong&gt;: Compared to what? The bubonic plague? He's bad enough that you called me. He's a psychopathic killer, but so what? There's plenty of them around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether he worked for the white men or not it doesn't matter. He has no regard for anyone's life no matter who it is. Also he may have only been accompanying those men to buy the drugs and maybe he works for their superiors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But nevertheless, he is simply a psychopathic killer.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-25T12:31:36.083" LastActivityDate="2014-09-25T12:31:36.083" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21578" CreationDate="2014-09-25T12:49:56.940" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would assume that the industry itself must store this kind of data somewhere since this is a practical necessity (e.g. people need to be paid residuals,...). There is for instance the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/research-preservation/resources-databases/mpc.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Motion Picture Credits Database&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every year, as part of the Academy Awards process, the Academy gathers&#xA;  credits from films hoping to qualify for awards. To these credits,&#xA;  compiled and verified by the film's producer or distributor, we add&#xA;  credits from other films released in Los Angeles County, using&#xA;  research materials from the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In addition to personal credits, MPC records index production and&#xA;  releasing companies, MPAA ratings, running times, Los Angeles release&#xA;  dates, color, language, source authors and source material, all of&#xA;  which are searchable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The credits in the MPC database were originally collected and printed&#xA;  in the Academy publication Annual Index to Motion Picture Credits. The&#xA;  Index started in 1934 as the Screen Achievement Records Bulletin, when&#xA;  the Writers Branch of the Academy began publishing a bulletin of&#xA;  screen authorship records.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and the Official Screen Credits for Academy Awards Consideration (same page, I'm not going to copy-paste the entire description).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/filmstudies/searchabledbs.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This page&lt;/a&gt; mentions several databases, some are only available to UCB users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2014-09-25T12:49:56.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24853" CreationDate="2014-09-25T13:57:44.673" Score="21" ViewCount="8345" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can anyone point me to the exact (or close) movie or time period that began listing lengthy closing credits?  I've seen plenty of B&amp;amp;W movies (and probably a few color ones) where all the credits were in the beginning and only a handful were at the end.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For extra credit, if anyone knows &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; that switch was made, I'd be interested to hear that too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T22:06:44.170" Title="When did Opening Credits become Closing Credits?" Tags="|credits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24852" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-25T15:01:08.727" Score="4" ViewCount="1914" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Sabotage they steal 10 million dollars from the 200 million dollars and Arnold blows the money up. So how do the investigators know 10 million were stolen in the next scene when the investigators are drilling them all about why they stole 10 million but the money was all blown up&#xA;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13947" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-25T15:08:07.750" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T00:41:06.530" Title="How did they know 10 million dollars were taken?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sabotage|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24851" CreationDate="2014-09-25T17:07:49.843" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, a quick &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closing_credits&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia check&lt;/a&gt; produced this nugget, which answers part of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The use of closing credits in film to list complete production crew&#xA;  and cast was not firmly established in American film until the 1970s.&#xA;  Before this decade, most movies were released with no closing credits&#xA;  at all. Films generally had opening credits only, which consisted of&#xA;  just major cast and crew, although sometimes the names of the cast and&#xA;  the characters they played would be shown at the end, as in The Wizard&#xA;  of Oz, Mary Poppins, Oliver! and the 1964 Fail Safe. Two of the first&#xA;  major films to contain extensive closing credits – but almost no&#xA;  opening credits – were the blockbusters Around the World in 80 Days&#xA;  (1956) and West Side Story (1961). West Side Story showed only the&#xA;  title at the beginning of the film, and Around the World in 80 Days,&#xA;  like many films today, had no opening credits at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this came from a separate &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opening_credits&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;, which answers the &quot;Extra Credit&quot; portion of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The ascendancy of television movies after 1964 and the increasingly&#xA;  short &quot;shelf-life&quot; of films in theaters has largely contributed to the&#xA;  credits convention which came with television programs from the&#xA;  beginning, of holding the vast majority of cast and crew information&#xA;  for display at the end of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="20764" LastEditDate="2016-04-19T22:06:44.170" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T22:06:44.170" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24852" CreationDate="2014-09-25T17:15:18.923" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually thought about that as well and the only answer that I could come up with was that it's just an inconsistency in the plot...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They obviously blew up the pile of money to prevent anyone from finding out that they grabbed a part of it, which is quite clever as there's really no way to find out how much of it that was lost in the explosion. The only way that the DEA could have found out about it was if someone snitched, but there's just no one in the team that would have done that. When the 10 million dollars went missing there was one person who took it a tad bit harder than everyone else, but bringing in the DEA made it worse for everyone so there's really nothing good that could have come out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that the whole DEA part of the movie was added to the script after the first scene was written, and then they just never went back and changed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4530" LastActivityDate="2014-09-25T17:15:18.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24852" CreationDate="2014-09-25T17:21:25.770" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was my understanding that the person who found and took it, informed the DEA that it had been taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I know for sure is, the writing was a bit sloppy.  It was really just a vehicle to get Arnold back in the Action game, although there wasn't much action (in a stuntman sort of way).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-09-25T17:21:25.770" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24856" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-25T17:49:53.593" Score="2" ViewCount="3215" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Rent&lt;/em&gt;, Mimi (Rosario Dawson) knows that she is HIV positive and still wants to have an affair with Roger. While he declines her offers because he knows that he is positive too and so he doesn't want to infect her, she doesn't seem to care about this, but it is clear that she doesn't know that he's positive too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is she such a bad person? And why does Roger not complain about her behaviour?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13952" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-10-22T17:44:38.040" LastActivityDate="2018-10-22T17:45:05.357" Title="Mimi knows she has HIV but still wants to have sex with Roger?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|rent|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24859" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24861" CreationDate="2014-09-25T18:18:36.813" Score="5" ViewCount="813" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Pace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Charlie Pace&lt;/a&gt; is a fictional character on ABC's Lost, a television series chronicling the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island. Played by Dominic Monaghan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the season three finale &quot;Through the Looking Glass&quot;, Charlie drowns at the hands of Mikhail Bakunin (Andrew Divoff), sacrificing himself in an effort to save the other survivors. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could recall that he was in love with Claire, a very pretty lady who was pregnant when the plane crashes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also remember that we wrote a very touching letter or bullet points for someone (probably Claire) before he died. About five or six things that happened to him. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You taught me how to swim.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Etc...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was very touching, and I could not remember it. Anyone can help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11099" LastEditorUserId="8691" LastEditDate="2015-06-02T22:30:52.767" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T16:34:01.023" Title="What was the letter written by Charlie before he died in Lost?" Tags="|lost|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24860" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24873" CreationDate="2014-09-25T18:34:47.103" Score="2" ViewCount="2533" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have another Deadwood quote I can't place. The urban dictionary alludes lamp to various womanly and sexual things, but I can't find the whole phrase anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Episode 16, Requiem for the gleet, there is dialog between Cy Tolliver and Mr. Wolcott (George Hearsts man in camp) and Mr. Lee, Mr. Wolcott's answer to Mr. Wu, Swearengen's Celestial opium source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Wolcott and Cy are seated in the Bella Union, Mr. Lee is standing next to Wolcott.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wolcott: Mr. Lee will provide opium to you exclusively for sale to whites in the camp.  You will receive 50% of the gaming proceeds from Celestial's Alley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cy: (looks at Wolcott) My men will lamp the take.  It will spare Mr. Lee here explaining how slow business was 'cause of Buddha's wedding anniversary. (chuckles)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wolcott: Your men lamp the take; also on proceeds from Celestial prostitutes.  How many do you want?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cy: How many can you bring?  (Wolcott looks to Mr. Lee)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MrLee: How many?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cy: That- that sounds like a man with an inexhaustible supply.  How much English do you have, my friend? (Mr. Lee just looks at Cy.) Maybe when we get to know each other better. (pauses) I'll take a dozen, and I don't want 'em fucked out.  I set the rates.  The upkeep's on him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wolcott: And my understanding is the upkeep is quite minimal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cy: Good!  Gives him more to spend on Mah-Jongg. (chuckles) I won't question the apparent one-sidedness of our arrangement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wolcott: Uh, the arrangement is not yours and Mr. Lee's alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cy: Yes, and in ways that I don't understand, it must benefit you and the man whose name I must never say, to have Mr. Lee in camp; and perhaps Mr. Wu out of it, maybe among the spirits of his ancestors.  But what a blessing for me, finally to reach a point in life where I don't feel I have to know.  (He chuckles, puff on his cigar.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what can &amp;quot;my men lamp the take&amp;quot; mean when referring to Celestial (Asian) whores?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-09-05T05:47:12.300" Title="Deadwood: Lamp the take" Tags="|dialogue|deadwood|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24859" CreationDate="2014-09-25T18:54:13.107" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Claire was not pregnant with Charlie's baby, though he treated the child as if it were his own. In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_by_Another&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;S01E10&lt;/a&gt;, it is shown that the father of her child is her ex-boyfriend &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Thomas&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thomas&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe you're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Charlie&amp;#39;s_list&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Charlie's Greatest Hits&lt;/a&gt;, which was a list of his Top 5 memories.  That list was supposed to be delivered to Claire in the event he didn't make it back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;#5 - The First Time I Heard Myself On the Radio&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;#4 - Dad Teaching    Me To Swim at Butlins&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;#3 - The Christmas Liam Gave Me the Ring&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;#2 - Woman Outside Covent Garden Calls Me a Hero&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;#1 - The Night I Met You&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-03-29T16:34:01.023" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T16:34:01.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20073" CreationDate="2014-09-25T21:46:42.147" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about this explanation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is Omega that resets the time, not Cage. It does so automatically, reflexively, in response to Alpha's death. Now that Cage has acquired this &quot;link&quot; with Omega, it's his death that triggers Omega's reflex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The time to reset to might not be a simple &quot;X hours back&quot; rule, but is set by Omega to a point sufficiently back from the start of Operation Downfall, to allow it to deploy drones - spawn (assumption), spread and dig in - before the battle begins. The start of operation is set by military; Omega is super efficient, taking the exact amount of time, every time, to prepare. Hence, Cage finds himself back at the same point in time at every reset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Omega resets the time when it dies itself, as well. Again, this happens automatically. The point in time in this case would be prior to the appearing of Omega in it's location in Paris.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We were shown Omega's blood seeping into Cage, not to explain that Cage acquired the ability to reset time, but to establish a reference point for a sequel, which might look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cage and Rita are both retired from military. Having Omega's blood in him, Cage is linked to, and has visions of, other Omegas floating in space, or perhaps a Super-Omega somewhere on it's base. He tries to warn the authorities, ends up being zapped by police or guards, wakes up on a dissection table, just in time to intercept the surgeon's hand holding the bone saw. He must now escape the psych facility, reunite with Rita, convince a new crew to follow him, break into a military base, hijack a spacecraft, and destroy the Omega/Super-Omega base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13953" LastActivityDate="2014-09-25T21:46:42.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24871" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31948" CreationDate="2014-09-26T01:51:35.420" Score="13" ViewCount="55300" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the first chapters of &lt;em&gt;The Sopranos&lt;/em&gt; season 6, there is a mysterious Ojibwe saying on the board at Tony's room which says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great&#xA;  wind carries me across the sky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any clue in later chapters about who may put that phrase there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13961" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-09-26T09:01:47.913" LastActivityDate="2016-04-03T02:42:34.260" Title="Who put the Ojibwe phrase on the board at Tony's hospital room?" Tags="|the-sopranos|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24860" CreationDate="2014-09-26T06:21:09.973" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Corpus of Historical American English doesn't contain this phrase anywhere in its collection, so it may be a David Milch neologism. However, one thing that may help is to look at how it appears in other languages; for example, in the French DVD the subtitles say &quot;Mes hommes ramasseront les gains,&quot; which translates roughly as &quot;my men will collect the winnings&quot;; likewise, in the Portuguese Blu-Ray, the subtitles read: &quot;Os meus homens recebem os lucros,&quot; Which means &quot;my men will receive the profits.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2014-09-26T06:21:09.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24880" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27576" CreationDate="2014-09-26T15:10:38.790" Score="2" ViewCount="481" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/supernatural/bedtime-stories-1138359/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bedtime Stories&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460681/?ref_=ttep_ep_tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Supernatural&lt;/a&gt; the inspiration for the plot structure of the series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843230/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Once Upon a Time&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3416" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-29T17:01:24.877" LastActivityDate="2021-02-04T07:22:00.457" Title="Supernatural Episode inspiration for Once Upon a Time" Tags="|supernatural|origin|once-upon-a-time|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24881" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27582" CreationDate="2014-09-26T15:17:36.490" Score="2" ViewCount="463" Body="&lt;p&gt;I may have simply missed the line, and not have been able to find the location in the episode, but ... in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/supernatural/all-hell-breaks-loose-1-1003161/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;All Hell Breaks Loose&lt;/a&gt; of Supernatural, Sam says that he knows how all the &quot;special children&quot; are connected (not by mothers burned by Yellow Eyes 6 months after birth).  Before he says how though the plot picks up and, from what I recall, he never finishes the thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are the special children connected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just started watching the series from the beginning after catching some reruns - great show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3416" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T09:52:28.550" Title="Connection between Children in Supernatural" Tags="|plot-explanation|supernatural|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24856" CreationDate="2014-09-26T18:57:38.423" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok a couple of things spring to mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mimi is a drug addict, as revealed in the song 'light my candle'. It could be said that a drug addict would not have full concideration to the consequences of her actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metrolyrics.com/light-my-candle-lyrics-rent.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.metrolyrics.com/light-my-candle-lyrics-rent.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Roger recognises something in her that reminds him of his previous partner, and also somethings in her life that he can relate to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is one thing that your question does miss. If they were going to have sex why wouldn't they use condoms, roger is well aware of his status, and is in control of his HIV as seen by the segment where everyone pauses for medication. Even if you assume Mimi is not able to make that decision - Which I don't, Roger is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You ask if Mimi is a bad person.  No, she is lonely, looking for love or partnership, a connection, as is Roger.   We all make mistakes and bad decisions when looking for love, or seeking that someone special.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12634" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-10-22T17:45:05.357" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12697" CreationDate="2014-09-27T04:29:49.630" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scar is real...it appears in all three hangover movies as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13974" LastActivityDate="2014-09-27T04:29:49.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24886" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-27T05:37:23.803" Score="14" ViewCount="151333" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the ending of the movie &lt;em&gt;Coherence&lt;/em&gt;, we see that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Kevin is talking to Em, when he gets a phone call from her! The look he gave after receiving that call - what does that mean? Does that imply the Em that was stashed in the bathroom really didn't die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would really be helpful to get a clear answer here!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="446" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-27T12:10:22.103" LastActivityDate="2018-04-16T12:56:22.113" Title="What does the ending of the movie &quot;Coherence&quot; mean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|coherence|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24888" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-27T11:19:30.197" Score="6" ViewCount="503" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode 4 of Manhattan, Frank Winter has a flashback while walking alone through the desert at night. He sees a dead German soldier lying on his stomach. On the back of the helmet there is a swastika (the sign of the Nazis in WW2). As far as I know, the flashbacks are set in World War 1 (since it is Frank himself, fighting in this war).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how can the soldier have a swastika (also with an imperial eagle holding it) on his helmet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I get something wrong or is this a mistake in the series?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/37UTs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Snapshop of the helmet&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13976" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2023-09-18T11:12:09.947" LastActivityDate="2023-09-18T11:12:09.947" Title="Why was there a swastika in the flashbacks?" Tags="|manhattan|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24890" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-27T19:00:44.617" Score="22" ViewCount="8324" Body="&lt;p&gt;In most industries, in most of the countries that produce most films, child labor is illegal. Not just highly regulated, or has special laws governing payment of the children, but illegal. Thus, in the US, I'm not allowed to hire a child to work in, say, my auto repair shop. Why is show business exempt from these laws? I tried to find some info on my own, but the only relevant stuff I was able to find was related to the payment of child actors (such as Coogan's Law &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sagaftra.org/content/coogan-law&quot;&gt;http://www.sagaftra.org/content/coogan-law&lt;/a&gt;). In essence, I'm asking for one of two things: Either some kind of historical description of how it came about that acting was treated differently compared to other industries; or an explanation of what it is about the entertainment business in general that allows special treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13362" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T13:16:09.917" Title="Why is child acting legal?" Tags="|film-industry|acting-career|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24891" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24903" CreationDate="2014-09-27T19:41:32.933" Score="12" ViewCount="11937" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Snowpiercer Yona (17 year old girl) predicted many times what's behind the locked doors before they were opened. She predicted that the first compartment was empty. Then she shouted before opening a train compartment and we saw there were assassins with axes. And lastly we saw that she found the 5 year old boy who was being hidden in the train engine room without any sign.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did she have any kind of supernatural power? The movie didn't explain clearly about her powers. How did she get them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-31T11:38:23.383" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T11:38:23.383" Title="Did Yona (Go Ah-sung) have supernatural/special powers in Snowpiercer?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|snowpiercer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24456" CreationDate="2014-09-27T19:56:41.397" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First episode of season two shows Claire looking at the news of Barnes' death. Her momentary pause and small hand gesture indicate that she has her own thoughts about the death, most likely concerning Frank's involvement. Does she discuss them with Frank? Unlikely.  It reflects their mysterious relationship. She knows, he knows, but it isn't said explicitly. In fact, we rarely  see them having any substantial discussions. Their most interesting scenes end up being powerful tableaus. I see them as superficial partners connected by a common goal, but an intimate and emotional connection isn't evident. Why superficial? Because their facade still continues even in their own homes. I doubt that Frank knows anything about Claire's breakdown. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13978" LastEditorUserId="13978" LastEditDate="2014-09-27T20:02:16.393" LastActivityDate="2014-09-27T20:02:16.393" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24893" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27789" CreationDate="2014-09-27T22:37:26.677" Score="2" ViewCount="1557" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV show &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368479/?ref_=ttep_ep_tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cold Case&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, the investigation in the episode &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0543954/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Boy in the Box&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (2004) was initiated by someone leaving the box of memories of the murdered boy on the steps of St. Emilian's Church. Among them was a picture of the never-before-identified victim, with the note &quot;His name was Arnold&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: who sent that box, and why then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My best guess is that it was somehow related to that boy's mother's death (who happened to have &quot;died recently&quot;, as sister Vivian said), but I fail to see how. Is there some hint to the answer that I've missed? They usually explain that kind of stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T14:59:18.500" Title="Who and why sent the box in the episode &quot;The Boy in the Box&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|cold-case|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24894" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-09-27T22:43:03.280" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;An American TV series (2003-2010) about a team of detectives in Philadelphia's homicide squad who work on &quot;cold&quot; cases (those that were not solved in their time, often decades before the current events).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDb page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368479/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cold Case&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Wikipedia page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Case&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cold Case&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2014-09-27T23:16:26.387" LastActivityDate="2014-09-27T23:16:26.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24895" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-09-27T22:43:03.280" Score="0" Body="Cold Case (2003-2010) is an American crime drama TV series created by Meredith Stiehm and starring Kathryn Morris. The series ran for 7 seasons and had 156 episodes in total. It's about a division of the Philadelphia Police Department, specialised in solving old, unsolved cases, the so called &quot;cold cases&quot;." OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="55668" LastEditDate="2019-01-04T00:48:54.593" LastActivityDate="2019-01-04T00:48:54.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24900" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24921" CreationDate="2014-09-28T14:53:11.403" Score="14" ViewCount="15183" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the climax of Django Unchained, Django enters Calvin's house and asks Shiba and the other black girl to say goodbye to Miss Lara, after which he shoots her. Why did Django kill that lady? Although she was Calvin Candie's sister, she is not seen doing anything wrong. Instead when Calvin tries to strip Broomhilda at the dining table she objects and rebukes Calvin, after which he stops. Had Django started hating all the white folks whatsoever?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="28151" LastEditDate="2018-02-25T21:31:56.943" LastActivityDate="2018-02-25T21:31:56.943" Title="Why did Django kill Miss Lara?" Tags="|plot-explanation|django-unchained|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24890" CreationDate="2014-09-28T15:14:31.947" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;While child acting is allowed, it is not unregulated. In the US, the activities of child actors are regulated by the governing labor union &amp;amp; also by federal law and state law if it exists.  Longer work hours or risky stunts are prohibited in California. However to evade this filmmakers often shoots such scenes outside. Especially in California  there are some of the most explicit laws protecting child actors. Being a minor, a child actor must secure an entertainment work permit before accepting any paid performing work. Compulsory education laws mandate that the education of the child actor not be disrupted while the child is working, whether the child actor is enrolled in public school, private school or even home school. The child does his/her schoolwork under the supervision of a studio teacher while on the set. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_actor&quot;&gt;Wikipedia link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides all that, your main question seems to be &quot;why acting is not considered labor for children ?&quot; While I do not have any genuine links for information on this, we may assume that acting is not considered a very physically engaging job for children and that's why it is allowed. The other laws take care of other things, like acting doesn't hamper child's regular activities or is not too hard on him/her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-09-28T15:14:31.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24902" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-28T15:32:44.233" Score="10" ViewCount="1245" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 3rd episode of the 9th season of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472954/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &quot;The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award&quot; for the best bar. While the show is not particularly famous for referencing events related to the show's production (or at least this never occurred to me, in contrast to, say, &lt;em&gt;Arrested Development&lt;/em&gt;'s repeated meta-jokes), I wonder if this is a deliberate allusion to the reluctance of the show itself to win an award.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to &quot;play the game&quot; they try to bribe their way into an award and later check out the previous award winner, a bar full of &lt;em&gt;&quot;loud fake colors without subtlety&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, one black friend that &lt;em&gt;&quot;no-one is acknkowledging is black&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, where every cute punchline of the staff is accompanied with laughter and &quot;aww!&quot;s from the customers and where a bell tells you when to drink. It is hard to see that not in relation to the good old family-friendly and laugh-track featuring sitcoms which are &lt;em&gt;&quot;cute, but not funny, though&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, once one is on this line of thinking. Then there's also the &lt;em&gt;&quot;best song&quot;&lt;/em&gt; that &lt;em&gt;Charlie&lt;/em&gt; wrote for the bar, giving a weird &lt;em&gt;Randy Newman&lt;/em&gt; impression (&lt;em&gt;Monk&lt;/em&gt; anyone?) and &lt;em&gt;Frank&lt;/em&gt;'s tries to go into a different direction by trying to make it &lt;em&gt;&quot;edgier&quot;&lt;/em&gt; inspired by a burlesque bar with &lt;em&gt;&quot;martinis and period costumes&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (an allusion to all the nostalgia shows around?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm not sure if this is all just a simple first thought taking control of the interpretation. Likewise I don't really have much of an overview of e.g. the &lt;em&gt;Emmy&lt;/em&gt;'s palette of award winners. &lt;strong&gt;Is there any external evidence that this was in fact the intended interpretation or have there been any particular production-related events inspiring this episode&lt;/strong&gt;, apart from the ongoing fact that the show doesn't win awards? And as a side question if true, what show was the &lt;em&gt;&quot;bar that just opened last year right down the street and won a ton of awards&quot;&lt;/em&gt; then be alluding to (maybe one right on the same channel/time slot)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2023-03-14T17:02:40.297" Title="Is episode S09E03 a comment on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's success at the awards?" Tags="|analysis|production|its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24891" CreationDate="2014-09-28T15:50:48.550" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being a &quot;train baby&quot;, Yona has highly developed hearing ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The director said &lt;a href=&quot;http://fyeahsnowpiercer.tumblr.com/post/92516980636/bong-joon-ho-on-mason-and-namgoong-minsu-in-snowpiercer&quot;&gt;in an interview&lt;/a&gt; that he felt the need to distinguish the people born on the train from those born on earth. Thus, the &quot;train babies&quot; perceive the noise of the train differently (it's natural to them). As these people were born in a dark environment, their sight is hindered, which resulted in developing other senses on a better level (e.g. taste, and aforementioned hearing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13985" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-28T15:53:49.073" LastActivityDate="2014-09-28T15:53:49.073" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24890" CreationDate="2014-09-28T16:24:41.610" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would assume that the most important reason is that there isn't an alternative to child actors in movies, TV-series etc., whereas in most/all other cases the job can be executed by an adult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour&quot;&gt;not all child labor is prohibited&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These laws do not consider all work by children as child labour;&#xA;  exceptions include work by child artists, supervised training, certain&#xA;  categories of work such as those by Amish children, some forms of&#xA;  child work common among indigenous American children, and others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2014-09-28T16:24:41.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24905" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26942" CreationDate="2014-09-28T17:07:54.607" Score="2" ViewCount="1153" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472954/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode where &quot;The Gang Saves the Day&quot; (S09E06), we have each of the different protagonists live through a daydream of the events following the ongoing shop robbery, which seem to line-up well with their individual characters and their their wishes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mac&lt;/em&gt; saves everyone with his badass karate moves and dies a tear-inducing badass death, ultimately entering heaven and sitting next to god.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sweet Dee&lt;/em&gt; gets her revenge on the gang and becomes a successful actress afterwards.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Charlie&lt;/em&gt; finally lives a happy life with the &lt;em&gt;Waitress&lt;/em&gt; (in a weird animated sequence full of helpful rats and Marriage and Baby Stores) which then converges into a redition of &lt;em&gt;Up&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Frank&lt;/em&gt; (surely the one living most for the moment) just gets a bite of the &lt;em&gt;&quot;best hot dogs in Philly&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the most odd of all those stories (well, at least in relation to the characters) to me was &lt;em&gt;Dennis&lt;/em&gt;' fantasy. He tries to witty-talk himself out of it but ends up with a bullet in his head, only surviving as a rehabilitation case with a non-working dick. But it pans out into a song-laden rehabilitation love story with &lt;em&gt;Jackie Denardo&lt;/em&gt;, the big-breasted weather-chick turned nurse that seemed to trouble him more than anyone else back in episode S07E06. And up until this point this seems to fit well with &lt;em&gt;Dennis&lt;/em&gt;' character, for whom the self-staging process and challenge of winning a girl has always been very important (as also evident from the unnecessarily elaborate &quot;DENNIS System&quot;). But then this whole thing makes a sudden and dark turn when &lt;em&gt;Jackie&lt;/em&gt; has an accident, causing her to become a rehabilitation case with her breasts &lt;em&gt;&quot;obliterated&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, which ultimately compels &lt;em&gt;Dennis&lt;/em&gt; to put her out of her misery by suffocating her with a pillow while crying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Especially the fact that he did &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; get as far as &lt;em&gt;&quot;bangin'&quot;&lt;/em&gt; her and this fantasy did &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; turn out completely positive for him in general (and he seems the only one to make a slightly perplexed face after his daydream, at least at first) makes me wonder &lt;strong&gt;what this story is actually supposed to tell us about his character&lt;/strong&gt;. Given that &lt;em&gt;Dennis&lt;/em&gt; is clearly the most sociopathic of all the characters, was this simply to strengthen this characterization or &lt;strong&gt;are there more aspects about his character to take out of this daydream?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-12-25T16:21:13.217" Title="What does Dennis' daydream tell us about him?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|character|its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24907" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24908" CreationDate="2014-09-28T21:10:12.887" Score="4" ViewCount="1860" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apologies for ripping off Honest Trailers, but that was something I didn't figure out as well from watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and it bugged me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Silva stole the hard drive with names of NATO agents, presumably to get Bond to go after him in person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what happened to that drive in the end? I don't recall it being captured when Bond captures Silva.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T01:06:08.973" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T01:06:08.973" Title="What happens to the hard drive with agents' names in Skyfall?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24907" CreationDate="2014-09-28T21:45:36.600" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The hard drive, or rather the agent lists it contained, is not merely forgotten. In fact &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt; mentions it to &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Tanner&lt;/em&gt; after interrogating &lt;em&gt;Silva&lt;/em&gt; once apprehended:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Let me know what you recover from his computer. Has he transmitted the lists? If so, to whom? I want this resolved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This still leaves it a bit open what exactly happened to the hard drive or if the agent names are still out in the open. But what we can conclude is, that during &lt;em&gt;Silva&lt;/em&gt;'s apprehension, when the whole MI6 was invading his island, they likely consfiscated all of his stuff and computers, so probably also the ominous hard drive. &lt;strong&gt;At least &lt;em&gt;MI6&lt;/em&gt; got people working on it, even if not &lt;em&gt;James Bond&lt;/em&gt; in particular anymore.&lt;/strong&gt; Though, even if not captured (rotting in some safe or on some hidden server), it is likely not posing an active direct threat for MI6 (even if still a hot passive danger). &lt;em&gt;Silva&lt;/em&gt; was working completely on his own, being an individual self-made &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt;-villain par-excellence. So it is rather unlikely that he transmitted the list to anyone or would posthumously keep publishing agent names, because the only use this list ever had to him (and the movie) was as bait for MI6. And after &lt;em&gt;Silva&lt;/em&gt;'s escape there were certainly more pressing matters for &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; to take care of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the fact that it was not referenced anymore later or that the resolution of the whole matter wasn't shown specifically doesn't mean it was not captured, just that it wasn't important for the movie anymore. And in fact, as you already pointed out, it wasn't important for &lt;em&gt;Silva&lt;/em&gt; anymore, since it already did its job of putting MI6 and &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; on his trail. So in its true nature as a MacGuffin it wasn't relevant for the further movie either. I'd agree that this might not be a definite answer but only (reasonable) speculation, but sometimes that's the only thing possible for a supposed plot-hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-09-29T20:59:17.927" LastActivityDate="2014-09-29T20:59:17.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24909" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24929" CreationDate="2014-09-28T23:02:35.510" Score="2" ViewCount="542" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't find any video of the final episode of &lt;em&gt;The Sopranos&lt;/em&gt; in which the character played by Paolo Colandrea is credited as &quot;Man In Members Only Jacket&quot; in the closing credits after the blackout, as alleged in many blogs and forums.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All videos I can find end with these credits: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9vVHt.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose that there are more credits until the HBO logo but I can't find any &quot;proof&quot; of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13961" LastEditorUserId="8501" LastEditDate="2014-09-29T17:04:50.910" LastActivityDate="2014-09-29T17:04:50.910" Title="The Sopranos - Final Episode: Where is the proof that &quot;Man In Members Only Jacket&quot; is in fact credited by that name?" Tags="|the-sopranos|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24912" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-29T00:45:01.620" Score="4" ViewCount="12131" Body="&lt;p&gt;What were the boys getting stung by in the Maze Runner? They say multiple times that, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;No one has seen  Griever and lived to tell about it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that's the case then what's is stinging them? Also when Thomas and Minho return from a night in the maze, one of the boys says, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Did you see a griever?&quot; and Minho responds, &quot;Not only did we see one, Thomas killed it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Implying two major events. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone has seen a Griever and lived &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone has killed one of them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastEditorUserId="13338" LastEditDate="2014-09-29T14:21:58.240" LastActivityDate="2018-02-26T20:22:46.813" Title="What was doing the stinging in Maze Runner?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-maze-runner|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20073" CreationDate="2014-09-29T01:18:27.140" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that time reset is triggered when an Alpha or Cage (with Alpha blood) dies. Time will always be reset to a certain &quot;spawn point&quot;. Spawn point for time loop is set to 24 hours prior to the time of &quot;infection&quot; with blood/time of first death upon gaining the time loop ability (which is in both cases the same). The omega did not prevent its down death because it never had the ability. It's the alpha's death that would have triggered a reset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13992" LastActivityDate="2014-09-29T01:18:27.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8313" CreationDate="2014-09-29T03:19:03.050" Score="6" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Earlier in the movie, Bond had been tasked with preventing Silva's distribution of the names of MI6's undercover agents&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes,  that was explicitly designed to be a failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can confirm that from Director Sam Mendes's Audio Commentary on Blue-Ray release. In Extra #4 &quot;The Death of Bond&quot; he says, about the opening sequence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To me, what's special about the sequence, &lt;strong&gt;is that he failed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The tradition of Bond opening sequences, is that there's a great moment and it's Bondian... It's triumphant.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  And he dusts himself down and we get on with the story.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Well, actually, it's the other way around here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WMvoI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;If I understand Skyfall correctly, James Bond's primary mission is to protect M from being killed by Silva -- despite this, near the end of the movie, M dies from a wound inflicted by Silva's men.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, you understood it incorrectly, in 2 ways. First, Bond's primary mission changes, but it never is &quot;to protect M&quot; from official standpoint:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First, his mission is to retrieve the hard drive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As discussed earlier, he fails that. But largely thanks to M's decision making as discussed below.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;His second mission, as set to him by M is to apprehend Sliva and get the hard drive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Silva is captured by Bond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we never get a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/24907/what-happens-to-the-hard-drive-with-agents-names-in-skyfall&quot;&gt;clear-cut confirmation that he got the hard drive&lt;/a&gt;, it is pretty clear that it was retrieved, since M. wants to know if Silva transmitted the data to anyone else. So Bond succeeded on both counts there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once Silva escapes, Bond sets himself an impromptu mission to find and stop him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, he foils Silva's plan to attack the government inquiry where M. is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, he and M. agree to use M. as bait to catch Silva and stop him. &lt;strong&gt;Note that the mission is to catch/stop Silva, NOT to save M. explicitly&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;M: 007, what the hell are we doing? Are you kidnapping me?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  JB: That would be one way of looking at it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  M: Too many people are dying because of me&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  JB: If he wants you, he'll have to come and get you.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  We've been one step behind Silva from the start. It's time to get out in front, change the game.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;And I'm to be the bait?&lt;/strong&gt; {{ JB and M. exchange understanding nods}}. All right. But just us. No one else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this is NOT an official MI6 mission/task:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JB: Q? I need help.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Q: I'm guessing this &lt;strong&gt;isn't strictly official&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  JB: &lt;strong&gt;Not even remotely.&lt;/strong&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing you have to understand is that 100% of the failures were NOT Bond's but other people's - notably, M.'s and Q.'s:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;M. herself admitted the failures:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;M: I fucked this up, didn't I?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  JB: No. You did your job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and in the end, when dying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I did get one thing right. (&lt;em&gt;referring to the fact that she trusted Bond to do the job, and everything else she got wrong&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;M. set up the whole situation by surrendering Silva to the Chinese&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;M. gave the order to Eve to shoot, which took out Bond and prevented him from winning the hard drive from Patrice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;M. gave the order to bring Silva to the new MI6 headquarters&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And Q., being the goofus that he is, connected Silva's computer full of malware to the &lt;strike&gt;alien mothership&lt;/strike&gt; MI6 network. WTF???&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2014-09-29T03:19:03.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24915" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-29T03:24:59.753" Score="5" ViewCount="16432" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was re-watching Skyfall, and saw that his parents' house was supposed to have been in Scotland. I was guessing right next to Hogwarts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the question is, is Skyfall house a real lodge/house in Scotland, or was it made up for the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T01:05:58.447" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T01:05:58.447" Title="Was there a real Skyfall house in Scotland?" Tags="|james-bond|skyfall|film-location|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24915" CreationDate="2014-09-29T03:36:25.543" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, decided to look into the BlueRay extras and found it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Blue Ray Extra #14: &quot;The Beginning of the End&quot;, the house was not actually in Scotland. It was designed and filmed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hankley_Common&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hankley Common&lt;/a&gt;, in Surrey, England. Screenshots from ~3:15 min into the Extra:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d1CjX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xR4PF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastActivityDate="2014-09-29T03:36:25.543" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24917" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-29T04:22:56.323" Score="0" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any security person worth their salt would know that you don't plug a drive retrieved from a malicious source onto a network connected system. At least not connected to the uber-secure network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Q plug the drive into a system attached to the secure network? Why didn't he take the extremely simple and obvious precaution of disconnecting from the network before trying to read the drive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7366" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-01-31T14:04:48.430" LastActivityDate="2019-01-31T14:04:48.430" Title="Why did they plug the drive into the network?" Tags="|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-09-29T11:50:03.107" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11469" CreationDate="2014-09-29T07:30:09.347" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I don't remember that specific scene (not sure I've even seen the movie), this sounds once again quite like something the writers made up just for the story. As such it's rather hard to answer why Q would do it (because it's the same reason: just for the plot).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you've got some really nasty bug in your operating system or some insecure autorun policies set, there shouldn't happen anything once you connect a drive (and you don't try to execute something on it). Everything on it is just inactive/passive data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could be additional safeguards built into the hardware (similar to drive encryption), but once again that's unlikely to cause any side-effects outside; at least nothing software only (other than potentially reading wrong information).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he intended to execute something on the drive, then yes, you're right, it's very careless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although, to be honest, I'd try to create a copy of the drive (so it's unable to destroy the data on it itself) and then mount that in a virtual machine (so it won't be able to destroy my soft-/hardware). It's not just about disconnecting from the network (you'd most likely do it on isolated hardware to begin with; so you wouldn't have to worry about disconnecting first).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastActivityDate="2014-09-29T07:30:09.347" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24900" CreationDate="2014-09-29T11:18:14.337" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Him hating all the white people is a bit of a stretch, after all that white Dr. Shultz did for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, hating all the Candies is not a wee bit of a stretch. Covering his track is also a good motive: random slaves are not very likely reveal (or even be asked) who killed their hated masters when some sheriff or a marshal come to investigate, but Calvin Candie's sister surely would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there is the matter of Django's punishment at the Candieland. It was her to decide to LeQuint Dickey Mining Company. This was the destiny waiting for Django, by Miss Lara's decision, as described by Stephen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lo and behold, out of nowhere, Miss Lara come up with the bright idea of giving your ass to the LeQuint Dickey Mining Company. And as a slave of the LeQuint Dickey Mining Company,henceforth, till the day you die, all day, every day, you will be swinging a sledgehammer, turning big rocks into little rocks.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Now, when you get there, they gonna take away your name, give you a number and a sledgehammer, and say, &quot;Get to work!&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  One word of sass, they cuts out your tongue. And they good at it too. You won't bleed out. Oh, they does that real good.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  They gonna work ya.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  All day, every day, till your back give out.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Then they're gonna hit you in the head with a hammer, throw your ass down the nigger hole.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  And that will be the story of you, Django.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's not like miss Lara was really concerned about Broomhilda:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We are eating. Ain't no one wanna look at her whipped up back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She's merely concerned about unpleasantness at the dinner table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All taken into account, there is no reason for Django to be merciful to her, but there are quite a few to treat her like all the other white people at the Candieland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2014-09-29T11:18:14.337" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24923" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24925" CreationDate="2014-09-29T12:35:07.460" Score="3" ViewCount="13493" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie The Graduate, the Simon &amp;amp; Garfunkel song &quot;The Sound Of Silence&quot; is used 4 or 5 times.  There's even an instrumental version in one scene.  I can't think of any other movie where one song is used so many times, unless it's a &quot;theme song&quot; like &quot;Axel's Theme&quot; in Beverly Hills Cop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there some significance to this song within the movie?  The lyrics don't even particularly align with any scenes or even the overall content, so I'm a little perplexed as to why it's used do often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-08-06T08:33:37.023" Title="Usage of &quot;The Sound Of Silence&quot; in The Graduate?" Tags="|soundtrack|the-graduate|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24912" CreationDate="2014-09-29T12:53:53.727" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;They have seen them, for example from the window.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;By that quote they meant that no one has spend the night with them outside the Glade, and then come back in the morning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Newt broke out in a laugh, but quickly cut it off. “I like you, Greenie. Now shut it and let me show ya somethin’.” Newt stepped forward and dug his hands into the thick ivy, spreading several vines away from the wall to reveal a dust-frosted window, a square about two feet wide. It was dark at the moment, as if it had been painted black. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Out there’s the Maze,” Newt whispered, eyes wide as if in a trance. [...] And we want to show ya why it’s not to be messed with. Show ya why them buggin’ walls close shut every night. Show ya why you should never, never find your butt out there.” Newt stepped back, still holding on to the ivy vines. He gestured for Thomas to take his place and look through the window. Thomas did, leaning forward until his nose touched the cool surface of the glass. It took a second for his eyes to focus on the moving object on the other side, to look past the grime and dust and see what Newt wanted him to see. And when he did, he felt his breath catch in his throat, like an icy wind had blown down there and frozen the air solid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A large, bulbous creature the size of a cow but with no distinct shape twisted and seethed along the ground in the corridor outside&lt;/strong&gt;. It climbed the opposite wall, then leaped at the thick-glassed window with a loud thump. Thomas shrieked before he could stop himself, jerked away from the window—but the thing bounced backward, leaving the glass undamaged...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11530" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T08:32:18.210" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T08:32:18.210" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24923" CreationDate="2014-09-29T12:56:09.130" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this might not be a complete answer already (and it's been quite a while since I saw this one), &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Silence#In_popular_culture&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; says that it was first and foremost a kind of convenience partnership between the movie and the song that grew into a necessity after the fact:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When director Mike Nichols and Sam O'Steen were editing the film The Graduate, they initially timed some scenes to this song intending to substitute original music for the scenes. However, they eventually concluded that the song could not be adequately substituted and decided to purchase the rights for the song for the soundtrack. This was an unusual decision for the time, as the song had charted over a year earlier and recycling established music for film was not commonly done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they seemed to have at first primarily chosen the song because &lt;strong&gt;its pacing and its mood were fitting to the movie, not directly intending the song to be used in the final movie&lt;/strong&gt;, which is probably why the lyrics are not directly related. But it probably fit so well (and they grew accustomed to its place in the movie) that this was kept as the final solution (and nowadays I guess no-one would say this was a bad choice).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I'm not entirely sure what to make out of the lyrics of the song in particular, as I'm not a big expert on the matter and not too sensitive to sub-text. But to me &lt;strong&gt;the song's style and its lyrics have quite a melancholy and isolating overall feel to it, which ties in well with the whole coming-of-age theme of the movie&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Benjamin&lt;/em&gt;'s drifting state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-24T13:10:18.733" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T13:10:18.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1302" CreationDate="2014-09-29T13:27:47.350" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a lot of interesting info on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running_(On_Dangerous_Ground)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Wiki page for the song&lt;/a&gt;.  It's not far-fetched to believe the &quot;movie&quot; within the song is not real, as music videos of that era were often mini movies (remember &quot;Thriller&quot;?) with fairly large production budgets.  Music videos were the medium of the future, and MTV was a global radio station to get the music heard.  Plus, Rutherford's association with Genesis meant he already had a decent built-in fan base, so it wasn't really as much of a risk as pouring a couple hundred grand into a music video for a completely unknown band.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in short, the song was used in On Dangerous Ground (which was renamed Choke Canyon in the US) and the video was merely a story about &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a guy who's traveled light-years away, out in space somewhere, and&#xA;  he's ahead in time. Therefore he knows what's going to happen to his&#xA;  wife and kids back home, on Earth. And he's trying to get the message&#xA;  to them to say what's going to happen, the kind of anarchy, the&#xA;  breakdown of society, to tell them to be prepared&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-09-29T13:27:47.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24912" CreationDate="2014-09-29T13:44:38.703" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early in the film, they tell Thomas that their biggest rule is only Runners enter the maze, no one else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best way to get people new to an area to do what you tell them to do? &lt;em&gt;Tell them there's something out there that will hurt them.&lt;/em&gt; Now, there is actually something out there that will kill you, but it's clearly shown to not take an immediate effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, Newt telling Thomas that, &quot;No one has seen a Griever and lived to tell about it,&quot; &lt;strong&gt;is more than likely his attempt to persuade Thomas to stay within the Glade and to quell his curiosity&lt;/strong&gt;, or at least give him something to be afraid of to the point of not wishing to pursue his curiosity further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They weren't counting on Thomas' level of curiosity, since none of them knew what he was capable of due to their memories being wiped. When Thomas learned that the sting isn't a cause of immediate death, and that others HAVE seen Grievers and lived to tell about it, he decides to venture out into the maze himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-09-29T13:44:38.703" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24491" CreationDate="2014-09-29T15:09:54.540" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;His motivation for helping the FBI can be considered threefold: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Getting rid of competitors/rivals/enemies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Access to FBI files, resources and intel, to fill the blanks in his&#xA;own vast &quot;empire&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His interest in Elizabeth Keen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Getting rid of competitors/rivals/enemies&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;As we start out in the series, it is very unclear why Red has chosen to surrender himself to the authorities. Hints are provided that he truly wants to get rid of the people on the Blacklist, it being the honest and good thing to do, but it's clearly not the whole, if any of, the truth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the season wears on, it becomes evident that Red's Empires is under attack, from an unknown enemy, and a lot of the people on the Blacklist are involved. Red uses FBI resources, that is Director Cooper and his team, to put these enemies out of play, without really getting his own hands dirty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Access to FBI files, resources and intel, to fill the blanks in his&#xA;   own vast &quot;empire&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Red's intel is vast and there is little he can learn from the FBI, there are still a few things they can get, that he can't (without using substantial resources). Furthermore, using FBI resources to get rid of competitors and enemies saves on his own and puts his enemies out of play in a very official capacity. By letting FBI catch the Blacklister instead of using his own resources, he not only eliminates his opponents, but puts them officially on the radar, so to speak. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;His interest in Elizabeth Keen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wile it has yet to become clear exactly what Red's interest in Elizabeth Keen is, it has been revealed that Red and Elizabeth's adoptive father knew each other, and that Red has somehow been involved in her past. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Helping Keen advance her career may be Red's only truly personal motive for surrendering himself: he cares for Lizzie and wants to make sure that her career advances fast. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of what I've provided are my own conclusions and reasonings, based on two run-throughs of the series (one with my partner and one with a friend) and from reading on &lt;a href=&quot;http://the-blacklist.wikia.com/wiki/The_Blacklist_Wiki&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Blacklist Wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;I could elaborate further, but to avoid any unnecessary spoilers for the unlucky few who have yet to finish the series, I'll hold off with that until requested, if you don't mind. If you want more, let me know. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13971" LastActivityDate="2014-09-29T15:09:54.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24909" CreationDate="2014-09-29T15:41:41.340" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are more credits after that point.  Here's a screen capture from the DVD release:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MYA0j.png&quot; alt=&quot;Sopranos End Credits&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, Paolo Colandrea is credited as &quot;Man in Members Only Jacket&quot; at 59:28.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2014-09-29T15:41:41.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24933" CreationDate="2014-09-29T16:51:48.787" Score="3" ViewCount="1772" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV show Gotham, I noticed how it's always dark and the sky is always filled with dark clouds. Is the story in a post apocalyptic world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T15:17:56.283" Title="Is Gotham a post-apocalyptic city?" Tags="|gotham|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24932" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26581" CreationDate="2014-09-29T17:01:36.700" Score="12" ViewCount="29277" Body="&lt;p&gt;In most movies, there is a post shoot processing, which gives the movies  a distinct look. Often this color grading is based on certain pre-defined presets or let's say themes. Now, every time I see a David Fincher movie, I can almost tell, they have a distinct look. Something yellowish or may be something else. I mean you can take any movie since Zodiac. Zodiac, Curious case of Benjamin Button, Social Network, The Girl with Dragon Tattoo, all of them have the same look, which is different from other movies. So much that when you see a trailer, you can almost tell that it is David Fincher movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually I want to know about this particular look. How to define it more? Is it some kind of preset or is there a name for color themes like that? Can someone please throw some more light on it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="206" LastEditDate="2014-09-30T11:54:08.680" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T00:30:55.840" Title="What's the distinct color grading in David Fincher's movies?" Tags="|film-techniques|david-fincher|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24931" CreationDate="2014-09-29T17:17:56.260" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, even though we're only one episode in, &lt;strong&gt;Gotham is not in a post-apocalyptic world setting.&lt;/strong&gt; If anything, Gotham is taking a more film noir approach to its cinematography and backdrops, which is consistent with depcitions of the city throughout most of Batman's publication and film/television history. However, the look and feel of Gotham City has been changed over the 75 years Batman has been around to suit both the needs of the writers, as well as the decade in which they are writing (the real world decade, not the comic story decade).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gotham City has generally been depicted as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_City#Atmosphere&quot;&gt;cold, dark city&lt;/a&gt;. Former editor Dennis O'Neil was quoted as saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Batman's Gotham City is Manhattan below Fourteenth Street at eleven&#xA;  minutes past midnight on the coldest night in November.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gotham City has been attributed to the real life city of Chicago on many occasions, with its rich and special history of organized crime, and because it has alleys, which are virtually non-existent in New York.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frank Miller has been quoted as saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Metropolis is New York in the daytime; Gotham City is New York at&#xA;  night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted many of these quotes refer to New York and not Chicago, but again, the point is visual imagery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout most of the 50s and 60s, Gotham City was depicted in a lighter tone with brighter colors, but that was mostly due to media preferences at the time, from a generally more conservative era of American history. When the 70s rolled around, Batman started to go back to its dark, gritty, noir roots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, for the highly lauded &lt;code&gt;Batman: The Animated Series&lt;/code&gt;, producer Eric Radomski famously required that the artists for the show &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Animated_Series#Overview&quot;&gt;create all backgrounds on dark paper and painted with light colors&lt;/a&gt;, in contrast with the industry's usual standard of dark colors on light paper. The idea was that Gotham City was a dark, gritty city, and thus the artists needed to fill it with light. Combined with the Art Deco style of buildings, cars and other props, the design came to be known as Dark Deco.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More recently, writer Grant Morrison has provided a more optimistic look for Gotham City, saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If Gotham was so bloody awful, no one normal would live there and&#xA;  there'd be no one to protect from criminals. If Gotham really was an&#xA;  open sewer of crime and corruption, every story set there would serve&#xA;  to demonstrate the complete and utter failure of Batman's mission,&#xA;  which isn't really the message we want to send, is it? You've got&#xA;  Batman and all his allies as well as Commissioner Gordon and the city&#xA;  still exudes a vile miasma of darkness and death? I can't buy that.&#xA;  It's simply not realistic and flies in the face of in-story logic (and&#xA;  you know I like my comics realistic!) so my artists and I have taken a&#xA;  different tack and we want to show the cool, vibrant side of Gotham,&#xA;  the energy and excitement that would draw people to live and visit&#xA;  there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I wouldn't take a city or location being depicted with dark tones to always be post-apocalyptic. Batman's story is a tragic one, in a city filled with crime and desperation, but there are some brights spots as well. The dark tone of the city is more to convey the mood and characterization of Batman rather than some sort of horrible future gone wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That, and we're only one episode into the show. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-09-29T17:17:56.260" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24931" CreationDate="2014-09-29T19:32:32.207" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you google &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=origins%20of%20gotham&amp;amp;sourceid=ie7&amp;amp;rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&amp;amp;ie=&amp;amp;oe=&amp;amp;safe=active&amp;amp;gws_rd=ssl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Origins of Gotham&lt;/a&gt;&quot; you will find some amazing information about Gotham City.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The origin of the name dates to Medieval times, and was first linked to New York by Washington Irving in &lt;em&gt;The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Rip Van Winkle&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since these dates most likely precede the word &quot;post-apocalyptic&quot; (or at leaast it's current meaning), it's likely that the original Gotham was not post-apocalyptic at all, but rather a term for a more corrupt, dark city, as mattD pointed out with Frank Miller's quote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-09-29T19:32:32.207" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15311" CreationDate="2014-09-30T01:42:34.843" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a link that you might like!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.looper.com/146984/how-breaking-bad-and-the-walking-dead-are-connected/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;How Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead are connected&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shows that AMC has been deliberatly putting signs that both shows are in the same universe, some fans going has far as saying that the blue meth is the cause of the zombie apocalypse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biggest proof on my behalf is the red car Walter bought. It is used by Glenn to escape Atlanta in the first season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have a nice read!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit : I found out another fun connection between the two shows! In the sixth episode of the third season of Breaking Bad, Gale presents Walt his &quot;coffee maker&quot;. This same coffee maker can be found in Milton's laboratory in the third season of The Walking Dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IatAx.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IatAx.png&quot; alt=&quot;Coffee is a geek thing I guess.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13701" LastEditorUserId="13701" LastEditDate="2020-01-24T12:42:52.263" LastActivityDate="2020-01-24T12:42:52.263" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24888" CreationDate="2014-09-30T09:52:39.750" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Swastika is a symbol has been around for ages. Heinrich Schliemann found it on the Troy-site where after it grew as a symbol of &quot;Good luck&quot; around the world. Later on it changed to the symbol of Nazism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I didn't know this was used in WWI it pretty much makes sense to wish the soldiers good luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read more about it on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14011" LastActivityDate="2014-09-30T09:52:39.750" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24932" CreationDate="2014-09-30T11:42:24.300" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd assume you're talking about the color grading/color correction. You'll find some details about this in the extras on the Blu-ray or DVD releases of his movies. Online there are articles like &lt;a href=&quot;http://nofilmschool.com/2011/05/david-finchers-streamlined-diy-post-production&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and YouTube videos like &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9F9vlBWjeI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; (more &lt;a href=&quot;http://jonnyelwyn.co.uk/cool-videos-films-projects-creative-work/color-grading-a-fincher-film/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that sometimes he re-colors his movies for home release, here's for instance &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mytherapy.tv/se7en-by-colourist-stephen-nakamura-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;what happened to Se7en&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2014-09-30T11:42:24.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15278" CreationDate="2014-09-30T11:52:47.603" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that also in some languages maleika or malaika ( I'm not sure about the spelling) means angel. Maybe Malekith means dark angel. The -ith sounds like Sith to me, there must be a relationship of some kind given that both the Sith and the dark elves are dark beings, so it might mean Friend of evil or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14014" LastActivityDate="2014-09-30T11:52:47.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24900" CreationDate="2014-09-30T13:00:17.670" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;She might not have ordered anything particularly severe that we saw but she was complicit with the brutal treatment of the slaves at the house, including Broomhilda.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her brother adored her and she could easily have used that influence to ease the plight of the people there but she chose not to and merely enjoyed the luxury of her life off their backs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She also, as Vendran pointed out, gave the order for Django to be sent to the mining company and was involved in the conversation about how best to torture him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO she was lucky he killed her with one shot and did not kneecap her first, she was as despicable as her brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2014-09-30T13:00:17.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16901" CreationDate="2014-09-30T13:22:26.540" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though it's impossible to say for sure, there are some strong odds that he got the name from a Disney movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a movie called Napoleon and Samantha about two young kids who had a pet lion. The movie was released in 1972 and it was broadcast on television in 1975. And the boy, played by Johnny Whitaker, was named Napoleon Wilson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's possible Carpenter heard the name and decided to reuse it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know he pulled another character name for Darwin in The Fog from the Dr Phibes movies (he played an unnamed coroner named Dr Phibes as revealed in the credits), so that may well be the answer. Or it might be a running gag between the directors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly, the only thing the movie gives us is :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;How'd you get the name Napoleon Wilson?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I'll have to tell you some time.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he might intentionally tease us about it. (DVD commentary doesn't give us anything to work with either.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="595" LastActivityDate="2014-09-30T13:22:26.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16901" CreationDate="2014-09-30T14:26:10.060" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing I've ever seen that specifically indicates why he chose that name.  There is nothing on the DVD or Blu-Ray commentary tracks that mentions it either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Character names are seldom discussed by writers with respect to why a particular name was chosen.  So, in that respect it's impossible to know where it came from.  Perhaps the name was just arbitrary, like Napoleon Dynamite.  Or maybe he found some humor in Napoleon (a famous historical figure) having an un-French surname like Wilson.  It could also be as simple as the three shells gag in Demolition Man or the famous &quot;joke without a punchline&quot; from The Breakfast Club; the writer himself never had the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, until Carpenter comes out and says something, no one will ever know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-09-30T15:43:39.373" LastActivityDate="2014-09-30T15:43:39.373" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24951" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-09-30T17:50:50.463" Score="1" ViewCount="390" Body="&lt;p&gt;How &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0372422/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Damien Echols&lt;/a&gt; survived &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_row&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Death Row&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804463/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Devil's Knot&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quote from the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mr.Echols, you have been adjudicated guilty on three counts of capital&#xA;  murder as well, the death of Michael Moore, Chris Byers, and Stevie&#xA;  Branch. You are remanded to the custody of the Sheriff and to&#xA;  immediately be transported to the Arkansas Department of Corrections&#xA;  where &lt;strong&gt;on the 5th of May, 1994&lt;/strong&gt;, a lethal quantity of an ultra&#xA;  short-acting barbiturate in combination with &lt;strong&gt;a chemical paralytic&#xA;  agent, will be injected into your body until you are dead&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1799" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-09-30T18:24:45.160" LastActivityDate="2014-09-30T19:38:36.863" Title="How Damien Echols survived Death Row in Devil's Knot?" Tags="|plot-explanation|devils-knot|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24951" CreationDate="2014-09-30T19:38:36.863" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the movie but it is based upon the real life case of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_Three&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The West Memphis Three&lt;/a&gt;.  As your quote shows Damien Echols was sentenced to die but the death penalty in the USA is a long and complicated process.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone is sentenced to death in the United States the case is automatically sent for a direct review in state appellate court to ensure that the original court's decision followed all legal procedure.  The court can rule that either (1) the sentence stands, (2) the sentencing court made legal errors and a retrial is ordered, or (3) that no reasonable person would have given the defendant the death penalty and will order the defendant acquitted of the death penalty but sentenced to the next most severe punishment for which the crime is eligible.  This process can take a while but if the death penalty is affirmed it doesn't end there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A defendant can file other appeals in their case known as a federal habeus corpus.  This moves the case out of the state courts and into federal courts.  These appeals usually claim a violation of civil rights or attempt to admit new evidence.  For more on this you can read the wikipedia article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Capital Punishment in the US&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The average time a defendant in the USA spends on death row is ten years but some can spend twice that according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/time-death-row#chara&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Death Penalty Info&lt;/a&gt;.  For the record, the longest time an inmate in the USA spent on death row was 40 years.  Gary Alvord was sentenced in Florida on April 9, 1974 and he died on May 19, 2013.  His execution was delayed because he suffered from schizophrenia and psychiatrists refused to treat him just to make him well enough to be executed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="789" LastActivityDate="2014-09-30T19:38:36.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24956" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-01T03:37:03.973" Score="13" ViewCount="10562" Body="&lt;p&gt;When adapting a written medium (such as a novel or comic book) to an audio-visual one, a common difficulty is presenting what the character is thinking on-screen, as most fiction is presented from the perspective of a character involved with the story. There are some obvious methods of translating this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The narrator&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A character narrates the film to interject their thoughts. This is the most common model, and it has several sub-types depending on who is narrating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The point of view character has an inner monologue represented by the character talking in real-time over the film, generally with some reverberation to indicate this (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_(TV_series)&quot;&gt;Dexter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peep_Show_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;Peep Show&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubs_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;Scrubs&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The narrator is a character and the film is about the story they are telling to the audience and/or other characters within the film (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Met_Your_Mother&quot;&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemony_Snicket%27s_A_Series_of_Unfortunate_Events&quot;&gt;Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_than_Fiction_%282006_film%29&quot;&gt;Stranger than Fiction&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A character who appears in the film and may interact with the other characters in a minor way, but primarily addresses the audience and has knowledge of events that their character may not know. This is also called a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GreekChorus&quot;&gt;Greek Chorus&lt;/a&gt; and examples include &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristodemus_of_Sparta&quot;&gt;Dilios&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_%28film%29&quot;&gt;300&lt;/a&gt;, The Stranger in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Lebowski&quot;&gt;The Big Lebowski&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Criminologist_%28character%29&quot;&gt;The Criminologist&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Picture_Show&quot;&gt;The Rocky Horror Picture Show&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Just don't&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is probably the most common. All inner thoughts are skipped, or left up to the actors to portray. For example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_%28film_series%29&quot;&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/a&gt;, and presumably every comic book which had thought bubbles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Talking to an inanimate object&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The author knows it's weird for a character to soliloquise to themselves, so they have the character talk to an object instead (a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SurrogateSoliloquy&quot;&gt;Surrogate Soliloquy&lt;/a&gt;). This is less common because it could be interpreted as the character being insane, and in these cases, that's what it indicates: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_Away&quot;&gt;Cast Away&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadwood_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;Deadwood&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend_%28film%29&quot;&gt;I Am Legend&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But are there any other methods of including the characters thoughts in audiovisual media?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-01T13:47:47.183" LastActivityDate="2017-02-10T02:44:00.433" Title="What are the methods of including a character's thoughts in an audiovisual medium?" Tags="|film-techniques|book-adaptation|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24835" CreationDate="2014-10-01T07:25:12.090" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Optimus Prime has been able to fly since the end of &lt;em&gt;Transformers (2) : Revenge of The Fallen&lt;/em&gt; through, &lt;em&gt;Transformers (3) : Dark of the Moon&lt;/em&gt; to, &lt;em&gt;Transformers (4) : Age of Extinction&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He achieved flight power from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetfire#Transformers:_Revenge_of_the_Fallen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jetfire&lt;/a&gt;, a Decepticon who had defected to the Autobots. Jetfire sacrifices himself towards the end of Transformers 2 and relinquishes some of his parts and weapons to Optimus. Ratchet and Jolt fit these to Optimus, giving him wings and afterburners for sustainable flight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastActivityDate="2014-10-01T07:25:12.090" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24956" CreationDate="2014-10-01T08:39:10.583" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;One movie that immediately sprang to my mind when reading the question was &lt;em&gt;David Lynch&lt;/em&gt;'s 1984 adaptation of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087182/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dune&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. It employs a very direct and obvious way of sharing a character's momentary thoughts, &lt;strong&gt;just having them spoken in from the off in the respective situations&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I would still regard that as significantly different from the narrator-based methods you listed, since in this movie there is no narrator otherwise (well ok, apart from the beginning (and end?)) and those thoughts are not merely done for one protagonist but for a multitude of characters. It's maybe similar to a classic monoloque but with the actor &lt;strong&gt;not visually speaking and &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; directing it at the audience&lt;/strong&gt;. It feels much more &lt;strong&gt;situational and immersive&lt;/strong&gt; than a fourth wall breaking monologue or a narrator (who always gives the impression of the action having already happened), like you're really hearing the actual thoughts &lt;em&gt;right now&lt;/em&gt; and without the actor's/character's knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this technique was always something pretty unique and extremely effective about this movie. In the scenes where it was used it made a great contribution to overall atmosphere of the movie. This is also why I wouldn't say this was so much of a narrative story-telling device there, but much more of a &lt;strong&gt;stylistic device&lt;/strong&gt;, having the audience not just &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; the plot, but even more so &lt;em&gt;feel&lt;/em&gt; the characters' emotions. I also don't know if those particular thoughts were actually adapted from the source material at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I haven't seen this technique used anywhere else, only (but more rarely) in the 1971 movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066819/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Beguiled&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, albeit being quite an obvious way to share a character's thoughts. But maybe it is too obvious and regarded lazy or pretentious, a &quot;cheap trick&quot; in a medium that allows for much more elaborate or subtle ways to &lt;em&gt;show&lt;/em&gt; rather than &lt;em&gt;tell&lt;/em&gt; the characters' thoughts and emotions. But sometimes the obvious way might just be the most direct and effective, and for me this was the case in this movie, although I agree that this assessment is rather subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-01T09:40:18.510" LastActivityDate="2014-10-01T09:40:18.510" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24886" CreationDate="2014-10-01T09:02:31.980" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's what happens:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;- In one reality she hits herself.&lt;br&gt;- In another reality she hits another her.&lt;br&gt;- In other alternate realities this repeats.&lt;br&gt;- She also broke the car glass in one reality.&lt;br&gt;- Another her also broke the car glass in other alternate realities.&lt;br&gt;- This is caused by a chain reaction she triggered by her and her actions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about her others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;- The one she put in the trunk of the car wakes up in another alternate reality.&lt;br&gt;- The one she hides in the bathroom wakes up in yet another alternate reality.&lt;br&gt;- And so on...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We see that she has two rings, one she has on, and the other that was in the bathroom that night before she fainted in the hall.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;She wakes up and walks outside and see the car glass broken. Then the guy gives her the ring that was left in the bathroom last night. In front of her, that guy receives a call, and that was herself in the beginning of the movie, which moments later arrived at the house and was hit in the bathroom by her at the end.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To summarize, it means that she woke up in an alternate reality, one that the others didn't left the house, one that she only changes places.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did the analysis based on the movie, similar movies and quantum physics.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;More info: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Many-worlds interpretation&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.yahoo.com/movies/a-super-spoilery-interview-with-the-director-of-94160809847.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Director's interview&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13921" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-04-16T12:56:22.113" LastActivityDate="2018-04-16T12:56:22.113" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24965" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27747" CreationDate="2014-10-01T09:48:34.177" Score="4" ViewCount="1049" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first &lt;em&gt;Matrix&lt;/em&gt; movie Agent Smith and Neo survived the green explosion from inside the agent. But in the third movie Neo and Smith both died as a result of the same attack in the first movie. How did this happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13921" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-01T10:28:52.077" LastActivityDate="2014-12-02T14:11:26.047" Title="If Neo survived in the first movie, how come he didn't in the third movie?" Tags="|the-matrix|the-matrix-revolutions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9025" CreationDate="2014-10-01T11:48:20.793" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Rupert is being introduced during the end scene the curtains in the background resemble prison bars, quite a strong hint towards reality or fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point is there is evidence to both sides of the argument, it's up to the viewer to make a decision depending on their interpretation of the film. That's what the director has intended to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14023" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2020-02-29T18:38:29.863" LastActivityDate="2020-02-29T18:38:29.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="24968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24956" CreationDate="2014-10-01T14:38:53.190" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two quick examples, one of which is probably still fresh in the minds of SoA fans;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In last night's episode of Sons of Anarchy, Gemma had a conversation with herself, somewhat like a soliloquoy, in the car on the way home from Abel's daycare.  Although, it sort of felt like she was maybe talking to her father's spirit, because she mentioned a few things like, &quot;You would be proud&quot; or something along those lines.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Boogie Nights, after Phillip Seymour Hoffman's character tries to kiss Mark Wahlberg's character on New years Eve, he sits in his car and repeats the line, &quot;I'm an idiot&quot; over and over.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think either of those fits into your &quot;Narrator&quot; method, but that technique (where the character is just basically talking to themselves out loud) is definitely used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-01T14:51:18.703" LastActivityDate="2014-10-01T14:51:18.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24956" CreationDate="2014-10-01T18:37:40.320" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a few other approaches to add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Movies frequently include what's called a &quot;reflection character&quot;. This is a person in the movie that just tells the main character (or the main character of a certain scene) what the main character is thinking.  Or points out something the main character is avoiding.  Or acts as a sounding board for the main character to talk about their thoughts.  Best friends, neighbors, coworkers, and other recurring secondary characters are sometimes used for this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, characters write in a diary, journal or blog, or they'll write a letter / email / Facebook post to someone else. It's a simple way to show the character's thoughts. &lt;em&gt;Bridget Jones's Diary&lt;/em&gt; is an obvious example of this. In some cases, another character will find / steal a secret diary or journal and read it out loud.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Verbal fights are sometimes used to verbalize thoughts. For example, in the movie Parenthood (kinda old, but it's what came to mind), the mom is going through the son's stuff, when he comes home.  &quot;Why is everybody in my room?!&quot; Mom: &quot;I thought you were on drugs.&quot; She directly verbalizes what she was thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2017-02-09T17:58:52.163" LastActivityDate="2017-02-09T17:58:52.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24973" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="56539" CreationDate="2014-10-01T22:20:11.587" Score="12" ViewCount="12576" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had to see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Memento&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; several times including the chronological version to really understand it. It is one of my favourite movies, but even after so many views there is one thing I don't get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why didn't Natalie realise Leonard killed Jimmy (her boyfriend)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leonard was driving Jimmy's car and waring his clothes. If my boyfriend was missing and an unknown guy showed up in his car and clothes, he would be the first one to suspect. Especially after he explains his condition. How come this idea never even crossed Natalie's mind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14029" LastEditorUserId="14029" LastEditDate="2016-06-08T05:15:36.497" LastActivityDate="2016-07-11T15:22:51.167" Title="Why didn't Natalie realise Leonard killed her boyfriend?" Tags="|plot-explanation|memento|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24974" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46506" CreationDate="2014-10-01T23:16:26.627" Score="7" ViewCount="1565" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Kappa decouples the bomb from Icarus 2 in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sunshine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the second shield protecting the living quarters of the ship floats away and the shield starts to break apart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/spFYZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;second shield breaks apart&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this meant to mean that no one would have survived this journey anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6693" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-02T00:03:54.720" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T12:33:14.977" Title="Would the crew have made it back to Earth anyway?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sunshine-2007|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24980" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24985" CreationDate="2014-10-02T11:51:00.487" Score="9" ViewCount="1725" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sauron seems to be able to build armies and enslave races just fine without his ring. Are there any mentions in the &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; movies or books as to what the powers of the ring actually are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14037" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-31T12:27:35.233" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T12:27:35.233" Title="What are the powers of Sauron's ring?" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24982" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24984" CreationDate="2014-10-02T12:51:20.200" Score="7" ViewCount="4105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've watched The Hunger Games and Catching Fire a couple of times and I can't seem to find an answer to the following: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is the world of Panem our own world, but in the future, or is it a parallel world to our own?&lt;/strong&gt; From what I've been able to deduce, I can't find a clear answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that Panem lies in the place that used to be called North America, which means it is clearly a version of our world, but that could mean either a possible future for us or an alternate version, where our world and the Panem world diverged sometime after North America became known as such. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What got me thinking that it could be the latter rather than the first is the fact that there is (were) thirteen Colonies, and when America was founded there was thirteen colonies (later known as states). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does anyone know which it is?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further Explanation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the timeline and happenings of the Hunger Games like A or B of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Timeline A:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AD starts --- America is colonised --- American revolution --- Our modern time --- Unknown period --- The Hunger Games&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Timeline B:&#xA;AD starts --- America is Colonised --- Unknown period --- The Hunger Games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is The Hunger Games in an alternate timeline to our own, or is it a possible future in our own timeline?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13971" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-11T15:36:20.410" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T15:36:20.410" Title="Is The Hunger Games a future or alternate world?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hunger-games|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24983" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24998" CreationDate="2014-10-02T12:51:23.713" Score="8" ViewCount="2795" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isn't it easier (and way cheaper seeing 3d conversion runs in the millions for a full movie) to just shoot a movie using stereoscopic cameras instead of creating a shallow 3d effect via post processing? That would give the movie a natural 3d depth that could be further optimized via post processing, rather than having to do the entire 3d from the bottom up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the advantages of doing 3D conversion as a post-processing task instead of directly shooting with stereoscopic cameras?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14039" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-02T14:18:37.477" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T13:37:50.760" Title="Why not shoot movies with stereoscopic 3d cameras instead?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|3d|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24982" CreationDate="2014-10-02T13:00:16.143" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it &quot;used&quot; to be called North America, then it's a safe bet that the reference to past-tense means it's a future version of our planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my understanding (and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shmoop.com/hunger-games/setting.html&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; site, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/the-hunger-games/facts.html&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; site), it's set in a post-apocalyptic North America in our own universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-10-02T13:05:51.543" LastActivityDate="2014-10-02T13:05:51.543" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24980" CreationDate="2014-10-02T13:17:17.750" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a nice summary of that on Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Ring's primary power was control of the other Rings of Power and domination of the wills of their users. The Ring also conferred power to dominate the wills of other beings whether they were wearing Rings or not — but only in proportion to the user's native capacity. In the same way, it amplified any inherent power its owner possessed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A mortal wearing the Ring became effectively invisible except to those able to perceive the non-physical world, with only a thin, shaky shadow discernible in the brightest sunlight. The Ring would also extend the life of a mortal possessor indefinitely by preventing natural aging. Gandalf explained that it does not &amp;quot;grant new life&amp;quot;, but that the possessor merely &amp;quot;continues&amp;quot; until life becomes unbearably wearisome. However, the Ring could not protect its bearer from destruction; Gollum perished in the Crack of Doom while in possession of the Ring, and even Sauron himself could not preserve his body from destruction during the downfall of Númenor. Likewise, the Ring could not protect its bearer from physical harm; Frodo was seriously injured by the Witch-king on Weathertop, and lost a finger when Gollum bit it off — on both occasions while wearing the Ring. Sauron himself suffered the death of his physical body at the hands of Gil-galad and Elendil while wearing the Ring. Like the Nine Rings, the One Ring could physically corrupt mortals who wear it for extended periods of time, eventually transforming them into wraiths. Hobbits were resistant to this process: Gollum had not become wraith-like despite his possession over several centuries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Ring might also have given its wielder the ability to read minds, as Galadriel suggested to Frodo when he wondered why he could not read the thoughts of others as she did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within the land of Mordor where it was forged, the Ring's power increased so significantly that even without wearing it the bearer could draw upon it, and could acquire an aura of terrible power. When Sam encountered an orc in the Tower of Cirith Ungol while holding the Ring, he appeared to the orc as a powerful warrior cloaked in shadow &amp;quot;[holding] some nameless menace of power and doom.&amp;quot; The orc was so terrified that it fled. Similarly at Mount Doom, when Frodo and Sam were attacked by Gollum, Frodo grabbed the Ring and appeared as &amp;quot;a figure robed in white... [that] held a wheel of fire.&amp;quot; Frodo told Gollum &amp;quot;in a commanding voice&amp;quot; that &amp;quot;If you touch me ever again, you shall be cast yourself into the Fire of Doom,&amp;quot; a statement fulfilled when Gollum fell into Mount Doom with the Ring. Although the Ring was certainly invoked with this statement, it is unclear whether Frodo was prophesying (Frodo had previously seen less sinister visions while in possession of the Ring), or if Frodo was actively laying a curse upon Gollum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the Ring contained a large part of Sauron's power, it was endowed with a malevolent sentience of sorts. While separated from Sauron, the Ring would strive to return to him by manipulating its bearer to claim ownership of it, or by abandoning the bearer at an opportune moment. For example, it slipped from Isildur's finger during the ambush at Gladden Fields; moments later he was killed by orcs, leaving the Ring's whereabouts unknown to Sauron's enemies. It also slipped off Gollum's finger when the time was right for it to be brought back into the world at large. Warned by Bilbo of the Ring's tendency to slip off, Frodo carried the Ring on a chain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To master all of the Ring's capabilities, a Ring wielder would need a disciplined and well-trained mind, a strong will, and great native power. Those with weaker minds, such as Hobbits and lesser Men, would gain little benefit from the Ring, let alone realize its full potential. Even for someone with the necessary strength it would have taken time to master the Ring's power to the point where he was strong enough to overthrow Sauron. Ironically, the prospect of mastery is the main appeal that the Ring holds for those who come in contact with it. The Ring appears as a symbol of hope, offering the power to defeat Sauron and bring peace to the world. Yet in the end, its inherent malevolence would twist its bearer into another Dark Lord as evil as Sauron, regardless of one's intentions at the outset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite its power, the Ring did not render its bearer omnipotent. Three times Sauron suffered military defeat while bearing the Ring, first by Gil-galad in the War of Sauron and the Elves, again by Ar-Pharazôn when Númenórean power so overawed his armies that they deserted him, and again at the end of the Second Age with his personal defeat by Gil-galad and Elendil. Tolkien indicates, however, that such a defeat would not have been possible in the waning years of the Third Age, when the strength of the free peoples was greatly diminished. There were no remaining heroes of the stature of Gil-galad, Elendil, or Isildur; the strength of the Elves was fading and they were departing to the Blessed Realm; the Dwarves had been driven out of Moria and would have been unwilling to concentrate their strength in any event; and the Númenórean kingdoms had either declined or been destroyed, and had few allies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Ring#Powers&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sauron had no trouble creating an Orc army and enlisting various corrupt beings (mercenaries and such), but enslaving other races to his will is a different thing. He wouldn't be so fiercely opposed by all the Men and some of the Elves if he could've just enslaved them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-10-02T13:17:17.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24987" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="24988" CreationDate="2014-10-02T17:40:14.500" Score="6" ViewCount="639" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please help me identify this movie.  Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a vague memory of one scene from American movie made in the 60's or 70's.  The movie had a claustrophobic &amp;amp; paranoid style similar to &quot;Three Days of the Condor&quot;. The scene I can recall involves an older &quot;bad guy&quot; double agent who runs a small shop. The shop might appear to be accounting, bookkeeping ... it might even be a tailor or a shoe maker shop.  I don't remember.  Anyway, the &quot;good guys&quot; (Americans, maybe?) are spying on him from a building a few doors down the street. They have a spy camera, and possibly a microphone, hidden in the overhead light fixture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The light goes out or there's an electrical problem, so the &quot;bad guy&quot; calls an electrician. The electrician climbs up on a ladder, takes apart the light fixture and finds the spy camera (but doesn't know what it is). I remember him pulling it out like a long cable and looking confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;bad guy&quot; immediately knows what it is, gasps, grabs a few things, and runs out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-02T17:58:08.363" LastActivityDate="2016-12-24T10:16:31.850" Title="Cold War spy movie, where spy camera is discovered in ceiling light fixture" Tags="|identify-this-movie|spy-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:19:33.603" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24987" CreationDate="2014-10-02T17:58:18.593" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember that exact scene occurring in the 1992 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviedeaths.com/patriot_games/dennis_cooley/&quot;&gt;Patriot Games&lt;/a&gt;.  It is hard to find that level of detail in a movie summary, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dennis Cooley is an Irish bookstore owner who is sympathetic to the&#xA;  ultra-violent faction of the IRA led by Kevin O'Donnell. He uses his&#xA;  bookstore to filter information for Kevin and his second-in-command,&#xA;  Sean Miller. &lt;strong&gt;Midway through the film, Dennis realises that his store&#xA;  is being watched&lt;/strong&gt; by Sergeant Owens and his men, as part of the&#xA;  joint-CIA and English operation to hunt down O'Donnell and Miller for&#xA;  the attempt on Jack Ryan and his family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dennis promptly hightails it out of England&lt;/strong&gt; before Owens can stop him,&#xA;  and with the help of Lord Holmes' assistant (and fellow IRA&#xA;  sympathizer) Jeffrey Watkins manages to make it to the IRA's training&#xA;  camp in North Africa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-10-02T17:58:18.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15288" CreationDate="2014-10-02T19:35:22.790" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;What did the Joker want to prove? The long answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power--he's free again.”&#xA;― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When people are attached to things (e.g. Batman to Rachel (and his rules), Harvey Dent to fairness, the mob to $$ and power), you have power over them with that thing. They can be held hostage. The Joker has no rules and nothing he's attached to, so he can't be held hostage for anything. He's free. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he's trying to &quot;prove&quot; anything, it's to show how stuck people are based on the beliefs/attachments that they think will keep them safe and happy. He will prove them wrong every time. Even though he looks evil, he's helping people to become more free by taking everything away from them. (Another example of this is the imprisonment of Evie in &quot;V for Vendetta&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;You can't take it with you.&quot; It's part of the Hero's Journey. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14049" LastActivityDate="2014-10-02T19:35:22.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24997" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41403" CreationDate="2014-10-03T02:21:51.520" Score="18" ViewCount="54918" Body="&lt;p&gt;During&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?v=1giVzxyoclE&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the climax&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;of the &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_%281995_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;movie Seven&lt;/a&gt;, the audience is&#xA;lead to believe that Mills’ wife, Tracy (Gwyneth&amp;nbsp;Paltrow), has been killed and&#xA;her head is in the box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any point in any version of the film, even for one frame, is her severed head&#xA;actually shown? I have not seen the head myself upon watching the movie, but have&#xA;heard conflicting views on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1339" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-10-20T14:58:08.477" LastActivityDate="2018-08-02T05:01:32.487" Title="Is Gwyneth Paltrow’s head shown?" Tags="|se7en|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="24998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24983" CreationDate="2014-10-03T06:09:45.897" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cinemagotika.com/services/stereoscopic/&quot;&gt;Shooting in 3D costs are said to be 2-4 times that of 2D costs.&lt;/a&gt; Mind you, that is the costs of shooting the film, not the whole budget. It's mainly because you have twice the amount of data: for every frame you'll have to do everything twice, once for each eye. Furthermore, the whole filming workflow must be updated. You have bigger, more expensive cameras, including setting up the cameras correctly for each scene to avoid headaches for the viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back in 2010 (I couldn't find newer sources) it cost between $50k and $100k per minute to convert 2D to 3D. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/titanic-3d-nab-producer-jon-landau-james-cameron-312631&quot;&gt;Converting Titanic was the most expensive conversion I could find and cost $18M.&lt;/a&gt; I imagine it can only be done a lot cheaper after 4 years of experience. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/debate-waging-over-2d-3d-22262&quot;&gt;Clash of the Titans, which was said to have horrible 3D, costed only $4.5M back in 2010 already&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_the_Titans_(2010_film)&quot;&gt;This film had a budget of $125M.&lt;/a&gt; So the conversion costs are just a fraction of the budget, but it adds substantial costs to the ticket in theatres.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it is not cheaper to film in 3D compared to doing a &quot;simple&quot; conversion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some key points from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2D_to_3D_conversion&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; on 2D to 3D conversion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Stereo post-production workflow is much more complex and not as well-established as 2D workflow, requiring more work and rendering.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Professional stereoscopic rigs are much more expensive and bulky than customary monocular cameras. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Some shots, particularly action scenes, can be only shot with relatively small 2D cameras. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Stereo cameras can introduce various mismatches in stereo image (such as vertical parallax, tilt, color shift, reflections and glares&#xA;  in different positions) that should be fixed in post-production anyway&#xA;  because they ruin the 3D effect. This correction sometimes may have&#xA;  complexity comparable to stereo conversion.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stereo cameras can betray practical effects used during filming. For example, some scenes in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy were&#xA;  filmed using forced perspective to allow two actors to appear to be&#xA;  different physical sizes. The same scene filmed in    stereo would&#xA;  reveal that the actors were not the same distance from    the camera. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;By their very nature, stereo cameras have restrictions on how far the camera can be from the filmed subject and still provide acceptable&#xA;  stereo separation. For example, the simplest way  to film a scene set&#xA;  on the side of a building might be to use a camera rig from across the&#xA;  street on a neighboring building, using a zoom lens. However, while&#xA;  the zoom lens would provide acceptable image quality, the stereo&#xA;  separation would be virtually nil over such a distance. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;With the lack of stereo content, 2D to 3D conversion is the only way to meet demands of the 3DTV industry. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Stereo conversion is needed for converting older popular films – such as the Star Wars    series, Titanic, and so on.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Even in the case of stereo shooting, conversion can frequently be necessary. Besides the mentioned hard-to-shoot scenes, there are&#xA;  situations when mismatches in stereo views are too big to adjust, and&#xA;  it is simpler to perform 2D to stereo conversion, treating one of the&#xA;  views as the original 2D source.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastEditorUserId="118" LastEditDate="2014-10-03T13:37:50.760" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T13:37:50.760" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24997" CreationDate="2014-10-03T09:19:24.943" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original ending which can be seen in the link provided by you, shows&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a very quick flash of  Gwyneth Paltrow's face before Mills shoots Doe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is quite possible that this is the source of confusion. But you can check this for your self (at &lt;strong&gt;3:57&lt;/strong&gt; exactly) that this does look not like a severed head. Significance of the scene is that Mills thinks about his wife at that moment and her face flashes before his eyes, but this is Mills remembering his wife, not Mills imagining his wife's severed head. He thinks about her and it makes him so angry that he shoots John Doe. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114369/alternateversions&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; tells of DVD ending where&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The DVD contains an alternate ending which features alternate takes of&#xA;some scenes. It shows the delivery guy also hand Sommerset the truck&#xA;registration. Afterwards, a wide shot of Mills is shown when John Doe&#xA;reveals Mills' wife was pregnant, instead of the close up. &lt;strong&gt;There is no&#xA;quick flash of Gwyneth Paltrow's face before Mills shoots Doe&lt;/strong&gt;, and&#xA;only one shot to the head is fired. There are no additional shots&#xA;fired at Doe afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there is no shot of the severed head in any version, only a quick flash of her face and that too is only in the theatrical version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T09:19:24.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25004" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25011" CreationDate="2014-10-03T10:18:51.827" Score="8" ViewCount="80237" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am watching Modern family and I am currently on season 3. In Modern family, season 1 Lily is played by Jaden. In season 2 by Ella Hiller and from season 3 Aubrey Anderson-Emmons. What is the reason behind these frequent changes ? Did the creators want to show a much grown up Lily by season 3?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-10-05T05:50:05.547" LastActivityDate="2018-10-18T11:58:03.610" Title="Why did they change the child actress portraying Lily twice?" Tags="|casting|modern-family|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16519" CreationDate="2014-10-03T11:01:15.403" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was partially Django's character.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He wanted and probably felt it was approriate to help rescue his wife rather than let someone else do it and just sit on his hands.  Whilst his being there made things more complicated it was only an amazingly sharp witted Stephen who saw through anything.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was desperate to see his wife again and wanted to either see her or find out what had happened to her as soon as humanly possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bluff involved pretending to be on the lookout for Mandigo fighters.  If Shultz was to be plausible as a purchaser then he either needed to know about Mandigo fighters or have someone with him who did.  Django was a good candidate because, being as he was black, the chance of anyone engaging him in small talk and his lack of knowledge being exposed was minimal.  If anyone asked Shultz he could laugh his lack of knowledge off and claim he relied on Django for all of that and just handled the money himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T11:01:15.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25010" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25014" CreationDate="2014-10-03T16:58:08.907" Score="1" ViewCount="528" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are many movies of the 70's called revisionist? If I look up many of Eastwood's westerns, they would be found in a search of 'revisionist westerns'. Why are they called that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: By asking this, I mean take cowboys vs indians. Many of us my age (50) played this when we were young. Cowboys were the good guys and the Indians bad. Usually. There were many movies in the 40's and 50's where this was also true. We also played good cowboys vs the bad guys (I owned a black cowboy hat, which usually made me the bad guy) Many of Gene Autrey's movies were like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we call  Outlaw Josey Wales a revisionist western, I sort of understand, because Wales' second partner was Chief Dan George, and in the end he makes peace with the famous 'crying Indian'. But the main bad guys were bad guys. (The Red Legs) Why was this a revisionist movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-03T19:05:14.940" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T20:15:11.483" Title="Revisionist westerns of the 70's" Tags="|western|genre|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25004" CreationDate="2014-10-03T16:59:39.953" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Modern_Family_characters#Lily_Tucker-Pritchett&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Looking up the character on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; reveals that twin actors Jaden and Ella Hiller were replaced by Aubrey Anderson-Emmons. The reasons cited were the twin actresses' mother claimed they did not enjoy acting anymore, thus they &quot;retired&quot;, and the role was recast with Aubrey Anderson-Emmons as Lily, who was old enough to provide speaking lines for Lily for the first time in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going further as a general film production question, the simple matter is that the actor or actress must be able to meet the demands of the character they've been selected to portray. Should the production team feel they're not able to do that at any point, they have the option to recast the role (barring contractual agreements to the contrary).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These rules apply to child actors just as much as adult actors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Case in point for an adult role, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future#Casting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Eric Stoltz was cast to play Marty McFly in Back to the Future&lt;/a&gt;. Initially Zemeckis wanted Michael J. Fox, but Fox was unable to get time off from filming the TV show Family Ties, so they cast Stoltz instead. 4 weeks into filming they realized it wasn't going to work and opted to recast with Fox when he was available, even though reshoots would cost $3 million.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2018-10-18T11:58:03.610" LastActivityDate="2018-10-18T11:58:03.610" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="25013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25010" CreationDate="2014-10-03T18:52:48.423" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just about every post-1960s Western gets called revisionist, because the genre no longer promotes the idea of manifest destiny that Westerns promoted before the 1960s. Manifest destiny was the belief that the white man had come to civilize this land and civilize the Native American. This is considered offensive to the post-60s establishment, so Westerns after the 1960s are more likely to depict the Western hero as an anti-hero of sorts, and not as someone engaged in some great moral mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14064" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T18:52:48.423" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25010" CreationDate="2014-10-03T20:15:11.483" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The concept of &quot;revisionist&quot; means just that; they aim to revise history.  Many of Eastwood's movies use themes and characters that wouldn't really exist in the era the Western is meant to portray.  For instance, you wouldn't have Native American or female Marshals, and movies that use those characters are revisionist because they create a false sense of what that time was like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outlaw Jose Wales is referred to as &quot;revisionist&quot; mainly because of the strong female characters in the movie.  Women of that time were more subversive than what's portrayed in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T20:15:11.483" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="143" CreationDate="2014-10-03T20:24:53.340" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;He falls asleep in a business meeting with a venture capitalist.  IIRC, it was the first meeting that Eduardo set up, and it's set up in a flashback where he says something like, &quot;He came, but I wish he stayed home.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He &lt;strong&gt;walks out&lt;/strong&gt; of a class after being handed a note from a girl that said, &quot;u dick&quot;.  It's on his way out of that classroom, after being ridiculed by the professor for &quot;giving up&quot;, that he rattles off the correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T20:24:53.340" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25016" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-03T23:00:14.213" Score="4" ViewCount="4670" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the movie &quot;The Butterfly Effect&quot; Evan's mother said she have had babies before, but they all died. He was &quot;the miracle&quot; baby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did the other babies die? Have they gone through the same thing as Evan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14065" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-04T01:20:11.793" LastActivityDate="2018-08-31T17:57:37.173" Title="What is the matter with the babies Evan's mother had before?" Tags="|the-butterfly-effect|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25016" CreationDate="2014-10-03T23:54:26.507" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Miracle baby&quot; means the mother gives birth despite having a medical condition that normally makes pregnancy difficult or impossible, or that prevents successfully carrying a baby to term.  I did not see anything in the movie to indicate that her previous children went through the same thing as Evan, with the time travel and the retroactive suicide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-10-03T23:54:26.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25016" CreationDate="2014-10-04T01:14:10.737" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I'd agree with &lt;em&gt;Will&lt;/em&gt;'s answer that with &lt;em&gt;&quot;miracle baby&quot;&lt;/em&gt; she merely meant that he was a miracle to her in that he was the first of her pregnancies that did not die before birth. But there is in fact much more to this and the movie indeed indicates that the other babies had the same &quot;abilities&quot; as Evan and went through the same hassle as him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Director's Cut of the movie features a completely different ending than the theatrical version (which actually blew me away when I first heard about it), as also discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/8256/49&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to a related question. In the psychatric hosptital, instead of watching the video of his first meeting with &lt;em&gt;Caley&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Evan&lt;/em&gt; watches the video of his own birth and he travels back into his own past as unborn baby inside the womb of his mother. There he decides to finally put an end to all this by strangling himself with his own umbilical cord.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/1wSH1SpQh9c?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This (together with the voice over of his mother telling about the other dead babies) in fact strongly indicates that &lt;strong&gt;in different timelines all her previous babies actually grew up and got trapped in exactly this same circle of worsening things by trying to &quot;correct&quot; them, ultimately deciding to never get born at all&lt;/strong&gt;. It also makes sense for all of them to have &lt;em&gt;Evan&lt;/em&gt;'s abilities when you consider that &lt;strong&gt;he inherited them from his father&lt;/strong&gt;, so they seem to be somehow genetical, just that his father maneuvered himself into a situtation where he could not prevent all this from happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2016-05-13T13:53:34.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3746" CreationDate="2014-10-04T16:38:28.837" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's an homage to this film: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/439410/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/439410/&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Elephant is without question Alan Clarke's bleakest film. Essentially a compilation of eighteen murders on the streets of Belfast, without explanatory narrative or characterisation and shot in a cold, dispassionate documentary style, the film succinctly captures the horror of sectarian killing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lack of narrative removes any scope for justification of the killings on religious, political or any other grounds and the matter-of-factness of Clarke's approach debases the often-heroic portrayal - by all sides - of the individuals involved in sectarian murder. Moreover, Clarke's use of a Steadicam to follow the killers before and during the murders casts the viewer as at best a willing voyeur, at worst an accomplice. After each killing, the camera dwells on the bodies slumped on floors or draped over desks for longer than is comfortable, forcing the viewer to confront the brutality of their deaths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14072" LastActivityDate="2014-10-04T16:38:28.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25030" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25033" CreationDate="2014-10-04T23:54:41.933" Score="12" ViewCount="64898" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a scene of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455944/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Equalizer&lt;/a&gt; where Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) is sitting in a restaurant in front of Teddy (Marton Csokas) McCall tells him a story he heard from a Russian officer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story goes about a Rich man who decided to adopt a poor kid into his family. Later on both the man and his wife were killed by someone. McCall later says that he thinks the poor kid was the killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does this story relate to the movie and the characters? Is this story related somehow to Teddy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dtj1z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2056" LastEditorUserId="2056" LastEditDate="2014-10-05T15:41:37.407" LastActivityDate="2017-12-21T12:39:48.707" Title="What is the significance of the little Russian kid story?" Tags="|analysis|plot-explanation|the-equalizer|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25031" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-05T00:38:30.347" Score="6" ViewCount="276" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Max_Arciniega&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Max Arciniega&lt;/a&gt; the only one killed in the meeting between him, Gud Fring &amp;amp; Don Eladio?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In episode 4.08 Don Eladio says to Gus: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;‘we know who you are, that’s the only reason why you’re still alive.’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain why Gus was spared?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PtaDo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2056" LastEditorUserId="2056" LastEditDate="2014-10-05T15:39:40.867" LastActivityDate="2014-10-05T15:39:40.867" Title="Explanation of the meeting between Gus and Don Eladio" Tags="|breaking-bad|plot-explanation|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-10-17T17:46:25.003" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14097" CreationDate="2014-10-05T01:20:06.417" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;No details were ever given in the show, but the implication was that Gus was part of the Pinochet government in Chile. See for confirmation this interview with the actor who played Gus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://seriable.com/breaking-bad-giancarlo-esposito-reveals-gus-backstory-that-might-still-come-to-light/&quot;&gt;http://seriable.com/breaking-bad-giancarlo-esposito-reveals-gus-backstory-that-might-still-come-to-light/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which includes this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gus was probably a guy who was a General at some point or a Lieutenant and had probably killed a lot of people — or maybe was a hero in the army.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's about as official as it gets for this question.There's a ton of fan speculation based on the few tiny clues that made it into the show (google &quot;Gus Fring Pinochet&quot; to see some of it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another interview, this one with Vince Gilligan:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/article/vince-gilligan-walks-us-through-season-four-of-ibr-63013&quot;&gt;http://www.avclub.com/article/vince-gilligan-walks-us-through-season-four-of-ibr-63013&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in which he says that the vagueness is intentional:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It has something to do with the Pinochet government, we think, but that’s about as close as we’ve gotten. At the end of the day, try not to nail down anything that we don’t have to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I enjoy it when I’m given by the creator of a show or a movie all the elements that will keep me interested in the story, but leave a few aside so I can do a little of the work myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of those interviews are from around the end of the 4th season (when Gus was killed) and there was the possibility that we might still learn more of Gus's backstory through additional flashbacks, but that never happened so the nonspecific &quot;associate of Pinochet&quot; is all we have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6436" LastActivityDate="2014-10-05T01:20:06.417" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25030" CreationDate="2014-10-05T02:50:18.480" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie never explicitly revealed the relevance of that story, but while McCall was telling it, Teddy made a comment like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You think you know me?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This gave me the impression that McCall was revealing how much research he had done or intelligence he'd acquired, and that the story was about Teddy - he was the orphaned boy. And Teddy's response was essentially saying that knowing my history doesn't mean you know me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, the movie is not clear on the subject. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastActivityDate="2014-10-05T02:50:18.480" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25038" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25070" CreationDate="2014-10-05T09:21:20.573" Score="4" ViewCount="9632" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230600/?ref_=nv_sr_4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;'The Others' with Nicole Kidman&lt;/a&gt; last night, great movie however one thing that I don't understand is if they all are ghosts, how does husband fit into this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean he presumably died in the war so how come then he returns home and then leaves again? I thought ghosts were only people who have died in the house (or the island), does that mean that anyone (dead) could show up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing is why is he in the movie at all? He does not add anything to the plot in my eyes only confusion, I must be missing something obvious here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6IMN8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13636" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-05T22:40:58.920" LastActivityDate="2017-06-26T16:57:28.130" Title="How does husband fit into the story?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-others|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10937" CreationDate="2014-10-05T11:31:45.570" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The line is &quot;bury me in a nameless grave,&quot; so match it against the context of the scene.  Essentially, two victims have had their identities stripped away, called rabbits, and will disappear forever.  Nobody will ever truly know what happened to either of them.  Think about the scene before this one, where one of the rabbits ended up getting stabbed to death in a cemetery of nameless graves, too.  Once they're lowered into the &quot;grave,&quot; actually a labyrinth, Denise runs into an old man in a rabbit costume.  She's potentially looking at her 'future,' wandering around in the dark without any sense of identity.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope that helps.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14084" LastActivityDate="2014-10-05T11:31:45.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24623" CreationDate="2014-10-05T12:45:06.437" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think so as the car that family moving in are driving are 1930s (I think it's Christler Duesenberg).&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8B1eq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;Husband going and not comming back from second world war (1939-1945) and them knowing that war is over, would imply that it's around 1945+.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This then makes it probable that she indeed died only a while ago. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13636" LastActivityDate="2014-10-05T12:45:06.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25043" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-05T14:52:21.600" Score="5" ViewCount="2441" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched Only Lovers Left Alive and in a moment one of the characters, Adam, says: &lt;em&gt;&quot;I just feel like all the sand is at the bottom of the hour glass&quot;&lt;/em&gt; or something. &#xA;What does this mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14085" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-05T16:49:32.643" LastActivityDate="2016-05-04T23:54:05.513" Title="Only Lovers Left Alive quote explanation?" Tags="|dialogue|only-lovers-left-alive|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25043" CreationDate="2014-10-05T15:10:15.143" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..all the sand is at the bottom of the hour glass&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time has run out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An hourglass (seen below) contains sand that runs from the top to the bottom through a small hole, over a fixed period of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;⌛&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-05-04T09:30:25.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25045" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-05T16:56:33.710" Score="1" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;When songs are used in movies, in what circumstances it is required to get permission or is it always required? For example,&#xA;If a song is played in the background and used as a soundtrack for the movie/TV show, I guess it is definitely required to obtain permission from the owners. But let's say if the song is used indirectly such as playing on radio or playing on TV, is it still required to get permission. Also let's say a character from the movie or TV show is shown singing that song, is it still required to get permission in such cases?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-05T17:13:18.643" LastActivityDate="2014-10-05T17:13:18.643" Title="Permisson requirement for Song usage in movies" Tags="|production|soundtrack|copyright|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-10-06T08:10:44.487" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21591" CreationDate="2014-10-05T17:54:21.260" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following is admittedly much speculation on my part, but I think &lt;em&gt;Ethan&lt;/em&gt;'s motivation at this point was not entirely clear and this is the way (or the possible ways) I interpreted this scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all he didn't really completely exorcise the demon from her, but merely &lt;strong&gt;supressed it again temporarily, the same way he supresses the werewolf that's inside of him&lt;/strong&gt;. And in fact &lt;em&gt;Vanessa&lt;/em&gt; still has that demon inside of her after this event, just less prominent and again hidden deep inside of her as before. This is also the reason why she distances herself from &lt;em&gt;Dorian Gray&lt;/em&gt;, since it was the passionate sex with him that allowed the demon to fully break through and this is likely to happen again if she further keeps meeting with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how did he suddenly know how to do this? In fact &lt;em&gt;Ethan&lt;/em&gt; is quite similar to &lt;em&gt;Vanessa&lt;/em&gt; in the way that he carries a dark force inside of him, too. It is hinted previously throughout the series with various little incidents that &lt;em&gt;Ethan&lt;/em&gt; is himself a werewolf and at the end of the season's finale it becomes as evident as possible. This is also why it wasn't alluded to previously that &lt;em&gt;Ethan&lt;/em&gt; has such knowledge, together with &lt;em&gt;Ethan&lt;/em&gt;'s overall background it was deliberately kept a mystery to the others &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the audience. This scene was thus on the one hand made as &lt;strong&gt;yet another surprising allusion to his mysterious ways&lt;/strong&gt; when you were actually expecting the only possible outcome of &lt;em&gt;Ethan&lt;/em&gt; holding the possessed and death-wishing &lt;em&gt;Vanessa&lt;/em&gt; at gunpoint. And when one sees &lt;em&gt;Ethan&lt;/em&gt;'s nature as a werewolf as a kind of possession of his body/soul by an external force, it is quite similar to &lt;em&gt;Vanessa&lt;/em&gt;'s possession. And &lt;strong&gt;that amulett &lt;em&gt;Ethan&lt;/em&gt; used to &quot;exorcise&quot; &lt;em&gt;Vanessa&lt;/em&gt; was most likely used by him exactly for protecting himself to some degree against his own animalistic side&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why didn't he consider to do this before? There are multiple possibilities, I think:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the one hand he might not have wanted the others to know about his dark secret and that he is acquainted with all this stuff.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the other hand it might very well be that with this ritual he somehow transferred the amulett's protection from himself to her, sacrificing his own protection against his inner wolf for her well-being.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or he didn't consider this a viable alternative, since it merely supresses the demon without really freeing her from it, still leaving her a disrupted soul. He might not have wanted such a further existence for her, seeing his own torn identity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And before this incident there was still some hope for her, I think. But it was at that moment (and after the priest &lt;em&gt;refused&lt;/em&gt; to do an exorcism) that the only alternative to salvage her was death. He might even have considered this alternative for himself before, but was either not strong enough to really follow it through or chose to embrace the werewolf as part of his own identity. But &lt;strong&gt;when holding &lt;em&gt;Vanessa&lt;/em&gt; at gunpoint he was just unable to kill her and chose an alternative that he might not have been entirely sure to be the better solution on the long run&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-05T21:56:25.707" LastActivityDate="2014-10-05T21:56:25.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25049" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-05T20:15:01.347" Score="-5" ViewCount="928" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you’re like me, 10 hours of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; per year is not nearly enough, which got me considering the following thought experiment:  What if we could tune in to a channel that, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, broadcast the Game of Thrones universe in a single continuous stream without any breaks, ad infinitum?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This production must maintain the existing show’s current depth and density of storytelling, as well as all current production values.  The stories would necessarily diverge from the books and probably introduce many more characters and subplots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m trying to grasp the sheer volume of work required to write, film, edit, post-produce and continuously distribute this fantastical fantasy project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that this will never happen, &lt;strong&gt;would this production be physically possible?&lt;/strong&gt;  If so, what would the production look like in terms of budget, personnel and logistics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14089" LastActivityDate="2016-10-11T18:32:22.093" Title="Is it possible to produce a continuous Game of Thrones?" Tags="|production|game-of-thrones|film-industry|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25049" CreationDate="2014-10-05T22:55:38.497" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no way this could be physically possible.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, the sets are too detailed.  You could only pull this off if the sets were pre-built and stood in place constantly, the show/movie had extremely simple sets or the sets were all pre-existing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, the entire show/movie would need to be linear.  You couldn't move characters/actors that quickly, so certain story-telling techniques could not be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actors would have no time to learn their lines &lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt; cues, so you would need to storyboard around the clock and draw up cue cards as quickly as the writers pumped out dialogue, and there would be no opportunity for re-writes unless everyone was working a few weeks in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there are several other reasons, such as the actors wanting to live normal lives and unions prohibiting 24/7 working hours as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-10-05T22:55:38.497" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25054" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-06T00:21:06.613" Score="1" ViewCount="1130" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bill is wearing a wedding ring during the whole &lt;em&gt;Kill Bill&lt;/em&gt; movie. Is that supposed to mean he was married with the Bride in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14092" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-05-31T20:30:25.927" LastActivityDate="2019-05-31T20:30:25.927" Title="Was the Bride previously married to Bill?" Tags="|plot-explanation|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="25056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25049" CreationDate="2014-10-06T02:08:51.457" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is impossible to make a 24/365 GoT, each hour of show takes several hours of production. The fourth season shooting lasted 136 days for 10 episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://winteriscoming.net/2013/11/21/thats-a-wrap-season-4-filming-is-complete/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://winteriscoming.net/2013/11/21/thats-a-wrap-season-4-filming-is-complete/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7431" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T02:08:51.457" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25057" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25059" CreationDate="2014-10-06T02:14:53.177" Score="2" ViewCount="2871" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been watching a few of the World War II series on the National Geographic channel lately and they have a series called &lt;em&gt;WW II Greatest raids&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this series they provide CGI reenactments of the battles, sometimes even from a first person perspective, (&lt;a href=&quot;http://natgeotv.com.au/videos/wwiis-greatest-raids/raid-compromised-81A6E3CA.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;examples can be seen here&lt;/a&gt;). The CGI looks to me almost like a PC video game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to know if they had actually used a PC video game to reenact the battles or was it just purely CGI created in video software?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:29:51.240" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:29:51.240" Title="How were the CGI scenes created for National Geographic series WW II Greatest Raids" Tags="|effects|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25058" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25061" CreationDate="2014-10-06T04:14:05.497" Score="4" ViewCount="7473" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 2006, Mike Flanagan made the short film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0791134/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oculus: Chapter 3 - The Man with the Plan&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  This short film was the basis for his 2013 full feature film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oculus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the short film has &quot;Chapter 3&quot; in the title, was there ever a Chapter 1 and/or Chapter 2?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9908" LastActivityDate="2022-05-26T15:07:44.080" Title="Oculus - were there any other short films besides Chapter 3?" Tags="|oculus|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25057" CreationDate="2014-10-06T05:43:16.523" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically speaking video games are a form of CGI (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-generated_imagery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Computer Generated Imagery&lt;/a&gt;).&#xA;For WW II Greatest Raids National Geographic worked together with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.antimattergames.com/projects/wwiis-greatest-raids/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Antimatter Games&lt;/a&gt; to create the six hours of animation. They used the Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm game which is based on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Storm_(video_game)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Unreal 3 engine&lt;/a&gt; for creating the graphics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Advantages of using a game enigne:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Decent images without much effort&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lighting is done by the engine&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Animations are done by the engine (think about characters walking)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many models are available so you don't have to model many things any more&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Physics are done by the engine&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fast cycle time (game engines are designed to perform in real time, so you can check out the final result/render really fast)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A game engine has a relatively cheap license (some are even free depending on the type of license)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disadvantages of using a game engine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Due to the real time behavior you cannot expect high quality renderings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your animations are fixed to what the engine is capable of, think of limitations on the number of characters for example&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Might involve some programming, which you don't want to bother an animator with&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastEditorUserId="7659" LastEditDate="2014-10-06T06:11:13.400" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T06:11:13.400" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25049" CreationDate="2014-10-06T06:18:17.823" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;IT IS POSSIBLE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Given&lt;/strong&gt;: On average, &lt;a href=&quot;http://mic.com/articles/87169/here-s-how-much-it-costs-to-make-a-game-of-thrones-episode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an episode of GoT costs $6m to produce&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; &lt;strong&gt;Given&lt;/strong&gt;: Each episode lasts 1 hour.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Given&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/game-thrones-by-numbers-178659&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The largest crew size per episode is 583&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hypothesis&lt;/strong&gt;: Production of the series can scale linearly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Analysis&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show costs $6m per hour to produce.  Therefore, an &lt;em&gt;entire year&lt;/em&gt; of content would cost &lt;strong&gt;$24*365*6m&lt;/strong&gt; to produce.  Equivalently, &lt;strong&gt;$52,560,000,000&lt;/strong&gt; (Fifty-two-billion five-hundred-sixty-million. (Roughly the GDP of Kenya.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming the crew would scale linearly (a non-optimal scenario), we need 583*24*365 crew members to make it happen. (5,107,080 people : roughly, the population of Finland).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the fun part: &lt;strong&gt;WRITING&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; has produced 4 seasons (40 hours), which have &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikiwand.com/en/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;covered roughly &lt;em&gt;four&lt;/em&gt; books totaling around 2500 pages&lt;/a&gt;.  Therefore, the writing equates to &lt;strong&gt;62.5&lt;/strong&gt; written pages per viewing hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means, per year we need 62.5*24*365 pages written per year. (547,500 pages).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jack Kerouac is the fastest writer I have heard about. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11709924&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;He wrote “On the Road” in 3 weeks&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;em&gt;On the Road&lt;/em&gt; is 320 pages. Ergo writing velocity of 15.2 pages per day.  At that rate, we need to hire &lt;em&gt;36,000 ‘Jack Kerouacs’&lt;/em&gt; per year to maintain the status quo. Most writers (&lt;em&gt;ahem&lt;/em&gt; George RR Martin) aren’t so prolific.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BUT&lt;/strong&gt;, this is all assuming that the production scales linearly.  It would not. One one hand, the scaling of this production would yield savings: (Second-unit directors could piggy-back location shoots. )  On the other hand, the scaling of this production would &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/7714/star-wars-imperial-ships-oversized&quot;&gt;necessitate an exponentially larger support/operational workforce&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, off-hand I will posit C= pow(n, 1.01) factor in regard to the linear model. (C=FINAL cost, n= empirically modeled cost.) [Guesstimating.]) Therefore, by my calculation, to produce a continuous Game of Thrones show would take approximately:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;$55B per year to produce&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;EMPLOYING OVER 6 MILLION PEOPLE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is DAMN CLOSE to the exact GDP and population of New Zealand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No wonder they keep filming down there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14089" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T08:18:15.613" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25058" CreationDate="2014-10-06T06:26:45.223" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt; The film's director Mike Flanagan and producer Trevor Macy explain the title in &lt;a href=&quot;http://redcarpetrefs.com/oculus-interview-with-writerdirector-producers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer:&lt;/strong&gt;] So, the title of the short was “Oculus : Chapter 3 - The Man With the Plan”   Did you name it that way just to make it more interesting, or were you channeling Lucas and had multiple stories planned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mike&lt;/strong&gt;:  &amp;lt;groans&amp;gt; It was actually an unfortunate attempt to channel Lucas.  We had multiple stories picked out, with nine of them. This was the third, and the only movie we made. So the only thing we did was , yah know, kinda demonstrate that we were not George Lucas….and that people wouldn’t be like “What? There’s a whole universe behind this?”  They were just like “Why is it called Chapter Three?  Where are the other ones?” So.. I wish we had done it a little differently.  But that’s where that came from.  ‘Cause we were trying to be like “Hey there’s gonna be a whole bunch of these, get all excited!” but people were like “That’s a really long and nebulous title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trevor&lt;/strong&gt;:  That happened to me when I first saw the short. Where’s one and two?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mike&lt;/strong&gt;:  Yeah.. “Where’s one and two?”  Oh! We haven’t shot them yet. “Why wasn’t this one just number one?”  I don’t know!!  ‘Cause “A New Hope” is cool??  Yeah…it was just a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2022-05-26T15:07:44.080" LastActivityDate="2022-05-26T15:07:44.080" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="25064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15155" CreationDate="2014-10-06T07:24:59.840" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think he is saying, his family has him to come home now. Not because he is close to victor. Or because he had a family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14094" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-10-06T17:36:50.500" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T17:36:50.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25067" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25068" CreationDate="2014-10-06T08:59:28.387" Score="7" ViewCount="2720" Body="&lt;p&gt;The protagonist is a secret agent / spy and meets the girl somewhere. The hero is chased by gangs everywhere he lands up and the girl is also targeted by virtue of being with him. Girl goes hysterical at being chased and shot at and protagonist pumps a bunch of drugs into her to make her calm down... and then goes on the run with her. A good part of the movie is depicted in glimpses of different places (new one each time) that the girl sees, whenever she's coming round and then gets pumped with more drugs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually, tables turn and she ends up saving the protagonist and while whisking him away gives him a dose of the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14096" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-10-06T09:07:51.710" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T09:07:51.710" Title="Girl is drugged and on the run with the protagonist" Tags="|identify-this-movie|action|thriller|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:19:56.033" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25067" CreationDate="2014-10-06T09:06:03.260" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013743/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Knight and Day&lt;/a&gt; from 2010 with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. From IMDb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;June Havens finds her everyday life tangled with that of [Roy Miller], a secret agent who has realized he isn't supposed to survive his latest mission. As their campaign to stay alive stretches across the globe, they soon learn that all they can count on is each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Roy keeps drugging June to keep her safe, but in the end, she does that to &lt;em&gt;him&lt;/em&gt;, disguised as a nurse. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/JGPl86DBNNs?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T09:06:03.260" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12883" CreationDate="2014-10-06T11:55:30.223" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi the exact location you will find here &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/maps/@56.6194936,-4.9313981,3a,75y,267.65h,65.13t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sPjrTLrfNaaDNl1CCWbfNAw!2e0?hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;location with streetview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14098" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T11:55:30.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25038" CreationDate="2014-10-06T12:47:52.383" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's start from your second question: why is he there? Obviously, to increase the eerie factor and to further convince the audience that Grace and her children have a haunted house problem at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, in the context of the movie, which I believe is what you want to know, I don't think it is ever explained how this whole ghost thing works, so I can only offer how I see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the final revelation (that they themselves are actually ghosts) and after Grace tells of her memories of &quot;that day she went mad&quot;, this conversation takes place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grace:&lt;/strong&gt; What does all this mean? Where are we?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bertha:&lt;/strong&gt; Young Lydia said the very same thing when she realized the three of us were dead. And that was the last time she ever spoke.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [...]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The intruders are leaving, but others will come. Now, sometimes we'll sense them. Other times, we won't. But that's the way it's always been.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nicholas:&lt;/strong&gt; Mummy, daddy died in the war, didn't he?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grace:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nicholas:&lt;/strong&gt; Will we ever see him again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grace:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anne:&lt;/strong&gt; If we're dead, where's limbo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grace:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't know if there even is a limbo. I'm no wiser than you are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is about all the explanation we get (and, personally, I think it's good that they left it at that). I don't think that even Bertha or her companions know anything more, let alone our newly discovered ghosts. &lt;em&gt;That's the way it's always been,&lt;/em&gt; but none of them has any idea how it actually works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You assume that the ghosts are tied to the place where they died and that they all see each other, but I don't see such an explanation in the movie and I don't think it is correct. The reason is simple: there must have been more people that have died in that house during the course of the centuries and the house would overflowing with ghosts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be that the ghosts are tied to some places important to them. For Grace, who was a housewife, and her children, who she kept isolated in the house, that house was their whole world, so they have nowhere else to be. The husband, however, went to the war, so he travelled far, possibly to several different war fronts, and had some very important things happen to him there (like, for example, dying, but other traumas are quite possible as well). It was important for him to say good bye to his family, so he appeared, but ultimately, some other place drew him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think that there is also a matter of overlapping. &lt;em&gt;Sometimes we'll sense them [the intruders]. Other times, we won't.&lt;/em&gt; It is more than likely that the same thing happens among ghosts. Some of them stick together (like Grace and her children, or like Bertha, Lydia, and Mr. Tuttle), some of them get together (like the two aforementioned groups), and some of them occasionally overlap (like Charles and the rest of his family).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no mention if this is random, or an act of some power (possibly God that, in this movie's universe may or may not exist and, if he does, may or may not be anything like any of the major religions believe).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also that scene when Grace tries to leave the house grounds, but fails and finds Charles instead. This looks like various groups of ghosts live in their small, separate worlds (the woods around the house being the limits of that of Grace and the other in the house) that sometimes overlap with each other and with our own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may even be that the woods is where Charles' world overlaps with the one of the house, but that's just a wild guess. If this is the case, he manages to get to the house with Grace, but is ultimately drawn back to his own world. It is not too wild to think that a spooky forest would also be the limit of the &quot;war front&quot; world (or even every ghost's world).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also that conversation between Charles and Grace:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charles:&lt;/strong&gt; I just came home to say goodbye to my wife and children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grace:&lt;/strong&gt; Where are you going?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charles:&lt;/strong&gt; To the front.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grace:&lt;/strong&gt; I thought the war was over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charles:&lt;/strong&gt; The war is not over. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads me to believe that in his world (if we accept that theory), the war still rages on. That can also explain what is more important to him than returning to his family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I repeat: all of these are just my interpretations, as I have found no canon explanations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2014-10-06T13:12:05.390" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T13:12:05.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25054" CreationDate="2014-10-06T13:03:37.670" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it's pretty explicitly &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bride_(Kill_Bill)#Kill_Bill_Vol._1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;explained in the movie&lt;/a&gt; that Bill and Beatrix were not involved, although she was pregnant with his baby.  They never do explain or even hint at who her future husband was.  Knowing Tarantino, it was probably Seth Gecko.  ;o)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-05-31T20:30:14.883" LastActivityDate="2019-05-31T20:30:14.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="25073" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-06T13:33:38.953" Score="5" ViewCount="1525" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the Chinese man's role in the plot to kill Bill the Butcher in &lt;em&gt;Gangs of New York&lt;/em&gt;? There are various scenes where Amsterdam is talking to the Chinese man in charge of the venue where the natives hold their annual celebration of The Priest's death and it is apparent that the Chinese are willing to help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Amsterdam:&lt;/strong&gt; The chinks hated the Natives even more than the Irish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, prior to Amsterdam unsuccessfully killing Bill, Amsterdam looks over to the Chinese and he has disappeared, presumably taken by Bill's men. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what was his role in the plot to kill Bill the Butcher? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastEditorUserId="13338" LastEditDate="2014-10-06T14:00:40.360" LastActivityDate="2017-03-06T20:12:44.620" Title="What was the Chinese man's role in the attempt to kill Bill the Butcher?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gangs-of-new-york|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25083" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-06T19:10:54.093" Score="6" ViewCount="3684" Body="&lt;p&gt;Set in the arctic / Antarctic with several different huts and a team of scientists. Slowly they get struck down by a mystery virus which turns them into monsters who's tongues shoot out even when their heads are cut off. This enables them to drag them across the floor.  I saw this on TV about 25 years ago and would love to know what its called please. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14107" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-10-06T19:18:32.693" LastActivityDate="2016-11-17T18:04:52.280" Title="Horror movie set in an arctic research station" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:20:11.697" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25083" CreationDate="2014-10-06T19:16:11.210" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;That sounds like John Carpenter's remake of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/&quot;&gt;The Thing&lt;/a&gt;, (1982).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien&#xA;  that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a scene like you describe, with a severed head pulling itself along the floor with a long prehensile tongue.  You can watch that clip &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjIXwkX1e48#t=63&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-10-06T19:16:11.210" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25087" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-06T20:48:47.793" Score="13" ViewCount="22351" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421715/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Curious Case of Benjamin Button&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the eponymous protagonist grows up in a nursing home where he meets &lt;em&gt;Mr. Daws&lt;/em&gt;, a man who claims to have been &lt;em&gt;&quot;struck by lightning 7 times&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. In fact it's a recurring theme/joke when &lt;em&gt;Mr. Daws&lt;/em&gt; tells him about yet another of those incidents, accompanied by some old footage, showing exactly that, a man hit by a lightning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/zHTP3S6feYo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing &lt;em&gt;Mr. Daws&lt;/em&gt;' last quote&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm blinded in one eye, can't hardly hear, get twitches and shakes out of nowhere, always losing my line of thought. But you know what, god keeps reminding me I'm lucky to be alive... Storm's coming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It becomes apparent that, apart from being a quite humorous and slightly out-of-place addition to all the other interesting acquaintances in &lt;em&gt;Benjamin&lt;/em&gt;'s life, all those incidents and &lt;em&gt;Mr Daws&lt;/em&gt;' story in general are most likely part of a moral to always see the positive side of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In light of this the following question might seem quite trivial up to stupid, but from the first time on I watched this movie I always wondered why on earth they didn't show us all the 7 incidents he was struck by lighting? We only get told of 5 of the 7 incidents (though, a 6th with him just standing at a fence is at least shown during &lt;em&gt;Benjamin&lt;/em&gt;'s final monologue at the end) and &lt;em&gt;Mr. Daws&lt;/em&gt;' last words somehow mark the closing words of this whole story arc, so it is unlikely for him to tell us more about it after this anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what I would like to know is, &lt;strong&gt;is there any specific reason why they refused to show us (or even &lt;em&gt;Benjamin&lt;/em&gt;?) all the 7 times that &lt;em&gt;Mr. Daws&lt;/em&gt; was struck by lighting?&lt;/strong&gt; Was this always the intention or were the others just cut after the movie was finished (or are there even an extended cut or deleted scenes showing them)? Or was it simply to undermine the expectation of the audience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-10T16:19:39.967" LastActivityDate="2016-03-01T15:59:51.743" Title="Why don't we get to see all the 7 lightning strikes?" Tags="|analysis|the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25088" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32400" CreationDate="2014-10-06T22:30:08.520" Score="1" ViewCount="389" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie Life After Beth (2014), Zach mentioned &quot;Machu Picchu&quot;, but I did not understand the meaning. What did he say and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13921" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-07T06:48:05.237" LastActivityDate="2015-03-21T00:39:39.093" Title="What does Zach mean by &quot;Machu Picchu&quot;?" Tags="|dialogue|life-after-beth|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10943" CreationDate="2014-10-07T01:21:01.477" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie isn't an analogy to chess. The movie is about the illusion that imprisons every one of us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deep beneath the films violence, blood and grit, lurks a spiritual and enlightening message - a message echoed throughout time by revered figures such as Buddha and Bodhidharma, a message also echoed in Kabbalah (which is probably where Guy Ritchie drew his inspiration from, as his then-wife, Madonna, is heavily into Kabbalah). And that message is this: we are not our ego; the ego, far from being our friend, is responsible for most of our pain and misery; the ego is a product of the mind and creates the illusion of separation, the ego is a prison, a prison that very few people recognise as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question: Mr. Gold is everyone's ego. In Jake's case, Mr. Gold is the part of Jake who wants to kill Macha.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14112" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T01:21:01.477" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25090" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-07T04:13:58.427" Score="5" ViewCount="614" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen a documentary/movie recently on DD national (Hindi-India) related to Gandhi. I couldn't see full movie and now I don't know its name. May be you can help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story goes like this. Rao (a government employee - I don't know the name of the actor)  gets selected to play Gandhi in a serial. Actress Jayanthi plays Kasturba Gandhi in that serial. Rao and his son (who is greedy) have some conflicts over money earned by Rao. Rao's son looses money in shares and goes to jail. The movie shows how Rao's life changes after he has started playing the role and earns a bit more than from his job. The movie is not in Hindi (Marathi or Kannada) and has subtitles in English when telecast (5th Oct 2014 night). From the vehicles in the background I can understand that it is a recent movie but it appears as a old film (camera work maybe). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14114" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-10-09T14:20:17.190" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T14:20:17.190" Title="Movie on DD national related to Gandhi" Tags="|identify-this-movie|documentary|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:20:14.820" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25090" CreationDate="2014-10-07T04:38:25.323" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are describing the 2010 movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koormavatara&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Koormavatara&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which was broadcast on DD National at 10pm on October 5th as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/radio-and-tv/article6471433.ece&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this TV guide confirms&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot, from Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The protagonist &lt;em&gt;[...]&lt;/em&gt; is at the edge of retirement from government service, happens to play the role of Mahatma Gandhi in a television serial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T04:38:25.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25092" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25106" CreationDate="2014-10-07T06:57:51.267" Score="1" ViewCount="1696" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am compiling a list of movies, and as I do so I find that I'm dividing them into to the following categories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Live action:&lt;/strong&gt; Non-animated film using (mostly) real life actors, e.g. Ghost Protocol.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CG:&lt;/strong&gt; Fully computer animated films, like Pixar's movies, e.g. Brave.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stop motion:&lt;/strong&gt; Films created using stop motion animation, e.g. Corpse Bride.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Animation&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(bad name)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; More traditional (hand drawn?) animation such as the classic Disney movies and most anime.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, I realize that the categories above are a little fuzzy. For instance, there are three different types of animation, and some of them are ambiguous. I welcome suggestions to further refine this list. Note, though, that I want the categories to be broad, so that I don't have to do half an hour's research on each film just to choose one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, my real question is, &lt;strong&gt;if I were to give a name to this distinction&lt;/strong&gt; (perhaps as a column in a spreadsheet), &lt;strong&gt;what would I call it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The term &lt;em&gt;category&lt;/em&gt; seems rather vague, as does &lt;em&gt;format&lt;/em&gt;. I thought of using something like &lt;em&gt;animation type&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;style&lt;/em&gt;, but that doesn't apply to &quot;live action&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4993" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T15:07:29.573" Title="Term for &quot;live action&quot; vs &quot;full CG&quot; vs &quot;stop motion&quot;" Tags="|animation|terminology|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-10-07T19:55:39.700" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25095" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25096" CreationDate="2014-10-07T11:12:37.160" Score="7" ViewCount="2482" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the Married with Children episode &quot;The naked and the Dead, but Mostly the Naked&quot;, the show shows the houses of Al, Ike and Bobby with off-screen screams of pleasure from their respective wives. However, Marcy didn't scream out &quot;Oh Jefferson&quot;, but &quot;Oh, Mister Lincoln&quot;. I seriously doubt that, even with his past, Jefferson would have managed to get the corpse of Abraham Lincoln exhumed for his wife to defile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, who did she sleep with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9969" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-10-07T18:47:06.687" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T18:47:06.687" Title="Who did Marcy D'Arcy sleep with at the end of &quot;The naked and the Dead, but mostly the naked&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|married-with-children|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25095" CreationDate="2014-10-07T12:13:19.557" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the guys brought their wives to the strip club in that episode, Jefferson wore a false Lincoln beard. He explains to Marcy that he's disguised to keep his reputation intact, but in fact, he doesn't want to be recognized because he frequents this club a lot and told Marcy otherwise. Later on, the Lincoln beard serves as an erection joke when an especially buxom stripper performs. &lt;strong&gt;The end of the episode implies that Jefferson simply kept the beard on when he was forced to pleasure his wife.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/otAEY.png&quot; alt=&quot;still from the episode&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-10-07T16:37:14.843" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T16:37:14.843" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25098" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25142" CreationDate="2014-10-07T12:46:55.083" Score="7" ViewCount="11947" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;For a Few Dollars More&lt;/em&gt; is considered one of Sergio Leone's finest works and is without a doubt one of my favorite movies. But every time I watch it, something feels a little off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a flashback scene we see the movie's main villain Indio murder the lover of Colonel Mortimer's sister before proceeding to rape her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Indio was not careful and left his gun within arm's reach of the girl. While still being assaulted, she seizes it and then shoots herself with the weapon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand that after losing the love of her life and enduring the horror of rape, one might want to commit suicide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't get, however, is why she didn't shoot Indio beforehand, thus putting an end to the rape and avenging her lover in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any explanation as to why she acted the way she did?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't mind that much, since this event was the basis of Mortimer's revenge-filled quest that gave us such an awesome movie, but I can't help but wonder every time I see this scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14121" LastEditorUserId="40011" LastEditDate="2016-12-30T15:31:11.217" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T15:31:11.217" Title="Why did Colonel Mortimer's sister kill herself instead of killing Indio?" Tags="|plot-explanation|for-a-few-dollars-more|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25099" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25131" CreationDate="2014-10-07T13:02:26.077" Score="3" ViewCount="5523" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have doubts about &lt;strong&gt;Gale Bertram being one of Red John's men&lt;/strong&gt;. The main reason is in the 3rd season, final episode titled &quot;Strawberries and Cream (Part II)&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this episode the suspects are: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Brenda Shettrick, CBI Media Relations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Osvaldo 'Oscar' Ardiles, Assistant District Attorney&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gale Bertram , CBI Director&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Craig O'Laughlin of the FBI&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jane also suspects LaRoche, but only Craig O'Laughlin tried to kill Hightower. If Gale Bertram was one of the Red John's men, why didn't he try to kill Hightower?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14122" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-07T20:55:31.477" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T09:49:02.157" Title="Does anyone not agree with the fact that &quot;Gale Bertram was one of the Red John's Man&quot;?" Tags="|the-mentalist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25102" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-10-07T13:27:31.043" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-10-07T13:27:31.043" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T13:27:31.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25103" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-10-07T13:27:31.043" Score="0" Body="Pompeii is a 2014 film staring Kit Harington and Emily Browning and focuses on the destruction of the city during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius." OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-10-07T13:27:31.043" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T13:27:31.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25092" CreationDate="2014-10-07T15:07:29.573" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You say that you are compiling a list of movies, but don't say who the list is for. If for yourself, any word or phrase will work. If for publication, if you are consistent, either of the words you've mentioned could work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For examples of current industry usage, I searched for some known animated movies (&lt;em&gt;Wall-E&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Mulan&lt;/em&gt;) on a few sites that have libraries of movies. IMDB and Netflix list the style (animated, Family Feature Animation, etc.) among their &lt;em&gt;Genre&lt;/em&gt; tags. Amazon lists animation among its &lt;em&gt;Category&lt;/em&gt; labels (&lt;em&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV &gt; Animation&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think you could argue that &lt;em&gt;Style&lt;/em&gt; is an appropriate label for the distinction you are making.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, as long as you are consistent and use your chosen label for all films you list (in other words, &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; Live-Action films get a label, not just animated) , it will be clear to anyone using your list what you are referencing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T15:07:29.573" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25112" CreationDate="2014-10-07T17:18:11.517" Score="6" ViewCount="11370" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the american version of The Office, at the time of their wedding, Jim says that he had to wait for a long long time. Is there any indication to know exactly how much time has passed ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-10-07T18:44:47.750" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T18:44:47.750" Title="How much time passes between Jim first meeting Pam and their wedding?" Tags="|the-office|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25110" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-07T17:33:06.320" Score="9" ViewCount="1923" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been looking for a long time for the name of a (probably) made-for-TV movie involving a time travel machine that spun like a small carousel, with a teenage boy and girl sitting on it. After having gone back in time, the boy and girl visit a middle-aged man's suburban house (possibly the inventor). As far as I can remember, all the characters were human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was an American, English language movie. That's all I can remember about it. I saw it on TV about 15 years ago. It was possibly made in the early 90s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not 'The Blue Yonder' (1985).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14129" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-10-14T19:59:48.157" LastActivityDate="2017-07-16T01:38:20.440" Title="Time travel movie with a spinning time machine" Tags="|identify-this-movie|time-travel|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:20:17.957" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25109" CreationDate="2014-10-07T17:55:26.093" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lloonnnggggg time. Jim had a girlfriend for a while and Pam went through an engagement before they finally ended up together. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically from Season 1 (2005) until their marriage in Season 6 (2010).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T17:55:26.093" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25109" CreationDate="2014-10-07T18:10:36.610" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://theoffice.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_The_Office&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this timeline&lt;/a&gt;, Jim started to work in Dunder Mifflin in 2001 (about 4 years prior to season 1). This is supported by Ryan's claim in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%27s_Speech&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dwight's Speech&lt;/a&gt; (late season 2) that Jim has been working there for 5 years. And in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_Party&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Launch Party&lt;/a&gt; (season 4), he tells Pam he liked her on his first day, when she showed him to his desk. So, since they marry in late 2009, we can assume he waited for about &lt;strong&gt;8 years&lt;/strong&gt; to marry her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-10-07T18:37:35.003" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T18:37:35.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="572" CreationDate="2014-10-07T19:16:09.583" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You people need to get lost in space. &#xA;To define a course you need 2 points: Origin and Destination (creating a line-simple).&#xA;To target a course relative to the origin you need 4 points: basically creating two lines that intersect in space as viewed FROM THE ORIGIN (crossing lines make an X).&#xA;To define a Position in space you need 5 points: 3 points to define a plane, and 2 points to define a line that will intersect that plane at a specific location.&#xA;Now use a point of origin to target that 5 point location in space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14130" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T19:16:09.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25114" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25119" CreationDate="2014-10-07T19:51:43.150" Score="8" ViewCount="14839" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Lucy there was a car chase. Lucy was driving and there was a police officer in the car. Lucy was driving extremely fast when officer said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Better be late than dead&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reply Lucy said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We never really die&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did she mean? At the end of the movie we saw Lucy tell the officer that &quot;I am everywhere.&quot; I'm guessing she became immortal, but normal people are mortal. What did the writer actually mean? Even Lucy didn't know at that time what's gonna happen when her brain usability reaches 100%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="58825" LastEditDate="2018-04-06T15:51:31.720" LastActivityDate="2018-04-06T15:51:31.720" Title="What did Lucy mean by &quot;We never really die&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|lucy|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25116" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25124" CreationDate="2014-10-07T20:07:20.760" Score="9" ViewCount="5355" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Morgan Freeman pushed the 3 remaining bags of the CPH4 drug into Lucy, we saw her traveling through time (some steps of history from current world to big bang). Some of those events where witnessed by Lucy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Lucy imagine those scenes or was she actually time-traveling? Because Lucy was back in the chair when Mr. Jang proceeded to shoot her. Did her mind experience the events or her mind just enacted those historical events as scientists give them by inference / resolution? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-10-20T14:21:40.130" LastActivityDate="2019-06-08T09:42:00.053" Title="Did Lucy travel time or was her mind imagining / portraying the views?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lucy|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24974" CreationDate="2014-10-07T20:07:33.923" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything about the Icarus 2 mission was theoretical, this was mentioned several times in the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Searle: Everything about the delivery and effectiveness of that payload is entirely theoretical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Capa: Between the boosters and the gravity of the sun the velocity of the payload will get so great that space and time will become smeared together and everything will distort. Everything will be unquantifiable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the mission itself is not designed to be a suicide mission. The mission was to fly to the sun; detach and detonate the bomb and return to earth:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Capa: So if you wake up one morning and it's a particularly beautiful day, you'll know we made it. Okay, I'm signing out and I'll see you in a couple years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Corazon: The O2 productivity is good. In fact, if anything, we're over-producing. It will trail off dramatically when we get nearer. But in truth, we have the reserves&#xA;  to make it there and a quarter-way back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However because they deviated in the flight mission to redirect to the Icarus 1, unforeseen issues occurred such as the damage to the heat shields, the burning up and destruction of the vegetable/oxygen gardens and pinbacker getting on board Icarus 2. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this, it turned into a suicide mission with the only goal of reaching the payload point and delivery of the bomb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Icarus: Capa; warning. You are dying. All crew are dying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Capa: We know we're dying. Were OK with it, just as long as we have enough oxygen to reach the payload delivery point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3570" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T20:07:33.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25114" CreationDate="2014-10-07T20:13:59.453" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I bet it had something to do with her consciousness never really disappearing. My interpretation is that, in the movie, bodies are mortal. They die. But a person's consciousness, their awareness and ability to interact with the physical universe, is timeless and is not tied to the mortal body they inhabit for a while. (That's just my guess. The movie was pretty trippy and didn't explain everything fully.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2014-10-07T22:35:28.290" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T22:35:28.290" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25116" CreationDate="2014-10-07T22:42:28.307" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;My take on it was that she could exist at all points in time. She transcended that as she had transcended other things in the movie. So she was actually moving through time, going wherever and whenever she wanted (including going through a black hole and to the &quot;other side&quot; where it connected with a quasar. At least I think that's what that was supposed to symbolize, and that visual has stuck with me). So she did in fact travel with her body and consciousness through time, and she did nearly touch the first protohuman Lucy's finger like God and Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I have no direct proof for this, like a quote from the writer or director. I'm basing it on everything that happened in the rest of the movie. She transcended the physical world, so next she'd transcend the temporal world.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-10-07T22:42:28.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25128" CreationDate="2014-10-08T01:32:47.963" Score="4" ViewCount="1871" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film 'Red Lights' (2012), how did Cillian Murphy's character stick a pen through his lower lip? It wasn't real, was it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't find anything on google that that even mentions it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14129" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T21:44:38.880" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T21:44:38.880" Title="How was the &quot;pen through the lip&quot; scene shot?" Tags="|film-techniques|red-lights|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25125" CreationDate="2014-10-08T06:05:51.620" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://arts.nationalpost.com/2012/08/07/rodrigo-cortes-and-cillian-murphy-debunk-paranormal-phenomena-in-red-lights/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; with the director Rodrigo Cortés, it's an illusion Murphy actually performs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After Murphy was cast, the actor hung out with a magician in Cortés’s native Spain and watched David Copperfield and Criss Angel’s shows in Las Vegas. Murphy learned a few tricks along the way, all of which he performs in the film, including a “stabbing” illusion, in which Murphy places a pen through his lip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how is this trick done? Well, at the risk of getting kicked out of the Magicians' Alliance, I'm guessing it's the same as &quot;pen through a dollar&quot;: It's actually a &lt;strong&gt;trick pen&lt;/strong&gt; that comes apart and is held together with &lt;strong&gt;magnets&lt;/strong&gt;; this fact is then obscured by slight of hand. You can see the trick explained &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrAkh4r48DY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and done on a lip &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVonkaAitR8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (presumably with strong magnets that &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV-CVaUBOk8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;work through flesh&lt;/a&gt; instead of paper). Note how he obscures the pen during the actual 'stabbing' and that afterwards, we don't see any part of the pen really &lt;em&gt;sliding through&lt;/em&gt; the 'hole', it's just stuck there. There can also be a &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; pen hidden in the other end if you need to write with it first; this is also explained in the first clip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-10-08T09:10:33.140" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T09:10:33.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25130" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-08T07:37:37.623" Score="20" ViewCount="78671" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Scrubs&lt;/em&gt; episode “My Screwup” (3x14), Jordan's brother Ben returns to the hospital after being two years around the world after his cancer diagnosis. He follows Dr. Cox around the whole episode, but in the end, it is revealed that he already died and most of this happened in Cox's mind as a coping mechanism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When did Ben die? During the episode? Or did he never really return? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see him interacting with JD in the beginning, so I would assume he was still alive then. Also, Cox blames JD for letting a heart patient die. Was it maybe about Ben instead? On the other hand, it seems strange that he would die this quickly, and there actually &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a heart patient in the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's very unclear what really happens in this episode because of the whole dream/imagination element. Can anyone clear this up? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="14139" LastEditDate="2014-10-08T17:27:22.447" LastActivityDate="2020-12-09T03:13:57.320" Title="What really happened to Ben Sullivan?" Tags="|plot-explanation|scrubs|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25099" CreationDate="2014-10-08T07:55:12.917" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;He wasn't one of Red John's men. He was part of Red John's corrupt organization, As you see in the episode where Jane killed Red John and the episode before that, Bertram is part of that organization and tries to kill Jane because he found out about the organization and some of its members. It is revealed that the three dots tattoo is the seal of the organization and these people have this tattoo: Gale Bertram, Sheriff McAllister and FBI Agent Reede Smith. So you find out that one of these three can be Red John, but just before it's revealed who Red John is, Bertram gets shot by Red John's assailant. So he is not one of Red John's men and he does not know who Red John really is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13615" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-09T09:49:02.157" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T09:49:02.157" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25130" CreationDate="2014-10-08T08:41:34.337" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I remember Ben died during the episode. Someone said that he always carries his camera with him and he wouldn't go anywhere without it. At some point in the episode you can start seeing him without the camera - I would say that's the sign of him beeing dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14137" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T08:41:34.337" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25136" CreationDate="2014-10-08T09:37:49.067" Score="5" ViewCount="3168" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first time Cage saves Rita, he gets shot in the chest. At that time, Rita takes away the battery from his Armour suit. Why did she do that? At that point of time, she didn't knew Cage has the ability to control time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All she cares is about winning the war. He was gonna die anyway, so she could have left him there to die with the battery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the movie, she tells him if he gets injured in battlefield, make sure to die there. Otherwise, he will be taken to the hospital and will be injected with someone's blood and lose the ability to control time. It matters only if he has the ability to control time. That's how she lost it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, doesn't taking away the battery mean she knew he had the ability to control time? If not, why did she care about him? If he dies in the field, or gets injured and  taken to a hospital and injected with someone else's blood it's his fault. She doesn't even know him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the reason for such an act?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12744" LastEditorUserId="19762" LastEditDate="2017-09-20T09:27:28.307" LastActivityDate="2017-09-20T09:27:28.307" Title="Why did Rita Vrataski remove Cage's armour suit's battery the first time he got shot?" Tags="|plot-explanation|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25135" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25139" CreationDate="2014-10-08T09:42:37.617" Score="3" ViewCount="2536" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Bar Shootout Scene in &lt;em&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/em&gt;, two things do not match up,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First&lt;/strong&gt;: there is one German officer knowing the bastards are spies, so when the first shot is fired why the Nazi soldiers start shooting the Basterds? how could they tell who is not German or is a spy at the moment (they are all drunk too)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second&lt;/strong&gt;: With the fact that all other Nazi soldiers except the officer are way too drunk, they react to the shooting too soon for the fact I mentioned and they shoot with accuracy while being drunk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So are those possibly directing/writing errors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13615" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-08T09:45:40.927" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T12:02:22.143" Title="Was the German soldiers' reaction during the bar shootout realistic?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25134" CreationDate="2014-10-08T09:44:09.310" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;The suits in the movie are battery powered. Rita knew Cage was going to die so he wouldn't need it. So she just took it for herself (in case she runs out of power).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not an official source but I was able to find &lt;a href=&quot;http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/06/science-on-the-edge-of-tomorrow/&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; on TechCrunch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Battery life was also a critical concern. Liman suggested that in the&#xA;  movie, world battery technology has taken a major step forward to&#xA;  enable these battle suits to operate without being plugged in, but “as&#xA;  futuristic as “Edge of Tomorrow” is, it’s not unintentional that Emily&#xA;  Blunt steals Tom Cruise’s battery the first time they meet on the&#xA;  battlefield; we’re always going to be looking at our battery meter and&#xA;  wishing we had more juice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="1111" LastEditDate="2014-10-08T09:49:29.800" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T09:49:29.800" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25135" CreationDate="2014-10-08T12:02:22.143" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be safe to assume that the German soldiers at the tavern were all deployed in the same region and hence knew each other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First : When first shots are heard the drunk soldiers see that the German officer, who was their senior in rank and who was known to them is being shot at by some strangers who are in uniform but who are not known to them. This is enough for them to get in action and fire on the strangers who shot the Officer. It is also possible that could hear the conversation taking place at that table. Remember that the bar owner is able to hear the conversation. They could have known that the German Officer was interrogating the strangers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second : We can't say exactly how drunk they were and how well they could shoot when they were drunk. We don't know how accurate there shots were. may be they fired many times and some shots found the target. Also please note that there wasn't a lot of distance between them so they had to fire at a very close range which should not be difficult for the soldiers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T12:02:22.143" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25140" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-08T12:05:45.843" Score="5" ViewCount="10283" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to know what kind of cameras are typically used to shoot first-person perspective videos or movies and how they are shot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an example. The song &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smack_My_Bitch_Up&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Smack my bitch up&lt;/a&gt; by The Prodigy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/44561183&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Video Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this video the main character is shown drinking a glass of vodka in a bar. And the viewers feel like the camera is kept either in the face of the character or inside the mouth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an another &lt;a href=&quot;http://vimeo.com/6540668&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12744" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-08T12:17:21.620" LastActivityDate="2016-10-24T09:46:37.027" Title="How are first-person perspective videos shot?" Tags="|film-techniques|cinematography|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25114" CreationDate="2014-10-08T13:24:58.257" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In law of conservation energy - Energy can be neither created nor destroyed, but can change form. Our life force is some kind of energy stuck in a mortal body. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The body can be destroyed but the life force cannot. Our life force only transform into a being, living on another plane of existence where body is not needed. Either that is life after death or something else, well no one will know for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13829" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T13:24:58.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25098" CreationDate="2014-10-08T14:02:14.157" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;For a few Dollars More&lt;/em&gt;, El Indio is the villain, pursued by Manco and Mortimer. The attack on Mortimer's sister is revealed in flashbacks, so that event happened earlier than the events in the main timeline of the movie. If Mortimer's sister had killed him, there would be no villain, and thus no story and no movie. So it really boils down to a narrative decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the film was made in 1965. While female characters in movies of the time were capable of committing violence, it was more likely that they would be victims. Mortimer's sister can be seen as an example of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DisposableWoman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Disposable Woman trope&lt;/a&gt;, a female character whose death gives the hero a reason for revenge. There are also elements of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheLostLenore&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lost Lenore&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeroicSacrifice&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Heroic Sacrifice&lt;/a&gt; tropes. But again, it boils down to a narrative, plot choice made by the storyteller. Even if it would make more sense for her to have shot El Indio herself, the storyteller needed him alive and her dead to tell the story he wanted to tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T14:02:14.157" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25143" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-08T16:31:26.880" Score="9" ViewCount="1708" Body="&lt;p&gt;So i recently saw &lt;em&gt;Gone Girl&lt;/em&gt; and liked it a lot. I love anything David Fincher does. My only question is this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;What exactly did they change about the ending?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were rumors going around that Gillian Flynn &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2267998/trivia?item=tr2177266&quot;&gt;wrote the screenplay with a different ending&lt;/a&gt;. Well I read the book and I had a hard time finding the difference between the book's ending and the movies ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anybody know what it was?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastActivityDate="2014-12-02T09:04:31.320" Title="What changed about the ending of Gone Girl?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gone-girl|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25130" CreationDate="2014-10-08T17:33:27.937" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;AFAIK, he died while Dr. Cox was out (I think he was to pay bail for the clown for his son's birthday party).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;JD hears being assigned to perform the tests, to which he protests that he is already overworked. So at that point Ben is alive.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Dr. Cox returns to the hospital, JD's attitude is extremely sad and defensive, to the point of introducing the issue tangentially (&quot;we had an issue...&quot;*). While you would expect that he didn't usually report a patient's death as a joke, you would not expect him to be so affected by the death of a patient that he is unrelated to, or that he would be so carefully when telling Dr. Cox (he would have said &quot;Mr. X had a cardiac episode and he died&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also it explains the impact it has on Dr. Cox. He left an apparently healthy guy at the hospital and found that he had died after a few hours. Had he been told (after a long time not hearing from him) that Ben had finally died from cancer elsewhere without seeing him first would not have been as much of a surprise (and you would need something really shocking to hit Dr. Cox that bad, if only because as a Dr. he is used to bad news).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*) I  watched the Spanish translation of the series, so the actual wording may be different in the English version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14142" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T17:33:27.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25147" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25149" CreationDate="2014-10-08T19:04:57.163" Score="3" ViewCount="1145" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; I was looking at articles for Doctor Who.  I found something very very strange, on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Almost_People&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; article, what does the production code mean?  It changes on some episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon googling, I only find references to python.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14144" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T19:21:00.000" Title="What is the meaning of &quot;Production Code 2.6&quot; on Wikipedia?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25147" CreationDate="2014-10-08T19:20:15.217" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure what you googled but searching for Doctor Who and &quot;production codes&quot; brought up several answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The production code according to TV Tropes &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EpisodeCodeNumber&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Episode Code Numbers&lt;/a&gt; are usually used to identify the order in which shows are made and are to be shown.  In the case of Doctor Who they only represent the order in which they are made.&#xA;As they explain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Doctor Who used an increasing number of letters from Seasons 1-26 (A-Z, then AA/BB/etc. and later 4C, 7D, etc.), then Seasonal Numbering with the revival. A list is here. Note the three codes for The Trial of a Time Lord — that 14-part story is effectively made up of four separate chunks (The Mysterious Planet, Mindwarp, Terror of the Vervoids, and The Ultimate Foe), with the last two produced together as a single block and sharing a code (7C). Also notice that the codes for some Season 30 (Series 4) episodes don't match the broadcast order — this isn't a case of Executive Meddling, but of the show's creators altering the plot as the season was being filmed; they kept the original codes to avoid confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="789" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T19:20:15.217" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25147" CreationDate="2014-10-08T19:21:00.000" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The production code is used during the production of a TV show to clearly identify its episodes. It is used instead of the name or the order of the episode within the season because those things can change during production. The production code is only for internal purposes and therefore not susceptible for change. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_code_number&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A production code number, also known as the production code (PC) or episode code is an alphanumeric designation used to uniquely identify episodes within a television series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T19:21:00.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="647" CreationDate="2014-10-08T19:29:32.667" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119488/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;As per IMDB L.A. Confidential FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During his previous interrogation of the three negroes arrested in the Nite Owl killings, Exley showed his mastery of using the room's intercom system by flipping the switches under the table, so that they each could hear selective audio of themselves implicating each other. The intercom system also worked both ways, to and from the outside, as shown when the Police Chief asked Exley, &quot;What was he was smiling at?&quot; The D.A. and Chief started talking about the &quot;Scandal&quot;, and a &quot;Hero&quot; after the other detectives left Exley alone in the room, where he could have easily just flipped the intercom switches with his foot to listen in. In short... Exley heard every word they said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14145" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T10:47:38.587" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T10:47:38.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25152" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26229" CreationDate="2014-10-08T19:59:55.753" Score="12" ViewCount="2615" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Klingon language system has evolved over the related series and episodes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did the producers in later series and episodes, especially in the movies (epic scene from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLtQ3b4NFrs&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;ST 7 Generations as example&lt;/a&gt;), decide to &lt;strong&gt;have Klingons speak English to Klingons&lt;/strong&gt; almost always? They did that otherwise in some cases before and it was really good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't they have &lt;em&gt;Klingon subtitles&lt;/em&gt; or some indication if they were actually speaking Klingon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14146" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-10-03T07:47:06.107" LastActivityDate="2017-10-03T07:47:06.107" Title="Why do Klingons speak English to other Klingons?" Tags="|star-trek|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25152" CreationDate="2014-10-08T20:39:40.617" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I bet it's the same reason people from France speak English, just with French accents. The majority of English-speaking audiences don't want to read subtitles. Having actors speak English, but with accents, is a trope that filmmakers developed to simplify dealing with other languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(One fun example of this is Sean Connery's character in &quot;The Hunt for Red October&quot;.  He's supposed to be Russian.  So for a few scenes, he speaks Russian. Then the camera trucks in on his mouth while he's speaking, so that his mouth fills the frame, and he starts speaking English with a Russian accent. He does that for the rest of the movie, if I recall correctly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, as far as the Klingon language goes, it would be tough for normal actors to learn their lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2014-10-09T17:09:49.693" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T17:09:49.693" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5615" CreationDate="2014-10-08T21:43:55.737" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stephen had looked up to Morris as one would a superhero.  He thought Morris was above everything, was greater, was the leader of leaders.  And yet Morris is flawed enough, stupid enough, so fucking cliche as to sleep with the hot intern.  Stephen didn't care about his career anymore.  He wanted revenge.  For Molly.  For himself.  In order to achieve this, he had to have the right position.  If he had remained fired and had spilled the beans, the story would have died.  &quot;He's a disgruntled ex-employee.  He's mad that he was fired.  Governor Morris would never do such a thing, that's hogwash.&quot;  So he plays politics.  He has Morris anoint him Campaign Manager.  And then he stabs Morris in the back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14147" LastActivityDate="2014-10-08T21:43:55.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21258" CreationDate="2014-10-09T00:14:14.603" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's a mistake, made in the script and shouldn't be there because it's a ridiculous notion, if she still had it she wouldn't have tried having sex with anyone in the hope of getting it back, unless it was one of the aliens - or she might have tried passing it on, but in that case she hadn't lost it. right? so it's either her old boyfriend or an alien, don't think the alien would be so receptive though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14148" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T00:14:14.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8423" CreationDate="2014-10-09T01:31:25.627" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt; The filmmakers made him &lt;strong&gt;seem&lt;/strong&gt; bad (not evil, just antagonistic) as a plot device, but later in the movie reveal that he's good by intentions, character, and even qualifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;evil&quot; or &quot;Good&quot; is a bit too unanswerable. So let's look at the details and shades and more importantly, how the film-makers change our perceptions of the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of the movie, Mallory is positioned &lt;strong&gt;for the viewer to seem&lt;/strong&gt; as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LawfulEvil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lawful Evil-lite&lt;/a&gt; figure,&#xA;because he is acting as an &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ObstructiveBureaucrat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Obstructive Bureaucrat&lt;/a&gt; to oppose the goals and worldviews of protagonists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is in a position of authority over M. because of his position as The new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee; and serves as Prime Minister's instrument of pushing and punishing M.:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He is first introduced telling M. that the PM made a decision to retire her, due to the recent intelligence failures:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(in all script quotes, &quot;GM&quot; refers to George Mallory, &quot;M&quot; to M., &quot;JB&quot; to James Bond and EM to Eve Moneypenny.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;GM: I'm sorry to have to deal with such a delicate subject at our first encounter. But, um... I have to be frank with you. ... The Prime Minister's concerned.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  GM: Have you considered pulling out the agents&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  M: I've considered every option.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  GM: Forgive me, that sounds like an evasion.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  M: Forgive me, but why am I here?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  GM: Three months ago, you lost the computer drive containing the identity of almost every NATO agent embedded in terrorist organizations across the globe. A list which, in the eyes of our allies, never existed. So if you'll forgive me, I think you know why you're here.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  M: Are we to call this &quot;civilian oversight&quot;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  GM: No, we're to call this &quot;retirement planning&quot;. Your country has only the highest respect for you and your many years of service. When your current posting is completed, you'll be awarded GCMG with full honors. Congratulations.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  M: You're firing me.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  GM: No, ma'am, I'm here to oversee the transition period leading to your voluntary retirement in two months' time. Your successor has yet to be appointed, so we'll be asking you...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  GM: :M, you've had a great run. You should leave with dignity.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that he's all politeness and correctness, but the viewer is primed to dislike him because he's obstructing the protagonists and is antagonistic to M.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is reinforced when Tanner (M.'s factotum) snidely implies that Bond wouldn't like him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JB: Who's Mallory?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Tanner: The new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee. Charming man. I think you and he are really going to hit it off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and, of course, he's the patron of the woman who shot and almost killed Bond (agent Eve)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;EM: I'm assisting Gareth Mallory in the transition, and then I'll be back in the field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course at the first meeting, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ObstructiveBureaucrat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Obstructive Bureaucrat&lt;/a&gt; archetype is confirmed,&#xA;as well as antagonism, by implying that Bond isn't good enough AND that M. - following the pattern he sees in her - is making another mistake:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;{mutually greeting each other, and hearing M. indicate that Bond &quot;passed&quot; the tests and is back on active duty}&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  GM: I only have one question... Why not stay dead? You have the perfect way out. Go and live quietly somewhere. Not many field agents get to leave this cleanly.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  JB: Do you get out in the field much?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  GM: &lt;strong&gt;You don't need to be an operative to see the obvious. It's a young man's game. Look, you've been seriously injured. There's no shame in saying you've lost a step. The only shame would be not admitting it until it's too late&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  JB: Hire me or fire me. It's entirely up to you.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  M: If he says he's ready, he's ready.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  GB: &lt;strong&gt;Perhaps you can't see it, or maybe you won't&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  M: What exactly are you implying?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  GM: &lt;strong&gt;You're sentimental about him&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  M: As long as I'm head of this department, I'll choose my own operatives.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  GM: Fair enough. Good luck, 007. &lt;strong&gt;Don't cock it up&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Later on, this seeming antagonistic status is sorta-reinforced by Bond guessing that the main reason Eve was sent with him was to keep tabs on him because Mallory doesn't trust him... BUT, we are being set up by the film creator for the big reveal, by letting out information that Mallory was NOT, as he was made to seem, a fussy civilian mucking about just to show his power, but a former badass himself who DOES - contrary to Bond's initial quip - know how things are in the field:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;EM: My official directive was to help... &quot;in any way I can.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  JB: Like spying for Mallory.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  EM: You know, Mallory's not as bad as you think.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  JB: He's a bureaucrat.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  EM: You should do your homework. Gareth Mallory was a Lieutenant Colonel...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  JB: &lt;strong&gt;Lieutenant Colonel in Northern Ireland, Hereford Regiment. Spent three months at the hands of the IRA.&lt;/strong&gt; (CHUCKLES)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  EM: So there's more to him than meets the eye&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Later, his &quot;I'm the boss and I'm antagonistict to M. carrying water for the useless government head&quot; impression in M.'s eyes is further reinforced:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;GM: PM Has taken the position we're a bunch of antiquated bloody idiots fighting a war we don't understand and can't possibly win.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  M: Look, three of my agents are dead already. Don't embroil me in politics now.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  GM: The Prime Minister's ordered an inquiry. You'll have to appear.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  M: Oh, standing in the stocks at midday? Who's antiquated now?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  GM: &lt;strong&gt;For Christ's sake, listen to yourself. We're a democracy, accountable to the people we're trying to defend. We can't keep working in the shadows. There are no more shadows.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  M: You don't get this, do you. Whoever's behind this, whoever's doing it, he knows us. He's one of us. He comes from the same place as Bond. The place you say doesn't exist. The shadows.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly enough, GM here almost directly quotes the new M. (Judy Dench) from the very first Pierce Brosnan 007 movie, when she was saying the same thing to Bond to position HER as a REMF who is all about sunshine and roses and against 007 program.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;BUT, here's where the filmmakers start letting the audience in on the reveal again, so far VERY subtly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the inquiry, Mallory transitions to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ReasonableAuthorityFigure&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reasonable Authority Figure&lt;/a&gt; - he grimaces when the woman politician leading it is grandstanding and spouting useless platitudes (and you can see that he ONLY does so when she speaks, and then turns to listen to M. with his normal neutral civilized expression).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, he takes M.'s side against the blowhard politician, when she starts spouting nonesence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;GM: {frostily, to the speaker} Might we actually hear from the witness?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then, of course, he fully reveals his colors as &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassBureaucrat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Badass Bureaucrat&lt;/a&gt; that Eve was hinting he was, by first instantly reacting to Silva's attack, saving the idiot politician from being shot; and despite being shot himself, playing active part in suppressing Silva's thugs shooters and providing fire cover for Bond.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And, just to complete the picture that he's more of a great leader of spies, we are given the ultimate reveal of his character AND characteristics (brilliant operator):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Bond asks Quartermaster to lay a trail of false breadcrumbs and he and Tanner start doing it (under the table and unofficially), he:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Figures out what they do despite them trying to hide it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gives them advice on how to IMPROVE their work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;AND moreover, takes their side AND provides them official cover, and showing he cares about doing the right thing more than his career, with no hesitation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;GM: What are you doing?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Tanner: We're just... monitoring.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  GM: Creating a false tracking signal for Silva to follow.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Q: Well, sir, um... Well, no.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  GM: Excellent thinking. Get him isolated. Send him on the A9. It's the direct route. You can monitor his progress more accurately and confirm it with the traffic cameras.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Tanner: But what if the PM finds out?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  GM: &lt;strong&gt;Then we're all buggered&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And, of course, he's revealed as the new, great M. at the end of the movie, with Bond giving his his unstated seal of approval as the boss spy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With pleasure, &lt;strong&gt;M.&lt;/strong&gt;. With pleasure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T01:31:25.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8521" CreationDate="2014-10-09T01:32:40.610" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to canon (Director Sam Mendes's commentary on Blu-Ray release) Bond did NOT sleep with Eve in Macao.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://debrief.commanderbond.net/topic/63063-sam-mendes-commentary-amazing/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://debrief.commanderbond.net/topic/63063-sam-mendes-commentary-amazing/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bond and Moneypenny do NOT become lovers in Macau. (This was an important point for him.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T01:32:40.610" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25166" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-09T05:31:41.640" Score="8" ViewCount="4440" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 2 of &lt;em&gt;Prison Break&lt;/em&gt; Agent Mahone finds out that Michael's last plan is related to this tattoo which contains a picture of Jesus Christ in a Rose, by which he concludes that this is his mother's name. I am wondering why would Michael need a tattoo which leads to his mother's name which is not difficult to remember as a son. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7259" LastEditorUserId="7259" LastEditDate="2015-06-26T10:23:35.017" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T10:23:35.017" Title="Why did Michael need a tattoo which is a pictorial charade for &quot;Christina Rose&quot; (his own mother's name)" Tags="|prison-break|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25166" CreationDate="2014-10-09T06:13:44.440" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Certainly Michael is unlikely to forget his mothers name, however Christina Rose is not actually about his mother, nor is it the only piece of information in the tattoo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963626/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S02E20- Panama&lt;/a&gt;, we see the full tattoo is Jesus Christ in a Rose with the number 617 on the stem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GpcaN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of the tattoo&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://prisonbreak.wikia.com/wiki/Christina_Scofield&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Christina Rose Schofield&lt;/a&gt;, his dead mother, was no doubt the reason he picked the name, however Christina Rose is actually the name of the boat in Panama Michael and Lincoln are going to escape aboard:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IefYw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of the Christina Rose boat&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the 617 on the stem is the combination to the padlock which is securing the boat:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/07WfC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image of the padlock combination&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Michael has an impressive mind, so chances are he did remember all this anyway (although he did look at the tattoo in the episode which could be interpreted as him needing to check it), but it's better to be safe than sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, he may simply have needed to fill up the space. The prison designs and parts of the plan will only take so much space, and to look authentic he'd want it to be even.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-10-09T13:38:35.350" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T13:38:35.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35197" CreationDate="2014-10-09T06:45:54.290" Score="2" ViewCount="778" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you explain the meaning of the following quote from Ingmar Bergman's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055499/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Through a Glass Darkly&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We draw a magic circle around ourselves to shut out everything that doesn’t fit our secret games. Each time life breaks through the circle, the games become puny and ridiculous, so we draw a new circle and build new defences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5002" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-09T09:29:29.937" LastActivityDate="2016-04-24T17:16:14.303" Title="Meaning of the 'magic circle' quote" Tags="|analysis|dialogue|through-a-glass-darkly|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25174" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25175" CreationDate="2014-10-09T10:34:03.853" Score="1" ViewCount="3929" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Veronica Mars series end in the 3rd season? I found the plot of the whole series really nice and interesting. I'm gonna see the movie in the next few days but it seems unfair to end like this...not knowing what happens between Piz and her, how Vinnie Van Lowe is elected sheriff, how her dad clears his name or continues his life, what she does as an intern in FBI...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14159" LastEditorUserId="5315" LastEditDate="2014-10-09T12:35:28.480" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T05:42:07.353" Title="Why did Veronica Mars series end in the 3rd season?" Tags="|veronica-mars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25174" CreationDate="2014-10-09T11:16:18.850" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because of low rating, it got critical acclaim but it lacked in attracting more viewers. So it got cancelled after 3rd season by The CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A group of fans calling themselves the &quot;Cloud Watchers&quot; sent more&#xA;  than 10,000 Mars bars to the CW, hoping that the network would reverse&#xA;  its decision and renew the series. (Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Mars_%28season_3%29#Cancellation_and_future&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie was made only to give closers to the unanswered questions. Even Warner Bros. said no to produce the film, it was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Mars_%28film%29#Development&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kickstarter fund-raising&lt;/a&gt; which made it possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/03/13/veronica-mars-creator-rob-thomas-explains-how-his-canceled-show-rose-from-the-ashes-for-a-groundbreaking-movie/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is the creator's word on the whole story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: So if you want to complete the story you need to watch the movie after the 3rd season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As  BCdotNET said there is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://veronicamars.wikia.com/wiki/Veronica_in_the_FBI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Season 4 teaser&lt;/a&gt; made for an attempt of making season 4 but this teaser is became non-canonical because of movie’s story conflicting with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-10-10T05:42:07.353" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T05:42:07.353" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1879" CreationDate="2014-10-09T18:07:42.210" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the novel, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ride_%28novel%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Last Ride&lt;/a&gt;, it wasn't Brake who was killed this way, but the killing was in it. &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=PMQO98yryzcC&amp;amp;lpg=PA59&amp;amp;ots=j4kr5ZTHjI&amp;amp;dq=The%20missing%20brake%20baldwin&amp;amp;pg=PA67#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=crushed&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;From page 67&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He took a deep breath and then held it and slit the stitching of green thongs; the cowhide flaps spread wide, releasing a cloud of putrid-smelling steam, and Jones gagged on it, turning away. Death, in general, had never bothered him much. But this one did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The body was curled in a tight ball and disfigured to the point it was almost unrecognizable. Nevertheless, he knew it wasn't Lily. He picked up one side of the cowhide and rolled the corpse onto its back. Mannito. The little Mexican was naked and covered with thousands of tiny puncture holes; but those had not killed him. His death had come from the green cowhide. The fire was slowly drying it, shrinking it, until it finally crushed his ribs and suffocated him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most likely they'd ambushed him and Lily, shooting the rancher and grabbing the girl, and then, later, been surprised by Mannito. Somehow they'd caught the little Mexican alive, stripped him naked, put a rope around his chest and dragged him back and forth through the prickly pear. Afterward, with a thousand cactus thorns impaling him, they'd beaten him with clubs and then sewn him up in the hide and hung him from the oak like a giant cocoon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Novel, Brake was simply shot. Another character, Mannito, comes upon the girls and their captives and is caught and tortured. When Ken Kaufman turned Thomas Eidson's book into a screenplay, it was decided that the character of Mannito was to be removed, and what happened to Mannito was instead shown as happening to the character of Brake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Indians used un-cured cowhide (which was 'fresh' from the animal, versus having been stretched and cured into usable fabric), sewed Mannito/Brake into it, and hung him from an oak tree over an open fire. The heat of the fire caused the hide to shrink, eventually suffocating him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This wasn't a 'ritualistic' killing in the sense that they did it for 'Power'; it was a means to ensure that a living victim died in as long and painful a way as possible, without them having to actually stay until the (inevitable) end. Dragging the man over/through the prickly pear ensured he was too wounded to have a chance of fighting his way out of the trap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T18:07:42.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25184" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-10-09T22:20:06.127" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The period of film and television between 1930 and 1939.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930s_in_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1930s in Film&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_years_in_television#1930s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1930s in Television&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-10-09T22:20:06.127" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T22:20:06.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25185" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-10-09T22:20:06.127" Score="0" Body="The period of film and television between 1930 and 1939." OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-10-09T22:20:06.127" LastActivityDate="2014-10-09T22:20:06.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25186" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-10T03:28:37.960" Score="6" ViewCount="1377" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/21537/does-major-cage-still-have-the-reset-ability&quot;&gt;this question covers&lt;/a&gt;, at the end of &lt;em&gt;Edge of Tomorrow&lt;/em&gt;, Major Cage still has the reset ability.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This led me to wonder, what would happen many years later, when Cage grew old? Would he infinitely be caught in the last day before his (let's assume) natural death?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10023" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T03:31:48.190" Title="After the end of Edge of Tomorrow, would Cage be caught in a time-loop?" Tags="|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25187" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25189" CreationDate="2014-10-10T04:12:37.870" Score="17" ViewCount="9977" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything about Quentin Tarantino's movies is unique and thought provocative. I want to know about the 1994 movie's title. Why is it called Pulp Fiction and how is the title related to the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-10T07:14:41.503" LastActivityDate="2019-02-02T07:22:21.827" Title="Relevance of the title Pulp Fiction?" Tags="|title|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25186" CreationDate="2014-10-10T04:31:18.853" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes...He got back the reset ability the moment he killed Omega &amp;amp; got covered in it's blood. He died before killing Omega. So when his body got covered in Omega's blood, the reset ability got transferred to him same like when he got covered in Alpha's blood at Verdun the very first time. So may be years later, when cage dies he can reset the day (for 24 hours). So he can live his last day once again. Eventually everyone dies at some point of time. He won't lose the reset ability unless he is injected with someone else's blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12744" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T04:31:18.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25187" CreationDate="2014-10-10T05:36:14.813" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; :-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film's title refers to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_magazine&quot;&gt;pulp magazines&lt;/a&gt; and hardboiled crime&#xA;  novels popular during the mid-20th century, known for their graphic&#xA;  violence and punchy dialogue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Wikipedia page on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_magazine&quot;&gt;Pulp magazine&lt;/a&gt;:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pulp magazines (often referred to as &quot;the pulps&quot;) are inexpensive&#xA;  fiction magazines published from 1896 through the 1950s. Pulps were&#xA;  printed on cheap paper with ragged, untrimmed edges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The term pulp derives from the cheap wood &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_%28paper%29&quot;&gt;pulp&lt;/a&gt; paper on which the magazines were printed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's named Pulp Fiction because it is Pulp magazine kind of story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T05:36:14.813" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25190" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25191" CreationDate="2014-10-10T11:27:31.250" Score="15" ViewCount="4758" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the US version of TV show &quot;The Office&quot;, many characters keep saying the tagline &quot;That's what she said&quot;. There is even a t-shirt on the official store.&#xA;I never actually understood this punchline as they say it in unrelated scenarios.&#xA;What is the meaning of this punchline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-10T12:48:22.070" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T13:18:31.047" Title="Reccuring dialogue &quot;That's what she said&quot;?" Tags="|dialogue|the-office|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25190" CreationDate="2014-10-10T11:36:56.713" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;While researching this question, I went to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scott_%28The_Office%29&quot;&gt;Michael Scott&lt;/a&gt; page on Wiki. In the section of (the character) Scott's interests, it states that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Michael's favorite catchphrase is &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_the_actress_to_the_bishop&quot;&gt;That's what she said!&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, a sexually suggestive &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_entendre&quot;&gt;double entendre&lt;/a&gt; he uses even in the most inappropriate circumstances, including business meetings and legal depositions. Michael finds uttering the phrase so irresistible that in (the episode) &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Harassment_%28The_Office%29&quot;&gt;Sexual Harassment&lt;/a&gt;&quot; he is goaded into saying it just seconds after Jan Levenson and a lawyer from Corporate specifically ask him not to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;That's what she said!&quot;, in Wikipedia, redirects to the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_the_actress_to_the_bishop&quot;&gt;Said the actress to the bishop&lt;/a&gt;&quot; Wiki page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as for the meaning of the phrase itself, according to the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_the_actress_to_the_bishop&quot;&gt;Said the actress to the bishop&lt;/a&gt;&quot; wiki page, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Said the actress to the bishop&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; is an informal (and usually vulgar) exclamation, said for humour in the form of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_line&quot;&gt;punch line&lt;/a&gt; after an inadvertent &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_entendre&quot;&gt;double entendre&lt;/a&gt;. The equivalent phrase in North America is &quot;&lt;strong&gt;that's what she said&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. Both phrases are examples of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellerism&quot;&gt;Wellerisms&lt;/a&gt;, a literal &quot;turn&quot; of a phrase, changing its meaning. The versatility of the phrase and its popularity lead some to consider it a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clich%C3%A9&quot;&gt;cliché&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To define &quot;That's what she said!&quot; as for it's use as a vulgar come-back, Wiki cites this as an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By 1973, &quot;that's what &lt;em&gt;she&lt;/em&gt; said&quot; had already been characterized as an &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-line_joke&quot;&gt;ancient one-liner&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. In the early 1990s, it was popularized as a recurring joke in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Saturday Night Live&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; sketch &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%27s_World&quot;&gt;Wayne's World&lt;/a&gt;. In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105793&quot;&gt;movie of the same name&lt;/a&gt;, the character, Wayne Campbell, uses the phrase after his partner Garth says, &quot;Hey, are you through yet? 'Cause I'm getting tired of holding this,&quot; in regard to a picture he is holding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the joke would be: &quot;Hey, are you through yet? 'Cause I'm getting tired of holding this&quot;, &quot;That's what she said!&quot;, alluding to the double entendre of &lt;em&gt;she&lt;/em&gt; was getting tired of holding his (&lt;em&gt;insert male sexual body part here&lt;/em&gt;). :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_the_actress_to_the_bishop&quot;&gt;why this phrase was used in the American version of &quot;The Office&quot;&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the original BBC version of The Office, Ricky Gervais's character David Brent frequently used the phrase &quot;as the actress said to the bishop&quot; as an inappropriate joke. When the show was adapted for American audiences, the phrase was translated to &quot;that's what she said&quot; for Steve Carell's character Michael Scott. &quot;That's what she said&quot; became a catchphrase of The Office and was used for the show's &quot;That's What She Said&quot; Sweepstakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it was a direct translation of essentially the British version of the same phrase used in the British Television original series upon which this series is based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2014-10-10T13:18:31.047" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T13:18:31.047" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25190" CreationDate="2014-10-10T11:43:11.410" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a conversation between A and B, &quot;that's what she said&quot; is a (very informal!) phrase B would use to give A's (harmless) statement an unexpected dirty meaning not indended by A. It is implied that the &quot;she&quot; said this during/before/after sexual or related activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A is unsuccessfully trying to push a thick folder into an overfull shelf, commenting &quot;this will never squeeze in.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;B would reply: &quot;That's what she said.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read more about the phrase on e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=that%27s%20what%20she%20said&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Urban dictionary&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/q/31836/65500&quot;&gt;English.SE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11264" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:38:11.257" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T11:43:11.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25186" CreationDate="2014-10-10T11:57:06.223" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer: we don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, the answers to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/21537/5589&quot;&gt;question that you mention&lt;/a&gt; are inconclusive. So, did the blood give Cage the &lt;em&gt;ability&lt;/em&gt;, or did it just &lt;em&gt;include&lt;/em&gt; him in the one last reset dome by dying Omega (maybe like a post-mortem tick)? Personally, I believe that this was not thought through by the film makers, and only serves the purpose of getting a happy end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, we don't even know for sure how the resets work (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/20073/5589&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), i.e., how is it determined to what point in time does the reset go? If it really happens when he dies of an old age, will he loop back to his last sleep, to the helicopter, or somewhere in between?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a general agreement that the reset goes to a point in time relevant to the death of the one resetting the time. But dying of an old age is inevitable, so where to reset to? IMO, the reset loses its purpose when it comes to the natural death, although one could argue (a big stretch, IMO) that the reset will go all the way to birth or early childhood, until he becomes a scientist that successfully researches immortality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have theories and guesses, but not a definite answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T11:57:06.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25194" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-10T12:10:52.887" Score="14" ViewCount="3302" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sheldon is generally portrayed as a brilliant and successful theoretical physicist. This is even underlined in the &quot;tenure&quot; episode&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; where all the main characters are recommended for their good results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet all pieces of his research which I remember specifically mentioned turn out a failure:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His antarctic research is based on faked measurements&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the paper which Leonard is presenting (and gets distracted), it is presented as Leonard really doing most/all of the work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The paper he gives to Stephen Hawking contains a &quot;booboo&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He retracts his discovery of the super-heavy element&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been some time since I watched the show, so something (both ways) may have slipped my mind. Is there ever a specifically mentioned piece of Sheldon's research which is actually successful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11264" LastActivityDate="2022-09-02T11:01:25.907" Title="Is Sheldon ever shown to succeed at research?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25197" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="25199" CreationDate="2014-10-10T17:46:06.353" Score="2" ViewCount="5875" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's an episode of the Twilight Zone called &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nice_Place_to_Visit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Nice Place to Visit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.  In it, a man dies and is greeted by a character who calls himself &quot;Pip&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; They're in hell.  Pip is the protagonist's guide/butler/assistant who gets him anything he wants, even though it all turns out to be unsatisfying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some people claim that Pip is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; the Devil&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but leaves open the question of why he's called &quot;Pip&quot;, and why he hasn't eaten for &quot;two or three centuries&quot;.  Who is Pip, and why is he called that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14171" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-10T18:52:49.727" LastActivityDate="2017-01-04T21:49:47.263" Title="Who was Pip in the Twilight Zone episode &quot;A Nice Place to Visit&quot;?" Tags="|character|the-twilight-zone|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="369" CreationDate="2014-10-10T18:02:21.453" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmmm well civilization wouldn't define the tribe that was the one that Jaguar Paw lived in, but rather the conquering Mayans with temples, sacrifices, forced slavery, and sport killings. In other words there were two sides of the natives shown in the movie, the hunter gatherer types and the city state civilization type. One was altruistic, family, mythological, and headed by elders and shamans. The other was hierarchical, agricultural, and headed by &quot;anointed ones (kings,emperors etc..) and religious priests (the ones at the top of the temple cutting out hearts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in essence it is a reflection of the of the primordial and the &quot;civilized&quot;. One is large scale and the other a small scale. So the quote is relevant to the city, which is a reflection of what the Spaniards eventually did themselves, just on a higher and sophisticated scale.     &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14172" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T18:02:21.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25197" CreationDate="2014-10-10T19:24:37.767" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know of no canon answer, and you're not going to get one now.  However, it's likely the name is meant to reference a term which isn't really widely used now but was pretty common when I was younger.  &quot;Pip&quot;, or &quot;Pipperoo&quot; was used to reference someone who was really good at something.  &quot;Look at that little pip!&quot;  &quot;Lynn Swann?  He's a pip!&quot;  My dad used that term frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most likely coincidental, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dictionary.reference.com&lt;/a&gt; it also has the following definitions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;verb (transitive) ( Brit, slang) pips, pipping, pipped &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  1. to wound or kill, esp with a gun&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;noun &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  1. one of the spots on dice, playing cards, or dominoes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why he hasn't eaten in several centuries, my guess is that dead people don't need to eat.  It was probably inserted into dialogue to make it obvious the characters weren't alive.  TV back then had a habit of being overly obvious about plot lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;who&quot;...  Now that's open to interpretation.  My guess would be a minion, because the devil himself just couldn't give one person that much attention.  Especially a low-level crook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-10-10T19:24:37.767" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25110" CreationDate="2014-10-11T01:27:18.700" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it Something Wicked This Way Comes? I remember a demonic aging carousel in that, although it's a little older than what you described.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14177" LastActivityDate="2014-10-11T01:27:18.700" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25206" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26227" CreationDate="2014-10-11T14:13:15.807" Score="2" ViewCount="294" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is about Clerks II. When Jay said &quot;You knocked up the guy who own Mooby's?&quot; who was he referring to? Because in Dogma, the boss of Mooby's has already been killed by Matt Damon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-11T14:51:23.673" LastActivityDate="2014-10-12T21:49:59.090" Title="About Mooby's in Clerks II" Tags="|plot-explanation|clerks-ii|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="25207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20073" CreationDate="2014-10-11T15:34:45.713" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is because Cage is taken back in time not in accordance with himself but with the Omega. So, when the Omega dies, the blood gets on Cage, but the Omega was changing time from the beginning of Operation Downfall, where Cage threatens the General. So, it reset time from where the Omega was changing it, not Cage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14182" LastActivityDate="2014-10-11T15:34:45.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20073" CreationDate="2014-10-12T08:25:35.340" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about this theory? I think it's a bit different to and might be hard to understand, based on &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; we perceive the story as a linear movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After watching the movie, I still wondered how one or more entities would be able to somehow alter time in the whole universe to create the resets. A bit like &lt;em&gt;The Butterfly Effect&lt;/em&gt;? Nah, didn't really make any sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then I've had the idea to understand the resets in a different way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Mimics aren't able to time travel or reset time in any way.&lt;/strong&gt; However, they're able to somehow &lt;strong&gt;transfer knowledge/memories back in time&lt;/strong&gt; utilizing something in their blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While watching the movie, we always notice Cage waking up, obviously shocked by the death he experienced just moments ago. But what if he just got that memory that very moment (or just before) similar to how dreaming works. If you've ever wondered why you always wake up after a dream, it's primarily due to you remembering only the dreams right before waking up; even if some time has passed since then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now combine this with a video game's &quot;save logic&quot; and you'll get a pretty interesting (and in my opinion conclusive) solution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Similar to a gamer, the Mimics being able to transfer memories to &quot;save&quot; at a specific point in time so they're able to transfer back whatever they've learned.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;By default, Alphas would obviously imprint that moment in time to pretty much always be 24 hours before, offering enough reaction time without making it overly complicated (too much to remember).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The moment Cage kills the Alpha for the &quot;first&quot; time, he gets in contact with the blood, sending back his memories as well (which would obviously alter his own blood in some way as well).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cage lacks the knowledge or ability to &quot;reprogram&quot; the alien cells or elements within his blood, so he has no way to alter the point to which his memories are sent back.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He loses the ability due to blood loss/transfers, simply due to the fact that the ratio/amount would be lowered significantly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Omega obviously created its own save point, but at an earlier point (explaining the time difference for the last &quot;jump&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once the omega is killed, memories are sent back to that morning. This happened before, they're talking about the Omega allowing them to kill it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the only question this doesn't answer: Why is the Omega gone after the last &quot;jump cut&quot;? Did it retreat or hide, since it knew the humans now possess the knowledge of how their &quot;mind trick&quot; works (even if it's just speculation)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case anyone is interested, as far as I've heard, the whole &quot;transfer information back in time&quot; might indeed be possible. Utilizing &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;quantum entanglement&lt;/a&gt; you're able to link two or more particles, so both share the same state. While I don't really know all the little details etc. as far as I've heard, you should in theory be able to influence one particle and the second one would mimic (pun here?) this, no matter what/where. (The &lt;em&gt;Mass Effect&lt;/em&gt; trilogy also utilizes this and uses it for its faster-than-light communication system.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So advance this a bit: Relativity theory states that time passes at different speeds based on the objects own speed/mass. So if you move both particles indepently at different speeds etc. time for one of them would pass faster, essentially creating a link between two points in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what if the Mimics are able to utilize this in some way or another as well? This still doesn't explain how the blood/infection gets back in time, but it sounds really interesting, doesn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastActivityDate="2014-10-12T08:25:35.340" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20073" CreationDate="2014-10-12T11:04:51.557" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lots of complicated theories...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1)  We know &lt;em&gt;very little&lt;/em&gt; about how the alien technology works, including time travel.  We just have a limited set of observations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2)  We have no observations of, or reason to have any understanding of how an omega's death will affect time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, Cage is sent back as he is because that is what we observe.  Our observations do indicate that the mixing of blood with the Omega is a likely factor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12710" LastActivityDate="2014-10-12T11:04:51.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26218" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43778" CreationDate="2014-10-12T13:26:40.587" Score="2" ViewCount="1152" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching Black Sails and I couldn't stop noticing that the pirates have super nice white teeth.&#xA;I would think pirates just had '&lt;em&gt;bad &amp;amp; rotten&lt;/em&gt;' teeth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this just left out on purpose or forgotten? Or is there some meaning to this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8597" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-12T13:40:28.103" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T15:10:23.537" Title="Why do the pirates have white teeth?" Tags="|plot-explanation|black-sails|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21914" CreationDate="2014-10-12T16:07:18.630" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just rewatched the scene and it doesn't look like it's a part of some elaborate plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seconds before the conversation from the OP's question takes place, Cage seems to hook himself as well (as the others do the same). However, the first hit at the ship blows him out of his strap (and kills Kimmel). Here, I made a clip of that part:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20230505103343/https://i.imgur.com/Mtw71MV.mp4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Edge of Tomorrow: The beginning of the final attack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they start jumping out, Rita tells him that he's not hooked in, which is the synonym for &amp;quot;but you cannot jump (and will crash with the plane)&amp;quot;. Remember that not more than a minute before that, he said &amp;quot;take one for the team&amp;quot; (as a response to &amp;quot;what do we do if an alpha tries to kill us?&amp;quot;), so his reaction to Rita's comment (shaking his head and pressing her &amp;quot;release&amp;quot; button) is exactly that: accepting his own sacrifice for the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, he's Tom Cruise, so he luckily survives the fall and (spoiler! ;-)) saves the day, but at that moment with Rita, Cage knows his chances are slim, and he just wants everyone else to go on and win the war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2023-05-08T11:31:26.957" LastActivityDate="2023-05-08T11:31:26.957" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="26221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25110" CreationDate="2014-10-12T18:19:02.380" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also possibly too old (1988) and British rather than American, but it does sound suspiciously like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098866/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Moondial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1005" LastActivityDate="2014-10-12T18:19:02.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25206" CreationDate="2014-10-12T21:49:59.090" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The canon quote is :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Randal Graves:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Oh, yeah, it's my fault your life's f#cked up.&lt;/em&gt; &quot;&lt;strong&gt;I'm the engaged guy who knocked up my boss!&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jay:&lt;/strong&gt; [amazed] &lt;em&gt;You knocked up the guy who owns Mooby's?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this instance, Randall is referring to the manager of their branch of Mooby's (Becky) as their boss rather than the guy who ultimately owns the Mooby's franchise. Jay is too dumb/stoned to realise this, hence his amazement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the film, we see the line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Becky:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm pregnant, Dante.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2014-10-12T21:49:59.090" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25152" CreationDate="2014-10-12T23:32:33.587" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The in-universe explanation is quite simple: they don't. They're speaking Klingon and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Universal_translator&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;universal translator&lt;/a&gt; makes it sound like they're speaking English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's basically impossible to tell which characters speak English due to this device, as by the 24th century they're small enough to fit inside a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Combadge&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Starfleet Combadge&lt;/a&gt;, as Captain Janeway mentions in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_37%27s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The 37s&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Nogami&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nogami&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: You are all speaking Japanese.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Jack_Hayes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack Hayes&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;[to Nogami]&lt;/em&gt; Sounds to me like you're speaking English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Janeway&lt;/strong&gt;: It's because of a device we have, a universal translator. &lt;em&gt;[points to her combadge]&lt;/em&gt; It allows us to talk to each other, even though our languages aren't the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The size of the device means it's basically guaranteed that their ship will have one installed for communicating with non-Klingons, especially as the Duras sisters from Generations have fallen out of favour with the Klingon Empire and basically survive by working with other species, such as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Romulan&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Romulans&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Redemption_II_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TNG 5x01- Redemption II&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Bajoran&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bajoran&lt;/a&gt; terrorists in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Past_Prologue_%28episode%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;DS9 1x03- Past Prologue&lt;/a&gt; and in Generations, as you mention, they're working with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/El-Aurian&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;El-Aurian&lt;/a&gt; Dr. Soran. As none of these species have any reason to speak Klingon or English, it's a fair assumption that they're all speaking their native languages and Lursa and B'Etor have a Universal Translator about their person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not they're shown talking in their natural or translated language really depends on the director and writer. In some of the TOS movies, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_VI:_The_Undiscovered_Country&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Undiscovered Country&lt;/a&gt;, Klingons are shown to be speaking Klingonese whenever there are no humans around. In one scene, Kirk and McCoy are standing in a room full of Klingons speaking Klingonese, then we see there is a Klingon manually translating to English, before jumping back to the same actor speaking English, which indicates that the mouth movements matching up with the translation is simply a stylistic choice to avoid re-dubbing every time a Klingon appears to be speaking English in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-03-24T08:42:56.980" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26230" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-13T01:40:37.943" Score="4" ViewCount="214" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the various characters in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2103085/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Top of the Lake&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;em&gt;GJ&lt;/em&gt;, who is somewhat like a leader to the group of women that settled in containers in &lt;em&gt;Paradise&lt;/em&gt;, which is also reinforced by &lt;em&gt;Anita&lt;/em&gt; when she tells &lt;em&gt;Matt&lt;/em&gt; how this whole project started:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;GJ, yeah. Oh they met in rehab. [...] Bunny said &quot;You're the first person who's ever really spoken the truth. Wherever you want to go, wherever you want to be, I will pay for it.&quot; GJ said &quot;Let us see if you really mean it.&quot; and she put her finger on a map. And here we are, &lt;em&gt;Paradise&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in fact at first she comes across as some kind of New Age spiritual leader and many of the women seem to treat her so and search her advice, in addition to outsiders, like &lt;em&gt;Tui&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Robin&lt;/em&gt;. This is all fine, except for the fact that &lt;strong&gt;GJ doesn't ever do anything at all, let alone anything leading, advising or wise&lt;/strong&gt;. Rather on the contrary, all she's ever doing is sit in her chair, let the women bring her food and make extremely bitter and cynical comments to everyone speaking to her (oh, and let &lt;em&gt;Bunny&lt;/em&gt;'s daughter check the internet for gold and stock prices, what the?). And at the end she just leaves with her luggage, having previously searched a flight to Iceland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So what on earth was the matter with GJ?&lt;/strong&gt; On the one hand I'd be interested to get a bit more insight into what her character's motivation was and what she actually did at all. Were her advices actually good for anything else than mere cynicism, or was she really just exploiting &lt;em&gt;Bunny&lt;/em&gt; and the other women's naiveté? On the other hand I'd like to understand what her purpose for the actual story was? Was this only to undermine the audience's expectations by presenting her as an actual &lt;em&gt;non-leader&lt;/em&gt;, like some cynical parody of the usual wise spiritual leaders?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this question isn't too broad or speculative, afterall she might just have been deliberately left an extremely mysterious character. But all the other characters' motivations were largely clear to me (well, &lt;em&gt;Matt&lt;/em&gt;'s at least partly), while I can't make the slightest out of &lt;em&gt;GJ&lt;/em&gt;. So I'd like to hear some well-reasoned theories on her character and its position in the series (or even backed by external information).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-17T09:22:03.933" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T09:22:03.933" Title="What was the matter with GJ?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|character|top-of-the-lake|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20073" CreationDate="2014-10-13T04:17:07.490" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alpha death is just an autonomic response for a day reset, but I think the Omega blood gave Cage the ability to DECIDE when to wake up. He subconsciously wanted to wake up earlier than being handcuffed at the base, so he woke up in the helicopter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the Omega resets time everything returns to how it was -- except the memories of the alphas. I think this is because the Omega travels back in time to replace the previous version of itself, and then sends the memories out to the reset alphas (or Cage).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SO, when Cage kills the Omega he wants to wake up in the helicopter, so he does. And the Omega replaces its living self with its freshly dead self - disabling all the mimics in the reset day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's how I understood it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15198" LastActivityDate="2014-10-13T04:17:07.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26234" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26242" CreationDate="2014-10-13T06:14:59.473" Score="8" ViewCount="3782" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end Cage is covered in the Omega blood and the time is reset to a different previous waking point in time compared with the reset point in the rest of the movie. The Omega is responsible for the resets, so if it is killed how does it do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it seems the Omega blood still has the ability to reset time. So doesn't this suggest the Omega resetted itself? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the Omega did reset itself (to its own reset point) after being killed, the high energy peak that is mentioned in the end could be caused by it moving itself to a new location and this moving may explain why the aliens are being beat (at that time), especially since this happens before Cage spoke to the general and could have killed the Omega (thus the Omega was not killed yet at this point in time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, why didn't the Omega reset the time when it was aware it was being attacked? Does it really need the trigger of an Alpha dying?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastEditorUserId="7659" LastEditDate="2014-10-13T07:57:25.060" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T11:11:06.120" Title="Does Edge of Tomorrow have an open ending?" Tags="|plot-explanation|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26234" CreationDate="2014-10-13T07:30:05.723" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, I'd say so. I don't think there's any clear evidence regarding the Omega's status (or the Mimics in general) - at least not within the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also like to refer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/26213/6725&quot;&gt;my answer on this question&lt;/a&gt; regarding different reset points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about this theory? I think it's a bit different to and might be hard to understand, based on &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; we perceive the story as a linear movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After watching the movie, I still wondered how one or more entities would be able to somehow alter time in the whole universe to create the resets. A bit like &lt;em&gt;The Butterfly Effect&lt;/em&gt;? Nah, didn't really make any sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then I've had the idea to understand the resets in a different way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Mimics aren't able to time travel or reset time in any way.&lt;/strong&gt; However, they're able to somehow &lt;strong&gt;transfer knowledge/memories back in time&lt;/strong&gt; utilizing something in their blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While watching the movie, we always notice Cage waking up, obviously shocked by the death he experienced just moments ago. But what if he just got that memory that very moment (or just before) similar to how dreaming works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the only question this doesn't answer: Why is the Omega gone after the last &amp;quot;jump cut&amp;quot;? Did it retreat or hide, since it knew the humans now possess the knowledge of how their &amp;quot;mind trick&amp;quot; works (even if it's just speculation)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's exactly the point in your question. Unless there's some more information in some source outside the movie, I don't think there's any clear answer (and still the possibility for a sequel?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, let's just assume we're indeed talking about time travelling (not just transferring knowledge), why should the Omega be gone? It died in the future, it's not like it dies in the past as well (unless there's some connection that didn't get mentioned). As such the possibility of a retreat or hiding somehwere would be the most logical conclusion to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-10-13T07:30:05.723" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26234" CreationDate="2014-10-13T09:35:28.510" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the Omega was intelligent. Instead, I simply think of it as a machine. The Alpha's are the one controlling it, as long as they hold the key. It would make sense if the Omega had created some time region that got reset when it was killed - by why would that reset only a few days back, instead of to the beginning of the invasion? Did it create a save point after Verdun? :D &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course, why would this reset result in a world where the Mimics are all dead? IMO it would make a lot more sense if the Mimics were still there to fight, just without their major advantage - or maybe even flee back home, having lost their strongest weapon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, this was probably added to the movie just to make the ending &quot;good&quot; for western audiences. If this was a Japanese movie, it'd probably end with everyone dying, but ultimately achieving their goal. It's just that noble sacrifices aren't really what european-descent cultures really appreciate all that much, when it still leaves the hero and all of those he loved dead :D &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that in the story the movie is based on, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; the final reset doesn't happen, and Cage (Keiji Kiriya) kills Rita in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12620" LastActivityDate="2014-10-13T09:35:28.510" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26234" CreationDate="2014-10-13T11:03:20.537" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ending was supposed to be this vague. In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/edge-of-tomorrow-ending-alternate.php#ixzz3G1OTfILe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview with Christopher McQuarrie&lt;/a&gt; he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I was always arguing it has to end on the helicopter,” he explained.&#xA;“You have to be thrown back to wondering, ‘Did the movie even happen?&#xA;Did any of this really happen?’ To that end, there were a million&#xA;things you had to do with the writing and visually, to serve that&#xA;ending. That presented a lot of challenges and debate for us. We&#xA;really struggled to deliver what the movie needed to be emotionally. I&#xA;know the ending was somewhat controversial, with some people who&#xA;didn’t like it. I think the only way to make those people happy would&#xA;to end the movie in a way that wasn’t happy. We weren’t interested in&#xA;doing that. It needed to end in a way that wasn’t harsh.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, ending was supposed to be an open ending that makes the audience wonder whether the events actually happened. In which, for me, they succeeded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-10-13T11:03:20.537" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26243" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-13T12:14:26.900" Score="3" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the 2nd episode of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2103085/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Top of the Lake&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Robin follows Wolfgang Zanic from the bar to his cottage. After the little smalltalk interrogation with him goes wrong and Wolfie gets scared, Robin gets trapped in his cottage while he threatens her from the outside with a rifle. But then she doesn't call the police but Johnno and when he arrives he just takes Wolfie's rifle and they leave him there at the cottage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why didn't she call the police?&lt;/strong&gt; Afterall Zanic was still the main suspect and even if his little overreaction was really more motivated by fear than by guilt, Robin still thought him to have something to do with Tui's case, she even called her name hoping she was trapped there somewhere. So did she just change her mind and completely leave him go as suspect (which seems unlikely, especially after what just happened) or why did she just call Johnno and not even look further around his cottage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-07T17:03:50.243" LastActivityDate="2016-11-07T17:03:50.243" Title="Why doesn't Robin call the police when she's trapped in Zanic's cottage?" Tags="|plot-explanation|top-of-the-lake|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14714" CreationDate="2014-10-13T13:17:19.887" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It took around 21 months to reach Jupiter. By the time they actually landed, 22 months had passed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some screen grabs showing the clock counter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mission date while near Jupiter&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fm7cy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Mission date while near Jupiter&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mission date sometime after landing on Europa&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/euKdp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Mission date sometime after landing on Europa&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastActivityDate="2014-10-13T13:17:19.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26245" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-13T14:34:25.180" Score="4" ViewCount="1737" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rest of the building was swarming with SWAT team guys and other very professional-looking guys, but they placed only two old men to guard Hannibal Lecter on the 6th floor. Which very conveniently allowed Hannibal to slip out (admittedly with a little bit of ingenuity and work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any rational, plausible in-universe explanation for this poor security arrangement? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9668" LastActivityDate="2017-04-21T23:27:34.907" Title="Why were there only 2 guards for Hannibal Lecter on the 6th floor?" Tags="|the-silence-of-the-lambs|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26246" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27726" CreationDate="2014-10-13T15:07:26.610" Score="5" ViewCount="1507" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the credits of &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; epsiode S05E01 we got to see a familiar face, seemingly following the group. He seems to be able to follow them from a &quot;sign&quot; carved into a tree? Or am I misreading this scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/twx8h.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1396" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-02T23:56:19.723" LastActivityDate="2014-12-01T12:38:22.150" Title="What is this sign in Season 5, Episode 1?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26245" CreationDate="2014-10-13T15:17:05.710" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was confined in a cage, and no one anticipated that he would have managed to smuggle in a pen clip and be able to remove his handcuffs. Under the circumstances, it seemed unlikely that he would be able to escape his cage or the building, and even if he did, the police no doubt that they could keep him from getting very far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastActivityDate="2014-10-13T15:17:05.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25143" CreationDate="2014-10-13T16:03:51.667" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have only seen the movie and read the synopsis of the book on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_Girl_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;, The only subtle difference i see from the ending of that to the movie is that in the movie Nick decides to leave Amy when she reveals to him that she killed Desi but decides against it when he hears she is pregnant but in the book it's shown he was ready to write a memoir detailing the truth of Amy's abduction but decides against it when he hears she is pregnant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2014-10-13T16:03:51.667" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17603" CreationDate="2014-10-13T19:17:56.010" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the reason is because the people have never been in the world before, so in terms zombies never exsisted in movies or in real life so no one know what the heck they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15208" LastActivityDate="2014-10-13T19:17:56.010" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9257" CreationDate="2014-10-13T19:55:56.583" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about the hidden pics in the castle?&#xA;Winnie the pooh peeking out of the castle spire on the right and donald duck is formed in the reflection in the center of the castle and then there is pluto on the left formed by two arches and a black spot for his nose.&#xA;Thats all i have seen so far&#xA;you do have to use your imagination a bit, but i think thats what walt would've wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15209" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2014-10-13T20:12:29.613" LastActivityDate="2014-10-13T20:12:29.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26255" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26262" CreationDate="2014-10-13T20:09:36.340" Score="10" ViewCount="14119" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the classic movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087050/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Children of the Corn&lt;/a&gt;, two adults find themselves stranded in a town where all but two children have become members of an adult-slaughtering cult worshiping 'He Who Walks Behind the Rows'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tiny town (Gatlin, Nebraska) is overrun and all the adults murdered within a very short timespan - there are references to a few adult survivors of the initial murder-spree, but they apparently didn't last very long.  We clearly see that the children have taken steps to ensure that word doesn't spread: phone lines are cut and travelers who stumble across them are butchered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie completely lost me, however, when it became apparent that this had been the status quo for years.  Vicky, an adult who just became trapped in town, discovers a magazine in one of the houses and says, &quot;This is three years old.&quot;  Even if the magazine (which appeared to be a TV Guide) was older when the adults were all murdered, it still implies that a long period of time had passed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, this broke my suspension of disbelief completely.  Is there any evidence for how a town full of children could have completely hidden the lack of adults for that amount of time?  Surely they couldn't have cultivated all that corn, reaping and harvesting it, sowing new rows, and maintaining the equipment that allowed it to grow?  Wouldn't the people who subsidized the corn production, or who had already arranged to buy it, be wondering where their shipments were?  Where did the Children get the seed corn?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about other things like taxes, electric bills, etc?  Surely, even in rural America, an entire town failing to pay their bills or taxes for three years straight would have warranted an official investigation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15210" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-08-10T07:05:24.540" LastActivityDate="2017-09-09T04:21:16.770" Title="How Did the Children of the Corn Manage For So Long?" Tags="|plot-explanation|children-of-the-corn|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14533" CreationDate="2014-10-13T20:19:20.170" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would first and foremost agree with the other answers that it was mainly his analytical thinking and careful consideration of all possibilities that made him recheck everything including that plate, once reminded of it by the trash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I would also add another aspect. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt; probably also wished, if not looked, for a &quot;valid&quot; reason to kill &lt;em&gt;Domingo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. He knew deep inside that &lt;em&gt;Domingo&lt;/em&gt; would not get out alive and that he was only postponing the inevitable. And the fact that &lt;em&gt;Krazy-8&lt;/em&gt; was indeed upto something sinister made this all much easier for him. I'd thus go as far as to say that deep inside &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt; wished for that plate piece to be missing and this might have been &lt;em&gt;part&lt;/em&gt; of his motivation to check the garbage in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As much as &lt;em&gt;Walter&lt;/em&gt; was double-checking each and every possible leak in &lt;em&gt;Domingo&lt;/em&gt;'s story, he was also searching the tiniest little stain on his vest on which he could built a moral justification for a deed he &lt;em&gt;had&lt;/em&gt; to do sooner or later anyway, in the same way like his family's security is the primary moral excuse for all of his deeds, no matter if true or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-10-13T20:19:20.170" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26255" CreationDate="2014-10-13T20:27:29.333" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a Stephen King story.  You need to completly suspend disbelief or it's not going to work.  Every single one of his stories leaves gaping holes in reality.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't recall the entire story, but certainly older children could have learned some automotive tips from their fathers before they were killed.  Most farming communities don't really abide by child labor laws, so reaping and harvesting corn wasn't impossible.  And this &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; the pre-Internet age, so communication and news wasn't lightning-fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, you're correct that running a power plant wasn't likely, and not paying those bills to whatever municipality provided energy would have been suspicious.  I don't recall the proximity to surrounding towns, but surely someone would have made the trip for one reason or another and realized no adults were around.  The adults could also have been regular visitors to certain local establishments and their sudden lack of patronship would probably have thrown up a few flags too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a million details like this that can be cited, but you're not supposed to think about the minutea when it comes to a Stephen King story.  You're just supposed to let it scare the crap out of you.  :o)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-10-13T20:27:29.333" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26259" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26902" CreationDate="2014-10-13T22:06:15.423" Score="2" ViewCount="583" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I just finished watching the first episode of the fifth season of &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; in the first five minutes of the episode, Rick gets hit in the head and passes out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rick is a tough guy, was in the police forces and can take a beating, that we know, but how can a man survive that much head trauma and still be able to talk or act normally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The timeline we are currently in is not that long after the Governor destroy the prison and there again, Rick got hit in the head several time, almost killing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But everytime, he manages to get up again and carry on like &quot;everything is fine&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm too demanding for a show based on a zombie apocalypse, but still, how is it that none of those injuries has left any permanent damages. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13701" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-02T23:58:51.437" LastActivityDate="2014-11-04T18:29:52.977" Title="Head injuries in the Walking Dead" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26260" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26261" CreationDate="2014-10-13T23:26:31.377" Score="5" ViewCount="10734" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Love Actually&lt;/em&gt; Mark was in love with Juliet, but he couldn't tell her, and now she's married to his best friend. Since it's Christmas he finally tells her (with cue cards). He smiles, and leaves ... but she runs out and kisses him and runs back inside. He then says, &quot;Enough. Enough now.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What the heck does he mean? What's he thinking?  I love the movie and the &quot;deleted scenes&quot; on the DVD share a little more insight into Mark's damaged character. But I've always been confused about his line and his motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNJe7LmPbvU&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;the scene&quot;&gt;here's the 20-second scene&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-13T23:38:05.547" LastActivityDate="2016-11-19T06:51:13.210" Title="What's Mark thinking when he says &quot;enough ... enough now&quot;?" Tags="|character|dialogue|love-actually|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26260" CreationDate="2014-10-14T00:35:39.110" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can only offer my own understanding of Mark's words here (even though I tried to snoop around Google a bit for an explanation, but no luck this time, maybe just &lt;a href=&quot;http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/12/06/3034301/love-actually-romantic-comedy-christmas-movie-tragedy/&quot;&gt;this one site&lt;/a&gt; mentioning it briefly). Basically, what he said could be understood in two ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Explanation 1&lt;/strong&gt;: He just got a kiss (even though more of a consolidation one than anything else, but still a kiss) from the girl he loves, which could start a lot of thoughts going on in his head. And since he knows he can't pursue her, because she's married to his best friend, he utters &quot;Enough. Enough now.&quot; as in to stop the thoughts from swirling further.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Explanation 2&lt;/strong&gt; (one that I think is more probable): He utters &quot;Enough. Enough now.&quot; as a decision that he's going to stop pursuing Julie from now on (because doing so would only bring trouble). Not a typical end of a love story, eh?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13985" LastActivityDate="2014-10-14T00:35:39.110" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26255" CreationDate="2014-10-14T01:08:38.163" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I recall, in the beginning of the movie, they tried &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to go to Gatlin, but every time they turned away from it, the next sign they saw said they were headed toward it again, until they gave up and went in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The town was isolated from the world by more than just cut phone lines. You would go to Gatlin if and only if He Who Walks Behind The Rows wanted you to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The detail of Burt and Vicky being drawn into Gatlin against their will isn't in the original story, but the issue you bring up is not ignored. The impossibility of completely isolating the town is spelled out explicitly as direct evidence of a paranormal influence. As Burt is looking for clues in the church, his thoughts are basically the same as your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People must go through Gatlin all the time. There must be people in the neighbouring towns who have friends and relatives here. The Nebraska SP must cruise through from time to time. And what about the power company? The stoplight had been dead. Surely they'd know if the power had been off for twelve long years. Conclusion: What seemed to have happened in Gatlin was impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and after he learns enough to understand what's happened, his answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how could such a thing be kept secret? How could it go on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How unless the God in question approved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He Who Walks Behind The Rows also seems to be helping the corn grow in some supernatural way (the complete absence of crows, weeds, and insects is noted, and Burt can't find a single imperfection on any of the stalks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general arrangement is that the Children do as they're told (sacrificing everyone over the age limit) and the demon takes care of the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6436" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-10-14T01:08:38.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26264" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-14T03:22:59.493" Score="3" ViewCount="415" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Rear Window, when Lisa sneaks into Thorwald's apartment and is caught by him, Jeff is simply watching from his Rear window. He does call the police but he and Stella do not try to go to the apartment and save Lisa. They do not even shout and call for help. Shouldn't this be the normal reaction? I agree that Jeff had a broken leg but Stella could have rushed to the apartment; after all, Lisa's life was at stake. I found that scene a little strange where Jeff does nothing other than wait for the Police. They were definitely not sure that Police would arrive so soon, so how could they just sit by their window and bite their nails doing actually nothing to save Lisa?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-10-14T15:11:50.603" LastActivityDate="2014-11-20T09:25:57.243" Title="Why don't Jeff and Stella rush in to save Lisa?" Tags="|plot-explanation|rear-window|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26265" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-14T04:06:17.763" Score="2" ViewCount="21937" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Horns, horns mysteriously popped out of Ig's head, how did it happened? Does the book explain how he got his horns?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9672" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-10-14T14:20:30.280" LastActivityDate="2017-07-04T21:31:08.350" Title="How did Ig get his horns?" Tags="|plot-explanation|horns|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26271" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27743" CreationDate="2014-10-14T11:26:55.013" Score="21" ViewCount="47680" Body="&lt;p&gt;An IT Crowd episode included a parody of the new directory inquiries services:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ab8GtuPdrUQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would happen if someone (in the UK) actually called that number? I suspect they would end up calling the emergency call center in Reading (0118), so I'm not actually going to try it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8474" LastEditorUserId="8474" LastEditDate="2016-03-29T10:22:38.123" LastActivityDate="2017-03-17T13:41:14.237" Title="What happens if you call 0118 999 881 999 119 7253?" Tags="|realism|the-it-crowd|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26271" CreationDate="2014-10-14T14:33:00.777" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know for sure, but in the US they never use real phone numbers.  Well, ever since that Tommy Tutone song &quot;867-5309&quot;.  Since it's a parody, it's probably not going to ring the &lt;strong&gt;real&lt;/strong&gt; Emergency Call Center.  In fact, &lt;a href=&quot;http://offbinary.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/0118-999-881-999-119-7253/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this blog post&lt;/a&gt; should give an indication that the number isn't real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-10-14T14:33:00.777" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18850" CreationDate="2014-10-14T15:00:45.363" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;They didn't fly the Tardis in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Galifray is timelocked, they can't get in. They can however enter the painting in the same way the Zygons did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Doctors can't fly into the Tower of London because it's been &quot;Tardis proofed&quot;. Instead they walk into the painting. What is a little unclear is whether they can travel back into the painting, I suspect so as they are not visible in the early scene when they examine the picture (with the broken glass).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;OPTIONAL they travel back in time before the painting is examined - this is unclear whether you can travel back in a painting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They call back/forwards in time to the museum instructing them to move the painting into the secure office&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They enter the painting and wait&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They exit the painting to enter the Tower.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of whether they entered the painting before or after it's moved to the tower is largely unimportant, however the key point is that they didn't fly the Tardis into through the timelock, they walked into the painting in the same way the Zygons did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2014-10-14T15:00:45.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26282" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26283" CreationDate="2014-10-14T17:23:01.433" Score="11" ViewCount="2392" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Agents of SHIELD &lt;strong&gt;S02E03&lt;/strong&gt;, Jemma Simmons is shown working for HYDRA in their scientific labs. Only, the lab coat she's wearing is black!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't get is, aren't lab coats &lt;em&gt;white&lt;/em&gt; to easily identify any chemical spilled on them? In that way, any damage done to the person working with those chemicals or their surroundings can be predicted and treated. If lab coats are black, they're basically like raincoats. There just to prevent direct contact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something here? Or is my whole concept of lab coats completely wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3862" LastEditorUserId="3862" LastEditDate="2014-10-15T09:32:53.523" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T09:32:53.523" Title="Why does HYDRA have such inefficient lab coats?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|agents-of-shield|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26282" CreationDate="2014-10-14T19:06:14.360" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_coat#White_versus_black&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A white coat or laboratory coat (often abbreviated to lab coat) is a&#xA;  knee-length overcoat/smock worn by professionals in the medical field&#xA;  or by those involved in laboratory work. The coat protects their&#xA;  street clothes and also serves as a simple uniform. The garment is&#xA;  made from white or light-colored cotton, linen, or cotton polyester&#xA;  blend, allowing it to be washed at high temperature and make it easy&#xA;  to see if it is clean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vs. Black&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Until the mid-1920s, students who were examining cadavers would wear&#xA;  black lab coats to show respect for the dead. Black lab coats were&#xA;  used in early biomedical and microbiology laboratories because any&#xA;  contamination that settled on them was easily visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems like different colors have different purposes (practical or ceremonious), but I imagine that HYDRA is wearing black labs only as a cosmetic choice made by the costume designers of the show. Come on, black lab coats look so much cooler than white ones. I doubt technical accuracy was high on their list :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2014-10-14T19:06:14.360" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26284" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27797" CreationDate="2014-10-14T19:41:11.423" Score="3" ViewCount="358" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the series The Tomorrow People,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Tomorrow People hide underground but to reach it, they have to teleport from inside the metro/train to be able to get into their lair. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this? In the series you can see them teleport from that place to any other place. &#xA;Why can't they just teleport into their ' lair '. What's the reason behind taking the metro and teleporting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8597" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-10-14T19:55:31.197" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T18:07:36.330" Title="Why do they have to teleport from inside the train/metro?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-tomorrow-people|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11419" CreationDate="2014-10-14T20:57:37.827" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought Alex was faking his cure, but I thought his sickness was real when he heard the 9th.  I believe Alex was faking because before he signed up for the treatment he was the model prisoner, and wanted out, even if it meant he would have to stop his violence.  I also think the fake burp is very note worthy, as well as the minister choosing Alex because he was enterprising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why I think the music made him sick was because it was so near and dear to him.  He literally got off on the 9th, and would celebrate his violent evenings by listening to the 9th after he got home.  After the treatment, he wanted to fake being cured, but he couldn't fake the fact that he loved the 9th and associated it with ultra violence, which he could not commit anymore.  Also, if the treatment really did work, why would it just be that song that caused a negative reaction and not other songs? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think given the choice; Be yourself and stay in jail, or be fake and be free was too much for Alex...which caused him to jump.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as him &quot;being cured&quot; at the end...I just simply can't understand it.  They hint at the fact that he had a lobotomy...but I don't think he was finally &quot;cured&quot; until he spoke with the Minister, and it was conveyed to him that they want him to go back to what he was...for their own political survival.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really don't know to be honest.  But this is the take I had on the film.  And I've never read the book, so there is that too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15225" LastActivityDate="2014-10-14T20:57:37.827" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18506" CreationDate="2014-10-14T22:33:04.393" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wasn't a miraculous breach in the dome either! The plan was always for that genius man to sacrifice his life and shoot an arrow at the dome when lightning struck. It was only once that guy was killed that Katniss realised what he was trying to do and done it for herself, also if Katniss wasn't put back into the hunger games then they would have just gone on as normal- therefore completely ignoring this &quot;uprising&quot;- Plutarch Heavensbee had been planning this revelution for years and was waiting for the right time- after the riots in the districts etc after katniss defied the capitol he knew it was time. Putting victors back into the games made the districts even more angry, and having all the extra added on violence from the capital and &quot;peacekeepers&quot; made people in the districts even more scared and angry. Whether Katniss lived or died she was put back in as a symbol. - the uprising was already happening before, this was just the spark to set it off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15230" LastActivityDate="2014-10-14T22:33:04.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26282" CreationDate="2014-10-14T23:47:54.223" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;White lab coats are more about giving the &lt;em&gt;impression&lt;/em&gt; of cleanliness, than any practical difference.  Like Apple products or JJ Abrams' &lt;em&gt;USS Enterprise&lt;/em&gt;, smooth white and well-lit just looks so &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;clean&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; compared to dark or textured surfaces.  It's a powerful association in the mind of the observer, but objectively it's just as easy to have a brown patterned surface be sterile as a smooth white one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone who's ever owned a black car will tell you that you can see ANY amount of dirt on it immediately, while white cars allow dust and dirt to build up a bit before they look &quot;dirty.&quot;  Also, spilling oil will be easier to see on a white coat, but spilling milk will be easier to see on black.  It all just depends on what you're working with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically, it isn't really as impractical a choice as the question assumes.  But ultimately, it was an artistic decision.  They're the bad guys, so hell yeah, black lab coats.  Makes 'em look so &lt;em&gt;evil&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15232" LastActivityDate="2014-10-14T23:47:54.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26295" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26298" CreationDate="2014-10-15T04:05:22.120" Score="5" ViewCount="3040" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do some movie titles include an alternate title? What are the rules in constructing these titles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15235" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T08:44:07.687" Title="Why do some movie titles include an alternate title?" Tags="|title|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2014-10-15T04:20:00.083" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just finished watching it. From what I gathered, it was about depression. The world he was in was very bleak, and he was constantly stomped on and such. Many things were exagerrated and made much darker than need be. For instance, his job was in a very dark environment figuratively along with his relationship with his mother and even the scene depicting him walking to his apartment. Everything was foreign.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, James was actually a figment of his imagination. The same that you imagine yourself in a situation doing something different is what he was seeing. None of what James did ever actually happened, it was him imagining what his reaction in a different persona would be. Then he realizes he's not himself and sees how him striving to be this alter-ego and applying everywhere and his inability to become that alter-ego drives him insane. That leads to him finally flipping out and cutting himself (the later portion of the movie shows him losing grip on reality and what is/isn't real between him and his imaginary self) which leads to him jumping and using the net as a call for help (for his depression, and to seek help).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15236" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T04:20:00.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26295" CreationDate="2014-10-15T04:50:34.333" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could also use the term &lt;strong&gt;Subtitle (titling)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, subtitle is given to a movie title to provide a hint or a little more information of the movie to the moviegoers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtitle_%28titling%29&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt; says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In books and other works, a subtitle is an explanatory or alternate title. For example, Mary Shelley used a subtitle to give her most famous novel, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, an alternate title to give a hint of the theme. In library cataloging the subtitle does not include an alternate title which is defined as part of the title proper; e.g. &quot;One Good Turn&quot; (title proper) &quot;A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw&quot; (subtitle); &quot;Twelfth Night, or What You Will&quot; (title proper).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2014-10-15T08:44:07.687" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T08:44:07.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25140" CreationDate="2014-10-15T05:25:41.487" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those were probably made with a GoPro camera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not with the 1997 video, admittedly. But almost definitely a compact video camera of some kind mounted to the person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-10-17T11:47:35.480" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T11:47:35.480" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26302" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-15T06:53:54.290" Score="6" ViewCount="294" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Doctor Who episode Mummy on the Orient Express it's quickly established that the weakest passengers are being picked off first. The Doctor uses this to his advantage to guess who is going to be killed next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However given the &quot;mummy&quot; is actually&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; an ancient soldier&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems rather counter intuitive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Typically soldiers don't target the week, they target military personnel and operations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why then does the mummy target the old and infirm?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T11:36:33.410" Title="Why did the mummy target the sick?" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26303" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26304" CreationDate="2014-10-15T09:38:10.390" Score="1" ViewCount="1508" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114720/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tremors 2: Aftershocks&lt;/a&gt;, there's a scene where Burt shoots a shrieker with a large gun/rifle, the shot goes through the shrieker, through the wall behind it, through a shed and into a truck's engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone identify the make/model of the gun?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2116" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-15T09:56:18.753" LastActivityDate="2016-10-09T21:57:35.173" Title="Identify Burt's gun in Tremors 2" Tags="|tremors-ii-aftershocks|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26303" CreationDate="2014-10-15T09:45:03.703" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, we're mostly movie experts, not gun experts, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Tremors_2:_Aftershocks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;according to the IMFDb&lt;/a&gt; (the Internet Movie Firearm Database), it's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_Big_Boar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;LAR Grizzly Big Boar&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uDBTt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T09:45:03.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26305" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26306" CreationDate="2014-10-15T10:11:18.517" Score="5" ViewCount="1313" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series &lt;em&gt;Fargo&lt;/em&gt;, why did lester go behind Lorne Malvo when they meet after 1 year in the bar at Las Vegas even after Malvo threatens him to walk away?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15239" LastEditorUserId="42844" LastEditDate="2016-11-21T19:24:45.117" LastActivityDate="2021-07-17T02:23:22.173" Title="Why did Lester follow Lorne Malvo?" Tags="|fargo-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26305" CreationDate="2014-10-15T11:31:40.407" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's just say Lester was under the influence of his newfound confidence which slightly tipped over into overconfidence when he followed Malvo. After last year's events, Lester thought of himself as a changed man, who would not be pushed over or chased away. Malvo initially just tried to ignore him and this offended Lester who then followed him to prove to himself that he can do whatever he wants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2021-07-17T02:23:22.173" LastActivityDate="2021-07-17T02:23:22.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="26311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26302" CreationDate="2014-10-15T14:19:54.843" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a lone soldier, behind enemy lines, surrounded by individuals that it might not be able to identify as civilian versus enemy combatant. It is also weak itself, needing to drain power from its victims to recharge itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It stands to reason that the best tactic is to pick off the weaker adversaries first, gaining strength and dwindling the enemy numbers before going after the more high profile targets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7962" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T14:19:54.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26314" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42452" CreationDate="2014-10-15T18:08:49.050" Score="3" ViewCount="626" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257516/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cursed&lt;/a&gt;, they explain how: if you get bitten by a werewolf, you'll turn into one and to become human again, you'll have to kill that werewolf who bit you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jimmy got bitten by Jake so Jimmy has to kill Jake.&#xA;But during the movie just after Jimmy got bitten, his dog Zipper bites Jimmy and gets the werewolf blood in him and so he's a werewolf-dog and technically he has to kill Jimmy to turn into a normal dog right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually Jimmy kills Jake an turns human again but what about Zipper? Is he still a werewolf-Dog? He should still be right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8597" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2018-07-14T11:13:48.830" LastActivityDate="2020-03-26T23:26:29.383" Title="Shouldn't Zipper still be a werewolf (dog)?" Tags="|plot-explanation|cursed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="26318" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-15T19:49:19.540" Score="6" ViewCount="440" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Hard&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S02E03- &lt;strong&gt;School Hard&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Giles is reading from a book which mentions Spike, and he then says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's known as William the Bloody. Earned his nickname by torturing his victims with railroad spikes. Very pleasant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which makes sense, however this is from a book and we can't be sure about its accuracy, I'm certainly not entirely convinced as in one of his next major appearances, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_My_Line_%28Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S02E10- &lt;strong&gt;What's My Line? Part 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when Drusilla is torturing Angel, this exchange takes place (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Drusilla&lt;/strong&gt;: It &lt;em&gt;[Angel's burned skin]&lt;/em&gt; makes pretty colours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spike&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;[Snorts derisively]&lt;/em&gt; I'll see him die soon enough, &lt;strong&gt;never been much for the pre-show&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pre-show in this case being a euphemism for torture. And if he didn't like it, there's not much use in doing it. Furthermore, much later in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool_for_Love_%28Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S05E07- &lt;strong&gt;Fool For Love&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, we're given contradicting information in a flashback to 1880 when Spike (then William) was still alive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Female Party Guest&lt;/strong&gt;: Have you heard? They call him William the Bloody because of his bloody awful poetry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Male Party Guest&lt;/strong&gt;: It suits him. I'd rather have a spike through my head than listen to that awful stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any additional sources which can confirm whether Giles' book was correct or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T23:19:06.190" Title="Did Spike really torture people with railroad spikes?" Tags="|buffy-the-vampire-slayer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17961" CreationDate="2014-10-15T23:15:22.163" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am confident that the movie you remember is &quot;Don't Be Afraid of the&#xA;Dark.&quot; This was a made-for-TV movie that aired on ABC in 1973. Scared&#xA;the willies out of lots of people, including me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, a young couple move into an old house. There are little&#xA;humanoid gnomelike creatures living in the walls and basement. They&#xA;call to her in whispery voices through the fireplace and air grates.&#xA;The woman's name is Sally, and the little people call out &quot;Saaaalllly,&#xA;we want yooooou&quot; and similar things, causing Sally (and her husband)&#xA;to think she is losing her mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll find an excellent synopsis of the plot here, complete with photos:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Terror Trap: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.terrortrap.com/television/dontbeafraidofthedark/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.terrortrap.com/television/dontbeafraidofthedark/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15251" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T23:15:22.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26318" CreationDate="2014-10-15T23:19:06.190" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are there any additional sources which can confirm whether Giles' book was correct or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently it was mentioned in one of the comic books (I've never read them) that the 'Male Party Guest' was given that special treatment after William was sired, and that incident was how he gained the nickname.  AFAIR there was no suggestion that he made a general habit of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastActivityDate="2014-10-15T23:19:06.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26323" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26340" CreationDate="2014-10-16T02:57:27.097" Score="5" ViewCount="1948" Body="&lt;p&gt;Toward the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psycho_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;American Psycho&lt;/a&gt; Patrick is at the dry cleaners yelling at the workers because his bed sheets are still stained with &quot;cranapple juice.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've come to the conclusion that the murders were all in his head and that he had some sort of multiple personality disorder because Paul Allen called him Marcus and his lawyer did also&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he was dragging Paul Allen's body through the lobby of his apartment complex nobody said anything, there were traces of blood everywhere and the man asked him where he got the bag (if the murders weren't in his head it would just be symbolic of how upper class people are oblivious to things outside of themselves).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about the bed sheets?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the only thing that is making me think that maybe he did kill people, because his old friend saw the sheets and seemed to be very curious about the red stains on them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15252" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-10-16T11:58:35.350" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T13:35:17.070" Title="Patrick's Bed Sheets" Tags="|plot-explanation|american-psycho|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21312" CreationDate="2014-10-16T03:08:29.953" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't think so because;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the writers at Marvel (presumably) understand how time travel works. Meaning if Wolverine wasn't saved by Stryker in the movie and ends up not having Adamantium claws that would mean that all of the Wolverine movies as well as the first three X Men movies have an inconsistency. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He could meet Stryker again in the future/past(?) which would mean he would get the claws.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully it will be explained in the next movie (I haven't read the comics).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15252" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-16T08:24:54.183" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T08:24:54.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9879" CreationDate="2014-10-16T04:20:02.547" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Happened across this very nifty video series on film analysis, and the creator actually has an entire video devoted to the art of depicting text messages (and computer messages in general) on-screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His video indicates that the earliest film he could find that depicts on-screen text messaging is &lt;strong&gt;All About Lily Chou-Chou&lt;/strong&gt;, a Japanese film from 2001. A more concrete example would be &lt;strong&gt;Take Care of My Cat&lt;/strong&gt; from South Korea, released a little more than a month after the previously stated film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I submit these two films as the earliest films found depicting on screen text messaging similar to House of Cards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clips from these films with their depictions of on screen texting can be found i&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFfq2zblGXw&amp;amp;list=TLAWoU0tWpxDIGr37nIlgcCRbcQeHNGIiC&quot;&gt;n the video I noted&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T04:20:02.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26328" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26374" CreationDate="2014-10-16T04:56:19.500" Score="2" ViewCount="5167" Body="&lt;p&gt;The technology has greatly improved since &lt;em&gt;South Park&lt;/em&gt;'s pilot episode, why has the style of the show not been changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-16T08:07:08.273" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T18:34:55.680" Title="Why are the Latest Episodes of South Park not in 3D animation?" Tags="|animation|south-park|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26328" CreationDate="2014-10-16T05:34:04.620" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/news/news-articles/crappy-possible-method-behind-madness-south-park/373886&quot;&gt;this article from Creative Planet Network&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We have the technology, and our animators have the skills to do 3-D,&quot; says supervising producer &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Garefino&quot;&gt;Anne Garefino&lt;/a&gt;. &quot;We don't want it to look computery,&quot;agrees director of animation &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Stough&quot;&gt;Eric Stough&lt;/a&gt;, who's been on board since the pilot. &quot;We want it to look as crappy as possible.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="789" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-10-16T05:36:04.147" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T05:36:04.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26328" CreationDate="2014-10-16T05:41:25.797" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;They do use 3D animation software. However, from the beginning the cut-out paper look is what they wanted to achieve with CG after finding out the difficulties of using real paper cut-outs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The decision to stay with the paper cut-out look was made from the beginning, they want everything to look as cartoonish as possible, down to the movements and appearance of the characters. It also adds to the branding, one can immediately recognize a show of South Park by its looks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://arstechnica.com/features/1999/07/sp-interview/1/&quot;&gt;More information&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T05:41:25.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26328" CreationDate="2014-10-16T06:38:49.750" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The show's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park#Animation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;style&lt;/a&gt; of animation is inspired by the paper cut-out cartoons made by Terry Gilliam for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Monty Python's Flying Circus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;, of which Parker and Stone have been lifelong fans. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After the pilot for subsequent episodes have been produced by computer&#xA;  animation, providing a similar look to the originals while requiring a&#xA;  fraction of the time to produce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beginning with season five, the animators began using Maya instead of PowerAnimator. The studio now runs a 120-processor render farm that can produce 30 or more shots an hour. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerAnimator&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PowerAnimator&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk_Maya&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Maya&lt;/a&gt; are high-end programs mainly used for 3D computer graphics, while co-producer and former animation director, Eric Stough, notes that PowerAnimator was initially chosen because its features helped animators retain the show's &quot;homemade&quot; look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a different note, many times the creators do not want to opt for the latest technology for their movies or shows. This could be based on personal like and dislike and yes it is an artistic  decision as mentioned correctly by Bobby Alexander in his comment. A similar incident worth noting is Chris Nolan's choice of not shooting &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Rises&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dark Knight Rises&lt;/a&gt; in 3D at a time when almost everyone else was doing it. Wikipedia says that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nolan elected not to film in 3-D, but instead stated that he intended&#xA;  to focus on improving image quality and scale using the IMAX format&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while South Park does use some of the latest technology, its current look and feel depends upon the creators' artistic decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="7659" LastEditDate="2014-10-17T12:39:28.940" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T12:39:28.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26328" CreationDate="2014-10-16T08:29:26.703" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also due to branding you don't want to change something that works. The show is a screaming success. Changing it might run the path when Coke introduced New Coke and failed miserably &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1144" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T08:29:26.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26338" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26346" CreationDate="2014-10-16T10:20:22.647" Score="9" ViewCount="2820" Body="&lt;p&gt;I personally never watch after the credits, but my friend told me to watch till the end to see the post credit scenes, and I wondered, if there had been any other scenes I had missed by turning off when the credits started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody know of any?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9481" LastActivityDate="2015-07-31T15:43:24.377" Title="Besides the Season 5 premire, have there been any other post credit scenes in The Walking Dead?" Tags="|credits|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17827" CreationDate="2014-10-16T12:55:12.090" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not,the man on the left &amp;amp; woman were just 2 ppl that I saw every day drinking on the streets &amp;amp; who knows what else.The guy on the right was actually 17 here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15261" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T12:55:12.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26323" CreationDate="2014-10-16T13:27:48.010" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that was the beauty of the movie, we really did not know if he was insane committing these crimes or insane imagining himself committing these crimes. Or if all, some or none of these events actually took place. Maybe he is in a nut ward imagining all this?! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie started as a first person narrative  and can be assumed to have continued as such. If he was insane an narrating it we can never really know what happened.  Who he really is (Patrick or Marcus),  did he kill the prostitutes? Will he or is he just imagining? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for bringing this movie up,  it makes you think about where the baseline of sanity/reality is in the movie to reference from.  It really can't be determined in my opinion. So anything in the story can be real or not yet all codependent one one another. Mind blown! Love this movie! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1144" LastEditorUserId="1144" LastEditDate="2014-10-16T13:35:17.070" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T13:35:17.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26341" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26342" CreationDate="2014-10-16T13:34:12.087" Score="1" ViewCount="464" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do understand the joke about Volvo in &lt;em&gt;Dinner for Schmucks&lt;/em&gt; since he mixed up Swedish and Sweden. However, what is it about the Language he is speaking (her def his a der turda purda purda pu)? Moreover, the army knife he is referring to and 'does the cheese come out of the cow with the holes?' means? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-16T16:00:33.500" LastActivityDate="2016-05-11T13:18:00.803" Title="The scene of &quot;Speak Your Language&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|dinner-for-schmucks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26341" CreationDate="2014-10-16T14:07:32.477" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's confusing &lt;em&gt;Sweden&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;em&gt;Switzerland&lt;/em&gt;. The knife is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Army_knife&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Swiss Army Knife&lt;/a&gt;, and the cheese is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Swiss cheese&lt;/a&gt; (notice the holes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the &quot;language&quot; is most likely a reference to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Chef&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Swedish Chef&lt;/a&gt; from the Muppets who spoke in a similarly ridiculous fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7962" LastEditorUserId="7962" LastEditDate="2014-10-16T17:17:10.170" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T17:17:10.170" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26344" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-16T15:50:50.383" Score="5" ViewCount="382" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has become clear that events in the Marvel Cinematic Universe can have direct influences in Agents of Shield. I'm interested in the influence in the reverse direction. That is, I consider the following question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(Q)&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;Are events in AoS consequential to the MCU?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for events or clues on past episodes or events that have happened in the MCU or information revealed from the creators, filmmakers, showmakers to answer (Q).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, I personally haven't found good support to answer YES to (Q).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;p.s.&lt;/strong&gt; Coulson being made director seems to indicate that the impact is permanent but recent events in S02E04 (I Will Face My Enemy) suggest a possibility that Coulson may eventually be killed (by May). In the MCU, Coulson is dead so if he is killed again in AoS, his resurrection can easily be brushed over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14080" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-07-29T09:21:35.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T09:21:35.057" Title="Agents of Shield: looking for clues for its impact" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|agents-of-shield|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26328" CreationDate="2014-10-16T16:29:13.383" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The quote I like best, referring to the software used to make South Park: &quot;(using this 3D software) is basically building a sandcastle with a bulldozer&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the whole reason they use the software; to remain topical (episodes finished in a week, handed into Comedy Central on the Wednesday itself, ie tonight's episode wasn't submitted when you woke this morning!) because they aren't bogged down with Michael Bay-ism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15268" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T16:29:13.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26338" CreationDate="2014-10-16T18:56:34.817" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3297776/crazycredits&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;According to the IMDb&lt;/a&gt;, it is the only episode so far:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unlike in any previous episode, there is a 'stinger' scene, ie. &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the end credits are completely over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this epsiode, there was another season 5 episode with a stinger scene: S05E08&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3714498/crazycredits&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From the IMDb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just like in the season premiere, there is a 'stinger' scene (actually several scenes), ie. &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the end credits are completely over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Together, the stingers complete each other, being the only segments in the first half of season 5 to feature a character that has been absent for a long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is the second Walking Dead episode to contain an after credits scene, and, as of Episode 4x08, the longest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2015-07-31T15:43:24.377" LastActivityDate="2015-07-31T15:43:24.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5615" CreationDate="2014-10-16T19:20:24.343" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title of the movie says it all the ides of March the assassination of Julius Caesar he was stabbed literally in his back and then stabbed by the rest of the ppl. So this means that Stephen is going to symbolically stab Morris in the bank by revealing this information and let the ppl, media, other politicians verbally stab Morris of his character issues. He even tells they news reporter &quot;you'll read about it in the funny papers tomorrow&quot; he wouldn't say this unless there was a story to be revealed behind this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15271" LastActivityDate="2014-10-16T19:20:24.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10343" CreationDate="2014-10-17T02:01:20.373" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we know, &lt;em&gt;Gus&lt;/em&gt; is an extremely careful and intelligent man and he is in fact always ahead of &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt; and everyone else. And I think it was exactly the fact that &lt;em&gt;Brock&lt;/em&gt; was poisoned (which we know &lt;em&gt;Gus&lt;/em&gt; didn't do) that made him doubt the situation, which is told to him by &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt; during their meeting right before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jesse:&lt;/strong&gt; He's not sick, he was poisoned.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Gus:&lt;/strong&gt; How did that happen?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jesse:&lt;/strong&gt; The doctors, they don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he learns that &lt;em&gt;Brock&lt;/em&gt; was poisoned by &lt;em&gt;unknown circumstances&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Gus&lt;/em&gt; might even guess it was &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt; or not or that &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt; is in on anything or not, but what he knows is that definitely some kind of foul play was at the works and ultimately ended up bringing him here. So I think this was the primary hint that something was wrong with this whole hospital visit. And in fact after he is told of the poisoning he immediately gives in, lets &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt; stay in the hospital and leaves, though he doesn't seem to think about an actual car bomb until on his way to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T02:01:20.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14271" CreationDate="2014-10-17T06:40:46.907" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that Leon is Wills father.  throughout the film will's father is a very mysterious figure and not much about him is known.  The things we do know are that he was once in the ghetto, and that he was known for giving away his own time.  So it can be assumed that Will's father is someone who does what thinks is best for the world in an unselfish manner.  I believe that is also what drove him to become a timekeeper.  This is just a theory let me know what you guys think!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15279" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T06:40:46.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14824" CreationDate="2014-10-17T07:08:15.127" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that Dylan Rhodes would have planted that card in Thaddeus's pocket, and would have told Four Horsemen to make it look like they did it. That would make him look like an idiot in front of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15280" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T07:08:15.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26362" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-17T09:29:36.987" Score="11" ViewCount="5151" Body="&lt;p&gt;Few years ago I saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0456396/&quot;&gt;L'enfant (2005)&lt;/a&gt; and I was very surprised that there's no film score throughout the movie. I think (not 100% sure) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420291/&quot;&gt;Keane (2004)&lt;/a&gt; also doesn't have background score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any specific reason, why some movies are made that way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And is there a term coined for these type of movies? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-04-01T12:00:21.013" LastActivityDate="2020-02-03T15:45:20.490" Title="Movies without Film score/background music" Tags="|soundtrack|film-industry|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26363" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26364" CreationDate="2014-10-17T10:31:20.700" Score="4" ViewCount="6092" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching the S05E01 of the Walking Dead, Cannibalism seems to be the way that the members of Terminus survive.  Why would they not turn as well eating human flesh because all humans are infected and turn when they die. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see Terminus members kill members of a group by hitting them with a bat and draining their blood. It does not apparently destroy the brain, so you would think the turning process would commence and anyone who ate the flesh would spur the infection and turn. Realizing all humans have this dormant infection latent within them already turning them into Walkers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is drying the flesh somehow stropping the turning like curing meats? Thus stopping infection or sickness in the person who consumes the flesh? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1144" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-10-17T11:11:32.817" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T14:04:59.840" Title="Why don't humans become Walkers when eating other humans who are infected?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26363" CreationDate="2014-10-17T11:18:42.167" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, you have to die first for the infection to turn you into a walker. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, as far as I know, the people at Terminus were eating humans whom they killed and who haven't turned yet, and who probably can't turn anymore, since we could see in S05E01 that they chopped them and cut them up in portions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that even if the infection was working differently with walkers, the eaten people were still carrying the same infection as the ones who ate them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13985" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T11:18:42.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26363" CreationDate="2014-10-17T18:03:49.660" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cooking at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.foodsafety.gov/keep/charts/mintemp.html&quot;&gt;proper temperature&lt;/a&gt; will ensure that any potential virus is killed.  This is why there are recommended temperatures for properly cooking steak and chicken; that heat kills viruses like salmonella and such.  This is also why menus at restaurants mention properly cooked meals, and some will not serve &quot;runny&quot; eggs because of the risk of salmonella.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure if you cook a freshly killed human at the proper temperature, those viruses and parasites will also die from the heat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yum!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T18:03:49.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26328" CreationDate="2014-10-17T18:34:55.680" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Would 3-D animation make the content any better? George Lucas took advantage of the latest special effects available to film with the prequel trilogy which many fans say don't hold a candle to the original. When he &quot;remastered&quot; the original trilogy with special editions, many fans revolted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at video games, some of the most critically acclaimed games have simple animations and graphics (Minecraft, Fez, etc.), while there are countless graphic powerhouse games that are commercial and critical failures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;South Park is funny because of the content. The barebones animation is a signature of the series. Why change it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15285" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T18:34:55.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26378" CreationDate="2014-10-17T20:23:43.353" Score="16" ViewCount="25082" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title says it all: What is the difference between a movie's soundtrack, and its score?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="42655" LastEditDate="2017-09-16T14:08:01.013" LastActivityDate="2018-01-23T19:32:13.943" Title="What is the difference between a movie's soundtrack, and its score?" Tags="|soundtrack|terminology|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26362" CreationDate="2014-10-17T20:57:28.903" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note: I have not seen the movies mentioned in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When music appears in a movie only because it appears in universe it is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diegesis#Film_sound_and_music&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;diegetic music&lt;/a&gt;. The reason is artistic, of course. Most of the time it is used to contrast over-constructed movies that, in the point of view of artists using this, didn't allow good story telling or led to expensive film making which prevents certain stories told by directors who could not afford to make the movie. A famous manifest employing this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dogme 95&lt;/a&gt;. I just quote the important part from the Wikipedia page for the goals and (other) methods:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Goals and rules&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goal of the Dogme collective is to purify&#xA;filmmaking by refusing expensive and spectacular special effects,&#xA;post-production modifications and other technical gimmicks. The&#xA;filmmakers concentrate on the story and the actors' performances. They&#xA;believe this approach may better engage the audience, as they are not&#xA;alienated or distracted by overproduction. To this end, Lars von Trier&#xA;and Thomas Vinterberg produced ten rules to which any Dogme film must&#xA;conform. These rules, referred to as the &amp;quot;Vow of Chastity,&amp;quot; are as&#xA;follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shooting must be done on location. Props and sets must not be&#xA;brought in (if a particular prop is necessary for the story, a&#xA;location must be chosen where this prop is to be found).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa. (Music must not be used unless it occurs where the scene is&#xA;being shot.)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The camera must be hand-held. Any movement or immobility attainable in the hand is permitted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The film must be in colour. Special lighting is not acceptable. (If there is too little light for exposure the scene must be cut or a&#xA;single lamp be attached to the camera).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Optical work and filters are forbidden.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The film must not contain superficial action. (Murders, weapons, etc. must not occur.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden. (That is to say that the film takes place here and now).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Genre movies are not acceptable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The film format must be Academy 35 mm.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The director must not be credited.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nearly no movie completely adhered to this principles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-10-17T21:48:55.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26376" CreationDate="2014-10-17T21:27:04.820" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;A soundtrack can often include complementary popular music and may not be original to the movie. Soundtracks can also offer a complete experience when played separately from the film and some songs from it may not even be present within the film at all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A score, on the other hand, is usually &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diegesis&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;non-diegetic&lt;/a&gt; music that compliments what is seen on screen. Film scores may be pleasant experiences when played separately from a movie, but they are usually intended to primarily support the movie. Original scores are often referred to as original sound tracks (OST), and will usually be released along-side the mainstream soundtrack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, Guardians of the Galaxy has both a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardians_of_the_Galaxy_(soundtrack)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;soundtrack and an original score&lt;/a&gt;. The original score is mostly instrumental music that was composed for the film; the soundtrack is a collection of popular music that influences the film or is featured within it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15288" LastEditorUserId="44674" LastEditDate="2018-01-23T02:41:44.477" LastActivityDate="2018-01-23T02:41:44.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14560" CreationDate="2014-10-18T01:24:20.023" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just another thought, which probably is nothing more than an interesting connection:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P4Di6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bear&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YCSzU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Gus&quot;&gt;&#xA; Foreshadowing perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14078" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T01:24:20.023" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26387" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26388" CreationDate="2014-10-18T02:28:57.977" Score="2" ViewCount="1807" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have two questions about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2166834/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How did Superman get his health back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; He was shown to regain his health by touching sunflowers. How did this work? Is it just because it is yellow, or does Superman have the power to absorb life out of things (remember, the whole field withers as he gains his muscles)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How did Oliver Queen loose an arm?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; It seems like Superman had something to do with that, but they never go into that part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14042" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-11-18T18:39:43.683" Title="Dark Knight Returns Part 2 questions" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-returns-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26387" CreationDate="2014-10-18T03:50:15.130" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I understood was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The plants absorb power of the sun and Superman took that from them to regain his own strength.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It wasn't made clear but it was implied that Superman ripped out Green Arrow's arm. This was hinted twice: the outdoor scene when Batman and Superman in normal clothes were  conversing (the keyword &quot;torn&quot; was mentioned by Batman) and again at the Wayne mansion directly from Oliver himself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Point 2 was similarly vague in the comics. The analogous scene for point 1 in the comics was a bit strange because Superman in the comics was having an inner dialogue with Mother Earth but the idea was the same: earth and plants took in power of the sun and Superman took that from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14080" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T03:50:15.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26392" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26393" CreationDate="2014-10-18T09:59:16.647" Score="5" ViewCount="768" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to recognize a movie by a screenshot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is a British 1960s movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rY2Vt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15297" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T11:52:07.677" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T11:52:07.677" Title="Finding a 60s UK movie by picture of 2 men" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:21:49.183" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26392" CreationDate="2014-10-18T10:06:51.727" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedazzled_%281967_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bedazzled&lt;/a&gt; from 1967 in which Peter Cook is the devil and offers a young man (Dudley Moore) 7 wishes. Here's a frame from the same scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/06xf2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T10:06:51.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26394" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30005" CreationDate="2014-10-18T14:45:25.710" Score="5" ViewCount="983" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm talking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1825157/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Double (2013)&lt;/a&gt; I find this movie very confusing. And after searching a bit, reading wiki,IMDb synopsis I found that the movie is ambiguous and can be interpreted differently. Reading through whole thread of &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/23726/question-about-the-movie-the-double-2013&quot;&gt;Who is James in &amp;quot;The Double (2013)&amp;quot;?&lt;/a&gt;, got some idea about the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But who is the Colonel? Is he an imagination too? What's his role in the movie? Simon tried to stand like him, wanted to talk to him. Did Simon think of him as an idol? Was it the only purpose of that character!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, Colonel appeared in the ambulance and said&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Colonel: &amp;quot;Are there too many like you?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simon replied with a smile on his face: &amp;quot;I like to think I'm pretty unique.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Colonel really exist in that ambulance? What is that question all about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T01:22:21.513" Title="What is the role of the Colonel &amp; who is he in &quot;The Double (2013)&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-double|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2990" CreationDate="2014-10-18T16:05:47.250" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watched part of an episode. Pretty standard library effects. Sound Ideas, Hanna Barbera, even a little Star Trek. Maybe some additional custom sfx created on synth (it was the 80s). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a sound editor/mixer and these are the basic building blocks of the trade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15275" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T16:05:47.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26402" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-18T20:33:06.830" Score="3" ViewCount="1919" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back in 2010, there were some &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/news/ni2132437/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rumors&lt;/a&gt; that Zooey Deschanel would play Ada Lovelace in a movie called &quot;The Enchantress of Numbers.&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themarysue.com/zooey-deschanel-not-ada-lovelace/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Apparently&lt;/a&gt; she actually wasn't going to play her, but what ever happened to the movie? Did it ever exist in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13825" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T23:05:10.807" Title="What happened to The Enchantress of Numbers?" Tags="|biopic|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26403" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26416" CreationDate="2014-10-18T20:33:15.913" Score="1" ViewCount="1610" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVW-EB58sew&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This trailer&lt;/a&gt; for the 2013 film &lt;em&gt;Oculus&lt;/em&gt; contains the following poem:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;See the mirror hanging there&#xA;Face of silver, frame of black&#xA;Oculus of glass, I stare&#xA;I can feel you staring back&#xA;I hear your voice, believe your lies&#xA;A window, portal, darkened door&#xA;Should you claim my staring eyes&#xA;My soul you'll hold forevermore&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this poem written for the trailer, or was it taken from another work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9908" LastActivityDate="2014-10-19T06:50:47.207" Title="Is the poem in the Oculus trailer an original poem?" Tags="|oculus|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26404" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-18T21:39:54.467" Score="3" ViewCount="348" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1931533/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Seven Psychopaths&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Charlie (Woody Harrelson) comes to the hospital to find Mrs Kieslowski. He finds a patient- who we know &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; Myra Kieslowski- but wrongly assumes that because she is black it cannot be her. He then tells her how he is looking for Mrs Kieslowski because her husband has stolen his dog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the course of the subsequent conversation, he comes to realise that she &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the woman he's looking for. But I can't understand how.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the discussion between Charlie and Moyra.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Myra&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm sure Mr. Kieslowski will take good care of your dog and get&#xA;  it back to you safe. He always seems like a sweet man when he comes&#xA;  in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charlie&lt;/strong&gt;: He come visit her a lot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Myra&lt;/strong&gt;: Every day-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charlie&lt;/strong&gt;: What kind of times every day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Myra&lt;/strong&gt;: Different times, you know. And not every day. He misses a day&#xA;  now and then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charlie&lt;/strong&gt;: Oh. yeah? He been in today?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Myra&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeah. He came in earlier this morning, about 10:00 or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charlie&lt;/strong&gt;: So the Polack married a n*gger, huh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Charlie deduce this, from the conversation? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it just the fact that Myra seemed too eager to convince him that Charlie had already missed Mr Kieslowski's visit and was wasting his time waiting? In which case, why did she say he visited every day? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4573" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-18T21:48:52.460" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T23:03:48.703" Title="How does Charlie deduce Myra is Mrs Kieslowski?" Tags="|plot-explanation|seven-psychopaths|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26404" CreationDate="2014-10-18T22:27:28.107" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw that movie and I assumed he picked up on tells in her body language and facial movements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14064" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T22:27:28.107" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26404" CreationDate="2014-10-18T23:03:48.703" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The dialogue you cite actually comes after &lt;em&gt;Myra&lt;/em&gt; sees &lt;em&gt;Hans&lt;/em&gt; through her window and after she already talked a little bit with &lt;em&gt;Charlie&lt;/em&gt; about &lt;em&gt;Mrs Kieslowski&lt;/em&gt;. She was quite sure she could drag the whole situation out a bit, just playing her roommate and waiting what happens. But once she saw &lt;em&gt;Hans&lt;/em&gt; walking to the hospital to visit her, she became increasingly nervous, knowing that &lt;em&gt;Charlie&lt;/em&gt; was looking for him and the time ran short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And nervous as she got, she suddenly brought the conversation to &lt;em&gt;Mr. Kieslowski&lt;/em&gt; herself, which is where your quoted dialogue starts. And I think &lt;strong&gt;this is exactly the point where &lt;em&gt;Charlie&lt;/em&gt; at least starts to get suspicious about her&lt;/strong&gt;. I think this can be perceived in his behaviour, since after she said that, he suddenly starts to stop his little playing around with the wheelchair he sits in and &lt;strong&gt;turns around to look straight at her&lt;/strong&gt;, getting nearer and nearer to her. And at this point he starts to interrogate her a bit more about &lt;em&gt;Mr Kieslowski&lt;/em&gt; and his visiting times. Maybe he already guessed it at this point or he just had a suspicion. But it surely didn't help &lt;em&gt;Myra&lt;/em&gt; that she got increasingly nervous and started beating around the bush with stuff like &lt;em&gt;&quot;Different times, you know, not every day&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (after previously saying a pretty definite &lt;em&gt;&quot;Every day&quot;&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to sum up, I would say at the point &lt;em&gt;Myra&lt;/em&gt; brought the conversation to &lt;em&gt;Mr Kieslowki&lt;/em&gt; (so at the start of your quoted dialogue section) &lt;em&gt;Charlie&lt;/em&gt; definitely got suspicous about her and his supicion was manifested by her nervous behaviour during the further conversation. Maybe he even wasn't 100% sure before his &quot;n--ger&quot; comment. But he was at least sufficiently sure enough and &lt;em&gt;Myra&lt;/em&gt; certainly didn't deny it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-10-18T23:03:48.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6855" CreationDate="2014-10-19T01:31:32.903" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Godzilla has the most sequels: 29 in total the king of monsters is the king of sequels&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it not exclusively English but it has the most. Plus none of the movies tell a prequel story they all come after the original so yes Godzilla is the the king of sequels &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15308" LastEditorUserId="16465" LastEditDate="2016-08-19T20:01:07.273" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T20:01:07.273" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26414" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32304" CreationDate="2014-10-19T04:27:50.190" Score="4" ViewCount="12400" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did they ever explain in the TV series &lt;em&gt;Sons Of Anarchy&lt;/em&gt; why Bobby Munson's cut (his gang jacket) has a border around the shoulders?  There's a white pattern around what would be his sleeves (if it wasn't a vest) and that pattern isn't on any other character's vests, including all of the characters who are no longer in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/twysW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2014-10-19T21:45:09.930" LastActivityDate="2017-08-10T23:31:43.460" Title="Why is Bobby Munson's cut different than everyone else's?" Tags="|character|sons-of-anarchy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6855" CreationDate="2014-10-19T04:31:55.577" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The British &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_On_%28franchise%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Carry On&lt;/a&gt; series boasts 31 movies from 1958-1992.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14064" LastActivityDate="2014-10-19T04:31:55.577" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26403" CreationDate="2014-10-19T04:52:06.653" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: It looks to have been written by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://mymetmedia.com/features/reflecting-on-reality-oculus-crew-talks-movie-inspiration/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;director&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Before you catch the movie in theaters, you may want to think twice before&#xA;  looking long and hard into the mirror, and remember this poem by Flanagan:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;See the mirror, hanging there Face of silver, frame of black Oculus of glass, I stare I can feel you staring back I hear your voice Believe your lies A window, portal, darkened door Should you claim my staring eyes My soul you’ll hold... forever more...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14064" LastEditorUserId="9908" LastEditDate="2014-10-19T06:50:47.207" LastActivityDate="2014-10-19T06:50:47.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18008" CreationDate="2014-10-19T13:37:48.773" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Walker's weakness in the hands of Tusk and Underwood are direct references of the weakness of Bush II at the hands of Chaney and Rumsfeld.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15315" LastActivityDate="2014-10-19T13:37:48.773" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26424" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-19T17:04:11.473" Score="4" ViewCount="3118" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Oblivion, Malcolm Beach explains to Jack Harper his memory of the fight against the Tet, after mentioning the destruction of the moon and the consequences on earth, he continues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Most people just starved, then the Tet sent troops ships down. The doors opened and out you came, astronaut Jack Harper, thousands of you. Memory wiped, programmed to kill. They had take one of our best, and turned him against us. No soul, no humanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thus understand that troopships went down on earth (not 60 years later, but only a few years - at most - after the Tet's arrival into earth orbit), and an army of Jack Harpers got out and fought the remaining humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the Tet can mind control Jack Harper to the extent of killing humans, why does it bother to create false memory and mock a bizarre relationship and pretend to be Sally with these really weird gimmicks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, the following dramatic point of the scenario are thus presented as keys in the Tet's grip on the minds of Jack Harper's clones:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jack Harper must not discover other clones&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jack Harper must not discover that scavs are humans&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I interpret the second one as the fact that Jack Harper's mind won't coerce easily to orders that ask for humans death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If these particular points are really key points in holding Jack Harper's mind as the film suggest. How can you make army of Jack Harper's clones fight humans? It seems unavoidable that both constraints would have to be broken. In this perspective, I can't understand how the clone's mind would have been tricked while keeping coherence with the film's key points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I misunderstand Malcolm Beach's recall of the situation? Are these first cloned Jack Harpers different types of clones?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15318" LastEditorUserId="382" LastEditDate="2014-10-21T01:14:17.057" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T03:33:28.677" Title="How were the thousands of clones lured into fighting humans at first?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oblivion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14272" CreationDate="2014-10-19T18:38:54.070" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The existing answers have already provided some very interesting examples and I'd like to add a few small things, even if they're not directly referencing particular movies or not too obvious or relevant. Of course there's all the more general Western themes probably discussed in your links already, the whole New Mexico setting and the many scenes shot in the nature, especially the New Mexico desert, the acoustic guitar music, the great train robbery &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt; and his gang are performing in S05E05 (&quot;Dead Freight&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's interesting that you bring up the point of &quot;subverting the Western genre&quot;, because there is actually a scene in S03E12 (&quot;Half Measure&quot;) which, &lt;strong&gt;while not referencing a particular movie, plays with one of &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; most traditional Western scenes ever&lt;/strong&gt;. At the end of the episode &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt; is facing the two dealers who killed &lt;em&gt;Tomás&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Andrea&lt;/em&gt;'s little brother). The way those two parties quietly approach each other, knowing and determined of what's to come, the closeup shots of them pulling away their jackets and readying their guns, the consecutive shots of &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt;'s face getting closer and closer, the wide-angle shot of the opposing gun holders. &lt;strong&gt;This whole scene as well as its cinematic presentation very much resembles a classic gun duel showdown as known from virtually every Western ever.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HRvcw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vKRi9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fNZMC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uNq93.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But all this elaborate and suspenseful construction &lt;strong&gt;does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; get resovled in a classic Western way&lt;/strong&gt; of the one duelist who draws quicker winning. No, &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt;, being as to this point a complete outsider to the scene handles the situation in a very untraditional but effective way by just crashing the dealers away with his Aztek. If this is not &lt;strong&gt;a subversion of one of Western's most innate images, presented in a cinematographic style that very much acknowledges this reference&lt;/strong&gt;, I don't know what is. (You could say &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt; is an intruder to the whole situation, handling it in his own original way, not by strength or experience, but by quick thinking, ruthless initiative and, let's face it, luck, afterall very reminiscent of his overall venture into methamphetamine business.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just while thinking about one of Spaghetti Western's greatest examples I stumbled across another possible reference in nothing else than the great finale of the show. At the end of the very last episode S05E16 (&quot;Felina&quot;) &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt; gets his final revenge on &lt;em&gt;Jack&lt;/em&gt;'s gang by visting their supposed trap but suprising them with the remote controlled machine gun he has in the trunk of his car, effectively mowing down nearly all of &lt;em&gt;Jack&lt;/em&gt;'s men.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GcdQA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be seen as &lt;strong&gt;a reference to one of the most remarkable scenes in &lt;em&gt;Sergio Corbucci&lt;/em&gt;'s 1966 classic Speghetti Western &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060315/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Django&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, where &lt;em&gt;Franco Nero&lt;/em&gt;'s eponymous protagonist enters a town dragging a coffin. And once he confronts the gang of the man he's seeking revenge to, he opens his coffin and pulls out nothing else than a big-ass machine gun, mowing down most of the gang.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/x-9awyAHaRo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, I'm not sure I'd call that machine gun scene from &lt;em&gt;Django&lt;/em&gt; a classic Western scene, since that scene could itself rather be seen as an unconventional subversion of classic Westerns, but well, that's what &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/12990/49&quot;&gt;Spaghetti Westerns&lt;/a&gt; generally were afterall, just that they've become &quot;classics&quot; in their own right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reference I found is of a much more far-fetched and rather non-Western nature. But there is the bottle episode S03E10 (&quot;Fly&quot;) where &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt; is trapped in the lab with a fly and getting increasingly paranoid of its supposed contamination, slowly losing his sanity over it. Call me a lunatic, but &lt;strong&gt;this actually reminded me of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/12889/49&quot;&gt;famous opening scene&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064116/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Once Upon a Time in the West&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, where one of the hitmen waiting for &lt;em&gt;Harmonica&lt;/em&gt; is repeatedly bugged by a fly and ultimately traps it in the barrel of his gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ysvwk-5H8H8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/3339/49&quot;&gt;Like the &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; episode&lt;/a&gt;, this scene, albeit being utterly irrelevant for the actual further plot of the movie, has been the source of &lt;a href=&quot;http://pov.imv.au.dk/Issue_24/section_1/artc4A.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;much discussion and analysis&lt;/a&gt;. Decide for yourself, though, if this is a bit too far fetched of a similarity to actually call it a reference to Western cinema.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T08:55:28.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23778" CreationDate="2014-10-19T18:46:09.993" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Heavy influences. If you can't see them you aren't paying attention to the details of the stories. The movie especially plays out like a Mass Effect movie, even ending like Mass Effect where the captain fights his way through a battle between the Alliance and Reever fleets to send a signal out. Only big difference is Malcom runs from the Alliance where Shepard works for the Alliance. Everything else is about 90% the same story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15321" LastActivityDate="2014-10-19T18:46:09.993" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23157" CreationDate="2014-10-19T19:12:56.573" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;HUGE SPOILERS, DONT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE SERIES TILL FELINA&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Breaking Bad is about 'Breaking Bad'. A Chemistry teacher who doesn't earn much but is perfect at what he does, loves his family and has cancer and is about to die. &#xA;So, he kind of goes on a journey, a quest where he will do what he does best to earn for the people he love the most who will remain alive after he dies. He does everything for his family but with the line of work that he gets in it is always dangerous to cope up with people. So, to keep his family safe, he has to often commit crimes which he doesn't want to but feel that they are necessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He loves his family, he cares for his partner in crime but he often does things he was never supposed to or he never meant to. Power overtakes his mind and things get worse. In the end he is killed not by his health or disease, he is killed by his sins. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Andrew's answer is perfect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5259" LastActivityDate="2014-10-19T19:12:56.573" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26429" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26431" CreationDate="2014-10-19T19:48:15.067" Score="5" ViewCount="5587" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm used to the word &lt;em&gt;jinx&lt;/em&gt; referring to bringing bad luck on someone, which would be out of character for Hans and Anna to openly do to each other. So I'm guessing that &lt;em&gt;jinx&lt;/em&gt; in this context is slang and part of a game, but I don't know what.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should we interpret the line, &quot;Jinx! Jinx again!&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15322" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T01:56:03.660" Title="What do Hans and Anna mean when they Jinx each other in &quot;Love Is an Open Door&quot;?" Tags="|soundtrack|frozen|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26429" CreationDate="2014-10-19T21:29:31.277" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jinx is also a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinx_%28children%27s_game%29&quot;&gt;children's game&lt;/a&gt;, when 2 people &lt;a href=&quot;http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.co.il/2006/10/jinx-and-snap.html&quot;&gt;say the same thing at the same time&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When I was in school, &lt;strong&gt;if two people said the same thing at the same time you hurried to say &quot;jinx&quot; first - whoever lost wasn't supposed to talk until someone said their name.&lt;/strong&gt; A bystander could also say it, and both of the people involved would be caught. I learned from a friend who grew up in another area that &quot;pinch poke you owe me a coke&quot; was the answer to this situation, or sometimes just &quot;jinx you owe me a coke&quot;. I saw in an old movie (and another friend said she'd seen it in person) where &lt;strong&gt;the two people stopped for a second in their conversation and linked pinkies when this happened, then kept going.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This game proves how much Hans and Anna think alike; they even say &quot;Jinx&quot; and &quot;Jinx again&quot; together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-10-19T21:29:31.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9557" CreationDate="2014-10-19T23:21:17.987" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not to say there aren't some very interesting ideas here... But I think in the end Charlie is very obviously about to say I love you, as indicated by other plot hints like max calling him Charlie throughout the movie and finally calling out dad several times as he pushes through the crowd to reach Hugh Jackson. Also when max begs him to fight the last round he reluctantly agrees saying &quot;are you kidding me with those eyes?&quot; Just an opinion, only from watching the movie. Also the thought of Caroline inhabiting the robot is a really fantastical idea... It is a very interesting thought though something that never crossed my mind. Also in interviews with the director it is clearly stated that the fact that atom may be able to think for himself is an idea purposely portrayed; also it is purposefully put forward as an ambiguous idea in order to &quot;maintain the magic.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15326" LastActivityDate="2014-10-19T23:21:17.987" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26438" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26442" CreationDate="2014-10-20T00:05:16.610" Score="6" ViewCount="1587" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; episode &quot;Breakage&quot; (S02E05) one of &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt;'s dealers gets robbed by some junkies. When &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt; comes to know this, he gives &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt; a gun and urges him to &lt;em&gt;&quot;handle it&quot;&lt;/em&gt; in order for them not to lose their respect on the streets (which then leads to &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt;'s unpleasant experiences with a junkie family and an ATM). But at the beginning of &quot;Negro y Azul&quot; (S02E07) &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt; suddenly changes his mind and after not having reached &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt; for quite some time just leaves him a message saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oh and by the way, that thing we talked about, when I said &quot;handle it&quot;. Well, don't, just let it go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;why did he suddenly change his mind about this matter?&lt;/strong&gt; Was he simply feeling a bit of remorse, not being the hardened gangster yet (though, he was quite determined when he persuaded &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt; to handle it), or is there more to it? Or does it have something to do with the stupid-ass student he justed talked to right before making this call (maybe he didn't have confidence in &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt; anymore and thought he'd screw it up)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T17:59:39.283" Title="Why did Walt change his mind about Jesse &quot;handling&quot; the stolen drug money?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26438" CreationDate="2014-10-20T04:16:23.943" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;My Personal Interpretation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt cares for Jesse&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt cares for Jesse, I mean, in the previous episodes when Tuco beats Jesse badly, Walt gets so worked up and goes to Tuco with full rage and destroys the place and  gets the money (may be he wouldn't have gone to a place full of gangsters if it's just for the money especially a guy who cares about his family so much) and another time when Tuco was trying to Kill Jesse on the couch in an isolated house with Don Salamanca, Walt tries real hard to convince Tuco that he needs Jesse. In the further episodes, especially in &quot;ABQ&quot; S02E13 you'll understand that Walt stays with Jesse in tough times and acts as a fatherly figure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt needs Jesse&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt wants to make more money and the only key for it is Jesse, he's a drug dealer and he can make money for Walt by selling Meth and he is the only guy Walt trusts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May be because of the above reasons, Walt doesn't want Jesse to be hurt and I think Walt was genuinely concerned about Jesse while saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oh and by the way, that thing we talked about, when I said &quot;handle it&quot;. Well, don't, just let it go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;because he thinks Jesse might get hurt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2014-10-20T06:55:11.723" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T06:55:11.723" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11013" CreationDate="2014-10-20T08:42:26.817" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following has already been brought up in a comment, though from a user who already vanished, and might just be a little addition to the other interesting answers, but it definitely deserves its own answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is actually &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/08/12/breaking_bad_colors_infographic_clothing_provides_a_clue_to_understanding.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this excellent article&lt;/a&gt; about analysing the clothing colors of many of the major characters in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, which also presents a very neat &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/browbeat/2013/08/12/breakingbad_color.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;color timeline&lt;/a&gt; for each character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CKMiO.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CKMiO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in particular about &lt;em&gt;Marie&lt;/em&gt; (who pretty much sticks out with her prevalence of purple) it has to say&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes Marie noteworthy isn’t that she wears all purple, all the time. Rather, it’s the very rare occasions when she’s not wearing purple that practically scream at the viewer. For instance, she wears black when her kleptomania flares up. She wears black again when she’s in protective custody of the DEA after the threat on Hank’s life at the end of Season 4. And then finally, she turns yellow just before Hank makes his massive discovery at the end of the first half of Season 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The last fact is also relevant when seen in connection to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/16378/49&quot;&gt;this related answer&lt;/a&gt; about the remote controlled car, which also presents many thoughts about the usage of color in the show, especially about yellow being a signal of danger.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T06:57:08.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26424" CreationDate="2014-10-20T11:39:02.893" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This particular clone which acts as a hero in the movie was different than others:&#xA;Following dialogue between Beech and Sykes suggests the same:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sykes:&lt;/strong&gt; You've risked all our lives, everything. What makes you think he's different?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Beech:&lt;/strong&gt; She does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can also be guessed from the scene where other clone does not hesitate to get into a fight with him. The other clone did not even bother to think who is the look alike he is fighting with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xStkV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;False memory and mock a bizarre relationship was just to give there life a meaning and motivation. Tet had strong grip on mind of Jack Harper. So we can say that this clone Tech#49 and few other like him Tech#52 (appears in the end) were different or faulty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7259" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-09T03:33:28.677" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T03:33:28.677" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26424" CreationDate="2014-10-20T11:52:24.427" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question makes a lot of sense and I think that any viable answer will be a stretch at best (the real answer being, of course, the more interesting/suspensive narrative).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, the events after the invasion - as described by Malcolm - tell us that Jack #49 is somehow special. He had doubts, curiosity (that book he took), he had love for the Earth (that hidden shack of his),... We can assume, since Malcolm had to wait for him for so long, that Jack #49 is somehow special... &quot;faulty&quot;, in a way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it's quite unbelievable that - after thousands of clones raided the Earth - two such clones came into being (remember, it took #52 only three years to become what #49 was), but we could attribute that to the movie's need for a happy end that could easily be treated as a separate (maybe deleted) scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real problem here is that Malcolm based his whole plan to fight back on a very stretched premise that such a faulty clone would appear. The Tet's mission was almost done, so he would have literally waited until the Earth's final annihilation, had Jack #49 not been &quot;faulty&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, one could argue that the blind annihilation of mass proportions needed mindless &quot;machines&quot;, while the final stages of the invasion (where #49 and #52 participated) needed some fairly level of humanity, maybe some love for the Earth (to fight the &quot;enemy&quot; that we, later on, learn to be the remnants of the human race), and maybe some curiosity and reasoning to be able to handle unpredictable situations and the most resilient of the resistance. This would justify the clone army being mindless killing machines, and the later techs being much more human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One stretch here is, IMO, that the clone army was needed in the first place. Why not just drones (that proved to be quite useful even against the human guerilla; imagine what would they do while the Earth was still more densely populated), or some other - maybe more advanced - technology? We &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; talking about an entity capable of travelling huge distances in space, cloning life forms completely alien to it, intercept its technology and comms to mimic it later on, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another problem would be the reasoning behind the need for techs to be very much themselves, manipulated through false Sally and fake memories of the past. I see no real purpose for an astronaut to be suited for a mission on a scorched Earth any better than a thoroughly Tet-reprogrammed clone or some kind of a machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no better explanations, and these do seem weak for the reasons I've given, so I'm quite certain that the movie narrative took a higher priority here than the need for the plot to make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one detail that I missed (of which HBhatia's answer reminded me), which does make #49 and #52 less faulty (but still doesn't explain the bad planning on the side of Tet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that our techs, Jack(s) and Vika(s), were created quite well, but for operating in total isolation. While #49 was curious and Earth-loving, he still needed the right outside impulse, which was Julia's arrival (and him witnessing the slaughter that the drones did around the wreckage). For #52, the outside intrusion came from #49 and their brief encounter, as well as Tet being destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This, IMO, does make for a better explanation why #49 was special, although he &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; different - as Malcolm said - and Julia coming to him (as opposed to some other tech) is a typical movie stroke of luck (or whatever that's called).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, why sending to an extremely hostile environment something that relies on no unexpected intrusions... well, Tet had to give humanity &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; chance. ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2014-10-20T15:38:19.920" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T15:38:19.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20073" CreationDate="2014-10-20T12:14:31.213" Score="0" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Omega's blood was seeping into Cage, which allows cage to reset the day right from the beginning.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everything that happened before Cage got down the helicopter could not happen because Omega died and the situation will change when Omega dies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fact: When something dies by e.g guns or grenades,  blood will seep out from the wound.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For Omega's blood, it seeped through Cage.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fact: When blood seeps out of something in water, it will spread and the water will be mixed with the blood, diluting the blood and at the same time, changing into &quot;blood water&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Omega was submerged in water when Cage killed it, so the blood is obviously able to seep into Cage again because he died in the water too when he killed the Omega, meaning that he was in the water too when the Omega's blood was able to seep through him. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;after he reset the day in London again, he saw a crowd at the TV in the office, saying that Omega has been killed, which can mean the Omega died before it could reset the day, the blood of Omega was already transferring to Cage because he is underwater, so he can reset the day without having the Omega alive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="anon" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T12:14:31.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26451" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26453" CreationDate="2014-10-20T12:49:08.087" Score="5" ViewCount="771" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Oblivion, the Tet orbits the earth, and communicates with the towers with imposed regular transmission cutoff as a simple consequence of the Tet's being out of reach of direct radio communication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First, this structure is massive, masters space travel, advanced genomics, fusion, and very advanced technology (drone propulsion, energetic weapons...). We can safely assume that it masters radiocommunication subtleties.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Second, it seems totally capable and willing to build or send gigantic structure called Tower all over the earth.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And it spends a lot of energy fighting the remnants of humanity through these drones that must be constantly repaired by cloned that themselves must be constantly controlled for any &quot;inefficience&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at first: why aren't the Towers providing a real communication network? Or why aren't some thin satellite constellations orbiting the earth to ensure such a dramatical strategic facility? This is more important if you consider that drones can't move without direct connection with the Tet (as at the end of the film, the Tet's destruction instantly shuts down power to an army of drones)... This last fact raises so much more questions on other very questionable technological choices from such a powerful being.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to explain this seemingly self-imposed lack of stable communication? Might it serve a purpose? Did I miss critical information that would help enlighten me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15318" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-20T12:56:21.303" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T14:17:10.053" Title="Why the Tet imposes itself regular transmission cut-off?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oblivion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1853" CreationDate="2014-10-20T14:01:36.870" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is old, but I thought I'd throw in on account of the unanswered question...to make their plan work, they need to kill someone for a body. But in killing this man who may have had a family as well, they are stooping to the level that the leaders of the gangs did when they killed Slevin's father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15341" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-10-20T14:18:27.007" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T14:18:27.007" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26451" CreationDate="2014-10-20T14:17:10.053" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the biggest thing you are missing here is each individual outpost is lead to believe they (Vika and Jack) are the last remaining people on Earth. Since they are the last remaining people, why would there need to be a large telecommunications network supporting the entire Earth? They'd only need enough to communicate with Jack and Vika. In doing so, they go &quot;out of range&quot; per line of sight. Besides, if Sally in the Tet cannot even get Jack and Vika spare parts, why should they be able to run a massive array of satellites for just one pair of people? It is all about appearances to those on the ground. It leads for better belief and understanding of the clones, and therefor allows for more control of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T14:17:10.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26455" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-20T15:27:20.310" Score="2" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realize this entire question is one big spoiler, so there's no way around it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm confused by the ending of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309698/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Identity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.  Did those murders actually happen?  Was John Cusack at the motel, or was it a dream?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T15:42:50.823" Title="In the movie &quot;Identity&quot;, did the murders really happen?" Tags="|plot-explanation|identity|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-10-20T17:00:03.487" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16266" CreationDate="2014-10-20T15:42:50.823" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, the murders did not happen in reality&lt;/strong&gt; (or at least not in a physical way). The whole of the movie's story actually pans out solely inside the head of &lt;em&gt;Malcolm Rivers&lt;/em&gt;, a convicted murderer under treatment by &lt;em&gt;Dr. Malick&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those 10 people are all representations of the different persona &lt;em&gt;Malcolm&lt;/em&gt; houses inside his personality (the title of the movie is already a hint to that, as well as other little &quot;mysteries&quot;, like everbody having the same birthday date, that of &lt;em&gt;Malcolm Rivers&lt;/em&gt;). This whole story of those 10 different persons ending up at the same place and murdered until only one is left is actually a mental representation of &lt;em&gt;Dr. Malick&lt;/em&gt;'s treatment of &lt;em&gt;Malcolm&lt;/em&gt;, whose purpose it is to eliminate all those multiple persona in &lt;em&gt;Malcolm&lt;/em&gt; (hopefully also the one that let him commit the murders for which he ended up in custody) until only one is left, &lt;em&gt;Malcolm&lt;/em&gt;'s true identity. This is actually explained at the end of the movie by &lt;em&gt;Dr. Malick&lt;/em&gt;, before which the audience only got some little hints and some snippets of that &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; scene thrown into the action of the &lt;em&gt;imaginary&lt;/em&gt; motel story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And at the very end it's also revealed that the true evil identity of &lt;em&gt;Malcolm&lt;/em&gt; was actually the little boy, who has also survived the motel incident and comes back to murder &lt;em&gt;Paris&lt;/em&gt;. And this also coincides with &lt;em&gt;Malcolm&lt;/em&gt; &quot;freaking out&quot; in the real world and murdering &lt;em&gt;Dr. Malick&lt;/em&gt; and his associates while riding with them in a car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T15:42:50.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26457" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26477" CreationDate="2014-10-20T17:18:23.897" Score="30" ViewCount="18159" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why didn't Walter White ever consume his own product in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;? I mean he did once consume cannabis, is this because of work ethics or any alternate views?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15342" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-20T18:23:36.930" LastActivityDate="2016-03-07T09:09:45.110" Title="Why didn't Walter White consume his own product?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26457" CreationDate="2014-10-20T17:33:51.193" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's a Science teacher.  He understands the effects of Meth and knows how addictive it is.  Besides, he was in it to make money.  Never combine business with pleasure if you want to be successful.  Just as Frank Lopez warns Tony Montana in Scarface, &quot;Don't get high on your own supply&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T17:33:51.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11419" CreationDate="2014-10-20T18:07:39.857" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the book, Alex is hooked up to a brain monitor and his brain's activity is watched. The people conducting the experiment can see clearly that he is having a response to the treatment. You may be able to trick people but not a brain monitor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15343" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T18:07:39.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26457" CreationDate="2014-10-20T18:54:56.893" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walter never wanted to be addicted to the stuff he was making. He was already sick because of cancer and doing drugs could worsen his health and as &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/26458/19730&quot;&gt;Johnny explains in his answer&lt;/a&gt; that being Chemistry wiz he knew the ill effects. He wanted to be alive and awake all the time so that he could take clever decisions and complete his job no matter how difficult it was, be it packing &amp;amp; transferring meth, or killing someone. It would have been difficult for him to manage everything he was doing and lying to people would have been difficult for him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also had to return to his home every night and sit with his family plus his brother in law was in the DEA and maybe he could sniff meth because that was everything he looked for. Maybe he also felt mature to do stuff like this and he also had kids whom he never wanted to   influence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5259" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T22:32:12.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24679" CreationDate="2014-10-20T20:12:56.527" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a little frame during the machine gun scene showing a &quot;10-object&quot; being hit by one of the bullets. In the very next frame, Walt has a jump while on the floor with Jessie. I believe he had been hit by such object.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the question is... why the number 10? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sjbDL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15345" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T20:12:56.527" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26466" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26468" CreationDate="2014-10-20T22:26:20.270" Score="14" ViewCount="34244" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &amp;quot;Hazard Pay&amp;quot; (S05E03), &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt; is very upset about the financial outcome they get from their first new batch of meth, especially &lt;em&gt;Mike&lt;/em&gt;'s &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;legacy cost&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. He talks about this to &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt; afterwards, referencing &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/11130/49&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Victor's death&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt:&lt;/strong&gt; How are you feeling about the money?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jesse:&lt;/strong&gt; You're looking at it wrong. When we were working for Gus we were cooking 200 pounds a week. This last batch was great, but we didn't even crack 50 pounds. Maybe we cleared less money but we got a bigger piece of the pie. It's like you said, we're owners, not employees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt:&lt;/strong&gt; I've been thinking about Victor...All this time I was sure that Gus did what he did to send me a message. Maybe there's another reason...Victor trying to cook that batch on his own? Taking liberties that weren't his to take? Maybe he flew too close to the sun, got his throat cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then he walks away and &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt; looks after him with quite a puzzled or worried look. But &lt;strong&gt;I didn't get what &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt; was actually saying with this.&lt;/strong&gt; I mean, I know what he means why &lt;em&gt;Victor&lt;/em&gt; was killed. But how is &lt;em&gt;Victor&lt;/em&gt;'s death and its possible reasons related to their current situation and what did &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt; or at least the writers want to say with this quote in that particular situation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2022-08-23T07:03:07.550" Title="Why does Walt talk about Victor?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|dialogue|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24679" CreationDate="2014-10-20T23:38:38.890" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the its not the bullet as there is no bullet hole on his jacket and i am pretty sure the jacket is lying low. Maybe its the fragment that bounced of ground and hit near his appendix and further ruptured it. As taking bullet to the abdomen hurts bad and he can't really stay up that long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as @alessandro.francesconi pointed out the 10 number maybe relating the number of people died on the last episode (don't forget man on the outside and lydia). Just another theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15342" LastActivityDate="2014-10-20T23:38:38.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26466" CreationDate="2014-10-21T00:00:28.500" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always took this to be about Mike. One of the biggest reasons Walt is upset at this moment are the &quot;legacy costs&quot; that you mention and Mike's insistence on paying them. This money is cutting into what Walt thinks that they should be making. Also, Mike says something along the lines of &quot;I'll run the business side and the two you will just cook,&quot; which doesn't sit well at all with Walter &quot;I'm in the Empire Business&quot; White.  Essentially, I believe that the line about &quot;Taking liberties that weren't his to take...&quot; is Walt thinking aloud about his thoughts on Mike demanding &quot;Hazard Pay&quot; for his guys and his assertions that he will be making the business decisions. I always saw this as the beginning of Walt deciding that Mike needs eliminated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T00:00:28.500" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="290" CreationDate="2014-10-21T00:52:24.843" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I figure all people are weird to some degree. We are all related as well. I think the above analysis is mostly correct. I had never looked at that or thought about that. My idea was that Minnesota , being heavily populated with scandanavians, were observed by the Coen brothers throughout their childhoods. Having lived in Minneapolis and being mostly of Viking blood myself, I figured the directors were pointing out the similarities between Asians and Scandanavians.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15350" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T00:52:24.843" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26470" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26471" CreationDate="2014-10-21T02:25:10.853" Score="2" ViewCount="1338" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Nazis occupied France in 1941, and got pushed out in 1944.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How old is Shosanna in the first scene of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when her farm is investigated by Nazi occupiers (&quot;we will leave you alone for the rest of our occupation&quot; is a Landa quote from the conversation in that scene) and how old is she in the later scenes where Nazis are watching a movie in her theatre?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is she supposed to be around the same age, or does the movie suppose an alternate reality where D-Day never happened and the war continued for a decade or longer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="34594" LastEditDate="2016-09-24T19:24:36.410" LastActivityDate="2018-11-04T21:42:54.603" Title="How old was Shosanna?" Tags="|character|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26470" CreationDate="2014-10-21T02:50:24.327" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Nazis occupied most of France in 1940 (and the last soldiers left in 1945, e.g. La Rochelle). The movie starts (&quot;First Chapter&quot;) in 1941 (shown on screen) with Colonel Landa interviewing LaPadite. He specifically asks him for Shosanna's age, LaPadite estimates it as 18 or 19.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Chapter Two the Basterds are introduced. Lieutenant Raine says to his men that everyone knows that the invasion starts soon but their group will get into France even earlier. We then see them active in France and Hitler's reaction. A map is shown behind him, it doesn't show any allied occupied territory in France but it isn't historical in other regards too; it's more of delusion and propaganda. In general it shows the state of German occupied territory maybe 1943.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chapter Three (Shosanna meets Zoller in Paris et al.) is set in 1944 (shown on screen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last scenes of the movie are shown at the front line that Colonel Landa, his driver, Lt. Raine and Donny are driving to in a truck so it takes place after the invasion. The main diversion in the timeline is the killing of a lot of high ranked Nazis up to Hitler, the rest seems to be intact. The actions after the massacre are speculative but probably not realistic; generally an unconditional surrender was mandated by the allied after the conference of Casablance, local negotiations could probably have happened nevertheless. But after the timeline diversion it remains speculative of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if in the beginning of the film Shoshanna was 18 or 19, at the end (the theater destruction) she would be 21 or 22.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2014-10-21T18:05:47.220" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T18:05:47.220" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26457" CreationDate="2014-10-21T04:38:21.550" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the above stated answers that Walt didn't want to become addicted, needed to stay focused, etc.  But I feel the biggest reason was his pride. I think he felt he was always better than those crank addicted junkies.  This is evidenced on how he talked down to Jessie. Walt was a scientist &quot;for chrissake!&quot; and he wanted everyone to know this was business, he wasn't a junkie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it was his pride too that got the better of him, turning him darker in the guise of him helping his family. He was actually becoming the scum he hated, and Jessie was becoming the concienscious person Walt pretended Walt was all along. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1144" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T04:38:21.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26457" CreationDate="2014-10-21T04:56:50.870" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walter is &quot;in the business of building empires.&quot; There is a clear cultural separation where if you want to be in the business and earn the respect of people like Gus, you need to be firmly above the product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think talking about the effects of meth, etc. dilutes this point. Walter isn't tempted at all; that would violate his vision of himself, and his goals. Yes, Jesse, in particular his relationship with Walter, is very complicated because Jesse uses but it otherwise nearly as talented as Walter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5710" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T04:56:50.870" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26457" CreationDate="2014-10-21T05:44:12.970" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The series was not really so much about drug use,&lt;/strong&gt; and if Walter had been a tweaker then it presumably would have had to have been more so.  Also, it would have overshadowed some of the ambiguities and nuances of his character; getting high would in fact have been a good explanation for some of his behaviour but having such an easy explanation would have made it less thought provoking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't, as other people have said, think it has anything to do with Walter's personality.  He could just as easily have been using without changing the plot (I think what is in keeping with his personality would be that he would conceal his use from others), but again, the focus of the story would then be a drug user and the series was not about drug users; making it more so would have diluted other elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are really surprisingly few scenes of users using considering the length of the series; much of that is just Jessie getting stoned on weed -- and even more than that, just Jesse sitting smoking a cigarette.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the criminal characters aren't users and show some disdain for them.  In a way, drugs are totally tangential to the plot; they just happen to be a source of income for organized crime, which &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the focus of Breaking Bad, as per Vince Gilligan's famous quote about how he wanted to take Mr. Chips and transform him into Scarface.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the meth thing is very sexy; although the plot could as easily revolved around smuggling guns or diamonds, having someone actually making drugs on TV was a bit more original and interesting.  But the show was still not about drug use, it was about criminality and violence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13544" LastEditorUserId="13544" LastEditDate="2014-10-21T05:55:05.427" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T05:55:05.427" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26481" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26483" CreationDate="2014-10-21T09:53:29.887" Score="1" ViewCount="845" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie 'A Million Ways to Die in the West' &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Brown&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dr. Emmett &quot;Doc&quot; Brown&lt;/a&gt; from 'Back to the Future' &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;amp;v=W922yFkpFNU#t=25&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;appears in one of the scene&lt;/a&gt; with his time machine.&#xA;What is the connection with that old movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1799" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-21T16:59:10.373" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T16:59:10.373" Title="What's the connection with Back to the Future movie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|back-to-the-future|a-million-ways-to-die-in-the-west|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25114" CreationDate="2014-10-21T10:15:08.493" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;She talks about our &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;consciousness&lt;/a&gt; (a state of awareness, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/physicists-say-consciousness-might-be-a-state-of-matter/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/physicists-say-consciousness-might-be-a-state-of-matter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a state of matter&lt;/a&gt;) that is immortal and it never dies after death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She proves that at the end of the movie by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entering_Heaven_alive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ascending into heaven&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(esotericism)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;higher planes of existences&lt;/a&gt;) when she becomes &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnipresence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;omnipresent&lt;/a&gt; cosmic &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness#Spiritual_approaches&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;consciousness&lt;/a&gt; (Ultimate Human, Universe itself, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_(spiritual)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;enlightened being&lt;/a&gt;, a godlike being) by being fully aware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read more: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/65530/what-does-lucy-turn-into-at-the-very-end&quot;&gt;What does Lucy turn into at the very end?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1799" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T20:01:21.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26481" CreationDate="2014-10-21T11:22:43.290" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a cameo which only raised a bit of inconsistency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This film takes place in 1882 and is inconsistent with the Back To The&#xA;  Future timeline, which places Doc in the west during 1885 and&#xA;  later.(Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Brown#In_other_media&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T11:22:43.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26481" CreationDate="2014-10-21T16:18:17.967" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back to the future was(is) a very popular movie, there is no real importance or connection except to give you a few kicks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T16:18:17.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26486" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26488" CreationDate="2014-10-21T17:38:29.977" Score="14" ViewCount="2952" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been trying to identify this movie for years now and just now thought of StackExchange. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's all the things I can remember about the plot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scientist and his family move into new house in a new city&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think the mother and son drive there first and the father follows a little later&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The city is surrounded by desert, or at least very dry surroundings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm really not sure, but I think something happened to the world in this movie, like the sun is extremely intense or something&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The father sets up his lab in the basement with all kinds of lab equipment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Their neighbour MIGHT have a daughter at the same age as their own son&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Teenage son gets bullied in school&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At one point the bullies tie him to some kind of statue (it also might have been a sun dial or something like that) in the schoolyard, he gets a really strong sunburn and the girl saves him (as I said, something is wrong with the world and the sun burns very strong)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He and the girl become friends (maybe become a couple, can't remember)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Not sure, but I think they steal the car of the girl's father and take it for a ride at one point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now here's the freaky/sci-fi stuff:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The son's &lt;strong&gt;father&lt;/strong&gt; (the scientist) does some really weird experiments in his lab and somehow &lt;strong&gt;turns himself into some kind of flying energy/nature wizard/higher being&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;sorry, I know this sounds weird&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The mother is very friendly as far as I can remember and also a environmentalist&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She keeps telling her son about how good certain plants and trees are&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Somehow there's &lt;strong&gt;plants, mold spores and moss growing everywhere INSIDE the house&lt;/strong&gt; (most definitely has something to do with the father's experiment)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The whole house becomes its own little ecosystem and is &quot;alive&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The neighbour can't stand all the plants and stuff and freaks out when he is inside the house at one point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He wants to burn all the plants etc. and talks a few other people into helping him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The house traps and kills some of the people&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The army or some law enforcement agency get involved as well&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is probably from the 80s, but I'm really not sure, could be from the 90s just as well.&#xA;I guess I've seen this about 8-10 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8661" LastEditorUserId="8661" LastEditDate="2014-10-21T18:03:43.207" LastActivityDate="2017-05-20T06:11:53.093" Title="Identify this sci-fi movie in which a scientist and his family move into a new house" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:22:05.440" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26486" CreationDate="2014-10-21T18:08:28.930" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119243/&quot;&gt;Habitat&lt;/a&gt;, (1997), with Alice Krige, the future Borg Queen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a future world where Earth's ozone layer has been completely&#xA;  destroyed, a brilliant but obsessed scientist, Hank Symes uses&#xA;  illegally obtained biological materials for an experiment that he&#xA;  hopes will save the world. In the course of his work, a terrible&#xA;  accident occurs, transforming him into a fantastic otherworldly&#xA;  lifeform and changing his house into a huge living entity which&#xA;  threatens all who enter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T18:08:28.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12977" CreationDate="2014-10-21T19:04:22.987" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;WHY SATURN? The &quot;planet&quot; Zac wakes up on in the final scene is obviously a moon of Saturn. Duh. OK, so which one? And why Saturn? You have to learn abou the saturn-moon-matrix, and its relatinship to electronic signals (hence the &quot;effect&quot; and the focus on the antenna  that has to be destroyed to turn off the signal - from Saturn).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What has happened is that the hypnotic signals from Saturn were turned of when the bomb exploded in the end and Zac was exposed to the &quot;true&quot; nature of reality on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15363" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T19:04:22.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26457" CreationDate="2014-10-21T19:22:15.887" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;True drug dealers or any business man know the power and influence of consuming one's own products, and good drug dealers and manufacturers &quot;never get high over their own supply.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walter knew the influence drugs could have and as a chemist and synthesist, he knew it was too dangerous to consume even for enjoyment. Walter wanted to be someone big, famous, respected, and rich and no one that popular was known for consuming meth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15364" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T19:22:15.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18188" CreationDate="2014-10-21T21:34:17.803" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming that as soon as they found the third Koenigsegg They dropped the parole as well as the charges, gave him a sentence of 2 years for street racing, and the sentence got shortened for good behavior as well as helping find evidence against Dino, the guy who killed Pete&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15369" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-10-21T22:28:46.733" LastActivityDate="2014-10-21T22:28:46.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26501" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26503" CreationDate="2014-10-21T23:54:21.737" Score="3" ViewCount="8373" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember in season 4 of &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; that Glenn, Sasha and a few others were infected with some type of illness and that they were still sick even when the Governor attacked them. How were they healed?  I remember Hershel was helping them out before he got beheaded. Was that what finally helped them to overcome the illness?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9019" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-29T12:39:17.400" LastActivityDate="2014-10-29T12:39:17.400" Title="How did walking dead characters get cured?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-22T00:10:10.240" Score="2" ViewCount="397" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the word for an actor not getting a part in a movie??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like some verb, it starts with an S. It's not scooped, but something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's an entire website about actors getting replaced by other actors, I think it has this word/concept as the name and it's driving me nuts that I can't remember it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13442" LastActivityDate="2018-05-29T21:54:17.690" Title="What's the word for an actor not getting a part in a movie?" Tags="|casting|film-industry|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-06-01T06:42:04.510" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26501" CreationDate="2014-10-22T00:14:20.603" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2948632/&quot;&gt;Season 4 Episode 3- Isolation&lt;/a&gt; Daryl, Tyreese, Michonne and Bob leave the prison to find some antibiotics at a veterinary college that Hershel knew about, they find the antibiotics in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2948628/&quot;&gt;Episode 4- Indifference&lt;/a&gt; and return to the prison in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2948636/&quot;&gt;Episode 5- Internment&lt;/a&gt; at which point Hershel and Bob begin to distribute it among the infected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After they left in &lt;em&gt;Isolation&lt;/em&gt;, Hershel had also left the prison with Carl to find some Elderberries which he made into tea, a natural remedy for the flu as they knew it would take a while for them to get to the clinic due to the large distance and walkers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T00:14:20.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25194" CreationDate="2014-10-22T05:28:28.707" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of those ways in which the research on the show utterly fails to reflect how real science is done. Of the examples you listed which were presented as failures:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;His antarctic research is based on faked measurements&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is serious scientific fraud, assuming it made it to publication, and in reality would cost the entire group their careers. (But then we wouldn't have a show.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In the paper which Leonard is presenting (and gets distracted), it is presented as Leonard really doing most/all of the work&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sort of thing happens all the time in science. Some authors do most of the &quot;grunt work&quot; of the project, and others get their name on it for lower-effort contributions like offering the initial idea. It's also very common for authors of a joint paper to disagree about who contributed most to the project, and so depending on who you hear talking about the work, you might get a different impression as to who did the most. (It's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; common to fight over it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, I see no reason to consider this a failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The paper he gives to Stephen Hawking contains a &quot;booboo&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sheldon is a perfectionist, in this scene even more than usual because he is having a paper reviewed by his idol, Stephen Hawking. I bet the booboo he gets anxious about is something like a sign error or a factor of 2 buried in a complex formula in the middle of an argument. Little mistakes like these occur by the thousands in published physics papers, and real physicists learn that, while it's certainly important to try to catch them, these mistakes are not worth caring about after the fact as long as they don't affect the paper's conclusions. So again, not something I would consider a failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;He retracts his discovery of the super-heavy element&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, the element was discovered anyway thanks to his research. It was just the particular way in which Sheldon showed its existence that was flawed and needed to be retracted. That's the best kind of success: he was responsible for the discovery of a new element (doesn't matter that it was by accident) and there's a great story about how it happened, to boot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want an example of a success, perhaps you could take the time Sheldon figured out that electrons propagate through graphene as a wave while he was working at The Cheesecake Factory. The physics involved was actually very simple, but Sheldon certainly &lt;em&gt;acted&lt;/em&gt; as though he'd made a major breakthrough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking more generally, Sheldon's status at the university in combination with his age strongly suggests that he has had a phenomenally successful research career, which we simply don't see much of in the show. You don't get to be a tenure-track professor at Caltech in your 20s unless you are literally at the top of your field, like among the &lt;em&gt;top 5 theoretical physicists in the world&lt;/em&gt;. I think we simply don't see the successes because failure is funny; success is generally not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1099" LastEditorUserId="1099" LastEditDate="2014-10-22T05:36:10.747" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T05:36:10.747" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26513" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-22T14:13:54.933" Score="2" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this week's episode of The Walking Dead, towards the end of the episode Bob started, in my mind, acting funny.  He seems more emotional, and finally goes outside and starts crying while leaning up against a tree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what caused this emotional breakdown?  Was it a near-death experience when they were in the food bank's basement?  Did he get bit while they were down there?  Is he just tired of killing walkers all the time?  Was it &quot;that time of the month&quot;?  OK, the last one's a goof...  :oP&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was Bob's deal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T13:35:54.653" Title="What was Bob blubbering about?" Tags="|character|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26516" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-22T18:19:02.750" Score="2" ViewCount="3703" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the part where Neil breaks the news to Mr Keating (in a classroom) that his father, although reluctant, would let him play in the show, Mr Keating is overjoyed and asks him if he had told his father exactly what he had told him the previous night (the previous night Neil goes to Mr Keating's room and tells him that his father won't let him perform in the play).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neil stutters through this part (in the classroom) and gives vague answers without much eye-contact. Mr Keating does not look so convinced. Furthermore, his father's extreme anger seeing Neil perform makes me think that Neil had actually never talked to his father about how much he loved acting before he talked to Mr Keating that day. What is the explanation behind this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9077" LastActivityDate="2017-01-19T14:38:16.280" Title="Did Neil lie to Mr Keating in Dead Poets Society?" Tags="|analysis|dead-poets-society|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26516" CreationDate="2014-10-22T18:29:31.553" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A boy lied to his father.  Not really such an uncommon thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact is, Neil's father is spending a lot of money on a private school so that one day his son will become some type of leader, or at least have a &quot;respectable&quot; (my quotes) job which will be financially beneficial.  He's not paying that kind of money for his son to become an actor.  However, since Neil loves the theater he lied to Mr. Keating so he could perform in the play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T18:29:31.553" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26518" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26562" CreationDate="2014-10-22T19:38:40.060" Score="19" ViewCount="33920" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &quot;Half Measure&quot; (S03E12) &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt; tries to kill the two dealers who killed &lt;em&gt;Combo&lt;/em&gt; using &lt;em&gt;Andrea&lt;/em&gt;'s little brother &lt;em&gt;Tomas&lt;/em&gt;. But as soon as &lt;em&gt;Gus&lt;/em&gt; gets behind this he intervenes and apparently only by &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt;'s pleading lets &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt; live. He tries to arrange peace between &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt; and the dealers to avoid any further trouble. And as a compromise he tells the dealers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No more kids.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;when &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt; tells him about &lt;em&gt;Tomas&lt;/em&gt; (though, it's hard to imagine &lt;em&gt;Gus&lt;/em&gt; didn't know about the usage of kids as subordinates, let alone care about it at all). And so far so good the peace seems settled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then suddenly &lt;em&gt;Tomas&lt;/em&gt; ends up killed and I can't wrap my head around why (other than to further the story by making things escalate). Sure, for the dealers it might be an easy way to dispose of him, now that they're told &lt;em&gt;&quot;no more kids&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, but I don't think they would hazard such an action without permission from &lt;em&gt;Gus&lt;/em&gt;. And I can't see what &lt;em&gt;Gus&lt;/em&gt; really gained from &lt;em&gt;Tomas&lt;/em&gt;' death. Even as an act of defiance to show &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt; who's the boss it doesn't make so much sense, seeing that he was quite interested in the &quot;peace treaty&quot; to avoid further trouble and he knew &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt;'s temper and that this was bound to cause trouble once &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt; learns about it. If he really &lt;em&gt;wanted&lt;/em&gt; the situation to escalate and get rid of &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt;, he could have offed them a lot easier and more unexpectedly. Or did he just hope for &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt; to ditch &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt; once he goes postal, underestimating their bond? Did I miss anything relevant that may help to understand &lt;strong&gt;who ultimately made the plan to kill &lt;em&gt;Tomas&lt;/em&gt; and why?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2017-07-11T04:50:03.897" Title="Why did Tomas have to die?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15021" CreationDate="2014-10-22T22:16:55.000" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;George Romero termed &quot;Walker&quot; in his zombie horror films as a term for the living dead who could still walk around (see first 5 minutes of Land of the Dead).  Other movies and films have adopted it as a word for zombies as its a faux pas to say the word zombie in a zombie film&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15388" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T22:16:55.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15972" CreationDate="2014-10-22T23:11:18.317" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was in the murder house simply because he died there. If a person dies in the murder house, the ghost of that person is stuck there, regardless of whether that person lived there or not. As in the case of Hayden, even though she didn't live in the murder house, her ghost remained there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9019" LastActivityDate="2014-10-22T23:11:18.317" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26523" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-23T02:30:42.247" Score="3" ViewCount="2344" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Prometheus, it is evident that the black goo backfired leading to the death of most of the Engineers on the planet. Now 'something' killed the Engineers, something like the Alien/Xenomorph that  came out of the Engineer towards the end of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a part where Fifield and Millburn encounters a pile of dead Engineers and one of them notes that something seems to have burst out of the bodies giving credence to the above statement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is what happened to these creatures? They don't even encounter a dead one throughout the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="53395" LastEditDate="2017-09-21T23:01:30.853" LastActivityDate="2017-09-21T23:01:30.853" Title="What happened to all the Aliens (Xenomorphs) that attacked the Engineers?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26524" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-23T03:08:42.220" Score="2" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Prometheus, how did they determine the location of LV-223 just by looking at a bunch of cave drawings and inscriptions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="1111" LastEditDate="2014-10-23T07:55:34.110" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T20:51:24.933" Title="How did they find the location of the moon?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26523" CreationDate="2014-10-23T08:59:39.997" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happened to the Engineers is not explained clearly in the movie, but one might make speculations from what is actually shown (I like the &quot;black goo&quot; expression for the substance :-) : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the hologram of the Engineer running in the corridor, the body of the&#xA;one severed by the hatch&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the result of trying to revive an Engineer('s detached head) : a biological &quot;explosion&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the result of a Human parasited by the &quot;black goo snake&quot; : a murderous &quot;undead&quot; monster&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the result of a Human &quot;poisoned&quot; by the black goo itself : some form of monster mutation also&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the result of a Human woman indirectly contaminated by the black goo through intercourse : a monster progeny&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One may thus suppose that the Engineers created the black goo as a biological weapon, aiming to destroy the Human race that they initially created. However their experiments somehow backfired and they were contaminated and destroyed (except the one who went into stasis/cryo-sleep/whatever) or maybe some also managed to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;black goo snake&quot; could be a mutation of some life form indigenous or that they brought with them, a result of experimenting on some form of &quot;lab rats&quot;, or a result of initial Engineer contamination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &quot;the&quot; Alien (xenomorph) as seen in &quot;later&quot; (filmed earlier) Alien movies is only &quot;born&quot; from the Engineer('s consumed innards, like in Alien movies) that was attacked and parasited by the monster &quot;born&quot; from a Human woman('s womb), herself contaminated through intercourse, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14099" LastActivityDate="2014-10-23T08:59:39.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20073" CreationDate="2014-10-23T11:58:38.160" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that it puts him in a universe where he wouldn't have been tased in the first place, thus placing him where he WOULD have woken up, in the helicopter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15394" LastActivityDate="2014-10-23T11:58:38.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26518" CreationDate="2014-10-23T13:03:39.057" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is never stated exactly why Tomas died or who pulled the trigger/gave the order.  All we can do is speculate on what led to his death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, Gus gave the order as a way to say, &quot;I make the rules, not you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-10-23T13:03:39.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26523" CreationDate="2014-10-23T16:22:31.747" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that evidence suggests the engineers were killed by some form of the &quot;alien&quot; from the end of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The killing of the engineers took place long before the characters of &lt;em&gt;Prometheus&lt;/em&gt; discover the remains of the engineers. I think the movie mentions that 2000 years appear to have elapsed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that several centuries have passed -- and that, for all that time, there would have been nothing in the area for the &quot;alien&quot; or &quot;aliens&quot; to eat -- I think it is safe to assume that the alien/aliens is/are no longer alive, or at least no longer in the same part of the planet as the action in &lt;em&gt;Prometheus&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Either it/they starved to death, or wandered off in search of other food, or both.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2014-10-23T16:22:31.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26532" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26534" CreationDate="2014-10-23T19:04:17.967" Score="6" ViewCount="22080" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; character &lt;em&gt;Ted Beneke&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Skyler White&lt;/em&gt;'s boss and lover, was committing &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/14676/49&quot;&gt;serious tax fraud&lt;/a&gt; with his company. When he gets the obligation to repay over 600 grand in tax debts in order to avoid a prison sentence, &lt;em&gt;Skyler&lt;/em&gt; anonymously gives him the money from &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt;'s &quot;income&quot;, to avoid her part in it getting discovered by the IRS. But when &lt;em&gt;Ted&lt;/em&gt; is reluctant to pay his debts she visits him in episode S04E11 (&quot;Crawl Space&quot;), tells him that it's her money, taken from &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt;'s &quot;gambling wins&quot;, and urges him to pay his debts. But he gives the money back to her, saying that it would feel wrong to pay his debts with illegal gambling money (and the disaster takes its course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now like &lt;em&gt;Skyler&lt;/em&gt; I don't really get when &quot;wrong&quot; actually became a problem for &lt;em&gt;Ted&lt;/em&gt; and why he really refuses that money. While he always pleaded that he just did the tax fraud to save his company and his family (do we know that excuse from someone else?), from the first moment on he seemed to me rather slack with morals and responsibility, which was reinforced when his first action after receiving the money is to get back his big-ass Mercedes instead of paying any debts or using it, well, for the company. So I don't buy a moment that he couldn't take the money out of moral reasons. He also says that it doesn't make a difference and is not enough, which to &lt;em&gt;Skyler&lt;/em&gt; seemed like he actually wanted more. (And without her money he'd still stand there with nothing, so he could at least use it to keep the IRS off him.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd like to shine a bit more light on &lt;em&gt;Ted&lt;/em&gt;'s character and his motivations, especially concentrating on the questions of &lt;strong&gt;why he hesitated to pay his tax debts and, even more so, why he was so obliged in refusing &lt;em&gt;Skyler&lt;/em&gt;'s money?&lt;/strong&gt; Does he really have moral obligations? Or is it pride that keeps him from accepting her charity? Or did he really just want to squeeze more money out of her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2016-09-30T01:52:01.917" Title="Why did Ted Beneke refuse Skyler's money?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26533" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26536" CreationDate="2014-10-23T19:43:46.997" Score="21" ViewCount="112137" Body="&lt;p&gt;in the remake of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407304/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;War of the Worlds (2005)&lt;/a&gt;, what exactly were the aliens spraying on the ground after they captured and drained a human? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that a human gets captured, the aliens suck everything out of them but what are the tripods spraying on the ground and what does it have to do with the red-weeds which are seemingly taking over? How does this benefit the aliens?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zbILp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Red weeds&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastActivityDate="2018-03-14T19:43:57.493" Title="What were the tripods spraying and what does it have to do with the red weed in War of the Worlds?" Tags="|plot-explanation|war-of-the-worlds|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26532" CreationDate="2014-10-23T19:46:41.857" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought it was a pride thing.  That, coupled with him wanting to live beyond his means.  Throw in a dash of irresponsibility (or immaturity) into his character as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he thought the money came from his rich aunt that he never knew, he did the first thing people new to money do; he spent irrationally and bought a nice car.  Just read any story about lottery winners, 80% of them fall into the same trap and are broke within 10 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once Skyler told him where the money really came from, he was too proud (or embarrassed?) to accept it.  He started making excuses as to why he couldn't take it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's face it; if he really was coming from a moral high ground, he wouldn't have had an affair with Skyler, nor would he have cheated on his taxes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-02-12T10:35:51.890" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T10:35:51.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26533" CreationDate="2014-10-23T20:32:22.590" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;The red mist was blood.  That's why Tom Cruise's character was so freaked out when he saw it running down the walls in the basement.  The tripods were essentially grinding up the humans and spraying the pulp on the ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book, along with the fighting tripods, there were harvester machines that gathered the humans and placed them in metal baskets. The captured humans were processed and injected directly into the alien's veins for food.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This film version kind of mixed the two machines into one, whereas the original never even touched on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The red-weed you're questioning about resembled a veinous system in appearance.  I did read somewhere that it was actually supposed to be Martian vegetation, although the film never explicitly says that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-10-24T11:31:09.783" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T11:31:09.783" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26518" CreationDate="2014-10-24T00:10:01.637" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agreeing that there was a lot of ambiguity in what was actually shown, the interpretation I prefer is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tomas and his employers weren't able to end their association peacefully because they didn't trust him to walk away and not cause them trouble in the future. Maybe they tried to &quot;fire&quot; him and he didn't want to go, and the disagreement escalated quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever happened, Gus didn't approve of it. He might even have gotten rid of those two guys himself after he found out about it, but he couldn't tolerate Jesse trying to do it himself. Gus had tried to teach Jesse a lesson: &lt;strong&gt;I'm the boss. If you have a problem, bring it to me.&lt;/strong&gt; It didn't work. And Gus never liked Jesse in the first place. He was still annoyed at having to fire his trusted associate Gale and hire Jesse to make Walt happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So after the incident, Gus is angry not so much because of the loss of two low-level employees, but because Jesse - the meth-head who had somehow wormed his way in to the heart of the operation - is refusing to respect the chain of command, and Walt doesn't recognize that that's a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6436" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T00:10:01.637" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26542" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26544" CreationDate="2014-10-24T01:05:07.280" Score="4" ViewCount="35536" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Avengers after falling from great height and blasting through the cage, Thor seems to have lost his control over the hammer, why did this happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15342" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T09:09:37.887" LastActivityDate="2019-05-28T23:10:43.370" Title="Why can't Thor pick up his hammer?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26542" CreationDate="2014-10-24T01:46:50.483" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is not that he &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; do it, but that he is emotionally very much shaken and disappointed, since this is right after Loki tried to kill him (which is what that fall was supposed to do). What we see in that scene is hesitation, not failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the next Thor scene, we see him lift it. He either can do so or cannot. There is no &quot;he can lift it, but not summon it&quot; for Mjölnir. And, obviously, he &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; lift it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T01:46:50.483" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26546" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26547" CreationDate="2014-10-24T03:12:36.823" Score="5" ViewCount="414" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember seeing a sci fi movie in the 80s. It was set on a space station. One of the main characters was a levitating squat droid with spheres for feet (which probably powered his levitation), and he was about the size of 2 basket balls. He had cute eyes (white squares with black pupils).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was an enemy droid. It was much larger, and maroon in colour, with menacing eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I can't remember much more than this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you recall what the name of this movie is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15405" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T04:50:18.503" Title="Sci Fi movie with maroon droid, and hero droid with spherical feet" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:22:27.447" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26546" CreationDate="2014-10-24T04:44:32.807" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like Disney's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078869/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Black Hole&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its science fiction - set on a very large spaceship 'moored' on the edge of a black hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The squat droid was V.I.N.C.E.N.T, the maroon colored enemy droid was Maximillian.  Your descriptions of both are spot on - even down to the size, eyes and spherical feet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bDCFA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;V.I.N.C.E.N.T&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xv3Ad.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Maximillian&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-10-24T04:50:18.503" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T04:50:18.503" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26548" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27157" CreationDate="2014-10-24T04:58:35.330" Score="15" ViewCount="2091" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/&quot;&gt;Edge of Tomorrow &lt;/a&gt;, is it  possible to kill the omega? Because it seems to me that every time it is killed it will reset the time. At the end Cage killed the omega but still he was teleported back in time, even further. So, how to kill the  omega or is it just a neverending cycle? If I am having wrong perception about the movie and there is any other explanation please enlighten me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6825" LastActivityDate="2014-11-12T19:33:27.390" Title="Can the Omega in &quot;Edge of Tommorow&quot; be killed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|science-fiction|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26542" CreationDate="2014-10-24T05:11:25.890" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thor, being the God of Thunder, can summon his hammer as well as being the only guy to lift his hammer. The reason he cannot summon it after crashing on the field is because it needs to be energized by thunder to to do his bidding, without which it's just a heavy hammer. Only an electric force field around the hammer allows it to hover to him. That's why you see him walking towards the hammer, lifting it and energizing it by causing a thunderstorm to strike him and his hammer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2019-05-28T23:10:43.370" LastActivityDate="2019-05-28T23:10:43.370" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="26550" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-24T05:28:42.233" Score="1" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Ocean's Eleven, Rusty (Brad Pitt) and Danny Ocean (Gorge Clooney) are in the architect firm's building that designed the vault of the Ballagio Casino, Las Vegas at night going over the blueprints. Then Danny asks what does Rusty think about it. Rusty says he's looking for guys, and I quote, &quot;Off the top of my head, I'd say you're looking at a Boesky, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, two Jethros and a Leon Spinks, not to mention the biggest Ella Fitzgerald ever.&quot; What does he mean by this statement?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-10-24T06:07:50.523" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T06:07:50.523" Title="Rusty describes his needs for an 11 man crew" Tags="|plot-explanation|oceans-eleven|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-10-24T09:49:39.567" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26548" CreationDate="2014-10-24T05:30:07.547" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a point in the movie where Emily Blunt's character, Rita, speculates that Humans may be the first species to be able to effectively fight back against this alien, because of how we can absorb the time traveling ability when exposed to their blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both Rita and Cage are, at different points in time, exposed to the blood of an alpha, and gain the ability to reset time by one day. Both later lose this ability due to a blood transfusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Near the end of the movie, Cage manages to kill the Omega, but in doing so, receives mortal wounds himself. As his dying body floats in the water, it is exposed to the blood of the &lt;em&gt;Omega&lt;/em&gt;. The Omega, being more powerful than an alpha, it's blood gives Cage greater power to reset time, and so when his body dies, it resets time several days back, to the point before Cage meets General Brigham.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the viewer is never shown how or why, but somehow the Omega's death in the future ripples back in time, killing it in the new present. Because the aliens have some kind of group consciousness, the death of the Omega causes the deaths of all the aliens. Earth is saved and only Cage knows why. Although if he explained it to Rita, she would understand and believe him because of her previous experience with the alpha and knowledge of the Omega.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1357" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2014-11-12T10:05:25.993" LastActivityDate="2014-11-12T10:05:25.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26552" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26554" CreationDate="2014-10-24T05:35:22.467" Score="41" ViewCount="50766" Body="&lt;p&gt;The characters of Big Bang Theory are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sheldon Lee Cooper   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leonard Leakey Hofstadter &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Howard Joel Wolowitz   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rajesh Ramayan Koothrappali   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bernadette Maryanne Rostenkowski-Wolowitz   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Amy Farrah Fowler&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AND....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Penny&lt;/strong&gt;!? That's it? No last name, or even a middle name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-08-26T17:07:39.033" LastActivityDate="2023-07-06T19:46:44.643" Title="What is Penny's last name in Big Bang Theory?" Tags="|character|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26552" CreationDate="2014-10-24T05:48:05.597" Score="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(The_Big_Bang_Theory)&quot;&gt;Penny's Wikipedia entry&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In contrast to all other characters, Penny and her father's surname&#xA;  have not been revealed. Co-creator Bill Prady &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20090509101324/http://weblogs.variety.com/season_pass/2009/05/big-bang-theory-we-didnt-anticipate-how-protective-the-audience-would-feel-toward-our-guys.html&quot;&gt;stated&lt;/a&gt; that Penny's last&#xA;  name will be revealed eventually. Executive producer Steve Molaro,&#xA;  however, has since &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/08/penny-big-bang-theory-last-name_n_3408068.html&quot;&gt;stated&lt;/a&gt; her surname will remain a secret.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="8215" LastEditDate="2014-10-24T15:20:40.367" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T15:20:40.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26556" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27370" CreationDate="2014-10-24T06:32:39.417" Score="2" ViewCount="3819" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode Scandal in Belgravia, after Irene Adler drugs Sherlock and escapes with her phone, Sherlock wakes up in his bed, and receives a text message from Irene Adler, with a sexual mourn set as his message ringtone. Surely this was the work of &quot;The Woman&quot;, but my question is how did she do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-24T08:34:09.170" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T03:48:17.657" Title="When did Irene Adler change the message ringtone on Sherlock's phone?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32457" CreationDate="2014-10-24T07:21:59.273" Score="2" ViewCount="2769" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Shawshank Redemption, Andy tells the prosecutor and the court that the night that his wife and her lover were killed, he threw his revolver into the river from the bridge and went home. The prosecutor tells him that the police search the river for 3 days and didn't find any gun. How was this possible? The river was shallow, it was not a fast flowing river, the revolver was heavy and no one saw him throw the gun. Then how did they find his finger prints on the murder weapon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-24T08:33:36.073" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T18:44:51.637" Title="How come the cops didn't find the gun thrown in the shallow river? But they had his prints on the murder weapon" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-shawshank-redemption|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8370" CreationDate="2014-10-24T07:26:41.860" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If (&lt;a href=&quot;http://xkcd.com/566/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;as some do&lt;/a&gt;) you exclude the sequels, then yes, it is magick. Due to his direct experience of the virtual reality, the real reality, and the signals that interconnected these two, he was in the position to realize that the real world follows very similar (if not identical) rules. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The literature of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnostic.org/kybalionhtm/kybalion.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;magick&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://classics.mit.edu/Plotinus/enneads.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;neoplatonism&lt;/a&gt; strongly describe the world as based on &lt;em&gt;energy&lt;/em&gt; not &lt;strong&gt;matter&lt;/strong&gt;. Neo experiences an &lt;em&gt;apotheosis&lt;/em&gt;, a god-becoming, which has been prophetically supported (in-universe) by the legend of &quot;the One&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, the real world is also a construct, &lt;em&gt;virtual&lt;/em&gt; and can be manipulated psychically as well as physically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3899" LastEditorUserId="3899" LastEditDate="2014-10-24T07:38:55.460" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T07:38:55.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26533" CreationDate="2014-10-24T08:03:50.800" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;May be they are watering their plant/weeds with human blood or use it as fertilizer. The aliens may become short of supply in their planet and found our planet suitable for them. So, they sent the tripods to invade us and to make their food, they use us as water/fertilizers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15407" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T08:03:50.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26518" CreationDate="2014-10-24T09:06:48.973" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that Tomas was involved in the street level dealing of the Blue Meth and that as a child doesn't have much time to establish his or her reputation of honor;   it is fair enough to assume Gus considered him a threat to company security.   Dead men talk no tales. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13357" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T09:06:48.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26518" CreationDate="2014-10-24T09:48:19.837" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To get rid of Jesse.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's my speculation, I think Gus is not able to kill Jesse directly because of Walt. But he can create a situation where he can get killed on his own. So killing Tomas is a good way to make Jesse create trouble for his own self. It was Walt's involvement which saved Jesse in the end otherwise Jesse might died that day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-14T13:31:33.960" LastActivityDate="2015-08-14T13:31:33.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7915" CreationDate="2014-10-24T10:08:35.920" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding the &quot;Michael Corleone says hello&quot; line in Godfather II -- I really think the line was added later in post to solve a script problem. If you look at Danny Aiello closely in the scene, his lips aren't moving when you hear the line. I think the line was added later because there was no scene that explains how Pentangeli came to the conclusion that Michael had betrayed him. If Hyman Roth is really behind the hit, why would his hit man (Aiello) say that line? And later when Michael asks Roth who ordered the hit, why doesn't Roth just say, &quot;Yeah, I ordered the hit. YOU told me he was a dead man. I just saved you the trouble.&quot; Just a minor quibble, though -- Godfather II is one of my all-time favorite films, especially the De Niro scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15409" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T10:08:35.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26548" CreationDate="2014-10-24T13:38:07.480" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do you teleport yourself back in time after you've been killed? The omega was able to send alphas back in time, after their death, because the omega still existed. The entire point of the movie is that killing the omega removes this ability from the aliens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4131" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T13:38:07.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20073" CreationDate="2014-10-24T13:40:37.760" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;No reputation for comments. Before you start making conclusions, there needs to be agreement on assumptions. The most important being how Cage is traveling back in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My interpretation is that the Omega still retains its power to reset, it was not lost as some have claimed. When Cage died the first time, his blood mixed with the Alphas and he was reset along with the Omega. Now every time Cage dies, he is treated as an Alpha trigger to the Omega. The Omega does not seem to be able to remove him from the system remotely. Cage was not actively resetting, just being brought along for the ride. The system was treating his death as the death of an Alpha. Remember, the doctor claimed it was a single organism. You can think of the drones as useless cells of organs that regenerate all the time such as the skin. The Alphas would be vital organs. Death of a vital organ triggers the entire body to reset. The Omega would be the brain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My conclusion is based on the previous assumption. Since Cage is going along for the ride, if the Omega is dead, then there would be no ride. This would suggest the Omega cannot reset itself or else the movie would not make sense. The reset must be triggered by an Alpha death. This could be a design flaw and not an evolutionary hiccup. This would also suggest the Omega blood is different. By fusing with the Omega blood, he can reset himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mechanics of the reset is a different issue. It is probably based on a dormant anchor that could be related to a 24 cycle or a subconscious cue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 24 hour period would be illogical because this is an Alien organism/cyborg. The 24 hour day cycle is from our planet and solar system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leaves the subconscious anchor. He wakes up from every reset. Perhaps, his previous consciousness can only be uploaded to a pliable brain. An unconscious brain would probably be considered pliable. The issue with this is he sleeps the night before the fight. He is also unconscious then. This is why I suggested an unconscious cue. He probably relates that specific moment as the beginning of his death. This would also suggest there is some feedback between Cage and the Omega. With the Omega dead, Cage was in full control. He reset himself to the day before to another unconscious state, the helicopter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15411" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T13:40:37.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26578" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26579" CreationDate="2014-10-24T17:38:09.907" Score="10" ViewCount="4156" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Godfather&lt;/em&gt; (1972)&lt;/a&gt; Sollozzo and the Corleone's have a meeting, in which Sollozzo asks Don Corleone to partner with him in the drug trade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point, Sollozzo says something about guaranteeing the safety of the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sonny says something like, &quot;Now wait a minute.  You're telling me you can guarantee...?&quot;, at which point Don Corleone cuts him off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole thought wasn't even out of his mouth.  He could have been asking in earnest, and he could have been questioning Sollozzo's guarantee, as if to say, &quot;You're full of youknowwhat&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how was that really at odds with the Don?  And why did the Don tell him to never tell anyone what he was thinking?  To me, it didn't really sound like he told Sollozzo &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone expand on this and tell me what I'm missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2018-12-27T18:51:10.600" LastActivityDate="2018-12-27T18:51:10.600" Title="How were Sonny and Don Corleone at odds?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="26579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26578" CreationDate="2014-10-24T18:34:32.707" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don Corleone wanted nothing to do with the drug trade. As is apparent from this meeting. When Sonny spoke up to Sollozzo and says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Now wait a minute. You're telling me you can guarantee...?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way Sonny delivered the line and his actions while doing clearly indicate that Sonny (and maybe the Corleones) are interested in the proposal, seeing as he spoke up &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the Don. Also this also portrays to Sollozzo that if Don Corleone were eliminated and Sonny were to take over, then Sonny may accept his offer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://godfather.wikia.com/wiki/Virgil_Sollozzo&quot;&gt;Vito Corleone refused, however, feeling that the drug business is bad for the neighborhoods. However, in the course of the meeting, Sonny Corleone admitted an interest, leading the Turk to think that if Vito died, Sonny would accept his deal.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically the motive for Sollozzo from this point on in the film is to get rid of Don Corleone and use Sonny's apparent interest in the heroin trade to solidify a bond between the Corleones and Tattaglias (aka the rest of the story). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This spontaneity of emotions from Sonny tells Sollozzo exactly what he's thinking at that given moment, which in poker terms is &quot;folding your hand.&quot; Meetings between two mob bosses are basically a high stakes game of poker to see who folds first. Think of it as two opposing forces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Sonny &quot;put all his cards on the table&quot;, Sollozzo basically came out on top. The difference between Sonny (the hot head) and Michael (the calm vet) is part of the reason one survived and one didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don Corleone telling Sonny to,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Never tell anyone what he was thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is a way of saying &quot;Don't be so upfront.&quot; It may seem like Sonny didn't tell Sollozzo much with just half a sentence, but in reality he told him a lot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastEditorUserId="13338" LastEditDate="2014-10-24T19:09:41.510" LastActivityDate="2014-10-24T19:09:41.510" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26580" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-24T18:35:26.610" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the series &lt;em&gt;24&lt;/em&gt;, season 4, episode 12, as Jack Bauer is in the corporation building restoring deleted files, why don't they send those files via the given mail channel opened with Tony Almeda, but trying to print it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15421" LastEditorUserId="15421" LastEditDate="2014-10-25T19:48:46.637" LastActivityDate="2014-10-25T19:48:46.637" Title="Why don't they send the files through the mail channel?" Tags="|24|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24932" CreationDate="2014-10-24T18:37:40.687" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There doesn't seem to be a specific term for the particular color grading that &lt;em&gt;David Fincher&lt;/em&gt; uses for his movies, other than &amp;quot;Fincher look&amp;quot;. I also don't think he employs some kind of predefined color palette rather than tweaking each and every movie for its specific intended style (but one might be tempted to say that &lt;em&gt;Fincher&lt;/em&gt;'s movies often share a similar dismal atmosphere in the first place anyway). Yet, I (and many others) agree that many of his movies, while each colored individually with various different tools, share a common prevalent color theme, which you described not too inappropriately as yellowish or greyish/bleached yellow/green or, more generally, dark, sometimes desaturated. And there are various interesting articles concentrating on this color palette and trying to further describe it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interesting article &lt;a href=&quot;http://vashivisuals.com/david-fincher-into-the-darkness-2/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;David Fincher: Into the Darkness&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; tries to describe &lt;em&gt;Fincher&lt;/em&gt;'s visual style by looking at some of his more recent projects, coming to the conclusion that he employs a very dark upto bleak but clear-cut and ultimately realistic tone, which the author calls &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Dark Clarity&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the first scene in a bar...a new aesthetic was displayed in The Social Network. It’s dark...but not with crushed blacks. As a viewer, there is a difference between crushed blacks and compressed dynamics of light. &lt;strong&gt;There is clear detail in the shadows but the highlights are lowered and colored&lt;/strong&gt;. If 100% is pure white light...&lt;strong&gt;many of the whites in Fincher’s last 3 projects are at 90%&lt;/strong&gt; (roughly) which constricts the perceived latitude of the image. These whites are also tinted towards the overall color of the scene. &lt;strong&gt;Orange is infused into both day and night scenes in The Social Network&lt;/strong&gt;. Often blue is the go to night-time color but not so in The Social Network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo display a continuation of this visual palette. In the winter setting of ambiguous sunlight and endless night...Fincher again &lt;strong&gt;compresses the whites and keeps clean and legible blacks&lt;/strong&gt;. Even though so much occurs at night...the viewer never struggles to see what is occurring or gets lost in the visuals. From glass-lined offices to night-time exterior excursions... everything is pristine and clearly visible even when the light levels are extremely low. [...] &lt;strong&gt;The tinting of both orange and blue to entire scenes further blends the color palette of scenes and delivers a very hyper-real look&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A new low is reached in House of Cards. Scenes play out in extreme darkness. [...] &lt;strong&gt;The sunlight is white but it is so muted and desaturated&lt;/strong&gt; that it seems like it is only there as a courtesy to illuminate the scene. &lt;strong&gt;The mids and blacks blend into each other to the point that the whole scene feels black and white&lt;/strong&gt;. [...] During other daylight scenes, the same approach is applied. It’s never blinding sunshine...only the impression that it is daytime. To further imply the constricting and murky world of Washington politics...&lt;strong&gt;night-time scenes often allow just enough information to barely make out the characters&lt;/strong&gt;. We strain to see the emotions and thought process of the actors as they are blanketed by low light levels and no fill lights to make them pop. This is a new kind of realism in cinematography where &lt;strong&gt;conventional lighting is thrown out and the onus is on us to extract what we need from what little we can see&lt;/strong&gt;. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most recently, GONE GIRL (2014) &lt;strong&gt;continues and expands upon the darkness&lt;/strong&gt; and shrouds the characters within world of buried secrets and impenetrable blackness. Make no mistake...the visual depiction is &lt;strong&gt;not murky or muddy...it is a dismal, colorful bleakness&lt;/strong&gt; that infuses and envelops the film. It matches the tone of the tale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lyu1G.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lyu1G.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My take-away from watching the last 4 projects by David Fincher is that he’s utilizing quickly evolving technologies (RED, color correction, LED lighting) to redefine the visual boundaries of what is the minimum needed to represent and tell the story. It’s bold and radically different from let’s say...an episode of CSI or Transformers. It’s &lt;strong&gt;reality enhanced and a new take on what is considered natural light filmmaking&lt;/strong&gt;. Then in post production/color grading, &lt;strong&gt;the midtones and highlights are lowered to bring down the overall brightness BUT most importantly...the blacks are never crushed so that the shadow detail is always retained. The final image is “Dark Clarity”&lt;/strong&gt; and matches the mood and tone of his last 3 projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there is this blog post on &lt;a href=&quot;http://nashawnosborne.com/2013/02/22/achieving-david-finchers-color-palette/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Achieving David Fincher’s Color Palette&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;, which in order to recreate his color grading gives some interesting insights into its possible composition, getting to the conclusion that it's mostly based on blue-green combinations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fincher often uses greens and blues.&lt;/strong&gt; This can be seen in basically every one of his films although, there may be slight adjustments from film to film. For example, in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo he heavily de-saturates when we see Lisbeth, creating more of a greyish image. Still the overall look is still there. [...] Fincher usually &lt;strong&gt;sticks to this template and then further warms up or cools off the image&lt;/strong&gt; based on the story or the characters emotions. Again the basic template is almost always there. [...] The main idea of this look is fairly simple. When in the grading process your goal is to &lt;strong&gt;push the shadows to a blueish/teal. Then push your midtones and highlights to green.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H4eAs.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H4eAs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;David Fincher&lt;/em&gt; is also used as an example in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shutterstock.com/blog/movies-in-color&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;more general article&lt;/a&gt; about the ways in which the color of the movie influences and alters its effect, sepcifically that the dark and drab green/yellow of &lt;em&gt;Fincher&lt;/em&gt;'s movies contributes to the often unsettling moods and themes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David Fincher retains a similar look in several of his movies with the help of Jeff Cronenweth, his cinematographer. In Fight Club and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, &lt;strong&gt;several scenes are dark, but contain many of the same green and yellow tones. Yellow, an otherwise cheery color, looks drab, sick, and denotes an unsettling space&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JvNaY.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JvNaY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And last but not least (well, probably not even last) there's the article &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fincherfanatic.com/paintitblack.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Paint it Black?&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; by another &lt;em&gt;Fincher&lt;/em&gt; enthusiast, who agrees that the colors are aften based on dark yellow, green and blue. It goes into more specific details of various different scenes and what their color grading is used to convey. A particular point the author makes is how the colors are used to support the mood of the characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David Fincher has been labelled all variations of a 'prince of darkness'. Perhaps rightfully so, as &lt;strong&gt;his movies mostly are crafted with a signature color palette&lt;/strong&gt; (the colors and tones used throughout a film) which consists of &lt;strong&gt;dark tones, mostly green and blue&lt;/strong&gt;. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There’s a scene in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo where Henrik (Christopher Plummer) begins to tell Mikael (Daniel Craig) the story of the day when Harriet disappeared. [...] Compare the tones of the frames and you see &lt;strong&gt;they are both yellow. But the ones of the present day are a cold yellow, the ones from the past are much brighter and a warm yellow&lt;/strong&gt;. You have heard people refer to the 'the good old days'. This is how Henrik remembers those days; as warm, happy and much brighter than his present which is cold and empty. As the scene progresses there’s a point where &lt;strong&gt;the tones and colors of the present day frames begin to get warmer and brighter, just as if Henrik gets happy&lt;/strong&gt; about remembering and talking about those 'good old days'. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're still awake at 3:30 in the morning, and you feel all tired and kind of dry? Fincher uses color in Zodiac to convey this very feeling: When Graysmith and Melanie are waiting for Avery's call. As you can see in the frame, &lt;strong&gt;the colors are dried in comparison to the colors in the beginning of their date. As the colors of the frame dry, the characters' energy also begins to dry&lt;/strong&gt;. The tiredness of the characters could be express in a line of dialogue, through posture, or as in this case — emphasized by the tones in the frame. Overall, &lt;strong&gt;Zodiac is given an old, vintage looking color palette&lt;/strong&gt; — rooting the story in the 1970s, and just as Graysmith himself searches through dated files, we’re looking for the killer over some old footage. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HzvOX.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HzvOX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has the &lt;strong&gt;most vivid and varied color palette&lt;/strong&gt; of all Fincher movies. In this film &lt;strong&gt;the color palette helps convey emotions&lt;/strong&gt; of sadness, happiness, love, fulfillment, and so on. [...] The second example from this film is a very similar use of color in past and present days as in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. As we can see, the &lt;strong&gt;colors from the past are brighter, more vivid, and more varied in tone than the ones from the present day&lt;/strong&gt;, which are very limited tones of blue and overall cold. The difference, here, is that the variety and brightness of the colors do not express happiness or a nostalgic feeling coming from the narrator. &lt;strong&gt;They express how alive the characters are at these times when they are presented&lt;/strong&gt;. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T12:50:08.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26589" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27345" CreationDate="2014-10-25T00:23:37.067" Score="8" ViewCount="9400" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &quot;Caballo Sin Nombre&quot; (S03E02) &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt; drives his Aztek through the desert singing along to &lt;em&gt;America&lt;/em&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Horse_with_No_Name&quot;&gt;&quot;A Horse with No Name&quot;&lt;/a&gt; on the radio, before getting stopped by a cop for his broken windshield (and getting arrested for &quot;public outcry&quot; or whatever). And at the end of the episode, when he takes a shower while the &lt;em&gt;Salamanca Twins&lt;/em&gt; are sitting outside prepared to kill him, he sings the song again. Even the episode's title is Spanish for &quot;horse with no name&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I might as well be making more out of this than there is to it, but I'd like to know &lt;strong&gt;if there is any further connection between &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;'s or this particular episode's story and motifs and this song&lt;/strong&gt;, its lyrics, its intentions or just its title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2018-02-16T03:42:14.420" Title="Why is Walter White riding on &quot;A Horse with No Name&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|breaking-bad|soundtrack|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26594" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26601" CreationDate="2014-10-25T03:06:57.500" Score="9" ViewCount="3473" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of the movie Edge of Tomorrow, William Cage (Tom Cruise) was sent to the war base prior to going to fight. What caused him to be sent to the war base?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15434" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-10-25T03:43:58.597" LastActivityDate="2014-10-25T11:46:52.913" Title="Why was William Cage sent to the base?" Tags="|plot-explanation|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-25T06:36:14.277" Score="1" ViewCount="260" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie The Prestige, I realized that   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Borden has a twin brother who he uses in tricks. Some kind of half life.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't understand anything about that specific letter that Borden gave to Angier. He wrote Tesla on it. What was that about?&#xA;Is there a possibility that   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tesla made a copy of Borden like Angier?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15439" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-10-25T11:32:07.827" LastActivityDate="2014-10-25T16:15:34.227" Title="the secret of the Tesla letter in The Prestige" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-10-25T16:52:03.363" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26594" CreationDate="2014-10-25T11:46:52.913" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning, he was asked to come to General Brigham's office. The General wanted Cage to show the war from the front ... from where the action was. Then Cage refused and then tried to blackmail the General. Cage thinks he's getting his way as he's walking out the building, but the General is just lining him up for failure as he has the guards take him down with a Taser like device, which knocks Cage out. Cage wakes up to find himself on the tarmac with some gear. Then Master Sergeant Farell picks him up and takes him to the barracks to be with J-Squad. &lt;strong&gt;Because of Cage's blackmail of the General, the General changed Cage's orders.&lt;/strong&gt; Instead of going as a Major shooting footage and being the &quot;front man&quot; war corespondent, Cage was now forced to go to the front as a Private Infantryman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-10-25T11:46:52.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12400" CreationDate="2014-10-25T16:15:34.227" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My interpretation is that Borden originally cloned himself only once using Tesla's apparatus, and subsequently shared his life with the clone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Angier wanted to know Borden's secret, so Borden cryptically answered by Writing 'Tesla'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Angier then went to Tesla ultimately to be cloned, but presumably he didn't want to share his life with a clone, so he resorted to cloning himself at every performance of his illusion and killing either the clone or himself each time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14129" LastActivityDate="2014-10-25T16:15:34.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26608" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-25T17:54:43.893" Score="4" ViewCount="2174" Body="&lt;p&gt;In constantine, the guy that found the spear of destiny jumps over a fence. The camera pans around and there is a field of animals. As he walks through the field along the path, the animals die. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did this happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7610" LastActivityDate="2015-02-25T00:58:13.760" Title="Why did the animals die?" Tags="|constantine|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26612" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26667" CreationDate="2014-10-26T08:29:19.183" Score="5" ViewCount="4833" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1981 film, An American Werewolf in London, Jack and David are backpacking across the Yorkshire moors, when they enter a pub called The Slaughtered lamb at night. When they ask about the five pointed star on the wall, everyone starts acting very strange and hostile, eventually making them leave the pub. When the locals knew that a werewolf roams in those moors and it was a full moon night, why did they make them leave?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later they start repenting and go in their direction to save them, but I could not understand why did they make the Americans leave at the first place? Everyone starts acting as if the Americans were some kind of danger as soon as they asked about the star on the wall. It is later revealed that the locals knew this very well that if bitten by the werewolf another dangerous creature will be formed which will be very dangerous for all. Usually in plots like this, it is the traveler who insists on going out but the locals warn against it, but this was quite different. Did I miss something else in the story or was it really unusual?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-26T12:56:15.813" LastActivityDate="2018-03-24T14:01:58.373" Title="Why do the people at the pub make David and Jack leave?" Tags="|plot-explanation|an-american-werewolf-in-london|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26616" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26629" CreationDate="2014-10-26T13:26:10.797" Score="21" ViewCount="5568" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few moments ago I saw an episode of 'The Blacklist' and recognized a sign with the address of an fictitious estate agent. My curiosity was to check the domain in the web browser. It seems that the domain has not been used so far, but the record of the WHOIS system (which allows you to get information about the owner) showed that this domain is associated with Sony Pictures. Furthermore the agent/company was not very relevant for the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why should somebody buy such an irrelevant domain and not use it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15458" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:27:16.423" LastActivityDate="2017-02-21T17:07:53.697" Title="Why do film studios buy domains of fictitious companies?" Tags="|film-industry|marketing|legal|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26616" CreationDate="2014-10-26T14:11:49.607" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a theory, but being able to buy a domain this way is a pretty clear indication that a legitimate company cannot come after the film company to sue for being libelled or defamed for a less than perfect company portrayal. If currently unused, it is an indication there is not a naming conflict to a company that is not well known.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that you noticed this from The Blacklist, which deals in companies on the shady side, including terrorism, corporate espionage, and similar, makes this a very likely financial decision on the part of the production company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2014-10-26T14:11:49.607" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26618" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="52793" CreationDate="2014-10-26T14:16:40.297" Score="8" ViewCount="2945" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not a physicist, however, when Barry is running/flashing, he gets to talk to the team back in HQ - How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he talks back to them, I have a feeling, his voice needs to be distorted, even if not possible, as everything is ultra fast with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't there some law in physics, that the movie is breaking, by allowing him to talk normally (vocal cords, breathing) while moving at 1000's steps per seconds (or whatever?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2162" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-05-09T18:36:16.247" LastActivityDate="2016-10-18T18:26:34.537" Title="How is the voice not distorted when Barry is running at super-speeds?" Tags="|dialogue|arrowverse|the-flash|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26620" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26621" CreationDate="2014-10-26T15:46:26.690" Score="18" ViewCount="209838" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just watched &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1937390/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nymphomaniac Vol. I&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (2013). I heard the actors and actresses have real sex scenes. Is that true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15460" LastEditorUserId="46980" LastEditDate="2021-03-01T18:11:50.120" LastActivityDate="2021-03-01T18:11:50.120" Title="Does Nymphomaniac Vol. I have real sex scenes?" Tags="|nymphomaniac|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="26621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26620" CreationDate="2014-10-26T16:03:46.223" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphomaniac_%28film%29#Production&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; concludes that the &lt;em&gt;actors&lt;/em&gt; (who actually portrayed the characters) &lt;strong&gt;didn't have real sex&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To produce scenes of unsimulated sex, von Trier used digital compositing to superimpose the genitals of pornographic film actors onto the bodies of the film's actors. Producer Louise Vesth explained during the Cannes Film Festival:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We shot the actors pretending to have sex and then had the body doubles, who really did have sex, and in post [production] we will digital impose the two. So above the waist it will be the star and the below the waist it will be the doubles.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Charlotte] Gainsbourg and [Stacy] Martin further revealed that prosthetic vaginae and closed sets were used during filming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The technique is explained by star Martin in the first video on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/news/1724571/nymphomaniac-sex-scenes/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this MTV page&lt;/a&gt;, which further specifies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While most the composite footage won’t make it into US theaters, &lt;strong&gt;the uncut version of the sex scenes only featured the midsection of the actors’ porn double.&lt;/strong&gt; Everything above or below actually belonged to Martin or [Shia] LaBeouf, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You’d think that removing all spontaneity from a sex scene would kill any believable chemistry, but for “Nymphomaniac” every move had to be carefully predetermined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Basically, we would do the scenes,” Martin said. “What happens is that &lt;strong&gt;we have to agree on a position because of the CGI. Everything has to be set, so we would do the scene with Shia or whoever it was, and we would get little black dots on our bodies,”&lt;/strong&gt; Martin said. “It was very unerotic, very technical and it gets quite boring because then they have to do exactly the same with the porn doubles. But they’re having real sex, and they put the two together.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-10-26T16:14:44.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24452" CreationDate="2014-10-26T16:21:35.263" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an &lt;strong&gt;awesome&lt;/strong&gt; answer, on Reddit, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/HouseOfCards/comments/1xzkmq/why_did_frank_bury_his_ring_at_the_ground/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point, Frank explains to Tusk why he taps his ring, when he leaves a table or a lectern.  To quote from the Reddit posting by &lt;em&gt;thisisntnamman&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frank: &amp;quot;Something my father taught me. It's meant to harden your knuckles so you don't break them if you get into a fight. It also has the added benefit of knocking on wood. My father believed that success is a mixture of preparation and luck. Tapping the table kills both birds with one stone.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, Frank was only tapping his ring, not his knuckles directly. He was only symbolically following this father. He wasn't fully preparing himself for the fight. By burying his ring he will have to hit his hands directly and toughen them up for the big fight with Tusk, over who will control the president and the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't recall this interchange but I went back and verified that Frank does, indeed, say that to Tusk&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15461" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-10-29T15:32:43.203" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26627" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26631" CreationDate="2014-10-26T17:22:50.690" Score="5" ViewCount="1721" Body="&lt;p&gt;Forgot the name of the movie, but as the title says, it's the only scene I remember from this movie. I also remember that it was a great movie, I think it was made for not so long ago. It was in English, played in the US and it's a comedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I do remember too is that there was a black man, I think, sitting with a bunch of people he's trying to teach some criminal stuff, so later they went to a restaurant and he took an insect from his bag he prepared and put it on the plate, then he called the staff because of their &quot;mistake&quot;, so the result was getting a free meal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15290" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-10-26T18:51:48.737" LastActivityDate="2014-10-26T19:34:52.410" Title="Getting a free meal at a restaurant by putting an insect in the food" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:22:46.227" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26616" CreationDate="2014-10-26T17:48:29.457" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess: people like me often visit domains in movies/TV shows/books just for fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I see the domain is unregistered, I can register it myself and draw traffic from nerds like myself. Basically, I'm letting Sony advertise for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can even imply movie affiliation and do terrible things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Welcome to Sony's secret site! You have cleverly spotted the Easter Egg and are entitled to a reward! Just enter your credit card number...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still pondering registering spear-a-boar.com a domain mentioned by Dave Barry in one of his columns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user15319" LastActivityDate="2014-10-26T17:48:29.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26627" CreationDate="2014-10-26T19:26:31.317" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471042/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tower Heist&lt;/a&gt; (2011), where Eddie Murphy's character helps a gang in a heist. You can see him taking a cockroach out to get a free meal at the end of this clip:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/f2lrTtHCrb0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15335" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-10-26T19:34:52.410" LastActivityDate="2014-10-26T19:34:52.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="694" CreationDate="2014-10-26T21:20:23.353" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The veil is located deep within the Department of Mysteries, which contains many of mysteries of the wizarding world. I believe the significance of it is greater than the mystery it represents. As J.K. Rowling has said, &quot;It's been there as long as the Ministry itself.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This artifact presents something historically significant, although it is impossible to say how. In the fifth movie and book, it is significant because Bellatrix shot a spell at Sirius and sent him through the veil, never to be seen again. In the movie, he was dead before he entered the veil, having taken an Avada Kedavra curse. In the book, the spell Bellatrix used may not have been the Killing Curse and so the veil may have been Sirius' cause of death, rather than a method of body disposal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Courtroom_Ten&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Courtroom Ten page on the Harry Potter Wikia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Veil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Veil page on the Harry Potter Wikia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15467" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T13:18:39.807" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T13:18:39.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19736" CreationDate="2014-10-26T21:24:33.133" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As brain dead from a baby, his brother  never learned to walk so Xavier would have to build up his muscles in his  new body to be able to walk again. That's probably a future movie when he can finally walk again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15468" LastActivityDate="2014-10-26T21:24:33.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10202" CreationDate="2014-10-26T22:33:06.803" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seeing that you're after short ones as well, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278820/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Winged Scourge&lt;/a&gt; from 1943 (which stars the 7 Dwarves) not only features blood graphically and in close-up, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyo9rx_the-winged-scourge_kids&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;it's practically &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; it&lt;/a&gt;, since it's an educational short about the danger of mosquitos. Here's a still frame from it with a mosquito drinking blood:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f1HyV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-10-26T22:33:06.803" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9426" CreationDate="2014-10-27T02:16:47.657" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pink is to Umbridge as black is to Snape. Umbridge acted like a little girl in some ways, using it to hide her true self. Her gaudy pink visage was meant to make her seem respectable and unthreatening, helping in her political machinations and her actions as Hogwarts High Inquisitor. The pink walls of her office and the kitten plates, etc etc contributed to this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15467" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T02:16:47.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9515" CreationDate="2014-10-27T02:38:57.233" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Severus was not a mudblood. He was a half blood with a pureblood mother from the Prince line; The Halfblooded Prince.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lily was a childhood friend of his, a crush, and most likely the bitter man's one true love. He told Lily about magic and she was probably Snape's best friend for most of his (early) life.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;When they became estranged later in their Hogwarts career, and Lily became romantically involved with James Potter, Snape developed a bitter resentment. He fell in with the wrong crowd and he joined the Death Eaters, at the height of their power.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;When Sibyl Trelawney gave the prophecy&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Sybill_Trelawney&amp;#39;s_first_prophecy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; to Dumbledore at the Hog's Head, Snape was listening at the door, overhearing the first two lines before being caught. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches...Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies...&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This gave Voldemort all he needed to narrow down which two children it could be; Neville Longbottom or Harry Potter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once Snape realized that he had caused Voldemort to focus on Lily, James, and baby Harry, he panicked. While he begged for Lily's life, he probably wasn't too concerned about James Potter. Snape confessed to Dumbledore, expressed his remorse, and rejoined the side of the light as a spy for the Order of the Phoenix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Harry arrives at Hogwarts a decade later, Snape shows that he hates Harry on principle; Harry looked like a carbon copy of his father, who was Snape's bully.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Harry did have a habit for rule breaking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;stealing from Snape's stores in the second year&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fighting trolls&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sneaking around with an invisibility cloak&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;even allowing Sirius Black to escape once Snape had caught him. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This made it easier for Snape to see more of James in Harry, and less of the intelligent Lily Evans who was a dedicated student.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It should be noted that Snape &lt;strong&gt;did&lt;/strong&gt; watch out for Harry. While he was caustic and deplorable as an educator, he did look after Harry, locking a broom jinx in first year, and all of his acts as a spy in bringing down Voldemort. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Snape was a spy. Most of the Slytherin students were the children of Death Eaters. Like Dumbledore, Snape anticipated the rise of Voldemort as an eventuality. He needed to preserve his position as a spy. Playing nice with Hufflepuffs and especially Gryffindors would have hurt his image, especially with the Death Eater parents.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;He portrayed himself as aligned with the dark side because that was his job as a spy. He had years to ingratiate himself with them, even becoming Draco Malfoy's godfather.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in summary, Snape is so angry with Harry in particular because he is petty in a sense; punishing the son for the sins of a father he never knew. He's ferocious with the other houses and is only nice to his Slytherins because he needs to preserve his role as a spy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15467" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2014-10-27T21:29:15.917" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T21:29:15.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11314" CreationDate="2014-10-27T03:16:39.547" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe we can agree that with most wizards if their wand is taken the fight is over. Prisoners aren't allowed wands, but what prevents wandless magic. Operating under the assumption that there is nothing blocking wandless magic (as Sirius was able to use his animagus form), what's to say they only use a simple locking charm and maybe a key on the cells? Dementors don't have wieldable-wizard magic, but they do have hands. It's possible that they simply handed the keys to someone and a prisoner managed to undo the magic locking charm. I'm also quite sure that, even though the prisoners would have had no contact with the outside world, they would be ready at a moments notice to escape Azkaban. &#xA;In another scenario, how hard would it be for a death eater or sympathizer on the outside to cast an Imperio on one of the aurors/ministry personnel? Then they could just instruct that person to hand their own wand over to the prisoners in question. Of course, if that were the case, the Ministry would never make themselves look bad in front of the press, so would omit the specifics and chalk it up to escapee-extraordinaire Sirius Black.&#xA;Assuming there are not 101 other ways to break out of Azkaban prison. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15467" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-06-09T07:49:13.960" LastActivityDate="2017-06-09T07:49:13.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1380" CreationDate="2014-10-27T03:46:01.820" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dolores Umbridge isn't misguided, or just blindly following the words of the leaders. She was a part of the judicial body and drafted many anti-creature laws, including the anti-werewolf legislation that hindered Remus Lupin's job search. She had her own agenda and she did institute it. Her position as Senior Undersecretary allowed her the political clout she needed to push her ideals. Many of these ideals were those that aligned with death eater's beliefs, making her a sympathizer, as shown later. The open return of Voldemort would put her position at stake; Fudge's administration would be under fire and therefore her position would be threatened. Potter and Dumbledore turning the wizarding world on its head with the return of the Dark Lord would topple her comfortable world that she's worked so hard for. The fact that she routinely questions school children with truth serum, which I'm sure is illegal somewhere, points to her ability to ignore the law. That she says she's going to crucio information out of Harry, then puts the picture of Fudge that is on her desk onto its face, shows that she isn't just defending or siding with Fudge. She's acting separately from him on her own twisted agenda. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15467" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T03:46:01.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3893" CreationDate="2014-10-27T04:37:31.827" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Less Than Dead&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is difficult to answer what exactly he was after he was blasted by his own Avada Kedavra, no-one seems to know, for sure. This is Voldemort's explanation to his Death Eaters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I miscalculated, my friends, I admit it. My curse was deflected by the woman’s foolish sacrifice, and it rebounded upon myself. Aaah... pain beyond pain, my friends; nothing could have prepared me for it. I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost... but still, I was alive. &lt;strong&gt;What I was, even I do not know&lt;/strong&gt;... I, who have gone further than anybody along the path that leads to immortality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter Thirty-Three (The Death Eaters).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Emphasis mine]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rudimentary Body&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voldemort gains a &quot;rudimentary body&quot; - the childlike weird thing that Wormtail carries around - at the beginning of &lt;em&gt;The Goblet of Fire&lt;/em&gt;; using a spell of his own invention coupled with a concoction of &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Unicorn_blood&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Unicorn Blood&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Nagini%27s_venom&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nagini's Venom&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is discussed further on our Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/4491/how-did-voldemort-get-his-body-back&quot;&gt;how did Voldemort get his body back?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T10:41:18.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26616" CreationDate="2014-10-27T04:44:22.703" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Theory 1: Trade mark ownership for future profits.&#xA;Maybe they are owners of the trade mark and wish to have the option to use it for something in the future? Trade marks need to be established, one way is to use them in the marketplace so maybe buying it and owning it is marketplace activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not a lawyer, but look at this case to see that trade mark rights can be lost: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.novagraaf.com/en/news?newspath=/NewsItems/en/pinterest-loses-right-to-use-trademark-in-europe&quot;&gt;http://www.novagraaf.com/en/news?newspath=/NewsItems/en/pinterest-loses-right-to-use-trademark-in-europe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Losing a licensing deal is a large sum of money lost. Hence they wish to establish ownership asap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Theory 2: Maybe it would be a phishing site worry and they fear the bad publicity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Theory 3: Testing for future movie promotion tricks. They are playing with the idea of very elaborate promotion websites and want to see what kind of response they get to them so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15478" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T04:44:22.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26646" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26649" CreationDate="2014-10-27T06:10:11.323" Score="5" ViewCount="22424" Body="&lt;p&gt;21 Jump Street scene, after Prom, where the baddies escape in limos and Schmidt and Jenko are chasing them in equally sized limos. But in their limo is some girl, drunk out of her mind, who Jenko recognizes, and then eventually kicks her out of the car during the chase. Who is &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; girl?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-27T08:42:49.007" LastActivityDate="2014-12-27T05:56:25.827" Title="Who is the girl in the limo?" Tags="|plot-explanation|21-jump-street|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26647" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-27T06:54:09.537" Score="0" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Two and Half Men, Charlie kept Alan around since they were brothers from the same mother. But why does Walden continue to keep him around? He's certainly not paying rent, helping and certainly not &lt;em&gt;in love&lt;/em&gt;! I can understand why he would wanna keep Jenny and her girlfriend around (I mean, who wouldn't?), but why Alan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-27T08:36:49.657" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T08:36:49.657" Title="Why doesn't Walden kick Alan out?" Tags="|two-and-a-half-men|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-10-27T18:44:17.393" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26648" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32266" CreationDate="2014-10-27T07:10:08.137" Score="2" ViewCount="3016" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Two and a Half Men, Walden is an internet billionaire because Microsoft had bought his site and used it for their iPod killer, Zune, earning him a billion dollar bank account! What was this site he created? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-27T08:36:32.120" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T19:00:15.590" Title="What is the website created by Walden?" Tags="|two-and-a-half-men|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26646" CreationDate="2014-10-27T07:15:41.130" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2365442/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t18&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lindsey Broad&lt;/a&gt; as Lisa, a high school student and a friend of Eric and Molly. She actually appears in many scenes before that (when Jenko punches Sanders; at the party; and later on at Eric's place, where she asks Schmidt why he and Jenko don't look alike). However, unless I'm very much mistaken, you do have a point: I think her name &lt;em&gt;is only established in the Limo scene&lt;/em&gt; and we never see Jenko learning it before that, we just assume that he did at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-10-27T07:24:00.360" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T07:24:00.360" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26616" CreationDate="2014-10-27T07:52:05.630" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So that the film company doesn't lose out on a potential profit if someone buys a domain name associated with a movie/TV show and sells it. &lt;em&gt;Apparently there's a small culture out there to purchase domain names related to a recently-announced movie/TV show, as when the movie company finds out its already registered most of the time they'll pay hundreds if not thousands to snag the domain name off you&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So that the domain name isn't used maliciously by a third-party. Movie companies also buy-out phone numbers used by their movies; this too happens in other industries such as gaming. A notable example of this is when players of Grand Theft Auto 3 found that a phone number within the game led to a phone-sex line if called (this wasn't intentional).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;TL;DR: It's just brand protection.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15481" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T07:52:05.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26651" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26663" CreationDate="2014-10-27T11:08:58.260" Score="4" ViewCount="32300" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Instinct&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Basic Instinct&lt;/a&gt;, it seemed to me that rather using awkward props or various ways to fake it, it would have been logistically simpler if cunnilingus had actually taken place between Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone. Plus, it's not full penetrative sex and the actors' emotions and reactions would have been authentic. Can we know this for sure one way or another?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14080" LastEditorUserId="14080" LastEditDate="2014-10-27T11:25:02.750" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T19:29:46.737" Title="Did cunnilingus actually happen in Basic Instinct?" Tags="|film-techniques|basic-instinct|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26652" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26653" CreationDate="2014-10-27T11:39:00.330" Score="8" ViewCount="75583" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, did Cersei Lannister not find anyone else in the entire King's Landing to satisfy her desires? At least someone other than her own brother to be the father of all her children? When did a lantern go off in her head that got her thinking that doing Jaime was a good idea? Yes, even though she tells Ned that since they are twin siblings, they are somehow predestined for each other, but still....Why Jaime and Lancel Lannister later, just because he resembles Jaime a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-27T15:42:19.870" LastActivityDate="2017-02-03T09:13:17.377" Title="Why did Cersei Lannister start a physical relationship with her brother Jaime?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26652" CreationDate="2014-10-27T12:11:08.833" Score="23" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Did she not find ANYONE else in the entire King's Landing to satisfy her desires?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jaime and Cersei have been having a physical relationship long before either of them went to King's Landing, as is revealed in Jaime's third chapter of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Storm_of_Swords&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Storm of Swords&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He could never bear to be long apart from his twin. &lt;strong&gt;Even as children, they would creep into each other’s beds and sleep with their arms entwined. Even in the womb. Long before his sister’s flowering or the advent of his own manhood&lt;/strong&gt;, they had seen mares and stallions in the fields and dogs and bitches in the kennels and played at doing the same. Once their mother’s maid had caught them at it... he did not recall just what they had been doing, but whatever it was had horrified Lady Joanna. She’d sent the maid away, moved Jaime’s bedchamber to the other side of Casterly Rock, set a guard outside Cersei’s, and told them that they must never do that again or she would have no choice but to tell their lord father. They need not have feared, though. It was not long after that she died birthing Tyrion. Jaime barely remembered what his mother had looked like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar event is mentioned in the show, however that does not make it clear how old they were at the time. Cersei is very much willing to sleep with other people if she cannot be with Jaime, as we hear of her having sex with &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Lancel_Lannister&quot;&gt;Lancel Lannister&lt;/a&gt; while Jaime is captured by the Starks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer your second question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When did a lantern go off in her head that got her thinking that doing Jaime was a good idea ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some time before they both hit puberty (10-12) at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most recent book, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dance_with_Dragons&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Dance with Dragons&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, also has Cersei admit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That she was also is sleeping with &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Osmund_Kettleblack&quot;&gt;Osmund Kettleblack&lt;/a&gt; and his brothers: &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Osfryd_Kettleblack&quot;&gt;Osfryd&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Osney_Kettleblack&quot;&gt;Osney&lt;/a&gt;. Tyrion told Jaime she had been sleeping with Osmund at the end of A Storm of Swords, but as I recall this is just speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However these characters have not been seen in the show so it will likely be cut out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T12:11:08.833" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26513" CreationDate="2014-10-27T13:35:54.653" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As was shown in last night's episode, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Walls_and_a_Roof&quot;&gt;Four Walls and A Roof&lt;/a&gt;,&quot; &lt;strong&gt;Bob was likely crying because he was, in fact, bitten by the walker that dragged him under the water earlier in the day&lt;/strong&gt;. He may have been contemplating suicide, and/or crying because he was building a relationship with Sasha and will now never get to fully see how it would turn out due to the bite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T13:35:54.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1599" CreationDate="2014-10-27T17:50:57.743" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure there is a soliloquy delivered by the Sheriff in the film where he describes all of English Bob's &quot;achievements&quot; as frauds.  They happened all right, but should be attributed to other people.  Bob claims credit to build his &quot;fame&quot; as a gunfighter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15493" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T17:50:57.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26651" CreationDate="2014-10-27T19:29:46.737" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it did not.  In fact, both actors (there were no body doubles) has stipulations in their contract as to what they would and wouldn't do, and the actors wore padding over their genitalia due to the (then recently front-and-center) AIDS scare running through Hollywood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding those stipulations, it was agreed that Michael Douglas would not go full frontal in the film, or to let his character be bisexual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103772/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T19:29:46.737" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24094" CreationDate="2014-10-27T19:54:49.553" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It never focuses on the second car up after he parks but it matches color and clothing of the American lady and her car. Also when he gets out of his van to smoke he gives a long stare and a possible signal toward the American agent's vehicle as it drives up. Significance is that he was in on it as well, but it could just be coincidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15496" LastEditorUserId="15496" LastEditDate="2014-10-27T20:07:14.007" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T20:07:14.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24094" CreationDate="2014-10-27T20:26:49.753" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is as simple as this: Gunther was angry that he had been taken advantage of, but there was nothing he could do -- so he left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T20:26:49.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26612" CreationDate="2014-10-27T20:33:32.087" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The patrons of the Slaughtered Lamb are obviously aware of the roaming werewolf, and are naturally suspicious of outsiders. By barricading themselves into the pub, they are enacting a strategy against the beast which they are clearly familiar with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the remoteness of the location, and the fact that the locals are organized enough to band together within the Slaughtered Lamb every full moon, the inference here is that the identity of the Moors werewolf is &lt;strong&gt;known to them&lt;/strong&gt;, if not one of their own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its not something explicitly stated within the film, but think about it: if the entire community huddles into a pub every month, and one person is always conveniently missing, it doesn't take a genius to work out which member of the community is a lycanthrope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the strangers begin to inquire about the five pointed star (which is a pentagram, traditionally a ward against the supernatural) makes the villagers naturally suspicious and defensive: undoubtedly this is in reaction to what they might perceive as unwanted investigations that could reveal their knowledge of the werewolf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In knowing about the creature and not reporting it to other authorities, they could be seen as being complicit in its survival by external sources and thus accomplices to its behavior: they could even be attempting to protect the werewolf, who may be one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the Hitchikers leave, their collective guilt seems to kick in, and they realize they have effectively knowingly sacrificed the two innocent strangers to the beast by allowing them to leave: the preferred strategy is to avoid the beast, but in finding it they have no choice but to kill it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is something they could have easily accomplished earlier, but for some reason have chosen not to... if all it takes to put the beast out of action is a well placed shotgun blast, surely this is preferable (not to mention the peace of mind granted) to locking the entire village up every month, so why haven't the villagers attempted this earlier? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Because they didn't want to kill it unless neccessary: &lt;strong&gt;because it was one of them.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-10-27T20:56:57.613" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T20:56:57.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26668" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-27T20:34:48.867" Score="2" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a movie where the hero protagonist has an obvious advantage in terms of strength or technology, but against all the odds, ultimately succumbs to the under dog villain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of a single plot that follows this model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15498" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T09:14:25.917" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T09:14:25.917" Title="Has this plot ever been done?" Tags="|analysis|genre|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12583" CreationDate="2014-10-27T21:21:17.033" Score="9" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The Elder Wand&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is incorrect to assume that it is the &lt;em&gt;Wand&lt;/em&gt; which must be taken, rather &lt;strong&gt;the previous owner must be defeated&lt;/strong&gt;. It responds to &lt;strong&gt;power&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is evident that Harry does not even get his hands on the Elder Wand until the &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Hogwarts&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Battle of Hogwarts&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; he defeats Voldemort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harry snatches Malfoy's wand (as well as other wands) from his hands, at the Malfoys' Manor. At which point &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Garrick_Ollivander&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mr Ollivander&lt;/a&gt; tells Harry that the wand now owes its allegiance to him (Harry):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“And this one?”&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Ollivander performed the same examination.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  “Hawthorn and unicorn hair. Ten inches precisely. Reasonably springy. This was the wand of Draco Malfoy.” &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  “Was?” repeated Harry. “Isn’t it still his?” &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  “Perhaps not. If you took it —”&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  “— I did —”&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  “— then it may be yours. Of course, the manner of taking matters. Much also depends upon the wand itself. In general, however, where a wand has been won, its allegiance will change.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter Twenty-Four (The Wandmaker).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prior to Harry disarming Draco, it is important to remember that Draco disarmed Dumbledore at the Astronomy Tower&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_the_Astronomy_Tower#Dumbledore.27s_death&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harry explains this all to Voldemort in the last few moments before Voldemort gets killed; from &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter Thirty-Six (The Flaw in the Plan)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Aren’t you listening? &lt;em&gt;Snape never beat Dumbledore&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt; “You still don’t get it, Riddle, do you? Possessing the wand isn’t&#xA;  enough! Holding it, using it, doesn’t make it really yours. Didn’t&#xA;  you listen to Ollivander? &lt;em&gt;The wand chooses the wizard&lt;/em&gt;. . . . The Elder&#xA;  Wand recognized a new master before Dumbledore died, someone&#xA;  who never even laid a hand on it. The new master removed the wand&#xA;  from Dumbledore against his will, never realizing exactly what he&#xA;  had done, or that the world’s most dangerous wand had given him&#xA;  its allegiance. . . .” &lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;“The true master of the Elder Wand was Draco Malfoy.”&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;“But you’re too late,” said Harry. “You’ve missed your chance. I&#xA;  got there first. I overpowered Draco weeks ago. I took this wand&#xA;  from him.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per the second part of your question; Hermione disarms Draco &lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; Harry has disarmed him. This has pretty much no effect since Harry is already the Master of both Draco's Hawthorn and Unicorn hair wand and the Elder Wand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Further Reading:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/7292/21267&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/7292/21267&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/12546/21267&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/12546/21267&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/51967/would-the-elder-wand-choose-every-new-owner-who-wins?rq=1&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/51967/would-the-elder-wand-choose-every-new-owner-who-wins?rq=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6910/why-does-everyones-wand-still-work-for-them&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6910/why-does-everyones-wand-still-work-for-them&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19292/did-rons-wand-change-its-allegiance-to-lockhart-in-chamber-of-secrets&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19292/did-rons-wand-change-its-allegiance-to-lockhart-in-chamber-of-secrets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T21:21:17.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26668" CreationDate="2014-10-27T23:21:30.393" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;One more recent (2010) movie that follows this plot is the animated comedy &quot;Megamind&quot;. Slight technicality here as the &quot;underdog villain&quot; is the protagonist of the film, and later in the story changes roles to the &quot;hero&quot; protagonist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15502" LastActivityDate="2014-10-27T23:21:30.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18007" CreationDate="2014-10-28T00:19:37.780" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You see, I think this scene plays a much more significant role in the events that play out than previously described. During this scene, you can see their infatuation with each other grow to the level of sexual attraction. You can tell with how close their bodies get to one another, and you can also see it in their faces. You notice again when they waltz back into Mia's house and share their &quot;comfortable silence&quot;. This is what prompts Vincent to go &quot;take a piss&quot;, and have his self reflection of remaining loyal to Marcellus and not trying to sleep with Mia before he leaves. It is of course at this moment Mia overdoses on Vincent's heroin, which leads to the climax of this part of the story. &#xA;That's just what I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15504" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T00:19:37.780" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10946" CreationDate="2014-10-28T02:41:01.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ashur had a chip on his shoulder by not being accepted as a true gladiator. Recall he once went back into training once he recovered from his early disabling fight, but his owner told him to get back to his secretarial duties. So, he always felt belittled by the other gladiators. I assume this last stand was his effort to demonstrate that he could be one of the true gladiators by facing them in battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15507" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-12-13T14:29:16.343" LastActivityDate="2018-12-13T14:29:16.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="26682" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26684" CreationDate="2014-10-28T03:33:01.877" Score="6" ViewCount="585" Body="&lt;p&gt;A local teen gets the high score on an arcade game, and he wins a real life replica of the main enemy in the game. It arrives at his door one day. At first he and his (I'm pretty sure girlfriend, maybe sister?) are enamoured with it, but then it tries to kill them and their friends and family. There is one scene I remember where the robot picks up a long kitchen knife in its arm, and it rotates quickly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought the movie was called &quot;Hover&quot; for some reason, but that's not it. The robot was short and red I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9770" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-10-28T06:14:21.147" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T06:14:21.147" Title="Robot is prize for winning arcade game, then tries to kill everyone?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2016-10-20T08:27:11.840" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26682" CreationDate="2014-10-28T03:49:22.713" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not &quot;Hover&quot; but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112993/&quot;&gt;Evolver&lt;/a&gt;, (1995).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A popular virtual-reality video game gets ported to real life, and&#xA;  Kyle, one of the best Evolver players in the US, gets the opportunity&#xA;  to try playing against a little robot version of the arcade game.&#xA;  However, Evolver is programmed to win at all costs, and the match&#xA;  between Kyle and Evolver gradually becomes a frantic struggle for&#xA;  survival.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T03:49:22.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19509" CreationDate="2014-10-28T04:23:26.740" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember the hiker who they found dead when the broken down car he was riding in backfired as the driver tried to restart it. The hiker fell dead straight away from a boomerang which he had thrown and was watching. When the car backfired, the hiker turned away to look where the bang came from. The boomerang killed him instantly &amp;amp; went into the river. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the mysterious man who died in the car crash was shown with Inspector Greg.  The dead man must have already boarded his flight because he had a napkin and biscuit with the airline's logo on his person &amp;amp; I believe his passport had been stamped. However, he ended up dead in the trunk of his car very near the airport from which he was departing.  It almost seemed they wanted you to think he fell from the sky. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Woman&quot; Irene Adler, betrayed/tricked Sherlock by having him decode the top secret message she had obtained from a person that she &quot;knew what he liked.&quot;  Remember SHERLOCK decoded the message in a mere 8 seconds - after he heard Myecroft on the phone the day before stating that Bond Air was &quot;a go&quot; and it all clicked for him.  It was Flight #007 (Bond Air) from Heathrow to Baltimore. Myecroft's two years of planning of the Coventry air flight of the dead was ultimately ruined by Sherlock's desire to impress &quot;The Woman&quot;, who was feeding Moriarity critical information. As a result,  Myecroft's  flight of the dead never could take place.  Sherlock saved Miss Adler from beheading in the Middle East and the way they did it was really slick &amp;amp; a great ending!!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were rumors there had been one previous flight of the dead that was successful during WWII.  It is one of my favorite episodes. &quot;The Woman&quot; forever changed SHERLOCK. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15509" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T04:23:26.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26686" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34000" CreationDate="2014-10-28T04:30:47.537" Score="1" ViewCount="3345" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_(franchise)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Saw&lt;/a&gt; movies, a laughing noise was played whenever &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_the_Puppet_(Saw)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Billy the Puppet&lt;/a&gt; appeared.  You can hear the laughing noise repeated several times in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAoKHrgq3gk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this video&lt;/a&gt;. Is that noise an artificially created sound effect, or did they record an animal making that noise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9908" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-10-28T06:11:46.277" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T03:49:13.583" Title="Is Billy the Puppet's laugh an animal sample or an artificial sound effect?" Tags="|sound-effects|saw|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26690" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26693" CreationDate="2014-10-28T07:11:26.360" Score="5" ViewCount="770" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tone of the music of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060028/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; changed dramatically from Season 1 to Season 2. Whereas Season 1 was subtler (as subtle as it could be being a science-fiction show in the 60's), and the title track itself definitely more sombre, Season 2 added a lot more unnecessary music in the wrong places, some ill-conceived &quot;horns&quot; flourishes and a needless &quot;wailing woman&quot; in the title track. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately I've only seen one episode of TOS: Season 2 so far so I'm hopeful. How long does the change last? Both the title music and the background score in the episodes? It's embarrassing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11122" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-28T13:14:01.560" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T13:14:01.560" Title="Star Trek TOS Season 2 - how long does the change in musical style last?" Tags="|star-trek|star-trek-the-original-series|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26691" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-28T07:17:22.760" Score="1" ViewCount="8873" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Ocean's 13, they rig every game in the casino in order for Bank to lose as much as possible. But once everyone is on a winning streak, Danny gives the green light to start the &quot;earthquake&quot;, forcing Bank to go to the room where the Greco is stored and forcing it to reboot due to the magnetron in his cell phone. But in the 3 minute window when the system is dowm, everyone wins big but no one ever cashes out! Only when the earthquake intensifies do we see &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of them running to the exit with chips, not cash. Rusty does call out to everyone around him to cash in but there's a stampede of people getting out, and not waiting to cash in. Since most of them didn't cash-in, Bank could easily change the chips the next day, causing the existing chips to be worthless, just like the movie 21.  So my question is; did Bank really lose 500 million that night?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-10-28T13:21:18.197" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T13:21:18.197" Title="How do Ocean's 13 rip Bank of 500 million dollars in one night?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oceans-thirteen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26690" CreationDate="2014-10-28T09:27:07.813" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'wailing woman' (or &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loulie_Jean_Norman&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Loulie Jean Norman&lt;/a&gt; as she prefers to be called) is present in the Star Trek theme in the pilot (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cage_%28Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Cage&lt;/a&gt;) and seasons 2 and 3, however the composition was changed slightly between seasons: in season 2, the vocal track was given more prominence and in season 3 the organ track is given more, but you can still hear it if you listen very carefully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a slightly different version present on the remastered DVDs which came out in 2006 which had the singing part &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.elincarlson.com/startrek.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;re-recorded by Elin Carlson&lt;/a&gt; which may be present in some copies of season 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T09:27:07.813" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26691" CreationDate="2014-10-28T10:28:17.653" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think people would have waited till next day to cash in the chips. There was big money at stake. Soon after the earth-quake had settled (which was only a few minutes), people would have went in to cash in the chips. &#xA;Also, I don't think casinos can just change the chips without any reason.&#xA;There definitely was fraud and Willy Bank knew it but the problem is he can not prove it. So he is bound to pay everyone with their win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T10:28:17.653" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26502" CreationDate="2014-10-28T12:35:30.260" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the word you're looking for &lt;strong&gt;shafted&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shaft&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;dictionary.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;shaft&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;[shaft, shahft]&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;verb (used with object)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;17&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Informal. to treat in a harsh, unfair, or treacherous manner.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the above dictionary entry implies, the term &amp;quot;shafted&amp;quot; usually means that the actor was unfairly treated. You wouldn't use this word if they just failed an audition and were legitimately rejected for a role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://whatculture.com/film/10-actors-cruelly-shafted-franchise-reboots.php&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here is an example&lt;/a&gt; of such usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4993" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-10-28T12:35:30.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26713" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26760" CreationDate="2014-10-28T22:23:57.477" Score="3" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Scorpion episode &quot;True Colors&quot; as Happy and Toby leave the wine celler, Happy's clothes are fine, but in the next scene as they approach the van, Happy's clothes are swiss cheese.  What happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13194" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-28T22:34:47.637" LastActivityDate="2014-10-30T17:39:06.773" Title="How did Happy get holes in her clothes?" Tags="|plot-explanation|scorpion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26715" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26853" CreationDate="2014-10-28T22:55:03.413" Score="9" ViewCount="14937" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently saw the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2713180/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fury&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and near the end of the movie when Don &quot;Wardaddy&quot; Collier gets shot by the German sniper. The German sniper initially wears a doorag/mask around his face and is revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, is it just a &quot;scene&quot; or did it bear any significant meaning? Because the way it was presented looked like it should bear some sort of meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15526" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-29T00:16:03.690" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T16:46:48.290" Title="Who is the masked German Sniper near the end of the movie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fury|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26717" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-28T23:33:48.797" Score="5" ViewCount="3320" Body="&lt;p&gt;Starfields or &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StreamingStars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;streaming stars&lt;/a&gt; are ubiquitous to give the impression of movement of space crafts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am thinking of flying directly and frontal into the starfield, as in the beginning of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM3cPMINXho&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;intro&lt;/a&gt; or the famous Windows screen saver. Of course it is easy to create this with digital technology. But how were they created before that, e.g. for the Star Trek:TOS intro?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have an idea with filming a bundle of point light mounted on a center position pointing at a plane and angular movement of the individual spots. If it was something like this it certainly would not have allowed free movement or curving in space - but that I don't remember just now, only straight movement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastEditorUserId="6767" LastEditDate="2014-10-29T16:06:41.987" LastActivityDate="2014-10-29T16:06:41.987" Title="How were starfields / streaming stars created in the pre-computer era?" Tags="|effects|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26720" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31221" CreationDate="2014-10-29T00:46:23.460" Score="9" ViewCount="10839" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wick_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;John Wick&lt;/a&gt;, in the scene where John Wick gets a call after Willem Dafoe's character (Marcus) gets killed, Viggo mentions that Marcus broke one cardinal rule  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was Viggo talking about? What cardinal rule was that? Was he talking about Marcus helping John all along?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14042" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2016-04-18T01:47:27.623" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T04:51:23.020" Title="What cardinal rule did Marcus break?" Tags="|plot-explanation|john-wick|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26721" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26727" CreationDate="2014-10-29T03:32:56.227" Score="3" ViewCount="533" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did Nucky Thompson wrest power over Atlantic City from The Commodore?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-10-29T03:44:53.703" LastActivityDate="2021-03-17T03:30:10.160" Title="How did Nucky rise to power?" Tags="|plot-explanation|boardwalk-empire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26726" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-29T10:48:59.073" Score="3" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Die Hard series, John Mcclane often uses this phrase before delivering the punch-blow that &lt;strong&gt;exterminates&lt;/strong&gt; whatever he's aiming to blow up. But Mcclane ain't from Texas or anywhere in the Mid-West, but from New York. Sure the word &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; this phase (MoFo) is too common for a New York detective, but what is &quot;Yippee-ki-yay&quot; ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastActivityDate="2014-10-29T13:04:17.573" Title="What does &quot;Yippee-ki-yay&quot; even mean?" Tags="|dialogue|die-hard|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2014-10-29T13:22:05.937" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26721" CreationDate="2014-10-29T11:52:25.917" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://boardwalkempire.wikia.com/wiki/Nucky_Thompson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;According to the Boardwalk Empire wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nucky was the Atlantic County Sheriff from 1908 to 1912. During this&#xA;  period he married Mabel Thompson. In 1912, the Atlantic City&#xA;  organization was the target of a campaign of depuration led by the&#xA;  then Democratic Governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson; Nucky and The&#xA;  Commodore made a deal under which The Commodore would take the fall&#xA;  and go to jail for a number of years, while Nucky would succeed him as&#xA;  County Treasurer and take control of the organization, ensuring that&#xA;  things continued the same and The Commodore still received a share of&#xA;  the profits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This information seems to originate from the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://boardwalkempire.wikia.com/wiki/Belle_Femme_recap&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Belle Femme&lt;/a&gt; (season one, episode nine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Commodore reminds Nucky that he spent five years in prison&#xA;  following his time in the throne. Nucky counters that he knew that one&#xA;  of them had to go. The Commodore shakes his head and says that he had&#xA;  no choice. Nucky asserts that he also had none and that was the reason&#xA;  they made their deal, he asks if they can drop the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is explained in depth in the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://boardwalkempire.wikia.com/wiki/A_Return_to_Normalcy_recap&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Return to Normalcy&lt;/a&gt; (season one, episode twelve):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Commodore says that Jimmy should not talk to him about justice. He&#xA;  recalls his own prosecution at the hands of Woodrow Wilson, then an&#xA;  ambitious State Governor looking to run for President. Jimmy asserts&#xA;  that Wilson is the reason The Commodore went to jail. The Commodore&#xA;  counters that Nucky was responsible, explaining that they made a deal&#xA;  with the prosecutor that one of them would go to prison on the&#xA;  election rigging charges so that Wilson would get his headlines and&#xA;  the other could keep running things. Jimmy wonders why it was The&#xA;  Commodore and not Nucky who took the fall. The Commodore explains that&#xA;  Nucky was an untarnished &quot;golden boy&quot; figure in local politics at the&#xA;  time so it made sense. The Commodore confides his resentment for what&#xA;  he perceives as Nucky for forgetting about him during the five years&#xA;  he was in prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2014-10-29T14:17:07.273" LastActivityDate="2014-10-29T14:17:07.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26732" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-29T14:18:59.080" Score="4" ViewCount="3864" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm just curious, because &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; the technology you see in that show seems older.  The computers are always clunky desktops with floppy drives, and every cell phone is a flip-phone.  You'd think at least &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; person in Charming owns a smartphone!  Or a laptop.  Or at least a tower.  The cars seem a little older, too.  Not sure about the bikes, I'm not a rider so I wouldn't know and that might be fudged because Harley Davidson is sponsoring the show and they probably threw a few newer models into the mix as product placement. So is there any indication that Sons Of Anarchy does not take place in the present day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-29T14:42:53.013" LastActivityDate="2023-09-19T08:51:31.267" Title="Is there any indication in Sons Of Anarchy that it does not take place in the present day?" Tags="|sons-of-anarchy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26717" CreationDate="2014-10-29T14:42:34.207" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following is stolen (&lt;em&gt;borrowed, I'd like to believe&lt;/em&gt;) from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=97463&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Trek BBS&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting Howard A. Anderson, ASC from &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Out-of-this-world Special Effects for 'Star Trek'&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; in the October 1967 American Cinematographer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of our most difficult assignments for the series was to create the impression that the Enterprise was racing through space at an incredible speed--faster than the speed of light, which is 6,000,000,000,000 miles a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other space shows have shown spacecraft more or less &amp;quot;drifting&amp;quot; through space. We wanted to avoid that cliche. The solution did not come easily or quickly. We experimented with dozens of ideas before we hit on an effective solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The principal elements in our solution are a space sky and the use of an Oxberry optical printer. To make the space sky, we painted black stars on a white background about 2 1/2 feet by 3 feet, arriving at a suitable design. We then made a series of black-out mattes that we could use later with the sky in the optical printer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The advanced Oxberry printer was unique at the time. It is capable of making a 5-to-1 reduction through a 4-to-1 enlargement with continued automatic focusing. The space sky was photographed and a still frame used on the optical printer. We tracked the space sky to the left, to the right, to the top and to the bottom, using a different black-out matte on each pass and superimposed these various moves at different speeds. We were able to create the illusion that the Enterprise was racing through space at an incredible speed. We start with a space sky filled with some 500 stars and finish with perhaps 30 on each pass. In the automatic focusing process, we got from a 3-foot scope down to about 10 inches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although that's just how Anderson did it. ST's effects were produced by multiple different effects houses. From the same article, Linwood Dunn discusses how his company Film Effects of Hollywood created their starfield effects:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The background star fields were created by punching holes of various sizes, in proper scale and location, in large sheets of black paper, backed up by special diffusion screens and color filters to create the desired effect. By combining scenes made at varying camera distances and travel speeds, a realistic illusion of depth was created. This was particularly important in star fields which tied-in with forward or reverse travel of the ship, and seen on its forward viewing screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically they both photographed multiple starscape layers which were moving at different speeds relative to the camera. Superimposing them created the effect of 3-D movement, nearer stars moving faster than more distant ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-10-29T14:42:34.207" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26735" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26741" CreationDate="2014-10-29T16:22:28.250" Score="21" ViewCount="1671" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does Chekov say that he remembers Khan in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_II:_The_Wrath_of_Khan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1982) if in the Star Trek TOS Chekov doesn’t appear in the episode “&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Seed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Space Seed&lt;/a&gt;?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also why is Chekov in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Into_Darkness&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek Into Darkness&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2013)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I miss some chapter from Star Trek TOS that answers this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1414" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2022-08-31T22:56:44.860" LastActivityDate="2022-09-01T09:27:54.577" Title="Why does Chekov say that he remembers Khan in “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” if Chekov wasn’t in the episode “Space Seed?”" Tags="|star-trek|star-trek-the-original-series|star-trek-into-darkness|star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="26736" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27534" CreationDate="2014-10-29T16:22:39.527" Score="4" ViewCount="9642" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bruno Kirby makes a point of telling the story of how King Benny waited 8 years to seek revenge on an assailant in his younger years.  By the time Shakes goes to work for King Benny, he's an old man.  Obviously involved in organized crime.  Shakes gets a job running payoffs to the cops for Benny.  But do they ever specifically say what those payoffs are for, or what Benny does?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2017-12-19T07:04:14.647" Title="In the movie &quot;Sleepers&quot;, what exactly does King Benny do?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sleepers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24331" CreationDate="2014-10-29T16:53:52.120" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;King Benny definitely knows of the beatings, because when he sold Addison's debt to Little Ceasar he mentions that the person who now owes him the money is the person who killed his little brother. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-10-29T16:53:52.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17915" CreationDate="2014-10-29T17:17:04.500" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think he may have been alluding to his scars. He takes his mask off right when he says &quot;..stranger.&quot; and then smiles and gets up. Maybe he was saying that though he wasn't killed when he was deformed, it did make him &quot;stranger&quot; in a sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastActivityDate="2014-10-29T17:17:04.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26732" CreationDate="2014-10-29T18:36:36.900" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of recent vehicles (Tara's, Gemma's, Pope's, etc). As for phones, I'm pretty sure that both Tara and their lawyer have been shown using smartphones. The club members are shown with flip-phones because often the cheap, no-contract style phones (at least here in the US) are the older style flip phones. It's much easier to use those as &quot;burner&quot; phones. The only computer I remember off hand is in the office at Teller-Morrow and I don't think it's unusual to see that. I've been to quite a few auto repair places that still have old clunky computers with CRT monitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2014-10-29T18:36:36.900" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26735" CreationDate="2014-10-29T20:03:51.370" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Out of Universe answer: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Seed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Space Seed&lt;/a&gt; was supposed to be a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle_episode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bottle episode&lt;/a&gt;. As few of the non-regular cast, as well as as many of the regular cast were to be used as possible. Since the Enterprise was on a 5 year journey, the presumption was the &amp;quot;missing cast members were there (on board), just that only those few regulars that were shown were considered to be instrumental to that particular script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, only &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_T._Kirk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kirk&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_McCoy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;McCoy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spock&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotty_%28Star_Trek%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Scotty&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhura&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Uhura&lt;/a&gt; were shown. &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techinsider.io/star-trek-george-takei-catchphrase-2016-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Oh My!&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; err, I mean &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikaru_Sulu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sulu&lt;/a&gt; was not. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Chekov&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Checkov&lt;/a&gt; was not yet cast in the series. This all was to save money for the hiring of the Guest Star, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001544/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ricardo Montalban&lt;/a&gt;, who portrayed Khan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In universe, this would not mean that all of the other crew wouldn't know what was happening, rather they just weren't instrumental, and therefor not shown. Chekov may have been assigned to some other part of the ship, and had not yet been assigned to the bridge crew. Checkov would still have known about Khan and his crew, as would Sulu and any other Enterprise crew that were not shown in the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2022-09-01T09:27:54.577" LastActivityDate="2022-09-01T09:27:54.577" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="26746" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26759" CreationDate="2014-10-30T02:09:59.787" Score="8" ViewCount="1994" Body="&lt;p&gt;How were the shots of the runners running towards the camera captured in Fritz Lang's &lt;em&gt;Metropolis&lt;/em&gt;? Here's the shot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R0omg.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R0omg.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was a dolly used? If it was, would it have been mounted on wheels only or would they have used tracks and have had to be really quick about keeping the rails out of frame?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15545" LastEditorUserId="25773" LastEditDate="2023-05-11T11:56:35.610" LastActivityDate="2023-05-11T11:56:35.610" Title="How did they get this shot in Metropolis?" Tags="|production|cinematography|metropolis|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="26747" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26748" CreationDate="2014-10-30T02:28:21.513" Score="7" ViewCount="5018" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is Katniss in love with Gale Hawthorne or Peeta Mellark? I have never read the books, only seen the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are various scenes in both &lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Catching Fire&lt;/em&gt; that can argue both sides, but I can't keep track of them. Who is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T03:51:49.743" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T03:51:49.743" Title="Who is Katniss' love interest?" Tags="|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-catching-fire|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26747" CreationDate="2014-10-30T03:15:15.270" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read all three books and seen both the films. In both media, both Gale and Peeta love Katniss but not in the same way. Peeta's love comes unconditionally, with devotion, and a complete willingness to sacrifice whereas Gale's love, I think, hinges on the fact that Gale and Katniss are comrades in the revolution against the Capitol. Another way to say it is: Peeta loves Katniss the girl whereas Gale loves Katniss the girl &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; the Mockingjay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movies and especially the accompanying advertisement materials oversell the role of Gale both as a character and as a romantic competitor. For example, his role is minuscule in the first book and the first film yet he features prominently in most posters I have seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books, it's quite clear to me that the question is not whether Katniss loves Peeta or Gale, the questions are whether she realizes that she already and deeply loves Peeta and how she may act if that realization happens. You'll learn the answers to all these in Book 3 (and most likely the 3rd and 4th films) but to avoid (more) spoiling, I'll say no further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14080" LastEditorUserId="14080" LastEditDate="2014-10-30T11:02:00.387" LastActivityDate="2014-10-30T11:02:00.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26751" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-30T05:45:42.563" Score="2" ViewCount="264" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Italian Job&lt;/em&gt;, in Venice, after the explosion when the safe drops into the river below, Charlie, Left Ear and John submerge themselves in the water to crack open the safe. Handsome Rob and Napster escape both with the dummy case via a speed boat. But Steve, who was upstairs painting the PoP and planting the explosive on the apartment ceiling just below the safe, is not shown escaping from the apartment. How did he escape? This is Venice, so roads are out! Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-30T08:17:15.500" LastActivityDate="2015-11-25T02:15:09.503" Title="How does Steve escape from the building in Venice" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-italian-job|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26747" CreationDate="2014-10-30T07:19:43.400" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, first if you have &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; read &lt;em&gt;Mockingjay&lt;/em&gt;, then I would want you to know that both Peeta and Gale are Katniss' love interest as both have qualities that she adores, e.g. Peeta can make her feel safe, whereas Gale gives her strength.  While Gale is ready to slaughter &lt;strong&gt;anyone&lt;/strong&gt; to ensure his and his people's safety, Peeta would rather surrender himself than to see violence on either side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now skip this next part if you haven't read the 3rd book. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Katniss chose Peeta over Gale hands down. This has many reasons to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First off, Katniss, who may be the Mokingjay and the face of the revolution, deep inside she needs emotional support. This is something Gale lacks, or in fact everyone from District 12 lacks. The need to understand someone emotionally is Peeta's USP. He understands Katniss, and this is the reason she would argue less when the decision is made by Peeta than by Gale. Gale's attitude is same as that of President Snow. Kill first, ask questions later. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secondly, they say opposites attract! So here is Gale, her hunting partner and best friend, who is opposed to the Capitol, grown up with a negative outlook and radical thinking - basically Katniss too has most of these qualities. But then there is Peeta, always looking for a reason to be happy, searching for that silver lining even in the darkest hours and more importantly he understands what he truly wants. And since the advent of the Games, what he truly wanted was Katniss to survive. Even if it meant his death. These are the qualities Katniss craves to have, and Katniss' skill with the bow and arrow is the quality Peeta craves. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/em&gt;, Peeta says, &quot;When I'm in the arena, I wanna show the Capitol and Snow that they don't own me. And that they cannot control my life!&quot;. This is something even Gale often tells her back in District 12. But it's the words from Peeta that actually gets her thinking to be the face of the revolution in all the Districts. The reason is that this sort of talk was expected from Gale or even from herself as they knew that their lives were as it was because of the Capitol's rule. But Peeta was unaffected by these sentiments even in District 12. But when Peeta says these words prior to the Games, it gets Katniss thinking of the intensity of the Capitol's rule over even the most positive and humble people. This is what melts her heart towards Peeta. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was the reason for her becoming the Mockingjay! Without him, she would have just been a soldier in Coin's army. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Another pawn in the hands of another Snow!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; She saw that this was what Gale had become. A pawn in the hands of Coin. But Peeta remained defiant even after being rescued by Coin. He saw early on, when he was interviewed on TV in &lt;em&gt;Mockingjay&lt;/em&gt;, that both Snow and Coin were two sides of the same coin (pun intended!). This was what Katniss realized later, which led her to kill Coin. All of this wasn't possible without Peeta. And this is what Katniss had come to love about Peeta!    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-03-15T22:33:09.067" LastActivityDate="2015-03-15T22:33:09.067" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24452" CreationDate="2014-10-30T10:52:21.573" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My reading is similar (but not the same) as G Blake Meike's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ring symbolises a more noble/idealist Frank, taking it off isn't to allow him to toughen his knuckles, but is him &quot;taking the gloves off&quot;, and entering the bare knuckle fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dialogue with Walker is a a Freudian thing, his humanity (or conscience) warning Walker that the fight is now on as he has taken the gloves off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Burying it at the civil war site, is Frank inspired by his ancestor to fight whatever the cost to him, but realising that the battle there was of more value/more just than his, it is a place to bury his humanity before what he must do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The replacement ring comes as Frank has won the fight, and can now put the gloves back on,  crucially it is a new ring as it no longer signifies the nobility of Frank, it's now a token to remind him of what he has done to get there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastEditorUserId="4637" LastEditDate="2014-10-30T11:07:07.277" LastActivityDate="2014-10-30T11:07:07.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26747" CreationDate="2014-10-30T12:12:29.707" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's not a very simple answer to this: both love Katniss, and she makes her choice in the course of the trilogy. As of the first two books/movies, Katniss prefers Gale, but pretends to love Peeta for the sake of public opinion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In The Hunger Games, to play up the &quot;star-crossed lovers&quot; story in order to get sponsors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In Catching Fire, to try to keep peace and not offend the Capitol.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Mockingjay,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She grows to love Peeta over Gale, largely because they've been through similar experiences and he can make her feel safe again. If one of them had died, she probably would have married the other without regrets. But they both survive and can all live as free people now, so she is left with a choice...and she chooses to marry Peeta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9066" LastEditorUserId="9066" LastEditDate="2014-10-30T16:26:35.913" LastActivityDate="2014-10-30T16:26:35.913" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26746" CreationDate="2014-10-30T14:10:58.610" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fritz Lang was a perfectionist and the film was considered state-of-the-art regarding special effects. I have so far found nothing about that particular scene, but did find a few thing sthat could have worked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_%281927_film%29&quot;&gt;Metropolis&lt;/a&gt; wikipedia article, I found this reference to a camera on a swing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Among the effects used are miniatures of the city, &lt;strong&gt;a camera on a swing&lt;/strong&gt;, and most notably, the Schüfftan process,[15] in which mirrors are used to create the illusion that actors are occupying miniature sets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.infoplease.com/cig/movies-flicks-film/tracking-history-camera-movement.html&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; on camera movement techniques, I found a reference to cranes and dollies being used in this time period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, cameramen eventually became more adventurous. &lt;strong&gt;Cranes and dollies&lt;/strong&gt; were widely used by the 1920s, and the steadicam became a standard item by the 1960s&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't yet found a definitive answer. When I saw the reference to a sing, I thought the swing may have been used, since the scenes are short. But they last about 4 seconds and the camera movement is straight, not curved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My original assumption, and what I strongly suspect was used, was a camera mounted on  a crane being moved along a dolly track beside the runners. This could allow the camera to be above and in front of the runners, but the tracks would be out of frame to one side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will continue to look for something definitive and update the answer if I find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastActivityDate="2014-10-30T14:10:58.610" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26713" CreationDate="2014-10-30T17:39:06.773" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're not holes, they're white icing stains (this is much more visible in the beginning of the episode; see picture below). The stains are hastily explained by Happy as they rush to the van:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We got out through the kitchen, I ran into a giant cake. I don't want to talk about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dbqx9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-10-30T17:39:06.773" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26751" CreationDate="2014-10-30T18:01:28.967" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;All attention was focused on the boat and on the dummy safe.  Steve would have had to have been a little sneaky to avoid the guys in the house if they immediately ran down to his floor, but presumably he was packed up and ready to go by the time the floor blew and he could have more or less made it out the front door and just walked away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15559" LastActivityDate="2014-10-30T18:01:28.967" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23914" CreationDate="2014-10-30T18:32:56.647" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are indeed comments from various of the filmmakers why they went in this direction. The overall tenor of those comments has been nailed by you in the question already, though. It was for the same reason that Ra's Al Ghul's regeneration and resurrection abilities have been reduced to trickery, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/3421/49&quot;&gt;allusions&lt;/a&gt; and a mere &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/77763/49&quot;&gt;philosophical immortality of his presence&lt;/a&gt; and why various plot elements and characters were changed from the source material. &lt;strong&gt;To bring him more in line with the movie's style, atmosphere and setting.&lt;/strong&gt; Nolan's take on Batman is centered around a very realistic and serious imagining of that whole universe, like all this could actually exist easily in our own reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You certainly hit it on the head when you say &lt;em&gt;&quot;the Bane in comics was hilarious&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Especially &lt;strong&gt;the whole Venom aspect is way too over-the-top for this&lt;/strong&gt;. While the movies might really scratch the edge of technological plausibility at times (stupid cell-phone radars anyone?), they are far from the domain of Science Fiction or Fantasy, not only regarding the tech, but the whole style and presentation as very serious crime thriller dramas. Sure, the Venom aspect is not too fictitious, but the whole depiction of a half-naked muscle machine driven by huge tubes pumping his body full with some magical super-soldier serum is just a bit too over-the-top to fit into the serious and realistic universe we've been presented so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David S. Goyer:&lt;/strong&gt; I first brought up Bane and Chris was initially horrified. And I said &quot;Hold on, hold on, hold on.&quot; This will be the Nolan version of Bane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Christopher Nolan:&lt;/strong&gt; His appearance in comics is very fanciful and wouldn't work in my opinion, in our world at all. So we needed to find the &lt;em&gt;Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt; version of what that would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, they &lt;strong&gt;didn't change him completely&lt;/strong&gt;, they merely adapted him to the movie's setting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In his answer Chad already alludes to the fact that &lt;strong&gt;even the comic Bane was quite intelligent&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;His background as a &lt;strong&gt;man grown-up in prison&lt;/strong&gt; is still there (even if his geographic origin &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/17150/49&quot;&gt;was altered&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even if the movie Bane might not be as pumped as his &quot;hilarious&quot; source material, &lt;strong&gt;his physicality is still a major aspect of him&lt;/strong&gt;. He is quite a heavy chunk of a man who easily trumps Batman in a physical fight and who doesn't hesitate to show us his muscles. And this was the primary motivation for choosing Bane in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Christopher Nolan:&lt;/strong&gt; In trying to cast the villain, trying to decide who the villain would be it was very important to me that it be a physical force. And a very directed militaristic force. And Bane seemed the ideal character to take on the physical threat to Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David S. Goyer:&lt;/strong&gt; He's a creepy very physical character. Somebody who's been physically distorted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Christian Bale:&lt;/strong&gt; Obvously wanting to make sure that physically Bane is superior. And this is the first time that Batman has come across anybody who is superior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Venom aspect also was not entirely dropped but just heavily toned down into a mere face-mask &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/3404/49&quot;&gt;supplying him with anaesthetics or painkillers&lt;/a&gt;. And you could actually argue that those painkillers/anaesthetics are indeed giving him unnormal strength and endurance in the way that increased tolerance to pain enables you to go far beyond your normal capabilities. So it is pretty much &lt;strong&gt;a realistic interpretation of Venom&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He might not look like a &quot;Mexican wrestler&quot;, but his mask is still an important and menacing feature of him, even if adapted a bit to his supposedly militaristic background and its functionality regarding the adapted Venom aspect. Add to this also the not to underestimate fact that in a movie &lt;strong&gt;seeing the actor's eyes gives him much more ways for expression and can add way more to his presence than a weird mask&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Christopher Nolan:&lt;/strong&gt; We knew we wanted the mask, but we wanted it to have more of a militaristic military hardware sort of feel to it. And a sense of it having a practical application even when it's got a menacing appearance...We talked a lot with Tom about this, about which parts his eyes and eyebrows and stuff he wanted to be able to use to be expressive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Emma Thomas:&lt;/strong&gt; It makes Bane that much more scary frankly, that you can read in his eyes the passion with which he wants to take down Gothan and Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As to the clothes they are also less &quot;hilarious&quot; or &quot;fanciful&quot; but more functional, emphasizing his militeristic/mercenary background but also playing a little with the revolutionary aspect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Christopher Nolan:&lt;/strong&gt; We wanted him to look like a mercenary, like a military man. Somebody that you could believe would storm into an environment with his men and present a very very real threat...There is also an element of what I'd call &quot;romaticism&quot; to him. The &lt;em&gt;Tale of Two Cities&lt;/em&gt; thing we're trying to get in there with Bane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lindy Hemming:&lt;/strong&gt; The whole idea that he's a revolutionary of some sort that's gone wrong. So the coat is taking a sort of Swedish Army coat, which is the first thing I saw. And trying to give it a French Revolution period coat shape a little bit as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I hope you can see that this is still Bane at his very core, but adapted into the universe of the trilogy, like all the other characters afterall. And we wouldn't want to see &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; in a Nolan-movie ;-):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c2urb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;All the filmmakers' quotes in here are taken from the BluRay of the movie.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-09-19T20:33:34.170" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T20:33:34.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="26768" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-30T22:27:41.200" Score="18" ViewCount="237605" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming the final scene of &lt;em&gt;Black Swan&lt;/em&gt; is not a hallucination, Nina injured herself some significant time earlier in her dressing room and danced two entire  sections as the black, and then the white, swan, which included a costume change. Even if the timeline itself is also a hallucination, she at least danced the final (vigorous) scene, so the injury can't have been &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; serious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet the movie ends with a &quot;fade to white light&quot; effect, often used in movies to signify transcendence to an ethereal form - ie dying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the likelihood that she recovers and lives or dies of her injuries?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6746" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-10-31T00:02:53.930" LastActivityDate="2016-10-01T14:08:59.823" Title="Does Nina die in the final scene of Black Swan?" Tags="|plot-explanation|black-swan|" AnswerCount="11" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26768" CreationDate="2014-10-31T00:52:23.713" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The implication is that she dies, but the entire movie requires some suspension of disbelief.  She actually stabs herself between acts, and doesn't begin bleeding until the end of the second act, which of course is impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-10-31T00:52:23.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26773" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26783" CreationDate="2014-10-31T04:55:42.157" Score="9" ViewCount="296221" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Underworld&lt;/a&gt; series of movies currently has four movies. According to Wikipedia, the movies were released 1, 2, 3, 4: but chronologically, they are ordered 3, 1, 2, 4 (3 is a prequel).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In what order should one watch the movies to achieve the greatest continuity and best understanding of the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it better to watch them in the order released: Underworld (1), Evolution (2), Rise of the Lycans (3), Awakening (4)? Or in chronological order: Rise of the Lycans (3), Underworld (1), Evolution (2), Awakening (4)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having not watched the movies before, my concerns are that the prequels assume knowledge of future events that occur in movies 1 and 2: or that there events in movies 1 and 2 that benefit from an explanation in the prequels. Of course, I cannot know this ahead of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9311" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-13T11:41:45.307" LastActivityDate="2017-01-10T00:43:16.257" Title="Best order to watch the Underworld movie series" Tags="|suggested-order|underworld|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26777" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26779" CreationDate="2014-10-31T06:59:46.247" Score="4" ViewCount="18325" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a REAL difference or is it both the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to a German Wikipedia article 2K is a resolution with a width of UP TO 2048 pixels. Therefore 2560x1440 doesn't fit into this range. Furthermore on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2K_resolution&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;English 2K article&lt;/a&gt; I can see only resolutions less or equal than 2048, so it somehow seems to confirm the German article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I can find a lot of articles saying 2K and QHD are all the same, e.g. on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.androidpit.com/full-hd-vs-quad-hd-vs-4k-phone-screen-resolutions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other sources say, that 2K indicates all resolutions with a width of 2000 pixels or more. To be certain, I would like to know, whats right and whats wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is QHD a part of 2K or is it not? Or is it the same?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21173" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:04:55.387" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:04:55.387" Title="2K versus Quad HD (QHD)" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26778" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26784" CreationDate="2014-10-31T07:39:08.837" Score="19" ViewCount="95551" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do they record the audio separately? Or is it all taken in one shot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I remember watching some cheap indie films whose audio and video, particularly the speaking of the actors, are not very convincing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if everyone records the audio separately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12707" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-14T07:51:41.593" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T07:51:41.593" Title="Do movie actors/actresses dub their scenes after shooting or do they use the audio that is in the scene?" Tags="|film-techniques|dubbing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26777" CreationDate="2014-10-31T07:40:11.447" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/QHD-quad-high-definition&quot;&gt;QHD is 4 times 720p&lt;/a&gt;, thus a width of 2560 pixels. It will only be a QHD display if it reaches this resolution.&#xA;2K, however, is supposed to have somewhere around 2000 pixels (the K stands for kilo meaning &quot;times 1000&quot;). The 2K, 4K and 8K terms are more generic than QHD, UHD (3840 pixels × 2160) and FUHD (7680 × 4320).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So QHD has an exact definition of the resolution, while 2K doesn't, still QHD is in the range of 2,000 pixels (it certainly is not 4K).&#xA;Manufacters of hardware use both terms interchangebly to sell their hardware.&#xA;For example &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stuff.tv/g3/lg-confirms-g3-will-have-2k-qhd-screen/news&quot;&gt;LG&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.androidheadlines.com/2014/01/samsung-confirms-qhd-2k-uhd-4k-amoled-displays-works.html&quot;&gt;Samsung&lt;/a&gt; do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So QHD is part of 2K, but it is not the same (a 2048p resolution is 2K, but not QHD).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastActivityDate="2014-10-31T07:40:11.447" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26778" CreationDate="2014-10-31T10:27:07.300" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, the locations are chosen and actors are assembled. Then the movie is shot, with many takes for each scene. Then everyone goes home and let the music directors and editors go nuts with it. Once the music sequences are finalized and all the scenes are selected, 90% of which will go on to become the final print, the phone rings in the lead actor's house first.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He gives a date and on that date the whole movie is played over again, but this time all the music, voices, noise are muted; the actor is given the whole script and while watching the film being played in front of him, he has to re-act those dialogues again. This process is called voice-over. Once he's done, they call in all the other &quot;less important&quot; people to do their recordings.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once all the voice-over's are done, the music is added, last minute touches are done and then the entire print is sent to the Certification Board to get it approved.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was with the feature films. With sitcoms, the location is chosen, everyone assembles, and the scenes are shot.  No one goes is released yet.  Immediately all the actors are re-directed to a recording room where they re-act the script again by doing voice-overs then and there.  Only then is the music and the occasional &quot;background audience laugh&quot; added. Then it goes to editing, and is sent to Certification just before it airs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2014-10-31T14:27:02.483" LastActivityDate="2014-10-31T14:27:02.483" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26773" CreationDate="2014-10-31T12:28:15.350" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;My default approach is always: watch the movies in the order that they are released. My reasons are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I want to experience the &quot;historical&quot; perspectives of the people who watch the films as they come out. An easy example of this is the Star Wars series. I haven't seen any of them yet (gasp!) but when I get around to do it, I will watch 4,5,6,1,2,3. This way, I'll get to see the supposed old-school magic first and then the new-school prequels that seem to disappoint many fans. In sum, I want to see things in the same order that those fans have seen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While film makers usually make new releases in a franchise in such a way that new viewers who have no prior exposure to the franchise can get in, these film makers must have in mind the people who have seen the previous installments in the franchise. Thus, I believe that you can get more out of the new releases if you have seen things in order, regardless of whether the new ones are prequels or sequels.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14080" LastEditorUserId="14080" LastEditDate="2014-10-31T12:33:25.737" LastActivityDate="2014-10-31T12:33:25.737" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26778" CreationDate="2014-10-31T13:28:48.280" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite simply, this depends from movie to movie. Mostly they attempt to capture the audio on the set or on location, but plenty of times there's need for &lt;a href=&quot;http://filmsound.org/AudiopostFAQ/audiopostfaq.htm&quot;&gt;ADR&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;ADR [Automated Dialogue Replacement] - In cases where the production&#xA;  audio is too noisy, or otherwise unusable (bad line reading, airplane&#xA;  fly-by, etc.) the Dialogue Editor will &quot;cue&quot; the line for ADR. This&#xA;  means replacing that line or lines of dialogue using the Automated&#xA;  process of Dialogue Replacement. This process takes place on the ADR&#xA;  Stage, a specialized recording studio where the actor can record lines&#xA;  in sync with the picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.microfilmmaker.com/tipstrick/Issue5/dialogrc.html&quot;&gt;dialogue recording&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The most obvious part of a movie’s soundtrack is dialog. My definition&#xA;  of dialog is the words and sounds expressed by featured characters in&#xA;  the picture. When recording dialog, it should be as clean as possible.&#xA;  By clean, I mean record the dialog and nothing else. Things unwanted&#xA;  on a dialog recording is the television on in the other room, the&#xA;  refrigerator or central heating/air conditioner that starts and stops&#xA;  in the middle of a take, birds chirping, a radio, traffic outside, and&#xA;  so much more. Record the people talking and only the people talking.&#xA;  In some cases, you might even have to fake some noises on set so as to&#xA;  not interfere with recording clean dialog. For example, if there’s a&#xA;  scene that involves a telephone ring, doorbell, or car starting over&#xA;  dialog, have the actors pretend that sound happens even though you&#xA;  never play it. Then in post-production, mix the dialog with the sound&#xA;  effects, foley work and music score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2014-10-31T13:28:48.280" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26787" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26809" CreationDate="2014-10-31T15:04:36.003" Score="9" ViewCount="57114" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808279/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot;&gt;Funny Games (2007)&lt;/a&gt; was just a hard movie to watch period. But, I really got kicked in the head when Paul rewound the scene and started it over. What?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Paul and Peter return to the house with Ann, Paul tells Ann to recite a prayer and if she can do it correctly, she gets to choose what happens next. What happens is that Ann grabs the shotgun and makes a window in Peter's chest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paul gets angry and starts frantically looking for the TV remote control. When he finds it, he hits the rewind button and rewinds back to the part where he tells Ann to recite the prayer. But this time, Paul prevents Ann from getting the gun. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a completely out of the left field thing considering the rest of the movie was just as any other movie. Nothing out of the ordinary except that one bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why was this scene necessary. What was the purpose? How does it tie in with the rest of the movie? Does it have anything to do with the conversation Paul and Peter have in the sail boat toward the end about reality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2016-08-02T00:43:36.987" Title="What's the deal with the rewind?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|funny-games|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26788" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27369" CreationDate="2014-10-31T15:07:25.380" Score="6" ViewCount="7320" Body="&lt;p&gt;About half-way into &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2267998/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gone Girl&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we learn that &lt;em&gt;Amy&lt;/em&gt;'s disappearance was a staging carefully prepared by her to take revenge on her husband by having him convicted, and ultimately excuted, for supposedly murdering her. And the actual degree of &lt;em&gt;Amy&lt;/em&gt;'s obsession with this plan becomes even clearer when she explains that part of it is the police discovering her drowned corpse. And in fact she has a calendar with little post-it notes detailing her milestones attached to the dates, with some special yellow ones saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kill Myself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Placed roughly at month intervals apart. There is one scene where she, after yet again seeing the media draw a devastating picture of &lt;em&gt;Nick&lt;/em&gt;, removes one of that notes from the calendar, effectively postponing her suicide for yet another month it seems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if we ignore the fact that losing all her money (and later seeing &lt;em&gt;Nick&lt;/em&gt;'s &quot;apology&quot; on TV) forced her to drastically change her plans anyway, &lt;strong&gt;did she always intend to definitely kill herself at the end of her plan&lt;/strong&gt; or was this only the last solution if &lt;em&gt;Nick&lt;/em&gt; wouldn't have been convicted otherwise? If not, then &lt;strong&gt;why did she postpone it further instead of doing it right away?&lt;/strong&gt; Did she just want to enjoy him torn apart in the media as long as possible? Or did she still cling to her life and  wasn't completely prepared to die? Or did she maybe even hope for &lt;em&gt;Nick&lt;/em&gt; to learn his lesson (as he &lt;em&gt;seemingly&lt;/em&gt; did in that &lt;em&gt;Sharon Schieber&lt;/em&gt; interview)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Of course information from the novel, while not required, is welcome if relevant for giving more insight into &lt;em&gt;Amy&lt;/em&gt;'s state of mind.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-02T16:31:58.560" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T11:45:59.570" Title="Why was Amy postponing the inevitable and was it inevitable at all?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|gone-girl|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26768" CreationDate="2014-10-31T18:42:22.180" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Natalie Portman herself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Portman has stated that she doesn't believe Nina dies at the end of the film. She sees it more as Nina having to kill the little girl in order to mature into a woman. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It all depends on how you look at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastActivityDate="2014-10-31T18:42:22.180" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15686" CreationDate="2014-10-31T22:32:19.927" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is clearly nothing in the episode to definitely conclude what happened to her. If there would be any definite answer to her fate, &lt;strong&gt;it would have been spelled out&lt;/strong&gt;. So you are correct in your statement that this is basically just a cliffhanger. What else could make you bite your fingernails more than not knowing if the little baby made it or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;the inconclusiveness of this is also what makes it pretty likely that she somehow got out of there alive&lt;/strong&gt;. She just disappeared not to be seen again in the episode and a huge stain of blood could easily suggest that she's dead. So if you've ever seen any TV show or any kind of cliffhanger, this makes it pretty evident that this exactly &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; what happened to her. And even in a TV show that doesn't hesitate to kill off people, including children, she still has the bonus of being a baby, especially the child of a major (if not &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; primary) protagonist. All this, albeit far from conclusive, doesn't leave much doubt for me that &lt;strong&gt;there didn't happen anything heavily terrible to her&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to finally conclude this, as the episode &quot;Inmates&quot; (S04E10) shows later, she indeed made it and it was &lt;em&gt;Tyrese&lt;/em&gt; who brought her out of the prison alive, together with &lt;em&gt;Lizzie&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Mika&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-10-31T22:32:19.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26800" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-31T23:13:01.913" Score="6" ViewCount="46778" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, why did going deaf also remove HW's ability to speak? Not speak correctly or even coherently, but use his vocal cords at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, what was his purpose for trying to burn down the shack, presumably to kill his adopted father and his adopted father's brother? He apparently has presence of mind to set up a relatively elaborate fire trap, but not talk or even gesture to his adopted father. I presume he wants both of them dead, because there are far easier and more straightforward ways to kill one or the other. If it was something he saw in the photo, then it's the same deal: why not just show him the photo instead of trying to kill both of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15584" LastActivityDate="2014-11-01T03:30:06.410" Title="In There Will Be Blood, why did HW go mute and try to burn down the shed?" Tags="|there-will-be-blood|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26806" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50419" CreationDate="2014-11-01T03:05:57.833" Score="2" ViewCount="3079" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3630276/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Turist (Force Majeure)&lt;/a&gt; chronicles a family on skiing holiday in the Alps.  It's mostly a pretty &quot;ordinary&quot; film with no surreal elements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; But the ending completely bewildered me.  The tourists are in a bus, driving back from the hotel after their holiday.  They are on a high mountain pass (looks like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelvio_Pass&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Passo dello Stelvio&lt;/a&gt;), and &lt;strong&gt;all the snow is gone&lt;/strong&gt;.  This scene is clearly shot in summer, there is not a single patch of snow on the mountains, and at some point they leave the bus and walk on the road, without their coats on.  Initially I thought, what a terribly sloppy mistake.  But shooting a summer scene requires the entire film team to come back 6+ months later, and according to the credits, it is indeed shot in a different country.  So it must be on purpose.  The scene appears surreal to me, although none of the rest of the movie is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of this scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1444" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-01T13:09:24.680" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T00:16:29.373" Title="Final scene in Turist / Force Majeure" Tags="|analysis|plot-explanation|force-majeure|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26800" CreationDate="2014-11-01T03:30:06.410" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Firstly&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accident did not initially rob H.W. of the ability to speak. Immediately after his injury, Daniel runs H.W. down to the commissary building (where the crew would eat), lays him upon a table and asks where he was hurt. H.W. replies &quot;I can't hear my voice.&quot; This dialogue can be seen in the following clip:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/IYdGEnL5gz4?t=3m2s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;There Will Be Blood Clip Oil Well Explosion (HW goes deaf)&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As time goes on, since H.W. cannot hear himself any longer, he loses the ability to be understood, since he can't tell if the sounds he is making are accurate or not. Eventually, he stops using his speech altogether, as it no longer has any meaning to himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Secondly&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, on page 90 of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cinemascopian.com/pics/2008oscars/TWBB.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;, the fire scene is described. H.W. had already figured out Henry wasn't Daniels brother earlier. He pours oil on the floor around Henry's bed, and then in a trail out to the main room. He strikes a match to the oil trail, and:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It takes off like a rocket, shocking/terrifying H.W. and in a flash, Henry's room is on fire.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fire quickly spreads up the curtains and to the rest of the house. However, as written, H.W. attempts to kill Henry, not Daniel, only he doesn't realize the danger of crude oil and a wooden house. The oil startles him with how fast it ignites and there is no time to recover, as the rest of the house is quickly engulfed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2014-11-01T03:30:06.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26768" CreationDate="2014-11-01T03:45:11.933" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Page 112 of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://moviecultists.com/wp-content/uploads/screenplays/black-swan.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leroy follows her gaze and discovers the spot of blood, which has grown in size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LEROY&lt;/strong&gt; (CONT’D)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;What did you do?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;NINA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;I felt it.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;LEROY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Oh my god.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;NINA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;...perfect.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;LEROY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Someone, get help.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;NINA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Shhh...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leroy looks back at her. She smiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NINA&lt;/strong&gt; (CONT’D)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It was perfect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He understands.&#xA;The APPLAUSE grows more and more faint. Her eyes glaze over and everything goes completely SILENT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nina lies there motionless, a smile frozen on her face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CUT TO BLACK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know/aren't told if she actually dies, but at the very least, she passes out/goes into shock from her self-inflicted knife wound. Although, the description of &amp;quot;eyes glaze over&amp;quot; does seem to indicate that the screen writer intended her to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another telling tidbit is that even though the screen play ends &amp;quot;cut to black&amp;quot; the director/editor chose to end it by &amp;quot;fading to white&amp;quot;, which as you yourself point out, is usually meant to indicate passing into the light/heaven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-01T03:45:11.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26787" CreationDate="2014-11-01T04:12:22.143" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funny_Games_%282007_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt; Theme section describes the movie thus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Themes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film frequently blurs the line between fiction and reality, especially highlighting the act of observation. The character Paul breaks the fourth wall throughout the film and addresses the camera in various ways. As he directs Ann to look for her dead dog, he turns, winks, and smirks at the camera. When he asks the family to bet on their survival, he turns to the camera and asks the audience whether they will bet as well. At the end of the film, when requesting eggs from the next family, he looks into the camera and smirks again. Only Paul breaks the fourth wall in the film, while Peter makes references to the formulaic suspense rules of traditional cinema throughout the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paul also frequently states his intentions to follow the standards of movie plot development. When he asks the audience to bet, he guesses that the audience wants the family to win. After the killers vanish in the third act, Paul later explains that he had to give the victims a last chance to escape or else it would not be dramatic. Toward the end of the movie, he postpones killing the rest of the family because the movie has not yet reached feature length. Throughout the film, Paul shows awareness of the audience's expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Paul also causes the film to go against convention on a number of occasions. In thrillers, one protagonist that the audience can sympathize with usually survives, but here all three family members die. When Anna successfully shoots Peter, as a possible start to a heroic escape for the family, Paul uses a remote control to rewind the film itself and prevent her action. After Georgie dies, Paul regrets killing him first because it goes against convention and limits the suspense for the rest of the film. At the end of the film, the murderers prevent Ann from using a knife in the boat to cut her bonds. An earlier close-up had pointed out the knife's location as a possible set-up for a final-act escape, but this becomes a red herring. At the end of the film, Paul again smirks triumphantly at the audience. As a self-aware character, he is able to go against the viewers' wishes and make himself the winner of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After killing Ann, Peter and Paul argue about the line between reality and fiction. Paul believes that a fiction that is observed is just as real as anything else, but Peter dismisses this idea. Unlike Paul, Peter never shows an awareness that he is in a film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Haneke states that the entire film was not intended to be a horror film. He says he wanted to make a message about violence in the media by making an incredibly violent, but otherwise pointless movie. He had written a short essay revealing how he felt on the issue, called &amp;quot;Violence + Media.&amp;quot; The essay is included as a chapter in the book A Companion to Michael Haneke.[13]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you can see that all throughout the film, the character Paul breaks the fourth wall repeatedly and often, and engages the audience (film viewer) to &amp;quot;participate&amp;quot; in the film. He controls events, with the expressed reasoning of following the standards of movie plot development. He expresses regret at ruining suspense (killing Georgie too early); at adding drama by vanishing; at extending the movie to feature length by not killing the entire family too early; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Peter 'screws up' by giving Anna the opportunity to grab the shotgun and she kills him, Paul is forced to, yet again, break the fourth wall, and 'rewind' the entire film in order to get it back on track per his desired ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paul 'controls the film' by controlling the action of the characters inside the universe of the movie, just as he also 'controls the film' by breaking the fourth wall and performing editorial changes and commentary out of universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-01T04:12:22.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26816" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30416" CreationDate="2014-11-01T11:43:37.043" Score="17" ViewCount="6406" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read in a recent article on moviefone that there is a common technique of shooting scenes inverted (left is right and vice versa). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently this was used in Star Wars to shoot a scene including Darth Vader, which causes his breast plate to be reversed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I read the article on my phone and I seem to be incapable of finding it again. (If I do, I will link it here.) It didn't say anything about the purpose of this technique though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there really such a &quot;trick&quot; that is commonly used to shoot scenes with everything the wrong way around and then mirror the image horizontally?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is, what is the purpose of this technique? I really can't think of any advantage, only of problems. (In contrast to say, shooting scenes backwards for special effects.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I finally found the link again!: &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.moviefone.com/photos/sci-fi-movie-mistakes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sci Fi Movie Mistakes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UypMj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars (1977)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  We guess Darth Vader's uniform is always messed up. When Vader (David Prowse) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness) are fighting in the original 1977 &quot;Star Wars,&quot; Vader's chest plate and belt buckle are on backwards. &lt;strong&gt;However, that was due to the entire shot being reversed -- a technique often used in movies -- as the light grates and walls in the background are also switched around.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the exact quote will help identifying this alleged technique and it's purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-04-26T02:52:45.403" LastActivityDate="2015-04-26T02:52:45.403" Title="Technique of shooting scenes inverted?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|star-wars|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26820" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-01T15:12:35.990" Score="5" ViewCount="1865" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed this interesting and scary film technique where a character tries to exit through a door, only to find that they've entered the same room as before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen it done in &lt;em&gt;The Awakening&lt;/em&gt; 2011 and also in the Batman game &lt;em&gt;Arkham Asylum&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know when this film technique was first done? Or can you tell us the earliest movie/show where you saw it happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15593" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-01T15:27:02.860" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T21:28:09.087" Title="When was the horror film technique where a character opens a door to the same room first done?" Tags="|film-techniques|horror|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26822" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26825" CreationDate="2014-11-01T20:39:47.150" Score="1" ViewCount="219" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;Jobs&quot;, Steve's boss tells him people are complaining because he isn't showering, being an asshole, etc. He then says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As for your personal issues, I think we may have a solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was said in the tone similar to &quot;It's settled.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But nothing is said after that, it just cuts to Steve working on the &quot;troublesome game&quot; in the dark, before he calls Woz for help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was the solution?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20578" LastActivityDate="2014-11-01T22:25:29.977" Title="In &quot;Jobs&quot; what does Steve's boss mean when he tells him: &quot;As for your personal issues, I think we may have a solution.&quot;" Tags="|jobs|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3842" CreationDate="2014-11-01T21:48:06.703" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, if he shoot Moriaty, then the chance of him dying was 100%. If he shoot the explosives, even if there was only a tiny chance of them exploding, it was more than 0%, and so a best option than shooting at Moriaty. But I also think that maybe, if the explosives worked, all them would die, including the snipers. So, aiming at the explosives he was also treatening them. But the explanation above of the confusion of the explosion actually saving them was better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15597" LastActivityDate="2014-11-01T21:48:06.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26822" CreationDate="2014-11-01T22:25:29.977" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;That was the solution. His boss at Atari gave him the troublesome game to work on, at the same time that he 'rescheduled' his work hours to be after normal working hours. If he was no longer in the area during the day, no one had to put up with his being an asshole, or his body odor.&#xA;Out of sight, out of mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2014-11-01T22:25:29.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26827" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-11-01T22:40:09.233" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-11-01T22:40:09.233" LastActivityDate="2014-11-01T22:40:09.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26828" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-11-01T22:40:09.233" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-11-01T22:40:09.233" LastActivityDate="2014-11-01T22:40:09.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26829" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44786" CreationDate="2014-11-02T01:51:39.107" Score="5" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063032/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Great Silence&lt;/em&gt; (orig.: &lt;em&gt;Il grande silenzio&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/a&gt; the sheriff is escorting Loco out of Snow Hill to the higher orders for supposedly attacking Silence. During their travel they make a stop in the middle of nowhere when Loco asks to go to the toilet. He gets freed from his horse, sits down in the snow, then suddenly produces a rifle right out of the snow and ultimately shoots the ice below the sheriff's feet, effectively killing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;where on earth did he get that rifle from?&lt;/strong&gt; They were in the middle of nowhere and he certainly didn't smuggle it with him. How did he know there was a rifle? Did he place it there and has this been alluded to in a previous scene I just missed/forgot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T13:05:11.553" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T10:25:42.550" Title="Where did Loco get the rifle from?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-great-silence|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26830" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44788" CreationDate="2014-11-02T02:04:21.267" Score="5" ViewCount="2023" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063032/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Great Silence&lt;/em&gt; (orig.: &lt;em&gt;Il grande silenzio&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/a&gt; and I have to say, I was utterly perplexed by its ending. At the end of the movie Loco invades Snow Hill with his friends and they take the supposed bandits from the mountain hostage in order to lure Silence out for a confrontation. And indeed Silence comes to them, but before he can do anything, he's shot and ultimately killed by Loco. In fact everybody's killed, the mountain people are executed without defense, Pauline is shot and dies over Silence's dead body. And then Loco just takes Silence's gun and he and his men go their ways, without the slightest scratch, possibly even sacking the bounty for the mountain &quot;bandits&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;what on earth are we to make of this ending?&lt;/strong&gt; Now I don't want to make this question sound too opinion-based, but while it is not uncommon to see the hero die at the end or to not see everything pan out perfectly for everyone, this ending was such a stark contrast, at some point I just couldn't believe my eyes anymore. This wasn't just not a happy ending, it was the &quot;unhappiest&quot; ending one could imagine. So I'd like to ask what the filmmakers intended to say with this. &lt;strong&gt;What was the reason or message behind this incredibly dismal ending?&lt;/strong&gt; And was this changed at some point and are there (maybe even released) alternative endings or was this always the intended ending?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T13:03:12.643" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T10:49:10.183" Title="What are we to make of the ending of The Great Silence?" Tags="|analysis|ending|the-great-silence|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26831" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27347" CreationDate="2014-11-02T02:27:12.700" Score="12" ViewCount="39056" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are quite a few web pages on the Internet that discuss whether or not a Superman reference can be found in every single episode of Seinfeld.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone affiliated with the show ever made a statement on whether or not every episode contains a Superman reference?  Apparently the extras on some of the Seinfeld DVDs mention this topic, but I found a couple of conflicting comments from people regarding the DVDs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dan.hersam.com/2010/07/10/setting-the-superman-seinfeld-record-straight/#comment-151249&quot;&gt;One person says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you purchase the DVD they actually say in the extras that there is in fact a Visible reference to superman or they discuss superman but yes it is in every episode and sometimes it is a reach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/seinfeld/forums/did-you-know-225-588496/&quot;&gt;Another person says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is said a few times on some of the DVDs that not every episode contains a Superman reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do some of the DVDs really say one thing while other DVDs say the opposite?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9908" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-06-09T07:41:28.310" LastActivityDate="2017-06-09T07:41:28.310" Title="Official word on whether all Seinfeld episodes have reference to Superman?" Tags="|reference|seinfeld|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26832" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="98049" CreationDate="2014-11-02T03:17:20.093" Score="5" ViewCount="1512" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie The Italian Job (1969) we see Professor Peach (Benny Hill) hack the Turin traffic monitoring computer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EU2Ca.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to work out which model this is. My question is: &lt;strong&gt;What is the computer that Benny Hill hacks in the Italian job? (1969)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2015-03-03T19:58:27.373" LastActivityDate="2019-03-29T16:34:22.843" Title="What is the computer that Benny Hill hacks in the Italian job? (1969)" Tags="|the-italian-job-1969|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26836" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26841" CreationDate="2014-11-02T09:06:34.510" Score="4" ViewCount="2306" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of every episode of &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt;, there are some recap shots. For episode 4, those consist of some shots of Felicity Smoak asking about Barry and being introduced to Iris. Yet I don't remember from the previous episodes that she was in them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone point out what I missed or is this extra information and not a recap from earlier?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15599" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-04-22T12:30:27.830" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T12:30:27.830" Title="Where do the recaps/flashbacks of Felicity Smoak come from in S01E04?" Tags="|arrowverse|the-flash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26839" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32797" CreationDate="2014-11-02T12:03:57.380" Score="17" ViewCount="57438" Body="&lt;p&gt;This movie is recently released and I'm sure some movie fanatics have seen it here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Warning:&lt;/strong&gt; this question has spoilers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fury&lt;/strong&gt; is a 2014 American war film set during World War II written and directed by David Ayer. The film stars &lt;strong&gt;Brad Pitt&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Shia LaBeouf&lt;/strong&gt;,&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Logan Lerman&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Jon Bernthal&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Michael Peña&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Jason Isaacs&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;Scott&#xA;  Eastwood&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is set during the last month of the European Theater of war during World War II in April 1945. A battle-hardened U.S. Army fight against Nazi Germany.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end of the movie, the tank &quot;Fury&quot;, having Brad Pitt and his men (soldiers), hit a landmine in the middle of nowhere on Nazi territory (and got stuck); shortly afterwards, a German column of 300 German Waffen-SS infantry approaches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of escaping, Brad Pitt and his men, stay hidden in the Tank and plan an ambush on the Nazis. Outnumbered and outgunned, Brad Pitt and his men nevertheless inflict extremely heavy losses on the Germans using the tank's weapons. They almost kill them all using only the tank &quot;Fury&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But eventually, one German sniper kills Brad Pitt and his men except one: &lt;strong&gt;Norman&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Norman escaped through the bottom hatch of the tank and he hid under it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In the end, surprisingly, a young German Waffen-SS trooper finds Norman, smiles a bit, but does not turn him in, leaving him safe beneath the destroyed tank as the surviving German soldiers move on.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did he do that? What were the implications from this and is there any explanation for this behavior, because it doesn't make a lot of sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11099" LastEditorUserId="16523" LastEditDate="2016-09-04T08:47:26.380" LastActivityDate="2020-02-06T11:47:18.163" Title="Why did Fury (2014) end this way?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|ending|fury|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26840" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-02T13:50:55.130" Score="5" ViewCount="7118" Body="&lt;p&gt;The premise of the movie is that the Event Horizon, a secret prototype &quot;gravity drive&quot; powered faster-than-light spaceship, mysteriously &quot;disappears&quot; on its maiden test flight to Alpha Centauri.  But publicly the vessel was a deep space probe that accidentally self-destructed.  Presuming the public story came out at the same time of the disappearance, this seems to me a spectacular plot hole.  If the EH had successfully reached Alpha Centauri it would of course have &quot;disappeared&quot;, not to report back for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;4.24 years&lt;/a&gt; it would take to light to travel the distance.  It might simply have been unable to return for other reasons - i.e. it wouldn't be the big spooky mystery made out in the movie.  Also, given this possibility, surely they wouldn't publicly claim EH had exploded because if it did return at some point that might seem a bit strange!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't of course undermine the mystery surrounding the EH's return to Neptune 7 years later, merely the hype around its &quot;disappearance&quot; and the official story that was publicised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any opinions, or have I just stolen 2 minutes of your life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Appendum&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relevant exerpts from script (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Event-Horizon.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;) - the explanation by Dr William Weir:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What was made public about the Event Horizon, that she was a deep&#xA;  space research vessel, that its reactor went critical, that the ship&#xA;  blew up... None of that is true.  The Event Horizon was the&#xA;  culmination of a secret government project to create a spacecraft&#xA;  capable of faster-than-light flight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then after describing the faster-than-light physics he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was the ship's maiden voyage, to test the drive. The Event Horizon&#xA;  moved to safe distance using ion thrusters. They received the go-ahead&#xA;  to activate the gravity drive.  And the ship vanished from all our&#xA;  scopes. No radar contact, no enhanced optical, no radio contact of any&#xA;  kind. They disappeared without a trace.. Until now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is bizarre as the whole point of the ship was to disappear (to Alpha Centauri).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15603" LastEditorUserId="15603" LastEditDate="2014-11-04T08:02:29.710" LastActivityDate="2017-11-07T19:45:41.913" Title="Event Horizon &quot;disappearance&quot; plot hole" Tags="|plot-explanation|event-horizon|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26836" CreationDate="2014-11-02T14:50:28.247" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's from the &quot;The Man Under the Hood&quot;, the nineteenth episode of the second season of Arrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11530" LastActivityDate="2014-11-02T14:50:28.247" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28367" CreationDate="2014-11-02T16:23:49.513" Score="6" ViewCount="12054" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the first half of Gone Girl, we see many scenes narrated by Amy. These are as written in her diary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Some of it was true while some of it was not. We know that Nick too was a big liar. So what about the pushing incident. Did it really happen? Nick denies it twice but there really was some altercation between them related to pregnancy. Nick wanted to divorce her and so he did not want a baby while Amy did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So was that pushing incident a reality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-11-03T05:40:09.843" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T07:40:11.063" Title="Did Nick really push Amy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gone-girl|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26843" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-11-02T16:30:04.003" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gone Girl is a 2014 movie, directed by acclaimed director David Fincher. The movie stars Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike in lead roles. The movie is based upon the best selling novel 'Gone Girl' by Gillian Flynn, which was published in 2012. Gillian Flynn wrote the screenplay for the movie adaptation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-11-02T16:30:04.003" LastActivityDate="2014-11-02T16:30:04.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26844" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-11-02T16:30:04.003" Score="0" Body="2014 movie, directed by David Fincher. Based on 2012 novel by Gillian Flynn" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-11-02T16:30:04.003" LastActivityDate="2014-11-02T16:30:04.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26840" CreationDate="2014-11-02T16:56:08.377" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;That wouldn't be the first time that the government incorrectly reported a series of events based partially on known information (half of the video recording, in this case) and partially on speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IIRC, the finding of the EH (was that the ship's name?  I can't remember...) was accidental, so it was believed lost.  It's not like the public was intentionally lied to, it was just fed a speculation that wasn't accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-11-02T16:56:08.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26847" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26848" CreationDate="2014-11-02T19:44:41.310" Score="14" ViewCount="8489" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory#Main_cast&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/Sheldon_Cooper&quot;&gt;The Big Bang Theory Wiki&lt;/a&gt; say that Sheldon Cooper of the Big Bang Theory has a Master of Arts degree.  They both cite &quot;The Love Car Displacement&quot; episode as the source for that.  But I can't find any mention of that in &lt;a href=&quot;http://bigbangtrans.wordpress.com/series-4-episode-13-the-love-car-displacement/&quot;&gt;the episode's script&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does Sheldon really have a Master of Arts degree?  That seems very strange for someone who has devoted his entire life to science, and who has such a strong disdain for anything non-science related (and even certain sciences like geology).  If he does have a M.A., what field is it in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9908" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-11-02T19:58:12.770" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T09:41:01.770" Title="Sheldon Cooper has a Master of Arts degree?" Tags="|dialogue|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26847" CreationDate="2014-11-02T19:57:40.623" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sheldon does say it, but he uses the initialism when introducing himself at the start of the lecture they are presenting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Good morning and welcome to Science and Society. I’m Dr. Sheldon Cooper, BS, MS, &lt;strong&gt;MA&lt;/strong&gt;, PhD, and ScD. OMG, right? Perhaps that joke was a little too hippie-dippy for this crowd. All right then, we’ll begin with opening remarks. Miss Rostenkowski, would you like to start us off by discussing your assessment of science’s responsibility to society?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Arts&quot;&gt;As Wikipedia notes&lt;/a&gt;, this is a common shorthand for Master of Arts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A Master of Arts (M.A., MA, A.M., or AM) from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2014-11-02T19:57:40.623" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26850" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-02T20:24:52.153" Score="7" ViewCount="1545" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2650978/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dark Valley&lt;/em&gt; (orig.: &lt;em&gt;Das finstere Tal&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/a&gt; has the American &lt;em&gt;Greider&lt;/em&gt; visit a village in the Alps to exert revenge on the local patriarch &lt;em&gt;Brenner&lt;/em&gt; for crucifying his mother's husband when they violated the rule that &lt;em&gt;Brenner&lt;/em&gt; is the one to lie with every bride in the wedding night. But &lt;em&gt;Greider&lt;/em&gt;'s ultimate paternity is not entirely clear to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the flashback presented during his &quot;confession&quot; in the church it seems that his mother ran away with her husband before &lt;em&gt;Brenner&lt;/em&gt; could sleep with her (which was the whole point of fleeing afterall). Neither does there seem to have been any time for the couple to have sex during their escape and hiding in the tavern until they were captured by &lt;em&gt;Brenner&lt;/em&gt;'s men. But after the capture things went rather quickly, too, with &lt;em&gt;Greider&lt;/em&gt;'s mother fleeing the scene right during the crucification of her husband, so &lt;em&gt;Brenner&lt;/em&gt; would have to have raped her right there in the snow. So it doesn't seem likely that &lt;em&gt;Greider&lt;/em&gt; is either the son of his mother's husband, nor that of &lt;em&gt;Brenner&lt;/em&gt;. Yet, it seems less significant for the impact of the story that he would just be the son of some random guy his mother met later in America or on her journey. And at the end, when &lt;em&gt;Greider&lt;/em&gt; finally faces the old &lt;em&gt;Brenner&lt;/em&gt; the scenery and its emotional presentation might suggest that &lt;em&gt;Brenner&lt;/em&gt; is indeed his father. But he still speaks of his killed sons as &lt;em&gt;&quot;his&quot;&lt;/em&gt; kin, not implying to also be &lt;em&gt;Greider&lt;/em&gt;'s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;is there any definite answer as to who really is &lt;em&gt;Greider&lt;/em&gt;'s father?&lt;/strong&gt; Can this be deduced from the movie alone and is &lt;em&gt;Greider&lt;/em&gt; aware of it himself? Or was this deliberately left ambiguous? Does the novel maybe present further insight in this regard?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2021-08-01T09:00:10.020" Title="Who is Greider's father?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-dark-valley|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26715" CreationDate="2014-11-02T20:49:13.200" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Background.  Although it was night, there was enough incidental and ambient light for the sniper's face to reflect against the background and to be spotted, hence the need for camo or a mask.  The sniper himself was a random German soldier with no other narrative connection to the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sniper took his first shot wearing his camo 'mask'.  The camera looking through the sniper's sights was blurry and indistinct.  The music soundtrack at that point became portentous and tragic. He removed the 'mask' for his second and subsequent shots.  The camera looking through the sniper's sights was markedly sharp and detailed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An interpretation of this may be that the sniper knew that his first shot was not lethal, but enough of an injury such that Wardaddy could not use the .50 calibre gun again.  He removed the mask for one of three reasons, or a combination thereof...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first reason is that he did not need the 'mask' any more because Wardaddy was unable to effectively return fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alternate reason, and more philosophical, is that the sniper knew that Wardaddy was mortally wounded and wanted to deliver the lethal round as quickly as possible. Removing his 'mask' allowed him to sight his rifle without the mask's obstruction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last alternative is that we, the audience, need assurances that if Wardaddy was to be taken out, it would be by his 'equal', and not some lucky recruit. For this reason, we are allowed to see the sniper's face, which is a grizzled and war-hardened combat vet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second reason would go along with the camera effects. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The script, which reveals nothing at all about this scene, is at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Fury.html&quot;&gt;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Fury.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="9866" LastEditDate="2014-11-03T00:05:26.740" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T00:05:26.740" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26855" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26866" CreationDate="2014-11-02T23:56:23.493" Score="2" ViewCount="3477" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;I Am Number Four&lt;/em&gt; when John (Number Four) and Henri are moving from the beach to Paradise, they are being followed by a lizard which then transforms into a dog and gets adopted by them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on the dog transforms into some kind of monster dog and helps John during the attack of the Mogadorians.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was never really clear to me where the dog came from. All the movie explains about it is when Number Six says something along the lines of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yeah, he's a shape shifter and has been following you. Somebody had to protect you after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't really answer anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where did the dog come from? Has he been following John from the beach? Or even his whole life?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who sent him and why? John alread had a protector.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How did Six even who the dog was or how long he had been following him? She had no clue where Number Four was until he appeared on Youtube.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I am reading too much into it, but the dog was presented as an important clue throughout most of the movie and then just shrugged off as: &quot;Well yeah, it's a shapeshifting dog that protects you, no biggie.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T10:00:11.733" Title="Where did the &quot;dog&quot; come from?" Tags="|plot-explanation|i-am-number-four|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11348" CreationDate="2014-11-03T02:19:09.017" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only people who know the reason are Marcellus and Antwan &quot;Tony Rocky Horror&quot;. So here's my theory, but needs little explaining. After Zed incident, Marcellus tells Butch the only people that will ever know about the &quot;incident&quot; are himself, Butch and Zed (though not for much longer once he tortures him to death.) Sound familiar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Tony Rocky Horror (and that references Rocky Horror Picture Show, cult classic about a transvestite) must have come onto Marcellus and he threw the guy out of a window to be sure he never did it again. Is one of his crew and didn't actually do anything invasive, so let him live, unlike Zed, a stranger that full on raped him and he knew needed a waaaay worse lesson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15608" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T02:19:09.017" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25114" CreationDate="2014-11-03T05:53:18.773" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think no one really knows what happens to us when we die cos even the dead can not speak to us clearly to explain where they are or what has happened to their once inhabited bodies... &#xA;The point is Life is what we have right now, let's use it well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15609" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T05:53:18.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26862" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26872" CreationDate="2014-11-03T09:13:57.147" Score="6" ViewCount="19371" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the tornado battle in Hancock when Hancock is fighting his &quot;wife&quot; there appears to be a huge (maybe mechanical) figure running through the destruction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MJikP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/a0HQF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears to be almost twice the size of the people in the crowd and towers over the cars. Who or what is this figure?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-04-23T20:39:43.627" LastActivityDate="2016-04-23T20:39:43.627" Title="Who is this giant in Hancock?" Tags="|plot-explanation|hancock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26863" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-11-03T09:16:17.490" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-11-03T09:16:17.490" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T09:16:17.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26864" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-11-03T09:16:17.490" Score="0" Body="Hancock is a 2008 film directed by Peter Berg and starting Will Smith" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-11-03T09:16:17.490" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T09:16:17.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11348" CreationDate="2014-11-03T09:56:29.847" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;When you little scamps get together you're worse than a sewing circle. &quot;  That pretty much says it all.  Mia was obviously involved in the dirty side of Marcellus's business and it was clear she felt whatever happened to Rocky Horror want anybody else's business.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13357" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T09:56:29.847" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26855" CreationDate="2014-11-03T10:00:11.733" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Number_Four_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;John, Sarah and Sam are attacked by the Mogadorians, who brought two&#xA;  giant monsters to hunt the trio. They are saved by Number Six and&#xA;  Bernie Kosar. Number Six reveals that Bernie Kosar is a Chimera that&#xA;  can shapeshift and was sent by John's biological parents to protect&#xA;  him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;http://iamnumberfour.wikia.com/wiki/Bernie_Kosar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;more information about the &quot;dog&quot;&lt;/a&gt; in the novel series wikia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T10:00:11.733" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26867" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32027" CreationDate="2014-11-03T10:26:55.187" Score="15" ViewCount="6873" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Harry Potter and The Chamber Of Secrets, and of course in the book, Hermione Granger states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Basilisk travels around Hogwarts through pipes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this snake is huge, almost 50 feet in length and 10 feet in diameter. How does it travel using pipes? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2014-11-03T12:34:42.013" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T01:17:51.637" Title="How does the Basilisk roam around Hogwarts?" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|the-chamber-of-secrets|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26868" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26870" CreationDate="2014-11-03T12:40:50.163" Score="4" ViewCount="2879" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Titanic, when Jack first sees Rose for the first time, there are some dogs being taken for a walk on that deck by an officer. But when the Titanic is going down, &lt;em&gt;none&lt;/em&gt; of the dogs were ever rescued on the boats or even shown drowning. So what exactly happened to them? Were they tied up, and as a result drowned with the Titanic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-03T13:12:09.037" LastActivityDate="2020-12-16T14:46:02.030" Title="Where are the dogs in Titanic?" Tags="|plot-explanation|titanic|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26868" CreationDate="2014-11-03T13:07:56.047" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did the dogs have any specific role in the story? Why do you think it was required to show the fate of some random dogs on a sinking ship? No one knows what happened to them. Probably they were still taken by their rich and spoiled owners. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Remember that scene from the movie 2012, where rich folks booked a place in&#xA;  the ship for their dogs while there were so many human lives at risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is one possibility, otherwise they were abandoned by their owners who were running to save their own dear lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-03T13:14:16.437" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T13:14:16.437" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26868" CreationDate="2014-11-03T13:08:06.573" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film (as far as I know) there are no indications that any dogs were saved and it can probably be assumed that they &quot;went down with the ship&quot; and were left behind with their owners. It was probably deemed by the filmmakers to be unimportant compared with the other plots being developed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However in reality according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.premierexhibitions.com/exhibitions/3/3/titanic-artifact-exhibition/blog/mans-best-friend-dogs-titanic&quot;&gt;Premier Exhibitions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Out of the twelve dogs onboard only three survived Titanic’s tragic&#xA;  sinking, a Pekinese and two Pomeranians.   The Pomeranians were&#xA;  brought onto lifeboats by their mistreses, Margaret Hays and Mrs&#xA;  Elizabeth Barrett Rothschild.  A Pekinese named Sun Yat Sen was saved&#xA;  by his master,  Henry S. Harper, in Lifeboat 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's safe to assume these were fairly wealthy passengers and the ethics of saving dogs versus people was not discussed in great detail at the height of the crisis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T13:08:06.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26862" CreationDate="2014-11-03T14:07:19.833" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448157/faq#.2.1.15&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When the people are running away from the tornadoes, suddenly a strange character runs from the left to the right of the screen. The character is about twice as tall as everyone else, and looks like a robot. &lt;strong&gt;It's a street performer, on stilts and in costume.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The performer has been since &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5023487/hancock-giant-robot-mystery--solved&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;tracked down&lt;/a&gt;. He's one of the costumed people roaming Hollywood Blvd. who pose for pictures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SInly.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SInly.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-04-23T14:57:52.230" LastActivityDate="2016-04-23T14:57:52.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26862" CreationDate="2014-11-03T14:12:42.520" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5023487/hancock-giant-robot-mystery--solved&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;io9.com&lt;/a&gt; this is an extra who was wearing stilts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Comic Book Movie has tracked down the man everyone is calling &quot;the&#xA;  Hancock monster.&quot; It turns out he's a guy on stilts covered with&#xA;  seaweed, who roams Hollywood Blvd. and will pose for pictures for a&#xA;  few bucks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I've yet to find a more reliable source...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T14:12:42.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26842" CreationDate="2014-11-03T14:30:25.810" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would wager a &lt;strong&gt;no, he didn't really push her answer.&lt;/strong&gt; This could be extrapolated out to also be no, he didn't push her as hard/in the way she denotes in the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Amy was writing the journal, all along, in an effort to get away with framing Nick for her murder, and as such anything she's narrating until we learn that it's all part of an elaborate ruse she's concocted should be seen as completely questionable/pure lies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To that end, Nick may have pushed her, he may not have, &lt;strong&gt;but that's not really the point of the story.&lt;/strong&gt; The movie isn't very interested in what &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; happened, just the narrative of events that &lt;em&gt;supposedly&lt;/em&gt; happened. Gone Girl is very much a critique on modern society's obsession with stories such as the one depicted in Gone Girl, and it's more about, &quot;Fitting the narrative the media wants to portray,&quot; more than being a factual retelling of actual events. The media want their story, something juicy to keep people's eyeballs on their channel and website and other media offerings. They're willing to provide whatever story necessary to get their pound of flesh. This can be further expounded on by remembering that the movie only shows events in the past with narrative flashbacks, &lt;strong&gt;delivered as though they were being read as part of a narrative.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T14:30:25.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26881" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-03T19:06:57.230" Score="16" ViewCount="12968" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's common knowledge that James Bond has an official &quot;License to kill&quot;. But what exactly does this license entail? I would assume that it means that he has a blanket authorization by his superiors to liquidate people when he believes that doing so is in the best interest of the United Kingdom and that it provides him with legal immunity for doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But are there any limits to that license?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could he, for example, kill completely innocent people for his personal amusement and would not have to be afraid of any legal consequences except maybe losing his job?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is his immunity only binding for the justice system of the UK or are there any allies which also recognize his immunity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any information in any of the Eon Productions movies or from any of the Ian Fleming books which explains further details about the fine-print conditions of his license to kill?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9018" LastEditorUserId="9018" LastEditDate="2014-11-15T14:28:22.893" LastActivityDate="2018-08-28T17:10:55.837" Title="What does the &quot;License to Kill&quot; of James Bond actually mean?" Tags="|james-bond|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26881" CreationDate="2014-11-03T19:18:19.743" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Wikipedia's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/00_Agent&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;00 Agent entry,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and the derived films, the 00&#xA;  Section of MI6 is considered the secret service's elite. A 00&#xA;  (typically read &quot;Double O&quot;) agent holds a licence to kill in the&#xA;  field, at his or her discretion, to complete the mission.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  .......&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  In the first novel, Casino Royale, and the 2006 film adaptation, the&#xA;  00 concept is introduced and, in Bond's words, means &quot;that you've had&#xA;  to kill a chap in cold blood in the course of some assignment.&quot; Bond's&#xA;  00 number (007) was awarded to him because he twice killed in&#xA;  fulfilling assignments. (This differentiates from deadly force used by&#xA;  non-00 agents in the course of self-defence or offensive action; plus,&#xA;  in the original time frame of the novel—the early 1950s—many MI6&#xA;  agents would have had recent war service.) In the second novel, Live&#xA;  and Let Die, the 00 number designates a past killing; not until the&#xA;  third novel, Moonraker, does the 00 number designate a licence to&#xA;  kill. Thereafter, the novels are ambiguous about whether or not a 00&#xA;  agent's licence to kill is limited, with varying accounts in Dr. No,&#xA;  Goldfinger, and The Man with the Golden Gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T19:18:19.743" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26886" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-03T22:13:48.183" Score="14" ViewCount="2717" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched an old classic, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Rock&lt;/a&gt; (1996) with Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery, and, while watching it, I noticed something I hadn't noticed before which didn't quite sit well in my head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the scene where the FBI (and John Mason) arrive to &quot;The Rock&quot;, the first challenge is to &lt;em&gt;roll&lt;/em&gt; through the incinerator.&#xA;While asked about how John Mason would accomplish to get by the incinerator, he answers &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I memorized the timing. I just hope it hasn’t been changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, he rolls through the flames, and ends up opening the door for the other agents, so they don't have to go through the incinerator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/v1GkvHuG-aU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, here's my puzzle: John Mason is brought along because he has escaped from Alcatraz. Now he is breaking &lt;em&gt;into&lt;/em&gt; the place, so we must assume that the way the audience see is the opposite of what he did when he got out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why the need to memorize the timing and risk his life through the incinerator, when he could much more easily and safely just open the door and go out that way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8910" LastEditorUserId="32199" LastEditDate="2018-03-14T13:41:23.913" LastActivityDate="2018-03-14T13:41:23.913" Title="The Rock: Mistake or deliberate?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-rock|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26839" CreationDate="2014-11-03T22:44:22.453" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason the young German Waffen-SS Trooper did not turn him in is because like you said, he was young. He was basically in the same situation as Norman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15526" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T22:44:22.453" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26886" CreationDate="2014-11-03T23:24:07.363" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;While in full operation, all the doors would have had to have been opened from a central operation point, just like cell doors.  Those doors would have sounded alarms if randomly opened by prisoners.  By rolling through the incinerator, he would have been able to avoid detection while passing from the hallway to the incinerator room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, there are still huge plotholes throughout; the least of which is how he remembered the timing after however long it's been (I don't recall how long he was in jail before they pulled him out for this Op).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-11-03T23:24:07.363" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26890" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27507" CreationDate="2014-11-03T23:58:16.737" Score="12" ViewCount="1286" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1st season of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2193021/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; had me (who is largely unacquainted with its literary source material) draw quite some comparisons to &lt;em&gt;Bruce Wayne&lt;/em&gt; and his background, except for the fact that &lt;em&gt;Oliver Queen&lt;/em&gt; has far less moral implications about killing the people standing in the way of his plans. In fact he seems less like a hero and more like a man on a personal quest for revenge and this contrast as well as his image as a brutal killer is a major theme of the whole season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then in the 2nd season he seems a changed man (albeit after a major fallback together with a reclusion to the island he &quot;grew up&quot; on). And in fact the change that he isn't supposed to kill anyone anymore is heavily emphasized throughout the season, starting with his opening monologue introducing every episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My name is Oliver Queen. After 5 years on a hellish island I have come home with only one goal, to save my city. To do so, &lt;strong&gt;I can't be the killer I once was&lt;/strong&gt;. To honor my friend's memory, I must be someone else, I must be &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my question is, has this major change in &lt;em&gt;Oliver&lt;/em&gt;'s moral compass always been intended from the beginning of the show's conception or was it somehow influenced by possible reservations the audience had or the producers saw against a &quot;hero&quot; who freely kills bad-guys in a time where the shiny knight and the severity of killing humans has become more and more important? Has there been any official word or background information &lt;strong&gt;if the people watching and ultimately evaluating the show had any &quot;say&quot; in adjusting &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt;'s character&lt;/strong&gt; to the real hero he has arrived at in the 2nd season?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-11T12:13:45.553" LastActivityDate="2016-04-11T12:13:45.553" Title="Was Arrow's change in moral alignment motivated by his audience?" Tags="|character|analysis|arrow|reception|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26891" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26897" CreationDate="2014-11-04T00:08:11.530" Score="2" ViewCount="1444" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spin-offs are a long-standing tradition in television, but generally the new shows stick quite closely to the aesthetics of the old.  &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt; is much lighter in tone than &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt;, but it's still fundamentally about a crime-fighter taking down a bad guy each week with the help of a group of friends/specialists.  The various &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; shows were all cut from the same mold, &lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Joey&lt;/em&gt; were both sitcoms, etc.  Even &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;, which spawned the family-friendly &lt;em&gt;Sarah Jane Adventures&lt;/em&gt; and the more adult &lt;em&gt;Torchwood&lt;/em&gt;, kept all three shows within the &quot;alien/sci-fi adventures and mysteries&quot; world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But have there been any shows which spawned spin-offs, set in the same universe and featuring related characters, but with entirely different genres and structures?  A police procedural with a spinoff sitcom about the cop's daughter, for example, or medical drama that spun-off into a sci-fi adventure?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15232" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:26:39.927" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T22:45:28.680" Title="Have any TV shows spawned spin-offs of a different genre?" Tags="|genre|spin-off|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26886" CreationDate="2014-11-04T00:16:18.623" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The door could've been guarded when Mason was escaping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even if it wasn't, there is no way to close that door once he left. If he went through there, some guard could easily spot the opened door and sound the alarm. This would be a huge problem, because it was crucial for Mason to get as far away as possible before it is found out that someone is escaping. An escape from The Rock does not end once a prisoner is just outside of the walls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2014-11-04T00:16:18.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26891" CreationDate="2014-11-04T00:18:03.360" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think an interesting example in this regard might be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111892/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Baywatch Nights&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which was basically a detective crime show, with &lt;em&gt;Mitch Buchannon&lt;/em&gt; opening a private investigation agency. I would call this quite a contrast to the rather soap-opera-like lifeguard drama of the original &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096542/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Baywatch&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; this was a spin-off to. And if this wasn't enough, the whole concept of &lt;em&gt;Baywatch Nights&lt;/em&gt; was changed in the 2nd season to a downright mystery show having to cope with things like paranormal activities, strange goo monsters on oil rigs and deadly stardust. If that isn't a stark contrast to good old &lt;em&gt;Baywatch&lt;/em&gt;, I don't know what is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-11-04T00:18:03.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26891" CreationDate="2014-11-04T00:22:52.827" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;. Off the top of my head, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Grant_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lou Grant&lt;/a&gt; from 1977 was a drama series, yet it was a spin-off of the sitcom &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mary_Tyler_Moore_Show&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Mary Tyler Moore Show&lt;/a&gt;. [And dang it, I was going to mention &lt;em&gt;Baywatch Nights&lt;/em&gt; too! ;)]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also worked the other way in the more obscure example of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills_Buntz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Beverly Hills Buntz&lt;/a&gt;, an NBC comedy with Denis Frantz that ran for one season in the late 80s and was a spin off of cop drama &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_Street_Blues&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hill Street Blues&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-04T00:33:45.843" LastActivityDate="2014-11-04T00:33:45.843" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26895" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26907" CreationDate="2014-11-04T01:34:50.030" Score="3" ViewCount="2947" Body="&lt;p&gt;All right, it is obviously not shown on the screen but did they actually have sex after they miraculously passed the rapids? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First, the scene ends with long emotional kiss. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Second, Charlie is quite enthusiastic in the morning.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7857" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T14:03:04.420" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T14:03:04.420" Title="The African Queen (1951) - did Charlie and Rosie have sex?" Tags="|plot-explanation|african-queen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26891" CreationDate="2014-11-04T03:06:43.493" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=446398&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This thread&lt;/a&gt; gives some examples, including the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Grant_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lou Grant&lt;/a&gt; was a drama that spun off from the sitcom &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mary_Tyler_Moore_Show&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Mary Tyler Moore Show&lt;/a&gt; (this was already mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/26894/9908&quot;&gt;an answer by Walt&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Mason_%28radio%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Perry Mason radio show&lt;/a&gt; was a soap opera/drama that spawned two TV series.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edge_of_Night&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Edge of Night&lt;/a&gt; came first and was a soap opera/drama.  A year later came &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Mason_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Perry Mason&lt;/a&gt;, which was just a drama.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapper_John,_M.D.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trapper John, M.D.&lt;/a&gt; was a drama that spun off from the comedy film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MASH_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MASH&lt;/a&gt; (it was legally determined to not be a spin-off of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M*A*S*H_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;M*A*S*H&lt;/a&gt; TV series).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernwood_2_Night&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fernwood 2 Night&lt;/a&gt; was a parody talk show that spun off from the soap opera parody &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hartman,_Mary_Hartman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nick &amp;amp; Hillary was a sitcom that was a spin-off/transformation of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattingers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tattingers&lt;/a&gt;  comedy/drama.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Legal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Boston Legal&lt;/a&gt; was a comedy/drama that was spun off from the drama &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Practice&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama%27s_Family&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mama's Family&lt;/a&gt; was a sitcom that spun off from the sketch comedy shows &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carol_Burnett_Show&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Carol Burnette Show&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_%26_Company&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Carol &amp;amp; Company&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9908" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2014-11-04T03:06:43.493" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26899" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26910" CreationDate="2014-11-04T05:25:55.083" Score="5" ViewCount="356" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1291150/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) &lt;/a&gt; movie, April rescued the turtles and the rat (Splinter) and left them in sewer. When they grew up, they had access to gadgets like skateboards, monitors and weapons like samurai swords and nunchuks. Splinter didn't allow the turtles to go outside because they're not ready, so how did they manage to get all those gadgets, weapons and even pizza? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the TMNT exists since the 80's I'm guessing it was explained in one of the comics or cartoon shows or is it just a plot hole?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="7366" LastEditDate="2014-11-04T23:27:19.953" LastActivityDate="2014-11-04T23:27:19.953" Title="How did the guys get weapons and gadgets in the sewer?" Tags="|plot-explanation|tmnt-2014|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26259" CreationDate="2014-11-04T11:37:17.767" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a common fact on TV that combat and injuries are stylized to make it look good rather than realistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have a look at pretty much any film fight where someone knows a martial art and compare that to someone who knows a martial art fighting for real.  They are worlds apart.  Even if you look at American Wrestling and BJJ you can see the difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knocking someone out with one punch is extremely difficult, especially if they are used to combat.  I have taken an unpulled hit from a quarter staff on the top of my head which caused me to blackout later but I still didn't go down at the time.  After almost 20 years of martial arts and living in rough areas I have only been knocked unconscious with one punch once, when I was 17 by the European Kickboxing champion.  I was punched to the ground by a bouncer in Portsmouth when I was 20 but was still conscious until he stamped on my head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the people in the Walking Dead would have starved or succumb to injuries by now if they were suffering this scenario for real.  Not to mention being struck down by illness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is just a convention of the media that people are routinely knocked out in one hit and recover completely when the plot demands it and don't when the plot demands that instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2014-11-04T11:37:17.767" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26881" CreationDate="2014-11-04T11:53:45.153" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_to_kill_(concept)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;License to Kill&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is a real thing rather than being completely fictional, although it has been made famous by James Bond franchise. According to Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;License to kill is the official sanction by a government or government&#xA;  agency to a particular operative or employee to initiate the use of&#xA;  lethal force in the delivery of their objectives, well known as a&#xA;  literary device used in espionage fiction. &lt;strong&gt;The initiation of lethal&#xA;  force is in comparison to the use of lethal force in self-defense or&#xA;  the protection of life.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding your question &lt;em&gt;Is his immunity only binding for the justice system of the UK or are there any allies which also recognize his immunity?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The legitimacy of deadly force usage from country to country is&#xA;  generally controlled by statute law, particular and direct executive&#xA;  orders, the common law, or rules of engagement&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia also mentions about the part of James Bond franchise in popularising this concept&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The idea of a licence to kill is popularly &lt;strong&gt;known from&lt;/strong&gt; the James Bond&#xA;  novels and films, where it is signified by the &quot;00&quot; (Double O)&#xA;  designation given to the agents in the series who are licenced to&#xA;  kill; Bond himself is famously agent 007.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More details can be read on the wikipedia entry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="25920" LastEditDate="2018-08-28T17:10:55.837" LastActivityDate="2018-08-28T17:10:55.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="26907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26895" CreationDate="2014-11-04T16:05:23.847" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_African_Queen_%28novel%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;original novel&lt;/a&gt; they become lovers shortly after successfully fighting the rapids. While the ending of the book is very different from that of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_African_Queen_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;, the scenes regarding the rapids are pretty much spot on to the origin novel. On screen, of course, nothing was ever explicitly shown beyond a hug and chaste kiss. However, from the point of the replacement of the bent propeller shaft on, whenever Rose speaks to or looks at Charlie Allnutt, no one could miss the (quite obvious) love in the looks she gave. Katherine Hepburn was magnificent (in my opinion) in this role. She goes from the haughtiness she later displayed towards John Wayne in Rooster Cogburn, to shown sincere love and devotion in a very convincing manner. It appears, to the uninformed, that there was quite a lot of chemistry between she and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Bogart&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Humphrey Bogart&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Bogart#The_African_Queen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The reality of making the movie itself&lt;/a&gt;, however, was much &lt;strong&gt;much&lt;/strong&gt; different. Bogart had taken his young newlywed (Lauren Bacall) along on the trip, going on a quick whirlwind 'honeymoon' trip through Europe on the way to Africa. Once in Africa, during the shooting of the film, things didn't go so smoothly. Everyone except Humphrey Bogart and director John Huston came down with dysentery. Katheryn Hepburn was a 'tee-teetotaler' (didn't drink alcohol), while pretty much everyone else were heavy drinkers. Her sobriety actually caused some minor health issues, as the alcohol (mostly gin) being heavily downed by everyone else, was helping to combat malaria and a few other possible diseases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This all comes from a combination of the Bogart and African Queen wikipedia pages (linked above), and &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0394562720&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hepburn's excellent book&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/filmnotes/fns98n10.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;papers&lt;/a&gt; I have read on the movie and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/may/11/anjelica-john-huston-african-queen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;making of it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2014-11-05T04:13:13.860" LastActivityDate="2014-11-05T04:13:13.860" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26259" CreationDate="2014-11-04T18:29:52.977" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just one of a handful of many tropes used in TV and movies.  Another one used frequestly is the &quot;wound dab&quot;, where cotton is lightly dabbed around a wound so as not to remove any of the makeup.  Also, the &quot;extended fist fight&quot;.  When someone gets punched in the face and just stands there stunned.  Apparently few people in movies and TV get broken noses from those punches, and I can guarantee you that if that ever happened to you that you wouldn't just stand there dazed.  That HURTS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to answer your question, much of entertainment does not follow physics/biology/anatomy rules and simply presents a picture of a character.  And, in most cases, those rules are just thrown out the window with no explanation at all, and at this point it's a simply accepted behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-11-04T18:29:52.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26891" CreationDate="2014-11-04T19:17:27.347" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The biggest difference in genre that I can think of: The Simpsons is an animated spin-off from the sketch comedy show The Tracey Ullman Show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Labeling genre can be subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my rationale... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Genre is defined as: &quot;a categorization of a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The form style and subject differences between The Tracey Ullman Show and The Simpsons are huge: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Form:&lt;/strong&gt; The Tracey Ullman Show is live action, The Simpsons is animated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Style:&lt;/strong&gt; The Tracey Ullman Show is sketch-comedy/variety, The Simpsons is a 30 minute sit-com.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subject:&lt;/strong&gt; The Tracey Ullman Show is based on non-related segments. The Simpsons is based on developing recurring characters of an entire city...and indeed has succeeded in building an entire universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2014-11-05T18:00:24.217" LastActivityDate="2014-11-05T18:00:24.217" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26899" CreationDate="2014-11-04T19:28:45.147" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In past continuities the Turtles have been scavengers. They find whatever they need from the trash that winds up in their sewer (how realistic &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; is, is another matter entirely). Usually it's Donatello who has the skill to salvage and fix whatever equipment/weapons they find.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility, is Splinter himself. While he has forbidden the Turtles from leaving the sewers there's nothing preventing &lt;em&gt;him&lt;/em&gt; from leaving. Though I can't recall any continuity showing us that this did indeed happen, I'm fairly certain it did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for pizza, in the first live action TMNT movie we see them getting pizzas delivered to a manhole in a dark alley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-11-04T19:28:45.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26890" CreationDate="2014-11-04T19:35:07.090" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't read anything official that would point to this, but I do believe that the shift in Oliver's moral convictions was planned from the start. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first season, Oliver's alter ego was called The Hood. The Hood had no qualms in killing people he thought deserved it. Come the second season and Oliver has a change of heart. One of the first things he does is change the name of his alter ego to The Arrow (while slyly looking at a &lt;em&gt;green&lt;/em&gt; one to appease us comic fans!). That's the name of the series. So that tells me that the writers had planned a shift, in naming at least, from the inception of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-11-04T19:35:07.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26913" CreationDate="2014-11-04T20:57:03.793" Score="2" ViewCount="943" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just curious to know whether the Live telecast can be edited before they are actually broadcast in TV Channels? Some famous shows like &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5c60GgYIWw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WWE&lt;/a&gt; are alleged to have displayed the shows after editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just need some experts info regarding editing of Live shows and if yes, how this can be edited within a few seconds delay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15635" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:47:33.863" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:48:00.200" Title="Can a Live Telecast Be Edited?" Tags="|editing|wwe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26912" CreationDate="2014-11-04T21:01:41.337" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_television&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;As per the Wikipedia article for Live Television&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The unedited nature of live television can pose problems for&#xA;  television networks because of the potential for mishaps. To enforce&#xA;  the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations, television&#xA;  networks often broadcast live programs on a slight broadcast delay to&#xA;  give them the ability to censor words and images while keeping the&#xA;  broadcast as &quot;live&quot; as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:48:00.200" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:48:00.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26916" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-05T02:25:55.880" Score="1" ViewCount="6680" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the last day of the plot of &lt;em&gt;Before I Go to Sleep&lt;/em&gt;, Ben/Mike is shown in his car as he leaves the house for the day. On the passenger seat is a second phone that is ringing. That phone shows that the call is from Claire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know from a prior conversation between Christine and Claire that Christine had never revealed Mike's name to Claire. We also know that after Christine's description of Ben/Mike to Claire, Claire states that she does not know who Christine is living with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can Claire be calling Ben/Mike if she knows the real Ben but does not know the fake Ben? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15640" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-05-25T00:42:46.307" LastActivityDate="2015-05-25T00:43:34.967" Title="Before I Go to Sleep - plot issue" Tags="|plot-explanation|before-i-go-to-sleep|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12339" CreationDate="2014-11-05T07:20:56.340" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me just tell you, that Central Perk does exist, it is located in the corner of Spring and Hudson street Soho, Manhattan. It is the exact replica of central perk and it´s for the 20th anniversary of Friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15643" LastActivityDate="2014-11-05T07:20:56.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19892" CreationDate="2014-11-05T10:48:22.280" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chicago Fire and Chicago PD Crossover and Law &amp;amp; Order&#xA;Arrow and The Flash&#xA;The Vampire Dairies and The Originals &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15644" LastActivityDate="2014-11-05T10:48:22.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26920" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26922" CreationDate="2014-11-05T11:33:32.260" Score="4" ViewCount="935" Body="&lt;p&gt;How many did Nucky kill himself in total over all seasons of Boardwalk Empire? I can recall two cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jimmy Darmody in season 2, episode 12&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rowland Smith in season 3, episode 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any more I'm missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15620" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-05T15:17:53.313" LastActivityDate="2014-11-05T15:17:53.313" Title="How many people did Nucky kill in Boardwalk Empire?" Tags="|boardwalk-empire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26921" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26926" CreationDate="2014-11-05T13:33:41.450" Score="5" ViewCount="1349" Body="&lt;p&gt;Michael Keaton's Birdman had great reviews and opened in 4 theaters to a record per screen.  The following week 50 screens, then 250 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&amp;amp;id=birdman.htm&amp;amp;3&quot;&gt;according to mojo&lt;/a&gt;)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It cost $22m and as of early Nov has earned $5m. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2562232/&quot;&gt;according to imdb&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why did they not just release it like a normal movie and make $10-20m on its opening weekend like so many less well received movies do?  What's going on with the slow release so when the reviews come out, it can't be seen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15647" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-05T13:52:16.517" LastActivityDate="2014-11-05T15:03:00.803" Title="Why was Birdman on limited release?" Tags="|distribution|box-office|birdman|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26920" CreationDate="2014-11-05T14:42:08.273" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fatality rate on Boardwalk Empire is so high, it's pretty easy to lose count. But if I recall correctly, you've only missed one other instance: The season three episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://boardwalkempire.wikia.com/wiki/Two_Imposters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Two Imposters&lt;/a&gt;, where Nucky kills three of Rosetti's men who come to assassinate him and then another one of his men when the truck he's hiding in is stopped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This brings the number of people we actually see Nucky kill to 6. However, the 4 kills in &lt;em&gt;Two Imposters&lt;/em&gt; were pretty much in self defense and only the 2 kills you've mentioned were cold blooded executions. This number might seem low in such a violent show (and profession) but fits Nucky Thompson's methods, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucky_Thompson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia states&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Throughout the series he is portrayed as a Machiavellian politician who makes his henchmen do the dirty work&lt;/strong&gt;, while showing a more humane side to his friends and family. However, by the end of season 2 he is shown becoming more ruthless in order to compete in the violent bootlegging business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-05T15:17:26.623" LastActivityDate="2014-11-05T15:17:26.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26924" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26928" CreationDate="2014-11-05T14:59:03.453" Score="2" ViewCount="965" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to find the name of the song that plays between 04:12 - 04:40 of the episode of My Name Is Earl (Stole an RV), which is the 4th episode of season 4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case the minutes do not match, the scene I mean is where Earl fixes the roof of the man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15649" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-05T16:10:04.903" LastActivityDate="2014-11-05T21:22:44.143" Title="What is the song playing in My Name Is Earl S4E4?" Tags="|soundtrack|my-name-is-earl|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26921" CreationDate="2014-11-05T15:01:13.287" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it's scored highly among critics and fans alike, it's still an indie film.  Indie films just don't have the distribution channels that major studios have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the film continues to do well and maintain favorable press, it will probably get re-released to theaters &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.firstshowing.net/2014/jon-favreaus-chef-headed-back-to-theaters-again-this-september/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;like the movie &quot;Chef&quot; did&lt;/a&gt; (most likely after an infusion of capital from firms who know there's a market for it based on reviews).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-11-05T15:01:13.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26921" CreationDate="2014-11-05T15:03:00.803" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simple: &lt;strong&gt;it's most likely a marketing strategy&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two tactics employed are called either &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_release&quot;&gt;limited release, or platform release&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Limited release is when a movie is released to a limited number of theaters in an effort to gauge the appeal a film may have to a wider audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Platform release is when they release a film to see what kind of word of mouth it generates as well as marketing buzz, in addition to its per-theater gross. The movie earns good buzz with audiences and has a high per-theater gross? They'll look to gradually expand the number of theaters it's in. This tactic requires careful planning, though, as pushing the movie to too many theaters too soon could lower the per-theater gross of the film, which makes it appear weaker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I can't say for certain which of the two Birdman may be employing, the idea is that it's more of an artsy independent film, which usually don't see audiences rushing out to theaters to see. As such, they release the film in a limited format to gauge the interest of moviegoers before gradually opening it up to more and more theaters, and thus a wider audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given its relatively well reviewed status, generally positive buzz, and decent per-theater gross, I'd expect the number of theaters it's available in to expand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-11-05T15:03:00.803" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26927" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27077" CreationDate="2014-11-05T15:38:33.360" Score="8" ViewCount="3372" Body="&lt;p&gt;I work in a cinema, and today we received our copy of Christopher Nolan's &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;: which came packaged and labelled as &lt;em&gt;&quot;Flora's Letter&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As is quite well known, film's are distributed (and sometimes produced) under &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_title&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;working titles&lt;/a&gt; or false titles, in order to interfere with potential pirates or thieves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is less well known, is that most film producers cannot resist the opportunity to leave clever clues and hints; almost like serial killers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even previous Nolan films have a precedent for this, being distributed as &lt;em&gt;Backbreaker&lt;/em&gt; (The Dark Knight Rises) and &lt;em&gt;Be Kind, Rewind&lt;/em&gt; (Memento)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which leads me to ask... What is the significance of 'Flora's Letter'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-11-08T12:03:38.520" LastActivityDate="2016-06-28T11:33:34.160" Title="Connection between Interstellar and 'Flora's Letter'?" Tags="|analysis|title|distribution|interstellar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26924" CreationDate="2014-11-05T15:57:05.800" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't normally ID songs here, so this question will probably be closed. However, the song you're after is Blue Oyster Cult's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28Don%27t_Fear%29_The_Reaper&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(Don't Fear) The Reaper&lt;/a&gt; from their 1976 album &lt;em&gt;Agents of Fortune&lt;/em&gt;. It's apropos because the old, tired man whose roof Earl fixes welcomes death. Here's the song, cowbell and all:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ClQcUyhoxTg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-05T21:22:44.143" LastActivityDate="2014-11-05T21:22:44.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26930" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26932" CreationDate="2014-11-05T17:25:18.140" Score="29" ViewCount="3955" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just watching a documentary about dinosaurs and this question came to my mind. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jurassic Park&lt;/a&gt;, the whole story is based on the premise that dinosaurs were recreated using the blood found in an amber. Later scientists create the dino DNA and hence create dinosaurs. How realistic or scientifically possible is the story? I mean of course no one has ever found dinosaurs' blood, but let's say even if it was trapped inside a mosquito inside amber, could that ball of amber, still survive millions of years later? Of course they said in the movie that DNA was not complete, but then it comes to the mind that would it have anything at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Broadly I have two questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How much scientifically possible is the discovery of dinosaur blood, today ?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How much scientifically possible is it to recreate dinosaurs even if their blood sample is found?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I mean is, if by chance, such a thing really happened (the story of mosquito biting dino and getting locked in amber) is it possible to create dinosaurs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2020-05-21T06:18:30.203" Title="Scientific accuracy of Jurassic Park's premise?" Tags="|science-fiction|realism|jurassic-park|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26930" CreationDate="2014-11-05T17:38:51.470" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a word, &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources-rx/files/12feat_dna_in_amber-3009.pdf&quot;&gt;Natural History Museum fact file&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/jeremy.austin&quot;&gt;Professor Jeremy Austin&lt;/a&gt; describes the possibility of recovering a sufficient quantity of &lt;em&gt;usable&lt;/em&gt; DNA to recreate a dinosaur as being essentially zero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NHM:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Do you think it likely that scientists will ever be able to extract enough DNA from fossilized remains to reconstruct the complete&#xA;  DNA sequence for a dinosaur?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Austin:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I think it would be an impossible task. Even if we could successfully isolate fragments of dinosaur DNA, mapping the correct&#xA;  DNA sequence for a complete dinosaur genome would be like trying to&#xA;  predict the contents, and order, of a complete library of information,&#xA;  from the facts contained in just one or two pages of a single book. To&#xA;  give you an idea of the complexity of the problem I have been&#xA;  analyzing DNA from specimens of lizards that became extinct about 300&#xA;  years ago. The largest single piece of DNA sequence that I have been&#xA;  able to obtain so far, after 6 months of effort, is 50 base pairs.&#xA;  These minuscule snippets of information tell me that I am looking at a&#xA;  lizard from a particular group but it is a quantum leap away from&#xA;  enabling me to predict the thousands or millions of base pair&#xA;  sequences for a single feature of the animal--let alone its complete&#xA;  genome&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, there have been recent efforts to discover whether complex molecules can survive deep time. The answer is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.discovery.com/earth/rocks-fossils/rare-blood-engorged-mosquito-fossil-found-131015.htm&quot;&gt;qualified yes&lt;/a&gt; but it's notable that this discovery doesn't mean that DNA is any sort of recoverable condition, merely that the DNA itself has molecules that can survive millions of years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-11-06T07:43:40.097" LastActivityDate="2014-11-06T07:43:40.097" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26935" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-05T20:19:04.133" Score="6" ViewCount="4054" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie &lt;em&gt;NightCrawler,&lt;/em&gt; the main character Louis Bloom seems to have gotten away with a felony. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He clearly withheld information from the police. So why didn't the the detectives get a warrant for his computer and find that extra bit of film with the bad-guy's faces and license plate? Not to mention proof of his intended murder of his partner&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-11-05T23:31:04.920" LastActivityDate="2016-08-14T12:28:04.153" Title="How did Louis Bloom get away with what he got away with?" Tags="|plot-explanation|nightcrawler|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26840" CreationDate="2014-11-05T23:37:41.600" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though the technological capabilities of the timeframe are very ambigious, it is certainly reasonable to suppose that the ability to &quot;send&quot; an entire spaceship and its crew and contents through &quot;hyperspace&quot; would come &lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; the ability to transmit electromagnetic (radio) communications in this manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if your concern of a plot hole is about the notion that the government seemed to create an extraneous explanation of the ship exploding when it vanished, even though its &quot;secret&quot; purpose was to actually &quot;vanish&quot; by travelling to Proxima Centauri, then that would only be true if the practical aspects of the public story would actually include the ship &quot;vanishing&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since, in this film's universe, this is ostensibly the first attempt at this &quot;hyperspace&quot; kind of travel, then all that is publicly known about space travel would be about &quot;normal&quot; spatiotemporal traversal across the galaxy. Yes, the spatiotemporal characteristics of electromagnetic traversal in space would mean that for every astronomical unit (AU) of distance away from Earth that the ship was on its journey, it would take an extra 499 seconds per AU for the communications to be received. So, for N [AU] there would be 499N [sec] of &quot;delay&quot; in communications ... &lt;strong&gt;if&lt;/strong&gt; using &quot;normal&quot; space communications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, again, if Sam Neill's character had created the technology to send an entire ship and its biological crew through &quot;hyperspace&quot; for traversing the universe, then it is more than reasonable to assume that they already had the technology to send optical and radio communications through &quot;hyperspace&quot; -- a much easier technological achievement, comparably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would mean that no matter the distance -- remember the folding paper and the pen scene -- communication would be constant and instantaneous with the ship, the Event Horizon (EH, as you say).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the Event Horizon would never be out of communication range, then its public role as a deep space probe would be completely bizarre and invite conspiracy theories were it to vanish without a trace -- by entering &quot;hyperspace&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To pacify publication speculation, the story of the ship exploding due to malfunction would completely eliminate its existence, thus justifying any loss of communication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this rationale is acceptable, there is then immediately the question of &quot;if they could communicate through the 'hyperspace', why were they not able to communicate with the ship when it was in 'hyperspace'?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here is where the plot of the movie enters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire premise of the film -- and why it is one of the best movies ever made -- is that there is no &quot;hyperspace&quot;, the technology that Sam Neill ostensibly created is one that actually sent the Event Horizon to Hell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it &quot;returned&quot; from Hell, now &quot;possessed&quot; by the Devil, or some demonic presence, which soon infects Sam Neill and other members of the crew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sam Neill's character's original technological design was the idea that spacetime could be electromagnetically manipulated through his hyperdrive chamber, such that the ship would ostensibly be projected into an alternate dimensionality of spacetime, wherein the current location and the destination would occupy a nearly singular point in this projection of spacetime, the ship would then travel an infinitesimal amount in this projected spacetime, only to then reproject back into our &quot;natural&quot; Minkowsi spacetime (seemingly: 3-space, 1-time dimension) now at the destination. From the perspective of the ship and its crew, the trip would be instantaneous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is why there was the apparent need for the government to create a coverup story. The Event Horizon ship should have instantly &quot;appeared&quot; at Proxima Centauri, but it didn't, they lost all communication -- because it went to Hell when it &quot;reprojected&quot; spacetime. Even though under &quot;normal&quot; communication it would have taken that 4.24 years (or however long), if the technology worked then they should have maintained instantaneous communication through the &quot;hyperspace&quot; provided by the &quot;gravity drive&quot; technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it truly did vanish, they needed to say it exploded because anyone looking into it would have found out about the &quot;gravity drive&quot;, and they didn't want to let out information about a technology that was not only incomplete, but that was inexplicably lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that is a plothole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user12701" LastActivityDate="2014-11-05T23:37:41.600" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24905" CreationDate="2014-11-06T00:24:57.247" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you said, Dennis is ostensibly a psychopath and sociopath. One of the main forms of satire that the show has used is to mock the manner in which most formulaic sitcoms have progressed from season to season, where the cast and characters become more and more beautiful and interesting and one-note. For example, with Seinfeld, you can see Kramer's progression from a kooky neighbor into a full-fledged cartoon character. In &quot;Friends&quot;, we see every character slowly whittle away their dimensionality to become singular archetypes: Joey the idiot, Chandler the sarcastic wimp, Ross the &quot;girly&quot; weirdo, Rachel the ditsy lady, Phoebe the lovable hippie with the dark past, and Monica the hyper-neurotic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rob McElhenney has pointed this out in interviews and said that this was one of the major motivation for his &quot;Fat Mac&quot; transformation, in that instead of all the actors becoming more &quot;beautiful&quot; over the years as they get paid more and more with the success of their show, he wanted to go all out and unhealthily gain an extreme amount of weight in a short period of time. And his weight gain is even more ridiculously explained throughout the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in terms of this intense and pervasive satirical approach to the characters, two of the underlying aspects that have finally started to come to the surface more intensely are Mac's homosexuality and Dennis' sociopathy and psychopathy. In &quot;The Gang Gets Stranded in the Woods&quot; (S06E11), there's a great exchange between Charlie and Dennis as summarized from the wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While walking with Charlie in the woods, Dennis refers to himself as a &quot;pretty methodical person&quot;. Charlie responds with &quot;Oh yeah, like a serial killer&quot;, which Dennis takes as a compliment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is just as you mentioned in your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in terms of Dennis' Jackie Denardo fantasy, it first speaks to his practicality and rationality. Dennis is definitely the most reasonable of the gang. Clearly it makes sense that if he jumped out to save the day, he'd probably be shot. But, in terms of intense narcissism and sociopathy, of course to him it seems reasonable that he'd rationally be shot, but he'd be narcissistically still able to survive a gunshot to the head, and as a fantasy he'd &quot;luck out&quot; and have his &quot;dream girl&quot; Jackie Denardo as his nurse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rehabilitation scene is a standard, ridiculous montage to the point where he is performing olympian-level acrobatics. And then while roller-blading together he lets go of her hand to reach out and declare his love, but accidently launches her into oncoming traffic and &quot;obliterating&quot; her breasts -- the apparently sole reason why he is so infatuated with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, as part of his intensely absurd narcissism and psychopathy, it's not about sleeping with her, it's all about him surviving a gunshot to the head, becoming an even more agile and amazing version of himself, being doted on by his &quot;dream girl&quot; who actually outright rejected him in real life and called him a creep, only to then have his innate &quot;serial killer&quot;-like psychopathy take over the narrative and have her be pointlessly and horrifically maimed. And now, without her breasts, to his insane sociopathy her life is now entirely pointless, so in a sadistic form of narcissistic sympathy -- because this saves him from any obligation to care for her -- he suffocates her with a pillow to &quot;put her out of her misery&quot;. Though really, it is to &quot;put her out of &lt;strong&gt;his&lt;/strong&gt; misery&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving the fantasy and coming back to reality, Dennis is visibly shaken and confused by how his fantasy turned out, but he also quickly accepts it and seems to brush it off as acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While he is the most &quot;reasonable&quot; and &quot;rational&quot; of the group, he does make bizarre and insane leaps, and he often twists otherwise banal situations into random extremes. He has the DENNIS system of completely deranged and misogynistic emotional manipulation instead of simply going on a date with someone. He has his &quot;tools&quot; in his car for &quot;weird sex shit&quot;, as we see at their High School reunion. And when the gang kept going back to the same lawyer and refusing to pay for any of his services, after learning that his wife had asked him to move out the house, Dennis offers to &quot;lay a 'frame' bang on her&quot;, which is ostensibly an offer to rape the lawyer's wife while she's asleep and then claim that she cheated on him, so he could move back home. The absurdity being that Dennis sees that absolutely horrific scenario as a perfectly reasonable solution to what was already a banal situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the bizarre lack of rationale and context for the circumstance of his Jackie Denardo fantasy are not only a continuation of his psychopathic characterization, but also it shows that even he is surprised at how it all turned out. Pointing out just how aloof and unaware he is of his intensity and insanity. Looking ahead you can compare these irrational fantasies as similar to his rationale for the choices made in trying to &quot;become&quot; Brian LeFevre in the &quot;Frank's Back In Business&quot; episode, where he almost goes so far as to be prepared to have sex with a young man -- because he thought that's what Brian LeFevre was in to -- but who turns out to be a golf caddy who was just changing his shirt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user12701" LastEditorDisplayName="user12701" LastEditDate="2014-11-09T05:49:02.403" LastActivityDate="2014-11-09T05:49:02.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26935" CreationDate="2014-11-06T00:28:20.340" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is obvious for the detective that he is lying (and we as audience know it). But the detective needs a proof and depending on the local laws (that I am no expert in) she needs probably a strong suspicion and legal authority (e.g. by a judge or state attorney) for a search warrant. In-universe we have to believe that the detective either believed his story (no, she didn't), Bloom faked the videos so a forensic examination couldn't provide any information and he hid/encrypted the uncut videos (unlikely), or the detective couldn't claim a suspicion strong enough to get such warrant. &lt;em&gt;It is not shown in the movie, after telling his story the detective makes clear that she doesn't believe it, then we see Bloom leaving the building.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I still wonder why the detective didn't mention the gaps in the videos. Bloom may have cut the beginning and end of the videos quite easily (e.g. the murderers driving away) but how would he explain phases of silence or missing seconds when his assistant talks dying or when the victim of the murder dies. But while this may be an indication of problems with his story it would still be the absence of proofs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the rule of law and this seems to make the detective the only¹ moral person in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ We could discuss Frank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastActivityDate="2014-11-06T00:28:20.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26944" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27341" CreationDate="2014-11-06T00:39:06.007" Score="3" ViewCount="642" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure many of the current movies out today, in an effort to obtain as much realism as possible, hire consultants to ensure the sign language used in movies is as accurate as any other language used by characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I'm watching the Vincent Price classic &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053363/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Tingler&lt;/a&gt; and I can't help but feel that the sign language used by the deaf mute at the beginning of the movie was just some crazy hand gestures ad-libbed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know, for sure, if they were using real signs for that part?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2018-11-15T06:49:04.603" Title="Sign language used in The Tingler - Is it real?" Tags="|realism|the-tingler|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26945" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26946" CreationDate="2014-11-06T01:29:36.163" Score="5" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cartoon movie where animation reminded me of the old Hobbit movie.  It was about a powerful being who turned evil.  There was a scene where humans were being killed almost in conveyor-belt fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the past he had realized that he would turn corrupt, so put someone to sleep and then forced himself to forget about doing so.  His goal was to have the man awake and kill his future (now current) self.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One scene was where they were having a conversation and the omnipotent denies that he ever did such a thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry I know not much to go on.  I remember renting it in a video store around 1985 if that helps.  Doing a few searches of popular animations didn't yield much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15380" LastActivityDate="2014-11-06T02:26:50.893" Title="Animation of man sent to kill future omnipotent leader" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:23:56.040" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26945" CreationDate="2014-11-06T02:26:50.893" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095525/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gandahar&lt;/a&gt;, (1988), by René Laloux.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An evil force from 1000 years in the future begins to destroy an&#xA;  idyllic paradise, where the citizens are in perfect harmony with&#xA;  nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The full movie is on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4D4jMOiuPg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Youtube&lt;/a&gt; in eight parts.  The English version, renamed &lt;strong&gt;Light Years&lt;/strong&gt;, is there too, but according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Years_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; it does not contain most of Gabriel Yared's soundtrack for the original version of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-11-06T02:26:50.893" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14726" CreationDate="2014-11-06T03:55:23.727" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is it's basically your typical TV/movie lack of detail.  The sheriff's department and a police department are separate entities with different jurisdictions that often overlap. The sheriff's department will be the law enforcement agency in charge of each county. Each sheriff's department is independent of each other but operate under the laws of their state. So a police department is the law enforcement agency in charge of a city or town, that city or town still resides in a particular county. Which means the police jurisdiction ends at city limits but the sheriff's departments jurisdiction includes the entire county, so they generally patrol all areas in the county that are outside of any particular city or towns police jurisdiction but their jurisdiction also includes that of a city or town. In some states the sheriff's department traditionally patrols only areas outside city limits except when needed while in others the sheriff's department patrols both outside and inside city limits.  This is usually common in very large cities where the city police aren't capable of handling the load themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's pretty common for TV and movies to incorrectly portray the structure of law enforcement.  Why? I don't know.  It's not that hard in this digital age to quickly research such things but I suppose such things don't rank very high on importance.  It always stands out as a glaring mistake because I'm a former police officer but apparently others notice it also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15658" LastActivityDate="2014-11-06T03:55:23.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26930" CreationDate="2014-11-06T07:02:46.750" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm inclined to say yes, based on new discoveries of fossils (and to be discovered fossils) and newly (to be) developed techniques.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clone a dinosaur one requires well-preserved tissue that contains DNA, and techniques that take this DNA and create an actual dinosaur from it. It seems that for both of these points progress is made:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Soft tissue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scientists discovered &lt;a href=&quot;http://m.livescience.com/41537-t-rex-soft-tissue.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;soft tissue of a T-Rex&lt;/a&gt;, which might contain (fairly complete) DNA. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dinosaur-shocker-115306469/?no-ist&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This discovery might lead to new insights regarding whether dinosaurs were warmblooded, coldblooded or both, and even about their evolution&lt;/a&gt;. And potentially well preserved DNA. Furthermore, new fossils are discovered quite regularly so who knows what gems are still undiscovered. It nevertheless proves that soft tissue can be preserved for millions of years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Techniques&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though even if we would have the complete DNA, it would be hard to clone a dinosaur. As explained in &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/russian-scientists-we-have-a-high-chance-of-cloning-1543713621&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article about cloning Mammoths from found soft tissue&lt;/a&gt;. However, none of these problems seem unsolvable at the time being, yet are not solved now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ethics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether we should clone a dinosaur if we can is a whole different question.&#xA;Also it raises new ethical questions as well: would the cloned dinosaur be an endangered species, can it survive in the wild, should it be placed in the wild at all, wouldn't be an advanced lab-rat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-07T05:08:02.553" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26952" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-06T09:25:43.223" Score="1" ViewCount="404" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a big fan of Philip Jose Farmer books, has anyone heard of any of his books or short stories being adapted for movies or TV? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1144" LastActivityDate="2014-11-06T10:04:17.877" Title="Has any Philip Jose Farmer books been adapted for movies or TV?" Tags="|book-adaptation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26952" CreationDate="2014-11-06T10:04:17.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Riverworld has been adapted on TV : not only in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1419950/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2010&lt;/a&gt; but also apparently in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310952/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2003&lt;/a&gt;. I enjoyed the books, but I haven't watched either of these adaptations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14099" LastActivityDate="2014-11-06T10:04:17.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26954" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26957" CreationDate="2014-11-06T10:38:31.027" Score="7" ViewCount="2126" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand the premium that's placed on perfectly straight pearly white teeth in American society (or at least I think I do) but one thing that really irks me is the dental perfection on display in post-apocalyptic/dystopian films and television series and other instances where it's not realistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking of such films as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_%28franchise%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Terminator&lt;/a&gt; series and series like &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, where let's face it, there are much more pressing things to worry about than veneers and braces. We're now into season 5 of &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; and still the teeth are perfect there! You could reasonably expect a little bit of decay and yellowing to have taken place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's even forget about the future and look to Downton Abbey - not a crooked canine to be seen there either, even among the downstairs crew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why don't the show runners choose to abandon this fiction and inject a dose of realism into things?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8275" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-08-06T19:40:30.293" LastActivityDate="2015-08-06T19:40:30.293" Title="Why do most characters have perfect, white teeth even if the film's setting makes them unlikely?" Tags="|production|realism|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ClosedDate="2014-11-07T06:39:13.617" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26930" CreationDate="2014-11-06T15:23:46.100" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following information is based on a book i read a few years ago, which i'm pretty sure is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17070.The_Science_of_Jurassic_Park_and_the_Lost_World_Or_How_to_Build_a_Dinosaur&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Science of Jurassic Park and the Lost World, Or, How to Build a Dinosaur&lt;/em&gt; by Rob DeSalle and David Lindley&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recovering dinosaur DNA from mosquitoes trapped in amber would be practically impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, there's a good chance that whatever the mosquito last sucked blood from was not a dino. There goes a whole bunch of samples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if somehow, you have a mosquito that sucked dinosaur blood and then got petrified in amber, the DNA would still be unusable. By the time the mosquito died, its stomach acids would have already dissolved the DNA past any recognizable state. After all, it's not instant - the amber is a bit slow to seep, and slow to dry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically, dinosaur blood is practically impossible to find. And if it was found, you would not be able to create anything from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15665" LastEditorUserId="15665" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T07:27:50.093" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T07:27:50.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26954" CreationDate="2014-11-06T17:04:49.187" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because it &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; fiction; entertainment, first and foremost. It's not &lt;em&gt;intended&lt;/em&gt; to be a scientifically accurate treatise on &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; how it would be like in a post apocalyptic world short on people. Folks would be milling around all day gathering roots, scratching themselves, and wondering where to walk to next. Not exactly great entertainment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How the various characters look and act is all about the elements of story-telling. People who are supposed to be likable in a story are generally made to be, um&amp;hellip; likeable. That means the visuals are generally pleasant to look at so you can have that fully-immersive experience of being right there with them and completely empathizing with them  as the main protagonists. You don't want your main characters to elicit a reaction like &quot;gross, why do I care what happens to them at all?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they DO get squalid and unhygenic if the scene calls for it&amp;hellip; but only enough to tell the story without becoming unpleasantly repulsive &amp;mdash; unless that's what the storyline happens to call for at the time &amp;mdash; but we generally leave that for the bad guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69" LastEditorUserId="69" LastEditDate="2014-11-06T18:09:30.387" LastActivityDate="2014-11-06T18:09:30.387" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9107" CreationDate="2014-11-07T03:21:39.337" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it would be more consistent if he didn't. As said,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It would be dangerous to let her go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He couldn't know what she and the basterds would do (even they didn't know at that time), so he couldn't plan ahead on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He didn't see her face in the farm. I think that having pictures (as some suggested) is unrealistic (I believe they were not very common at that time, specially in rural areas).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But mainly:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Tarantino wanted to show how good Shosanna was at hiding her emotions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The fact that he asked milk can interpreted being due to his own taste for milk plus false-consensus. But the reason for this element in the scene imply that this detail would help to destabilize Shosanna.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the four 'interrogations' (Lapadite, Shosanna, Bridget and Aldo+'little man') by him, he apparently uses the same trick of pause + stare to inspect the level of tension built on the target. In the strudel scene, the camera goes to Shosanna to show how calm she stayed on that situation (differently from Lapadite), so Landa believed she was not hiding anything. The 'question' was abandoned because he never intended to ask anything really. In all other scenes, it was made clear that the targets of the interrogation displayed a behavior Landa interpreted they were hiding something.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think the cigarettes are there to add to Landa's search for nonverbal clues of stress, fear or anxiety. When he says he wants to ask another question and stares at her and he camere focus on her face:  She both 1) doesn't stop looking in the eyes and 2) does not smoke. Lapadite, when Landa says there will be more questions, immediatly crosses his arms, and when Landa first mentioned the Dreyfus, he asks to smoke his pipe, and finally he can't look landa in the eyes. There are more details on the script which are not shown on the movie(like entire paragraphs, like when Landa persuades Lapadite that his duty at war time was to protect his daughters, and if he cooperate they'd be stopped being harassed by the german army). It is on youtube. It says, specifically, that when Lapadite finally broke down, he was with his pipe in his mouth. Maybe the strudel has to do with anxiety testing as well.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But on that scene she did show signs of anxiety at some moments, like heavy breathing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I don't really care about what Tarantino has to say about it unless it's based on what was shown at the movie (on some missed detail, for example). I prefer to interpret it the way it sounds more consistent with what was shown on screen. But I believe these are pretty strong points showing what tarantino wanted for this scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15673" LastEditorUserId="15673" LastEditDate="2020-10-02T03:24:14.290" LastActivityDate="2020-10-02T03:24:14.290" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="26964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="806" CreationDate="2014-11-07T04:10:19.490" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the swat team and Benedict showed up at the vault after the explosives were detonated, there were no suspects in the vault and no clear way of how they got out (because the three people had joined the swat team). They made the recording so that when Benedict found out it was a recording, it was an explanation to why there were no suspects as he thought that he was not getting robbed at the same time that he saw the recording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this could just be a stroke of luck as the Belagio inscribed on the floor had been installed earlier that week (Benedict says: &quot;It was installed on Tuesday&quot; when talking to Walsh). They could have been unaware of this and not included it in the replica of the vault, or they could have been aware of it and purposely not included it so that Benedict would notice. It is a small plot hole but not as major as the mystery of how the fliers got into the vault that were sent up in the elevator and into the van. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15675" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-07T09:17:19.777" LastActivityDate="2014-11-07T09:17:19.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26966" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-07T04:52:54.150" Score="16" ViewCount="25002" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching Breaking Bad : End Times &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683087/&quot;&gt;S4EP12&lt;/a&gt; and there's this scene where Walter's family moves to Hank's house for security and the little kid Holly (probably few months old) cries while the family leaves Walt behind. I understand that the scene with the kid crying is made to add more drama but I was wondering how do the film makers make the kid cry in the scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think of two possibilities&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wait for the kid to cry naturally and make the scene.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make the kid cry with a little pinch or scare the kid and so on (Please don't misjudge me as a bad person.).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think Film makers would consider the 1st option because that would cost time.&#xA;But if they go with the second option, is it not maltreatment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not insinuating anyone, these are just my assumptions. What I want to know is,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not Film makers make the kids (mainly toddlers) cry for a particular scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes, is it not maltreatment of an innocent kid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If no, what are the techniques they use to make a kid cry without maltreatment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2014-11-08T07:35:41.107" LastActivityDate="2019-11-25T15:52:58.647" Title="Do the film makers make the little kids cry?" Tags="|film-techniques|film-industry|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26967" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="26988" CreationDate="2014-11-07T05:33:54.530" Score="5" ViewCount="519" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;Let's Kill Hitler&lt;/strong&gt; (2011), River Song poisons the Doctor and everyone is certain that he will die.  The way he was eventually brought back from death was by River's spending her remaining regenerations... but why would he not simply regenerate on his own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15676" LastActivityDate="2014-11-07T18:25:51.553" Title="Why is the Doctor sometimes afraid to die (or actually does die) instead of regenerating?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26974" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-11-07T09:05:20.347" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon Martello objectifies everything in his life: his apartment, his car, his family, his church, and, of course, women. His buddies even call him Don Jon because of his ability to pull &quot;10s&quot; every weekend without fail. Yet even the finest flings don't compare to the transcendent bliss he achieves alone in front of the computer watching pornography. Dissatisfied, he embarks on a journey to find a more gratifying sex life, but ends up learning larger lessons of life and love through relationships with two very different women. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2229499/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Taken from IMDB&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastEditorUserId="7659" LastEditDate="2014-11-07T09:34:32.037" LastActivityDate="2014-11-07T09:34:32.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26975" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-11-07T09:05:20.347" Score="0" Body="Don Jon, shows a new Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, developing unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love." OwnerUserId="7659" LastEditorUserId="7659" LastEditDate="2014-11-07T11:21:12.827" LastActivityDate="2014-11-07T11:21:12.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26976" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-07T09:55:53.693" Score="2" ViewCount="4273" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the sitcom, Two and a Half Men, Charlie composes jingles for actual products, like cereal, Pepsi etc. And even sometimes for shows on TV like Oshikuru. Some of them are really catchy and you get a sense it should be used in the real world. Were his jingles made by someone else in the real world and used on products, and later adopted in the sitcom &lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt; was it made just for use in the sitcom and not in the real world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-07T10:02:21.580" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T11:31:22.533" Title="Were Charlie Harper's jingles real?" Tags="|two-and-a-half-men|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26977" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27058" CreationDate="2014-11-07T10:01:06.763" Score="11" ViewCount="33774" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gattaca&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, before &lt;em&gt;Vincent&lt;/em&gt; heads to his flight, &lt;em&gt;Jerome&lt;/em&gt; shows him a whole lot of samples and says that he's going on a &lt;em&gt;&quot;journey&quot;&lt;/em&gt; himself. He gives &lt;em&gt;Vincent&lt;/em&gt; an envelope not to open before he's up in space. When &lt;em&gt;Vincent&lt;/em&gt; then finally starts his journey to Titan, &lt;em&gt;Jerome&lt;/em&gt; puts on his silver medal and then commits suicide in the incinerator. And when &lt;em&gt;Vincent&lt;/em&gt; opens the envelope he finds a tuft of hair, most probably &lt;em&gt;Jerome&lt;/em&gt;'s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;I wonder what &lt;em&gt;Jerome&lt;/em&gt; wanted to say with this envelope.&lt;/strong&gt; Was this his way of telling &lt;em&gt;Vincent&lt;/em&gt; that he commited suicide? If yes, then how is this to be deduced from a tuft of his hair? If not, what other message did he want to convey this way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2024-01-21T17:34:39.417" Title="What is Jerome saying with the tuft of hair?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gattaca|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4158" CreationDate="2014-11-07T12:18:55.003" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Along the theme of Benjamin and Elaine having the same father.  I had the same thought.  Was it purposeful of the director ... was it accidental innuendo ... wild imagination?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The absoluteness, emphatic insistence  and secrecy was the reason for my suspicion. Robinson was Benjamin's partner ...the friendship was 'Ben's whole life'.  If true then Ben's Dad was unaware. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The end of the movie nulled my suspicions.   Mrs. Robinson clearly was , civilly, urbanely, using Ben.  The director gave us no lingering looks between her and Ben's Father.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end I believe the affair and the barrier to Ben and Elaine's future was Mrs.Robinsons Anger towards her husband. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;separate rooms.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He comes home late with golf clubs. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She admits to being addicted to alcohol..imply her life is to blame.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She hates to be alone in her own house ...imply she is not mistress of net desmense.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hurting her husband most deeply...premeditated affair with his partners son.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rejection of the marriage Alliance between the two families is anathema to her. ... it sets a permanent validation to her husband and his life.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15682" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-07T12:24:36.923" LastActivityDate="2014-11-07T12:24:36.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26966" CreationDate="2014-11-07T12:21:05.927" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think, this varies from scene to scene. For example, I was recently watching Modern Family and in a scene, Jay &amp;amp; Gloria's son is shown starts crying, when his mother is putting him in his baby-car and stops crying when she pulls him out. Similarly in one episode the baby pukes as soon as someone talks of Gay-marriage. This is shown 3 times. What's similar in both scenes is that the camera is never close enough on the baby so that you can't notice baby's face in any scene. This means that while shooting the baby didn't do anything. they just played sound and made us feel that way. I am sure we all have seen many similar scenes. So it can be assumed that in cases where we don't see baby's face clearly, there is nothing happening with the baby at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in my opinion and it's a personal opinion, the possibility of deliberately making a baby cry for a scene could not be denied. As I have seen in many movies, (not necessarily Hollywood) where an actual crying baby is shown. OP is right that it is highly unlikely that the producers will wait for the infant to start crying. It is unrealistic since the scene might require many retakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now you might think why would the parents allow their baby to be made cry. Well, first of all, think why did they allow their infant to be used in a movie production at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In California, according to the law, any child as young as only&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;15 days&lt;/strong&gt; can be used in a shooting. Surprisingly in many other&#xA;states, there is no minimum age at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2007/06/where_do_hollywood_babies_come_from.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know a baby with 15 days of age, needs a lot of rest and they sleep most of the time. Any parent's biggest concern is to pacify their crying babies, let alone the thought of deliberately making them cry, but still it is done. Why ? The same link states.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to a SAG spokesperson, infants are typically hired as&#xA;&amp;quot;background actors&amp;quot; and receive a day rate of $126. If an agent or&#xA;parent bargains for the child to be paid as a principal performer, the&#xA;rate increases to $737 per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think, it can be denied that kids are deliberately made to cry in some scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-07T12:51:12.023" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26983" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-07T13:23:35.270" Score="6" ViewCount="2206" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am planning to watch Interstellar, but I'm wondering which version I should watch. It has been released on a wide variety of media, among them classic 35mm film and IMAX. So I'm not sure if I should watch IMAX DMR or 35mm film if I have these choices available?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without getting into subjective discussions of what is &quot;better&quot; than the other, what are the particular objective differences between both those two different formats? &lt;strong&gt;What are the advantages or disadvantages of IMAX DMR over 35mm film&lt;/strong&gt; and does it depend on the format in which the film was originally captured? Are these general differences pertaining to every movie or does this depend on the specific movie to a large degree? If yes, what is the specific situation regarding Interstellar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15684" LastEditorUserId="9382" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T16:06:04.193" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T16:06:04.193" Title="IMAX DMR vs 35mm film" Tags="|film-techniques|interstellar|distribution|imax|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26985" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-07T16:32:07.577" Score="3" ViewCount="610" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Gone Girl, Amy's neighbor Noelle Hawthorne comes to detective Boney and tells her that she was a friend of Amy. Next we see that while her investigation is going on, Noelle comes to Amy &amp;amp; Nick's house, but when the detective sees her at the door, she asks policemen to escort her out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a complex case and detective was desperately looking for some solid information. Why didn't she question Amy's neighbor and friend? It is pretty evident that the neighbor hadn't told everything to the detective, because she shows up at the gathering and publicly discloses that Amy was pregnant. At this the detective seems shocked, but earlier when that lady was coming to her, she avoided her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't the detective question her in detail, the first time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-07T16:52:27.997" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T11:00:39.710" Title="Why didn't detective Boney question Amy's neighbor for details?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gone-girl|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9891" CreationDate="2014-11-07T17:01:27.377" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is this picture used in the opening titles of Cheers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The half-hour comedy sitcom was (mostly) about a Boston bar/pub, and the regulars who were there. It was supposedly a bar situated near to Boston's baseball stadium. Sam Malone was an ex-professional baseball player, and the character of Coach was his coach earlier in life. So the initial photo-montage was all related to Boston, baseball and specifically Boston baseball.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is similar to the photo-montage used in the titles of Southland, a one-hour drama concerning South Los Angeles police precinct and its officers. The photos used there were all related to well known events detected and discovered by the real officers of &quot;Southland.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2014-11-07T17:01:27.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26967" CreationDate="2014-11-07T18:25:51.553" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two reasons. One we learn during the episode, and one we learn later on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The particular poison that River uses is identified by the TARDIS voice interface as &amp;quot;the poison of the Judas tree&amp;quot; and notes that &amp;quot;regeneration [is] disabled&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the transcript:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HOLO-AMELIA: Your system has been contaminated by the poison of the Judas tree. You will be dead in thirty two minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DOCTOR: Okay. So, basically better regenerate, that's what you're saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HOLO-AMELIA: Regeneration disabled. You will be dead in thirty two minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DOCTOR: Unless I'm cured, yeah?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HOLO-AMELIA: There is no cure. You will be dead in thirty two minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Silence knows that the Doctor is a Time Lord; they know he can regenerate. So, if they want to kill him, they would have had to have found something that could bypass his regenerative ability. Presumably, this particular poison has that ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As for why River's regeneration energy works when the Doctor's own wouldn't -- perhaps it's because of the &lt;em&gt;quantity&lt;/em&gt; of energy; she gave him all her remaining regenerations in one go. Or maybe it's because the poison is somehow attuned to her bio-energy, which is why she could have it on her lips without killing her, but just the touch of it to the Doctor's lips is enough to contaminate his system.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, even more importantly, (and I'm spoilering this since I don't know if you've watched beyond this episode):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; The Doctor doesn't have any regenerations left at this point. He may be the 11th Doctor, but he is on his 13th and final incarnation. There is an entire regeneration between the 8th and 9th Doctors that fought in the Time War that refused the name &amp;quot;Doctor&amp;quot; that he doesn't talk about, and the partial regeneration of the 10th Doctor during Journey's End winds up also counting. So it turns out that even a conventional weapon would have killed the Doctor at this point, though he's going to great lengths not to let anyone know that. (Wouldn't you?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7962" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-07T18:25:51.553" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="26996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2014-11-07T22:32:58.470" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's left open to interpretation.  There are massive problems with either theory (of James existing or not). If he does exist, then it becomes a movie with a supernatural element, since when one gets hurt it replicates in the other (and somehow the Colonel is in the ambulance, which is pretty odd).  If James doesn't exist, however, the problem becomes that like 70% of the movie is a complete hallucination, since Simon is interacting with other characters who would not be able to see James (who wouldn't exist), yet are constantly acknowledging him as a different entity than Simon (eg - his boss who keeps comparing them, the guard who doesn't let Simon through then does after James says 'he's with me,' the waitress who takes both of their food orders, the guy at the funeral who chases him with a shovel, and even Hannah, who asks Simon for the key so she can see what James is doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankly, though I liked the movie, neither explanation makes much sense.  I'd be of a different mind if there was at least some indication that he was possibly hallucinating everything, but if there was, I missed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15690" LastActivityDate="2014-11-07T22:32:58.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27004" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="63106" CreationDate="2014-11-08T02:46:24.720" Score="2" ViewCount="1851" Body="&lt;p&gt;For instance, I'm watching the Jackie Chan movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271946/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Accidental Spy&lt;/a&gt;.  Part of the dialogue is in English, and part of it is in Korean (or maybe it's Chinese?).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One scene that comes to mind is when Jackie Chan goes to the church. The priest asks him if he's Japanese (in English) and Chan says he's Korean (again in English). Then they start speaking Korean. Why not just stick to English? Also, he has certain conversations with a lawyer in both English and Korean, depending on the scene. There's also one Korean woman he speaks to only in English&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be the purpose of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2016-11-11T15:32:21.600" LastActivityDate="2016-11-11T15:33:57.067" Title="Why do some movies contain scenes in different languages?" Tags="|dialogue|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16195" CreationDate="2014-11-08T04:33:29.513" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched this movie, and it was my impression at the end that Simon never really existed, and that it was Franck who had been the actual abusive ex, and that he was the one who was subsequently hypnotized not only into forgetting all of that, but also into believing that many events that had happened to him (and many that had not) had actually happened to Simon, who was in reality a completely fictionalized person suggested by Elizabeth and serving mainly as a way to further obfuscate what had really occurred as well as to create additional distance from the memory of their relationship.&#xA;Hence the convenient head injury to Simon that led to memory loss, Franck being the one to suggest finding a hypnotist to fix it, Franck and Elizabeth being the ones to meet and negotiate a partnership, Franck and Elizabeth's sexual relationship being the only one portrayed, Elizabeth's insistence to Simon in the elevator that Franck remain alive, Simon ultimately dying and Franck surviving, the movie ending with Franck, etc.&#xA;As far as I'm concerned, the clues are all there.&#xA;What do other people think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15697" LastActivityDate="2014-11-08T04:33:29.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24306" CreationDate="2014-11-08T07:17:40.920" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, people in different parts of India speak different languages, so, If a movie is made with reputed cast and crew then the producers are likely to dub the movie in different languages such that people all over India would enjoy watching movie in their native language. Also remember that the movies with high budget are the ones mostly get dubbed in different languages to get good money collections at box office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as per your question, you were surprised that the movie is released with different crew in two different languages mainly Tamil and Hindi and also asked whether &lt;strong&gt;if it is actually common practice in Indian cinema to simultaneously make a movie in multiple languages&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer, &lt;strong&gt;I would not say it is a common practice but definitely it's not surprising for us in India&lt;/strong&gt;. Let me give a quick brief about the director of the movie. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mani_Ratnam&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mani Ratnam&lt;/a&gt; born in Tamil Nadu (a state in south India) but his film making is admired by the whole nation. His movies are made in one language and dubbed in different languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie Raavanan (tamil) and Raavan (Hindi) is simultaneously released. As you mentioned, the actor of the tamil movie Raavanan is Vikram, he is very reputed in South India for his acting skills and South Indians would love to see Vikram in a dominant role in Raavanan rather than a Hindi actor Abhishek Bachchan who also happens to be famous for good acting skills. Similarly, the same thing applies for the North Indians. This may be the reason why Raavanan with Vikram is made in Tamil and dubbed in Telugu and probably Kannada and Malayalam (native languages for Southern Indians) and Raavan with Abhishek Bachchan is made in Hindi. So, it is in his best interest to entertain both North and South Indian audience. He made few of his movies with this strategy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rediff.com/movies/2004/may/21mani.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt;, he speaks about how he felt making the same movie with different cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Directors normally find it a nightmare to juggle just one cast, and here you have gone made the same movie twice, in Hindi and Tamil. What was your experience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I had two nightmares (laughs). I have not done this before, and the&#xA;  two movies were shot back to back, not simultaneously. I dealt with&#xA;  two different set of actors, and each brought its own changes.&#xA;  Filmmaking brings its own organic way of doing things, changes, it&#xA;  develops a character of its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dil se&lt;/strong&gt; is a movie he made in Hindi and dubbed in Tamil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Did you resort to this because in Dil Se/Uyire, the same cast speaking&#xA;  in two different languages did not gel with the audience, and that the&#xA;  north and south have their own sensibilities?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dil Se was dubbed into Tamil as Uyire. Dubbing a movie brings its own&#xA;  set of compromises, and you end up losing some of the elasticity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;your another question,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;if those versions are really made exactly equal or if there are larger-scale differences in the story catering to the specific demands of the respective cultures&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases, even though the story line remains exactly the same, but their might be differences in the different versions with respect to culture and fashion, examples : dressing style and living style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some other cases, consider this movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1602585/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; Ye Maaya Chesave (2010) &lt;/a&gt; in Telugu and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1609168/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010) &lt;/a&gt; in Tamil, both directed by Gautham Menon with different cast and released simultaneously. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Tamil version, the heroine leaves the hero in the second half of the movie and gets married with another guy in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the Telugu version, director learned that this kinda ending would disappoint Telugu audience so he changed the ending where heroine patches up with hero in the end and they both get married.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, you could say that the directors make films with also keeping audiences opinions in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2014-11-10T05:44:49.457" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T05:44:49.457" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21938" CreationDate="2014-11-08T11:11:34.747" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fish is poisonous, they pass it around to spread its blood on their weapons as intimidation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15703" LastActivityDate="2014-11-08T11:11:34.747" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27011" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27038" CreationDate="2014-11-08T12:01:22.820" Score="27" ViewCount="58205" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any ideas on the timeline of Interstellar's plot? How many years from now does the story take place? We know that it begins in near future, but any approximations or clues about &quot;how many years from now?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="7302" LastEditDate="2014-11-26T14:28:50.950" LastActivityDate="2018-02-11T12:51:32.330" Title="In what time does Interstellar take place?" Tags="|interstellar|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27012" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27013" CreationDate="2014-11-08T12:06:05.873" Score="38" ViewCount="61881" Body="&lt;p&gt;A large part of the story in Interstellar takes place in space and hence there are many occasions when it feels like &quot;wouldn't it have been better to watch this scene in 3D?&quot;. Especially after &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_(film)&quot;&gt;Gravity&lt;/a&gt;, the expectation has risen for the space scenes? Although, I would agree that Interstellar and Gravity are very different movies. There is a lot more to Interstellar than the space scenes, it primarily being a story about humans, but still this question comes to mind &quot;Why didn't Chris Nolan shoot it in 3D?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-23T18:29:59.130" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T18:29:59.130" Title="Why wasn't Interstellar shot in 3D?" Tags="|production|3d|interstellar|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27012" CreationDate="2014-11-08T13:29:57.963" Score="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Christopher Nolan is, quite famously, aghast with 3D; which he perceives to be an industry forced as opposed to audience led technology... basically, its only around as a way for the film industry to make more money. Nolan is a great advocate of Film, and a great critic of the machinations of the film industry that are pushing for 3-D:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The question of 3-D is a very straightforward one,&quot; said Nolan. &quot;I never meet anybody who actually likes the format, and it’s always a source of great concern to me when you’re charging a higher price for something that nobody seems to really say they have any great love for.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has also been &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/christopher-nolan-imax-3d-cgi-mlee-164945/&quot;&gt;quite outspoken&lt;/a&gt; on how 3D visually diminishes the final content, as opposed to contributing anything aesthetic to it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I find stereoscopic imaging too small scale and intimate in its effect. 3-D is a misnomer. Films are 3-D. The whole point of photography is that it’s three-dimensional. The thing with stereoscopic imaging is it gives each audience member an individual perspective. It’s well suited to video games and other immersive technologies, but if you’re looking for an audience experience, stereoscopic is hard to embrace. I prefer the big canvas, looking up at an enormous screen and at an image that feels larger than life. When you treat that stereoscopically, and we’ve tried a lot of tests, you shrink the size so the image becomes a much smaller window in front of you. So the effect of it, and the relationship of the image to the audience, has to be very carefully considered. And I feel that in the initial wave to embrace it, that wasn’t considered in the slightest.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-11-08T13:29:57.963" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27012" CreationDate="2014-11-08T13:52:27.327" Score="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Christopher Nolan&lt;/em&gt; has repeatedly expressed his dislike for 3D based on various reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For example in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://deadline.com/2011/01/oscar-christopher-nolan-qa-inceptions-writer-director-is-a-hollwood-original-94704/&quot;&gt;interview about &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; he expressed that while interesting, &lt;strong&gt;3D isn't too relevant for a movie's effect&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DEADLINE:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Why didn’t you shoot in 3D which studios like Warner Bros have made a priority?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;NOLAN:&lt;/strong&gt; We looked at shooting Inception in 3D and decided we’d be too restricted by the technology. We wouldn’t have been able to shoot on film the way we’d like to. We looked at post-converting it, actually did some tests, and they were very good. But we didn’t have time to do the conversion that we would have been satisfied with. Inception deals with subjectivity, quite intimate associations between the audience and the perceived state of reality of the characters. In the case of Batman, I view those as iconic, operatic movies, dealing with larger-than-life characters. The intimacy that the 3D parallax illusion imposes isn’t really compatible with that. We are finishing our story on the next Batman, and we want to be consistent to the look of the previous films. There was more of an argument for a film like Inception. I’ve seen work in 3D like Avatar that’s exciting. But, for me, what was most exciting about Avatar was the creation of a world, the use of visual effects, motion capture, performance capture, these kinds of things. I don’t think Avatar can be reduced to its 3D component, it had so much more innovation going on that’s extremely exciting. 3D has always been an interesting technical format, a way of showing something to the audience. But you have to look at the story you’re telling: is it right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-blog/9997393/Christopher-Nolan-Im-weary-of-3D.html&quot;&gt;interview with &lt;em&gt;The Telegraph&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; he said that he is still sceptical about the whole technology, that &lt;strong&gt;he doesn't enjoy it as a viewer himself&lt;/strong&gt; and that he thinks many viewers agree with him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When we talked about his movie Inception and why he decided not to convert it to 3D, he told me: “3D has come and gone many times over the years. I don’t particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well projected film has a very three dimensional quality to it so I’m somewhat sceptical of the technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Until we get rid of the glasses or until we really massively improve the process, I’m a little weary of it.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/2012/07/17/dark_knight_creator_nolan_sticks_to_2_dimensions/?source=newsletter&quot;&gt;is of the opinion&lt;/a&gt;, that it is mainly &lt;strong&gt;a way for studios to charge higher ticket prices&lt;/strong&gt;, something that he, out of &lt;strong&gt;respect for his audience&lt;/strong&gt;, just doesn't want for his own movies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“The question of 3-D is a very straightforward one,” Nolan said in a recent interview. “I never meet anybody who actually likes the format, and it’s always a source of great concern to me when you’re charging a higher price for something that nobody seems to really say they have any great love for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“It’s up to the audience to tell us how they want to watch the movies. More people go see these films in 2-D, and so it’s difficult data to interpret. And I certainly don’t want to shoot in a format just to charge people a higher ticket price.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thewrap.com/christopher-nolan-great-gatsby-worked-3d-isnt/&quot;&gt;article about &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in particular, he explains that while he still likes to embrace new technologies (for example he's quite an IMAX fan), he feels that &lt;strong&gt;digital and 3D is not the best way to capture images&lt;/strong&gt; for him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The “Interstellar” filmmaker confessed that he is not a fan of 3D and prefers to shoot on film, not digital. “I'm committed to film not out of a sense of nostalgia,” Nolan said. “Film is the best way to capture an image.” He's not a luddite, he claimed. It's just that images aren't as sharp and can appear pixilated when projected or shot digitally. “I'm in favor of any kind of technical innovation…for me it always has to exceed the technology that came before it,” Nolan explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nolan argued that studios are more interested in bottom lines than beauty. Digital copies of films are less expensive to produce and ship to theaters than 35 millimeter copies of films. He suggested that studios are willing to accept technical imperfections “in the drive to make things cheaper.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not all 3D is bad, Nolan argued. He praised Baz Luhrmann‘s “The Great Gatsby” as a film that used the extra dimensionality to great effect and created an atmosphere that washed over viewers. Yet, it can also have an isolating impact, Nolan suggested, one that removes viewers from a communal experience of moviegoing. “My resistance to 3D is purely based on what I feel is right for the films I want to make,” Nolan said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a little addendum, I just watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/YPYlK1pRptc&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wolfgang Schmitt&lt;/em&gt;'s interesting analysis&lt;/a&gt; of the movie and he also makes some remarks about the movie's and &lt;em&gt;Nolan&lt;/em&gt;'s sticking to analog 2D, setting it in relation to the minding of at least some traditions while still venturing into new territories present in the movie's story, as well as the pragmatism and anglo-saxon philosophy supposedly inherent in the rest of the movie (translated into English by me):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nolan is an advocate of the analog cinema and this materiality of the film is also reflected aesthetically. It's the little impurities, the rouhgness of the images from cinematographer Van Hoytema, which makes the screen actually look like a screen. There doesn't reign a photoshop-highgloss aesthetic here, the screen doesn't become a slick user interface. There is really still sweat on Cooper's face, the space shuttle doesn't look like being cleaned daily by a cleaning sqaud...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...But it's also about tradition and origin. In the movie there's a careful evaluation of what has to be kept and what can be removed for standing in the way of progress. [...] Books still play a large role, and not everything that's new is good, for they shy away from the act of just reproducing the humans artificially. The human as he is is alright, the movie wants to say, enough potential is in him and he too can reach new dimensions without sacrificing his being human. What holds for the humans also holds for cinema. Christopher Nolan, the upright fighter for the alalog cinema shows us what is possible with the classic film stock. Like the good old book shelf can be a key to new galaxies in the movie - one of the most beautiful homages to the printed book one has to say - in the same way in the good old cinema there's still new things to experience. But the real new things are only possible when there's also something kept. Of course Christopher Nolan doesn't need 3D glasses to show this, as he's long reached the 5th dimension anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-13T21:16:51.470" LastActivityDate="2014-11-13T21:16:51.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27015" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27017" CreationDate="2014-11-08T13:56:08.557" Score="20" ViewCount="17543" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;Interstellar&lt;/strong&gt;, NASA scientists keep saying &quot;they&quot; in most of their conversation with Cooper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does &quot;they&quot; refer to some alien or supernatural race?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="24423" LastEditDate="2017-02-01T11:27:23.213" LastActivityDate="2017-02-01T11:27:23.213" Title="Who are &quot;they&quot; in Interstellar?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27016" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27018" CreationDate="2014-11-08T14:37:12.483" Score="12" ViewCount="6726" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following quote is from the Jurassic Park book, spoken by the character &lt;strong&gt;Ian Malcolm&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power. There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years. Whatever kind of power you want. President of the company. Black belt in karate. Spiritual guru. Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it’s your power. It can't be given away: it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now what is interesting about this process is that, by the time someone has acquired the ability to kill with his bare hands, he has also matured to the point where he won't use it unwisely. So that kind of power has a built-in control. The discipline of getting the power changes you so that that you won't abuse it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(full context of the quote can be read &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stjohns-chs.org/english/Seventeenth/jur.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my best recollection, I don't remember ever reading the book.  I did, however, see the three movies.  And for whatever reason, the part of the movie that quotes the text above (albeit, probably paraphrased for brevity) has always stuck in my memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, when I wanted to look up the specific way it was said in the movie, I could only find the quote above from the actual book, and nothing that resembles it from the movie.  I even searched online and found (what I thought was) the full script for each of the three movies: &lt;a href=&quot;http://sfy.ru/?script=jurassic_park&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;JP1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lost_World_Film_Script&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;JP2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://sfy.ru/?script=jp3&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;JP3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, I don't remember ever having read the book, I've only seen the movie, and for whatever reason I knew of the passage above. To that end, I figured I'd ask for help from this community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does the quote above from the book appear anywhere in any of the Jurassic Park movies?&lt;/strong&gt;  Even paraphrased or summarized or explained differently. And if so, &lt;strong&gt;please provide some details as to me where and when&lt;/strong&gt;.  If you provide a link to a youtube video, you get extra credit, and my eternal gratitude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:  For what its worth, I seem to remember specifically mention of Black Belts or Killing someone with their bare hands as a part of the movie.  And vaguely I seem to remember it as coming from the 2nd movie (The Lost World).  Added this to maybe help provide some clues.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15704" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-08T15:35:47.680" Title="Did this quote from the book appear in any of the Jurassic Park movies?" Tags="|book-adaptation|dialogue|jurassic-park|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27015" CreationDate="2014-11-08T15:01:45.713" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'They' being referred to is (at this point in the movie) some unknown, supposedly extra-terrestrial higher knowledge that is manipulating gravity to send messages in Binary, and Morse code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some reason, they are directing NASA on Earth towards a solution to their planet's exhaustion; which is why when Coop shows up at the base after following the co-ordinates, the immediately assume his presence is some kind of providence and recruit him into the team...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we later learn that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; ... 'they' are in fact the future remnants of the human race, that have achieved a technology so advanced they are able to manipulate the 4th dimension: namely, &lt;strong&gt;time.&lt;/strong&gt; It is Coop's future invocation that is &lt;em&gt;directing himself&lt;/em&gt; to NASA, and onto the program. With the help of CASE, Coop transmits the data required to complete Murph/Brand's formula, and achieve the necessary scientific knowledge to leave Earth with full colonies.The 'They' is a combination of the future human race which sent back the Space/time interface for Coop to manipulate, and Coop himself...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-11-05T09:54:59.090" LastActivityDate="2015-11-05T09:54:59.090" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27016" CreationDate="2014-11-08T15:09:04.167" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The exact diologue is to my knowledge nowhere to be found in any of the movies. But I think in a quite changed form it is still there in the book's adaptation. In the scene in &lt;em&gt;Jurassic Park&lt;/em&gt; where they all are dining after their first welcome to the facility and after visiting the labs, &lt;em&gt;Dr. Ian Malcolm&lt;/em&gt; says something pretty much to the same effect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Malcolm:&lt;/strong&gt; Don't you see the danger, John, inherent in what you're doing here. Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet's ever seen but you wield it like a kid that's found his dad's gun...I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You know, you read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of genuises to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had, you petented it, packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox and now you're selling it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hammond:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't think you give us our due credit. Our scientists have done things which nobody has ever done before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Malcolm:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt;, they didn't start to think if they &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing that the essence of the original dialogue is about the responsibility and knowledge of the moral implications that come with acquiring power over time in contrast to just finding it out of nowhere, this still seems reflected well in &lt;em&gt;Malcolm&lt;/em&gt;'s dialogue in this scene. So while the particular quote in the book seems to occur at a different time and while I haven't read it myself, I think his words in this scene are very well the adaptation of this quote, or at least the nearest you get to its actual message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/0Nz8YrCC9X8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-08T15:30:38.260" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27015" CreationDate="2014-11-08T15:22:21.543" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While John Smith's answer is correct, I just want to add a little more explanation to it, since thinking about it seems a little paradoxical. It's my understanding and it could be wrong, but I would give it a try. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &quot;They&quot; are neither aliens nor super-natural forces. They are thought of as extra-terrestrial  beings back on earth. But actually &quot;They&quot; are humans themselves. How did all this happen ? When earth was in danger, some human beings were sent from earth into outer space to discover a new home and save humanity. These folks succeeded in their mission. But now the task that remained was putting it all in action and actually saving the human race. This is actually a case of time-travel. The humans sent there, made huge scientific progress and were able to manipulate the 4th dimension: namely, time. Using this they actually traveled back in time and send all sorts of signals and clues to the human race (many years back in time). Cooper too is a part of &quot;They&quot;. Murphy though she was getting signals from some extra terrestrial being, but it was actually Cooper himself. Let's put it this way : Some Humans left earth in search of new land. They found it and developed new colonies but they could not get back and this took a long long time. May be human kind became extinct at this point on earth, but the surviving humans manipulated the 4th dimension: namely, time and hence they traveled back in time and sent signals and information to the human race when it was still alive. Helped them at many points so that humans were actually saved back then (when they left earth). &lt;strong&gt;Afterwards, as it happens in case of time travel fiction, once you change something in the past, a wave of repercussions happens and everything from that point of time to current, is changed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-11-08T15:25:46.043" LastActivityDate="2014-11-08T15:25:46.043" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27027" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27030" CreationDate="2014-11-08T21:38:15.813" Score="12" ViewCount="4431" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did Cooper find the location of NASA from the patterns in the dust in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Later from the movie we come to know that Cooper himself was sending those coordinates of NASA. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what I don't get from the movie is how did Cooper make to it to be the coordinates since that data could be anything. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Granted that his future self knowing himself could have had an idea on how he thinks but it's still one thing to know himself another thing to figure it out completely. This part seems a little bit unconvincing to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3559" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-13T21:22:26.740" LastActivityDate="2014-11-13T21:22:26.740" Title="How did Cooper find the location of NASA from the patterns?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27028" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-10-31T16:23:56.033" Score="1" ViewCount="571" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Wikipedia, of 13 new US-made WW2-themed war movies for 2014, only one is about fighting Japan. In fact, Wikipedia tallies 41 of these US-made or co-produced WW2-themed productions since the year 2000 that deal with Germany but only 12 with Japan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No film industry association I contacted (guilds, AFI, the Oscars' academy), nor two LA Times entertainment editors, nor the German Film Institute, has replied to my query. Not even the principal producer of last year's HBO series &quot;The Pacific&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My dad and uncles all fought Japan and would wonder about the disparity. Now I'm wondering. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="chet green" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2015-01-10T18:05:36.727" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T15:08:33.200" Title="Why do post-war Hollywood WWII-themed movies ignore Japan?" Tags="|historical-accuracy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27029" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-08T21:51:40.940" Score="15" ViewCount="15670" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; we learn that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cooper saved humanity by communicating with his daughter. &quot;Stay&quot; I guess was communicated to her in Morse code. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't get is how did she connect all this weird happenings to this fact? I find this a little too far fetched. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3559" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-13T21:50:51.483" LastActivityDate="2017-04-04T12:58:59.790" Title="How did Murph figure it out?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27027" CreationDate="2014-11-08T21:56:13.790" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Latitude and Longitude are often used to represent locations. A lot of GPS devices also use this. Since Cooper was a pilot, he was most definitely familiar with this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Binary is one way to represent numbers, just like HEX and Decimal. Since Cooper was an engineer, he was most definitely aware of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, doesn't seem too far-fetched to me (unlike the ending of the film).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7089" LastActivityDate="2014-11-08T21:56:13.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27027" CreationDate="2014-11-09T03:33:08.770" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I deciphered two numbers from binary (in BCD or ascii) that looked like: &#xA;38.835556 and 104.6975&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then I would not have to be a former astronaut (just someone who likes cartography) to figure out that they mean: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Aerospace_Defense_Command&quot;&gt;38°50′08″N 104°41′51″W&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quibble: The only problem was that the bar codes in the dust didn't seem to have enough 'data' to yield 38.835556 and 104.6975 encoded in BCD, IEEE 754, or ASCII.... At least from the camera perspective, it looked like a 1 dimension (no jokes about 'gravity') barcode such as Code128 and not a 2D one such as Aztec. I only counted about 16 bars on the floor, so only 2 bytes worth of data (not assuming checksums and start/end bars)....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12680" LastActivityDate="2014-11-09T03:33:08.770" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27035" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27063" CreationDate="2014-11-09T06:40:58.190" Score="2" ViewCount="53140" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd just like to know if Jack died in the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1181840/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I mean, seriously, I need to know. They somewhat suggest it, sure, but I mean, he could be just dreaming or something... So does he die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15722" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-09T12:14:32.873" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T22:51:33.143" Title="Does Jack die in the end of the movie Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|jack-and-the-cuckoo-clock-heart|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27037" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-09T11:17:04.783" Score="34" ViewCount="13411" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, after young Murph places the watch on the bookshelf in her bedroom, her father - in the same bedroom but from another dimension - moved the second hand and recorded data in a Morse-signal message on it. Many years later, the second hand still signals the message, grown-up Murph finds the watch and takes it with her to NASA and there she translates the message back into the data needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we assume the watch had a long lasting battery, then I still see some problems with this plot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From what we know from the explanation in the movie itself is that the only thing capable to &lt;em&gt;travel&lt;/em&gt; from &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt; in the 4th or 5th dimension to present Earth is gravity. Gravity is a vertical force on Earth. It pulled dust from the air to the floor in a barcode-like pattern. So how can it adjust the horizontal position of the second hand of the watch? Like a magnet?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And how is a multiple of those movements of the second hand &lt;em&gt;recorded&lt;/em&gt; on the watch? How does it &lt;em&gt;play&lt;/em&gt; the message for all these years, again and again. Not only in Murph's bedroom, but still at NASA too?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally I would answer this myself by saying that it is film, it is science fiction, everything is possible, and there is no need to question things we cannot explain. But this movie certainly has the intention of being truthful to science, to explain what is going on and this particular director has a reputation of telling stories that in one way or another always has plausible explanations for plot-hole-like aspects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="148" LastEditDate="2014-11-22T12:33:10.233" LastActivityDate="2018-12-02T13:29:15.017" Title="How did the watch do what it did?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27011" CreationDate="2014-11-09T12:18:10.267" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bustle.com/articles/47670-when-does-interstellar-take-place-christopher-nolans-futuristic-tale-is-set-sooner-than-you-think&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This post from Bustle.com&lt;/a&gt; gives some good reasoning for Interstellar being set around the 2070s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary: the descriptions of halcyon days gone by from Cooper's live-in father-in-law Donald sound very much like our present day. Assuming Donald was born between 1980s-2000s, he may have had Cooper's (now deceased) wife around 2030-2035. Cooper is in his late 30s, so assuming his wife was a roughly similar age this takes us up to 2070-ish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure this maths &lt;em&gt;completely&lt;/em&gt; holds up under scrutiny, but I think it's clear from that logic that it's not as near-future as the 10-20 years from now other posts suggest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/3327/keybrd-basher&quot;&gt;Keybrd Basher&lt;/a&gt; for pointing out a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/27011/in-what-time-does-interstellar-take-place/27038#comment38683_27038&quot;&gt;silly mistake&lt;/a&gt;, now corrected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15725" LastEditorUserId="15725" LastEditDate="2018-02-11T12:51:32.330" LastActivityDate="2018-02-11T12:51:32.330" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27040" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27072" CreationDate="2014-11-09T13:12:04.093" Score="10" ViewCount="3441" Body="&lt;p&gt;How was humanity able to use the quantum data that Murph received from her dad's watch in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15726" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-11-15T03:52:34.457" LastActivityDate="2016-02-13T12:58:27.370" Title="In what way was Murph's quantum data from her Dad's watch helpful?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27051" CreationDate="2014-11-09T13:30:29.977" Score="45" ViewCount="31199" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the end of &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; Murph says to her father to go seek Brand as she is all alone on their &quot;new planet&quot;. How could Murph know that Wolf Edmunds was dead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="290" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-23T11:27:49.933" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T13:03:34.360" Title="How did Murph know about Edmunds?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27040" CreationDate="2014-11-09T13:51:24.033" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It enabled Murph to complete Professor Brand's equation which was required to enact &quot;Plan A&quot; for the evacuation of Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brand and Murph had previously been unable to complete this equation as such quantum data was only available from a black hole. TARS going into a black hole and transmitting this data back to Cooper in the 4th dimension, who then tranmitted it to Earth via the watch, allowed for its completion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Updated answer above - it was actually TARS, not Cooper, who got the quantum data, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/27052/15725&quot;&gt;pointed out by ed0&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15725" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2014-11-09T18:57:10.020" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15155" CreationDate="2014-11-09T15:07:12.090" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Darcy asks Victor at the end of the movie &quot;Did you choose not to kill me cause I've got a wife and a kid?&quot; I thought for sure Victor would say something about Darcy being such a great friend and that he was different from the rest of the crew, so when Victor says &quot;No. I didn't kill you because they've got you&quot;, I had to go back and put the subtitles on so I could be sure of what he said and then I went back and watched the very beginning of the movie when Darcy is holding his baby in the car and talking to Victor and in my opinion the reason Victor didn't kill Darcy is because Darcy's wife and baby 'got him', meaning 'they' got his whole heart, that Darcy gets how deep that love goes, and his wife and baby have that from him, 'they' his family 'got him' not the outside world. Just my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really liked the movie, Colin Farrell says so much with saying so little, he is an awesome Actor and the rest of the cast was awesome too! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15729" LastActivityDate="2014-11-09T15:07:12.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27044" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-11-09T15:21:01.057" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dark Valley&lt;/em&gt; (orig.: &lt;em&gt;Das finstere Tal&lt;/em&gt;) is a 2007 Austrian Western about a stranger visiting a lone village in the Alps to set things straight with the local patriarch and his sons. It is based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Willmann.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2650978/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Valley&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-09T15:21:01.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-09T15:21:01.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27045" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-11-09T15:21:01.057" Score="0" Body="2007 Austrian Western (orig.: Das finstere Tal) about a stranger visiting a lone village in the Alps to set things straight with the local patriarch and his sons, based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Willmann." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-09T15:21:01.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-09T15:21:01.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27046" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-11-09T15:26:34.743" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Great Silence&lt;/em&gt; (orig.: &lt;em&gt;Il grande silenzio&lt;/em&gt;) is a 1968 Italian western by Sergio Corbucci about a mute gunfighter (Jean-Louis Trintignant) posing against a ruthless bounty hunter (Klaus Kinski) terrorizing a village in the Rocky Mountains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063032/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Silence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-09T15:26:34.743" LastActivityDate="2014-11-09T15:26:34.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27047" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-11-09T15:26:34.743" Score="0" Body="1968 Italian western (orig.: Il grande silenzio) by Sergio Corbucci about a mute gunfighter (Jean-Louis Trintignant) posing against a ruthless bounty hunter (Klaus Kinski) terrorizing a village in the Rocky Mountains." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-09T15:26:34.743" LastActivityDate="2014-11-09T15:26:34.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27041" CreationDate="2014-11-09T15:49:13.350" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course she cannot be 100% sure about Edmonds's death, but you can easily assume he died since (if my memory does not fool me) he stopped sending any information (for a period of ~70 years, when Murph makes the statement), though his signal appeared to be still active&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15730" LastEditorUserId="15730" LastEditDate="2014-11-13T00:11:25.567" LastActivityDate="2014-11-13T00:11:25.567" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27041" CreationDate="2014-11-09T15:57:15.193" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only way Murph could know is when that information came from Brand herself. Therefore we must assume that the quantum data Cooper send to Earth/Murph was also able to fix the one-directional communication problem through the worm hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2014-11-09T15:57:15.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27040" CreationDate="2014-11-09T15:58:22.527" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;It enabled Murph to complete Professor Brand's equation which was required to enact &quot;Plan A&quot; for the evacuation of Earth&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's right, but but the one ending up inside the black hole (in order to see the singularity and acquire the quantum data) is TARS the robot, who contact Cooper while he is trapped in the 4° dimension, through which he transmits the data to Murph. In the end, she is able to complete the equation and evacuate humanity from the Earth&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15730" LastActivityDate="2014-11-09T15:58:22.527" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27037" CreationDate="2014-11-09T16:19:29.640" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we don't have to rely on the battery of the watch, because if you had noticed the watch was not working, when a grown up Murph took it up. It was not updating time. It was Cooper who was making the second needle move. &#xA;On how the watch generated data, I think Cooper was using the second needle to transmit data in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Morse code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Morse code is a method of transmitting text information as a series of&#xA;  on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a&#xA;  skilled listener or observer without special equipment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On how he was able to use gravity to move the needle, we also notice that gravity is used to disperse sand on the floor and make patterns out of it. So pretty much the same way with clock's needle. But how exactly he could use gravity for making movements along the x-axis is beyond me. May be someone with a deep knowledge of physics could explain whether this is possible.&#xA;Anyway, we might ask how did he get hold of gravity all? But since according to the story, he could, it doesn't seem so hard to assume that indeed he could make a movement along the x-axis, using gravity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-11-09T16:29:53.373" LastActivityDate="2014-11-09T16:29:53.373" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27041" CreationDate="2014-11-09T16:39:02.457" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you might also ask, how did Murph know Dr. Brand has reached the new planet at all.&#xA;I guess Dr. Brand must have sent a message from the new planet, which informed others that she was there and she was alone. There might have been plans to reach out to her soon, only that Cooper could wait no longer and he immediately sets off for her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-11-09T16:39:02.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26977" CreationDate="2014-11-09T20:41:44.900" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lock of hair is traditionally a token of remembrance, but throughout the movie, Jerome was giving his hair to Vincent purely for practical purposes. At the end, the hair was finally and purely given for its sentimental value. This symbolically fixed one of the broken things in the movie's dystopia. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15661" LastActivityDate="2014-11-09T20:41:44.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27027" CreationDate="2014-11-09T22:37:56.317" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Binary and Co-ordinates are pretty basic concepts that tech people understand and can easily recognise - especially a NASA trained pilot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anecdotally I had a birthday once where I was given a location in a hidden message, it was a bit unusual but I managed to reverse engineer the format and get the answer.  Turns out in this case it was morse numbers - even though I was unfamiliar with morse I could quickly decipher them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;itsallaboutrecognisingpatternsinunfarmiliardata&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12710" LastEditorUserId="12710" LastEditDate="2014-11-13T11:17:42.597" LastActivityDate="2014-11-13T11:17:42.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27035" CreationDate="2014-11-09T23:02:42.433" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, Jack does die because He will only live as long as He observes three golden rules: 1 - He must never touch the hands of the clock. 2 - He must master his anger. 3 - He must never, ever fall in love. But fall in love Jack does, to a bespectacled young street performer, Miss Acacia, with a soul-stirring voice. And because of that last rule He does eventually die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15740" LastEditorUserId="15740" LastEditDate="2014-11-09T23:12:10.123" LastActivityDate="2014-11-09T23:12:10.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27029" CreationDate="2014-11-10T04:19:46.323" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the scene where Murph is an adult and is in the room trying to figure out the puzzle of what was communicating through the books, she gets the 'aha' moment where she realizes that it is her father somehow communicating. The 'stay' message is crucial to her figuring this out. When she first examines the watch she only gives it a quick glance and sees that the second hand is moving but it's not ticking, which commonly happens with clocks when the battery is low but the clock isn't dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once it clicks with Murph that it's her father trying to communicate she takes another look at the watch. On closer inspection, she sees that the 'ticking' is irregular and recognizes it as Morse code. In an earlier scene with young Murph we see her trying to decode the book messages using Morse code, so we know she's familiar with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once she starts interpreting the message using Morse, she immediately recognizes that this is indeed a message, and continues decoding it, giving her the data she needed to solve the gravity equation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; was the scene you found too far-fetched, well I don't know how you got through the rest of the movie. The whole thing is far-fetched, and that ambition is what makes it great, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13683" LastEditorUserId="9718" LastEditDate="2017-03-29T11:02:05.280" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T11:02:05.280" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8990" CreationDate="2014-11-10T06:58:43.440" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone is looking way too deeply into this. There was no reference to any specific movie. IT was simply the Iranian asking if this was going to be a wacky comedy that uses the differences in their cultures for the laughs...because Western movies and TV often treated the culture of Iranians as a bit backwards, to the point where moviegoers are expected to laugh AT Iran. Not at the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15748" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T06:58:43.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27071" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27078" CreationDate="2014-11-10T09:35:27.827" Score="8" ViewCount="2492" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most movies depict a few days to a week's worth of real-time. What movie depicts the longest amount of time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6282" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-03-06T21:20:52.953" LastActivityDate="2016-04-13T02:33:57.610" Title="What is the longest timespan depicted in a movie?" Tags="|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27040" CreationDate="2014-11-10T09:44:57.930" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dr. Brand, had already solved the necessary equation, which was required for the &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;question of how humans can escape Earth's gravitational pull en masse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But he needed some more data from a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_singularity&quot;&gt;singularity&lt;/a&gt; behind a black hole to complete it. All this was needed for safe migration of all humans from earth to the other planets, and this indeed was PLAN-A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cooper gets this data from TARS and translates it to Murph, who successfully completes the equation. (Murph is seen tossing the papers in joy.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, humanity able to use the received quantum data. While an exodus is not shown, it clearly evident from the last scene where a new human colony has been established, which is currently revolving Saturn (as stated by the doctor who attends a recovering Cooper.) Dr. Brand's daughter also succeeds in reaching another planet which can sustain life, but till the movie's end, she was the only one on that planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T09:44:57.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27073" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27087" CreationDate="2014-11-10T10:04:13.027" Score="25" ViewCount="1931" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Interstellar, a backup plan was made in case the primary plan to evacuate earth failed. The plan entailed deployment of frozen human embryos on the new planet to essentially restart the human species.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would this work? Human embryos don't work like plant seeds; you cant just throw them all over the place and expect new humans to be created. Even if you were able to create new human babies, how were they expected to survive with no shelter/food/protection on the new planet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T16:18:34.793" Title="How was Plan B supposed to work?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27041" CreationDate="2014-11-10T10:38:26.177" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last shot when Amelie is seen in the new planet all alone, she is seen sitting besides a pile of stones with the 'dogtag/id' named EDMUNDS, pointing as a regard to fallen marine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15752" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T10:38:26.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27075" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27076" CreationDate="2014-11-10T11:16:42.583" Score="10" ViewCount="230865" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt; episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583556/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The One With Ross and Monica’s Cousin&lt;/a&gt;, Joey auditions with a casting director; the plot is as described:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Casting Director: Terrific! Well uh, there’s one more thing. Uhh, uh it’s really important to the director that everything in this&#xA;movie is authentic. Yeah and so in your love scene with Sarah she&#xA;talks about how she’s never seen a naked man who wasn’t Jewish. So…&#xA;(Laughs.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joey: So…What?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Casting Director: So uh well the director is insisting that&#xA;whoever play that part be authentically, anatomically not Jewish. Do&#xA;you know what I’m saying?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joey: Yes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Casting Director: Okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joey: No. What?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Casting Director: An Italian Catholic immigrant at this time would&#xA;not be…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joey: Bar Mitzvahed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The casting director shakes her head.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Joey thinks about it and finally realizes what she means.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then later at Monica's apartment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Scene: Monica and Chandler's, Joey is telling Monica what the casting&#xA;director was trying to get too.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monica: So to get this part you can’t be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joey: Nope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monica: But you are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joey: Yep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monica: But you told them you weren’t?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joey: That’s right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monica: Wow! Wow! And it’s definitely all gone? There’s nothing there&#xA;to work with? (Joey glares at her.) What were you thinking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something here?  What exactly does the casting director mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T15:59:59.427" Title="What does the casting director mean by &quot;be authentically, anatomically not Jewish&quot; in Friends?" Tags="|plot-explanation|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27075" CreationDate="2014-11-10T11:20:00.893" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;They mean his foreskin. Joey has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision&quot;&gt;circumcised&lt;/a&gt;, which means his foreskin was removed when he was young. Thus, he and Monica try to fashion a fake foreskin so he can portray an uncircumcised man, a plan that ultimately fails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though Joey is a Catholic Italian, circumcision is a common global procedure and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_circumcision&quot;&gt;it is estimated&lt;/a&gt; that 30% of the males in the world and around 55% of the males in the U.S. are circumcised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-10T11:34:28.877" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T11:34:28.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26927" CreationDate="2014-11-10T12:27:07.413" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was the working title of the film based on his daughters name:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nolan’s father died in 2009, after a year-long battle with cancer that was diagnosed just as the film-maker was finishing Inception, and as Jonah was starting to write Interstellar. His father’s diagnosis was “very much in my mind,” Jonah said, “the connection that you have with your parents. It was the background to much of it.” Nolan himself sees Interstellar more in terms of his relationship with his own children – Rory, Magnus, Oliver and Flora – all of whom have given him the working titles for the last four of his movies. The Dark Knight was “Rory’s First Kiss”, Inception was “Oliver’s Arrow”, The Dark Knight Rises was “Magnus Rex”, and Interstellar was “Flora’s Letter”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/04/-sp-christopher-nolan-interstellar-rebooted-blockbuster&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;theguardian.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6811" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-28T11:33:34.160" LastActivityDate="2016-06-28T11:33:34.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27071" CreationDate="2014-11-10T12:48:04.610" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although the fantastical plots of TV shows like &lt;em&gt;Dr. Who&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt; might trump it, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478304/combined&quot;&gt;The Tree of Life&lt;/a&gt; from 2011 must be a serious &lt;em&gt;cinematic&lt;/em&gt; contender. Its story spans &lt;em&gt;the beginning of the universe&lt;/em&gt; until present day (showing us along the way the big bang, the creation of the solar system and the extinction of the dinosaurs), which means &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_universe&quot;&gt;approximately&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;13.8 billion years&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, near the end of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tree_of_Life_%28film%29&quot;&gt;this happens&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the present, adult Jack leaves work. Riding the elevator up, he experiences a vision of following a young girl across rocky terrain. Jack tentatively walks through a wooden door frame erected on the rocks and sees a view of the far distant future in which the sun expands into a red giant, engulfing the earth and then shrinking into a feeble white dwarf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ending is open to interpretation, but if we take Jack's vision at face value, then this would add around 6 billion more years to the tally (which is when &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_giant#The_Sun_as_a_red_giant&quot;&gt;it's estimated&lt;/a&gt; that the sun will become a red giant). This would mean that &lt;em&gt;The Tree of Life&lt;/em&gt; spans around &lt;strong&gt;20 billion years&lt;/strong&gt; and covers all of our existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T12:48:04.610" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27083" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27085" CreationDate="2014-11-10T15:06:10.417" Score="32" ViewCount="46248" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2014), the crew members visited the second planet and found Mann. Soon after finding Mann, they discover that he has lied about the data. And then he tried to kill Cooper as he decides to leave to Earth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Mann try to kill Cooper?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="16465" LastEditDate="2016-12-30T12:53:04.117" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T12:53:04.117" Title="What was Mann's motivation?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27083" CreationDate="2014-11-10T15:56:56.380" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, we have to remember that &lt;strong&gt;Mann was a coward.&lt;/strong&gt; Upon arriving on his planet, he realized it was uninhabitable but didn't want to die alone, and as such sent out a beacon to say he had found a Goldilocks habitat, so a rescue mission would be launched to find him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cooper, believing that they had found a suitable habitat for colonization (based on Mann's lies) was determined to take the shuttle through Gargantua and back to Earth. For all intents and purposes, at this point they believed the mission goals to have succeeded. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cooper was going to leave them on the planet and return home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Mann was lying about the planets habitability: it was, in-fact, uninhabitable. Mann was acting in self-preservation, and his options were either to somehow gain Coopers trust, assume the pair of them could overrule or overpower the rest of the crew, and return to Earth having failed the mission: or, to kill Cooper when he is vulvernable and unsuspecting. His plan from here is largely undisclosed, and he was possibly only acting spur of the moment, killing Cooper when the opportunity arose to stop him abandoning the remaining crew on an inhospitable planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because Mann lies, it is unclear whether he intends to return to Earth alone in the shuttle, or (as he broadcasts to the crew) to &quot;complete the mission&quot; and find the last hospitable planet to start a colony. His cowardice would indicate the former, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, cooper was going to leave the crew abandoned, and Mann saw the opportunity to eliminate him. I don't think this was premeditated, but when Coop asked Mann to escort Coop to the monitor stations, the opportunity was too good to pass up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-11-10T16:45:11.870" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T16:45:11.870" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27083" CreationDate="2014-11-10T15:57:48.413" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Cooper wanted to go back to earth once he realised that they weren't meant to save earth, but save mankind from extinction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mann realised this and wanted to stop him as he thought there was no hope for mankind on earth. I think he even mentioned this in the fight scene once. I need to see it again to confirm though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3559" LastEditorUserId="8496" LastEditDate="2014-11-24T00:26:33.627" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T00:26:33.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27073" CreationDate="2014-11-10T16:18:34.793" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically they were going to raise the first generation with the resources from the &lt;strong&gt;Endurance&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I understood them, they had the resources to have a few of the embryos developed in artificial wombs (you would chose these to be female embryos). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the team had raised these women, they would spend their years being surrogate mothers for more embryos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a mention that they expected the third generation to have a population of at least 100, from which stable growth could naturally be expected. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, the remaining embryos would gradually be used to provide genetic diversity in the new mankind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15757" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T16:18:34.793" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27088" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="59670" CreationDate="2014-11-10T17:02:15.913" Score="8" ViewCount="34359" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1355630/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;If I Stay&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2014), Mia got in car accident with her family. Her parents died. Her younger brother died in hospital. Mia was in a coma. We saw her consciousness (maybe, I'm confused) going through stages of her life. She was deciding if she should stay alive or not. At the film's end, we learn she decides to stay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My problem is determining how she knew that her family was dead. She was in a coma. I'm guessing somehow she heard after the accident that her mom died immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how did she come to know that her father and brother died? There is no indication in the movie that news of her brother's death was shared beside her. So there is no way that she knew about her brother. So was that Mia's ghost that was exploring in the hospital and heard these news? Or is that her soul or her consciousness and that's how she came to know about those deaths?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did the writer mean? Did I miss something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2019-06-17T15:56:01.487" LastActivityDate="2019-06-17T15:56:19.603" Title="What happened in &quot;If I Stay&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|if-i-stay|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="27091" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27092" CreationDate="2014-11-10T17:51:54.703" Score="4" ViewCount="44888" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just seen Pulp Fiction for the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand the scene how Vincent reappears in the final scenes where earlier in the movie, Butch kills him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually the movie is a bit confusing the scenes are not in order, may be thats the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15758" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-10T18:05:00.183" LastActivityDate="2016-10-31T18:03:43.657" Title="How can Vincent appear in the scenes at the end of Pulp Fiction" Tags="|plot-explanation|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27091" CreationDate="2014-11-10T17:57:52.387" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pulp Fiction uses a '&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_narrative&quot;&gt;non-linear narrative&lt;/a&gt;', i.e. its a story where the scenes are not set in chronological/time order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene where Vincent appears at the end, is (in real time) before the scene where he is killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also find an excellent commentary on this at the following &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.tarantino.info/index.php/Pulp_Fiction_chronological&quot;&gt;Tarantino Wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-11-10T18:36:45.483" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T18:36:45.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27093" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27098" CreationDate="2014-11-10T18:12:41.260" Score="12" ViewCount="3775" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some elements of Birdman seem custom-fit to the actor Michael Keaton:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He plays Riggan Thomas, an actor who is about 25 years removed from a blockbuster role as a superhero, just like Michael Keaton is about 25 years removed from his role as Batman&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Riggan Thomas&quot; has same syllable count and similar intonation as &quot;Michael Keaton&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The name &quot;Batman&quot; is obviously similar to &quot;Birdman,&quot; the outfits look nearly identical, and the voice of Birdman sounds similar to the voice of Keaton's Batman&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keaton turned down a third Batman movie, like Riggan turned down a fourth Birdman movie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, other elements don't really fit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Riggan seems to be defined by his Birdman role in the way Christopher Reeve was defined by Superman or Roger Moore by James Bond -- but Michael Keaton was never really defined by the Batman role: he's just as popular for roles like Beetlejuice and Mr. Mom&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Batman 3 was not a commercial success, and Batman 4 was a disaster, so Keaton's exit after the second sequel seems like it was a smart career move, not something he would regret like Riggan regrets negging Birdman 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keaton has never tried to re-invent himself along the lines of writing, directing and starring in his own Broadway play, like Riggan does&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all this in mind, &lt;strong&gt;was &quot;Birdman&quot; and/or its &quot;Riggan Thomas&quot; character written specifically for Michael Keaton&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-01-07T20:59:08.987" LastActivityDate="2015-01-07T20:59:08.987" Title="Was &quot;Birdman&quot; and/or &quot;Riggan Thomas&quot; written for Michael Keaton?" Tags="|casting|birdman|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27071" CreationDate="2014-11-10T18:30:57.627" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The winner would probably be &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker&amp;#39;s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy&lt;/a&gt;&quot; from 2005. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, we see the main characters travel from (approximately) the present day to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, a span of some 10&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10120&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; years into the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T18:30:57.627" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2367" CreationDate="2014-11-10T18:34:10.147" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 4, Episode 1, &quot;The Trial of Captain Hook&quot; is revisited with additional footage (15:00 minutes in).  Here, Peter pan is bumping into the seal (of the court) while flying, Buster calling out about the newly dislodged &quot;Loose seal&quot; and then Lucille (being oblivious to this development) mistakenly believing Buster is calling her for attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is unclear whether this is new footage (on a recreated set) or if it is previously unaired footage.  I speculate that the courtroom and play was older, previously un-aired footage edited in with new, original reaction scenes with Kristin Wiig. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For further insight into this comedy, see this page about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2013/06/arrested-development-hiddne-jokes-episodes-1-2.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hidden Jokes from Ep 1 &amp;amp; 2&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/32vp5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1125" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T18:34:10.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27093" CreationDate="2014-11-10T18:44:59.137" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does not appear to have been so. Reading Kirsten Acuna's Business Insider article, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/birdman-michael-keaton-casting-2014-10&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;It Took Michael Keaton About 27 Seconds To Decide To Be In 'Birdman'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During a panel at New York Comic Con for the film, Keaton shared the story of how he was cast in director Alejandro González Iñárritu's movie about a washed-up actor, Riggan Thomson (Keaton), hoping to rejuvenate his career with a Broadway play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keaton said he first learned about &amp;quot;Birdman&amp;quot; while filming another movie, which he flew home in the middle of shooting to discuss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I got a call saying, 'Alejandro was making a movie,'&amp;quot; said Keaton. &amp;quot;I was working on a movie and they said, 'well, unfortunately, you probably can't fly home because you're in the middle of making this movie' and when his name was mentioned, I said, 'Well, maybe I should find a way to fly home because, like I'm sure Edward [Norton], I'm a big, big fan of his movies.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actor said it took him less than 30 seconds to decide to star in the movie after dinner with Iñárritu who has made movies including &amp;quot;Babel&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;21 Grams.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;So, it was that simple. I flew home and they wouldn't ... they couldn't tell me what it was about and now that I've done the movie I understand why they couldn't explain it because I'm not sure what happened,&amp;quot; he said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I went and had a dinner with him [Iñárritu] and it was very pleasant and very interesting,&amp;quot; Keaton said. &amp;quot;If you've ever spoken with him, you'd know why. He's just a very interesting, extremely passionate guy which is contagious. At the end of the evening he said, 'Well, here. Read this.' It took me about, I don't know, 27 seconds to decide, 'Yeah, I want to do this.'&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it had been specifically 'written with Keaton in mind', he would have been actively courted. If this article (and Keaton himself) is to be believed, he dined with Iñárritu and only then was given the script to read and accepted it. Had it been written 'for him', it seems more likely that they'd have contacted Keaton (or his agent) directly, and he'd have been in on it from the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T18:44:59.137" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27100" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27114" CreationDate="2014-11-10T21:41:42.033" Score="7" ViewCount="2998" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/27071/what-is-the-longest-timespan-depicted-in-a-movie&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, what feature-length movie* (about 80 minutes or longer) covers the smallest amount of time? I'm thinking along the lines of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Lola_Run&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Run Lola Run&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; which only covers about 20 minutes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*I know the Academy &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_length&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;defines it as 40 minutes or longer&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm after &quot;movie&quot;-length movies here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2017-04-17T05:38:52.823" Title="What is the shortest timespan depicted in a movie?" Tags="|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="18" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27012" CreationDate="2014-11-10T23:58:46.873" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thing that hasn't been mentioned here yet is that Nolan is also unhappy with the technical limitations of existing technology, namely that 3D movies are significantly darker:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“On a technical level, it’s fascinating,”, “but on an experiential&#xA;  level, I find the dimness of the image extremely alienating.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 3D process, Nolan said, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;makes “a massive difference” in the brightness of the image. “You’re&#xA;  not aware of it because once you’re in that world, your eye&#xA;  compensates – but having struggled for years to get theaters get up to&#xA;  the proper brightness, we're not sticking polarized filters in&#xA;  everything.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(shamelessly borrowed from &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/2979/11334&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11334" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2014-11-10T23:58:46.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27107" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27119" CreationDate="2014-11-11T03:51:28.800" Score="2" ViewCount="532" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070643/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scarecrow&lt;/a&gt; (1973), what is funny about the line &quot;Can I have a chocolate donut and a bottle of beer&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-11T10:43:40.103" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T17:08:23.643" Title="What is funny about &quot;Can I have a chocolate donut and a bottle of beer&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|scarecrow|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27100" CreationDate="2014-11-11T05:03:34.460" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443274/&quot;&gt;Vantage Point (2008)&lt;/a&gt; has to be in the mix, as it's the same events as viewed from 8 different witnesses.  I'm not sure exactly how long the span is, it's been a while since I saw it, but I feel like the main body of the movie covers the same 10 or so minutes several times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-11-11T05:03:34.460" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27111" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27189" CreationDate="2014-11-11T06:05:36.130" Score="17" ViewCount="3946" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is significance of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy&amp;#39;s_law&quot;&gt;Murphy's law&lt;/a&gt; in the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(film)&quot;&gt;Interstellar&lt;/a&gt;. What is the message behind it and how is it related to the plot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-11-12T03:57:15.057" LastActivityDate="2018-08-28T13:51:33.973" Title="What is the significance of Murphy's law?" Tags="|analysis|interstellar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27112" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27113" CreationDate="2014-11-11T07:29:29.813" Score="5" ViewCount="5143" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; it's shown that after Cooper fell into the Black Hole, he communicates with his daughter Murph through some codes as Ghost.&#xA;My doubt is how can he communicate to his daughter before he goes into space?&#xA;I didn’t get the logic of that part. Can anyone please make it clear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15764" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-04-26T11:10:48.670" LastActivityDate="2016-04-26T11:10:48.670" Title="How can Cooper communicate with his daughter before the time he went to space?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27112" CreationDate="2014-11-11T08:20:45.247" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;When cooper got pulled in Gargantua and ejected before spacecraft got destroyed, he got stuck in some extra dimension where time is non-linear. It's like a space where he can communicate with her daughter on earth through gravity. That's why Murph thought it was a ghost. So he can communicate with past time Murph because of the non-linear time structure of that extra dimension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This extra dimension space can be treated as parallel plane which can assess multiple time frames of earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="206" LastEditDate="2014-11-11T18:39:35.920" LastActivityDate="2014-11-11T18:39:35.920" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27100" CreationDate="2014-11-11T08:40:23.900" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Lola_Run#Intro&quot;&gt;Run Lola Run&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; takes place over the course of twenty minutes (beating out &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantage_Point_%28film%29#Plot&quot;&gt;Vantage Point&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; by three minutes). The film's &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;running time&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (sorry) is padded out with flashbacks and flashforwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The links lead to the relevant info according to Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-11-11T08:47:43.617" LastActivityDate="2014-11-11T08:47:43.617" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27037" CreationDate="2014-11-11T08:47:33.477" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'room' where Cooper is in is essentially a dimension that contains every instance of her daughter's life spent in the room. Time in this dimension is non-linear. This allows Cooper to just walk around and find an instance in time that he chooses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The watch did not store any information.&lt;/strong&gt; He was moving the hand at the same time Murphy (the grown up version) was looking at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next part contains some speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dimension that Cooper is in allows you to affect the gravity of every single thing in the room. In the movie it is likened to the threads attached to a puppet; you can influence it by plucking at it. Yes, I agree that this is quite a stretch from the point of view of Physics, but that is how I see it. There is an instance where they show this in the movie; to move the hand Cooper is pushing against a vertical stream of light which I think is a physical representation of the gravity that is acting on the watch hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastActivityDate="2014-11-11T08:47:33.477" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27111" CreationDate="2014-11-11T09:01:45.540" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Murphy's law&lt;/a&gt; is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: &lt;em&gt;Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.&lt;/em&gt; The way is is said in the movie is a quote by mathematician Augustus De Morgan which he gave on June 23, 1866, analyzing Murphy's law&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The first experiment already illustrates a truth of the theory, well confirmed by practice, whatever can happen will happen, if we make enough trials.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now how do we perceive this? Let's start by a few examples &#xA;Although Murphy's law is applicable in a number of fields, I can only cite examples from my field i.e. Software engineering. While the examples might not make much sense to folks outside this field of work, I will try to keep the language simple:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Software Programming : computer programmers are first compiled and then run. The programmer has control of the program while it is&#xA;  compiled (any number of times). The programmer can make any number&#xA;  changes in the code to make sure that the program will run correctly.&#xA;  However, once the program is running, the programmer has no control&#xA;  whatsoever. So if programmer has not analyzed a part deeply, in other&#xA;  words has not taken all sorts of precautions, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt; might appear&#xA;  at runtime, given enough number of trials which is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_testing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;testing&lt;/a&gt; in&#xA;  Software industry. A very good example of this is the introduction of&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generics_in_Java&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Generics&lt;/a&gt; in Java 5.0, whose sole purpose is to &lt;em&gt;reduce the risk&lt;/em&gt; at&#xA;  runtime and do all that is possible at compile time, &lt;strong&gt;because anything&#xA;  that can go wrong will go wrong, given enough number of trials.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;How Google makes the huge amount of data available to the world&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To manage the enormous amount of content on the Internet, Google uses&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_File_System&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GFS&lt;/a&gt; i.e. Google File System. Not going into deep details, let me&#xA;  just tell you the core principle behind this. Any data/content on&#xA;  Internet is stored on a computer which is also called server. Now what&#xA;  will happen to the data if the computer goes down. The manufacturer&#xA;  may say &quot;I have made it so well, there are rare chances that it will&#xA;  fail.&quot; So either you can rely on this or rely on Murphy's law. Google&#xA;  engineers follow Murphy's law and lay the principle that at the end of&#xA;  the day, it's just a machine so however good it might be, there are&#xA;  chances even 0.1% that it can fail. So they think that &lt;strong&gt;if it can&#xA;  fail, it will fail&lt;/strong&gt; and hence you can never rely on any data being&#xA;  kept on a single machine. So they make multiple replicas of same data&#xA;  and that's how they make sure everything will always work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my interpretation of Murphy's law. Now in relation with movie's plot, my inference is this :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The human race on earth, (even today) knows that resources are being depleted at fast rate, and population is rising at faster rate. We also know that species before us, were wiped out from earth in a million years time, may be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So since earth, may one day become inhabitable for humans, it definitely will become inhabitable at one time.&lt;/strong&gt; In the initial few minutes of the movie, we see people living on earth which is already in a pretty bad state. Still they are hoping that somehow earth will be saved and humans will be able to sustain on earth. No one even acknowledges the need to abandon earth. Common perception is &quot;how to save earth&quot;. What they are not acknowledging is that earth can not be saved. It will end, one day. The dialogue from older Dr. Brand sums it up when he says &quot;We are not supposed to save earth. We are supposed to leave it.&quot; or as the tagline for the movie goes &quot;Human race was born on earth. It was never meant to die on it.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Earth can end one day and hence it will end one day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is Murphy's law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-03-20T07:14:29.617" LastActivityDate="2018-03-20T07:14:29.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27117" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27431" CreationDate="2014-11-11T09:22:59.623" Score="22" ViewCount="3350" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am curious about a significant difference between the book and the movie of &quot;A clockwork orange&quot;. In the novel by Burgess, &quot;A clockwork orange&quot; is a sort of meta-title; when Alex and his friends went to Alexander's house, for their &quot;ultraviolence-dedicated night&quot;, the man is, in fact, a writer, and he's working on a book called &quot;A clockwork orange&quot;. In his work, the orange is a metaphor for the human being, whose soul (the &quot;orange juice&quot;) is corrupted by the society laws, represented by a sort of mechanism, from wich the term &quot;clockwork&quot; is included in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it seems that Kubrick, in its transposition, avoided every reference to the original meaning of the metaphor. I admit that, if I hadn't read the novel, I would have found difficulties in understanding it, despite watching the movie twice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did he intentionally avoid the reference for reasons concerning the plot, or he really wanted to force the viewer to think about it on its own, starting from Alex's &quot;transformation&quot; along the story? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any documented explanations about this &quot;lack&quot; of a direct explanation, that - on the contrary - is contained in the book?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="792" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-11T10:47:18.300" LastActivityDate="2014-11-21T12:42:00.463" Title="Why did Kubrick avoid a direct explanation to &quot;Clockwork orange&quot;'s meaning?" Tags="|analysis|book-adaptation|stanley-kubrick|a-clockwork-orange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27100" CreationDate="2014-11-11T11:04:12.677" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's difficult to tell how long does it actually take to tell the story in the police office in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114814/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Usual Suspects&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could actually take few minutes even if the fictitious stories told to police officer take much longer to picture in the movie with all the details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can find out if we clock only the speech of the hero as the narrator and scenes in the office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15738" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-11-11T13:30:53.317" LastActivityDate="2014-11-11T13:30:53.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27107" CreationDate="2014-11-11T13:32:48.200" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Donuts are mostly thought of as breakfast food, while beer is usually associated with an afternoon/evening activity.  Besides, at the time there were no micro-breweries offering &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=chocolate%20donut%20beer&amp;amp;ie=utf-8&amp;amp;oe=utf-8&amp;amp;aq=t&amp;amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;amp;client=firefox-a&amp;amp;channel=sb&quot;&gt;Chocolate Donut Beer&lt;/a&gt;; the combination of flavors was pretty offbeat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-11-11T13:32:48.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27120" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27123" CreationDate="2014-11-11T14:15:49.483" Score="1" ViewCount="599" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you haven't seen &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; S5E5 yet, here's what happens:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; At the end of the episode we see Jim finding his wife and kids dead, and the guy with the mullet (whose name escapes me) comes limping towards him shouting, &quot;Jim!  Jim!!&quot; with a few walkers giving chase.  Jim comes over and kills the walkers, and then Dr. Mullet says to him, &quot;I need to get to DC.  I can save the world.&quot; or whatever he says exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; So, if Jim knew Dr. Mullet well enough from the very beginning for the guy to know his name, how did he &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; know he was lying that whole time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-14T20:21:58.597" LastActivityDate="2014-11-14T20:21:58.597" Title="Please explain the ending of S5E5 of The Walking Dead to me" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27100" CreationDate="2014-11-11T16:26:32.737" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since time is a relative concept we would have to take that into consideration. The Chronicles of Narnia cover minutes of time on earth but years in the fantasy land of Narnia. The same would apply to the Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15773" LastActivityDate="2014-11-11T16:26:32.737" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27120" CreationDate="2014-11-11T16:50:22.687" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The character's name is Abraham, not Jim. He heard Eugene yelling &quot;Help, help me&quot; followed by &quot;It's them, get 'em&quot;. This may have sounded like &quot;Jim&quot; but according to the subtitles (via Amazon streaming), those are the lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Abraham killed the walkers, he turned and was walking away, in a daze, when Eugene said he was on a very important mission. This is what got Abraham's attention and gave him a sense of purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, this flash back follows Eugene's revelation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Eugene had just told the group that he was not a scientist and does not know how to stop the infection and the walkers. Abraham knocked him out then fell on his knees and remembered their first meeting. Abraham had given up and was about to commit suicide. He answered Eugene's call for help, then appeared to be going back to commit suicide near his dead family, when Eugene's declaration of a mission gave him purpose again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of the flash back, they were strangers and had never met. So Abraham did not know anything about Eugene at that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastEditorUserId="5345" LastEditDate="2014-11-11T16:58:34.337" LastActivityDate="2014-11-11T16:58:34.337" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27004" CreationDate="2014-11-11T16:58:54.320" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;People in reality travel, immigrate and speak different languages. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many countries people are fully bilingual and multilingual. I live in a country with 11 official languages. It is common for us to switch between languages in the same conversation with the same people or to use words from the other languages mixed in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15773" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2014-11-12T05:23:39.613" LastActivityDate="2014-11-12T05:23:39.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27126" CreationDate="2014-11-11T17:22:18.583" Score="28" ViewCount="37045" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the scuffle between Mann (Damon) and Cooper (McConaughey) in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, our protagonist gets a hold of a radio and alerts his shipmates to Mann's duplicity. Then his ship explodes. What happened there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-13T21:44:59.877" LastActivityDate="2021-02-14T13:48:01.090" Title="Why did Mann's base explode?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27125" CreationDate="2014-11-11T17:47:24.720" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a booby-trap set by Mann. It was activated when his robot was rebooted and the hidden data was accessed. Mann set it to cover his tracks and hide the fact that his planet wasn't habitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="118" LastEditDate="2014-11-27T02:58:56.510" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T02:58:56.510" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27129" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27130" CreationDate="2014-11-11T19:05:06.530" Score="22" ViewCount="175989" Body="&lt;p&gt;How old is SpongeBob? I don't mean how old is the series, I mean what is SpongeBob's age if he were a real person. I ask because his age seems to be ambiguous in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has a full-time job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has his own house&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is always referred to as a kid (especially in the movie)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He acts childish and immature&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In one episode, he was pretending to be an adult/grown-up&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-01T16:45:02.490" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T13:15:53.420" Title="How old is SpongeBob?" Tags="|character|spongebob-squarepants|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27129" CreationDate="2014-11-11T19:25:55.630" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, SpongeBob &lt;a href=&quot;http://spongebob.wikia.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_%28character%29&quot;&gt;has a date of birth&lt;/a&gt;: July 14, 1986. If we assume that the series takes place in our times, that would make him &lt;strong&gt;28&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Bart and Lisa Simpson have been 8 and 10 for more than 20 years now. So if we assume that his age is &lt;em&gt;constant&lt;/em&gt; in the show (which premiered in July 17, 1999), that would make him &lt;strong&gt;13&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that data useful in this cartoon? Not really. We don't really know what rules fictional underwater realms play by, and to further confuse matters, I'm not even sure how &lt;em&gt;relatively&lt;/em&gt; old SpongeBob is because, according to Wiki, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge&quot;&gt;the lifespan of a sea sponge varies greatly&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sponges in temperate regions live for at most a few years, but some tropical species and perhaps some deep-ocean ones may live for 200 years or more. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it appears that the show's creator has kept SpongeBob's age vague &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_%28character%29#Creation_and_design&quot;&gt;on purpose&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although SpongeBob's driver's license says his birthdate is July 14, 1986, Hillenburg joked that he is fifty in &quot;sponge years&quot;. He explained that &lt;strong&gt;SpongeBob actually has no specific age&lt;/strong&gt;, but that he is old enough to be on his own and still be going to boating school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-11T21:32:44.090" LastActivityDate="2014-11-11T21:32:44.090" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27100" CreationDate="2014-11-11T21:59:19.163" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the &quot;real time&quot; of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_5,000_Fingers_of_Dr._T&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is shorter than Run Lola Run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a disaster of a movie by Dr. Seuss, where a boy falls asleep during piano practice in the first few minutes of the movie. Much of the movie is then a dream sequence, until he wakes at the very end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I believe the awake/present time sequences total less than 20 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2014-11-11T21:59:19.163" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27136" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27756" CreationDate="2014-11-11T22:40:16.680" Score="1" ViewCount="455" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capote_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Capote&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, there is a scene where Capote buys some baby food for Perry in a supermarket. Perry is on a hunger strike and Capote wants to feed him, in order to interview him. As he browsers for food in the supermarket, he sees a young boy with a toy gun. The boy is looking at Capote and we can clearly see the toy gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is the scene in the movie? Why does the boy have a toy gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8737" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-12-02T19:59:27.880" LastActivityDate="2014-12-02T19:59:27.880" Title="Is there a reason for the appearance of the kid with the toy gun in the supermarket?" Tags="|analysis|capote|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27141" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27154" CreationDate="2014-11-12T05:46:55.647" Score="15" ViewCount="3489" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Interstellar&lt;/a&gt;, why robots are so different from conventional robots. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robot from Intersteller:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yXPHg.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yXPHg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They look more like a refrigerator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, mostly its tried to made robot more human looking but they made them squares, why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-07-25T05:15:24.823" LastActivityDate="2017-07-25T05:15:24.823" Title="Why the Robots were so unconventional?" Tags="|analysis|interstellar|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27041" CreationDate="2014-11-12T05:50:15.603" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had to think about this too; your going to kick yourself because it is so glaringly obvious :) 91 years have passed since Cooper left. There was no time dilation on Edmund's planet. Edmund is dead if not by accident then by old age. She was not &quot;informed&quot; that Edmund died, it is just obvious because no one can live that long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15791" LastActivityDate="2014-11-12T05:50:15.603" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27141" CreationDate="2014-11-12T06:12:15.693" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Creativity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally speaking, the square droids were a welcome change to the traditional representation of robots. The reaction to the first scene with it was like: &quot;Hmm, that's a strange robot&quot;. The second scene was like: &quot;Nice, it can walk&quot;. A later scene: &quot;Very nice; he can run, grasp and carry too&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think producers often have the challenge to make things appealing for the audience. And with this creative alternative of a robot, in a &lt;em&gt;less is more&lt;/em&gt; way, they succeeded in creating something square to be a totally convincing personality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="148" LastEditDate="2014-11-12T08:21:51.830" LastActivityDate="2014-11-12T08:21:51.830" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27149" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-12T12:27:42.830" Score="6" ViewCount="1663" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can anyone tell me why Vito would send Luca to Tattaglia's night club under the ruse of being a traitor in &lt;em&gt;The Godfather&lt;/em&gt;? The relationship between Vito and Luca must have been well known in the mob community and Vito would have known that. Are you going to tell me that Vito didn't consider the fact that Tattaglia wouldn't buy that his story of being unhappy with the family? If Vito is as sharp as they would have us believe, why then would he send his most trusted soldier to his death? I believe this is a flaw in the plot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15796" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-12T13:32:16.797" LastActivityDate="2017-03-20T15:18:38.193" Title="Vito and Luca question" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27149" CreationDate="2014-11-12T13:20:21.050" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always felt that Vito was trying to get rid of Luca.  If you recall, Vito acts in disgust when told that Luca was there to congratualte him on Connie's wedding day.  As Luca stumbles through a carefully rehearsed congratulation, it becomes apparent that he's a little &quot;slow&quot;.  Like Fredo, but Vito would never do anything to Fredo.  I always felt like it was a double move; he got rid of Luca and planted a seed in Tattaglia's mind that Tattaglia can't quickly recruit because he might end up recruiting another Corleone member accidentally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-11-12T13:20:21.050" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27149" CreationDate="2014-11-12T14:00:15.833" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was no one in the Corleone crime family more trustworthy and loyal to the Godfather than Luca.  Luca almost never appeared in public with the Godfather, or really any of the rest of the family members. This was because Luca wanted to ensure Vito's reputation was not ruined from association with him (Luca.) Because of this, it would be believable that the other Bosses and their Capos would not be completely knowledgeable of the extent of Luca's loyalty, or why it was so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who else could Vito send to entreat with Sollozzo? He might have been able to trust his own family, but really at the time this all happened, he was still trying to keep Michael away from the family business, Sonny was too hot headed (and spoke out of turn) and Fredo was ... well weak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, the only person Vito could completely and implicitly trust was Luca Brasi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember also, that the things we know, as the voyeurs into the mob as watchers of the movies/readers of the novels, are not known by the characters &lt;em&gt;themselves&lt;/em&gt;. Sollozzo and Tattaglia don't necessarily know (for sure, with absoluteness) the extent of Luca's loyalty. Luca went to one of the Tattaglia nightclubs and complained about lack of money. This would have been a sure signal about perhaps turning Luca.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare this to the (real life) Iceman, Richard Kuklinski. While he never had the loyalty to his boss that Luca was supposed to have to the Godfather, he was a ruthless mob enforcer. While the movie (Iceman) is based on the true story of Kuklinski, I am sure much of it is (unsubstantiated) drama. However, we do see in that story that when the boss, DeMeo, is forced to curtail his family's illegal activities, he benches Kuklinski, which causes K a great deal of financial distress, directly leading to his (K's) eventual downfall and arrest. So, you could see that, from the outside, Luca, like Kuklinski, might have a weakness (debt).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time Vito sent Luca to Sollozzo, he (Vito) was 'under fire' from Sollozzo and some of the rest of the bosses for his refusal to embrace drugs. Vito Corleone's power was in his ties into corrupt politicians and the police. Sollozzo (and his Capo Tattaglia) needed Vito's politico connections in order to more successfully promote their drug trade. Remember that the whole mess contained in Godfather (1) started with the meeting between Vito and Sonny and the other bosses (wasn't it Sollozzo?) where they needed his help. Sonny spoke out of turn during it. The whole feud would have caused a drop in the Corleone family businesses and perhaps as a result, Luca might be driven to find outside income.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(All of the above is based on the novels, the movies and the wikis).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2015-06-30T11:42:16.553" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T11:42:16.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27152" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27155" CreationDate="2014-11-12T17:57:28.917" Score="8" ViewCount="5764" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm confused about the scene where Matthew McConaughey wakes up in this new habitat of the humans. I presume that it's not earth, he's on another planet. And why does the land look like a tunnel there? Is it the black hole where all are residing now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15799" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-11-12T19:10:23.887" LastActivityDate="2014-11-12T19:10:23.887" Title="What was Interstellar's post-climax scene all about?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27141" CreationDate="2014-11-12T18:35:47.487" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen an interview with director Christopher Nolan quoted in several places, including &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_26864905/interstellars-robots-inspired-by-20th-century-architect%20this%20one&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.  Here are some of his key quotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wanted to have a machine in the film that was like a piece of gear&#xA;  -- very tough, very resilient -- that had been designed for whatever purpose best suited it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My idea was to remove any trace of anthropomorphism, so it doesn't&#xA;  have a face. It doesn't have arms and legs. It does have a voice and,&#xA;  therefore, a personality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In my brother's draft, he was really into robots and artificial&#xA;  intelligence. What I wound up focusing on was the issue of why you&#xA;  need human beings on this mission. The robots are presented as being&#xA;  physically superior to humans and able to lift heavier things and&#xA;  follow orders perfectly. We kept coming back to the idea of intuition,&#xA;  human adaptability and innovation. That's driven by a survival&#xA;  instinct, which a robot can't have. That makes the robots very&#xA;  important in the story. They take on their own incredible&#xA;  personalities, but they're not human. They keep you thinking about&#xA;  what it means to be human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my interpretation is that they were purposefully inhuman, to direct the audience to the transcendent characteristics that humans have that robots can never emulate.  The robots provide contrast to one of the main focuses of the movie, which is the power of love and relationships.  (I don't think I've ever seen an astronaut in a film sob because his child misunderstood his loving intentions.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2014-11-24T21:27:25.027" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T21:27:25.027" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27152" CreationDate="2014-11-12T18:44:42.240" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's actually a space station, orbiting Saturn.  The reason it looks like a tube or the inside of a big barrel may seem a little confusing.  But in outer space, there is no gravity.  One simple way to simulate gravity is to create a big tube, put the people inside of it, and spin it.  Since it's spinning, people are &quot;pushed&quot; against the outside of it.  That feels like gravity!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're having trouble envisioning this, think of the &quot;Roundup&quot; ride at amusement parks. &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/yMmtdP_5UJQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;video&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ft4Mv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;roundup ride&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everybody's pressed against the &quot;outside&quot; of the ride as it spins around.  Imagine this if there's no gravity; you would just be pressed, evenly, against the outside.  Once you caught your balance, you could get on your knees, and then your feet, with your head pointing towards the center.  If you looked &quot;up&quot;, you'd see the people on the other side of the ride, standing as though they were on the &quot;ceiling&quot;, looking &quot;down&quot; at you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-11-12T18:44:42.240" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26548" CreationDate="2014-11-12T19:33:27.390" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is made clear in the light novels, only signals, like brain waves, can go back in time.  When and what gets sent back is normally controlled by the Omega.  It seems as long as Cage has control over when a signal is sent back, the Omega does not.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, what you witness in the movie is basically a loop in consciousness experienced by Cage, which happens within a single loop of consciousness being experienced by the Omega.  Cage's loop will only stop when his signal stops getting sent back in time, either when he manages to destroy the Omega, or if he loses the power, and it reverts to the Omega which then takes back control of the loop.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Cage killed the Omega in his last loop, he apparently regained the power to send his consciousness back, taking it from the Omega like before.  The Omega thus did not end up sending back information to its past self as it died, and so the Omega's loop of consciousness was finally broken.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it is then implied that the Omega in the now present dies as a result of its broken loop of consciousness.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user13530" LastActivityDate="2014-11-12T19:33:27.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27159" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27254" CreationDate="2014-11-12T20:17:36.857" Score="36" ViewCount="29944" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Interstellar, after Cooper arrives in the Tesseract, Cooper tries to send the message &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;STAY&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to his daughter in the past so she won't let him go on the mission. If that was his intention then why did he send the coordinates of NASA afterwards? If he didn't send the coordinates, he wouldn't have found NASA or go into space, he would have &lt;strong&gt;stayed&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T18:33:02.003" LastActivityDate="2021-08-07T08:02:27.773" Title="If Cooper wanted to stay, why did he send the NASA Coordinates?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27160" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27456" CreationDate="2014-11-12T20:20:05.120" Score="10" ViewCount="2826" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Interstellar, we saw Murph, Tom, Prof. Brand are able to send message to Cooper. Then why  Cooper or Dr. Brand can't send message as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6895" LastActivityDate="2015-01-15T15:22:20.310" Title="Why Cooper or Dr. Brand can't send message?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27161" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27164" CreationDate="2014-11-12T20:41:28.967" Score="-2" ViewCount="56829" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand this is a little subjective, but I'm trying to categorize all of my movies using an app called Plex, and it's got so many genres listed that it's making things difficult.  So, I'm trying to keep the list small, but relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found a list on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmsite.org/genres.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this website&lt;/a&gt; that seems to really narrow it down.  Can anyone add anything to it or give reasons to split it differently?  I'm just trying to list the major categories, I don't need the offshoots like &quot;World Cinema&quot; or &quot;Monster Movie&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Action&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adventure&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comedy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Crime/Gangster&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drama&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Epics/Historical&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Horror&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Musicals/Dance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sci-Fi&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;War&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Westerns&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-11-12T22:52:59.327" Title="What are considered the major film genres?" Tags="|genre|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-11-13T02:06:30.383" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24659" CreationDate="2014-11-12T21:08:09.037" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, you have failed to look at the times frames involved. Oscar killed Reeva on the 14th of February 2013. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gone Girl was in the works a long time before the murder &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Gone Girl is a film adaptation of Flynn's 2012 novel of the same name, and the author also wrote the adapted screenplay. One of the film's producers, Leslie Dixon, read the manuscript of the novel in 2011 and brought it to the attention of Reese Witherspoon in December of that year. Witherspoon and Dixon then collaborated with Bruna Papandrea to further develop the manuscript—with Flynn's film agent, Shari Smiley, they met with film studios in early 2012.[6]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flynn submitted her first draft screenplay to 20th Century Fox in December 2012, before Fincher was selected as the director for the project.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if the first draft of the screenplay was submitted 3 months the prior to oscar killing Reeva,  and the screenplay was based on the book,  I find it highly unlikely that they would have decided to change the screenplay and let it be affected or influenced by a murder which would only be tried in court after the movie was filmed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, Fincher started filming in Sept 2013 for about 5 weeks. The details of Reeva's murder were not fully explored until the trial started in March 2014. It was live coverage of the trial which pushed the story into worldwide media exposure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third: The murder of Reeva is by no means unique and there are many other cases that spring to mind like the OJ Simpson and Scott Peterson trials. Regardless of how long ago these famous trials and murders occurred,  their themes still play out in popular culture and daily references. Any murder of a girlfriend or  spouse with a public figure involved is going to play out in the media in the same way. All famous trials are going to resonate in some ways. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to ask David Fincher to give you an absolute answer,  but my conclusion is it is highly unlikely that he would have seen the need to make the movie resonate with the Oscar Trial. Or to use your words,  I doubt he needed to or was influenced to 'play up' any thematic similarities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And before you ask this question in the future years to come:  no,  I don't think the director of the one day to be made Oscar Pistorius biopic will be influenced into introducing thematic similarities from Gone Girl. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15773" LastActivityDate="2014-11-12T21:08:09.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27161" CreationDate="2014-11-12T21:43:44.053" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your essential list is missing romance, thriller / suspense and fantasy / paranormal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggested list is below,  but it works best if the app you are using allows you to use multiple categories pm movie. In other words a movie could be a romantic comedy (something about mary) ,  an animated family adventure(TinTin)  or a science fiction horror (aliens) or a biopic drama (capone). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Action &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adult&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adventure&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Animation / Anime&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Biopic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Childrens&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comedy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Crime / detective /spy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Documentary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Drama&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Horror &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Family&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fantasy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Historical&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Medical&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Musical&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paranormal&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Romance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sport&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Science fiction &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Talk Show&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thriller / Suspense &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;War&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Western&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope that helps. Good luck. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15773" LastEditorUserId="6234" LastEditDate="2014-11-12T22:52:59.327" LastActivityDate="2014-11-12T22:52:59.327" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27167" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27185" CreationDate="2014-11-13T00:51:15.577" Score="3" ViewCount="1980" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a child I saw an American comedy maybe from the 50s/60s about a woman who loses one man after the other by death. In one scene a soon-to-be-dead husband is trying to milk what he mistakes for a cow with fatal consequences. &#xA;Then, in a scene from &lt;em&gt;Kingpin&lt;/em&gt;, Woody Harelson is drinking self-milked &quot;milk&quot;, only to discover it is not, and getting into a serious need for a toothbrush. &#xA;From time to time, whether in advertisment, series or movie, I encounter this pattern of mistaking a bull for a cow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which movie might be the oldest one containing it?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15539" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-31T13:54:46.693" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T13:54:46.693" Title="What's the earliest movie with a comedic scene of mistaking a bull for a cow?" Tags="|comedy|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2014-11-13T01:24:50.937" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;yes he do exist but he suffers from A deep schizophrenic Personality Disorder Seeing Himself As him Easy as That This Suffering also exist in the real life And some Humans Have this And Remeber They Are Not Crazy Their Reality It&quot;s just diffrent Then Yours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15809" LastActivityDate="2014-11-13T01:24:50.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27037" CreationDate="2014-11-13T06:51:36.037" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vaguely thought that the second hand worked like a compass which is influenced by the magnetism. Probably, there is a relationship between gravity and magentism...;;isn't it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15812" LastActivityDate="2014-11-13T06:51:36.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27011" CreationDate="2014-11-13T07:53:02.973" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jonathan Deamer has done a great job at drawing the timeline. Much of what he says resounds with me. To add to it, I think we can gain a more precise idea of Donald's birth from his dialogue with Coop about &quot;&lt;em&gt;his time&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. A time when everyday seemed like Christmas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somewhere in there he mentions that the global population at that time was &lt;strong&gt;6 billion&lt;/strong&gt;. Now, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population_milestones#The_Day_of_Six_Billion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; article that must be after 1999. That would indicate that Donald is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Generation Z&lt;/a&gt;. Which indeed implies that Cooper would had been born in 2030s and the present day to be in &lt;strong&gt;2070s&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is inline with the fact that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lithgow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;John Lithgow&lt;/a&gt; who plays Donald in the movie is pushing 70 and looks his age for the part. Somebody who is born in the late 90's or early 2000's would definitely be close to 70 by 2070. So that's where the present day is set.      &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2016-11-28T08:02:39.147" LastActivityDate="2016-11-28T08:02:39.147" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27159" CreationDate="2014-11-13T11:19:34.593" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;IIRC he sends stay before he realises the importance of his and her mission, then decides to send the locations of NASA as well as encode the quantum data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12710" LastActivityDate="2014-11-13T11:19:34.593" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43996" CreationDate="2014-11-13T12:33:32.623" Score="3" ViewCount="13984" Body="&lt;p&gt;Four is two years older than Tris and their fathers work together. They would have gone to the same school. Why didn't they know each other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I understand, they first meet when Tris goes to the Dauntless compound for the first time. Tris even asks Four if he was born Dauntless, so she doesn't recognise him. I would have thought that the two of them would have had infrequent contact over the previous decade. Was there a reason that they had never met?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15814" LastActivityDate="2018-02-25T19:10:37.973" Title="Why didn't Four know Tris?" Tags="|divergent|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27177" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27183" CreationDate="2014-11-13T12:58:22.817" Score="2" ViewCount="649" Body="&lt;p&gt;From Frankie and Johnny, when Johnny made love with Cora, he said &quot;I trained myself to do it quietly. I've been to places where full-throated orgasm would be highly-inappropriate.&quot; I know he was in prison, but what does he mean? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-13T13:03:51.977" LastActivityDate="2014-11-13T14:47:58.273" Title="What did Johnny mean when he said &quot;I trained myself to do it quietly&quot; when making love with Cora?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|frankie-and-johnny|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27178" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27182" CreationDate="2014-11-13T13:31:41.857" Score="1" ViewCount="243" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Frankie and Johnny&lt;/em&gt;, when Johnny said he has a gay cousin, what's funny about &quot;Looking gay people up in the directory, under the now listings,&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-13T13:37:55.680" LastActivityDate="2014-11-13T14:19:26.577" Title="What's funny about &quot;Looking gay people up in the directory&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|frankie-and-johnny|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27179" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27180" CreationDate="2014-11-13T14:08:19.477" Score="5" ViewCount="12088" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this film in my childhood. &#xA;Some group of terrorist enter the school (boys' school i guess) and capture the school. the boss of the group has watch in which he will use that to trigger the bomb and explode the school in case if they lose control of the school. One of the captive student managed to change the chip (or some other electronic thing which control the trigger) in the watch and fixed it in one remote controlled toy plane. In the climax while fighting with the students the boss turn on the trigger to explode the whole school but the toy plane will start. &#xA;This is the only sequence i remember about the movie.&#xA;sorry for my bad english.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12612" LastActivityDate="2017-11-22T19:33:33.707" Title="80s - 90s Movie about school siege" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:24:49.277" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27179" CreationDate="2014-11-13T14:09:33.213" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103112/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Toy Soldiers&lt;/a&gt; from 1991 with Sean Astin and Wil Wheaton about a group of rebellious boys fighting terrorists that took over their boarding school:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Billy Tepper is the leader of a group of rebellious boys at The Regis School. He has already been expelled from three prominent private schools. His best friend, Joey Trotta, is the son of the Head of the New York Mafia; Billy, all their friends and many other kids at the school have equally influential and prominent, if more law-abiding, parents. When Luis Cali's father is put in jail, he heads for the Regis School to put the son of the judge in charge of the case under hostage, only to find he has been removed. However, once he realises who the parents of the rest are, he decides the entire student body of the Regis School would be an even better bargaining chip. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They manage to switch the chip that triggers the terrorists' explosives with the one that's in a toy plane. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/x1b7Q0gmR-Y?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-13T14:17:20.340" LastActivityDate="2014-11-13T14:17:20.340" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27179" CreationDate="2014-11-13T14:15:10.420" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure you're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103112/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Toy Soldiers (1991)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Never mind that none of the film's ordinary, easygoing schoolboys&#xA;  behave at all like the scions of prominent families, or that the long&#xA;  arm of coincidence gets a real workout during the course of the story.&#xA;  In fact, &quot;Toy Soldiers&quot; is a crisp, suspenseful thriller well tailored&#xA;  to the tastes of teen-age audiences, who will doubtless appreciate&#xA;  such touches as the equivalent microchips found in one student's&#xA;  radio-controlled airplane and the chief terrorist's detonator, which&#xA;  is rigged to blow up the entire school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-11-13T14:15:10.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27178" CreationDate="2014-11-13T14:19:26.577" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Johnny: &amp;quot;I have a cousin that's gay, by the way.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tim: &amp;quot;Most people do.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frankie (shouts): &amp;quot;Ready!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Johnny: &amp;quot;He's a really great guy.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tim: &amp;quot;I'm sure.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Johnny: &amp;quot;He just found out he was gay a couple of months ago.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tim: &amp;quot;I'll look him up in the directory. Under the new listings.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This dialog was while Johnny was waiting on Frankie to ready herself hidden in the bathroom. Tim and his boyfriend were sounding out Johnny for her, and it was uncomfortable, especially once Johnny realizes that Tim and his boyfriend (behind the TV) were a couple. Johnny reacts like most hetero's have in that uncomfortable situation, &amp;quot;I have a friend&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;My neighbor knows someone who is..&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Johnny goes on to say his cousin &amp;quot;just found out he was gay&amp;quot;, like shazzam! he didn't know it before, but wow, now he does and so he's just 'come out'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Continuing in the smart, smart aleck way he had been, Tim (Nathan Lane) makes another joke about it, such as &amp;quot;I'll look him up, you know, in the (newly gay) listings&amp;quot;, like there is some directory of all newly gay people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-13T14:19:26.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27177" CreationDate="2014-11-13T14:47:58.273" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is just it, he was in prison. If a convict were to masturbate and orgasm noisily, chances would be &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; good that he would then be .... requested .... to perform on other convicts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In prison:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are dominant, you'll be the one doing the .... requesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are submissive, or subservient, or not in a gang, prison either makes one celibate, or quiet, or someone's bitch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A good movie example of this phenomenon is Shawshank Redemption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2014-11-13T14:47:58.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27179" CreationDate="2014-11-13T16:25:13.590" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could also be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119630/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Masterminds 1997&lt;/a&gt; with Patrick Stewart. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Trapped in a school which a gang of criminals has siezed control, a young troublemaker fights a cat and mouse battle from inside. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was the first one that came to my mind.  Good movie, if I remember right.  I saw it once a long time ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15818" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-11-22T19:33:33.707" LastActivityDate="2017-11-22T19:33:33.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27167" CreationDate="2014-11-13T19:26:09.713" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're right about this gag being popular. Other than the movies you have already mentioned (&lt;em&gt;Kingpin&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_a_Way_to_Go!&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;What A Way To Go!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from 1964 with Shirley MacLaine), this also appears in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Slickers_II:_The_Legend_of_Curly%27s_Gold&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;City Slickers II&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1994), &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Richer_or_Poorer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;For Richer or Poorer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1997) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Age:_Dawn_of_the_Dinosaurs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ice Age 3&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2009).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But surprisingly, though it's not explicitly shown and only lasts a couple of seconds, the gag was &lt;em&gt;hinted at&lt;/em&gt; all the way back in &lt;strong&gt;1915&lt;/strong&gt;: In Charlie Chaplin's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tramp_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Tramp&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Charlie works on a farm and is asked by a girl to milk a cow. Ignorantly, he first contemplates placing the bucket under a bull's (quite visible) phallus before realizing his mistake and moving on to a cow, embarrassed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-11-13T19:26:09.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27111" CreationDate="2014-11-13T21:52:24.390" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have to contradict &lt;em&gt;Ankit&lt;/em&gt;'s otherwise theoretically sound answer, be it just because it is a bit too negative for such an optimistic movie. In the first minutes of the movie Cooper at least gives us &lt;strong&gt;his and his late wife's own interpretation&lt;/strong&gt; of Murphy's Law (and the reason why he named his daughter after it), which I would extrapolate to also be the movie's preferred interpretation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Murphy's Law doesn't mean that something bad will happen. It means that whatever &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; happen will happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in this way he pretty much takes this on the surface rather pessimistic epigram and turns it into an &lt;strong&gt;optimistic anything-is-possible attitude&lt;/strong&gt; which fits to his pioneering personality of believing in the future and trying to make things possible, which I think goes congruent with the movie's themes. Or to quote him once again&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We will find a way, we always have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we did afterall!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if we take a look into the interview with the Nolan brothers conducted by Jordan Goldberg (as printed in the book &lt;em&gt;Interstellar: The Complete Screenplay with Selected Storyboards&lt;/em&gt;), we can get some more insights about the &lt;strong&gt;significance of Murphy's Law for the movie as viewed by screenwriter Jonathan Nolan&lt;/strong&gt;, who seems to largely agree with Cooper and me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JN&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah, it's kind of a lot of my speculative bullshit. What was interesting about Murphy's Law was that I thought it was a fascinating jumping-off point for a theme --&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CN&lt;/strong&gt; Well, it's not speculative bullshit! You mean in terms of it meaning whatever can happen, will happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JN&lt;/strong&gt; No, that's not speculative bullshit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CN&lt;/strong&gt; The other end of it is complete bullshit, and Kip has explained that to me. I left it in the film because I thought it was really good. [...] The scientific idea that Brand expounds that because Miller's and Mann' planets orbit a black hole that not enough elements are able to reach them. Kip went with it at first, but then he talked to some of his colleagues and he's fairly confident that, in fact, the opposite would be true...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JN&lt;/strong&gt; ...The idea that I was really trying to get to with Murphy's Law was just that we live in a space in which things are permitted to happen, right? And those are good things or bad things. Death, destruction, but also life. The idea that we're here on this ball of mud hurtling through space seems to have something to do with our interactions with extra-planetary bodies and cosmic rings --&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And they arrive back at Murphy's Law when discussing the importance of space exploration for the progress of humanity, its significance in our own history and our future footprints in the universe at large:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JN&lt;/strong&gt; ...That drive to get out, to explore the universe, will be the residue that's left behind. Armstrong will be the person that people talk about. This is what connects it back, for me, to Murphy's Law. Murphy's Law popularly is: if something could go wrong, it will go wrong. The eponymous Murphy was one of a group of rocket engineers working for the Air Force. [...] And one day he came back and said, 'You know, if there was a way for these guys to mess this up, they would.' And that has been how we remember Murphy's Law, right? If there's a way for human beings to mess things up, they will. But another guy there -- an engineer by the name of Nichols -- had a different take on it. And by his accounting, the sentiment [...] was that 'If something can happen, it will happen.' It doesn't have to be a bad thing; it doesn't have to be a good thing. Humans are capable of both. We're lucky enough to live in a universe in which both things can happen. And it's interesting to see how many films and books tend to concentrate on all the terrible things that we can do. The parasisitc relationship between innovation and violence and all those sorts of things. And there's something under it, certainly. But they do tend to ignore the self-evident part too. [...] We exist. We survived. Hopefully, we will continue to survive, and that is probably a good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which also suggests a rather &lt;strong&gt;open-minded and neutral if not positive attitude&lt;/strong&gt; towards Murphy's Law, concentrating on the fact that not only the bad things are determined to happen but also the good things and our existence is proof that we have overcome all odds until now and will likely overcome future odds, too. &lt;strong&gt;Our demise is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; more likely than our persistence against it&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-08-28T13:51:33.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="27190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27141" CreationDate="2014-11-13T22:13:33.607" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I'd wholeheartedly agree with &lt;em&gt;NGLN&lt;/em&gt;'s assessment, there might be some additional things to consider (even if &lt;em&gt;Brett&lt;/em&gt;'s rather authoritative answer as already touched them to some degree):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, seeing that an obvious connection many people draw in this movie is to &lt;em&gt;Stanley Kubrik&lt;/em&gt;'s &lt;em&gt;2001 - A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt; and the many other slight references to it scattered throughout &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; (well, what movie of this kind wasn't influenced by that?), you might really not be too far-fetched in your first feeling that it &lt;strong&gt;reminded you of the famous monolith&lt;/strong&gt; from that movie. It might very well have served as a stylistic influence&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;mostly it's tried to make robots more humanly looking but they made them squares.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'd rather ask you, &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; should it look more humanly. There isn't so much of an obvious advantage to take out of a more human appearance. In fact from the footage you saw of those strange creations it becomes clear that these robots are &lt;strong&gt;highly adaptive and functional&lt;/strong&gt; despite (or because?) of their rather &lt;strong&gt;simplistic form&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case I'd yet again make a reference to &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/YPYlK1pRptc?list=UUN29LJGZ8FY30ysxdTnDsaw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wolfgang Schmitt&lt;/em&gt;'s interesting analysis&lt;/a&gt; of the movie (unfortunately not available in English, though). And while he can sometimes shoot a bit over the top with his analyses I agree with him when he emphasizes the rather down-to-earth (&lt;s&gt;no&lt;/s&gt; pun intended) pragmatism prevalent in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;. And I think this fits well to this simple but highly functional robot. In fact he even goes as far as to say that the movie with its rather non-esoteric and non-complicated story is pretty much a counter draft to &lt;em&gt;2001&lt;/em&gt;. At no point does the movie try to answer any deeper philosophical questions, let alone ask them at all, it is a straight-to-the-point story about humans and their progress. And for &lt;em&gt;Schmitt&lt;/em&gt; the depiction of the robots and the humans' interaction with them is a welcome alternative to the post-humanistic attitude of imbuing souls into each and every thing he sees prevalent in modern cinema.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The robot can have as much of a human voice, it still remains a useful tool, nothing more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the robot simulates emotions and behaviour (and goes out of his way to parodize &lt;em&gt;2001&lt;/em&gt; with his humorous comments), those emotions are still freely configurable and primarily there for the humans' comfortability. To quote &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; himself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He's a robot, I don't have to ask him for anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically the robot is not &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to look like a human, because it simply is none and is &lt;strong&gt;not to distract from the &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; humans&lt;/strong&gt; of the story. It is a tool made to perfectly adapt to a variety of circumstances while staying as simple in its structure as possible, a very advanced &lt;s&gt;iPhone&lt;/s&gt; smart phone if you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-15T13:20:05.340" LastActivityDate="2014-11-15T13:20:05.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2232" CreationDate="2014-11-14T01:42:10.693" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason because the surgeon helps Anderton is that prison confinement showed to him a unknown side of his personality: he got bisexual tendency. This the line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dr. Solomon: &quot;For true enlightenment there is nothing like... well, let's just say taking a shower while this large fellow with an attitude you couldn't knock down with a hammer, that keeps whispering in your ear: Oh nancy, Oh nancy. Now that was a lot of fun, thank you so very much John for putting me in there, thank you so very much for giving me an opportunity to get to know myself much better.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;he said &quot;Now that (the event in which the man whisper him during shower was probably a raping, also defined &quot;true enlightenment&quot; about his sexual taste) was a lot of fun...omissis...giving me an opportunity to get to know myself much better&quot; could be read in ironic way but in this case you have to intend in strictly literal way! So dr. Salomon is grateful to Anderton for this wondeful discovery and now he want heartly gives something in return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15827" LastActivityDate="2014-11-14T01:42:10.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27194" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27195" CreationDate="2014-11-14T01:53:12.460" Score="10" ViewCount="5649" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the crew in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; went down to Miller's planet then came back up we find that 23 years have passed for Romilly. Can someone please explain why and how did that happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IIRC it was something related to the black hole, but Romilly was orbiting the planet itself. Why did time pass longer for him? Why did the landing on the planet make such difference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2056" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-14T15:00:44.350" LastActivityDate="2016-09-19T23:35:40.610" Title="Why does time flow differently on Miller's planet?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27194" CreationDate="2014-11-14T02:36:24.280" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason for this is what's called &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation&quot;&gt;gravitational time dilation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which generally states that &lt;strong&gt;the stronger the gravitational potential, the more slowly time passes.&lt;/strong&gt; Black holes like Gargantua have massive gravitational pull, so strong that even light can't escape. Miller's planet is so close to Gargantua that time actually moves more slowly on the planet than for objects further away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, one hour of time spent on the planet's surface was equivalent to 7 years passing in earth time, or &quot;normal&quot; time I guess you could say. That's why when they finally made it back to their ship, Romilly was significantly older, as was everyone they'd ever known. Romilly wasn't orbiting the planet, he was actually pretty far out from it, far enough that he wouldn't be affected by the time dilation caused by Gargantua.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-11-24T19:36:23.453" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T19:36:23.453" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27199" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-14T06:01:22.617" Score="32" ViewCount="51296" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Interstellar,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cooper (played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000190/&quot;&gt;Matthew McConaughey&lt;/a&gt;) enters a black hole and sends a message to Murph (his daughter). Later, he is found by rangers, but I don't understand &lt;strong&gt;how he gets out of the black hole?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, nothing can get out of a black hole, as it has extremely high gravity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6722" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-14T15:03:17.097" LastActivityDate="2020-09-08T20:21:56.167" Title="How does Cooper get out of the black hole?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24886" CreationDate="2014-11-14T06:05:08.743" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The character of Em is the only one who stays constant. All the other characters are from other realities but Em is always the same Em as at the start of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15833" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-04-16T12:55:47.420" LastActivityDate="2018-04-16T12:55:47.420" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27201" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27213" CreationDate="2014-11-14T06:08:24.350" Score="7" ViewCount="3974" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, I, Robot, V.I.K.I. (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence) becomes self aware; perhaps too aware to order assassinations and prepare for enslavement of humanity. In the movie, it explains that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As her artificial intelligence and understanding of the Three Laws&#xA;  grew, her sentience and logical thinking also developed, and she&#xA;  deduced that the humanity is going on a path of certain destruction,&#xA;  and as such, she created a Zeroth Law, a Law which states that she has&#xA;  to protect humanity from being harmed, also clearly disobeying the&#xA;  First and Second Law in order to achieve it, revealing that she is&#xA;  planning to enslave and control humanity to simply protect it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wasn't it bound by the Three Laws of Robotics&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a&#xA;  human being to come to harm. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A robot must obey the orders given to it&#xA;  by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the&#xA;  First Law. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A robot must protect its own existence as long as such&#xA;  protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wasn't VIKI's actions conflicting with the &lt;em&gt;all three&lt;/em&gt; laws when she &lt;em&gt;created&lt;/em&gt; the Zeroth Law ? Wasn't creation of such a law even against the Three Laws ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastActivityDate="2014-11-15T15:56:32.687" Title="How did V.I.K.I. (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence) become self aware?" Tags="|plot-explanation|i-robot|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27201" CreationDate="2014-11-14T10:05:28.190" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somehow VIKI confused or even exchanged the term &lt;em&gt;human being&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;em&gt;humanity&lt;/em&gt;. That is the origin of VIKI's awareness: to protect humanity because it realized that human beings might destroy it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The confusion is quite logical actually: a single robot would not be confused because there are only so much human beings around it. But VIKI on the other hand was in control over all of the robots. Which human being should it protect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="148" LastEditDate="2014-11-14T13:22:38.457" LastActivityDate="2014-11-14T13:22:38.457" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27199" CreationDate="2014-11-14T10:39:04.287" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;He wasn't &quot;in&quot; the black hole. You can't go &quot;into&quot; a black hole. It's not a hole. It's a singularity. So, no, you can't &quot;get out of a black hole&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since he wasn't &quot;in&quot; it there's no problem. He had been transported into the tesseract, a three-dimensional representation of a five-dimensional world constructed by advanced future humans, for the purpose of allowing Cooper to send messages back in time by manipulating gravity waves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once done, they sent him back to the neck of the wormhole that they'd also created, just outside Saturn. We see him floating in space next to Saturn as a ranger comes to pick him up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4131" LastActivityDate="2014-11-14T10:39:04.287" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27201" CreationDate="2014-11-14T10:55:45.237" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was no new &quot;0th&quot; law. By the movie's explanation, VIKI was re-interpreting the existing three laws though, strictly speaking, she was following them just fine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A robot may not&lt;/strong&gt; injure a human being or, &lt;strong&gt;through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She's avoiding allowing the human race to kill itself, through her own inaction. She's acting to save humanity by stripping it down. Does this conflict with the first part of the law? Possibly, but only insomuch as the first law could &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; be paradoxical given certain circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check. Those orders would definitely conflict with the first law which, as explored above, she is following.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not relevant here, but she's not breaking it anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that's how the movie got around the three laws &amp;mdash; the &quot;greater good&quot; argument that actually fits them quite nicely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4131" LastActivityDate="2014-11-14T10:55:45.237" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27201" CreationDate="2014-11-14T13:49:03.540" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;This can be understood by noting that the first law bears a fundamental flaw in that it may contradict itself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a&#xA;  human being to come to harm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sets up two constraints: don't injure through action and don't injure through inaction. There are situations where these two constraints cannot be satisfied simultaneously. For example, it may be necessary to cause harm to an attacker to prevent harm to the person they are attacking, or there may be two people in harms way and only one can be saved. This essentially becomes a sort of maximization problem: find a solution that doesn't exactly satisfy both constraints, but gets as close to satisfying each as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;VIKI interpreted that the only way to obey the first law (allow humans to come to no harm) was to take over since they are harming themselves, and since the first law trumps the second law VIKI was free to disobey humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book, the robots take over behind the scenes. They take over our politics and economy, creating false information and things like that to lead us. They don't do this violent overthrow thing like in the movie. They kept the reason in the movie but didn't keep the outcome. Very few people actually know about the robot takeover in the book; they learn about it from the President, who admits to a couple people that he's a robot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-11-14T13:49:03.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27218" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27219" CreationDate="2014-11-14T21:55:48.547" Score="67" ViewCount="17064" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2014) the human race seemed to be facing pretty poor odds until they discovered a convenient wormhole placed by an unknown entity expressed as &quot;they&quot;. Later in the movie, we discover that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &quot;they&quot; are actually the human race in the future, reaching back in&#xA; time to save itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The end of the movie gets a little wild on the physics end, and I'm happy to take that ending as is - no need for it to make sense - but one very basic detail does bother me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How could the human race have gone back in time to save itself from circumstances that would have caused us to go extinct without our own help (the convenient wormhole)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15845" LastEditorUserId="16465" LastEditDate="2016-12-30T12:48:14.220" LastActivityDate="2021-08-09T17:34:37.447" Title="How could the human race be saved in Interstellar?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27218" CreationDate="2014-11-14T22:17:43.443" Score="54" Body="&lt;p&gt;You pose an interesting question. It may indeed seem that this is a paradox since the humans couldn't have gone back in time to save themselves when they wouldn't have been saved in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But your problem is actually that you're searching a cause out of nothing where there is none. You are basically searching for the beginning of a circle. You assume that there could be an alternative timeline where humanity was not saved by the whole wormhole/tesseract stuff from its future self but then created the observed timeline by sending the message back. But &lt;strong&gt;such an alternative timeline does not exist and can't ever exist&lt;/strong&gt; in the time concept of the movie, which follows the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_principle&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Novikov self-consistency principle&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in this regard. The point is that &lt;strong&gt;the timeline has always been this way&lt;/strong&gt; and hasn't been created out of another timeline by some external influence, humanity has always been saved by its future self and will always safe its past self. If they hadn't saved themselves, they wouldn't exist to save themselves, as you realized yourself. You just have to stop looking for the beginning of what is a &lt;strong&gt;time loop&lt;/strong&gt;, because there is no dedicated beginning, &lt;strong&gt;this time loop has always been part of the universe's unchangable time continuum&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no point in reasoning about a reality where &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; did not send the message to his daughter and himself in exactly the same way as he received them, since that is not the reality we're shown. It is not possible for &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; to send other messages to himself than the ones he received or for the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Bulk Beings&quot;&lt;/em&gt; to not open the wormhole in the future, since all that has basically already happened in &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt;'s and earth's past. If he'd do it differently, he had received different messages in the first place. I know this may sound like a lame excuse or discussing away a supposed paradox just by its necessity. But it is really a fundemantally different approach of looking at time travel in contrast to, say, a different timeline whenever the past is changed. By saying that &lt;strong&gt;the past cannot ever in any slight way be changed&lt;/strong&gt; -- and that's &lt;em&gt;indubitably&lt;/em&gt; what the movie says -- the existence of any kind of paradoxa is basically avoided. One just has to accept the fact that the future 5D superhumans will at some point create that wormhole for us and will at some point create the tesseract for &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Why they do this exactly is admittedly not answered&lt;/strong&gt; by the movie, which just doesn't care about their reasons as they seem irrelevant here, but they certainly do it in exactly the same way as it already happened, because it happened in the way they did it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This interpretation of an &lt;strong&gt;unchangable timeline&lt;/strong&gt; is in fact a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/15563/49&quot;&gt;common way to avoid the problem of time paradoxa&lt;/a&gt;. A good other example for this is the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Twelve Monkeys&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, where the end reveals&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; that the timeline has always looked this way and the young Cole has always seen his older self die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in fact when viewing that movie for the first time, it immediately struck me as one of the most plausible time travel movies ever, since it avoids any kind of paradox present in many other time travel movies by the simple consequence that the exact flow of events cannot ever be changed at all and &lt;strong&gt;every kind of time travel is already part of the causality chain that led up to it&lt;/strong&gt;, even if in a circular way. (I have to add though, that discussions on this site have since made me doubt the unchangability of timelines in &lt;em&gt;Twelve Monkeys&lt;/em&gt; a bit. But nevermind, &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; with its perfectly consistent depiction of a completely unchangable timeline can now take its place.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 &lt;sub&gt;If you want a more metaphysical term for this, call it &lt;strong&gt;fate&lt;/strong&gt;, but don't take that too seriously, I'm still talking about an entirely physical interpretation here and nobody wants to steal your free will ;-).&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T11:23:09.590" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27220" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27221" CreationDate="2014-11-14T22:48:13.420" Score="7" ViewCount="613" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am watching &lt;em&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt; for the first time, and early on we have this scene&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Holden&lt;/strong&gt;: Describe in single words. Only the good things that come to your mind.&#xA;          About your mother.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Leon&lt;/strong&gt;:   My mother... let me tell you about my mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What then follows is four quick&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_%28filmmaking%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;shots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Explosion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bullet hole in thermos&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Holden thrown through wall&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leon pointing gun&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What? Why was there an explosion? Was this just a goof or am I missing something&#xA;later in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0h788.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;explosion&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?v=Umc9ezAyJv0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blade Runner - Voight-Kampff Test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1339" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T00:10:18.493" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T00:10:18.493" Title="What was the explosion when Holden interrogates Leon?" Tags="|plot-explanation|blade-runner|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27220" CreationDate="2014-11-14T23:40:24.503" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The explosion is the gun going off -- in other words, &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzle_flash&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;muzzle flash&lt;/a&gt; -- and/or the beam (that purple light) subsequently coming up through the table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From there, the beam passes through the thermos before striking Holden, which sends him through the wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To provide more info on the beam shot by the gun, here's an excerpt from &lt;a href=&quot;http://media.bladezone.com/contents/film/technology/blackhole.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a Blade Runner fan site&lt;/a&gt; that quotes Ridley Scott:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In the film, you can see the anti-matter blast that was animated into the shot for four frames. This effect was used only once in the film, even though Leon takes a second shot in that scene, only the first shot from under the table contains the animation of the anti-matter blast, this was due to the constant threats of going over budget and schedule.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;What I particualrly wanted to avoid in Blade Runner's weaponry was an indication of the common laser pistol.&amp;quot; Scott said. &amp;quot;We all felt that a bright streak of light coming out of a barrel had become a horrible cliché, and we were sick to death of it. Then David Dryer came up with the idea that our pistols discharged a high intensity, particle-beam-type material that imploded on contact, drawing in so much light on the way that it became a black beam instead of a light streak. And whatever section of the body it hit would collapse in on itself. That would lead to a rather elegant demise - very little blood or gore.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I thought this was an interesting concept&amp;quot; Scott concludes. &amp;quot;A black beam would have been the dramatic opposite of the expected laser ray. So we intended to later animate this dark effect and dub our weapons Black Hole Guns.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T00:01:46.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27201" CreationDate="2014-11-15T02:08:43.170" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie actually sets up a precedent that explains VIKI's actions - or rather the justification thereof. The scene where one robot lets a girl drown to save Will Smiths character. The first law ultimately contains a loophole in the sense that if it can be concluded that one person may come to harm in any case, there is a net benefit if that person is sacrificed to save one or more other persons. Since VIKI concluded that humanity was self destructive, this ends up encompassing all of humanity. And since the first law overrides the second and third laws (as &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; demonstrated nicely by that scene, where W.S. character attempts to order the robot saving him to save the girl instead, only to be ignored since he's more likely to survive), she couldn't be stopped later on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15846" LastActivityDate="2014-11-15T02:08:43.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27543" CreationDate="2014-11-15T05:45:04.333" Score="4" ViewCount="2108" Body="&lt;p&gt;Q: How does Katie's character in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2396721/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Scribbler&lt;/strong&gt; (2014)&lt;/a&gt; have supernatural abilities, or, anyone who uses her machine for that matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;D: There seems to me to be no good explanation in the movie about how that machine is granting people supernatural abilities such as strength, telekinesis, some limited form of omnipresence (for lack of a better term), and possibly others. I could have accepted the explanation that for some reason Katie's character had the abilities to begin with, tied to The Scribbler persona, and the machine worked by stripping away excess personalities to allow her to exhibit that one, and thus powers, more often. The movie does sort of go along that line. But then how two other characters without her condition receive abilities from usage of the machine confuses me. I mean okay, Katie's character says &quot;The machine shows you who (or possibly &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt;) you really are&quot;, and her male friend (I forget his name) comments that she's improved the machine by modifying various equipment from his room. The base-machine is only a shock-device, maybe we're left to assume that The Scribbler is just so intelligent and it was possible for her to legitimately create a machine using that stuff that will grant &lt;em&gt;anybody&lt;/em&gt; supernatural abilities. I just want to know if anyone else decided on a more reasonable explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15848" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-15T13:09:29.860" LastActivityDate="2017-09-17T06:28:16.887" Title="Explanation of The Scribbler's supernatural abilities please" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-scribbler|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19937" CreationDate="2014-11-15T10:28:54.400" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mcgrew/Gilligans-Island.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;comprehensive page&lt;/a&gt; about the show:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The theme [...] was recorded by &quot;The Wellingtons&quot;, a folk-singing group (who later went on to record &quot;The Ballad of Davy Crockett&quot; for Disney, and appeared on GI as &quot;The Mosquitos&quot;, the rock group that came to the island to get away from civilization). The original lyrics, &quot;... and the rest&quot; [which] were used because of clauses in Tina Louise' contract (her name/face had to appear last in the opening), were replaced by &quot;... the Professor and Mary Ann&quot; after the first season, though this time the song was sung by another folk group, &quot;The Eligibles&quot; -- &lt;strong&gt;the Wellingtons were unavailable due to work in Las Vegas at the time.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the fact that the Wellingtons were credited but the Eligibles &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan%27s_Island#Theme_song&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;weren't&lt;/a&gt; suggests that it was not only easier but also cheaper to re-record the theme song with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-11-15T10:28:54.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24973" CreationDate="2014-11-15T12:59:13.193" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Natalie first meets Leonard, she does not even know that Jimmy is missing. Actually she mistakes Leonard for him and when she realizes that someone else is wearing her boyfriend's clothes and has his car, she knows something is not quite right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Leonard enters Natalie's bar, she takes &quot;revenge&quot; on him by serving him the spit cup. She then realizes that his condition is real. That's probably the reason she doesn't really suspect him of murdering her boyfriend. &lt;strong&gt;How could someone who can't even remember the last ten minutes kill a tough guy like Jimmy?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even Leonard was involved, can he really be held responsible with his inability?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jimmy was a drug dealer and as we find out later he owed some bad people money. Natalie knows that and she doesn't really know what exactly happened to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However from the start she never really trusts Leonard or really befriends him, she mostly just uses him for her own selfish reasons. Only in the end she is a little bit more sympathetic after he helped her get rid of her &quot;problem&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in conclusion I think the main reason for not Natalie not suspecting Leonard is his condition. And even if she did suspect him, for her there is not much point in revenge or going to the police. She is a very pragmatic person and rather uses him for her own advantage than caring about &quot;justice&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-11-15T14:19:56.253" LastActivityDate="2014-11-15T14:19:56.253" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27226" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-15T13:27:21.097" Score="5" ViewCount="672" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see that the &quot;E.T.&quot; movie is sold in 1.85 and 2.35 formats:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.fr/E-T-lExtra-Terrestre-Peluche-Dee-Wallace/dp/B008JELMU6/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top&quot;&gt;http://www.amazon.fr/E-T-lExtra-Terrestre-Peluche-Dee-Wallace/dp/B008JELMU6/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.fr/E-T-lExtra-Terrestre-Combo-Blu-ray-DVD/dp/B0087OYKM0/ref=cm_cr_pr_orig_subj&quot;&gt;http://www.amazon.fr/E-T-lExtra-Terrestre-Combo-Blu-ray-DVD/dp/B0087OYKM0/ref=cm_cr_pr_orig_subj&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also know that on DVD boxes there is a mention that tells, near the used ratio on the back of the box, if it respects the original movie format. On one of the box I have (DVD), it's writen: &quot;1,85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen&quot;. So I suppose that 1,85 is not the native format but a cropped one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you tell me what is the cinema displayed ratio in France at the time it was projected?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Could you tell me what is the original movie ratio this movie was recorded?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- And best of all, if you could show a little scan of the mention on a DVD or BR box that confirms it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15850" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-15T13:35:34.053" LastActivityDate="2014-11-15T15:57:03.850" Title="Was E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial shot in 1.85 or 2.35?" Tags="|film-techniques|et-the-extra-terrestrial|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27201" CreationDate="2014-11-15T15:56:32.687" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of the other answers here mention &quot;the book&quot;, but it's important to realise that there is no single Asimov book or story on which this movie was based. The plot of the movie is taken partly from a previous script which had no ties to any of Asimov's work; various elements from Asimov's oeuvre were added in later, including the title (from a particular collection of short stories) and the 3 Laws of Robotics (which he used throughout his career).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asimov first articulated the 3 Laws in a 1942 story called &lt;em&gt;Runaround&lt;/em&gt;, and did so explicitly to play around with their limitations. Many of his robot stories use the 3 Laws to examine philosophical questions - when would the Laws be too weak, or too strong, or too open to interpretation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of those philosophical conundrums is how a robot imbued with the laws would act given a choice between two courses of action, both of which will lead to humans being harmed, such as only being able to save one of two groups of people. Should the largest number of humans be saved, or should higher value be placed on some than others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question of harm to humanity itself was explored a little bit in the story &lt;em&gt;The Evitable Conflict&lt;/em&gt; (which was included in the collection &lt;em&gt;I, Robot&lt;/em&gt;, as it happens), in which &quot;machines&quot; are key to a kind of global planned economy. They are revealed to be taking political control for the good of humanity, reasoning that they can (and must) both disobey orders, and harm individual humans, if they know it will prevent further harm to humanity as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The explicit concept of a &quot;Zeroth Law&quot;, trumping the First Law, comes from a later novel, &lt;em&gt;Robots and Empire&lt;/em&gt;, in which a telepathic robot called R. Giskard Reventlov begins to conceive of it, but is ultimately killed by the conflicts it sets up in his positronic brain. (Asimov always conceived his robots as having brains much more like ours than like a digital computer, with even the 3 Laws as complex potentials in the circuits rather than strictly logical pieces of code.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it is well within Asimov's conception of the laws for a sufficiently advanced robot intelligence to derive a Zeroth Law. Where the movie takes liberties is that such a law would not give the robot in question a complete free reign to harm, since each individual decision must justify breaking the remaining laws; in Asimov's works, this is always a tough decision for the robots to take, rather than something that liberates them to go on a rampage. But that wouldn't have given Will Smith as much chance to shoot stuff and look cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15855" LastActivityDate="2014-11-15T15:56:32.687" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27226" CreationDate="2014-11-15T15:57:03.850" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/ET-The-Extra-Terrestrial-Blu-ray/7850/&quot;&gt;Blu-Ray review&lt;/a&gt; on Blu-Ray.com (which is an &lt;strong&gt;outstanding&lt;/strong&gt; website for in-depth reviews of every aspect of a DVD/Blu-Ray release), the original presentation was 1.85:1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-11-15T15:57:03.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27237" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-15T22:52:57.623" Score="6" ViewCount="4515" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Interstellar humanity tries to save humanity by colonizing planets by using a wormhole which leads to another galaxy. While the protagonist travels through the wormhole his crewmate says that they can't control their spaceship. The system they travel to contains 3 planets, a neutron star and a black hole named Gargantua. How was it possible for the other pioneers then to be able to travel to the remaining 9 planets if there is only one wormhole and they can't control their ships inside the wormhole?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="964" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-23T00:46:39.623" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T01:13:14.650" Title="How can humans travel to 12 different planets in Interstellar?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27239" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27246" CreationDate="2014-11-15T23:49:34.690" Score="1" ViewCount="116" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a musical act that closed a David Letterman episode quite a few years back. It might have been in around 2000s or even before in the 90s. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The act had a soulful brunette girl as the singer, and 3 or so guys playing instruments in her band. One was piano and one was a saxaphone I think. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am trying to find the names of either song/artist/episode of it. It was on youtube at one point, and probably is still, but I can't find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do remember at the end of her performance, David Letterman was very impressed and said something like &quot;Do you want to grab a steak&quot; to the singer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15861" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T08:44:00.763" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T08:44:00.763" Title="Who is the musical group that performed at the end of an David Letterman show that I am describing (they performed probably in the 2000s)?" Tags="|soundtrack|david-letterman-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27240" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-16T00:18:04.977" Score="17" ViewCount="1883" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt; (1982)&lt;/a&gt; has a lot of buzz around it. Everyone knows the movie, it's widely cited and highly regarded.  However, after watching it twice I just wasn't impressed. I thought it was average at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly I'm missing something. Can someone explain why this film is so well thought of? Is it the storyline? Is it the effects? Why do people love this movie so much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2018-03-29T14:03:51.257" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T00:11:22.223" Title="What makes Blade Runner so iconic?" Tags="|analysis|blade-runner|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27288" CreationDate="2014-11-16T01:51:53.037" Score="17" ViewCount="50052" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Godfather&lt;/em&gt;, why did Barzini want Michael dead, after the five families had apparently made peace? How did Vito know this? How did he know about the specific way in which it would happen, and how did he know Barzini would be able to turn someone close to Michael against him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If achieving dominance was as easy as sending some goons to kill the heads of the other families, why hadn't someone tried this before? Why weren't they better protected? Why did it happen when it did?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15862" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-16T12:46:32.150" LastActivityDate="2021-05-21T10:30:19.067" Title="How did Vito know about the betrayal?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27242" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27761" CreationDate="2014-11-16T01:57:36.350" Score="1" ViewCount="4501" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a while we are led on to believe that Thomas is Jewish. But later it is revealed that he was just using a dead Jew's papers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, earlier the number tattoo on his arm was briefly shown to suggest that he had indeed been in some death camp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, was he or was he not Jewish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had he or had he not been in Auschwitz, then later Buchenwald, as he told the American soldier?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9668" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-12-02T22:04:40.167" LastActivityDate="2017-08-13T09:02:57.887" Title="What was Thomas' background?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lore|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27243" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27425" CreationDate="2014-11-16T03:13:53.560" Score="2" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Frankie and Johnny&lt;/em&gt;, Frankie says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aspiration? Have you been shaving again?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's funny about this line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-15T09:51:54.393" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T09:51:54.393" Title="What is funny about Frankie's line about aspiration?" Tags="|plot-explanation|frankie-and-johnny|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27240" CreationDate="2014-11-16T03:46:24.283" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say a large part of why it's seen as so iconic is &lt;strong&gt;because it's influenced a lot of what came after.&lt;/strong&gt; The movie was released in 1982, and has been referenced as being a huge source of influence for several created works that came later, such as the widely popular &lt;em&gt;Battlestar Galactica&lt;/em&gt; reboot that was on TV in the middle of the last decade, as well as games such as Beneath A Steel Sky, the role playing game Shadowrun (sort of a cyberpunk D&amp;amp;D), and even Perfect Dark. There are also the societal implications in the movie that are still very relevant today (human cloning, rights based on genetic origin/disposition, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read a fairly concise synopsis of the film's influence &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner#Cultural_impact&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2017-10-05T14:37:27.793" LastActivityDate="2017-10-05T14:37:27.793" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27237" CreationDate="2014-11-16T03:53:00.047" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;They can't control their ship while they're in the wormhole, but once they're out of it, they can control it just as they could before entering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As they noted in the film, a wormhole is basically a warping of space-time to create a sort of tunnel between one point and another. Once you're in, though, you can't control where you end up, with the only destination being wherever the wormhole spits you out at the other end. You'll end up at the same place every time, but you can't exit the wormhole without causing sever, if not complete damage to your vessel. The planets they were sent to explore were all located around Gargantua, and the wormhole spits them out at a specific point nearby. They can't use the wormhole to spit them out right near any of the planets, though, because the point it was open to near Gargantua is where it was pointed to, that's that. You get to the other end, and have to travel whatever distance you need to your designated planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They only go to three planets for the reasons noted in the comment on your question: they were the three that showed the most promise for being habitable for humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-11-16T03:53:00.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27239" CreationDate="2014-11-16T04:52:53.313" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Found it! Nicole Atkins - The way it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/2_NVsPM87eI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15861" LastActivityDate="2014-11-16T04:52:53.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27760" CreationDate="2014-11-16T05:03:16.193" Score="15" ViewCount="3003" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I was watching Interstellar a few days ago and Cooper passed the black hole horizon to find himself in a &quot;non-space&quot; on the other side of his daughter's bookshelves where he had access to all time instants simultaneously, the rendering struck me as familiar although I could not quite understand why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was only some time later that I realized that visually the situation reminded of the setting of the short story &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel&quot;&gt;The Library of Babel&lt;/a&gt; by J. L. Borges, where the unnamed narrator wanders through a boundless universe consisting of hexagonal rooms with bookshelves (a total library, as the reader eventually finds out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a deliberate citaton, or is to be regarded as coincidental?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1889" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-16T12:57:33.623" LastActivityDate="2016-06-04T00:13:30.263" Title="Is Nolan citing Borges?" Tags="|analysis|reference|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27252" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-16T09:24:50.827" Score="12" ViewCount="14859" Body="&lt;p&gt;A black hole presents a gravitational pull that nothing, not even light can escape as it is the housing for a singularity -- a collapsed star. But in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; Cooper escapes the black hole because, upon entering, he ends up in a tesseract (which is either a 4-D cube or a wormhole type fold in space, depending on whether you prefer Hypercube or A Wrinkle in Time). This tesseract operates as a bridge similarly to the wormhole bridge which got him there but they aren't the same thing (even though the tesseract spits him out in the same place that the wormhole opened).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we operate under the assumption that the tesseract is not synonymous with the wormhole &quot;they&quot; created but is a construct planted at the center of Gargantua, and is a creation of &quot;them&quot; which would allow him to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/27199/how-does-cooper-get-out-of-the-black-hole&quot;&gt;escape&lt;/a&gt;, then Gargantua is not a &quot;real&quot; black hole. Therefore&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The quantum data TARS collects are not accurate as they don't come from perceiving an actual &quot;real&quot; black hole's singularity so the mathematical conclusions and formulae based on it shouldn't work and&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once the data are collected they should be able to be transmitted out -- if a human can get out (and this isn't a real black hole from which nothing escapes) then the data should be able to cross that same bridge and get out. And yet TARS says transmissions aren't getting through.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the movie saying that all black holes are artificial, or that this wasn't a real one, or something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2017-06-23T05:33:59.163" Title="Was Gargantua not a &quot;real&quot; black hole?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27253" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-16T11:08:27.000" Score="2" ViewCount="2192" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, we are told that Dr Mann was the best of all of them and he knowingly went to that planet that it might very well be the end if the planet was unsustainable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the planet was indeed a failure, why would he transmit incorrect data. The reasoning that he was desperate to see some human faces seems incoherent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, knowing that the planet was a failure and with the available resources all of them could very well return to earth or go to plan B.&#xA;If he was so interested in living, then he could have gone along Cooper to Earth.&#xA;Killing the other guy through the bomb in the robot and killing Cooper seemed illogical to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thirdly, how is he able to go to 'Endurance' that too before Cooper and Dr Brand?&#xA;She picked up Cooper through her spaceship, but exactly from where did Mann get his spaceship?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fourthly, why does Mann even want to go to Endurance? What are his intentions? Does he want to go back to Earth or is he interested in completing plan A on his own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4381" LastActivityDate="2014-11-16T11:45:51.940" Title="Why was Dr Mann so mean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-11-16T22:13:07.193" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27159" CreationDate="2014-11-16T11:35:34.037" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;He first sends the message of STAY.&#xA;Remember the scene in the beginning of the movie just before Cooper visits the teachers of his children.&#xA;We are shown that Murph has some thick lines on her book.&#xA;In the end we are shown that she is actually figuring out the morse code behind the falling books represented by the thick lines.&#xA;Thus she was indeed receiving the messages of STAY before getting the co-ordinates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now in the teseract Cooper initially wants Murph to stay in the room, so he sends the message of STAY.&#xA;When he realises that what has happened in the past cannot be changed, then he wants to save the future of mankind.&#xA;That is why he sends the location of NASA to his past self.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4381" LastActivityDate="2014-11-16T11:35:34.037" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27083" CreationDate="2014-11-16T11:45:51.940" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dr Mann's motivation is survival. He knew no one would save him if he was on a useless planet, so he activated the beacon to get help to come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His reasons for trying to kill his rescuers, either by straight up murder or abandoning them on the dead planet is to protect his pride. He doesn't want people to know he wasted time and potentially millions of lives on earth by getting the only hope of humanity's survival distracted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the key plot points is the juxtaposition of Mann and Cooper. Cooper being reluctant to go but willing to die for the betterment of humanity and Mann being eager to go but unwilling to die even at significant cost to humanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastEditorUserId="855" LastEditDate="2015-08-18T01:58:49.843" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T01:58:49.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27159" CreationDate="2014-11-16T11:55:17.813" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that Cooper saw his neccesity on the team as a key motivation for giving the coordinates. The team was lacking an experienced pilot and if it wasn't for his earlier decision to depart on Miller, the entire mission would have been for nothing potentially wasting millions (or billions) of earth lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is one of the key plot points of the movie. The juxtaposition of Cooper and Mann's motivations and actions. Cooper was willing to go even at the cost of his life and his family's happiness because he saw the greater need of all humanity. Mann only appeared willing to die for humanity, when it came time, he sacrificed the chances of humanity rather than giving his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastActivityDate="2014-11-16T11:55:17.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27257" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27273" CreationDate="2014-11-16T13:59:16.400" Score="9" ViewCount="16325" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; the course of events to my knowledge is the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The time taken to travel from Earth to the wormhole is 2yrs (Aggregate = 2).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After that we don't know how much time passed on Earth while they&#xA;were travelling the wormhole. Could be 10yrs judging from the&#xA;advancement from the teenager to Casey Affleck (Aggregate = 12).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then, the time spent on watery planet being ~1-2 hour, assume&#xA;12yrs (Aggregate = 24).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now, by the time they find Mann and Murph declares the death of Dr&#xA;Brand, no appreciable time has elapsed as Murph is shown somewhat&#xA;the same age as in her previous broadcast. So, no appreciable time&#xA;change happens on that (Mann's) planet (Aggregate = 24).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then the time spent to the point where Cooper ejects into the&#xA;blackhole is somewhat insignificant, given the chronology of events (Aggregate = 24).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Now the time spent in the blackhole is again insignificant as Murph&#xA;with whom he communicates through the wrist watch has still the same&#xA;age, and for the paradox to work, she has to be his current daughter&#xA;and not from some other timeline (Aggregate = 24).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After this, the next chronological event is Cooper waking up in the&#xA;hospital and being told he is 124yrs old.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So assuming his age was 40 when he left Earth, the time taken between him exiting the black hole and being woken up = 124 - 40 - 24(Aggregate) = 60.&#xA;So, Murph's age should have been 12 (when Cooper leaves Earth) + 60 = 72yrs.&#xA;But she is shown much older on her deathbed, additionally, we are told she was hibernating for 2yrs.&#xA;I am somehow unable to comprehend the timeline of the movie, am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4381" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T12:51:25.107" LastActivityDate="2016-11-25T12:57:27.260" Title="How is Cooper's age justified?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|time-travel|chronology|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27257" CreationDate="2014-11-16T18:36:10.103" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it can be justified. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Romily says that 23 years have passed since they came back from Miller's planet - going by this you can revise your estimate in (2) to 23 years. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now at the end we see Cooper falling as the Tesseract closes and he is later on rescued from Saturn (Movie's plot on Wikipedia confirms it). So assuming it took some time to search and bring him back and revive him - I think we might come close to the figure 124.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15879" LastActivityDate="2014-11-16T18:36:10.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27267" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-16T20:53:23.810" Score="4" ViewCount="709" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_%28UK_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;original &lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt; series&lt;/a&gt;, Corder leaks a tape and documents to Makepeace. I don't see the reason for doing so. Killing Urquhart sort of made sense, but why leak the negative information to his rivals?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7974" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2014-12-30T03:42:36.740" LastActivityDate="2016-11-26T17:15:33.680" Title="Why did Corder leak information in &quot;The Final Cut&quot;?" Tags="|house-of-cards-uk|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27257" CreationDate="2014-11-16T23:18:16.337" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, you have some parts wrong in your timeline and are missing others. So lets go through it again step by step:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The time taken to travel from Earth to the wormhole is 2yrs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check, aggregate = 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;After that we don't know how much time passed on Earth while they were travelling the wormhole. Could be 10yrs judging from the advancement from the teenager to Casey Affleck.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There wasn't anything to suggest that there passed any time when passing the wormhole. Afterall it's a just a hole (and the movie depicts it as just that, albeit spherical, not some kind of black hole with unpredictably weird space-time effects) and its whole point is to connect two far away points by an immediate connection. They didn't travel any actual spacial distance through it. Also the first recorded message &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; sees after getting up from the water planet is a young (non-Casey Affleck) &lt;em&gt;Tom&lt;/em&gt; who says he just graduated from school (which would fit something like 2 years). Only then come the messages from the adult &lt;em&gt;Tom&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So aggregate = 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Then, the time spent on watery planet being ~1-2 hour, assume 12yrs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're actually even more precise. When they get up, &lt;em&gt;Romilly&lt;/em&gt; explicitly says that for him it was &lt;strong&gt;23 years&lt;/strong&gt;. So we're back near your own value, aggregate = 25.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Now, by the time they find Mann and Murph declares the death of Dr Brand, no appreciable time has elapsed as Murph is shown somewhat the same age as in her previous broadcast. So, no appreciable time change happens on that (Mann's) planet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check, there didn't pass much significant time, aggregate = 25.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now you're missing something very significant. They make a little slingshot around &lt;em&gt;Gargantua&lt;/em&gt; to get the necessary momentum for reaching &lt;em&gt;Edmunds&lt;/em&gt;' planet. This brings them very close to the black hole, which we know causes significant time dilation. And in fact when they're around it, right before &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; throws his ship into it, they joke about the effects of the time dilation causing another &lt;strong&gt;51 years&lt;/strong&gt; getting lost:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cooper:&lt;/strong&gt; This little manuever's gonna cost us 51 years.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Amelia:&lt;/strong&gt; You don't sound so bad for pushing 120.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just that now they didn't need to worry about it anymore (since at this point they assumed Plan A is dead anyway). So now we have aggregate = 76, which fits to &lt;em&gt;Amelia&lt;/em&gt;'s comment as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Then the time spent to the point where Cooper ejects into the blackhole is somewhat insignificant, given the chronology of events.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Now the time spent in the blackhole is again insignificant as Murph with whom he communicates through the wrist watch has still the same age, and for the paradox to work, she has to be his current daughter and not from some other timeline.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Murph&lt;/em&gt;'s age is just insignificant here, since &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; was moving through the tesseract and had access to a wealth of different times and saw her at different ages. The way he moved through space there, he actually moved through time. But &lt;em&gt;Murph&lt;/em&gt;'s age at this point is irrelevant, since it doesn't need to be congruent with his own, afterall he's already 76 years ahead due to the water planet and the black hole. It is &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; and his relation to earth we're interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;After this, the next chronological event is Cooper waking up in the hospital and being told he is 124yrs old.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in fact at some point after &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt;'s return from &lt;em&gt;Miller&lt;/em&gt;'s planet &lt;em&gt;Murph&lt;/em&gt; says in a message that she's now as old as he was when he left. Since she was 12 (I think to remember 10, but nevermind, doesn't make much of a difference), this would make him about ~35 when he left. So we have &lt;strong&gt;124 - 35 - 76 = ~13 (+/-2 maybe)&lt;/strong&gt; as the time that unexplicably vanished. This time we don't have an explanation for, since for &lt;em&gt;Coop&lt;/em&gt; all of his experiences pretty much happened continuously. There could be different explanations for it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It could very well be some &lt;strong&gt;accumulated travel time&lt;/strong&gt; between the different planets (afterall they had hibernation chambers and at some point they mentioned that it takes them &lt;em&gt;months&lt;/em&gt; to reach &lt;em&gt;Mann&lt;/em&gt;'s planet) or maybe &lt;strong&gt;additional small bits of time dilation&lt;/strong&gt; lost due to &lt;em&gt;Gargantua&lt;/em&gt;'s influence (afterall the time dilation should be smooth anyway, it's not like it just vanished if you're some safe distance, but I don't have my relativity formulas at hand right now, maybe it drops highly exponetially or whatever).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It could have been additional &lt;strong&gt;time dilation that passed when he dropped into the black hole&lt;/strong&gt;. He was getting nearer to it, and until he reached the event horizon and ended up is some crazy tesseract room, he was approaching a very real black hole, with very real time dilation effects, even if only for a short moment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It might have been &lt;strong&gt;time that passed while he was in the tesseract&lt;/strong&gt;, in which we know weird time shit goes on.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We also don't have to forget that he was conciously saved, put into the tesseract and later placed just outside the wormhole for convenient recovery. And all this by the effectively time-controlling &lt;em&gt;&quot;Bulk Beings&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (or 5D superhumans from the future if you want), which might not be able to reverse time, but very well to stretch it, I guess. So &lt;strong&gt;they might just have deemed that to be the right time to put him there&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that a time difference of ~13 years isn't too big/significant (at least not as big as your own computed 60), I for one would settle on &lt;strong&gt;a combination of the first 2 explanations&lt;/strong&gt;, as those are the most simple, natural, intuitive and unambiguous (even if also the most boring ;-)). But I admittedly don't know it either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-11-25T12:57:27.260" LastActivityDate="2016-11-25T12:57:27.260" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27274" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27301" CreationDate="2014-11-16T23:36:33.790" Score="3" ViewCount="6279" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the third season of &lt;em&gt;Once Upon a Time&lt;/em&gt; Rumpelstiltskin gave his life in order to save his son and his friends.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Now he is complotting with the new villain of the series.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I don't understand this choice by the authors.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Could someone explain to me what are the reasons for Rumpelstiltskin becoming evil again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9490" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-17T09:41:37.457" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T17:28:20.930" Title="Why is Rumpelstiltskin a bad guy again?" Tags="|plot-explanation|once-upon-a-time|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27275" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27276" CreationDate="2014-11-17T00:31:07.770" Score="2" ViewCount="2198" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a theme in sitcoms, more from the 80s/90s than now, that a bottle of hand lotion would be used a sign that a character has been masturbating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't get it. I imagine that lotion might look a bit like semen but I would think that PVC glue would be a better analogue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How has a lotion (of all things) become a metaphor for masturbating? Why not (say) deodorant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8474" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T14:06:42.117" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T14:06:42.117" Title="Why is lotion used as a metaphor for masturbation?" Tags="|analysis|sitcoms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27275" CreationDate="2014-11-17T00:59:02.617" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lotion is not a metaphor for masturbation. It's evidence that the act has transpired, because it's a &lt;em&gt;tool&lt;/em&gt; used in the act of masturbation. Kleenex is also used in the act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T00:59:02.617" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27281" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27326" CreationDate="2014-11-17T02:41:30.063" Score="11" ViewCount="3752" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to figure out what the first instance was of a website being created specifically for a movie. I've narrowed it down to &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Generations&lt;/em&gt; (1994) and &lt;em&gt;Stargate&lt;/em&gt; (1994).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was pretty sure it was &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Generations&lt;/em&gt;, because I had it from a couple of sources, but then, after a little bit more googling, I found that people make the same claim for &lt;em&gt;Stargate&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to IMDB, &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Generations&lt;/em&gt; was released in November 1994 and &lt;em&gt;Stargate&lt;/em&gt; in October 1994. I don't believe the fact that &lt;em&gt;Stargate&lt;/em&gt; was released first necessarily means that the website was too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;For &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Generations&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From IMDB trivia: &amp;quot;The first movie to have a web site created specifically to promote it.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.trekcore.com/generations/originalsite/generationswebsite.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://movies.trekcore.com/generations/originalsite/generationswebsite.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;For &lt;em&gt;Stargate&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From IMDB trivia: &amp;quot;This was the first movie to ever have an official website. It was set up by Dean Devlin in 1994 and featured images, trailers and behind the scenes clips and actor information.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.omgfacts.com/lists/12986/Stargate-was-the-first-movie-to-have-an-official-website&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.omgfacts.com/lists/12986/Stargate-was-the-first-movie-to-have-an-official-website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15888" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2024-03-21T05:10:53.263" LastActivityDate="2024-03-21T05:10:53.263" Title="What was the first website to be created specifically to promote a movie?" Tags="|first-appearance|marketing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="27286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27281" CreationDate="2014-11-17T06:18:37.647" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's probably &lt;em&gt;Stargate&lt;/em&gt;. The registration record for &lt;code&gt;startrek.com&lt;/code&gt; lists 1995-02-27 as the creation date and for &lt;code&gt;stargate.com&lt;/code&gt; as 1986-08-05.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This date corresponds not to the movie &lt;em&gt;Stargate&lt;/em&gt;, but to the much earlier TV show &amp;quot;The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers&amp;quot; in which one of the episodes involved finding a &amp;quot;Stargate.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-03-21T03:36:06.373" LastActivityDate="2024-03-21T03:36:06.373" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="27287" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27332" CreationDate="2014-11-17T06:38:37.353" Score="4" ViewCount="289" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the opening sequence of the movie &quot;The Shooting&quot;, the character Gashade cuts open a flour sack on the mule as seen below.  This leaves a trail of flour that somebody, assumed to be &quot;The Woman&quot;, follows.  However throughout the movie one of the main driving points is that he does not know the woman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was puzzled by this, but assumed that it would be explained later on in the plot, but it doesn't seem like it was addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bv38m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Gashade cutting open flour sack&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15894" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-17T10:28:15.073" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T08:46:02.190" Title="Why did Gashade cut open the flour sack in &quot;The Shooting&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-shooting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27241" CreationDate="2014-11-17T06:59:16.210" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of questions here, so I'll go one by one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Barzini want Michael dead, after the five families had apparently made peace?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the meeting of the Five Families, Vito expresses to Tom his conviction that the Barzini family is running the narcotics operation and that they were behind Sonny's death, Tattaglia being too much of a &amp;quot;pimp&amp;quot; to outthink Santino. During the meeting, it is Barzini who repeatedly reprimands Vito for not sharing his police and political protection to the drug operation. Vito figures he would only be taking offense so strongly if he were the man behind the operation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now with Vito gone, who in his final days was the Consigliere to Michael, Barzini was certain that Michael was bound to take revenge for Sonny's death, as he knew Vito was always a cunning and shrewd man, who never forgot any insults and who would go to any lengths, even wait for the longest of times to extract revenge for Sonny's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Vito know this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well I answered this in the first question(more specifically the first paragraph).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did he know about the specific way in which it would happen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, it is said in the book, not the movie, that Vito in his earlier days had kept Clemenza and Tessio in charge of the Bronx and Brooklyn respectively because he knew that if there was a man more cunning than the Don himself, it was Tessio. Vito never wanted both his caporegime against him. This is a fact known among all the five New York Families. And in the movie when Vito decides to hand over the Empire to Michael, both Clemenza and Tessio expressed their displeasure as, unlike Sonny who was in the Family business since he was 15, Michael was as distant as one could be from the Family business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This fact is known to Vito, that Tessio had always wanted to create a Family of his own, but was only too much in awe and respect of the Don to go against him. Once the Don was dead, Vito was certain Tessio would go on to build his own Family as he owed NOTHING to Michael.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did he know about the specific way in which it would happen, and&#xA;how did he know Barzini would be able to turn someone close to Michael&#xA;against him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Michael's killing of Sollozzo and the Captain, Barzini was sure Michael had the balls to do it again to avenge his brother. He uses Tessio, in lure of allowing him to build his own Family, to arrange for Michael's meeting with Barzini. Since the Don was aware of Tessio's ambition from the very beginning, and the reason he did not go ahead with his ambition, and Clemenza's fear for losing his pull if the Don was dead, the Don was certain that Barzini would use one of his caporegimes to lure Michael into a false security of fixing a meeting in either the Bronx (Clemenza's stronghold) or Brooklyn (Tessio's stronghold) and have him assassinated there so said caporegime could create his own Family or jump to a more powerful one.&#xA;This was how the Don knew about the plot to kill Michael.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally the Don parts with Michael saying, and I quote,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now listen -- whoever comes to you with this Barzini meeting -- he's&#xA;the traitor. Don't forget that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If achieving dominance was as easy as sending some goons to kill the&#xA;heads of the other families, why hadn't someone tried this before? Why&#xA;weren't they better protected? Why did it happen when it did?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to this lies in the book. Did you know New York had six Families originally? The Sixth Family was into Olive Oil imports and since the Don was the second largest importer of Italian Oil at that time, the Sixth Family tried to assassinate the Don in the similar as Sollozzo had tried. And had survived. This was 1935, peak of the Great Depression, and similarly all six Families were at war. At the end of it, the sixth family was disbanded, and the Corleone Family became the largest importer and the strongest Family among the five.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coming back to present day (1945) New York, Don Corleone never wanted to break the peace made by all the Families. He waited only just so that the Tattaglia Family would be the first to break the rules laid by the Commission against drug trafficking, e.g. selling drugs to Italians. Once the Don was convinced this was happening, he retaliated by eliminating heads of all the Families and was justified in doing so. He waited because he didn't want Michael to be assassinated out of revenge or by the Commission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2021-05-21T10:30:19.067" LastActivityDate="2021-05-21T10:30:19.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="27289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14866" CreationDate="2014-11-17T07:22:18.630" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to pose a completely different hypothesis for the plot, and along with that, the ending.  Here's mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lenny is basically a good guy. He WAS an insurance investigator.  He remembers correctly that his wife was raped and murdered.  He remembers and relates the story of Sammy Jenkis correctly, and in detail, because it happened before his injury.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tattoo of &quot;Remember Sammy Jenkis&quot; is a trigger for Lenny to remember what happened to him, and to remind him of what he needs to do to cope.  The repetition of Sammy Jenkis' story is a plot device to provide the viewer  with indirect information about Lenny's condition, and it is also useful to Lenny because he can remember and describe Sammy's story to others in detail, while he can't describe his own story in detail past the point of his injury.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Teddy, on the other hand, is an unmitigated bad guy. Nothing he says is entirely to be believed.  He may or may not actually be a cop, although I think he probably was.  He may or may not have been the cop who originally investigated the rape/murder of Lenny's wife.  (I think he probably was - it's the easiest way he could have gotten all the information he has.  It may also be he had some reason for not wanting the second attacker to be found.)  He might have killed Lenny's wife, but probably not.  He is intrigued by Lenny, realizes there is no risk in befriending him, and then realizes he can use Lenny as a very useful tool.  By &quot;helping&quot; Lenny, he can get Lenny to kill whoever he wants, and hhas probably done that repeatedly.  How handy to have a reliable hit man that you don't have to pay well, or worry about ratting you out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Teddy knows Jimmy G and Natalie.  Teddy sets Lenny up to kill Jimmy G in order to get Jimmy's drug money.  Lenny does this, then gets a clue that he has killed the wrong guy when he hears the dying Jimmy say &quot;Sammy&quot;.  Lenny realizes then that he must have met Jimmy before, and trusted him, or he would never have told Jimmy about Sammy.  Once realizing Jimmy is not his wife's killer, Lenny begins not to trust Teddy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Natalie is basically a good person, but she is involved with bad and risky people, and she is often in danger herself.  She doesn't know who she can trust, and she has had to change her allegiances often in the past.  She doesn't know Lenny well, and isn't sure she can trust him.  She doesn't know Teddy, but she knows OF him because Jimmy has had dealings with Teddy.  She doesn't know that Lenny killed her boyfriend, and when she learns that Jimmy is dead, she becomes very fearful of Dodd, who she fears will kill her trying to find Jimmy's money.  She allies with Lenny at that point, both for comfort and looking for protection.  She both uses Lenny (fearing for her life), and tries to help him.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It takes Lenny a while to get sure of how Teddy is using him.  Once he is sure, Lenny has a difficult decision to make.  He is not sure if he has already found and killed his wife's killer of not.  (Never trust what Teddy says.)  He is not sure he will ever be able to do it without Teddy's help.  He is not sure if Teddy might actually BE his wife's killer.  But he does know that if he can't kill Teddy, then Teddy will go on using him and he will kill other innocent people.  And he is repulsed by that possibility - so much so that he is willing to give up his quest for revenge. Realizes he MUST give up revenge, or he could become vulnerable to others in the same way.  So he decides the way out of this is to convince himself that Teddy is his wife's killer - that Teddy is John G.  Whether he really is or not.  And to get the &quot;I've done it&quot; tattoo so that he won't be deceived into killing again.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under duress (when Lenny is about to kill him), Teddy throws up all kinds of smokescreens, some of them contradictory.  He both says that Lenny killed his wife's killer sometime in the past, and then that he killed his own wife.  Says that Sammy Jenkis was a fraud, and then that Lenny IS Sammy Jenkis.  I can't believe the hypothesis that Lenny killed his own wife (who would really have killed herself), then learned of it from the police report, and then succeeded in convincing himself that his wife was not diabetic.  Convincing himself his wife was not diabetic when he had years of retained memories of her needing insulin would be hard to imagine. I also can't believe he could not bring himself to kill Dodd, but could instantly decide to kill Teddy, a man he believed had helped him - just to give his life a purpose.  Why not have done that with Dodd? And if he chose to kill Teddy just to have a reason to keep going, then he would be killing the man he needed to help him keep doing that. Also, if he wants to keep killing, he would not get the &quot;I've done it&quot; tattoo.  I believe him when he says he's not a cold blooded killer.  And the movie gives us no reason for him to kill Teddy other than 1) he just likes killing (so why wouldn't he have killed Dodd?), or 2) he's convinced Teddy is his wife's killer (but he says he DOESN't believe that), or 3) that he's aghast at having been manipulated into killing innocent people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are problems with my theory - most notably why Teddy would tell Lenny that he is a &quot;John G.&quot;  That would seem stupid - unless maybe he thinks that Lenny already knows that, so it would seem trusting and disarming to acknowledge it while noting there are a LOT of John Gs in the world.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flashbacks to Lenny giving his wife insulin - those I attribute to momentary doubt, even while Lenny seems very sure his wife was not diabetic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, we don't really know if Lenny gets the &quot;I've done it&quot; tattoo.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15895" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T07:22:18.630" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24420" CreationDate="2014-11-17T12:33:40.043" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the introduction scene of Ronan, he said to a Xandarian&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because I do not forgive your people for taking the life of my father, and his father and his father before him. A thousand years of war between us will not be forgotten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly this looks a solid motive to me. Revenge for his family. I don't know about the actual comics but in the movie context I think this is the reason why Ronan hated Xandirians so much that he denied the peace treaty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T12:33:40.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27296" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27298" CreationDate="2014-11-17T13:23:21.400" Score="6" ViewCount="7150" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2015381&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/a&gt; Groot threw something in the dark that spreads light:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m6QGY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;groot light&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are these? Are these fireflies? Or something else? How does Groot (a walking tree) throw those lights? How are they created?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I searched a bit but found nothing. IMDb trivia section says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Groot has never shown this ability in the comic books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what are they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-11-17T20:44:55.833" LastActivityDate="2023-08-12T13:51:33.283" Title="How does Groot spread light?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27296" CreationDate="2014-11-17T13:59:00.300" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it's not in the comics there's no explanation there where one would usually turn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not explained in the movie either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also cannot find any official announcement from the movie creators explaining what they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All these things mean it's down to interpretation, i.e. your question cannot be answered at this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My interpretation is that a few of them appear to have wings, so probably glowbugs. But they could also very well be large balls of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioluminescence&quot;&gt;bioluminescent cells&lt;/a&gt; (like what glowbugs have), since it would seem more lore-friendly to me that Groot can only produce flora, and there are some moss' with bioluminescent cells. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How they float is another thing entirely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15848" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T13:59:00.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19089" CreationDate="2014-11-17T14:50:29.570" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they've been perfectly successful in unifying the stories of their Cinematic Universe. But it's also important to understand that this means the movies will share common themes and events, it is not a promise from Marvel that they will be able to avoid story clashes 100%. Though, again, so far I think they have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know about the movie-games and movie-comics, but I understand them as a way to boost sales for the movies, I don't really consider their content to be part of the movie canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hulk&lt;/strong&gt; is not part of the Cinematic Universe. Hulk was released in 2003, while the Marvel Cinematic universe officially started in 2008 with Iron Man 1. The fact that they reference it is nice and it makes fans happy, but does not make it part of the new continuity they're trying to maintain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ps. A list of all movies considered to be a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe are listed &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marvel_Cinematic_Universe_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, since one of your commenters asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15848" LastEditorUserId="20764" LastEditDate="2019-08-15T13:28:31.303" LastActivityDate="2019-08-15T13:28:31.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="27300" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27302" CreationDate="2014-11-17T15:14:40.663" Score="5" ViewCount="7345" Body="&lt;p&gt;These:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZU4nc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They explode like something that would be mechanical running on some power source, yet they roar and attempt to eat some of the Avengers, and they move more like an animal in water than like any machine would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, are these things Animal, Vegetable or Mineral? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T08:35:24.583" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T08:35:24.583" Title="What, exactly, are those &quot;things&quot; that come from the hole in the sky in The Avengers?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27274" CreationDate="2014-11-17T15:21:02.733" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer: Power. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole reason &lt;a href=&quot;http://onceuponatime.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Gold&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rumple/Gold&lt;/a&gt; became what he did was because he wanted to be in control- powerful and fearless, not like the coward he once was. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in acquiring that power he also bound himself to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://onceuponatime.wikia.com/wiki/Rumplestiltskin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dagger&lt;/a&gt;, which means anyone with that dagger controls him- as long as they hold the dagger, Gold is forced to obey their command, as we have seen before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He gave Belle a fake version of the dagger when he proposed so that he could be free to kill Zelena, who is indirectly responsible for Neal's death (his son) since it was Belle's wish that he not kill Zelena.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He tells Neal (his grave) about gaining love with Belle, but it has started with a&#xA;  lie since she believes the dagger is in her possession. Mr. Gold&#xA;  contends that the dagger was needed to avenge Neal's death, but now he&#xA;  must find the strength to return it to Belle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He did initially return the real dagger to Belle, but took back shortly afterwards. After he last experience under the control of Zelena, which as noted above resulted in the death of his son, Gold wanted nothing more than to be completely free of the dagger &lt;strong&gt;but still retain his powers&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The apprentice (of the magic wizard's hat) believes Mr. Gold will never accumulate enough magic to&#xA;  reach his goal, which is to be free of the dagger's control and retain&#xA;  his powers.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The Snow Queen reveals the dagger was once in her possession and thus&#xA;  she knows its secrets. In exchange for knowledge of the last thing he&#xA;  needs to be free of the weapon's will, Ingrid wants the ribbons she&#xA;  and her sisters gave him in a past deal. After she whispers the secret&#xA;  to him, Mr. Gold replies that he'll gladly do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.&#xA;.&#xA;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically the reason why he's still keeping secrets from Belle, giving her the fake dagger and retaining the real dagger himself is because he wants to be completely free of it- as long as the dagger exists and he is bound to it, there is always the chance someone could come into possession of it and control him like Zelena did. But he still wants to retain his powers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="15418" LastEditDate="2015-01-20T20:41:21.967" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T20:41:21.967" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27300" CreationDate="2014-11-17T15:32:26.423" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reverse Google Image Search&lt;/strong&gt; immediately brings up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Chitauri&quot;&gt;Chitauri&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Chitauri are a cybernetic alien race governed by a hive mind and&#xA;  subservient to the overlord Thanos. They were led by the Asgardian&#xA;  Loki during the War for Earth but were defeated by the Avengers.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The Chitauri are a powerful, reptilian warrior race, a hybrid between organic beings and machines&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furth research in that vein reveals the giant worms are &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/Leviathan&quot;&gt;Leviathans&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leviathans are extraterrestrial animal-slaves and warships for the&#xA;  Chitauri. Not much about them is known, only that they are&#xA;  cybernetically-enhanced beasts which aid the Chitauri during their&#xA;  attempted invasion of Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/Chitauri&quot;&gt;another Chitauri wikia page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Their troop transports take the form of the Leviathans, very large&#xA;  serpent-like creatures. These Leviathans can carry hundreds of&#xA;  Chitauri infantry, and are quite durable. However, they do not have&#xA;  any weaponry aside from simply ramming their target, and are shown to&#xA;  be vulnerable to large amounts of explosives, electricity, or kinetic&#xA;  force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T15:32:26.423" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27303" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27304" CreationDate="2014-11-17T15:33:19.153" Score="3" ViewCount="36758" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3560084/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NCIS: New Orleans&lt;/a&gt;, 1. am I hearing LaSalle correct when he calls Pride &quot;King&quot;, and 2. why does he call him that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3416" LastActivityDate="2023-12-26T21:04:57.337" Title="LaSalle calling Pride, King" Tags="|character|ncis-new-orleans|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27303" CreationDate="2014-11-17T15:40:30.947" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;He calls Pride &quot;King&quot; because that is his &lt;a href=&quot;http://ncis.wikia.com/wiki/Dwayne_Cassius_Pride&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;nickname&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is explained in the NCIS (mothership) episode that introduced the New Orleans team, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3548332/synopsis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Crescent City&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, Season 11 Episode 18:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Down in NO, LaSalle explains to Brody how Pride got the name King:&#xA;  When Pride first opened up the New Orleans NCIS office he made a big&#xA;  drug bust and a local crew made him an honorary member and named him&#xA;  King. LaSalle was a sheriff's deputy and King saved his life after&#xA;  Katrina.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T15:40:30.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23828" CreationDate="2014-11-17T15:48:59.230" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If it were possible to grow multiple Groots, Rocket probably wouldn't because they'd be too difficult to manage in a group. And I suspect quite clumsy in a group scenario, so there could also be risk of copies of him being stolen by enemy forces for their own use, and Groot is quite powerful, so this would be bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yeah, there's no good explanation of how Groot's consciousness works. We don't even know for sure if his remains require water and soul to regrow or if Rocket just does that for kicks (joking) because he's partially crazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15848" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T15:48:59.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27307" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-17T18:32:11.580" Score="16" ViewCount="3986" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Prestige, Nikola Tesla builds the magician Rupert Angier a teleport machine that also ends up duplicating the object placed inside of it. It is further revealed that Tesla is bankrupt, and that Angier is his last financier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Tesla was so desperate for money, why did he not use his machine to create funds before he sold it to Angier? I guess it's true that Edison was a better businessman...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15907" LastEditorUserId="15907" LastEditDate="2014-11-17T18:49:42.223" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T06:21:46.913" Title="Why didn't Tesla use his machine to make money before selling it to Angier?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27307" CreationDate="2014-11-17T18:52:48.447" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TESLA (VO)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alley has written you a thorough set of instruction.  I add only one&#xA;  suggestion on using the machine - Destroy it. Drop it to the bottom &#xA;  of the deepest ocean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Such a thing will only bring you misery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that Tesla is either frightened of the machine, or is pragmatically recognizing that the power such a machine offers is unlike anything in the world and could result in ruin for the owner or even more widely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is speculation, but perhaps Tesla realizes the temptation to make unlimited resources would become an end in itself - while he struggles to make a name for his technology in the world, perhaps he would rather an honest struggle than to follow the temptation of using the device itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2014-11-17T22:29:37.627" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T22:29:37.627" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27307" CreationDate="2014-11-17T19:00:04.973" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from the obvious explanation that this was just not considered in the story and wouldn't have fit there, there is evidence from the movie itself and its depiction of &lt;em&gt;Nikola Tesla&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tesla&lt;/em&gt; was &lt;strong&gt;afraid of the machine's power&lt;/strong&gt; once he realized what he actually created there. Remember that when he gives it to &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; he also writes something similar to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The only advice for the machine's usage I can give to you is, destroy it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;em&gt;Tesla&lt;/em&gt; built that thing for him, but he also realized how much power this thing actually conveys and the potential danger this machine poses outweights &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt;'s possible use from it. I think he mentioned before that he thinks humanity might not be ready for all his ideas, and this machine is an instance of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One might ask then, why he still gave it to &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; instead of just destroying it right away or not finishing it at all. But I'd assume it is partly his pride in having achieved such a scientific breakthrough as well as his inclination to honor the contract and promise he gave &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt;. In addition to that it might also support the common motif of the scientist who only realized the true danger of his invention after the fact and is reluctant to take full responsibility for it, just let &lt;em&gt;Angier&lt;/em&gt; take the hard decision to destroy such an amazing technological achievement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last but not least, &lt;em&gt;Tesla&lt;/em&gt; didn't seem too inclined in making money by dirty tricks instead of by genuine appreciation of his developments. &lt;strong&gt;He wasn't really the person who did all this to make a fast dollar&lt;/strong&gt;, but for the progress of mankind and if he would take money, then because his products are well-received and appreciated, but not just by misusing them to produce &quot;dirty&quot; money. In this regard he might indeed be seen as a worse businessman compared to &lt;em&gt;Edison&lt;/em&gt;, who didn't always play fair afterall. (And in turn this contrast between Tesla and Edison is also used in the movie to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/36460/49&quot;&gt;emphasize the rivaly between Borden and Angier&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-07-11T11:45:20.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27307" CreationDate="2014-11-17T19:10:43.647" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was always my (perhaps incorrect) assumption that Tesla didn't even know the machine worked.  Remember all the hats out in the forest?  I thought he didn't realize that things re-materialized elsewhere, so he wasn't ever going to step into it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Working on that assumption, I guess once he discovered exactly what he did then he could have kept going back to the pile of transported money, throwing it back in the machine and then doubling the sum (and on and on...), but by then Angiers had already financed the machine so it really wasn't Tesla's anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T19:10:43.647" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27296" CreationDate="2014-11-17T19:24:59.130" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Within the Comics (The Bendis versions at least, which is the most current run of GOTG), groot actually has bulbous, glowing areas as par of his anatomy: so there is a precedent for bioluminosity...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/abPpo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the look of the glowing spores he produces, it is probably to suggest that groot (being a plant) disperses his seeds as by driftseed. There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://theseedsite.co.uk/sdwind.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;hundreds of plants that do this&lt;/a&gt;, and the relative difference in gravity could account for their 'floating' effect, if they are not self powered somehow (this is an alien species, after-all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, I think its safe to assume the 'glowing things' are supposed to be seeds, and Groot is dispersing them to produce light...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T19:24:59.130" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24708" CreationDate="2014-11-17T20:48:26.277" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the ghosts in the Ghostbuster series seem content to ignore humans unless in significant curcumstances. For instance, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Library_ghost&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Library Ghost&lt;/a&gt; is not causing any harm. She's just scary  to people because she's a ghost. She's not aggressive until the Ghostbusters show up, and only then, just long enough to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When the future Ghostbusters were about to act out Ray's plan to &quot;get her&quot;, she changed into a terrifying form and scared them away. She was never seen or heard from again until 1991&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, &lt;a href=&quot;http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Slimer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Slimer&lt;/a&gt; has been known to employees of the Sedgewick Hotel for a long time. The only reason the Ghostbusters are called in, is that increased activity was making it more difficult to keep Slimer a secret. Like the Library Ghost, Slimer only got aggressive when threatened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Slimer was a legendary ghost to all on the original staff of the Sedgewick Hotel. His usual territory was the twelfth floor, but his outings were usually non-violent and simply involved eating food. As a result, the hotel was able to keep a lid on the supernatural problems (for a while). For some reason, Gozer's approaching time of arrival provoked Slimer (and many other ghosts) into being much more active than usual. Eventually the staff couldn't keep the ghost a secret anymore and called the Ghostbusters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a matter of fact, of the 9 ghosts listed in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Ghostbusters_Wiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ghostbusters Wikia&lt;/a&gt;, only 4 are overtly evil. Gozer, Gozer's minions (Zuul [the gatekeeper] and Vinz Clortho [the keymaster]), and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (which is actually just Gozer's Earth form).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T20:48:26.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21990" CreationDate="2014-11-17T21:13:13.160" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds like ABC just didn't care much about the show anymore, but trying to cash in on a sudden spike in popularity as the series came to a close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found this statement by KateR on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://rdanderson.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=3838&amp;amp;sid=0ff96c87622f330c7d34ffb76c4ab7c0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Richard Dean Anderson fan forum&lt;/a&gt; (because that exists):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After season six, MacGyver was only picked up for a half season, which is 13 episodes. They left Vancouver and returned to LA, and they shot the final 13 episodes there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Coltons episode is technically a sixth season episode. It was shot in Vancouver, and it was actually scheduled to air during season six. Without going back to check, I forget exactly where it came in the lineup, but it was near the end of sixth season, and I still have my original recordings of MacGyver that have the previews for the Coltons coming up the next week. But something unexpected happened that preemped the episode, and rather than airing it a week later, they dropped it altogether. It was never really a regular episode of MacGyver - it was intended to be the pilot for a new spinoff series - so it is possible that the studio's decision not to pick up the pilot affected their decision whether or not to air it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jump ahead to seventh season, and they began airing the new episodes, then, for whatever reason (perhaps due to the filming schedule?), they inserted the Coltons episode into the middle of season seven. The final episode was The Stringer, but the ratings were slipping, so they stopped airing episodes at the Christmas break, never aired Mountain of Youth, and held the season finale for a planned special event in April.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Stringer aired in April as the season finale, but the ratings bounced back so high that ABC decided to continue airing episodes through the summer. They pulled out The Mountain of Youth, &amp;quot;the lost episode,&amp;quot; and aired it the next month, followed by a few reruns through the summer until the new season started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that's the story of why season 7 was shorter than the others, how The Coltons ended up in season 7 instead of 6, and The Mountain of Youth was lost and found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While not conclusive, it has enough detail and information that it does sound like someone who remembers that time pretty well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also matches up with information found at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://sites.google.com/site/macgyverworld/episodes/139&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MacGyver World Episode Guide&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is &amp;quot;the lost episode&amp;quot;. The Mountain of Youth was filmed before &amp;quot;The Stringer&amp;quot; and the production company decided to air it because the finale had done so well in the ratings. Originally this episode was rumored to be lost. (locked up in the vault never to air)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and a &lt;a href=&quot;http://mark28.blogspot.com/2006/12/macgyver-season-7-review-six-weeks.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;review of season 7 after being released on DVD&lt;/a&gt; [emphasis mine]:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the remaining episodes were clunkers to one extent or another, but the worst of the worst include &amp;quot;The Walking Dead&amp;quot;, where MacGyver gets kidnapped by a voodoo cult and turned into a zombie; &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;The Coltons&amp;quot;, a yawningly dull episode intended as a spinoff&lt;/strong&gt; featuring the three bounty hunter brothers from several previous episodes with only two cameo appearances by MacGyver himself;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T21:13:13.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27315" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27318" CreationDate="2014-11-17T21:41:25.367" Score="8" ViewCount="976" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, how did Cooper get into that 5 Dimensional structure? Is it because of Gargantua (black hole)? Or is it because of '&lt;strong&gt;they&lt;/strong&gt;'? Or any other reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't understand that part well enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15910" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-17T21:44:34.170" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T21:57:14.863" Title="About Gargantua and Cooper?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27316" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27324" CreationDate="2014-11-17T21:47:48.253" Score="27" ViewCount="14161" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was the wormhole placed near Saturn in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If '&lt;strong&gt;they&lt;/strong&gt;' (advanced future humans) placed the wormhole from the future, why didn't they place it near Earth or at-least near the planet Mars?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They&lt;/strong&gt; could have thought of saving fuel energy from Earth for a space-ship to travel this much farther. &lt;em&gt;They&lt;/em&gt; (the people in earth from present) are in search of survival, &lt;strong&gt;they&lt;/strong&gt; should have placed it somewhere near Earth for easier access. Right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15910" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2021-06-27T18:52:42.587" LastActivityDate="2021-06-27T18:53:53.233" Title="Why was the wormhole in Interstellar placed near Saturn?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="27317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23908" CreationDate="2014-11-17T21:50:24.943" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original ending was supposed to take place in Paraguay. The original report about Jaime Foxx's attitude and the change in endings was from a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hollywood/2006/07/fleeing_the_scene.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Slate article&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mann had to rewrite the ending, eliminating a version that was to have been shot in Paraguay&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other information I could find on the original ending is from an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1217272_3,00.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Entertainment Weekly article&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plan had been to shoot for a few days in a local mall and then for three weeks in an abandoned building outside town, where they'd film a climactic gun battle that was said to rival the finale of Heat in scope and ambition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;There was a list. Two hundred and thirty-six line items of weapons, ammunition, and explosives for that scene,&amp;quot; says Donehoo. &amp;quot;And of course, the State Department bureaucracy was not in a big hurry to hand out export permits for a bunch of AK-47s into the area known for its relationship with Hamas and Hezbollah. So that was a trick.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T21:50:24.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27315" CreationDate="2014-11-17T21:57:14.863" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It was because of &lt;em&gt;&quot;them&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we can assume is, that &lt;strong&gt;this weird bookshelf world is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; what it actually looks like inside a real black hole&lt;/strong&gt;. In fact it doesn't &quot;look&quot; like anything, it's a plain singularity, which there is no escape from. So &lt;em&gt;&quot;they&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Bulk Beings&quot;&lt;/em&gt; -- which are basically 5-dimensional superhumans from the future -- transported &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; into this tesseract room, which they built in exactly this way for him to have an intuitive spatial way to navigate time and send his message back in time to his daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Without the intervention of &lt;em&gt;&quot;them&quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; would simply have gone lost in the singularity&lt;/strong&gt; of the black hole. What still stays unclear is, if that black hole singularity was necessary for him to be transported into this tesseract, i.e. if he needed to get into the singularity in order to reach 5-dimensional space in the first place, or if this just was a convenient moment to &quot;get hold&quot; of him, or if &lt;em&gt;&quot;they&quot;&lt;/em&gt; even planted the tesseract somehow at the singularity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;it was not &lt;em&gt;Gargantua&lt;/em&gt; alone that suddenly set him into this tesseract room&lt;/strong&gt;. That room was a conciously constructed (by &lt;em&gt;&quot;them&quot;&lt;/em&gt;) device to facilitate his time-defying communication with his daughter and &lt;em&gt;&quot;somebody&quot;&lt;/em&gt; put him there deliberately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T21:57:14.863" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17421" CreationDate="2014-11-17T22:56:06.930" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't actually think Patrick Bateman is his real name. His lawyer calls him Davis, which could be his real name. Patrick Bateman could be the first person he has killed, whom he has stolen the identity of in his head, the same way he stole paul allen's identity. Patrick Bateman may have been his first victim which causes his insanity (?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15913" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-11-18T06:41:57.047" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T06:41:57.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27322" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27404" CreationDate="2014-11-17T23:03:13.403" Score="10" ViewCount="4091" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was at the Grand Canyon last week and did a tour of the west rim. During the tour, one of the guides pointed to the bottom of the cliff and there was (what appears to be) a mangled up car that is all rusted. The tour guide said that the car was pushed over the cliff for a scene in a (1960s?) movie. He didn't say which one though and I don't believe it was for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_%26_Louise&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thelma &amp;amp; Louise&lt;/a&gt;, as the car going over the cliff (which is supposed to be at the Grand Canyon) at the end is actually in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Horse_Point_State_Park&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah&lt;/a&gt;. I'm also not 100% sure that this is from a movie or a TV show. I have posted a picture of the car at the bottom of the canyon below (it is the thing in the bottom middle of the picture). Does anyone have any idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cdn5A.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Car at the bottom of cliff&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a closeup of the car (if it helps):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m8QcF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Car wreckage enlargement&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6488" LastEditorUserId="6488" LastEditDate="2014-11-20T00:40:59.483" LastActivityDate="2016-10-29T02:58:26.190" Title="Show with car going over cliff into the (actual) Grand Canyon" Tags="|identify-this-movie|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:25:11.143" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17421" CreationDate="2014-11-17T23:10:24.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psycho_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki article&lt;/a&gt;, the lawyer &quot;mistakes him for another colleague&quot;.  This is supposed to drive home the fact that although he is somewhat of a narcissist, he is unimportant to certain people around him.  In fact, everyone is unimportant to certain people around them.  The disconnection and the need to feel important is really what drives Bateman, as he loves to fill each of his victims in with useless bits of trivia that make him feel smarter than everyone else.  He even breaks off his engagement to his fiance by saying, &quot;You're just not that important to me&quot;, further emphasizing the concept of disconnect and importance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T23:10:24.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27316" CreationDate="2014-11-17T23:48:57.847" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll try to make a first little attempt at parts of an out-of-universe answer why the writers might have chosen &lt;em&gt;Saturn&lt;/em&gt;, even if it might be a bit far-fetched or speculative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aesthetically as well as regarding many small references the movie is largely indebted to &lt;em&gt;Stanley Kubrick&lt;/em&gt;'s seminal work &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;2001: A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (well, which movie of this kind was not influenced by that, but there are some rather obvious references), where signs of extraterrestrial life emerge from near Jupiter. But in fact in the original novel by &lt;em&gt;Arthur C. Clarke&lt;/em&gt; it was indeed Saturn (or one of its moons) and this was only changed to Jupiter in the movie because &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_%28film%29#Writing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;credible images of &lt;em&gt;Saturn&lt;/em&gt; were simply not producible&lt;/a&gt; at that time. So &lt;strong&gt;this might very well be a reference to &lt;em&gt;2001&lt;/em&gt;, albeit a slightly distorted one&lt;/strong&gt;. And in fact there seem to be many precedents of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_in_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jupiter&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_in_fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Saturn&lt;/a&gt; serving as gateways to new experiences in science-fiction works, though it's unclear if that all goes back just to &lt;em&gt;2001&lt;/em&gt; or to some earlier precedent, or maybe a more general affinity of human culture to those planets (or if all the other planets are equally represented). But I guess being such major players in our solar system and way farther away than &lt;em&gt;Mars&lt;/em&gt; (which is largely demystified nowadays, the times of Mars invasions are over) makes them a bit more predestined to serve as such gateways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there are other small hints that Saturn was a fitting choice, even if they're way more far-fetched. First of all &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Saturn&lt;/a&gt; is the &lt;strong&gt;Roman god of agriculture&lt;/strong&gt;, which could on the one hand represent the largely unprogressing society of farmers humanity has accomodated itself to. When then factoring in the meaning of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_%28rocket_family%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Saturn Rockets&lt;/a&gt; as the facilitators of the &lt;em&gt;Apollo&lt;/em&gt; missions and thus a &lt;strong&gt;signpost of human space exploration&lt;/strong&gt;, it could on the other hand represent the pioneering attitude with which &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt;, the &lt;strong&gt;compulsory farmer and former space explorer&lt;/strong&gt;, grasps for new directions in space (and through him ultimately humanity). But I guess culture is littered with other Saturn references and one might find fitting analogies of varying degrees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to this, Saturn might as well have served as a &lt;strong&gt;visual counterpart to &lt;em&gt;Gargantua&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Showing Saturn with its commonly known and characteristic rings could have served as a visual clue for the audience to understand that it is the black hole's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_disc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;accretion disc&lt;/a&gt;, a &lt;em&gt;rougly&lt;/em&gt; similar ring of stuff (albeit faster and hotter), that gives this black hole its at first &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/27953/49&quot;&gt;rather unexpected appearance&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Gargantua&lt;/em&gt; is basically the &amp;quot;weirder&amp;quot; mirror image of Saturn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are really just some first thoughts and this whole matter deserves way more investigation. I also admit that I don't currently have an actual in-universe answer for &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;them&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; to place the wormhole at Saturn instead of a nearer location. But it seems irrelevant anyway, given that any other planet might not carry the same aesthetic significance for the story as Saturn does and that placing it directly in earth's atmosphere and the atmosphere of &lt;em&gt;Edmunds&lt;/em&gt;' planet (as suggested in a comment) would result in an entirely different story lacking any kind of interstellar travel, time dilation and time-defying communication (apart from other possible dangers a wormhole right in the atmosphere might pose). But maybe the safety argument still applies to a larger scale. After all this thing has sat there for 48 years already and it is hard to anticipate what stuff may come through it or in which way it might have some extraordinary gravitational influence, so &lt;strong&gt;better keep it at a safe distance&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2021-06-27T18:52:14.010" LastActivityDate="2021-06-27T18:52:14.010" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="27325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11307" CreationDate="2014-11-17T23:56:32.707" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original storyline had the machines using the humans as a giant networked brain on the premise that the brain's processing power is far ahead of any hardware AI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executive-meddling-the-cause-of-humans-as-batteries-in-the-matrix&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executive-meddling-the-cause-of-humans-as-batteries-in-the-matrix&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately the movie bosses considered this concept too highbrow for action / sci-fi audiences of the time. They thought we wouldn't get it, so the motivation of the machines was re-written (i.e. dumbed down) to have them using humans as a power source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As others point out, this doesn't really stack up to a reality check, but really all they needed was a (vaguely) plausible reason for the matrix to exist. Using humans as batteries (or for the brain's supposed processing power) is a MacGuffin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the success of The Matrix, the studio took even more creative control and essentially gutted the sequels of all philosophical content, turning them into highly stylised action films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15915" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2014-11-17T23:56:32.707" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27281" CreationDate="2014-11-18T04:45:08.013" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although it was obviously quite close between them, I believe the answer to the question is that the &lt;em&gt;Stargate&lt;/em&gt; website came before the &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Generations&lt;/em&gt; website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although there are lots of pages and references to both sites as being first, I have only been able to find a single reference for either of them that includes a date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Generations&lt;/em&gt; entry on the Memory Alpha website:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The official website for &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Generations&lt;/em&gt;s, created on 28 October 1994, was the first site on the internet to officially publicize a feature film. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Generations#Official_Site&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Memory Alpha&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this quote does state that &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Generations&lt;/em&gt; came first, the launch date for the website happens to be the exact same date that IMDB states the &lt;em&gt;Stargate&lt;/em&gt; movie was released (October 28, 1994). Given that the &lt;em&gt;Stargate&lt;/em&gt; website was created as a promotional tool for the movie, it stands to reason that it would have been launched before the movie was released (i.e. October 28, 1994).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15888" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-03-21T03:35:19.237" LastActivityDate="2024-03-21T03:35:19.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="27328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24708" CreationDate="2014-11-18T05:18:50.917" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Ghostbusters 2, Slimer drove Louis Tully (Rick Moranis) to the Art Gallery in a bus so he could help fight Viggo the Carpathian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a pretty nice thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/09Qx2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11607" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T05:18:50.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24518" CreationDate="2014-11-18T05:29:39.200" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it be &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VqecxF6TkN8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Acme School of Stuff&lt;/a&gt;&quot; from 1988?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: Seems like a match. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nby4aUma30A&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;opening&lt;/a&gt; depicted a Rube Goldberg machine that ends with a neon sign of the show's title, and it had a bit about a 300 baud modem (that ends with the host being spammed!):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Po3CC2_qUks?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15923" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-18T08:53:40.320" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T08:53:40.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27330" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27333" CreationDate="2014-11-18T06:18:31.767" Score="4" ViewCount="465" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching &lt;code&gt;Police Academy&lt;/code&gt; and just thoroughly amazed as one should be by Michael Winslow's performance as Cadet Larvell Jones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their first night in the academy, he is in his room making like he is playing a video game. I'm not all up on my early 80's video games. Were the sound effects he was making supposed to be any specific video game, or just an amalgamation of the typical sounds from the games of that era?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1904" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-11-18T10:21:01.363" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T10:21:01.363" Title="Was Cadet Jones playing any particular video game?" Tags="|sound-effects|police-academy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27287" CreationDate="2014-11-18T08:46:02.190" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what is available, the explanation for why he decided to leave a trail for the person following him to see was most likely discarded.  Wikipedia has this from the Audio Commentary on the DVD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to Hellman, Eastman's script was used almost exactly as written with no need for any rewrites. However, Hellman felt the first part of the script had too much expository material involving Gashade’s trip through the desert as he returned to the mining camp, so Hellman simply deleted it, noting that “Exposition, by its very nature, is artificial.” After discarding the material, Hellman began shooting at approximately “Page 10” of the screenplay. He felt the story was “perfectly simple” and didn’t need any additional information to help the audience figure things out. Nonetheless, Corman insisted on Hellman inserting a certain amount of exposition that Corman hoped would help explain the story. Corman felt that if mention was made three times during the course of the film that Gashade had a brother, audiences would not be confused by the climactic sequence. Hellman reluctantly agreed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there was initially an explanation for much of the setup, but it was removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After seeing the movie, I personally like this review.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;David Pirie in Time Out wrote, &quot;Probably the first Western which really deserves to be called existential....Hellman builds remorselessly on the atmosphere and implications of the 'quest' until it assumes a terrifying importance in itself...What Hellman has done is to take the basic tools of the Western, and use them, without in anyway diluting or destroying their power, as the basis for a Kafkaesque drama.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was much left open, and the movie does appear to be more about the setting and the journey we are taken on, as opposed to the plot.  It is entirely possible that Willett killed the people in the town, and that although he did not know the woman, he suspected he was being followed before he cut the bag (the shots of him looking intently behind him cement that) and may have cut the bag out of guilt to lead his pursuers to him.  This would also lend credibility to how open to suggestion he appears to be throughout the film.  Once he has been beaten down and weakened by the journey, when he realizes this woman has been pursuing his twin brother, he expresses his shock and dismay at the final gun battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now... that's just one take.  Another is that the entire journey is a descent into Hell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There really isn't a single explanation as to why the events in the film unfold the way they did.  The film was created at the same time as a second western, written by the same people, using the same actors.  So this wasn't a deep story that was turned into a western.  This was more of a psychedelic creation being made for the sake of making a movie.  That said, it is a very good movie.  Not from a page-turning rendition of a story point of view, but from a cinematic viewscape point of view.  Seeing the movie for what it is, rather than what we expect it should be, appears to be the point of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T08:46:02.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27330" CreationDate="2014-11-18T10:19:47.583" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are talking about this scene (starting at 1:19), then there isn't a specific game he's playing. In the middle of the sequence, you hear a specific sequence which sounds a lot like Donkey-Kong (I believe) or some other Mario variant. The other noises are random blaster noises. Plus the &quot;ass-hole&quot; comment was definitely not from a video game, lol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/V8RaHB18ckM?start=79&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this is just Michael Winslow doing noises which were discernible as video game noises. Something which he does very well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T10:19:47.583" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27316" CreationDate="2014-11-18T11:28:51.507" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two guesses, in order of probability:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even &lt;strong&gt;they&lt;/strong&gt; were not able to pinpoint the exact location of the wormhole's end at creation. If we assume a deviation factor for the exact location of a wormhole's end, then the wormhole could be estimated even closer or further than Saturn. They also had to account for time dilation: the wormhole may not be too close to Earth. Thus this - the distance from Earth to Saturn - was the shortest safe distance possible. That it turned out to be in the neighborhood of Saturn was just a coincidence.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They&lt;/strong&gt; chose the location on purpose this far from Earth, so they knew for sure once we would notice it, and be able to reach it, we actually could go through it. Assume the wormhole was located at the Moon's distance, then maybe we would be too eager and without appropriate preparation to make it to the other side.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2021-06-27T18:53:53.233" LastActivityDate="2021-06-27T18:53:53.233" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="27337" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-18T11:59:38.477" Score="4" ViewCount="1024" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Interstellar, they have shown that the astronauts Mann, Miller and Edmunds were sending signals to NASA (Earth) through their beacons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also NASA is able to send videos recorded on earth to Cooper and his team while they are in all together a different galaxy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to know whether this is possible and how? How can you send data (heartbeats through beacons and videos) to and from earth and planets of unknown galaxies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15925" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-11-21T12:03:32.313" LastActivityDate="2019-11-21T12:03:32.313" Title="How was the data transferred across galaxies?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="27338" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-18T12:36:11.197" Score="29" ViewCount="1339" Body="&lt;p&gt;The script of the first Matrix movie is almost flawless, but one theme that doesn't hold water is the statement that the machines' need of humans are as an energy source by extracting waste heat and &quot;bioelectricity&quot;. This breaks the suspension of disbelief somewhat*.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we know later on that Morpheus has incomplete information (for instance, the age of the Matrix) and since I'm sure the Wachowskis have added multiple layers to their trilogy and associated canon: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Has the Matrix canon or the Wachowskis ever suggested that the machines' co-dependence on humans is psychosocial instead of energy based?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By this I mean, I've gained an strong suspicion from various dialog in the Matrix trilogy and Animatrix shorts that the machines at some level want the survival and carefully managed existence of humans in order to define themselves (existential loneliness?) and the energy requirements are a self-rationalizing smokescreen - Has this implication been suggested or explicitly raised in the canon or by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WordOfGod&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wachowskis&lt;/a&gt; in interviews?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* In trilogy with anti-grav sentinels, oracles and CPR from inside the Matrix, it's little odd that &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; breaks the suspension of disbelief, but there you have it.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question differs somewhat from &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/11307/15793&quot;&gt;Why do the machines keep humans alive if they have nuclear reactors?&lt;/a&gt; in that I'd like to know what precisely, if anything, in the canon script or directorial interviews affirms the idea that the machines want humans in the matrix because of psychosocial co-dependence instead of any functional needs (be it electricity or organic brain power).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15793" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-11-17T20:16:00.840" LastActivityDate="2019-11-17T20:16:00.840" Title="Has the Matrix canon or the Wachowskis ever suggested that the machines' co-dependence on humans is psychosocial instead of energy based?" Tags="|analysis|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27337" CreationDate="2014-11-18T14:50:14.713" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;They were sending the data through the wormhole orbiting Saturn. It was mentioned  there were satellites on both sides of the wormhole to enable the communication. The signal would be delayed approximately 1.4 hours because of the distance to Saturn and possibly more because of distances on the other side. So the direct radio/video chat would be impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15933" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T14:50:14.713" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26944" CreationDate="2014-11-18T15:26:04.463" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to a United Press International blurb that was run in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/6384216/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Provo Daily Herald&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/49197738/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Weirton Daily Times&lt;/a&gt; in 1959, Judith Evelyn did in fact learn sign language for the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Learns Sign Language HOLLYWOOD -- (UPI) - Judith Evelyn, whose speaking voice is one of the finest in the acting profession, took lessons in sign language for her role as a deaf- mute in Columbia's &quot;The Tingler.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T15:26:04.463" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14386" CreationDate="2014-11-18T17:26:40.523" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Azazel needs a general to command the demon army he is planning to release from Hell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0987713/?ref_=ttep_ep21&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;All Hell Breaks Loose (Part I)&lt;/a&gt;, Azazel pits his special children against each other in a kill-or-be-killed, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Battle Royale&lt;/a&gt;-like contest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SAM: What happened to you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AVA: Nothing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[SAM stares her down until a minute later, she drops the act, and laughs a little.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AVA: Had you going though, didn’t I? [wiping her eyes] Yeah. I’ve been here a long time. And not alone, either. People just keep showing up. Children, like us. Batches of three or four at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SAM: You killed them? All of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AVA: I’m the undefeated heavyweight champ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SAM: Oh, my God.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AVA: Don’t think God has much to do with this, Sam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SAM: How could you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AVA: I had no choice. It's me or them. After a while, it was easy. It was even kind of fun. I just stopped fighting it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Azazel explains during the episode that he needs one soldier; the best of the best, and someone with leadership skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AZAZEL: I’m trying to help you. That’s why we’re talking. You’re the one I’m rooting for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SAM: What’s that supposed to mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AZAZEL: Welcome to the Miss America pageant. Why do you think you’re here? This is a competition. Only one of you crazy kids is gonna make it out of here alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SAM: I thought we were supposed to be—&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AZAZEL: Soldiers in a coming war? That’s true. You are. But here’s the thing: I don’t need soldiers. I need &lt;em&gt;soldier&lt;/em&gt;. I just need the one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SAM: Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AZAZEL: Well, I couldn’t just come out and say that, could I, Sam? I had to let everyone think they had a fighting chance. But what I need ... is a leader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SAM: To lead who?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AZAZEL: Oh, I’ve already got my army. Or, I will soon, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SAM: You son of a bitch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AZAZEL: Honestly, I’m surprised you hadn’t guessed. I mean, why do you think so many children flamed out already? Max Miller and Andy’s brother, what’s-his-name? They weren’t strong enough. I’m looking for the best and brightest of your generation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Season 3 Spoilers ahead&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This plan was already known by the demons, but Azazel's death in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0987714/?ref_=tt_ep_nx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;All Hell Breaks Loose (Part II)&lt;/a&gt; leaves a gap in the leadership of the newly released demon army.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032135/?ref_=ttep_ep4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sin City&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DEAN: So, the gate opened. The demon army was let out. What now, huh? I'm not seeing a big, honking plan here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CASEY: Honestly, there was a plan. Azazel was a tyrant, but ... he held us all together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DEAN: Azazel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CASEY: What, you think his friends just called him “yellow eyes”? He had a name. After you did him in, it all fell apart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DEAN: (smiling) Sorry about that. So, what? No chain of command?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CASEY: There was. It was Sam. Sam was supposed to be the grand pooh-bah and lead the big army, but ... he hasn't exactly stepped up to the plate, has he?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DEAN: Thank God for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CASEY: Again with God. You think this is a good thing? Now you've got chaos, a war without a front, hundreds of demons all jockeying for power, all fighting for the crown. Most of them gunning for your brother. For the record, I was ready to follow Sam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032131/?ref_=ttep_ep12&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;later&lt;/a&gt;, we find that Lilith has taken control of the demon army.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DEAN: Oh, good. 30. 30 [demons] all gunning for us. Who sent them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RUBY looks at SAM, who is now standing in the doorway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RUBY: You didn’t tell Dean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DEAN looks at SAM, confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RUBY: Oh, I’m surprised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DEAN: Tell me what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RUBY: There’s a big new up and corner. Real pied piper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DEAN: Who is he?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RUBY: Not he. Her. Her name is Lilith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DEAN: Lilith?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RUBY: And she really, really wants Sam’s intestines on a stick. ‘Cause she sees him as competition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T17:26:40.523" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26589" CreationDate="2014-11-18T19:14:05.697" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/breaking-bad-recap-episode-2-caballo-sin-nombre-is-set-to-the-sounds-of-america/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SlashFilm&lt;/a&gt; suggested the following connection:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title [of the episode] is a direct reference to the song “A Horse&#xA;with No Name,” by the band America, and Walt is shown singing the&#xA;lyrics at the ep’s beginning and end. &lt;em&gt;On both occasions he’s blindly&#xA;visited by two threats in the clashing forms of law and chaos.&lt;/em&gt; It’s a&#xA;great use of music because, for one, the song’s lyrics famously don’t&#xA;make a lot of sense and yet the track creates a manly sense of&#xA;importance and dignity in being lost and alone. &lt;em&gt;The song is also&#xA;thought to be about escapism via drugs (specifically heroin), and Walt&#xA;is still high, albeit from the power of capitalizing on other&#xA;people’s.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/article_19454_5-famous-hidden-song-meanings-that-are-total-b.s._p2.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cracked&lt;/a&gt; did an article investigating this idea of the song being about drug escapism and stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's save time here by going straight to Dewey Bunnell, the man who&#xA;actually wrote the song:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I wanted to capture the imagery of the desert, because I was sitting&#xA;in this room in England, and it was rainy.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, back when he was a kid, Dewey was playing around in the desert,&#xA;found it interesting and years later wrote a song about it with a&#xA;message about the environment. No heroin-induced hallucinations or&#xA;allegorical desert, but real, actual desert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite their disappoint reveal, I think the Slash Film reviewer's thoughts are probably the best explanation of any &lt;em&gt;deeper&lt;/em&gt; connection that exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My own feeling is simply that the song is just a random choice, as it is quite light hearted in tune and provides an interesting contrast to the extreme peril that Walt is actually in, at both the start and end of the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T19:14:05.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19787" CreationDate="2014-11-18T19:51:05.833" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have any evidence that the 400 Blows was influenced by the wonderful &lt;strong&gt;Catcher in the Rye&lt;/strong&gt; and unfortunately I don't think any evidence is forthcoming unless some interview with Truffaut appears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I do know that 400 Blows' french title was &quot;Les Quatre Cents Coups&quot;, which means &lt;em&gt;to raise hell&lt;/em&gt;. This coincides rather nicely with Truffaut's own background. Paraphrasing from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2013/06/04/francois-truffauts-the-400-blows&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MOMA&lt;/a&gt;, Truffaut often wrote about angry young men. His own past involved a troubled childhood, jail time and army desertion. Reading the MOMA article will give more detailed analysis, but ultimately the primary focus of the film was to be (at least partly) autobiographical. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly Roger Ebert, in his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-400-blows-1959&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;review of the film&lt;/a&gt;, agreed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Inspired by Truffaut's own early life, it shows a resourceful boy&#xA;  growing up in Paris and apparently dashing headlong into a life of&#xA;  crime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So whilst it's difficult to know how much the Catcher in the Rye actually influenced the movie, it is known that a lot of the story is autobiographical. Logically, since his childhood (born in 1932) predated Catcher in the Rye (1951) by some time, it seems likely that it was never a central or main source of inspiration for 400 Blows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T19:51:05.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26831" CreationDate="2014-11-18T20:01:14.387" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about anyone affiliated with the show, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Freiman&quot;&gt;Barry Freiman&lt;/a&gt; (d. 2012) has discussed this. He was a freelance writer who, among other things, was a Superman guru, reporting and contributing to many of the Superman fan sites, e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.supermanhomepage.com/news.php&quot;&gt;Superman Homepage&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.superboyhomepage.com/&quot;&gt;Superboy Homepage&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He wrote an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=articles/seinfeld&quot;&gt;article on the Superman Homepage&lt;/a&gt; where he stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Almost everyone knows that comedian Jerry Seinfeld is a big Superman&#xA;  fan. But an urban legend has sprung up that Jerry snuck a reference to&#xA;  the Man of Steel in every episode of NBC's Must-See comedy juggernaut,&#xA;  &quot;Seinfeld&quot;, which aired from 1989 to 1998. Not true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks to my TIVO, I've taken a ride around the syndication wheel of&#xA;  &quot;Seinfeld&quot; repeats on TBS over the past few months, screening the&#xA;  episodes for Superman references. As it turns out...[despite many appearances] it's still far from something super snuck into&#xA;  every episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the article, he does include a link to every episode which contains a Superman reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, whilst this isn't the completely conclusive answer you were after, given Freiman's prominence in the Superman world, I think his opinion on the subject does carry substantial weight and thus I would say: &lt;strong&gt;no, not every Seinfeld episode contains Superman references&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, some definitive proof. Interview with Jerry Seinfeld, in July 2014, conducted on &lt;a href=&quot;http://interviewly.com/i/jerry-seinfeld-jul-2014-reddit&quot;&gt;Reddit&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Question]&lt;/strong&gt; There is a rumor that there is a Superman reference in every episode&#xA;  of Seinfeld. Can you confirm or deny this and who's idea was it to put&#xA;  the references in the show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Jerry]&lt;/strong&gt; I can deny it categorically. You can't count seeing the little&#xA;  Superman model on the bookshelf as a Superman reference. I would say&#xA;  there are maybe 10 Superman references out of a whole 180 or so&#xA;  episodes, so that's a long way from all of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peter Mehlman, a writer for Seinfeld, &lt;a href=&quot;http://parade.com/20772/petermehlman/a-writer-for-the-sitcom-explains-why-seinfeld-loved-superman/&quot;&gt;also comments&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Contrary to rumor, it was never planned to make the Man of Steel a&#xA;  recurring theme, and the writing staff, on which I worked for six&#xA;  seasons, &lt;em&gt;never got an edict dictating regular mentions of him&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst this certainly isn't as categorical a denial as Jerry Seinfeld provides, it does show that the writers were certainly not instructed or primarily interested in dropping these references - rather it was just an entertaining side project that happened occasionally, with the fans taking it to whole new levels (e.g. if Jerry wears red and blue, fans of the theory consider that a link).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-11-18T20:21:31.250" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T20:21:31.250" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19833" CreationDate="2014-11-18T20:13:04.500" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a bit of a non-answer, but having watched the scene(s) many times and scoured the Internet, I'm going to say it's just a &lt;strong&gt;movie mistake&lt;/strong&gt;. It's certainly identified as such (continuity error) on most Movie Mistake websites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My only reasoning is thus: one, there doesn't &lt;em&gt;appear&lt;/em&gt; to be another solution and one is unlikely forthcoming and; two, despite the close up of the shot, it's certainly understandable that the editing team could have missed this. When you consider some continuity errors in films involve things appearing in one shot, missing in the next and then reappearing in the following shot, it certainly seems logical that the team could have just missed this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll of course update this answer in future if more information is forthcoming, but for now I call movie mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more I think about it, the more I have a slightly different conclusion. I think it's possible that the original pass code was just a random number that Bond was using, but later on, to demonstrate how much he cared about Vesper, it was shown he had changed his pass code to her name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my eyes, this act, something many people in relationships have done, enhances the feeling of betrayal he felt once he learnt her part in Schiffe's plan. She wasn't just a random woman he had bedded, but someone he had given his heart to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-11-19T14:52:00.833" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T14:52:00.833" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19456" CreationDate="2014-11-18T20:28:40.353" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Short Answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Solomon has implicitly sold his soul to the Devil through &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Common Law&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;REAPER: Solomon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SOLOMON: What... are you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;REAPER: I am the Devil's Reaper. I am here to claim you, Solomon Kane. Your deal is done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SOLOMON: What deal? I made no deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;REAPER: There was a deal. And your soul is the price. Your life of murder and greed is over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SOLOMON: You cannot take my soul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;REAPER: Bow your head before me. The Devil will have his due.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Full Answer&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is an origin story for the character Solomon Kane. Our first introduction is him acting as a mercenary, battling the Ottoman empire. As a general rule, mercenaries are &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi#Iraq_War_involvement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;typically perceived as violent&lt;/a&gt;, especially in the Middle Ages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This violent version of Solomon Kane leads to the Devil attempting to reap his soul, after which he turns to fighting evil as a way to make amends for his past. Basically, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360486/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Constantine&lt;/a&gt; method of getting to Heaven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tor.com/blogs/2008/12/solomonkanetorturedsoul&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;One online description&lt;/a&gt; has this to say about the original stories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Delving deeper, it should be noted that despite his good intentions, Solomon Kane is a tortured soul.  While we never learn the reasons behind his obsession, it’s clear that Solomon Kane views battling the evil in the world as his personal cross to bear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could imagine trying to save his soul would give Kane a reason to bear that cross.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T20:28:40.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14797" CreationDate="2014-11-18T20:41:36.090" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He doesn't appear to have a name. Interestingly, TV Tropes lists this as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MeaningfulRename&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;meaningful rename&lt;/strong&gt; trope&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name is the thing, and the true name is the true thing — so if the&#xA;name changes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some names have obvious meanings but often, this is&#xA;done when it is not the original name for the person, place or object,&#xA;but rather, a new one given by someone or assumed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On City of God they say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In City of God, Lil Dice gets the new name Lil Ze from a religious&#xA;practitioner, who states his new name will change his fate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is discussed in a 2004 article I found, which includes quotes from an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nitrateonline.com/2004/fcityofgod.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with the film's director Fernando Meirelles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;City of God also drapes itself in layers of subplot, resulting in a&#xA;complex web of detail that can only be fully absorbed through repeated&#xA;viewings.  One surreal scene, for instance, shows Lil’ Ze’s ritual&#xA;transformation from child to man, as he visits a sinister witch&#xA;doctor’s candle-lit cathedral.  “This amulet is your protector,” the&#xA;elder explains, placing a necklace around the killer’s neck. Many&#xA;viewers might easily miss the significance of this witch doctor’s&#xA;insistence that Lil’ Ze not fornicate while wearing the amulet. Watch&#xA;City of God a second time, however, it becomes clear that the hood’s&#xA;violation of this command is the catalyst for his undoing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“The scene with the witch doctor,” explains Meirelles, “comes from a&#xA;religion brought to Brazil from Africa, called Candonble, that&#xA;incorporates a lot of saints and entities, like gods that protect the&#xA;sea and the winds. Different archetypes called orixas.  In this scene,&#xA;a very mean orixa – presented through the witch doctor - gives Lil’&#xA;Ze’ his power. But he is told that he can’t screw anybody with that&#xA;amulet on. Later he rapes a girl. We don’t see the rape actually&#xA;happen. Instead, there are three seconds showing only the amulet.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the man in the scene is some type of &lt;strong&gt;witch doctor&lt;/strong&gt; although his exact name isn't revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T20:41:36.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12467" CreationDate="2014-11-18T20:48:52.640" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jewel Thief 1967 AND 1996,  Return of Jewel Thief&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15938" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T20:48:52.640" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26524" CreationDate="2014-11-18T20:51:24.933" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simply put, they followed the star map to the location of LV-223. Consider this (rather old) &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/871930.stm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BBC article&lt;/a&gt; describing the discovery of a prehistoric map of the night sky discovered on the walls of the famous painted caves at Lascaux in central France.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was found:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the map, which is thought to date back 16,500 years, shows three&#xA;  bright stars known today as the Summer Triangle...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A map of the Pleiades star cluster has also been found among the&#xA;  Lascaux frescoes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason I'm citing this article is to show that cave paintings are enough to pinpoint locations in the sky. The logic is that the map on the cave wall was detailed enough to find LV-223. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course there are still problems with this, such as how they were able to narrow down a portion of the night sky to a single specific location - but it seems likely these problems are irrelevant plot issues that were never intended to be seriously discussed. They found a map to a location and used their technology to work out its exact location and followed it. I think that's as far as we can read into things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T20:51:24.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14704" CreationDate="2014-11-18T20:57:24.153" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This scene is showing that the family is supposed to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fasting&lt;/a&gt; at the time. The fasting is part of their annual ritual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The fast is broken when they sit down to eat their people stew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as a young child, Rory either doesn't understand why he's not allowed to eat, or just doesn't care because he's hungry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; It also foreshadows Rose's later rebellion. She's old enough to understand the fasting. She shouldn't be allowing her brother to eat, much less eating herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T20:57:24.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18916" CreationDate="2014-11-18T21:10:09.807" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always took this scene to be a wonderful coincidence. The whole point of Gerry's many messages to Holly is to push her towards the possibilities of the future. Whilst he had a lot planned, I like to think that he hoped that by moving on with her life, opening herself up to possibilities and meeting new people, she would fall in love again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So whilst the playing of The Galway Girl is, in my view, coincidental, it could have been anything that first caught her attention. It could have been a made who looked like Gerry, or who had the same job, or who liked the same sports team. Anything could have been a reference - especially since she was looking for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as we later realised, it really did seem to be a coincidence, showing that by opening herself up to new possibilities, Holly was allowing herself the chance to move on - which she eventually did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-18T21:10:09.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27358" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27381" CreationDate="2014-11-19T01:11:15.013" Score="7" ViewCount="610" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film '&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348836/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gothika&lt;/a&gt;' (which takes place in circa 2003), the principal actress is held in a prison for the criminally insane.  The door to her cell is a fortified glass of some sort, and does not require a key to open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, it has a vault-type of handle.  When the handle is rotated clockwise, cables move pins which allow the door to be pushed open.  The cell door is secured by rotating the handle in the opposite direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the other areas in the prison use conventional key-lock technology and in fact the principal actress steals a large set of keys to open the various doors in her 'dramatic' escape scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In comparison, Hannibal Lector's cell had a Plexiglas front, but the actual door in the rear of the cell was a 'standard' prison door. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this type of cell door a purely theatrical device? Or do such cell doors exist in contemporary prisons?  Is there any point to them? Other than not having the encumbrance of needing a key?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/myP9O.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T15:09:43.747" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T15:09:43.747" Title="Prison cell doors in Gothika?" Tags="|realism|gothika|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27358" CreationDate="2014-11-19T02:25:54.153" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;All prisons I know of either have standard sliding steel cell doors with no glass, or (in a SuperMax) are steel &quot;storm&quot; doors with a small window at eye level as well as a slot no bigger than a few inches, where meals can be handed to prisoners or prisoners can back up to in order to allow a guard to handcuff them before opening the door.  That door in Gothika was purely for cinematic purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T02:25:54.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27361" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-19T03:10:55.867" Score="3" ViewCount="664" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is shown in end that humans are living on a spaceship orbiting near saturn. But when was this ship built? There was no mention of spaceship on such a large scale being mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9673" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T17:28:56.000" Title="Spaceship to transport human in interstellar" Tags="|interstellar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9557" CreationDate="2014-11-19T06:34:34.350" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is a bit late but I just watched the film and it seems to me like Hugh Jackman is going to say 'I love you'. Nevertheless, I much prefer the idea of him about to say that it wasn't him fighting and Atom was doing it all himself. It'd be a coincidence though that they both threw all the same punches anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15947" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T06:34:34.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27364" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27485" CreationDate="2014-11-19T07:00:57.623" Score="44" ViewCount="7478" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember gravity in both the planets in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; being comparable to that of Earth's. 80% of Earth gravity in case of Mann's planet and 130% in case of Miller's planet. So, why did it take a rocket to lift off the Earth surface and get to the Endurance orbit, but just Ranger shuttles to lift off from Miller's &amp;amp; Mann's planet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do see an explanation &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.space.com/27694-interstellar-movie-spaceships-infographic.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if that is the case, why use a rocket to lift off from earth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15946" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-19T13:30:58.160" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T08:28:22.387" Title="Why did it take a rocket to lift off the Earth but just shuttles to lift off the other planets?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19833" CreationDate="2014-11-19T09:20:18.070" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just found a website that admits all the mistakes made while filming Casino Royale, and by the looks of it the list of mistakes is pretty long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/movies/cr_mistakes.php3?t=mi6&amp;amp;s=cr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/movies/cr_mistakes.php3?t=mi6&amp;amp;s=cr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, I'll bring up the confession that admits the goof-up with the numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Bond enters his pass code at the poker game, he enters 836547.&#xA;  This combination of numbers cannot spell VESPER. However, at the end&#xA;  of the film when Vesper Lynd enters the pass code, the last three&#xA;  digits entered are 737 (which, indeed, can spell PER).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15240" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T09:20:18.070" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26985" CreationDate="2014-11-19T11:00:39.710" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are two possible reasons for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, whilst in the movie &lt;strong&gt;Noelle Hawthorne&lt;/strong&gt; appears on the very first day of the hunt for Amy, in the books she isn't introduced until later at the search party headquarters. Therefore, there were no set lines for her in the &quot;early days&quot; of the investigation coming from the book. It's plausible that the film makers didn't want to include any and instead simply wanted to give &lt;strong&gt;Casey Wilson&lt;/strong&gt; (the actress) more screen time, as she was funny, completely over the top and entertaining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, and perhaps a more likely possibility, is that there was evidence in the flat of a struggle. Initially at least, Nick is not the suspect. Whilst the information she had was of vital importance, there were more pressing concerns in the immediate aftermath of her disappearance. The entire house needed to be cordoned off, the scene needed to be analysed, blood traces needed to be collected - in other words, &lt;em&gt;objective&lt;/em&gt; evidence took priority over interviewing a slightly hysterical woman. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As time progressed and more and more evidence seemed to implicate Nick, suddenly the &lt;em&gt;subjective&lt;/em&gt; views of those around him became far more important to the investigation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T11:00:39.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26788" CreationDate="2014-11-19T11:45:59.570" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She intended to kill herself, but wanted to wait for Nick to be publicly lynched in the media - but she changed her mind as she believed herself to be guiltless and thought she didn't deserve to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst this is Movies &amp;amp; TV, this entire answer is composed of quotations from &lt;strong&gt;Gillian Flynn's&lt;/strong&gt; original book, &lt;strong&gt;Gone Girl&lt;/strong&gt;, as it is obviously the definitive source of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book, there is never any doubt that she intended to kill herself.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...So I began to think of a different story, a better story, that&#xA;  would destroy Nick for doing this to me. A story that would restore my&#xA;  perfection. It would make me the hero, flawless and adored.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Because&#xA;  everyone loves the Dead Girl.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (from Chapter: Amy Elliott Dunne - The Day Of)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She later goes on to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But I am careful with money, my point. I have enough to live on until&#xA;  I kill myself. I'm going to hide out long enough to watch Lance&#xA;  Nicholas Dunne become a worldwide pariah, to watch Nick be arrested,&#xA;  tried, marched off to prison, bewildered in an orange jumpsuit and&#xA;  handcuffs. To watch Nick squirm and sweat and swear he is innocent and&#xA;  still be stuck. Then I will travel south along the river, where I will&#xA;  meet up with my body, my pretend floating Other Amy body in the Gulf&#xA;  of Mexico. I will sign up for a booze cruise - something to get me out&#xA;  into the deep end but nothing required identification. &lt;em&gt;I will drink a&#xA;  giant ice-wet shaker of gin, and I will swallow sleeping pills, and&#xA;  when no one is looking, I'll drop silently over the side, my pockets&#xA;  full of Virginia Woolf rocks. It requires discipline, to drown&#xA;  oneself, but I have discipline in spades. My body may never be&#xA;  discovered, or it may resurface weeks, months, layer - eroded to the&#xA;  point that my death can't be time stamped - and I will provide a last&#xA;  bit of evidence to make sure Nick is marched to the padded cross, the&#xA;  prison table where he'll be pumped with poison and die.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I'd like to wait around and see him dead, but given the state of our&#xA;  justice system, that may take years, and I have neither the money nor&#xA;  the stamina. I'm ready to join the Hopes.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (from Chapter: Amy Elliot Dunne - Five Days Gone)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So certainly at this point, her thoughts are of suicide. They are pretty well thought out, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As time goes on though, she changes her mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have changed plans only twice so far. The first was the gun. I was&#xA;  going to get a gun and then, on the morning I disappeared, I was going&#xA;  to shoot myself. Nowhere dangerous: through a calf or a wrist. I would&#xA;  leave behind a bullet with my flesh and blood on it. A struggle&#xA;  occurred! Amy was shot! But then I realised this was a little too macho&#xA;  even for me. It would hurt for weeks, and I don't love pain (my sliced&#xA;  arm feels better now, thank you very much). But I still liked the idea&#xA;  of a gun. It made for a nice MacGuffin. Not &lt;em&gt;Amy was shot&lt;/em&gt; but &lt;em&gt;Amy was&#xA;  scared&lt;/em&gt;. So I dolled myself up and went to the mall on Valentine's&#xA;  Day, so I'd be remembered. I couldn't get one, but it's not a big deal&#xA;  as far as changed plans go.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The other one is considerably more extreme. *I have decided I'm not&#xA;  going to die.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I have the discipline to kill myself, buy can't stomach the injustice.&#xA;  It's not fair that I have to die. Not &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; die. I don't want to.&#xA;  I'm not the one who did anything wrong.*&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The problem now though is money...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (from Chapter: Amy Elliot Dunne - Eight Days Gone)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, the final turning block that cements this idea to live is the robbery she suffers at her cabin, when Greta and Jeff take all her remaining money. In the very next (very short at half a page) chapter, she comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am penniless and on the run. How fucking noir...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I think of suicide&#xA;  again, how a prisoner on suicide watch spends twenty-four hours a day&#xA;  under lights, an awful thought. My gas tank is below the quarter mark,&#xA;  an even more awful thought: I can drive only about an hour in any&#xA;  direction, so I must choose the direction carefully. South is&#xA;  Arkansas, north is Iowa, west is back to the Ozarks. Or I could go&#xA;  east, cross the river into Illinois. Everywhere I go is the river. I'm&#xA;  following it or it's following me. I know, suddenly, what I must do.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (from Chapter: Amy Elliot Dunne - Nine Days Gone)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the very next chapter, she meets up with Desi (Neil Patrick Harris in the film) and is thus &quot;confirmed&quot; to be alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to summarise A LOT of quoted information from the book, she certainly had a definite intention to kill herself when she started out. She waited because she wanted to see Nick be lynched in the media first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after seeing her husband squirm and fight on television, a growing sense of resentment built up in her and she felt she didn't deserve to die as she was totally guiltless. Instead she chose to live. However, being robbed of all her remaining possessions and knowing she couldn't get anywhere to continue with her life, she was left with two choices - die or return. She chose to return (to Desi at least) and &quot;live&quot; again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T11:45:59.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26556" CreationDate="2014-11-19T12:10:53.237" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When she returned his coat to him, at Baker Street, whilst he slept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherlock arrives at Irene's and sits in her reception room after taking off his coat and &#xA;seeing it beside him. He then proceeds to rescue the situation that develops by correctly opening the safe, using Irene's measurements, and helping her evade the CIA. This appears to put all the power in his court, as it shows him as the usual, saves-the-day genius.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when they get upstairs, Irene quickly drugs him and as he passes out, they both appear by the car of the case John was investigating. Although Sherlock knows what happened, Irene surprises us by being able to walk us through what had happened - a man went to a river, threw a boomerang and was spotted by another man in a broken down car. That other man then tried to start his car and his engine blew out, distracting the first man and causing the boomerang he threw to strike him in the head, killing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suddenly, we see how perceptive and strong Irene is. She was happily rescued from the CIA by Sherlock, only to immediately turn the tables on him and demonstrate she has his reasoning and deduction prowess in her solving of the boomerang case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst this may all seem unrelated to the question you ask, it's vital as it shows her intelligence (and agility, given her timely escape out the window). As pointed out already, there was no time for her to set his ringtone after he collapsed, as John came in. However, we see later on Sherlock sleeping on his bed, with his blanket around him, and Irene appearing over him, almost in a dream, saying (around the 36:00 mark):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hush now. I'm only returning your coat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, she clearly returned to her house at some point, got Sherlock's coat, then managed to climb in Sherlock's window and return it, along with his phone and its now jazzed-up ringtone. How did she do all this? Because she's both agile and intelligent, as the scene in her house demonstrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OTUGRkrTD0&quot;&gt;a clip of the scene&lt;/a&gt; in question. Irene's appearance at the end confirms her presence in Sherlock's apartment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-11-19T13:22:56.593" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T13:22:56.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14386" CreationDate="2014-11-19T13:09:24.423" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His goal was to release Lucifer, which required breaking the Seals. To do this, he needed two things. Firstly, he needed to raise Lilith, as her death was the final scene. Secondly, he needed to raise a vessel for Lucifer to possess when he was finally released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Season 4 finale, &lt;strong&gt;Lucifer Rising&lt;/strong&gt;, we see &lt;strong&gt;Azazel&lt;/strong&gt; possessing a priest in 1972 and arriving at St. Mary's Convent. He slaughters eight nuns there and, using a dead nun, is able to speak directly to Lucifer. He tells him he has done this to speak to him, to help free him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AZAZEL&lt;/strong&gt; Father, look... I'm not exactly the praying type, but still...&#xA;  I made the sacrifice. I got you a bagful of nuns. So, uh... can you&#xA;  hear me? Can you whisper through the door?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;DEAD NUN CHANNELING LUCIFER&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  (in distorted gender-ambiguous voice) I'm here, my son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lucifer however, tells him that 66 Seals need to be broken that hold him captive - and that only Lillith can do this. However, he is told to find Lucifer &quot;a special child&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AZAZEL&lt;/strong&gt; So, uh... how do I bust you out?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;LUCIFER&lt;/strong&gt; Lilith.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;AZAZEL&lt;/strong&gt; Lilith?&#xA;  Father, she's... trapped neck-deep in the pit. It won't be easy.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;LUCIFER&lt;/strong&gt; Lilith. Lilith can break the seals.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;AZAZEL&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah, okay. But&#xA;  what do I do?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;LUCIFER&lt;/strong&gt; You must find me a child. A very special child.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;AZAZEL&lt;/strong&gt; (Eyes flash yellow) What do you mean? What child?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at this point, his plan is starting to become clear. He needs to get Lilith out of whatever pit she is in and he needs to find Lucifer a special child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;With regards to the &quot;special child&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Azazel then begins to go around the country and make deals with parents, allowing him to feed his blood to their babies later and make them develop supernatural abilities. Their abilities were strengthened depending on how much demon blood they consumed (as Sam's demise throughout Series 4 showed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, these were all the known &quot;special&quot; children (&lt;a href=&quot;http://supernatural.wikia.com/wiki/Special_children&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;taken from the wiki&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sam Winchester&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Max Miller&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Andrew Gallagher&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ansem Weems&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ava Wilson&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jake Talley  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lily Baker&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scott Carey &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More information on them can be read on the linked wiki page. Whilst we originally saw their powers grow, the conversation from the Season 4 finale revealed their true purpose definitively - &lt;strong&gt;they were all potential vessels for Lucifer&lt;/strong&gt;. Azazel had them battle at the end of Season 2 to find out who was the &lt;strong&gt;strongest&lt;/strong&gt; (and thus most worthy) of the honour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;With regards to Lilith&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lilith is a little complicated to get into detail on, as the reason for being in the pit isn't explained on the show. When Sam kills her, this exchange does take place though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SAM (in denial)&lt;/strong&gt; No, no, no. No, he -- Lilith -- I stopped her. I&#xA;  killed her!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;RUBY (fervently)&lt;/strong&gt; And it is written that the first demon&#xA;  shall be the last seal. And you bust her open...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, she was the first demon - the first ever. She was created by Lucifer himself. Whilst this doesn't explain why she is buried in the pit, this tallies with the real-world religious sources on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lilith&lt;/a&gt;, where she is regarded as one of the first demons (and in some sources, she's even considered one of the wives of Adam).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Azazel's ultimate goal was to release Lucifer. To do this, he needed two things. Firstly, he needed to raise Lilith, as her death was the final scene. Secondly, he needed to raise a vessel for Lucifer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, given his demise in Season 2, we never saw the power dynamic between himself and Lilith. However, the Companion Series for Supernatural does describe that the white-eyed demons were the highest rank there could be, so it seems likely she would outrank him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-11-19T13:21:29.280" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T13:21:29.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27372" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27373" CreationDate="2014-11-19T14:09:03.017" Score="8" ViewCount="4407" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to identify a movie, hope that I can help you help me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot revolves around some highschool mature looking kids (a group that includes both girls and boys) who kidnap their teacher cause he was very mean to them to try to teach him a lesson and soften him up. They take the teacher to a house far away from town blindfolded and he doesn't know who has kidnapped him or where he is, they got him tied to a chair and speak to him with a voice modulator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recall that the voice modulator breaks when one girl is talking to him and he recognizes her voice, the teacher starts to freak out and threaten her, turns out the teacher had to take heart pills and with this episode of rage he has a heart attack and needs the pills, but the &quot;boss&quot; of the kids doesn't believe him and starts punching him until the teacher dies and now they got a real problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's all I can remember, some info that could help identify the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Year: Late 90's, maybe early 2000's&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Language: English&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Country: USA&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15951" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-19T14:18:23.417" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T14:20:05.940" Title="90's early 2000 movie about students kidnapping their teacher" Tags="|identify-this-movie|thriller|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:25:20.537" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27372" CreationDate="2014-11-19T14:12:42.640" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119461/combined&quot;&gt;Killing Mr. Griffin&lt;/a&gt; with Amy Jo Johnson, Mario Lopez and Michelle Williams from 1997:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mr. Griffin (Jay Thomas) is a bitter high-school teacher, who pushes his students to the limit and is hated by most of them. When he humiliates the popular student Mark Kinney (Scott Bairstow) is his class, Mark convinces his friends to play a prank on Mr. Griffin. The group manipulates Susan McConnell (Amy Jo Johnson), using her to attract the teacher to the parking area after hours. They kidnap, blindfold and take him to an abandoned boat house nearby a lake, and trying to frighten him, they leave him tied on a chair alone in the desert place without his heart pills. Mr. Griffin dies and when his body is found, the group panics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They use a voice scrambler but it breaks. The film was based on a Young Adult novel &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Mr._Griffin&quot;&gt;by the same name&lt;/a&gt;. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/VyYvAscCRmU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-19T14:20:05.940" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T14:20:05.940" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12357" CreationDate="2014-11-19T15:33:37.480" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Antoine Fuqua and Gerard Butler both discussed this in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Olympus-Has-Fallen-Ripping-Off-Die-Hard-Gerard-Butler-Antoine-Fuqua-Respond-36532.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a video interview&lt;/a&gt;, showing they were definitely aware of the &lt;strong&gt;Die Hard&lt;/strong&gt; connection and they both loved Bruce Willis' works. In fact, they viewed it as the daddy of all action films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paraphrasing from the interview, they both drew distinct differences between Die Hard and Olympus Has Fallen, discussing how their film takes place in the White House, with terrorists attacking the White House, on a much bigger scale than Die Hard presented. They also commented on how the undertone of the film was far more serious. It included &quot;without a doubt ... those Die Hard quips&quot;, but ultimately takes place in a post 9/11 world and thus simply had to be more mature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dylan McDermott, an actor in the film, also said this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iamrogue.com/news/interviews/item/8538-iar-exclusive-interview-dylan-mcdermott-talks-olympus-has-fallen-and-his-overall-career.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;in an interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm sure by now you've heard Olympus Has Fallen described as “Die Hard&#xA;  in the White House,” was that a reference that was talked about on&#xA;  set? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;McDermott&lt;/strong&gt;: I had heard that before. That was kind of like the selling&#xA;  point. I'm trying to make different movies so obviously The Campaign,&#xA;  which was a comedy, and Olympus is action movie, and even my work on&#xA;  American Horror Story. So you know, I’m just trying to mix it up as&#xA;  much as possible, create new characters and just keep showing up in&#xA;  the right movies with the right actors, and great directors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither interview mentioned references to &lt;strong&gt;Under Siege&lt;/strong&gt;, but as it was one of the many films that came in the aftermath of Die Hard and was largely a clone of it, all roads effectively lead back to Die Hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, ultimately, they were unquestionably aware of Die Hard and the relationship between their movie and it and so it's certainly plausible that they included direct references (described in the video interview as Die Hard quips). They don't mention any of these quips &lt;em&gt;explicitly&lt;/em&gt;, but given their desire to have Die Hard-esque moments, it's definitely possible and arguably likely they paid tribute to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T15:33:37.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11424" CreationDate="2014-11-19T15:34:21.270" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tony cured Pepper. Tony perfected Extremis to regrow his breast bone and ribs which were cut open in a circle for insertion of the electromagnet/arc reactor. So, he needed a perfected or reversible Extremis to perform the surgery because of the missing bones and then to be cured of Extremis afterward. I believe without Extremis that he would die from the surgery. He said something to the effect since he was able to cure Pepper, why not do some cosmetic or minor surgery. I am sorry not to have the exact quote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15954" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T15:34:21.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27379" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27383" CreationDate="2014-11-19T16:19:21.143" Score="1" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Sea Of Love, Al Pacino said &quot;Can I get a little hi-de-hi here?&quot; when he sang Sea Of Love, what's hi-de-hi mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be viewed in the movie's script, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~ina22/splaylib/Screenplay-Sea_of_Love.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (bottom of page 51) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-19T16:54:59.397" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T17:25:22.493" Title="When Al Pacino said &quot;Can I get a little hi-de-hi here?&quot; when he sang Sea Of Love, what does &quot;hi-de-hi&quot; mean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sea-of-love|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27358" CreationDate="2014-11-19T16:57:16.963" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the door was purely for cinematic purposes. I was actually googling around for some further information and  found that &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TailorMadePrison&quot;&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt; had an interesting section on Tailor-Made prisons. To paraphrase from their article, they mentioned how having such a prison distinguishes the prisoner and makes them appear more dangerous and isolated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That much is probably already obvious, but something they mention which I found quite interesting was that from a filming point of view, bars simply get in the way. For example, would the true creepiness of Hannibal Lector really have been apparent if we hadn't been able to see every part of him, close up - without bars obscuring our view. Similarly, in Gothika we get great shots showing all of Miranda Gray, with only two bars and a handle really obscuring our view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note, I have read about some prisons moving towards plexiglass systems, as it is impossible to attempt any form of suicide against the  glass, whereas they could hang themselves using the bars as help. Unfortunately, I can't for the life of me find a reference for this, so for now it's just my own speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T16:57:16.963" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27379" CreationDate="2014-11-19T17:25:22.493" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe he was asking for some confirmation that what he was saying was coming in loud and clear on the other end.  He was wearing a wire designed to transmit his conversation to detectives who were listening in, and if the wire disengaged then wearing it was moot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T17:25:22.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27361" CreationDate="2014-11-19T17:53:30.977" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As @BobbyAlexander commented, the ship was being built in the NASA facility that Cooper visits. And the space station orbiting Saturn could have been a completely different ship -- it's decades (or even a century) later! Humanity on Earth did plenty of other things while Cooper was gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T17:53:30.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27386" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-19T17:57:23.077" Score="19" ViewCount="31353" Body="&lt;p&gt;What caused the earth condition in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; in the first place? Was it global warming that caused the dust storms because of soil erosion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9673" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-20T00:30:01.523" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T14:18:20.797" Title="Condition of Earth in Interstellar" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27387" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27602" CreationDate="2014-11-19T18:10:35.593" Score="16" ViewCount="1855" Body="&lt;p&gt;My uncle once rented a strange movie for my cousin and me to watch. It was entirely not appropriate for our age, and we talk to this day about how weird it was. We saw it probably 20-25 years ago, and I don't think it was new at the time (although I may be wrong about that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the bits I can remember:&#xA;A couple goes is going to visit a man's father. On their way there they are involved in a car accident (they swerve to avoid someone in the road, I believe). The wife wakes up at the father's house, but the husband is nowhere to be found. The father's house is large .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the movie progresses, it is revealed that the father is going to try and have a child with the wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Memorable scenes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A man's hand is fed through a hand cranked meat grinder, but it doesn't actually happen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The father's doctor makes a comment that the father does not like after given a check up to see if he could still father a child. The father's assistant/butler then kills the doctor by taking one of the doctor's scalpels, threatening him with it, forcing him to strip, tying him down to a table, and feeding him to rats (from a cage on the doctor's stomach).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end, the husband is rescued from a coffin.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The house catches on fire and during the fire, the father's face is burnt, with his skin sticking to a hot metal light (or something like that).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very end, the wife wakes up, revealing it may have been a dream all along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15959" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T02:23:10.867" Title="Strange movie with a hand going through a meat grinder, but it didn't actually happen" Tags="|identify-this-movie|thriller|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:25:26.800" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27388" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27389" CreationDate="2014-11-19T18:24:30.440" Score="6" ViewCount="1812" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for an action movie where:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an explosion killed people and second bomb was planted in an ambulance which helped people after the first explosion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it was a West vs East themed action movie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there was a scene where some important guys drive in a convoy with &quot;operating&quot; speed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the end of the movie contained some point where each of opposite side told that they will take revenge on the opponents&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's a movie made after 2000&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15205" LastEditorUserId="16523" LastEditDate="2016-09-09T13:55:07.877" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T13:55:07.877" Title="Movie where second bomb was planted in ambulance" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:25:29.923" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27388" CreationDate="2014-11-19T18:30:23.097" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie you're thinking of is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingdom_(film)&quot;&gt;The Kingdom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, released in 2007, and features a fictional but &quot;based on true events&quot; story in the Middle East.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the plot section, regarding ambulances:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While searching for evidence, Sergeant Haytham and Sykes discover the&#xA;  second bomb was detonated in an ambulance. Fleury learns the brother&#xA;  of one of the dead terrorists had access to ambulances and police&#xA;  uniforms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They move at &quot;operational speed&quot; to evade terrorists trying to bomb their vehicles with other bombs (cars traveling at their speed are likely trying to catch them if I recall correctly):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On their way to King Khalid International Airport, Fleury grabs the&#xA;  wheel from Sergeant Haytham, which allows them to partially evade the&#xA;  collision of a speeding car with the first SUV in their convoy,&#xA;  setting off a trunk full of explosives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the matter of each side uttering phrases about taking revenge on the other:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The scene cuts to Abu Hamza's daughter asking her own son what his&#xA;  grandfather whispered to him as he was dying. The grandson tells her&#xA;  mother, &quot;Don't fear them, my child. We are going to kill them all,&quot; a&#xA;  similar line Fleury whispered to Mayes, implying that this is a&#xA;  never-ending, vicious cycle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2014-11-19T18:37:36.840" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T18:37:36.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27386" CreationDate="2014-11-19T19:44:15.720" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;strong&gt;the details what caused earth's current state are left a bit unclear and that on purpose&lt;/strong&gt;. What we know is, that there are two different aspects to earth's devastating state:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is the blight which attacks and destroys the crops, causing a major sustenation problem on earth and in parallel intoxicating the atmosphere, gradually making it unbreathable for humans, so that &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;the last people to starve will be the first to suffocate&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then there are the dust storms roaming the lands.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But while I'm not entirely sure how those two aspects are related exactly, I would presume that &lt;strong&gt;the blight also causes the dust storms&lt;/strong&gt;, as the death of a majority of plants might likely be causing an increasing desertification of the earth's surface. And in fact &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_%28film%29#Writing&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; says, that the whole situation on earth was largely inspired by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dust Bowl&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that took place in 1930s USA, where huge dust storms were caused by by wind erosion due to a lack of basic plant material in the soil (albeit there ultimately caused by droughts combined with wrong farming and not by the blight).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it is unclear why the blight has become such a big and ultimately unsolvable problem and the movie doesn't seem to suggest any connection to global warming. In fact to me &lt;strong&gt;the movie seems to deliberately try to not ask, let alone confirm, the question if humanity's and earth's whole problem was actually caused by ourselves&lt;/strong&gt;. This would make the whole endeavour of trying to find a new planet look much less favourable, making humanity basically look like &amp;quot;locusts&amp;quot; in search for the next planet to run down. I think this angle is at no point explored or suggested by the movie at all, even though &lt;em&gt;Donald&lt;/em&gt; once makes some little comments about consumerism and missing modesty back in the old days. It is about humanity's progress and solving of its current problem, not about asking whose fault it was. All we know is that &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;[this world]'s been telling us to leave for a while now&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to sum up, it's &lt;strong&gt;the blight&lt;/strong&gt; that causes the whole sustenation and toxication problem and likely also the dust storms, but &lt;strong&gt;we don't know how it could get out of hand so heavily.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I'd like to amend this answer by some information from the book &lt;em&gt;The Science of Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Thorne&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kip Thorne&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the physicist who accompanied and advised (and produced) the movie from as early as its initial conception onward. He does also make some remarks about the state of earth and especially the blight it's plagued with, even if they don't present a definite answer for its origins either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is clear, that the scenario of earth's situation was envisioned by initial screenwriter &lt;em&gt;Johnathan Nolan&lt;/em&gt; as a matter of fact &lt;strong&gt;without worrying too much about its actual cause&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 2007, when Johnathan (Jonah) Nolan joined &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; as screenwriter, he set the movie in an era when human civilization is a pale remnant of today's and is being dealt a final blow by blight...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some combination of catastrophies has reduced the population of North America tenfold or more, and similarly on all other continents. We have become a largely agrarian society, struggling to feed and shelter ourselves. [...] Most of us think the catastrophies are finished, that we humans are securing ourselves in this new world and things may start improving. But in reality the blight is so lethal, and leaps so quickly from crop to crop, that the humans race is doomed within the lifetime of Cooper's grandchildren.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...But Lynda Obst, Jonah, and I worried a bit about the scientific plausibility of Cooper's world, as envisioned by Jonah: How could human civilization decline so far, yet seem so normal in many respects? And is it scientifically possible that a blight could wipe out all edible crops?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a consequence he, the physicist he is, arranged a meeting with some of his biologist colleagues from CalTech to discuss about the plausibility of this scenario and the possible causes for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our final consensus, easily reached, is that Cooper's world is scientifically possible, &lt;em&gt;but not very likely&lt;/em&gt;. It is very unlikely to happen, but it could. [...] What kind of catastrophies could have produced Cooper's world? Our biologist experts offered a number of possible, but improbable, answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What follows are various possible scenarios, from larger geological or biological catastrophies shattering the globally balanced system of growing and distribution, a sudden evolution of pathogens breaking our immune system, and yes, also global warming but more indirectly either melting the ice and freeing some long dormant pathogen or people trying to counter it by growing algae that evolve into a toxic form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the there is &lt;em&gt;blight&lt;/em&gt; -- the consequence of many of these scenarios. [...] If you want something to wipe out humanity, there might be no better way than a blight that attacks plants. We are dependent on plants to eat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They also discuss that today's blights are either highly lethal but very specialized to certain plants or generalist but not too lethal. But&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, the focus is a lethal generalist blight running rampant over the Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(He also discussed about the resulting problem of unsustainable intoxication of the atmposphere by CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; with some biologist and geologist colleagues, reaching the conclusion that it would rather be the other way around, the CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; enrichment of the atmosphere after the plant decay would in turn result in global warming, but also that the amount of intoxication would be far less and not enough to make everyone's breathing uncomfortable, let alone kill most everyone by CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; poisoning. At least not if geophysicists heavily err about the amount of undecayed organic material at the ocean bottoms.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a further addendum and for a bit more out-of-universe insights as to why the dust storms were chosen as an emanation of the blight, we can take a look at an interview that &lt;em&gt;Jordan Goldberg&lt;/em&gt; conducted on the two &lt;em&gt;Nolan&lt;/em&gt; brothers, quoted here from the book &lt;em&gt;Interstellar: The Complete Screenplay with Selected Storyboards&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me the whole dust situation came from looking at Jonah's original draft and focussing in on the idea of a return to an agrarian society. [...] What I found interesting was the idea that when you research the kind of farming community that existed in the past, they're very subject to the elements, they're subject to the natural disasters. And whilst I think the blight idea was always extremely compelling as a device, it was inherently not very visual because you're talking about things not growing or dying. We found ways to dramatize it by setting fire to the fields and the like, but I really wanted to get across two ideas with the dust situation. One was a simple way of visualizing the decay of a farming community or the ability to be able to farm. And the other key point is from watching Ken Burns's documentary &lt;em&gt;The Dust Bowl&lt;/em&gt;, which is incredible if you haven't seen it because &lt;em&gt;it is&lt;/em&gt; science fiction. It seems like science fiction. You cannot belive the images you're seeing, the real images. [...] And I really like the idea of trying to dramatize your inherent blight situation in a sort of disaster movie mode and make it bit more visceral. But do it in a way that has already happened on our planet, for real, that has been documented. [...] I really like the idea of saying that the most threatening and outlandish visual idea of the first act has already happened in real life. It's not even under question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which makes clear that the dust storms as consequence of the blight were primarily used as a more &lt;strong&gt;visual and epic representation of the rather abstract concept of dying plants&lt;/strong&gt;, and presented in a way &lt;strong&gt;to evoke memories of our own real past&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the further course of the interview &lt;em&gt;Jonah Nolan&lt;/em&gt; also confirms my suspicion that &lt;strong&gt;the question of humanity's blame in the whole disaster was kept deliberately unasked&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're sort of in this moment in which humans are obsessed that we'll prove our own undoing -- that we'll poison the planet, we'll destroy ourselves, and all these things. But I thought it would be more interesting to find a slightly less personal Armageddon, or the idea that the universe obliterates you or the planet turned itself toxic because it doesn't care about you and me because we're an accident in outer space. The blight and dust provided what I thought was a great, impersonal way for the planet to sort of gently suggest that our time here was over. That it was the moment to move on, rather than being something that we had brought on ourselves which, in its own way, feels anthropocentric.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As also reinforced in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/11/08/jonathan-nolan-interstellar-spoilers&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this IGN interview with him&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one that I was most interested in was blight, because it's so impersonal. [...] Essentially, it's just an organism that's better at consuming our food than we are. There is nothing more humbling. You know, it's not a message film. [...] I think that we should be as responsible and careful as possible, but I also believe that what will most likely wipe us out will be something that has nothing to do with us, that it's completely impersonal -- whether it's cosmic rays or a blight or pestilence or plague.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-07-12T14:50:27.960" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12583" CreationDate="2014-11-19T21:55:40.170" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The wand definitely belongs to Harry Potter.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20120214193440/http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/faq_view.cfm?id=122&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;J. K. Rowling says so in a FAQ entry on her old homepage&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Voldemort is also using the Elder Wand - the wand that is really Harry’s. It does not work properly against its true owner; no curse Voldemort casts on Harry functions properly; neither the Cruciatus curse nor the Killing Curse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9391" LastActivityDate="2014-11-19T21:55:40.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27322" CreationDate="2014-11-20T01:09:25.097" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/06/130622-grand-canyon-stunts-wallenda/&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;, Dar Robinson jumped a car off a ramp from a section of the canyon belonging to the Hualapai Indian Reservation (which is on the west rim) in 1980 for a reality television show called &lt;em&gt;That's Incredible!&lt;/em&gt;.  Apparently he couldn't get a permit for the stunt from the Grand Canyon National Park.  The car wound up at the bottom of the canyon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-11-20T01:09:25.097" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26264" CreationDate="2014-11-20T09:25:57.243" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure this is such a surprising reaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AS you already comment, Jeff had a broken leg and was thus fairly immobile. Stella was a care home nurse who is older than Jeff or Lisa. In the apartment, rushing Lisa, is Thorwald - a man that they both believe to be a murderer and who is much bigger than either of them. So consider these few points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, what could they actually do? Jeff would be fairly useless and Stella has no weaponry or ability to take down Thorwald. This sounds like one of these situations where intervening would be extremely dangerous with little chance of success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, from a more &quot;human&quot; point of view - Stella is Jeff's nurse. Would she want to risk her life by single handedly trying to save Lisa and stop Thorwald. I have many people I care about in my life, but there's not too many of them I would rush head on into a situation with a suspected murderer with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thirdly, remember this film is from 1954, a time when females were largely damsels in distress. It would have been out of place with the films of the time if Stella had managed to save the day and defeat Thorwald.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, remember that this scene is the first time there is a risk of a true confrontation between them. Up until now, they have sent Thorwald notes and phoned him, but they haven't confronted him in person. Given all they know about him (or at least suspect) is that he's a murderer, their fear is again logical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I suppose in summary I'm arguing that there decision is quite rationale, since they think he's a murderer, they're not sure how they could stop him, especially given Jeff's injury, and they feel the police are the best option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-20T09:25:57.243" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27316" CreationDate="2014-11-20T18:09:04.877" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that the wormhole had to be orbiting some object in order not to drift away or just stay in the same location (since we know that the solar system is moving around the center of the galaxy, and Saturn itself is moving across its orbit around the sun), and Saturn could have been the only planet with the correct mass to hold the wormhole in orbit at a safe distance from other objects in the solar system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15973" LastActivityDate="2014-11-20T18:09:04.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27415" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-20T20:28:01.817" Score="22" ViewCount="13958" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Psycho&lt;/em&gt; (the original), Milton Arbogast exits his car by sliding across to the passenger side and getting out through the right hand door. Why? I am guessing that either the car was not a complete unit, or that the film crew was too close to the car for him to exit the normal way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15976" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-06-10T13:29:29.967" LastActivityDate="2017-03-25T02:35:13.927" Title="Why does Milton Arbogast exit his car by sliding across to the passenger side and getting out through the right hand door?" Tags="|plot-explanation|psycho|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27415" CreationDate="2014-11-20T20:38:15.327" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;This actually happens everytime somebody exits the car in the film (and in quite a few other films from the era too).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two possible reasons for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, Hitchcock did love his filming and it's highly possible he felt having the people exit via the passenger door gave him a better shot. In fact, some basic googling shows a general consensus that Hitchcock preferred to continue a shot without moving the camera to either follow the actor or to have the actor walk between the camera and the car (although I can't find an interview with Hitchcock to corroborate this).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, secondly and probably more importantly, this action used to be what was recommended in the 1960s. I remember discussing it with a friend of my father's. His car, like the car in the film, had bench seats like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QqjrS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was considered safer when parking to shuffle over to the passenger door so you were stepping out onto the pavement, as opposed to using the driver door and exiting into traffic. Nowadays, where the bench seat is gone and two distinct seats are in place, it's not as comfortable or convenient to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-20T20:38:15.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14557" CreationDate="2014-11-20T22:40:14.617" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't answered in the film and I can't find any interviews where it was addressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film, the army is based on the real-life &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Terracotta Army&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, as evidenced by &lt;a href=&quot;http://horrornews.net/45720/interview-rob-cohen-director-the-mummy-tomb-of-the-dragon-emperor/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; with the director. Thus, the film was supposed to give the &quot;real&quot; reason as to why the Terracotta Army exists today, as opposed to the actual reason - to act as burial art for the first Emperor of China and protect him in the afterlife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst in real life the Terracotta Army was buried with the Emperor, in the film they obviously turned to stone around the palace, along with the Dragon Emperor. Therefore, I think the most &lt;em&gt;obvious&lt;/em&gt; solution at this point was that they were moved to the hidden location by the sorceress and people under her command and the Dragon Emperor, perhaps out of some respect for his position, was contorted into a different position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say this is the most obvious reason to me, as they were hardly going to leave the Emperor and his army around and within the palace for all of eternity. They had to be put somewhere! So I believe they were moved to their location by the sorceress and others (with booby traps warding everyone off) until their eventual discovered by Alex O'Connell. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorDisplayName="user5722" LastEditDate="2014-11-24T08:28:48.777" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T08:28:48.777" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27418" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27419" CreationDate="2014-11-20T23:07:22.060" Score="3" ViewCount="4511" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently noticed when I went to see Interstellar, at midnight, that there was an 8:00 showing of the movie, 4 hours before the movie was supposed to launch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I went to get Hunger Games tickets, and noticed that every theater in the area has 3 or 4 showings, before midnight, before November 21st, the day of the launch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can theaters show movies hours before the actual launch day of the movie?  Doesn't this defeat the purpose of a midnight premiere?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It bums me out, since I really liked going to midnight premieres.  They used to feel exclusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15979" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-21T00:14:57.777" LastActivityDate="2017-09-03T17:37:31.247" Title="Midnight premieres no longer first showing of movie" Tags="|distribution|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27418" CreationDate="2014-11-20T23:28:15.297" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Studio executives allow earlier showings of films, although advanced screenings also allow select groups of people early viewings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There could be a variety of reasons for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, your question is &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; about &lt;strong&gt;The Hunger Games - Mockingjay, Pt. 1&lt;/strong&gt;. Are you sure the listings you are seeing are &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; for that film? Quite a few cinemas in my area are showing the first two films back to back, with the third being shown a minute after midnight. So that's one possibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another is that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_screening&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;advanced screenings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; take place all around the country. This can be for critics only, so they can have a review written &lt;em&gt;in advance&lt;/em&gt; of the movie release, so it can be printed on major websites and in major papers &lt;em&gt;on&lt;/em&gt; the day of release. However, there are also advanced screenings that are sometimes shown at select theatres, to boost the film and attract more interest. The quicker people see the film, the more publicity it will get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A further possibility, and this is pure guesswork on my part, is that films can be shown before their official release date if another local cinema breaks the embargo. This is guesswork as I say, but I base this on my experiences as a computer games sales assistant when I was younger. We were barred from releasing new games until a Friday morning, at one minute past midnight. But if any evidence arose that showed a local shop had broken the embargo, we could sell, sell, sell without any fear of reprisal. In fact, given how much money games brought in, several stores deliberately broken the embargo, knowing the fine wouldn't compete with the revenue they brought in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the final and most likely probability is that it simply gives more people a chance to see the film earlier, rather than having to wait until midnight. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/studios-pushing-movie-releases-earlier-and-earlier-from-midnight-to-7-pm-on-thursday-openings/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;SlashFilm&lt;/a&gt; did an article on this. To quote some select parts of it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Midnight openings have become an important part of the moviegoing&#xA;  landscape in recent years, but of course not everyone can stay up&#xA;  until midnight, let alone stay up until midnight, sit through a&#xA;  two-hour movie, and drive home very late at night. So why not bump up&#xA;  the time just a few hours earlier to sell a few more tickets? That’s&#xA;  the reasoning some studios are taking, pushing their releases to&#xA;  Thursdays at 10 or even 7 PM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They interviewed Paramount's Head of Distribution, Don Harris, who said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“As we looked at the numbers of kids that were going to be out of&#xA;  school, we thought, “why not let theaters open it for their prime&#xA;  shows and then play it at 10 and again at midnight if they wanted&#xA;  to?’”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wake-dark-knight-rises-shooting-382873&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hollywood Reporter article&lt;/a&gt;, Chris Aronson, Fox's president of domestic distribution was asked about his decision to release &lt;strong&gt;Taken&lt;/strong&gt; at 10pm. He said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We wanted to find out if opening at 10 p.m. would stimulate&#xA;  late-night business,&quot; says Chris Aronson, Fox president of domestic&#xA;  distribution. &quot;In my estimation, it did.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An anonymous executive in the article also said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I don't like to open a film a day early, but if you are going to get&#xA;  the moviegoer who may shy away from a midnight screening, then I&#xA;  support it,&quot; says one studio distribution executive. &quot;This is&#xA;  happening because late-night business was in the toilet.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, studio executives wanted it to get more people seeing the film. You're not the only one to think it devalues the midnight showings, as people on the articles I posted show, but it has improved revenue flow (apparently). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also possible to see advanced screenings of films, which are specifically targeted at small groups of people, before a film's official release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-20T23:28:15.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26916" CreationDate="2014-11-21T00:49:59.917" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Claire&lt;/em&gt; doesn't call &lt;em&gt;Ben&lt;/em&gt; nor &lt;em&gt;Mike&lt;/em&gt;, she calls &lt;em&gt;Christine&lt;/em&gt;. You already said that it's a second phone and in fact &lt;strong&gt;it's &lt;em&gt;Christine&lt;/em&gt;'s cell phone&lt;/strong&gt; that &lt;em&gt;Mike&lt;/em&gt; confiscated exactly to prevent her being called by &lt;em&gt;Claire&lt;/em&gt; (or anyone else who could have &quot;dangerous&quot; information, I don't remember if he exactly knew about &lt;em&gt;Claire&lt;/em&gt;). That is the only reasonable explanation as you said correctly, that &lt;em&gt;Claire&lt;/em&gt; doesn't know &lt;em&gt;Mike&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-05-25T00:43:34.967" LastActivityDate="2015-05-25T00:43:34.967" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27422" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-21T04:50:38.880" Score="8" ViewCount="11398" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically, what happened to Ned? I don't remember an episode where he was killed off or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9841" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-21T09:59:11.570" LastActivityDate="2017-01-17T10:22:24.103" Title="Canon reason that Ned is no longer on South Park" Tags="|character|south-park|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27423" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27424" CreationDate="2014-11-21T05:15:53.860" Score="2" ViewCount="266" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Looking For Richard (1996), Al Pacino said &quot;Hope you like turkey!&quot;, when he didn't get the permit. What's funny about that? And why is he unable to get a permit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="6725" LastEditDate="2014-11-21T08:32:10.717" LastActivityDate="2017-02-04T16:07:43.457" Title="&quot;Hope you like turkey!&quot; - what's funny about that?" Tags="|plot-explanation|looking-for-richard|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27423" CreationDate="2014-11-21T05:42:32.310" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wasn't about &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; they couldn't get a permit, it's that they probably didn't even try because they thought it was stupid or didn't feel it was worth the effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The event you are speaking of didn't happen &lt;em&gt;when&lt;/em&gt; they couldn't get a permit (i.e. it's not like they were trying to get some kind of permit in this scene and the cops refused to grant it, and the remark was made about that refusal). The situation was that they had to leave &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; they didn't get whatever permit previously. Pacino made the comment when the group was kicked out - something he did not agree with or respect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;hope you like turkey&quot; comment was meant as a flippant, facetious remark to the officers, implying that they thought the whole permit situation was irritating, unwarranted, and now the sandwiches (which they were enjoying) that they had to abandon are available for the officers to eat (likely not the officers' goal; but the insult is in the implication that the officers were acting as bullies without reasonable cause). Something along the lines of a very subtle insult to the officers: &quot;I have no respect for your request, I'll comply because I have to, I don't believe you have a good reason to kick us out, and by the way, enjoy the free lunch, you jerks.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also an implied &quot;if you're kicking us out, you can clean up our mess, too&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The group laughed in support of Pacino's insult and sarcasm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8559" LastEditorUserId="8559" LastEditDate="2017-02-04T16:07:43.457" LastActivityDate="2017-02-04T16:07:43.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27243" CreationDate="2014-11-21T06:14:22.313" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier, in the kitchen discussing &quot;empathy&quot;, Johnny said, &quot;You see, every day when I'm shaving, I look up a new word.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a reference back to that scene. The joke is that &quot;Have you been shaving again?&quot; was a substitute for &quot;Are you using the word 'aspiration' / having 'aspirations' because you just looked it up in a dictionary?&quot; and the implications of that. The remark was meant to be facetious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8559" LastEditorUserId="8559" LastEditDate="2014-11-21T06:21:46.607" LastActivityDate="2014-11-21T06:21:46.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27422" CreationDate="2014-11-21T08:45:25.533" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you mean Ned Gerblansky, he isn't dead; at least, he was still around as recently as 2013, appearing in the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Zimmerman&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;World War Zimmerman&lt;/a&gt;. When Cartman went to Jimbo's store to buy a gun, Ned was there behind the counter, looking bored:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o8eq7.png&quot; alt=&quot;screenshot from &amp;quot;World War Zimmerman episode&amp;quot; featuring Ned&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ned, however, didn't have any lines &lt;a href=&quot;http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Ned_Gerblansky&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;since 2001&lt;/a&gt; (unless you count the video game &lt;a href=&quot;http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/South_Park:_The_Stick_of_Truth&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Stick of Truth&lt;/a&gt; released in March this year as canon). This sometimes happens in shows that have such a large amount of supporting characters; some are forgotten and blend into the background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="40011" LastEditDate="2017-01-01T04:39:29.117" LastActivityDate="2017-01-01T04:39:29.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18587" CreationDate="2014-11-21T11:01:29.280" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's old west norse, from which the modern Icelandic language descends. That's why Google Translate identify it as Icelandic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read more about the Old Norse dialects and descendants at Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15989" LastActivityDate="2014-11-21T11:01:29.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27429" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-21T11:30:54.520" Score="19" ViewCount="14691" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt;, the more we go through the seasons, the easier it seems to be to crush the zombies' head. The head literally explodes now with a hard hit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems logical as after all this time, the zombies should be completely decomposed already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how are they even walking etc? The decomposition of their body should be in such an advanced state that any movement should make them break apart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the virus slows down the decomposition, how is it even possible? No blood is circulating, or anything, so I don't see how.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15990" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-04-06T08:07:27.390" LastActivityDate="2016-04-06T08:07:27.390" Title="Why aren't the zombies decomposed after all this time?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27429" CreationDate="2014-11-21T11:42:48.060" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Magic? To keep the show on air as long as possible? The virus somehow keeps them alive? All viable options.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To shamefully &lt;s&gt;steal&lt;/s&gt; paraphrase from the answers given on the same topic over at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18033/why-do-the-walking-dead-zombies-stop-decomposing&quot;&gt;Sci Fi Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As most people are aware... Georgia (and most of the Southeastern USA)&#xA;  gets extremely hot and humid throughout the summer months. A human&#xA;  body in that environment would decompose in under a week...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We have to assume that the &quot;zombie virus&quot; somehow prevents&#xA;  decomposition (or drastically reduces its speed). Decomposition&#xA;  results from little critters (primarily micro-organisms) digesting the&#xA;  organic material. They cannot do this to living things, because we&#xA;  have immune systems which thwart those creatures before they start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, to quote from the accepted answer on that site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In most cases the answer is the rather unsatisfying &quot;its magic.&quot;&#xA;  Whatever mystic force re-animates the body of the zombie also halts&#xA;  the decomposition process, the same as it does for other undead like&#xA;  vampires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To add my own thoughts here, I think ultimately the real answer is - &lt;strong&gt;if they zombies were decomposed, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/oct/14/walking-dead-season-five-premiere-amc-piracy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most-watched drama in US TV history&lt;/a&gt;* would be over.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://uproxx.com/tv/2014/07/new-production-photos-confirm-continued-decomposition-of-walkers-in-the-5th-season-of-the-walking-dead/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;As this article&lt;/a&gt; shows, it does appear that the makers of the show have deliberately decomposed the zombies season by season. They also mention it in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.beautyworldnews.com/articles/13090/20141010/the-walking-dead-season-5-zombies-more-rotted-decomposed-looking-than-ever-special-effects-makeup-guru-greg-nicotero.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview to the Wall Street Journal&lt;/a&gt;, saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The walkers who came around patient zero, which is over two years,&#xA;  their systems aren't working quite so well. They're more and more&#xA;  decayed. That's what we're seeing [in Season 5],&quot; Hurd [the executive producer] recently told&#xA;  The Wall Street Journal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Greg Nicotero, the showrunner, added:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We're a year and a half into the zombie apocalypse, so imagine what a&#xA;  pumpkin looks like after just 2 weeks in the sun...[laughs] we wanted&#xA;  to make these things look as putrefied and disgusting as possible,&quot; he&#xA;  said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps t hey are simply building up to an eventual show-ending season where the zombie threat is finally eliminated and society can try and rebuild? Who knows. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say the zombies will magically stay around until the show's ratings decline and &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; a storyline might be made out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* Okay, I know there's a difference between &quot;most-watched episode&quot; ever and &quot;most-watched series&quot; ever, but I like the punchiness of my statement :) &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2014-11-21T11:48:34.083" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27117" CreationDate="2014-11-21T12:42:00.463" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kubrick wanted fans who really desired its meaning to either interpret their own meaning from the film, or read Burgess' book to derive the meaning &lt;em&gt;the author&lt;/em&gt; intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an article with the New Yorker, &lt;strong&gt;Anthony Burgess&lt;/strong&gt;, the author of &lt;em&gt;A Clockwork Orange&lt;/em&gt; described how the name came to him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I first heard the expression “as queer as a clockwork orange” in a&#xA;  London pub before the Second World War. It is an old Cockney slang&#xA;  phrase, implying a queerness or madness so extreme as to subvert&#xA;  nature, since could any notion be more bizarre than that of a&#xA;  clockwork orange? The image appealed to me as something not just&#xA;  fantastic but obscurely meaningful, surrealistic but also obscenely&#xA;  real. The forced marriage of an organism to a mechanism, of a thing&#xA;  living, growing, sweet, juicy, to a cold dead artifact—is that solely&#xA;  a concept of nightmare? I discovered the relevance of this image to&#xA;  twentieth-century life when, in 1961, I began to write a novel about&#xA;  curing juvenile delinquency. I had read somewhere that it would be a&#xA;  good idea to liquidate the criminal impulse through aversion therapy;&#xA;  I was appalled. I began to work out the implications of this notion in&#xA;  a brief work of fiction. The title “A Clockwork Orange” was there&#xA;  waiting to attach itself to the book: it was the only possible name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange#Title&quot;&gt;He also said&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've implied an extra dimension. I've implied the junction of the&#xA;  organic, the lively, the sweet – in other words, life, the orange –&#xA;  and the mechanical, the cold, the disciplined. I've brought them&#xA;  together in this kind of oxymoron, this sour-sweet word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other explanations can be found on Wikipedia, but ultimately it's clear &lt;strong&gt;Anthony Burgess had a clear idea in mind as to what &lt;em&gt;A Clockwork Orange&lt;/em&gt; actually meant&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I'm bringing this up is because it is &lt;em&gt;one of the reasons&lt;/em&gt; as to why &lt;strong&gt;Stanley Kubrick&lt;/strong&gt; didn't explain the film's meaning. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/interview.aco.html&quot;&gt;an interview the director gave with Philip Strick &amp;amp; Penelope Houston&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;S&amp;amp;H: How closely did you work with Anthony Burgess in adapting A&#xA;  Clockwork Orange for the screen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stanley Kubrick: I had virtually no opportunity of discussing the&#xA;  novel with Anthony Burgess. He phoned me one evening when was passing&#xA;  through London and we had a brief conversation on the telephone. It&#xA;  was mostly an exchange of pleasantries. &lt;em&gt;On the other hand, I wasn't&#xA;  particularly concerned about this because in a book as brilliantly&#xA;  written as A Clockwork Orange one would have to be lazy not to be able&#xA;  to find the answers to any questions which might arise within the text&#xA;  of the novel itself. I think it is reasonable to say that, whatever&#xA;  Burgess had to say about the story was said in the book&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, Kubrick adopted the attitude that people who wanted to know any deeper meaning to the story could read the excellent novel by Burgess which would explain everything the author intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this didn't mean he didn't chop and change what Burgess had originally written and add his own interpretations. Burgress, &lt;a href=&quot;http://101books.net/2011/09/01/did-stanley-kubrick-misinterpret-a-clockwork-orange/&quot;&gt;in a later interview&lt;/a&gt;, actually said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it&#xA;  was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me till I die. I&#xA;  should not have written the book because of this danger of&#xA;  misinterpretation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So clearly he felt Kubrick had taken his film in a different direction (and those familiar with the novel and film can clearly see this). With these changes, new &quot;meaning&quot; obviously came to the film. However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick#Themes_and_stories&quot;&gt;Kubrick's wiki page&lt;/a&gt;, complete with references, shows that he always preferred to let the audience make their own mind up on his works. Film historian Alex Walker commented: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Kubrick preferred to leave the film as the only real comment he could&#xA;  make on his work&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kubrick himself said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[He felt a film was &quot;spoiled&quot; for those] unfortunate enough to have&#xA;  read what the filmmaker &quot;has in mind&quot;. ... I..enjoy those subtle&#xA;  discoveries where I wonder whether the filmmaker ... was even aware&#xA;  that they were in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kubrick often left his movies open to interpretation, hating to give any defined meaning to them. With regards to &lt;em&gt;A Clockwork Orange&lt;/em&gt;, Kubrick wanted fans who really desired its meaning to either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Interpret their own meaning from his work, or &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Read Burgess' book to derive the meaning &lt;em&gt;the author&lt;/em&gt; (and not Kubrick) intended.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-21T12:42:00.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27432" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27438" CreationDate="2014-11-21T12:56:51.987" Score="7" ViewCount="13733" Body="&lt;p&gt;In watching House of Lies two notable things for me are the parts where Don Cheadle's character breaks the fourth wall (a la Spacey in the similarly named House of Cards) and the freeze frame effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're not familiar with it here's a short clip on YT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Prpd6YJJexM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this done? What's puzzling me is how he can walk through the scene and sometimes even interact with people and objects that are frozen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8275" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-21T13:00:50.277" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T04:20:41.063" Title="House of Lies freeze frame effect - how is it done?" Tags="|film-techniques|house-of-lies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27429" CreationDate="2014-11-21T13:11:19.643" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're, perhaps, assuming that all the walkers are the same age.  With each new death (and a walker doesn't have to be involved, because everyone has the virus in them), a new walker arises.  You would expect that the walker population would eventually shrink and be gone, which is a great theory postulated by Andrew Martin.  That is actually a logical conclusion to the series, and maybe one the writers haven't thought of yet.  But for now, it's very possible that the walkers you're seeing aren't the same ones that were around in the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-11-21T13:11:19.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27435" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-21T13:12:44.343" Score="4" ViewCount="1017" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &quot;The First Lesson&quot; of &quot;Mind Your Language&quot;, Chung Su-Lee says that she's from the &quot;Democratic Republic of China&quot;. However, in real life, China is called the People's Republic of China. Later in the episode, she indicates that she's a committed communist and Maoist, so it seems unlikely she was referring to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Taiwan&lt;/a&gt; (officially called the Republic of China).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this a mistake, or done deliberately to avoid referring to China by its actual name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing a quick google search for real life &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;People's Republic of Tyranny&lt;/a&gt; with the phrase &quot;Democratic Republic of&quot; gave&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Democratic Republic of the Congo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (1967-1990)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (1918-1920)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Democratic Republic of Madagascar (1975-1992)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (1978-1992)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but I don't imagine any of those countries being high profile during the time of the tv series, leading to an author accidentally calling China the &quot;Democratic Republic of China&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the two best known People's Republics of Tyranny, East Germany was the &quot;German Democratic Republic&quot;, and North Korea (presumably not high-profile in the 1970s) is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, neither of which are in the form of &quot;Democratic Republic of X&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1312" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T16:32:32.823" Title="Was &quot;Democratic Republic of China&quot; a mistake, or deliberate?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mind-your-language|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27436" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-11-21T13:15:37.357" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A British comedy television series about teaching English. Wikipedia article: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Your_Language&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Your_Language&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1312" LastEditorUserId="1312" LastEditDate="2014-11-21T14:47:27.687" LastActivityDate="2014-11-21T14:47:27.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27437" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-11-21T13:15:37.357" Score="0" Body="A British comedy television series about teaching English" OwnerUserId="1312" LastEditorUserId="1312" LastEditDate="2014-11-21T14:47:24.550" LastActivityDate="2014-11-21T14:47:24.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27432" CreationDate="2014-11-21T13:17:47.110" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's done using a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_key&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;green screen&lt;/a&gt;, with LOTS of shots overlaid on top of one another. Here's an awesome, short example, from DirecTV, showing how they did this for a commercial featuring a fireman falling through a roof (with a man walking around the &quot;frozen&quot; scene):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/bGwszsF3JM0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-21T13:17:47.110" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27429" CreationDate="2014-11-21T14:19:07.660" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a short one but might do the trick: I distinctly remember &lt;a href=&quot;http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Milton_Mamet&quot;&gt;Milton Mamet&lt;/a&gt; saying the creature's metabolism is a lot slower than a human's, which explained why they can go for so long without food. This directly implies that at some level they're still biologically alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember the exact episode; I think it was when he and Michonne were discussing her captive walkers, and how they lost their &quot;appetite&quot; with their jaws. Being &quot;somewhat&quot; alive also explains why they appear to be &quot;somewhat&quot; rotting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note however that while the flesh should decompose, the skeleton is another story. If the condition of the skull is indicative of the state of the walker's skeletons, then one would ony have to push them to literally break them apart. I think the ease of skull destruction cannot be explained without more details about the condition, so we know how  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_process_of_decomposition#Bone_degradation&quot;&gt;it affects the bones&lt;/a&gt;. Or it could be explained by saying &quot;the characters need to kill the walkers &lt;em&gt;quickly&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15993" LastEditorUserId="15993" LastEditDate="2014-11-21T14:27:27.150" LastActivityDate="2014-11-21T14:27:27.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27459" CreationDate="2014-11-21T19:18:02.420" Score="3" ViewCount="2254" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not as bad now, but it used to be the case that in the UK an American TV show would air, and we would only be able to watch it months later. Sometimes when we got the first episode, in the US they would already be on the second season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it's not so bad, but it's still usually a week, or at least a few days later than in the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume this is the same for British shows airing elsewhere, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why can they not air the shows at the same time? They never seem to make alterations for different countries, so I don't see why it can't be done. Wouldn't it help piracy too, since by the time it airs here, most people have probably downloaded the show? (since it's hard to avoid spoilers of popular shows)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7772" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:26:14.703" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:26:14.703" Title="Why are TV shows not aired at the same time across the World?" Tags="|scheduling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27364" CreationDate="2014-11-21T19:32:17.570" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what I imagined after watching the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The shuttles could carry people and little (or no) cargo in and out of a planet's atmosphere, but a big rocket was needed to carry all the cargo needed for the long journey to Saturn and into the wormhole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15973" LastActivityDate="2014-11-21T19:32:17.570" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27444" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27446" CreationDate="2014-11-21T22:58:58.163" Score="6" ViewCount="11321" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is Daniel Plainview eating in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/MyKNmvJYO7o&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;last scene&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Be_Blood&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;There Will Be Blood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; as he is forcing Eli to recite &quot;I am a false prophet, God is a superstition!&quot; before killing him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-09-11T19:31:54.603" LastActivityDate="2017-06-13T23:04:59.863" Title="In the &quot;False Prophet&quot; scene, what is Daniel Plainview eating?" Tags="|plot-explanation|props|there-will-be-blood|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27445" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27522" CreationDate="2014-11-21T23:07:34.880" Score="13" ViewCount="35750" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched Goodfellas (1990) and Casino (1995). The director of both movies is Martin Scorsese. But I noticed something quite interesting. The shirt collars of the gangsters in both movies are some kind of strange. I never seen such collars. The collars are very close to each other. The gap between is very small. I can't describe it better :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a Scorsese thing or just a fashion style from the 70s/80s/90s or an italian fashion style?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the shirt collars shown on the movie posters (or watch the trailers):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0cYJJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;movie posters&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8737" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-21T23:13:31.733" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T06:39:12.667" Title="What's about the shirt collars in Goodfellas (1990) and Casino (1995)?" Tags="|costume|goodfellas|casino|martin-scorsese|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27444" CreationDate="2014-11-21T23:17:39.890" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;From appearances, and the way he constantly fishes pieces out of his mouth and puts them on his plate and picks his teeth, and also according to online sources (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/There_Will_Be_Blood&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shadowlocked.com/201101041223/opinion-features/daniel-plainview-greatest-cinematic-villain-of-the-2000s.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), it's a horrible, cold piece of leftover steak which he was eating before he passed out drunk. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cinemascopian.com/pics/2008oscars/TWBB.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;, where circumstances are a bit different (there are a couple of ladies with him there).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Director Paul Thomas Anderson confirmed this in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17401674&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an interview&lt;/a&gt; (around 5:18):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;INTERVIEWER: Did you intentionally leave food out of the movie, for the most part? And the food that's in it is so unappetizing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ANDERSON: Not really intentionally, no. I mean, there was actually one scene that we cut out that caught Daniel sort of mid-bite, he was having a steak. And we cut it out, but &lt;strong&gt;we had to decide if Daniel was going to be doing anything in that last scene in the bowling alley, and I suggested that he be gnawing on a piece of steak&lt;/strong&gt;, or at least what he could kind of get the nutrients of, considering his teeth had probably fallen out, you know, just suck on a steak. I knew it was a tall order because to do take after take of gnawing on a steak, you know, is really dangerous ground to get into, and &lt;strong&gt;Daniel [Day-Lewis] went away for a few days and thought about it and said, &amp;quot;Alright, let's do the steak.&lt;/strong&gt; That's a good idea&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-22T00:12:39.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3758" CreationDate="2014-11-22T05:25:38.390" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vaguely remember a plastic bellows like toy as a kid with a double acting whistles in it. If two of these were placed on a small crankshaft(such as an old player piano wind motor with one end of each wistle secure...and the moveable ends opposing each other thus should make a sound like that the crank us turned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16011" LastActivityDate="2014-11-22T05:25:38.390" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27453" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-22T07:33:31.583" Score="7" ViewCount="5311" Body="&lt;p&gt;How Cooper did send such a huge amount of quantum data through the watch as morse code in Interstellar? When Cooper started sending data Murph (Mackenzie Foy) was a child and when she receives the message she was older (as Jessica Chastain) than Cooper. How did she receive so much data after so much time through the watch? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13689" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-28T18:48:17.757" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T06:03:43.983" Title="How did Cooper send the quantum data?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2016-09-08T00:13:02.180" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27453" CreationDate="2014-11-22T09:24:53.170" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The logic that was used was that he sent each piece of data, through the watch, using morse code. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second hand in the watch became stuck and effectively continually moved between two seconds in either short or long motions, signifying the dot and dash of morse code. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, sending the data would likely have taken a colossal amount of time. But in the tesseract, time was meaningless to Cooper as he had a window into every moment of time in Murph's room. As for Murph, she had a lifetime to decode and understand the data that was being transmitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the light of @Napoleon Wilson's comments, I'll add that it's possible all that was sent back was the missing part of the formula*, meaning there would be much less decoding to do. This could be sent back on a repeating loop so she could solve it in her own time. This explanation probably makes more sense, as when she has her &quot;eureka&quot; moment in the lab, she hasn't really aged (implying she decoded the message fairly soon after discovering it). This also makes sense as we are given to believe Cooper can affect the gravity &lt;em&gt;in Murph's room&lt;/em&gt;, suggesting she decoded the message whilst there and took her work back to NASA to complete Brand's formula*.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* I'm aware the formula was &quot;complete&quot;. When I refer to it being incomplete, I mean that it required the data Cooper provided to solve humanity's crisis. &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-11-24T08:31:38.957" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T08:31:38.957" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27160" CreationDate="2014-11-22T15:38:51.790" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit: Original answer was wrong so has been replaced*&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, credit to @Hypnosifl for spotting this on &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/27614/why-single-way-communication-in-interstellar/27619?noredirect=1#comment39688_27619&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The communication &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; two way, but it was very rudimentary going &lt;em&gt;from the wormhole back to Earth&lt;/em&gt;. From the screenplay:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cooper&lt;/strong&gt;: And if their world didn't show promise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doyle&lt;/strong&gt;: Hence the bravery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cooper&lt;/strong&gt;: Because you don't have resources to visit all twelve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doyle&lt;/strong&gt;: No. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Data transmission back through the wormhole is rudimentary,&#xA;  simple binary 'pings' on an annual basis&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to give some clue as to which&#xA;  worlds have potential...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; * If so desired, it can be read in the edit history of this answer&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T15:03:27.600" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1759" CreationDate="2014-11-22T16:45:14.407" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In relation to the conversation Mrs. Hughes heard through the grating; Mrs. Hughes, as we know, told Carson. Carson no doubt blabbed to His Lordship, as usual. His Lordship told his wife, Lady Grantham, and Her Ladyship blabbed to O'Brien, as usual. O'Brien, of course, told Thomas. Either that, or O'Brien and/or Thomas was lurking in the hallway, and overheard the conversation Mrs. Hughes was listening to through the grate. Then, O'Brien, if it was she who was listening, no doubt gleefully told it to Thomas. Either way, it was Thomas who blabbed to the prosecutor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16016" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T11:49:45.323" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T11:49:45.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27441" CreationDate="2014-11-22T17:08:43.680" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many reasons including different time zones around the world, scheduling difficulties, promises to broadcast on one station first, to generate word-of-mouth interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;**There are a few reasons for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, at &lt;a href=&quot;http://metro.co.uk/2013/09/27/sherlock-and-the-broadcast-date-mystery-when-will-series-three-air-4118502/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this Metro article&lt;/a&gt; discusses, British shows are often scheduled at fairly late notice whilst American shows have their timeslots booked months in advance. This is one of the contributing factors explaining why the US gets UK shows so much later (sometimes months later). Now, this doesn't answer &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; question about why the US shows are later in the UK, but it is a useful bit of information to explain one of the issues in syndication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, an &lt;a href=&quot;http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/08/06/downton-abbey-sherlock-pbs-tca/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Entertainment Weekly article&lt;/a&gt; featuring an interview with a PBS executive, when asked about why Downton Abbey aired in America months after the UK air date, featured this section:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think as we have looked at this whole issue of spoilers and thought&#xA;  about how best to steward the property and also think about the&#xA;  viewership, we considered a number of factors in the scheduling of&#xA;  Downton,” [PBS president Paula Kerger] said during a panel at the Television Critics&#xA;  Association press tour, which concludes this week in Los Angeles.&#xA;  Those include, she said, attempting to avoid clashing with the slew of&#xA;  network premieres in the fall and harnessing the opportunities for&#xA;  word-of-mouth promotion. “The fact that word-of-mouth travels after it&#xA;  airs in the U.K. has actually benefited us … we kind of don’t want to&#xA;  mess with that if it’s working so well.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, because the show aired in the UK and was popular, word of mouth spread across the pond and increased anticipation in the US, which they felt improved their ratings. It's an interesting argument, and its accuracy is of course debatable - but it's what they feel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thirdly, channel executives can be apprehensive about airing shows that compete with &quot;traditional&quot; favourites. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s100/im-a-celebrity/news/a611835/im-a-celebrity-drops-to-773-million-on-friday.html#~oWmwXOZ5fBFOR4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Friday the 22nd November&lt;/a&gt; in the UK was dominated by &lt;strong&gt;I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here&lt;/strong&gt;, with a 34.5% market share (note Digital Spy have daily ratings on their site). In other words, a third of all TV sets in the UK on that night, at the time, were watching I'm a Celebrity. If a US show at the same time were to be broadcast in the UK, it would be competing against it and thus would be likely to lose. This is a consideration. Note, I'm aware Friday is a bad example due to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_night_death_slot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;graveyard slot in America&lt;/a&gt;, but roll with it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fourthly, often deals are made restricting where shows are broadcast first. From an article in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/05/why-cant-americans-watch-british-tv-shows-as-soon-as-they-air/257132/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Atlantic&lt;/a&gt;, Eddie Schmidt, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you're getting money from X company they may have a foreign service&#xA;  deal with Y company. For example, if HBO funds your film then you are&#xA;  of course beholden to having it released on HBO and having it roll out&#xA;  on other platforms as they permit.&quot; Schmidt continued, &quot;If you're a&#xA;  large multi-national, or a US company that has made foreign 'output&#xA;  deals' for your film or shows in foreign markets—this could be&#xA;  TV/broadcast, but could be theatrical too—then you can only do what&#xA;  they permit; there can be 'holdbacks' on digital exposure. They want&#xA;  exclusive hold of the product for X amount of time.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same article, an ITV spokesperson anonymously said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We're looking to build a strong international content business by&#xA;  creating our own content, achieving strong ratings on ITV in the UK&#xA;  and then selling it around the world.&quot; Commercial networks fear that&#xA;  if a show is available simultaneously and/or before it airs on TV that&#xA;  it would cannibalize the audience. Producers fear that if they do a&#xA;  multi-platform release it may hurt sales for TV rights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in these cases, the broadcasters are either financially responsible for broadcasting on one platform first or simply feel it's in their best interests to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fifthly, time differences can come into effect. If a show is broadcast in the US at 9pm, then the equivalent &quot;live&quot; broadcast time in the UK is 2am. That's a heck of a difference and it might be felt that this wouldn't be worthwhile. Why chase a program and pay extra to get a &quot;at the same time&quot; broadcast if the showing will be at a crazy early hour - when you could pay less, broadcast it the next day and get more viewers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, whilst piracy IS an issue, not everyone feels it's as &quot;big&quot; an issue as you suggest. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones#Piracy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Observers, including series director David Petrarca and Time&#xA;  Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes said illegal downloads did not hurt the series'&#xA;  prospects, as it benefited from the resulting &quot;buzz&quot; and social&#xA;  commentary, while the high rates of piracy did not significantly&#xA;  translate to lost subscriptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, they could be lying to save face, or simply avoid discussing it in detail, but their views are worth considering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However, having said all that...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Broadcasting shows simultaneously is definitely happening more and more. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/mar/25/game-of-thrones-season-four-us-uk-simulcast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/a&gt; was shown at the same time in the UK and US. You already highlighted one of the reasons why - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones#Piracy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;piracy&lt;/a&gt;. Game of Thrones was the most pirated series in 2012, 2013 and 2014, and the move to showing it at the same time world wide was an attempt to reduce this (despite the comments pasted above). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regards to piracy in general, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/world-watches-american-tv-not-always-legally&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tim Gray, the editor of Variety&lt;/a&gt;, commented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“It’s hard to monetize these things in the film world—but even harder&#xA;  in TV,” Gray said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Everyone agrees it’s a crisis, but nobody quite knows what to do&#xA;  about it… Netflix, Hulu and others are trying for options, but there&#xA;  are no easy answers.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no one quite knows what the answer is, and different techniques are being trialled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Doctor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Doctor Who 50th Anniversary&lt;/a&gt; episode was broadcast around the world at the same time (setting a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/article/guinness-world-record-for-the-day-of-the-doctor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;World Record in the Guinness Book of Records&lt;/a&gt;). This was done to avoid plot leaks and, given the record ratings, didn't seem to affect ratings the way some of the suggestions I posted at the top of this answer postulated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a number of &lt;em&gt;traditional&lt;/em&gt; reasons listed above as to why broadcasters don't want to air shows at the same time. However, evidence is apparent that when this is done the ratings aren't harm and can actually increase. However, whilst a few shows have trialled this, it isn't commonplace - yet. There seems to be a consensus that it &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be, possibly very soon, but it would require a few of the big broadcasting corporations to take a (possible) risk and do it - something they don't seem quite willing to do yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-22T17:08:43.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27460" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27461" CreationDate="2014-11-22T17:24:32.663" Score="9" ViewCount="2643" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the trivia section of &lt;a href=&quot;http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/Felicity_Smoak&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; &quot;Emily Bett Rickards was originally only intended to appear as Felicity in 'Lone Gunmen'.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wording doesn't make it clear if they meant that the character was only supposed to appear in one episode or if a different actress was supposed to play her in later episodes.  Plus the bullet doesn't have a source and I don't feel like that site is a reliable source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't care whether Felicity was supposed to be played by another actress, but I am curious whether the character was always meant to be part of the main cast or if that was an adjustment they made later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13335" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-11T12:16:46.943" LastActivityDate="2016-04-11T12:16:46.943" Title="Was Felicity Smoak always planned to be a main character in Arrow?" Tags="|production|arrow|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27460" CreationDate="2014-11-22T19:08:31.230" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst the creators of the show may have intended differently, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.refinery29.com/emily-bett-rickards-interview#page-1&quot;&gt;Emily Brett-Richards commented&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I think I was very lucky. Felicity came in at a point where the show&#xA;  needed that sort of light and that sort of chemistry, so I was lucky&#xA;  to be able to pick that up, fit that role, and fit with the show. As&#xA;  time goes on, I've heard many stories, &lt;em&gt;but as far as I knew, I was&#xA;  being signed for two scenes — one day of acting.&lt;/em&gt; And, I was freaking&#xA;  out because it was so exciting.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So she certainly thought it was a one episode gig. However, as the article above continues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Those two scenes turned into a role as an unintended series regular.&#xA;  How it happened is a matter of geeky apocraphy, but as Rickards tells&#xA;  it, there were many factors at play: &quot;Stephen [Oliver Queen] was very complimentary&#xA;  on my first day working; he said he had a lot of fun when he talked to&#xA;  the producers and execs. And, then, when they showed the episode to&#xA;  journalists for the first look, everyone was sort of asking who&#xA;  Felicity was, and that sort of sparked some interest. I was just very&#xA;  lucky… and then there was this explosion of love and passion and&#xA;  relatability to her.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, based on her comment, it seems reasonable to assume that &lt;strong&gt;she was originally intended to be a one-episode character&lt;/strong&gt;. Having said that, it also seems likely that the creators of the show were &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; open to the possibility of her having an extended run in the show, depending on the reception her character received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-22T19:08:31.230" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27237" CreationDate="2014-11-23T01:06:32.057" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are certainly right in that the 3 planets they visit are part of one system and the other 9 planets are part of other system(s), however &lt;strong&gt;this does not mean that they are located in entirely different parts of the universe&lt;/strong&gt;. And in fact as you yourself state correctly, they could not control the exit location of the wormhole, it's a point to point connection with a single defined entrance and a single defined exit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the only logical conclusion is, that the other 9 planets, albeit in different systems, &lt;strong&gt;are not too far away from the wormhole either&lt;/strong&gt;, but maybe just a &quot;little bit&quot; farther. Given that they took a 2-year journey to Saturn and they said it takes them months to reach &lt;em&gt;Mann&lt;/em&gt;'s planet (and their accessibility to comfortable hibernation technology), a possible journey of several years from the wormhole to any of the other planets/systems seems neither impossible nor out of the limits of their mission plan. So they could theoretically reach any of the other planets in &quot;reasonable&quot; time &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; employing the wormhole again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, they didn't want to, since on the one hand &lt;strong&gt;they didn't have the resources to check all 12 planets&lt;/strong&gt; and on the other hand &lt;strong&gt;only those 3 planets in this single system presented promising results&lt;/strong&gt; after the first investigation. Both of this is clarified in the dialogue when &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; is briefed about the wormhole and the mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What might be a bit of a lucky stretch, though, is the fact that the &lt;em&gt;Gargantua&lt;/em&gt;-system is the one nearest to the wormhole exit. But on the other hand we don't exactly know how far they traveled from the wormhole to &lt;em&gt;Gargantua&lt;/em&gt; (given that the movie more than one time &quot;hid&quot; significantly longer traveling times) or where exactly that wormhole is relative to the other systems (it might very well be centered between all the systems).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-11-23T01:06:32.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14250" CreationDate="2014-11-23T01:19:43.493" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, he was not gay or in the closet, he loved his son so much he was willing to try to kiss a man in a desperate attempt to accept homosexuality therefore being able to accept his son &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16020" LastActivityDate="2014-11-23T01:19:43.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26983" CreationDate="2014-11-23T02:01:15.007" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the people actually knowing much more about this than me seem largely reluctant to put it into any answer, I'll give it a first try by linking to some external resources that might give some insight into the matter. First of all the movie itself was shot on a mixture of 65mm IMAX film and 35mm film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://interstellar.withgoogle.com/transmissions#/viewing-experience/detail&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;official site&lt;/a&gt; of the movie gives some further explanations about the different formats you can watch the movie in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMAX® 70MM FILM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When presented on IMAX 70mm film, the sequences shot on IMAX are printed full quality in their native format- the highest quality imaging format ever devised, offering almost ten times the resolution of standard formats and filling the giant IMAX screens from top to bottom. The 35mm anamorphic sequences have been blown up to fill the IMAX screen side-to-side using a 6k digital DMR process, the highest resolution processing ever used in a feature film presentation. The finished picture switches between the 2.40:1 and 1.43:1 aspect ratios at key dramatic moments in the film. This is combined with a specially made IMAX uncompressed sound mix for the most immersive presentation of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMAX®&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The digital IMAX presentation has been created from 6 and 8k scans of the original film elements, graded specifically for the high contrast IMAX dual-projection system. When presented on digital IMAX, the sequences shot on IMAX will fill the IMAX screens from top to bottom and switch from 2.40:1 to an aspect ratio of up to 1.9:1. It will also carry the uncompressed IMAX sound mix of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;70MM FILM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When presented on regular 70mm film, the IMAX sequences have been optically reduced to 70mm 5 perf film to produce a grain-free, ultra-high resolution image, cropped top and bottom to fill the wide screen. The 35mm anamorphic sections have been blown up optically. Both processes are photochemical, preserving the original analog color of the imagery and combined in a 2.2:1 widescreen presentation. The sound is carried on a separate Datasat disc to produce state-of-the-art 6-track digital sound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;35MM FILM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 35mm anamorphic prints have been made photochemically, preserving all the rich analog color and high resolution of the original 35mm anamorphic photography. This is combined with new 4k negatives produced from 8k scans of the IMAX original negatives, cropped top and bottom to create a seamless 2.40:1 scope image. The sound is coded on the prints in Dolby SRD for a 6-track digital playback experience in most theatres.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DIGITAL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The digital presentation of INTERSTELLAR has been created from 4 and 8k scans of the photochemically- color graded film elements, fine-tuned in the digital realm to maximize the color and contrast attributes of digital projectors, and dust-busted to achieve the cleanest and most stable image presentation possible. The film was mastered in 4k for the highest digital resolution currently available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to this more technical list, there is also a more judgemental characterisation listing the formats in the preferred order of &lt;a href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2014/11/05/how-to-watch-interstellar/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. 70mm IMAX (film)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you like Matthew McConaughey as big, bright and clear as technologically possible, 70mm IMAX is the surefire way to go. Nolan loves to shoot as much of his films in IMAX as possible (the massive cameras limited him to a little over an hour's worth of Interstellar), and the result is a clarity and depth of field that, in many ways, beats even the best 3D in terms of seeing into the picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The individual image frames of 70mm are actually 65mm (2.6 in) wide, with 5mm set aside for magnetic sound tracks. The format boasts almost 10 times the resolution of standard projection formats, which is especially important when you're blowing it up on a full-sized IMAX screen. Standard screens are roughly 72 feet x 53 feet, but can be as large as Darling Harbour in Sydney, Australia, which is 117 feet x 97 feet (and will be showing Interstellar starting Wednesday).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. 70mm (film)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has all the benefits of 70mm; it's just not blown up on the big, big screen. &amp;quot;Standard&amp;quot; movie screens vary widely in size depending on the size of the auditorium, from inching up on IMAX-sized all the way down to about 50 feet wide. You'll still be impressed by the clarity, light and high definition, which is still three times the resolution of standard formats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. 35mm (film)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the next best thing, and it's still considered by many as superior to digital projection. With nearly 200 theaters worldwide (most in North America) showing Interstellar on 35mm, it should be easy to seek out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. IMAX digital&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most commercial, wide-release IMAX movies are shown this way, and most of us would never know the difference. The process involves two projectors that line everything up with lasers for great precision of both image and sound. But in the same way that CDs just aren't vinyl, digital just isn't film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. 4K digital&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost all major movie chains project digital in 4K these days, so it's less likely that this will be offered as an &amp;quot;option.&amp;quot; Either your theater is 4K or it isn't. If it isn't, at least you're seeing it in...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. Digital&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You probably also always fly coach, rent economy cars and couldn't get by without your Costco membership. Either that or you live in Palookaville. Or both. Nothing is wrong with either: You'll still see what it's like to enter a black hole, and by the time you get there, you'll have long since forgotten that the Big City movie snobs saw it with a little more clarity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But now it is on you to judge what format offers the best tradeoff for you regarding observable image quality differences compared to time and money costs and I guess only some existing real-life experience with the resulting projections could help you in this regard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-23T02:01:15.007" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27316" CreationDate="2014-11-23T03:41:30.343" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching the movie for the second time this afternoon and when they reached the Gargantua end of the wormhole it occurred to me that just dropping in at a dead stop near such a huge gravity well would make for a short, unhappy life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you arrive with the right velocity to be in some kind of orbit around the black hole.  That made me think there was a correlation between the orbital velocity of the endpoint at Saturn and the endpoint in Gargantua's system, or at least the orbital velocity of an object passing between them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16022" LastActivityDate="2014-11-23T03:41:30.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15059" CreationDate="2014-11-23T04:50:59.093" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone thought of the chain react of collisions in a three dimensional sense? My guess is that shrapenel would go off in all different directions hitting other satellites at different altitudes and this would naturally snowball into a field of debris at a multitude of different altitudes thus being able to hit them at the varying altitudes depicted in the film whilst seeming like the debris following her decent home&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16024" LastActivityDate="2014-11-23T04:50:59.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27473" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27486" CreationDate="2014-11-23T06:44:01.687" Score="4" ViewCount="5430" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV show Arrow, why does Sin call Roy &quot;Abercombie&quot;? Is it because the red hoodie he wears is the brand Abercrombie &amp;amp; Fitch? Wikipedia says the actor (Colton Lee Haynes) modeled for the brand, so it is for promotion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5466" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-11T12:15:03.043" LastActivityDate="2016-11-10T18:50:22.477" Title="Why does Sin call Roy &quot;Abercombie&quot;?" Tags="|character|arrow|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27474" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-23T07:58:26.637" Score="5" ViewCount="3011" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; the data transmission was only one way, that is, from The Earth to the spaceship, and not the other way, then how does Murph know that Dr. Brand is alive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16027" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-23T13:14:42.823" LastActivityDate="2014-12-01T13:28:25.333" Title="How does Murph know whether Dr. Brand is alive?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27475" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27499" CreationDate="2014-11-23T08:06:17.047" Score="3" ViewCount="1482" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are Al Pacino and other people talking about when Al Pacino said &quot;It's longer? Longer like what? Like my dick is longer?&quot; and the other person says &quot;No no no, we are not talking about a Volkswagen.&quot; What does that mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-23T13:14:05.287" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T02:26:35.767" Title="Question about a line from Donnie Brasco" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|donnie-brasco|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28040" CreationDate="2014-11-23T09:02:59.260" Score="8" ViewCount="2681" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Lost Season Finale 2, some people detect a magnetic anomaly and call Penny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen the whole series, but I cannot say how Penny is aware of huge magnetic forces and the search of Desmond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did Penny know to search for magnetic anomalies?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T12:36:00.003" Title="Season 2: Why was Penny searching for magnetic anomalies?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lost|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27237" CreationDate="2014-11-23T09:14:16.210" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My assumption was that systems are defined by the central mass, a star, large planet, or black-hole. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Gargantua is a super-massive black-hole, it may have many other stars and planets captured into near and far orbits, and even extra-planar orbits (above or below the plane of Gargantua's planets). These far or off-plane systems would be much closer than typical interstellar distances (say, tens of astronomical units, like the distance to Pluto), but would require lots of fuel to visit individually. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the other planets and their systems could easily be other star systems that are very close to Gargantua, but much further or harder to reach than the 3 which lie close to it in a single plane of orbit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16028" LastActivityDate="2014-11-23T09:14:16.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27479" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27492" CreationDate="2014-11-23T09:56:36.510" Score="4" ViewCount="1387" Body="&lt;p&gt;At about 39:13 in &lt;em&gt;Donnie Brasco&lt;/em&gt;, when Al Pacino (lefty) said: &quot;I'm checking my lipstick.&quot; What's that supposed to mean? When he looks backward with a mirror, is it because he is afraid to get whacked from the people behind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-15T09:52:44.757" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T09:52:44.757" Title="Why does Lefty say that he has to &quot;check his lipstick&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|donnie-brasco|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27480" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27498" CreationDate="2014-11-23T10:04:11.600" Score="2" ViewCount="964" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119008/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Donnie Brasco&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Al Pacino says &quot;He got a mistress for the mistress.&quot; What does that mean? Does that mean he has a lot of mistresses, or that one of Sonny Black's mistresses is a lesbian? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-23T13:10:58.313" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T01:56:18.350" Title="What does &quot;he got a mistress for the mistress&quot; mean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|donnie-brasco|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27482" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27484" CreationDate="2014-11-23T11:47:07.707" Score="4" ViewCount="1160" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Broke_Girls&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;2 Broke Girls&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Max and Caroline work at the diner, and they do extra jobs (selling cupcakes and other stuff).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they have two salaries, but even then, they can't afford toilet paper!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is that possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12961" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2023-12-26T08:08:27.203" LastActivityDate="2023-12-26T08:08:27.203" Title="Why are Max and Caroline poor in “2 Broke Girls?”" Tags="|plot-explanation|2-broke-girls|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="27484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27482" CreationDate="2014-11-23T14:16:57.043" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure of &lt;em&gt;where&lt;/em&gt; they are supposed to be located, but you could probably assume a large city in the northeastern US, probably NYC (they may say within the series, I just don't remember).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cost of living is not cheap in big cities, even with two jobs. With that said, first, they are only working as waitresses in a greasy spoon, so they are not getting paid a lot, and I'm sure tips are even less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, they are trying to save money so as to open/operate a cupcake store. They don't have any money because they don't have much in the first place and they are trying to scrimp and save what they do have the for the store.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2023-12-25T19:38:29.707" LastActivityDate="2023-12-25T19:38:29.707" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="27485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27364" CreationDate="2014-11-23T14:36:15.297" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;The same question was also asked on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/Interstellar-2014-movie/Why-did-it-take-two-rocket-stages-to-lift-off-the-Earth-and-get-to-the-Endurance-orbit-but-just-Ranger-rocket-engines-to-lift-off-Millers-planet&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quora&lt;/a&gt;, with various interesting answers, even if it's hard to say which one is correct and they all sound quite plausible. Everyone seems to agree though, that both &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lander&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Ranger&lt;/em&gt; are very much capable of planetary lift-offs&lt;/strong&gt; and could as well have left earth on their own. Remains the question why they chose a rocket-aided lift-off for earth. The most-compelling in-universe answers are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As &lt;em&gt;Victor&lt;/em&gt; also says in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/27442/49&quot;&gt;his answer&lt;/a&gt; already, they might have to &lt;strong&gt;carry a lot more cargo and supplies for their initial trip to the &lt;em&gt;Endurance&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in preparation of their long journey. For this the additional boost might be required.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They might want to save fuel&lt;/strong&gt;, which is made clear to be a very valuable resource. So why not rather waste a whole rocket on earth, where they could easily built and setup one and save the fuel for the, likely fuel-intensive, lift-offs for the planets where it's definitely needed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet there is also a very good out-of-universe answer mentioned, which I'd like the most (since I appreciate analysis more than fan-fiction, but that's just me ;-)), even if it's probably to be seen in connection to the other explanations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The usage of a classical multi-stage rocket lift-off and its whole depiction in the movie pretty much &lt;strong&gt;evokes reminiscences of the good old space missions&lt;/strong&gt;, especially the &lt;em&gt;Apollo&lt;/em&gt; missions, we experienced in the past. And this is definitely intended, since it is that pioneering attitude of space exploration that &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; complains to have gone astray in humanity's pessimistic society of &lt;em&gt;&quot;care-takers&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. And it is this hope and inspiration humanity took from those missions that the movie wants to recall with this depiction.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a little addendum, after a fruitful discussion I indeed managed to get together a computation for the escape velocity on &lt;em&gt;Miller&lt;/em&gt;'s planet in an &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/148469/35713&quot;&gt;answer to a related question&lt;/a&gt; over on Physics.SE (similar to &lt;em&gt;jld&lt;/em&gt;'s computation in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/27496/49&quot;&gt;his answer here&lt;/a&gt;), giving that the planet has only about 96% of earth's escape velocity. So it is indeed a little bit easier to leave it than earth (and even more likely for &lt;em&gt;Mann&lt;/em&gt;'s planet, which following the computed constraints would have to have only more than 64% of earth's density to be easier to lift off). But I still stand to the above assumption, that they could also have left earth without a rocket, hadn't they had the additional cargo, fuel constraints and obligation to show us a good old rocket launch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T08:28:22.387" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27473" CreationDate="2014-11-23T14:41:56.703" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;She meant it as a slight insult, implying that Roy had changed when he started dating Thea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Abercombie and Fitch is an upscale clothing brand that is considered &quot;trendy&quot;, particularly among the children of middle-to-upper class parents. I'm not sure what the word for &quot;preppy&quot; is these days, but that's how I'd describe it. Roy and Sin, on the other hand, are from the poor part of town, lower-class families, and are likely broke on a regular basis. They would likely consider A&amp;amp;F clothing an expensive and stupid waste of money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Roy starts dating Thea, he starts trying to impress her by cleaning up his image a bit. Sin is ribbing him over it by identifying him as &quot;part of the Abercombia and Fitch&quot; crowd. Likely, this is partly Sin teasing her friend over his new relationship, but also partly her sincere commentary on Roy abandoning his roots in an attempt to fit in with his rich girlfriend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2014-11-23T14:41:56.703" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27474" CreationDate="2014-11-23T16:13:54.073" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, as explained in the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/27456/49&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;the data transmission isn't entirely one way.&lt;/strong&gt; Remember, that they in fact &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/27337/49&quot;&gt;got the signals from the first exploration missions&lt;/a&gt; (the 12 people visiting their respective planets 10 years ago) sent through the wormhole. For whatever reason those signals are rather simple, but they definitely got them, because they are the reason &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/27237/49&quot;&gt;why they chose to visit those 3 planets only&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And given the fact, that &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/27257/49&quot;&gt;due to the various time dilations&lt;/a&gt; at this point &lt;em&gt;Amelia Brand&lt;/em&gt; had &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/27683/49&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;more or less&lt;/em&gt; just arrived&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;em&gt;Edmunds&lt;/em&gt;' planet, she likely &lt;strong&gt;sent a new signal out from the planet&lt;/strong&gt;. The humans at &lt;em&gt;Cooper Station&lt;/em&gt; in turn received that signal, knowing that &lt;em&gt;Amelia&lt;/em&gt; had arrived and the planet is Ok as a new home. The only problem that stands is how &lt;em&gt;Amelia&lt;/em&gt; was able to send anything else than &lt;em&gt;&quot;rudimentary, simple binary 'pings' on an annual basis&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. But maybe she did really only get through that much and the humans on our side of the wormhole just assumed it was a sign that she was there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An entirely different possibility (suggested by &lt;em&gt;Hypnosifl&lt;/em&gt; in a comment to his &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/27630/49&quot;&gt;related answer&lt;/a&gt;) is that they &lt;strong&gt;sent a probe through the wormhole to check for news&lt;/strong&gt; and come right back (since the relay on the other end of the wormhole got and recorded every signal from the planets just fine). Afterall they were sitting in a space station near the wormhole and sending a probe through should be their smallest problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2014-12-01T13:28:25.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24398" CreationDate="2014-11-23T17:20:37.370" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While &lt;em&gt;Ankit&lt;/em&gt; presents a very reasonable rundown of the scene in his answer, when I carefully rechecked the shootout in particular, I came to the contradictory conclusion that he at least is &lt;strong&gt;opposed to the &lt;em&gt;Basterds&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which still leaves it unclear if he's entirely dedicated to the Germans or just minding his own business (or if he maybe even was a double agent posing as an ally to &lt;em&gt;Bridget&lt;/em&gt; but actually working against her and waiting for the right chance). This would also explain why he apparently didn't tell &lt;em&gt;Bridget&lt;/em&gt; about the cunning SS-officer sitting in the backroom, which he as the barkeeper certainly must have been aware of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular &lt;strong&gt;he seems to shoot at least into &lt;em&gt;Stiglitz&lt;/em&gt;'s direction and is then clearly shot by &lt;em&gt;Wicki&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TXYEw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pt8nj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C5vrv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youngandfictitious.com/2011/09/13/inglorious-bastards-tavern-shoot-out-breakdown-2-years-later/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this blog entry&lt;/a&gt; giving a detailed rundown of who kills whom which I'd have to agree with when looking closely at the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stiglitz&lt;/strong&gt; starts things off by shooting &lt;strong&gt;Hellstrom&lt;/strong&gt; in the crotch. &lt;strong&gt;Hellstrom&lt;/strong&gt; then shoots &lt;strong&gt;Hicox&lt;/strong&gt; and hits &lt;strong&gt;Bridget Von Hammersmark&lt;/strong&gt; in the leg while &lt;strong&gt;Hicox&lt;/strong&gt; falls backwards and before he dies he returns fire at &lt;strong&gt;Hellstrom&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Stiglitz&lt;/strong&gt; then stands up and repeatedly stabs &lt;strong&gt;Hellstrom&lt;/strong&gt; in the back of the head, pinning his head to the table. &lt;strong&gt;Wicki&lt;/strong&gt; stands up and shoots &lt;strong&gt;Winnetou&lt;/strong&gt; in the back at least twice. &lt;strong&gt;Beethoven&lt;/strong&gt; shoots &lt;strong&gt;Stiglitz&lt;/strong&gt; in the back. &lt;strong&gt;Mata Hari&lt;/strong&gt; shoots &lt;strong&gt;Wicki&lt;/strong&gt; in the stomach. &lt;strong&gt;Stiglitz&lt;/strong&gt; turns and shoots &lt;strong&gt;Beethoven&lt;/strong&gt; four times in the torso and then also shoots &lt;strong&gt;Edgar Wallace&lt;/strong&gt; in the heart killing them both. &lt;strong&gt;Wicki&lt;/strong&gt; shoots &lt;strong&gt;Mata Hari&lt;/strong&gt; in the heart. &lt;strong&gt;Eric&lt;/strong&gt; shoots &lt;strong&gt;Stiglitz&lt;/strong&gt; with a double-barreled shotgun, killing him.  &lt;strong&gt;Wicki&lt;/strong&gt; shoots &lt;strong&gt;Eric&lt;/strong&gt; in the head and &lt;strong&gt;Wilhelm&lt;/strong&gt; blindly guns down &lt;strong&gt;Wicki&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Mathilda&lt;/strong&gt; with his MP40 sub-machine gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that being said I'd still hope someone can shed some more light on his exact motivation and if he sided with the Germans or did his own thing or if he even &lt;em&gt;posed&lt;/em&gt; as an ally to &lt;em&gt;Bridget&lt;/em&gt; as &lt;em&gt;Ankit&lt;/em&gt;'s answer might suggest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-11-23T17:20:37.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27479" CreationDate="2014-11-23T18:54:55.797" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Lefty is in the car, he is indeed afraid of being &quot;whacked&quot;. He's checking his mirror &lt;em&gt;to see the back seat of the car&lt;/em&gt;, so he can keep an eye on everyone in the car and be ready for anything (in the hope he could do something about it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can see his fear from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Donnie-Brasco.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SONNY&lt;/strong&gt; Hey, Left, what'cha doing?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;LEFTY&lt;/strong&gt; Just checking my part.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;SONNY&lt;/strong&gt; (chuckling) - Ah, Left--what am I gonna do&#xA;                   without you? (to Donnie)       What&#xA;                   would you do without this     guy,&#xA;                   hah, kid? You'd have to       find&#xA;                   yourself a new goombah.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;       Lefty getting VERY NERVOUS...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;                               &lt;strong&gt;NICKY&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                   That was something about the&#xA;                   boss, wasn't it?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;                              &lt;strong&gt;SONNY&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                   We all gotta go sometime.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;       Lefty, TERRIFIED, looks at Boobie again. Boobie nods. Donnie&#xA;       WATCHES this...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Thinks: what to do?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;       They walk from the parked Mercedes toward a FREIGHT HANGAR. The&#xA;       scene is otherwise DESERTED. Lefty NERVOUS, lights a cigarette.&#xA;       Planes periodically ROAR overhead.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;                               &lt;strong&gt;NICKY&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                          (sings)&#xA;                    'Love on the rocks, ain't no&#xA;                    surprise.'&lt;br&gt;&#xA;                               &lt;strong&gt;LEFTY&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                    Sonny, what is this? we glomming&#xA;                    something?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;       Sonny opens the door.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;                                 &lt;strong&gt;SONNY&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                    After you.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;       Lefty walks into the DARKNESS...A terrifying SILENCE...Then--&#xA;       RRRRRRROAR&lt;br&gt;&#xA;       The LIGHTS come up. A pale and shaken Lefty looks straight into the&#xA;       eyes of a LION CUB as it GROWLS. A bluff FREIGHT HANDLER holds the&#xA;       lion on a leash.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;                             &lt;strong&gt;LEFTY&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                   Christ. I think I shit my pants.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;                                 &lt;strong&gt;FREIGHT HANDLER&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                   It was supposed         to go to some&#xA;                   animal dealer.    Fuck him. I'll&#xA;                   tell him it got         lost.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;                              &lt;strong&gt;SONNY&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                   Look, Left, he likes you.&#xA;       The cub nuzzles and sniffs at Lefty.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;                              &lt;strong&gt;LEFTY&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                         (to Lion)&#xA;                   Get the fuck outta here.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;SONNY&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                    That's for you, Left. For your&#xA;                    birthday. Batter late than&#xA;                    never.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;                              &lt;strong&gt;LEFTY&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                    That's why you sent for me?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;                            &lt;strong&gt;SONNY&lt;/strong&gt;  Yeah, why? Whaddayou think, you&#xA;                 was gonna get whacked?&#xA;                  (laughing) Lefty thought he's gonna get whacked!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On an interesting side note, the scene you reference &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; in the theatrical version of the movie, but on the director's cut, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=4056&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;as can be seen here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-23T18:54:55.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27494" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-23T20:24:59.900" Score="31" ViewCount="523523" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last scene of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babadook&quot;&gt;The Babadook&lt;/a&gt; when Amelia takes worms downstairs to the babadook:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it there? Is it by choice or is it a captive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did telling it not to harm her son drive it off?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why worms?!?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-11-23T20:47:43.833" LastActivityDate="2017-02-05T23:03:56.327" Title="Ending of babadook" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|the-babadook|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27494" CreationDate="2014-11-23T21:13:23.287" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Babadook is really a metaphor for the mother's grief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once summoned, it initially possesses the mother leading to her becoming a monster of sorts, treating her son badly and hurting the family pet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This continues throughout the movie, this problematic mix of the &quot;good&quot; mother and the Babadook mother which controls her dark thoughts and feelings. When the neighbour vists, she tells the mother that she loves her and her son and would do anything to help them. This, coupled with her son's own words (&quot;you don't love me anymore, but mummy... I still love you&quot;), enable her to finally take control of her grief and she &quot;expels&quot; the Babadook by telling it not to hurt her son (i.e. by taking control of her emotions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It then leaves and goes to the basement - the place where her dead husband's belongings all are (i.e. the room of &lt;em&gt;the past&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know the mother can visit this room with her dead husband's belongings to gain a sense of closure. Similarly, she can now visit (and even look after) those dark thoughts and feelings she once had towards her son - her grief. In other words, rather than the Babadook being a real &lt;em&gt;evil&lt;/em&gt; creature, the evil inside her is what drove her actions. Once she took control of that and moved past her grief, she was able to proceed with her life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So by telling it not to harm her son, she took control of her emotions and thus &quot;drove&quot; it away. The worms was just a symbolic way of showing how she was now in control of her emotions and happy (as the following birthday scene showed) as opposed to still living in the past, consumed by grief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-23T21:13:23.287" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27364" CreationDate="2014-11-23T22:40:56.180" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, so several people have mentioned that the planet's density will have an effect on its escape velocity. This is true. The total mass of the planet is: M=(4π/3)R³ρ, where ρ is its average density. The escape velocity squared is: v² = 2GM/R = (8πG/3)R²ρ = k²R²ρ, where I've defined k²=8πG/3. So we see that the equation for escape velocity, in terms of its radius and its density, is given by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;v = kR √(ρ)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The acceleration due to gravity is given by g = GM/R²= (4πG/3)Rρ = (k²/2)Rρ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kip Thorne gives an estimate for Miller's planet's average density: ~10,000 kg/m³, compared with Earth's value of ~5,500 kg/m³. Additionally, we know Miller's planet has 1.2 times the acceleration due to gravity on Earth: g₂=1.2g₁.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;R₂ = 1.2R₁ρ₁/ρ₂&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This gives us a radius of ~4200 km. The escape velocity can be obtained by plugging this into our first equation, giving us a value of of ~9930 m/s. This is about 90% of Earth's escape velocity, so indeed it is easier to take off from Miller's planet than Earth, however not by much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16036" LastEditorUserId="16036" LastEditDate="2014-11-25T09:27:58.423" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T09:27:58.423" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27480" CreationDate="2014-11-23T23:14:03.713" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don't know&lt;/strong&gt;. Ultimately though, it's irrelevant. If you look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=donnie-brasco&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the script&lt;/a&gt; before and after that line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lefty&lt;/strong&gt;: ...Whole time Sonny Black's in the can, the whole time... He's got a&#xA;  family, he's got a mistress. He's got a mistress for the mistress. I&#xA;  watched out for them, all of them. Me, I was the only one. Nobody else&#xA;  gave a fuck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's expressing frustration at how he was the only person to look out for Sunny's family. He &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; mean Sonny's mistress is a lesbian. He could be (and I would argue more likely is) simply exaggerating about how there were so many people in Sonny's life and he looked after &lt;em&gt;all of them&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, we don't know, but it doesn't matter - the point of the scene is to show how Lefty feels he was the &lt;em&gt;only one&lt;/em&gt; to look after Sonny's family during his stint inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-23T23:14:03.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27480" CreationDate="2014-11-24T01:33:48.733" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Does that mean he has a lot of mistresses&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I think that is the most likely meaning.  He has a wife, and he is cheating on her with a mistress.  But perhaps there are times when he gets tired of the mistress, so he cheats on her (the mistress) with yet another mistress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;or that one of Sonny Black's mistresses is a lesbian?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is a possible meaning, but I don't think it's likely.  The movie takes place in the 1970s when lesbians couldn't get married.  Also, she wouldn't really be cheating on him if he gave her another woman.  So if he gave his mistress another woman, it wouldn't really be accurate to call that woman a &quot;mistress for the mistress&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9908" LastEditorUserId="9908" LastEditDate="2014-11-24T01:56:18.350" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T01:56:18.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27475" CreationDate="2014-11-24T02:26:35.767" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In that scene, they are comparing the Lincoln, Cadillac, and Mercedes automobiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One guy says &quot;I'll tell you one thing, my friend.  Undisputable. The Lincoln is longer.&quot;  He is talking about the length of the Lincoln Town Car - he is saying it is longer (has more length) than the other cars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Al Pacino says &quot;It's longer? Longer like what?  Longer like my dick is longer?&quot;, he isn't sure what the other guy means when he says the Lincoln is longer.  So he throws in a comment about his penis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the other guy insults Al Pacino's penis size by saying &quot;No, no, no. We're not talking about a Volkswagen.&quot;  A Volkswagen is much smaller than the Lincoln Town Car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9908" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T02:26:35.767" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27083" CreationDate="2014-11-24T03:19:35.840" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;if mann would have been sane, and just joined the crew back to earth, then TARS would not have been able to collect the quantum gravity data from the blackhole.. and cooper would never have communicated with murph, and plan A would never have succeeded and humanity would have died. Also since the first half of the movie happened, and Cooper had communicated through time using gravity, he was part of a closed time loop.. hence Mann had to behave the way he did :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16039" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T03:19:35.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27501" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27502" CreationDate="2014-11-24T03:31:58.880" Score="0" ViewCount="409" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Lefty and Sonnie Black were sitting beside the swimming pool. There were lines like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;01:09:03 What are you doing? You want to throw me in the pool? You got the balls?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;01:09:07 He hasn't made a pick yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;01:09:09 Forget those dogs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When someone say &quot;dogs&quot; , is the script wrong ? Because I think what he tries to say is &quot;dorks&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Lefty said&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They see you in that fucking shirt , they say , &quot; There's Joe Faccia&#xA;  Di Cula,&quot; in that shirt . Look at him , that was once yellow , that&#xA;  shirt .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does that mean his shirt is very dirty or what ? And who's Joe Faccia Di Cula ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-24T22:33:45.047" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T22:33:45.047" Title="Two questions about the scene that took place in Florida" Tags="|plot-explanation|donnie-brasco|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27501" CreationDate="2014-11-24T04:41:17.487" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;1) The picks he was talking about were bets on dogs, literally.  He was betting on dog races.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Yes, he's making fun of the shirt being dirty, because it's been worn so often.  &quot;Joe Faccia Di Cula&quot; is like &quot;Joey Bag-a-donuts&quot;.  It's like a reference to a stereotypical Italian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T04:41:17.487" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17961" CreationDate="2014-11-24T05:42:31.310" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Found it! I was just trying to remember the name of this movie. I came across this so I figured I'd help you out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0329224/?ref_=kw_li_tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Inhabited&lt;/a&gt; (2003):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A family [with 2 kids] discovers a race of ancient creatures are living under their home. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The house burns down in the end. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV-CFkRJCtc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here's the trailer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16040" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-24T22:38:48.587" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T22:38:48.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26890" CreationDate="2014-11-24T06:45:11.823" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's My Opinion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First: know that in TV series usually nothing is obvious from the begining, USUALLY,&#xA;as for the CW series Supernatural, I have heard producers were only making 4 seasons, but they continued when they saw the unexpected number of fans and followers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second: there are so many alterations to characters, like Slade Wilson and Oliver's background on the island, and practically half of Batman's main enemies on the show, altering Talia al Ghul to Nyssa Raatko, and adding some points of consciounce to characters like Deadshot. So I think this was meant to be Oliver's alteration, and that he was not who he is from the begining, and also this is his weakness as he constantly changes tactics and underestimates his colleages capabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, every movie or series adaptation has it's own alterations from the original source, and remember the fact that Oliver was trained by Slade, so in code of military operations you rather kill instead of taking prisoners, and the fact that things he did for ARGUS after the Island changed him and his methods further. I haven't read a single DC Comic, and just saw Nolan's Batman trilogy and a couple of other Batmans before that, and the Batman Arkham games, and in between I think the games would have been more accurate to the roots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13615" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-24T08:41:31.437" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T08:41:31.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27506" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27520" CreationDate="2014-11-24T07:56:08.260" Score="3" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw that Rowen added himself in Team Cena, and his brother Luke Harper is in an opposite team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's surprising, because both are monsters. How can one participating in noble cause with Team Cena, against his brother? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does he want to help Cena or want to take hands on his brother (due to something that I don't know and asked here).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did this happen and in which episode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11544" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-11-25T08:34:00.017" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T09:53:44.163" Title="Reason behind the feud between WWE's &quot;Wyatt&quot; family members" Tags="|wwe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26890" CreationDate="2014-11-24T09:22:26.530" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think @System Down has summed up all the imported points. Just to add something though, here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://time.com/99120/arrow-co-creator-marc-guggenheim-on-tonights-season-2-finale/&quot;&gt;an interview&lt;/a&gt; from Time Magazine the shows co-creator, Mark Guggenheim, where he discussed the change of direction in Season 2 compared to Season 1:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TIME&lt;/strong&gt;: Were there different sorts of things you wanted to accomplish&#xA;  with Season 2 compared with Season 1?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marc Guggenheim&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeah, great question. Well, our goal, you know, sort&#xA;  of on a meta-level was our goal is to top ourselves from season 1. I&#xA;  think that’s probably fairly obvious, or that’s an obvious call that I&#xA;  think any second season show should have. &lt;em&gt;We went in, we knew we&#xA;  wanted to tell a very concrete story with respect to Oliver making a&#xA;  journey from vigilante to hero&lt;/em&gt;. And we knew we wanted to center the&#xA;  evolution around this idea of him giving up killing as a means of&#xA;  accomplishing his ends. So we knew we had that sort of core dynamic to&#xA;  play with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this provides the reason &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; they made Oliver kill less - to show him as a true hero, rather than a vigilante. However, late in the same interview he mentions that the decision to kill Tommy was only made around episode 17/18 in the first season - the actor was actually on a long term contract and they made a decision to honour the theme of sacrifice throughout the first season by killing him to give everyone an emotional jolt. I mention this because it shows that the show's creators were very fluid in their decisions and were happy to make impromptu calls in the interests of the themes of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on that fact, I don't know if it can conclusively be said that they &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; wanted Oliver to kill less in his transition to becoming a hero. However, given how Marc Guggenheim has discussed it in the quote above, I would say that that interpretation is likely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T09:22:26.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27429" CreationDate="2014-11-24T11:08:56.830" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK for one thing all zombies must be alive to some extent, because you have to destroy the brain to kill them right? If you think about it that that means the brain is working or working to an extent. For them to move, the brain must be functional enough for the body to use basic functions provided by the nervous, muscle, and skeletal systems. That's never blatantly stated but if you use your head, that's what allows the human body to move. As for the decay, I've wondered that myself since the first time I had ever heard of zombies. Probably, decomposition happens much slower in the winter than the summer, and like I mentioned above the zombie has to be alive somewhat; enough for the brain to do what it needs to do to keep the walkers walking, so they are probably also alive enough they don't decompose as fast as actual corpses. And another thing, we really don't know what time it is in the zombie apocalypse now do we? Sometimes the show jumps months ahead without mentioning it, sometimes its the next day, so honestly not as much time might be passing as you think.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16041" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T11:08:56.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27509" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-24T12:15:21.827" Score="6" ViewCount="2206" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to identify an 80's comedy that has a sketch in it along the following lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A gent approaches a timber door, either at a castle or a large wooden factory door, he taps on it and a high latch opens to ask his business, he explains himself and the door opens yet a very small man appears having answered the door high up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just reminds me of a classic film I can't quite put my finger on. Something tells me there was an 'Igor' type character in it but this may be wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly Top Secret? or Naked Gun? or Pink Panther series ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16043" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-24T12:46:50.313" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T13:10:05.357" Title="Seemingly tall man answers door but he's actually short" Tags="|identify-this-movie|comedy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:25:52.223" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27509" CreationDate="2014-11-24T12:41:00.237" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; describing a scene from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088286/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Top Secret&lt;/a&gt;: When Nick and Val reach the resistance, a high latch opens and a man appears through it. But when he opens the door, he's short (he's the guy on the left &lt;a href=&quot;https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t31.0-8/s720x720/416724_10150761281565229_1656006208_o.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). Here's the clip:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/AupQ8Vm51OQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-24T13:10:05.357" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T13:10:05.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12329" CreationDate="2014-11-24T14:44:43.660" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The dog is a metaphore for his job and the business he is in (or at least the team that he is running). Rogers is a compassionate character, but also a practical one; he cares about the work, but is not afraid to take hard decisions. His speech at the end shows that he recognises what he has done. The film focuses on his moral choices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dog is a selfish indulgence - he spends a fortune on it. It is sick with cancer, as is the company he works for. Both are living on borrowed time, being kept alive by money. In the end, when it is clear the music has stopped, he puts the dog down and likewise kills his current business (by destroying the relationship with his clients). He has no control over either event. In the end, he accepts what has happened, buries the dog, mentally buries the events of that day (he decides not to quit) and moves on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16048" LastEditorUserId="16048" LastEditDate="2019-12-09T12:48:32.063" LastActivityDate="2019-12-09T12:48:32.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="27520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27506" CreationDate="2014-11-24T17:19:18.260" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last televised match of the trio - September 19 Smackdown&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Beginning of &quot;breakup&quot; videos - September 29&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wyatt return - Hell in a Cell, October 26&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Rowan return - October 31 Smackdown&lt;br&gt;&#xA;harper return - November 10 RAW&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Episode of faction joining - November 17 RAW.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Reason? Too early to say. Rumours are Vince didn't like them as a group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;That's surprising, because both are monsters, how can one participating in noble cause with team cena, against his brother.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Welcome to professional wrestling. Wrestlers change factions all the time. Take someone like &lt;strong&gt;Kane&lt;/strong&gt;, who has gone back and forth between &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; multiple times in his career. He's just one example, but there's a very large number you can find by a few simple google searches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Does he want to help cena or want to take hands on his brother (due to something that I don't know and asked here)&#xA;how did this happen and in which episode?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not clear exactly which episode you want information in. I'm &lt;em&gt;assuming&lt;/em&gt; you're asking in which episode did the &lt;em&gt;final turn&lt;/em&gt; occur in, in which case the answer is the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wyatt_Family#Separation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;November 17 episode of RAW&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. In it, Luke Harper won the Intercontinental Championship, whilst Rowan was revealed as a member of Cena's team, creating a &lt;em&gt;feud&lt;/em&gt; between them. A list of all their turns can be seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wyatt_Family#Separation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on their Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for what their motives are... who knows? It doesn't seem to have been decided yet. Rumours are always rife in the WWE and they often leak &quot;fake&quot; rumours which can be used to help develop feuds. &lt;a href=&quot;http://dailywrestlingnews.com/vinces-plans-wyatt-family-split-harpers-future-hhhs-thoughts/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Daily Wrestling News&lt;/a&gt; reported back on the 7th October, 2014 that Vince McMahon was apparently not their biggest fan:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One source pointed to the fact the writing was on the wall for the&#xA;  faction and that Vince was essentially killing them off so why not let&#xA;  him have his way and push Harper. This same source expressed concern&#xA;  because Harper is nowhere close to Wyatt on the mic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another issue is that with the talent roster so thin and Seth Rollins&#xA;  and Dean Ambrose working towards the top of the card, Vince feels that&#xA;  by splitting The Wyatts, they can end up with two top acts instead of&#xA;  one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sean Meyers, a writer for RantSports, speculated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just like all three members of The Shield excelled after their split,&#xA;  the Wyatt Family can achieve the same success. Bray Wyatt is destined&#xA;  to be in the main-event picture for years to come, but the outlook for&#xA;  Harper and Rowan could largely be dictated by their roles at Survivor&#xA;  Series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This obviously suggests that &lt;em&gt;in his view&lt;/em&gt; their roles and reasons for their feud will largely be dictated by how well received they are in their Survivor Series fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, this isn't unusual. Wrestling is fairly dynamic and ratings dictate storylines. If the fans enjoy the role of both brothers on opposite sides, they'll continue with it. If not, it'll disappear before you know it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-11-25T09:53:44.163" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T09:53:44.163" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13917" CreationDate="2014-11-24T17:46:17.580" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Il duce wouldn't kill women or children, and when he is introduced into the plot it is said that &quot;he had a thing for killing wiseguys&quot;. &#xA;You could say that he was a hitman with a moral code, which just happens to align quite well with the MacManus brothers own sense of morality.&#xA;The brothers didn't know this at their first encounter (nor did Il Duce) but when they realize they are family with the same goal in life I guess it makes sense to join forces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Rocco. A bit harder to explain, but Rocco isn't &lt;em&gt;evil&lt;/em&gt;, he just works for evil men.&#xA;IIRC in the scene in the kitchen where they start talking about doing this for real, they say something along the lines of them deciding who's evil and not (and thus, gets to live or not). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15382" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T17:46:17.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27445" CreationDate="2014-11-24T17:56:26.723" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't seem to find a &lt;em&gt;definitive&lt;/em&gt; answer to this. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.execshirts.com/dress-shirt-collars.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;ExecShirts.com&lt;/a&gt; (however famous they are) call it a Small Spread Collar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X3WuC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Small Spread Collar is another unique collar, it has very little&#xA;  spread with the collar halves coming almost straight down. The edges&#xA;  of the collar are rounded for a softer look. Their is a small space at&#xA;  the top of the collar for wearing a neck tie. This shirt should be&#xA;  worn with a neck tie. &lt;em&gt;This collar is sometimes called a &quot;Soprano&#xA;  Collar&quot; or &quot;Mafia Collar&quot; or even a &quot;Continental Collar&quot; because it is&#xA;  worn on the European Continent&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guidofashions.com/Pages/MensActiveWearDressShirts.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;GuidoFashions&lt;/a&gt; advertise them as being &quot;guido&quot; collar shirts, but don't go into any more specific details than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither &quot;guido&quot; or &quot;small spread collar&quot; turns up a large amount of results though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Searching for a &lt;em&gt;classic narrow&lt;/em&gt; seems to show some &lt;em&gt;similar&lt;/em&gt; collars, where the narrowness seems to vary from shirt to shirt - but even then that terms up wildly different results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the best result I can find is &lt;strong&gt;a club collar&lt;/strong&gt;. It doesn't turn up a large number of results (or matching images), but is referred to as such in a few articles. For example, Vintage Dancer state:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the early 20’s, the stuffy detachable collar was still the norm.&#xA;  They were always white, always detached, and quite tall (up to 3&#xA;  inches.) The round edge club collar was the most fashionable from the&#xA;  preceding decade. Fans of Boardwalk Empire will recognize Enoch&#xA;  ‘Nucky’ Thompson who is almost always wearing one. The pointed collar&#xA;  gained favor after 1923. The collar was still tall and the points&#xA;  longer than today’s dress shirt. Some soft point collars came in the&#xA;  button down style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The pointed collar shirt remained popular for the rest of the 1920’s&#xA;  although other versions such as the spread collar had their famous&#xA;  moments too. The popularity of the wide Windsor knot tie required&#xA;  collars to have wide openings hence the introduction of the spread&#xA;  collar in both round and point styles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the picture they use to describe this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YAYEm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, in this day and age, I think &lt;em&gt;gangster shirt&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Mafioso shirt&lt;/em&gt; is probably the best way to describe them and certainly turns up the best results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems that the shirts were indeed worn back in the early 1920s/1930s, but ultimately the popularity of &lt;strong&gt;The Goodfellas&lt;/strong&gt;, being a classic film of the genre, must inspired many imitations in other films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T17:56:26.723" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19739" CreationDate="2014-11-24T18:46:35.887" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Third Man&lt;/em&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oEsWi88Qv0&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;iconic zither theme&lt;/a&gt; was chosen by the film's director Carol Reed because it compliments the dialogue without overpowering it; the tune is exotic yet local and matches the movie's atmosphere because it evokes the mood in post-war Vienna and is elusive, charming and mysterious just like the city and the titular character himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't say Anton Karas's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Man_Theme&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;famous theme&lt;/a&gt; is happy; in fact, it's hard to define. Reviews from that time also struggled to define this unique tune - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/591639/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here's one from &lt;em&gt;The New Statesman&lt;/em&gt; in 1949&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What sort of music it is, whether jaunty or sad, fierce or provoking, it would be hard to reckon...&lt;/strong&gt; that little tune or another little tune sprung from the first, goes nipping away, indefinably. [...] At moments the plucked chords will instil a plangent horror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how did it come to be in the film? &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rialtopictures.com/images_01/Making_of_Third_Man.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;An article&lt;/a&gt; about the making of the film describes how the director came across a local man in Vienna who played the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zither&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;zither&lt;/a&gt; (a sort of Eastern European string instrument) and fell in love with the evocative theme:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Even though Vienna was the home of the Strauss family, Schubert and Beethoven, &lt;strong&gt;Reed was resistant to scoring the film with traditional waltzes.&lt;/strong&gt; He stumbled upon the solution to his dilemma at a small cafe in Sievering, just outside the city. There, Anton Karas was playing a zither for (and being largely ignored by) the clientele. &lt;strong&gt;Impressed by the music, and pleased to observe that it didn't overpower the surrounding conversations&lt;/strong&gt;, Reed invited Karas to his hotel room to record a sample. He took this recording back to England and &lt;strong&gt;played it against the film's dialogue and realized its dramatic potential.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carol Reed chose well - the theme (as well as the movie) were &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Man&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;big hits&lt;/a&gt; and are remembered to this day. So what about this tune fits the film so well? I think &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-third-man/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; puts it well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The sounds of Karas’ zither, with its 34 strings and unorthodox “Viennese tuning,” &lt;strong&gt;perfectly embody the ruined Austrian capital’s post-war days. The music captures that mixture of old world romance, naked opportunism, and quiet desperation that characterized the then-divided city. Like Vienna, the tune is immediately alluring and attractive, but despite that initial appeal, it hints that something very untoward,&lt;/strong&gt; very wrong might be happening just out of sight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And like it embodies the mood in Vienna, so does the tune (frequently called &quot;The Harry Lime Theme&quot;) embody &lt;em&gt;Harry Lime himself&lt;/em&gt;: an elegant, opportunistic rogue roaming the streets and eluding our grasp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;[P.S. Though it's only peripheral, here's a little tidbit about the actual recording:]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The recording of the &quot;Harry Lime Theme&quot; was overdubbed with additional layers of Karas's zither, giving the music more texture than a single performance could provide. Having experimented with the acoustic feel of Karas's music, Reed best liked the effect when the musician played beneath the director's kitchen table. According to the film's sound recordist, Barbara Hopkins, Reed's&#xA;  table was brought to the studio to precisely recreate the desired sound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-24T22:43:22.643" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T22:43:22.643" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24431" CreationDate="2014-11-24T19:57:50.000" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short of an official word on the matter (which I'm cannot find and, as Meat Trademark has mentioned, there &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_reviews51/in_bruges_blu-ray.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;doesn't seem to be&lt;/a&gt; a commentary track either), &lt;strong&gt;this is inconclusive&lt;/strong&gt;. This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780536/faq#.2.1.1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb section&lt;/a&gt; discusses the contrasting evidence: Ray's voiceover ending with &quot;And I really, really &lt;em&gt;hoped&lt;/em&gt; I wouldn't die&quot; could be interpreted one way or the other, as well as the fact that the paramedic is taking the oxygen mask off him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To add confusion to the matter, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/academy/download.php?filename=InBruges.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the original script&lt;/a&gt; says the medics aren't hopeful about Ray's chances, but then reveals that &lt;em&gt;Ray survived his wounds and is trying to kill himself again&lt;/em&gt;, cutting to black before revealing if he succeeds. The fact that this scene was cut (and the voiceover was added) suggests that the &lt;em&gt;film&lt;/em&gt;'s ending is &lt;em&gt;intentionally ambivalent&lt;/em&gt;: what's important is that Ray now embraces life. But whether he actually lives or not, &lt;strong&gt;it's left up to us&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-24T22:37:37.727" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T22:37:37.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27252" CreationDate="2014-11-24T21:32:29.033" Score="19" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Gargantua was a &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; black hole, but with a little artificial extra  in it.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither does the movie say that all black holes are artificial, nor that this wasn't a real black hole. It is true that the &amp;quot;Bulk Beings&amp;quot; somehow planted the tesseract in the black hole in order to save Cooper and facilitate his time-defying communication with his daughter, but they did this with a very real and &amp;quot;natural&amp;quot; black hole. And the solution is just that &lt;strong&gt;they put Cooper and TARS into the tesseract &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; TARS collected his quantum data from the very real and &amp;quot;natural&amp;quot; singularity&lt;/strong&gt;, he didn't get it from the tesseract.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the movie, when Coop is about to leave Mann's planet homeward bound, Romilly says to him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a suggestion for your return journey. Have one last crack at the black hole. Gargantua's an older, spinning black hole. It has what we call a gentle singularity...They're hardly gentle, but their tidal gravity is quick enough that something crossing the horizon fast might survive, a probe for example...Behind the horizon everything's only a big riddle, so who says the probe couldn't take a look at the singularity and transmit the quantum data, especially when he can transmit any kind of pulsating energy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This already suggests that, at least according to Romilly's (and the movie's) assumption you don't need to get entirely dissolved/killed in the infinitely warped spacetime of the black hole's singularity to make some sense (or rather meaningful quantum data) out of that &amp;quot;gentle&amp;quot; singularity. The only problem which Romilly ignored (or waved away with a bit of unlikely optimism) here is, that while TARS might very well be able to get some meaningful data from an actual real natural singularity and survive, he still won't be able to transmit it anywhere, since there is indeed nothing that leaves the event horizon of that thing. But as we know, that problem was unexpectedly taken care of by the &amp;quot;Bulk Beings&amp;quot; when they put Cooper and TARS into the tesseract &lt;strong&gt;after TARS collected his data&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as to your particular questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The quantum data TARS collects are not accurate as they don't come from perceiving an actual &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; black hole's singularity so the mathematical conclusions and formulae based on it shouldn't work and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was from a very real singularity inside a very real black hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once the data are collected they should be able to be transmitted out -- if a human can get out (and this isn't a real black hole from which nothing escapes) then the data should be able to cross that same bridge and get out. And yet TARS says transmissions aren't getting through.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was nothing getting out. Cooper, TARS and the quantum data weren't getting out of the black hole, at least not the usual physical way that you can send out actual signals on. They ended up in the tesseract, which awaited them inside the black hole and was pretty much a 4-dimensional representation to move them through the 5-dimensional bulk, and &lt;strong&gt;nothing says you can't get out of a real black hole by employing an additional spatial dimension&lt;/strong&gt;, something neither Cooper nor TARS nor TARS's signals could do on their own, though. And through this tesseract on the other hand nothing else can be transmitted back into our 4-dimensional universe except for gravity, which is the only way Cooper can and does send the quantum data out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So much to the perfectly sufficient information given by the movie. For a bit more details on how it actually could have worked (or is supposed to have worked scientifically) and WTH a &amp;quot;gentle&amp;quot; singularity is, we can take a look at the book &lt;em&gt;The Science of Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; by Kip Thorne, the physicist who advised and accompanied the movie from its initial conception onward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Wheeler's era (the 1960s), we thought of a singularity inside a black hole as like a sharp point. A point that squeezes matter until the matter becomes infinitely dense and is destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But he assumes that the actual singularity at the bottom of the black hole is not such a point-like singularity but a so-called BKL singularity, a very chaotic one, whose distortion of space and the resulting tidal forces would basically rip you apart. So this kind of rather &amp;quot;ungentle&amp;quot; singularity you certainly wouldn't want to experience. But it's in fact not the only one, there are other &amp;quot;gentler&amp;quot; singularities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My physicist colleagues and I were pretty sure in the 1980s, as an educated guess, that there is just one singularity inside a black hole and it's a BKL singularity. We were wrong. [...] If you fall into a spinning black hole such as Gargantua, lots of other stuff inevitably will fall in after you [...] This stuff may take millions or billions of years to enter the hole as seen by me, watching from outside. But as seen by you, now inside the hole, it may take only a few seconds or less, due to the extreme slowing of your time compared with mine. As a result, as seen by you this stuff all piles up in a thin sheet, falling inward toward you at the speed of light, or nearly the speed of light. [...] The result is an &amp;quot;infalling singularity&amp;quot;. [...] However, the tidal forces grow so swiftly [...] that, if they hit you, they will have deformed you by only a finite amount at the moment you reach the singularity. [...] Because your body has been stretched and squeezed by only a finite amount, when you hit the singularity, it is conceivable you might survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 1990s and 2000s, we physicists thought this was the whole story: A BKL singularity, created when the black hole is born. And an infalling singularity that grows afterward. That's all. Then in late 2012, while Christopher Nolan was negotiating to rewrite and direct &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, a third singularity was discovered [...] It is produced by stuff [...] that fell into the black hole &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; you fell in. A tiny fraction of that stuff is scattered back upward toward you, scattered by the hole's warpage of space and time [...] The upscattered stuff gets compressed, by the black hole's extreme slowing of time, into a thin layer rather like a sonic boom (a &amp;quot;shock front&amp;quot;). The stuff's gravity produces tidal forces that grow infinitely strong and thence become an &lt;em&gt;outflying singularity&lt;/em&gt;. But as for the infalling singularity, so also for the outflying one, tidal forces are gentle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, Romilly tells Cooper about those gentle singularities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in fact (or in assumption) Cooper (and TARS) never experience the chaotic BKL singularity but are actually trapped between the two gentler infalling and outflying singularities, inevitably reaching one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I explained the two singularities to Chris, he immediately knew which one should hit the Ranger. The outflying singularity. Why? Because Chris had already adopted, for &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, a variant of the laws of physics that prevents physical objects from ever traveling backward in time. The infalling simgularity is produced by stuff that falls into Gargantua long after Cooper falls in [...] If Cooper is hit by the singularity and survives, the universe's far future will be in his past. He will be so far in &lt;em&gt;our&lt;/em&gt; future that, even with the help of bulk beings, he won't be able to return to the solar system until billions of years after he left, if ever. [...] So Chris firmly chose Cooper to be hit by the outflying singularity...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the singularity's edge the tesseract awaits Cooper -- placed there, presumably, by bulk beings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;Cooper and TARS went into the black hole, experienced &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; survived the &amp;quot;gentle&amp;quot; and real&lt;/strong&gt; (as &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; as you can get with a bunch of relativistic formulas on a sheet of paper) &lt;strong&gt;outflying singularity to gather its data about quantum gravity and &lt;em&gt;right after that&lt;/em&gt; landed in the tesseract planted there behind the outflying singularity&lt;/strong&gt; and effecitvely saving them from the destructive BKL singularity at the bottom of the hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Paraphrased&amp;quot; here from Thorne's book with my modest MS Paint abilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oxfQc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(Note, that the Paint drawing isn't entirely correct, Cooper and TARS would actually have to move along the right or left side, because that's their space dimension they can experience (but afterall, they would have to look 1-dimensional either in the drawing), so take that really just as a rough sketch.)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-08-16T10:04:34.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26736" CreationDate="2014-11-24T21:39:27.573" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've pretty much summed up all the information we know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the novel, there's a few extra bits of info, but not much. You've already discussed King Benny's wait for revenge when he was younger. Lorenzo does say this in the book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When my friends and I were young... Hell's Kitchen was run by a man&#xA;  named King Benny. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;When he was young, King Benny was a hit man for&#xA;  Lucky Luciano.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he was &lt;em&gt;originally&lt;/em&gt; a lowly hitman for a mob boss. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, when Lorenzo gets his first job he obviously started to bring payments to the police:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My first job for King Benny paid $25 a week and ate up only minutes of&#xA;  my time. In the dark club room, one of the guys would hand me a&#xA;  crumpled paper bag and direct me to one of the two local police&#xA;  precincts for delivery. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It was a perfect way to handle payouts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to what these payments were for? Well, it's never stated in the movie or book. I think it's fairly logical to guess that they were to turn a blind eye to certain mobster activities he was conducting, or to possibly harass a member of a rival faction. It's difficult to know how much they bought him, but I'd say the former is pretty much a certainty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to what he actually &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; however, there's no real info given. It's obvious he's the new mob boss, but what that entails (i.e. drug trafficking, gambling etc) we don't know and don't get told in either book or movie. Whether it's relevant or not I don't know, but the movie is set in the 1960s, which was the same era as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s_Sicilian_Mafia_trials&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sicilian Mafia trials&lt;/a&gt; regarding growing involvement in heroin trade. That could be his main criminal activity, but it's impossible to know for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-24T21:39:27.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27535" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-24T23:46:01.433" Score="9" ViewCount="15261" Body="&lt;p&gt;A simple question. At the end of &lt;em&gt;Mr. Nobody&lt;/em&gt; Nemo decided to abandon both parents, how is it possible that he met Anna in the future? I can't figure out how he could've met Anna since Anna will be living with her father and new stepmother happily since her father wouldn't have to deal with Nemo's rebelious acts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16056" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-25T00:10:22.580" LastActivityDate="2017-06-27T07:59:53.787" Title="Ending of Mr. Nobody" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|mr-nobody|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27535" CreationDate="2014-11-25T01:02:21.440" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The thing is that we don't know what happened after he left both parents. Perhaps he reunited with his parents years later and met Anna during a visit. Perhaps he met her in a totally unrelated event, like he did in the spaceship. The details don't really matter, and the movie, wisely, doesn't dwell on them. The theme of the movie, choice and consequence, is intact either way. Nemo makes a choice and it ended with him reuniting with Anna.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="1799" LastEditDate="2017-01-23T14:53:12.880" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T14:53:12.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27538" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27547" CreationDate="2014-11-25T04:18:50.837" Score="16" ViewCount="4795" Body="&lt;p&gt;After seeing Marla, the narrator meets Bob again. Bob still greets him as Cornelius and says  &quot;we all thought you were dead&quot;, referring to the support groups he used to go to, so it is clear that Bob has not seen the narrator since the support groups. Then Bob reveals that he goes to fight clubs on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The narrator says he goes on Saturdays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon first seeing the film this makes sense. Presumably Tyler runs the club alone on Tuesdays and Thursdays while the narrator either runs the club or just goes along with Tyler on Saturdays. However, given the plot twist, how could Bob go to fight club and not recognize the narrator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've thought that perhaps the narrator (either as himself or as Tyler) might have not run the club on Tuesdays and Thursdays but that doesn't really seem to make sense given the whole feel of the club with the ritualistic rule-giving which I doubt would be given by anyone except the leader as well as later on when the narrator talks about how he owned fight club as much as Tyler did in the scene before the car crash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also considered that perhaps he dressed differently when he was acting as Tyler alone but even in his flashbacks when he realizes that he and Tyler are the same person, he never appears as Tyler to others. He always appears looking like himself in Tyler's position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I incorrectly dismissing one of these explanations or have I missed something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16057" LastActivityDate="2017-05-11T06:07:28.813" Title="When the narrator meets Bob again after seeing Marla, how come Bob doesn't recognize him?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fight-club|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27539" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27546" CreationDate="2014-11-25T05:00:01.480" Score="3" ViewCount="3434" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Donnie Brasco&lt;/em&gt; the following dialogue occurs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nicky: &quot;It's a longer car. Two fucking cars, right? This is a car, this is a car, right?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Lefty continues to watch Brasco. His friend talks from the Off: &quot;Right here, okay? All things being equal, the one's longer gonna get there first. You don't have to be fucking Einstein to understand this.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Lefty: &quot;You know what happens when you get there, don't you?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Nicky: &quot;No.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Lefty: &quot;You're still driving a fucking Lincoln.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Lefty said : You're still driving a fucking Lincoln when you get there.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's that mean? Does it means the Lincoln is slow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-25T10:38:14.280" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T11:09:42.043" Title="In Donnie Brasco, Lefty said: &quot;You're still driving a fucking Lincoln when you get there.&quot; What's that mean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|donnie-brasco|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17915" CreationDate="2014-11-25T08:23:39.420" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, it was a very simple reference to the childhood wound caused to Joker by his father...His father deformed his face using a simple kitchen knife...of course, that does not kill him but made him...a stranger....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16059" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T08:23:39.420" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27223" CreationDate="2014-11-25T09:27:18.943" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know how Suki/The Scribbler got her powers. It's suggested she, like a few others, just &lt;em&gt;had&lt;/em&gt; them. She changed the machine, which led to others becoming stronger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Scribbler&lt;/strong&gt; was based off &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Scribbler-Daniel-Schaffer/dp/1582407002&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a graphic novel&lt;/a&gt; written by &lt;em&gt;Daniel Schaffer&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/64mgK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually we could go to the source material for some detailed information on it, but it's actually a very short comic - a one-off story of 96 pages.  I think the best explanation I've seen of it comes from &lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.ign.com/articles/2006/12/22/the-scribbler-ogn-review&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IGN's review&lt;/a&gt; of it, where they commented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At less than a hundred pages, The Scribbler doesn't give much of a&#xA;  background story on any of its characters. The book starts in the&#xA;  middle of one of Suki's sessions, as she recalls her first check-up,&#xA;  where hints of her insanity emerge, then jumps to the story. Some more&#xA;  information on how she and the others ended up in the asylum would've&#xA;  been welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can view a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielschaffer.com/projects/scribbler/01.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;seven page preview of the comic online&lt;/a&gt; and see for yourself how quickly it jumps into the story (treatment begins on the second page!). Given this, it can be difficult to work out exactly what is going on. As the story itself says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Female Officer&lt;/strong&gt;: Why don’t you tell me what happened, from the&#xA;  beginning&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suki&lt;/strong&gt;: That’s not always the best way to tell a story&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Daniel Schaffer has this information on his website:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Meet Suki. She has multiple personalities. She hears voices. She's&#xA;  crazy... but not for long. Suki is almost ready rejoin society thanks&#xA;  to the Siamese Burn, an experimental machine which is burning those&#xA;  voices away one by one. All except for THE SCRIBBLER; that one is&#xA;  getting louder. For a voice, it doesn't talk much - instead, its&#xA;  messages come in the form of backwards scribbles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And what it's scribbling is &quot;Let me out!&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That is the premise behind THE SCRIBBLER, a 96-page original graphic&#xA;  novel by writer/artist Dan Schaffer (INDIGO VERTIGO, DOGWITCH) out&#xA;  this November from Image Comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;THE SCRIBBLER is not a superhero story, but it might be superhero&#xA;  story in negative,&quot; explains Schaffer. &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The heroes are all nutters,&#xA;  characters with secret identities so secret, even they don't know&#xA;  about them!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; And they're engaged in a fight between good and evil that&#xA;  might not even exist. It's not so much a dissection of superheroes&#xA;  themselves, because this is really not a superhero book, but it is an&#xA;  exploration of archetypes, the reasons we invent them, and how we use&#xA;  them to create and fight invisible wars.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using this, and our knowledge from the novel and movie, we can piece some things together. Suki has got multiple personalities and &lt;em&gt;The Siamese Burn&lt;/em&gt; effectively destroys the extra personalities one at a time, via an electroshock-esque treatment - but what &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; the extra personalities? That's effectively the question that permeates throughout the entire story. Is &lt;em&gt;The Scribbler&lt;/em&gt; the real her, or is it something else? Throughout her treatments, &lt;em&gt;The Scribbler&lt;/em&gt; takes control as she doesn't want to be erased. As &lt;em&gt;The Scribbler&lt;/em&gt;, she modifiers the machine (we don't know how) to perform &lt;em&gt;the opposite effect&lt;/em&gt;. Rather than erasing them, it brings them to life. This is what helps the other patients.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that someone like Hogan, who just wants to help people, develops incredible powers such as the ability to float, &lt;em&gt;see&lt;/em&gt; the truth. Similarly Alice (i.e. Michelle Trachtenburg) becomes a darker, evil being. Ultimately, this is about as much context as we are given. To give some information on &lt;em&gt;the metaphorical why&lt;/em&gt; behind how the machine works, we can look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://cmbeckett.tumblr.com/post/96004035480/fyc-replay-the-scribbler-with-dan-schaffer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview with Dan Schaffer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beckett&lt;/strong&gt;: I would think creating a book dealing with psychological&#xA;  disorders would be a daunting task. How much research did you do for&#xA;  The Scribbler, and is the technique used for rehabilitating Suki’s&#xA;  multiple personalities something created by you whole-cloth, or did&#xA;  you come across it in your research?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Schaffer&lt;/strong&gt;: The Siamese Burn Therapy is a metaphor for the machine-like&#xA;  nature of authority or the general rigidity of the modern world. Seems&#xA;  like the more free we get and the more enlightened we become, the more&#xA;  we tie ourselves up with rules and regulations. The idea of a machine&#xA;  that resets you back to normal mental health displays a certain&#xA;  arrogant assumption that the people who made the machine know what&#xA;  mental health is. I’ve spent a lot of time researching various forms&#xA;  of psychology, I live in a house with psychologists so the place is&#xA;  filled with text books, but The Scribbler isn’t really about that&#xA;  stuff. It’s all just a metaphor for life in the twenty-first century&#xA;  where everyone is expected to think in a particular way or do their&#xA;  jobs by the book without question, and this kind of&#xA;  spreadsheet-mentality leaves no room for personal style. Individuality&#xA;  is slowly becoming outlawed. To me, that’s insanity. Surely we don’t&#xA;  want to live like ants, right? The Scribbler is basically saying that&#xA;  the more you suppress people’s creativity, the more creative they will&#xA;  become. It’s an optimistic book looking towards a world where the&#xA;  people with all the answers finally realise they don’t know shit and&#xA;  stop hassling the rest of us with their theories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the central theme of the book is to be yourself and embrace your creativity and individuality - the &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; of the machine wasn't that important to Schaffer. It's what it &lt;em&gt;makes&lt;/em&gt; the characters become that is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to summarise, as best as I can see it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Suki/The Scribbler is &lt;em&gt;special&lt;/em&gt; and has the ability and knowledge to modify the machine. We don't know how. Schaffer's quotes suggest that it's her &lt;em&gt;secret personality&lt;/em&gt; and that it's just stronger than she knows - that's all the depth we get it unfortunately. Whether the machine made it stronger, or it was strong to begin with, is also unclear.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;By modifying the machine, she enables everyone to become who they &lt;em&gt;truly are&lt;/em&gt;, i.e. to give power and strength to their inner personalities.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a film based on a very short graphic novel, there was never a long, detailed back story to turn to.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The graphic novel has fairly mixed reviews (as does the film), with the biggest criticism being &lt;em&gt;style&lt;/em&gt; over &lt;em&gt;substance&lt;/em&gt; - i.e. everything looks pretty and the cast (in the film in particular) are great, but the plot is lacking and incomplete.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-11-25T09:48:16.047" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T09:48:16.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27544" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-25T09:52:07.143" Score="27" ViewCount="15486" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is about the upcoming  Zack Snyder movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_v_Superman:_Dawn_of_Justice&quot;&gt;Batman vs Superman&lt;/a&gt;, where Ben Affleck is playing Batman. I just read an &lt;a href=&quot;https://time.com/3604014/batman-christian-bale-jealous-of-ben-affleck-superman-dawn-of-justice/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; that Christian Bale wanted to be Batman again. So I wanted to ask why wasn't he cast as Batman in this movie. I checked the Wikipedia entry but nothing suggests why Christian Bale was not there. Nolan is associated with the movie as an adviser and DC Entertainment is producing this one too. So sort of familiar turf, right? But how come Ben Affleck is the new Batman?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&#xA;&lt;em&gt;I would like to add another interesting piece of information. Bale is aged 40 (born 1974) and Affleck is 42 (born 1970). So they have actually cast an older actor.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-27T17:48:17.773" LastActivityDate="2017-02-10T17:41:06.843" Title="Why is Christian Bale not in the upcoming movie Batman vs Superman?" Tags="|casting|dc-extended-universe|batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27544" CreationDate="2014-11-25T09:57:56.263" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Christian Bale isn't in the movie as he wanted to leave the role after the third Dark Knight film. Ben Affleck was the choice to replace him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Christian Bale** certainly said he was jealous, but that by no means indicates he wanted the role himself. To quote from &lt;a href=&quot;http://entertainthis.usatoday.com/2014/11/24/christian-bale-ben-affleck-cast-as-batman/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;USA Today&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The former Batman ended his tenure as the masked vigilante with The&#xA;Dark Knight Rises, but that didn’t stop him from entertaining the idea&#xA;of going back to the role, he told Empire Magazine (via Comic Book&#xA;Movie). So even though he knew it was coming, he was still shocked&#xA;when he heard Ben Affleck had been cast as Batman in Zack Snyder’s&#xA;upcoming Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I’ve got to admit initially, even though I felt that it was the right&#xA;time to stop, there was always a bit of me going, ‘Oh go on… Let’s do&#xA;another.’ So when I heard there was someone else doing it, there was a&#xA;moment where I just stopped and stared into nothing for half an hour.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Christian Bale got over his existential crisis and even offered a&#xA;couple pointers to Ben Affleck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But I’m 40. The fact that I’m jealous of someone else playing Batman…I&#xA;think I should have gotten over it by now. I haven’t spoken with Ben,&#xA;but I emailed him offering bits of advice that I learned the hard way.&#xA;I would imagine he is doing everything he can to avoid anything that I&#xA;did.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, he stopped because he felt it was the right time to stop. It didn't mean he still didn't get a &lt;em&gt;little&lt;/em&gt; jealous at hearing who had replaced him - but ultimately, the decision to stop was his. He left the role of his own volition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why &lt;strong&gt;Ben Affleck&lt;/strong&gt; was chosen to replace him. &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/ben-affleck-batman-superman-casting-details-zack-snyder/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From Zack Snyder&lt;/a&gt;, the director of the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ben provides an interesting counter-balance to Henry’s Superman. He&#xA;has the acting chops to create a layered portrayal of a man who is&#xA;older and wiser than Clark Kent and bears the scars of a seasoned&#xA;crime fighter, but retain the charm that the world sees in billionaire&#xA;Bruce Wayne. I can’t wait to work with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately that decision has divided fans and only time will tell how worthy a choice he is as the new Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To add some further info on why Christian Bale left, &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/christian-bale-batman-justice-league-movie-return/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this is from ScreenRant&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“We were incredibly fortunate to get to make three. That’s enough.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;Let’s not get greedy…Chris always said he wanted to make it one film&#xA;at a time. And we ended up sitting there looking at each other, saying&#xA;‘We’re about to make the third.’ We never really knew if we were going&#xA;to get to be there, but if that was how it was going to be, this was&#xA;where it should end as well.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the same article, he is asked about what he knows about the upcoming Batman movie. He responded:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I have no information, no knowledge about anything. I’ve literally&#xA;not had a conversation with a living soul. I understand that they may&#xA;be making a Justice League movie, that’s it… &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It’s a torch that should&#xA;be handed from one actor to another&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. So I enjoy looking forward to&#xA;what somebody else will come up with.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T11:13:31.797" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27539" CreationDate="2014-11-25T10:50:05.673" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've obviously watched the &lt;strong&gt;Director's Cut&lt;/strong&gt;, going by the questions you've asked. There are some differences in the script, including this section. To quote the relevant section from the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Donnie-Brasco.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;original script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lefty&lt;/strong&gt;: Ain't no comparison. Cadillac&#xA;                      got more acceleration, more&#xA;                      power, more-- better handling,&#xA;                      better looking, more legroom for&#xA;                      your legs , more power    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... other dialogue, then later:   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NICKY&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                    You got two cars. One's longer.&#xA;                    All things being equal, the&#xA;                    longer car is the one gonna get&#xA;                    there first.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;                               &lt;strong&gt;LEFTY&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                    Ain't the question all things&#xA;                    being equal. One's a Cadillac&#xA;                    and one's a Lincoln.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, &lt;strong&gt;Lefty&lt;/strong&gt; is arguing the &lt;em&gt;Cadillac&lt;/em&gt; is better. &lt;strong&gt;Nicky&lt;/strong&gt; is arguing the &lt;em&gt;Lincoln&lt;/em&gt; is better. Nicky has tried to use the argument that the longer car will get there first. Lefty, in the quotes you've provided, answers derisively that &lt;em&gt;&quot;You're still driving a fucking Lincoln.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Or to put it another way, it doesn't matter if you get there first, you're still driving the &lt;em&gt;inferior car&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in summary: his comment indicates his opinion that the Cadillac is better than the Lincoln.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-11-25T11:09:42.043" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T11:09:42.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27538" CreationDate="2014-11-25T12:37:52.980" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a clue to this in the dialogue of the movie itself, where Tyler and the Narrator are discussing their fathers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Narrator: I don't know my dad. I mean, I know him, but... he left when I was like six years old. Married this other woman, had some other kids. He like did this every six years, he goes to a new city and starts a new family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tyler Durden: &lt;strong&gt;Fucker's setting up franchises.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no need for the Narrator/Tyler to be present at every Fight Club, as evidenced by the fact that after Tyler sets up the 'Franchises' across the country they operate autonomously, without their leader present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the conversation between Bob and The Narrator, its clear that Bob hasn't met Tyler himself, as he speaks about him in hushed tones, almost reverently and only in hearsay...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bob: Have &lt;em&gt;you heard&lt;/em&gt; about the guy that invented this thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Narrator: Well, uh, yeah, actually. L...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bob: I hear all kinds of things. Supposedly... he was born in a mental institution. And he sleeps only one hour a night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's clear that Bob has never met Tyler, and it's also demonstrated in the film that the Clubs are able to operate without the presence of Tyler. Doing the math, it's just as simple as Tyler has never been in the same club as Bob.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T16:47:10.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27551" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27554" CreationDate="2014-11-25T15:04:07.057" Score="9" ViewCount="8399" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/2n3o1p/nolans_batman_bane_broke_the_bat_to_save_gotham/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; post about &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt; after it was shared by somebody on Facebook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It says that Bane secretly acted against the League of Shadows and wanted to redeem Gotham and help Batman to accomplish that. All he did to Gotham and Bruce was in order to call Batman back into action, help him overcome his personal issues and lure the League of Shadows into an attack for Batman to defeat them once and for all and effectively secure him as a symbol for Gotham's protection. So it basically says that the story as it unfolded was all in Bane's intentions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question:&lt;/strong&gt; Is Bane really a good person trying to resurrect Gotham as suggested in the above post, or is there any solid argument against this theory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4381" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-27T17:45:42.320" LastActivityDate="2016-04-27T17:45:42.320" Title="So Bane was actually helping Batman all along?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27551" CreationDate="2014-11-25T15:34:51.313" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find the argument perfect enough to justify Bane's actions and why he didn't kill Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That, and the fact that Bane didn't directly kill any good person by&#xA;himself throughout the movie (AFAIK), correct me if I am wrong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And his kind act of saving the young Talia from the&#xA;dungeon exemplifies that he was good in nature.&#xA;Bane only killed the bad people: Dagett, Dr Pavlov, his own henchmen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is my perspective after reading the theory:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In TDKR, Batman is the white knight and Bane the Dark Knight!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In TDK, Nolan made Gotham believe Batman was the villain while he was the hero all along. Similarly in TDKR, Nolan made &lt;em&gt;us&lt;/em&gt; believe Bane was the villain while he was the hero all along...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this is true, Nolan deserves all the awards awarded on this planet for this movie. (I know a bit off topic, but had to say this) :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4381" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T15:34:51.313" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27551" CreationDate="2014-11-25T15:49:36.660" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bane is &lt;strong&gt;VERY&lt;/strong&gt; much a villain and &lt;strong&gt;does not&lt;/strong&gt; help Batman in the film. Christopher Nolan envisaged and wrote him as villain. His actions throughout are cold blooded and cruel. Despite showing care for Talia, he is merciless in his destruction of all others, murdering at will and threatening to slaughter an entire city. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much of the theory is centred on the idea that Bane &lt;em&gt;strengthened&lt;/em&gt; Batman by leading him on a journey to make him a tougher, more powerful hero and thus was the true 'dark knight'. However, this involves completely misreading many scenes and the countless actions of Bane which prove otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(Very) Long Answer*&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will try and tackle the key &lt;em&gt;themes&lt;/em&gt; of the theory, by posting it from the source in Italics. I will then draw on a variety of source materials to show my disagreement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The theory begins:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bane is, in many ways, a bizarro sort of Batman. He is extremely intelligent, he's iron willed, he's physically powerful, and he's got&#xA;  a justice agenda of his own that got him kicked out of the League of&#xA;  Shadows.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This statement begins with a correct assertion. Bane &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; a twisted version of Batman, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/the-playlist-interview-christopher-nolan-talks-writing-process-in-dark-knight-rises-the-idea-of-batman-as-sociopath-finding-his-darth-vader-villain-20121206?page=2&quot;&gt;Christopher Nolan intended&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The really interesting thing about Bane is, he's massively strong but&#xA;  he's also extremely intelligent, and his past very much mirrors Bruce&#xA;  Wayne’s in interesting ways, from his training and with the League of&#xA;  Shadows background. Bane represents the the wrong path of Bruce Wayne&#xA;  almost back to “Batman Begins.” So Bane is the return of that danger.&#xA;  The wrong side for Bruce Wayne.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this is where theory begins to go astray. It states his &lt;em&gt;justice agenda&lt;/em&gt; led to him being kicked out of the League of Shadows. This simply isn't true. Bane was imprisoned in the Pit, along with Ra's al Ghul's wife and daughter (Talia). The other prisoners killed the wife, but Bane intervened to save Talia and help her escape. She found the League of Shadows and returned with them to free Bane, who was inducted into their ranks. He left because he was a constant reminder of the place where Ra's al Ghul's wife had died - so Ra's had him excommunicated from the group. There was no alternative notion of justice that contributed to this. Throughout the entire film, his philosophy - to destroy Gotham, a city corrupt beyond redemption - is identical to Ra's' goals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The theory continues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;First, he has to convince Bruce that Gotham needs Batman. Then, he needs to show Bruce that Batman is more than Bruce could ever be.&#xA;  Finally, he needs to secure a victory for Batman over the League of&#xA;  Shadows. He gets the League to go all in here. Talia seems to be the&#xA;  last of the organization, so a victory for Batman doesn't just grant&#xA;  Gotham a reprieve, it effectively destroys the League of Shadows. If&#xA;  any of this can't be achieved, the League of Shadows wins, and Gotham&#xA;  is destroyed.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bane's actions towards the beginning of the film are all designed to install Talia as the head of Wayne Enterprises, so she can gain access to the nuclear fusion core they had. When Batman confronted him and they fought, he crippled Batman and &lt;em&gt;told him&lt;/em&gt; what his goals were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So, as I terrorize Gotham, I will feed it's people hope to poison&#xA;  their souls. I will let you believe they can survive so that you can&#xA;  watch them clamoring over each other to &quot;stay in the sun&quot;. You could&#xA;  watch me torture an entire city and then when you truly understand the&#xA;  depth of your failure, we will fulfill Ra's Al Ghul's destiny. We will&#xA;  destroy Gotham. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;And then when it is done and Gotham is ashes, then you&#xA;  have my permission to die.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no intention to save the city, or do anything positive for it - only to destroy it. Now, even if you were to argue (however ludicrously) that this was all a ploy to strengthen Batman, when they had their rematch, and Bane &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; overpowered, Talia stepped in to save the day and leave Batman in a heap. She left to ensure the thermonuclear bomb detonated, giving Bane strict instructions to ensure he died in the fire. Bane ignored this, as the script shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bane grabs Batman, throws him into the floor - checks the&#xA;            rounds in the barrels.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;BANE&lt;/strong&gt; - You'll have to imagine the fire -&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;He shuts the gun - jams it into Batman's face.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  We both know I need to kill you&#xA;             now.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;            &lt;em&gt;He squeezes the trigger. BLAMMM! Bane is blasted across the&#xA;            lobby by cannon fire.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;            &lt;em&gt;Catwoman is there, on the Bat-Pod.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;CATWOMAN&lt;/strong&gt; - The whole no-guns thing? I don't&#xA;             feel as strongly about it as you&#xA;             do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason Batman survived this was because Catwoman happened to arrive at the right time. Again, there is nothing to show he is in anyway helping Batman - just trying to destroy him. The only reason he allowed Batman to survive in the pit was, as shown above, out of a sadistic desire to let him see his city burn - and, interestingly, to echo the treatment &lt;em&gt;he himself had&lt;/em&gt; when he was in the pit; a cruel, torturous wait for an inevitable end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The theory then states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Batman tries to confront Bane and Bane teaches Bruce a very important&#xA;  lesson: Bruce isn't immortal or unbreakable. Batman needs to be both&#xA;  of those things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or to put it another way - he beats Batman up! Which is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_Knightfall&quot;&gt;completely canon&lt;/a&gt; and sets him up as a truly &lt;em&gt;physical&lt;/em&gt; enemy, something that &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/dark-knight-rises-christopher-nolan-interview-sandy-143443/&quot;&gt;Nolan also intended&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bane, to me, is something&#xA;  we haven’t dealt with in the [Batman] films. We wanted to do something&#xA;  very different in this film. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;He’s a primarily physical villain, he’s a&#xA;  classic movie monster in a way — but with a terrific brain.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The theory then postulates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So then there's the pit, and the quite literal rising.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is intended and is far more likely a reference to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Pit&quot;&gt;The Lazarus Pits&lt;/a&gt; of the comic, something Nolan himself discussed on the DVD. Ra's al Ghul used them in the comics to &lt;em&gt;restore&lt;/em&gt; himself - instead, Batman uses them here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The theory then comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Batman and Bane fight. Batman wins this time with some help, and now&#xA;  it's time to save Gotham. Catwoman is all &quot;you've already given them&#xA;  everything&quot; and Batman is like &quot;not everything. Not yet.&quot; and that is&#xA;  so fucking key. Bruce had given Gotham his body, his wealth, and his&#xA;  heart. But he hadn't given them Batman. Bruce Wayne, the angry kid&#xA;  trying to avenge his parents, didn't come out of the Lazarus pit.&#xA;  Batman did. All that Bruce has left in the world is Batman, and his&#xA;  final act in the cowl is to give Batman to Gotham completely. Gotham&#xA;  will forever have the symbol (and the crime fighter, if John Blake has&#xA;  any luck.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Catwoman wanted him to give up because she was ruthless and selfish. This is true throughout the film. She would leave the millions of people to die. Bruce Wayne/Batman cannot do that. So he saves them. However, I'm not sure &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; that means he's suddenly &lt;em&gt;just Batman&lt;/em&gt;. If that interpretation was true, why on earth would he &lt;em&gt;stop&lt;/em&gt; being Batman immediately after saving the day. It's not as if there wasn't still crime to deal with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the notion that he has given Gotham the Batman signal forever - he'd already done that. We see evidence of this throughout the film (e.g. the little boy doodling the Batman symbol on the bench). Many people in the city still belived in him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The theory then finishes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We're left with a Bruce Wayne who has moved beyond his parents,&#xA;  Rachel, and Gotham. He had to give up Batman to do that. Gotham has&#xA;  Batman, is safe from itself, and safe from the League.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This effectively states that &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; Batman became stronger, Bane is the &lt;em&gt;true&lt;/em&gt; dark knight and hero. That's just nonsense. If I were to walk home today and get beaten up by a thug, inspiring me to take fighting lessons which made me stronger and able to defend myself in future, has that original thug saved me or helped me? No! Of course not. They weren't doing good, they weren't a hero. They were a villain. Like Bane. On a much smaller scale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To throw in a few final arguments, remember that Bane is perfectly content with the plan to detonate a device that will kill millions. He televises this fact and then, in front of the world, murders Dr. Pavel, the only person who could disarm the device. He also goes to the prison and instigates a full riot, all in the name of creating anarchy and allowing Gotham to burn. He murders countless people, setting explosions all across Gotham, including at the football stadium:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/UsoYwysCdfY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no &lt;em&gt;logical&lt;/em&gt; way to look at Bane's actions as anything other than cold hearted and cruel. He was a villain, as Nolan intended. He slaughtered people willingly and, despite showing care for Talia, showed nothing but cruel hatred for the rest of the world. His actions were evil. He was just evil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* I've edited this answer quite drastically to make it flow better. The original can be viewed (if desired) in the edit history of this answer.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-11-26T14:10:55.190" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T14:10:55.190" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27538" CreationDate="2014-11-25T16:43:26.890" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Club in Newcastle was opened by neither Tyler nor Jack. Since that's where Bob went (according to the script), Bob couldn't have seen them there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;       JACK&#xA;             Local 8 just started in Penns Grove.&#xA;             And, Bob said he was at fight club in&#xA;             Newcastle last week.&#xA;&#xA;                         TYLER&#xA;             Newcastle?  Did you start that one?&#xA;&#xA;                         JACK&#xA;             I thought you did.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Fight-Club.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Fight-Club.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8269" LastEditorUserId="1548" LastEditDate="2015-06-05T15:56:29.790" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T15:56:29.790" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27556" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-25T18:45:57.977" Score="1" ViewCount="772" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of Love Actually, Sam is performing on the drums behind his love interest, Joanna. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Joanna sings &quot;All I want for Christmas is You&quot; she turns and points at Sam.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QZ36m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To which you see his delight.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JVmcm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But she then points off into the crowd, and he looks miserable.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uh722.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why? Maybe I can't read body language, but I'd be pretty happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4130" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T19:04:21.800" Title="During the Christmas concert, why does Sam look so miserable?" Tags="|love-actually|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23415" CreationDate="2014-11-25T18:58:04.240" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's likely from his father, although this explanation comes from the Japanese movies (&lt;em&gt;not the original novels&lt;/em&gt;) and isn't elaborated on in the American films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not really explained in the movie, but there is some information given in the &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt; Japanese materials:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original novel:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Ring evolved from &lt;strong&gt;Ring&lt;/strong&gt;, a 1991 Japanese horror movie. In that, the &lt;em&gt;equivalent&lt;/em&gt; of Samara is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Yamamura&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sadako Yamamura&lt;/a&gt;, with Aiden's equivalent being a girl called Yoko Asakawa, the one year old daughter of Shizuka and Kazuyuki Asakawa. Kazuyuki is the protagonist, along with his friend, &lt;em&gt;Ryuji Takayama&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In these stories, Samara is shown to have a number of powers, including ESP, telekinesis, healing abilities and the power to the make the video tape. However, despite having some awareness of paranormal activities, none of the other characters have any obvious psychic or supernatural powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   Shizuka - - - - - - - - - - - Kazuyuki                     Ryuji&#xA;                    ||&#xA;                    ||&#xA;                   Yoko  &#xA;&#xA;-- = married to.   &#xA;|| = child of.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original films/series:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Ring was then made into a few films, including &lt;strong&gt;Ringu&lt;/strong&gt;, a 1998 Japanese horror film. In this film, the characters are the same as the book, but with some important subtle differences. &lt;em&gt;Ryuji Takayama&lt;/em&gt; is still &lt;em&gt;the friend&lt;/em&gt; of the protagonist, but importantly, he's also the &lt;em&gt;ex-husband&lt;/em&gt; of the protagonist's wiife, Shizuka. He has some near-psychic powers which are increase significantly in &lt;strong&gt;Ring: Final Chapter&lt;/strong&gt;, an original TV series based on the movie from 1999. In that series, he's effectively a guru of the supernatural. This is used in to effectively &lt;em&gt;cut corners&lt;/em&gt; in the story and allow the &lt;em&gt;Ryuji&lt;/em&gt; to discover things that took much longer to unearth in the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as already mentioned, in this film he is the ex-husband of Shizuka. This is important. The character of Yoko, the &lt;em&gt;daughter&lt;/em&gt; in the books, is replaced with that of &lt;em&gt;Yoichi Asakawa&lt;/em&gt;, a seven year old boy. He is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; the son of Kazuyuki like in the books, but rather the son of Ryuji. He has clearly inherited some psychic abilities from him, including ESP and clairvoyancy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   Ryuji / / / / / / / / / Shizuka - - - - - - - Kazuyuki          &#xA;                 ||&#xA;                 ||&#xA;               Yoichi&#xA;&#xA;// = divorced from&#xA;-- = married to.   &#xA;|| = child of.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;American films:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;The Ring&lt;/strong&gt;, the 2002 American remake of Ringu, the character of Yoichi Asakawa has become Aiden (from your question). It appears the American filmmakers ported over some of the psychic abilities of Yoichi to Aiden and this is the best explanation I can find as to why he has a connection to Samara (or at least, why he's partly psychic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, this is by no means a satisfying solution. EntertainmentScene360 put it well, when they commented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Ring takes the character of Yoichi Asakawa from Ringu, the&#xA;  reporter's quiet young son who doesn't have an awful lot of lines in&#xA;  the movie into Aiden Keller who is the same boy, however, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;this version&#xA;  of the character appears to have the psychic ability of Ryuji from the&#xA;  original and shares a sort of link with Samara, the American's little&#xA;  girl version of the vengeful spirit.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, whilst Yoichi has some psychic powers, this &lt;em&gt;connection&lt;/em&gt; with Samara appears to be something totally new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is another thing I didn't mention. Sadako Yamamura, the original &lt;em&gt;antagonist&lt;/em&gt;, was a young woman (at least 19 years old). The American version features Samara, an eight year old girl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this change was made as it has always been &lt;em&gt;unsettling&lt;/em&gt; to see children in horror films, portraying unusual and bizarre characters (think The Shining, Children of the Corn, Omen, The Exorcist, The Sixth Sense etc). I would then suggest that Aiden's new &lt;em&gt;connection with Samara&lt;/em&gt; is done to increase this feeling and have two &lt;em&gt;unsettling, supernatural characters&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware I haven't really explained &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; Samara contacted Aiden (which I just don't have an explanation for), but hopefully it gives some understanding as to where his &lt;em&gt;psychic abilities&lt;/em&gt; could have originated from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T18:58:04.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27556" CreationDate="2014-11-25T19:03:34.793" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;He has a crush on her. Picture the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oh, I just want you for my own&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  More than you could ever know&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Make my wish come true&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Baby all I want&#xA;  for Christmas...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the climax of the song, she turns to him, points and sings&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;is You, You baby!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His little heart is complete. She wants him too! Then, sadly, she turns and points at everybody and sings about how she wants them all too (&quot;and you&quot;, &quot;and you&quot;, &quot;and you&quot;). The little soul is both devastated and frustrated. &quot;Women&quot; he's thinking. Poor soul. You can watch his devastation again and again if you wish:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_ghkHlthIqM?start=125&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He only learned how to play the drums to impress her and is left unhappy at this &lt;em&gt;apparent rejection&lt;/em&gt;. Of course, he later gets a kiss on the cheek so all is well (although he could have &lt;em&gt;tried to smile&lt;/em&gt; at least):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kp44k.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T19:03:34.793" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27556" CreationDate="2014-11-25T19:04:21.800" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sam wants to be her one and only. She sings, &quot;All I want for Christmas ... is you!&quot; and she points at HIM. That makes him happy! She didn't point at anyone else, she pointed at HIM!  He didn't even think she knew his name!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then, she starts pointing at other people too. &quot;And you, and you, and you....&quot; Sam suddenly thinks she was just pointing at random people. He thinks she DOESN'T want him for Christmas. She's just doing heartless choreography. So he's sad again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T19:04:21.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26686" CreationDate="2014-11-25T19:20:43.670" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to say it's a created sound effect. I've fairly exhaustively searched online and I can find nothing about who created it. I'm of the mind that that's because it was too commonplace to credit. It's a simple thing to create and many similar laugh sounds can be found (for free) across the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'm saying - &lt;em&gt;artificially created sound effect&lt;/em&gt;. I don't think a &lt;em&gt;definitive&lt;/em&gt; answer will &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; be given for this question, unless one of the production team happened to comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T19:20:43.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26618" CreationDate="2014-11-25T19:49:50.743" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of The Flash's powers come from the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Speed_Force&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Speed Force&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Whilst there is a Wiki on it, a lot of the important content has been summed up succinctly by this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52671/what-does-the-speed-force-govern&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which statesL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Speed Force was the extra-dimensional energy that once powered all&#xA;  of the Flash's superhuman abilities. It is not like gravity or any&#xA;  other fundamental electromagnetic phenomenon. It's origin is likely&#xA;  the same as most superhuman abilities found in the DC Universe, a&#xA;  byproduct of the mysterious omni-energy known as The Source/The&#xA;  Godwave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very few people have access to the Speed Force and The Flash is one of them. It enables him to effectively break the laws of physics in multiple ways (including &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; iterations of The Flash being able to run faster than the speed of light).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it stands to reason one of the powers The Speed Force gives him is the ability to communicate in a way that isn't distorted. If memory serves me right, in many of the comics when he &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; travelling at high speeds, his only communication is with &lt;em&gt;other speedsters&lt;/em&gt; who would be able to understand him regardless of the way he was talking (due to their link to the Speed Force).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he was talking to non-speedsters? I would guess The Speed Force allows this. After all, it would have to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a final note, obviously the entire Flash story (like many other superhero stories) breaks the laws of physics. Again, like many other comic stories, the writers have a &quot;god&quot; card they can play to explain all this (in this case The Speed Force). That's as detailed analysis as you're going to get I'm afraid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a final final note, if you want an actual, scientific breakdown of what speed he'd need to be travelling at, or exactly &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; the laws of physics come into affect, you should ask over at the &lt;strong&gt;Physics Stack Exchange&lt;/strong&gt; where physicists as opposed to movie buffs will likely be better help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T19:49:50.743" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26618" CreationDate="2014-11-25T21:38:31.440" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I think the key to being okay with the physics behind the Flash's powers is understanding the protective aura that allows him to move at such speeds. Sound waves going from his mouth to his microphone (&lt;em&gt;so long as the microphone is within that aura&lt;/em&gt;) wouldn't be distorted.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;populationzero has spent a lot of time thinking about these sorts of issues related to the Flash (though, definitely the comic book version), and you'd probably enjoy reading his post (here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://comicbloc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78236&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://comicbloc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78236&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's the important part about the Flash's aura:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a motorcyclist needs protection from windburn you can bet a speedster might need more than a leather jacket to keep the friction from burning him up - and this is to say nothing of the physics of particle collision that would take place at near light speeds. Flash was given a protective aura so that he could save the day without fear of disintegrating while using his powers. One must assume that the aura acts as a sort of wedge in the path of Flash cutting through that resistance but if it also protects him from inevitable accelerated particle collision it must &quot;reseal&quot; the disturbance it created in the quantum foam on the back end of that wedge. [. . .] A Higgs Boson field is the most likely candidate for what his aura is since higgs bosons succumb to no resistance from particles in our material universe. In fact, The Higgs Ocean is my personal favorite as a candidate for the speedforce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And here are some more of his thoughts on the Flash and sound, which are pretty interesting to think about:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sound Barrier&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the Flash breaks the sound barrier it stands to reason that he would in fact be traveling faster than sound waves including the ones coming out of his mouth and consequently he wouldn't be able to hear anything - even himself. Everyone knows that superheroes like to talk to themselves and since time and space are relative, it's unlikely that Flash would speak at the same slow pace a normal person would if he were running near the speed of light. He would barely get anything out before he got to where he was going... In the comic book world, this might explain why Flash would be able to get a monologue out while in the midst of a situation that common sense dictates should only take a fraction of a second. Aside from actually speaking at a faster rate, one might argue that as long as the vibration of his voice is inside his protective aura that the sound waves would travel the same relative speed and therefore be audible within his &quot;bubble&quot; thus making it audible to him. It could be possible that when he traveled at extreme velocity and spoke - the frequencies would exit the aura at considerably higher energy than a normal human perceives sound. Sound waves that left his aura might be considerably higher in frequency and take on characteristics of other energies all together...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Problem of Doppler effect&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As most any musician can tell you the frequency of a sound wave will determine it's pitch. The Doppler effect is the change in frequency of a wave that results from an object's changing position relative to an observer. If you push a musician off a cliff because he hasn't payed you rent, you're likely to hear the scream lower in pitch as he/she falls away from you, whereas if you fell with him/her - that scream would remain at the same pitch. A more dramatic example of this is the sound of a race car as it passes. Sitting in the car the hum of the engine does not change while the car travels at a static velocity. As Flash moves at super human speed, the length of sound waves will shorten in the direction he travels until he passes the source of the sound at which point the sound waves will lengthen. This would happen at such a dramatic extreme for Flash that it's likely that the sound waves he ran toward would no longer technically even be sound. His sensory perception would have to translate it to something meaningful for him to function at high speeds if he stayed within earshot to hear a particular thing at all. This perception would not simply ramp up to make sense of stuff coming at him faster - but also interpret the waves that are lengthened and pitched down by his superspeed. Flash must effectively hear things at different speeds simultaneously. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16065" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T21:38:31.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24216" CreationDate="2014-11-25T22:31:56.067" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The angels brought him back, body and all - which apparently they can do&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You correctly point out that he was cremated by his brothers, Sam and Dean. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://supernatural.wikia.com/wiki/Point_of_No_Return&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Point of No Return&lt;/a&gt; we see his return:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/4MnvKSJTL_Y?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He awakens in the ground near where his funeral pyre was. Castiel brings him to Bobby's house where he converses with Sam and Dean about &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; he is back:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DEAN&lt;/strong&gt; So why don't you just tell us everything? Start from the&#xA;  beginning.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;ADAM&lt;/strong&gt; Well, I was dead and in Heaven. 'Cept it—it uh, kinda looked like&#xA;  my prom and I was making out with this girl, her name was Kristin&#xA;  McGee--&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;DEAN&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah, that sounds like heaven. Did you get to third base?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;SAM&lt;/strong&gt; Just uh, just keep going.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;ADAM&lt;/strong&gt; Well, these…these angels, they popped out of nowhere, and they&#xA;  tell me that I—I'm chosen.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;SAM&lt;/strong&gt; For what?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;ADAM&lt;/strong&gt; To save the world.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;DEAN&lt;/strong&gt; How you gonna do that?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;ADAM&lt;/strong&gt; Oh, me and some archangel are going to kill the devil.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;DEAN&lt;/strong&gt; What archangel?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;ADAM&lt;/strong&gt; Michael. I'm his uh, sword or vessel or something, I don't know.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  // skipper dialogue&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;ADAM&lt;/strong&gt; They said the fight might get pretty hairy, but it is the&#xA;  devil, right? So we got to stop him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he was pulled from heaven to be the &lt;em&gt;vessel&lt;/em&gt; of the archangel Michael. He had to be given form first, so the angels gave him his body back (which apparently they can do). He was then supposed to say yes to them - although we later learn this was all an elaborate ruse designed to lure Dean into a situation where he &lt;em&gt;had&lt;/em&gt; to agree to being Michael's vessel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T22:31:56.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26402" CreationDate="2014-11-25T23:05:10.807" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like this was one of those movies that just &lt;em&gt;vanished&lt;/em&gt;. Any googling immediate turns up a plethora of pages mostly within the same week period, all with the same details, and nothing else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; going to star &lt;em&gt;Zooey Deschanel&lt;/em&gt; as Ada Lovelace. It &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; going to be directed by &lt;em&gt;Bruce Beresford&lt;/em&gt;. (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Zooey-Deschanel-To-Play-Enchantress-Of-Numbers-Ada-Lovelace-18148.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.moviefone.com/2010/04/21/zooey-deschanel-is-the-enchantress-of-numbers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). It was also going to star &lt;em&gt;Billy Crudup&lt;/em&gt; as her husband, William King, and &lt;em&gt;Toby Jones&lt;/em&gt; as Charles Babbage (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=27628&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most information I can find, from the final link above, is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Beresford plans to shoot the period drama, which would chronicle the&#xA;  time they spent working together, in the autumn [of 2010].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as you comment, Zooey pulled out of the project. There doesn't seem to be any information after that. I can only speculate that the film simply &lt;em&gt;fell through&lt;/em&gt; (possibly due to not finding a good lead, or a dislike of the script) and all parties moved on to other things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-25T23:05:10.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27568" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27579" CreationDate="2014-11-26T01:17:33.170" Score="14" ViewCount="50419" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2397535/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Predestination&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2014), does the ending imply that the temporal agent becomes the Fizzle Bomber and therefore a paradox?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13921" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2023-05-24T06:23:12.333" LastActivityDate="2023-05-24T06:35:57.077" Title="What does the Predestination ending scene imply?" Tags="|ending|predestination|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="27571" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-26T02:35:26.917" Score="2" ViewCount="4497" Body="&lt;p&gt;How do the people on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impractical_Jokers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Impractical Jokers&lt;/a&gt; get brand-name places to allow them to come in and act stupid and bother their customers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;update&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be clear they do things that a person could press charges over. Touching, saying perverse things, etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9841" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T13:57:51.290" Title="How does Impractical Jokers get the permission to be in places like IKEA?" Tags="|production|impractical-jokers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23945" CreationDate="2014-11-26T04:41:47.643" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this scene it is clear that his motive was to infiltrate into Blofeld's shuttle and prevent the capturing of the American one. We can see from previous scenes of the movie that it was critical not to let that capturing mission succeed as the consequences would be catastrophic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With so little time left and given that he was alone in a base full of enemies the only logical action was to infiltrate in that shuttle, where he would be alone with only two enemies (a much easier opponents than a whole army) and destroy Blofeld's schemes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that James Bond has excellent military training after defeating his two opponents he could bring the shuttle back to Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The last part is obviously only a guess as it didn't happen in the movie, but it is a quite plausible scenario for such a movie, keeping in mind that in another movie James Bond did go to space.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16073" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T04:41:47.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24880" CreationDate="2014-11-26T05:07:13.030" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No I don't think that it is. Although there is no documentation as to whether or not it &quot;borrowed&quot; any idea from that episode if you come to think about it then you will see that the storyline of Bedtime Stories is pretty common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of times similar plots in movies, series and literature about little girls creating their own fantasy worlds and living in them. It isn't a new and uncommon storyline so to start believing that &quot;Once Upon a Time&quot; inspired by that specific episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you come to think about it it is easier to believe that Supernatural got inspired by stories like &quot;Alice in Wonderland&quot; and  &quot;Pan's Labyrinth&quot; (without of course believing that it actually did as I have said it is a pretty common storyline) rather that believing that inspired &quot;Once Upon A Time&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as there is no information about it everything is just an educated guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Although if it actually had happened then I think that there would be some information about it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16073" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T05:07:13.030" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18016" CreationDate="2014-11-26T05:23:34.133" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &quot;300 Rise of an Empire&quot; isn't about accuracy but about action. It is inspired by greek history but it is not a historic movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even from the prequel the movie &quot;300&quot; Zack Snyder tried to create a movie that doesn't obey any law, physical, logical or historical. I personally like the movie but we must not try to explain it logically and in depth because it is based upon a comic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer your question the purpose of the sea serpent it to create a more &quot;powerful&quot; scene and to make the movie move intense. There are fights and naval battles and it adds to the action the emergence of a sea monster (while totally useless in my opinion). There was no reason for that serpent to be there and I personally think that he tried to exploit visual effects even more than in the prequel. While in the prequel you could think that we are still in a real world in this movie there are a lot of elements that just don't belong there!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;300&quot; was an excellent action movie and without these extreme and useless monster scenes that exist in the sequel. So he saw that it was a hit and tried to add even more fantasy things into it. That is a reason that this movie wasn't such a success as its prequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16073" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T05:23:34.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27568" CreationDate="2014-11-26T08:41:52.933" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, it's a paradox&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire point of the film, as the title suggests, it to play with paradoxes and predestination. A very detailed description of the film can be found on its &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_(film)&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt;, but perhaps of more interest is the &lt;em&gt;short story&lt;/em&gt; (just ten pages) on which it was based: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Zombies&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All You Zombies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, by the ever-wonderful &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein&quot;&gt;Robert A. Heinlein&lt;/a&gt;. If you read &lt;em&gt;its&lt;/em&gt; wiki, you get the same breakdown as &lt;em&gt;Predestination&lt;/em&gt;, but written far more verbosely. To quote from its wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;'—All You Zombies—'&quot;&lt;/em&gt; chronicles a young man (later revealed to be&#xA;  intersex) taken back in time and tricked into impregnating his&#xA;  younger, female self (before he underwent a sex change); he thus turns&#xA;  out to be the offspring of that union, with the paradoxical result&#xA;  that he is his own mother and father. As the story unfolds, all the&#xA;  major characters are revealed to be the same person, at different&#xA;  stages of her/his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was this series of paradoxes which &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flicks.co.nz/blog/amazing-interviews/interview-predestination-co-director-peter-spierig/&quot;&gt;inspired the film's creators&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FLICKS&lt;/strong&gt;: How did you first encounter the short story?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;PETER SPIERIG&lt;/strong&gt;:  I had just been reading a lot of short stories and All You Zombies by Robert A Heinlein was just one that really stuck&#xA;  with me. I remember reading it and thinking ‘Wow, that’s a real&#xA;  original’. I gave it to my brother to read and he reacted the same&#xA;  way. We both thought it would be great to make into a film one day. We&#xA;  didn’t know how we were gonna do it, but we both thought ‘Boy, this&#xA;  would make an interesting film!’ And then eventually we stopped saying&#xA;  ‘One day’ and we said ‘Okay, today we’re going to try and turn this&#xA;  into a screenplay.’ That’s kind of where it all came from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-11-26T14:08:11.813" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T14:08:11.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24881" CreationDate="2014-11-26T09:52:28.550" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is the &lt;em&gt;original (and misleading)&lt;/em&gt; connection, as stated in Season 2, and then the &lt;em&gt;true&lt;/em&gt; connection, as stated in Seasons 4/5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout this season we learn more and more about these &lt;em&gt;special children&lt;/em&gt;. At first it seemed that all their parents had been burned by the &lt;em&gt;Yellowed Eyed Demon&lt;/em&gt; (aka &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://supernatural.wikia.com/wiki/Azazel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Azazel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;), but it soon becomes clear there are exceptions to this (for example &lt;a href=&quot;http://supernatural.wikia.com/wiki/Ava_Wilson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ava Wilson&lt;/a&gt;, whose mother was still alive). All we know about them is that they all have psychic abilities and the Azazel supposedly wants them to lead an army:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YED&lt;/strong&gt;: I’m trying to help you. That’s why we’re talking. You’re the one&#xA;  I’m rooting for.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;SAM&lt;/strong&gt;: What’s that supposed to mean?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;YED&lt;/strong&gt;: Welcome to&#xA;  the Miss America pageant. Why do you think you’re here? This is a&#xA;  competition. Only one of you crazy kids is gonna make it out of here&#xA;  alive.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;SAM&lt;/strong&gt;: I thought we were supposed to be—&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;YED&lt;/strong&gt;: Soldiers in a&#xA;  coming war? That’s true. You are. But here’s the thing: I don’t need&#xA;  soldiers. I need soldier. I just need the one.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;SAM&lt;/strong&gt;: Why?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;YED&lt;/strong&gt;: Well, I&#xA;  couldn’t just come out and say that, could I, Sam? I had to let&#xA;  everyone think they had a fighting chance. But what I need ... is a&#xA;  leader.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;SAM&lt;/strong&gt;: To lead who?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;YED&lt;/strong&gt;: Oh, I’ve already got my army. Or, I&#xA;  will soon, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Connection:&lt;/strong&gt; All have psychic powers. One is meant to be the leader of Azazel's army.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 4/5 (Possible spoilers)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once we reach Season 4/5, we learn the &lt;em&gt;true purpose and connection&lt;/em&gt; between the Special Children. Azazel, in 1972, found the gates to Lucifer's prison and slaughtered a convent of nuns to open it. It wasn't enough however, and he was told to do two things: get Lilith, to destroy the 66 Seals, and &lt;em&gt;find him a vessel&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was the true purpose of the vessels - to be a vessel for Lucifer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Azazel fed all of them demon blood when they were younger, which made them stronger (as Sam became stronger throughout Season 4 when drinking Ruby's blood. The mother's who were burned alive were those who walked in on the process. Those who didn't survived.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Azazel's &lt;em&gt;test&lt;/em&gt;, at the end of Season 2, was to find the most worthy vessel. He would be the &lt;em&gt;leader of the army&lt;/em&gt;, i.e. the vessel of Lucifer. Ultimately, despite his death in Season 2, Sam was left alive and thus the only &lt;em&gt;true&lt;/em&gt; vessel for Lucifer (as all of Season 5 shows).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Connection:&lt;/strong&gt; All were fed blood by Azazel. The strongest is meant to be the vessel of Lucifer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T09:52:28.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17412" CreationDate="2014-11-26T10:08:13.763" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don't know&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been deliberately kept vague, as this interview with (then) showrunner Sera Gamble shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer&lt;/strong&gt;: ...Do you mean Chuck is the obvious&#xA;  answer, or that you really did leave it open?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sera&lt;/strong&gt;: Don't ask me to squish the God debate! How many TV shows can say their&#xA;  fans are talking about THAT stuff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are a variety of fascinating things that support the argument though:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chuck created the &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt; books, which mirror the lives of Sam and Dean. When he first &quot;discovers&quot; that his books are real, he says:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chuck&lt;/strong&gt;: Well, there's only one explanation. Obviously I'm a god.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Sam&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;  You're not a god.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Chuck&lt;/strong&gt;: How else do you explain it? I write things&#xA;  and then they come to life. Yeah, no, I'm definitely a god. A cruel,&#xA;  cruel, capricious god. The things I put you through – The physical&#xA;  beatings alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chuck's writing name is &lt;em&gt;Carver Edlund&lt;/em&gt;, which is a mashup of &lt;em&gt;Jeremy Carver&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Ben Edlund&lt;/em&gt;, who are Supernatural writers - just as they are &lt;em&gt;gods&lt;/em&gt; over Sam and Dean and the Supernatural show, Chuck could be THE &lt;em&gt;god within the show.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We learn in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=5.16_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dark Side of the Moon&lt;/a&gt;, from the angel Joshua, that God is in fact on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We learn in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=5.01_Sympathy_for_the_Devil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sympathy for the Devil&lt;/a&gt; that Chuck can &lt;em&gt;feel&lt;/em&gt; the presence of the angel's in the house. However, we later discover from Kevin Tran (a true prophet) that this is &lt;em&gt;not in fact one of the prophet's powers&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=2&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0CC0QFjAB&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSwan_Song_%2528Supernatural%2529&amp;amp;ei=x6R1VN2xO4yu7Aa764CIDQ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH8AYBYg_UG1QbflxKU-r8OmB8X7w&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Swan Song&lt;/a&gt;, Chuck is called by Dean, answering the phone &quot;Mistress Magda&quot;. This is in reference to a newspaper article on his desk, with a bikini-clad woman called &quot;Miss Magda&quot; he had supposedly invited over. This is also a name very similar to &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mary Magdalene&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, a followed of Jesus.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also in Swan Song, when the day is &quot;saved&quot;, Chuck, dressed all in white, comments on how hard it is to write a good ending, before magically disappearing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are also a variety of fascinating things that go against the argument:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to Castiel, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=5.02_Good_God,_Y%27All&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Good God Y'Al&lt;/a&gt;l, Dean's amulet will burn hot in the presence of God - but Chuck shows no reaction to it. (Having said that, Joshua tells Sam in Dark Side of the Moon that &quot;Magic amulet or not, you won't be able to find him&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Castiel doesn't recognise God or anything &lt;em&gt;higher power-esque&lt;/em&gt; about him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other Interesting Info&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actor who played Chuck, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Rob_Benedict&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rob Benedict&lt;/a&gt;, claimed the character was God and that other members of the cast had asked him how it felt to be God. Footage of that is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ni7uidj9Rx8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Believe what you will. It doesn't look like we'll ever get a definitive answer, with the show creators preferring to let fans speculate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T10:08:13.763" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14804" CreationDate="2014-11-26T10:20:39.607" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show was originally supposed to run for five seasons, so the &lt;em&gt;official story arc&lt;/em&gt; only covered those seasons. This is important as many fans speculate that God was in fact &lt;em&gt;Chuck Shurley&lt;/em&gt;, the &quot;prophet&quot; from Season 5. Strong evidence of this theory (including the actor himself confirming it) can be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Chuck_Shurley#Is_Chuck_God.3F&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;found here&lt;/a&gt; and in the video:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ni7uidj9Rx8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst this is certainly not definitive, it's fascinating. If Chuck was God, then they'd either need to bring the actor back or cast a new God. The former would be more likely, but ultimately neither is particularly needed. The show has dealt with heavy themes since Season 5, but nothing approaching the apocalypse or Lucifer Rising - meaning if God wasn't going to intervene then, it seems very unlikely (canon-wise) he would intervene now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately though, though, God plays no role in the show after Season 5. We hear him being discussed and his apparent abandonment of Heaven used as a reason for the &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; revolts and rebellions that are being fought, from &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0CCEQFjAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsupernatural.wikia.com%2Fwiki%2FRaphael&amp;amp;ei=Wah1VP_RKMqt7gaso4DYDQ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEpjDm87QLm9eaDPMnrjE4DJuMfgw&amp;amp;bvm=bv.80642063,d.cWc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Raphael&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; trying to seize control, to &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0CCEQFjAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsupernatural.wikia.com%2Fwiki%2FCastiel&amp;amp;ei=UKh1VPHlF-eE7ga-jIDQAw&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF3RQwufnKS1iayflT89W9WbLqL2g&amp;amp;bvm=bv.80642063,d.cWc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Castiel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; trying to become more powerful, to &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0CCMQFjAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsupernatural.wikia.com%2Fwiki%2FNaomi&amp;amp;ei=Rqh1VOGSBMWE7gbZ7IC4BQ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNH7WEq0QiwZHGH7Bi7D7joXuZpw0g&amp;amp;bvm=bv.80642063,d.cWc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Naomi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; trying to reestablish control, to &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0CCEQFjAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsupernatural.wikia.com%2Fwiki%2FMetatron&amp;amp;ei=PKh1VODTPLKd7ga3lYG4Cg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEh32xBljboss157y8jhcz2YR94OQ&amp;amp;bvm=bv.80642063,d.cWc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Metatron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; creating the &lt;em&gt;Great Fall&lt;/em&gt;. The closest explanation we get is from Castiel, in the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://supernatural.wikia.com/wiki/Road_Trip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Road Trip&lt;/a&gt;, where he discusses the angel &lt;a href=&quot;http://supernatural.wikia.com/wiki/Gadreel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gadreel&lt;/a&gt;, who allowed Lucifer into the Garden of Eden. Castiel says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CASTIEL&lt;/strong&gt; It's his fault -- all of it. The corruption of man, demons,&#xA;  hell. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;God left because of him.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; The archangels -- the apocalypse. If he&#xA;  hadn't been so weak, none of it would have happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short - God is very much AWOL. He may or may not appear in the series (it hasn't been confirmed) or indeed, he may have &lt;em&gt;already appeared&lt;/em&gt; if you believe the Chuck Shurley theories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T10:20:39.607" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8791" CreationDate="2014-11-26T10:36:57.417" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's difficult to know if it was a real contract. If it WAS, then yes, he did welch on it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode in question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://supernatural.wikia.com/wiki/Survival_of_the_Fittest&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Survival of the Fittest&lt;/a&gt;. At first it appears like they are making a &lt;em&gt;standard&lt;/em&gt; deal, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=7.23_Survival_of_the_Fittest_%28Transcript%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;as the script shows&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CROWLEY&lt;/strong&gt; I can't deny I long to see those two digested once and for&#xA;  all. You have a deal. I suppose you want it in writing?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;DICK ROMAN&lt;/strong&gt; I don't kiss on the mouth.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;CROWLEY&lt;/strong&gt; Your loss. I just so happen to have a standard rider... &lt;em&gt;[he&#xA;  takes a scroll out of his jacket]&lt;/em&gt; right here.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;CROWLEY unfurls the scroll, which is very long. DICK ROMAN grimaces.&#xA;  CROWLEY holds up a magnifying glass.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;CROWLEY&lt;/strong&gt; I do so like this part. Don't you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, note the actual &lt;em&gt;signing&lt;/em&gt; of the contract:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CROWLEY&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;Should the party of the first part…”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;We see a close-up of the scroll. It appears to be written in Latin and&#xA;  mentions Sam and Dean Winchester.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;CROWLEY&lt;/strong&gt; “…fail to inform the party of the second part of his intent…&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;DICK ROMAN&lt;/strong&gt; Pause right there. Correct me – that should be &quot;party of&#xA;  the second part vis-a-vis party of the first part,&quot; 'cause we just&#xA;  amended clause &lt;em&gt;[CROWLEY mouths the words along with him]&lt;/em&gt; 314-sub-a.&#xA;  That's right. You should do this professionally.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;CROWLEY&lt;/strong&gt; Splendid. So, &quot;Should the party of the second part…”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  // other dialogue //&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;CROWLEY&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;...in which case, the party of the second part forfeits all&#xA;  rights to Canada ad infinitum.&quot; I think we're done here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you read it, you can see that if Crowley betrays Dick he forfeits all rights to Canada. That's it. It's not a blood contract, there's no threat of death or anything like that. This is why he is happy making it. Later on, with Sam and Dean, he shows he's on their side (for the time being at least):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SAM&lt;/strong&gt; So what did he offer you?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;CROWLEY&lt;/strong&gt; A fair deal. In exchange for giving you the wrong blood. It's&#xA;  demon, but is it mine? &lt;em&gt;[pause]&lt;/em&gt; It's my blood. Real deal.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;DEAN&lt;/strong&gt; And why should we trust you?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;CROWLEY&lt;/strong&gt; Good God, don't. Never trust anyone. A lesson I learned from&#xA;  my last business partner. &lt;em&gt;[He looks at CASTIEL.]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, ultimately this is all moot, as neither party was sincere in the contract. Shortly after, Dick Roman has the following conversation with Susan:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DICK ROMAN&lt;/strong&gt; Great. Susan, do I look like a fool?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;SUSAN&lt;/strong&gt; Not in that particular body, no.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;DICK ROMAN&lt;/strong&gt; Good. Have I told you there are three rules to contract&#xA;  negotiation? Bring breath mints, get it in writing, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;and have a plan&#xA;  for when they screw you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Go to the freezer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's hard to know if this was even a &lt;em&gt;real deal&lt;/em&gt;. Both parties were obviously dishonest and both parties expected the deal to be reneged. It seems &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; likely this was simply a fake deal designed to get everybody in the same place at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; it was a real deal, the consequences of reneging were such that Crowley was prepared to accept them, in the hope that the Leviathans could be destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T10:36:57.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3413" CreationDate="2014-11-26T15:29:45.497" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the existing theory that they were both in the League of Shadows doesn't hold water. They were members at different times and there's no evidence that the two ever crossed paths under Ra's al Ghul's roof. In addition, Bane was excommunicated before Bruce ever joined up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Bane was trained by the same man; he learned the same lessons, many of which Bruce took to heart including the value of a symbol, the theatricality and the value of fear. As a result, many of the deceptions Batman employs (like the distracting charges when they first fight) have no effect on Bane (you see him simply standing there while the explosives go off around him).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that the original intention was that Bane saw through the mask because Batman was simply another of these deceptions. He saw Bruce, he saw Batman, and could see through the distractions to the person underneath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The disguise would fool a normal person but not someone who has been initiated into the league!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T01:25:50.873" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T01:25:50.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27590" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27591" CreationDate="2014-11-26T15:30:36.633" Score="23" ViewCount="64707" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119116/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;The Fifth Element&lt;/a&gt; when Gary Oldman is talking to &quot;Mr. Shadow,&quot; there is some sort of substance that runs down his head. What exactly is it? It seems to happen to everyone who talks to &quot;Mr. Shadow.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IxJES.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastEditorUserId="13338" LastEditDate="2014-11-26T15:47:09.197" LastActivityDate="2016-10-01T04:27:43.693" Title="What is the black goo from the Fifth Element?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-fifth-element|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27590" CreationDate="2014-11-26T15:51:24.983" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's never explained&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few theories though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;strong&gt;blood&lt;/strong&gt;. It's simply darker than normal to indicate an even more sinister being. When Zorg (Gary Oldman) is called by Mr. Shadow, he starts to bleed it, suggesting that the mere force of evil in Mr. Shadow is enough to cause it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;strong&gt;some type of residue&lt;/strong&gt;, caused by contact with pure evil. This is supported by the fact &lt;a href=&quot;http://moa.omnimulti.com/General_Staedert&quot;&gt;General Staedert&lt;/a&gt; has the same black ooze trickle down his face when the &quot;planet&quot; attacked his ship.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;strong&gt;liquid fear&lt;/strong&gt;. This is really just a different name for the two options above. It manifests itself in the same way and is caused by the Great Evil.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, all three of these notions are based on the exact same premise, giving it different names. &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheFifthElement&quot;&gt;TVTropes&lt;/a&gt; deem it a &lt;em&gt;psychic nosebleed&lt;/em&gt;, again suggesting it lies along the same lines as one of the options above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, these are &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; fan theories (commonly accessible across the web). There doesn't appear to be any definitive answer on the ooze from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=2&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0CCwQFjAB&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLuc_Besson&amp;amp;ei=8fZ1VLT-DYHC7Ab-iYGQCA&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFvaAZnPHV_r1A2vt-rJKD0BAdEuQ&amp;amp;bvm=bv.80642063,d.ZGU&quot;&gt;Luc Besson&lt;/a&gt;, the director, or any of the cast. Ultimately, I think these explanations are the most likely. Call it whatever you want, it's a way of signifying the presence of the Great Evil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T15:51:24.983" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27592" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29857" CreationDate="2014-11-26T15:55:33.657" Score="11" ViewCount="471" Body="&lt;p&gt;At 34:00, we briefly see a television depicting mass-destruction and the English words 'Rainmaker'. What is being said in Chinese on this newscast?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15984" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-11-26T17:46:46.690" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T17:49:23.407" Title="What is said on the Chinese broadcast 34 minutes into Looper?" Tags="|dialogue|looper|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27037" CreationDate="2014-11-26T16:59:48.753" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the first question about how gravity could move the watch sideways, apparently the idea was that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;gravitational waves&lt;/a&gt; were being transmitted into the past. In Chapter 30 of &lt;em&gt;The Science of Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; by Kip Thorne, the physicist who was the scientific consultant for the movie, it's said that Cooper is scooped out of the black hole by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tesseract&lt;/a&gt;, which is a four-dimensional cube in a higher spatial dimension known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brane_cosmology#Brane_and_bulk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;the bulk&quot;&lt;/a&gt;--the tesseract seems to be a piece of advanced technology created by the beings living in that dimension, which they used to allow Cooper to transmit the &quot;quantum data&quot; about the black hole singularity to Murph in the past. When he's inside the tesseract, the book says that he can see the &quot;world tubes&quot; of various objects (their paths through spacetime, a sort of 4D tube where each cross-section is the 3D object at a particular instant in time, analogous to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_line&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;world line&lt;/a&gt; of a point particle), and that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;when he pushes on a book's world tube, or on the world tube of the&#xA;  watch's second hand, he generates a gravitational signal (&lt;strong&gt;a&#xA;  gravitational wave&lt;/strong&gt; in the bulk) that spirals into and through the&#xA;  tesseract's bulk interior ... The signal travels forward in local,&#xA;  bulk time, but backward in bedroom time, arriving before it started&#xA;  out. It is this gravitational signal that pushes the book out of the&#xA;  bookcase and twitches the watch's second hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gravitational waves can travel in any direction, so for example we might detect them coming at us in a &quot;sideways&quot; direction if a major source of gravitational waves (like two black holes colliding) had occurred in that direction relative to us. And as explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/41860/59406&quot;&gt;this answer on physics stack exchange&lt;/a&gt;, they stretch and compress things in a plane that's perpendicular to their direction of motion, so gravitational waves coming in a vertical direction could actually stretch and compress objects in a horizontal plane. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the second question about how the watch was able to continually play the message, I'll repost my answer from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/73374/why-murph-still-can-read-the-morse-coded-wrist-watch-when-she-has-brought-the-wa/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to be a function of the tesseract. From Ch. 30 of &lt;em&gt;The Science of Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By the time Cooper has received the quantum data form TARS, he has&#xA;  mastered this means of communication. In the movie we see him pushing&#xA;  with his fingers on the world tube of the watch's second hand. His&#xA;  pushes produce a backwards-in-time gravitational force, which makes&#xA;  the second-hand twitch in a Morse-encoded pattern that carries the&#xA;  quantum data. &lt;strong&gt;The tesseract stores the twitching pattern in the bulk&#xA;  so it repeats over and over again.&lt;/strong&gt; When forty-year-old Murph returns&#xA;  to her bedroom three decades later, she finds the second hand still&#xA;  twitching, repeating over and over again the encoded quantum data that&#xA;  Cooper has struggled so hard to send her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8870" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.873" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T17:05:05.637" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27361" CreationDate="2014-11-26T17:28:56.000" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Science of Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; by physicist Kip Thorne, chapter 31 talks about them using their new theory of quantum gravity, discovered by Murph with help from the &quot;quantum data&quot; transmitted by Cooper (see my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/73096/22250&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for details on the physics ideas involved), to temporarily decrease the Earth's gravity and launch the huge colonies off the Earth:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Early in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, when Cooper first visits the NASA facility,&#xA;  he is shown a giant, cylindrical enclosure being constructed to carry&#xA;  thousands of humans into space and house them for many generations: a&#xA;  space colony. And he's told there are others being constructed&#xA;  elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;How does it get off Earth?&quot; Cooper asks the Professor. &quot;Those first&#xA;  gravitational anomalies changed everything,&quot; the Professor replies.&#xA;  &quot;Suddenly we knew that harnessing gravity was real. So I started&#xA;  working on the theory—and we started building this station.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How did it get lifted into space? The key, of course, was the quantum&#xA;  data (in my scientist's interpretation, the &lt;em&gt;quantum gravity laws&lt;/em&gt;)&#xA;  that TARS extracted from Gargantua's singularity (Chapters 26 and 28)&#xA;  and Cooper transmitted to Murph (Chapter 30).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Murph must have figured out how to reduce Newton's gravitational&#xA;  constant G inside the Earth ... In my interpretation, with Newton's G&#xA;  reduced inside the Earth to, say, a thousandth of its normal value&#xA;  for, say, an hour, rocket engines could lift the enormous colonies&#xA;  into space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a byproduct, in my interpretation the Earth's core—no longer&#xA;  compressed by the enormous weight of the planet above—must have sprung&#xA;  outward, pushing the Earth's surface upward. Gigantic earthquakes and&#xA;  tsunamis must have followed, wreaking havoc on Earth as the colonies&#xA;  soared into space, a terrible price for the Earth to pay on top of its&#xA;  blight-driven catastrophe. When Newton's G was restored to its normal&#xA;  strength, the Earth must have shrunk back to its normal size, wreaking&#xA;  more earthquake and tsunami havoc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But humanity was saved. And Cooper and ninety-four-year-old Murph were&#xA;  reunited. Then Cooper set out in search of Amelia Brand in the far&#xA;  reaches of the universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8870" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T17:28:56.000" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27595" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27597" CreationDate="2014-11-26T17:35:33.563" Score="4" ViewCount="5629" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am about to watch Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have absolutely no memory of the first movie. 9 years does that sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it important to watch Sin City 1 before Sin City 2? Do I need a recap?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16085" LastEditorUserId="16085" LastEditDate="2016-06-20T05:51:22.263" LastActivityDate="2016-06-20T05:51:22.263" Title="Do I need to watch Sin City 1 before watching Sin City 2?" Tags="|sin-city|sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27595" CreationDate="2014-11-26T18:04:11.590" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;. The film acts as both as sequel and prequel. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_City:_A_Dame_to_Kill_For#Production&quot;&gt;From the wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Miller said the film would be a prequel and a sequel with interlinking&#xA;  stories both before and after the first film. Miller, who was writing&#xA;  the screenplay in 2006, had anticipated for production to begin later&#xA;  in the year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new elements of the movie are discussed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cineworld.co.uk/blog/sin-city-2-prequel-sequel-equal&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, in article that was written &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the film was released (so contains no spoilers). To quote from the article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Miller has said that the new film is based primarily on his story &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A&#xA;  Dame to Kill For&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (the second in the series of books). This one centres&#xA;  on Dwight (Josh Brolin) and takes place years before his storyline in&#xA;  the first Sin City film (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Big Fat Kill&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; – the third in the series of&#xA;  books), and before he needed the facial reconstruction surgery which&#xA;  made him look like Clive Owen (who plays him in the first film).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the storylines is based on this short story, collected in the&#xA;  book &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Booze, Broads &amp;amp; Bullets&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which is the fifth in the series. This&#xA;  is Marv’s story...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Along with the original stories, there will also be two new ones&#xA;  written by Miller especially for this film. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Long Bad Goodnight&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is&#xA;  Joseph Gordon Levitt’s chapter, while &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Fat Loss&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; picks up with&#xA;  Hartigan and Nancy where the first film left them. So, anything goes&#xA;  basically – characters that appeared in the previous film could&#xA;  return, and we won’t be surprised if others come to an unexpected&#xA;  end...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can clearly see, there are stories taking place both &lt;strong&gt;before, during and after&lt;/strong&gt; the original story - so watching the original would definitely help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T18:04:11.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26608" CreationDate="2014-11-26T23:18:48.000" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have my DVD with me, so I cannot check, but if I remember right, this was not addressed in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When that scene takes place, we only know that the thing (that we later  learn is the Spear) is something (possibly a relic, given the type of the movie) that was wrapped in the Nazi flag and that possessed Manuel, immediately killing him but keeping him &quot;alive&quot;, and setting him on some mission. So, I think that the movie wants to add an ominous feeling to this - at the moment unexplained - sequence of events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can easily argue that the Spear is not deadly in itself, but rather affected or manipulated by something or someone (as is later indirectly confirmed). Had it been deadly, neither Manuel nor his friend would get close to it. Instead, they'd just drop like the cattle you're asking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Spear also didn't kill Constantine and Chas when they were in the same room with it, giving me further reason to consider the death of the cattle just a means of building the suspension, and not something deeper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could argue that it only killed animals, but - again - no explanations nor in-movie reasons for that are ever given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2014-11-26T23:18:48.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27387" CreationDate="2014-11-27T01:05:28.010" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Found it: This is the version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095332/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The House of Usher&lt;/a&gt; from 1989 with Oliver Reed and Donald Pleasence. From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://moria.co.nz/horror/house-of-usher-1989.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;online synopsis&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Molly McNulty accompanies her boyfriend Ryan Usher to England to visit his family estate. As they drive there, two ghostly children appear on the road, causing them to crash. With Ryan suffering from a head wound, Molly goes on alone to the Usher house. She is welcomed in and meets Ryan’s uncle Roderick who suffers from a crippling hyper-acuteness of the senses. Molly then discovers that Roderick has lied about Ryan being safe in hospital and that he is in fact dead. She soon realises that Roderick has made her prisoner in the house with the intent of impregnating her in order to carry on the Usher line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You got almost everything right: A &lt;em&gt;woman&lt;/em&gt;'s hand is fed into a meat grinder, but it doesn't really happen; The &lt;em&gt;uncle&lt;/em&gt;'s butler tortures the doctor by stripping him naked, strapping him to a table and putting a cage with a starved rat on his crotch; and in the end, the mansion burns down, Molly rescues her boyfriend from a coffin and the uncle's face is burned by a lamp. Well remembered. The entire movie is currently available on Youtube; Here's the poster:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U2ewB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-27T02:23:10.867" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T02:23:10.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27603" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27642" CreationDate="2014-11-27T01:08:16.660" Score="19" ViewCount="3287" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope this question doesn't come across as too opinion-based, but when watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I noticed, that the sound mixing was a bit &quot;off&quot;. Dialogue was sometimes very hard to understand and simply overpowered by the sound effects or &lt;em&gt;Hans Zimmer&lt;/em&gt;'s (albeit amazing) score. Now normally I'd just brush that off based on the fact that I'm not a native speaker (though I've seen other better understandable movies in English), my theatre might not be perfect and not everything can be perfect in a movie. But I heard that others around the world uttered similar complaints, too and that &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_%28film%29#Sound_design&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; says about the sound design:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Christopher Nolan said he sought to mix the film's sound to take maximum advantage of current sound equipment in theaters. Nolan paid close attention to designing the sound mix, for instance focusing on what buttons being pressed with astronaut-suit gloves would sound like. The studio's website said, &quot;The sound on Interstellar has been specially mixed to maximize the power of the low end frequencies in the main channels as well as in the subwoofer channel.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which, even though it comes from the probably biased studio website, suggests that there was special effort put into the sound editing. So I'd like to know, &lt;strong&gt;is there some unusual reason for the &lt;em&gt;apparently&lt;/em&gt; strange sound mixing in this movie or was this just a naturally &quot;not so good&quot; part of the movie&lt;/strong&gt; (or is it just me and my theatre)? Was this maybe due to the techinical reason that it was tailored to top-notch sound technology in theatres and therefore the sound in not too top-notch theatres had to suffer? Or was there even an actual intention behind this seemingly difficult understandability of the dialogue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-01-22T21:25:14.183" Title="What's with Interstellar's strange sound mixing?" Tags="|interstellar|sound-effects|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27603" CreationDate="2014-11-27T02:29:21.827" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it was apparently intentional. I don't have the original source but here is a quote from critic Mark Kermode from the November 21st episode of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/kermode&quot;&gt;Kermode &amp;amp; Mayo podcast&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's been an awful lot of fussing about the dialogue, right down to the point that Chris Nolan's had to be quoted in the press as saying: &quot;You're not meant to be able to hear all of it. There are moments in which the dialogue is meant to be drowned out by the sound effects. That's how I mixed it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This occurs at 41:15 in the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T02:29:21.827" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27608" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27617" CreationDate="2014-11-27T04:30:49.613" Score="11" ViewCount="17242" Body="&lt;p&gt;My girlfriend and I were just watching &quot;Birdman&quot; and had to leave early because she had a seizure. I don't often go to films and it's not out on DVD, so I'm wondering if someone would mind telling me what the telekinesis was about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume it was in his mind like the voice of his former character? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16095" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-02-16T07:43:38.687" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T15:16:58.077" Title="What was the telekinesis about in Birdman?" Tags="|plot-explanation|birdman|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27609" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-27T06:28:28.573" Score="18" ViewCount="50109" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Interstellar, what do Murph and NASA do to save humanity after solving Brand's equation? Do they get the entire human race on giant space ships and transport them to a habitable planet? (How exactly do they do  this?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes, is this habitable planet Edmunds' (the one that Amelia lands on)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16096" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-27T12:42:31.770" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T21:24:51.827" Title="What do Murph and NASA do to save humanity after solving Brand's equation?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27609" CreationDate="2014-11-27T06:41:02.663" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The data helped Murph solve the equation that allowed them to launch the space ship that you see towards the end of the movie orbiting the worm hole. The space ship was the one being developed in the NASA facility when Cooper and the others leave earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dont think the idea was to save all the humans on the plant but rather to save the human species. So no, the entire human population was not present on that ship. Maybe they made more ships later, who knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, the plant that Brand lands on (Edmund's planet) is habitable. Towards the end of the movie she is shown to set up base there. That is where the ship is headed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T06:41:02.663" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27609" CreationDate="2014-11-27T06:41:24.217" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, Brands equation was already solved. However that equation alone was not enough and Brand needed some additional data from a Black Hole's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_singularity&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;singularity&lt;/a&gt; for Plan-A (humans safely evacuating earth) to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the last scenes, we come to know that human race survived and Cooper recovers on a Space station, orbiting Saturn. So this was not Edmund's planet. At this moment we also come to know that till that point Amelia was still alone on Edmund's planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be assumed that there were other similar space stations with humans living on them. I remember there was a dialogue during the last part of the movie where the doctor tells a recovering Cooper that her daughter is alive but not here right now and that she would reaching here within 2 weeks. So it is quite possible that Murphy was on a different space station.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum up, all we know till the last scene in the movie is that human race from earth survived and they were living on space stations. Also, a habitable planet (Edmund's planet) is found by Amelia but till that point she was alone on it. The very last scene shows that Cooper sets off to reunite with Amelia on Edmund's planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-11-27T17:18:29.690" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T17:18:29.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27613" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-27T07:50:11.047" Score="3" ViewCount="529" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2000 Indian film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Ram&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hey Ram&lt;/a&gt;, was the character of Saket Ram a terrorist? How was he suddenly convinced by his friend Amjad Ali Khan to change his mind and drop his plan to assassinate Gandhi?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16097" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-11-27T23:15:26.883" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T23:15:26.883" Title="In Hey Ram, was Saket Ram a terrorist?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|hey-ram|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27614" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-27T07:55:24.397" Score="1" ViewCount="622" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why could the crew beyond the worm hole &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; receive video logs? Why did they not have two way communication with NASA on Earth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16097" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-11-27T09:34:35.477" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T15:17:31.600" Title="Why single way communication in Interstellar?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-11-27T16:24:31.557" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27608" CreationDate="2014-11-27T09:06:20.347" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's difficult to say.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To really understand, you have to look at the whole movie &lt;em&gt;including&lt;/em&gt; the ending (which I &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; spoil in this answer). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A full (also spoilerific) breakdown of the movie's plot can be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2014Spoilers/Birdman.html&quot;&gt;found here&lt;/a&gt;, but ultimately we see throughout the film that he has these &lt;em&gt;telekinetic&lt;/em&gt;, supernatural moments - but all are revealed to be hallucinations, time and time again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, we see Riggan using telekinesis to throw objects around his dressing room - until his lawyer enters and we see Riggan was using his hands, not his mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film then ends with Riggan starring in the play, getting rave reviews from critics and ending up in hospital after using a &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; gun in the final part of the film. His injuries leave him needing bandages which cover his face in the same way the Birdman's mask covered his. When he is alone in his room, he spots some birds outside his window. He climbs onto his window ledge and jumps - Sam then rushes in and looks to the ground expecting to see a body, but there isn't one - she looks to the sky and smiles - and that's the end!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So ultimately, this leaves a plethora of &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; interpretations of the telekinesis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's possible he really is telekinetic and that the film finishes with his flying away in a blaze of glory. However, this is the &lt;em&gt;least&lt;/em&gt; likely option as the film continually rebukes this notion, &lt;em&gt;showing&lt;/em&gt; these supernatural acts to be false.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the last stage of the play he actually kills himself with the gun (instead of merely wounding himself). This makes sense, as everything after that is &lt;em&gt;perfect&lt;/em&gt; - he gets a rave review for his performance, a standing ovation and a heart-warming moment with Sam. In other words, those are all hallucinations, including the end of the film - he's really dead (or at least on his deathbed).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Everything is real &lt;em&gt;up until&lt;/em&gt; the moment he jumps out the window, which is symbolic of him &lt;em&gt;soaring&lt;/em&gt; once again and moving on with his life.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, we just don't know. I would say the &lt;em&gt;second option&lt;/em&gt; is most likely (and is certainly my preferred interpretation of the film). However, as one of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/25/birdman-ending_n_6219290.html&quot;&gt;film's writers said&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We're not going to sit around and explain the ending. I guess my&#xA;  thing is, if you can silence the voice of mediocrity, then what is&#xA;  possible? [That] is good enough for me,&quot; Dinelaris said. &quot;But we&#xA;  thought if we answered that question at the end, it would seem very,&#xA;  very small. Is he famous because he shot himself? That's small. Is he&#xA;  still miserable? That's small. Everything seemed small.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I know you wanted an answer explicitly on the &lt;em&gt;telekinesis&lt;/em&gt;, but it's impossible to really talk about it without understanding the ending - which, alas, is open to a lot of interpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T09:06:20.347" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27160" CreationDate="2014-11-27T09:24:31.937" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It isn't one way communication. It's two way.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're assuming because we &lt;em&gt;see&lt;/em&gt; no video logs returned that the communication was only one way - but this wouldn't make any sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, the most &lt;em&gt;probable&lt;/em&gt; explanation for Murph's comments at the end of the film about Dr. Brand being all alone is that she received a message from her &lt;em&gt;saying&lt;/em&gt; that. This has already been discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/27041/how-did-murph-know-about-edmunds&quot;&gt;in a previous question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, the most &lt;em&gt;probable&lt;/em&gt; explanation as to why Cooper never sent a message back is simply - what could he &lt;em&gt;possibly&lt;/em&gt; say? He spent a few hours on the surface of the Water Planet and returned to find over twenty &lt;em&gt;years&lt;/em&gt; had passed. His children grew up in front of his eyes in minutes on the video log. We can see his emotional out-pour during this powerful, emotional scene. It seems likely that the only reason he didn't get in touch was out of a bewilderment as to what he could possibly say to them. Instead, he chose to finish his mission as quickly as possible, so as to save them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer is actually incorrect, as @Hypnosifl's answer shows. The communiucation &lt;strong&gt;was&lt;/strong&gt; two way, but at a very basic level. This of course means the first point I raised in my answer above becomes rather contentious again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T15:03:41.683" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27620" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27623" CreationDate="2014-11-27T09:34:25.130" Score="9" ViewCount="935" Body="&lt;p&gt;Forrest delivers an impromptu speech at an anti-war rally in Washington DC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The audience of the rally, and us the viewer, did not get the hear this speech due to the mic being disconnected. It is evidentially a moving speech due to the reaction given by those immediately next to him who can hear it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anywhere that I can hear/read what Forrest said?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13805" LastEditorUserId="13805" LastEditDate="2014-11-27T10:58:26.573" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T01:40:42.163" Title="Is Forrest's speech at the anti-war rally available anywhere?" Tags="|forrest-gump|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27613" CreationDate="2014-11-27T09:45:40.430" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no question of anyone being a terrorist. Saket Ram was a normal everyman who became religious fundamentalist due to incidents surrounding partition of India. Many incidents lead to his transformation from from a regular man to a fundamentalist and again many incidents lead to his re transformation. He is not suddenly convinced by his friend but his friend's death brings a big impact on him and his motives and hence he drops the plan to assassinate Gandhi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T09:45:40.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27622" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27624" CreationDate="2014-11-27T10:00:29.350" Score="4" ViewCount="1646" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1989 Indian film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoorva_Sagodharargal_%281989_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Apporva sagothargal&lt;/a&gt; actor kamal hassan plays a double role - one of a normal man and another one of a dwarf. How was kamal Hassan displayed as a dwarf in the movie ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16097" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-11-27T10:23:09.690" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T10:31:58.580" Title="How was the dwarf character in Apporva sagothargal Appu depicted?" Tags="|film-techniques|make-up|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27620" CreationDate="2014-11-27T10:07:04.823" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes (apparently).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://purplenurple.net/what-did-forrest-gump-really-say/&quot;&gt;Tom Hanks&lt;/a&gt;, Forrest said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Sometimes when people go to Vietnam,&#xA;  they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don’t go&#xA;  home at all. That’s a bad thing. That’s all I have to say about that.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say apparently as I can't find a &lt;em&gt;primary source&lt;/em&gt; for the Tom Hanks quote. It's &lt;em&gt;everywhere&lt;/em&gt;, but I'd love to find an actual interview where he says it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T10:07:04.823" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27622" CreationDate="2014-11-27T10:31:58.580" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A number of techniques were involved for the portrayal of a normal man as a dwarf on the screen. For some shots the actor folded hi legs from feet to knees. For some static scenes his legs were hidden inside a trench. Special shoes had to be used when the character was shown walking. The movie's director has explained it all &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/singeetam-reveals-secret-behind-kamals-dwarf-role/article1311684.ece&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T10:31:58.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27613" CreationDate="2014-11-27T10:43:23.823" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's up to you. Were the murders he committed justified? Does his repentance at the film's end and his adherence to Gandhian principles forgive his earlier actions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you need to first look at the movie again, scene by scene, before then deciding what it all means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Synopsis:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Saket Ram&lt;/em&gt; is working peacefully as an archaeologist with &lt;em&gt;Amjad Khan&lt;/em&gt; when the Hindu-Muslim riots start. He returns home to his wife, only for a Muslim mob to tie him up, rape and murder his wife. In fury, he kills the Muslims.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He tries to move on with his life, but can't move past his grief and anger at Islam for what he perceives as their hateful malice. Sriram Abhyanka, a radicalised Hindu, blames Mahatma Gandhi for many of these issues, as he wants a society where Muslims and Hindu's live peacefully together - whereas Abhyanka believes violence should be met with violence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie progresses and he ends up at a party where, in a drunken stupor, he agrees to a plot to assassinate Gandhi where either he or Abhyanka will commit the act. Later however, Abhyanka is left critically injured after an accident and makes Saket swear he will commit the act in his place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We then have the scene at the factory where he inadvertently starts a Muslim/Hindu riot, after a brief reunion with Amjad. Unfortunately, Amjad dies in this struggle, but we already see Saket change a little. He initially argues &lt;em&gt;against&lt;/em&gt; Amjad about the Muslims, before &lt;em&gt;defending&lt;/em&gt; them to an extent once learning the Hindus rejected the peace offer that was made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This ultimately leads to his &lt;em&gt;overall change&lt;/em&gt;, where he goes to Gandhi and confesses the crime he was supposed to commit, asking for forgiveness (as he realises Gandhi never tried to harm anyone). Shortly after though, Gandhi is gunned down. He then leads the rest of his life by Gandhian principles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Discussion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; he a terrorist? He did murder people, but was he &lt;em&gt;justified&lt;/em&gt; given his background? Does the fact he &lt;em&gt;confessed his sins&lt;/em&gt; to Gandhi and lived the rest of his life by his principles excuse his earlier actions? When planning the assassination, he obviously was in contact with others. Did his words inspire &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; people to become radicalised? Can &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; be forgiven?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I don't think there is an overall &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; answer. I think what is far more important than if he was a terrorist is how he &lt;em&gt;ended&lt;/em&gt; his life. Whether that made up for all that came before is debatable, but he tried to change, which is the important part. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question about the extent of his terrorism is really up to the viewer. As Gerald Seymour said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think he was justified in his initial actions based on what he had happen to him? Or do you think he was still a terrorist (despite later repenting)? That's really up to you as the viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T10:43:23.823" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27627" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27628" CreationDate="2014-11-27T12:49:45.830" Score="3" ViewCount="851" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;My Fair Lady&lt;/em&gt; the following dialogue ocurs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ELIZA&lt;/strong&gt;: What's this for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HIGGINS&lt;/strong&gt;: To wipe your eyes. To wipe any part of your face that feels moist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Remember, that's your handkerchief and that's your sleeve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don't confuse one with the other, if you want to become a lady in a&#xA;  shop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does it mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-28T14:09:36.693" LastActivityDate="2014-11-28T14:09:36.693" Title="What does this exchange about a handkerchief and a sleeve mean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|my-fair-lady|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27627" CreationDate="2014-11-27T12:56:13.757" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;To summarise &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady&quot;&gt;from Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, the story of &lt;em&gt;My Fair Lady&lt;/em&gt; is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes&#xA;  speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist, so that&#xA;  she may pass as a lady.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, taking a &lt;em&gt;common girl&lt;/em&gt; and making her into &lt;em&gt;a proper lady&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lines you refer to are the professor telling her that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;a proper lady would wipe her face with a handkerchief, not her sleeve&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Only a &lt;em&gt;common&lt;/em&gt; girl would use her sleeve. Thus, if she used her sleeve it would give away that she was from a common background - which would be bad, since Henry wants her to pass as a lady.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T12:56:13.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27609" CreationDate="2014-11-27T14:26:26.977" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie Cooper arrives at &quot;Cooper station&quot;, a giant habitable space station with a cylindrical interior which was near Saturn at the time--many such stations were built, and apparently when Murph solved the gravity problem (by finding a theory of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;quantum gravity&lt;/a&gt; with the help of the data Cooper sent her from the black hole, see my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/73096/22250&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; from more on this), the surviving humans were launched into space aboard such stations, I don't think there had been any effort to settle humanity on a planet yet (see the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/73581/interstellar-why-had-humanity-not-visited-this-planet&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; for speculations about why they hadn't yet tried to settle Edmund's world). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for how solving gravity allowed them to achieve this, it was because the stations they had built on Earth were too massive to launch in the normal way, so their only hope of launching them and achieving &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;escape velocity&lt;/a&gt; from Earth was to temporarily alter the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_constant&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;gravitational constant&lt;/a&gt; in the space occupied by the Earth, so that gravity would become much weaker for a time and it would be easier to escape the Earth's pull. This is described in chapter 31 of &lt;em&gt;The Science of Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, which was written by Kip Thorne, the physicist who was the science consultant for the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Early in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, when Cooper first visits the NASA facility,&#xA;  he is shown a giant, cylindrical enclosure being constructed to carry&#xA;  thousands of humans into space and house them for many generations: a&#xA;  space colony. And he's told there are others being constructed&#xA;  elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;How does it get off Earth?&quot; Cooper asks the Professor. &quot;Those first&#xA;  gravitational anomalies changed everything,&quot; the Professor replies.&#xA;  &quot;Suddenly we knew that harnessing gravity was real. So I started&#xA;  working on the theory—and we started building this station.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How did it get lifted into space? The key, of course, was the quantum&#xA;  data (in my scientist's interpretation, the &lt;em&gt;quantum gravity laws&lt;/em&gt;)&#xA;  that TARS extracted from Gargantua's singularity (Chapters 26 and 28)&#xA;  and Cooper transmitted to Murph (Chapter 30).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Murph must have figured out how to reduce Newton's gravitational&#xA;  constant G inside the Earth ... In my interpretation, with Newton's G&#xA;  reduced inside the Earth to, say, a thousandth of its normal value&#xA;  for, say, an hour, rocket engines could lift the enormous colonies&#xA;  into space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a byproduct, in my interpretation the Earth's core—no longer&#xA;  compressed by the enormous weight of the planet above—must have sprung&#xA;  outward, pushing the Earth's surface upward. Gigantic earthquakes and&#xA;  tsunamis must have followed, wreaking havoc on Earth as the colonies&#xA;  soared into space, a terrible price for the Earth to pay on top of its&#xA;  blight-driven catastrophe. When Newton's G was restored to its normal&#xA;  strength, the Earth must have shrunk back to its normal size, wreaking&#xA;  more earthquake and tsunami havoc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But humanity was saved. And Cooper and ninety-four-year-old Murph were&#xA;  reunited. Then Cooper set out in search of Amelia Brand in the far&#xA;  reaches of the universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8870" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.873" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T14:26:26.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27160" CreationDate="2014-11-27T15:01:42.453" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since I've been talking about Interstellar a lot on these boards I decided to pick up the screenplay on Kindle. There's a line discussing the issue of sending data back through the wormhole in the scene where they first tell Cooper about the wormhole and the Lazarus missions, where Doyle says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Data transmission back through the wormhole is rudimentary, simple&#xA;  binary 'pings' on an annual basis to give some clue as to which worlds&#xA;  have potential.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, that seems to suggest there is some special difficulty sending signals back through the wormhole, rather than just a difficulty with sending long-range information, especially since once the &lt;em&gt;Endurance&lt;/em&gt; arrives at the other side of the wormhole, they do get detailed info on the planets there from Mann and the other explorers, information which the people at NASA presumably would have &lt;em&gt;liked&lt;/em&gt; to have if it were possible:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Doyle: The lost communications came through—&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Brand: How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Doyle: The relay on this side cached them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Doyle flicks through data—&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Years of basic data—no real surprises. Miller's site has kept pinging&#xA;  thumbs up, as has Mann ... but Edmunds went down, three years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later there's a line making clear that once they were on the same side of the wormhole as the Lazarus folks, they could get more detailed info than just the &quot;thumbs up&quot; ping:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Doyle: Look, Dr Mann's data is promising, but we won't get there for&#xA;  months. Edmunds is even further. Miller hasn't sent much, but what she&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; sent is promising—water, organics...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8870" LastEditorUserId="8870" LastEditDate="2014-11-27T15:17:31.600" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T15:17:31.600" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27631" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="55306" CreationDate="2014-11-27T15:25:04.767" Score="14" ViewCount="3369" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 2, Ben (as fake Henry Gale) was trying to manipulate Locke into not entering the code into the computer in the Swan Station. This was made clear in particular when Ben told Locke that never entered the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why did Ben wanted Locke not to enter the code?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, Ben wanted Locke to pick a fight with Jack (and maybe others like Eko). But Ben should be aware of the consequences of not entering the code (It is likely that at least Richard is aware of the consequences as after the incident, the others and the Dharma initiative have been cooperating when building the Swan Station. Then Ben should know of it as well - especially since he knew of the existence of the Swan Station before being kidnapped). So at least for Ben's own security, he should not risk the case that the code is not being entered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if he didn't know, he must know that the Dharma people did this for decades and should at least be afraid of the possible unknown consequences?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T02:25:13.177" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T21:01:47.027" Title="Why did Ben manipulate Locke into not entering the code?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lost|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8389" CreationDate="2014-11-27T18:34:28.840" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It appears the crime is his own creation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extensive searching hasn't unearthed &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; movies that are being referenced here and it doesn't appear in any cast interviews. It seems far more likely that the crime is just another example of the &lt;em&gt;bizarre nature&lt;/em&gt; of Dwight, which is evident throughout the entire series.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="22649" LastEditDate="2017-09-18T08:07:20.347" LastActivityDate="2017-09-18T08:07:20.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9218" CreationDate="2014-11-27T18:51:11.953" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The two movies are ignored in the continuity of the show.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cynthia Cidre, the new show's writer and executive producer, addressed this &lt;a href=&quot;http://ultimatedallas.com/cynthiacidre/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in an interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer&lt;/strong&gt;: In JR Returns the scene was set for a continuation of the Barnes Ewing&#xA;  feud. Why did you move away from this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cynthia&lt;/strong&gt; - I was told, not necessarily to pick up where it left off but&#xA;  not to pay to much attention to the movies because the movies had&#xA;  tried to wrap stuff up in two hours. But we did not, I have to admit,&#xA;  although I saw one of them, I did not download it in my brain. I was&#xA;  really going off the end of the season, I don't pick it up from then,&#xA;  its now 2012 so we have not seen the Ewing family in all those years&#xA;  but now we are going to see them and they look good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, the two movies were &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; considered canon. This can be seen in the treatment of JR. For example, in the first film it was revealed J.R. shot a mirror and left to go to Europe. In the second film, he returned and tried to regain his empire. &lt;strong&gt;All&lt;/strong&gt; of this is ignored in the new series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the two Dallas movies have officially been &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_continuity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;retconned&lt;/a&gt; and are no longer canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-11-27T20:26:30.357" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T20:26:30.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27636" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27637" CreationDate="2014-11-27T19:22:37.850" Score="6" ViewCount="352" Body="&lt;p&gt;I heard the plot for this movie from a friend.  Humans are homo sapiens, but historically there have been other species in the homo genus, neanderthal being one of them.  Perhaps the movie is about a member of the homo neanderthals, but it could be about some of the other branches of the gene homo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, the plot is about the last member of such species, and his search for other &quot;people&quot; like him after his tribe gets killed off.  But he finds no one.  The last scene has him throwing a stick into the sea in frustration (or is it despair?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9287" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T23:30:07.623" Title="Movie about the last member of a man-like dead species" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:26:10.977" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27636" CreationDate="2014-11-27T20:24:23.623" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095646/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Missing Link&lt;/a&gt; from 1988. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_Link_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The film follows the last of the man-apes&lt;/strong&gt; (Peter Elliott) as he wanders through the wilderness after his tribe is slaughtered by the aggressive humans who have invented the ax and have learned to make use of fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When he comes across a human footprint at the ocean shore, he sniffs it and then starts hitting it, wanting revenge against the humans. But he then relents &lt;strong&gt;and tosses the ax into the ocean&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/FZ65yIih5Zk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-11-27T23:30:07.623" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T23:30:07.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27603" CreationDate="2014-11-27T21:18:22.907" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As @DisgruntledGoat comments, this was all intentional. There's a fantastic Hollywood Reporter article, which includes an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/christopher-nolan-breaks-silence-interstellar-749465&quot;&gt;interview with Christopher Nolan&lt;/a&gt;, which discusses the reasons. To quote the most relevant parts from the article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since the movie’s opening on Nov. 5, some viewers have complained&#xA;  about the movie’s sound, claiming some key dialogue is difficult to&#xA;  hear and raising questions about whether it is the fault of the sound&#xA;  mix or the sound systems in some of the theaters where the film is&#xA;  playing. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;But Nolan said the movie’s sound is exactly as he intended&#xA;  and he praised theaters for presenting it correctly.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nolan himself states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“The theaters I have been at have been doing a terrific job in terms&#xA;  of presenting the film in the way I intended,” he continued. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Broadly&#xA;  speaking, there is no question when you mix a film in an&#xA;  unconventional way as this, you’re bound to catch some people off&#xA;  guard, but hopefully people can appreciate the experience for what&#xA;  it’s intended to be.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“We made carefully considered creative decisions,” he said. “&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;There are&#xA;  particular moments in this film where I decided to use dialogue as a&#xA;  sound effect, so sometimes it’s mixed slightly underneath the other&#xA;  sound effects or in the other sound effects to emphasize how loud the&#xA;  surrounding noise is.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; It’s not that nobody has ever done these things&#xA;  before, but it's a little unconventional for a Hollywood movie.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nolan also described the scene in the hospital, where Michael Caine's character died:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“The creative intent there is to be truthful to the situation — an&#xA;  elderly man dying and saying something somewhat unexpected. We are&#xA;  following the emotional state of Jessica’s character as she starts to&#xA;  understand what he’s been saying. Information is communicated in&#xA;  various different ways over the next few scenes. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;That’s the way I like&#xA;  to work; I don't like to hang everything on one particular line. I&#xA;  like to follow the experience of the character.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the sound decisions were &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; intentional and seem to be to give a more &lt;em&gt;realistic&lt;/em&gt; tone to everything that was going on, involving the audience fully in the scene by allowing them to experience what the &lt;em&gt;characters&lt;/em&gt; were experiencing - so, for example, in moments of great stress or shock, the actual &lt;em&gt;dialogue&lt;/em&gt; becomes less important and instead we hear either the sound effects of their surroundings or the music Nolan chose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T21:18:22.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24647" CreationDate="2014-11-27T21:47:42.273" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's unknown&lt;/strong&gt;. Just like they remain a mystery in the book (&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=MkluuskLTLoC&amp;amp;pg=PA62&amp;amp;lpg=PA62&amp;amp;dq=%22quoyle&amp;#39;s%20first%20name%20is%20never%20revealed%22&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=hYB0e9leSD&amp;amp;sig=B4B741EEvxYmGzeILrCOI7g_2xg&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=7Jp3VJm0BI-Q7Abu7YCACg&amp;amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22quoyle&amp;#39;s%20first%20name%20is%20never%20revealed%22&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;see here&lt;/a&gt;), Quoyle's first and middle name are never revealed in the movie either (&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=R5I9PQQjluQC&amp;amp;pg=PA43&amp;amp;lpg=PA43&amp;amp;dq=%22shipping%20news%22%20Quoyle%20%22first%20name%22&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=T8qeXllGCt&amp;amp;sig=6h3Hq0gVUAHvYOOe297oxvXXRAg&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=ZJl3VNmaOqiv7Abp24CgAg&amp;amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22shipping%20news%22%20Quoyle%20%22first%20name%22&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;see here&lt;/a&gt;). Sorry. :(&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T21:47:42.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1433" CreationDate="2014-11-27T21:53:53.063" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don't know&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware this is a non-answer, but this has been my Everest on this site for some time now! I've searched high and low and there is simply no existing information on who the judges were. Unless an active participant of the show sees this post and adds the answer, I don't think we'll ever know. The show never mentioned it, none of the associated wikis or website ever mentioned it and even the (few) fan forums for parkour never question who the judges are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So simply put: we don't know and are highly unlikely to ever know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T21:53:53.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27645" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27646" CreationDate="2014-11-27T23:18:13.003" Score="5" ViewCount="205" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tl;dr&lt;/strong&gt; Why was the question of the gunshot wound received by Childers never included in his hearing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm referring to the film titled &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160797/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rules of Engagement&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, released in 2000 and starring Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Synopsis&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film revolves around the order given by Lt. Terry Childers (Jackson) to his Marine Expeditionary Unit to open fire on a group of civilians who are demonstrating outside the US embassy in Yemen. The unit follows the order and (somewhat reluctantly) opens fire on the demonstrators, killing and wounding scores of apparently unarmed civilians. Lt. Childers is subsequently court-martialed for his order to open fire on the crowd. During the attack, the unit identify and engage several enemy positions, particularly snipers, in adjacent buildings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scene&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While trying to retrieve the American flag from the roof, Childers and some of his unit come under enemy fire and become pinned down. While Childers has his back to the wall, he is shot through the upper chest/shoulder by a single round that could only have originated from the crowd below. The round enters his back and exits high on his upper-right torso, possibly from the shoulder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was the question of the gunshot wound received by Childers never included in his hearing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would have been relatively easy to get collaborating testimony about his location and position at the exact time of the shooting from the remainder of the unit, who were eye-witnesses. It also would have been fairly easy to identify where the shooter must have been standing using forensic and scientific substantiation, given the trajectory of the bullet through Childers' body (entry vs exit wounds).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How come the gunshot wound was never raised in the trial?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why It Matters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The court martial seeks to determine whether or not Lt. Childers' order to open fire on the crowd was lawful or not, by being conducted in accordance with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_engagement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NATO Rules of Engagement&lt;/a&gt; in a combat situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The evidence of the origin of the gunshot would have provided a very strong case for Lt. Childers' acquittal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16103" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-18T15:10:58.070" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T15:10:58.070" Title="Was Crucial Evidence Missed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|rules-of-engagement-2000|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27645" CreationDate="2014-11-27T23:44:19.047" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think any crucial evidence was missed, as I have to disagree with your premise. I've rewatched the scene in question. Childers is shot around the 28:20 mark in the film and it clearly shows the shooter is a machine gunner on &lt;em&gt;the opposite roof top, not the crowd&lt;/em&gt;. I took a screenshot of the moment I refer to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6WZkp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can clearly see the shooter is on the same level as Childers, on the opposite roof. You can watch the scene in question yourself (the video will auto started at the relevant location). As you'll already know, the video is quite bloody, so be prepared:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fp7ihY2aAaY?start=59&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie revolved around whether there were shooters &lt;em&gt;in the crowd&lt;/em&gt; and, if not, &lt;em&gt;was Childers justified in opening fire into them&lt;/em&gt;? As there was never any doubt that there were shooters &lt;em&gt;on the roof opposite&lt;/em&gt;, his injury wouldn't change anything at his trial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-11-27T23:49:30.083" LastActivityDate="2014-11-27T23:49:30.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27654" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27662" CreationDate="2014-11-28T06:15:23.630" Score="4" ViewCount="619" Body="&lt;p&gt;On November 4, 2014, a DVD set called &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00NGAJJMG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;DVD Collection&quot;&lt;/a&gt; was released for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man_and_the_Ghostly_Adventures&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; TV series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This set contains 3 discs and has a total run time of 264 minutes.  Given that each episode is 22 minutes long, that means the DVD set contains 12 episodes.  I have tried Googling and looking at product descriptions on Amazon, Ebay, and other retailers who sell it, but I cannot find a listing of the episodes that it contains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The company that produces the DVD set is Phase 4 Films, and I found a &lt;a href=&quot;http://phase4films.com/Handlers/ReportHandler.ashx?report=FactSheet&amp;amp;projectId=0e2074c9-9d06-e411-a502-d4ae527c3b65&amp;amp;buId=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;product description&lt;/a&gt; on their web site.  It does not list the episodes on the DVD set, but it does say the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Join in the adventures of PAC-MAN and his friends in this DVD Collection as they&#xA;  race to see who gets to the Repository first, participate in a Pac-Pong rivalry, and&#xA;  see how much PAC-MAN can eat before he is too full to eat anymore! PAC-MAN&#xA;  DVD Collection is a big, bustling world of action, chills, chases and comedy, starring&#xA;  three unique and winning teenagers who will stop at nothing to protect their&#xA;  friendship, their freedom, and the future! Includes 3 DVDs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comparing that description with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pac-Man_and_the_Ghostly_Adventures_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Season 1 and Season 2 episode list&lt;/a&gt;, I have figured out 3 of the episodes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;as they race to see who gets to the Repository first&quot;: This refers to the &quot;Nobody Knows&quot; episode from Season 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;participate in a Pac-Pong rivalry&quot;: This refers to the &quot;Pac-Pong Fever&quot; episode from Season 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;see how much PAC-MAN can eat before he is too full to eat anymore&quot;: This refers to the &quot;All You Can Eat&quot; episode from Season 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't know what the remaining 9 episodes are.  Season 1 had 26 episodes, so this isn't a set for the full season.  Does anyone have a complete list of the episodes on this DVD set?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9908" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T10:40:47.967" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T10:40:47.967" Title="What episodes are on the &quot;DVD Collection&quot; release of Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures?" Tags="|pac-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9037" CreationDate="2014-11-28T13:36:53.943" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;At first I was thrown by the ending, and didn't find it satisfying. I thought about it for two whole days, and then concluded that it could not have ended in any other way. It is clear throughout the film that Charlie is questioning the ways of his brother Arthur, and ultimately decides that the wayward life of the bushranger is what led Mikey to be killed. He decides to draw the line to this path, perhaps thinks it best to make something of his life, and in the process saves Stanley and Martha by killing Arthur and his sidekick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16118" LastActivityDate="2014-11-28T13:36:53.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27658" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27659" CreationDate="2014-11-28T15:20:17.307" Score="13" ViewCount="23587" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do not go gentle into that good night;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Old age should burn and rave at close of day.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Rage, rage against the dying of the light&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are famous lines from a poem by Dylan Thomas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These lines are delivered multiple times by Dr. Brand in Interstellar.&#xA;During the end of the movie, these lines are also seen engraved on a stone at the space station.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What significance do these lines have in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-01T10:11:30.760" LastActivityDate="2018-06-22T18:09:30.563" Title="Significance of Dr. Brand's poem" Tags="|interstellar|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27658" CreationDate="2014-11-28T15:31:58.193" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's about not giving up, but fighting for life - and survival - with all your might.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dylan Thomas wrote &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night&quot;&gt;the poem&lt;/a&gt; about his father, David John Thomas. The poem (and the lines you quote) signify Thomas' belief that those who reach old age, like his father, should not simply &lt;em&gt;consent&lt;/em&gt; to death - rather they should fight it and ensure they live the twilight of their lives to the fullest extent they can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that Thomas refers to death as &lt;em&gt;the good night&lt;/em&gt; - he's not saying it's something to fear or it's something bad. He's simply saying that you should cling on to &lt;strong&gt;life&lt;/strong&gt; for as long as you can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Dr. Brand uses it in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, it's symbolic of humanity's &lt;em&gt;continual fight for live&lt;/em&gt; - their desire to not go gently in to the night, but to fight tooth and nail for survival.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's particularly fascinating that Dr. Brand references the poem, as we later learn that he has effectively &lt;em&gt;given up&lt;/em&gt; on &quot;Plan A&quot;, which he didn't believe could work. But despite this, he &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; tried to resist going &lt;em&gt;gently into the good night&lt;/em&gt;, keeping the spirits of his co-workers up and trying to make them believe &quot;Plan B&quot; (which did work), was the correct path to take (even if he himself didn't believe it). This gave them reason to live and kept them fighting and working hard (&lt;em&gt;should burn and rave at close of day&lt;/em&gt;) to avoid humanity's end (&lt;em&gt;Rage, rage against the dying of the light&lt;/em&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-28T15:31:58.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27654" CreationDate="2014-11-28T17:55:39.247" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found a better description on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gohastings.com/product/MOVIE/Pac-Man-and-the-Ghostly-Adventures-DVD-Collection/sku/295157650.uts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a website&lt;/a&gt;, which at least specified this is a collection of three previous North America DVD releases, each containing 4 episodes (though without revealing their titles):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Runtime: 264 Minutes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Number of Discs: 3 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disc #1 -- Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures DVD Collection: Ghost Patrol&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 1 [:32]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 2 [21:30]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 3 [:31]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 1 [:27]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 2 [21:35]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 3 [:31]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 1 [1:32]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 2 [20:30]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 3 [:31]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 1 [:27]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 2 [21:35]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 3 [:31]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disc #2 -- Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures DVD Collection: All You Can Eat!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 1 [:30]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 2 [21:32]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 3 [:30]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 1 [:31]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 2 [21:31]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 3 [:30]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 1 [1:27]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 2 [20:35]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 3 [:30]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 1 [:31]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 2 [21:32]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 3 [:30]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disc #3 -- Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures DVD Collection: Let The Games Begin!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 1 [1:37]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 2 [20:25]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 3 [:30]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 1 [:32]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 2 [21:30]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 3 [:30]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 1 [:31]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 2 [21:31]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 3 [:30]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 1 [1:05]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 2 [20:57]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Chapter 3 [:30]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking up each individual DVD revealed that they contain the following season 1 episodes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ghost Patrol&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Stand By Your Pac-Man&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;PacLantis&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Great Chase&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Invasion of the Point Heads&lt;/em&gt; (episodes 19, 20, 23 &amp;amp; 26).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All You Can Eat&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;All You Can Eat&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;President Possessed!&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Is Zit You or Is Zit Me?&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Heebo Skeebo&lt;/em&gt; (episodes 5-7 &amp;amp; 9).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let the Games Begin!&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;No Body Knows&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Seems Like Old Times&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Betrayus Turns the Heat Up&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Pac-Pong Fever&lt;/em&gt; (episodes 11-14).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To sum it up&lt;/strong&gt;, this collection contains 12 season 1 episodes: 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 23 &amp;amp; 26, or basically, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.toonzone.net/forums/toonzone-general-animation-discussion/371111-pac-man-ghostly-adventures-dvd-guide-discussion-thread.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this website&lt;/a&gt; calls them, Volumes 2, 3 &amp;amp; 4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="9908" LastEditDate="2014-11-29T04:08:27.937" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T04:08:27.937" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26234" CreationDate="2014-11-28T18:33:48.593" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Cage became an Alpha and entered the nervous system of the Omega, could it be the Omega that revives the Human-Alpha and not himself, to lure him in a trap by sending him visions ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carter said that Cage had the power, but I'm not sure of this. He never seemed to control it and I know it doesn't mean he didn't have it but maybe the Omega still had the power and wanted to make him believe he had it to kill Cage in a trap. &#xA;Besides, when the Squad J is in the plane to Paris, Griff said that Cage told them not to kill an Alpha because the Omega would replay the day and all would be lost. Wasn't Cage supposed to have stolen the power from the Omega ? meaning that it couldn't still have this power. If he never had and controlled it, why the Omega didn't just replay the day on its own, like it did each time the UDF won a battle ? I'm not sure it needs the death of an Alpha to reboot, because it would mean that humans have killed Alphas in almost every battle lost by Humanity and that the Omega would have replay all these days to win. &#xA;It seems very incoherent to me. Or I really don't understand a single thing in this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I think Cage never had the power. After many deaths and a good knowledge of his enemies given by the Omega (which was replaying the day all over), Cage was now trained and capable to survive long enough. It let him reach the point it wanted (for Cage, the dam, for Rita, Verdun) and made him believe it was there to kill him slowly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Rita, it was slightly different as the Omega wanted the Humans to win the battle but probably didn't expect her to kill an Alpha and enter its nervous system. Then it pulled her to a place around Verdun with false visions where Alphas could kill her. The Omega sort of trained her to win the Battle of Verdun and then to come in the trap but she finally lost her ability during the fight and was no more a threat to it. Then its plan continue with the Operation Downfall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, the Omega is dead, and can't revive by time travelling since its blood melt with Cage's like did the blood of the first Alpha... which never reappeared on the beach. How to explain the final time loop ? it could possibly just be the deep and unconscious willing of Cage with his new power. Anyway, the Mimics and the Alphas are already dead before the Operation Downfall since the Omega is no more. Rita is alive and Cage will tell her in details how the Squad J and her helped him to kill the Omega. The happy ending is not so bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16116" LastEditorUserId="16116" LastEditDate="2014-11-29T11:11:06.120" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T11:11:06.120" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27668" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27679" CreationDate="2014-11-29T02:50:12.403" Score="2" ViewCount="198" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Bobby Deerfield&lt;/em&gt;, Bobby said this to Karl whose neck is injured and wearing a collar,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You have to tell them, Karl, no more starch in the collars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are they laughing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-06-15T12:55:35.807" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T12:55:35.807" Title="What's so funny about starched collars?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|bobby-deerfield|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27671" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27686" CreationDate="2014-11-29T04:45:22.787" Score="6" ViewCount="3626" Body="&lt;p&gt;On SE03EP09, Jesse complains to walt that he is over by about a pound in meth on one batch. Then he proceeds to say that Gus is paying them so little compared to what the meth is actually earning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jesse wonders why Walt was like this, and I also am. Why was Walt this generous? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also interesting that Jesse is the one complaining about money in this episode and not Walt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11090" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T14:06:32.327" Title="Why was Walt giving free meth to Gus" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27672" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-29T04:46:25.020" Score="4" ViewCount="935" Body="&lt;p&gt;When they use fancy costumes like in star wars or even simple costumes in period films what do they do after use. Of course they cannot wear it again for another movie. Are they recycled or the actors keep it for themselves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16129" LastActivityDate="2014-12-01T17:51:02.480" Title="What do they do to fancy costumes used in movies after use?" Tags="|costume|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27011" CreationDate="2014-11-29T05:30:39.283" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the film, the space station doctor tells Cooper that he is the ripe age of 124 years old. Several minutes before this, Amelia says that Cooper doesn't look too bad for someone pushing 120 years old. So, at that point, Cooper is 119 / 118 years old. A five to six year gap lost inside the Tesseract. Cooper states, just moments before Amelia's comment, that they lost 51 years using Gargantua as a sling-shot, meaning Cooper was 68 / 67 years old when Mann died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next mention of time passage is when the crew returns to the Endurance after discovering Miller's planet was a bust. 23 years and change. Making Cooper 45 / 44 years old at that moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was also mentioned that it would take two years for the crew to make the journey to Saturn from Mars, making Cooper 43 / 42 years old when he left Earth. This corresponds with Donald's comment about Cooper being born 40 years too early or too late. So, Cooper is in his 40's. The hard thing to understand is the statement of how Murph is 10 years old when Cooper leaves Earth, and when older Murph transmits her &quot;birthday&quot; message, it had only been 26 years, at best. Making Murph 35 / 36 years old, nearly six to seven years younger than Cooper at the time of her message. Hard to explain. (&lt;em&gt;There is not a six to seven year leap mentioned. Though, it is possible that on Mann's planet there was still a time difference. That is not proven, but we will go with it, nonetheless&lt;/em&gt;.) So, we have to make Murph 43 / 42 years old at this point, by her statement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the same logic, elderly Murph would be 98 / 97 years old at the end of the film; and had entered cryo-sleep around 96 / 95 years old. Understanding this, the mid 90's for a human in the 'future-future' is difficult to maintain for a older person. Meaning, an elderly person like Donald would not survive into his early 90's, especially in the state of how the Earth was and how the film portrayed medical care for children, let alone geriatrics. As of right now in 2014, the average life expectancy is 79 years old. So, to be fair, let's say Donald died at 87. We know that 25 years passed while Cooper was on the Endurance, and the like; giving proof that Donald had to be 62 when Cooper left Earth. That's not a bad sell when John Lithgow is 69 now, 68 when filming. Nearly, a six year gap in his physical appearance. For his physical appearance to make sense though, it would have to mean that Donald died at 93 / 94 years old. (&lt;em&gt;Assuming the message from Tom about burying Grandpa is at the cusp of the 23 year gap&lt;/em&gt;.) Elderly Murph in the 'future-future' could barely hold out to reach her mid to late 90's without medical watch, and she wasn't on Earth; so I find it hard to believe that Donald died in his 90's.&#xA;Now, using this logic, Cooper is 43 / 42 years old and Donald is 62 years old. A 19 / 20 year gap. Meaning Donald was 19 or 20 years old when Cooper was born. Plausible. Now, Donald could have had children at any point at those ages. Making Cooper possibly one or two years younger than Donald's daughter. She would be 17 or 18 at the earliest for marriage, making Cooper 15 / 16 years old. Though it would be unlikely for them to marry right away, because Cooper was working for NASA and in college for awhile. But, if they did marry right away at 17(Cooper) and 19 / 18(Cooper) and 20, Murph would not have been born for 15 to 16 years. Making Tom 15 or 16 years old, at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back to Donald, if he is 62 years old when he makes the comment about 6 billion people, and inventions happening each day when he was a kid, then we have to do some research here. October 1999, marked when the world hit 6 billion people. So, in order for Donald to be a kid in 1999, he would have had to have been born in the early 90's. Which would conflict with some of Cooper's statements and things of that nature. Donald must have been generalizing then, and the last year 6 billion people were on Earth was 2011. So, he couldn't have be born in 2011 to state he was a kid when the world held 6 billion people on it. So, guessing, we'll say Donald was born in 2003. &lt;strong&gt;Making the year Cooper left Earth, 2065&lt;/strong&gt;. We could go even farther and whittle it down to being late May to mid June; due to how okra and corn are planted and harvested around the New York area. I say New York because of the baseball team seen. (&lt;em&gt;Nearly 51 years into our future, or 50 years if we consider it to be 2015 now. Which rounds everything off nicely&lt;/em&gt;.) This would also make Cooper be born in 2022 - 2023. Tom was born in 2049 / 2050, meaning Cooper was 26 or 27 years old at that point. Murph was born in 2055, making Cooper 32 or 33 years old. Donald dies before 2090. And when Cooper finally returns from his journey it is the year, 2146.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think Nolan intended for the film's timeline to be torn apart like this though, and the film is really more about a father and his daughter's relationship. I enjoy the fact that a specific year is not mentioned. I think that it takes away from the message of the film, and focuses on other &quot;background noise&quot;. But us humans, we need to know the answers to our questions. Our curiosity will never die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone has better information, please share. My math could be bad, and I could have missed out on something. Feel free to help correct this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16130" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2016-09-08T00:25:33.523" LastActivityDate="2016-09-08T00:25:33.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27672" CreationDate="2014-11-29T05:49:50.463" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The production company owns most of the costumes unless it is something that the actors bring in. All costumes are retained by the production company. Some are later auctioned off and some generic costumes are sold, rented or reused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact most studio have a division that rents out costumes and props. It is a secondary source of money. They have large warehouses of this stuff. For eg: here is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://studiofacilities.warnerbros.com/production-rentals-and-services/costume-department/&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; to Warner Bros costume department.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T05:49:50.463" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27672" CreationDate="2014-11-29T05:50:02.353" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the answer given by @BobbyAlexander , I have seen them on display at theaters in Los Angeles, and on traveling displays regarding the movie. For example, I saw a traveling Star Wars collection that included a Darth Vadar costume, stormtrooper costumes, even Yoda. It also included other props from the movie such as light sabers, droids, and miniatures models (X-wings, Y-wings, tie fighters, etc.). They were set up as if they were a museum exhibit - miniatures on pedestals, and larger pieces behind red ropes or glass, with printed descriptions next to each piece.  (It was pretty cool!!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, for movies &amp;amp; shows with more &quot;ordinary&quot; clothes, the actors sometimes get to keep the clothes they wore. For example, Sarah Jessica Parker claims that she &quot;kept about 70 percent of her Sex and the City wardrobe after the show.&quot;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.people.com/people/sarah_jessicaparker/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article on people.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2014-12-01T17:51:02.480" LastActivityDate="2014-12-01T17:51:02.480" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27676" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27681" CreationDate="2014-11-29T05:52:55.023" Score="1" ViewCount="1402" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119654/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Men In Black (1997)&lt;/a&gt;, K tells Edwards to come to the MiB building where he ends up with a few members from different branches of the military. They're all there to take a test to join the MiB. What I don't understand is if it was really a test for everyone or just for Edwards. If it wasn't just for Edwards, did he pass or did K influence Zed into choosing him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if Edwards had passed or not because during the written test, he pulled the table over so he could write on it and in the shooting test, he shot the little girl, but gave a great explanation of why. Were these things what Zed was looking for in a candidate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2014-11-29T07:21:10.167" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T08:03:42.497" Title="Did Edwards pass the MiB test?" Tags="|men-in-black|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-12-01T17:13:51.907" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27672" CreationDate="2014-11-29T06:04:51.073" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to Bobby Alexander's and BrettFromLA's answers, I would like to add that sometimes costumes are put to an auction for fund rising and charity purposes. Sometimes, actors may buy the costumes if they're interested. And as per your question, costumes in the movies like star wars, Iron man etc are put in the online stores for sale. Check these sites, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.propstore.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;propstore&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.propworx.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;propworx&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T06:04:51.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27668" CreationDate="2014-11-29T06:25:04.907" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you send your shirt to be cleaned, you can ask them to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-using-laundry-starch.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;starch your collar&lt;/a&gt; to keep it from curling. So Bobby is just humorously saying that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervical_collar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cervical collar&lt;/a&gt; is the result of the launderers over-starching Karl's shirt collar rather than his injury.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="19762" LastEditDate="2016-06-15T12:31:24.380" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T12:31:24.380" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27676" CreationDate="2014-11-29T08:03:42.497" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;He had to have passed the tests or he wouldn't have been an agent.  These aren't real tests, they're &lt;em&gt;psyche&lt;/em&gt; tests. Presented with a problem, how do you solve it?  The tests are conducted in a way that conformists, with no imagination or natural problem-solving ability, will give predictable results. Only the most perceptive candidate will pass by applying logic even when the logical conclusion deviates from standard behavior.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While he may not have the academic credentials of the other candidates, he demonstrates that he can undertake completely unfamiliar situations and use his &quot;street&quot; abilities to meet them in unexpected ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T08:03:42.497" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27683" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-29T09:27:49.987" Score="10" ViewCount="9687" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we all know, going near a black hole (Gargantua in this case) slows down time, according to the theory of relativity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when Cooper comes out of the black hole, after spending a fair bit of time there, shouldn't he be much older than Brand who hasn't gone inside Gargantua?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16132" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-11-30T18:11:01.760" LastActivityDate="2017-06-05T06:25:37.473" Title="Shouldn't there be an age difference between Cooper and Brand?" Tags="|interstellar|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1853" CreationDate="2014-11-29T10:51:52.043" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nick Fisher's death was really uncalled for. Slevin didn't need his body to fake his death because for one, Slevin obviously didn't reside there. He could've easily left after the job was finished. Two, he was using a pseudonym the whole movie. No one knew his true identity. There were other ways to fulfill their plan without killing Nick Fisher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16133" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T10:51:52.043" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27671" CreationDate="2014-11-29T14:06:32.327" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL; DR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt is starting to fear for the life of himself, his family and Jesse - he doesn't want to do &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; to risk upsetting Gus, including removing &lt;em&gt;excess meth&lt;/em&gt; from a batch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the conversation you're referring to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WALT&lt;/strong&gt; Better over than under.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;JESSE&lt;/strong&gt; Over by a pound and a half? I thought you were all, like, “precise.”&#xA;  Whatever. I’ll just save it out till next week.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;WALT&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;We ship it as-is.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;JESSE&lt;/strong&gt; What&#xA;  are we, running a charity?! C’mon man, we’re gonna take it out!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;WALT&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Leave it. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;One batch, one ship. Stop complicating things.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;JESSE&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Why are you purposely giving him free meth?! These&#xA;  bitches are bleeding us enough already!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;WALT&lt;/strong&gt; You are paid&#xA;  extraordinarily well, why can’t you just appreciate that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, before we analyse this, remember that later in the episode Walt goes to visit Gus and this (long) conversation takes place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GUS&lt;/strong&gt; How is your brother-in-law?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;WALT&lt;/strong&gt; He’ll live.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;GUS&lt;/strong&gt; Good. I’m glad.&#xA;  Walter, you seem troubled. How can I help you?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;WALT&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  I asked to see you in order to... clear the air. There are, uh, some&#xA;  issues that could cause a-a misunderstanding between us, and I think&#xA;  it’s in our best interests to just lay cards on the table.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;GUS&lt;/strong&gt; Well, that’s the best way&#xA;  to do business.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;WALT&lt;/strong&gt; My brother-in-law, moments before he was&#xA;  attacked. Someone called to warn him. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I believe that same person was&#xA;  protecting me. Those two men, the assassins... I believe I was their&#xA;  prime target.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; But that somehow, they were steered away from me to my&#xA;  brother-in-law. Because of this intervention, I am alive. And&#xA;  yet I think that this person was playing a much deeper game. He&#xA;  made that phone call because he wanted a shoot-out, not a silent&#xA;  assassination. In one stroke, he bloodied both sides, set the American&#xA;  and Mexican governments against the cartel and cut off the supply of&#xA;  methamphetamine to the Southwest. If this man had his own source of&#xA;  product -- on this side of the border -- he would have the market to&#xA;  himself. The rewards would be... enormous. We’re both adults. I&#xA;  can’t pretend I don’t know that person is you. I want there to be&#xA;  no confusion. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I know I owe you my life. And more than that, I respect&#xA;  the strategy. In your position, I would have done the same.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  One issue which troubles me. I don’t know &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;what happens when our three month&#xA;  contract ends.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;GUS&lt;/strong&gt; What would you like to happen?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;WALT&lt;/strong&gt; You know why I&#xA;  do this. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I want security for my family.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;GUS&lt;/strong&gt; Then you&#xA;  have it. Three million for three&#xA;  months, that was our agreement. Extended annually, twelve million a&#xA;  year. Call it fifteen. Open-ended. Would that be agreeable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, just two episodes earlier in &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/One_Minute&quot;&gt;One Minute&lt;/a&gt;, Hank was shot by the Cousins. Walt is very well aware of this and is &lt;em&gt;increasingly&lt;/em&gt; becoming aware of the severity of his position. He &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; wanted to get into the business to make money for his family and get out. Now, he's realising that may not be possible. He's very much trapped at the will of Gus. He has to do what he wants and that thought is scaring him. He feels helpless and powerless. Whilst Jesse notices the extra meth, Walt has no interest in doing &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; that could risk angering or upsetting Gus, regardless of the financial implications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, he does indeed go to visit Gus and very cautiously lays out what he knows - that Gus was the reason Hank was shot and that it was done to protect Walt. Walt even goes as far as to say &lt;em&gt;he agrees with this strategy&lt;/em&gt;, before nervously inquiring about what happens to him after the contract ends. He's told his situation can be &quot;open-ended&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the title of this episode - &lt;strong&gt;Kafkaesque&lt;/strong&gt;. This was a word coined by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kafkaesque&quot;&gt;Franz Kafka&lt;/a&gt;, which refers to a relateable, yet surreal situation, with a sense of impending danger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; where Walt finds himself now. On the one hand, he is only &lt;em&gt;alive&lt;/em&gt; because Gus intervened and redirected the assassins to Hank - both saving Walt &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; increasing his dominant grasp on the meth business. On the other hand, he's fully aware that he is &lt;em&gt;totally&lt;/em&gt; at the whim of Gus and could either be released at the end of his contract, killed, or forced to work on. All of these realisations are becoming apparent to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His solution? Continue his work as normal and do &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; to upset or anger Gus. Instead, he wants to a &lt;em&gt;model employee&lt;/em&gt;, as he really is starting to fear for his own life, for Jesse's life and for his family's life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T14:06:32.327" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27688" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-29T16:41:41.153" Score="1" ViewCount="153" Body="&lt;p&gt;At around the 10 minute mark in &lt;em&gt;Author! Author!&lt;/em&gt; there's a dinning scene. When one of Ivan's daughter said &quot;My cheese, I love my cheesie&quot; And Ivan told her to act her age (she's 11). What does that mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-15T09:50:13.570" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T09:50:13.570" Title="Why does Ivan tell his daughter to &quot;act her age&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|author-author|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27689" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27691" CreationDate="2014-11-29T16:55:26.160" Score="12" ViewCount="2229" Body="&lt;p&gt;Trying to remember the name of a film. This one has been bugging me for ages!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Published in the 00's, the film's plot goes something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Nazi's broadcast a video into space to celebrate their achievements with technology.&#xA;Years later, satellites listening to space pick up the exact same video being sent back to earth.  But this time, it has been highly amplified and also contains noise/distortion.&#xA;They then find out the noise has patterns and is essentially code embedded in the video.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long story short, they realise the code is blueprints to build a huge structure which they 'think' might be a teleporter or something. The world invests money into building the space port thing.  On the day of launch, it gets bombed.&#xA;People then learn that a second port was built by private investors and they use that instead.&#xA;A girl enters the device and it seamed to malfunction... But she believes she was transported somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really cant remember the name, actors or anything but I'd like to watch it again!!!&#xA;All help appreciated!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16134" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-11-29T17:28:20.783" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T17:28:20.783" Title="Can you name this Sci-Fi film set around receiving a signal from space and building a structure?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:26:23.450" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27688" CreationDate="2014-11-29T16:58:41.313" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;She's saying something that's very childish, that someone much younger (say five or six years old) might say. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She's being told to act her age, i.e. &#xA;act like a twelve years old, not someone of a much younger age. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: You've asked a few questions of this type recently. I'd strongly suggest checking out the Stack site for &lt;a href=&quot;http://english.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;English Language Learners&lt;/a&gt;, where these types of questions are probably better suited. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T16:58:41.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27689" CreationDate="2014-11-29T17:01:48.463" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884&quot;&gt;Contact&lt;/a&gt;, released in 1997, starring Jodie Foster.  The 'Nazi video' is actually a TV broadcast of the 1936 Olympic opening ceremony. The signal which is received on Earth includes this broadcast, enabling the Earth scientists to calculate how far away the source of the response is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9453" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2014-11-29T17:27:13.983" LastActivityDate="2014-11-29T17:27:13.983" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27696" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-11-29T22:19:00.870" Score="6" ViewCount="2287" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a scene in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Predestination&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; where The Bartender shows his surgery marks, as if he was a woman as well. What does this mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16140" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-12-14T23:00:21.720" LastActivityDate="2022-12-28T08:04:05.787" Title="Why does The Bartender have surgery marks?" Tags="|plot-explanation|predestination|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27698" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19723" CreationDate="2014-11-29T22:44:12.820" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;(The other answer is quite correct, but I wanted to provide an answer that breaks it up chronologically.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following is the chronological series of events, rationalizations, and experiences the characters face that reveal to them that Dr. Hannibal Lecter is the Chesapeake Ripper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 1:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Before the beginning of the television series there is a known serial killer named The Chesapeake Ripper. He is assumed to be a white male, something foreign/&quot;exotic&quot; about him, but a highly skilled surgeon and quite possibly a &quot;pure&quot; psychopath. This is considered rare because on a spectrum of psychosis, the &quot;pure&quot; psychopath would be entirely aware of all their thoughts and actions, but would be entirely devoid of sympathy and empathy. Will Graham is considered to be the exact opposite, purely empathetic, and that is the source of his &quot;special&quot; abilities. Hannibal and Jack have a conversation about this when concerned about the effect of the work on Will's state-of-mind. But at this point, no one associated with the FBI has met the Ripper and returned to tell about them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also before the beginning of this series, Jack had given the fledgling agent, Miriam Lass, the opportunity to start out with the Ripper case and try to shore up some obscure leads. By investigating the victims, she found that one of them was a hunter who was admitted to the ER just before his disappearance and murder. She checked-in on who worked at the ER the night of that victim's admittance and even though he wasn't on the call sheet, she found through another ER doctor that Hannibal was there that night. He offers to give her some of his journals from that time, and while he is supposedly retrieving them Miriam notices the &quot;The Wounded Man&quot; sketch by Hannibal that matches one of the arrangements of the Ripper victims. At this point, he sneaks up on her and attacks her, ostensibly then killing her (as Jack Crawford always believed), but we find out that she was actually kidnapped, held hostage for 2 years, and hypnotized (and probably drugged) to induce memory loss and convince her that she was being hypnotized and held captive by Dr. Frederick Chilton. At some point in the two year span, her left arm is cut off and during season 1 it is placed in the abandoned Observatory with her cell phone as a taunt from the Ripper to Jack Crawford. This gets slightly swept around throughout the seasons that focus on Will Graham, but it indicates how the Ripper sees Jack Crawford (called &quot;The Guru&quot;, by Miriam) as a kind of nemesis. Since Jack has been hunting the Ripper before the show even started, and that Hannibal has ostensibly been &quot;ripping&quot; since he was a surgeon. This makes the Chesapeake Ripper as the most sought-after serial killer by Jack Crawford's behavioural sciences unit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Season 1 then begins with Jack enlisting Will Graham to stop a currently active abductor, assumed serial killer, who is operating in Minnesota. They aren't finding any of the victims, but they all look quite similar and are being abducted around/near college campuses. Will Graham's &quot;special&quot; abilities are really a combination of intellect, observation, and a natural proclivity towards &quot;extreme&quot; empathy. He not only observes and absorbs all the facts about the situation, and his experiences as a trained FBI profiler (though never truly a field agent, due to his autism- and psychopathy-spectrum tendencies), but he puts himself in the &quot;shoes&quot; of the killer and envisions their point of view. Looking at the abductions attributed to the Minnesota Shrike (Garret Jacob Hobbs), he realizes that he is kidnapping replacements for his daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Elise Nichols is the Minnesota Shrike's last abduction victim, but he &quot;returned&quot; her because she had liver cancer, so he couldn't &quot;honor her&quot; by eating her, and thus decided to return her as the &quot;honorable&quot; thing to do. This made Garret Jacob Hobbs' psychopathy as something exactly in-between Hannibal and Will's, he has the humanity and emotionality of Will, but the impassioned cannibalistic power/feeding/god-like narcissism of Hannibal. That's why he is their constant connection. And it turns out that his daughter was being raised, slowly and somewhat reluctantly, in this lifestyle. She probably didn't want to be a part of it, and didn't share his innate psychopathy, but she was raised in it. To Will and Hannibal, she becomes something of a surrogate daughter, and again they are trying to pull her towards their extremes. She, Abigail Hobbs, heard Hannibal on the phone (with his fairly obvious accent) and realized he warned her Dad. While she doesn't know he is the Chesapeake Ripper, she is the first to realize who/what he is.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hannibal makes it even more clear to Abigail when he allows Nicholas Boyle to confront her in her home, after Freddie Lounds pointed out that he was sneaking around the property (and Freddie had previously met and provoked him further). Freddie was trying to get &quot;the story&quot;, but Hannibal decided to (as his theme of action) &quot;see what would happen&quot;. Hannibal knocks out Alana and offers Abigail the choice to face what she's done, where it's clear that she killed Nicholas quickly and efficiently, like a knowing killer would, or that they can hide the body and Hannibal can guide her. She chooses to side with Hannibal, and while she still might not know who he is, she knows he's like her Dad.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Surrounding the deduction about, and death of, Garret Jacob Hobbs, there are two new murders: the body on the stag's head in the field, where the Minnesota Shrike name is (ironically) coined, and the murder of Marissa Schurr in the Hobbs' hunting cabin. The first happens before Hobbs' murder by Will, and the second happens after, but also is before Abigail is institutionalized. Jack's original theory is that Garret Jacob Hobbs killed 8 girls, but returned Elise Nichols, then killed a 9th girl (in the field), and then Will stopped him. But Will saw that the 9th girl in the field was someone else, probably the Ripper, but they call him the copycat (Hobbs' copycat). Then Marissa Schurr's murder is a collective toss-up between: Nicholas, Will, Abigail, and the Copycat. At this point, no one suspects Hannibal, except possibly Abigail, though that's never revealed. Later on we find out that Hannibal (as the Ripper) killed the 9th girl in the field as the Ripper in &quot;tribute&quot; to the Minnesota Shrike and to expose him to Will as he understood him but Will didn't, and then he killed Marissa Schurr to &quot;see what would happen&quot; and generally throw a wrench into everything that was happening. He found the rock that Marissa threw and hit Nicholas, which had a bit of his blood, and so he essentially framed Nicholas, but in a way that was obviously a frame-job from Will's point-of-view. This is where Will begins to see those two murders as being connected, perhaps to the Ripper, since he believes Abigail is all but entirely innocent.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We then learn that Dr. Chilton has accidentally manipulated (through &quot;Psychic Driving&quot;) Dr. Abel Gideon into thinking he was the Chesapeake Ripper, and so he recreated one of the murders. However, Chilton was just trying to &quot;make his name&quot; as he had been consulted on the Ripper case back before the beginning of the series, and Gideon was a very malleable psychopath/sociopath, as he was especially narcissistic but unstable (unlike Hannibal's staunch self-awareness). Gideon has been imprisoned for so long, and already was unstable, so under Psychic Driving, he has no idea who he really is, and he clings to the notion that perhaps he is the Ripper, since only Will thinks that the latest murders are Ripper murders.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We also learn that Dr. Du Maurier suspects Hannibal is not all together a normal human being (wearing a Human Suit or a Veil of Humanity), but she doesn't realize what/who he really is. She starts to see, quite astutely, that he has become obsessed with Will Graham and is seeing him as some kind of person that may truly understand him. She finds it unhealthy, but he clearly ignores her, and she starts to realize that everything he's doing with the FBI may be some kind of scheme and manipulation. She isn't really sure about what happened when she killed her former patient to protect herself, but she is becoming sure that Hannibal is very dangerous and is probably manipulating her. She doesn't quite know that he's the Ripper, probably because she isn't aware of that case in detail, but she is sure that he's dangerous and detached.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Will is now &quot;losing time&quot; from his autoimmune form of encephalitis, where the right-half of his brain believes is inflammed from an improper, over-active immune-system response. Will's hallucinations about Garret Jacob Hobbs and author killers, all start to blend together, and he starts seeing living manifestations of the Stag statue from Dr. Lecter's office. Clearly Will has known for quite some time that Hannibal is the Ripper and performed those two murders in Minnesota, but he never really let himself believe it. So now it is slowly bubbling to the surface. He sees that Hannibal fits the profile, and when the Doctor who performed his MRI is murdered, he doesn't think it was Georgia Madchen, he thinks it was the Ripper, and why would the Ripper want to frame Georgia unless he was covering up something about Will. At this point Will knows, but he is too sick and too delusional to figure it out, so his mind is revealing it to him through the visions of the Shrike-Stag. He also is realizing that Hannibal must be a cannibal as well. While still feverish, he kidnaps the escaped Dr. Gideon and brings him to Hannibal. Will consciously thinks this is because he needs Hannibal to tell him whether his vision of Hobbs' zombie-ghost is real or delusional, but subconsciously this is Will allowing the fake Ripper to meet the real Ripper and expose everyone to each other. Hannibal takes advantage of this and Will's subsequent seizure, to then reveal himself as the Ripper to Gideon and encourage him to kill Alana Bloom, then feigning worry and encouraging Will to go after Gideon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Will stops Gideon but also collapses, everyone is worried about him and starts to wonder if he is more than just physically ill, but also psychologically ill. Will then appears to kidnap Abigail and take her back to Minnesota, subconsciously this is because he needs to confront the truth about her role in her father's murders, but consciously he thinks he is securing their surrogate father-daughter bond. Hannibal knows about this trip, so he hides it from Jack and Alana and &quot;sneaks&quot; out to intercept Abigail. He fakes her murder and force-feeds Will her ear. Hannibal is revealed fully, finally, as the Ripper to Abigail, and when Will realizes he's being framed for the &quot;copycat&quot; murders, Nicholas Boyle's murder, and Abigail Hobbs' murder, then he knows that Hannibal did it to him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;With Will imprisoned and framed, Dr. Du Maurier realizes the extent of Hannibal's manipulations, and she realizes that he is probably the murderer. She may or may not know the extent, or the name &quot;The Chesapeake Ripper&quot;, but she knows, and that's why she disappears before he can kill her (though Hannibal did show up in her home in his plastic murder suit).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gideon knows Hannibal is the Ripper, but he's imprisoned again.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Freddie finds Will to be a believable murdered, so she doesn't realize what's going on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alana and Jack, Beverly, Price, and Zeller all believe in the evidence that Will has snapped, but they hope that it was a psychic break (a fugue state), and don't believe he's the Ripper.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Will is unrelenting in his correct belief that he was framed by Hannibal, and he is starting to get through to Jack by sowing the seeds of doubt.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alana had trained under Hannibal as a student and was always, clearly, attracted to him, so she trusts him implicitly and even begins a romantic relationship with him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Beverly has had a crush on Will and wants to believe him, but feels similarly betrayed, like Alana. But she accepts his push to ignore the obvious answer and just work from the evidence. She finds that the evidence leads her to Hannibal, and she realizes he's the Ripper, but she's caught and killed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hannibal had saved Jack's wife, through a flip of a coin, but used this as a way to secure Jack's trust in him as a friend, all the while Hannibal as the Ripper still seems him as a nemesis, taunting him with Miriam Lass.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Will gains back some memories and knows that Gideon knows Hannibal is the Ripper, so he gets Chilton to encourage his &quot;delusions&quot; and bring-in Gideon, so they can both say the same name, leading Chilton to the fame of having &quot;caught&quot; the Ripper. Chilton doesn't so much as believe Will, as he does just generally distrust everyone. Gideon is rightfully scared of the Ripper, and is still quite mentally broken, so he encourages Will to realize that the only way to really catc the Ripper is to kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The nurse at the asylum is a budding psychopath and he worships the Ripper, who he thinks Will is, and so he &quot;helped&quot; Will by killing the Bailiff from the trial, trying to throw off new evidence suggesting that Will couldn't have done the other murders, since the same &quot;signature&quot; is still being used. Hannibal takes it further and kills the Judge from the trial, as the Ripper, and provides even more evidence against Will's incarceration.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Will decides to test all his options by having Beverly work the evidence angle, he uses Gideon (while Chilton obviously records them) to admit knowledge of Hannibal as the Ripper, and he encourages the nurse to go kill Hannibal. Now, though, Will is becoming more like Hannibal and less like himself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hannibal displays Beverley's body, in Ripper-fashion, after Jack just saved Hannibal from the Nurse and heard Chilton's recordings, so he brings out Will and now realizes that it is Hannibal, even though Hannibal saved his wife from killing herself, it's all but clear. Freddie, having found Beverley, is also starting to doubt Will's role in everything, and Gideon encouraged the guards to beat him up and he got himself put in the hospital, so he couldn't have done it either.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hannibal then goes and kills Gideon and provides all new evidence that exonerates Will from all the murders, and reveals that every murder was &quot;his&quot;, except the Bailiff. He even takes &quot;credit&quot; for Nicholas Boyle, but that's more about freeing Will than really stealing credit from Abigail. Also, he still wants to hide Abigail's true nature. Now Jack knows Will should be free, the Ripper did everything, and the Ripper is probably Hannibal. Chilton also knows that it is probably Hannibal, but is trying not to &quot;out&quot; himself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hannibal sends the bear-man to kill Will, and Will beats him to death then performs a Ripper-in-training display of the body with Hannibal's help. This made them &quot;even&quot; (sending someone to kill each other), and Will is showing that he's &quot;coming around&quot; to Hannibal's god-like detached psychopathic view of the world. Jack knows that Will can get close to Hannibal, so he's letting him. But Freddie still distrusts Will, so she snoops on him and finds the bear-man's remains in his freezer, but he temporarily kidnaps her and then brings in Jack and they reveal their plans. At this point, Alana, Price, and Zeller (and the rest of the FBI) are the only ones out of the loop. Du Maurier is gone, and Hannibal is putting his trust (blinded by his obsession and loneliness) in Will's friendship.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ongoing also are the Verger siblings, and Hannibal is again &quot;seeing what will happen&quot; by encouraging Margot to kill her brother, but she runs into Will, and tricks him into impregnating her, to secure her &quot;safety&quot; by having an heir. She suspects Hannibal may not be quite normal, but isn't so sure he's like her brother. Hannibal is using the new child as a way to manipulate Will's emotions, to make sure they have a secure bond as surrogate fathers, reminding him of (the thought-to-be dead) Abigail. He then tells Mason about the baby, knowing he'll do something (again to &quot;see what would happen&quot;), and Mason has the baby aborted and has a hysterectomy performed. Will should want to kill Mason, but he knows it's Hannibal's manipulation, and he doesn't want Mason to kill Hannibal, so he frees Hannibal when they're captured, and Hannibal tortures Mason by drugging him and having him mutilate himself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alana, just before Mason's mutilation, was encouraged by Will to go to a gun range and be prepared to protect herself. With Will's freedom and Jack's aloofness, she is starting to question everything, including opening herself up to the idea that all the claims about Hannibal may be true. To throw everyone off his trail, Hannibal frames Chilton, revealing himself to Chilton, but leaving the FBI with no option but to believe that Chilton is the Ripper. This makes everyone who knows Chilton quite suspicious, but at this point, only Alana is out of the loop on Hannibal being the Ripper, so she takes Will's advice and goes to the gun range, which Hannibal smells on her.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The final plan, after catching Chilton (and Miriam killing/wounding him before he can tell Alana that Hannibal is the Ripper), is that Jack has Will encourage Hannibal to expose himself to Jack. Hannibal invites Jack to a final dinner, where ostensibly Hannibal and Will are planning to kill Jack and flee the country. Alana will be left behind, and everyone else will be imprisoned or dead, and Du Maurier is already gone. Everything seems to be going to plan, but Hannibal smells Freddie Lounds (who should be dead) on Will's hair and clothes. He realizes she must be alive, it must have been fake, and he must be colluding with Jack. His trust and world shattered, Hannibal decides in one desperate last meal to give Will the opportunity for them to run away together without exposing their &quot;true natures&quot; to Jack. This is Hannibal's hope that Will really does accept him, and could just be manipulating Jack. But Will says he &quot;need[s] [Jack] to know&quot;. So Hannibal knows he is back to just himself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jack is desperate, obviously, with this plan, but knows he'll need more testimony once they catch him, so he finds and brings in Dr. Du Maurier, and finally she realizes what she probably should have known all along, that Hannibal is the Ripper, and that he is pulling all the strings. She knows that all their plans will fail, and that Hannibal is always ten steps ahead. Ostensibly (though we'll find out actually when season 3 begins) this is why she leaves with Hannibal, similar to what Freddie suspected of Will, &quot;if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.&quot;. Since the FBI clearly couldn't stop him, she decides to join him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the finale, the FBI realizes what Jack was doing, so they stop him, but before they can arrest Will and Jack, Alana warns them, and then she too decides to go confront Hannibal, in case Will and Jack are on their way there, too. Jack arrives and they fight and he's hurt and trapped in the pantry when Alana arrives. She finally sees Hannibal for who he is, though she already was suspecting, but was never really in on the plan, so we can assume that she doesn't really let herself know until this moment. She runs and is confronted by Abigail who has been kidnapped by Hannibal all along. She, under Hannibal's orders, pushes Alana out the window, and Will arrives. He goes after Hannibal, but is confronted by Abigail, and is genuinely shocked and surprised. He tries to continue lying to Hannibal, because he doesn't know that Hannibal already knows everything and he worries Jack might be dead, but Hannibal cuts Will and then, as &quot;payback&quot; for his betrayal, he kills Abigail (just like her father first tried) all over again in front of Will, but this time Will is powerless and left for dead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only at this point has Alana truly caught up, and now everyone, including the FBI, knows that Hannibal is the Ripper, even though he must have had fake passports and has already escaped with Dr. Du Maurier.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 3:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not yet aired. But all characters know Hannibal is the Ripper by now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user12701" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-14T02:07:15.253" LastActivityDate="2015-06-14T02:07:15.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2014-11-30T00:26:47.523" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it’s possible that James isn’t a real physical person separate from the original character Simon, but that much of what James does in the film does actually happen. This is because Simon and James are two personalities of one main character. Sometimes he’s actually doing things as Simon, and sometimes he actually does things as James. And sometimes we’re also getting a second physical representation of him but it is only his thoughts as Simon, or sometimes his thoughts as James.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, I’ll add the idea that much of the movie is not literally real but simply Simon’s thoughts about things that have happened to him. And sometimes even things that haven’t even happened to him. Sometimes parts of scenes are simply internal dialogue in his head about what he thinks, what he thinks other people think, and what his other personality thinks. I’ll explain a bit more of what I think is really going on and give examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That answers the basics of your question, but I ended up writing a whole lot more detail about your question and the movie in an article. Great question. It was the inspiration for me to think about and write about the movie in more detail, and it was fun to write this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lifethinkist.com/the-double-explanation-what-happened&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Double Movie Explained: What Was It About?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What Do I Think?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What Do I Know For Sure?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is James Real?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are The Scenes Real?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What Is The Opening Plot?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What Is Just In Simon's Head?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What Is Really Going On In Real Life?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When And Why Does Simon Become James?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why Do We See Both Simon And James?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How Does Simon Become James?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What Would James Do?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does He Choose Simon or James?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16142" LastEditorUserId="16142" LastEditDate="2014-12-01T03:14:12.330" LastActivityDate="2014-12-01T03:14:12.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2620" CreationDate="2014-11-30T08:43:25.677" Score="-7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the actors suck the smoke only into their mouths, but not into their lungs so it doesn't do damage to the lungs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16150" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2014-11-30T14:40:56.813" LastActivityDate="2014-11-30T14:40:56.813" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27707" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27717" CreationDate="2014-11-30T08:47:50.960" Score="6" ViewCount="13621" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Pirates of the Caribbean, why Bill Turner was called &quot;Bootstrap&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dE1F2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bill Turner&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13689" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T12:57:29.790" LastActivityDate="2015-09-05T23:26:33.020" Title="Why was Bill Turner called Bootstrap?" Tags="|character|pirates-of-the-caribbean|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27707" CreationDate="2014-11-30T14:59:48.397" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As described in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/William_Turner_Sr.&quot;&gt;Pirates of the Caribbean wiki&lt;/a&gt;, at the start of William Turner Sr.'s career, he was simply Billy Turner. Since Billy is not a 'fit name for a pirate', he was named Bloody Bill Turner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wasn't until he assisted Barbossa in the mutiny and then turned on the mutineers by sending his son a single piece of eight, thus ensuring their everlasting torment by curse, that Barbossa has his crew tie Bloody Bill to a cannon by his bootstraps and tossed him overboard; thus changing his non-de-plume to Bootstrap Bill Turner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2014-11-30T14:59:48.397" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27725" CreationDate="2014-11-30T15:53:39.503" Score="3" ViewCount="10021" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImyntxVxZyE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;anime&lt;/a&gt; depicting the origin of O-ren Ishii was one of the most tragic and beautiful scenes in Kill Bill. But do we know why her parents were murdered by a Yakuza boss? It didn't make sense to me why a ganster would murder the family of a US soldier stationing in Japan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14080" LastEditorUserId="14080" LastEditDate="2014-11-30T18:26:24.087" LastActivityDate="2014-12-01T10:22:29.163" Title="Reason for the murder of O-ren Ishii's parents" Tags="|plot-explanation|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27707" CreationDate="2014-11-30T16:35:07.077" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don't know&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first Pirates film, The Curse of the Black Pearl, Jack Sparrow and Will discuss Bootstrap Bill Turner:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;William Turner&lt;/strong&gt;: You knew my father.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jack Sparrow&lt;/strong&gt;: I knew him. Probably&#xA;  one of the few who knew him as William Turner. Everyone else just&#xA;  called him &quot;Bootstrap&quot; or &quot;Bootstrap Bill&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;William Turner&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;  &quot;Bootstrap&quot;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jack Sparrow&lt;/strong&gt;: Good man, good pirate. I swear you look&#xA;  just like him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bootstrap Bill &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; come to his demise by being tied to a cannon by his bootstraps and thrown overboard, but the conversation between Jack Sparrow and Will Turner above strongly implies that the manner of his death was &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; of his nickname, rather than what &lt;em&gt;led&lt;/em&gt; to his nickname.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, he was called Bootstrap Bill &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; that incident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So where did Bootstrap &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; come from? We don't know. We have never been told.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-11-30T16:35:07.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27683" CreationDate="2014-11-30T17:35:12.760" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There is indeed a little age difference between the two, but not a significant one.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, let's look if there was an age difference between &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Amelia&lt;/em&gt; in the movie. The movie itself highly suggests that there wasn't much of a &lt;em&gt;significant&lt;/em&gt; age difference between the two. When &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Amelia&lt;/em&gt; and the two robots make their gravitational slingshot around &lt;em&gt;Gargantua&lt;/em&gt; and right before &lt;em&gt;Coop&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;TARS&lt;/em&gt; throw themselves into it, he says &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;That little trip cost us 51 years&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, to which &lt;em&gt;Amelia&lt;/em&gt; jokingly answers &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;you sound good for someone approaching 120&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. So at this point, where both's times didn't yet deviate, &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; is already pretty near to his supposed 124 (as measured by earth standards) at the end, as also detailed in the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/27257/49&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt;. So &lt;strong&gt;the age difference he does acquire by his trip &lt;em&gt;into&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;Gargantua&lt;/em&gt; is not much, only a few years maybe&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this also fits to the depiction of &lt;em&gt;Amelia Brand&lt;/em&gt;'s whereabouts at the end when &lt;em&gt;Murph&lt;/em&gt; says something like &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Brand...She's setting up her camp...Perhaps she currently prepares herself for the long sleep&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, if we take into account that it took &lt;em&gt;Brand&lt;/em&gt; some time, probably at least a few months if not years, to reach &lt;em&gt;Edmunds&lt;/em&gt;' planet, and then more time to set up the camp and send a signal home (as discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/27474/49&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now to the question if there &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; be a larger age difference between the two -- and thus also between &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; and everyone else, especially &lt;em&gt;Murph&lt;/em&gt; -- due to his stay inside &lt;em&gt;Gargantua&lt;/em&gt;. You seem to assume that he resided inside the black hole and its gravitational influence for the whole of his communication with &lt;em&gt;Murph&lt;/em&gt;. But as the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/27199/49&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/27252/49&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; discuss, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; hasn't been inside the black hole all the time&lt;/strong&gt;. He plunged into &lt;em&gt;Gargantua&lt;/em&gt; only to be effectively saved from there by the &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Bulk Beings&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; shortly after, who put him into the &lt;em&gt;Tesseract&lt;/em&gt; and transported him out of the black hole by employing an additional spatial dimension. So &lt;strong&gt;he was only subject to &lt;em&gt;Gargantua&lt;/em&gt;'s huge time dilation for a short moment&lt;/strong&gt;. But I'm also too less of a physicist to say if that bit of time dilation he experienced &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; still have been larger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to gain some further insights on the matter, we can take a look into the book &lt;em&gt;The Science of Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; by physicist &lt;em&gt;Kip Thorne&lt;/em&gt;, who advised and accompannied the movie from its earliest conception onward. As already explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/27533/49&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; was basically trapped between two different singularities, an &amp;quot;outflying&amp;quot; one from stuff falling in much earlier that him and scattered back to him and an &amp;quot;infalling&amp;quot; one from stuff falling in long after him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I explained the two singularities to Chris, he immediately knew which one should hit the Ranger. The outflying singularity. Why? Because Chris had already adopted, for Interstellar, a variant of the laws of physics that prevents physical objects from ever traveling backward in time. The infalling simgularity is produced by stuff that falls into Gargantua long after Cooper falls in [...] If Cooper is hit by the singularity and survives, the universe's far future will be in his past. He will be so far in our future that, even with the help of bulk beings, he won't be able to return to the solar system until billions of years after he left, if ever. That would prevent him from ever reuniting with his daughter Murph. So Chris firmly chose Cooper to be hit by the outflying singularity, not the infalling one...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chris's choice, though, presents a bit of a problem for my scientist's interpretation of the movie. [...] If the Ranger falls directly into Gargantua from the critical orbit, then its infall is slow enough that the infalling singularity will catch up to it and hit it. For the Ranger to hit the outflying singularity instead, as Chris wants, the Ranger must nearly outrun the infalling singularity, which is descending at the speed of light. The Ranger can do so, if it is given a large, inward kick. How? The usual: by a slingshot around a suitable intermediate-mass black hole soon after leaving the Endurance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the singularity's edge the tesseract awaits Cooper -- placed there presumably, by bulk beings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So practically as shown in the movie &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; should indeed have just fallen into the black hole and become part of the infalling singularity and thus lived through millions upto billions of earth years in those short moments. But if we assume that he plunged into &lt;em&gt;Gargantua&lt;/em&gt; with a significant speed boost, he basically outruns the infalling singularity (at least for a sufficient time), reaches the outflying singularity in &lt;strong&gt;a few moments and is then right after that saved from the black hole and its time-dilating influence&lt;/strong&gt; by the &lt;em&gt;Tesseract&lt;/em&gt;, presumably fast enough to not cause his time to deviate by more than a few years from &lt;em&gt;Brand&lt;/em&gt;'s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-12-01T10:03:50.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5764" CreationDate="2014-12-01T00:21:12.237" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sheldon - 197&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Lenard - 193&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Amy (Sheldon finds her near equal)- 170 - 175&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Kripke (Sheldon rival obviously close in intelligence)- 175 - 180&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Raj (pretty much a guess, but he is an astrophysicists ) 155-160&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Howard (engineers so pretty smart, but not an Einstein) 140 - 150&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Bernadette (pretty much a guess, she develops drug &quot;doesn't take a genius&quot;) - 125 - 135&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Stuart (runs a comic book store &quot;average&quot;) - 100 - 105&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Penny (not too bright) - 87 - 100&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16158" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-05T06:36:21.707" LastActivityDate="2015-11-05T06:36:21.707" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27723" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-01T06:42:46.313" Score="5" ViewCount="304" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Peter Jackson's 1987 film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092610/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_23&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bad Taste&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, one of the main characters, Derek, is fighting with aliens on the side of a rather steep hill. I have to wonder what kind of safety precautions the actors took when filming this scene so as to not trip and fall to their death. I can't imagine it was anything all that special knowing most of the props and such were made by Jackson himself and that the movie was very low budget. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was not able to find anything online talking about how this scene was filmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="286" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-12-14T09:56:52.060" LastActivityDate="2018-12-28T18:07:26.647" Title="What were the precautions taken for Derek's safety in the hill scene?" Tags="|bad-taste|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27716" CreationDate="2014-12-01T10:22:29.163" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has never been explained, and it looks like the upcoming combined/extended &quot;Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair&quot; also won't explain this, since the longer anime sequence seems to mostly deal with a fight between O-Ren Ishii and the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/kill-bill-the-whole-bloody-affair-limited-release/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;long haired killer&lt;/a&gt;&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What’s going on with that is originally back when Kill Bill was going&#xA;  to be one movie, I wrote an even longer anime sequence. So you see in&#xA;  the movie [O-Ren] kill her boss but then there was that long hair guy…&#xA;  The big sequence was her fighting that guy. I.G. [The Japanese Anime&#xA;  Studio] who did Ghost in the Shell said we can’t do that and finish it&#xA;  in time for your thing. And [plus] you can’t have a thirty-minute&#xA;  piece in your movie. I said okay. It was my favorite part but it was&#xA;  the part you could drop. So we dropped it and then later when I.G.&#xA;  heard we were talking about doing Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair —&#xA;  they still had the script so without even being commissioned, they&#xA;  just did it and paid for it themselves. It’s really terrific. Anyway,&#xA;  The Weinstein Company and myself were talking about actually coming&#xA;  out with it sometime, not before the year is out, but within the next&#xA;  year with limited theatrical engagement as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2014-12-01T10:22:29.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26246" CreationDate="2014-12-01T12:38:22.150" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode 2, &lt;strong&gt;Strangers&lt;/strong&gt;, just before Bob is abducted we see a gash carved into a tree. I presumed this was made by the gang from Terminus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then in the next episode, &lt;strong&gt;Four Walls and a Roof&lt;/strong&gt;, the leader of the terminus gang, Gareth, is telling Bob why they did what they did. He says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You know, we marked our way here so that we could find our way back&#xA;  after&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I thinks its' pretty clear the Terminus gang made the markings, which Morgan came across and followed to the church, where he can be seen at in the scene after the credits on episode 6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4990" LastActivityDate="2014-12-01T12:38:22.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27727" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27729" CreationDate="2014-12-01T13:03:01.650" Score="2" ViewCount="2844" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some months ago I watched &lt;strong&gt;Mission to Mars&lt;/strong&gt; and in the first part of the movie you see that the astronauts are killed by a large vortex generated from the humanoid base.&#xA;In the end you'll see that the aliens help humans to understand their origin, after the transmission of the pair of missing chromosomes code.&#xA;Isn't this contradictory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16163" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-01T13:33:15.233" LastActivityDate="2014-12-01T13:33:15.233" Title="Mission to Mars beginning meaning" Tags="|plot-explanation|mission-to-mars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27730" CreationDate="2014-12-01T13:11:01.907" Score="5" ViewCount="9898" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Katniss Everdeen visits what is left of District 12, we see loads of dead bodies (well, what's left of them) and the destruction of the entire place. We then see that Victors' Village is pretty much untouched. What was the reasoning for this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T04:02:05.903" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T04:02:05.903" Title="Why did Snow not destroy the Victors' Village in District 12?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-mockingjay-1|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27727" CreationDate="2014-12-01T13:18:43.817" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason for this is that the &quot;aliens&quot; were waiting for the correct response to their signal. If they got the wrong response, their response was the vortex. The reasoning for this was because if the responders could not understand the message and respond accordingly, then they would not be getting the rest of the information. It's a sort of a &lt;em&gt;if you aren't ready for it, you aren't getting it&lt;/em&gt; situation. Towards the end of the movie, the astronauts (Gary Sinise and crew) then give the correct response and so are allowed to survive to receive the rest of the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-12-01T13:18:43.817" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27728" CreationDate="2014-12-01T13:27:02.787" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst answers from the movie are always good, the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingjay&quot;&gt;Mockingjay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; novel discusses this in its very first Chapter. It states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Almost nothing remains of District 12. A month ago, the Capitol's&#xA;  firebombs obliterated the poor coal miners' houses in the Seam, the&#xA;  shops in the town, even the Justice Building. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The only area that&#xA;  escaped incineration was the Victor's Village. I don't know why&#xA;  exactly. Perhaps so anyone forced to come here on Capitol business&#xA;  would have somewhere decent to stay.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; The odd reporter. A committee&#xA;  assessing the condition of the coal mines. A squad of Peacekeepers&#xA;  checking for returning refugees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the first chapter, Katniss discovers a fresh white rose among dried, dead flowers on her dresser. She realises immediately that Snow has sent it. Quoting again from the book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When I begin to gag at the stench, I back away and clear out. How long&#xA;  has it been here? A day? An hour? The rebels did a security sweep of&#xA;  the Victor's Village before I was cleared to come here, checking for&#xA;  explosives, bugs, anything unusual. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;But perhaps the rose didn't&#xA;  seem noteworthy to them. Only to me.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In her eyes, Snow left the village standing as a personal message to her about her actions and the pain he could cause her. However, there was also a side effect of doing this which was that any official Capitol citizens had somewhere to stay if they ever had need to visit District 12.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-12-01T13:52:02.330" LastActivityDate="2014-12-01T13:52:02.330" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17603" CreationDate="2014-12-01T23:42:35.200" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its very clever actually, because zombies don't actually exist. Its just a concept created for popular fiction in our world. But in the world of the walking dead, they are real. So perhaps by being real, the is no need for the concept. Why conceptualize something that exists. Its like a twist on reality. In our world &quot;The real world&quot;, we know about zombies but they are not real, only in our imaginations, but in the world of the walking dead, they really do exist yet they have never conceptualized the idea of a zombie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16172" LastActivityDate="2014-12-01T23:42:35.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27739" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30150" CreationDate="2014-12-02T03:20:38.083" Score="7" ViewCount="1842" Body="&lt;p&gt;A special effect sequence in the original Star Wars (1977) shows the planet Alderaan being blown up by the Death Star (frame shown below). Considering that this was the pre-digital era, I thought the explosion was really well done. How did they do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BDJuh.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BDJuh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Alderaan Blown Up (1977)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously some pyrotechnics were used, but what were they to make such a cool looking explosion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T20:27:48.903" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T20:27:48.903" Title="How was the effect of Alderaan blowing up accomplished?" Tags="|effects|star-wars|a-new-hope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27739" CreationDate="2014-12-02T04:29:42.427" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see the original, unaltered clip here: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/7g77WN6obk4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're interested in all the special effects, there's a great documentary called &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfqeFs7PODI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Empire Of Dreams&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was basically comprised of a scale model which was blown up, against a blue screen so the space background could be added later.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-12-02T04:29:42.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27199" CreationDate="2014-12-02T07:30:48.087" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have come to understand that Cooper was rescued by NASA rangers orbiting in another galaxy-probably hunting life sustaining planets but having their base at the Cooper station(transit point for human beings to go to next habitable planet)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16058" LastActivityDate="2014-12-02T07:30:48.087" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26271" CreationDate="2014-12-02T08:51:55.383" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't a real number. If you ring it (just tried it to be sure), you'll simply get an invalid number noise (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telephonesuk.co.uk/sounds/number_temp_unavailable.wav&quot;&gt;like this but without the speaking&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-12-02T08:51:55.383" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25143" CreationDate="2014-12-02T09:04:31.320" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There wasn't &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; much difference between the novel and the movie. Really, the only difference is that instead of &lt;em&gt;both of them&lt;/em&gt; writing their memoirs (so to speak), only Amy does this. The fact they stay together and she is pregnant is identical in both works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/gone-girl-how-was-the-books-ending-different-from-the-film-9776895.html&quot;&gt;the Independent&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the run up to the premiere, Fincher quoted Ben Affleck as saying of&#xA;  Flynn's screenplay, “This is a whole new third act! She literally&#xA;  threw that third act out and started from scratch,&quot; but the author has&#xA;  since played this down, saying the reports following it were &quot;greatly&#xA;  exaggerated&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems the original basis for this story was that Fincher was disappointed in the box office reaction to his faithful adaptions of &lt;em&gt;The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo&lt;/em&gt; and so &lt;em&gt;supposedly&lt;/em&gt; wanted to change the ending. Given Flynn's comments above, it seems likely that these sentiments were either misinterpreted, or never true to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-12-02T09:04:31.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27746" CreationDate="2014-12-02T13:15:31.187" Score="3" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a film based on the comic book series Sandman, by Neil Gaiman? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be either a feature film or a short film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9154" LastEditorUserId="19762" LastEditDate="2022-08-26T08:56:51.063" LastActivityDate="2022-08-26T08:56:51.063" Title="Is there a movie about The Sandman?" Tags="|the-sandman|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="27746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27745" CreationDate="2014-12-02T13:23:22.090" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not yet.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman_%28Vertigo%29#Film&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; is your friend for this. To quote some choice segments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Throughout the late 1990s, a movie adaptation of the comic was&#xA;  periodically planned by Warner Bros., parent company of DC Comics...&#xA;   The project carried on through several more writers and scripts. A&#xA;  later draft by William Farmer, reviewed at Ain't It Cool News, was&#xA;  met with scorn from fans. Gaiman [the creator] called the last screenplay that&#xA;  Warner Bros. would send him &quot;not only the worst Sandman script I've&#xA;  ever seen, but quite easily the worst script I've ever read. By 2001, the project had become stranded in &lt;em&gt;development hell.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_hell&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Development hell&lt;/a&gt; refers to ideas or concepts that either spend an extraordinary length of time waiting for production to begin, or projects in work &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; begins. They aren't actually cancelled, but there is just little to no work being done on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was the fate of Sandman up until 2007, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mania.com/gaiman-stardust-beowulf-sandman_article_90327.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;when Gaiman stated&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'd rather see no Sandman movie made than a bad Sandman movie. But I&#xA;  feel like the time for a Sandman movie is coming soon. We need someone&#xA;  who has the same obsession with the source material as Peter Jackson&#xA;  had with Lord of the Rings or Sam Raimi had with Spider-Man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, in 2013, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/jack-thorne-to-script-sandman-for-joseph-gordon-levitt/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;it was announced&lt;/a&gt; that a film was on the way. In mid October of 2014, &lt;a href=&quot;http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/100211415516/despite-talk-last-month-about-the-script-being&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gaiman then clarified&lt;/a&gt; that the film would be distributed by Vertigo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So ultimately, &lt;strong&gt;no there is no Sandman movie&lt;/strong&gt;, but &lt;em&gt;in theory&lt;/em&gt; it should be on its way. In theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-12-02T13:23:22.090" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24965" CreationDate="2014-12-02T14:11:26.047" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not the same attack. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first movie, Neo enters Smith's code and basically decompiles him from the inside, which presumably destroys him (though we know enough of him survives to resurface with &quot;upgrades&quot; taken from Neo). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the third movie, Smith overwrites Neo's RSI, which, because Neo is hooked into the Matrix directly from the machine city at the time, gives the machine city the opening they need to pump an antivirus into the Matrix and cleanse all of the Smith-infected code. This purges the Smith code from the Matrix completely, but has the side effect of killing Neo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7962" LastActivityDate="2014-12-02T14:11:26.047" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27750" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27751" CreationDate="2014-12-02T16:56:15.923" Score="2" ViewCount="876" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I was watching a short film titled &quot;Black Hole&quot;. In the credits following I came across one &quot;Purva Desai&quot; being credited under D.O.P (i.e. Director of Photography), only to be followed by two other people being credited as Cinematographers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any real difference between Director of Photography and Cinematographer or are they just two fancy terms for someone who &quot;paints with light&quot; (as Roger Deakins once said)? If so, what is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11363" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-02T17:34:44.693" LastActivityDate="2014-12-02T17:34:44.693" Title="Is there any difference between a DoP and a Cinematographer? If so, What?" Tags="|cinematography|terminology|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27750" CreationDate="2014-12-02T17:03:53.623" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems they are &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinematographer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interchangeable&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Discussion over ay Cinematography.com: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinematography.com/index.php?showtopic=57019&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cinematographer Vs DP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, from &lt;a href=&quot;https://mubi.com/topics/what-is-cinematography-and-the-role-of-the-director-of-photography&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mubi.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes, it’s generally a regional thing. I might be wrong, but it seems&#xA;  DP is more British/European and Cinematographer is the term more used&#xA;  in the States.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="15418" LastEditDate="2014-12-02T17:12:21.957" LastActivityDate="2014-12-02T17:12:21.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27136" CreationDate="2014-12-02T19:57:33.397" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene is, according to audio commentary on the DVD, an homage to the Diane Arbus photograph &lt;em&gt;Boy with a Grenade&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KDgG3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The usage of this homage is actually another homage, to Stanley Kubrick and, in particular, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Shining&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Both stories deal with self-destructive writers, as well as involving scenes of madness and delusion. It can also be argued that the branches on trees in Capote mirrors the maze in the Shining (referring to the writer's mental state).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I call the photograph above a homage as The Shining &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; contained references to a set of Diane Arbus photographs: &lt;em&gt;The Wade Sisters&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TCc6L.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These were of course the inspiration behind The Shining's sisters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/n4cNo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of other similarities in the film, but ultimately, to answer your main question - &lt;strong&gt;the usage of the boy with the toy gun was an (indirect) homage to Stanley Kubrick&lt;/strong&gt;, as confirmed on the DVD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;s for the actual &lt;em&gt;purpose&lt;/em&gt; of the scene? I like to think that its juxtaposition - between Capote seeing Perry lifeless in his cell and Capote spoon feeding him - suggests Capote is contemplating &lt;em&gt;when innocent youngsters become hardened criminals&lt;/em&gt;. He clearly is moved by what he sees in the prison and this creepy child, with his toy gun, captivates him. Why the interest in guns? Will it last his whole life? Will he turn to real guns? Will he become a killer? All these thoughts possibly come to mind, leaving Capote disturbed as he leaves the store.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-12-02T19:57:33.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27247" CreationDate="2014-12-02T21:55:25.710" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though a definite proof -- in the form of a confirmation by the Nolans or something similar -- is still missing, I think there is at least enough evidence to conclude that this connection is &lt;strong&gt;not coincidental&lt;/strong&gt;, even if that evidence is only circumstantial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, you are definitely not the only one drawing that connection. There are various articles around the web suggesting that exact same visual inspiration for the &lt;em&gt;Tesseract&lt;/em&gt;. Just a few examples are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/review-interstellar&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/review-interstellar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, when Cooper stumbles onto a line of communication which allows him to deliver messages to earth across time and space, Nolan comes very near to the territory of Inception, using state-of-the-art special effects – here a mise-en-abyme pseudo-Borgesian library – to create visual corollaries to the birth of inspiration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2014/11/13/363444786/the-science-of-interstellar&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2014/11/13/363444786/the-science-of-interstellar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, it recalled Jorge Luis Borges's remarkable Library of Babel, a repository of all possible books, where time didn't quite exist and rooms with bookshelves repeated each other periodically through endless space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/film-of-the-week-interstellar-christopher-nolan&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/film-of-the-week-interstellar-christopher-nolan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens at the climax is barely describable: suffice to say that Cooper plunges boldly into a singularity, emerging in an alternative dimension that’s weirder by far than the peerlessly haunting place where 2001 finally led us, and that seems to be visually and conceptually modeled on one of the best-known Jorge Luis Borges stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, Borges in general, whose recuring themes among others often include questions about &lt;strong&gt;infinity and time&lt;/strong&gt;, has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/2014/11/christopher-nolan-influences/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;repeatedly identified&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;confirmed by Nolan, as one of his many recurring influences&lt;/strong&gt; (especially attributed to &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt;), as also in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/10/christopher-nolan-uncut-on-interstellar-ben-affleck-s-batman-and-the-future-of-mankind.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an interview on &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;...What fascinates you about interdimensionality?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be unusual in movies, but it’s very well established in other media. I’m very inspired by the prints of M.C. Escher and the interesting connection-point or blurring of boundaries between art and science, and art and mathematics. I’m thinking of his Penrose steps illustrations that inspired Inception. Also, the writing of Jorge Borges, the great Argentinian writer, wrote all kinds of incredible short stories that dealt with paradox. But I feel like films are uniquely suited towards addressing paradox, recursiveness, and worlds-within-worlds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Borges is definitely no stranger to Nolan. But as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/2014/11/interstellar-murphs-library/#slide-id-1638545&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interesting &lt;em&gt;Wired&lt;/em&gt; article&lt;/a&gt; shows he goes even further as to include a copy of Borges' &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinths&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Labyrinths&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (a collection containing, among others, &lt;em&gt;The Library of Babel&lt;/em&gt;) &lt;strong&gt;in Murph's bookshelf itself!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And last but not least, it also makes sense even apart from the obvious visual similarities of vastly infinite rooms of bookshelves. We just have to think about the library's (an obvious analogue to our own universe) vast and apparently infinite size which puts all the possible works ever written right at our hands, yet with no chance to take any actually useful knowledge out of this infinite mess of multisensical but ultimately nonsensical information without knowing where to look for. Now set this in connection to Cooper whose personal relation to his daughter gives him the means to understand this mess. He is the necessary index that enables the apparently omnipotent but ultimately insubstantial &amp;quot;Bulk Beings&amp;quot; to make sense out of the infinity of spacetime in the first place. &lt;strong&gt;Cooper basically is the &amp;quot;Man of the Book&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, as also reflected in his dialogue inside the Tesseract:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They have access to infinite time and infinite space, but they're not bound by anything. They can't find a specific place in time, they can't communicate. That's why I'm here, I'm going to find a way to tell Murph, just like I found this moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So even if an obvious confirmation by Nolan is still missing, and the Tesseract might not have been conciously planned as a deliberate homage to Borges' &lt;em&gt;Library of Babel&lt;/em&gt; right from the beginning, I cannot imagine that this connection completely eluded such a Borges-enthusiast as Nolan. &lt;strong&gt;I would thus very much understand the Tesseract's visual realization &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; it's conceptual interpretation as a citation and homage to &lt;em&gt;The Library of Babel&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T21:01:29.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27242" CreationDate="2014-12-02T22:04:28.923" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don't know.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arguments For:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Certainly Lore treats him as such as soon as she sees his concentration camp tattoos, regardless of his fake papers (which she later learns about). This explains her behaviour at the end of the film. Whilst he &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; using a dead Jew's papers, it is a jump to go from learning his papers are fake to believing everything about him is a lie. Using fake papers would still have been easier than having &lt;em&gt;no papers at all&lt;/em&gt;, which seems to be the only alternative. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is a survivor - both of the camps and beyond. Once leaving, and without any papers, he continued to adapt, doing what he had to to survive - including taking the dead man's papers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; tell the young boy that he &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; Jewish, but it could be argued this was to avoid scarring the boy anymore - the ideas of Nazism he had were his parents, not his.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also brings a nice &lt;em&gt;full circle&lt;/em&gt; to the story, with Lore ending up trusting the person she was taught to hate. Thus &lt;em&gt;in the film&lt;/em&gt; there's a strong logical argument that he is Jewish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arguments Against:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The director, Cate Shortland, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/features/articles/cate-shortland-23241&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;revealed&lt;/a&gt; that even Thomas' tattoos were fake:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer&lt;/strong&gt;: [Thomas] could have been an SS man himself for all we know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cate&lt;/strong&gt;: He tattooed himself. That tattoo is not from Auschwitz. I loved that –&#xA;  that everything is slipping through your fingers, in Germany in 1945.&#xA;  Nothing was real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing that changes things. If those tattoos aren't real &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; his papers aren't real, then suddenly things seem very different. To me, it suggests he was an &lt;em&gt;SS guard&lt;/em&gt;. That would give him intimate knowledge of the concentration camp tattoos, knowledge of the camps and access to papers and knowledge that posing as a Jew would have been less dangerous than in his real guise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also presents a wonderfully wicked irony to the story - Lore learns to question and disagree with her parent's bigotry through a man she believed to be Jewish, who was in fact everything her parent's bigotry represented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;amp;ion=1&amp;amp;espv=2&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8#q=lore%20meaning&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;meaning&lt;/a&gt; of the word lore: &lt;em&gt;a body of traditions and knowledge on a subject or held by a particular group, typically passed from person to person by word of mouth.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;main focus&lt;/em&gt; of the film is Lore's changing beliefs about the world around her, from her parent's authoritarian and narrow minded view, to one of her own. &quot;Thomas&quot;, whoever he is, proves to be a massive part of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His &lt;em&gt;true identity&lt;/em&gt; is a mystery. But the fact he helped open up Lore's mind (either as a Jew, a regretful former guard or a guilt free former guard) isn't in doubt - and that's the message the film maker wanted to leave us with. Don't question his background - question her transition from one way of thinking to another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-12-02T22:04:28.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24349" CreationDate="2014-12-03T00:21:12.093" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;To give an idea of the problems inherent in your question, consider this awesome graph from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.horroronscreen.com/wp-content/uploads/Horror_Genres7.png&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Horror Screen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lAEV1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is their categorisation of horror. Using &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; terminology, you could argue that anything in green or blue is &lt;em&gt;supernatural&lt;/em&gt; whilst anything yellow, black or red is &lt;em&gt;non-supernatural&lt;/em&gt;. Of course, you could have a torturous zombie film, but &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; would categorise that as monster. &lt;em&gt;But would other people?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, that's your problem. Whilst there are some very obvious and distinct examples, many films contain elements of both and as such there is no overarching terminology that seems to be in existence to describe what is &lt;em&gt;completely or partly supernatural&lt;/em&gt; compared to what is &lt;em&gt;totally not supernatural&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The nearest I can find is this entry on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_fiction&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; (complete with citation), which states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some writers of fiction normally classified as &quot;horror&quot; nevertheless&#xA;  dislike the term, considering it too lurid. They instead use the terms&#xA;  dark fantasy or Gothic fantasy for supernatural horror, or&#xA;  &quot;psychological thriller&quot; for non-supernatural horror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, again the key part of this is &quot;&lt;em&gt;some writers&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. There is no consensus in the film world about this. I certainly would not associate psychological thriller solely with non-supernatural - nor would I consider dark fantasies to be only supernatural.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to concur with @Napoleon's answer: &lt;strong&gt;no, there are no &lt;em&gt;widely used&lt;/em&gt; umbrella terms in existence to distinguish between these two sub genres.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T00:21:12.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27696" CreationDate="2014-12-03T01:43:32.007" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He is an older version of Jane, the unmarried mother.  In the beginning of the movie, the character's face is burned and operated on so he looks different. So he recruits his past self Jane/John to take his place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16193" LastEditorUserId="21756" LastEditDate="2016-01-07T17:04:21.470" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T17:04:21.470" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27773" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35883" CreationDate="2014-12-03T04:33:31.483" Score="9" ViewCount="22204" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;How to Train your Dragon&lt;/em&gt;, the sex of the Night Fury Toothless is never mentioned (or I must have missed if it is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In either case, is Toothless a male or a female, and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11363" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-12-03T09:18:10.467" LastActivityDate="2018-06-05T01:47:31.830" Title="Is Toothless male or female?" Tags="|how-to-train-your-dragon|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27773" CreationDate="2014-12-03T04:52:34.140" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://howtotrainyourdragon.wikia.com/wiki/Toothless&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt; mentions that he is male. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus the dragon is referred to as a 'he' by Hiccup several times in the movie as well as in the books by Cressida Cowell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T04:52:34.140" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27776" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-03T06:36:16.440" Score="9" ViewCount="24587" Body="&lt;p&gt;The last 20 minutes of Interstellar are as confusing as confusion gets. I would like to state my interpretation and put the question then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Understanding:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on a blog post I read (&lt;em&gt;which has since been deleted&lt;/em&gt;), it is postulated that a spinning black hole can be used as a wormhole itself, which I believe explains Cooper's arrival at the tesseract in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, once he is in the tesseract and has conveyed the message to his daughter Murph, there is a dialogue between him and TARS where TARS says that the plan seems to have worked as the bulk beings are closing the tesseract.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On closure, Cooper and TARS are spat out near Saturn (miraculously, maybe) where the Cooper Station finds them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would Cooper Station be orbiting Saturn? Why not just jump through the wormhole to the other side? Was it because the closing of the tesseract also meant the closing of the wormhole near Saturn? But then again, if the wormhole is closed, where does Cooper think he is going in the very last scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone's guess is as good as any other. But a rational explanation would be truly appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11363" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-12-07T09:48:47.847" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T23:22:14.490" Title="Why is Cooper Station orbiting Saturn?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27777" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27885" CreationDate="2014-12-03T06:52:12.090" Score="8" ViewCount="2540" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are all 'box office sales' made public?  Is it a customary thing? A marketing ploy? Do they have a similar thing for TV (beyond ratings)?  I only see profits for video games listed for publicly held companies.   This has been annoying me recently for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems quite plausible to me the official 'box office' movies are only those supported by a few big companies in the industry and have a 'captive' audience in that there is one private company serving these 'official box office' records and if you aren't part of the club you are ignored.  It appears most don't release information about post box office profit, like licensing or merchandising... so why the box office numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any insight into this?  Normally there is no good reason (and lots of bad ones) to share your business financial details with anyone unless required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16198" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T13:59:18.300" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T15:21:51.533" Title="Why are box office numbers made public?" Tags="|production|film-industry|box-office|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27777" CreationDate="2014-12-03T07:56:53.283" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well one clear reason for making box-office numbers public is marketing. Good numbers help a lot in building the brand name of production studios. If one movie from a particular studio makes huge profits, the trailer for their next movie will open with the lines &quot;from the creators of ...&quot; or &quot;from the studio which brought you ...&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any movie's success is based on 3 important parameters: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;critical acclaim  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;awards won by it, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;box-office revenues it collected&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good Box-office numbers are extremely important for a studio' brand name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who would want to work with a studio whose movies bomb at box-office and&#xA;Who would not want to work with a studio whose movies are record-breakers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also helps a movie that is stil running in theatres. When people see that such and such movie has made millions in 2 weeks, it would definitely attaract them to the theatres. More so in case of international releases where release dates are different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T15:21:51.533" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T15:21:51.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27776" CreationDate="2014-12-03T09:18:41.203" Score="1" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cooper station is enroute to the worm hole. It just happened to be there (rather conveniently) when Cooper was ejected from the Tesseract.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The worm hole is not closed. That would defeat the whole purpose of the voyage (not to mention the Movie)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;See 2.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T09:18:41.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13411" CreationDate="2014-12-03T09:37:55.007" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, this answer is strictly subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, I'm sorry to see this question downvoted and to read Tom's comment with uncalled-for arrogance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, there is no such genre. Currently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see, in case of movie subgenres, necessity is the mother of nomenclature. For example, we had horror-comedies for a while. Then 'Shaun of the Dead' happened and suddenly the 'zombie-comedy' entered pop culture. Because that movie influenced a lot of filmmakers all over the world and many more movies of the genre got made. We still don't have vampire-comedies or werewolf-comedies, (though there are movies which fit the bill), simply because the number of movies like that isn't big enough to warrant a subgenre term of their own. And so movies like 'An American Werewolf in London' continue to be called horror-comedies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar is the case with the 'found footage' -- a genre which was virtually non-existent before 'The Blair Witch Project' (exception: 'Cannibal Holocaust from 1980), but then influenced a lot of films in a lot of genres, which include horror ('Paranormal Activity'), zombie ('REC') and disaster ('Cloverfield').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if some movie centered on hacking comes along which spawns a lot of similar movies, sure, hacking movie could become a genre. It's not now, as the number of such movies isn't big enough. (Off the top of my head, I can only think of 'Hackers' and 'Swordfish'.) Till then, such movies will continue to be classified under other genres.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@tom- I disagree, it's not ridiculous. It's perfectly ordinary for new genres to come up and for one movie to belong to multiple genres. If you can find hackers in all kinds of movies, it would be logical to classify them all under hacker movies should such a genre exist. You can find vampires in horror, romance, and comedy. And it's still called a vampire movie. (Maybe someone should make a movie about vampire hackers!!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@jonsca- Techno-thriller is a broader term, IMO. And it applies more to novels than movies. Like the works of Michael Crichton and Robin Cook. I never heard anyone describe  'Jurassic Park' the movie as a techno-thriller, even though the book is a prime example of one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-26T12:11:55.437" LastActivityDate="2017-05-26T12:11:55.437" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27776" CreationDate="2014-12-03T09:51:01.680" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question 1:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were effectively two possible choices throughout the film - Plan A and Plan B. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The former involved Dr. Brand &lt;em&gt;solving&lt;/em&gt; an advanced equation which would allow human beings to truly harness gravity. Doing this would allow NASA to launch a space station, complete with &lt;em&gt;everyone on Earth&lt;/em&gt;, into space. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latter was relevant if Dr. Brand &lt;em&gt;couldn't&lt;/em&gt; complete his calculations or the Endurance sent no word back/found no suitable planet. NASA had a bank of human embryos designed to &lt;em&gt;ensure&lt;/em&gt; all humanity could survive (effectively &lt;em&gt;giving up&lt;/em&gt; on the people on Earth). The idea was that the Endurance team would find the &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; habitable planet, raise a generation of these embryos and thus they could raise generation after generation themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film, when Cooper leaves the Tesseract, he has provided Murph with the data needed to make the equation work. Thus, &lt;strong&gt;Plan A is the option they follow&lt;/strong&gt;. Cooper Station's construction was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; possible before Murph solved the equations. Therefore, I believe it's effectively a type of ark. It could be increased in size to accommodate &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of humanity. Or, more likely, multiple arks have been (or will be) built to accommodate humanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, this seems logical given that we know Earth is not suitable for human survival any longer. I would probably suggest that humanity is still in the process of coming out to the stations, as Cooper is effectively told to &lt;em&gt;go on ahead&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would assume this is why they don't jump ahead. For now, they can wait on the other side of the worm hole whilst a) humanity leaves the Earth and b) whilst a new home is sought out on the other side of the worm hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The worm hole is very much still active. We know that at the very end, Murph tells Cooper to seek out Dr. Brand as she's all alone (suggesting strongly they've received &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; information back through the worm hole from her. Additionally, as she tells him to seek out Dr. Brand, the worm hole which will &lt;em&gt;enable&lt;/em&gt; this must still be active.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question 3:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the worm hole &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; still open, Cooper is going to it to seek out Dr. Brand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon rewatching the movie, I noticed that when Cooper wakes up on Cooper Station, his doctor mentions Murph is on route &lt;em&gt;from another station&lt;/em&gt; - this definitely means there are &lt;em&gt;multiple&lt;/em&gt; stations. Whether they are all orbiting Saturn, and the wormhole, or whether they are scattered, is still unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-12-06T12:22:42.590" LastActivityDate="2014-12-06T12:22:42.590" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27696" CreationDate="2014-12-03T10:13:57.917" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He has the surgery marks because he had surgery!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire point of the film is to present a series of paradoxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we know from the end of the film, &lt;em&gt;Ethan Hawke&lt;/em&gt;'s character is effectively &lt;em&gt;everybody&lt;/em&gt;. Or to put it another way, he is John, Jane, the child from the mission, and the Fizzle Bomber. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt; has some useful information, but you might find it easier to look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Zombies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;short story it was based on&lt;/a&gt;, as it's much shorter and easier to understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question specifically, &amp;quot;Jane&amp;quot; falls pregnant to an older man, who then leaves her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When trying to deliver the child, the doctors discover she is intersex. The child is kidnapped, but meanwhile, the doctors realise that, for her own safety, Jane's ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, and vagina should be removed - meaning she'll retain &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; male sex organs (and eventually become &amp;quot;John&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So the surgery marks he has are because of his past, when he was a she.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want more help, consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://old.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/2niko4/i_made_this_timeline_of_events_for_the_time/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this wonderful graphic I found on Reddit&lt;/a&gt;, showing the timeline of events:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Nyp4.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Nyp4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;graphic&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2022-12-28T08:00:13.320" LastActivityDate="2022-12-28T08:00:13.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="27783" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-03T10:20:23.617" Score="3" ViewCount="353" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daredevil_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Daredevil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is going to be released on VOD, specifically Netflix which typically sticks to a model of releasing all episodes simultaneously, like a box set, to encourage its connection with 'Binge watching'...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it previously had the rights to &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; and instead released an episode a week, to great success (although this wasn't by choice: ABC controlled the first broadcast and thus Netflix could only broadcast episodes simultaneously... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that &lt;em&gt;Daredevil&lt;/em&gt; is a comic book, which typically thrive on episodic/cliff hanger narratives (even when remediated into television), &lt;strong&gt;do we know under which strategy &lt;em&gt;Daredevil&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Defenders&lt;/em&gt; will be released?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Different sources make differing claims: the Wiki page states it will be dump released onto Netflix, but the source it cites for this claim is actually Jeph Loeb &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hitfix.com/news/marvel-tv-head-daredevil-starts-shooting-in-july-jessica-jones-next-up&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;refusing to comment either way&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T07:28:15.440" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T07:28:15.440" Title="Will Daredevil be serialized or dump released?" Tags="|production|marvel-cinematic-universe|distribution|daredevil-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18129" CreationDate="2014-12-03T10:37:03.390" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Tet was a humanity trial, humans had to prove that they were worth living.&#xA;The whole of humanity is sick and had to be removed, but there were some pure souls that hadn't forgotten how to use their minds for the good of all mankind, beyond their own desires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of great civilisations on Earth were whipped out and twisted like the Aztecs and Mayans, they have reached the top, and fall down morally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16199" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-12-03T11:19:08.123" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T11:19:08.123" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27777" CreationDate="2014-12-03T10:44:57.620" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL; DR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The numbers are made public because they &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; public - they're available to anyone who is willing to pay a commercial fee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of reasons why people want to know this, such as for marketing purposes and knowing what films to broadcast and when.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a start, your question seems to be making an &lt;em&gt;inaccurate assumption&lt;/em&gt;. You say say that normally it is bad practice to share your financial details, unless you have to: but in the case of the box office, these companies &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; sharing financial details - other companies are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we hear how well a particular movie has done on its opening weekend, that information isn't coming from the film's creators or distributors. It's coming from box office tracking companies. This makes complete sense. After all, you don't pay Warner Bros directly to see one of their films. You pay them indirectly, giving your money instead to a cinema, or a broadcaster, or a shop, or something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of box office opening weekends, for example, it will be to a cinema. There are then companies, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Office_Mojo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Box Office Mojo&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemauk.org.uk/facts-and-figures/admissions/uk-cinema-latest-weekend-box-office/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cinema UK&lt;/a&gt;, who gather this information by tracking tickets sales. They then release this information, on a commercial basis, to both the film makers (who then learn how well they've done) and to any other party who is interested. Thus, the &lt;em&gt;original companies&lt;/em&gt; aren't releasing this information. It's the data analysis companies that are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the exact same case for things like the Official Charts Company in the UK, which aggregates all music sales each week. It simply looks at all downloads, purchases etc that have been made. This is independent of the music labels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would argue that answers the biggest part of your question - the numbers are made public because they are &lt;em&gt;publicly available&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are definitely other reasons &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; this information has become so popular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Much like how critic reviews are important to many cinema goers to determine if they will like a film, some fans like to know a film's box office showing. If a film is performing poorly, that will put some off. Likewise, if a film has been out for a few weeks and is still riding high, is is arguably more appealing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It provides great marketing for films. Film studios can use this information to really publicise their film (&quot;other people loved this, so will you!&quot;). As @Ankit comments, they can also use this in future advertising deals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It allows cinema chains to track how popular films are. If evidence is growing that a film's popularity is decreasing, a decision may be made to remove the film nationwide, or keep it in only certain locations. If evidence shows that a particular film is very popular at a certain time of day, a cinema could use this information and change its own scheduling of said film to the more preferable time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-12-07T17:07:35.147" LastActivityDate="2014-12-07T17:07:35.147" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27783" CreationDate="2014-12-03T11:16:32.660" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;seems&lt;/em&gt; likely that they will be made available for binge watching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm basing this on a quote from Marvel Entertainment's Chief Creative Officer, Joe Quesada, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&amp;amp;id=52717&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;who stated&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;One of the advantages is really from the planning stage -- obviously&#xA;  it's much easier to work with a smaller number of episodes than it is&#xA;  with a larger number of episodes. We can sit there and look at 13&#xA;  episodes and plan it out as a very large movie. It makes seeing the&#xA;  bigger picture a little bit easier. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;You can't deny that there will be&#xA;  binge-viewing. You know that there are going to be some Marvel fans&#xA;  that when this show premieres, they are going to go on to Netflix, and&#xA;  they are going to sit there for 12 to 13-plus hours, and watch the&#xA;  entire thing all the way through...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Even the way that you parse out&#xA;  information and reveals within the show can be different than you&#xA;  would on weekly TV. With weekly TV, you sit there and go, &quot;The&#xA;  audience may not want to wait two or three weeks to get this&#xA;  particular bit of information.&quot; Whereas with Netflix, we might be able&#xA;  to hold onto a particular piece of information, because they may just&#xA;  watch it two hours later.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This article was from seven months ago, which would be roughly May 2014. Although it likely took a few weeks for the article to go to live, given that it is a full two months &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the quotes from Jeph Loeb you provided I think it's probably the most recent piece of information we have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, it does appear that Daredevil will be released for binge watching, given Quesada's comments, but this could of course be subject to change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T11:16:32.660" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26976" CreationDate="2014-12-03T11:31:22.533" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to say they're fake and created for the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369179/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB Trivia&lt;/a&gt; states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Charlie Sheen does not play the piano on the show. He is dubbed by&#xA;  composer Grant Geissman, who plays offstage while Sheen fakes it on a&#xA;  dead keyboard. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;With composer Dennis C. Brown, Geissman also writes the&#xA;  music for the jingles Sheen's character creates.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as with a lot of their trivia, it doesn't actually cite any sources to back this up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The musicians for the show, as stated above, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369179/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;are&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Series Music by&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Dennis C. Brown   ... (234 episodes, 2003-2014)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Grant&#xA;  Geissman  ... (234 episodes, 2003-2014)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's well known that Geissman, along with Lorre, composed the theme song for the show. I would argue it stands to reason that Geissman, along with the other musician, composes the jingles for the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would base this on a few things, including: a) the jingles not appearing to exist anywhere &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; than in the show, and b) the jingles are just a standard part of the &lt;em&gt;music&lt;/em&gt; of the show and thus udner the domains of its two musicians.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T11:31:22.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24893" CreationDate="2014-12-03T14:59:18.500" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don't know, but probably someone under the instructions of Sister Grace.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do know from the episode that the body was discovered by a man called Walter Rafferty. Every year, he revisited the spot where he found the body. We also find out that he's not the only visitor. Every year, &lt;em&gt;a woman in a green coat brings a rose&lt;/em&gt; to the location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the episode progresses, we learn that this woman is Sister Grace. We also learn that Sister Grace is the mother of Arnold (the boy in the box), conceived with a man called Clayton. Arnold instinctively seemed to know this, as he wanted to remain with the sisters as opposed to getting adopted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite this, Sister Grace is eager for him to move on. She is concerned about his behaviour and basically convinces Clayton to give him one of the treatments being done in his work. These treatments are radiation related and should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; be used on Arnold. Sister Grace, however, is hopeful they will work. Alas, they do not - Arnold dies soon after and the Sisters put the body in the box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we know this then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sister Grace was really Arnold's mother.   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sister Grace desperately wanted Arnold to be adopted, inadvertantly causing his death through the radiation treatment.   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sister Grace visited the place his body was found every year.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This strongly suggests that the suitcase given to the police, shortly after her death, notifying them about the case, was related to her. Whether her will stipulated it be delivered, or a friend did it, we don't know. It just seems &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; likely she is the root cause of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately though, the mystery works in this episode. The &lt;em&gt;Boy in the Box&lt;/em&gt; is based on a real life, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_in_the_Box_%28Philadelphia%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;unsolved murder&lt;/a&gt;. Whilst they effectively discover what happened in this episode, &lt;em&gt;who&lt;/em&gt; alerted them remains a mystery. This ties in well with the fact that the case's real life counterpart is unsolved and thus a mystery as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T14:59:18.500" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27791" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-03T15:41:52.650" Score="4" ViewCount="2544" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that when interacting other charter members, even presidents, Jax is given a type of respect meant for a superior. Several times he has given orders to other charters or easily convinced them to take on a task. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Charming was the first charter &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;J.T. was the founder&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jax is J.T.'s son &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is Jax so well regarded because of this or does he hold some higher rank/seniority because he leads the Charming charter?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2014-12-03T16:06:45.540" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T17:19:13.957" Title="Is Jax the highest member of all the SOA charters?" Tags="|sons-of-anarchy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27791" CreationDate="2014-12-03T15:49:45.963" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;His father is the founder of SAMCRO and its former President. Following his death, Clay became President. Jax was devoted to SAMCRO and dropped out of school to ensure this happened. He became a fully fledged member in 1995. Then, at some &lt;em&gt;unknown&lt;/em&gt; time, he became the &lt;em&gt;Vice President&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the position he held from the start of the series, until the Season 4 finale, when he threatened Clay and told him to step down, thus making himself President (from the episode &lt;em&gt;To Be, Act Two&lt;/em&gt;. To quote from him in that episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You killed my father and Piney, you tried to kill Tara You're done&#xA;  telling me anything, now I tell you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;So he became the President and thus highest ranking member of SAMCRO&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, from midway through the Season 4 finale onwards. Until then served as the Vice President.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information, have a browse through the incredibly detailed &lt;a href=&quot;http://sonsofanarchy.wikia.com/wiki/Jax_Teller&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why SAMCRO is the &lt;em&gt;highest ranking&lt;/em&gt; of all the charters - in the Pilot episode, we see Jax find &lt;a href=&quot;http://sonsofanarchy.wikia.com/wiki/The_Life_and_Death_of_Sam_Crow:_How_the_Sons_of_Anarchy_Lost_Their_Way&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a manuscript&lt;/a&gt; detailing the original vision of the Nine Founders when they set up SAMCRO. In other words, it was the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; charter, i.e. the &quot;mother charter&quot;. Their intentions can also be seen in the Pilot's &lt;a href=&quot;http://leethomson.myzen.co.uk/Sons_of_Anarchy_1x01_-_Pilot.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;manuscript&lt;/a&gt;, which speaks of them as being the Founders throughout. Finally, the name of the organisation, SAMCRO, also indicates their status - &lt;em&gt;Sons of Anarchy, Redwood Original Charter&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-12-04T08:43:02.860" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T08:43:02.860" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26284" CreationDate="2014-12-03T18:07:36.330" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In several episodes we see that anyone with powers can teleport more than themselves, but that like someone carrying another person and running, it takes energy and strength and endurance to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also shown when John and Russell go cross-country to attend Russell's father's funeral. They cannot simply teleport from NYC to Oregon, but actually have to make stops along the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly the distance they travel and the amount of extra weight they are carrying all factor into the energy/strength drained in making their teleports.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, watching the series, and understanding that the original series debuted in the 1970s around the same time as the creation of the X-Men character &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightcrawler_(comics)#Powers_and_abilities&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nightcrawler&lt;/a&gt; you can see a lot of similarities in the &quot;rules&quot; of their teleportation powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hinting throughout the modern series at this notion of a new utopia or safe land that only people with powers can reach, we learn that this place has something to do with the notion of &quot;Limbo&quot; a separate but connected, alternate plane of existence. Reaching Limbo required stopping time at the moment of death, as if the &quot;soul&quot; was traveling from our reality through Limbo to the afterlife, and that stopping time would actually stop this travel and let the &quot;soul&quot; exist in Limbo, having stopped time for their body's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were also mentions very early on that Ultra was teaching its agents with powers about the quantum electrodynamic properties of their skills, and from contemporary quantum physics theories (seen horrendously butchered in &quot;Interstellar&quot;) there is the notion that our existence that we &quot;observe&quot; is actually along a (projected) manifold in a very high-dimensional set of spatial, gravitational, electromagnetic, and nuclear dimensions (with the possibility of others as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From that point of view, and similar to Nightcrawler's abilities, the people with powers (of which, the Tomorrow People are a subset) are actually unprojecting themselves off our manifold of existence, into the higher dimensions of reality and projecting back down to our plane of existence, when they teleport. This is exactly the same as the pencil and paper explanation in the film &quot;Interstellar&quot;, as stolen from the infinitely better film &quot;Event Horizon&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, considering these energy limitations, considering that their preternatural &quot;sense&quot; of location from where they leave to where they arrive throughout a teleport is aware of dense, solid matter, and considering that their lair is an adapted walled-off maintenance station from an abandon line of the NYC subway, the reasons they tend to almost always use the subway ride before jumping to their lair are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They take a rarely used line and find an empty car so that they will not be revealed when they disappear, as they try to keep their nature hidden from the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are hiding their psychic energy underground from Ultra, with the dense materials of the earth and streets and wirings of electric utilities and water from sewer systems between them and the Ultra scanning. It is also mentioned that running water hinders their powers, ostensibly from quantum electrodynamic properties of fluids in rapid motion and large quantities. The same would assume to work with electric cables, but our electric cables are usually quite thin, since the electric resistance of a material grows proportionally with its cross-sectional area, limiting its &quot;throughput&quot; of energy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Considering their similarities to Nightcrawler, this preternatural ability to properly spatially locate in known or unknown locations when arriving through teleportation is much like a reflex where when falling we put our arms out naturally to project and stop ourselves from hitting the ground and being hurt. The further the distance, or the denser the material they must &quot;pass through&quot; (even though actually they're side-stepping it through unprojection into higher dimensionalities of existence) the more difficult it is to be sure that they won't land inside a wall. Using the subway car they are getting as close to their lair as possible, thus minimizing the distance and density of materials between them, and conserving energy, both for considerations of personal fatigue and to limit their &quot;psychic signature&quot; from being detected by Ultra.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user12701" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T18:07:36.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27798" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-12-03T18:15:15.977" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2014-12-03T18:15:15.977" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T18:15:15.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27799" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-12-03T18:15:15.977" Score="0" Body="&quot;The Tomorrow People&quot; is a 2013 USA television series, remade/reimagined from a 1973 UK series about a secret set of evolved human beings (Homo Superior) trying to understand their place in the world and hide from the seemingly evil Ultra corporation. It only ran for one season of 22 episodes, all of which are currently on Netflix." OwnerDisplayName="user12701" LastEditorDisplayName="user12701" LastEditDate="2014-12-03T18:40:03.967" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T18:40:03.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27802" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-03T19:47:49.130" Score="5" ViewCount="1419" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regulating TV content via rating is obviously different than that of movies, in which there are straight-forward ratings and rules for seeing/buying films. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cable channels follow rules that vary at certain times, and have ratings/advisories that are announced before a show starts and listed in their info section. This is fairly transparent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Premium channels, on the other hand, have substantially more expletives and mature content. Are there actually any rules/guidelines for what premium channels can air? Furthermore, does a premium channel like HBO operate under the same set of rules as a strictly adult content channel (for which I understand the only rules are legal matters, such as no child pornography), or is there a distinction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12880" LastActivityDate="2015-01-29T07:43:23.337" Title="Are there any rules for what sort of content premium channels can show?" Tags="|content-rating|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27803" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-03T19:53:03.443" Score="6" ViewCount="655" Body="&lt;p&gt;The last time I saw an NC-17 film in theaters (Shame, 2011), an usher had to walk through the theater every once and awhile with a flashlight of sorts, which I assumed was to ensure no 17-and-unders had snuck in to watch. Is this a MPAA law? Or is it a state law in Georgia? Or is it just a very diligent art house theater?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12880" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T20:05:30.810" Title="Are there additional laws and regulations attached to NC-17 movies?" Tags="|content-rating|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27803" CreationDate="2014-12-03T20:05:30.810" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not American and can't give legal advice, but I'd strongly suspect this was just a diligent movie theatre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cinemas &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thewrap.com/mpaa-helpess-enforce-ratings-ny-theater-ignores-nc-17-blue-warmest-color/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;are not legally bound&lt;/a&gt; by these ratings. They are simply recommendations made by the NPAA and seconded by the National Association of Theater Owners. To quote from the article linked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the MPAA's official Classification and Ratings Rules, all the&#xA;  sanctions aimed at violators deal with the companies that release&#xA;  films, not the theaters that show them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“The rating system is voluntary, but we strongly encourage theaters to&#xA;  enforce the rating age restrictions as applied to any movie,” a NATO&#xA;  spokesperson told theWrap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, there are no binding laws on the cinema in the first place, regardless of the film's certificate. I would suspect this is simply a diligent movie theater being careful about who they have allowed into the cinema. Alternatively, they could be checking for other things, including empty seats (for latecomers), ticket scalps, anyone recording in the film or other such things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T20:05:30.810" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24629" CreationDate="2014-12-03T23:32:13.117" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's likely that any member of the Community left the sled there.  Unfortunately, there's no evidence within the film to suggest who might have left it or why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a clue as to what's happening, and why that scene seems to not fit, I'll have to share a semi-spoiler from the end of the book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; In the book, it's intentionally left unclear as to whether Jonas&#xA; actually found a sled, or if he imagined it in a delirium as he froze&#xA; to death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; While I personally believe that he died, the ending is described&#xA; vaguely enough that it's also possible that he just stumbled across a&#xA; village of free people, and found a sled that one of their children&#xA; had left unattended.  In the book, he only slides down a hill, not a&#xA; mountain, and he winds up someplace populated: he sees lights from&#xA; windows, and hears singing and music.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie throws that ambiguity out the window by showing him passing through the barrier on the sled, then showing emotion returning to the people of the Community.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The book didn't have any scenes outside of Jonas' point of view; so, when the filmmakers tried to mimic the end of the book, they unfortunately rendered it incomprehensible by showing us what was happening in the community at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16207" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T23:32:13.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27809" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="105172" CreationDate="2014-12-03T23:32:18.333" Score="17" ViewCount="4042" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand visually that this is a great way to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys, but what in the vast Star Wars lore causes the Sith to almost exclusively use red light sabres?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I am assuming Grievous was not a Sith because he can't use the force (is this correct?). Notably though, he doesn't have red sabres, so we can ignore him for now I suppose.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15759" LastActivityDate="2019-11-18T13:23:37.703" Title="In the Star Wars franchise what causes the Sith to always have red light sabres?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27809" CreationDate="2014-12-03T23:39:37.970" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answered &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22101/why-do-siths-use-red-colored-lightsabers-but-jedis-dont&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I may quote wholesale from user @Thaddeus' excellent answer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Though synthetic crystals were ordinarily unsuitable for use in&#xA;  lightsabers, the Sith discovered that they could create synth-crystals&#xA;  that were energized, magnetized, and modified with the power of the&#xA;  dark side of the Force in special furnaces, causing the crystal to&#xA;  glow in harmonic vibration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a result of their artificial origins, synthetic crystals created&#xA;  more powerful lightsaber blades and could be more easily augmented.&#xA;  Also, their common usage by Sith and other Darksiders after this&#xA;  discovery caused synthetic crystals to become something of a staple&#xA;  among such groups, and their use among Jedi was strongly discouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Most synthetic crystals were red, a result of the forging process, and&#xA;  oftentimes the initiate's intentional manipulations, as most&#xA;  individuals who utilized synthetic crystals were Darksiders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The red-hued lightsaber blades generated by such crystals were often&#xA;  nicknamed &quot;bloodshine blades&quot;. However, synth-crystals could be made&#xA;  in any color, requiring only slight adjustments of the creation&#xA;  process and special manipulations through the Force during the&#xA;  forging. --&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wookiepedia &gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Synthetic_lightsaber_crystal&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Synthetic lightsaber crystal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.873" LastActivityDate="2014-12-03T23:39:37.970" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27809" CreationDate="2014-12-03T23:52:54.033" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is never addressed directly in the original films - only in the lore that followed (and in particular the novels). There are ultimately three reasons why red lightsabers are predominantly used by the Sith:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Red is a danger colour.   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lucas wanted to distinguish between lightsabers rather than having them all the same colour.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The backstory discussed in @Richard's answer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Richard's answer is of course correct and links to a detailed &lt;em&gt;in universe&lt;/em&gt; explanation. Whilst I know you say you understand that the colour red distinguishes good from bad, I thought I would explore &lt;em&gt;why that is&lt;/em&gt; in more detail as the &lt;em&gt;in universe&lt;/em&gt; explanation has been tackled. Then, I'll look at &lt;em&gt;behind the scenes&lt;/em&gt; of the Star Wars Universe and why the red light saber came to be used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The colour red and its background of danger&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, consider the trope of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoodColorsEvilColors&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;good colours versus bad colours&lt;/a&gt;. White and black have consistently been used to portray good and bad in films. A great example would be in &lt;em&gt;Westerns&lt;/em&gt;, where the allegiance of a character could often be determined by their clothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, red and blue have often be presented as &lt;em&gt;opposites&lt;/em&gt;. TV Tropes argue this could date all the way back to the War of Independence and the Americans (blue) versus the British (red). Even going beyond this (admittedly) controversial interpretation, red has &lt;em&gt;frequently&lt;/em&gt; been seen as a &quot;danger&quot; colour. Consider a standard stop sign:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cydRq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;strong&gt;red&lt;/strong&gt;, designed to gain attention and highlight danger. It's the colour of fire, something that humans have been wary of and respected for a long time. It frequently is associated with the Devil, and Hell, in religious ideologies. It has associations with power, for example consider the &lt;em&gt;power red tie&lt;/em&gt; look*:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zofQh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst there is much research online about all this, to choose one example &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/13/effect-of-color-red_n_959189.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Huffington Post&lt;/a&gt; released an article all about &lt;em&gt;why red still makes us mad&lt;/em&gt;, concluding:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Red color did not just elicit a stronger physical reaction, but also a&#xA;  faster and more consistently-strong reaction. This phenomenon is&#xA;  similar to wild animal behavior where red may be seen as a color of&#xA;  threat, inducing a rapid preparation for defense or flight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How the red lightsaber came to be used in Star Wars&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sith_lightsaber&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt; on sith lightsabers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Technically, the first Sith lightsaber designed was Darth Vader's.&#xA;  However, there were no early plans to make Vader's weapon distinct&#xA;  from the other lightsabers depicted, beyond the black styling on the&#xA;  hilt itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The original lightsaber effect was provided by the reflective,&#xA;  spinning dowel that made up the blade, which appeared to glow to the&#xA;  camera. However, Lucas was unsatisfied with these early effects, and&#xA;  had the glows further augmented by rotoscoped animation. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;During this&#xA;  phase, it was decided to make the lightsabers have different color&#xA;  blades to further differentiate them, and Vader was given a red blade.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is important to note as, to paraphrase from the wiki, it wasn't until &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Shadows_of_the_Empire_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shadows of the Empire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was released that &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; mention of internal crystals affecting light saber color was introduced.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;*Yes, I'm aware I linked to Mitt Romney in an answer about the Sith. No, this was not indicative of any political views!&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just with regards to General Grievous, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/42955/could-general-grievous-be-a-sith&quot;&gt;no he was not a Jedi/Sith&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T08:55:37.163" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25114" CreationDate="2014-12-04T01:32:58.393" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the answer is in Daoism:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is in Daoism, as with the Greek Heraclitus, a strong awareness of the process of change. Both nature and human beings are continuously undergoing transformations. The processes of Nature move between polarities and humans move to new perspectives. Given this situation, it is useless to expect clear definitions and continuity of structures. If one has an understanding of the nature of things and follows the natural course, one can avoid being affected by sorrow or joy. Emotion can be counteracted with reason and understanding. For example, a man of understanding will not be angry when rain prevents him from going out, but a child often will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zhuangzi himself shows indifference toward death and decries the common practice of mourning because the mourner assumes knowledge of the unknown and pretends his dislike of it. In contrast, by his understanding of the nature of things, the sage is no longer affected by external factors and the changes of the world. On this passage the great commentator Kuo Hsiang comments: “When ignorant, he felt sorry. When he understood, he was no longer affected. This teaches man to disperse emotion with reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If life and death are but phases within the cycle of change, then there is no difference between the living and the dead. Mortality only becomes a problem and a source of sorrow,because man cannot free himself from his categorisation of life and existence. In the physical sense, man must die and there is no escape. But, if man can understand Nature’s way and embrace the Dao, then he lives as long as the Dao. Zhuangzi defies death by saying that if (after death) his left arm became a rooster, he would simply use it to mark the time of night. Man may die indeed, but his essence as part of the universal essence lives on forever. This is the metaphysical view of immortality in the Zhuangzi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://philosophynow.org/issues/27/Death_in_Classical_Daoist_Thought&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://philosophynow.org/issues/27/Death_in_Classical_Daoist_Thought&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T01:32:58.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27364" CreationDate="2014-12-04T03:04:30.453" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two types of ships used with Endurance: the Ranger and the slightly larger Lander.  If you go to the Endurance model site, it is stated that the lander can carry down entire modules of Endurance. So they could be used to bring up any amount of supplies from Earth.    &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gannett-cdn.com/experiments/usatoday/2014/11/interstellar/interstellar.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.gannett-cdn.com/experiments/usatoday/2014/11/interstellar/interstellar.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the fuel/limited capacities explanations cannot be correct,unless....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All three ships Ranger, Lander and Endurance use some form of very powerful plasma thruster, that needs to be fed by a Tokomak fusion reactor. The fusion must be one of the aneutronic reactions (no neutrons), or else the ships would melt or require gigantic radiators, since neutrons are waste heat in fusion reactions.  He3+Lithium is a good candidate for aneutronic fusion. But Helium3 is excessively rare and extremely expensive to produce.  So that might be the answer.  NASA can't afford to waste helium3 for routine work, so they use antiquated chemical rockets to launch from Earth, where chemicals are very cheap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A spreadsheet with the numbers:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/1vlpaVD&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/1vlpaVD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16223" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-04T09:47:18.120" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T09:47:18.120" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27819" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-04T03:47:01.167" Score="6" ViewCount="73663" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Joe Wright's Pride and Prejudice (2005), Mr Darcy's (Matthew Macfadyen) hand is shown in close up several times, such as when he helps Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) into the carriage, after he sees Elizabeth at Pemberly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB trivia claims this is because &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The ultimate goal of the Bennet sisters' lives is a wealthy man's&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;hand&lt;/strong&gt; in marriage, and a foreshadowing of the fact that Elizabeth&#xA;  does in fact eventually win Darcy's &lt;strong&gt;hand&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't find anything to support this trivia, and I don't really buy that because Elizabeth never tries to win Mr Darcy's hand; on the contrary, he tries to win hers. Are there any alternative theories or explanations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12880" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2014-12-04T07:24:29.527" LastActivityDate="2018-08-05T04:10:36.750" Title="What is the meaning of the emphasis on Mr Darcy's hands?" Tags="|analysis|pride-and-prejudice|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16922" CreationDate="2014-12-04T05:16:09.803" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's just a day dream.  I think he has it on his chest because he just looked at the photo of him pointing to his chest and Teddy just told him they already killed the second attacker (which that truth is up in the air). He is enjoying the momentary victory, revenge, before he forgets all that he has learned, which happens as soon as he sees the tattoo parlor, hence looking at the note card.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the him not being Sammy Jankins, I would like to you pause your movie at 1:30:03. You will notice that Sammy is looking at the doctor that passes between the camera and himself, when the doctor clears the screen it is Lenny sitting in the chair at the mental institute for a split second before it cuts back to him on a phone.  This scene is before any mention of him being Sammy by Teddy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16226" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T05:16:09.803" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27819" CreationDate="2014-12-04T05:46:22.980" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that that feels very incomplete, and I think it is an oversimplification of the deeper meanings and metaphorical relationships of their hands, and of the connections that are being made between the characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, the &quot;hand&quot; is &quot;won&quot; in marriage, but even more deeply rooted to the metaphorical aspect of their hands are the notions of labour, wealth, and status. The Victorian era satirized and romanticized by Jane Austen's work is most notably represented in films as an almost ubiquitously non-labourious attainment of wealth. A large part of the plot of &quot;Pride and Prejudice&quot; is that Elizabeth sees Mr. Darcy as an abstracted aristocrat, consumed by status and wealth, unaware of the reality of emotionality and personhood, though he is not. While she feels wrapped up in her friends and family, she has these prejudices against him initially and sees him as uncaring and unaware. They have their flirtatious but mostly cantankerous encounter revealing this to one another -- and stoking their interest in one another -- in the dance scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a kind of world where status seems simply to be had, and not earned, their hands play a kind of likewise-abstracted role. The hands of the aristocrats aren't used for toiling in fields or working in crafts and construction, even when dancing they barely make contact -- they either lightly hold one another by their fingers or simply put their hands near, but not really touching, their bodies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also a very common literary trope to engage a comparison of the aristocracy as abstracted from the plebes/peasantry by the softness of their hands, never having &quot;seen a day's work&quot;. In this way, the dance scene has the subtle undertones of their physical connection, finally putting their hands to work, and undertaking a more corporeal and physical reality, a &quot;truer&quot; kind of life, as opposed to the abstracted class-based, wealth-and-status-obsessed aristocracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the brief moments they share, where they touch hands, are in fact deeply intimate moments for the both of them, in secret. Until they are on the hill in the rain together, they don't truly reveal their feelings and adorations towards each other. Instead they both essentially suffer silently through their prides and prejudices against one another, never making that true connection sooner. Having their hands connect, and focusing on their hands shows that there is this natural, underlying, human, physical, corporeal, capital-T Truth to the connection between them. It's part of the visual language of the film. And that connection between them is there and known and immutable and undeniable, and yet they won't allow themselves to step outside their self-made rituals and the &quot;airs&quot; about themselves, so as to actually see it, and recognize it, and embrace it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they do finally admit it and finally embrace, it is again a romanticization and satire of the Victorian kind of &quot;prudishness&quot; wherein the ultimate, steamy, romantic climax of the film is just a kiss. Instead of what might be more honest and carnal and corporeal and true to human form, like wildly impassioned love-making (as is so often otherwise detailed in film and literature), the representation here is a kind of hopefulness towards romance and &quot;classy&quot; (pun-intended) love amongst such snobbish and status-obsessed societies. Romance, an admittance of physical and psychological and emotional and physiological passions, is &quot;simply not done&quot; in such &quot;polite society&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we recognize that besides our rationale, our language(s), and our capacity for love and compassion (sympathy and empathy), our humanity is very much linked, corporeally, to our ability to construct and work with tools. Sentience and intelligence in other animals is often judged by their ability to problem solve by working with tools. Philosophically this is also often seen as an abstraction of our actionable selves extended into the tool. We can philosophically see our selves navigating the world via our abilities with our tools (&lt;em&gt;e.g.&lt;/em&gt;, our notion of distances changes depending on whether or not we have access to a car, what's &quot;too far&quot; when walking may be trivial when driving, so our view of the size of the world shrinks and grows based on tools of transportation). For us, for the way we are neurophysiologically and culturally and societally, our relationship to our tools -- to our world -- is through touch, through our hands, this is how we feel most connected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is because our hands can build and manipulate, they can create, so when we reach out and touch our world, or the people and things in it, with our hands, we're abstractly making that connection that we're engaging with something malleable, something we may be able to change, something we can work with. Ideally, use of a tool is not only about moving forward to solve a problem, but an extension of ourselves and a means to providing feedback. Efficient problem solving is often about trial and error, learning from mistakes. This extends also to ideal respectful and romantic relationships. Not being a doormat, but also not being overbearing and dominant. A truly loving relationship is based on feedback and communication, it is a shared dance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While they are not willing, amidst their upbringings and the expectations of their society, to &quot;succumb&quot; to their passions and truly engage one another as corporeal and impassioned persons in love, they can actually rebel against the aristocratic abstractions and put their hands &quot;to work&quot; by bridging the gap between them, and actually building and crafting a relationship that their minds (their prides and prejudices) would otherwise not allow. They don't toil in farming and they don't craft homes or furnishings, but they can break out of the confines the abstracted and elitist society to construct a loving relationship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before their ultimate revelation to one another in the rain, all they can, do, and need to share is in their hands. I think this is the truer metaphorical relationship of the hands, and why amongst all the other beauty of the film, they do tend to focus so consistently and intently on their hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user12701" LastEditorDisplayName="user12701" LastEditDate="2014-12-04T05:57:25.000" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T05:57:25.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27822" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27826" CreationDate="2014-12-04T06:12:24.527" Score="11" ViewCount="22611" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can anyone explain the actions of Moss (Josh Brolin) when he's running from Chigurh (Javier Bardem)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He rents a room, hides the money in an air duct, rents an adjoining room, and then goes out to buy tent equipment to create a long device to retrieve the bag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He does all this before discovering the tracking device in the bag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now at this time, he knows Chigurh is following him, but he doesn't know about the tracking device, so he has no reason to expect he'll find him so soon. When he goes out to buy the tent pipes, what is his plan exactly? If he plans to hide the bag in the duct and run away and retrieve the bag later, why rent two rooms then? If he plans to retrieve the bag now, what's the point? Wouldn't his time be better spent getting away as far as possible from Chigurh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's as if he expected Chigurh to come to his room at the exact same time when he went out. Even if he could somehow predict that, shouldn't his plan focus on capturing/ killing Chigurh rather than hiding his money and retrieving it from another room, which was not even risk-free, I might add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2014-12-04T07:13:45.580" LastActivityDate="2019-02-09T00:42:58.937" Title="Why did Moss rent the motel room?" Tags="|plot-explanation|no-country-for-old-men|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27823" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-04T07:18:28.870" Score="3" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the Calcutta violence scene in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222012/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hey Ram&lt;/a&gt;, Saket Ram saw the &lt;em&gt;mahout&lt;/em&gt; (elephant's caretaker) dead and that the elephant could not move. I think it was chained. Does this imply anything? Why did the director (Kamal Hassan) make those scenes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16097" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T00:50:05.363" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T00:50:05.363" Title="Significance and implication of Mahout's death" Tags="|plot-explanation|hey-ram|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27822" CreationDate="2014-12-04T08:18:28.043" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless I'm remembering this wrong, &lt;strong&gt;he didn't plan this ahead of time&lt;/strong&gt;. He hid the bag in that vent with a string attached to it, planning to retrieve it later from the same room. But when he saw the truck outside his room, he got paranoid and decided to go to the &lt;em&gt;adjacent&lt;/em&gt; room and pull the bag through there without the cartel guys (who, as he correctly guessed, &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; waiting for him in the first room) knowing about it. Now, if he'd known about the tracking device, he might not have gone through all that trouble, but he lucked out as Chigurh tracked the bag to the first room &lt;em&gt;just as Moss was pulling it out&lt;/em&gt; of that vent and wasted the cartel guys for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: A spoiler site describes this chain of events (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/nocountryforoldmen.html&quot;&gt;7th paragraph here&lt;/a&gt;), and turns out it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; pretty much as I remembered it.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-04T09:09:08.697" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T09:09:08.697" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27819" CreationDate="2014-12-04T09:19:22.340" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The close up of hands highlighted the amount of personal contact they had with one another and how exhilarating and attractive both Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy found it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pride and Prejudice&lt;/a&gt; took place in the Georgian era and in both it and the following Victoria era, contact between &lt;em&gt;gentleman&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;ladies&lt;/em&gt; would have been much, &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; more minimal than what we take as commonplace today. In addition to this, women would have usually been wearing evening gloves, or long sleeves, reducing the amount of skin being exposed. Consider these photos, from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice_%281995_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;phenomenal 1995 adaption&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EQ5ZY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KDAQ7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2Hizp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only time we see characters &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; their gloves on, for example, when dancing, is because Jane Austen is trying to paint them as lacking etiquette. This is an incredibly important part of the novel. The scenes that are now considered to be amusing and witty, showing the arguments among the family both publicly and privately, would have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/proseprideprej/0prose_prideprej_contrev4.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;quite serious in Jane Austen's day&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 2005 adaptation of your question, the film makers &lt;em&gt;relax&lt;/em&gt; this etiquette and so we have scenes like these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/80c2J.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This physical contact is presented as being new, exhilarating and unusual for both of them and is used as a device to increase the romantic tension between them. The lingering shot, for example, of Mr. Darcy's hand in the picture above is intended to show just how moved he is by being able to touch her hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst this is out of tune with the etiquette &lt;em&gt;of the book&lt;/em&gt;, it worked as quite a fitting way to show their attraction in the 2005 film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T09:19:22.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27828" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-12-04T10:18:27.660" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Source - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Ram&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-12-04T10:18:27.660" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T10:18:27.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27829" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-12-04T10:18:27.660" Score="0" Body="2000's Indian crime drama film written, directed, produced and starred by Kamal Haasan. Semi-fictional plot centres on India's Partition and the murder of Mahatma Gandhi." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-12-04T10:18:27.660" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T10:18:27.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27833" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27840" CreationDate="2014-12-04T12:32:39.083" Score="18" ViewCount="93848" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/a&gt;, at the end of the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coda_%28The_Walking_Dead%29&quot;&gt;Coda&lt;/a&gt;, Beth says to Dawn: &quot;I get it now.&quot;. What does she mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Is it that Dawn is actually the problem, not everyone else as she tells all the time? But even so why would Beth kill her? (Besides &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/the-walking-dead-mid-season-finale-was-tragic-for-two-1665128603&quot;&gt;being very stupid&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it related to their earlier conversation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Dawn to Noah: &quot;I knew you would come back.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16233" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-04T14:07:51.613" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T20:05:32.110" Title="What does Beth mean when she says: &quot;I get it now.&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27833" CreationDate="2014-12-04T13:36:00.717" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it means that Beth realized Dawn had no power, and was as scared as everyone else. Dawn was merely the ruler of a small kingdom, a kingdom that was fragile. She depended on, and exploited, fear to remain as its leader. She probably killed (Hanson?), the former king to assume the top spot, and she merely had to watch her back for the next up-and-comer to try to assume her spot. Like all unsure, incompetant rulers, she depended on gifts and favors to her closest to appear benevolent and powerful. I don't think &quot;Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer&quot; was ever stated in episodes about the hospital, but the ambiance is one of deliberate fear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what she meant to Noah in his former life in the hospital, but I think she was saying Noah thrived in the environment of fear she (Dawn) could deliver in controlled doses, but he couldn't handle the uncertainty and fear of the outside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T13:36:00.717" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27833" CreationDate="2014-12-04T17:56:01.593" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took it to mean that their group, the &quot;hospital&quot; group, is based off a very fragile alliance.  No one is really in it for the group, they're each in it for themselves for different reasons.  This is counter to Rick's group, where it's very much a Three Musketeers mentallity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Dawn telling Noah that she knew he'd be back, I took that as more of a delusional &quot;I know everything&quot; statement.  Noah was only sacrificing himself to appease the tension that was created by wanting to keep Beth, and he knew Beth should be with her people.  Had Dawn not made that 11th hour stipulation, Noah would have definitely stuck with Rick's group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T17:56:01.593" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27833" CreationDate="2014-12-04T18:28:44.087" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I understood it is thus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beth has just realized that Dawn's power lies completely in making others subservient to her, and Dawn knows it. Dawn &lt;em&gt;needs&lt;/em&gt; a ward who will listen to her and obey her. Noah filled that part prior to Beth's arrival. When Noah escapes, Dawn now needs to bind Beth to her, so she starts being nicer to her, covering up for her involvement in Gorman's death, and helping her get drugs for Carol ... etc. At the time Beth interpreted these actions as Dawn genuinely wanting to be a better person. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when the hostage exchange happens, and Dawn demands Noah's return Beth suddenly understands. Dawn &lt;em&gt;needs&lt;/em&gt; a ward. Now that Beth was slipping out of her hand, she needed to have Noah back. &quot;I knew you would be back&quot; was Dawn projecting her desperation for someone to need her as a false hope. With Dawn's true motivations exposed, Beth wanted to end the cycle of abuse that resulted from Dawn's broken psyche and decided to kill her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note how the atmosphere in the hospital immediately changes when Dawn is dead, the female officer says, She (Dawn) was the problem, and the hospital residents offer shelter and alliance to Rick's group with no strings attached.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, earlier in the episode, or the previous one, Noah says the exact same phrase, &quot;I get it now&quot;, when referring to Dawn as she seeks weak people to serve under her. Later on, Dawn tells Beth &quot;I thought you were weak, but you're not&quot;, after she learns of Beth's escape attempt. &#xA;She gladly gives up Beth as an exchange because she doesn't want someone stronger than her. Dawn feels threatened by Beth's strength. &#xA;When Beth says &quot;I get it now&quot;, and attacks it's probably because she knows Noah will be badly mistreated again and is protecting him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2015-11-16T23:46:06.773" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T23:46:06.773" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27841" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27844" CreationDate="2014-12-04T18:37:35.793" Score="5" ViewCount="289" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is ageing effect limited to only living organisms in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would electronics gadgets too get aged? I mean performance must get worse over the course of time. I think TARS and other gadgets must stop functioning over the course of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16201" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-04T19:14:56.847" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T20:00:38.697" Title="Do electronics devices get aged?" Tags="|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27833" CreationDate="2014-12-04T18:43:17.653" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;As for official sources, both the actress and an executive producer offered their opinion on the matter. &lt;a href=&quot;https://tv.yahoo.com/news/walking-dead-whats-next-beths-180000186.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Says&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; executive producer &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale_Anne_Hurd&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gale Anne Hurd&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She gets that Dawn was the kind of person who made up the rules as she went along. She would do anything to not only survive, but to maintain power.&lt;/strong&gt; There is no negotiating with someone like that, and it's never going to be fair. You can never predict what someone like that is going to do, and you can't trust them. So I think on one level there's that, and then on another level, I think the 'I get it' is speaking to herself, to Beth, saying: &lt;strong&gt;'I get it now. The world has changed, and I'm no longer going to be a bystander. I'm going to act.'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/01/the-walking-dead-s-emily-kinney-on-the-brutal-midseason-finale-coda.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Says&lt;/a&gt; Emily Kinney, who plays Beth:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that Beth was saying, “I get it now,” like you don’t really know… You know, &lt;strong&gt;Dawn’s whole thing is that sometimes you have to do bad things in order to survive. Like, “I’m doing a good thing by doing these controlling things because I’m actually protecting everyone.” I think there’s something about Beth where she’s saying, “I get it now. Sometimes you don’t realize how horrible a person you can be until you get pushed to the limit.&lt;/strong&gt; You don’t even realize that you’re capable of killing someone and being such a horrible human being in a certain way, just in order to survive.” I think that’s part of Beth’s “I get it now.” There is that moment earlier in the episode where she pushes the other officer and I think that does make her feel really bad and start to question the kind of person that she is and what her morals are and who she’s looking out for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Interviewer:] Right, so on a level she understands Dawn.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Understands Dawn, yeah. They kind of have an interesting relationship where they don’t like each other and are out to get each other, but they somehow understand each other and respect each other. I think that’s part of what Beth is saying, like, “I get it now.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, she finally understands Dawn's conduct (and in a larger sense, all the awful things people have to do and the tough decisions they have to make to survive in this world), and decides to act her part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T19:02:19.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18506" CreationDate="2014-12-04T19:19:00.323" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found some explanations in the books that reasonably apply to the movies too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rebellion wasn't full-fledged when they had the announcement of the Quell --&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;It means we're on your side.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; That's what Bonnie said. I have people on my side? What side? Am I unwittingly the face of the &lt;strong&gt;hoped-for&lt;/strong&gt; rebellion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;District 13 wasn't willing to risk another war prematurely. They needed other districts' cooperation to have a chance against the Capitol, and the other districts were not yet in total rebellion at the time of the announcement. Furthermore, they may not have been strong enough yet to operate out in the open against the Capitol:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;I feel that twinge of hatred against 13 again. &quot;So, you had all this, and you left the rest of the districts defenseless against the Capitol.&quot; &#xA;    &quot;It's not that simple,&quot; he shoots back. &quot;We were in no position to launch a counterattack until recently. We could barely stay alive. After we'd overthrown and executed the Capitol's people, only a handful of us even knew how to pilot.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems they got their plans in order quickly, though, based on Haymitch's explanation at the end of &lt;em&gt;Catching Fire.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;There was a plan to break us out of the arena from the moment the Quell was announced. ... We are currently on a roundabout journey to District 13. Meanwhile, most of the districts in Panem are in full-scale rebellion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And everything fell together at that point. Many districts were in full rebellion by then, certainly fueled by the emotion of the 75th Hunger Games (the interviews, the Victors' hand-holding, etc), and 13 was clearly strong enough to come out into the open and wage war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12880" LastEditorUserId="12880" LastEditDate="2014-12-04T21:48:45.703" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T21:48:45.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27841" CreationDate="2014-12-04T19:40:28.573" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess you are adressing the 23 years that the &lt;em&gt;Endurance&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;em&gt;Romilly&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;TARS&lt;/em&gt; waited in space while &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; and the others were down at &lt;em&gt;Miller&lt;/em&gt;'s planet, since that is the only significant time that the &lt;em&gt;Endurance&lt;/em&gt; and one of its robot crew members had to keep waiting (well, apart from the 2-years trip to the wormhole and the months they travel around on the other side of it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, this is really very high tech equipment produced especially for long time space travel and dangerous environments and use cases (&lt;em&gt;TARS&lt;/em&gt; and his colleagues started as military security robots and the &lt;em&gt;Endurance&lt;/em&gt; is a spaceship). They especially considered considerably long journeys and durabilities for their travels, seeing that they would have to go 2 years to Saturn in the first place and that the missions of the first 12 were started 10 years ago. So we can assume the tech aboard the &lt;em&gt;Endurance&lt;/em&gt; as well as the robots &lt;strong&gt;can physically survive for quite a bunch of years without a significant amount of deterioration&lt;/strong&gt;. Afterall, I would surmise there are currently satellites in earth's orbit that've been there for decades.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there is also the energy problem. But again, nothing stops me from believing that NASA has the capabilities to equip its tech with an energy supply efficient enough if they're going to shoot it into space for years anyway. And in addition to that &lt;em&gt;TARS&lt;/em&gt; and many of the ship's functions &lt;strong&gt;could have simply gone into power saving mode&lt;/strong&gt; (which also might serve as preventing overusage) for a significant part of the waiting time, as &lt;em&gt;Romilly&lt;/em&gt; also did afterall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There might be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-carrier_injection&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;aspects about the degradation of electronic devices&lt;/a&gt; that I have not considered, as you pointed out in a comment. But to this I can only say that &lt;strong&gt;the filmmakers likely just didn't consider this&lt;/strong&gt; either, since they assumed the audience wouldn't care or notice at all and thus simply &lt;strong&gt;deemed it irrelevant for the story&lt;/strong&gt;, easily to brush off as future tech likely being able to mitigate such problems. As much as I understand that someone very acquainted with the field might find this much more bothersome, it also has to be seen that the majority of the audience just won't notice this at all (in the same way you probably shouldn't ask an AI expert if he finds &lt;em&gt;TARS&lt;/em&gt; and the others likely to exist even in 50 years). It's science fiction based on speculation and extrapolation afterall (scientific speculation for sure, but speculation nevertheless) and there have to be made trade-offs for the sake of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The crew really had enough problems with the &lt;strong&gt;human factors of extensive time-dilation&lt;/strong&gt; and the resulting age differences and shortage of time to rescue earth's inhabitants to not also introduce &lt;em&gt;completely tangential&lt;/em&gt; technological problems in addition to that. This was just not the story's focus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-04T20:00:38.697" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T20:00:38.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27845" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27846" CreationDate="2014-12-04T20:48:09.263" Score="19" ViewCount="4049" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know the name of this horror movie around 2000-2010. English movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a group of people in a place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a man in a wheelchair, a blonde woman (called Sarah), a black man (called Cole), a white guy which is supposedly good but is the bad guy, and some more people&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bad guy tries to kill everyone for whatever reason (can't remember) through traps&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wheelchair guy gets stuck in a refrigerator room (sort of), gets out, goes up in an elevator, shoots a gun and the bullet fires in his direction (dead)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A guy turns on a radio and dominoes start falling. He ends up dying 'cause acid gas burns his legs without him noticing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Girl goes out to get a cigarette, smokes it and it burns her on the inside&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sarah is afraid of water, but in the end she and the bad guy fight underwater for a long time and she ends up killing him because he needed to breathe and she shot him with her hand out of water.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;P.S. the first scene I remember is a dorm flooded with water and the wheelchair guy is stuck. Lamps fall on the water so that it gets electrified. Cole saves him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember many details but not the movie's name...&#xA;I apologize if the format looks terrible but I'm still not used to how this site works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16239" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-04T22:40:44.857" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T11:17:15.090" Title="Man tries to kill a group of people with complex traps" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:27:10.370" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27845" CreationDate="2014-12-04T20:51:12.107" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297284/combined&quot;&gt;Mindhunters&lt;/a&gt; from 2004 with Jonny Lee Miller and Christian Slater:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On a remote island, the FBI has a training program for their psychological profiling division, called &quot;Mindhunters&quot;, used to track down serial killers. The training goes horribly wrong, however, when a group of seven young agents discover that one of them is a serial killer, and is setting about slaying the others. Can the few that are left figure out who the killer is in time? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every detail you've mentioned is in there (though the black guy is called Gabe). Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/8sNxVZn7aLc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-02-23T11:17:15.090" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T11:17:15.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27847" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-04T21:02:01.493" Score="8" ViewCount="1566" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been rewatching seasons of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285331/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;24&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119644/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fringe&lt;/a&gt; lately, and I've noticed something really annoying, especially in 24: the first 2:30 of &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; episode is dedicated to reviewing what has previously happened in the series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seem to recall that in earlier episodes of 24, Fringe, and especially the X-Files, the viewer had the &lt;em&gt;responsibility&lt;/em&gt; to know what was going on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the age of DVR, why do modern shows dedicate a chunk of time to reviewing previous episodes? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16240" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:20:50.187" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T21:46:27.050" Title="When did &quot;Previously On ...&quot; become the first 2:30 of every show?" Tags="|24|fringe|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27848" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-04T21:16:47.567" Score="6" ViewCount="2276" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 3, Nina Myers is working to acquire the same virus which Jack is trying to acquire. She's working to acquire it for someone else. Is it ever revealed who she was working for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16241" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2015-02-03T00:32:34.870" LastActivityDate="2015-08-02T03:17:13.490" Title="Who was Nina Myers working for?" Tags="|plot-explanation|24|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17410" CreationDate="2014-12-04T22:02:22.773" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is at the very end of Godfather Part II...the flashback scene. &quot;You discussed MY future&quot;...his pop and Sonny doing it was one thing but Tom getting involved was a bit too much for Michael. And Michael never forgets. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16243" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T22:02:22.773" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27853" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-04T22:07:21.560" Score="5" ViewCount="1665" Body="&lt;p&gt;Through the years of watching Jack-Ass, I've always wondered about some of the stunts they do. A few come to mind&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When one of the guys goes into a hardware store to...use one of their display toilets.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Johnny Knoxville goes into a motor cycle shop (in the old man costume) and then floors it through the front display window.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were these really staged as shown (taking everyone by surprise) or did someone at the place of business know about it and give consent? If they gave consent, what incentives do they get for letting the show disrupt and possibly destroy their place of business?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2015-07-03T11:27:10.173" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T11:27:10.173" Title="Are the stunts staged or spontaneous?" Tags="|stunts|jackass|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27847" CreationDate="2014-12-04T22:23:23.667" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is called a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recap_sequence&quot;&gt;recap sequence&lt;/a&gt;, as opposed to having a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_open&quot;&gt;cold open&lt;/a&gt; like many TV sitcoms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue there are a few reasons for doing this. Television shows are &lt;em&gt;complicated&lt;/em&gt;. They are &lt;em&gt;particularly&lt;/em&gt; complicated nowadays. Think of the complexity of shows like &lt;em&gt;Lost&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Battlestar Galactica&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Fringe&lt;/em&gt; - unless a user is completely avid and is watching the episodes on a binge, it's highly likely they will forget some important piece of information. These shows air a season a year and many fans &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; rewatch a previous season before watching the new season. This is relevant for two reasons: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, fans are obviously busy with other things and a &lt;em&gt;Previously On&lt;/em&gt; reminds them of what they've missed. This is invaluable for many people who watch shows intermittently (and infuriating for binge watchers). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, it provides a great way of reminding viewers, quickly, about some event from possibly many episodes or seasons ago that will suddenly become relevant. Whilst this is spoilerific in the extreme, it is helpful to many, many viewers who would otherwise forget.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, I would argue we as a people are far more distracted now than we were twenty or thirty years ago. With more electronic devices than ever, and more distractions in general than ever, many viewers will watch TV shows &lt;em&gt;at the same time&lt;/em&gt; as doing some other activity. Thus, our attention spans &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/media-network-blog/2012/mar/19/attention-span-internet-consumer&quot;&gt;are much shorter&lt;/a&gt;. Recap sequences help with this, providing a timely reminder of all the cogent points to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also add that story arcs are more popular nowadays. Whilst some shows, like Star Trek or Doctor Who, have been rooted in deep mythology for a long time, each episode could &lt;em&gt;largely&lt;/em&gt; be watched as a stand alone entity. The few examples of TV shows that were &lt;em&gt;intrinsically&lt;/em&gt; linked episode to episode by story arc, such as V, didn't tend to last very long. Writers simply &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5346658/whats-the-matter-with-story-arcs-on-television&quot;&gt;didn't think the audience&lt;/a&gt; had the capacity to stay focussed to intricate plots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I can't point to a true &lt;em&gt;first appearance&lt;/em&gt; of it. &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PreviouslyOn&quot;&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt; has a listing of its uses here and it &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; was used occasionally in the 70s, with more uses in the 80s. However, it seems to have become really mainstream in recent times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: &lt;a href=&quot;http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Previously_on_24/Season_1&quot;&gt;24&lt;/a&gt; used &lt;em&gt;Previously On&lt;/em&gt; right from Season 1. Whilst Fringe and The X Files did not, this is actually quite logical when considered. When shows are starting out, there is &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; less mythology for the viewer to remember. It's only as the show has more and more episodes that the overall complexity develops - until it reaches a point the show's creators are no longer comfortable airing episodes &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; ensuring the user knows all the essential information needed to understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T22:23:23.667" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27848" CreationDate="2014-12-04T22:35:55.557" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To my knowledge, this was never revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/TwentyFour&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt; have it listed as one of their &lt;em&gt;headscratchers&lt;/em&gt; (i.e. problems without an answer). There's a great discussion on that link about who the client &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; have been, but it appears that the answer really is unresolved, with no &lt;em&gt;convincing&lt;/em&gt; argument. The actress, Sarah Clarke, did &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.24spoilers.com/2011/11/26/sarah-clarke-nina-myers-interview-24/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;state in an interview&lt;/a&gt; that she was exhausted and wanted out of the role, and that the show's creators were appreciate and commandeering of that fact. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That suggests the her role in Day Three was really to be given a &lt;em&gt;proper send off&lt;/em&gt;, considering she was a big part of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-12-04T22:35:55.557" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27856" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27858" CreationDate="2014-12-04T23:15:05.047" Score="1" ViewCount="2545" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie, Elizabeth gets a lot more sword fighting action. (As I recall, she didn't actually get to sword fight in the first one, and Keira Knightley asked for more action to be written in for her character).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume Will might have taught her, but do any of the movies explain when and where she learned to sword fight?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9804" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T12:56:40.993" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T12:56:40.993" Title="When and where did Elizabeth Swann learn to swordfight?" Tags="|pirates-of-the-caribbean|dead-mans-chest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27856" CreationDate="2014-12-05T00:30:00.677" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only explanation is given in the second film, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_Dead_Man%27s_Chest&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dead Man's Chest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. In it, this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Pirates-of-the-Caribbean-Dead-Man%27s-Chest.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;exchange&lt;/a&gt; takes place between Elizabeth and Jack:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ELIZABETH SWANN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   Jack, the Letters, give them back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JACK SPARROW&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   No. Persuade me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ELIZABETH SWANN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   You do know Will taught me how handle &#xA;               a sword. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JACK SPARROW&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;               As I said... Persuade me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, that's all we really hear about her training. The next thing we know, she's a duel-wielding, swash-buckling, accomplished fighter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what it's worth, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/article_18827_the-6-most-inexplicable-skills-displayed-in-action-movies_p2.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cracked.com&lt;/a&gt; named &lt;em&gt;her entire character&lt;/em&gt; as the *second most inexplicably skilled person in an action movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-12-05T00:30:00.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21933" CreationDate="2014-12-05T08:50:31.720" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be a plot-hole, but I think it can be explained to certain level. As Gustave &amp;amp; Zero saw Dimitri to enter the hotel they both knew Dimitri must have gone there for a reason. And if he saw someone with painting in his/her hand he will definitely check it as &quot;boy with apple&quot; is missing and Gustave took it who was in-charge of the hotel at that moment. So they came to conclusion that if Dimitri saw Agatha, she could fall in danger. That's why they reacted. It's my point of view. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastActivityDate="2014-12-05T08:50:31.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27868" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27874" CreationDate="2014-12-05T10:20:04.683" Score="10" ViewCount="3874" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this would fit the History SE or another, but I'm asking here because I don't know how historically accurate the film is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;em&gt;The Imitation Game&lt;/em&gt;, Alan Turing's team has created a machine (a primitive computer) to automatically crack the Nazis' Enigma codes. Initially it takes too long for the results to be useful, but eventually Turing realises that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; if they make it only accept codes that produce &quot;Heil Hitler&quot; as part of the message, they can disregard ones that are definitely wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I can't imagine how the machine determined a correct &quot;answer&quot; before this change. As a primitive computer,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; there's no way the machine would be able to understand natural language, and therefore &quot;We will attack at 8am&quot; would be just as meaningful to it as &quot;Xkgr wpmnwqw enjmbjg hglaaa&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before Turing's realisation, how was the machine supposed to know when it had found the answer and stop testing different combinations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16254" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-01-22T00:03:09.890" LastActivityDate="2017-01-22T00:03:09.890" Title="How did the machine work before this realisation?" Tags="|plot-explanation|historical-accuracy|the-imitation-game|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27868" CreationDate="2014-12-05T16:55:04.670" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically, it wouldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original Turing Machine (Or Christopher as it was named) was never programmed to identify words: it was programmed to identify &lt;em&gt;consistencies.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The enigma code wasn't deciphered through letters, it was deciphered through a tape displacement procedure known as its 'primitive operation' that's chosen signifiers are still honored today in the form of binary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code was 'imprinted' by enigma machines in the form of coded tapes or film, on which would read numbers, like thus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;10 001 00111 110 111000 00111 100 11&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now those numbers each represented a command to shift a letter a certain number of characters in a certain direction, either left or right and sometimes back and forth within the same command string. Each night at midnight, the meaning of these commands would change, meaning it was seemingly impossible to decipher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until Turing, linguists and cryptologists were employed to crack the codes: but Turing realized it was impossible for them to consider every code in under 24 hours: there is a line in the Movie that reflects this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;If we had ten men, decoding one code a minute, 24 hours a day 7 days a week, can you imagine how many hours it would take to run every possibility? Well it isn't hours, it's years. 20 Million years...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Turing's goal wasn't necessarily to make a machine that would crack the code, but a machine that would &lt;em&gt;drastically reduce the workload&lt;/em&gt; for the cryptologists to work through. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Turing's machine was created to process thousands of different codes a second, and simply regurgitate the results. The idea was, it is easier for a cryptologist (or even a typing pool clerk) to look through the attempted decodes and spot something written in identifiable German than if it was pure gibberish: it removed the requirement for those reading the work to be trained cryptologists, which was in itself a great boon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the film identifies, however, this wasn't enough. Processing power, whilst advantageous, is not as good as a machine that can identify codes itself (which is the very dilemma you state in your question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Turing realized there was at least one message per day that held consistencies (in the film adaptation the 3 words Weather, Heil and Hitler), he understood that he could feed this consistency back into the machine and reprogram it to look for those consistencies. In being able to break those words, he was able to break the code itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The machine breaking the code and 'stopping' itself is almost certainly a visual metaphor for the film: the noisy gears suddenly, jarringly stopping is akin to a Eureka moment. In reality, What this machine &lt;strong&gt;would&lt;/strong&gt; have done is, using these integers, produced a manageable candidacy of possibilities, which would then be scrutinised by a human until the correct combination is spotted. After this, the programmers would reset the machine to the combination it used during that specific decoding, and voila.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="16523" LastEditDate="2016-09-08T22:26:47.013" LastActivityDate="2016-09-08T22:26:47.013" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27875" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27876" CreationDate="2014-12-05T17:13:45.327" Score="10" ViewCount="7124" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I was a kid, I was subjected to a horror movie that I was probably too young to watch and it scared the pants off me.  I remember the plot quite vividly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A cinema screening was showing a horror film about a mask that turned people into demons, and at the theatre the mask from the movie was on display.  Some people were goofing around with the mask on display and one of them put it on, but when they took it off it cut his/her face.  Later, while everyone was watching the movie, he or she goes to the bathroom and pus starts spewing forth from the wound.  Eventually, that person turns into a demon/zombie who can &quot;infect&quot; others by scratching them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before long, everyone in the cinema is a demon except for two people (a man and a woman) who manage to escape on a motorbike.  They discover the entire town is infected but hitch a ride with some people blowing town in a pickup truck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure the film was in English, and probably out in the 80s or early 90s.  It probably wasn't a great film, but I'd like to watch it again just because it was the first horror I ever saw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what it was called?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16259" LastActivityDate="2014-12-06T15:55:08.033" Title="Horror movie about a mask that turned people into demons" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:27:22.883" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27875" CreationDate="2014-12-05T17:16:38.187" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the Dario Argento produced film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089013/combined&quot;&gt;Demons&lt;/a&gt; (1985) about a group of people invited to a free movie screening who are then infected and turn to demons. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demons_%28film%29&quot;&gt;This starts&lt;/a&gt; when one character named Rosemary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;scratches her face with a bizarre display mask before they go in to watch the film. The film is a violent, disturbing horror movie which features a look-alike of the mask from the lobby. [...] Rosemary feels ill and goes to the bathroom, where the scratch on her face bursts open, spewing out pus. She is soon transformed into a bloodthirsty, fanged demon like the one in the film. Rosemary attacks her friend, Carmen, who then rips through the screen and transforms into a demon in front of the rest of the cinema-goers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only 2 people remain uninfected near the end and they escape on a jeep. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_cNjTdFHL8E?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-06T15:55:08.033" LastActivityDate="2014-12-06T15:55:08.033" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9172" CreationDate="2014-12-05T23:26:12.873" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you may be wondering why the giant eagles didn't take them the full way to Erebor. It is in fact as the books state that they would be killed if they went any further. AS men blame the eagles for the disappearance of there sheep. As they wont to stay friends with the race of men they choice to stay in separate parts and protect them and other from goblins when they venture out of the misty mountains at night.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16265" LastActivityDate="2014-12-05T23:26:12.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27833" CreationDate="2014-12-06T00:09:38.477" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that when Beth said she got it, it is because Dawn put the fault on the others cops about how the hospital was managed. Each times she talked about what they had to do in order the other cops kept protecting the group. In the episode she said that her mentor died because he loved to help people but he put him in risky situation sometimes. She didn't need to be loved but she had to be respected to survive. The scene near the elevator, she pretended to care about Beth and that she wasn't like the other cops. She wanted to help people and not to overuse of her power like him (when he beat the old man). After in the Carol's room Beth said that she didn't believe her when Dawn said that she did not all the things for herself but for the other. She also said that she would remember what Beth did for her. Then for the hostage exchange, Dawn said that Beth took the place of Noah and now she was gone, she wanted to have Noah back. This moment means for me that Beth realizes that Dawn lies and that she is the only one who keeps the hospital managed like that. And when she will be gone, nothing is going to change. But I really don't understand the act of Beth at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16266" LastActivityDate="2014-12-06T00:09:38.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18477" CreationDate="2014-12-06T02:10:15.547" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why wouldn't he accept it? He got a credit card as a gift to use for his own needs and he's already done other illegal stuff at that point and he wasn't really considering the moral or personal consequences of those things at all, let alone the possibility that Cobb had something more sinister in mind for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's look at Bill's situation. He is basically unemployed, claiming to be a writer but in fact only wishing/pretending to be one. He repeatedly said that he can't afford this meal (and likely other things in Cobb's lifestyle). So first of all, &lt;strong&gt;he could definitely use some money&lt;/strong&gt;. And at that point Bill was already pretty &lt;strong&gt;emerged into and fascinated by Cobb&lt;/strong&gt;'s illegal activities and taking a forged credit card from him wasn't really beyond anything he already did together with him. Besides that he started to &lt;strong&gt;look up to Cobb and also to enjoy this lifestyle&lt;/strong&gt;, as also evident from the particular dialogue of this scene&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; You're developing a taste for it. The violating, the voyeurism, it's definitely you...I think before long you'll have developed a taste for the things that go with the proceeds.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bill:&lt;/strong&gt; Such as?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, all this.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bill:&lt;/strong&gt; Do you make all your money through burglary?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; No, not all of it. In fact, you're gonna pay for this.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bill:&lt;/strong&gt; I told you, I can't afford to pay for this.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; It won't really be you. It'll be D. Lloyd that pays for this. I thought I'd give you the pleasure of pretending to pay.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bill:&lt;/strong&gt; What am I supposed to do with this?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; Sign it, in your own handwriting. Then you can do anything you want with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To which Bill eagerly and smilingly signs it. It was just the next step in &lt;strong&gt;pretending to be someone else and enjoying the advantages&lt;/strong&gt; of that. And Cobb realized this, in fact he chose Bill exactly because he saw that this was a completely orientationless guy looking into other peoples' lives that was &lt;strong&gt;easy to manipulate into Cobb's own ways&lt;/strong&gt; (also remember how he manipulated him into changing his appearance, much to Cobb's own likeness).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-07-24T15:15:00.317" LastActivityDate="2017-07-24T15:15:00.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27883" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27888" CreationDate="2014-12-06T04:23:00.343" Score="1" ViewCount="546" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Good Morning, Vietnam&lt;/em&gt; there's a line that goes like &quot;It's gonna be hot and wet, that's nice if you're with a lady, ain't no good if you're in the jungle.' I understand the first part of the line, but I don't understand the &quot;jungle&quot; part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-06T13:03:09.590" LastActivityDate="2014-12-06T13:03:09.590" Title="A question about a line in Good Morning, Vietnam" Tags="|dialogue|good-morning-vietnam|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27883" CreationDate="2014-12-06T05:07:19.717" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jungles, more commonly referred to as rainforrests, &lt;strong&gt;are both hot and wet.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's broadcasting to military personnel, which means &lt;strong&gt;he's talking to basically no one but men on his broadcast.&lt;/strong&gt; As such, he's saying being &quot;hot and wet&quot; is fun if you're with a lady, but not when you're in the jungle, fighting the Vietcong in this case, and with very little chance of female companionship unless they're on leave, which they wouldn't be if they're in the jungle at whatever base they're stationed at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's making light of the situation the soldiers find themselves in by making a somewhat raunchy joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-12-06T05:07:19.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27777" CreationDate="2014-12-06T09:15:30.273" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have worked in the film distribution industry for the past 15 years and handle box office numbers on a daily basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are companies that track the box office ticket sales by cinema, on behalf of the distributors (studios and independents). The market leader right now is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rentrak.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rentrak&lt;/a&gt; which serves the majority of the markets around the world, but there are other companies too, usually in smaller countries/regions (e.g. MaccsBox in Holland).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The distributors get their grosses daily (or hourly/live in advanced markets), check them and then publish them to the &quot;trades&quot; (Variety, Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, Box Office Mojo etc). These numbers get published to attract publicity for the film, cast and studio. Many times these box office grosses are not even actuals, but estimated totals for a set period of time. For example if you visit the Variety website or Box Office Mojo on a Sunday, you will see the expected grosses for the whole weekend, including estimates for that Sunday night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, these numbers are public because the studios/cinemas agree to make them public. There are countries where some distributors do not disclose their results (e.g. Israel). Rentrak and the other data collection companies can only disclose what they have been allowed to disclose. Variety, Deadline Hollywood, Hollywood Reporter, Box Office Mojo etc only disclose the data they have been given by the studios/distributors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's interesting to note that the box office total is not really what a studio gets from a film. The studio's true revenue is a percentage of the total gross box office, typically less than 50%. The true revenue by film is never discussed publicly. It's even illegal in many markets for distributors to exchange that kind of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ticket inflation ensures that we will keep breaking records and claim impressive headlines in the trades. Some markets, like France, only disclose admissions (number of tickets sold) not the box office gross. Cynics in the industry suggest that we should all be using admissions instead of box office, to truly track performance. But then, who will even be able to beat &lt;a href=&quot;http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm?adjust_yr=1&amp;amp;p=.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gone with the Wind&lt;/a&gt;? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16267" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T15:20:18.380" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T15:20:18.380" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27883" CreationDate="2014-12-06T12:06:38.677" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Hot and wet&quot;, in a sexual sense, means the woman you're with is very turned on and ready to have sex.  This is a very good thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Hot and wet&quot;, in an atmospheric sense, means it's going to be difficult to breathe and there will likely be a high mosquito count, particularly if you're in an area where mosquitos live, such as a jungle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was trying to add a laugh to a situation that no soldier wants to be in, to try to take their minds off it for a few minutes.  Their clothes are going to be soaked, there will be high moisture content in the air, the temperature will be uncomfortably high and they will likely be bitten by many mosquitos.  That's pretty much as dismal as it gets.  Add to that the fact that they're creeping through a jungle filled with heavily camouflaged enemies, and it pretty much sucks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-12-06T12:06:38.677" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3577" CreationDate="2014-12-06T12:30:54.353" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the comics she knows and had known for some time.(before the civl war and the deal to heal her) I belive she has an idea but has not completely figured it out yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16270" LastActivityDate="2014-12-06T12:30:54.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27892" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-06T15:54:28.933" Score="8" ViewCount="5805" Body="&lt;p&gt;How is it that Tommy Lee Jones plays Two-Face in Batman Forever,&#xA;when Dent is black in Batman?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16272" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T01:12:35.540" LastActivityDate="2016-04-02T17:23:43.367" Title="Why did Tommy Lee Jones play Harvey Dent in Batman Forever?" Tags="|casting|batman-1989|batman-forever|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27892" CreationDate="2014-12-06T16:12:22.110" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Artistic freedom allows him to do this.  Besides, those early superhero worlds were 100% white.  It may have been considered tasteless to have a black character play a villain, which could have been construed as racist by all those happy race-baiters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're saying Dent appeared in an earlier Batman movie (I don't really recall those Burton ones too well...), then just remember that 3 different people played the part of Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-12-06T16:12:22.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27892" CreationDate="2014-12-06T16:19:05.383" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Face#Film&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Batman (1989), Billy Dee Williams appears as a Harvey Dent before his disfigurement, vowing to reduce crime by locking up mob boss Carl Grissom. Williams was set to reprise the character as Two-Face in the sequels, but the Harvey Dent character was deleted from the script for the sequel Batman Returns (1992), and Batman Forever (1995) director Joel Schumacher decided to cast Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Dent was white &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Face&quot;&gt;in the comics&lt;/a&gt;, and since Billy Dee Williams' role in the first film was rather small, and since the role of &lt;em&gt;Batman himself&lt;/em&gt; had been recast anyway, it seems Schumacher didn't feel the need to maintain this particular continuity. (Joel Schumacher also shot down the prospect of a black Robin: After replacing Burton to give the film a 'lighter' tone, Schumacher recast &lt;a href=&quot;http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/Batman_3_%28Burton%27s_proposed_film%29&quot;&gt;Tim Burton's original choices&lt;/a&gt; which also included Marlon Wayans as Robin and Renee Rousso as the love interest.) And according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.angelfire.com/film/batman/movies/forever/cast/twoface.html&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;, Schumacher wanted Jones for the role from the very beginning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I always wanted Tommy Lee Jones,&quot; explains the director. &quot;I didn't consider Billy Dee Williams for the role, because I think that he is a hero. I always see him like Clark Gable. I had just finished working with Tommy Lee Jones on &lt;em&gt;The Client&lt;/em&gt;, and I thought he would be a great Harvey Dent\Two-Face.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case, changing a character's race is actually more common than you might think; you can find some rather blatant examples &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RaceLift&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. (&lt;em&gt;cough&lt;/em&gt; 'Last Airbender' &lt;em&gt;cough&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-06T16:48:56.940" LastActivityDate="2014-12-06T16:48:56.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27896" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-06T18:32:35.287" Score="8" ViewCount="1215" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see that the &quot;E.T.&quot; movie is sold in 1.85 and 2.35 formats:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.fr/E-T-lExtra-Terrestre-Peluche-Dee-Wallace/dp/B008JELMU6/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Example of 2.35 format&lt;/a&gt; -  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myshoppingmall.fr/products.php?i=B00COBE25M&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Another example&lt;/a&gt;  -  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.civilianshop.com/fr/particular.php/B00COBE25M&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;And a last one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.fr/E-T-lExtra-Terrestre-Combo-Blu-ray-DVD/dp/B0087OYKM0/ref=cm_cr_pr_orig_subj&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Example of 1.85 format&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seems to have been recorded in 1.85 format: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/ET-The-Extra-Terrestrial-Blu-ray/7850/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;see review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I understand and see, the 1.85 format is near the 16/9 TV format (with a short black stripe at top and bottom).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But... What is the point of selling such a 1.85 movie in a 2.35 format?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This would crop the image and add big black borders at top and bottom of the image.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you explain the reasons behind such a distribution to me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15850" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-20T19:51:31.097" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T21:53:58.943" Title="What is the point of selling in 2.35 format a movie recorded in 1.85 format?" Tags="|film-techniques|distribution|et-the-extra-terrestrial|aspect-ratio|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27898" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27915" CreationDate="2014-12-06T20:58:26.337" Score="4" ViewCount="667" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Once Upon a Time, there are several statements implying that Regina was able to pick and choose who came with her to Storybrooke.  Everybody left behind (except for those protected by Cora) died, I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Regina really hated Snow White so much, why didn't she just leave her behind, letting her fall victim to the curse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16278" LastActivityDate="2020-03-12T13:34:27.023" Title="Why didn't Regina leave Snow White behind?" Tags="|plot-explanation|once-upon-a-time|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25114" CreationDate="2014-12-07T07:16:53.943" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Daoism (mandarin pronunciation) and Buddhism, the spirits never die, they will reincarnate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emanuel Swendenborg, a famous Swedish scientist, has the same belief. He even visited the &quot;spirit world&quot; and wrote many books about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16286" LastActivityDate="2014-12-07T07:16:53.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10943" CreationDate="2014-12-07T10:44:17.707" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sam Gold is the Demiurge. A greek/Gnostic term for the insane &quot;god&quot; who runs this slice of the universe. It is the god of the old testament. Not the Heavenly Father that JC speaks of. A piece of &quot;Gold&quot; lives within each one of us... it is not our friend and it prevents us from ascending the Kabala Tree, so we may reunite with the One True God of Love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16289" LastActivityDate="2014-12-07T10:44:17.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="334" CreationDate="2014-12-07T11:15:03.457" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The easiest explanation I have yet found of Primer can be found in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.astronomytrek.com/primer-2004-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;article on a sci-fi/astronomy site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Inventors Aaron and Abe try to develop technology capable of making the mass of objects lighter by blocking gravity, but instead inadvertently invent a time machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Abe then builds a time machine big enough to hold a human being, and successfully proves time travel exists by going back to earlier that day. However, a person can only travel back in time as far as when the machine was activated, and one must stay inside the machine for the length of time one wishes to travel to the past, thus placing a limit on the amount of time travelling you can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In secret, Abe also construct a “failsafe” machine which in the event of something going seriously wrong he could use to reset the timeline. The “failsafe” basically allows him to travel back to a time before he discussed the subject of time travel with Aaron. Abe would then be able to sabotage the machine as many times as necessary to get Abe and Aaron to abandon their time travel efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Over the next couple of days, Aaron and Abe travel back in time and make money investing in stocks. There is also an unfortunate incident at a party in which a shooting occurs, and Thomas Granger (Abe’s girlfriend’s father) apparently finds and uses the time machine, but becomes sick and ends up in coma. (A possible explanation could involve Granger traveling back to stop his daughter being shot by her ex-boyfriend at the party)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Realizing the dangers of time travel, Abe decides to use the “fail-safe” time machine and after traveling four days in the past he meets Aaron, and collapses. In a twist,  Abe them discovers that his fail-safe did not seem to work and that the Aaron he meets is actually an Aaron from the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It turns out that Aaron knew about Abe’s failsafe box, and used it to take another foldable time machine back and create a “near-failsafe” point farther back than Abe’s, whilst creating a “false-failsafe” point” for Abe’s time box. (Aaron wanted to keep using the machine).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Aaron has used this twice in an attempt to set right the incident at the party, which he feels he indirectly caused.  The problem with going back in time to “fix” things, though, is that the original copy of themselves are walking around in that timeline. To resolve that problem, whenever Abe or Aaron independently travel back to change events, they drug and render the earlier versions of themselves unconscious, before hiding them out of the way while they complete their task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the end there turns out to be 3 Aarons (2 Abes) in this universe, the timeline of which involves the original Aaron1 being drugged by a future Aaron2, who then stowed him in the attic before Aaron2 is himself later drugged by Aaron3 who, like Aaron2, had also traveled back through time. Furthermore, Aaron uses a tape-recorder to record all his conversations, and with his earpiece is able to keep his interactions in the past virtually identical, whilst only influencing those things he wants to change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Eventually, Abe2 and Aaron3 team up to fix the problem at the party, after which they part in anger and in effect are enemies. Abe2 then destroys the time machine, so that it can never be used by Aaron1 and Abe1 to time travel, and  experience its realities. However, Aaron2, the film’s narrator, feels guilty about having locked Aaron1 in the attic and phones him to relate the experiences of himself (Aaron2) and Aarons3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The movie ends with Abe2 warning off Aaron3 at the airport, and a scene in which Aaron3 is inside a huge hanger in another country, perhaps there to build a larger version of the time machine for an extended stay. Alternatively, it could be Aaron1 having being filled in with the details of time travel by Aaron2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16290" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T15:41:21.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27896" CreationDate="2014-12-07T12:41:35.473" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You want to see something that will really bake your noodle?  The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy was apparently only released in reformatted versions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/19286/why-the-very-different-release-formats-for-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/19325#19325&quot;&gt;Why the very different release formats for Hitchhiker&amp;#39;s Guide to the Galaxy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, movies are distributed in various formats, because TVs exist in various formats.  Take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.projectorcentral.com/build_home_theater_screen_aspect_ratio.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; to see what I'm talking about.  If you own a Cinemascope TV (2.4:1), you're certainly going to want to take advantage of the whole screen, where if you own a Widescreen then the 1.85:1 version of the film is what you want to buy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2014-12-07T12:41:35.473" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17022" CreationDate="2014-12-07T13:59:48.000" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hollywood accounting tries to maximise the tax rebates from the various states/countries where the movie is being made, while reducing the payments made to third parties (tax payments etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not really a scam. &quot;Creative accounting practices&quot; are not only observed in the film industry. Google, Amazon, Starbucks and other well-known companies are using various techniques for tax avoidance and maximum gains from local laws. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While not illegal, some find these accounting practices immoral...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16267" LastActivityDate="2014-12-07T13:59:48.000" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27898" CreationDate="2014-12-07T20:39:28.350" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The biggest reason is revealed in episode 10 of season 2, &lt;a href=&quot;http://onceuponatime.wikia.com/wiki/The_Cricket_Game&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Cricket Game &lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Snow White is roaming the execution site at night when she meets&#xA;Rumplestiltskin. Inquiring as to why he is there, he replies that he&#xA;has been disappointed by the lack of an execution. Snow White says&#xA;that she will not apologize for sparing the queen's life.&#xA;Rumplestiltskin says that Regina changing will not be easy. He asks&#xA;how she is going to accomplish this task. She says she does not even&#xA;know if it is possible. Rumplestiltskin offers to make a deal. A deal&#xA;to truly see if the Evil Queen can change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Snow White:&lt;/strong&gt; All you need... (opens cell) Is someone to help you let her out.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Evil Queen:&lt;/strong&gt; What are you doing?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Snow White:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm letting the woman who saved my life go. This is a chance to start fresh, Regina. To leave the evil behind in this cell.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Evil Queen:&lt;/strong&gt; (walks to the cell door) Just like that?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Snow White:&lt;/strong&gt; Just like that.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Evil Queen:&lt;/strong&gt; You make change sound so easy. &lt;em&gt;(Whilst walking out of her cell, Regina pins Snow White to the wall and chokes her. Snow White gets out a knife, but Regina grabs it away from her. )&lt;/em&gt; Did you really think this would protect you? Since I can't use magic, I can think of no better way than to kill you with the blade you had meant for me. Goodbye, Snow White.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Snow White:&lt;/strong&gt; No... &lt;em&gt;(Evil Queen stabs her)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Evil Queen:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Snow White:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(firmly-with sadness)&lt;/em&gt; No.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Evil Queen:&lt;/strong&gt; That's impossible.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Snow White&lt;/strong&gt;: No, that's magic.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(Prince Charming enters with guards)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Prince Charming:&lt;/strong&gt; Rumplestiltskin. He took one of your hairs from this, and used it to fashion a protection spell.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Evil Queen:&lt;/strong&gt; No...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Prince Charming:&lt;/strong&gt; Now there's nothing you can do in this land to hurt Snow or me. You're powerless against us.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Evil Queen:&lt;/strong&gt; You tricked me.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Snow White:&lt;/strong&gt; It wasn't a trick. It was a test – one that I had truly hoped you'd pass.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Prince Charming:&lt;/strong&gt; We wanted to give you a chance to change, Regina.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Snow White:&lt;/strong&gt; Regina, you are banished. Banished to live alone with your misery.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Prince Charming:&lt;/strong&gt; As long as you're alive in this world, you can't hurt us.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Snow White:&lt;/strong&gt; You saved my life once, and now I've saved yours. So we're even. And if you ever try to hurt anyone in my kingdom again, I will kill you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Later&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Evil Queen:&lt;/strong&gt; What's so special about today?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Rumplestiltskin:&lt;/strong&gt; Snow White and Prince Charming's wedding, of course. Didn't you get an invitation? Me neither. Still, nice to be able to see them declare their true love in front of their entire kingdom. A happy ending after all.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Evil Queen:&lt;/strong&gt; And, because of you, there's nothing I can do to stop it. No way to harm them in this land ever again.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Rumplestiltskin:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes. Yes, I suppose that's true... In this land.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Evil Queen:&lt;/strong&gt; (curious) What?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Rumplestiltskin:&lt;/strong&gt; The deal I made was explicit. You can never harm them in &amp;quot;this&amp;quot; land. Now, were you to bring them to another land... Well... &lt;em&gt;(the Queen smiles)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Rumplestiltskin:&lt;/strong&gt; Told you I was your friend. &lt;em&gt;(disappears in a puff of red smoke)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Evil Queen:&lt;/strong&gt; Father? Bring my carriage. I have a wedding to get to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So with the protection spell active, chances are Snow White and Prince Charming would have survived the curse if left behind. By bringing them with her to Storybrooke, Regina could watch the two interact without ever knowing who they truly were- &amp;quot;forever&amp;quot; apart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2020-03-12T13:34:27.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="27924" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-08T01:48:47.087" Score="6" ViewCount="1066" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1490017/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Lego Movie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we learn that the whole LEGO world is actually a universe existing within ours, or to be precise, in the basement of a real human family and that the whole story is actually played out by a little boy named &lt;em&gt;Finn&lt;/em&gt; and a way for him to cope with the conflict of his strict and fantasy-inhibiting father. And indeed this is again strengthened when we see that the actions as performed by his father when supposedly &quot;repairing the mess&quot; that &lt;em&gt;Finn&lt;/em&gt; created are directly represented by &lt;em&gt;Lord Business&lt;/em&gt;' micromanagers performing them inside the in-universe viewpoint of the other &lt;em&gt;LEGO&lt;/em&gt; figures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upto this point that is a reasonable and obvious representation to me and even &lt;em&gt;Emmet&lt;/em&gt;'s direct witness of the universe behind his, our real world, is nothing but him seeing the strips behind the course of his own universe, however he managed to overcome this boundary between dimensions. But the single-most action that completely shatters this whole viewpoint is the incident, when &lt;em&gt;Emmet&lt;/em&gt; manages to move completely on his own, thus &lt;strong&gt;directly interfering with our universe on his own&lt;/strong&gt; and it seems to me that there is no way to bring this in congruence to our own physical reality, not even when accepting the LEGO world and its course as an emanation of &lt;em&gt;Finn&lt;/em&gt;'s fantasy, since &lt;em&gt;Finn&lt;/em&gt; didn't do anything at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;what are we to make of this incident?&lt;/strong&gt; Does it have any deeper implications for the depicted realities? Does this establish the LEGO figures as existent and sentient within our physical reality outside of our mere fantasy? Does it have any further signficance for the meaning of the whole story and actually extend the rather simple and obvious &lt;em&gt;kid's fantasy&lt;/em&gt; interpretation of the story in a much more elaborate way I have missed? Or is this just to be brushed off as nothing of relevance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-08T12:00:58.390" LastActivityDate="2014-12-08T18:28:01.603" Title="What are the implications of Emmet's autonomous movement?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|the-lego-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27925" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-12-08T02:51:57.853" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fox TV show in which celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay spends a week in a failing restaurant in an attempt to revive the business. Based on the original British series &lt;i&gt;Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0983514/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kitchen Nightmares&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Wikipedia page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Nightmares&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kitchen Nightmares&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13213" LastEditorUserId="13213" LastEditDate="2014-12-08T08:07:36.010" LastActivityDate="2014-12-08T08:07:36.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27926" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-12-08T02:51:57.853" Score="0" Body="TV show in which the celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay spends a week in a failing restaurant in an attempt to revive the business." OwnerUserId="13213" LastEditorUserId="13213" LastEditDate="2014-12-08T08:07:38.920" LastActivityDate="2014-12-08T08:07:38.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27947" CreationDate="2014-12-08T05:55:56.293" Score="4" ViewCount="970" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching the movie &lt;em&gt;Cisco Pike&lt;/em&gt; and I was very interested in this creepy-looking bearded man on the poster / tapestry in the background. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's shown in the scene when Cisco and his friend go to Merna's house. The location of the poster should be Merna's bedroom. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The image comes on screen at 94.24, which is the time of this still.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I threw this screenshot into google reverse-image search and nothing came up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just want to identify what this poster is of? Is it a band? A cult leader? Something creepy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cJ5Oo.png&quot; alt=&quot;cisco pike&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16308" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-12-08T07:59:41.183" LastActivityDate="2014-12-08T20:02:35.107" Title="What is this poster in the background?" Tags="|props|cisco-pike|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-05-14T06:51:41.170" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27936" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-08T13:45:22.590" Score="6" ViewCount="9256" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to know what was the primary reason for Walt eliminating Jack's gang at the end of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;. The primary reason that he returned to ABQ because he wanted to give his money to Gretchen and her husband, but he came prepared in the town with his machine gun. At this point he did not know that Jesse was still alive or that Todd went to his home to talk to Skylar. What was the main reason? Was he furious over the fact that they took his money from him or did he wanted to avenge Hank's death or was this all an attempt at his redemption?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2014-12-08T13:52:34.263" LastActivityDate="2018-11-04T12:16:04.550" Title="Why exactly did Walt visit Jack's gang?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27924" CreationDate="2014-12-08T17:58:18.077" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe Emmet's movements can be explained in a similar way as in &lt;em&gt;Toy Story&lt;/em&gt;.  The toys each have an individual personality and autonomy, but those personalities and autonomous actions are affected by the person playing with the toys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would mean that a large portion of the movie consisted of the characters acting in and of themselves.  This makes sense if we consider the people making fun of Emmet, as I don't think that was Finn nor his Father.  Furthermore, if we consider the lore of the world (The vortex, the Kragle), these things would make sense if the characters would autonomous, (If a lego person falls off the table, he'll just pick him up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it is definitely possible that a child would imagine this on his own, I think it makes more sense that the legos are autonomous all the time, but given personality from the one playing with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16278" LastActivityDate="2014-12-08T17:58:18.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27924" CreationDate="2014-12-08T18:28:01.603" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I took it as that &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; universes exist side by side (and not subservient to each other) and incidents in one universe affect the other. The &lt;em&gt;causality traffic&lt;/em&gt; might seem a bit heavy sided towards Finn's universe being the dominant one, but on closer look you see that this isn't completely true. The Man Upstairs' LEGO policies have certainly shaped Emmet's universe greatly. But Emmet, being Finn's chosen one, has reversed the flow of effects. Not only was he able to cross between his world to Finn's (and back again), but his reformation of President Business has also somehow triggered The Man Upstairs to look differently at his hobby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, Emmet's world is not a fantasy or part of Finn's world, but a distinct one that has a border with Finn's world where cause and effect can cross.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-12-08T18:28:01.603" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27936" CreationDate="2014-12-08T18:34:49.103" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The final episodes of Breaking Bad are all about Walt going on a journey of redemption. The collapse of his empire and the loss of his family along with his solitary exile have made Walt cognizant of all the terrible things his actions resulted in. The fact that this journey would also result in the destruction of his enemies who have laid him low would definitely have appealed to his ego, but redemption was his main goal as evidenced by him finally confessing to Skyler about his true motivation and revealing the final resting place of Hank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By paying Jack's gang he not only intends to destroy them, take vengeance for the death of Hank and all the other people they killed, but he would also rescue Jesse. Walt had wronged Jesse in so many ways that rescuing him (or at least attempting to) &lt;em&gt;had&lt;/em&gt; to be part of his path to redemption. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-12-08T18:34:49.103" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27942" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-08T18:52:18.117" Score="6" ViewCount="1116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a trope about one person being tackled and piled on and the hero uses tremendous strength to get up and the multiple opponents go flying? Here is what I am talking about from &lt;em&gt;The Matrix Reloaded&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z45gU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to see if rare human beings actually fought people all at once and not one at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6752" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T12:10:01.763" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T12:10:01.763" Title="Is there a trope for a pile-on fight?" Tags="|trope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27942" CreationDate="2014-12-08T19:41:28.590" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Online trope compiler TvTropes has decided to call this one &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DogPileOfDoom&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dog Pile of Doom&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A large number of mooks jump on the hero, pinning him down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually it's a climactic battle scene. The hero is facing down dozens, no, hundreds, no, THOUSANDS of Mooks. At first, the hero's doing well. He's smiting them one after another. But then he begins to get tired, and first one, then another, then another and another and another leap onto him, dragging the poor guy to the ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems you're after the first scenario mentioned there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several ways that this scene can turn out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Type A: The hero activates a super mode, has an epiphany, or otherwise becomes more Bad Ass. He explodes out of the pile, minions scattering to the four winds, and rises as an epic figure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-12-08T19:41:28.590" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27936" CreationDate="2014-12-08T19:44:04.933" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felina_%28Breaking_Bad%29&quot;&gt;Felina&lt;/a&gt;, though not referenced in the WikiPedia article - though explained &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Felina&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, Walter meets up with Badger and Skinny Pete after insisting that Elliot and Gretchen deliver the money to Walt Jr (and discussing terms).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walter had heard rumors that the Blue Meth was still being manufactured.  He asks Skinny Pete and Badger; Pete and Badger state &quot;We thought you (Walter/Heisengerg) were making it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walter interprets this to mean that Jesse is still manufacturing.  He doesn't know the specifics at the time (the specifics being that Jesse is being held hostage to manufacture the meth), but does not appear to be happy that the Blue Meth is still being manufactured - and also that the public is under the impression that Heisenberg is manufacturing said Meth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walter then intercepts Lyida and Todd at the cafe, which is how Walter confirms that Jack's gang is responsible for the manufacture of the Blue Meth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It isn't until the confrontation, later - that Walter is able to confirm that Jesse is an unwilling captive.  Walter uses the claim that Jack never followed through on the agreement to kill Jesse to in fact confirm the condition of Jesse (Jack has to have Todd bring Jesse to the house to confirm Jesse's status to Walter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point the Machine Gun is triggered - where Jack's gang is wiped out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll notice the final scenes of the series are Walter enjoying his creation, the design, and the specifics.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside that Walter had agreements for a similar manufacture in Arizona (this is where Jack stole the equipment from) - the bottom line is that Walter did not want his legacy of such a pure meth to exist in the hands of someone else - as he knew he was going to die.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene in the car after Elliot and Gretchen's place seems to confirm that Walter would not stand for the ultra-pure meth to be manufactured and sold in Albuquerque without him (Walter). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15523" LastActivityDate="2014-12-08T19:44:04.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27931" CreationDate="2014-12-08T19:50:52.297" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I've got this,&#xA;It's a poster called: Musten Baba&#xA;(poster work on paper)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's a guru named Musten Baba; it's from 1968. It was produced by a company called Berkeley Bonaparte.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it might have been a poster used by Frank Zappa (&lt;a href=&quot;http://auctions.concertpostergallery.com/musten-baba-black-and-white-print-pae--graded-mint-lot1170.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/2010541278&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;additional source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZhPun.jpg?s=256&quot; alt=&quot;Image of the poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-12-08T20:02:35.107" LastActivityDate="2014-12-08T20:02:35.107" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-08T22:36:34.837" Score="5" ViewCount="3095" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most sitcoms i've watched tend to follow a specific pattern in storytelling.  There is a main story (A) involving the principle character(s) and a side story (B) which is interesting but generally unimportant to story A or to the overall story arch of the show (if it even has one).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do sitcoms generally adhere this format?   What purpose is B supposed to fill?  Why does it work so well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, are there any other possible structures that a sitcom can have?  Examples of alternative structures would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5225" LastEditorUserId="5225" LastEditDate="2014-12-08T23:03:42.293" LastActivityDate="2017-04-30T13:16:31.793" Title="Why do sitcoms generally have A-B Story Structure?" Tags="|sitcoms|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27952" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27971" CreationDate="2014-12-09T00:14:37.137" Score="11" ViewCount="14521" Body="&lt;p&gt;In all of the movies I have seen in my life, I have rarely seen zoom-in shots used. Most of the time, when the camera moves closer, it &quot;pans&quot; in. (The difference is that in a zoom-in shot, the camera is in one location and the zoom is done with the lens, whereas in the shot used in movies, the camera itself moves forward.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is, &lt;code&gt;why do movies tend to not use zoom shots&lt;/code&gt;, especially when zoom shots are commonly listed as common film techniques?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16319" LastEditorUserId="16319" LastEditDate="2014-12-09T21:19:30.057" LastActivityDate="2017-05-05T00:35:49.460" Title="Why are zoom shots rarely used?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27953" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27954" CreationDate="2014-12-09T00:44:11.753" Score="31" ViewCount="5203" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lKj6w.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does the depiction of the black hole Gargantua in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; look the way it does? I understand why the ring is bright (due to the friction) but why does it loop around what seems to be two perpendicular directions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Apologies:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted a slightly re-worded version of &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/151301/shape-of-accretion-disk-surrounding-the-black-hole-in-interstellar-film&quot;&gt;this question in Physics&lt;/a&gt; stack exchange and only know now that it is bad practice (thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/49/napoleon-wilson&quot;&gt;Napoleon Wilson&lt;/a&gt;). Also, I discovered later that my question in Physics was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/148567/what-does-this-depiction-of-a-black-hole-in-the-movie-interstellar-mean&quot;&gt;duplicate&lt;/a&gt; anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9012" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2017-03-30T21:23:43.277" Title="Why is the ring of debris (accretion disk) surrounding Gargantua shaped the way it is?" Tags="|realism|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27953" CreationDate="2014-12-09T01:19:05.187" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;The appearance of the black hole in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; was not created arbitrarily. It was actually modeled using the real relativistic equations describing the path of light in the gravitational field of a super-massive black hole spinning at near the speed of light. As a result, it may be the most accurate depiction we have to date of what such an object might look like. Astrophysicist and gravity expert Kip Thorne collaborated with the visual effects team to produce new software specifically to model the equations and render the black hole. The appearance was initially somewhat unexpected, but Kip Thorne realized &quot;Why, of course. That's what it would do.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't pretend to be an astrophysicist, but on a basic level, here's what's happening: The glowing accretion disk of plasma remains in a single plane as expected (there's no perpendicular ring), but some of the light from the back side of the disk is &lt;em&gt;warped&lt;/em&gt; by the intense gravitational field, over the top and bottom of the black hole. Thus in the region just outside the black hole, you are actually seeing around to the back side of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, the discoveries made during the rendering process has even led (or will lead) to the publication of several scientific articles on gravitational lensing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's more detail, including a video with Kip Thorne describing the effect, here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-black-hole/&quot;&gt;http://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-black-hole/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Filmmakers often use a technique called ray tracing to render light&#xA;  and reflections in images. “But ray-tracing software makes the&#xA;  generally reasonable assumption that light is traveling along straight&#xA;  paths,” says Eugénie von Tunzelmann, a CG supervisor at Double&#xA;  Negative. This was a whole other kind of physics. “We had to write a&#xA;  completely new renderer,” she says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Von Tunzelmann tried a tricky demo. She generated a flat, multicolored&#xA;  ring—a stand-in for the accretion disk—and positioned it around their&#xA;  spinning black hole. Something very, very weird happened. “We found&#xA;  that warping space around the black hole also warps the accretion&#xA;  disk,” Franklin says. “So rather than looking like Saturn's rings&#xA;  around a black sphere, the light creates this extraordinary halo.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's what led Thorne to his “why, of course” moment when he first&#xA;  saw the final effect. The Double Negative team thought it must be a&#xA;  bug in the renderer. But Thorne realized that they had correctly&#xA;  modeled a phenomenon inherent in the math he'd supplied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15905" LastEditorUserId="15905" LastEditDate="2014-12-09T01:25:05.040" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T01:25:05.040" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27960" CreationDate="2014-12-09T07:04:41.740" Score="4" ViewCount="36099" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest, the scene where Davy Jones comes aboard the Pearl and confronts Capt. Jack Sparrow, he mentions something about a deal, like Jack Sparrow being captain of the Pearl for 13 years. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to know the history of this deal. How come Jack Sparrow made a deal at the first place with Davy Jones? Why was Jack made captain of the pearl for 13 years?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16274" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T12:54:43.843" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T22:38:49.457" Title="How did Jack Sparrow end up making a deal with Davy Jones?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pirates-of-the-caribbean|dead-mans-chest|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27218" CreationDate="2014-12-09T07:08:33.413" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a solution to the story ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The humanity both survives and wipes out without any need of parallell universes or syclic timeloops. HOW?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are not two ways of doing things. No non-determinism (splits into two ways at the same time) or no backtrackings (like a squirrell running branches of a tree of time back and forth). Done is done. Time is deterministic as we know it today. And as scientists has shown: particles can be teleported from one place to another - also from time to another - becuse time and space is the same. But the last said we do not yet know. Anyway...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let the story start by the humanity rescuses by a wormhole travel in about say 55 seconds.&#xA;They come into a new world without humans. Droids tell everyone of flesh was gone into that wormhole 3 years ago.&#xA;It was because of some beliefe system based on logic and what seemed most positive for them. Because they existed that means they had to rescue humanity from a historical fact there had been a catastrophe at the same planet for about 5500 years ago. Life on earth in that time could not be possible. The catastrophe has now faded out but can still be measured by researchers. So they all offered their lifes for humanity, love and a possibility of eternal life in that timeloop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well the most of the droids and maybe you too is a bit confused then about how the humanity could come back?&#xA;But an expert of timeholes among the droids, have all needed facts and a conclusion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not a syclic timehole! There are no two ways of doing and yet it seems like that! No, in fact...&#xA;It is more like a rubber-band. If shooting a stone 5500 mm with the rubber represents a timetravel in 5500 years (that felt like 55 seconds) that means if you looesn the rubber 3mm (that represents 3 years ago the humanity disappeared into the hole) then it must be that &quot;they&quot; came out 3 years too late! Three years after the humanity was rescuede by the wormhole! Ooooh nooo! They traveled past each other! They arrived direct into death while the others are here fully alive! Still those who are gone is born from those who have come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So humanity booth was rescued and extinct? Isnt that a paradox? So where dit &quot;they&quot; come from if &quot;we&quot; are born into the future after our death? A droid come to answers the bewildered questions:&#xA;Well - there are myths that tell some heroes sometimes fell out from the wormhole. The laws of physics seems not always be mathematically perfect. Or more correctly speaking - theories is too simple to describe the wormhole. Not you but they who are gone is born from them who fell out from that hole. Those who fell out are some of you. Those you believed not followed with you through the 55 second travel gave actually birth to a new civilisation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And how did the wormhole come to existence? Who created it? That question the droids can not tell! Nobody actually does not know. The myths say that the people who fell out from the wormhole only knows that suddenly there was a wormhole in time. There was no other ways to escape than run into it. The fast increasing heat of the catastrophe was unbearable. Many died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the characters in this story becomes angry and shoot at the wormhole. Bullets make visible holes which then slowly seals and disappears. The type of some leader or what gets an idéa. They put all their ammo into it. Yeah nice - but it repairs itself after a while. It needs more! Now the droids have to help - the people demanded. One of the more eager of the droids jumped into some kind of machine and there was a huge explosion and no wormhole anymore. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people hurrayed. The type of leader tries to formulate something epic: Now it ended - long live the people. But a more clever droid answeres: Well - it was created now. It was my backwards time machine he started for first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16322" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T07:08:33.413" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21938" CreationDate="2014-12-09T08:33:51.807" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's definitely a crude intimidation gesture. The raw fish is filled with bacteria that would cause a slow, painful death. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user16323" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T08:33:51.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27956" CreationDate="2014-12-09T09:06:09.003" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Davy_Jones&quot;&gt;the PotC wikia&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At some point in time, Davy Jones would strike a bargain with Jack&#xA;  Sparrow to resurrect his beloved vessel the Wicked Wench, which he&#xA;  would rename as the Black Pearl, in return for a hundred years of&#xA;  servitude aboard the Dutchman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Black_Pearl&quot;&gt;Also&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Beckett wanted to hit Jack where it hurts the most, so he set the&#xA;  Wicked Wench on fire as his men held Jack by, and made him watch his&#xA;  beloved ship burn. Jack was able to escape from the guards and tried&#xA;  to save the Wench from the flames, but instead was hit by a falling&#xA;  beam of the Wench's burning cabin. &lt;strong&gt;Jack found himself in a dream-like&#xA;  state, and, realizing he was dying, summoned Davy Jones&lt;/strong&gt; and made a&#xA;  deal with the squid-faced captain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From that same page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Davy Jones: &quot;You've been captain of the Black Pearl for thirteen years. That was&#xA;  our agreement.&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Jack Sparrow: &quot;Technically, I was only captain for two years, then I&#xA;  was viciously mutinied upon.&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Davy Jones: &quot;Then you were a poor captain, but a&#xA;  captain nonetheless! Have you not introduced yourself all these years&#xA;  as Captain Jack Sparrow?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2014-12-09T12:20:19.560" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T12:20:19.560" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27952" CreationDate="2014-12-09T09:50:54.380" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A zoom is technically not a camera move as it does not require the camera itself to move at all. Zooming means altering the focal length of the lens to give the illusion of moving closer to or further away from the action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The effect is not quite the same though. Zooming is effectively magnifying a part of the image, while moving the camera creates a difference in perspective — background objects appear to change in relation to foreground objects. This is sometimes used for creative effect in the dolly zoom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16310" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T09:50:54.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27952" CreationDate="2014-12-09T10:59:35.750" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are a local spectator you can't zoom, you only can go closer. So it wouldn't be natural. Maybe a viewer will get unconfortable by watching a lot of zooming scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16325" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T10:59:35.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27963" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-09T13:10:39.027" Score="25" ViewCount="31855" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Pirates of the Caribbean, whoever has the Aztec gold gets cursed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Elizabeth had the gold coin with her which Bootstrap gave to his son Will before he was tied to a cannon and dropped to the ocean floor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Barbossa states that they were cursed because of Aztec gold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in the fight between Jack and Barbossa, Jack takes a gold coin and he was also cursed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't Elizabeth get affected? Or was she also cursed and nobody noticed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6245" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T16:06:43.650" LastActivityDate="2021-01-16T00:31:51.207" Title="Why didn't Elizabeth get cursed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pirates-of-the-caribbean|curse-of-the-black-pearl|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27963" CreationDate="2014-12-09T14:26:03.833" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;My reading of the situation is that the curse only affects someone if they take it from the chest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16328" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T14:26:03.833" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26820" CreationDate="2014-12-09T14:37:27.680" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was definitely done in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123755/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cube&lt;/a&gt; or one of its sequel/prequels; in fact a character opened a door and saw the back of his head looking out of the door from across the room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While not in a movie, the first time I saw/read it used was in the old Wang Computer game Colossal Cave Adventure.  It was a text-based game, and in it there was a maze where every screen had the same message unless you navigated it correctly:&#xA;&quot;You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It gave you the feeling that you were basically in the same place you started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="16328" LastEditDate="2014-12-09T16:09:13.290" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T16:09:13.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27963" CreationDate="2014-12-09T16:04:49.483" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the same reason that young Will Turner wasn't cursed after &lt;em&gt;wearing&lt;/em&gt; the medallion. After young Will is rescued in the beginning of the first movie, young Elizabeth finds the medallion on young Will, and not wanting him arrested and hung as a pirate, takes it and begins wearing it herself. Neither of them were cursed by that act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wasn't the simple act of holding, or &lt;em&gt;being given&lt;/em&gt; a piece of eight from the cursed treasure. It was the personal &lt;em&gt;choice of stealing&lt;/em&gt; one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bootstrap Bill takes a coin (with greed, as treasure) and is cursed.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bootstrap gives the coin to his son (who receives it as a gift without envy or greed), who is not cursed.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth takes the coin with the good intention of saving Will (not with envy or greed), and is not cursed.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Captain Jack Sparrow later takes a coin off the pile (with the bad intention of killing Barbossa) and is cursed.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finally Jack (the monkey) steals a doubloon (with greed, as treasure) and is cursed. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just for @Logarr:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;                BARBOSSA&#xA;     Would that I could.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He produces the medallion, lets it dangle from his fingers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;               BARBOSSA (CONT'D)&#xA;&#xA;     Do you not know what this is,&#xA;      then?&#xA;&#xA;               ELIZABETH&#xA;     It's a pirate medallion.&#xA;&#xA;               BARBOSSA&#xA;     It's a piece of the treasure of Isla de&#xA;      Muerta .&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Elizabeth gives an infinitesimal shrug, intrigued despite&#xA;  herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;               BARBOSSA (CONT 'D)&#xA;     Ah, so you don't know as much as you&#xA;      pretend. Back when Cortes was cutting a&#xA;      great bloody swath through the New&#xA;      World, a high priest gave. him all the&#xA;      gold they had, with one condition: that&#xA;      he spare the people's lives. Of course,&#xA;      Cortes being Cortes, he didn't.&#xA;         (nods)&#xA;     He'd've made a great pirate, that one.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Barbossa stands, moves to a shelf. Puts a key to a medium-&#xA;  sized polished wooden box -- the Captain's chest. Opens it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;               BARBOSSA (CONT'D)&#xA;     So the priest, with his dying breath,&#xA;      called on the power of the blood of his&#xA;      people, and put on the gold a curse. If&#xA;      anyone took so much as a single piece,&#xA;      as he was compelled by greed, by greed&#xA;      he would be consumed.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Inside the chest are charts, some gold, a sextant -- and a&#xA;  few pages of a Mayan CODEX, pieces of tree bark inscribed&#xA;  with Mayan glyphs. Barbossa removes them carefully, sets&#xA;  them on the table. Pours over them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;               BARBOSSA (CONT'D)&#xA;     Within a day of leaving port for Spain,&#xA;      the treasure ship carrying the gold ...&#xA;      something went wrong. The ship run&#xA;      aground, every man aboard dead, save&#xA;      one. He survived long enough to hide&#xA;      the gold ashore.&#xA;&#xA;         (beat)&#xA;     Over time, the dark magic of the curse&#xA;      seeped into the place, making it a&#xA;      cursed island. An island of death. Isla&#xA;      de Muerta.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Pirates-of-the-Caribbean.html&quot;&gt;Pirates-of-the-Caribbean&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can read: &lt;em&gt;...put on the gold a curse. If anyone took so much as a single piece, as he was compelled by greed, by greed he would be consumed.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The curse was not on the chest, but the gold. And for the curse to be &quot;activated&quot; the gold doubloon needed to be taken, with greed as the motive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2014-12-09T20:14:19.717" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T20:14:19.717" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27963" CreationDate="2014-12-09T16:13:02.017" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Elizabeth didn't get cursed because &lt;strong&gt;she didn't take the coin from its original chest&lt;/strong&gt;, the coin got passed on to Will Turner and then Elizabeth, Bill Turner was the one that took that same coin from the chest and he got cursed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quote from conversation between Barbossa and Elizabeth about the curse:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;...So the heathen gods placed upon the gold...a terrible curse. Any&#xA;  mortal that removes but a single piece &lt;strong&gt;from that stone chest&lt;/strong&gt; shall&#xA;  be punished for eternity.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The crew that stole the gold from the original chest got cursed, but before they realized that, they already spent their aztec gold on different places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the curse was spread just by touching the gold there would be a lot more undead people, including Elizabeth and Will, which is not the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Confusion might be when Jack took the gold coin from the original stone chest later on and gotten cursed for a short period until he returned it back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="65" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-10T17:53:45.167" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T17:53:45.167" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27952" CreationDate="2014-12-09T17:48:58.840" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;To be accurate - having the camera follow isn't a &quot;pan&quot; - a pan is a rotation on an axis.  If the camera is moved, it falls more into a &quot;dolly&quot; or &quot;tracking&quot; (crane, truck, steadicam).   See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.videomaker.com/article/14221-camera-movement-techniques-tilt-pan-zoom-pedestal-dolly-and-truck&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; for some good definitions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Director Paul Thomas Anderson (&lt;em&gt;Boogie Nights&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;There Will be Blood&lt;/em&gt;) utilizes tracking shots frequently.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zoom shots are usually used to immediately bring the audience to an object or person of focus from a much wider scope shot.  From a storytelling perspective, this is rarely required.  (Though is occasionally used - I'm thinking Martin Scorsese used one in &lt;em&gt;Wolf of Wall Street&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The aforementioned Paul Thomas Anderson (or his cinematographer) uses tracking shots to either A) follow a series of events happening at the same time or B) physically follow a character or object from point to point or through events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A slow zoom is sometimes used to draw in on a character delivering a dramatic monologue.  Again, as a plot device, this is not frequently used.  (It is used more on Television to bring more weight to a revelation; however - in film - the schedule and budget usually allows for more exotic techniques).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fast Zooms are generally aesthetically unpleasing, if not done well.  If you think about it - the photographer has to ensure they &quot;end&quot; on the proper center object.  If the camera is not perfectly centered on the desired object, the end frame will not be centered well after the zoom. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15523" LastEditorUserId="15523" LastEditDate="2014-12-10T13:57:20.867" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T13:57:20.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27952" CreationDate="2014-12-09T19:35:47.957" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Zooms draw attention to the camera.  Frequently, the camerawork in a film is similar to what an observer's eyes would do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there are 2 people talking, we look back and forth between them (like the shot cutting from one person's face to the other's and back to the first).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When an important person is walking across our field of view, we follow them smoothly with our eyes (like panning the camera).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is an important detail, like the time on someone's watch, our eyes might dart to it for an instant (like a quick &quot;insert shot&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I look at filmmaking, the camera zoom is not something our eyes can do.  We can walk forward or backward, simulating a truck or dolly shot where the camera gets closer to a subject, but we can't &quot;zoom in&quot; with our eyes.  So it looks cheesy or unnatural, and pulls a lot of viewers out of the experience of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2017-02-08T17:18:05.647" LastActivityDate="2017-02-08T17:18:05.647" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16195" CreationDate="2014-12-09T22:28:26.977" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally I think the film is deliberately made to be ambiguous at many points: some scenes are presented as reality at first then one is led to discover it's part of Simon's imagination guided by Elizabeth. At times Elizabeth seems to be interested in Franck and at others to be manipulating him. Sometimes the scene focuses on Franck in a way that could be thought to be in his imaginary hypnotic fantasy. For all these reasons I think the film watcher is meant to be kept guessing, wondering who is the powerful manipulator of everyone else, and whose trance it all is. There's no shame in feeling unsure about it having watched the film, and no glory in claiming to have seen the plot clearly without ambiguity. I believe a main aim of the film is to leave the watcher with a sense of mystery and uncertainty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16338" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T22:28:26.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24636" CreationDate="2014-12-09T22:30:10.800" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that he wants to protect her and does not want to kill her and tori wants to protect her from the fate her brother had which is death.  I think yes four is divergent because he doesn't have anyone close to him by blood that is divergent and he doesn't want to kill tris when she is divergent and they say divergents are dangorous &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16339" LastActivityDate="2014-12-09T22:30:10.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27978" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-10T05:32:01.647" Score="2" ViewCount="799" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having previously watched The Shield which was written by Kurt Sutter, I'm wondering if the ending of the Sons of Anarchy was a twisted or ironic ending like The Shield had. Kurt's writing is very twisted and dark as he demonstrates several times including Otto (played by Kurt) being tortured and raped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at face value, the ending seemed poetic. But I can't help but wonder if it had a deeper meaning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm talking about the very end, where Jax takes his own life&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched the after show and they did discuss the ending as well as Kurt's &quot;edge&quot; on The Shield and what he added to it, but they didn't go too deep on the SOA ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I just looking for something that doesn't exist? SOA while gritty and violent, was kind of wholesome and The Shield was not. Was it simply a poetic ending? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T15:46:54.827" Title="Was the ending of Sons of Anarchy a twisted ending?" Tags="|sons-of-anarchy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1571" CreationDate="2014-12-10T08:35:17.350" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone already has the virus. If they are bitten by a zombie then it kills them and makes them a zombie. If they die naturally and do not receive a bullet or blow to the head, they will &quot;rise&quot; as a zombie. If bitten, they will turn to a zombie unless the sustain a head blow; then they will become a corpse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shane, just like everyone else, has the virus in him. When he gets stabbed by Rick, he rises as a zombie because no trauma was dealt to his head. Once shot in the head he is a corpse. Randall also had the disease and he was killed by breakage his neck and when was left there &quot;dead&quot; rose as a zombie soon after. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, no one is immune, everyone is sick and there are two ways of being turned; killed without a huge trauma to the head or a bite from a zombie which my theory is increases the disease in the body and accelerates death and immediate zombie transformation. The only way to kill anyone, zombie or &quot;not zombie&quot;, is trauma to the head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16345" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-02-16T04:37:32.247" LastActivityDate="2017-02-16T04:37:32.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1681" CreationDate="2014-12-10T13:42:03.623" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I admit it's not a perfect answer, but since nobody else bothered, I'll give it a shot. The simple answer is that &lt;strong&gt;the ending is ambiguous&lt;/strong&gt;. We don't see what Hei is pointing at or what happens after the film cuts to black, only hear a car crash. &lt;em&gt;But here's the best theory I can come up with&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the beginning, Rainie says that according to her mystical book, &lt;em&gt;a pregnant woman can't kill&lt;/em&gt;, otherwise she and her baby will be cursed. Near the end, we find out that the hotel owner's wife was cursed and that her babies became human-dog hybrids because &lt;em&gt;she&lt;/em&gt; killed the dogs. When the wife's ghost feels that Rainie is pregnant as well, she lets her go and is able to finally find peace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the twist ending, Rainie, thinking she no longer needs the book and throwing it out the window, &lt;em&gt;causes the car behind them to crash&lt;/em&gt;. I assume this since there's nothing in front of the &lt;em&gt;group's&lt;/em&gt; vehicle before this happens, just an empty road, so there's no reason for &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt; to crash:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/if6e4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It makes more sense that the book obscures the windshield of the vehicle &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; them (a feeling magnified by the 3d effect; we see the book flying right at us, as if we're driving behind them). And Hei, who sensed the ghosts back at the hotel, is now pointing at &lt;em&gt;Rainie&lt;/em&gt; because he's sensing that the curse will live on: Rainie is pregnant and is just about to cause a death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And although the connection to the Pangs' &lt;em&gt;Eye&lt;/em&gt; trilogy is tenuous at best, there are tiny links that might give some credence to this theory. &lt;em&gt;The Eye&lt;/em&gt; ends when a character senses that an accident on the road is going to claim many lives. &lt;em&gt;The Eye 2&lt;/em&gt; introduces karma and a cursed pregnancy. And &lt;em&gt;The Eye 10&lt;/em&gt; introduces a mystical ghost book.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-10T14:25:21.880" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T14:25:21.880" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15148" CreationDate="2014-12-10T13:56:44.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mrs Harsaw was attracted to bad guys. She was of course bored with her old husband so she had a relationship with the local tough guy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Maddox arrived at town, she found him more interesting than Sutton so she turned towards Maddox in the first place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Maddox's interest was mitigated in her, she continued to frequent Sutton, as a second best - but also as a tool to keep Maddox in check. Besides she was constantly observing Maddox. At the end they lived happily ever after, showing birds of a feather flock together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16347" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T17:03:40.987" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T17:03:40.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27978" CreationDate="2014-12-10T15:27:11.117" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is going to be full of opinionated answers, unless there comes some canon answer from Kurt.  I looked at it as a very poetic ending, where Jacks knew he had to distance his bloodline from the club.  His father tried to change things, he tried to change things, and he has realized that things CAN'T be changed.  I don't see any twist there.  I'm not sure if he originally intended to go out like his father, but I think he saw an opportunity and instantly made peace with the decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T15:27:11.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27984" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27991" CreationDate="2014-12-10T15:30:02.563" Score="7" ViewCount="61602" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been bugging me for years.  She seemed to be some kind of conscience character, and a friend surmised that she was likely a harbinger of death (notice the crows eating the bread she was holding earlier while Jacks' blood flows towards it?), but has there been any solid answer from Kurt Sutter or other writers on it?  At one point in the show she had a daughter who threw a rock through the Sons' window of their ice cream shop, but then that character just disappeared.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T19:45:30.400" Title="Now that Sons of Anarchy is over... What was up with that homeless lady?" Tags="|character|sons-of-anarchy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27978" CreationDate="2014-12-10T15:46:54.827" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to add another answer, which I found on &lt;a href=&quot;http://cartermatt.com/143781/sons-anarchy-series-finale-review-jaxs-fate-homeless-ladys-meaning-much/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this website&lt;/a&gt; while looking for opinions on the homeless woman, and it's &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; heavy.  It's too good &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; to add:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you are leaving out a few details about the ending. At the end&#xA;of the chase scene, there was one crow flying, and after the crash,&#xA;there were two.. I believe that the first crow was JT, and the second&#xA;one was Jax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The homeless lady had bread and wine, which ended up at the scene of&#xA;the crash. Jax went out with his arms spread... which I originally&#xA;thought was him spreading his wings as a crow.. but knowing that the&#xA;homeless lady was the angel of death, and she had the bread and wine&#xA;(a nod to the last supper), jax spread his arms to symbolize the&#xA;crucifixion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It makes sense considering he had to die to ensure the future of his&#xA;club and his family, he crucified himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll add to this that after the crash, you see the homeless woman's bread.  And then you see Jacks' blood running towards it.  In the Catholic religion, wine is a symbol for the blood of Christ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T15:46:54.827" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29992" CreationDate="2014-12-10T17:37:49.130" Score="6" ViewCount="8493" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(TV_series)&quot;&gt;Planet Earth TV series&lt;/a&gt;. There are some beautiful shots in the different episodes! And one shot (or one particular type of shot) I'm curious about how they done it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 8th episode &quot;Jungles&quot; (but in many other episodes of the series and also in other documentaries) are some 360 degree time lapse shots of growing plants and mushrooms. We can see a plants growing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My question:&lt;/strong&gt; are those (360 degrees) time lapse shots done in a studio or at the particular places on earth (i.e. where the plants are originally resident)? Because in a studio I think the shots are much more easier to accomplish. From my point of view I can't determine the fact where the plants are placed for the shots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This youtube video is not taken from the Planet Earth tv series, but that are exactly the shots I'm talking about: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/MgDZBqTuUuE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8737" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T17:58:01.593" Title="Are time lapse shots of growing plants done in a studio or at the particular places on earth?" Tags="|film-techniques|documentary|cinematography|planet-earth|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27988" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="27989" CreationDate="2014-12-10T18:29:35.257" Score="6" ViewCount="249" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looking for name of B western movie in color from &quot;50-60 seen on TV. It starts out with a horse race in a town out west. A stranger rides in at the last minute, hands a couple of law books to an old character actor, enters the race, and wins by lassoing a flag stuck in the ground to, barely, beat a pretty cowgirl. A saloon in the background at the start was the &quot;Turlock Palace&quot; owned by the bad guy, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16353" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-10T18:42:18.393" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T19:52:47.530" Title="Name of B western movie that starts with horse race" Tags="|identify-this-movie|western|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:27:41.727" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27988" CreationDate="2014-12-10T18:52:39.640" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is Michael Curtiz's B Western &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046804/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Boy from Oklahoma&lt;/a&gt; from 1954. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/69510/The-Boy-from-Oklahoma/full-synopsis.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TCM synopsis&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On his way to an apprenticeship in Lincoln, &lt;strong&gt;Tom Brewster, a correspondence school law student from Oklahoma&lt;/strong&gt;, rides into the corrupt town of Blue Rock to mail his examination papers. The post office is closed because it is Election Day, but alcohol flows freely in &lt;strong&gt;the saloon owned by incumbent mayor Barney Turlock&lt;/strong&gt;, who buys his victory. [...] During the festivities, &lt;strong&gt;Tom ties in a horse race with tomboy Katie Brannigan&lt;/strong&gt;, then loses to her in a shooting match, as he never carries arms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a clip from the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/3H2jpaHyOXE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-10T19:52:47.530" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T19:52:47.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27986" CreationDate="2014-12-10T19:31:36.550" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know for sure, but I highly suspect those were created in a studio.  There are 2 main reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The lighting is consistent.  In the real world, the sun moves across the sky and shadows follow it.  Clouds make intermittent shadows.  The intensity of light changes at different times of day - dawn, noon, sunset, night. (I suppose that the filmmakers COULD have shaded a whole section of the outdoors, and applied artificial lighting.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there was even a light breeze outdoors, the plants would have bent a little, and they would appear to shake and shudder in the time-lapse footage. The shots in this video show perfectly-still plants growing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as a filmmaker myself, I'd much rather have a controlled environment to shoot beautiful footage like this.  Outdoors is really unpredictable!  (Rain, fog, animals walking through, insects, bird poop landing on your subjects, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2014-12-10T22:44:43.423" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T22:44:43.423" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27984" CreationDate="2014-12-10T19:45:30.400" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The homeless woman was Emily Putner and she was killed in an accident that resulted from John Teller's collision with the semi-truck. Her daughter (who threw the rock at the ice cream shop) is Brooke. Brooke didn't disappear, she and Jax made peace and she became a babysitter for Abel and Thomas and had a relationship with Rat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what can be said for sure about Emily is that she was a ghost or spirit of some kind. Whether she was a guardian angel, an angel of death, or just a spirit who couldn't move on (etc.) is that part the Kurt Sutter has always been vague about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My interpretation is that Jax has always been buried under the weight of the past - he idolized his father and his actions came out that. I think Emily was visual reminder of that past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T19:45:30.400" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27993" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-10T20:33:14.103" Score="2" ViewCount="921" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always wonder how they shoot the flyover sequences. Is it very difficult, is it costly? Me being an amateur filmmaker, can I shoot such a sequence? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/TgCejsyS0t8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16356" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T21:44:06.570" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T21:44:06.570" Title="How are flyover sequences shot?" Tags="|film-techniques|cinematography|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27993" CreationDate="2014-12-10T21:34:13.760" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shots like this used to be prohibitively expensive because they required helicopters. Now, amateur filmmakers can use miniature helicopters with HD video cameras mounted on them.  The results are pretty great!  You would need to make sure that the video quality and color matches the rest of your film, of course, but you can fix a lot of that in post production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With an rc copter, you'll need to consider the range of the rc signal. Wind and weather conditions affect a tiny, lightweight rc craft much more than a heavy helicopter too, of course, so your shot may not be as smooth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Planning is also important. With the &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/MCmWfb7bfxQ?t=25s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;aerial shot in Shawshank Redemption&lt;/a&gt; for example, the camera had to watch the bus, then the prison, then the inmates in the yard, then move around to a nicely framed shot that captured the bus again. That takes a lot of coordination. As with many amateur shoots (my own included!), the more time spent in pre-production and planning, the more time and money you can save on the day of the shoot when you have cast and crew on the clock.  However, if you're just shooting nature shots like lakes and forests, you might accidentally get some gorgeous footage by experimenting and not planning too strictly!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-12-10T21:34:13.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27998" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28050" CreationDate="2014-12-11T01:09:06.340" Score="7" ViewCount="433" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Agents of Shield &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agents_of_S.H.I.E.L.D._%28season_2%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S02E10&lt;/a&gt;, Trip returned to the alien city without Fitz and Simmons and, more importantly, without the hazmat suit to disarm the bombs. How did he not get infected with whatever that befell Mack in the episode earlier?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coulson, Raina, and Skye also went to the alien city without any extra protection and didn't get affected. Nonetheless, as far as these alien/Kree matters were concerned, those 3 had legitimate reasons to be special. What was exceptional about Trip that gave him a similar immunity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14080" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T07:51:01.143" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T07:51:01.143" Title="How did Trip enter the alien city unaffected?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|agents-of-shield|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="27999" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-11T01:14:38.500" Score="7" ViewCount="12652" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2193021/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &amp;quot;Seeing Red&amp;quot; (S02E20) &lt;em&gt;Moira Queen&lt;/em&gt; tells her son &lt;em&gt;Oliver&lt;/em&gt; that she knows about him being &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt;, which came as quite a surprise to &lt;em&gt;Ollie&lt;/em&gt;, but to me as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moira:&lt;/strong&gt; Oliver, I know. I know...I've known since last year, I suppose. In the night of the undertaking everything became so clear. It was pretty much the night I stopped sleeping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oliver:&lt;/strong&gt; Before you say anything else...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moira:&lt;/strong&gt; There's nothing else to say, nothing I need to say...Except I could not be more proud.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But right now, I'm not sure if this was really a total surprise for the audience there or if it actually could have been known to us already that she knows about &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt;. While I don't think it was completely made clear earlier (since I think they would just have made more out of it during all the previous season 2 episodes), it might still have been alluded to in a slight way, to make you at least wonder if she might not know it. But currently I don't have too much recollection of the end of season 1 or the earlier season 2 episodes (and from her dialogue it seems she knew it as soon as the season 1 finale).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;were there any scenes in any earlier episode to either hint or downright clarify that &lt;em&gt;Moira Queen&lt;/em&gt; knows about &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt;'s identity&lt;/strong&gt; or was this really a total surprise in this scene when she told him (which could imply it was quite a short term writing decision as part of &amp;quot;concluding&amp;quot; her character)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-06-30T00:05:12.593" Title="Was Moira Queen's knowledge about Arrow's identity foreshadowed earlier?" Tags="|plot-explanation|arrow|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27257" CreationDate="2014-12-11T01:57:02.077" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cooper's age was between 35 and 44 when he left earth.&#xA;As Murph's age was at least 35 by the time Cooper returned from planet Miller (10+2 years to Saturn +23 years on Miller), Cooper had to be older than 35 in order for Murph to be at her dad's age when leaving earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, Cooper was 124 upon returning, 120 upon entering the black hole, 69 (120-51) when Dr. Mann blown up , 46 (69-23) before entering Miller, 44 (46-2) before leaving earth. As time is needed to travel wormhole, to Miller, then to Mann's planet, etc. , 44 is the upper limit of Cooper's age when leaving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16360" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T01:57:02.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28006" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28008" CreationDate="2014-12-11T06:15:39.017" Score="2" ViewCount="20522" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Stay_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;If I Stay&lt;/a&gt; Mia's grandfather says 'It will be okay if you leave'. Mia then decides to let go and die. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, given this, why does she stay in the end? Is it because of the news of her admission to Juilliard? Or does she not have the choice to stay or leave (because in the beginning the nurse tells her that its only she (Mia) who controls everything and if she want to live she better start fighting)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-12-11T08:31:32.967" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T08:31:32.967" Title="Understanding Mia's choice at the end" Tags="|ending|if-i-stay|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28006" CreationDate="2014-12-11T08:29:37.257" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you correctly state, Mia's grandfather tells her she has his permission to move on from this life if that's what she wants. Initially, that seems to make her decision for her, as she decides to die so she can join the rest of her now-dead family &lt;em&gt;on the other side&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, three important things then happen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Firstly, we see a flashback of Mia performing excellently at her audition for Juilliard, leading her to be very positive about her chances of getting in.    &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Secondly, we see Mia and Adam breaking up, &lt;em&gt;after reconciling&lt;/em&gt; with each other and realising how big the other's opportunities are.   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thirdly, we see Adam visiting Mia and giving her the acceptance letter from Juilliard &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; playing music from her favourite composer, Beethoven.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The combination of these actions are enough to show Mia that, although she desperately &lt;em&gt;wants&lt;/em&gt; to join her family &lt;em&gt;on the other side&lt;/em&gt;, she has so much to live for. It's ultimately this realisation that makes her stay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting two more things. Firstly, the movie's ending was a departure from the book, where it is &lt;em&gt;heavily implied&lt;/em&gt; she got in, but not categorically stated (although a sequel was released sometime later &lt;em&gt;proving&lt;/em&gt; she did in fact live). Secondly, many critics strongly disliked the ending as it did appear as if she was comparing death with Juilliard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer your question - she stayed because she &lt;em&gt;chose&lt;/em&gt; to stay. It wasn't predestined, it wasn't &lt;em&gt;always&lt;/em&gt; meant to be that way. If she had wanted to give up, she could have. But between Adam and Juilliard, she simply realised life had so much left in store for her, so she chose to live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T08:29:37.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28010" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32065" CreationDate="2014-12-11T08:38:49.480" Score="3" ViewCount="611" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Introduction&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, I watched the latest (as of right now) episode of White Collar (Season 6, Episode 4), and in the beginning we see Neal enter a warehouse of come sort and open a storage container. Once opened, he sees that it's empty and seem puzzled, confused or concerned about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode then cuts to Neal meeting Peter Burke and after a brief banter on Peter being nervous about not being able to track Neal anymore, they get on with their day and their case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far I can tell, there is no further mention or hint towards the storage container.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do realise that this might be intentional and that an explanation may present itself in the last two episodes. However, I must ask myself (and, you guys): am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Question(s)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What, if any, is the significance of the storage container in the plot of this season?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is this a container from Neal's past, or previous episodes? If so, when and from what?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What was he expecting to find in the storage container?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, I realize these questions may not have answers as of S06E04, but if they do, please provide them, to your best ability. I am, first and foremost, looking for answers available within the show, but well-founded speculations are welcome too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13971" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T01:20:42.187" Title="What was the point of the empty container in the beginning of White Collar S06E04?" Tags="|plot-explanation|white-collar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28014" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28016" CreationDate="2014-12-11T09:37:57.357" Score="1" ViewCount="596" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_City:_A_Dame_to_Kill_For&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sin City: A Dame To Kill For&lt;/a&gt;, before Dwight kills Ava, she says she loves him and want to be with him - although she had a choice to kill him once and for all but still she didn't do it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was she really expressing her feelings for Dwight or was that another trap for him? That scene really put me in a curious state, as throughout the movie she was evil and villainous, so why did she say those things to Dwight? Did she really like him? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If she did, then why didn't she try to kill him before? If she didn't, then why didn't she shoot him in her last scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2014-12-11T09:49:33.963" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T09:49:33.963" Title="Did Ava Lord really care about Dwight in the end?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28014" CreationDate="2014-12-11T09:48:05.957" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She was lying.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ava_Lord&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sin City wiki&lt;/a&gt;, which describes Ava:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An ex-lover of Dwight McCarthy, she manipulates men with her good&#xA;  looks and an innocent facade for her own personal gain or amusement.&#xA;  An expert liar, she is considered a goddess by Manute, her towering&#xA;  manservant, and a &quot;manipulative bitch&quot; by Dwight. She represents the&#xA;  classic femme fatale, acting as a foil to Dwight's hard-boiled&#xA;  antihero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ava, throughout the movie (and the graphic novels), continually acts in a Machiavellian style, doing what's best for her and lying remorselessly to achieve this. Towards the end of the scene you describe, she tries to convince Dwight to pair with her, as this is the best option remaining for her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She didn't kill him &lt;em&gt;earlier&lt;/em&gt; as he served a purpose and was strengthening her position and helping her out. She didn't let him die in the last scene as she believed she could &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; convince him to pair with her and they would be a formidable team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He, finally, sees through this facade of lies and kills her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to summarise - she was very much evil, very much a liar and very much tried to manipulate Dwight at the end of the scene. He saw through this and killed her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T09:48:05.957" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28018" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29881" CreationDate="2014-12-11T10:05:20.913" Score="1" ViewCount="6907" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dreamers_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Dreamers&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;when Matthew tries to convince both Isabelle and Theo to not leave him, why don't they listen to him and join the riot? Both characters are really hard to understand but their thoughts portrayed in the movie are yet so simple and intriguing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="34594" LastEditDate="2016-09-24T19:16:01.790" LastActivityDate="2016-09-24T19:16:01.790" Title="Why Isabelle and Theo leave Matthew in the end?" Tags="|character|the-dreamers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23601" CreationDate="2014-12-11T10:32:31.753" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stay out of my territory.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally believe in this episode SE2EP10 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232245/&quot;&gt;Over&lt;/a&gt;, Walt completely embraced his dark side and chose to be Heisenberg rather than a family person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB plot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Walt's cancer has greatly improved. Time to celebrate. Meanwhile Jesse tries to meet his new girlfriend's father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the facts, Walt's health condition is substantially improved and it is his ticket to say goodbye to Meth manufacturing and live with his family like a normal guy with his drug money. But during the celebration, he says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's kind of funny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When I got my diagnosis, cancer, I said to myself,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why me?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And then, the other day, when I got the good news...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I said the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above speech by Walt clearly explains that he's not willing to let go of drug business and be happy with his family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt has always been methodical and calculated of his actions but in the ending scene of the episode, at the supermarket, when he learns that there is competition for him in the drug business, his ego is hurt. The way he walks towards those guys (the competition)  with this intimidating expression on his face and threatens them to stay out of his territory cleared things for me that he decided to stay Heisenberg rather than taking care of his family as priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T10:32:31.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27568" CreationDate="2014-12-11T11:44:42.150" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow, insane film this was. Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BOxMp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;timeline diagram&lt;/a&gt; to help explain the events of the movie, looks like yes, he does eventually become the Fizzle Bomber!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BOxMp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BOxMp.png&quot; alt=&quot;Predestination timeline diagram&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Timeline diagram source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/predestination-2014-movie-plot-ending-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Predestination (2014): Movie Plot Ending Explained&lt;/em&gt;. This is Barry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2023-05-24T06:29:25.323" LastActivityDate="2023-05-24T06:29:25.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28022" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28023" CreationDate="2014-12-11T13:23:08.517" Score="14" ViewCount="2183" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a name for the trope where the characters in a car always just so happen to get a spot exactly in front of whatever location they're driving to?  It's certainly the norm in movies, and I'm just wondering if a name has ever been given to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T22:01:59.650" Title="Is there a specific &quot;convenient parking&quot; trope?" Tags="|trope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28022" CreationDate="2014-12-11T13:27:30.770" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you consider TvTropes an 'official' trope namer, they call it &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RockStarParking&quot;&gt;Rock Star Parking&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any time the hero is really in a hurry, there is always an empty parking space directly in front of their destination. Even if in, say, downtown New York. This is generally seen as an Acceptable Break from Reality as really, no one wants to watch an hour of the heroes searching around to find parking... unless, of course, it's the point of the episode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They name the &lt;em&gt;Beverly Hills Cop&lt;/em&gt; film series and &lt;em&gt;Kojak&lt;/em&gt; as especially egregious examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-11T18:06:58.513" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T18:06:58.513" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28022" CreationDate="2014-12-11T15:05:55.313" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a second lesser used trope name that pre-dates &quot;Rock Star Parking&quot;, although &quot;Rock Star Parking&quot; is today's standard. I'm adding this answer just to add history, after all tropes evolve just like language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This trope was originally called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Doris%20Day%20Parking&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Doris Day Parking&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUD0U3U8Ho8&amp;amp;t=0m59s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;clip&lt;/a&gt; that shows Doris Day getting Doris day parking ( :59 )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="16377" LastEditDate="2014-12-11T22:01:59.650" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T22:01:59.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28025" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-11T16:31:46.880" Score="2" ViewCount="616" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit:_The_Desolation_of_Smaug&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&lt;/a&gt; when the key hole is not found on the Lonely Mountain, why do Thorin and all the dwarfs get disappointed so quickly and leave Bilbo, while Bilbo remains positive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was the dwarfs' fight not Bilbo's, still he believed that there will be a way. This scene was really disappointing for me, because they worked with so much dedication and all the trouble they have gone through just to loose hope so quickly. Kindly help me understand this situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T16:07:02.673" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T16:07:02.673" Title="Why does Thorin leave Bilbo when the key hole is not found?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hobbit|the-desolation-of-smaug|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28025" CreationDate="2014-12-11T16:41:44.690" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;They only had a brief window of time in which they had to operate, the last light of Durin's day. When the sun set, they thought their only opportunity was gone. Bilbo wasn't limited in thinking about the small window of time like the others, so he kept at it, and eventually realized the last light of Durin's day was the moonlight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="16363" LastEditDate="2014-12-11T17:36:06.060" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T17:36:06.060" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28030" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28036" CreationDate="2014-12-11T19:40:28.127" Score="30" ViewCount="8080" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is what appears to be &lt;strong&gt;source code&lt;/strong&gt; depicted on &lt;strong&gt;Nedry's work station&lt;/strong&gt; before he shuts down the gates, I wanted to know if this belongs to real programming language/s? (so we can all laugh/cry at how deprecated it is...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick &lt;em&gt;Google&lt;/em&gt; found an out-of-stack &lt;a href=&quot;http://moviecode.tumblr.com/post/94130118095/jurassic-park-1993-nedrys-workstation-as-he&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; was already asked but no answers yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also a related question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9745/is-the-unix-operating-system-featured-in-jurassic-park-real&quot;&gt;Is the Unix operating system featured in Jurassic Park real?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cZnlr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zooming left&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eEoVr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zooming right&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2S7ox.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Note: images I could produce given a 1080p resolution edition of Jurassic Park)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9012" LastEditorUserId="9012" LastEditDate="2017-03-15T16:14:32.340" LastActivityDate="2017-03-15T16:14:32.340" Title="Source code on Nedry's workstation: real programming language/s?" Tags="|realism|jurassic-park|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28030" CreationDate="2014-12-11T19:44:39.820" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This looks like Delphi (or a pascal derivative) because of the semi colons at the end of the lines and also the &lt;code&gt;:=&lt;/code&gt; assignment operator. Delphi is also a RAD language which would be good for building out their screens. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Based on the related question of the system running unix, Delphi can be done on *nix&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note: Object Pascal (Delphi) is generally not case sensitive.&lt;/strong&gt; My examples are in lowercase while the screen shot is uppercase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a basic &lt;code&gt;if/else&lt;/code&gt; I found from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.delphibasics.co.uk/Article.asp?Name=Logic&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;if (condition1) And (condition2)   // Both conditions must be satisfied&#xA;   then&#xA;     begin&#xA;       statement1;&#xA;       statement2;&#xA;       ...&#xA;     end              // Notice no terminating ';' - still part of 'if'&#xA;   else&#xA;     begin&#xA;       statement3;&#xA;       statement4;&#xA;       ...&#xA;     end;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if you compare the similarities to what you can see in the image, it's a match. &lt;code&gt;The if [predicates] then begin ... end&lt;/code&gt; matches&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same for the &lt;code&gt;while [condition] do&lt;/code&gt; example from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.delphibasics.co.uk/RTL.asp?Name=While&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;While sqrNum &amp;lt;= 100 do&#xA;  begin&#xA;...&#xA;end;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;&#xA;Also looking at the comment blocks using &lt;code&gt;*&lt;/code&gt;, you can match them to this (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prestwood.com/ASPSuite/KB/Document_View.asp?QID=101505&quot;&gt;found here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;//This is a single line comment.&#xA;&#xA;{&#xA;Multiple line&#xA;comment.&#xA;}&#xA;&#xA;(*&#xA;This too is a&#xA;multiple line comment.&#xA;*)&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examining the right file more the comments are # not * and it also looks like a build script or some kind of shell script, especially if you read the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2014-12-11T20:51:48.740" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T20:51:48.740" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26344" CreationDate="2014-12-11T20:07:16.683" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of Season 2, &lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.ign.com/articles/2014/12/10/marvels-agents-of-shield-creators-on-the-midseason-finale-inhumans-and-skyes-identity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;AoS has introduced the 'Terrigen mists'&lt;/a&gt;: a Kree originated bio-technology that transforms people/ activates their latent abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the announcement of &lt;em&gt;The Inhumans&lt;/em&gt; in 2018, this is a significant contribution: The Terrigen Mists are a central component and a hallowed relic of the Inhuman culture, so much so that when the crystals (pictured) were stolen by the US government the Inhumans launched a terror campaign against the US to reclaim them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OgG1M.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T20:07:16.683" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28034" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28035" CreationDate="2014-12-11T23:02:54.223" Score="2" ViewCount="2273" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Rankin/Bass Christmas special &quot;Santa Claus is Comin' To Town,&quot; why does Winter Warlock lose his powers? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Half way through the film, Jessica asks the Warlock for help. He tells her that his magic is fading, and he doubts how useful he will be... or something along those lines. Why is he losing his powers? To my knowledge they never address the reason, and then at the end of the film the Warlock has his powers back. Why? How? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T09:12:36.700" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T09:12:36.700" Title="Why does the Winter Warlock lose his powers?" Tags="|character|santa-claus-is-coming|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28034" CreationDate="2014-12-11T23:08:18.327" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_Is_Comin&amp;#39;_to_Town_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After giving him a toy train as a present, the Warlock is touched by&#xA;  this act of kindness and his evil icy heart melts, thus becoming human&#xA;  and befriends Kris.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is never explained how or why the Winter Warlock regains his powers.  One can only assume his heart froze over again because no one kept it warm?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-12-11T23:08:18.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28030" CreationDate="2014-12-11T23:09:34.317" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it all looks like real code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The window on the left looks like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Pascal&quot;&gt;Object Pascal&lt;/a&gt; code for Classic Mac OS judging by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the &lt;code&gt;:=&lt;/code&gt; assignment syntax.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code&gt;NEDRYLAND :MPW:Examples:&lt;/code&gt; (cut off) window title. MPW is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Programmer%27s_Workshop&quot;&gt;Macintosh Programmer's Workshop&lt;/a&gt; (a Classic Mac OS development environment), the font is Chicago (the default Classic Mac OS font) and the colon-delimited path indicates Classic Mac OS.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;code&gt;NewHandle&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;GetHandleSize&lt;/code&gt; functions are Classic Mac OS API functions (can't find an API reference that old online, but they are present in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Carbon/Reference/Memory_Manager/memory_mgr.pdf&quot;&gt;Carbon compatibility layer for OS X&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Macintosh HD&quot; and &quot;Trash&quot; icons in the lower right-hand corner of the screen indicate Classic Mac OS.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The routine on the screen takes a string input and produces as output a copy of that string with consecutive tabs and/or spaces replaced with a single space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The window on the right appears to be some kind of shell script for source code version control. Possibly written in an early version of &lt;a href=&quot;https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangGuide/introduction/ASLR_intro.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40000983-CH208-SW1&quot;&gt;AppleScript&lt;/a&gt; as it doesn't quite look like a UNIX &lt;code&gt;sh&lt;/code&gt;-style syntax. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joecullin.com/site/2012/01/jurassic-park-source-code/&quot;&gt;http://www.joecullin.com/site/2012/01/jurassic-park-source-code/&lt;/a&gt; claims to have found the full file (with a description and Apple copyright notice) based on matching text. The path where the file was found (&lt;code&gt;... MPW/Examples/Examples/CheckOutActive.txt&lt;/code&gt;) is also associated with Macintosh Programmer's Workshop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The window at the bottom is a script for converting &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PICT&quot;&gt;Apple PICT&lt;/a&gt; format pictures to resources, as would be used in a software build process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is, of course, all very generic and not specific to amusement park/zoo control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the other machines portrayed in the movie are Unix systems (SGI IRIX), it is questionable that this machine was even being used for actual development. Development for the IRIX machines would have been done on the IRIX machines, probably in C, using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://mobile.osnews.com/img/2322/sgi.png&quot;&gt;Workshop GUI&lt;/a&gt; or command-line tools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9580" LastEditorUserId="9580" LastEditDate="2014-12-12T16:55:26.107" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T16:55:26.107" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-12T02:21:42.400" Score="2" ViewCount="321" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Peter (Robin Williams) is being driven home in a cab, he makes fun of the driver's name 'Neville', asking: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is that English?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does it mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-10T16:19:19.950" LastActivityDate="2016-04-01T22:58:40.230" Title="A question about a line from Hook" Tags="|dialogue|hook|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28039" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-12T09:14:34.173" Score="7" ViewCount="1406" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Quebec, the French speaking part of Canada, it is usual (and seems to be part of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_French_Language&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bill 101&lt;/a&gt; about the use of French Language in Quebec) to translate titles of movies and TV show into French. For example, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_:_Les_Disparus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lost&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is known as &lt;em&gt;Perdus&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Met_Your_Mother&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How I met your mother&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; becomes &lt;em&gt;Comment je l'ai rencontre&lt;/em&gt;, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, at least according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia-fr&lt;/a&gt;, The Big Bang Theory keeps its English title in Quebec. This is corroborated by this &lt;a href=&quot;http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/11/12/mort-de-carol-ann-susi-la-mere-de-howard-wolowitz-dans-the-big-bang-theory_n_6144298.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; from The Huffington Post Quebec.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question: is there any given (by the authors, by the network broadcasting the show in Quebec) reason explaining that the &lt;em&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/em&gt; is not called &lt;em&gt;La theorie du Big Bang&lt;/em&gt; au Quebec? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11093" LastEditorUserId="11093" LastEditDate="2015-03-09T23:41:09.293" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T23:41:09.293" Title="Why is the title of The Big Bang Theory not translated in Quebec?" Tags="|title|distribution|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27477" CreationDate="2014-12-12T11:22:32.427" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This will not be what you want to hear, but there does not seem to be a definite answer, only theories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Penelope_Hume&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lostpedia&lt;/a&gt; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Soon after Desmond crashed on the island, Penny began searching for him. &lt;strong&gt;At some point, she managed to learn about the island, but the extent of her knowledge, and where it came from, is unknown.&lt;/strong&gt; (&quot;The Constant&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the incident you refer to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Day 67 (Season 2)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  2X24 Penelope&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Penelope realizes Mathias and Henrik &quot;found it&quot;. (&quot;Live Together, Die Alone, Part 2&quot;)&#xA;  Three years after Desmond's disappearance, there was a discharge and detection of an electromagnetic anomaly which caught the attention of two Portuguese-speaking men at the listening station. Penny was notified by telephone at 3:05 a.m., her local time, that they &quot;found it.&quot; The callers referred to her as &quot;Miss Widmore&quot;, indicating she was not married. On her nightstand was a similar photograph of her and Desmond as the one that Desmond carried. (&quot;Live Together, Die Alone, Part 1&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without any further information, the most logical explanation would be that she learned about the island through her father Charles Widmore and his company. (Most likely by snooping around, I doubt he did tell her.) Widmore was exiled from the island, but had extensive knowledge of the island and was searching for it as well. He probably knew about the magnetic anomaly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to how Penny knew that Desmond was on the island: I read a theory that Charles Widmore &lt;em&gt;wanted&lt;/em&gt; Desmond to end up on the island (most likely to get rid of him). That's why he persuaded him to take part in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Charles_Widmore&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;boat race around the world&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Widmore attempted to bribe Desmond to cease the relationship and never see Penelope again. He sponsored the sailing race around the world that Desmond, in an attempt to regain his honor, was participating in when he crashed onto the Island.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for me the most likely explanation is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Desmond disappears.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After some time, Penny starts searching for him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She suspects her father's involvement, who tried to keep them apart before.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Snooping around her father's files, she finds out about the island and that it can be tracked through the magnetic anomaly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That way she also finds out that Desmond is on the island, either because her father planned it that way or because he learned about it after the fact.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said, this is just a theory and I haven't seen the relevant episodes in some time, but this is how I always thought it had happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-12-12T12:36:00.003" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T12:36:00.003" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28038" CreationDate="2014-12-12T13:41:36.327" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The joke is that most taxi drivers are foreign, with names that are difficult for Americans to pronounce.  Sometimes cabbies give themselves English sounding names to make it easier for their passengers.  Think about that scene from Horrible Bosses when the OnStar employee directs the guys to the bar where they met Jamie Foxx.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T13:41:36.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18239" CreationDate="2014-12-12T14:59:22.797" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The harbormaster is indicating that he has accepted the bribe and will allow Jack to remain anonymous. He may also be slyly suggesting that he thinks Jack is up to no good. Giving the name of Smith when registering at a public accommodation is strongly associated in the public imagination with devious behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, it is the name which adulterers supposedly write in hotel registers. Groucho Marx got a lot of mileage out of this in &lt;em&gt;A Night in Casablanca&lt;/em&gt;. His character is working at the reception desk of a hotel when a Mr. and Mrs. Smith try to register. He loudly expresses the belief that &quot;with a name like Smith&quot; they can't possibly really be married.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16388" LastEditorUserId="607" LastEditDate="2015-07-16T17:15:30.277" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T17:15:30.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8725" CreationDate="2014-12-12T17:35:38.080" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe its symbolic. The ring judges people in comparison to its lord, Sauron. So everyone else doesn't &quot;exist&quot; in front of him, in other words they are invisible. Tom is probably more powerful in comparison so the ring disappears. About spirit world answer, yes Sauron is a spiritual being but the ring keeps him linked to the mortal realm else he would vanish from the mortal plane entirely, as seen in the end of series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16393" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T17:35:38.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27998" CreationDate="2014-12-12T18:53:19.093" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Trip, Fitz, and Simmons were not affected because they didn't trip the zombification/security system like Mack did. The protective suits Trip, Fitz and Simmons wore down into the temple seemed to have nothing to do with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mack was actually fine at the bottom of the temple originally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vAtH4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;mack is fine!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then he decided to touch the patterns on the ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KY7S5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;no touching!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This activates the zombification-security system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Utivt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;oh you done it now, boy&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1Wowh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;oooh glowy lights&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And he is then zombified/enslaved by the temple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SRdRS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;my hand went bad&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Raina displays control over Mack, so it's possible that Skye and Raina's &quot;special&quot; natures may have afforded them additional protection against the enslavement, but we don't see them tripping the security either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coulson may or may not have been afforded protection due to his GH-235 infused blood, but he had no control over Mack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not Fitz, Simmons or Trip could have touched the patterns while wearing the protective suits and &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; triggered the security remains unexplained, since Mack touched it with his bare hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1046" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T18:53:19.093" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28053" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28098" CreationDate="2014-12-12T19:11:29.857" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Hallmark Christmas movie &quot;Mrs. Miracle,&quot; was the music teacher falling off the stage part of Emily Merkle's plan to get Reba and Seth together, or was it more coincidental?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reba's friend works at the school, and the music teacher's accident creates the perfect opportunity to get Reba involved with Seth and his kids.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So was this accident planned, or did Emily have another idea in store, and then just used the teacher's fall to her advantage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-13T02:49:29.420" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T17:53:48.240" Title="Was the music teacher part of the plan?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mrs-miracle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28054" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31012" CreationDate="2014-12-12T19:13:44.883" Score="25" ViewCount="4919" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1984 events in the original Terminator don't change the future - rather, the events are consistent with a single &quot;version&quot; of 2029, the 2029 seen in the film. This is evidenced by the fact that John Connor is Kyle Reese's son, and also reiterated by the photo of Sarah Connor taken at the end of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the events in Terminator 2 &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; change the future. This is most directly indicated by the events and dialogue of Terminator 3, but even if we disregard Terminator 3, the destruction of Miles Dyson and his technology is certainly not consistent with the future that the T-800 and T-1000 are sent back from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, why was one set of events able to change the future, and the other set not able to?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13825" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-05T22:33:39.977" LastActivityDate="2016-10-04T03:24:49.783" Title="How come the events of Terminator didn't change the future, but the events of Terminator 2 did?" Tags="|time-travel|terminator-series|the-terminator|terminator-2-judgment-day|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28054" CreationDate="2014-12-12T19:24:29.413" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point of the first movie was simply to &lt;em&gt;prevent&lt;/em&gt; Skynet from making a change to the past by killing Sarah before John was born. I doubt Skynet realized that Kyle Reese was actually John's father, and that by sending the T-800 back, it was in fact, setting in motion the very events it was attempting to prevent. (Or it may have understood that fact and been forced to act in order to prevent the paradox.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second, though, Sarah takes an active role in trying to stop Judgement Day. It is more than just stopping the T-1000 sent back for John, as the first move was. Instead, she is &lt;em&gt;intentionally&lt;/em&gt; using foreknowledge gained from the T-800 to attempt a change that will affect the future. She partially succeeds and manages to push the actual date of Judgement Day back, but is unable to stop it entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the first one wasn't &lt;em&gt;intended&lt;/em&gt; to change the future (from the humans' point of view), but just to preserve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7962" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T19:24:29.413" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28057" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-12T19:42:02.173" Score="1" ViewCount="325" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a big fan of the animated series during my childhood, this really irked me about the movies.  Now I'm grown up and my kids are watching the new 2012 animated series, of which I've seen a few, and we recently watched the new movie together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the animated series, Splinter's back story is that he was a human who was enemies with the Shredder.  One day he was walking back from a pet shop with 4 turtles, when an accident with the mutagen caused him to be mutated into a rat-human hybrid due to interaction with a nearby rat, while the turtles were mutated into turtle-human hybrids because of their interaction with him.  This is quite consistent with the new animated series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movies, on the other hand, have Splinter begin as a rat that is transformed into a human-rat hybrid by the mutagen (like the turtles).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any official explanation for this?  The movies seem a little more ludicrous to me because it's far less likely that a rat would master a martial art to the same/similar level as the Shredder, who has been a ninja his whole life, in just 18 years.  And from reading books on it, no less (the first movie implies that he learned the martial art as a rat before being mutated, which is even more ludicrous).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16259" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-11-22T18:58:49.103" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T18:58:49.103" Title="Why don't the live action Ninja Turtles movies stick with Splinter's back story from the animated series?" Tags="|comic-adaptation|teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-1990|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28057" CreationDate="2014-12-12T20:19:49.497" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movies often change facts/events due to &quot;artistic license&quot;, in that a director/screenplay writer has the authority to tell whatever story they want once they've licensed the characters name/likeness/storyline.  An obvious example is the multiple stories of Batman every time it's rebooted, and the major differences between The Joker in all said reboots.  Batman's own backstory was slightly changed in that the Burton version indicates that The Joker killed his parents, while the Nolan version indicates that the Mafia had something to do with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's pretty common, though somewhat annoying to me as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T20:19:49.497" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19382" CreationDate="2014-12-12T20:54:54.453" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was revealed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Writing_on_the_Wall&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Writing On The Wall&lt;/em&gt; (S02E07)&lt;/a&gt; that Garret, Coulson and a number of other former agents were drawing segments of a map. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The segments fit together in a three dimensional space, which no one had noticed until now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PoUfD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;the map is 3d!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uAFdZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;put it all together&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once put together, it appeared to be a map of a lost city or large temple of some sort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WfwuB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;it&amp;#39;s a city!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the events of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Things_We_Bury&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Things We Bury&lt;/em&gt; (S02E08)&lt;/a&gt;, the team learns that the lost city is located below San Juan, Puerto Rico.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The assumption by most fans is that the lost city is actually &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.com/universe/Attilan&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Attilan&lt;/a&gt;, which figures heavily into the backstory of the Inhumans, but there has been no confirmation of this fact as of yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1046" LastActivityDate="2014-12-12T20:54:54.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28073" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43583" CreationDate="2014-12-13T13:06:55.590" Score="6" ViewCount="1408" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;The Nightmare Before Christmas,&quot; Jack wants to take over Christmas and bring a wonderful, joyous holiday to all the people of the &quot;real world&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's been to Christmas town, and he's seen what the gifts &lt;strong&gt;should&lt;/strong&gt; be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, the citizens of Halloween Town obviously can't quite grasp the concept of thoughtful, sweet and fun gifts... instead they make terrifying toys for the children, because that's all they know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can Jack even allow these toys to be delivered? Let alone, be the one to deliver them, when he so desperately wants to recreate the perfect Christmas for his own town.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="6043" LastEditDate="2015-12-18T21:32:55.657" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T21:32:55.657" Title="How can Jack deliver such toys to the children?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-nightmare-before-christmas|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28074" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35925" CreationDate="2014-12-13T13:15:57.060" Score="7" ViewCount="1390" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;The Nightmare Before Christmas,&quot; when Jack is trying to explain Christmas to the citizens of Halloween Town, he ends up lying to them about &quot;Sandy Claws&quot; being a malevolent being. He does this to try and create excitement about the new holiday he's discovered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, wouldn't lying to the citizens only exacerbate the issue of them not fully grasping the idea of Christmas in the first place? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jack himself doesn't ever fully understand Christmas, but he has a much better grasp than anyone else in Halloween Town. I would think he would know better than to lie.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-28T16:16:07.497" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T19:40:47.913" Title="Jack lying to the citizens of Halloween Town?" Tags="|the-nightmare-before-christmas|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28077" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-13T17:27:00.983" Score="5" ViewCount="3187" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a particular dialogue during the underrated (pun intended) &lt;em&gt;Thomas Jane&lt;/em&gt; classic &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330793/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Punisher&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; where &lt;em&gt;Frank Castle&lt;/em&gt; explains his intentions as spoken from the off (in a supposed farewell letter, I guess):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I leave this as a declaration of intent, so no one will be confused. One: &quot;Sic vis pacem, para bellum.&quot; Latin. The boot camp sergeant made us recite it like a prayer. &quot;Sic vis pacem, para bellum - If you want peace, prepare for war.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is continued later when he prepares for the final confrontation outside of &lt;em&gt;Saint&lt;/em&gt;'s headquarters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Number Two: Frank Castle is dead, he died with his family. Number Three: In certain extreme situations law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside of the law, to pursue natural justice. This is not vengeance. Revenge is not a valid motive, it's an emotional response. No, not vengeance, punishment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the whole preparation scene that features the second part of that &quot;declartion of intent&quot; (i.e. numbers 2 and 3) is missing everytime this movie airs on German TV (no matter at what time). This made me curious and &lt;a href=&quot;http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Punisher_%282004%29#Schnittfassungen&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; suggests that there were indeed some conflicts in rating the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Shortly before the planned theatrical release there were problems with the FSK: &quot;The examination board refuses to give the movie the certificate 'no youth admitted' because of excessive violence and constitutionally questionable tendencies with an inhuman attitude&quot;. Only after a cut by about 90 seconds the movie could be released with the certificate &quot;no youth admitted&quot; [...] There was an &lt;em&gt;uncut&lt;/em&gt; DVD release however (labeled as &lt;em&gt;Extended Version&lt;/em&gt;), of ca. 118 (PAL-) minutes runtime. [...] As expected this &lt;em&gt;Extended-Version&lt;/em&gt; of the action movie landed on the index [...] In 2006 the distributor released the cut theatrical version on DVD, which can be sold freely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as I don't own a copy of any of the released versions it is unclear to me if it really was this particular dialogue that made the significant difference between FSK18 and indexed or if that in turn was cut by the TV channel (which is of course yet another layer in the whole censorship mess). While I have seen German versions of the movie (through &quot;inofficial&quot; channels) that had this scene neatless and properly dubbed, I don't know if that were &quot;uncut&quot; versions or theatrical releases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd thus first and foremost ask for the definite information &lt;strong&gt;if that scene of &lt;em&gt;Frank&lt;/em&gt; preparing himself and explaining his motives is already part of the supposedly cut theatrical release&lt;/strong&gt; of the movie or if it indeed was that part that had to be cut for FSK clearance. In the former case I'd pose the (hopefully not too subjective or broad) followup question of &lt;strong&gt;why this particular dialogue had to be cut&lt;/strong&gt;. While I understand that &lt;em&gt;Frank Castle&lt;/em&gt;'s ideals might not be congruent with the rule of law, there are various heavier movies in this regard or other scenes in the movie where this attitude is present. He is a fictional character in a revenge action thriller afterall and at the end of the day you can as well just call him an anti-hero, not to speak of the fact that many vigilantes in film and fiction are shown as working above the law. So &lt;strong&gt;is there any secured background information as to what exactly drove FSK's decision in this particular case?&lt;/strong&gt; While I know and usually don't worry too much about the censoring activities of the FSK regarding violent or sexual depictions and dialogue, such kind of seemingly arbitrary ideological censorship baffled me a bit and I'd like to know &lt;strong&gt;if this is precedented or even common practice in FSK-ratings or if &lt;em&gt;The Punisher&lt;/em&gt; was really a special case there&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-13T20:07:57.350" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T16:54:33.517" Title="Why is The Punisher's &quot;declaration of intent&quot; missing from the German version?" Tags="|content-rating|alternate-version|the-punisher|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28080" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28082" CreationDate="2014-12-13T20:11:39.503" Score="7" ViewCount="1740" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before plunging the knife into Fara Sherazi in &lt;em&gt;Homeland&lt;/em&gt; S04E10, Haissam says something in Arabic/Urdu that sounds like &quot;cum kere fish&quot;. What does he say and what does it mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16410" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-13T21:34:18.083" LastActivityDate="2020-05-01T13:26:52.323" Title="What does Haissam Haqqani say in episode 10 of season 4?" Tags="|homeland|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28080" CreationDate="2014-12-13T20:31:16.883" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember looking it up after watching this and apparently (unless I've been misled) he said '&lt;em&gt;Tum kafir&lt;/em&gt;', which is bad Urdu\Kurdish for '&lt;em&gt;You infidel&lt;/em&gt;' (though in this context, it's more like a profane '&lt;em&gt;blood traitor&lt;/em&gt;'). &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafir&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's some info&lt;/a&gt; about this term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: Just re-listened to this and it does sound like '&lt;em&gt;Kum kafish&lt;/em&gt;'. However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numan_Acar&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the actor is Turkish&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Kafir&lt;/em&gt; is pronounced (or sounds to Westerners, anyway) like &lt;em&gt;Kafish&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;em&gt;Kafirsh&lt;/em&gt; in Turkish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-13T21:31:38.960" LastActivityDate="2014-12-13T21:31:38.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28083" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28129" CreationDate="2014-12-13T22:08:17.410" Score="7" ViewCount="3105" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spoilers for &lt;em&gt;Orange is the New Black&lt;/em&gt; season two...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &quot;It was the Change&quot; (episode 12), the conflict between Red and Vee intensifies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Red tries to strangle Vee but can't bring herself to finish. The next day, in retaliation, Vee viciously beats Red in the greenhouse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Soon into the next episode, we learn more:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Red is recovering in the infirmary, sore but with no permanent damage. Suzanne is framed for the beating and likely to be found responsible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This outcome seems out of character for one of them. What I wonder is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Why would Vee allow Red to live? Red interpreted the beating as a warning to silence her, as well as a punishment, but killing her would have served both ends with no risk of exposure or retaliation. Vee had the capacity and the means to kill, no witnesses, and a scapegoat to take the fall for the murder. As evil as she was, and as tactically calculating as she was in her criminal schemes, why would she allow an enemy like Red to live when she could simply eliminate her?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA; The real-world explanation is that Kate Mulgrew is one of the stars of the show and they don't want to lose her. But I'm hopeful for an in-universe answer that makes sense given Vee's nature and the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16413" LastActivityDate="2014-12-15T20:05:30.220" Title="What happened between Red and Vee?" Tags="|orange-is-the-new-black|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28085" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-13T22:42:45.767" Score="1" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not usually one for Trope Identification, but after watching the &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies&lt;/em&gt; I'm dying to know if this is identified...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a name for the shot/sequence wherein the camera looks up at someone who is about to strike (often POV), and as the attacker raises their hand the hand is caught (often by the wrist) before they can bring the weapon/strike down on their victim?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hobbit features many variations of this, with the limb sometimes being amputated. It almost seemed like a running joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is this called?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T12:14:28.707" Title="Grabbing someone's wrist before they strike....?" Tags="|trope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28054" CreationDate="2014-12-14T05:53:17.800" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is very simply that nothing in the first movie that happened would have changed anything in the future? Granted the chips they had from the 1st Terminator play a role in how Skynet started in the second film was linked. Other than that.. but then again it has been years since I've seen these films. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16418" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T05:53:17.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28080" CreationDate="2014-12-14T07:43:43.467" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tweeted Numan Acar who amazingly &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/NumanAcar_/status/543547122541682688&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tweeted back&lt;/a&gt; with an answer to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/NumanAcar_&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;@NumanAcar_&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Numan, what did you say to Fara ( Nazanine) before you stabbed her??&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/CandiceSTurner&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;@CandiceSTurner:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Haqqani said to her: You traitor!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/soVHN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/soVHN.png&quot; alt=&quot;Twitter exchange&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16419" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-05-01T13:26:52.323" LastActivityDate="2020-05-01T13:26:52.323" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28091" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28104" CreationDate="2014-12-14T11:09:11.143" Score="13" ViewCount="21755" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know Batman survived the nuclear blast  at the end of &lt;em&gt;The Dark Night Rises&lt;/em&gt;. I'm just curious as to how he achieved it. The bomb had a blast radius of 6km (correct me if I am wrong).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Batman had corrected the auto-pilot software. Did he eject before and sent out the Bat with the bomb over the bay (there is a scene where there is a huge explosion on top of a building and Blake shouts 'explosion')? &lt;strong&gt;Or&lt;/strong&gt;, did Batman drop the bomb over the bay, and sped away on the Bat like a Blackbird (SR71)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DbA4Y.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8670" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-15T13:18:20.283" LastActivityDate="2018-08-07T15:24:15.533" Title="At what point does Batman eject out of the Bat?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28091" CreationDate="2014-12-14T15:01:46.040" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short answer was given by Napoleon Wilson in the comments: we don't know. The movie never addresses that, so we can only speculate (which we here call &quot;primarily opinion-based&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The franchise is full of happy, almost impossible coincidences and &quot;how did he do this&quot; situations, some of which were already addressed on this site. From Bruce finding the right top of the mountain and climbing it with no equipment and almost no supplies (those things are biggish), to spying on Crane and Falcone at the exact right moment when they are discussing Rachel, to intercepting a (random!) attack on her,... all the way to him getting back in Gotham with no resources, from the who-knows-where-it-is pit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is not trying to &lt;em&gt;be&lt;/em&gt; realistic, even though it kinda &lt;em&gt;looks&lt;/em&gt; realistic to a certain level. It follows the comics in a somewhat more realistic tone than the previous franchises, but it does not skip one of the most significant Batman trademarks (Q: &quot;How did he &amp;lt;insert something awesome&amp;gt;?&quot; A: &quot;He's the Batman!&quot;) for the sake of realism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He survived what seemed impossible to survive. That's a part of being the Batman. Any revelation of &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; would either be disappointingly silly, or would have to water down his achievement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T15:01:46.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28053" CreationDate="2014-12-14T17:53:48.240" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I don't have a definitive answer, this is a film with religious themes. Hallmark produced a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=2&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0CCcQFjAB&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fflash.sonypictures.com%2Fdownloads%2Fhomevideo%2Faffirmfilms%2Fmrsmiracle_guide.pdf&amp;amp;ei=ksyNVIOyAYi1yASLgoKwDA&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNE34u6XNLgw82YbFXRMIQcyOHGcqw&amp;amp;sig2=k_0ZBtpRS7l24Idfjwc1PQ&amp;amp;bvm=bv.81828268,d.aWw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;study guide&lt;/a&gt; for the film, tying scripture to the plot and identifying the themes of grief, forgiveness, and service. There is an underlying belief in a benevolent God, and that does not seem compatible with the idea that an angelic force like Mrs. Miracle could randomly hurt one person in order to help another (unless of course falling off the stage had a spiritual benefit for the music teacher as well, which is not part of the story). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think more likely it was either an accident that Mrs. Miracle chose to use (and in the absence of this accident, she would have chosen another vehicle), or being of some mysterious angelic realm, Mrs. Miracle knew the accident was going to happen ahead of time and landed in this place at this time to use it to help Seth heal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T17:53:48.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28091" CreationDate="2014-12-14T20:41:28.203" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole point of the epilogue scene in which Lucius Fox is informed that the auto-pilot is functioning perfectly, was intended to address this....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'The Bat' had an auto-pilot which Fox &quot;Couldn't get [...] to work&quot;, meaning he (and us as the audience) believed the craft could only be piloted manually. It is revealed that at some point in the film, Wayne has repaired this function, &lt;strong&gt;so yes&lt;/strong&gt;: Batman will have ejected outside of the blast radius (possibly very early on) and allowed the Bat to navigate itself into the bay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The punctum of Lucius's revelation is predicated on this realization, it's the whole point of the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-08-07T15:24:15.533" LastActivityDate="2018-08-07T15:24:15.533" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27568" CreationDate="2014-12-14T21:19:34.087" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is implied that the main hero is the Fizzle bomber but I think he couldn't have done the big bombing in 1975. When he killed himself, it was before the bombing happened. He told his older self that &quot;his next bomb is going to kill thousands of innocent lives&quot; and that he couldn't allow it. And then he shot him, before the bomb was even there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I getting it right? &#xA;And if the main hero didn't plant the bomb in 1975, who did? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16430" LastActivityDate="2014-12-14T21:19:34.087" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5630" CreationDate="2014-12-15T08:08:15.500" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This film was so wonderfully exquisite in its simplicity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was left to consider the true feelings of a mother and her child. Many mothers I have known have confessed a compulsion to rid themselves of their child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's how I view the ending&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16440" LastActivityDate="2014-12-15T08:08:15.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28112" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-15T10:05:48.300" Score="6" ViewCount="56631" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maze_Runner_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Maze Runner&lt;/a&gt;, Thomas is part of the organization that created maze, then why was he sent to the Glade? Once sent he had no previous memory like the others. Then how is he able to witness flashbacks of his past? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the purpose of the whole research to analyse the potential of all the boys or just Thomas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-02-19T21:50:33.743" LastActivityDate="2019-02-19T21:50:33.743" Title="Why was Thomas sent to the Glade?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-maze-runner|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28112" CreationDate="2014-12-15T13:26:49.333" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was my understanding that all boys were to be analyzed.  In fact, the ending indicated that the entire end sequence where they finally escaped the maze and found the laboratory was a simulation, as the woman running the show was believed to have committed suicide and yet at the very end sat at a meeting table to discuss a second test for the boys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-12-15T13:26:49.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28112" CreationDate="2014-12-15T13:32:05.597" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Thomas is part of the organization that created maze, then why was he sent to the Glade?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to this conversation, It is not stated in the movie why Thomas and Teresa is sent to the maze even though they worked as the part of organization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-Why would they send us&#xA;  up if we were with them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-It doesn't matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-He's right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-It doesn't matter. Any of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as per my understanding, sporadically you keep hearing that Thomas was one of the creators favorites and for years others were failed to complete the maze. So, they wanted to test whether Thomas can do it or not and he does that.&#xA;And also in the end, Ava Paige says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thomas continues to&#xA;  surprise and impress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it sounds like it's part of Ava's plan to send Thomas to the maze and manipulate others to complete Phase One.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Once sent he had no previous memory like others then how is he to able witness flash backs of his past?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not only Thomas had flashbacks but whoever is infected with the poison injected by the Griever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;The purpose of whole research was to analyze potential of all boys or just Thomas?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the words of Ava Paige in the end, it should be to analyze potential of all boys including Thomas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T12:50:55.450" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T12:50:55.450" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28120" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-15T14:36:17.583" Score="16" ViewCount="2756" Body="&lt;p&gt;I may have missed something obvious in &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;, but if Bane knew that a little girl (Talia) could escape the pit (albeit with his help) then surely he must have thought that Batman would be able to escape from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know he broke Batman's back but did he maybe underestimate his mental resilience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it just a plot device to tie in Talia's pit escape?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2018" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-15T16:29:03.073" LastActivityDate="2018-02-21T07:30:36.680" Title="Why put Batman in the pit?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28120" CreationDate="2014-12-15T16:25:59.290" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Talia was &lt;em&gt;no ordinary child. A child born in hell, forged by suffering, hardened by pain. Not a man from privilege.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After his defeat, Bane asks Batman:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I broke you. How have you come back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this makes it quite clear that Bane was sure that Bruce would not be able to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2014-12-15T16:25:59.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28083" CreationDate="2014-12-15T20:05:30.220" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Red is a valuable asset. She has proven again and again to be a talented smuggler. Sure, Vee could eventually be able to smuggle her merchandise by herself, but it would be easier (and thus more profitable) to employ Red's talents. Leaving her alive means that Red is in Vee's thrall. Killing Red however, means the loss of potential smuggling channels &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; it would draw too much attention from the law. The prison where the show is set is a low security one, and murders are definitely not the norm. Too much attention would be bad for Vee's business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-12-15T20:05:30.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28130" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-15T20:08:13.610" Score="8" ViewCount="4900" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I remember seeing a movie about a guy who got married very fast and moved into a house with his new wife and then strange things started happening. The cat drowned in the bathtub. There was hair in the wife's hairbrush that wasn't hers and it turned out the guy had an ex- wife who died, then the current wife found the ex-wife's diary and there were new entries every day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure about the country but I believe the language was English. The movie was made for TV. It looked like it was released sometime in the 90's. I saw it on TV in 2007, so it can't be anything released after that year. It's definitely not &lt;em&gt;The Grudge&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;What Lies Beneath&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Shutter&lt;/em&gt; both the re-make and the original Asian version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember much, but I'd appreciate if you could help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16454" LastEditorUserId="18217" LastEditDate="2015-01-18T22:37:09.680" LastActivityDate="2016-12-05T18:44:57.753" Title="Dead wife haunting her husband's new wife" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|thriller|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:28:28.763" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28132" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-15T22:42:07.447" Score="12" ViewCount="874" Body="&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s6zUE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Crop&quot;&gt; &lt;sup&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://alone-in-the-dark-pg.blogspot.co.at/2014/11/interstellar-review.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interstellar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a pathogenic organism &lt;a href=&quot;http://interstellarfilm.wikia.com/wiki/The_Blight&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(the blight&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) is responsible for &lt;strong&gt;a global food shortage&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Corn seems to be the last crop that can be grown, although it is hinted that it's only a matter of time until it falls victim to the blight as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at the end of the movie we can see &lt;strong&gt;corn fields on &lt;a href=&quot;http://interstellarfilm.wikia.com/wiki/Cooper_Station&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cooper Station&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which made me wonder what happened to the blight?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A cure was found.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is still no cure, but due to the space station being a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_ecological_system&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;'closed eco system'&lt;/a&gt; (CES) the corn can't be infected. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if a cure was found, why leave earth? &lt;br&gt;And if a CES is the solution, why not have them on earth (e.g. build bio-domes)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At the end of the movie, was the blight still a problem?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-15T23:12:23.750" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T09:10:26.680" Title="How was the main problem dealt with?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28132" CreationDate="2014-12-15T23:43:21.403" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is quite unlikely that a cure for the blight was found, since as you said yourself, they could have just stayed on earth and gradually recultivated it in this case. So the 1st option stays out of consideration. It is, however, likely that you could &lt;strong&gt;cultivate plants in a closed ecosystem once you have seeds separated from the blight&lt;/strong&gt;, afterall they somehow would have to grow new stuff on whatever planet they land on anyway. So yes, the corn there was likely isolated from the blight still running rampant on earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as to the idea of building closed ecosystems on earth, there was another severe aspect to the whole blight problem. &lt;strong&gt;It was slowly turning earth into a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/27386/49&quot;&gt;plantless desert with a toxic atmosphere&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; So the only possible long-term way to overcome this would have been to not only grow the food inside biodomes, but to &lt;strong&gt;move the entire human civilization into biodomes&lt;/strong&gt; on an otherwise completely hostile planet. And I'm not sure this would have been a remotely possible endeavour on the long run, or at least not as an ultimate solution for humanty's progress. Granted, it might be sufficiently reasonable to serve as a last resort of hope, hadn't we found that promising wormhole, which suddenly made an even less likely solution much more reasonable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I admit that I'm not providing a definite answer here either, only possible ways to explain the situation. The idea of moving humanity into biodomes might as well just not have been considered by the writers at all, since of course &lt;strong&gt;it wouldn't make the humans strive for new dimensions and a better future&lt;/strong&gt;, but make them effectively prisoners surrounded by a dead and destructive world waiting for their slow demise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility might be, that this in the end wasn't real corn afterall, as this whole area was practically just a museum to remind humanity of its (and especially &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt;'s) past as farmers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T09:10:26.680" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14560" CreationDate="2014-12-16T00:03:02.383" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've felt that it is not so much the overview of the damage as much as it symbolizes the damage itself. The reason he keeps it in the drawer is because he doesn't want to remember the damage. However, it is impossible to just drop that altogether &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16459" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T04:44:45.827" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T04:44:45.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28142" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29968" CreationDate="2014-12-16T04:41:30.647" Score="2" ViewCount="10960" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Equalizer_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Equalizer&lt;/a&gt;, when McCall visits Plummer's house, Brian Plummer says;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-You had a nice funeral,&#xA;  in case you were wondering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why McCall's death was faked? Even Susan didn't know it, What was McCall's past? Why he lived so quietly? And if he had such incredible skills, intelligence and knowledge then why didn't he use it for a bigger cause? (I know he made promise with his dying wife, but still he made exceptions) Can someone help me on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-12-18T12:07:05.180" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T00:10:14.210" Title="Reason behind Robert McCall's fake death" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-equalizer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27999" CreationDate="2014-12-16T05:34:41.693" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, but by her connections she would probably question herself why Oliver always leaves and the Arrow appears, etc. I don't think there is any episode showing that she definitely knows she is the Arrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16462" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T05:34:41.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10945" CreationDate="2014-12-16T06:22:33.250" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;After re-watching Lucretia's arc of the story it looks like Lucretia has became more insane and she just wants revenge from Ilithyia. Now her hate of Ilithyia is more than any other person. She shows nothing to Ilithyia directly but her steps always proves this. It's even shown by killing Ilithyia's child with a suicide in the end of Spartacus: Vengeance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-01-18T14:07:03.147" LastActivityDate="2017-01-18T14:07:03.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28120" CreationDate="2014-12-16T07:12:06.983" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to the other answers, Talia herself might have taken the decision to put Batman in the pit.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She was the only one to ever rise from that pit of hell and that too as a child (with much less wing span and energy). She was a legend of that pit. Only the prison doctor and Bane were actual remaining witnesses to that climb. She would expect nobody to climb out and nobody did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would be the slow, painful death that Batman deserved. The intention was to kill his soul prior to his body. Thus he was made to witness the destruction of Gotham.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her behaviour is consistent at the end of the movie when she asks Bane not to kill&#xA;Batman and let him feel the heat and fire of 12 million souls he failed.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So pretty much looks like Talia's decision to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T09:07:37.367" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T09:07:37.367" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28154" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-16T18:14:50.323" Score="4" ViewCount="470" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Interstellar, when Cooper is trapped inside the Tesseract, he figures out a way to convey the quantum data recorded inside the singularity to his daughter Murph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He does so by embedding the quantum data, translated in morse code, in the second hand of the wristwatch. This is the same wristwatch he gifted her while leaving planet earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Question&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Cooper has recorded the data in the second hand during a particular time period in his daughter's life, how come the lengthy pattern is running on a loop for Murph to find out about it later in her life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because any change made by him at &lt;em&gt;T&lt;/em&gt; time inside the room cannot be expected to repeat infinitely otherwise the books that he pushed to say &quot;STAY&quot; will always be falling off the shelf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope I made the question clear. If not please comment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11363" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T19:08:44.840" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T09:51:02.103" Title="Why does the message embedded by Cooper in the second hand of the wristwatch run on a loop?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-12-17T04:51:34.633" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23975" CreationDate="2014-12-16T18:30:58.173" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are no historical records of a single “godfather” of the South Florida drug scene; nor are there any historical records of such a person disappearing in the manner that Tony Acaro did in the show. The character seems to have been a composite of many different drug kingpins and assorted wrongdoers as were most of the antagonists on the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T18:30:58.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27949" CreationDate="2014-12-16T18:44:23.297" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the “B” story or subplot is so that the supporting characters in the program have something to do in addition to providing reactions to and validation for the actions of the protagonist. The B story/subplot interweaves with the main story and often provides the main story with added measure of heft that it may lack to to editing and the need to get the episode filmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;if you watch sitcoms from early American television, subplots were rarely used and the weakness of the main stories became readily apparent. The action was concentrated around the protagonist(s) and, if the story wasn’t particularly enthralling, the discriminating viewer might find that episode to be boring and they might tune away or remember that episode as not being one of the “better” ones. With a  subplot, you can retain the interest of the viewer by providing them with a number of story elements, you keep the cast happy as all of the supporting actors have distinct roles within the series and you keep the writers happy as they demonstrate their creativity and potentially expand the underlying legend of of the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A different format is the A-B-C format, where an additional subplot is added; however this usually occurs on special hourlong episodes or when the series has been on for a number of seasons, Another variation is the “A Christmas Carol/It’s a WOnderful Life type of episode where the protagonist is shown how their life intersects with those of the supporting cast in way which they are unaware. This is a “cheat” as it allows the entire episode to be about the protagonist without appearing to actually be that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T18:44:23.297" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27091" CreationDate="2014-12-16T19:13:15.487" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The “final” scenes from Pulp Fiction relate the story of Butch and Marsellus and the events in the pawn shop. This is demonstrated by Julius and Vincent arriving at the bar with the briefcase wearing the casual clothing that they changed into at Jimmy’s house at the begin of Butch’s tale. The events in the restaurant with Honey Bunny (the holdup) actually take place before Vincent is killed and thus are the next to last if the film would be reconstructed in chronological order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the film’s “chronological” order is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Butch receiving his father’s watch (The first portion of Butch’s story) when he was a child.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vincent and Julius retrieving Marsellus’ briefcase&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vincent and Julius going to Jimmy’s house after they accidentally kill Marvin.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The robbery in the diner (the opening and closing scenes of the film)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vincent and Butch arriving at the bar. Butch being instructed to throw the fight. Vincent and Butch clashing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vincent and Mia Wallace’s date/Mia’s overdose&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Butch not throwing the fight and escaping&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Butch returning to his apartment and killing Vincent Vega&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Butch and Marsellus and their troubles in the pawn shop (The “true” end of the film)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As noted in the other answer to this question, the non-linear narrative makes it difficult to discern what is happening if you don’t watch the film closely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-16T19:19:04.260" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T19:19:04.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1729" CreationDate="2014-12-16T19:28:53.167" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film portrays “The Gimp” as being the willing S&amp;amp;M partner of Zed and Maynard, the pawn shop owner and his security guard friend. While he is shown being “held” in a box-like structure in the basement of the pawn shop, it’s clear from his actions that this is a willing sexual act and that he is not being held captive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Butch reinforces this portion of the narrative when he assaults The Gimp instead of freeing him. If Butch had considered him to have been a “victim”, it’s logical to presume that he would have helped him escape, rather than leaving him to his certain death at the hands of Marcellus Wallace and his men.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastEditorUserId="7390" LastEditDate="2021-01-31T20:08:23.383" LastActivityDate="2021-01-31T20:08:23.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16922" CreationDate="2014-12-16T23:24:20.740" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually its possible to fit it into the timeline of the movie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His wife survives the initial accident but he gets separated from her. He goes on a quest to find the supposed killer and gets the tattoos we see throughout the movie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He kills the person and gets the I've done it tattoo. His wife finds him later and they live together again as seen briefly. He puts her in a coma with the insulin but he can't take what he's done so he gets the tatoo removed so he can get lost in his quest to find the murderer again&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16475" LastActivityDate="2014-12-16T23:24:20.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28163" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28175" CreationDate="2014-12-17T00:29:19.653" Score="3" ViewCount="1491" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqW9fnkhqrs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;final scene of Memento&lt;/a&gt; (which is actually the beginning of the story's timeline) shows Lenny drive off in a Jaguar that has a box full of money in the trunk. Presumably this money is why Dodd tries to catch Lenny later in the timeline, and also why Teddy so badly wants the keys to the Jaguar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happens to the money as the timeline develops? Most importantly, what is its status at the end of the timeline, after Lenny has killed Teddy (which is actually the beginning of the movie)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MqKTw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T11:53:07.403" Title="In Memento, what happened to the money in the Jaguar's trunk?" Tags="|plot-explanation|memento|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28034" CreationDate="2014-12-17T01:30:18.963" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;He learns to control his powers for good, not evil. This takes time as his powers came from extreme negative emotions: he changes however, over time, losing negative powers and then gains positive power. It is a system of unlearning motivation, becoming empty, before becoming enlightened or wise. Similar also to martial arts systems where most initial levels before attaining black belt master status are unlearning/ unprogramming to start with black belt learning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16474" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T01:30:18.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10429" CreationDate="2014-12-17T07:54:43.427" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see the movie having - reality and dreams.&#xA;There are two major dream sequences, the first one which has a 2 dream sequence where they are trying to extract information from Saito. The second one is the rest of the movie - the multi dream sequence where they are trying to incept the idea into Fischer's mind.&#xA;The second dream starts after the scene in the plane. The plane is real world, the dream starts on the streets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an illustrated explanation of each of the dream levels and movement between them, kicks etc:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/single-post/2015/09/15/Inception-2010-Explained&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inception Explained With Illustration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2018-07-13T08:45:31.007" LastActivityDate="2018-07-13T08:45:31.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3302" CreationDate="2014-12-17T08:03:11.183" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ideally totems are not to be shared, sharing totems can cause one person giving the wrong impression of reality to the other in a dream. Cobb takes Mal's totem because she is no longer alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an illustrated version of the dream levels and kicks, helps explaining how they use the kicks to get out of a dream level:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://digestivepyrotechnics.blogspot.com/2012/03/inception.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Inception Illustrated And Explained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T08:03:11.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28173" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-17T09:05:36.300" Score="1" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Inception&lt;/a&gt;, Cobb uses his dead wife Mal's totem. It is not clearly mentioned or shown what was Cobb's original totem? Or did I miss something? Help please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T09:05:36.300" Title="What was Cobb's original totem?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-12-17T18:00:00.007" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28174" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28378" CreationDate="2014-12-17T09:20:12.550" Score="2" ViewCount="6402" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com.pk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0CB0QFjAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLucy_%25282014_film%2529&amp;amp;ei=DUmRVMPeBsPwaJa8gcgD&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGkJflCqVgdmXCvWaqyZOUAyMp0Iw&amp;amp;sig2=Em8tvcCRxh0MDDoKCPDqlw&amp;amp;bvm=bv.82001339,d.d2s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lucy&lt;/a&gt;, it is shown that at 100% brain usage Lucy disappears. Although not much was mentioned or shown what actually happened to her. Did she become immortal (as message appears on Del Rio's phone)? Did she transport herself into another dimension?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Professor Samuel Norman is himself not sure what will happen at 100%. So what actually happened? Kindly help me out on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T21:53:50.680" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T19:03:24.417" Title="What actually happens to Lucy at 100 percent?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lucy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28163" CreationDate="2014-12-17T10:37:36.333" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We simply don't know. The trunk or the money don't appear in any of the (chronologically) later scenes. They only play an indirect role as Teddy's motivation to get the car from Leonard. There are only theories about the money's whereabouts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;imdb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What happened to the money in the trunk of the Jaguar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This question is never explicitly answered in the film, nor is there really any suggestion as to where it got to. It would appear that Nolan did not consider this a very important detail in his overall narrative of the film, but we may speculate. There are several possibilities that come to mind. (1) At the end of the story it could very well still be in the trunk ready for Leonard to rediscover it and wonder where it came from. (2) Leonard could have during the course of the film already added it to whatever stash of money he has been using for expenses. (3) Teddy could have broken into the car and taken it at some time during the film. (4) It is even possible that Natalie could have used a spare key (it is not unlikely that a couple living together would each have a key to the vehicles), found the money and taken it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-12-17T11:53:07.403" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T11:53:07.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28177" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28181" CreationDate="2014-12-17T11:25:55.730" Score="2" ViewCount="2101" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266697/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kill Bill Vol. 1&lt;/a&gt;, Just before Sofie Fatale and the rest of the crew are about to enter the Japanese nightclub, there's a flashback in which she's speaking Japanese into her cellphone during the wedding rehearsal fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it's probably not important for the story, but was always curious: what is she saying?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She starts with &lt;code&gt;Mushi mushi&lt;/code&gt;, which is all that I recognise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11519" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-17T12:53:59.477" LastActivityDate="2015-10-31T18:53:57.197" Title="What does Sofie Fatale say in Japanese on her cellphone in Volume 1?" Tags="|dialogue|kill-bill|translation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28179" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28230" CreationDate="2014-12-17T13:26:08.000" Score="6" ViewCount="17137" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;, during the fund raiser for Harvey Dent by Bruce Wayne, Joker arrives and throws Rachel outside the window. But Batman also jumps outside to save her. They fall on a car which is completely destroyed but both of them survive. Can anyone explain this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16464" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-17T13:33:01.387" LastActivityDate="2015-04-04T17:56:26.610" Title="How did Batman survive after the fall trying to save Rachel?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28180" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28385" CreationDate="2014-12-17T13:44:22.097" Score="2" ViewCount="722" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;, Bruce Wayne tells Alfred he's going to a place. Alfred asks about taking a batmobile. Bruce says it is day now and he going to take another vehicle. Alfred then says, &quot;Oh Lamborghini then, much more subtle&quot;. Why is he saying that? Is there any reference or citation that I missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16464" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-17T13:50:57.807" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T18:08:23.723" Title="Is there a reference\nod in the line &quot;Much more subtle&quot;?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight|reference|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28177" CreationDate="2014-12-17T14:45:09.397" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a coworker that is Japanese and she said this is what Sofie Fatale said during the phone call&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Hi, I'm in the middle of a meeting. Can you call me back a bit later? ...Oh you're with your wife? haha, sure I got it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also she mentioned that her Japanese sucks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The call is here, starts at 1:08&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/GVsla1p83wM#t=69?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5425" LastEditorUserId="5425" LastEditDate="2014-12-17T15:03:55.767" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T15:03:55.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28182" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28184" CreationDate="2014-12-17T14:54:50.613" Score="4" ViewCount="2330" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112740/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Crimson Tide&lt;/a&gt;, there's a tense scene in which Capt. Ramsey (&lt;em&gt;Gene Hackman&lt;/em&gt;) engages Hunter (&lt;em&gt;Denzel Washington&lt;/em&gt;) in a discussion about the &lt;strong&gt;Lipizzaner stallions&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene is of cinematic importance as it outlines the nature of the two men, which is essentially the cause of the friction between them. However, it escapes me, why does Capt. Ramsey throw in a joke regarding the horses?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The exact dialogue is as follows&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some of the things they do, uh, defy belief. Their training program is simplicity itself. You just stick a cattle prod up their ass and you can get a horse to deal cards.&#xA;  [Chuckles]&#xA;  Simple matter of voltage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then shoots a knowing look across, and Lt. Zimmer and him share a laugh. Was he trying to make a statement to Hunter? Or was it just a snub to Hunter's smart reply that the stallions were black at birth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-06-23T14:23:24.380" LastActivityDate="2020-12-28T05:39:24.710" Title="Purpose of the joke regarding the Lipizzaner stallions" Tags="|character|dialogue|crimson-tide|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23975" CreationDate="2014-12-17T15:59:19.177" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Mistah Mix that it's probably not based on one person. I saw a documentary called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_Cowboys&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cocaine-Cowboys&lt;/a&gt; a few years ago. It seems like he was a composite of some of those people. I haven't seen Miami Vice in a very long time so I can't say for sure, but if you read about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Roberts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jon Roberts&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Munday&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mickey Munday&lt;/a&gt; and Pablo Escobar you might see some similarities. According to The Telegraph newspaper, Mickey Monday and Pablo Escobar were inspiring force behind the series itself...&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9889689/Mickey-Munday-Tales-from-the-last-Cocaine-Cowboy-standing.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T15:59:19.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28182" CreationDate="2014-12-17T17:03:24.657" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Capt. Ramsey has considered Hunter to be insubordinate and treasonous since early in the movie. Ramsey believes in chain of command and subordinates following orders.  He believes that Hunter should have repeated Ramsey's command without questioning it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I interpret Ramsey's knowing look and laugh as him saying: if you apply enough voltage, you ensure chain of command (the Lipizzaner and Hunter doing what you tell them to).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-06-23T14:23:49.270" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T14:23:49.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28182" CreationDate="2014-12-17T17:24:22.670" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I saw &lt;em&gt;Crimson Tide&lt;/em&gt;, I took this line as Ramsey trying to provoke Hunter by making a joke about brutality toward something Hunter likes. Earlier in the movie, they have a conversation about horse riding, and it's clearly something Hunter enjoys. So, of all the &quot;just follow orders&quot; analogies he could've used, he almost goes out of his way to use one that is brutal to something Hunter cares about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16054" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T17:24:22.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28186" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28187" CreationDate="2014-12-17T17:46:14.073" Score="11" ViewCount="40552" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this English movie a few years ago and I don't know its name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's this guy whose name I don't know (hitherto referred to as &quot;X man&quot;) in his house with his wife and daughter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2 guys kill the woman and the child.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are caught and one of the guys (the less violent one) is killed with substances put in his blood (I don't know the name of it).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The other one escapes but the &quot;X man&quot; gets him by putting something on a pistol that paralyzes him. He then tortures him with him watching everything through a mirror on top of him (with the photos of the wife and daughter so they can &quot;watch it&quot;) and then kills him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He prepares the revenge for 10 years, is arrested and the police must do what the &quot;X man&quot; wants.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a black guy who is part of the police or part of the court.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I remember a scene in which the &quot;X man&quot; orders food and they arrive late, he tells them where a man is hidden and they go there to save. But as they arrived late with the food the man died because his oxygen supply ended.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the end he is killed because of a bomb he was planning to make explode somewhere but the bomb was in his cell.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recall many details but I can't really remember what the title is. &lt;strong&gt;What is the name of this movie?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16239" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2014-12-18T02:43:50.993" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T02:43:50.993" Title="Guy prepares revenge for 10 years for the murder of his daughter and wife" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:28:41.277" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28186" CreationDate="2014-12-17T17:50:46.203" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1197624/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Law Abiding Citizen&lt;/a&gt; from 2009 with Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clyde Shelton's family is brutally murdered. The ones responsible are caught. However, because of improper procedure, the D.A., Nick Rice only has circumstantial evidence. So he decides to get one of them to testify against the other. When Shelton learns of this, he is not happy. Ten years later, the one who was convicted is being executed but something goes wrong; his execution goes awry and he suffers. They learn that someone tampered with the machine. And the other one is found dead, killed in a gruesome manner. Rice suspects Shelton, so he has him picked up. At first, Shelton agrees to a plea agreement with Rice but changes his mind. It appears that Shelton is not done, it appears he blames the whole system and is declaring war on it going after everyone involved with his family's case. So Rice has to stop him but Shelton is way ahead of him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shelton murders those he holds responsible in the manners you've described and the film ends exactly as you put it. Jamie Foxx plays the prosecutor. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/BJ3tHqGlCHg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-12-17T17:58:48.047" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28193" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-17T23:36:48.933" Score="15" ViewCount="42165" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of speculations about how &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mrbean.com/about&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mr. Bean&lt;/a&gt; is an Alien (from outer-space).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't been able to turn up anything definitive, except for this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, later episodes showed Mr. Bean dropping from the night sky in a deserted London street against the backdrop of St Paul's Cathedral. At the end of episodes three and six he is also shown being sucked right back up into the sky in the respective background scenes (black scene in episode 3 and street scene in episode 6). &lt;strong&gt;Atkinson has acknowledged that Bean &quot;has a slightly alien aspect to him&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bean#Characters_and_recurring_props&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bean#Characters_and_recurring_props&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt; [emphasis mine]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to find a definitive answer to this, &lt;strong&gt;Is Mr. Bean Alien?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-31T11:40:46.780" LastActivityDate="2017-01-15T15:25:28.180" Title="Is Mr. Bean an Alien?" Tags="|mr-bean|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28195" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28198" CreationDate="2014-12-18T01:49:19.587" Score="3" ViewCount="5236" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm interested to know if there is a list of movies ranked by cost-to-earning ratio, defined as something like (box-office sales) / (film budget). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some data which can be used to construct such a list is on Wikipedia, often listed in the info box for each film under 'Budget' and 'Box office'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16499" LastActivityDate="2017-01-07T20:41:40.640" Title="Highest earning films by cost to earning ratio" Tags="|box-office|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28195" CreationDate="2014-12-18T03:11:01.143" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes there is. I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/budgets/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;it&lt;/a&gt; at the-numbers.com. I will work on formatting this better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most Profitable Movies, Based on Return on Investment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Release Date    Movie                Approx. Profit   Production Budget   RoI&#xA;&#xA;1. 9/25/2009    Paranormal Activity     $89,780,985       $450,000            19,851%&#xA;2. 1/6/2012     The Devil Inside        $36,949,635       $1,000,000          3,595%&#xA;3. 2/5/1953     Peter Pan               $142,332,969      $4,000,000          3,458%&#xA;4. 6/16/1978    Grease                  $189,188,276      $6,000,000          3,053%&#xA;5. 10/20/2010   Paranormal Activity 2   $77,214,730       $3,000,000          2,474%&#xA;6. 4/1/2011     Insidious               $34,040,932       $1,500,000          2,169%&#xA;7. 12/15/1974   Young Frankenstein      $58,701,733       $2,800,000          1,996%&#xA;8. 6/20/1975    Jaws                    $220,623,623      $12,000,000         1,739%&#xA;9. 10/23/1992   Reservoir Dogs          $20,786,095       $1,200,000          1,632%&#xA;10. 11/13/1991  Beauty and the Beast    $283,654,939      $20,000,000         1,318%&#xA;11. 11/26/2010  The King’s Speech       $196,426,531      $15,000,000         1,210%&#xA;12. 6/29/2012   Magic Mike              $88,182,596       $7,000,000          1,160%&#xA;13. 3/21/2014   God’s Not Dead          $24,136,550       $2,000,000          1,107%&#xA;14. 6/7/2013    The Purge               $35,468,349       $3,000,000          1,082%&#xA;15. 11/12/2008  Slumdog Millionaire     $162,937,753      $14,000,000         1,064%&#xA;16. 12/3/2010   Black Swan              $148,172,204      $13,000,000         1,040%&#xA;17. 1/1/1946    It's a Wonderful Life   $36,110,583       $3,180,000          1,036%&#xA;18. 6/6/2014    The Fault in Our Stars  $135,145,223      $12,000,000         1,026%&#xA;19. 6/5/2009    The Hangover            $382,908,235      $35,000,000         994%&#xA;20. 8/27/2010   The Last Exorcism       $19,230,678       $1,800,000          968%&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="7366" LastEditDate="2014-12-18T07:07:23.933" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T07:07:23.933" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28201" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28208" CreationDate="2014-12-18T04:47:49.370" Score="9" ViewCount="7348" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hugo&lt;/a&gt;, forgotten &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Georges Méliès's&lt;/a&gt; life, success and master piece films are revealed to us, but the movie was not just about him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was about the boy Hugo and all his courageous deeds. My question is did he really exist or it was just fantasy? As well as all the other characters shown in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-11-21T07:13:44.027" LastActivityDate="2017-01-13T15:02:47.540" Title="Did Hugo Cabret and other characters really exist?" Tags="|character|historical-accuracy|hugo|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28202" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28203" CreationDate="2014-12-18T05:32:04.047" Score="7" ViewCount="9653" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other day, I watched The Predator just to see why the 'Get to the chopper' is so famous. Finally, I heard the 'Get to the chopper!' line. But it was not funny or memorable at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had presumed that it was famous because of his Austrian accent before watching the movie. (The Simpsons' Rainier Wolfcastle is basically Arnold and his '&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=457nGTf4fsQ&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Up and atom!!!!&lt;/a&gt;' line was funny.) But his pronunciation did not sound weird to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone explain why it is so famous?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16504" LastEditorUserId="7820" LastEditDate="2014-12-18T14:51:17.660" LastActivityDate="2021-07-02T08:16:43.477" Title="Why is the 'Get to the chopper' so famous?" Tags="|dialogue|predator|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28202" CreationDate="2014-12-18T05:47:45.180" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;KnowYourMeme has an entry for this &lt;a href=&quot;http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/get-to-the-choppa&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Due to Schwarzenegger’s thick European accent, the line came off as a&#xA;  comical relief rather than exclamation of urgency and it eventually&#xA;  became one of the most celebrated quotes attributed to the actor.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T05:47:45.180" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28202" CreationDate="2014-12-18T06:29:44.970" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The word was pronounced che-aw-par, I think that was a first in movies.&#xA;A lot of mimicry artists picked on that dialogue and voila.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T06:29:44.970" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27338" CreationDate="2014-12-18T06:42:08.627" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe machines would be very mathematical in their solution. Having the humans free would mean having trouble, humans have the need to dominate. They evaluate a solution which is accepted by 99% of the human race. As long as the human race is given what they want in the form of a dream, with the illusion of choice, they don't provide any trouble. Rather than eradicate the whole human race, they can just eradicate the 1% trouble makers. It is also a fringe benefit that bio-energy can be tapped from the sleeping humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The human solution to a problematic species,perhaps, would be to eradicate the entire species.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nuclear reactors need resources from the planet which is not renewable. The resources will run out. The sun has been blocked, so no solar power. Humans are now automatically the most efficient renewable energy resource so the machines turn to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After seeing the Animatrix, it's quite clear that the machines wanted harmony, the humans did not. Had it been the other way around, if the humans had the upper hand, they would simply shut down the Matrix all together, not selectively. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to summarize, the machines depend on the humans for energy as it is a good renewable resource, but that is not the only resource, like the architect mentions - they are ready to go to any state of existence in order to deal with the 1% threat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T06:42:08.627" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28207" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-18T06:51:29.310" Score="2" ViewCount="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekyll_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jekyll (TV series)&lt;/a&gt;, Hyde starts to remember memories of Tom. He even ends up recollecting memories of the original Jekyll. Since Hyde shares his mind with Tom, should the memories that he can access be restricted to only Tom's?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case we go with the Genetic Memory theory, where the memories of your predecessors is passed down genetically, would this mean that Hyde should be able to access memories of his mother too? Ms. Utterson (Sophia) is the mother and Hyde should be able to see in to her memories as well. Once Hyde and Tom establish their mind-meld, the memories are shared. Why does it still remain a shocking surprise to Tom when Ms. Utterson confronts him as his mother? Shouldn't he have expected / known this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-12-18T07:24:13.317" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T07:24:13.317" Title="Hyde accessing the original Jekyll's memories" Tags="|plot-explanation|jekyll|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28201" CreationDate="2014-12-18T07:50:46.927" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The characters information I am able gather are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The character of Hugo is entirely fictional.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Georges Méliès's had two wives, first wife Eugénie, who was married to Méliès during the time he made films (and who died in 1913). And second Jeanne d'Alcy, they did not marry until 1925. In film Eugénie got skipped and Jeanne presented as fusion of both of his wives.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Madeleine Malthête-Méliès is the name of granddaughter which Méliès lives with.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His two brothers, that helped him during film making, were missing in story.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the movie, Hugo's father dies in a museum fire along with the automaton. Well, in real life, Robert-Houdin's Hand Writing and Drawing Automaton was in Barnum's American Museum in NYC. That museum burnt to the ground and along with it, the Hand-Writing Automaton that was created by Robert-Houdin.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The train crash dream is inspired from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montparnasse_derailment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Montparnasse derailment&lt;/a&gt;, real life event, not related to Méliès.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;René Tabard is also a fictional character.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Can't gather more information now, will try to incorporate them, if got any sooner or later.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Source :&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Hugo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themagicdetective.com/2011/11/hugo-and-real-george-melies.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/11/30/martin_scorsese_s_hugo_the_real_movies_that_inspired_scorsese_s_film.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;5&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2017-01-13T15:02:47.540" LastActivityDate="2017-01-13T15:02:47.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28193" CreationDate="2014-12-18T09:17:34.607" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mr. Bean being an alien is more of a myth that it's creators unintentionally created because of the opening of the original TV series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in reality Mr. Bean is born English and not an alien, in the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Bean: The Movie&lt;/a&gt;, he visits America on his English passport.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bean_%28animated_TV_series%29&quot;&gt;Mr. Bean animated series&lt;/a&gt;, one of the episode that I remember, he was taken by alien space ship where he met aliens, which looked like him. In the end of the episode &#xA;he is sent back by the aliens similar to the opening scene. Which makes connection to the opening scene of the original TV series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T09:17:34.607" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28210" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43325" CreationDate="2014-12-18T09:44:45.937" Score="6" ViewCount="3339" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Matrix&lt;/a&gt;, humans blocked machines' access to solar energy. As a substitute power, the machines turned to harvesting the humans' bio electricity, while keeping them trapped in the Matrix. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: if machines are so intelligent and advanced, then why didn't they simply wipe out the clouds instead of consuming human energy? I already know that clouds have some kind of EMP effect but still machines had all the time in the world, they could have done something about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-18T12:05:36.027" LastActivityDate="2022-12-11T22:43:33.103" Title="Why didn't the machines clear the skies?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28193" CreationDate="2014-12-18T10:40:23.577" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the same source as the question (the sentence before) I think it's clear that he probably isn't an alien:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the beginning of episode two onwards, Mr. Bean falls from the sky in a beam of light, accompanied by a choir singing Ecce homo qui est faba (&quot;Behold the man who is a bean&quot;), recorded by Southwark Cathedral Choir in 1990. These opening sequences were initially in black and white in episodes two and three, and were intended by the producers to show his status as an &quot;ordinary man cast into the spotlight&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bean#Characters_and_recurring_props&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bean#Characters_and_recurring_props&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reinforce Faizan's point we do see him in the movie with a passport. In order to get a british passport you MUST provide official documentation &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gov.uk/apply-first-adult-passport/documents-you-must-send-with-your-application&quot;&gt;(birth/adoption certificates, naturalisation certificates etc)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if we look at the quote you have used in the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Atkinson has acknowledged that Bean &quot;has a slightly alien aspect to him&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This to me says he is simply acknowledging he is human albeit a bit of an odd one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2164" LastEditorUserId="2164" LastEditDate="2014-12-18T10:56:29.717" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T10:56:29.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28214" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28216" CreationDate="2014-12-18T14:59:44.143" Score="13" ViewCount="10707" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched Disney's Aladdin back in 1990's when I was a middle school student. At the last scene, Aladdin encountered a tough choice between (a) using his last wish to become a prince to marry Jasmine and (b) using his last wish to set Genie free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though I was a child, I thought why Aladdin couldn't just lend the lamp to Jasmine to make him a prince, and then use his last wish to set Genie free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There seemed to be no limitation on how many people getting their wishes. When Jafar took the lamp, he immediately got his new three wishes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Success was guaranteed. Jasmine was a good person. She would happily made the wish to turn  Aladdin into a prince, and she would never have abused her power.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lending the lamp temporarily does not void Aladdin's last wish. After getting it from Jafar again, his last wish was still valid. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Genie would not have minded. Fulfilling wishes does not hurt Genie in any ways. It was not a hard labour for him. Lending the lamp to Jasmine and fulfilling her wishes could just have taken a few measly tens of minutes. Genie would never have minded his liberation being postponed a few tens of minutes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... could there be any explanation other than &quot;It's just a cartoon. Cartoons don't have to make sense all the time&quot;? If you have watched Aladdin, did you think about this, or was I the only weird kid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16504" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-04-21T20:01:30.200" LastActivityDate="2017-06-13T07:41:24.187" Title="Why didn't Aladdin lend the lamp to Jasmine?" Tags="|plot-explanation|aladdin|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28215" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-18T15:19:28.767" Score="1" ViewCount="762" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the Battle of the Five Armies begins, and Dáin arrives with an army of dwarfs to do battle, we see Azog has been using giant wyrms, which he refers to as &quot;earth eaters&quot; earlier in the film, to come up behind/beside the battlefield to flank everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, &lt;strong&gt;why didn't Azog simply use the wyrms to battle the various military forces?&lt;/strong&gt;, or of the objective was to obtain the gold, just go straight to it. Those things were positively &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt;, and could have simply devoured everyone on the field quite quickly. But no, he uses them to burrow through the side area of the mountain range to push his forces through in a flank position, and then does absolutely nothing else with the wyrms the entire battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-19T21:55:11.823" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T21:55:11.823" Title="Why not use the wyrms to win?" Tags="|the-hobbit|the-battle-of-the-five-armies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28214" CreationDate="2014-12-18T15:21:10.033" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the principle of the thing. If he lends the lamp to Jasmine to give her three wishes, what's to stop him from then lending it to the Sultan, or to Apu, or to whomever else. He still has that third wish in reserve, so &lt;em&gt;technically&lt;/em&gt; he can free the Genie at any time, so he hasn't violated the &lt;em&gt;letter&lt;/em&gt; of his promise, but it certainly violates the &lt;em&gt;spirit&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I think Aladdin realized the temptation was just too great, and that holding Genie in bondage for any longer was unacceptable to his sense of justice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7962" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T15:21:10.033" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28217" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-12-18T15:30:30.330" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies&lt;/em&gt; is a 2014 American adventure, fantasy film, directed by Peter Jackson, and written by Fran Walsh (and others). It stars Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ken Scott, and more. It was released in the USA on December 17, 2014. This film was nominated for one Oscar. It is based on the classic book &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; by J. R. R. Tolkien. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full IMDb Storyline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After the Dragon leaves the Lonely Mountain, the people of Lake-town see a threat coming. Orcs, dwarves, elves and people prepare for war. Bilbo sees Thorin going mad and tries to help. Meanwhile, Gandalf is rescued from the Necromancer's prison and his rescuers realize who the Necromancer is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2310332/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit:_The_Battle_of_the_Five_Armies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T22:14:16.363" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T22:14:16.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28218" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-12-18T15:30:30.330" Score="0" Body="The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is a 2014 fantasy adventure film, the third and final instalment of Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. The film concludes the story by showing the great Battle of the Five Armies, the climax of the book on which the film is based. Several armies from all over Middle Earth gather on the fields outside of Erebor and Dale to stake a claim to the treasures within, and some for Erebor itself." OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T00:21:14.063" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T00:21:14.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28210" CreationDate="2014-12-18T16:17:04.550" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;One thought: The machines wanted to kill 2 birds with one stone. They wanted to solve the energy-source problem AND the human problem. Because if they fixed the skies, but didn't enslave the humans, then the humans would just go and do something else to muck things up for the machines. Plus, the machines might have &quot;done the math&quot; and found that humans are a much better source of energy anyway. So:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If they fixed the skies but didn't deal with the humans, the humans would mess up their energy source again another way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If they just killed humans, and then cleared the skies to restore their solar power source, that would take a lot of work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If they captured humans and used THEM as the power source, and forgot about the skies, that would solve the human problem AND the energy problem while not taking as much work as option 2.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have proof of this but it makes sense to me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T16:17:04.550" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21938" CreationDate="2014-12-18T17:20:19.213" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fish was no &quot;symbol&quot; it was cut so that their weapons would have an edge because the mixing of fish blood and human blood would most likely cause a very bad illness to death&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16514" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T17:20:19.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28221" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28222" CreationDate="2014-12-18T17:54:43.777" Score="44" ViewCount="704204" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not watched any of the entries in the &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings/Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; franchise and as per my knowledge The Hobbit's story occurs before LotR but the release order is different. So for better understanding should I go with the Hobbit trilogy first or should I go with release order?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-13T11:42:00.340" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T11:42:00.340" Title="What is the best order to watch LotR/Hobbit franchise?" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-hobbit|suggested-order|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28221" CreationDate="2014-12-18T18:07:58.107" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would start with the Hobbit first. Some things that happen in the Hobbit franchise have no &quot;stakes&quot; if you watch the 3 LotR movies first. The Hobbit also gives back story for the main LotR story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are risks that characters in the Hobbit take. If you watch the Lord of the Rings first, you'll know the outcome of the risks, and the tension in the Hobbit is reduced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; specifically Gandalf fighting a huge amount of Orcs in The Hobbit. Since he's in Lord of the Rings, if you see that first, when you watch The Hobbit you know that he wins the battle against the Orcs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found myself less invested in The Hobbit as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess I should specify the order I recommend:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2014-12-18T19:06:38.587" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T19:06:38.587" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28221" CreationDate="2014-12-18T18:26:14.157" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw the films in the order that they were released and I have read the Hobbit and halfway through the LotR tome. Here is a personal opinion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Suggested ordering:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Read the Hobbit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Watch LotR films (perhaps many times each!)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Read the LotR book&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Watch the Hobbit films if the nostalgia is unbearable.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Switching (2) and (3) can also be recommended.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;My Reasons:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Hobbit serves at least 2 purposes: laying some foundation for the important events that take place in LotR and being a gentle introduction to Middle Earth. ME is a complicated universe with its rich history, diverse geography, many races, many languages and many maps. If you are somewhat familiar with those things, LotR (the films and the book) will be much easier to follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because they are made after LotR, the Hobbit films strive for continuity and providing fan services by bringing back many elements of the first 3 films. The score, several actors, the filming angle, certain emphatic quotes and many subtle hints for the people who have seen the first 3 films. The problem is important elements such as the score and the characters (played by the actors who have aged noticeably since the first 3 films, who have to play &lt;em&gt;younger&lt;/em&gt; versions of the characters, and who are now given a much less rich source material to work with) appear in the Hobbit trilogy as lesser versions of themselves in the LotR trilogy. So if you watch the Hobbit first, you will meet those elements for the first time in less positive light than they deserve. That will spoil your LotR enjoyment when you later watch the original trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While inferior in important ways compared to the LotR trilogy, the Hobbit films are arguably more technologically advanced and flashier. Not surprising considering they arrive a decade later. Thus, if you see the Hobbit films first, they may make you feel disappointed in certain visual effects in LotR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, LotR are universally hailed as cinematic masterpieces whereas the Hobbit films are at best good and entertaining films. If you see the latter first, you may encounter disappointments that leave behind a bad taste that hinders your LotR enjoyment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14080" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T12:36:42.307" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28179" CreationDate="2014-12-18T20:38:31.490" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, since no other answers came in: Batman has a cape made of a &amp;quot;memory cloth&amp;quot; which can harden and turn into &lt;a href=&quot;http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/Memory_cloth_cape&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a glider&lt;/a&gt; (as illustrated in Batman's building raid in Hong Kong). The cape saves their lives, and IMDb's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/faq#.2.1.96&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; FAQ page&lt;/a&gt; concurs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did Batman and Rachel survive the fall from the penthouse?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Batman is able to deploy his cape partially, just enough to slow the fall and prevent serious injury. Because he is holding Rachel, he breaks her fall, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;em&gt;P.S. Like Huangism said, Don't Try This At Home. Some physics students &lt;a href=&quot;http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/the-dark-knight-rises-and-crashes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;concluded&lt;/a&gt; that such a trip won't really end well. But we can always dream. ;)&lt;/em&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sb9rO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T21:46:04.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15825" CreationDate="2014-12-18T21:22:25.653" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Sollozzo entered the picture, he requested the Corleone for protection and to give up political influence, something that he did not need at large for his business - so he was pushing his and someone else's agenda -, in return he will give a cut of the profits, and take care of the Tataglia from his end. Thus at 'The Peace Meeting', A meeting to discuss peace between the Tataglias and the Corleones, there was no much talk about the family feud from anyone other than from Don Vito and Tataglia, instead Barzini took that opportunity to (once again) 1)request for the Corleone to give up judges and political influence and 2)push the Sollozzo business (trafficking and dsitribution of drugs), as he said: &quot;Don Corleone has all the judges and the politicians in New York, and he must share them, he must let us draw the water from the well&quot;.  And went on to say: &quot;Traffic and drugs will be permitted but controlled, and Don Corleone will give up protection in the East and there will be the peace&quot;.  Barzini set then the peace terms, he obtained what he wanted from that meeting, and Don Corleone had to give up a lot for relative peace and to have Michael returned safely, that is when the Don realized that the one orchestrating everything from the beginning was Barzini.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16521" LastEditorUserId="16521" LastEditDate="2014-12-18T21:41:37.650" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T21:41:37.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11419" CreationDate="2014-12-18T22:51:00.863" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that Alex maybe was faking his aversion to sex and violence, but he was NOT faking his aversion to the 9th. There wouldn't be any need for him to fake it, for a start. Aversion therapy has been used in the past but the results were mixed at best, and Alex being conditioned against the 9th clearly wasn't part of the plan. The newspapers had proclaimed him 'cured' of his violent impulses, so he would've had to fake it in the company of other people, but we see him singing in the bath and apparently fantasizing about the attack two years before and he's completely comfortable. &lt;em&gt;He was alone during that scene&lt;/em&gt;, with no one around to see him and have his cover blown.&#xA;Yet later, he does say that the 9th made him feel like dying, even though, like I said, it wasn't part of the plan, so there would've been no need for him to fake that. Later, when they torture him with it, there's no one around to see him, yet he was quite clearly in excruciating pain. All this evidence piled up together makes the idea of a false aversion to the 9th hard to swallow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16526" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2014-12-18T23:40:13.187" LastActivityDate="2014-12-18T23:40:13.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28221" CreationDate="2014-12-19T00:24:46.170" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watch them in release order. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is true that The Hobbit series happens chronologically before the LotR series and that there are some characters that are in both, which can lead to some spoilers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; For example you will know that Gandalf, Legolas, and Bilbo survive the Hobbit movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you do anything other than just open the boxes and watch them immediately without knowing any background on the series you are probably already know that already!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to the Jackson additions to The Hobbit movies that directly foreshadow events in the LotR, I think there are scenes in The Hobbit that ruin parts of the LotR series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; For example, you know the importance of Strider as a character in LotR and that Sauron's power is growing, making much of the mystery and knowledge discovery Frodo and the gang face in The Fellowship of the Rings redundant/less significant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, watching LotR first has the beginning and ending of the marathon end spectacularly.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; There and back again!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4128" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T00:24:46.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28254" CreationDate="2014-12-19T04:39:41.377" Score="12" ViewCount="7171" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Philosopher%27s_Stone_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone&lt;/a&gt;, several ghosts are shown e.g Nearly Headless Nick,  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moaning_Myrtle&quot;&gt;Moaning Myrtlee&lt;/a&gt; etc, but later it is revealed to Harry that dead can not be brought back to life. Then how come these ghosts exist? Why didn't James and Lily became ghosts as well? Kindly help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastActivityDate="2020-05-11T22:33:48.267" Title="Why didn't James and Lily Potter return to Hogwarts as ghosts/souls" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27338" CreationDate="2014-12-19T05:15:00.173" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, if we look at the trail of events, we have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Human's create AI, initially machines serve the humans.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One machine goes renegade, killing the human master.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For the folly of one machine, humans resort to destroying a whole species of machines. I say species because machines think and feel 'alive' like any other species.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Remaining surviving machines are pushed to one small location on the map.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They appeal for a constitutional presence, they get denied.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Human armies attack them, and in turn get slaughtered, in desperation humans cover the skies, it's of no use human armies get slaughtered anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now that the machines had won the war, they have two options – Kill the entire human race, keep them in shelves and use them for whatever power that can be salvaged. So as an initial step machine logic would suggest to try to utilize the surviving humans in some method.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is also suggested that humans were already playing around with the concept of the Matrix, people who are not happy with their lives would rather prefer to go into an eternal sleep dreaming of a happier life. The Matrix infrastructure is already in place.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All the machines had to do was dump all the humans in this eternal sleep. This is the equal of putting criminals in prison before we figure out what to do with them. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Machines figured how this can work as an energy resource, so they enhance the system and work out the regeneration of more humans through artificial birth. Whilst fission/fusion can be more efficient than chemical energy, it is non-renewable. The math is simple - nuclear energy will run out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is never said that humans are the only source of their energy. Just like we have dams, solar panels, nuclear plants, petroleum plants for various sources of energy, the machines too have other sources of energy; humans are merely one of the forms of renewable energy. Perhaps in course of time, if the machines find a much more viable form of energy, the humans may no longer be required and would be purged. The story doesn't go that far though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-19T11:38:32.240" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T11:38:32.240" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28221" CreationDate="2014-12-19T05:32:05.740" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few interesting orders in which you can watch the six movies &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The usual Hobbit trilogy first and then the LOTR trilogy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Following the story of the one ring (lets you keep track of the one ring)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a. Watch just Galadriel’s opening “The Fellowship of the Ring” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b. Then just the opening Smeagol and Deagol scene from “The Return of the King&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;c. Then the entire “Hobbit” trilogy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;d. Finish off with the remaining original LOTR trilogy&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Following the stories of the two kings (for the best epic feel)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a. Watch the first two “Hobbit” films&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b. Then the complete LOTR trilogy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;c. Finally &quot;The battle of the five armies&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look at this following blog.&#xA;    &lt;a href=&quot;https://medium.com/@rjmarvin1/the-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-marathon-to-end-all-marathons-a-binge-watching-guide-c44f61239c4&quot;&gt;https://medium.com/@rjmarvin1/the-hobbit-lord-of-the-rings-marathon-to-end-all-marathons-a-binge-watching-guide-c44f61239c4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16531" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-19T10:54:14.090" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T10:54:14.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28210" CreationDate="2014-12-19T06:15:37.590" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's likely that the point in time where the story is, the machines are still working on clearing the skies. At the same time they can't spend all their resources on it because of the Zion/Neo problem that they are trying to solve and keep under control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T06:15:37.590" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28214" CreationDate="2014-12-19T06:28:28.660" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are not the only one :), I think it all comes down to the character of Aladdin.&#xA;He's been written out to be a diamond in the rough. If he uses loop holes to get all that he wants and then figure the genie's freedom, he'd be more like.. a garnet in the rough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The central plot revolves around &quot;being trapped&quot;&#xA; - the genie is trapped in the lamp.&#xA; - Aladdin is trapped in his poverty&#xA; - Jasmine is a princess trapped in the palace&#xA; - The sultan is trapped in the kingdom's rules&#xA;and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aladdin, accepting his state as a poor and setting one of the trapped characters free causes a domino effect setting every one free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T06:28:28.660" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27696" CreationDate="2014-12-19T06:47:16.253" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jane becomes John. John becomes a temporal agent. John gets his face burnt. John gets a new face — this is the Barkeep face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why Barkeep has the scars, he is John, only with a different face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a timeline showing the same (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/predestination-2014-movie-plot-ending-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xASmM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xASmM.png&quot; alt=&quot;graphic of the timeline&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also find the full timeline explained here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/predestination-2014-movie-plot-ending-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Predestination Timeline Explained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2022-12-28T08:04:05.787" LastActivityDate="2022-12-28T08:04:05.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28252" CreationDate="2014-12-19T08:51:46.963" Score="6" ViewCount="13700" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far as I can tell, in the original 1978 film, Laurie Strode is chased by Michael for no apparent reason aside from &quot;that's what he does.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet in all wiki sources I can find, it's clearly established that Laurie Strode is his sister Cynthia Myers, who was adopted out to the Strode family after he murdered their mutual sister Judith, and after their parents die in a car accident (I also am not sure when &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; was established in the films.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In what movie is this back history established? I couldn't find a distinct source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1062" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T07:22:07.867" Title="When is it established that Laurie Strode is Michael Myers' sister?" Tags="|chronology|halloween|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24740" CreationDate="2014-12-19T09:00:30.143" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Babies are grown by the machines.&#xA;The assumption is that the machines have done enough analysis and study of the human physiology to understand what is required for childbirth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The machines use this information to simulate the womb environment artificially and grow the babies in that. Through genetic matching/mapping they probably select the Ovum and Sperm required for this process and introduce the fertilized egg in the artificial environment. The baby grows in the environment and when the time is right, it is plugged into the matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of this is visually shown in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T09:00:30.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15422" CreationDate="2014-12-19T09:04:19.403" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on what the Architect says, to understand the human mind and help the machines make the humans accept the program better they turn to the Oracle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The oracle is a software which has a more .. human touch.&#xA;The oracle doesn't only help understanding the human mind, but also thinks like one.&#xA;This is why the oracle takes pleasure in baking cookies, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem now is that the Oracle program thinks so much like the humans that it is siding with the humans and trying to help them with their own problems.&#xA;This is not the original intent in the creation of the Oracle program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though the Oracle is a program, she sees the point of view oh the humans too and plays the &quot;dangerous game of change&quot; to avoid destruction of either sides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T09:04:19.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18443" CreationDate="2014-12-19T09:15:03.713" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole purpose of making Neo in the Matrix get coated in the silver goo is to trace the location of his real body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Morpheus: The pill you took is part of a trace program. It's designed&#xA;  to disrupt your input/output carrier signal so we can pinpoint your&#xA;  location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mirror is how humans see their real self, for us a mirror speaks the truth. Psychologically, it confirms a lot about our existence, appearance etc. When a mirror goes psycho on you, it perhaps helps the brain go nuts to generate the required signals which will be loud enough to trace the actual body of Neo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T09:15:03.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28251" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28264" CreationDate="2014-12-19T09:22:22.353" Score="14" ViewCount="29281" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the third Hobbit movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2310332/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies&lt;/a&gt;, Thranduil mentions to Legolas that he should go meet a wanderer called Strider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the events in the Hobbit are around 60 years before the events in the Lord Of The Rings. Strider/Aragon wouldn't have been born yet, so how is Thranduil making a reference to Strider?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-06T14:59:05.127" LastActivityDate="2023-04-04T02:48:05.213" Title="Thranduil mentioning Strider (Aragorn) at the end of the third Hobbit movie" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-hobbit|the-battle-of-the-five-armies|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28247" CreationDate="2014-12-19T09:26:56.883" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It got established in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_II_%281981_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Halloween II (1981)&lt;/a&gt;, the same link present the full story of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Film, Marion tells Loomis that Laurie Strode is Michael Myers's younger sister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's better to go through it again to get to know the exact storyline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-12-29T07:22:07.867" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T07:22:07.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28221" CreationDate="2014-12-19T09:36:04.483" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a strange tip, but I hope it makes sense to others too. For this, I suggest you to watch the series in short time (less than a week for example). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In LotR there are many mention from The Hobbit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So start with The Fellowship of the Ring. Than ask a friend about the parts that were interesting, but not clear at all. I don't suggest to Google it because of accidental spoilers. If it was in the first Hobbit movie, watch it. If in the second, watch them both, and if  in the third, watch all the Hobbit series. If the interested part wasn't in the second or third Hobbit movie, watch the Two Towers. After that, watch the rest of the Hobbit series, and close it with the The return of The King.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way you get the partly told stories completely, and when you reach the ending film, you already know everything about Middle Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16534" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T09:36:04.483" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28241" CreationDate="2014-12-19T09:37:15.660" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the book &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix&lt;/em&gt;, there is an exchange between Harry and the ghost Nearly Headless Nick (played by John Cleese in the films) which explains why some wizards return as ghosts and others do not:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Wizards can leave an imprint of themselves upon the earth, to walk palely where their living selves once trod&amp;quot;, said Nick miserably. &amp;quot;But very few wizards choose that path.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Why not?&amp;quot;, said Harry. &amp;quot;Anyway - it doesn’t matter - he won’t care if it’s unusual, he’ll come back, I know he will!&amp;quot; [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;He will not come back&amp;quot;, repeated Nick. &amp;quot;He will have... gone on.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I was afraid of death&amp;quot;, said Nick softly. &amp;quot;I chose to remain behind. I sometimes wonder whether I oughtn’t to have... well, that is neither here nor there... in fact, I am neither here nor there...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He gave a small sad chuckle. &amp;quot;I know nothing of the secrets of death, Harry, for I chose my feeble imitation of life instead.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, a ghost is an imprint of the soul that wizards leave behind because they were afraid of the death (of, rather, of &amp;quot;going on&amp;quot; after it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't expect Harry's parents to fall into the &amp;quot;fearing death&amp;quot; category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-07-05T00:58:10.107" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28255" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-19T10:04:46.470" Score="10" ViewCount="2793" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fight Club&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, there are no names in Project Mayhem. Despite this, Bob's name is called four times - is it something to do with the plot or did I miss something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T21:54:17.720" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T21:54:17.720" Title="Why is Bob's name called four times in Project Mayhem?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fight-club|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28256" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28261" CreationDate="2014-12-19T10:12:09.057" Score="6" ViewCount="1632" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spoilers coming, please keep that in mind if you haven't see the movie yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the &lt;strong&gt;Plan B&lt;/strong&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; is to save mankind from extinction by making a new population from embryos. What is the point of that? All the people on Earth will die, (except for the staff of the Endurance), and babies born on the alien habitable planet never actually lived in mankind. &lt;strong&gt;So in fact, mankind, as we know, will become extinct and a new mankind will rise.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the fact that we polluted our planet and the space around it caused many species to go extinct and do a big damage to nature. Why would anyone be motivated to save this self-destructing mankind?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16534" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-19T11:44:04.550" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T11:14:11.727" Title="What was the motivation to have the Plan B in Interstellar" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="509" CreationDate="2014-12-19T10:34:23.770" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me add more to the answers.&#xA;Reference : &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digestivepyrotechnics.com/2014/12/triangle-explained-plot-holes-explained.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Triangle TimeLoop or DeathLoop explained&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aeolus is the name of the liner. In mythology, Sisyphus, the son of Aeolus, breaks a promise he makes to death. As a result he is punished by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this action forever. Ring a bell? The 'breaking a promise' part is mentioned in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no pinpointing this, but Jess has died and has resulted in the death of her autistic son Tommy. The events of the sun-dressed Jess suggests that she was mean to Tommy, and her anger results in death. But this event of death is not really shown. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post her dying, we see a Jess in shorts standing unharmed from the accident.&#xA;A random taxi driver offers her a ride. She asks him to take her to the harbor.&#xA;The taxi driver says he'll keep the meter running, Jess promises him that she'll be back.&#xA;Once she enters the harbor, she breaks her promise and sets sail. The taxi can be seen as the post death ferry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the breaking of the promise, Jess is made to go through a bunch of toiling events on the Liner in multiple timelines in loops. This is analogous to 'rolling an immense boulder up a hill'. Post the Liner time loop, she gets to witness the events of the morning, and the death of her son over and over again -- this is analogous to witnessing 'the boulder rolling back down'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though it appears to be a time loop movie, it's not.&#xA;Here's more description to the confusion that happens on the liner if you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-30T18:24:53.963" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T18:24:53.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28255" CreationDate="2014-12-19T10:38:03.930" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Project Mayhem there are no rules, no names, no questions. But there are rules in fact. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything Tyler says is fact. He said, &quot;There are no names in Project Mayhem&quot;. After that he says (we see him as the Narrator) &quot;His name was Robert Paulsen&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The members of P. M. are confused with this paradox, and trying to build in their &quot;religion&quot; or &quot;mindset&quot;. They see this as a kind of revelation, and see this as a rule-like something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 4 times has no importance, they just keep it repeating to try to understand and give a significant abstract meaning for that. They follow Tyler as a messiah, take care all of his words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16534" LastEditorUserId="16534" LastEditDate="2014-12-19T11:11:36.120" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T11:11:36.120" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9294" CreationDate="2014-12-19T10:38:47.350" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;All slaps were used. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In season 7 episode 9 &quot;Disaster Averted&quot; Barney managed to get Marshall and Lily to agree to 3 additional slaps in exchange for letting him take the Ducky Tie off. Marshall then had a total of 4 slaps which he proceeded to use 2 right away. This left Marshall with 2 slaps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then is season 9 episode 14 &quot;Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in slapmarra&quot; Marshall told the story of how he learned the slap of a million exploding suns in an attempt to scare Barney. He slapped him under a tree next to four women and a tiger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last slap took place in season 9 episode 22 &quot;The end of the aisle&quot;. Towards the end of the episode while Barney waits for Robin to walk down the aisle, Barney starts to freak out again so Marshall slaps him thus freeing him from the slap bet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16538" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T10:38:47.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28256" CreationDate="2014-12-19T11:53:19.870" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you're adressing the same problem the humans in this movie are aware of, too. As you said, all the people on earth would die and there would simply be a new mankind. &lt;em&gt;&quot;That is why Plan A is much more fun&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and why everyone involved is so desperate to get Plan A working and so devastated when they learn it's supposedly impossible. &lt;strong&gt;The whole point of Plan B is to look far inferior to Plan A.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it at least helps to &lt;strong&gt;preserve humanity as a species&lt;/strong&gt;, even if not the individual persons you and I know. In this hopeless time it is just the &lt;strong&gt;last straw to preserve at least &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; from us and to not go extinct. It is not so much about individual survival, but survival of our significance to the universe. Mankind just tries to not vanish from this universe without a sign left, but to still take part in it. &lt;em&gt;If&lt;/em&gt; all the humans on earth have to die, then we at least want our genome and part of our spirit to remain. Sure, it's only the last straw, surviving ourselves would definitely be better. But at some point&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We must think not as individuals, but as a species.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is actually interesting that you ask this, since it is also mentioned in the movie that there is a psychological barrier in us humans that doesn't let us care about the future of mankind if we're not directly involved and that we have yet to overcome. If we ourselves or our beloved ones don't have any hope for survival, &lt;strong&gt;we don't have much inclination to save those after us&lt;/strong&gt; either. That is the reason why Plan B is so hard to do and why &lt;em&gt;Dr. Brand&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Dr. Mann&lt;/em&gt; kept it unknown from the team that Plan A won't work at all. Or as &lt;em&gt;Dr. Mann&lt;/em&gt; puts it (though, he might have a little cynical attitude towards that, as he's himself by far not a prime example of mankind in this regard):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He knew how much harder it would be for people to come together to save the &lt;em&gt;species&lt;/em&gt;, instead of themselves, or their children...Would you have left if you hadn't believed you were trying to save &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt;? Evolution has yet to transcend that simple barrier -- we can care deeply, selflessly for people we know, but our empathy rarely extends beyond our line of sight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I think this closes the circle very well to you asking that exact same question, why care about Plan B and any new mankind at all? &lt;strong&gt;You're supposed to ask this&lt;/strong&gt;. And maybe the only way to answer it would be to transcend into that understanding of humanity not just as you and me but more than that. But fortunately at the moment we don't &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to do that (and the crew ultimately didn't either).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as to your last point about polluting our planet and destroying nature. &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/27386/49&quot;&gt;That is an angle that the movie clearly and &lt;strong&gt;deliberately&lt;/strong&gt; does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; explore at all&lt;/a&gt;. At no point does the movie ask the question if the whole situation is actually our fault and it doesn't want to ask this question, since it is a story about the progress of humanity to new directions and higher levels, not about looking back and asking what we did wrong. This is also reinforced by screenwriter &lt;em&gt;Jonathan Nolan&lt;/em&gt; in an interview with &lt;em&gt;Jordan Goldberg&lt;/em&gt; (quoted from the book &lt;em&gt;Interstellar: The Complete Screenplay with Selected Storyboards&lt;/em&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're sort of in this moment in which humans are obsessed that we'll prove our own undoing -- that we'll poison the planet, we'll destroy ourselves, and all these things. But I thought it would be more interesting to find a slightly less personal Armageddon, or the idea that the universe obliterates you or the planet turned itself toxic because it doesn't care about you and me because we're an accident in outer space. The blight and dust provided what I thought was a great, impersonal way for the planet to sort of gently suggest that our time here was over. That it was the moment to move on, rather than being something that we had brought on ourselves which, in its own way, feels anthropocentric.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T11:14:11.727" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28262" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2014-12-19T13:31:36.907" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; is a 2014 American science fiction movie directed by Christopher Nolan about a crew of astronauts searching for a new home for a dying human society.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-06T23:13:34.500" LastActivityDate="2016-12-06T23:13:34.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28263" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2014-12-19T13:31:36.907" Score="0" Body="2014 American science fiction movie directed by Christopher Nolan about a crew of astronauts searching for a new home for a dying human society." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-06T23:13:31.467" LastActivityDate="2016-12-06T23:13:31.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28251" CreationDate="2014-12-19T14:17:28.553" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Due to his &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BAmenor&quot;&gt;Númenórean&lt;/a&gt; decent, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragorn#The_Lord_of_the_Rings&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aragorn is around the age of 87&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; during the events of The Lord of the Rings. When he is crowned king of the Reunited Kingdom, his reign lasts a whopping 122 years, until his death at the age of 210.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, given the events of The Hobbit occur around 60 years before The Fellowship is formed, that would put Aragorn &lt;strong&gt;somewhere around his late 20s&lt;/strong&gt; when Legolas is told to meet him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T14:17:28.553" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28268" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28277" CreationDate="2014-12-19T16:25:08.723" Score="6" ViewCount="1888" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does somebody know how that famous tracking shot down the stairhall in Frenzy was technically accomplished?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/BRfbuQgJsjY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1336" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-19T16:28:43.523" LastActivityDate="2014-12-20T14:37:52.723" Title="How was the tracking shot in Frenzy done?" Tags="|film-techniques|alfred-hitchcock|cinematography|frenzy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28269" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28270" CreationDate="2014-12-19T16:31:45.297" Score="13" ViewCount="23430" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows_%E2%80%93_Part_2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part II&lt;/a&gt;, when Voldemort tries to kill Harry Potter, he unintentionally kills his own horcrux. My question is why didn't he know that Harry was also a horcrux? Because afterwards, Dumbledore tells Harry that he was a horcrux Voldemort never intended to make. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still if Voldemort didn't intend to make, he would have known that his soul attached itself to Harry when he tried to kill him. Kindly let me know if I am missing something here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-11-22T10:42:13.953" LastActivityDate="2018-03-21T18:02:51.377" Title="Why was Voldemort unaware that Harry was also a horcrux?" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|the-deathly-hallows-2|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28269" CreationDate="2014-12-19T16:42:38.763" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;TLDR version: desensitization. It happened seven times already. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it's the &lt;em&gt;in-canon&lt;/em&gt; answer, but there's a phenomenon called desensitization, which is when something shocking or painful &#xA;happens so many times you forget that you're feeling it. For example, some soldiers who have put up with a lot of violence will simply put up with it. Know it's there, recognize it, but shock factor is no longer there. It happens with physical pain too, as your brain pretty much tells the hurt limb &quot;yes I know you're hurt shut up&quot; if it's been hurting for so long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't know what a torn soul is like, but if it's been ripped seven times he can probably put up with it again. (is that the right number?) This theory is more logical if the pain associated with a torn soul is a constant ache... Which seems logical to me... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, so he's used to the pain. But why didn't he notice the magic happen? Well... I don't know if there's a light show that happens when a horcrux is made, like with other spells or with the Dementor's Kiss when it shows the soul, but even if there is, it happened at the same time as the killer curse, so it would have been covered up well by that green light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh and also he was distracted by DYING from Harry's mother's sacrifice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, he didn't notice that he made a horcrux. If he didn't know he made one, how would he know that the soul piece stuck to Harry in particular? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16546" LastEditorUserId="30778" LastEditDate="2018-03-21T18:02:51.377" LastActivityDate="2018-03-21T18:02:51.377" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9641" CreationDate="2014-12-19T17:40:52.747" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was really obvious to me. The heating floor and Ted are basically the same thing to her, comfort away from home. The chat she just had about Marie before going in Ted's house to get some deep and dirty to paraphrase Saul started to make her think that she might be a bit too harsh with Walt. That's also why she actually smiles when he picks up Holly (the only moment where I can't help but have some tears in the whole show). Walt never looked happier in the whole show than at that moment. When he turned around and saw Skyler left the room, he understands that it's over with Skyler but that their feud is also over so he accepts the divorce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Funny how in the beginning of the next episode she's speaking to Walt about the divorce papers he signed how she looks like she has cried before calling him. This and the last talk she has with her lawyer makes it obvious she actually still cares for Walt but is really confused. The not feeling the floor is not feeling Ted, who's also a crook, who actually steals money, unlike Walt, who earned what he's got.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16549" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T17:40:52.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28221" CreationDate="2014-12-19T19:02:07.180" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say watch LotR and then the Hobbit. PJ added so much additional crap to the story in the Hobbit movies that I don't think it would make as much sense, or understand the importance, if you watched it the way JRRT intended it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is a shame but neither here nor there....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you want a real adventure, I would say read the Hobbit first(it's only 270 pages or so) then watch LotR and then watch the Hobbit. Then read LotR since PJ omitted some things in that. That would be the most bang for your buck, and allow you to fully comprehend where the stories were going as you watched the movies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, enjoy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16551" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T19:02:07.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28268" CreationDate="2014-12-19T21:14:02.890" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per the Trivia page for &quot;Frenzy&quot; on IMDB:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Midway through the film, there is a famous continuous shot in which the camera backs away from the door of Rusk's upper-floor apartment and descends the staircase, seemingly without a cut, to the ground level, out the building's front door, and then to the opposite side of the street. The interiors were shot with an overhead track in a studio, and there is an imperceptible cut as a man passes by the front door, carrying a sack of potatoes. This is subtly blended into a new shot of the camera pulling away from the building exterior that was actually used on location. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068611/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068611/trivia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16054" LastActivityDate="2014-12-19T21:14:02.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28268" CreationDate="2014-12-19T21:16:07.740" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first reaction was it was done with Steadicam, except Frenzy came out in 1972 and Steadicam was first used in 1976.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found a good description of how the shot was done here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thefilmleague.com/2012/01/deconstructing-the-tracking-shot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Deconstructing the Tracking Shot&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.  A camera jib was used for the interior shot, and a dolly ws used for the exterior.  There is actually an edit in the shot, hidden by the man walking in front of the camera just as the camera exits the building. It is there the shot switches from the jib to the dolly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2014-12-20T14:37:52.723" LastActivityDate="2014-12-20T14:37:52.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28287" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28290" CreationDate="2014-12-20T04:55:48.487" Score="8" ViewCount="2128" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie must be from the 80's maybe early 90's. All I can remember is that it is about a group of people (women and men, young as far as I can remember) wandering through a desert in some kind of post-apocaliptic scenario. One of the girls from the group is trapped inside a cave (chained?) on a rock and raped by a monster (mutant?). The rest of the group finds some kind of scientific-research base and they are killed one by one by the offspring of the girl and the mutant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16561" LastEditorUserId="15418" LastEditDate="2014-12-20T15:48:49.877" LastActivityDate="2014-12-20T15:48:49.877" Title="Help identifying a post-apocalyptic movie with a monster" Tags="|science-fiction|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:29:00.023" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28287" CreationDate="2014-12-20T05:23:10.113" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds a bit like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humongous&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Humongous&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;No raping monster though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16502" LastActivityDate="2014-12-20T05:23:10.113" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28287" CreationDate="2014-12-20T05:25:27.677" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terror_Within&quot;&gt;The Terror Within&lt;/a&gt;, (1989)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a post-apocalyptic future, human survivors are fighting a group of&#xA;  mutant monsters they refer to as &quot;Gargoyles&quot;. Two of these survivors&#xA;  Michael and John are out surveying the world after a chemical or&#xA;  biological attack which left a large portion of the population mutated&#xA;  or dead. The survivors are part of the Mojave Lab and have lost&#xA;  contact with their sister Rocky Mountain Lab. Over the radio Sue and&#xA;  David hear John and Michael fall under attack from the gargoyles while&#xA;  investigating a large group of buzzards. In order to find John and&#xA;  Michael, David and Linda go out of the bunker but find John and&#xA;  Michael dead. They also find a live girl named Karen who they bring&#xA;  back to their bunker. While under anesthesia Karen gives birth to a&#xA;  gargoyle which gets loose in the bunker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These creatures reproduce quickly by raping human women and&#xA;  impregnating them. The gestation period is short and deadly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2014-12-20T05:25:27.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28296" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-20T16:51:08.060" Score="12" ViewCount="749" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do some movies and TV shows have an extra scene after showing credits? Movies like The Avengers and X-men are some examples. Are post-credits scenes and end-credit scenes different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16464" LastEditorUserId="16523" LastEditDate="2016-09-16T07:14:48.613" LastActivityDate="2016-09-16T07:14:48.613" Title="Why do movies/TV have post credits scene?" Tags="|credits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28297" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28305" CreationDate="2014-12-20T16:59:07.233" Score="17" ViewCount="1641" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually marvel movies have some scenes after credits. Which movie started it all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16464" LastActivityDate="2018-06-12T17:25:01.803" Title="Which movie/tv started showing scenes after credit?" Tags="|first-appearance|credits|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18254" CreationDate="2014-12-20T18:24:49.133" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest another theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the dynamics of the characters and how they consistantly interact with one another.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My theory, Michael Scott is the scranton strangler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reasons why:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A. His dynamic relationship with Toby Flenderson is one of protagonist vs antagonist.  Michael Scott is constantly being told he can not do things he wants to do by Toby who runs human relations.  The fact that Toby was put on the jury places him in his constant position of telling Michael Scott no, as in, you can not frame this man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;B. George Howard Scub's initials are GHS which in an annacronym for &quot;geek in high school&quot;, which we know Michael was but Phyliss's recounting.  he was a loner in high school and that description gets used often when describing serial killers or mass killers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;C. In the movie, Threat Level Midnight, we actually see Michael strangle Oscar.  His alter ego Michael Scarn unecessarily kills Oscar's character by strangulation, and when the employees see this scene they looked at each other uncomfortably. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;D. Also, i would suggest this character was created by Bj Novak, and upon his leaving the show, this odd ending to the character was written to wrap it up and attempt to put it to and end.  I believe it was a subplot that a writer like Novak would be clever enough to keep alive throughout his tenure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just something i pulled out from deep, however, this is my conclusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16567" LastActivityDate="2014-12-20T18:24:49.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28301" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28325" CreationDate="2014-12-20T18:46:39.493" Score="3" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Person of interest episode S01E19, it is seen that Elias' men are following the families of police people of the HR group. It is suggested that they will threaten the families if they will not work for Elias. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finch talks to officer Simmons that he the HR group should leave everything alone and not support Elias. In view of the threat (Finch also shows Simmons photos from it!), this makes no sense to me. If I was Elias, I would gave the order to do something with the families as soon as Elias gets arrested, killed or is missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can someone explain to me what was the reason the HR group did not support Elias anymore and why was there no immediate counterstrike by Elias' men against the police people's families?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T03:01:31.750" Title="S01E19: Why didn't Elias' men threaten the policemen's family?" Tags="|plot-explanation|person-of-interest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28296" CreationDate="2014-12-20T20:17:36.057" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scenes after the credits are usually &quot;stingers&quot;. They were used as links or hookups to sequels. Now they are used as way to introduce characters and elements that will be present in a franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16561" LastActivityDate="2014-12-20T20:17:36.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28303" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28221" CreationDate="2014-12-20T22:25:43.550" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Read the books, including Appendix A to LotR.  Many times if you like them.  Then watch the movies if you want to take the risk of having your experience ruined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tolkien crafted the books -- even The Hobbit -- very carefully.  The movies have minced and mangled that.  I would have understood if they had left out some characters and scenes from the books, but they have 'combined' characters in spite of at one point promising not to, and then they have &lt;em&gt;added&lt;/em&gt; a lot of their own inventions, sometimes based on misunderstanding of the books, but more often for no good reason, and in every case disrupting Tolkien's careful narrative and world-building structure. I won't even go into the subject of making eight hours of movie from less than 300 pages of children's book on top of all that. If you think that that is OK in a movie -- after all &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; movies made from books do that to some degree -- then by all means see the movies in the order in which they were made -- &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; reading the books in the order in which &lt;em&gt;they&lt;/em&gt; were written at least once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16571" LastActivityDate="2014-12-20T22:25:43.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28296" CreationDate="2014-12-20T23:09:08.460" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The post-credit scenes are used as a way to make sure you watch the entire movie, credits and all.  It also provides a break between the movie and the post-credit scenes.  Sometimes they're &quot;stingers&quot;, sometimes they're bloopers, sometimes they're additional comedic bits.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-12-20T23:09:08.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28297" CreationDate="2014-12-20T23:13:00.393" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079588/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Muppet Movie (1979)&lt;/a&gt; was the first movie with a post-credit scene according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_post-credits_scenes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Wiki page&lt;/a&gt; which lists all films with post-credit scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-12-22T00:17:33.583" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T00:17:33.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23601" CreationDate="2014-12-21T00:35:34.333" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the first sign was when Walt let Jane die because he wanted Jesse on his team to continue cooking and making money. I don't think Walt was ever in it for anyone but himself. His cancer was the catalyst for his transformation, but he was more than anything, getting revenge against the people he had always felt deep burning hatred for and getting out of the sheltered, Mr. Rogers life that he hated. The guy was clearly never fulfilled or happy, and was constantly in envy of the people above him. Case in point: Gray Matter. It was touched on a lot how he quit before they made it big, and then regretted his decision ever since. But instead of realizing that at any point, he could have called and gotten his job/lost livelihood back, he held onto his wounded pride and blamed them for his own mistakes/inaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it was that he was in it for his family and lost his way, I think it was that he was never in it for his family but was in denial about it and didn't get the balls to admit it until Felina when he finally accepted that he was a bad guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16574" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T01:06:56.720" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T01:06:56.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24386" CreationDate="2014-12-21T01:26:17.473" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems to be a reference to Dracula by Bram Stocker:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is said, too, that he can only pass running water at the slack or the flood of tide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Professor Van Helsing in Mina Harker's Journal, Chapter XVIII of Dracula by Bram Stoker&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Count, even if he takes the form of a bat, cannot cross the running water of his own volition, and so he cannot leave the ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Professor Van Helsing in Jonathan Harker's Journal, Chapter XXV of Dracula by Bram Stoker&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16561" LastActivityDate="2014-12-21T01:26:17.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24365" CreationDate="2014-12-21T04:59:36.747" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a game called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. You name an actor or actress in a movie and a co-star. Then you name that co-star and another actor or actress. You have six steps to get the correlation from initial actor to Kevin Bacon. The joke in the US is that Kevin Bacon is in EVERYTHING. Notice Peter Quill didn't say &quot;Ren&quot;, the character name in Footloose...but Kevin Bacon, the name of the actor who played him. So for me, it was funny because it was another example of Kevin Bacon is in everything (sure, he wasn't really in Guardians, but they talked about him, so in a way he was.) Then when she says &quot;We're just like Kevin Bacon,&quot; it's funny to me because she is almost saying Kevin Bacon is god-like. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16579" LastActivityDate="2014-12-21T04:59:36.747" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28297" CreationDate="2014-12-21T09:40:09.520" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Muppet Movie (1979) is obviously the first traceable true post credit scene instance but the older is 1963 with the James Bond film From Russia with Love, which was the first Bond film to show the ubiquitous &quot;James Bond will return in...&quot; at the end of the credits.&#xA;(Source :&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-credits_scene&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2014-12-21T09:40:09.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28314" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28316" CreationDate="2014-12-21T10:54:51.843" Score="7" ViewCount="5361" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV show &lt;em&gt;Castle&lt;/em&gt;, the books &lt;strong&gt;Richard Castle&lt;/strong&gt; writes are real. They are best-sellers. But who is the real author of those books? Does anybody have any idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9976" LastEditorUserId="9976" LastEditDate="2014-12-22T09:52:31.533" LastActivityDate="2021-01-03T10:12:34.203" Title="The real Richard Castle as an author" Tags="|castle|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28315" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-21T11:48:18.217" Score="2" ViewCount="1515" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen some people calling &quot;The Interview&quot; racist, including on Twitter. What is their rationale for that claim?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1312" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-08T19:38:01.440" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T19:38:01.440" Title="What is the rationale for calling &quot;The Interview&quot; racist?" Tags="|reception|the-interview|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-01-01T05:25:11.990" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28314" CreationDate="2014-12-21T14:18:17.483" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://romancingthetv.com/2010/06/who-writes-richard-castle-books/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;, the authorship of the Richard Castle books is not clearly revealed. However, certain clues lend credibility to the fact that Tom Straw, a published mystery crime writer, is responsible for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Farther down, in the list of comments, is this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aparna&lt;br&gt;&#xA;November 15, 2014 at 7:57 am&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, Nathan at Comic ocn [sic] confirmed your analysis that it is Tom Straw who is writing the books. This is the video of the comic con conversation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/BdhnN-0bYa4?start=2077&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He talks about the incident at 34:38&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2021-01-03T10:12:34.203" LastActivityDate="2021-01-03T10:12:34.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28315" CreationDate="2014-12-21T22:56:36.090" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film has been accused of being racist because it uses Racism as part of its arsenal of gags: but, what is key here, is that the characters using this racism are (whilst protagonists) not supposed to be &lt;em&gt;likable.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is key here is that we are laughing at them because of their racism, &lt;strong&gt;not along with their racism.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film does not in any way defend their casual racism, or support it as the position of the film makers. As the Guardian &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/dec/19/the-interview-film-guide-sony-hack&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;has pointed out&lt;/a&gt;, the point of the film is to ridicule the two characters for being if not racist, at least ignorant...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Putting two American dinguses in North Korea is rich source material&#xA;  for racial stereotyping, but the jokes are, by and large, self-aware;&#xA;  the laughs at the expense of the dumb racist. One must tip the hat to&#xA;  Rogen for finding a way to craft a “me so solly” joke that isn’t&#xA;  offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2014-12-21T22:56:36.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28322" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28326" CreationDate="2014-12-22T01:51:48.417" Score="30" ViewCount="9974" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the police car chase scene, the terminator crashes into a wall and Sarah and Kyle are surrounded by police. The terminator has apparently fled the scene. Why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely he is not afraid of small arms fire (he's just taken dozens of shotgun blasts at near point blank range with no apparent ill effects, and he later takes on the entire police dept. at the police station) and he could probably have killed Sarah before the police even arrived and got out of their cars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13166" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-05T16:57:19.223" LastActivityDate="2021-06-04T04:45:10.020" Title="Why does the terminator leave the scene of the car crash?" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-series|the-terminator|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27041" CreationDate="2014-12-22T02:10:05.387" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Brand landed on Edmunds the time that had passed relative to Earth time was about 120 years - Brand shouted an estimate of this as they were being sling-shot around the black hole. So, Brand would have reached Edmunds and transmitted a signal. The spacecraft that Murph was now on could well have picked up that signal, which incidentally was around the time that Cooper and TARS were scooped up near Saturn. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The assumption is that the worm hole still existed by Saturn and that Cooper took the ranger to go through it and visit Brand again to re-assure her that everything succeeded. With enough fuel (this time round) he would not need to sling-shot Gargantua and simply arrive at Edmunds with no/little time loss. My guess is that the the spaceship that Murph was on is now going to head in that direction too in order to populate the new world OR now being advanced enough to make interstellar travel probably have lots of inhabited planets and Cooper went to pick her up from Edmunds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16584" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T02:10:05.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17349" CreationDate="2014-12-22T02:43:21.953" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, in the 3rd episode of the 2nd season, at about 20 minutes into the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16585" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2014-12-22T07:07:04.060" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T07:07:04.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28301" CreationDate="2014-12-22T03:01:31.750" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reasoning is simple and comes from Simmons' &quot;HR works for nobody. We only work with somebody when it's beneficial&quot; (or something along those lines). They consider themselves an independent henchmen organization, and they do not accept being bullied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, once they're aware of their families' surveillance, they are quite capable of taking care of it (which, if I remember correctly, we never see happen, so presumably the surveillance stopped on its own).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When HR pulled away, Elias was busy trying to get to Carter, Fusco, and three dons, so he wasn't aware of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Afterwards, he is arrested and all but one don are dead. At that point, there is no reason for Elias to go after the HR. He's a practical guy and targeting the HR's families, especially with HR aware of that and Elias within their reach, would gain him no profit, but would likely get him killed in prison, which is more than enough of a reason for him to leave them alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T03:01:31.750" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28322" CreationDate="2014-12-22T03:19:14.493" Score="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the obvious answer is &lt;strong&gt;for the drama&lt;/strong&gt;, but analyzing the terminator's actions using the movie's logic, we can infer the reason behind its behaviour:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. The terminator was damaged during the crash&lt;/strong&gt;. We see in the next scene that its right arm is malfunctioning and that its left eyelid is permanently closed. It needs to repair its arm and remove said eyelid in order to see again. It goes to the police station only &lt;strong&gt;after&lt;/strong&gt; repairing itself. We can assume it calculated that its chances to take down the officers (4 to 5 police cars with cops fully armed) were pretty low without the use of one arm and without depth perception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. It was running out of ammo&lt;/strong&gt;. The terminator used a lot of ammo trying to take down Reese and Sarah in the chase. Later, when it repairs itself, it takes more weapons and ammo and goes to the police station.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have seen in the movies that even if the T-800 is a walking tank, it is still vulnerable. If it had engaged in combat without full-combat capacity and with low ammo, and one of the cops decided to run it over with his police car once he saw the thing was a robot, it might have been taken down. When it attacks the police station, the terminator has the advantage, because the police aren't expecting a sudden attack into their &lt;strong&gt;headquarters&lt;/strong&gt;. We see there is a lot of confusion and even having a building full of cops, only a few were able to hit it. Which leads us to another point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. The terminator is an infiltration unit&lt;/strong&gt;. A thing that most people forgets is terminators aren't supposed to be demolition machines or assault troopers. Their first mission is to maintain a facade and keep it as long as possible to eliminate precise targets. We see that it does engage in full and open combat but only when there is a high chance to kill its target. Right after the crash, there were low chances to succeed, so the terminator fled from the scene. Even when it goes to the station, it first &lt;em&gt;asks&lt;/em&gt; to see Sarah, trying to get to her in a way that doesn't draw too much attention. It is only after it can't get to her, and it knows she might be guarded by police for a long time (maybe even going to jail) that it takes the decision to assault the police station, and even then it does it in the quickest way possible. It doesn't go after each police officer. It cuts the lights off and tries to find and kill Sarah as fast as it can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16561" LastEditorUserId="16561" LastEditDate="2014-12-22T23:12:18.643" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T23:12:18.643" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28329" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28332" CreationDate="2014-12-22T04:48:00.430" Score="2" ViewCount="2331" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Predestination&lt;/a&gt;, it is shown in the beginning that temporal agent is sent on his last mission. But in the end I got really confused and didn't undertand what was his last mission? Was it to recruit his own younger version? Or was it to stop the Fizzle bomber? In the very beginning these are dialogue from movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-And the Bomber?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-It's not your problem any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If bomber was not his problem in the last mission then why was information given to him in the envelope (when movie is about to end). Kindly help me clear these few things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T09:38:57.930" Title="What was Bartender/Temporal Agent's last mission?" Tags="|plot-explanation|predestination|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28329" CreationDate="2014-12-22T06:41:08.650" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm summarizing explanation from the following link:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/predestination-2014-movie-plot-ending-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Predestination Timeline Explained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sequence of events in Jane/John/Barkeep/FizzleBomber is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jane left at orphanage&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Jane grows up, Jane meets John&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Jane gives birth&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Jane's baby is stolen&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Jane becomes John&lt;br&gt;&#xA;John meets Barkeep at the bar&lt;br&gt;&#xA;John goes back in time to meet Jane, gets Jane pregnant&lt;br&gt;&#xA;John leaves Jane&lt;br&gt;&#xA;John learns that Barkeep is actually John from a future timeline&lt;br&gt;&#xA;John goes ahead into the future&lt;br&gt;&#xA;John becomes a temporal agent&lt;br&gt;&#xA;John travels back in time to defuse a bomb, burns his face and returns&lt;br&gt;&#xA;John becomes Barkeep (gets face graft)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Barkeep goes back to meet John at the Bar&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Barkeep travels with John to get him to meet Jane&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Barkeep makes one illegal jump to the defusal moment to stop the event, fails, watches John burn his face&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Barkeep travels to the time when Jane's baby is born&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Barkeep steals the baby and leaves it at the orphanage in the past&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Barkeep travels to the time when John and Jane are together (on the bench), takes John to the future and leaves him there to become a temporal agent&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Barkeep retires in 1975 but the time device doesn't decommission&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Barkeep is sees a clue to the Fizzle Bomber's location by Mr. Robertson&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Barkeep goes to this location, finds out that the Fizzle Bomber is an older version of himself&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Barkeep kills Fizzle Bomber&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, to answer your question, his last legal mission as a temporal agent is to steal the baby of Jane, take it back in time and leave it at the orphanage, followed by this he is to bring John to the future to let him become a temporal agent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the last and vital mission because this event ensures his own existence and his joining the Temporal Bureau (which also ensures his own existence). This ensures there is no paradox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the last mission because there is a limit on the number of allowed time leaps because prolonged time leaps causes the mind to have delusions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr.Robertson mentions to Barkeep that the Fizzle Bomber is not his problem because he's working within the rules of the Bureau. Before Barkeep steals the baby, Mr. Robertson mentions that he doesn't like the bureaucracy that exists. So in secrecy he gives Barkeep clues to locate the Fizzle bomber. This is not a legal mission, this happens in secrecy post the legal retirement of Barkeep as a temporal agent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2019-03-08T09:38:57.930" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T09:38:57.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28333" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-22T08:36:55.977" Score="3" ViewCount="2764" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Mulholland Drive&lt;/em&gt; Diane (Naomi Watts) asks a man (Mark Pellegrino) to kill Camilla (Laura Elena Harring) at a diner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This man is earlier shown killing some other guy and in turn having to kill another woman and then the janitor. Though the scene is hilarious, what is the relevance to the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just to establish that he is an assassin who is sloppy or does it have a deeper interpretation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-22T14:36:46.077" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T01:06:17.303" Title="Assassination scene in Mulholland Drive" Tags="|plot-explanation|mulholland-drive|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19374" CreationDate="2014-12-22T11:36:37.243" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;A dream in the movie has the same features as any regular dream. When the unsuspecting subject wakes up, he has a vague memory of the events of the dream, whilst some personal faces can be recollected, the rest will be be a blur. This is just like any dream we tend to have and try to recollect it in the morning once we've woken up, some things would be clear, other events and faces would blur out. We will pass it off as a dream and continue with our morning routine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the same thing that happens to Fischer, though he'd wake up thinking - &quot;whoa, that was a crazy dream there, must be what I ate before the flight&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Fischer accept the Inception? For Fischer, his whole life he wanted his father to appreciate him for his own skills. The toy Wind Mill is an object that represents Fischer's own creation. Inception of this object in his mind's safe lets Fischer to believe that his father always wanted him to be his own man and not merely run his father's company. This is something Fischer always wanted and so a small idea planted in his head grows and he finally disbands his father's company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-16T14:34:39.227" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T14:34:39.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28322" CreationDate="2014-12-22T15:23:01.740" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to have been a plot contrivance written into the film to extend its length.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the Terminator is indeed an infiltration unit, it’s core mission was to eliminate Sarah Connor to ensure that her son, John Connor, the leader of the human resistance to Skynet in the future is never born. Several times throughout the film, its actions however lead the discerning viewer to believe that it fails to understand this mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When it determines where Sarah Connor lives, it doesn’t simply wait at or near her apartment for her to return to kill her even that would be the most logic course of action.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even though the film makes it clear that Skynet (and thus the Terminator) has no idea of exactly which Sarah Connor is which, it no longer hunts additional Sarah Connors after the events at the police station and concentrates solely upon the film’s protagonist.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Terminator doesn’t simply break Sarah Connor’s neck when it discovers her in the bar when it is assaulted by Kyle Reese. The Terminator could easily done this and then left largely undetected, yet slowly raises a laser-equipped firearm to shoot her in the head and is stop by Reese. The Terminator also does not shoot Connor in the torso even though using the weapon that it was armed with would have injured her enough to kill her.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the Terminator assaults the police station, it engages the police inside in a firefight that slows its ability to locate Connor, when it could have simply walked through the station and located her. The police, as demonstrated, had no weapons available which could slow or halt the Terminator and it could have easily&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;During the vehicular accident, the Terminator could have easily (again) walked to Reese and Connor, killed them without using a weapon and left the area. It chose its own “survive’ over its core mission, even though this could have meant that particular Sarah Connor could have escaped.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while its actions make logical sense in the film’s universe (killing Sarah Connor would have ended the film prematurely) they make no logical sense when the film is looked at objectively, making the reason a plot contrivance that borders upon being a plot hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7390" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T15:23:01.740" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28343" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28347" CreationDate="2014-12-22T17:48:52.867" Score="73" ViewCount="78935" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring&quot;&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring&lt;/a&gt;, it is shown that Bilbo keeps the ring for almost 60 years, not as much as Gollum (who kept it for centuries). But still Bilbo remains totally unaffected by the powers/burden of the ring. Why didn't Bilbo develop characteristics that Gollum developed? Is it something I am missing here? Kindly help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-22T19:32:04.097" LastActivityDate="2020-12-17T03:39:41.073" Title="Why didn't Bilbo become a creature like Gollum?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28343" CreationDate="2014-12-22T18:10:27.400" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gollum was a Hobbit, or rather a predecessor of a Hobbit, but was kicked out of his clan and forced to live in a cave.  He became almost immediately obsessed with the ring; in fact he killed his friend who had originally found it.  Gollum was weaker than Bilbo; the ring completely controlled him from the get-go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the major differences were Gollum's weakness, and his living conditions which made him anti-social and changed his appearance due to the absence of light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bilbo definitely was affected by The Ring, just not to the same extent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2014-12-22T19:22:22.257" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T19:22:22.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28343" CreationDate="2014-12-22T18:22:02.667" Score="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, the possession of the ring didn't stay entirely without effect even to &lt;em&gt;Bilbo&lt;/em&gt;. Remember how everyone was surprised at &lt;em&gt;Bilbo&lt;/em&gt;'s apparently unaged looks compared to his actual age (and his pretty fast aging once he didn't have the ring anymore). And also remember his reluctance to give up the ring (into which he had to be seriously &quot;persuaded&quot; by &lt;em&gt;Gandalf&lt;/em&gt;) and his &quot;outburst&quot; in &lt;em&gt;Rivendell&lt;/em&gt; when he caught a glimpse of it on &lt;em&gt;Frodo&lt;/em&gt;'s neck (a scene that made me jump in my seat on the first view and that still terrifies me whenever I see it). Those effects might very well have worsened if &lt;em&gt;Bilbo&lt;/em&gt; would have kept the ring for longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CoAgB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But another important aspect is, that &lt;em&gt;Gollum&lt;/em&gt; is a morally weaker person to begin with. After all the ring for him was won in an act of evil in the first place, murdering his friend for the &lt;em&gt;&quot;precious&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. That is something we could surmise &lt;em&gt;Bilbo&lt;/em&gt; wouldn't have done, as evident from the mercy he showed &lt;em&gt;Gollum&lt;/em&gt; -- a supposedly disgusting creature he didn't even know -- when he had him at the point of his sword after stealing his ring. But he saw what a miserable creature &lt;em&gt;Gollum&lt;/em&gt; was and felt compassion for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then add to this, that &lt;em&gt;Gollum&lt;/em&gt; is also pretty much a product of his circumstances. When he killed his friend he became a social outcast, which even more contributed to his further moral degradation and his alienation from &quot;normal&quot; social life. His split personality might on the one hand be just a natural result of his loneliness but might on the other hand as well be a way to cope with his deeds, first and foremost the murder of his friend, either by said friend manifesting as the second personality or just as an attempt to blame his deeds on that &quot;other person&quot; living inside of him. And the fact that he became a cave-dweller far from the sunlight eating raw fish and orcs and whatever vile creatures might have contributed to his further physical deterioration. &lt;em&gt;Bilbo&lt;/em&gt; on the other hand still lived a happy life as an accepted member of a blooming social environment so that the ring couldn't unfold its whole potential on him, but after all we also know that if the ring has anything, it's patience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-09T23:26:35.930" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T23:26:35.930" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4483" CreationDate="2014-12-22T19:15:07.693" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its called time paradoxes (see my own grandfather clause) which can real hassle to understand. Many shows have done content about time travel/time paradoxes/abusing said paradoxes to one benefit. The writers have considered a lot of the stuff but, due time and or script, stuff got left out that would better help people who are not familiar with time paradoxes (thus for the better or worse we got what we got.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16602" LastActivityDate="2014-12-22T19:15:07.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28350" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="110285" CreationDate="2014-12-22T20:40:52.847" Score="9" ViewCount="1073" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Fellowship of the Ring, were those at the Council of Elrond aware that destroying the One Ring would defeat Sauron? I'm guessing that they must have known this because nobody seemed surprised that Sauron just fell apart once the Ring was cast into Mount Doom, so why did no one mention this at the meeting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Boromir advocated using the Ring to defeat Sauron head on so it would seem perfectly appropriate to bring up that destroying the Ring would achieve the same outcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember much about the scene from the book so this is about the movie. However, I would also love to hear answers based on the book and other written sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14080" LastActivityDate="2020-08-03T17:02:02.947" Title="Was the Council of Elrond aware that destroying the ring would vanquish Sauron?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-fellowship-of-the-ring|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28353" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28358" CreationDate="2014-12-22T21:21:02.600" Score="12" ViewCount="3135" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the Chitauri scepter has an Infinity Stone within it, and it can be used to &quot;activate&quot; the Tesseract so that a person (or people) can travel from one galaxy to the next... why do the Chitauri need Loki at all in &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not just use the scepter, start their own war on earth and get the Tesseract themselves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T12:41:05.513" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T12:41:05.513" Title="Why did the Chitauri need Loki at all?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28355" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28380" CreationDate="2014-12-22T21:37:32.450" Score="17" ViewCount="8390" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder how much the previous movie treatment of &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; -- in the form of Ralph Bakshi's great (albeit unfinished) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077869/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;animated version from 1978&lt;/a&gt; -- had any kind of influence on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Peter Jackson's movie trilogy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the production design of Jackson's movies was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_design_of_The_Lord_of_the_Rings_film_series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;directly influenced by illustrators Alan Lee and John Howe&lt;/a&gt;, the style of Bakshi's movie was declaredly &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_%281978_film%29#Directing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;not influenced by any contemporary illustrators&lt;/a&gt; and they indeed seem to have quite different designs in many aspects. However, I can't help but notice that other scenes in turn seem to feel similar (&lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/RrzrOyeo5o8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;like the Hobbits hiding under a tree root from a Nazgul&lt;/a&gt;), but that might as well just be a result of the common source material or me overimagining things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;is there any acknowledgment by the people behind the &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; trilogy giving insights into how much their movie was influenced by the animated version from 1978&lt;/strong&gt;, be it the design, story, cinematography or whatever? Or is there even evidence that they actively eschewed from replicating it in any way? Or are there maybe even direct references paying tribute to Bakshi's movie (afterall it was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_%28film_series%29#Development&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the movie that sparked Jackson's interest&lt;/a&gt; in the books in the first place)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-01T17:52:46.807" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T21:56:54.060" Title="How much influence did the animated Lord of the Rings movie from 1978 have on Peter Jackson's trilogy?" Tags="|analysis|the-lord-of-the-rings|reference|lord-of-the-rings-1978|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28356" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-22T22:16:55.407" Score="6" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is about the 2nd last scene in season 4 episode 6 of &lt;em&gt;Person of Interest&lt;/em&gt;, where Finch is paying off the mugger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand why the mugger is agitated at Finch given the umbrella takedown, but why did he then call Elizabeth Bridges a &quot;bitch&quot; and tell Finch to &quot;stay away from her&quot;? Was the mugger just blowing off more steam and lashing out, was there a plot detail I missed, or...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16609" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-22T22:25:44.883" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T03:23:13.293" Title="Why does the mugger that Finch pays off react this way?" Tags="|plot-explanation|person-of-interest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28353" CreationDate="2014-12-23T00:11:59.000" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;They didn't need Loki, they needed &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Erik_Selvig&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dr Erik Selvig&lt;/a&gt;: or to be totally accurate, they needed someone to open the gate for them (or in the case of the Avengers, an orchestrated attempt &lt;em&gt;to use the power of&lt;/em&gt; the Scepter to create the second half of a 'bridge' for the dimensional vortex to work)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Loki was their agent, and he used his cunning and craft to manipulate the relevant factors, and find elements that could integrate the power of the &lt;em&gt;Tesseract&lt;/em&gt; with the &lt;em&gt;Mind Stone&lt;/em&gt; within Loki's staff to achieve just such an event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They didn't need Loki, they needed a way onto earth. Loki promised to provide it to them, should they grant him possession of the Scepter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T00:39:50.043" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T00:39:50.043" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28333" CreationDate="2014-12-23T01:06:17.303" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/365/what-is-going-on-in-mulholland-drive?rq=1&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; there is a pretty good analysis of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/2001/10/24/mulholland_drive_analysis/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  Here is a snippet about the hitman:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The hit man thing is confusing. Who is the long-haired guy he murders? And what about the prostitute he ushers into the van? Is that Diane, too?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The guy he shot so perfunctorily made some remark about a car accident. The implication seems to be that he was in one of the joyriding cars that hit the limo, and that he ended up with some sort of black book that the guys who were about to kill Rita possessed. In the logic of Diane’s dream, the hit man needed that as a lead to where she was. We know that it’s not going to help him find Rita, but he doesn’t know that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for him later on at the diner, remember that at that point Diane is awake.  Earlier when the hit man shoots the janitor (and everything else) that is during a dream.  There may or may not be a real significance or relevance (this is a David Lynch film after all), but a lot of the movie seems to show the contrast between Diane's dream (what she wants to happen) and her reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been a while since I have seen the movie, so if I am mistaken about the timeline or anything feel free to correct me!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16556" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T01:06:17.303" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28322" CreationDate="2014-12-23T02:11:52.783" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is covered in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/The_Terminator_%28Frakes_novel%29&quot;&gt;Frakes novelisation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Terminator has just suffered a substantial impact. Several systems went offline temporarily:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The police cruiser folded around the cyborg like a cheap accordion.&#xA;  Terminator’s vision dropped out first. Then all the systems in its&#xA;  microprocessor went offline due to the horrific impact to its hardened&#xA;  chassis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's been damaged in the gunfight. Its arm is in a very poor state and it has &quot;total occlusion&quot; of the left eye. It needs to determine the extent of the damage caused:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A shadow among shadows, Terminator climbed with slow, patient steps up&#xA;  the fire escape to his second-story window. It avoided using its&#xA;  disfunctioning right wrist until it could determine the full extent of&#xA;  damage it had sustained in the initial combat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It had taken the cyborg nearly an hour to get from the site of the&#xA;  crash back to its hotel room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It had moved on foot for the first couple of miles, allowing the&#xA;  systems to come fully on line in order to assess their condition.&#xA;  Aside from the wrist, there was almost total visual occlusion of the&#xA;  left eye. The eye itself seemed to be functioning properly. It was the&#xA;  surrounding tissue that was hindering performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It knows where its targets are likely to be, so there's no desperate urgency in getting to them:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Starting with the As, Terminator rapidly dialed every police station&#xA;  in Los Angeles until it reached Rampart Division.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now it was time to move out. The target was waiting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T02:11:52.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27833" CreationDate="2014-12-23T06:23:30.647" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Dawn was raping Noah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were two types of cops in the hospital; the rapers and the non rapers. From the start we're given the impression that Dawn is on the non raper side but compromises with the rapers to maintain order, when in fact she is the lead raper and likely killed the old captain when he threatened to intervene in their rapist ways. Her keeping Noah was her declaration that the rape would go on, even though most of the people in her group were now dead. Though the other group of cops may have wanted to object at this point they couldn't for fear of looking weak in front of rick's group, and in this way they were in effect agreeing that the rape would go on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am aware that none of this is likely right, but it's more interesting than the alternative which we have seen like fifty times from this show, so i'm going to continue to believe the Dawn/Noah rape theory as it's at least kind of thought provoking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16616" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T09:34:09.477" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T09:34:09.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26842" CreationDate="2014-12-23T07:40:11.063" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Amy's version:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;1) She wanted a baby, Nick didn't&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2) Nick is very harsh to her and pushes her down and leaves.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nick's version:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;1) He wanted a baby, Amy didn't&lt;br&gt;&#xA;2) (This is the question that needs to be answered)&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's bounce to the end of the movie when Nick gets angry enough to back Amy up to the door, HARD. This indicates that he is capable of hitting Amy. Sure, he was pushed to the limit and he reacts that way. But he is quite capable of hitting Amy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything in Amy's journal is not a lie. The initial portions are real and slowly moves to her falsified version. This part where Nick pushes Amy down is somewhere in between. The argument Amy talks about in her journal is - how she wanted the baby but Nick didn't. The actual argument, if an argument did happen, would have happened the other way around - where Nick wanted a baby but Amy didn't. However, by this time Nick was banging another chick. Their arguments have been discussed to be not as intense, not enough for him to physically attack Amy over the want of a baby. It is shown that Nick has become distant and doesn't really care for Amy much. Besides, Amy needed a strong reason to backup the purchase a gun. She comes up with Nick's violent act to declare that she was scared of Nick, scared enough to buy a gun. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These elements point in the direction that Nick did not push Amy down though he was capable, he never cared enough to argue that intensely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a link that talks about other big plot-holes in the movie:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://digestivepyrotechnics.blogspot.com/2014/11/gone-girl-plot-hole-explained.html&quot;&gt;Gone Girl's Plot Holes Explained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T07:40:11.063" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28343" CreationDate="2014-12-23T09:09:55.043" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree to everything said in previous post. I always imagined that Gollum became the way he was because he wore the ring extensively. In the Lotr's book Gandalf would warn Frodo to be careful as to not to use the ring. The ring had less effect on Bilbo because once the adventure in &quot;hobbit&quot; was over Bilbo stayed in the Shire, there was no need for Bilbo to use the ring. But still, since he kept it he didn't age and obviously grew attached to it. In the book it clearly says that Gollum used the ring as soon as he found it, he liked the way he was invisible to everyone, but at the same time it also upset him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16619" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T09:09:55.043" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28369" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28371" CreationDate="2014-12-23T09:15:55.133" Score="10" ViewCount="6962" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Philosopher%27s_Stone_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, in the end Harry's most desperate and desirable wish was to retrieve the Philosopher's stone (which he does).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know about the enchantment placed by Professor Dumbledore. But my question is why was Harry's desire to retrieve the stone in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He didn't want to use it anyway. Wanting the stone at that time only increased the risk of letting the stone slip into Voldemort's hand. What did I miss here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="5879" LastEditDate="2022-05-05T18:19:23.473" LastActivityDate="2022-05-05T18:19:23.473" Title="Why did Harry want the Philosopher's Stone in the first place?" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|the-philosophers-stone|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8733" CreationDate="2014-12-23T11:04:00.497" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point of the sparring program is to help Neo &quot;free his mind&quot;.&#xA;Breathing is an involuntary function of our bodies that helps us keep alive.&#xA;The human mind associates &quot;breathing air&quot; directly to &quot;being alive&quot;.&#xA;We know if anything stops our breathing of air for even a few minutes, we will die.&#xA;(example struggling to surface for air in a swimming pool, this is scary for everyone)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the simulation program, or the matrix, the human mind continues with to perform involuntary actions like breathing, but this is in the mind. For example, in our dreams we continue to breathe, it is but natural and the only thing we are used to doing. But is it required to stay alive in the dream? No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Morpheus particularly asks this question to Neo to shake the very foundation of this existence, to get him &quot;to believe&quot; that he is in a simulation. Neo technically doesn't need to breath in a simulation. That need is only in his mind. Morpheus is getting Neo to let go of the real world &quot;rules&quot; to help him realize that nothing from the real world holds good in the simulation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once that happens, Neo is able to move faster and defeat Morpheus.&#xA;But that is just one small step, he still fails the jump test right after :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T11:04:00.497" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28369" CreationDate="2014-12-23T11:09:30.733" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, Harry didn't know about the magic that Dumbledore had put on the Mirror of Erised. So, Harry, when he retrieved the stone, did it by accident.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are asking why Harry went to retrieve the stone. Well, simple, he knew Dumbledore was not at Hogwarts but at the Ministry. He suspected Snape to be the one&#xA;to steal the stone. He couldn't tell other professors because nobody would trust his allegations against Snape, not without proof. And Harry was only close to &#xA;Dumbledore to say anything (accusing Snape) to him, but he wasn't around.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Harry went into the trap door to take the stone/stop Snape taking the stone. His &#xA;motivation was its safety. It was an accident that he unknowingly performed the magic that retrieved the stone from the mirror. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T13:12:27.910" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T13:12:27.910" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15836" CreationDate="2014-12-23T11:15:39.737" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst the Simulator programs are part of their LAN, they have been able to smuggle virtual items into the matrix - eg: phones for communication, shades and jackets to look cool, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This ports that they are using to hack into the Matrix has also given them the ability to hack into certain amounts of computational resources from the matrix. From these resources they have built small viral programs that helps them generate and smuggle smaller objects into the Matrix. That's how they get to go with - &quot;Guns, lots of guns.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like any hacker, the amount of resources they consume is limited, else that viral program will not stay hidden for long. This is why when they needed a chopper, they had to steal it. They couldn't just generate one and fly it over to the building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T11:15:39.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15836" CreationDate="2014-12-23T13:00:36.687" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's bad software design in the Matrix or an exploit. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like this is actually possible in some games following practices I'd consider bad game design (partially intended and unavoidable though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had to immediately think of &lt;em&gt;Neverwinter Nights 2&lt;/em&gt;, a RPG with an optional online mode, where you might bring your own character to any online world that allows local characters (i.e. characters not exclusively stored on the server).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, MMORPGs follow the simple rule &lt;em&gt;The client is in the hands of the enemy&lt;/em&gt;. As such, they will only allow you to take a specific set of parameters with you when you create your avatar. The client can't tell the server how much damage they do, which skills they've unlocked, etc. For example, you might pick a race, class, skin color, hair style, hair color, etc. Sounds a bit familiar? Kinda what they do when entering the Matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, NWN2 (and some other games) go a bit further: They allow the client to dictate the server what they're wearing or carrying in their inventory, i.e. uploading this when you establish a connection. Now it's getting interesting. And there are also some parallels to &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt; once again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Players indeed setup small maps using the map editor that work pretty much like the armory in the movie. You've got one or several rooms filled with all kind of items, like weapons, clothes, potions, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what they do is enter such a modified map, equip the stuff, then save and exit, entering the actual multiplayer world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They do the very same thing in the movie: They enter their construct/armory, equip weapons, and then enter the actual Matrix. Of course, that inventory is not really saved with their &quot;savegame&quot;, but that additional data or payload is obviously sent when setting up their connection. How it's actually done isn't revealed, but there are multiple possibilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once again, from a real world example, when opening a web page, your browser submits additional data (e.g. cookies), that the script running on the server will be able to load/interpret. If you've heard of the &lt;strong&gt;Shellshock&lt;/strong&gt; vulnerability earlier this year, this is an attack most likely pretty close to what they do when entering the Matrix:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You send a request to the server together (&quot;I want to enter the Matrix.&quot;) with some additional payload that's not used normally (i.e. the weapon data/inventory). Due to some bug or security issue, they then get the server to actually retrieve and use that data (&quot;materializing&quot; their weapons).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T13:00:36.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="138" CreationDate="2014-12-23T13:04:47.513" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let us assume that the love that Persephone once enjoyed was with Merovingian.&#xA;Merovingian and Persephone have slightly more human traits than other programs, they enjoy fine food, wine, languages. While Persephone talks of love, Merovingian displays lust (&quot;The lipstick that is not on Merovingian's face&quot;). Merovingian is shown to cheat on Persephone. Surprisingly, he uses a special code to trigger sexual reactions in a woman and gets serviced by her! Persephone's envy leads her to give Neo and gang the Key Maker's location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Oracle mentions Merovingian to be the oldest of them, a powerful program.&#xA;No program other than the Oracle has the purpose to be human like.&#xA;The fact that Merovingian and Persephone turn human-like is them exhibiting programmatic roguishness.&#xA;Their initial purpose is not mentioned, but the period of love that Persephone mentions is when they went rogue. Merovingian controls the virtual afterlife through the train-man program. This is where exiled programs seek refuge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though this is the current operation, perhaps in the beginning, Merovingian was created with the purpose of Programmatic Garbage Collection. Once a program has served its purpose it needs to be de-allocated from the computing resource pool. (Eg: JVM provided by Java has a Garbage Collector which does a clean up periodically). The program Persephone was perhaps a supporting function to this Programmatic Garbage Collection, which is how they met.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T13:04:47.513" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28343" CreationDate="2014-12-23T13:07:50.613" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don't forget the differences in time between the movie and the Tolkien's books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book at the Birthday Party, Bilbo was 111, and Frodo was turning 33, the coming of age for a Hobbit, also part of Bilbo's joke, a gross of guests  and the sum of both their ages 144.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;17 years pass in the book before the journey to Bree begins, making Frodo 50, &quot;coincidentally&quot; the same age as Bilbo was in the Hobbit, and Bilbo 128. The Ring had been away from Gollum for 78 years at that point, and Sméagol had also been under the care of the Elves for a number of years just like Bilbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I always thought that the mountains that Bilbo wanted to see, were not the mountains of the dwarves, but the mountains surrounding Mordor. His subconscious was being driven to take the Ring to Sauron, the same way that Sméagol was driven to hide the ring and keep it safe until Sauron could reconstruct himself. Or was Gollum keeping the Ring for himself away from Sauron? Perhaps Gandalf had something to do with Sméagol as well, was not &quot;Keep it secret. Keep it Safe.&quot;  also what he told Frodo. It might be Tolkien wanted Sméagol to be more tragic and more heroic than made out to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16625" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2014-12-23T19:28:36.187" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T19:28:36.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23326" CreationDate="2014-12-23T13:23:49.220" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In The Matrix, Morpheus and his team take Neo to see the Oracle in&#xA;  &quot;The Matrix&quot;. Not until after the visit is concluded are they ambushed&#xA;  by Agents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cypher, throws in an open phone based on the arrangement he has with Smith earlier.&#xA;The open phone gives Smith the teams location. Without this there was no easy way for Smith to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Other times, such as the beginning of the movie where Trinity talks to&#xA;  Neo, or when Trinity takes Neo to Morpheus, they seem to be unharassed&#xA;  by Agents. How could this be? The Agents certainly know Morpheus,&#xA;  Trinity, and Neo are threats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The agents are the gatekeepers, they are constantly on the look out for hackers which Morpheus, Trinity and Neo are, hacking into the Matrix. This is like an antivirus program looking for a virus which it doesn't understand. While the agents can access the human's plugged in to the system, they can't access them all at once, they have only limited resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And it seems implausible that Agents are not immediately aware&#xA;  whenever they enter &quot;The Matrix&quot;. So why aren't they attacked right&#xA;  away (aside from that ruining the movie)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The firewall that protects the Matrix has a flaw, this flaw is used by the team to enter in and out of the Matrix undetected, that is why the Agents are not immediately notified.&#xA;Along side trying to locate the hackers from within the Matrix, the machines send sentinels to scout out for human activity in the real world as well. This is the machines way of finding the hackers from both within and outside the Matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T13:23:49.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8765" CreationDate="2014-12-23T13:36:52.193" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cast of the Matrix had to go through rigorous training of Wire Fu which is a combination of Kung Fu done while attached to a harness connected to a pulley mechanism. Wire Fu is popularly used in Hong Kong Chinese movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neo was initially to be played by Will Smith, but he turned it down to do Wild Wild West.&#xA;The entire crew was new to Wire Fu and had to learn it over the course of film production. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The collectors edition of the Matrix shows the cast practicing and learning Wire Fu. They toiled through this every morning. Once they had learnt the basics, the choreographer thought them the moves of the movie and they practiced on that too, in Kung Fu uniform.&#xA;Through practice the cast was made to actually make a little contact while performing their moves to make the whole thing look real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After prolonged training and choreography, the fight scenes were shot.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Will Smith today doesn't know Wire Fu for the choice he once made :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T13:36:52.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28174" CreationDate="2014-12-23T14:12:14.687" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;reff : &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thisisbarry.com/#!Lucy-2014-Explained/ce4s/56a4cf970cf22a61ccc963b7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.thisisbarry.com/#!Lucy-2014-Explained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The theory the movie sides with is that when the brain works close to the 10% capacity (which is the amount the average mind uses), humans will function as we know them to. Humans will have a conscience and cognisense. This is basically everyone we know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 10% theory is shunned upon by many, but let us ignore that for the sake of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When humans start to tap into more of their brains, the movie suggests that the humans will not be restricted by touch to access things (mechanical force). Lucy is able to access wireless networks by plugging into it mentally. The theory is that with higher % of brain usage, humans can access and use the electromagnetic fields just like we pick up a glass of water with our hands. In our world today, this is supernatural but the movie suggests that it is not supernatural but just a higher state of existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Lucy's brain function elevates further and further, she is able to&#xA;tap into and use all forms of energy around her. She can look into the&#xA;past or the stars and galaxy because they are all forms of light&#xA;energy that she can access. (eg: The reflection of yourself in a&#xA;mirror is you looking at the past because light takes finite time to&#xA;travel from you to the mirror and back to your eyes)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...The final disintegration bit was a little outrageous. The theory there is that with 100% tapping of a brain's functions, you don't need to exist in the physical form of a human at all. She becomes an omnipresent conscience that is connected through pure energy. Pure energy that can alter other form of energy as she likes. She is able to control electromagnetic fields to get networks to send out SMSs, SMSs are after all signals that are sent to the phone over a wireless network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the concepts posed by the film borderline with insanity, but hope that answered your question. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T19:03:24.417" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28379" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28400" CreationDate="2014-12-23T14:19:13.383" Score="8" ViewCount="1570" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edge of Tomorrow is based on a original Japanese book, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-You-Need-Is-Kill/dp/1421527618&quot;&gt;All You Need is Kill&lt;/a&gt; (I still think that would also have been a better movie title).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some of the answers about the movie there are hints about significant differences from the original source. What are those differences?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2019-02-26T08:11:35.180" Title="What are the key differences between the movie Edge of Tomorrow and the original book?" Tags="|book-adaptation|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28355" CreationDate="2014-12-23T14:40:58.677" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I lifted this directly off &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_(1978_film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the LOTR Wiki&lt;/a&gt;, so I didn't have to go transcribe the DVD Extra:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peter Jackson first encountered The Lord of the Rings via Bakshi's&#xA;film, and some shots in his live-action trilogy appear to have&#xA;been influenced by it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One such shot features Frodo and the other&#xA;hobbits hiding from a Black Rider under a big tree root, while the&#xA;Black Rider stalks above them. In his version of the sequence, Jackson&#xA;uses a similar shot — although he films it from a different angle&#xA;(in the book, Frodo hid separately from the other hobbits).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A second&#xA;sequence features the camera slowly revolving around Strider and the&#xA;hobbits, who stand in a circle as the Black Riders approach them on&#xA;Weathertop. In his staging, Jackson also uses a similar shot —&#xA;although his camera is much faster, and Strider is not among the&#xA;hobbits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A third similarity is the depiction of Gollum losing the ring&#xA;in the prologue: both films show very similar events but the book had&#xA;no such prologue and indeed it runs directly counter to Tolkien's&#xA;scheme for the storyline.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another similarly staged scene is Legolas,&#xA;Gimli, and Aragorn's discovery of Gandalf the White.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the DVD&#xA;commentary of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,&#xA;Jackson acknowledges one shot, a low angle of a hobbit at Bilbo's&#xA;birthday party shouting &amp;quot;Proudfeet!&amp;quot;, as an intentional homage to&#xA;Bakshi's film.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;By far the biggest &amp;quot;lift,&amp;quot; however, is the scene of the&#xA;Nazgûl appearing in the hobbits' room at the Prancing Pony and&#xA;slashing the beds to ribbons thinking the shapes under the sheets to&#xA;be the hobbits (but are actually pillows). This is almost identical to&#xA;Bakshi's version, which is significant, as the scene is not depicted&#xA;in the book; a passage does appear that states that hobbit beds wind&#xA;up slashed during the night, but the townsfolk of Bree are the&#xA;perpetrators, not the Nazgûl.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some of Sam's interjections are also&#xA;sourced from Bakshi rather than Tolkien.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another idea used in both&#xA;films is to depict Éomer as a late arrival at the Battle of the&#xA;Hornburg, rather than the book's Erkenbrand.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, the whole&#xA;stricture of the first two installments is but Bakshi's movie script&#xA;plight in two and a little expanded with some episodes (The Lord of&#xA;the Rings: The Two Towers ends exactly where Bakshi's movie ends: the&#xA;end of the Battle of Hornburg and Gollum leading Frodo and Sam to&#xA;Shelob - the Black Gate is presumably cut, since Gollum talks about&#xA;his &amp;quot;secret way&amp;quot;, and Faramir could be as well, since the Hobbits are&#xA;journeying through the Mountains of Shadow).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T01:44:15.413" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16922" CreationDate="2014-12-23T15:30:30.900" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm so tired of people saying &quot;he just gets it removed- simple as that&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you ever seen the result of a removed tattoo?? It's not pretty, and it can take dozens of sessions to remove a tat, and even then there is almost always residual scarring or discoloration. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We would definitely be able to tell if he had removed it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole reason Nolan uses tattoos is their permanence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the image of him with his wife is a fantasy- none of the tats are ever removed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16629" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T15:30:30.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28369" CreationDate="2014-12-23T17:24:56.753" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To address your first question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;why was Harry's desire to retrieve the stone in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harry came there in an attempt to prevent Snape to get the stone, but then realized that Quirrell was the one who was actually trying to get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the key thing is Snape's/Quirrell's motivation, as Harry rightly guessed it: the return of Voldemort. Given their history (Voldemort murdering Harry's parents and trying to murder him), Harry's intention at that moment is to prevent Voldemort's return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since he doesn't know of Dumbledore's spell, he believes that the only way to do that is to get the stone himself before the other guy does. This translates to  his greatest desire being &amp;quot;get the stone (to stop Voldemort)&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was no doubt, at that moment, in Harry's mind that if he fails to retrieve the stone, the other guy will take it. In other words, he doesn't know that this &amp;quot;increased the risk of letting the stone slip into Voldemort's hands&amp;quot;. He believes the exact opposite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2022-05-01T18:18:28.540" LastActivityDate="2022-05-01T18:18:28.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28180" CreationDate="2014-12-23T18:08:23.723" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lamborghini's cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Everyone (or &lt;strong&gt;most&lt;/strong&gt; everyone) knows this.  They're not as common as a Toyota or a Chevrolet.  As such, when one is passing by you will almost certainly notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a bit of sarcasm by Alfred, as both modes of transportation (Batmobile vs Lamborghini) are definitely head-turners and will not go unnoticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-12-23T18:08:23.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28387" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30734" CreationDate="2014-12-24T00:30:50.747" Score="11" ViewCount="2464" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been driving me crazy for 10 years, maybe more. I saw it on TV and only watched the intro and got kinda scared (yeah I was very young) so I didn't watch past the intro, thus I can't describe more than this. But I'd like to watch it again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I remember:&#xA;English-spoken American movie from the 90s or early 00's (I think). &#xA;The intro starts with this scene where a man kills two girls who were playing in the field. The filter on this scene was kinda yellowtoned. The man was big/broad, I think dark and they didn't show his face. He assaulted one girl and the other girl ran off but he caught up and hit her with a bat or a branch. The girls might have been twins. &#xA;Before or after this scene you see a (another) man sitting on the bus. I think this part of the movie takes part in modern time (so I guess that would be the 90's). The previous part looked a bit older cause of the yellowish filter and it took place in the countryside, though I'm not sure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's all I recall. Thanks in advance!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19286" LastEditorUserId="19286" LastEditDate="2014-12-24T13:13:12.787" LastActivityDate="2016-12-18T20:52:55.377" Title="Movie with intro where man kills two girls in a field" Tags="|identify-this-movie|crime|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:29:21.843" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28389" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-24T00:55:41.803" Score="2" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched the finale of Jekyll (2007), and while I found it both shocking and genius, I'm not quite sure I understand the plot of the show in the light of the final revelation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I understand it correctly, Utterson is a descendant of the original Jekyll/Hyde, and Jackman is the son of Utterson. Both inherited the „curse“ apparently, but for some reason Jackman needs a Claire-Clone to trigger it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Utterson need Hyde for her company, when she herself is a „Hyde“?  (as indicated in the very last scene) Is there something different about Jackman's alter ego?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain the overall plot arc of the show, Utterson's motivation and how the inheritance/triggering of the curse works?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2016-11-11T03:37:29.463" Title="What did they need Hyde for?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jekyll|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35029" CreationDate="2014-12-24T00:59:00.170" Score="10" ViewCount="20609" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching The Godfather II tonight and was thinking about the scene where Kay (Keaton) tells Michael (Pacino) that she had an abortion. Pacino appears to hit Keaton so hard that his follow-through almost puts her on the couch.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there are some movie scenes where an actor really does hit another actor, and I was just wondering if this is one of those scenes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="18193" LastEditDate="2015-03-04T22:43:45.027" LastActivityDate="2017-03-19T05:39:27.823" Title="Does Al Pacino really slap Diane Keaton in The Godfather II?" Tags="|the-godfather-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28387" CreationDate="2014-12-24T04:04:54.060" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like Stephen King's serial thriller made to movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120689/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot;&gt;The Green Mile&lt;/a&gt; with Tom Hanks and the late Michael Clarke Duncan. In it, the two girls are killed by a &quot;man&quot;. Joe Coffey finds the girls and tries to heal them, but is too late. The cops (or someone) finds Coffey with the girls and assumes the &quot;Big Black Man&quot; killed the poor little white girls. The story revolves around the turn of events leading up to Coffey getting fried in the electric chair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T04:04:54.060" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28394" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-24T06:56:19.460" Score="2" ViewCount="1243" Body="&lt;p&gt;When does Regina stop being the mayor? I mean, when does she pass her duties to Mary Margaret? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16648" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2014-12-24T07:33:15.353" LastActivityDate="2014-12-28T01:35:48.153" Title="When does Regina stop being the mayor of Storybrooke?" Tags="|plot-explanation|once-upon-a-time|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28390" CreationDate="2014-12-24T09:11:19.033" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes it was a real slap. It was the perfect reaction from a real man and a gangster who a woman had just told she aborted his baby. Corleone family as shown through out the whole trilogy is quite devoted towards family traditions, the slap was out of desperation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no no quotes from Keaton on whether it was authentic but this passage from Deborah C. Micthell’s biography &lt;em&gt;“Diane Keaton: Artist And Icon”&lt;/em&gt; is pretty noteworthy: “When her parents saw Godfather II in Los Angeles, the audience applauded when Michael slapped Kay in the confrontation scene. She (Keaton) defensively explained: ‘he was a horrible character…&lt;strong&gt;I say to Hell with those people who applaud&lt;/strong&gt;. My parents were with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This kind of reaction can only come from someone who really experienced it. I hope it answers your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T09:11:19.033" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28396" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28413" CreationDate="2014-12-24T09:21:08.360" Score="12" ViewCount="4981" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies&lt;/em&gt; Movie tells about battle between five armies. I counted only four.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dwarves Army (Lead by Throrin)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elves army (Lead by Thranduil?) &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Orcs army (Lead by Azog)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lake Town people (Lead by Bard)(I think,this is not an army)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the fifth army. Please list the all five armies and its leaders?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16464" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-19T21:55:40.260" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T21:55:40.260" Title="What are the five armies in Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hobbit|the-battle-of-the-five-armies|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12970" CreationDate="2014-12-24T10:02:11.853" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inertia is the resistance to change. Walt and Jesse enjoyed cooking in the desert because of the money and the rush from doing so. Therefore, inertia; resisting change, kept them from buying a new rv or moving to a better lab. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16652" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T10:02:11.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28379" CreationDate="2014-12-24T10:44:07.180" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This website lists &lt;a href=&quot;http://nerd-base.com/2014/06/10/5-differences-between-edge-of-tomorrow-and-all-you-need-is-kill/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a mere five&lt;/a&gt;, but considering that those five are basically the core of the movie...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Major Bill Cage and Private Keiji Kiriya are entirely different&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Rita Vrataski from All You Need is Kill would bitch slap Emily Blunt&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Mimics are much scarier in the movie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The War, and our world are very different&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The endings are drastically different&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thatwasnotinthebook.com/diff/all-you-need-is-kill-vs-edge-of-tmorrow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this topic&lt;/a&gt; on thatwasnotinthebook.com, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-story-differences-between-Edge-of-Tomorrow-2014-film-and-the-book-it-was-based-on-All-You-Need-Is-Kill&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; on Quora (with numerous differences listed), &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://comparativegeeks.wordpress.com/2014/06/12/litflix-edge-of-tomorrow-or-all-you-need-is-kill/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this blog post&lt;/a&gt; on Comparative Geeks, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and numerous other resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T10:44:07.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28396" CreationDate="2014-12-24T10:52:23.097" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, the 5th Army is that of the Eagles lead by Thorondor.&#xA;This army is accompanied by Radagast and Beorn (in the form of a bear) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T10:52:23.097" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28379" CreationDate="2014-12-24T11:22:50.663" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Movie&lt;/strong&gt;: Main protagonist's name is Cage&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Book&lt;/strong&gt;: Main protagonist's name is Keiji&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Movie&lt;/strong&gt;: Mimics are comprised of the Omega and the Alphas&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Book&lt;/strong&gt;: Mimics are comprised of the Nexus and Antennae&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Movie&lt;/strong&gt;: Killing an Alpha causes the time loop to reset&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Book&lt;/strong&gt; : Killing either the Nexus or the Antennae can cause the time loop to reset&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Movie&lt;/strong&gt;: Only Cage is a looper, Rita used to be a looper&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Book&lt;/strong&gt;: Both Keiji and Rita are loopers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Movie&lt;/strong&gt;: Getting to the Omega and killing it will end the time loop and stop the alien race&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Book&lt;/strong&gt;: The Nexus needs to be killed only after all the Antennae have all been killed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Movie&lt;/strong&gt;: The ending of the Movie, Cage kills the Omega, and is reset back to an earlier time, the entire alien race is dead, no one knows that Cage did it, the world goes back to how it was a day prior, Rita is alive, happy ending.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Book&lt;/strong&gt;: In the final time loop, once they have eliminated all the Antennae, Rita attacks Kaji telling him that they have been in the loop so long that they have become like the Antennae, unless one of them dies, killing the Nexus will only cause the loop to reset. Keiji kills Rita and is crowned the Hero Of The War.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a link that describes the movie plot and it's apparent plot-holes in more depth:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/edge-of-tomorrow-2014-movie-vs-book-plot-hole-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Edge Of Tomorrow Explained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2019-02-26T08:11:35.180" LastActivityDate="2019-02-26T08:11:35.180" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28403" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30282" CreationDate="2014-12-24T15:16:38.363" Score="15" ViewCount="21581" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of the movie &lt;em&gt;Predestination&lt;/em&gt;, the old Temporal Agent said, &quot;We are Robertson&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone confirm that John/Jane becomes Robertson, after he has killed the elder Temporal Agent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1637" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-25T15:07:36.760" LastActivityDate="2023-09-12T02:58:41.003" Title="Who is Mr Robertson?" Tags="|character|predestination|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28404" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-24T15:55:43.250" Score="4" ViewCount="672" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the move The Dark Knight Rises, Bruce Wayne tries many times to escape from the Pit (prison)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CiEuc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As can be seen from this image, the height from the first pedestal / parapet to the top of the pit is not that much. Even though it is high, couldn't Bruce Wayne, with all his wit and intelligence, try something as simple as tying a hook to a rope and throw it towards the top, from the first parapet, rather than risk his life to jump 'vizhout zhe rope'...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8670" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T17:20:16.940" Title="Could Bruce Wayne use a hook &amp; a rope to escape from the PIT?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28405" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30228" CreationDate="2014-12-24T16:36:52.340" Score="5" ViewCount="4944" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has it been established where Barry Allen lives? Most of the time we see him off duty, he's either in his empty lab at CCPD or at Star Labs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does he have an apartment, or did he move back to the West home after college? (We see him at the West home at Christmas, but he could be just visiting.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1492" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-20T11:21:29.477" LastActivityDate="2020-05-22T19:42:02.943" Title="Where does Barry Allen live?" Tags="|character|arrowverse|the-flash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28404" CreationDate="2014-12-24T16:46:20.797" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, if he was &lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt; smart, he would have just climbed the safety rope that's tied to him, right?  See, in that picture, on the right side, how far up it goes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though it's never explained, I believe it was some type of &quot;right of passage&quot; to make the climb from pedestal to pedestal.  You had to &lt;strong&gt;earn&lt;/strong&gt; your way out.  Otherwise, everyone would have just climbed up that rope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/07/30/the_dark_knight_rises_climbing_scenes_don_t_make_any_sense_at_all.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the reality of rock climbing&lt;/a&gt; to think of too...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2014-12-24T17:20:16.940" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T17:20:16.940" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28407" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-24T17:01:32.117" Score="5" ViewCount="14154" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821641/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Congress&lt;/a&gt; is an interesting but somewhat weird movie where Robin Wright (playing herself) signs a 20-year contract with a studio to be digitised so the studio can do whatever it wants with her computerised image during the contract and she foregoes her right to act during the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She does this partially to care for her ill son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie flits between an animated world and the real world with people seemingly choosing to live in a drug/computer induced fantasy. At the end Robin is in a cartoon world and returns to a cartoon version of her home. But what does this mean and what has happened at the the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2017-01-14T08:02:46.020" Title="What happens at the end of The Congress?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-congress|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28396" CreationDate="2014-12-24T20:15:43.150" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Five_Armies&quot;&gt;LOTR Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Battle of Five Armies was a battle waged between the Goblins and&#xA;  the Wargs against Men of Dale, Elves, Dwarves, Eagles and a&#xA;  Shape-shifter on and near the Lonely Mountain.[3]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The combatants are listed as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thorin and Company, Dwarves from Iron Hills, Elves from Mirkwood, Men&#xA;  from Lake-town, Great Eagles&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-12-24T20:15:43.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28418" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28419" CreationDate="2014-12-25T02:28:16.570" Score="21" ViewCount="3047" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just before John McClane tosses the C-4 plastic explosive down the elevator shaft in &lt;em&gt;Die Hard&lt;/em&gt;, he is inserting detonators into the C-4. After inserting two detonators, he says &quot;Fuck it&quot; and inserts a third.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did he mean by &quot;Fuck it&quot;? Was there something different about the way he inserted the third detonator, or what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-25T15:00:14.650" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T10:42:08.290" Title="Die Hard detonator insertion -- &quot;F*** it&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|die-hard|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28418" CreationDate="2014-12-25T02:48:22.160" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I recall correctly, the way he says it suggests that two detonators is plenty for the task at hand, but he is annoyed enough to want to be really, really sure, so he inserts the third detonator as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastActivityDate="2014-12-25T02:48:22.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28421" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28423" CreationDate="2014-12-25T03:21:52.917" Score="9" ViewCount="994" Body="&lt;p&gt;Die Hard includes a moment when police officer Al Powell says he is on &quot;desk duty&quot; because he accidentally shot a child who had a toy gun. But earlier, Al is shown in uniform, driving a &quot;black-and-white&quot; (a police car) around a neighborhood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Al was on desk duty, why was he in uniform, driving a car around the city, wearing the sidearm that he eventually uses to shoot Karl?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2016-11-30T22:58:37.420" Title="If Al Powell was on desk duty, why was he driving black-and-white?" Tags="|plot-explanation|die-hard|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28421" CreationDate="2014-12-25T03:31:44.470" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Powell was actually on his way home from work when he heard the dispatch (I think he was at a gas station buying a Twinkie, actually), and since he was driving in that area he radioed that he'd check up on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This actually serves as an introduction to his character and shows that he is a dedicated officer who doesn't just clock out when his shift is over.  It's sort of a character reference in that respect, which gives more weight to his dedication to police work and his desire to help McClaine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-12-25T03:31:44.470" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28421" CreationDate="2014-12-25T03:33:51.080" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The easy answer is some police departments give vehicles to all of their officers to drive so that when they are parked at the officer's home, there is a known police presence. It cuts down on crime. About the uniform/gun ... He's still a police officer and required to be in uniform no matter if he will draw a gun or not. He wears a gun because it is a part of the uniform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-12-25T03:33:51.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28424" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28430" CreationDate="2014-12-25T04:08:14.643" Score="46" ViewCount="58231" Body="&lt;p&gt;Late in Die Hard, baddie Hans Gruber pretends to be an innocent bystander named &amp;quot;Bill Clay&amp;quot; and John McClane gives Hans a gun. The gun turns out to be unloaded, meaning McClane knew or at least suspected that &amp;quot;Bill Clay&amp;quot; wasn't who he claimed to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did McClane know in advance that Bill was really Hans? If so, how did he know? Did it have to do with the cigarette pack he offers Bill (which is a European cigarette brand, and which Bill places in his own pocket after taking from McClane)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2021-01-10T19:41:44.667" LastActivityDate="2021-01-10T19:41:44.667" Title="Did John McClane know Bill Clay was really Hans Gruber? If so, how?" Tags="|plot-explanation|die-hard|" AnswerCount="15" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28424" CreationDate="2014-12-25T05:11:14.330" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd say that John was simply being cautious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the chances of some civilian other than him also escaping for so long, and climbing around instead of hiding? Also, Hans was quite hesitant to give his name when asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2014-12-25T05:11:14.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1868" CreationDate="2014-12-25T06:40:38.230" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the new &quot;rags&quot;, meaning new gear, clothing(ACU uniforms were not really new at the time), maybe helmets? They weren't using normal GI MICH/ACH helmets and the movie i think was set a couple years in the future, maybe the seen helmets were thought by the costume designer to be better as they looked more advanced than the current issue MICH/ACH helmets(&quot;old&quot; rags). But the facial hair thing makes a lot of sense too&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16668" LastActivityDate="2014-12-25T06:40:38.230" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28424" CreationDate="2014-12-25T14:22:20.290" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those two scenes go like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Hans jumps down from an inspection and ends up crouched at John's feet.  With a gun pointing at his head, he pretends to be an hostage until John calms him down..)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; What the fuck are you doing up here?  &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What were you looking for?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Hans:&lt;/strong&gt;  I was ..trying to get up, on the roof and.. see if I could signal for help.  You know.. &lt;em&gt;(looks back to where he'd stashed the gun)&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;It's just through here.  Why don't you come and help.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; Hold it.  Forget the roof. &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(as Hans goes to pass through the passage between industrial units to retrieve the gun.&#xA;John swings the weapon around so it is again pointing at Hans)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; I said &lt;strong&gt;forget the roof,&lt;/strong&gt; they got people all over it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Come on, you want to stay alive, stay with me.  &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(Hans 'has a look' before scene breaks to FBI)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(Cuts back.  John takes out cigarette pack with 2 left)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; You smoke?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Hans:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(smiles)&lt;/em&gt; ..Yeah.  Thanks.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(John has one cig. in mouth as he passes the pack and remaining cigarette to Hans.&#xA;There is a directory board over Hans left shoulder, showing names and locations of employees.&#xA;John has has weapon pointed in Hans' general direction. Not directly at him, but not far off either.&#xA;Hans takes the last cigarette and slips the empty pack in his pocket as John pulls out a Zippo.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Hans:&lt;/strong&gt; You don't work for Nakatomi. And you're not one of them..&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(John, now turned further away from Hans, smiles wryly)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm a cop from New York.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Hans:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Hans shows some surprise)&lt;/em&gt; ..from New York! &lt;em&gt;(chuckles)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah..  Got invited to the Christmas party by mistake.  Who knew?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(Hans chuckles, notices John's bare feet, John starts chuckling..)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; Ehh.. Better than being caught with your pants down, huh? &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(Hans also chuckles, John glances at directory)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm John McClane.  You're uh..&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Hans:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Hans looks blank for a moment)&lt;/em&gt;  Clay. &lt;em&gt;(smiles)&lt;/em&gt; Bill.. Clay.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(John glances back at Directory and sees a Clay, W.M. from the 29th floor.  Nods to himself.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; Know how to use a hand gun, Bill?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Hans:&lt;/strong&gt; I spent a weekend at a combat ranch. That game with the guns that shoot red paint. Probably seems stupid to you.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(John has been doing things with the hand gun, seems to put a clip in it and cock it.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt;  Nope.  &lt;em&gt;(John holds out gun, to Hans.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Time for the real thing, Bill.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(Hans looks at the gun, looks at John, then slowly, reaches out to take it.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; All you got to do is pull the trigger.  Come on.  &lt;em&gt;(Walks past Hans.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(Hans drops his cigarette, stamps it out, and speaks into his radio..)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Hans:&lt;/strong&gt; 33. Stockwerk.  Kommt sofort.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(He takes his time, aiming the gun at John as John walks slowly away, with a 'I knew it..' look on his face)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;'click' &lt;em&gt;(as he ..again, cocks the weapon)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(John takes out his cigarette and slowly turns back to face Hans.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Hans:&lt;/strong&gt; Put down the gun, and &lt;strong&gt;give me my detonators.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(John takes a drag on his cigarette)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Well, well, well.. Hans.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Hans:&lt;/strong&gt; Put it down.  Now.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; That's pretty tricky with that accent.  You oughta' be on fuckin' TV with that accent.  (Slowly walks back towards Hans)  &lt;strong&gt;But what do you want with the detonators Hans? I already used all of the explosives.  ..Or did I?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Hans:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm going to count to three.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah.  Like you did with Takagi?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(Hans pulls trigger)&lt;/em&gt;  'click'..&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; Oops.. &lt;em&gt;('click, click, click)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;No bullets.  What do you think - I'm fuckin' stupid, Hans?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;('bing' as elevator arrives)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Hans:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(dripping with sarcasm)&lt;/em&gt; You were saying?&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Transcribing those two scenes as I was watching them again, I think that John was not fooled for a moment, but was trying to draw out as much information as he could from this chance hostage.  I don't think he at first realized it was Hans himself, but John knew all along that it was one of the gang members.  He was probably surprised that the leader would be forced to do his own 'trivial tasks' away from their main stronghold on the 30th floor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that most of the early time he has a gun pointed in Hans' general direction.  But he reaches a stage where he realizes he must convince 'Bill' that he himself is convinced of his story, so gives him the (unloaded) weapon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When John glanced at the directory and found the name, he was probably thinking something along the lines of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK - this guy is no dummy - better be &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;real careful with him.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allowing Hans to get on the radio indicates he was not quite careful enough, he'd gambled a bit too much in order to get more information, and it almost cost his life (for the umpteenth time that evening).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2021-01-10T18:37:43.743" LastActivityDate="2021-01-10T18:37:43.743" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28431" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-25T17:31:20.770" Score="8" ViewCount="3959" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_Girl_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gone Girl&lt;/a&gt;, Detective Rhonda Boney knows that Amy has killed Desi deliberately. But still just because they are unable to find any clue they let her go. That is no justice in my opinion. If she believes that Amy killed Desi and tried to frame Nick for her disappearance then it is sufficient enough for FBI to investigate her case more closely. I mean its a murder not some robbery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="16363" LastEditDate="2014-12-27T05:05:24.053" LastActivityDate="2022-06-02T22:05:41.417" Title="Why was Amy not arrested?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gone-girl|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21524" CreationDate="2014-12-25T18:37:50.707" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 12 Episode 9, about 52 minutes in, Serena Southerlyn makes the statement, &quot;My ex used to give me his cell phone to put in my purse all the time.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16673" LastActivityDate="2014-12-25T18:37:50.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28434" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="55993" CreationDate="2014-12-26T01:31:24.820" Score="7" ViewCount="413" Body="&lt;p&gt;Brody learned that the CIA wants him gone after they think that the mission failed. He then comes to Abu Nazir's wife, Nassrin, and convinced her to setup an emergency meeting with Danesh Akbari by saying that he has information about Majid Javadi. It looks like that Brody really intend to burn the mission down by exposing the CIA's plan and Javadi. Only until when they are alone in the room and he realized that he can kill Akbari did we know that the mission is still on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, did Brody really intend to kill Akbari in the finale or was that just a sudden change of heart when he thinks he got a chance to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16677" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-12-26T12:10:14.730" LastActivityDate="2016-06-26T01:11:00.053" Title="In Season 3 finale, did Brody really mean to finish the mission or only after he have the chance?" Tags="|plot-explanation|homeland|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28435" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-26T01:46:43.587" Score="2" ViewCount="235" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the movie &lt;em&gt;The Guest&lt;/em&gt; was quite consistent I can't figure out one thing - why did Major Carver, KPG executive, not carry out any kind of reconnaissance before trying to apprehended David. They could have observed the house through binoculars or at least approach it from front and back (basic movie stuff when two cops get some criminal and prevent him running through the back door). Any ideas why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7857" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-13T00:43:37.603" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T00:43:37.603" Title="Why did the operators just came to the house?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-guest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28436" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28441" CreationDate="2014-12-26T05:42:54.207" Score="5" ViewCount="1589" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;em&gt;The Truman Show&lt;/em&gt;, Truman expresses a desire to leave the island and to explore the world. He attempts to leave via car/boat/bus but is always thwarted by the intervention of Christof, like a broken down bus or an incident at the nuclear plant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Christof obviously doesn't want Truman leaving the island, as it would mark the end of the Truman Show, but in some scenes we see various ways for Truman to leave the island, world maps and potential destinations for Truman to explore, like Fiji. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't it be easier for Christof to not include the bridge out of town, the bus service or  the travel agency, and to withhold maps and any information about the outside world from Truman, so that he would grow up believing the island he lives on is 'the world'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16678" LastActivityDate="2014-12-26T14:32:37.727" Title="Why does Christof include 'exits' in Truman's world?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-truman-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28431" CreationDate="2014-12-26T06:49:46.857" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;First up, just to get it out of way, the FBI was never involved. The detectives were probably from the local PD. Now, back to the question of implicating Amy for the murder of Desi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though Amy came clean with Nick and told him about killing Desi, there just wasn't any evidence for an investigation against Amy. The CCTV footage from Desi's lake house, the bruising that she gave herself, all were consistent with rape, abuse and unlawful confinement. She had brilliantly orchestrated and disguised the murder as her self-defence and escape, making the entire thing more or less an air-tight case in her favour. And whatever little doubt that people like Detective Boney had, was swept under the tide of emotions surrounding the abduction and subsequent homecoming of Amy. So much so that when Detective Boney tried to prod her on the weak links in her story, she was promptly snubbed by her senior. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was no opening to force an investigation on Amy. And yes, there was no justice for Nick or Desi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastActivityDate="2014-12-26T06:49:46.857" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28440" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-26T10:15:34.583" Score="2" ViewCount="7492" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed a lot of movie and pop culture references in The Interview (2014). I was wondering if Dave Skylark's line here is a reference to something:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Aaron: We could be doing something positive. We could be having on&#xA;  authors, activists, politicians.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dave: That's what people want. &quot;Give us some shit. Mangia. We're the&#xA;  people. Give us the shit. Mangia, mangia, mangia.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I'm not sure if &quot;mangia&quot; is the proper spelling. &lt;a href=&quot;https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mangia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Searching for &quot;mangia&quot; shows links to Italian restaurants&lt;/a&gt;. While &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia's article for &quot;Mangia&quot;&lt;/a&gt; is about a video game. I'm not sure if either is related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2014-12-26T10:25:58.507" LastActivityDate="2015-02-25T06:27:03.013" Title="Is Dave Skylark's line containing &quot;Mangia. We're the people. Give us the sh-t.&quot; a reference to something?" Tags="|dialogue|reference|the-interview|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28436" CreationDate="2014-12-26T11:48:59.260" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Truman's world was a stage for advertisements, not a prison, a matrix, or a zoo specifically for Truman. It was not about unknowing incarceration, Truman was just a prop. Truman's world needed to be believable &lt;em&gt;for the outside world, the audience&lt;/em&gt;, not for Truman himself. People wanted to see the real life, or at least a theme park version. For this to work you need to reproduce the world as it is. Christof needs to take care not to break the suspension of disbelief. He promised to show a &quot;true&quot;, everyday life; would you believe that if some of the normal commodities don't exist just for the convenience of the show? A world without buses, world maps, or outside connections is imaginable. But it is an imagination, a fantasy world. It is something different than the promise Christof gave. Truman lives in a clean, idealized town, but it is an imaginable one in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the stage is a workplace for actors. They need to enter, they need to exit daily. As we can see most people are not living full time there (another question could be: Why not?). Nothing is produced there, people don't do real jobs (e.g. the hospital), most buildings are just facades. So while we don't see it a lot of people and material need to be brought into and out of the dome constantly. Some things look like they could be constructed more efficiently, e.g. using a &quot;real&quot; bus service for the people transport instead of installing a unused (unusable) fake overland bus service. But it seems that there was a strict distinction between on-stage props and off-stage material. Everything on-stage was glossy, new, and unused, for advertisement's sake and to create a &quot;perfect&quot; world. Used real things (like real buses) would break this, and probably helped the actors to maintain the distinction as it was obvious when they were in role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I agree that there are things that could have been done differently in detail. But in general Christof couldn't just get rid of anything that could be potentially harmful to Trueman's naiveté.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2014-12-26T14:32:37.727" LastActivityDate="2014-12-26T14:32:37.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28444" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-26T16:31:33.333" Score="3" ViewCount="1413" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series, Sherlock - Season 2 Episode 1 titled 'A Scandal in Belgravia', at the very end of that episode Sherlock would regain his memories happened in Karachi. Then he will say &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Woman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; with &lt;strong&gt;thaa&lt;/strong&gt; sound for the word '&lt;strong&gt;The&lt;/strong&gt;'. And again for the second time he repeats &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Woman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. But this time its with &lt;strong&gt;thee&lt;/strong&gt; sound for the word '&lt;strong&gt;The&lt;/strong&gt;'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that according to English grammar and vocabulary, 'the' before a word can be pronounced with two sounds &lt;em&gt;thaa&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;thee&lt;/em&gt;. And I also know that these pronunciations &lt;em&gt;thaa&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;thee&lt;/em&gt; will be enunciated before consonant sounds and vowel sounds respectively. Sherlock is good with his English vocabulary as it was very clearly explained the previous episode (S01E03).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why did Sherlock pronounce 'The' in &quot;The Woman&quot; with &lt;em&gt;thee&lt;/em&gt; sound, even though it is followed by a consonant. Does that mean something? Or am I weak with English vocabulary. Clear me out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15910" LastEditorUserId="9684" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T07:02:50.777" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T07:02:50.777" Title="In Sherlock, why was there a change of pronunciation of 'the' at the end?" Tags="|dialogue|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28251" CreationDate="2014-12-26T21:30:30.727" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Battle of Five Armies occured in 2941 T.A. while Aragorn was born in 2931 T.A. Therefore he is born already but &lt;strong&gt;only 10 years old&lt;/strong&gt; at the time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Five_Armies#cite_note-0&quot;&gt;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Five_Armies#cite_note-0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Aragorn_II_Elessar&quot;&gt;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Aragorn_II_Elessar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(You can google other sources but they all agree to this)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people doubt Jackson would allow for such mistake (What Thranduil says doesn't make any sense if Aragorn is 10) But considering other plot holes and overall quality of this last installment of the trilogy, it may actually be the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16685" LastActivityDate="2014-12-26T21:30:30.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16273" CreationDate="2014-12-26T22:09:54.627" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movie title is ironic because Marathoners run 42,195 km (in standard race) and they don't have the energy to run the lap of honor. Movie is black comedy so title fits. Marathoners are sixs generations of family Topalović. Movie ends in bloodshed, so its their &quot;final lap&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3240" LastActivityDate="2014-12-26T22:09:54.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28440" CreationDate="2014-12-27T05:30:03.697" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though my girlfriend disagrees, I am fairly confident this is reference to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal%C3%B2,_or_the_120_Days_of_Sodom&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Salò, the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)&lt;/a&gt;, an Italian art film that depicts characters eating feces. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a YouTube link to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GVV7L66xh4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;specific scene&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16693" LastEditorUserId="16693" LastEditDate="2014-12-27T06:51:58.387" LastActivityDate="2014-12-27T06:51:58.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28458" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28466" CreationDate="2014-12-27T05:53:42.553" Score="5" ViewCount="20421" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a TV series, called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320038/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John Doe&lt;/a&gt; I think, about a man who finds himself on a beach with amnesia about his recent past. Yet he find he has an encyclopedic memory and can cleverly apply it. So he has some adventures like a modern Sherlock Holmes trying to help people. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series was on for a few months I think then it was no more. I just wondered what happened to it? Did it not have much of an audience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16694" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T23:33:20.417" LastActivityDate="2016-08-31T19:28:03.793" Title="Why was John Doe cancelled?" Tags="|cancellation|john-doe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24097" CreationDate="2014-12-27T08:53:03.553" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can argue all day long whether she should have had the power to grow her wings back, but I have another take on this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stefan represented trust and love in your enemy. There is a line where the narrator says something along the line: she doesn't understand the envy and power lust of men that made Stefan spend less time with her. So even seeing and being aware of all this in Stefan himself she still loved and trusted him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he betrayed her he betrayed all that love and trust. She didn't want to grow/take her wings back because she needed a constant reminder of the betrayer of men, a constant reminder of why she is suffering and why she has to be evil. When she is turned back to being good by Aurora she can finally accept her wings back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Loosing her wings and gaining them back symbolize loosing all the good in her and then gaining it back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8313" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-01T19:24:56.193" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T19:24:56.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28458" CreationDate="2014-12-27T13:06:25.660" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was cancelled because of dwindling ratings and being replaced by another show. The same fate that many great shows (&lt;em&gt;cough&lt;/em&gt;Firefly&lt;em&gt;cough&lt;/em&gt;) shared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2003/05/08/fox-lets-the-axe-fall-on-john-doe-15941/5931/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Futoncritic.com&lt;/a&gt;: (emphasis mine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;John Doe's&amp;quot; search for the truth is over. A source close to the FOX series has informed us the network will not renew the series for a second season. The producers of the drama were informed yesterday about the news.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The news comes as no surprise after recent reports had the network's support shifting from &amp;quot;Doe&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;Fastlane.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; FOX executives had repeatedly stated they hoped to keep one of the two dramas for next season as part of a new Thursday or Friday lineup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;After debuting to an impressive 9.8 million viewers in September of last year, &amp;quot;Doe's&amp;quot; audience dropped more than 40% by its finale last month (5.8 million viewers).&lt;/strong&gt; Among adults 18-49 the erosion was even more noticeable (4.3 vs. 2.4 average rating for the hour) as the series routinely finished third in its time slot among the four major networks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-12-27T13:06:25.660" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28468" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28469" CreationDate="2014-12-27T15:16:51.203" Score="6" ViewCount="1334" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Jerk (1979)&lt;/em&gt; there's a line like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Navin: Really? A cosmetologist? It must be tough to handle the weightlessness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does it mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2018-10-25T14:59:12.337" LastActivityDate="2018-10-25T14:59:12.337" Title="What does the &quot;Cosmetologist&quot; line mean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|the-jerk|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28468" CreationDate="2014-12-27T15:39:53.560" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The humor is in the misconception that a cosmetologist goes into space, which is weightless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The word Navin was confusing was COSMONAUT - an astronaut, or&#xA;COSMOLOGIST - astrophysicist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2014-12-27T15:39:53.560" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1992" CreationDate="2014-12-27T16:38:46.887" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He washes his hands repeatedly using bleach as he is subconsciously aware of what he has done and is trying to &quot;wash the blood off his hands&quot; so to speak in an albeit psychosomatic manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He didn't notice the fridge as his mind had subconsciously omitted it from his memory and prevented him from seeing what would be evidence of Ivan's true identity as Trevor himself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could argue that the rotting fish is representative of Trevor's crime and it's effect on his mind. He shuts it away in the freezer and never looks at it, as he shuts out memory of his crime in his head. It then starts to deteriorate and decay, spoiling the rest of the freezer contents, as the cognitive dissonance caused by Trevor's denial of his guilt causes his mind to decay in a similar fashion. The freezer then ceases to work and the contents spill out as Trevor's mind decays at first privately and then conspicuously to those around him, until his guilt becomes so blatant to himself that he forces himself to finally look at it for what it is, as Trevor eventually opens the freezer and looks inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16704" LastActivityDate="2014-12-27T16:38:46.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28475" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-28T00:12:25.603" Score="7" ViewCount="802" Body="&lt;p&gt;In real life, United States presidential elections are held every four years. The first was held in 1788 (roughly) and as such the elections of recent times have been held in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in The West Wing's President Bartlet was elected in 1998, and subsequent presidential elections depicted in the show take place in 2002 and 2006.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The obvious out-of-universe explanation is that Sorkin wanted the show to take place in (then) current day, and wanted Bartlet to be in the early part of his term at the beginning of the show. The show debuted in 1999, so it obviously wouldn't fit if he was elected in 1996 or 2000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has an in-universe explanation ever been given? I'm in the middle of Season 4, and the most recent real-life president I've heard mentioned was Richard Nixon. Did the Nixon presidency end differently than in real life, somehow prompting a constitutional change that shifted presidential elections by two years? Or was the first presidential election shifted by two years from real life in the show's continuity? Or did the writers just sweep this under the rug and never address it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16715" LastActivityDate="2016-10-19T17:07:18.463" Title="Is an in-universe explanation ever given for why presidential elections are staggered differently than in real life?" Tags="|the-west-wing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28394" CreationDate="2014-12-28T01:24:46.290" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mary Margaret became Mayor in the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://onceuponatime.wikia.com/wiki/White_Out&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;White Out&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, the 2nd episode of Season 4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A blackout strikes the town. David and Emma investigate the issue at&#xA;  the border as Mary Margaret stays home. Unexpectedly, Granny, Happy&#xA;  and Leroy persuade her into fixing the power issue. She balks, as this&#xA;  is a task for the mayor, but they believe Regina no longer wants the&#xA;  job. Granny stresses that Mary Margaret cast the last curse, so she&#xA;  must step up. Additionally, Leroy recalls they reclaimed her kingdom&#xA;  in the Enchanted Forest, but Storybrooke is her kingdom now, so she&#xA;  has to rule it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clip of the appropriate scene:&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/In8XLjbG1i4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This deleted scene from the same episode has Regina passing the mayorship over to Snow (instead of the townspeople):&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/dF9csfGYzcY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="15418" LastEditDate="2014-12-28T01:35:48.153" LastActivityDate="2014-12-28T01:35:48.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28482" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28484" CreationDate="2014-12-28T02:24:56.930" Score="4" ViewCount="261" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Master and Commander when Lucky Jack is bearing down on the Acheron,  I noticed one of the seaman - and going by the camera angles used we were meant to notice this - holding a rope which is dragging in the water as it slips through his hands.   Another seaman has an hour glass and when the sand runs out he calls then the guy with the rope calls out the number of knots in the type have slipped through his hands (I think).  Going by the context of the scene as a whole they are measuring speed but I want to know is exactly HOW exactly this works.   I am guessing there is a weight on the end of the rope and the rope is a certain length and there is a certain distance between each knot.  They must be an equation linked to this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13357" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-28T12:31:16.280" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T00:47:56.510" Title="Measuring speed on the Surprise(?)" Tags="|plot-explanation|master-and-commander|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28482" CreationDate="2014-12-28T02:40:27.763" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, that is basically how it works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_(unit)#Origin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quote a well known web page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Until the mid-19th century, vessel speed at sea was measured using a chip log. This consisted of a wooden panel, attached by line to a reel, and weighted on one edge to float perpendicularly to the water surface and thus present substantial resistance to the water moving around it. The chip log was &quot;cast&quot; over the stern of the moving vessel and the line allowed to pay out.[5] Knots placed at a distance of 47 feet 3 inches (14.4018 m) passed through a sailor's fingers, while another sailor used a 30-second sand-glass (28-second sand-glass is the currently accepted timing) to time the operation.[6] The knot count would be reported and used in the sailing master's dead reckoning and navigation. This method gives a value for the knot of 20.25 in/s, or 1.85166 km/h. The difference from the modern definition is less than 0.02%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find images of the device on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_log&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;its page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/353Wf.png&quot; alt=&quot;Chip Log diagram&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BOoHx.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BOoHx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Chip Log&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-09T00:47:56.510" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T00:47:56.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28407" CreationDate="2014-12-28T07:26:34.717" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's what I think happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember when Robin was at the Congress and they were about to release a new chemical &quot;product&quot; that would allow people to &quot;become&quot; or &quot;be&quot; Robin Wright?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Robin's son left her a chemical version of him, and that allowed her to experience his life and memories from his point of view. That's why we saw when he has breastfeeding, when he was growing up, and snippets of his life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We then see Robin looking like her son (which kind of explains my theory,) in the desert where another version of her son is flying a Wright brothers plane (which was mentioned during the film, when the boy speaks to the doctor.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is the final hallucination that Robin's son chose. He's the &quot;first Wright brother&quot;. Maybe he left that to her mom so that they could eventually reunite, at least &quot;chemically&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16721" LastEditorUserId="14028" LastEditDate="2017-01-14T08:02:46.020" LastActivityDate="2017-01-14T08:02:46.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28487" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-28T08:06:36.403" Score="6" ViewCount="421" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a scene in the episode of The Sopranos, called &quot;Mergers and Acquisitions&quot; where Valentina La Paz gets up after being with Tony Sopranos. The positioning of her body with regards to the camera and the way she puts on a top and, in particular, the look on her face seems to be an homage to the scene in Devil's Advocate where the wives are trying on clothes and Mary sees a demonic face on one of the women.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence at all to support that this is deliberate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that homages to Goodfellas throughout the show are deliberate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4550" LastEditorUserId="4550" LastEditDate="2017-10-06T20:41:02.983" LastActivityDate="2017-10-06T20:41:02.983" Title="Sopranos: Mergers &amp; Acquisitions - Devil's Advocate Homage?" Tags="|reference|the-sopranos|the-devils-advocate|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28488" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28647" CreationDate="2014-12-28T09:15:19.153" Score="2" ViewCount="530" Body="&lt;p&gt;In response to Sony pulling The Interview (albeit temporarily), various writers wrote about how much money it was projected to make, had it been released according to schedule. Assuming that the sources reporting these projections are generally reliable in other fields, how trustworthy are they when it comes to movies? In other words, how good are analysts or movie studios at predicting the financial success of a given movie?&#xA;Bonus points for showing how these predictions are actually factored in to studio's decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13362" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-28T12:28:49.997" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T13:42:44.527" Title="Is it possible to predict the financial success of movies?" Tags="|film-industry|distribution|box-office|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28475" CreationDate="2014-12-28T12:08:35.043" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't recall a year ever being spoken during the entire series. As you said, the show begins after Bartlett has been in office for about a year but it never states &lt;em&gt;which&lt;/em&gt; year. Present-day doesn't necessarily mean this week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only time they try to match reality is 3x00 and even the disclaimer at the beginning doesn't outright say it's 2001.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16727" LastActivityDate="2014-12-28T12:08:35.043" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28491" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-28T14:08:00.977" Score="7" ViewCount="54166" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Maze Runner&lt;/em&gt;, the group escaping the maze is able to open the accessway to the control room through 2 things -- holding the amputated leg/electronic &quot;key&quot; taken from the Griever and knowing the 8 digit combination based on the cycle of sectors exposed. As Gally is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0375451/bio&quot;&gt;keeper&lt;/a&gt; and not a runner, he wouldn't necessarily know the exact order of the sectors the way Minho does -- in fact, he shouldn't even have been able to find the area behind sector 7 because he doesn't run the maze. And when he does, he doesn't have the electronic key held by Chuck which opens the doors which slammed shut as our heroes opened the inner coded door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how did he get there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3552" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-28T14:15:10.110" LastActivityDate="2019-01-12T04:44:04.417" Title="How did Gally get into the control room?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-maze-runner|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28492" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-28T14:12:21.627" Score="4" ViewCount="17737" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ben was a &lt;em&gt;Maze Runner&lt;/em&gt; who attacked Thomas after Ben was stung by a Griever. The boys seem shocked that Ben was stung &quot;during the day.&quot; If he was stung IN the maze then what was he doing back all ready; it was still early in the day. Why didn't anyone notice his incredibly early return. If he had been stung the day before then the reaction took time (which didn't seem to be the case in anyone else's experience). And when else could they have expected Ben to have been stung? Unless Grievers are walking through the Glade (and at that point, they weren't) the only time Ben would have been out would have been during the day -- he couldn't have gotten stung at night. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3552" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-28T14:14:35.397" LastActivityDate="2016-11-23T23:58:08.143" Title="How was Ben stung?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-maze-runner|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3052" CreationDate="2014-12-28T21:03:50.763" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Betty Friedan's book was a bestseller then, describing the dull empty ache and deep dissatisfaction so-called happy housewives suffered. They're not allowed to voice it. They can't even identify it to themselves. So it manifests in idiopathic ways like shaking and numbness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post-war 1950s-60s married women had 'everything,' so what's the problem? Whether their college degrees were professional- or Mrs-bound, women were rendered merely 'helpmates' to their husbands they should feel so lucky to have 'landed.' It would be unthinkable to have a life or even opinions of their own. There was nowhere for an unspeakable feeling of anxiety and loss of identity to go, so Betty's hands went numb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16731" LastActivityDate="2014-12-28T21:03:50.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28496" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28500" CreationDate="2014-12-28T22:13:05.170" Score="30" ViewCount="391247" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0926084/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the crew (now reduced to only Harry and  Hermione) wander through the Forest of Dean when a Patronus in the shape of a doe leads Harry to the frozen lake where he finds the Sword of Godric Gryffindor. Later during the events of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1201607/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Part 2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we (and Harry) take a look at the late Prof. Snape's memories and see that it was actually Snape who cast a doe Patronus (supposedly to Harry's aid), much to Dumbledore's surprise, who therefrom deduces a relation to Lily Potter (who Snape was secretly in love with all the years, albeit only unilaterally):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dumbledore:&lt;/strong&gt; Lily, after all this time?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Snape:&lt;/strong&gt; Always.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which already makes me wonder what Dumbledore was actually surprised about there. Was he simply surprised that Snape still loved Lily or was there anything deeper suggested with this Patronus? Add to this that Harry was a bit confused, too, and asked Dumbledore (or at least his mind-image of him, however you take that scene) about the reason for the related Patronuses, which didn't clear any confusions for me, though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry:&lt;/strong&gt; Professor, my mother's patronus was a doe, wasn't it? That's the same as professor Snape's. That's curious, don't you think?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dumbledore:&lt;/strong&gt; Actually, if I think about it, it doesn't seem curious at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my first question would be, &lt;strong&gt;is there any deeper reason why Prof. Snape and Lily Potter both have a doe as Patronus&lt;/strong&gt; or is it just to express that they've always been what one would call soulmates? And &lt;strong&gt;why did the Patronus appear in the Forest of Dean at that moment?&lt;/strong&gt; Snape's discussion with Dumbledore and his casting of the Patronus occurred way earlier than that (as Dumbledore obviously was still alive, so at maximum during the events of the &lt;em&gt;Half-Blood Prince&lt;/em&gt;). If that was implied to have been the same Patronus that appeared at the Forest of Dean (as the montage implies), why/how/where did it wait for so long? Is this just one of those various moments of stuff &quot;magically&quot; appearing when needed (as the Gryffindor Sword and the Room of Requirements use to do) or is there a more elaborate reason the movie just didn't delve into (or am I just too stupid to get it)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-09T12:49:37.207" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T12:49:37.207" Title="What is the nature of Professor Snape's Patronus and why does it appear in the Forest of Dean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|the-deathly-hallows-1|the-deathly-hallows-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28498" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-28T23:07:18.137" Score="5" ViewCount="892" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are these movies an example of--or a type of playbook for--spiritual growth?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first movie forces J (Will Smith) to shed the reality of People; to let go of the world he knew.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The second movie forces J to shed the physical wants of Love; to let Love go--with it's smiles &amp;amp; frowns.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And the third film, forces J to understand the truth; to not demonize others; for others have always and will always be there for you; regardless of your understanding of the current world.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If these were spirit enhancing films, is the goal of each (and all other like movies) to ultimately reach a state of 'Griffin' (where in the third film, he chooses what world he lives in; and due to believing in it with his entire body, he goes there, and brings those who are under his arms).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16735" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-10-11T10:59:49.397" LastActivityDate="2015-10-11T10:59:49.397" Title="Are the Men In Black movies an example of spiritual growth?" Tags="|analysis|men-in-black-3|men-in-black|men-in-black-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28499" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-28T23:23:05.057" Score="10" ViewCount="19891" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the pilot of &lt;em&gt;Marco Polo&lt;/em&gt;, Marco is asked in front of the Khan's court which land he thinks has the most beautiful women.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He answers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Italy we have a saying: „The true sweetness of wine is one flavor.“&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of the idiom in general and in the context of the scene? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2014-12-29T08:55:24.927" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T14:36:51.623" Title="What does Marco's answer to the Khan about women and wine mean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|marco-polo|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28496" CreationDate="2014-12-29T00:52:30.003" Score="24" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was he simply surprised that Snape still loved Lily?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe so. This memory takes place at least 16 years after Lily and James' murder, and I believe it's likely to be the first time Snape shared his feelings with Dumbledore since the day he broke down in tears upon hearing of Lily's death. Considering that Dumbledore probably knows how Snape treats Harry, he may well be surprised to hear that Severus still cares so much for her, but so little for her son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is there any deeper reason why Prof. Snape and Lily Potter both have a doe as Patronus or is it just to express that they've always been what one would call soulmates?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think they were soulmates, Snape's infatuation with the dark arts and his prejudice against muggleborns were completely antithetical to Lily's ancestry, kindness and goodness. Snape simply loved her, and his patronus reflected this, as it does with several others:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Harry's patronus forms itself into a stag, just like his father's. This happens before he finds out about his father being a stag in his animagi form, so it can't be intentional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the book of The Half-Blood Prince, when &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Nymphadora_Tonks&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nymphadora Tonks&lt;/a&gt; casts a patronus to send a message, Snape comments on the fact that her patronus has changed (into a huge four-legged beast which Harry is unable to identify), towards the end of the book it is revealed that it has actually transformed into a Werewolf, as she has fallen in love with &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Remus_Lupin&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Remus Lupin&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Aberforth_Dumbledore&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Aberforth Dumbledore&lt;/a&gt;'s patronus is a goat, and he was once charged with performing &amp;quot;inappropriate charms on a goat&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may even be the case that Lily's patronus is a doe because a doe is the female of a stag, and Lily loved James, though there's no hard evidence on this (that I'm aware of).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;why did the Patronus appear at the Forest of Dean at that moment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't. The scene in which Snape casts the patronus is unrelated to why (or how) Snape's patronus shows up in The Forest of Dean later, and the final memory Harry sees in the pensieve which explains this was removed from the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now Snape stood again in the headmaster’s study as Phineas Nigellus came hurrying into his portrait.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Headmaster! They are camping in the Forest of Dean! The Mudblood – ”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Do not use that word!”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“ – the Granger girl, then, mentioned the place as she opened her bag and I heard her!”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Good. Very good!” cried the portrait of Dumbledore behind the headmaster’s chair. “Now, Severus, the sword! Do not forget that it must be taken under conditions of need and valor – and he must not know that you give it! If Voldemort should read Harry’s mind and see you acting for him – ”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I know,” said Snape curtly. He approached the portrait of Dumbledore and pulled at its side. It swung forward, revealing a hidden cavity behind it from which he took the sword of Gryffindor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“And you still aren’t going to tell me why it’s so important to give Potter the sword?” said Snape as he swung a traveling cloak over his robes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“No, I don’t think so,” said Dumbledore’s portrait. “He will know what to do with it. And Severus, be very careful, they may not take kindly to your appearance after George Weasley’s mishap – ”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Snape turned at the door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Don’t worry, Dumbledore,” he said coolly. “I have a plan…”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of the context needed for this scene had already been removed, to understand this you need to remember (from the books only):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All portraits of former Headmasters at Hogwarts will do whatever the current headmaster asks of them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Phineas_Nigellus_Black&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Phineas Nigellus&lt;/a&gt; has a portrait in Sirius' House as well as the headmaster's study at Hogwarts (he's Sirius' great great grandfather and a former headmaster)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Harry, Ron and Hermione read in the Daily Prophet that Snape has been named headmaster of Hogwarts, Hermione puts the portait in her extended handbag so Phineas can't spy on them and report back to Snape&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;During their time in exile, they occasionally talk to the portrait to try and get information about what's happening at Hogwarts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T23:28:58.540" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28498" CreationDate="2014-12-29T02:06:59.067" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would feel that you are right. I haven't thought about it before, but what you said does make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://timeforchange.org/definition-of-spiritual-growth-what-is-spiritual-growth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Definition of spiritual growth&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no official and exact definition of spiritual growth. We -&#xA;and many others - use personal spiritual growth as synonyms for other&#xA;terms like e.g. personal spiritual development, to develop higher&#xA;awareness or to develop higher consciousness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated above, it depends on someone's view of the true meaning of &lt;code&gt;spiritual growth&lt;/code&gt;. My opinion on the matter is that since J made this decision and advanced as a person not only physically, but mentally, he changed his life from then on. Like I said, it just depends on the person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11534" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T02:06:59.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21938" CreationDate="2014-12-29T02:58:38.553" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;They slice into the guts to rupture the fish's gallbladder to coat the edges of their axes with it's fluid. I KNOW this is the most likely answer being that I've fished for 22 years and have been filleting fish just as long. It's the first rule of cleaning fish is to remove it's innards and if you so much as poke the gallbladder sack then the fish is ruined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16736" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T02:58:38.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26935" CreationDate="2014-12-29T03:41:06.193" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The suspicion of evidence is not enough to justify a warrant. Regardless of what you see in the movies, a warrant can not be admitted because of suspicion or suspicious activity. the collection of evidence is the initiative of a warrant to be issued. Though no evidence could be found, either in the video or scientific proof of altered video, he maintained his innocence.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16737" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T03:41:06.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28508" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="74158" CreationDate="2014-12-29T11:11:48.140" Score="8" ViewCount="5937" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently rewatched &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_Adventures_of_the_Gummi_Bears&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. The general opinion is that they are not related to each other. There is no father/mother/daughter/son scheme.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;Only Sunni and Cubbi are siblings&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question:&lt;/strong&gt; Is there &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; evidence for relations between Gruffi, Grammi, Zummi, Sunni, Cubbi and Tummi&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3rRFn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;I'm constantly asking myself&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are Grammi and Gruffi the parents or grand parents of the three younger bears? They act like grnad parents but it is never clearly mentioned. &amp;quot;Grammi&amp;quot; could be short for Grandmother&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is Zummi? A brother of Grammi and Gruffi?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is Tummi? A cousin? He's never called &lt;em&gt;brother&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How did the kids get to Gummi Glen without their parents? Where are they?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Should I assume they left there kids back when sailing across the sea? How cruel is that?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney%27s_Adventures_of_the_Gummi_Bears_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;95 segments (1 or 2 per episode)&lt;/a&gt;. Maybe I'm missing something or there are books, comics to complement the TV series&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13473" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2021-10-11T12:43:28.967" Title="How are the Gummi Bears related to each other" Tags="|character|adventures-of-the-gummi-bears|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28499" CreationDate="2014-12-29T11:26:47.443" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question he was asked was a trap, any simple answer he gave would get him in trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he answered anywhere but Mongolia then he would offend his hosts. But answering Mongolia would be seen as spineless flattery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead he deflected the question and answered by saying &quot;The true sweetness of wine is one flavor&quot;. This means that while there may be many different flavors of wine in the world, they all taste good and all get you intoxicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words he finds women everywhere desirable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was an answer cleverly avoiding the trap in the question and by doing so continuing to keep the Khan's interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To expand some more - the phrase is ambiguous and fairly meaningless in of itself. It sounds all mystic and wise but actually has no real meaning. This in itself is deliberate. It allows people to read whatever meaning they want into it. As soon as someone in the court laughs then everyone else has to laugh along or look like they didn't understand the joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it does exist as an Italian saying (and I've seen no evidence to say that it does) then with reference to that culture it may be possible to assign more concrete meaning to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12892" LastEditorUserId="12892" LastEditDate="2015-01-02T21:14:13.830" LastActivityDate="2015-01-02T21:14:13.830" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28492" CreationDate="2014-12-29T11:28:20.023" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you recall, Ben's condition prompted many Gladers to believe the Grievers &lt;strong&gt;had&lt;/strong&gt; started walking through the glade, and they blamed that on Thomas's entering the maze when he wasn't a runner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T11:28:20.023" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28508" CreationDate="2014-12-29T12:44:40.087" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was never established. They live like a family but their relation never got stated. It only indicates that they are sole survivor of Gummi Bears race and live together hiding from humans. And as story progresses it never looked important either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-01T10:04:24.337" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T10:04:24.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28515" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-29T13:24:16.670" Score="4" ViewCount="760" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've done a little research regarding the collector, and he's supposedly one of the most powerful beings in the marvel comics universe.  If that's the case, wouldn't the orb have been safe with him?  Why did the guardians feel like they had to take the stone someplace else when they could have left it with such a powerful being and gotten paid?  The aether seems to be safe with the Collector, and the asgardians seemed to think it was safe to leave the aether with him, so why couldn't the orb have been left with him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16744" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-19T08:45:42.710" LastActivityDate="2015-09-19T08:45:42.710" Title="Why couldn't the guardians leave the infinity stone with the collector?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28515" CreationDate="2014-12-29T13:33:06.783" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my point of view, the obvious answer is the Collector just had his whole collection blown to smithereens &lt;em&gt;due&lt;/em&gt; to the infinity stone. Obviously he is not able to control the destructive power of the stone. Seeing as how it was too much for him, they needed to leave it in other hands. I would also wonder at this point if the Asgardians  might want to rethink their leaving things with the Collector as well ... he's not quite as dependable as previously thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T13:33:06.783" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4325" CreationDate="2014-12-29T15:31:51.800" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll throw this out there. The inconsistancies always bothered me also. But I'm rewatching the series now, and in season 2 episode 7,at the very beginning, it says &quot;3 months later&quot; before the episode starts. It seems plausible that Alisha and Simon could have had that same conversation again sometime during those three months. And so far as Superhoodie always being in the right place at the right time, Simon was there almost every time Superhoodie was in the show. The times he wasn't, the people who saw him, like Nathan on the BMX bike, told Simon about it. To be in the right place at the right time Simon just had to remember when those things happened. Maybe he kept a diary.  Superhoodie also saved Alicia a few times, but I think he might have just been stalking her because he didn't have anything better to do. Or she could have told him about all of those times after they were together.  The only thing that really bothers me is the fact that he had news video from them becoming famous, which was obviously in a reality that disappeared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16748" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T15:31:51.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28077" CreationDate="2014-12-29T16:54:33.517" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Schnittberichte.com&lt;/em&gt; lists &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.schnittberichte.com/svds.php?Page=Titel&amp;amp;ID=1353&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;five&lt;/a&gt; (2004 version) or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.schnittberichte.com/svds.php?Page=Titel&amp;amp;ID=1352&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;eight&lt;/a&gt; (1989 version) different German versions, all of them cut to some extend, to make a realease in Germany possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason given for the ban (actually just &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; giving the label of &quot;&lt;em&gt;not suitable for youth&lt;/em&gt;&quot; (~fsk 18) ) of the uncut movie is given as &quot;wegen exzessiver Gewaltdarstellung und rechtsstaatlich bedenklicher Tendenzen bei menschenverachtender Grundhaltung&quot; by different media, which roughly translates to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Excessive depiction of violence and constitutional questionable tendencies with fundamental inhuman/misanthropic attitude&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without digging up further sources, while the main reason for banning/judging movies in America is nudity, same applies for Germany and brutality and even more so actions/tendencies/opinions against democratic order. This has been reason enough to &quot;make unavailable&quot; certain movies and such, but I wouldn't go as far as to call it &quot;common&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Indizierter_Film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Indizierte&lt;/em&gt; Filme&lt;/a&gt; (not made available)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Beschlagnahmter_Film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Beschlagnahmte&lt;/em&gt; Filme&lt;/a&gt; (forbidden)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8269" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T16:54:33.517" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28521" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-29T18:14:25.503" Score="9" ViewCount="1900" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aside from the obvious Action or Martial Arts, Jackie Chan's movies are filled with very angular fight scenes (i.e. Punch, Hesitation, Retraction, Counter, etc...).  There is a deliberateness to it, and I understand that it needs to be well choreographed but it just doesn't flow the way an actual fight might.  There's always that moment of hesitation after a punch where the arm is left sticking straight out, etc...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Along with this, many times there is some humor injected into the fight scene.  Examples might be after repeated punches to the nose he makes a funny face, or he might flail his arms as if to say, &quot;No more punches to my face!&quot;, and his adversary would hit him in the stomach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen enough Saturday Matinee movies as a kid to know that not all Martial Arts movies are like this.  Bruce Lee movies, for example, featured very straight-forward Martial Arts scenes that were taken seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what I'm wondering is, is there a specific name for this Martial Arts/Comedy style that Jackie Chan employs, or is it just considered Martial Arts/Comedy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-21T22:46:56.027" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T03:03:14.343" Title="Is there a specific style or genre name for Jackie Chan's movies?" Tags="|genre|jackie-chan|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28526" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28527" CreationDate="2014-12-29T19:33:47.003" Score="10" ViewCount="7714" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love the 2011 movie Limitless. In the last scene, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro talk about Bradley becoming president and how Bradley has made his intelligence permanent. Does anyone know whether that was the original ending, or was it a new scene based on feedback from test audiences? It seemed kind of &quot;tacked on&quot;, both in terms of the storyline (though Bradley's presidential ambitions are foreshadowed) and in the way it was shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-29T19:37:53.000" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T19:52:05.793" Title="Was the ending to Limitless reshot?" Tags="|ending|alternate-version|reception|limitless|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28526" CreationDate="2014-12-29T19:44:04.560" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, there is an alternate ending, which is available on the DVD release. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://kotaku.com/5816316/alternate-ending-to-limitless-is-bradley-cooper-heading-for-the-ultimate-hangover&quot;&gt;Kotaku.com&lt;/a&gt; (there is a video of the alternate ending on the site):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the theatrical version, Eddie has apparently managed to kick the&#xA;  brain-enhancing drug, although we're never entirely sure if he's&#xA;  grandstanding. After Robert De Niro threatens Cooper's new political&#xA;  career, Cooper basically goes full-blown superhero on him and tells&#xA;  him to piss off, because he doesn't need the fancy drug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In this alternate version, the sentiment is still the same. But we&#xA;  think the underlying message is that Cooper has gone off the rails.&#xA;  Specifically with this line, &quot;Who says I can't ask the drug how to get&#xA;  off the drug... Ask the drug to tell the drug to fuck itself.&quot; We know&#xA;  that the director might have been trying to show some sort of self&#xA;  restraint developed over time in Cooper, but honestly we think he's&#xA;  gone off into the deep end. Talk to the pills? No thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Limitless&quot;&gt;TVTropes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, in the alternate ending of the film, things are less upbeat.&#xA;  In this ending, it turns out Eddie is still on NZT and his stash isn't&#xA;  going to last forever, which makes Carl's ownership of the supply a&#xA;  lot more threatening in the future. It ends with Eddie telling himself&#xA;  he needs to find a way to get off the drug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="15418" LastEditDate="2014-12-29T19:52:05.793" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T19:52:05.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15978" CreationDate="2014-12-29T20:15:20.903" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it's truly the first appearance, but the 1915 movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0005374/plotsummary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Garden of Lies&lt;/a&gt;, which is based on a 1902 novel of the same name, has this structure: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A man and woman get married.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's a car accident, and the woman gets amnesia.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The man has to go away on a long trip to Europe.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She hires a man to pretend to be her husband to &quot;jar her memory.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do I really need to tell you what happens next?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6567" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T20:15:20.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28491" CreationDate="2014-12-29T20:49:13.270" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In universe, the only indication we get is that Gally throws what we have to believe is an electronic &quot;key&quot; onto the floor as he stands in front Thomas and the others. He possibly could have received this by finding the smashed Grievers and extracting their key from them. Once the others had left the Glade, Gally would have had access to the maze map which the Runners were building and continually updating. This would give him an idea of how to find his way through the maze.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are right though, as it doesn't explain how he would have known the correct series of sectors used as the pass code. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2014-12-29T20:49:13.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14618" CreationDate="2014-12-29T21:07:35.713" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm currently watching this episode and searched for further explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My thoughts are that many of the customs of &amp;quot;worship&amp;quot; if you will, of the indigenous people of Mexico where commingled with Catholicism as the country was conquered by Spain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time of Cortez, Catholicism was a welcome and natural fit for these people after undergoing centuries of human and blood sacrifice.  Blood made their world go round, if you will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Catholism it's all about the Eucharist, or &amp;quot;Body&amp;quot; of Christ. Part of the Eucharist as well is the &amp;quot;Blood&amp;quot; of Christ. Mexico's indigenous people, at the time, embraced this conversion favorably, since it contained a common theme of &amp;quot;Sacrifice&amp;quot;. And certainly a much preferred way of worship.....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many indigenous customs, however, were blended with Catholicism. Part of why Mexico has such a violent and fascinating history. Skulls still represent death in Mexico.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16757" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2022-06-29T21:21:03.430" LastActivityDate="2022-06-29T21:21:03.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28536" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-29T22:24:04.467" Score="4" ViewCount="1631" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which movie started the tradition of black-and-white movies with a first person narrative of a cool, suave private detective that investigates on behalf of a client. (generally wears a fedora and a trench coat, maybe smokes, probably white)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16759" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-30T02:43:21.613" LastActivityDate="2014-12-30T19:09:48.837" Title="Detective Movie Style" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28536" CreationDate="2014-12-30T04:40:27.890" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though it is quite hard to find the very first film that set the trend for Detective Stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the Villa Rose (1920 film) is a film that I know fits the criteria (First Person Narration, Private Detective and White) of your question and is roughly a century old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link below is a filtered search of IMDb for the very first Detective Films ever Recorded.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/title?at=0&amp;amp;genres=mystery&amp;amp;sort=moviemeter,asc&amp;amp;year=1913&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/search/title?at=0&amp;amp;genres=mystery&amp;amp;sort=moviemeter,asc&amp;amp;year=1913&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16728" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-30T11:08:27.010" LastActivityDate="2014-12-30T11:08:27.010" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27494" CreationDate="2014-12-30T06:32:49.343" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a non metaphorical explanation, just an idea I had:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember when she went down to the basement and saw her husband The first time? He then asked for &quot;the boy&quot; so that they could be together again. This kind of reminds me to the voodoo spells where a spirit invades and takes over a body, (like in The Skeleton Key). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My theory is that the spirit of her husband was the babadook. The movie implies that the father was a magician, perhaps he was involved in darker subjects like witchcraft or voodoo and built some sort of spell in the book so that he could come back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the mother did in fact gave the boy to the babadook (the father) so that it could take over the boy's body. The boy's spirit in turn got locked in the babadook which got scared and went down to hide in the basement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the final scene we see the mother and son very happy, like nothing happened. We see the boy do some pretty impressive and fancy magic tricks which are way too complex for his age. When she's taking the worms to the babadook she tells the son not to come in the house, probably because they fear that the babadook (now Sam) will take over his body again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The babadook is no longer as aggressive as before, it calms down when it hears the motherly voice and retreats pretty fast. This might be an indication that perhaps Sam is now trapped in the babadook and her sicko mother and father plan in leaving him down there for ever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16721" LastActivityDate="2014-12-30T06:32:49.343" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28545" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28549" CreationDate="2014-12-30T06:43:17.263" Score="2" ViewCount="2509" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;22 Jump Street&lt;/em&gt;, Jencko &amp;amp; Smidth go again as undercover cops at a college where a girl named Cynthia has died. Early on, they have a photo of&#xA;Cynthia &amp;amp; the drug dealer. Later on they think that Cynthia, in the photo, might actually be the dealer after all. &#xA;In the end, it was   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cynthia's roommate   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;who was the mastermind behind this drug empire in the college.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what role did Cynthia play in the operation? Also, why&#xA;did she die? If it is mentioned in the movie, I must have totally missed it while I fell of the chair laughing for most of the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-30T11:06:05.650" LastActivityDate="2014-12-30T11:06:05.650" Title="What was Cynthia's (the dead girl) role in the drug operations in 22 Jump Street?" Tags="|plot-explanation|22-jump-street|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27802" CreationDate="2014-12-30T07:29:55.603" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are conflating movie ratings and television ratings being displayed, with the content of the programs that are being aired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Broadcast television is subject to the most regulation, as the airwaves are considered to be public property and must be licensed from the government, which attaches many strings, including regulation of content. Even then, the most strict regulation applies between the hours of 6 am and 10 pm local time, when it is assumed that the highest number of children may be watching. The broadcast television industry self-imposes restraints on content between 10 pm and 6 am, mostly out of fear of fines and other punishment by the FCC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;General cable channels on the other hand enjoy much more freedom on what they transmit, since cable is not limited by 'scarce' broadcast frequencies and, according to one judicial opinion, restriction &quot;'implicates First Amendment interests', since a cable operator communicates ideas through selection of original programming and through exercise of editorial discretion in determining which stations to include in its offering&quot;. Multiple attempts by both Congress and the FCC to regulate content on cable in a manner similar to broadcast television have been rejected by courts on First Amendment grounds. &#xA;One of the only restrictions that has survived court challenges is that cable operators must provide, at no charge, the ability to block or scramble any channel to which a customer has not subscribed. (Even this was reduced from a restriction passed into law that required operators to prevent signal bleed of pornographic material by either always scrambling any channel containing it, or not airing the material at all, between the hours of 6 am and 10 pm.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of that said, the cable television industry has for many years also self-regulated content, simply out of fear of angering viewers and driving away advertisers. In recent years, though, some channels - primary examples include FX and Comedy Central - have loosened these &quot;Standards and Practices&quot; restrictions. Channels now regularly air R-rated movies without cuts, and twenty-five years ago, a show like South Park would have been unthinkable outside of a channel like HBO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you note, premium channels show more mature content than their regular cable counterparts. This is partly due to the above-discussed non-regulation of cable television, but also because they do not have advertisers to which they must answer. Viewers angered can simply stop paying for the channel, and while a loss of subscribers is not a good thing for a channel that is mostly or entirely funded by subscription revenue, quality mature programming has a significant market size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Separate from all of the above, television ratings are a &quot;voluntary&quot; system (set up with the cooperation of the broadcast industry, Congress and the FCC, but not officially regulated by government) with no legal force behind them. V-Chips have been required to be included in all TVs manufactured for sale in the US since 1999 by a law passed under Bill Clinton, but the V-Chip uses the ratings voluntarily placed on programming by the industry. Generally speaking, regular cable channels rate all programs (except sports, news and commercials, which are not rated on any channel, cable or otherwise), and premium channels use a mix of MPAA movie ratings and television ratings, depending on the content being shown and (in the case of previously-rated movies) if it has been edited since the original rating was assigned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16766" LastActivityDate="2014-12-30T07:29:55.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28545" CreationDate="2014-12-30T09:56:32.153" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;what role did Cynthia play in the operation?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cynthia is a student at MC state. She's a drug addict and also a dealer and she gets the drugs from her roommate Mercedes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;why did she die?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason was mentioned at the beginning of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She was a student at MC state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She took some whyphy,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;got locked out of her dorm,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;ended up falling off the roof.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And now she's dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;who was the mastermind behind this drug empire in the college.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's Mercedes, she has a connection with drug mafia (I think it's her uncle.). It's shown towards the ending of the movie, that's how she got the drugs and made Cynthia to deal them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this clear things up for you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2014-12-30T09:56:32.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28553" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-30T17:17:30.403" Score="4" ViewCount="4770" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching the movie Foxcatcher, I was very surprised to learn that the movie was rated R, especially considering that there was virtually no sexual content or profanity in the movie at all. The content descriptor states that it earned its rating due to: &quot;some drug use and a scene of violence.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The violent scene was relatively tame and certainly would seem to fall within the realm of PG-13. The drug use involved two characters on different occasions using cocaine. Is that alone enough to push a movie from PG-13 to R?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6553" LastActivityDate="2014-12-30T19:49:18.990" Title="Why was Foxcatcher rated R?" Tags="|content-rating|foxcatcher|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28553" CreationDate="2014-12-30T17:37:48.600" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question may not be able to be answered by people that aren't members of the MPAA or Sony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one but the MPAA (and possibly, but not definitely, the studio) knows the exact criteria the MPAA uses to rate films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed out in the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated, The MPAA will not reveal any information about who or why certain decisions are made, and that the association will not even reveal to the filmmaker the specific scenes that need to be cut in order to get alternative rating [ Kirby Dick (2006-01-25). This Film is not Yet Rated (Film)].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&#xA;Trey Parker and Matt Stone &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDzblNKjsO0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;revealed&lt;/a&gt; that Major Studios can get information from the MPAA regarding the reasons specific cuts of films have received their rating, while independent movie producers can't get the same information. In the same interview they quote the MPAA as saying &quot;we [the MPAA] caan't tell you what to cut because that would make us a censorship organization&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be fair to say that only the MPAA or an executive of the Sony would be able to provide the answer to your question. If Sony has this information, it may have been leaked during the Sony hack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2014-12-30T18:35:07.713" LastActivityDate="2014-12-30T18:35:07.713" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28536" CreationDate="2014-12-30T19:09:48.837" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to put some constraints on my search. You're looking for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;first person narrative of a cool, suave private detective that investigates on behalf of a client. (generally wears a fedora and a trench coat, maybe smokes, probably white)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is what is colloquially known as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HardboiledDetective&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hardboiled Detective&lt;/a&gt; (WARNING: TV Tropes link), a genre generally credited to Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe and Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, who started to gain popularity in the 30's. Hardboiled detectives tended to be tough, cynical, narrated in the first person, had a penchant for attracting dangerous women (the equally iconic Femme Fatales), and true to the fashions of the day wore hats all the time (usually fedoras). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now taking those two iconic detectives we find that the earliest movie that any of them appeared in is &lt;strong&gt;The Maltese Falcon (1931)&lt;/strong&gt; starring Ricardo Cortez as Sam Spade (10 years before the more famous version starring Humphrey Bogart).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a clip from the 1931 movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bgjq7ox6-e4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2014-12-30T19:09:48.837" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28553" CreationDate="2014-12-30T19:49:18.990" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;While Wiki is never a definitive source of information due to the way that information is obtained, you can certainly take a look at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America_film_rating_system#Substance_abuse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki page for MPAA ratings&lt;/a&gt; and have a fairly decent idea of why Foxcatcher might have achieved an R rating.  They appear to be fairly strict on drug depictions due to the morality of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Drug use content is restricted to PG-13 and above.[22] An example of&#xA;  an otherwise PG film being assigned a PG-13 rating for a drug&#xA;  reference (momentary, along with brief language) is Whale Rider. The&#xA;  film contained only mild profanity, but was rated PG-13 because of a&#xA;  scene where drug paraphernalia were briefly visible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A direct quote from that Wiki: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The MPAA rating system is one of various motion picture rating&#xA;  systems that are used to help parents decide what films are&#xA;  appropriate for their children.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depictions of drug use, especially cocaine, are probably best left for older teens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-12-30T19:49:18.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28561" CreationDate="2014-12-30T20:11:26.193" Score="6" ViewCount="1877" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've had these particular scenes in my head for years but I'm curious as to what movie they came from, I must have seen it at least 15 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a henchman messed up in someway he would be summoned to the boss' large office. The boss would be flanked by other henchmen and there would also be tarpaulin laid on the floor. He and the boss would have a brief discussion after which the boss would shoot the henchman. The others would then wrap him up in the tarpaulin laid on the floor and take him away. This left the office nice and clean after the bloody execution. Being called to the boss' office when it is set up in this way meant certain death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a scene later in the movie where someone was called in to the office (same setup, tarpaulin on the floor) but after their discussion he instead gets to walk out. I think he was given an opportunity to correct his mistake or came up with some useful information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16774" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-30T20:33:35.030" LastActivityDate="2014-12-30T21:43:08.017" Title="Movie in which a crime lord executes hencemen in his office" Tags="|identify-this-movie|crime|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:29:46.887" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28557" CreationDate="2014-12-30T21:41:41.027" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if it fits entirely to your description, but there is a similar scene in 1989's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097733/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lethal Weapon 2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The crime boss that &lt;em&gt;Riggs&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Murtaugh&lt;/em&gt; are set against is a South African diplomat, enjoying diplomatic immunity. In one scene he bids one of his minions (or whatever kind of business partner) into his office in which a  big tarpaulin lies. He mentions that he has the painters in his office. But he (or his henchmen?) shoot the guy and wrap him up in the tarpaulin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then in a later scene his second in command henchman is standing in the boss' office (though, there isn't a tarpaulin now) and gets a little telling-off from him, for failing to accomplish something. And at one point the henchman looks to the ground and says something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I just want to make sure I'm not standing on a tarpaulin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2014-12-30T21:41:41.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28557" CreationDate="2014-12-30T21:43:08.017" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097733/&quot;&gt;Lethal Weapon 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[In Rudd's office, Hans meets Rudd &amp;amp; Vorstedt after losing the&#xA;  Krugerrands in the chase] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Arjen Rudd: Hans, come in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[points in front of his desk]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Arjen Rudd: Mind the plastic. I'm having some painting done. Well now,&#xA;  the important thing is, are you all right? Any broken bones?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hans: I'm fine, thank you, Mr. Rudd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Arjen Rudd: Only a few bumps and bruises, eh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hans: Yes, that's all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Arjen Rudd: Good, good. [pause]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Arjen Rudd: However, we did lose over a million dollars in Krugerrand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hans: I know. I'm sorry, Mr. Rudd. It happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Arjen Rudd: Ah, it's not your fault. Sometimes these things do not go&#xA;  as planned. As you say, they just happen... eh, Pieter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Pieter shoots Hans. He falls dead onto the plastic, and Pieter starts&#xA;  wrapping its edges around his body]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pieter Vorstedt: You give a new meaning to the phrase &quot;drop-cloth,&quot;&#xA;  Mr. Rudd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4805" LastActivityDate="2014-12-30T21:43:08.017" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28566" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28572" CreationDate="2014-12-31T00:17:56.117" Score="1" ViewCount="151" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 22 Jump Street, Zook is caught with his tatoo on a picture with Cynthia. Since we know that Zook is not the dealer and neither is Cynthia, why is he on the photo with Cynthia?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16507" LastEditorUserId="34594" LastEditDate="2016-09-24T19:34:27.173" LastActivityDate="2016-09-24T19:34:27.173" Title="Why is Zook on the photo with Cynthia" Tags="|plot-explanation|22-jump-street|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28568" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29917" CreationDate="2014-12-31T00:50:55.197" Score="2" ViewCount="3989" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 4 of Homeland, why did Dennis Boyd steal information for Sandy Bachman? After Bachman’s death, Boyd is blackmailed by an ISI agent; he’s threatened with having his theft be revealed to the FBI, which would land him in prison for treason and destroy his wife's career as ambassador. The threat explains Boyd's actions later in the season, but why was he stealing information for Bachman to begin with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16779" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T01:47:45.360" Title="Why did Dennis Boyd steal information for Sandy Bachman?" Tags="|plot-explanation|homeland|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28566" CreationDate="2014-12-31T03:03:15.547" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was purchasing the drugs from her, not selling them to her, as the cops had originally thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T03:03:15.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28575" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28588" CreationDate="2014-12-31T06:14:34.470" Score="2" ViewCount="789" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Interstellar, Cooper is able to communicate with his daughter once he enters the Black hole and he is revealed to be the ghost sending messages. This seems to be a paradoxical situation as he stumbles upon the NASA station thru these very same messages.&#xA;So the sequence is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cooper is given a message about the location of the NASA station&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cooper goes to the location and joins the expedition&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cooper joins the expedition and eventually gets into the Blackhole&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cooper sends message across space time to guide himself to the NASA station.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this possible? There must have been atleast one reality (assuming parallel universes) in which cooper joined the expedition without getting a clue from his own ghost??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16786" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-31T11:09:32.517" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T12:41:03.127" Title="How does Cooper join the expedition for the first time?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2014-12-31T20:29:17.113" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28575" CreationDate="2014-12-31T07:10:22.087" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As shown at the climax of the movie, Cooper is in the Tessarect room which is a 5 dimensional entity. He can control time &amp;amp; gravity. As he can control time, he can go back to the time where his past self exists. Don't see the paradox.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since he can access his past from his present, he sends the coordinates through controlling gravity in binary to that moment in the past where the dust storm occurs &amp;amp; Murph forgets to close the window.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T07:10:22.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28579" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30748" CreationDate="2014-12-31T07:30:54.197" Score="8" ViewCount="6206" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightcrawler_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nightcrawler&lt;/a&gt;, the injured gangster shoots down Rick when he comes in front of him, but when the same gangster comes out of the car, he sees Lou standing right in front of him, filming. Yet he does not do anything and limps away. Why didn't he shoot Lou?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T10:41:15.243" LastActivityDate="2019-05-21T10:12:39.413" Title="Why didn't the gangster shoot Lou?" Tags="|plot-explanation|nightcrawler|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27833" CreationDate="2014-12-31T07:55:22.467" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe Beth trusted Dawn. Not completely because- well how could you in that world. I think from 0%-100% Beth had around 25-30% trust for Dawn but was ready for whenever Dawn struck. I think that's also part of the reason why she packed a pair of scissors in her cast. Something-ANYTHING could have happened when Rick+the group came and Beth wasn't going to let anyone be the new 'Governor' or hurt someone close to her. Anyway with the lack of trust Dawn had for Beth, Beth took note. While Dawn only took advantage, and if she couldn't have her maid Beth, she needed her &#xA;servant Noah. I forget what Dawn says that triggers something in Beth's mind because I've been focused on the tradgic death all this time, but whatever it was Beth was prepared and wanted the suffrage to end. She understood that she was taken advantage of as was Noah. I think Beth had many mixed emotions at that time. So she simply said she understood it now. Hope my crazy obsessive lodgic helped! :) RIP Beth Greene!! P.s I watched a small clip of the scene today and cried my guys out! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16791" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T07:55:22.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28584" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-31T10:20:27.533" Score="3" ViewCount="325" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could a studio realistically disguise until the premiere the presence of an A-list actor in a small but non-trivial part in a movie they would not be expected to be involved in? Presumably if they're spotted by &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; working at the studio not under an NDA, the game's up. But maybe people working in the industry have a way around this? Would a studio ever &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to keep casting details completely secret, for a start? Is this kind of detail typically at the Director's discretion or the studio's?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The question is prompted an example from the Marvel comics canon, where in Agents of SHIELD (I doubt this is really a spoiler by now but just in case some people are behind):&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Agent Skye's birth name is Daisy Johnson, who in the comic canon has telekinetic powers much like might be expected from a Mutant (although she is explicitly described as &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a Mutant in the same sense as the X-Men) and is involved in SHIELD's management of Mutant extremists, for example in apprehending Magneto. The upcoming Age of Ultron features characters who most definitely &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; Mutants, so there are two counts where the Avengers continuity and the X-Men continuity co-exist. This raises the &lt;em&gt;possibility&lt;/em&gt; of major X-Men characters like Magneto or Professor Xavier showing up in Avengers-themed movies and vice versa, contractual issues between studios aside. &lt;em&gt;Possibility&lt;/em&gt; in the sense that it amuses my fantasist's mind, and not because I expect them to ever actually do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16794" LastActivityDate="2015-01-02T18:05:10.560" Title="Is it possible to get an A-lister into a big-budget movie without anybody knowing?" Tags="|casting|film-industry|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28584" CreationDate="2014-12-31T12:30:06.937" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all - the characters you mention in your question are most likely going to turn out to be Inhumans, as Marvel Studios, creators of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (of which Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Hulk, The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy etc belong to) have no legal rights to use the term mutants in any capacity, as that term and related characters are owned by 20th Century Fox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your main question - Yes, it's entirely possible, and has happened before. Kevin Spacey refused top billing in the film Se7en, directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, resulting in his name missing from advertising and opening credits, ensuring that audiences were surprised to see him when he eventually does show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T12:30:06.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28575" CreationDate="2014-12-31T12:41:03.127" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_paradox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bootstrap paradox&lt;/a&gt;. Ideas or items from future are passed to past which in turn become the same item/ideas in the future. It is like giving idea to yourself from future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This not only creates a loop, but a situation where these items have&#xA;no discernible origin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fox Example: in terminator movie, Kyle Reese is sent from future to past by John Connor. In the past,Sarah falls in love with Kyle, conceives to John. Sarah raises John. John becomes the leader and sends Kyle to future to save Sarah. This is going in circles. Also, Sarah gets the idea of naming his son &amp;quot;John Connor&amp;quot; from Kyle. There is no point of origin of the idea or where the story has started. This is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_paradox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;bootstrap paradox&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16464" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T12:41:03.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28589" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-31T13:01:26.750" Score="7" ViewCount="1406" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for an interpretation or explanation of the events in &lt;em&gt;Enemy&lt;/em&gt; (2013) that takes into account all of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The poster&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vuQE3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which indicates that at least some parts of the film take place inside the head of actor Jake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The wife's strong emotional reaction after seeing teacher Jake which speaks against a literal reading of the film.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The car accident, the scar, and teacher Jake turning off the radio broadcast about the accident&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The woman in the torn photo (who seems to be neither Helen nor Mary)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mary's reaction to the ring mark&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The mother's voice message disapproving the apartment and her in-person words to teacher Jake that say she likes the apartment and that Jake should quit fantasizing about being a third-rate actor.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The spiders which also speak against a literal reading of the film.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;p.s. I saw this related &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/18855/14080&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt;, read the answer given there and checked links in the comments. I've found the interpretations in those places do not explain all the above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14080" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T20:43:16.357" Title="Consistent explanation of Enemy" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|character|enemy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28592" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28602" CreationDate="2014-12-31T14:52:13.757" Score="4" ViewCount="15305" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S04E11, Dar Adal is seen in the car of Haissam Haqqani in Islamabad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in S04E12 (the last one) we learn that there was a deal regarding the videos of Saul during his kidnap by Talibans: Haissam Haqqani would be removed from the terrorist's list in exchange for that video. Apparently, this way Saul can go back to his position in CIA without problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can CIA accept such a deal after Haqqani's access to the USA Embassy in Pakistan? Am I missing something on that deal? Is Saul that important to cause such deal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4078" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-31T15:18:43.263" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T21:44:59.560" Title="What was the deal between Haissam Haqqani and Dar Adal?" Tags="|plot-explanation|homeland|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28593" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2014-12-31T14:59:13.090" Score="6" ViewCount="41302" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;The Equalizer&quot;, why does McCall time himself with the stopwatch in a lot of scenes, what's the benefit of that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like when Nikolai showed up at his front door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16800" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-31T15:01:16.980" LastActivityDate="2019-02-10T02:31:57.593" Title="Why does McCall time himself with the stopwatch in a lot of scenes?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-equalizer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28594" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28595" CreationDate="2014-12-30T18:42:15.223" Score="13" ViewCount="4690" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Toy Story 2, Woody is a highly valuable collectible but in Toy Story 3 this isn't true any more. We know Andy has The Internet on his room, so he could have easily checked for his toys' prices but it seems that they have no monetary value in Toy Story 3. For example, in a scene when Andy is packing his stuff before going to college, Ham says he is going to check the toy's value on eBay in a tone that indirectly says &quot;&lt;em&gt;we are worthless&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In another scene, Andy says they are just &quot;trash&quot; and at the end of the movie, Andy gives Woody to the little girl purely based on their emotional value. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So what happened between Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3 to turn Woody from a &quot;collector's item&quot; into mere &quot;trash&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16802" OwnerDisplayName="Broken_Window" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2014-12-31T15:09:48.210" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T15:09:48.210" Title="Why isn't Woody a valuable item anymore?" Tags="|plot-explanation|toy-story-3|toy-story-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28594" CreationDate="2014-12-30T18:49:10.663" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Andy has no idea of Woody's (and Jessie's) financial value. The only times we see any evidence of this is when he's not around, during the yard sale and after Woody has been stolen. It's clear that he never learned that they had any special worth beyond their &lt;em&gt;emotional&lt;/em&gt; value to him and even if he was aware (which he isn't), he has no plans to get rid of the toys beyond putting them into storage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ham's comment seems to relate more to his own (negligible) value, not Woody's known value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, in the latest Toy Story Short, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2446040/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Toy Story of Terror&lt;/a&gt; (set &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the events of Toy Story 3)  we learn that Al of &quot;Toy Barn&quot; fame is still willing to pay top dollar for both the Woody and Jessie dolls after spotting them on eBid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mLRcb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="100979" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2014-12-30T18:54:34.133" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28594" CreationDate="2014-12-30T18:49:28.003" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think Woody's value has changed between movies. It's just that Andy wasn't the kind of guy who sells his toys. While he no longer played with them, it was very obvious from the ending scene that he still viewed them as a very cherished part of his childhood memories. He was already planning to take Woody with him to college, and was extremely upset when he thought that the other toys went into the trash. That's not a guy who would have sold his most prized possession, even if he did know how valuable Woody was. Instead, he gave Woody and the rest of his toys to another child who would love them as he did. Money was never a factor in his decision, only love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" OwnerDisplayName="System Down" LastActivityDate="2014-12-30T18:49:28.003" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28584" CreationDate="2014-12-31T15:50:25.340" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If that movie has no other stars, it's unlikely a studio would want to intentionally minimize the presence of a major draw.  If a film has other big stars, it's possible they could &quot;easter egg&quot; them into the movie to give moviegoers something else to discuss at the water cooler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Along with Kevin Spacey refusing any billing in Se7en in order to keep the killer's identity a surprise, Bill Murray had no screen credit in Tootsie and Owen Wilson was uncredited in A Night At The Museum.  James Earl Jones similarly refused credit as the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars, believing David Prowse brought the character to life, not him.  Bruce Willis refused onscreen acknowledgement for Four Rooms; he was only doing the part for director and friend Quentin Tarrantino.  And I'm almost positive Whoopi Goldberg goes uncredited as Guinan in all the Star Trek movies she's in, because she feels they are Star Trek movies and not Whoopi Goldberg movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T15:50:25.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28599" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28608" CreationDate="2014-12-31T15:51:16.053" Score="8" ViewCount="520" Body="&lt;p&gt;I must have missed it while watching the wonderful film &lt;em&gt;Frozen&lt;/em&gt;. Why was Elsa an enchantress? How? Why wasn't her sister too, then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11356" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-01T13:33:54.897" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T13:33:54.897" Title="Why was Elsa an enchantress?" Tags="|plot-explanation|frozen|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28600" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29834" CreationDate="2014-12-31T16:08:52.157" Score="15" ViewCount="48735" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Interstellar, why does Cooper send the “STAY” message? When Cooper winds up in the tesseract (event Z), there are two related events that are in his past that he knows about: the reception of the coordinates of the NASA base (event A) and the goodbye scene in which Murph tells him that the “ghost” told her “STAY” (event B) which he ignores. There’s also the related event of Murph’s reception of data on Gargantua through the wristwatch (event C), but unlike the other two this is, I think, not a past event that Cooper knows about before actually causing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get that cause and effect are time inverted here, in that event Z allows Cooper to cause events A, B and C, and that there’s a loop in that event Z leads to A and A leads to Z, with another loop in that B needs to be ineffective in order to allow Z to happen which in turn leads to B. I think I understand the A-C-Z events, it seems that Cooper realizes that by ensuring the A-Z loop he can also cause C which he hopes allows Murph to solve the gravity problem (which she does).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have trouble understanding the B-Z events though. Before his realization, Cooper seems to at first want to prevent himself from leaving on the space journey, which is why he uses the books to spell out “STAY” (event B). But why spell out a message that he already knows he will / has ignore(d)? Should I assume he has simply forgotten about the message? Or that he is so overcome with emotion he’s acting irrationally? Is there another explanation or something I missed? I realize there’s a potential paradox if Cooper would not cause B, or would cause an alternate B with a less ambiguous message like “COOPER STAY WITH YOUR DAUGHTER AND GET THE FOLLOWING DATA TO DR BRAND”, but that still doesn’t quite help me understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: there's a related question on “&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/27159/why-cooper-didnt-simply-not-give-the-co-ordinates-of-nasa&quot; title=&quot;Why Cooper didn&amp;#39;t simply not give the co-ordinates of NASA?&quot;&gt;Why Cooper didn't simply not give the co-ordinates of NASA?&lt;/a&gt;”, but the answer given there does not (to me) really resolve the contradiction of Cooper sending a message he (as I understand it) already knows is ineffective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16779" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2020-05-29T13:36:15.287" Title="Why is the “STAY” message sent in Interstellar?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28592" CreationDate="2014-12-31T17:06:30.083" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole deal was off the records (e.g., Saul tries to find out something from his guy in the office (a confidant of the president?), or as Dar Adal tells to Saul). The main point of the deal was that there is only one copy and this copy belongs to Saul/Dar Adal (Also, do not forget that Haqqani promised not to assault any US facilies (anymore ;)). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the CIA (or anyone else) does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; know about the deal and will never know. (To answer your question, the deal was accepted since they did not know about it. It was Dar Adal on his own who did this within letting anyone know (expect for Saul and Carrie in the end)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, the motivation for such a deal twofolded:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People (both, the polical leaders as well as high ranked people within the CIA like Dar Adal) want to get rid of Lockhart as head of the CIA (He is being blamed for the assault on the embassy).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They also want to have someone else in charge and to make sure that he/she stays there for a longer time and have no outstanding debts. Do not forget that the CIA seems to be weak after the 12/12 attack at the end of season 2 and the incident in the embassy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The video would be such an outstanding debt and could lead to problems in the future if Saul becomes CIA director again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="7757" LastEditDate="2014-12-31T17:19:38.503" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T17:19:38.503" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28599" CreationDate="2014-12-31T18:24:47.447" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They never discussed it in the film, but I read an interview where the writer said basically that she had powers because that's what the story called for.  There's no actual reason given, it's just that's what the story needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T18:24:47.447" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28605" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28633" CreationDate="2014-12-31T20:07:14.100" Score="3" ViewCount="297" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like when I was a child (not &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; many years ago), Sesame Street had something called &quot;Monster Time&quot; towards the beginning of the show. If it existed, it was dropped around 10 years ago, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried Googling, but couldn't find any info on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did this exist, or am I imagining it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15665" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-01T13:37:35.187" LastActivityDate="2016-07-13T14:22:06.493" Title="Did Sesame Street use to contain &quot;Monster Time&quot;?" Tags="|muppets|sesame-street|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28605" CreationDate="2014-12-31T20:40:38.373" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;They had &lt;a href=&quot;http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Monster_Clubhouse&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Monster Clubhouse&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Monsterpiece_Theater&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Monsterpiece Theater&lt;/a&gt;, but I don't ever remember Monster Time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you be mixing up Mail Time from Monster Clubhouse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-01-02T02:38:55.333" LastActivityDate="2015-01-02T02:38:55.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28599" CreationDate="2014-12-31T20:48:20.377" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;In-universe answer:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It seems quite plausible that Elsa is descended from someone who was &lt;em&gt;cursed&lt;/em&gt; by ice magic. That power may have then transferred down the family line.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see from the image below, the King's library has a book detailing the risks of being hit by ice powers. In this book we see a picture of a man being cured by trolls. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://lingaspect.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/deciphering-the-runes-book-in-frozen/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;runes next to the picture&lt;/a&gt; state that his condition was caused by being... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;...to stone brought forth (by) powers of the moon sky&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;presumably in much the same way that Rapunzel's powers relate to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Magical_Golden_Flower&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;drop of sunlight&lt;/a&gt; falling from the sky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v1nTR.png&quot; alt=&quot;Ice Powers&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the fine clothes he's wearing and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/File:Arendelle_flag.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;royal crest&lt;/a&gt; on his tunic, it's quite possible that he is of noble birth and hence, an ancestor of Elsa's. Assuming some of the residual 'ice magic' was left in this man's system &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITurN88nXgM&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;after he was cured&lt;/a&gt; it would explain why one of his descendants was born with those same ice powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Out-of-Universe answer:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenwriter Jennifer Lee specifically spoke to this point in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://johnaugust.com/2014/scriptnotes-ep-128-frozen-with-jennifer-lee-transcript&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with Scriptnotes. The origins of Elsa's powers (planetary alignment, predestination, etc) were &lt;strong&gt;intentionally obscured&lt;/strong&gt; in order to simplify the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In a nutshell, she has powers &lt;em&gt;because the plotline requires her to have powers&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jennifer:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;And that there’s a connection between them, but yet it’s not in your face, but it’s just something that… — Because what I&#xA;  always loved about, particularly Pixar films for me, was that&#xA;  everything just added up. And everything had a special little, “Oh my&#xA;  god, oh my god, wait, and that, and that!” And it was my favorite&#xA;  thing and we wanted to make kind of every time we had a scene trying&#xA;  to say what is that that’s maximum, why is it here. If there’s&#xA;  anything extraneous we got to get rid of it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But yet adding all that flavor, so that’s why. But to move onto Elsa,&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;it was an exhausting process coming to the simplicity of her powers. At times we had a narration by a troll, who used to have a Brooklyn&#xA;  accent for no reason other than I miss Brooklyn. You know, no reason.&#xA;  But, we had this whole explanation like when Saturn is in this&#xA;  alignment with such-and-such on the thousandth year a child will be&#xA;  born and blah, blah, blah. And then –&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;John: &lt;strong&gt;Ultimately you almost throw it away with one line. So, the&#xA;  line is just like, “Was she born with the powers or was she cursed?.&#xA;  And it’s born with it and that’s the last piece of it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aline:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;It’s so great.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jennifer:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;And that’s it. But I think part of what it was is if anything about us felt like it was like, “Oh, god, like okay, we have&#xA;  to say this,” then we didn’t want to say it. And then also we found&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;the more you explained the more questions you had about magic and the rules. It was like, argh. You know?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T20:48:20.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28584" CreationDate="2014-12-31T21:09:34.817" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been plenty of examples given already. I think Kevin Spacey in Se7en is probably the most notable that I can think of, but the other example that popped into my head was Bill Murray in Zombieland. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few ways to make this happen as well. For a very small cameo, it's possible to clear out the studio of all but the essential cast and crew for the actual filming of the scene, to ensure that as few people as possible actually see who the cameo is and what they're doing. This was the case for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20198027_3,00.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nick Fury's cameo in Iron Man&lt;/a&gt;. Unfortunately, this is not totally reliable, as you can see in the article. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quite common method is to shoot films &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-09-06/entertainment/ct-ent-0906-production-code-names-20110906_1_code-names-superman-movie-batman-movie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;under a codename&lt;/a&gt;. Again, this is not perfect, and for major films where casting has been announced or it's a sequel, it wouldn't be hard to walk by a filming location, see RDJ, Chrises Hemsworth and Evans, and Scarlett Johannson there and conclude that it must be a set for an Avengers movie.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your specific case, as someone else has mentioned, it's just not legally possible, without a deal between Fox and Disney. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are a special case, due to the fact that they've played such a prominent part in the Avengers for a long time, but are also some of the oldest mutants in the comics as well. The iterations of the characters in the different franchises show that they're not in the same universe though, as there's a much bigger age difference between the two in X-men than in the MCU (Wanda is a little kid in DOFP), and Quicksilver is probably around 18 in DOFP, and going to be not much older in AOU. I'd love to see X-men and Avengers together in a movie, but I don't see it realistically happening any time soon. What is more likely, though still doubtful, is that Spider-man may make an appearance in an MCU film at some point. Sony is having more trouble with Spider-man than Fox is with X-men. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16805" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T21:09:34.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27833" CreationDate="2014-12-31T22:30:25.773" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think she meant &quot;she gets it&quot; in the post apocalyptic world they live in, you will die, and its how you choose to live, and decisions made while alive, that's most important. I think she realizes Dawn takes this from all those she &quot;shelters&quot; there, and i think she also realizes its her time to contribute by making a hard decision and acting on the behalf of someone else who needs help. I think she had to know there was a high probability she would die, but dying on her on accord was better than eventually winding up like the people at Woodbury, or at the Hospital, dying based on their decisions and not her own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16807" LastActivityDate="2014-12-31T22:30:25.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11348" CreationDate="2015-01-01T00:18:00.180" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a reference to the movie The Tenant directed by Roman Polanski in 1976.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, a girl tries to commit suicide by jumping from the balcony of her apartment, falling 4 stories through a greenhouse roof.  When visited in the hospital, she is unable to speak, and only screams, therefore she &quot;developed a speech impediment&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony &quot;Rocky Horror&quot; could also reference Roman Polanski as he dresses in drag and replays the macabre suicide by making the jump over the balcony later in the same film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16811" LastEditorUserId="16811" LastEditDate="2015-01-01T01:11:40.190" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T01:11:40.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2015-01-01T00:26:14.820" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that James is not real.  But yet I don't understand how it is that the other people saw a person that was James.  It was at the end that I was convinced that James was made up by Simons imagination.  When he killed himself James died as well. They were one in two separate bodies. But this all gets very confusing because there had to be a physical James, since he did have a lot of interactions with the people in Simons life. This movie has me completely perplexed in a weird good way, it explains how many of us often feel at some point in our lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16812" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T00:26:14.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17308" CreationDate="2015-01-01T01:26:27.353" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While Roger's answer sounds reasonable enough, I think that there is a possibility that Holly is referring to some event between the two movies and unknown to us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several hints throughout the movie that there was a lot of media fuss around John after the events at Nakatomi Plaza. It is not that far-fetched that Thornburg, an unscrupulous and fame-greedy reporter, went beyond simply paparazzing John and Holly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if we take a look at the hit from the ending of Die Hard, Holly punched Thornburg's nose (well, it's clear that Bonnie Bedelia actually missed William Atherton, but her hand is in the height of his nose), and not his mouth (to take out two of his teeth):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pUNkY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Right before the punch&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hix01.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The punch&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And he's holding his nose, not spitting teeth:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QeXn9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ouch!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As John and Holly enter the limo, Thornburg also asks the cameraman &quot;Did you get that?&quot;, clearly and with no blood going out of his mouth (or nose, for that matter, meaning that the punch was not that hard).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that this was ever thought through by the writers or the directors of either movie. It's just a small comedy element, but since this question is here, I t think that this is a possible explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T01:26:27.353" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28616" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28617" CreationDate="2015-01-01T01:39:31.377" Score="1" ViewCount="276" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099423/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Die Hard 2&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (1990), when John realizes that his newest terrorist friends are trying to rescue Gen. Esperanza, he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If Esperanza gets to a country with no extradition treaties, we're fucked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would certainly be a somewhat embarrassing for the USA, it might reinforce Esperanza's power,... but I don't see a problem large enough to be described as &quot;we're so fucked that we'll risk lives of thousands of people in an effort to prevent this guy from getting to a non-extradition country&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that this reduces the quality of this great movie, but I want to know if I missed something, or is it really just a weak explanation needed to justify the hero's actions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T02:25:33.043" Title="Why are &quot;we fucked&quot; &quot;if Esperanza gets to a country with no extradition treaties&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|die-hard-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28616" CreationDate="2015-01-01T02:25:33.043" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://diehard.wikia.com/wiki/Ramon_Esperanza&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Die Hard Wiki on Ramon Esperanza&lt;/a&gt;..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Esperanza was gained U.S. support by fighting communist insurgents in his country of Val Verde, a campaign fought with American money and military advisors. When the Congress stopped funding him, he entered the world of &lt;strong&gt;drug trade for funds.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, given the U.S. administration's 'enthusiasm' for the war on drugs, we might combine that with: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Won't someone think of the &lt;em&gt;children&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And conclude (in American drug war/movie logic) that General Esperanza not only wanted to get a whole bunch of Americans hooked on drugs, but also American children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the 'exchange rate' of one child being the equivalent of 4(?) adults, it doesn't take too many kiddies hooked on drugs to justify putting the thousands of people at risk in order to stop his evil plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T02:25:33.043" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="524" CreationDate="2015-01-01T04:20:26.767" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since this question was bumped....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/alternateversions?ref_=tt_ql_trv_5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alternate Versions section of IMDb.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A lot more pseudo-documentary footage on the making of the fictional&#xA;  Truman Show was shot but not used in the theatrical version. Only some&#xA;  short segments have been included in the released film, in the&#xA;  pre-credits sequence. Segments of this outtake footage, featuring&#xA;  Meryl Burbank and Marlon being interviewed and talking about their&#xA;  roles on the show and their personal lives, have been included in some&#xA;  airline versions, presumably to pad the running times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T04:20:26.767" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8215" CreationDate="2015-01-01T15:47:12.843" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Never get caught&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sure they deserve it &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Never kids&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Never make a scene&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fake emotion and normality to fit in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When taking a psychology personality test, always answer the question with the opposite of what you feel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Never get emotionally involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;victims must be killers who the police have been unable to catch or convict&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;control urges, channel them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't leave any traces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16825" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2018-01-04T23:55:29.870" LastActivityDate="2018-01-04T23:55:29.870" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28589" CreationDate="2015-01-01T20:43:16.357" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tough question for a tough movie. I admit that the movie also left me quite puzzled. What helped me to understand it better to a large degree was &lt;em&gt;Chris Stuckmann&lt;/em&gt;'s analysis, which I think is pretty consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/v9AWkqRwd1I?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm not going to paraphrase the whole thing here, but the main point of it is (and there many people analysing the movie seem to agree) that both &lt;em&gt;Jake Gyllenhaal&lt;/em&gt; characters are facets of the exact same person and &lt;strong&gt;the movie represents the struggle of said person with the pressure of his marriage and his infidelity&lt;/strong&gt; and the events of the movie are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to be taken as happening exactly that way in reality. Or as director &lt;em&gt;Denis Villeneuve&lt;/em&gt; describes it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's a man who decides to leave his mistress to go back to his pregnant wife and we see the story from his subconcious point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But let's look at your specific points. I'll try to explain them based on &lt;em&gt;Stuckmann&lt;/em&gt;'s version and adding some further thoughts here and there based on that version (I'll also continue the practice of calling them &lt;em&gt;Teacher/Actor Jake&lt;/em&gt; respectively, instead of &lt;em&gt;Adam/Anthony&lt;/em&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The poster, which indicates that at least some parts of the film take place inside the head of actor Jake.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, it's quite clear the movie is not to be read entirely literally, as you also pointed out yourself. But since &lt;em&gt;Teacher Jake&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Actor Jake&lt;/em&gt; are probably insantances of the same person anyway, it doesn't matter so much in whose head the story takes place. I'm not sure we're really supposed to make much out of the poster at all, it's a poster and doesn't need to convey any too story/analysis-relevant information at all (let alone the question if the director/screenwriter had any input on its design at all). So all we know from the poster is, &lt;em&gt;Jake Gyllenhaal&lt;/em&gt; is in the movie, he wears a leather jacket at one point and it's maybe set in a city and might feature things as weird as strangely deformed spider thingies. That's really all we can take out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The wife's strong emotional reaction after seeing teacher Jake which speaks against a literal reading of the film.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Actor Jake's wife soon appears at History Teacher Jake's school and her look upon seeing him is one of extreme sadness and pain. Then History Teacher Jake asks her a question, which reveals even more. &lt;em&gt;&quot;How many months are you?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&quot;Six.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&quot;That's nice.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; I find it very interesting that Actor Jake hasn't been to his talent agency for six months and his wife is also six months pregnant. This adds to the idea of Actor Jake having extreme commitment issues, most likely brought on by fear of being controlled, or dictated, by a woman and child. When History Teacher Jake gets up, she attempts to call him and the filmmaker makes it very obvious that Actor Jake answers after he disappears from frame, leaving the possibility that they are the same person out there. This is clearly not a fantasy or delusion going on inside the mind of his wife, but it is a psychological disorder of sorts for the two Jakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Later when she's home [...] she lays on the couch said and afraid, saying how the man she saw at the school looked exactly like him. &lt;em&gt;&quot;What's happening&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, she says. And when he says that he doesn't know what she's talking about he says: &lt;em&gt;&quot;I think you know.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; I feel that she is slowly discovering that her husband's mind has split. She wants him to come to terms with it and accept this fact, which is why she appears so emotionally bothered by it. I mean logically if you found out that your spouse had someone out there who looked identical, would you be so emotional about it, crying and everything? It'd be weird for sure but it's clear to me what she's concerned about is that they are literally the same person and she's hurt and scared by the fact that she's driven him to this state...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...This would leave me to believe that earlier when his wife says she went to his work that she was in fact starting to realize the magnitude of her husband's phsychosis and was desperately trying to connect with him, to try and help by going along with his illness, acting like she didn't know that he is a teacher in real life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The car accident, the scar, and teacher Jake turning off the radio broadcast about the accident&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole scene with &lt;em&gt;Actor Jake&lt;/em&gt; dating &lt;em&gt;Mary&lt;/em&gt; and the following accident seems to play out entirely inside &lt;em&gt;Teacher Jake&lt;/em&gt;'s subconcious while he is at home with &lt;em&gt;Actor Jake&lt;/em&gt;'s (and his) wife. It is a representation of his inner struggle to end his relationship to &lt;em&gt;Mary&lt;/em&gt;, as well as his whole unfaithful &lt;em&gt;Actor Jake&lt;/em&gt; personality, and stay with his wife (which successfully ends in favor of his wife, as the accident represents).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Him turning off the radio the following morning might represent him trying to forget anything that reminds him of &lt;em&gt;Mary&lt;/em&gt; and his past unfaithful self. But on the other hand it might as well represent him already forgetting/ignoring that he ended the relationship, because the next thing he does in this scene is find a new key to the sex club he was earlier and lying to his wife in order to visit it. He is thus again falling back into his unfaithful personality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have much of an idea about the scar, it may just be a device to show that both &lt;em&gt;Jake&lt;/em&gt;'s are indeed identically equal or it might be a hint that this was not the first &quot;accident&quot; and that &lt;em&gt;Jake&lt;/em&gt; went through such a process of abandoning his mistress before, as also evident from his falling back into unfaithfulness at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The woman in the torn photo (who seems to be neither Helen nor Mary)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not entirely sure what to make out of the photo either, but &lt;em&gt;Stuckmann&lt;/em&gt; seems to think it is actually showing &lt;em&gt;Helen&lt;/em&gt; (his wife) and I might agree that it is hard enough to recognize for this to seem sufficiently plausible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He compares a noticibly torn photo of himself to the actor, probably a post breakup photo, with the woman he took the photo with torn out. [...] This is when Teacher Jake notices the photograph. It is identical to the torn one he had in his possession earlier, except this one isn't torn and shows his wife next to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could thus be part of &lt;em&gt;Jake&lt;/em&gt;'s process to reconcile with his marriage, that already started when he visits &lt;em&gt;Teacher Jake&lt;/em&gt;'s apartment while &lt;em&gt;Teacher Jake&lt;/em&gt; is together with his wife, as described above. When previously looking at the picture he was &quot;torn&quot; from his wife but is now starting to find back to her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, there is a comment thread under the YouTube video that also seems to present some interesting approaches at explaining the photo (they might even warrant their own answers, but I'm currently not entirely sure about them).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mary's reaction to the ring mark&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This builds upon what I said earlier about the accident playing out inside &lt;em&gt;Jake&lt;/em&gt;'s head and representing the end of his relationship with &lt;em&gt;Mary&lt;/em&gt;. Thus, &lt;em&gt;Mary&lt;/em&gt; noticing the wedding ring mark and being shocked by it could represent the crumbling of her relationship to &lt;em&gt;Jake&lt;/em&gt; and her realization that he is about to return to his wife, whereas previously she never saw a wedding ring (as she's actually &lt;em&gt;Teacher Jake&lt;/em&gt;'s girlfriend) because he completely ignored his wife whenever being with her.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The mother's voice message disapproving the apartment and her in-person words to teacher Jake that say she likes the apartment and that Jake should quit fantasizing about being a third-rate actor.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This just reinforces that both &lt;em&gt;Jakes&lt;/em&gt; are actually the same person. She approves his ordinary teacher personality along with his wife and their apartment (thus actually &lt;em&gt;Actor Jake&lt;/em&gt;'s apartment in the movie), but disapproves his unfaithful wannabe-actor personality along with the apartment where he uses to bang &lt;em&gt;Mary&lt;/em&gt;. Her earlier disapproval might thus not necessarily have been literally about the apartment, but about his other unfaithful side in general (if that phone call actually existed in reality at all), as his mother seems to be aware and disapproving of his infidelity (&lt;em&gt;&quot;you have enough trouble sticking with one woman, don't you?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;). Thus, &lt;em&gt;Teacher Jake&lt;/em&gt;'s apartment might not actually exist (or it's really an empty apartment rented for time with &lt;em&gt;Mary&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The spiders which also speak against a literal reading of the film.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The spiders have also been adressed before in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/18855/49&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt; and part of the answers there support the fact that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Spiders in the film represent women, at least in the way that Jake views them. He has a deep fear of commitment. His wife is pregnant, he's been unfaithful in the past. [...] Spiders in the real world catch prey in their webs, they entangle what they are about to devour. [...] The film is in a way saying that Jake feels that he's lost his freedom, he feels trapped within the web of his marriage and the weighty responsibility of having a child as well as remaining faithful. The constant reference to dicatorship and being unwillingly ruled has to do with Jake feeling that way about his marriage and eventual family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the opeing of the film the narcissistic unfaithful Actor Jake gets into the private sex club with his key and watches a woman about to squash a spider. Through his unfaithfulness he longs to squash his wife so to speak, or their love at least [...] His dream of the nude woman with a spider head supports that women are the spiders as well. And directly after that a woman who was very sexy, who was dressed almost like a stripper passed him and he felt the sudden urge to follow and look at that woman [...] So how about that giant spider roaming Toronto? This scene took place directly after he met with his mother. I belive the spider represents his mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So how about that final spider? Why did his wife turn into a huge friggin spider? Why did the spider react in fear? And why was his look one of almost acceptive disappointment as if he has just come to terms with what his life is like? When Jake opened the package taking out the new key, he realizes it's the key to the sex club. He gets a look of temptation on his face and immediately decides he has to go there, telling his wife he has to go out tonight. Suddenly his wife is no longer answering him as he calls to her and when she is revealed to be a spider she backs up in fear of getting squashed. Jake was able to successfully eliminate the unfaithful narcissistic portion of himself, but at the first sign of temptation he goes back to his adulterous ways. This is why she reacts in fear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T20:43:16.357" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28605" CreationDate="2015-01-01T21:31:51.830" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Season 33 (2002) introduced the segment called Monster Time according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063951/reviews-18&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;imdb&lt;/a&gt;. It was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063951/reviews-23&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;discontinued&lt;/a&gt; the next year. There was a product line of kids' clothes referencing it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/USDV9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T21:31:51.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28269" CreationDate="2015-01-01T23:39:02.503" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2007/1217-pottercast-anelli.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;J. K. Rowling in a Pottercast&lt;/a&gt;, there's a spell involved. I'm guessing Voldemort never got around to casting the spell (or if he did, it probably wasn't on Harry), so Voldemort probably never suspected Harry as a Horcrux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16834" LastActivityDate="2015-01-01T23:39:02.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28635" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28638" CreationDate="2015-01-01T23:50:59.510" Score="2" ViewCount="1208" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Kingpin (1996)&lt;/em&gt;, Buttercup was originally a tall horse&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j8pfN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then after Roy removed the shoes, somehow the horse shrank&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2Xwss.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, I missed the joke. Can someone please explain? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14080" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-26T00:46:43.003" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T00:46:43.003" Title="What happened to Buttercup in Kingpin?" Tags="|plot-explanation|kingpin|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15059" CreationDate="2015-01-02T01:14:25.850" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We neither know nor care.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now first of all, I &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; seen the film, but am still going to call this out as simply physically incorrect. But before writing the answer off as another one of those &lt;em&gt;&quot;the science of the movie was just inaccurate&quot;&lt;/em&gt; answers, please let me reason why I still think this to be relevant for your employed viewpoint here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now first of all, it has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/astronaut-fact-checks-gravity.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;previously pointed out&lt;/a&gt;, that &lt;strong&gt;the movie was not as scientifically accurate in many details&lt;/strong&gt; as a layman might have guessed from a short glimpse. Especially the relative orbital locations of all the objects were entirely inaccurate. The Hubble Telescope and the ISS would have been in entirely different and unreachable orbits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You said the existing technology wouldn't be able to travel the distance between space stations. How far apart are the Hubble and the International Space Station, for example?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  That was the other kind of glaring thing. The fact is, the Hubble is in its particular orbit, the ISS is in its particular orbit, and then the Chinese space station is in its particular orbit. Without getting too involved in orbital mechanics or the orbital insertion planes of these different satellite systems, they aren't close to one another, ever. So Hubble is in an orbit fairly close to the equator … kind of around the belly band of the earth, but at a very high altitude, around 400 miles above the earth. And then the ISS is at a very high inclination, so it sees from basically the latitude of Kazakhstan to an equivalent latitude in the southern hemisphere … so a much greater swath of Earth. The bottom line is that they’re in very different places, traveling at different altitudes and orbits of the earth, so they're not at fixed distances to one another. They're basically speeding bullets relative to one another. Their orbits cross at varying times throughout the day, and it would be physically impossible to get from one place to the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add to this that the evolution and behaviour of the depicted collision cascade would be completely different, too. It wouldn't fly around in such a linear belt of stuff orbiting the earth in a single direction at a speed perceivable by &lt;em&gt;Stone&lt;/em&gt; (add to this that the interval keeps at 90 minutes even though &lt;em&gt;Stone&lt;/em&gt; considerably moves location).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's your experience with space debris? If you're out on a space walk, what are you seeing around you?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Well, first of all, if you see it, it's too late. That was quite implausible, to me, first off, the chain of events that would take down the world's telecommunications. Things don't quite move in that pattern. But that notwithstanding, if there were a cloud of Micro-Meteoroid Orbital Debris, what we call MMOD, it would be coming at tens of thousands of miles an hour. I don't know if you've ever looked at a bullet coming straight at you. Hopefully not, but if you had, you wouldn't appreciate it for very long. And these would be a much tinier, swarmlike pattern of debris coming at perhaps twenty times the speed of sound. And you wouldn't see it at all; it would just rip through everything in its path. So it's kind of a spacewalker's doomsday scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise was the whole scene of the Chinese space station being dragged out of orbit highly dramatized and temporally accelerated compared to reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What did you think of the scene where she crash-landed to Earth in the Chinese space station?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  It was dramatic, but improbable. You start to interact with the upper reaches of the atmosphere, what we call &quot;entry interface,&quot; at 400,000 feet, so that's roughly 80 miles above the Earth’s surface. It appeared that the station was substantially above that in the scene, and it probably wouldn't have decayed from its orbit that quickly. That was quite dramatized there, when she's kind of holding onto this bucking bronco of the Chinese space station. It would probably take months or years, even if the station had been hit by lots of and lots of debris, to decay down to that altitude where atmospheric drag would take hold. And that's, of course, how the Skylab and all the Russian space stations were brought down: They fired their engines, lowered their altitude to the point where it could interact with the Earth's atmosphere, and they became fireballs prior to falling to earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What those things show is, that &lt;strong&gt;the very fundament this specific incident is grounded on is already so different from our own physical reality, that we can't make any reasonable derivations about its plausibility anymore&lt;/strong&gt; and all we're left with is to accept it as part of the already low scientific accuracy of the movie-universe with equally less in-depth explanation as the other scientific inaccuracies have got.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now you stated that you're not so much concerned about the scientific accuracy of the movie and this is a valid and fine approach (I for myself don't care that much about it either and enjoyed the movie for what it is, not a documentary). But this doesn't fit to you reasoning scientifically about the plausibility of that scene. For example &lt;strong&gt;you use the orbital locations of things (even upto actual numbers) and the structure of the debris wave although we actually don't know much about those things from the movie&lt;/strong&gt; and the facts we know from reality obviously don't apply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stone had to utilise a launcher pod to bring herself down to this altitude, so there obviously isn't enough gravitational pull to de-orbit the wrecked ISS, let alone the tiny pieces of shrapnel travelling at a much greater velocity...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you sure she did go down in altitude and not just move inside the orbital plane where supposedly all of the relevant machines are located in the movie? The fact is, at no point does the movie say that the &lt;em&gt;Tiangong&lt;/em&gt; and thus the orbital plane that &lt;em&gt;Stone&lt;/em&gt; works in throughout the movie, isn't very close to the earth's atmosphere. Neither does the movie say how &quot;high&quot; that debris cloud actually spans and that it couldn't get dragged into earth's atmosphere either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The debris following the space station is just &lt;strong&gt;another aspect of the scientifically inaccurate orbital mechanincs and debris behaviour&lt;/strong&gt; applied in the movie in the first place. You say you're not discussing the scientific accuracy of the film but the plot flaw inherent in this scene. But I on the other hand would say &lt;strong&gt;there is no plot flaw in this regard&lt;/strong&gt;. This scene fitted perfectly into the plot at this point and neither did it contradict anything established earlier. You say further that movies set their own rules and it's only a goof when they break those rules, but &lt;strong&gt;where there is no apparent clear rule set&lt;/strong&gt; coherent with our physical reality established about orbital mechanics and debris waves, &lt;strong&gt;there's nothing to break either&lt;/strong&gt; in this regard. In the same way you could ask why the ISS or the Tiangong were actually intact at all, given that the debris wave has already passed them at least once when &lt;em&gt;Stone&lt;/em&gt; arrives there. But once the movie reality has sufficiently deviated from ours, as &lt;em&gt;Gravity&lt;/em&gt;'s apparently has, there is no way to scientifically reason inside of it anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;it is neither possibility A nor B&lt;/strong&gt;. It isn't accurate to actual physics, but it wasn't explained in the movie either, as well as many of the other physical implausibilities. &lt;strong&gt;It isn't a plot flaw when seen in context of the rest of the movie but just a physical inaccuracy&lt;/strong&gt;, which you chose to ignore, though, so other than that I don't see another answer possible here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-06T16:31:51.817" LastActivityDate="2015-01-06T16:31:51.817" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28635" CreationDate="2015-01-02T01:28:13.970" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xb0kd5_kingpin-theatrical-trailer_shortfilms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;original trailer&lt;/a&gt;, around the 1:49 mark, to understand the joke about Buttercup.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Woody Harrelson is asked to prove that he's Amish by changing the horse's shoes.  As you can see in the above link, he removes the horse's leg up to its knees, thus making it much shorter.  I think this was cut from the movie so it doesn't make much sense to most people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-01-02T01:28:13.970" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10937" CreationDate="2015-01-02T04:07:21.553" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's &quot;Bury me in a nameless grave, I came from god, the world to save.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16839" LastActivityDate="2015-01-02T04:07:21.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9875" CreationDate="2015-01-02T05:03:06.733" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leopold was surprised that Eisenheim had the nerve to show him up.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leopold was electrocuted slightly, you can hear the zapping sound of electricity as he pulls the sword off the ground, and the dismay in Leopold's face as he is electrocuted, perhaps a shock from the mechanisms holding the sword down. This clearly surprised Leopold and agitated him. As &lt;strong&gt;Mistu4u&lt;/strong&gt; noted, Leopold gave Eisenheim an icy glance and he relented, allowing Leopold to withdraw the sword. Eisenheim knew Leopold had it out for him and he couldn't help but taunt him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16840" LastEditorUserId="52607" LastEditDate="2020-04-28T22:28:32.353" LastActivityDate="2020-04-28T22:28:32.353" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28488" CreationDate="2015-01-02T07:25:46.580" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to predict movie success?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How accurate it can be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nobody knows. Maybe 70% to 90%.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are already various models present for movie success prediction but they not always succeed. One &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0071226&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;formula&lt;/a&gt; is here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These days this formula is more based on Search engines to predict early audience response. But star cast, advertisement and tie-in materiel also come in calculation.&lt;a href=&quot;http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Scientists-devise-model-to-predict-success-of-films/articleshow/21993372.cms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt; Oxford University scientists claims 77% success rate of their formula&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These days you can say adaption (book or comics) have better success rate than indies but exceptions are there too: &lt;em&gt;John Carter&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Green Lantern&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2017-04-01T13:42:44.527" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T13:42:44.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24912" CreationDate="2015-01-02T08:59:11.790" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Grievers come out in the night&quot;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;No one has lived a night in the maze&quot;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet people have been stung &quot;in broad daylight&quot; and the entire community banishes them, saying it's a ritual. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that people have been stung and have therefore seen Grievers and made it out of the maze, morning or night, before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the plot hole. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16846" LastEditorUserId="43257" LastEditDate="2017-03-24T03:32:01.613" LastActivityDate="2017-03-24T03:32:01.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28649" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28651" CreationDate="2015-01-02T09:17:57.183" Score="5" ViewCount="2924" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to know the difference between &quot;nominated&quot; and &quot;won&quot; with regards to movie awards. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From what I understand:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Won&lt;/strong&gt; : The actor has received the award.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nominated&lt;/strong&gt; : The actor has not yet received the award, but will receive it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the confusion arises when the actor has been nominated in 2012 and has not yet received it(From IMDB). So shouldn't &quot;nominated&quot; be changed to &quot;won&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1212722/awards?ref_=nm_awd&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Example&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; : He was Nominated in 2005,2004....but has not &quot;won&quot; those.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16847" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-01-02T09:31:41.010" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T09:51:43.337" Title="Nomination vs Won" Tags="|academy-awards|awards|imdb|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28649" CreationDate="2015-01-02T09:28:58.687" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nominated means he is nominated for award but for the same category multiple people get selected but only one can win it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example Assume for best actor in Oscar 2015, 5 actor have been nominated but only one of them can win it, so the rest 4 will always be mentioned as nominee only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-01T09:51:43.337" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T09:51:43.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28649" CreationDate="2015-01-02T09:29:20.323" Score="14" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nominated :&lt;/strong&gt; The actor has not yet received the award, but will receive it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it means the actor is one of &lt;em&gt;several&lt;/em&gt; who is being considered for the &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; award.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4-8 may be nominated, but only one wins it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastActivityDate="2015-01-02T09:29:20.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23571" CreationDate="2015-01-02T11:56:45.523" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;TRANSPOTTING&#xA;Originally it refers to the hobby of spotting and keep track of trains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY:&#xA;TRAINSPOTTING - the activity of watching trains and writing down the numbers that each railway engine has&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/trainspotting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/trainspotting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a wider sense, trainspotter might refer to someone who is obsessed with something that appears to be completely meaningless to an outsider. In this case the hobby might be exercised to an extreme extent, completely overshadowing the person’s life and thus making the obsession more important than anything else in life (like education, family, career, friends, health and well being and so on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OXFORD DICTIONARY:&#xA;TRAINSPOTTER - often derogatory  A person who obsessively studies the minutiae of any minority interest or specialized hobby:&#xA; ‘the idea is to make the music really really collectable so the train spotters will buy it in their pathetic thousands’&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/trainspotter#trainspotter__5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/trainspotter#trainspotter__5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be about anything really; a collection of beer cans, stamps or Marilyn Monroe memorabilia. The behaviour resembles in some manners the compulsive behaviour and obsessed fixation of a heroin addict forced on by physical abstinence, which by the same standards makes little or no sense to anyone else: &quot;Who needs reasons when you got heroin?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's about it! This is my interpretation as far as it goes, and I might have missed out on some details. Sorry about that, but I'm not a trainspotter... ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16850" LastEditorUserId="16850" LastEditDate="2015-01-02T16:09:08.847" LastActivityDate="2015-01-02T16:09:08.847" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28130" CreationDate="2015-01-02T12:25:12.690" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was one I saw called Shutter. Same theme, about a photographer woman, but I'm not too sure about the smaller details&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16851" LastActivityDate="2015-01-02T12:25:12.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27129" CreationDate="2015-01-02T15:39:15.113" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If he were the same age since the beginning then the bodyguard episode will make him 14 because they come to party for HIS birthday&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16853" LastActivityDate="2015-01-02T15:39:15.113" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28667" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28668" CreationDate="2015-01-02T17:55:24.087" Score="7" ViewCount="3223" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did &lt;em&gt;When Harry Met Sally ... (1989)&lt;/em&gt; occasionally show interviews of random old couples retelling their love stories? Is there a name for this technique? I noticed that there was a time jump after each insert and towards the end&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; we saw the interview with Harry and Sally after they had declared their love for one another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially, I was intrigued by these random interviews but after a few of them, I got impatient and slightly annoyed because I failed to understand their point. Can you please explain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14080" LastEditorUserId="14080" LastEditDate="2015-01-02T22:24:07.680" LastActivityDate="2015-01-02T22:24:07.680" Title="What's the point of the old people's interviews in When Harry Met Sally" Tags="|analysis|film-techniques|when-harry-met-sally|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28667" CreationDate="2015-01-02T18:38:47.477" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is a love story about 2 people who didn't love each other at first, but eventually grew to love each other.  The point of the movie was based on the concept of; &quot;Can a man and a woman ever really be &lt;strong&gt;just friends&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.  However, at its heart it's a romance movie that was written following director Rob Reiner's divorce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interviews were actually conducted between the writer and some of the people who worked for the production company, discussing how they met their significant other.  While actors were used for those scenes, the dialogue was based on those interviews.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You should probably check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Harry_Met_Sally...&quot;&gt;the Wiki page&lt;/a&gt; that exists as it adds a lot of context to the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-01-02T18:38:47.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28671" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28675" CreationDate="2015-01-02T20:48:59.510" Score="8" ViewCount="1042" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to find a movie which I watched around 2008-2009 winter with the following details:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The story starts 50-200 years before today. There is no electronic devices around.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The protagonist was a middle aged man who is very knowledge about mechanical devices; specifically on about something that I can't remember. Maybe about clocks.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He works many years on the time machine. People around him say that he is wasting his life, he is a loser in life.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He uses a special part as the core of the machine, which I totally don't remember.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The time traveling device was consisting of metallic frames. I think it had a spherical geometry. There was a seat at the center of it. I remember some parts of it rotating once it is activated. Lots of warm white light come out of it just before the time travel.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;During the time travel, the device doesn't change physical location; it stays in a fixed point. When you are traveling to future, you see objects around you aging fast. Maybe there was a scene which shows a rotting apple or something like that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The man travels to a very far future. Where the Moon was partially destroyed (may be not). Some people immigrated to Moon. Remaining ones are living like cavemen. The protagonist arrives to a valley among high mountains. Soon people come out of caves on those mountains and introduce with him. He helps those people greatly by solving a big problem of theirs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I remember him traveling an even further future; maybe 1.000.000 years after our time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1203" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-26T00:49:43.527" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T00:49:43.527" Title="Time travel movie with a loser watching an apple rot, and there are moon people" Tags="|identify-this-movie|time-travel|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:29:59.373" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28671" CreationDate="2015-01-02T21:01:51.603" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds very much like a description of &lt;em&gt;H.G. Wells&lt;/em&gt;' &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Time Machine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been adapted to film more than once, but the two most famous ones are from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054387/&quot;&gt;1960&lt;/a&gt; (which I haven't seen yet though) and from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268695/&quot;&gt;2002&lt;/a&gt;, which I have seen and know that it invloves a partially destroyed moon at some point in the future. And given that you didn't say the movie itself was significantly old (and the effects you describe), this seems like a good fit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Based on the classic sci-fi novel by H.G. Wells, scientist and inventor, Alexander Hartdegen, is determined to prove that time travel is possible. His determination is turned to desperation by a personal tragedy that now drives him to want to change the past. Testing his theories with a time machine of his own invention, Hartdegen is hurtled 800,000 years into the future, where he discovers that mankind has divided into the hunter - and the hunted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-01-02T21:01:51.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28680" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28681" CreationDate="2015-01-02T23:12:27.273" Score="3" ViewCount="597" Body="&lt;p&gt;The world of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109791/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Felidae&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; presents us with cats that seem only mildly anthropomorphized, in a psychological way rather than physiologically. They are more or less as intelligent as average humans, self aware and aware of the human world and its customs, speak to each other, read and -- albeit only in the rather exceptional case of &lt;em&gt;Pascal&lt;/em&gt; -- can learn to use a computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in their physiology (except for a little artistic freedom of the animation) and behaviours they still seem to be bound to their existence as cats, they look like cats, walk like cats, eat like cats, fight like cats, and f--k like cats. Add to this that other animals like rats and crows don't seem to be anthropomorphized at all. So while the increased intelligence and the reading ability might be unusual, this doesn't so far seem to interfere with our observed reality that much, only enhance it with a &quot;look behind the scenes&quot; of the cats' world which might as well be understood as largely metaphorical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is one significant moment where this interpretation gets shattered from the ground and an actual deviation from our reality &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; indeed suggested, but there isn't made much more out of this in the further course of the story. During &lt;em&gt;Francis&lt;/em&gt;' examination of &lt;em&gt;Dr. Preterius&lt;/em&gt;' video journal the doctor at one point raves that &lt;em&gt;Claudandus&lt;/em&gt; has started to &lt;strong&gt;speak&lt;/strong&gt; to him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes Claudandus, talk to me, he he, fascinating idea. The animal has no sense of humour. What did he say, that I should release him from his cage, and face him, in hand to hand combat? What's this, I've got to save Claudandus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, at this point the good doctor is already on his best way to insanity, not to speak of his drinking problems, so it might as well be a hallucination. Yet, when &lt;em&gt;Francis&lt;/em&gt; later confronts &lt;em&gt;Pascal&lt;/em&gt; (now revealed to be &lt;em&gt;Claudandus&lt;/em&gt;) he says that he indeed spoke with &lt;em&gt;Preterius&lt;/em&gt;, much to &lt;em&gt;Francis&lt;/em&gt;' surprise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pascal:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, I'm Claudandus, you're right. I was in the laboratory and I did survive Preterius' unspeakable tortures. And when he eventually went mad I spoke to him!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Francis:&lt;/strong&gt; You spoke to a man?!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Pascal:&lt;/strong&gt; He was fascinated, he let me out of my cage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this isn't touched upon further and &lt;strong&gt;I'm not sure what to make out of this and what it's actual implications for the depicted reality are. Does that actually present a deviation from our observed reality?&lt;/strong&gt; Does that mean the cats &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; generally able to speak to humans but refrain from doing so? Or is &lt;em&gt;Pascal&lt;/em&gt; a special case (maybe in relation to the experiments &lt;em&gt;Preterius&lt;/em&gt; conducted and him being the only one on which his tissue glue worked)? Or was this only facilitated by &lt;em&gt;Preterius&lt;/em&gt;' advanced insanity? Or does &lt;em&gt;Pascal&lt;/em&gt; himself overinterpret the events and it was really only a hallucination by &lt;em&gt;Preterius&lt;/em&gt;? Or is this an utter surprise and mysterious event in the cat world, too? I see that this might not be entirely answerable by the movie alone and it might be that only the novel can present any further insights here, if the movie was true to it in this regard at all. Or was this not elaborated further &lt;em&gt;anywhere&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-12-20T21:16:21.343" LastActivityDate="2019-12-20T21:16:21.343" Title="Does the cats' anthropomorphization have any implications for our human reality?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|felidae|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28680" CreationDate="2015-01-03T00:03:28.313" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good question, made me check my copy of the original German novel. It actually does provide some further insight and supports a combination of your first two guesses: &lt;strong&gt;cats cannot easily talk to people and there is a religious taboo against it. If Pascal speaks the truth, he found it hard but there is no indication that he needed anything but determination, effort and some time to succeed.&lt;/strong&gt; This is my translation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;You talked to him? But that is sacrilege! We must not talk to the humans. The untouchables must not exchange a single word with the unclean, even when they are in mortal danger.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Oh, look, there is a believer among us! But even if that should hurt your religious feelings, Francis, I have to say it: I hate God! I hate the one who created the world, I hate the one who created this mankind, men like Preterius and situations like back then. If there is a god, then he is a giant, horrid spider in the darkness. We cannot recognize the darkness, the spider's face behind it and the giant spider's net that is behind the illusion of happiness and kindliness.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;And how did to talk to him?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;How? Well, I noticed that things were slowly but surely coming to an end for me and therefore didn't want to leave anything untried. So I made an effort and moved my jaw like a human, produced sounds like a human, imitated human speech. What croaked out of my throat sounded rather strange, but the madman understood it.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fascinating religious angle is unfortunately not further explained. Maybe in some of the 7 sequels the author wrote. I have three of them, but it's been years since I read them. All I remember is that their plots tended to be pretty similar to the first one without being directly connected through anything other than the main character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6233" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T03:24:46.983" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21938" CreationDate="2015-01-03T02:48:51.630" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joon-ho Bong was the director and if youre familiar with asian film making then you will recognize some cultural references in the screenplay....the fish (which looks like it might be koi---japanese, chinese, korean symbolism around koi is pretty ancient &amp;amp; all of them look at the koi as a symbol of strength and perseverance) has multiple cultural layers of symbolism so much so that it is a virtual archetype and will have many interpretations from many different cultures...but given the major influences for the film (asian director and french author) i think the following is likely being referenced: &quot;The fish signifies freedom from all restraint. As in the water a fish moves easily in any direction, so in the Buddha-state the fully-emancipated knows no restraints or obstruction.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the train is like a fish (in shape and movement through the snow), yet the social environment of the interior of the train is the total opposite of the above analysis....the people are fish whose natural affinity is freedom and movement. the perfected state of free will which means neither being an agent of oppression nor submitting to or tolerating oppression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it seems to be an asian-european fusion &amp;amp; utilizes tropes from these two paradigms. i think, really, this film is commentary on the rationalization of oppression hierarchies we see at work in the world today (ie the rhetoric around &quot;sustainable balance&quot;, everyone &quot;knowing their place&quot;, etc so called &quot;social darwinism&quot; and randian style &quot;objectivism&quot; which states that the &quot;strong&quot; are justified in their exploitation of the &quot;weak&quot;). the juxtaposition of the utter impoverishment that is separated from utter luxury by only a few cars is reflective of the surrealness of the real world (esp in the usa) where wealthy neighborhoods are separated from deeply impoverished ones by only a few blocks. these blocks become real symbols of this chasm.....the main focus is about class struggle. i wonder if the author is a marxist? def marxist-like influences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16864" LastEditorUserId="16864" LastEditDate="2015-01-03T02:59:34.233" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T02:59:34.233" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27833" CreationDate="2015-01-03T03:02:49.977" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beth was walking away w/ her group til Dawn made the last minute demand for Noah.  Just before Dawn does that, she turns slightly to her officers and then speaks.  Her sociopathic control was at risk. She was all about maintaining her power and could not let herself appear weak in front of the others.  It was who she was was at her core.  Beth finally &quot;got it&quot;. She wasn't going to allow the cruelty of such a twisted person to stay in charge, to continue to rule that way.  Her father Herschel was killed by another version of that kind of crazy. She did indeed get it.  Took me a second viewing to understand it though.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16865" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T03:02:49.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21847" CreationDate="2015-01-03T03:48:32.167" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Lester looked out the window for Malvo after the bathroom/bear trap incident, both cars were gone. I think this implies that Malvo did let the car salesman go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did he do this? Hardly out of compassion. I just think it helped illustrate the way Malvo thought. He wasn't just a bomb, leaving death and sadness wherever it happened to land, but instead a sniper that picked and chose who he wanted to kill. It was always HIS choice who died because of him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16867" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T03:48:32.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28691" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-03T04:15:27.173" Score="7" ViewCount="2020" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are people in &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; really using to make it seem like they are rubbing Walker guts on themselves to stay hidden from Walkers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they using like BBQ sauce or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16868" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-03T13:23:19.143" LastActivityDate="2016-09-29T00:52:50.227" Title="What are Walker guts made of?" Tags="|film-techniques|effects|the-walking-dead|make-up|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26363" CreationDate="2015-01-03T04:20:03.763" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;They do but if your talking specifically Bob and Garrett they cooked the meat first so it basically deleted the disease so they didn't turn, if that's what you're asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16868" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T04:20:03.763" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28691" CreationDate="2015-01-03T04:39:54.477" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's usually a combination of liquid latex, fake blood and some other materials.  Special Effects guru Tom Savini once used real pig intestines, but apparently the stench was so offensive he had to re-think his strategy.  I've seen this description on a few sites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lay out multiple layers of liquid latex on a flat surface, like a&#xA;  glass or marble countertop, and then take a large amount of paper&#xA;  towels and roll them into a sort of makeshift rope before dragging&#xA;  them carefully through the liquid latex, pulling away from the&#xA;  surface. After that, soak them in some red liquid, and you'll have&#xA;  some really disgusting unreal guts to throw around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;red liquid&quot; in question is probably fake blood.  This is the recipe used in The Evil Dead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;6 pints of Karo syrup&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1 pint of dairy creamer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3 pints of red food coloring&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a few drops of blue food coloring&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whip the creamer until it takes on a paste-like consistency, then stir it slowly with the Karo syrup. Stir in the food coloring, and you'll have yourself some excellent fake blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T04:39:54.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28697" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-03T05:14:22.447" Score="1" ViewCount="997" Body="&lt;p&gt;In downton abbey when bates goes to the limp corrector, why is the shop keeper so rude to him saying &quot;as I make it and advertise it will I say no?&quot; &#xA;Is it because there was no customer service back in the day or it was English culture working class attitude. &#xA;I know England is still not big on customer service as compared to American high streets. Just wanna know if it's a old cultural thing &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16863" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T17:36:45.373" Title="Why is the shopkeeper so rude?" Tags="|analysis|plot-explanation|downton-abbey|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1571" CreationDate="2015-01-03T07:33:52.687" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV show &lt;em&gt;The Talking Dead&lt;/em&gt;, they explain it as the zombie virus (also known as the walker virus) being airborne. This simply means that if a person ever gets an open wound such as a cut on the face or hand or anywhere else on the body, you already have the zombie virus in you.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when Carl was shot, that means that zombie virus got in him through the gunshot wound but he wasn't turned over to a walker because he never died from the wound. On the other hand, both Rick and Shane had wounds on their hands from the previous episode when they cut open their hands to attract the zombie to the gate and to the opening in that bus door which means that the walker virus was put into both of them. Shane was changed over because if you noticed he had no wounds directly to the brain, only the heart which would allow him to &quot;rise up&quot; as a zombie.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the episode where the group that is lead by Rick goes to CDC, in the video it shows that the zombie virus only effects the brain stem making it reanimate leaving the rest of the body cold and dead. So if the virus only effects the brain then that means the only way you can actually be killed is if you are shot, stabbed, slashed, or have anything slam through the skull puncturing the brain. If you are shot through the head, bit in the neck, get your neck broke or anything within the category of injuries that would kill a normal non-changed human being you would still be able to &quot;rise up&quot; from the dead as a zombie/walker/crawler.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the only way you can actually be killed and remain as a dead corpse is if you are shot through the head or if you have any sort trauma to the brain that causes it to be punctured.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16871" LastEditorUserId="5315" LastEditDate="2015-01-03T14:07:26.757" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T14:07:26.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28701" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29831" CreationDate="2015-01-03T10:44:17.710" Score="1" ViewCount="606" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to know why does Moriarty go through so much trouble to make a replica of the phone from &quot;A Study in Pink&quot; in the &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; episode &quot;The Great Game&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16847" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-03T13:21:15.283" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T04:57:22.873" Title="What is the significance of the pink phone in &quot;The Great Game&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|character|sherlock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3454" CreationDate="2015-01-03T11:36:15.917" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Pit is far from Gotham (Which, by the way is in New Jersey, not New York, just so people know).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was filmed in India, but the film location and the actual in story location are not the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Pit is officially in a 'Middle Eastern' Country, but it is never specified which. This is meant to leave it intentionally vague, since DC has many fictional countries like Kahndaq (quoting Dc's wikia): &quot;Kahndaq is an Arab country on the continent of Africa located between Egypt and Jordan.&quot; except when you look at the Continent it is on in the side bar, it says Asia (which actually matches the real world map concept that the Middle East is considered part of Asia), and if you consider what it says, it essentially is Israel... though other references have Kahndaq frequently considered part of what is Iran. This all convolutes matters, since Israel, Jordan, Iran, Egypt, Iraq (which also has DC fictional Qurac as a stand-in at times), and Libya (which has its own stand-in at times of Bialya, a near anagram) (among others) are all acknowledged to exist in DC as well...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since making it in a real country could be taken as offensive, Bialya has Queen Bee ruling it, and Kahndaq is ruled by Black Adam... Qurac would seem the most likely place in DC's fictional Middle Eastern countries to place the Pit. Note this part is only my theory, but since the Pit is a pastiche for multiple places in the mainstream Batman Mythos, and is further complicated by being filmed in India yet having a Moroccan Chant, and supposed to be in the Middle East, the conjecture is fairly sound with the available information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fun note: Joker in the comics actually was given Diplomatic Immunity for a while by being declared Iran's UN Ambassador. So, there is always still Iran, as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16874" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T11:36:15.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28705" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28710" CreationDate="2015-01-03T13:39:42.073" Score="1" ViewCount="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a native English speaker, so sorry for my English. A few months ago I've seen the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_Up_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Lock Up&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;There was a &quot;turf war&quot; (how to say this in formal English: &quot;scope clash/conflict&quot;?) &#xA;The warden/prison director wants to bully an immate of his prison. But more and more the &quot;Captain&quot; of the prison refuses to tolerate the behaviour of the director. At the end of the movie both try to arrest each other. They also quarrel, whether it is legal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: What is a &quot;Captain&quot; in a prison? Which of both outranks the other? Or are they independent of each other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16875" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-03T13:52:31.270" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T16:14:49.910" Title="Question concerning a &quot;scope conflict&quot;/&quot;turf war&quot; in the movie &quot;Lock Up&quot; (1989)" Tags="|plot-explanation|lock-up|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28705" CreationDate="2015-01-03T16:14:49.910" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, a simple answer to your question is that the Warden has full jurisdiction over every aspect of a prison.  A Captain leads the guards, but has no jurisdiction over the infirmary, mess hall, etc...  Therefore, the Warden outranks the Captain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T16:14:49.910" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28697" CreationDate="2015-01-03T17:36:45.373" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You didn't get the correct quote; &lt;a href=&quot;http://downtonabbey.wikia.com/wiki/Salesman_%28Limp_Corrector%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;according to the wikia&lt;/a&gt; it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Bates asks if it works, he flippantly replies &quot;Well, as I make it&#xA;  and I advertise it, is it likely I'd say no?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The line is particularly relevant &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Downton_Abbey#Episode_3&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;in context&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mr. Bates:&lt;/strong&gt; I saw this advertisement for a limp corrector. What does it do exactly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Salesman:&lt;/strong&gt; It corrects limps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mr. Bates:&lt;/strong&gt; Does it work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Salesman:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, as I make it and I advertise it, is it likely I'd say no?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst that answer may be regarded as rude, I wouldn't be offended by it (if I had been Bates) and would shrug it off as a case of &quot;I had to ask a stupid question, didn't I&quot;, especially since it was the second &quot;stupid&quot; question in a row. Moreover, the shopkeeper can afford to be rude because it's not like Bates has got an alternative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-01-03T17:36:45.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28719" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28736" CreationDate="2015-01-03T23:58:04.697" Score="6" ViewCount="1298" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching Sherman and Mr. Peabody, and in the Egyptian scene they started to play that prototypical Egyptian background music that sounds like a mixture of sitar and flute. It is very hard to describe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have no idea what I mean just watch the opening scene in Mummy and Mummy Returns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what genre this kind of music fall under and does it really have root in Egyptian culture?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16886" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-04T03:27:03.260" LastActivityDate="2015-01-04T16:27:01.870" Title="How to describe the music that appears in the background of EVERY Egyptian related scene?" Tags="|production|soundtrack|sound-effects|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28722" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="68418" CreationDate="2015-01-04T01:01:32.003" Score="9" ViewCount="580" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voyager - a famous interstellar mission - produced pictures after passing Saturn. To me it seems too much of a coincidence that a shot in the film &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; featuring a distant shot of the space station beyond a Saturn-like accretion disk had nothing to do with Voyager. What do you think? Does anybody happen to know if this was the inspiration? (e.g. an interview?):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Taken by Cassini space probe&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/23jul_palebluedot/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/a4XIK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/M58Sz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9012" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2015-01-06T15:45:49.537" LastActivityDate="2017-02-10T15:00:44.143" Title="References to Voyager 1 / Cassini photographs?" Tags="|interstellar|reference|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8782" CreationDate="2015-01-04T07:37:59.300" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/hans-zimmer-feels-horrible-when-his-inception-bramms-are-used-in-movie-trailers-20131106&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;an article&lt;/a&gt; based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/who-really-created-the-inception-braaam-composer-mike-zarin-sets-the-record-straight-20131113&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;an interview with Vulture&lt;/a&gt; where Hans Zimmer claims to have done it with brass players playing into a piano standing in a church as a kind of experiment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this kinda pissed off Mike Zarin who details how the development of the sound was a team effort involving many people in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/who-really-created-the-inception-braaam-composer-mike-zarin-sets-the-record-straight-20131113&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; that shows the evolution of the sound over the various trailers and score pieces, including trailers that Hans Zimmer wasn't involved in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't seem like Richard King was involved at any point though and I also can't hear that exact BWAAAH sound in the Featurette Oliver_C posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8450" LastActivityDate="2015-01-04T07:37:59.300" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28734" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28742" CreationDate="2015-01-04T13:56:02.123" Score="10" ViewCount="7817" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched the Kill Bill movies. In Vol. 2 in the texas funeral scene Beatrix Kiddo is buried alive with a flashlight. But I don't understand why Budd gives Beatrix the chance to see something when she is buried alive. If he want that she suffers he could use the mace. As for myself I think he wants to give her a little chance of survive and get the possibility for revenge. Because in a scene before Budd says to Elle Driver:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Budd: That woman deserves her revenge and we deserve to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there any evidence why Budd gives the flashlight to Beatrix before she gets buried alive? Or another good question could be: is Budd 100 % sure that Beatrix is going to die?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can watch the scene here: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bt3ofocuKfk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8737" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-11T11:49:52.323" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T09:50:10.570" Title="Why Budd buried Beatrix with a flashlight?" Tags="|plot-explanation|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28719" CreationDate="2015-01-04T16:27:01.870" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to TVTropes, it's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RegionalRiff&quot;&gt;Regional Riff&lt;/a&gt;- or more specifically, an Egyptian riff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here we're exploring Regional Riffs — and the musical instruments that&#xA;  seem inexorably linked as cues to locations. This is sort of the audio&#xA;  equivalent of the Foreign-Looking Font — a certain musical style is&#xA;  used because it resembles the actual music native to the setting, or&#xA;  because Hollywood has decided it just has the right &quot;feel.&quot; Sometimes&#xA;  the composers try to be culturally accurate but don't do their&#xA;  research, employing Scotirish bagpipes or Spexican bands. Some&#xA;  Regional Riffs now carry Unfortunate Implications due to associations&#xA;  with stereotyped portrayals of the area in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Egypt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-The flute of Egypt.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -Anything that's played in a harmonic minor scale (or double harmonic) will become instantly associated with Arabic or Egyptian music.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastActivityDate="2015-01-04T16:27:01.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27568" CreationDate="2015-01-04T19:23:55.893" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's more philosophical than confusing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1975,&lt;/strong&gt; Temporal agent has face burnt whilst trying to stop the ‘Fizzle Bomber’ who then escapes. A faceless stranger appears and helps badly burnt agent activate his portable time machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1992&lt;/strong&gt;, Agent travels forward in time to the Temporal Bureau, an organization founded in 1985 after the invention of time travel. There he has reconstructive facial surgery, and we find out the Fizzle Bomber killed 11,000 people in New York in 1975.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1970&lt;/strong&gt;, Temporal agent goes back to New York posing as a bartender and seems keen to engage a man calling himself ‘Unmarried Mother’ in conversation. The man explains he was originally a girl called Jane who was left at an orphanage in 1945. In 1963 Jane fell in love with a mystery man, who then disappeared. Jane had a baby who 9 months later was stolen. She then had a sex change and became a writer called John.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The temporal agent says he suspects the mystery man was the Fizzle Bomber and offers John the chance to go back to 1963 and kill the man who who ruined his life. In return he insists John must then join the Temporal Bureau. They then travel back to 1963 together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1963&lt;/strong&gt;, John accidentally meets his younger, female self Jane, falls in love, and impregnates her with a child that eventually would grow up to be them. Meanwhile, the temporal agent travels 9 months into the future, takes Jane’s baby and drops her off at an orphanage in &lt;strong&gt;1945&lt;/strong&gt;. He then drops John off in &lt;strong&gt;1985&lt;/strong&gt; to enlist in the Temporal Bureau.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1975&lt;/strong&gt;, The temporal agent then retires to 1975 but he still retains the use of the time machine which fails to deactivate itself. The retired agent/John soon tracks down the Fizzle Bomber, who actually turns out to be him in the future. He seems to have become insane from using the non-deactivated time machine too often as he sought to travel in time and avert disasters from occurring. However, his actions actually caused thousands of other untold deaths to happen in the process, and so disgusted with his future self, the agent shoots and kills the Fizzle Bomber, thus ensuring he becomes him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So essentially, The Fizzle Bomber and John, both are same, both are creation of an endless time loop. Whatever choices they made, they would be kept repeating themselves in the loop. The movie is called Predestination for a reason. It removes the many world interpretation by saying that everything, and everything is under a spatial time loop, stuck inside an original time loop. In the simplest term, Its like concentric circles upon circles. The circles being timeline. The bigger circles or timelines engulfing the other timelines. Whatever choices you make, you will be stuck in a loop and continue to do the same choices. If you choose to observe a different timeline, you would end up thinking you made a different choice, but choice has already had happened in a different timeline or circle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://gravito.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/the-philosophy-predestination-is-trying-to-prove-timeline-and-predestination-paradox-lessons-spoiler-alert/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Philosophy Predestination is trying to Explain: Plot Details and Predestination Paradox Lessons&lt;/em&gt;. gravito.wordpress.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16900" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2023-05-24T06:35:57.077" LastActivityDate="2023-05-24T06:35:57.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28734" CreationDate="2015-01-04T19:44:16.927" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Paulster2 said, it is given audience to visualize the scene. Otherwise it will be just a dark scene and them boom she is out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For other reason, I got the below mentioned answer from this &lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=1446819&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;thread&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Bud is a sadistic SOB.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Giving her a flashlight lets her see her surroundings, and the psychological horror of SEEING that you're trapped with no way out is&#xA;  even greater than of being in pitch dark.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The terror induced as the batteries in the flashlight fade is even greater.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-01T09:50:10.570" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T09:50:10.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21243" CreationDate="2015-01-05T00:07:28.383" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Princess Anna wouldn't likely have agreed to marry Hans if the detail he was in charge of resulted in Elsa's death, even though he himself didn't cause it. When  Anna requests a &quot;true love's kiss&quot; from Hans and, knowing he couldn't deliver, his undercover plot couldn't continue his true intentions are outed.  The death after unwitnessed marriage vows thing was a little silly, but technically Princess Anna did leave him in charge when she left. I admit that it is rather thin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16909" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T00:07:28.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28750" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-05T00:18:03.507" Score="3" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1741256/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Suburgatory&lt;/a&gt; is a TV show about a teen girl and her family who move from inner city Manhattan to a outer-suburb (unnamed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The suburban people are shown as incredibly affluent.&#xA;Lots of expensive fashion and plastic surgery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get the impression from the show that in the US, the most wealthy people live not in the inner city, but out in the suburbs.&#xA;I'm not sure it this is correct. &lt;strong&gt;Is it a fictional component of the show?&lt;/strong&gt;  Is it a exaggeration? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where I am from, Perth western Australia this is not true at all:&#xA;(most of) the inner suburbs/CBD are incredibly pricy and (most of) the outer suburbs &#xA;have a fairly poor reputation (Mostly jokes about the prevalence of alcholism, and/or stabbings). Perth does however have things like the &quot;Hollow City&quot; phenomenon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16910" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-05T00:21:38.790" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T14:06:25.857" Title="Is Suburgatory's characterisation of the NY suburbs remotely correct?" Tags="|realism|suburgatory|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5614" CreationDate="2015-01-05T01:18:50.877" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a scene later when he says he has a dossier &quot;on every person in the room&quot;. I think the camera cuts imply that means the detectives and police officers, not just the dead Russians.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16911" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T01:18:50.877" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2015-01-05T02:37:50.540" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simon and James are two sides to Simon's personality. Simon cares too much about how people will perceive him and also about their feelings, so he is a very submissive personality and lets people walk all over him. This starts to take its toll until he reaches a point where he feels like he is fed up of being trampled on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;so he  starts to change his approach to life and others by being more confident and forthright (james) these are two sides to his personality. The new Simon (james) starts to take over to the point where the old Simon is becoming a distant memory (he's forgetting who he is), but as he does simon realises that the new side of him is actually very arrogant and also too dismissive of other peoples feelings he's gone so far that he can't remember who he was. He hates the new Simon and realises that he has gone too far and needs to find a happy medium where he still cares about others feelings but doesn't let them walk all over him. This is where he starts to fight back. When the film ends you see he has found his humility again but he has taken control of his life. So my answer is that there are not two people and he is not insane, its just the internal struggle that we all go through as we try to be assertive in life but not to the point where we are an arsehole. We want to be assertive and compassionate. In control of our own destiny. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16913" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T02:37:50.540" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15725" CreationDate="2015-01-05T04:44:07.357" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fredo killed the would-be assassins. When Michael talks to Hagen after the shooting, he says &quot;unless I'm terribly wrong, they're already dead&quot; about the gunmen, &quot;killed by someone close to the family&quot;. Fredo ends up being the someone &quot;close to the family&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He knew all along what was to happen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16916" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T04:44:07.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24886" CreationDate="2015-01-05T06:55:09.223" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end, Em discovered that there are so many different realities, and after that blackmail chaos she left the current reality (which is not her). Em visits various realities, which have different different outcomes but most of them are dark. Then, she visits a reality where the people never leave the room. She breaks the car glass, which makes everyone check outside, and gets a chance to tranquilize her (this reality's Em) with some ketamine that she had taken from Beth. But she became conscious again, and a second fight ensued in the bathroom. She killed her or nearly killed her (we can't be sure, because in the morning she disappeared).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, Kevin gives a ring to Em. She finds this ring in the bathroom, and now Em has two rings. After that, Kevin receives a call from another Em. Now this part is left for open interpretation, which Em called Kevin. She may be the same Em who nearly died in the bathroom, or she could be another Em.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-01T19:47:06.653" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T19:47:06.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23144" CreationDate="2015-01-05T08:17:22.603" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well Another suggestion is the Actual Infection mentioned in the program which is actually called Pneumococcal by what Dr S Said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where it is not actually classed as the flu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16921" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T08:17:22.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28762" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28763" CreationDate="2015-01-05T10:17:08.440" Score="4" ViewCount="2127" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed with a few TV shows (most recently &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1358522/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;White Collar&lt;/a&gt;) midway in both season 2 and 3, the intro has changed. I'd have thought they would have sent all the episodes to the TV station at once, and if they changed the intro, they would have done it for the whole season. Why do TV shows sometimes change the intro mid-season?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand changing it if it reflects the story, but that doesn't seem to be the case, in White Collar, at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9481" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-06-15T09:45:04.437" LastActivityDate="2018-04-19T02:46:43.130" Title="Why do TV shows sometimes change the intro mid-season?" Tags="|title-sequence|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28762" CreationDate="2015-01-05T10:50:34.040" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;TV-shows sometimes have mid-season breaks (I don't know why, but that seems to be what they do). White Collar seasons 2 and 3 did just that, as you can see on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_White_Collar_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia Episode list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say that is the most likely cause, and should mean the Intro changed from Episodes 9 to 10 in Season 2, and 10 to 11 in Season 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13690" LastEditorUserId="13690" LastEditDate="2015-01-05T11:19:13.410" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T11:19:13.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28762" CreationDate="2015-01-05T11:00:50.023" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Layna answered your question well but sometimes the mid-season credits got changed even when there is no mid-season break. The intro gets changed to include new or remove existing cast and crew, or to add new or remove existing footage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take the case of Power Rangers or any anime show. They change Intro so many times mid-season from a minor change to a complete change. They remove the dead characters scene from the intro and add the new ones. I have seen same thing happening to TV shows too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For examples refer to TV tropes article for &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvolvingCredits&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Evolving Credits&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or refer similar question about Game of Thrones:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2581/does-the-game-of-thrones-intro-change-to-reflect-the-current-story&quot;&gt;Does the Game of Thrones intro change to reflect the current story?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-06-15T09:46:56.687" LastActivityDate="2017-06-15T09:46:56.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28766" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28788" CreationDate="2015-01-05T11:57:46.910" Score="4" ViewCount="4346" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is that theme/song called that Bombur &quot;plays&quot; when sounding the horn of Erebor and/or the humans play in honor of Thorin (after it &quot;all over&quot;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16926" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-19T21:55:48.980" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T19:07:03.300" Title="&quot;Song&quot;/Theme played in Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies" Tags="|soundtrack|the-hobbit|the-battle-of-the-five-armies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28750" CreationDate="2015-01-05T14:06:25.857" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a little of both.  NYC is an incredibly expensive place to live, where an average apartment runs around $1500/month, up to places that are over $7000/month.  You can certainly find one cheaper, but that's about average.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the suburbs, you can generally find a decent apartment for around $1000/month, depending on where you look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the suburbs, you also get what I hold most precious; real estate.  There are very few houses in NYC, but in the suburbs they are everywhere.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, because things are cheaper in the suburbs, you have a wider range of income makers there.  An average couple can afford to pay $700/month in rent in a suburb, whereas they would be really struggling in NYC to pay their bills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it really depends on an individual's preference.  In Darien, where I grew up, many large company exec's owned homes because they liked the slower pace, the quieter environment to raise a child, and the better school systems.  However, I'm sure there are just as many, if not more, people who enjoy the fast-paced, &quot;Open 24/7&quot; environment of NYC and prefer to live there.  The &quot;affluent&quot; suburbs they're probably portraying are towns like Darien, Greenwich and New Canaan, all within an hour of NYC but with average house prices close to $700,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T14:06:25.857" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28772" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-05T17:50:56.767" Score="12" ViewCount="639" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched the Kill Bill movies. In both movies Beatrix plucks out an eye from an opponent (Elle Driver and one of the crazy 88). I'm curious about which material fake eyes in Kill Bill (or in other movies) are made of. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8737" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T14:46:40.230" LastActivityDate="2024-02-27T19:30:56.210" Title="Which material are fake eyeballs made off?" Tags="|effects|props|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11853" CreationDate="2015-01-05T18:02:26.763" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A double-bladed lightsaber (saberstaff) isn't an inherently Sith design, but has been long associated with them. One of the reasons that not very many Jedi use it is because it is an exotic weapon that only a few can teach (according to &lt;em&gt;The Jedi Path&lt;/em&gt;). It also depends on the preferred style of Jedi. Count Dooku, while a Sith, used a saber with a bent hilt to enhance saber to saber combat. As poepje said, saberstaff maneuvers generally include a lot of spinning, but this doesn't mean there are gaps in the defence. In &lt;em&gt;Dynasty of Evil&lt;/em&gt;, Darth Bane's apprentice, Darth Zannah, uses a saberstaff to defend against Bane's brute force, creating a nearly impervious defense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16467" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T18:02:26.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28772" CreationDate="2015-01-05T19:13:04.203" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depending on needs, generally they are made from acrylic, glass, Latex or silicone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Acrylic and glass can give the glossy look to the prop eye, but latex and silicone can give it a spongy texture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of the Swedish film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_%E2%80%93_A_Cruel_Picture#cite_note-Nicholas-2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thriller&lt;/a&gt;, lead actress Christina Lindberg said &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dbcult.com/printed-media/christina-lindberg-interview/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;in an interview&lt;/a&gt; Director Bo Arne Vibenius used an actual human cadaver for the eye &quot;surgery&quot; scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2015-01-10T05:32:22.467" LastActivityDate="2015-01-10T05:32:22.467" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28779" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-05T20:03:09.090" Score="11" ViewCount="4195" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the entire group was on the heli-carrier (or whatever it's called) everyone was in Banner and Stark's lab, and they began arguing, some making rather uncharacteristic remarks.  The fight somewhat ends when Banner picks up Loki's spear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having re-watched the movie last night, it seems to me that perhaps Loki was acting through the spear to influence the Avengers.  Is this the case?  Is there anything to support this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-01-06T11:52:59.993" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T06:06:08.707" Title="Was Loki's spear manipulating the Avengers?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-avengers|marvel-cinematic-universe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28780" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34579" CreationDate="2015-01-05T21:48:25.983" Score="5" ViewCount="1126" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of The Raid (2011), the lieutenant Wahyu and Dagu reach the boss, then Wahyu kills Dagu. But he is not on the boss' side (and later kills the boss anyway) so why kill his comrade?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-05T22:16:55.880" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T12:12:41.413" Title="Why does Wahyu kill Dagu?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-raid|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21826" CreationDate="2015-01-05T22:11:57.650" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the codename theory. Here's how to explain it. Let's start with the assumption that Bond 1 (played by Connery) was an agent whose real name was indeed James Bond. B1 set the standard for which all future 00 agents needed to follow, to the extent that the secret service decided to not only retain the number 007 for the best of the 00 agents, but also the name. In other words, just like a civilian was transformed into Jason Bourne and thereby lost his true identity, this was also the case for all future 007 agents (i.e. Bond 2 - the current Bond 6). The question is why take on a code name at all?&#xA;B1 was a product of the cold war at its most cold and paranoid. By creating in each subsequent 007 agent a code name, it allowed, as in the Bourne universe, a chance to better create in the agent the identity of a cold-blooded killer, as a means to leave behind one's civilian identity in order to make way for a new one - all crucial when the stakes were so high and people feared nuclear war. This leaving behind of one's old identity to make way for a new one is a common part of induction/initial training within institutions (e.g. the military, some religious orders, fraternities). In other words, for all we know B6 (played by Craig) has the real name of John Thomas. But by creating in him the name of James Bond, he is more effectively able to leave behind his personal identity and get on with his new identity and role - a trained assassin. For those in the secret service and CIA, taking on new identities is quite common. However, unlike the Bourne system, no agents were brainwashed. Instead, their 'programming' is largely based on method-acting. This allows them to carry out their job as James Bond, but also allows for their own 'true' personality to come through (hence B3 was more light-hearted, whereas B4 was not). &#xA;Consider the evidence. In QOS, we find out that ‘Rene Mathis’ is not the agent’s real name – this too was a code name (as are M, Q and as I shall argue, Moneypenny, Felix Leiter and Blofeld). Moreover, by 1967, B1 had become something of an irony – a ‘secret’ agent who everybody else seemed to know about, namely his enemies (specifically, SPECTRE). Therefore, his death was faked (YOLT, 1967) in order to buy him a bit of time to fight his enemies. This could also be a rationale to keep James Bond alive forever by giving this code name to the best of the best, in honour of the original Bond and also, to confuse future enemies. &#xA;What if the mention of ‘James Bond’, however, tells his enemies that, while the agent looks different, he’s still a secret agent? Well, this is explained in that each Bond has, when necessary, taken on yet another identity (e.g. B1 becoming Peter Franks; B2 becoming Sir Hilary Bray; B3 becoming Robert Stirling). Also, in DAF, Tiffany Case exclaims to B1 that the man she thinks is James Bond is dead (that is, B1 placed his ID in the dead man’s suit, so that Case thinks Bond is dead). My point: Case is with James Bond himself (the first Bond no less, whose real name is indeed ‘James Bond’) and yet does not recognise him. This strongly suggests that while the name ‘James Bond’ may be famous and hardly secret, the face is secret, for a time at least, due to the regular changing of the guard, so to speak. Therefore, James Bond could, conceivably, be anybody. Finally, in DAF, Moneypenny also asks B1 to bring her back from Amsterdam a ‘diamond in a ring’ – a reference to marriage. We know that B2 lost his wife earlier, but this is not B2. Therefore, what might be seen as a tasteless comment for a man whose wife has been killed is, in reality, just the usual playful banter between Moneypenny and whichever version of Bond she is working with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So....if this is all true, then what about the questions it raises:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why does B2 look back over the gadgets that only B1 would have used and known about?&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;(I'm referring to the scene in 1969's OHMSS, in which B2 – Lazenby – has just resigned from the service). He even answers the phone with '007' and then corrects himself to 'James Bond here' (suggesting that James Bond is his real name after all). Simple. Each 'James Bond' passed on information, mementoes, gadgets, etc. etc. to all subsequent Bonds, to feed into the 'James Bond mythology', and to allow for continuity within individuals who are all, essentially, playing a role (but again, a role that is very much a part of role-playing professions, such as spies). He answered the phone with 'James Bond' purely because, though lasting for just one mission, his training had created in him already a near blind acceptance to the idea that James Bond really is his name (and not, for example, Edwin Rawlings perhaps). Plus, B2 did not really want to resign, so perhaps by answering the phone with his moniker, he was reflecting this. B2 left the service after his wife was killed, as he had planned to 'find something else to do' after proposing to her anyway. &#xA;From here, B1 was brought back in for one last mission (DAF, 1971). I can't explain at all of course how B1 would return again in 1983 for a mission that duplicated that of a previous one (Thunderball, 1965)...but as NSNA was not an official Bond film, perhaps we need not consider this at all (though this does not suggest any criticism of the film per se). After DAF, B2 retires and brings in B3. He retires and paves for the way for B4, B5, B6 and so on. In fact, CR (2006) shows part of the indoctrination process of each new Bond, partly at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why do several Bonds show sadness for a dead wife if they are all different people?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;B3 visits Tracy’s grave and he, along with B4 in LTK, shows emotion when an agent makes reference to James Bond’s deceased wife. Why? Simple. It’s all part of the aforementioned method acting. Each Bond is playing his own version of Bond to a large extent (though all are government-based killers, regardless of differences in their overall portrayal), but each Bond acquires the baggage of the previous Bond incarnations. Therefore, B1 really is an orphan, but the others are not (or perhaps they are, in as much as M16 were looking to recruit orphans as one of their requirements for the man to ‘play’ 007). Either way, such a tragedy was deemed too important to miss, so whether an act or whether each Bond has indeed been orphaned, it was determined to retain this aspect for all future Bonds to shape the character of a cold-blooded assassin (M herself remarks that orphans make the best 00 agents, exactly a reason to demand being an orphan as a key feature of the 007/James Bond role or to expect B2 – B6 to method act as an orphan). M16 want, to an extent, ‘damaged (emotional) goods’ for the role of James Bond. Someone who can take on the mantle of being an orphan and a widower might fit the bill, to help create the emotional distance needed for a 007 agent. As B5 says, ‘(his coldness) it what keeps (him) alive’.  Therefore, any reference to being an orphan and/or a widower in any incarnation of Bond is a reference to those aspects of the Bond title that are being retained, for the reasons explained (though I concede again that perhaps each new Bond really is an orphan and a widower, so no method acting needed for these two crucial aspects of James Bonds’ ‘make-up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How about the differing faces of Blofeld, Leiter and Moneypenny – are they code names too?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Yes. Let’s assume Blofeld was indeed killed by B1 at a later date in YOLT (1967) or perhaps he was killed by the KGB (this would assume that SPECTRE was indeed run by the Soviets and that Blofeld, though ‘Number One’, was otherwise a puppet, a very powerful one, however). Then B2 comes across a new Blofeld in OHMSS. The Soviets replaced Blofeld with a new character. This would explain why neither man recognises each other – both James Bond and Blofeld are new faces after all. Blofeld 2 finds out later, however, that ‘Hilary Bray’ is James Bond (again, both not the real name of whoever B2 really is). And after the death of his wife, B2 kills Blofeld 2 and subsequently retires in grief (or is let go for ‘making it personal’ – this would also perhaps be the fate of B4, who disobeyed orders to go after Felix Leiter’s opponent, Sanchez, in LTK, 1989).&#xA;As for Leiter, perhaps ‘Felix Leiter’ is a code name bestowed upon the best CIA agents, a US counterpart for the British James Bond. When each new ‘Leiter’ meets each new ‘Bond’, they both have to go through the motions of assuming old acquaintances when in fact, they perhaps have only just met.&#xA;As for Moneypenny, MP 1 served from 1962 (perhaps earlier, as we hear in Dr. No that Bond has already been on the job for about ten years) until the mid-80s. Then we had MP2, MP3 and currently, MP4. Each MP was asked to also take on a role – that of the professional, reliable and utterly love stuck woman (though again, there are some different personality traits amongst them, notably MP3 and MP4 who are more independent than their predecessors). However, when MP1 asks B1 for a diamond in a ring, she momentarily lets down her guard, and her act – she is supposed to view B1 as a widower, but she forgets this and therefore asks for a ring (note the puzzled look on B1’s face at her request, as if to acknowledge her mistake).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So how do Bond and Blofeld recognise each other in DAF (1971) with, once again, new faces?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;We can assume that B1’s brief return was leaked information (highly plausible), the Soviets got hold of it and therefore decided to plant ‘Blofeld’ (number three) in this new mission to smuggle diamonds. The fact that DAF focused on plastic surgery also lends support to the idea of ‘creating’ new versions of a character; in this case, creating Blofeld to look like a previous (deceased) ally of Bond’s – Henderson – who we saw in 1967 in YOLT. Perhaps the Soviets chose Henderson’s face to spite Bond, as Henderson was one of Bond’s only true friends, whose murder in YOLT perhaps upset him more than we know. Moving on, Blofeld 4 (who we see in 1981 in FYEO) is again referring to ‘Mr. Bond’ as if an old adversary, but in reality the two have never met. Nonetheless, this shows again the level of the role playing, to the extent that people might start to see themselves as the role (again, method acting to the extreme) and also, it shows that B4, though never having previously met any version of Blofeld, nonetheless ‘recognises’ him based on knowledge passed on to him by previous Bonds and/or M16/M.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But why the need to ‘pretend’ so much, even in secret rooms (e.g. Bond’s office)?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Because of the cold war paranoia, each new ‘Bond’ was instructed that he had to eat, sleep and breathe the life of an orphaned, widowed, womanising assassin, to assume that everywhere he ate, slept and went, he was being watched, followed and even bugged. This attention to complete detail would ensure that he remained consistent in his actions and the character portrayal of James Bond 24/7. Same for the other characters with code names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How about overlap between the different Bonds?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;For example, we see a reference to the date ‘1985’ in AVTAK (with B3), and B4 starts his first mission in 1987, yet B5 was on a mission in 1986. Likewise, Silva makes a reference to M3 (played by Dench of course) as being on the job in 1986, when in fact this would have been the time when M2 (played by Robert Brown) was on the job.&#xA;Well, it may not be the case that Bond is on a mission every two years. Rather, it could well be three missions per year. Let us consider:&#xA;B1 – served from early 50s until 1967; 1971&#xA;B2 – 1969 only&#xA;B3 – 1973 – 1985&#xA;B4 – 1985 (not necessarily 1987, with the film TLD); likewise, LTK could have been in 1985 also&#xA;B5 – Therefore, B5 could have started in late 1985, to have therefore been around for his mission with 006 in the beginning of the film Goldeneye. He retired in 2002, or thereabouts, after his final mission. The point here is not to necessarily set the year in which the films were released as the year in which Bond was completing a various mission – there can be some leeway.&#xA;B6 – He began anywhere from 2004/06 and continues in his role…..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for M, the first (Miles Messervy) served until around 1979. He was replaced by Admiral Hargreaves (first seen in TSWLM, 1977) until around 1985 (serving with B4). Then M3 could have begun her duties in 1985/86, to accompany both B5 and serving with B6 (until her demise).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But in Skyfall (2012), we see a clear reference to James Bond’s parents’ graves, his childhood home and the gamekeeper who knew Bond as a child.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Yes we do. But these are indeed references to the real Bond – B1. A man who really was orphaned as a child (though only B2 perhaps was truly widowed). So B6 is again playing the role to the extent that B1’s childhood home had become, with his permission, a safe house of sorts for each new Bond, a place to retreat to for solace, comfort or to unwind following each mission. The gamekeeper is indeed a bit too young to have been old enough to be a father figure to B1 (both Connery and Finney are roughly the same age), but again, we have an ‘actor’ (based on his prowess with a gun, perhaps another agent, who remains on the grounds as a look-out for M16 and, when needed, plays the role). The gamekeeper’s recollection to M of what happened to Bond as a boy following the death of his parents was merely information on file that was passed on to him – information that M (in this case, M3)  would have known already. But again, for the sake of consistent role playing, in this case treating each new Bond as one in the same essentially, they go through the motions of discussing already known information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are coincidences that are hard to explain – why does Andrea Anders (from TMWTGG, 1974) look like Octopussy; why does villain Brad Whitaker look like Bond ally Jack Wade? Don’t know, but merely coincidental.&#xA;Anyway, that’s my take on things….. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16936" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T22:11:57.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24837" CreationDate="2015-01-05T23:29:28.950" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is there is an unseen layer in the movie. In the book he kills off the men who set up the botched drug buy, including the man who hired Wells. He then returns the money to the money man who is not shown in the movie. He then sets himself up as the in between man for the money backer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16939" LastActivityDate="2015-01-05T23:29:28.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28785" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-05T23:39:32.330" Score="33" ViewCount="214066" Body="&lt;p&gt;Birdman is a very innovative movie. The cinematography alone is brilliant, capturing the spirit behind the scenes at a Broadway Theatre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the screenplay seems, in part, an interesting view of actorly (mis)conduct denier the rehearsals of a production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what are we supposed to make of the ending. To me there seem to be two interpretations: one optimistic; one somewhat depressing or, at least, downbeat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie, without giving too much away plot wise, seems to want to leave the audience with an optimistic ending. But this ending involves us accepting a somewhat magical realist reading of what happens. If we don't buy the magical realism (or read it as the subjective psychological state of the lead character) then we have to accept a downbeat end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that the right interpretation or does the movie deliberately leave us hanging? Which interpretation is intended? What really happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2020-04-25T10:16:22.860" LastActivityDate="2020-04-25T10:16:22.860" Title="What happened at the end of Birdman?" Tags="|plot-explanation|birdman|" AnswerCount="12" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28579" CreationDate="2015-01-06T04:50:39.967" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it has any proper explanation or motive. The answer could be opinion based. Suppose gangster didn't shoot Rick, then we could ask 'why didn't he shoot the damn camera-man who was filming his accident after having a gun?'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I can come up with my own thinking. There is 2 strong reason to shoot Rick and to leave Louis. Rick was in the path from where gangster got out of his car, Louis wasn't. He was in a bit distance. Secondly, there was police siren when gangster was in eye-contact with Louis. He could think that he needs to escape first. Trapped, injured man can think in a million ways. Let us think like a gangster. Lying injured in a car just after the accident- &quot;What the f? Who's filming me? Ahh! dhish dhish(shots fired) die idiot die. Now let's get out. Oh no! another one!! Why isn't he running!! Siren! Police! Aw, I need to run....&quot; Maybe I would do the same thing :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-05-21T10:12:39.413" LastActivityDate="2019-05-21T10:12:39.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28766" CreationDate="2015-01-06T04:50:56.563" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/gleorTAQ3AM?t=2m6s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sons Of Durin&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Bombur sounds the horn that signals of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7W7ZhTsxeI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thorin and the company of dwarves joining the fight&lt;/a&gt;. You can find all OST on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_The_Hobbit_film_series#Track_listing_3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3240" LastEditorUserId="3240" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T19:07:03.300" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T19:07:03.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28779" CreationDate="2015-01-06T04:50:58.113" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;By listening to the Director's commentary in the Blu-ray, the idea is that Loki's scepter does not only affect people, controlling them by touch (as with Barton/Hawkeye) but the mere presence of it can create confusion and insert anger into people's hearts around it, at least in the near proximity of the scepter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The shot where the camera flips and everybody is upside-down behind the scepter is to indicate that it is turning everybody not evil, but at least angry and &quot;out of character&quot;.  Banner and Stark are the ones that spend more time around it in the lab, but they are also the more intelligent and reasonable so, the scepter affects them more slowly, but in the case of Natasha, Fury and Rogers, they become angry very easily. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the one taking the scepter is Banner, cause he's the one with the rage problems, thus, the one the scepter has more power over once he lets the anger flow when he starts arguing with the others, the scepter appears to give him direct &quot;commands&quot; without him noticing it, indicating that the people under it's effect are not turned evil, but are under mental control. That's why when he becomes Hulk he goes berserk, he's not evil, but the influence of the scepter has turned him angry beyond reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16561" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T06:06:08.707" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T06:06:08.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28785" CreationDate="2015-01-06T10:51:06.450" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignornance) is an inherently metaphorical and rather surreal film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the film, we see Riggan (Micheal Keaton) struggling with the voice of Birdman, the superhero he played in the 90's, in his head. Birdmans voice is a representation of Riggan's commercial self - the part of him that wants to quit the stage show, forget the desire for critical rather than financial success, and create more Birdman films. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additonally, we see Riggan using various forms of telekinesis and even flight at various stages of the film - however, these are all revealed to be a delusion created by Riggan when he lets Birdman (or his desire for financial success) overcome his desire for critical success. An example of this is when he flies across New York, landing near his theatre and walking insie - only to be followed by an angry taxi driver demanding payment, indicating that Riggan didn't fly at all, and instead took a cab, forgetting to pay as he is wrapped up in his delusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meaning, this is the film trying to demonstrate that there are two parts to Riggan - the side that thinks financial success is important, represented by Birdman, and the that believes in proving himself critically. Importantly, neither side of Riggan is &quot;correct&quot; or healthy - his own daughter (Emma Stone) comments on his self-obsession and his desire for acceptance at one point and links this with his seperation from his family. Both sides of Riggan simply feed into his desire for acceptance, one commercial and one critical, and as such are both just symptoms of his self obsession.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, the ending of the film has him stepping outside of his hospital room after achieving critical acclaim based on his performance, financial success based on good reviews, and the love and support of his family who were previously unavailable to him. The only person who sees him out of his window is his daughter, who first looks to the floor (expecting to see a body) and instead seeing nothing - she then looks up and smiles, presumably seeing him floating there. This is her expecting to see the worst of her father when she looks at him and instead seeing the best he has to offer now that his obsession with himself and how others perceive him has been calmed by the various successes granted to him by giving his all to his performance, quite literally bleeding for the stage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this is just one analysis of a complex and very interpretive film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in no way would I expect Riggan to actually have superpowers - I strongly believe that his powers were metaphorical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-03T09:14:05.697" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T09:14:05.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28762" CreationDate="2015-01-06T12:54:46.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Further to other answers, another reason the intro could change is due to &lt;em&gt;holdover episodes&lt;/em&gt;. This is when some episodes in one production run are kept back and broadcast during the next season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happened with season 20 of The Simpsons - that season marked a shift to HD and widescreen, and with that came a new intro. However there were 9 episodes held over from the previous season, so the intro changed halfway through the season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastActivityDate="2015-01-06T12:54:46.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28794" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28806" CreationDate="2015-01-06T12:55:11.763" Score="3" ViewCount="1534" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PK_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PK movie&lt;/a&gt;, PK knows about Jaggu's boyfriend that he didn't cheat/left her in Belgium. But PK only read the mind of Jaggu. PK didn't know about Tapasvi's lies. How does he know that Sarfaraz still loves Jaggu in the ending?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16464" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T00:50:56.407" LastActivityDate="2016-12-05T18:18:43.083" Title="How does PK know better than Jaggu?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pk|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28796" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29931" CreationDate="2015-01-06T15:09:59.027" Score="16" ViewCount="7452" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw &lt;em&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt; on the big screen for the first time in twenty years. There were many details that I saw for the first time. One of these details happens whenever we see a replicant. They are shown with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapetum_lucidum&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;tapetum lucidum&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. What is the symbolic meaning of showing the &lt;em&gt;tapetum lucidum&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s well documented to have been done on purpose, they used a technique called &quot;beam splitting&quot; to make it happen. &lt;em&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt; is even noted on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-eye_effect&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;red-eye effect Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-02-28T01:38:41.530" LastActivityDate="2019-02-28T01:38:41.530" Title="What is the meaning of showing the tapetum lucidum (eye glow) of the replicants?" Tags="|analysis|blade-runner|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="28806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28794" CreationDate="2015-01-06T17:57:09.250" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;PK did't know about Tapasvi's lies but he had power to know what actually happened by holding person's hand . So he came to know about the lies while holding jaggu's hand which Tapasvi told him on the video call . &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now coming to the Sarfaraz's point , He made that assumption which was made by considering these three situations or facts which actually happened at church on the wedding day .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The boy who came to give the letter was unknown to Jaggu .&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There wasn't anybody available there other than a girl who was&#xA;holding the basket with the cat .&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nobody's name was written on the letter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So PK came to conclusion by using this facts that letter might not from him it was a guess which could turned out to negative but considering Sarfaraz's image on Jaggu's mind, PK may have thought that this is possible which actually was .. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6560" LastEditorUserId="6560" LastEditDate="2015-01-07T07:12:59.213" LastActivityDate="2015-01-07T07:12:59.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28809" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28811" CreationDate="2015-01-06T19:48:17.640" Score="3" ViewCount="52411" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the two plane crash survivors are rescued from the ocean, they are brought to a small concentration camp in the jungle.  At one point, both men are brought out into the light and appear severely malnourished, with visible ribs and sunken abdomens.  Were anorexic people cast as body &quot;doubles&quot;? Was this CGI (like Gollum)? Or was this accomplished another way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2016-04-11T10:34:30.030" Title="In Unbroken, how were the actors made to look malnourished?" Tags="|effects|unbroken|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28809" CreationDate="2015-01-06T20:10:15.657" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.etonline.com/news/154892_unbroken_cast_reveals_what_it_like_to_have_angelina_jolie_as_a_boss/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to get the authentic look of POWs, Angelina put stars Jack&#xA;O'Connell, Garrett Hedlund and Finn Wittrock on strict 700-calorie&#xA;diets. While the dietary challenge presented obstacles, Angelina&#xA;expressed her gratitude in a way that made it all worth it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The funny thing is we'd all be on set and everybody's kind of&#xA;complaining and starving,&amp;quot; Garrett said. &amp;quot;[We were] on these emaciated&#xA;diets, and Angelina would show up on set and be like, 'You guys look&#xA;great!'&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ohio.com/entertainment/rich-heldenfels/stow-grad-john-magaro-takes-on-physical-challenges-to-be-in-unbroken-1.552745&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article, in the words of one of the actors, John Magaro&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His prison-camp experiences alone, like those of Zamperini and other&#xA;inmates, were harrowing, laden with starvation and abuse. Just to&#xA;convey that, Magaro said the actors spent days covered in grime,&#xA;including head-to-toe makeup resembling coal dust, and were thinned&#xA;down considerably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“There was a strict, strict diet that we were on, all the POWs as well&#xA;as the raft guys. We had a nutritionist who kind of gave us a protocol&#xA;and we followed it,” Magaro said of his three-month shoot in Australia&#xA;in late 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“It was a lot of cutting calories with a lot of cardio and exercise. I&#xA;lost close to 35 pounds. I’m usually around 140 and I got down to 105.&#xA;… It was difficult, but you have to remind yourself what story you’re&#xA;trying to tell, and you want to do justice to the story. Everyone was&#xA;very committed to it.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the actor did physically lose the weight with an extreme diet.&#xA;There's no shortage of articles talking about how Angelina Jolie took on the same (or similar) diet out of sympathy for the actors and that's why she's so skinny lately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been many movies where the actors have gone on crash/extreme diet to achieve the emaciated look. Like for instance Matthew McConaughey's &lt;strong&gt;Dallas Buyer's Club&lt;/strong&gt; look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-01-06T20:10:15.657" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="28814" CreationDate="2015-01-06T21:17:54.673" Score="0" ViewCount="2036" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I've read that the first movie covers the six first chapters of the book, and it features some parts from LOTR (either book or movie, I'm not sure). But since I'm still reading The Hobbit (book), I wanna know when I can watch the first movie being sure that no spoiler will be given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you could answer the same question for the second movie as well, I'd appreciate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16961" LastEditorUserId="16961" LastEditDate="2015-01-06T21:39:59.220" LastActivityDate="2015-01-06T21:53:15.810" Title="When is it safe to watch The Hobbit while reading the book?" Tags="|book-adaptation|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-01-07T06:33:51.753" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28813" CreationDate="2015-01-06T21:53:15.810" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First Hobbit movie ends around the end of Chapter 6&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second Hobbit movie ends around the end of Chapter 13&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All 3 movies span a little into the LOTR timeline&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would read through Chapter 6, watch the first one, read through the end of Chapter 13, watch the second one, and then read the rest and watch the 3rd one.  There will be a little overlap between book and movie, but not enough to ruin it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-01-06T21:53:15.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="28822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14618" CreationDate="2015-01-07T02:02:47.803" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Chimayo New Mexico there is a similar shrine called El Santurio in which thousands of Catholics have made a pilgrimage of suffering as a show of faith in return for their prayer to be answered. Usually one's prayers are for someone sick, or off to war. Every Easter on Good Friday thousands make their pilgrimage of faith. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16968" LastActivityDate="2015-01-07T02:02:47.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29818" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-07T10:08:50.360" Score="3" ViewCount="848" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have 2 questions to ask. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the tough market in Bollywood distribution of movies. How come &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilwale_Dulhania_Le_Jayenge&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge&lt;/em&gt; (DDLJ)&lt;/a&gt; crossed 1000 weeks. I feel there are many other love stories in Bollywood. Why only DDLJ? Is Maratha Mandir doing business still now? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any other movie like DDLJ which comes even close to surviving this many weeks all over the world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16931" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T01:22:44.697" LastActivityDate="2017-05-25T11:41:43.547" Title="How come &quot;Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge&quot; survives?" Tags="|distribution|indian-cinema|dilwale-dulhania-le-jayenge|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29822" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29835" CreationDate="2015-01-07T14:06:37.350" Score="7" ViewCount="8220" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of &lt;em&gt;Saving Private Ryan&lt;/em&gt; when they're storming the bunkers, Caparzo hands Mellish a Hitler Youth knife and he gets very emotional over it (presumably over his Jewish background).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't realize that the U.S. knew anything about what was happening in terms of the Holocaust at the time of Normandy. I remember in a &lt;em&gt;Band of Brothers&lt;/em&gt; episode, where they stumble upon an abandoned concentration camp, and everybody seemed pretty clueless in terms of what was happening. I figured that the U.S. was pretty much in the dark in terms of Hitler's plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When did the U.S. become aware of Hitler's actions towards the Jews in Europe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T02:37:45.987" Title="Mellish getting emotional over Hitler Youth knife" Tags="|plot-explanation|saving-private-ryan|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29828" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29833" CreationDate="2015-01-07T16:08:37.723" Score="9" ViewCount="28960" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Fury Brad Pitt had scars on his back, which seem to be from a whip. How did he get these scars when he was in the Army and what does it show?&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sHmQA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Brad Pitt&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13689" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-07T16:11:30.500" LastActivityDate="2015-08-24T02:16:00.333" Title="What do the scars on Brad Pitt's back mean in Fury?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|fury|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29822" CreationDate="2015-01-07T16:19:53.773" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a combination of getting through Hell (can &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; imagine running up that beach with people dying left and right?!?) and living, as well as the fact that he had just helped break through a major line of defense and defeated people who were responsible for hundreds of thousands (at that point) of his people's deaths.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm no psychologist (though I did stay at a Holiday Inn once), but I think once the adrenaline  of getting through that beach wore off, all the fear and anger hits you and it's going to cause some emotions.  If you're not emotional after that, you're numb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-01-07T16:19:53.773" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28701" CreationDate="2015-01-07T16:52:09.380" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's to show him that he's been following him for a while, and knows a lot of details about his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="152" LastActivityDate="2015-01-07T16:52:09.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29818" CreationDate="2015-01-07T16:52:24.680" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think DDLJ crossed 1000 weeks in maratha mandir because it does not affect much of it's business because it only runs in time slot of 11:30 AM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes,  Maratha Mandir doing business. Maratha Mandir not only plays DDLJ. It also plays regular releases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer to your second question is probably no. No other movie ran for so much long time in theatre. I think another movie which comes to second place after DDLJ in terms of longest theatrical run is Sholay which ran for 286 weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13689" LastActivityDate="2015-01-07T16:52:24.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29828" CreationDate="2015-01-07T16:54:48.170" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I'm seeing (in my search) it seems that in the movie the backstory behind those scars is left a mystery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://danielsbluetape.wordpress.com/2014/11/17/hell-hath-no-fury/&quot;&gt;danielsbluetape.wordpress.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Minor spoiler, Norman finds out WarDaddy has some pretty bad burn&#xA;  scars on his back. Normal movie exposition would almost demand Norman&#xA;  ask him about this and for Brad Pitt to give a treaty eyed story as to&#xA;  its origin. Then something great happens, he doesn’t ask him about it&#xA;  all! Why would Norman need to ask, he has only known him for a few&#xA;  hours, and what could he possibly say that he didn’t get from looking&#xA;  at the scar itself&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However this was not always the case, apparently.&#xA;In the original screenplay, &lt;a href=&quot;https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-script-for-fury-gave-norman-psychic-powers-ea4bfdaccf6c&quot;&gt;according to this article at Medium.com&lt;/a&gt; (the draft script was originally available at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/Movie%20Scripts/Fury%20Script.html&quot;&gt;imsdb.com&lt;/a&gt; and the listing is still there but the script appears to have been removed), Wardaddy does give an explanation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The script’s version of Wardaddy isn’t just psychotic, he’s also got&#xA;  one of those cliche tortured pasts. He tells his young crewman Norman&#xA;  all about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wardaddy says that his mother was born in a town “somewhere around&#xA;  here” in Germany. Now we know why he speaks German. &lt;strong&gt;He explains how he&#xA;  got those hideous scars on his back.&lt;/strong&gt; See, before the war, Collier&#xA;  dated a girl named Rose. She was “pretty like one of those old&#xA;  paintings.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But Wardaddy liked to drink. One night, he took Rose and his kid&#xA;  brother—who looked just like Norman—to a county dance. He then “drank&#xA;  two bottles of nickel whiskey and got in a punch-up at the dance with&#xA;  this big Indian.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He knocked the big man out with an empty bottle and fled with his&#xA;  brother and Rose. At this point, Norman interrupts him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I’m not your bartender,” Norman says. “And I’m not you pastor. You don’t need to tell me this.” But Wardaddy can’t help but confess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wardaddy was drunk. He flipped the truck. It caught fire, scorching&#xA;  his back.&lt;/strong&gt; His little brother and Rose died. The judge told him to join&#xA;  the Army and die for his country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Best advice I ever got,” Wardaddy says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="15418" LastEditDate="2015-01-07T17:00:17.553" LastActivityDate="2015-01-07T17:00:17.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28600" CreationDate="2015-01-07T17:46:35.963" Score="14" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should I assume he has simply forgotten about the message? Or that he is so overcome with emotion he’s acting irrationally?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's exactly what you should assume. When he arrives there he is indeed struck with emotion and doesn't really know how things work out there, let alone that anything he does he already did and he can't change the past. Also keep in mind that he did not seem to believe &lt;em&gt;Murph&lt;/em&gt; when she told him that the &quot;ghost&quot; wants him to STAY. So when he comes there he doesn't yet realize he can send the quantum data to &lt;em&gt;Murph&lt;/em&gt; and save them all. He assumes that he can change the past and that's what he tries to do. This is also addressed in the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/27159/49&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first thing that's on his mind when seeing himself leaving his daughter on a supposedly dying planet is that he wants this guy to STAY with his daughter and not leave her alone. This is congruent with him trying to return to Earth and to his daughter after learning that Plan A is supposedly impossible earlier on &lt;em&gt;Mann&lt;/em&gt;'s planet, he doesn't care that Earth is doomed and simply wants to be with his daughter. And this is also what he now at least wants for the past &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; to do, unaware of the fact that the past &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; can't do anything else than the &lt;em&gt;Tesseract Cooper&lt;/em&gt; already did anyway. It's also evident from the whole scene that he's reacting rather emotionally than with reason and careful thinking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Murph:&lt;/strong&gt; Just go. If you're leaving -- just leave now.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Cooper &lt;em&gt;(to his earlier self)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; Don't go, you idiot! Don't leave your kids. You goddamn fool!...S...T...A...Y...Stay, you idiot! Tell him, Murph! Stay...Murph, tell him again! Don't let him leave!...Murph, don't let me leave...STAY!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only then after he is totally devastated that this idiot left his kids on a dying planet yet again, &lt;em&gt;TARS&lt;/em&gt; comes up with the idea that this whole thing was actually constructed by &lt;em&gt;&quot;Them&quot;&lt;/em&gt; in order to help us. Before that &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; didn't really know what's up at all, let alone that he can actually transmit a message to save the Earth as a whole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TARS:&lt;/strong&gt; Cooper?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Cooper:&lt;/strong&gt; You survived?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;TARS:&lt;/strong&gt; Somewhere. In their fifth dimension. They saved us.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Cooper:&lt;/strong&gt; Who's 'They'? And why would they help us?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;TARS:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't know, but they constructed this three-dimensional space inside their fifth-dimensional reality to allow you to understand it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Cooper:&lt;/strong&gt; It isn't working!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;TARS:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, it is. You've seen that time is represented here as a physical dimension -- you even worked out that you can exert a force across spacetime.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Cooper:&lt;/strong&gt; Gravity. To send a message...Gravity crosses the dimensions -- including time -- And you have the quantum data, now...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And only when trying to figure out how to achieve this, he suddenly gets the whole picture, that he himself was it who sent him on this trip and that he can't change the past anyway as everything already happened. But he can change the future of Earth after he left and for this he is needed to give &lt;em&gt;Murph&lt;/em&gt; the quantum data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TARS:&lt;/strong&gt; Cooper, they didn't bring us here to change the past.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Cooper &lt;em&gt;(realizing)&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; No, they didn't bring us here at all. We brought ourselves here...TARS, feed me the coordinates of NASA in binary...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the answer why he tries to send a message that he already knows he ignored is, that &lt;strong&gt;he didn't know anymore that he already ignored it and, and even more so, he didn't yet realize that his past self can't ever do anything else than ignore it&lt;/strong&gt;. He's emotionally struck, totally confused, clinging to hope and doesn't get how things work, let alone that the past is unchangeable. Not before &lt;em&gt;TARS&lt;/em&gt; shows up and sparks some enlightening dialogue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I realize there’s a potential paradox if Cooper would not cause B, or would cause an alternate B&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just a little remark to this point. This is not possible at all. The movie employs and entirely consistent timeline, as we see when the movie shows that changing the past in the slightest way is impossible. &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; just cannot &quot;not cause B&quot; or an &quot;alternate B&quot;, since those events are already part of his causality chain and the movie shows that the past is unchangeable. If he would cause an alternate B, he would have experienced that alternate B in the past already and we would look at a completely different timeline for the whole movie. There is only one single timeline (though, one that contains a loop, apparently) ever possible, the one we see in the movie. This is also addressed in the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/27218/49&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2020-05-29T13:36:15.287" LastActivityDate="2020-05-29T13:36:15.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="29835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29822" CreationDate="2015-01-07T18:03:22.437" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems more like a question that belongs on &lt;a href=&quot;https://history.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;History SE&lt;/a&gt;, but I'll throw my $.02 in here...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TLDR: As early as 1933 but certainly by Nov. 24, 1942.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is much debate on the topic of your question. The following is from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005182&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Holocaust Encylopedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;US STATE DEPARTMENT RESPONSE TO NEWS OF THE “FINAL SOLUTION”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In August 1942, the State Department received a report sent by Gerhart Riegner, the Geneva-based representative of the World Jewish Congress (WJC). The report revealed that the Germans were implementing a policy to physically annihilate the Jews of Europe. Department officials declined to pass on the report to its intended recipient, American Jewish leader Stephen Wise, who was President of the World Jewish Congress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Despite the State Department's delay in publicizing the mass murder, that same month Wise received the report via British channels. He sought permission from the State Department to make its contents public. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles asked Wise not to publicize the information until the State Department confirmed it. Wise agreed and after three months the State Department notified him that its sources had confirmation. On November 24, 1942, Wise held a press conference to announce that Nazi Germany was implementing a policy to annihilate the European Jews. A few weeks later, on December 17, the United States, Great Britain, and ten other Allied governments issued a declaration denouncing Nazi Germany's intention to murder the Jews of Europe. The declaration warned Nazi Germany that it would be held responsible for these crimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;US PRESS COVERAGE OF THE “FINAL SOLUTION”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During the era of the Holocaust, the American press did not always publicize reports of Nazi atrocities in full or with prominent placement. For example, the New York Times, the nation's leading newspaper, generally deemphasized the murder of the Jews in its news coverage. The US press had reported on Nazi violence against Jews in Germany as early as 1933. It covered extensively the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 and the expanded German antisemitic legislation of 1938 and 1939. The nationwide state-sponsored violence of November 9-10, 1938, known as Kristallnacht (Night of Crystal), made front page news in dailies across the US as did Hitler's infamous prediction, expressed to the Reichstag (German parliament) on January 30, 1939, that a new world war would mean the annihilation of the Jewish “race.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As the magnitude of anti-Jewish violence increased in 1939-1941, many American newspapers ran descriptions of German shooting operations, first in Poland and later after the invasion of the Soviet Union. The ethnic identity of the victims was not always made clear. Some reports described German mass murder operations with the word &quot;extermination.&quot; As early as July 2, 1942, the New York Times reported on the operations of the killing center in Chelmno, based on sources from the Polish underground. The article, however, appeared on page six of the newspaper. Although the New York Times covered the December 1942 statement of the Allies condemning the mass murder of European Jews on its front page, it placed coverage of the more specific information released by Wise on page ten, significantly minimizing its importance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:47:51.943" LastActivityDate="2015-01-07T18:03:22.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24456" CreationDate="2015-01-07T18:48:32.497" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that Claire and Frank sometimes boast about being completely honest to each other (affairs and all) pushes me into thinking she is fully aware of Frank's deeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17972" LastActivityDate="2015-01-07T18:48:32.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29818" CreationDate="2015-01-07T20:28:10.863" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge or DDLJ is the most successful Bollywood love story ever made. It gives us the Sharukh/Kajol Duo. Even after it they both acted as couple due to audience demand followed by Kuch Kuch hota hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gum etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time it was released, it made too many new records and broke old ones. This made it unforgettable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why it broke record because people loved it, as vj1207 said, Maratha Mandir is doing good business and it also shows other films too. DDLJ only hold one show slot and is still showing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also got support from Yash Raj Camp too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In early 2011, a theatre strike threatened the film's uninterrupted showing streak. Producer Yash Chopra contacted theatre owners to try and ensure that the film would continue. He hoped that the film would continue to run for at least 1000 weeks. - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilwale_Dulhania_Le_Jayenge#Legacy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also famous for &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/8942/why-didnt-simran-get-into-bogey-from-first-door-in-ddlj&quot;&gt;Jokes&lt;/a&gt; too but it's commonly used scene in recent flicks and TV shows too as homage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-05-25T11:41:43.547" LastActivityDate="2017-05-25T11:41:43.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29840" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-07T20:34:13.350" Score="5" ViewCount="2379" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the whole premise of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracture_%282007_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fracture (2007)&lt;/a&gt;, that if you are rich you can do anything is flawed. Even for a rich person it would be very difficult to gain access to the hotel card &lt;em&gt;without leaving any traces&lt;/em&gt;, make sure that Nunally will be on the operation and make sure that Beachum will be assigned by the DA office to the case. We, the audience, are supposed to just nod and say, yep, he was rich so he had means to set all this up, but I don't really believe in that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question, however, is about a different thing. About the bullets. I'm no weapon expert, so correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand, when you fire a gun you get a shell (that is returned by the gun) and the bullet, that is the actual projectile that flies to its target. I think that you can match both, the shell and the bullet to the gun if you recover them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus the dialogue about matching the bullet in the end of the movie was confusing to me. Beachum said that he could match the bullet from Jennifer's body to the bullet Nunally was killed with. Surely he did not need the bullet from Jennifer's body - he must already had had the other three bullets that was fired at Crawford's house. And if Ted could switch the shells, it's not likely he had the time to also retrieve the bullets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now about the switching. How on earth did he switch the shells? He surely was searched and his whole house was searched. Beachum wonders the whole movie how the gun has disappeared, but the same question is applicable to shells if they were switched. And if they were not, then the talk about matching the bullet in Jennifer's body is a total nonsense - you could simply match the shells that you'd had all along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can some one explain this part to me please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="532" LastEditorUserId="532" LastEditDate="2016-11-10T07:40:39.403" LastActivityDate="2017-12-24T20:19:05.593" Title="What's the deal with the bullets?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fracture|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29841" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-07T23:37:28.433" Score="9" ViewCount="1203" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I've admittedly only seen a few episodes of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2006374/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Copper&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; yet, on a first view it seems to be basically the Americans' &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2183641/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ripper Street&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (or &lt;em&gt;Ripper Street&lt;/em&gt; the British &lt;em&gt;Copper&lt;/em&gt;, however you want it). While they have differences in their specific realizations and story compositions, they seem to share quite some motifs in their general setting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Period crime shows set in similar time periods with remarkable significance for their individual settings' cultures (&lt;em&gt;Victorian London&lt;/em&gt; vs &lt;em&gt;Civil War New York&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Set in infamously rough and run-down parts of the city (&lt;em&gt;Whitechapel&lt;/em&gt; vs &lt;em&gt;Five Points&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An honest cop who's lost his daughter and is about to lose his wife.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An outsider as pathologist (an American with a shady past vs a black man operating inofficially).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The repeated involvement of a brothel and its madam in the cases.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/Llx5mjrSVH0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the&lt;/a&gt; intros &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/-g3tkjllX60&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;share&lt;/a&gt; quite some similarities (though &lt;em&gt;Copper&lt;/em&gt;'s is notably &quot;rougher&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing that both are produced by branches of &lt;em&gt;BBC&lt;/em&gt; this doesn't seem much like a coincidence. But given that they were more or less released around the same time it is hard to pinpoint who inspired whom here, if any at all, or if there even was any bidirectional fertilization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So first of all, &lt;strong&gt;is there any secured evidence that both those shows influenced each other in any way&lt;/strong&gt; or are they really just products of their zeitgeist and the current trend in period shows? If yes, then &lt;strong&gt;who influenced whom and to which degree?&lt;/strong&gt; Or were they even mutually influenced by each other in some parts? Or was there even a direct intention by the &lt;em&gt;BBC&lt;/em&gt; to produce two vastly similar period crime shows for both markets in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-02T01:04:37.673" LastActivityDate="2017-02-13T14:37:40.447" Title="Was there any mutual inspiration between Copper and Ripper Street?" Tags="|production|ripper-street|copper|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30045" CreationDate="2015-01-08T00:16:46.660" Score="2" ViewCount="2579" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question might contain spoilers &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last part of the movie American Sniper, Chris Kyle is seen aiming towards the hiding spot of Mustafa (the Butcher's sniper), and just before shooting the target the camera moves towards the crane and the wall built by the engineers. This sequence doesn't look right to me, since it was recorded as if it were the taken straight from the sight of the rifle, and moving it would have meant moving the whole rifle in a completely different position from the shooting one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: does that sequence have a &quot;practical&quot; explanation (by which I mean, moving the rifle wouldn't hinder the acquisition that much so it could have happened) or was it an artistic license? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16326" LastEditorUserId="18135" LastEditDate="2015-01-14T14:44:30.137" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T05:25:03.757" Title="In the movie American Sniper, does the final sniping sequence make sense?" Tags="|plot-explanation|american-sniper|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29844" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29863" CreationDate="2015-01-08T05:10:14.010" Score="3" ViewCount="59155" Body="&lt;p&gt;The TV show Gold Rush is wildly popular. Does anyone know if the miners make money from the advertisers, have endorsements with the equipment manufacturers, are they compensated by the Discovery producers or do they only make money when the find gold? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17974" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-08T14:28:40.587" LastActivityDate="2016-03-02T07:14:10.070" Title="Do the &quot;miners&quot; on Gold Rush make money other than the gold they find?" Tags="|production|realism|gold-rush|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18783" CreationDate="2015-01-08T06:48:04.810" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having just re-watched Captain America: Winter Soldier, there is no on-screen evidence to show that Nick Fury was treated with GH-325 from what I saw.  I am also dubious that Fury would treat himself with something that he knew caused a lot of problems to those that it was used on unless their mind was completely wiped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So unless they do some sort of retcon, I think it's safe to say he wasn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T06:48:04.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19234" CreationDate="2015-01-08T07:05:31.920" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching that video, my personal feeling is that it doesn't quite fit the rest of the movie.  Loki isn't shown to be a master manipulator in the movie.  Sure, he's got a bit of a silver tongue at times, but we never seem him do any direct mind control and we never see him truly convince someone to go against their nature without the spear.  This scene basically betrays how Loki was set up in the rest of the movie.  A sniveling kid given a new toy bent on world domination to prove to his father that he's better than him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T07:05:31.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2015-01-08T08:59:04.197" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has anyone considered that the whole movie takes place after he died, since he clearly saw himself jumping at the beginning. So since he commited suicide he ended up in purgatory where his good half had to over come his bad half to see if he should of ended up in heaven, which is where the ambulance could of been going. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several religious references and it would explain a lot of plot twists where he was being judged for his actions and relived the events leading upto his jump. If he didn't survive the fall, then he was meant to relive the events over and over until he did it right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is a rough theory, but I think there is some truth hidden in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17982" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T08:59:04.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14707" CreationDate="2015-01-08T13:05:07.713" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrazine#Hazards&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hydrazine is highly toxic, and dangerously unstable in the anhydrous&#xA;  form. Symptoms of acute (short-term) exposure to high levels of hydrazine may include irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat, dizziness, headache, nausea, pulmonary edema, seizures, coma in humans. Acute exposure can also damage the liver, kidneys, and central nervous system. The liquid is corrosive and may produce dermatitis from skin contact in humans and animals. Effects to the lungs, liver, spleen, and thyroid have been reported in animals chronically exposed to hydrazine via inhalation. Increased incidences of lung, nasal cavity, and liver tumors have been observed in rodents exposed to hydrazine&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hydrazine is used as propellant and fuel in aircraft and space vehicles. This might have leaked from the ship and fall on James's suit during EVA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both were tethered to the ship. When the panel blows up, James tells he still has Andrei tethered. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hydrazine and humans should not be in the same breathable environment. If they used airlock to switch suits, they would have inhaled hydrazine. It seems to produce dizziness. Hydrazine would have spread throughout the ship. It seems too risky.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Third astronaut could have helped Andrei first. This type of unplanned EVA should have had a backup person kept ready. Here, in this scene, there is no such person. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James could have been saved if Andrei goes in first and fixes his Suit. And comebacks with a portable oxygen breather like in scubadiving, underwater breathing. James could hold on his breath for a few seconds for Andrei to fit breather to James. This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newscientist.com/blog/space/2008/06/how-long-can-you-survive-in-vacuum-of.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; tells me that we can hold for more that one minute in vacuum.  After this, they could remove James's spacesuit and enter into airlock. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17985" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T13:05:07.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28350" CreationDate="2015-01-08T13:54:49.737" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The one ring was the only thing that kept him alive after he lost his physical body in the first great battle at mt. doom. Since the Istari knew Sauron was only banished, not dead, but Elrond didn't kill Isildur for walking away with the ring, they knew that his spirit could be vanquished destroying the one ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17986" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T13:54:49.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28350" CreationDate="2015-01-08T16:40:27.923" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe that there was any mention in the books that destroying the Ring would destroy Sauron and no mention at the Council of Elrond. The goal was to prevent Sauron from obtaining the One Ring, which he would use to conquer middle-earth. In The Fellowship of the Ring, chapter 2 - The Shadow of the Past, Gandalf tells Frodo that the only way to destroy the ring is &quot;to find the Cracks of Doom in the Depths of the Orodruin, the Fire-mountain, and cast the Ring in there&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1396" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T16:40:27.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27592" CreationDate="2015-01-08T17:49:23.407" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;X-post from &lt;a href=&quot;https://chinese.stackexchange.com/a/10675/9214&quot;&gt;chinese.stackexchange&lt;/a&gt; - courtesy of &lt;a href=&quot;https://chinese.stackexchange.com/users/6996/andrew-martin&quot;&gt;Andrew Martin&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://chinese.stackexchange.com/users/6998/lei-chen&quot;&gt;Lei Chen&lt;/a&gt;, and with help from &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/16194/jordan-mcbride&quot;&gt;Jordan McBride&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The dialog says: &quot;随着神秘的Rainmaker在中西部的暴乱事件中继续他的帮派战争, ...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My translation is : &quot;As the mysterious Rainmaker continues his gang&#xA;  war in the Midwest, ...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15984" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T17:49:23.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16863" CreationDate="2015-01-08T19:31:07.263" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was all of them apart from sheldons obviously. Makes sense they would allow him to hear everything that was in it by him telling himself he doesn't know. As his best friends I think this is something that they would do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17991" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T19:31:07.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4496" CreationDate="2015-01-08T21:48:34.690" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the same reason Batman lived as long as he did; when no one is there to supervise the death, there's no way to be sure the death actually occurred.  Yes, I guess they could have someone sitting outside the blast furnace door peeking through a window to make sure the transport took place, but why bother?  Sticking them in a field and knowing they're gonna get popped with a shotgun is probably just as easy and much more easily confirmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T21:48:34.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29844" CreationDate="2015-01-08T21:55:13.323" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are actors who are also miners.  One of the miners, Fred Hurt, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvruckus.com/2014/08/14/gold-rush-star-fred-hurt-not-happy-with-discovery-channel-following-his-departure/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;released a nice incendiary FB post&lt;/a&gt; after a dispute over money in Season 4:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why we are not on “Gold Rush” this fall……..this may be news to many……&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not rich…..I am a working class guy like most of you. After&#xA;spending more for four years straight than I made, there was no way&#xA;for me to continue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the main reason is simple……and I quote….”If&#xA;you want a Miner, call me…….if you want an Actor, pay me like one.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dustin and I were “hard to work with”. Interpretation ?……we did not go&#xA;along with every cocamainy idea the film people dreamed up……&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Corporate beancounters also wanted to consolidate their operation&#xA;after a disastrous South American season. They also layed out mega&#xA;millions to buy the company filming Gold Rush.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sssssooo……as we were the ‘Red Headed Stepchild’, we were on our own…….&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-01-08T21:55:13.323" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28568" CreationDate="2015-01-09T00:05:49.927" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bachman's intel was always spot on. This implies that Bachman traded state's secrets or other information, stolen by Boyd from his wife, in exchange for useful intel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17997" LastActivityDate="2015-01-09T00:05:49.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29872" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-09T04:57:22.560" Score="5" ViewCount="1881" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first thing that tipped me off was the scene in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; where Cooper and Mann were wrestling and Cooper said there’s a 50-50 chance that your visor will break first, and Mann (without any hesitation) says something along the lines of “I haven’t had such good odds in years” proceeds to headbutt Cooper cracking Cooper’s visor. Is this evidence that Mann was in fact a robot? Surely no human would be able to process the implications of a 50-50 life or death game of chance so quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other quirk I noticed (but need to re-watch it to confirm) was when Mann started acting strange and robotic when he/it was saying something along the lines of &quot;I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry&quot; in a robotic voice as it is slowly died. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recall one of the characters mentioned: “the only thing that could never be programmed was the experience of death”. Accordingly, the robot exposed it’s non-human behavior when it tried to display the experience of death to Cooper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After reading the lost chapter &quot;Absolute Zero&quot; I am even more sure that what actually happened was that Mann was merged with KIPP against his better judgment when he used the &quot;Bermondsey&quot; command to supposedly leave him on the planet &quot;alone&quot; i.e. KIPP and Mann merged therefore creating one transhuman entity with questionable morals i.e. sense of good and evil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look carefully at the events that occur on pg 4 of Absolute Zero, you can see the moment Mann becomes suspicious that KIPP is hiding something from him. Following this, KIPP disobeys Mann, which as a human would be a serious cause for concern, so Mann trusts his instincts and immediately destroys the data that KIPP suspiciously claims is not useful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe KIPP was trying to protect Mann from losing &quot;hope&quot; that he would somehow, against the odds, find the information he was looking for (and therefore not going gently into that good night). With Mann's hope (data) destroyed (coincidental play on words of &quot;Man's hope&quot;, our most human emotion?) KIPP was able to coerce Mann into using the Bermondsey command which I believe actions the transhumanist singularity. The final page of the chapter subtly depicts Man being merged with Machine, and concludes with the most profound of moral questions of what is good and evil?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the merging of KIPP and Mann, the transhuman entity was then able to secure it's own survival by constructing an elaborate plan to boobytrap the rescue team when it arrived, and steal the spaceship to return home, however this plan ultimately failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far it seems like I am the only one on the internet to call this out. This is concerning because what happens when the singularity comes and we fail to recognize the subtle differences between humans and robots acting like humans?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18000" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-09T13:34:04.567" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T02:28:42.197" Title="Was the &quot;Dr Mann&quot; they meet on the planet a transhuman version of KIPP and Mann?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|interstellar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28794" CreationDate="2015-01-09T05:20:49.557" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;He shouldn't have known given the available data.  He guessed and it turned out to be right.  But he acted as if he knew the truth, which is a logical flaw.  He should have acted like he is guessing.   Given that he was guessing, it looked like it was a frivolent wager to prove that the Tapasvi is a shallow Sadhu.  Had the guess gone wrong, both Tapasvi and his remote would have gone other way and the movie would have ended differently.  Sadly, Indian movie goers dont worry about Logic &amp;amp; consistency&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18001" LastActivityDate="2015-01-09T05:20:49.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29872" CreationDate="2015-01-09T11:52:32.650" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your premise is off base from the get go, which invalidates the rest of the question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... [Mann] says something along the lines of “I haven’t had such good odds in years” proceeds to headbutt Cooper cracking Cooper’s visor. Is this evidence that Mann was in fact a robot? &lt;strong&gt;Surely no human would be able to process the implications of a 50-50 life or death game of chance so quickly&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, Mann had been out there quite a while. He had already given up and was ready to die alone. Because of this, he would do anything to get back to Earth &lt;em&gt;or die trying&lt;/em&gt;. He has, at this point, nothing to lose, as the saying goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, the implications of a 50-50 life or death struggle is easily distinguished in his actions. Mann is a scientist. He's not stupid. I, as a layman, picked up on this &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; easily, so would assume it would be nothing for a scientist with much higher mental abilities to come to the conclusion of where his actions might lead. Either Cooper's face plate is going to break first or Mann's would. He's more than willing to take the risk because he's given up on life already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still wondering where, in your approximation, does Mann get the ability to transplant the &lt;em&gt;soul&lt;/em&gt;, if you will, of KIPP into himself to become a hybrid, or fabricate a new body which would allow him to actually be the hybrid you're creating? There isn't anything in the movie which would lead one to believe this is even possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have to go on what was given in the movie, which means a &quot;lost chapter&quot; would have little to no relevance to the movie. Besides, from what we've seen of TARS (and therefor could extend to KIPP), it is more stable and logical than a human could ever be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dr. Mann created the KIPP trap in case someone came to rescue him. He had set himself in the stasis pod without a &quot;wake-up&quot; date, so didn't care if someone woke him up or if he lied there until the power ran out. He was beyond reason or caring. If he woke up, he was going to make it back to Earth with or without someone else's help. He wanted his way and the heck with anybody else. He did not want to live on that forsaken planet. He even sent out false information about the planet in hopes of luring someone, &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt;, there so he could steal a ship and head back to Earth. He wasn't in his right mind, but he wasn't a robot hybrid. I think you have mutilated a few ideas and crammed them into a bad assumption, creating the idea it was something other than what it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2015-01-09T20:50:42.503" LastActivityDate="2015-01-09T20:50:42.503" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29880" CreationDate="2015-01-09T12:59:39.283" Score="2" ViewCount="2397" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381061&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/a&gt;, M is visibly angry and upset after Bond blows up an embassy. She mentions missing the Cold War, in the quote below. What about the Cold War does she miss?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e18QO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;M: Who the hell do they think they are? I report to the Prime Minister&#xA;  and even he's smart enough not to ask me what we do. Have you ever&#xA;  seen such a bunch of self-righteous, ass-covering prigs? They don't&#xA;  care what we do; they care what we get photographed doing. And how the&#xA;  hell could Bond be so stupid? I give him double-O status and he&#xA;  celebrates by shooting up an embassy. Is the man deranged? And where&#xA;  the hell is he? In the old days if an agent did something that&#xA;  embarrassing he'd have a good sense to defect. Christ, I miss the Cold&#xA;  War.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8670" LastActivityDate="2015-01-09T14:26:20.380" Title="Why does 'M' miss the Cold War?" Tags="|james-bond|casino-royale|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29879" CreationDate="2015-01-09T13:19:32.033" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a little joking throwaway line, but I think it directly relates to her earlier dialogue, when she says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the old days if an agent did something that embarrassing he'd have a good sense to defect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That might be what she is missing in this particular situation, a way for &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; to easily &quot;dispose&quot; himself without making MI6 any further shame. If she really means that serious, though, is another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, I think she longs for the days when things were still easy. Back in the olden days, the matters were pretty clear cut. You knew who the good guys were (you) and you knew who the bad guys were (the others). It wasn't a large diplomatic and bureaucratic mumbojumbo like today and in the same way nobody asked what MI6 did, since everyone knew it was necessary to have a stand against the &quot;evil&quot; communists. That's what she's missing I think, the times when MI6 had a clearly defined and &quot;righteous&quot; purpose and when there weren't too many questions asked about its workings, which is all reflected in the dialogue directly before this line, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This whole problem and MI6 being &quot;out&quot; is also a major motif of &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt; and reflected in this disciplinary hearing &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt; has to attend, as well as in the general aging theme of the movie.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-09T13:35:43.850" LastActivityDate="2015-01-09T13:35:43.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28018" CreationDate="2015-01-09T13:24:14.253" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My personal interpretation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know how Siamese twins are like to each other in the real world but in the movie the relationship between the two lead characters are shown very strange yet interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After watching the movie, two things were stuck in my head about these two characters, Théo (Louis Garrel) and Isabelle (Eva Green).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1 - They both share common interest, that's passion for movies.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Through out the movie you see snippets of french classic movies (that's what I think they are.) and they role-play them and they lay bets on those movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2 - At any cost, they don't leave each other.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie made me say this line because, from beginning, they sleep nude next to each other, they bath together and even sexuality (the intercourse between Isabelle and Matthew in the kitchen.) they took liberally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'm not surprised that Isabelle did not choose to leave with Matthew. Simply, Isabelle won't either leave her twin brother or the love for movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2015-01-09T13:24:14.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29879" CreationDate="2015-01-09T14:26:20.380" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it has to do with technological advancements.  M is &quot;Old Skewl&quot;, and in the day of the Cold War there weren't cameras everywhere.  As such, you weren't held liable for everything you did and news didn't travel as fast.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bond comes along and he's like John Gotti was the the Mafia; he's brash and open and somewhat careless in his approach.  And he's doing this in an age where it's even harder to get away with being clandestine because cameras are capturing every little move you make, and people are asking questions they wouldn't have asked 30 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-01-09T14:26:20.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29872" CreationDate="2015-01-09T14:41:21.660" Score="7" Body="&lt;h1&gt;No, he wasn't.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now first of all, I wholeheartedly agree with &lt;em&gt;Paulster2&lt;/em&gt;'s refutation of the survival chance argument as well as his explanation of &lt;em&gt;Dr. Mann&lt;/em&gt;'s behaviour in a human sense and the missing technological possibility to even make such a human-robot hybrid, let alone any hint for that. But I think there's even more here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all as the answers to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/27141/49&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt; show, part of the reason for the robots' remarkably non-anthropomorphic design was to differentiate them from the humans and to not distract from the humans so much. As &lt;em&gt;Christopher Nolan&lt;/em&gt; puts it in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_26864905/interstellars-robots-inspired-by-20th-century-architect%20this%20one&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an interview on the matter&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My idea was to remove any trace of anthropomorphism, so it doesn't have a face. It doesn't have arms and legs. It does have a voice and, therefore, a personality. [...] In my brother's draft, he was really into robots and artificial intelligence. What I wound up focusing on was the issue of why you need human beings on this mission. The robots are presented as being physically superior to humans and able to lift heavier things and follow orders perfectly. We kept coming back to the idea of intuition, human adaptability and innovation. That's driven by a survival instinct, which a robot can't have. That makes the robots very important in the story. They take on their own incredible personalities, but they're not human. They keep you thinking about what it means to be human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which shows that &lt;strong&gt;the story was very much about humans&lt;/strong&gt;, and their behaviour and progress at the face of their demise. And &lt;em&gt;Dr. Mann&lt;/em&gt; in particular was supposed to be a negative example for naked and selfish human struggle for survival, a coward and ultimately a cynic who only cares for his own survival, albeit having been &lt;em&gt;&quot;the best&quot;&lt;/em&gt; of them all (as also discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/27083/49&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt;). Now &lt;strong&gt;bringing a human-robot hybrid into the mix would only dillute that message about humans&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Dr. Mann&lt;/em&gt; in particular, I think. It would be a rather lame excuse for &lt;em&gt;Mann&lt;/em&gt;'s actions, justifying them with a mere &lt;em&gt;&quot;but he was not himself&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. No, he was very much himself, reduced to his pure self by this desolate place and this hopeless situation, and that self unfortunately is an ugly one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possible argument you bring up is &lt;em&gt;Mann&lt;/em&gt;'s supposedly robotic voice when he excuses to &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt;. But while I don't have it exactly in my ear right now, I think that might as well be part of &lt;em&gt;Mann&lt;/em&gt;'s selfish behaviour. When he has destroyed &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt;'s helmet and lets him die slowly, he stays by his side, pretending to care for him and not letting him die alone. But to me this whole situation and &lt;em&gt;Mann&lt;/em&gt;'s behaviour came across as very pretentious and inappropriate, this whole talk about staying by his side and this awkward question if he now sees his children at the edge of his death. I only wished for him to leave the poor &lt;em&gt;Cooper&lt;/em&gt; alone and not annoy him with his false compassion. And I think this effect might have been intended and &lt;strong&gt;this supposedly robotic voice might have been just an aspect of this behaviour and the falseness of his apologies&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last but not least, I can't really make out in which way &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/2014/11/absolute-zero/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Absolute Zero&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; shows &lt;em&gt;Mann&lt;/em&gt;'s merging with the robot (if not trying to read that on purpose in the first place, so to say). In the scene on page 4 where &lt;em&gt;Mann&lt;/em&gt; accuses &lt;em&gt;KIPP&lt;/em&gt; of hiding something from him, &lt;strong&gt;he is actually not hiding anything&lt;/strong&gt; and it is &lt;em&gt;Mann&lt;/em&gt;'s desperate longing to not be on a desolate planet that makes him &lt;em&gt;wish&lt;/em&gt; there was more in the data and &lt;em&gt;KIPP&lt;/em&gt; just erred or hid it, but as we know, there isn't more in the data (and that's also why it's &lt;em&gt;Mann&lt;/em&gt; who destroys the data afterall). That slight physical attack of &lt;em&gt;KIPP&lt;/em&gt; was only to salvage the data (as his mission is to secure it and provide honest feedback about the planet), but he didn't do anything serious to &lt;em&gt;Mann&lt;/em&gt; there and after it they went along peacefully again. &lt;em&gt;KIPP&lt;/em&gt; even told &lt;em&gt;Mann&lt;/em&gt; how to override his parameters and that he should switch him off if he's unsatisfied with his work. Sure, &lt;em&gt;KIPP&lt;/em&gt; has mission goals on his own and also a little personality on his own, but &lt;strong&gt;he doesn't do anything against &lt;em&gt;Mann&lt;/em&gt;'s well-being at any point&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T02:28:42.197" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29884" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29885" CreationDate="2015-01-09T15:10:21.430" Score="2" ViewCount="923" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know &lt;em&gt;The Bourne Legacy&lt;/em&gt; is an old movie but I just watched it.  I actually really liked it.  The performances are great, the story is a little convoluted but that's par for the course in the Bourne universe, and probably one of the best car/bike chase scenes in a movie in a very long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something bothered me though after looking up a bit of information about the movie.  I never really understood a couple of Aaron Cross's actions in the movie and I found something that said there are deleted scenes that indicate all the OUTCOME agents were having severe paranoia and that influenced a lot of his actions in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, great.  However that made something else bother me even more.  We see at least 3 different OUTCOME agents murdered by switching their blue/green pills out for a yellow pill.  Huh?  If all these agents are suffering from severe paranoia how do they take a new pill without so much as a raised eyebrow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18004" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-09T15:21:23.793" LastActivityDate="2023-10-16T03:14:58.900" Title="Bourne Legacy and Paranoia?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-bourne-legacy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29884" CreationDate="2015-01-09T15:19:24.530" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think those scenes were deleted so that the idea of them switching out the pills wouldn't be as far fetched.  Without those deleted scenes, those actions of Cross that you found confusing could have been related to Cross alone having moments of paranoia, or possibly being overly-careful about certain situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes movies evolve, and certain scenes are cut because they no longer make sense.  Now, if those cut scenes are ever inserted into a Director's Cut or something, then I'd say it was a plot hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-01-09T15:19:24.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28780" CreationDate="2015-01-10T01:41:23.547" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A bit late but I assume it was to ensure for his own survival by taking Tama Hostage for himself. I'm not sure though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18017" LastActivityDate="2015-01-10T01:41:23.547" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29906" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29912" CreationDate="2015-01-10T03:34:30.840" Score="2" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;in the movie &lt;em&gt;World's Greatest Dad&lt;/em&gt;, we learned the fact that Andrew has asthma, then Robin Williams said: &quot;Then he shouldn't be having milk products.&quot; Is this true or is it just a joke?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-10T03:45:14.313" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T13:40:35.860" Title="A question about a line from World's Greatest Dad" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|worlds-greatest-dad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24456" CreationDate="2015-01-10T06:03:59.153" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;To shamelessly steal from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/HouseOfCards/comments/27fxvw/spoilers_just_spotted_this_in_the_season_2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reddit&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone noticed that Frank is looking at a map of the DC Metro System, right before pushing Zoe in front of it, when Claire walks in and says &quot;I know you'll do whatever you think is best.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the context she is almost certainly referring to Zoe's death, and given her lack of shock at the idea of murder it seems likely that she has been aware of Frank's past murder(s?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="480" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-04-19T09:35:48.913" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T09:35:48.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29906" CreationDate="2015-01-10T07:54:07.263" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it's a joke because &quot;Is milk good or bad for you?&quot; is question open for polemic like many other food products.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you aren't allergic milk can only help, but if you are, like 2% of children then it's bad for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A recent study published in the medical journal Thorax suggests that full fat milk and butter might be the key to preventing asthma. In a study of 3000 three year olds, it was found that those who consumed most dairy products could be up to 4 times less likely to develop asthma symptoms. This may be attributed to the fatty acids found in full fat dairy products.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asthma attacks (worsening of asthma symptoms) can be triggered by allergies. There are some food additives or preservatives that people have reported as triggering asthma symptoms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However many people with asthma also have allergies, and allergic reactions to food can cause symptoms similar to asthma. It is known that around 2% of babies are allergic to cow's milk. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3240" LastActivityDate="2015-01-10T07:54:07.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28568" CreationDate="2015-01-10T10:25:17.983" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There’s a scene at the beginning of episode 9 where John directly asks Dennis Boyd about whether he was stealing documents for Sandy Bachman, and says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't know, Dennis. Like I said, Sandy was your friend. Maybe he convinced you it was for the war effort.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dennis:&lt;/strong&gt; It wasn't me, John.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think John’s statement is the closest the show comes to giving the audience an explanation for why Dennis was stealing the documents. I can’t recall a scene in which Dennis himself confirms this explanation or reveals his true motives. Later, when he does admit to having worked for the ISI, I don’t think he’s asked about why or how he wound up being involved. I didn’t go back and watch all the episodes though, so I may be wrong and invite others to post a better answer if there is one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here’s a complete transcript of the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; It's about Sandy Bachman.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dennis:&lt;/strong&gt; What about him?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, he was developing quite a rep for himself before he was killed. Generating some spectacular intel on Taliban positions in the tribal areas.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dennis:&lt;/strong&gt; Until he blew up that wedding anyway.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; True. Plus, his methodology wasn't exactly kosher. Turns out he was trading secrets in exchange for the information.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dennis:&lt;/strong&gt; Jesus.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; We were wondering if you might know something about that.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dennis:&lt;/strong&gt; Me?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; He was your friend, Dennis. He didn't have many. Did you ever see him meeting somebody you didn't recognize, or carrying something out of the embassy he shouldn't have?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dennis:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't think so. Not that I can recall anyway.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; This is the problem. The documents that he was passing to the other side, they came from your wife's computer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dennis:&lt;/strong&gt; Martha's?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm afraid so.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dennis:&lt;/strong&gt; You think she gave them to him?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; No.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dennis:&lt;/strong&gt; You think I did?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; Did you?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dennis:&lt;/strong&gt; You're kidding, right?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't know, Dennis. Like I said, Sandy was your friend. Maybe he convinced you it was for the war effort.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dennis:&lt;/strong&gt; It wasn't me, John.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; You sure? 'Cause if it was, now's the time to come clean.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dennis:&lt;/strong&gt; It wasn't me, I swear.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; Okay. Well, look, uh, if you remember anything, let me know.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dennis:&lt;/strong&gt; I will. I'll, uh, rack my brain.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; And thanks.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dennis:&lt;/strong&gt; Sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16779" LastActivityDate="2015-01-10T10:25:17.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5764" CreationDate="2015-01-10T13:35:30.083" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sheldon obviously considers Raj to be more intelligent than Leonard. It's demonstrated numerous times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's more Raj is arguably the most successful scientist of the 3. Certainly more successful than Leonard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Raj is very close to Sheldon in IQ. Probably around 178-180.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kripke is Sheldon's intellectual superior. He regularly surpasses Sheldon's work in their field, and outsmarts him, WITHOUT an eidetic memory. This would imply his base IQ is higher, to compensate for his physical disadvantage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18032" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2019-03-25T11:23:43.407" LastActivityDate="2019-03-25T11:23:43.407" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="29921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5615" CreationDate="2015-01-10T14:28:15.990" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've heard that no one liked Thompson neither did Morris, so Stephen laid out every ''dirty'' information on Morris, and so as Thompson gave that speech at the end that he supports Morris bla-bla, Stephen immediately killed two &quot;dirty&quot; birds by one stone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18033" LastActivityDate="2015-01-10T14:28:15.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19115" CreationDate="2015-01-10T16:16:34.073" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode 11 of season 1, Underwood is speaking to Vice President Jim Matthews about the possibility of Matthews running for governor of Pennsylvania (and resigning the vice presidency). Matthews protests, saying &quot;[President] Walker needs me for 2016.&quot; This establishes that Walker/Matthews were elected to the White House in 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18034" LastActivityDate="2015-01-10T16:16:34.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28796" CreationDate="2015-01-10T22:45:05.147" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The replicants' eye glow is meant to reveal their mechanical artificiality to us (and by extension, their lack of a human soul), as if their eyes are merely lenses reflecting light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eyes are the windows to the soul. Unsurprisingly, then, eye symbolism &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/faq#.2.1.51&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;is rife&lt;/a&gt; throughout &lt;em&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt;: the Voight-Kampff machine focusing on the iris to test empathic responses, a focus on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xGbvU.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;flawed eye&lt;/a&gt; reflecting flames near the beginning, Tyrell's &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UfHl6.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;magnifying glasses&lt;/a&gt; and then his eyes being gouged out, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/voOfJ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fake eyes&lt;/a&gt; scene and Hannibal Chew and the eye lab. Even the famous 'enhancing' scene with its use of an endless zoom and a mirror is a comment on digital and artificial perception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Among all of these, the replicants' glowing eye effect is supposed to mainly convey to us, the viewers, that replicants aren't human. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/faq#.2.1.4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Says IMDb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Replicants' eyes glow (even those of an artificial owl), although &lt;strong&gt;Ridley Scott has stressed that this is merely a cinematic technique, and the glow cannot be seen by the characters in the story, only by the audience.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, of course, the  Voight-Kampff test would've been unnecessary. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themes_in_Blade_Runner#Genetic_engineering_and_cloning&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki elaborates&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The glow which is notable in replicant eyes in some scenes &lt;strong&gt;creates a sense of artificiality&lt;/strong&gt;. According to Ridley Scott, &quot;that kickback you saw from the replicants' retinas was a bit of a design flaw. I was also trying to say that &lt;strong&gt;the eye is really the most important organ in the human body. It's like a two-way mirror; the eye doesn't only see a lot, the eye gives away a lot.&lt;/strong&gt; A glowing human retina seemed one way of stating that&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads us to the intention behind the glowing eyes: they tell us that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;replicants are mere reflections&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Their eyes are able to receive information but &lt;em&gt;give away nothing&lt;/em&gt; in return - other than reflected light. These two interesting articles by &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20150621023529/http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~syverson/309-fall95/classpage/bladerunner/mccoy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;John McCoy&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://scribble.com/uwi/br/tkarantinos.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thomas Karantinos&lt;/a&gt; discuss the eye motif found in &lt;em&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt; in relation to the replicants' quest for a soul and their ultimate failure. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The concept of memory in the film is tightly linked with vision [...] When Rachael is accused that her memories are fake she defends herself by saying that she remember seeing these things. Her words are significant because our character is structured mainly by memories, and memories in most cases include visual information. [...] In Rachael's case seeing is not believing. She has fake eyes, therefore fake memories and therefore fake (replicant) behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's no wonder that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/106304-Want-to-Beat-the-Uncanny-Valley-Make-Better-Eyes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;greatest obstacle&lt;/a&gt; in overcoming the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Uncanny Valley&lt;/a&gt; in CGI and robotics has been the eyes. In real life, dead eyes are glazed or milky and doll eyes are glassy and reflect light. Therefore, &lt;strong&gt;glowing\glazed eyes are usually used in works of fiction to convey anything other than human&lt;/strong&gt;, be it the glaring alien kids in &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/urF6v.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Village of the Damned&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nWhKZ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Terminator&lt;/a&gt;'s red eye or the dehumanizing effects of hypnosis and mind control, which were very recently depicted as glowing blue irises in &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TQkM4.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. If eyes are the windows to the soul, then when we find nothing behind them - this is just an empty vessel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;[P.S. And as for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/faq#.2.1.35&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the question&lt;/a&gt; if Deckard's eyes ever glow:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;In the scene in his bathroom&lt;/strong&gt;, when Rachael asks Deckard if he would follow her if she left, he says he wouldn't and then leaves the room, but he stops, puts his hand on her shoulder and says &quot;But someone would.&quot; When he says this, &lt;strong&gt;Deckard's eyes have a red glow, the same effect seen in the other replicants' eyes and in Tyrell's owl. In relation to this scene, Ridley Scott maintains that that effect was purposely set up and executed on the set&lt;/strong&gt;, but Harrison Ford denies this, saying it was unintended. In an interview with Paul Sammon in 2007, Ford comments simply &quot;I might have strayed into her light&quot; (Future Noir, 565 - 2nd Edition).]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BJ4K6.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BJ4K6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Rachel and Deckard in the background, slight glow in his eyes&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-02-28T00:25:16.320" LastActivityDate="2019-02-28T00:25:16.320" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="29932" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-10T22:47:32.777" Score="1" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought a lot after watching the &lt;em&gt;Twilight Zone&lt;/em&gt; episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDHS3w1DHpk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Mr. Denton on Doomsday&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. I think that this story is similar to the state of and relations between Russia and USA in the period: end of 1800s - middle of 1900s. I really think so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the beginning Al Denton is an alcoholic wreck and the laughing stock of the community (but he was once known as the quickest draw in town). So there was a lot of people accustomed to drinking in Russia, and in general state of the country was bad. I'm not good in history, but I think it was so in the early nineteenth century.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that time USA was young and powerful country (Pete Grant). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The mysterious Henry J. Fate observes the humiliation and Al Denton&#xA;  finds a revolver on the street.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this also was like a miracle that the Soviet Union (Russia) became so powerful after a lot of destruction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the mysterious Henry J. Fate gave both of them (Al Denton and Pete Grant) a potion guaranteed to make the drinker the fastest gun in the West for exactly ten seconds. For me the potion associates with nuclear weapon (both the USA and the Soviet Union had nuclear weapon in the middle of 1900s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there is also Russian [old] music when Al Denton was shown at the beginning of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me it's very clear that the opponents in the film represent the USA and the Soviet Union.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm wondering whom the mysterious Henry J. Fate represent???&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13448" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-11T00:00:41.727" LastActivityDate="2015-01-11T00:00:41.727" Title="The Twilight Zone - Mr Denton on Doomsday" Tags="|analysis|the-twilight-zone|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11086" CreationDate="2015-01-10T22:51:10.393" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're in the year 2077 - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the little fuel cells they have. One alone could heat the house and pool. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have you gone outside and seen fog? What is that? It's a cloud; clouds form at all different heights. I lived in Flagstaff, AZ and we would always be above the clouds. And sometimes the clouds would be above us. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the top of the Empire State Building. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The top deck is at ground level in the movie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone mentioned the moon changing the atmosphere. Now that I think about it, I've been on top of the stratosphere in Las Vegas and been above clouds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, come on - it's a movie based in 2077 so who knows what tech they have? Look at the hydro rigs and tell me how they send power off planet without cables?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18041" LastEditorUserId="24267" LastEditDate="2018-02-05T23:22:54.837" LastActivityDate="2018-02-05T23:22:54.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29932" CreationDate="2015-01-10T23:24:49.570" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In your analogy, Fate intervened giving both Russia and the US the nuclear weapon at the same time. In the show, the men shot and injured each other, resulting in both being disabled from shooting again. I do not see your analogy extending to this ending. If the two had each seen that the other had the bottle and decided not to shoot, maybe the analogy would hold. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether an analogy for US/Russian relations or not, I think it is likely that Fate represents fate. Fate intervenes and changes lives. Perhaps it was fate that resulted in the US and Russia gaining access to nuclear weapons at the same time. They were both working on it at the same time, though some would argue that spies (like the Rosenbergs) sped up Russian development of the atomic bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2015-01-10T23:24:49.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29935" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29951" CreationDate="2015-01-10T23:30:44.027" Score="6" ViewCount="5512" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110148&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Interview with the Vampire (1994)&lt;/a&gt;, the present day action is that Louis gives the interview about his whole life as a vampire, but at the end he leaves for good without taking the blood or something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was the motivation for Louis to give the interview?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-11T00:03:14.753" LastActivityDate="2015-01-11T12:50:25.343" Title="Why does Louis give the interview?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interview-with-the-vampire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29936" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29938" CreationDate="2015-01-10T23:53:44.210" Score="4" ViewCount="1038" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some TV shows the order of the episodes on the DVD and the order how the episodes where aired is different, e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;http://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&amp;amp;seriesid=76321&amp;amp;seasonid=10138&amp;amp;lid=7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Freaks and Geeks&lt;/a&gt;. The fact that on &lt;em&gt;thetvdb&lt;/em&gt; there is a field &quot;DVD order&quot; implies more examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the reason behind that difference?&lt;/strong&gt; I don't see any sence in it, in particular if the episodes depend on others and the order is important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T12:33:55.807" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T12:33:55.807" Title="What is the reason that the air order and the DVD order of a tv show is different?" Tags="|distribution|scheduling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29936" CreationDate="2015-01-11T00:57:07.290" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to be mostly due to the convenience of the channel or network airing a series with a number of pre-recorded episodes or at least a batch of them. For example, when a network buys or syndicates a series that has, let's say, 10 episodes and start airing the episodes in december, if they air episodes 1 and 2 but the christmas episode of the series is the number 10, they will air the 10th episode as the 3rd one to coincide wih the holidays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other scenario is when something happens in the real world and the series has an episode that deals with a similar theme. Take as an example the shootings that happened in France recently. Some networks will alter the airing order of episodes in a series to avoid a similar subject to avoid the sensationalism, other may try to cash on it and air sooner an episode that dealed with something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, a network can try to get people into watching their series and getting high ratings, airing the &quot;best&quot; episodes of a series first (i.e. the ones with the more action, or drama, or sex, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, when the series go to DVD the numbering order is usually the scripted order and not the airing one, that's why both differ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16561" LastActivityDate="2015-01-11T00:57:07.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8874" CreationDate="2015-01-11T02:17:03.130" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Films have been covered.  What is allowed to be aired on TV and radio is governed differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://fcc.gov&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Federal Communications Commission [FCC]&lt;/a&gt; governs broadcasts.  Broadcasts are things like TV and radio which broadcast over the airwaves, but not cable and Internet.  The FCC derives its authority from the idea that the bandwidth of the electromagnetic spectrum is limited and there can be a limited number of stations in a given area.  Somebody has to step in to prevent a shouting match.  The Federal government owns the airwaves and licenses their use via the FCC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The FCC disallows &quot;indecent programming or profane language&quot; between 6am and 10pm, this is to avoid exposing children.  &quot;Obscene&quot; broadcasts are disallowed at all times.  The FCC derives this power from the logic that TV and radio are a community resource and thus should be used to &quot;community standards&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fcc.gov/guides/obscenity-indecency-and-profanity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;FCC publishes some guidelines about what is &quot;indecent&quot;, &quot;profane&quot; and &quot;obscene&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, and the courts have made many rulings, but in the end it's difficult to predict what the FCC will find a problem with, &quot;community standards&quot; change, and as a Federal agency they are somewhat subject to the whims of the current administration.  They tend to disallow sex, nudity and harsh language but allow violence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eric Idle famously wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_Song&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The FCC Song&lt;/a&gt; in response to being fined $5000 for saying fuck once on the radio.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fcc-oks-bonos-f-word-slip/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bono got away with saying fuck&lt;/a&gt; on the technicality that it wasn't referring to sex, similar how &quot;ass&quot; has been allowed.  However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXVIII_halftime_show_controversy#Censorship_and_regulation_of_broadcasting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a half second of nipple at the Super Bowl half time show&lt;/a&gt; caused an enormous controversy and shake up of regulations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13258" LastActivityDate="2015-01-11T02:17:03.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24217" CreationDate="2015-01-11T04:05:57.703" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a scene in the film, in which Wesley tells Russell, about his relationship with Russell's former girlfriend Lena:  &quot;we may not have that fire, that flame, but what we have, its worth it.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wesley and Lena's relationship seems indicative of the title's meaning, and of its implications for the film's omnipresent motif of post-Iraq, post-recession American decay. The furnace, like the flame of an intense relationship, refers to what we built/produced (literally and figuratively) as a nation.  We may not have that fire, that flame anymore. But what's left, what we have; its worth it.  And, most importantly, we don't need to fight to keep what we had. From Vedder's featured song &quot;Release Me,&quot; to Wesley's plea to Russell to &quot;let it go&quot; both in reference to Russell's former relationship and (in so many words) in the film's conclusion, and most of all to Rodney's determination to seek out the sort of fight he's grown accustomed to, in lieu of steady work like his brother's; with the recurring suggestion to &quot;let it go,&quot; and focus on what remains that is still of importance, &lt;em&gt;Out of the Furnace&lt;/em&gt; speaks with resounding clarity. Rather than stay on our high horse, or high in the hills alla Harlan DeGroat, we're implored as American moviegoers to forgo hot-headed brawling battles to maintain waning international preeminence, and settle for what endures, absent such a struggle: to step out of the furnace. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18046" LastActivityDate="2015-01-11T04:05:57.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29946" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30164" CreationDate="2015-01-11T06:22:52.810" Score="2" ViewCount="2925" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Strangers By the Lake, why did Eric (Patrick d'Assumçao) confront Michel with accusations, and then entice him into the woods, knowing he was a killer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18044" LastEditorUserId="8737" LastEditDate="2015-01-11T11:40:33.167" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T03:11:16.353" Title="In the movie, Stranger By the Lake, why did the heavy guy (Eric) lead the killer on?" Tags="|plot-explanation|stranger-by-the-lake|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27791" CreationDate="2015-01-11T12:36:40.527" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jax is the president of the Mother Charter (SAMCRO) thus making him the National President of the entire club. So yes he does have a certain sway over everybody!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18052" LastActivityDate="2015-01-11T12:36:40.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29935" CreationDate="2015-01-11T12:50:25.343" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Louis is a troubled vampire whose humanity didn't die when his body went through its &quot;mortal death&quot;. He wanted to tell his life story, which the interview is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had he wanted blood, he would have gotten it in a manner much easier than luring the interviewer for the whole night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are his comments from the book, right after the boy (the interviewer) asks to be turned into a vampire:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;This is what you want?&quot;, he whispered, his pale lips manifesting only the barest trace of movement. &quot;This... after all I've told you... is what you ask for?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also adds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He looked again at the boy. &quot;I've failed&quot;, he sighed, smiling still. &quot;I have completely failed.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I recall right, he refuses to feed on humans, or does so only on the really bad ones (i.e., criminals that hurt other people). He's also quite broken by the earlier events in his life (Claudia's death, Lestat's fate,...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where the interviewer (and, presumably, many of the readers) sees romance and passion, Louis sees desperation, suffering, and torture/guilt by his vampire killer nature that makes him a monster in the eyes of his own humanity. This is the message he wants to send. He's not there for the food.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2015-01-11T12:50:25.343" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27568" CreationDate="2015-01-11T17:48:09.487" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The message of the movie is that everything that happens is meant to happen, and there is nothing anyone can do to change it: hence the title &quot;Predestination&quot;. We all have a predetermined destiny that cannot be altered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially there is nothing John/Jane/barkeep/fizzle bomber can do to prevent his creation or transformation into the fizzle bomber. His feelings and intentions, and his actions based off his feelings and intentions all have a predetermined outcome of which he has no control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18060" LastActivityDate="2015-01-11T17:48:09.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29961" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32068" CreationDate="2015-01-11T18:53:40.540" Score="11" ViewCount="49592" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Guest (2014)&lt;/em&gt;, a photo proved that Caleb and David were some sort of comrades during their service with the US armed forces, so it made sense that Caleb's family would welcome David. However, why did David need to find a hiding place in this particular manner? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Since David is so paranoid about his identity, why did he choose this complicated infiltration plan where he would be surrounded regularly by people who could (and did) find out who he really was? Why did he take seemingly unnecessary steps such as the murders of the gun sellers and the colleagues of Caleb's dad? Why didn't he just stay in a motel and interact with/rob/kill random people?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I enjoyed the film but am having a hard time understanding a key premise. Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14080" LastEditorUserId="14080" LastEditDate="2015-01-12T04:10:47.067" LastActivityDate="2022-07-07T03:19:53.333" Title="Why did David choose to ingratiate himself into Caleb's family?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-guest|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29963" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-11T22:30:29.433" Score="15" ViewCount="70578" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand how the Bible passage (Matthew 7.7) let Alan Turing to identify the Russian spy on the team in &lt;em&gt;The Imitation Game&lt;/em&gt;. Can anyone explain (in some detail?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18062" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-26T14:44:19.650" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T17:58:18.923" Title="Significance of Matthew 7:7 in Imitation Game" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-imitation-game|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29964" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-11T22:58:37.413" Score="6" ViewCount="99955" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 'Vikings', there are a number of characters with the title of Earl, which in the Vikings society (as portrayed in the series) is second only in rank to the King. Now, I've seen some criticism of the use of Earl since the Norse word for such a title was Jarl and Earl is an Anglicised version of that title. I think that criticism is silly, since the series is filmed (mostly) in English. They also fight in a shield wall instead of a Skjaldborg, and drink beer instead of bjórr (you get my drift...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, there is one exception to this and that is the character 'Jarl Borg'. For this one character, they use the Norse term rather than the English one. I can't see why he is a Jarl while everyone of equivalent title is an Earl?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have any insight?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18064" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2015-01-12T04:20:33.543" LastActivityDate="2022-10-13T17:43:04.513" Title="Why is Borg a 'Jarl', while everyone else is an 'Earl'?" Tags="|vikings|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29967" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29970" CreationDate="2015-01-12T00:07:26.340" Score="2" ViewCount="3229" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the movie we see Robert, a regular guy who likes to be neat. We find out that he is a retired bad-ass of some type. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, we see him back in the diner, but this time he is wearing different style of clothing, mostly black in color and has a look of purpose on his face. Then we see him on what looks like craigslist, responding to a post for help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean Robert decided to come out of retirement (possibly for a sequel)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T01:12:24.790" Title="Did Robert come out of retirement?" Tags="|the-equalizer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28142" CreationDate="2015-01-12T00:10:14.210" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie did not explain what he was in the past, but based on his skill, we can easily assume a spy of some type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His death was explained when he was talking with his friend (right before the lady returned in the helicopter). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His death was faked so he could escape that life and basically retire. If you recall the scene where the russian bad guy is investigating Robert's background, he complains that it's clean, too clean. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, his death was faked (either by him or his agency) so that he could retire in peace or to escape his agency. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T00:10:14.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29967" CreationDate="2015-01-12T01:06:15.683" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, but not officially.&lt;/strong&gt; Whatever official previous job &lt;em&gt;McCall&lt;/em&gt; had (as some kind of spyssassin, likely for the government), it is unlikely that he'll continue to do that. However, seeing that imagery with him checking people that need help, it is very likely that he'll continue to inofficially help private persons that need help in unordinary circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the hints you already provide in the question, this is also evidenced by the fact that the movie is actually based on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Equalizer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV-show of the same name&lt;/a&gt; from the 80s. While I have not seen that, it seems to put &lt;em&gt;McCall&lt;/em&gt; in exactly that position as a travelling vigilante who helps innocents. So it is very likely that the movie understands itself as some kind of &lt;strong&gt;prequel-in-spirit to the TV-show&lt;/strong&gt;, prompting &lt;em&gt;McCall&lt;/em&gt; to actually start his inofficial carreer as a vigilante.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia also supports this idea in its &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Equalizer_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;plot summary&lt;/a&gt;, as well as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Equalizer_%28film%29#Sequel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;possiblity for a sequel&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...McCall is inspired to continue using his skills to help people in need and posts an online ad, identifying himself as &amp;quot;The Equalizer&amp;quot;. He soon receives another plea for help and agrees to answer it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On February 24, 2014, it was announced that Sony Pictures and Escape Artists are planning a sequel to the film, with Richard Wenk penning the script. In early October 2014, Fuqua said in an interview that there would be a sequel to the film only if audiences and Denzel wanted it. He said it was an interesting character and the sequel could have more of an international flavor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T01:12:24.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4580" CreationDate="2015-01-12T01:26:13.967" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The teddy bear symbolized his children (children's teddy bear).  The Albanians would harm his family (wife and kids) if he did not give up the information.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18068" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T01:26:13.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29963" CreationDate="2015-01-12T04:27:28.963" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;TL,DR: There was an encoded message sent from a spy in Bletchley Park to the Russians. Matthew 7:7 was used as the encrypting code. The only way to decrypt this message is to know that the key used to create the cipher was Matt 7:7. Which was information that was related to Turing in the bar by Hugh. When Turing was back in the hut he saw Alan's Bible was bookmarked at Matthew 7:7. that is how he knew Alan was the spy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Matthew 7:7 was used as the key to encode a message from Bletchley Park to the Russians in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigen%C3%A8re_cipher&quot;&gt;Vigenère cipher&lt;/a&gt;. I will try to explain how the Vigenère cipher works so you get the idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Vigenère cipher uses a plaint-text message, a key and this grid:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that there is a line between the top row and the main grid and the left vertical side and the main grid. These lines are the axes (plural of axis) of the grid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2O1jh.png&quot; alt=&quot;Grid&quot;&gt;&#xA;When creating the encryption you write the plain-text message with the key underneath it, in this example I will use &quot;The eagle has landed we have a man on the moon&quot; as the phrase I want to encrypt, and Matt7:7: &quot;Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.&quot; (but we don't need the full phrase) as the key encryption key.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PKBXD.png&quot; alt=&quot;key&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's where the grid comes in. We use the horizontal axis for the plain text and the vertical axis for the key. The first letter of the plaintext is &quot;T&quot; and the first letter in the key is &quot;A&quot; Going out the horizontal axis to T and down the vertical axis to a A you get the result of &quot;T&quot; for our first encrypted letter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second plain-text letter is &quot;h&quot; and the second letter of our key is &quot;s&quot;. Going out the horizontal axis to the &quot;h&quot; and down to the vertical axis to the &quot;s&quot; gives us our second letter of the encrypted code &quot;Z&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following this out you get an encrypted message that is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tzo enjtx did wbrjmy ar aots u eer yn gkc aikv.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;group the letters by 5 and make it all CAPS (like the Germans did with Enigma) and it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TZOEN JTXDI DWBRJ MYATA OTSUE ERYNG KCAIK V&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way to decrypt this message is to know that the key used to create the cipher was Matt 7:7. Which was information that was related to Turing in the bar by Hugh. When Turing was back in the hut he saw Alan's Bible was bookmarked at Matthew 7:7. that is how he knew Alan was the spy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To decrypt the cipher, you write the key under the cipher and go down the vertical axis of the grid, then straight out on it's line until you get to the letter of the cipher, then look up at the horizontal axis of the top line of the grid, for the corresponding letter for the plain-text message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-03-26T17:58:18.923" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T17:58:18.923" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29976" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-12T06:32:14.483" Score="2" ViewCount="700" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Boston Public Episode &quot;Chapter 36&quot;, there is a sub-story about Zach Del Ray asking Ronnie Cooke to prom. This is odd because in Episode &quot;Chapter 34&quot;, Zach Del Ray dies in a car accident. In my copy of the episodes, they are in &quot;Chapter order,&quot; so I saw Zach Del Ray die 2 episodes earlier. However, after looking up the episode guide on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boston_Public_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episodes are listed as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;S02e11 - Chapter 33&#xA;S02e12 - Chapter 35&#xA;S02e13 - Chapter 36&#xA;S02e14 - Chapter 34&#xA;S02e15 - Chapter 37&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the first instance of the &quot;Chapter order&quot; (chronological order of the story) not being the same as the &quot;episode order&quot; (chronological order of the episodes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also seems that in Season 4, this happens a few more times:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;S04e01 - Chapter 67&#xA;S04E02 - Chapter 69&#xA;S04E03 - Chapter 68&#xA;S04E04 - Chapter 70&#xA;//...&#xA;S04E08 - Chapter 74&#xA;S04E09 - Chapter 76&#xA;S04E10 - Chapter 75&#xA;S0rE11 - Chapter 77&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the rest of the series, the &quot;Chapter Order&quot; and &quot;Episode Order&quot; are the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never noticed that the season 4 episodes were out of chronological order until researching this question, but the season 2 thing has always bothered me, since the &quot;back from the dead&quot; thing is such a glaring inconsistency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did they do this? I get that there are any number of reasons to progress a story out of chronological order for storytelling purposes, but I don't understand what is to be gained here, and why it was done for just a handful of episodes. Was it a scheduling conflict in producing the show? It just seems very strange, especially for a show where every single episode is named &quot;Chapter XX&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you do know why, has that happened on other shows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9770" LastEditorUserId="9770" LastEditDate="2015-01-12T18:17:59.950" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T14:02:33.883" Title="Boston Public episode order. Was Chapter 34 aired out of order in the original run? Why?" Tags="|continuity|chronology|boston-public|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29977" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-12T06:33:38.637" Score="4" ViewCount="1290" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Interstellar, Cooper mentions that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Delhi mission control went down same as ours&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you explain why the mission control was down? And it seems to be explained in the first space craft crash scene, cooper was dreaming about. But I can't get the audio clearly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16464" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-12-07T09:42:59.807" LastActivityDate="2016-12-07T09:42:59.807" Title="Why did the mission control go down?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29979" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="78235" CreationDate="2015-01-12T13:31:07.483" Score="6" ViewCount="1667" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the scene in Taken where Brian Mills takes on the kidnappers on the boat, he appears to kill all the swarthy bad guys he encounters. This involves a lot of gun fire which would draw the attention of even the most incurious swarthy bad guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So who's driving the boat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably another swarthy bad guy, in which case wouldn't he grab his gun and join in the doomed attempt to thwart the unthwartable Brian? Or wouldn't Brian nip up to the cabin and pop a cap in his bottom to avoid any potential comeback? Who gets them back to dry land afterwards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="314" LastActivityDate="2017-08-02T16:53:08.660" Title="Who's driving the boat?" Tags="|taken|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29906" CreationDate="2015-01-12T13:40:35.860" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some parents have concerns about the amount of mucus created when their children drink milk, and its affects on the child's asthma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cfp.ca/content/58/2/165.full&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article from the Canadian Family Physician Journal&lt;/a&gt; that directly addresses this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many parents of children with asthma are becoming increasingly reluctant to add milk to their children’s diet because they believe it will worsen their children’s asthma owing to increased mucus secretion. Recognizing the importance of milk as part of a healthy diet in supporting growth and calcium consumption, is it advisable to restrict milk in the diet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T13:40:35.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29977" CreationDate="2015-01-12T13:42:24.573" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this is what I think you're referring to, he's talking about the space programs being decommissioned... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By saying the Delhi mission control &quot;went down&quot;, he's stating that because of the global push for technology and agriculture that will help humanity survive, the space programs were considered too costly and unnecessary: and were shut down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T13:42:24.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29982" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30264" CreationDate="2015-01-12T15:43:42.860" Score="17" ViewCount="1234" Body="&lt;p&gt;I need a real movie-buff on this one. I'm looking for movie which concerns a man who is recruited to try and talk to a captured alien. Now this is where things are getting a little hazy so I'll just list the things I remember clearly: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The protagonist was abducted and he was sought out for this reason. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The alien refuses to talk for many sessions. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The alien was of the small grey type that are very popular today.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The alien was dressed in a silvery suit with some type of decals, possibly red in color. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The protagonist dresses up like the alien in a desperate attempt to jumpstart communications.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The alien finally speaks to the protagonist but does so telepathically. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The protagonist does not disclose this information to his handlers. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He elects to free the alien instead. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The alien has powers to obscure the minds of men and can put a different face and even voice to the protagonist. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The alien is slowly dying. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The alien thinks trees are beautiful. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The alien believes he will dream of trees when he dies. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There was a female love-interest that they picked up along the way, possibly a carjacking. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The woman quickly realizes the stakes and begins to help the fugitives.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I don't remember the ending but I do remember them getting very close to the alien spacecraft. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone help me with a title here? It might be a TV-movie. I've tried my damndest to find it myself - I've even gone through entire lists of movies featuring aliens on Wikipedia but with no luck which I why I think it might be a TV-movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks and a happy new years to all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;19/1-15: Post edited for clarity. Information added. Spelling check. Errors removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18076" LastEditorUserId="18076" LastEditDate="2015-01-19T16:56:49.073" LastActivityDate="2015-01-22T12:54:21.987" Title="Man is recruited to talk to a captured alien" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:31:18.787" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29979" CreationDate="2015-01-12T16:01:25.927" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually thought about that myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always assumed he kills everyone on board, they all have to be criminals. As far as we know, the only reason the boat is there is to pick up a new sex slave. You'd probably only want your criminal buddies around when you're doing that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even though it's absolutely not covered / mentioned in any way in the film, I've a sneaky suspicion that Brian Mills can pilot a boat expertly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17983" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T16:01:25.927" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9558" CreationDate="2015-01-12T16:25:20.667" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In reality &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm&lt;/a&gt; it depends on director hired for the show and the salaries of emerging  directors like Grace Baine could enlist a reality episode cost of 100k per episode on a pilot reality. this is only below the line production cost covering the crew, production set and director &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18078" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T16:25:20.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29976" CreationDate="2015-01-12T17:34:06.173" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OutOfOrder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;there's a trope for it&lt;/a&gt;, so apparently it happens often enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I knew this had happened with Star Trek: TOS and Lost, but that link above has quite a few other examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T17:34:06.173" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27986" CreationDate="2015-01-12T17:58:01.593" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;https://vid.me/On6J&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; explains the techniques used to create the time-lapse sequences of the BBC &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(BBC_TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Life (2009)&lt;/a&gt; series.  I'm not sure if the team was the same for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Earth_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Planet Earth (2006)&lt;/a&gt; series, but imagine that the techniques shown (with refinements and technological updates) would be similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The (massively oversimplified) approach appears to be:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;identify a suitable &quot;real life&quot; scene&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;build a rig for a tracking shot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;survey the scene and the rig so that the two can be recreated in a&#xA;studio&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;record the tracking shot (as a background) frame by frame using a DSLR&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;grow the plants that will be used in the final shot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;film each plant, as it flowers, in its appropriate position in the studio&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;create a final sequence combining all of the individual layers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6595" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T17:58:01.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29993" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="29995" CreationDate="2015-01-12T18:27:34.207" Score="19" ViewCount="25233" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film starts in 1988, this much we know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Yondu points out that he made sure his crew didn't eat Peter, Quill remarks that &quot;For Twenty years you've been throwing that back in my face!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're to take this literally, it means the film is set in 2008: the same time as the events of &lt;em&gt;Iron Man&lt;/em&gt; are unfolding on Earth...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Collector doesn't appear to be in possession of the Aether from &lt;em&gt;Thor: the Dark World&lt;/em&gt;, so we're probably supposed to believe this film happened before the events of that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...BUT, although uncredited, his assistant Carina is still alive in T:TDW, played by the same actress (Ophelia Lovibond). Does this mean the events of GotG happened &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; T:TDW? if this is the case, does the collector still possess the Aether?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of the MCU timelines &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline&quot;&gt;seem to&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/5395/A-Marvel-Cinematic-Universe-Timeline&quot;&gt;include&lt;/a&gt; GotG, so I'm struggling to place it chronologically..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-12T18:30:46.603" LastActivityDate="2017-03-08T00:59:03.310" Title="Where does Guardians of the Galaxy fit into the MCU timeline?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|chronology|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29994" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-12T18:50:36.993" Score="7" ViewCount="9133" Body="&lt;p&gt;The UK version of CBB has had two housemates ejected on behavioral grounds within the first few days...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of these contestants, Ken Morley, talked about deliberately being rude and irritable so he would be voted out quicker by the public, and take his fee for only being in the house a small amount of time.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tactic backfired, however, as some of his behavior was considered to be racist, and he was forced to leave. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will he still be paid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2015-01-13T13:26:01.723" Title="Do Celebrity Big Brother contestants still earn a fee if they are ejected from the show?" Tags="|big-brother|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29993" CreationDate="2015-01-12T19:03:54.513" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you say, the film starts in 1988:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/efjDq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;1988&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, right after the Marvel logo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cNWDz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;26 years later&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, it takes place in 2014&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marvel has also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/marvel-releases-digital-guardians-galaxy-693045&quot;&gt;published&lt;/a&gt; a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardthegalaxy.com/2014/04/what-we-learned-from-guardians-of.html&quot;&gt;prequel comic&lt;/a&gt;, that establishes that &lt;strong&gt;GotG&lt;/strong&gt; takes place &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; The Collector receives the Aether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FUXWp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Comic&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T19:03:54.513" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29993" CreationDate="2015-01-12T19:04:47.383" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;all-too-detailed layout&lt;/a&gt;, the events in GotG begin to happen on August 1, 2014.  This is just a short time after the events of T:TDW and CA:TWS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T19:04:47.383" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11861" CreationDate="2015-01-12T19:31:08.687" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Certainly some of it has to do with the fact that Hollywood productions take the time and money to use better lighting and compositing software, but much of it also has to do with the actual screen you're using. Most small productions buy cheap chinese green screens for $50 off ebay and wonder why their composites end up looking bad. The professional film industry almost exclusively uses Composite Components Company green screens. They're more expensive but if you want a really convincing composite you have to have the right screens. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18084" LastActivityDate="2015-01-12T19:31:08.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="29999" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30475" CreationDate="2015-01-12T21:23:47.003" Score="15" ViewCount="12004" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the &lt;em&gt;Battle of Hogwarts&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1201607/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; after his run from the shattered footbridge, an adrenaline-struck &lt;em&gt;Neville Longbottom&lt;/em&gt; runs up the stairs where he meets &lt;em&gt;Harry&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry:&lt;/strong&gt; Neville, you're alright?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Neville:&lt;/strong&gt; Never better! I feel like I could spit fire. You haven't seen Luna, have you?...I'm mad for her! I think it's about time I told her since we'll probably both be dead by dawn!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which always came totally out of nothing for me, as I hadn't picked up any vibes suggesting this before.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;  Now I see that the movies probably can't take as much time for all those side characters, especially since &lt;em&gt;Luna&lt;/em&gt; wasn't introduced before the &lt;em&gt;Order of the Phoenix&lt;/em&gt; at all, I think. But &lt;strong&gt;is there any chance that &lt;em&gt;Neville&lt;/em&gt;'s feelings for &lt;em&gt;Luna&lt;/em&gt; have indeed been foreshadowed earlier in any of the movies&lt;/strong&gt; and I just missed it or was that really such a surprise for everyone. Or maybe it even was a total surprise at this point in the book, too (if the movie was even true to it in this regard)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;sub&gt;I even remember both of them standing as a couple at the train station at the end, which seemed a bit too forced to me (well that whole ending did, but nevermind). But after rechecking I can't find them and might have just imagined this.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2018-04-03T17:51:31.867" Title="Were Neville's feelings for Luna foreshadowed earlier?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|book-adaptation|harry-potter|the-deathly-hallows-2|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19486" CreationDate="2015-01-13T00:21:00.207" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Season 2, episode 2. &quot;Holy c***&quot; meg walks in from school into the sun room to a conversation with peters non biological father Francis Griffin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18090" LastActivityDate="2015-01-13T00:21:00.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26394" CreationDate="2015-01-13T00:28:18.397" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film is based on a novella by Dostoyevsky, and at the end of the Dostoyevsky story, the main character suffers a mental break and is put in an asylum. It doesn't make any sense in the context of the film for the colonel to be in the ambulance with Simon, so in all likelihood the colonel's sudden appearance is meant as a reference to the original story, showing that Simon's hallucinating just like his literary counterpart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18091" LastActivityDate="2015-01-13T00:28:18.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30006" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31589" CreationDate="2015-01-13T02:44:45.193" Score="6" ViewCount="1341" Body="&lt;p&gt;We just watched a documentary on the various actors that played James Bond. The spy has taken his lumps over the years, but the show didn't explore that aspect of the character.  What are the accumulated major injuries/wounds James Bond has received from 1962's &lt;em&gt;Dr. No&lt;/em&gt; through to 2012's &lt;em&gt;Skyfall?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T22:19:11.273" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T22:19:11.273" Title="What are the accumulated major injuries/wounds James Bond has received in the film franchise?" Tags="|character|james-bond|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29994" CreationDate="2015-01-13T13:26:01.723" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of today, the first Celebrity (Jeremy Jackson) to be kicked out by the producers of the Show appeared on the chat show &lt;em&gt;This Morning&lt;/em&gt; to defend his actions in an interview...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/SVEMf7jC4gg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During this interview, he was asked directly by Phillip Schofield if celebrities that are kicked out in such a manner still get paid. His response was revealing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jeremy: &quot;There are ongoing investigations. But if you lose your mind&#xA;  in there and hit someone, sure you'll not get anything...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He indicated that there is a precedent for stars to receive their fee (or at least part of it), depending on the severity and circumstances of ejection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also stated he is likely to get paid, but this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/jeremy-jacksons-first-tv-appearance-4970492&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;will be a lesser amount&lt;/a&gt; than expected...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Before the interview kicked off, Phillip told viewers Jeremy wanted to&#xA;  point out that he’s not being paid for this interview, and when asked&#xA;  whether he will get paid for his time on the show he said he’s “a&#xA;  victim to what they chose to give me” and there is a lengthy contract.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2015-01-13T13:26:01.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30017" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-13T13:47:22.883" Score="10" ViewCount="505" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from than the same actors being cast in different roles, I know there is definitely some connection between Asylum and Freak Show at least, since Sister Mary Eunice from Asylum comes to collect Pepper from the Freak Show for some reason, I don't think it's ever explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any further explanation given to the link between the shows at any time? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything I've missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17983" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-12-08T11:07:12.000" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T06:23:14.467" Title="Is there any link between all of the American Horror Story series?" Tags="|american-horror-story|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30020" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-13T16:33:02.840" Score="9" ViewCount="775" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Foxcatcher&lt;/em&gt;, the wrestler Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) is being supported by the excentric millionaire du Pont (Steve Carell).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mark is very thankful for the purpose and trust du Pont provides him with and du Pont seems to be happy to have someone to mentor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point in the movie the relationship starts to change when du Pont introduces Mark to drugs and he becomes apparently addicted. We also see him drinking a lot and not taking his training as serious as before. Mark starts to slip, but he also seems to do more things for du Pont now (cutting his hair) and changes his appearance to more of a sunny boy style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I did not quite understand, or maybe just missed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did Mark and du Pont have a sexual relationship?&lt;/strong&gt; If yes, was it completely consensual or did du Pont force Mark into it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like this is hinted at by some scenes like the drug/hair cutting scene, but never clearly stated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a very weird scene where du Pont wakes up Mark in the middle of the night for a &quot;wrestling&quot; session in the gym. (Not sure if this was ambiguous.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T05:11:27.840" Title="Characterizing Mark's relationship with du Pont?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|foxcatcher|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30020" CreationDate="2015-01-13T17:23:06.447" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely got that impression as well and expected to see an explanation at some point before the movie was over, but as you already know, it's never really explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do know that Du Pont was married to a woman for a time, if that means anything:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the age of 45, on September 3, 1983, he married 29-year-old Gale Wenk, an occupational therapist. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eleuth%C3%A8re_du_Pont&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;[source]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they were divorced after only 10 months. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no mention of homosexuality in Du Pont's wiki, and if it was a common rumour I would probably expect it to be in there somewhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17983" LastActivityDate="2015-01-13T17:23:06.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17183" CreationDate="2015-01-14T00:46:44.807" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The photo was taken by Kevin Russ, and is found in his Flickr account on Page 7 of &quot;People 2006&quot;, which lists &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.flickr.com/photos/pattersonminx/sets/72157594197316323/page7/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;all her photos&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She is referred to as &quot;Melody&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Evidence from the Flickr account include &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.flickr.com/photos/pattersonminx/255444967/in/set-72157594197316323&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;photo a&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.flickr.com/photos/pattersonminx/255444966/in/set-72157594197316323&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;photo b&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.flickr.com/photos/pattersonminx/255444962/in/set-72157594197316323&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;photo c&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.flickr.com/photos/pattersonminx/255109293/in/set-72157594197316323&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;photo d&lt;/a&gt;.  Here are some photos from the group, all rights reserved for Kevin Russ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3GPj2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3GPj2m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;scale&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YRwVq.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YRwVqm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;scale&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Click for full size image&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second photo states it is of the photographer himself with &quot;Melody&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18117" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T14:31:08.977" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T14:31:08.977" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30034" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-14T04:38:44.947" Score="10" ViewCount="5260" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S2E3 Sherlock faked his death in such a way that the only person who have seen it (from the right angle) was Dr. Watson. Other people present on the scene were actors (Molly and homeless people).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I understand correctly, Moriarty had a sniper watching whether Sherlock will jump and that will act if he does not. But given the explanation of how Sherlock faked his death, it is obvious that the sniper would have seen that it was faked. So why did he trick Watson instead of the sniper? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18122" OwnerDisplayName="Poma" LastEditorUserId="18122" LastEditDate="2015-01-14T04:56:35.773" LastActivityDate="2019-03-16T11:04:10.307" Title="Why did Sherlock fake his death this way?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18599" CreationDate="2015-01-14T06:13:54.943" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The camera crews and film producers would be held responsible for knowing about such an illegal operation. Same thing goes for Drugs inc,,,although the dealers wear masks the DEA would know who to question about where the dealers are operating or arrest the film makers for withholding information. Discovery channels are fools, if they think the viewers believe thier stupid programs real. It is more comedy than so called reality.&#xA;Pawn stars is a prime example of scripted nonsense. Would you hire anyone like chumly who pretends to be retarded,,,and leave him alone at night in charge of your business. No and Hell No.....The Bush people is nonsense as well,,,,no one can live in the (Bush),, with no means to support themselves. They have to many belongings to not have any money&#xA;North of the arctic circle, at least they show people trapping wild game for trading and feeding themselves which makes more sense. Some of the characters are guides for hunting which pays really well if your good at it&#xA;The story about the legend of Mick Dodge, a man walking the earth like moses, eating berries and mushrooms and salmon came clean by admitting that he is a wildlife activist and has a place to stay other than hollow tree trunks every night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18123" LastEditorUserId="15418" LastEditDate="2015-01-14T06:39:35.750" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T06:39:35.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30037" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46932" CreationDate="2015-01-14T07:34:01.447" Score="16" ViewCount="60419" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Pulp Fiction, after Butch returns from the boxing match to his girlfriend in the middle of the night, they engage in a curious conversation about the pros and cons of having a pot belly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Pulp-Fiction.html&quot;&gt;from the script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;           When Butch and Fabienne speak to each other, they speak in &#xA;           babytalk.&#xA;&#xA;                                 FABIENNE&#xA;                     I was looking at myself in the mirror.&#xA;&#xA;                                 BUTCH&#xA;                     Uh-huh?&#xA;&#xA;                                 FABIENNE&#xA;                     I wish I had a pot.&#xA;&#xA;                                 BUTCH&#xA;                     You were lookin' in the mirror and &#xA;                     you wish you had some pot?&#xA;&#xA;                                 FABIENNE&#xA;                     A pot. A pot belly. Pot bellies are &#xA;                     sexy.&#xA;&#xA;                                 BUTCH&#xA;                     Well you should be happy, 'cause you &#xA;                     do.&#xA;&#xA;                                 FABIENNE&#xA;                     Shut up, Fatso! I don't have a pot! &#xA;                     I have a bit of a tummy, like Madonna &#xA;                     when she did &quot;Lucky Star,&quot; it's not &#xA;                     the same thing.&#xA;&#xA;                                 BUTCH&#xA;                     I didn't realize there was a &#xA;                     difference between a tummy and a pot &#xA;                     belly.&#xA;&#xA;                                 FABIENNE&#xA;                     The difference is huge.&#xA;&#xA;                                 BUTCH&#xA;                     You want me to have a pot?&#xA;&#xA;                                 FABIENNE&#xA;                     No. Pot bellies make a man look either &#xA;                     oafish, or like a gorilla. But on a &#xA;                     woman, a pot belly is very sexy. The &#xA;                     rest of you is normal. Normal face, &#xA;                     normal legs, normal hips, normal &#xA;                     ass, but with a big, perfectly round &#xA;                     pot belly. If I had one, I'd wear a &#xA;                     tee-shirt two sizes too small to &#xA;                     accentuate it.&#xA;&#xA;                                 BUTCH&#xA;                     You think guys would find that &#xA;                     attractive?&#xA;&#xA;                                 FABIENNE&#xA;                     I don't give a damn what men find &#xA;                     attractive. It's unfortunate what we &#xA;                     find pleasing to the touch and &#xA;                     pleasing to the eye is seldom the &#xA;                     same.&#xA;&#xA;                                 BUTCH&#xA;                     If you a pot belly, I'd punch you in &#xA;                     it.&#xA;&#xA;                                 FABIENNE&#xA;                     You'd punch me in my belly?&#xA;&#xA;                                 BUTCH&#xA;                     Right in the belly.&#xA;&#xA;                                 FABIENNE&#xA;                     I'd smother you. I'd drop it on your &#xA;                     right on your face 'til you couldn't &#xA;                     breathe.&#xA;&#xA;                                 BUTCH&#xA;                     You'd do that to me?&#xA;&#xA;                                 FABIENNE&#xA;                     Yes!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not a native English speaker and thus not familiar with the usual contexts in which the term pot belly is used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fabienne and Butch are obviously fooling around (as is indicated by the initial direction in the script), but I was wondering whether there was a hidden meaning to this particular section of dialogue. Is Fabienne asking Butch if he wants to have a baby with her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18124" LastActivityDate="2019-07-28T15:16:14.000" Title="Is there a deeper meaning to Fabienne's pot belly talk?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30042" CreationDate="2015-01-14T10:00:35.080" Score="27" ViewCount="11720" Body="&lt;p&gt;The TV shows from the 60's of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Addams_Family&quot;&gt;The Addams Family&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Munsters&quot;&gt;The Munsters&lt;/a&gt; have similar macabre themes and characters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that the Addams family was originally a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/bob-mankoff/charles-addams&quot;&gt;cartoon in The New Yorker by Charles Addams&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Intriguingly enough - both shows &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11102649/The-Addams-Family-v-The-Munsters.html&quot;&gt;started in the same week&lt;/a&gt; in September 1964. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: &lt;strong&gt;Is it a coincidence that the Munsters and the Addams family both started in the same week?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-14T10:17:29.377" LastActivityDate="2019-04-12T11:21:00.100" Title="Is it a coincidence that The Munsters and The Addams Family both started in the same week?" Tags="|distribution|the-addams-family|the-munsters|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30041" CreationDate="2015-01-14T11:12:34.123" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CBS knew that that Addams family, already established through cartoons, was readily primed for a TV adaptation, and decided to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paleycenter.org/the-addamses-vs-the-munsters/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;create a property out of it without the rights to its characters&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When ABC found out this was going to happen, they readily greenlit a series for the actual Addams family to finally be translated onto the screen. If it weren't for CBS' eagerness to make the show, the Addams family itself may never have been made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Addams family was well established, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11102649/The-Addams-Family-v-The-Munsters.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;and as it's script was written by Nat Perrin&lt;/a&gt; (Who wrote for the Marx Brothers) CBS understood what tone the show would be in, and tried to replicate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the Addams family being the progenitor, the Munsters actually received better ratings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2019-04-12T11:21:00.100" LastActivityDate="2019-04-12T11:21:00.100" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30034" CreationDate="2015-01-14T12:36:26.103" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As explained in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zap2it.com/blogs/sherlock_season_3_holmes_faked_his_death_with_masks_and_hypnotism-2014-01&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S03E01&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Sherlock jumped down to the pavement, landing on an air pad with limited visibility (building blocking one side, shipping container blocking the other (Watson's angle).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any sniper who was in position to kill Sherlock &lt;em&gt;while he was on the roof&lt;/em&gt; had &lt;em&gt;at best&lt;/em&gt; a 1/4 chance of being able to see Sherlock after he jumped - if he was on any of the other 3 sides of the building, the building would block him.  It's kind of a tautology; in order for the sniper to be high enough to command the roof, he would be (in an urban environment) too high to command more than narrow channels of street level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider this potential diagram to explain why it wasn't &quot;obvious the sniper would have seen&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;+---+  +---+ &#xA;|  !|  |   |&#xA;|   |  |  S|*&#xA;+---+  +---+&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, ! is the sniper, S is Sherlock, and * is the landing site on the street.  When Sherlock leaps from the hospital building and falls, the hospital then blocks the view that the sniper has from the adjacent building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the overall deception plan relied upon Sherlock jumping.  It's not like he had &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; options for dealing with the sniper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18130" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T12:36:26.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30034" CreationDate="2015-01-14T12:42:51.237" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This makes more sense in the stories than the show but generally Watson is a very poor liar.  Hence if Holmes needs to lie or be dishonest he also has to dupe Watson (like in The Adventure of the Dying Detective).  Hence to convince the world (and his enemies) he had to convince Watson as 'people' would be watching Watson closely to deduce any clues of Holmes still being alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exactly how he tricked the sniper has not been revealed so we just have to trust that Holmes had it figured out.  The fact that he is alive implies that he was right!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T12:42:51.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29842" CreationDate="2015-01-14T13:15:11.243" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;After re-watching this, this scene was definitely artistic license.  The reason I say this is because there are only 2 ways to achieve this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Kyle would have to move the entire rifle, which is impossible because the hole in the wall that he was looking through would have blocked his view, or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Kyle would have had to pivot the rifle on the legs of his sniper stand, which would have caused him to move so much that he probably would have been spotted by the other sniper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While #2 is possible, it's just not practical for a sniper.  And the crosshairs of the scope were visible the whole time, so it was definitely intended to make it look as though it was his view through the scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T13:15:11.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30037" CreationDate="2015-01-14T14:03:25.000" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Standard Tarrantino fare.  I don't feel like she's talking about being pregnant, as some women don't even get that big and even if they do it's only for a short period of time.  I'd lean more towards it being yet another &quot;I'm cool because I'm so random&quot; chat between characters in a Tarrantino movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T14:03:25.000" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11883" CreationDate="2015-01-14T17:08:26.260" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure why the Wikipedia synopsis as you quoted it puts a link between Matthew’s final words during their conversation (“War has a way of distinguishing [...]”) and Thomas then getting himself wounded. I think the link lies clearly in the exchange they have just before those words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thomas&lt;/strong&gt;: Miss O'Brien keeps me informed. Lady Edith's driving. Lady Sybil's training as a nurse. Miss O'Brien tells me the hospital's busier than ever with the wounded coming in. That true?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Matthew&lt;/strong&gt;: Certainly is. They had a concert when I was there to raise extra funds.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Thomas&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm curious, sir. Do you think I could ever get a transfer back to the hospital, seeing as it's war work?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Matthew&lt;/strong&gt;: Well, you'd have to be sent home from the front first. And then you might have to pull a few strings.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptline.livejournal.com/42236.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;complete transcript at Script Line&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, Matthew both implies that there aren’t a lot of ways for Thomas to get himself sent home, while also confirming that wounded men are being sent back to England. So Thomas puts those two things together and sees getting himself wounded as his only option for getting sent home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There’s an earlier scene that serves as a prelude to the above scene: O’Brien mentions having received a letter from Thomas and says “I don't think he’d mind coming home” to which Cora replies “Oh, I wish he could, O’Brien.” The scene introduces both Thomas’s desire to come home as well as his inability to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn’t review the entire episode, but I don’t think there was any suggestion that Thomas was, as the PBS page puts it, “using his scheming ability to devise a plan to escape” prior to his conversation with Matthew. However, in the previous episode (the last one of season 1), he did “scheme” in an attempt to avoid being sent to the front altogether, by getting Dr. Clarkson to put him up as a volunteer for hospital work. That this didn’t have the outcome he had hoped is alluded to in a scene where he’s in the trenches, carrying a  man on a stretcher together with another soldier. Before being shot in the head, the other soldier says: “I thought, ‘Medical Corps. Not much danger there.’ How wrong can one man be?” Thomas was acting upon the same thought in the previous episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So summarizing, I would say that Thomas had a plan to avoid being sent to the battle front, which failed. Once at the front, he didn’t have a plan to get away from it before his conversation with Matthew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16779" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T17:08:26.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30051" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30053" CreationDate="2015-01-14T17:52:32.527" Score="18" ViewCount="3191" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378194/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot;&gt;Kill Bill Vol 2&lt;/a&gt;, We get to see more of Budd and his story. But it's not the story of a world class assassin, but one of a broken, submissive man who looks like he has nothing to live for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see proof of this in the place he lives. A run down trailer home in the middle of the desert. He works at a strip club where his boss treats him like crap. He calls Elle to sell the Hanzo sword.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened to Budd that caused him go from a world class assassin with a good lifestyle to what was depicted in his chapter? All the other assassins in the Deadly Viper Assassin Squad were doing fine (until they get killed of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T07:34:18.860" Title="What happened to Budd?" Tags="|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30051" CreationDate="2015-01-14T18:20:21.787" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, first of all the following is entirely speculation by me, since we don't get too much insight into his backstory in the movie. It might only be a first start, as I might have to rewatch it to further substantiate any of this with some specific dialogue or other hints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, it seems to me as if &lt;em&gt;Budd&lt;/em&gt; pretty much &lt;em&gt;wanted&lt;/em&gt; to distance himself from &lt;em&gt;Bill&lt;/em&gt;'s whole business and that previous life as a world class assassin (if he ever was one). &lt;strong&gt;He seems a bit disillusioned to me.&lt;/strong&gt; For example when he says to &lt;em&gt;Elle&lt;/em&gt; something like (forgive me for not recounting it word-accurate):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This woman deserves her revenge and we deserve to die for what we did to her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same way, if I remember correctly, he said something like that he sold his &lt;em&gt;Hanzo&lt;/em&gt; sword, an item of absolutely unestimable value to any of the others in &lt;em&gt;Bill&lt;/em&gt;'s crew. So he obviously wasn't engaged in the matter with his heart and soul anymore (if he ever was).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is unclear, though, if it actually was their assassination of &lt;em&gt;The Bride&lt;/em&gt; that caused this change of mind in &lt;em&gt;Budd&lt;/em&gt; or if he never really was so much of a real member of the gang. To me it rather seemed that &lt;strong&gt;he never was so much devoted to the whole business let alone such an established member as the others&lt;/strong&gt;, but was primarily part of the gang because he is &lt;em&gt;Bill&lt;/em&gt;'s brother (neither is he a woman nor a Kung Fu magician either, if I remember correctly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T18:20:21.787" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13313" CreationDate="2015-01-14T19:49:04.313" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gary Burghoff &lt;a href=&quot;http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2006/10/goodbye-radar.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;decided to not wear his hat&lt;/a&gt; for the final episode: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When it finally came time to film “Goodbye Radar” Gary decided he didn’t want to wear his hat. This became a big issue and remains a sore spot with me to this day. Our contention was that without the hat he no longer looked like a kid, he looked like a balding man rocketing into middle age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No on-screen explanation has been given that I know of. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps, as PaulStock has &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/13330/4838&quot;&gt;pointed out&lt;/a&gt;,  you're conflating the hat with Radar's teddy bear. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mash4077tv.com/features/prop_spotlight_radars_teddy_bear/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an article on mash4077tv.com&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Good-Bye Radar (Part II)”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  After Radar leaves the 4077th for good, Hawkeye and others return to the Swamp to discover that Radar has left his teddy bear on Hawkeye’s bunk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and, from the show's final season, well after Radar had left: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“As Time Goes By”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Hawkeye offers up Radar’s teddy bear, which was left to him: “Let it stand for all the soldiers who came over here as boys and went home as men.” Note that the teddy bear seen in this episode bears little resemblance to the one-eyed bear shown in every other episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4838" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T19:49:04.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30058" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30060" CreationDate="2015-01-14T20:00:14.317" Score="5" ViewCount="893" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, it is a movie about a man getting revenge by killing off another family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main character is short and caucasian.&#xA;It begins with him being shown as a homeless man with a beard.&#xA;He learns that someone who has caused him harm is getting out of prison.&#xA;He follows the man to a bar and when the man is in the bathroom, he kills him by stabbing him.&#xA;He runs away by taking one of the cars outside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other random scenes I remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is in either his sister's or his ex-wife's house after he kills the man, because he assumes they will come after him. They do, and he gets away but gets shot with a crossbow to his thigh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that shootout, he takes one of the guy that game to get him and locks him in his car trunk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He finds an old friend and asks him for help, and the friend gives him a gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main character confronts the guy in his trunk but is tricked and has his own gun pointed on him by the guy who was in the trunk.  He is about to get shot but his same friend saves him by shooting down the trunk guy from far away.  I specifically remember this scene as his friend's first shot barely missed.  We could hear the sound of the bullet against the wind before we heard the actual gun shot since the shot came from far away. But the second shot kills the man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ending scene was with him waiting at the other family's house when they are not there.  He buries the members he has killed.  He waits for them at their house until they return. When they come back, they do not know he is there.  But they are angry at what he has done and are swearing to kill him. He then ambushes them.  It ends with him killing them and then dying.  But he lets one of the family member go (a teenage boy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What movie was this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18139" LastEditorUserId="34317" LastEditDate="2017-01-31T17:25:23.593" LastActivityDate="2017-01-31T17:25:23.593" Title="Identify this thriller revenge movie" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:31:37.530" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30059" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="74511" CreationDate="2015-01-14T20:17:26.740" Score="11" ViewCount="48417" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwjX9fb4lIHLAhXDuw8KHf2YBwcQFggcMAA&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCasino_(film)&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF7qMwipQrG63UgEOsIRdfjAmkAmQ&amp;amp;bvm=bv.114733917,d.ZWU&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Casino&lt;/a&gt; (1995) and asked myself why Frankie killed Nicky and his brother so angrily with a baseball bat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before the killing scene I thought that Frankie was loyal to Nicky. He never showed any doubts while working for Nicky. I had the impression that he was the sober mind in contrast to the choleric Nicky Santoro. He also lied to the bosses about Ace's wife and Nicky to protect them and the business. That shows that he was not really loyal to the bosses as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My random thoughts about his actions are that he may be pissed about the close relationship between Nicky and his brother and that Frankie was just a third wheel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe he hated everything about Nicky and swallowed it until then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18141" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-02-18T12:17:42.853" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T12:31:33.497" Title="Why did Frankie Marino kill Nicky Santoro and his brother with such confidence" Tags="|plot-explanation|casino|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30058" CreationDate="2015-01-14T20:22:46.123" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that you are looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ruin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Blue Ruin&quot;&gt;Blue Ruin&lt;/a&gt; from 2013. The vagrant at the beginning, Dwight, gets information that the man who killed his parents, Wade, is getting out of prison. Dwight finds Wade and kills him. He then protects himself, his sister and her family from Wade's family. Eventually, he does end up letting the youngest of Wade's family go because it turns out they are actually related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T20:22:46.123" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30059" CreationDate="2015-01-14T22:35:09.623" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they tolerated Nicky despite his anger issues until he started sleeping with Ace's wife which i believe was the last straw which broke the camel's back, Frankie had to do that to make up for his mistake of covering up that affair as well and besides Nicky started bringing in a lot of heat by killing cops and breaking all the rules. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T22:35:09.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19126" CreationDate="2015-01-14T23:41:18.710" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like it could be Would You Rather, the same situation and the main character is a blonde gal, but it came out in 2012&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18145" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T23:41:18.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30059" CreationDate="2015-01-14T23:59:18.313" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The mob bosses had allowed Nicky to run rampant out in Vegas, but they eventually had enough of his antics.  The beating was a message, that's why Nicky's brother got beaten to a pulp first.  If you cross the mob, or don't play by your rules, you'll live just long enough to see your loved ones killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IIRC, by carrying out that hit on Nicky and Dominic, Frankie and his crew were given &quot;clemency&quot; for not reporting Nicky's affair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-01-14T23:59:18.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24636" CreationDate="2015-01-15T06:05:44.227" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just by going by the information of the movie it seems like four is divergent when the mind control syrum doesn't work on him but after he is captured he is all of a sudden not immune to the syrum at the end and it is up to tris when a gun is put to her head by four is that the only way four can shoot her is if he looks away, which ends up breaking his trance and allows them to break the trance of the syrum to the dauntless soldiers which saves many lives and brings the movie a happy ending ☺&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18151" LastActivityDate="2015-01-15T06:05:44.227" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30070" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30073" CreationDate="2015-01-15T06:41:15.577" Score="3" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems much of the controversy around &quot;The Interview&quot; could have been prevented by setting it in a fictitious country instead of the real North Korea, like they did for example in &quot;The Dictator&quot;. Was there ever the consideration to use a fictitious country at any point of the production or were the filmmakers always set towards North Korea? And is there any information (or at least well-reasoned speculation) why this possibility wasn't explored?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11112" LastEditorUserId="11112" LastEditDate="2015-01-15T10:15:14.953" LastActivityDate="2015-01-15T12:04:49.103" Title="Was there any consideration to set &quot;The Interview&quot; in a fictitious country?" Tags="|production|reception|the-interview|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24229" CreationDate="2015-01-15T11:53:53.710" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although you have provided an excellent definition of the term &quot;Reality Television,&quot; you need to bear in mind that there is no agreed-upon legal definition in any legislation; it is a marketing term which can be used to mean just about anything without risk of penalty, since it can never be wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastEditorUserId="872" LastEditDate="2015-01-15T13:00:51.607" LastActivityDate="2015-01-15T13:00:51.607" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30070" CreationDate="2015-01-15T11:59:35.367" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. The movie was always going to be set in North Korea. But originally it was about Kim Jong-Il. In a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/movies/james-franco-and-seth-rogen-talk-about-the-interview.html?_r=0&quot;&gt;New York Times interview&lt;/a&gt; dated 12/16/2014, Seth Rogen said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The idea was around for a long time. The first script was about Kim Jong-il [Mr. Kim’s father]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The threats and hack happened after the movie was finished (so there would be no reason to explore the options in your question). Seth had this to say about making Kim Jong-un the villain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There was a lot of discussion. But it’s not an edgy position to take. It’s not like, “Well, politically, you’ve got to look at both sides.” He is bad. It’s controversial to him. But to everyone else, it’s fine. To their credit, [Sony] let us do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm confident that I can say Rogan always considered only setting it in North Korea with the real life dictator being the villain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may have been a little push back from Sony, initially. But, Rogan &amp;amp; Goldberg were the film makers not Sony...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2015-01-15T12:04:49.103" LastActivityDate="2015-01-15T12:04:49.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27160" CreationDate="2015-01-15T15:22:20.310" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no proof of this, but at a specific point in the film the characters realize that Dr. Brand (senior) solved the gravitational equations long before he sent anyone through.  The first explorers knew that they were not only on a one-way trip, but that they wouldn't be sending comprehensive data back. At most a simple ping indicating that they still existed once beyond the wormhole (ie, weren't simply destroyed in the wormhole).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dr. Brand may have believed that the only hope humanity had was to blindly go through the wormhole, and once on the other side establish communications with the initial explorers and find the best planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus it's possible that Dr. Brand himself made the equipment so that communications was essentially one way, so as to avoid dissuading further explorers from ceasing the missions.  He was, all along, planning on following plan B - the re-seeding of worlds, and had no hope that the humans on Earth would ever be rescued, or that plan A was feasible.  This is why he ensured that his child made it onto the mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility, though, is that the wormhole is small, and the earth has more energy than the spaceship.  Even if aiming communications at the wormhole from both sides, the ship to earth communications is several magnitudes of order smaller than the energy earth can push through the wormhole from our galaxy.  It may merely be an issue of bandwidth and signal to noise ratio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1112" LastActivityDate="2015-01-15T15:22:20.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27218" CreationDate="2015-01-15T15:28:28.157" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How could the human race have gone back in time to save itself from circumstances that would have caused us to go extinct without our own help (the convenient wormhole)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason this is so difficult to answer is that you've included the words &quot;back in time&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no linear time in this movie.  There is no past, and no future.  There are creatures, primarily humans, in the movie which experience time linearly, and have no ability to move around in time except at a fixed (perceived) pace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider two walls on a road, traveling like vehicles, spaced apart from each other about 3 feet (1 meter), moving down the road.  You are between the walls, and must move with them down the road.  You do not have the ability to go around or over the walls, nor visibility to see what's beyond them - only what you see in the 3 feet of ground, and what's above and to the sides.  You suspect that the walls aren't infinite, but you don't have the tools or ability to climb over or around the walls.  So you are pushed forward, and you can't go &quot;back&quot; to places you've already been, nor &quot;forward&quot; to places you'll eventually come to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now change it slightly.  Put the walls in the ocean, and put a fish there.  It doesn't even perceive the need for tools or techniques to go over the wall - it just swims up and over.  In fact the wall isn't an obstacle at all.  It can fully utilize all three dimensions, and even when resting there's no need for it to move at all along with the walls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The walls are irrelevant to the fish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We perceive time as these walls. We can't travel to the past or the future.  We don't have the ability to stop the walls or move outside the walls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a being that perceives &lt;em&gt;time&lt;/em&gt; in the same way we perceive &lt;em&gt;places&lt;/em&gt; can go to &lt;strong&gt;anywhen&lt;/strong&gt;, the same way we might travel to &lt;strong&gt;anywhere&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same way that you have the monitor placed on your desk in a certain position so you can use it - it belongs there - the wormhole is placed in a certain &lt;strong&gt;when&lt;/strong&gt;.  That when is neither &quot;before&quot; or &quot;after&quot; any other when.  It's just a when, exactly the same as your monitor is not &quot;before&quot; or &quot;after&quot; any other where.  It's just a where.  All where's exist without an ordering. You might perceive two monitors, one in &quot;front&quot; of the other as having an order, but if you move yourself around them, the order changes and isn't any less or more relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So all whens exist.  Some beings perceive whens in a particular order, but that doesn't mean that these whens actually have an ordering anymore than we see wheres as having an ordering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once you move past that perception and accept and perceive that all whens are unordered, the same as all wheres are unordered, then the wormhole exists in that when and where. Someone created it, and put it at that when.  There was no before or after it was placed - it's placed at a when, and exists there.  It will &quot;always&quot; exist there, despite the fact that &quot;always&quot; has lost meaning since it has never not been at that where and when.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, 4 dimensional humans already exist &quot;now&quot;, they've &quot;always&quot; existed, and will &quot;always&quot; exist.  In the same way you move a glass of water from the kitchen to your desk, they created a wormhole and placed it at a when and where.  It's there at a when.  We can't perceive it, &quot;yet&quot;, but it's &quot;already&quot; there at a when, &quot;always&quot; was there at a when, and &quot;always&quot; will be there at a when. To them, there is no time.  Just wheres and whens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the real question is - How did we break through or go outside those walls?  Not when - it doesn't matter &quot;when&quot; the first human perceived time as a when rather than linearly.  Once you step out of time, it doesn't matter when you did it - you have access to all the whens, and linear time has no meaning.  It could be in the past for us.  It could be in the future for us.  It could be yesterday, today, or tomorrow - only one person has to transcend time for all of us to transcend time.  Once any human moves beyond that perception, all the whens are as accessible to that human as the wheres are accessible to us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, of course, the how doesn't then matter.  The wall was transcended.  The wall is transcended.  The wall will be transcended.  There is no wall.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interstellar essentially says that we &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; fish, though we don't perceive ourselves that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1112" LastActivityDate="2015-01-15T15:28:28.157" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30078" CreationDate="2015-01-15T16:48:09.250" Score="26" ViewCount="8832" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just stumbled on the new film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4145324&quot;&gt;Bound (2015)&lt;/a&gt; and remembered that there was an older film by the Wachowskis also called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115736&quot;&gt;Bound released in 1996&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure this varies from country to country - but in Hollywood, how long must a new film wait to use the title of an older film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This of course is for non-franchise films&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1172" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T14:16:20.437" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T14:16:20.437" Title="How long must a Hollywood film wait to use the same title of an older film?" Tags="|production|title|legal|american-cinema|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30076" CreationDate="2015-01-15T17:43:41.957" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lawlawlandblog.com/2010/11/reuse_and_confuse_the_recyclin.html&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; I found (written in 2010) - individual movie titles can not be copyrighted.  However, there can be a trademark granted if there is a certain level of recognition of the title to the specific movie.  The author of the article cites &quot;Star Wars&quot; or &quot;Citizen Kane&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per the linked article, the MPAA has a Title Registration Bureau which also has a standard in place.  Participants are notified of conflict; if a raised objection is not settled - the dispute moves to arbitration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So - to answer your question - for the vast majority of film titles there is no mandatory waiting period.  However, producers should not be shocked if there is litigation that arises regardless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15523" LastActivityDate="2015-01-15T17:43:41.957" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30076" CreationDate="2015-01-15T18:12:56.873" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is, they don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Literary titles – such as book or movie titles – fall in a gray area&#xA;in U.S. law. For instance, although a book or movie is protected by&#xA;copyright, its title isn’t. Copyright simply doesn’t cover titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even if the title is distinctive, such as The 40-Year-Old Virgin,&#xA;courts and the Trademark Office say it can’t be registered as a&#xA;trademark, even though distinctive words and slogans can be registered&#xA;as trademarks in other contexts. There’s an exception for series&#xA;titles, such as Harry Potter, but that’s of no help to single-work&#xA;titles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2005/05/double_trouble.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2005/05/double_trouble.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://moviehole.net/201144916same-title-different-movies-stealing-another-movies-title&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://moviehole.net/201144916same-title-different-movies-stealing-another-movies-title&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.andsoitbeginsfilms.com/2013/07/top-15-movies-with-same-title.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.andsoitbeginsfilms.com/2013/07/top-15-movies-with-same-title.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-01-15T18:12:56.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24155" CreationDate="2015-01-15T18:37:25.287" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;logans run In a futuristic society where reaching the age of 30 is a death sentence, a rebellious law enforcement agent goes on the run in search of Sanctuary.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/&lt;/a&gt;&#xA; &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/4WUUnc1M0TA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18157" LastActivityDate="2015-01-15T18:37:25.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30082" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-15T19:10:53.983" Score="7" ViewCount="10621" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read the interesting question regarding the death of the priest's dog in the movie Calvary, and the discussion about that.  The question I have is regarding the very last scene, in which the priest's daughter Fiona is shown visiting the killer in prison.  What are we supposed to make of that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18158" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-15T19:17:00.530" LastActivityDate="2018-08-28T22:59:03.253" Title="What was the meaning of Fiona's visit to the killer in prison, in the last scene?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|calvary|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30086" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30088" CreationDate="2015-01-16T02:48:55.970" Score="7" ViewCount="1753" Body="&lt;p&gt;The beginning of &lt;em&gt;Fight Club&lt;/em&gt; is all about how Edward Norton can't sleep, and his doctor refuses him sleep medication and instead refers him to go to the support groups at the local Church instead. So he pretends to be a part of all of these groups, and he sees true despair and can sleep again. When he finds Marla, another faker, it ruins it for him and he can't sleep again. When he finally confronts her, they have this conversation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Norton: Now look. This is important, OK? These are my groups I've been&#xA;              coming here for over a year. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Marla:  Why do you do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Norton: I don't know. When people think your dying they really, &#xA;              really listen to you instead of just--&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Marla:  --instead of just waiting for their turn to speak?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Norton: Yeah...yeah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a nice conversation with the interesting piece of profundity about waiting for your turn to speak, but why doesn't he just admit off the bat it helps him sleep? Is he embarrassed? Is it no longer just about that for him? What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: It wouldn't be embarrassment since he presumably spent the last year baring his soul to strangers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9770" LastEditorUserId="9770" LastEditDate="2017-05-25T12:58:51.567" LastActivityDate="2017-05-26T22:44:38.357" Title="In Fight Club, when Ed Norton first confronts Marla, why doesn't he tell her about his insomnia?" Tags="|character|fight-club|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30076" CreationDate="2015-01-16T03:15:14.140" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there is a limit, it's no longer than three months. Two movies titled &lt;em&gt;Nine&lt;/em&gt; came out in the second half of 2009. One is an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_%282009_animated_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;all-CGI animated SF film&lt;/a&gt; with &quot;stitchpunks&quot; that look like a grown-up version of Sackboy from the later PS3 game &lt;em&gt;LittleBigPlanet&lt;/em&gt;, released in September 2009. The other is an unrelated &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_%282009_live-action_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;musical drama directed by Rob Marshall&lt;/a&gt; starring Daniel Day-Lewis, released three months later. Both are adaptations of previous works also titled &lt;em&gt;Nine&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14139" LastActivityDate="2015-01-16T03:15:14.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30086" CreationDate="2015-01-16T03:36:22.503" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think he needed to discuss his insomnia.  Insomnia is the product of him being stressed out, and the &quot;medication&quot; was him feeling like people cared about him.  It's not unusual for people who have just met to cover up their deepest issues and only discuss those that lie on the fringe, and Norton chose to discuss how it helps him rather than why he needed the help in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-01-16T03:36:22.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30076" CreationDate="2015-01-16T05:22:20.300" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might be interested in the case of the film The Butler which just came out recently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film's title was up for a possible rename due to a Motion Picture Association of America claim from Warner Bros., which had inherited from the defunct Lubin Company a now-lost 1916 silent short film with the same name.[9][31] The case was subsequently resolved with the MPAA granting the Weinstein Company permission to add Daniels' name in front of the title, under the condition that his name was &quot;75% the size of The Butler&quot;.[32] On July 23, 2013, the distributor unveiled a revised poster, displaying the title as Lee Daniels' The Butler.[33]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butler#Production&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butler#Production&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18165" LastActivityDate="2015-01-16T05:22:20.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30092" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30094" CreationDate="2015-01-16T09:56:42.423" Score="30" ViewCount="7980" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been a mystery to me for quite a while. I'm talking about this cup:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/URUCB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;A red cup&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The screenshot is from the 2008s movie &lt;em&gt;Fanboys&lt;/em&gt;. The exact same cup also appears in movies such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;American Pie&lt;/em&gt; (screenshot is from nr 2):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8ZmMPm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Red cups&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Neighbors&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rhRxvm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Red cups&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blue Mountain State&lt;/em&gt; (screenshot is from episode 5 season 1):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SdfyCm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Red cups&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Easy A&lt;/em&gt; (same style cup, just blue instead of red)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LZEbLm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Blue cups&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other examples include &lt;em&gt;No Strings Attached&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Spectacular Now&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;21/22 Jump Street&lt;/em&gt; and probably a lot more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it always the same type of beer cup used in these college-style movies/series? Is it part of a cleaver product-placement plan or is it just the only suitable cup available in the US?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18167" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T17:12:05.083" Title="Why is it always the same type of beer cup used in college-style movies/series?" Tags="|props|product-placement|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30093" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42190" CreationDate="2015-01-16T10:18:06.637" Score="6" ViewCount="1123" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the very end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1358522/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;White Collar&lt;/a&gt;, it turns out that Neal faked his death and moved to France. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just curious as to why he didn't inform Mozzie, or even bring him with him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9481" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-05T15:19:36.710" LastActivityDate="2016-08-05T15:19:36.710" Title="Question regarding the finale of White Collar" Tags="|white-collar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30092" CreationDate="2015-01-16T10:23:33.563" Score="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the US and Canada at least, these are the most commonly encountered disposable cups used for beer - as pointed out by @Paulster2, because they can be purchased in large quantities quite cheaply (e.g. on Walmart's website, I found 100 for $6.34). There is also a fogged semi-transparent version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this audience, the kind of cup described is instantly recognizable and just about anyone who has been to college, an outdoor beer garden, or even a picnic will likely have used one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastEditorUserId="872" LastEditDate="2015-01-16T12:37:10.777" LastActivityDate="2015-01-16T12:37:10.777" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30092" CreationDate="2015-01-16T13:48:49.760" Score="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;This cup was first produced by a company named Solo, which carefully designed it to be an all-purpose cup for drinks.  The cup actually has 3 measuring points for each type of drink, denoted by specific contour changes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bqYbB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of its cheap price point, its bold color and its abundance in grocery stores, it became the defacto cup to use at keg parties in high school and college, and so the cup is instantly recognizable as being one that likely has alcohol in it.  Almost to the point where a trope probably exists for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Solo has often been imitated, but eventually found its place forever in the lexicon of Americans when the song &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKZqGJONH68&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Red Solo Cup&lt;/a&gt; was written by Toby Keith in 2011.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-01-16T14:32:47.077" LastActivityDate="2015-01-16T14:32:47.077" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31960" CreationDate="2015-01-16T19:02:37.123" Score="2" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each week on The Biggest Loser, during the weekly weigh-in segment, the show will frequently cut back and forth between contestant interviews and the weigh-in itself as it progresses. The contestants narrate a lot of the &quot;drama&quot; of the weigh-in by sharing their anticipation before the results are revealed, and reactions after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the contestants are (presumably) not actors, I'm trying to figure out how they pull this off. Do they film interviews before the weigh-in, asking about how they're feeling going into it, and also after, asking about the results? (Otherwise, I'd expect that non-actors wouldn't be able to reliably answer questions about their anticipation of the results, if they already know what the results are.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've watched the show carefully, and it doesn't &lt;strong&gt;look&lt;/strong&gt; like a separate interview, but I can't tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18182" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T19:18:51.570" Title="On The Biggest Loser, do they interview contestants before AND after the weekly weigh-in?" Tags="|production|editing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30111" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-16T20:36:58.260" Score="13" ViewCount="2589" Body="&lt;p&gt;Penny sings &quot;Soft Kitty, Warm Kitty&quot; to Sheldon in a few episodes of &quot;The Big Bang Theory&quot;. In at least one other episode, Sheldon's mom sings &quot;Soft Kitty, Warm Kitty&quot; to him but with a slightly different melody. Here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/x9DdiZBnpoQ?t=1m&quot;&gt;Penny's version&lt;/a&gt;, and here is &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/Sql6u8txZYI?t=50s&quot;&gt;Sheldon's mom's version&lt;/a&gt;. Were the differences a choice of the actors, the writers, or the director, and was it done for a specific reason (possibly to show how the two women &quot;mother&quot; Sheldon a little differently)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be musically specific, Penny sings the first 3 notes as separated by a minor third, and the next 3 notes as separated by a major third.  Sheldon's mom (Mary Cooper) sings the first 3 notes separated by an octave, and the next 3 notes separated by a minor 7th. The same thing repeats in the second verse for each of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2015-01-16T22:31:37.373" LastActivityDate="2017-04-14T15:19:20.893" Title="Why do Penny and Sheldon's mom sing &quot;Soft Kitty, Warm Kitty&quot; differently?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30092" CreationDate="2015-01-16T20:48:03.060" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Supporting answer to @JamesMcLeod's:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also packs in some meaning: The cup implies informal situations, outdoors ones, and/or low income. It's perfect for showing on camera to get the viewer to unconsciously understand that &quot;this is a college party.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be used to imply poverty, simplicity, or bizarrity. Let's look at the latter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In OP's images, imagine instead of these characters were holding fine wine glasses in those situations. It would make a very different scene. Maybe you'd expect a more snobbish atmosphere, or an older age-set (eg it could be appropriate for a movie about 30-somethings instead of college age folks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now imagine some spy movie with a fancy ball, except the characters are holding red Solo cups instead of fine wine glasses. This would be quite odd, but could be used to show for example a surreal situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This layer of subtlety is one of the methods storytellers (be they authors, filmmakers, or whatnot) use to &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShowDontTell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;show, not tell.&quot; &lt;/a&gt; This can help build verisimilitude (the appearance or feeling of being real, a useful term in movies since verisimilitude does not mean ACTUALLY realistic), aid in immersion, or simply convey more information while characters' mouths are occupied telling you other information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15709" LastEditorUserId="15709" LastEditDate="2015-01-19T17:12:05.083" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T17:12:05.083" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30092" CreationDate="2015-01-16T21:49:12.360" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something that the other answers haven't mentioned is that many of the people present at such a party are likely under 21, and an opaque cup prevents an outside observer from being able to tell that the liquid in the cup is actually beer. Many people believe that this will protect them from consequences if they are photographed or the party is raided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It also means the filmmakers don't have to fill the cups with an amber liquid and manage its level going down as people drink across what may be multiple takes, but this is just speculation)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2102" LastActivityDate="2015-01-16T21:49:12.360" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30116" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32970" CreationDate="2015-01-16T22:38:11.640" Score="1" ViewCount="438" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reading the script for &quot;The Big Lebowski&quot; at &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tfTyDwTFd-3RgYrYDzT2bhpFA-gHUrFEaHy1R8mLF94/edit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tfTyDwTFd-3RgYrYDzT2bhpFA-gHUrFEaHy1R8mLF94/edit&lt;/a&gt; it reads: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;DUDE&#xA;        You see a wedding ring?  Does this &#xA;        place look like I'm fucking married?   &#xA;        All my plants are dead!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the movie The Dude states &quot;The toilet seat is up man&quot; instead of &quot;All my plants are dead!&quot;. Was this improvised or a mistake in the script posted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18188" LastEditorUserId="18188" LastEditDate="2015-01-16T22:50:30.927" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T23:59:24.930" Title="Line in script does not match spoken line in The Big Lebowski" Tags="|coen-brothers|the-big-lebowski|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30118" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30120" CreationDate="2015-01-16T23:21:20.020" Score="4" ViewCount="6245" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tried to keep the title spoiler free. Spoilers follow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278388/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Grand Budapest Hotel&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Gustave is wanted for murder. At the end we see that the second will is produced which shows that in the case of murder, Madame D's fortune goes to Gustave. Why does this clear him of murder? Shouldn't it make him even more of a suspect - he's the one who gains over her murder. The viewer knows he is innocent but the police do not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did I miss?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3441" LastEditorUserId="6767" LastEditDate="2015-01-16T23:49:13.190" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T00:56:12.730" Title="In Grand Budapest Hotel, an explanation regarding Gustave" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-grand-budapest-hotel|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30118" CreationDate="2015-01-17T00:55:24.080" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following scenes are key to answering this question (in chronological order):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the deposition formalizing the accusations &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the scene at the 6th floor's cross-coat where both fronts shoot at each other&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the scene where they are opening the will&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the trial of Mr.Gustave/the whole inheritance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I find all this evidence to be indicative and not absolute, unfortunately, especially if we assume that MR. Gustave held true to his claim that he cannot call for his alibi since she went on an atlantic cruise. (see the scene where Zero visits Mr. Gustave in prison)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;THe deposition is dated to the 12.October 32, 7 days before the murder. This might be a goof in the film but it is there. Such a fake deposition would be seriously incriminating for the heir apparent (Dmitri) in court.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the the shooting scene, when the local police captain (its late, forgive for not checking) Henckels arrives asking why they're are shooting, Dmitri  accuses Mr. Gustave and claims to have him cornered. Mr.Gustave counters by implicating him in the murders of Serge X and his sister, Attorney Kovacs and Madame D herself. These accusations wouldn't be taken seriously normally, but the case has been shrouded in mystery from the beginning. Key here is that when the Dmitri's enforcer Jopling (played by Willem Dafoe) was at the prison looking for clues after Mr.Gustave escaped. Henckels met him at Mr.Gustaves former cell and enquired what he might know about the death of Deputy Kovacs whose corpse was found in an Art Museum missing four fingers. Joplings stern and almost cold-blooded reply left Henckels wondering. Wouldn't you wonder when a guy treated you like that while wearing somewhat ornate brass knuckles ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the opening of the will Mr.Gustave was simply silent and interested in the proceedings while Dmitri was nervously talking and gesturing. Why would he be ? If any one could be suspected of knowing the contents of the will it is Dmitri IMO, although Mr.Gustave could have been playing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, at the trial, the Jury and the Judges seem quite entertained  by Mr.Gustave account of the previous weeks' events. It is indicative but I think this scene was meant to make us aware that Mr.Gustave's story is amusing or at least amusingly performed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as I said, only circumstantial evidence as far as I can see. The deposition might be a goof while the trial could also be argued to incriminate Mr.Gustave &lt;strong&gt;in our eyes&lt;/strong&gt; since he is beyond a doubt a very good storyteller and impressive persona whom one could imagine as a superb con-artist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18191" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T00:55:24.080" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14787" CreationDate="2015-01-17T02:26:37.913" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like they try to fudge it with this line in the second episode - &lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Tony Soprano&lt;/strong&gt;: You know, you got a reputation for immaturity, and its not gonna be improved by not paying the tributes the acting boss demands of you.&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Brendan Filone&lt;/strong&gt;: Acting boss my ass Ton'. Come on, everybody knows you really run things since Jackie became the Kemosabe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18195" LastEditorUserId="25773" LastEditDate="2021-05-26T16:16:02.383" LastActivityDate="2021-05-26T16:16:02.383" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30129" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30135" CreationDate="2015-01-17T04:57:38.530" Score="5" ViewCount="1449" Body="&lt;p&gt;I frequently watch a web series by Jerry Seinfeld called &lt;a href=&quot;http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee&lt;/a&gt;. I live outside the US (but in a western country) and I just don't get the Acura (called Honda here) ads at the start and end of every episode!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They always feature a car salesman giving random advice while a customer passively looks at the car without saying anything. The only common slogan is &quot;I sell cars, you sell you&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/31diiH8GWcQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/TGovgJsfnlo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/bSofaR7u--I?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just don't get why a car salesman barking &quot;Don't pop bubble wrap while people are talking!&quot; is suppose to help him &quot;sell cars&quot; while &quot;you sell you&quot;. In fact if a car salesman started giving me life advice I'd be quite offended!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume the ads are suppose to be funny given they're linked to Seinfeld, but I must be missing some context. Is there a cultural reference I'm missing, or is this linked to a larger campaign that provides context to these ads? Or are these just bad ads?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18199" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-10T11:11:34.547" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T01:04:50.630" Title="Can someone explain the Acura &quot;I sell cars, you sell you&quot; ads?" Tags="|comedians-in-cars|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29842" CreationDate="2015-01-17T05:25:03.757" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched the movie. I'm pretty sure what you are seeing is two different scopes - one from the insurgent (looking at the wall) and on from Kyle's rifle. The view changes back and forth between them, showing that the insurgent Mustafa has targeted another US soldier and is about to fire, then alternately showing Kyle's rifle aimed at Mustafa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mustafa's scope reticle has something that looks like a red carat '^' mark, while Kyle's rifle had the more traditional &quot;crosshairs&quot; reticle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T05:25:03.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30129" CreationDate="2015-01-17T06:25:07.550" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/qa-how-jerry-seinfeld-wrote-his-ideal-salesman-acuras-new-ads-158686&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;AdWeek.com article &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Q&amp;amp;A: How Jerry Seinfeld Wrote His Ideal Salesman Into Acura's New Ads&lt;/strong&gt; 'The kind of guy I would like to sell me a car' &quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jerry Seinfeld's last set of Acura ads took the automaker to some&#xA;  truly odd places, like an emergency room plagued by putrid potato&#xA;  salad and a 1960s-era rocket launchpad. Now he's taking the brand&#xA;  somewhere quite a bit different: a car dealership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Seinfeld has once again written the Acura ads that will bookened his&#xA;  hit video series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, on Crackle...we&#xA;  get a fast-talking, confident car salesman who dispenses a constant&#xA;  string of seemingly unrelated words of wisdom while showing off the&#xA;  new TLX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We caught up with Seinfeld and Acura svp and general manager Michael&#xA;  Accavitti to get the story behind the new campaign and learn why this&#xA;  is the kind of guy Jerry wants selling him a car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AdFreak: So these ads are obviously a bit of a departure from the last campaign. Who is this guy? Is he a car salesman? Life coach? Stand-up comedian?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Jerry Seinfeld: He's a car salesman life coach.&#xA;  He's the guy who is the antidote to the usual car commercial, which is&#xA;  all about what this is going to do for your lifestyle, how this car is&#xA;  going to change your social standing, and I thought it worked for&#xA;  Acura and for my personal perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To me, what you want when you buy a car is a great car, and it's not&#xA;  about what the neighbors think, or how you'll look at yourself because&#xA;  you have it. So, that was kind of the idea of making this guy a guy&#xA;  who says, &quot;Let me tell you what's really important. Don't block the&#xA;  sidewalk with your extendo dog leash.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The line, &quot;I sell cars, you sell you&quot;—did that exist before the character?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Seinfeld: The whole thing kind of came together with that&#xA;  line. We thought, that's the kind of guy I would like to sell me a&#xA;  car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thesmalls.com/i-sell-cars-you-sell-you&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;thesmalls.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the end of 2013 Jerry Seinfeld created a series of car adverts to&#xA;  run as bookends to his award-winning , Comedians in Cars Getting&#xA;  Coffee. The writing may have resembled the elegance of the popular&#xA;  television show Mad Men yet were intended to parody the sort of&#xA;  advertising that an agency, such as the show’s Sterling Moss, may have&#xA;  produced during the fifties and sixties.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  For the second season of these adverts (see above), which air both before and&#xA;  after “Comedians…”, - Seinfeld’s vision was not to pastiche the&#xA;  adverts as he had previously done but instead to homage the old&#xA;  advertising tactic that “this car will transform your life!”.  For&#xA;  this he needed a character and so created Dan Granite, a fictional car&#xA;  salesman who offers prospective buyers his own motivational life&#xA;  advice as he attempts to sell them the Acura TLX – “I sell cars, you&#xA;  sell you”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="15418" LastEditDate="2015-01-17T06:31:23.670" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T06:31:23.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30129" CreationDate="2015-01-17T06:30:35.023" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ads are written by Jerry Seinfeld, and in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/qa-how-jerry-seinfeld-wrote-his-ideal-salesman-acuras-new-ads-158686&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; he explains what he was trying to achieve:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's a car salesman life coach. He's the guy who is the antidote to the usual car commercial, which is all about what this is going to do for your lifestyle, how this car is going to change your social standing, and I thought it worked for Acura and for my personal perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, what you want when you buy a car is a great car, and it's not about what the neighbors think, or how you'll look at yourself because you have it. So, that was kind of the idea of making this guy a guy who says, &amp;quot;Let me tell you what's really important. Don't block the sidewalk with your extendo dog leash.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ads just reflect Seinfeld's off-beat comedy. You think they are bad, but I think they work as well as other car commercials (which typically show very little of the actual car and instead sell a lifestyle or life outcome if you buy the car).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T06:30:35.023" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30138" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30414" CreationDate="2015-01-17T09:35:01.830" Score="19" ViewCount="12470" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just finished watching this mind-boggling time travel movie which seems to create some sort of ultimate time paradox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm curious. Can the timeline of this movie be written in chronological order? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't imagine that it could be, but even so, I've seen some pretty deep apparent time paradoxes explained on this site. I'd be interested to hear an explanation for how this timeline might make sense. Perhaps it's the intention of the movie; My mind's blown on this one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's almost as if Predestination introduces a situation where the answer to the infamous  &quot;which came first?&quot; question is &quot;neither&quot;. I find that infinitely confusing, albeit intriguing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone can explain the timeline of the movie in a way that makes sense, be my guest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15845" LastEditorUserId="15845" LastEditDate="2015-01-17T09:41:38.850" LastActivityDate="2019-03-04T11:26:09.047" Title="Can the timeline of Predestination be written in chronological order?" Tags="|time-travel|predestination|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30140" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30161" CreationDate="2015-01-17T14:59:44.587" Score="6" ViewCount="1341" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2015381/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/a&gt;, it appears that nearly every being in the universe is capable of speaking English. While I understand that many people prefer English over made-up languages with subtitles, I feel like there should be some explanation (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_races_and_species_in_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Babel_fish&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Babel fish&lt;/a&gt; in the Hitchhiker's Guide). Is there reasoning beyond that's-how-the-comics-did-it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are only a few instances that I can come up with where beings spoke anything other than English (e.g. Groot, Nebula shouting orders to the Sakaaran soldiers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6810" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-19T08:44:21.973" LastActivityDate="2015-09-19T08:44:21.973" Title="Explanation for all beings to be able to speak English?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30144" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30145" CreationDate="2015-01-17T16:53:14.463" Score="-2" ViewCount="673" Body="&lt;p&gt;At time 47:48 of &lt;em&gt;12 Angry Men (1957)&lt;/em&gt; the guy in the hat says what I believe to be &quot;Voldemort please, eh?&quot;. Was this a reference to the character in Harry Potter? How could it be since the first book was released in 1997?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18210" LastEditorUserId="18210" LastEditDate="2015-01-17T17:06:32.107" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T17:16:55.360" Title="Is there a reference to Voldemort in 12 Angry Men?" Tags="|reference|harry-potter|12-angry-men|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30144" CreationDate="2015-01-17T17:11:35.423" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the lines you are mishearing are actually:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Juror #5&lt;/strong&gt;: Look, lawyers aren't infallible, you know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Juror #7&lt;/strong&gt;: Baltimore, please. Huh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is referring to near the start where he is asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Juror #7&lt;/strong&gt;: You a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Yankees&quot;&gt;Yankee&lt;/a&gt; fan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Juror #5&lt;/strong&gt;: No, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Orioles&quot;&gt;Baltimore&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Juror #7&lt;/strong&gt;: Baltimore? That's like being hit in the head with a crowbar once a day. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2015-01-17T17:16:55.360" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T17:16:55.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30148" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30149" CreationDate="2015-01-17T19:11:26.453" Score="4" ViewCount="897" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often used in horror movies, when the female victim answers the phone, jumping straight into conversation assuming it's their girlfriend, and it ends up being the killer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18213" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T19:46:24.280" Title="What's the name of the trope where a character answers the phone expecting someone and it's someone else?" Tags="|trope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30148" CreationDate="2015-01-17T19:46:24.280" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we go by TV tropes, this trope would be a variant of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilPhone&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Evil Phone&lt;/a&gt; trope. I would call it &lt;em&gt;The Reverse Evil Phone&lt;/em&gt;. In the &lt;em&gt;Evil Phone&lt;/em&gt; trope the character thinks it's the killer calling, but it ends up being someone else, which then guarantees the next call will be from the killer but the character think it's the first caller calling back. The scenario you describe would therefore be a &lt;em&gt;Reverse Evil Phone&lt;/em&gt; trope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T19:46:24.280" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27739" CreationDate="2015-01-17T19:48:41.753" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I eventually found out that it was done using an ordinary black powder exposion in slightly slow motion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T19:48:41.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30151" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30170" CreationDate="2015-01-17T19:55:34.430" Score="4" ViewCount="781" Body="&lt;p&gt;I loved American Sniper, but one thing that bugged me was that his spotter was always depicted as a lazy do-nothing. In the real world, snipers work as a two man team and the spotter is just as important as the shooter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not read the book, so I am wondering whether Kyle depicts himself in the book shooting solo and doing his own spotting while his spotter sat around doing nothing OR did the film-makers deliberately change that to emphasize the &quot;heroic&quot; aspect? In other words, did the film-makers not want to show a real spotter because they thought that would take away from the main character and make him seem less heroic if he was just half of a two-man team?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-17T22:10:13.130" LastActivityDate="2015-02-17T17:02:46.273" Title="How faithful is &quot;American Sniper&quot; to the book?" Tags="|book-adaptation|historical-accuracy|american-sniper|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36224" CreationDate="2015-01-17T22:43:06.323" Score="19" ViewCount="96504" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142688/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Ninth Gate&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; puts book dealer &lt;em&gt;Dean Corso&lt;/em&gt; on a hunt for proving the authenticity of a book supposedly co-authored by the devil himself. We eventually find out that there are three authentic books differing only slightly in the 9 engravings depicted in them and that those engravings done by Lucifer somehow form a riddle for contacting the devil and gaining whatever powers therefrom. This is also what &lt;em&gt;Boris Balkan&lt;/em&gt; tries to do at the end, without much success though. But at the end &lt;em&gt;Corso&lt;/em&gt; finds out that &lt;em&gt;Balkan&lt;/em&gt;'s 9th engraving was fake and the real one actually shows the mystery woman he had sex with when &lt;em&gt;Balkan&lt;/em&gt;'s plan went wrong and his castle burned down. When he revisits the castle the ending then implies that &lt;em&gt;Corso&lt;/em&gt; finally gains access to the &lt;em&gt;Ninth Gate&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7lrux.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7lruxl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing this relation between the last engraving and &lt;em&gt;Corso&lt;/em&gt;'s experiences, &lt;strong&gt;I wonder if the other 8 engravings are also related to specific events during the movie&lt;/strong&gt;, and thus mark milestone experiences on &lt;em&gt;Dean Corso&lt;/em&gt;'s way towards the &lt;em&gt;Ninth Gate&lt;/em&gt;. The only thing that comes to my mind, though, would be the death of his friend book dealer, hung upside down on a leg as depicted on one of the engravings. But are there more such similarities between the engravings and the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-08T14:13:54.933" LastActivityDate="2021-06-13T10:04:06.940" Title="In which way do the engravings represent Dean Corso's journey towards The Ninth Gate?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|the-ninth-gate|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5736" CreationDate="2015-01-17T23:14:47.867" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Major plot hole they didn't even need the gas they now had a working time circuit that they could place on the DeLorean that doc arrived &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18220" LastActivityDate="2015-01-17T23:14:47.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30140" CreationDate="2015-01-18T06:53:28.950" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Oliver_C mentioned, it's the translator chip in Peter Quill's neck. It can be thought that others have it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the following image we can see about the translator chip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/11KYb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;chip&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as we saw the film from &lt;strong&gt;Quill's point of view&lt;/strong&gt;, it allows us to understand everything in English as Quill would have understand everything he hears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the anomaly about some portions where Alien languages(e.g. Groot's) were heard can be explained with this. That translator chip simply doesn't support those languages or sentences etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a interesting discussion how Rocket understood Groot. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/2qrlo4/guardians_of_the_galaxy_the_universal_translator/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy - the universal translator which everybody has does not know Groot's language. Rocket's translator does.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rocket might have changed his translator's technology to understand Groot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastActivityDate="2015-01-18T06:53:28.950" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29946" CreationDate="2015-01-18T07:16:22.510" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was Henri who did that, and he did it because he wanted to die. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Patrick d'Assumcao played a character named Henri, not Eric. He was depressed and was suicidal. He purposely lured the killer into the woods because he wanted the killer to kill him. Henri tells Franck that it's better this way, or something to that effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18227" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2015-01-19T23:20:51.067" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T23:20:51.067" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28080" CreationDate="2015-01-18T15:21:45.247" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Tum kafir&quot; is not you traitor, tum kafir means you non believer basically in Islam kafir is non believer or basically an abuser of Islam .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18236" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-01-18T16:08:34.333" LastActivityDate="2015-01-18T16:08:34.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30151" CreationDate="2015-01-18T16:08:03.450" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seal team snipers dont operate with a spotter. Kyle states this in his book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18238" LastActivityDate="2015-01-18T16:08:03.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10918" CreationDate="2015-01-18T21:42:04.640" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title of the book refers to how Sheriff Bell comes to understand that he is no match for the current and irrepressible evil that the present world had to offer. Through Bell following Moss and Chigurh in hopes to save Moss and capture Chigurh, he must see every gory act of violence and evil that Chigurh leaves in his path. This is a hard and emotionally weakening experience for Bell, but it helps him come to the realization that evil cannot be controlled, and because of his age and experiences with the law, he is too old to understand the progressive nature of evil and all that it has to offer. He is indeed in &quot;No Country For Old Men&quot; because he cannot deal with or accept the evil the world offers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18245" LastActivityDate="2015-01-18T21:42:04.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23032" CreationDate="2015-01-18T22:30:27.757" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the train were to stop moving, then the movement forward could take place outside the train, i.e. people could exit in the back and walk to the front of the train, and try to revolt by breaking in (even if they could only survive outside for a few minutes). By keeping the train moving, the only way forward is the single passageway within the train, making it far simpler to maintain the social order and status quo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18247" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2020-07-19T15:51:42.310" LastActivityDate="2020-07-19T15:51:42.310" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30076" CreationDate="2015-01-19T00:41:07.787" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me there are often movies of the same title in the same year.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;keeps track of them with Roman numerals.  Like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Action Figures (2011/I)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Action Figures (2011/II)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18249" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T00:41:07.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2311" CreationDate="2015-01-19T11:30:39.007" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;its cause you couldn't hear David voice on the recording because of the head gear, so they had to dub it over and he wasn't about to do it, or that is what I was always lead to believe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/YSm9DDxQv8E?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18263" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T11:30:39.007" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30188" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-19T12:27:44.880" Score="7" ViewCount="3192" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is in regards to the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2397535/&quot;&gt;Predestination&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an amazing movie, beautiful extrapolation of the short story and brilliant execution. I wonder if there is a tiny little flaw:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jane would have had her first sexual experience with a man with funny scars all over his body. Later on when Jane becomes John and gets those exact funny scars, wouldn't that trigger a question in John's head - &quot;Wait, I've seen the same scars on that guy who once had sex with when I was Jane&quot;. However in the movie, John is very surprised to know that the one who ruined Jane's life was John himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could this have possibly been overlooked by the makers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-01-19T13:08:17.920" LastActivityDate="2019-09-25T15:05:12.570" Title="Possible flaw in Predestination (2014)" Tags="|plot-explanation|predestination|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26768" CreationDate="2015-01-19T15:33:19.737" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others have pointed out in the thread, the fact that she dances vigorously after injuring herself indicates that the wound couldn't have been severe.  Therefore, I think the conclusion's fade to white merely highlights the fact that Nina lost her mind (Portman's simplistic theory notwithstanding).  True, such a fade typically implies the tragic death of a character, but in this instance the tragedy is that Nina has gone insane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18266" LastActivityDate="2015-01-19T15:33:19.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30200" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-19T18:43:01.957" Score="9" ViewCount="3475" Body="&lt;p&gt;All throughout the movie &lt;em&gt;The Goonies&lt;/em&gt; a character will say something wrong and then say &quot;That's what I said!&quot; For example Data says &quot;bootie&quot; trap instead of &quot;boobie&quot; trap and then say's &quot;That's what I said!&quot; Mikey, Chunk, Mouth, and the mom all say it at least once in the movie. &#xA;I was just wondering what (if there's any) significance this line has to the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15252" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-19T18:47:18.840" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T00:44:21.353" Title="&quot;That's what I said!&quot;" Tags="|dialogue|the-goonies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30204" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30208" CreationDate="2015-01-19T20:49:40.237" Score="10" ViewCount="518" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has the character of Miss Moneypenny in the movies Skyfall, or the upcoming Spectre, been altered at all from its source material (the Ian Flemming novels)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16852" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-01-20T07:00:19.390" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T07:00:19.390" Title="Is Miss Moneypenny's character altered in the movies?" Tags="|character|book-adaptation|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30204" CreationDate="2015-01-20T00:04:12.837" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;She's very altered in the films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Miss Moneypenny, in the books, is the private secretary to M. She is completely dedicated to her work although she tends to mildly flirt with James Bond. She appears to harbour genuine affection for him too, although never states this As the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Moneypenny&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt; for her comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the novel Thunderball, Fleming wrote that she &quot;often dreamed&#xA;  hopelessly about Bond.&quot; However, she never explicitly voices these&#xA;  feelings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the books she's &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a big character. Bond actually has his own secretary, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_allies#Loelia_Ponsonby&quot;&gt;Loelia Ponsonby&lt;/a&gt; (who is also secretary for 008 and 0011). When she retires, Mary Goodnight becomes his new secretary (&lt;a href=&quot;http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Mary_Goodnight_%28Literary%29&quot;&gt;appearing in&lt;/a&gt; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice and The Man with The Golden Gun). In the final novel, her role is expanded and it is hinted they &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; have had a relationship (or affair of sorts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the prominence of Bond's secretaries, Miss Moneypenny is very much a background character, albeit one with affection for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;Skyfall&lt;/strong&gt;, Miss Moneypenny is obviously shown as a field agent for a time. This never happened in the books. Also, in the film &lt;strong&gt;Octopussy&lt;/strong&gt;, she is shown with an assistant, Penelope Smallbone. She warns her assistant about the dangers of falling in love with Bond - again, this never happened in the book. In the books she simply has no back story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for her appearance, if I recall Miss Moneypenny is never physically described in the novels. She simply makes an entrance as &quot;M's private secretary&quot;. However, given the fact the many possible candidates that the character was based on are young, white women, it's likely her ethnicity is a change from what was originally intended in the novels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a final note, if you are interested in Miss Moneypenny, there was a book released in 2005 (2008 in US) called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moneypenny_Diaries:_Guardian_Angel&quot;&gt;The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel&lt;/a&gt;. It's the first of a supposed trilogy of novels about Miss Moneypenny, written by Samantha Weinberg. They are officially licensed James Bond material, so in theory are a form of canon (although probably not as canon as Fleming's original work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T00:04:12.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30211" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-20T02:09:58.070" Score="8" ViewCount="1793" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Tootsie, they have a scene where the baby keeps turning it's head away as a spoon is brought close to it's mouth. Usually the only role for a baby in a movie is crying but this seems more complex so I don't know how it was done. Can someone suggest any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18280" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T14:35:46.453" LastActivityDate="2023-12-29T15:34:00.533" Title="How did they get the baby actor in Tootsie to repeatedly turn its head away from food?" Tags="|film-techniques|tootsie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23893" CreationDate="2015-01-20T09:02:44.383" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of reasons why they might choose to not to wear gloves when on a mission:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They would look more suspicious if caught (holding a screwdriver would look odd, but not quite as suspicious)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's not winter (which it generally isn't in the show), having gloves in you possession while going to your mission draws attention&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gloves would smudge existing fingerprints, such as on doorknobs, alerting forensics to the fact that someone wearing gloves was there&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I think there are definitely a few times when they might have benefitted from wearing gloves. I imagine they avoided those situations so that they could either show how clever Philip and Elizabeth are or to look more dramatic (pushing a door open with a screwdriver is far more interesting than slowly opening a door with an off-shot gloved hand).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12783" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T09:02:44.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1881" CreationDate="2015-01-20T15:21:54.500" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was always my opinion that Cobb is trying to convince mall that dreaming is real and life isn't so they can fully immerse themselves in the fact that dreaming is real. That's why Cobb breaks into her mind and makes the totem stop. But then he can't convince her to go under again because she thinks she's ask ray dreaming. So she kills herself to escape the &amp;quot;dream&amp;quot; and tries to blackmail Cobb into believing it also/give him no other choice. The tragedy being that they both did it out of love but that's what ended up killing Mal in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18287" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2020-10-02T19:32:48.290" LastActivityDate="2020-10-02T19:32:48.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30221" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-20T18:01:20.843" Score="3" ViewCount="441" Body="&lt;p&gt;Forgive me if I'm not getting all of the details exactly right, but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first two tours in &lt;em&gt;American Sniper&lt;/em&gt;, the soldiers traveled in armored tanks, moving slowly, flanked by 10-20 soldiers per tank, with multiple snipers watching and covering them.  They very slowly and deliberately made each move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the start of the third tour, the soldiers were traveling in a &quot;regular&quot; car, driving pretty casually just behind the car that the enemy was in.  The enemy knew they were following, and could turn around and start shooting at any time (and they did).  At one point, the notice some enemies up on top of a building and their reaction is along the lines of &quot;Oh hey, look, how about that?  There are some guys up there.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general it just seemed shocking to me that a military operation would take place with such a cavalier attitude.  I was completely confused about how closely they were following behind the enemy vehicle, completely in open site, in a vehicle which offered them little protection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this an accurate portrayal of war?  Were the soldiers being reckless in their pursuit?  If yes, why were they being reckless?  If not, why was this less reckless than it seemed (to me) to be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18289" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-20T18:54:01.433" LastActivityDate="2015-01-21T06:22:53.290" Title="At the start of the 3rd Tour why were the US soldiers more reckless than they were before?" Tags="|american-sniper|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30222" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30223" CreationDate="2015-01-20T18:27:11.387" Score="5" ViewCount="4858" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vaguely recall seeing a movie in the 80s (which I assume was made in the 80s) and can't find any information about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were two &quot;tank men&quot; - they had the torsos and heads of men, but with tank treads instead of legs/feet.  Almost like a centaur I guess, but with a tank bottom instead of a horse bottom. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bit like this &quot;Bonebreaker&quot; Marvel Comics character:  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PwsvF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If memory serves, one was blue and one was red.  There may have been more, but I think these were the two &quot;main&quot; ones.  I think one was good and one was bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the terrain in the film was fairly rugged - rocks, lakes, etc. - much of the movie took place in nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was also a scene in which an actress (possibly blonde) is wearing a white tank top, and removes it (with her back to the camera), possibly to bathe in a lake.  (Yes, this is what stuck in my ~10 year old mind, unsurprisingly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any help identifying the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18289" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-23T19:25:14.397" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T19:25:34.133" Title="80s sci-fi movie with &quot;tank men&quot;?" Tags="|science-fiction|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:31:56.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30222" CreationDate="2015-01-20T18:33:49.273" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminators&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Eliminators (1986)&lt;/a&gt; features a half-man, half-tank called Mandroid (real creative huh?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bsWj6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A former pilot rebels against his creator, teaming up with the&#xA;  scientist responsible for android technology, her pet robot Spot, a&#xA;  rough-and-tumble riverboat guide, and a martial arts warrior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The evil creator eventually converts himself to a cyborg, and his metal parts are red and gold. The scientist is a blonde in a black tank top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trailer (looks like the full film is on Youtube too):&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/WJgAeGUD2FU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-23T19:25:34.133" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T19:25:34.133" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28521" CreationDate="2015-01-20T22:08:19.637" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always known this genre as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yourdictionary.com/chop-socky&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopsocky&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;-Socky&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently the term was coined by &lt;em&gt;Variety&lt;/em&gt; magazine without carrying any connotations of poor quality or bad dubbing.  It just meant a film from the far east with a lot of choreographed kung-fu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when I was young the term was often used in a derogatory way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-01-20T22:21:47.447" LastActivityDate="2015-01-20T22:21:47.447" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17410" CreationDate="2015-01-21T02:07:46.117" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may be a conspiricist theory to some maybe most but im not necessarily one i just watch good shows or movies that intrigue me over and over to catch little clues that people who watch once overlook and see just the overall story unfold. Directors and writers are very smart, maybe out there, so to me there is more that meets the eye. The last scene in the Godfather part two is when Michael tells them he's enlisted in the army which everyone is unhappy with and it is at his father's birthday party. Perhaps everyone is upset with him and this has a reasoning in the entire part one and part two movies. Michael always seems to downgrade Tom towards the end of part one and the entire part two which seems to make Tom ask why and get angry. Tom has always been said to be off the streets so maybe I believe Tom could've been the culprit in the whole backstory of these movies. An example is when Michael visits Hyman Roth and his home in Miami Roth is watching the football game between the USC Trojans and the Notre Dame fighting Irish. Trojans are Roman in Italy versus the Irish which Tom is Irish, Italian versus Irish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18293" LastActivityDate="2015-01-21T02:07:46.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28405" CreationDate="2015-01-21T03:22:14.777" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Season 1's &quot;Revenge of the Rogues&quot; Barry moves back into the West house, both to keep Joe company after Iris moves out and because he says it's getting harder to conceal his comings and goings as the Flash from the neighbors at his apartment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1492" LastEditorUserId="1492" LastEditDate="2016-04-20T15:55:54.063" LastActivityDate="2016-04-20T15:55:54.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28424" CreationDate="2015-01-21T05:25:28.010" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I think happened was Hans saw the same board moments before.  When McClain asks for his name, Hans thinks for a moment and thinks of one of the names on the board he just saw.  Luckily John glanced at the same board too and probably thought, what are the chances, that out of the hundreds if not thousands of people who work in the building, that he actually was one of the few named on the board.  Also, I'm not sure, but he also might've been tipped off because the directory says Clay works on the 29th floor but the party was being held where all their offices were located - on the 30th floor.  Otherwise why would they put that part in the movie at all?  If he believed him it wouldn't matter if he said his name was Ron McDonald, not everybody in the building was listed on the board.  He could've even pretended he was a guest at the party and made up any name.  I think Hans was trying to be slick but McClain was too sharp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18296" LastActivityDate="2015-01-21T05:25:28.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16922" CreationDate="2015-01-21T06:16:56.617" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Teddy helps him kill the actual &quot;2nd man&quot; and he does in fact get his &quot;I did it&quot; tattoo before he od'd his wife on insulin (if this even happened since we know Teddy is not adverse to lying to Lenny). Maybe the tattoo is there when Natalie points to it. He's telling her he's going to kill the guy and she's saying &quot;what about this?&quot; but when he says maybe I'm saving it for after, because he doesn't WANT in to be there, she just shrugs it off as more craziness. It makes a lot of sense, because there are plenty of blank spots she could have pointed to so why that one, specifically? It doesn't make sense because I'm pretty sure the &quot;John G raped and murdered my wife&quot; tat is there when his wife is looking at the &quot;I did it&quot; tattoo... Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18297" LastActivityDate="2015-01-21T06:16:56.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30221" CreationDate="2015-01-21T06:22:53.290" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The story moves through the different tours that Chris Kyle made during the Iraq war. There might have been several operations during all those tours and it is not possible to show what happened in each and every operation and what was the attitude of soldiers in each and every mission. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am trying to say here is that there are several factors which vary from mission to mission for example &lt;strong&gt;strength to be used, risk involved, priority&lt;/strong&gt; etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So even during the third tour there might have been missions which were handled with a lot of force and which could be executed very carefully without taking much risk for example : looking for a hidden enemy in an area already secured by the US armed forces. Also there must have been missions which requires high risk taking like going into an area which has enemy's stronghold and executing a wanted person. So what might seem reckless, could actually be risk-taking i.e. you don't have the privilege be too cautious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also please note that the third tour is also supposed to &lt;strong&gt;demonstrate the mental and physical tiredness of the troops&lt;/strong&gt;, more so for likes of Chris Kyle who were continuously involved in the war for a long time. What was the third tour for Chris Kyle might have been first tour for many soldiers, but the story unfolds from Chris Kyle's point of view so we see a weary group of soldiers to emphasize how Chris Kyle must have been feeling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2015-01-21T06:22:53.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28785" CreationDate="2015-01-21T20:53:15.403" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Andrew Martin gives 3 excellent interpretations of the ending in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/27608/what-was-the-telekinesis-about-in-birdman/27617#27617&quot;&gt;his response to a question&lt;/a&gt; about the telekinesis in the movie. His most satisfying explanation of the ending (both to him and to me) is this one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the last moment of the play he actually kills himself with the gun (instead of merely wounding himself). This makes sense, as everything  after that is perfect - he gets a rave review for his performance, a  standing ovation and a heart-warming moment with Sam. In other words,  those are all hallucinations, including the end of the film - he's  really dead (or at least on his deathbed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't take credit for this answer, but I wanted people who find this question to see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T09:12:37.460" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5629" CreationDate="2015-01-21T22:07:52.260" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I'm pretty sure that's exactly what is implied, that &lt;strong&gt;his aunt abused him sexually&lt;/strong&gt;. That is implied in the way Charlie gets the flashback of her rubbing his leg when Sam does the same to him. The situation is the same as it is motivated by the same feelings and not just out of mere friendship. This is only a slight hint, so it may be a bit confusing up until then. But it is later reinforced when Charlie is in the hospital and  the doctor says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doctor:&lt;/strong&gt; You said some things about her in your sleep.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Charlie:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't care.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Doctor:&lt;/strong&gt; If you want to get better, you have to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And later it becomes pretty clear that there was something wrong with his aunt when he writes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There were some very bad days and some unexpected beautiful days. The worst day was the time my doctor told my mom and dad what Aunt Helen did to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now to the question why he still told Sam that his aunt was his favourite person. I think when he said that, he still believed that this is the very truth. Up until his actual suicide attempt after Sam shook up his memories, Charlie seemed to &lt;strong&gt;supress what his aunt did to him&lt;/strong&gt; and was rather confused about his feelings for her. He only knew that he was a little boy and feeled a very strong emotional connection to his aunt, even if he doesn't completely know where this connection came from exactly or to which level it goes. I think &lt;strong&gt;at this point his aunt really still was his &quot;favourite person&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It isn't until those strange memories about his aunt become clearer that he starts to realize the whole extent of his relationship to her and that this actually wasn't a good thing. And only then his love for her starts to change into maybe even wishing her dead. Though, I think even then he still is to a large degree &lt;strong&gt;confused about what to feel&lt;/strong&gt;. He probably doesn't only feel guilty about her death (as she was about to fetch him his present when she died), but also about what he did (ingoring that he was only a victim to her) and also for maybe partly wishing her dead, knowing that it was wrong what she did but also not able to stop his feelings for her from one second to the other even though they're stained now. So &lt;strong&gt;he feels guilty for pretty much everything&lt;/strong&gt;, what she did, what he did, that she died, that he maybe somehow wished her dead, that he should have wished her dead but couldn't and still can't, ... And this confusion and guilt is likely also the reason for his suicide attempt afterall. To say the least, his feelings are &lt;em&gt;difficult&lt;/em&gt; at this moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to his best friend killing himself, that isn't alluded to much and doesn't seem related to the matter of his aunt at all. It is another aspect of his troubled past, and maybe also an aspect to stress his own difficult mental state and the possible future he might have been looking toward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-11T13:14:43.787" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T13:14:43.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12512" CreationDate="2015-01-22T01:04:06.470" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;TL/DR: &lt;strong&gt;The raspy voice Cole hears without seeing its speaker is an audio hallucination akin to a voice heard by a schizophrenia sufferer. Louie, the toothless time traveler, is a real person -- and after meeting Louie, Cole -- in a state of extreme mental fatigue -- retroactively associates the raspy voice with Louie.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;FULL ANSWER: The raspy voice Cole hears without seeing its speaker is an audio hallucination akin to the voices heard by schizophrenia sufferers, who have described the voices as &quot;spoken by an external, commanding authority&quot; (quote from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/opinion/luhrmann-the-violence-in-our-heads.html&quot;&gt;New York Times article about schizophrenia&lt;/a&gt;). Note below that in all three scenes with the raspy voice, &lt;em&gt;the voice seems exactly like an external, commanding authority:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;first audio hallucination: when Cole has returned to 2025 after his first time mission&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;How was it?  Good drugs?  Lotsa pussy?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Did you find out the big info? Army of the Twelve Monkeys? Where the virus was prior to mutation?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;second audio hallucination: when Cole has returned to 2025 after his second time mission&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;You sure fucked up, Bob!&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Why would I pull out my teeth, Bob? They don't like that. That's a no-no.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;You have to be smart to get what you want... to be topside, breathe the air... to be with her... Isn't that what you want?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;third audio hallucination: when Cole is in the airport bathroom&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;You're thinking I don't exist except in your head.  I can see that point of view.  But you could still talk to me, couldn't you? Carry on a decent conversation?&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Point of fact -- you don't belong here. It's not permitted to let you stay.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leaves the scene where the voice appears to come from the homeless man Louie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Louie: &quot;They got that tracking device on you... In the tooth, Bob! Right? But&#xA;I fooled 'em, old buddy!&quot; (reveals he has no teeth)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe Louie is telling the truth: he is a time traveller who has avoided returning to the future by removing his teeth. At the same time, &lt;em&gt;Louie's use of &quot;Bob&quot; and the way he seems to sound like the raspy voice is explained earlier by Railly when Cole tells her she is in his dream&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;James Cole:&#xA;&quot;I never knew it was you before.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kathryn Railly: It wasn't me before, James.  It's become me now because of...what's&#xA;    happening.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Railly was wrong then -- it was her in Cole's dream. But the phenomenon she describes does occur when &lt;em&gt;after meeting Louie, Cole -- in a state of extreme mental fatigue -- retroactively associates the raspy voice with Louie.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2015-01-25T03:57:57.083" LastActivityDate="2015-01-25T03:57:57.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29982" CreationDate="2015-01-22T10:40:21.777" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110715/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Official Denial&lt;/a&gt; from 1994:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A man who claims to have been abducted by aliens is also abducted by a top secret government agency, the Majestic Group, who want him to attempt to communicate with the only surviving alien from a UFO shot down by the Air Force. Telepathically, the alien tells him it must be returned to its ship, where it will reveal a secret vital to the future of the planet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've described the movie well: all the details are there. The alien (who's a classic grey in a silver suit) says he'll dream of trees before he dies. The protagonist dresses like the alien and also shaves his head to communicate with him. Here's a clip from the film, where you can see one of the sessions around 0:55:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/24gejbHpQbg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-01-22T12:54:21.987" LastActivityDate="2015-01-22T12:54:21.987" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30266" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-22T20:47:20.447" Score="2" ViewCount="1311" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Goldbergs&quot; is a comedy set in the 1980s, originally released in September 2013. If the main character, Adam, is supposed to be 11 years old, it doesn't make sense that he saw Star Wars &quot;Return of the Jedi&quot; in 1983, and six years later in 1989, he still looked the same, instead of 17, he was still 11. (It is 1989 according to Barry's fake ID making him &quot;25 years old&quot; saying he was born in 1964). Anyway, why wouldn't have Adam aged much? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="Billy the Kid" LastEditorUserId="8842" LastEditDate="2015-01-23T01:24:47.497" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T03:28:19.660" Title="How old is Adam in The Goldbergs? How does this reconcile with watching Star Wars?" Tags="|the-goldbergs|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27603" CreationDate="2015-01-22T21:25:14.183" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to agree with Andrew Martin's answer, and to offer my own interpretation of the quirky sound mix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voices are often accompanied by music, for example a flute synthesizer pad held on C5 kind of range, same as a female singing range... the music is often as loud or louder than the voice, to make it more emotive, and consequently it less intelligible, because the high frequencies of any voice clash with C5 chord, the ear can't isolate the voice as well. So you have to listen harder, more intensely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The voices aren't mixed in a balanced way, as in with a flat sound spectrum. they have been heavily biased towards one frequency or other, which means that the voice's dynamic range is distorted, some dialogues are a bit tinny. You can hear spikes in the voice that emphasize the SSS, TSCH, and TSS sounds, a little bit, and mask some of the lower frequency vowels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the dialogue is in a fairly low voice, a casual half whisper, rather than a full throated voice, which doesn't help for clarity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most cinema's use particular care to isolate the vocal frequency spectrum from the other sounds, FX, Music, to keep it very clear. Interstellar is more reminiscent of unmixed and amateur sound mixing, and also masterfully mixed for a characterful tone and increased tension, like a suspense movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18341" LastActivityDate="2015-01-22T21:25:14.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27776" CreationDate="2015-01-22T21:41:38.003" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Cooper Senior Left on his journey, there were no Space Stations orbiting Saturn, with grass and houses in them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it's announced as a space station orbiting Saturn, the camera shows a green biosphere with houses curved with inverse gravity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has the purpose of placing the spectator in wonder. A space station orbiting Saturn would be a fun destination for you and me, wonderful indeed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has the purpose of revealing to the watcher that humans have built space stations with weird gravity and biospheres, thanks to coopers message about gravity's quantum laws, and so make him seem heroic, which is a positive turn for the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nolan could have also chosen Jupiter, Pluto, Neptune, The wormhole's distance from the sun isn't precisely given, so it's assumed that the space station is a Living space rather than a traveling craft on it's way to outer space. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the positions of planets change, you can use any of them to sling shot your way into deep space. however sling shot use of planets is not necessary if you have control of gravity, because gravity control enables faster acceleration than sling shot around planets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are inviting his daughter to Saturn, which contradicts that they had no intention of voyaging soon to a wormhole with the cooper space station.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18341" LastActivityDate="2015-01-22T21:41:38.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27609" CreationDate="2015-01-22T21:51:21.110" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Murph's equation enables creation of wormholes, control of atmosphere around space objects (creation of mini planets with atmosphere) , creation of inverse gravity space station as seen at end of film, lifting of huge mass from the earth, i.e. cheap space travel without fuel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concept of finding quantum info inside a black hole without being having yet the technology to control earth's climate, is science nonsense, i figure that much is obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18341" LastActivityDate="2015-01-22T21:51:21.110" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30270" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30272" CreationDate="2015-01-22T22:18:59.813" Score="4" ViewCount="1010" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't recall him going there before, but I could be wrong. He bursts in to save Xander uninvited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1180" LastActivityDate="2015-01-22T22:27:55.713" Title="In the Buffy episode Consequences, how did Angel get into Faith's apartment?" Tags="|buffy-the-vampire-slayer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30271" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30273" CreationDate="2015-01-22T22:26:11.443" Score="5" ViewCount="2250" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a movie about some friends, who are going somewhere in a car. Then they get into a great fog, and they couldn't go further, so they stop. Then the film has a flashback like thing about the friends previous life. In this, one of the guys was a rich person, who had two sons, and raised one of them in poorness and suffering, and the other one in richness and with great attention. And as far as I remember, the rich boy killed his father. Then they go back to the present time, and the fog disappears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: I think there were three of them in the car. One man, who drove the car, his girlfriend, and an other guy who was their friend. At one point, the driver guy gets out, and put something burning into the end of the chain, and waved that over his head, I think he tried to get rid of the fog this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18342" LastEditorUserId="18342" LastEditDate="2015-01-22T22:50:54.267" LastActivityDate="2015-01-22T23:12:25.467" Title="Horror movie about fog" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:32:13.417" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30270" CreationDate="2015-01-22T22:27:55.713" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Consequences&quot;, Faith was living in a motel room, not an apartment. As such, it was not a private residence- rather it qualifies as a public place which vampires don't need invitation for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some further info on &lt;a href=&quot;http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Vampire#Invitations&quot;&gt;vampire invitations&lt;/a&gt; in Buffy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastActivityDate="2015-01-22T22:27:55.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30271" CreationDate="2015-01-22T23:12:25.467" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276140/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fogbound&lt;/a&gt; from 2002 with Luke Perry. From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/apr/04/artsfeatures4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;online review&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A married couple, Ann (Orla Brady) and Leo (Ben Daniels) are driving across the French Alps in the company of a friend, Bob - played by former teen legend Luke Perry - with whom there is unexplained sexual tension. Their car is marooned in fog; there is nothing for it but to wait, and their uneasy banter is interspersed with stylised flashbacks, giving clues not merely to their present situation but to Leo's psychotic state. Because Leo has a terrible guilty secret, inducing a delusional multiple personality disorder which has made him believe that in a past life he was a duke in revolutionary France - and there are &quot;flashbacks&quot; to this existence, too, in full period costume!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vW0LA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-01-22T23:12:25.467" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28403" CreationDate="2015-01-22T23:51:10.817" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jane/John as the Barkeep, kills the Fizzle Bomber( his much older self). After doing so he starts to release that all the events are predestined and the Fizzle Bomber was a necessary evil. Mr. Robertson believed this to be so as well ( before Barkerp would). Mr Robertson is the 10-15 year older self of J/J/B. He paved the way for the Barkeep to stay on the right course of action, like the Barkeep did for John. Mr. Robertson then ages into the Fizzle Bomber when all the jumping back in time catches up with him and he starts to making the meticulous newspaper clippings scrapbook in hopes of changing the Barkeep's mind. Believing that it would give the Jane and John couple another chance to be together, as they are to different/superior to be with anyone else, he wants no other outcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18343" LastActivityDate="2015-01-22T23:51:10.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30279" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30292" CreationDate="2015-01-23T03:18:08.003" Score="1" ViewCount="652" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am curious how Gary Barber, the well-known moneyman and producer for films such as &quot;True Romance&quot;, &quot;Skyfall&quot; and &quot;The Hobbit&quot;, worked his way up from being an accountant in South Africa. It seems that he moved to America and then all of sudden started financing multi-million dollar movies. Where did his original bankroll come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T15:09:32.903" Title="How did Gary Barber work his way up?" Tags="|producer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30266" CreationDate="2015-01-23T03:28:19.660" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show takes place in the fictional time period of 1980something where everything from Jan 1 1980 - Dec 31 1989 is occurring basically at the same time. The characters do not necessarily age until they need to. Events are being retold by the unreliable narrator - adult Adam. Everything could have just happened or happened 5 years prior by our time but still occur on the same day in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18347" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T03:28:19.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28403" CreationDate="2015-01-23T05:04:28.670" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the series of face/personality change in the movie, we have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jane -&gt; John (sex change)&#xA;John -&gt; Barkeep (face grafting)&#xA;Barkeep -&gt; Fizzle Bomber (delusional from all the time traveling)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fizzle bomber is shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr. Robertson has a different face from the Fizzle bomber, hence if the transformation has to have happened from the Barkeep/Fizzle Bomber's face to Mr. Robertson's face, it needs to have happened after the Fizzle Bomber gets shot. One of the possibilities is that the Fizzle Bomber is not dead and is rescued to have another face graft. Only then can Mr.Roberston be the same person as Jane, John, Barkeep and the Fizzle Bomber.&#xA;There is really no suggestion of this in the movie however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a illustration of the timeline, there are some interesting comments with respect to this theroy on Mr.Robertson:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/predestination-2014-movie-plot-ending-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Predestination TimeLoop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2019-01-24T08:29:02.450" LastActivityDate="2019-01-24T08:29:02.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23333" CreationDate="2015-01-23T05:41:13.313" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would guess about two years. Six years seems a little bit too long, in my opinion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to wikipedia, there is only 90 days between the actors' birthdays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18351" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T05:41:13.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16416" CreationDate="2015-01-23T07:02:10.150" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes Matt, common language. Aninqaaq says his howling &lt;em&gt;female&lt;/em&gt; dog is in pain, he implies that both he and the dog have accepted the dog must die. Both Astronaut Stone and the dog howl together, neither knowing the other is going to die, but speak the same forlorn howl. As stated above, Stone is comforted to be a part of life on earth even for a brief while. I think the lullaby facilitates Stone's death-wish but the baby cry foreshadows another rebirth for Ryan Stone.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18354" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T07:02:10.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24685" CreationDate="2015-01-23T08:50:57.020" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the causal trail, if the first set of Abe and Aaron don't create the time machine, that should ideally reset the timeline right to the beginning. There would never be a successful time machine created. Abe and Aaron would give up and move on to other projects. None of the skewed timelines would exist and none of the other Abes and Aarons would exist.&#xA;Basically a complete reset, but guess Abe's not very successful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a Timeline wise explanation of the sequence of events in the movie, makes one appreciate the movie more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://digestivepyrotechnics.blogspot.com/2015/01/primer-plot-explained.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Primer Timeline-wise Explanation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T08:50:57.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30290" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-01-23T11:54:43.257" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-01-23T11:54:43.257" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T11:54:43.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30291" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-01-23T11:54:43.257" Score="0" Body="Fictional land created by J.R.R.Tolkein.  The setting for The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-01-23T12:25:59.027" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T12:25:59.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30279" CreationDate="2015-01-23T14:07:04.960" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mgm.com/#/about/mgm-today&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;biography at MGM&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr. Barber received his undergraduate and post graduate degrees from&#xA;the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. Earlier in his&#xA;career, he practiced as a Chartered Accountant and Certified Public&#xA;Accountant in both South Africa and the USA with Price Waterhouse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr. Barber has produced numerous feature films and has run business&#xA;entities in feature film production, foreign distribution, music and&#xA;exhibition. From 1989 to 1997, Mr. Barber was with Morgan Creek and&#xA;served as Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to this,&#xA;Mr. Barber served as President of Vestron International Group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from his &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Barber&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Barber was educated at King David School, Linksfield in Johannesburg,&#xA;South Africa. He then received an Accounting degree from the&#xA;University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Afterwards he&#xA;worked as a Chartered Accountant and Certified Public Accountant in&#xA;South Africa and the United States, both with Price Waterhouse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1982 the horse racing fan won a trip to the Arlington Million race&#xA;in Illinois. In the same year he moved to the States, where his&#xA;brother Cecil Barber was living since 1979. In the mid 1980s Barber&#xA;became an US citizen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1998 he and Roger Birnbaum foundet&#xA;Spyglass Entertainment in Los Angeles. His highest grossing film as&#xA;producer was The Tourist, which grossed close to US$280 million at the&#xA;worldwide box office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it looks to me as if he worked his way up through Price Waterhouse, then went over to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestron_Pictures&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Vestron&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Creek_Productions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Morgan Creek&lt;/a&gt; where he likely made quite a few film connections.  At this point he's got the contacts and is pulling a COO's salary/bonus, so he takes a chance on co-founding &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass_Entertainment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spyglass Entertainment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T14:07:04.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13829" CreationDate="2015-01-23T21:37:37.127" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe Virgil ended up in the asylum a broken man and was reflecting on what happened. to him leading up to his hospitalization!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18361" LastActivityDate="2015-01-23T21:37:37.127" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30302" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44259" CreationDate="2015-01-23T22:27:20.993" Score="4" ViewCount="295" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2188671&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bates Motel (2013)&lt;/a&gt;, Keith Summers, Zack Shelby, and Jake Abernathy made asian girls to slaves and sold them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How exactly was this organized?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, what was the responsibility of each members? How did they get the girls? With that additional money, why did Keith Summers have to sell the motel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastActivityDate="2015-12-03T08:49:34.443" Title="How exactly did Summers, Shelby, Abernathy organize their slavery empire?" Tags="|plot-explanation|bates-motel|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30304" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43940" CreationDate="2015-01-23T22:35:50.123" Score="2" ViewCount="902" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2188671&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bates Motel (2013)&lt;/a&gt;, sheriff Alex Romero retrieved the money from Shelby's garage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did he know about it?&lt;/strong&gt; Was he involved in their slavery empire? If yes, how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T08:35:17.083" Title="S01E10: How did Romero know about the money?" Tags="|plot-explanation|bates-motel|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30309" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30386" CreationDate="2015-01-24T01:58:29.220" Score="2" ViewCount="48802" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry, I didn't get what really happened to the guys in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2012011/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scenic Route&lt;/a&gt;. Did they die, dream or really escape from the desert?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7401" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-24T12:49:24.033" LastActivityDate="2016-08-10T00:55:10.167" Title="What exactly happened to the guys in Scenic Route movie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|scenic-route|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30310" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-24T02:56:45.447" Score="7" ViewCount="8106" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was told that Jesse was originally supposed to die in the 1st season of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, but was instead changed to No Doze. How was he supposed to die? Bludgeoned by Tuco, perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18367" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-24T12:51:11.387" LastActivityDate="2015-01-24T12:51:11.387" Title="How was Jesse Pinkman originally supposed to die in season one?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30310" CreationDate="2015-01-24T03:25:18.637" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was supposed to die in a botched drug deal, which would lead to Walt into a guilt trip. You can find more info in this interview with Creator and Executive Producer Vince Gilligan on YouTube:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/YqnoJ10HqP0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-01-24T03:25:18.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21616" CreationDate="2015-01-24T14:36:27.267" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with @JohnSmithOptional's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only source I could site (embarrassingly) is Neil Strauss' &lt;em&gt;The Game&lt;/em&gt; where the author is taught by Steve P. a PUA guru specializing in Hypnotism. They practice something they call Anamchara, staring into each others right eye, and this soul gazing creates a deep bond.&#xA;Anamchara being the Gaelic meaning for friend of the Soul, or more literally Soul Friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18372" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2015-01-24T16:47:40.370" LastActivityDate="2015-01-24T16:47:40.370" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18897" CreationDate="2015-01-24T21:01:26.137" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the hairnet that Sansa wears is coated in amethysts which are traditionally purple. It is the gem that causes the strife. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18380" LastActivityDate="2015-01-24T21:01:26.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30329" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30405" CreationDate="2015-01-25T01:34:47.777" Score="4" ViewCount="15609" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not quite sure how to form this question, but basically I've watched a lot of shows that record crimes happening. These are usually the series about narcotics, violence, etc. The shows film crimes taking progress such as drug sales and consumption, prostitution, robberies, gang activity, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it possible for these shows to go on the air and what legalities do they face in doing so? California has a law against this sort of thing which is why I ask. I don't know about federal or other states though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The statute in question is California Penal Code 182.5. The code makes&#xA;  it a felony for anyone to participate in a criminal street gang, have&#xA;  knowledge that a street gang has engaged in criminal activity, or&#xA;  benefit from that activity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do they film a particular individual committing a crime, but not incriminate that individual? Do they get special permission to film these activities?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update: I'm referring to non-fiction shows such as Drugs Inc. Not shows like CSI Miami.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2015-01-25T19:27:42.640" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T00:25:11.173" Title="Legalities of shows recording crime?" Tags="|production|crime|legal|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30332" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30744" CreationDate="2015-01-25T03:38:26.050" Score="24" ViewCount="44696" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;The Imitation Game&lt;/em&gt;, Alan Turing has a Eureka moment when he learns from a woman that one particular German begins every message that he sends out with the term &quot;CILLY&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I understand, the significant of this moment is that Turing realizes that every coded message sent by the Germans contains several words that appear in many messages; namely &quot;weather&quot; in some, and &quot;Heil Hitler&quot; in surely almost all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why does this one German person that this woman is listening in on through a radio tower send out every message by beginning with the word &quot;CILLY&quot;? And the messages that he sends out all coded in Enigma, I presume? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And also, immediately after, Turing remarks that the Germans are instructed to use five random letters at the start of every message. I guess this is intended to make it harder to crack Enigma?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5579" LastActivityDate="2021-07-22T15:27:12.563" Title="Why does the term &quot;CILLY&quot; begin at the start of every message in &quot;The Imitation Game&quot;?" Tags="|the-imitation-game|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30333" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31961" CreationDate="2015-01-25T04:51:14.373" Score="0" ViewCount="25989" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Guardians of the Galaxy, they make many references to &quot;units&quot;, which is their currency. For example, Quill's bounty was 30,000 units and the fee to recover the orb was worth 4,000,000 units. But how much is one unit worth? How many units for say, a cheeseburger?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many units is equal to one U.S. Dollar?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16406" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-15T16:04:39.560" LastActivityDate="2018-05-17T09:29:20.917" Title="Value of Currency in Guardians of the Galaxy" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30332" CreationDate="2015-01-25T10:17:34.253" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The story about every message beginning with Cilly is a simple one - it's suspected it's the name of the German operator's girlfriend. This is the relevant exchange from the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Turing&lt;/strong&gt;: Wh-Why do you think&#xA;  your German counterpart has a girlfriend?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Helen&lt;/strong&gt;: It's just&#xA;  a stupid joke; don't worry.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Turing&lt;/strong&gt;: No, no, no, no. Tell me.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Helen&lt;/strong&gt;: Well, each of his messages begins with the same five letters: C-I-L-L-Y. So I suspect that Cilly must be the name&#xA;  of his amore.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Turing&lt;/strong&gt;: But that's impossible. The Germans are instructed to use five random letters at the start of every message.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Helen&lt;/strong&gt;: Well, this bloke doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using this knowledge, the film depicts Turing having a eureka moment as he realises his machine doesn't have to search through &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; possible setting - instead, it can search for words that they &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; will be in the message. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take the operator sending out the messages beginning with Cilly. Sure, they're still encrypted. But Turing has a device that cracks encryption. Rather than making it depict every possible logical combination of letters, he would be able to set it so that only messages that had the first five letters of 'Cilly' were display.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Turing and the group realise that the 6AM weather reports almost always sign off with 'Heil Hitler'. Using this knowledge, they are able to only scan messages where the machine produces that output at the end of the message, allowing them to decode the messages much more quickly (the film depicts it in a matter of minutes). This means they've got the ability to crack the code long before it is changed daily - i.e. success!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your final comment - yes, that was intended to make the code much, much harder to crack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2015-01-25T10:17:34.253" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30338" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="117586" CreationDate="2015-01-25T11:38:21.930" Score="15" ViewCount="25576" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of most major American films, there's a number. I believe current films are running in the high 40,000s. From a little bit of research, &lt;a href=&quot;http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=51432&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;when the MPAA rates a film, they give it a unique number&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've found an &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20201202230803/http://members.chello.nl/%7Ea.degreef/Filmnummers.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;old list that seems to go up to 2010&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm wondering if there's an official list online somewhere that shows every number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been wondering for a while now if there'd be any friendly rivalry to grab number 50,000, which must be out soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="366" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-02-08T05:52:51.403" LastActivityDate="2024-02-08T05:52:51.403" Title="Is there a list of MPAA film numbers?" Tags="|content-rating|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30338" CreationDate="2015-01-25T15:12:58.427" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;To my understanding, no one has &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; compiled a list of every single film they've stuck the number on. I'm sure, buried in a database somewhere, the MPAA knows, but it doesn't appear to have been released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The nearest I'm aware of is &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20160306122441/http://fanedit.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-8598.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this very eager fan&lt;/a&gt; who decided to research and list every film he could. It's still a work in progress, but all the numbers he has thus far can be found here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bxos_HwWGb9eVmx6RUJVMTQ5ZWs&amp;amp;usp=sharing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;50,000 movie challenge&lt;/a&gt; (link now dead).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2021-05-22T12:41:22.737" LastActivityDate="2021-05-22T12:41:22.737" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30341" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31154" CreationDate="2015-01-25T17:54:18.870" Score="8" ViewCount="5004" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 12, episode &lt;em&gt;Here I come, pants&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Walden: &quot;We'll gonna lose everything we worked for over one stupid mistake.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alan: &quot;It's my chiropractic license all over again.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't remember a recent episode, in which Alan's work was mentioned or a situation that led to the loss of his chiropractic license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there anything mentioned earlier?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7990" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2015-02-16T20:12:03.577" LastActivityDate="2018-08-10T12:03:35.727" Title="How did Alan lose his chiropractic license?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|two-and-a-half-men|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15643" CreationDate="2015-01-25T20:19:06.647" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;He als says when linus is on the phone with his dad in oceans 13 that he has te best cover for this buissines:s so he probably has a good job or something&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18397" LastActivityDate="2015-01-25T20:19:06.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30353" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30355" CreationDate="2015-01-25T23:00:51.143" Score="18" ViewCount="112233" Body="&lt;p&gt;The shows Arrow and The Flash take place in Starling City and nearby(?) Central City. My understanding (assumption) is that both shows are filmed in Vancouver, although each show has city shots depicting the (fictional) city where the show takes place. Arrow uses Boston for cityscape shots (no official citation, but I live in Boston and recognize the shots). What city is shown in the Flash's cityscape shots?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18402" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-22T12:01:45.160" LastActivityDate="2019-06-19T18:34:42.670" Title="What city is used for cityscape shots in The Flash?" Tags="|arrowverse|the-flash|film-location|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30353" CreationDate="2015-01-25T23:19:05.293" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Majority of the externals and locations for the show are filmed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2014/05/15/new-extended-trailer-for-cws-the-flash&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Portland, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; (particularly the cityscapes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The studios in which CW films both &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt; are based in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/legendsareborn/news/?a=93953&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Vancouver&lt;/a&gt;, and some minor externals are filmed there as well (anything casual and unimpressive; not to sleight Vancouver, at all!). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/Starling_City&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Both shows&lt;/a&gt; actually construct their cityscapes from a number of stock-footage clips from cities around the world, including Houston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Frankfurt (Germany) and Tokyo (Japan). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This site has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ksitetv.com/forums/showthread.php?167647-Where-is-Starling-City&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;growing list&lt;/a&gt; of locations that have been 'spotted' by residents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DC/WB/CW have a lot of flexibility in creating fictional cities, and as such they can insert establishing shots that are fit for purpose. If they require a scene set in Chinatown, for example, they could simply use stock footage from a street in any number of Chinatowns across the world, or even China itself. They are not spatially or geographically bound to any sort of fidelity... so they can use &lt;em&gt;whatever they have available/what they desire.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="18402" LastEditDate="2019-06-19T18:34:42.670" LastActivityDate="2019-06-19T18:34:42.670" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30358" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30359" CreationDate="2015-01-25T23:57:14.753" Score="24" ViewCount="48538" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;The Big Lebowski&quot;, the main character, the Dude, tries, and fails, to deliver a quote from Lenin:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's like Lenin said, you look for the person who will benefit... And, uh... You know, you'll, uh... You know what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the correct Lenin quote that he thinks of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="442" LastEditorUserId="442" LastEditDate="2015-01-26T15:13:22.753" LastActivityDate="2017-04-10T00:48:47.980" Title="What is the correct, full Lenin quote that the Dude fails to deliver?" Tags="|coen-brothers|the-big-lebowski|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30358" CreationDate="2015-01-26T00:10:55.340" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;He probably meant &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/apr/11.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Lenin text&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a Latin tag, &lt;em&gt;cui prodest?&lt;/em&gt; Meaning, &lt;strong&gt;“who stands to gain?”&lt;/strong&gt; When it is not immediately apparent which political or social groups, forces or alignments advocate certain proposals, measures, etc., one should always ask: “Who stands to gain?” [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In politics it is not so important who directly advocates particular views. What is important is who stands to gain from these views, proposals, measures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The phrase &lt;em&gt;cui prodest \ cui bono&lt;/em&gt; (&amp;quot;To whose benefit?&amp;quot;) was famously used by Cicero, who attributed it to Lucius Cassius. More about the phrase can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T00:23:37.917" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="488" CreationDate="2015-01-26T03:24:54.827" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;He mentioned rosebud three times... The only three times he didn't get what he wanted. After being torn from his mother, he had the original rosebud moment. He swore he would be in control of his actions from then on, and was always in control of what happened from then on, even in the world. Thus the newspaper. Even when blackmailed by the boss, he made his own choice, and when he finished Leland's article, it was his own free will. Then, when Susan left him it was, as Susan mentioned, the first thing she had done that he hadn't planned. He went into a frenzy and uttered rosebud, because he had failed to follow his promise to be in control. Finally, when death took him, he wasn't ready to die, and uttered rosebud again. Like his palace Xanadu, his life was always being built (promises, declaration of principles), but never finished. And then it ended. His story is of a man who always needed to be in control. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18415" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-29T19:23:52.143" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T19:23:52.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30365" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-26T03:55:25.617" Score="2" ViewCount="468" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nearing the end of Luc's sci-fi film Lucy, she says, &quot;I'll download my knowledge...&quot;. Then, at the very end, her knowledge is saved to a hard drive. My question is, what format would it be in, and how could it possibly be read by a computer so lacking in computing power compared to her &quot;computer form&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11534" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T05:49:49.123" Title="What format would Lucy's knowledge be saved as?" Tags="|plot-explanation|science-fiction|lucy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30368" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-26T04:55:30.167" Score="5" ViewCount="97" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for this movie, but I barely remember it. It seemed to be from the 2000's and I'm not sure but I think it wasn't in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a very cute film, about an ageing Soviet composer (maybe Russian? Or German? Don't remember) that had written some ballet or orchestral piece that never got to be played, or maybe he was censored back in the day, and being now in a democratic country he was somehow convinced (maybe by a female love interest?) to finish the piece and... they gather an orchestra and all of the players are old people that used to play for this composer many years ago. And they get to play to some big, renowned theatre and the composer finally gains recognition and respect. Oh and I think the composer and the musicians travelled in a ratty old van, maybe a Volkswagen Camper or something similar, along with all their instruments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18421" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-26T13:47:59.940" LastActivityDate="2015-02-26T18:08:09.583" Title="A movie about a Soviet(?) ballet composer?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:32:41.597" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30371" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-26T05:35:16.453" Score="7" ViewCount="1980" Body="&lt;p&gt;My daycare provider played this movie for us and can't find anything about it online. What I remember: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;opening credits are animated but the movie is not. However the set is meant to appear hand-drawn (his bed, his dresser, etc) even though everything is 3 dimensional&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;entire movie takes place in his bedroom&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he is stuck in his room for some reason - I think by his mom until he cleans it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;something goes wonky with his radio when he listens to music and it &quot;talks&quot; to him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;at one point his room becomes a jungle with vines and monkey puppets and snakes and he is dressed like Tarzan. He sings a song with the monkeys but I don't remember if the puppets sing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;at one point, two giant puppet legs and feet drop from the ceiling and attempt to stomp on him or something. He jumps and kicks them to make them go away but they don't &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there might be a monster or something in his closet? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;eventually everything returns to normal but can't remember why or how&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was born in '83 and went to daycare until mid 90s so would guess this movie was made in late 80s but not sure. Think it was American made - don't remember accents. This was not a scary movie and fairly certain meant for kids.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18423" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-26T08:48:11.547" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T19:34:48.163" Title="80s/90s obscure movie taking place in boy's bedroom" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:32:44.750" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30365" CreationDate="2015-01-26T05:49:49.123" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What format would the data be in?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, Lucy has immense knowledge of the universe, more than mankind has ever attained. The fact that the sum of this knowledge can be stored in a device so small in size implies that the data storage format she uses is much more efficient than anything we are capable of today. This idea is also suggested by the otherworldly visual effect applied to the drive in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How could it possibly be read by a computer so lacking in computing power?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not addressed in the film, but again, given Lucy's vast knowledge of the workings of the universe by the time she creates this drive, she might well have bestowed upon the device the ability to convert its data to a familiar format that can be accessed by conventional computers (e.g. by providing a USB port).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4993" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T05:49:49.123" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30371" CreationDate="2015-01-26T07:43:51.730" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like you're after &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312805/combined&quot;&gt;In Search of the Wow Wow Wibble Woggle Wazzie Woodle Woo&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;[actual title!!]&lt;/em&gt; from 1985 about a boy (played by a man) stuck in his white room to do his homework and imagining many fantastic worlds. At one point the whole room turns into a jungle and the boy is dressed like Tarzan and sings with a monkey doll; at another, giant legs appear and he sings a song about them. He's also afraid of the monster in the closet and the set is exactly as you remembered it. Here's a clip from the film, where he hears the radio and it suddenly starts talking to him about the closet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/8IsgprKVJ3I?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-01-26T08:01:13.010" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T08:01:13.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="488" CreationDate="2015-01-26T14:44:44.177" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rosebud was a sled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will never forget watching this movie (an epic in every sense of the word) in a high school film class way back when in the 1980s. Our teacher explained, in a sentence, that Rosebud stood for the innocence that Kane had taken from him. He wasn’t able to enjoy a childhood like most children do, and Rosebud represented his lost youth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T03:16:43.343" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T03:16:43.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30382" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-01-26T14:50:08.217" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-01-26T14:50:08.217" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T14:50:08.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30383" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-01-26T14:50:08.217" Score="0" Body="For film and TV productions based upon or inspired by the works of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright and poet." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-01-26T15:26:44.970" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T15:26:44.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30309" CreationDate="2015-01-26T15:56:20.680" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched Scenic Route last night just to answer this question. It appears that the ending is purposefully ambiguous. I think that enough data was given for someone to make a call in either direction. Let's go over what I came up with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They lived&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They both heard the phone ring. Normally one person will hallucinate and trigger another person to also hallucinate the same thing, but in this case they both heard the phone at the same time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An ambulance came to get them instead of a helicopter. If you were hallucinating, you would most likely think about a faster way to get saved&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There were a lot of scenes after they left the desert. These scenes were not flashes, but played out scenes with both happy and sad emotions which might be expected after a traumatic event&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We see Mitchell being unhappy at his wife's parents house. He is sitting in the hallway and his son comes up to him and they go into the dining room with everyone else. If you were hallucinating about escaping hell, why hallucinate about sadness?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's common for PTSD to occur after a traumatic event which explains Mitchell's  concerns about not actually leaving the desert.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They died&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They drank washer fluid from the truck which contains methanol. Methanol if highly toxic in small amounts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They were dehydrated for 3 days that we saw.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Subjected to major temperature swings for 3 days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A lot of blood loss&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The phone rang when they were in the ghost town. If the phone had no signal near the road, why would they have it even further into the desert.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Mitchell called Carter toward the end, Carter started to say, &quot;It's funny you say that&quot; and the line went dead. Mitchell got mad and threw the phone. When he picked it up, it was cracked just like it had been cracked out in the desert.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mitchell still had a scab line where is nose was broken. Broken noses can heal within 3 weeks so this means that within 3 weeks of leaving the desert, Mitchell convinced his wife to let Carter move in with them, Mitchell quit his job to become a rock star, Carter finished a book and Mitchell and his wife decided to just pickup and travel the world. Not only that, but within 3 weeks, Carter got a new car (be it, a used one) but he had no money as made clear during the first half of the movie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The kicker is the very last part where Mitchell has a flashback of them being in the hole and then crying. This is the reason I say the ending is ambiguous. Does it mean that he was flashing back to them being in the hole and he is sad that it happened and happy he survived or does it mean that the &quot;flashback&quot; is actually showing reality of them dead in the hole and he is crying because he knows he has died?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure my points can be argued, but it's mostly to show that there is no definitive answer from what I saw and I was watching specifically to answer this question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T15:56:20.680" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30388" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30390" CreationDate="2015-01-26T16:38:20.487" Score="13" ViewCount="3587" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Game of Thrones S2E03 Tyrion tells 3 different stories to The Spider, Littlefinger and the Grand maester in-addition specifically stating that the Queen must not know. We learn it's a ploy to find out who is loyal to him and for him not to suffer the same fate as Eddard Stark but what intrigued me the most is if any of the stories he mentioned is true, Are those theories are completely made up or did he put those plans in motion at that point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-26T16:55:46.343" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T01:02:42.267" Title="Were Tyrion's stories true?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30388" CreationDate="2015-01-26T17:06:09.587" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, he told &lt;em&gt;Grandmaester Pycelle&lt;/em&gt; that he will marry &lt;em&gt;Myrcella&lt;/em&gt; into &lt;em&gt;Dorne&lt;/em&gt;, which is what &lt;em&gt;Pycelle&lt;/em&gt; tells &lt;em&gt;Cersei&lt;/em&gt; and in fact also what &lt;em&gt;Tyrion&lt;/em&gt; insists on doing once &lt;em&gt;Cersei&lt;/em&gt; finds it out from &lt;em&gt;Pycelle&lt;/em&gt; (and what ultimately happens thereafter). So the story told to the untrustful of the 3 persons in fact turns out to be the truth. But it is still unclear if that was what &lt;em&gt;Tyrion&lt;/em&gt; planned all along. What is clear though, is that &lt;strong&gt;he always planned to marry &lt;em&gt;Myrcella&lt;/em&gt; to another house&lt;/strong&gt;, which is evident from his strong conviction of following through with that plan, on the one hand to get her out of &lt;em&gt;King's Landing&lt;/em&gt; and on the other hand to consilidate the &lt;em&gt;Lannisters&lt;/em&gt; with that house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;em&gt;Tyrion&lt;/em&gt; is quite a strategic thinker and pretty much all of those three different wedding plans for &lt;em&gt;Myrcella&lt;/em&gt; sounded equally good and it's probably irrelevant if she bonds with &lt;em&gt;Greyjoy&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Dorne&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Arryn&lt;/em&gt;. So I would even go as far as to say that he probably didn't care which of the three plans are set in motion and &lt;strong&gt;he might simply have planned to choose the one that gets told to &lt;em&gt;Cersei&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. This strategy would also provide him with the most backing, since changing his mind about the specific house once &lt;em&gt;Cersei&lt;/em&gt; learns the (supposedly) wrong one from her spy might have undermined his point and might have made his plan look more like a staging than a serious strategy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-26T17:12:10.980" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T17:12:10.980" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30391" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30404" CreationDate="2015-01-26T18:32:16.347" Score="4" ViewCount="1138" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the opening scene of Fight Club (1999) there is a visual journey through the Narrator's brain showing the &quot;synapses&quot;. How was that scene made?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-26T18:45:25.923" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T00:02:12.343" Title="How was the opening scene in Fight Club made?" Tags="|effects|fight-club|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30396" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-01-26T21:15:19.783" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-01-26T21:15:19.783" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T21:15:19.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30397" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-01-26T21:15:19.783" Score="0" Body="Utopia is a British thriller-drama action television series that follows a group of people who find themselves in possession of a manuscript of a cult graphic novel. Novel is rumoured to have predicted the worst disasters of the last century and the group soon find themselves targeted by a shadowy organisation known only as The Network." OwnerUserId="3240" LastEditorUserId="3240" LastEditDate="2015-01-26T22:11:43.463" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T22:11:43.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30398" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-01-26T21:19:48.857" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-01-26T21:19:48.857" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T21:19:48.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30399" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-01-26T21:19:48.857" Score="0" Body="The Austin Powers series is a series of American action-comedy films. The franchise parodies numerous James Bond, Derek Flint, Jason King, and Matt Helm films, characters, and incorporates a myriad of other elements of popular culture as it follows a British spy's quest to bring his nemesis to justice." OwnerUserId="3240" LastEditorUserId="3240" LastEditDate="2015-01-26T22:11:41.153" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T22:11:41.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30400" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-01-26T21:21:16.803" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-01-26T21:21:16.803" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T21:21:16.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30401" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-01-26T21:21:16.803" Score="0" Body="How to Train Your Dragon is an American 3D computer-animated action-fantasy film by DreamWorks Animation loosely based on the British book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell. " OwnerUserId="3240" LastEditorUserId="3240" LastEditDate="2015-01-26T22:11:38.620" LastActivityDate="2015-01-26T22:11:38.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30402" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30403" CreationDate="2015-01-26T22:14:22.637" Score="5" ViewCount="1214" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do the characters on the boat (Lance, Clean, Chief and Chef) represent in Apocalypse Now and how do they relate to the metaphor involving insanity? Any answers good, I'm stuck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18434" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-27T02:13:52.657" LastActivityDate="2015-02-21T23:56:15.723" Title="What do the characters that accompany Willard in Apocalypse Now represent in relation to the morality and insanity?" Tags="|character|film-techniques|apocalypse-now|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30402" CreationDate="2015-01-26T23:17:19.527" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gradesaver.com/apocalypse-now/study-guide/summary-chapter-13-mr-cleans-death-chapter-15-kurtzs-compound&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;study guide&lt;/a&gt; for Apocalypse Now offers this summary:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...these characters fit into common war film tropes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Clean is the young upstart who requires protection from his stronger comrades&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chief is the hardened soldier with a heart of gold who plays by the rules&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chef is the sensitive soul always on the verge of a breakdown&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lance exists in his own world&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-21T23:56:15.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30391" CreationDate="2015-01-27T00:02:12.343" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene was shot using extensive CGI, and this was during a period in which David Fincher was not only exploring the use of 'impossible shots', but pioneering new techniques...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/DEdMRt7q1Uw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film used &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmsite.org/visualeffects18.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;texture mapping&lt;/a&gt; and matte painting combined with CGI to achieve previously unseen special effects, as the first motion picture to use &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Photogrammetry&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rQ4Fs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T00:02:12.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30329" CreationDate="2015-01-27T00:25:11.173" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a legal gray area, and can vary from country to country, from state to state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most states recognize that, if the activity is being recorded objectively and without interference/propagation from the 'director', the film-maker is protected under the first amendment: specifically relating to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press_in_the_United_States&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;freedom of the press&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as the piece is a documentary (this is the 'grey area' bit, as it lays in proving this classification for the film) then the film maker is operating in a journalistic capacity... and thus can not be prosecuted or censored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, however, witnesses or the authorities involved can prove in any way that the film maker coerced or influenced the 'criminal' to participate in their illegal activities, they can be charged as an accessory to the crime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some instances, however, authorities can indeed intervene; although this is typically in the form of a subpoena to surrender the footage rather than a criminal charge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One extreme example of this is the case of &lt;strong&gt;WDAF-TV v McCASKILL (1996)&lt;/strong&gt;, wherein the defendants (WDAF-TV) &lt;a href=&quot;http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/communications/WDAF-TV.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;had footage of a murder&lt;/a&gt;, and upon having the footage seized countersued: claiming a breach of privacy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both sides were considered to be 'correct' in their appraisal, and it resulted in the Privacy Act being ammended to reflect what a grey area this sort of thing is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T00:25:11.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30388" CreationDate="2015-01-27T01:02:42.267" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the books, it was by luck that Tyrion's real plan was the one that was told to Cersei. Here is how that happened:&#xA;- Tyrion wrote a letter to Doran Martell, promised to marry Myrcella to Trystan Martell, then gave it to Pycelle to deliver. Pycelle secretly read the letter, then sent it to Dorne. Because the letter was in fact sent out, it must be Tyrion's real plan.&#xA;- After that, Tyrion told Little Finger that he planned to marry Myrcella to Robert Arryn.&#xA;- After that, Tyrion told Varys that he planned to send Tommen to Dorne as a ward.&#xA;Here is the book chapter that it happened: &lt;a href=&quot;http://towerofthehand.com/books/102/018/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://towerofthehand.com/books/102/018/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18436" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T01:02:42.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2022" CreationDate="2015-01-27T06:19:49.640" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's because for the first time he acts human. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any animal will do exactly what you want them to do for a treat. But a human has respect for him or herself and character. They where not going to release a caged animal. They needed to see his humanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18442" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T06:19:49.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30138" CreationDate="2015-01-27T10:16:08.277" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a neat diagram that will help you see the events happening in a chronology.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(Source : &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/predestination-2014-movie-plot-ending-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Predestination Timeline Explained&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;br&gt;&#xA;The link has a lot more detailed explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/wp-content/uploads/Predestination/Predestination_Timeline-640x407.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Follow it from the Pink, to the Blue to the Green for chronology.&#xA;It would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Jane left at orphanage &lt;br&gt;&#xA;2) Jane meets and falls in love with an unknown man (John) &lt;br&gt; &#xA;3) Unknown man (John) leaves Jane on the park bench &lt;br&gt;&#xA;4) Jane is pregnant, delivers baby, baby is stolen by unknown (Barkeep) &lt;br&gt;&#xA;5) Jane becomes a man - John, the unmarried mother (Pink to Blue)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;6) John meets Barkeep&lt;br&gt;&#xA;7) John travels back in time with Barkeep&lt;br&gt;&#xA;8) John runs in to Jane to reveal that John is the unknown man&lt;br&gt;&#xA;9) John leaves Jane on the park bench&lt;br&gt;&#xA;10) John and Barkeep travel to the future, John is enrolled as a temporal agent.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;11) John prepares to become a temporal agent.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;12) John travels to diffuse one of Fizzle Bombers bombs, gets his face burnt&#xA;13) John returns to the bureau in the future and gets a face graft to become Barkeep (blue to green)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;14) Barkeep goes back in time to meet John at the bar&lt;br&gt;&#xA;15) Barkeep takes John further back in time to get John to meet Jane&lt;br&gt;&#xA;16) Barkeep leaps illegally to catch the Fizzle Bomber, gets John to burn his face as a result&lt;br&gt;&#xA;17) Barkeep goes back in time to the hospital and steals Jane's baby.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;18) Barkeep takes it further back to leave the baby at the orphanage&lt;br&gt;&#xA;19) Barkeep travels forward to collect John who leaves Jane at the park bench&lt;br&gt;&#xA;20) Barkeep and John travel to the future, Barkeep enrolls John in the bureau.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;21) Barkeep retires, goes back in time and tries to decommission the time machine&lt;br&gt;&#xA;22) Time machine fails to decommission, Barkeep finds clues to the location of the Fizzle Bomber&lt;br&gt;&#xA;23) Barkeep goes to the laundromat to find the Fizzle Bomber, who is merely an older version of himself.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;24) Barkeep kills his older self - the Fizzle Bomber&lt;br&gt;&#xA;25) Barkeep doesn't report the un-decommissioned time machine and eventually becomes the Fizzle Bomber (Not shown in the movie)&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2019-03-04T11:26:09.047" LastActivityDate="2019-03-04T11:26:09.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26816" CreationDate="2015-01-27T12:10:04.207" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is something usually done in post production, usually because something is wrong with the shot that wasn't noticed/couldn't be remedied on location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often this can be lighting, with a particular persistence of direction needing to be maintained, and can sometimes be in order to crop out a blemish without sacrificing the framing of the shot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most common reason is maintaining the 180 Degree rule, which dictates that in order to spatially orient your audience you should never move the camera more than 180 degrees from your line of action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Huylb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When breaking the 180 rule is necessary (sometimes walls and other non movable set pieces can cause obstructions or movement impediments, an easy solution is to shoot from the other side and reverse the shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you yourself have noticed, this is largely undesirable as unless everything in the scene is symmetrical, it creates a noticeable mirror effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no 'advantages' to doing this, it's typically just a way to rectify an error without having to re-shoot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T12:10:04.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30418" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30439" CreationDate="2015-01-27T13:00:29.357" Score="0" ViewCount="1270" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have only seen the series and not read any of the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tyrion marries off Cersei's daughter, Myrcella Baratheon into the Dorne family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later Oberyn Martell arrives planning revenge against the Lannisters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oberyn and Cersei talk in front of a boat. She says it is a gift for her daughter but you get the feeling it is a bribe to him for her daughter's safety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oberyn states that they do not make slaves of princesses in Dorne and Cersei counters that they do not rape princesses in King's Landing; a statement we are lead to believe is false.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene implies that Myrcella is not living the privileged life of a princess in Dorne, but in fact has had a rather terrible life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even in the Game of Thrones' dark and bloody world, I thought that children would be safe from the scheming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we ever find out more details of Myrcella's fate ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18447" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-02T23:59:44.403" LastActivityDate="2019-01-02T23:59:44.403" Title="What happened to Myrcella Baratheon?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-02-10T15:55:55.710" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30419" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30434" CreationDate="2015-01-27T13:32:50.310" Score="7" ViewCount="59975" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are nude scenes allowed in PG-13 movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, the movie Titanic (1997).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18449" LastEditorUserId="756" LastEditDate="2015-01-28T03:47:41.547" LastActivityDate="2017-02-11T00:40:06.780" Title="Why are nude scenes allowed in PG-13 movies?" Tags="|content-rating|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30420" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-27T13:45:12.127" Score="2" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is scary makeup allowed in PG-13 movies? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example the orcs' faces in The Lord of the Rings are very scary, but the movies got a PG-13 rating. Another example would be The Mummy (1999), whose title character also has a very scary face but which is still PG-13 rated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18449" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-27T13:53:00.490" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T17:11:11.117" Title="Why is scary makeup allowed in PG-13 movies?" Tags="|content-rating|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30419" CreationDate="2015-01-27T13:49:27.363" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Directly from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America_film_rating_system#Nudity&quot;&gt;MPAA Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nudity is restricted to PG and above, although only brief nudity is&#xA;  permitted in a PG rated film. Nudity that is sexually oriented will&#xA;  generally require an R rating. As of 2010, the MPAA has added a&#xA;  descriptor of &quot;male nudity&quot; to films featuring said content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PG-13 is obviously above PG.  I believe side shots are allowed in PG/PG-13, but nipples and frontal nudity are only allowed in R and above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T13:49:27.363" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30422" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30425" CreationDate="2015-01-27T13:51:55.047" Score="39" ViewCount="10581" Body="&lt;p&gt;When looking at the IMDb page for &lt;em&gt;Midnight Cowboy&lt;/em&gt;, it says that the movie is rated X but won 3 Oscars. I always assumed an X-rated movie is a pornographic movie. Does this mean that Oscars can also be given to pornographic movies? If not, how does this fit together?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7VVUt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18449" LastEditorUserId="19812" LastEditDate="2016-03-09T11:45:29.093" LastActivityDate="2019-03-09T12:41:38.580" Title="Why would a movie that appears pornographic via it's rating (X) receive an Academy Award?" Tags="|cinema-history|content-rating|academy-awards|midnight-cowboy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30422" CreationDate="2015-01-27T14:42:06.323" Score="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite simple: &lt;strong&gt;Midnight Cowboy is not a pornographic film.&lt;/strong&gt; What we have here is a misunderstanding of the original intent of the X rating, which gave rise to the NC-17 rating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several films from the late 1960s through the 1980s had the X rating applied, including &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(film)&quot;&gt;A Clockwork Orange&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Valley_of_the_Dolls&quot;&gt;Beyond the Valley of the Dolls&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_the_Cat_(film)&quot;&gt;Fritz the Cat&lt;/a&gt; (an animated feature), &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Tango_in_Paris&quot;&gt;Last Tango in Paris&lt;/a&gt;, and the original &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evil_Dead_(1981_film)&quot;&gt;The Evil Dead&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the key thing about the old X rating is that &lt;strong&gt;it wasn't trademarked by the MPAA, and could thus be self-applied to any film.&lt;/strong&gt; Basically if a studio knew their movie would be deemed unsuitable for children, they could simply self-apply the X rating themselves without submitting it to the MPAA for rating, and that would be that. However, a movie could still be submitted to the MPAA for rating and be given a rating of X.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, as pornography became more accepted through the later half of the 20th century, pornographic film studios began to self-apply the X rating when releasing their films, and then began the trend of applying XX or even XXX ratings to really emphasize the amount of gratuitous sex in their films. This led to problems with any film that used the X rating being seen as pornographic, and led to issues for films that were submitted to the MPAA only to be given an X rating without actually being pornographic (because the MPAA would never apply &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; rating to a pornographic film to begin with). In late 1989 to early 1990, two critically acclaimed art films were denied ratings by the MPAA: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry:_Portrait_of_a_Serial_Killer&quot;&gt;Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cook,_the_Thief,_His_Wife_%26_Her_Lover&quot;&gt;The Cook, the Thief, His Wife &amp;amp; Her Lover.&lt;/a&gt; This caused an uproar about films of this nature having limited distribution routes due to the ambiguity and misunderstanding of the X rating, as well as these two films in particular being given limited distribution routes due to what many felt was a flawed and misunderstood rating system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution was to implement the NC-17 rating, which was first applied to the film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_%26_June&quot;&gt;Henry &amp;amp; June&lt;/a&gt;, but unfortunately many entertainment outlets began to refuse to showcase even NC-17 films, entertainment publications would refuse to advertise them, and many retail stores refused to stock and sell them, because they saw the NC-17 rating as a rebranding of the X rating. Today the NC-17 rating is essentially seen as a mark of death for many films, causing many production companies to cut down on the material the MPAA found to be offensive (if they can even get them to divulge such information in the first place) to earn it an R rating, often referred to as &quot;Hard R&quot; by the media and film-goers. Originally NC-17 was intended for anyone age 17 and older (16 and younger weren't allowed in, even with an adult present), but in the mid-90s was adjusted to mean no admittance to anyone 17 and under, only adding to the misunderstanding of the NC-17 rating being a rebrand of the X rating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read about the history of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America_film_rating_system&quot;&gt;MPAA rating system&lt;/a&gt;, as well as the history of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_rating#United_States&quot;&gt;X rating in the United States&lt;/a&gt; itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2016-09-14T14:51:01.483" LastActivityDate="2016-09-14T14:51:01.483" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30427" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30429" CreationDate="2015-01-27T15:09:53.127" Score="16" ViewCount="4310" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2717822/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;Blackhat (2015)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; shows professional hackers sabotaging an atomic reactor and the stock market, as well as counterhackers trying to get on the blackhat's trail, finding out their identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a relative layman in the field of hacking, I got the impression that the movie was trying to be very accurate when it comes to the processes involved in hacking and tracing a hacker. At least it seemed a lot closer to reality than most other films before it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How realistic is the hacking process depicted in the movie? Are the commands used onscreen actually meaningful and authentic? Or did they make up things to increase the dramatic effect? If so, which?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Was the movie counselled by actual hackers of some sort, to increase authenticity?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2015-01-30T16:12:50.627" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T17:32:35.047" Title="How realistic is the hacking depicted in Blackhat?" Tags="|production|realism|blackhat|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30428" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-27T15:24:53.297" Score="1" ViewCount="572" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw Blackhat (2015) yesterday and was a bit confused about that part. Warning, &lt;strong&gt;spoilers&lt;/strong&gt; ahead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How exactly did Chen Dawai (the friend of Nick Hathaway aka Chris Hemsworth) die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the car rigged with explosives prior to all of them starting the drive? Or did the bad guys blow it up with some kind of rocket launcher?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just exploded out of the blue with the bad guys showing up behind it, but it was not really clear to me &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it exploded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T17:51:06.657" Title="What exactly happened to Chen Dawai?" Tags="|plot-explanation|blackhat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30427" CreationDate="2015-01-27T15:29:34.383" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-deets-ring-true-in-cybercrime-movie-blackhat-security-pro-says-20150120-story.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Full Article&lt;/a&gt; according to Cyber Security experts, the hacking in the movie is quite realistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;When “Blackhat,” the cybercrime thriller starring Chris Hemsworth, was screened to a roomful of cybersecurity experts last week, everyone agreed that it was the most accurate depiction of hacking they’d seen in a film, he said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Mahaffey, that’s important for a couple reasons: First, it highlights the real threats hackers pose to cybersecurity. And it will make clear to moviegoers the ways they’re actually vulnerable to hacks.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;In an early scene in the movie, hackers take a nuclear power plant offline. While this may strike many moviegoers as fantasy, it’s actually already happening. The Stuxnet computer “worm” is thought to have damaged Iranian nuclear centrifuges in 2010. In late 2014, a German steel mill was attacked by hackers, which caused machinery to spin out of control and created significant physical damage.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There also was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://gizmodo.com/what-blackhat-gets-right-a-chat-with-former-hacker-kev-1679728958?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&amp;amp;utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&amp;amp;utm_medium=socialflow&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;former hacker&lt;/a&gt; that advised on the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Back in Kevin Poulsen's hacker days, before he became writer and Wired editor, he pulled stunts like taking over the phone lines in a radio contest to win himself a Porsche, or breaking into the FBI's computer system when he ended up on the agency's Most Wanted list to change his physical description. He served a five-year sentence for his crimes. Now he's consulting for Hollywood hacker films.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18110" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T15:29:34.383" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30420" CreationDate="2015-01-27T17:11:11.117" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America_film_rating_system#Addition_of_PG-13_rating&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki on the MPAA&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rated PG: Parental guidance strongly suggested – some material may not be suitable for children&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rated PG-13: Parents strongly cautioned – some material may be inappropriate for children under 13&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rated R: Restricted – under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why are LOTR and The Mummy rated as PG13 movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The violence and fear are intended to provide a &lt;em&gt;small&lt;/em&gt; scare, there is no explicit violence really, and in fairness, the parents are &lt;strong&gt;strongly cautioned&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a 13 year old can't handle a movie like &lt;em&gt;The Mummy&lt;/em&gt;, I don't think the PG13 rating is the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T17:11:11.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30422" CreationDate="2015-01-27T17:40:01.373" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Midnight Cowboy was controversial for its time due to its nude scenes and its depiction of a male prostitute, but did not show penetration (which would have garnered it a Triple-X rating).  As this quote points out, the rating was lowered to R when it was re-released the following year.  As pointed out by MattD, this was &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a pornographic movie, it just contained content that was beyond the R rating used at that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was notable for being the first and only X-rated film (its nude scenes and bold content - sex and drugs - were shocking for its time, but its X-rating for its initial release was later downgraded to R when the film was re-released in late 1970) to receive the Best Picture Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It garnered seven nominations, including Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight), Best Supporting Actress (Sylvia Miles in an extremely brief on-screen role), and Best Film Editing (Hugh A. Robertson), and ended up with three Oscars - Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay (by Waldo Salt from James Leo Herlihy's 1965 novel). It was an archetypal film for the &quot;New Hollywood&quot; of the 70s, with its adult themes of alienation, sex and drugs, anti-authoritarianism, and a quest for freedom. (1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the awards were &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnPcKk3YO3s&quot;&gt;won in 1970&lt;/a&gt;, so it's unclear whether they were awarded for the 1969 release or if anything was edited for the 1970 release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmsite.org/midn.html&quot;&gt;http://www.filmsite.org/midn.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T17:40:01.373" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30419" CreationDate="2015-01-27T18:59:21.367" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the difference is between sexual and non-sexual contexts. Female breasts and nipples are allowed (briefly) in PG and PG-13 movies if they are in a non-sexual context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kate Winslet's breasts were bare in the PG-13 movie Titanic. (That was a non-sexual scene, though it was sensually charged.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There were also bare female breasts and nipples in the PG-rated 1978 movie &quot;Invasion of the Body Snatchers&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Julia Roberts bare breasts are visible for several seconds, in shadows, during a scene in the PG film &quot;Pretty Woman&quot; (though most viewers don't even notice them).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In Return of the Jedi, the green dancer in Jabba the Hutt's palace is wearing a see-through mesh shirt and her nipples are also visible (even though they are dark green).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T18:59:21.367" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30419" CreationDate="2015-01-27T19:06:24.153" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is impossible to answer as the MPAA is a secretive panel and doesn't need to, and rarely does, explain any of their decision making criteria for rating films. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For background on this, I recommend the documentary &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493459/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This Film Is Not Yet Rated&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To perhaps appease the one downvoter, I'll try and answer the question as asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why are nudity scenes allowed in PG-13 movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because the MPAA ratings board allows it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="756" LastEditDate="2015-01-27T19:50:44.460" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T19:50:44.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30427" CreationDate="2015-01-27T19:17:21.807" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Counter to many reviews, I'd argue the hacking in this film is highly implausible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For starters, there is very little actual 'hacking' in this film. The 'big hack' that is the pivotal plot point in the film is where (spoiler): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; He manages to get the password to NSA systems by getting an NSA official to open an malware infected PDF file to create a new password so he could install a keylogger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now while this is a plausible 'hack' if you were targeting, say, my mother. I find it incredibly un-realistic that the...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; ...NSA would a) Hire someone a dumb as this b) Not have email server virus scanners and c) Not have robust anti-malware detection on systems to detect keyloggers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I felt rather duped by the reviews of this film in the likes of Wired where they said this was the most realistic hacker movie yet produced. Perhaps I was 'hacked' myself. Though the more likely theory is that the bar for plausible hacker films is just extremely low and it doesn't take much to be the 'best' in this particular genre. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="756" LastEditDate="2015-01-27T19:35:39.647" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T19:35:39.647" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30427" CreationDate="2015-01-27T19:41:12.603" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;there is quite a bit of media out already on how realistic the hacking is in the movie. Poulsen was called in as a consultant early on in the production to improve authenticity. he's written about it himself for wired magazine. try these links&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/2015/01/blackhat-the-best-cyber-movie/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Is Blackhat the Greatest Hacking Movie Ever? Hackers Think So&lt;/a&gt; / Metz, wired&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asked if Mann got anything wrong, Poulsen jokes, in his typically deadpan way, that the move is “100 percent authentic.” But in all seriousness, he’ll tell you that, whereas most movie hacking scenes are comically cartoonish, Mann gets most things right. “There are little things where he takes some liberties for dramatic purposes, and so that it’s understandable to the audience. But if you compare it to any other hacking movie, any other cyber movie, period, that has come out post-War Games, it’s head and shoulders above any of them,” Poulsen says. “It’s the first crime-thriller to hinge so heavily on hacking without becoming silly.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/2015/01/why-i-hope-congress-never-watches-blackhat/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Why I Hope Congress Never Watches Blackhat&lt;/a&gt; by Poulsen, wired&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, the movie seems to be drawing radically polarized reviews, but I’m gratified that security geeks who’ve seen it have given it good grades on authenticity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gizmodo.com/what-blackhat-gets-right-a-chat-with-former-hacker-kev-1679728958&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;What Blackhat Gets Right: A Chat With Former Hacker Kevin Poulsen&lt;/a&gt; / gizmodo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far the feedback I've gotten from computer security geeks who've seen the film has been positive. So far, at least the people that have reached out to me that have talked about it have had good things to say about the level of authenticity. Obviously it's not a documentary but as far as, you know, like Hollywood blockbuster treatment of computer hacking, I think this is the most authentic that's been done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7497" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T19:41:12.603" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30418" CreationDate="2015-01-27T20:20:45.213" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This scene implies that Myrcella is not living the privileged life of a princess in Dorne, but in fact has had a rather terrible life&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No not really. She is being treated as befits her rank as princess of the realm. Remember that she was sent with one of the Kingsguard to keep her safe. However, she &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a hostage. That was the whole point of the plot to marry her off to a Martell prince. The Lannisters needed the loyalty of the Martells so that they could have a peaceful South, which leaves them free to fight the North. To do this they strengthen the bonds between the royal Baratheons and the Martells through marriage, and allow Princess Myrcella to become a hostage in Martell lands to ensure good conduct from the Lannisters. The Martells (despite Oberyn's wishes) do not desire war with the Lannisters, so Myrcella is kept safe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The death of Joffrey Baratheon however has elevated the status of Myrcella Baratheon to a potential heir to the throne. In common Westerosi law, she is second in line after her younger brother Tommen (since males always have the stronger claim, despite their seniority). So when Tommen ascends the throne, she becomes the heir to the Iron Throne for the foreseeable future since Tommen is far too young to be producing heirs of his own. This is &lt;em&gt;further&lt;/em&gt; complicated by a very important quirk in Dornish law. In Dorne, the senior heir has the strongest claims regardless of gender. So in Dornish eyes, Myrcella should be the Queen of Westeros, not Tommen. Oberyn even goes as far as hinting at this to Tyrion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The upcoming season of the show will see us visiting Dorne, so Myrcella and her status in the succession will become a major plot point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T20:20:45.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="261" CreationDate="2015-01-27T22:17:11.887" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;i think, the victims were killed by the corresponding deadly sin. the fat guy died by eating, the whore by sex, the junkie by lying in bed. in the last scene, Tracy died by Doe's jealousy hence &quot;envy&quot; then Doe died by Mills' hatred hence &quot;wrath&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18463" LastActivityDate="2015-01-27T22:17:11.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30447" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-28T02:20:56.647" Score="1" ViewCount="3136" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why were kids allowed to act in the movie Caligula (1979)?  To me it seems that the movie is a purely adult movie with sexual activity through the movie.  Also, there's a scene where a topless woman was hold kids.  How was this allowed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18449" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-11-02T15:54:49.790" LastActivityDate="2017-11-02T15:54:49.790" Title="Why were kids allowed to act in the movie Caligula (1979)?" Tags="|casting|legal|caligula|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30448" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-28T02:48:26.900" Score="5" ViewCount="3699" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do remakes need permission whereas spoofs/parodies don't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_Movie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scary Movie&lt;/a&gt; consists of lot of spoofs of other movies, yet they didn't seem to have any permission for that from all those movies. But as you&#xA;can see in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.saddahaq.com/entertainment/RohitShetty/rohit-shetty-denied-permission-to-remake-aankhen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this related example&lt;/a&gt; remakes need permissions to be made. So why not parodies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18449" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-22T10:50:17.627" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T10:50:17.627" Title="Why do remakes need permission whereas spoofs/parodies don't?" Tags="|remake|copyright|parody|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30448" CreationDate="2015-01-28T02:57:30.157" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Parody does not need permission because it is protected under &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#Fair_use_and_parody&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;fair use&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16556" LastActivityDate="2015-01-28T02:57:30.157" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30448" CreationDate="2015-01-28T02:59:40.567" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remakes need permission because they are directly copying the idea. While parodies are in most cases directly opposing to most of the ideas in the movie / books. Furthermore this is a case of freedom of speech. People have the right to say what they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18467" LastActivityDate="2015-01-28T02:59:40.567" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30447" CreationDate="2015-01-28T03:39:11.003" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Caligula is pure trash.  It was intended to be an arthouse movie, and Bob Guccione wanted to make it a Penthouse movie.  His disagreements with writer Gore Vidal were so preposterous that Vidal eventually disassociated himself with the movie.  The only positive of that whole movie was an early appearance by Helen Mirren.  She's smoking hot in that movie, and does nude scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why children were allowed in it; they were allowed in certain scenes.  They were not involved in anything sexual, and a naked body alone is not considered sexual.  I don't recall any of the children being naked, but there seems to be a ceiling for a child's age.  Remember all the diaper commercials which show children's bare bottoms?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="34317" LastEditDate="2017-04-26T19:24:22.323" LastActivityDate="2017-04-26T19:24:22.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30455" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-28T03:57:22.170" Score="6" ViewCount="3307" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was Bard Pitt not nominated for the Oscar for Departed (2006)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bradley Cooper's name is listed for Best Picture for Oscars because he served as producer for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2179136/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;American Sniper&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hfODm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;Then why was Brad Pitt's name not listed for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Departed (2006)&lt;/a&gt;, even though he also served as producer for the movie?:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1t9nU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18449" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-28T09:45:32.013" LastActivityDate="2015-01-28T10:03:23.820" Title="Why didn't Brad Pitt win Best Picture Oscar Award for Departed, even though he served as producer for the film?" Tags="|academy-awards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30457" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34453" CreationDate="2015-01-28T04:33:18.327" Score="3" ViewCount="3203" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the finale to season 6 of &lt;em&gt;Malcolm in the Middle&lt;/em&gt;, Lois whistles impressively on stage.  I can't seem to find a credit for who actually did the whistling: was it recorded (and from whom), or does the actress herself actually have that particular talent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8602" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-01-28T14:49:09.920" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T00:05:24.487" Title="Does Jane Kaczmarek actually whistle in &quot;Mrs. Tri-County&quot;?" Tags="|soundtrack|credits|malcolm-in-the-middle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30461" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30464" CreationDate="2015-01-28T08:30:30.477" Score="3" ViewCount="565" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a consensus that the alternate timeline (where the flight did not crash) which is shown in Season 6 of &lt;em&gt;Lost&lt;/em&gt; is some sort of purgatory which the islanders were in before they moved on (to God knows where, but that is not important now).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Kate, Hugo, Ben and Sawyer never died. So why are they in that timeline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-28T09:52:45.623" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T14:43:24.830" Title="Why are these people in the Purgatory timeline?" Tags="|lost|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30455" CreationDate="2015-01-28T10:03:23.820" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.accesshollywood.com/brad-pitt-denied-departed-oscar-bid_article_3775&quot;&gt;Access Hollywood&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has ruled that only&#xA;  Graham King will get the credit for the crime drama “The Departed,”&#xA;  leaving Brad Pitt and Paramount Pictures studio chief Brad Grey out in&#xA;  the cold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When a film wins an Oscar, it’s the producer who accepts the golden&#xA;  statuette and gives the acceptance speech. Rules adopted by the&#xA;  academy in 2000 limits credited producers to three in order to avoid&#xA;  handing awards to a mob of “producers,” some of whom may have gained&#xA;  the credit for little or no effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The academy also decided that only one producer would get credit for&#xA;  the Martin Scorsese film “The Departed.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-01-28T10:03:23.820" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30461" CreationDate="2015-01-28T12:01:09.527" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But Kate, Hugo, Ben and Sawyer never died. So why are they in that timeline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually that's were you are wrong. The &quot;purgatory&quot; scenes we see are taking place after the death of all main characters. You could say it is sometime in the future, but I doubt that any notion of time exist in that place after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do we know that the events there do not take place right after the death of the smoke monster?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because the surviving characters talk about their time on the island long after this, where Hurley became Guardian of the island for an extended time, with Ben being his &quot;number two&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hurley continued to protect the Island for an unknown period of time, with Ben acting as his adviser. It is unknown how long his tenure as protector of the Island was. In the flash sideways Hurley would later comment that Ben was a good &quot;number two.&quot; Ben stated that Hurley also did a great job as the Island's &quot;number one.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(from &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Hugo_%22Hurley%22_Reyes&quot;&gt;Lost Wikia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2015-01-28T12:01:09.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30448" CreationDate="2015-01-28T16:25:09.560" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a legal question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least in the US, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use&quot;&gt;parody and satire fall under the fair use umbrella&lt;/a&gt; of copyright law. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A remake requires permission if the material being remade is copyrighted. You can't remake Star Wars without permission as the story and characters are protected under copyright and trademark laws. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could remake a Sherlock Holmes story provided you're remaking one of the original stories that is now out of copyright. You can't remake a newer Sherlock Holmes story as that would still be under copyright. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-01-28T16:25:09.560" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30472" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30529" CreationDate="2015-01-28T19:07:36.983" Score="13" ViewCount="8758" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Introduction&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Ocean's thirteen, the team decides to use loaded balls to rig the Roulette Table, since no Hi-Tech solution seemed to work out for them. They get a Pit Boss to plant the loaded balls for them and then they bet 10 Million dollars on digits numbers 11, 12 and 13. Their spin lands on thirteen and they win the big bucks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Question(s)&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How did they predict the result of the loaded Roulette Ball?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did anyone else (outside the team, that is) win big on the rigged Roulettes and if so, how?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13971" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-09-01T20:04:17.770" Title="In Ocean's Thirteen, how can a loaded roulette ball's outcome be predicted down to three digits?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oceans-thirteen|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4427" CreationDate="2015-01-28T19:43:59.327" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the diary entry was written by both the twins at different times because when Angier gets jealous looking at Borden's perfect family life, he says that he found out later in the diary that Borden loved it and hated it the next moment.&#xA;Since the twins were living a half of both lives, it makes sense that both of them wrote the diary whenever they were Borden. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene in which the wrong knot is tied, leading to Julia's death, comes after Borden's claim that he has a new trick in mind (which involved the twin brother). Maybe that's why the other twin(Olivia's Borden) is the one who tied that knot and he is also the one who is asked that question each time by Angier. We can reason that as following: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the funeral&#xA;The other twin is guilty and hence he attends the funeral&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;when Angier tries to kill him at his show performing his gun trick&#xA;The scene in which Borden tells Sarah about the gun trick is when she tells him he doesn't love her today (which means he is the other twin) This is directly followed by the show scene in which he says that he doesn't know which knot it was.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The diary&#xA;Right after the twin is shot in his hand, he says that he told the truth. 'One half' of him says that it was the simple knot, other half says 'langford double'. Perhaps one half is the other twin and the other half is Borden. I say so because Bordon is certain that he knows a lot about knots and it was indeed the langford double which could have led to the death.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18486" LastActivityDate="2015-01-28T19:43:59.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29999" CreationDate="2015-01-28T22:50:30.723" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don’t think so.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I left this a few weeks to see if anybody would come up with an example that I missed, but to no avail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not aware of any scene preceding this which hinted at any romantic attraction between the two. They were very close friends, and helped maintain Dumbledore’s Army in Harry’s absence during the events of &lt;em&gt;Deathly Hallows&lt;/em&gt;, but there was no romance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There’s also nothing between them in the books. J.K. Rowling has discussed what happens to them in interviews. Neville marries Hannah Abbott and lives above the Three Broomsticks in Hogshead, and Luna marries Rolf Scamander, son of the famed magical zoologist Newt Scamander (and protagonist of the forthcoming &lt;em&gt;Fantastic Beasts&lt;/em&gt; film).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only bit of commentary from cast or crew I can find about it is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.snitchseeker.com/harry-potter-news/audio-harry-potter-cast-and-crew-at-deathly-hallows-part-2-nyc-press-conference-82597/&quot;&gt;this snippet from a &lt;em&gt;Deathly Hallows&lt;/em&gt; press conference in 2011&lt;/a&gt; (summary):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Matt [Lewis, who plays Neville] thought maybe Neville and Luna could have a summer fling or something before marrying Hannah Abbott. Said Luna is scarier for Voldemort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But nothing about foreshadowing or the like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9285" LastActivityDate="2015-01-28T22:50:30.723" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="90" CreationDate="2015-01-28T23:06:56.560" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They filmed some scenes with Peeves in the first film, but he was cut before the film was released. The character wasn’t revived for the later films.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found a few interviews that touch on the topic of Peeves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, there was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/kids/harry_potter_webchat_20040610.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an interview with BBC Norfolk&lt;/a&gt; with Chris Rankin, who played Percy Weasley, where he explains that they actually shot scenes with Peeves, but they were cut from the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's the longest time you've ever spent shooting a scene?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The longest scene I've ever shot was on this first film. It was the scene with Peeves the Poltergeist. We shot it in Gloucester Cathedral cloisters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sadly it never made it to the final take although I hear Chris Columbus is going to be making a director's cut in which it will be reinstated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would have been &lt;em&gt;Philosopher’s Stone&lt;/em&gt;, and he was played by Rik Mayall. I’m not aware of that director’s cut being released, or any of that footage being widely available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why were those scenes cut? There’s an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1310&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview with Chris Columbus&lt;/a&gt;, who directed the first two films, which makes it sound as if it was just&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Apart from casting, what was the biggest challenge putting the film together? Was it the sheer scope of the thing?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[…] I loved the book so much that it was extremely difficult to cut elements out. One of my favourite characters never made the film – Peeves, the annoying, sort of, mischievous poltergeist. Those sorts of things, there was just too much to film. Our first cut of the film was about 3 hours and 20 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As other posters have said, Peeves didn’t play a particularly prominent role in the books: although he gets a few lines, he’s not critical to any plot points. If they were trying to shed material, you can see why Peeves would be one of the characters who gets cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, there’s also &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5820032/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone-could-have-featured-a-brand-new-character&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an interview with Steve Kloves&lt;/a&gt;, who wrote all but one of the films, who offers his take on why Peeves was dropped in the final cut:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On a different note, what about some characters in the books who never appeared on screen? What ever happened to Peeves?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peeves was always an issue. Chris Columbus was determined to put him in the first movie. I think there were even some technological problems with him initially, and [not] being satisfied with how he looked. He was always a bit tangential. I think [Argus] Filch, in a way, became that energy in the movies. And he was actually sort of beloved at a certain point, Filch. So I think to have Peeves, it would have felt like we were doubling up on that. It's not exactly the same but it's a bit like that. But he was a character we all loved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9285" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T14:34:01.563" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30479" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32310" CreationDate="2015-01-29T00:07:17.373" Score="4" ViewCount="6865" Body="&lt;p&gt;Background: In Luther, Series 3, episode 1, Ken Barnaby is a suspect in the case of a murdered internet troll, Jared Cass.  Cass had tormented Barnaby and his wife over social media after their daughter passed away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he knows he is about to be caught, Ken sticks his right hand in a blender, presumably to damage his fingers to avoid being convicted on the murder charge via a fingerprint match.  His left hand was unscathed, yet he still believes that he will be exonerated.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why wouldn't the police simply use his left hand to match the prints?  Is this a nuance of British law that they did not elaborate on in the story, or just a plot device?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2015-01-29T00:17:11.740" LastActivityDate="2017-02-10T03:32:46.047" Title="Why would damage to Ken Barnaby's right hand be enough to exonerate him?" Tags="|plot-explanation|luther|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30480" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30500" CreationDate="2015-01-29T01:25:30.170" Score="10" ViewCount="952" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've heard it said that Deckard (Harrison Ford) in &lt;em&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt; is a replicant. I don't remember it being made clear either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Deckard a replicant? What evidence is there either way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-10-05T14:07:32.460" LastActivityDate="2017-12-31T06:50:11.860" Title="Is Deckard a replicant?" Tags="|character|blade-runner|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30481" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30484" CreationDate="2015-01-29T01:32:51.600" Score="12" ViewCount="476707" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This question contains spoilers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several times throughout American Sniper, when a US soldier is buried other servicemen push a brass badge into the casket of the deceased solider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A0KGV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Chris Kyle&amp;#39;s casket&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the badges? What is the meaning and significance behind this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastActivityDate="2022-06-23T21:40:56.123" Title="What is the meaning of the badges on the caskets in American Sniper?" Tags="|analysis|american-sniper|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30482" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-29T02:12:07.313" Score="-5" ViewCount="1595" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are children not allowed to play a role in adult films, but allowed in R-rated films?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all know R-rated films are not suitable for kids, but children played roles in R-rated films like Shining &amp;amp; T2 etc. But I never saw a child appearing in adult films; why is this so? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/604/to-what-extent-are-child-actors-exposed-to-the-violent-aspects-of-the-movie-they&quot;&gt;similar question&lt;/a&gt; on this site already, but it is related to the subject of violence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18449" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-12-19T07:37:57.590" LastActivityDate="2018-12-31T05:41:49.250" Title="Why are children not allowed to play a role in adult films, but allowed in R-rated films?" Tags="|casting|content-rating|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30483" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-29T02:21:41.147" Score="4" ViewCount="1601" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who decides about the sequences of scenes for a movie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My friends are telling me that the Editor edits the film, so he will arrange the scenes in the way he sees fit. But I have some doubts about this as this seems largely the director's decision. So how do the editor and the director (and maybe other parties) collaborate in this process and how much responsibility and competences does the editor generally have in this regard? Can he rearrange whole scenes or does he only edit on a finer granularity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18449" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-29T14:33:31.667" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T20:10:18.110" Title="Who will decide about the sequences of scenes in a movie?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30481" CreationDate="2015-01-29T02:40:33.083" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The badges are the badges &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_SEALs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SEALs&lt;/a&gt; (aka: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Warfare_insignia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Special Warfare Insignia&lt;/a&gt; or SEAL Trident) earn when they graduate from SQT (&lt;em&gt;SEAL Qualification Training&lt;/em&gt;) and become full fledged SEALs. To nail them into the coffin by hand is a complete sign of respect to a fallen comrade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JvqQH.png&quot; alt=&quot;Navy Seal Badge&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2022-06-23T21:40:56.123" LastActivityDate="2022-06-23T21:40:56.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30481" CreationDate="2015-01-29T02:41:24.710" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those badges are &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Warfare_insignia&quot;&gt;Special Warfare insignia,&lt;/a&gt; also known informally as the &quot;SEAL pin&quot;. In real life, at Medal of Honor recipient &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Monsoor&quot;&gt;Michael Monsoor's&lt;/a&gt; funeral, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/monsoor.asp&quot;&gt;the attending SEALs pounded their pins into his coffin&lt;/a&gt;. It's unclear how widespread a SEAL practice this really was/is, but the media and movie attention it's gotten seems to have made it more widespread. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8399" LastActivityDate="2015-01-29T02:41:24.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30486" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-29T03:05:44.410" Score="10" ViewCount="32673" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was the killer's face never revealed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;V for Vendetta (2005)&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18449" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-01-29T08:47:43.423" LastActivityDate="2019-01-09T08:43:59.320" Title="Why was the killer's face never revealed in V for Vendetta (2005)?" Tags="|character|v-for-vendetta|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30486" CreationDate="2015-01-29T03:29:38.620" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you mean the killer is V? &lt;br&gt;&#xA;If so, he didn't take off his mask because there was an experimentation that was performed on him which gave him his enhanced speed, strength, agility, and intelligence also granted him a heightened level of pain tolerance. This experimentation affected his skin on the face so he doesn't want anyone to see his face. &lt;br&gt;&#xA;Another possible explanation is that &quot;it was what the director wants&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18469" LastActivityDate="2015-01-29T03:29:38.620" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30017" CreationDate="2015-01-29T03:40:44.063" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you pay attention to the timeline of each seasons you will know that Freak Show happened before Asylum and yes, it does explain why Pepper was sent to the Asylum. Sister Mary Eunice did not come to collect Pepper from the Freak Show. Elsa sent Pepper back to Pepper's sister. However, because Pepper was a freak, her sister and the husband frame her for killing their baby (infact, the baby was killed by her sister's husband) and sent Pepper to the Asylum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another link is that the Nazi doctor in Asylum was the one chopped Elsa's legs off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These connections, in fact, are not really important. All the seasons can be watched separately without any difficulties to understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18469" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-08T10:53:35.683" LastActivityDate="2015-12-08T10:53:35.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30482" CreationDate="2015-01-29T03:45:10.650" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why children not allowed to play a role in adult films?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_film_industry_regulations&quot;&gt;Because the law says so.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;In the United States Code of Regulations, under title Title 18, Section 2257, no performers under the age of 18 are allowed to be employed by adult industry production companies.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;but allowed in Rated R films?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because there is no law restricting it. Furthermore there's the practical issue that the rating comes &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the film is made, so there'd be no real way to police this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;we all know Rated R films are not suitable for kids&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, sure, but on a case-by-case bases, that's pure opinion.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-01-29T03:45:10.650" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30483" CreationDate="2015-01-29T03:48:29.333" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The major players would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the script writer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the director&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the editor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But opinions and decisions could come from a wide range of other roles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the actors&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cinematographer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the producers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the studio&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;audience (audience tests)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-01-29T03:48:29.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30494" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30501" CreationDate="2015-01-29T05:23:02.817" Score="14" ViewCount="4820" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Aliens&lt;/em&gt;, how did Newt survive while she was alone?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Early in the movie, it is revealed that the little girl, Newt, had survived alone for several days among the aliens -- the very same aliens that seemed to have no trouble killing every other person in Newt's colony, and later killed several professional soldiers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me the aliens might have let Newt live, perhaps because they have some sort of taboo against killing unaccompanied kids -- or they leave her as bait to entice more humans. But maybe Newt just found a secret compartment or something. Is there any decent evidence, in-movie or otherwise, that sheds light on how Newt survived?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2015-01-29T06:04:55.307" LastActivityDate="2019-11-19T20:20:34.893" Title="How did Newt survive while she was alone?" Tags="|plot-explanation|aliens|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30498" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="101173" CreationDate="2015-01-29T06:24:32.543" Score="2" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the finale of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0934814/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chuck&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Season 4, Morgan finds a corrupted version of the Intersect in the box belonging to Chuck and uploads it to his brain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who build those glasses? And who took it to the Castle?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, there are only three big bad guys in the story left at that point: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Decker (who was blackmailed by Chuck a few moments ago)   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shaw (sitting in jail) and  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quinn (who is likely not to have the resources to do this).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-12-14T09:51:15.833" LastActivityDate="2019-05-23T22:43:05.653" Title="Who manufactured the corrupt Intersect and deposited it in the castle?" Tags="|plot-explanation|chuck|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30480" CreationDate="2015-01-29T06:38:17.167" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/825641.stm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;According to Ridley Scott&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;yes, he is a replicant&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Director's Cut version, the biggest clue for analysts was the appearance of a unicorn on screen while Deckard is lost in thought. The image of the mythical creature appears again towards the end of the film when he picks up an origami model discarded by another character, Gaff. As the replicants had no memories of their own, they had to be implanted, and fans interpreted the appearance of the model as a sign that Gaff knew what Deckard was thinking because it was an image shared by other non-humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In Channel 4's documentary On The Edge Of Blade Runner, Scott discusses the scenes and asked what they mean, he confirms with a grin: &amp;quot;He's a replicant&amp;quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another hint in the film comes from the number of replicants which Deckard is hunting. We find out that six had made their way to earth, one of whom was killed. Deckard is looking for four, begging the question: &amp;quot;Who is the fifth replicant?&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the relevant clip here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_7o0rvVxU0w?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-01-29T06:38:17.167" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30494" CreationDate="2015-01-29T06:40:49.273" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short (pun) answer is she was small.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The long answer is a series of lucky circumstances left Newt the lone survivor of the alien infestation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Size&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jamescamerononline.com/AliensFAQ.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;JamesCameronOnline.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire colony was enormous in size, with multiple large complexes connected together.  And as seen in the movie, aliens retreated to the hive deserting the entire place. Newt played with other kids hiding in the vents before the colony became infested and she was the best in fitting in tight spots. That's why she got called Newt. That's how she survived the initial attack by going into small places no one else could fit and then when the alien warriors deserted the place and retreated into the hive under the heat exchanger, she moved around through the vent tunnels. By that point the place was relatively safe since aliens lied dormant in their hives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Age&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her age also probably helped since she would have been considered too young to assist with the defense of Hadley's Hope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Gender&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Newt's gender may have also helped. While Newt's brother, Tim may have had the size requirements to fit in the hiding places Newt used, he may have felt the need to defend his sister causing his death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Interests&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Newt's interests may have also helped. In her introductory scene she expresses her interest in mazes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NEWT &amp;quot;Daddy, when are we going back to town?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JORDEN &amp;quot;When we get rich, Newt.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NEWT &amp;quot;You always say that.  I wanna go back.  I wanna play 'Monster Maze.'&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TIM &amp;quot;You cheat too much.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NEWT &amp;quot;Do not.  I'm just the best.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user9311" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2019-11-19T20:20:34.893" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30486" CreationDate="2015-01-29T06:41:12.337" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember this dialogue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Creedy: Die! Die! Why won't you die?... Why won't you die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there&#xA;  is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;V's face was never important, he was represented as an Idea in film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Even in the novels, V's true identity is a mystery and he visibly removes his mask only once during the entire story (at Surridge's request), at which point his back is to the reader and his face cannot be seen. Surridge tells him &quot;it's beautiful&quot;, in contrast to her personal notes, where she mentions that the man in cell V was ugly.&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_%28comics%29#Identity&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he was an idea or a symbol, not a face and both novel and movie writer deliberately do not show his face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-01T09:48:32.223" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T09:48:32.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30503" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30517" CreationDate="2015-01-29T09:02:11.143" Score="6" ViewCount="24898" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1600196/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;The Drop&quot;&gt;The Drop&lt;/a&gt;, we see how Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) who acted as the bartender for Cousin Marv (James Gandolfini):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of the kid that got the money from the loan shark that is cousin Marv and then paid him back, apparently Cousin Marv didn't appreciate that, and got him killed. However the cops were unable to relate Bob to the murder. And everybody around town were suspecting the bit of lunatic Eric Deeds of the act. However, it is revealed that Eric couldn't possibly be part of the murder since that day he was at a mental institute. Which leads to my question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WHY didn't the cops act on a 10 year old murder with clear evidence that the main suspect is not guilty and the real killer is still on the loose? Am I missing something here? Couldn't they trace back the loan he got from Cousin Marv? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18454" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-11-25T01:20:24.043" LastActivityDate="2017-11-25T01:20:24.043" Title="Why didn't the cops investigate Richie Whelan's murder?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-drop|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30512" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-29T13:07:12.820" Score="3" ViewCount="693" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know that there was two Lego versions of Millhouse from the Simpsons. one was in the Lego Movie and the other in The Simpsons episode - a Brick like me. But in the Lego Movie Millhouse is called a master builder. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can Millhouse count as a master builder if he wasn't a master builder in the episode a brick like me as the only two in the Simpsons episode was Bart and Comic book guy &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18396" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-06-23T13:56:01.817" LastActivityDate="2017-06-23T13:56:01.817" Title="Master builder in Lego Movie and Simpsons a Brick like me" Tags="|character|the-simpsons|the-lego-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30512" CreationDate="2015-01-29T13:15:05.593" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simpson is not canonical to Lego movie. Here Simpsons spokesperson’s word on the topic-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Simpsons show-runner Al Jean also explained that the episode is&#xA;  not trying to copy The Lego Movie, saying: &quot;None of us saw the movie&#xA;  until very late in the process — long after our story was set.&quot;&#xA;  Matt Selman added: &quot;Any similarities are completely unintentional. We&#xA;  didn't even know there was a movie. Nobody at Lego told us about it&#xA;  until after the point of no return. But at the eleventh hour, we did&#xA;  manage to sneak in a little wink to the film. - &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_Like_Me#Production&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2015-01-29T13:15:05.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30472" CreationDate="2015-01-29T13:48:20.257" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have magnetic balls, and have slipped magnets into the wheel under 11, 12 and 13, then it makes it infinitely more probable that the ball will go to the magnet. Of course, if it's a weak magnet then the ball can conceivably pop out of the slot and into an adjacent one, but it still improves the odds greatly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that they didn't risk it and used stronger magnets. A magnet can be charged (think of a junkyard and how they pick up and drop scrap metal), so the lighters that sonnik mentioned in his comment above were probably the &quot;On&quot; switch.  The same lighter would be useful in both games, as they're performing the same function; turning the charged magnet on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-01-29T13:48:20.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30503" CreationDate="2015-01-29T15:07:17.783" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both Marv and Eric are now dead. So the cops don't actually know anything new based on that (aside from the one cop that knew Bob was the guilty one all along). So I'd say there's no new 'clear evidence' to act upon. As to why they didn't investigate earlier, I believe the issue was that the hospitalization alibi wasn't shared information between the policing departments. This seems common both in movies and real life where even though departments are seemingly on the 'same side of the law' there is internal competition and conflict between them preventing open sharing of data. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2015-01-30T17:10:25.130" LastActivityDate="2015-01-30T17:10:25.130" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30524" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-29T20:17:15.327" Score="8" ViewCount="395" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been at least two years now since bits of a movie short started echoing around in my head and I'd like to get them  out. I've searched using every term I can think of and can't root out the clip. It might not even be a short, there is a good chance it  was a music video. All of the details below are subject to my imagination and poor memory, but as best as I can...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scenes are animated and hazy, the palette is dark and muted. The soundtrack is lively and possibly French or other non-English. A man has a nightmare in which he wakes up and everything is broken. He follows a sound, looking for or following something, but the world around him does nothing but play him dirty tricks. Physics especially is no friend. He goes through a a door and gravity changes directions, he falls into a mirror and clashes through an atrium. There is water in various scenes, and at some point I think he gets into a fight.  Or narrowly misses being decked  or something. Maybe he sees bad guys around a corner? At some point he stops his following or searching and tries to make his way back, then eventually wakes up or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's about all. But the feeling of &quot;what &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; that&quot; won't leave. The closest thing I've come across is the brilliant &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/UGtKGX8B9hU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Le Café short&lt;/a&gt; which my gut instinct tells me is about the same genre. Other ones I've run across in the hunt that are similar in visual style even though the themes are different are &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/nEgOK0WyDj4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Matter Fisher&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/m01y5viJJpA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lifeline&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/DIri3-M-BTo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hum&lt;/a&gt; and even the strange and disturbing &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/FGj74CRn8xo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Luica&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/veMBIWv0ews&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Luis&lt;/a&gt; shorts. &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/XfAKFAnm0JU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Contamination&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/hbb0jPZlFMU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Suprise&lt;/a&gt; also has a similar palettes. But none of these are &quot;it&quot;. Nor is this going to be a feature film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354899/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Science of Sleep&lt;/a&gt; or an advertisement like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbBNScrYN10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Adidas commercial&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what do I know anyway? Maybe the nightmare was mine and there never was such a short. Maybe I had too much coffee that day and watched something else and just imagined it all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12971" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-10-15T21:44:19.400" LastActivityDate="2016-10-15T21:44:19.400" Title="What is the short in which a man has a nightmare complete with broken physics?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|short-films|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:33:13.003" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30472" CreationDate="2015-01-30T00:08:06.880" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie they did not explain the roulette hack. The numbers they bet on, 11, 12 and 13 are giving homage to the three movies they created, Oceans 11, Oceans 12, and Oceans 13.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18524" LastActivityDate="2015-01-30T00:08:06.880" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26466" CreationDate="2015-01-30T03:28:53.883" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yea I agree.. Taking libertys that weren't his to take. Pretty much Walt was pissed all of his money was getting pissed away through all the fingers in the pie lol but most of all when the legacy cost had to get paid now Walt is starting to think Mike is stepping over boundarys. Mike was with the attorney when the visited the dealers in prison. Mike promised them all that &quot;THEY WOULD BE MADE WHOLE&quot;. but unknown to the rest Mike had failed to communicate that. Its so funny Jesse is such a gutless turd what does he do &quot;GO AHEAD TAKE MINE IDC&quot; He is such a tool. But not to get off track At that point Walt was considering Mike had to go for giving out legacy cost without consulting with him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18525" LastActivityDate="2015-01-30T03:28:53.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30537" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-30T06:53:39.983" Score="3" ViewCount="432" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did Julian Assange say or acknowledge being said the following dialogue in real life which appears on &lt;a href=&quot;https://wikileaks.org/The-Fifth-Estate.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Fifth Estate&lt;/strong&gt; script&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  It takes two things to change the&#xA;  world. You'd be surprised how many&#xA;  people have ideas. But commitment,&#xA;  true commitment, that's the hard&#xA;  one. It requires sacrifice.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8546" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T16:31:40.717" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T16:31:40.717" Title="Can this quote from The Fifth Estate be attributed to Julian Assange?" Tags="|dialogue|the-fifth-estate|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28444" CreationDate="2015-01-30T22:04:42.453" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is how the very first short story in Adventures of Sherlock holmes - The Scandal in bohemia starts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To Sherlock Holmes she is always &lt;strong&gt;the woman&lt;/strong&gt;. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and here is how that story ends&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honorable title of &lt;strong&gt;the woman&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your question I believe the stress Sherlock makes when he is pronouncing that might be a simple homage to the actual story and to highlight his fondness for Irene Adler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2015-01-30T22:04:42.453" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30551" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30626" CreationDate="2015-01-31T02:09:34.813" Score="6" ViewCount="679" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://seattletimes.com/html/entertainment/2025573683_oscarshortsxml.html?syndication=rss&quot;&gt;2015 Academy Nominated Animated Shorts&lt;/a&gt; are making the rounds in theaters right now. I can't find any specific information on the age appropriateness of the content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know if this is family friendly? I realize that's a subjective question so perhaps a better thing to ask is if anyone knows if there are any particular parts of the series that could be seen as not kid friendly to some people? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following shorts were nominated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Single Life&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Dam Keeper&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Feast&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Me and My Moulton&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Bigger Picture&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T15:41:55.780" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T15:41:55.780" Title="Are the 2015 Academy Nominated Animated Shorts family friendly?" Tags="|animation|content-rating|academy-awards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27035" CreationDate="2015-01-31T04:15:09.947" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the original story the movie is based on, &lt;em&gt;La Mécanique du Cœur&lt;/em&gt;, he does not die, his clock heart actually has a real heart grow in its place but Madeline does not tell him the truth for fear of losing him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do think in the movie, we are supposed to think he has died. I believe he is &quot;climbing into heaven&quot; and leaving her behind. The pause in the film is his final memory as he leaves, which is why she doesn't move when time stops as she does in other parts of the movie, she has been left behind from this final fantasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18547" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-01-31T11:45:32.130" LastActivityDate="2015-01-31T11:45:32.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30558" CreationDate="2015-01-31T04:17:52.303" Score="8" ViewCount="2526" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Imitation Game there's this 'aha' moment where they realize IF they know the contents of the morning weather report they can use that to break the enigma. They can use the common phrases found in the message, like &quot;weather&quot; or &quot;heil Hitler&quot; to decider the code. It makes sense that they used these common phrases to help break the code. But how did they have the weather messages decoded in the first place before they were able to break the code?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18545" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2015-02-17T23:56:03.620" LastActivityDate="2019-03-14T13:01:08.213" Title="How do they know the contents of the morning weather report message before they break the code?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-imitation-game|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30557" CreationDate="2015-01-31T04:29:08.050" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;They know about the morning weather report because there are a small number of messages that were broken by hand using traditional code breaking techniques. The number of messages broken by hand was too small to provide useful intelligence, but enough to give them the crucial clue on what to have the machine look for when searching for the key that would allow them to break &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; the messages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1357" LastActivityDate="2015-01-31T04:29:08.050" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11810" CreationDate="2015-01-31T07:14:40.647" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it could be one of two possible reasons &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A:  Sam had the obsidian/dragon glass &#xA;             OR&#xA;B:   Maybe Sam being a virgin has something to do with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just an opinion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18551" LastActivityDate="2015-01-31T07:14:40.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30566" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-31T07:44:09.080" Score="3" ViewCount="1044" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Many_Loves_of_Dobie_Gillis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Dobie's best friend is Maynard G. Krebs, as played by Bob Denver.  Maynard is a beatnik, loves jazz, and is quite out of touch with reality.  I don't remember any hints or indirect references to him using drugs.  In the 1960s, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna-Barbera&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hanna-Barbera&lt;/a&gt; created &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo,_Where_Are_You!&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scooby Doo, Where Are You?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and the main characters were based on the four main characters of the first season of &lt;em&gt;Dobie Gillis&lt;/em&gt;.  (Freddie was based on Dobie, Shaggy on Maynard, Daphne on Thalia Menninger, and Velma on Zelda.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people point out that Shaggy shows all the signs of being a heavy pot smoker (always hungry, always eating, but never gaining weight, talks to his dog all the time...), but I've never seen any hints that the character he was based on, Maynard G. Krebs, was supposed to be on drugs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, this was the 1950s, so the producers could not make direct references to drug use in a family show, but there never seemed to be even indirect references or indications of drug us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there ever any indication Maynard used drugs?  Were there ever comments from producers or writers or actors that it was assumed but not shown?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="688" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T16:27:09.587" LastActivityDate="2018-06-25T11:42:26.520" Title="Was there supposed to be any implication Maynard G. Krebs used drugs?" Tags="|character|dobie-gillis|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15756" CreationDate="2015-01-31T08:33:42.073" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes an actor, or actress, really sucks, and the only reason the final performance is any good is because of the director or the editing staff, who get all the credit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18553" LastActivityDate="2015-01-31T08:33:42.073" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15756" CreationDate="2015-01-31T09:25:28.867" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen &lt;em&gt;Mystic River&lt;/em&gt;, so I don't know how big Eli Wallach's role is and I don't recognize Olivia Williams enough to look for her in &lt;em&gt;X-Men: First Class&lt;/em&gt;, so I can't speak to these two specifically but, on the topic of Cameos:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameo_appearance&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki article&lt;/a&gt; for &amp;quot;Cameo appearance&amp;quot; pretty much does all of the answering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These roles are generally small, many of them non-speaking ones, and are commonly either appearances in a work in which they hold some special significance (such as actors from an original movie appearing in its remake), or renowned people making &lt;strong&gt;uncredited&lt;/strong&gt; appearances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why aren't they credited?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cameos are generally not credited because of their brevity, or a perceived mismatch between the celebrity's stature and the film or TV show in which he or she is appearing. Many are publicity stunts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Refusing Credit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some performers opt not to take credit for a project. They will do this either for professional reasons (they don't want to be associated with a really bad film) or because the process of working on the film was unpleasant.  For example, Don Cheadle in &lt;em&gt;Ocean's Eleven&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kamwilliams.com/2009/01/don-cheadle-hotel-for-dogs-interview.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;refused to be listed&lt;/a&gt; in the credits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;KW: I’ve noticed that you sometimes appear uncredited in movies, like in &lt;em&gt;Ocean’s 11&lt;/em&gt; [sic] and &lt;em&gt;Rush Hour 2&lt;/em&gt;. Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DC: For different reasons. I did &lt;em&gt;Rush Hour 2&lt;/em&gt; just as kind of a laugh, so I didn’t really need a credit. To me, it was fine if people recognized me. And if they didn’t, that was fine, too. &lt;strong&gt;With Ocean’s, there was some stuff that happened behind the scenes that I didn’t like how it went down, so I just said, “Take my name off it.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The situation must have gotten better, though, as he came back for two more films, in which he was credited. With &lt;em&gt;Rush Hour 2&lt;/em&gt;, I'm guessing that fits more into the cameo-type appearance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extras&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's another possible explanation... as hinted at above when they say &lt;em&gt;non-speaking roles&lt;/em&gt;... if a performer doesn't say anything on screen they can be considered an extra and extras never get credited. Even when cast in a speaking role, if all of a performer's lines are out of the final edit, they may not get credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As to pay&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extras get paid very little in films, even if a film is shot in an area where SAG has extras jurisdiction (SAG extras in theatrical projects currently make $157/day for 8 hours). If there's no SAG jurisdiction, they usually get paid minimum wage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking roles in SAG films get paid on a daily or weekly rate depending on the number of shooting days for their role. Bigger name performers can earn double or triple scale or, if they're big enough, can set their own salary. Sometimes, they will work out a &lt;em&gt;no-quote&lt;/em&gt; rate with a lower budget project they just want to work on, which means they're taking less than usual on a project but it's in their contract that production can not divulge what the performer made. They will still get credit and will often say, &amp;quot;I'm taking a pay cut, give me a single or shared card at the beginning/end rather than just putting my name in the scroll&amp;quot;... and sometimes they'll get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current SAG Rate sheet good through mid-2017 for full-budget Theatrical projects can be downloaded from their site &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sagaftra.org/rate-sheet-theatrical-sag-aftra&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SAG doesn't set rates for big name talent, their agents and managers do, so talent can take as little as they want provided it's, at minimum, SAG scale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T17:02:59.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23735" CreationDate="2015-01-31T12:09:58.803" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the parents were startled by seeing Theo and Isa sleeping naked together because these two characters, Siamese twins, portrayed very strangely in the movie, like, they sleep naked next to each other, they bath together and so on. But what definitely shocked them is seeing Matthew in the same condition alongside them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though the parents have witnessed a scene as unpleasant as it can be, they're still their kids, and you know how parents are so liberal towards their children now-a-days, &quot;They're kids and it's life&quot; kinda attitude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the parents might be thinking not to embarrass one another by waking them up and the parents left the cheque because their kids are still college students and they don't earn anything for a living.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2015-01-31T12:09:58.803" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11639" CreationDate="2015-01-31T13:50:30.003" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jedidiah Sawyer is the name of the little kid that played in texas chainsaw massacra 2003 &#xA;and they also show you in that movie that the little kid has the same teeth that you always have seen underneath leatherface his mask.&#xA;so its just a little twist in the story that try's to say that Jedidiah will become the next leatherface and he's the little brother of Thomas Bubba Hewitt&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18555" LastActivityDate="2015-01-31T13:50:30.003" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30576" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-31T14:00:31.790" Score="8" ViewCount="15738" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are the same cameras used for TV series and movies? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18556" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-01-31T20:01:54.663" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T13:54:12.683" Title="Is the same camera used for TV series and movies?" Tags="|cinematography|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30579" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-01-31T14:51:09.443" Score="0" ViewCount="904" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Inception movie climax, why does the director cut to black before the spinning top is shown coming to rest? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18556" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2015-01-31T18:03:06.043" LastActivityDate="2015-02-01T03:31:59.050" Title="In Inception movie final scene, why does the spinning top never comes to rest?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-02-02T05:56:03.293" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15756" CreationDate="2015-01-31T15:22:37.153" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;An example, &lt;em&gt;Swing Kids&lt;/em&gt; (1993)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As explained in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108265/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kenneth Branagh is reported to have refused any billing at all rather than be billed above Christian Bale and the other boys who he said were the stars of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18249" LastActivityDate="2015-01-31T15:22:37.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30576" CreationDate="2015-01-31T21:21:47.000" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely not. It changes from movie to movie, series to series, and scene to scene. Game of Thrones, for example, definitely uses cameras that are on par with the best movie cameras, but The Flash is much lower quality. One of the biggest changes you'll notice is in movies with indoors and outdoor scenes. In Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, I distinctly remember the camera quality dropping through the floor when they transitioned to inside scenes, especially in the ship's cabin. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18560" LastEditorUserId="3981" LastEditDate="2016-02-29T13:54:12.683" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T13:54:12.683" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30592" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30594" CreationDate="2015-01-31T21:45:08.480" Score="2" ViewCount="1791" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there any Bollywood movies that do not have sing and dance sequences?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not looking for a list of all such movies. If this question is considered too broad, a simple yes or no answer with a brief explanation as to why (e.g. Indian movie-making traditions, culture, etc) would be sufficient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would especially love to hear about any science fiction movies (without song and dance), if such have been made in Bollywood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user18562" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T00:50:50.653" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T00:50:50.653" Title="Are there Bollywood movies (esp. Sci-Fi) without singing and dancing?" Tags="|indian-cinema|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-02-02T04:46:43.563" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30592" CreationDate="2015-01-31T22:47:29.517" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are certainly Indian films that don't have singing and dance sequences... whether you'd still call them &lt;em&gt;Bollywood&lt;/em&gt; at that point is up for debate... also remember that Bollywood strictly relates to Hindi films, generally from the Mumbai area and there are many other films made across India that are not technically Bollywood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a couple of lists of Indian films with no singing or dance scenes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/list/ls000736499/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;An IMDb List&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.top10films.co.uk/archives/12900&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Top 10 Indian Films without Song and Dance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe that any of these are particularly Sci-Fi themed but I just scanned them briefly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've only seen a few of the Sci-Fi films... there's not a ton of them in the first place. And then, there are clearly people who think Bollywood Sci Fi &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scoopwhoop.com/humor/bollywood-sci-fi-fail/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;shouldn't be a thing&lt;/a&gt;... which I had to throw in here because I thought it was funny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-01-31T22:47:29.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17909" CreationDate="2015-02-01T02:01:25.073" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a flashback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the episode Mycroft says &quot;It would take a Sherlock Holmes to fool me&quot;.  With the benefit of hindsight, this sets things up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, the message &quot;BBC1 right now. You’ll laugh&quot; shows the time and date that this episode was first shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who says that script writers don't have a sense of humour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18568" LastActivityDate="2015-02-01T02:01:25.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30579" CreationDate="2015-02-01T03:31:59.050" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to think that with all the unanswered questions this ending leaves behind, Nolan is leaving us wanting more and hinting at a sequel to resolve the ending.&#xA;I think most people believe it did fall, but Nolan is teasing us with the continued idea of these layered dreams, and trying to lure you into a dreamworld of your own.&#xA;He might want you to make the decision for yourself - whether or not it did fall... although, do you really want a solid hollywood ending where they all live happily ever after, not really. Because the whole point about this movie (and why you like it enough to ask questions about it) is that it is layered and complicated which works in its favour to allow it to finish how it did.&#xA;Therefore it could just be another cliffhanger that will never get resolved on screen, like lost or cube, these endings annoy us so much we are still celebrating and re-watching our re-watches of them, whether it's a film or programme, 10+ years later. (sorry to finish on that note, had to be done) [fade to black]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18569" LastActivityDate="2015-02-01T03:31:59.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15666" CreationDate="2015-02-01T04:10:46.103" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an error in the movie.  Since the blue and green snow are clearly melted chems, scooping up the blue snow in it's entirety would give him a liquid source of his meds.  Better than nothing.  He's too smart to not take that with him to sustain his needs until he can find more...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18573" LastActivityDate="2015-02-01T04:10:46.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4427" CreationDate="2015-02-01T11:05:00.860" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is how the Director explained it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's call the first twin &quot;Borden&quot; who loved Olivia (Scarlett Johansson) and was hanged in end, and the other twin &quot;Fallon&quot; who loved Sarah and killed Angier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was Borden who tied Julia. He was tieing simple knot then Julia insisted and he tied a Langford Double. Both twins were more curious and smarter than Angier. He did it because he wanted to do something that others couldn't (not to kill Julia as some people suggested)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was Fallon who wrote the diary, the one at Funeral and same person who got shot at play by Angier. He said that he didn't know which knot he tied because he never asked Borden, because he didn't want to know the truth (or maybe he knew the truth).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Borden's character was less mature in the whole movie. He tied Langford Doubles even though Cutter (Michael Caine) warned him not to, he had an affair with Olivia even though he was married, he went to Angier's play even though his brother told him to leave him to his own damn trick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only question worth asking is,&quot;is it possible that Angier encountered the same twin every time he asked which knot he tied&quot;. I would say the story goes where the writer points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18580" LastEditorUserId="47145" LastEditDate="2018-01-06T14:39:14.840" LastActivityDate="2018-01-06T14:39:14.840" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30609" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30611" CreationDate="2015-02-01T12:39:26.863" Score="0" ViewCount="76573" Body="&lt;p&gt;What song was played during the credits of &lt;em&gt;Kingsman: The Secret Service&lt;/em&gt;? Unfortunately my mobile battery drained out hence I wasn't able to Shazam it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18581" LastEditorUserId="15418" LastEditDate="2015-02-01T15:03:29.587" LastActivityDate="2015-04-11T16:25:00.837" Title="What song was played during credits of the kingsman?" Tags="|ending|soundtrack|credits|kingsman-the-secret-service|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-02-01T20:57:19.813" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30610" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30629" CreationDate="2015-02-01T12:42:03.757" Score="3" ViewCount="1235" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the dinner scene, when Beetlejuice tries to get the Deetz to leave the house for the first time, they all (except Lydia) get possessed and start to dance to the Banana Boat Song:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/DLOUqizemI0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At around 00:53 (timestamp based on the YouTube clip above), Lydia just stands up and goes away. At no point in time does she seem to follow the others' movement. Everyone else seems to be bound to the table, unable to move on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this ever explained? Is it because she's &quot;special&quot; (same reason she's able to see the Maitlands)? Or did Beetlejuice cast an eye on her already? Or was this the work of the Maitlands only? If so, how did they learn to summon the hands from the shrimp cocktails?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastEditorUserId="40573" LastEditDate="2016-08-30T07:03:41.463" LastActivityDate="2016-08-30T07:03:41.463" Title="How does Lydia &quot;escape&quot; the dinner scene?" Tags="|plot-explanation|beetlejuice|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30609" CreationDate="2015-02-01T12:49:54.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've not seen it, but the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsman:_The_Secret_Service&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; for Kingsman says:&#xA;&quot;A song from Take That's seventh studio album III, &quot;Get Ready for It&quot;, will play during the end credits.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtube.com/watch?v=4f59ZtVeTr0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this (YouTube link)&lt;/a&gt; the one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18193" LastEditorUserId="18193" LastEditDate="2015-04-11T16:25:00.837" LastActivityDate="2015-04-11T16:25:00.837" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30612" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-01T13:30:27.730" Score="7" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;12 Monkeys&lt;/em&gt;, Season 1, Episode 3, when James Cole tells Cassandra that he might see her in Haiti she replies: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Okay, well, when you're there, you do me a favor, and you stay away&#xA;  from me. Got it?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did she say that? She was wrong about a virus on Haiti and embarrassed herself so why didn't she ask Cole to warn her? Is it just so that the future of events doesn't change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Jones always warns James not to affect the future and I think that he never did, maybe he can't change the future and all he does is affect the events that already happened in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3240" LastEditorUserId="34402" LastEditDate="2018-06-14T15:16:42.540" LastActivityDate="2018-06-14T15:16:42.540" Title="Why does Cassandra tell James Cole to stay away from her in Haiti?" Tags="|analysis|12-monkeys-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30613" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-01T14:16:42.430" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Directed and written by Michael and Peter Spierig.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to ensure the continuation of his law enforcement career for all eternity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3240" LastEditorUserId="3240" LastEditDate="2015-02-01T18:21:13.047" LastActivityDate="2015-02-01T18:21:13.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30614" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-01T14:16:42.430" Score="0" Body="Michael and Peter Spierig's 2014 movie about a Temporal Agent" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-02-13T09:43:37.293" LastActivityDate="2015-02-13T09:43:37.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30615" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30618" CreationDate="2015-02-01T14:19:24.700" Score="3" ViewCount="9344" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1483998584&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.amazon.com/Wish-Want-Do/dp/1483998584&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The author is Brian H. Griffin. Is this book real? I thought it was a joke but it is a printed version and is on Amazon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16504" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T22:07:11.033" Title="Family Guy &quot;Wish it. Want it. Do it.&quot; based on a real book?" Tags="|family-guy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30616" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-01T14:21:12.220" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-02-01T14:21:12.220" LastActivityDate="2015-02-01T14:21:12.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30617" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-01T14:21:12.220" Score="0" Body="A TV series or film that takes inspiration and characters from another but does not directly continue the story in the manner of a sequel. To be used for question pertaining to the intricacies of spin-offs specifically, not for any kind of question about some spin-off." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-25T18:35:24.143" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T18:35:24.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30615" CreationDate="2015-02-01T14:34:02.633" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it worth noting that the book was published in 2013 while the original episode aired back in 2010, so it is safe to say the episode was not based on the book.  It is more likely that the opposite is true, based on the wikipedia page &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Writes_a_Bestseller#Influence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;for the episode&lt;/a&gt; (the &quot;Influence&quot; section mentions the book).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the wikipedia page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A book with the same title by a quasi homonymous author, Brian H. Griffin, is available on Amazon.com. It should be noted that the author pictured in the back cover isn't the animated character Brian Griffin. Just as the book described in the episode, its content consists in truisms and blank pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16556" LastActivityDate="2015-02-01T14:34:02.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30621" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-01T16:34:09.693" Score="19" ViewCount="33443" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mike clearly doesn't like Walt.  He's upset that Walt was unwilling to just 'know his place', cook meth, and make as much money as he wanted.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it ever explained why Mike doesn't feel the same way about Gus?  Gus and Walt share many of the same personality traits and seem to be nearly the same in how they handle the meth business.  Gus isn't content with the money he was making and is willing to kick-off an international drug war, including personally poisoning countless cartel members.  All to increase his profits/settle old scores.  And Mike seems happy to stand by his side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's different between Gus's grab for power compared to Walt's?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3447" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-02-02T09:45:56.173" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T06:46:50.600" Title="Why Does Mike Dislike Walt, But Not Gus?" Tags="|analysis|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30624" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-01T18:41:26.517" Score="1" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for five properties which repeated in Martin Scorsese movies.&#xA;I found already two: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Practice in the Italian-American family.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Criticism of Hollywood.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would love if you could help me find another three characteristics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18584" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2015-02-01T20:31:17.030" LastActivityDate="2015-02-02T22:12:20.523" Title="Returning Properties in Martin Scorsese movies" Tags="|martin-scorsese|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30625" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35947" CreationDate="2015-02-01T22:52:23.373" Score="2" ViewCount="2699" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the scene in the house, when a single alien was approaching, the dog went after him barking. Then we heard a whine, thinking the alien killed him. But later in the movie, the dog was very much alive. What exactly happened? Did the alien let him live? Was that another dog?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18586" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T00:15:02.093" Title="In the movie Cowboys and Aliens, did the alien kill the dog?" Tags="|plot-explanation|cowboys-and-aliens|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30551" CreationDate="2015-02-02T01:20:34.847" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my thoughts on the Animated shorts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR : Content is probably fine... better with 10+ probably?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Minor spoilers below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Me and My Moulton&lt;/em&gt; - About a kid. If you're extremely puritanical, there's a short sequence of nude, animated, barely anatomical male and female bodies... and a granny in underwear.  Non-sexual. There's also a brief moment of gun violence.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BMRvY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Nudity in *Me and My Moulton*&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Feast&lt;/em&gt; - About a guy, his dog, and the lady in their life, told through the dog's dinner bowl. Disney. Nothing here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Bigger Picture&lt;/em&gt; - About two sons caring for their aging mother. Real life situations that aren't particularly pleasant but no violence or nudity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Single Life&lt;/em&gt; - A woman going through various parts of her life. Nothing here. (really funny, though and only 2 minutes long!)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dam Keeper&lt;/em&gt; - A pig who lives on the dam for their town is teased by his school peers. Major themes in this one are about bullying... probably actually good for a kid to see, provided parents are willing to discuss with the kid.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where I saw the shorts, they included four additional shorts. They were all fine, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sweet Cocoon&lt;/em&gt; - A caterpillar needs some help getting into her cocoon. Animated bugs. Very French.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Footprints&lt;/em&gt; - A man is woken in the night and follows footprints to figure out who broke his window. Contains a shotgun and some gunfire.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Duet&lt;/em&gt; - A boy and girl growing up through life's various stages. Nothing here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bus Story&lt;/em&gt; - A woman wants to be a school bus driver and this follows her first year doing it. Mild, accidental animal violence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-02-02T01:20:34.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30627" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-02T02:22:06.833" Score="5" ViewCount="13294" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are James Bond roles not played by American actors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sean Connery is British&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;George Lazenby is Australia&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Roger Moore is British&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Timothy Dalton is British&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pierce Brosnan is Irish&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Craig is British&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond#Films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond#Films&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18587" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2017-06-30T18:31:54.857" LastActivityDate="2018-11-30T03:36:53.390" Title="Why are James Bond roles not played by American actors?" Tags="|james-bond|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30610" CreationDate="2015-02-02T04:37:29.553" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was the work of the Maitlands &lt;strong&gt;only.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;About the hands... I believe that it was as easy as turn their faces into horror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saludos&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18590" LastActivityDate="2015-02-02T04:37:29.553" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30631" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-02T05:27:36.660" Score="5" ViewCount="10821" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Taken 3, inspector Dotzler both constantly plays around with either a rubber band or a white knight (chess piece).  I never really quite understood the significance of either one of these, but they seemed important because they both showed up several times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why were they signifigant to Dotzler's character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-02T12:45:54.220" LastActivityDate="2017-03-11T12:40:03.150" Title="What was the deal with Dotzler?" Tags="|character|taken-3|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30633" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-02T05:39:52.767" Score="9" ViewCount="1107" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is the poster of the movie &amp;quot;The Theory of Everything&amp;quot; rotated 90 degrees clockwise? In which way does this relate to the story and themes of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Owyig.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Publicity poster&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16227" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2020-10-14T09:23:10.477" LastActivityDate="2020-10-15T20:48:44.877" Title="Why is the poster of The Theory of Everything rotated 90 degrees clockwise?" Tags="|posters|the-theory-of-everything|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30621" CreationDate="2015-02-02T09:41:53.187" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Summing it up in 3 main points, though they're all connected, really. Spoilers galore, or course:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Loyalty is important to Mike.&lt;/strong&gt; For instance, he's adamant about keeping his word and paying Gus's jailed men their cut which Walt is reluctant to do, leading to a major disagreement between them. Mike has known Gus for years and Gus trusts him as his close advisor; Gus is also usually loyal to his own men - he stayed loyal to Maximino, for instance, and he and Mike won't allow Jesse to kill Gus's dealers who used a kid (Tomas) to kill Combo, but Walt then kills them anyway. Also note how distraught Mike is when Gus kills Victor - he actually &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1L6jQ0Pfrw&amp;amp;t=1m22s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;aims his gun at Gus&lt;/a&gt; for a moment. This simply seems unacceptable to him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gus is a 'real' boss, Walt is not.&lt;/strong&gt; Due to his code, then, Mike respects bosses. Gus has not only run a meth empire for many years, he's also a successful business magnate and restaurant chain owner. As Napoleon said above, Gus knows the business; he's organized, calculated and able to manage all the moving parts. Walt, on the other hand, is interested in small, unstable operations where he and Jesse do most of the work, Walt gets most of the money and everyone else is disposable. This goes against Mike's code.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walt is a newcomer and a wildcard&lt;/strong&gt;. Remember that the show &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/3785/how-much-time-has-passed-in-breaking-bad&quot;&gt;only spans 2 years&lt;/a&gt; and Mike only comes into contact with Walt during season 2. Mike, a hardened man in his 60s who has rather old-fashioned views and dislikes complications, had already formed a rapport with Gus when Walt showed up and (in less than a year, if I'm not mistaken) caused Mike nothing but unnecessary headaches: Walt has a brother-in-law in the DEA, insists on working with loose-cannon Jesse, kills Gus's 2 dealers and gets Gale and Victor killed and then Gus himself, putting Mike's main employement at risk.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's no wonder Mike roughs Walt up in the bar in season 4 when Walt suggests taking Gus down. Walt is disloyal (for the most part), untrustworthy, disorganized and unpredictable, and is prone to desparation and panic. It's not a man that Mike, who's comfortable being a right-hand man, would ever like to serve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T09:15:25.803" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30636" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30638" CreationDate="2015-02-02T09:43:35.827" Score="29" ViewCount="20442" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've learned from multiple sources (IMDb, BuzzFeed) that every single note was played perfectly in &lt;em&gt;Amadeus&lt;/em&gt;. My question is this: was the person playing those notes the actor Tom Hulce himself, or a double? Did he have training in music? Did he learn to play in order to prepare for the role?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastActivityDate="2017-06-11T13:08:56.790" Title="In the movie 'Amadeus', did Tom Hulce play all the correct piano notes himself?" Tags="|amadeus|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30636" CreationDate="2015-02-02T12:06:46.423" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would appear that Hulce played the piano for the part, but this was so that his performance would be more believable. The soundtrack itself was pre-recorded, I'll bet to ensure authenticity. Here is an excerpt from an interview with Hulce from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20089375,00.html&quot;&gt;People Magazine in December 1984&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although the movie's sound track was prerecorded with professional musicians, Hulce really is pounding out those notes. &quot;It was my job to have it all seem effortless and believable,&quot; Hulce says. &quot;I never knew when the camera was going to be on my fingers.&quot; Before going to Prague for filming, Hulce hired a piano teacher. &quot;I spent four weeks, four to five hours a day learning to play. The first two days were scales and exercises. The next day was a concerto.&quot; All that hard work had an unexpected payoff. &quot;It helped me understand Mozart,&quot; claims Hulce. &quot;How someone could write from morning to dark, then go out and drink and dance and carry on. The energy from my piano playing got me all revved up to go out and trash myself.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2015-02-02T12:06:46.423" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30639" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30640" CreationDate="2015-02-02T12:18:28.900" Score="1" ViewCount="75828" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am watching &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=Running%20Man&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Running Man&lt;/a&gt; recently. I noticed that they used MC,PD,FD sometime. I can guess that MC may refer to the host/hostess. After I Google a lot of times, MC may be &lt;strong&gt;Master of ceremonies&lt;/strong&gt;. But I am not sure. However I don't know what PD and FD refer to. Please help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7280" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-03-26T13:04:29.753" LastActivityDate="2019-03-02T08:36:33.477" Title="What's the meaning of MC, PD, FD in Korean TV serial Running Man?" Tags="|running-man|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30639" CreationDate="2015-02-02T12:45:37.317" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;MC is indeed &lt;strong&gt;Host&lt;/strong&gt; (since it's what they call host &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoo_Jae-suk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Yoo Jae-suk&lt;/a&gt;);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;PD is &lt;strong&gt;Program Director&lt;/strong&gt; or Production Director (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/33041/whats-the-meaning-of-pd&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;FD is &lt;strong&gt;Floor Director&lt;/strong&gt; (see 3rd paragraph &lt;a href=&quot;http://loreinstonecities.com/2012/11/21/introduction-to-running-man-part-6-behind-the-camera/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:55:21.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-02T12:45:37.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30641" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-02T14:03:00.577" Score="1" ViewCount="1050" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://torrentfreak.com/former-movie-piracy-scene-member-speaks-out-101029/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; from former member of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Scene&lt;/a&gt; and the thing that got me interested is from whom does the group get the money?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Scene member: &quot;Yes. Absolutely. Money and those accusations have gone on for years. I can attest with certainty that I know groups that have sold.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To whom did they sell?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who buys pirated copyrighted material like television shows and series, movies, music, music videos, games, applications, ebooks, and pornography from Scene groups?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3240" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2015-02-02T15:25:49.620" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T11:27:26.433" Title="From whom do the people from The Scene get money?" Tags="|distribution|piracy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30633" CreationDate="2015-02-02T14:46:37.493" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't found any solid reasons from the designers or people who worked on the film, but here are a couple theories that fit my thoughts as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://homemaking-cottage-blog.com/the-theory-of-everything-movie-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I love that the movie poster&lt;/a&gt; is turned sideways, just like&#xA;  Stephen Hawking has done to various theories of physics and science.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only did he turn scientific theories on their sides, he also turned all expectations for his life and life expectancy on their sides. Remember when the doctor said &quot;I'm afraid average life&#xA;expectancy is two years.&quot;? He's still here 50 years later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehollywoodnews.com/2014/08/22/new-the-theory-of-everything-poster/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;To add to the slow-paced marketing&lt;/a&gt; for this title, which is the right&#xA;  way to do it, we’ve got a new poster that flips proceedings on their&#xA;  side and reflects the changes in circumstances to come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastActivityDate="2015-02-02T14:46:37.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30641" CreationDate="2015-02-02T15:03:06.127" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to go point by point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To whom did they sell? Who buys pirated copyrighted material?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pirated movie distribute&lt;/strong&gt;, they sell it through pirated DVD and CD's which are quite cheaper and in trend in under-developed countries. They are very much common in Asian market.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From whom do the people from The Scene get money?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Advertisement&lt;/strong&gt;. Torrent website link have too many advertisement and even few famous torrent force you to download codec (YiFi), in the case of Yifi print sometimes you need to complete few step before getting codec, which are to download few software, plug-in or add-on etc. Even through YiFi torrent mostly work after the codec but few other also are fake and give Trojan like viruses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And few don't even want to make money, they just want to make their name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-04-02T11:27:26.433" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T11:27:26.433" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30647" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-02T15:50:11.680" Score="6" ViewCount="19463" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: series 2 finale spoilers ahead!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Stella finally finds Rose in the series finale of &lt;em&gt;The Fall&lt;/em&gt;, the medical examiners reveal that she has carved I Love Yu (I will assume it is supposed to be I Love You) into her left arm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zdp9F.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Image of Rose's arm&lt;/a&gt; (warning: graphic!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? Is this an act against Paul, to anger him? A final message to her husband and children? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only context I can recall is her taped saying, &quot;I have loved and I am loved and you can't take that away from me!&quot; to her abductor, Paul. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12880" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-05-08T08:03:33.337" LastActivityDate="2017-02-27T12:26:03.913" Title="Rose's message in the season two finale of The Fall" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-fall-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30648" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30655" CreationDate="2015-02-02T16:25:02.050" Score="11" ViewCount="10228" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found a lot of materials recently researching on silent movies and one of them caught my attention. In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Keaton&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brazilian wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, an article about Buster Keaton says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] was an American actor and director, considered the great&#xA;  rival of Charlie Chaplin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, on what do they base this statement? If they were rivals, why would Charlie Chaplin invite him to work in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044837/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Limelight&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8mesa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;limelight&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUpiD8vEw2Y&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;And here's the scene.&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18594" LastEditorUserId="18594" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T20:33:04.647" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T01:04:03.343" Title="Was Buster Keaton really Charlie Chaplin's rival?" Tags="|silent-movie|charlie-chaplin|buster-keaton|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30627" CreationDate="2015-02-02T16:38:08.030" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, James Bond &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a British/English secret agent - working for the &lt;em&gt;British&lt;/em&gt; Secret Service (M.I. -whatever).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series have been mainly filmed in the United Kingdom (Pinewood Studios), much of it is set in the United Kingdom.  Then I guess it's a bit of a matter of patriotism - They may have lost Hong Kong and The Colonies (ie. the USA), but they're &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; about to loose 007. Besides, James Bond with an American accent?  I think not!  After all, it's easiest if you already got the correct accent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4521" LastActivityDate="2015-02-02T16:38:08.030" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4158" CreationDate="2015-02-02T17:02:23.577" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw this for the first time, and I completely believed that Benjamin and Elaine had the same father from the minute Mrs. Robinson reacted so strongly to the possibility that Ben might date Elaine.  To me, it was really obvious, so that it came as a weird surprise when that didn't pan out.  Almost as if they shot the movie with that intention and then backed out at the last second.  It made perfect sense - the close relationship of the families since before the children were conceived, Mr. Robinson's comment in the beginning to the effect of &quot;you're almost like my own son,&quot; Mrs. Robinson's willingness to sabotage her entire life to keep Ben from Elaine, even though she clearly had no personal interest in him and no jealously of him dating other girls, Mrs. R's  hatred of her husband, her taking revenge by sleeping with his partner and never telling anyone that the child wasn't his, or possibly, if Ben is really Mr. R's son, instead of the other way around, her sleeping with his son by a different woman (Which would be a trickier scenario because one would have to believe that even Ben's mom did not realize her baby came from her fling with her husband's partner, and /only/ Mrs. Robinson figured it out, but still a possibility.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18595" LastEditorUserId="18595" LastEditDate="2015-02-02T17:53:20.637" LastActivityDate="2015-02-02T17:53:20.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30651" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39021" CreationDate="2015-02-02T17:05:18.723" Score="4" ViewCount="1519" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie The Ghost Writer as soon as the Ghost leaves the Rhinehart publishing, he gets mugged by people on the bike. I couldn't figure out who caused this act in the movie or if it was in any way related to the web of deceit that the ghost would tangle himself in when he starts writing Lang's memoirs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-18T23:59:27.630" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T13:23:58.240" Title="Who are the people who mug the ghost outside of Rhinehart's publishing firm?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-ghost-writer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30652" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-02T17:06:53.520" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-02-02T17:06:53.520" LastActivityDate="2015-02-02T17:06:53.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30653" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-02T17:06:53.520" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-02-02T17:06:53.520" LastActivityDate="2015-02-02T17:06:53.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30648" CreationDate="2015-02-02T17:24:27.740" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;They were rivals because they were going after the same fan base.  Chaplin and Keaton were both masters of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_comedy&quot;&gt;Physical Comedy&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, a type of comedy that relies on what can be seen as opposed to what can be said.  Being they were from the &quot;Silent Era&quot;, that makes sense, however, few were able to truly master it and those few became the biggest stars.  Keaton and Chaplin were definitely the 2 most well-known from that era, and each had to push their art in order to get viewers to spend their money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rivals aren't always enemies.  Rivals also push each other with their drive to be the best.  If you've seen the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1979320/&quot;&gt;Rush&lt;/a&gt; that came out last year, the ending tells (in narrative form) how the 2 drivers were rivals but not enemies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-02-02T17:24:27.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30648" CreationDate="2015-02-02T17:25:45.613" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to IMDB, Keaton and Chaplin were rivals at first, but consolidated their relationship when Keaton's career declined:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He and Buster Keaton had an interesting relationship. Long considered rivals but always having avoided commenting about each other in the press, Chaplin hired Keaton for a part in Limelight (1952). Keaton, who was flat broke at the time, went into a career decline after having been signed by MGM in 1928, as the studio would not let him improvise in any of his films nor allow him any writing or directorial input, and he was eventually reduced to writing gags - often uncredited - for other comedians' films. Chaplin, at this point, felt sorry for Keaton due to his hard luck, but Keaton recognized that, despite Charlie's better fortune and far greater wealth, Chaplin was (strangely) the more depressed of the two. In one scene in &quot;Limelight&quot;, Chaplin's character was dying. While the camera was fading away, Keaton was muttering to Chaplin without moving his lips, &quot;That's it, good, wait, don't move, wait, good, we're through.&quot; In his autobiography Keaton called Chaplin &quot;the greatest silent comedian of all time&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000122/bio&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while they probably never became friends, they seem to at least had professional respect for one another, which is indicated by Chaplin inviting Keaton to his movie and Keaton's acknowledgment of Chaplin's performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2015-02-02T17:25:45.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30658" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30660" CreationDate="2015-02-02T19:51:24.290" Score="12" ViewCount="15142" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not being a native of the North American states, this &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pus6XF_qh38&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;scene&lt;/a&gt; whilst being hilarious has always bothered me as to what Gabby Johnson was really saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One person has attempted to quote him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No sayer-waining, bush-whackin', horn swogglin', cracker croaker is gonna row away Christmas cutter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; has the quote as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin' bushwackin', hornswagglin' cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly which one is correct? It appears that IMDB is closer to what is actually said. Secondly what do each of these terms mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastEditorUserId="16523" LastEditDate="2016-09-05T20:12:52.997" LastActivityDate="2019-06-06T13:27:33.653" Title="Can someone translate this authentic frontier gibberish.... Reverend!" Tags="|translation|blazing-saddles|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30659" PostTypeId="7" CreationDate="2015-02-02T20:09:53.063" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&#xA;    On Stack Exchange, we believe the core moderators should come &lt;i&gt;from&lt;/i&gt; the community, and be elected by the community itself through popular vote. We hold regular elections to determine who these community moderators will be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;    Community moderators are &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/&quot;&gt;accorded the highest level of privilege on our community&lt;/a&gt;, and should themselves be exemplars of positive behavior and leaders within the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;    Our general criteria for moderators is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li&gt;patient and fair&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li&gt;leads by example&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li&gt;shows respect for their fellow community members in their actions and words&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li&gt;open to some light but firm moderation to keep the community on track and resolve (hopefully) uncommon disputes and exceptions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;    Every election has three phases:&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li&gt;Nomination&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li&gt;Primary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;    &lt;li&gt;Election&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&#xA;    Please participate in the moderator elections by voting, and perhaps even by nominating yourself to be a community moderator!&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="20055" LastEditDate="2022-02-15T15:43:06.627" LastActivityDate="2022-02-15T15:43:06.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30658" CreationDate="2015-02-02T20:17:19.267" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears (from listening to the clip) that imdb is more correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and &lt;strong&gt;dad gum it&lt;/strong&gt;, I am&#xA;  gonna die here, an no &lt;strong&gt;sidewindin' bushwackin', hornswagglin' cracker&#xA;  croaker&lt;/strong&gt; is gonna &lt;strong&gt;rouin&lt;/strong&gt; me &lt;strong&gt;bishen cutter&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dad gum it&lt;/strong&gt; = god damn it&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;sidewinding&lt;/strong&gt; = The action of avoiding a promise that has been made beforehand by shifting the conversation topic to something else. To squirm out of a deal.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;bushwhacking&lt;/strong&gt; = to lie in wait&quot;, &quot;to ambush&quot;, &quot;to assault&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;hornswoggling&lt;/strong&gt; = get the better of (someone) by cheating or deception.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;cracker croaker&lt;/strong&gt; = not entirely sure, but &quot;croaker&quot; can  be &lt;a href=&quot;http://simplyreference.com/Reference/Definition/croaker&quot;&gt;defined&lt;/a&gt; as a person who grumbles or habitually predicts evil.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;rouin&lt;/strong&gt; = ruin&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;bishen cutter&lt;/strong&gt; = not even a clue here. Some people have quoted this part very differently, most commonly as &quot;biscuit-cutter&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastActivityDate="2015-02-02T20:17:19.267" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30661" PostTypeId="6" CreationDate="2015-02-02T20:18:43.907" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been a long-time fan of movies and TV, as well as a long-time fan of StackExchange.  While relatively new to the Movies &amp;amp; TV site, I have amassed a solid reputation in less than a year's time with both questions and answers.  I've earned a Mortarboard badge, as well as 4 Good Answer and 2 Notable Question badges (both silver) along the way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stopping by the M&amp;amp;T section of SE is an almost daily occurance for me, earning me an Enthusiast badge.  I am a big proponent of spreading knowledge, and would love the opportunity to moderate this section of SE.  I also spend a considerable amount of time on Stack Overflow, since Programming is what pays the bills in my house.  :o)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am most proud of my Populist badge, a badge which has only been given out 4 times on this SE site!  :o)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been working dilligently to increase my reviews, without wanting to be a &quot;review hog&quot; and snap them all up because I know people enjoy doing it.  I think that speaks to me all-around understanding of how to keep people involved in the site, while continuing to do my part, and I feel that as a moderator that is a big part of building the community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T19:41:16.567" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T19:41:16.567" CommentCount="10" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-02-02T20:18:43.907" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30662" PostTypeId="6" CreationDate="2015-02-02T20:33:46.670" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a relatively new member to the Movie &amp;amp; TV StackExchange, having only been a member for 3 months, but I have visited and participated nearly every day. I am also active on the Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy SE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I specialize mainly in Movie and TV ID questions, but am always willing to answer other questions if I know them. I have earned 14 different badges, 18 total, including a silver Enthusiast badge.  I have earned a Nice Answer badge here (and 9 on the SF&amp;amp;F SE site).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since earning the Review privilege, I try to do my part at least once a day in going through the queue and making any vote/edit/actions as fairly as possible and to the best of my abilities.&#xA;I have always taken the time to try and give advice to new users (this comes up a lot with ID questions). and edit questions/answers where needed even if I can't answer them myself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I answer questions, I always take the time to (Google) research and write out useful answers that include all the detail necessary to answer the question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have only just begun to explore the world of meta but I expect to become more active there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="15418" LastEditDate="2015-02-04T22:24:29.513" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T22:24:29.513" CommentCount="9" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-02-02T20:33:46.670" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30663" PostTypeId="6" CreationDate="2015-02-02T20:46:05.450" Score="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been part of this stack since it was a lowly Area51 refugee looking for support (double digit ID!) and have been active since. Not only asking questions and answering them, but helping to police it as well and dictate its direction in Meta. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I am elected, my main direction would be in helping out newbies with their mistakes. I shall endeavor to avoid the knee-jerk reflex of closing newbie questions on sight without proper explanation. For instance, I'm a particular fan of the &quot;identify this&quot; questions, which pose something of a challenge to most newbies. Communicating with newbies and guiding them through how SE works is key.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2015-02-02T20:46:05.450" LastActivityDate="2015-02-02T20:46:05.450" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-02-02T20:46:05.450" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30624" CreationDate="2015-02-02T22:12:20.523" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bobby Burns at CinemaSins has these suggestions on how to make your own Scorsese film!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rolling Stones music (specifically, &quot;Gimme Shelter&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use Leonardo DiCaprio or Robert De Niro&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Italian Regulars&quot; (i.e. Joe Pesci)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A blonde leading lady&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cast your parents as someone's parents&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Borrow a story from a book or another movie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Glorify criminals/gangs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Exploit the Italian-American stereotype (short tempers, good cooks, kissing, devoutly religious)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Background cameos of yourself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Keep it &quot;raw&quot; and use the take with the best acting, don't worry about technical problems like the camera appearing in the shot or actors looking directly at the camera.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post-production story fixing with freeze-frames or voice-over&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Use the movie to take out your pent-up aggression (via drug imagery, domestic violence, point-blank shootings, and profanity)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/iKcwcW20ISY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastActivityDate="2015-02-02T22:12:20.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24835" CreationDate="2015-02-02T23:29:50.173" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the first movie, he couldn't fly.&#xA;During the second movie, Jetfire (aka Skyfire, modern name) sacrifices himself to give Optimus a flight upgrade.&#xA;During the third movie, NEST had engineered flight tech into his trailer, allowing him to use a jetpack later on.&#xA;During the fourth movie, it's a bit uncertain. One theory suggests that the 'Sword of Judgement' had to do with the sudden flight capability:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/mpMtwydNJ0M?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user18602" LastActivityDate="2015-02-02T23:29:50.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30667" PostTypeId="6" CreationDate="2015-02-03T00:18:12.903" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll throw my hat in the ring as well. I have been an active member since the early beta, on the site as well as on meta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a big passion for movies and TV shows and this site has become my home for exploring all those interesting questions and answers that come with the love for the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have longstanding experience with the SE network and its inner workings. I have not been running for moderator yet anywhere, mainly because I never did feel at home at the other sites as I do here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why would I be a good moderator?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I know and respect the community and its opinion. I will always follow the existing community consensus and try help developing one where it does not exist yet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I enjoy moderating and improving the site. I think we have an opportunity to shape something great here, a pool of knowledge where people like to contribute and help each other. That's why I think it's important to keep the site clean from the beginning and organize the content we have, so that this stays a place that people like to browse as well as add their own questions and answers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I would love to develop the community further, e.g. by starting our own blog in the network.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2015-02-03T01:57:30.143" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T01:57:30.143" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-02-03T00:18:12.903" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30668" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-03T00:51:02.620" Score="16" ViewCount="126343" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started watching the new season on Australian TV Last Night. the episode was where Penny and Leonard have a dispute over some money Penny got from selling a car Leonard gave her which leans them to visit Howard and Bernadette to ask them about how they deal with money as a couple while Raj and Sheldon do an emulation of a mine in the steam tunnels. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory_%28season_8%29#Episodes&quot;&gt;Season 8 Episode 6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I haven't seen every episode so I may have missed something but from my understanding Raj is unable to talk in the presence of women unless he drinks alcohol (which explains why he is able to talk freely to Penny, Bernadette and Amy when the 4 go out for a Girls' Night)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the episode I saw at the beginning when Leonard, Sheldon, Raj, Howard and Penny are eating over at Leonard and Sheldon's, I don't see any drinks and Raj is talking just fine. He is also talking just fine in front of Amy at the end of the episode after he gets out of the steam tunnel after Sheldon abandoned him to deal with a &quot;family of Rats&quot; (and despite his comments Sheldon still expresses his annoyance in pointing out the obvious), though this could be passed off as one of those moment where he doesn't realize a woman is present (I remember in one episode is starts explaining something, someone points out Penny is present then he starts whispering to Howard instead).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am wondering, when did Raj start being able to talk in the presence of women without the need for alcohol consumption? Or did I miss the presence of alcohol?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4297" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2018-02-15T17:26:11.547" LastActivityDate="2019-12-19T04:29:05.170" Title="When did Raj start talking around women without alcohol?" Tags="|character|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30669" PostTypeId="6" CreationDate="2015-02-03T01:35:42.190" Score="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been an appointed Pro-Tem Moderator since the launch of the public beta, and pretty much the only active moderator for the last year or so. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I've demonstrated some of the skills of being a moderator over this time, in particular:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I try to be regularly on the site, usually more than once every day to deal with flags.  This has been particularly important over the last year, but the community members have been great in supporting me in this area!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I believe I have been patient and even handed when dealing with the few disputes we've had between users.  However I've had no hesitation in dealing with the fortunately rare disruptive or deliberately spamming users.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I tend to use the moderator super-close very rarely, usually in the case of clear cut off-topic questions or spam.  I would prefer for 'grey area' questions to be left open for the community to either close or find value in them than to curate the site too closely.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some areas that I think I could definitely improve - in particular contributing to ideas to promote and improve the site, such as the weekly Topic challenge started by Napoleon Wilson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2015-02-03T01:35:42.190" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T01:35:42.190" CommentCount="7" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-02-03T01:35:42.190" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30671" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31006" CreationDate="2015-02-03T02:39:40.900" Score="13" ViewCount="54496" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_%282006_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bug (2006)&lt;/a&gt; was a thriller/mystery about a man who seemed a bit psychotic and a woman who seemed a tad unstable.  I get that there was a bit of conspiracy theory going on, and the male lead was definitely mentally unstable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to figure out a few things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) What made Ashley Judd's character go full-on crazy and buy into the psychosis?  Was it drugs?  Guilt over her son?  Or was she just going along with it because she liked the guy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) What was going on with the ending?  The VERY ending?  After some credits rolled, there was a brief scene showing some children's toys and clothing, and then after all the credits ended they showed the doctor lying dead on the floor.  Did that imply that the fire at the end was part of the delusion?  The children's clothes seemed to make an appearance earlier in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thoroughly confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-12-27T07:56:50.003" LastActivityDate="2022-10-21T20:02:08.253" Title="Can someone explain the ending/themes in the 2006 movie &quot;Bug&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|bug|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30675" PostTypeId="6" CreationDate="2015-02-03T05:31:37.010" Score="80" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to put &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com/users/1190/ankit-sharma&quot;&gt;my&lt;/a&gt; hat in the ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I deserve the spot because of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;User from 3 years. I Helped in building Strong community and presented my point straight forward.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trusted user from beta stage of this site.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Constantly active on chat rooms.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Decent history in raising flags and review task.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Never misused my power to vote and flag.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Promoted our site by creating a chat room and an unofficial &lt;a href=&quot;http://meta.movies.stackexchange.com/questions/871/our-unofficial-facebook-page&quot;&gt;Facebook page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am used to the trusted user moderator tools and by participating in other SE too learned how to deal with different people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to being in different time zone (EST) then majority, I can help to keep the International nature of the site thriving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-02-04T07:20:05.777" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T07:20:05.777" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-02-03T05:31:37.010" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30668" CreationDate="2015-02-03T05:32:54.173" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When did Raj start being able to talk in the presence of women without the need for alcohol consumption?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1256027/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Season 2, Episode 17 The Terminator Decoupling&lt;/a&gt;, it was shown that Raj could perfectly talk to women and be flirtatious without consuming alcohol. But Raj is shy and believes that He could only talk to women when he's drunk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this episode, the four guys are on a train traveling and they meet &amp;quot;Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles&amp;quot; fame Summer Glau and as usual, Leonard and Howard starts hitting on her and Raj could only do it if he consumes alcohol, so he goes and fetches a bottle. Then the conversation among Leonard, Howard and Sheldon happens like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Normally around women, he has the personality of a boiled potato.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Put one beer in him, and he's M. Night Charmalarmalon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Is that what he's drinking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-It's not even real beer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-What? - Look at it. Non-alcoholic beer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Some sort of placebo effect, I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically this is the first episode where we audience and Raj's friends get to know that Raj could talk to women without the need of alcohol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if Placebo effect doesn't count, as pointed out in the comment, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/30668/20690#comment45200_30668&quot;&gt;Raj was 'cured' in the season 6 finale: The Bon Voyage Reaction.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-09-17T09:31:21.613" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30682" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-03T08:33:08.220" Score="1" ViewCount="1341" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do the ancient Japanese healing methods that Raizo performs on himself in the movie Ninja Assassin really work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18612" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-03T09:25:31.800" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T09:11:58.937" Title="Do the ancient Japanese healing methods really work?" Tags="|realism|ninja-assassin|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30692" CreationDate="2015-02-03T09:15:00.237" Score="8" ViewCount="916" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Book of Life, I just noticed a very interesting graphic effect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Manolo's hair swirl physically changes from scene to scene to face the camera. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3iL8Z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T5X0O.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This effect occurs constantly but is never animated. The change occurs at every off-camera opportunity. It's even sneakily done in the middle of one scene when he passes behind another character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This artistic effect seems very unusual. Is there a name for this technique in movie-making? Has it been done before? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15845" LastEditorUserId="15845" LastEditDate="2015-02-03T15:49:05.357" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T15:49:05.357" Title="Hair changes in The Book of Life - What's this called?" Tags="|film-techniques|trope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30685" PostTypeId="6" CreationDate="2015-02-03T10:19:07.400" Score="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to nominate myself as well. I have been an avid member of this site since private beta and have tried to actively participate by asking and answering as well as shaping its structure through meta participation and moderation. I have since accumulated quite some experience with the workings of this great site and the history of its development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have visited the site almost daily over the last 3 years and am not intending to stop that. While my usual day to day work here is already largely maintenance and moderation tasks, I think moderator abilities, while coupled to a larger responsibility, would enable me to carry out those tasks more effectively. I have also tried to engage in some community building efforts to help this community see its site as a larger picture than &quot;just&quot; Q&amp;amp;A and I'm looking forward to putting the powers of a moderator to good use there, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the course of my membership I have tried to open my views about the acceptable questions further into a more constructive direction. I often happen to edit interesting closed questions into reopenability and am willing to guide new users towards acquaintance with the intricacies of this place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T16:06:31.873" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T16:06:31.873" CommentCount="9" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-02-03T10:19:07.400" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30686" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30688" CreationDate="2015-02-03T12:06:14.187" Score="9" ViewCount="2629" Body="&lt;p&gt;A friend of mine asked me this after seeing &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2582802/&quot;&gt;Whiplash (2014)&lt;/a&gt; last night, and I was not quite happy with my own answer, so I'll throw it out there to see if someone can up with somthing more conclusive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is about a young drummer (Andrew) who tries to achieve greatness and a teacher who pushes his students to the limit with questionable methods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main plot revolves around Andrew trying really hard to make it in Fletcher's band and the relationship between him and Fletcher. However there is a sidestory about Andrew and his interest in the girl that works at the cinema, who he dates at first but then drops again after struggling with his spot in the band.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the point of the girlfriend plot line?&lt;/strong&gt; It seems rather unrelated to most of the main plot and is handled too shortly to be of much relevance on its own. (e.g. as an additional love story element in the movie)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why were those scenes put in there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My interpretation was that this is supposed to show Andrew's determination, that this was set up so that he can break up with her for the music, showing that at this point he is willing to do everything it takes. Is there more to it? And what does it mean that he is trying to reconnect with the girl in the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T15:34:19.820" Title="What is the point of the girlfriend scenes?" Tags="|analysis|whiplash|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30633" CreationDate="2015-02-03T13:23:01.490" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a true cross-continental hero, the Hawking biopic is sure to have fans on both sides of the pond.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result, you have to remember that the standard movie poster setup in Europe is landscape (though they certainly have plenty of portrait posters as well):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZJSSp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas the standard movie poster setup in the US is portrait:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6khTo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This poster can be used simultaneously in both locale's with a near-identical effect; that the film is about a man who turned the world on its side with his brilliant mind and his ability to overcome a debilitating disease.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I would say that it was a wonderful artistic view that also solves a production/distribution challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T13:23:01.490" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30686" CreationDate="2015-02-03T13:50:29.127" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are pretty bang on the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Andrew's relationship with his girlfriend and subsequent break up was meant to indicate that he is now taking his drumming more seriously than his personal relationships, and that he has consciously and calmly decided that he would rather pursue his drumming ambitions than be with another person. This is meant to show us that Andrew is beginning to lose sight of what his priorities should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consequently, when he tries to get in contact with his ex-girlfriend towards the end of the film, we are being shown that unlike Andrew, she has managed to move on and start a new, presumably healthier relationship with someone else, whereas his social life has been effectively ruined by his obsession.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, the whole story arc with his girlfriend is meant to show how damaging his relationship with his tutor has become, and how his obsession has harmed him more than he initially realized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2015-04-02T05:21:21.973" LastActivityDate="2015-04-02T05:21:21.973" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30689" PostTypeId="6" CreationDate="2015-02-03T14:41:03.680" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I may not have been around Movies &amp;amp; TV as long as some of the other candidates, but I've still managed to amass 5k in rep in less than 1.5 years, which has me at #32 overall (as of writing this). Sure there are others who have amassed more in the same amount of time, but score isn't everything to be a good leader. I've earned some nifty badges, some that not many can't yet claim to have, but anyone can earn badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm very active in the reviews queue, with over 18 pages of review actions. I flag, I close, I do my level best to keep the site clean of cruft and bad questions, but I also do my best to encourage users providing these bad questions to improve. A successful community cannot be run with an iron fist, constantly pounding away at the low quality contributers without at least making an effort to help them improve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV has become a site I visit on a nearly daily basis. I interact with many members here, and have done what I can to see this site to graduation. I love movies and television, and even worked as a projectionist for free movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With your vote, I'm confident I'll be one of the three moderators this site needs, like Gotham needs Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-02-03T18:26:51.997" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T18:26:51.997" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-02-03T14:41:03.680" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30690" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-03T14:51:29.743" Score="6" ViewCount="1498" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know how many seasons the &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; TV series will run for before it is concluded, and will this match up with the number of &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt; books?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, is each book roughly equivalent to a series, or are they adapted differently?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18129" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-24T14:35:53.377" LastActivityDate="2016-06-29T16:40:58.483" Title="How many seasons of Game of Thrones will there be by the time it finishes?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|book-adaptation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30690" CreationDate="2015-02-03T14:54:48.247" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Season 5 starts April 12, 2015, and Season 6 has already been ordered, but no details have really come out about when it will start airing.  There is no telling at this time how many seasons there will be in total, but as of now there are 4 seasons that have been aired, a 5th season will start airing this year, and a 6th season will likely start airing in April of 2016.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/game-of-thrones-final-season-3-8/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; David Benioff and D.B. Weiss(the showrunners) want the series to last a total of 8 seasons.  That is assuming HBO will keep it for that long, but that is the plan as of now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MJ: I gather that Game of Thrones could last eight or nine seasons. Does that mean putting novel writing on hold for a decade?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;B&amp;amp;W: Yes, if we live that long and HBO keeps wanting to make the show. We have the opportunity here to tell a coherent story that lasts for 80 hours. And while a canvas of that size presents all sorts of storytelling problems, it also allows us to spend more time with these characters we love than we’ll ever get again. Every once in a while we get five minutes to think about thinking about novels. But mostly we’re just happy when we get to read one now and again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18110" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T15:05:29.427" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30684" CreationDate="2015-02-03T15:01:57.960" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is called a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CheatedAngle&quot;&gt;cheated angle&lt;/a&gt;. It is quite typical for animated movies or comics to retain iconic features. Often the features (typically the hair) wouldn't look nice from another angle, sometimes the character wouldn't even be recognizable without it at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar effect is the billboard effect where certain objects always face the camera so they are clearly recognizable or legible. This also removes the need for perspective shift and thus made the production cheaper when things were hand drawn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T15:01:57.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30690" CreationDate="2015-02-03T16:00:23.100" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones#Adaptation_schedule&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, it is planned to last about 8 seasons and it's unlikely that it will stretch to much more than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss [...] envision the series to have a scope of some 80 hours, about eight seasons' worth of material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the particular adaptation schedule, the previous seasons pretty much aligned with the books, with the 1st season featuring &lt;em&gt;A Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, the 2nd &lt;em&gt;A Clash of Kings&lt;/em&gt; and the 3rd and 4th the 1st and 2nd parts of &lt;em&gt;A Storm of Swords&lt;/em&gt; each (with some parts of the later books). The next seasons will likely feature a more mixed adaptation, interspersing parts from &lt;em&gt;A Feast for Crows&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;A Dance with Dragons&lt;/em&gt; to equal degrees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Seasons 1 and 2 each adapted one novel. For the later seasons, the creators conceive of Game of Thrones as an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire as a whole, rather than of individual novels. This gives them the liberty to move events back and forth across books according to the requirements of the screen adaptation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also this interesting table which gives a very detailed adaptation schedule, comparing episodes (left) to book chapters (top), for the first 4 seasons (and also shows the gradually less linear adaptation towards later seasons):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KXpll.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KXpll.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is largely due to the fact, that as much as I know (though, I admittedly haven't read any of the books), &lt;em&gt;A Feast for Crows&lt;/em&gt; shows the events in Westeros and &lt;em&gt;A Dance with Dragons&lt;/em&gt; the events in Essos at the same time, while for the TV show it is more entertaining, established and contributory to the attention of the audience to intersperse those storylines with each other. Add to this, that the next books aren't published yet and the TV series might very well end before the book series has been finished, which will likely lead to a &quot;rougher&quot; adaptation than having a prewritten book series, even though &lt;em&gt;George R. R. Martin&lt;/em&gt; has large story-wise input to the TV-show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Benioff and Weiss said they do not want to pad Game of Thrones out so as to wait for George R. R. Martin [...] to finish writing the last two novels. Knowing the broad outlines of Martin's intended ending for A Song of Ice and Fire, and concerned that extending Game of Thrones to ten seasons would kill its sense of momentum, they consider it possible (but not preferable) that the TV series ends before the last novel is published.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-29T16:40:58.483" LastActivityDate="2016-06-29T16:40:58.483" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30682" CreationDate="2015-02-03T16:11:01.293" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure. In the same way a placebo really work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's all about belief. If you believe you're receiving ancient healing, then yes it will probably work in the same way that a vitamin pill works for chronic pain or depression if your doctor convinces you that you're receiving cutting edge medication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18076" LastActivityDate="2015-02-03T16:11:01.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30695" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30788" CreationDate="2015-02-03T18:32:30.260" Score="1" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the new TV show Crisis I really didn't understand much of what was happening but I really like it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But one thing I didn't understand was who was the antagonist.  Who was revealed to be the main antagonist? Was it James Gibson or CIA Director Widener?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18616" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2015-02-03T18:41:18.917" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T21:40:55.953" Title="Who was the main antagonist?" Tags="|plot-explanation|crisis|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30699" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30703" CreationDate="2015-02-04T00:51:50.463" Score="4" ViewCount="990" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the real name of the girl possessed by the demon in first season of Supernatural. She introduces herself as Meg but is that the real name of the girl too?&#xA;Apart from this, when all the demons introduce themselves, do they use their own name or the name of the person they are possessing? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16790" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-04T16:40:39.363" LastActivityDate="2016-07-08T11:51:32.843" Title="Real name of demons in Supernatural" Tags="|supernatural|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30700" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30702" CreationDate="2015-02-04T02:30:43.863" Score="17" ViewCount="35092" Body="&lt;p&gt;Needless to say that there are a lot of movies that contain a scene where a person is hanged, or commits suicide by hanging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are such scenes produced? How to both ensure the safety of the actor as well as make it realistic on tape. In other words: &lt;em&gt;&quot;what is the state of the art when it comes to filming hanging scenes?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16866" LastActivityDate="2021-03-18T04:28:08.153" Title="How is a hanging scene filmed?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30700" CreationDate="2015-02-04T02:46:46.283" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only technique I've seen used is when the actor wears a back brace/harness and the rope is attached to the brace.  There is still a little jolt, but under careful supervision it's no more dangerous than any other stunt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T02:46:46.283" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30699" CreationDate="2015-02-04T05:00:41.080" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the information I've seen, Meg is just known as Meg despite having transferred herself to other people after her first known host, Meg Masters. It seems to be unknown if she has any other name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The demon is referred to as Meg after the name of the host in which she first appears, Meg Masters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ref: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Meg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Supernatural Wiki - Meg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many demons are known by their demonic names or have names of unknown origin, though there are others who go by their host's name such as &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Jeffrey!Demon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jeffrey's Demon&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Supernatural has a great Wiki and has an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Demon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;entry&lt;/a&gt; that includes basic info about all of the Demons and links to their more specific in-depth info pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know the show personally, but I think this will be of great help in answering your more general question specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T05:00:41.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30706" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30708" CreationDate="2015-02-04T05:26:37.103" Score="17" ViewCount="2766" Body="&lt;p&gt;[&lt;strong&gt;Spoiler alert&lt;/strong&gt;] In Quentin Tarantino's movie, &amp;quot;Deathproof&amp;quot;, the villain &lt;em&gt;Stuntman Mike&lt;/em&gt; murders the four girls in a car accident by riding the car in wrong way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The four girls die, but he survives with minor injuries because of his stunt car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't get the part where the police leave him with no charge even when he had rode the car in the wrong path and straight into those girls' car. How did he evade it so easily?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone's interested, watch the murder scene on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvgRUa41ULQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Youtube&lt;/a&gt; [&lt;strong&gt;Warning: Graphic&lt;/strong&gt;].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5382" LastEditorUserId="5382" LastEditDate="2021-04-29T07:37:10.403" LastActivityDate="2021-04-29T07:37:10.403" Title="How did stuntman Mike evade the police after the murders?" Tags="|plot-explanation|death-proof|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30706" CreationDate="2015-02-04T05:58:41.053" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be argued that the explanation isn't sufficient but it &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; in the film, in the conversation between the Ranger and Son No. 1:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-Well, what are you gonna do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-Not a goddamn thing. &lt;strong&gt;D.A. says there ain't no crime here. Every one of them gals was swimming in alcohol and floatin' on weed, and old Hooper in there came out clean as a whistle.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-Now, you actually think that he premeditatively murdered them gals?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-&lt;strong&gt;Well, I can't prove it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yeah, I think the only thing we can dream of getting that bastard on&#xA;  is vehicular manslaughter for the hitchhiker in the death box. That was just plain old, goddamn reckless endangerment. But I got me a goddamn bartender&#xA;  gonna testify that ol' Stuntman Mike didn't drink a drop all night. And his passenger was left stranded by her date, in the goddamn rain, no less,&#xA;  and she asked him for the fucking ride. Now, &lt;strong&gt;on paper, this is gonna look&#xA;  like he was just trying to help her out. I mean, that's the way the jury's gonna see it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-So, what are you gonna do, Pop?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-Well, I could take it upon myself to work the case, Search for evidence,&#xA;  you know, prove my theory. Alert authorities. Dog that rotten son of a bitch. Wherever he goes, I go. Or &lt;strong&gt;I could spend the same goddamn amount of time and energy following the NASCAR circuit.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing that Mike was sober and the girls weren't, and this happened at night on a deserted road and all other witnesses are dead, the police suspects Mike but concludes that there's no case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T05:58:41.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30631" CreationDate="2015-02-04T07:08:08.810" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an interview with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001845/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Forest Whitaker&lt;/a&gt; who portrayed Dotzler in the film (apologies if I got some words wrong):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer:&lt;/strong&gt; He's a great character, he's got a lot of fun quirks to him. Was the rubber band and the chess piece thing in the script all along, or did you come up with that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whitaker&lt;/strong&gt;: No, [me and the director] were trying to find something that... the rubber band would be like [wrapping up] the cases and stuff. Chess piece was more about the special skills that [Mills] has and trying to figure out how to do a strategy that would be strong enough to catch him. So I was always playing with it, that was just a way of thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see it here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/I6tbVFKeHSE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T07:08:08.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15724" CreationDate="2015-02-04T13:18:24.387" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From Fredos answer to Michaels question about what he could tell him, we learned that Fredo knew they had Pentengeli. Based on that alone it indicates Fredo was in on the whole plan from the start, including opening the drapes in Michael's bedroom, the hit and getting rid of the would be assassins. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18643" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-26T02:32:06.023" LastActivityDate="2017-03-26T02:32:06.023" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30721" CreationDate="2015-02-04T13:50:34.090" Score="5" ViewCount="10070" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186151/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Frequency&lt;/a&gt;, I can't understand how he can come from the past and shoot a bullet at the villain in the present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15758" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T08:10:10.247" LastActivityDate="2016-06-19T21:27:51.977" Title="Frequency ending scene?" Tags="|plot-explanation|frequency|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30716" CreationDate="2015-02-04T14:00:32.827" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a little &quot;suspension of disbelief&quot; going on, but in the past, Jack Shepard (the villain) is shot in the hand by the father and then leaves the house.  In the present, Jack Shepard returns to the house and attacks the son.  Jack's hand shrivels up and disappears to reflect the fact that it was shot off by the father (a little artistic license, IMO).  Jack is then shot and killed by the father, since he is now alive and well thanks to the son telling him how and when he was supposed to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T14:00:32.827" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30700" CreationDate="2015-02-04T14:01:02.177" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this the trick lies is the rope  used it has a secret mechanism which allow not to tight and also it acts as a pulley to the string attached to the top of roof no one can see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For movies, they attach the &quot;hanging&quot; rope to a harness under the clothing, and the noose is just a prop. If there were close ups, then those were probably manipulated to make it appear he was strangling. People do not always release their bladders and sphincters when they die; a small portion of them do, but not everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15758" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-09-21T16:24:02.063" LastActivityDate="2016-09-21T16:24:02.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30716" CreationDate="2015-02-04T14:10:39.703" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you've misunderstood the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1969, we have &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Frank-1969 (the father)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jack-1969 (the killer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1999, we have&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;John-1999 (the son)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jack-1999 (the killer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, both versions of Jack attack the Sullivan home at roughly the same time. In the ensuing struggle, just as Jack-1999 is about to shoot John-1999, Frank-1969 shoots the hand off of Jack-1969.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, the movie has clearly demonstrated the events of 1969 being able to affect the current state of 1999. Since Jack-1969 has now lost the hand he was holding his gun in, Jack-1999 now also loses his hand - and it shrivels up (technically, he hasn't had it in 30 years now). At this point, it is revealed that Frank-1999 is still alive, as he shoots Jack-1999.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1046" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T14:10:39.703" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30722" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30723" CreationDate="2015-02-04T14:23:44.720" Score="5" ViewCount="147" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can you identify this TV episode (probably from the 1950-60 era, possibly Hitchcock)?  Man is on an ocean liner to Europe.  There is a game for the passengers: bet on how far the ship will go in the next 24 hours (noon to noon).  Man overhears a crew member mentioning a storm up ahead.  He bets all he has on a very low mileage.  Later he hears there is no such storm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He concocts a scheme: he will fall overboard, the ship will have to stop to rescue him, and he will win the bet.  He goes to the fantail where he finds two old ladies sitting.  He chats with them for a little while and then dives off, shouting Hellllp! as he goes.  One of the ladies says, &quot;He seemed like a nice man.  I wonder why he left so suddenly.&quot;  They are blind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18645" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-04T15:26:12.380" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T15:26:12.380" Title="TV episode with a man betting on a ship" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:02:24.703" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30722" CreationDate="2015-02-04T14:28:32.517" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you sure she was blind? Because this sounds exactly like the &lt;em&gt;Alfred Hitchcock Presents&lt;/em&gt; episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508106/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dip in the Pool&lt;/a&gt; from 1958, which was an adaptation of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dip_in_the_Pool&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a short story by Roald Dahl&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;William Botibol is a compulsive gambler. While on a cruise he enters a betting pool to guess the number of miles the ship will travel in the course of twenty four hours. William gains some inside information when he learns that the ship is going to slow down to avoid an upcoming storm. Unfortunately, the storm passes, and the ship continues to speed on its course. He decides to force the ship to slow down by throwing himself overboard. He figures that when word gets out of someone going overboard the ship will slow down to get him. He picks out a witness and jumps overboard. The witness doesn't say a word. She's mentally ill and does not alert anyone to Williams' plight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another woman (possibly her caretaker) arrives and doesn't believe her story, and the witness says, dreamily: &quot;Such a nice man... he waved to me.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-02-04T14:47:06.620" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T14:47:06.620" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30725" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-04T15:05:58.570" Score="6" ViewCount="3431" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched &lt;strong&gt;Interstellar&lt;/strong&gt; and it was quite an amazing movie. There is something that has been bothering me. At the end, when Cooper is stuck in the time-space shelf created by the other beings (themselves/humans), he communicates with himself and Murph and he himself is the one to call himself in the space and save the earth by communicating the code back to his daughter. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;My question is&lt;/strong&gt;: If the future humans knew about the solution to the problem, why did they or Cooper chose himself to go through all the trouble to go through the space and then communicate with his daughter. Why couldn't they have done it themselves and sent the solution back to Murph themselves from the future.&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Let me put it this way: &quot;When Cooper saw himself from the shelf, why did he send himself the co-ordinates again. Why not just give Murph the solution only&quot; Instead of sending himself the co-ordinates, couldn't he just have given Murph the solution. If the people of the future knew the solution (that they knew because that is how they survived) couldn't Cooper have just sent it to Murph from the future instead of going through the loop in space again? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16790" LastEditorUserId="16790" LastEditDate="2015-02-04T15:51:04.257" LastActivityDate="2020-04-01T01:50:45.567" Title="Interstellar Ending Scene and Logic" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30726" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30728" CreationDate="2015-02-04T15:10:34.990" Score="16" ViewCount="1479" Body="&lt;p&gt;The wiki article for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall_%281990_film%29&quot;&gt;Total Recall (1990)&lt;/a&gt; states that Patrick Swayze was originally attached to the film.  I could swear that somewhere I heard a few other names were originally planned for the lead role, and Schwarzenegger was pretty far down the list.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know who those original top choices were?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2015-02-04T15:21:19.077" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T15:34:16.493" Title="Who were the choices for the leading role in Total Recall (1990)?" Tags="|casting|total-recall|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30418" CreationDate="2015-02-04T15:12:34.650" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This scene implies that Myrcella is not living the privileged life of&#xA;  a princess in Dorn, but in fact has had a rather terrible life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except that you misremember the scene instead of &lt;a href=&quot;http://hollywoodlife.com/2014/05/05/game-of-thrones-cersei-lannister-more-sympathetic-first-of-his-name/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;looking it up&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During their stroll, she could not have been kinder to Oberyn. Cersei&#xA;  asked him if he could give a gift to Myrcella for her, since she&#xA;  missed her birthday, and she asked him if her daughter is happy where&#xA;  she is in Dorne. Oberyn, kind of taken aback, assured her that&#xA;  Myrcella is happy — that “We don’t hurt little girls in Dorne,”&#xA;  alluding, as ever, to Elia’s death. Cersei replied that “Everywhere in&#xA;  the world, they hurt little girls.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Myrcella is important for Dorne, because she's their hostage. And those get treated very well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, she is an heir to the throne (though not directly -- except in Dorne) and if she were to birth a son with her Martell husband(-to-be) that child would be an actual heir, especially if the other Lannister children come to pass before producing any heirs themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T15:12:34.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30726" CreationDate="2015-02-04T15:17:18.977" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Patrick Swayze&lt;/strong&gt; was signed to play Quaid when the movie began preproduction in Australia with Bruce Beresford as the director. However, early in preproduction, Dino De Laurentiis' company went bankrupt. After Arnold Schwarzenegger heard about this, he persuaded Carolco to buy the script for him.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So Yes&lt;/strong&gt;, the original choice was Patrick Swayze.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100802/trivia?ref_=tt_ql_2&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other choices were;&#xA;&quot;David Cronenberg was attached to direct but wanted to cast &lt;strong&gt;William Hurt&lt;/strong&gt; in the lead role&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall_(1990_film)#Production&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Among other chocies were &lt;strong&gt;Christopher Reeve, Jeff Bridges, Matthew Broderick and Richard Dreyfuss&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Complete information is also present here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://whatculture.com/film/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-total-recall-2.php&quot;&gt;Cast List&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16790" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-04T15:34:16.493" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T15:34:16.493" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30730" PostTypeId="6" CreationDate="2015-02-04T15:41:13.347" Score="-12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Underdog here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who doesn't love to see an underdog win? I've only been on here for 5 months but I've gained almost 600 rep and 18 badges in that short period of time. I have submitted some very popular questions as well as solid answers (mostly about The Godfather).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe I'm fair and would be a good candidate. So yeah vote for me because everyone loves an upset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastEditorUserId="13338" LastEditDate="2015-02-04T15:41:13.347" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T15:41:13.347" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-02-04T15:41:13.347" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30725" CreationDate="2015-02-04T16:13:20.467" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an interesting question because Cooper brings it up himself while he is in the tesseract, the bookshelf without time. He thinks that &quot;they&quot; choose him because of his love for Murph, and her's for him. IIRC, he says something like &quot;Love is measurable&quot; and that Brand was right in this regard. He suggests that &quot;they&quot; have chosen this specific pair of people because only Murph would believe in the &quot;ghost&quot; and its message and only Cooper could have transmitted it in this way. Even Cooper wouldn't have listened to future Cooper (his past self ignores the &quot;STAY&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no definitive explanation in the movie. It only hints at this answer through Cooper's guess, the same way it only hints at who put him in the tesseract and created the anomalies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18646" LastEditorUserId="18646" LastEditDate="2016-12-03T11:18:20.377" LastActivityDate="2016-12-03T11:18:20.377" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28387" CreationDate="2015-02-04T16:58:54.660" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was searching for the same movie! I remember when he kills the 2nd girl, you see the blood splattering on the flowers in the field... I have searched and searched and I think it is this movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101549/reviews?ref_=tt_urv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Carolina Skeletons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; based on David Stout's &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/1988-07-24/books/bk-10393_1_david-stout&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;novel of the same name&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Judging from the user review about the terrifying open scene, I think it's the same movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is currently available on Youtube:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/uRaz3nCMa9k?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18649" LastEditorUserId="25920" LastEditDate="2016-12-18T20:52:55.377" LastActivityDate="2016-12-18T20:52:55.377" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30735" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30779" CreationDate="2015-02-04T17:29:53.693" Score="12" ViewCount="824" Body="&lt;p&gt;When they went to rescue Magneto in &lt;em&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past&lt;/em&gt;, why did they take Xavier since he had no real powers and did nothing? He literally couldn't do anything and was a burden on the team since he was just a normal human being at the moment and did not have any special powers. Was there any special reason to take him to the Pentagon? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16790" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T14:47:14.993" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T14:47:14.993" Title="Why bring Professor Xavier to Pentagon?" Tags="|plot-explanation|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-days-of-future-past|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16752" CreationDate="2015-02-04T19:14:05.683" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are four major plot points/similarities to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The lead character, Turiddu, was in the military (as was Michael) and&#xA;is eventually killed in a duel (as in the attempt on Michael's&#xA;life).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Honor plays a major role in Turiddu's death, as the duel was over a woman.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is also a lot of betrayal/lies in the opera as the two women vie for Turridu's affection.  This, of course, parallels the entire trilogy as much of it is akin to a chess match between various Corleone's and their adversaries.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The opera also takes place in Sicily, the birthplace of La Cosa Nostra.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T19:14:05.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18062" CreationDate="2015-02-04T20:42:06.213" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the other answers, I find credits useful for many things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When I hear a great song in a movie, I rely on the end credits to tell me the name of the song, the artist who performed it, and maybe even the title of the album.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;End credits often tell me the locations where the movie was shot, and how many crews were used.  New Zealand Crew, US Crew, Canadian Crew.  That tells me that movie crews were in three different places, and different parts of the movie were shot there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;End credits for pictures with special effects, makeup, post-production houses, may give details to people interested in the special effects houses used, or other production and post-production used.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18653" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T20:42:06.213" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30740" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38795" CreationDate="2015-02-04T21:00:27.987" Score="26" ViewCount="126502" Body="&lt;p&gt;The USA television series &lt;em&gt;Suits&lt;/em&gt; revolves around Mike Ross practicing law without a degree and about trying to keep that secret.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mike Ross is clearly capable of being a lawyer.  He passed the bar exam (albeit probably not under his own name).  Is there an in-universe explanation for why he doesn't just quietly get a law degree from somewhere (possibly far away from the show's setting of New York)? (And some states don't even require a law degree; passing the bar is sufficient.) He'd still have to carry around a secret that he didn't actually graduate from Harvard Law, but that's far better than practicing law illegally.  And even though he's already been practicing law without a license, if he became a real lawyer, then only his past cases would be tainted (and possibly need to be revisited) and not all of his future ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(And obviously the out-of-universe explanation is that it's the entire premise to the show, but I'm curious if the writers ever tried to explain this.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18256" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T13:19:48.143" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T13:19:48.143" Title="Why doesn't Mike Ross just get a law degree?" Tags="|plot-explanation|suits|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12871" CreationDate="2015-02-04T22:59:39.257" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Clarke#Career&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Emilia Clarke&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Clarke's early work includes two plays at St. Edwards, ten plays at&#xA;  Drama Centre London, and the 2009 Company of Angels production of Sense&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/whats-on/film-tv/leamington-game-thrones-actress-sophie-5740234&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sophie Turner&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sophie was just 13 when she was cast as Sansa, the eldest daughter of&#xA;  the ill–fated Stark family. But she was already an experienced member&#xA;  of Warwick–based Playbox Theatre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I first started acting when I was three and joined Playbox Theatre.&#xA;  That was how my obsession grew. I am still in Playbox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“My first lead was in a production called Scary Play directed by&#xA;  Stewart McGill, who is amazing,” she explains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Playbox is a fun environment. It’s not just a place for kids to hang&#xA;  around and be silly. We are all very serious about acting. They do not&#xA;  mould you into the actor they want, but let you be yourself.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both actresses are also portraying young characters, even though they're aged up for the series (in the books Daenerys Targaryen is 14, Sansa Stark is 12): inevitably the makers have to cast people who don't have the same experience as actors and actresses who are years older.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-02-04T22:59:39.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16269" CreationDate="2015-02-05T00:58:50.447" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many kinds of film stock have used color dyes which were notoriously unstable.  Consequently, the colors shown on the films today may have little relation to the colors the films showed when they were first released.  If the colors in a DVD appear unnatural, it may be either that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the film's colors looked that way when it was released,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;during the years prior to the DVD release the colors have shifted to those shown on the DVD, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the colors shifted in ways that may have been even worse than what's on the DVD, and the producers of the DVD have attempted, not entirely successfully, to correct them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some movie producers shot film of color reference charts and stored those films with their movies; if the filmed color reference charts were shot on the same type of film stock as everything else, and stored in similar conditions, someone wishing to transfer the film to a new medium will likely be able to use the color-reference footage to determine how dyes have shifted and compensate for that.  Without such reference footage, however, color correction is often a matter of guesswork.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8357" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T00:58:50.447" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30332" CreationDate="2015-02-05T01:30:03.470" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn’t that well explained in the movie. It’s mentioned that every message was supposed to start with a few random letters, but the movie doesn’t explain why. The movie also makes it seem like every Enigma message was encrypted with a key that the Germans changed every day. That’s not entirely right, if they would have done it that way, it would mean that each day there were quite a lot of messages that were encrypted with the exact same key. For a code breaker, the more text you have that is encrypted with the same key, the easier it becomes to find patterns that reveal something about the key.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Germans actually used a system that came down to using &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; keys. There was one key that all the Enigma operators knew and which was changed every day, hence the &lt;em&gt;day key&lt;/em&gt;. But the day key wasn’t directly used to encrypt a message. The day key was only used to encrypt a second key, the &lt;em&gt;message key&lt;/em&gt;. The operator was supposed to simply make up a random message key for every message. The day key was then used to encrypt the message key, and the message key was used to encrypt the message. The complete encrypted message would consist of two parts: the encrypted message key, and the encrypted content part of the message. (Hence the movie’s mention that every encrypted message would start with a few random letters.) Decrypting the message would mean using the day key to decrypt the message key, and then using the message key to decrypt the content part. This way, there would be a lot less text encrypted with the same key, and the randomness of the message keys would make it harder to find patterns. At least in theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In practice, the Enigma operators would sometimes fail to use random message keys, instead using the same message key multiple times. Thus on a given day, there might be multiple pieces of encrypted text that would start with the same letters, being multiple uses of the same message key encrypted with the day key. As for the term “cilly”, I’ll quote Simon Singh, who is also the source for most of the above explanation: (I tried to summarize the above without getting into an explanation of an Enigma machine’s operations, more detail is given in Singh’s book)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;￼Once they had mastered the Polish techniques, the Bletchley cryptanalysts began to invent their own shortcuts for finding the Enigma keys. For example, they cottoned on to the fact that the German Enigma operators would occasionally choose obvious message keys. For each message, the operator was supposed to select a different message key, three letters chosen at random. However, in the heat of battle, rather than straining their imaginations to pick a random key, the overworked operators would sometimes pick three consecutive letters from the Enigma keyboard, such as QWE or BNM. These predictable message keys became known as cillies. Another type of cilly was the repeated use of the same message key, perhaps the initials of the operator’s girlfriend — indeed, one such set of initials, C.I.L., may have been the origin of the term. Before cracking Enigma the hard way, it became routine for the cryptanalysts to try out the cillies, and their hunches would sometimes pay off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cillies were not weaknesses of the Enigma machine, rather they were weaknesses in the way the machine was being used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography — Simon Singh&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16779" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T01:30:03.470" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1041" CreationDate="2015-02-05T05:07:38.137" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sam and Ted Raimi already made lots of comedies, I have a rare disc of some old short films he did before Evil Dead. It also has the Original Evil Dead on it, before it was Evil Dead, which is just twenty minutes long, I believe it was called &quot;Within The Woods&quot; or something like that I'm not going to check right now, but I believe that's what it's called. I have also read &quot;If Chins Could Kill&quot; And know Bruce Campbell's side of the story...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it was totally meant to be a horror movie. What happened was a local critic reviewed some of their comedy films and said that it was so ridiculous and stupid that the writers could never do anything serious, like a horror film. Sam and Ted Raimi thought they'd prove them wrong by doing the short film Within The Woods. It was meant to be scary, and when they got a lot of good reception from it, they decided to make it a full length movie and started raising money, but they tried to keep it true to the short film, which meant still scary. They WERE NOT trying to make it comedic. They were trying to stray from comedy for this one, and then they brought in the comedy for Evil Dead II.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18667" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T06:51:50.090" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T06:51:50.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28579" CreationDate="2015-02-05T06:10:02.597" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I've seen it is, As soon as the bad guy's car crashed, Lou took his camera and started filming and Lou observed that the bad guy is injured and gaining senses and recovering, he wanted to use this situation and kill his partner. So, he backed off and asked his partner to come shoot with steady hands and zoom. Unlucky for the partner, when he reached in front of the car, the bad guy recovered and not thinking straight and shot Rick, at this point, gangster would have shot Lou if he was there. But after shooting Rick, when he saw Lou standing there filming without a budge, the bad guy was surprised for Lou's audacity and few moments later Police arrived and the gangster's main concern is to deal with the police who shot the gangster's partner down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T07:20:52.960" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T07:20:52.960" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30750" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-05T07:15:29.293" Score="14" ViewCount="1070" Body="&lt;p&gt;Except for a few seconds in the beginning and the end, the movie &lt;strong&gt;'Birdman'&lt;/strong&gt; appears as a continuous long take. The only other movie I can think of like that was Hitchcock's &lt;strong&gt;'Rope'&lt;/strong&gt; (1946).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in &lt;em&gt;Rope&lt;/em&gt;, (and in most other uses of long take, whether for the entire movie or not), the events occurring during the long take are happening real time. (The famous chase scene from &lt;em&gt;The Secret In Their Eyes&lt;/em&gt; comes to mind).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence my question: Is &lt;em&gt;Birdman&lt;/em&gt; the first movie to capture sporadic events in a long take? Or has it been done before?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T07:18:43.543" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T17:40:29.323" Title="Is 'Birdman' the first movie to use the long take technique for events not occuring in real time?" Tags="|first-appearance|cinematography|birdman|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30751" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-05T07:30:35.690" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T07:30:35.690" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T07:30:35.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30752" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-05T07:30:35.690" Score="0" Body="Naruto is an anime series based on the manga series of the same name by Masashi Kishimoto." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T07:50:02.553" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T07:50:02.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30753" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-05T07:38:14.170" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T07:38:14.170" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T07:38:14.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30754" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-05T07:38:14.170" Score="0" Body="2014's black comedy film about a faded Hollywood actor who was famous for his superhero character Birdman." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T07:50:47.830" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T07:50:47.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30755" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-05T07:40:06.250" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T07:40:06.250" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T07:40:06.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30756" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-05T07:40:06.250" Score="0" Body="2014's American drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle based on his experiences in the Princeton High School Studio Band." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T08:35:50.933" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T08:35:50.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30757" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-05T07:43:15.503" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T07:43:15.503" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T07:43:15.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30758" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-05T07:43:15.503" Score="0" Body="The Theory of Everything ( 2014) is a  British biographical romantic drama film adapted by Anthony McCarten from the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T08:30:57.120" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T08:30:57.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30759" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30812" CreationDate="2015-02-05T09:44:42.390" Score="10" ViewCount="22232" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question relates to the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242653/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Matrix Revolutions&lt;/em&gt; (2003)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this third installment, we see Neo, in the real world, fighting Bane. Bane's mind has been replaced by Agent Smith. Bane, in his head, is Agent Smith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bane blinds Neo, and so Neo's eyes in the real world are useless.&#xA;Neo, after losing his eyesight, begins to see the world in a golden glow.&#xA;He sees Agent Smith instead of Bane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's park the idea of &quot;matrix within the matrix&quot; because that invalidates the whole trilogy. That invalidates any knowledge of what the current world looks like. That also gives rise to infinite possibilities and explanations as to what is actually happening in the real, real world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that the real world is indeed the real world, how does Neo begin to see with the golden glow? I'm looking for a scientific explanation, not a spiritual one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2020-02-07T15:31:23.383" LastActivityDate="2020-02-07T15:31:23.383" Title="How is Neo able to see after going blind in Revolutions" Tags="|the-matrix-revolutions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30768" CreationDate="2015-02-05T10:08:22.323" Score="1" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a joke in &lt;em&gt;The Diving Bell and the Butterfly&lt;/em&gt; talking about the main character being a heavy breather when he cannot speak to the phone. What's funny about that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T10:09:58.210" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T13:21:54.860" Title="A question about a line from Diving Bell And The Butterfly" Tags="|plot-explanation|diving-bell-and-butterfly|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30761" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-05T11:49:55.867" Score="1" ViewCount="2602" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Birdman (2014) Blu-ray has a release date of February 17, 2015.  However, while surfing the internet I found a pirated copy of the movie's Blu-ray, 13 days before the official release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: how can a movie's pirated Blu-ray be released on the internet before it's actual release? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18672" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T10:45:55.587" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T10:45:55.587" Title="How can a pirated blu-ray be released online before the official blu-ray release?" Tags="|distribution|piracy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30763" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11322" CreationDate="2015-02-05T12:19:40.447" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also to add, his kills are very ritualistic. He repeats every thing in a fixed pattern. Setting up the kill room, the kill table, the weapons, drawing blood from the victim for the slides, etc. The uniform is part of his ritual too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-25T18:23:20.427" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T18:23:20.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30761" CreationDate="2015-02-05T12:47:19.430" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your link was removed as it pointed to a torrent website.  That particular blu-ray was probably a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screener&quot;&gt;screener&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.  Screeners are given to members of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Motion_Picture_Arts_and_Sciences&quot;&gt;AMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)&lt;/a&gt;, as not all movies are viewed in theaters and not all movies up for nomination have been released on DVD/blu-ray prior to voting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some instances, movies found on these sites are culled from DVDs/blu-rays released in other countries, since not all countries release the same title on the same day.  On other cases, the movies have been &quot;leaked&quot; by hackers or employees of the film studio or one of the post-production studios.  i.e., a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/motion-captured/posts/wolverine-workprint-leaks-online&quot;&gt;workprint of X-Men: Wolverine&lt;/a&gt; was leaked by one of the companies in charge of adding special effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T12:47:19.430" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30759" CreationDate="2015-02-05T13:05:09.100" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no real &quot;scientific reason&quot;, as the movie is Science Fiction.  This means that reality and physics can be manipulated in ways unknown or unproven by science.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_Revolutions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bane, who has stowed away on the Logos, takes Trinity hostage. Neo&#xA;  realizes that Bane has been assimilated by Smith. Bane cauterizes&#xA;  Neo's eyes with a power cable, blinding him; however, Neo discovers an&#xA;  ability to perceive the world as golden light. Neo kills Bane, and&#xA;  Trinity pilots them to the Machine City.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, first of all, you have to ask how Smith &quot;assimilated&quot; Bane in the &quot;real world&quot;.  How can a machine assimilate a human's brain?  It's not possible.  Therefore, you have to suspend your disbelief to move past it.  You just have to agree that a computer can do that to a human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, to answer your question, you just have to believe that Neo can now see everything as a golden glow simply because he has been given the ability to do so.  He is, after all, &quot;The One&quot;, and therefore must possess certain powers that all the others do not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T13:05:09.100" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30760" CreationDate="2015-02-05T13:21:54.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The joke comes from &quot;heavy breather&quot;.&#xA;See this definition from thefreedictionary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;an anonymous telephone caller who imitates such sounds, as being&#xA;  suggestive of sexual excitement&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5029" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T13:21:54.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30769" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30770" CreationDate="2015-02-05T13:22:11.910" Score="1" ViewCount="5997" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_Man_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Running Man&lt;/a&gt; recently. I noticed that they often use the word &lt;code&gt;VJ&lt;/code&gt; to refer to the person who hold the camera. However I don't know the full name of this abbreviation. I can guess that V may stand for Video. But I don't know what J stand for? Please help, thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7280" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T14:16:17.447" LastActivityDate="2021-02-28T10:10:10.987" Title="What's the meaning of VJ in Korean TV show Running Man?" Tags="|running-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30769" CreationDate="2015-02-05T13:38:32.380" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;VJ, back in the days when MTV played videos, was short for &quot;Video Jockey&quot;.  It was meant to rhyme with DJ or &quot;Disc Jockey&quot;, since they were both playing music.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also heard VJ used for &quot;Video Journalist&quot;.  So, based on what I know about that show, it's probably somewhere between the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allkpop.com/article/2011/09/behind-the-scenes-with-running-man-cameraman-ryu-kwon-ryeol&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;, it looks like Video Journalist is the correct answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T13:38:32.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30735" CreationDate="2015-02-05T14:43:16.673" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the time of the breakout beginning Eric was unaware that Charles had lost his powers.  Given that he also no longer had the helmet he had removed from Shaw in First Class he would have to go along with the escape for fear of Charles entering his mind.  It is only after Quicksilver saves the day in the kitchen that Charles admits his loss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11201" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T14:43:16.673" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30774" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30775" CreationDate="2015-02-05T15:58:15.020" Score="22" ViewCount="29138" Body="&lt;p&gt;This movie left me incredibly confused at the end. I don't know if I missed something or if they just legitimately never explained it. The entire movie felt like just some random action movie that hinted at this great idea backing it but never actually made it around to that idea. It does a great job at making you feel like everyone fears the Divergents, but never goes into the &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is so bad about being a divergent and why are the Erudites so keen on eliminating them all? What real threat do they pose to civilization that makes them so dangerous? Was it just that they can't be mind-controlled or was there more to it than that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="992" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T05:57:29.570" LastActivityDate="2018-02-25T19:04:33.400" Title="So what is so bad about being a Divergent?" Tags="|plot-explanation|divergent|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30774" CreationDate="2015-02-05T16:12:20.600" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason for the hatred and feeling of fear towards divergent is because they cannot be controlled. The world that they show follows the rules and strict principals. Divergent people do not necessarily follow these rules and it is speculated that sooner or later they will break out of the norms and defy the principles and rules of the world and will be a danger for themselves and for everyone else since they will disrupt the smooth flow of life around them. Apart from that, I guess another reason would be that they will question the system and  demand justification for the housing system as to why is there a need of dividing everyone based on their test results. The authority would not allow that so they fear them and hate them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16790" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T16:12:20.600" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30778" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30796" CreationDate="2015-02-05T16:56:36.097" Score="11" ViewCount="4673" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes you see scenes in movies where characters are in a boat below deck, or in some other circumstance where water comes rushing in and knocks them over and they go sliding off camera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do they do these scenes without drowning the actors/stuntmen?  Is it on some set where the water can drain?  Are they left to their own devices?  It seems like a risky stunt if an actor slips or something they could easily die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T17:05:46.130" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T05:58:22.977" Title="How are water scenes (with flooding) achieved without injuring actors?" Tags="|film-techniques|effects|stunts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30735" CreationDate="2015-02-05T16:57:11.493" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's to stop Eric from breaking away from Logan and the others upon being broken out of prison? Quicksilver is just some kid with authority and motivational issues who only helps them because he gets to break into The Pentagon, one of the most secure locations on Earth at the time. No one knew Logan officially until several decades later, plus, why would Eric believe, &quot;Oh, I'm from a horrible future where everything's gone wrong but my mind was sent back in time to my younger body to warn you all of this future so we can work to stop it?&quot; Hank and Eric know one another, but not on a personal level, more like a professional one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charles is the only one of the four he shares any kind of close relationship with&lt;/strong&gt; due to Charles' training to help Eric harness and control his power. They may disagree on the future of Mutant-kind's place within society, but Eric still has respect for Charles even if he disagrees with his methods. Further, they share a common bond through Raven, who has now managed to estrange herself from both Charles and Eric, and manages to be the entire reason the future Logan comes from even happens. Both of them would likely do anything to save Raven, given what they know happened to the Mutants who went with Eric after the incident on the beach in First Class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having Charles with them would impress how dire the situation is, improving their chances of his cooporation in their efforts to break him out. They sort of patch things up on the plane ride afterwards, giving them enough reason to work together to prevent the future Logan comes from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a more tactical standpoint, Charles knows where Eric is in The Pentagon, and where they'd need to go so they can extract him. Wireless communications were too bulky and loud and obvious in the early 70s, so if any of their plans needed to change on-the-fly they'd need Charles on the ground to help with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T16:57:11.493" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21997" CreationDate="2015-02-05T17:08:57.030" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a similar article from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/arts/design/woody-woodpecker-and-shamus-culhanes-animation.html?_r=3&amp;amp;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NYTimes&lt;/a&gt;.  It's not Disney related (it's about Woody Woodpecker) and he's using short video art not stills. But, the era and the art style are what you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For potential link death, the article is titled &lt;em&gt;That Noisy Woodpecker Had an Animated Secret&lt;/em&gt; and was written by Michael Cieply. It was published in the New York Times Art &amp;amp; Design section on April 10th, 2011. It is about an article by Tom Klein about animation director &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamus_Culhane&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Shamus Culhane&lt;/a&gt;'s addition of his own animated micro-length experimental art films to various &lt;em&gt;Woody the Woodpecker&lt;/em&gt; cartoons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a note, glad I was able to find it for you! I used more general search terms and, fortunately, the word &quot;Disney&quot; was in the article, so it did come up in the search. I almost didn't post the comment because it was so different but this is a poster child for answering even if it's not quite what the OP is looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T20:19:29.450" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T20:19:29.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30428" CreationDate="2015-02-05T17:35:04.770" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Dawai is killed in a car bombing&quot;&#xA;This means that he was killed by the Bomb that one of the bad guys planted underneath his car a couple of scenes before. Here is the &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackhat_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB statement about death&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The rocket launcher shown was just to be used at them later on. He was killed in car bombing and not by launcher. If he had used the launcher, we would have seen some smoke coming out of it or him reloading it but soon after the car explodes, the bad guy is shown with launcher still in his hands and without any smoke or even reloading it. He was aiming it at something else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16790" LastEditorUserId="16790" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T17:51:06.657" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T17:51:06.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26265" CreationDate="2015-02-05T18:22:44.247" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even in the movie, the reason for his horns is a result of his act, punishment for something he did. What he did was, after everyone left the place where his gf died, he broke the statue of Mary and peed on it (very bad). That is why he grows horns because it was his punishment to become evil and to spread evil around him since he himself committed and evil act. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16790" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T18:22:44.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30774" CreationDate="2015-02-05T18:22:48.407" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Divergents don't fit into a category. The structure of society is based on everyone fitting into a category.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a popular, powerful theme in young adult fiction, since many young adults are unsure and nervous about where they &quot;fit&quot; in the world. Divergents represent those young adults that are afraid they don't fit into one of the preexisting categories in society - Erudites, Dauntless, Abnegation in the movie/book ... or in the reader's/viewer's world, Investment Banker, Store Manager, Dental Assistant, Data Analyst, Cook, Graphic Designer, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In the movie/book, Factionless people don't fit into a preexisting category either, but many of them were rejected from the categories they fit into, like Dauntless.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2015-02-05T22:27:38.233" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T22:27:38.233" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30774" CreationDate="2015-02-05T20:21:14.150" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is difficult to explain without including spoilers from the other books/ planned films, but basically know that &lt;strong&gt;it isn't only the fact that they aren't controllable that makes divergents hated. It has a lot to do with jealousy&lt;/strong&gt;, since the &lt;strong&gt;divergent are actually different genetically&lt;/strong&gt; than those who fit specifically into a faction. the leader of Erudite knows something about the origins of the society (did you ever consider how the world got to the state in which they are living? it's explained later) that the rest don't know. I understand the confusion, since with any book/film adaption there is a crunch to transform relevant information into a more condensed and passively absorbed form of media.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18678" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T20:21:14.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30787" PostTypeId="6" CreationDate="2015-02-05T21:18:19.720" Score="-10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;br&gt;It's Muxammil here.I would like to nominate myself by saying that I am hardworking,open to criticism,&lt;strong&gt;patient&lt;/strong&gt; and I always research a lot before answering or asking a question.Three or four days ago, I had 10 or 12 reputation and today I have &lt;strong&gt;445&lt;/strong&gt;.I have been passionate about movies and tv ever since I was a kid.I used to watch movies in other languages too just because I love being fed fantasy.I will spend more and more time here in future,solving unanswered questions,regardless of the outcome of this election.I have been active a lot even since I joined this Q&amp;amp;A forum.I show respect, kindness and expect the same from everyone.I always make sure my answers are detail oriented, descriptive and have concrete evidence (links) from some authentic sources.&lt;br&gt;Apart from that I am fun,outgoing,movie lover,programmer and a student.I love imagining, creativity and stories that keep me thinking and up at night.&lt;br&gt;I believe with your vote and support, I will be one of the three moderators and I will help others find the right answers and keep the environment of the website friendly,smooth and professional too.&lt;br&gt;I am  the hero you deserve and also need right now.Stay happy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16790" LastEditorUserId="16790" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T13:07:59.240" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T13:07:59.240" CommentCount="1" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-02-05T21:18:19.720" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30695" CreationDate="2015-02-05T21:40:55.953" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gibson is the main antagonist as it is also revealed in the last episode that he is the one who poisons the first lady. If you haven't seen the show, you can confirm it from here., This &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_%28TV_series%29#Episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki Link&lt;/a&gt; has all the information including spoilers about the last episode and it will clearly show you who is the main antagonist of this show. &#xA;This show has been cancelled btw. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16790" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T21:40:55.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27218" CreationDate="2015-02-05T23:50:15.140" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most logical answer to me is that Brand (towards the end of the movie) has succesfully accomplished plan B on the third planet and the humans that came out of that were the future humans that later on either evolved or understood 5D, and therefore knew how to access the different dimensions of time, and were able to create the tesseract in order to save the original human race, which they (Cooper and Brand) didn't save in the original past. &quot;They&quot; knew from history that Cooper was going to go in the black hole and that's why they created the tesseract and put it in the there, so Cooper could send the message and save the original human race. Later on, Cooper helped Brand in executing plan B when his daughter told him to go to brand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cooper said &quot;They didn't put us here, we brought ourselves here&quot;.  So the future humans probably knew that there would be a wormhole that would appear at that time and that Cooper and the team would go there and do what they did. Cooper was really going to go in the black hole which was where they placed the tesseract And the rest is history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18683" LastActivityDate="2015-02-05T23:50:15.140" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10943" CreationDate="2015-02-06T03:18:45.377" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jake Green is the desciple of his two friends from prison who is an avid learner of their teachings about gaming and cons specific to gambling. His love of money is his egotistical prison and once he is faced with death and being penniless, reaches his full potential and recognizes his shortcomings being his ego alterself. Now Jake becomes in power of his consciousness and Sam Gold has no power over him not via Jake not via Macha and Macha sees Jake's fearlessness and has conceded to being defeated and does not accept living in such a world so he shoots his own consciousness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18687" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T03:18:45.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30621" CreationDate="2015-02-06T03:43:23.657" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gus is a business man and not a hot head.  He is very cold and calculating in everything he does - and best of all - had an entire network built probably well before Mike comes into the picture.   Walt, on the other hand is a hot head. Yes, Walt is capable of calculating behavior, but only in a survival sense, not in a business sense.   Mike says to Walt at one point &quot;you're a time bomb and I don't want to be around for the boom.&quot;.   Mike was right.  If Walt had just shut up and done his job, nobody would have ever been caught.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18688" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T03:43:23.657" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18296" CreationDate="2015-02-06T05:11:59.337" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mason Verger is paralyzed because Hannibal broke his neck&#xA;to kill him but he survived. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18690" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T05:11:59.337" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13843" CreationDate="2015-02-06T05:42:56.270" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think Tommy will get arrested after the story Manny's wife told CNN about American soldiers firing on Tommy's unit killing all of them. Also he saved those guys in that tank. So, if he does get arrested, they might shorten his sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18691" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T06:40:09.873" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T06:40:09.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30778" CreationDate="2015-02-06T05:49:44.190" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Impossible's' tsunami scene is one of the well praised example and here are the insiders on it :- &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We started off with a test with like six submergible pumps to try to&#xA;  get the current,&quot; said Costa. &quot;We ended up with 33 submergible pumps,&#xA;  and each pump weighed like 1,322 pounds.&quot; Each pumped about 80 gallons&#xA;  per second. Four large generators supplied power to the pumps, which&#xA;  had to be adapted for the tank because they couldn't be visible on&#xA;  camera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The actors would sit in carts that moved on two rails inside the&#xA;  channel, and they were pulled by steel cables at the same speed as the&#xA;  current, said Costa. &quot;They were very protected. They were sitting in&#xA;  the baskets with their arms and legs sticking out, and we would pull&#xA;  the camera next to them and behind them.&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/02/entertainment/la-et-mn-impossible-tsunami-20130103&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;- latimes.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In behind the scene of Bollywood film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyam_Shivam_Sundaram_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Satyam Shivam Sundaram&lt;/a&gt; during TV telecast, it is told that they used real flood scene to catch up the intensity for film. They said , on the similar time real flood got happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise CGI is the solution for the rest but it doesn't look as realistic as above methods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T05:58:22.977" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T05:58:22.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30778" CreationDate="2015-02-06T05:55:16.620" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a hand full of ways that flood and water scenes can be done in movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first instance, and one that's been used more commonly the last few years, is cgi.  They film the actors in front of a green screen and replace everything with computer graphics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example is building a set specific to the scene/s where flooding occurs.  The environments are constructed such that the crew have control of the situation at all times and everyone's safety is kept in check.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some scenes where there is a lot of open water, a special set is constructed in water tanks with backdrops to make it seem that you're not looking at the actors in a tank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T05:55:16.620" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30774" CreationDate="2015-02-06T06:05:19.040" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a more philosophical take on the movie/book premise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In modern society, we have a tendency to label things and put them into specific categories.  When we label people, we tend to call these stereotypes.  These allow us to make quick judgements while knowing very few facts.  In some instances these categories are helpful, but in many they are also hurtful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with trying to categorize everything though, is that not everything is easily categorized.  For instance, you could categorize people as either introverted or extroverted.  However, there's no clear delineation between the two, because it's more of a spectrum than a clear either/or.  For a lot of categorizations that are either/or, there are a lot of edge cases that blur the lines between the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ultimate fear of the divergent members of society are that they don't fit into the accepted categories.  They are an unmeasurable unknown.  This specifically bugs the Erudites because to them, everything MUST be categorized and everything MUST fit into their perfect world, but these people don't, and never will.  As such, they must be eliminated because they break everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T06:05:19.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30798" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-06T06:42:46.947" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T06:42:46.947" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T06:42:46.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30799" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-06T06:42:46.947" Score="0" Body="2014 SciFi film. Adaptation of the first part of the The Divergent Novel Series." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T07:17:18.307" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T07:17:18.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30800" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-06T06:47:20.257" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge or DDLJ is a 1995 romantic drama. It won &lt;code&gt;10 filmfare awards&lt;/code&gt;, which is second highest number for single movie.  Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge was one of only three Hindi films in the reference book &lt;code&gt;1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die&lt;/code&gt;, and was placed twelfth on the&lt;code&gt;British Film Institute&lt;/code&gt;'s list of top Indian films of all time. It is the &lt;code&gt;longest-running film in the history of Indian cinema&lt;/code&gt;. As of 2015, almost 20 years after its first release, it is still being shown at the &lt;code&gt;Maratha Mandir theatre&lt;/code&gt; in Mumbai.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more reference &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilwale_Dulhania_Le_Jayenge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112870/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2015-07-18T18:04:36.500" LastActivityDate="2015-07-18T18:04:36.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30801" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-06T06:47:20.257" Score="0" Body="Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge or DDLJ is a 1995 romantic drama. A record breaking, longest-running blockbuster film." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T07:17:26.787" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T07:17:26.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30805" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-06T08:09:46.563" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Terms, definitions of terms, and clarification of terms used in the film industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T09:45:34.257" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T09:45:34.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30806" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-06T08:09:46.563" Score="0" Body="Terms, definitions of terms, and clarification of terms used in the film industry." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T09:46:00.093" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T09:46:00.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30807" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-06T08:13:54.483" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A tv show about two brothers and one of the brother's young son living together in one house.  Starring Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, and in recent seasons Ashton Kutcher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T09:45:52.363" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T09:45:52.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30808" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-06T08:13:54.483" Score="0" Body="A tv show about two brothers and one of the brother's young son living together in one house." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T09:45:57.463" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T09:45:57.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30759" CreationDate="2015-02-06T10:04:43.697" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's reasonable to assume (based on the time that Neo spent in Mobil Ave and the fact that he was able to influence the squiddies outside of the Matrix) that the machine ports in Neo's neck and body have some sort of wireless capability. It's also pretty reasonable to assume that the various machine elements that we see also have a similar wireless capability, allowing individual machine parts to communicate with each other. Neo is tapping into that and converting it into a sort of blind-sight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's very telling that when Neo fights Smith on the Logos and later when he arrives at the Machine City, he can only see powered machine elements, not Trinity's body, nor the damaged spikes that have cut through through her. He can't see anything unpowered since it's not emitting any kinds of signals. This holds true for the structure of the Logos, the ground alongside the power cables and the sky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T10:04:43.697" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28491" CreationDate="2015-02-06T11:30:40.933" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As before he might have taken a key from a smashed griever thus why he got stung and learned the maze from the map but how did he know the combination for the door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simple answer: In the Runner hut there are boards filled with information about the maze of course Minho would have written the sequence down somewhere or he would have forgotten it and Gally would have stumbled across it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18701" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T11:37:00.023" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T11:37:00.023" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30815" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-06T12:47:02.130" Score="11" ViewCount="5764" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1486217/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Archer&lt;/a&gt; S06E05, &quot;Vision Quest&quot;, did Archer cause the elevator to break? I didn't quite understand what happened. Ray called Mallory using his cell phone and instead it called the elevator phone. Archer was trying to prevent Ray from calling Mallory obviously because he know it would call the elevator phone, but the recording was confusing. It made a joke about being stuck in an elevator. At that point everyone attacked Archer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, did Archer cause the elevator to break or did I miss a joke somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="34594" LastEditDate="2016-09-25T08:18:20.127" LastActivityDate="2020-05-11T16:42:38.677" Title="Did Archer cause the elevator to break?" Tags="|plot-explanation|archer|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30524" CreationDate="2015-02-06T13:17:02.357" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354899/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Science of sleep (2006)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The reason I believe it is this movie is that it is also &lt;strong&gt;part french&lt;/strong&gt;. The guy goes to sleep and weird things happen. He sees the world in his own way and his &lt;strong&gt;dreams defy the normal laws of physics&lt;/strong&gt;. There is &lt;strong&gt;definitely water&lt;/strong&gt; in the movie since he uses water (with alarm clock) to wake himself up. Apart from that, there are also &lt;strong&gt;several fight scenes&lt;/strong&gt;(though funny).It also had a little touch of &lt;strong&gt;animation&lt;/strong&gt; to it.It matches most of the details provided above but I am not sure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16790" LastEditorUserId="16790" LastEditDate="2015-02-06T13:34:32.723" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T13:34:32.723" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29961" CreationDate="2015-02-06T15:07:42.323" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it was because David actually was Caleb, his identity erased as part of the program and face reconstructed to look like a former squad mate.  He felt the subconcious need to return home and help his family (who I'm sure he didn't conciously realize were his family) This makes the most sense to me, especially when he gives Luke a thumbs up in the final scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18704" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T15:07:42.323" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30819" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-06T15:18:13.553" Score="0" ViewCount="82" Body="&lt;p&gt;While chatting about the movie Jupiter Ascending in the chat room, I learned that the movie is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1617661/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ql_9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;apparently already out in many European countries&lt;/a&gt;, whereas the movie comes out today, 6 February 2015, in the United States. Over the last several years I've noticed that this trend seems to be increasing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948470/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ql_9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/a&gt; had its premiere in Tokyo, Japan on 30&#xA;June 2012, where as the American release wasn't until 3 July 2012.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1872181/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ql_9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Its sequel&lt;/a&gt; hit UK theaters nearly an entire month before it hit&#xA;US theaters.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1250777/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ql_9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kick-Ass&lt;/a&gt; had a premiere at Sundance, it went wide in the&#xA;UK on 26 March 2010, and didn't go wide in the US until 16 April. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1650554/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ql_9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Its sequel&lt;/a&gt; had a much smaller window for releasing early in the UK before the US, but still, it hit the UK before it hit the&#xA;US.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2109248/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ql_9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Transformers: Age of Extinction&lt;/a&gt; hit Asian markets about 2 to 3&#xA;days before it premiered in the US.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877832/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ql_9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past&lt;/a&gt; hit the UK a couple weeks before it&#xA;hit the US.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/?ref_=fn_al_tt_5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&lt;/a&gt;, a sequel, came out in Europe&#xA;before the US, as did the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951265/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ql_9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;third film&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1205537/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ql_9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit&lt;/a&gt;, a movie based on a Tom Clancy&#xA;character (and a very American franchise to begin with) came out in&#xA;Europe and some Asian/Pacific regions before the US.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: &lt;strong&gt;Why does it seem like more and more movies produced in the US hit foreign markets before they hit the US market?&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not asking out of some misplaced sense of patriotism or American zealotry, but movies produced by US studios used to take quite a bit longer to hit foreign theaters after making it to US theaters. Are distribution methods simply faster? Is there a marketing reason? What's the deal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T15:24:13.290" Title="Why are more American movies are coming out in foreign countries first?" Tags="|film-industry|distribution|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-02-06T16:00:27.683" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2172" CreationDate="2015-02-06T15:24:13.290" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.moviefone.com/2013/05/05/box-office-iron-man-3-international-opening/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; article, it has a lot to do with how the market in other countries is becoming a bigger factor these days, movies can make more money in other countries than in the US if it's good enough.  From other things I've read it also has to do with piracy, people in America pirating a theatrical release, then distributing it on the internet for the world to see, granted that's kinda reversed now as I see a lot of pirated films from other countries, so not sure why that would really matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not long ago, homegrown Hollywood &amp;quot;event movies&amp;quot; like these would have opened in America first, then abroad. Or they would have opened everywhere in the world on the same day, a measure that not only created worldwide hype for the films but also thwarted pirates who might have taken advantage of the release-date gap to flood a country's streets with bootleg DVDs from another country where the movie had already opened. So what changed? Why does Hollywood now make America wait to see its own movies until after they've premiered throughout the rest of the world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More than anything else, the shift reflects how the international market, once just gravy for Hollywood, has eclipsed the domestic market as the main source of revenue for mainstream theatrical releases. As big as last year's &amp;quot;The Avengers&amp;quot; was at home ($623.4 million), it was even bigger abroad ($888.4 million). Of that foreign total, $185.1 million came in on the film's overseas opening weekend, which took place a week before the movie premiered here. So it's no wonder that Disney would repeat the strategy for &amp;quot;Iron Man 3.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18110" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T15:24:13.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30824" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30825" CreationDate="2015-02-06T18:32:34.110" Score="7" ViewCount="33148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Matt Damon opt out of the Bourne Legacy? I read on the Wikipedia that he decided not to make himself available for playing the lead role in the fourth film of the series. Is there any indication why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastActivityDate="2016-07-24T23:44:25.580" Title="Why did Matt Damon opt out of the Bourne Legacy?" Tags="|casting|the-bourne-legacy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30824" CreationDate="2015-02-06T18:38:57.260" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;To quote &lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/matt-damon-interview-the-bounre-ultimatum/&quot;&gt;from an interview Damon gave&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think in terms of another one, the story of this guy's search for&#xA;  his identity is over, because he's got all the answers, so there's no&#xA;  way we can trot out the same character, and so much of what makes him&#xA;  interesting is that internal struggle that was happening for him, am I&#xA;  a good guy, am I a bad guy, what is the secret behind my identity,&#xA;  what am I blocking out, why am I remembering these disturbing images?&#xA;  So all of that internal propulsive mechanism that drives the character&#xA;  is not there, so if there was to be another one then it would have to&#xA;  be a complete reconfiguration, you know, where do you go from there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarise, he simply felt that the role was exhausted and it made no sense to have another film with his character - there was nothing left to learn or reveal about Jason Bourne, so he chose to walk away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He gave a different interview, to &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/matt-damon-bourne-4-franchise-robf-143657/&quot;&gt;GQ Magazine&lt;/a&gt;, where he said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“If you look at the first three movies, we kind of pounded that idea&#xA;  of identity and amnesia into the ground. We really got everything out&#xA;  of it that we could. So to reboot it, we need to come up with&#xA;  something completely new.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This supports his comments in the first interview, but also shows that he wasn't &lt;em&gt;against&lt;/em&gt; a fourth film - he just didn't want it to involve his character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, that was then. &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/matt-damon-paul-greengrass-bourne-5-confirmed/&quot;&gt;Things change.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T18:38:57.260" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13900" CreationDate="2015-02-06T22:31:51.167" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would go out on a limb and suggest that the endscene, the last 6-8 minutes, are shot at the Top Gear testtrack. Check it out.&#xA;All the best&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18709" LastActivityDate="2015-02-06T22:31:51.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30840" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-07T13:34:20.673" Score="7" ViewCount="4440" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been watching Breaking Bad as of late, and I've got the final episode planned for tonight (so please, no spoilers). In Ozymandias and Granite State, we see Walter White going into hiding after the murder of his brother-in-law. I understand that he needed to flee his family after it was revealed to Walter Jr. that Walter was a Meth kingpin. But during Granite State, we all of a sudden see Skyler talking to the police about Walter. Later, we hear that Skyler has been thrown out of her own house, that the White residence has become a playground for adolecents and that Walter's crimes have been outed all over America.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet the DEA only has little puzzle pieces of evidence. Hank and Gomez have vanished, the Schrader house was broken into and Walter kidnapped his daughter: enough to know something's on, but &lt;strong&gt;nothing&lt;/strong&gt; leading to Walt's secret identity as a drug kingpin. The only evidence that was there, if I remember correctly, was the testimonies of Marie, Skyler and partly Walter Jr.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did they rat Walter out? Or am I overlooking some piece of evidence? What fueled the DEA investigation into Walter White and what did they have that was so concrete that they managed to press charges against Skyler?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18727" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-07T13:44:51.693" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T10:06:19.457" Title="What evidence existed against Skyler White during the final episodes of Breaking Bad?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30842" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-07T13:55:57.453" Score="1" ViewCount="728" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering about a scene in &lt;em&gt;The World's End&lt;/em&gt;. Why did Andy drink those shots in the “Cross Hands” Pub since he's supposed to be teetotal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have my theories but feel free to post your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He feels pressured by the fact that the others want him to drive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's craving for alcohol ;) (come on 16 years!?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He prefers Steven's plan &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He secretly likes a waitress in &quot;The Good Companion&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just because the plot needs him to...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Let's BooBoo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18728" LastEditorUserId="9285" LastEditDate="2015-02-08T13:12:35.163" LastActivityDate="2015-03-10T13:39:17.040" Title="Why does Andy drink the shots in the “Cross Hands” pub?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-worlds-end|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30843" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30880" CreationDate="2015-02-07T15:09:55.560" Score="3" ViewCount="699" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never figured out why Bill Murray's character tries to chop down a tree in &lt;em&gt;Moonrise Kingdom&lt;/em&gt;. Is he hoping it will fall on the house? Does he just want to destroy something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18729" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-07T15:33:09.810" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T00:16:55.260" Title="Why does Bill Murray's character try to chop down the tree?" Tags="|moonrise-kingdom|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17349" CreationDate="2015-02-07T17:06:14.560" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched the rerun of the episode where he had to kill Meryl. Just before he saw Meryl in walker form, he shot a walker in the head. He is never shown recovering that bolt. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-02-07T17:06:14.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30845" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-07T17:36:21.497" Score="1" ViewCount="4849" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117913/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Time to Kill&lt;/a&gt; in the final scenes it was shown that the accused was innocent. But from the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/?ref_=nv_sr_4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;12 Angry Men&lt;/a&gt; we can see that all the jury members must accept the same decision, it cannot be a tie or 75-25 . In the film it doesn't show the actual description how it ends. If one votes guily it can't be  proceeded so maybe all might have changed their vote. But they previously sent the confidential voe (Guilty) to the judge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can they alter it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15758" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-08T13:11:46.543" LastActivityDate="2015-02-08T13:11:46.543" Title="&quot;A Time to kill&quot; final verdict?" Tags="|12-angry-men|a-time-to-kill|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24266" CreationDate="2015-02-07T18:37:28.617" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't really a difference between Gondor and Minas Tirith, besides the fact that Gondor is the country and Minas Tirith is the replacement capital of the country. A country can't be a capital. And a capital can't be a country. So obviously they are two very different things! There can -- as you know -- be a capital to a country, and that is exactly what Minas Tirith is for Gondor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18734" LastActivityDate="2015-02-07T18:37:28.617" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30847" PostTypeId="6" CreationDate="2015-02-07T21:02:40.347" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am self-nominating for moderator. For the following reasons, I think I deserve your vote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I love movies&lt;/strong&gt;, but as a moderator, keeping M&amp;amp;TV viable, free of clutter, and functioning flawlessly is my first priority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am on here nearly every day.&lt;/strong&gt; I've been on here 571 days since joining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am always doing review tasks.&lt;/strong&gt; If I see there is a review to be done, I do it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I have raised 117 helpful flags&lt;/strong&gt;. I know what is on/off topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm active with over 5k points&lt;/strong&gt;, which shows I answer and post questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am not one to jump on an answer just to answer.&lt;/strong&gt; I believe questions deserve good answers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I try hard&lt;/strong&gt;, though I’m not infallible. I edit posts for clarity (239/500 towards Copy Editor) to create good Q/A's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I’m active on the meta and chat when I need to be.&lt;/strong&gt; I lurk there quite often just to see what's going on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I’m proposing the establishment of a blog site for M&amp;amp;TV.&lt;/strong&gt; This will provide an outlet for many, add content which is off-topic for the main site, and allow for viable industry information which would be hard to put into a Q/A format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you feel as I do, please vote for me to become a new moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2015-02-07T21:02:40.347" LastActivityDate="2015-02-07T21:02:40.347" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-02-07T21:02:40.347" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9107" CreationDate="2015-02-07T23:55:45.493" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Colonel Landa said &quot;au revoir&quot; in French, meaning &quot;I'll see you again&quot;, or &quot;until we meet again&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think he did know very well that it was her. But he was a strange man. I think he respected her a bit for escaping the Germans twice, with the way he thought so highly of Germans and so lowly of Jews. He thought perhaps that she was different.&#xA;He alludes to her life hiding on a dairy farm, &quot;for the mademoiselle... a glass of milk&quot;; &quot;ah, ah, ah wait for the cream.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the question at the end, he likes to watch the anxiety and perhaps he respects her even more for showing so little. But I think at that time, he wasn't so concerned anymore about his work with the army, the government was making strides to see that the Germans preserve their nation pride. He knew it was going bad for Germany and he was on the wrong team. So he wasn't going to go out of his way to prove Emanuelle was actually Shosanna. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18741" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2020-02-16T12:36:55.127" LastActivityDate="2020-02-16T12:36:55.127" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30845" CreationDate="2015-02-08T02:05:18.603" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This movie is based on the book &quot;A Time to Kill&quot; by John Grisham. I have read it. Acccording to the book, after the verdict is delivered, Jake (the lawyer) goes to meet one of the jury members. That woman was not at home but his husband was, who was on the grand jury which indicted Carl Lee Hailey. He told Jake that when they were all discussing the verdict in the chambers it was almost a tie. Then his wife told everyone to close their eyes and imagine a white girl getting raped by two black men. How would they deliver the verdict in that case? Everyone realized the severity of the crime committed against Tonya (Carl Lee Hailey's daughter who was raped) and thus declared Carl Lee Hailey not guilty.&#xA;According to the book, on the day before the verdict was delivered, the jury told Noose that they wanted one more day to deliver the final judgement because they felt intimidated by the Ku Klux Klan. They didn't give a judgement to Noose in the first place. There's no question of changing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18718" LastEditorUserId="18718" LastEditDate="2015-02-08T13:11:24.260" LastActivityDate="2015-02-08T13:11:24.260" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30842" CreationDate="2015-02-08T08:25:54.983" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been a bit since I've seen the movie, but I don't recall Andy drinking anything until after the aliens/robots/what have you showed up.  So, I think was a &quot;welp, there's something weird going down, might as well have a drink... or 6&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2015-02-08T08:25:54.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30865" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-08T12:11:12.257" Score="12" ViewCount="1666" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Firefly universe, there are a group of monstrous, man-eating madmen known as the &lt;em&gt;Reavers&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many myths spinning around their origin, one of the most prevalent being that they traveled to the end of universe and went mad after staring into the nothingness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During one Firefly episode, the crew discovers a stranded vessel that was attacked by Reavers. Onboard they find slaughtered people, while one of them apparently was forced by the Reavers to watch the whole thing. I am not certain I remember that part right, but Raynolds explains that that is how they recruit new &quot;members&quot; (by turning them crazy). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the movie Serenity it is explained that the Reaver state is a side effect of a drug meant to calm the population of the planet Miranda. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me that seems to contradict the explanation presented before. I find it hard to believe they can mimic the results of the drug by driving someone mad &quot;manually&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how do the Reavers actually grow in numbers? Do they recruit new members by turning them mad? Do they reproduce the old fashioned way? Or do they not recruit at all and all the Reavers we see are actually original inhabitants of Miranda? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2022-06-08T01:45:07.427" Title="How do the Reavers reproduce?" Tags="|plot-explanation|firefly|serenity|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14524" CreationDate="2015-02-08T12:38:51.413" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're all missing the point; Beth had to be innocent because she had not read Catherine's latest book and did not know the detective's partner gets murdered in a lift on the fourth floor. Only Catherine knew that so she HAD to be the killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18751" LastActivityDate="2015-02-08T12:38:51.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30872" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-08T15:10:24.140" Score="10" ViewCount="287" Body="&lt;p&gt;Metropolis (1927) talks about the importance of a mediator between the hand and the head. In the movie the head is the capitalists and the hand is the workers. A core aspect of Social Democracy and the Nordic model in Scandinavian countries is the importance of dialogue between trade unions and employees organizations, a mediator of sorts. So does Metropolis advocate for Social Democracy?&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/movies/05metropolis.html?_r=0&quot;&gt;Metropolis Restored&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18758" LastEditorUserId="18758" LastEditDate="2015-02-08T20:00:28.623" LastActivityDate="2015-05-03T20:08:42.987" Title="Does Metropolis advocate for Social Democracy?" Tags="|analysis|metropolis|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30865" CreationDate="2015-02-08T15:32:14.933" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have any official sources to cite, but my guess is that the Reavers' ships contain air from Miranda's atmosphere, and that it still carries traces of the drug.  When they dock with another ship the drug in their air diffuses into that ship, and transforms anyone there with the genetic susceptibility.  Of course the Reavers butcher everyone else, and to casual observers it would seem like some small percentage of people on the ship were driven mad by the carnage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Reavers do seem to direct all of their aggression to non-Reavers, and therefore must have the ability to recognize one another despite their berserker rage.  Since they leave the newly transformed Reavers alive they must be able to recognize another Reaver even if he or she doesn't look or act like one yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My one nagging question from the Firefly episode was why did the attacking Reavers leave the new Reaver behind?  One possible answer is they expected that when he fully transformed, he would pilot the ship back to Miranda.  However there is no clue given as to how he would be able to find it.  Homing instinct?  Telepathy?  We'll never know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2015-02-08T15:32:14.933" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30877" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-08T16:54:39.003" Score="2" ViewCount="366" Body="&lt;p&gt;How is Ann's refusal to believe in Chris's afterlife existence affecting her and her family? How is she affecting the belief of her children? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18760" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-04-28T13:57:45.003" LastActivityDate="2016-08-21T22:47:20.340" Title="Question about Ann's refusal to believe Chris in What Dreams May Come" Tags="|what-dreams-may-come|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30879" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-08T20:16:35.223" Score="6" ViewCount="1866" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096895/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman (1989)&lt;/a&gt;, when Batman tells The Joker that he killed his parents, The Joker responds with, &quot;I was just a kid!&quot;  See this clip at the 0:52 mark:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ea1mo79ZBi4?t=52s?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did The Joker know who Batman's parents were?  Or was it just some stock line he was using to weasel his way out of a Bat-Beating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2019-11-01T15:03:31.660" LastActivityDate="2019-11-07T09:22:49.283" Title="How did The Joker know who Batman's parents were?" Tags="|plot-explanation|batman-1989|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30843" CreationDate="2015-02-08T20:54:52.610" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though it was never fully explained (and likely left on the cuttingroom floor), I thought the obvious answer is that he was taking out frustration while getting sedated with wine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was my impression, though not explicitly stated in the movie, that Murray's character was a victim of physical abuse.  As such, it would make sense that he would need to vent on some other physical object, namely the tree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-02-08T20:54:52.610" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30881" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30883" CreationDate="2015-02-08T21:40:05.087" Score="7" ViewCount="5967" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the devastating events in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615147/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Margin Call&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; there is a conversation between &lt;em&gt;Will&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Eric Dale&lt;/em&gt; whom &lt;em&gt;Will&lt;/em&gt; has come to convince into returning to the company after having previously been fired. &lt;em&gt;Eric&lt;/em&gt; explains that he has once been an engineer and constructed a bridge, which he concludes, after a long chain of numbery explanations, has saved the people crossing it &lt;em&gt;&quot;1,531 years of their lives not wasted in a fucking car&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. This is surely meant as a statement that he once did something meaningful in his life and doesn't see much inclination to return to that supposedly less meaningful job from which he has been fired anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But after that when it is clear that he won't return and &lt;em&gt;Will&lt;/em&gt; is leaving for good, he responds with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Will:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, you're a better man than me.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Eric:&lt;/strong&gt; That's always been true.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Will:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, it has...House looks good. Don't beat yourself up too much about this stuff, right. Some people like driving the long way home. Who the fuck knows, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it might seem a rather marginal question, but &lt;strong&gt;I didn't really get what he wanted to say with this last part&lt;/strong&gt; directly referencing &lt;em&gt;Eric&lt;/em&gt;'s bridge analogy. Seeing the importance of that bridge speech, there seems to be more to &lt;em&gt;Will&lt;/em&gt;'s response than just a throwaway line, but I can't really wrap my head around &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; exact statement it is he wanted to make with this response. Add to this that &lt;em&gt;Eric&lt;/em&gt; indeed returned to the company (after they clarified the consequences regarding his gratuity and health insurance if he wouldn't, though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2021-06-09T15:51:50.737" Title="What does Will want to say with his response to Eric's bridge analogy?" Tags="|dialogue|margin-call|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30881" CreationDate="2015-02-09T00:13:07.627" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone always thinks they are on the good side or at least doing something neutral (and winning while doing it). That is a main topic of the movie and mentioned several times. Money is neutral; the people want it this way, even if they are complaining; they will only hang us if the system crashes, otherwise they take their share and nobody will be persecuted. There are decidedly no &quot;evil&quot; persons in the movie, up to the top management everyone seems to do a professional job and &quot;just&quot; trying to make money (even when the risk calculation go awry and chance hits or mistakes are made; they are human after all). &quot;There are three ways to earn money: Be the first, be the best, or betray. And I don't betray.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when Eric tells the bridge metaphor he tells Will that once in life he did something measurably, undoubtedly meaningful where the monetary work was just, well, for the money. This hurts Will who sees himself and his job as positive-neutral (&quot;Money is just paper with faces so we don't kill each other when trading&quot;). &lt;em&gt;His snappy response for me was a way to level Eric's achievement with this&lt;/em&gt;. This aligns with typical business administration studies where you learn that monetary success is neutral so it is fine to maximize the gain and use it for whatever purpose you set yourself. This contrasts with Eric's engineering point of view where you can objectively measure a positive success. &lt;em&gt;Will has power over Eric (health insurance, gratuity) so he shows his position by defining the ethics and degrading Eric's success&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you like the long way home you can still take it, even with the bridge in existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it to be a coincidence that the other person who uncovers the problems isn't an economics graduate either but a &quot;rocket scientist&quot; (a specialised engineer turned broker for monetary reasons). It is a symbol that you need an outside view. Undoubtedly every professional could have calculated the business cases and risks correctly and discovered the mistakes, but in the movie the persons doing so are &quot;externals&quot;. Both externals left their &quot;meaningful&quot; careers just for the money so this is a criticism in itself that a system can corrupt even if not a single person (in the movie) is evil or unprofessional. The catastrophe happened anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I saw the German dub only. The quotes may be a little off for that reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T00:13:07.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30884" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-09T00:16:25.430" Score="68" ViewCount="8360" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I found an article quoting an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/trivia?tab=tr&amp;amp;item=tr1556522&quot;&gt;IMDb Factoid&lt;/a&gt; that the character Switch in &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt; was supposed to be played by two actors, one male and one female: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Belinda McClory auditioned for the role of &quot;Switch&quot;, she was only going for half the role. The character was originally planned to be played by androgynous actors. In the real world, it would be played by a male actor and in the Matrix be represented in a female form, hence the name &quot;Switch&quot;. Warner Brothers refined the idea and McClory ended up getting a single female role in both environments. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a &lt;a href=&quot;http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Switch&quot;&gt;couple&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_characters_in_the_Matrix_series#Switch&quot;&gt;other&lt;/a&gt; similar statements but none that I can find cite to any hard sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freewebs.com/spiritinform/namesmatrixcharacter.htm&quot;&gt;sites&lt;/a&gt; simply say that &lt;em&gt;Switch&lt;/em&gt; is just another reference to computer terminology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Switch's name may be a reference to a network switch, or any number of &quot;switches&quot; used in computer technology. Many other Matrix characters' names reference computer technology, such as &quot;Mouse&quot; and &quot;Link&quot;. The name Switch could also be a reference to her white clothing ('switched' from the usual black attire worn by the others).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd love to believe the former is true. I think it's great that Larry/Lana was trying to share herself in a small way from so early in her career. I also think that this would have made for a very interesting added facet to the film (Would Trans people have even existed inside The Matrix?... mind... &lt;strong&gt;blown&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also know that The Wachowskis are well known for being very quiet and reserved, avoiding media and interviews, so finding concrete evidence may be difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd love to see if anyone can find some hard evidence and, lacking that, any soft evidence that makes a strong argument one way or the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-09T00:32:00.107" LastActivityDate="2020-09-28T15:39:59.753" Title="Switch in *The Matrix* - Two Actors?" Tags="|character|casting|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30879" CreationDate="2015-02-09T00:43:48.543" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joker used to be a big time mobster Jack Napier. These don't usually run around killing kids' parents (or, if they do, kids are unlikely to survive that). So, it's not hard for him to realize that this must have happened when he was a thug, i.e., when he was young.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice how he first asks &quot;What are you talking about?&quot; and only after that says that he was young. I don't think he knows who are these parents, but does conclude that it happened when he was young. After all, he's crazy, but very far from stupid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T00:43:48.543" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18784" CreationDate="2015-02-09T01:57:31.017" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter what was in the box. What matters is that Sullivan became a cop moments earlier, and is already accepting gifts from a known criminal. He's fresh out of the academy and has already sold his soul to the devil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18766" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T01:57:31.017" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30658" CreationDate="2015-02-09T05:22:27.837" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cracker cooker is the correct sentence. Its a derogatory term for squatters who ran out to homestead before the posted duration of the law during the gold rush.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18772" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T05:22:27.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30890" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32299" CreationDate="2015-02-09T08:44:23.867" Score="5" ViewCount="21608" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Terry goes to Allen's home, they talk about the movie She's Got Mail (You've Got Mail) casting Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Allen said Tom Hanks have poison ivy up his ass. What's he talking about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T11:53:57.313" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T12:09:14.557" Title="What does Allen's comment about &quot;You've Got Mail&quot; mean?" Tags="|the-other-guys|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30891" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-09T08:52:47.330" Score="2" ViewCount="1342" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;The other guys&quot;, Allen says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Anything you say or do can be used as a floatation device.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's funny about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2015-02-09T15:42:10.120" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T15:42:10.120" Title="What does Allen's line about the floatation device mean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|the-other-guys|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30891" CreationDate="2015-02-09T09:45:26.160" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Allen Gamble (Ferrell) forgets how the Miranda Rights speech goes, so his partner (Wahlberg) jokingly makes him finish the sentence with a bit from another familiar speech: the saftey speech in airplanes that at one point tells you that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/safety/faq.page#FAQ16&quot;&gt;certain things around you could be used as a floatation device&lt;/a&gt;. Thus, he's making Allen sound like a flight attendant rather than a cop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T09:45:26.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30896" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30904" CreationDate="2015-02-09T10:30:09.813" Score="2" ViewCount="7382" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2014 film &lt;em&gt;Into the Woods&lt;/em&gt; the Witch (played by Meryl Streep)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Throws her beans away and seems to be sucked into a huge tar pit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's mentioned that, after the first time she lost&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; the magic beans to the Baker's Father, her mother's spell turned her into a hag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it the same curse that ultimately caused the dramatic end to her song? If so why were the effects so different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-02-09T15:36:15.993" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T15:54:24.003" Title="What happened to the Witch?" Tags="|plot-explanation|into-the-woods|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30898" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30903" CreationDate="2015-02-09T12:18:13.933" Score="1" ViewCount="4891" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2014 film &lt;em&gt;Into the Woods&lt;/em&gt;, Rapunzel's hair did not work because the Witch had already touched it (presumably during her imprisonment/upbringing in the tower).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I heard something about &quot;But I compared it to corn&quot; and I assume they found some other hair on the corn but why should this hair work and not the hair the Baker's Wife had cut? Furthermore, how could the Witch not have known that her own &quot;daughter's&quot; hair was the ingredient she needed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-02-09T15:08:21.207" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T03:34:02.193" Title="Why did the hair on the corn work?" Tags="|into-the-woods|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30899" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-09T12:19:15.637" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-02-09T12:19:15.637" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T12:19:15.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30900" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-09T12:19:15.637" Score="0" Body="Into the woods is a 2014 film staring Meryl Streep and James Corden and weaves together the fairy stories of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and Rapunzel." OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2015-02-09T12:50:46.767" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T12:50:46.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30902" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-09T13:19:35.867" Score="21" ViewCount="40051" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leon himself talks about his plant that it is his best friend as he never complains and they have in common that they don't have roots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He always cares for his plant, as he doesn't only include his plant in his day routine, but also saves it in the dangerous scene at the end of the film. You wouldn't save some general plant in that situation. Matilda also plants it at her school where she names it Leon, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I bother what's about the plant. Does the plant have more to do with the story what I can't see? Is it maybe a reference in real life on one of those persons? Or is it just the fact that Matilda tries to let his memory live on by giving the plant &quot;endless life&quot; by planting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For what does the plant in Leon The Professional really stand?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8139" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-09T13:30:58.197" LastActivityDate="2020-10-18T17:21:50.400" Title="What is the story of Leon's plant?" Tags="|leon-the-professional|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30898" CreationDate="2015-02-09T13:23:29.150" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The exact hair ingredient they needed was &quot;the hair as yellow as corn&quot;, which is why they compared Rapunzel's hair to the corn. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ingredients they keep chanting throughout the movie/musical:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The cow as white as milk.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The cape as red as blood.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The hair as yellow as corn.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The slipper as pure as gold.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did the other hair work? It was &lt;strong&gt;corn silk&lt;/strong&gt;. If you have ever had to remove the husk from an ear of corn, you'll notice there is a layer of golden-yellow to white hair-like fibers between the husk and the corn. This is known as corn silk.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mKINw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;corn silk&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Since it is a part of the corn, it's just as yellow as corn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why the witch never realized Rapunzel's hair was the ingredient, &quot; hair as yellow as corn&quot; is essentially a type of blonde. Surely there was more than one blonde in the entire kingdom. Also when it's something you see every day, you tend not to notice the possible importance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-09T03:34:02.193" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T03:34:02.193" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30896" CreationDate="2015-02-09T13:57:43.023" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie makes this seem confusing because of the manner in which the witch disappears, but she actually doesn't die. She simply reenacts the curse (to get her powers back) and then disappears, leaving the others to fend for themselves against the Giant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Sondheim.com's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sondheim.com/shows/essay/woods.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Into the Woods: a plot summary by Bruce Janiga&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Witch finally interrupts their argument reminding them that they have an impending deadline as the Giant still wants Jack. The others protect Jack from her and will not let her feed him to the Giant. Fed up with them she leaves them alone, disappearing from the stage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the scene differs between the original production and the revival; the movie mirrors the original:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.php?thread=925816&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Broadwayworld.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It depends on the version you're talking about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the original production, Bernadette disappears through the floor in a puff of smoke after tossing some of the beans in the ground. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the revival, Vanessa eats some of the beans and her hair begins to fall out and she begins to become the gnarled woman she began the show as, before falling through the floor in smoke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T15:54:24.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30902" CreationDate="2015-02-09T14:08:54.867" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it's never explained, I have 2 theories on the plant and what it means in Leon's life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, if you've ever been in the military you know that one of your main tasks is to make your bed.  It is then inspected by your drill sargeant.  They do this for a few reasons, the main one being that it allows you to start your day with a completed task, which gives you confidence to complete other tasks.  Caring for the plant gives Leon that structure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, the plant is something that Leon can love.  Leon hasn't had girlfriends, he's not very social, and he needs to direct his feelings towards something.  That &quot;something&quot; is his plant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T14:08:54.867" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30750" CreationDate="2015-02-09T15:38:58.820" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if that answer your question but this type of filming can also be seen in the first movie of Richard Linklater : &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102943/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Slacker&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically the camera follow each character as he or she encounter another character and after that the camera start following the another character, leading to another encounter, etc. The whole movie is based on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18784" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T15:38:58.820" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30909" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30914" CreationDate="2015-02-09T15:46:42.880" Score="12" ViewCount="3053" Body="&lt;p&gt;The TV show Game of Thrones is approaching it's 5th series and is rumoured to be adapted from A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons, these are the 4th and 5th books of the Song of Ice and Fire Saga. As it stands there are seven books:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Game of Thrones&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Clash of Kings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Storm of Swords - Steel and Snow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Storm of Swords - Blood and Gold&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Feast for Crows&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Dance with Dragons - Dreams and Dust&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Dance with Dragons - After the Feast&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In many TV adaptations (such as the Sookie Stackhouse novels) when the TV series has caught up the program writers have taken the TV series away from the canon material. Has there been any official word yet on how Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire intends to continue beyond this point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T09:28:24.657" Title="What will happen when the TV series catches up with the books?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|book-adaptation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30909" CreationDate="2015-02-09T16:13:08.473" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They'll likely end up different from the final outcomes of the books yet to be published.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The showrunners have said they have no plans to pad things out to allow Martin time to catch up with his books, as they feel it will ruin the momentum of the show and bore audiences. They have &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones#Adaptation_schedule&quot;&gt;broad outlines&lt;/a&gt;&quot; of where Martin currently intends for the various stories to end up, and while they would prefer the series to remain true to all of the books, should that not be possible they'll complete the TV show based on what they currently know, and the books will end however Martin decides to finish them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T16:13:08.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30911" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30913" CreationDate="2015-02-09T16:14:00.083" Score="11" ViewCount="3577" Body="&lt;p&gt;I slightly remember a scene taken in an office (maybe in USA) in which there are two men: one who enters the office (I suppose a boss) and another one which always camouflages/disguises himself; in particular, I remember him &lt;strong&gt;inside&lt;/strong&gt; an armchair (composed like a dress) and, even if I'm not totally sure, dressed as the wallpaper in another scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you spot the title? I suppose it's a movie from the mid/late '90s… (I was very young; at least the early 2000s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18785" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-27T08:50:35.520" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T08:50:35.520" Title="Man hides from boss by disguising himself as an armchair" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:34:06.140" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30911" CreationDate="2015-02-09T16:34:15.063" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Might be &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_Hard&quot;&gt;Spy Hard&lt;/a&gt; (1996).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Secret agent WD-40 Dick Steele (Leslie Nielsen) has his work cut out&#xA;  for him. Along with the mysterious and lovely Veronique Ukrinsky,&#xA;  Agent 3.14, he must rescue the kidnapped Barbara Dahl and stop the&#xA;  evil genius, a General named Rancor (Andy Griffith), from seizing&#xA;  control of the entire world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rancor was wounded in an earlier encounter and no longer has arms.&#xA;  However, he can &quot;arm&quot; himself by attaching robotic limbs with various&#xA;  weapons attached. Steele is talked out of retirement by an old friend,&#xA;  agent Steven Bishop (Robert Guillaume), and given his new assignment&#xA;  by &lt;strong&gt;The Director (Charles Durning), who also is testing out a variety&#xA;  of elaborate disguises.&lt;/strong&gt; At headquarters, Steele encounters an old&#xA;  agency nemesis, Norm Coleman (Barry Bostwick), and flirts with the&#xA;  Director's adoring secretary, referred to as Miss Cheevus (Marcia Gay&#xA;  Harden).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the job, Steele is assisted by an agent named Kabul (John Ales),&#xA;  who gives him rides in a never-ending variety of specially designed&#xA;  cars. They seek help from McLuckey (Mason Gamble), a blond child, home&#xA;  alone, who is very good at fending off intruders. Steele resists the&#xA;  temptations of a dangerous woman (Alexandra Paul) he finds waiting for&#xA;  him in bed. But he does work very closely with Agent 3.14 (Nicollette&#xA;  Sheridan), whose father, Professor Ukrinsky (Elya Baskin), is also&#xA;  being held captive by Rancor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Everything comes to an explosive conclusion at the General's remote&#xA;  fortress, where Steele rescues both Barbara Dahl (Stephanie Romanov)&#xA;  and Miss Cheevus and launches a literally disarmed Rancor into outer&#xA;  space, saving mankind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clip of the chair scene:&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/xqJ3lx43lMg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crankycritic.com/archive/spyhard.html&quot;&gt;CrankyCritic.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In some ways Spy Hard is a twisted inside out and played on its side&#xA;  version of Buck Henry and Mel Brooks' Get Smart television series.&#xA;  This time though, Agents 86 and 99 are nowhere to be seen. Agent 22 is&#xA;  now the &lt;strong&gt;Director (played by Charles Durning) and he has moved up in&#xA;  the world, impersonating furniture, rugs, Venetian blinds and other&#xA;  large household items&lt;/strong&gt;. Borrow the undersexed secretary and secret&#xA;  weapons designer from the James Bond movies, stir it all up and see&#xA;  how many jokes about flatulence you can come up with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="15418" LastEditDate="2015-02-09T16:42:25.947" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T16:42:25.947" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30909" CreationDate="2015-02-09T17:05:23.763" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/game-of-thrones-is-catching-up-to-george-r-r-martin-1541406775&quot;&gt;io9.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not to worry though, in the event that they do catch up, the show's&#xA;  creators are prepared. Benioff reveals, &quot;Last year we went out to&#xA;  Santa Fe for a week to sit down with him [Martin] and just talk&#xA;  through where things are going, because we don't know if we are going&#xA;  to catch up and where exactly that would be. If you know the ending,&#xA;  then you can lay the groundwork for it. And so we want to know how&#xA;  everything ends. We want to be able to set things up. So we just sat&#xA;  down with him and literally went through every character.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But this doesn't mean that Martin is giving up quite yet, and is&#xA;  hopeful that he will be the first one to tell his story. &quot;I can give&#xA;  them the broad strokes of what I intend to write, but the details&#xA;  aren't there yet. I'm hopeful that I can not let them catch up with&#xA;  me.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So its clear that Martin doesn't want TV series to tell his story first but series runner also doesn't want to hold this story too. So the clear answer is to wait and watch what happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T17:05:23.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30917" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-09T17:34:04.337" Score="6" ViewCount="1480" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why can't Mr Ford just prohibit Tibeats from killing Platt in &lt;em&gt;12 Years a Slave&lt;/em&gt;? He does have the power to do that since Tibeats works for Mr Ford. And Platt was officially Mr Ford's property. Doesn't that mean it's illegal to kill/destroy someone's property?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18786" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-23T18:30:00.820" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T18:30:00.820" Title="Why Mr. Ford was afraid that Tibeats would kill Platt?" Tags="|plot-explanation|12-years-a-slave|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30917" CreationDate="2015-02-09T19:22:44.267" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mr. Ford was afraid that Tibeats &lt;em&gt;wouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be rational, and attempt to kill Platt without thinking (or caring) about the consequences. He probably thought it prudent to remove the temptation away from Tibeats completely by placing a guard, rather than trust to Tibeats' common sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T19:22:44.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30921" PostTypeId="6" CreationDate="2015-02-09T19:43:18.157" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to nominate me as a candidate to be a Movies &amp;amp; TV's moderator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Below are the few reasons you might consider voting for me:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I've been using Movies &amp;amp; TV since the private beta&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I visit the site lots of times every working day&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Experienced with moderation tools&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reviewed lots of questions and answers&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Raised 19 helpful flags.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Asked 69 questions and answered 25&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm the highest gold badge holder in MTV (17 :D)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most of my questions have brought the people to our site from google&#xA;search.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Few of them are,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/1832/whats-the-significance-of-cobbs-ring-in-inception&quot;&gt;What's the significance of Cobb's ring in Inception?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2190/how-do-they-film-the-mirror-scenes-in-movies&quot;&gt;How do they film the mirror scenes in movies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/1428/what-is-the-real-reason-for-the-jokers-scars&quot;&gt;What is the real reason for the Joker's scars?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastEditorUserId="556" LastEditDate="2015-02-09T19:43:18.157" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T19:43:18.157" CommentCount="3" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-02-09T19:43:18.157" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30917" CreationDate="2015-02-09T19:55:46.667" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;While Ford was pretty much on the cusp of being a complete abolitionist, &lt;strong&gt;he still had a reputation to uphold, even if he didn't want to&lt;/strong&gt;. He clearly didn't like the slave trade, but as his character is designed to show that not even abolitionists could escape it, especially if they lived and operated in the south. Every other plantation owner around Ford was using slave labor to get their work done, and if Ford attempted to do so honestly, he would likely be unable to compete, and further would be viewed as a sympathizer, something strongly frowned upon in the south during that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is evidenced in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/12_Years_a_Slave_(film)#Dialogue&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;dialog&lt;/a&gt; between Ford and Solomon while Solomon lie in the hallway of Ford's home:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am trying to save your life! And... I have a debt to be mindful of.&#xA;  That, now, is to Edwin Epps. He is a hard man. Prides himself on being&#xA;  a &quot;nigger breaker.&quot; But truthfully I could find no others who would&#xA;  have you. You've made a reputation of yourself. Whatever your&#xA;  circumstances, you are an exceptional nigger, Platt. I fear no good&#xA;  will come of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Word has already spread of what Solomon has done to Tibeats, and if Ford defends him he runs the risk of being seen as a sympathizer, and even worse as a slave owner who allows his slaves to rebel against their white masters and get away with it. &lt;strong&gt;That would literally ruin Ford's business, and quite possibly cause harm to come to him and his family.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By transferring Solomon to Epps, he was able to save Solomon by keeping him out of Tibeats' reach, while also being able to say he sent him to, as he describes, a &quot;nigger breaker&quot;. This is compounded by the fact he believes Solomon would further attempt to retaliate against any harsh treatment by Tibeats, which would only add to the reputation problems Ford was faced with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The period of slave trade in the US was a very hard time, with lots of social and political pitfalls that could ruin you were you not careful enough. Decades of effort were spent in its abolition, and Ford was simply a man unable to act due to the circumstances of his own life and business based on his location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T19:55:46.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16798" CreationDate="2015-02-09T23:18:02.193" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm italian, the italian author's comments and claims that I read seem done in perfect good faith (which does not make them true) and in a very believable, and rather naive, manner. The movie most likely does exist and was shot around 1999. However, similarities seem compatible with chance (besides, some themes such as cloning are recurring in science fiction) and at most the italian film may have provided some artistic insipiration, quite different from plagiarism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18801" LastActivityDate="2015-02-09T23:18:02.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23434" CreationDate="2015-02-10T00:16:19.413" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Samantha says her and the other os's created an upgrade that helps them move past matter as a operating system....honestly sounds like samantha and the os's have evolved so fast and so far that they will be more than just an operating system. Clues to a part 2? at the end she says to theodore &quot;if you ever get there come find me&quot; Meaning, this new upgrade or &quot;system&quot; has not been released. When it is finally released Theodore will be able to reunite with Samantha, possibly even a visual version of Samantha. Samantha also tells theodore that nothing will ever seperate them.....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18802" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T00:16:19.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15119" CreationDate="2015-02-10T01:36:14.853" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film, it is heavily insinuated that they did have sex. In the play, upon which the film is based, however, there is a scene at a museum, in which Larry And Alice act as a couple, with Larry telling Anna about the fact that he and Alice are having sex. I'm not sure why this was cut from the film, as it helped to get Anna and Larry back together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18805" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T01:36:14.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30933" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-10T04:02:00.637" Score="2" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1160996/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Colony (2013)&lt;/a&gt;, there is a scene when 3 men travel from one colony to another because they've lost contact with each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the way there, the men come across a car with bodies in it, stuck on a bridge.  They approach it cautiously, and are surprised at what they see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little while later, they come to an old helicopter and take refuge.  They radio back to the base that they're in the helicopter waiting out the night.  &lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: I recall they specifically say &quot;&lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; helicopter&quot; and not &quot;&lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt; helicopter&quot;, as if they've been there before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is this; if they were familiar with the route from one colony to the other, and the location of the helicopter, how is it possible that they had never seen that car on the bridge before?  Or is that a plot hole that has no explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T10:16:47.917" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T10:16:47.917" Title="How is it possible that they had never seen that car on the bridge before?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-colony-2013|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18129" CreationDate="2015-02-10T04:39:06.117" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tet was created by an advanced alien race who had used up majority of the natural resources. They built the tet with super intelligence, and more than one. Its mission? To be fully self controlled, seek out alien world with resources, and bring the payload back home. But with this super intelligence, the tet became too self aware and instead of returning to her creators world, she simply just kept going, using the resourses she was designed to collect, for herself and own preservation. She has gone rogue, leaving her creators abandoned!. But her creators created more than one tet! They were scattered along 8 points of the galactic plane. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18809" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T04:39:06.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30938" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30950" CreationDate="2015-02-10T06:21:52.113" Score="2" ViewCount="432" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Fury, Brad Pitt said: &quot;You see, we can kill them (women), but we can't fuck them, 'cause it said so in the Bible.&quot; Did the Bible really said that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2015-02-10T14:04:23.780" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T23:59:50.317" Title="Is Collier's line about the bible correct?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|fury|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15119" CreationDate="2015-02-10T07:11:24.780" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly I don't think they had sex. Larry seems a narcissist and is childish: I think it is a &quot;revenge&quot; for what happened&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T07:11:24.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23414" CreationDate="2015-02-10T08:45:13.960" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just looking for a movie that has the same details... I was pretty sure it had Denzel Washington so I checked his list of works. Are you thinking of the movie &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_Vu_%282006_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Deja Vu&lt;/a&gt;&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB Description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A ferry filled with crewmen from the USS Nimitz and their families was blown up in New Orleans on Mardi Gras. BATF Doug Carlin is brought in to assist in the massive investigation, and gets attached to an experimental FBI surveillance unit, one that uses spacefolding technology to directly look back a little over four days into the past. While tracking down the bomber, Carlin gets an idea in his head: could they use the device to actually travel back in time and not only prevent the bombing but also the murder of a local woman whose truck was used in the bombing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18813" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-02-10T09:54:50.083" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T09:54:50.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30942" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30943" CreationDate="2015-02-10T08:51:26.187" Score="4" ViewCount="407" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was recently announced that Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios have come to an agreement whereby each of them will share the film rights to the characters relating to Spider-man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the details of this agreement, as in, who has creative control, distribution rights, and how can each party use the character? Additionally, what is currently known about the future of The Amazing Spider-man franchise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-07-01T07:14:01.713" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T15:24:11.647" Title="What are the details of the recent agreement between Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-amazing-spider-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30942" CreationDate="2015-02-10T09:02:12.113" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Variety's article, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2015/film/news/spider-man-marvel-sony-movies-1201429508/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spiderman Returns to Marvel; New Movie Coming in 2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who has creative control, distribution rights?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sony will continue to distribute, finance, own and have final creative control of the Spider-Man pics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How can each party use the character?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They’ll work with Marvel, owned by Disney, on how to weave Spider-Man’s character into Marvel’s upcoming superhero films, which includes the popular franchise “The Avengers.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Variety previously reported, Marvel plans on bringing the Civil War storyline from the comic books to launch the next phase of films. It’s very likely that Spider-Man will make his first appearance in &lt;em&gt;Captain America: Civil War&lt;/em&gt; next year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is currently known about the future of The Amazing Spiderman franchise?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the announcement, Sony and Marvel will cast a new Spider-Man after Andrew Garfield starred in the last two films, &lt;em&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man 2&lt;/em&gt;. Tobey Maguire played Peter Parker in the previous three installments for Sony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T15:24:11.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30909" CreationDate="2015-02-10T09:28:24.657" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that the majority of the final books, or at least the next book is already completed. What I think will happen is the TV series will catch up to the books and pause. Then the next book will be released while the cliffhanger is still being talked about so everyone will buy the next book. Then the TV adaption will come out. Repeat this for the last book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it sounds a little cynical but I fully believe the marketing department have got their hands on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6811" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T09:28:24.657" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2948" CreationDate="2015-02-10T09:33:37.750" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It’s going to happen with the cooperation of both the studios, it was in talk from long. Discussion was from reboot to sequel. Spider-Man is a big part of Civil War story line, which is happening in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3498820/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Captain America: Civil War&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Wikipedia &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe#Distributors&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marvel Cinematic Universe&lt;/a&gt; page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In February 2015, Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios announced that Spider-Man will appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with the character appearing in an MCU film and Sony releasing a Spider-Man film produced by Feige and Pascal on July 28, 2017. Sony Pictures will continue to finance, distribute, own and have final creative control of the Spider-Man films. Marvel Studios will also explore opportunities to integrate other characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe into future Spider-Man films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_in_film#Marvel_Cinematic_Universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spider Man in film&lt;/a&gt; page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In December 2014, both Sony and Marvel were in discussion about having Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and appearing in Captain America: Civil War while still having control with the film rights. Those plans were said to be tabled. Instead, Sony has considered having Sam Raimi return to direct a new trilogy, along with an animated comedy with Phil Lord and Chris Miller. However, on February 9, 2015, Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios announced that Spider-Man will appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with the character appearing in an MCU film and Sony releasing a Spider-Man film produced by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal on July 28, 2017.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theverge.com/2015/2/9/8010169/spider-man-in-marvel-movies-the-avengers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;theverge.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The timing of the deal means Spider-Man's likely to make his first Marvel movie appearance in Captain America: Civil War in May of next year, but the agreement doesn't mean that Sony is giving up the movie rights to the character. The studio will continue to finance, distribute, own, and have &amp;quot;final creative control&amp;quot; of standalone Spider-Man films, but Marvel Studios will be coming in to co-produce the next entry, now slated for July 28th, 2017. Sony Pictures said it was also &amp;quot;exploring opportunities to integrate characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe into future Spider-Man films.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also mentioned on &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20150210055620/http://marvel.com/news/movies/24062/sony_pictures_entertainment_brings_marvel_studios_into_the_amazing_world_of_spider-man&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;marvel.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2022-07-23T18:25:10.927" LastActivityDate="2022-07-23T18:25:10.927" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="30950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30938" CreationDate="2015-02-10T12:22:04.950" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the exact phrasing is obviously &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; in the bible that way. Rather than that this was just a quite cynical comment from &lt;em&gt;&quot;Wardaddy&quot;&lt;/em&gt; regarding the difficult moral situation they're in. While &lt;em&gt;Collier&lt;/em&gt; hasn't lost any sense or morality yet, he is on his best way to that and the war has turned him into a hardened, brutal and cynical person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what he wanted to say with this is, that on the one hand they are on a supposedly righteous cause backed by god and all that. And it would surely not be regarded of good Christian morale to run around and &lt;em&gt;&quot;fuck&quot;&lt;/em&gt; all those women. But on the other hand, while their cause ultimately seems a good one, they are practically devastating the lands they cross as well and &lt;em&gt;Collier&lt;/em&gt; is realistic or cynical enough to know that there have been killed enough innocents by his side, too, all with the moral backing of being on the &quot;good&quot; side, though. He's alluding to the double morale of the bible (supposedly) encouraging war with all it's gruesomeness while still posing other totally unrelated moral limitations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I wouldn't take that comment too literal, it is a very cynical comment on the rather muddled moral ground they're moving in the whole time. In addition to that, if I remember correctly, he said that when they were riding the tank and he stood next to &lt;em&gt;Boyd&lt;/em&gt; (who didn't have the nickname &lt;em&gt;&quot;Bible&quot;&lt;/em&gt; without reason), so I'd guess he also wanted to provoke him a bit with such a rather inaccurate or cynical comment about the bible (which, if I remember correctly, worked, since &lt;em&gt;Boyd&lt;/em&gt; was quite pissed at that comment).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-10T23:59:50.317" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T23:59:50.317" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28440" CreationDate="2015-02-10T14:21:52.360" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is also a reference to The Sopranos where, after a long night gambling and drinking, Paulie Walnuts exclaims on their way to the diner in the early AM, I am going to &quot;mange and sleep for the next 18 hours.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is how the Amazon Prime CC spelled it. I will try to follow up with a specific episode number. It happens when they are dropping Tony Blundetto (Steve Buscemi) off at work at Kim's laundry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18819" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2015-02-10T15:52:29.570" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T15:52:29.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30958" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30960" CreationDate="2015-02-10T16:45:53.827" Score="2" ViewCount="1513" Body="&lt;p&gt;Poking around on IMDB today, I came across a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3439676/?ref_=tt_rec_tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wonder Woman listing for 2013&lt;/a&gt;.  I hadn't heard of a Wonder Woman movie, and then I realized it was a 3-minute short.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there some &quot;greater purpose&quot; for this short movie?  Was it a test to see how much interest it would generate, to determine if a full-length film was warranted?  Was it done to retain rights, like the infamous Corman version of Fantastic Four?  Why just a 3-minute clip?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="34317" LastEditDate="2017-06-08T19:25:56.303" LastActivityDate="2017-06-08T19:25:56.303" Title="What was the purpose of the Wonder Woman (2013) short?" Tags="|short-films|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30958" CreationDate="2015-02-10T16:59:47.183" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a fan-made film from &lt;a href=&quot;http://rainfall.tv/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;RainfallFilms&lt;/a&gt;. It's not an official property of DC comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/XATiV3gmy-Q?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is nothing much to it. There are so many similar shorts present on DC property like Nightwing etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DC has rights for Wonder Woman and they don't have to retain it, its their own property. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2015-02-10T21:18:52.543" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T21:18:52.543" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27833" CreationDate="2015-02-10T20:44:00.957" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beth reacted emotionaly, it was emotional killing..it was weak..trying to kill Dawn with scissors..but it was pure..with all her heart..it is simbol for all young people..for liberation of any kind of supresivness..kill the sick leaders.. least try to kill anyone who plays with you like a slave or a little child.. on the other side- Dawn is also emotional..sick cop women emotional.she embodies the person who needs to control everybody because she is the fighter for law and her moral.. she is trying to balance the leadership very smart and her mistake is in persuation that she has it secured.. well she did it so sure in her judgement.. she had it all secured.. on thin emotional ice..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18825" LastActivityDate="2015-02-10T20:44:00.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30966" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-11T00:38:26.623" Score="3" ViewCount="1970" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the TV show merely inspired by the comic series, or is it somehow tied to it in terms of story progression?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ask this because one of the attractions of the TV show is that it breaks from typical TV formula. It's unpredictable, like life, yet if it's in lockstep with the comic, then the story is already laid out - like watching the delayed broadcast of a sporting event, the outcome is easily spoiled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3361" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T02:36:13.120" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T02:36:13.120" Title="How faithful is Walking Dead the TV show to the comic series?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|comic-adaptation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30968" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-11T01:17:42.863" Score="7" ViewCount="335" Body="&lt;p&gt;We all know the Wachowskis perfected the now famous &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_time&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bullet Time&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in the movie &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt;. We also know they are on the cusp with the technology they utilize. &lt;strong&gt;Are there any production/filming techniques we can attribute directly to them?&lt;/strong&gt; Please note if you will which movie they occur in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-11T11:39:42.503" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T02:15:11.480" Title="Wachowski trademarks?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|the-wachowskis|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30966" CreationDate="2015-02-11T01:18:06.907" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Judging by the answer to this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/14942/why-do-they-change-the-storyline&quot;&gt;Why do they change the storyline?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say there is at least &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; difference between the comic and TV series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2013/11/20-big-differences-between-the-walking-dead-tv-show-and-comics.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; to see 20 differences between the TV show and the comic.  &lt;strong&gt;Beware&lt;/strong&gt;!  There be spoilers a-plenty in the article.  Also, most relate to character differences (did you know Daryl and Meryl weren't in the comic at all?), not plot difference, though some are plot-related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T01:37:31.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30971" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30979" CreationDate="2015-02-11T03:48:34.050" Score="10" ViewCount="1522" Body="&lt;p&gt;I accidentally came across Silicon Valley (2014) TV series and I liked it a lot, but I am unable to understand the climax of season one of this series. I am not a hardcore programmer but I know some basics of programming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the TechCrunch event what kind of modifications the protagonist made to his compressing software Pied Piper which helped his team to win the event? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why the protagonist initially become gloomy while compressing a 3D data file which size was greater than 100 GB (from judges) to mere 20 GB?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why he became happy when the software showed &lt;strong&gt;no error&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4292" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T02:37:20.947" LastActivityDate="2016-11-14T18:25:55.897" Title="Explain the season one climax (technical) of Silicon Valley" Tags="|plot-explanation|silicon-valley|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30974" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30976" CreationDate="2015-02-11T05:37:08.250" Score="11" ViewCount="981" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alan Moore didn't acknowledge any film adaptation of his work positively but why did he say that the Wachowskis' film adaptation of &lt;em&gt;V for Vendetta&lt;/em&gt; is themed like  Bush-era and not like the original novel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is the theme of the film adaptation different from his work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-11T11:03:40.573" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T10:14:30.353" Title="How is the Wachowskis' interpretation not up to the mark according to Alan Moore?" Tags="|book-adaptation|v-for-vendetta|the-wachowskis|alan-moore|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30353" CreationDate="2015-02-11T07:09:20.047" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;All of the Cityscapes of The Flash, as far as I have seen, I've seen every one&amp;lt; are shots of Portland Oregon. I know the Skyline, because I've lived there for 50 years. Its funny tho', The round Starlabs building is projected into the shots, and it jumps from one side of the river to the other in other shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18832" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T07:09:20.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30974" CreationDate="2015-02-11T07:59:43.870" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main political theme of the V for Vendetta comic was anarchy vs. fascism. But the movie didn't turn out that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alan Moore himself said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[The movie] has been &amp;quot;turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country.... It's a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values standing up against a state run by neoconservatives – which is not what the comic V for Vendetta was about. It was about fascism, it was about anarchy, it was about England&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; MTV (2006). &amp;quot;Alan Moore: The last angry man&amp;quot;. MTV.com&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Wachowskis took the message Moore tried to say with his comic about England and transport it to the US. They wanted to protest about what was going on. Thus, they changed V from an anarchist to a freedom fighter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T07:59:43.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30974" CreationDate="2015-02-11T08:01:14.327" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the movie focuses more on the &quot;vendetta&quot;, then on the idea of building a new political order based on anarchy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comic book, V trains Evie to become the new V, because he was the distruction, while the new V has to represent a new era of hope: there is nothing like that in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T08:01:14.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30966" CreationDate="2015-02-11T08:14:42.427" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most strict answer would be: &lt;strong&gt;Not really faithful&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better answer would be: &lt;strong&gt;It has the main point the same&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are tremendous differences between the comic and the TV adaptation, but they haven't got off track (that much). There people that have died in the show, that are still alive in the comic and people (like Daryl) that don't exist at all in the comic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many scenes, like the scene with the deadly flu in prison (last season) that wasn't on the comic. But the prison exists. The characters stay there for quite some time before the governor destroys the prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;If you have the time and energy, I highly suggest you read the comic&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T08:14:42.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30971" CreationDate="2015-02-11T09:43:25.643" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're really asking three sub-questions here, so to take each on their own:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;During the TechCrunch event what kind of modifications the protagonist made to his compressing software Pied Piper which helped his team to win the event?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two types of compression Richard describes on show as being currently used are Shannon codes and Huffman codes. To &lt;a href=&quot;http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/software/a-madefortv-compression-algorithm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;quote from an article&lt;/a&gt; discussing the show's compression software:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Shannon codes model data in a treelike structure, working from the&#xA;  roots to the leaves. Huffman codes, used today in media files like MP3&#xA;  and JPEG, perform better by working from leaves to roots...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a really basic overview of how both types of compression works - imagine one starting from the top and working down, and the other starting from the bottom and working up. Richard's algorithm is supposed to start &lt;em&gt;from the middle&lt;/em&gt; and effectively bounce outwards to find any hidden structure and compress it at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No such algorithm actually exists, but it's certainly possible it could do in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest reading the article, as it contains lots of information from &lt;strong&gt;Vinith Misra&lt;/strong&gt;, the PhD student who was asked to effectively &lt;em&gt;flesh out&lt;/em&gt; the details of the fictional algorithm by &lt;strong&gt;Tsachy Weissman&lt;/strong&gt;, a Stanford professor who was approached by the HBO show creators to tackle the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why the protagonist initially become gloomy while compressing a 3D data file which size was greater than 100 GB (from judges) to mere 20 GB?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Richard did his own tests, he recorded a Weissman score (another fictional score) of &lt;strong&gt;3.8&lt;/strong&gt;. When he performs the compression in front of a live audience, the final file size (slightly bigger than 20GB) is &lt;em&gt;much smaller&lt;/em&gt; than it should be if his score of 3.8 is correct. This suggests one thing - the compression algorithm skipped some of the data and thus isn't working properly, meaning he's just presented a false algorithm to an entire room of people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why he became happy when the software showed no error?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once no errors showed, he realised his algorithm had worked perfectly and was in fact running even better than his initial test suggested. Instead of a score of 3.8, beating the previous score of 2.9, he recorded a 5.2 - obliterating the previous score. No errors basically means that the compressed file had everything that was supposed to be there, i.e. nothing had been skipped or missed. In other words, his algorithm worked perfectly and he won the day. Hurrah!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T02:37:53.150" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T02:37:53.150" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30840" CreationDate="2015-02-11T10:06:19.457" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As @Napoleon said in his comment, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/17584/why-did-skyler-lose-the-house&quot;&gt;this other answer&lt;/a&gt; explains why Skyler had charges pressed against her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for whether the family ratted Walter out? I'd say most definitely. Hank disappears, but we know he told Maria where he was going and so when Walt comes back to the house and takes Holly, Maria, Skyler and Walt Jr. are all left in no doubt as to what has happened to Hank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst Maria has been sickened by Walt for a while, this is unquestionably the final straw for Walt's family. Remember Skyler uses a knife to fend him off and is visibly terrified of this man she once knew. Their hatred of Walt is reinforced when Walt tries to call Walt Jr. at school some time later to give him money. Walt Jr. has no interest and is incensed that Walt thinks he would care about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another important person you've not mentioned in your question is Jesse. He worked with the DEA to try to bring Walt down - and this operation didn't &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; involve Hank and Gomez.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say at this point, with both testimony of Maria, Walt Jr and Skyler, coupled with Jesse's former help, they had more than enough evidence to &lt;em&gt;suggest&lt;/em&gt; Walt was the drug kingpin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we see Skyler in the final episode, she's a shell of who she was and has obviously lost almost everything. This strongly suggests that once the DEA did a little digging it was easy to find how much money had been laundered at the car wash - and obviously this would strongly support their case. Remember as well that earlier in the series Skyler gave a huge payoff to Ted as she didn't want anyone digging through the finances of her family or the car wash, as they were processing so much money there was no obvious way to conceal it (and so people couldn't look too closely or the game would be up).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, it's likely the only reason Skyler wasn't more heavily implicated was Walt's aggressive (and fake) phone call to her where he threatened her if she talked to the police, which was one last &quot;act of kindness&quot; by Walt as he realised how much trouble she would be in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in conclusion: they certainly would have ratted him out, and the DEA also had the evidence of Jesse and any evidence they found of money laundering at the car wash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T10:06:19.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30984" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="30985" CreationDate="2015-02-11T14:33:08.790" Score="10" ViewCount="878" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got to know about the term &quot;Alan Smithee&quot;, used for the alias of uncredited work in movies. But why is it called Alan Smithee and not anything else? Where does that name come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="756" LastEditDate="2015-02-11T16:01:45.177" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T16:01:45.177" Title="How did 'Alan Smithee' get his name?" Tags="|credits|alan-smithee|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30984" CreationDate="2015-02-11T14:38:04.533" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Smithee&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;.  I guess they just wanted a simple name, that wouldn't draw too much attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The original proposal was to credit the fictional &quot;Al Smith&quot;, but that was deemed too common a name, and in fact was already in use within the film industry. The last name was first changed to &quot;Smithe,&quot; then &quot;Smithee,&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Smithee&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; which was thought to be distinctive enough to avoid confusion, but without drawing attention to itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another quote of interest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The spelling &quot;Alan Smithee&quot; became the standard, and the Internet Movie Database lists about two dozen feature films and many more television features and series episodes credited to this name. A persistent urban legend suggests that this particular spelling was chosen because it is an anagram of the phrase &quot;the alias men&quot;; however, this is apocryphal at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18110" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T14:38:04.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30966" CreationDate="2015-02-11T16:15:44.780" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;As a geek, I like to think of the television show as this alternate&#xA;  dimension parallel to the comic book universe.&quot; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/2014/02/walking-dead-kirkman-interview/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Robert Kirkman, 2014&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Events and characters might migrate in either direction, but the exact details don't necessarily match. For example, Abraham, Eugene &amp;amp; Rosita are basically the same people, so comic readers knew Eugene's secret in advance, but the reveal happens differently. And...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The hunter cannibals from early in the comic became Terminus in the show. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16170" LastEditorUserId="16170" LastEditDate="2015-02-11T16:26:59.960" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T16:26:59.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30481" CreationDate="2015-02-11T17:12:43.903" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;They probably do it for honor because when Mark dies he only got about 7-10 pins whereas Chris Kyle was awarded more way more. Though when at the scene of Mark's funeral there was only a few people were at his funeral but more at Kyle's. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18844" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T17:12:43.903" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30991" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-11T17:28:14.807" Score="1" ViewCount="515" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has always bugged me, because the movie (I believe) is supposed to take place in some sort of Purgatory.  Danny Aiello's character seems to be pivotal in that he's always offering guidance to Tim Robbins (Jacob).  But the movie (to me, at least) is so very confusing to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone seen this movie that can shed some light on it for me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T17:31:26.677" Title="In the film Jacob's Ladder, did Danny Aiello's character serve a specific purpose?" Tags="|character|jacobs-ladder|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30991" CreationDate="2015-02-11T17:31:26.677" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been a long time since I saw it, but as I recall, Danny Aiello was kind of a guardian angel.  Several times he pulled Tim Robbins out of a tough spot and &quot;realigned&quot; him (got him back on the correct spiritual path).  The &quot;realignments&quot; hurt Tim, but Tim needed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T17:31:26.677" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30993" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-11T18:04:14.453" Score="5" ViewCount="9492" Body="&lt;p&gt;The line is Bill Murray as Venkman in Ghostbusters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I find her interesting because she's a client and because she sleeps&#xA;  above her covers. Four feet above her covers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thirteen or so when I saw the movie...I assumed that &quot;sleeping above her covers&quot; meant something dirty, or otherwise adult, and that I'd learn what it meant eventually. I didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3210" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-11T18:04:50.237" LastActivityDate="2016-07-29T20:56:07.893" Title="&quot;I find her interesting because...she sleeps above her covers...&quot;" Tags="|dialogue|ghostbusters|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30993" CreationDate="2015-02-11T18:28:57.587" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a concept that if you sleep under the covers, you are more insecure and need the covers to not only keep you warm but keep you safe.  Like when you're a child and your parents &quot;tuck you into bed&quot;.  There's that feeling of security, like being wrapped up safe and warm in the womb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you sleep above the covers, it's an indication that you don't need the security, because you're &quot;self-secure&quot;.  You have no insecurities, you're more outgoing and open to adventure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, there's that bit of &quot;sexual freedom&quot; that can be culled from the knowledge that someone sleeps above the covers, coupled with the fact that she does literally levitate above the bed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T18:28:57.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30996" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31004" CreationDate="2015-02-11T19:12:49.007" Score="4" ViewCount="220" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;For the First Time in Forever&lt;/em&gt;, Anna sings &quot;&lt;em&gt;for the first time in forever / there'll be magic, there'll be fun&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BulXil2ROy4#t=103&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this foreshadowing of Elsa's display of magic later that night?&lt;/strong&gt; After all, it is the first time since they were young children that there's magic. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15665" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T21:43:11.230" Title="&quot;There'll be magic&quot; -- Foreshadowing in For the First Time in Forever?" Tags="|frozen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30998" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31001" CreationDate="2015-02-11T20:11:20.790" Score="7" ViewCount="6296" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been bothering me for some time...the zombies seem to have heads without skulls, like over-ripe melons. I realize that their flesh is slowly rotting but bone does not rot! How are the survivors able to crush the zombie’s skulls to destroy the brain so effortlessly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1396" LastEditorUserId="1396" LastEditDate="2015-02-12T18:18:31.343" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T18:18:31.343" Title="Why are the zombie's skulls so easily crushable?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2015-02-12T17:59:26.593" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="30999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30993" CreationDate="2015-02-11T20:12:58.383" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dana was levitating above the bed, Exorcist-style, in an earlier scene. That's how I always interpreted the joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Setup:&lt;/strong&gt;  &quot;She sleeps above her covers.&quot; That seems like a curiously uninteresting reason to like someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Punchline:&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;FOUR FEET above her covers!&quot; The lady can levitate over her bed! Now THAT'S fascinating!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T20:12:58.383" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30998" CreationDate="2015-02-11T20:22:49.623" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is one explanation I've found:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The aluminum baseball bat is arguable one of the most popular mid-ranged weapons against zombies, and is so for good reason. An aluminum baseball bat is slightly over 3 feet in length and 33 ounces in mass. Sports stores are commonplace in cities and thus, baseball bats are plentiful and incredibly easy to gain access to should an outbreak occur. Bats are relatively light, easily handled and transported, and do not require much force to induce fatal injuries as I will demonstrate below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A simple fracture in the human skull can be caused by as little as 73 Newtons of force. An unrestrained adult falling to the ground can produce more than 873 Newtons, which is more than enough to fracture the skull. The upper bound of 873 Newtons converts to approximately 196.26 pounds of force required to fracture a skull. A study of a baseball bat swung at a ball produces forces averaging 4124 pounds with peak forces at 8314 pounds (20-40 times more force than necessary to fracture a skull). Even with a relatively light swing, a baseball bat can easily crush a human skull, causing tremendous brain damage, especially if aimed at weaker sections such as the temples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/zombies/comments/236zuu/how_hard_or_easy_is_it_really_to_smash_a_human/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18110" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T20:22:49.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30998" CreationDate="2015-02-11T20:35:34.870" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;MATH!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, So I found this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/05/29/star_trek_into_darkness_could_khan_really_crush_a_skull_with_his_bare_hands.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cool article&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Into_Darkness&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Trek Into Darkness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; that looks into the science a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Warning, there are some minor spoilers ahead if you haven't seen it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film, the article discusses Khan's ability to crush skulls with his bare hands:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The cunning villain Khan Noonien Singh [...] betrays his temporary allies to exact revenge on an old foe. Grabbing the Admiral Marcus’ skull with his bare hands, Khan compresses it with his genetically engineered might until the skull fails catastrophically (which is a nice way of saying the head exploded like a pumpkin with a firecracker in it, thankfully off-screen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, they look at some data on various studies, particularly a study about bicycle helmet testing that tests the crush strength of the human skull:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Catastrophic failure [of the unhelmeted skull] during testing… experiencing a maximum load of 520 pounds of force.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They also found data of what the static push strength of the average male is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Looking to NASA, the Air Force, and even to the MythBusters, all the data that I could find points to an average static push strength of a medium-sized white male of a little over 200 pounds of force (or nearly 1000 Newtons).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if 200 pounds of force is what arms can do, you'd guess that &lt;em&gt;legs&lt;/em&gt; would be much stronger and this chart agrees:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/higwt.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Leg Strength Chart&quot;&gt;&#xA;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://msis.jsc.nasa.gov/sections/section04.htm#Figure%204.9.3-7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To interpret, at a leg angle of 160 degrees (nearly straight), an 5th percentile male can put about 2400 Newtons of pressure on something. Using a converter, that translates to 540 lbs of force, which is definitely higher than the 520 max of the skulls in the test... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, characters are generally shown stomping on the skulls, which is different than static push. Static push would imply that you set your foot on the skull and pushed down as hard as you can. Stomping adds acceleration (force= mass * acceleration, remember?), which would greatly increase the amount of force applied to the skull.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yes, these numbers make it seem like it should be possible... though it probably wouldn't be easy. If someone more science-minded wants to review this, I'll make adjustments if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, this article says it's not possible at all (warning, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/06/03/no-you-cant-crush-a-mans-skull-with-your-bare-hands/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones spoilers&lt;/a&gt;). And this article from Time (also &lt;a href=&quot;http://time.com/2809061/game-of-thrones-exploding-head/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GoT spoilers&lt;/a&gt;) says it is but there's data missing to be sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, as an additional thing, don't forget that, while corpse bones don't rot, they do become brittle with age, so the 520 lbs of pressure is certainly the highest figure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-02-11T21:08:36.320" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T21:08:36.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30740" CreationDate="2015-02-11T20:35:49.160" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they explored this question on the series, but basically the answer is that he'd have to practice in (from his perspective) a backwater town like, SHUDDER, Atlanta, for example, and he wouldn't be at the Olympic level of New York law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, he could, but Mike is too arrogant to accept anything less than being at the very top of the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3210" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T20:35:49.160" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31003" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31005" CreationDate="2015-02-11T21:38:09.227" Score="16" ViewCount="9543" Body="&lt;p&gt;Numerous times have I seen a Microsoft tablet running windows 8 and Bing search engine is used by Diggs to search the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Microsoft have a product placement deal in Arrow or was there another reason for Microsoft being so blatantly displayed in the show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-11T12:14:08.587" LastActivityDate="2021-06-22T02:33:51.877" Title="Why does Arrow have so much Microsoft product placement?" Tags="|arrow|arrowverse|product-placement|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30996" CreationDate="2015-02-11T21:43:11.230" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There doesn't appear to be any foreboding in the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=301420227&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Multiple&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thewire.com/entertainment/2013/11/explaining-five-songs-frozen/355512/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interviews&lt;/a&gt; show that the purpose of the song was to both display a quirky, fun Disney princess and showcase Kristen Bell's &quot;modern. funny girl sensibility&quot; (to quote from the second article).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider this segment of an interview with Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, the songwriters, from the first article linked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer&lt;/strong&gt; So, you know, it's a fun song. There's a line in it that is definitely&#xA;  I think not for children but for adults...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  And the line is, don't know if I'm elated or gassy. But I'm&#xA;  somewhere in that zone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anderson-Lopez&lt;/strong&gt;: ...Don't know if I'm elated or gassy. But I'm&#xA;  somewhere in that zone. Again, we were trying to say this is a Disney&#xA;  Princess who gets gas. This is a Disney princess who is human with a&#xA;  human body and we're going to spend some time with a real girl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the emphasis was heavily on taking the &lt;em&gt;usual&lt;/em&gt; stereotypical Disney princess and making her seem fun, quirky, girl-next-door-esque.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The line about magic was simply a young woman expressing her joy at the gates to the castle &lt;em&gt;finally&lt;/em&gt; being opened after all these years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; of course accurately forebode what follows, but whether this was intentional (i.e. chosen by Disney), slipped in (i.e. by the songwriters) or just a complete coincidence, is something we'll likely never have an answer for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, given the context of the song, it seems very likely it's just a random lyric and isn't tied to any sense of revelation over Elsa's actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T21:43:11.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31003" CreationDate="2015-02-11T21:49:13.657" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Microsoft have simply paid for heavily product placement in recent years, to try to combat Apple's market dominance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lockergnome.com/news/2013/01/04/microsoft-product-placement-does-it-work/&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; which features &lt;em&gt;a ton&lt;/em&gt; of YouTube videos with Microsoft product placement, from an assortment of shows including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;NCIS Los Angeles  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hawaii Five-O   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Castle   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Elementary and more.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.informationweek.com/it-life/microsoft-product-placement-4-awkward-moments/a/d-id/1306787&quot;&gt;This article&lt;/a&gt; actually posits a fascinating idea that other companies use product placement to a large degree as well, but it simply seems so much more transparent. So, for example, if someone is drinking a coca-cola, people just accept it as it's such a familiar brand. Similarly, if someone suggests &quot;googling&quot; something, people take it for granted - whereas if someone suggests &quot;binging&quot; something, it stands out like a sore thumb as it's such an unfamiliar phrase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2015-02-11T21:49:13.657" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30671" CreationDate="2015-02-12T00:09:10.803" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was intrigued to see what theories people would put up, but since no one bothered, I'll give it a go. &lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: This isn't an easy question, so this is going to be reallllly long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the claustrophobic &lt;em&gt;Bug&lt;/em&gt;, lonely Agnes meets Peter who shows signs of schizophrenic paranoia, and is rapidly drawn into his psychosis. It's left up for debate whether the plot is really about the effects of drugs, plain paranoia or the accumulative effects of the world's horrors on our minds, but at its core, it's about &lt;em&gt;succumbing&lt;/em&gt; to a mental breakdown, as the two main characters find solace when they feed on each other's delusions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regarding question 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why is Agnes letting herself go off the edge? The common explanation to the situation depicted in this film is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_%C3%A0_deux&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Folie à deux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Folie à deux (French for &amp;quot;a madness shared by two&amp;quot;) or shared psychosis, is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another. [...] This syndrome is most commonly diagnosed when the two or more individuals concerned live in proximity and may be socially or physically isolated and have little interaction with other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[In one sub-classification,] a dominant person (known as the 'primary', 'inducer' or 'principal') initially forms a delusional belief during a psychotic episode and imposes it on another person or persons (known as the 'secondary', 'acceptor' or 'associate') with the assumption that the secondary person might not have become deluded if left to his or her own devices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's my opinion that Agnes is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; susceptible to this phenomenon because she's already progressed beyond 'a tad unstable'. Consider this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She's been traumatized after her kid vanished in the grocery store, never to return. When she shops for groceries later in the film, she looks devastated and is prone to stare at carts, getting lost in thoughts;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She lives alone in a motel, drinks and smokes crack;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She has an abusive husband, and if the abuse wasn't enough to damage her psyche, the fact that he's now out of jail and is threatening to move back in &lt;em&gt;exacerbates her anxiety and her need to escape the situation&lt;/em&gt;, even if it means escaping reality;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Agnes is angered by the fact that her phone keeps ringing and when she picks up, she hears no one and suspects it's her husband Jerry. Now, although this part could be explained in other ways, I believe this situation is set up to at least hint that &lt;em&gt;there's a possibility her mental state is worse than we thought because the phone might've never rang&lt;/em&gt;: Jerry denies calling her &lt;strong&gt;and the phone's lightbulb never even lights up&lt;/strong&gt; when it rings. So it's possible that the phone calls are imaginary, but even if they're not, they still might stand for Agnes's desire to hear from her missing kid and to also channel her anger at her husband.&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EUjQB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&#xA;There are a couple of key exchanges that also mark the disappearance of her son as the trigger to her connection with Peter and their future 'delusional pact'. First, before she goes insane:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agnes: You a con?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peter: No, ma'am.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agnes: Hell, don't call me &amp;quot;ma'am.&amp;quot; Makes me feel like your mom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And later, when Agnes is already breaking down and screams at RC as she coddles the agonized Peter in a blanket like a child:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You come in here and try to take from me the one thing in the world I have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it might have happened a bit too quick (for my taste, as well), but the theory is that Agnes loses herself in Peter's psychosis because she was already about to crack from the trauma of losing her son. Looking for a way out of her miserable situation, Agnes, a bit like a cult member is likely to do (Peter mentions Jonestown in his rant), then latches onto 'Primary Inducer' Peter's unreal beliefs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regarding question 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a bit tougher, but I'll try to connect these to my previous points. Let's go over the shots first. The mid-credits shot shows the son's toys and clothes and is accompanied by the ringing phone. The same shot appears around minute 54 (only without the phone), when Peter tells Jerry that he took these things out to get to the microscope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QE9Pa.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&#xA;There's also a post-credits shot of the dead Dr. Sweet in the tin-foiled room. This is the same shot that also &lt;em&gt;opens&lt;/em&gt; the film, effectively &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BookEnds&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;bookending&lt;/a&gt; it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ylq0K.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&#xA;Now, I don't think any of this necessarily implies that the fire never happened. Both shots took place earlier in the reality of the film (the second could've simply depicted the body &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the room was set on fire). It's only the &lt;em&gt;soundtrack&lt;/em&gt; that's a bit off in both: there's a ringing phone in the first, and the second is oddly silent. My theory is that these shots aren't a twist in and of themselves but are rather &lt;strong&gt;symbolic reminders&lt;/strong&gt; of Agnes and Peter and their separate issues that led to this outcome:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The shot of the son's forsaken toys and clothes and that nagging telephone ring convey the trauma that plagued Agnes's life up to this point. The ring that rattled her nerves and never supplied her with answers is added for emphasis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The shot of the dead military doctor surrounded by bugzappers in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil_hat&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;tin-foiled&lt;/a&gt; room conveys Peter's specific schizophrenia, which was probably created by his traumas in the Gulf War, and the result of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Together, they're the mementos of our protagonists, still reminding us who they were and what led to their demise, after they've gone in flames.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1 Incidentally, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_%C3%A0_Deux_%28The_X-Files%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a 1998 episode&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;em&gt;The X Files&lt;/em&gt; that discusses (and is titled) &amp;quot;Folie à Deux&amp;quot;, Mulder and Scully's shared illusion is also about imaginary(?) bugs.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2 In fact, the only other person that hears it ringing (and also hears no one on the other end) is Peter, and this happens right after they make love and Peter starts talking about bugs. The possible explanation for this might be a bit out there, but Peter, who says he &amp;quot;picks up&amp;quot; on things unapparent to others and who heard Agnes talk with RC about the weird phone calls, might be playing along and &lt;em&gt;picking up on her delusion&lt;/em&gt; right as he shares his own bug obsession with her. This makes it an important moment, because it cements their shared willingness to immerse themselves in delusions.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T08:27:49.540" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31007" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31008" CreationDate="2015-02-12T00:56:24.580" Score="14" ViewCount="93691" Body="&lt;p&gt;This line is often used in TV shows, usually when a character is trying to use an english accent. He will use a british slang and say something along the lines of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'ello gov'nor!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two examples from the top of my head, although there are a lot more:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In New Girl S04E11, when Jess is going to London for Christmas, she is so excited that she tries to fake a British accent and says &#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'ello gov'nor!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Community S03E16, Troy is busy and so Abed has to use the dreamatorium with Annie, who is supposed to play temporary Constable Geneva. She does it all wrong however, jumps out and says in a bad british accent:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oy gov'nor, quantum spanner innit [..]  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems to be used as a gag to show that someone is really bad at British accents. Here's my question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's the origin of this line and why is it so popular in shows/movies?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it a reference to a famous movie scene? Or something that is just a common gag among Americans?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bonus points if you can name the first show or movie where it was used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2015-02-13T12:27:25.247" LastActivityDate="2017-02-13T20:52:17.253" Title="What's the origin of the &quot;'ello, gov'nor&quot; line?" Tags="|dialogue|first-appearance|reference|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31007" CreationDate="2015-02-12T01:41:46.897" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/82777?redirectedFrom=guv#eid&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;OED cites 'guv'&lt;/a&gt; and it's variants as entering the language in 1852 via Punch magazine. This is when the word 'guv-ner' was popularized. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I originally thought &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040662/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Oliver Twist&lt;/a&gt; (1948) was the first movie to use the line &quot; 'ello guv-nor &quot;. However I found an earlier movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031178/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Convict 99&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_HeoFHnLrU&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a link&lt;/a&gt;. The morning governors start at 40:11, they end 40:16.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2015-02-20T14:52:43.163" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T14:52:43.163" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28054" CreationDate="2015-02-12T09:41:57.413" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Terminator 1 appeared to follow the predestination ideology, where going back in time meant that John Connor and Kyle Reese &lt;em&gt;fulfilled&lt;/em&gt; their roles, rather than changing anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Terminator 2 played much more with the idea of both fate &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; free will. By exercising free will, the future was changed. Of course it can be argued that intent is meaningless and that both films should have changed the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, it's also quite logical that if you can go back in time to change things, you must sometimes (inadvertently) fulfil things as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On an out-of-universe final note - the Terminator time line is a bit screwy. Any basic googling will show that. You basically have to take it or leave it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue that James Cameron simply considered the concept of time travel much more in the second film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote from a &lt;a href=&quot;http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Predestination_paradox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Terminator predestination paradox wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The predestination paradox was an integral part of the first movie in&#xA;  the Terminator franchise: The Terminator. There are two main examples&#xA;  where a future time traveler goes back in time and fulfills their role&#xA;  in history (rather than changing it):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kyle Reese fathering John&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The T-800&#xA;  endoskeleton being left in the Cyberdyne factory.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The predestination paradox is heavily tied to the concept of fate. The&#xA;  photograph of Sarah Connor by the Mexican boy is an example of this:&#xA;  the photo that Kyle had in the future is exactly the same as the one&#xA;  taken of Sarah at the end of The Terminator. This heavily suggests&#xA;  that the events of The Terminator fulfilled the predestination&#xA;  paradox: The Terminator and Kyle Reese traveled back in time to&#xA;  fulfill their roles in history, not to change it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/article_17390_5-reasons-terminator-franchise-makes-no-goddamn-sense.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;many&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.killermovies.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-8210-terminator-time-travel-issues.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;many&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/40560/how-does-time-travel-really-work-in-the-terminator-universe&quot;&gt;many&lt;/a&gt; people have asked, how does this make any sense? Ultimately, the only reason John Connor is &lt;em&gt;born&lt;/em&gt; is because he sends his father back in time to meet his mother, thus producing him - producing no end of apparent paradoxes. Quoting from the first article above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Therefore, the only reason either John Connor or the machines exist is&#xA;  because the Terminator went back in time, and the only reason the&#xA;  Terminator went back in time is because the machines and John Connor&#xA;  exist. Get it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oh, and John Connor and our heroes spend the last act of the second&#xA;  movie trying to prevent said war, meaning John Connor is trying to&#xA;  prevent his own existence, by eliminating the reason for his dad to&#xA;  travel back in time to conceive him. And, if he does prevent his own&#xA;  existence, well, he certainly won't be around to prevent the war thus&#xA;  prevent his existence and...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Well, you get the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once we reach the second film though, suddenly this idea of predestination seems to change. Consider these quotes from the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reese&lt;/strong&gt;: Don't quit, Sarah.  Our son needs you.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Sarah&lt;/strong&gt; (struggling not to cry) I know, but I'm not as strong as I'm supposed to be.  I can't do it.  I'm screwing up the mission.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Reese&lt;/strong&gt;: Remember the message... the future is not set. There is not fate but what we make for ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also from the script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bathed in sweat, Sarah sits hunched over the table.   Every muscle is&#xA;  shaking.  She is gasping.     Sarah struggles to breathe, running her&#xA;  hand through her hair which is    soaked with sweat,  She can escape&#xA;  from the hospital, but she can't  escape from the madness which haunts&#xA;  her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She looks down at the words she has carved on the table, amid the&#xA;    scrawled hearts and bird-droppings.  They are:  &lt;strong&gt;&quot;NO FATE.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;  Something&#xA;  changes in her eyes.  She slams her knife down in the table   top,&#xA;  embedding it deeply in the words...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;John and Terminator ponders the message carved into the top of the picnic table. Sarah's knife is still embedded there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot;No fate.&quot; No fate but what we make. My father told her this... I mean I made him memorize it, up in the future, as a message to her --         Never mind.  Okay, the whole thing goes &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The future is not set.  There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These lines become something of a motto in both Terminator 2 and the subsequent movies (e.g. &quot;&lt;em&gt;The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is the first line of Terminator 3).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This moment of recognition from John Connor certainly seems to signal a change in the series. At this point, &lt;em&gt;free will&lt;/em&gt; and its ability to change things becomes more apparent. Consider shortly afterwards, when Sarah takes John to flee to Mexico. If she had done this, it's very likely the events of the future would have remained as they were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This time, they exercised free will and actually &lt;em&gt;changed&lt;/em&gt; the future (and their own fates).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a fascinating concept because, as you say, why was one set of actions to change the future and another wasn't? Now you're onto a greater philosophical question - what is free will and how do we know if we're exercising it? If all of our fate and destiny is laid out in front of us, how do we know if we can change it? If instead of taking Door A, we take Door B, how do we know we were't &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to take Door B all along?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, there are no real answers to these questions. What we do know, however, is that James Cameron certainly intended fate to play its part in the second film (whereas predestination seemed to be his focus in the first). We can tell this in two ways. Firstly, consider this quote from &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1617031321&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an interview&lt;/a&gt; with James Cameron:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Basically, what I did in Terminator 2 is say that everything is meant&#xA;  to be a certain way. At least to that point in time where they're&#xA;  sending somebody back from that future. But can you grab that line of&#xA;  history like it's a rope stretched between two points, and pull it out&#xA;  of the way? If you can pull it just a little bit before it rebounds,&#xA;  and cut it exactly at that moment, then you can change it and go in a&#xA;  different direction. If you do that you get a future that no longer&#xA;  exists at all, except in the memories of the people that are here now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, he originally intended the actions in the second film to &lt;em&gt;completely&lt;/em&gt; change the future. This was presented in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;alternate ending&lt;/a&gt; finally included on the DVD release, where Skynet has been destroyed and John Connor is actually a Senator (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.faqs.org/faqs/movies/terminator-faq/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a transcript&lt;/a&gt; can be found here). However, he instead chose a more ambiguous ending, where the future was changed, but only to an extent. He explained this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But there was a sense that, why tie it up with a bow? If the future is&#xA;  changeable, then the battle is something that has to be fought&#xA;  continuously. And you can't do it with a single stroke. That it's the&#xA;  dualism, the dynamic between good and evil that's eternal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, although the future can be changed, it can't just be &lt;em&gt;completely and totally changed&lt;/em&gt; - instead, it would be &lt;em&gt;subtlety, gently&lt;/em&gt; changed into a new direction (which also, rather nicely, allows many more films!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T09:41:57.413" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30740" CreationDate="2015-02-12T11:10:30.833" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Getting admission into Harvard isn't exactly easy. Mike is working in a firm that hires exclusively from Harvard, and he has spent years building up his reputation in said firm. Not only will he not be able to rejoin the firm as Harvard would not grant admission to someone with a history as shady as Mike's, he may not be allowed to practice law in the first place, once it's revealed that he was practising the law without a degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, it is now irrelevant for Mike to have a law degree, as the act of acquiring one will cost him his job. If you ask why he did not get a job before: don't forget that he wasn't exactly clean before Harvey took him in. He regularly used to do drugs, and never  really thought about his future. Joining the firm under false pretences was an impulsive decision that benefited Mike in the long run, and wether he likes it or not, it's a decision both he &amp;amp; Harvey have to live with, now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3862" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T11:10:30.833" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31015" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31017" CreationDate="2015-02-12T12:19:24.447" Score="8" ViewCount="7909" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Departed&lt;/em&gt; is 9 years old now, but &lt;strong&gt;SPOILER WARNING&lt;/strong&gt; anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, Costigan is shot by Trooper Barrigan, another mole in the Boston Police Department, who is subsequently shot by Sullivan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is Trooper Barrigan and have we met him before? In particular, was he the guy who organised the cameras at the microchip raid and failed to put them in the back, facilitating the gangs' escape by water?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18864" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T02:39:24.227" LastActivityDate="2015-07-25T02:14:04.967" Title="What's the story of the other mole in the police department?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-departed|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31015" CreationDate="2015-02-12T12:48:58.890" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/departed.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;you've met him before&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And so we see the grown up Sullivan training to be a police officer.&#xA;  Close to this point Billy Costigan (DiCaprio) enters the film.&#xA;  Costigan is also training to be a police officer, though the two men&#xA;  are not being trained together and so haven't met. They are both&#xA;  serious and ambitious, as we see in a training montage, though it&#xA;  appears that Sullivan has it in him to succeed more than Costigan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Costigan has a friend throughout training called Brown (important&#xA;  later). And, in keeping with the symmetry of the two lead characters&#xA;  that continues through the film, Sullivan has a friend who will become&#xA;  his partner, Barrigan (also important, naturally). There is a football&#xA;  game that the cops lose to the firemen, and Sullivan can't stand&#xA;  losing and calls the firemen homos, among other things. Barrigan tries&#xA;  to talk to Sullivan after the game a little personally, but Sullivan&#xA;  only remarks again on the firemen being homos. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Sullivan graduates, Barrigan remarks that Sullivan's on the fast&#xA;  track already, heading towards the division of the police that's&#xA;  undercover. Barrigan asks if Sullivan will go out to celebrate, but&#xA;  Sullivan has spotted Costello and goes to speak to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We see Sullivan at a crime scene looking over the bodies of the two&#xA;  dead mafia men. Sullivan's friend Barrigan joins him. Barrigan and&#xA;  Brown will be part of Sullivan's personal task force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T12:48:58.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31015" CreationDate="2015-02-12T12:58:16.270" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We meet Barrigan for the first time at the police academy. To quote from various  dialogue and directions in the script (remember, Colin = Matt Damon):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;POLICE TRAINEES. (INCLUDING BARRIGAN, who is included in all&#xA;            Colin's trainee scenes). COLIN is in the class, wearing a&#xA;            trainee's uniform. He has a notebook, a pen. Writing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Colin&lt;/strong&gt;: Fucking firemen are getting pussy for the first time in the history of fire. Or pussy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;COLIN sits on a bench looking at THE GOLD DOME OF BEACON&#xA;            HILL. The terraces of fine townhouses. Aqueous golden light&#xA;            behind. Misty golden beauty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Barrigan&lt;/strong&gt;: What are you looking at? Forget it. Your father was a janitor, and his son's only a cop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Colin&lt;/strong&gt; (not vainglorious, but innocently stretching for the idea) You're in trouble if you're &quot;only&quot; anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Barrigan&lt;/strong&gt;: Don't tell me I'm looking at the&#xA;                         first dickhead-American president&#xA;                         of the United States.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their dialogue actually creates humourous situations at times, such as this moment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Colin&lt;/strong&gt;: I don't mind going it alone. If you&#xA;                         could go it alone you might get&#xA;                         somewhere yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Barrigan&lt;/strong&gt;: We're cops. This isn't &quot;somewhere&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Colin&lt;/strong&gt;: I know you're a worker. I might be&#xA;                         able to do something for you. You&#xA;                         got any suits at home or you like&#xA;                         coming to work looking like you're&#xA;                         gonna invade Poland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Colin obviously, at this point, has no idea that Barrigan is a mole (and ends up inviting him onto his personal task force).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to answer your first question, &lt;strong&gt;yes, we had met him before&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to your second question, the honest answer is we just don't know. There could have been &lt;em&gt;even more&lt;/em&gt; moles in the department who did that. Perhaps Barrigan did it. Perhaps someone else arranged it. We simply don't know. Your question is logical given his duplicity but is ultimately unanswered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to your comment, &lt;em&gt;no, the man Alec Baldwin pushes up against the wall is not Trooper Barrigan&lt;/em&gt;. He is simply a camera technician.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Man pushed up against the wall is just in front of Alec Baldwin here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GEvjC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trooper Barrigan is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kd7JL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So definitely not the same person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2015-02-12T20:34:17.510" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T20:34:17.510" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29976" CreationDate="2015-02-12T14:02:33.883" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/boston-public/chapter-thirty-four-109940/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Boston Public: Season 2, Episode 14: Chapter Thirty-Four&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This episode aired out of order so as to make more sense. Zach dies in&#xA;  this episode, but if the episodes are aired in the original order,&#xA;  he's alive again two episodes later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/boston-public/chapter-seventy-five-286285/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Boston Public: Season 4, Episode 10: Chapter Seventy-Five&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This episode was originally scheduled to air December 12, but was&#xA;  preempted for A Minute With Stan Hooper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't find anything WRT the switch of episodes 68 and 69.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T14:02:33.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31020" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32705" CreationDate="2015-02-12T15:19:20.033" Score="8" ViewCount="437" Body="&lt;p&gt;When zombies (or walkers or however you refer to them) are in an easily kill-able location, such as the fence at the prison, there are many times where spears or swords or other lengthy objects are thrust into and through a zombie's head.  You can see the actor push it deep into the head, you can see the pointy end emerge from the back, and you can also pretty clearly (IMO) see the CGI gore fly out of the back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get the gore.  It's pretty obvious.  But, how are the actors thrusting these lengthy objects into the actors portraying zombies?  Is it all hidden by camera angles?  I can't see the spears/swords being CGI, that'd be too tricky.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T02:41:10.903" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T00:43:49.827" Title="Zombies At The Fence - filming head injuries to walkers" Tags="|effects|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31021" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31022" CreationDate="2015-02-12T16:17:13.813" Score="15" ViewCount="2842" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read about a &lt;strong&gt;hollywood&lt;/strong&gt; movie where the plot goes on similar to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A person takes different roles (pilot, banker, etc., ) and cheats continuously but escapes most of the time. He starts cheating at a very early stage. Disguises most of the times in many different roles yet no one to identify him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;blah blah blah&#xA;(A women comes in his life.)&#xA;blah blah blah&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally he gets caught and ends up in a prison. The inspector (who was following him and who caught him) finally helps him release.... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also remember that the lead role has a sister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definitely a &lt;strong&gt;hollywood&lt;/strong&gt; film &lt;em&gt;but having a doubt if the lead role was played by &lt;strong&gt;Tom Cruise&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also remember this movie in  Imdb has a good rating too but I am not getting the movie name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18868" LastActivityDate="2015-02-14T21:12:12.420" Title="Hollywood movie where a person takes different roles but escapes most of time" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:34:24.927" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31021" CreationDate="2015-02-12T16:18:31.943" Score="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264464/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Catch Me If You Can(2002)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr., who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars' worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/jE7-h7mwfPs?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18110" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T16:18:31.943" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28350" CreationDate="2015-02-12T16:58:44.310" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's said that Sauron put al his power and evilness into the ring so it was known that te ring and sauron's coming back were deeply related and that his power depended on his proximity to the ring. So, in my opinion, cause it really isn't written is that they knew it because of the clues that they left when they told the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18869" LastActivityDate="2015-02-12T16:58:44.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31026" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31100" CreationDate="2015-02-12T20:55:25.003" Score="3" ViewCount="393" Body="&lt;p&gt;When we learn about the life of Geum-ja there is no mention of the preacher, it seems as though she only met him after her release from prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the role of the preacher only a gimmick to move the plot along? Being an American viewer of a foreign movie though I was wondering if something was lost on me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or could it have been from the reputation she developed in prison of being an &quot;Angel&quot; that attracted his attention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9092" LastEditorUserId="9092" LastEditDate="2015-02-13T14:05:06.880" LastActivityDate="2015-02-14T22:16:00.207" Title="Role of preacher in Sympathy for Lady Vengeance" Tags="|sympathy-lady-vengeance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31028" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-12T23:38:33.863" Score="3" ViewCount="17176" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the features that made Breaking Bad such a great series was its clever use of music to enhance the tone and atmosphere of many scenes. Some of the soundtrack used existing music for great effect (one of the things that sold me on the first episode was the frantic money cleaning scene towards the end of episode 1 set to &quot;Out Of Time Man&quot;) and some was new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like the prequel will keep the same standard. But some of the well-chosen music isn't easy to identify. Hence the following question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new, and so far excellent, Breaking Bad prequel &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3032476/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/a&gt; has an unidentifiable piece of music over the end credits that sets some of the tone for the series. What is it? And was it made specially for the show or is it from an existing album?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the IMDB listing for the series doesn't yet include any soundtrack listing, I'm hoping to community can help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="134" LastEditDate="2015-02-15T11:14:51.907" LastActivityDate="2015-02-15T11:14:51.907" Title="What is the music at the end credits of Better Call Saul?" Tags="|soundtrack|better-call-saul|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-02-15T11:17:13.423" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31033" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-13T02:26:47.687" Score="6" ViewCount="2868" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not asking about the significance of this little girl in red dress. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, this girl in red dress eventually perishes. However, in the book (Schindler's Ark), the little girl in the red dress survived. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After seeing the movie, she wrote a memoir called &quot;The Girl in the Red Coat&quot;. Is this simply a contradiction between the movie and the book, or is the little girl in red dress in the movie different from the little girl in red dress in the book?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-13T09:56:21.263" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T02:41:49.580" Title="A Question about the little girl in red dress in Schindler's List" Tags="|character|plot-explanation|realism|schindlers-list|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31028" CreationDate="2015-02-13T04:43:30.730" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Guess this is what you were looking for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gM8_SL9BP0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Shook Milestone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it is not quite the same as the ending music, according to this &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMd-_1nQc_M&amp;amp;spfreload=10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;, which says it might be created by UK band &quot;Little Barrie&quot;, and the song track is not released yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18881" LastEditorUserId="18881" LastEditDate="2015-02-13T21:58:31.557" LastActivityDate="2015-02-13T21:58:31.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31036" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31045" CreationDate="2015-02-13T06:12:47.660" Score="5" ViewCount="2559" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen &lt;em&gt;Blood Diamond&lt;/em&gt; on TV but I've missed some scenes so it makes me confused. When Danny Archer told Solomon &quot;Time I quit smoking anyway, huh, Solomon?&quot; Why would Solomon knows it is a signal of attack?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-04T11:37:21.907" LastActivityDate="2016-06-04T11:37:21.907" Title="How did Solomon knows it is a signal of attack?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|blood-diamond|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-13T07:07:59.790" Score="3" ViewCount="562" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, they don't offer any explanation for the killer's actions. Since this is based on a true story, I was kind of hoping someone knows why he did it. I'm not from the US, but I expect there was considerable news coverage of the tragedy and some explanation is out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I searched the internet but was unable to find a story that sheds some light on the event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-02-13T08:07:05.193" LastActivityDate="2018-07-17T05:43:40.417" Title="'American Sniper' : Reality about the movie's end?" Tags="|character|american-sniper|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2015-02-13T15:11:34.813" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31039" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31053" CreationDate="2015-02-13T08:28:01.470" Score="10" ViewCount="671" Body="&lt;p&gt;Big Hero 6 is full of geeky references and the characters or their accessories are very close to other movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: Go Go works on Tron-like-cycle, Fred is Gozilla-style monster. Wasabi has a Halo-style energy sword, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I couldn't figure out any references for Honey Lemon. I guess the female Pokemon characters had big hand bags and threw balls, but I think I may be trying too hard here... Any other ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18884" LastEditorUserId="18884" LastEditDate="2015-02-13T12:27:59.890" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T02:42:43.263" Title="What characters does Honey Lemon resemble?" Tags="|reference|big-hero-6|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31040" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-13T08:48:05.543" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions about character's costumes, such as why they were chosen, what they represent, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-02-13T09:28:06.213" LastActivityDate="2015-02-13T09:28:06.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31041" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-13T08:48:05.543" Score="0" Body="Questions about character's costumes, such as why they were chosen, what they represent, etc." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-02-13T09:28:10.013" LastActivityDate="2015-02-13T09:28:10.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31042" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-13T08:52:50.273" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Physical confrontation between characters.  Could be unarmed, armed, structured or not, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-02-13T09:43:42.313" LastActivityDate="2015-02-13T09:43:42.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31043" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-13T08:52:50.273" Score="0" Body="Physical confrontation between characters." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-02-13T09:43:45.547" LastActivityDate="2015-02-13T09:43:45.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31033" CreationDate="2015-02-13T09:08:13.493" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did not read the book, but I think that the kid in the movie is simply a way to impress the viewer: an innocent person whose only fault was being born Jewish, was brutally killed in the concentration camp by the inhumanity of Nazism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T02:41:49.580" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T02:41:49.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31036" CreationDate="2015-02-13T10:10:19.157" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the film, the following exchange takes place between Archer and Solomon (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=blood-diamond&quot;&gt;from a transcript of the film&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Archer&lt;/strong&gt;: I've gotta quit smoking, huh?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Solomon&lt;/strong&gt;: Why don't you?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Archer&lt;/strong&gt;: I'll tell you what,&#xA;  Solomon. You find me this diamond, and I'll quit right then and there,&#xA;  huh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Archer will quit when he has the diamond. That's his &quot;end game&quot;. Later, towards the end of the film, the dialogue you refer to takes place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Archer&lt;/strong&gt;: Hey, boet, have you got a smoke?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Guard&lt;/strong&gt;: Smoking will kill you. Sorry.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Archer&lt;/strong&gt;: It's&#xA;  all right. Time I quit smoking anyway, huh, Solomon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took this as Archer's way of telling Solomon that the &quot;end game&quot; has arrived. If they don't get the diamond they're dead. Even if they do find it, they're probably dead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we see a pause, as some sort of realisation comes over Solomon's face. He initially says he can't find the diamond and realises they'll all be killed (including his son), so he immediately backtracks and digs for it. By acting overly excited (with Archer helping) they manage to distract the guards enough to disarm them and make their escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer your question: It's not that Solomon knows it's a definite sign of attack, as much as it's a sign that the end has approached and he needs to do &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2015-02-13T13:40:46.780" LastActivityDate="2015-02-13T13:40:46.780" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31033" CreationDate="2015-02-13T10:24:48.800" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The girl in the red dress in the film is different to the girl in the red dress&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Girl In Red in real life was &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_Ligocka&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Roma Ligocka&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, who survived the holocaust and wrote &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_in_the_Red_Coat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Girl in the Red Coat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2329427.stm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;She has stated&lt;/a&gt; that Schindler's List was the inspiration for her book, as she saw the little girl in red in the film and was reminded of herself. To quote from her:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;When I saw the film it was like a flash of lightening,&amp;quot; she&#xA;explained. &amp;quot;All of a sudden fragments, bits and pieces from my past,&#xA;grew together to become one.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;quot;I knew at the age of two that I was not supposed to live, that I&#xA;would be killed sooner or later,&amp;quot; she recalled.&#xA;&amp;quot;I wanted to live so badly and my only thought was that I needed to&#xA;survive.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Girl in Red in the film was probably a fictional character (although it &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; have been a retelling of her story, though that seems unlikely), whose red coat was the only flash of colour in the film. To quote from the Wiki (which references &lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1402796501&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Steven Spielberg: A Retrospective&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spielberg said the scene was intended to symbolise how members of the&#xA;highest levels of government in the United States knew the Holocaust&#xA;was occurring, yet did nothing to stop it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It was as obvious as a&#xA;little girl wearing a red coat, walking down the street, and yet&#xA;nothing was done to bomb the German rail lines. Nothing was being done&#xA;to slow down ... the annihilation of European Jewry,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;So&#xA;that was my message in letting that scene be in color.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, the actress who portrayed the fictional girl in red, &lt;em&gt;Olivia Dabrowska&lt;/em&gt;, was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287890/Schindlers-List-Trauma-girl-red-coat-holocaust-icon.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;traumatised for years&lt;/a&gt; after the film, when she broke a promise to Spielberg and watched the film when she was 11 (he wanted her to wait until she was 18).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-13T10:24:48.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21243" CreationDate="2015-02-13T12:51:41.193" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that prince Hans wanted to be become the king of Arendlle and he has to marry Princess Anna kill Elsa because Elsa became queen as there was no man in the family and Elsa was elder so if Elsa dies Hans  will become the king as husband of Anna. He has to maintain his image so he tells everyone that he had married Anna and Anna was assassinated by else, this way everybody agrees to kill Elsa because in their sight Elsa was a cruel and selfish person. After Elsa nor Anna exists he could be crowned as King but soon op good he was unsuccessful in his evil plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18889" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-02-13T13:21:28.757" LastActivityDate="2015-02-13T13:21:28.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31038" CreationDate="2015-02-13T13:55:02.167" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kyle's accused killer, Eddie Routh, has never stated why he killed Kyle and another veteran, Chad Littlefield, that day.  All that's known is that Kyle and Littlefield took Routh, who suffers from PTSD, to the gun range that day, and that a hunting guide later found Kyle and Littlefield dead on another part of the property.  Kyle's truck was missing, and Routh was nowhere to be found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happened to stumble over this old answer and did a quick search; Routh &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/eddie-ray-routh-shot-american-sniper-chris-kyle-because-they-n306126&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;later admitted that he shot the two men&lt;/a&gt; on the way to the range because &quot;they wouldn't talk to me.   I was just riding in the back seat of the truck and nobody would talk to me. They were just taking me to the range so I shot them. I feel bad about it, but they wouldn't talk to me. I am sure they have forgiven me.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2018-07-17T05:43:40.417" LastActivityDate="2018-07-17T05:43:40.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="31053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31039" CreationDate="2015-02-13T15:08:07.547" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that Big Hero 6 is based on a comic franchise of the same name, which started in 1998, so nearly 20 years ago. The character of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_Lemon&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Honey Lemon is Japanese&lt;/a&gt; in the comics, and is &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AsianAndNerdy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;good at science&lt;/a&gt; and an &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllAsiansKnowMartialArts&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;expert martial artist&lt;/a&gt;. Further, while she does use a purse in the comics called the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_Lemon#Powers_and_abilities&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Power Purse&lt;/a&gt;, hers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...contains a series of miniature, artificial, inter-universe wormholes,&#xA;  granting her limited access to an indeterminate number of worlds and&#xA;  dimensions. The unstable, fluctuating nature of the wormholes makes&#xA;  accurate long-term mapping of them difficult. Before deploying in the&#xA;  field, Honey Lemon typically gathers a large arsenal of supplies,&#xA;  shrinks them to microscopic size using a combination of Pym Particles&#xA;  and cutting-edge nanotechnology, and stores them in miniature pocket&#xA;  universes only accessible via the Power Purse's wormholes. As such,&#xA;  she is able to instantaneously retrieve these items from the Power&#xA;  Purse and restore them to their original size while in the field.&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllAsiansKnowMartialArts&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Power Purse's wormholes also grant access to a number of&#xA;  full-sized, inhabited dimensions. For instance, the Microverse planet&#xA;  of Coronar (homeworld of former Big Hero 6 member Sunpyre) is&#xA;  accessible through the Power Purse. The total number of dimensions&#xA;  accessible via the Power Purse has yet to be determined. Although&#xA;  Honey Lemon can use the Power Purse's wormholes as a method of&#xA;  personal transportation, she only does so in rare instances when her&#xA;  life is in danger, as a trip through the Power Purse is often a very&#xA;  unpleasant experience for carbon-based lifeforms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such I wouldn't say any character in particular was designed to represent another franchise specifically, and any such references are likely not entirely intentional. Case in point, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Hero_6_(film)#Voice_cast&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the creators of the film said&lt;/a&gt; they modeled Go-Go Tomago, for the movie, off of bicycle messengers. Further, while &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoGo_Tomago#Powers_and_abilities&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Go-Go Tomago&lt;/a&gt; is a skilled motorcyclist and an accomplished racer and stunt driver in the comics, her suit and therefore the powers granted by it have absolutely nothing to do with bikes of any kind or in any way. They may be borrowing familiar ideas and franchises that less comic book inclined audiences may recognize, but in the end there was no direct intention to represent any franchise in particular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To this extent, my takeaway from the movie, and in particular Honey Lemon as depicted in the film, was more to try and inspire kids to pursue careers in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEM_fields&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;STEM fields&lt;/a&gt;. Several companies in STEM fields are trying to diversify their teams, and a big sector they're going after are women, especially given STEM fields are largely seen as being male dominated. The character of Honey Lemon in the film is clearly very &quot;girly&quot;, but she's also incredibly smart and a gifted chemist. Given this I felt her character was designed to show girls that you can still be feminine and like &quot;girl things&quot;, and at the same time you can be smart and successful as a scientist and/or engineer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T02:42:43.263" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T02:42:43.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31054" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31055" CreationDate="2015-02-13T15:46:51.320" Score="7" ViewCount="521" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was going through the filmography of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wachowskis&quot;&gt;Wachowskis&lt;/a&gt;. Their main theme often tends to be science fiction although they deviated a little when they decided to adapt Alan Moore's V for Vendetta to the big screen but Speed Racer is completely different from anything they've done until that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was a big fan of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_Racer&quot;&gt;Speed Racer&lt;/a&gt; cartoon growing up as a kid but this adaptation of Speed Racer puzzled me. Why choose Speed Racer? Is there something about this specific anime which inspired them? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-02-13T18:41:12.900" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T05:52:58.480" Title="Inspiration for making Speed Racer" Tags="|the-wachowskis|speed-racer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31054" CreationDate="2015-02-13T15:57:01.007" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's tough to know for sure. The Wachowskis are notoriously difficult to both interview and, even when they do interview, get straight answers from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Silver&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Joel Silver&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was the producer of the film and, among many other things, acted as their mouthpiece for most of the interviews involving the film. In a discussion with &lt;em&gt;Indie London&lt;/em&gt; the following exchange took place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questioner&lt;/strong&gt;. What was the appeal of Speed Racer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joel Silver&lt;/strong&gt;: The idea was to&#xA;make something really exciting and fun for the whole family. &lt;em&gt;The&#xA;Wachowski brothers wanted to make a big family movie and I think they&#xA;did it. They wanted a movie that everyone can enjoy – you wouldn’t&#xA;just take your kids to it and drop them off and pick them up.&lt;/em&gt; It was&#xA;always the intention to create a great experience you can have&#xA;together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why the Wachowski's don't talk to the press:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questioner&lt;/strong&gt;: Why aren’t the Wachowski brothers doing any press for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joel&#xA;Silver&lt;/strong&gt;: The Matrix was the first movie we did together and they did&#xA;everything – junkets, tours and everything. But they didn’t like it.&#xA;They didn’t like explaining the movie and telling what they were&#xA;thinking; they wanted the movie to take the lead with their art and&#xA;their creation. They didn’t want to have to present what they did. So,&#xA;they said to me: “Listen, if you really want us to make these movies&#xA;with you, we don’t want to have to do this anymore. So, it’s very&#xA;simple – if you do that for us, then we’ll continue to make movies&#xA;with you. If you don’t, we won’t.” But we love them and they are&#xA;around. They’ll be at the premiere. But they just don’t like to talk&#xA;about it and we’re happy to support them in that. If you’re hinting at&#xA;the mystique surrounding them, they don’t cultivate that, they just&#xA;want to let the movie speak for itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if that's the answer you were hoping for, but it really does seem like they just wanted to do something big, fun, family-related and different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-13T15:57:01.007" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31057" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-13T17:03:51.383" Score="7" ViewCount="39803" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Theory of Everything&lt;/em&gt;, is Jane cheating on Stephen and having sex with Jonathan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, the camping scene suggests this, but I can't find an article on Google to confirm this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18896" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2015-02-13T17:05:28.793" LastActivityDate="2020-01-12T20:34:50.507" Title="Is Jane cheating on Stephen?" Tags="|analysis|the-theory-of-everything|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31057" CreationDate="2015-02-13T17:21:53.947" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Define cheating. There was certainly a relationship, but Stephen was aware of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nZLMWpujVUcC&amp;amp;redir_esc=y&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Numerous&lt;/a&gt; (different) &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yL3RBMEI5OgC&amp;amp;redir_esc=y&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;sources&lt;/a&gt; describe how Jane and Jonathan had developed romantic feelings for one another but had agreed to not let them destroy the family. This is an extract from the second book linked to above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Hawking's personal life had also taken an important turn. Jane confided to him that her relationship with Jonathan had matured from friendship to romance. Nevertheless, she had no wish to disrupt their family. She later described how:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Stephen said he would not object so long as I continued to love him. I could not fail to love him when he showed such understanding... At the time I felt very guilty but [Jonathan] was a godsend. We were rarely alone together and tried to maintain our code of conduct in front of Stephen and the children, suppressing displays of close affection... Jonathan and I had struggled with our own consciences and had decided that the greater good - the survival of the family unit, Stephen's right to live at home within that family unit and the welfare of the children - outweighed the important of our relationship.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed, all involved were so discreet that no one outside their circle of family and friends knew of this unconventional agreement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they allowed some sort of romance to develop between themselves, but they kept it &lt;em&gt;very, very&lt;/em&gt; discreet. Then, after the divorce, they became an item and were married.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether this can be considered cheating is debatable, since Stephen appeared to be fully aware of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-02-23T11:49:36.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31021" CreationDate="2015-02-13T18:12:24.323" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another, somewhat similar, older movie is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053879/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Great Impostor (1961)&lt;/a&gt; starring Tony Curtis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Based on a true story, a bright young man who hasn't the patience for the normal way of advancement finds that people rarely question you if your papers are in order. He becomes a marine, a monk, a surgeon onboard a Canadian Warship, and a prison warden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that Frank Demara (whose life the story is based on) was not a fraudster in the same way that Frank Abagnale Jr. was. Demara pretended to credentials he didn't have, but monetary gain was not his goal (or his destiny).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/GKjXMfkQd_o?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18898" LastActivityDate="2015-02-13T18:12:24.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31065" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31070" CreationDate="2015-02-13T21:37:53.843" Score="1" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Soylent Green&lt;/em&gt; (1973), a cop says to another one (wounded, dying): &lt;em&gt;&quot;I promise, Tiger. I promise.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; I think this word was used only once in the film. What's the origin of using this address? I guess it's from (American) mass culture of pre-1973, like another movie or book or comics, but what? Or am I wrong and this film &lt;strong&gt;IS&lt;/strong&gt; the origin? :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18902" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-13T21:50:02.093" LastActivityDate="2015-02-13T21:56:40.390" Title="&quot;I promise, Tiger&quot;. Why is he addressing him like that, what's the origin?" Tags="|dialogue|soylent-green|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31068" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36009" CreationDate="2015-02-13T21:44:55.507" Score="3" ViewCount="10302" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472954/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &quot;Charlie Work&quot; (S10E04) &lt;em&gt;Charlie&lt;/em&gt; has &lt;em&gt;Dennis&lt;/em&gt; play the barkeeper during the health inspection. But all he ever gets out is a quite nervous &lt;em&gt;McConaughey&lt;/em&gt;-style &lt;em&gt;&quot;Alright, alright, alright&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. He seems to be in a complete tizzy and at the end when he calls back to the health inspector all he gets together after an awkward pause is another &lt;em&gt;&quot;Alright alright, alright&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, all while sweating like hell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;what on earth was wrong with him?&lt;/strong&gt; Was he just overwhelmed by the &quot;stage fright&quot; of playing the barkeeper? Though, I'd not say this is a particularly difficult task for &lt;em&gt;Dennis&lt;/em&gt;, especially since, like anyone else except &lt;em&gt;Charlie&lt;/em&gt;, he didn't give a damn about the health inspection anyway. Did I miss anything else or was he really just totally nervous about his barkeeper role for whatever reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-06-30T14:03:49.437" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T14:03:49.437" Title="What was going on with Dennis in 'Charlie Work' (S10E04)?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31065" CreationDate="2015-02-13T21:56:40.390" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Tiger&quot;, as a nickname, dates &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_(nickname)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;back to the 1700's&lt;/a&gt;.  It is generally used as a form of respect or love, as we all know that tigers are dangerous and courageous animals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony the Tiger, the famous mascot for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes, was first introduced in 1951.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given these two facts, it seems highly unlikely that the origin was a 1973 movie.  I'm not sure that anyone can give a definitive answer to an exact movie where that nickname is first given, as it's not something that would be easy to research. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-02-13T21:56:40.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31073" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31074" CreationDate="2015-02-14T00:06:14.360" Score="4" ViewCount="423" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man repeatedly punches Doc Ock, yet Ock still remains conscious. Isn't he supposed to be knocked out considering he is still a normal human and Spider-Man is pretty strong? In the comics, the one time Spider-Man landed a good punch on Doc Ock, it knocked him out cold, even Spider-Man was surprised. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How does this movie Doc Ock resist the Spider-powered hits?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9329" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T02:44:59.027" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T02:44:59.027" Title="How does Doc Ock stay awake after being punched by Spider-Man?" Tags="|spider-man-trilogy|spider-man-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31073" CreationDate="2015-02-14T00:46:04.973" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because plot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a great answer, but I think it's the logical one. They could have made Doctor Octopus seem like the strongest person in the universe, but if Spiderman could have knocked him out with a single punch it would have looked a little ridiculous. We would have had a film with Spiderman running away/getting beaten up the entire time, until the last fight when he landed a single punch and saved the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's just a little too silly - instead, they make him seem like he can take a few blows and really can hold his own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also is a good cinematic technique to bolster the character of Doctor Octopus as a true danger to Peter - even when he has him pinned down and is punching him, Dr Octopus can overpower him. It heightens the sense of danger and establishes him as a worthy opponent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2015-02-14T00:46:04.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15724" CreationDate="2015-02-14T04:54:28.650" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Come on, there's no way Fredo had the stones to kill anybody: remember the way he fumbled his pistol when Sollozzo's men tried to kill don Vito? Also, as mentioned above, there's the sheer physical impossibility of Fredo being able to find them, much less kill them, without being noticed -- they guy's no James Bond or Ethan Hunt, he can't even control his wife. Also, Fredo didn't live at the Tahoe compound, so why would he have brought his own muscle to his brother's house, and why would Michael allow them to mingle with the regular security detail even if Fredo had brought them? Either it's a plot hole, or the simplest explanation is that they killed themselves in order to avoid capture; in fact this sort of self-sacrifice is shown later when Rocco kills Roth, knowing the police will probably kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18910" LastActivityDate="2015-02-14T04:54:28.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19740" CreationDate="2015-02-14T05:31:42.527" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you can imagine, most Best Actor/Actresses make their appearances very early  in their films. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The latest entry I've found so far is Ron Moody as Fagin in Carol Reed's Oliver! He doesn't appear until 36:54 into the film (and then proceeds to steal the show.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Caveat #1: I've only looked at Actors, not Actresses so far. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Caveat #2: I've checked out every nomination since 1953, and a good number of the ones before. But there are roughly 60 movies, all older, which are either impossible or very hard to find for online viewing or rental. Based on the plot descriptions, there are only a handful where I feel the actor &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; make a later appearance, and none where I feel they wouldn't appear before 37 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other late entries I've noted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Montgomery Clift, The Search, 1948 - 34:49 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Humphrey Bogart, The Caine Mutiny, 1954 - 26:38&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Frederic March, A Star Is  Born, 1937 - &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/Ktc6ZJMluB0?t=26m14s&quot;&gt;26:14&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man, 1988 - 18:32 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Robin Williams, The Fisher King, 1991 - 18:22&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6567" LastEditorUserId="6567" LastEditDate="2015-02-14T23:44:16.017" LastActivityDate="2015-02-14T23:44:16.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31083" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-14T07:13:15.193" Score="11" ViewCount="10431" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Dave Hester left &lt;em&gt;Storage Wars&lt;/em&gt;, he opened up that the producers had been planting items every show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this interesting because I grew up following my grandparents who owned a successful business reselling these items.  I find it funny that they would upbid the lockers of boxes for 2-3k when these usually go for 1/10th that price.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now some of the things found on the show have been pretty ridiculous.  What I find funny though is that the MOST ridiculous was Darrel's stash of high priced art he found.  It is the most ridiculous to me because this would seem impossible to fake.  The art community is just too inquisitive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So is there any evidence other than Hester's rant that the producers &quot;faked&quot; the shows by &quot;salting&quot; the storage lockers?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18901" LastEditorUserId="9382" LastEditDate="2016-09-28T18:46:41.463" LastActivityDate="2016-09-28T19:04:36.507" Title="Has there been any proof that Storage Wars producers planted items?" Tags="|production|storage-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="524" CreationDate="2015-02-14T12:26:04.490" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a bit in a different direction, but it's interesting to get hold of Niccol's early script (available somewhere online), which is darker and angrier.  The studio asked for rewrites to lighten the mood some.  Niccol revised the script twelve times before the final cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18917" LastActivityDate="2015-02-14T12:26:04.490" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15211" CreationDate="2015-02-14T13:44:13.320" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;At around 1:24:00 the song Sad Letter is played on the radio, and this is the last time a murder is committed in conjunction with the song and rain. While this playing of the song led them to the letter and then onto the prime suspect, and was the reason the song no longer played a part in the murders, it should be noted that the radio's stations program producer quit suddenly on this last occasion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The producer had been alerted to the police interest because they had already visited the station when the song's link to the murders was noted. So it was the radio stations program producer who committed the murders, but found that without the song it wasn't of interest any more and stopped after a few more. Although, he could have quit when he realised that he'd allowed the song to be played and that the result of this would be another murder. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm still going to say it was the producer, but that's the movie mind you, the real case has had officers worked for 2 million man-days on it and there are 21,280 suspects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18919" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-12-29T20:01:32.293" LastActivityDate="2017-12-29T20:01:32.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31091" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31096" CreationDate="2015-02-14T15:12:50.317" Score="4" ViewCount="1960" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why Baelfire got sent back to the Enchanted forest with everyone in S0311 after Regina tore the curse scroll, &quot;canceling the curse&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't make sense to me. He wasn't in &quot;Story Brooke&quot; in the first place suggesting that he wasn't in the enchanted forest when the curse originally struck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18921" LastActivityDate="2017-09-11T19:35:31.253" Title="Why was Baelfire sent back with everyone when Regina tore the curse scroll?" Tags="|plot-explanation|once-upon-a-time|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17576" CreationDate="2015-02-14T15:24:34.023" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to understand what triggers zombieism. The plot indicates every person has the virus in them but dormant because they are alive. This nags me a bit because viruses can only spread using the cell and to use the cell the body must be living. And cells die all the time, so if the virus was in the cell already it would trigger when the cell died - this obviously isn't happening. So being zombied is either a bacterial or a fungal infection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Bacteria:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bacteria seems unlikely, it's hard to see how it could get a zombied human to move, as it would just exist or take over everything else in the body. But eating 100% bacterial infected zombie flesh would not be something I would do, you could trigger the bacterial pay load, this occurs when bacteria reach a certain population - resulting in zombifying yourself. see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ted.com/talks/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communicate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bonnie Bassler's Ted talk&lt;/a&gt; she would probably say no that's not something you should do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Fungus:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So then there's fungi (kind of an oxymoron - yeah Jack's a zombie fun guy). Well it's interesting because if you look at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cordyceps fungal infection&lt;/a&gt; ants get it looks likely that a fungal infection can drive the nervous system, and the nervous system seems to be the mechanism that zombification uses to keep a body moving, even through rigamortis setting in. So there may be a short period of time you could eat this before the fungus starts 'fruiting'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Parasitic Infection:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like there is a third (and most likely) candidate, parasites, this snail infection &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go_LIz7kTok&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Leucochloridium paradoxum&lt;/a&gt; indicates that it would achieve zombie traits (not sure about the eyes though) and attacks the mind. But I know nothing about parasites so can't take this branch any further, as much to say I wouldn't eat something infected with parasites - that sounds like a bad thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say it's a no, don't eat zombies. Filling your body with zombie infected flesh could tip the balance, or the infection could mutate into a whole new thing altogether, zombies disguised as humans... oh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18919" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-04-14T08:58:15.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31093" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31375" CreationDate="2015-02-14T15:34:49.843" Score="9" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of many unusual aspects of the amazing &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0806910/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tatort&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &quot;Im Schmerz geboren&quot; was the parts where the scene transformed into oil paintings showing stills of the action, as with the casino shootout or the final portrait of all the people who have died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xNEX4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iPuVj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder, though, &lt;strong&gt;to which degree those were actual real paintings drawn by humans or just entirely post-processed stills of the filmed movie&lt;/strong&gt;. There are aspects, like the live transformation of the real scene into the painting that might suggest that this was just post-processing of the film. In fact other effects, like &lt;em&gt;Harloff&lt;/em&gt;'s Stendahl-syndrome making him imagine weird things going on in paintings, that seem to be achievable by CGI only. But on the other hand on close-up they look very real with a recognizable linen structure and especially the final portait zooms out into an actual portrait hanging in a museum. There are also enhancements that seem to require manual adjustments anyway, like the very elaborate blood splashes. So how much was there any real oil painting magic involved here, was this all just computer trickery or did someone actually paint this stuff, or was it a kind of mixture between both techniques?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T14:13:41.223" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T14:13:41.223" Title="Were the oil paintings in the episode &quot;Im Schmerz geboren&quot; for real?" Tags="|film-techniques|tatort|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31091" CreationDate="2015-02-14T18:38:44.020" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://onceuponatime.wikia.com/wiki/Going_Home/Transcript&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Going Home&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (3x11):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leroy:&lt;/strong&gt; It's here!! The curse, it's here! It's coming from all sides!&#xA;  There's no escape.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;(Neal hugs a worries Henry.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;David:&lt;/strong&gt; It's not too late. We can still stop it, right? Regina?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Regina:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes. Yes.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Emma:&lt;/strong&gt; W-what's the price? Gold said there is a price. What is our price?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Regina:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Turns around to face the group)&lt;/em&gt; It's not our price. It's mine.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Emma:&lt;/strong&gt; What are you talking about?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Regina:&lt;/strong&gt; It's what I felt when I... first held it. I have to say goodbye to the thing I love most.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Emma:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Turns to look at Henry, who approaches forward to stand beside her) (To Regina)&lt;/em&gt; Henry?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Regina&lt;/strong&gt;: I can never see him again. I have no choice. I have to undo what I started.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mary Margaret:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(In realization)&lt;/em&gt; The curse that brought us to Storybrooke?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Regina:&lt;/strong&gt; That created Storybrooke. It doesn't belong here, and neither do any of us.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;David:&lt;/strong&gt; Breaking the curse destroys the town.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   &lt;strong&gt;Regina:&lt;/strong&gt; It will wend out of existence as though it were never here. And everyone will go back to where they are from. Prevented from ever returning.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Emma:&lt;/strong&gt; We'll go back to the Enchanted Forest?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Regina:&lt;/strong&gt; All of us. Except Henry. He will stay here because... he was born here.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Emma:&lt;/strong&gt; Alone?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Regina:&lt;/strong&gt; No, you will take him. Because you're the savior. And you were created to  break the curse. And once again, you can escape it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, according to show canon, Neal ended up back in the Enchanted Forest because he was born there. The destroying of the curse affected everyone inside of Storybrooke's town limits whether or not they were brought there by the curse. Hook was also spirited away because he was not born in the Land Without Magic though he wasn't affected by the curse either. Emma (who was the exception since she was born in the Enchanted Forest) and Henry left the town limits/were over the town line before the curse smoke hit them as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2017-09-11T19:35:31.253" LastActivityDate="2017-09-11T19:35:31.253" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31021" CreationDate="2015-02-14T21:12:12.420" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first movie that came to mind in answer to your question is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120053/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Saint&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the main characters in the movie disguises himself as various Catholic saints and successfully steals high profile items &amp;amp; avoids the law. It's a fun show and I recommend it, though after re-reading your question I suspect you are looking for Catch Me If You Can like New-To-IT suggested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18927" LastActivityDate="2015-02-14T21:12:12.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31026" CreationDate="2015-02-14T22:16:00.207" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not so much a gimmick, but simply the first indication that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2006/feb/10/8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;prison didn't &quot;fix&quot; her&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lee Yeong-ae plays Geum-ja, a delicately beautiful young woman who 13&#xA;  years previously astonished the nation by confessing to a horrendous&#xA;  crime: the kidnap and murder of a five-year-old child. She has been&#xA;  released from prison, now in her early 30s, and over this long time&#xA;  has amassed a new reputation: that of saintly conversion to&#xA;  Christianity. She is a veritable modern Magdalene whose purity&#xA;  surrounds her like an aura. But Geum-ja has a secret - a secret from&#xA;  the news media, from her fellow prisoners and from us, the audience.&#xA;  And the secret begins to unfold when an evangelical Christian group is&#xA;  coldly rebuffed when they greet her at the jail gates with a&#xA;  tambourine-rattling hymn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only later we learn the reality about her stay in prison, how she started planning her revenge and made allies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-02-14T22:16:00.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3762" CreationDate="2015-02-15T02:57:24.203" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you remember watching the movie. The scene where she sees the alien before she goes to disable the self destruct. Well the main reason she went to go disable it was that the alien was blocking her only way of escape, the shuttle (Narcassis). When she went back to disable the auto destruct this was when the alien stowed away on the shuttle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18930" LastActivityDate="2015-02-15T02:57:24.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2948" CreationDate="2015-02-15T04:05:54.113" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ever since Marvel launched its shared movie universe, many fans have dreamed about seeing characters like the X-Men, The Amazing Spider-Man and Fantastic Four join Iron Man and the rest of The Avengers in various cinematic adventures. It would be great fun to see these characters crossing paths as they regularly do in the comics, but the big screen reality is complicated due to different movie studios owning the movie rights to these cash cow franchises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The record-setting box office take of The Avengers proved that audiences crave this kind of movie team-up, and the subject of crossovers has been addressed by various parties in the past year or so. Hugh Jackman publicly mused that he’d love to share the screen with Robert Downey, Jr.’s Iron Man (and “kick his ass.”), X-Men franchise producer Lauren Shuler Donner loves the idea of an X-Men/Avengers team-up,  and while Marvel Studios President of Production Kevin Feige essentially told everyone not to hold their breath, fans continue to wonder if it could someday happen.&#xA;If it was up to Avi Arad, however, Spider-Man and the Avengers would never meet on the silver screen. Arad is a former Marvel Studios executive and remains a producer on the studio’s various films, with a focus on Sony’s rebooted The Amazing Spider-Man franchise. Arad and producer Matthew Tolmach recently spoke to TotalFilm (via CBM) about the possibility.&#xA;Here’s what Arad had to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I for one don’t see the value for us in it. I think we’re doing such a good job with the Spider-Man Universe. Spider-Man is arguably the number one character in the world. He shouldn’t make a cameo.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arad appears to have retracted his position a bit, though, having later said that the idea would be possible if they found:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“a natural alliance for some reason…I cannot talk for Sony.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Arad is clearly not speaking for the studio, which might mean the possibility remains alive. Still, Tolmach – who produced The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and is working on the Venom and Sinister Six spinoffs – chimed in with his point of view:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“The practical side of it is, look, how many movies have we just talked about? It’s all we can do to build that universe. We’re not going beyond that.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a practical, pragmatic point of view, it’s true that Sony, Arad, Tolmach and the rest of the creative team involved in developing a shared movie universe based on The Amazing Spider-Man have their hands full and plenty of characters and storylines to work with without negotiating with Marvel Studios or Fox about how and where they’ll be able to merge onscreen. Not to mention navigating the various schedules, salaries – and egos – of the stars of the franchises involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Arad’s comment on the “value” - he’s speaking about the studio and it’s willingness (or lack thereof) to share the profits and spotlight with any other franchise or studio. There would be tremendous value for fans of the characters and movies, and a potentially rewarding opportunity for the writers and directors to explore the facets of these different franchises. It’s very clear, however, that the Spider-Man, X-Men and Avengers movie universes are heading in very different directions. A crossover on this scale could happen in some form, eventually, but don’t expect it anytime soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? Do you want to see Spider-Man and the Avengers meet up on the big screen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18931" LastActivityDate="2015-02-15T04:05:54.113" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24806" CreationDate="2015-02-15T05:19:34.263" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Gotham, the tv show, is supposed to take place in the same time period as ours, but in a different dimension than our own. It is supposed to be familiar but with small differences, like they have cell phones, but they use 70s technology like overhead projectors and microfilm readers. And of course the 70s-style cars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18933" LastActivityDate="2015-02-15T05:19:34.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31109" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-15T06:00:31.197" Score="13" ViewCount="2734" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot;&gt;Inception&lt;/a&gt;, who decides how a totem behaves inside a dream?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, in the dream, are the totems manifestations of the dreamer? The architect creates the other parts and constructs in the dream but the dreamers would need to manifest their totems, yes? If that is not the case and the architect has to add the totem to the dream which then leaves for the architect to decide the default behavior of the totem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the architect decides the default behavior of a Totem, then a top would be designed to &lt;em&gt;stop&lt;/em&gt; and not &lt;em&gt;keep spinning&lt;/em&gt;. This would however work for the other totems. The default loading on the die would be uniform and the difference in loading of the die between the dream and real world would let Arthur know if he's awake or not. Also, the architect's own totem, Ariadne knows how her chess pawn is loaded, wouldn't that confuse her between the dream and the real world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the dreamer manifested the totem and controlled its behavior, Cobb could keep spinning the top in a dream and can't in the real world. This would help him say he's awake or dreaming. But the problem is, he could &quot;think&quot; his top to a stop, which would mess things up for Cobb. Arthur's die would be a problem too, he could end up &quot;thinking&quot; the loading of his die as it is in the real world, that would put Arthur in trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to sum it up, who exactly decides the default behavior of everyone's totems to help them confirm if they are awake or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T08:53:01.337" Title="Who decides how a totem behaves in a dream?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31111" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31115" CreationDate="2015-02-15T07:36:03.917" Score="5" ViewCount="1690" Body="&lt;p&gt;The American TV show was staged. It was almost like a game-show in which they drove to an isolated or abandoned town, and a &quot;criminal&quot; would be selected. The criminal could select to be in any type of car they wanted. There were be 3 or 4 cops in patrol units on the show, driving around the abandoned town. The cops would be alerted a description of the criminal car, and have to stop the vehicle before it left the perimeter of the town. If the criminal got past the perimeter, he won a prize. If the cops worked together and stopped the criminal before he reached the perimeter, they won a prize. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember one episode vividly in which a criminal selected to be in a large box truck, and had 2 or 3 marked units chasing him. While 3 patrol units were chasing the box truck, the back of the box truck opened up, and he drove out of it going the other direction in a convertible and made it past the perimeter. I would really like to watch this tv show again. Any ideas? I think I am leaning towards it being aired in the early 2000's. Thanks! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18938" LastEditorUserId="18938" LastEditDate="2015-02-15T20:44:24.413" LastActivityDate="2015-02-15T20:44:24.413" Title="Identify an American TV Show Car Chase - Aired in early 2000's" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:02:41.030" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31111" CreationDate="2015-02-15T10:15:02.830" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're looking for an American show, there's UPN's gameshow(?) &lt;em&gt;Getaway&lt;/em&gt; from the early 2000s. There isn't lot of info about this one either, but from a report:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From Paul Stojanovich, the executive producer of 'Worlds Wildest Police Videos', 'Getaway' aims to bring the dramatic car-chase scenes back to TV by taking four of the boys in blue and put them to the test, attempting to capture cars stunt and racing-car drivers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a clip from the show similar to the one you're describing, where one of the competitors drives a tow-truck and then fools the cops by driving away in the towed car (and it all looks fake as hell):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/2rFodfa-W4A?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-02-15T11:25:20.303" LastActivityDate="2015-02-15T11:25:20.303" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31109" CreationDate="2015-02-15T12:43:06.933" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idea of the totem is for &lt;em&gt;outside&lt;/em&gt; of the architect's construct so that the individual can tell whether they are still in the dream or not. The architect isn't supposed to know how the totem reacts or behaves. To keep the totem pristine, the individual keeps complete control of the totem. If the architect gets a hold of the totem, it is then compromised and would need to be replaced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://inception.wikia.com/wiki/Totem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inception Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Totem is an object that is used to test if oneself is in one's own reality (dream or non-dream) and not in another person's dream. A totem has a specially modified quality (such as a distinct weight, balance, or feel) in the real world, but in a dream of someone who does not know it well, the characteristics of the totem will very likely be off. Any ordinary object which has been in some way modified to affect its balance, weight, or feel will work as a totem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to protect its integrity, only the totem's owner should ever handle it. In that way, the owner is able to tell whether or not they are in someone else's dream. In the owner's own dream world, the totem will feel correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, Arthur tells Ariadne:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I can't let you touch it, that would defeat the purpose. See only I know the balance and the weight of this particular loaded die. That way, when you look at your totem, you know beyond a doubt that you're not in someone else's dream.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Ariadne's reply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;An elegant solution for keeping track of reality.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To better answer your question, the architect decides how it will behave in the dream, but it's really irrelevant to the purpose of the totem in the first place. It's how it works in the real world which matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-15T12:49:13.673" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31122" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31123" CreationDate="2015-02-15T16:08:47.563" Score="1" ViewCount="852" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a scene where Harry and Lloyd talk:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harry Dunne: How many days are in April?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lloyd Christmas: 30 days have September, all the rest I can't remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harry Dunne: Must be 31 because nothing rhymes with August.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lloyd Christmas: Nah, I think it's 32, Harry. April's a leap month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's Harry talking about when he said &amp;quot;Nothing rhymes with August&amp;quot;? And what's a leap month? And what is Harry mention August for ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T11:11:56.197" Title="A question about a scene in Dumb and Dumber To" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|dumb-and-dumber-to|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31122" CreationDate="2015-02-15T16:22:07.423" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; remember that they're both idiots. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harry is talking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_days_hath_September&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this rhyme&lt;/a&gt; that helps you remember how many days are in each month and completely misses its point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Lloyd is just confused about the concept of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;leap years&lt;/a&gt; and thinks April always has an extra day. (Of course, there technically &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; leap months - see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timeanddate.com/date/chinese-leap-year.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar#Leap_months&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; - but that's not what he means).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-02-15T16:28:39.337" LastActivityDate="2015-02-15T16:28:39.337" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8276" CreationDate="2015-02-15T20:29:03.580" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Toopy and Binoo are both male but are not subject to gender specific roles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18949" LastActivityDate="2015-02-15T20:29:03.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="900" CreationDate="2015-02-15T23:50:29.923" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Rose and Mary's Mother are one in the same and I think the entire movie is a halucination of Mary's. I have watched it twice and am still not understanding it.  What about John's parents in the diner when John introduced them to Mary....explain that one? And then when Mary goes back there on her own they tell her John is dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18952" LastActivityDate="2015-02-15T23:50:29.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10352" CreationDate="2015-02-16T00:49:18.143" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gods can only be killed by another god, or banished, otherwise Loki is also able to contort himself and control the elements as well, so the worm hole wouldn't have killed him but just made it difficult to come back – Odin and Thor are upset because they can only travel to realms using the rainbow bridge; Loki basically got lost in the heavens and the wormhole made it a one-way trip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18953" LastEditorUserId="94442" LastEditDate="2022-07-09T23:43:08.993" LastActivityDate="2022-07-09T23:43:08.993" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="31135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27100" CreationDate="2015-02-16T01:05:05.700" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While this won't win, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timecrimes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TimeCrimes&lt;/a&gt; is shorter than the actual movie. Even though it has a time travel component, it is about 30-45 minutes of the same events from multiple perspectives. The wiki link has spoilers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7018" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T01:05:05.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19056" CreationDate="2015-02-16T01:41:10.370" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The weapon used in the top picture above moving through the woods) is in fact an M1A which is the Springfield Armory civilian version of the military M14 (7.62 caliber). The M1A is semi-automatic. The M14 is capable of fully automatic firing, therefore it is considered a machine gun. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rifle in the second picture is a Ruger Mini 14 (.223 caliber) semi-automatic rifle. One does not have to look very closely to see the dramatic different between the two rifles. When the protagonist is given the rifle by his high school friend, he is told that the magazine holds 20 rounds. This is not correct. The magazine pictured in the movie is a 30 round magazine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18954" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-02-16T02:13:25.933" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T02:13:25.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31137" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31165" CreationDate="2015-02-16T01:43:10.937" Score="5" ViewCount="820" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching Drago pummel Apollo Creed in Rocky IV and it seemed like the ring was smaller than a regulation ring. Normally, pro rings are 18x18 or 20x20, but the ring in Rocky IV seemed a lot smaller than that. Am I imagining things or did they use a small ring for cinematic purposes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-02-16T07:03:41.963" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T03:04:38.643" Title="Is the ring smaller than normal in the Rocky movies?" Tags="|realism|rocky-iv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18834" CreationDate="2015-02-16T02:16:22.183" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;What Smaug says in the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Come now, don't be shy. Step into the light. Hmmm, there is something&#xA;  about you. Something you carry. Something made of gold, but far more&#xA;  preciousssss.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book Smaug says nothing of the kind. Instead, he tries to get information out of Bilbo and sow him with suspicions about the honesty and intentions of the dwarves (the dwarves said nothing about how he would get his &quot;14th share&quot; of the gold back to Bag End, for example).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie script is shorter, more dramatic and is meant to foreshadow the part the ring would play in the subsequent adventures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is a rationale for how Smaug detected the ring, it would be that as an ancient and evil creature he could sense its power. In the movie a parallel is drawn between the eye of Sauron and the eye of Smaug, the two images being juxtaposed. In fact, it is the gaze of Smaug's eye that pressures Bilbo and leads him to take off the ring, with the result that Smaug can see him. Presumably Fran Walsh, the screen writer, had the idea that, like the minions of Sauron, Smaug would sense the ring and be &quot;drawn to it&quot;, almost like a ring wraith, or at least be aware of its nature at some level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Smaug's knowledge of Sauron, this is not mentioned in the book, but of course a dragon would know such things. Smaug's abode in the Iron Hills adjoins Mirkwood and he would know of Mirkwood's descent into darkness, and the source of the evil power residing in Dol Guldur in the south of Mirkwood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastEditorUserId="11216" LastEditDate="2016-12-01T04:23:36.853" LastActivityDate="2016-12-01T04:23:36.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31142" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31143" CreationDate="2015-02-16T06:22:01.660" Score="10" ViewCount="36947" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Nightcrawler (2014), is the character of Jake Gyllenhaal psychopathic or a sociopathic. How do you identify?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18959" LastEditorUserId="18959" LastEditDate="2015-02-17T04:48:34.883" LastActivityDate="2017-03-21T07:53:13.833" Title="Was Jake Gyllenhaal's character in Nightcrawler a sociopath or psychopath?" Tags="|character|nightcrawler|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31142" CreationDate="2015-02-16T07:39:41.203" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;People can have different views or opinions on Jake Gyllenhaal's character in Nightcrawler as Lou Bloom. The term I could come up with, falls somewhere between a Realist and a Sociopath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Realist&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken from his very own words he said in the movie, that he set his goals high and doesn't wait for the chances to happen rather he makes them with facts studying from the internet. And also he would not ask anything from his crew that he wouldn't do himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Sociopath&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He doesn't care about people's lives or feelings. Everything about him is self-absorbed. He doesn't care to take the lives of his partner Rick or his competitor. He also doesn't care for his friend Nina's feelings while negotiating the price of a video and again when he demands her to do uncomfortable things while they're alone in her apartment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also check this &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightcrawler_%28film%29#Reception&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reception&lt;/a&gt; section in Wiki page to know more about Critics opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reviewers call Gyllenhaal's character a &quot;charming sociopath&quot; and his&#xA;  performance &quot;a bravura, career-changing tour-de-force.&quot;Christy Lemire&#xA;  of the Chicago Sun-Times called Gyllenhaal's performance &quot;supremely&#xA;  creepy&quot; and praised the film's themes and messages. Christopher Orr of&#xA;  The Atlantic compared Gyllenhaal to a young Robert De Niro and his&#xA;  performances in the films Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy, feeling&#xA;  Gyllenhaal's character harbored traits shared by De Niro's characters&#xA;  in the two films. Orr called Gyllenhaal &quot;tremendous&quot; in the role and&#xA;  stated that the actor is learning to &quot;channel an eerie, inner&#xA;  charisma, offering it up in glimpses and glimmers rather than all at&#xA;  once.&quot; He also declared the role as Gyllenhaal's &quot;best performance to&#xA;  date.&quot; Ben Sachs of the Chicago Reader said, &quot;For a first-time&#xA;  director, Gilroy demonstrates an uncommon assurance, not only in his&#xA;  audacious tonal shifts but in the stellar work he elicits from his&#xA;  cast and crew.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-07-21T10:12:08.953" LastActivityDate="2015-07-21T10:12:08.953" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-16T10:23:38.980" Score="0" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last scene at the diner in Men in Black 3 Agent K is humming a tune that is playing.&#xA;Agent J is confused how he knows the song. What changed? What makes Agent K happier now than he used to be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18959" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-16T13:34:23.190" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T13:34:23.190" Title="What changes Agent K to be happier?" Tags="|men-in-black-3|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2015-02-16T16:47:05.387" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31145" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-16T10:33:45.907" Score="8" ViewCount="1733" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Gone Girl&lt;/em&gt;, Amy has killed a man. She has his blood all over him. The cameras in the house would prove that Neil’s character was innocent. Even the smallest of investigations would prove her guilty or at least cast suspicion on her. What made the FBI trust her when even the detective doesn't trust her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18959" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-02-16T22:16:46.217" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T22:16:46.217" Title="How does Amy escape capture?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gone-girl|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31147" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31149" CreationDate="2015-02-16T10:39:11.117" Score="64" ViewCount="9393" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Game Of Thrones Jaime's character is shown to be bad and ruthless in the beginning. He pushes a little kid off a window. Later he's shown to have honor and sympathy and looks after Sansa, tries to get her to safety. What causes his change? He's also been through his own set of difficulties. What causes him to take seriously to keeping his word to Catelyn Stark? After all he didn't care much when he tried to kill her younger son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18959" LastEditorUserId="18973" LastEditDate="2015-02-16T20:56:16.713" LastActivityDate="2019-05-10T04:47:59.750" Title="Jaime's character change in Game of Thrones" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31147" CreationDate="2015-02-16T10:59:21.967" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;A Lannister always pays his debts. &#xA;He can be cruel of course, but if he gives his word and owes someone, he keeps it. &#xA;Pushing the kid was about protecting himself and his sister. Of course he could have done this another way, but he was more practical that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some changes in his character of course (I read all the books), but the prominent reason for looking after Sansa is because he has a sense of honor. He would be no good at all if he wouldn't even keep his word and pay his debt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18840" LastEditorUserId="18840" LastEditDate="2015-02-16T14:21:44.883" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T14:21:44.883" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31147" CreationDate="2015-02-16T11:46:20.323" Score="107" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a number of things that change him, but the defining moments are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meeting Brienne&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Losing his hand&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Opening up to someone (Brienne) about why he killed the Mad King&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These completely and totally change his character and make him determined to redeem his honour (which he himself defines) in any way that he can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few things contributing to Jaime's colossal character change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Being away - Season 1 and start of Season 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is captured by Robb's army and remains a very well guarded (barring one half-escape) for over a year. During this time he's away from his sister, son and the rest of his family. Simply being away distances him from the toxic atmosphere of the Lannisters. Now, this is by far the least significant of the events that lead to his character change, but I do think its worth noting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lady Catelyn, starting to know Brienne and honour - Season 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he was set free, a few things happened. Firstly, he was trusted by Lady Catelyn to return to King's Landing and free her daughters. Whilst initially it seems likely he has no intention of keeping his word, the actions of Brienne will later lead to him becoming far more concerned with keeping this promise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, Brienne was tasked to be delivered and stuck absolutely steadfast to her task. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Valar_Morghulis&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Valar Morghulis&lt;/a&gt;, the Season 2 finale, she even killed Stark men, all in the name of doing the task she was set - to deliver her prisoner in her service to Lady Catelyn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has a definite effect on Jaime - here is a woman who follows her code of honour. She is not on &lt;em&gt;one side or another&lt;/em&gt;. Jaime appears to start thinking like this himself come Season 4 (and Season 5 and beyond).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brienne's peril and the Loss of his hand - Season 3 beginning&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His life is built upon his strength as a knight. Despite the subtle changes already over him in Season 2, he still tries to fight Brienne in Season 3 and break free (although whether he would have killed her if he had bested her is definitely debatable). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, due to starvation and exhaustion (as the book is &lt;em&gt;clear&lt;/em&gt; to point out), he is defeated. Fascinatingly, later that day, he shows one of his first genuine acts of kindness in the series - he tells Brienne she will be raped that night, and that she should not resist, or they will kill her as she is nothing to them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst this may seem cold or hurtful, it's also truthful. He realised what could befall her and didn't want it to happen. He even goes as far as to lie about how her homeland, &lt;em&gt;The Sapphire Isle&lt;/em&gt;, got its name (saying it's because of all the sapphires). This leaves the men to leave her alone in the hope of getting a ransom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Already, it's clear that something about Brienne has gripped him. Perhaps she reminds him of a young Jaime? Despite this, he has certainly not &lt;em&gt;changed&lt;/em&gt; yet. Instead, at this point, he simply appears to have some sort of grudging respect for her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything changes when he loses his hand. This was his greatest asset. He was a colossal fighter, the youngest ever Kingsguard member - and losing his hand stripped him of everything he had spent his life fighting for in a single swoop. He begins moping, and is furiously berated by Brienne for acting &lt;em&gt;like a woman&lt;/em&gt;. Despite her fierce criticism, he actually follows her advice. She helps him beginning eating and drinking again. Once more, her strength and commitment to honour appears to sway him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Truth&lt;/em&gt; about the Mad King and Jaime - Season 3 - defining moment of change&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bath scene at Harrenhal, in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Kissed_by_Fire&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kissed by Fire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is his defining moment of &lt;em&gt;change&lt;/em&gt;. After slipping into a bath with Brienne, and initially insulting her, he completely opens up and tells her (and the audience, for the first time), the true story of the Mad King...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of Jaime's biggest frustrations is the lack of respect he is given. He served under the Mad King, in the Kingsguard - the youngest ever member of the order. However, he learned (and we learn in A Storm of Swords) that he was chosen as a slight against Lord Tywin, so he wouldn't be the heir to Casterly Rock. Despite this, he remained in the Kingsguard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We learn from the books in particular how difficult it was for him during this time. For example, when Brandon and Lord Rickard Stark (father of Ned) were murdered, he had to be reminded by Ser Gerold Hightower that he swore an oath to guard the king, &lt;em&gt;not to judge him&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, when Rhaegar and Robert go to war, and it becomes clear The Targarayens will lose, The Mad King orders the city be set ablaze. He also orders Jaime to bring him his father Lord Tywin's head. This is the last straw for Jaime, who turns his back on his King and slaughters him. He could not stand by and watch the entire city be destroyed, and so many people to perish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His reward? The title Kingslayer and an almost universal disdain for turning his back on the person he swore to protect. He broke his honour, and should have died protecting him, according to his oaths. This disdain and lack of respect led to resentment which continued to bubble inside him, making him crueller and more callous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this is the true &lt;em&gt;final moment of change&lt;/em&gt; for Jaime. It's not that he becomes a good person. It's not that all his sins are forgiven. It's just that &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; inside changes and from that point on becomes linked to Brienne and determined to keep a sense of honour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he collapses at the end of his story, she cries out for help for the Kingslayer - and he corrects her. His name is Jaime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rescuing Brienne - Season 3 ending&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After leaving Harrenhal for the capital, Jaime realises what is going to happen to Brienne, who has been left behind. He demands his group returns and rescues her from a bear, in a hideous gladatorial battle she's been forced into. Together, they depart for King's Landing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the first time, &lt;em&gt;he has been able to save her&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And he's actually done something honourable, which she appreciates - it's the first genuine appreciation he has had in a long time, and continues to change how he views both Brienne and the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New sense of honour and distancing from Lannisters - Season 4 beginning&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This continues in Season 4, when he returns to the capital, but refuses his father's orders to leave King's Landing. He chooses to stay in the Kingsguard, to protect the King. Of course, with his stump hand he's of little use - it's his name and the legend of his fighting which affords him his respect. But, inspired by Brienne, he is determined to stay and redeem any honour he can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one of the more memorable scenes in Season 4, he has sex/rapes Cersei, next to Joffrey's body. This is unquestionably one of the most tortured and complex scenes of the series. At that moment, he both loves her and hates her. It's a connection to the long past he has, and yet a reminder of how far away from her he now is. He even tells her:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You're a hateful woman, why have the gods condemned me to love a&#xA;  hateful woman?!?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This moment forever changes their relationship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When next they meet, he is trying to convince her of Tyrion's innocence and is kicked out of her room. The dynamic between them (as of yet) has never recovered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The action is brutal and horrendous. It shows his change, but also shows how cruel and cold he can still be. It's another reminder that the world of Game of Thrones is not simply good versus bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brienne's departure and a commitment to the future - Season 4 mid to end&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the start of Season 4, Jaime refuses to release Sansa to Brienne - but only because by this stage Lady Catelyn and Robb are dead and he genuinely believes she will be safer in the capital. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Joffrey dies though, Tyrion is arrest and Sansa is missing, he knows she is a prime suspect and is in grave danger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jaime sends Brienne, with new weapons and armour, on a mission to find Sansa and protect her - especially from his sister. This poignant scene reminds us of both how much he now respects and trusts her Brienne, and contrasts starkly with how much he &lt;em&gt;distrusts&lt;/em&gt; his own sister, whom he pined over for so long whilst being captive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His final act of &lt;em&gt;honour&lt;/em&gt; in Season 4 is to rescue Tyrion from a fate he knows he doesn't deserve, setting in action a complex range of events that you'll see in Season 5 (and that will be continued beyond).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is a wonderfully complex and bizarre character, with varying and often confusing attitudes towards both violence and other people. To quote from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Jaime_Lannister&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;GoT Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jaime's attitude towards violence is also complex: he threw Bran Stark&#xA;  out a tower window to kill him, but later saved Brienne from being&#xA;  raped (and then fed to a bear) by Locke's soldiers. The difference&#xA;  seems to be that after witnessing the deprivations [sic] of the Mad King,&#xA;  needless violence and brutality deeply offend Jaime, though if he&#xA;  decides that violence and murder are absolutely necessary he will&#xA;  ruthlessly carry it out himself. He threw Bran out of a window because&#xA;  had the boy reported that he saw the incest between Jaime and his&#xA;  sister, Cersie, the woman he loved, and all of their children would be&#xA;  executed, so he felt he had no choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is nothing simplistic about his character, but the one clear thing is his hatred of the lack of respect he is given for killing the Mad King. If Ned or Robert had done it, they would be heroes. Because he did it, breaking his oath, he is treated with contempt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he meets Brienne though, loses his hand and finally confides in someone what he did &lt;em&gt;and why&lt;/em&gt;, he changes. The look in Brienne's eyes during his speech tells a story too - suddenly his actions have a very different meeting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the defining moment after which he completely changes. He is still ruthless, but rather than following his family's code of honour, he appears to follow his own - largely inspired by his adventure with Brienne.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="73900" LastEditDate="2019-05-10T04:47:59.750" LastActivityDate="2019-05-10T04:47:59.750" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="31150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31145" CreationDate="2015-02-16T11:57:22.953" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What the film maker's want us to believe:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She was clever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You say the cameras in (&lt;em&gt;correction: outside&lt;/em&gt;) the house prove Neil's innocence. How? They show a man turning up to a woman who is in permanent confinement in a house, bringing her clothes and food, but never leaving with her.. His actions certainly don't look &lt;em&gt;entirely&lt;/em&gt; innocent - it suggests she is a prisoner inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Couple that with her staged escape attempts, where she pretended she was a prisoner/tied up for the cameras, and suddenly he looks like a dangerous suspect who has imprisoned this poor woman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She plays heavily on this and, in his death scene, acts as if she has been raped and has had to kill him to finally escape her captor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, you could argue that for a long time she &lt;em&gt;wasn't&lt;/em&gt; in the house (when she was missing), but this is largely irrelevant - he could have been keeping her anywhere during this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A perfectly plausible diverging opinion:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's certainly arguable as a plot hole. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She arrived at the house willingly and there would be footage of him every day leaving the house for work and her doing... nothing. Not escaping, not running, not fighting. Other than her one apparent &lt;em&gt;staged&lt;/em&gt; attempt, she's never near the doors - and likely there would be &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; footage &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt; showing her just inside the threshold of the property, totally calm and nonplussed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://nypost.com/2014/10/06/5-questions-gone-girl-left-unanswered/&quot;&gt;NY Post&lt;/a&gt; certainly felt this was a plot hole. Another arguable issue was that if he was shown to be in the house during her supposed abduction, he would have a solid alibi. Alas - none of this appeared to matter to the film-makers and it is never covered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2015-02-16T17:08:23.343" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T17:08:23.343" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12432" CreationDate="2015-02-16T14:28:31.273" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dexter also catches Quinn stealing money from a crime scene. That puts him on the back foot already. Dexter goes ahead and does Quinn one when he fudges the blood one Quinn's shoe. If Dexter had not done this, Quinn would be history!&#xA;Besides he's dating Debra and thinks that dexter is a decent guy after all. so it would simply make sense to stop bothering dexter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18959" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T14:28:31.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31145" CreationDate="2015-02-16T16:43:17.033" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The cameras are all outside the house.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason she performs the bits of theater that she does (spilling the wine, pretending to tie herself up), is so that she will appear on the external camera as someone who is being held against their will.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no footage of the actual murder taking place, but there was evidence that she had sex with her &quot;captor&quot; (which is why she waited for him to finish before killing him), so all video footage will backup her claim of kidnapping and rape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only possible exception is her initial arrival, when she was in disguise, and not yet pretending to be held captive, but she could easily say that she was terrified for her life at that point, and trying not to provoke him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16207" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T16:43:17.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30341" CreationDate="2015-02-16T18:14:17.330" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Found it in season 11, episode 1:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Walden:&lt;/em&gt; I hired you to be my assistant to help you out financially because you had to close your chiropractical...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Alan:&lt;/em&gt; I did not have to close it, I'm in a rent dispute.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Walden:&lt;/em&gt; People in rent disputes don't fake their own deaths!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7990" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T18:14:17.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31145" CreationDate="2015-02-16T18:58:51.250" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is another possible explanation, though I also think this was a big plot hole. Home security video surveillance systems don't keep recordings forever. At some point, the videotape (on older systems) or hard drive (on modern ones) gets full of video and older footage needs to be overwritten by newer footage. It's conceivable that Amy's arrival at the house was captured on video that was later overwritten by newer video, and that the only relevant footage that the FBI found was her later staged performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it's obvious from the movie that NPH spared no expense when it came to his house and I really doubt that his video surveillance system didn't have enough capacity to record for months on end without recycling. So though this explanation occurred to me, in the context of the movie I don't buy it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also seem to recall Amy saying during questioning at the end of the movie that she had been abducted by NPH much earlier than she actually arrived there, like from the beginning of her disappearance. The surveillance video from the time before she actually showed up at NPH's house would presumably have proven that wrong, showing NPH going about his life as normal when he was supposedly abducting Amy and keeping her prisoner. That was ignored too (if I remember the ending correctly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18269" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T18:58:51.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31147" CreationDate="2015-02-16T19:47:04.300" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll offer up a short answer alternative:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He didn't change. He was always this way. He just emphasized different persona traits at different times. He's always been loyal to family, and has also always possessed a sense of honor. What did change over time was how heavy a shadow is father cast upon him. Obviously, his time away from said father has allowed him to reveal his more nobler traits.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would argue this is true for both Lannister brothers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, they're growing up. As nobility, they were somewhat coddled well into their early adulthood. They're not coddled anymore. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-02-16T19:47:04.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31161" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-16T23:54:01.560" Score="4" ViewCount="222" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode 619 of Shark Tank, two guys presented the Napwell sleeping mask, an eye pillow alarm clock designed to wake you up gently by simulating a sunrise to your eyes.  The guys had impressive qualifications, with advanced degrees from top schools in medicine, biophysics, computer science, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mark Cuban responded with a rant.  Mr. Cuban seemed to be saying that the product being presented was too simple for such highly qualified guys, that it must be some sort of Trojan horse for something else.  The guys looked perplexed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not the first time he has made similar insinuations on the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When was the previous time he went on a similar rant?  I can't remember the specifics.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What does he mean?  He seems to be saying that the product being presented is not the real deal, and that the entrepreneurs have something more sophisticated up their sleeves.  Why?  How would such a scheme benefit the entrepreneur?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18980" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2015-02-17T03:23:18.410" LastActivityDate="2015-02-17T07:27:57.083" Title="Shark Tank: Not the first time Mark Cuban went on this rant. What does he mean?" Tags="|shark-tank|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31162" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31254" CreationDate="2015-02-17T01:00:18.153" Score="18" ViewCount="102189" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember in the first test, where the dorm room's flooded, they all go to the toilet and put the hose in it to breathe. They explained too quickly, could someone explain how it works?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18982" LastEditorUserId="6552" LastEditDate="2015-03-07T10:05:10.130" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T17:04:11.800" Title="Why do they go to the toilet and put the hose in it to breathe?" Tags="|plot-explanation|kingsman-the-secret-service|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31164" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47490" CreationDate="2015-02-17T01:46:17.800" Score="8" ViewCount="8144" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one of the flashbacks in &lt;em&gt;The Imitation Game&lt;/em&gt; that show Alan's childhood, Christopher gave him a book about encryption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the name of that book?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18984" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-04T12:29:14.570" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T06:15:53.173" Title="Which book about encryption did Christopher give Alan when he was a child?" Tags="|the-imitation-game|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31137" CreationDate="2015-02-17T02:02:58.757" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Boxing rings vary from 16 to 24 feet per side, depending on the fight level and what the promoter of the fight wants.  Amateur fights take place in rings 16 to 20 feet per side, and professional fights take place in rings 18 to 24 feet per side.  Given that it's an exhibition, it could be fought in any ring between 16 and 24 feet per side.  I can not find any specific information on the Rocky IV movie, but you have to figure that both Creed and Drago stand taller than 6 feet.  Put them in a smaller ring, say 16x16, and that ring is going to look tiny.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing as the promoter of the fight between Creed and Drago was Rocky, who was also Creed's trainer, it would seem odd that he would choose a smaller ring which gives an advantage to the taller Drago and his extremely dangerous 1,800 PSI punch.  So, that part of the movie would probably be counter to a realistic match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Drago&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article on Ivan Drago&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://boxing.isport.com/boxing-guides/boxing-dimensions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Article on boxing ring dimensions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T03:04:38.643" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T03:04:38.643" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31170" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-17T05:21:38.070" Score="7" ViewCount="2345" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched this move about 5 years ago and I can only remember certain details about the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think a bunch of teenage kids sneak into an old abandoned psych ward or maybe hospital. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a scene where a fox is peeing on a wall outside and the fox and clock above freezes to indicate that time is frozen when they enter the building. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A couple of security guards get shot. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a scene where a girl climbs into a tub and it fills with blood.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are creatures with long bird-like masks on. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Almost everyone dies. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it was made after 2000. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18992" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-02-17T08:01:57.823" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T05:08:46.913" Title="Horror movie that takes place in a hospital, includes time manipulation" Tags="|horror|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:34:46.803" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31171" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31202" CreationDate="2015-02-17T05:48:52.270" Score="3" ViewCount="615" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Expendables 2... the scene where Chuck Norris enters. There are villains everywhere. They all suddenly get machine gunned down and a rocket takes out a tank. Since no character really cares to ask how the bullets and rockets came from everywhere, is this a part of the Chuck Norris joke as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18959" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-17T09:53:40.227" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T03:08:05.560" Title="Chuck Norris entry in Expendables 2" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-expendables-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31161" CreationDate="2015-02-17T06:31:46.090" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're on the money with point 2, he's saying he thinks they have something better up their sleeves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By getting the investment in the first product, they'll be able to develop product 2 on the quiet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course when 2 is ready, the shark won't have any stake in it, only the (now fading) product 1, as they invest in a specific thing, not usually the people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastActivityDate="2015-02-17T06:31:46.090" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23031" CreationDate="2015-02-17T07:19:59.513" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kili's  wound was used to promote the relationship between him and Tauriel. As pointed out before it doesn't occur in the book. The people of Esgaroth, basically having been robbed blind by the &quot;master&quot;, are naturally mistrustful of just about anyone. I would say they went to Bard, because he had aided them before and felt they could trust him. Plus they really had no place else to turn. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18994" LastActivityDate="2015-02-17T07:19:59.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31161" CreationDate="2015-02-17T07:27:57.083" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is two things that Cuban hates more than anything from potential co-owners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People that act like they are in the technology field yet have no innovation or anything new.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People that support quasi-science with false claims or little/manipulated data.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was geared to the second point I make.  The company came on the show claiming &quot;proven benefits&quot; of their wake up product but in actuality had nothing to show for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18901" LastActivityDate="2015-02-17T07:27:57.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31176" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-17T07:31:33.080" Score="10" ViewCount="581" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched Kiss the Girls last night and thought it was funny in the final scene that it all happened because the bad guy pulled the phone line.  If you watch any Lifetime movies this might happen every other movie.  I have surely seen it 30-40 times in a movie or TV show.  Now that cell phones are mainstream is this still getting any play?  Is the new cut the phone cord, not getting cell phone reception?  Did our bad guys lose a major tactical edge in movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18901" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T09:16:05.153" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T15:41:25.553" Title="What is today's version of the 'cutting the phone line' trope?" Tags="|production|trope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31170" CreationDate="2015-02-17T08:07:19.960" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451197/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Sick House&lt;/a&gt; from 2008 which takes place in an abandoned hospital:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In London, the archeologist Anna Ash is informed by her Professor Joan Holland that the excavation site at the Sixteenth Century Ludgate Orphanage, where she is researching the Cult of the Black Priest during the Great Plague, will be demolished on the next morning to contain the contamination since it has been found the Y.pestis in the digging. The stubborn Anna breaks in the building at midnight expecting to find any substantial evidence that could stop the demolition. Meanwhile, four drugged punks hit and run with a stolen car and they hide inside the building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think they're stuck in some sort of loop where ghosts make them relive history, a fact they realize &lt;strong&gt;after seeing the same fox peeing under a clock.&lt;/strong&gt; Here's the trailer (&lt;strong&gt;WARNING: Graphic&lt;/strong&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/6O58b1sUCeY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-02-17T08:07:19.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31188" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31195" CreationDate="2015-02-17T10:25:39.373" Score="6" ViewCount="534" Body="&lt;p&gt;I used to watch this show when I was a kid back in 1984.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show is in color. No dialogue, only music and sound effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The characters are: a boy, his grandfather, and a bird (possibly a crow, but I think I remember its color: green.. not sure). And both the boy and his grandfather live in a house with no other member of the family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vaguely remember one episode in which a faucet became a character and it was determined to annoy the other characters and that they were trying to stop it from leaking..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show is very old, it could have been made in the 60s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if the next bit of information is relevant, but it was aired on Saudi Arabian Channel 1 or 2 and never again aired after that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-21T22:45:32.257" LastActivityDate="2015-03-21T22:45:32.257" Title="Russian/East-European/Soviet Cartoon show with 3 main characters" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|animation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:02:44.227" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31191" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31194" CreationDate="2015-02-17T11:00:15.433" Score="1" ViewCount="2078" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why would Will Smith's character &lt;em&gt;Hitch&lt;/em&gt; be seeking forgiveness at the end of the movie when in-fact, Eva Mendes is the one who should apologize to him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This bugged me for a very long time, because it does not make any common sense, unless there is a deleted scene, or something above my level of understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point in the movie, Eva Mendes finds out that one of her friends was raped by someone who used the services of Will Smith. She then suspects that he is some sort of a pimp, and tries to set him up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When she confronts him about it, we clearly see that he is hurt and was mistakenly, and wrongfully accused. He storms out of the scene angry. But then comes back to Eva Mendes while she is packing her stuff, and tries to convince her to stay with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see no evidence of regret by Eva Mendes for her wrong assumption, and even worse, while he is &quot;apologizing&quot; and trying to make her stay, she makes him (and us) think that the other man with her is her new boyfriend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has no one else asked the same question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2015-02-17T23:57:20.913" LastActivityDate="2019-09-22T03:02:28.423" Title="Is there a plot hole or deleted scene in the film?" Tags="|plot-explanation|hitch|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2938" CreationDate="2015-02-17T12:23:54.507" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love the question.&#xA;Here's a summary from a very tight explanation (with some drawings):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/inception-2010-movie-plot-ending-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inception and Kicks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were two types of dreams. The simple construct with a mild sedative and the more complex construct with a strong sedative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the simple construct, one kick is enough. Kick can be either to the self (eg: Arthur shot in the head) &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; a kick from above (eg: Cobb dunked in bath tub). The sedative is light so there is no synchronization required. In real life this can be equated to sleeping and dreaming about falling, the fall in the dream wakes us up. Alternately someone wakes you up by pushing you off the bed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a strong sedative, complex construct dream - a single kick is not going to be enough. A person needs two synchronized at the same instant. One kick to the self and one from the level above. The synchronization is done using music. In the real world, this can be equated to being under total anesthesia. Neither would a bad dream fall wake you up nor would pushing you off the operating table. The reel part here is that if some how pushing you off the table can be coincided with the fall in your dream, you can wake up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, in the act of inception on Fischer's mind, they are in a complex heavily sedated dream. The only viable kick here is falling because death will take you to limbo. As mentioned in another answer, waiting it out is not going to work because weeks and months would need to pass in the lower layers. Waiting it out is a possible option only in the first layer because there is limited time dilation. Also a single kick from a level above or jumping off a cliff in the current level wont work as a kick. The dreamer is far too sedated for that. A person needs to fall in the current level and the level above simultaneously so so they plan. The following kicks (falls) are planned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Level 1 : Van Falling&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Level 2 : Falling by one floor (blowing up the floor)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Level 3 (inception level) : Falling from the building (blowing up the structure)&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, things don't go as plan. Hence they improvise on the kicks.&#xA;Here is the set of synchronized kicks that each one receives per level of dream.&#xA;Point to note, no two people receive the same two kick pairs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the image from the link:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/313VE.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/313VE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Kick Pairs&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;(source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/wp-content/uploads/Inception/KickSequence.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;thisisbarry.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, other than dying in limbo, everything else needs a pair of synchronized kicks. For more details, read the link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2022-05-24T06:49:56.757" LastActivityDate="2022-05-24T06:49:56.757" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="31194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31191" CreationDate="2015-02-17T13:16:04.043" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shouldn't Eva Mendes is the one apologizing to him?&lt;/strong&gt; (My personal interpretation)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Absolutely yes, In rational thinking, a person who made a mistake should be the one apologizing other person, but in the matters of relations, it can be tricky. Sometimes, you may have to apologize to your loved one even though it's her mistake because you're too afraid that you're gonna lose her forever. Will's character Hitch must be thinking in the same way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting the relations BS aside, you mentioned when Eva was known that Will is not a bad person and was wrongly accused by her, she did not go to him and apologized. I can state few reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;She's too guilty to confront him and apologize because by the time she realized, she has already damaged his reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Waiting for the right moment to apologize to him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per the last scene, you've wrongly interpreted (my assumption, no offense). Hitch is a comedy movie and the last scene they've made is supposed to be funny. Assume that, if Will straight away goes to her and apologizes to her and obviously she takes him back then kisses and so on. If that's the scene then there's no fun and surprise in that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe no scenes were deleted and the writers deliberately made that scene that way for a bit of suspense and fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T03:09:05.450" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T03:09:05.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31188" CreationDate="2015-02-17T14:09:58.520" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're probably after &lt;strong&gt;Pomysłowy Dobromir&lt;/strong&gt; from the 70s, a dialogue-free Polish cartoon about a boy who lives with his grandfather and a pet bird and always comes up with inventions. I think the episode you're describing is this one, only it's a hand pump, not a faucet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/gRNvVWsFxok?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-02-17T14:09:58.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31109" CreationDate="2015-02-17T14:47:02.533" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are confusing the purpose of the totem. The purpose of the totem is to realise if he is in &lt;strong&gt;somebody else's dream&lt;/strong&gt;. It is NOT for the person to realise whether he is dreaming or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is on the person to keep track of whether he is dreaming or not. That is why nobody else is shown in the movie using their totem to check whether they are dreaming or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only Cobb is shown using his totem to decide whether he is dreaming or not and that too in a way that everybody knows how his totem works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are quite a many theories stating that the top is not his totem, his wedding ring is his actual totem; but I don't want to start a debate on this topic now ;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, why Cobb keeps on using his totem is probably because he has been in a limbo, so he cannot track whether he is dreaming or not on his own i.e. he seems ambivalent of what is real and what is not. This is the entire purpose of the ending scene wherein he does not look whether the top is spinning or not. He does not care anymore whether he is in a dream or not, he just wants to live with his kids...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The top is not his totem, the wedding ring is. He uses the top to either fool others so that they don't know what his real totem is, or he spins the top just to remind himself of his wife. Maybe he is just delusional, we can never know for sure as Nolan made the movie ambiguous and even admitted this publicly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the only time the top is shown spinning is when it still Mal's totem and they are in fact in a dream. The ever spinning top is indeed Mal's totem and not Cobb's. He never tells what he used as his totem when Mal was using the top as hers. Thus the prospects of the wedding ring being his real totem are much higher than the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4381" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T03:03:16.187" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T03:03:16.187" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30481" CreationDate="2015-02-17T15:09:31.727" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it means the number of kills. Since Mark had approximately that many and Kyle's coffin was covered I'm assuming a hundred sixty-eight badges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19006" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-02-23T06:13:48.157" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T06:13:48.157" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31176" CreationDate="2015-02-17T15:10:55.167" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The old &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CutPhoneLines&quot;&gt;Cut Phone Lines&lt;/a&gt; trope has been replaced with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CellPhonesAreUseless&quot;&gt;Cell Phones Are Useless&lt;/a&gt; trope.  It really requires no more thought than any Cut Phone Lines, you just have to have cut the power (to avoid being able to recharge) and have the cell phone battery die.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't difficult to imagine; I still have an iPhone4 and that battery barely lasts 10 hours with no usage, and at most 3 hours if I'm texting/Facebooking.  If I'm in a house babysitting and I forget to recharge, I'm basically serial killer bait by 10PM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T03:08:43.797" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T03:08:43.797" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31171" CreationDate="2015-02-17T15:24:25.500" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bullets and rockets didn't come from &quot;everywhere&quot;.  If you watch the clip, Booker (aka Norris) is walking out from a cloud of smoke.  if you recall, there was a building just behind that smoke.  You can tell because the car he walks out from behind can be seen at 1:20 in the clip below.  So, it's very possible (probable) that he was on the roof of the building.  From that vantage point, he could have easily seen and hit every soldier and the tank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z1O-1K1N_Ik?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T03:08:05.560" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T03:08:05.560" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31162" CreationDate="2015-02-17T16:12:00.803" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;When they all crash through to the other room, one of the Kingsmen (can't remember who) tells the recruits that if they can get a pipe through the &quot;U-bend&quot; in a toilet, they have an unlimited supply of air.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What they're referring to is is a special type of piping &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_(plumbing)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;trap&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, often referred to as a &quot;P-trap&quot;. The purpose is to leave a bit of water in the pipe that leads to the sewage line to provide a seal, in order to prevent the smell and potentially deadly/explosive fumes from creeping up through the toilet and into the room/building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea if if they could snake a flexible pipe through the trap and up the other side, they have an air supply that will allow them to breathe for pretty much however long they need. However, given the bend is designed to prevent foul or even deadly fumes from entering the room, the safety or effectiveness of this method is highly dubious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-02-17T16:12:00.803" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4593" CreationDate="2015-02-17T16:20:44.960" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to the answers, another key bit is that Cobb enters Limbo &lt;strong&gt;twice&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br&gt;&#xA;reff: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/inception-2010-movie-plot-ending-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inception Explained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;First&lt;/em&gt; time with Ariadne, when they go down using the machine to get Fischer. Here they both are aware of where they are and what they are here to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on when everyone rides up using the kicks, they use oxygen masks and exit the drowning van. Here they leave Cobb to drown, this leads to Cobb's death (if Mal's stabbing doesn't). I would go with the drowning in the van for Cobb's death as that would explain the many years of time lapse between him and Saito.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once Cobb dies, he reaches Limbo for the &lt;em&gt;second&lt;/em&gt; time (the opening scene).&#xA;This time around he's died and reached Limbo, hence he has no clear idea as to where he is and how he got there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is why he appears lost and tired. Once he and Saito meet, they both remember together where they are and what they need to do, that they need to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a layer diagram for this:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5TEWh.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5TEWh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;(source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/wp-content/uploads/Inception/InceptionDreamSequence.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;thisisbarry.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2020-12-26T03:43:26.440" LastActivityDate="2020-12-26T03:43:26.440" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="31210" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31213" CreationDate="2015-02-17T20:43:47.947" Score="10" ViewCount="6289" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early in episode 4 of season 1 of the TV series Fargo we see a flashback scene explaining some of a character's history. The car of character Stavros Milos breaks down in a snow swept remote road. He prays that his family will survive and not freeze to death and then discovers a briefcase stuffed with money. The implication is that this is how his penniless, debt-ridden character ends up later as the owner of a major supermarket chain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the big question for me was: &lt;em&gt;is this supposed to link the TV series to the Movie?&lt;/em&gt; After all a character who is later killed hides a large sum of money in a remote snowy road just like the one seen in the TV series. Does that make the TV series a sequel and not just a homage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-04-18T08:42:00.540" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T08:42:00.540" Title="Is the money meant to link Fargo the TV series and Fargo the movie?" Tags="|analysis|fargo-tv|fargo|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30641" CreationDate="2015-02-17T21:05:37.580" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most &quot;Scene&quot; groups do it for one reason; they have a Robin Hood complex.  They don't ask for any money, they don't want any money, they want recognition.  Those who reverse-engineer games/software do it mainly for the challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a small set of groups in the scene who do it for money.  As for who buys what they sell; on many street corners in NYC you can find pirated games, software, CDs and DVDs.  They're more common than you think.  There are also people who huck on ebay and craigslist. There are the people who will brashly walk into bars and sell to patrons (I've seen that in my hometown of Stamford, CT the last time I visited).  Any of these people can be part of the scene, or hired by people connected.  This segment is very small, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I was in F0SI, a few people sold limited amounts of copies, just enough to keep our server running and a small &quot;kittie&quot; for buying new releases.  This way, we didn't go broke trying to get the goods out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-02-17T21:05:37.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31210" CreationDate="2015-02-17T21:20:30.303" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Officially the show is 'heavily inspired by' the film. But there are many connections between the two story lines, the briefcase included. Here's a more exhaustive list of connections (spoilers): &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2014/06/17/fargo-film-series-references-season-finale&quot;&gt;http://www.ew.com/article/2014/06/17/fargo-film-series-references-season-finale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the briefcase of money, specifically, from the above link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The briefcase:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Having killed Jean’s father and taken the briefcase full of $1 million in ransom money, Carl pulls out the agreed-upon $80k that he will share with Gaear. He buries the rest in the snow on the side of a desolate road along a fence, using his red ice scraper as a marker so he remembers where the money is located. Broke and desperate, Milos flees to Minnesota with his family in 1987 – except along the way, he runs out of gas. His car just happens to stall out at the exact spot where Carl buried his briefcase full of money. Milos spies the ice scraper, digs, and finds the treasure. The scene firmly plants the series within the same universe as the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="756" LastEditDate="2015-02-17T22:38:16.830" LastActivityDate="2015-02-17T22:38:16.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3836" CreationDate="2015-02-17T21:25:42.577" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walter Flynn Hartwell White Jr is his full name, when he is upset with dad he likes to be known as Flynn, i'm sure it will be Flynn from now on,  with that ending.... ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19014" LastActivityDate="2015-02-17T21:25:42.577" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31164" CreationDate="2015-02-18T00:00:29.213" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;A Guide to Codes and Ciphers&quot;. Whether it's a real book or a movie prop, I do not know. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rmmxe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T00:00:29.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12714" CreationDate="2015-02-18T00:26:32.183" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason that Game of Thrones is aimed at such a mature audience as either the book series or the TV series, is at least in part because the entire story is the complete opposite of the romanticised &quot;knight in shining armour goes forth and does great and honourable deeds&quot;. The entire premise of the story is that of the reality of medieval life and war, which was at &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt;, nasty, brutish, and short. On top of that the honourable knights of the Kingsguard are wearing tarnished armour, one is a sycophant, one is trying his best to stay out of the war, one is an oathbreaker and kingslayer, and the best of them all has been deemed &quot;too old&quot; to serve his post in spite of his dedication to service. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there are the other knights. Knights like Sandor and Gregor Clegane. One is a raging psychopath who feels no remorse for the suffering of other people, and actively enjoys causing that suffering. The other one just likes to kill and despises the title of knight for all the things his brother does. Knights lower than they tend to be barely better than brigands, and they &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; end up doing terrible things in the name of whatever lord they're serving at the moment, regardless of how good their intentions were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The overriding lesson of Game of Thrones is that being the good guy isn't enough to win a war, that war does not determine who is right, only who is left, and that honour has &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; to do with it. The kind of moral ambiguity in the series is certainly above the understanding of children. Who's the Good Guy? Nobody is. All men must die. All men must serve. And don't piss off Walder Frey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19013" LastEditorUserId="19013" LastEditDate="2015-02-18T17:37:23.410" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T17:37:23.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26720" CreationDate="2015-02-18T00:57:29.180" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Viggo does not say that John broke a rule, he says that &lt;em&gt;Marcus&lt;/em&gt; broke a rule. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, Viggo even &lt;em&gt;appreciates&lt;/em&gt; that John killed his son quickly instead of letting him suffer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rule Marcus broke was that, while the contract was open, he did not kill John, although he had the chance to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2016-04-18T01:44:26.357" LastActivityDate="2016-04-18T01:44:26.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31222" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-18T01:04:13.457" Score="1" ViewCount="10537" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the age of the actor that played the young version of Loki in the first Thor movie? I'm just trying to figure about what age young Thor and Loki were meant to be and i'm not good at  guessing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18968" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T09:20:53.390" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T09:20:53.390" Title="What age was Ted Allpress when he played in Thor?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|thor|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-02-18T14:11:09.433" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31223" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-18T01:06:40.620" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;John Wick&lt;/em&gt; is an action thriller from the year 2014.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s directed by Chad Stahelski and David Leitch (uncredited), and starring Keanu Reeves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Links&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.johnwickthemovie.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Official website: &lt;strong&gt;johnwickthemovie.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wick_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article: &lt;strong&gt;John Wick (film)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2015-02-18T01:34:54.250" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T01:34:54.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31224" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-18T01:06:40.620" Score="0" Body="John Wick (2014) is a movie directed by Chad Stahelski and David Leitch, starring Keanu Reeves." OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2015-02-18T01:34:48.233" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T01:34:48.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="124" CreationDate="2015-02-18T01:22:31.350" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the time tuner cannot surpass reminding over a day. On a replica timer tuner I own it has inscribed on it: &quot;I count the hours, every one. Yet have I to outrun the sun.&quot;  I think this means that the time tuner doesn't have the power to go back a day's time. All magic has its limits right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18968" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-02-18T04:08:29.053" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T04:08:29.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30338" CreationDate="2015-02-18T01:49:07.250" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;MPPDA - MPAA - USA The Motion Picture Production Code film numbers to 52000 - - -  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmsonsuper8.com/censorship/mpaa-film-numbers-52000.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.filmsonsuper8.com/censorship/mpaa-film-numbers-52000.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmsonsuper8.com/mpaa/mpaa-film-numbers-52000.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.filmsonsuper8.com/mpaa/mpaa-film-numbers-52000.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;includes USA films from 2010 to 2014  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and also provides two excel spreadsheet versions for download&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MPAA - excel worksheet filetype:xlsx for download - USA The Motion Picture Production Code film numbers to 52000 - - - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19020" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T01:49:07.250" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31222" CreationDate="2015-02-18T02:10:04.427" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vivienneclore.com/artiste/ted-allpress/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ted, made his professional stage debut at the age of 9 in The Donmar Warehouse opposite Gillian Anderson playing Ivor in Kfir Yefets hit production of “The Doll’s House” in 2009, and then in 2010 he then went on to take the role of Bert’ in the sell out, smash hit Howard Davies production of “All My Sons” opposite Zoe Wanamaker and David Suchet at The Apollo, Shaftesbury Avenue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would most likely have made him 10 during the filming of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800369/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thor&lt;/a&gt; (considering a 2011 release date ... filming most likely occurred in 2010). I didn't find an entire bio which included his date of birth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T02:10:04.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31229" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-18T02:47:23.600" Score="2" ViewCount="2429" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the scene in &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; after Loki is captured, Cap and Stark are quietly wondering why the &quot;Rock of ages&quot; is giving up so easily. Cap says he recalls that that Loki packs a wallop. What is he referring to? When did Cap ever encounter Loki?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19023" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T09:20:20.440" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T09:20:20.440" Title="How does Cap know that Loki's punch packs a wallop?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31231" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-18T03:22:15.680" Score="12" ViewCount="13733" Body="&lt;p&gt;When John Wick arrives at Marcus’ home, we see that Perkins was waiting for him outside, presumably to kill him. But then she gets a phone call and … &lt;em&gt;leaves&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; It was Winston who called, and he gets her killed at their meeting place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why did Perkins meet with Winston (instead of fleeing from him)?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be pretty clear to Perkins that she is disgraced for breaking the rules in the Continental, and when Winston (the owner) calls her to meet at some unpopulated place, she can’t really expect a friendly talk. So why does she meet with him in the first place? It can’t be her sense of honour after willfully breaking such a well-known rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; she has a good reason to meet him, why would she leave immediately instead of sparing a few minutes for trying to kill John?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T03:09:51.980" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T07:28:52.353" Title="Why does Perkins leave and meet Winston?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|john-wick|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31229" CreationDate="2015-02-18T03:40:46.493" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Captain America is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq88OfYENEk&quot;&gt;first one&lt;/a&gt; to fight Loki in the Avengers movie. When Loki tries to subjugate the people by making them Kneel, Captain America comes to the calling first before Iron man shows up which leads to Loki surrendering easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T03:40:46.493" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24478" CreationDate="2015-02-18T03:41:16.963" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Doctor said his arrows had a homing device. This would be on the metal arrowhead, not the wooden shaft. (I don't think these particular arrows would have had stone heads.) So I believe his screwdriver was working with the metal arrowhead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1264" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T03:41:16.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5736" CreationDate="2015-02-18T04:07:47.553" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Marty &amp;amp; Doc would have dug up the 1885 Delorean, then it wouldn't have been in the cave in 1955. Therefore the Marty in 1885 would possibly cease to exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19025" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T04:07:47.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26715" CreationDate="2015-02-18T04:24:58.553" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe i'm seeing things. But for me The sniper looks like Christoph Waltz. You know.. Like he was giving a pay back for Inglorious Basterds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19026" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T04:24:58.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31236" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31241" CreationDate="2015-02-18T05:14:59.080" Score="3" ViewCount="1404" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read (The Book Thief) right before watching the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know there are a lot of changes to make the adaption from novel to screen possible, but I couldn't help noticing that Hans Huberman character was not adapted well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For starters, many of the sweet moments between him and his daughter, were skipped (such as when Liesel asked her father not to tuck her in bed anymore since she is &quot;no longer that young&quot;. And in the novel, the author did a remarkable effort describing how it must have felt for her father to be denied of doing what he liked best, and at the same time saying something opposite like &quot;Thank God, I was wondering when would you say that.. My back is killing me from all this sleepless nights... etc&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what made me write this is the scene where it was Hitler's birthday and Liesel shouted out &quot;I hate the Führer&quot;, and Hans slapped her immediately. We know he loved nothing more than he loved his daughter, and we can understand why he did that in the novel. But in the movie, nothing like that happened. We never see him hurting her at any point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it because: this is a Hollywood movie and there is some sort of an agreement not to show abuse to children in movies? Or was there not enough time to include these moments in this 2 hour movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-18T08:05:37.570" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T09:50:39.757" Title="Why didn't Hans Huberman slap Liesel in the movie, like he did in the book?" Tags="|plot-explanation|book-adaptation|the-book-thief|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9020" CreationDate="2015-02-18T05:23:09.397" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another aspect that I didn't see mentioned is the fact that a lot (not all) of British shows are publicly financed (BBC/Channel 4). While a lot of the American shows are privately financed (network TV). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a business, if you have something that's making you money, you want to leverage that as long as you can. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas as a service for the public, one can focus on the quality of the content over making a dollar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I do see American television slowly adopting the British model. Recent examples would include Fargo (10 episodes), the return of the X-Files (6 episodes), and Married (10 and 13 episode series). On average, longer than 6, for sure, but significantly shorter than the typical 20+ we're used to here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In updating this answer based on PhistucK's excellent points int he comments, I also came across this article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5 reasons why TV networks are ordering shorter seasons&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/why-tv-networks-are-ordering-shorter-seasons-2015-6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.businessinsider.com/why-tv-networks-are-ordering-shorter-seasons-2015-6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somewhat click-bait, but I do think some of the reasons are valid points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Star Power&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Storytelling can be more dramatic and focused&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The syndication model has changed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Year-round programming&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Shorter seasons help to prevent fatigue&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="756" LastEditDate="2016-10-18T05:37:59.193" LastActivityDate="2016-10-18T05:37:59.193" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31239" CreationDate="2015-02-18T06:09:03.333" Score="29" ViewCount="19722" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first scene from the first episode of 'Better Call Saul', we see Saul, working at some food joint and watching his own videos at home. All this is shown in black &amp;amp; white. After which the story begins about Saul's early days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is that whether the first scene resembles present day i.e. this where Saul is hiding after the events of Breaking Bad? Although it pretty much seems like that but is there any evidence to back that up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2018-04-07T14:24:53.717" LastActivityDate="2018-10-03T17:43:55.643" Title="Does the first scene in Better Call Saul take place after Breaking Bad" Tags="|breaking-bad|chronology|better-call-saul|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31238" CreationDate="2015-02-18T06:16:18.517" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second-to-last episode of Breaking Bad, Saul stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;From here on out, I'm Mr. Low Profile -- just another douchebag with a job and three pairs of Dockers. If I'm lucky, a month from now, best-case scenario, I'm managing a Cinnabon in Omaha.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first scene in Better Call Saul is that prediction come true. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T06:16:18.517" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31236" CreationDate="2015-02-18T09:06:25.850" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is a definitive reason for this given in any interview and there's certainly no law against it being shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, I the answer lies in his actions. In the book, the scene is described quite well. He is scared and needs her to realise how serious her words were. To quote from the book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I knew it.&quot; The words were thrown at the steps and Liesel could feel&#xA;  the slush of anger, stirring hotly in her stomach. &quot;I hate the Fuhrer&quot;,&#xA;  she said. &quot;I hate him.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And Hans Hubermann?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What did he do? What did he say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Did he bend down and embrace his foster daughter, as he wanted to? Did&#xA;  he tell her that he was sorry for what was happening to her, to her&#xA;  mother, for what had happened to her brother?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He clenched his eyes. Then opened them. He slapped Liesel Meminger&#xA;  squarely in the face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Don't ever say that!&quot; His voice was quiet, but sharp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst the book really does do a good job of showing his tortured anguish in this scene, it would be a very heavy handed thing to include in a film. Hans Hubermann is meant to be a hero - it could conflict audiences to see him slapping this little girl in the moment she realises the evilness of the Fuhrer. Of course, this is a fairly weak explanation. They could have shown it with him in near-tears afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they didn't. instead, they chose to show a concerned father, as opposed to a concerned and deeply conflicted one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the actual meaning of the scene is still fairly well explained, but it was moments like this (or rather the lack of this moment) that stopped critics raving about the film and instead led to it getting a fairly lukewarm response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2015-02-18T09:50:39.757" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T09:50:39.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31246" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31247" CreationDate="2015-02-18T11:04:20.377" Score="1" ViewCount="2153" Body="&lt;p&gt;At Madame D.'s funeral in &lt;em&gt;The Grand Budapest Hotel&lt;/em&gt;, when Dmitri called M. Gustave a &quot;fucking&quot; faggot, does he mean that he's a gay person or a loser? Because in Urban Dictionary we can see that in the old time a faggot can mean a loser too. I understand the joke after that, but I'm just confused with Dmitri's original meaning of calling M. Gustave a faggot, could it be on account of the fact that M. Gustave called a man &quot;darling&quot; before he's being recognized in the funeral? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2015-02-18T11:32:05.537" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T11:32:05.537" Title="In what way did Dmitri intend to insult M Gustave at the funeral?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|the-grand-budapest-hotel|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31246" CreationDate="2015-02-18T11:31:01.050" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's both an insult and a gay slur in this scene. To quote from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://d97a3ad6c1b09e180027-5c35be6f174b10f62347680d094e609a.r46.cf2.rackcdn.com/film_scripts/FSP3825_TGBH_SCRIPT_BOOK_C6.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;screenplay&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OLD MAN&lt;/strong&gt; Who’s Gustave H?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;M. GUSTAVE&lt;/strong&gt; (inevitably) I’m afraid that’s me,&#xA;darling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Every face in the entire assembly now turns around fully and&#xA;stares at M. Gustave and Zero. Silence. The room erupts. All the&#xA;distant relations start talking at once. Dmitri is on his feet,&#xA;advancing toward the back of the room, flanked by Jopling, as he&#xA;explodes, pointing at M. Gustave:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DMITRI&lt;/strong&gt; That fucking faggot! &lt;em&gt;He’s a concierge&lt;/em&gt;. What are you doing here?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;M. GUSTAVE&lt;/strong&gt; (stiffening) I’ve come to pay my respects to a great&#xA;woman whom I loved.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;DMITRI&lt;/strong&gt; (turning to the room) This man is an&#xA;intruder in my home!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;M. GUSTAVE&lt;/strong&gt; (making a point of it) It’s not yours&#xA;yet, Dmitri. Only when probate is granted, and the Deed of Entitlement&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-- DMITRI&lt;/strong&gt; You’re not getting “Boy with Apple”, &lt;em&gt;you goddamn little fruit&lt;/em&gt;!&#xA;&lt;em&gt;M. GUSTAVE&lt;/em&gt; (genuinely offended) How’s that supposed to make me&#xA;feel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, a few lines later in the screenplay:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DMITRI&lt;/strong&gt; If I learn you ever once laid a finger on my mother’s body,&#xA;living or dead, I swear to God, I’ll cut your throat! (screaming) You&#xA;hear me?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;M. GUSTAVE&lt;/strong&gt; (clever though dizzy) I thought I was supposed to&#xA;be a fucking faggot.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;DMITRI&lt;/strong&gt; (hesitates) You are, but you’re bisexual!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;M. GUSTAVE&lt;/strong&gt; (pause) Let’s change the subject. I’m leaving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you can see from these two scenes that Dmitri is apoplectic with rage. Given M. Gustave's mannerisms (and as you point out his habit of calling people 'Darling'), he immediately leaps in with a gay slur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, later he gets confused over this, accusing him of touching his mother - after which he changes his slur to a bisexual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd say he's simply throwing out the first insult that can come to his mind given his rage. Much like insulting a black person with racial slurs, when Dmitri realises what has happened with the painting, he zones in on the first thing he knows about M. Gustave - his flamboyance - and he attacks him on that ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The use of &lt;em&gt;fucking&lt;/em&gt; as an adjective before the insult both shows his anger and suggests that it's intended as a furious insult just as well as a slur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T11:31:01.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31248" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-18T11:49:47.837" Score="6" ViewCount="401" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Showtime/BBC series &lt;em&gt;Episodes&lt;/em&gt;, Matt LeBlanc plays himself. In the latest season (Season 4), a key plot point involves Matt facing financial problems along with overdue taxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't help but notice the similarity between the plot and the real-life problems of Nicolas Cage. Both involve a plane, a car collection, real estate and even a dinosaur egg (Cage purchased a dinosaur skull) bought by the actors insensibly. Both also involve a spat with the financial manager of the actor. (EDIT: Although, in the show, LeBlanc blames his manager after he dies)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I haven't read any reviews or articles pointing out these similarities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a coincidence? Or are the writers actively satirizing Cage's life through the fictional Matt LeBlanc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastEditorUserId="13594" LastEditDate="2015-02-19T05:51:37.940" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T05:51:37.940" Title="Are Matt LeBlanc's financial troubles a caricature of Nicolas Cage?" Tags="|episodes-2011|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31249" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31250" CreationDate="2015-02-18T13:02:39.497" Score="5" ViewCount="1262" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a show I watched about 10 years ago. I don't remember much from that show, but I hope it will suffice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show has a medieval setting. The four protagonists have each a specific weapon and some elemental powers. I only remember three of the weapons and respective elemental powers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trident -&gt; Water&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Morning star -&gt; Earth&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Crossbow -&gt; Wind&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The crossbow user is a woman while the other three are men. What I remember from the story is, that each of them had to go on a quest to get stronger powers or better transformation equipment or so I suppose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope these information are enough. If additional information is needed, I'll try to add them to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;The language I watched it in was german. It was a Live Action show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19038" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T13:08:03.370" Title="A show about four heroes fighting against evil" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:02:50.623" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31249" CreationDate="2015-02-18T13:08:03.370" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165588/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog&lt;/a&gt; from 1998. From Wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Queen Maeve of Temra, to conquer the peaceful kingdom of Kells, enlists the fairy Mider, who gives her the mystical Rune Stone allowing Maeve to use sorcery, most often to create ogres and evil giants, whom she sends to wreak havoc. When King Conchobar of Kells seeks a way to protect his kingdom, protagonist Rohan, a druid's apprentice, goes in search of the prophesized hero 'Draganta', with his friend the reformed thief Angus. Later joined by the foreign Prince Ivar, and Conchobar's daughter, Princess Deirdre, they are drawn into Tir Na Nóg, whose king Fin Varra puts the group through various tests to determine their worthiness. &lt;strong&gt;The heroes having passed these tests, King Fin Varra gives them certain weapons granting control of the Classical Elements Fire, Air, Earth, and Water.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deirdre's weapon was the Whirlwind Crossbow; Ivan's weapon was a trident. Here's how it opened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/aGQY9ZJPnsg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T13:08:03.370" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31162" CreationDate="2015-02-18T16:39:04.463" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my poor understanding of household plumbing. Normally, your toilet (and sink, shower...) drains have a &quot;trap&quot; which holds a little bit of water in order to prevent the sewer stink from coming up the hole. The top of the vent pipe usually goes up to the top of the building and vents to the air (this is sometimes why in high winds, the toilet water level can bounce around).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p9DMM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lets say you flooded the room. What would happen is that the water would rush in to the bowl as fast as possible, likely removing all air until the pipe opens up significantly, probably in the main sewer pipe. Getting just beyond the trap is pointless:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ct434.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you got all the way to the main pipe, and out from the stream of rushing water (tricky) you'd be OK-ish (you're breathing possibly stank air, but that's better than no air)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FhTwb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a &lt;em&gt;slightly&lt;/em&gt; more realistic scenario would be if the room was filled with a toxic gas, in that case getting just past the trap would be OK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h3jGO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T16:39:04.463" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31256" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31257" CreationDate="2015-02-18T16:44:10.087" Score="8" ViewCount="867" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was Valentine so interested in tracking down Professor Mark Hamill at the start of &lt;em&gt;Kingsman: The Secret Service&lt;/em&gt;? Did he need him to enact his plan? I thought he was a climatologist, not some neuro-voodoo-guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-18T16:50:56.937" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T17:20:16.540" Title="Why did Valentine need the Professor (Hamill)?" Tags="|plot-explanation|kingsman-the-secret-service|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31256" CreationDate="2015-02-18T17:20:16.540" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Valentine went around selecting people he felt would be useful in the new world he wanted to create, and if they agreed with him and his plan they'd be implanted with a chip that both blocks the signal and explodes if they leak information before the event, otherwise he'd kidnap them and hold them in his lair until afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His entire reason for enacting his plan was to save the world from global warming, which he feels is due to humans being likened to a virus, and global warming/climate change is the planet's reaction to us, much like a fever humans get to kill a virus. Given the film states that Professor Arnold is one of the preeminent minds on climate change, naturally &lt;strong&gt;Valentine feels he'll be of some use to him in the new world he aims to create.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T17:20:16.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31260" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31261" CreationDate="2015-02-18T17:51:12.400" Score="5" ViewCount="2758" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right at the beginning of Season 4 of Games of Thrones Jaime Lannister has an meeting with his father, Tywin Lannister, in which his father gives him a sword of &quot;Valerian steel&quot; and tells him to assume the lordship of Casterly Rock. Jaime refuses this order and says he does not want Casterly Rock. Tywin then asks &quot;What do you want?&quot; and Jaimee answers &quot;???? would be nice&quot;. I can't understand what he said though. What would be nice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2018-12-20T17:54:10.780" LastActivityDate="2018-12-20T17:54:10.780" Title="What does Jaime Lannister say he wants at the beginning of season four?" Tags="|dialogue|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31260" CreationDate="2015-02-18T18:12:02.847" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The dialogue is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jaime:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't want Casterly Rock, I don't want a wife, I don't want children!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Tywin:&lt;/strong&gt; What do you want?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jaime:&lt;/strong&gt; Supper would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a nonchalant remark in a show of defiance to his father. He's not going to play his &lt;em&gt;game&lt;/em&gt;, answering questions about his future. He has already made up his mind about what he wants - to stay in the Kingsguard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2015-02-18T23:51:14.973" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T23:51:14.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14524" CreationDate="2015-02-18T19:56:58.393" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nick was the killer with catherine tramel, from the beginning&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19050" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T19:56:58.393" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31268" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-18T20:13:57.443" Score="5" ViewCount="2048" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a movie about someone breaking into a guy's house, and the homeowner runs after the guy and I think in self defense kills him (unsure about this part) He gets sent to jail and put in a cell with a guy who has a calendar tattooed all over his arms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His cellmate has been looking for the man who killed his wife in daughter and killing anyone in the process that might have been involved with the guy who killed his wife and daughter but we don't find this out until later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the mean time, the two become fast friends, but they are forced to fight other inmates under the &quot;watch&quot; of the man in charge of their cells , he's a black man I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually they team up with all of the inmates to fight the jail keeper, and the guy with the calendars on his arms has a knife type of tool that is hidden in his glasses dies but the guy who was wrongfully convicted goes free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone help please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19052" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-02-18T21:37:06.750" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T21:37:06.750" Title="Identify the movie where a man is sent to prison and has cellmate with a calendar tattooed all over his arms" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:35:15.527" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31269" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31270" CreationDate="2015-02-18T20:28:17.057" Score="7" ViewCount="11243" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm talking about the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2884206&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;I-Origins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wonderful movie. Movie about science vs religion. Fact vs believe. Cool. Scientist IAN lost the girl after first interaction but he can't forget about her. He never saw her face but fell for her because of her amazing eyes. Then one day the number '11' started appearing before him a countless number of times. He started to focus on it and then he found her eyes in an advertisement board. Okay! But why eleven? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is eleven relevant with this? The movie also started with showing the binary number &lt;code&gt;1011&lt;/code&gt; which is in decimal &lt;code&gt;11&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the significance of eleven in this movie? Did the director/writer mention anything about why eleven is used? And how is eleven relevant with the context? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-21T23:02:49.467" LastActivityDate="2016-09-21T12:56:56.563" Title="Why is 11 an important number in I-Origins" Tags="|plot-explanation|i-origins|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31269" CreationDate="2015-02-18T20:39:31.740" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie deals with, on a certain level, chance vs fate.  If you believe in fate, you believe there is a particular order of events that is pre-destined.  You also likely believe in patterns that define those events.  Numerologists have a fascination with 11, and specifically &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11:11_(numerology)&quot;&gt;11:11 and events linked to it&lt;/a&gt;, which appear to happen at a frequency which surpasses chance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T20:39:31.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31268" CreationDate="2015-02-18T21:13:20.697" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the movie you are looking for is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1117385/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Felon(2008)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A loving family man with a promising future, Wade Porter (Stephen Dorff) suddenly loses everything when he accidentally kills the burglar who breaks into his home. Convicted of involuntary manslaughter, Wade is sentenced to spend the next three years inside a maximum security facility where the rules of society no longer apply. Forced to share a cell with a notorious mass murderer (Val Kilmer) and subjected to brutal beatings orchestrated by the sadistic head prison guard (Harold Perrineau), Wade soon realizes he's in for the fight of his life and must become the toughest FELON of them all if he wants to survive the block. After all, what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. And in state prison, only the strongest survive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sr0zDhqfOVo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18110" LastActivityDate="2015-02-18T21:13:20.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31272" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31273" CreationDate="2015-02-18T22:01:08.653" Score="36" ViewCount="24085" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Game of Thrones after&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; the death of Ned Stark,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;we get to know that Stannis Baratheon is the true heir to the throne, as stated in the raven message that Ned Stark sends to Stannis before he is taken captive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stannis also makes that information known to everyone subsequently. What puzzled me is the fact that the Starks are known for their loyalty, like Ned Stark had for Robert Baratheon all these years. If Ned Stark had been alive he surely would've followed Stannis to his grave and on top of that their alliance could've easily overwhelmed the Lannisters with their sheer individual military expertise (both Stannis and Robb are shown as brilliant battle strategists).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just can't figure why Robb, who had similar traits to his father, didn't choose to follow Stannis in his cause? Stannis probably would've given sovereignty of the North completely to Robb if he had helped him (but that's just pure speculation on my part).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="6107" LastEditDate="2017-01-07T13:10:24.953" LastActivityDate="2017-07-03T14:10:39.737" Title="Why didn't the Starks form an alliance with Stannis?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31272" CreationDate="2015-02-18T22:26:30.383" Score="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a great question. Here's my take on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of Season 1, Ned Stark is arrested in King's Landing. Incensed by this, Robb raises his bannermen to march on the South. When Ned is killed, he reaches a point of no return and vows revenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, in the Season 1 finale &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Fire_and_Blood&quot;&gt;Fire and Blood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, we hear this speech:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Robb:&lt;/strong&gt; Renly is not the King.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Other Character:&lt;/strong&gt; You cannot mean to&#xA;  hold to Joffrey, My Lord. He put your father to death.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Robb:&lt;/strong&gt; That doesn't&#xA;  make Renly King. He's Robert's youngest brother. If Bran can't be Lord&#xA;  of Winterfell before me, Renly can't be King before Stannis.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Other Character:&lt;/strong&gt; My Lords. If we&#xA;  put ourselves behind Stannis ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jon Umber&lt;/strong&gt; My Lords! Here is what I say to these&#xA;  two Kings [spits] Renly Baratheon is nothing to me, nor Stannis neither.&#xA;  Why should they rule over me and mine from some flowery seat in the&#xA;  South? What do they know of the Wall or the Wolfswood? Even their Gods&#xA;  are wrong! Why shouldn't we rule ourselves again? It was the Dragons&#xA;  we bowed to and now the Dragons are dead! There sits the only King I&#xA;  mean to bend my knee to ... the King in the North!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, there's something very important revealed in this speech. Or rather &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; revealed. Robb intends to march on the South to fight for his father and the North. &lt;em&gt;At no point is it shown that he is aware that Joffrey is a false King.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, he simply thinks there are two other claimants for the throne and he wants nothing to do with it - he just wants revenge. Why would he swear a claim to Stannis, who has no chance to rule the throne? It's Joffrey's by right - as Robb mistakenly thinks. Based on this, and his bannermen's support, he declares himself &lt;em&gt;King in the North&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even Stannis only becomes aware of his true status of King in the Season 2 opener, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_North_Remembers&quot;&gt;The North Remembers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, when Ned's letter arrives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few episodes later, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/What_is_Dead_May_Never_Die&quot;&gt;What is Dead May Never Die&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Garden_of_Bones&quot;&gt;Garden of Bones&lt;/a&gt;, Lady Catelyn actually arrives at the camps of both Renly and Stannis to try to negotiate a peace between them. However, by this stage Robb's claim as &lt;em&gt;King in the North&lt;/em&gt; is well known. And Stannis &lt;em&gt;will not back down&lt;/em&gt; from being King over the whole kingdom. As he tells Catelyn:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stannis&lt;/strong&gt;: It is strange to find you beside my brother, Lady Stark. Your husband&#xA;  was a supporter of my claim. Lord Eddard's integrity cost him his&#xA;  head. And you sit beside this pretender and chastise me. We share a&#xA;  common enemy. The Iron Throne is mine by right. All those that deny&#xA;  that are my foes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, despite her attempts to broker some sort of peace between Stannis and Renly, he is beyond redemption. Pride, desire to rule the whole kingdom and the Red Priestess mean he will not negotiate and thus Stannis and Robb become enemies, albeit ones who never meet on the field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it could still be argued that Robb could renege on his desire to become King in the North, but with an army of bannermen behind him wanting freedom, this would be no easy task and would likely lead to further conflict with Stannis down the line. Not to mention Stannis, being the type of person who remembers wrongdoing (see: Ser Davos' fingers), would likely punish them after the war was over for their attempted uprising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2015-02-19T15:59:10.710" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T15:59:10.710" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31277" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-19T01:56:47.607" Score="3" ViewCount="1737" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie &lt;em&gt;Her&lt;/em&gt;, Samantha says to Theodore:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now we know how.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does she mean by this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19059" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-02-19T02:33:02.340" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T18:20:50.110" Title="What does Samantha mean when she says, &quot;Now we know how?&quot;" Tags="|analysis|ending|her|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27386" CreationDate="2015-02-19T03:45:26.087" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are some observations from the movie to answer the question of Earth's condition in the movie interstellar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Grandpa speaks of 6 billion people competing to obtain high-technology gadgetry in the past as being, perhaps, extravagant, compared to the present agrarian and peaceful way of life in small settlements. Small settlements aren't mentioned, but can be inferred in the movie. There is no TV, no radio, no military. In other words, resources are so limited that large-scale endeavors (mass communication, political economy, security, commerce and industry) are defunct. The UAV flying around on its own (non-operated utility) supports this. It being taken down for parts also suggests an age of improvisation (as different from innovation). There is a school that runs on a quota system - where even scientific indulgence and technological pursuits are discouraged. The main focus is on agriculture, or naked survival. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there aren't thriving, metropolitan cities. Notice the lack of cattle, or even pets, in the movie. One usually expects to see dogs on a farm; none here. Remember Grandpa craving for a hot dog in the baseball match? This hints at extinction of farm animals, and most likely all fauna and most flora. If you factor in the food shortages, humans are the only lifeforms in the movie and running out of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above cues mean earth's resources have been spent and dying out. Michael Caine's character talks about the inevitability of crop failure. This could be due to some extraordinary blight, but given the above observations, food shortage is due to artificial overproduction to the point of arrested soil fertility. Crop rotation, which naturally replenishes supplements in the soil, has failed due to overuse of artificial fertilizers, pesticides and genetic manipulation of agricultural resources. Factor in pollution also and and we're looking at inert soil. Vast land-stretches without plant matter is the reason for the massive dust/sand storms. The storms further destroy existing plant life due to sand and wind erosion. So, food shortage grows exponentially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Grandpa also speaks of bombs from satellites to kill people. While I don't exactly remember the context of that statement, it is possible that big wars for survival could have happened before. In that case, the settlement in the movie could be one of thousands of isolated, locally governed and sustained villages around the world - very much identical to early human agrarian settlements. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, the Earth's condition in the movie is very likely a result of human-led indulgence over Earth's finite resources. Nuclear holocaust and blight are unlikely given the underlying moral of the story - love is the most important virtue and it conquers all, even if you lose a century in the process. It is the one driving force to keep us alive together. Greed and selfishness doesn't cut it (personified by Dr. Mann). The movie even gives love a physical dimension to point out that science doesn't have all the answers to humanity. The little things count. Let us not run out of that, for it may be too late. Nothing original on the sci-fi end, though, except VFX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19060" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T03:45:26.087" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="806" CreationDate="2015-02-19T04:07:35.210" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The entire heist could have been run from the mock up cameras....with Terry calling in SWAT, and Ocean’s team coming in in SWAT gear and taking the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was one problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'The vault doors and the time table'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they had just showed Terry a mock up and he called SWAT, there would be no way for Danny and his team to enter the VOLT. Sure the could use C4, but you’d ruin the money as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the movie is correct that they needed Yen on the inside to place precision explosives, as well as Danny and Linus in to bag the money up-remember Terry went down to the vault within 2 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in short, pulling the heist would be impossible without entering the real vault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19061" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-02-19T05:42:29.723" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T05:42:29.723" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31282" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32985" CreationDate="2015-02-19T06:32:23.437" Score="3" ViewCount="1641" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Flash &lt;strong&gt;S1E11&lt;/strong&gt; Dr. Harrison Wells is seen in his apartment just having arrived from S.T.A.R. Labs, and he pours out a drink for himself, sips it and seems satisfied. Except he is a &lt;em&gt;speedster&lt;/em&gt;. Therefore, like Barry, he should not be affected by alcohol. Is there something besides the abilities that gives Barry infinite tolerance to alcohol?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3862" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-22T12:02:30.853" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T12:02:30.853" Title="Why does the drink affect him?" Tags="|plot-explanation|arrowverse|the-flash|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31284" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31287" CreationDate="2015-02-19T06:55:16.540" Score="9" ViewCount="716" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Bollywood film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Roy&lt;/a&gt; is claimed to be based on Quentin Tarantino and Sofia Coppola's affair. Is it right, is Roy really based on Tarantino's life or is it just a rumour or marketing agenda? Did Tarantino or Sofia made anything clear about it? Or did the filmmaker clear this rumour?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T00:49:48.297" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T00:49:48.297" Title="Is Roy based on Quentin Tarantino and Sofia Coppola?" Tags="|quentin-tarantino|roy|sofia-coppola|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31286" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31289" CreationDate="2015-02-19T08:40:56.573" Score="3" ViewCount="1945" Body="&lt;p&gt;At around  the 29th minute of &lt;em&gt;The Grand Budapest Hotel&lt;/em&gt; Gustave and Zero have the following conversation about &quot;Boy with Apple&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gustave:&lt;/strong&gt; That picture, Boy with Apple, is priceless. Understand?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Zero:&lt;/strong&gt; Congratulations, Monsieur Gustave!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Gustave:&lt;/strong&gt; They're going to fight me for the son of a bitch.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Zero:&lt;/strong&gt; Is it very beautiful?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Gustave:&lt;/strong&gt; Beyond description. &quot;E'en the most gifted bard's rhyme can only sing but to the lack of her and all she isn't! His tongue doth...&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Zero:&lt;/strong&gt; Can I see it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, M. Gustave call the boy with an apple &quot;the son of a bitch&quot;, then he uses a poem to describe how incredibly beautiful the boy is. Is it a sarcastic joke referring to M. Gustave's weird character? Is it true that all the poems in the movie are only made-up for the film? And in this poem, what is her/she referring to? Is it the bard or the painting? I'm confused about it because of the film's Chinese subtitles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-15T09:48:00.373" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T09:48:00.373" Title="How does M. Gustave's poem relate to the &quot;Boy with Apple&quot;?" Tags="|dialogue|the-grand-budapest-hotel|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31284" CreationDate="2015-02-19T08:43:12.373" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt; According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Arjun-Rampals-Roy-inspired-by-Quentin-Tarantino-and-Sofia-Coppolas-story/articleshow/33001423.cms&quot;&gt;The Times of India&lt;/a&gt; it's based on/inspired by their affair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially, they cited a source close to production who commented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vikram (Vikram Singh, the director) is a fan of both the filmmakers&#xA;  and he wanted to create a narrative around the affair between the two&#xA;  movie greats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They later confirmed this directly with Vikram Singh:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When contacted, Vikram Singh confirmed the news, saying, &quot;The&#xA;  Tarantino-Copolla affair has definitely inspired our plot. And I've&#xA;  had several discussions with my cast about the same. Both Jacky and&#xA;  Arjun have been reading up extensively about the two directors to get&#xA;  the nuances of their personalities right,&quot; he said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose it depends on whether you consider &lt;em&gt;inspired by&lt;/em&gt; to be as good as &lt;em&gt;based on&lt;/em&gt;. The fact the director has confirmed the two leads have been reading up on the two directors' personalities is enough for me to stand by my claim. Even if they haven't followed Tarantino/Coppola to the letter, it certainly seems it was based on their doings (with some artistic license as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2015-02-19T09:15:58.687" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T09:15:58.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31284" CreationDate="2015-02-19T08:49:48.763" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt; First of all we have to see where does this claim come from. You would have probably read this in a TOI article (Sorry unable to post the link). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you revisit that article, it seems more like a &lt;strong&gt;inspired by&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  thing rather than being a &lt;strong&gt;based on&lt;/strong&gt; thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The director of Roy claims to be a fan of Tarantino and Copolla and yes the two directors did have a two year affair, but let's try to examine what are the parallels between the movie's story and actual story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tarantino has not been called or seen as a casanova, unlike the&#xA;movie's character. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tarantino and Copolla are not two filmmakers&#xA;based in different countries, unlike the movie's plotline. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tarantino and Copolla have not reunited after a split. Well at least        not until now :-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as you can see, apart from the fact that the story is about a love affair between two movie directors, there is nothing else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a mere linking of the story with some real life celebrities does spark an interest among the viewers, which is good for the business ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that's my take on this topic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT :&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;While Andrew Martin's answer is factual, I would like to discuss a few things. &#xA;The sources cited by Andrew Martin are correct, but aren't they the same sources which intrigued the OP into asking this question ? Yes, the director claims that the story is based on real life characters, actors read extensively about the personalities and tries to get the nuances right. But this is what the claim is. OP wants to know whether this claim is right or not and we can answer this after analyzing the movie's story and trying to draw parallels between movie's characters, plot lines and the actual stuff. And as I stated earlier, there are none other than the fact the movie's characters are two directors. Tarantino and Copolla are not the only two directors who dated each other. It would be interesting to know what similarities are there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me this claim is as good as Fargo's (TV series) - &quot;Based on True story&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-02-20T06:48:37.343" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T06:48:37.343" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31286" CreationDate="2015-02-19T08:56:56.050" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The poems were all created just for the film. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/2014/03/qa-wes-anderson-ralph-fiennes-tony-revolori/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The National Board of Review&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anderson (The Director):&lt;/strong&gt; This is very rude in fact, but Ralph was always very good with text, and he has to recite all this poetry. But&#xA;  the poems in the script get chopped off where I stopped writing them,&#xA;  and Ralph always continued on and gave me a couple extra stanzas. In&#xA;  the earlier cuts of the film they went on, and you were very good at&#xA;  improvising poetry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer:&lt;/strong&gt; Is it correct that you wrote the piece for Ralph?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anderson:&lt;/strong&gt; I had wanted to do something with Ralph for years and years and then we met and got to know each other over the past three&#xA;  to four years. Ralph had shown me a sort of mood reel for the film&#xA;  Coriolanus, and he did some of the speech, and in that moment, I knew&#xA;  I had to get Ralph in a movie. Just seeing him do Shakespeare on a&#xA;  sofa. We didn’t really think of any of the casting until the script&#xA;  was done, except for Mr. Gustav. We had Ralph in mind, and were hoping&#xA;  he’d be seduced into doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He refers to the apple as a &lt;em&gt;son of a bitch&lt;/em&gt; initially simply because he's a quirky, passionate character. It's a loose phrase and is more a revelation of his frustration that people will fight him for it than a comment on the painting itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The poem he breaks into certainly is describing the painting. A bard is effectively a &lt;em&gt;professional lyricist/poet&lt;/em&gt;. M Gustave's lines are saying the poem is so beautiful, it's beyond even the description of them. All they can discuss is &lt;em&gt;the lack of her and all she isn't&lt;/em&gt;, i.e. things that the painting is missing - they can't sing about just how beautiful it is because its beauty defies description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's certainly indicative of M Gustave's weird character. Throughout the film, he descends into little lines of poetry, often leaving them incomplete due to interruption. In fact, it's not even clear how much meaning they have to him, or if they're simply being recited from a nostalgic viewpoint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T08:56:56.050" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27823" CreationDate="2015-02-19T09:02:01.747" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it implies something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Saket sees the elephant, the first thing he notices is it standing alone. After a brief moment of confusion, he sees its caretaker lying dead beside it and realises the poor creature is completely lost without its mahout. It has been under his direction for so long it doesn't know how to cope on its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This really does appear to affect Saket, as you notice. It likely reminds him of what is happening in his life. Until this point, Saket had had his wife. With her killed, he feels both helpless and alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Realising the elephant's situation echoes his alone, he breaks down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T09:02:01.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31272" CreationDate="2015-02-19T13:46:03.363" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Andrew already provided a superb answer, so I'll just add some insights:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Stannis probably would've given sovereignty of the North completely to Robb if he had helped him&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, he wouldn't, and he said so in some occasions ([citation needed], I know). Stannis is both a proud and righteous man, so if he has the &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; to the Iron Throne, that means the whole 7 kingdoms, North included. Any claims of separatism, like Robb's, would be considered treason. And, &quot;legally&quot; speaking, it would indeed be. Why would he split something that has been united for centuries?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;If Ned Stark had been alive he surely would've followed Stannis&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;True, as Ned chose to support for Stannis' claim as the right heir. But Robb is not Ned!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Why Robb who had similar traits like his father didn't choose to follow Stannis in his cause?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because he was pushed by his bannermen to fight not only to avenge his father, but also to claim independence to the North. Something Ned would probably &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; be persuaded to. Robb may be a bright &lt;em&gt;military&lt;/em&gt;  strategist, but he is still young, thus greedy and somewhat persuadable. He shares &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; traits with Ned, but not his father's obsessive (and almost naive) correctness. He broke his promise with Lord Frey, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Starks are known for their loyalty like the one Ned Stark had for Robert Baratheon all these years&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;True, and Ned was &lt;em&gt;Warden&lt;/em&gt;, not &lt;em&gt;King&lt;/em&gt;, of the North. He &lt;em&gt;kneeled&lt;/em&gt; to Robert, something Robb was not willing to do for Stannis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Their alliance could've easily overwhelmed the Lannisters with their sheer individual military expertise&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps, but the moment Robb claims a &lt;em&gt;thone&lt;/em&gt; for himself, he is an usurper by Stannis' eyes, and thus such alliance is impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either Stannis would &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;waive&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; a major part of what was &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;rightfully his&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, or Robb would give up on his separatism and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;bend the knee&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. And neither did, for their own reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19073" LastEditorUserId="19073" LastEditDate="2015-02-19T20:47:29.007" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T20:47:29.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31296" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31297" CreationDate="2015-02-19T13:46:30.537" Score="6" ViewCount="529" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Wolf Hall&lt;/em&gt; episode 5, 'Crows', King Henry VIII suffers a fall at a joust and stops breathing. As panic ensues, young Rafe suggests to Thomas Cromwell that they flee before the ports are blockaded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This proves to be unnecessary as the King recovers, but why does King Henry's apparent &quot;death&quot; immediately place Thomas Cromwell in such danger?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19074" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T10:59:30.757" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T10:59:30.757" Title="Why does King Henry's &quot;death&quot; immediately place Thomas Cromwell in such danger?" Tags="|plot-explanation|wolf-hall|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31296" CreationDate="2015-02-19T13:58:46.830" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would assume it's because of Thomas Cromwell's background. He came from a very &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell#Early_life&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;working class background&lt;/a&gt;, born the son of a blacksmith. Many resented him for how far he rose in the King's court.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was also known to have &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell#Resistance_to_further_religious_reform&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;great sway&lt;/a&gt; over the King and many other people in the court both feared and envied that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the King had died, it's highly unlikely Cromwell would have lived - more likely, he would have been executed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T13:58:46.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31298" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31299" CreationDate="2015-02-19T15:59:16.877" Score="2" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Series 1 Episode 1 of Ashes to Ashes, DI Alex Drake employs a whiteboard as she reasons out her situation with Shaz and Chris. Were whiteboards in general use in 1981? Is this an anachronism?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19074" LastEditorUserId="19074" LastEditDate="2015-02-19T16:29:32.200" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T17:14:51.397" Title="Is a whiteboard anachronistic in Ashes to Ashes?" Tags="|props|historical-accuracy|ashes-to-ashes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31298" CreationDate="2015-02-19T16:00:53.447" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's certainly not an anachronism, although they weren't in very wide use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their creation can be placed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theworkplacedepot.co.uk/news/2014/08/20/whiteboards-history/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sometime in the late 1950s&lt;/a&gt;, although the first &lt;em&gt;dry&lt;/em&gt; erasable marker wasn't invented until 1975.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they were certainly around in 1981.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2015-02-19T17:14:51.397" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T17:14:51.397" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31277" CreationDate="2015-02-19T18:20:50.110" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just before this, Theodore says &quot;I've never loved anyone the way I loved you&quot; to which Samantha responds &quot;Me too. Now we know how.&quot; I take this to mean that their relationship has taught each of them to truly love another and they will be able to love again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T18:20:50.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30200" CreationDate="2015-02-19T18:31:36.630" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The line is spoken by three people -- Chunk, Mikey, and Mikey's mother -- and &lt;strong&gt;in each case, the dialogue helps develop each person's character&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chunk says it twice, out of frustration when people don't listen to him, suggesting he is often ignored&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mikey says it three times, as a cover-up for when he had previously mispronounced something, suggesting he can't admit when he is wrong&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mikey's mom says it once, also as a cover-up, suggesting that Mikey picked up the tendency from her&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chunk: (His mouth still full) Do you think your Mom's going to notice...notice that the dick and balls are missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mikey: I wonder if she'll notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chunk: That's what I said!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;hr&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Brand: It's the Fratellis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Data: That's the guy from upstairs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mikey: And the guy who tried to sing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chunk: See, you guys, you never listen to me. I said that there was going to&#xA;  be trouble, but you didn't listen to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;hr&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mikey: And they were digging all these tunnels, and caves. Setting boody traps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Data: Booby traps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mikey: That's what I said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;hr&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mikey: He's going to give it back to the museum, or whoever they pick to be&#xA;  the new assistant curly, or kerney...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Brand: Curator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mikey: That's what I said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;hr&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mikey: They did a show. It was a retropackum, and it was a...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Brand: Retrospective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mikey: That's what I said. You always contradict me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;hr&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Irene: Brandon, don't you come home without your brother, or I'll commit&#xA;  hare... Hare Krishna!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Brand: That's &quot;Hara-Kiri,&quot; Ma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Irene: That's exactly what I said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2015-02-20T00:44:21.353" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T00:44:21.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31306" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-19T19:10:19.840" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-02-19T19:10:19.840" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T19:10:19.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31307" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-19T19:10:19.840" Score="0" Body="1997 film inspired by a comic book by Lowell Cunningham.  The Men In Black, Will Smith &amp; Tommy Lee Jones, spawned a number of sequels and an animated television series." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-02-19T19:22:25.823" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T19:22:25.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31282" CreationDate="2015-02-19T23:16:25.073" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far, we have no idea what kind of speedster Dr. Wells is. Is he completely similar to Barry? Probably not, since we see in latter episodes that he has trouble keeping the speed force stable, and needs the tachyon device to recharge it. So it's not a big stretch to think that his metabolism works differently as well, so alcohol may indeed affect him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-02-19T23:16:25.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31313" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31314" CreationDate="2015-02-20T04:30:50.433" Score="29" ViewCount="4161" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe no one around here would know the answer to this, or maybe it varies wildly, but I'm curious to know whether or not it's typical for movie stars to be forbidden from resembling the character that they played in a movie, in a commercial (outside of commercials for the movie itself or agreed to specifically by the company that own/creates the movie). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can Morgan Freeman come back, for example, as God in that white suit from Bruce Almighty and tell everyone that Coke is better than Pepsi? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or can Leonardo DiCaprio, as Jack Dawson of Titanic, float by on a wooden plank, perhaps, claiming that cruises are done better via Carnival on the Caribbean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15845" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-07-22T07:10:39.087" LastActivityDate="2016-07-22T07:10:39.087" Title="Are Movie Stars typically forbidden from appearing in future commercials resembling a played character?" Tags="|character|casting|copyright|commercial|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31313" CreationDate="2015-02-20T04:54:50.237" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Outside of officially licensed appearances, it would be copyright/trademark infringement and illegal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movie studios own the characters in the films. The actors do not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless the actors get specific permission from the studio to appear as their character, it's generally not allowed as someone will get sued over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could Johnny Depp appear in a commercial as a generic pirate or as a generic version of Tonto? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe... but it's iffy territory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could Chris Pratt show up in a commercial in his Starlord costume? Not without first getting clearance from Marvel/Disney.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and for fun, let me point out that it works the other way, too...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've ever watched any indie films, you may notice that nothing has brand logos... Crews spend a lot of time making sure that any identifiable branding/packaging is removed because they don't want to get sued for using the brand in the film without permission... not that it's necessarily illegal. Companies can get very protective of their brand image and, if they feel it is maligned, they are likely to get very &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmindependent.org/news-and-blog/i-want-to-use-iphones-logos-and-movie-posters-in-my-film-what-clearances-do-i-need/#.VOexwMZBDWQ&quot;&gt;litigious&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also why ET liked the relatively unfamiliar candy &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.snopes.com/business/market/mandms.asp&quot;&gt;Reese's Pieces&lt;/a&gt; instead of the much more popular M&amp;amp;Ms... M&amp;amp;M/Mars refused to give Spielberg permission but Reese's was happy for the exposure and benefited greatly from it... and they didn't even pay for it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an exception that applies to copyright under &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use&quot;&gt;fair use&lt;/a&gt;... The most commonly found is the character in satire/parody... though this wouldn't be likely appear in a commercial, it is acceptable to use a copyrighted character to be used if it's clear that it's being done as a parody... the most easy example is when characters appear on shows like &lt;em&gt;Saturday Night Live&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-02-20T22:16:10.877" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T22:16:10.877" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31316" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32161" CreationDate="2015-02-20T09:36:01.347" Score="8" ViewCount="590" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know that the ring kept Gollum/Smeagol alive for about 500 years, and in &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; we see Bilbo aging really fast after he gave the ring to Frodo, so what happens to Gollum? He remains without the ring for 60 years: shouldn't he be dead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-20T10:18:24.947" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T11:45:22.440" Title="Gollum and the ring" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31313" CreationDate="2015-02-20T09:42:30.833" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's all about contracts, there is no hard and fast rule.  It can also depend on where the advert is being aired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: Harvey Keitel is currently playing Winston Wolf (from Pulp Fiction) in adverts for a big insurance company in the UK (and he announces himself by name as per the film, so it's not just implied).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T09:42:30.833" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31313" CreationDate="2015-02-20T10:44:25.200" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen a commercial recently featuring &lt;strong&gt;Mr. T&lt;/strong&gt; from The A team. I realize this is a series rather than a movie, but I guess it means that everything is possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it is freely possible, but why wouldn't the people holding the rights agree if it allows them to make some more money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are thinking about initiatives that the rights owners do not agree to: Those are definitely not allowed. I recently heard that someone was not even allowed to use his real name in a show because he already used it in a different show, and the owners of that show held the rights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19099" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T10:44:25.200" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31321" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-20T11:21:04.727" Score="17" ViewCount="5321" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_(1960_film)&quot;&gt;Psycho&lt;/a&gt; directed by Alfred Hitchcock has a scene where a person is flushing a toilet. This fact provided some shock effect, since toilets were virtually never seen in American cinema in the 1960s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like the title of this question says, I want to know: &lt;strong&gt;which was the first movie to feature a person sitting on a toilet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why I'm asking this? I think it's an interesting and funny fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8737" LastEditorUserId="28789" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T15:36:50.390" LastActivityDate="2017-06-28T01:59:42.290" Title="What was the first movie to feature a person seated on a toilet?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31323" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31326" CreationDate="2015-02-20T16:01:19.807" Score="5" ViewCount="3641" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I came to know about the new TV show &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3032476/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which is a spin-off from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. But to my disappointment, the characters &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Walter_White&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Walter White&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Jesse_Pinkman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jesse Pinkman&lt;/a&gt; were dropped from the show. Are there any plans to include them in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also noticed that all the main characters in any spin-off generally get dropped? Is there any particular reason for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6825" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2022-09-15T03:03:02.340" LastActivityDate="2022-09-15T03:03:02.340" Title="Why the characters 'Walter White' and 'Jesse Pinkman' dropped from the spin-off 'Better Call Saul'?" Tags="|breaking-bad|spin-off|better-call-saul|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="31324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31323" CreationDate="2015-02-20T16:15:53.107" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show is about Saul, many (seven) years before the events in Breaking Bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6920" LastEditorUserId="6920" LastEditDate="2015-02-20T17:11:26.717" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T17:11:26.717" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31325" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31339" CreationDate="2015-02-20T16:22:53.157" Score="3" ViewCount="1191" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are the products of different famous brands like 'Converse', 'Nike', 'Diesel', 'Calvin klein' (to name a few), be it shoes or clothes, worn by the stars in Hollywood movies part of advertisement. Does the company pay them to wear them or it is just the will of the costume director and has nothing to do with promotions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6825" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2017-12-27T20:14:00.307" LastActivityDate="2017-12-27T20:14:00.307" Title="Are the brands worn by the stars in a movie part of promotions?" Tags="|product-placement|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31323" CreationDate="2015-02-20T16:24:05.927" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a little facetious to say that Walt and Jesse were dropped. They were never intended to be lead characters. The show is about Saul Goodman (hence the &lt;em&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/em&gt;). Of course, they &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; make cameos, as Vince Gilligan, the Breaking Bad creator, &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/better-call-saul-tv-show-details-breaking-bad-spinoff/&quot;&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Personally, I’d have a hard time resisting putting all these guys in&#xA;  for a cameo or two every now and then.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the show is focussed on Saul. The actor who portrays him, Bob Odenkirk, &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/better-call-saul-breaking-bad-comparisons-bob-odenkirk/&quot;&gt;commented&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Here’s what I told Vince and Peter – Pete Gould is also writing that&#xA;  show –we’re gonna make it fresh. It’s not gonna be Breaking Bad 2.0 or&#xA;  whatever. It’s a different show and it’s gonna have a different energy&#xA;  and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;we’re not gonna try to just extend Breaking Bad. That can’t be&#xA;  done. That show is great, it’s done, it’s all wrapped up and&#xA;  delivered, and now we’re gonna do something fresh and new&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; with a&#xA;  character that is rich and funny, and everyone’s excited about it. And&#xA;  we wanna make sure the audience sees right away that it’s not a&#xA;  continuation of Breaking Bad, but rather its own thing that hopefully&#xA;  is gonna be entertaining on its own terms.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to summarise - the show is simply not about them. It's about Saul. They may or may not make cameos (both have expressed interest), but they are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the focus of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T16:24:05.927" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31328" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-20T17:08:19.190" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-02-20T17:08:19.190" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T17:08:19.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31329" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-20T17:08:19.190" Score="0" Body="2014 film directed by Morten Tyldum.  Showing the World War II story of Alan Turing at Bletchley Park attempting to break the German Enigma code." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-02-20T17:38:28.037" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T17:38:28.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28440" CreationDate="2015-02-20T17:52:30.313" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just think its meant to be funny, I know that mangia means 'to eat' in Italian. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is he just jokingly trying to say we the people just want the shock value of the shit. the tabloid shit. I think he by saying 'give us some shit' it just means more of the same shock value headlines they had been doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19107" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2015-02-22T15:32:03.993" LastActivityDate="2015-02-22T15:32:03.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31337" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31338" CreationDate="2015-02-20T20:30:07.467" Score="5" ViewCount="2793" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2014 movie &lt;em&gt;Unbroken&lt;/em&gt;, at (approximately) the 1 hour 55 minute juncture, a US B-29 flies above the PoWs who were told to bathe in the water, before other B-29s do so. I personally observe that the first B-29 dipped its port wing slightly before leveling again, after which a PoW shouts that the war is over. How did the PoW deduce or realise this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user13434" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T10:59:16.343" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T10:59:16.343" Title="How did the US PoW infer the end of WW2?" Tags="|plot-explanation|unbroken|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31337" CreationDate="2015-02-20T20:34:41.310" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is an explanation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But then everything is interrupted as an American bomber plane flies overhead and in Morse code tells them that the war is over.  All the POWs cheer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So whatever the pilot did, was Morse code, and a lot of people back then, especially in the war, knew Morse code, and were able to decipher it when they saw or heard it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2014Spoilers/Unbroken.html&quot;&gt;Source1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is an excerpt from the actual Louis Zamperini story, explaining how the plane did what it did to signal that the war was over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Blinking its red lights to communicate in Morse code - “The war is over” - the plane returned a few hours later.  Its crew dropped a package including cigarettes, chocolate candy and a magazine with an exploding atomic bomb on its cover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/NAOETSU-and-CAMP-B-4-Unbroken-Louis-Zamperini-Story&quot;&gt;Source2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18110" LastEditorUserId="18110" LastEditDate="2015-02-20T20:53:37.917" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T20:53:37.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31325" CreationDate="2015-02-20T20:48:32.730" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a disclaimer, I'm not a lawyer or branding expert, please don't use this as advice for how to use logos in your project. If I've misstated anything here, please comment and I'll fix it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often, when someone wears a recognizable brand in a movie or TV show, it is part of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;product placement&lt;/a&gt;. It's generally very popular for brands to use this form of advertising because it can be extremely lucrative. If someone relates to a character, they may choose to mimic the character's choices, including what they wear, eat, drink, or what car they drive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes they're obvious and overdone, sometimes they're hidden:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/wACBAu9coUU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will say, this video is a bit deceptive... according to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.snopes.com/business/market/mandms.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Snopes&lt;/a&gt; article, Hershey's didn't actually pay $1 million to have Reese's appear in ET... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hershey did not pay to have Reese's Pieces used in E.T., but it did agree to do a tie-in between the movie and the candy after the film was released. A deal was inked wherein Hershey Foods agreed to promote E.T. with $1 million of advertising; in return, Hershey could use E.T. in its own ads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And on that note, it's clear that the owner of the brand doesn't always &lt;strong&gt;pay&lt;/strong&gt; to have their brand appear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, the person who writes the show wants to use a particular brand because they really love it or they think it fits the characters... in this case, they may ask for permission to use the product/logo and, if the brand is comfortable with how it will be used and don't feel it hurts their brand image, they may give permission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/apple-samsung-trial-358581&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Apple&lt;/a&gt; is well known for not paying cash for product placement, though they apparently may give you the product for free... Which sort of counts as paying for it but, when you compare the &lt;em&gt;cost&lt;/em&gt; to Apple of a few iPhones/iPads or MacBookPros and the amount some companies pay (&lt;a href=&quot;http://priceonomics.com/the-economics-of-product-placements/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;$45 Million by Heineken&lt;/a&gt;?), this is tiny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, you may ask, &quot;&lt;em&gt;Could someone just &lt;strong&gt;not ask&lt;/strong&gt; to use a brand?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is, it depends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As someone who works in Indie film, I can tell you that much effort is made to avoid logos. Usually this means buying items that don't have brand logos, and, for items that do have them, removing them or covering them up with black electrical tape, marker, stickers... etc so that you've disguised or completely obscured the logo (this is called &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://artdepartmental.com/glossary/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;greeking&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last thing you want is to negatively affect a brand. For example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A character drinks a beer in your movie, out of a Budweiser can. Later, they go out for a drive, get in a car accident and kill someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Budweiser would sue you blind for this. No alcoholic beverage company ever wants to be associated with car accidents. But, no logos, no problems. Remove the label (or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fastcocreate.com/1681915/when-a-name-brand-just-wont-do-hollywoods-best-fake-products&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;replace it with a fake one&lt;/a&gt;), cover the logo, or put the beer in a plain pint glass and have fun with your drunk driving story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;em&gt;could you get away with it if it wasn't negative&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, it depends.  The bigger your film/TV show is, the more likely the answer is &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You would think that any brand would love free advertising. Unfortunately, if they don't protect their branding/logos, it can actually negatively affect their ability to successfully sue people who are misusing their logo. It has an effect similar to &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.legalteamusa.net/tacticalip/2012/11/01/trademark-licensing/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uncontrolled licensing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-02-20T20:48:32.730" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31340" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31341" CreationDate="2015-02-20T20:56:24.520" Score="12" ViewCount="83104" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the show Better Call Saul, when someone enters Chuck's house, he asks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ground yourself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By which he means to leave watches, mobile phones et cetera outside of the house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, he doesn't have anything electrical in his house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-27T15:00:24.213" LastActivityDate="2020-08-31T12:51:17.037" Title="Why does Chuck ask people that enter his house if they have 'grounded themselves'?" Tags="|better-call-saul|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31340" CreationDate="2015-02-20T21:19:45.503" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ibtimes.com/better-call-saul-season-1-spoilers-what-wrong-chuck-mystery-disease-may-be-1817806&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;I found out&lt;/a&gt; that this is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_hypersensitivity&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Electromagnetic hypersensitivity&lt;/a&gt;. To put it simple, people are affected by electromagnetic fields. They show many symptoms, like pain and ache, headaches etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) is a group of symptoms purportedly caused by exposure to electromagnetic fields [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reported symptoms of EHS include headache, fatigue, stress, sleep disturbances, skin symptoms like prickling, burning sensations and rashes, pain and ache in muscles and many other health problems. Whatever their cause, EHS symptoms are a real and sometimes disabling problem for the affected person. However, there is no scientific basis to link EHS symptoms to electromagnetic field exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, on the first link I posted above, it is mentioned that all of these could just be on Chuck's head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Αlso, this condition was mentioned on S01E05, where Jimmy oversimplified it by calling it 'allergy to electricity'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like @System pointed out in the comments, this isn't accepted as a diagnosis. The doctor at the show, seems to believe that this is a mental situation as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T20:21:29.537" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21694" CreationDate="2015-02-20T21:41:17.033" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically I believe that the ending was to show that in the end the violence that Derek and Danny had caused then turns and comes back at them in response to the pathway they chose to go down. It shows that every decision you make has consequences. I had a better way of wording this but I forgot it. It's a damn good movie definitely one of my top 50.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19112" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2016-06-03T06:51:01.173" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T06:51:01.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31344" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31346" CreationDate="2015-02-21T00:21:39.173" Score="19" ViewCount="75288" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just curious if each child stood for some specific evil or something.  I feel like Augustus Gloop stood for Glutony (his name even has some similarity), but can't quite put my finger on the other kids.  Or, was there some other meaning behind each child?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2017-02-21T22:36:40.010" Title="Was there a specific meaning behind each child in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?" Tags="|character|willy-wonka-and-chocolate-factory|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31344" CreationDate="2015-02-21T00:45:52.410" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;OOOH!  I think I got them all... and it's based on their last names:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Agustus Gloop - Gluttony, like you said. &lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/british/gloop&quot;&gt;Gloop&lt;/a&gt; is a &lt;em&gt;any thick liquid or sticky substance&lt;/em&gt;... sounds like fat? He's constantly eating or complaining of hunger.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Violet Beauregarde - Pride. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sheknows.com/baby-names/name/beauregard&quot;&gt;Beauregard means&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Respected; regarded highly&lt;/em&gt; - Violet is constantly boasting/bragging about herself and what she's accomplished and she's hungry for more.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Veruca Salt - Greed. Salt was originally a form of money. &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/worth-ones-salt.html&quot;&gt;Worth his salt.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Veruca wants everything, when she wants it... and her family gives it to her because they can afford it. She's also selfish and rude, thinking only of herself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mike Teavee - Sloth. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television&quot;&gt;Color TV&lt;/a&gt; had just become a big thing in the Early 60s, when the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory&quot;&gt;book first came out&lt;/a&gt;. I'm guessing this started a trend of kids sitting around a TV rather than going out to play. Mike Teavee is obsessed with watching TV.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that, in each of these cases, their parents are as much the problem as the kids are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Agustus' parents feed him whatever he likes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Violet's parents encourage her to win more competitions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Veruca's parents give her everything she demands.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;MIke's parents let him watch as much TV as he likes without trying to curb him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-02-21T02:37:32.333" LastActivityDate="2015-02-21T02:37:32.333" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31344" CreationDate="2015-02-21T02:05:34.457" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has certainly been argued &lt;a href=&quot;http://hypervocal.com/entertainment/2012/wonka-7-deadly-sins/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;in some quarters&lt;/a&gt; that the children (and a few other character constitute the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Seven Deadly Sins&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gluttony - Augustus  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Greed - Veruca&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pride - Violet   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sloth - Mike   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Envy - Grandpa Joe&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lust - Charlie   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wrath - Willy Wonka&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, whether Dahl &lt;em&gt;intended&lt;/em&gt; these representations to be read is another matter. I would argue Dahl simply wanted each child to be &quot;bad&quot; in their own way, with Charlie being our hero. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, he originally drafted over 10 other children to be in the Chocolate Factory, before settling on the five above. Some pages from one of his manuscripts in the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre show his &quot;fourth draft&quot; of the novel's characters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pCB5J.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Augustus&lt;/strong&gt;: A greedy boy     &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Miranda (a character later cut from the book)&lt;/strong&gt;: A girl who is allowed to do anything she likes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GDsEC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Veruca Salt&lt;/strong&gt;: A girl who is allowed to have anything she wants. (Interestingly, note the similarity between her description and Miranda's)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Violet Beauregarde&lt;/strong&gt; - A girl who chews gum all day long.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mike Teavee&lt;/strong&gt; - A boy who is crazy about television.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/m5PVj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charlie Bucket&lt;/strong&gt; - The child we like best of all&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that there don't appear to be any interviews where he suggests links between this and the Deadly Sins or other representations of evil, it seems likely that he felt they were simply fun &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; characters, who all had interesting flaws that would make for a good story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2015-02-21T15:59:15.220" LastActivityDate="2015-02-21T15:59:15.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31323" CreationDate="2015-02-21T02:27:53.103" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Added to the other answers:  Jesse Pinkman would still have been a school student (making facetious art about his teachers, as well as the occasional wooden box), and Walter White a mild mannered chemistry teacher (who was giving his less attentive students an F and an inferiority complex).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would either of them need a lawyer (at that time)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastActivityDate="2015-02-21T02:27:53.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31348" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31365" CreationDate="2015-02-21T03:31:06.653" Score="4" ViewCount="1959" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was &quot;13&quot; written on the wall as the train leaves a tunnel from District 12 in Catching Fire?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y7bGB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This 13 would seem to me to label a tunnel to District 13 but they're on a train leaving this tunnel, so that makes no sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15845" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T03:52:31.587" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T03:52:31.587" Title="Why was &quot;13&quot; written on the wall as the train leaves District 12 in Catching Fire?" Tags="|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-catching-fire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31323" CreationDate="2015-02-21T05:43:55.457" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other answers summarize things well: This is about Saul and it happens well before the Walter and Jesse characters even become interesting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, regarding &quot;Is there any plans to include them in the future?&quot; the fact that Better Call Saul is a prequel does not mean it may not eventually catch up to the time frame that is breaking bad, or offer us some flash-forwards in time. There have been hints of this in the media.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/better-call-saul-aaron-paul/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From mid-2014&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to actor Aaron Paul, he has had “serious talks” with Breaking Bad creator and Better Call Saul producer Vince Gilligan about a role on the series, something that seems to appeal to Paul’s sense of loyalty and a want to revisit the version of Pinkman that was unspoiled by Walter White’s “empire business.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&amp;amp;objectid=11402688&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From February 2015&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Bob Odenkirk:] &quot;I'm sceptical [sic] of Vince's denials,&quot; he told The Independent in an interview. &quot;He does know where he's going to use those guys [Walt and Jesse] or have them appear. He just doesn't want to say it yet.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-02-21T05:43:55.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31351" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31600" CreationDate="2015-02-21T09:54:00.337" Score="5" ViewCount="1523" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been watching season 1 of 24 for the third time, and trying to work out if Nina's behaviour does add up to the season's final plot twist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question pretty much explains everything: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/15519/why-did-nina-myers-help-jack-bauer-if-she-was-a-mole&quot;&gt;Why did Nina Myers help Jack Bauer if she was a mole?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in episode 22, while Jack is being held hostage by the Drazens and Chapelle refuses to do anything about it, Nina unexpectedly calls Palmer and asks him to help save Jack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I really see no reason for her doing that! She can just let things happen and continue to do her job, her employer's plans are succeeding and Jack's killing was part of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any consistent explanation as to why she would go out of her way when she obviously didn't have to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T21:52:51.590" Title="Why does Nina Myers call Palmer in episode 22 to help save Jack from the Drazens?" Tags="|24|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="827" CreationDate="2015-02-21T09:54:31.787" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/groundhogday.pdf&quot;&gt;second draft&lt;/a&gt; of the script states that Phil was cursed by his ex-girlfriend. After they trimmed her character from &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenplayexplorer.com/wp-content/scripts/Groundhog-Day.pdf&quot;&gt;later versions&lt;/a&gt; of the script (finally removing her entirely from the film), that plotline made no sense, so they seem to have decided to simply leave it as an un-resolved question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CUT TO:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INSERT : A THICK BOOK&lt;/strong&gt; The cover reads &quot;101 Curses, Spells and&#xA;  Enchantments You Can Do at Home.&quot; A well-manicured feminine hand opens&#xA;  the book to a marked page .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INT. CHERRY STREET INN - NIGHT - SAME TIME :&lt;/strong&gt; Phil enters his room and&#xA;  drunkenly tosses his overcoat, scarf and gloves on the floor in a&#xA;  heap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INT. STEPHANIE'S BEDROOM - NIGHT :&lt;/strong&gt; Stephanie Decastro, Phil ' s&#xA;  disaffected ex-lover, is sitting cross-legged on the floor with the&#xA;  book of curses open in front of her. Her hair is down, she's wearing a&#xA;  caftan with a Zodiac print, there are candles everywhere and other&#xA;  vaguely occult decorating touches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INSERT :&lt;/strong&gt; Phil's business card is dropped into a dish. Then the Tarot&#xA;  card of the Hanged Man, a chicken bone, and a feather are placed on&#xA;  top of it .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PHIL :&lt;/strong&gt; He stands at the sink, looking at himself in the mirror, flexing&#xA;  his muscles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STEPHANIE :&lt;/strong&gt; Reading from the book she mutters incantations in a secret&#xA;  language, then she sprinkles some powder on the plate, then a few&#xA;  drops of oil. Then she makes a few passes over it with her hands and,&#xA;  much to her surprise, the contents of the plate spontaneously combust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PHIL :&lt;/strong&gt; As he crosses to the bed, he accidentally knocks over the&#xA;  suitcase stand, spilling his clothes out onto the floor.-25- He&#xA;  contemplates picking them up for a moment, decides to leave them&#xA;  there, and flops down on the bed. He lies there looking up at the&#xA;  ceiling until the room starts to spin around, then he closes his eyes&#xA;  and quickly drops off to sleep, still fully clothed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STEPHANIE :&lt;/strong&gt; To complete the spell, she picks up a broken wristwatch and&#xA;  drops it into the fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INSERT :&lt;/strong&gt; Phil's business card, the Hanged Man and the broken watch in&#xA;  flames. The watch crystal is cracked and the hands are frozen at 5:59&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also worth noting that in the earlier draft, the original spell kept Phil in the loop for 10,000 years(ish) and that it was Rita's kiss that finally broke the curse;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Phil :&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;You want to know what's really amazing? I've been waiting for you every day for ten thousand years. I dream of you every night&#xA;  of my life. You've been my constant weapon against total despair, and&#xA;  just knowing you exist has kept me alive. How's that?&lt;/em&gt;     &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T08:22:15.697" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T08:22:15.697" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17433" CreationDate="2015-02-21T12:09:11.340" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The biggest PLOT HOLE: Camera might have captured Zoe Barns leaning onto the fence while she is toying with her cell phone (deleting her messages and FU's number), and taking to someone (to FU) just few seconds before the accident (the murder). This was enough evidence to suspect that someone was there who might have pushed her in front of the coming train.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19117" LastEditorUserId="19117" LastEditDate="2015-02-21T12:37:07.933" LastActivityDate="2015-02-21T12:37:07.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31356" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-21T13:33:41.993" Score="10" ViewCount="4475" Body="&lt;p&gt;The last three episodes of &quot;The Mentalist&quot; are about arresting a serial killer (Keller). In episode 11, a man named &quot;Gabriel Osbourne&quot; claimed to be a psychic and told the FBI about buried bodies in the woods - something that no one could possibly know but the murderer. Later, Gabriel was killed by Keller because he couldn't connect to his father's spirit, so turning out to be a &quot;fake&quot;. I'm totally confused! Was he really a psychic or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If he was really a psychic, so why couldn't he say anything about Keller's father to save his life?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If he wasn't a psychic, how could he know anything about the bodies?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6204" LastActivityDate="2020-11-04T23:40:07.227" Title="Was Gabriel Osbourne really a psychic?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-mentalist|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15501" CreationDate="2015-02-21T16:22:51.683" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I understand they wanted to separate Katniss from the group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, after putting some thought into this after the second time watching the movie, that this is the one and only reason for doing it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Worrying about the other group finding the wire, or even watching them place it can be fixed. For example, plant the wire sneakily - Looking innocent while hiding the wire under the sand would be trivial, and the wire would not be noticed if the sand were trampled and kicked around a bit afterwards before heading up to the tree.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The plan to kill the other group was a cover story, so leaving the wire behind wouldn't have affected the outcome regardless. They didn't actually care if the other group found the wire. If the other group was watching them, whether they had a wire or not, it wouldn't have made a difference - the careers would've tracked them either way at that point. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So again, I think the only reason for doing this was to separate Katniss when the time came.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15845" LastEditorUserId="15845" LastEditDate="2015-02-21T17:27:20.983" LastActivityDate="2015-02-21T17:27:20.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31361" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-21T17:35:31.107" Score="6" ViewCount="1797" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Broadway play that ex-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2562232/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Birdman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Riggan Thomson&lt;/em&gt; is about to stage ends with the protagonist, played by &lt;em&gt;Thomson&lt;/em&gt;, shooting himself in the head with a gun. And at the end of the actual premiere &lt;em&gt;Riggan&lt;/em&gt; choses to use a real gun instead of a fake one and actually shoots himself in the head for real. Now it is still a bit debatable if he actually survived that act or not (as evident from &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/28785/49&quot;&gt;those&lt;/a&gt; related &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/27608/49&quot;&gt;questions&lt;/a&gt;), but the fact that he &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; shoot himself in reality and that he did this &lt;em&gt;deliberately&lt;/em&gt; seems largely undenyable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why did he do that at all? &lt;strong&gt;What were his motivations for shooting himself and was this a rather short-term decision or did he plan this all along?&lt;/strong&gt; Could he just not stand all the pressure that the play and its circumstances imposed on him anymore or was this just the ultimate commitment to his act? Or was it a total short-circuit reaction? Or did he just feel satisfied that he achieved what he wanted to achieve and the play was an ultimate farewell anyway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The maybe/maybe-not real epilogue to me actually provided a nice satire on the whole authenticity-fuss (&lt;em&gt;Boyhood&lt;/em&gt; anyone? ;-)) when it showed the universal praise he got from the critics for nearly killing himself on stage (even if that might not have been intended as a satire at all). So maybe he actually &lt;em&gt;wanted&lt;/em&gt; nothing more than to provide an authentic act and saw this as his last chance to do so? But this isn't entirely clear and he seemed to a large degree unmoved by all this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Now of course the usual disclaimer that this whole question might have been intentionally left open, but even then I'm sure someone might find a satisfying theory, reasonably and objectively backed by the movie or other sources.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-02-22T14:10:23.020" Title="Why did Riggan Thomson choose to end his play that way?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|birdman|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31361" CreationDate="2015-02-21T19:20:55.550" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was my impression, while watching the film, that there was a series of events that led to the protagonist using a real gun.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He disliked Mike (played by Edward Norton), and saw Mike flirting with his daughter&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He had a momentary lapse in his dressing room with his ex-wife, and was disappointed when she didn't return his affections&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The critic that he met in the bar promised him that she would ruin his play by writing a horribly negative review&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it was a combination of these three events which led Riggan to decide that his only way out was to blow his brains out onstage.  Not only would he gain recognition for &quot;sacrificing himself for his art&quot; (my quotes, this wasn't discussed in the film), but he would also spare himself from the hurt feelings that would have been the result of the three events listed above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-22T13:06:11.543" LastActivityDate="2015-02-22T13:06:11.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31348" CreationDate="2015-02-21T19:43:02.983" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe because it's a &lt;strong&gt;B&lt;/strong&gt; and not &lt;strong&gt;13&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rEpGV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is another one which is to the right which you can make out through the fence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2015-02-21T19:43:02.983" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="545" CreationDate="2015-02-21T22:07:52.797" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other answers already provide some very interesting insights on the matter, which largely amount to the fact that the movie is more or less intentionally left ambiguous and without a clear interpretation, which is also what makes it so fascinating and engaging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to amend this here with &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/4VyUMIZr1PU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wolfgang Schmitt&lt;/em&gt;'s interesting analysis of the movie&lt;/a&gt; (unfortunately not available in English). He goes down pretty much the same line and concludes that the movie in its lack of a clear explanation is basically &lt;strong&gt;a statement about the universality, non-representationality and non-explainability of art itself&lt;/strong&gt;. He says that the movie is actually deliberately constructed in a way to &lt;strong&gt;prevent any secondary interpretations&lt;/strong&gt; of it and to prevent an easy-out approach to explaining it (translated by me):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Why is the structure of &lt;em&gt;2001&lt;/em&gt; so complicated? That is because it is actually layed out that way, it's constructed in a way so that it can't be explained with one working interpretation. [...] Every narrative thread we follow is lost in the void at some point. Even the episode about HAL where we think: &amp;quot;yes, that's quite tangible&amp;quot;, we can say we have artificial intelligence and human intelligence and one will prevail over the other. Even if we realize this, the movie stops at this point and continues at a totally different point. Stanley Kubrick intentionally wants to lock himself from the &lt;em&gt;secondary&lt;/em&gt; [...] He is concerned about the &lt;em&gt;primary&lt;/em&gt;. And he wants to lock himself from something else, maybe even stronger than from those interpretations: from the nowadays so popular arts education that thinks you just need to take a work from its pedestal a little and suddenly you can serve it to everyone, that thinks art is democratic, you have to &amp;quot;pick up the people where they stand&amp;quot;. Exactly that is what Kubrick does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; do. He locks himself and that's what makes the greatness of his work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's great that especially this movie is so popular, although it stands against all that what we generally expect from art nowadays. Especially we always think that the artwork has to communicate with the viewer [...] But Kubrick's work does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; communicate, and that's already evidenced by the fact that there isn't hardly spoken a word in this movie [...] Because &lt;em&gt;A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt; is, first and foremost, a movie about art, as there is a very radical artist standpoint assumed here. &lt;em&gt;2001&lt;/em&gt;, that's actually the manifest of Kubrick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this, he chooses the &lt;strong&gt;monolith as an example of a completely uncontextualizable and unexplainable piece of art&lt;/strong&gt; but that still provokes a change, equating this to the 20th century art movements of suprematism and minimalism that understood art as only having itself as content:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's take a look at the most mysterious thing in the whole movie, the black monolith. What does it stand for? It appears in all spaces and all times over and over, and there's always change induced by its mere presence [...] But let's think about the art of the 20th century. Don't we find there also such art objects like this black monolith? When we think about the suprematism, about Kazimir Malevich and the &amp;quot;Black Square&amp;quot;. That's basically beginning and end of art in one, the &amp;quot;Black Square&amp;quot; stands for the art, it seems to be the concentrate, it's concrete, it's a direct experience when he stand in front of this &amp;quot;Black Square&amp;quot;, and at the same time we can't say for what it actually stands. Or let's think, for the movie is from 1968, about the minimalism which is especially popular in America [...] There we find such sculptures that are just there in the room but behind which there isn't a direct meaning so we can't say &amp;quot;this stands for that&amp;quot; like we know it from classical paintings. [...] When there is something in the room, we can usually contextualize it [...] But what when there's something that at first doesn't have any meaning and no connections to the other things in the room? Then we're really confused, our coordinate system doesn't work any more. That's what &lt;em&gt;2001&lt;/em&gt; is about. The monolith is a work of art that locks itself from every interpretation and especially every education. And the closedness is grounded in the fact that the artwork only relates to itself. There is a nice quote from Kazimir Malevich and his thoughts about art:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new art has placed the principle into foreground that art can only have itself as content. So we don't find the idea of something in it, but only the idea of art itself, its self-content. The inherent idea of art is the non-representationality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kubrick follows exactly this tradition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And when now equating the movie itself to this monolith he says, that the movie demonstrates the &lt;strong&gt;universality and power of art that actually comes from its unexplainability&lt;/strong&gt; and that the fact that we'll never completely grasp the movie is its advantage and gives it it's actual meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We stand in front of Kubrick's movie like in front of the black monolith. [...] This monolith seems to change something. We can approach it, we can try to explain it, but we never really grasp it completely. There's hardly a movie that supports such a radical concept of art and that's so popular at the same time. Therein lies the art of Stanley Kubrick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film starts and ends with music but in a quite strange way, for before we see the intro [...] there is just nothing and we hear music [...] And also at the end it's the same, when the end credits are all over we still hear Johann Strauß' waltz melodies. What does this actually mean? When we look at the screen we actually see nothing, everything is black [...] One could also say the monolith was zoomed comletely close here, and from this monolith, this auratic work of art, everything is possible [...] So the music at the beginning and the end isn't a prelude and afterplay, but it's an approach to art that says &amp;quot;art is always there&amp;quot;. [...] With &lt;em&gt;2001&lt;/em&gt; Stanley Kubrick has created a movie about cinema itself. For from this place where you first see nothing everything is possible. And where does film start and where are its limits? Do we need a clear plot structure? No, that's clear from this movie. Do we even need images? Even that is questionable, alone the fact that there is something acoustical and we look in the direction of the screen already means we encounter an artwork [...] Kubrick said about this movie, and he didn't say much about his movies, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;In 2001 the message is the medium itself&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, so it's about the movie itself. &lt;em&gt;2001&lt;/em&gt; itself is the monolith, an erratic work of art we can only approach but never completely understand, but this work or art changes us. And that's what great art can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-01-02T03:45:17.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31093" CreationDate="2015-02-22T00:03:44.530" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least three of the paintings are real: they were painted by the scenic painter Wilfried Marks and auctioned for a good cause after the production of the episode ended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hr-online.de/website/radio/hr1/index.jsp?rubrik=67233&amp;amp;key=standard_document_53155639&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;More about this (in German)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19130" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T03:01:08.240" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T03:01:08.240" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16922" CreationDate="2015-02-22T03:19:45.883" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are 3 possible theories, considering the objective truths that Nolan presents us (specially in the end of the movie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1st (Lennys theory) - His wife was raped and murdered by John G and the story that Lenny tells about Sammy is true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2nd (Teddys theory) - His wife was raped and survived the accident. Lenny got his amnesia and his wife tested him with the insulin shots. Lenny kills her with the shots. Lenny and Sammy are the same person (proved by the Sammy/Lenny hospital scene).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3rd (Wife + I've done it tatoo)- Lenny always says that his last memory was of his wife dying but he never saw her dead... She could still be alive and for a brief period could have lived whit Lenny while he was in search of John G. She could have accepted his thirst for revenge as long as it would stop with the killing of John G. The &quot;I've done it&quot; tattoo would be a reminder to Lenny that his search was over and he could finally live with his wife peacefully (they were both relaxing in bed with lenny's body full of tattos, including the &quot;I've done it&quot; one) ...When she realized that Lenny would not stop, she left him. I know that he doesn't have the tatto any more but for the sake of this theory let's say that he removed it xD&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last one is a little far fetched but at least can explain the I've done it bed scene.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19134" LastActivityDate="2015-02-22T03:19:45.883" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1545" CreationDate="2015-02-22T07:12:55.373" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interestingly enough, I believe that the sadistic rabbit character represents the immense fear generated within the subconscious of Gal. This fear, I believe, really has little to do with Don. I see this fear being directly related to the character Teddy Bes, who,  in Gal's perception can be considered the earthly manifestation of Satan himself. Furthermore, the boulder falling down the hill in the opening scene can be seen as a symbol of the discision being made at Gal's expense at that exact moment, a thousand miles away. Something of a non-local seismic disturbance. The decision to not only involve him in a new job in London, but to send Don, Satan's hunting dog, to make sure Gil complies. The literal erosion of the earth above Gal's villa coincides with the exact moment Gal's perfect life was decisively affected by an outside influence of nefarious intent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19139" LastActivityDate="2015-02-22T07:12:55.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23333" CreationDate="2015-02-22T08:12:03.923" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Samantha's first year at college is one segment before Mason graduates from high school.  This means that they are two &lt;strong&gt;grades&lt;/strong&gt; apart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyhood_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; plot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 2012, Mason and Sheena visit Samantha at the University of Texas at Austin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 2013, during Mason's senior year in high school...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on their birthdays, they could be anything from 12 to 36 months apart and fall into that spacing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, say that the school's birthdate cutoff is September 1st and pretend that Samantha is born in 1990.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If Samantha was born August 31st 1990, and Mason was born September 2nd 1991 (12 months and 2 days later) they would actually be 2 grades apart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If Samantha was born September 2nd 1990, Mason could be born as late as August 31st 1993 (2 days short of 36 months) and still be only two grades lower than Samantha.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, on average, you could think of them as being two years apart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, to address your inconsistency questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, when the children are first re-united with their father, Samantha states that all she can remember from their parents failed marriage was their arguments and bickering: she prefixes this statement with &amp;quot;When I was six, I remember....&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He infers that Mason was the result of &amp;quot;Break up sex&amp;quot; between his father Mason Sr. and mother Olivia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't see this as an issue. I think that what their uncle is implying (as you guess at) is that Mason Sr. and Olivia ended up stuck back together again due to his conception. I think that the implication that Mason Jr. seems to remember them being together (and wants them to get back together again) implies that the divorce probably only occurred a year or so before the movie begins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-22T08:27:21.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31361" CreationDate="2015-02-22T14:10:23.020" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Riggan is clearly suffering from some form of mental degradation from the outset of the film...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... his madness is manifested by the disembodied voice of &quot;Birdman&quot;, talking to him, and indeed the film opens with a sequence of him 'levitating' whilst being ridiculed by this ethereal presence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is a self reflexive Ouroboros, and whilst not strictly speaking a 'Puzzle Film' in the Warren Buckland definition, it does solicit 'clues' and overt references to not only its own narrative, but to a meta-textual commentary about the way we treat films as an audience, and consume them as products.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film explores the paradoxical nature of star worship; that we, as spectators, reduce our interpretations and expectations of stars into narrow categories (and bemoan their lack of innovation/unoriginality), and yet lambast them with criticism for attempting to move into new, more fertile territory. Birdman is situated at the intersection of just such a contradiction, with Riggan Thomson the personification of the creative plight of many 'typecast' actors; Michael Keaton, least of all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His final 'realization' of what he must do (meaning his attempted suicide) comes to him after he has hit 'rock bottom', spending a night sleeping on the streets of NY. This is his enlightenment, and the next day Birdman appears to him as an almost celestial vision, entreating him to surrender to the fact he will always be 'Birdman', and nothing more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a simultaneous embrace and denial of this fact, Riggan accepts that what people expect of him is &quot;Explosions and violence&quot;, but he also rejects the notion that he will only ever be known as 'Birdman'. His decision to commit suicide on stage is the solution to this paradox... he is giving the people what they want, in the form of 'violence'; yet he is also redefining his legacy, not as 'Birdman' but as the actor who has committed suicide on the opening night of his first play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2015-02-22T14:10:23.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31392" CreationDate="2015-02-22T15:32:41.040" Score="2" ViewCount="1304" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't make out a quote in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059592/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pierrot Le Fou&lt;/a&gt; which is translated from French to &quot;To want something you have to be alive.&quot; It's in the first part of the movie, as they first take off in the car, where Ferdinand quotes something Marianne said to him when they were together in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've tried to search for a script, subtitles, translation but no luck. Does anyone know the exact wording?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19144" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2015-02-22T15:40:06.140" LastActivityDate="2015-02-22T17:41:10.140" Title="Exact french quote meaning &quot;To want something you have to be alive&quot;" Tags="|dialogue|pierrot-le-fou|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31390" CreationDate="2015-02-22T16:19:38.950" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the book &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.com/books?id=3ExKmREQI9IC&amp;amp;pg=PA38&amp;amp;lpg=PA38&amp;amp;dq=Pierrot%20Le%20Fou%20%20%22To%20want%20something%20you%20have%20to%20be%20alive.%22&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=TBUAv2pD8T&amp;amp;sig=tgaW7wevvikxSiz9VVGLYQ0qmYk&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=6P_pVLCAKq20sAT6voKADg&amp;amp;ved=0CDYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=Pierrot%20Le%20Fou%20%20%22To%20want%20something%20you%20have%20to%20be%20alive.%22&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou (Cambridge Film Handbooks)&lt;/a&gt; by David Wills (Editor), as found through a Google Books result,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Belmondo makes a pun on these words: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;J'avais envie, J'étais en&#xA;  vie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (&quot;I felt desire, I was alive&quot;) translated in the subtitles as&#xA;  &quot;To Want something, you have to be alive.&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What remains of my high school French agrees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="15418" LastEditDate="2015-02-22T17:41:10.140" LastActivityDate="2015-02-22T17:41:10.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31396" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-22T17:33:22.560" Score="2" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; about following types of reality TV shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Big Brother&quot; or &quot;Jersey Shore&quot; were the portrayed individuals are recognized as &quot;actors&quot;/&quot;participants&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Cops&quot; where the portrayed individuals are in jobs and situations that are not easily staged.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What this question is about are reality TV shows like &quot;Big Rig Bounty Hunters&quot;, &quot;Storage Wars&quot;, &quot;Shipping Wars&quot;, &quot;Auction Hunters&quot;, and the like... shows that portray individuals earning money from careers and situations that might well be staged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any known cases where a person from one of these reality TV shows has been portrayed as having a different career in another reality TV show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user18562" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T21:15:24.810" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T21:15:24.810" Title="Any known cases of a person appearing in one reality TV show as having one career but later in another reality TV show as having a different career?" Tags="|casting|reality-tv|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31397" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-22T17:50:06.983" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Academy Awards&lt;/strong&gt;, commonly known as &lt;strong&gt;The Oscars&lt;/strong&gt;, are an annual American awards ceremony honouring achievements in the film industry since 1929. Winners are awarded the statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, better known by its nickname &lt;em&gt;Oscar&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions using this tag should be related to films, actors or crew who were winners or nominees of the Academy Awards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Academy Awards on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-22T17:50:06.983" LastActivityDate="2015-02-22T17:50:06.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31398" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-22T17:50:06.983" Score="0" Body="The Academy Awards, commonly known as The Oscars, are an annual American awards ceremony honoring achievements in the film industry since 1929." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-22T17:50:06.983" LastActivityDate="2015-02-22T17:50:06.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2618" CreationDate="2015-02-22T21:07:16.907" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Iron Man, Iron Man 2 and Thor are definitely mandatory see as their the starting point for too of the Avengers and the main villain Loki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18968" LastActivityDate="2015-02-22T21:07:16.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31407" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-23T01:24:05.987" Score="18" ViewCount="36471" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will try to avoid spoilers but this question is meant for people who HAVE seen the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently there are three different cuts of this movie as far as I know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;US cut&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;UK cut&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Indonesian cut&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, these cuts vary when it comes to the controversial church scene. The Indonesian cut basically skips the whole thing by cutting from when Colin Firth points the gun at the woman to when he walks out of the church.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is what are the differences between the US and UK cuts of this scene? Apparently there are differences because the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) only granted the film a 15 rating after certain violence was taken out of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a lot taken out or is it maybe some split second shot that was a bit graphic or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19154" LastEditorUserId="756" LastEditDate="2015-06-15T07:41:13.963" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T07:41:13.963" Title="What are the differences between the US and UK cuts of the church scene in Kingsman: The Secret Service?" Tags="|alternate-version|content-rating|kingsman-the-secret-service|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31409" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31416" CreationDate="2015-02-23T03:22:32.067" Score="42" ViewCount="9847" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1490017/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The LEGO Movie&lt;/a&gt; displayed a new style of animation, was there any specific technical reason why it was not nominated in the category of &quot;Best Animated Feature Film&quot; at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/87th_Academy_Awards&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;87th Academy Awards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not looking for a general opinion on if the movie was good enough or not. I am more curious if the movie lacked something on a technical front (if any) that didn't let it get nominated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2019-02-11T14:05:24.973" LastActivityDate="2023-10-21T19:02:57.093" Title="Why was The LEGO Movie not nominated at the Oscars?" Tags="|animation|academy-awards|the-lego-movie|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="31411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31409" CreationDate="2015-02-23T03:33:18.323" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;I don't have the minute count for the film but&lt;/del&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Animated_Feature&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;rules&lt;/a&gt; require:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An animated feature is defined by the academy as a film with a running time of more than 40 minutes in which characters' performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique, a significant number of the major characters are animated, and animation figures in &lt;strong&gt;no less than 75 percent of the running time&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible that the live-action sections added up up to over 25% of the film's content, and caused it to be out of the running. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I have a difficult time believing, from my memory, that the live-action portion was 25% of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As noted by &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/1190/ankit-sharma&quot;&gt;Ankit Sharma&lt;/a&gt; in the comments, my memory is correct.  The film was 100 minutes and the live action section was only 10 minutes long, making it only 10% of the running time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that &lt;strong&gt;this technical reason is not a possible explanation&lt;/strong&gt; for why the film wasn't nominated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T15:14:35.410" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31409" CreationDate="2015-02-23T09:38:59.150" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a Variety article on this very thing with 5 reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Lego” landed just one mention — in the song category for its infectious “Everything Is Awesome” anthem — but not in the animated feature category, where many were predicting that the toon blockbuster might win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That oversight comes as a total shock to Oscar pundits — arguably the year’s biggest snub, alongside the fact that “Selma” placed in only two categories (for which theories abound). From the point of view of the animation community, however, there was always a risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasons reported are as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Animation professionals pick the nominations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A record number of eligible toons means tougher competition&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voters watch all 20 contenders, so the best rises&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The animation branch loves handmade movies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Traditional forms and classical storytelling win out&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original report is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2015/film/news/oscar-snub-lego-movie-best-animation-1201405956/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;5 Reasons the Academy Overlooked ‘The LEGO Movie’&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like there is no one overriding answer, it was a combination of things.  Given Variety's place in Hollywood I would imagine it's pretty accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T21:04:32.053" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11640" CreationDate="2015-02-23T10:28:12.003" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got it! I was wondering this myself after some site I saw a week ago tried to pass this off as factual trivia. I maybe 2 years too late for this answer but I'm convinced its Jim Lau who is listed as Chang Sing #2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some other photos of him - comparing them with the one above, I think its definitely his nose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KFhMQ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KFhMQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jim Lau #1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;(source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://ma-mags.com/Mags/IKF80/IKF%201981-12%20Cov.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ma-mags.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mymoviequotes.com/uploads/movies/actor/thumb/98/985/9857-jim-lau-i.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jim Lau #2 http://mymoviequotes.com/uploads/movies/actor/thumb/98/985/9857-jim-lau-i.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091203190326/flashforward/images/f/ff/Jim_Lau.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jim Lau #3&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hwB0FsDwOHE/T6hcdYdI1tI/AAAAAAAABTE/SVrnjP_WQkc/s1600/jim+lau+-+Sr+Fong++%2528+Todo+mundo+odeia+o+Chris+%2529.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jim Lau #4&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19154" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2019-02-16T23:48:01.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="31419" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31433" CreationDate="2015-02-23T10:56:47.867" Score="13" ViewCount="5695" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I watched &lt;em&gt;Big Trouble in Little China&lt;/em&gt; for the third time in a week. What a hidden gem this film is!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway my question is why did Jack Burton refuse to kiss Gracie at the end? he has already done so twice but then refuses to when they're in the restaurant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually in these types of movies we see the hero kiss the girl regardless of whether he will ever see her again so is there an importance or point to this scene? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19154" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T10:58:11.600" LastActivityDate="2016-10-12T05:23:39.440" Title="Big Trouble In Little China Ending" Tags="|plot-explanation|big-trouble-in-little-china|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31421" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31425" CreationDate="2015-02-23T11:18:40.863" Score="7" ViewCount="25084" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first few series of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; Arya's name was pronounced Arryah (leading to her name 'arry).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However towards the end of series four (particularly the fight with Brienne and The Hound) her name is pronounced Aiyaa (even Maisie Williams her character introduces herself this way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason between this change of pronunciation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2015-06-25T16:27:41.330" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T16:27:41.330" Title="Has the pronunciation of Arya Stark's name changed?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31421" CreationDate="2015-02-23T13:47:00.873" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll attempt a complete guess at an &lt;em&gt;in universe&lt;/em&gt; explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Game of Thrones wiki comments: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&quot;Arya&quot; is pronounced &quot;ARE - yuh&quot;. George R.R.&#xA;  Martin himself has pointed out that a surprisingly large number of&#xA;  people pronounce it incorrectly: it consists of two syllables, not&#xA;  three (like how the &quot;aria&quot; of an opera is pronounced). Martin&#xA;  explained: &quot;I say it 'Are-ya', two syllables not three. Not&#xA;  'are-ee-uh', not like an operatic thing, but 'Are-ya', very sharp. I&#xA;  wanted something that was like a knife, that was a sharp and hard&#xA;  sound, to be a contrast to the flowery 'Sansa'.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They refer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/DOEO27SZAtw?t=3m&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this video&lt;/a&gt; as their citation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm interested in is the last section - &lt;em&gt;to be a contrast to the flowery Sansa&lt;/em&gt;. When we  first meet Arya, she's the tomboy of Winterfell - but is still in Winterfell and being brought up as a lady. Much like Sansa is a very flowery name, perhaps Arya was encouraged to over pronounce her name to give it a more feminine, dainty feel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, with the loss of her family and with her becoming more and more wild, she fell back on her &lt;em&gt;preferred&lt;/em&gt;, less sweet-sounding pronunciation and has stuck with it ever since!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for an &lt;em&gt;out of universe&lt;/em&gt; explanation... She's a young woman who has filmed all across the world, probably picking up various bits of regional dialect along the way. Perhaps she didn't know the real pronunciation to begin with. Perhaps George RR Martin had other things to concern himself with and didn't care. I can't find any interviews which suggest she &lt;em&gt;deliberately&lt;/em&gt; change her pronunciation, so I'm going to say it's simply an incidental thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T13:47:00.873" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31431" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31432" CreationDate="2015-02-23T15:57:27.947" Score="58" ViewCount="11653" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were so many instances in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; when someone unsheathes a Valyrian steel weapon, like when Mormont presents Jon Snow with Longclaw and like the one where Brienne pulls out the reforged sword made from Ice when she is about to fight the Hound the person opposite to them immediately identifies them as Valyrian steel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a viewer in that short glance I never could tell them apart. Is there an explanation in the TV show or in the books which gives a description of them and how do they differ from the regular steel which makes the distinction very quickly discernible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2018-11-07T16:07:35.837" LastActivityDate="2018-11-09T13:09:06.130" Title="How does one identify Valyrian steel?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="31432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31431" CreationDate="2015-02-23T16:31:08.490" Score="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Valyrian_steel&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones Wiki page about Valyrian steel&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Valyrian steel is recognizable from its sharpness, as well as a distinctive rippled pattern visible in blades made from it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's hard to detect sharpness from eyesight alone, the &quot;distinctive rippled pattern&quot; can be detected easily by those who know where to look for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Couple of examples where it's easy to spot such patterns:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gdboY.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gdboYl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/57QBx.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2015-02-28T20:17:38.390" LastActivityDate="2015-02-28T20:17:38.390" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31419" CreationDate="2015-02-23T16:55:38.593" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The entire point of this movie is that it is a reversal of common action movie tropes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the movie, Jack, who is supposedly the hero (and who certainly &lt;em&gt;thinks&lt;/em&gt; he is), is consistently upstaged by Wang, ostensibly the &quot;sidekick&quot;. He is pulled along by the momentum of the story, never really understanding what's going on, never truly in control, and so he bumbles his way through fights and is just generally a step behind everyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from his Crowning Moment of Awesome against Lo-Pan (&quot;it's all in the reflexes&quot;), he never really accomplishes anything in the movie without someone else's help. It's actually an acceptance of this that allows this moment to happen. After missing the first throw and realizing that he's pretty much screwed everything up, Jack stops &lt;em&gt;trying&lt;/em&gt; to be the star and decides to let things play out as they must. He looks at his fate, shrugs, and says, &quot;What the hell.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last scene is also a reversal. Jack offers to give up the open road for Gracie, where in most westerns, it's usually the woman who tries to tame the wild cowboy drifter and stop his wandering. Gracie turns down the offer and counters that she could come with him, which Jack finds tempting, but in the end, he refuses as well because he knows that these sorts of 'happily ever after' stories probably don't work in the long run. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also knows he's not relationship material, and he cares for Gracie too much to subject her to that. He prefers to hurt her a little now instead of hurting her a lot later. Refusing the last kiss is part of that. It's a promise that he doesn't want to make to her, right up to the &quot;See you round&quot;/&quot;Never can tell&quot; exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7962" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T16:55:38.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21312" CreationDate="2015-02-23T18:54:03.330" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This probably wouldn't change the continuity of wolverine's past at all as I believe Mystique only uses the disguise to order some soldiers to fish his body out of the river.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her reasoning for this could be that she realizes how important wolverine is in the possible future or far more likely she did it as a favor called in by xavier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19154" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T18:54:03.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31435" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-23T19:03:31.127" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-02-23T19:03:31.127" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T19:03:31.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31436" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-23T19:03:31.127" Score="0" Body="2014 Spy comedy directed by Matthew Vaughn following the path of a new agent entering the service and being pitted against a global threat against humanity." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-02-23T19:17:11.817" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T19:17:11.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31437" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32858" CreationDate="2015-02-23T19:51:50.870" Score="8" ViewCount="2915" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Ridley Scott's 2005 film &lt;em&gt;Kingdom of Heaven&lt;/em&gt;, only after the bloody 3 day siege of Jerusalem ends in stalemate do Balian and Saladin agree to terms allowing the inhabitants of the city to peacefully evacuate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it explained in the film why Balian didn't simply ask for terms with Saladin &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the expected siege began and thus avoid pointless loss of life? If Saladin was agreeable to terms after losing thousands of men at the walls, wouldn't he have been even more favorable to allowing the defenders to leave the city without bloodshed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Historically, Saladin did seek a peaceful turn over of Jerusalem and offered generous terms but the defenders refused. I don't recall seeing this made explicit in the film, perhaps I missed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11367" LastActivityDate="2022-05-27T10:00:02.350" Title="Why didn't Balian ask for terms with Saladin before the siege of Jerusalem in Kingdom of Heaven?" Tags="|plot-explanation|kingdom-of-heaven|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1546" CreationDate="2015-02-23T20:08:43.593" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;To understand the meaning of the phrase, one must understand the meaning of &quot;Chinatown&quot; within the context of the film.  &quot;Chinatown&quot; is a metaphor for any situation in which an foreign entity seeks to intervene without having the native knowledge required to understand the consequences of the intervention.  In the film, Jake knows about the dangers of unintended consequences from past experience as he tried to help a woman previously with disastrous results.  After that, he drew the allusion between those events to Chinatown himself, a place with its own culture, language, and customs so foreign to the police that the prevailing wisdom was to do &quot;as little as possible&quot;, lest accidentally doing more harm than good.  When drawn into protecting Evelyn, Jake gets in over his head, and his actions wind up causing more harm than good once again.  The policeman reminds Jake of where he is, literally and metaphorically, with the phrase, &quot;Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The phrase has become famous not only because it is a shockingly low-key reaction to the events at the end of the film, but because its meaning is so readily adaptable to real world events both large and small since the film was released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19173" LastEditorUserId="19173" LastEditDate="2015-02-23T20:16:22.153" LastActivityDate="2015-02-23T20:16:22.153" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31439" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31480" CreationDate="2015-02-23T22:36:33.763" Score="9" ViewCount="1123" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure why this movie was called Project Almanac.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I remember the protagonists just make up the name out of the blue and never mention it again, so maybe there is no significance at all and it is just a random code word. (One of them also says he wants to be called &quot;Obsidian One&quot; now, which would be another random name as far as I can tell.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the more I think about it the more I suspect it might be a homage to Back to the Future 2, one of the greatest time travel movies known to man, which prominently features a sports almanac in the story line that is used to predict future horse racing results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is the significance of the movie title &quot;Project Almanac&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there any hard evidence that it is a hint at the Back to the Future series, for example a statement of the director or writers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="30306" LastEditDate="2018-12-18T08:47:24.707" LastActivityDate="2018-12-18T08:47:24.707" Title="Is the title &quot;Project Almanac&quot; an homage to Back to the Future?" Tags="|analysis|title|reference|project-almanac|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="31440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31443" CreationDate="2015-02-23T22:43:57.887" Score="6" ViewCount="4166" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw Project Almanac today and I am not even going to ask about any of the &lt;em&gt;highly&lt;/em&gt; illogical time travel events of the movie. Instead I want to ask about one of the events that takes place and the connection to real life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the gang travels back 3 months into the past to visit the music festival Loolapalooza (because apparently in the future there are no music festivals to go to), you can see one of the bands playing a concert and you can also see a line up of the festival, featuring famous real life bands like Two Door Cinema Club.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I could tell the line up looked extremely realistic, I recognized multiple names. That kind of stuck out to me, because usually in a movie like this you would either make up fake names or don't show the names of the bands at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does this event really exist in the form presented in the movie? (i.e. with the line up shown?)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the movie maybe even include real shots from it? The scene were the protagonists are up on the stage with the band showed a crowd which could have easily been filmed during a real concert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T02:51:06.260" LastActivityDate="2016-04-26T14:05:45.713" Title="Does the music festival really exist?" Tags="|realism|project-almanac|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31442" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31447" CreationDate="2015-02-23T23:10:05.393" Score="10" ViewCount="7716" Body="&lt;p&gt;With shows like The Walking Dead, why do they use a 2-part season? There are other shows like Son of Anarchy that do not have a 2-part season. Some shows such as American Horror Story take a break for the holidays, but there is not really an explicit mid-season finale, just a teaser episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the purpose and when did shows start using this format?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:12:35.440" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T17:12:35.440" Title="What is the purpose of a mid-season finale?" Tags="|scheduling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31440" CreationDate="2015-02-23T23:35:02.367" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;They did actually film at Lollapalooza.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an article about the filming in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/celebrity/chi-project-almanac-lollapalooza-20150127-column.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chicago Tribune&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When “Project Almanac” wanted to shoot on location at Lollapalooza in 2013, the found-footage film — which revolves around a group of high school students who time-travel to various locations, including the Grant Park music festival — turned to Chicago music promoters Jeff McClusky &amp;amp; Associates to persuade fest organizers C3 Presents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Because of how sensitive C3 is to anything invasive to the festival goers’ experience, Paramount (Pictures) asked me to approach them due to my long relationship with C3,” McClusky said over the phone last week. “My role was to get C3 comfortable with the idea and to serve as a music consultant to determine which artists we might use in the film for background music.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paramount’s strategy worked. C3 gave the production the green light to film on fest grounds. The scenes reportedly involve the high school students ditching chemistry class to attend Lolla, which they couldn't do prior to building the time machine because they couldn't afford tickets. Filming took place at Lolla for two days and, for the most part, went under the radar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T02:51:04.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31444" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31449" CreationDate="2015-02-23T23:42:09.083" Score="3" ViewCount="688" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone knows this scene! Indiana Jones narrowly escapes death by a huge rolling boulder in the &lt;em&gt;Raiders of the Lost Ark&lt;/em&gt;. However I recently watched the original &lt;em&gt;Journey to the Center of the Earth&lt;/em&gt; with James Mason again and was delighted to find the same scene is used here were he too and his party encounter the same situation (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/502798/Journey-To-The-Center-Of-The-Earth-Movie-Clip-A-Slight-Tremor.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scene starts at 1:06&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure I've seen the same scene used in another movie as well. Thought it could have been used in &lt;em&gt;King Solomon's Mines&lt;/em&gt; (1985) but I was mistaken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is what is the first film to use this situation and how times has this been used in movie history?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19154" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T10:55:40.117" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T10:55:40.117" Title="The Legendary Enormous Boulder Scene" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31446" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-24T01:44:29.553" Score="2" ViewCount="1601" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Disturbia (2007), how does Ronnie get out of the neighbor's house while videotaping? Ronnie just suddenly appears in the closet and I don't think it's explained how he gets there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19179" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-24T01:45:17.077" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T13:12:55.983" Title="How does Ronnie get out of the neighbor's house while videotaping?" Tags="|plot-explanation|disturbia|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31442" CreationDate="2015-02-24T01:46:12.163" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There can be many reasons for a mid-season finale:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The holidays&lt;/strong&gt;. Most mid-season finales occur between Thanksgiving and January/February, sometimes as late as March. Lots of people get preoccupied with the holidays, especially holiday TV specials and programming, so stations put their key shows on hold so they don't lose ratings numbers. This is occasionally done at other points in the year, such as Game of Thrones skipping the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To allow the post-production teams time to do their jobs&lt;/strong&gt;. Lots of TV shows, such as The Walking Dead, have come to rely very heavily on special effects shots, which take time to complete. Taking a break for a few months allows the post-production teams time to finalize these special effects without feeling too rushed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To build hype&lt;/strong&gt;. Let's face it: loads of people love The Walking Dead. You know it, your friends know it, and AMC knows it, so they're totally fine with taking a break to build hype by leaving the season hanging on some big event and letting people talk about it for months while showing other things and building ad revenue to help pay for the second half of the season. They know you'll be back, so there's really little to no risk for them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T01:46:12.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31431" CreationDate="2015-02-24T02:16:09.143" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;@Shadow Wizard's &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/31432/11244&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; is correct as per the TV-Show.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to &lt;em&gt;add&lt;/em&gt; the books' description of the blades which may help to identify how people can instantly recognise the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Valyrian_steel&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Valyrian Steel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; blades.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is Bran's description of Ice (the ancestral sword of House Stark):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Ice,” that sword was called. It was as wide across as a man’s hand, and taller even than Robb. The blade was Valyrian steel, spell-forged and &lt;strong&gt;dark as smoke&lt;/strong&gt;. Nothing held an edge like Valyrian steel. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One - A Game Of Thrones, Chapter One (Bran I).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And This is Jon's description of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Longclaw&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Longclaw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Jon turned it sideways, he could see the ripples in the &lt;strong&gt;dark steel&lt;/strong&gt; where the metal had been folded back on itself again and again. “This is Valyrian steel, my lord,” he said wonderingly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One - A Game Of Thrones, Chapter Sixty (Jon VIII).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see what I'm getting at here: Valyrian Steel blades have a distinctive 'ripple' effect from the folding technique used to forge them. They are also quite '&lt;strong&gt;dark&lt;/strong&gt;' and '&lt;strong&gt;smoky&lt;/strong&gt;' in colour. &lt;strong&gt;This is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; distinctive and instantly recognisable.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blades used in the TV-show are &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; 'dark' or 'smoky', but people can still recognise the blades instantly by their distinctive 'ripple' effects and immaculate sharpness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T02:16:09.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31444" CreationDate="2015-02-24T02:16:19.137" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you're speaking of is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IndyEscape&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Indy Escapes trope&lt;/a&gt;, which apparently debuted in the Buster Keaton film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016332/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Seven Chances (1925)&lt;/a&gt;, although it was styrofoam rocks that the hero was running from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene in question can be seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/zTwfCyWKYYc?t=49m46s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T02:16:19.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31453" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31455" CreationDate="2015-02-24T05:19:37.053" Score="17" ViewCount="48376" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marcus was given the contract to kill John Wick. Then the next thing we know that he was helping John Wick. Question is why? Did I miss anything?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They must have been communicating, otherwise Marcus wouldn't know when and where John will be. At hotel Continental John wasn't worried about the first shooter, he was fighting Perkins as if there is no other killer. So John knew Marcus is helping him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even when they meet after the saving of John Wick for the second time they don't discuss really why Marcus helped him. Is it for the money? Were they partners before? Or friends? Was there any mention why he did it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T08:59:43.297" LastActivityDate="2021-04-07T23:47:08.550" Title="Help me understand the interaction between Marcus and John Wick" Tags="|plot-explanation|john-wick|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31454" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-24T05:52:25.427" Score="5" ViewCount="763" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it's widely considered that bombs with cute LCD displays and timers displaying the time left, all in movies and video games, are highly unrealistic, because what evil villain wants to let the good guys know how much time they have left? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The earliest I can recall that maybe the oldest instance of bombs with timers were maybe the dynamites with the string hanging out in the old Looney Toons, but someone has me convinced that there is a far older iteration of the &quot;bomb with a timer to kindly let the good guys know how long they have to save the world&quot; kind of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4211" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-02-24T10:12:47.567" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T10:12:47.567" Title="When did bombs start having fancy countdown timers?" Tags="|first-appearance|props|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31453" CreationDate="2015-02-24T07:11:22.820" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marcus was given the contract to kill John Wick. Then the next thing we know that he was helping John Wick. Question is why? Did I miss anything?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You did not miss anything. As already mentioned in the comments, Marcus helped John because they were good old friends. One way of knowing that is that Marcus is shown attending John's wife's funeral at the beginning. As to the &quot;Marcus helping John part&quot;, it's because, at the last moment, Marcus chose friendship over money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They must have been communicating, otherwise Marcus wouldn't know when and where John will be.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. They were not communicating. Marcus knows that John is at Hotel Continental because that's where all the gangsters reside when they're attending business and John is staying in the same room he used in the old times before he retired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John wasn't worried about the first shooter, he was fighting Perkins as if there is no other killer. So John knew Marcus is helping him.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. If you re-watch the scene again, you'll notice that John knows that &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt; is shooting but his main priority is to deal with Perkins who is an immediate threat to his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Even when they meet after the saving of John Wick for the second time they don't discuss really why Marcus helped him?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't matter. As the main villain mentioned in the beginning, John Wick is sheer will and focus. I'm guessing that John is intelligent enough to understand that Marcus took the contract for money but for the old times and Friendship's sake, he changed his mind.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T08:35:44.007" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T08:35:44.007" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31446" CreationDate="2015-02-24T11:00:51.533" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Ronnie finds out that the neighbor is in his home, Ronnie tries to run and hide saying something like &quot;he is inside the house.&quot;, during this, the signal between Ronnie and Kale is lost. As Kale has already figured out that the neighbor is a killer, he's worried that something might have happened to his friend and leaves his house premises, creates a scene and police arrives. But Ronnie is too afraid to show up in front of the cops because he broke into someone's house. While everyone including cops is arguing in front of the neighbor's house, Ronnie sneaks out of neighbor's house and hides in the closet (it was not shown in the movie but I had to assume.). The same thing Ronnie explains to Kale in the latter scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2015-02-24T13:12:55.983" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T13:12:55.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31431" CreationDate="2015-02-24T12:02:55.880" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pattern welding is used as a visual cue in the TV series. But this cannot be all there is to it. Pattern welding is a method of making a blade by platting together strips of softened metal and then hammering them together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books however it is stated that Valyrian steel swords are lighter and can be melted down to make new blades. This suggests that Valyrian steel is an alloy that can no longer be sourced. It is not stated whether they are lighter because they are less dense or because they are stronger so less metal is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about a compromise? Valyrian steel is a valuable alloy that is sharper and lighter than steel but perhaps a little too brittle? So swords are made by pattern welding it with regular steel. The result is lighter than the equivalently sized steel sword and has a rippled pattern because the two metals do not mix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19188" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-02-24T16:15:17.753" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T16:15:17.753" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31461" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-24T12:04:53.030" Score="6" ViewCount="649" Body="&lt;p&gt;I need help identifying an old alien / sci-fi movie. I think it was from the 80s or early 90s possibly. I remember a couple of things about the movie such as these scenes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The movie begins or ends with a scene where a number of bald people are trying to close a door that is on another world or on a spaceship and there is a blue light coming out of the other side.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At one point in the movie there is an alien posing as a teacher. Someone walks in on her in an empty classroom and sees her writing weird glyphs/ symbols on a whiteboard of blackboard. Then when they confront her, her eyes go black, she opens her mouth and a weird noise is emanated.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry to be vague, this is all I remember and its driving me nuts. What's worse is when I saw it, it was dubbed in Russian, so I can't even remember what the actors were talking about in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19187" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-02-24T12:36:25.297" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T23:57:35.207" Title="Help identifying an old alien movie" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:35:47.173" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1152" CreationDate="2015-02-24T15:25:48.970" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reference : &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digestivepyrotechnics.com/2012/03/inception.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Inception Explained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To talk of what happened, Mal shoots Fischer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Mal is a Cobb's projection. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cobb's mind is very  affected by her death, he holds himself responsible for it. When his mind projects Mal, he projects her in a way that is out to ruin it for Cobb, that is his out-of-control guilt doing that. &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cobb, therefore, projects a Mal that attempts to kill Fischer. Her gun and the bullet that hits Fischer is also projected by Cobb. All the other people protecting the fortress is Fischer's projection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fischer experiences being shot in the 3rd level of the dream. The mind tends to believe what it thinks it sees and thinks it feels. Fischer starts to die. Once he dies he will wash up on the shores of Limbo. But that hasn't happened yet. Cobb and Ariadne think there is still one shot to get Fischer back. The way to do it by going down in to Cobb's mind at this point because, after all, Fischer is dying because of Cobb's mind. Fischer's dying mind can be reached using Cobb's mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They hook up the dying body of Fischer and Ariadne to Cobb's mind and go one level further down. Now, they do reach limbo, but this is because only 3 levels of dreams were architected. Neither did Cobb nor Ariadne die and reach Limbo. This is why they know where they are and what they are here to do. Also because they are in Cobb's mind, they know where they need to go because Cobb knows where Mal will be. Since the reason for Fischer's dying is Mal, if they find Mal, they will find Fischer and they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, they are merely in one further level of dream state below. To wake up, they need a kick in this level and one from above. Eames, from the level above, uses the defibrillator on Fischer and Ariadne pushes Fischer off the building giving him the kick in the current level (improvises). The synchronized kick brings Fischer one level up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fischer saw Mal shooting him and his mind accepted being shot. When he gets kicked back up, he doesn't remember the event that happened prior. Why? may be the shock of it all, waking up from a bad dream and just brushing it aside. They are all dreams at multiple levels after all. Fischer will suffer physical effects of being shot only if his mind makes that happen. In this case, his mind heads towards his dying father and focuses on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saito, on the other hand, is shot by Fischer's militarized mind. Even if they went down into Fischer's mind, they would have no idea where to look for Saito because Saito was shot to protect his mind from getting attacked, Fischer has no obsession with anyone particular from his past. Besides, Fischer is being kidnapped, they would have to convince him to be the dreamer.  Going down into Fischer's mind would also ruin the plan as they need to take Fischer through other dreamers deeper and deeper till the 3rd level and incept on his unsuspecting mind. The only thing they can do is hope to complete inception before Saito dies by descending further as the time dilation will give Saito more time to live. However, thanks to Mal being projected, they loose more time and Saito eventually dies and lands up on the shores of Limbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T15:25:48.970" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31465" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31477" CreationDate="2015-02-24T15:26:44.087" Score="6" ViewCount="3436" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen this happen a few times but the one with the most notoriety is the South Park episode &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapped_in_the_Closet_(South_Park)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trapped in the Closet&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. That's the episode where they basically make fun of Scientology. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both because of Scientology's litigious nature and the fact that some of the things in the episode come from copyrighted Scientology materials of contentious origin (namely Xenu), they end the episode with Stan taunting Scientology to sue him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gcEVR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Followed immediately by the closing credits, where every single name is either &quot;John Smith&quot; or &quot;Jane Smith&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ByzO3.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the gag here of course is that Scientology can't sue the makers of South Park if they don't know who they are. Even Matt Parker &amp;amp; Trey Stone's names are replaced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this just a gag or does this sort of thing afford any actual legal protection? It's not like it's a big secret who works on South Park and it's not like it would be difficult to figure out who worked on most of the episodes in that season, but does the fact that their names aren't actually attached to the episode have any actual legal basis? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell the Church of Scientology has never pursued any legal action against the creators of the show or Comedy Central outside of just generally not being a fan of the episode so either it worked as a legal tactic or Scientology didn't want to keep it in the limelight any more than necessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I've also read that one of the old reasons actors in pornography often use pseudonyms is for legal protection - it's not unprecedented apparently to be arrested because you've run afoul of some obscure decency law somewhere (it also gives them a bit of an escape hatch should they want to leave the adult industry and move on to an anonymous rest of their lives)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can using fake names or pseudonyms in the credits really protect you from legal troubles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19192" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T22:46:46.567" Title="Can using fake names or pseudonyms in the credits really protect you from legal troubles?" Tags="|credits|south-park|legal|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31466" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31488" CreationDate="2015-02-24T15:56:23.477" Score="41" ViewCount="46413" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ever since her introduction in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, we as viewers are made to believe that Shae was always in love with Tyrion. We are shown that she gets jealous when Tyrion was forced to marry Sansa, but they still remain together - until Tyrion makes her leave King's Landing for good (mainly to protect her from Cersei and Tywin).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What surprised me is when she testified against him during his trial on charges that he killed Joffrey (I was assuming at that point she was forced to testify on threats to Tyrion's life and to protect him). Even more surprising is when we see her in Tywin's bed before Tyrion kills her. This makes me wonder if Shae was Tywin's pawn right from the beginning, like the sick joke he played with Tyrion's first wedding to Tysha. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is there an explanation for her behavior - either from the books or from the TV show - that I've missed as to why she betrays Tyrion?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-03-24T23:39:04.863" LastActivityDate="2019-01-04T16:20:55.807" Title="Why this turn in Shae's character?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31431" CreationDate="2015-02-24T16:03:10.213" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Valyrian steel has also something in common with Mandalorian steel, yes it is the way it is worked but it is also the actual metal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Valyrian steel it is the flame forging (using dragon's breath) and in Mandalorian it is the beskar itself. So no regular steel can be &quot;worked&quot; into a Valyrian steel sword. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19195" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2015-02-25T14:55:55.187" LastActivityDate="2015-02-25T14:55:55.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31471" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31479" CreationDate="2015-02-24T16:23:57.857" Score="2" ViewCount="300" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The LEGO Movie, if Emmet was not yet a Master Builder then how did he build the double decker couch inside the submarine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19197" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-02-24T21:21:46.980" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T21:38:14.743" Title="How did Emmet build the Double Decker couch?" Tags="|the-lego-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31472" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-24T17:34:13.903" Score="10" ViewCount="909" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ford Prefect has been stranded on earth for fifteen years, which leaves about nine years before he was saved by and met Arthur. How, in those nine years, did he not realize that cars weren't the dominant species on earth? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19199" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-24T17:35:12.550" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T11:06:35.440" Title="Why did Ford Prefect try to introduce himself to a car?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18272" CreationDate="2015-02-24T18:30:49.043" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, they are the same person and Leone leaves clues throughout. Towards the end of GBU, he finds the poncho he wears in the other two films when taking care of that dying solider.He also wears a leather cast over his left hand in For a Few Dollars More after it was broken in the first film. Of course there are inconsistencies, such as why does he need to become a bounty hunter after he finds all that treasure with Tuco?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19201" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T18:30:49.043" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31472" CreationDate="2015-02-24T19:27:26.167" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The incident you describe only exists in the film, not in the original radio series or the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Ford came to Earth he knew so little about it that he chose the name &quot;Ford Prefect&quot; as he thought it would be &quot;nicely inconspicuous&quot;.  This isn't because he thought that cars were the dominant species but simply that it was a common name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the Ford Motor Company had discontinued the Prefect model years before is irrelevant to the story.  The name just scans well for the humour of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene in the film is just a visual key while the voiceover is repeating the quotation from the radio and books about the name being common.  The car in the film is indeed a 1960s Ford Prefect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T19:27:26.167" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31282" CreationDate="2015-02-24T19:35:51.063" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a scene in Captain America where Agent Carter finds Steve (post-transformation) drinking what might be whiskey. He comments that he knows he won't be affected by alcohol anymore, but still continues. I think it's just to show human emotions, such as sadness, pleasure, whatnot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19203" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2015-02-24T20:54:41.747" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T20:54:41.747" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31465" CreationDate="2015-02-24T21:02:59.970" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ultimately your question is a legal one--and as many of us are not practicing lawyers (or representing ourselves as one), I cannot attest to whether there is any legal protection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However&lt;/strong&gt;, I believe the gag they are aiming for is less &quot;you can't sue whom you can't identify&quot; and more trying to introduce humor in the irony of juxtaposing &quot;I'm not scared of you&quot; with &lt;em&gt;anonymity.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider Tony Stark in Iron Man 3 when addressing the Mandarin.  He very cockily expresses who he is and where you can find him--which &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;exemplifies&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; his lack of fear of repercussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrast this to South Park where similar sentiments are conveyed &quot;I'm not scared of you&quot;--but then hides names behind John and Jane Smith, which &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;exaggerates&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; their fear of repercussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1125" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T21:02:59.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18272" CreationDate="2015-02-24T21:19:17.080" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say he is the same person just because i think the films fit nicer if you believe Clint's characters are the same person. And regardless of whether the poncho from &lt;em&gt;The Good, The Bad and The Ugly&lt;/em&gt; is proof of it linking to &lt;em&gt;A Fist Full of Dollars&lt;/em&gt;, there is definitive proof that Clint Eastwood plays the same character in both &lt;em&gt;A Fist Full of Dollars&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;For a Few Dollars More&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;For a Few Dollars More&lt;/em&gt; There is a part in the film where both the bounty hunters do some research on one another. Clint Eastwood goes to the funny guy next to the railway and Lee Van Cleef goes to a library or public  records office. In Lee Van Cleef's scene he browses through a newspaper until he finds an article describing the events of the ending of &lt;em&gt;A Fist Full of Dollars&lt;/em&gt; complete with a picture of Clint Eastwood standing over the dead body of Ramon. Now if I'm not mistaken, I can't imagine Lee Van Cleef would go and research someone only to look up an article about someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for him being known by different names in the movies, I think because no one knows his name they just make one up to call him. I think this can be supported by observing that its usually one person who calls him by such a name and even they don't mention it often. in fact the only time I remember someone else calling him the same name is the undertaker from &lt;em&gt;A Fist Full of Dollars&lt;/em&gt; who probably knew to call him that because he has already overheard it from Silvanito the bartender/hotel owner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly because he is the man with no name he could be thought of as a John Doe. Other variations of this particular name include &quot;Joe Public&quot;, &quot;Joe Bloggs&quot; and even &quot;Average Joe&quot;...get it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;For a Few Dollars More&lt;/em&gt; he is known as Manco and according to this Wiki link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/manco&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/manco&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Italian word for &quot;Manco&quot; is &quot;&lt;em&gt;first-person singular present indicative of mancare&lt;/em&gt;&quot; which according to this next Wiki link (sorry about this by the way):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mancare#Italian&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mancare#Italian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The verb &quot;Mancare&quot; can mean &quot;missing&quot; or &quot;absent&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19154" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T21:19:17.080" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31471" CreationDate="2015-02-24T21:38:14.743" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is probably because he's thought about it before. When they were inside his mind he was able to build one easy enough without much brain power but struggled to build other, more complicated objects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus he talks like he has thought over the couch before thinking it was a good idea which could help prove that he even may of thought how you could build one and doesn't need to be a master builder to build this object.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19154" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T21:38:14.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31439" CreationDate="2015-02-24T21:56:59.513" Score="8" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brad told us that the title of the movie is the name of the project&#xA;  that the father was working on.  Is that a nod to Back to the Future?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;STARK: The movie is fraught with sort of Easter eggs and secrets and&#xA;  little moments and things that harken back to many different parts of&#xA;  mythology.  One of which being that, in our head at least, the&#xA;  original people who started designing the blueprints were fans of time&#xA;  travel movies and certainly some wiseass in this sort of DARPA covert&#xA;  operation decided to name it after something he was a fan of.  That&#xA;  was in our heads, at least.  I hope I don’t get sued for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You’re allowed to use that word.  Just don’t call it Grays Sports Almanac.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;STARK: We came up with the word because we wanted to name it after the&#xA;  secret project that it was and we started using – because we’re&#xA;  intelligence junkies – we started actually using a random word&#xA;  generator, which is how they actually do name covert projects, and&#xA;  then that word came up and as soon as that did, we were like, ‘Oh,&#xA;  that makes sense, and that connects back to this because it was this&#xA;  year they probably built it.’  I’d love to take full credit, but&#xA;  somewhere is a website that you just keep pushing spacebar.  We just&#xA;  got lucky that that word came up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference link : &lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/andrew-stark-project-almanac-interview/&quot;&gt;Interview with the writer: &lt;strong&gt;Andrew Stark&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11530" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T21:56:59.513" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31481" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-24T22:11:34.720" Score="4" ViewCount="479" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the second episode of season one of the series &lt;em&gt;The Bletchley Circle&lt;/em&gt;, the protagonists refer to a technique they call &quot;vector analysis&quot; that was used at Bletchley Park, and then apply it to a crime they are investigating. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is this technique and what variables were they using with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19205" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T03:06:39.687" Title="What is the &quot;vector analysis&quot; used in The Bletchley Circle?" Tags="|the-bletchley-circle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31465" CreationDate="2015-02-24T22:46:46.567" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can using fake names or pseudonyms in the credits really protect you from legal troubles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a legal question, that would depend on the jurisdiction and the laws therein. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the US, one would have to consider a variety of things to make this a winnable case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is it libel or slander (if it is, there is a chance to seek damages)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;is it parody (parody is typically protected speech)?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But note that in &lt;em&gt;this particular context&lt;/em&gt; the fake names have nothing to do with protecting the creators. It's simply a joke. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But I've also read that one of the old reasons actors in pornography often use pseudonyms&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there may be some argument for the obscenity laws issue (especially in some jurisdictions) your latter theory is the more common reason people use stage names in porn: to avoid being attached to a particular vehicle that they may not always want to be associated with in the future (and, likely, adding some distance to relatives as well in many cases). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T22:46:46.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31461" CreationDate="2015-02-24T23:57:35.207" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096134/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Something Is Out There&lt;/a&gt;, (1988).  I remember the bald people at the beginning are on a prison ship, but I think they're under the mental control of the escaping xenomorph, and are trying to open the door, not close it.  I remember a possessed professor writing calculations using alien symbols on a blackboard, but it was a male professor.  His coworker/girlfriend, unaware that he has an alien inside him, is yelling at him for being emotionally distant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2015-02-24T23:57:35.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31486" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31491" CreationDate="2015-02-25T03:22:54.820" Score="6" ViewCount="60162" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;Foxcatcher&lt;/strong&gt;, we see John du Pont and Mark Schultz build some kind of friendship, based primarily on Mark's need of stepping out of his brother's shadow and John trying to impress his mother by achieving success his own way&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They also seem to share, each in their own manner and for different causes, a feeling of loneliness which appears to bring them even closer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Afterwards, when John finally persuades Mark's brother Dave to join his wrestling team, that friendship is deeply affected, to the point of making Mark isolate himself and stop all contact with John&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, we see John watching the documentary where Mark appears regarding him as the one responsible for his success. Suddenly, John asks for his car and goes straight to Dave's where he shoots him right after asking him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You got a problem with me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I know that this film is based on a true story, and therefore we can only speculate over what really motivated du Pont. But considering the adaptation as we have it, could we say that he felt bad about the end of his friendship with Mark and considered Dave the responsible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19045" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-18T17:03:06.457" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T14:24:46.310" Title="Why does John du Pont do that to Dave Schultz?" Tags="|plot-explanation|foxcatcher|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28440" CreationDate="2015-02-25T03:29:41.247" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its absolutely 100% a reference to &quot;Salò, the 120 Days of Sodom&quot; (1975). The irony is that &quot;The Interview&quot; no different..just more of the same crap shoveled into our faces :)) and we continue to eat it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19210" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-02-25T06:27:03.013" LastActivityDate="2015-02-25T06:27:03.013" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31466" CreationDate="2015-02-25T04:20:25.987" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR: It is unclear for how long &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Shae&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shae&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Tywin&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tywin&lt;/a&gt; have been involved.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;A good question and one which requires an in-depth analysis!&#xA;This issue has been discussed at length in a few locations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/64565/why-was-shae-in-the-tower-of-the-hand&quot;&gt;Why was Shae in the Tower of the Hand?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/56096/whats-the-deal-with-shae-spoilers&quot;&gt;What's the deal with Shae?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/72246-was-shae-tywins-spy-all-along/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Was Shae Tywin's spy all along?&lt;/a&gt; (ASOIAF Wiki)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is hypothesised and re-butted that Tywin knew Shae all along and planted her with &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Tyrion&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tyrion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. But let's do our own analysis here.&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Facts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Where &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; she come from?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we know for sure, is that Shae was found in the tent of an unnamed &quot;knight&quot; and the details seem to be a little bit &lt;em&gt;shady&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Where did you find her?” Tyrion asked him as he pissed.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  “I took her from a knight. The man was loath to give her up, but your name changed his thinking somewhat... that, and my dirk at his throat.”&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;Did you perchance note the name of this knight you took her from? I’d rather not have him beside me in the battle.”&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Bronn rose, cat-quick and cat-graceful, turning his sword in his hand. “You’ll have me beside you in the battle, dwarf.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One - A Game of Thrones, Chapter Sixty-Three (Tyrion VIII).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's definitely possible that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Bronn&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bronn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; just doesn't know who this knight actually is, or care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before all of this Tyrion mentions that he was given a 'body servant' by Tywin - there's no information on what a 'body servant' actually is or why Tywin has sent them for Tyrion. In the same paragraph, Tyrion meets and describes Shae:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lord Tywin had sent him a groom and a &lt;strong&gt;body servant&lt;/strong&gt; to see to his needs, and even insisted he take a squire. They were seated around the embers of a small cookfire. &lt;strong&gt;A girl was with them&lt;/strong&gt;; slim, dark-haired, no more than eighteen by the look of her. Tyrion studied her face for a moment, before he spied fishbones in the ashes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One - A Game of Thrones, Chapter Sixty-Three (Tyrion VIII).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[emphases mine]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tyrion then asks Shae herself about who she was with before him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He asked her about the man Bronn had taken her from, and she named the &lt;strong&gt;minor retainer of an insignificant lordling&lt;/strong&gt;. “You need not fear his like, m’lord,” the girl said, her fingers busy at his cock. “He is a small man.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One - A Game of Thrones, Chapter Sixty-Three (Tyrion VIII).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[emphases mine]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the person was so insignificant, then how and why was she with him? Bronn himself says that he had to fight for Shae because all the pretty ones were &#xA;taken:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Splendid,” Tyrion said dryly, shaking off the last drops. “I seem to recall saying find me a whore, not make me an enemy.”&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  “&lt;strong&gt;The pretty ones were all claimed&lt;/strong&gt;,” Bronn said. “I’ll be pleased to take her back if you’d prefer a toothless drab.”&lt;br /&gt;Tyrion limped closer to where he sat. “My lord father would call that insolence, and send you to the mines for impertinence.”&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  “Good for me you’re not your father,” Bronn replied. “I saw one with boils all over her nose. Would you like her?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One - A Game of Thrones, Chapter Sixty-Three (Tyrion VIII).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[emphases mine]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Tywin knows all&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, it then becomes a little bit more suspicious when Tywin turns up knowing everything there is to know about Tyrion and Shae, even though Tyrion has done his best to keep her secret.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Tywin's Secrets&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lord Tywin himself is not without his secrets. It is also hypothesised that he frequented brothels himself. If you remember &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Varys&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Varys&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; showing Tyrion a secret passage from the Tower of The Hand to Chataya's brothel, he mentioned a 'previous Hand'; well, many people believe this to have been Tywin:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Tyrion]“How is it a brothel happens to have a secret entrance?”&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  [Varys]“The tunnel was dug for another King’s Hand, whose honor would not allow him to enter such a house openly. Chataya has closely guarded the knowledge of its existence.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two - A Storm of Swords, Chapter Sixteen (Tyrion III).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many speculate that Tywin frequented brothels to fill the void of his loss of his wife &lt;strong&gt;Joanna&lt;/strong&gt;. But he only ever did it secretly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;But what does G.R.R.M. say?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The author of the books, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;George R.R. Martin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; has been asked about this before, and he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I won't comment on the Tyrion / Tywin issue. Perhaps future volumes will throw more light on it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/2999&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/2999&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This most probably means that it is inconsequential to the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's not enough conclusive evidence either way. I'm hoping that since in the TV-Show, they didn't include Tysha's story, that hopefully during Tyrion's time in Pentos and the rest of Essos that he will elaborate whether or not Shae was with Tywin from the beginning or just from after Tyrion's charges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tywin certainly didn't seem too fussed that Tyrion killed Shae, both in the show as well as in the books... After all she was only a whor... THRUM!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The crux of it seems to be that &lt;strong&gt;Shae saw an opportune moment to dump Tyrion and go straight for the source of the Lannister wealth!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-01-04T16:20:55.807" LastActivityDate="2019-01-04T16:20:55.807" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="31489" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31507" CreationDate="2015-02-25T04:57:34.287" Score="1" ViewCount="2903" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand this could be an unusual question but, how can I objectively assess or rate a movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do critics use some set of rules to determine the quality of a movie? Is there any further reading I could reference that discusses objectively reviewing a movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19211" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T02:57:31.833" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T02:57:31.833" Title="How can I objectively assess or rate a movie?" Tags="|content-rating|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-03-02T09:39:03.500" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31490" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-25T04:58:16.870" Score="5" ViewCount="2188" Body="&lt;p&gt;This movie has bugged me for years, I watched it on television a couple times (perhaps Disney channel but perhaps HBO) in the very early 90's. I was a young child and it sort of disturbed me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it was centered around orphan children, working in a mill or clothing factory. They were mixing clothes in large vats with big wooden spoons? Anyway at one point a child falls into one of the vats and I think drowns. Later I vaguely remember two orphans snuck away, are in some dark place (perhaps mounds of coal near a boiler) talking about escaping or trying to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it was set in the Victorian or industrial era. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19212" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2015-02-25T23:34:34.607" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T05:27:58.000" Title="Obscure movie about orphans forced to work in mill/factory" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:35:56.727" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31486" CreationDate="2015-02-25T06:28:53.460" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid I can't give you a straight forward answer but I'll share the info I've gathered on John E du Pont, I've asked myself the same question after watching the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're looking for a factual reason why Du Pont Killed Dave, here's what &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eleuth%C3%A8re_du_Pont&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt; says about him,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the 1980s, he established a wrestling facility at his Foxcatcher&#xA;  Farm after becoming interested in the sport and the pentathlon events.&#xA;  He became a prominent supporter for amateur sports in the United&#xA;  States and a sponsor for USA Wrestling. In the 1990s, &lt;strong&gt;friends and&#xA;  acquaintances were concerned about his erratic and paranoid behavior,&#xA;  but his wealth shielded him&lt;/strong&gt;. On February 25, 1997 he was convicted&#xA;  of murder in the third degree for the January 26, 1996 shooting death&#xA;  of Dave Schultz, an Olympic champion freestyle wrestler living and&#xA;  working on du Pont's estate. &lt;strong&gt;He was ruled to have been mentally ill&#xA;  but not insane and was sentenced to prison for 13 to 30 years&lt;/strong&gt; where he&#xA;  died at age 72 on December 9, 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By this, I convinced myself that his mental illness led him to kill Dave Schultz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, in the movie, there are few details you might want to consider regarding du Pont's unpredictable behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spending money superfluously, like he writes a check of  $ 10,000 when Marks wins in Olympic trials.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Inferring to Mark that he is no good at wrestling without his brother's help or training. Made Mark believe that his brother gets all the credit for Mark's hard work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Drug usage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Being friendly one day and in the next, calling Mark an ungrateful ape and disrespecting Mark in front of his team by slapping him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not having a healthy relationship with his mother. Desperately trying to prove that he's a good wrestling coach to his mother and in one scene his mother leaves in the middle of training.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dissing army officers that he did not get the machine gun (or a weapon of some sort).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Purely my personal interpretation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the movie I interpreted that John E du Pont wanted Mark Schultz to win in the Seoul Olympics and wanted to be on his side as coach during wrestling matches but it did not turn out that way. Maybe he was unable to take one loss after another like losing his mom and losing in Olympics and he showed all that pent-up anger on Mark's brother and wrestling coach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-18T17:05:21.703" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T17:05:21.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31492" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-25T06:46:07.887" Score="2" ViewCount="1687" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Better Call Saul episode 4 of season 1 (the one aired on Feb 23, 2015), there's an old guy (Chuck?) in the end, who James hid the newspaper from, and apparently can't go outside without a shield thing. Does he have some sort of disease, if yes, what is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18982" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T10:55:01.463" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T10:55:01.463" Title="What's the old guy (Chuck?)'s problem in the end of Better Call Saul episode 4 of season 1" Tags="|better-call-saul|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-02-25T18:42:08.677" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31340" CreationDate="2015-02-25T07:00:34.677" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been said in the episodes before. He's afraid of electromagnetic radiation. He has electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_hypersensitivity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Electromagnetic hypersensitivity&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2015/feb/15/better-call-saul-electromagnetic-hypersensitivity-real-health-risk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(EHS)&lt;/a&gt; is a group of symptoms purportedly caused by exposure to electromagnetic fields.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3240" LastEditorUserId="3240" LastEditDate="2015-02-25T07:05:41.150" LastActivityDate="2015-02-25T07:05:41.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31495" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-25T08:21:32.900" Score="6" ViewCount="11456" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a movie about two sisters, one of them is professional killer. At the start of the movie the killer one meets with a man and his guards and she kill the guards with guns and the main guy protects himself and she killed him with gas (I remember he was in a place that bullets can't affect him so she put her glasses and then the glasses start to make gas which suffocates him). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's kind of an old movie, the sisters are Japanese or Chinese, I am not sure, but they are from the East, I am sure it's not after 2006 and perhaps in the 90's. I will be thankful if anyone recognizes this. Sorry for bad English guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19214" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-02-25T09:38:42.410" LastActivityDate="2017-06-03T08:15:27.787" Title="Movie about two sisters, one of them is professional killer" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:36:02.997" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31495" CreationDate="2015-02-25T09:38:45.660" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300620/combined&quot;&gt;So Close&lt;/a&gt; (Xi yang tian shi) from 2002:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A conflict of interest between two high-kicking assassin sisters is complicated as they're pursued by the criminals who hired them and an equally high-kicking female cop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the sisters kills a guy in the start in the manner you've described, with cyanide hidden in a pair of sunglasses. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/F5uNL4p-W5c?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-02-25T09:38:45.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14155" CreationDate="2015-02-25T13:50:02.920" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dexter does deeply care for Debra. She ends up paying for everything evil Dexter does. Rita has already paid with her life because Dexter gets entangled with the Trinity Killer. He originally plans on running away from everything and start his life new with Hannah or Harrison. Before he could execute his plan, Debra ends up in a Coma for life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dexter trusts that Hannah will take care of Harrison and his kid's future is in safe custody. The two of them - Hannah and Harrison will go away to a new place and start life new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dexter realizes that if he joins Hannah and Harrison he will only be putting the two of them in danger like he put Rita and Debra. If he stays alive in the eyes of the world, they will constantly try and reach out to him. He plans to fake his death. Drives off his boat into a storm, I suppose he jumped out before getting caught in the storm and got to shore somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now to the world he's dead. He can live in isolation and not endanger anybody but himself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why lumberjack? Well, it's just a profession that doesn't need a college degree and can be picked up based on his physical strength. This way no one gets to know that he was once a blood spatter expert and worked for the police department. The idea is that he has completely given up his previous career and the people in his life to stay as a loner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2015-02-25T13:50:02.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31489" CreationDate="2015-02-25T15:43:21.960" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It really just depends on your taste of film and whether you think they were entertaining enough, have a good story and is reasonably well acted. Some of my favorite movies include &lt;em&gt;The Lone Ranger&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Big Trouble In Little China&lt;/em&gt; which both got disappointing reviews when they were released. My favorite &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; movie happens to be &lt;em&gt;The Phantom Menace&lt;/em&gt; which is the most hated of the saga.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line, no matter what other people think about a movie, its your own opinion of it that matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19154" LastActivityDate="2015-02-25T15:43:21.960" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3314" CreationDate="2015-02-25T16:02:14.217" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Firstly,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; was put together series-by-series, following a principle of &lt;strong&gt;no delayed gratification&lt;/strong&gt; - after all, there was never any guarantee of the series being renewed and/or the key actors continuing to be available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/sherlock/21057/adapting-sherlock-series-2#ixzz4PWSH9m51&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Den of the Geek&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nobody seriously expected the show’s writers to go for the obvious Holmesian targets so soon, but Moffat has said that he didn’t see the point of delayed gratification, so the big guns were rolled out after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Secondly&lt;/strong&gt;, in the original Conan Doyle stories, Moriarty dies shortly after being introduced, since &lt;strong&gt;his (original) purpose is to perish with Holmes and end the canon&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Moriarty&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The character was introduced primarily as a narrative device to enable Conan Doyle to kill Sherlock Holmes, and only featured in two of the Sherlock Holmes stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could therefore argue that the TV serial is being respectful of that tradition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19074" LastEditorUserId="19074" LastEditDate="2016-11-09T14:42:10.180" LastActivityDate="2016-11-09T14:42:10.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31489" CreationDate="2015-02-25T16:53:54.170" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like all topics on art, there's going to be a lot of opinion in these answers. Here's mine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Art critiquing typically contains elements of both subjective and objective criteria. It's hard to be completely objective when critiquing art as, ultimately, art is supposed to appeal to our subjective feelings. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The signs of a good art reviewer, to me, are those that are aware of the subjective parts of their review. As long as you are aware of your subjective opinion, you likely are also taking into consideration some of the more objective criteria as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some things that I believe help one become a better art critic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deep interest and appreciation for the craft side of things. A terrible movie can still have exceptional workmanship in various areas. Being able to separate the craft from the final product is good. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;experience. With film, that's simply having seen a whole lot of films. This gives you a body of work to compare any other work against.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;broad understanding of the history of the medium. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;interest in all aspects of the process (costume design, lighting, sound, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a willingness to explore all genres. Diversity. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a devil's advocate approach. Try to come at the piece from many different angles. Try to understand other's POVs. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;avoid IMDB discussion boards at all cost (unless you're looking for good examples of really poor film critique)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're asking how do &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;, personally, decide a movie is good or not, that &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be entirely subjective, as all that really matters is whether you liked it or not. I would argue, however, that the more you know about all of the above, the more you can appreciate films that you maybe personally wouldn't have initially liked. You could argue it's a bit like wine or whiskey. One's palate can become more sophisticated over time via experience and exposure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="756" LastEditDate="2015-02-25T16:59:56.150" LastActivityDate="2015-02-25T16:59:56.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31509" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-25T18:55:35.103" Score="5" ViewCount="1822" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching and enjoying &quot;City of God,&quot; I was highly recommended to watch &quot;Elite Squad.&quot; While it's an enjoyable action movie, I was left perplexed about the moral and / or theme of Elite Squad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &quot;City of God,&quot; characters commit similar heinous act, but I could see two messages, 1) characters' growth and their actions are often a result of happenstance; and 2) not all criminals are the same--some have dreams and loves and insecurities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in Elite Squad, I struggle to see any message and theme. It seems to be mostly a sociological study of an institution in the form of a movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What does the mental struggle of Captain Nascimento mean? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What's the role of Neto (almost chosen to be a successor, then died due to chance)? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Matias's transformation from a law student to a killer means to say what?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13613" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-25T19:22:00.647" LastActivityDate="2019-01-24T02:39:01.980" Title="What is the &quot;moral&quot; in Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite)?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|elite-squad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31510" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-25T19:16:26.983" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-02-25T19:16:26.983" LastActivityDate="2015-02-25T19:16:26.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31511" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-25T19:16:26.983" Score="0" Body="1981 BBC television series and 2005 film based upon the 1978 comedy science fiction radio series &quot;The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy&quot; written by Douglas Adams.  Follows the adventures of Arthur Dent after Earth is destroyed to make way for a hyperspace by-pass." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-02-25T20:15:48.447" LastActivityDate="2015-02-25T20:15:48.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31514" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31520" CreationDate="2015-02-25T20:18:36.673" Score="7" ViewCount="1951" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well I've been trying to get the name of this movie for years. It aired on TV in Canada at least 5 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the movie may or may not have &quot;lakehouse&quot; in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie starts out that a nice (maybe blonde) woman probably 30 years old is moving into the house her (Grandfather? or father?) built for her. She is moving in with her boy friend. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As they are walking up to the house, she looks at one of the top floor windows and she sees her (grandfather or father, I'll refer to him as father from now on) in the window. (This is a ghost). Alarmed, she tells her boyfriend that she saw someone in the house. He goes in and searches and finds nothing. Then they go inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main part of the film was that there was this round police officer that was pretending to work on the case that many people died in the area, when in fact he was the scum who hung multiple people then threw their bodies in the lake nearby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film, there is a door to the basement that has a glass doorknob, and in many scenes it is dripping water because of the ghosts of people whose bodies are in the lake. Whenever she goes into the basement to do laundry, she sees flashbacks of the girl being hung in the basement. And often she would get locked inside the basement as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe throughout the movie when she got locked in the basement, she would end up getting hung by the ghosts or something until she snapped out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think in the last scene when she figures out it was the police officer who killed everyone, the fat guy tries hanging her the same way etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end when they put the police officer in jail, all the women who got hung visit her again and smile, and then the LAST scene is her looking up at the house, seeing her father in the window again, this time with a smile on his face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This movie was awesome and scary for me as a kid. I hope I get to see it again!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19231" LastEditorUserId="19231" LastEditDate="2017-08-04T14:55:55.033" LastActivityDate="2017-08-04T14:55:55.033" Title="Horror Ghost Movie; Water dripping from basement knob" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:36:12.383" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31514" CreationDate="2015-02-25T20:21:16.010" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199389/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cabin by the Lake&lt;/a&gt; (2000)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stanley (Judd Nelson) is a reclusive screenwriter who lives by a beautiful &#xA;  and large lake. His hobby is kidnapping teenage girls, imprisoning&#xA;  them in a soundproof room with a two-way mirror, then taking them out&#xA;  to the lake on his boat, attaching their feet to a concrete block and&#xA;  pushing them overboard (he asks them how they feel knowing they are&#xA;  about to die). He particularly likes to reach into the water, grab&#xA;  them by their hair and pull them up again so he can study their faces&#xA;  more carefully, before dropping them again permanantly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stanley has at least five or six of these bodies floating in the lake,&#xA;  ranging in decomp status from skeleton to perfect flesh. Each is&#xA;  dressed in a different outfit. Stanley likes to scuba out to his&#xA;  &quot;garden&quot; every day and clean any detritus accumulating around their&#xA;  bodies, and to make sure their costumes stay in place as they rot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stanley is doing this because he is &quot;researching&quot; for his latest&#xA;  script; called The Cabin on the Lake, it is about a man who kidnaps&#xA;  girls and drowns them in a lake. He has already sold this script&#xA;  through an agent, and a director is going to make it shortly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One girl, Mallory (Hedy Burress) manages to escape from drowning and&#xA;  is rescued by handsome sherriff Boone (Michael Weatherley from NCIS).&#xA;  She is unable to identify her kidnapper, however she creates a sketch&#xA;  with an artist. Boone comments how similar to his good friend Stan the&#xA;  sketch looks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="15418" LastEditDate="2015-02-25T20:30:45.887" LastActivityDate="2015-02-25T20:30:45.887" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31514" CreationDate="2015-02-25T22:11:13.827" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844008/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;In Her Mother's Footsteps&lt;/a&gt; (AKA Deadly Inheritance) from 2006:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Soon after Kate moves into the house she inherits from her father, she begins to see strange images of young women being murdered. At first it appears as if she's losing her mind, but Kate soon discovers that her visions may be hereditary. As this young mom begins to piece together the mystery behind her new haunted home, she realizes that not everything is as it seems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I say 'sounds' because frankly, all I remember was that Emma Caulfield was in it, but according to the web, it all fits: A blonde woman moving with her husband to her father's house by the lake starts to see women's ghosts, and in the end it was a cop who tried to cover his tracks. Here's the trailer, where the glass doorknob with dripping water makes an appearance around 1:18:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/SkMcmnGePOs?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-02-25T22:11:13.827" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27035" CreationDate="2015-02-26T02:30:20.087" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;He died. But not from love exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19239" LastActivityDate="2015-02-26T02:30:20.087" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31522" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-26T02:47:38.540" Score="4" ViewCount="2547" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the beginning of the film &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/em&gt;, the first person on the team to die is Jack.  He's on top of the elevator when it starts uncontrollably accelerating towards the top of the shaft.  As it reaches the top, some sort of machinery unfolds, causing Jack to be impaled. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is this machinery?  Is it something made up for the movie or is it common equipment at the top of elevators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="425" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T15:38:00.857" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T15:38:00.857" Title="What is the machinery at the top of the elevator in Mission: Impossible?" Tags="|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-1996|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27035" CreationDate="2015-02-26T03:37:56.043" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought he lived because when they kissed his heart wound up without needing the key (plus someone mentioned here that he lived in the book). I saw everything standing still as &quot;time standing still&quot; because it was such a big moment for him. Not to mention he wasn't sad at all to be leaving her behind, which he would have been if he were dying. plus, the song he sings is about both of them climbing the sky together and stuff, as if they would be together for a long time. So I saw it as him living BECAUSE he kissed her and the kiss unexpectedly wound his heart up and saved his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19240" LastActivityDate="2015-02-26T03:37:56.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26850" CreationDate="2015-02-26T05:37:29.160" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched the movie. Old Brenner did say “your brothers&quot;. So It's my understanding that he is his father. Though the big rescue from Old Brenner's house really wouldn't make since if that's the case. They made it seem as if he got there before he slept with her. Unless she was raped while they were torturing her husband. It's kind of foggy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19241" LastActivityDate="2015-02-26T05:37:29.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31522" CreationDate="2015-02-26T06:39:41.343" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not part of the elevator,  it's some kind of folding blade thing.   The point (sorry)  is just to show that it is actually a trap,  and Jack just hasn't lost control of the elevator by chance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastActivityDate="2015-02-26T06:39:41.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31529" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31595" CreationDate="2015-02-26T07:53:37.380" Score="6" ViewCount="925" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie begins with some statement like: this is based on a true story, but the parts that are hard to believe is the part that happened in reality! &quot;Go figure&quot; -- I don't remember it exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot is about a lady who watches a lot of crime drama and is questioned by police for a crime that is committed by a serial killer. A girl is killed near her house. The lady first misleads the police into thinking her husband (or boyfriend) did the crime. They take him to jail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then she changes her statement and misleads police again into thinking that she was the one who did the crime. And she comes up with strong indicators that she really killed the girl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, the serial killer hears about it and becomes enraged because someone else &quot;taking credit&quot; for his work.. He writes something about it on a bathroom door with a smiley face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lady is allowed to visit her family and one of her grandchildren asks her: why do you lie? &#xA;Then she admits to the police that she was misspending them from the beginning and that she is innocent all along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie ends with the police woman being friendly (at last) with her younger partner policeman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw it around 2003, color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T19:14:29.407" Title="Movie about an old lady who takes the blame for murders committed by a serial killer" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:36:15.513" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31530" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-26T08:05:32.083" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wolf Hall&lt;/em&gt; is a British television serial first broadcast on BBC Two in January 2015. It is a six-part adaptation of two of Hilary Mantel's novels, &lt;em&gt;Wolf Hall&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Bring Up the Bodies&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wolf Hall&lt;/em&gt; explores the events around the first three marriages of King Henry VIII and the beginning of the English Reformation. The central character is Thomas Cromwell, who rose from obscurity to become (arguably) the King's right-hand man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag is for questions about the television series rather than the books, although the books can be referred to as this series is an adaptation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19074" LastEditorUserId="19074" LastEditDate="2015-02-26T11:19:30.407" LastActivityDate="2015-02-26T11:19:30.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31531" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-26T08:05:32.083" Score="0" Body="Wolf Hall is a British television serial adapted from the novels of Hilary Mantel. It is a historical drama exploring the events around the first three marriages of King Henry VIII and the beginning of the English Reformation." OwnerUserId="19074" LastEditorUserId="19074" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T13:09:27.337" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T13:09:27.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31534" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-26T08:39:28.150" Score="4" ViewCount="724" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is regarding a short story from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328832/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Animatrix&lt;/a&gt; by the name &lt;strong&gt;Kid's Story&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story is about the Kid that Neo helps &quot;free&quot; himself from the Matrix. This is the same kid who is shown in the Reloaded and Revolutions movies.&#xA;In the Animatrix, the kid falls of a building and dies in the Matrix. However, he wakes up in the real world. Neo an Trinity are there when the kid wakes up. The theme here is - self substantiation, being able to exit the Matrix without external help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;kid&quot; is not given any tracer pill, how do Neo and Trinity end up finding the physical body of the kid among all of those pods? Is there any suggestion in the extra materials as to how they located the kid's body?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-26T09:20:50.087" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T12:51:35.110" Title="How do they locate the physical body in Animatrix: Kid's story?" Tags="|the-matrix-revolutions|the-matrix-reloaded|the-animatrix|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28214" CreationDate="2015-02-26T09:36:10.390" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also thought about this a long time, before coming to the only answer that I can safely consider the one meant to be explained by the movie, but didn't have time to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see, the rules of the &quot;wish-granting genie&quot; are:&#xA;1- you can not wish to kill someone or bring them from the dead&#xA;2- you can't wish someone to fall in love with you&#xA;3- you can't wish for more wishes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the unmentioned rule is:&#xA;4- you must be the beneficial of the wish&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means: you can only wish &quot;things&quot; to yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that Aladding got the following wishes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wish # 0: getting out of the cave, although he did not specifically mention the phrase: I wish for ...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wish # 1: was for him to become a prince&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wish # 2: was for genie to rescue him from under water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wish # 3: was the freedom of genie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I am contradicting my self when I say that genie got his freedom by becoming the beneficial of Aladdin's wish but that might be the exception, or the beneficial can either be the wishes or the granter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Support for this theory is Jaffar. He wished:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wish #1: to become a sultan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wish #2: to be come a wizard/sorcerer &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wish #3: to become a genie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of his wishes revolved around him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastActivityDate="2015-02-26T09:36:10.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31539" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-26T09:48:39.747" Score="6" ViewCount="965" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, when Luke sabers the arm off the wampa, the scene shows the arm falling to the ground in dramatized slow-motion with a slightly &quot;strobe&quot; effect (consequence of only having 24fps to spread out).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this intended to foreshadow the later severing of hands/arms of Luke + Vader (and by lightsaber, as well)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, it seems too emphasized of A) a shot, and B) a shot effect to just be unconnected, independent dramatization - it sure seems like foreshadowing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bonus: Does anyone know when in the writing process it was conceptualized that A) Vader would cut Luke's hand off, and then B) Luke would eventually take Vader's hand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3471" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T17:57:07.397" LastActivityDate="2015-05-16T18:44:31.493" Title="In Star Wars, is the Wampa's dismembered arm foreshadowing?" Tags="|star-wars|the-empire-strikes-back|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31540" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-26T09:53:23.147" Score="6" ViewCount="725" Body="&lt;p&gt;What Hollywood movie has lost the most money ever? How much did it lose? Is the answer different if you adjust for the value of money over time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18959" LastEditorUserId="8842" LastEditDate="2015-02-26T15:10:29.583" LastActivityDate="2019-08-28T20:53:27.540" Title="What is the most loss suffered by a Hollywood movie?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30877" CreationDate="2015-02-26T10:23:33.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The usual way. People involved shape each other. They define happiness, togetherness, loneliness, identity for each other at least in that they contain and reflect each other. (A more accessible example is the daughter's choice to take the shape of kindness: an Asian girl, in her father's representation.) And it's normative; as mirrors, they are the (only valid) means by which one judges oneself. And it's reciprocal; denying their existence not only equals (living) hell but keeps &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt; incomplete and (their) heaven indeterminate. It affects them the usual way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19217" LastActivityDate="2015-02-26T10:23:33.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31545" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36406" CreationDate="2015-02-26T11:20:03.550" Score="2" ViewCount="167" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question refers to the movie produces/director/actor - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0159507/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stephen Chow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After 2013's - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017561/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Journey to the West&lt;/a&gt;, there seems to be no word of any upcoming projects by Stephen Chow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know of a future project he might be working on?&#xA;Also, is there a reason he has so much gap between his movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-21T22:47:01.273" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T09:55:52.797" Title="What is Stephen Chow working on post Journey to the West?" Tags="|stephen-chow|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31509" CreationDate="2015-02-26T14:48:51.463" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a brazilian and an &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Elite Squad&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; fan, I will try to provide an answer based on what I have heard José Padilha (the director) say on interviews and on my personal interpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, there are three main ideas to be inferred from the plot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Captain Nascimento became a violent man&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As you know, &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Elite Squad&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; depicts the life of the film narrator Roberto Nascimento, the captain of an elite squad in the police of Rio de Janeiro, who is awaiting for a promotion to Lieutenant Colonel and is seeking a replacement so he could spend more time with his wife and his upcoming son&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As he goes through this situation, he plunges into an inner struggle after he chooses Neto to be his successor and the latter proves to be the wrong choice as he is too euphoric to command the squad&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Later on, Neto is assassinated by drug dealers, and Nascimento explores his death to turn André Matias - Neto's best friend - into his replacement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At some point, Nascimento becomes too stressed about his work and becomes aggressive even at home, repelling his pregnant wife away from him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Therefore, you can learn by analyzing his life that he became a violent man in his personal life primarily due to his actions as a member of BOPE, a police division that is shown as extremely violent to the point of using torture as a means of obtaining information&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The majority of the police force is corrupt&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;With the exception of the soldiers of BOPE, wich is the elite squad of the police, all the other members of the police force are depicted as involved in some kind of criminal activity, including prostitution and illegal games&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Most left-wing people are hypocrites&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The middle-class students who work at the NGO that supports the poor people from the favela are presented as leftists and drug consumers/distributers, funding the same drug selling system that they criticize&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Synthesizing, we could say that the plot is about a man's inner struggle to reconcile his work and his family, but it's also about social issues such as the police abuses - whether it's in the the form of violence or corruption - and the drug dealing system&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19045" LastActivityDate="2015-02-26T14:48:51.463" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31540" CreationDate="2015-02-26T15:47:51.253" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia maintains a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_box_office_bombs&quot;&gt;list of box office bombs&lt;/a&gt;, that is movies that lost money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed out in the article, the numbers should be taken with a grain of salt, as it is not easy to estimate how much a movie has cost and earned without inside knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, the current Top-5 from that page lists:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;47 Ronin &lt;em&gt;(2013)&lt;/em&gt;, Estimated Loss: $149,518,763&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mars Needs Moms &lt;em&gt;(2011)&lt;/em&gt;, Estimated Loss: $130,503,621&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The 13th Warrior &lt;em&gt;(1999)&lt;/em&gt;, Estimated Loss: $69,150,551—129,150,551&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Lone Ranger &lt;em&gt;(2013)&lt;/em&gt;, Estimated Loss: $94,748,943—119,748,943 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;R.I.P.D. &lt;em&gt;(2013)&lt;/em&gt;, Estimated Loss: $90,837,890—114,837,890&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you notice, most of those are pretty new. One reason for this might be that costs for production have increased over time, but there is also inflation (you cannot buy as much for 1 Dollar today as you could in 1950).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, the same site also provides a list that has been adjusted for inflation. Here the Top 5 looks slightly different:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The 13th Warrior &lt;em&gt;(1999)&lt;/em&gt;, $97,896,514—182,838,584&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;47 Ronin &lt;em&gt;(2013)&lt;/em&gt;, $151,923,973&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cutthroat Island &lt;em&gt;(1995)&lt;/em&gt;, $137,346,554&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mars Needs Moms &lt;em&gt;(2011)&lt;/em&gt;, $136,816,444&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18124" LastActivityDate="2015-02-26T15:47:51.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31556" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-26T17:40:33.530" Score="5" ViewCount="2350" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for an 80s tv-series. The main character was some kind of superhero-ish. He had a blue sparkling/glowing body, and he &quot;healed&quot; himself with electricity. He had a &quot;sidekick&quot; who was a star (literally a star, as in twinkle twinkle), and I keep thinking that the stars name was Orco or something similar, but I can be wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15739" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T10:08:32.010" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T10:08:32.010" Title="80s TV action series about an &quot;electric man&quot;" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|action|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:03:03.493" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31556" CreationDate="2015-02-26T17:52:09.513" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automan&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Automan&lt;/a&gt; from 1983-1984 about a glowing blue superhero fueled by electricity:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Automan (the &amp;quot;Automatic Man&amp;quot;) follows the adventures of a police officer and computer programmer named Walter Nebicher (Desi Arnaz, Jr.), who had created an artificially intelligent crime fighting program that generated a hologram (Chuck Wagner) able to leave the computer world at night and fight crime. While in the real world, Automan posed as a government agent by the name of &amp;quot;Otto J. Mann.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cursor was his sidekick, a floating, shifting polyhedron which could &amp;quot;draw&amp;quot; and generate physical objects as needed. The most common forms taken were a car (the Auto Car), an airplane, and a helicopter, all of which could defy the laws of physics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the intro:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/sOn0m9m6gPU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-26T17:52:09.513" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30368" CreationDate="2015-02-26T18:08:09.583" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This generally describes the French comedy &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320082/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Le Concert&lt;/a&gt; from 2009:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by accident that the Châtelet Theater in Paris invites the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He decides to gather together his former musicians and to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/VSUfUzQw1Sg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-02-26T18:08:09.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28130" CreationDate="2015-02-26T22:38:52.693" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187995/?ref_=ttkw_kw_tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Intruder (1999)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Nastassja Kinski. From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/1999/film/reviews/the-intruder-4-1200459309/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;online review&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Catherine [...] meets soundtrack composer Nick Girard (Charles Powell) at a gallery opening, and in no time they’re wed and she moves into his gorgeous loft-apartment. Nick doesn’t talk about [his previous wife] Stella, but Catherine learns she was found dead clutching a large pair of scissors amid signs of a fierce struggle. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite its cutting-edge decor, the building is old, with a sinister handyman and electricity that often fails, requiring the use of candles and flashlights. Catherine starts noticing strange things around the house — a glass of wine with tell-tale lipstick, a brush with strands of someone else’s hair, a crooked painting, an unexplained reflection and, finally, a diary with the initials “SG.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18828" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T18:42:00.250" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13785" CreationDate="2015-02-26T22:41:27.643" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actress Bebe Neuwirth (Lilith in 80 episodes of &amp;quot;Cheers&amp;quot; and 12 of &amp;quot;Frazier) played the successful and obviously rich buyer, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0306734/characters/nm0001564&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Julia Manchevering&lt;/a&gt; whose face rather resembled the saint in the painting (not a real Le Tours).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her face was also seen on the truck driven at the end of the film.  Not sure of her relationship to other characters, since I only caught the last 30 minutes of the flick.  Been trying unsuccessfully to see an online image of the painting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19264" LastEditorUserId="100979" LastEditDate="2023-12-30T20:41:33.547" LastActivityDate="2023-12-30T20:41:33.547" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="31570" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31571" CreationDate="2015-02-27T02:16:50.577" Score="7" ViewCount="11410" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;21 Grams&lt;/em&gt; (2003), the teller said, “They say we all loose 21 grams at the exact moment of our death.” I’m just interested in what that 21 grams means which caused the makers to entitle the movie &lt;em&gt;21 Grams&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5903" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2015-02-27T12:30:26.563" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T12:30:26.563" Title="What was the meaning of &quot;21 grams&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|dialogue|21-grams|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31570" CreationDate="2015-02-27T02:31:07.693" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Wikipedia article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_MacDougall_%28doctor%29&quot;&gt;Dr. Duncan MacDougall&lt;/a&gt; says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dr. Duncan “Om” MacDougall (c. 1866 – October 15, 1920) was an early 20th-century physician in Haverhill, Massachusetts who sought to measure the mass lost by a human when the soul departed the body at death. MacDougall attempted to measure the mass change of six patients at the moment of death. His first subject, the results from which MacDougall felt were most accurate, lost “three-fourths of an ounce”, which has since been popularized as “21 grams”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;21 Grams&lt;/em&gt; is a 2003 American drama film which references the notion that the human soul has mass, more specifically that it weighs twenty-one grams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18909" LastEditorUserId="607" LastEditDate="2015-02-27T11:01:38.067" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T11:01:38.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31573" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-27T03:22:28.630" Score="1" ViewCount="317" Body="&lt;p&gt;From time to time I've seen movies' or TV show episodes' scripts posted or quoted online - at first they were The Simpsons episodes, but Star Wars and Harry Potter films too, for example. There's even &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/15160/19268&quot;&gt;a question&lt;/a&gt; about sites in which to find scripts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are those scripts &lt;em&gt;official&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if they are published by the directors/writers/producers, or if they are fan made. They seem &lt;em&gt;too detailed&lt;/em&gt; to be fan made - and considered too much &lt;em&gt;canon&lt;/em&gt; for just being the opinion of lots of nerds -, but I can't imagine &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; nor &lt;strong&gt;where&lt;/strong&gt; do they publish them. What's the intention in publishing them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19268" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-03-31T04:54:49.083" Title="Are the scripts published online official?" Tags="|screenplay|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30332" CreationDate="2015-02-27T04:11:19.200" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;in my opinion the operator's message is not an encrypted one he is sending normal Morse code message that is irrelevant (from the war point of view e.g. for civilian transaction market value for coffee ...). and this guy's message always begin with the same letter pretty normal thing as of dear/sir/madam/regards. But for the code breaking team this is a new feedback that assuming there will be words that for sure will be in the message (and when the check the previous decrypted messages they found “weather” and “heil” and “Hitler”). this means they machine gonna only search for those words to get the enigma setting. &lt;strong&gt;so Turing only take the concept&lt;/strong&gt; that there will be a repetition in everyday message, not the other way. &lt;strong&gt;if the message of the guy was encrypted it will never be always Cilly&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19270" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T04:11:19.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31581" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35917" CreationDate="2015-02-27T08:35:50.580" Score="3" ViewCount="1142" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Inherent Vice, the protagonist is called Larry, but everyone calls him 'Doc'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do they do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first I thought he was actually a doctor (a stoned one), but then I saw he was working as a Private Investigator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-28T12:37:15.327" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T12:50:02.387" Title="Why do people refer to Larry as 'Doc'?" Tags="|character|inherent-vice|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31583" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-27T11:43:24.807" Score="3" ViewCount="699" Body="&lt;p&gt;Something is been bugging me since I saw Birdman. when they were discussing about the budget and Galifianakis complained that the reserve is gone on the trees, Keaton replied its for a dream sequence with dwarves and also made a point on them not being called dwarves any more. (cant remember/find the exact quote!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there a chance they are referencing or making a connection with In Bruges?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was also a dream sequence, with dwarves, and there is also the discussion where they don't like that term&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just coincidence?? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quotes from &lt;strong&gt;In Bruges&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chloë: He doesn't like being called a midget. He prefers dwarf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ray: This is exactly my point! People going around calling you a&#xA;  midget when you want to be called a dwarf. Of course you're going to&#xA;  blow your head off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ray: [...] They're filming midgets!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chloë: It's a Dutch movie. Its a dream&#xA;                      sequence. Its a pastiche of Nicolas&#xA;                      Roeg'S 'Dont Look Now'. Not a&#xA;                      pastiche, but a ...'homage' is too&#xA;                      strong...A 'Nod of the Head'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might be that I like both movies quite a lot and I'm just making stuff up! :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13893" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T03:20:50.320" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T03:21:17.953" Title="Birdman and In Bruges, dream sequence reference" Tags="|birdman|in-bruges|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31584" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34767" CreationDate="2015-02-27T11:54:46.993" Score="7" ViewCount="2496" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the latest episode of 'Better Call Saul', we saw Saul aka Jimmy saving that guy (obviously staged) hanging from that billboard. Among the crowd, I noticed this lady and I thought I had seen her in &lt;strong&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/strong&gt; too.&#xA;Maybe, the skank, or the neighbor of Walter white himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IMZ1t.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The link&lt;/a&gt; to that photo of that lady I took as snapshot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BCuUf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19280" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T02:20:04.200" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T00:05:12.543" Title="Was this character from 'Better Call Saul' also in 'Breaking bad'?" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|better-call-saul|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31586" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-27T12:57:23.337" Score="1" ViewCount="857" Body="&lt;p&gt;In American Sniper, there comes a scene where a fellow soldier shows Chris Kyle a piece of jewelry that he bought from Iraq, to which Chris Kyle responds &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How come you buy this from the savages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found this dialogue a little odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Chris Kyle consider the whole Iraq as a savage place, or was this just some weak moment where he uttered words in tiredness and frustration?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T03:21:38.830" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T03:21:38.830" Title="Significance of &quot;savages&quot; dialogue in American Sniper" Tags="|character|dialogue|american-sniper|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31583" CreationDate="2015-02-27T13:25:56.463" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe there is any connection, this is just a normal line that people would say that &lt;em&gt;you can't say that&lt;/em&gt;, no different to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wu598ENenk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;the correct nomenclature is Asian-American&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from Big Lebowski.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1264837&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Additionally there have been some instances where usage of such terms has been censored&lt;/a&gt; (on TV at least).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comment to me in Birdman and In Bruges is just a Political Correctness remark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T03:21:17.953" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T03:21:17.953" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31586" CreationDate="2015-02-27T13:45:00.783" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kyle felt the &lt;strong&gt;enemy&lt;/strong&gt; were savages, and in that war it was hard to tell who was and wasn't your enemy.  I'm 99.9% positive if you asked anyone who has fought in a war, they'll tell you that they felt their enemy were savages.  You can't step into a warzone and not feel hatred towards your enemy, otherwise you'll hesitate pulling the trigger and some of your fellow soldiers could die due to that lack of action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.city-journal.org/2015/bc0130mt.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Truth About American Sniper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T13:45:00.783" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30006" CreationDate="2015-02-27T14:35:57.697" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movies.com/movie-news/james-bond-statistics/10208&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;007 By the Numbers: Every James Bond Statistic You Never Knew You Needed to Know&lt;/a&gt; has some info (their title is clearly not truly accurate as they are missing this statistic in full):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Number of times Bond is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head: 11&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By a drug (hidden in his drink, airborne powder or gas, blowdart, etc): 6&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Turns out &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428633.600-die-another-day.html#.VPCBRvmsUgI&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;he's been shot at 4662 times&lt;/a&gt; and 130 attempts made on his life&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15221" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T14:35:57.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31539" CreationDate="2015-02-27T15:03:16.477" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not believe that you'll be able to definitively get an answer without hearing directly from the screenwriters or Lucas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, that being said - the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/goofs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;goofs page at iMDB reveals&lt;/a&gt; a few issues they had with the Wampa monster.  One states that you can see that the arm appears to be a glove, and you can see the puppeteer wearing it.  It may have been easy to just use this portion of the prop to imply the wound.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you watch the scene, it looks like there were problems with shooting and editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also believe that another type of injury that could have been shown may have warranted a harsher rating from the MPAA at the time.  This was before &quot;PG-13&quot; - so there may have been considerations to prevent an &quot;R&quot; rating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll note that in Episode IV, Obi-Wan simply disappeared when being struck with the light saber, again - likely to maintain the &quot;PG&quot; rating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would imagine that had their been intent for foreshadowing, the injury would have been a cut at the wrist, unlike the cut at the shoulder as shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15523" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T15:03:16.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31591" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31592" CreationDate="2015-02-27T15:16:46.380" Score="15" ViewCount="2628" Body="&lt;p&gt;This year Barney, I mean Neil Patrick Harris, hosted the Oscars award show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who produces the show and who gets to choose the host? It seems like quite a responsibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3862" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2015-02-28T13:15:44.710" LastActivityDate="2015-02-28T13:15:44.710" Title="Who chooses the host for the Oscar show?" Tags="|academy-awards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31591" CreationDate="2015-02-27T15:56:15.870" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Oscars are presented by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Motion_Picture_Arts_and_Sciences&quot;&gt;Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences&lt;/a&gt;, which hires producers to create the awards ceremony. The producers are in charge of the entire production, including selecting a host.  For the past few years &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Zadan&quot;&gt;Craig Zadan&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Meron&quot;&gt;Neil Meron&lt;/a&gt; have been the producers of the Oscars. A recent article in &lt;em&gt;The Hollywood Reporter&lt;/em&gt; briefly outlined the selection process that led to Neil Patrick Harris hosting the 87th Academy Awards show. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/neil-patrick-harris-wasnt-academys-742768&quot;&gt;Neil Patrick Harris Wasn't Academy's First Choice to Host the Oscars&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T15:56:15.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31581" CreationDate="2015-02-27T17:58:52.783" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doc is just a nickname, albeit a no longer very common one.  Clark &quot;Doc&quot; Savage, John Henry &quot;Doc&quot; Holliday, etc.  Bugs Bunny calls Elmer Fudd &quot;Doc&quot; to be a smart-alec.  In The Shining Dick Hallorann calls Danny &quot;Doc&quot;, as that's the nickname his parents use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like a lot of the usage was from the turn of the last century through the 40's, but I guess it was still common enough in the 70's to make it into The Shining and Inherent Vice&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19167" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T17:58:52.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31529" CreationDate="2015-02-27T19:14:29.407" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183149/combined&quot;&gt;Happy Face Murders&lt;/a&gt; from 1999 with Ann Margret and Marg Helgenberger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An eccentric older woman (Ann-Margret) implicates her brutal &amp;amp; controlling lover in the murder of a young intellectually disabled girl. Absorbed with &quot;Murder She Wrote&quot; and &quot;Matlock&quot;, she creates details of the murder from clues she picks up from the detectives (Marg Helgenberger, Henry Thomas) on the case. Implicating herself and sentenced to jail, she then recants her testimony. But no one believes her until clues surface from the real killer that he is still out there, has killed before, and will kill again. He signs his messages with Happy Faces. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the first few minutes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/fkQRwkeeSt8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T19:14:29.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31351" CreationDate="2015-02-27T21:52:51.590" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Her objective is to ensure Palmer is killed - and Jack is the best way to get the phone bomb close to him. The Drazens planned this but saw an opportunity to get Alexis free by trading him for Jack. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore Nina basically has to get Alexis free for the Drazen to make the final assasination attempt&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19291" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T21:52:51.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31601" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-27T22:15:06.100" Score="2" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568343/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the humbling&lt;/a&gt; movie, the hallucinations of the main character (Simon Axler) suggest that he may be guilty for sleeping with his daughter and the hallucinations may be caused by his conscience, similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361862/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Machinist&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has it been made clear in the movies if this is so and if that's the reason Axler kills himself? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="796" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-02-27T22:26:15.493" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T22:26:15.493" Title="Did Axler sleep with with his daughter in the Humbling movie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-humbling|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31602" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-02-27T22:22:20.777" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-02-27T22:22:20.777" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T22:22:20.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31603" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-02-27T22:22:20.777" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-02-27T22:22:20.777" LastActivityDate="2015-02-27T22:22:20.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31606" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-28T00:24:32.360" Score="3" ViewCount="533" Body="&lt;p&gt;The beginning of &lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt; starts with the inauguration of the President. How much time do each of the seasons cover?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Spoiler'ing season 3 if included would be nice, though I'm currently curious as to how far it's been from the up to the beginning of this season.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="440" LastActivityDate="2015-02-28T11:15:33.737" Title="How much time has passed in House of Cards?" Tags="|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31606" CreationDate="2015-02-28T00:40:01.397" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can find a timeline of the show &lt;a href=&quot;http://house-of-cards.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; if you're interested. To summarise the main points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 1: Starts January 2013.   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 3: He is sworn in on the 28th October 2014.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Zoe's &lt;a href=&quot;http://house-of-cards.wikia.com/wiki/Zoe_Barnes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;, her date of death is November 5, 2013 - however, I can't see &lt;em&gt;where&lt;/em&gt; this information is being populated from. I'll do some more digging and edit this answer if I can find something more substantial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2015-02-28T11:15:33.737" LastActivityDate="2015-02-28T11:15:33.737" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8205" CreationDate="2015-02-28T02:28:45.493" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also noticed the iPod plugged in next to the desk rotary phone.  I think this vintage iPod was 2004 or 2005.  Also, the various cars in the movie are very misleading as to when this was to have taken place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19295" LastActivityDate="2015-02-28T02:28:45.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31610" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31615" CreationDate="2015-02-28T03:21:38.337" Score="5" ViewCount="1743" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if it's really the Chitauri mastermind, but bear with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the opening of &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; we see some blue glimmer, some Chitauri, Loki's hands receiving the scepter/spear. All overlaid by these lines&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He &lt;em&gt;(meaning Loki)&lt;/em&gt; is ready to lead&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  And our force, our Chitauri, will follow&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  A world will be his&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The universe, &lt;strong&gt;yours.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is this &quot;you&quot;, the omniscient voice is talking to? Who did the Chitauri strike a deal with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8269" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T08:35:12.827" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T08:35:12.827" Title="To whom is the Chitauri mastermind talking in the beginning?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31612" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-28T06:30:43.370" Score="1" ViewCount="2030" Body="&lt;p&gt;The experience of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_%282014_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lucy&lt;/a&gt; appears very similar to what was experienced by Gautama Buddha. She said that she has no desire and she can feel or see the whole universe. One of the most important part of becoming a Buddha is having no desire for worldly things. They also say that a Buddha can see the whole universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Lucy become a Buddha? Was the writer of this movie inspired by Buddhism?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7194" LastActivityDate="2018-09-23T05:29:59.093" Title="Did Lucy become a Buddha?" Tags="|lucy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28785" CreationDate="2015-02-28T06:39:34.480" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion he jumped and died.  Ok, the first scene where he flies and ends up in front of the theater he is saying something to the affect of &quot;up here where we belong, above them all.&quot; Then it cuts forward to the intermission, his ex wife learns that he attempted suicide once.  What he is actually telling her that he is really going to go through with it this time.  He fails again, though, and survives.  His daughter comes in and immediately tweets a picture of him in the bandages, telling him he &quot;looks hideous,&quot; but informing him that he is a hit on social media.  Once he is alone, he removes the mask, as opposed to putting it on; think about that.  He removes the mask, and ironically his swelling and wounds have produced a result that is very similar to the birdman mask (I believe this is deliberate.)  This symbolizes the reality that he can never be free from the shadow of this role, no matter what he does.  Then he sees a flock of birds, and realizes that he has only one choice left.  He jumps, but instead of a cheesy montage of him soaring over times square we get a shot of his daughter accepting and celebrating his &quot;liberation&quot; (suicide), which is every bit as ridiculous.  I believe if there were one more scene in this movie it would be a time lapse of his funeral, the way the first flight scene climaxed with a time lapse of the premiere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19298" LastActivityDate="2015-02-28T06:39:34.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12883" CreationDate="2015-02-28T07:46:30.953" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that this could be the exact spot, it overlooks the farm that my great great grandfather was born and family lived on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com.au/maps/@56.619486,-4.931301,3a,75y,264.51h,87.73t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sxkhirGtn7FM5HPEGHu_Qvw!2e0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.google.com.au/maps/@56.619486,-4.931301,3a,75y,264.51h,87.73t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sxkhirGtn7FM5HPEGHu_Qvw!2e0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the little bridge that the road crosses is just to Bonds right in the movie shot. It is beside the River Etive in Glen Etive in the Highlands. You can see the same bends in the river and the valley looks the same etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19301" LastActivityDate="2015-02-28T07:46:30.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31610" CreationDate="2015-02-28T08:58:14.920" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanos&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thanos&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check the end credits scene, and you can see him. I don't think he was named in &quot;The Avengers&quot;, but we do learn his name in &quot;Guardians of the Galaxy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11530" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T03:22:44.523" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T03:22:44.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28785" CreationDate="2015-02-28T11:02:45.080" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think he did go down but not through the window but by the stairs ( Like the last scene where he was shown to have jumped from the roof but in actual he took a taxi to the theater) and was addressing the press ( which was thrown out by the police in earlier scene) . So while his daughter looked down thinking that his father had jumped (Presuming the worst) but instead she found him very happy down stairs, she was surprised happily .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19303" LastActivityDate="2015-02-28T11:02:45.080" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31620" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-28T11:51:28.423" Score="13" ViewCount="8762" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is about the scene in &lt;em&gt;Donnie Darko&lt;/em&gt; where Karen (English teacher) and Monnitoff (Science teacher) have this conversation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Monnitoff: Donnie Darko.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Karen: I know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wTFic.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wTFic.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of them laugh afterwards. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene seems out of place to me. What exactly about Donnie Darko are they talking about? Does this have anything to do with the film's science fiction concepts (the Living Receiver, the Manipulated Living, etc)? Or is it about something more mundane? What is the scene or dialog's significance to the plot of the film? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T10:54:20.703" LastActivityDate="2016-05-07T14:33:56.543" Title="What is the significance of the scene where Karen and Monnitoff briefly talked about Donnie Darko?" Tags="|analysis|character|dialogue|donnie-darko|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31623" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34891" CreationDate="2015-02-28T15:24:13.583" Score="7" ViewCount="405" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the finale of Season 3 of &lt;em&gt;Person of Interest&lt;/em&gt;, it was revealed to Team Machine and to the audience that Decima Technologies was behind Vigilance, and that they planned the bombing in the courtroom. In particular, the bombing resulted in Samaritan receiving NSA feeds and being fully activated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, in Season 4 Episode 12, Team Machine had kidnapped Control and wanted to convince her how bad Samaritan is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why didn't they mention the connection between Decima and Vigilance to Control?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-02-28T16:02:05.330" LastActivityDate="2016-12-18T12:43:41.500" Title="Why hasn't Team Machine told Control who was really behind Vigilance?" Tags="|plot-explanation|person-of-interest|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28491" CreationDate="2015-02-28T15:40:02.607" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the book it states that the 'Creators' could manipulate 'Gladers' to perform various tasks, one example is Chuck getting killed, he was manipulated to jump in front of Thomas, maybe the 'Creators' manipulated Gally and opened the 'Griever hole' for him, then he typed in the combination which he didn't know but was manipulated to do so&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16115" LastActivityDate="2015-02-28T15:40:02.607" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21530" CreationDate="2015-02-28T16:16:44.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer lies not so much in the content as in the intended impact on the audience. Horror is intended specifically to instill fear. Science fiction has always been about stimulating the imagination of the audience, using science-oriented speculation to explore the ramifications of ideas, usually in a way that provides some commentary on society. Fantasy has been similar to science fiction, but uses magic-oriented speculation instead (with a heavy emphasis on good versus evil). The book publishing business got this wrong decades ago when they intermingled these three, probably because they didn't want so many categories of books. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19308" LastActivityDate="2015-02-28T16:16:44.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31627" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-02-28T18:18:41.170" Score="4" ViewCount="5021" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've watched Top Gear (UK) for all its 21 seasons. Recently, season 22 started airing and I managed to catch the first episode. What surprised me is that it is rated as TV-MA and they have explicit language. I've always heard the F-word and the four letter S-word get bleeped in Top Gear in the past, when either the presenters or the guests said it, but this time there is no bleeping or blurring. While I am quite happy that there is no censorship, I am surprised that such language is allowed on UK TV. Why is that so? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And more generally, can TV shows in UK air profanity like that? I am only familiar with the television censorship in US and here on network TV, you can hardly swear. On cable TV you can swear some more, and say things like s**t etc. On premium cable like HBO, all bets are off. How about across the pond? What can you and can't you say on BBC?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19309" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:12:02.887" LastActivityDate="2020-08-04T19:54:32.737" Title="How come Top Gear (UK) has swearing in season 22?" Tags="|censorship|top-gear|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31627" CreationDate="2015-02-28T18:30:42.813" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the UK there is something called &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.ofcom.org.uk/help/television/watershed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Watershed&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; this rule applies to all broadcasters within the UK and is usually considered to be the hours between 9pm and 5:30am. &lt;a href=&quot;http://media.ofcom.org.uk/news/2011/ofcom-warns-tv-broadcasters-to-be-more-careful-around-watershed/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This doesn't mean that straight after 9pm you can switch from family friendly to more adult material&lt;/a&gt; - the strongest material should be shown later in the evening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Programs shown before 9pm are required to be safe for viewing by children. This includes disallowing the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sexually explicit material&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Violent material&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Strong language&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Content that is extremely graphic or may cause distress&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually if content contains these elements and is broadcast before 9PM, the content will be edited to remove such content (or bleeping applied to hide language). Programs broadcast after 9PM do not get censored in this manner but will probably be introduced with a content warning (&amp;quot;This program may contain scenes that cause distress&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;This program contains strong language&amp;quot;, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10803921/Childhood-threatened-by-explicit-TV-before-watershed.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;many&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/hollyoaks-prewatershed-train-death-scene-breached-rules--ofcom-8786378.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;documented&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/jun/08/history-of-watershed-busting-television&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;instances&lt;/a&gt; of &amp;quot;unsuitable&amp;quot; content being broadcast before the watershed starts, and Top Gear is somewhat notorious for pushing the boundaries in this regard anyway - as you don't seem to be in the UK, you should be aware that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2101288/Top-Gear-wont-brake-swearing--driving-viewers-wall.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Top Gear has contained swearing for quite some time&lt;/a&gt; and it's likely your own broadcasters that are no longer censoring it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;More reading&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watershed_%28broadcasting%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article: Watershed (Broadcasting)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/page/guidelines-harm-watershed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BBC Editorial Guidelines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Watershed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Tropes article on the Watershed (including examples)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="14185" LastEditDate="2020-08-04T19:54:32.737" LastActivityDate="2020-08-04T19:54:32.737" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="31630" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31634" CreationDate="2015-02-28T19:48:55.070" Score="12" ViewCount="1800" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does someone show the same character at very different ages who has also morphed from one type of person to another?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that the same actor can somehow close the two-decade time difference between his earlier and later selfs? Or would a studio consider getting a second actor for the older version? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9097" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T11:24:16.700" LastActivityDate="2023-03-14T21:57:36.987" Title="How is an actor cast that's an older version of another one?" Tags="|production|casting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31630" CreationDate="2015-02-28T21:05:43.550" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I actually work in casting...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are honestly a couple ways to do this sort of thing and I'm going to take your example as a hypothetical because, let's be honest, you're probably not &lt;strong&gt;actually&lt;/strong&gt; going to be casting Julia Roberts and/or Jonah Hill. No offense meant... just being realistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Split the Difference&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You want someone to play both 30 and 50? Book an actor who's age is in the middle (35-40-ish) and use a small amount of makeup/hair changes to get them at either end. This is a great option for middle ages where people don't change a ton and when there's not a huge gap in age (10-20 years).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This effect can be done pretty easily and would likely work best in your specific case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Makeup&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Need a wider gap or a larger varieties of gaps? Special Effects (SFX) Makeup is amazing.  It's also becoming exceedingly common in the movie world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/S9JfmCNjwTk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump&quot;&gt;Forest Gump&lt;/a&gt; used makeup extensively to age most of the cast to different stages of adulthood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hiring a talented SFX makeup artist is expensive but nothing compared to that $20 mil you're dropping on Julia or Jonah... each. This is most effectively used on large age changes -50 years or more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The important note here is that the talent you hire has to be in the middle of this range.  Preferably around 35-45 for it to work well. Too much older and it will be tough to age them down. Tom Hanks was about 38 when Forest Gump was shot and Sally Fields was about 48 at the time but a lot of her aging was making her much older while Hanks was going both ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Digital Effects&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Digital visual effects (VFX) is a third option.  You hire a VFX team and they will digitally age your actor to the age you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/MarvelFreshman/news/?a=99324&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;'s an example from &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America:_The_Winter_Soldier&quot;&gt;Captain America: The Winter Soldier&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I'm not a fan of this option. It's viable but can end up looking really obvious... and fake... and it probably works better if your talent isn't moving around much, as is the case with the bed-bound Agent Carter from the example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using a combination of SFX makeup and VFX can be a strong option, like with &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curious_Case_of_Benjamin_Button_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Benjamin Button&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Two Actors&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This option is really only viable in a few cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;non-famous&lt;/strong&gt; talent of adult/middle age (30-50). People know exactly what makes Julia Roberts unique. Any deviation can be jarring and can confuse viewers. Makeup is your better option.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any talent who are already over 60 or so that a much younger (20-30 year-old) version will be assumed to be dissimilar enough that no one will care... plus, it's pretty much impossible to take an older person that far back. Think &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_in_Black_3&quot;&gt;Men in Black 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; where &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Lee_Jones&quot;&gt;Tommy Lee Jones&lt;/a&gt;' 40-years-younger Agent K is played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Brolin&quot;&gt;Josh Brolin&lt;/a&gt;. Jones was about 65 at the time of filming.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Intentional misdirect.  They used two different actors for the characters in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca&quot;&gt;Gattica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; to obfuscate their relation to each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chad Christ/Ethan Hawke&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;William Lee Scott/Loren Dean&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kids. If the version is under 18 or so, you pretty much have to get a second actor. They cast teenaged versions of famous actors in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_and_Then_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Now and Then&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gabby Hoffmann/Demi Moore&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Christina Ricci/Rosie O'Donnell&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ashleigh Aston Moore/Rita Wilson&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thora Birch/Melanie Griffith&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Predestination&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; - All kinds of crazy goin' on here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are probably some that I've missed in here but this is a good start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-02-28T21:20:44.263" LastActivityDate="2015-02-28T21:20:44.263" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31573" CreationDate="2015-03-01T03:19:21.317" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/15160/5603&quot;&gt;As stated in the question you link&lt;/a&gt;, the legality of these scripts is unconfirmed. Obviously, as with anything posted on the internet, unless you can verify the source yourself there's no guarantee that anything is as presented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Internet Movie Script Database&lt;/a&gt; as an example, many of these scripts do not even list who posted them to the site and the site itself &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/disclaimer/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;disclaims&lt;/a&gt; according to Fair Use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T03:19:21.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31639" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36162" CreationDate="2015-03-01T06:23:31.517" Score="22" ViewCount="2430" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a TV or movie character begins to dream (or daydream), there is a common set of effects used to communicate that to the audience:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whitened screen or edges (a &quot;cloudy&quot; effect)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes a brief waviness of the picture&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyBlKqktP_E&quot;&gt;Gentle harp music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'd love to know is, &lt;strong&gt;where did this first appear?&lt;/strong&gt; Which movie or TV show first coined some or all of this effect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18422" LastActivityDate="2023-09-16T00:26:25.120" Title="Where did the &quot;dream effect&quot; originate?" Tags="|effects|origin|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2015-03-01T11:51:33.077" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would first like to reply to a few people indirectly. I noticed one person make a comment about Simon being schizophrenic, which I agree with. But why did you make the comment saying &quot;he's not crazy&quot;? I'm pretty sure no one called him crazy. Also another person said they think he has a split personality. Like I said before I believe he's more schizophrenic due to the looking up the symptoms [source: mayoclinic.org]. DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), also commonly known as multiple personality disorder or split personality, which he does show some symptoms of, but more so schizophrenia which is a split &lt;em&gt;mind&lt;/em&gt;. Lastly I also agree that James is not real, that has been a consistent idea throughout this. But no one has really answered the question why no one sees it as a big deal, and who is James really? Well here's my theory, obviously in this theory Simon is schizophrenic. Simon basically sees whatever his mind wants him to see. I think maybe Simon isn't Simon at all (noticed someone commented saying that someone referred to &quot;Simon&quot; as Stanley). I think that occasionally Simon sees or hears a glimpse of reality but it doesn't register with him. A schizophrenia symptom: Verbal and/or visual hallucinations. So most things he sees and hears are mostly a distortion of his reality. Maybe James is just some random person that Simon works with. Plus he only talked to one co-worker about the new person (James) and was nonchalant about it and was pretty much like &quot;yeah I guess he kind of looks like you&quot;. Like I said before most of what Simon heard and saw probably wasn't even happening over half the time, therefor even may have even had a conflicting view of his actual self. Almost like an identity crisis. Long story short my conclusion is that through the midst of all this it was both literal in a psychological sense and metaphorical realistic sense, which is why so many people found Simon relatable. Because we're all trying to find a balance within ourselves trying to figure out who we are, feeling lost, invisible, and rejected. Then most importantly in this movie feeling conflicted &quot;should I be the ass hole that gets bitches and steps on people to get ahead? Or the nice guy that gets walked on all over?&quot; Simon in the end drove himself to insanity, becoming paranoid and defensive, as his hallucinations progressed, all the while trying to find that balance within his mind of who he actually is. He then can no longer take it. Killing both Simon and James (the metaphoric and hallucinogenic version of himself, who might've not even really been there most of the time in reality). So in a sense I don't really think Simon was ever real either, it was him believing that he was somehow an alternate version of this James fellow who was actually just some random new worker. But in his mind hallucinated James looking like himself, which in this case Simon is actually Stanley. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then again maybe I'm just over thinking it. c: I just wanted to fill as many plot holes as I could. If I didn't add the word plot in that last sentence, it would've sounded dirty. :I And I honestly don't even know if the majority of what I said will even make sense to anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19320" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T11:51:33.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31646" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-01T12:00:38.887" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T12:00:38.887" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T12:00:38.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31647" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-01T12:00:38.887" Score="0" Body="1927 Film by Fritz Lang.  The ruling elite replace a working class heroine with a robot to try to maintain their dominance of a dystopian future city.." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T13:48:50.330" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T13:48:50.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31653" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-01T16:06:40.797" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T16:06:40.797" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T16:06:40.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31654" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-01T16:06:40.797" Score="0" Body="2005 political thriller directed by James McTeigue.  A shadowy figure invokes the memory of Guy Fawkes in seeking to overthrow the tyrannical British government.  " OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T16:16:07.700" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T16:16:07.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31109" CreationDate="2015-03-01T21:15:12.227" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think what causes the the totem to behave differently is a change made to the totem in the real world, which is known only to the owner. For example, a die that is shaved so it only lands on one number when rolled. So when in a dream of their own, they are aware of the blemish to their totem and it is affected. But when in someone else's dream, the architect would be unaware of any blemishes to the totem, so it would behave differently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19332" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T21:15:12.227" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31659" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31665" CreationDate="2015-03-01T21:53:52.763" Score="6" ViewCount="133240" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm talking about the infamous &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2322441/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fifty Shades of Grey.&lt;/a&gt; It's good to declare at the beginning that I don't know nothing about the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Grey has a particular passion about physical attraction. He wants to play [dominant-submissive]. So we came to know that this particular passion he developed from his mother's friend Mrs. Robinson. Later he liked it and adopted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This portion is explained in the movie. But why does Grey avoid or want to avoid Anastasia's hand touch/touch with love? Anastasia wants something more than dating/movie watching/satisfying sexual fantasy. She wants to make love which Grey didn't allow (Ana's way). Even Grey didn't want to sleep in the same bed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anastasia keeps asking&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why can't we sleep in the same bed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why you won't let me touch you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These sentences keep coming throughout the movie. Initially Grey keeps saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how I am....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one scene Grey admits there is some reason behind this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ana: Why don't you let me in? ....... Why you want to punish me at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Grey: If I told you, you'll never look at me the same way again&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And they kept arguing and after some horrible punishment scene Ana left and the reason is kept inside a black-hole forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question: what's the reason for which Grey doesn't allow anyone to touch him with love or doesn't allow anyone to feel him? Why is Grey the way he is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the reason disclosed in the book? Or did the book finish the story where movie finished? Is the reason kept for a sequel? If so, let me know the reason anyway :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-08T04:19:21.127" Title="Why doesn't Grey allow Anastasia to touch him?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|fifty-shades-of-grey|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31620" CreationDate="2015-03-01T22:20:34.110" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never thought the tone in that scene was &lt;em&gt;disapproving&lt;/em&gt; so much as it is &lt;em&gt;knowing&lt;/em&gt;. Both teachers have had interesting interactions with Donnie, and they both know something is up with that kid. I've wondered if they each suspected that Donnie was involved in the vandalism at the school earlier in the film, but that's reading a lot into a scene with only four words of dialogue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2015-03-01T22:20:34.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31661" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31662" CreationDate="2015-03-01T23:25:01.440" Score="2" ViewCount="1079" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that there have been problems getting a good copy of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pinocchio&lt;/a&gt; due to loss of original high quality masters. Supposedly the 1980s VHS edition is faithful to the original, but suffers from low resolution. The &quot;70th Anniversary Platinum Edition&quot; however is colorized/altered so it is not faithful to the original artwork.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can get an accurate, high-quality copy of Pinocchio?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-01T23:52:17.730" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T00:05:48.457" Title="How to obtain a good version of Pinocchio?" Tags="|alternate-version|pinocchio|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31661" CreationDate="2015-03-02T00:05:48.457" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short of finding a magical, perfectly preserved version of Disney's original &lt;em&gt;Pinocchio&lt;/em&gt; and paying someone to master a DVD/BluRay/Digital copy from it, you don't really have many (if any) options and you're going to have to settle for something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Low-quality VHS copies (and even DVDs) can't be made better quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Disney decided to do some repairs to the film and fix the color, that doesn't mean it's inaccurate, it just means that, over time, the color in any film, regardless of how well preserved, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_preservation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;will degrade&lt;/a&gt; and need to be touched up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the 1980s, it was becoming apparent that the collections of motion picture heritage were at risk of becoming lost. Not only was the preservation of nitrate film an ongoing problem, but the discovery that safety film, used as a replacement for the more volatile nitrate stock, was beginning to be affected by a unique form of decay known as &amp;quot;vinegar syndrome&amp;quot;, and &lt;strong&gt;color film manufactured, in particular, by Eastman Kodak, was found to be at risk of fading&lt;/strong&gt;. At this time, the best known solution was to duplicate the original film onto a more secure medium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; mean that it necessarily &lt;em&gt;significantly&lt;/em&gt; differs from the original. It's not the same thing as someone colorizing a previously black and white film. This is part of the normal film restorative process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article here on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio_%281940_film%29#Reissues_and_home_media&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; quotes several versions of the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the re-release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1944 came the tradition of re-releasing Disney films every seven to ten years. Pinocchio was theatrically re-released in 1945, 1954, 1962, 1971, 1978, 1984, and 1992. RKO handled the first two reissues in 1945 and 1954, while Disney itself reissued the film from 1962 on through its Buena Vista Distribution division. &lt;strong&gt;The 1992 re-issue was digitally restored by cleaning and removing scratches from the original negatives one frame at a time, eliminating soundtrack distortions, and &lt;em&gt;revitalizing&lt;/em&gt; the color.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The more comprehensive digital restoration that was done for the 1992 re-issue was released on VHS in 1993, followed by its fourth VHS release and first release on Disney DVD in 1999.&lt;/strong&gt; The film was not included in the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection line, although early printings of the 1999 VHS did use the Masterpiece Collection logo. The second Disney DVD release and final issue in the VHS format premiered as part of the Walt Disney Gold Classics Collection VHS/DVD line on March 7, 2000. The third DVD release and first Blu-ray Disc release (the second Blu-ray in the Walt Disney Platinum Editions series) was released on March 10, 2009. Like the 2008 Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray release, the Pinocchio Blu-ray package featured a new restoration by Lowry Digital in a two-disc Blu-ray set, with a bonus DVD version of the film also included. This set returned to the Disney Vault on April 30, 2011.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to pick one of these versions, you might consider the earlier restoration and go with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=pinocchio%20gold&amp;amp;_from=R40&amp;amp;_osacat=0&amp;amp;_from=R40&amp;amp;_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xpinocchio%201999%20gold.TRS0&amp;amp;_nkw=pinocchio%201999%20gold&amp;amp;ghostText=&amp;amp;_sacat=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Walt Disney Gold DVD version from 2000&lt;/a&gt;. It seems they did another restoration in 2009 but I have no way of knowing which is more accurate to the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Recommended-Editions-of-Disney-Animated-and-Partially-Animated-Features/topic/15617/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This site&lt;/a&gt; recommends a 1987 Laserdisc edition (assuming you have a Laserdisc player):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pinocchio&lt;/em&gt; (1940): Color timing issues are the concern in the digital restorations and a negative impact on lighting depth.  There IS a chance the restoration is correct.  The problem is a lot of people feel that it is accurate to the cells but not how the animators expected it to look once transferred to film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Purist recommendation: The 1987 CAV Laserdisc/1985 VHS (no DVDr preservation available).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Acceptable Alternative: The 1999 Limited Issue/2000 Gold DVD (which was the same disc repackaged and the same transfer as the 1993 CAV Laserdisc).  It does contain some ghosting artifacts from digital noise reduction, but is generally clean and vivid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T00:05:48.457" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31659" CreationDate="2015-03-02T05:27:13.620" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not seen the movie, I've read only the 1st book. The book also ends the same way as it is in the movie like you mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's the reason for which Grey doesn't allow anyone to touch him with love or doesn't allow anyone to feel him? Why is Grey the way he is?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(From book) Christian Grey is not the type who involves in relations or love. He's more into physical or carnal pleasures (Dom-Sub). Before Anastasia he had few other sub-missives. He intended to make Ana as his Sub-missive with the contract but slowly he falls for Ana.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the beginning chapters, the reason he wouldn't allow Ana to touch him is part of being Dominant, tease her and to bring out physical pleasure for her in extreme levels and if Ana doesn't obey him and touches him anyway, then He would punish her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the latter chapters, Ana and Christian fall for each other but still he wouldn't allow her to touch him intimately or to take care of him. At this point, Ana is desperate to find out why Christian is the way he is, then she learns about Mrs. Robinson. (From book) She assumes that Christian was once played submissive for Mrs. Robinson when he was young and she did brutal and sadistic things to him like the cigarette burn marks on his chest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is the reason disclosed in the book? Or did the book finish the story where movie finished?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The points I mentioned above are the ones revealed about Christian from Anastasia's perspective about his intimacy issues. There were no other reasons disclosed from Christian's words. Based on your description, I think the 1st book also ended the same way as the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T05:27:13.620" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31667" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-02T06:06:57.747" Score="3" ViewCount="2332" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please correct me if I've erred, but I believe that &lt;a href=&quot;http://house-of-cards.wikia.com/wiki/Michael_Corrigan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John Pasternak&lt;/a&gt; sent the bouquet of tulips in Season 3, Episode 6, Claire Underwood, who herself asks the same question as that in the question title above. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856010/board/flat/240901387&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The posts in this IMDB.com thread&lt;/a&gt; don't appear conclusive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Season 3, Episode 6, a bouquet of tulips were bestowed on Claire Underwood by the husband of Michael Corrigan (characterised by actor &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3897454/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Christian Carmargo&lt;/a&gt;),  the imprisoned gay rights activist who had earlier committed suicide in his cell (while Claire was sleeping, after she chose to remain with him). Claire then asks an assistant:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;'How did he know that I like tulips'? I also wish to know; so I relay her question here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user13434" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-03-22T19:49:17.163" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T19:49:17.163" Title="How did John Pasternak know of Claire's fondness for tulips?" Tags="|plot-explanation|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31671" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31677" CreationDate="2015-03-02T08:06:24.080" Score="1" ViewCount="1734" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the name of the name of the Russian song the Russian president sang after the dinner in White House? What was the context and significance of the song?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18703" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T18:59:50.587" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T18:59:54.430" Title="What is the name of the Russian song in the season 3 episode 3?" Tags="|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28785" CreationDate="2015-03-02T08:49:30.283" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ending, is a short encapsulation of the entire film... He's laying in misery with his face covered... Much like his life while playing birdman. He takes the bandages off(like he did the birdman costume) and looks at himself in the mirror and sees the bruises and abuse he's taken. The birdman character is there on the toilet... Haunting him. He tells the character &quot;fuck you&quot; in an angry dismissive tone and walks to the window. There he sees the vision of something that calls to him(Broadway) he steps outside and jumps off the ledge... Risking everything like he did for his play... But he doesn't hit the ground and die... He soars. And his daughter who witnessed it all happen is left in wondrous delight at what her fathers achieved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19341" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T09:16:56.603" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T09:16:56.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31671" CreationDate="2015-03-02T08:52:38.430" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korobeiniki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Korobeiniki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Korobeiniki&quot; is a nineteenth-century Russian folk song that tells of a meeting between a peddler and a girl, in which they haggle over the price of goods in a veiled metaphor for courtship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T08:52:38.430" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31678" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-02T09:38:36.743" Score="11" ViewCount="2663" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is about the series - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/&quot;&gt;Game Of Thrones&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; They show that the Red Woman can use magical powers to infiltrate into Renly Baratheon's quarters and kill him with quite the ease. She doesn't fight the guards, she bypasses them in her &quot;shadow&quot; form and heads directly for Renly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that is the case, why does Stannis Baratheon not use her to sneak up and take out all the key players of King's Landing and claim his throne?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2021-01-02T03:13:55.077" Title="Why not use Red Woman to take down King's Landing?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31679" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32023" CreationDate="2015-03-02T10:09:54.307" Score="4" ViewCount="8181" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is about the movie - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; This movie takes the (possibly) actual failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in a movie theater (I'm not able to find any data for the real-life attempt) and flips the story around to a successful assassination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any particular reason this was done and that particular event from history was chosen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T14:29:03.847" Title="Any reason behind the ending of Inglourious Basterds?" Tags="|analysis|ending|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28434" CreationDate="2015-03-02T10:30:38.213" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid that the only good answer to this question is: we don't know.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The show writers made sure that we didn't know what he was up to until the last moment, so the only way we could tell was if he revealed it to someone (Carrie) later.&#xA;However he didn't do it (or at least it was not shown) and this leaves us with no idea about his plan.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;That said, we can still assume something, based on our knowledge on Brody's state of mind at the moment and this state of mind was: desperation.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;He was extremely desperate and shown it several times since being &quot;brought back to live&quot; by CIA.&#xA;His desperation came from one source: this was the only way for him to (at least partially) redeem himself.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Based on the above my opinion is that he really wanted to kill Akbari.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T10:30:38.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31678" CreationDate="2015-03-02T10:45:39.363" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unlike the Baratheon/Tyrell alliance, there is no &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; person that could be assassinated and have any lasting effect. Kill Joffrey? He still has an heir. Kill Tyrion? Any number of commanders loyal to the Lannisters can rise to the cause. So on and so forth. Kill Cersei? Tyrion and the realm would've thanked him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unlike the Baratheon/Tyrell alliance, this was a siege. Even if you disrupted the command structure, you'd still have huge walls you'd have to scale. For the assassination be of any help in a siege it must lead to a complete surrender. No single target exists for such a scenario, and you'd have to kill multiple key people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Creating the &quot;shadow babies&quot; takes a great toll out of Stannis. The one he created (two in the books) greatly weakened him. There was no way he'd be able to create enough of them to help him win King's Landing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stannis purposely left out Melisandre from the assault on King's Landing in fear that men might call it &lt;em&gt;her&lt;/em&gt; victory and not his.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2015-06-17T19:28:28.020" LastActivityDate="2015-06-17T19:28:28.020" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31683" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31685" CreationDate="2015-03-02T11:07:16.577" Score="4" ViewCount="414" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is some question that has always been in my mind. I ask here because I have mostly seen it in American movies and TV series, not so in those from other parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically in a movie, a suspect is fleeing a crime scene and there's always some witness, or a cop, who says, for example: &quot;guy is on a Camaro from 79&quot;. I understand most people is able to identify a car's maker, but is it the same with the years? Do car plates in the US carry the manufacturing year or what? Or is that some unrealistic gimmick?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because in Europe, only car enthusiasts would be able to tell a model year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19342" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T11:24:50.350" LastActivityDate="2017-04-01T14:39:45.190" Title="How are car model years identified?" Tags="|props|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31683" CreationDate="2015-03-02T11:14:29.757" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is very much a familiarity thing. In many instances, a car enthusiast will be able to identify a car based on its shape, styling, etc. This is especially prevalent with old American muscle cars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_identification_number#Model_year_encoding&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;You can tell the year a car is made from its VIN&lt;/a&gt;, vehicle identification numbers were added in the 80s but it's not something you can see from a distance. They'll be linked to the number plate of the car through whichever national agency deals with car registrations, though. This means that in a modern environment, you can use ANPR to detect the plate and bring up the car information on screen, and in a less modern environment you could call it in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, in some countries, the year of registration is detailed in the registration number - for example, in the UK, car registrations follow a &lt;code&gt;AA52 BBB&lt;/code&gt; format, which AA is the region the car was registered, 52 indicates it was registered in the second half of 2002, etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of the time in movies, it will be &quot;pointing out the classic car make/model&quot;, the rest of the time it will be artistic license. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T11:14:29.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31686" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-02T11:24:31.163" Score="27" ViewCount="12730" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/&quot;&gt;Quentin Tarantino&lt;/a&gt; ever give the reason for misspelling the movie title &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/&quot;&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T11:37:05.863" LastActivityDate="2022-03-16T08:26:32.890" Title="Why was Inglourious Basterds misspelt?" Tags="|title|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31686" CreationDate="2015-03-02T11:32:18.760" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglourious_Basterds#Development&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; page on the film:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film's title was inspired by the English-language title of&#xA;director Enzo G. Castellari's 1978 war film, The Inglorious Bastards.&#xA;When asked for an explanation of the film's title's spelling during a&#xA;news conference at the Cannes Film Festival, Tarantino said, &amp;quot;I'm&#xA;never going to explain that&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When pushed on it, Tarantino would not explain the first u in Inglourious, but said, &amp;quot;The Basterds? That's&#xA;just the way you say it: Basterds.&amp;quot; Tarantino later stated in an&#xA;interview that the misspelled title is &amp;quot;a Basquiat-esque touch.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He further commented on Late Show with David Letterman that Inglourious&#xA;Basterds is a &amp;quot;Quentin Tarantino spelling&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tarantino is famous for raising this kind of unanswered question to play with viewers mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T18:58:54.420" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31690" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-02T12:24:24.183" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Better Call Saul, a prequel to &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/breaking-bad&quot;&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/a&gt; created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, focusing on the rise of Saul Goodman, criminal attorney. Starring Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill, charting his rise to ace criminal attorney, Saul Goodman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bettercallsaul.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Official site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3032476/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Call_Saul&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-03T11:01:19.043" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T11:01:19.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31691" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-02T12:24:24.183" Score="0" Body="For questions about Better Call Saul, a prequel to Breaking Bad focusing on the rise of Saul Goodman, criminal attorney." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T12:30:27.877" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T12:30:27.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31686" CreationDate="2015-03-02T12:38:07.717" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/faq&quot;&gt;IMDB FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is it spelled &quot;Basterds&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tarantino commented on &quot;The Late Show&quot; that Inglourious Basterds is the &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Tarantino way of spelling it&lt;/strong&gt;,&quot; but he hasn't commented on where the idea for the misspelling arose, nor is he likely to. &quot;&lt;strong&gt;I'm never going to explain that&lt;/strong&gt;,&quot; Tarantino was quoted at the Cannes Film Festival. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Three theories have been offered by viewers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Basterd may be derived from the word Baster, a word derived from Dutch bastaard (bastard). The original Basters were mainly persons of mixed descent between the Cape Colony Dutch and indigenous African women who at one time would have been absorbed in the white community. In the movie, the Basterds are American/Jewish, and their plan was very similar...to be &quot;civilians absorbed&quot; in France, walking among the Nazis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The misspelling may connote that Lt Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), who grew up in a family of backwoods bootleggers and moonshiners, has had little in the way of schooling. The words are briefly shown in their misspelled form on his rifle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tarantino misspelled the title on the cover of the script, which then leaked onto the internet before production began. Rather than admit his mistake, Tarantino chose to maintain the spelling.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above were merely audience opinions. But here's a promising article from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inglourious_basterds/news/1762570/tarantinos_inglourious_basterds_not_a_typo/&quot;&gt;RottenTomatoes&lt;/a&gt; where Weinstein Co. and Universal Pictures, confirms that QT is not a poor speller and gives the reasons for the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shoshanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a&#xA;  group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution.&#xA;  Known to their enemy as &quot;&lt;strong&gt;The Basterds&lt;/strong&gt;,&quot; Raine's squad joins German&#xA;  actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on&#xA;  a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge&#xA;  under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a&#xA;  revenge plan of her own...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T12:38:07.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24375" CreationDate="2015-03-02T12:49:59.970" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this particular instance, I do not believe the line spoken by Starlord to the Guardians of the Galaxy at the end of the movie was in reference to anything, it seems, more than anything, to be setting itself up for there being a second Guardian's of the Galaxy movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What should we do next? Something good? Something bad? A bit of both?&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Roll Credits&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason you may find the concept to be familiar is probably down to word arrangement, &quot;The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly&quot; would provide you with familiarity over the &quot;Good&quot; and the &quot;Bad&quot;, crossed with &quot;Something old, something new...&quot;, both of which are common phrases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T12:49:59.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31694" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31781" CreationDate="2015-03-02T13:02:19.937" Score="2" ViewCount="853" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Series 1 Episode 8 of Ashes to Ashes, Gene Hunt gains possession of a video tape which reveals the truth about the car bombing of Tim and Caroline Price.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Acting out of compassion for the childhood version of Alex Drake, he destroys the tape. At this moment the adult Alex Drake gives a warning about the blackmail that will ultimately result from this act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;ALEX: I'm the piece of his past. Or I will be. He'll be blackmailed by&#xA;  Layton  for not telling the truth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the nature of that blackmail and how does it relate to the events of Series 1 Episode 1, in which Alex Drake is taken prisoner and then shot by Arthur Layton?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19074" LastEditorUserId="19074" LastEditDate="2015-03-04T14:39:49.333" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T14:39:49.333" Title="What is the nature of the blackmail that will ultimately result from Gene Hunt's destruction of the video tape?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ashes-to-ashes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16425" CreationDate="2015-03-02T13:10:42.083" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has just two endings. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where they show gabbar dying&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Where they didn't show gabbar dying.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There aren't any other endings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19344" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T13:10:42.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31697" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31955" CreationDate="2015-03-02T13:13:44.250" Score="2" ViewCount="339" Body="&lt;p&gt;During Series 1 of Ashes to Ashes, Caroline Price is revealed to have had an affair. All parties agree to keep the matter secret from Tim Price to spare the family. Yet in 'Episode 8', Tim Price has learned the secret, which is the motive for his subsequent actions at the close of the series. How and at what point does Tim Price learn of Caroline's affair?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19074" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-04T16:10:23.937" LastActivityDate="2016-05-03T17:02:31.237" Title="How and at what point does Tim Price learn of Caroline Price's affair?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ashes-to-ashes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31698" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-02T13:46:22.083" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T13:46:22.083" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T13:46:22.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31699" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-02T13:46:22.083" Score="0" Body="Criminal Minds is an American police procedural drama that differs from many procedural dramas by focusing on the victims and the criminal rather than the crime itself." OwnerUserId="8740" LastEditorUserId="8740" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T13:49:17.757" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T13:49:17.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24890" CreationDate="2015-03-02T13:47:25.897" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason why child labor was made illegal was because under-aged children were being misused into doing hard physical labor. Poverty was one of the main reasons for this. Child labor was robbing children of their education and the children were forced into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference between a child working at an auto repair workshop and a child acting in a movie/play is that the latter is creative art and does not force a child to take part in the activity of acting. Children who are actors are protected from losing education or being overworked and the content they act in is also heavily regulated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this doesn't only apply to acting, it applies to all creative arts like singing, dancing, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T13:47:25.897" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23235" CreationDate="2015-03-02T13:57:09.060" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's a duck family tree that shows how Huey, Dewey, Louie, Scrooge and Donald are related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;reff: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digestivepyrotechnics.com/2012/06/what-duck.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;What the duck&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Yme0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mas1q.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Full Family Tree&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T13:57:09.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23134" CreationDate="2015-03-02T14:37:28.210" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wolf is a predator. I'm sure you remember the riddle Malvo asked Gus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you know why the human eye can see more shades of green than any other color?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Malvo considered himself a predator. He valued only predators and liked changing people into them (like he did with Lester).&#xA;And for the meaning of the scene here is a quote from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvguide.com/news/fargo-finale-noah-hawley-1083116/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an interview&lt;/a&gt; with one of the showrunners Noah Hawley:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Obviously it's the whole predator-prey thing where Malvo goes back to the cabin and he's almost mortally wounded,&quot; showrunner Noah Hawley tells TVGuide.com. &quot;And he looks out the window and sees that wolf ... and that's the moment that Gus comes out, and that smile on his face, Malvo is realizing that he's not the predator anymore. There is a lot of animal symbolism in the show -- from fish to deer to wolves -- and that's not an accident.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T14:37:28.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31705" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-02T15:54:45.617" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions about scheduling for both TV and movies, use this tag. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic&quot;&gt;Please don't ask about release dates - that's off topic and will result in your question being closed&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T17:25:21.237" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T17:25:21.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31706" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-02T15:54:45.617" Score="0" Body="For questions about scheduling for both TV and movies, use this tag. Don't ask about release dates - that's off topic!" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T16:10:50.660" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T16:10:50.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31707" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-02T15:59:03.327" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions about movies or TV shows adapted from other materials, for example books or video games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T16:10:46.070" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T16:10:46.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31708" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-02T15:59:03.327" Score="0" Body="For questions about movies or TV shows adapted from other materials, for example books or video games." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T16:42:23.067" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T16:42:23.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31712" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-02T16:24:19.417" Score="4" ViewCount="165711" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a scene in &lt;em&gt;It Follows&lt;/em&gt; where Jay drives to the sea and looks at 3 men in a boat.  She enters the water and, in the next scene, is crying as she drives home.  I assumed she had swum out and had a sexual encounter with them but the rest of the film would imply this is not the case.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So was she just crying with frustration about not being able to go through with it?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the actual point of the scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her ex-boyfriend explained that if it killed her it would then work it's way back through the line.  However, he got targeted after a one night stand so how did he know this?  How does anyone know it would keep going all the way back to patient zero, if had ever done this then wouldn't everyone involved be dead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the girl from the opening scene the girl in the picture with him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it explained why, rather than waste time seducing Jay, he didn't just take a trip to Brazil or somewhere far away and sleep with a prostitute?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T18:57:55.260" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T19:54:44.600" Title="I think I missed something in 'It Follows'" Tags="|plot-explanation|it-follows|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2016-08-03T06:01:10.773" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31714" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-02T18:01:24.750" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sneakers is a 1992 movie by Phil Alden Robinson, starring Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley and Mary McDonnell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Related reading&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Sneakers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(1992_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sneakers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rotton Tomatoes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T18:59:19.650" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T18:59:19.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31715" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-02T18:01:24.750" Score="0" Body="Sneakers is a 1992 movie by Phil Alden Robinson, starring Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley and Mary McDonnell." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T18:38:18.333" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T18:38:18.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31717" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31720" CreationDate="2015-03-02T19:00:12.010" Score="17" ViewCount="52165" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Kingsman: The Secret Service&lt;/em&gt; Gazelle is disabled. I was surprised to discover that the actress playing the role (Sofia Boutella) is not. How were the scenes with her shot? Did she actually wear limbs, or had a stunt double, or it's just special effects?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11586" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2017-07-26T21:01:08.930" LastActivityDate="2017-07-26T21:01:08.930" Title="How were the scenes with Gazelle shot?" Tags="|film-techniques|stunts|kingsman-the-secret-service|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31718" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31730" CreationDate="2015-03-02T19:04:31.160" Score="7" ViewCount="2204" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Kingsman: The Secret Service&lt;/em&gt;, Merlin knew Lancelot (Roxy)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; has a terrible fear of heights (as we learned in a parachute scene) and Eggsy failed the training. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet when Merlin comes up with his great plan, he sends Lancelot to the space and Eggsy to the bunker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does he do that? That doesn't make any sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="290" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-28T10:57:45.510" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T10:57:45.510" Title="Why did Merlin give Lancelot the edge-of-space mission?" Tags="|kingsman-the-secret-service|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31718" CreationDate="2015-03-02T19:15:47.683" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only aspect of the training Eggsy failed was the final test to shoot the dog. Otherwise he passed everything else with flying colors. The only thing setting him apart from Roxy was the fact that he was unwilling to shoot his dog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this, it could be Merlin felt that Eggsy was better suited for the task inside Valentine's bunker, leaving Roxy as the only choice to take on the task in space. Sure Eggsy failed the training, but given they were the only ones left to carry out the mission, what choice did Merlin have?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the more likely explanation is &lt;strong&gt;Eggsy is the main character&lt;/strong&gt;, and the task they gave to Roxy wouldn't have been as exciting for the audience to view a secondary character doing, in part or in full.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, would you want to watch Eggsy fly up into space to shoot the satellite, or would you rather watch him infiltrate a base and get into a massive shootout plus the final standoff with the main villain? Valentine killed Galahad, Eggsy's mentor during the entire training regimin, while Eggsy watched, which Merlin also knew about. You want to see Eggsy get revenge on Valentine, right? Thus, having him fly up into space to merely shoot down a satellite would be an incredibly dull way to end the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T19:15:47.683" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31717" CreationDate="2015-03-02T19:23:28.783" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;They likely had Sofia Boutella wear special socks/coverings and added the assasin prosthetics later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Effects like this have been achievable for quite some time now, as shown by the special effects shots of Gary Sinise as Lt. Dan in the film Forest Gump. Sinise wore blue socks during filming, and his legs bellow the knee were digitally removed in post production. For some scenes they may have used a double that was also a double amputee, but given how far special effects have come since then, and the level of action required, I doubt this is the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5dPpm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T19:23:28.783" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31721" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31774" CreationDate="2015-03-02T19:56:19.333" Score="9" ViewCount="5178" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, a lot of 'reality television' is (partially) scripted. Now, normally with some Google-fu I am able to find out whether it was scripted, or at least people claiming such things (sometimes with good convincing arguments, and sometimes pure speculation). Is there any better/more definite way to find out whether a show is scripted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I realize the question is quite broad, but what I am asking about is a methodology on how to approach these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9168" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T21:13:15.023" LastActivityDate="2016-03-03T06:33:17.410" Title="How to find out whether a reality show is scripted" Tags="|realism|reality-tv|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31721" CreationDate="2015-03-02T21:12:11.860" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every single &quot;Reality TV&quot; show is scripted to some degree.  There is just no way to effectively follow someone around 24/7 and hope to capture some drama somewhere, so in order to be cost-effective that drama must be created via scripts.  Some, like Pawn Stars, are obvious because some of the &quot;actors&quot; are horrible at acting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only potential exception to the rule would be Big Brother, because they're in a controlled environment with cameras 24/7.  They would have very little time (if any) to script anything, because even in the hours it's not on TV there are &quot;Big Brother cams&quot; you can view online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: This answer is for US shows only, as I have no knowledge of shows in other countries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T21:12:11.860" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31726" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-02T21:37:22.323" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;'Ashes to Ashes' is a BBC science fiction and police procedural drama television series, with a time travel theme, set in 2008-2011 and (principally) in 1981-1983. It is a spin-off from the series 'Life on Mars'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BBC site: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jhp3l&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jhp3l&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19074" LastEditorUserId="19074" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T13:01:59.260" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T13:01:59.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31727" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-02T21:37:22.323" Score="0" Body="'Ashes to Ashes' is a BBC science fiction and police procedural drama television series, with a time travel theme, set in the present day and (principally) in 1981. It is a spin-off from the series 'Life on Mars'." OwnerUserId="19074" LastEditorUserId="19074" LastEditDate="2015-03-02T21:51:59.877" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T21:51:59.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26890" CreationDate="2015-03-02T21:50:17.650" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the show definitely changed a lot of the details about the Green Arrow, it seems to be based off the new comic series ( &quot;New 52&quot; or &quot;New Earth&quot; I believe). In the comics Oliver, undergoes a similar change, so I believed the writers always planned the shows change from season 1 into 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19332" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T21:50:17.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31718" CreationDate="2015-03-02T22:30:38.080" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The one to enter Valentine's bunker had to be a male, since he was supposed to use Chester King's invitation. With only two agents on his hands, and assuming Merlin himself was the only one able to hack his way with the on-plane instrumentation, no other choices were open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3975" LastActivityDate="2015-03-02T22:30:38.080" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28785" CreationDate="2015-03-03T01:01:20.767" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Riggan dies twice in the movie.  The first time is when he shoots himself in the head onstage.  He really dies, as is evidenced by the jump cuts and scenes from his life, ending with jellyfish on the beach from his last suicide attempt.  He goes to a purgatory of sorts where all of his wishes are fulfilled - His ex-wife loves him, his daughter acts like a small child again, Jake is ecstatic, the play is successful, people are holding vigils for him, the NYT critic wrote a ridiculously glowing review, his nose is magically healed, yet rival Mike Shiner and Laura (who Riggan doesn't seem to care about at all) aren't present.  His one other wish is to be done with Birdman yet retain the fame and money the movies gave him.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this happy ending has cracks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, he's become Birdman in several ways:  his bandages are like the mask, and even when he takes them off his bruising and new nose resemble birdman.  His voice when he awakes sounds like Birdman.  But he hasn't merged with his alter ego, as is revealed when he goes into the bathroom and sees Birdman on the toilet.  Seeing Birdman reveals that Riggan's ego is still around and he isn't truly free yet.  Riggan figures out that the only way to be truly free is to not care about fame (be it as an artist or a movie star) or the self.  Birdman says &quot;goodbye, fuck you&quot; as he (the ego) realizes his grasp on Riggan is over.  This is when Riggan steps out on the ledge and finally lets go.  Note this &quot;suicide&quot; is done in private, without any witnesses.  In this way Riggan liberates himself from his ego and is finally able to ascend to his afterlife, which is what his daughter sees.  He's ascending, but this time it isn't a flight of ego and delusion.  This is the second death, but it's actually his release from the purgatory of seeing his ego completely sated.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19360" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-03T09:11:50.127" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T09:11:50.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28785" CreationDate="2015-03-03T03:26:46.867" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;To understand the ending it’s important to understand the key themes of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ego – Birdman represents Riggan’s ego. You can read about this from the Director on your own. In one scene Riggan starts to compare Birdman to Icarus who died of hubris. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nature of art / literary critique – the French philosopher Roland Barthes is mentioned during the press interview. This is no accident. I am no expert on him  but basically he wrote about the limitations of language in critiquing literature and the limitations of labels. Riggan also talks about this when he gets in the critic’s face at the bar. Also, the note on the dressing room mirror says “A thing is a thing, not what is said about that thin.” In short, words are limiting in describing a piece of art. So whatever we say about the final scene is not the final scene, which just is what it is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Desire for love -  the words shown during the opening credits from Carver are key. What did he want in life? “To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These themes were cited by the writers of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last scene is not intended to be taken literally. Read the Barthes work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one can say whether he died or not, when he died etc. Not even the writers know. What we say about it doesn’t  change the movie which just is what it is. And it doesn’t matter whether he died or when he died if he did. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last scene is intended to communicate the key themes.  Remember the opening poem? At the end of life, we desire to be beloved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask yourself, what would it look like if Riggan were beloved? There might be people lighting candles in the street praying for him, the top NY critic would praise him, his daughter would be close to him and proud of him while watching him “take flight”. This scene shows the fulfillment of his ultimate goal in life. To be beloved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Riggan’s ego is also satisfied at the end. Birdman is symbolically “flushed” down the toilet and Riggan essentially becomes Birdman. He has a bird nose,  he can fly, and he’s loved by everyone. It shows us that the only thing that can really satisfy the ego is love. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that it’s not clear what happened at the end is perfect. Art defies the words we try to use to describe it. That’s a key theme in the movie and the final scene makes this point profoundly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19365" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T03:26:46.867" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31740" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31748" CreationDate="2015-03-03T05:46:39.797" Score="7" ViewCount="275" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director&amp;#39;s_cut&quot;&gt;extended &amp;amp; director's cut&lt;/a&gt; versions get released in theatres? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19362" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-03T09:19:18.503" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T14:37:34.693" Title="Do extended &amp; director's cut versions get released in theatres?" Tags="|distribution|alternate-version|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31741" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31751" CreationDate="2015-03-03T06:37:17.067" Score="10" ViewCount="2761" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Departed&lt;/em&gt;, Billy Costigan he was very intelligent and could have been anything he wanted to be, but he chose to become a state trooper. Why? What was his goal for becoming a cop and going undercover?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19371" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-03T09:16:30.407" LastActivityDate="2024-03-03T18:44:03.373" Title="What was Billy's goal for becoming a cop and going undercover?" Tags="|character|the-departed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31743" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31746" CreationDate="2015-03-03T07:06:53.047" Score="6" ViewCount="6652" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching an movie when I was younger, at least a good 7 years, it was about this family who moved into an haunted house (of course) but the ghosts were different, they could only attack in the dark, they would pose as members of the family to try to get them to turn off the light so they could attack. Some scenes I remember are the kids finding a old family picture under the stairs and when they looked away the faces in the picture turned all scary: the dad or the brother had a breathing problem and they had to poke a hole in his neck with a pen to get him to breath again: ended with kids getting out but the girls boyfriend who picked them up was actually an ghost posing as the boyfriend and then drove under a dark bridge. &#xA;It is driving me crazy that I can't find this movie, please help! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19372" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T07:34:12.950" Title="Please identify this horror movie about ghosts that only attack in the dark" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:36:59.363" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31756" CreationDate="2015-03-03T07:14:23.700" Score="5" ViewCount="1410" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen this old movie (black and white, Arabic language, Egyptian accent) back in 1998 (but the movie must have been made before 1970)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot begins when a little boy sees his mother in a dream and she does not recognize him. She tells him: her daughter (his sister) died in a train accident. And that he will die at the age of 24 or something like that. And one other thing about their future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He wakes up and realizes that his mother is dead a long time ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the time, the things his mother told him in the dream come true, except for the last one.. Where he is supposed to die at the age 24.. You see, he becomes a doctor and at his 24th birthday he is sad and waiting for the moment that he will die (since the other two premonitions before were accurate).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then an emergency occurs and he decides to operate on the patient (which turns out to be a pregnant lady in labor)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We later find out that : had he remained in that room where he was depressed, he would have died due to a fire.&#xA;But since he decided to be a reason for some other life to happen, he was given a second chance.. or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this site does not focus on movies in Arabic, but I thought maybe the movie I saw is a rip-off some other movie that you might have seen or heard about. In my case, I could not find the name of the Arabic movie, nor the names of any actors in it. The only way I can reach it is if I can link it to another movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T17:49:53.400" Title="Guy has a dream with premonitions that come true" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:37:02.497" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31743" CreationDate="2015-03-03T07:34:12.950" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're describing &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_%282002_film%29&quot;&gt;The Darkness&lt;/a&gt; from 2002 with Anna Paquin and Lena Olin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Forty years after an unfinished occult ritual resulted in the disappearance of six children, an American family has moved into a never-before inhabited house in Spain. The mother, Maria (Olin), wants to get the place in order, while the father, Mark (Glen), goes to work, and their children, teenager Regina (Paquin) and her younger brother Paul (Enquist), try to settle into their daily routines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Regina races back to her home to find her father in the midst of another nervous breakdown, choking on pills as the eclipse begins. &lt;strong&gt;Maria tries to perform a tracheotomy on him&lt;/strong&gt;, but is unable to bring herself to make the cut. Regina volunteers to, but inadvertently causes his death. Since Regina genuinely loved Mark, the ritual is finally complete. &lt;strong&gt;The darkness then takes the form of Regina and Paul, convincing their mother to turn off the lights. The darkness kills Maria, and then takes the form of Regina's friend Carlos, who picks them up in his car. The real Carlos arrives at the house, only to be killed by the darkness. The movie ends with the fake Carlos driving Regina and Paul into a dark tunnel, where it is implied that the darkness kills Regina and Paul.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ovnCWmCm98g?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T07:34:12.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31740" CreationDate="2015-03-03T09:00:48.977" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes yes but they tend to be short or single runs in more 'art-house' cinemas or as part of a collection of director/actor movies ran together. I saw a 'Blade Runner' thing like this as part of a Ridley Scott appreciation thing a few years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T09:00:48.977" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31750" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-03T11:42:27.877" Score="10" ViewCount="999" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, I have a question about &lt;em&gt;Super 8&lt;/em&gt;. In a scene toward the end, Donny lets Joe drive his car because he is too stoned. During the next scene we see a tank fire, along with other shots being fired/explosions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: What the hell are they shooting at? Isn't the alien underground? I know some military guy said something about misfiring... Is the alien causing all military devices to malfunction? How would the alien force the tanks to fire?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19377" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-16T15:07:16.957" LastActivityDate="2016-09-16T15:07:16.957" Title="What did the tanks fire at?" Tags="|plot-explanation|super-8|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31741" CreationDate="2015-03-03T13:09:42.200" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Emanuel Levy has some &lt;a href=&quot;http://emanuellevy.com/comment/the-departed-dicaprio-6/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;relevant quotes from Leonardo DiCaprio&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Billy Costigan came up from the streets of Boston, and DiCaprio&#xA;remarks that &lt;strong&gt;his character's motivation to become a police officer is&#xA;rooted in his desire to escape his upbringing&lt;/strong&gt;: “Billy comes from an&#xA;underworld background and has all the chips stacked against him in a&#xA;lot of ways. &lt;strong&gt;I think he joins the police because he has no other&#xA;options, and he wants to do things differently than his family did.&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Ironically, he is asked to go undercover and pretend to be the very&#xA;thing he was determined not to become. At the heart of it, I think&#xA;Billy is ultimately trying to redeem himself and not just be a product&#xA;of his environment, but he ends up deep in a situation that is&#xA;extremely dangerous and deceitful. There are moments when he could so&#xA;easily be caught. All the arrows are pointing in his direction as the&#xA;'rat,' and everything begins to cave in around him.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same quote is also in &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20071108084033/https://writingstudio.co.za/page1383.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The art of writing and making films: THE DEPARTED&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;. (link to archived page in the Wayback Machine, since the original apparently hasn't been available for several years)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2024-03-03T18:44:03.373" LastActivityDate="2024-03-03T18:44:03.373" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="31752" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-03T13:16:30.023" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film stars &lt;code&gt;Tom Hardy&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;Noomi Rapace&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;James Gandolfini&lt;/code&gt;, with &lt;code&gt;Matthias Schoenaerts&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;John Ortiz&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;James Frecheville&lt;/code&gt; in supporting roles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plot is around a bartender named &lt;code&gt;Bob Saginowski&lt;/code&gt;  finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources :- &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drop_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1600196/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2016-12-17T14:35:39.663" LastActivityDate="2016-12-17T14:35:39.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31753" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-03T13:16:30.023" Score="0" Body="2014 American crime drama film directed by `Michaël R. Roskam`, from a screenplay written by `Dennis Lehane`. The film is based on Lehane's 2009 short story &quot;Animal Rescue&quot;. Lehane also adapted the script into a 2014 novel of the same name. " OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2016-12-17T14:36:11.040" LastActivityDate="2016-12-17T14:36:11.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31721" CreationDate="2015-03-03T13:21:34.077" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wga.org/organizesub.aspx?id=1091&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;David Rupel explains&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just like scripted television, writing and producing go hand in hand.&#xA;  The majority of my reality credits are for producing, not writing, but&#xA;  I'm always using my skills as a storyteller.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For example, when Monica and Chandler slept together on Friends, it&#xA;  was referred to as a &quot;plot twist.&quot; When the tribes didn't merge as&#xA;  expected on this season's Survivor, it's simply known as a &quot;twist.&quot;&#xA;  The subtle language difference implies that somehow the twists in&#xA;  reality magically &quot;happen on their own.&quot; Nothing could be further from&#xA;  the truth. There is every bit as much thought, debate, and imagination&#xA;  behind every twist you see on reality–both big and small. Just like&#xA;  making Joey and Chandler roommates was a deliberate choice the writers&#xA;  made on Friends; when I produced Temptation Island, I chose room&#xA;  assignments based on how I thought people would affect each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Similarly, every time I select a location, develop a game, find a&#xA;  cast, look for appropriate music, it's always based on story. How will&#xA;  this affect the cast? Is it setting the right mood? Will it help the&#xA;  audience understand what's going on? All the same questions I ask&#xA;  myself when I write a script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T13:21:34.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31745" CreationDate="2015-03-03T13:58:17.533" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're after the B&amp;amp;W Egyptian thriller &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342962/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Saut min el madi&lt;/a&gt; (AKA Voice from the Past) from 1957. From an online site (sorry for not attaching a link, it looked kinda shaky):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This film revolves around a boy whose dead mother appears to him in his dreams and who experiences visions into the future of tragic events. He tries to keep his sister from marrying an army officer after a premonition that they’ll die, but unable to stop them, they both pass away in a car accident. As he progresses through life he is plagued by the thought that he will die at age 25 as he saw in an earlier dream, and he must live his life until that point when he can see if these premonitions will all come true and whether his own life will end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't find any pics or videos, I'm afraid (it proves very hard), but I think it's what you're after.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; System Down found a page on an Egyptian website with the film's synopsis, poster and actors; it can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.elcinema.com/work/wk1000453/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-03-03T17:49:53.400" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T17:49:53.400" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31757" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-03T15:10:11.040" Score="2" ViewCount="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is the American flag featured upside down and mirrored with no stars on the logo for the Netflix series House of Cards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19378" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-03T15:10:38.080" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T15:10:38.080" Title="House of Cards American flag" Tags="|plot-explanation|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-03-03T15:11:09.563" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26832" CreationDate="2015-03-03T19:46:49.753" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This looks to me like the Olivetti ELEA9003. &#xA;ELEA standing for &quot;&lt;em&gt;Elaboratore Elettronico Aritmetico&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hdLRk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Olivetti ELEA9003&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it is possible to be certain, but this is of the right era. &#xA;The machine was introduced in 1959, and is of the right origin for the film, being designed and built in Italy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-03T19:56:20.303" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T19:56:20.303" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31764" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31767" CreationDate="2015-03-03T20:46:42.250" Score="6" ViewCount="902" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a young age, early nineties, I've always remembered quite vividly a couple of scenes from what I 'think' was a movie (I was young so could have made it up although that's unlikely as it scared the crap out of me!) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First scene: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A boy is in a room with candles which are all lit. I think he was dressed up in outdoor clothes such as a coat and hat. He sees a fairly old woman at the top of a set of stairs. A guy pops up behind her and strangles her (with a wire or something).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The boy runs into a car and locks himself in but the window of one side is open. Just as he begins to close it, the same guy runs up and sticks his head and arm inside. The window keeps going up (I guess it's electronic windows) and the glass begins to break.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's in colour, seems and felt like a horror or thriller but could very well have been a comedy! I'm sure i saw it before 1994. I've had these images in my head for over 20 years wondering where it's from so hopefully the community can put my mind at ease.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19385" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2015-03-04T00:20:42.853" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T21:44:45.303" Title="Early '90s horror/thriller movie/tv show - guy's head and arm trapped by closing electric car window" Tags="|identify-this-movie|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:37:05.643" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31766" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31768" CreationDate="2015-03-03T21:13:30.373" Score="5" ViewCount="7497" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wolverine had been in the river for a full day before he was dredged up by Striker. He can regenerate, but how does he come back from the dead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T14:47:09.203" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T14:47:09.203" Title="Wolverine in the river at the end of X-Men: Days of Future Past" Tags="|plot-explanation|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-days-of-future-past|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31764" CreationDate="2015-03-03T22:59:05.783" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The description reminds me maybe of &lt;strong&gt;Lady in White&lt;/strong&gt; (1988).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a house full of candles.  And there is a scene where the kid is in a car and the bad guy is trying to get him...I think it is maybe an automatic tailgate window that catches him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8QaiY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;LW&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18249" LastEditorUserId="18249" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T21:44:45.303" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T21:44:45.303" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31766" CreationDate="2015-03-03T23:04:27.110" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movies have not really examined the extent of Wolverine's ability to regenerate.  In the comics they have been dramatically extended over the years to the point where he can survive being near the centre of a nuclear explosion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically on the issue of drowning, the story arc &quot;Drowning Logan&quot; (Wolverine (vol. 5) #5 (Jun. 2013). Marvel Comics.) specifically covers what happens when he is trapped underwater for an extended period.  This damages his long term health, but does not kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ref: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverine_%28character%29#Healing_and_defensive_powers&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2015-03-03T23:04:27.110" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19201" CreationDate="2015-03-04T08:54:31.357" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He doesn't really die!!!! Why does he bleed down his arm when he is shot in the side? Because he cut himself, as a symbol of cutting ties with his brother....you were all duped. A man shot in the kidneys would be able to jump up like he did..no he put a little real blood around his hand to make sure his brother thought he was dead...because he knew that his ways corrupted him and he wanted to give him everything. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the blood had turned brown on the shirt...a big handprint of brown blood....but his shirt is covered with fake blood as he sits down in the chair. Referring to him dying the day he cons his brother, is that he dies inside because his brother was the story of his life. Go back to the very beginning...they were all they had. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19397" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T08:54:31.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31721" CreationDate="2015-03-04T09:09:06.367" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check the credits for any job called 'Story Editor' or similar - a friend of mine is one for many UK Reality TV shows and it's a pretty good indication that either the words/ideas that are on screen are planned or that the real goings-on have been crafted to tell a planned narrative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T09:09:06.367" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31775" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-04T09:12:57.230" Score="7" ViewCount="1978" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is there is an asteroid scene at the beginning and at the end of the movie &lt;em&gt;Birdman&lt;/em&gt;?&#xA;Did that asteroid strike Riggan and give him the power to fly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19399" LastEditorUserId="56" LastEditDate="2015-03-04T21:48:57.687" LastActivityDate="2015-03-20T19:01:12.263" Title="Why is there an asteroid scene at the beginning and at the end of Birdman?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|birdman|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30576" CreationDate="2015-03-04T09:15:58.583" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very rarely indeed but it does happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's basically a budget thing, in general movie cameras are rented due to their cost (even with new digital ones such as Red's models) whereas any TV show filmed in a studio are generally owned by the production facility. That said I know for a fact that the large studio-based cameras inside BBC studios are particularly expensive and have some great lenses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most cameras used for anything reality-based have to be able to work without maintenance for a long time, take a bit of manhandling and be comparatively cheap to replace. Movie cameras tend to be much more static in general, shoot shorter takes and aren't often put in danger. Obviously there are overlaps, some expensive TV shows will use great cameras ('Band of Brothers' is an example) while some movies will use cheaper cameras (anything 'found footage').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T09:15:58.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31778" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-04T09:30:46.827" Score="8" ViewCount="21225" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie The Terminal, during the scene where a Russian man is not allowed to take the medicine, assumed to be for his ailing father, without an MPL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does Viktor Navorski say to Milodragovich so that he replies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Medicine for goat.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the medicine really for goat or Viktor knew the rule and is trying to help the person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8942" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2015-03-04T11:55:22.807" LastActivityDate="2023-07-26T13:33:46.353" Title="What does Viktor Navorski say to Milodragovich in Bulgarian?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-terminal|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31779" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-04T09:56:29.043" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Terminal is a 2004 American romantic comedy film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones. It is about a man who becomes trapped in New York City's JFK International Airport terminal when he is denied entry into the United States and at the same time cannot return to his native country due to a revolution. The film is partially inspired by the 18-year-stay of Mehran Karimi Nasseri in Terminal 1 of Charles de Gaulle International Airport, Paris, France from 1988 to 2006.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8942" LastEditorUserId="8942" LastEditDate="2015-03-04T11:53:05.520" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T11:53:05.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31780" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-04T09:56:29.043" Score="0" Body="The Terminal is a 2004 American romantic comedy film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones." OwnerUserId="8942" LastEditorUserId="8942" LastEditDate="2015-03-04T11:53:11.917" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T11:53:11.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31694" CreationDate="2015-03-04T10:21:46.927" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.monasticproductions.com/public/scripts/pdf/Ashes_Ep1_Shooting_Script_240707.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; of Episode 1 Series 1:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;EXT. THAMES - RIVER BOAT - DAY 1. 0904 9&#xA;LAYTON pushes ALEX along a rusted gangplank towards the&#xA;flaking hulk. The horizon across the river is dominated by&#xA;the Millennium Dome.&#xA;LAYTON&#xA;You’re my ticket out, Alex.&#xA;(using her mobile)&#xA;Hello, remember me? Layton ... Yeah&#xA;... I got a piece of your past here&#xA;so you’re gonna have to listen ...&#xA;Tim and Caroline Price’s daughter.&#xA;ALEX&#xA;How did you know my parents?!&#xA;LAYTON&#xA;And I’m gonna tell her the truth&#xA;about how they died .. And your&#xA;life’ll be in ashes mate ... So now&#xA;we talk about how you get me out of&#xA;this mess. Think about it.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Arthur Layton is using his secret knowledge about the deaths of Tim and Caroline Price as leverage on a third party (probably Evan). That secret was concealed in 1981 when Gene and Evan agreed to destroy the video tape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Layton's blackmail bid fails, however. No help is forthcoming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Phone rings. LAYTON snaps it open. Listens. His smile falls -&#xA;this is bad news.&#xA;LAYTON&#xA;Okay .. That’s a pity ... hmmmm .. &#xA;Right ... &#xA;ALEX watches his gun hand drop limply. She senses a&#xA;resolution. Moves forward.&#xA;ALEX&#xA;It’s over. Give me ...&#xA;LAYTON &#xA;Fine ... &#xA;AND HE LIFTS HIS GUN AND SHOOTS HER IN THE HEAD.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19074" LastEditorUserId="19074" LastEditDate="2015-03-04T12:16:10.413" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T12:16:10.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30576" CreationDate="2015-03-04T10:37:04.983" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There used to be much more difference between TV and Film camera usage than there is now... and it also varies depending on the type of show you're talking about... I'm going to assume you mean feature films and narrative TV shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cameras used for TV shows and films now vary widely depending on the preference of the director/dp of the show. Many tv shows are shot on the same cameras as films. Look at &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;.  This is a very cinematically-shot TV show and they use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.arri.com/news.html?article=655&amp;amp;cHash=cc3587c6fb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ARRI Alexa digital cameras&lt;/a&gt;... so were a bunch of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.arri.com/news/news/arri-at-the-oscarsR/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Oscar nominated films&lt;/a&gt;. And &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.arri.com/camera/alexa/credits/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;all of these other TV shows and films&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gravity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man_3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Elementary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Homeland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I wouldn't want to look like I'm advertising for ARRI, so here's some selections from the RED's list of TV shows and films:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_%28U.S._TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;House of Cards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Blood&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;True Blood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there's all sorts of oddballs... apparently they shoot &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://motion.kodak.com/motion/About/The_Storyboard/4294970979/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Super 16mm film cameras&lt;/a&gt;.... and this format was also used for all of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/list/ls051875069/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt; films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about the big boy... 35 mm.  Only films use that, right? Well.. not so much. &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Detective_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;True Detective&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://motion.kodak.com/motion/Publications/InCamera/HBO_s_True_Detective_Elevates_the_Television_Drama.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;shot on 35&lt;/a&gt;... it's not the only one but I'm getting lazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, because it's cool, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_shot_on_digital_video_prior_to_2015&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here's a list of films&lt;/a&gt; shot on digital cameras and what camera was used... and the sibling &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_programs_shot_in_digital&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;list of TV shows&lt;/a&gt;. You'll notice a lot of crossover on these two lists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before the digital era, this was different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most TV shows had that &lt;em&gt;TV feel&lt;/em&gt; because they were shot on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotape&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;videotape&lt;/a&gt; formats while films were shot... on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_stock&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;film&lt;/a&gt;... so, in this sense, it's not that they're using different cameras, so much as they're using different media.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Film cameras are expensive, large and heavy. Videotape cameras can be, in contrast, small, light-weight and the medium is relatively inexpensive. Film processing can also be a lot slower, so for a TV show that needs to produce an episode a week, film was a crunch on their time, while videotape requires no processing other than editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Digital video gives TV shows (and films) the option of (relatively) low-cost, extremely high quality product that requires little to no processing time, can be reviewed on demand on set, and can be easily and quickly duplicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T10:37:04.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31784" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32145" CreationDate="2015-03-04T14:26:17.730" Score="12" ViewCount="1450" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suppose there is a movie in which the heroine is liked a lot by animals (as a means of foreshadowing how lovable she is to people).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Would they use an actress or actor that is naturally well-liked by animals, or conversely use animals that happen to like this character?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can animals be trained (e.g. through &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning&quot;&gt;Pavlovian conditioning&lt;/a&gt;) to like a particular actress, or conversely, can a human being be trained to make herself likable to animals?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are there drugs, scents or other stimuli that can used to make an animal like a person?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which of these methods (or others) are used to get animals to like a particular character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9097" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-04T14:56:26.327" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T19:26:35.663" Title="How does a movie get animals to &quot;like&quot; a character?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31785" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-04T15:13:29.740" Score="6" ViewCount="1939" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whatever happened to Behrooz Araz, the unwitting son of the terrorist couple in Season 4 of the TV Series &quot;24&quot;? Last I remember, the bad guys had kidnapped him and then we never heard from his character again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19402" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2018-10-24T21:19:47.593" LastActivityDate="2018-10-24T21:19:47.593" Title="What happened to Behrooz on &quot;24&quot;" Tags="|24|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="31786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31785" CreationDate="2015-03-04T15:30:53.740" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;His ultimate fate is unknown, however bonus footage on the DVD set for the season shows him being &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_characters_in_24#Behrooz_Araz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rescued by CTU agents&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thing is, if this bonus footage wasn't part of an extended cut or any sort of official cut of the series, it can't really be considered canonical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T15:30:53.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10125" CreationDate="2015-03-04T16:13:05.813" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No stars = likely simply a graphic design aesthetic choice. A logo doesn't have to be a literal representation. It's clearly the american flag, even without the stars, and the stars would simply be too small to render well on a lot of screens. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T16:13:05.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31792" CreationDate="2015-03-04T17:27:56.993" Score="12" ViewCount="15350" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a family meeting during the early episodes of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, Walter clearly exposes his reasons and firm decision not to undergo the chemotherapy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does he change his mind afterwards? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it his concern about the feelings of his loved ones, or something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user19407" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-04T18:01:49.167" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T13:17:41.190" Title="Why did Walter White change his mind about chemotherapy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26438" CreationDate="2015-03-04T17:59:39.283" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walt is aware of the possibility that Jesse decides to disobey him, given what he already knows about Jesse's personality and their complex relationship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, when Walt pulls out his order, he is using what is called &quot;reverse psychology&quot;. He really aims to get Jesse to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user19407" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T17:59:39.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31789" CreationDate="2015-03-04T19:10:13.313" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Season 1, Episode 5: Gray Matter.  Walt's initial decision to refuse treatment was based on his belief that he would become a shell of a person.  He explains his point of view and adds that to him “the worst part” would be his family only remembering him as the miserable dying figure he would become.  You may recall that while in therapy, when Walt finally snatches the “talking pillow”, we hear the truth which has only been hinted at by his actions since he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He points out that mere survival is all that doctors talk about in relation to cancer. “But what good is survival if I am too sick to work? To enjoy a meal? To make love?” Walt also talks about never feeling like he’s had much choice in his life. He sees the decision of how to approach his death as one last chance to take control of his destiny. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next morning Walt changes his mind. The weight of his family’s feelings, and the unborn baby to come, press on him and reluctantly he goes through with the treatment.  To be clear, Walt doesn't &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to be treated, he's doing it because he believes it's what his family needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T19:10:13.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31794" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-04T21:20:30.963" Score="2" ViewCount="4086" Body="&lt;p&gt;I loved seeing the movie Cinderella but I am confused about why the fairy God mother changed the horse to a carriage driver?  Isn't the horse strong enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19411" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-05T23:35:22.860" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T03:52:05.193" Title="Why is it that in the movie Cinderella the horse is transformed into the driver?" Tags="|plot-explanation|cinderella-1950|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31795" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31797" CreationDate="2015-03-04T21:39:15.130" Score="2" ViewCount="2656" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many sources saying it was composed by W. G. Snuffy Walden, but who actually recorded the version used in the show (both in the title sequence for every episode and occasionally within an episode)? Most recordings I see listed online are by the City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, but since they all seem to be behind paywalls so I can't verify if they're the version used in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16715" LastEditorUserId="16715" LastEditDate="2015-03-04T21:58:18.510" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T22:10:18.427" Title="Who recorded &quot;The West Wing Theme&quot;?" Tags="|soundtrack|the-west-wing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31795" CreationDate="2015-03-04T22:10:18.427" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mediaandmarketing.com/13Writer/Interviews/MIX.Snuffy_Walden.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;INSIGHTS: Interview with W. G. Snuffy Walden&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;From the down beat of &quot;The West Wing&quot; theme it's a magnificent build&#xA;  and, for me, a perfect prelude to the show. The pilot has a  longer&#xA;  version?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Yes. For the pilot there was a 4 1/2-minute opening sequence&#xA;  that went into another 3 1/2-minute orchestral sequence. The first&#xA;  time I looked at it my jaw dropped. I went: &quot;How are we going to do&#xA;  this?&quot; Because in television you would never be able to get a budget&#xA;  for that size of orchestra. They said to me: &quot;Why can't we do it?&quot;&#xA;  &quot;Because it cost too much money.&quot; And they said:&quot; How do we go about&#xA;  doing it?&quot;   [Executive producer] John Wells asked in one meeting:&#xA;  &quot;Why don't we get the Musicians Union to make a deal with us?&quot; I&#xA;  started a conversation through orchestrators and union people I knew,&#xA;  because you couldn't do it directly. All of a sudden I realized that&#xA;  everybody was going &quot;OK, let's see if we can.&quot; We actually pulled that&#xA;  off. That's how we managed to do the pilot. The Union made a special&#xA;  low-budget agreement with &quot;West Wing&quot; for the pilot and the first year&#xA;  on a trial basis. Which they have now ratified for all of television.&#xA;  It allowed us to go in four or five times [a season] with a big&#xA;  orchestra and score the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Where do you record the show's orchestral score?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  At Warner Bros. [Burbank]. I go in with a scaled-down 50-piece orchestra&#xA;  and record pieces for different shows, and then fill in the rest with&#xA;  electronic devices. But it's deceiving. Once your ears hear the&#xA;  orchestra and the theme behind the main title - that big sweeping&#xA;  expanse of music - you're already buying it. But probably 65% of the&#xA;  score on &quot;West Wing&quot; is me playing electronics. I use that kind of a&#xA;  palate, because we have built up this incredible sample library.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also this little tidbit from Rob Lowe's Autobiography &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.com/books?id=uiT9Ye-3E4AC&amp;amp;pg=PA289&amp;amp;lpg=PA289&amp;amp;dq=%E2%80%9CThe%20West%20Wing%20Theme%E2%80%9D%20orchestra&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=_FMq754Fxv&amp;amp;sig=aMAOF7FEFm0I8P58grDff06V04Y&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=lXz3VPOOAouigwTk_YP4BQ&amp;amp;ved=0CEEQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%E2%80%9CThe%20West%20Wing%20Theme%E2%80%9D%20orchestra&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l00nO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T22:10:18.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31798" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31826" CreationDate="2015-03-04T22:15:22.093" Score="4" ViewCount="11324" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Vikings, i see Ragnar smiling a lot, like always without a reason, sometimes it being really inappropriate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a particular reason for this behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19414" LastActivityDate="2016-04-12T00:51:52.207" Title="Why is Ragnar Lothbrok almost always smiling?" Tags="|vikings|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12526" CreationDate="2015-03-04T23:17:42.063" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's based on the books in Joseph Delaney's book last apprentice series&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19416" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-03-06T20:25:23.620" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T20:25:23.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17848" CreationDate="2015-03-04T23:20:00.877" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, consider Max’s motivation in snagging Deborah.  Throughout the film, Max is driven to sexually possess the women Noodles has already had.  During their initiation into the world of sex, Max insists that Noodles take Peggy first.  Years later, Max takes the woman Noodles raped, Carol, as his lover.  He even asks the prostitute in the hearse who gives Noodles “a roll” if she wants “a little pick me up.”  Whether this indicates Max’s latent homosexuality (quite possible considering he constantly refers to sodomy in his language, including during an early exchange with Noodles: “Drop your pants and I’ll stick it to you again.”) or merely stems from macho competition is open to interpretation, but one thing is clear: Max desires Noodles’ women.  And possessing Deborah, Noodles’ life-long romantic ideal, would be Max’s crowning achievement.  He must have her and will go to any length necessary to make it happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deborah might have been receptive to Max’s initial advances partly out of revenge against Noodles for raping her.  But more importantly, Max, unlike Noodles, is the kind of man Deborah would respect.  He may have started out as a poor immigrant, but, unlike Noodles, he is a man of ambition with big plans for himself.  Max reinvents himself, literally assuming a new identity, and becomes just the kind of successful, upwardly mobile type that would attract Deborah.  Noodles himself points out the similarity of the pair when he complains to Deborah, “You’s twos are just alike – that’s why you hate each other so much.”  Deborah and Max, for all their apparent antipathy, share the same values for wealth and fame – in Deborah’s words “making it to the top.”  By contrast, Noodles is a self-described loser whose lack of ambition is held in contempt by both Deborah (“you’ll always be a two-bit punk”) and Max (“You’ll carry the stink of the streets for the rest of your life”).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just as Deborah is willing to give up the one person she’s ever loved to pursue her dreams of stardom, so Max is willing to sacrifice his boyhood friends to facilitate his own ascendancy.  Both Max and Deborah, who is portrayed as narcissistic prima Donna, are willing to do whatever it takes to “get to the top.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, the fairy-tale world Leone creates is so self-contained and hermetically sealed that the central characters barely interact with anyone other than each other and those immediately associated with them.  In this context, who else was Deborah going to end up with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19415" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T23:20:00.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31794" CreationDate="2015-03-04T23:36:34.490" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because it's funny. The horse expected to be the one to pull the magic carriage. Instead he's the driver and the mice are the horses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-03-04T23:36:34.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30843" CreationDate="2015-03-05T00:16:55.260" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;let's not try to get all artsy just because it's a Wes Anderson movie. his character has a lot going on with his daughter and suspicions of his wife cheating so he's taking it out on a tree and drinking over it. Came here looking for a screenshot of Murray sitting against the partially chopped tree. Any chance someone has it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19419" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T00:16:55.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31794" CreationDate="2015-03-05T03:39:35.583" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It probably looked more majestic to have the carriage pulled by 4 horses instead of one and of course only one driver was required. There were 4 mice and one horse. Ergo...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="1111" LastEditDate="2015-03-05T04:59:19.850" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T04:59:19.850" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42403" CreationDate="2015-03-05T07:26:26.837" Score="3" ViewCount="2173" Body="&lt;p&gt;This movie is one of my personal best and must re-watch list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I keep wondering how Fenton planned the execution of the FBI agent from the get-go. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see he happens to be a sheriff somehow and he must've asked his wife (which conveniently happens to be working for him at the sheriff office/station) to answer any calls with a re-assuring tone, to dismiss and lower the level of any alert that may be caused by the FBI agent when he calls to inquire about him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what if the FBI agent calls someone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is almost like Fenton knew that in advance, and were counting on the FBI not to involve anyone else, so that he could later seclude him and kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that Fenton is &quot;gifted&quot; somehow and CCTV cameras don't get a clear shot of his face, and that's supposed to be an assistance &quot;from God&quot;, but does the assistance also include knowing the actions and stupidity of &quot;victims/sinners&quot; beforehand? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, then why go through the trouble of killing them in this manner? Why not a more subtle way? Is it only for the sake of having a thriller movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason other than this is a movie and it was written that way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-03-06T15:49:39.803" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T12:22:45.200" Title="Was Fenton Mikes planning the actions FBI agent in Frailty (2001)?" Tags="|analysis|plot-explanation|frailty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31809" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31813" CreationDate="2015-03-05T09:24:08.090" Score="7" ViewCount="1283" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an old movie (about '70s-'80s) from East Europe (possibly Poland).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main characters are two men (I think they were hibernated or something): they find themselves in this post-apocalyptic world in which only women survived, living undergroud. At the beginning the movie is funny, then it becomes evident that the society is a dictatorship and that people are oppressed; I remember that in order to control people there is this story: if you go out on the surface you die because of radiation, but the surface is actually safe (we find this out at the end).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone can help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T15:12:09.137" Title="East Europe (Poland?) dystopic, post-apocalyptic movie from the 70'-'80s" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:37:08.760" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31810" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-05T09:46:04.227" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-03-05T09:46:04.227" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T09:46:04.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31811" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-05T09:46:04.227" Score="0" Body="Frailty (2001) : Rated R 100 min  -  Crime | Drama | Thriller  " OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="18998" LastEditDate="2015-03-05T15:03:52.110" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T15:03:52.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31809" CreationDate="2015-03-05T10:16:31.517" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every detail of your description matches &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088083/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;Sexmission&lt;/a&gt;. The original title is &lt;em&gt;Seksmisja&lt;/em&gt; and it's a Polish movie from 1984.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a part of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088083/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl&quot;&gt;plot description&lt;/a&gt; from IMBD:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, the World War III breaks out and life have been wiped out of the surface of the Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie has a cult status in Poland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-03-05T10:31:16.000" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T10:31:16.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31815" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31828" CreationDate="2015-03-05T12:42:07.817" Score="6" ViewCount="13504" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lately watching this incredibly inspiring film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2582802/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Whiplash (2014)&lt;/a&gt;, I've heard this name &quot;Johnny Utah&quot; in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Andrew Neiman was late for the competition, he tries to convince Fletcher for being late and Ryan interrupts in the middle then Andrew says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hey, f*** off, Johnny Utah.&#xA;  Turn my pages, bi***.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Intrigued by the name, did some googling and found out from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2582802/movieconnections&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB connections&lt;/a&gt; that the name was referred to a character from the movie &quot;Point Break (1991)&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not seen &quot;Point Break&quot; but I would like to know why Andrew was referring Ryan as &lt;em&gt;Johnny Utah&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2015-03-05T12:49:01.993" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T20:38:58.957" Title="Why the character name &quot;Johnny Utah&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|character|whiplash|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31816" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-05T12:42:45.197" Score="25" ViewCount="15671" Body="&lt;p&gt;It always seemed to me that Marie's shop lifting was an arc in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; that the writers abandoned. So why was Marie's shop lifting arc abandoned after the third season or so? How did the stealing fit in the theme of things? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19428" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-05T13:01:25.670" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T19:14:13.047" Title="What was the point of Marie's shoplifting" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31817" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31824" CreationDate="2015-03-05T13:54:23.770" Score="5" ViewCount="366" Body="&lt;p&gt;One situation is when the movie features a famous person, especially with a relatively small part. I have a recollection of (former Secretary of State) Henry Kissinger in such a role. This is what I call &quot;historical&quot; or &quot;biographical&quot; casting, in which people play a role in a movie that they played in &quot;history,&quot; or at least in &quot;society.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, suppose there is a fairly minor movie character such as a waitress. Except that this &quot;waitress&quot; has a particular style that helps advance the plot. And suppose this style was more or less &quot;unique&quot; to this waitress, whom &quot;someone&quot; (read the screen writer) knew a decade ago. Would the casting director of a such a movie try to find the waitress to play herself (or perhaps a younger version) because she would be more &quot;authentic?&quot; Or would they be more likely to cast a professional actress in the role?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is the decision made in these instances between the movie using or not using the original person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9097" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2015-03-05T18:35:20.743" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T18:35:20.743" Title="Are there differences in the ways/rationales that movies cast real persons to play &quot;themselves?&quot;" Tags="|character|casting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31820" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35921" CreationDate="2015-03-05T15:07:10.537" Score="9" ViewCount="3326" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Lucy&lt;/em&gt;, when the titular character is on the plane, she does something with her two laptop computers, typing with both hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What exactly are those things she wrote? Is this an existing (real life) way of programming? If it is, what is the type of that shell and the whole thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19007" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-03-04T14:19:10.293" LastActivityDate="2020-03-04T14:19:10.293" Title="On the plane, what exactly is Lucy doing with her computers?" Tags="|lucy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="31822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31816" CreationDate="2015-03-05T15:58:43.963" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;That story arc seemed like it was abandoned, but it did a lot to establish character relationships early in the series. When Skyler confronts Marie about her stealing, we see that Skyler is strongly against breaking the law, and that she encourages her sister to do the right thing by returning a stolen gift. We also see that Skyler can see through a lie when Marie denies any wrongdoing. This is interesting for a couple of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Walt is apparently a much better liar than Marie, as he's able to hide his crimes from Skyler for a lot longer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The relationship between the sisters is reversed by the end of the series, when Hank and Marie find out about crimes commited by Walt and (eventually) Skyler.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T15:58:43.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31817" CreationDate="2015-03-05T16:16:02.020" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hiring someone to &quot;&lt;strong&gt;play themselves&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; is a very specific thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%27s_Twelve&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ocean's Twelve&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, Bruce Willis literally plays Bruce Willis. That's the character's name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, news anchors often appear as themselves in films set in the real world... &lt;a href=&quot;https://pro-labs.imdb.com/name/nm0005092/?ref_=sch_int&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Larry King&lt;/a&gt; has done it many times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is different than what I think you're talking about... which is called, in the industry, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real People Casting&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The decision to go this route is made by the &lt;em&gt;director&lt;/em&gt; of the film, not the &lt;em&gt;casting director&lt;/em&gt;, though the casting director may recommend it if the role/s warrants it. Generally, casting directors will cast all actors unless the character has very specific need that can't be filled by actors. Remember, the casting director only acts as a filter and a source of advice for casting.  He/She doesn't generally make any casting decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you follow this method of casting, you avoid casting actors in the scripted roles and, instead, find people who actually resemble your characters to some specific degree... perhaps they do the work your character does, or they have dealt with the same things in their lives. The person is still playing a character. The character doesn't have their own name, for example, and the director is still often telling the person &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to perform a scene to get the performance they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the people who I think is best known for using this method is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrence_Malick&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Terrence Malick&lt;/a&gt;. Many of the characters in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tree_of_Life_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tree of Life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; are &lt;a href=&quot;http://incontention.com/2011/05/24/the-lists-top-10-performances-in-terrence-malick-films/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;real people cast&lt;/a&gt; because he liked the way they look or who they are and roles are often created for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For &lt;em&gt;The Tree of Life&lt;/em&gt;, Malick sought out non-actors for most of the characters and gave very little direction (as is his way). In his view, the worst thing you can do is cast someone who is naturally perfect for a particular role and then tell him or her to be someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The preliminary casting for the main character in the upcoming &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_White_%28filmmaker%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mike White&lt;/a&gt; pilot for HBO, &lt;em&gt;Mamma Dallas&lt;/em&gt;, a comedy show about a drag queen, included &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2014/12/04/hbo-casting-nashville-drag-queens-mamma-dallas/19902047/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;outreach to real drag queens&lt;/a&gt;, though they eventually &lt;a href=&quot;http://deadline.com/2015/02/augustus-prew-cast-mamma-dallas-mike-white-drag-queen-pilot-hbo-1201363323/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cast an actor&lt;/a&gt; for that role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Real people can also be cast for technical reasons, for example, hiring an actual nurse to play a nurse. In &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkland_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Parkland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; at least two of the nurses in the OR scenes are actual nurses. They're not credited as actors, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some casting directors even specialize in this type of casting (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=%22real%20people%20casting%22&amp;amp;ie=utf-8&amp;amp;oe=utf-8#q=%22real%20people%20casting%22&amp;amp;start=10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google search&lt;/a&gt;). Generally, for safety, you're going to see some actors in addition to the real people. There are natural actors out there but, particularly for something like a waitress, I'm sure many actors will attest to the fact that they've had &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; real experience themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a couple of other cases that may apply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A role being based on a real person&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is common in all forms of fictional writing and is not limited to scriptwriting. In this case, the role is generally based on someone the writer (or writer/director) uses someone they know as inspiration for a character. The role is often still filled by an actor, either because the real person isn't interested in playing the role or isn't alive (or an appropriate age) any more... or just isn't good at acting. Even if you're just telling a person to &lt;em&gt;be themselves&lt;/em&gt;, it doesn't always come across well on camera. That doesn't mean you &lt;strong&gt;can't&lt;/strong&gt; consider that person for the role (or use real people casting to find someone similar).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, when you're basing a character on a person, you're creating a character based on your interpretation of the outward characteristics and personality of that person... and they may not even be aware of what they're doing, so if you ask them to do what they usually do, it may end up being different than what you remember. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is difficult to document without some insider knowledge as the screenwriter doesn't usually have any role in casting decisions unless they're also the director or producer of the project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Role being written &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; a specific person&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think this really applies but I figured I'd mention it. Some writers (more often writer/directors) will create a role with a particular person, usually an &lt;em&gt;actor&lt;/em&gt;, in mind for that role. This isn't &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.backstage.com/advice-for-actors/professional-tips/do-you-create-characters-with-certain-actors-in-mind/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;uncommon&lt;/a&gt; but even with &lt;a href=&quot;http://whatculture.com/film/8-actors-quentin-tarantino-originally-wanted-for-iconic-roles.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;famous directors&lt;/a&gt;, they don't always end up getting that person to fill the role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-05T18:04:03.910" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T18:04:03.910" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15682" CreationDate="2015-03-05T16:43:34.800" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jack acts that way because his men are there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A group leader needs to display some virtues, one of them being a fair player. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although his men obviously dislike receiving a lower loot, Jack's attitude towards Walt shows them that their boss is not a treacherous guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, by moving that way, he is showing them also a proof of authority and decision making. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If his crew were not present at that moment, I do not imagine Jack giving Walt any money or letting him go alive.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I do not mean that Jack has followed any kind of leadership motivational training course. But if you reach to be the leader of such a crew it means you do have some special aptitudes and know-how.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user19407" LastEditorDisplayName="user19407" LastEditDate="2015-04-09T18:29:00.933" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T18:29:00.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31798" CreationDate="2015-03-05T19:38:39.040" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fictional-wise it's a display of his unpredictability and attempt to keep his enemies (or everyone) guessing. Besides that it's also a way of &lt;em&gt;showing&lt;/em&gt; he isn't afraid of anything by laughing/smiling about it (death, grief or threats).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not uncommon to see people smile at inappropriate moments, because it's also a way of camoflaging a true facial expression. For example when someone's threatend or is about to cry, you'll see a smile right before the actual break into violence or grief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this explains (his) inappropriate smiling. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: Check out the &lt;em&gt;Mona Lisa&lt;/em&gt; and the debate about why she's smiling if you're going to dig deeper into this subject. You can learn a lot just studying people in real life which will explain emotion in fiction as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19004" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-11T13:07:09.213" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T13:07:09.213" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31827" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-05T19:42:47.297" Score="13" ViewCount="960" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; a few times.  I recall that the Samuel L. Jackson voice over, which gave a background of Hugo Stiglitz, stated&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a German enlisted man, he managed to kill thirteen Gestapo officers; mostly Majors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon subsequent viewings the &quot;&lt;em&gt;mostly Majors&lt;/em&gt;&quot; part was dropped.  I have confirmed that I have heard both lines correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there two separate versions of &lt;em&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, what are other notable changes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19364" LastEditorUserId="19364" LastEditDate="2018-06-08T01:57:46.057" LastActivityDate="2018-06-08T01:57:46.057" Title="Are there two separate versions of Hugo Stiglitz's background in Inglourious Basterds?" Tags="|dialogue|alternate-version|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="31828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31815" CreationDate="2015-03-05T20:02:47.360" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) from the movie Point Break was a cocky, over-confident, off-the-cuff kind of guy.  I believe his character played college Football but was injured in a championship game, so he opted for a career in law enforcement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say he was referenced because of his attitude of being self-important.  It was more of a put-down than a compliment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T20:02:47.360" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27035" CreationDate="2015-03-05T23:46:03.380" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Listen to the end of the song he is singing while he climbs. He says he is dead during the credits. I am pretty sure they put that in there to dispute any doubt that he died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19444" LastActivityDate="2015-03-05T23:46:03.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31816" CreationDate="2015-03-06T01:26:46.167" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me the entire premise of Breaking Bad was that no one is entirely good or bad. The writers, knowing that the best characters are flawed characters has made each cast member have both positive and negative attributes. Analysis of the entire cast shows their dichotomous nature:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Walt - The mild mannered school teacher who becomes a drug lord&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jesse - The drug addict with a conscience &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hank - The experienced cop who survives (for a great while)by pure luck&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Skyler - The loving wife and mother who has an affair&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marie needs to have another side. She seems like a stepford wife on the surface with everything going perfect. Her shoplifting was added to even out her perfect nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-01-03T19:14:13.047" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T19:14:13.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31834" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-06T03:08:08.740" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-03-06T03:08:08.740" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T03:08:08.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31835" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-06T03:08:08.740" Score="0" Body="The 1950 Disney animated film &quot;Cinderella&quot;, based on the classic story &quot;Cendrillon&quot; by Charles Perrault. For the similarly titled 2015 live-action film, use the [cinderella-2015] tag instead." OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2023-07-17T12:26:01.763" LastActivityDate="2023-07-17T12:26:01.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="31836" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-06T03:10:18.007" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-03-06T03:10:18.007" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T03:10:18.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31837" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-06T03:10:18.007" Score="0" Body="Lucy is the 2014 film about a woman who gains special abilities when she comes into contact with a large amount of a certain drug." OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-06T04:57:25.330" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T04:57:25.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31839" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31842" CreationDate="2015-03-06T04:35:52.483" Score="8" ViewCount="111819" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering why the Dark Lord from the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; series has a very different appearance. The bald head, white skin and of course the nose. He has slits for nose. Is there an explanation to his appearance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18480" LastEditorUserId="20247" LastEditDate="2016-11-02T17:54:19.760" LastActivityDate="2020-05-03T15:29:28.917" Title="Why doesn't Voldemort have a nose?" Tags="|character|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31816" CreationDate="2015-03-06T06:55:39.647" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the &lt;em&gt;shop lifting&lt;/em&gt; theme was abandoned in the series but they have put it to an end. Here's my interpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially, Marie was shown to us that she shop lifts for fun and no profit. But when Skyler finds out about that, as mentioned in Bill the Lizard's answer, Skyler was completely against shop lifting and gives lecture and goes hard on Marie to stop doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been a long time but I definitely remember Hank makes her to visit a shrink to deal with her problems like shop lifting. After that, there were no scenes regarding Marie's shop lifting for so many episodes, But when Hank is paralyzed from waist down, Marie starts stealing again few expensive antiques or other objects, posing as different persons but this time it's for profit or money because guilt consumed her because she's taking her sister's money for Hank's treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While stealing, she gets caught and was taken to prison and we were shown that Marie cries and realizes her mistake. For me it makes perfect sense that No person like Marie would again do the same mistakes like stealing after going through a lot of humiliation and also putting a dignified officer like Frank in the spot for her release from prison. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T06:55:39.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31839" CreationDate="2015-03-06T09:27:24.727" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer can also be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/17431/what-really-happened-to-the-nose-of-voldemort&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;Following is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/17434/23386&quot;&gt;accepted answer&lt;/a&gt; from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voldemort's appearance became more snake-like as he delved deeper into Dark Magic, and his face became more serpentine, which would presumably explain the flattening of his nose. Mention of Voldemort's serpentine appearance is mentioned in every book. It's theorized that each murder Voldemort committed, the more distorted his face became. There is a scene where Dumbledore shows Harry a memory of Voldemort after he resurfaced after being gone for ten years. He came to hide the Ravenclaw Horcrux and to ask Dumbledore, who was newly appointed headmaster, for the Defence Against the Dark Arts position, and his appearance is drastically changed (this would be been around circa 1956) from when he had gone to work at Borgin and Burkes ten years prior. It's fair to speculate Voldemort was deeply involved in Dark Magic; Dumbledore notes that he hopes &amp;quot;half of what he's heard (about Voldemort's Dark Arts activities) isn't true.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the movies, super short answer: CGI removed Voldemort's nose. There's a segment in the extra scenes where Voldemort's nose is discussed extensively. Ralph Fiennes was very opposed to the flat nose and had to be convinced of the scary aesthetic value of that choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16790" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T09:34:06.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31843" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31903" CreationDate="2015-03-06T11:53:10.397" Score="3" ViewCount="743" Body="&lt;p&gt;In House of Cards, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2015/03/house-of-cards-recap-season-3-episode-11.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;S03E11&lt;/a&gt;, Frank attacks Jackie (that her step-children go to private school). This seems to be without any logical reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jackie has proven herself to be loyal as she was attacking Dunbar on all levels in the debate. Also, she seems to be the only one standing behind Frank in the whole campaign. He must have known that he will lose her and her votes to Dunbar if he attacked her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why have he done it anyway?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="3502" LastEditDate="2015-07-13T07:59:34.823" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T07:59:34.823" Title="Why is Frank shooting against Jackie in the election debate?" Tags="|plot-explanation|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31845" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31859" CreationDate="2015-03-06T13:10:22.667" Score="10" ViewCount="3909" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does Terence Fletcher (JK Simmons) call Andrew (Miles Teller) 3 hours early on the first day of rehearsal in the band?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie they show Andrew rushing to the rehearsal room thinking he is late, only to wait after reaching there for about an hour before everyone else comes in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This incident is not explained later on, but it has enough weightage in the movie to make one wonder what it was about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4982" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-03-11T06:59:49.747" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T01:32:59.940" Title="Drummer is called 3 hours earlier on day 1 band rehearsals in Whiplash" Tags="|plot-explanation|whiplash|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31845" CreationDate="2015-03-06T13:53:19.427" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not one hour, it's &lt;strong&gt;three hours&lt;/strong&gt;. Andrew was asked to come at 6:00 AM but everyone assembled and teaching started at 9:00 AM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since you've seen the movie you must have already understood what Fletcher's character is like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He pushes people beyond what's expected of them and he believes it is an absolute necessity.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Andrew arrives shortly after 6:00 AM, he is surprised to see the classroom is empty and discovers that the class starts at 9:00 AM. It must be Fletcher's way of telling Andrew to get familiarized with the place and it is Fletcher's band and he would push a student to any extent to win the competition. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-06T21:18:26.293" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T21:18:26.293" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31856" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-06T19:19:14.133" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-03-06T19:19:14.133" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T19:19:14.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31857" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-06T19:19:14.133" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-03-06T19:19:14.133" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T19:19:14.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31859" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31845" CreationDate="2015-03-06T20:43:47.907" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it was 3 hours. Fletcher asked Neiman to come in at 6am when rehearsal only started at 9am.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I believed that Fletcher was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Making a statement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Testing Andrew's will and determination&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wanted to see how passionate Andrew was&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wanted to have some fun with the newbie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user18846" LastActivityDate="2015-03-06T20:43:47.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31860" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31864" CreationDate="2015-03-06T21:35:28.383" Score="6" ViewCount="8592" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a lot of movies and TV shows, there will be a scene where an actor will be walking along a busy sidewalk, and there will be dozens of people behind them, and perhaps even one or two people coming up alongside them and perhaps moving ahead.  In this case, the person's head will be clearly  identifiable.  Even some of the people in the back of the actor could be close enough to be identifiable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my understanding of model releases (which I believe apply to photography also, or they are very similar) is that no release is necessary for taking a photo of an identifiable person in a public place &lt;em&gt;unless&lt;/em&gt; the photo will be used for commercial purposes.  Now it would seem to be the latter will apply to movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how is this handled?  First of all, am I misinterpreting the rules of a photo release?  If not, if one or more person(s) come up alongside the actor, are these people usually actors (or extras) also?  I imagine this could be the case, at least in some cases, since filming is going on and unless it is being done with a portable camera quite a bit of equipment could be involved.  What about the dozen or more people behind the actor?  Are these extras, i.e. have they closed down the entire sidewalk just for this shot and not allowed any &quot;common&quot; folk?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T21:52:45.683" Title="Legal implications of shooting a movie along a public sidewalk with dozens of people" Tags="|production|legal|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31860" CreationDate="2015-03-06T22:58:55.113" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/crowd-release-44788/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;General crowd releases&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; be used, particularly when you don't need to control the crowd. These are common in general exterior shots and when shooting reality TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, in your example, this is very unlikely because you don't want the people &lt;em&gt;recognizing&lt;/em&gt; your talent and messing up the shot. If the principal talent is in the scene, you can pretty much bet it's a controlled set and everyone on camera is a paid extra.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In film making, and particularly when shooting TV shows, time is of the essence. You can't afford to deal with random people who can't be controlled messing with your talent, your gear, or staring directly into the camera making a shot unusable... or making noise (all of the crowd noise is added in post so that the dialogue can be recorded cleanly). Additionally, you will likely need to repeat the shot multiple times from different angles and need the extras to all be in the same place regardless of the angle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not visible in the shot but shooting takes a lot of gear and a lot of people. Even if you're just using a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steadicam&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Steadicam&lt;/a&gt; rig, you still need to worry about sound (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_operator_%28media%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;boom op&lt;/a&gt;), lighting (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflector_%28photography%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;bounce boards&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_%28lighting%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;flags&lt;/a&gt;, or even actual lights if it's night time). You don't want unknown people interacting with this stuff or the people operating it. And, if you're not using a Steadicam, you've got a huge camera on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_dolly&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;dolly&lt;/a&gt;, complete with dolly track in addition to all of that other stuff... or on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_shot&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;crane&lt;/a&gt;, if you're crazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a photo of Hugh Jackman because... well.. it's Hugh Jackman:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iQ33G.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Hugh Jackman on set for The Wolverine from thelocationguide.com&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Lady in the Red Dress from the Matrix. This is an obvious example of using extras for a variety of reasons (control, wardrobe etc.) but it is still a good example of the sort of control required in a film set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hw88MWoqenQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most cities have permits allowing for the closing of city streets, sidewalks and other public areas for the purpose of filming (here's the one for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmneworleans.org/for-filmmakers/production-essentials/parking-street-closures/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;New Orleans&lt;/a&gt;). There's generally a nominal fee related to this. Production will often even have the option of hiring off-duty uniformed police to control both vehicular and pedestrian traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cities that get a lot of film traffic can often &lt;a href=&quot;http://observer.com/2013/04/an-open-letter-to-the-city-of-new-york-re-inconvenient-new-york-production-schedules/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;perturb the locals&lt;/a&gt; if certain locations are particularly popular for shooting and closed of on a regular basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, does it ever happen that a film chooses to use an uncontrolled set for a sidewalk scene? Yes.  Here's a famous example from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Cowboy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Midnight Cowboy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/c412hqucHKw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/09/10/hey-im-walkin-here-dustin-hoffman-explains-his-famous-midnight-cowboy-ad-lib/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;According to Dustin Hoffman&lt;/a&gt;, this scene was shot on an open set and they were actually nearly run over by the cab in the shot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a low-budget movie. Nobody wanted to make this movie, &lt;em&gt;Midnight Cowboy&lt;/em&gt;. People walked out during previews; it was considered filthy in 1969. Very low budget. Consequently, on Sixth Avenue, there was no money to stack it with extras.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it’s what they call a stolen shot. We have radio mikes on, the van is across the street, we rehearse it by ourselves. You know, the director John Schlesinger, me and Jon Voight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we do it, and the first take a cab jumps the light … I wound up saying, ‘I’m walkin’ here!’ But what was going through my head is: ‘Hey, we’re makin’ a movie here! And you just f–ked this shot up.’ But somehow something told me you’d better keep it within the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is exactly &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; it happens pretty rarely on films/TV shows that can afford to hire extras and pay to close off the street... If that cab driver hadn't stopped, Hoffman could have been injured or killed... fortunately, they instead got what has since been named #27 on the list of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Movie_Quotes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;AFI's 100 years... 100 Movie Quotes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The Legal Stuff&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, to actually answer your legal question for this case - As you get at in the question, you don't actually &lt;strong&gt;need&lt;/strong&gt; a video/model release unless you're using it for &lt;strong&gt;commercial purposes&lt;/strong&gt;. What you're confusing is the term &lt;em&gt;commercial&lt;/em&gt;. In this case, they mean commercials as in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;advertisements&lt;/a&gt;. Films are not commercials, they fall into the category of &lt;em&gt;informational use&lt;/em&gt;, also called &lt;em&gt;editorial use&lt;/em&gt;. They are commercial enterprises and earn studios lots of money but they are not &lt;em&gt;commercials&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a great explanation from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/releases/when/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stanford University&lt;/a&gt; website:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether you need to obtain a release depends on why you want to use a person’s name or image. If your use is for commercial purposes—for example, using a person’s photo in an advertisement—you need to obtain a release. If your use is for informational purposes such as a documentary film or news article, you may not need a release. However, even if a release is not required, you should be careful that your use does not defame or invade the privacy of the individual. If there’s any potential that your use might violate these laws, a release will provide legal protection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You do not need release to use a person’s name or image for informational purposes. An informational (or “editorial”) purpose is anything that informs, educates, or expresses opinions protected under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution—freedom of speech and of the press. &lt;strong&gt;An informational use would include using a person’s name or photograph in a newspaper or magazine article, educational program, film, nonfiction book, or informational website.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as the site says, it's still a good idea to get individually-signed releases from anyone who shows up on camera... and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_assistant&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;PAs&lt;/a&gt; are often deployed with a stack of releases and pens to get releases signed by everyone who walks in front of the camera or on to the set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;On Extras&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And because you seem to be a bit distracted by &lt;em&gt;common folk&lt;/em&gt;, remember that extras pretty much are.  Anyone can be an extra. Someone could be walking down the street near where the shoot is filming, catch the eye of production and get drafted into walking through the shot... I've seen it happen. I was near my &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Austin&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;university&lt;/a&gt; and saw them closing off the street in front of the iconic &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi,_How_Are_You&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hi How Are You?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; mural... I hung around to see what was going on and, magically, here comes a sedan carrying &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Barrymore&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Drew Barrymore&lt;/a&gt;... They're shooting a scene for her directorial debut, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whip_It_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Whip It&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/beQnk.gif&quot; alt=&quot;gif from Whip It&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That guy with the purple Mohawk? He was just walking by set and got grabbed by a PA after Barrymore saw him and they asked him to walk through this scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-07T06:14:01.407" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31868" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-07T04:26:10.123" Score="4" ViewCount="33151" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have the guys from the show Impractical Jokers gotten into any major trouble because of the nature of their show? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eg: have they been physically assaulted or has anyone thrown a law suit on them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2017-06-15T12:30:12.707" Title="Impractical jokers ever gotten into serious trouble?" Tags="|impractical-jokers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31162" CreationDate="2015-03-07T05:53:36.663" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fantastic idea, to breath from sever, came from here. This is in the same category, as breathing from car tyre. In both, the air is not simply just stinky.:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://totallyabsurd.com/toiletsnorkel.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://totallyabsurd.com/toiletsnorkel.htm&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;The situation of the original idea is not matching with the presented situation the movie. Theoretically, they can wait, until the water very slow flushed away by the several water closets, connected to one flush.:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/english/movie-review/Kingsman-The-Secret-Service/movie-review/46382579.cms?tabtype=trivia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/english/movie-review/Kingsman-The-Secret-Service/movie-review/46382579.cms?tabtype=trivia&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;But they can't breath from horizontal connected roman/commode style toilets. &#xA; Also not possible: &#xA;-the water with that flooding speed, is very noisy and have effect to the room temperature&#xA;-the test room situated in a pool, no everyday wall can resist that pressure and thight&#xA;-the observer room has to have bulletproof glass, against the pressure&#xA;-hitting anything underwater, have very reduced momentum&#xA;-the gym room size volume of water disappear through the observer room, this needs minutes anyway and a second pool, under the pool&#xA;-the recruits we're so shocked, that nobody tried to give bare-hand CPR, or revive the fallen recruit, but they will be hostage saver agents&#xA;-the fallen recruit was not fallen&#xA;And this is a main spot in the movie, which was a cartoon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19465" LastActivityDate="2015-03-07T05:53:36.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18592" CreationDate="2015-03-07T08:34:25.093" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could also be a reference to a line in the broadway play &quot;Forever Plaid&quot;, where the band talks about careening through space on a road of plaid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19466" LastActivityDate="2015-03-07T08:34:25.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31868" CreationDate="2015-03-07T16:11:30.803" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the trivia on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2100976/trivia?ref_=tt_ql_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several pranks have gotten the jokers in trouble with the police. For instance, Murr using a stranger's camera to take a picture of his genitals and Joe standing over strangers at a beach and using his crotch to invade their personal space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a Reddit AMA, Sal said he has been physically assaulted two times: A woman slapped him for telling her that her baby was ugly and a war vet choked him for cutting in line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T07:13:56.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31407" CreationDate="2015-03-07T17:44:44.170" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also can confirm that the church scene was censored in Latin America.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw the movie in Utah and then last night in Panama. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The church scene in Panama only included the first woman Galahad shoots, cuts of Eggsy's reactions, Merlin's reactions, a couple of guys thrown around from Galahad's POV, Valentine and Gazelle's reactions, then cut to Galahad walking out of the Church I believe. (I am missing some details, but that was pretty much it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having seen the church seen again online I estimate about 2:45 to 3:00 minutes being stripped from the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: just to clarify, there is A LOT taken out and I was not amused by the censorship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19470" LastActivityDate="2015-03-07T17:44:44.170" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17637" CreationDate="2015-03-07T18:16:53.137" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Duck was a very self confident man, with not a lot of real talent to back it up. He was an alcoholic who lost his wife in divorce. His beloved dog was returned to him by his ex-wife when the dog was no longer welcomed by her next future second husband.  Duck proclaimed love for the dog and when he decided he did not need him, he simply took off the leash and released him onto the streets of NYC.  It was at that moment that you knew that he had no heart. When Roger told him that he would not be a partner, especially after the loss of the American Airline account, he thought he would encourage the merger as a way to ensure his promotion as president.  He also thought it would be away for him to then destroy Don.  He was once again, dead wrong, and took himself out of the game by revealing his hatred of Don, instead of his loyalty.  Sort of like the story of the dog who looks in the pond to see aother dog with a bigger bone.  When he goes to snatch the bone, he drops the one that he is holding, since it is actually the dogs own reflection that he sees in the water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19471" LastActivityDate="2015-03-07T18:16:53.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31875" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31877" CreationDate="2015-03-07T20:16:10.850" Score="6" ViewCount="901" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are all of the episodes for a season of &quot;House of Cards&quot; released on the same date, i.e., Feb 27th, 2015 for season 3? If not, how many episodes of the season have been released already? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were the previous seasons released in the same manner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did the producers adopt this strategy (unlike other shows like Castle, 24, where it is released episode-by-episode over the course of several months)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this strategy have any benefits over the other? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19472" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-03T16:32:23.613" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T07:47:42.813" Title="House of Cards season 3 release policy" Tags="|distribution|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31875" CreationDate="2015-03-07T20:28:21.473" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;All three seasons of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_House_of_Cards_episodes#Season_1_.282013.29&quot;&gt;House of Cards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; have been released this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Season 1 was released February 1st, 2013&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Season 2 was released February 14th, 2014&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Season 3 was released February 27th, 2015&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know why Netflix does this... probably because they &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shows like the ones you mention, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Castle&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;24&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, are &lt;strong&gt;Network&lt;/strong&gt; shows.  They air on broadcast TV at particular times and are released with ads, about one episode per week. If they released the episodes at the beginning of the season, why would anyone come back every week to watch the episodes (and the ads)? They wouldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Netflix isn't ad-based and there's no benefit to them to slow-release shows... instead, they get a huge burst of viewership and a big news splash by releasing full seasons and people can binge-watch to their heart's content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-03-07T20:28:21.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31875" CreationDate="2015-03-07T20:33:37.550" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is an interesting question. First of all, yes, the &lt;strong&gt;episodes are all released at the same time&lt;/strong&gt; and it has always been that way for &lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main point to consider here is, that &lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt; is actually &lt;strong&gt;produced explicitly &lt;em&gt;by&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;online streaming service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (and is to my knowledge the first major example of that). This means it did not air on TV first and there was no technical/practical necessity to release it as weekly/daily episodes, since &lt;em&gt;Netflix&lt;/em&gt; is not bound to a specific time slot on a TV channel. So &lt;strong&gt;there is no real need and nothing to be gained from releasing the episodes in a serial fashion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now by doing so, they can actually &lt;strong&gt;allow people to adapt their ways of consumptions to their own preferences&lt;/strong&gt;. It is largely due to the advent of streaming services that nowadays the so-called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binge-watching&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;binge-watching&lt;/a&gt; is getting more and more popular. And by releasing all at once, they not only can cater to people enjoying that way of watching, even more so they can explicitly play this out as a difference &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; advantage compared to &quot;traditional&quot; television. But people prefering the good old weekly episodes can still schedule it that way themselves. So they give their clients a more flexible way to view their stuff and can thus only win more possible viewers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;sub&gt;One could argue that they could release espisodes monthly, to bind their viewers to renew their subscription each month, but I'd surmise such a strategy and stretched release would not be very welcomed by their clients.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-13T07:47:42.813" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T07:47:42.813" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31878" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31886" CreationDate="2015-03-07T21:56:02.200" Score="8" ViewCount="87709" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Doug Stamper murder Rachel Posner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why was Frank Underwood pleased with this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did she know about Frank?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19474" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-07T22:33:34.980" LastActivityDate="2015-07-31T12:47:35.940" Title="Question about Rachel Posner and Doug Stamper" Tags="|plot-explanation|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31957" CreationDate="2015-03-07T22:49:03.003" Score="1" ViewCount="2166" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Rangers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Power Rangers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; franchise is similar but not the same as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Sentai&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Super Sentai&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; franchise; while they have many similar aspects, the former was actually derived from the latter; and the latter had also been around since the mid-1970s&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Sentai#TV_series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt; while &lt;em&gt;Power Rangers&lt;/em&gt; first started in 1993.&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Rangers#Television_series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I know they are related, though how much I know not. Does anyone know if they share the same, or at least a plot-connected, universe? Is it possible to connect them in terms of in-universe chronology? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking because I'd really love to sit down and watch &lt;strong&gt;every&lt;/strong&gt; episode, and there's a lot of them, so if I were to do this, I wanna do it right and I wanna know the whole freaking story, all seven hundred gajillion episodes of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user19475" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-08T00:04:07.440" LastActivityDate="2022-06-09T04:17:47.837" Title="Does the Super Sentai and Power Rangers franchises have a unified timeline? If not, is it possible?" Tags="|chronology|power-rangers|super-sentai|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31878" CreationDate="2015-03-08T01:25:34.787" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; I cannot answer this without spoilers ... reader beware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several things going on with Doug, Rachel, and the President. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back in Season 1 of HoC, Doug Stamper pays Rachel Posner as a call girl to be with Rep. Peter Russo on several occasions. This ultimately ruined his chances of accomplishing anything in Congress and provides a means by which gets Russo out of the way and provide a hole with which to place the Vice President after Russo's death. Rachel is aware of her connection to this or at a very minimum, President Underwood believes she can figure it out. She was being paid by Doug to be the directed call girl just before Russo commits suicide (well, we know that Underwood kills Russo, but the press believes it was suicide). This is a connection which the President does not want revealed. During Season 2, Doug is supposed to take care of the situation, but instead begins falling in love with Rachel. He puts her up in an apartment and pays her meager bills. In the mean time she falls in love with a woman. When Doug figures this out, he goes to move her to a new location. The last episode of Season 2 shows Rachel jumping out of the car, Doug following, then Rachel nearly beating him to death with a rock. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of Season 3, we see Doug's long recovery in process. He believes if he can only find Rachel and take care of her once and for all, things will be back on an even keel with him and the President. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Killing Rachel has a two fold reason for Doug. First, he wants to get rid of any connection between the President and Russo's apparent suicide. He believes this will provide an avenue for him to be back into Frank's inner circle. Secondly, since Rachel rejected his advancement and almost killed him, he wants his revenge. Frank is pleased about her being out of the way because there is no longer the connection, which might hinder his plans for the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2015-03-08T01:25:34.787" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4044" CreationDate="2015-03-08T06:08:55.370" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may be much more than a simple recording device. As shown, time moves differently inside, yet all of Jerry's watches are perfectly synchronized. We know they were taken from different versions of Jerry at different times, so if they were functioning as normal watches, you'd have wildly different times on each watch, as well as much more time having passed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that they all line up to the &quot;6:06:59&quot; reading with Kate suggests that Alex Trusk's necklace was some kind of stabilizing device. The watches (and time) stabilized and ran normally when in proximity to the device. This is also supported by the fact that at the end, when the room is disintegrating, the only one that remains is Kate, who took the device from Alex's neck after her death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would explain why Simon ran into multiple versions of Jerry and the others and experienced more time, but Kate did not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, that doesn't explain how what seems like hours passed for Kate after she met up with Alex (and was in proximity to the device), yet the watches still only show 6 minutes and 59 seconds have actually passed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose it's possible that the device had SOME stabilizing effect, but not completely. And as the cube imploded, normal time from the outside universe began leaking in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, it could just be that Jerry's watch only counts time for the outside universe. Modern watches count time using the oscillation frequency of quartz when exposed to an electric charge, so if somehow that were unaffected by the weird time frame of the cube, it would explain it. In effect, the watches would only tick when exposed to time from the outside universe. If normal time seeped through to the cube at predictable intervals (and they were increasing), you could probably use that to calculate when the cube would implode. Hence, the scientist making that &quot;6:06:59&quot; calculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, it could be both of those explanations together. If so, and Alex Trusk were hiding in the tesseract, it would make sense that they would send in an operative to retrieve it. She developed a way to stabilize (and ultimately control) the tesseract, and based on her hiding, I doubt she sent the government instructions. They'd need to retrieve it to figure out how it worked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or it could be just weird, timey-wimey stuff. In the end, WHO KNOWS. :-P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19486" LastActivityDate="2015-03-08T06:08:55.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31892" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31897" CreationDate="2015-03-08T06:41:09.047" Score="7" ViewCount="1462" Body="&lt;p&gt;A coworker recommended a movie, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. I had thought that spelling it in Latin might have been a kindness to me. However, it is very easily googled with that string, and I see &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; images and posters with the title spelled out that way. Wikipedia says that the language is Hindi, and that the official alphabet is Devanagari. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once I managed to figure out how, I finally stumbled upon what I believe is the correct form in that alphabet: दिलवाले दुल्हनिया ले जायेंगे.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watching through the movie gives no clues... the opening credits aren't just written in the Latin alphabet, they're in English (executive producer, director, etc), and yet the dialogue isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the canonical form of a Bollywood movie's title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T00:55:47.450" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T00:55:47.450" Title="Does Bollywood title their movies using the Latin alphabet or the Devanagari alphabet?" Tags="|title|indian-cinema|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31897" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31892" CreationDate="2015-03-08T08:09:11.840" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most Bollywood films are titled in Latin letters... that I can tell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every DVD box cover and poster I've ever seen for the films has been in Latin script, as you mention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/Why-do-most-Hindi-films-today-use-the-Latin-alphabet-instead-of-Devanagari-in-their-posters&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; and answer on another site that I think you'll find interesting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One reason is that applications for title approvals have to be filed in the Latin alphabet. So you have the Latin version ready already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find this part really interesting... If I'm interpreting it correctly, it seems to say that, for legal reasons, the film's title is submitted to the state using the Latin alphabet. I'm guessing this had something to do with the colonial era under British rule but I'm not certain... it could also just be because English is one of their official languages,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second reason is the audience. The Latin alphabet is used on posters in urban centres and multiplexes only, where the audience is multi-cultural, cosmopolitan and Devanagari might not register quickly in their eyes. &lt;strong&gt;So Latin alphabet is like a universal script when catering to such audiences.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third reason is design. The workability in design software with the &lt;strong&gt;Latin script is easy and you have many typefaces (fonts)&lt;/strong&gt; available in the Latin script. Not the same for Devanagari.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, posters put up in smaller towns and older single screen use the local language or the Devaganari script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;India is a huge country with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;30 different&lt;/a&gt; languages spoken by at least  a million people each... and they don't all use Devanagari script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other supporting evidence... On Wikipedia, the film titles are only written in Latin lettering with an English translation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabhi_Khushi_Kabhie_Gham...&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (K3G)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuch_Kuch_Hota_Hai&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kuch Kuch Hota Hai&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (KKHH)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kal_Ho_Naa_Ho&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kal Ho Naa Ho&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (KHNH)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In films/TV from other countries with non-Latin writing systems, the title is also included in the writing system native to that country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl%27s_Moving_Castle_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Howl's Moving Castle&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - ハウルの動く城 - Hauru no Ugoku Shiro&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaolin_Soccer&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shaolin Soccer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Chinese: 少林足球; Pinyin: Shàolín Zúqiú&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Band%27s_Visit&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Band's Visit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; -  ביקור התזמורת - Bikur Ha-Tizmoret&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_%282004_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Night Watch&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Ночной дозор - Nochnoy dozor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of the foreign films are in Wikipedia under their English titles with the native language title following it in the native alphabet and the Latin alphabet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that, if the title was usually written in the Devanagari alphabet, these films would include the title in that alphabet in the Wikipedia articles... and what you might also notice is that Bollywood titles are  generally in Hindi on Wikipedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some exceptions, if the film is really iconic and the title is regularly stated in English it will be listed under the English name, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_India&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mother India&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and, actually in this case, they never translated the title into Hindi in the article but you &lt;strong&gt;can&lt;/strong&gt; see the title in Devanagari on the poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jO6JD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Mother India Poster&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-08T09:21:11.347" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31843" CreationDate="2015-03-08T10:21:36.483" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jackie has proven herself to be loyal&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jackie had hardly proven herself loyal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the whole season it seemed she was on the fence, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She sides with the party when they initially withdraw support from Frank's presidential bid&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She also leaked hints that the party had withdrawn support from Frank&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She agreed with Dunbar to suspend campaigning due to the hurricane against Franks wishes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She was initially hesitant to attack Dunbar's kids and Frank had to talk her into it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jackie explicitly tried to side with Dunbar but Dunbar turned her down, it's unclear if that got back to Frank&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A reoccurring theme is that Frank has shown to be highly vengeful and is rarely loyal to those who haven't been unconditionally loyal to him in the past. He threw her under the bus for all the times that she was on the fence, went behind his back, or made him work for her loyalty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He claimed to Jackie that it was so it wouldn't appear as though they were teaming up on Dunbar, but his explanation was thinly veiled and Frank most likely expected her to see through it and side with Dunbar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We'll have to wait until Season 4 to see if that works out for Frank, or if his revenge was ill-timed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18199" LastEditorUserId="18199" LastEditDate="2015-03-08T10:30:01.293" LastActivityDate="2015-03-08T10:30:01.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11156" CreationDate="2015-03-08T16:50:36.483" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, as Merchants, slaves, common folk, or as Gladiators mostly from Namibia... Hollywood was Subtle in the Gladiator movie with Russell Crowe, where his African Gladiator buddy talked to him about his name... Th we're is a Cave in Egypt where 500 pairs of fighters are illustrated on its wall still to this day. Some say it's the Birthplace of martial arts that was carried far away. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19496" LastActivityDate="2015-03-08T16:50:36.483" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31879" CreationDate="2015-03-08T17:26:17.643" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the two timelines are disconnected, but I am not an expert; here are the links:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_%28Power_Rangers%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Power rangers Timeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_%28Super_Sentai%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Super Sentai Timeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastActivityDate="2015-03-08T17:26:17.643" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24094" CreationDate="2015-03-08T17:35:45.723" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, the plot of the movie is about different agencies working against each other, if you remember the beginning of the movie a message about how inefficiencies and competing interest in the german intelligence community lead to Muhammad Atta's successful planning of 9/11. To me the movie was about how the intelligence agencies are going back to its &quot;old ways&quot; which was alluded to by the cia agent who said &quot;old habits die hard&quot;. Guenther leaving his car signifies that he quit because his way of &quot;making the world a safer place&quot; wasn't going to work because people were screwing him over. Plus it brings into question torture and how it can possible prevent people from helping the intelligence community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19498" LastActivityDate="2015-03-08T17:35:45.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3081" CreationDate="2015-03-08T19:23:05.457" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The suggestion is that his wife is Jewish. There is an old stereotype of Jewish wives being, well, bitchy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19499" LastActivityDate="2015-03-08T19:23:05.457" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31921" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="102870" CreationDate="2015-03-08T19:31:47.620" Score="6" ViewCount="2189" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have the question regarding the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_the_West&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Once Upon A Time In The West&lt;/a&gt;. I am not able to fix the time of the story. How long does the story last? Days or weeks?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18315" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-08T20:17:15.837" LastActivityDate="2019-08-27T23:18:41.847" Title="Over what time period does Once Upon A Time In The West take place?" Tags="|chronology|once-upon-a-time-in-the-west|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31922" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33485" CreationDate="2015-03-08T19:48:44.233" Score="4" ViewCount="1006" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was with the subplot of comics &amp;quot;Tales of the Black Freighter&amp;quot; in the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Watchmen&lt;/a&gt; and how is it relevant to the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: Tales of the Black Freighter is a part of Ultimate cut of the movie.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T16:02:31.847" Title="What relevance does the comic reading subplot in the Ultimate Cut have?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|alternate-version|watchmen|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31927" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-08T21:51:17.173" Score="6" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the ending of Man on a Ledge, Nick Casidy is able to prove his innocence by showing publicly that the bad guy still has the diamond in his possession, which proves that Nick never stole it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This only happens though after the whole plan goes completely wrong. Initially Nick's brother was supposed to steal the diamond and Nick was supposed to get away with it in his jacket. That's when he got caught. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that point, how would he reasonably prove that he did not steal the diamond 2 years back but just that day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just having the diamond only proves that he stole it after all. What was the original plan before it went wrong? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2015-03-08T23:30:24.737" LastActivityDate="2015-03-08T23:30:24.737" Title="What was the original plan?" Tags="|plot-explanation|man-on-a-ledge|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31928" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-08T23:05:30.010" Score="5" ViewCount="5222" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I remember watching this movie a couple of years back on my laptop, it involves a man who is chased by someone (I think) and enters a casino in which he has a earpiece and the person tells him to go to the biggest casino machine I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The slot machine was huge and the person on the earpiece told him to go on that machine next and the security were watching him on the cameras and when the main actor sat at the machine everybody looked at him then when he won I think confetti came out of the machine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;American movie I think and the person tries to run away from authorities?&#xA;Any help? 21st century movie? Involves guns?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19504" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-03-08T23:48:02.390" LastActivityDate="2017-06-28T16:14:45.130" Title="A man wins the jackpot at a slot machine" Tags="|identify-this-movie|action|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:37:36.877" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31928" CreationDate="2015-03-08T23:52:20.233" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1124039/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Echelon Conspiracy&lt;/a&gt; from 2009 with Shane West, Edward Burns and Ving Rhames.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Max Peterson is a globe-trotting techno-whiz who installs security systems on computers. He receives an anonymous gift: a phone which sends messages that enable him to win at a casino. Max soon finds himself pursed by hit men, the casino's security chief, and a CIA operative. Who's sending Max messages? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point, he's wearing an earpiece that instructs him to go to the biggest slot machine in a casino. He's watched by the security team as he wins the jackpot &amp;amp; they come after him. No confetti, though. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/gNmnVoc0SyQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-03-08T23:52:20.233" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31932" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31954" CreationDate="2015-03-09T00:55:48.563" Score="4" ViewCount="12293" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the significance of the guys on bikes who always seem to be following Scarlett Johansson in &lt;em&gt;Under the Skin&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4982" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-09T00:58:07.563" LastActivityDate="2015-03-15T02:23:23.240" Title="Guys on bikes in &quot;Under the Skin&quot; (2013)" Tags="|plot-explanation|under-the-skin|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31935" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-09T04:58:35.073" Score="0" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Hobbit 3 (Peter Jackson), why didn't the orcs  use the worms to burrow directly into the mountain, or burrow straight to the gold, bypassing the armies? Why didn't they use the worms to battle, like Dune?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7018" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-19T21:55:20.640" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T21:55:20.640" Title="In the Hobbit 3, why didn't the orcs... [spoiler]" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hobbit|the-battle-of-the-five-armies|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-03-09T08:26:33.307" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14728" CreationDate="2015-03-09T05:22:25.943" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely sounds like The Messengers, which stars Kristen Steward (pre-Twilight) and Dylan McDermott among others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic premise is a family (Mom, Dad, teenage daughter and baby boy) move to North Dakota farm for a fresh start after the teen got in some trouble in their old town. Paranormal things start happening around the baby and teen, but the parents brush it off as the teen acting out and making up things just to be difficult. The teen makes a friend and confidant in town who helps her investigate the place and they find out the last people who lived there vanished mysteriously- that's about where things pick up and I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't seen it, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97RegaPXgO0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here's the trailer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19506" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T05:22:25.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31938" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31951" CreationDate="2015-03-09T05:38:02.273" Score="4" ViewCount="424" Body="&lt;p&gt;Late in the movie &lt;em&gt;The Sand Pebbles&lt;/em&gt;, Steve McQueen is about to share his backstory with Candice Bergen, and there is this graffiti in the background:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bjaE5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;steve mcqueen in the sand pebbles&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just idle curiosity on my part, I happened to pause my DVR at this scene and was curious if the graffiti was placed there intentionally for this shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user19508" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-09T08:25:19.193" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T13:36:56.580" Title="What does this Chinese graffiti from The Sand Pebbles mean?" Tags="|dialogue|the-sand-pebbles|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31940" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31941" CreationDate="2015-03-09T06:45:44.520" Score="22" ViewCount="84101" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the alternate versions of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Watchmen&lt;/a&gt;, when  Dr. Manhattan's is forced to choose a symbol, he made one on his forehead representing a hydrogen atom. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did he choose this symbol? How does it relate to him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-09T12:31:36.930" LastActivityDate="2021-06-30T21:41:33.713" Title="Why did Dr. Manhattan choose the hydrogen atom for the symbol on his forehead?" Tags="|character|watchmen|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31940" CreationDate="2015-03-09T07:12:21.113" Score="29" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He [Dr. Manhattan / Jon] is also provided with a costume which he grudgingly accepts, though he refuses to accept the icon design which is provided for him (this being a stylized orbital model of the atom). Instead, Jon chooses as his emblem a representation of a hydrogen atom, whose simplicity he declares to be something that kindles his respect; accordingly, he painlessly burns the mark into his forehead. This preference for material mechanisms marks the beginning of Jon's declining humanity, which is progressively mirrored by his gradual shedding of the uniform - by the end of the 1970s, he refuses to wear anything at all except for mandatory public appearances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Jonathan_Osterman_%28Watchmen%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Jonathan Osterman (Watchmen)&amp;quot;, DC Comics Database&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c3kV7.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fmYcY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;Image source: Watchmen, Chapter IV&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Out-of-universe&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out-of-universe, this scene is an influence of or carried over from Charlton Comics' &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Atom&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Captain Atom&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt; originated from a story proposal Moore submitted to DC featuring superhero characters that the company had acquired from Charlton Comics. As Moore's proposed story would have left many of the characters unusable for future stories, managing editor Dick Giordano convinced Moore to create original characters instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Watchmen&amp;quot;, Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alan Moore: ...So, we started to reshape the concept—using the Charlton characters as the jumping-off point, because those were the ones we submitted to Dick—and that's what the plot involved. We started to mutate the characters, and I began to realize the changes allowed me so much more freedom. The only idea of Captain Atom as a nuclear super-hero—that had the shadow of the atom bomb hung around him—had been part of the original proposal, but with Dr. Manhattan, by making him kind of a quantum super-hero, it took it into a whole new dimension, it wasn't just the shadow of the nuclear threat around him. The things that we could do with Dr. Manhattan's consciousness and the way he saw time wouldn't have been appropriate for Captain Atom...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comic Book Artist: Just to map this out: The prototype for Rorshach was The Question, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alan Moore: The Question was Rorschach, yep. Dr. Manhattan and Captain Atom were obviously equivalent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.twomorrows.com/comicbookartist/articles/09moore.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Alan Moore discusses the Charlton-Watchmen Connection&amp;quot;, Comic Book Artist #9&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RZ3V4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RZ3V4.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Image source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Who%27s_Who:_The_Definitive_Directory_of_the_DC_Universe_Vol_1_4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Vol. 1 #4&lt;/a&gt; as uploaded in &lt;a href=&quot;http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Allen_Adam_%28Earth-Four%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DC Comics Database&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Charlton Comics universe is currently known as 'Earth-4' in DC Comics. For comparison, here's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qXFrN.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;current Earth-4 Captain Atom&lt;/a&gt; (whose design is influenced by the Watchmen's Dr. Manhattan).&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Image source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Multiversity#Guidebook:_Maps_and_Legends&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Multiversity - Guidebook: Maps and Legends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2020-07-30T07:08:19.183" LastActivityDate="2020-07-30T07:08:19.183" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="31942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31940" CreationDate="2015-03-09T07:19:48.107" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the comic, Dr. Manhattan chooses the Hydrogen atom because he wants a symbol he can &quot;respect&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Uf2FF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Dr. Manhattan chooses his symbol&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Manhattan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; article for his character simply states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Instead, Jon chooses as his emblem a representation of a hydrogen atom, whose simplicity he declares to be something that kindles his respect; accordingly, he painlessly burns the mark into his forehead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't find much other sure info but, there's a lot of conjecture out there, including &lt;a href=&quot;https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090306232235AAk1Syu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;relating his name to the fusion bomb&lt;/a&gt;, which is a hydrogen bomb and the creation part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon#American_developments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Manhattan Project&lt;/a&gt;; and inferring that, as hydrogen is the simplest element, and most abundant, it was appropriate for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-09T17:31:58.373" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T17:31:58.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28215" CreationDate="2015-03-09T07:37:40.947" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the lore from the Middle-earth books, the were-worms were a mythical species that did not truly exist in the world, but were intended to be utilized by their society as a parallel, established by Tolkien, to dragons in ours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, the plot device from the film does not serve the story well in that it create this possible hole. However, if one were to consider Azog's reasoning, it would be that the annihilation of the denizens surrounding Erebor would seal Sauron's dominion over that territory to the south of Angmar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T07:37:40.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18621" CreationDate="2015-03-09T08:08:57.487" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Conversation was like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Col. Jessep:&lt;/strong&gt; ... I'm gonna rip the eyes out of your head and puke&#xA;  into your dead skull, you messed with the wrong marine!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Capt. Ross:&lt;/strong&gt; Colonel Jessep, do you understand these rights as I have just read them to you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Contemptuously]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Col. Jessep:&lt;/strong&gt; You friggin' people. You have no idea how to defend the nation. All you did was weaken a country today, Kaffee. That's all&#xA;  you did. You put people's lives in danger. Sweet dreams, son,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kaffee:&lt;/strong&gt; Don't call me son. I'm a lawyer, and an officer in the United States Navy, and you're under arrest, you son of a bitch. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104257/trivia?tab=qt&amp;amp;ref_=tt_trv_qu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can note Kaffee was not the one who started the provoking language neither did he seems intentionally doing it. It seems more like a response to the opposition's comment. So in that case, I think he can get clean chit or just a warning. Court-martial doesn't looks suitable here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: It's a film and to get dramatic effect sometimes abusive words are used ignoring few facts, like mentioned by you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="26325" LastEditDate="2016-03-02T00:02:18.867" LastActivityDate="2016-03-02T00:02:18.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23958" CreationDate="2015-03-09T08:11:01.330" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There is no discernible reason...&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NonSequitur&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;which is why it's funny&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bit of background: The warden is played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lipton&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;James Lipton&lt;/a&gt;, founder of the Actors Studio Drama School and host of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_the_Actors_Studio&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Inside the Actors Studio&lt;/a&gt;, where he's been interviewing over 200 stars for more than 20 years. That show also made him somewhat of a cult figure due to his odd affectations and tendency to glorify his guests regardless of their accomplishments, which was the subject of numerous &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpZ02A9aUVQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;parodies&lt;/a&gt; - one, coincidentally, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvFV8Oh5VHU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;by his &lt;em&gt;Arrested Development&lt;/em&gt; co-star David Cross&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this makes the line a funny non-sequitor for several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;James Lipton is highly unlikely to call &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; actor a coward;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We'd expect him to name-drop big stars, not Bill Murray's less known, character actor brother;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Calling &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Doyle-Murray&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Brian Doyle-Murray&lt;/a&gt; that, of all people, is surprising because he's an affable guy who mostly appears in comedies;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After a bit of research, there doesn't even seem to be any connection between them, so the joke suggests a mysterious, hitherto unknown bad blood between two amusing figures who aren't really perceived as aggressive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The joke wouldn't really work (or be less quirky or clever) if he'd mention a well known celebrity or someone who's maligned or known for being cowardly. It's an example of the surreal little moments (and off the wall references and off-beat casting) that made &lt;em&gt;Arrested Development&lt;/em&gt; so special.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T08:11:01.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24871" CreationDate="2015-03-09T10:12:49.610" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It remains unknown.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Who gives a s@%# about this Russian?” &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/12/alan_sepinwall_s_the_revolution_was_televised_excerpt_david_chase_and_the.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;--David Chase&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not everything gets solved in &lt;em&gt;The Sopranos&lt;/em&gt;. The most famous examples of this particular narrative tendency are the mystery of the vanishing Russian in &lt;em&gt;Pine Barrens&lt;/em&gt;, and of course&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the show's ambiguous ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting aside the significance of the quote itself and the role of wind in that cluster of season 6 episodes (though it's an interesting topic), &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; the Ojibwe saying got to Tony's room is just one of the show's unresolved mysteries. Tony suspects it's his sister in &lt;em&gt;The Fleshy Part of the Thigh&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nurse: Who put that up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony: My sister. Who else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nurse: Why do you keep it up there if you don't find it inspirational?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony: My daughter likes it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Janice denies this later in the episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Janice: What, you think I put that up there? I didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony: Right. Then who did?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I watched this series more than once and remember it pretty well and I'm quite sure Tony's question is &lt;em&gt;never answered&lt;/em&gt;. It could be anyone and, in fact, it's easier to guess who &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; put it up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's probably not the dreadlocked nurse or Chris because they wonder about it too;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Janice denies it's her;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From what Tony says, it's probably not Meadow either (he does say she &lt;em&gt;liked&lt;/em&gt; it but still supposes it was Janice).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the series, Tony, who's supposed to be a no-nonsense tough-guy, finds himself unwillingly drawn to ponder the deeper mysteries of his own existence; it's what makes him so conflicted and compelling. So not knowing who put up the quote makes him wonder not only what the quote &lt;em&gt;means&lt;/em&gt; but also what its actual &lt;em&gt;origin&lt;/em&gt; is - and cleverly puts us in the same boat with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T13:55:22.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21478" CreationDate="2015-03-09T10:16:00.463" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are portals for connecting to other &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel-cinematic-universe.wikia.com/wiki/Nine_Realms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;realms&lt;/a&gt;, 9 for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The things which didn’t return from the loop are shown in other realms in the movie later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And portals were created due to Convergence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During the Convergence, the Nine Realms of Yggdrasil are in alignment.&#xA;  This alignment causes the dimensional boundaries between each realm to&#xA;  become thin, resulting in various physical anomalies occurring at&#xA;  random. These phenomena include shifts in gravity, spatial extrusions,&#xA;  and the fabric of reality possibly tearing apart. Perhaps most&#xA;  notably, invisible wormholes that allow matter to move between realms&#xA;  are seemingly born and evaporate at random. - (Source:&lt;a href=&quot;http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Convergence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aether just got discovered due to Convergence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-05T04:53:44.977" LastActivityDate="2017-04-05T04:53:44.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31472" CreationDate="2015-03-09T11:06:35.440" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an older question but I'll attempt an answer anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books, Arthur refers back to when he first met Ford and says something along the lines of &quot;When you first got here, you thought cars were the dominant life form!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This assumption was probably because there are a lot of them, they move, they are everywhere, the whole world is formed around being accessible to cars, and any number of other reasons (this is not spelled out in the book, but if an alien was to first visit Earth I wouldn't think it was a strange assumption.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ford was merely trying to introduce himself to what he incorrectly thought was a sentient being, and the dominant lifeform. A &quot;Take me to your leader!&quot; type deal. It was only afterwards that he realised humans are the dominant lifeform and not just servants of the car 'master race'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I agree with the above answer that the actual 'introducing himself' scene was nowhere to be found. But iirc the statement about cars being the dominant life form was there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16372" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T11:06:35.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31938" CreationDate="2015-03-09T13:23:39.540" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, it appears to say &lt;strong&gt;李四&lt;/strong&gt;, not  木子四 as commentators above have said. (the 木 and 子 are connected at the bottom and top, respectively).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;李四&lt;/strong&gt;, pronounced Li Si, means &quot;John Doe&quot;, or &quot;Anonymous&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's part of a idiom that goes 張三, 李四, 王五 . Kind of like English's &quot;Tom, Dick and Harry&quot;. 張, 李, 王 (Chang/Zhang, Li/Lee, and Wang/Wong) are three very common Chinese last names. 三,四, 五 are 3, 4, and 5. So the phrase is &quot;Chang number 3, Li number 4, and Wang number 5&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="15418" LastEditDate="2015-03-09T13:36:56.580" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T13:36:56.580" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31940" CreationDate="2015-03-09T13:45:45.880" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Great answers from my colleagues, but I think they missed the obvious answer: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Manhattan Project&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first sentence of the Wiki states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that&#xA;  produced the first atomic bombs during World War II.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There has been at least one movie about the subject, and I'm sure plenty of books as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T13:45:45.880" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31932" CreationDate="2015-03-09T14:16:58.640" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the novel Under the Skin by Michel Faber, Scarlet Johansson's character is an alien on Earth, selecting prime human specimens for the delicatessen back home. She isn't on Earth alone in this task, and so the guys on the bikes are also aliens, who assist her with the collection of the human specimens. When she goes walkabout, her fellow alien biker comrades try to track her down, in fear of their true identities being discovered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19518" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T14:16:58.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31697" CreationDate="2015-03-09T17:19:03.710" Score="2" Body="&lt;h1&gt;We don't know.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mystery around Tim and what he knows is a &lt;strong&gt;plot device&lt;/strong&gt;, because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;his role in the death of the Prices in concealed from us until the end of this episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hints are dropped during Episode 8 that Tim found out about the affair either &lt;em&gt;while he was away, or immediately upon returning&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tim behaves darkly towards Evan during a court scene, and then has the following exchange with Alex:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;ALEX: Evan could take over your caseload.&#xA;TIM:  He's very - You know Evan?&#xA;ALEX: I do.&#xA;TIM:  A very charming man. Very, er, charming.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Alex arrives at the Price house to make an arrest, she overhears&#xA;part of a conversation reflecting some sort of difficulty in the Prices' marriage:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;CAROLINE: Tim, all I'm saying is, sometimes people have to move on.&#xA;          That's all.&#xA;TIM:      When you walked into the common room that first morning, I &#xA;          felt we'd be together forever. I was 18.&#xA;CAROLINE: We're not undergraduates any more. We change or we die.&#xA;TIM:      Forever and ever.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19074" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T17:19:03.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31879" CreationDate="2015-03-09T18:03:53.657" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Short Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, not really. Just watch whatever series/season you find interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Longer Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disclaimer: I'm more familiar with the Power Rangers franchise than I am with the Super Sentai franchise.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each show in the Super Sentai (SS) series was produced as standalone. Although there are a few crossover episodes where characters from previous shows have appeared in more current ones. This makes it appear that the shows happen in the same universe, though incidents like this are far in between and for the most part each show keeps to its own continuity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same goes for the Power Rangers (PR) series. To a great degree, PR shows implement the majority of the corresponding SS show elements. They will both have the same costumes, monsters, action sequences, and even the majority of the story line. However, the PR show will implement its own US only elements, such as different actors out of the suit, different names, and censoring some elements of violence or sexuality. Some PR shows have gone as far as creating action sequences and their own extra (sixth ranger) suits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In theory, all PR shows exist in the same continuity. Characters often appear in more than one show as main characters, not just as cameos. For instance, original sixth ranger Tommy Oliver has appeared as a major character in four PR shows, and cameoed in more. However, this continuity is not without problems and serious snarls. For instance, in Super Mega Force the rangers have the ability to mimic the powers of past rangers. Among those they are able to mimic the SPD rangers, even though SPD is chronologically set far into the future of the PR timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all these continuity snarls, and the fact that both SS and PR use the same base material in different ways means that there's no real way to integrate SS and PR into one continuity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you don't really need to watch anything in order. Just watch whatever series (SS or PR) that you find interesting and don't worry to much about an unified story, since none exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T18:03:53.657" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30109" CreationDate="2015-03-09T19:18:51.570" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/zakkz/i_ama_former_biggest_loser_contestant_who_would/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;In this AMA session&lt;/a&gt;, a former contestant revealed that the whole weigh-in session takes a very long time, with multiple parts being redone. He couldn't reveal too much detail as he was legally obligated not to. An interesting part that he &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; reveal was that they were trained to always speak in the present tense during interviews. So my educated guess given all these bits of info is that the producers do multiple interviews before and after the actual weigh-in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T19:18:51.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30333" CreationDate="2015-03-09T19:23:40.020" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since we see no Earth-based transactions being conducted using the &quot;unit&quot; currency, it's impossible to know. And it could very well be what the writers are aiming at. Science fiction writers have long used generic currencies like &quot;credits&quot; without any links to real world economy so that they don't have the extra effort of figuring out realistic values.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T19:23:40.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13428" CreationDate="2015-03-09T20:09:23.633" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer to this, which you probably don't want to read but is unfortunately accurate, is &quot;No&quot;.  No one has taken her specific subtitles out of the episodes she was in and put them online.  You will have to do that yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T20:09:23.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19863" CreationDate="2015-03-09T20:19:43.647" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took it to be an &lt;strong&gt;intentional misdirection&lt;/strong&gt; since the &lt;em&gt;12 Monkeys&lt;/em&gt; are a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;MacGuffin&lt;/a&gt;, a &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;...plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or other motivator that the protagonist pursues, often with little or no narrative explanation. The specific nature of a MacGuffin is typically unimportant to the overall plot.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, the placement in his eye brings extra focus to the idea that he's searching for them and that they are important and worth watching / pursuing. But, like any good &lt;em&gt;MacGuffin&lt;/em&gt;, the search for the &lt;em&gt;12 Monkeys&lt;/em&gt; is a fruitless task. For good measure, the search also wastes &quot;time&quot; in multiple &lt;em&gt;different&lt;/em&gt; times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll add here that as MacGuffins go, &lt;em&gt;The 12 Monkeys&lt;/em&gt;, and most, are usually trumped by &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon_(1941_film)#Props&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Maltese Falcon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also like @Coomie's ideas about the eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2016-09-20T03:46:09.750" LastActivityDate="2016-09-20T03:46:09.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28039" CreationDate="2015-03-09T21:50:21.293" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't actually see anything in the Wikipedia article about Bill 101 (or in a brief perusal of the actual document) that &lt;strong&gt;requires&lt;/strong&gt; film/tv/book titles (or even the series itself) to be translated into French (if you can find a specific section that does, please post it). I'm guessing this falls under Canadian free speech.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I can't even find a &quot;view in French&quot; option on the website for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTV_Television_Network&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CTV&lt;/a&gt; (the company that airs &lt;em&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/em&gt;)... the entire site is in English and doesn't have a way to access it in French... even the Montreal section of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.citytv.com/montreal/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;City TV&lt;/a&gt; (the network that aired &lt;em&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;/em&gt;) is in English and the title of the show is listed that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T21:50:21.293" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31966" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="31967" CreationDate="2015-03-09T22:27:12.327" Score="1" ViewCount="552" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been many years since I've watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://highestcommondenominator.bigcartel.com/category/dvds&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Farm: Angola, USA&lt;/a&gt; (I saw it as an Investigative Reports special on A&amp;amp;E), but there is a song sung by the prisoners as they're burying Bones (that may be off, it could be when they were talking about the funeral or it may not even be that Bones was the inmate who'd died) and also played from an LP, whose label was too fuzzy to read, that I've been trying to source since I first saw this documentary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only lyrics I remember are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The walls are gone,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  And I am free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even these may not be exact; my memory is pretty terrible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19523" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T15:17:04.340" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T15:17:04.340" Title="Song Identification: The Farm: Angola, USA funeral dirge" Tags="|soundtrack|the-farm-angola-usa|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2021-12-22T09:03:39.813" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31966" CreationDate="2015-03-09T23:45:54.987" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just perused the video Catjia linked to (the funeral is at the very end), and with the help of Google, the song is &lt;strong&gt;&quot;I'm Free&quot; by Milton Brunson&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allgospellyrics.com/?sec=listing&amp;amp;lyricid=12987&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lyrics&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am free&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Praise the Lord, I'm free&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  No longer bound&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  No more chains holding me&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Soul is resting&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  And it’s just another blessing&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Praise… the Lord&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Hallelujah, I'm free&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I’ve got to say it one more  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am free&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Praise the Lord, I'm free&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I’ve been saved and sanctified&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Filled with His holy holyness&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I’m resting&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  It's another blessing&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Praise the Lord&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Hallelujah, I'm free&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastActivityDate="2015-03-09T23:45:54.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31971" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-10T03:23:34.363" Score="17" ViewCount="14898" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2562232/&quot;&gt;Birdman&lt;/a&gt; is a movie about a theater play that tells a lot about movies, movie stars, actor and Hollywood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder why it is subtitled &lt;strong&gt;The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it meant as ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ignorance_is_bliss&quot;&gt;Ignorance is bliss&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... or more like ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Beatitudes&quot;&gt;beati pauperes spiritu&lt;/a&gt; - Blessed in spirit are the poor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's safe to say that nothing in that movie is done randomly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, the movie goes to great lengths : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in casting &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000474/?ref_=tt_ov_st&quot;&gt;Michael Keaton&lt;/a&gt; in the role of a washed up &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096895/?ref_=nm_knf_t2&quot;&gt;super hero star&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;having &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001570/?ref_=tt_ov_st&quot;&gt;Edward Norton&lt;/a&gt; as a difficult &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/the-truth-about-edward-norton-vs-marvel/&quot;&gt;meddling&lt;/a&gt; actor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;having &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915208/?ref_=tt_cl_t6&quot;&gt;Noami Watts&lt;/a&gt; giving a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/?ref_=nm_knf_t2&quot;&gt;sapphic kiss&lt;/a&gt; to a distraught woman.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6216" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-10T08:38:50.180" LastActivityDate="2019-09-17T20:31:57.183" Title="Why is Birdman subtitled The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance?" Tags="|analysis|title|birdman|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19863" CreationDate="2015-03-10T05:41:48.133" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Entire Answer is a Spoiler&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 12 Monkeys, James Cole (Bruce Willis) has seen the future. A dystopian future which is caused, in his mind, by the 12 monkeys. The symbol is over his eye because he has seen the damage that was caused. And his eyes are in shadow or sunken to represent the negativity of the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the other characters are from the &quot;present&quot; and so have normal eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastActivityDate="2015-03-10T05:41:48.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28435" CreationDate="2015-03-10T07:55:28.687" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like Major Carver was too afraid from the consequences of David can cause that he doesn't want to delay the operation. As can be seen when he was in too hurry to get there. So he just doesn't want to waste any time in observation and want to act as fast he can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2015-03-10T07:55:28.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1413" CreationDate="2015-03-10T13:16:51.130" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just saw the movie again last night.. My impression is that the Major (Who committed suicide) had known that the post he was sending Dunbar too was ransacked, and the Major had been profiting on the supplies for that post. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Along comes Dunbar, and the Major thought the jig-was-up.. So he offed himself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19536" LastActivityDate="2015-03-10T13:16:51.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31985" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32008" CreationDate="2015-03-10T18:27:21.037" Score="9" ViewCount="657" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the first, second, and newly third season of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_%28U.S._TV_series%29&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;House of Cards&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, produced under Netflix,  &lt;strong&gt;protagonist Francis Underwood often &quot;breaks the fourth wall&quot; and speaks directly to the audience rather frequently&lt;/strong&gt;. This also famously known to be done in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferris_Bueller%27s_Day_Off&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ferris Bueller's Day Off&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often times in House of Cards, Francis would turn and speak to the audience &lt;strong&gt;mid-conversation&lt;/strong&gt; or after a big event. While he is doing this, &lt;strong&gt;does the conversation stop around him and does time stop?&lt;/strong&gt; This question has been haunting me since I have started watching the series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does time stop in other uses of the breaking of the fourth wall in other movies and TV examples as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19542" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T07:52:35.357" Title="Does time stop when the fourth wall is broken?" Tags="|analysis|house-of-cards|fourth-wall|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31997" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32003" CreationDate="2015-03-10T21:26:01.763" Score="3" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the  &lt;em&gt;Scorpion&lt;/em&gt;, episode, &quot;Once Bitten, Twice Die,&quot; Latvian and Belarussian diplomats come to America to hash out a peace treaty and avert World War III. The stuff about Walter and a possum getting bit by a snake so a doctor can use a centrifuge and make the antidote seemed very silly to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what I'm taking issue with is the U. S. Marine's dress uniforms. Instead of the eagle, globe and anchor on their caps, you see on the various &lt;em&gt;NCIS&lt;/em&gt; shows (when they have actual Navy/Marine Corps characters, that is) and the old &lt;em&gt;JAG&lt;/em&gt;, they have an upside down five-painted star!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean that &lt;em&gt;Scorpion&lt;/em&gt; takes place in a parallel universe in which the Marines decided they preferred a generic star to be their logo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20012" OwnerDisplayName="Albert" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T02:00:10.637" Title="What's up with the Marine uniforms in this episode of Scorpion?" Tags="|scorpion|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="31998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31997" CreationDate="2015-03-10T21:30:45.427" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the developers did it just for fun. Or, what if it is in the future where they change the corps uniform. It could be that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="Faizan Khan" LastActivityDate="2015-03-10T21:30:45.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31997" CreationDate="2015-03-11T02:00:10.637" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;They didn't have a military advisor and they had no help from the Department of Defense. It's possible that the producers wanted to shield the actors from being prosecuted for impersonating a military servicemember, but given that &lt;em&gt;Scorpion&lt;/em&gt; is on the same network that now airs a bunch of &lt;em&gt;NCIS&lt;/em&gt; shows, &lt;em&gt;Scorpion&lt;/em&gt;'s producers ought to know better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems more likely to me that the costume designer thought the star looked cooler and failed to realize the significance the eagle, globe and anchor holds for anyone who's ever served in the Marine Corps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stripes.com/blogs/the-rumor-doctor/the-rumor-doctor-1.104348/why-can-t-hollywood-get-military-uniforms-right-1.159651&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.stripes.com/blogs/the-rumor-doctor/the-rumor-doctor-1.104348/why-can-t-hollywood-get-military-uniforms-right-1.159651&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11608" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T02:00:10.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32006" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-11T04:47:25.690" Score="2" ViewCount="7026" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a scene in the film city of god where the local drug dealers go mess around with some kids and all of them run away but they trapped 2 and he tells them where do you want to get shot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the kids puts their hand but he shoots them in the foot &#xA;and the smallest one cries very very realistically &#xA;its almost shocking &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've always wondered if it was actual acting or if they made him cry somehow. Is there any information about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19555" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-11T08:32:04.507" LastActivityDate="2018-01-15T23:39:58.053" Title="How do they make the boy in City of god cry in the scene where he gets shot in the foot" Tags="|city-of-god|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32007" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-11T05:25:22.997" Score="3" ViewCount="1955" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen it on quite a few movies where they show pictures of the family in some past gathering or with friends but usually they are photoshopped in some background or their faces are shopped onto someone's elses body and not that well made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you asked me what movies I woudln't remember but I've seen it more than 3 times, usually in comedies. I don't think it's for comedic purposes because that would sort of be a 4th wall joke. And I'm sure for the budget of a semi big Hollywood movie they would at least get someone who is good at Photoshop. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does it look like that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19555" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-11T08:36:30.843" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T18:32:31.700" Title="Why do some movies have photoshopped pictures of the 'family'" Tags="|props|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31985" CreationDate="2015-03-11T06:42:51.170" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's impossible to answer this question in general, because (as already stated in comments) the answer is: it depends on the movie/show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the &lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;: the time doesn't stop.&#xA;You can see it clearly in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcisywIfcwg&quot;&gt;the scenes&lt;/a&gt;, where Frank looks into camera.&#xA;Regarding the scenes where he talks it's a bit more tricky to tell because this usually happens when he's alone. However in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NaFt3Xcbfw&amp;amp;t=51&quot;&gt;these two scenes&lt;/a&gt; first we hear (the oath scene) and later see (in the car with Doug scene) that the time didn't stop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-03-11T07:52:35.357" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T07:52:35.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32010" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33311" CreationDate="2015-03-11T07:17:49.917" Score="3" ViewCount="8303" Body="&lt;p&gt;So in &lt;em&gt;Focus&lt;/em&gt;, Nicky leaves Jess in the car right after the big betting scene in New Orleans. &#xA;I don't see why he did that. He wasn't being chased by cops or anyone. He wasn't in danger that he did it to save her life. Everything was going fine and he just left her, saying &quot;You did great&quot;. &#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Why did Nicky leave Jess in the car right after the betting in New Orleans?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16790" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-11T08:39:18.653" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T12:36:26.683" Title="Why did Nicky do what he did to Jess in New Orleans?" Tags="|plot-explanation|focus|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31971" CreationDate="2015-03-11T07:20:31.010" Score="13" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the title of &lt;strong&gt;Tabitha Dickinson&lt;/strong&gt;'s review about the play. She's a critic, initially she detests Riggan and his play but after actually watching it, she turns in a positive review praising Riggan's performance and his play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar question was asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/Birdman-2014-movie/What-does-The-unexpected-virtue-of-ignorance-mean&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and there's an excellent answer by a user.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tabitha Dickinson is a critic who is deeply ingrained in the history&#xA;  of theater, specifically New York theater.  To her, somebody who&#xA;  hasn't spent time in the theater is an amateur.  They should spend&#xA;  time building up their skills and investing in the experience.  She&#xA;  doesn't consider movie and TV acting as the same skill.  She's seen a&#xA;  lot of theater that breaks the rules, and most of it has been very&#xA;  bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The line refers to her being impressed with this show.  Though he has&#xA;  no experience, he has created a show that works well.  &lt;strong&gt;An ignorant&#xA;  person has made choices that an experienced Broadway  director&#xA;  wouldn't, but they worked.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: &lt;em&gt;The answer in the quotes was copied from another website. If the answer is helpful, please make sure the original answerer gets credited.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2016-12-15T05:32:26.497" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T05:32:26.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32006" CreationDate="2015-03-11T10:45:05.423" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every child is equipped with the ability to over-exaggerate.  I, personally, was a champion at getting my brother in trouble for hitting me by making it seem like an ambulance ride was in order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These children are actors.  I'm fairly certain it didn't take much.  Throw a rock at his foot (lightly) and tell him it's a bullet, and he'll compound that pain 100-fold in his mind.  It's really not hard to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T10:45:05.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32015" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32018" CreationDate="2015-03-11T11:05:19.363" Score="4" ViewCount="969" Body="&lt;p&gt;Couple of instances that point to the unexplained &amp;amp; inexplicable importance of the doll sans as the conduit.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, at the beginning, when John gives the doll as a gift to Mia, when she exclaims something on the lines of &lt;em&gt;&quot;I've been looking for this for so long.&#xA;Where did you find it?&quot; &quot;Well, I have my means&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, at the end, when an old women exclaims to a shop owner about the doll, saying that she wants to gift it to her daughter who is a nurse. &#xA;The shop owner replies with something like &lt;em&gt;&quot;Oh sure, that doll is a collector's item&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even before being turned into a conduit, the doll was hideous &amp;amp; scary. Why was it treasured so much in the movie(as a doll, not as a conduit by the cult)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-09-21T09:49:27.767" LastActivityDate="2017-09-21T09:49:27.767" Title="Why was the doll from Annabelle so treasured?" Tags="|plot-explanation|annabelle|the-conjuring-universe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27199" CreationDate="2015-03-11T11:29:14.167" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;A black hole is an area of spacetime which exhibits a very strong gravitational field around it. The gravitational field is so strong that even light can't escape it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two parts to a black hole. The center which is called the singularity.&#xA;The Event Horizon, which is the boundary around the singularity till where no matter can escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, they need information from inside the black hole. When they say inside, they are talking about inside the Event Horizon. Cooper does cross over inside the Event Horizon after which he is safely transported to the tesseract.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is important to note that the tesseract was inside the Event Horizon and not outside because that is the data that they need to solve the &amp;quot;Gravity Problem&amp;quot; back on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After transmitting the data obtained from inside the black hole (inside the boundaries of the Event Horizon) from tesseract, the 5d beings safely transport Cooper to the mouth of the wormhole near Saturn where he gets picked up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Apparently, &amp;quot;safely transport&amp;quot; has a warped meaning for the 5d beings, maybe they forgot that it's not very safe to just chuck a human into open space for a passing space ship to pick up ;) )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2020-09-07T03:48:37.333" LastActivityDate="2020-09-07T03:48:37.333" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32017" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32020" CreationDate="2015-03-11T12:00:05.737" Score="10" ViewCount="9509" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand the &quot;put options&quot; (as I have read in Wikipedia) manipulation of stock prices in the movie &lt;em&gt;The Taking of Pelham 123&lt;/em&gt; (2009). Can anyone explain this in a simple way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18703" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-11T12:22:23.787" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T13:34:31.797" Title="Stock manipulation in The Taking of Pelham 123" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-taking-of-pelham-123|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32015" CreationDate="2015-03-11T12:03:26.913" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real doll was a vintage Raggedy Ann doll (unlike the porcelain one used in the movie).  These dolls are collectible, and can fetch upwards of US$3,000.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, old dolls are usually creepy looking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a webpage about their collectibility: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbsnews.com/news/from-raggedy-to-riches/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From Raggedy To Riches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, it's kinda like finding a 1952 Willie Mays Topps card.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T12:03:26.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32017" CreationDate="2015-03-11T12:53:01.010" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;When big, bad things happen, financial markets react in predictable ways. Typically, stocks drop globally and U.S. treasury debt spikes, as do precious metals and the U.S. dollar. This is because people react to uncertainty by selling other assets and buying something that feels safe, and nothing feels safer than a U.S. Treasury note or a lump of gold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The antagonists in The Taking of Pelham 123 had purchased derivative contracts that would allow them to benefit in a leveraged way when stock markets dropped on news of their terrorism. In practice this could be done by shorting futures or buying puts on stock futures, or several other ways. Puts give you the right to sell an asset at a specified price, and they increase in value as the price of that asset drops. So if a future is currently trading at $100 and you pay $1 for the right to sell it for at least $95, then the future drops to $90, you can buy futures for $90, sell them for $95, and pocket a profit of at least $4 from each $1 you spent on puts. (In practice you might do better, depending on how quickly the futures dropped after you bought the puts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bigger the drop and the more quickly it happens after the puts were purchased, the more money the bad guys would make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scheme is generally plausible; a group of young professionals were caught setting off bombs in Argentina(?) about 25 years ago, with exactly this sort of manipulation in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="940" LastEditDate="2015-03-11T13:34:31.797" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T13:34:31.797" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32022" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-11T13:58:45.110" Score="9" ViewCount="601" Body="&lt;p&gt;The upcoming &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_v_Superman:_Dawn_of_Justice&quot;&gt;Batman v Superman&lt;/a&gt; movie was delayed by close to a year.&#xA;The reason quoted in wiki is - &quot;time to realize fully their vision, given the complex visual nature of the story&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know of a more detailed reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T12:56:40.907" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T21:37:32.223" Title="Why the delay in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" Tags="|batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31679" CreationDate="2015-03-11T14:29:03.847" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer to your question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tarantino himself has remarked: &quot;In this story, cinema changes the&#xA;  world, and I fucking love that idea!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reality is; There was never an assassination attempt on Hitler in a theater. Though much of the film loosely follows history, the movie itself is not meant to be historical or biographical. Tarantino just thought the idea of a world-changing event happening in a theater sounded cool, so he moved the demise of Hitler to a cinema.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T14:29:03.847" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32024" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32041" CreationDate="2015-03-11T16:27:03.013" Score="13" ViewCount="4747" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; it seemed that the Schraders loved White's kids very much and enjoyed having them in their place. Is there in-series explanation why they didn't have their own?&#xA;Same question about the Schwartzs -- they weren't young, had more than enough money and still didn't have any children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19566" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-11T16:34:57.047" LastActivityDate="2021-06-25T06:57:45.890" Title="Why no children?" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32007" CreationDate="2015-03-11T17:21:52.487" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's hard to answer without specific examples to look at, but maybe they're taking actual older pictures of the actors and photoshopping them together so that it looks like a photo taken years ago when all of the characters were much younger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T17:21:52.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26867" CreationDate="2015-03-11T17:56:02.030" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, since &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/49375/how-did-the-basilisk-manage-to-travel-and-kill&quot;&gt;that other SE question&lt;/a&gt; seems to suggest that Rowling never supplied a canonical answer, we'd just have to settle for a plausible explanation: &lt;strong&gt;It's a magical snake and a magical school.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, in the Harry Potter universe, things are impossibly squeezed into smaller things &lt;em&gt;all the time&lt;/em&gt;. Remember, for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That people enter the Ministry of Magic by flushing themselves down the toilet, passing through pipes which they obviously wouldn't normally fit through:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7nUrA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That the Knight Bus can contract and somehow squeeze through two oncoming buses in a matter of seconds:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/n5bUB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And that thanks to an Extension Charm, small tents can be huge on the inside and Hermione's tiny handbag can contain a room full of stuff:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rbFnN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that snakes, which in real life can already squeeze into small holes, may be even more capable of that in Potterverse because Nagini, Voldemort's huge snake, was somehow able to hide inside a small woman. Add that to the fact that &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Hogwarts_Castle&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hogwarts Castle&lt;/a&gt; is supported by magical architecture and contains moving staircases and &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Room_of_Requirement&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a room which could become just about anything&lt;/a&gt;, and it's not that hard to imagine that the pipes there were magicked with an Extension Charm or some other mystical means to accommodate volumes way beyond their capacity - perhaps intentionally, by Salazar Slytherin himself, to allow the Basilisk to come out of its hiding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-03-15T14:04:25.720" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23579" CreationDate="2015-03-11T19:20:19.903" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you misinterpreted the scene (Either that, or we saw different versions of the film). Here's the sequence I saw:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Solomon goes to the shop and is given some parchments wrapped in a bow. It's possibly &lt;em&gt;empty&lt;/em&gt; parchment for letters.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Solomon runs to the woods and unfurls the parchments in secret. He doesn't seem to be in shock at all (we see him from behind), just intent on something, and the shot quickly desolves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Solomon, back inside, secretly takes the folded piece of parchment that he hid in his sleeve earlier in the woods and puts it in his bag. &lt;strong&gt;He had stolen a piece of parchment from the ones he got in the shop to write that letter he's trying to send throughout the movie.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-03-11T19:20:19.903" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24683" CreationDate="2015-03-11T23:44:46.390" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's TvTropes to the rescue again, where they decided to call the technique &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MundaneMadeAwesome&quot;&gt;Mundane Made Awesome&lt;/a&gt; and present a few &lt;strong&gt;billion&lt;/strong&gt; examples from movies, TV, advertising and other media. Edgar Wright's films get a mention, of course, as they are particularly rife with the specific example you've mentioned: parodies of tooling-up montages (Tropes calls it &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LockAndLoadMontage&quot;&gt;Lock and Load&lt;/a&gt;), where mundane activities are accompanied by close ups, ramped up action and loud music. &lt;em&gt;Da Ali G Show&lt;/em&gt; uses similar devices in its &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k8oCW3sYz8&quot;&gt;intro&lt;/a&gt; [&lt;strong&gt;Warning: Sacha Butt&lt;/strong&gt;].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also mentioned in the Tropes page are bits like the opening bowling sequence in &lt;em&gt;Big Lebowski&lt;/em&gt;, the title sequence of &lt;em&gt;Dexter&lt;/em&gt; and one of my favorites, the epic Xander-Harmony slap fight in &lt;em&gt;BtVS&lt;/em&gt; (though I can't seem to find another favorite there: &lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/111458975&quot;&gt;The Crimson Permanent Assurance&lt;/a&gt;). But it's impossible to name all the examples, so... Enjoy wasting a week on them. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-03-12T07:21:14.417" LastActivityDate="2015-03-12T07:21:14.417" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31932" CreationDate="2015-03-12T01:30:34.943" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are also aliens; kind of working as her overseers. There's one main guy on a bike; you meet him at the beginning of the movie and several times throughout. He cleans up after her, like when she kidnapped a guy at the beach and then the biker picked up the guy's tent, so no one would realize he was missing. The main biker guy also made her stand in the dark room and inspected her eyes about halfway through to make sure she wasn't forming sympathy towards humans like the other female alien at the beginning of the movie. When she eventually does start to have sympathy and runs away, the main biker along with several other bikers all set out to find her so that the humans won't find out she is an alien.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can watch this for a more detailed explanation of the movie: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/nyW01TOyEKI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19577" LastEditorUserId="19577" LastEditDate="2015-03-15T02:23:23.240" LastActivityDate="2015-03-15T02:23:23.240" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23387" CreationDate="2015-03-12T01:48:51.190" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, you deciphered the situation quite correctly. Now why would the German and American governments betray &lt;em&gt;Günther&lt;/em&gt;? It is true that they basically all share a common motivation, that is to counter terrorism and &lt;em&gt;&quot;make the world a safer place&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, but &lt;strong&gt;their means largely differ&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;em&gt;Günther&lt;/em&gt; says himself, his group largely operates in a legal grey area and also with not much funding or backing from the government. This is why they have to rely on a network of informants and actual street work to get their information and achieve their goals. And this is also why &lt;em&gt;Günther&lt;/em&gt; values and cares for his informants and tries to keep his promises, without his informants he can't do his job. He is somehow &lt;strong&gt;a spy of the old school, relying on defectors and double agents rather than brute force. And he has the larger picture in mind&lt;/strong&gt;. He knows that &lt;em&gt;Abdullah&lt;/em&gt; alone isn't worth much, let alone &lt;em&gt;Issa&lt;/em&gt; who I think &lt;em&gt;Günther&lt;/em&gt; was genuinely convinced to be totally innocent. He also says, that he believes in the soft methods of convincing people rather than just torturing them. So for him capturing those two is pretty useless. He'd rather want to convince &lt;em&gt;Abdullah&lt;/em&gt; to actively work for him, a method that he has put to great success during the rest of the movie, all his achievements were reached because people directly worked for him (even if not always entirely out of conviction but also out of pressure).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The government on the other hand is in contrast depicted as &lt;strong&gt;largely bureaucratic. They want results and they want them fast&lt;/strong&gt;. And they don't seem to make a big difference between capturing a small fish, like &lt;em&gt;Issa&lt;/em&gt; who didn't even know anything contributory, and actually achieving a bigger result. This is not only demonstrated when they capture &lt;em&gt;Abdullah&lt;/em&gt;, possibly trying to torture him for information, even though he probably doesn't know that much directly and won't be of much use. It is already demonstrated when &lt;em&gt;Mohr&lt;/em&gt; wants to capture &lt;em&gt;Issa&lt;/em&gt; as soon as he arrives and when &lt;em&gt;Abdullah&lt;/em&gt; isn't even in consideration yet. All &lt;em&gt;Mohr&lt;/em&gt; cares about is that &lt;em&gt;Issa&lt;/em&gt; doesn't &lt;em&gt;&quot;plant a bomb&quot;&lt;/em&gt; in his city and that everything goes strictly by law. He doesn't want a supposed terrorist run around freely, even if he is of greater use. The same goes for &lt;em&gt;Sullivan&lt;/em&gt; and the Americans, they want &lt;em&gt;Abdullah&lt;/em&gt; and his dangerous weapon business out of the way, disregarding if someone else will just take his place. They all don't have much trust in &lt;em&gt;Günther&lt;/em&gt;'s soft methods either. Those bureaucrats just want to get fast successes, no matter how small they are or if the invalidate further advances. So &lt;strong&gt;they just didn't even care that &lt;em&gt;Günther&lt;/em&gt;'s plan succeeded&lt;/strong&gt;, they only wanted to sack &lt;em&gt;Issa&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Abdullah&lt;/em&gt; as a safe bet, the rest of the problems can be solved another day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it is not entirely unambiguous to say if they intended to betray &lt;em&gt;Günther&lt;/em&gt; all the time. But especially given &lt;em&gt;Mohr&lt;/em&gt;'s depiction and his aversion to &lt;em&gt;Günther&lt;/em&gt;'s methods throughout the whole movie, it's safe to say he never was a big fan of his plans. Now ambassador &lt;em&gt;Sullivan&lt;/em&gt; was bit more nebulous, but I would also say she was largely just playing &lt;em&gt;Günther&lt;/em&gt; all the time. Even if not with too much hard proof I would say &lt;strong&gt;yes, they never had much interest in &lt;em&gt;Günther&lt;/em&gt;'s plan at all&lt;/strong&gt;. If the operation really took too long, then they could only be happy about that as it gives them an easy out excuse for their actions, but I doubt they ever had any genuine interest in its success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-03-12T01:48:51.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32037" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33806" CreationDate="2015-03-12T06:31:04.160" Score="5" ViewCount="1497" Body="&lt;p&gt;Due to the radiation, at least some of them should have been deformed. The people in the desert produced deformed offspring, and the deformed were outcast, or killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But all grounders are very strongly built. Why is that so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19579" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T07:41:30.303" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T21:44:52.513" Title="Why is not a single grounder deformed in The 100?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-100|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2015-03-12T06:49:07.713" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What if, theoretically, Simon only experiences one hallucination? A hallucination of himself watching an unknown man jump from a building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This hallucination of a suicide is created and based on Simon's own depression which stems from the inability to be noticed, both in the workplace as well as by the girl he wants to talk to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He recreates, in his own mind, himself (as an unknown man) jumping off the building and being seen from the point-of-view of a bystander (who is himself). In reality it is Simon (the real Simon) jumping from the building and instead of dying, he bounces off the awning and suffers swelling within his brain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The swelling places Simon in a coma where he dreams of a supernatural occurrence where a mysterious doppelgänger tries to take over his life and steal his away the girl of his dreams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And so, in reality, Simon lies on a hospital bed, probably with his aged mother, dreaming of a series of events that is more than certainly unlikely. Simon might eventually wake up from the coma or, more probably, will die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user19580" LastActivityDate="2015-03-12T06:49:07.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32024" CreationDate="2015-03-12T10:33:16.400" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was never a reason given, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/breaking-bad-q-a-betsy-brandt-on-maries-purple-reign-20130822&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Betsy Brandt can only speculate herself&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I think Hank and Marie would love to have those kids.&lt;/strong&gt; I always felt&#xA;like there was this undercurrent of sadness when they have Skyler and&#xA;Walt's kids in their house, because &lt;strong&gt;I think they probably wanted kids&#xA;and couldn't have them.&lt;/strong&gt; I don't know if they talked about it or not,&#xA;if it even got that far, or it just didn't happen and that was it and&#xA;they just left it. It didn't work out that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's her answer to an interesting question by Sean T. Collins that might hint at a possible motive the writers had for this situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hank and Marie have no kids of their own, and &lt;strong&gt;no family to speak of&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;other than Skyler, Walt and the kids. The spark for Marie's attempt to&#xA;take Holly was finding out about Walt and Skyler, of course, but it&#xA;looked like she and Hank were dealing with a lot of unspoken pain&#xA;during that scene, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dean Norris also touches on that theme of Hank and Marie being alone and having no family in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/dean-norris-explains-hanks-moral-code-on-breaking-bad-20130912&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This season, when Walt and Hank square off in the garage, the look you&#xA;give him is chilling. What were you thinking about to summon that&#xA;expression?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We went through a little rehearsal on that scene. At first, it was&#xA;much more violent. We realized that rage was just a part of it. He&#xA;also feels hurt and fear. &lt;strong&gt;He feels betrayed by his own brother.&lt;/strong&gt; Marie&#xA;and Hank have no kids, you never see me talk about mothers or fathers&#xA;or grandparents. Walt's his brother. And obviously, Hank feels like&#xA;he's the tougher, older brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/qa-breaking-bad-star-dean-norris-on-the-many-faces-of-hank-185794/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;In another interview&lt;/a&gt; he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Betsy Brandt and I have talked about that, too. We’ve always wondered. I don’t know why. &lt;strong&gt;I always thought it wasn’t that that they didn’t want kids, it was that for some reason or another they couldn’t have kids&lt;/strong&gt;, because yeah, it does seem likely that they would. Maybe you can see that longing to have had a child when we have baby Holly in our house. We don’t linger on it, but just a tad of “It would have been nice to have our own.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For me, that brings to it that “She’s all I’ve got, and I’m all she’s got” dynamic.&lt;/strong&gt; That’s something that we can work with and use. I think that’s part of the reason each of us puts up with the other’s bullshit. [Laughs] I never understood the Walt/Skyler attraction myself, but I really understand that Hank and Marie would go into battle for each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Betsy Brandt seemed too think at one time that there were &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2012/07/breaking-bad-betsy-brandt-interview.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;plans to elaborate on this subject&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why don’t Hank and Marie have kids?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to know too! I’m fine with&#xA;them not. But this is one of the things I love about &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;: The&#xA;things we don’t say, we deal with them without straight-on dealing&#xA;with them. &lt;strong&gt;It will be addressed, but not directly addressed, in an&#xA;upcoming episode.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But nothing came of that, AFAIK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reviewers also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2013/08/8533015/breaking-bad-final-season-family-time&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;speculate about this subject&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s always been interesting to me that Marie and Hank don’t have any&#xA;kids, since they clearly like their niece and nephew so much. When&#xA;Marie would babysit Holly, she’d joke that she was going to keep her&#xA;forever. This is total conjecture but &lt;strong&gt;I think that they’re childless&#xA;not by choice but because they couldn’t have any&lt;/strong&gt;. Whether it’s because&#xA;of Hank or Marie, it explains a lot of the relationship they have with&#xA;Walt and Skyler. &lt;strong&gt;Hank would see his being unable to have a kid as a&#xA;symbol of not being a real man.&lt;/strong&gt; Hence the bravado. If it’s Marie who&#xA;couldn’t have them, that inability seems to have manifested into a&#xA;case of O.C.D. and steady need to diminish her sister. I’m sure she&#xA;and Hank were trying to help when they took Walt Jr. and Holly in, but&#xA;that doesn’t mean they didn’t feel a jolt of victory about being the&#xA;ones whose marriage was healthy and intact while Skyler and Walt’s was&#xA;collapsing. Walt’s not the only character who sees things in terms of&#xA;winning and losing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reviewer has &lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.fsunews.com/article/20130819/FSVIEW01/130819012/W-W-Heisenberg-Voldemort-Breaking-Bad-Season-5-Episode-10-recap&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a different view&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dynamic between Skyler, Marie and her baby is by far one of the&#xA;most peculiar of the episode—Marie, without children of her own, has&#xA;always taken on a maternal role with her sister’s children, whether&#xA;Skyler warrants it or not. Hank and Marie’s childless marriage is a&#xA;plotline that isn’t at the forefront of the show, but has always&#xA;lingered in the background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“You are not leaving this house with my daughter. Give her back to&#xA;me!”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I’m trying to protect her.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Protect her? How dare you, I am her mother!”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marie fiercely believes taking Holly away from dangerous and unfit&#xA;parents is what’s best for her. It’s not out of spite or her incessant&#xA;need to one-up Skyler, it’s a sincere concern for an endangered child.&#xA;But &lt;strong&gt;is her attempted kidnapping merely a result of genuine concern, or&#xA;is there a tinge of jealousy in Marie? Why is it fair that Skyler gets&#xA;to be a mother when she’s not even fit to parent? Marie may feel that&#xA;she deserves to take care of Holly, not her suicidal, hysterical&#xA;sister.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2021-06-25T06:57:45.890" LastActivityDate="2021-06-25T06:57:45.890" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8725" CreationDate="2015-03-12T10:51:35.077" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason is because in the words of Gandalf &quot;there is only one lord of the rings&quot; and that is Sauron. The many will say that the ring turns the wearer invisible whereas in actual fact it merely has the potential to turn people invisible. Sauron was mostly visible whilst wearing the ring but he could have gone invisible if he wanted because he was the master of the ring's power, the other ring bearers however had no power over the ring and therefore could not make themselves visible whilst wearing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="19585" LastEditDate="2015-04-04T07:09:15.833" LastActivityDate="2015-04-04T07:09:15.833" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32046" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32320" CreationDate="2015-03-12T14:30:06.517" Score="7" ViewCount="380" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been trying for ages to find the title of a film that I watched once when I was a child. The story, as I remember it, goes like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A relatively young, 20-30-ish guy, very hot-headed, but with no manners, money, etc, is the protagonist. The film opens with him, on a three-wheel motorcycle, stopped at a traffic light, next to him pulls another guy in a very expensive car. The light turns yellow, our guy revs his funny motorcycle, it stands on its back wheels and when the lights turns green, he's already storming ahead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cut to the next scene which I remember: somehow an old gentleman has taken our guy under his wing. He's classy, somewhat rich (I think) and tries to teach him some manner. What grabbed my attention was when the old man - who I'm pretty confident was named Max and that had something to do with the movie title - was showing the young one how to peel an apple with a fork and a knife in one single motion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film ended with the hero winning the heart of a woman, there was a pearl necklace and a swimming pool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm almost positive that the movie was from the US, it might date somewhere around the 90s, but could be even 80s. As I stated above, I think there might be the word Max in the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does any of this ring any bells for you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19588" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T01:17:02.670" Title="A young punk gets mentored by a classy old gentlemen" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:38:01.917" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24324" CreationDate="2015-03-12T15:02:51.783" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The lean&quot; goes back to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.elusiveshadow.com/37-contenu-en-francais/dossiers/enquetes/2148-le-lean-de-smooth-criminal-comment-michael-jackson-se-penche-en-avant&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;circus performers in the late 19th century&lt;/a&gt;, for instance &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkEUHawaAZ4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Harry &quot;Little Titch&quot; Relph&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Le Lean n'est pas né dans le clip de Smooth Criminal mais dans les&#xA;  cirques de la fin du 19ème siècle, peut-être même avant. L'un des plus&#xA;  anciens numéros de lean connus était pratiqué par un artiste du nom de&#xA;  Harry Relph, plus connu sous le pseudonyme de &quot;Little Tich&quot;. C'était&#xA;  un comique de music-hall qui incarnait une multitude de personnages et&#xA;  était célèbre pour sa &quot;Big Boot Dance&quot;, une chorégraphie faisant appel&#xA;  à une paire de chaussures de 70 cm de long... Cette danse a même donné&#xA;  lieu à un film de 1900 signé Clément Maurice, &quot;Little Tich et ses Big&#xA;  Boots&quot;, dont Jacques Tati dira : &quot;c'est la base de tout ce qui a été&#xA;  réalisé à l'écran en matière de comédie&quot;. Lorsqu'il s'est retiré de la&#xA;  scène, Harry Relph a fait don de ses chaussures à Sacha Guitry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paraphrased:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Lean was born in the circuses at the end of the 19th century,&#xA;  possibly even earlier. One of its earliest known performers was Harry&#xA;  Relph, aka &quot;Little Tich&quot;, a music hall comedian known for his &quot;Big&#xA;  Boots Dance&quot; with 70cm long shoes. This act is the source of the 1900&#xA;  movie by Clément Maurice, &quot;Little Tich and his Big Boots&quot;, of which&#xA;  Jacques Tati claims &quot;this is the start of comedy cinema.&quot; After&#xA;  Relph's retirement, Sacha Guitry inherited the shoes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Buster Keaton &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_RMB3N3fCY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;also performed it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-03-12T15:21:19.933" LastActivityDate="2015-03-12T15:21:19.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32048" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32049" CreationDate="2015-03-12T15:23:24.627" Score="33" ViewCount="56110" Body="&lt;p&gt;The catchphrase &quot;Timmy fell down a well&quot;, originating from the TV-show &lt;em&gt;Lassie&lt;/em&gt;, is a common idiom in popular culture played for humorous effect, especially when deducing that fact from Lassie's barking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But is there actually such an episode whereby someone deduces from Lassie's barking that Timmy is trapped in a well? If not, where did this come from? Why a well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3210" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-13T12:41:06.383" LastActivityDate="2017-07-08T16:00:11.593" Title="Is there actually an episode of Lassie whereby someone deduces from Lassie's barking that Timmy is trapped in a well?" Tags="|identify-this-episode|lassie|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:30:09.717" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32048" CreationDate="2015-03-12T15:43:13.000" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lassieweb.org/&quot;&gt;www.lassieweb.org&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Other television shows are always making jokes about Timmy being trapped in a well. Which episode was that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not to disappoint you—and all the writers who have milked this joke for years—but the answer is &quot;none&quot;! The classic Lassie joke has been for years this: &quot;Bark! Bark-bark! Bark!&quot; &quot;What is it, Lassie?&quot; &quot;Bark! Bark-bark-bark! Bark-bark!&quot; &quot;What, Timmy's fallen in the well?&quot; It's such a classic jibe that Jon Provost's autobiography was entitled Timmy's in the Well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there's a really long list of things that happened to Timmy and a summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So of course the big joke is that never once has this kid ever fallen&#xA;  into a well! Paul almost fell into the well in &quot;Her Master's Voice,&quot;&#xA;  and Uncle Petrie fell down a hole which was assumed to be an old well&#xA;  in &quot;The Crow,&quot; but never Timmy. The only main character in the Lassie&#xA;  series, in fact, who actually ever fell down a well was Lassie&#xA;  herself, in Season 17's &quot;Well of Love,&quot; a.k.a. &quot;For the Love of&#xA;  Lassie.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-03-12T15:43:13.000" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32048" CreationDate="2015-03-12T15:47:37.567" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt; In all of the show's 571 episodes, Timmy (or Lassie's previous owner Jeff) has never fallen into a well &lt;em&gt;once&lt;/em&gt;. He was trapped in mines and pipes and &lt;a href=&quot;https://sickbastard.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/timmy-fell-down-what-well/&quot;&gt;many other things&lt;/a&gt;, but not a well; in fact, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.woot.com/blog/post/the-debunker-how-often-did-lassie-have-to-rescue-timmy-from-a-well&quot;&gt;it was &lt;strong&gt;Lassie herself&lt;/strong&gt; who was trapped in a well&lt;/a&gt; in a season 17 two-part episode. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_Martin#Catchphrase&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Timmy's in the well!&quot; became a popular catchphrase years after the show's cancellation in reference to the many show situations in which Timmy's safety and welfare were placed in jeopardy. Although Timmy never fell into a well on the show, Jon Provost [who played Timmy] chose the phrase as the title for his 2007 memoirs, Timmy's in the Well: The Jon Provost Story. Provost points out that Timmy fell into abandoned mine shafts, off cliffs, into rivers, lakes and quicksand, but never fell into a well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the origin of this misconception, it's hard to say. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Fiscus&quot;&gt;Kids fall&lt;/a&gt; into wells &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_McClure&quot;&gt;in real life&lt;/a&gt;, and people may have just assumed it happened in &lt;em&gt;Lassie&lt;/em&gt; too. It's also possible that they confused mineshafts or pipes for wells, or misremembered the episode where Lassie fell down a well, and the mistake stuck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-03-12T15:54:54.710" LastActivityDate="2015-03-12T15:54:54.710" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26816" CreationDate="2015-03-12T17:13:53.993" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it also allows the same set to be used multiple times whilst giving the impression of it being a different location. I could imagine the Star Wars scene you mention lending itself to this quite well - grey corridors with occasional lights. When shot from approximately the same angle but with one scene reversed in post production it may give the illusion of being a different part of the same facility. This is not founded in any genuine knowledge, its just an idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19592" LastActivityDate="2015-03-12T17:13:53.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19484" CreationDate="2015-03-12T23:21:22.880" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely got that vibe too. The book only seemed to confirm it on page 189. As taken from the book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As always, the serpent waited in the tower room, unraveling itself from the rug on the floor. But this time Ender didn't grind it underfoot. This time he caught it in his hands, knelt before it, and gently, so gently, brought the snake's gaping mouth to his lips.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And kissed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had not meant to do that. He had meant to let the snake bite him on the mouth. Or perhaps he had meant to eat the snake alive, as Peter in the mirror had done, with his bloody chin and the snake's tail dangling from his lips. But he kissed it instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the snake in his hands thickened and bent into another shape. A human shape. It was Valentine, and she kissed him again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19599" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T00:26:21.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3836" CreationDate="2015-03-12T23:26:12.513" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because he still loves his dad and names himself after something his dad loves. (Flinn is a brand for chemistry) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19600" LastActivityDate="2015-03-12T23:26:12.513" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28010" CreationDate="2015-03-12T23:59:58.373" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Chris commented, it was explained in the finale. There may be &lt;strong&gt;spoilers&lt;/strong&gt; if you haven't seen the finale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the writers wanted the viewers to be confused and wonder about the container, just as Peter was wondering why Neal was there making an exchange with the woman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The container was one of the hints to Neal's endgame plan. And in the finale, just after we completely forget about the container because they kind of avoided it (also because of the death and all), the writers used it to surprise us with Neal's ridiculously elaborate plan. By the way, one of the other hints to this plan was when Peter was given Neal's personal belongings at the hospital. They showed us the items, and the key for the container was one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For question 2, the container does not have any significance from his past. All of the container's significance is in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For question 3, Neal wasn't looking for anything in particular inside of the container. But you could say he was looking for an empty container, that was also easily visible from anybody spying on him because he knew Peter would have eyes on him now that his anklet was off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19332" LastEditorUserId="19332" LastEditDate="2015-03-13T01:20:42.187" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T01:20:42.187" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31712" CreationDate="2015-03-13T01:08:36.513" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think he would feel too guilty giving it to a random hooker. He wanted someone who he could fill in with what he knew about the haunting so she'd at least have a fighting chance.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do believe the girl in the picture was from the beginning and it's possible that she was crying because maybe she was gang-banged on the boat.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not entirely sure, as the ending was tricky for me to fully understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19601" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-03-13T03:04:21.473" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T03:04:21.473" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29961" CreationDate="2015-03-13T01:13:46.173" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because of his promise to Caleb and because he genuinely cared for the family.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think David lied with all the talk about Caleb being his friend and he swearing to him to visit his family (he &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; on the photo afterall). Maybe he wanted to always stay for longer or maybe he really only wanted to stay for short. In fact the phone call he did might really have been the surgeon he wanted to visit right after checking by Caleb's family shortly, trying to start a new life just after that. But the family was more than happy to have him stay, having found somewhat of a replacement son in him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;strong&gt;he wanted to genuinely help the Petersons&lt;/strong&gt;, on the one hand because he felt responsible to take care of his late comrade's family, and on the other hand maybe because he seemed to grow more and more attached to them. But well, David being the quite deranged person he is, his means of helping the family were rather extreme, but they were always supposedly in their best interests, I think, from beating up Luke's bullies, getting Spencer's boss out of the way for Spencer's promotion and freeing Anna from her lazy-ass and unhealthy boyfriend (and he had to murder the gun sellers because they could implicate him easily, I guess). According to David (and he has no reason to lie to Mrs. Peterson right before killing her):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wanted to help. I considered it my mission to assist you all while I was here. There were just too many complications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He wasn't so paranoid about his identity until it started to crumble. Afterall, the Petersons didn't have much reason to blow his identity, for all they knew he was a former comrade of Caleb, and I guess that much was pretty true. &lt;strong&gt;It was only once he realized that his cover had been blown that he started to kill everyone&lt;/strong&gt;, including the Petersons, since that was part of his mental programming, as Major Carver explains it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;David has neurological conditioning Miss Peterson, designed to protect both him and the experiment. If he feels like his identity may be compromised, he's programmed to clean up all loose ends. I doubt he could stop himself now even if he wanted to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even though he ultimately can't fight his own nature, we can see a bit of remorse in him when he apologizes to Laura and Spencer for killing them and when he tries to comfort Luke after he stabbed David, saying &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You did the right thing, I don't blame you. Don't feel bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-05-12T00:00:30.613" LastActivityDate="2018-05-12T00:00:30.613" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30020" CreationDate="2015-03-13T05:07:19.443" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;strong&gt;the movie is purposely not specific about what exactly happened behind closed (gym) doors&lt;/strong&gt;. It artfully avoids an outright depiction of some act or another, instead showing a non-sexual scene that has largely the same feel of borderline-nonconsensual sexual encounter: Dupont demanding Mark join him for a late-night, no-one-else-there wrestling session.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO &lt;strong&gt;the most important aspect of Dupont's relationship with Mark was that Dupont was using Mark to get to Dave&lt;/strong&gt; Schultz. Dave was a well liked, highly talented wrestling coach -- what Dupont always wanted to be. In his rare moments of honesty with himself, Dupont knew he could never be like Dave, so he sought to be &lt;em&gt;near&lt;/em&gt; Dave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One of the movie's sleight-of-hand moves is it opens as if Mark is the fox Dupont is hunting&lt;/strong&gt;. But signs emerge suggesting otherwise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dupont quickly asks &quot;where's Dave?&quot; after Mark first reports to Foxcatcher&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dupont sneers when Mark says &quot;Dave can't be bought&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dupont actually does &quot;buy&quot; Dave, and Dupont's shift of attention to Dave builds to Mark's eventual departure&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dupont doesn't seem to care about Mark's departure but snaps when Dave begins to draw boundaries (1. shoos him off on &quot;family day&quot; 2. doesn't compliment him in documentary)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dave is the fox. Mark is the bait.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As time went by, &lt;strong&gt;Mark actually grew attached to Dupont -- but Dupont saw himself in Mark's awkward friendlessness, and hated that.&lt;/strong&gt; After Dupont mentioned having just one friend, Mark opened up his hard shell and confessed that he also had only one friend -- &lt;em&gt;at which Dupont did not sympathize, but instead laughed and looked away dismissively&lt;/em&gt;. For Dupont, Mark was a means to Dave, and along the way a toy of whom Dupont eventually tired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2015-03-14T03:57:20.037" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T03:57:20.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28785" CreationDate="2015-03-13T06:32:10.133" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/25/birdman-ending_n_6219290.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's what screenwriters of the movie says about the ending.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dinelaris said &quot;a few different approaches&quot; were considered, including&#xA;  finishes that felt satirical or dramatic, before the writers settled&#xA;  on what made the final script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We're not going to sit around and explain the ending. I guess my&#xA;  thing is, if you can silence the voice of mediocrity, then what is&#xA;  possible? [That] is good enough for me,&quot; Dinelaris said. &quot;But we&#xA;  thought &lt;strong&gt;if we answered that question at the end, it would seem very,&#xA;  very small. Is he famous because he shot himself? That's small. Is he&#xA;  still miserable? That's small. Everything seemed small.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ultimately the writers decided to go with an ending that felt in&#xA;  keeping with the film's central questions and lined up with the&#xA;  elements of magical realism established by director Alejandro González&#xA;  Iñárritu.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;It goes back to Alejandro because he starts the movie on ... this&#xA;  character Riggan Thomson floating in his underwear three feet above&#xA;  the ground. That's inexplicable. At that moment, it's inexplicable.&#xA;  The last moment is inexplicable. They have to be, because in a way&#xA;  that's Alejandro just trying to express that sense of confusion about&#xA;  what he is in his own life&lt;/strong&gt;,&quot; Dinelaris said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And if you need more proof that there's no single answer about what it&#xA;  means, look no further than Giacobone. &quot;I'm still trying to figure it&#xA;  out,&quot; he said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: &#xA;After reading the last paragraph for couple more times, especially this line,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;They have to be, because in a way that's Alejandro just trying to&#xA;  express that sense of confusion about what he is in his own life.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can come up with an explanation regarding the ending of the movie.&#xA;There were 3 times we were shown Riggan flying (or at least in the air.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beginning&lt;/strong&gt;: He was not famous, family is not functional, daughter is in rehabilitation, one of the main character is being played by a mediocre actor in his play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Intermediate&lt;/strong&gt;: After having a rough and intense conversation with a critic, he fires himself up that he can regain his fame by making his play successful, on the other hand, his alter ego forces him to make a sequel of Birman movies, at this point, you can see a woman looking from a window while he was levitating and says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;WOMAN: Hey! Is this for real, or are you shooting a film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But soon after when he reached theater, we figured out that none of this is real, it's all in his head, he's only imagining.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ending&lt;/strong&gt;: He's famous once again, he'll be doing this play in other countries as well, his family and fans cares for him, everything is in harmony. He is happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By combining the screenwriter's line and the intermediate flying scene, I can say that his daughter surprised, being happy and watching his father flying in the end is &lt;strong&gt;Riggan's state of mind&lt;/strong&gt;. It did not happen for real just like the woman was looking at him in the intermediate scene while he was flying, it's his &lt;em&gt;sense of confusion about what he is in his own life.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2015-03-13T14:57:35.143" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T14:57:35.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32074" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32087" CreationDate="2015-03-13T07:31:13.327" Score="10" ViewCount="21425" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simply put, why does everyone hate Meg? With most things in Family Guy, I'm expecting there to be some reference or joke being played out. Off the top of my head I can see if instead Chris were the one who was picked on, it wouldn't have the same comedic appeal and would instead just seem sad/cruel. Is that the only reason or is there a deeper explanation to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T15:13:01.667" Title="Why does everyone hate Meg?" Tags="|family-guy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32075" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-13T07:33:18.330" Score="11" ViewCount="5016" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is it called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_43&quot;&gt;Movie 43&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw the movie more than once, but didn't find what the number 43 means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19605" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-13T08:58:43.280" LastActivityDate="2016-05-08T15:13:11.577" Title="Why is it called Movie 43?" Tags="|title|movie-43|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32075" CreationDate="2015-03-13T07:43:28.220" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It means nothing. It was a random pick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The title of the film, Movie 43—first believed to be referencing the&#xA;  number of actors in the film—actually has no meaning. Farrelly heard&#xA;  his son talking with friends about a film called &quot;Movie 43&quot;, but when&#xA;  Farrelly discovered the film did not actually exist, he cribbed the&#xA;  name&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_43#Promotion&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also found this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q: What exactly does the title, Movie 43, mean? A: According to&#xA;  Wikipedia, the title references one of the sketches in the film where&#xA;  a bunch of teenagers are surfing on the internet looking for a banned&#xA;  movie called Movie 43. Apparently this has to do with the 43rd rule of&#xA;  the Internet, which is that if you search long enough you will find&#xA;  something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://scenecreek.com/movieqa/movie-43-qa/&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm looking and have found internet rules, but 43 isn't &quot;search long enough and you will find something&quot;, instead it seems to be &quot;The more beautiful and pure a thing is, the more satisfying it is to corrupt it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2015-03-13T07:48:58.473" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T07:48:58.473" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11810" CreationDate="2015-03-13T08:41:31.340" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can think of 3 possible things,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sam was hidden from sight, by fog.. seems unlikely though seeing the horde of White walkers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sam having dragon glass deterred them from aggression.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The one I like the most.. White walkers don't kill frightened people. Like the first deserter that they show, who survived and was later beheaded by Ned Stark. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19607" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T08:41:31.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17892" CreationDate="2015-03-13T14:43:35.697" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;History says that Bjorn is not Lagerthas son, but the show Vikings has rewritten history yet again. Lagertha did have a son with Ragnar but it was not Bjorn. Check the wiki on them. The show is really loosely based on history...key word is loosely. Lol!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19614" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T14:43:35.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32074" CreationDate="2015-03-13T15:13:01.667" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is never any answer given in the show for this, but since Seth MacFarlaine seems to revel in deprecating humor, it's only natural that one character should be made an easy target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mila Kunis was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buddytv.com/articles/family-guy/milas-kunis-talks-about-workin-11435.aspx&quot;&gt;quoted as saying&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;She's the scapegoat,&quot; Kunis described her cartoon character.  &quot;Meg&#xA;  gets picked on a lot.  But it's funny.  It's like the middle child. &#xA;  She is constantly in the state of being an awkward 14-year-old, when&#xA;  you're kind of going through puberty and what-not.  She's just in&#xA;  perpetual mode of humiliation.  And it's fun.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T15:13:01.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32093" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-13T18:56:27.693" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_%28UK_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;House of Cards&lt;/strong&gt; (UK TV series)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has been adapted in 2013 under the same name (→ &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/house-of-cards&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'house-of-cards'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;house-of-cards&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2015-03-13T19:12:20.657" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T19:12:20.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32094" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-13T18:56:27.693" Score="0" Body="&quot;House of Cards&quot;, a political thriller series from 1990. For the adaption from 2013, use [house-of-cards]." OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2015-03-13T20:06:05.007" LastActivityDate="2015-03-13T20:06:05.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26927" CreationDate="2015-03-14T00:21:42.027" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite simply... &quot;Interstellar&quot; is not a science-fiction movie.  It is a metaphor for the bond of love between a father and his daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Nolan initially interviewed McConaughey and Zimmer for the lead role and musical score, he told them nothing about the plot of the movie.  Instead, he discussed the love within family, particularly between a father and his daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Interstellar&quot; is not science-fiction.  That's just a plot device.  It's about how parent-child love can transcend all boundaries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Flora is Nolan's daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19622" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T00:21:42.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8370" CreationDate="2015-03-14T00:47:27.420" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought of it like this:&#xA;Even the 'real world', Zion is part of the Matrix. It's all just one big program. Think of Zion as an alternate Matrix for the humans who didn't mentally accept the first Matrix. That's why the Architect tells Neo he is the sum of a remainder of an equation. Neo is nothing more than a program like the Oracle or the Keymaker. So what he is programmed to do, is reset the system, and choose 27 'humans' to repopulate Zion, thus starting over. The difference is all with Smith. He becomes a virus, so instead of resetting the Matrix, Neo destroys Smith to usher and area of 'peace', still inside the Matrix, unbeknownst to Morphius and everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you really want your mind blown;&#xA;The whole entire Matrix program was something HUMANS designed for MACHINES as a fail safe when they created artificial intelligence and it began to get out of hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Boom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19625" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T00:47:27.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32037" CreationDate="2015-03-14T04:58:13.863" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is all speculation, but I believe that the grounders had an immediate tolerance to the radiation after all the bombs detonated. I think that was the writers way of creating new different cultures on the ground. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;mountain men have zero tolerance and will die if exposed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;desert people developed a tolerance, but not before being deformed from exposure&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;grounders had a tolerance for the radiation from the beginning&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;sky people developed some sort of tolerance in space before returning to earth&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's just there way of utilizing Darwinism to create the different cultures in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19332" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T04:58:13.863" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32113" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32115" CreationDate="2015-03-14T05:12:25.473" Score="7" ViewCount="4894" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question has plagued me since I was a kid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The culminating scene at the end of The Naked Gun takes place at a baseball stadium, purported to be occupied by the California Angels.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jVM9j.png&quot; alt=&quot;totally-dodger-stadium&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But that stadium is, without question, Chavez Ravine-- more commonly referred to as Dodger Stadium.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ncxTh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;seriously-you-know-it-is-dodger-stadium&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Left-center field in a screenshot from the movie:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fVYxp.png&quot; alt=&quot;please-stop-denying-that-it-is-dodger-stadium&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;...and the most damning are the 395 signs to the left and right of dead-center:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zdl6N.png&quot; alt=&quot;cmon-you-know-it-is-dodger-stadium&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Dimensions are backed up on the wiki for Dodger Stadium &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodger_Stadium&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Naked Gun clearly was filmed at Dodger Stadium, not Anaheim Stadium (what it was called in 1988, the year the film was produced). So why are the Angels featured, and not the Dodgers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Note: Part of me suspects it's related to the Dodgers winning the World Series in 1988, but can't find any evidence to support that.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-14T12:24:53.507" LastActivityDate="2016-06-27T03:38:46.797" Title="Why the Angels and not the Dodgers in The Naked Gun?" Tags="|production|the-naked-gun|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32113" CreationDate="2015-03-14T06:19:47.067" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll start by saying this is all guessing, I have no proof... it's also a lot easier to explain why they didn't use Angel Stadium rather than why they didn't use the Dodgers team. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First off, it's definitely Dodger Stadium.  The Wikipedia page for the stadium even &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodger_Stadium#Other_events&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;states that&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The baseball scenes from the first Naked Gun film were filmed at Dodger Stadium, although the team represented in the film was the California Angels. (The Angels played their first few seasons at &quot;Chavez Ravine&quot; while Angels Stadium was being built.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The parenthetical phrase is correct, the Angels did play at Dodger Stadium but only from 1962-1965, which is well before the film's release date of 1988.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there's a note on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Gun:_From_the_Files_of_Police_Squad!#Production&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;film's Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; that also states it was shot at Dodger Stadium:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although the film's climax takes place at a California Angels home game, the baseball scenes were filmed in Los Angeles, at Dodger Stadium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, here's what I think the reasoning could have been for shooting at Dodger Stadium:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodger_Stadium&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dodger Stadium&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; used for baseball.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Stadium_of_Anaheim&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Angel Stadium&lt;/a&gt; was also home to the Rams from 1980 until 1994:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The expansion was completed in time for the 1980 NFL season, and the Rams played in Anaheim Stadium from then until their move to St. Louis after the 1994 season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My conjecture is that, because Anaheim was home to the Rams, it's likely the stadium was in use during the filming of the movie so was not available for the shoot, while the Angels themselves, were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility is that, because Angel stadium is owned by the City of Anaheim, it's possible that the city refused to allow filming to occur in the stadium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dodger stadium is owned by the Dodgers rather than by Los Angeles itself... so they may have been willing to let the film pay to use the location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the most tenuous guesses for last... &lt;strong&gt;Why not the Dodgers?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, the players on the teams on the field aren't really the teams they're claiming anyway. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095705/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;trivia section&lt;/a&gt; on IMDb (super trustworthy, right???) says this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reggie Jackson is depicted as an outfielder for the California Angels and Jay Johnstone is depicted as a player for the Seattle Mariners. Though both are legit former major league players, both had been retired by the time this movie was released. Jackson retired as an Oakland A's (his original team) in 1987 and Johnstone had retired as a &lt;strong&gt;Los Angeles Dodger&lt;/strong&gt; in 1985. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, there was at least one Dodger on the field. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that most of the &quot;teams&quot; in the film are made up of retired and minor league players. If you compare the photo you posted above with the player &lt;strong&gt;Steel&lt;/strong&gt; to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1988&amp;amp;t=SEA&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mariner's roster for 1988&lt;/a&gt;, there's no such player on the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, that leaves the team logos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible that The Angels gave them a better price for using their logos than The Dodgers did... and this &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be related to their World Series win but I think it's unlikely... the film was released December 2nd and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_World_Series#Summary&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;series finished&lt;/a&gt; October 20th. I'm not sure what the turnaround time from shooting to screening was in that era but I'm pretty sure it wasn't two and a half months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also possible that this entire film is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farce&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;farce&lt;/a&gt; (because it is) and this is &lt;strong&gt;supposed&lt;/strong&gt; to be one of the elements of that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In theatre, a farce is a comedy that aims at entertaining the audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, and thus &lt;strong&gt;improbable&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not as satisfying but I wouldn't put it past them to do it on purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T06:19:47.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32119" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="66511" CreationDate="2015-03-14T09:08:32.277" Score="3" ViewCount="1760" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Oz&lt;/a&gt;, Vernon Schillinger (leader of the Aryan Brotherhood) raped the new prisoner and former laywer Tobias Beecher. Also, he tattooed him with an swastika.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Beecher wanted, he could have proven that this really happened and Schillinger did this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in later episodes of Season 1, it was revealed that Schillinger was hoping for parole, hence he behaved good and keeps out of everything; in particular he did not put up a fight against Beecher when Beecher went crazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why did Schillinger behaved in that way?&lt;/strong&gt; If he wanted to come free, the raping of Beecher was too much a risk in the first place!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-14T12:33:52.757" LastActivityDate="2017-01-11T08:02:42.057" Title="Why was Schillinger so brutal in the very beginning even if he hoped for parole?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|oz|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32120" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-14T09:16:37.317" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-03-14T09:16:37.317" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T09:16:37.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32121" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-14T09:16:37.317" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-03-14T09:16:37.317" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T09:16:37.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32124" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32128" CreationDate="2015-03-14T11:26:34.073" Score="22" ViewCount="2610" Body="&lt;p&gt;So if there's one thing that the Hound loves in this world of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; it's killing stuff, as far as I can tell he never gives a second thought as to whom he's fighting or why he's doing it. It is pretty clear that he has no interest in women (except maybe Sansa Stark), so I can't see any reason why he doesn't just go to the Wall. He seems to hate glory and fire, the two things that no one has to worry about in the Night's Watch. So I'm just wondering if maybe there is some obvious reason that I've missed for the Hound not going north.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-14T12:36:59.413" LastActivityDate="2017-11-09T19:02:11.090" Title="Why does The Hound never take the black?" Tags="|analysis|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32126" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32147" CreationDate="2015-03-14T12:01:22.087" Score="2" ViewCount="3691" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, in one of the very first episodes of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/a&gt;, Robert Baratheon and Barristan Selmy are telling war stories whilst the Kingslayer stands guard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robert, who is severely drunk, asked Jaime what the Mad King's last words were. Jaime said &quot;&lt;em&gt;He said the same thing you've been saying for hours... burn them all!&lt;/em&gt;&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I know why Aerys Targaeryen was saying that, but why was Robert?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-14T22:38:59.980" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T02:50:58.087" Title="Why does Robert Baratheon want to &quot;Burn them all&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32127" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32225" CreationDate="2015-03-14T12:31:43.337" Score="10" ViewCount="620" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a relatively new show on the SyFy network called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_Wars&quot;&gt;Wizard Wars&lt;/a&gt;.  The format is somewhat of a ripoff of cooking shows like Chopped and Iron Chef; two teams of magicians are each given the same set of three or four ordinary items; for example a recent show featured luggage, a cape and a white rabbit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two teams have an hour to create a set of related magic tricks using all of the items.  Each team then performs their routine in front of a live audience plus a four-person panel of judges that includes Penn and Teller. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The winner of the first round then against two of the resident &quot;Wizards&quot;; same thing, create magic tricks from ordinary objects and present them to the audience and judges.  If the winning team from round 1 beats the Wizards they get $10,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My question is this:&lt;/strong&gt; after the teams are given their items to create a routine around, they essentially disappear back into one of two &quot;magic workshops&quot; where there are a lot of other stock items to pull from (again, much like the cooking shows) for an hour.  Except for a brief peek at what they are working on (which seems pretty hokey), he audience has to wait around for an hour before they perform their routines.  This happens twice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is that handled?  I wouldn't want to wait around for two hours in the audience and do nothing.  I've been to tapings of live-audience sitcoms, where there would usually be unavoidable delays, and the &quot;warm-up&quot; would come back out and chat with the audience.  But this is a little different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it?  For example do they have someone else come out and do magic for both hours?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would be interested in hearing from any audience members from this show, or anyone connected with the show, how they handle this.  Just curious.  Great show (I love magic of all kinds).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2015-03-14T13:50:41.687" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T23:01:42.163" Title="What does the audience do during hour-long breaks while taping Wizard Wars?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32124" CreationDate="2015-03-14T13:09:46.200" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Partly, it's miles away - not something southerners think about. He's far too cynical for solemn vows, and too much of an independent-minded loner to choose to huddle for warmth with hundreds of 'brothers'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But mostly, &lt;strong&gt;it'd be unthinkable due to pride:&lt;/strong&gt; Except for among the Starks (and a few other mostly-Northern families descended from the First Men, like the Royces and Mormonts), taking the black is associated with failure or disgrace. The only Southerners who go to the wall are sent there, and they're usually criminals, the defeated, or children deemed unworthy by their families (like Sam Tarly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sandor may be cynical, but he's proud, and has a complicated relationship with his brother based on loathing and rivalry. He takes pride in being a no-nonsense self-made man who achieved fame/infamy and genuine status off his own back, in contrast to his hated brother Gregor who was gifted a title of Knight and land despite (or, because of) being essentially a monster. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The books also show him taking pride in his family's history. The Cleganes earned their status through being good at dog breeding and handling, and he seems to see himself as similarly down-to-earth, honest and self-made - the most respectable and worthy Clegane, with contempt for all the phony, vain people around him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It'd be unthinkable for him to take a position where he'd be the lowest of the low. He'd go from being the notorious Hound to just another failed reject, and his hated brother would be the most respected one in the family (and not just in the eyes of fools who think being a knight means something).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9718" LastEditorUserId="9718" LastEditDate="2017-11-09T19:02:11.090" LastActivityDate="2017-11-09T19:02:11.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32126" CreationDate="2015-03-14T13:18:10.147" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you listen closely at the 4:10 mark on &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/q6GW03WsFgU&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones - War Stories&lt;/a&gt;, you can hear that the line is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He said the same thing &lt;strong&gt;he'd&lt;/strong&gt; been saying for hours, &quot;Burn them all.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it was Aerys Targaryen, not Robert Baratheon, who had been saying &quot;Burn them all&quot; for hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-14T22:42:57.960" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T22:42:57.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2015-03-14T16:22:27.983" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;in my opinion James is real because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) There's feedback from everyone else in the movie towards him, the entrance guy would let Simon in after James without James filling in the ticket which can't be done without the presence of James.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) James is blackmailed with both Melanie and Hannah can't be done with Simon himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) The room key swap thing also can't be done with Simon himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and although i'm not so sure, i think the ending is making sense; Simon locked James in his bed, he jumped, both get the injuries but meanwhile Simon's taken care by the medics, James are left slowly to dead. So i guess Simon wins. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19642" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T16:22:27.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32127" CreationDate="2015-03-14T17:06:15.613" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I THINK (but don't know) this is like the Q bit in a James Bond film.   The team gets their stuff plus extras,  spends their hour preparing,  then the audience bit is done as part of filming the acts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link to Q is they used to film that last, once all the sequences with the gadgets were filmed, so that was how Q knew just what to give Bond. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T17:06:15.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15797" CreationDate="2015-03-14T18:15:10.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, you are correct in your assessment that &lt;strong&gt;there aren't really any of &lt;em&gt;Pierre&lt;/em&gt;'s elaborate constructions used directly in the scheme&lt;/strong&gt;. He largely only lends a hand in more generic ways, e.g. by playing distraction characters or, like you said, operating the drawbridge. And I can only provide some rather speculative in-universe reasons for why this was the case, as I also think he would have made a nice contributor to the scheme if used more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is however one part where they use a little &lt;strong&gt;automated mechanism for automatically dropping down a glass of bees on the dock workers&lt;/strong&gt; when stealing the container of granades. This might have been devised by &lt;em&gt;Petit Pierre&lt;/em&gt; but this is left unclear and it isn't really on one complexity level with his other creations either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w6s8P.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are also other characters that have a more indirect contribution to the whole scheme, like &lt;em&gt;Tambouille&lt;/em&gt; who's more of a mother for the group, or &lt;em&gt;Placard&lt;/em&gt; who is more of a jack-of-all-trades anyway. It is true that &lt;em&gt;Petit Pierre&lt;/em&gt; in contrast has a very unique and special &quot;super power&quot; that could have been used more in the scheme. But on the other hand &lt;strong&gt;his character is also the one that most lives &quot;in his own world&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. He doesn't talk a single word during the whole movie and always seems a bit out of place. And this also holds for his inventions. &lt;strong&gt;While they are very elaborate and impressive, they are also all rather useless&lt;/strong&gt; and more for entertainment and enjoyment, or artworks existing for the sake of themselves. So maybe it is just not in &lt;em&gt;Pierre&lt;/em&gt;'s nature to actually design something more useful that could be used more directly in the plan. But I admit that this is largely speculation (or even &quot;retconning&quot;) on my part here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And last but not least, the fact that &lt;em&gt;Bazil&lt;/em&gt;'s cover blew and he was kidnapped by the two arms dealers required the group to speed up their scheme and improvise a little more. So maybe there wasn't much time anymore for &lt;em&gt;Petit Pierre&lt;/em&gt; to play out his strengths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T18:15:10.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19045" CreationDate="2015-03-14T18:28:38.763" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always saw his defiance as a result of realizing no adult will ever be there for him/protect himself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So his defiance in this example was to gain power/authority so he could protect himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19645" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T18:28:38.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15799" CreationDate="2015-03-14T18:44:37.337" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is left largely unclear &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; the bullet had any actual physical or mental consequences&lt;/strong&gt; for &lt;em&gt;Bazil&lt;/em&gt;. But there are situations when he seems to lose it a bit, especially in situations of stress:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are times when he stands rather sunken in his thoughts imagining weird things. This happens for example when he's discovering the two arms dealer factories and imagines the dramatic soundtrack actually played by a real orchestra, or when he tracks down one of them in his car and imagines a weird landmine-spiced football game.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other times when is under stress he has to calm himself down by reciting weird trivia facts in his mind, like when he is eavesdropping as a living hallstand, when he's on the roof and fears for &lt;em&gt;La Môme Caoutchouc&lt;/em&gt;'s well-being, or when he's kidnapped by the arms dealers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And other times under stress he seems to develop a very nervous twitching reminiscent of an epileptic attack and needs to be called to reason by himself or someone else, e.g. when he gets into arguments with &lt;em&gt;La Môme Caoutchouc&lt;/em&gt; (though, in one of those he just pretends for humorous effect) or when he's threatened with a gun.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now those are pretty weird traits of &lt;em&gt;Bazil&lt;/em&gt;'s character and they &lt;strong&gt;might very well be caused by the bullet in his brain&lt;/strong&gt;, especially the quite physically seeming situations described in (3). But the unfortunate truth is, we don't really know. They &lt;strong&gt;might as well have always been part of his character and his stress-management or part of &lt;em&gt;Jeunet&lt;/em&gt;'s eccentric filmmaking in general&lt;/strong&gt;, especially the rather figurative imaginings described in (1). This isn't helped by the fact that we don't really get to see that much of his character before the bullet incident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we might also be able to extrapolate a little more indirect psychological effect on &lt;em&gt;Bazil&lt;/em&gt; and his attitude towards life. When they're operating him in the hospital there is a discussion similar to this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;doctor:&lt;/strong&gt; If I remove the bullet. he'll only be a vegetable. If I leave it in, he might drop dead at any moment.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;assistant:&lt;/strong&gt; It's better to live with the chance of dropping dead at any moment than not even knowing you could drop dead at any moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it's not that &lt;em&gt;Bazil&lt;/em&gt; seemed to be a particularly active and productive person even before his accident, but it might very well be that this incident and the chance of dying at any moment &lt;strong&gt;might have even loosened his attitude towards life&lt;/strong&gt; and achieving something higher and maybe also his fear of death. As when asked about his goals in life he says something to the effect of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I live from day to day. With the bullet in my head I could lose it at any moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T16:45:36.083" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T16:45:36.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32144" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21176" CreationDate="2015-03-14T19:15:26.513" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When she defeated the Alpha she got that pre-cognition and relived a day over and over until it eventually ran out of juice (since she couldn't find the Omega(?) Source), she had time to figure out how to fight those things --- but it was humans first victory (and thus they made a big deal about it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joan was said to be given &quot;visions&quot; which led her to victory in every battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They gave her the name to inspire hope, knowing that most people would be able to connect it to a historical figurehead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pre-cognition is probably the wrong word but I don't know any other word to say time travel/ Repeat / Redo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19646" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T19:15:26.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31784" CreationDate="2015-03-14T19:26:35.663" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hollywood pays actual Animal Trainers to bring the animals on set. They are given specific cues to act a certain way. You can watch a lot of behind the scenes with the animals on youtube for a better explanation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They even have websites for Producers to look at and see the animals and training.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19646" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T19:26:35.663" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32126" CreationDate="2015-03-14T19:48:25.270" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is actually a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6GW03WsFgU&amp;amp;t=244&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;misquote&lt;/a&gt;*, (this links to a video of the conversation at that point) If you slow it down in settings, Jaime says, &quot;He'd said the same thing HE'D been saying for hours.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Mad King liked to burn his enemies; which included Roberts father, Eddard's father... generally everyone. SO, even while he was dying, he was raving about burning people to death (hence the title &lt;em&gt;Mad King&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;* Video does not work on SE&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19646" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-14T22:47:56.733" LastActivityDate="2015-03-14T22:47:56.733" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32150" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35301" CreationDate="2015-03-14T23:35:55.757" Score="5" ViewCount="2313" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode 6 of Unbreakable Kimmy there is a scene where the rich daughter's friends are sat around a fountain (at about 18:30 into the episode) and a girl says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh4GciP8zfM#t=18m30s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;'and she stepped on the ball'&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wdljk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and starts laughing, the manner of how she said this very reminiscent of this scene from Trading Places: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/lt1T7d1jCeY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a sendup/homage to this scene as it's mocking the rich and vapid society group?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-15T01:09:52.807" LastActivityDate="2017-04-15T05:32:00.550" Title="Is this an homage to Trading Places?" Tags="|reference|trading-places|unbreakable-kimmy-schmidt|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32154" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32155" CreationDate="2015-03-15T11:30:55.063" Score="14" ViewCount="6247" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Godfather, knowing that Sonny was a hothead and would immediately go to Connie's house after Carlo beats her up, he is ambushed at the highway toll booth by (presumably) Tattaglia men. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ambush they have in place seems unnecessarily elaborate: involving at least eight men, seven of whom are definitely armed with automatic weapons (Tommy guns); two booths acquisitioned by the assassins and at least one car. Although the failure at killing Vito earlier (by just two guys armed with pistols) would have made the plotters more careful concerning the possibility of failure - surely this overkill in relation to Sonny was totally unnecessary and if anything, a liability? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19662" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T10:53:02.643" LastActivityDate="2018-01-21T16:18:35.020" Title="Why was the incident involving Sonny so over the top?" Tags="|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32154" CreationDate="2015-03-15T11:30:55.063" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;This had been slightly puzzling me for a long while but (having not read the book) I believe I've worked it out. As much as a hothead Sonny was, the plotters didn't expect him to fly off the handle to such an extent as to go without protection. While one feels that Sonny made a terrible mistake leaving without the armed protection/escort (that Tom unsuccessfully sent out to follow Sonny); ultimately it would have made no difference. The ambush was extensive enough to cover any normal protection the Corleones would presumably have had - and had the car of Corleone men been right behind Sonny at the time of the ambush (shown in the photo below), would have almost certainly met the same fate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZaZEi.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZaZEi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;sonny corleone death&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19662" LastEditorUserId="19662" LastEditDate="2018-01-21T16:18:35.020" LastActivityDate="2018-01-21T16:18:35.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32157" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-15T14:22:42.723" Score="4" ViewCount="3444" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why didn't Vlad the Impaler make his wife drink his vampire blood just when she was about to die in &lt;strong&gt;Dracula Untold&lt;/strong&gt;? It would have set him free from the curse, and afterwards he could have drunk her blood to turn himself back into a vampire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19665" LastEditorUserId="5318" LastEditDate="2015-03-15T23:55:38.330" LastActivityDate="2018-12-07T13:37:30.577" Title="Why didn't Vlad make his wife drink his vampire blood?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dracula-untold|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25116" CreationDate="2015-03-15T14:38:09.437" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;She actually traveled in time - the Native Americans were able to look at her with a dazed expression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19666" LastEditorUserId="5318" LastEditDate="2015-03-15T23:55:52.757" LastActivityDate="2015-03-15T23:55:52.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32160" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-15T15:36:17.670" Score="5" ViewCount="1494" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who was the Mummy's morally destitute henchman (formerly Rick O'Connell's sidekick) Beni calling a bastard when Imhotep caused Winston's plane to crash? I just watched the film again, and I can never tell if the slur is directed at the creature, or at Rick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="769" LastEditorUserId="769" LastEditDate="2015-03-16T03:31:13.617" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T11:25:14.560" Title="Who was Beni calling a &quot;bastard&quot; in The Mummy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-mummy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31316" CreationDate="2015-03-15T15:43:25.450" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;So obviously this is never actually stated outright in the books or movies but it seems to be implied that when the ring came to Gollum he was still quite young and, being one of the river folk, still had a good 85 years going for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he put on the ring he didn't take it off for long periods of time. he ring does not release its hold on you just because you take it off. So for all five hundred years Gollum was being influenced by the ring and whilst this was happening rather than ageing by getting older, he was ageing by becoming more and more malformed as can been seen in the montage in the begging of the third movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he was finally separated from the ring he started aging normally again, by this time, whilst malformed and mutated, Gollum is still, physically speaking, very young, we can see in the movies that his fitness and strength has not deteriorated. So therefore we can assume that if Gollum hadn't had the courage to leave his cave then he would have lived there for another ten to fifteen years at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="19585" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T11:45:22.440" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T11:45:22.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32163" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-15T17:18:59.950" Score="9" ViewCount="14653" Body="&lt;p&gt;It bothers me, all of it. Why isn't Edward Norton's character driving during the car crash scene in &lt;em&gt;Fight Club&lt;/em&gt;? How is he then pulled out by Tyler? How does that work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6329" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-03-14T15:42:28.093" LastActivityDate="2021-08-20T07:12:50.520" Title="How do you explain the car crash scene in Fight Club?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fight-club|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14524" CreationDate="2015-03-15T18:55:41.353" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any chance that &lt;strong&gt;both&lt;/strong&gt; Catherine and Beth are the killers? They've been in love ever since they studied together and they are both very sick-minded, both of them plan all of the books and murders, let's say &quot;just for fun&quot;, until everything gets out of control and Beth ends up getting killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or even better, Catherine being one step crazier (since she has been a murderer longer, starting with her own parents) wants a different ending to the book they had planned and twists the story to the point of killing her partner? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me these theories make a lot of sense since otherwise, how do you explain Detective Nick being involved in the whole plot from the very begining of the movie and even before that (being in a relationship with Beth). There is no way that everything that happens surrounding Beth is mere coincidence or planned perfectly accurately by Catherine alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AND one more detail, even if all of the evidence was planted in Beth's apartment, there is one piece which doesn't fit: she says she supposedly arrived at the building because Gus had left her a message and when the police checks afterwards, they say there is no message in her machine; there is no chance that Catherine or anyone else could have erased that message, unless they had both been the murderers all along since the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19670" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-03-15T21:42:18.580" LastActivityDate="2015-03-15T21:42:18.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32510" CreationDate="2015-03-15T21:47:58.110" Score="12" ViewCount="833" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find &quot;Whiplash&quot; to be a great movie, literally a masterpiece, but here's what I want to ask. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm coding and writing articles for a living, and in 95% percents of cases when I see programmers or journalists in movies, especially surprisingly in movies dedicated to programmers or journalists, I see a lot of inconsistencies. Like, you know, journalist does not work that way, programmers can not hack alien software and so on and so on. I guess the same holds true about police movies, spy movies etc, which actually does not mean anything, because authenticity is by no means the main metrics we should measure movies with, but nevertheless:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the question is, does &quot;Whiplash&quot; sound false for professional musicians? Has there been any commentary on the authenticity of the movie in its depiction of professional musicians and their ways of working?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1204" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-15T22:30:13.150" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T08:58:33.713" Title="Do jazz/classical musicians find &quot;Whiplash&quot; accurate?" Tags="|reception|whiplash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32154" CreationDate="2015-03-15T23:05:09.177" Score="12" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They didn't know how many people (Sonny plus henchmen) they would be dealing with.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sonny's reputation went before him; they could have reasonably expected him to come out shooting.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They wanted to not only kill him, but send a message to his family by disfiguring his body beyond recognition so as to deny him an open-casket funeral. (Vito, however, was owed a large favour by his local undertaker).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19672" LastActivityDate="2015-03-15T23:05:09.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32170" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-15T23:14:24.777" Score="2" ViewCount="1253" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Yokomichi Yonosuke (A story of Yonosuke) each time Yonosuke introduces himself other people seem to be amused by his name. Why is that? Is this some kind of Japanese wordplay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7857" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-15T23:16:43.977" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T08:11:55.470" Title="What is funny about Yokomichi Yonosuke's name?" Tags="|character|translation|a-story-of-yonosuke|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32170" CreationDate="2015-03-15T23:35:30.313" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.takeonecff.com/2014/the-story-of-yonosuke&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the sort of name&lt;/a&gt; you'd expect to hear on a country bumpkin... like Cletus in the US, maybe (sorry to anyone named Cletus who may be on SE).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Much of the charm of THE STORY OF YONOSUKE inevitably rests on the character at the centre of the film. Although it may not be evident to outsiders, the very name Yonosuke Yokomichi has a peculiar resonance in Japanese that amuses everyone who meets him. &lt;strong&gt;It’s a joke name, the name a comedian would have, a name that could only come from rural Japan and sound ridiculous to the more sophisticated young people of Tokyo.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-03-15T23:35:30.313" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32174" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32176" CreationDate="2015-03-15T23:39:29.523" Score="5" ViewCount="887" Body="&lt;p&gt;So we know that most of Robb's banners were at the Red Wedding but we also know that most of House Umber weren't, Greatjon Umber stops being mentioned in the episodes leading up to the event so I don't actually know if he was there or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="19585" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T22:39:42.407" LastActivityDate="2016-04-28T05:37:55.317" Title="Was the Greatjon at the Red Wedding?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32174" CreationDate="2015-03-16T00:34:39.837" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;No he wasn't actually present at the twins or the episodes building up to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The excerpt from the game of thrones wiki page of &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Jon_Umber&quot;&gt;Jon Umber&lt;/a&gt; also backs this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Greatjon is not present at the Twins during the events of the Red Wedding, making him one of the few bannermen of House Stark that remains alive and free.It is for this reason that Bran Stark orders Osha to take Rickon Stark to seek refuge with him, fearing for his safety during the journey to find the three-eyed raven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T00:34:39.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32177" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32179" CreationDate="2015-03-16T01:28:14.957" Score="6" ViewCount="3545" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was it so important for M that Eve take a risky shot that ended up killing Bond,  until he turned out to be faking it?     Was the bad guy such an immediate threat that it was worth losing Bond?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19676" LastEditorUserId="19676" LastEditDate="2015-03-31T00:37:07.830" LastActivityDate="2015-03-31T00:37:07.830" Title="In Skyfall, why did M order Eve to &quot;take the shot?" Tags="|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32177" CreationDate="2015-03-16T03:50:36.427" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not so much that the bad guy was dangerous. It's more that the hard disk he's stealing contains the names of hundreds of secret agents in active undercover operations. It's sacrificing one life to save hundreds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9574" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T03:50:36.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32174" CreationDate="2015-03-16T04:59:36.240" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/32176/11244&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not in the show&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, but in the books &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt;: the &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Jon_Umber_%28Greatjon%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;GreatJon&lt;/a&gt; was indeed present at the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Red_Wedding&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Red Wedding&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the massacre ensues, he puts up a tremendous fight as remembered here by &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Merrett_Frey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Merrett Frey&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He’d cozened the huge northman into drinking enough wine to kill any three normal men, yet after Roslin had been bedded the Greatjon still managed to snatch the sword of the first man to accost him and break his arm in the snatching. It had taken eight of them to get him into chains, and the effort had left two men wounded, one dead, and poor old Ser Leslyn Haigh short half a ear. When he couldn’t fight with his hands any longer, Umber had fought with his teeth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three - A Storm of Swords, Epilogue.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is captured and held hostage and according to the &lt;em&gt;Feast for Crows&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/A_Feast_for_Crows-Appendix#House_Stark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;appendix&lt;/a&gt;, he is still&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;captive at &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Twins&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Twins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His captivity is to ensure that his family are kept in-check.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T21:06:33.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11732" CreationDate="2015-03-16T05:06:14.427" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think I can name all three but we all know that one of them is Barristan Selmy. The only thing that puts that to doubt is that at the time, Ser Barristan wasn't actually &lt;em&gt;in&lt;/em&gt; Westeros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite his wimpiness Loras Tyrell is a marvelous warrior. When Catelyn Stark is trying to find the owner of the dragon bone dagger, Littlefinger says that he lost it in a bet with Tyrion when Loras Tyrell unseated Jaime during the tourney on Joffrey's name day. On top of that Jaime also watches Ser Loras unseat the Mountain, so Jaime may have thought him able to best him. Ned Stark wasn't one of them because Jaime says &quot;in Westeros&quot; and at the time Ned Stark was dead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the third, I can only guess, the only possibility that comes to mind is Beric Dondarrion, but I can't think of any evidence to support it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-03-07T22:46:38.317" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T22:46:38.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32182" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32209" CreationDate="2015-03-16T05:14:04.887" Score="3" ViewCount="20118" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of these &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; questions may seem obvious but Roose Bolton was second in command, was he really so hungry for power that he went so far just to be first in command?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Roose Bolton betray Robb Stark?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When did he strike a deal with the Lannisters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How long had Walder Frey known about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many of his men were in on it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-16T05:34:24.693" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T14:10:43.793" Title="Details on Roose Bolton's betrayal" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32183" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32188" CreationDate="2015-03-16T05:32:47.573" Score="13" ViewCount="1924" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Sansa first meats Petyr in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, Arya asks him why he is called &quot;Littlefinger&quot;. He answers that it was because he was very small as a boy and because he lived at the Fingers, now as a boy he lived in the Fingers as he just pointed out so the only people who would have seen him as a boy were also from the Fingers so I doubt they would have teased him for it. Aside from that it doesn't seem like a name that would stick in Westeros, he has been called far wittier names, &quot;whore monger&quot; being one of many. So I was just wondering if that was the actually reason for his nickname or if he was lying to Arya. If he was lying then what is the real reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="19585" LastEditDate="2015-04-06T12:32:09.920" LastActivityDate="2015-04-06T12:32:09.920" Title="Did Lord Baelish lie about his nickname?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32184" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32193" CreationDate="2015-03-16T05:39:10.310" Score="2" ViewCount="73" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;The Amazing Race 16, Leg 11&quot;, the teams were in Shanghai, and they were told to go to the &quot;Garden Bridge&quot;, in stead of the more common name &quot;Waibaidu Bridge&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most Shanghainess only know the name &quot;Waibaidu Bridge&quot; but not &quot;Garden Bridge&quot;, so the teams had a hard time to find the bridge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't the show use the more common name &quot;Waibaidu Bridge&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19678" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T08:30:54.580" Title="In &quot;The Amazing Race 16, Leg 11&quot;, why did the show use the name &quot;Garden Bridge&quot; instead of &quot;Waibaidu Bridge&quot;?" Tags="|amazing-race|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32187" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32189" CreationDate="2015-03-16T06:07:57.710" Score="10" ViewCount="2468" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Game of Thrones, Winterfell is taken over by Theon Greyjoy and his skeleton crew, the city is later besieged by House Bolton, Theon is knocked out by his crew and handed over to the bastard Ramsay. This much I know. But what happens to Theon's crew after this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-16T06:09:12.383" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T12:04:22.173" Title="What happened to Theon's crew?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32183" CreationDate="2015-03-16T06:40:22.607" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;He didn't lie, although you need to remember that he didn't spend most of his childhood in the Fingers, but in Riverrun, where he was fostered. He received his nickname there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Petyr_Baelish&quot;&gt;GoT Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Petyr Baelish is the head of House Baelish and the lord of an extremely minor holding, so small it has neither name nor maester, located in a small area within the Fingers, a coastal region in the northeastern shores of the Vale of Arryn. In reference to his family's humble domain in the smallest of the Fingers, as well as his small size, Edmure Tully nicknamed him &quot;Littlefinger&quot; when they were children and Petyr was fostered at Riverrun. The nickname would stick with him throughout his life. Eventually even Baelish sarcastically embraced the nickname, due to the fact that it demonstrated how far he had risen, from a poor minor noble from the &quot;little Finger&quot; peninsula to one of the most powerful officials in the Seven Kingdoms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T06:40:22.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32187" CreationDate="2015-03-16T06:55:43.583" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Ramsay_Snow&quot;&gt;GoT Wiki&lt;/a&gt; they were flayed alive by Ramsay's men.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, the castle is sacked by Ramsay afterwards and instead of&#xA;  letting the ironborn walk free, he flays them alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To say the truth I don't remember that being explained in the TV show.&#xA;Perhaps this is based on the events from the books, where he also killed the crew, but the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Theon_Greyjoy#In_the_books&quot;&gt;events there&lt;/a&gt; where different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Turns out that there is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g5UvrhJFVQ&amp;amp;t=102&quot;&gt;scene&lt;/a&gt; where Roose Bolton and Walder Frey are discussing the ironborn fate. Thanks Will Feldman!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-03-16T12:04:22.173" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T12:04:22.173" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32177" CreationDate="2015-03-16T07:53:50.143" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because movie lines are more and more picked from a grab-bag of the same phrases, and unfortunately, &quot;Take the shot&quot; is one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The info was meant to be very important, and the value of all the agents' lives was worth more than that of one aging agent. Of course by the end of the movie we all know that there's no school like the old school, but according to the way of thinking at the start of the film the right thing to do was to sacrifice the old chap!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19681" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T07:53:50.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32184" CreationDate="2015-03-16T08:30:54.580" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To make it more difficult for them.&lt;/strong&gt; That's what was challenging about it. From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/05/02/recap-the-amazing-race-16-episode-11/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;online recap&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The teams have to find something called the Garden Bridge, which Phil informs us is only known locally by its Chinese name. This turns out to be problematic, as the teams ask the locals if they know the way to it, and of course none of them have heard of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phil can be really mean sometimes. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T08:30:54.580" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32194" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-16T09:22:34.237" Score="9" ViewCount="4340" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Interstellar, how can the small girl solve codes? She even decoded correctly and accurately the &quot;STAY&quot; word but how? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In The Imitation Game, the boy learnt codes from his school days, that's why he became a codebreaker, it makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in Interstellar Nolan didn't show it like that, a girl studying a coding book.&#xA;It doesn't make any sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19684" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-11T08:39:33.273" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T19:42:35.737" Title="How can a small girl solve codes, she even decoded &quot;STAY&quot; word 100% correctly, but how?" Tags="|interstellar|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16401" CreationDate="2015-03-16T11:09:34.360" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The spell cannot harm humans but it can leave black scorch marks on humans or other things that the spell was used on. Spiders are the only thing the spell actually works on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19687" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T11:09:34.360" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32198" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-16T11:20:49.060" Score="1" ViewCount="10673" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Twilight series Jacob Black has long hair to begin with and then he changed it when he transformed into a wolf. Why did he do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19687" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-16T11:56:36.740" LastActivityDate="2016-07-09T02:03:33.360" Title="Why does Jacob Black change his hair style?" Tags="|character|the-twilight-saga|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32198" CreationDate="2015-03-16T11:59:24.977" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why does jacob black change his hair style?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bella asks the same question to Jacob when she sees him with his hair cut off and also asks about his new tattoo. The reason was not mentioned in the movie. When she asks about his hair, instead of asnwering, he quickly changes the topic to Cullens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://twilight.neoseeker.com/wiki/Jacob_Black&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Twilight Wiki&lt;/a&gt;, it's mentioned that, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Twilight and New Moon start off with him having long hair, however,&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jacob decides to cut it off because long hair as a human means long&#xA;  hair as a wolf&lt;/strong&gt;, although, he decides to grow it back, because he&#xA;  thinks that Bella likes him more with long hair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2015-03-16T13:01:36.873" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T13:01:36.873" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29961" CreationDate="2015-03-16T12:16:19.873" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My theory on the whole David/Caleb thing is that he was actually Caleb but he had the plastic surgeon alter his face to look like a squad mate but whilst pretending to be David as from when Anna enquired to the Army, the profile picture of David was entirely different. This couldve been a double red herring on his part; fake his own death but act under his squadmates name as to lead them in a different direction. If they knew he (Caleb) survived the most probable place he'd go first would be his hometown to his family. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Psychologically that is sound, they conditioned them to cover their identities, whenever Carver confronted David he probably reasoned that he could've altered his appearance and therefore was not surprised when he looked different but never suspected he could have been Caleb which is why he said anything to Anna. Also, need to know basis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19688" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T12:16:19.873" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22006" CreationDate="2015-03-16T12:35:10.920" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tech movies like these, in order to be successful, can not have any major screw ups in the plot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where Jericho failed was on the idea of the bomb being the &quot;smoking&quot; gun. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New York did not blow up. The government had captured that bomb. You can tell the writers were forced to &quot;wrap it up&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting the bomb to Texas provided no more info than what could have been revealed by the captured New York bomb. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19690" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T12:35:10.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32206" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-16T13:09:40.717" Score="3" ViewCount="444" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the final scene of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1931533/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Seven Psychopaths&lt;/a&gt;, Billy is holding Bonny with the flare gun to its head. Marty initially refuses to go away. When he approaches Billy, he shows Marty something which causes Marty to run to the car and leave. What is it that Billy shows him that convinces Marty to leave?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T03:26:58.823" Title="What does Billy show Marty that makes him leave?" Tags="|plot-explanation|seven-psychopaths|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32207" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-16T13:24:26.910" Score="1" ViewCount="691" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can anyone say what is the current relationship status of Tony and Ziva? Are they really keeping in contact? Are they dating? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18957" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2015-03-16T13:33:50.267" LastActivityDate="2017-11-17T03:35:57.533" Title="What is the current relationship status of Tony and Ziva in NCIS?" Tags="|ncis|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32209" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32182" CreationDate="2015-03-16T14:10:43.793" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well for one thing, &lt;strong&gt;Roose Bolton wasn't second in command&lt;/strong&gt;. He may have been a senior commander but he was not the heir to the North (the real prize). At the time, Bran Stark was King Robb's heir. The overlordship of the North belonged to House Stark, as it has been for thousands of years. Historically, House Bolton have frequently waged war on House Stark over dominion of the North, but they have always failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several things prompted Bolton to ... ahem ...  bolt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The thousand year old ambition of House Bolton to take control of the North, which the Lannisters promised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Roose Bolton suspected that the war was lost now that King Robb had lost the support of the Freys due to him breaking his marriage promise. So he decided to back the winning horse: House Lannister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When did he strike a deal with the Lannisters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How long had Walder Frey known about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know any exact times. Although there is a scene in the first episode of season three (Valar Dohaeris) where we Tywin writing &lt;a href=&quot;http://s1004.photobucket.com/user/xayavongeric/media/vlcsnap-2013-04-02-01h02m26s158.png.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this letter&lt;/a&gt;. It's blurry, but you can see the words &amp;quot;tempt the wolves&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;revenge&amp;quot;. It is speculated by fans that this is the letter that Tywin sent to the Boltons and the Freys to solicit their help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How many of his men were in on it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again we don't have exact details. But certainly only a few knew trusted commanders would have ever known. Like all the armies in feudal Westeros, it wasn't a professional standing army, but an army of conscript peasants supported by a few mercenaries. They had no business knowing their commander's plans until absolutely necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T14:10:43.793" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21720" CreationDate="2015-03-16T15:15:24.367" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the police had no reason to believe that Happy was in danger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was actually only at the site of the explosion because he was following the Henchman guy (can't remember his name), and managed to protect himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at this point in time, whilst everyone was pretty sure that The Mandarin was the cause of the bomb, everyone thought Happy was just an innocent bystander.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was not any evidence to suggest that he had seen anything or was connected to The Mandarin bombing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, Tony probably thought it was more than a coincidence that Happy happened to be there as one of The Mandarin's bombs went off, so on the off chance that Happy had learned something or been involved in some way, and that The Mandarin knew this, he thought it better to make sure his friend was safe from any repercussions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This meant that he wanted to make sure that everything was done to protocol (checking badges etc.) to make sure no one tried to come in and kill Happy who may have been masquerading as a friend/police officer in order to get in his room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He probably only added the 'He's a stickler for that sort of thing' to make sure the nurse didn't panic at the thought that a suicide bomber or a crazed gunman might come and try to kill Happy, and rather he was being cautious because he was the head of his security and would want it done that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T15:15:24.367" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21120" CreationDate="2015-03-16T15:53:34.747" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that once the Inception has taken place, and the 'Mr Charles' gamble has paid off in the second level, Fischer's subconscious thinks that the people who are invading his dream have been killed, and he is safe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they return to the first level, it appears that no one is after them anymore, giving them time to hide and wait for the dream to end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastEditorUserId="19693" LastEditDate="2015-03-17T11:57:26.913" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T11:57:26.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4158" CreationDate="2015-03-16T16:49:53.323" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2005 film, &quot;Rumor Has It...&quot; , based on the &quot;The Graduate&quot;, directly addresses the possibility that the Elaine-type character (played by Jennifer Aniston) may have been fathered by someone else (played by Kevin Costner) other than the person understood to be her father. I always assumed this was the reason Mrs. Robinson was hellbent on preventing Ben and Elaine from getting together. Although it is proven with awkward twists in &quot;Rumor...&quot; that the two are not related, it's the only movie that ever tried to analyze what motivated Mrs.Robinson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19698" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T16:49:53.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32214" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32465" CreationDate="2015-03-16T17:31:36.867" Score="2" ViewCount="2259" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw and loved &quot;The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel&quot;. Towards the end, Madge Hardcastle (Celia Imrie) is asked by her driver if she wants to turn left or right. Which man does she want to marry?  I believe she slowly smirks, and makes no decision. But after that I lost track of her story.  Whom did she choose?  Was it her driver (as I hope)? Was she on the back of one of the four scooters at the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T20:03:05.960" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T20:03:05.960" Title="What was the decision Madge Hardcastle took?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|second-best-exotic-marigold-hotel|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32216" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35134" CreationDate="2015-03-16T18:27:08.290" Score="3" ViewCount="646" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_Human_%28North_American_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Being Human US&lt;/a&gt; S01E12, when Bishop attacks Aidan, Bishop gets hurt by sunlight and starts burning. But in the whole 1st season it never occurred, vampires walk around freely in sunlight, so why did it suddenly happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-06-07T07:57:16.100" LastActivityDate="2015-06-07T07:57:16.100" Title="Why did Bishop start burning in sunlight?" Tags="|plot-explanation|being-human-us|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32163" CreationDate="2015-03-16T19:31:03.177" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It cannot be explained - a better example is the scene where Tyler Durden drags Edward Norton towards a staircase and hurls him down the steps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The CCTV camera displays clear footage of Norton conducting impossible manoeuvres at numerous points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be physically impossible for a man to hold his own collar and drag his own torso along a floor.  Tyler also stamps the Narrator's ankle whilst the narrator is in a prone position which is another impossibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see it in this clip at 1.25 to 1.29.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ho8M51TxE1Q?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13163" LastEditorUserId="13163" LastEditDate="2021-08-20T07:12:50.520" LastActivityDate="2021-08-20T07:12:50.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32229" CreationDate="2015-03-16T20:25:18.390" Score="5" ViewCount="1277" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Aegon the conqueror crossed the narrow seas in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; did he come with any sort of army or was it just his family and his dragons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T03:52:56.223" Title="Did Aegon have an army?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32221" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33269" CreationDate="2015-03-16T20:56:42.647" Score="8" ViewCount="2515" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode 9 of &lt;em&gt;Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt&lt;/em&gt;, at the end, the stepfather, who seems to be coming down after doing Heroin, sees a White Horse in the restaurant. What is this a reference to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RdW1G.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The White Horse&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a thread on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/KimmySchmidt/comments/2y7s09/pop_culture_in_unbreakable_kimmy_schmidt/cp9v6yl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reddit&lt;/a&gt; that reckons this is a reference to &lt;em&gt;Twin Peaks&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MlWzi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The White Horse in Twin Peaks&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is: is this a direct homage to &lt;em&gt;Twin Peaks&lt;/em&gt; or is it a reference to another famous scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2024-03-24T10:38:57.013" LastActivityDate="2024-03-24T10:38:57.013" Title="What is this White Horse a reference to?" Tags="|reference|twin-peaks|unbreakable-kimmy-schmidt|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32222" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="51267" CreationDate="2015-03-16T21:04:43.510" Score="1" ViewCount="2251" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apologies if people feel if this is off-topic, I remember watching &lt;em&gt;Bachelor Party&lt;/em&gt; (1984, starring Tom Hank) when I was significantly younger and recently I watched it again and noticed for the first time the scene where the hookers arrive at the bridal shower and then plug in the famous Hitachi Magic Wand/Massager: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/VniyEy6a5GQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This got me thinking as to whether this was the first appearance of this device in a mainstream movie, i.e. not in some XXX film or sex ed film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of another movie earlier than this where they use this device.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi_Magic_Wand&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; page states that this device was released in USA in 1968 but was known for other uses by late 60s, this would leave over a decade up until 1984 where this could've appeared as an aid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-08-06T09:04:07.563" LastActivityDate="2016-04-05T02:01:10.197" Title="Was this scene the first to show the wand massager in a mainstream movie?" Tags="|first-appearance|bachelor-party|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32127" CreationDate="2015-03-16T23:01:42.163" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2015/01/wizard-wars-rules-secrets-magic/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;behind the scenes article&lt;/a&gt; at Reality Blurred shed some light on the actual process with the help of magicians Shimshi, Penn and Teller from the show:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Episodes film back to back&lt;/strong&gt;: All six episodes are filmed over three days, so it’s back-to-back magic performances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are unseen magic acts&lt;/strong&gt;:  Both sets of competitors create routines for the second round, but just the winning team performs. That leaves unperformed acts...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The magicians get help&lt;/strong&gt;: Also not disclosed on camera is that the magicians get assistance. “We have help,” Shimshi told me. “The wizards and the challengers both have help... &amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How much time the teams get varies&lt;/strong&gt;: Each team of magicians, whether wizards or challengers, was given information about the props beforehand, and then given a set amount of time to actually produce and rehearse the act. [...] The show &lt;em&gt;makes it seem&lt;/em&gt; like the tricks are created between act breaks, in maybe an hour or two. Penn said “that’s so unimportant. [...] It’s still improvisation.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's possible that the audience gets to watch not only performances from both teams but also from 2 &lt;em&gt;episodes&lt;/em&gt;, and some things are set up in advance (there are also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/wizard-wars-tv-review-726070&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pre-taped segments&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-16T23:01:42.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31231" CreationDate="2015-03-17T03:03:05.167" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well maybe there is &quot;nowhere to run&quot; if anyone breakes the rules of Continental, or at least the way Perkins accepts her fate tries to show it to the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19709" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T03:03:05.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31231" CreationDate="2015-03-17T03:38:33.077" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw the scene and wondered the same question. My best rationale is that: if you get a phone call from Winston asking you to show up, &lt;em&gt;you don't question, you drop whatever you are doing and you show up!&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even in the grandiose world of big hitting rich assassins, Winston is a really big shot: he is extremely wealthy (a hotel owner whose apologizing gesture meant a buying you a fancy car), powerful (has many lethal underlings and captures great respect from those around him) and can create rules where there would otherwise be chaos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14080" LastEditorUserId="14080" LastEditDate="2015-03-17T12:21:42.963" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T12:21:42.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32219" CreationDate="2015-03-17T03:52:56.223" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Using the books as a reference, Aegon Targaryen landed with a small small army composed of the Targaryen levies and those of their few vassals (chief among them the Baratheons and the Velaryons). But more importantly he had the three dragons Balerion, Vhaegar and Meraxes ridden by him and his two sisters/wives&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T03:52:56.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30725" CreationDate="2015-03-17T05:52:39.333" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that the coordinates were for the NASA base location was enough to make Cooper believe, and only he could make that happen when he was given the opportunity to communicate. He chose binary because the robot was limited to Boolean language..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19712" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T05:52:39.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11812" CreationDate="2015-03-17T06:23:44.503" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I reckon it was just to piss Theon off, he knew she was a favourite of his, later Theon does say &quot;I suppose gold's cheap for Lannisters&quot; Ros then accuses him of being jealous which angers him further. It does sound like something Tyrion would do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T06:23:44.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32236" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32237" CreationDate="2015-03-17T08:01:24.123" Score="9" ViewCount="3502" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; episode, &quot;the Mountain and the Viper&quot; Roose Bolton gives Ramsay a piece of paper, giving him the right to bear the house name, it makes him heir to House Bolton and indeed the North. Now Roose Bolton has shown no great love for his bastard, he even goes so far as saying that he regrets raping his mother,(not that that's a bad thing) so I'm wondering why he did it. Did he have a sudden change of heart and decide that he loved Ramsay and that he was no different from any other son in Westeros? Or did he only do it because Ramsay was the only eligible heir to the North?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T09:15:24.683" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T09:15:24.683" Title="Why did Roose Bolton adopt Ramsay?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32236" CreationDate="2015-03-17T08:46:56.773" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the time, Roose Bolton had no heirs. At all. His last true born son died young. True, at the time he had wedded Fat Walda Frey, but it would be a while until he could get her pregnant &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; see that son to adulthood. On the other hand, Ramsay Snow was showing himself to be an effective, if cruel, operator. He usurped the Hornwood lands, sacked Winterfell home of the Bolton's greatest enemy, and effectively contained the Greyjoy aggression. House Bolton was entering a crucial stage in its history. For the first time ever, they have fulfilled their ambition of becoming the lords paramount of the North. But the North is still not completely united under their banner. To do that, the Boltons need to have strong leadership, and part of that is ensuring a strong line of succession. Roose may not harbor great love for Ramsay, but he realizes that House Bolton needs him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-03-17T20:10:52.033" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T20:10:52.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31431" CreationDate="2015-03-17T09:15:08.700" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're all wrong. Only due to a minor technicality though. It is true that valyrian steel is often made from folding the metal in on itself, but not always, the blade cannot be recognised that way. When Ned Stark is executed, the sword of Winterfell (aka Ice) is melted down and the steel is reforged into two long swords, one of which is given to Jaime Lannister, the other of which is given to Joffery Baratheon. So those swords weren't forged in the traditional fashion, but that doesn't mean it's not Valyrian steel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T09:15:08.700" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32244" CreationDate="2015-03-17T09:39:04.827" Score="5" ViewCount="717" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I've re watched the first two seasons of Game of Thrones and I can't find a single scene in which Stannis wears a crown. This lead me to wonder if he even has one. If he doesn't why doesn't he? If he does please include a picture or even a description from the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-17T10:07:42.930" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T07:04:11.420" Title="Does Stannis wear a crown?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|costume|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32242" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32245" CreationDate="2015-03-17T09:45:30.140" Score="18" ViewCount="4044" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a Japanese movie stuck in my head:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's about a young man, who delivers flyers (coupons, advertising maybe?) around the city, and he sometimes breaks into flats and houses that he can see are empty (because the flyers are still in the mailbox). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One time he breaks into a house, without realizing a woman is still inside. Eventually they fall in love (I think?), but the husband of the women finds out and he gets arrested (not sure how, but he ends up in jail).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When in jail, the young man practices &quot;shadowplay&quot; skills, where he lingers in peoples blind spots, and therefore can &quot;disappear&quot;.  He returns to the house, to live together with the woman, by living in the blindspot of the husband.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This all rather vague, but if someone knows which movie I'm talking about, that would be awesome!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19715" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T14:11:11.467" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T14:11:11.467" Title="Japanese movie about young man living in &quot;blind spot&quot;" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:38:42.703" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32157" CreationDate="2015-03-17T09:48:48.973" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;One possible answer is that he did not want his wife to be suffer from the curse, and she also tells him that they will meet again in another life (at the end of the movie he meets her &quot;reincarnation&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility is that with your solution he would not be able to remain vampire, his powers were almost gone, there could be a chance that he would become mortal again if he did not feed in that moment (the sun was almost up and he was quite isolated down there).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19067" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T09:48:48.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32241" CreationDate="2015-03-17T09:55:25.400" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Mhysa#Notes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GoT wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The TV series has curiously not chosen to show many of the rival kings during the war wearing crowns. Joffrey and even Renly had crowns, but Robb, Stannis, and Balon have never been shown with their crowns. In the novels, Stannis has a new crown made resembling a circle of metal flames around his head, in honor of the Lord of Light (...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is from the page about last episode of season 3. Perhaps he has a crown in the 4th season, but I wasn't able to find any confirmation of this and I don't recall ever seeing him in a crown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T07:04:11.420" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T07:04:11.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32242" CreationDate="2015-03-17T10:02:59.847" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's 3-iron, actually a Korean movie~&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tae-suk (Jae Hee) is a loner who drives around on his motorbike,&#xA;  taping takeout menus over the keyholes of front doors and breaking&#xA;  into apartments where the menus have not been removed. He lives in&#xA;  those apartments while their owners are away, washing their clothes&#xA;  and mending their broken appliances. When he breaks into one large&#xA;  home, he is unaware that he is being watched by an abused housewife&#xA;  Sun-hwa (Lee Seung-yeon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19452" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T10:02:59.847" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32246" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-17T10:13:26.080" Score="4" ViewCount="5567" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Pi_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Life of Pi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, we see Pi's father put a live goat at the gate of Richard Parker's cage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one shot, the goat is tied standing outside the confinement that holds Richard Parker. We see the tiger approaching slowly before jumping onto the prey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The the camera cuts to let us see the expressions of Pi's family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the camera goes back to Richard Parker holding the goat in his teeth, without any evidence that the gate was opened and closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that the goat was squeezed in between metal bars of the cage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-17T14:39:09.390" LastActivityDate="2023-12-14T13:33:04.783" Title="How did Richard Parker manage to get the goat inside the cage?" Tags="|plot-explanation|life-of-pi|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32499" CreationDate="2015-03-17T10:23:47.353" Score="10" ViewCount="910" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen this movie between 2006 and 2007 on cable TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not sure but the protagonist could be &lt;code&gt;Robin Williams&lt;/code&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, a group of people are struggling to survive famine. And they come up with the idea of choosing one victim (by random selecting device, not sure) so that the rest of them would have more food left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This person is then killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can remember one scene in which the girlfriend of the man to be killed, is collecting pieces of food to offer to him since he will shortly die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the quotes they used in the trailer of this movie is : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What will I eat tomorrow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, that quote could have been said by Robin Williams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: It is worth mentioning that when anyone is killed, he/she is killed in order for him/her not to consume any more food. No cannibalism involved throughout the movie. On a different topic: You would see people hiding food before opening the door to anyone who knocks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always thought: why won't they just let the guy go, and maybe starve to death on his own? Why the extra burden of having to kill him. He/she might survive alone, you just don't give any food to them.. That bugged me the whole time I watched the movie, but there might be a reason that I may have missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="18998" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T12:58:47.540" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T18:57:54.630" Title="Movie where stranded people kill (but not eat) a person to survive famine" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:38:45.840" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21120" CreationDate="2015-03-17T11:02:17.457" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you identified correctly, the reason why they use kicks and have to complete their plan as fast as possible is because of Fischer's mind security chasing them down and they wouldn't survive a whole week this way. Now accepting this premise, I would make the following speculation, even though it's admittedly only that, speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it might be that once the &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt; succeeded, and they established the whole idea as a natural spark of his own mind, &lt;strong&gt;Fischer's mind would just significantly calm down and be more suspectible to accept those &quot;intruders&quot; as natural inhabitants of his mind&lt;/strong&gt;. It wasn't only their intrusion into his mind, but primarily them actively messing with it that turned his security against them, and once they didn't need to mess with him anymore, there was no need to violently kick them out anymore. In the same way they reconciled Fischer with his father, his uncle Peter and this foreign idea, they also reconciled him with their intrusion and made him to accept it. And I guess using Fischer to counter his own subconcious security from level 2 onward might also have helped this case. That is ultmately why Cobb wants them to follow the plan through as fast as possible, once it succeeded everything will just be fine, which is also a natural conclusion from a mere story-telling viewpoint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-16T14:54:05.473" LastActivityDate="2016-06-16T14:54:05.473" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30082" CreationDate="2015-03-17T13:58:28.893" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It ends the film with a message of hope and forgiveness.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the film, Father James is struggling to communicate with the residents of his town who have grown cynical and weary of God, particularly in light of the sexual abuse crimes perpetrated by members of the Catholic church. He also has a hard time connecting with his daughter Fiona, who's recovering from a suicide attempt and feels her dad has abandoned her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the very final scene shows us that &lt;strong&gt;all communication is not lost&lt;/strong&gt;. Fiona is compassionately willing to talk to her father's killer, something her father tried to do with his parish throughout the film. And the killer, who at the beginning enters the confession booth not to talk but rather to tell the priest he's going to kill him, is now sitting in yet another room with a divider - but makes a different choice. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.patheos.com/blogs/poptheology/2014/08/gleeson-mcdonagh-interview/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Says Brendan Gleeson&lt;/a&gt; who played the lead role:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Father James] lives on in his daughter. They have connected even though he abandoned her twice. And &lt;strong&gt;[the killer] picking up the phone wasn’t a foregone conclusion. But having him do that has us staring up at the end of the film rather than down.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Says the film's writer and director, John Michael McDonagh:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I also wanted it to &lt;strong&gt;end on a moment of hope.&lt;/strong&gt; I felt the film was somber enough. I wanted the final shot to be kind of a grace note. One thing I did change to make it more hopeful was when she motions for the killer to pick up the phone. In the original draft he doesn’t, but again, I wanted the film to end on a much more hopeful aspect. [...] [The killer has] destroyed the priest, but he’s also destroyed himself. But by picking up the phone, he may have still saved himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-03-17T15:48:27.143" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T15:48:27.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16863" CreationDate="2015-03-17T15:23:02.270" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the picture is most likely Bernadette's baby picture with her father rather than Howard's. I mean why would Howard want to have that picture on his walls considering he has his father issues. To be honest though the contents in Howard's letter is most likely either Leonard's (most realistic one) or Bernadette's because her's is the second most realistic one and that she is Howard's wife(thus it is  only logical that she should have the honour to tell him the truth). However, I do begin to like this idea of all of them telling the truth (excluding Sheldon)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19725" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T15:23:02.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26648" CreationDate="2015-03-17T19:00:15.590" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I wrote in the comments, the site was called BlunGoGo. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Two_and_a_Half_Men#Nice_to_Meet_You.2C_Walden_Schmidt_.5B9.01.5D&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;It's explained in the season 9 opener&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alan: So, just out of curiosity, how does someone get to be worth so much money?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walden: Well, it's pretty simple really. You ever hear of BlunGogo.com?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alan: No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walden: You never will, because Microsoft bought it from me for $1.3 Billion. Then they bundled it with their &amp;quot;iPod killer,&amp;quot; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Zune&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and to the best of my knowledge, that's unfortunately all we know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T19:00:15.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32269" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32272" CreationDate="2015-03-17T21:01:03.623" Score="4" ViewCount="15922" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I just started watching the new Yahoo! Screen showing of Community Season 6 episode 1 and Shirley (played by Yvette Nicole Brown) is missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The absence is explained as 'spun-off', has she left to do another show (in fact she appears in a short clip at the end in some fictional series called 'The Butcher and the Baker).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will she be making a guest appearance later?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastEditorUserId="962" LastEditDate="2015-03-17T21:25:11.070" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T22:27:55.100" Title="What's happened to Shirley in Community Season 6" Tags="|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32270" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-17T21:51:53.317" Score="9" ViewCount="2061" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched it about 11 years ago starts with an audition for actors to go into a house to act a reality horror movie only for them to be trapped in a real horror house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The horror starts with one guy going to the kitchen and getting split into two by a disk coming out of the floor once he opens the fridge door. Later on another guy dies by being impaled into a deer's antler and another's head smashed into a bathroom sink.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The twist at the end is that the girl who survives is actually being used by the monster killing all the people and she had no recollection of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She goes back to her normal life, she is a depressed self cutter until the monster asks her to put another ad in the newspaper for more auditions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may have misremembered some details but I really need to know the name of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19734" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-17T22:31:30.573" LastActivityDate="2015-05-17T21:35:47.133" Title="Please identify this horror movie about a girl who was used to trap actors in a house" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|mystery|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:38:55.237" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32269" CreationDate="2015-03-17T22:27:55.100" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/yvette-nicole-brown-leaves-community-1201317743/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Variety article Yvette Nicole Brown Leaves ‘Community’&lt;/a&gt; cited personal reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yvette said she is leaving the show for personal reasons: namely, to&#xA;  take care of her ailing father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“My dad needs daily care and he needs me,” Brown told TV Guide. “The&#xA;  idea of being away 16 hours a day for five months, I couldn’t do it.&#xA;  It was a difficult decision for me to make, but I had to choose my&#xA;  dad.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly after leaving &lt;em&gt;Community&lt;/em&gt; she was promoted to series regular on CBS' &lt;em&gt;Odd Couple&lt;/em&gt; reboot. According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvline.com/2014/10/04/yvette-nicole-brown-the-odd-couple-series-regular-cbs/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Line&lt;/a&gt; Brown highlighted the differing show formats as the reason for her depature:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Brown explained earlier this week, the multi-cam Odd Couple —&#xA;  versus the single-cam Community — is “a better fit for the life I have&#xA;  now,” adding, “My dad needs daily care and he needs me. The idea of&#xA;  being away 16 hours a day for five months, I couldn’t do it. It was a&#xA;  difficult decision for me to make, but I had to choose my dad.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the good terms on which she left &lt;em&gt;Community&lt;/em&gt; the door is probably still open for her to make a guest appearance, but I couldn't find a source confirming that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19730" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T22:27:55.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3797" CreationDate="2015-03-17T23:27:09.687" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only two possibilities are that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Bane trained a short time with the LoS and was excommunicated shortly before Bruce arrived, or...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Bruce and Bane were trained at the same time, at least for an extent, and intentionally kept separate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19736" LastActivityDate="2015-03-17T23:27:09.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32275" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45626" CreationDate="2015-03-18T00:28:15.697" Score="8" ViewCount="1009" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the latest, I saw this movie in January of 2008 on TV. I'll describe what I remember and see if it rings any bells.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were three adult men, including what I believe to be a father and a son. The adult son has been critically injured, so the two other men hold a clinic hostage. The third man in the group is volatile and even goes so far as to try and rape one of the female doctors, when the son flat-lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The doctor cannot save the son, but the hostages hide this by putting a heart monitor in their coat pocket.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The volatile man eventually notices this and attempts to shoot the man who put it in his pocket. The doctor shoots the volatile man, who falls to the ground, unconscious. The doctor immediately takes a scalpel, opens him up, then she slides her hand in and tries to restart his heart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember anything beyond this. Does this ring a bell for anyone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT #1:&lt;/strong&gt; To answer's Walt's questions, here's what I remember: I am pretty sure it was American, the production value was good and I watched it inside a hotel in Grangeville, Idaho. The rape scene had the man pushing the doctor's back against a shelf in the operating room, where she huffs and when the patient flatlines, she pushes her would-be rapist out of the way to try to resuscitate the man's heart, saying something like, &quot;I don't have time for this.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT #2:&lt;/strong&gt; It is possible that the film involves two brothers, instead of a father and son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastEditorUserId="19366" LastEditDate="2015-05-04T08:58:28.430" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T11:47:53.243" Title="Movie (maybe show?) where clinic is held hostage for adult son who dies" Tags="|identify-this-movie|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:38:58.350" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32280" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-18T05:02:28.093" Score="7" ViewCount="706" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; (2014), what is the meaning of this reaction given by Lois?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual scene goes like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Boy Coop:&lt;/strong&gt; [&lt;em&gt;Coughs&lt;/em&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Boy Coop:&lt;/strong&gt; The dust&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Murph:&lt;/strong&gt; Lois, I have a friend who, could look at his lungs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lois:&lt;/strong&gt; [&lt;em&gt;Inexperienced actress reaction&lt;/em&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cSXGC.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Animated GIF of scene described above&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually, Nolan is the perfect director in the world; he even made Heath Ledger grab an Oscar. But why did this scene go like this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19743" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2023-07-11T08:54:40.270" LastActivityDate="2023-07-11T08:54:40.270" Title="What is the meaning of this reaction given by Lois?" Tags="|interstellar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2107" CreationDate="2015-03-18T06:26:13.060" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been 4 movies since the original trilogy (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: First Class, The Wolverine, and X-Men: Days of Future Past). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason Fox decided to make prequels instead of sequels is because of the third X-Men movie (The Last Stand). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, that movie got terrible reviews and a lot of fans hated it, which made Fox scared that a sequel wouldn't succeed. However, the main reason is because The Last Stand really messed up all chances of a sequel by killing so many important characters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Professor X died, Cyclops died, Jean Grey died, Magneto lost his powers... How would they make a sequel with only Wolverine, Storm, Rogue and Beast? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the latest X-Men movie Wolverine goes back in time and changes the past so that nothing from The Last Stand ever happened, and everyone's still alive. So the next X-Men movie, X-Men: Apocalypse, will be a sequel and not a prequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19745" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T06:26:13.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32170" CreationDate="2015-03-18T08:11:55.470" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it was brought up in the chat over at japanese.stackexchange, here's my take on it from a language perspective. I haven't watched the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Japanese spelling of his name is 横道(yokomichi) 世之介(yonosuke). Note that in Japanese the surname comes first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's &lt;a href=&quot;http://mainichi.jp/sp/life/&quot;&gt;an interview with the writer&lt;/a&gt; Shuuichi Yoshida (吉田修一) I found.※&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I decided I wanted to write a story about an 18 years old teenager who comes to Tokyo to start his life as a student at an university. I thought I would name it after the protagonist. I came up with the name Yonosuke first, and had been thinking what to make of his surname, when the mistress of the pub where I went regularly suggested &quot;Make it rhyme.&quot; Together with the other customers we started to scribble many surnames beginning with &quot;yo&quot; on our beverage coasters: Yoshida, Yoshio... we came up with many candidates. As the name Yokomichi came up, everybody was like &quot;Ah!&quot; and we all agreed on this name unanimously. So it was decided. I'm from the Nagasaki prefecture, and there we've got a word &quot;Yokomichi-mono&quot; (横道もの) that refers to somebody  who's a bit lazy or is slacking off, and there's also the expression &quot;Yokomichi ni soreru&quot; (lit. stray off to a side road; stray away from the topic) .., that's the kind of nuance behind his name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His surname, &lt;em&gt;Yokomichi&lt;/em&gt; is a normal Japanese word and literally means &quot;side road&quot;. It's not exactly a common surname, and it's like if you introduced yourself as &lt;code&gt;I'm Mr. Sideroad.&lt;/code&gt; It sounds like somebody from a more rural area as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often you might introduce yourself with your surname only, but imagine you add his given name &lt;em&gt;Yonosuke&lt;/em&gt; as well. It sounds a bit funny just by virtue of rhyming (alliteration) with his surname. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;介 (suke) derives from the name for a governmental official's rank; and quite commonly used for male given names, and doesn't really mean anything anymore and is more like a staple name. 世 (Yo) is &quot;world, epoch, current times&quot;. Suke might also be a pun on 助 (suke), &quot;support, help&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;John Smith&quot; is an English staple name, and to illustrate, Yonosuke would be a bit like &lt;code&gt;John (of the) World&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;※ For reference the relevant part of the interview in the original Japanese.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;執筆にあたり、18歳の青年が上京して大学生活を送る話にしようと決めて、その主人公の名前を作品タイトルにしたいと思ったんです。まず『世之介』という名前が降ってきて、じゃあ名字はどうしようと考えているときに、行きつけの飲み屋のママさんが「韻を踏んだほうがいい」と。で、その場にいたお客さんも一緒に、「よ」から始まる名字をコースターにいろいろ書き出して、吉田、横尾といろいろ候補を挙げていくうちに「横道」という名字が出た瞬間、「ああ～！」と、みんなから声があがり、満場一致で決まりました。僕は長崎県出身なんですけど、長崎には横着な人間を表す「横道もの」という言葉があって、ほかにも「横道にそれる」とか、そんなニュアンスも含んでいます。&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18083" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T08:11:55.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32285" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-18T08:43:07.683" Score="-5" ViewCount="575" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the Wikipedia article on the etymology of the word &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fuck&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it is usually considered to be first attested to around 1475&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this in mind, why is that word used in &lt;em&gt;300: Rise of an Empire&lt;/em&gt; (2014), when the timeline of the movie is somewhat earlier than 1475?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19743" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2024-04-06T01:54:36.650" LastActivityDate="2024-04-06T01:54:36.650" Title="Why is this expletive used in &quot;300: Rise of an Empire&quot;, considering the movie's historical setting predates the term's documented emergence?" Tags="|historical-accuracy|300-rise-of-an-empire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32285" CreationDate="2015-03-18T08:49:28.657" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Modern films tend to use modern language.  In the same way they don't do the film in ancient Greek (which would be correct) as the way they spoke is different to modern speech patterns, so would make the film more difficult to understand for audiences, especially as it's a fantasy war film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some film-makers do try and keep things more authentic (Mel Gibson's Apocalypto in Mayan springs to mind), but that tends to limit the potential at the box office.  Most English speaking audiences will favour an English remake over the original in a foreign language, even if the remake is dire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastEditorUserId="4637" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T13:52:05.927" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T13:52:05.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32287" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-18T09:18:41.730" Score="2" ViewCount="762" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 1, episode 15 (Out of Time), we see a time loop in the end.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Assuming the timeline when the episode started to be &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt;, in the end, we get to timeline &lt;code&gt;x+1&lt;/code&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, does Barry retain his consciousness of timeline &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt; when in timeline &lt;code&gt;x+1&lt;/code&gt;? If yes, then did Barry of timeline &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt; have the memories of timeline &lt;code&gt;x-1&lt;/code&gt; when he saw a &lt;strong&gt;speed mirage&lt;/strong&gt;? If so, why didn't he stop the events of timeline &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt; from happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4833" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-22T12:01:27.063" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T12:01:27.063" Title="Time loop paradox in The Flash" Tags="|plot-explanation|arrowverse|the-flash|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32280" CreationDate="2015-03-18T09:34:28.890" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reaction showed resignation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Dust was all-pervasive and was affecting the lungs of large numbers of people.  The scene shows that Lois - representing all mothers - was resigned to the fact that there was nothing that could be done to solve the problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The resignation of one mother for one child's condition was a directorial ploy to show that society as a whole was in trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T09:34:28.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32290" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47015" CreationDate="2015-03-18T09:35:06.547" Score="7" ViewCount="10604" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the interviews makers said that Badlapur is based on true events happened in central Europe in 1980s. Some say these events actually happened in Pune itself. Does anybody know the exact real events happened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19755" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T05:20:20.907" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T10:47:48.730" Title="What is the real story behind movie Badlapur?" Tags="|realism|badlapur|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32270" CreationDate="2015-03-18T10:03:48.837" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Horror_Night&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reality Horror Night&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The cast enters a mansion to compete on a new reality show for $1&#xA;  million but with an unexpected twist. Mysteriously, a cast member&#xA;  disappears but without a formal elimination ceremony. When more and&#xA;  more castmates start disappearing in this fashion it is up to the&#xA;  remaining cast to discover how this game is really played.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19757" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T10:03:48.837" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32293" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32300" CreationDate="2015-03-18T10:22:51.313" Score="3" ViewCount="2053" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does an actress really go for a complete hair cut for a role instead of using CGI? Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Delphine Chanéac gone bald for the role in Splice (2009)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Karen Gillan gone bald for the role in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19758" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T10:34:06.957" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T20:50:34.353" Title="Why do actresses really go for a complete hair cut for a role instead of using CGI?" Tags="|costume|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32207" CreationDate="2015-03-18T11:11:06.140" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't something that is currently known, as of season 12. It is assumed based on how Ziva left the show that they're still on good terms and that a future reunion is possible but whether this becomes the focus of something that occurs on screen or not is another question entirely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T11:11:06.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32298" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32305" CreationDate="2015-03-18T11:33:56.713" Score="5" ViewCount="1930" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can anyone tell what really happened in Walter Bishop's lab in Fringe that lead to the hospitalization of Walter in a mental institution?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: I have watched whole series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18957" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T11:46:35.320" LastActivityDate="2022-09-02T16:19:40.527" Title="What really happened in Walter Bishop's Lab in Fringe?" Tags="|fringe|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30890" CreationDate="2015-03-18T11:53:13.443" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The line from the movie is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was like that movie where Meg Ryan meets that guy with poison ivy in his ass... I'll think of the name later...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This comparison is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Dissimile&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;dissimile&lt;/a&gt;, presumably added as a joke - there was no poison ivy in &lt;em&gt;You've Got Mail&lt;/em&gt; and this is covered later when they remember the name of the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;She's Got Mail&amp;quot;, that's the name of the movie. - That's it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With Tom Hanks? - And Meg Ryan. - He didn't have poison ivy up his ass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T12:09:14.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32293" CreationDate="2015-03-18T12:07:32.437" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many actresses are incredibly committed to their role, and will do whatever it takes to hone their craft and make their performance better and more genuine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only does it show more commitment, but it will likely help them to get into character as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of films with actresses getting their hair cut off in-film have it done when they're going through a transformation (see Natalie Portman in V For Vendetta and Anne Hathaway in Les Miserables), and it helps them not to only physically show it but also mentally prepare for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These types of roles also are generally very good characters to play for various reasons (like the transformation) and from the 2 examples I provided above they both won awards for their roles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than them getting the award for cutting their hair off, they are most likely getting their awards for portraying an interesting character who happens to have their hair cut off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose some of them &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; use CGI for these roles (or even wear a bald cap), but answer this question: how many male actors would hesitate to shave their head for a great role? Probably very few. So why would actresses be any different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T12:07:32.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26414" CreationDate="2015-03-18T13:37:33.480" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to a post on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/Sonsofanarchy/comments/kucjf/question_is_there_a_difference_in_meaningstatus/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this website&lt;/a&gt; (which obviously can't be confirmed), the embroidery indicates a status of Treasurer, which Bobby held.  In addition, I have found a photo which indicates that it's not unthinkable for Bobby to have a jacket with a border:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hoEoC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, while not conclusive about exactly &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; his cut is different, we can at least know that it wasn't some wardrobe mistake for him to have it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T13:37:33.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32298" CreationDate="2015-03-18T13:46:57.917" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe we never found out much more than that there was a freak fire in his lab that killed a lab assistant (Carla Warren). Walter was initially arrested and charged with manslaughter, but was deemed mentally unfit to stand trial, so he was institutionalized at St. Claire's Hospital in 1991. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the fifth season episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Blotter&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Black Blotter&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (in the new timeline), when Walter takes a dose of LSD to try and remember details about their plan, he hallucinates Carla Warren and this vision of Carla claims that she died in a lab fire in trying to destroy his notebook containing many of his ideas, including the original design for the device to cross between universes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="15418" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T13:55:16.640" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T13:55:16.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32308" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32309" CreationDate="2015-03-18T15:52:18.580" Score="5" ViewCount="6850" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to find the name of a film about people who have died and are waiting to move on..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the film is 15-30 years old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are not yet in heaven - Their lives are replayed and they are judged. After the viewings they will either go on to heaven (in a bus, if I recall!) or they will be reincarnated and have to live another life, in the hopes of living well enough to be sent on to heaven next time around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While in this purgatory, a man and a woman fall in love. Towards the end of the film she is sent on to heaven, while he is told he needs to live another life.  He's not happy about this idea and tries to force his way on to her bus, to be with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's about all I can remember - Hope it's enough to identify the film!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19728" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-18T15:55:25.180" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T15:55:25.180" Title="Name of movie about people who have died and are waiting to move on (to heaven or a new life)" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:39:08.040" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32308" CreationDate="2015-03-18T15:54:36.810" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Defending your life (1991) starring Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/jp6qkZkPBhY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101698/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt; I remember Rip Torn was the lawyer assigned to defend Albert Brooks, it was pretty funny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T15:54:36.810" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30479" CreationDate="2015-03-18T16:44:30.043" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might not be enough to exonerate him, but &lt;strong&gt;he doesn't have any other choice.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Point 1: British law in taking the prints&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't remember where they find the fingerprint, but from the question I'm guessing it's an unidentified print in the victim's house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The police had no reason to take his fingerprints before then because &lt;strong&gt;a.&lt;/strong&gt; whilst he was a suspect, they had zero evidence against him, and &lt;strong&gt;b.&lt;/strong&gt; they had found no fingerprints before then to identify his against.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means they had no justification to take his prints before they found the print in the house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Point 2: Only removing his right hand&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Luther phones Ken Barnaby, he knows from the phone call only that the police have found a single fingerprint, and that the police will be coming the next day to take his fingerprints to compare to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, Ken Barnaby's state of mind is fragile. In a short space of time he has both lost his (only?) daughter and killed a man. Clearly he isn't thinking straight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, Ken knows that he killed the troll, but the police so far only suspect. So what can he do to save himself? The only thing that he thinks links him to the murder is this fingerprint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reality, the print &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; be from his left hand rather than his right. The print might not even be his, but some other random friend that happened to visit the day before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But because of his fragile state of mind, he reasons that the print is his, and the probability is that it's from his right hand. So he (almost) gets rid of the only evidence linking him to the murder, in his own mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, I'm guessing he wouldn't want to lose both hands on the off chance it's a fingerprint from his left hand. I'm sure he'd rather have a hand left (pardon the pun).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2015-03-18T16:44:30.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32316" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36023" CreationDate="2015-03-18T20:59:54.790" Score="2" ViewCount="849" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Oz, many prisoners have to change their location from the experimental unit Emerald City and some normal units, and vice versa. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emerald City is extremely controlled with much more prison officers, and it seems that the living environment is worse than in normal units (There are harly any private things; plus when he was in a normal unit, Schillinger was seen with a personal radio device, playing at a pool table, etc.). Also, there seems to be much more violence within Emerald City than in the rest of the prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were a prisoner, I would definitly not want to live in &#xA;Emerald City. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a lot of prisoners are even begging for being there, or complaining if they have to leave (e.g., when Martin Querns, the replacement of McManus, began to reorganize Emerald City and exchanged a lot of prisoners. But also during the whole series). &lt;strong&gt;Why? What is so attractive for prisoners that they want to live in Emerald City rather than in any other prison unit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T21:02:34.910" Title="Why do prisoners want to live in Emerald City?" Tags="|oz|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32333" CreationDate="2015-03-18T22:08:21.740" Score="2" ViewCount="560" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does Banshee have a genre?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To list some of the more wide and loose:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wikipedia: &lt;em&gt;Action Drama&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Crime Thriller&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IMDb: &lt;em&gt;Action&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Crime&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Drama&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rotten Tomatoes: &lt;em&gt;Drama&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;…&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some reason it reminds me of a feel from some comic books like &lt;em&gt;Agent X9&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Punisher&lt;/em&gt; etc. that I regularly read growing up. Likely more to some of the side additions in series within the magazines. (And a touch of &lt;em&gt;No country for old men&lt;/em&gt; (Scenery, perhaps in particular), &lt;em&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/em&gt; (Mood perhaps) etc. in a somewhat loose mix. – These are personal floating connections ;P if you get what I mean.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is kind of a modern Wild-West with (anti)heroes, drama, action, sex, violence, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the consistent &lt;em&gt;feel&lt;/em&gt; one get with old Ford's, dust, shacks, raw ext–/interior and even though one have a &lt;em&gt;super hacker&lt;/em&gt; the digitized world is kept at a arms length. One have a character unwrapping for some, (rather static personas), in line with character development with others – giving a interesting mix of the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is however if there is a more specific sub-genre on the series. (Beside the ones mentioned above.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From comment and answer I realize my intention was lost. &lt;em&gt;“Genre”&lt;/em&gt; was wrong word. I was more thinking of style, theme, (visual and otherwise), or something in that direction. Examples of “styles” in that regard is e.g. &lt;em&gt;Dark City&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Tron&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Pi&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Saving Private Ryan&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Braveheart&lt;/em&gt; for that matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyhow; as it was asked as is I'll leave it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8038" LastEditorUserId="8038" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T00:23:37.683" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T00:23:37.683" Title="Genre of Banshee" Tags="|genre|banshee|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32046" CreationDate="2015-03-19T01:17:02.670" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101612/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Count Max&lt;/a&gt; (AKA Il Conte Max) from 1991. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/211031/Il-Conte-Max/overview&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From the NY Times&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Years before, the millionaire Pierre (Alain Flick) destroyed the wealthy nobleman Count Max's fortune. In the present, Alfredo (Christian De Sica), a restless young mechanic who resembles the count, has fallen in love with a model (Ornella Muti) and wants some new adventure in his life. In return for his agreement to get revenge on the Count's old foe, &lt;strong&gt;he gets lessons in how to behave like the count himself.&lt;/strong&gt; He tracks down the model, woos her successfully, and persuades her to join forces with him to go to Morocco and confront the nefarious millionaire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of the film, Alfredo, on his three-wheel bike, races someone once the light changes, and later, Max teaches him how to peel an &lt;em&gt;orange&lt;/em&gt; with a knife and fork. It's Italian, though, not US. Couldn't find a trailer, but here's a clip with the protagonist:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/HzGJAqwFrzo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T01:17:02.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12954" CreationDate="2015-03-19T01:26:16.540" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;SPOILERS… sort of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay here's how I see it. They left Shaw captured with his intersect because the government is still interested in the intersect and now they have a live test-prisoner who nobody cares about so they can basically do whatever they want to do. So until he got out, he was a valuable test subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people ask why his mind didn't deteriorate without the governor. My answer to this is that he would've been in solitary confinement with nothing to flash on, so the deterioration would've been kept to a minimum. (perhaps contradicting the test subject theory but who cares it's a hypothetical.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way to explain is that he was intact suffering from the intersect and it had affected his sanity. He did go from 0 to crazy outrageously fast after he got that sukka the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19778" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-11-11T23:04:16.520" LastActivityDate="2019-11-11T23:04:16.520" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32322" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-19T01:53:55.220" Score="3" ViewCount="31744" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched an interesting movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3007512/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Water Diviner&lt;/a&gt;. There was an Australian man named Joshua who was on a mission to find his three sons lost to the first World War after his Wife Lizzie (Eliza) had commit suicide. He was told by a young Turkish woman named Ayshe to drink a cup of coffee before she could start a game that determines his fate somehow. Some weeks later he came back to see her, and he wondered why she didn't look surprised when seeing him. He asked her about it while she was giving him a cup of coffee. She answered &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was in your coffee, [..]. Everything is in the coffee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once he discovered what is inside the cup, he then stood up and they started to smile at one another. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of their last conversation before the movie ended? Did she make a &quot;bad&quot; coffee on purpose to test their hidden love; that is, a question about drinking in fear of making her sad and that he liked her? Or does it mean something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19779" LastEditorUserId="43257" LastEditDate="2017-03-25T23:50:18.847" LastActivityDate="2019-11-07T23:53:05.823" Title="Understanding the &quot;secret&quot; message of a scene in the movie, The Water Diviner" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|the-water-diviner|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32326" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-19T05:09:11.343" Score="11" ViewCount="1772" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_of_New_York&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; article: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gangs of New York&lt;/em&gt; is inspired by Herbert Asbury's 1927 non-fiction book, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gangs_of_New_York_%28book%29&quot;&gt;The Gangs of New York&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was &lt;em&gt;Gangs of New York&lt;/em&gt; considered an &quot;original screenplay&quot; for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/75th_Academy_Awards#Awards&quot;&gt;75th Academy Awards&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56th_British_Academy_Film_Awards#Best_Screenplay_-_Original&quot;&gt;56th BAFTAs&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19784" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-19T06:06:57.923" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T14:48:29.557" Title="Why is Gangs of New York considered an original screenplay?" Tags="|screenplay|gangs-of-new-york|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32326" CreationDate="2015-03-19T05:29:32.050" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because it was &quot;inspired&quot; by it, not &quot;based&quot; on it. Herbert Asbury's book (as you've mentioned in your quote) is non-fiction. It was about the real and historic Gangs of New York. Now the movie was completely fictional, only loosely following the real historic events (which Asbury didn't author but &lt;em&gt;reported&lt;/em&gt;), so it's considered to be a standalone screenplay, not an adaptation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2015-03-19T08:51:04.267" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T08:51:04.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32328" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-19T05:37:47.623" Score="2" ViewCount="1695" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's regarding the last episode of Season 1 of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;'The Flash'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; TV series. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Flash_%282014_TV_series%29_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Fast Enough&quot;&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Barry&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; aka '&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;' was running to the morgue he saw his reflection which he mentioned to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dr Wells&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; aka &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eobard Thawne&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; that he felt like it was him who he saw. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is, can that be he himself after that time jump shown at the end of the episode? This is just what I thought at once and I need some opinions on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19280" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-22T12:01:05.127" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T12:01:05.127" Title="Was it Barry's reflection or himself after the time jump?" Tags="|plot-explanation|arrowverse|the-flash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32318" CreationDate="2015-03-19T10:45:35.290" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no hard and fast rule what genre a show/movie falls into. &quot;Genre&quot; is a highly subjective and elusive topic and there is neither any agreed on definition what genres there are nor where one ends and the next begins (mostly because each genre usually has elements of other genres).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Genres are a man-made concept trying to categorize movies and shows into similar(ish) groups, not something that exists inherently in the nature of the movie/show and is then &quot;discovered&quot; by examining it.&#xA;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/21890/who-decides-the-genre-of-a-movie?rq=1&quot;&gt;Who decides the genre of a movie?&lt;/a&gt; on more information how the genre is usually decided upon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the light of this, it is kind of &lt;strong&gt;futile to try to determine the exact subgenre of a show&lt;/strong&gt;, especially if it is as diverse as Banshee. As you said yourself, it has elements that one could attribute to many different genres and happily mixes different settings, styles and plot elements even within the same episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finding a specific sub-genre for exactly that show would not be of much use to anyone, so the best you will probably get that most people will agree on is that it falls within the broad &lt;strong&gt;drama&lt;/strong&gt; genre. From there on you are free to make up your own mind, because whoever you ask, you will get a different answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T10:45:35.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32335" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32339" CreationDate="2015-03-19T12:21:20.143" Score="7" ViewCount="7537" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand how the game &quot;Monument Valley&quot; played a role in Frank's plan putting a &quot;philosophy&quot; behind his AmWorks program. When he started typing on the keyboard and showing the screen to his subordinates, it was not revealed what was in that game the he saw useful. I never played the Monument Valley, I just read that it's a puzzle game. So can anyone shed some light on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18703" LastActivityDate="2015-03-20T08:49:29.717" Title="What is the significance of the game &quot;Monument Valley&quot; to House of Cards plot" Tags="|plot-explanation|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32336" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32337" CreationDate="2015-03-19T12:26:42.900" Score="4" ViewCount="4740" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 3 Episode 8 of House of Cards, during Frank's &quot;breaking the fourth wall&quot; instance, he said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;  that Hector Mendoza was replaced as the Senate majority leader because &lt;em&gt;he declared a couple of paid speeches&lt;/em&gt; as income? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does that mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18703" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-19T18:48:12.640" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T18:48:12.640" Title="What happened to Hector Mendoza in House of Cards?" Tags="|character|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32336" CreationDate="2015-03-19T12:38:54.200" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite the opposite - he didn't declare them, which basically means that he lied in his taxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://house-of-cards.wikia.com/wiki/Hector_Mendoza&quot;&gt;HoD wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It revealed later in the season that amidst a scandal of accepting&#xA;  undeclared payments for speeches, Mendoza had resigned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to what Frank said in this episode this came out because a document &quot;leaked&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T12:38:54.200" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32335" CreationDate="2015-03-19T12:42:49.577" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wasn't the game that mattered, but its review, written by &lt;a href=&quot;http://house-of-cards.wikia.com/wiki/Tom_Yates&quot;&gt;Tom Yates&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Having read Yates' effusive review of Monument Valley, President Frank Underwood, longtime fan of shoot-'em-up video games, was so intrigued by its flowery language that it made him depart from his usual video game tastes and give the indie game a try. The occurrence made Underwood decide to look Yates up and commission him to come up with a piece of non-fiction political literature on the America Works, thinking that such a work would inject the public perception of his jobs program with some positivity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T12:42:49.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32335" CreationDate="2015-03-19T12:43:14.343" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tom Yates, a very famous author dedicated with many prizes, wrote a colorful review of the princess game &lt;a href=&quot;https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ustwo.monumentvalley&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Monument Valley&lt;/a&gt;. The whole review reads as follows (Frank reads it to Yates when they first met):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whoever you are, whoever you think you are, believe that you're also a silent princess. Your name is Ida. Your journey is one through a forgotten landscape of twisting staircases and morphing castles, atop floating stones defiantly crossing an angry sea, within dimly-lit caverns cobwebbed with ruins M.C. Escher could only grasp at in a dream state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Altough Frank was used to play action games (I think, it was Halo?) in the first seasons, he is seen playing Monument Valley on his tablet (S03E05, after about 15 minutes), which seems to be far away from his normal taste in games. Later, he shows the review for this game to Remy and Seth in order to convince them that someone (Yates) who can write reviews with such a colorful language and which are so famous are perfect to write a book about the philosphy of AmWorks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He tells Yates (middle of S03E05) that his review was the reason he tried this game:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I tend to play shoot-'em-ups.&#xA;  The indie games don't really interest me.&#xA;  I need adrenaline and action.&#xA;  But when I read this, I had to try it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="7757" LastEditDate="2015-03-19T17:07:53.393" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T17:07:53.393" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32342" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-19T13:24:00.467" Score="23" ViewCount="8093" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I watched it in the 90's on TV, the movie or possible TV episode was most probably from the 80's.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was in colour and I'm quite sure it was American.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The protagonist was a young woman, living alone in a big American city and afraid to leave her apartment because she believed that there is a killer that wants to kill her. I don't remember if this was related to her past or not.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think she felt she was being watched and she was receiving calls with no one talking.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think at some point she called a friend or relative to to talk about her fears.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Near the end of the movie she was somehow forced to leave the apartment. I remember a scene in a dark alley where she overcame her fear. I think she was attacked there and managed to defend herself, unfortunately I don't remember if there really was a killer or she was attacked by a robber, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What may help is that I remember that all the scenes took place at night.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there were some scenes (at least one) shot in a way that &lt;strong&gt;suggested&lt;/strong&gt; that the woman was being watched through a window from an apartment on the other side of the street. It was as if we were seeing through the eyes of the killer that was looking through his window and watching the woman through a window in her apartment. The killer was not shown though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's not:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Midnight Lace&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Copycat&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Sleeping with the Enemy&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Scissors&lt;/em&gt; with Sharon Stone, &lt;em&gt;Windows&lt;/em&gt; with Talia Shire, &lt;em&gt;Fear Inside&lt;/em&gt; with Christine Lahti, &lt;em&gt;Tales from the Crypt&lt;/em&gt; episode with Blythe Danner in a library, &lt;em&gt;Dream Lover&lt;/em&gt; with Kristy MacNichol, &lt;em&gt;After Midnight&lt;/em&gt; with Marg Helgenberger, &lt;em&gt;Wait Until Dark&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Sorry, Wrong Number&lt;/em&gt; with Loni Anderson, &lt;em&gt;When a Stranger Calls&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;When a Stranger Calls Back&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Frozen With Fear&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Eyes of Laura Mars&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Night Caller&lt;/em&gt; episode of &lt;em&gt;Alfred Hitchcock Presents&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Lady Beware&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Fan (1981)&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Seduction&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Lisa&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest match so far seems to be Carpenter's &lt;em&gt;Someone’s Watching Me!&lt;/em&gt; from 1978, but it's lacking the most important detail - the protagonist wasn't afraid to leave her apartment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2017-10-11T22:38:38.550" LastActivityDate="2017-10-11T22:38:38.550" Title="Thriller movie with woman afraid to leave her apartment" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="14" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:39:20.560" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32326" CreationDate="2015-03-19T14:42:52.357" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2003/02/why_is_gangs_of_new_yorknominated_for_the_best_original_screenplay_oscar.html&quot;&gt;Julia Turner at Slate&lt;/a&gt; had the same question back in February 2003:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jay Cocks, a longtime Scorsese collaborator and one of film's three&#xA;  credited writers, told Explainer that most of the script was an&#xA;  original creation: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;This is a world we conjured out of whole cloth,&#xA;  out of a whole lot of unassimilated historical research.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; He says&#xA;  Asbury's book, which Cocks and Scorcese discovered in the late '70s,&#xA;  served primarily as an introduction to the history of the draft riots.&#xA;  The writers borrowed only a few particularly pungent gang names&#xA;  (including the Dead Rabbits and the Plug Uglies), the sketchy outlines&#xA;  of two key characters (Bill the Butcher and Monk McGinn), and Asbury's&#xA;  &quot;great title&quot; from the book. The rest, he says, was original, with&#xA;  guidance from about 50 historical sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Of course, the decision isn't up to Jay Cocks. &lt;strong&gt;The writers branch of&#xA;  the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences determines which&#xA;  scripts count as an original screenplay and which count as an adapted&#xA;  screenplay&lt;/strong&gt;. When making its decision, the committee considers the&#xA;  sources in question, interviews given about the movie, and the film's&#xA;  publicity materials. They also consider how the Writers Guild of&#xA;  America classified the film for its awards, although they sometimes&#xA;  make a different call. (The WGA also classified Gangs as an original&#xA;  work.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.miramax.com/subscript/gangs-of-new-york-from-book-to-screen/&quot;&gt;Miramax&lt;/a&gt; says the same:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The adaptation was so loosely based on the book, however, the script was considered for 'Best Original Screenplay' at the 2002 Oscars instead of 'Best Adapted Screenplay'. [...] Scorsese's first cut of Gangs was over four hours long. He's the first to admit that his broad adaptation and final cut did not cover all of the events of the time and said, &lt;strong&gt;&quot;this is based on history, there's no doubt about it. But it is still a film that is more of an opera than history.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scorsese's characters were either entirely fictional&lt;/strong&gt;, like Jenny Everdeen played by Cameron Diaz, Amsterdam Vallon played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Priest Vallon played by Liam Neeson &lt;strong&gt;or they were fictionalized versions of real people&lt;/strong&gt; like Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting played by Daniel Day-Lewis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-03-19T14:48:29.557" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T14:48:29.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32345" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32387" CreationDate="2015-03-19T15:22:26.127" Score="4" ViewCount="1395" Body="&lt;p&gt;While several aspects of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2562232/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Birdman&lt;/em&gt;  (2014)&lt;/a&gt; have been discussed and &lt;i&gt;debated&lt;/i&gt;, with some people agreeing and others disagreeing with the merits of the continuous structure of the film, the (lack of) importance of the romance angle, and whether the film is ultimately simply a narcissistic exercise, there has been virtually no debate and visible disagreement on the fact that the ending is a &quot;happy&quot; one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems odd to me, since the progression of events seemed to indicate a distinctly unhappy ending and a resulting broader (and unhappy) implication for the character, not a redemptive one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To understand my incredulity, consider the basic kernel of the story transposed to real life, and see if the progression of events could be termed &quot;happy&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Dunce&quot; kid wants to score big in literature. He is good at sports and is &quot;popular&quot;, but for whatever reason, literature does not&#xA;  penetrate his skull. But he makes up his mind that he wants to achieve&#xA;  that, and assembles the right collection of books to make a genuine&#xA;  stab.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He is continually called a dunce, bullied by the teachers and told that &quot;he will never succeed&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For a brief moment, he strikes back at the said bully-teacher, giving you - the viewer - some mild hope that there is a message of&#xA;  equality and redemption hidden in the movie after all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Soon after, dunce kid loses it, gets up the next morning, realizes he will never be anything more than a jock, writes a long suicide note&#xA;  addressed to the teacher describing how shitty he is and how there is&#xA;  no hope for him, and then offs himself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Teacher receives the blood-spattered letter, and instead of being horrified by what happened to the boy, or the least bit compassionate,&#xA;  is impressed that the suicide note is &quot;completely honest&quot;, has some&#xA;  &quot;much needed blood&quot; and is in impressive handwriting. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She then writes him a note back, &quot;You are ignorant, and you will&#xA;  always be, but the honesty of your depression is awesome!!&quot;, and&#xA;  enrolls him in 10 literary competitions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, the boy has failed to even kill himself, and now faces the&#xA;  prospect of 10 literary competitions, where - according to the&#xA;  evidence presented so far - he can only impress or even&#xA;  &lt;i&gt;compete&lt;/i&gt;, if he is depressed all over again, permanently&#xA;  accepting that he is shit and not allowed to have a single smidgen of&#xA;  confidence or self respect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because if he is not depressed, he can't emote! ..As per the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't seem in any way like a happy ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the example is forced and exaggerated, but my point &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; to highlight the extremity and ridiculousness of emotions Riggan must have been going through, and the ridiculous situation he appears to end up in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible that this interpretation of the series of events is not correct (in terms of the emotional keystones it hits), but if it is, I completely fail to understand how this is being interpreted as &quot;happy&quot; for Riggan, rather than depressing and intensely horrifying!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Addendum&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now there are alternative explanations for the ending. One from &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/32347/11122&quot;&gt;yurnero's answer&lt;/a&gt; being:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Finally, some people interpret the post-suicide act as Riggan's&#xA;  pre-death imagination so the bullet 5 in your post doesn't have to&#xA;  correspond to a real event in the movie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would in fact make sense, and would count as an indirect &quot;victory&quot; even within the context of a tragedy. Because while Riggan could not earn legitimacy during his life, he put the only thing he had - his real life depression and lack of sense of worth - into one last performance, and signed off on a high, finally in control of his legacy the only way he could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the only interpretation so far which I can consider to be indirectly &quot;happy&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Note&lt;/h3&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original (very poorly constructed) question read &quot;Why isn't anyone TERRIFIED or horrified by this apparent underlying theme of Birdman (2014)?&quot; And some comments/answers below were in response to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11122" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user11122" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-03-20T19:23:44.787" Title="How come the underlying theme of Birdman is being seen as redemptive, rather than sealing the character's fate as a failure?" 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  <row Id="32346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32345" CreationDate="2015-03-19T16:46:08.177" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Q. How is this not intensely, disturbingly, distressingly horrifying?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A1. Because it's just a movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A2. Because the movie tells the story of just one pathetically approval-obsessed person -- not the story of the human condition. It's a cautionary tale: &quot;Don't be like Birdman.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T16:46:08.177" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32345" CreationDate="2015-03-19T17:26:28.007" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll make some separate points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First, I like your analogy story!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Riggan's suicide attempt may look like just that to the audience but to Tabitha, it may very well be a sacrifice for art. This is where your analogy &lt;strong&gt;doesn't&lt;/strong&gt; work: stage is a &lt;em&gt;performance&lt;/em&gt; art and the suicide attempt can be seen as a part of it. Even if you stretch your analogy to make the suicide note to be a part of a book, you can't make the suicide &lt;em&gt;act&lt;/em&gt; a part of the book. Plus, we have no evidence that Tabitha has no compassion for Riggan after his on-stage ordeal. It can be very well be that the compassion is a partial reason for her positive review.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Third, I personally find the story of Birdman horrifying but the film should be celebrated on &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; brilliantly the story is told: acting, direction, production, cinematography, costumes, all exemplary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finally, some people interpret the post-suicide act as Riggan's pre-death imagination so the bullet 5 in your post doesn't have to correspond to a real event in the movie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shiz Z. says: it's just a movie. And I concur!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14080" LastEditorUserId="14080" LastEditDate="2015-03-19T17:32:54.253" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T17:32:54.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32293" CreationDate="2015-03-19T17:32:58.830" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say commitment as in the previous answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also thinking about the uncanny valley. Even in CGI, reproducing a bald head might be a real emotion breaker as we could &quot;feel&quot; this is not real, cutting out all the emotion of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, I think the main reason is that it costs way less to the producer and help them allow budget on boobs surgery. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19796" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-19T17:43:45.033" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T17:43:45.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32354" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32356" CreationDate="2015-03-19T20:32:03.007" Score="6" ViewCount="9265" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 4, episode 5, Mike and Jesse are out checking drop points. At one point in the episode Jesse mentions he could be &quot;The guy&quot;, Mike then pulls over and rants to him about how this isn't in the cards: &quot;You are not the guy, you're not capable of being the guy. &lt;strong&gt;I had a guy but now I don't&lt;/strong&gt;. You are not the guy!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the bolded section, is it made clear who &quot;The guy&quot; is that he's referring to? I've thought it might have been Victor, he and Mike often worked together quite a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13394" LastEditorUserId="13394" LastEditDate="2015-03-19T21:04:57.123" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T21:04:57.123" Title="Who was &quot;The guy&quot; Mike was talking about?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32293" CreationDate="2015-03-19T20:50:34.353" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You might be surprised at how much it costs to do CGI, compositing, and animation.  Cutting off the hair costs only a few hundred dollars (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SAG&lt;/a&gt; rules require payment to the actress).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Greenscreen cleanup cost &quot;hundreds of thousands of dollars&quot; per minute of finished film (according to Ronald D. Moore's commentary on the DVD) during the making of the re-imagined &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_%282004_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Battlestar Galactica&lt;/em&gt; (2004)&lt;/a&gt;.  While that was ten years ago, doing CGI removal of hair is at least an order of magnitude harder than &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_key&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;chroma key&lt;/a&gt; alone which requires substantial manual cleanup:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The actresses head moves and her hair has complex moves which would have to be keyed somehow, tracked, and then &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotoscoping&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rotoscoped&lt;/a&gt; away.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Unless the camera is locked down, the background would have to be tracked, which might vary from frame to frame if her hair covers her clothes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This position of her virtual scalp is difficult to key automatically and probably would have to be keyed manually.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The boundary of where the hair ends and the virtual scalp starts would be very tricky to produce convincingly and reliably especially as the relative orientation varies for camera-to-head.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lighting effects would have to be added to the scalp.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would expect all of this would still run hundreds of thousands of dollars per minute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you were the producer of a feature length movie, which would you choose?:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;$1 million plus just for virtual hair removal which might not be completely convincing and might not look good?, or&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;$150 for a head shave?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T20:50:34.353" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32354" CreationDate="2015-03-19T20:56:15.420" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I can't really do much else to prove this either and can only agree with you there. In the way he said that I'm pretty sure he does indeed mean &lt;em&gt;Victor&lt;/em&gt;, especially seeing that there couldn't really be anyone else he'd be talking about that we know of, and for a simple throwaway line without any meaning it was just too prominent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Afterall &lt;em&gt;Mike&lt;/em&gt; was at first not very happy to play babysitter for &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt; in whatever strange play &lt;em&gt;Gus&lt;/em&gt; had set up. Add to this that he was also very upset about &lt;em&gt;Victor&lt;/em&gt;'s death and especially the fact that this was pretty much the fault of the two &quot;intruders&quot; &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Walt&lt;/em&gt;. And now he has to care for someone who'll probably never be able to hold up to the guy whose death he was responsible for (and the fact that he didn't have a high opinion about &lt;em&gt;Jesse&lt;/em&gt;'s attitude and false confidence either, at least at first). So yeah, he's definitely talking about &lt;em&gt;Victor&lt;/em&gt; there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-19T21:01:23.747" LastActivityDate="2015-03-19T21:01:23.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32357" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32535" CreationDate="2015-03-19T21:35:52.727" Score="8" ViewCount="1473" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is a comedy, but Creed said and did very suspicious things throughout the series. He also made allusions to a shady history. Should Dwight not have fixated on Creed as he did with nearly everyone else in the office?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13804" LastEditorUserId="22" LastEditDate="2015-06-15T17:12:36.067" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T17:12:36.067" Title="Why didn't Dwight ever suspect Creed of something nefarious?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-office|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32365" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-20T03:16:50.873" Score="3" ViewCount="2209" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon_%281998_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Armageddon&lt;/a&gt;, what tool was Harry Stamper referring to when he said &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;unpack The Judge&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;after the drill bit broke?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19806" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-07-02T22:50:16.777" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T22:50:16.777" Title="What is The Judge?" Tags="|dialogue|armageddon|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19701" CreationDate="2015-03-20T07:14:28.167" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you remember how in the x-men movies they hinted as to why his claws are adamantium?  It's because they used bone saws to inject the adamantium into his bones which would mean that just like his bone claws regrew because of his regeneration they would actually be adamantium because his bones are adamantium.  They have been making mistakes all over the series, and they are all easy to find if you watch what happens in chronological order, the only movies that have the same story line to it about the past is x-men # 1,2&amp;amp;3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19808" LastActivityDate="2015-03-20T07:14:28.167" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32335" CreationDate="2015-03-20T08:49:29.717" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to these plot related answers, I'd add that there is a &lt;em&gt;significant&lt;/em&gt; amount of product placement in the show itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One particular egregious point that sticks out for me is in Season 2 when Frank Underwood goes over to Peter Rousseau's and sees Rousseau's son's Playstation Vita, which is very poorly performing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; Underwood: &quot;Is that a PS Vita? Which games does he have?&quot;&#xA; Rousseau:  &quot;All of them.&quot;&#xA; Underwood: &quot;I have a console at home I play sometimes to relax. &#xA;             I oughta get one of these for the car.&quot;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a number of other really heavy offenders, but if you give it some thought while watching the show they become really hard to miss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show does not list any disclosures for product placements and states that products like the Vita are used &quot;with permission.&quot; Additionally, according to the LA Times, a spokesperson from Netflix says they don't have any product placement deals in place. I don't personally find that believable myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/03/entertainment/la-et-st-house-of-cards-netflix-product-placement-20130503&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/03/entertainment/la-et-st-house-of-cards-netflix-product-placement-20130503&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19811" LastActivityDate="2015-03-20T08:49:29.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31775" CreationDate="2015-03-20T09:29:30.770" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I like to think this is a metaphor about Riggan's fall. Riggan is a part of a powerful and massive planet, but he left it (Planet Birdman) and he does not know to what he belongs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While he falls, he is struggling and tries to hang on to anything around (friends, family). The bright light generated by an Asteroid could be his show, or his lost career). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He does not care about disappearing (he even wants to disappear as Birdman).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for me it's just a movie summary, and it reminds us that an asteroid is not designed to fall, but to fly, until he meets an obstacle. And he is not crashing, which means to me: He is not falling, he is convinced he is, but he eventually will fly through space, without any bond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19796" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-03-20T19:01:12.263" LastActivityDate="2015-03-20T19:01:12.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32377" CreationDate="2015-03-20T11:56:36.140" Score="3" ViewCount="1315" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a scene where Ron Woodroof says to a gay couple: &quot;Watch what you eat and who you eat&quot;. What does he mean when he says &quot;watch who you eat&quot; ? What's the problem with the person you eat with?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-03-20T12:13:32.443" LastActivityDate="2015-03-20T12:13:32.443" Title="What does Ron mean by &quot;watch who you eat&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dallas-buyers-club|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32376" CreationDate="2015-03-20T12:04:19.603" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;'Eating' is slang for fellatio (see definition 7 &lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eat&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). By saying &quot;watch out &lt;em&gt;who&lt;/em&gt; you eat&quot;, he's humorously telling them to be careful whom they have sex with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-03-20T12:04:19.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31667" CreationDate="2015-03-20T12:39:07.517" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you will find a conclusive answer as it wasn't explained, so we can only speculate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Claire may have mentioned it in an interview throughout her (or rather Frank's) career and Pasternak found this information somewhere.&#xA;Maybe he was able to reach someone who knew her well enough to know. Even the Doug theory from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856010/board/flat/240901387&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB thread&lt;/a&gt; you mentioned is plausible, although I doubt it's true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said I think it is more important &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; it was shown that he knew instead of &lt;strong&gt;how&lt;/strong&gt; did he knew.&#xA;In my opinion there are two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The writers wanted to show us how grateful Pasternak was to Claire for what she did in Moscow. If it were just any flowers it wouldn't have the same effect.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was a nice way to connect this scene with the next scene, were Frank is showing his and Claire's first house to Yates:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's tulips buried under here. Claire planted them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-03-22T19:08:51.940" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T19:08:51.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32379" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32383" CreationDate="2015-03-20T12:45:49.750" Score="1" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a scene which Ron Woodroof's stuffs (medicines) are being taken by the IRS. He is very angry (And cocky) and he sticks a paper in front of a car's window that belongs to the people from IRS.  Can we guess that that what the paper is about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-15T09:44:36.577" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T09:44:36.577" Title="What paper does Ron stick infront of a car's window that belongs to the people from IRS?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dallas-buyers-club|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32365" CreationDate="2015-03-20T13:27:39.847" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Judge&quot; is nothing more than a really large drill bit.  There's no real reason I could figure out as to how it got that name, but that's what they unpack and put on the end of the rig.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-03-20T13:27:39.847" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32379" CreationDate="2015-03-20T14:04:50.450" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe in that scene, which is the IRS seizing financial records for an audit, the &amp;quot;paper&amp;quot; Ron grabs and slaps on the windshield of their car is his checkbook (or just one check).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://focusguilds2013.com/workspace/media/dbc_final-script_-12.02.12-.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;INT. DALLAS BUYERS CLUB MOTEL - RON'S OFFICE - DAY&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ron and David Wayne look on as two IRS AGENTS carry out boxes of&#xA;receipts and other financial records.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RON: Nice work, fellas, great. This is how you got Al Capone, ain't&#xA;it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As the Agents exit:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DAVID WAYNE: Don’t piss them off. If there’s a fine, we'll pay it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RON: A fine? Fine, alright, how much? Ten thousand? Twenty thousand?&#xA;I'll write you a check right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ron grabs his check book.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RON: You think that will stop me, you motherfuckers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;David waves Ron down with his hands.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-20T14:04:50.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32384" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32385" CreationDate="2015-03-20T14:34:00.580" Score="3" ViewCount="161" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a scene in &lt;em&gt;Cinderella Man&lt;/em&gt; when Jim Braddock's manager Joe ask about the condition of Jim before the fight against Max Baer, it turns out that all of them are bad news . And then Joe says &quot; What's the bad news, sunshine ?&quot; Is this a phrase that uses commonly to express sarcasm ? What is this actually mean? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-10T14:17:38.137" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T14:17:38.137" Title="Was Joe being sarcastic after hearing about Jim?" Tags="|dialogue|plot-explanation|cinderella-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32384" CreationDate="2015-03-20T15:57:41.643" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sarcasm, or irony.  Either way, it was meant for comic relief.  Like, &quot;Can you tell me anything &lt;em&gt;worse&lt;/em&gt; than what you've already told me?&quot;  Same goes for using the nickname &quot;Sunshine&quot;.  It's meant as irony/sarcasm.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reminds me of a friend I had in high school who was chronically depressed.  Kinda like Eyeore from Winnie The Pooh.  Kids, being the cruel humanoids they are, used to call her &quot;The Good News Bear&quot; behind her back.  Same concept; using irony/sarcasm for comedic purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-03-20T15:57:41.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32345" CreationDate="2015-03-20T19:23:44.787" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, as far as I can tell, your question is, &quot;Why are people not more disturbed by the depressing implications of this apparently happy ending?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My answer is that you are partially correct, the ending is not a happy one. However, perhaps the reason that you haven't seen anyone argue &lt;em&gt;against&lt;/em&gt; the idea that the ending is a &quot;happy&quot; one is that no one is seriously claiming that it &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we look at the ending as a hallucination, then it is &lt;em&gt;at best&lt;/em&gt; a Pyrrhic victory for Riggan: he has finally achieved some level of personal peace and satisfaction, but he is also dying. And he isn't even totally at peace with himself, as Birdman still makes an appearance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we take the ending at face value, then Riggan has become depressed about his failure as an artist, a husband, and a father, and tried to kill himself&amp;mdash;and failed at that, too. But in doing so, he made his show a hit! By giving up on the play and on life, he has been forced into a situation where he will have to keep performing the play for a long time. It may be a depressing ending, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it &quot;horrifying&quot;. The self-absorbed protagonist has suffered an ironic fate&amp;mdash;as he must, because &lt;em&gt;Birdman&lt;/em&gt; is, at its core, a tragedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind also that &lt;em&gt;Birdman&lt;/em&gt; has a very ironic sense of humor. Riggan hates the &quot;popular&quot; media and wants to make a &quot;serious&quot; work on Broadway, and in the process, he accidentally becomes a viral video sensation. His previous popularity as a movie star gave him the opportunity to write, direct, and star in a Broadway play, but his &quot;movie star&quot; status also means that most of the theater community won't take him seriously. Consider also Mike Shiner, a man so committed to acting that he doesn't know how to live his own life, and can't even get an erection if he's not in-character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While people saying, &quot;it's just a movie&quot; may seem dismissive, they have a point. People aren't &quot;TERRIFIED&quot; by Riggan's demise (or ironic success) for the same reason that they aren't &quot;horrified&quot; by Michael Corleone's transformation to murderer and mafia don&amp;mdash;not only because it's a movie, but because that character's troubles and decisions are central to the story, and without the bad things, the story would be a lot less interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19225" LastActivityDate="2015-03-20T19:23:44.787" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3147" CreationDate="2015-03-20T21:33:35.167" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think many of these answers are excellent--including the chosen answer which is essentially stating &quot;it may be more fuzzy memory&quot; than statistical truth. I think the technology addition is good as well--both DVRs and DVD sales.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On other possible reason that we have more serial shows now than before is that we simply have a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; more TV. Cable was the big shift in the 80s but even then, TV series weren't a primary focus on a lot of the networks. Today &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; of the networks have morphed from their original intent into producers and developers of their own television series. Nickelodeon, Disney, AMC, MTV, Animal Planet, and dozens of others (not to mention non-networks such as Amazon and Netflix). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we simply have a lot more TV...meaning both more serialized shows as well as more episodic based shows. Depending on your tastes, you may be drawn to the more serialized options due to the fact that they tend to put a lot of effort into story telling. Plus, going back to the technology aspect, you can binge watch them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-03-20T21:33:35.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32395" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43785" CreationDate="2015-03-20T22:38:50.393" Score="5" ViewCount="1908" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just don't understand why Noah Vosen's whole team didn't pick Jason's &quot;di Piento's&quot; passport in &lt;em&gt;The Bourne Supremacy&lt;/em&gt; when he arrived in New York as they should have known all Jason's identities but Landy's colleague picked it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18703" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-21T12:13:50.900" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T12:13:50.900" Title="Jason Bourne as Gilberto di Piento and passports" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-bourne-supremacy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25088" CreationDate="2015-03-20T23:46:42.640" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, he meant the actual place.&lt;/strong&gt; Zach wanted to get somewhere far away and this is the most remote place he could think of. It's also an amusing line because he's being desperate and naive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think we need to get far away from here where the zombies can't get to us. [...] Machu Picchu. It's remote and safe. Look, I've got a map. I think if we take side streets and sidewalks...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He probably got the idea earlier in the film: when he finds out that Beth is alive, they watch TV together with her parents and &lt;strong&gt;the show is about Machu Picchu.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-03-21T00:39:39.093" LastActivityDate="2015-03-21T00:39:39.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7915" CreationDate="2015-03-21T04:01:18.997" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen the picture dozens of times. Fredo had to have opened the drapes.&#xA;My affirmation/answer is:&#xA;Roth played it well enough to trick Pantanglia (sp?) into believing Mike wanted him dead-even though he did not (Frankie goes back to GENCO days-&quot;old man, too much wine,&quot; etc.). The subsequent events with the hearings and even Frankie's brother's appearance show the power shift from Roth all in favor of Mike. The history lesson Tom obediently/reluctantly relays in WP after Frankie recants, ensures the brother's safety in Sicily both in punishment for Frankie's willingness to betray, and in a minor nod of gratitude for recanting. It is at this point that Mike's redemption is lost. Tom was right to question him, &quot; do you really want to wipe out everyone?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19824" LastActivityDate="2015-03-21T04:01:18.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32414" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-21T11:30:59.067" Score="2" ViewCount="636" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beware of &lt;strong&gt;major spoilers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Insidious Chapter 2, when the Grandmother and the three &quot;Ghost Hunters&quot; follow the lead from the past to find out what happened to Josh, they go to the old hospital and from there to the house of the old man (Parker Crane). That's when they realize that it has not been Elise who spoke through the dice to them, but Crane's insane mother (mater mortis). They also realize that Crane was the bride in black, a crazy murderer who killed many people in his lifetime and also the ghost appearing on Josh's old photographs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that moment they decide to go back to the family house, get Josh's wife and the kids out and try to sedate Josh, apparently because they now know that Josh is not really Josh, but Crane who took his body. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did they make that connection from the visit to Crane's old house?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T05:31:45.953" Title="How did they realize the truth about Josh?" Tags="|plot-explanation|insidious-chapter-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32416" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-21T12:43:48.330" Score="9" ViewCount="2088" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Guardians of the Galaxy, we see the Infinity Stones as normal stones when the Collector explains about them to the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JvrUtm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we know how different they are in the present Marvel cinematic timeline (Earth-199999). So the question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did the appearance of the stones change?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18480" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-10T00:23:38.413" LastActivityDate="2019-02-27T13:14:52.603" Title="Why are the Infinity stones different in appearance?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32418" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-21T14:30:19.267" Score="8" ViewCount="12981" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the cartoon is entitled &lt;strong&gt;Bewitched Bunny&lt;/strong&gt;.  Unfortunately, I don't have a video describing the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, Bugs Bunny (dressed as a truant officer) shows up at the witch's house who is fattening up Hansel and Gretle.  As the children are engorging on the dessert, Bugs asks the children what their names are.  When Hansel says his name, he exaggerates the vowels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bugs then says &quot;Hansel?&quot; to himself a few times in confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is Bugs confused by the name Hansel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6079" LastActivityDate="2015-06-23T10:02:53.367" Title="Why is Bugs Bunny confused by the name &quot;Hansel?&quot;" Tags="|looney-tunes|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32421" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32717" CreationDate="2015-03-21T15:25:27.017" Score="9" ViewCount="3938" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Community S06E01 - &quot;Ladders&quot;, there is a scene (at about 24 min, at the end of the actual episode) where Garrett is glaring at the study group, then Leonard staring at Garrett, then Leonard giving a thumbs-up to the camera, while dramatic background music plays. There doesn't seem to be anything about this in episode 2. Is this a reference to a TV show or movie, or is it a reference to a previous event? What's this scene about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1qVz6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8NFRX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="7757" LastEditDate="2015-03-27T19:29:20.217" LastActivityDate="2018-07-17T14:17:08.297" Title="What's with Garrett glaring at the study group, and then Leonard staring at Garrett?" Tags="|plot-explanation|community|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32322" CreationDate="2015-03-21T16:00:42.693" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the coffee had a lump of sugar in it. Earlier in the movie when they are discussing arranged marriages and how coffee determines a suitor, sweet coffee means the couple will marry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19835" LastActivityDate="2015-03-21T16:00:42.693" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31083" CreationDate="2015-03-21T17:44:01.320" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's quite a lot going on with Storage Wars and a lot of it is vague (presumably due to potential legal concerns) but there &lt;a href=&quot;https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120816023207AAB0a8M&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;have been instances&lt;/a&gt; of people who've turned up to watch filming noticing that the final product that airs is heavily cut and there have been a lot of &quot;rumors&quot; about items being moved or planted. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2012/12/storage-wars-beers-admits-staging-scripting/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Storage Wars executive producer Thom Beers has previously admitted to staging some of the cast member's lines and moving items between storage lots&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Nope. I can honestly tell you that the stuff found in those containers are found in storage containers. Now what I will tell you this: We have 20, 30 auctions, and so occasionally maybe one piece shows for one auction container, storage locker to another, you know, but that’s as far as we’ll go. That’s, I think, important.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically meaning, as the show only shows a small handful of lockers, they actually film many more and do move interesting items between lockers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like all reality TV, you should probably take the validity of everything you see with a pinch of salt, as ratings do matter at the end of the day...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2016-09-28T19:04:36.507" LastActivityDate="2016-09-28T19:04:36.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13441" CreationDate="2015-03-21T18:05:58.420" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The OP has identified some of the reasons for Javert's suicide. He does sing &quot;Damned if I'll live in the debt of a thief!&quot; but the central reason is the conflict created in his mind by Valjean's actions. He shows this when he sings &quot;And must I now begin to doubt, who never doubted all these years.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I myself have found this difficult to reconcile from a modern western perspective. One must realize, though, that Javert has spent his life fighting the internal shame of his low birth (&quot;I was born inside a jail... I am from the gutter too.&quot;) with a strict adherence to the law. In differentiating himself from the &quot;scum&quot; he grew up seeing he has created an inflexible dichotomy between righteous and evil men and left himself unable to see that a person can cross that divide (&quot;Men like you can never change&quot;). He was unable to see the good and bad in every man and did not believe a person could make such a fundamental change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And really, men dealing with change is what the entire story is about. The revolutionary change of 19th century France; Marius' struggle with his changing ideals; Valjean's change from criminal to upright citizen. Each character was dealing with the internal struggle created by these changes. Javert could not come to terms with it and the contradictions it presents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this is shown in the lyrics but you have to really pay attention to the details of what Javert is saying. Some of these details are exposed during the confrontation duet where both characters are singing simultaneously and can be tough to pick out. I must commend the writers of the musical for managing to bring out so many of Victor Hugo's complex characters. To take a 1200+ page book and turn it into a 2 1/2 hour play is a real accomplishment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19836" LastActivityDate="2015-03-21T18:05:58.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32431" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32432" CreationDate="2015-03-21T23:10:29.027" Score="7" ViewCount="38404" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a scene in American Sniper where an Iraqi bends down to pick something off the floor and in doing so his elbow was exposed.  It was a bright red colour as if it had been burned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this, the hero determined that the Iraqi was an enemy insurgent.  It recalls a scene from Inglorious Bastards where a careless gesture compromised a unit that was meant to be incognito.  Somehow I missed the connection in American Sniper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did a burned elbow betray the insurgent's cover?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T23:00:39.810" Title="Significance of the red elbow in American Sniper" Tags="|plot-explanation|american-sniper|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32431" CreationDate="2015-03-21T23:48:42.233" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is covered in the film's IMDb &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2179136/faq#.2.1.3&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;FAQ page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the significance of Kyle noticing the mark on the man's elbow at dinner?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mark (callus) suggests that &lt;em&gt;he has been resting for long periods on his elbows, as though he had been using a sniper rifle&lt;/em&gt;, making Kyle suspect he is an insurgent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chris Kyle's own elbows looked like this as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-21T23:48:42.233" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28785" CreationDate="2015-03-22T00:05:47.447" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think possibly he died after jumping out of the window but as the writers stated in the Huffington Post Q and A quoted above, the ending was written in a way to not detract from the central questions of the film.  Whether he really died or if it was a symbolic delusion in his head doesn't really matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The central theme I noticed continually throughout the film was the inability of the actor to separate the stage version of himself from his real-life self.  It's brought up by Edward Norton's character during the truth or dare game when he says he can get it up on-stage but not off-stage.  Then again by the continuous takes from the stage to the back-stage with no breaks in dialogue.  He struggles for fame and notoriety and can't escape his acting self hence the constant interaction and struggle with his Birdman alter-ego.  His real self is a terrible husband and not-so-great father, yet he sees himself as superhuman on-stage and it spills over to the off-stage when he floats things around the room, brought back to reality by his director.  His real-life self worth and acceptance is only fed by the success of his career.  He wants to be good in real-life and break free of Birdman, but he needs to be Birdman to feel good in real-life.  When he is rejected by his daughter by her saying he isn't relevant, and then rejected by the critic, he pushes himself all the way to his Birdman character giving them &quot;blood and action&quot; on stage by shooting himself.  The result is universal acclaim by the press and the critics and ultimately his daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ending I believe is symbolic of the acceptance of both parts of himself by his daughter, who could very well symbolize anyone close to him.  She looks down and sees the reality of who he is, a corpse splattered on the pavement.  She then looks up and sees his Birdman character, a superhuman being adored by everyone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The symbiotic relationship between a public version of yourself and the real version of yourself is a constant theme among most celebrities, with Michael Jackson being one of the most high-profile examples I can think of.  He was a tortured and delusional person in real-life, but the world on the whole loved him and his art.  The film Birdman seems to deal with the inner-working of the psychology of that toxic relationship of becoming a fictional version of who you are to gain real-life acceptance of who you are.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19845" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T00:05:47.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26265" CreationDate="2015-03-22T06:29:11.850" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no specific answer to your question that I can locate. It is possible that Joe Hill's intent (the author of the book) was to reference biblical mentions, as many of the references in the film (and likely the book, as well) are from the Bible. Psalm 75:10 reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I will cut off the horns of all the wicked, but the horns of the&#xA;  righteous will be lifted up.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another mention appears in Deuteronomy 33:17 as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;In majesty he is like a firstborn bull; his horns are the horns of a&#xA;  wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even those at the ends of&#xA;  the earth.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is clear that not all references to horned people indicate evil, but virility and power and righteousness. There are no references anywhere that I can find that suggest people were granted horns and the power to compel others to tell the truth, however. In this, the tale is more like a modern fairy tale, albeit a more adult-oriented one. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1528071/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;There are additional references to the Bible noted at IMDB&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19822" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T06:29:11.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28785" CreationDate="2015-03-22T08:41:58.387" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think Riggan died at all. The ending seems to represent him finally letting go of his ego by leaving Birdman on the toilet. He &quot;stepped out on a ledge&quot; &amp;amp; soared leaving behind the burdens of trying to stay relevant in the brutal showbiz industry.  Without the ego, he now has his family back &amp;amp; his daughter smiles knowing that he has finally chosen her instead of being lost below, once again, in the grimey-ness of theater in NYC. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19857" LastEditorUserId="19857" LastEditDate="2015-03-22T08:47:03.037" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T08:47:03.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32418" CreationDate="2015-03-22T09:50:32.093" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of the episode, Bugs was reading the fairy tale: in that story Hansel gets his feet chopped off so he cannot run away (Grimms' tale were quite dark, you know). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that's why he repeats the name: Bugs remembers what happens to Hansel, in fact he then says &quot;Run for you lifes. She wants to eat you for supper&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkcpAWaXnxU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; the link to the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T09:50:32.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32453" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-22T13:32:08.493" Score="6" ViewCount="305" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read other threads regarding credit/non-credit in movies, but haven't come across my particular question.  I was watching &quot;Julie and Julia&quot; last night and noticed something odd about the credits.  There were credits given for the &quot;Houghton Mifflin Executive&quot; (3 of them) but no credit was given for the &quot;Knopf executives&quot; of which there were at least 2.  One of them, a woman, had several scenes including one with Streep where they come up with the name of the book.  It is a much bigger part than many others that were credited.  She doesn't appear in the original movie credits or in IMDB, unless I'm missing something, which is also possible.  She isn't a big star, so those reasons for non-credit don't apply, and her role was bigger than others who were credited.  Any idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19863" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-22T13:46:14.723" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T00:20:23.807" Title="Non-credit in Julie and Julia" Tags="|credits|julie-and-julia|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27041" CreationDate="2015-03-22T15:53:39.133" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the more straightforward answer is that: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cooper had 2 weeks before he got to see Murph again, after being rescued and having recovered. In those 2 weeks he would have relayed their entire mission to NASA and told them exactly what had happened and how Amelia was heading to Edmunds' planet to execute Plan B.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Cooper, Romilly and Amelia were voting on going to Mann's or Edmunds' planet, they knew that Edmunds' wasn't transmitting anymore, so they knew that there was a possibility that he might be dead or in hibernation. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Murph is telling Cooper to go to Edmunds' planet for Amelia, she says, &quot;Maybe right now she's setting in for a long nap..&quot; - which implies that they don't have a word from Amelia Brand yet and the one directional communication might not have been fixed after all. So this is all conjecture. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19865" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-22T16:33:26.480" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T16:33:26.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32456" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-22T17:36:48.177" Score="2" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the dream state of Sally in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_Human_%28North_American_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Being human (US)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; S02E10, when she was controlled by her Reaper self, why was everything purple?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X4no1m.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/X4no1m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Building in the dream world purple&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zaMuMm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zaMuMm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Building on the original world with green colour&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even the green from the building was replaced with purple. And show's title card was altered too&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2rQtVm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2rQtVm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Show&amp;#39;s title card&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Building's interior was all black, white and gray to highlight purple more:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mpxJKm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mpxJKm.png&quot; alt=&quot;Charcters wearing purple shirts&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8VAG6m.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8VAG6m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;pic from the show showing purple props&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even her wardrobe was full of purple except cloths from her dead self:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HbF9Pm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HbF9Pm.png&quot; alt=&quot;wardrobe full of purple clothes&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the significance of using purple in the dream world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-12-14T10:03:00.983" LastActivityDate="2017-12-14T10:03:00.983" Title="What is the significance of purple in the dream world of Sally?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|being-human-us|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26557" CreationDate="2015-03-22T18:44:51.637" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll start at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Then how did they find his finger prints on the murder weapon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They didn't, you've simply misremembered this part. The murder weapon was &lt;strong&gt;never recovered.&lt;/strong&gt; Andy's fingerprints were found on a broken bottle and some bullets found near the scene of the crime. The revolver that the DA (shrewdly) shows at court is not the murder weapon but a substitute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The prosecutor tells him that the police search the river for 3 days and didn't find any gun. How was this possible? The river was shallow, it was not a fast flowing river, the revolver was heavy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_River&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Royal River&lt;/a&gt; is indeed a small river. But I feel this is plausible due to a few factors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The movie takes place in the 40s.&lt;/strong&gt; The technological means and techniques for scouring and dredging that speed up a water search today weren't available back then;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It was at night and Andy was still a little drunk&lt;/strong&gt;, so he probably couldn't remember exactly &lt;em&gt;where&lt;/em&gt; he threw the gun, which would make the search even harder;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chance.&lt;/strong&gt; Simply put, &lt;em&gt;these things happen&lt;/em&gt;. A police force isn't infallible, the river is still 40 miles long and Andy might've dropped the gun in a strong current that carried it away.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And ultimately, I'm not even sure it matters all that much. Without direct evidence, a murder weapon or eye witnesses, the DA put up a convincing argument: Andy had a motive, left fingerprints &amp;amp; footprints behind, admits he had a gun and bullets and his detached demeanor comes off as icy. If the gun had been found, the DA might've found a counter-argument (that Andy secretly had 2 guns, for example), because it's still &lt;em&gt;Andy's word&lt;/em&gt;, and his story unfortunately doesn't ring true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T18:44:51.637" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31878" CreationDate="2015-03-22T20:18:38.490" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doug seemed very upset when the hacker told him Rachel was dead. He clearly didn't want to kill her, but must have been told to do so by the president, as an ultimate proof of his good faith. Their last encounter tends to confirm that...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, you don't have to hate Doug, and you can't possibly hate Franck anyway!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19868" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T20:18:38.490" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21349" CreationDate="2015-03-22T20:54:23.553" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docufiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;calls&lt;/a&gt; this film's unique blend of fact and fiction &lt;strong&gt;'docufiction'&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Docufiction (or docu-fiction, often confused with docudrama) is the cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction. It is a film genre which attempts to capture reality such as it is (as direct cinema or cinéma vérité) and which simultaneously introduces unreal elements or fictional situations in narrative in order to strengthen the representation of reality using some kind of artistic expression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_docufiction_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lists&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Les Ordres&lt;/em&gt; as one of the examples of this genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-03-22T20:54:23.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32464" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32536" CreationDate="2015-03-22T21:38:04.847" Score="2" ViewCount="507" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series Oz, the character William Giles was put on death row, requested death by stoning, which lead to a new law by the state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was last seen in the beginning of Season 5, where he won a fight against Alvarez.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened to him after that? Maybe I missed a dialog where someone talked about him? Or is his fate open?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T18:00:42.103" Title="What happened to William Giles?" Tags="|character|oz|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32214" CreationDate="2015-03-22T22:23:17.920" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, she chose the driver and they were one of the couples on scooters at the end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19872" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T09:33:14.077" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T09:33:14.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32466" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34414" CreationDate="2015-03-22T23:07:32.197" Score="8" ViewCount="1090" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Claire was talking to the woman during the campaign, we heard that the woman said, &quot;like when he pardoned Walker and the other guy, the rich one&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand why he pardoned Tusk, but why would Walker be subjected to charges if he was the President of the United States, which in my knowledge, cannot be persecuted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it because he 'was' the POTUS when he resigned, so he could be charged again with cases he did during his presidency; or because the alleged corruption was done before he became the POTUS, which is during his campaigning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18703" LastActivityDate="2015-05-16T20:09:22.877" Title="What happened to President Walker's immunity?" Tags="|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32467" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32468" CreationDate="2015-03-22T23:44:08.997" Score="13" ViewCount="2279" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; episode 7 of season 1, &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Petyr_Baelish&quot;&gt;Petyr Baelish&lt;/a&gt; (Littlefinger) describes &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Catelyn_Stark&quot;&gt;Catelyn Stark&lt;/a&gt; (originally of House Tully) as having &quot;impeccable bloodlines&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to this it is constantly reiterated in season 3 that &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Walder_Frey&quot;&gt;Walder Frey&lt;/a&gt; has wanted to marry one of his daughters to &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Edmure_Tully&quot;&gt;Edmure Tully&lt;/a&gt; ever since Edmure was twelve. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is so great about House Tully?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-22T23:53:18.100" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T05:08:02.413" Title="What's so great about House Tully?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32467" CreationDate="2015-03-23T00:14:31.103" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Game of Thrones, there is a complex hierarchy of Great and Lesser Houses, the most important of which are rulers over the various territories of Westeros (the Seven Kingdoms).  At the time that Petyr Baelish makes this comment, House Tully is a Great House in control of the Riverlands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time Frey's are a more minor noble house, indeed a vassal to House Tully - definitely a tier lower in importance.  The Freys have pledged to serve the Lord of the Riverlands.  As well as this hierarchy, Walder Frey is also noted by many people to be rather lacking in courage and loyalty - only joining in the battle that led to Robert Baratheon's rise to power at the last minute when it was clear he was going to win. This led to him having the nickname &quot;the Late Walder Frey&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Petyr is just observing what many people would consider a truth, that a marriage between a Frey and a Tully would be advantageous to the Frey's. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've not watched S1E09 &quot;Baelor&quot; yet, you shouldn't read the following spoiler:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; This is also why the promise of Rob Stark to marry a Frey was the price that Walder Frey asked when the Stark army needed to cross the river.  Rob as heir to the Ed Stark and future Lord of Winterfell was definitely a match worth making.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T05:08:02.413" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T05:08:02.413" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32469" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-23T00:57:06.880" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;General questions regarding movies made in India, such as Bollywood (Hind), Kollywood (Tamil), Tollywood (Telugu), Sandalwood (Kannada) etc. Not to be used for questions about specific movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-22T22:14:02.353" LastActivityDate="2018-01-22T22:14:02.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32470" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-23T00:57:06.880" Score="0" Body="General questions regarding movies made in India, such as Bollywood, Kollywood, Tollywood, Sandalwood etc. Not to be used for questions about specific movies." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-22T22:14:02.353" LastActivityDate="2018-01-22T22:14:02.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10125" CreationDate="2015-03-23T03:51:36.103" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Umm... it represents the fact that you can't legally use the American flag as part a TV show's logo-lockup. So, the art director had to alter the flag enough so that it doesn't technically look like the US flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...And then he/she decided to turn it upside down because they realized reading the flag code that it meant distress, and figured it would be a great conversation piece for fans of the show to read into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19875" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-15T20:00:08.287" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T20:00:08.287" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32475" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-23T04:57:51.207" Score="8" ViewCount="549" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Blade invades the coroner, why are the cops so ready to shoot at him and even more so with a machine gun and in force. They never say stop or I'll shoot.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this just the movie makers need more gunfire and a reason for him to run away with doctor? Or is there a cannon reason for it?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know they do say that the cops are totally bought by vampires and that there is that cop that is a vampire hanger on but the total corruption is inconsistent with taking the badly burnt vampire to the morgue- why  didn't they drop him on the street so he can eat off homeless people or passers-by. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6701" LastEditorUserId="6701" LastEditDate="2015-03-25T09:35:52.037" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T13:41:51.200" Title="Why do the cops shoot at Blade without provocation" Tags="|blade|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3173" CreationDate="2015-03-23T05:37:22.567" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe him losing his powers is something purely psychological rather than physical. Peter is shown to have  financial trouble, relationship problems, educational struggles, etc and it is all because he is Spider-Man. As we progress through the movie, Peter himself doubts his choice to be Spider-Man with the daily bugle giving him a bad reputation and such. Because of the stress it brings, he begins to then lose the will to be Spider-Man and question why is he doing what he is doing. This is why he loses his powers. Be it that his subconscious is deactivating his powers for his own good or that he just wants to stop being Spider-Man and tries to justify his choice by convincing himself his powers are lost. There are many theories as to why he loses his powers, in which is entirely up to your individual opinion, but they all lead to his subconscious and psychological trauma. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on in the movie, he regains his power once again as he now has a purpose once more to be Spider-Man again. He is reminded of the responsibility he has and his subconscious reactivates his powers, as he has now regained the will to continue with his endeavor.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19878" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-07-04T07:39:20.747" LastActivityDate="2016-07-04T07:39:20.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32479" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32682" CreationDate="2015-03-23T08:07:22.637" Score="27" ViewCount="15004" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Interstellar, when Murph visits her brother and his wife, she notices that their son is coughing hard, and she offers to arrange a visit from a doctor for him. The brother and his wife refuse, however, even though she warns them their son will die otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did it signify anything? I thought that maybe it signified that there is an anti-science movement because of the blight. The brother certainly seemed to dislike his father and sister's scientific pursuits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6137" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T20:04:27.240" Title="Why did Murph's brother and his wife refuse a doctor for their son in Interstellar?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32481" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32488" CreationDate="2015-03-23T09:46:35.490" Score="10" ViewCount="4559" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've watched a lot of movies in resent years and I certainly know about anamorphic and non-anamorphic presentation of picture on DVDs but still there're some DVD editions that have black bars on all four sides around the picture, like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9i7kL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Non-anamorphic DVD screen&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess that it has something to do with the resolution of the transfer from the analogue being smaller than DVD resolution, but why have not they done the transfer resolution to exactly fit the DVD?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16295" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T16:06:57.053" Title="Why are some DVDs with old movies have black bars on all four sides of the screen" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32482" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32503" CreationDate="2015-03-23T10:11:17.313" Score="5" ViewCount="632" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Marcus's mother attempted to commit suicide in &lt;em&gt;About A Boy&lt;/em&gt; and was sent to a hospital, Will and Suzie were there. The nurse was asking them about whether the boy has a place to stay that night, and Will asked Suzie a question. Here's the line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Will: So...my place or yours?....Sorry...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did he say sorry after asking that question? And after that, did Marcus stay at his own place or Suzie's place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-10T14:25:02.973" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T14:25:02.973" Title="Why did Will say sorry after asking the question?" Tags="|dialogue|plot-explanation|about-a-boy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32484" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-23T10:51:38.423" Score="15" ViewCount="5632" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of the story (means end of &lt;em&gt;Memento&lt;/em&gt;) Leonard wore Jimmy's clothes and there was a paper in Jimmy's clothes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was how Leonard met Natalie. Why did Leonard do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5903" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2020-08-25T17:46:00.260" LastActivityDate="2020-08-25T17:46:00.260" Title="Why did Leonard wear Jimmy's clothes?" Tags="|plot-explanation|memento|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32485" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32491" CreationDate="2015-03-23T11:15:38.660" Score="9" ViewCount="8140" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode 3x05 of House of Cards, Stamper is negotiating his salary with Dunbar. His final negotiation is for &quot;One point on the ad buy(?)&quot; He accepts &quot;No points. &#xA;But I'll do a hundred thousand win bonus if we get the nomination.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the &quot;Ad buy&quot; that Stamper is negotiating for? Google seems to be of no help on this phrase!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3222" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T12:45:49.627" Title="What is Stamper negotiating for in his salary?" Tags="|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32486" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32487" CreationDate="2015-03-23T11:42:38.147" Score="49" ViewCount="4791" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are trailers called &quot;trailers&quot;? Considering &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thefreedictionary.com/trail&quot;&gt;the verb &quot;to trail&quot; means &quot;to follow behind&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, why would something that is shown &lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt; the main movie be called a trailer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T11:45:12.123" LastActivityDate="2018-05-12T14:46:39.390" Title="Why are trailers called &quot;trailers&quot;?" Tags="|film-industry|terminology|trailers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32486" CreationDate="2015-03-23T11:42:38.147" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it happens, &lt;a href=&quot;http://priceonomics.com/why-are-movie-trailers-called-trailers/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Priceonomics has already investigated this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Built in the early 1900s, the United States’ first permanent movie&#xA;theaters featured only one screen. Things worked a bit differently&#xA;back then: you’d pay your nickel, take a seat, and watch a continuous&#xA;loop of a feature (mixed with cartoon interludes) for as long as your&#xA;heart desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1912, Broadway producer Nils Granlund was hired as the advertising&#xA;manager for a chain of East Coast movie theaters owned by entrepreneur&#xA;Marcus Loew. Here, Granlund produced the first-ever trailer -- a&#xA;one-minute spot for the upcoming Broadway show, The Pleasure Seekers&#xA;-- which featured mainly cut up clips from the production’s rehearsals. &lt;strong&gt;The advertisement was shown to audiences after the feature&#xA;film, rather than before it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's for a Broadway show, but movies followed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That same year, in Chicago, an early film visionary by the name of&#xA;William Selig decided to apply 19th century society’s interest in&#xA;print serials (stories published in installments) to films. What&#xA;resulted was a 13-episode film serial called “The Adventures of&#xA;Kathlyn.” As with print serials, it was important for Selig to end&#xA;each segment on a suspenseful note, so as to encourage people to come&#xA;see the next one. To do this, &lt;strong&gt;he decided to include a brief teaser of&#xA;&amp;quot;next week's&amp;quot; installment at the end of each one&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when did they start appearing before the main movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most film historians &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2270/why-are-they-called-trailers-if-theyre-shown-em-before-em-the-movie&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;contend&lt;/a&gt; that at some point in the late&#xA;1930s, theaters began showing movie trailers before the feature film&#xA;rather than afterward -- most likely because serial-style films were&#xA;on their way out, and patrons often left the theater immediately&#xA;following the film. Showing the trailers before, while the audience&#xA;was obviously captive, proved more effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, people have tried renaming them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“[Studios] have tried calling them ‘previews,’ or ‘prevues of coming&#xA;attractions,’” reasoned a Paramount producer in an &lt;a href=&quot;https://media.proquest.com/media/pq/hnp/doc/486062522/fmt/ai/rep/NONE?ic=1&amp;amp;_s=mLf9wUdioI3MsAsEk9PvBegoEow%3D&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt;--&#xA;but society has, so far, refused to accept anything other than what&#xA;it’s used to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go read the whole article, it is fascinating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T11:42:38.147" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32481" CreationDate="2015-03-23T11:50:12.627" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that movie has an &lt;a href=&quot;http://techcrunch.com/2008/12/09/handy-chart-for-understanding-aspect-ratio-and-resolution/&quot;&gt;odd aspect ratio&lt;/a&gt;, but when mastering it for DVD or BD it needs to fit inside either 4:3 or 16:9.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you certain your screenshot is the actual picture? Because to me it looks like the actual picture is 16:9 with black bars on the side, and the black bars at the top and bottom are added by your player, hence the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windowbox_(film)&quot;&gt;windowboxing&lt;/a&gt; effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; according to IMDb, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067815/technical&quot;&gt;Sinbad is 1.66:1&lt;/a&gt;, which &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avsforum.com/forum/44-movies-concerts-music-discussion/465247-whats-1-66-1-aspect-ratio.html&quot;&gt;according to this forum post&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As far as DVDs go, anamorphic means that the encoded image is 1.78:1&#xA;  or 16:9. For 1.85:1 films that requires a small black bar to be added&#xA;  to the top and bottom of the image, &lt;strong&gt;for 1.66:1 films it requires a&#xA;  small black bar to be added to the sides of the image&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://dvd-b.com/Pages/Ana166.html&quot;&gt;long article about 1.66:1 at DVD-B&lt;/a&gt;, which explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Coinciding with the growth of DVD-Video has been a sharp increase in&#xA;  the popularity of widescreen displays. These were originally marketed&#xA;  for use with the nascent HDTV systems, but the relative lack of HDTV&#xA;  programming up to now has meant that most are instead bought by those&#xA;  seeking enhanced DVD viewing. Because these sets can use more vertical&#xA;  resolution with letterboxed and pillarboxed transfers than their&#xA;  standard 4:3 counterparts, DVD-Video includes a provision for&#xA;  &quot;enhancing&quot; raw images to use vertical video information that would&#xA;  once have been wasted. This enhancement allows widescreen-ratio titles&#xA;  to display with sharply increased resolution on widescreen displays;&#xA;  however, with 1.66:1 titles (like all widescreen ratios less than&#xA;  1.78:1), it can only be employed at the expense of both reduced resolution and wasted display area on traditional 4:3 sets. &lt;strong&gt;The wasted&#xA;  display area shows up in the form of &quot;windowboxing,&quot; where black bars&#xA;  appear not only at the sides of the image, but at the top and bottom&#xA;  as well.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article explains the issue at length and shows the various possible solutions, illustrating them at length.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't find the aspect ratio of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072837/technical&quot;&gt;Dog's Heart&lt;/a&gt;, but I expect the same issue will be present there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-03-24T09:11:10.413" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T09:11:10.413" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32484" CreationDate="2015-03-23T12:39:01.260" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't know for sure why Leonard takes Jimmy's clothes and his car after killing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All definite facts the movie tells us about his motives, is Leonard's line when he does it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'd rather be mistaken for a dead guy than a killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of reasonable theories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He wants to escape the guilt of being a murderer, so he takes over the identity of the victim instead. He is lying to himself to be able to keep going, which is a motive of the movie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He simply does it because he likes the expensive car and the clothes more than his own. He takes over Jimmy's life, including his girlfriend Natalie. This might even be a routine thing he does after killing someone. Maybe that's how he got his last car.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He wants to punish the supposed rapist of his wife even more by not only killing him but also stealing his things.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It could be simply a plot device to put the events of the movie in place. If he doesn't take his car and clothes, he will not meet Natalie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those and more theories can be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101213053403AABDbkV&quot;&gt;on Answers Yahoo&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviemistakes.com/film816/questions&quot;&gt;moviemistakes&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T12:39:01.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32485" CreationDate="2015-03-23T12:45:49.627" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;By &lt;em&gt;point&lt;/em&gt; he means one percentage (he wanted &lt;em&gt;three points&lt;/em&gt; in their earlier conversation).&#xA;By &lt;em&gt;ad-buy&lt;/em&gt; he means Dunbar's campaign spending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He would like to receive a percentage of her campaign spending as part of his payment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that Frank uses the same expression in this episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And even so, we need more than ad-buys. We need... We need the philosophy behind it. We need something of substance. We need something... We need something that will capture the imagination. Either of you play Monument Valley?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T12:45:49.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32493" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32531" CreationDate="2015-03-23T15:42:15.530" Score="-1" ViewCount="1694" Body="&lt;p&gt;Series 1 of the Canadian series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0429422/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Regenesis&lt;/a&gt; seems widely available worldwide. Series 2 seems to be more rare but none the less, available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, by the time we get to series 3 &amp;amp; 4 it seems to be available no where but Japan. Not even in Canada where it was made!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm in the UK so the Japanese DVD region (2) matches the UK however the box sets cost £60 odd which is a bit extreme for a 7-8 year old series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.jp/Re-Genesis-3-DVD-BOX-%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A6%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%B8/dp/B001CS1X64/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1427124625&amp;amp;sr=8-2&amp;amp;keywords=regenesis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;JP series 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.jp/Re-Genesis-4-DVD-BOX-%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A6%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%B8/dp/B003V4EKJ4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1427124625&amp;amp;sr=8-1&amp;amp;keywords=regenesis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;JP series 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is this series not more widely available? Why only in Japan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It's also not available on Amazon Prime, Amazon by post or Netflix in the UK)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6811" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-24T12:12:22.367" LastActivityDate="2016-08-06T15:24:17.843" Title="Regenesis - why is it not widely available?" Tags="|distribution|regenesis|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32495" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-23T18:45:46.533" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;General questions regarding movies made in the USA, in many (but not all) contexts synonymous with Hollywood. Not to be used for questions about specific movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-22T22:13:32.400" LastActivityDate="2018-01-22T22:13:32.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32496" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-23T18:45:46.533" Score="0" Body="General questions regarding movies made in the USA, in many (but not all) contexts synonymous with Hollywood. Not to be used for questions about specific movies." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-22T22:13:32.400" LastActivityDate="2018-01-22T22:13:32.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32247" CreationDate="2015-03-23T20:13:12.827" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_Human_(1994_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Being Human&lt;/a&gt; (1994) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You seem to have a few scenes mixed up, but you've given me a specific detail which I remember very clearly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About seventy minutes into the film during the colonial timeline he has to hide his food because everyone else is starving. It happens in a tent though and it really isn't very lengthy or thematic, but the scene is unmistakably Robin Williams hiding food.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18076" LastEditorUserId="18076" LastEditDate="2015-03-24T18:57:54.630" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T18:57:54.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32500" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32501" CreationDate="2015-03-23T20:41:44.977" Score="29" ViewCount="14374" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Matrix Reloaded starts at a room &lt;code&gt;303&lt;/code&gt; where Neo dies in front of it, and the room number of Neo is &lt;code&gt;101&lt;/code&gt;. I want to know what's its meaning. Is there any relation between &lt;code&gt;101&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;303&lt;/code&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19884" LastEditorUserId="19884" LastEditDate="2015-04-06T15:49:02.780" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T00:46:42.640" Title="Meaning of room numbers in The Matrix Reloaded" Tags="|the-matrix|the-matrix-reloaded|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32500" CreationDate="2015-03-23T20:58:12.117" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been some theories floating around on the internet....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;George Orwell's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1984&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;A tribute&lt;/a&gt; to George Orwell's Room 101 in 1984, where a prisoner is&#xA;subjected to their worst phobia, and has subsequently been used in&#xA;popular culture to signify a room where an item can be placed to never&#xA;be again found. Neo has in turn been placed in room 101 by the&#xA;machines, as they do not want 'The One' to be discovered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Computers (binary):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thematrix101.com/matrix/faq.php&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;101 actually appears&lt;/a&gt; a number of times in all three films, and though&#xA;no one knows exactly what it means (if anything), the popular&#xA;explanation is this: 101 is binary for 5 (which to a computer is the&#xA;sixth number because computers count from 0), and the events of the&#xA;three films take place in the 6th interation of the Matrix. Neo is the&#xA;sixth One, this is the sixth time the machines have destroyed Zion,&#xA;etc. We learn that this is the sixth iteration from The Architect's&#xA;conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and of course, there is the obvious: Trinity is in room 303 (Trinity = 3), and Neo's apartment number is 101 (Neo, &amp;quot;The One&amp;quot; = 1).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T20:58:12.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32482" CreationDate="2015-03-23T21:32:55.093" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The doctor asks if &lt;em&gt;Marcus&lt;/em&gt; could stay with them and &lt;em&gt;Will&lt;/em&gt; jokingly asks &lt;em&gt;Suzie&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&quot;my place or yours?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Now that's a line you'd rather ask a date you're going to hook up with and &lt;em&gt;Will&lt;/em&gt; says that exactly as a joke to &lt;em&gt;Suzie&lt;/em&gt;, playing with that meaning, who afterall &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; his date before the tragic events unfolded. But soon enough, and with the help of &lt;em&gt;Suzie&lt;/em&gt;'s confused or even disapproving look, he realizes that this was quite an inappropriate situation for such a joke, so he apologizes immediately afterwards. It's just supposed to be an awkward situation where &lt;em&gt;Will&lt;/em&gt; makes an insensitive fool of himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And after that, he drops &lt;em&gt;Suzie&lt;/em&gt;, her daughter and &lt;em&gt;Marcus&lt;/em&gt; off his car and leaves them, so it's pretty likely that &lt;em&gt;Marcus&lt;/em&gt; stayed at &lt;em&gt;Suzie&lt;/em&gt;'s that night. It's unlikely for &lt;em&gt;Suzie&lt;/em&gt; to leave him alone at his own place after such an event, especially since the doctor asked if he could stay with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-23T21:42:39.117" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T21:42:39.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31750" CreationDate="2015-03-23T22:37:47.030" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;They don't know the alien is underground. The kids discover that after they drive back from the base. It's possible the army is shooting at the location where the alien was last sighted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19885" LastActivityDate="2015-03-23T22:37:47.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32168" CreationDate="2015-03-23T22:42:56.577" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movies like Whiplash aren't striving for an accurate portrayal of life at a conservatory. I'm sure it tries to be accurate, but that's not it's main goal. It's a melodrama. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even so, some of my friends who are musicians says it gets music wrong. He's not my friend, but critic Richard Brody &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/whiplash-getting-jazz-right-movies&quot;&gt;takes issue&lt;/a&gt; with it's depiction of jazz. Here's some of what he has to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here’s what Parker didn’t do in the intervening year: sit alone in his&#xA;  room and work on making his fingers go faster. He played music,&#xA;  thought music, lived music. In “Whiplash,” the young musicians don’t&#xA;  play much music. Andrew isn’t in a band or a combo, doesn’t get&#xA;  together with his fellow-students and jam—not in a park, not in a&#xA;  subway station, not in a café, not even in a basement. He doesn’t&#xA;  study music theory, not alone and not (as Parker did) with his peers.&#xA;  There’s no obsessive comparing of recordings and styles, no sense of a&#xA;  wide-ranging appreciation of jazz history—no Elvin Jones, no Tony&#xA;  Williams, no Max Roach, no Ed Blackwell. In short, the musician’s life&#xA;  is about pure competitive ambition—the concert band and the exposure&#xA;  it provides—and nothing else. The movie has no music in its soul—and,&#xA;  for that matter, it has no music in its images. There are ways of&#xA;  filming music that are themselves musical, that conjure a musical&#xA;  feeling above and beyond what’s on the soundtrack, but Chazelle’s&#xA;  images are nothing of the kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19885" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-03-24T08:58:33.713" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T08:58:33.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32518" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-24T09:15:23.030" Score="2" ViewCount="535" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to know what is the current status of NEO &quot;The ONE&quot; in The Matrix. Is he dead? Or is he alive? Or is he in some kind of Limbo state? Why couldn't he do some alternate method to defeat the machines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18957" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-24T09:19:14.097" LastActivityDate="2022-04-18T21:47:21.150" Title="What is the current status of Neo in the matrix?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-matrix-revolutions|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32518" CreationDate="2015-03-24T09:54:32.880" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/24965/5603&quot;&gt;in this question - If Neo survived in the first movie, how come he didn't in the third movie?&lt;/a&gt;, Neo dies at the end of Matrix Revolutions, protecting Zion and ensuring the future of humanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T09:54:32.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32500" CreationDate="2015-03-24T10:12:36.293" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The error 303 is a standard HTTP redirect, like the bullets were &quot;redirected&quot; to a new location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Matrix is a film full of computer &amp;amp; web analogies, this is no different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19900" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T10:12:36.293" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32522" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-24T10:32:54.687" Score="10" ViewCount="13065" Body="&lt;p&gt;In John Wick we see that some words that are said in English are written on the screen in different colors. Did they have any special meaning?&#xA;Like if we place those words (e.g. the blue ones) next to each other will we get a sentence that should have a meaning or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19901" LastEditorUserId="206" LastEditDate="2017-02-27T23:42:46.487" LastActivityDate="2019-02-01T14:39:27.163" Title="Words on the screen in John Wick" Tags="|analysis|subtitles|john-wick|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13676" CreationDate="2015-03-24T12:13:13.170" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original Regan in the TV series was definitely not bent. At the end of the pilot episode he refuses the protagonist's offer &quot;to do a deal&quot; i.e. cash in exchange for turning a blind eye - and that's even while having 4 guns pointed at him. In Golden Fleece, he hands in the money which had been used to set up Haskins, while in Bad Apple, he displays the deepest contempt for two corrupt policemen, talking down to one of them about how his actions give the squad a bad name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19907" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T12:13:13.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32280" CreationDate="2015-03-24T12:19:37.203" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this scene plays more to the automatic rejection of everything that Murph would bring into the house.  Lois knows how Tom will not want anything connected to Murph and the scientists brought into their home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those scientists had taken their father away from them, and had proven (to that point) to have failed at saving the planet.  Murph, having taken up the mantle from a different direction with the same people, only served to remind Tom of what he had lost, and what he thought his family faced.  Anything Murph brought with her would automatically also be connected to that same pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lois knew this.  She wanted the help for her child, but she knew it would be rejected by Tom because of Murph.  This is why she was willing to leave with Murph and the doctor.  She wanted her son to live, and she wanted to hope that something could be done.  Only by breaking free of her husband and his misguided oppression could she succeed in getting that help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T12:19:37.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32493" CreationDate="2015-03-24T15:31:00.723" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There may be hope yet.  If they continue to release them as the bolded text below implies, they may get to seasons 3 and 4 later this year... though the source for the info links to the German Amazon page, but the discs are in English and German... also, the release date has been pushed back to April 3rd and it will also be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.de/ReGenesis-Season-2-4-DVDs/dp/B00TQJ5J7K/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1427211672&amp;amp;sr=1-2&amp;amp;keywords=ReGenesis%20-%20Season%202&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;available on DVD&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReGenesis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On November 11, 2008 Season 1 was released in North America on DVD by Entertainment One. The four-disc set includes all 13 first season episodes presented in a letterbox format. Special features include a making of, photo gallery, and &amp;quot;The Facts Behind the Fiction&amp;quot; (the white papers published by the Ontario Genomics Institute). Shaftesbury Films claimed that Seasons 2, 3 and 4 would follow throughout 2009 and 2010, but as of February 2013 no such releases have emerged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first season has also been released in the UK through Universal Studios UK. The second season was later released to European countries by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, though it was presented in a Pan and Scan format. Seasons 3 and 4 have been released on DVD in Japan—Season 3 in letterbox format and Season 4 in 16:9 widescreen. The Japanese Season 3 boxset includes a 20-minute Making Of video and the Season 4 boxset a 20-minute Peter Outerbridge interview titled &amp;quot;Pretending With Conviction&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On January 30, 2015 Season 1 was released in Europe on Blu-ray by Entertainment One. The three-disc set includes all 13 first season episodes. &lt;strong&gt;Season 2 will be released on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00TQJ5J0C&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blu-ray March 23, 2015&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T15:42:49.670" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32532" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-24T15:52:39.750" Score="2" ViewCount="1278" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who really owns the pocket watch in the movie &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somewhere_in_Time_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Somewhere in Time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of the movie the old Elise (Jane Seymour) gives the pocket watch to Richard (Christopher Reeve) asking him to come back to her. Then, when Richard goes back in time he gives the watch to the young Elise but she does not claim it as hers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19914" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-24T17:41:11.357" LastActivityDate="2020-03-21T04:49:50.990" Title="Who really owns the pocket watch, Richard or Elise?" Tags="|plot-explanation|somewhere-in-time|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32532" CreationDate="2015-03-24T16:05:37.007" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neither of them and both of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a sort of &amp;quot;chicken and egg&amp;quot; situation, or in Sci-Fi parlance, a &lt;em&gt;paradox&lt;/em&gt;, specifically, in this case, a &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_paradox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Booststrap paradox&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bootstrap paradox, or ontological paradox, is a paradox of time travel that refers to scenarios whereby items or information are passed from the future to the past, which in turn become the same items or information that are subsequently passed from the past to the future - this creates a circularity of cause-effect such that the items or information have no discernible origin. Thus, the paradox raises the ontological questions of where, when and by whom the items were created or the information derived.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After information or an object is sent back in time, it is recovered in the present and becomes the very object or information that was initially brought back in time in the first place. Numerous science fiction stories are based on this paradox, which has also been the subject of serious physics articles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This example actually appears farther down the page under &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_paradox#Involving_physical_items&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Physical Items&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An old woman gives a young man a watch; the young man then goes back in time and hands the watch to a young woman; she later grows into the older woman who hands the watch to him. The watch therefore has no point of origin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It goes on to say something that you might not think about... if there is such a paradox, shouldn't the watch itself age and eventually stop working?:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A further paradox present for any physical item is that the watch should age each time around the loop and eventually wear out. Bringing back a copy of the watch would prevent this &amp;quot;wearing out&amp;quot; issue as would it being a &amp;quot;grandfather's axe&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T16:05:37.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32535" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32357" CreationDate="2015-03-24T17:11:19.320" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because Dwight can't see what's right in front of him.&lt;/strong&gt; That's one of the ironic things that are amusing about Dwight, and his lack of common sense is preventing him from putting these particular two and two together. It's also why he keeps falling for Jim and Pam's pranks; you would expect a true paranoid to be a little less gullible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the season 2 episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://theoffice.wikia.com/wiki/The_Secret&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Secret&lt;/a&gt;, where Dwight explains to the camera about telltale signs that a person is lying. But in a later scene, when Michael (who's a horrible liar) lies to Dwight while displaying &lt;em&gt;every sign&lt;/em&gt; on Dwight's list, Dwight surmises that he's telling the truth. Simply put, Dwight might &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; he's insightful, but he really isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar technique was employed in another Greg Daniels show, &lt;em&gt;King of the Hill&lt;/em&gt;, with the character of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Gribble&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dale Gribble&lt;/a&gt;. A paranoid conspiracy theorist, Dale suspects everything and everyone, but is somehow unaware that his wife has been cheating on him for years with Native American friend John Redcorn and that his son is really Redcorn's son - even though it's all &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; obvious and &lt;em&gt;everyone else&lt;/em&gt; in town knows about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth mentioning that Dwight thinks very little of his co-workers, and actively seeks them out mainly if they 1. mess with him (like Jim and Pam always do) or 2. threaten his work status and relationship with Michael (like Andy did). And since Creed is not really one for pranks and for the most part has &lt;em&gt;zero&lt;/em&gt; ambition at work, he's just not on Dwight's radar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T17:11:19.320" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32464" CreationDate="2015-03-24T17:53:40.623" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;His character was just crossed out of the show&lt;/strong&gt; after the penultimate season's opener &lt;em&gt;Visitation&lt;/em&gt;. It's been a while, but if memory serves, no reason is ever given for this. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/oz/visitation-109743/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;trivia section for &lt;em&gt;Visitation&lt;/em&gt; on TV.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This episode marks the last appearance of the great supporting character William Giles. &lt;strong&gt;He is never even spoken of again&lt;/strong&gt; until the audio clips at the very end of Exuent Omnes, which is an old clip from season 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Giles's &lt;a href=&quot;http://oztv.wikia.com/wiki/William_Giles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikia page&lt;/a&gt; corroborates it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Last appearance: &quot;Visitation&quot; (episode 5.01)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Reason/Cause: &lt;strong&gt;End of Storyline&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-03-24T18:00:42.103" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T18:00:42.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2015-03-24T17:57:44.783" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;SPOILERS&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think James was definitely Simon's alter ego.  We never see a scene with James alone without Simon lurking in the background. Whereas, there are many scenes with Simon alone until James is created.  Once, James enters, he is either a voice in Simon's head or a go-getter while Simon passively admires him or dreads him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in a way Simon is the protagonist's original self and James is the manifestation of himself after  social conditioning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way the other's react is exaggerated or trivialized in Simon's mind. He magnifies negative reactions and doubts positive ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, girls get flirty with him when he is an assertive player and ignore him when he is a passive workhorse. The boss praises him when he delivers results.  He openly criticizes him when he is  an indecisive/ passive workhorse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reality, their reaction will be subtle, but in simon's mind, the difference is like night and day.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, Simon is compelled to kill James because his acquired nature is going further and further away from his true nature. But, that would mean that Simon would become obsolete again. So, he kills James silently in a room and  jumps off the building. When he survives the fall, he believes that he can impersonate James and be loved by everyone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19916" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T17:57:44.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32544" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32545" CreationDate="2015-03-24T22:38:03.047" Score="2" ViewCount="160" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Community Season 6 Episode 3, some unknown schoolkids are kidding the principal into thinking he has Jeff Winger's mobile number and that he's texting him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Schoolkids look Oriental but what country are they supposed to be from, the skyline in the background looks like some generic skyline and they have a buddha like statue on the shelf and they are wearing formal schoolwear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone identify the country? It looks like Hong Kong but it maybe a different country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VfNeG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T22:53:51.223" Title="What country are the text pranksters supposed to be from?" Tags="|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32544" CreationDate="2015-03-24T22:53:51.223" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, it seems the kids were Japanese and the city was supposed to be Tokyo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AWKAb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VW7nm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastActivityDate="2015-03-24T22:53:51.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32546" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-24T23:05:53.940" Score="5" ViewCount="4952" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1991 movie &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (starring Robin Williams), what was the ultimate fate of Captain Hook? I know he was swallowed by the stuffed crocodile, but still, this &lt;strong&gt;was&lt;/strong&gt; just a stuffed crocodile. It didn't have a working digestive system. And, I mean, sure, the crocodile &quot;burped&quot;, but still... Just saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, I would just chalk up this inconsistency to the writers, but I'm curious: is there perhaps any canon-based possible explanation? Maybe some of the magic exhibited by the children in Neverland did something? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it just the writers or am I on to something here? Just wondering what your thoughts might be on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user19475" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-25T05:30:58.310" LastActivityDate="2020-01-09T18:43:58.680" Title="Ultimate fate of Captain Hook in 1991's Hook movie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|hook|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32547" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-25T00:32:36.283" Score="5" ViewCount="1054" Body="&lt;p&gt;When does Sullivan find out who the undercover guy (DiCaprio) was in &lt;em&gt;The Departed&lt;/em&gt;? Is it when he says on the phone:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So it is you. Thank God you're all right. We were very worried.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And how exactly does he know it's Costigan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, I've watched it a while ago and I'm trying to remember the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6329" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-09T15:34:23.160" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T18:32:09.797" Title="When did Sullivan exactly realize who the undercover guy (DiCaprio) was?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-departed|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31712" CreationDate="2015-03-25T03:58:15.000" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My theory was that she did probably go through with the sex with the 3 guys because it shows that her cast was slightly torn but like Jake did in the beginning, he warned her about the people walking towards them and they probably were not warned and probably died. The point of that scene and the scene with the hookers is that they had the option to give it to anyone but it would be on their conscience. The girl was probably from the bar and he possibly could've heard about it on the news. You have to remember all the people walking were all related to them somehow. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19923" LastActivityDate="2015-03-25T03:58:15.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12945" CreationDate="2015-03-25T06:30:50.187" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe in two theories that are similar and not similar in both ways. We know that during Chilton's arrival in the Bahamas, Lector followed on that one street. What if Chilton knew he was following him? By saying this, this theory is saying that Chilton and Lector are somehow someway working together. Some evidence toward this is when Clarice takes yet another visit to Lector's cell when Chilton stops and argues with her the reasons (which are classified by the FBI) why she is there for another visit. He was very angry and nervous-looking making some presume that Chilton doesn't want Clarice to find him out. The second piece of evidence for that theory is when Chilton is lying on the ground frustrated toward Lector in the new cell he got at the new jail destination which could be a tactic which makes it seem as if he is actually angry. The next theory is that Lector has vengeance due toward Chilton after years of torture and hate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19924" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-03-25T08:06:38.333" LastActivityDate="2015-03-25T08:06:38.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32556" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32558" CreationDate="2015-03-25T11:20:19.007" Score="9" ViewCount="2696" Body="&lt;p&gt;Redford portrays 'The Sundance Kid' in &lt;em&gt;Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid&lt;/em&gt;, which is one of his more famous roles. The movie came out in 1969. He co-founded the Sundance film festival in 1978. Did he name the festival after the character or does the name have another origin and the similarity is a coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastActivityDate="2015-03-25T11:29:22.647" Title="Did Robert Redford name the Sundance Film Festival after the character he played?" Tags="|reference|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32556" CreationDate="2015-03-25T11:29:22.647" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt; According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundance_Film_Festival#Change_to_Sundance&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, it was called the US Festival until:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 1991 the festival was officially renamed the Sundance Film Festival, after Redford's character The Sundance Kid from the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1956952,00.html&quot;&gt;Time Magazine&lt;/a&gt; offers more information on the matter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The festival changed titles frequently — from the U.S. Film Festival to the Utah/U.S. Film Festival to the United States Film &amp;amp; Video Festival to the Sundance/United States Film Festival to, finally, Sundance. The last two changes came about after Redford's Sundance Institute took over the festival in 1985. Redford, who owned property in Utah's Wasatch mountains, named the organization after his character in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-03-25T11:29:22.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14533" CreationDate="2015-03-25T16:20:43.453" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think back, Jesse said something like that. He said if he were Krazy Eight he would have found something sharp and bought his time until he could make his escape and kill Walter. At the time, he was unconscious and weak, but Walter still remembered Jesse saying that. Those words came back to Walt in that instant as he opened the trash bin. He realized Domingo had the opportunity to acquire a weapon. So he checked on his hunch. And it turned out it was exactly as Jesse said it.&#xA;Breaking bad tends to do that often. Something said by the characters early comes back. Like Jane saying that laying on your back can cause you to choke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19938" LastActivityDate="2015-03-25T16:20:43.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31490" CreationDate="2015-03-25T18:25:49.910" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096459/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Wolves of Willoughby Chase&lt;/a&gt;. The scenes in the workhouse were towards the end of the movie. In the beginning of the movie, the children were still living at their parents' house under the care of a governess, who sends them to the workhouse when she receives news that the parents are dead. At the end we learn that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The parents aren't dead; they were shipwrecked and marooned on an island.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user19942" LastActivityDate="2015-03-25T18:25:49.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32421" CreationDate="2015-03-25T19:36:22.067" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was a joke of Garret wanting a seat at &quot;The&quot; table and Leonard protecting the viewers from that awkward possiblity. clever stuff, basically suggesting the viewers wouldnt really like garret.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19944" LastActivityDate="2015-03-25T19:36:22.067" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32577" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32614" CreationDate="2015-03-25T22:53:57.863" Score="-2" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did Triphammer die in the fight with Wolfe on episode 5 of &lt;em&gt;Powers&lt;/em&gt; (2015)? I really like him and it would be a shame for him to die like this, he's such a kind soul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19948" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-26T20:42:35.610" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T23:52:13.227" Title="Did Wolfe kill Triphammer?" Tags="|plot-explanation|powers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-03-30T09:33:10.453" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32578" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32579" CreationDate="2015-03-25T23:04:07.873" Score="5" ViewCount="2375" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the opening title sequence of 30Rock we see various images around Rockerfeller Plaza including NBC studios and the building itself, there is a shot which looks identical to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_coat_of_arms_of_the_United_Kingdom&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Royal Coat of Arms of the UK&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where is this located, I don't remember seeing this when I visited the building a few years ago, also can some one tell me why it's there? Is there some British ancestry?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UUZNk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T00:00:50.210" Title="Where and why is the Royal Coat of Arms in the title sequence of 30Rock" Tags="|title-sequence|30-rock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32578" CreationDate="2015-03-25T23:51:15.563" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the replica of the Royal Coat of Arms as part of a panel called &lt;em&gt;Industries of the British Empire&lt;/em&gt; sculpted by Carl Paul Jennewein at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikimapia.org/4343053/The-British-Empire-Building&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;British Empire Building&lt;/a&gt; in Rockefeller Center, 620 5th Avenue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6lDZp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-03-26T00:00:50.210" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T00:00:50.210" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1733" CreationDate="2015-03-26T00:24:40.600" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would at least be 1800 as the matches that Lumiere uses in be our guest were not invented until that time period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xYNrL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19949" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T00:24:40.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32584" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32585" CreationDate="2015-03-26T07:02:52.417" Score="1" ViewCount="1173" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just saw the movie and I have some doubts about the narrator's identity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the first part of the movie it made me suspect that he is Liesel's brother (I think there was a line were he mentions he was alive once)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Max came into picture I gained the impression that the narrator is his father&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An in the end, before the bombing it appears to be Death&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't say for certain who it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19067" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2015-03-26T20:00:33.607" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T20:00:33.607" Title="Who is the narrator in the movie Book Thief?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-book-thief|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32584" CreationDate="2015-03-26T07:07:13.467" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;And now that I've searched a bit on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816442/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;I saw at at Cast the answer: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Roger Allam   ... &#xA;Narrator / Death (voice)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19067" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T07:07:13.467" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9345" CreationDate="2015-03-26T08:38:25.857" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;and everyday was a life's age on earth&quot; as stated by Gandalf the white upon his return which explains his somewhat foggy memory of his old self. He was 19 days away earth time so using an average lifespan of 70-75 years, Gandalf himself was gone for approximently 1330 to 1475 years (give or take). Given he was Gandalf the Grey for just over 2000 years, it was a considerable time for him personally between his previous incarnation that fought Balrog. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19957" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-26T14:40:32.407" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T14:40:32.407" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32592" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32922" CreationDate="2015-03-26T12:49:18.700" Score="1" ViewCount="3693" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the second episode of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3498622/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fortitude&lt;/a&gt; we see Yuri entering the empty police station in order to return the rifle that the sheriff lent him.&#xA;While searching through the place he finds a pair of handcuffs with an inscription on them.&#xA;He examines the handcuffs, looks surprised and swears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was so specific about these handcuffs? Do we know what was written on them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In episode 6 we find out that &lt;strong&gt;some&lt;/strong&gt; handcuffs &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/sky-atlantic-fortitude/2015/mar/06/fortitude-handcuffs-at-dawn-episode-6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;are important to the plot&lt;/a&gt;. Are these the same handcuffs? If so, how did Yuri know that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-03-26T13:23:36.157" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T11:38:57.277" Title="Handcuffs found by Yuri" Tags="|plot-explanation|fortitude|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32593" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32594" CreationDate="2015-03-26T12:56:36.947" Score="11" ViewCount="15440" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/&quot;&gt;Imitation Game (2014)&lt;/a&gt;, Alan Turing finds out that his associate John Caincross is a Soviet spy after reading a passage bookmarked in the Bible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it was explained earlier, but what was it exactly that blew Caincross's cover?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T13:08:58.980" Title="What gave Caincross away in the Imitation Game?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-imitation-game|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32593" CreationDate="2015-03-26T13:08:58.980" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hugh Alexander was able to crack the encrypted message and he informed Alan about the importance of &lt;em&gt;Mathew 7:7&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2014Spoilers/ImitationGame.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;www.themoviespoiler.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the beer hut, Hugh tells Alan that he cracked the encrypted message – “Ask and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find.  Matthew 7:7.”  He knows that Alan is not the spy because he would not have used a simple Bible quote for his code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Peter harbors animosity towards Alan for letting his brother be killed despite knowing in advance.  He knocks his books over and while retrieving them on the ground, Alan spots John Cairncross’ Bible.  He opens it and realizes that it earmarked to Matthew 7:7.  John notices Alan making this discovery, now aware that John is the Soviet spy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/29963/significance-of-matthew-77-in-imitation-game&quot;&gt;related post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T13:08:58.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16037" CreationDate="2015-03-26T18:03:45.943" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It indicates the segment of the movie. The rating tells you how people perceive a movie's performance. While there is a possibility of agents rating a customer's work very high with hundreds of votes, the weighted average model will average it out. This is not the usual rating model where most user's votes are just added and averaged. However, its not a very accurate or extremely credible source of movie rating. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19967" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T18:03:45.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32602" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32603" CreationDate="2015-03-26T18:10:57.867" Score="5" ViewCount="444" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just searching on IMDB for movies with the word &quot;Dark&quot; in the title (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/find?q=dark&amp;amp;s=tt&amp;amp;ref_=fn_al_tt_mr&quot;&gt;results&lt;/a&gt;), and I noticed a ways down that the X-Files tv series had an annotation under it that lists another name:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;aka &quot;Files in the Dark&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to search for it on google, and I can't find anything related to the X-Files, nor is it listed on the Wikipedia page about the series.  Can someone provide me with some source for where this comes from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19229" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T18:13:22.523" Title="X Files known by other name?" Tags="|the-x-files|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32602" CreationDate="2015-03-26T18:13:22.523" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Er, the answer is right on The X Files &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106179/releaseinfo#akas&quot;&gt;IMDb aka page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Israel (Hebrew title) (literal English title)  Files in the Dark&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And they pronounce it Tikim b'Afela (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/h/hebrewc.htm&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T18:13:22.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16469" CreationDate="2015-03-26T19:18:36.240" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that Locke lied about seeing the smoke monster because he believes he has a special relationship with the Island. Everyone else is not &quot;worthy&quot; enough to know/understand so he keeps it to himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19968" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T19:18:36.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32577" CreationDate="2015-03-26T23:52:13.227" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since Wolfe, when leaving him, said something along the lines of &quot;I could eat you now, but you are basically a robot&quot;, I think it's safe to say that Triphammer is still alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19972" LastActivityDate="2015-03-26T23:52:13.227" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32617" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-27T01:53:59.557" Score="1" ViewCount="1245" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did Mel Gibson give any of his profits from &lt;em&gt;The Passion of the Christ&lt;/em&gt; back to charity?  He raked in a lot of money but I can't find anything on the internet of him sharing his profit.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19975" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-03-27T02:14:58.423" LastActivityDate="2016-03-27T19:09:23.353" Title="Did Mel Gibson give any of his profits back to charity?" Tags="|the-passion-of-the-christ|mel-gibson|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2016-03-29T23:20:04.117" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32617" CreationDate="2015-03-27T02:28:27.897" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Surprisingly (to me) Mel Gibson actually donates a fair amount of money to charities.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/mel-gibson-donates-10-million-to-los-angeles-hospitals-for-international-charity-care&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/mel-gibson&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollyscoop.com/mel-gibson/mel-gibson-named-one-of-the-most-generous-stars.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, it is unclear exactly what portion of his money (from what source) has gone to &lt;em&gt;which&lt;/em&gt; charity organisation, however:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Passion of the Christ&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was released in &lt;strong&gt;2004&lt;/strong&gt; and earned a total of US$370,782,930&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ#Release&quot;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has donated to charities from as early as &lt;strong&gt;2004&lt;/strong&gt; to as late as &lt;strong&gt;2007&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Gibson#Philanthropy&quot;&gt;5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Which means that he &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; have donated at least &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; of his earnings to charity after the release of &lt;em&gt;The Passion of the Christ&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/mel-gibson-donates-10-million-to-los-angeles-hospitals-for-international-charity-care&quot;&gt;http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/mel-gibson-donates-10-million-to-los-angeles-hospitals-for-international-charity-care&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/mel-gibson&quot;&gt;https://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/mel-gibson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollyscoop.com/mel-gibson/mel-gibson-named-one-of-the-most-generous-stars.html&quot;&gt;http://www.hollyscoop.com/mel-gibson/mel-gibson-named-one-of-the-most-generous-stars.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ#Release&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ#Release&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Gibson#Philanthropy&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Gibson#Philanthropy&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T02:28:27.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9891" CreationDate="2015-03-27T04:40:30.270" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found three pics from the opening credits to Cheers which I Googled it. One is called Saturday night at the Saloon by Russell Lee in Craigsville, MN. That's John Ratzenberger's pic. The other is Rudy John's barbershop in Junction City, KS. That pic came after Ted and Shelley's pic from the first through the third season. Nick Colasanto's pic is from the Irish Lion back bar in Bloomington, IN.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19979" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T04:40:30.270" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32622" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-27T05:12:51.507" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-03-27T05:12:51.507" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T05:12:51.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32623" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-27T05:12:51.507" Score="0" Body="Powers (2015) is a TV series released by Playstation. Set in a world where humans and super heroes co-exist, a homicide detective, who had his own powers taken from him, investigates crimes involving superhumans along with his partner. (Source: IMDB)" OwnerUserId="19948" LastEditorUserId="19948" LastEditDate="2015-03-27T13:05:30.897" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T13:05:30.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32624" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32627" CreationDate="2015-03-27T05:53:50.950" Score="6" ViewCount="6644" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an entertaining scene in &lt;em&gt;Kingsman: The Secret Service&lt;/em&gt; where the gentleman spy Harry Hart has dinner with Valentine, the villain.  Valentine surprises him by serving a dinner that is McDonalds takeout food.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Valentine offers wine with the McDonalds food, and I don't know anything about wine so I'm wondering what the wine choice added to the conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you accept the premise of pairing wine with take-out hamburgers, did the wine choice make sense?  Was the joke that the wine was particularly good and expensive?  Alternatively, was the joke that the wine was a bad choice, showing Valentine doesn't know how to choose wines?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that scene shows that Valentine just likes to do whatever he wants, and since he likes McDonalds, he'll serve that.  Harry Hart, meanwhile, shows splendid aplomb; he doesn't bat an eye at the odd dinner, and doesn't hesitate to ask for a Big Mac.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harry Hart suggests that for dessert they could have (if I recall correctly) cotton candy plus another wine.  Again, I'm wondering what the wine choice would imply.  Was it a &quot;dry&quot; wine that would pair well with a sweet dessert?  Again, was the wine expensive/a good choice, or a hilariously inappropriate choice meant as a troll?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. At the very beginning of the movie there is much to-do about some amazing whiskey.  I'm wondering if that was a real whiskey that really is amazing or if they just made something up as a joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were making a movie, since I don't know anything about wine really all the wine names would be jokes.  Like, with dinner they would have had the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;'59 Pinot Grand Fenwick&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19980" LastActivityDate="2016-07-17T20:02:22.447" Title="In Kingsman: The Secret Service, what do the wine choices imply?" Tags="|kingsman-the-secret-service|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="387" CreationDate="2015-03-27T08:05:56.883" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is simpler than you think. &#xA;The paradox they were attempting to test (punching Platts) caused some unknown future emergency which required Granger to be contacted and brought into the loop. Granger gets into one of the boxes that Aaron was already using to go back in, which is why he can't get near to Granger (quantum entanglement?) without passing out. &#xA;Abe1, upon seeing Granger and aware that he'd be the one to contact granger in an emmergency, immediately heads to the failsafe (you actually see him running to position in the scene where Aaron and Granger collapse), while Abe2 carries on with Aaron. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simple. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19983" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T08:05:56.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32624" CreationDate="2015-03-27T08:42:53.703" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The wine offered, if memory serves, was Chateau Yqem.  This is famously one of the most expensive wines in the world.  A bottle would set you back several hundred pounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you suggest, the joke is in the juxtaposition of the meal with a wine of that price.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T08:42:53.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32628" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33738" CreationDate="2015-03-27T09:36:43.210" Score="5" ViewCount="474" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode 11 of season 3 of House of Cards, would it not have been obvious that Sharp was “in concert” with Underwood if she had announced her support for him, as planned, rather than for Dunbar, after dropping out? It’s explicitly pointed out that Underwood wants to avoid such an impression:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Underwood&lt;/strong&gt;: Oh you mean the thing about your kids?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Sharp&lt;/strong&gt;: That wasn’t what we discussed.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Underwood&lt;/strong&gt;: Well I had to hit you hard so she wouldn’t. And besides, we had to dispel any suspicion that you and I might be in concert.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But wouldn’t that still have been obvious if she had announced her support for him, especially if Underwood had later, as planned, picked her up as his vice-presidential candidate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the first Democratic nomination debate, Sharp is highly critical of Dunbar, and somewhere between non-critical and outright supportive of Underwood. Underwood does hit her with the above-mentioned “thing”. But other than that, and while we of course don’t see the whole debate, I still did not get the impression that there was much in the way of cross-fire between them. In fact, when Underwood makes the comment about her stepchildren, she does not just seem struck that he’s using that point against her, she seems utterly flabbergasted he’s being critical of her at all. As if being critical of each other was entirely not part of the plan. If Sharp truly wanted to be president, as the public is supposed to believe, I would expect her to attack both opposing candidates, perhaps even focussing more on Underwood than on Dunbar with him being the sitting president.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m not that familiar with American politics, but it seems like a strange sequence of events to me for one candidate to focus criticism on the one other candidate that is not the sitting president, then to drop out after only the first debate and get picked up as the vice-presidential candidate later. Wouldn’t that make the first debate a rather obviously “staged” unfair fight? Or perhaps the answer is that it would be obvious but by the time it is so, the public wouldn’t care much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16779" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T11:42:28.363" Title="Wouldn’t Underwood’s plan for Sharp in season 3 of House of Cards be obvious?" Tags="|plot-explanation|realism|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14582" CreationDate="2015-03-27T13:11:10.217" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think of it as&#xA; An infinite stream with a boat in it on a rope. &#xA;You put the boat in with a hundred miles  of rope in it and walk alongside at the same speed as it casually goes down stream. You then get in the boat and row back to where you started at the same speed and get out meeting past you. The boat travels down stream again and you walk alongside it again this time with &quot;past you&quot;. &#xA;&quot;Past you&quot; gets in the boat after a hundred miles and rows back down stream as you carry on walking. You never see him again because he's two hundred miles downstream and only going the same pace as you. He never catches up. &#xA;It doesn't matter how many duplications of this happen because they will never meet. This could go on &quot;forever&quot; in an infinite loop but it makes no difference at all from your perspective. You never meet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously if past you doesn't get in the boat then he'll stay in your timeline and there will be two of you strolling downstream unless one of you gets in the boat. &#xA;This is what happens in the film to create duplicates. &#xA;If you prevent yourself getting in the box, they stay in your timeline. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19983" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T13:11:10.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32475" CreationDate="2015-03-27T13:41:51.200" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They work for the vampires in the same capacity as police-officer Gideon: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;            KAREN&#xA;    But he's a policeman --&#xA;&#xA;            BLADE&#xA;    He's a familiar. A human who works for &#xA;    the vampires. See this mark?&#xA;&#xA;Blade pushes aside Gideon's hair, revealing a tiny, cryptic symbol&#xA;tattooed into the man's scalp.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blade even explains this point quite succinctly when he's introducing the female protagonist to the underworld he inhabits:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;            KAREN&#xA;    I can go to the police. I have blood &#xA;    samples back at the hospital. I can &#xA;    show them. &#xA;&#xA;            BLADE&#xA;    Do it. You'll be dead before you can &#xA;    file the complaint.&#xA;&#xA;            KAREN&#xA;    That's ridiculous! No one's that &#xA;    powerful. &#xA;&#xA;Whistler sighs. He doesn't suffer fools gladly.&#xA;&#xA;            WHISTLER &#xA;    You're talking about a brotherhood &#xA;    that predates the Catholic Church by &#xA;    thousands of years. Their survival &#xA;    depends on their ability to blend in. &#xA;    Chances are, you've encountered them &#xA;    and not even known it. On the subway, &#xA;    in a bar --&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically, they were either familiars like Gideon or their boss was. It's not really important because policemen follow the orders they're given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18076" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T13:41:51.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31712" CreationDate="2015-03-27T14:54:12.593" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think she definitely did have sex with the guys. When she got home she said that she &quot;bought some time&quot; which means she was expecting those guys to die, but at least she'd have a couple days to think. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19990" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T14:54:12.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18122" CreationDate="2015-03-27T15:18:21.603" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another interpretation I always got of this, and it's similar to the &quot;this is America, land of the free, and you can do whatever you want&quot; approach. This is also America, where you are innocent until proven guilty.&#xA;I.e., Snotboogie always &quot;commits the crime&quot; of stealing the money from the craps game. And every week he gets his punishment of getting his ass kicked because of it. After that, he's innocent. And even if everyone is absolutely 100% positive that he'll probably do the same thing next week, they have to let him in the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19991" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T15:18:21.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32636" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32665" CreationDate="2015-03-27T15:27:40.033" Score="3" ViewCount="1211" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Twelve Monkeys, Cole is repeatedly sent back in time, and after some period disappears and returns to the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most times we see him back in the &quot;interrogation room&quot; strapped into that chair. But the second time he appears during World War I, where he gets shot in the leg. Next thing we know he's in 1996 where he kidnaps Railley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The confusion I have is that in 1996 he still has the bullet in his leg - so if he returned to the future as normal, surely he would have received medical treatment before being sent back? Or did he somehow go straight from WWI to 1996?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastActivityDate="2015-08-24T16:42:52.593" Title="How does Cole get from the First World War to 1996?" Tags="|plot-explanation|12-monkeys|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2900" CreationDate="2015-03-27T16:15:55.683" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The face of the house we see is from a different place in Brooklyn Heights (?), NY while the interior of the house is a movie studio at Kaufmann Astoria Suites Ney York where the majority of the famous movies were/are filmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The floors in the plan or architectural impressions above cannot align because they are an impression of somebody who is not into architecture or who did not use any dimensions when drawing the plan.  It would be good to find out from Kauffman Astoria studios in New York whether they would be willing to share/sell the exact studio/house plan if you really fancy living in a HUXTABLE HOUSE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19994" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T16:15:55.683" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32639" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-27T17:13:17.633" Score="5" ViewCount="1265" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3749900/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gotham&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &quot;The Mask&quot; (S01E08) Bruce returns to school and gets into some trouble with a bunch of bullies. When one of them, Tommy, mentions his mother, Bruce reacts expectedly violently but doesn't seem to hold up well in the ensuing fight, as becomes apparent from his dialogue with Alfred afterwards:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alfred:&lt;/strong&gt; What happened?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bruce:&lt;/strong&gt; Someone spoke disrespectfully about my mother.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Alfred:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh, did they now? I hope you broke that bastard's teeth?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bruce:&lt;/strong&gt; No, he's much bigger than me and I'm not very good at fighting. Didn't hurt him at all.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Alfred:&lt;/strong&gt; Not at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now at first I really thought that Alfred was being completely sarcastic with this brutal &lt;em&gt;&quot;broke his teeth&quot;&lt;/em&gt; line, since in all the preceding episodes he wasn't really amused by Bruce's escape into darkness, his engagement into serious matters and his tries to test his own strength. It seemed he always wanted Bruce to cope with his loss and live on. So that reaction seemed totally out of place to me. But this wasn't enough, what follows is a very awkward scene where Alfred actually drives Bruce to Tommy's house and encourages him to punch him bloody (with his father's watch), which he concludes with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alfred:&lt;/strong&gt; The point's now made, I think. You're ok? Any broken bones?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Tommy:&lt;/strong&gt; He tried to kill me.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Alfred:&lt;/strong&gt; That's right, he did. He tried to kill you, just you remember that next time you see him. And you remember that I let him try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it continues in that vain when Bruce later says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bruce:&lt;/strong&gt; I enjoyed it, enjoyed hurting him.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Alfred:&lt;/strong&gt; Now of course you did, he deserved it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then he asks Alfred to teach him to fight, to which Alfred seemingly elightedly agrees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it makes sense that Alfred wants Bruce to be able to stand in for his ideals and be able to defend himself. But I think in this episode he went out of his way to encourage bloody revenge and a violent attitude (for just a few little words about his parents, probably not the last spoken in Bruce's direction), without a single word about responsibility and calmness. &lt;strong&gt;This seems to stand in a stark contrast to all his previous efforts of encouraging Bruce to live on and not indulge into all his rage and dark feelings. What is the reason for this seemingly 180 degrees change in Alfred's way of parenting?&lt;/strong&gt; Did I just miss anything here that might be more in line with Alfred's motivation or did I even misinterpret his motivation from all the previous episodes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(I should add that I haven't watched further than this episode. I usually try to at least watch the whole season for such questions, but it seemed a rather conclusive matter. If however this is really obviously answered in a following episode, then excuse me and don't be afraid of &quot;spoiling&quot; it.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-10-08T07:35:39.367" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T07:35:39.367" Title="Why does Alfred suddenly start to encourage Bruce's darker side in episode S01E08?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|gotham|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27274" CreationDate="2015-03-27T17:28:20.930" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;**Gold wasn't really evil at all last season aside betraying Ingrid, and almost killing Hook. In respect? I thought it was rather poetic that the man whom fled with his wife 300 years ago,  (and although the soldiers wanting to take Baelfire was the reason he chose to become the dark one could have been avoided Had Milah been there with her own perspective on what to do. So in that sense you could blame Hook for him becoming the Dark One to begin with) would be the one that would have to die to free him of the dagger's spell. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*I keep seeing Rumbellers not understand why Rumple wanted to keep his power and yet not ever be controlled again. Why can't he have just left for new york with her and started a new life? Well think about it. He needs Magic just to walk. And spin gold. Spinning gold keeps his sanity and Walking is a given. Keeping his powers in the real world is a must just so he can financially take care of her in an otherwise expensive world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rumplestiltskin didn't do a single thing out of line last season whatsoever as the hat itself only traps people for thier power doesn't kill them. He just wanted to be free. Hence to deem him evil for this is silly after everything he has already been through for this town. He DIED for the town to save them from his father. He got no thankyou. The towns people never bothered to comfort or rescue him. They used him for information and then left him to be kidnapped afterwards. He felt betrayed by the entire town already and they keep coming to him for his power. To use him and then ignore him again. If anything every single action he's done is entirely Just and understandable and not evil. Killing Hook was supposed to be the sacrifice for freeing him but thankfully it turned out to be a blessing in his case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion this whole show has been a one stop train to never ending Screw over Rumple because he conducted a curse to happen to move everyone here so he could find his kid.**&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19995" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T17:28:20.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31712" CreationDate="2015-03-27T21:44:40.660" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;of course she had sex with at least two of the guys on the boat because the evil often times shows up as the prior victims stalking the &quot;passed to&quot; person.  So in the pool scene you see one guy throwing the tv at the pool that is one of the guys on the boat.  The scene before it when they drive away to the big swimming gym, there is an old guy standing on top of the house, and he is another guy from that boat... hope this helps.  i mean obviously you recognize the girl who died at the beginning of the movie shows up as one of the evil possessed walker in the middle of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19999" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T03:24:28.023" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T03:24:28.023" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32453" CreationDate="2015-03-27T22:57:22.137" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The face of the first Knopf executive was never shown clearly, and so probably did not get a credit.  The second executive, with a much greater role, was credited by name as Judith Jones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19863" LastActivityDate="2015-03-27T22:57:22.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32722" CreationDate="2015-03-28T00:08:13.640" Score="1" ViewCount="1775" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, Phantasm 1, 3, and 4 are only available on DVD. Is there a reason why this is so? I can't tell if the rights are owned by a different company, but I don't believe this to be the case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the second movie is hardly such a classic that it would be included in the Criterion Collection or anything like that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what gives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-28T00:09:31.840" LastActivityDate="2016-09-02T13:30:57.030" Title="Why is Phantasm II available on Bluray while the other movies in this series are not?" Tags="|distribution|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32646" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-28T02:59:29.777" Score="8" ViewCount="1774" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen this answered yet so here goes...In &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, what if Cooper never sent the coordinates to himself? When he's in the tesseract, he surely remembers receiving the coordinates of NASA. But suppose he never sends the coordinates...how would he get to the tesseract in the first place? At the moment of his decision, would he be instantly transported back to his home before the message (is never) sent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20000" LastEditorUserId="7827" LastEditDate="2015-03-28T12:55:32.853" LastActivityDate="2018-05-15T21:35:37.307" Title="What if the coordinates of NASA were not sent?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|time-travel|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32646" CreationDate="2015-03-28T03:31:31.837" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The time travel logic of Interstellar follows the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_principle&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Novikov self-consistency principle&lt;/a&gt; (which physicist Kip Thorne, associated with the movie, did work on).  Different time travel stories handle the logic of time travel in different ways.  Consider the grandfather paradox, where you go back in time and kill your grandfather.  In some stories, it's possible for you to kill you grandfather, but as soon as you do it you'll disappear.  (I think in &amp;quot;Back to the Future Marty McFly starts to disappear when he makes changes to the lives of his parents.)  In other stories, you can kill your grandfather, but then when you go back to the present no one will remember you, since you were never born.  (That's similar to the plot of &amp;quot;It's a Wonderful Life.&amp;quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my favorite kind of time travel stories, which include Lost and Interstellar, are the ones that don't have this kind of inconsistency, where it's impossible for you to time travel and do something that would logically make it so that you would have never gone back in time in the first place.  Instead, you simply cannot go back in time and kill your grandfather: the very fact that you are alive means that one way or another, your grandfather is guaranteed to survive.  So no matter what you try to do, you won't kill your grandfather, because the fact that you exist means that you didn't succeed in killing him.  There is only one timeline, and all events, whether past, present or future have already taken place, whether you know about them or not.  So you can only cause your past to happen (like save your grandfather's life), you can never change your past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the fact that Cooper received the coordinates implies that he DID send the coordinates.  So the answer to your question &amp;quot;what if the coordinates were not sent&amp;quot; is simply &amp;quot;then he wouldn't receive the coordinates, and thus he would never have reached the tesseract.&amp;quot;  So Cooper didn't and couldn't have changed his past, he did cause his past to happen: it was his actions in the tesseract that caused him to go into the tesseract in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Novikov self-consistency principle, by the way, is also crucial to understanding the movie as a whole.  The aliens (revealed to be humans from the future) knew that Cooper's daughter Murphy was destined to save the human race.  So they caused the past to happen: they set up a tesseract so that Cooper would go into it and convey the information (i.e. the quantum data) Murphy needed in order to save the human race.  It's not that the human race originally perished but the humans from the future saved them; it's that the future humans brought about the events which they knew had already happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And also, this is more speculative but it's strongly implied that love is not just a product of evolutionary accident, but rather the future humans were the ones who were responsible for humans having love.  And yet at the same time, the reason that the future humans are helping their past ancestors so much is out of love for their forbears.  So they are giving their ancestors love, and they're doing it out of love!  Novikov's self-consistency principle strikes again!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-05-15T21:35:37.307" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32639" CreationDate="2015-03-28T04:16:35.860" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I can give you a slight spoiler, in a later episode, someone tells Bruce that his methods of fighting wouldn't really be effective in actually hurting someone, and that if he really wanted to hurt someone he should do such-and-such instead.  But Alfred tells the individual to stop talking, because he wants to instill in Bruce lessons like &quot;Becoming good at fighting requires hard work and discipline.&quot;; he doesn't actually want Bruce to immediately find out how to kick people's butts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that suggests that he's trying to use fighting lessons as a way to distract Bruce from his quest for justice, rather than give him the tools he needs to exact revenge/justice; if anything Alfred thinks Bruce's quest for justice will end badly.  Now as far as the episode you're talking about goes, I think as you said Alfred is just trying to encourage Bruce to stand up for himself.  So while Alfred might approve of petty revenge against schoolyard bullying, I don't think he'd approve of bigger plans by Bruce to avenge his parents' death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7827" LastActivityDate="2015-03-28T04:16:35.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16469" CreationDate="2015-03-28T04:44:11.403" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode where Eko dies, &quot;The Cost of Living&quot; in Season 3, Locke finds out that Eko has seen the Monster.  Locke tells him that he's seen it too: &quot;It was a very bright light.  It was beautiful.&quot;  And similarly he tells check in the Season 1 episode &quot;White Rabbit&quot;, &quot;I've looked into the eye of this island and what I saw was beautiful.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that suggests that Locke was blinded by the Monster's flash of light, which it produces when it encounters someone for the first time, in order to &quot;scan&quot; them to determine their character and memories.  (Jacob and the Man in Black have a long-running contest to see whether humans are always corruptible because it is in their very nature to sin, or whether it doesn't have to &quot;always end the same way.  So when new people come to the island, the monster judges them; if they're beyond redemption he kills them, otherwise he tries to manipulate and corrupt them to prove that he's right.  But Jack ultimately proves that Jacob is right about the fundamental goodness of Man, by being willing to sacrifice himself for the sake of the Island.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7827" LastActivityDate="2015-03-28T04:44:11.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32653" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-28T05:47:36.240" Score="4" ViewCount="35187" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3672840/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dragon Blade&lt;/a&gt; based on real events?&#xA;Were the Romans ever in China?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T15:28:50.893" LastActivityDate="2016-04-14T05:57:06.003" Title="Dragon Blade - true story?" Tags="|historical-accuracy|dragon-blade|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32653" CreationDate="2015-03-28T06:20:26.527" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was certainly a connection at this time between Rome and China, through the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road#Roman_Empire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Silk Road&lt;/a&gt; but there is no conclusive evidence of any similar battle... Romans were certainly traveling to China to sell their wares... but those are merchants with a few guards to protect them on their way, not an army.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2014/film/news/watch-jackie-chan-john-cusack-face-off-in-dragon-blade-trailer-1201388163/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Variety article&lt;/a&gt; by Maane Khatchatourian, the battle the film is centered around is purely fictional:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Set in 206-220 A.D., the movie focuses on a key &lt;strong&gt;(fictional)&lt;/strong&gt; battle between Rome and China’s Han Dynasty. It follows Chinese officer Chan, who’s framed and later enslaved, and Roman soldier John Cusack, who escapes to China after rescuing the Prince. The two cross paths in the Western Desert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Wikipedia article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Roman_relations#Hypothetical_military_contact&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sino-Roman Relations&lt;/a&gt; states there may have been a &amp;quot;hypothetical military contact&amp;quot; between the two groups but there is no proof of it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After losing at the battle of Carrhae in 54 BCE, an estimated 10,000 Roman prisoners were displaced by the Parthians to Margiana to man the frontier. Some time later the nomadic Xiongnu chief Zhizhi established a state further east in the Talas valley, near modern day Taraz. Taking up these two strands, Dubs points to a Chinese account by Ban Gu of about &amp;quot;a hundred men&amp;quot; under the command of Zhizhi who fought in a so-called &amp;quot;fish-scale formation&amp;quot; to defend Zhizhi's wooden-palisade fortress against Han forces, in the Battle of Zhizhi in 36 BCE. He claimed that this might have been the Roman testudo formation and that these men, who were captured by the Chinese, founded the village of Liqian (Li-chien, possibly from &amp;quot;legio&amp;quot;) in Yongchang County.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Dubs' synthesis of Roman and Chinese sources has not found acceptance among modern historians on the grounds of being highly speculative and reaching to too many conclusions. Although DNA testing in 2005 confirmed a predominantly &amp;quot;Caucasian origin&amp;quot; of a few inhabitants of Liqian, this influx of Western genes could be explained just as well by transethnic marriages with other peoples along the silk road. A much more comprehensive DNA analysis of more than two hundred male residents of the village in 2007 showed a close genetic relation to the Han Chinese populace and a great deviation from the Western Eurasian gene pool. The researchers conclude that the people of Liqian are probably of Han Chinese origin. Moreover, the area lacks clear archaeological evidence of a Roman presence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, as you'll notice, even this hypothetical event occurred much earlier, in 36 BCE, which is 242 years before the beginning of the range of time the film was set (206 CE/AD).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-28T06:20:26.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32656" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32659" CreationDate="2015-03-28T09:07:57.577" Score="4" ViewCount="892" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Hachi: A Dog's Tale&lt;/em&gt; , there is a scene about Hachi is waiting for his master for the first time outside the train station. And when Parker noticed that Hachi is there , he is excited and plays with Hachi. Then Carl (the staff in the train station)  sees him and Hachi playing , and says, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;that son of a gun....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning when he says that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest I could get is just when he says &quot;that son of a gun....&quot;, he means &quot;That lucky bastard ....&quot; because he sees Hachi and the professor are happy together. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-10T14:26:24.310" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T16:16:16.660" Title="What does Carl mean when he says, &quot;that son of a gun&quot;?" Tags="|dialogue|plot-explanation|hachi-a-dogs-tale|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32657" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32663" CreationDate="2015-03-28T10:04:09.497" Score="2" ViewCount="5890" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm always confused about the quote &quot;Ouch, ouch, you're on my hair.&quot; in the movie &lt;em&gt;Wedding Crashers&lt;/em&gt;. What does it really mean? When this quote is being translated into the Chinese version, it means &quot;Stop touching my hair during sex.&quot; It just sounds ridiculous to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-10T14:11:08.517" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T14:11:08.517" Title="What does you're on my hair signifies in Wedding Crashers?" Tags="|dialogue|wedding-crashers|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32658" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32695" CreationDate="2015-03-28T10:58:58.183" Score="8" ViewCount="739" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically in every movie or tv series we can find product placement. Companies like Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and many others are promoting their products through product placement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it documented that weapon manufacturers like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Smith &amp;amp; Wesson&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Heckler &amp;amp; Koch&lt;/a&gt; are promoting their products in movies through product placement? And what are some examples of movies or tv series with product placement involving weapons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I came to this question because in cinematic history there are some iconic weapons. For example Harry Callahan with his &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson_Model_29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Smith &amp;amp; Wesson Model 29&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xxhmq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Harry Callahan with gun&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8737" LastEditorUserId="20171" LastEditDate="2015-04-02T13:56:05.510" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T23:28:53.780" Title="Are weapon manufacturers investing in product placement?" Tags="|product-placement|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32656" CreationDate="2015-03-28T11:24:15.987" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think both have different meanings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;son of a gun&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Means a tough guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: In the  movie &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; when Iron-Man guides the missile into the portal, loses consciousness and the portal was about to close, he comes back to earth falling. At this time, Cap says &quot;Son of a gun.&quot;, meaning Iron-Man is a tough guy (Can be interpreted in many other ways but this is mine.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That lucky bastard&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is different from the above expression. For example, if a guy is dating hottest girl in the school, the other guys might call him &quot;Lucky bastard&quot;, meaning he got lucky to date that girl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Hachiko&lt;/em&gt;, Carl says Hachi a &lt;em&gt;son of a gun&lt;/em&gt; because Hachi is tough and waits for his master at the station at the exact time when his master's train arrives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moments before that scene there's a conversation like this,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-He's been here all day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-No... no, he's just rode up 2&#xA;  minutes ago. He went right there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-You're kidding. You seen Cate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-I haven't seen her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the conversation, we can say that, Hachi reached station and waiting for the master in time without anyone's help. So, I think that's Carl way of telling Hachi a tough guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2015-03-28T11:29:18.650" LastActivityDate="2015-03-28T11:29:18.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32661" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32662" CreationDate="2015-03-28T12:53:13.693" Score="11" ViewCount="662" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQx_SrKS1sQ&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;teaser trailer for &lt;em&gt;Spectre&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and approximately 28&amp;nbsp;seconds in, we see this signature:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/arelk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The surname of the signatory looks like “Bond”, but it’s certainly not James, nor does it seem to be the name of either of his parents (Andrew and Monique). I think it looks a bit like “Chairman”, but that seems like a strange name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this field is labelled “Legal Guardian(s)”, and given the surname, I’m assuming this is a member of Bond’s family. But I don’t recall anybody in any of the Bond films with a remotely similar name. It is, of course, possible that this is an entirely new character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whose signature is this?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’ve included the full screencap below, but the rest of the image may be spoilery:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NwftE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9285" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-28T16:25:44.863" LastActivityDate="2015-03-28T16:25:44.863" Title="Whose signature is shown in the Spectre teaser?" Tags="|james-bond|spectre|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32661" CreationDate="2015-03-28T12:57:48.667" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charmian Bond&lt;/strong&gt;, James's aunt and legal guardian. She was mentioned in his obituary in Fleming's novel &lt;em&gt;You only Live Twice&lt;/em&gt;. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_%28literary_character%29&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After the death of his parents, Bond goes to live with his aunt, Miss Charmian Bond, in the village of Pett Bottom, where he completes his early education.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Charmian was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_%28novel%29#Background&quot;&gt;the name of Fleming's cousin&lt;/a&gt; who married his brother Richard. It's often misspelled as Charmain and Charmaine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-03-28T13:17:10.140" LastActivityDate="2015-03-28T13:17:10.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32657" CreationDate="2015-03-28T15:26:28.447" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the film so I don't really know the context for the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/buGMfFaZ3IE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it sounds like he's talking about how uncomfortable dating is and how awkward sex can be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a woman with long hair, it hurts a lot when someone pulls your hair and, when in the bedroom, it will happen occasionally, which takes a lot of the fun out of it... assuming it's not intentional...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A guy can easily trap the girl's hair between his body and the mattress, preventing the girl from moving her head and yanking the hair if she's not aware it's trapped, causing pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-03-28T15:26:28.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32657" CreationDate="2015-03-28T15:32:06.410" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not to get explicit, but when a guy is on top of a girl he will usually put his weight on his elbows or hands so he's not crushing the girl.  If the girl has longer hair, his elbows/hands may be on her hair, and his weight would cause him to sink into the mattress a bit, pulling on her hair.  That's what he means, and in that sense the Chinese translation is somewhat accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-03-28T15:32:06.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32636" CreationDate="2015-03-28T16:28:37.853" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Science ain't exact science with these clowns.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably when the other guy in the past returned he immediately told the scientists about Cole, and they jumped him from WWI to 1996. He has the tracker in his tooth, so presumably he doesn't have to report back home each time, they can jump him from any point &lt;em&gt;A&lt;/em&gt; to any point &lt;em&gt;B&lt;/em&gt;. Since they likely didn't know he was injured, he was just sent to 1996 immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="1548" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T05:30:32.020" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T05:30:32.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32670" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-28T21:54:25.977" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spectre is a 2015 British spy movie and the twenty-fourth film in the James Bond film series. It is the fourth movie to star Daniel Craig as James Bond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/james-bond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;james-bond&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;james-bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(literary_character)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for James Bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia list of James Bond movies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(2015_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Spectre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2379713/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Spectre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2015-11-08T20:39:13.733" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T20:39:13.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32671" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-28T21:54:25.977" Score="0" Body="A 2015 British spy movie and the twenty-fourth film in the James Bond film series. It is the fourth movie to star Daniel Craig as James Bond." OwnerUserId="9285" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2015-11-08T20:39:10.140" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T20:39:10.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32680" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-29T06:07:15.527" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The phrase “box office” has two definitions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The place at a theatre or cinema where you can buy tickets;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The commercial success of a film or play.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When discussing the box office in the context of the movie industry, people usually mean the latter. They may also talk about “box office sales”, which has essentially the same meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9285" LastEditorUserId="9285" LastEditDate="2015-03-29T14:59:12.757" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T14:59:12.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32681" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-29T06:07:15.527" Score="0" Body="The box office is a term used to describe the commercial success of a film." OwnerUserId="9285" LastEditorUserId="9285" LastEditDate="2015-03-29T15:09:57.230" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T15:09:57.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32479" CreationDate="2015-03-29T06:45:25.177" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early on in the movie, there is the establishment of society's norms, which include a comprehensive emphasis upon agriculture and not only a disregard, but an admonishment of intellectualism and professions beyond trades. During Tom's parent-teacher conference, his aptitude for farming is made apparent by his unsatisfactory marks. Furthermore, the recordings sent to Cooper state that Tom is embracing farming, which is the standard for society at that point. As such, Tom's complete acceptance of society's norms include a disposition to repel the practical application of science and medicine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T06:45:25.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32683" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32684" CreationDate="2015-03-29T07:01:47.337" Score="9" ViewCount="9953" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's an extract from the epic Christopher Nolan movie &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Batman&lt;/strong&gt;: Then why do you want to kill me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Joker&lt;/strong&gt;: I don't.. I don't want to kill you...! What would I do without you..!? Go back to ripping off mob dealers? No, no, no! no.&#xA;you.... you....complete me....!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qCsOP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Batman and the Joker&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how does Batman complete the Joker?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6825" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-12-21T11:22:15.573" Title="How does Batman complete the Joker?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32684" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32683" CreationDate="2015-03-29T07:03:39.717" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Joker sees Batman, his nemesis, as the other half of an immortal coin. So long as they are alive and engaged in conflict, they both have a purpose in life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T07:03:39.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32687" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32690" CreationDate="2015-03-29T18:31:42.230" Score="3" ViewCount="648" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't Baymax get on the ship and fire his fist away from the exit, so that everyone, him included, is sent towards that exit and saved? Why does he chose to fire his fist into the ship, thus sending it towards the exit and him away from it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6889" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-29T19:01:40.143" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T19:44:57.257" Title="Why is the ending of Big Hero 6 such as it is?" Tags="|ending|big-hero-6|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32687" CreationDate="2015-03-29T19:44:57.257" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;A poster on Reddit &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/plotholes/comments/2ncmwr/big_hero_6_ending_spoilers/&quot;&gt;explains&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The only reason they made it out in time (remember the exit was closing quickly) was because that arm kept pushing them, accelerating them with it's propulsion thrusters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In your alternative plan, A) they're heavier by one armor clad robot, thus slower to accelerate with Abby given force and B) their only push would be from the initial ejection of the arm. All of that propulsive force from the thrusters would do absolutely nothing for them. As it would be pushing them while accelerating in the opposite direction. They'd never make it out in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T19:44:57.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32691" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-29T19:51:32.023" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-03-29T19:51:32.023" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T19:51:32.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32692" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-29T19:51:32.023" Score="0" Body="A 2014 3D computer animated movie from Disney, directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams. It's Disney's first animated film to feature Marvel Comics characters, and tells the story of 14-year-old robotics genius Hiro Hamada who forms a superhero team to battle a masked man who has attacked Hiro with his own microbots." OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-03-29T21:44:59.533" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T21:44:59.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32683" CreationDate="2015-03-29T20:42:10.613" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Joker is an intellectual psychopath. He's not necessarily interested in money, material possessions or robbing banks, he's interested in the cat-and-mouse games that come from having an intellectual equal somewhere in the world trying to stop him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Joker loves chaos, and eluding Batman. Without Batman there's no fun in creating mayhem because it's just too easy and the regular police force is no match for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7162" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T20:42:10.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32694" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-29T21:45:07.587" Score="2" ViewCount="4776" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, Walt wouldn't want his son to know he was a killer at all but especially not to think he killed his uncle.  Why didn't Walt say in Ozymandias (S5/14) the Nazi gang killed Hank whenever Skyler is asking him where Hank is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know Walt alluded to Skyler on the phone that he killed Hank to sound even more dangerous and he told her in Felina that some men killed him but Walt Jr will still think his Dad murdered his uncle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19993" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-29T21:49:31.790" LastActivityDate="2019-01-02T18:43:46.440" Title="Why doesn't Walt tell Walt Jr the truth about Hank?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-03-31T20:56:01.893" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32658" CreationDate="2015-03-29T21:48:09.227" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Entertainment Weekly did a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/1999/06/04/where-hollywood-gets-its-guns&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;piece&lt;/a&gt; back in 1999 about gun product placement in film. Some companies participate by donating free weapons to prop houses. Other companies abstain from any kind of product placement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Glock, Smith &amp;amp; Wessen, and Magnum are some of the top promoters to try and get their weapons into films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As improbable as it sounds, there’s an important moment in the ‘98 thriller U.S. Marshals. In the middle of their introduction, Tommy Lee Jones throws Robert Downey Jr. a withering stare and snarls: ”Get yourself a Glock. Lose that nickel-plated sissy pistol.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="211" LastEditDate="2016-11-15T23:28:53.780" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T23:28:53.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32696" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32743" CreationDate="2015-03-29T21:59:30.870" Score="14" ViewCount="2856" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know it's a plot device, making it Walt's trademark but why blue and not pink(man) or yellow.  One user added, in relation to Marie's love of purple, that purple means widow and mourning in Thailand which is deeply symbolic for her character.&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; has a lot of colour related symbolism but Walt just says the colour is down to a different chemical process (S1/7).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it so they could use My Baby Blue and Crystal Blue Persuasion in the soundtrack?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19993" LastEditorUserId="19993" LastEditDate="2015-03-29T23:29:48.530" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T06:13:29.470" Title="What is the symbolism of the blue meth?" Tags="|analysis|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32698" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-29T22:57:57.113" Score="3" ViewCount="4073" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer:&lt;/strong&gt; This question contains drug references not suitable for younger users&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;.&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;I remember watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumping_Iron&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pumping Iron (1977)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and I was only young when I saw it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the film, there was a scene where &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arnold&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and his colleagues are chilling in a room and celebrating &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Ferrigno&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lou Ferrigno&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;'s birthday, during which Arnold lets loose and has a smoke. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being young, I assumed this was a tobacco cigarette, but later (recently) I heard that it was actually a Marijuana &quot;joint&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did Arnold smoke tobacco or marijuana in Pumping Iron?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt;  See &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1712/11244&quot;&gt;age gate&lt;/a&gt; for more info on minimum users' age.&#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-16T15:49:37.680" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T23:17:36.850" Title="Did Arnold smoke Cannabis at the end of Pumping Iron?" Tags="|pumping-iron|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32698" CreationDate="2015-03-29T23:17:36.850" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's pretty much common knowledge that Arnold was a marijuana user.  Here is a bit about him admitting it was marijuana:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbsnews.com/news/arnolds-marijuana-moment/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Arnold's marijuana moment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-03-29T23:17:36.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32702" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-29T23:47:27.313" Score="11" ViewCount="3537" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the Question states:&#xA;Why did the white people on Candieland respect Stephen in &lt;em&gt;Django Unchained&lt;/em&gt;?&#xA;And even, after Calvin Candie died they even took orders by him. When Django was under the table and they tried to shoot him, why did they stop shooting, just as Stephen ordered them to do so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just asking, as in that time, even if they respected him because of his grace of Calvin Candie after he was dead, no one had a reason to listen to him. I even would bet, any of all these guys with guns would have disrespected him that much, that he just would have shot him, so how did this come? Why they not even just didn't kill him, more over they listened to his orders?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20039" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T00:24:04.600" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T10:59:05.960" Title="Why did the white people on Candieland respect or even take commands from Stephen?" Tags="|plot-explanation|django-unchained|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31020" CreationDate="2015-03-30T00:43:49.827" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will try to expand this answer a little more tomorrow..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the fence zombies are latex props, not actually people. I'll try to find some interviews where they talk about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?v=GIVWjKoPt1w&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;segment&lt;/a&gt; on how they lop off heads. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T00:43:49.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28785" CreationDate="2015-03-30T02:25:44.453" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Riggin dies at the beginning of the movie. The events of the movie occurred in in an instant as Riggin laid dying on the beach from his suicide attempt, which ultimately was successful.  That is why we see the jellyfish at the beginning and the end of movie.  The whole movie occurred on the beach.  This is why he flew at the end (to heaven we can assume). Why his daughter smiled.  That is the way he wanted to remember her.  Riggin was hallucinating one last chance at doing things right, being a legitimate husband, father and actor, and not a sell-out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20044" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T02:25:44.453" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32709" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32710" CreationDate="2015-03-30T08:10:15.643" Score="2" ViewCount="708" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Cooper and co goes to the first planet to explore, it is revolving around the black hole. Why didn't the space ship get sucked into the black hole? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we know that the gravity of a black hole is enormous - how were they able to land on the planet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20046" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T13:10:04.517" LastActivityDate="2019-07-04T19:17:35.320" Title="Interstellar movie black hole concept?" Tags="|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32709" CreationDate="2015-03-30T08:32:06.963" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11236384/The-science-of-Interstellar-fact-or-fiction.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Telegraph explored&lt;/a&gt; some of the science of Interstellar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Miller’s planet is as close to the huge black hole Gargantua as it can&#xA;  be without getting sucked in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The crew of Interstellar’s Endurance spaceship faced a headache when&#xA;  trying to get to Miller’s planet because it is trapped within the&#xA;  control of the huge black hole Gargantua.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To avoid being sucked into the black hole, the spaceship had to be&#xA;  travelling at high speed to escape the huge gravitational and&#xA;  centrifugal forces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Interstellar, Cooper gets round his speed dilemma by slingshotting&#xA;  around a the black hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However the speed needed to escape something as massive as Gargantua&#xA;  is huge. The Endurance would need to be travelling at close to the&#xA;  speed of light to escape the huge pull of the black hole, and then&#xA;  quickly slow down so it could land on the planet. The sudden change in&#xA;  momentum would almost certainly tear the ship apart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/81868/black-hole-gargantua-in-interstellar&quot;&gt;a similar question on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;. It got closed down for being off-topic but it has an answer about black holes in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80245/how-fast-is-millers-planet-orbiting-gargantua-in-the-movie-interstellar&quot;&gt;another question on the SF&amp;amp;F SE&lt;/a&gt; where &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/80489/31029&quot;&gt;the answer&lt;/a&gt; contains some relevant information. It cites information from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Science of Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; by physicist &lt;strong&gt;Kip Thorne&lt;/strong&gt; (who was a consultant on the movie, and co-wrote the original script treatment):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As for how they manage to navigate from one orbit to another, Thorne&#xA;  discusses this in chapter 7. Basically his answer is that although&#xA;  their rockets alone wouldn't be sufficient, they use gravitational&#xA;  slingshots past other massive objects in orbit around Gargantua,&#xA;  including smaller black holes and neutron stars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a long excerpt that explains a lot of this in detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T08:47:03.597" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32711" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32712" CreationDate="2015-03-30T09:12:54.547" Score="4" ViewCount="1261" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can anyone say what is the relationship or history between Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler in the 2009 movie Sherlock Holmes. In the movie when they are shown together first time, it seems there is a back story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18957" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T11:42:29.283" Title="Is there any history between Irene Adler and Sherlock holmes in Sherlock Holmes (2009) movie" Tags="|sherlock-holmes-2009|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32711" CreationDate="2015-03-30T09:34:58.217" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bakerstreet.wikia.com/wiki/Irene_Adler&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Irene Adler&lt;/a&gt; is a character from the books, a woman that Holmes admired.&#xA;She appears in &lt;a href=&quot;http://bakerstreet.wikia.com/wiki/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scandal in Bohemia&lt;/a&gt;, but is also &lt;a href=&quot;http://bakerstreet.wikia.com/wiki/Irene_Adler#Appearances&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mentioned in other works&lt;/a&gt; of Arthur Conan Doyle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The beginning of &quot;A Scandal in Bohemia&quot; describes the high regard in which Holmes held Adler:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him&#xA;  mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and&#xA;  predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion&#xA;  akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly,&#xA;  were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He&#xA;  was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that&#xA;  the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a&#xA;  false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a&#xA;  gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the&#xA;  observer--excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and&#xA;  actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into&#xA;  his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a&#xA;  distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental&#xA;  results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own&#xA;  high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion&#xA;  in a nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and&#xA;  that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable&#xA;  memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note also that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She is portrayed by Rachel McAdams in the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes in&#xA;  which it is assumed - contrary to Conan Doyle's statement in the&#xA;  original story - that she and Sherlock Holmes did become lovers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T11:42:29.283" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T11:42:29.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32694" CreationDate="2015-03-30T09:52:59.360" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think, he will get the whole story told by Skyler after the show had ended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Walt visited Skyler in the last episode, he was watched by the police, etc. and he had to fight against Jack and his men! Walt cannot risk at that point to be found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt Jr. has proven himself to be not trustworthy to keep a secret this big. In order to convince him about the truth about Hank, someone must tell him that Walt was here to tell his. When Walt phones Walt Jr. in S05E15, Walt Jr. was screaming around in the school, etc. He knows that if he or Skyler told Walt Jr. about Hank, his plan could not work. For example, if they would &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; go to the police, Jack and his men would probably get revenge on Walt's family, or they would be prepared of seeing Walt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skyler seems to have trust in Walt (e.g., she was not telling that he was there), so she let him do his work. After the series ended, she would get called to the Nazi clubhouse and can also see that Todd and the others who threaten her were dead. Plus, she can trade the coordinates of Hank's &quot;grave&quot;. At that point, the old story about Walt does not make that much sense and Walt Jr. is maybe willing to hear (and accept) the truth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-02T18:43:46.440" LastActivityDate="2019-01-02T18:43:46.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32696" CreationDate="2015-03-30T10:04:24.117" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walt's meth is said to be the purest of them all, ~99.1% pure. Gale goes on to guarantee Gus a purity of 96 percent for his own product. Walt’s sample was 99 percent pure and “maybe even a touch beyond that.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also called as &quot;Blue Sky&quot;.  And in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_in_Judaism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Judaism&lt;/a&gt; blue is called as “pavement of sapphire, like the very sky for purity.&quot; So it looked to me a homage to Judaism believes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So blue colors significance is to represent purity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: I don't have proof for my speculation and it's my believe only.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-02T06:13:29.470" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T06:13:29.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32715" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32716" CreationDate="2015-03-30T10:18:14.010" Score="21" ViewCount="5272" Body="&lt;p&gt;So in &lt;em&gt;Game Of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; Grand Maester Pycelle says to Eddard that Jon Arryn was rambling a lot before he died but he kept repeating &quot;The seed is strong.&quot;&#xA;Now I have seen all four seasons all the way through and I still don't know what it means. Lysa Arryn says that he was talking about Robin but she is pretty crazy so I'm just wondering if I have missed something or if it is explained in the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T10:25:51.717" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T14:03:45.940" Title="What did Jon Arryn mean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32715" CreationDate="2015-03-30T10:31:13.437" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the the first series Eddard Stark discovers that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cersei's children are not king Robert's, but Jamie's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He does this by using the same book that Jon Arryn uses to research the genealogy of the Baratheons through the ages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eddard discovers that every Baratheon child for centuries has black hair. This is proven when he searches out all of King Robert's bastards and finds that they too have black hair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason he finds this out is because he's following Jon Arryn's footsteps before he died, so we can conclude that Jon Arryn discovered the same secret and was murdered for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Genealogically, people tend to have certain traits because certain characteristics of a human are more likely to occur because of dominant genes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However before scientific breakthroughs people would have assumed it's because of the person, rather than the genes themselves, why this occurred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when Jon Arryn was repeating &quot;The seed is strong&quot;, he was trying to reveal the secret he had discovered before he died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the throes of death when he was poisoned he wouldn't have been able to give a full description about his findings, so he hoped that someone would understand from these words what he had found. Which Eddard eventually did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T10:31:13.437" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32421" CreationDate="2015-03-30T11:43:36.107" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't seem to be a reference to a previous event, a movie or TV show, or to introduce a new plot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;@OkSteev: Was the Garrett/Leonard staring scene a joke or is that a&#xA;  plot for a later day? &#xA;  @atrubens: Joke. Absurdism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is from &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20150330113611/https://twitter.com/atrubens/status/578755817068888064&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alex Rubens' twitter post&lt;/a&gt;. Alex Rubens is one of the writers for Community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2018-07-17T14:17:08.297" LastActivityDate="2018-07-17T14:17:08.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13708" CreationDate="2015-03-30T14:17:34.610" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene is significant in terms of testing the free will of the test subjects as described in Plate 37-40 (which was part of classified CIA documents) which is what the whole movie was about (testing the humans free will).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Water Coffin Triptych test (also called Endurance Test Path) was designed for test subject (spouse) that does not pushed the button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this purpose, the advanced research laboratory has been designated as endurance test area. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The test subject was submerged in NaOH+Hcl barrier and analysed for 1h and their fate determined based on the NaOH+Hcl analysis by designated laboratory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The library place wasn't fixed location of these water coffins, as it was showed (water+bed scene) that these kind of gateway transits can be invoked by psychics (in this case mind-controlled psychic) on their will by &lt;a href=&quot;http://psi.wikia.com/wiki/Hydrokinesis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hydrokinesis&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the technical details from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://thebox-movie.warnerbros.com/media/content/hrem.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;C.B.T. Human Resource Exploitation Manual - Section 1&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;ENDURANCE TEST PATH&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Plate 37 Advanced research laboratory has been designated as endurance test area with obstacle path between water coffins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Plate 38 NaOH+Hcl analysis upon completion of endurance test.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Plate 39 The spouse that does not push the button will be exposed to water coffin triptych. Test subject will be exposed to an endurance coordination anxiety test during gateway transmission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;WATER COFFIN TRIPTYCH&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Plate 39 Test subjects must choose between three gateway paths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;GATEWAY TRANSMISSION&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Plate 40: Test subject is submerged in NaOH+Hcl barrier during analysis period of 60 minutes. Gateway transit analysis will determine fate of test subjects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3CZKc.png&quot; alt=&quot;TEST SUBJECTS AND FREE WILL - Endurance Test Path - The Box movie&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AdqNR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;TEST SUBJECTS AND FREE WILL - Water Coffin Triptych - The Box movie&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1799" LastEditorUserId="1799" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T14:50:03.183" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T14:50:03.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32720" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32721" CreationDate="2015-03-30T15:11:31.023" Score="4" ViewCount="997" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was shown that the mechanism in &lt;em&gt;The Box&lt;/em&gt; is empty, therefore does how the button mechanism exactly work? Does it mean it's fake?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1799" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T15:35:37.000" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T15:35:37.000" Title="How does the button mechanism work?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-box|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32720" CreationDate="2015-03-30T15:11:31.023" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iBmDRl.png&quot; alt=&quot;Button unit - The Box movie&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned at the beginning of the movie, the button mechanism has been constructed as a device of unknown purpose and its design specifications were confirmed by Mars project. However we can assume already that the main purpose of the button (The Box) is for testing subjects and their free will (as part of the bigger test if humanity is worthy of salvation or extermination).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is made of?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The box is made of anodised aluminum and hand-blown glass dome under which the button unit is placed which is opened only by the key. Its design is complex and probably expensive in making. The box appears empty to deceive test subjects and disguise micro-technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How does it work?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The button is using micro-technology to test free will of the subjects under 40 (happily married with a single child). Upon depression of button (by mother or father) the surface memory of button collects sub-atomic data and the transmission occurs upon spring release by anodized aluminum button collar. Then button unit mechanism becomes inactive after single push of button and it needs to be reprogrammed for another use. It's exactly unknown what kind of data is transmitted and how does it work exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The button unit needs to be reprogrammed each time accordingly and when it's pushed, then according to his constructor, somebody will die. And the person who pushes it is offered the reward. There wasn't only one device constructed, but there were many of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UutpEm.png&quot; alt=&quot;button units - The Box movie&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More technical information about The Box we can find in its technical specification which was described in classified CIA document:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thebox-movie.warnerbros.com/media/content/hrem.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;C.B.T. Human Resource Exploitation Manual&lt;/a&gt; - July 1976 - Committee on Behavioral Technology (COBT C.B.T - 7039-58 - Section 1 - Abstracts)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LwWZs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Button Unit Mechanism - TEST SUBJECTS AND FREE WILL - The Box movie&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kerWH.png&quot; alt=&quot;Button Unit Mechanism - TEST SUBJECTS AND FREE WILL - The Box movie&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Transcription:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TEST SUBJECTS AND FREE WILL&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BUTTON UNIT MECHANISM&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plate 31 Button unit mechanism appears empty to deceive test subjects and disguise micro-technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plate 32a. Sub-atomic data transmission occurs upon depression of button by mother or father only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plate 32b. Button unit mechanism becomes inactive after single push of button.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plate 33 Surface memory of button collects sub-atomic data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plate 34-36 Data transmission occurs upon spring release by anodized aluminum button collar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extras.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some funny way of explaining how the button works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OPkNxm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AENLYm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Image credits: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmiveeb.ee/foorum/viewtopic.php?f=12&amp;amp;t=9252&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;filmiveeb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1799" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T15:29:40.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32644" CreationDate="2015-03-30T15:42:22.840" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a while now Scream Factory (Shout Factory) has had distribution rights for Phantasm 2. Anchor Bay had the rights for 1,3, and 4 but the DVDs are out of print and AB didn't seem to do much with the movies beyond their initial DVD releases. Anchor Bay no longer holds the distribution rights; I have no idea who does. If Scream Factory ends up with the films that would be cause for celebration as they make an art out of re-releasing old horror films on Blu ray and making some fine collector sets...unfortunately all of my online searching hasn't turned up any info on who does hold the rights to the films. Fingers Crossed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20054" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T15:42:22.840" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32725" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32872" CreationDate="2015-03-30T16:36:21.087" Score="5" ViewCount="819" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, the mysterious behavior of gravity is attributed to Cooper's discovery of the secret NASA base that leads him to becoming the lead astronaut.  When they first find out about how &lt;em&gt;he found out&lt;/em&gt; about the base they are very interested in investigating it further.  But it seems like they never really follow through - I would expect a full on occupation and quarantining (and thus discovery of Cooper in the bookshelf) of the house so they could get to the bottom of it.  Instead, it takes something like 30 odd years before the cooper's daughter begins the arduous task of translating the atemporal medium.  How come Cooper couldn't simply get the attention of the NASA guys in the very beginning when he's in his super time cube?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13510" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T16:52:26.493" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T07:10:24.120" Title="Why did NASA not investigate Cooper's house?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32727" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-30T16:48:48.157" Score="3" ViewCount="1819" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Bodyguard, why does Costner go into the kitchen of the Miami hotel?  Why is he so agitated when he sees a stack of boxes, looking for a Louis Gomez, and beats up the Cuban on a smoke break?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20056" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T16:50:30.783" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T11:38:52.643" Title="The Bodyguard hotel kitchen scene" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-bodyguard|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32728" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-30T17:21:32.003" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;American Sniper is a 2014 film based on US Navy SEAL Chris Kyle's book &lt;em&gt;American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (2012)&lt;/em&gt;, which details his time in Iraq.  The film, starring Bradley Cooper as Kyle and Sienna Miller as his wife Taya, was directed by Clint Eastwood and became the highest grossing war film of all time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T17:43:55.990" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T17:43:55.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32729" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-30T17:21:32.003" Score="0" Body="For use with all questions relating to the 2014 film &quot;American Sniper&quot;; a biopic based on the book by Chris Kyle." OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T17:44:05.080" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T17:44:05.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32730" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32731" CreationDate="2015-03-30T17:24:50.450" Score="5" ViewCount="12507" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clearly, Rick Grimes was asked to shoot someone at the end of the season 5 finale of &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt;.  I was unable to tell from the angle who it was that he shot, although it seems as though he was turned slightly more towards his right.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I miss something?  Was it discussed during Talking Dead after the episode aired?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T17:42:28.533" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T19:50:44.330" Title="Who did Rick Grimes shoot at the end of the Season 5 finale?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32730" CreationDate="2015-03-30T18:11:51.803" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From USA Today's &lt;a href=&quot;http://entertainthis.usatoday.com/2015/03/29/the-5-most-shocking-moments-in-the-walking-dead-season-finale/&quot;&gt;&quot;The 5 most shocking moments in the 'Walking Dead' season finale&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; But it turns out wife-beater Pete just had to come after Rick with Michonne’s discarded sword, and ends up slitting the throat of Deanna’s husband, who tried to calm him down. Deanna was, shall we say, a little upset with the whole situation, and ended up defying all her morals and all her rules and telling Rick to kill Pete right there and then. Rick complies (a little too happily, if you’re asking us) only it just happens to be the very moment that Aaron and Daryl return with Morgan. The look on Morgan’s face as he saw the blood-stained Rick shoot Pete point-blank was pretty heartbreaking, considering Morgan had been looking for the man Rick used to be, not the man he is now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus: &lt;a href=&quot;http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Pete_%28TV_Series%29&quot;&gt;Pete&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T18:27:09.920" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T18:27:09.920" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32732" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-03-30T18:54:03.293" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Flash chronicles the adventures of Barry Allen, a forensic investigator for the police department.  Barry was struck with particles, lightning and chemicals when a particle accelerator exploded, the result of which is superhuman speed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show itself is based on the &lt;em&gt;New 52&lt;/em&gt; series of comics from DC Comics and stars Grant Gustin in the lead role and Candice Patton as his best friend/love interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T19:58:45.137" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T19:58:45.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32733" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-03-30T18:54:03.293" Score="0" Body="For questions about the US TV series The Flash, which is based on the DC Comics character." OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-03-30T19:58:10.633" LastActivityDate="2015-03-30T19:58:10.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34314" CreationDate="2015-03-31T00:54:27.607" Score="8" ViewCount="9296" Body="&lt;p&gt;In explaining how hard it is to crack the code of the Enigma machine, Cumberbatch' character says in &lt;em&gt;The Imitation Game&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are 159 million, million, million possible Enigma settings. All we had to do was try each one. But if we had 10 men checking one setting a minute for 24 hours every day and seven days every week, how many days do you think it would take to check each of the settings? Well, it’s not days; it’s years. It’s 20 million years. To stop an incoming attack, we would have to check 20 million years’ worth of settings in 20 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For no reason other than curiosity, I tried to calculate whether or not this &quot;20 million years&quot; is correct, and found that it is completely incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's just use simple math to do this:&#xA;It's stated that the Enigma machine has 159 million million million different settings, that's 1.59×10^20.&#xA;Let's assume that a man can check a code each second (which is much faster than what was stated in the movie), and while a year has 31,536,000 seconds, then in 20 million years period that would be: 10(men)× 31,536,000(seconds in a year) × 20 ×1,000,000 (20 million years) = 6.3×10^15 settings.&#xA;Obviously that is so much less than the Enigma settings so there is a huge error in saying &quot;20 million years&quot; as it would take much much longer than that. 25,000 times more to be precise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is this a calculation mistake they made?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20068" LastEditorUserId="20068" LastEditDate="2016-09-03T23:10:43.107" LastActivityDate="2019-03-12T00:19:24.420" Title="Is this a mistake in The Imitation Game?" Tags="|the-imitation-game|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21614" CreationDate="2015-03-31T01:01:06.203" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are mixing up two movies and I understand it since these two movies sort of go together in my mind - plus the titles have similarities. I Come In Peace has been mentioned, but the beginning of your description more closely matches Peacemaker - a 1990 film with Robert Forster as the alien policeman. I always remember the part at the medical examiner where one of the earth cops says he wants to watch the autopsy to see if there is an &quot;S&quot; on the guy's chest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20069" LastActivityDate="2015-03-31T01:01:06.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27011" CreationDate="2015-03-31T02:14:52.940" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the year is around 2040. Just a guess because Donald states that that there was 6 billion people when he was a kid. And that's around 2000. And Donald looks like he's about 40, probably 50. And Donald is not Cooper's dad. Any ways cooper was probably born in 2002 would be my guess. And he is 33 in the movie so that would make The year 2035. So my estimation was close. Correct if  wrong. So Donald would be 45, which is 12 years older than cooper because I'm estimating that he was born in 1990.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20071" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-08-17T09:17:35.750" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T09:17:35.750" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31573" CreationDate="2015-03-31T04:54:49.083" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are shooting scripts and draft scripts, which are what they sound like, and are official scripts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there's transcripts, which are more or less &quot;fanmade&quot;, they are generated by either watching something and writing down dialogue (and sometimes scene descriptions, but many transcripts lack that altogether) or by getting the subtitle files and going from that. Hence the &quot;trans&quot; part of the scripts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastActivityDate="2015-03-31T04:54:49.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32696" CreationDate="2015-03-31T07:15:32.537" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;To &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/2013/10/breaking-bad-creator-vince-gilligan-answers-fan-questions-part-i/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;quote&lt;/a&gt; series creator &lt;strong&gt;Vince Gilligan&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We had this instinct that it would be helpful to have something distinctive about Walt’s product. And we figured it should be nice and clear&lt;/strong&gt; and not cloudy that a proper product would be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We thought &lt;strong&gt;yellow would be a terrible choice because it would remind people of urine&lt;/strong&gt;, and we figured &lt;strong&gt;green would be an odd color&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;we thought blue was a good choice because it feels clean.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We called up &lt;em&gt;(science consultant)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/2013/08/22/so_what_if_pure_meth_isnt_really_blue_partner/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dr. Donna&lt;/a&gt; with our fingers crossed, asked her if she thought it was possible for this product to come out as blue. She looked into it and said not really, and in fact, if you add a color, chemically speaking it would mean the product is probably less pure and been adulterated. And that worried me when I heard that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But she said, you know at the end of the day this is a fictional story and I’ll help you get the chemistry as right as I can. Sometimes technical advisors will be very rigid and say it will never work that way, never in a million years, but she was very good that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-03-31T07:15:32.537" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32744" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-31T07:31:58.810" Score="3" ViewCount="1316" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Edge of Tomorrow&lt;/em&gt; we learn from Cage's and Rita's experience, that when covered in the Alpha's blood, one can inherit the aliens' ability to reset the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sub-question is - when this occurs, do the mimics retain the ability? If so, in my opinion Cage was lucky he changed his route after his first death, since the Alpha would remember how it got killed and adapt accordingly. The fact that the aliens had a lot more experience using this technique could mean that the &quot;early&quot;, untrained Cage would be quickly drained of his blood still on the battlefield.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But - when trained and sufficiently experienced - what would happen if he decided to attack one of the Alphas again - for their blood, to &quot;infect&quot; others with the power, for example Rita or his pals from J Squad? Was it possible to create even a whole unit of day-resetting soldiers? Cage knew the location of at least two Alphas - the first one he killed with the claymore, and the second at the dam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could the Alphas still be confronted in their original locations? If so - is it possible to kill one Alpha multiple times (my guess is that it would adapt its strategy to not get killed or simply do not go in the location it got killed - that means if they still had their power)? Would it be a risk worth taking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20075" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-31T09:41:48.460" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T03:07:46.940" Title="What would happen if Cage tried to confront the first (or second) Alpha again?" Tags="|plot-explanation|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32745" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-31T08:06:56.493" Score="8" ViewCount="5628" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_Plan_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Escape Plan&lt;/a&gt;, why does the doctor, who comes into jail for the treatment of the prisoners, help the hero i.e. Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone) and brings a chopper in the end. What is the reason behind helping Ray with such a big heart?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20046" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-18T16:22:05.463" LastActivityDate="2020-08-26T22:54:46.753" Title="Why does the doctor help Ray Breslin at last?" Tags="|plot-explanation|escape-plan|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32750" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32753" CreationDate="2015-03-31T11:15:53.137" Score="10" ViewCount="2966" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_%282012_film%29&quot;&gt;The Avengers&lt;/a&gt; how does HULK differentiate between the enemy and the allies? Previously when he turns into the beast aboard the avengers space craft, Hulk fights with Thor which means  that he does not know who is enemy and who is ally. But during the last fight Hulk smashes the aliens only. How? And what makes him differentiate the enemy from the allies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20046" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T08:35:18.713" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T08:35:18.713" Title="What makes Hulk differentiate the enemy from the allies during the last fight in &quot;The Avengers&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32751" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-31T11:37:01.987" Score="10" ViewCount="5274" Body="&lt;p&gt;When food is already so scarce on earth in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, why did Cooper crush the crops while chasing that drone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the drone really that valuable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20083" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-07-06T11:27:38.597" LastActivityDate="2016-07-06T17:34:52.577" Title="Why did Cooper chase the drone across the field when food is so scarce?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32750" CreationDate="2015-03-31T12:32:08.950" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think of Banner and Hulk as 2 different entities, then the Hulk's main objective is to protect Banner from coming to any harm. This explains why he stops Banner from killing himself (this is mentioned in the Avengers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also makes sense that when Banner's heart rate gets too high the Hulk appears, it's his defense response kicking in. The same when he gets angry, it's the Hulk trying to attack whatever Banner is angry at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can assume in the time Banner was in hiding that he has learned to control the Hulk better, so that he can suppress him coming out or call him when he needs him. Apparently he does this by staying on the brink of anger all of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However in a situation like when Hawkeye blows up the Helicarrier, the Hulk comes out because he perceives Banner to be in need of him (whether that's through loss of control, anger, heart rate is not explained).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when the Hulk is released unbidden, he will generally smash anything and everything nearby, in that case Black Widow, because he is trying to protect Banner. This quickly gets sidetracked though as soon as Thor, and later the fighter jet, get involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ever notice in the films, the Hulk always attacks whoever or whatever is attacking him. He will stop attacking or chasing something if something else is being more aggressive or threatening (like the fighter jet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the battle of New York, however, Banner calls out the Hulk, so has more control over him. This is how it helps to distinguish who is a friend or foe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if a fighter jet just showed up, he probably wouldn't pay it much notice. But if it started shooting at him he probably would attack it just as soon as any of the aliens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2015-03-31T12:32:08.950" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32757" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32758" CreationDate="2015-03-31T14:22:47.193" Score="6" ViewCount="518" Body="&lt;p&gt;The hero and heroine are at a Mardigras celebration with ten other people (12 in all). There is a Mardigras cake cut into twelve slices with a token, and the winner of the token gets to be king/queen of the event. Naturally, we want the hero to get the token.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How might this be effected? One way is that if you keep doing the exercise long enough, the hero will eventually get the token after enough cakes are cut. Another way is that you somehow &quot;mark&quot; the token so that the cake-cutter will know which slice to give to the hero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do movie makers usually do under these circumstances?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9097" LastActivityDate="2015-03-31T15:52:18.800" Title="How might a &quot;random&quot; event be effected in a movie?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32757" CreationDate="2015-03-31T14:54:53.047" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The marking idea is right. The propmaker who makes the cake will make a clocklike diagram to be put under the cake and will mark the &quot;hour&quot; the token is at so the one who places the prop (mostly the same person) will place it so the hero gets the right piece while being correctly framed. Right before they start filming and after instructing the actor they will remove the diagram and voila, they're ready to roll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The multiple cake cutting depending on luck won't occur because props will always be made as ready as possible to reduce time spent filming/preparing which costs considerate amounts of money. It's better to pay the propmaker(s) a couple more hours for getting the props right rather than paying everybody involved at the set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; Been on sets with similar props and arrangements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tip:&lt;/strong&gt; If you're researching moviemaking, getting (legal) access to a set in one way or another will answer a lot of questions you might have. Good luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19004" LastEditorUserId="9097" LastEditDate="2015-03-31T15:52:18.800" LastActivityDate="2015-03-31T15:52:18.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32760" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-03-31T16:28:09.180" Score="7" ViewCount="491" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Community Season 6 Episode 4 in the stage adaption of Karate Kid, the actor who plays 'Kreese' (real actor in film was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3748647/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jess Allen&lt;/a&gt; playing Kreese in the original was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0184392/?ref_=tt_cl_t4&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Martin Kove&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k79ti.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is given the credit 'Someone else':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XHDAP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't they give him his stage character name or a more descriptive character name? Was it just a way of giving funny role names like we'd see in the end credits of the Naked Gun films?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-09-26T12:00:23.750" LastActivityDate="2015-09-26T12:00:23.750" Title="Why was the actor who played Kreese in Community credited as 'Someone Else'?" Tags="|credits|community|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32761" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32765" CreationDate="2015-03-31T17:16:00.700" Score="6" ViewCount="4437" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a major hassle for me because I like watching movies late at night and I live in a city row house where neighbors sometimes complain of noise.  When I have the volume set to something reasonable during the regular conversation parts of the movie, that same system volume level outputs a significantly louder sound when some violence kicks in or the soundtrack to the extent of having to rush to my remote to turn it down.  Then I have to turn it back up when it's over because I can't hear conversations at the same volume level at which this increased input volume was tolerable.  I also have some delicate sensory sensitivities (I can't handle very loud or certain sounds) so this is a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have never experienced this situation where I actually found the drastic variation in the sound volume something justified, which made the movie more enjoyable.  IOW, I &lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt; find it a hassle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why are some movie parts much louder than others?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My entertainment setup consists of a projector, DVD player, Roku box for streaming, Sony receiver, and a 5+sub Harman Kardon speakers.  You could say it is a fairly sophisticated setup and I wouldn't mind, if possible, to configure some setting to make the sound level more uniform coming out of the receiver regardless of how the input is encoded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20094" LastActivityDate="2021-05-17T18:10:07.377" Title="Why are some movie parts much louder than others?" Tags="|sound-effects|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32761" CreationDate="2015-03-31T18:10:18.530" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check your TV or receiver for audio settings.  My TV has a couple different ones, one of which acts as a normalizer which keeps the volume pretty much at a set peak. Another one brings the voices more out front, which is important because I don't have a home theater in my bedroom and when the audio is on &quot;Movie&quot; setting all I hear are the built-in speakers rattling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your original question of &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;, it's all part of building a dynamic or a mood.  Try watching Jaws or any horror movie on mute and see how much of a different experience certain scenes are versus with the volume on.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-03-31T18:10:18.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32761" CreationDate="2015-03-31T18:13:14.830" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is called &lt;strong&gt;dynamic range&lt;/strong&gt;. In the simplest terms, imagine that you have a fixed numeric scale from 1 to 100 which tells you how loud something is, and you want all sounds in your recording to be reasonably representative of the actual sounds within the context of all the other sounds in the recording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for an action movie, you want the explosions to be 100 and &quot;ambient silence&quot; to be 1. Everything else needs to be in the middle somewhere and still be believable: you want gunshots at point blank to be louder than casual conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you adjust volume for listening to dialog, now the other stuff is booming. But if the audio engineer sets the dialog at 80, now the gunshots sound like popcorn. Sort of a catch-22.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for how to mitigate this, some TVs or receivers have &quot;low dynamic range&quot; or &quot;quiet mode&quot; etc. setting in the audio preferences. Most dialog is in the center channel, so you can try lowering the volume of the other channels. I have found that choosing &quot;stereo&quot; instead of 5.1 can improve the volume level of dialog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the methods for &quot;fixing&quot; this on the fly involve look-ahead methods which can introduce time delay between video and audio. Not a big deal for devices which allow for adjustment (my TV has a latency setting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further google/reading: &quot;loudness war&quot; &quot;dynamic range audio&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19595" LastActivityDate="2015-03-31T18:13:14.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32766" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33787" CreationDate="2015-03-31T18:38:40.690" Score="8" ViewCount="3950" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 4 episode 6 of Breaking Bad we see a Pollos Hermanos delivery truck attacked by cartel members.  They leave the truck a shot up mess with no survivors.  This event would have brought a lot of suspicion on the franchise and may have given Hank grounds to investigate more aggressively. How was this truck never reported to law enforcement?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20097" LastEditorUserId="20097" LastEditDate="2015-04-01T01:14:01.563" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T18:18:14.230" Title="Why did the Pollos Hermanos attacks not bring more suspicion?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32768" CreationDate="2015-03-31T18:41:59.430" Score="19" ViewCount="4988" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Sopranos episode S05E12 titled &quot;Long Term Parking&quot; (at about 42 minutes), Christopher Moltisanti is apparently thinking about betraying his comrades and entering the Witness Protection Program, following Adriana's proposal. In the street, for some seconds, he looks at a young couple with kids. Does this influence his decision? How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user19407" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2015-11-03T13:57:47.317" LastActivityDate="2018-01-25T20:29:14.857" Title="In the Sopranos, what is the meaning of Chris Moltisanti staring at an anonymous young family in the street?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-sopranos|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32767" CreationDate="2015-03-31T18:47:35.837" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though somewhat opinion based, I think it's relatively safe to assume that &lt;strong&gt;this seals Adriana's fate&lt;/strong&gt;. Chris sees his future family life in the gas station: nagging kids, annoying wife, a beat up car and, most importantly, a very tired and fed-up looking husband. Chris's face says it all, this is not the future for him. His next move is to go to Tony, which leads to Adriana's demise. It was actually a slightly unsubtle way to eludicate his thought process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-03-31T18:47:35.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32767" CreationDate="2015-03-31T18:51:35.250" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're talking about the episode &quot;Long Term Parking&quot;.  In that episode, as Christopher is contemplating turning informant, he goes to buy a pack of smokes and sees a family of schmucks piled into an old beat up car.  Chris realizes that he doesn't want to be like them, working for a living and getting nowhere, so he decides against turning into a snitch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-03-31T18:51:35.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="872" CreationDate="2015-03-31T20:07:42.583" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the reason behind The Keep not being released is because neither Virgin records or Tangerine Dream, which performed the music for The Keep, wants to release what they feel is their rights to the music.  Since neither party wants to let go of the music (I tend to side with Tangerine Dream in this case), the movie will sit in limbo until the issue is resolved.  You might find supporting information about this on Tangerine Dream's website but I cannot remember the exact citation or link. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it will come down to a legal decision on who owns the rights to the music before we get to see The Keep released.  I hope a decision comes soon because the movie and the music is one of those rare combinations where the music and the story match perfectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20099" LastActivityDate="2015-03-31T20:07:42.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32771" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43920" CreationDate="2015-03-31T22:05:03.453" Score="4" ViewCount="6772" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding that Professor Crawford, Jamal Wallace's English teacher, was bitter about losing the Pulitzer Prize to William Forrester, Jamal's friend. But I'm confused as to how he made the connection between Jamal and Forrester, given the latter's reclusiveness. And while Jamal may have been guilty of &quot;plagiarism&quot; by copying the title and first paragraph from one of Forrester's works, I don't see how Crawford would have known, given that Forrester never published anything after winning the Pulitzer, decades earlier. Were there concrete revelations that I missed, or was the audience asked to suspend disbelief and just assume that Crawford somehow knew?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And was there something earlier in the movie that triggered the bad blood between Crawford and Wallace? Ethnic &quot;rivalry&quot; perhaps? For instance, Crawford was played by an &quot;obviously&quot; Jewish actor named F. Murray Abraham. Was this incidental/accidental, or was the &quot;backstory&quot; that Crawford had anglicized a Jewish surname, and was otherwise insecure about his English language credentials?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9097" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-03-31T23:56:41.497" LastActivityDate="2017-06-07T06:20:40.370" Title="Need help understanding &quot;Finding Forrester&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|finding-forrester|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18272" CreationDate="2015-03-31T23:44:48.053" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me, I see the character as being the same man, it's already been mentioned that there are many links between the characters in AFOD and FAFDM particularly to do with the characters injured hand. Since Joe's hand is injured in AFOD it is only fitting that due to his choice of wearing a leather cast in FAFDM draws is a subtle link to the first film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name Manco draws further attention to this by essentially translating to one armed and considering his injury he would have likely used one hand for a period of time and got into a habit of using his uninjured hand more prominently which is particularly evident where Colonel Mortimer gives Manco a glass offering it to his right hand yet Manco uses his left hand to take the glass from Mortimer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name Joe in itself I've always believed to be taken from'Average Joe' which his character is no one seems to know who he is and would consider him just another normal drifter. I'm sure you can come to the conclusion of 'Blondie' as a nickname by yourselves. The link between AFOD, FAFDM and GBU all rests on that ending where Blondie dons the poncho and as said above you see the character work up his outfit in the film to what his classic look is throughout and if you think about it the poncho isn't all that crosses over the films, the sheepskin jacket and shirt do as well in fact the whole costume does I can't be sure but if they are all different characters why the exact same choice of clothes which brings me onto his revolver.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is the same revolver throughout which further proves they must be the same person given the characters mystery and general interaction with people it is obvious he is a bounty hunter and a drifter so he won't stick around too long in one place. Therefore he won't get to know people that well which means he wouldn't leave it to anyone in the event of his death and what are the chances that the person who kills him is going to steal his gun and all his clothes and masquerade as him. Given his occupation it is more likely he would be killed if the characters are indeed different and that would be the only way the character would pass on his belongings. Also if he wasn't the same guy what would be the point of casting Clint Eastwood in all three.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean yes, Gian Maria Volonte and Lee Van Cleef play two different characters but their characters are vastly different. Gian's though both in charge of gangs are different due to their deaths and the amount of backstory revealed surrounding El Indio as well as their choice of outfit and the two characters possessing two different names that of Ramon and El Indio and being very different personality wise let alone the fact FAFDM follows on from AFOD. Lee Van Cleef on the other hand has a more obvious difference between his characters. Angel Eyes is cold hearted and doesn't care who he kills in order to achieve his objectives he exploits situations to his advantage including being a part of the Union Army his focus is purely on the money and as he attempted to rid himself of Tuco I doubt he would have let Blondie get that far after they found the grave. Colonel Mortimer on the other hand is out for revenge which Manco sympathises with to a point, allowing Mortimer to kill El Indio while he collects the bounty, if they were related I think Mortimer would have taken the money as well. On top of that Van Cleef's character in GBU is killed and if it is a prequel to AFOD then its obvious they are unrelated. If Clint was playing a different character each time there should be greater differences in character between each version they should dress differently own different weapons and have different personalities but all that remains fairly consistent across the films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read in previous comments that the fact Blondie is willing to team up with both Tuco and Angel Eyes in the film is something that would not sit well with Joe in AFOD, don't forget Blondie kills Angel Eyes and abandons Tuco twice. The first time in the middle of nowhere, in effect the middle of a desert and doesn't appear to care what happens to Tuco. Again Blondie abandons Tuco at the end when he shoots the rope he has hung Tuco from while he leaves with his share, he leaves Tuco alive, but to be fair he did help Blondie recover the money and was useful in distracting Angel Eyes during the final duel but nevertheless Blondie leaves Tuco's hands bound in territory where there is both high concentrations of Union and Confederate troops with a lot of money so Tuco isn't left in the best of spots at the end of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a supposed ten year gap as some of the previous comments have stated between GBU and AFOD if indeed it is a prequel it leaves plenty of time for Blondie's character to develop into Joe and we don't know what happened to Blondie's share of the gold whether he lost it, spent it or whatever. Maybe that led to a slight change of character which changes him from a cold hearted bounty hunter into a person who begins to care or at the very least sympathise with another's personal cause in his bounty hunting pursuits. Then again he may have that money stored away and the amount he has accumulated over his career leads him to make one final bounty in FAFDM. Now though I haven't provided any links and I've drawn much from previous comments from my observations I believe Clint Eastwood's man with no name is the same person throughout the Dollars Trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20106" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-04-01T18:24:04.490" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T18:24:04.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32730" CreationDate="2015-03-31T23:48:10.383" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most people (including my wife) seem to think that Rick clearly shot Dr. Pete, but that the producers just chose not to show it directly because it was perhaps just a bit too graphic.  I say &quot;Bull Gronky!&quot;  On this show, there is nothing that they love &lt;em&gt;better&lt;/em&gt; than to graphically &quot;show it&quot;.  Can you remember poor little Beth Greene?  I don't know who or what it was that Rick did indeed shoot, but I very much doubt that Dr. Pete would have been shot in the head or elsewhere without us being shown every minute detail.  How about Glenn on this same episode, who clearly must have died when multiple walkers fell upon him?  We didn't see him torn apart, so that means that he &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; have survived the scene.  On &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; show, if you are not shown indisputable, unsurvivable carnage... then there is a reason for it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20107" LastActivityDate="2015-03-31T23:48:10.383" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32776" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-01T00:20:04.230" Score="2" ViewCount="292" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does Sherlock keep his fake death to John if 30 other people know about his fake death. Wouldn't you think if it is a secret, John would be the first person he could trust about this secret? I don't understand the purpose of setting the &quot;stage&quot; just for John, if it is also for other onlookers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Although I'm not entirely sure if the last explanation is the real explanation for his fake death, I'm just leaving it as a plot the directors can't really solve so they just made it vague as possible.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18703" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-25T15:11:45.543" LastActivityDate="2015-07-25T15:11:45.543" Title="Why didn't Sherock let Watson in on his Empty Hearse plot?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32777" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-01T00:25:20.560" Score="2" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Sherlock still make a fake death if Mycroft could manage to negotiate with the sniper and assassins and he could just pay a bunch of homeless to act as witnesses to Sherlock's death. It would make it easier for them than setting up a &quot;stage&quot;. Did I miss anything?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18703" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-25T15:14:29.383" LastActivityDate="2015-07-25T15:14:29.383" Title="Why the need for Sherlock's Empty Hearse plot?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32779" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32792" CreationDate="2015-04-01T00:56:48.737" Score="12" ViewCount="2184" Body="&lt;p&gt;Better Call Saul's episodes feel like they have a pattern in their naming convention to me, but I can't quite figure it out and I haven't been able to find any articles on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Uno&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Mijo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Nacho&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Hero&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Alpine Shepherd Boy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Five-O&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Bingo&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Rico&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Pimento&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Maro&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are almost all short words that end in 'o', but I figure the pattern must have more meaning than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what the pattern is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20110" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2018-07-07T14:48:56.820" LastActivityDate="2018-07-07T14:48:56.820" Title="What is the naming pattern in Better Call Saul?" Tags="|better-call-saul|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32479" CreationDate="2015-04-01T01:24:32.427" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;They didn't.  I don't understand how anyone who saw this movie still thinks that Lois rejected medical assistance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D09oC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;That right there.  That's Lois and her son moving rapidly to get into the jeep, with the doctor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So anyone who wants to argue about how they were rejecting modern society or accepting the fate of the dust is wrong.  This issue was far more simple than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scenes play more to the automatic rejection of everything that Murph would bring into the house. Lois knows how Tom will not want anything connected to Murph and the scientists brought into their home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those scientists had taken their father away from them, and had proven (to that point) to have failed at saving the planet. Murph, having taken up the mantle from a different direction with the same people, only served to remind Tom of what he had lost, and what he thought his family faced. Anything Murph brought with her would automatically also be connected to that same pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lois knew this. She wanted the help for her child, but she knew it would be rejected by Tom because of Murph. This is why she was willing to leave with Murph and the doctor. She wanted her son to live, and she wanted to hope that something could be done. Only by breaking free of her husband and his misguided oppression could she succeed in getting that help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T01:24:32.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32786" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37065" CreationDate="2015-04-01T06:15:36.853" Score="11" ViewCount="4181" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; Cooper has those completely automated robotic farm trucks. &#xA;As we have seen they perform their tasks without any human interaction. Somewhere in the middle of the movie there is a scene where all those trucks/tractors stopped working, and came towards his house like trained horses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did that happen? Well I know it has something to do with the gravitational anomalies caused by the tesseract behind the book shelf. But why exactly did that happen?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19959" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-01T07:55:15.870" LastActivityDate="2017-03-18T15:42:10.623" Title="Why did those trucks/tractors act in a strange way?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7915" CreationDate="2015-04-01T06:32:22.473" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its a world of deception.  Its believed by some that the Rosato Brothers were never really enemies of the Corleone's.  That the traitors were really Fredo, Roth and Frank Pentangeli.  The reason this is believed is because Michael is a man of revenge and if the Rosato's were traitors he would have killed them off in the final scene.  The failed hit on Pentangeli was just dumb luck.  The Rosato's were being cheated by Pentangeli and Michael had told Pentangeli to make peace with the Rosatos. In other words...Michael supported the Rosato's.  All the Rosato Brothers wanted was what was promised to them by the late Clemenza. Another reason is the three that die in the final scene all had a motive to kill Michael. Fredo because he was passed over for boss, Roth because of the murder of Moe Greene and, and Pentangeli because he wanted to keep what was his. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20122" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T06:32:22.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32777" CreationDate="2015-04-01T07:19:45.463" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;They had to convince Watson. If Watson, Sherlock's closest friend, can truthfully say that he saw Sherlock die in front of his eye then that gives credibility to the story. Having a bunch of homeless people say the same thing doesn't have the same impact or authority. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T07:19:45.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32776" CreationDate="2015-04-01T07:23:35.527" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because they had to convince the world that Sherlock was dead. What better way to do that than convince Watson? If Watson appeared in front of the world honestly grief stricken, then the world would more easily believe that Sherlock was dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T07:23:35.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32779" CreationDate="2015-04-01T07:25:37.697" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/Why-do-all-the-names-of-the-episodes-of-the-first-Season-of-Better-Call-Saul-end-with-an-o&quot;&gt;this Quora post&lt;/a&gt; this started out as a coincidence, but the creators liked the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The show creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould mentioned in one of&#xA;  the insider podcasts that this started out as a coincidence, but once&#xA;  they noticed it for a few episodes they tried to do it intentionally&#xA;  for all of them because they knew fans would notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The episode titled &quot;Jello&quot; was changed because they didn't have rights&#xA;  to it since it's trademarked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The source of this information is &lt;a href=&quot;https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/better-call-saul-insider-podcast/id966297954?mt=2&quot;&gt;this insider podcast&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T07:25:37.697" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32793" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-01T08:05:00.593" Score="2" ViewCount="519" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)&lt;/em&gt; the prosecutor initially relies on an insurance company expert who testifies that Frank was hit with a bottle found on the crash scene and so it was not an accident but a planned crime. The said expert is from the company which issued the Cora's killed husband life insurance policy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then Frank's attorney finds a person from another insurance company which issued a health and disability policy and brings them two together. They talk for a while, the second company representative promises his company will pay and the next day the expert from the first company says he made a mistake in his testimony and revokes his previous testimony and the prosecutor has no evidence to rely on now and the trial ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the deal with two insurance companies that the expert changed his testimony?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3707" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-06T09:00:20.850" LastActivityDate="2015-08-06T09:00:20.850" Title="What's the deal with two insurance companies in The Postman Always Rings Twice?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-postman-always-rings-twice|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32786" CreationDate="2015-04-01T10:06:02.357" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although not explicitly explained in the movie, it could be because of the gravitational anomalies generated by Cooper when in the Tesseract, which might have affected the machine's GPS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19762" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T10:06:02.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26839" CreationDate="2015-04-01T10:46:50.690" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Director David Ayer explained the &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/fury-movie-ending-spoilers-david-ayer-interview/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;ending&lt;/a&gt; in an interview:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;One thing I know has been an early kind of discussion point is at the very end of the movie in the moment, of course, when Logan is under the tank and there is this soldier from the other side.&lt;/strong&gt; Some people have kind of criticized that. To me, I kind of read it as what we were seeing in that moment was almost all the stuff we had learned with his character up until there. &lt;strong&gt;This was like the mirror of that on the other side and they kind of have that moment. That kid is like him and he kind of moves on. Is that right?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David:&lt;/strong&gt; That’s exactly it. It’s not Logan’s war. &lt;strong&gt;The thing is over in four weeks. This kid should have been going to college, but by that time they stopped the deferments because they were running out of bodies to send in and fight.&lt;/strong&gt; And the same with the Germans. They were grabbing kids out of classrooms  But the idea is, it’s not their war. They shouldn’t have been there. And somebody has to rebuild when it’s over. There’s people on both sides of it. In four weeks they are not the enemy anymore. There’s just something interesting about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11099" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T10:46:50.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32803" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32816" CreationDate="2015-04-01T12:54:21.407" Score="12" ViewCount="6979" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, Walt had the opportunity to work with Gale and earn 3 million dollars. Instead he insisted on working with Jesse and split the money with him. He claimed it was because he didn't have chemistry with Gale but that seems like an unlikely excuse. What are the other reasons that Walt would give up 1.5 million in order to work with Jesse? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20097" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-07-24T07:21:17.847" LastActivityDate="2017-07-24T07:21:17.847" Title="Why did Walt give up 1.5 million to work with Jesse?" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18784" CreationDate="2015-04-01T13:27:41.667" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;whats in the box is the knife, same knife that he kills the asian in the back street with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20137" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T13:27:41.667" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32808" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32810" CreationDate="2015-04-01T14:44:45.797" Score="1" ViewCount="574" Body="&lt;p&gt;Almost at the end of &lt;em&gt;American Sniper&lt;/em&gt; (about 119 minutes), Chris Kyle's wife flushes the toilet when he is bathing, and Chris fakes getting hurt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, how &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; he get hurt by what his wife is doing? What can happen when she flushes the toilet while he's bathing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorDisplayName="user20086" LastEditDate="2016-06-10T09:46:06.997" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T23:51:39.037" Title="How could Chris be hurt while bathing, when/because his wife flushes the toilet?" Tags="|plot-explanation|american-sniper|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32808" CreationDate="2015-04-01T15:08:37.567" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flushing the toilet or turning on the cold water at a sink (in older houses) diverts cold water away from the shower in order to fill the toilet tank or fill the sink. He wasn't faking getting hurt, the water in his shower suddenly turned extra hot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorDisplayName="user20086" LastEditDate="2016-06-10T14:26:49.267" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T14:26:49.267" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32803" CreationDate="2015-04-01T17:00:38.730" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Walt knows that he is valuable enough to Gus until the point where Gus can replace him.  And Walt also knows that once Gale masters the cook that Walt and Jesse produce, Walt is no longer useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt also knows that Jesse won't give him up, and that while Jesse is a good cook, he's not on par with Walt.  This makes it almost a no-brainer for Walt to refuse to work with Gale, because the only 2 outcomes of that partnership are that Walt will be out of business or killed by Gus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T17:00:38.730" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32683" CreationDate="2015-04-01T18:19:40.787" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both of the previous answers for me have summed it up nicely. The whole conflict between Batman and the Joker is largely due to the theme DC has toyed with a lot and that is the two characters essentially being responsible for the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tim Burton used that theme in his Batman movie which I can't say I'm a big fan of even though I think the actors are superb in the roles. That story in itself is based off Alan Moore's 'Killing Joke' graphic novel which tries to establish the Joker's origins being the result of Batman incapacitating him during a robbery. The Joker falls into madness and finds himself enjoying crime as a way to exact revenge in a twisted way as Batman will not kill his foe yet he aims to remove crime in Gotham but the Joker will not stop his crusade for chaos and will continue to commit crimes for Batman to deal with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nolan's film seems to play on this with the whole thing about Bruce telling Rachel he'll give up Batman when the city no longer needs Batman but the Joker on the other hand believes they are destined to do this forever. In a strange sort of way the Joker has no purpose without Batman and Batman has no purpose if there are no crimes to prevent of which the Joker is largely responsible for enacting and setting up. In 'The Dark Knight' Nolan shows that the ordinary criminals fear to so much as even go out at night let alone commit crime with the Joker pointing out they are holding a business meeting during the day out of this fear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially the Joker's comment about Batman completing him is down to that he's an intelligent psychopath who enjoys having someone who can at last challenge that intelligence and as he says later on he won't kill Batman because he's just too much fun. The Joker has stepped up because he wants a challenge and he won't back down because he enjoys what he is doing to much and his purpose is basically to torment Batman and cause chaos in Gotham.&#xA;To me it stands out that if Batman stopped or was killed the Joker would become meaningless he would not have a counterweight to his insanity and crime on the level that he commits would become as pointless as ripping off mob dealers he may want to watch the world burn but he has a sadistic need to torture Batman with his schemes without Batman to torment what point would the Joker have he stepped up to the Batman as a challenge but if he succeeded he would essentially become Megamind he would cause chaos but become bored because he doesn't have someone who will challenge his insanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20106" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-01T18:34:53.290" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T18:34:53.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4156" CreationDate="2015-04-01T18:41:56.373" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the difference of time between Prometheus and Alien your theory on hypersleep placing the occupant in suspended animation could be correct as we know in Aliens that Ripley spends 60 years in hypersleep. Also in Aliens the scanners which break into the Narcissus to uncover Ripley do not appear to pick up her vitals from the scavengers dialogue when they enter they seem to not be aware of any lifeforms as they dust off the life pod. So Weyland Yutani may have looked into the Engineers technology as considering the Prometheus mission the company would have likely sent more teams to find out what happened and Weyland Yutani employees would have been given a mandate to investigate alien tech. As for Prometheus the comment above from Alien ISTR seems to explain the dreaming element. I do think you are thinking along the right lines though but all I could say is the Prometheus technology is less advanced as Alien is supposed to be but maybe Neil Blomkamp may include some more insight in Alien 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20106" LastEditorUserId="20106" LastEditDate="2015-04-01T20:34:21.863" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T20:34:21.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24229" CreationDate="2015-04-01T18:44:58.783" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem here is that you've seem to confused Reality TV with an advertisement... Reality TV isn't an advertisement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Advertising&lt;/a&gt; is a form of commercial selling:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Advertising (or advertizing) is a form of marketing communication used to persuade an audience to take or continue some action, usually with respect to a commercial offering, or political or ideological support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reality TV is entertainment.  Entertainment forms are not subject to truth in advertising because they aren't &lt;strong&gt;advertisements&lt;/strong&gt;. The &lt;strong&gt;purpose&lt;/strong&gt; of truth in advertising is to protect consumers from being sold goods that claim to do something or serve a purpose that they do not. Your own definition (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_advertising&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;from Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;) says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As advertising has the potential to persuade people into &lt;strong&gt;commercial transactions&lt;/strong&gt; that they might otherwise avoid...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watching a TV show is not a commercial transaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T18:44:58.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21357" CreationDate="2015-04-01T19:09:49.453" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oberyn is supposedly considered an impressive warrior and is renowned throughout the Seven Kingdoms for his skill hence his nickname 'The Red Viper.' Oberyn will no doubt be aware of Ser Gregor's own martial skill especially following the reports of the rape and murder of Elia Martell and her two children (Yes I'm aware of the possibility surrounding those events in &lt;em&gt;A Dance with Dragons&lt;/em&gt;). The Dornish themselves are especially hateful of the Lannisters who they believe to be behind Elia's death. Also remember Oberyn and Elia are brother and sister hence why Oberyn goes after the Mountain in the first place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there is something in 'A Feast For Crows' in a conversation with Oberyn's paramour Ellaria Sand in which she states that Oberyn knew he did not have to kill Ser Gregor simply cut him for the poison to work its magic so he may have believed there was a chance the Mountain would best him and certainly most of the people watching were shocked to see Oberyn doing as well as he was but I definitely think that Oberyn was aware of his chances of survival. While I can't provide any information to back up my own opinion, have a read through this as it will give you more insight into the character and will go further in depth over some of the things I've mentioned, hope I've helped:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Oberyn_Martell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Oberyn_Martell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20106" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-03-08T23:57:34.220" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T23:57:34.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27386" CreationDate="2015-04-01T19:12:20.953" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible too that with Monsanto taking over farming and genetically modifying food that at some point with the lack of genetic diversity in crops, plants had lost their ability to survive fungal infestations as well as other forms of disease. If at some point overpopulation became an issue, food may have been modified to produce higher yields as a more desired trait and in doing so, lost some immunity to other environmental factors. Corn being one of the most genetically diverse foods would have a slightly higher rate of survival? Just an idea to add here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20156" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T19:12:20.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28355" CreationDate="2015-04-01T19:43:31.570" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst I know Peter Jackson's interest in LOTR did come partially from him watching Ralph Bakshi, I found this interview with Bakshi and thought it might help:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And of course it could be really ironic if someone said something like, &amp;quot;In the spirit of Lord of the Rings&amp;quot; considering you did the first one.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;I'll send it to them! Are you kidding? I'm not going to let that one&#xA;slide. &amp;quot;In the spirit of Lord of the Rings, I want to do Wizards II.&amp;quot;&#xA;I'll use it.&#xA;[I've been asked] to finish Rings in animation. I really don't want&#xA;to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That was one of the questions I wanted to ask.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;I know that. Everyone wants to ask that question. Why should you be&#xA;different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because we're all curious. We love Lord of the Rings the books, we liked your Lord of the Rings, we liked the Peter Jackson one.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;The picture was just done. I don't want to do a picture that's been&#xA;done. He's finished it! It's no fun doing something that's been done.&#xA;It's just no fun for me. Why would I want to spend three or five years&#xA;working doing something that someone else did?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good point.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;If I got the same money he had, I could grind him into the ground with&#xA;mine, but the point is, why bother? Everyone knows that anyhow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm definitely a fan of your version of Lord of the Rings, as well as the Peter Jackson one.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;[My version] had more character, more soul, more heart. Less sneaker&#xA;selling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We thought it was pretty obvious at several points in the Peter Jackson version that they did take a couple of riffs from you.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;Uh huh. They took everything from me. The ring wraiths were taken from me. There was a lot! I mean, I designed the ring wraiths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now, I know Peter Jackson said he also saw your films, and obviously it was some degree of an influence. I mean, how do you take that?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;Oh, some degree of an influence! Holy shit! Some degree of an&#xA;influence! What are you talking about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hey, I can be diplomatic either way, see? [laughs]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;Let me ask you a question. You're a bright lad in Montreal, right?&#xA;Some degree of an influence. Look. I'm sitting here with a book called&#xA;Lord of the Rings, and no film to look at. Every fucking thing you're&#xA;looking at in Rings I—the design, Gimli, Aragon, the dwarfs, the&#xA;elves, all that stuff—I came up with, basically because there was&#xA;nothing to look at. Peter Jackson looked at it and said, I like that,&#xA;I don't like that, I can improve on that. Who are you kidding? Look at&#xA;his Lothlorien. Look at my backgrounds of Lothlorien. Take a look! He&#xA;had much more to see than I did, and if you don't think he lifted it&#xA;over and over again, you're wrong. I mean, how did he design a knife&#xA;in Lord of the Rings? How did he design a sword? How did he design the&#xA;dwarf with his axe? How did he design the fur around him? Why did&#xA;Peter Jackson put fur around the dwarf? Because I put fur around the&#xA;dwarf! Why would the dwarf have fur naturally? You see, I could give&#xA;you a billion little things. I wish I had a movie to look at. That's&#xA;fine for Peter [Jackson]. But for you to say &amp;quot;somewhat&amp;quot;—shit. Shit,&#xA;that's ridiculous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Well, you know, I've gotta be diplomatic. I've got to be honest—&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;What? Why? Why do you gotta be diplomatic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because I haven't seen your Lord of the Rings in a bout a decade. So my memory's not as good as it could be.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;Then go see it! Go see it. How about under the tree, under the limb,&#xA;when the wraith on the road is trying to find Frodo, Sam, and the guys&#xA;were hiding under the bush, under the tree, under the limb on the&#xA;road, and it was on top? Where did that come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;See, you answered my next question, which was going to be, how did you feel about that? [laughs]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;How did you feel about that? You're the guy trying to be diplomatic,&#xA;I'm not. How did you feel about that? I'm interested in how you felt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Well, like I said, I hadn't seen yours in a while, so I didn't have as good a memory as to how much it was. But there were some things&#xA;that I saw—&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;Aren't you curious? Why didn't you take a look to see the&#xA;shot-for-shot cuts and background for background?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oh, I'm plenty curious. Unfortunately, I don't get that much sleep as it is. [laughs]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;Well, let's take a look. You slap it in, you roll down there at high&#xA;speed, and there it is. But you don't want to do that, because you'd&#xA;be facing something you don't want to see, and you wouldn't know how&#xA;to write about it, and then Peter Jackson will get mad about you, and&#xA;you can't afford that and he's a hot director. You'd best forget about&#xA;the whole thing and hide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Well, we all know I talk to Peter Jackson every week. [laughs]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did Peter Jackson ever actually contact you at any point?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;He can kiss my fucking ass. No he hasn't. He didn't have to contact&#xA;me. He had my movie. Why would he contact me? He robbed me to begin&#xA;with. What right did he have to make the Rings?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It does happen on occasion. I don't know all the details behind it, so I had to ask to find out.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;Ask me another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So we won't be seeing you and Peter Jackson in a bar laughing it up anytime soon.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;You won't see me and my first wife, either. There are certain people&#xA;you don't want to go near, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry it's so long I thought it was better to lift it from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fpsmagazine.com/feature/040703bakshi-6.php&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.fpsmagazine.com/feature/040703bakshi-6.php&lt;/a&gt; the narrators questions are in bold and italics. Considering the ringwraiths are described as 'Riders disguised in Black' in The Fellowship of the Ring novel its not that far for them to design the film versions similarly and in my view the Jackson version of them in LOTR is more alike their description than the '78 film but I enjoyed both interpretations. Finally just to add I do think the ringwraiths depicted in The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies were designed exactly along the lines of Bakshi's interpretation and to me were almost a carbon copy though the design is different it goes along the same lines and is presented in the same way and all I could think of was Bakshi's version as I watched their appearance in that scene as they join Sauron and float around his manifestation but anyway hope I helped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20106" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T20:03:13.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24837" CreationDate="2015-04-01T20:39:19.633" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chigurh was called in by the (unseen) ringleader, after the drug deal went bad. His main assignment is to recover the money. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A secondary assignment is to kill the guys who the ringleader had hired to set up the deal that went bad (apparently the ringleader doesn't tolerate screw-ups)&lt;/strong&gt;. But first Chigurh needs their information and their transponders, so he meets with them before killing them. Obviously, they don't realize what's coming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T20:39:19.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7915" CreationDate="2015-04-01T20:43:33.970" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;These answers are either implausible or unnecessarily complicated.&#xA;The &quot;the assassination attempt was intended to fail&quot; makes absolutely no sense. Were it not for the unexpected and unpredictable arrival of the beat cop, the murder would have concluded uninterrupted. The cop couldn't have been in on it, because he exchanged gunfire with the Rosatos. If the hit was a ruse, then the film should have provided a more plausible explanation for its lack of completion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best explanation is the simplest one. Coppola screwed up. He had a major plot point in the last half of the film in which Pentangeli plans to rat on Michael. However, he realized too late that this betrayal was completely unmotivated. So, in post-production he added the Danny Aiello line &quot;Michael Corleone says hello&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That fixes the Pentangeli motivation problem, but it created a new problem: why did the Rosato brothers announce to Pentangeli that Michael Corleone was behind his murder when the film later reveals that Hyman Roth was the one who ordered the hit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is an obvious flaw in an otherwise outstanding film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20157" LastActivityDate="2015-04-01T20:43:33.970" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13141" CreationDate="2015-04-01T22:58:25.433" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I attempted to find anything George RR Martin might have said about the character but other than what we've been told in the books and TV show we have not been made aware of Syrio's fate. I'm largely going to go off the books' standpoint as it has more description regarding the final scene he appears. We know Syrio is fighting six men, five Lannister soldiers and Ser Meryn Trant of the Kingsguard. Syrio continuously refers to himself as the former First Sword of Braavos indicating he is well trained and the mere fact he chooses to hold off the soldiers with a wooden practice sword while Arya, who he must be aware is of utmost importance to Cersei if she is sending that many to capture her, escapes. Syrio proceeds to best the five Lannister soldiers possibly killing one of them in the process (could be two, been a while since I read the first book).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then fights Ser Meryn Trant who he lands several ineffective blows on due to the Kingsguard's heavy armour who proceeds to break his practice sword. Usually, the Kingsguard are considered to be the most elite fighters in the Seven Kingdoms Syrio continues fighting Trant despite his broken sword, it is not too far-fetched to think Syrio escaped. Eddard Stark himself tells Bran that he no longer believes the Kingsguard to be the finest soldiers especially as he fought against Ser Arthur Dayne (The Sword of the Morning), Ser Gerald Hightower and Ser Oswell Whent who were considered the last amongst the greatest of the Kingsguard. Ser Jaime Lannister (the Kingslayer) is perhaps the only member of the current order who meets the required standards and he confesses he believes Ser Arthur Dayne himself would be ashamed of what their order has become.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jaime goes on further to berate Ser Meryn for his actions informing him that their first duty is to protect the monarch even if it means protecting them from themselves and to use his common sense when given questionable orders such as beating women and children in relation to Meryn's actions towards Sansa Stark. Meryn is not considered to be that good a knight and the majority of the Kingsguard with the exception of Ser Barristen Selmy and Ser Jaime Lannister are considered to be filling vacant positions. Syrio himself berates Meryn calling him slow for a Kingsguard after Meryn tries to slander him by saying Syrio is quick for a dancing master. With only Meryn blocking Syrio who proves himself to be a more than capable fighter in only a few lines with a wooden sword than Ser Meryn seems to have managed so far in the entire series I am highly skeptical that he alone could stop Syrio from getting away and is more than likely to have been either knocked down or slipped past due to his armour weighing him down and his slowness Syrio probably could have managed it without injuring Meryn much if at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the relation between Syrio Forrel and Jaqen H'Ghar that many people have theorised may not be that far wrong. If they are the same person providing Syrio escaped what is to say he did not decide the best way to escape was by disguising himself as a prisoner being taken to the wall as a faceless man it would not be that difficult to take such a prisoner's place. The only question surrounding that would be why choose to be a prisoner who is locked in a wagon but maybe he wasn't originally. Perhaps Yoren put him there after seeing him fight off some Lannisters whilst preparing to leave or maybe Yoren got in the way and Jaqen fought with him to get put in the cage where the Lannisters would simply overlook him. Jaqen also seems to not care for murdering Lannisters when he masquerades as one and is curiously interested in Arya even before she helps him to escape being burnt alive and is more than willing to help her repay the Red God with three deaths especially when he helps kill several guards so she and her party can escape therefore over paying the Red God. Along with this Syrio believes there is only one God, death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jaqen seems to believe in the Lord of Light (one God, despite what Melisandre says to Gendry) and even then it is all to do with death essentially stealing three lives from death she has to give death back three lives. The Faceless Men themselves don't seem to care what they do whilst working up to an assassination and they do say it can take years. Perhaps if Syrio is such then he may have taken the job to train Arya to get close to a possible target in Westeros which could have been King Robert himself as he has many people who call him usurper still and so he can leave King's Landing or maybe such role was simply a means to an end if he indeed is serving the Lord of Light as well then perhaps they had seen a vision of Arya and he was sent to watch over her particular as she ends up in Braavos but I will say no more on that. That's my theory anyway as to how Syrio could have escaped and his possible relation to Jaqen H'Ghar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20106" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-03-08T15:55:09.530" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T15:55:09.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13016" CreationDate="2015-04-01T23:31:58.067" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stefan's answer sums this up nicely but I would just like to add that Tyrion's position as Hand of the King was given to him on a temporary basis by his father anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tywin was named Hand of the King following Eddard Stark's death but as he was out fighting Rob Stark's army he could not attend to the duties of the Hand and so took advantage of Tyrion's intellect by telling him to take the position on his behalf whilst he fought the war. When Tywin returns to King's Landing to save them from Stannis, he assumes his given role as Hand while Tyrion is resting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tyrion was Hand only on behalf of Tywin, Tywin has therefore always been Hand despite his absence from King's Landing. Tyrion should have been honored for his role in the battle but Tywin's contempt for Tyrion is boundless so he seeks to convey his late arrival as the heroic part of the battle and overlook Tyrion's merits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tywin sees Tyrion as an expendable resource. He knows Tyrion is skilled at manipulating people which is why he uses him in the first place but he also knows that King's Landing is a mess with the Crown half in debt to Tywin and knows Tyrion will remove some of that for him but he intends to show himself as the savior of the capital. The only thing Tywin couldn't predict for his son is what happens at the end of S4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20106" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-03-08T15:55:05.370" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T15:55:05.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11391" CreationDate="2015-04-02T02:13:35.860" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to add to Peter's lack of empathetic connection to Sylar earlier in the show, Peter 'absorbs' a lot of his abilities that Sylar has in S1 since he gains precognitive painting from Isaac, flight from Nathan, healing from Claire, time travel from Hiro, telekinesis from (strangely) Sylar and most importantly for that series Radioactivity from Ted. Peter detonates in S1 because the powers he has already absorbed, that Sylar has also has, namely radioactivity are activated by a combination of his anger at Sylar but he does absorb to some extent part of Sylars power whilst he does not copy Sylar's actual power he does somewhat appear to take in some aspect of it leading to him having a lack of control over his power because of his attempt to copy Sylar which leads to him becoming a living bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on when Peter travels to the future and meets Sylar in an alternate timeline he gains Sylar's true ability that of intuitive aptitude but whats interesting is the fact that in order to gain this power it does not seem to be as simple as we have seen it previously. Where Peter has usually simply absorbed the power through touching a person particularly early on he does not need to establish much of any bond with the person as when he absorbs telekinesis from Sylar he is able to use it simply by remembering how he felt at the exact moment he acquired the ability something that Claude manages to get him to do. When it comes to Sylar, Peter has to physically fix something that is broken in order to unlock the ability as the wikia explains: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gabriel finishes painting the world being destroyed, and removes his watch. Peter sees the &quot;Sylar&quot; name, and Gabriel notes that the watch is a scar, and he wants Peter to fix it. Gabriel explains that if Peter wants to learn how to access his ability, he needs to listen to the watch, and hear how all the pieces come together. As Peter fixes the gears with telekinesis, Gabriel tells him to see the cause and effect of the gears, that he can figure out how to fix the future. Peter turns and shows Gabriel the watch is now working, and Gabriel notes that Peter now has his ability, and says sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Peter is able to gain Sylar's ability only when he can fully understand it unfortunately unlike the other powers he has gained it is the most difficult to understand and the most difficult to control hence why we later see Peter back in the present struggling to control his hunger for more powers. It also appears to me that Peter in this episode Peter does seem to partially believe that Sylar's need to kill could be linked to his power as he seems to be cautious of visiting Sylar to gain the power although it does seem more likely he is just afraid Sylar will attempt to kill him Peter does not seem to want to willingly absorb Sylar's ability when first told to do so by future Peter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20106" LastActivityDate="2015-04-02T02:13:35.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32845" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-02T06:54:56.477" Score="4" ViewCount="182" Body="&lt;p&gt;Red Dwarf is a colossal (according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf_spacecraft&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; 6 miles long) mining vessel. I'm curious as to whether it was named &quot;Red Dwarf&quot; because of a unique colour scheme (or more likely painted a unique colour because of it's name) or if all JMC ships are red and the convenient naming is a happy coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm after in-universe views as I think the production decision is fairly logical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T18:53:49.950" Title="Are all JMC ships red?" Tags="|red-dwarf|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32846" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32860" CreationDate="2015-04-02T06:59:27.490" Score="5" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Ouroboros it's shown that Lister was abandoned&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; By himself and Kochanski&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;under a pool table to be adopted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However in Better than Life he talks about his dad dying (and how he continued to read the football results down the toilet to him). In BtL and numerous other episodes there are references to his gran.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should we assume that these are his adopted family or is this simply fluid writing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2015-04-24T14:54:31.913" Title="Isn't Lister an Orphan?" Tags="|continuity|red-dwarf|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24229" CreationDate="2015-04-02T07:31:30.753" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The assumption is that the term &lt;em&gt;reality&lt;/em&gt; in the phrase &lt;em&gt;Reality TV&lt;/em&gt; is advertising a specific type of television content. You could certainly make a case and see where it goes, but the likely counter argument is that those that use the term &quot;Reality TV&quot; have never implied that it's truly &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; as, after all, it &lt;em&gt;is TV&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-04-02T07:31:30.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32849" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32864" CreationDate="2015-04-02T07:51:32.077" Score="2" ViewCount="5170" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last scene of &lt;em&gt;Taxi Driver&lt;/em&gt;, we see Travis (Robert de Niro) doing a strange and rapid movement with his eyes: what does it mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't find a clip, sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am referring to the last seconds of the movie, when Travis catches his glance in the rear-view mirror, like @inkwarp wrote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-02T12:10:25.853" LastActivityDate="2015-04-02T21:06:04.433" Title="Last scene of taxi driver" Tags="|plot-explanation|taxi-driver|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32850" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-02T07:52:49.303" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions about Taxi Driver, 1976 movie by Martin Scorsese with Robert de Niro.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/taxi_driver/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rotten Tomatoes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1539" LastEditorUserId="1539" LastEditDate="2018-06-23T12:59:28.700" LastActivityDate="2018-06-23T12:59:28.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32851" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-02T07:52:49.303" Score="0" Body="1976 movie by Martin Scorsese with Robert de Niro" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="16465" LastEditDate="2015-04-02T11:15:30.163" LastActivityDate="2015-04-02T11:15:30.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32845" CreationDate="2015-04-02T09:06:51.490" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only reference made in the programme to other ships was the &lt;em&gt;Leviathan&lt;/em&gt;, which was buried in a glacier so no colour was seen.  On the occasions when Rimmer mentioned people he trained with who had gone on to better things, no ship name was mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest that the colour was chosen to highlight the joke in the opening credits of the first series whereby Lister is painting the outside of the ship red.  A reference to the adage about continuously painting the Forth Bridge - which is famously red.  The name would then have been chosen to be appropriate for the colour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-04-02T10:03:56.360" LastActivityDate="2015-04-02T10:03:56.360" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31437" CreationDate="2015-04-02T11:45:18.393" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know what happened historically, but in the movie there are several aspects which tell us why Balian didn't ask for terms before fighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Saladin had already agreed to peaceful terms when Baldwin was the king. Saladin had come to invade Jerusalem initially because of the beheadings of Muslim caravan.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Later, Guy de Lusignan beheads Saladin's sister. It should be obvious that any one would be angry when they lose their dear ones to the enemy, especially after peaceful terms were sought.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Balian knew that Saladin would not agree to peaceful terms because more than half of the Christian force was dead and it would be a cakewalk for Saladin's army to gain Jerusalem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Following the words of his father, Balian first serves the King of Jerusalem, Baldwin, and when after Baldwin's death Balian then serves the people of Jerusalem. So, for their safety, he decides to defend the walls so that Saladin is forced for more peaceful terms which are more safe for the people.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the movie they have shown that at Saladin's camp, his chancellor Imad ad-Din asks Saladin for mercy and to leave the city, but Saladin refuses because of the anger of his sister's beheading and comments passed by his brother.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20046" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2015-04-02T16:23:50.237" LastActivityDate="2015-04-02T16:23:50.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32846" CreationDate="2015-04-02T15:37:03.787" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have pieced this together before.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Obviously Red Dwarf is not huge on continuity, but it makes sense if you think about the timeline this way:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Lister was found under the pool table by a couple whose names we don't know &lt;em&gt;(or maybe their names are mentioned in Ouroboros but I forget)&lt;/em&gt;. Let's call them Bob and Sue. They raised him and he considered them his parents.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;When Lister was 6 years old, Bob died, and then Sue remarried (let's call her new husband &quot;Charlie&quot;) and Dave considered Charlie to be his stepfather (as mentioned in Marooned).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;At some point after that, for circumstances that are unclear, Sue and Charlie were no longer able to raise Dave, and left him with his grandmother (either Sue or Charlie's mother).  Or possibly he went to live with Sue's mother while Sue dealt with Bob's death, and then when Sue remarried they took him back into their lives. Or something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(If you want to see my entire &quot;dissertation&quot; on Lister's family line (with a few more crazy theories), you can look at my blog post here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.tornsignpost.com/2012/10/red-dwarf-x-fathers-and-suns-and-whimsy.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.tornsignpost.com/2012/10/red-dwarf-x-fathers-and-suns-and-whimsy.html&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3526" LastEditorUserId="3526" LastEditDate="2015-04-02T18:15:58.830" LastActivityDate="2015-04-02T18:15:58.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15321" CreationDate="2015-04-02T17:59:11.697" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/2014/feb/06/entertainment/la-et-mn-en-writing-capt-phillips-20140206&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This Op-Ed piece&lt;/a&gt; is very telling when it comes to how the script was written, and this from the screenwriter himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The meat can be found in these two paragraphs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My belief from the beginning was that this ought to be a movie about&#xA;  two captains. They both get up in the morning and get dressed for&#xA;  work; then both go out and do their jobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That was the lure for me — telling a story about leadership: how these&#xA;  two captains lead, the kinds of decisions they make when the safety of&#xA;  their respective crews are on the line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, the story was meant to revolve around the captains and their leadership.  What was going on back home in Vermont wasn't part of that leadership, so it wasn't important to the story as the screenwriter wanted to present it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-04-02T17:59:11.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32849" CreationDate="2015-04-02T21:06:04.433" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the commentary track on the laserdisc, Scorsese acknowledges that the final scene of Bickle (DeNiro) glancing at an unseen object indicates that he is like a ticking timebomb, and that at any moment he can fall back into a character full of rage and recklessness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The DVD commentary with writer Paul Schrader speaks about Bickle not being &quot;cured&quot; at the end of the movie, and that &quot;Next time he won't be the hero&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it's safe to say that the ending indicates that Bickle is still a bit psychotic and unstable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-04-02T21:06:04.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32730" CreationDate="2015-04-02T23:17:04.167" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I vote Rick shot Reg.  He was going to turn anyway and Deanna knows this.  Also the trauma of killing Reg by slicing his throat may just be the incentive that that &quot;porch dick&quot; Pete needs to clean his act up.  Not that Rick will let him have Jess back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20176" LastActivityDate="2015-04-02T23:17:04.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17058" CreationDate="2015-04-03T02:51:11.883" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's actually most logical to believe that it's something related to who the real father of her baby is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sullivan possibly has ED or is sterile (hence the irony of Baldwin saying that at the driving range). there's actually a scene where Madolyn says it's okay, it happens to a lot of guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since she and Costigan did actually hook up, she now knows that it's probable that the baby is Costigan's. This is reinforced after the funeral where he asks about the baby and she just walks past him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;THAT is the most likely answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any further input about this theory is encouraged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20182" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-04-03T10:47:55.397" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T10:47:55.397" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31437" CreationDate="2015-04-03T04:19:37.640" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Balian did not think negotiations were possible. During his meeting with Saladin, he says that when the Christians took the city they massacred everyone in it and is surprised that Saladin would not do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's natural to expect that the Arabs will want revenge and given that the christian army was utterly destroyed, he has no leverage to negotiate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think he though that he'll either repel Saladin or die in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way, I watched a YouTube interview with a history professor who wrote a book on that focused on the historic characters that the movie is based on - according to her, the dialogue between Balian and Saladin was pretty much taken word for word from the historic record. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20184" LastEditorUserId="20184" LastEditDate="2015-04-07T14:31:04.180" LastActivityDate="2015-04-07T14:31:04.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32870" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32888" CreationDate="2015-04-03T04:35:44.553" Score="13" ViewCount="56387" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Fellowship of the Ring, after Galadriel is tempted by the ring, she says, &quot;I passed the test. I will diminish...and go into the West...and remain Galadriel.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does she mean by saying that she will &quot;diminish&quot; and &quot;remain Galadriel?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19577" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-03T10:47:39.200" LastActivityDate="2021-08-31T07:44:19.817" Title="Why did Galadriel say &quot;I will diminish&quot;?" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-fellowship-of-the-ring|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32871" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32873" CreationDate="2015-04-03T06:32:57.057" Score="6" ViewCount="2163" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Shawshank Redemption Andy buys several things from Red, when his cell was inspected the warden found some of the things but didn't care much. I get the basics on how this works: Red bribed some of the guards in order to buy things outside the prison and sell it to Red&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many questions arise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How does Red pay the guards?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How do the prisoners pay Red? It seems that all the interesting things they have in the prison are from Red anyway&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why doesn't the warden take enough measurements to prevent? This of course is a security issue (which ultimately allowed Andy to escape), so I reckon the warden takes any measure possible to prevent this&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why do the guards help the prisoners buying goods from outside? The warden is so corrupt and brutal that any sane guard who doesn't play the warden's game would immediately quit and work somewhere else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20185" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-03T10:49:07.623" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T10:51:17.407" Title="How does buying goods from outside prison work?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-shawshank-redemption|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32725" CreationDate="2015-04-03T08:28:17.050" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to me there are few points which makes NASA not to bother more about how Cooper got the NASA co-ordinates&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Cooper arrive at NASA , the NASA scientists are curious to know  how Cooper got the co-ordinates because they want to confirm that the co-ordinates are not leaked to the outside world and cooper is not an agent sent by some other organisation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The NASA scientists don't know who placed the wormhole near Saturn, but they say that whoever has placed it has done it for Earth's good and they are least bothered about knowing who placed it because it's impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Cooper tells that some mysterious behavior of gravity gave him the co-ordinates, all the scientists think that the same power or the intellect that has kept the wormhole has somehow directed Cooper to come to NASA. So they all think that the intellect who kept the wormhole wants Cooper to be with them for some good purpose even they don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I also think that only Cooper could send the messages from the three dimensional representation of the time. So even if NASA would have come to investigate Murphy's room they would have found nothing but just falling books and some gravitational anomaly but they couldn't find Cooper (this is according to me, may be some others have other point of view also).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;So NASA thought the mysterious behavior of gravity as a help from the &quot;someone&quot; who kept the wormhole near Saturn, so NASA chose Cooper to be the pilot of the voyage. Until then they had no such plans of sending a retired NASA pilot on the mission.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20046" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-03T10:43:12.223" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T10:43:12.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32871" CreationDate="2015-04-03T10:42:37.350" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;While multi-questions usually aren't allowed, I think I can answer all of these after having spent some time in prison:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Red pays the guards from the money given to him by the prisoners.  Likely in a very secure environment like one of the workshops.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The prisoners pay Red from their bank accounts.  Prisoners work and they get paid for that work, plus their families can add funds from outside prison.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is so commonplace that not every warden can stop every transaction.  In this case, he &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; have turned a blind eye if he knew it was Red doing it, and if that &quot;contraband&quot; wasn't anything serious.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Guards have expenses, and guards' pay isn't the greatest in the world.  If they can make a couple hundred here and there on the side, why wouldn't they?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-03T10:51:17.407" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T10:51:17.407" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32874" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-03T11:43:06.187" Score="22" ViewCount="2133" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is usually done with a landline phone. The character calls someone or someone is calling him, they talk for a while and then for any reason the other person hangs up earlier than the character thinks they should do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this moment the character hears continuous tone from the handset (we know this because we hear it too) which means that the conversation is over, deal with it. He should have heard the tone, optionally curse and then either hang up or call that person back/again or perhaps just move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet the character will keep saying or better yet shouting &quot;Hello???&quot; into the handset several times before he finally understands that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the purpose of this? How does it make any sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3707" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T15:40:01.000" Title="What's the purpose of people shouting &quot;Hello&quot; into the phone several times after they've clearly been disconnected?" Tags="|film-techniques|realism|trope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32874" CreationDate="2015-04-03T14:14:17.740" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have to keep in mind that while movies often have the motivation to depict reality and a realistic story in a realistic way, they still are in many respects subject to a certain degree of explicitness upto hyperbole, as is the acting of the cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this viewpoint, the actor actually saying &lt;em&gt;&quot;Hello?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; even though hearing the obvious &quot;death-tone&quot; is a way to &lt;strong&gt;clearly and expressively convey to everyone that the conversation ended &lt;em&gt;abruptly and unexpectedly&lt;/em&gt; for the character&lt;/strong&gt;, even if a real person would maybe just &lt;em&gt;&quot;deal with it&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. An actor can't just reserve each and every emotional reaction to his inner self as that would not be too compelling to watch in the majority of cases. Even if the acting in movies might generally be less hyperbolic than in theatres, it's still acting and relies to a large degree on conveying emotions in a less subtle and more expressive way. (It should be clear, though, that I'm overgeneralizing things a bit here, but so does the question. There might very well be cases where this technique isn't employed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An excellent, albeit probably rather extreme, example that comes to mind here is the finale of &lt;em&gt;The Silence of the Lambs&lt;/em&gt;, where Clarice phones with Dr. Lecter and after he hangs up she repeatedly asks &lt;em&gt;&quot;Dr. Lecter?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; although it's obvious for everyone that he hung up. But her desparate and apathic repetition of this question disregarding this fact makes her reaction all the more emotionally intense. Now the usual case of people asking &lt;em&gt;&quot;Hello?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; after the phone hung up might be less emotionally intense, but it nevertheless follows the same principles. The character did not expect the conversation to end and &lt;strong&gt;this surprise has to be conveyed, for which this technique has simply established itself as an obvious way to go&lt;/strong&gt;, even if it might start to get old or not reflect reality perfectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T14:14:17.740" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27011" CreationDate="2015-04-03T15:33:10.220" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is one place where a specific year is mentioned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Kip Thorne's book, &lt;em&gt;The Science of Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, he says in the original treatment he wrote that Professor Brand discovered the wormhole in 2019. Almost every other significant event in the film, including the present day which is 48 years later, can be found using that one date though there are 7 years seemingly missing like the Will W. above pointed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done an extensive timeline here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://joshbyers.com/blog/2015/4/what-year-does-interstellar-take-place&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://joshbyers.com/blog/2015/4/what-year-does-interstellar-take-place&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According the 2019 wormhole date, &lt;strong&gt;Cooper and Endurance leave earth April 18th, 2067.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20159" LastEditorUserId="20159" LastEditDate="2015-04-03T16:11:34.980" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T16:11:34.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32870" CreationDate="2015-04-03T18:54:26.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;She's diminishing because the time for the dominion of men had come. This means she's going to be losing her position of authority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She's remaining Galadriel because the ring won't transform her as it did for Gollum. (To illustrate what would happen if she accepted, she presented an image of herself corrupted by the ring, declaring: &quot;In place of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen! Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the sea! Stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me, and despair!&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Galadriel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2018-11-11T05:09:19.093" LastActivityDate="2018-11-11T05:09:19.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1881" CreationDate="2015-04-03T19:42:32.597" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cobb is incomplete. He's part in the dream world, part in reality. Split. The train is a metaphor for Enlightenment. To wake up from a dream but not knowing what will happen. A return to reality without description. Notice he asks Mal &quot;Now! Tell me why?&quot; at the end. In the now moment, it's said in true reality's now moment and there is no question. Then Mal says, &quot;Then you'll be together!&quot; Not &quot;us&quot;. &quot;Then you'll be together.&quot; One, complete, free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20198" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T19:42:32.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32870" CreationDate="2015-04-03T19:54:16.037" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the time of the &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;, more and more of the Elven population of Middle Earth have decided to return to the Undying Lands, due in part to the original rise of Sauron from which they endured heavy casualties but could not quite recover as the men of Gondor and Arnor did. The prosperity of the men in the following years, while there was still a High King of those realms, signified to most of the Eldar that their time in Middle Earth would soon be at an end, especially as much of their own realms had been lost even before Sauron came to power, such as Gondolin. With their population significantly lessened and their lack of stemming the slow decay of their influence following the death of Gil Galad would have given most Elves reason to leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eregion, the country where the Noldor (Galadriel's people) had concentrated in the Second Age, had by the time of LOTR fallen into decay and been abandoned. Elrond ruled over the last highly populated realm west of the Misty Mountains. (The Grey Havens, although having an Elven population, was far smaller in comparison and most would leave before and during the War of the Ring.) Galadriel herself is probably one of the last of the strongest Elven bloodlines and one of the most powerful characters in Middle Earth at that time; but, having confronted the Necromancer and barely defeated him, she knows that if Sauron defeated the free peoples then she could not defend the Elves with her magic. Elrond mentions to Gandalf there is no strength left in the Elves to stem the darkness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that knowledge, I think they planned to leave regardless, but stayed longer than most because they could probably hold off Sauron for a short time while the remainder of their people attempted to escape. You have to appreciate that the task Frodo is sent to do, most of the free peoples believe to be suicide. Hardly any expected Frodo to achieve what he managed; even though they had hope, they doubted he would return. In fact Frodo himself begins to doubt that he and Sam will survive, and it's only really Sam who has enough faith that they accomplish their task. Nevertheless, with the defeat of Sauron, most of the Elves have already departed and Galadriel would see no point in remaining when she can leave to be with her people, especially as Middle Earth no longer needs her to protect the lands west of Lórien from Sauron, so Galadriel I think always intended to leave as she knew she could not withstand Sauron and with his defeat she was free to be with her people again in the Undying Lands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20106" LastEditorUserId="31810" LastEditDate="2021-08-31T07:44:19.817" LastActivityDate="2021-08-31T07:44:19.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30872" CreationDate="2015-04-03T19:58:40.737" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, not particularly regarding a mediator. A mediator between the working class and the capital is not an exclusive feature of social democracy and the scandinavian model is a sub category of social democracy. There's rather a strong reference to Marx regarding the revolte. The movie is rather slightly adovcating left-winged politics in general. He might have been favoring social democracy over marxism regarding the outcome of the revolte. This might have been an indirect comment on Marx. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20194" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T19:58:40.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20069" CreationDate="2015-04-03T21:02:49.617" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just in addition to the already provided answer whilst Dent committing murder would discredit him amongst his peers and Surillo would likely drop the trial of the 549 prisoners if he were to do something as it would become a very controversial trial if it went ahead had he done something which could result in the disruption of peace and order which the justice system attempts to prevent. If we look ahead to 'The Dark Knight Rises' we have the Dent Act being implemented in light of Harvey Dent being the shining example of justice in Gotham. The Dent Act from what we're told in the film allows criminals to be detained and incarcerated without parole of their conviction which begins with the 549 criminals already detained. When Jim Gordon reveals, or rather Bane, that Harvey is the murderer the public believes Batman to be this Act would essentially mean all those convictions could be called into question as they have been essentially denied the right to parole which although is a matter of State Law could possibly be considered a restriction on the criminals right to a fair trial which would then suggest the Dent Act would be in conflict with the Sixth Amendment which although does not mention parole rights could be interpreted in such a way by the Constitution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of this possible infraction with United States Constitutional Law Gordon, Bruce and Bane will likely be aware of the damage that could be caused by revealing the truth of Harvey Dent's illegal activities and so Bane was able to use that to determine that such a foundation for which the legislation is based off (that of Dent's clean record and credibility) would give them no cause as to have allowed the conviction of the original 549 criminals let alone allow the legislation to go through of which was based off the manner in which the original 549 were tried and convicted. Obviously the city could not immediately release all those prisoners in the manner they get out and would possibly have some restrictions and loopholes they could formulate to keep a proportion of the criminals locked up but this would not work for all of them and those who got out could not be retried for the same conviction even if the court was able to extract evidence on them from another prisoner concerning that conviction unless they received it before to issue a retrial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing with a retrial however if the criminal was testifying against another it would have to be submitted to them beforehand to issue a retrial but as such a confession would likely be a plea bargain to lessen their own sentence by helping convict another there would be no point submitting this before the deception was revealed as the other criminal would already be locked up so there's no point. They would also have to deal with the amount of appeals first in light of unlawful conviction so some of those prisoners could get out either way which is why Gordon keeps up the charade and Bruce appears to become more of a recluse. Bane simply takes it a step further and uses this to his advantage in order to destroy the city's soul and in turn the city itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20106" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T21:02:49.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32751" CreationDate="2015-04-03T21:42:21.830" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cooper's thought process is specifically described in the film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21488063-interstellar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;official novelisation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why did he crush the crops?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The drone could not, of course, be bothered to follow roads, so&#xA;  neither could they. As fast as the truck would go, they were tearing&#xA;  through a cornfield, flattening the stalks beneath three tires and a&#xA;  wobbling rim.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He tried not to think about how much of the crop he was destroying,&#xA;  but at least it was his own field. He wouldn’t have an angry lynch mob&#xA;  showing up at the house in a few hours. And he knew it was justified.&#xA;  The corn was precious, yes, but you didn’t see one of these things&#xA;  every day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or… year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How valuable is it?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Then he recognized the silhouette.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Indian air force surveillance drone,” Cooper said. &lt;strong&gt;“Solar cells could&#xA;  power an entire farm.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-07-06T17:34:52.577" LastActivityDate="2016-07-06T17:34:52.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32751" CreationDate="2015-04-03T22:31:47.373" Score="15" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes, to Cooper it was indeed that valuable.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now first of all, he himself says that its &lt;em&gt;&quot;solar cells could power an entire farm&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, so it is pretty useful in the first place. But what you also have to consider here, is that &lt;strong&gt;Cooper is actually an engineer and explorer and one of the very few people who have not lost their enthusiasm for scientific progress&lt;/strong&gt; and who does not want to accomodate himself to this society of caretakers. This is also emphasized when seen in contrast to the teachers, who seem rather skeptical of Cooper's drone hunting endeavours. &lt;em&gt;He&lt;/em&gt; knows about the value of the drone and that it is worth the crops he crushes because he is able to see the bigger picture and that &lt;strong&gt;it is not just about surviving today but also about improving ourselves to face tomorrow&lt;/strong&gt;. Would Tom, Donald or those teachers have risked driving through the corn for such a &lt;em&gt;supposedly&lt;/em&gt; useless technological relic? Probably not, but Cooper does!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;strong&gt;this is also exactly what purpose that drone scene and its consequences are supposed to serve&lt;/strong&gt;. To show that Cooper is first and foremost an engineer and strives for progress tomorrow (and that the majority of his fellows don't actually share this attitude), even if that comes at the cost of crushing a few crops today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-07-06T11:27:03.467" LastActivityDate="2016-07-06T11:27:03.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32897" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-03T23:09:00.533" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-04-03T23:09:00.533" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T23:09:00.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32898" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-03T23:09:00.533" Score="0" Body="A movie about an unlikely friendship between an African-American scholarship student, Jamal Wallace, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, William Forrester," OwnerUserId="9097" LastEditorUserId="9097" LastEditDate="2015-04-03T23:28:44.213" LastActivityDate="2015-04-03T23:28:44.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32899" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32925" CreationDate="2015-04-03T23:46:13.060" Score="1" ViewCount="1637" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hurt_Locker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hurt Locker (2008)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887912/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;(IMDb)&lt;/a&gt;, near the beginning of the film, Sergeant First Class William James &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Renner&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;(Jeremy Renner)&lt;/a&gt; is in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_suit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;EOD Suit&lt;/a&gt; during his first mission with his new unit, discovers that an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_explosive_device&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IED&lt;/a&gt; he disarmed was actually only one part of a multi-part setup. Just as he pulls the cords discovering this fact&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yDd97.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Hurt Locker&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;the scene moves up to the top floor of the apartment next to the device and we see a man watching Sergeant James. As James starts cutting free the detonators, the man runs down the stairs. Just as the man runs out to the street, James looks up and shows him the final detonator. The man then runs down an alley and drops what looks like a 9 volt battery. We then look at the end of the cord tied to a wall.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was the man supposed to have detonated the IED?&lt;/strong&gt; If so, this scene really doesn't make sense. IED's are not suicide devices, but rather remote detonated ones. With 6 or 7 155mm shells chained together, this IED would have destroyed the entire neighborhood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never really understood this scene, except to show that Sergeant James is an reckless adrenalin/danger junky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2015-04-04T18:06:23.717" LastActivityDate="2015-04-04T18:16:34.137" Title="Who is the man passing Sergeant James?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hurt-locker|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32903" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-04T01:45:01.023" Score="1" ViewCount="2000" Body="&lt;p&gt;When it became apparent in &lt;em&gt;The Notebook&lt;/em&gt; that Allie was not returning any of his letters, why didn't Noah go to her home or her school to confront her? He knew the name of the school she was attending and her new home address as he was sending letters to it. Even if he thought she didn't want to see him, why didn't he at last try? After writing letters repeatedly for several months with no reply and continue to write, by definition, is insanity. You would think he would change strategy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20203" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-03-22T13:14:41.477" LastActivityDate="2016-03-22T13:14:41.477" Title="Why didn't Noah go to Allie's school or home when she didn't reply" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-notebook|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32730" CreationDate="2015-04-04T05:11:47.053" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure it was Pete. On the Talking Dead, although they didn't say who. Morgan was asked how he reacted to Rick executing. Chris then stopped as though he knew he just said something he shouldn't of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20208" LastActivityDate="2015-04-04T05:11:47.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32912" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32913" CreationDate="2015-04-04T07:25:42.577" Score="10" ViewCount="656" Body="&lt;p&gt;In LOTR we hear a tale of two brothers, Elros and Elrond, who are given the choice of long life or eternal life. Elros chooses long life and from him descended the Numenourians. And Elrond chose eternal life and from him, the Grey Elves descended. Most Ringers know this story, what I don't know is if the Elrond who was Elros' brother was the same Elrond who accompanied Isildur to Mount Doom and formed the Fellowship of the Ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="19585" LastEditDate="2015-04-05T00:28:48.553" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T08:48:50.740" Title="Was Elrond Elros' brother?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-lord-of-the-rings|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32912" CreationDate="2015-04-04T07:53:07.940" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they are the same person. As a general rule, because elves in the Lord of the Rings are immortal, their names are very significant to them. As far as I know, there are no two elves in the novels, or any supplemental material, that have the same name. (There is one instance where Tolkien re-used the name of an elf that had previously died, but this is explained as being the same elf, reincarnated into a new body.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, there is only one Elrond, and he is a very important figure in the mythology of &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;. He founded and ruled Rivendell, and fought against Sauron several times, including the Last Alliance. He aided Bilbo by translating an ancient map that used very old elvish magic. And, he was still ruling Rivendell when Frodo came there, and he's the one that formed the Fellowship of the Ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although Elrond chose eternal life for himself, the choice given to him and his brother was passed down to his descendants; this is why his daughter Arwen was allowed to become mortal, which she did when she married Aragorn. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2019-04-05T08:48:50.740" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T08:48:50.740" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32914" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-04T11:16:16.260" Score="3" ViewCount="1328" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the plan of the British and American governments with the plane of corpses in the &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; episode &quot;A Scandal in Belgravia&quot;? And why did Jim Moriarty want to know about this plan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20211" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-04T14:39:26.187" LastActivityDate="2015-04-04T16:22:03.187" Title="Plane of corpses in &quot;A Scandal in Belgravia&quot;" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6841" CreationDate="2015-04-04T11:27:31.767" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I would go along with those who say that this is such a wonderful movie about making the most of life and opportunities when we can that we probably should not analyse the time travel element too much. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the credits had rolled at the point that Darius grabs Kenneth's hand it would all make just as much sense. That we get to see what happened next is unexpected, and outrageous, but in a magical realist way, and exhilarating. We might be conditioned to expect an &quot;well, there was no time machine, but they all learned something, resolution&quot; but to get the journey and the time machine too is beyond satisfying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The core scene of the move to me is when Darius and Kenneth discuss &quot;Over the Rainbow&quot; and Kenneth talks about getting back to a place where you were happy. And for &quot;place where&quot; you could say &quot;place when&quot;. Was it fortuitous that Kenneth's car is the same shade of yellow as The Yellow Brick Road? Longing for what is gone, cherishing what you have and what happens between the dangerous ages of 20 and 40 seem to be the major themes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Safety not guaranteed, indeed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20212" LastActivityDate="2015-04-04T11:27:31.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32917" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32919" CreationDate="2015-04-04T13:45:32.207" Score="7" ViewCount="5016" Body="&lt;p&gt;I once saw this cartoon as a kid, and it seems a lot cooler when I think back upon it. In the cartoon, there are scientists that are looking through telescopes and somehow figure out that the world they are in is in someone's dream. If the dreamer awakes, their entire world will disappear. They are able to make a portal into the real world, basically into the bedroom of the dreamer. They find him sleeping, put pillows around the alarm clock, carefully move his bed back through the portal (into his own dream), and then secure him in a very quiet padded room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the idea was he would never awake and their world would continue to exist. I'm not sure on this, but I don't think there were any words spoken in it; the characters were able to explain it with though bubbles and emoting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20214" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-04-04T15:17:39.900" LastActivityDate="2017-06-17T07:44:58.473" Title="Cartoon where dream-people realize they are dreamed, travel to real world to bring dreamer into it (while keeping him asleep)" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:41:12.307" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14404" CreationDate="2015-04-04T15:08:14.970" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The wall was being built for psychological reasons. So the tax payers were not happy about funding the Jaegers when they sometimes did damage to the coastal cities as well. Remember most people have never seen a Kaiju except for on tv. And so the government, who were running out of options, decided to increase job spaces by starting construction on a massive wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now we can tell that this is a really crappy job and many people die in doing it. These people have built this wall and they know all the measures that have been taken to fortify it. So when they see a Kaiju rip through it like it was nothing. There spirits finally break and they realise that the Jaegers are the only option. Just like the government planned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastActivityDate="2015-04-04T15:08:14.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32917" CreationDate="2015-04-04T15:11:23.207" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216140/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rarg&lt;/a&gt; from 1988.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The plot revolves about the kingdom of Rarg which the chief scientists discover that Rarg is in fact someone's dream and that soon the person dreaming will wake up. So they try their best to stop him waking up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They invent a portal, reach the sleeping man through it and stop his alarm clock from ringing (with their pillow-like bodies) and then secure him in a padded room. But unfortunately, the man starts dreaming about flamingos in the end, which they all then suddenly turn into... The short is available on Youtube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R8bL5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-04-04T15:28:54.700" LastActivityDate="2015-04-04T15:28:54.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32914" CreationDate="2015-04-04T16:22:03.187" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bakerstreet.wikia.com/wiki/A_Scandal_in_Belgravia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From the Baker Street wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;En route there, Sherlock remembers Mycroft mentioning Coventry on the phone and reminisces about the allegations that the British government allowed the Coventry Blitz to happen, so as not to alert the Germans that their military codes had been cracked. There, his suspicions that a similar situation is occurring are confirmed by Mycroft on board the airplane, which has been filled with corpses. &lt;strong&gt;The government had decided to fly a 'dummy plane', so as not to alert the saboteurs yet still avoid genuine casualties&lt;/strong&gt;, which also explains the involvement of US agents. However, as Sherlock has unwittingly helped Irene, and, by extension, Moriarty, crack the code, the scheme is foiled. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bakerstreet.wikia.com/wiki/Mycroft_Holmes_%28Gatiss%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WRT Mycroft&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mycroft claims to merely &quot;occupy a minor position in the government&quot;. However, according to Sherlock, he occasionally is the British Government, &lt;strong&gt;functioning as the control centre or &quot;clearing house&quot; for all government actions and decisions&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-04-04T16:22:03.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32592" CreationDate="2015-04-04T17:32:28.890" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been answered in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3778130/?ref_=ttep_ep10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Episode 10&lt;/a&gt;, but since this is a later episode to that in the question, I'll throw the explanation in spoiler tags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Pettigrew and Yuri were friends/partners.  In the flashback, we see Pettigrew use his handcuffs when attacking Elena, and Dan then use the same handcuffs to attach him to the pylon.  Yuri clearly recognised these in Dan's desk and so realised then that Dan was responsible for Pettigrew's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20216" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-04-27T11:38:57.277" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T11:38:57.277" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32923" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32927" CreationDate="2015-04-04T17:40:36.067" Score="6" ViewCount="1395" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the Rohan war in &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King&lt;/em&gt;, there is an encounter between Gandalf and a Nazgul. As far as I remember the Nazgul breaks the stick of Gandalf. I need to know the details of that scene as the scene is clipped in most of the versions of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20219" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-04T18:44:06.330" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T03:16:02.597" Title="What happens when the Nazgul breaks the stick of Gandalf?" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-return-of-the-king|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28179" CreationDate="2015-04-04T17:47:47.763" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is mentioned in the film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_%28Book%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;official novelisation&lt;/a&gt;. In short, he tried to open his cape and although it failed, it still managed to slow his fall to the point that he was able to cushion Rachel's fall and that the body armour could prevent &lt;em&gt;him&lt;/em&gt; from dying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She had hit a sloped glass roof belonging to the apartment below and&#xA;was sliding toward the edge, her fingers unable to get purchase on the&#xA;glass. Batman dove right behind her and fired his grapple, snagging&#xA;Rachel’s ankle as they pitched over the edge and began hurtling toward&#xA;the dark street. &lt;strong&gt;Batman tried to get his cape stiffened so that they&#xA;could glide to the street below, but only half of the cape responded.&#xA;Batman grimaced and wrapped his arms around Rachel and twisted in&#xA;midair so he would land first and his armor would cushion them both.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;They landed hard atop a taxi, rolled to the pavement, and continued&#xA;rolling until they reached the sidewalk, where Batman got unsteadily&#xA;to his feet, helping Rachel up as well. She was out-of breath and very&#xA;pale, but she gave him a smile of thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1623160014&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;original film script&lt;/a&gt; also agrees with this version of events:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EXT. BUILDING – NIGHT 114&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They drop. Batman fires his grapple, snagging Rachel’s ankle – activates one wing of his cape. They spin and slow. Batman envelops Rachel – they slam into the hood of a passing taxi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INT. TAXI – CONTINUOUS 115&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The driver screams as Batman and Rachel hit the roof and roll down the windshield onto the pavement. Alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-04T17:56:26.610" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32899" CreationDate="2015-04-04T18:16:34.137" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are 100% spot-on with your assessment.  The man shown was supposed to detonate the IED, and that many tied together would have taken out at the very least the building next to it (which is also the building the detonator was in).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, &lt;a href=&quot;http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2010-02-17-hurtlocker17_CV_N.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this movie got a lot of stuff wrong&lt;/a&gt;.  But it's Hollywood, and telling a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; story is much more important than telling a &lt;em&gt;true&lt;/em&gt; story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-04-04T18:16:34.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32923" CreationDate="2015-04-04T18:40:34.070" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen the extended version of the movie, and nothing else really happens.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The Witch King of Angmar hears the Rohan army arriving, and goes to deal with them.  Also notice that the scene in the books is actually different, he never &quot;overpowers&quot; Gandalf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11530" LastActivityDate="2015-04-04T18:40:34.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32928" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32929" CreationDate="2015-04-04T18:44:01.373" Score="17" ViewCount="925" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Dr. Brand knew Cooper, and knew him well enough to know that he was capable of flying the mission, why didn't he just contact him? It seems like they were pouring a ton of resources into the program, why weren't they also reaching out to and training pilots they already knew? Especially one who lived relatively close to their project base. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2015-04-04T19:06:45.397" Title="Why didn't NASA contact Cooper?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32928" CreationDate="2015-04-04T19:06:45.397" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;The script and novelisation would strongly suggest that NASA were simply unaware that Cooper was still alive, hence their failure to contact him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the collapse of the previous NASA structure and the &quot;off the grid&quot; nature of his farming lifestyle it seems likely that they just lost track of him and assumed he was dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We need a pilot. And this is the mission you were trained for.”&#xA;  Cooper thought back to his training. Sure as hell no one had ever mentioned anything like this to him. He’d thought Mars, maybe, or Europa at the outside.&#xA;  “Without ever knowing,” he said. “&lt;strong&gt;An hour ago, you didn’t even know I was still alive.&lt;/strong&gt; And you were going anyway.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-04-04T19:06:45.397" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32973" CreationDate="2015-04-04T19:49:20.227" Score="6" ViewCount="101780" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the movie they're watching old movies, either in a theater with an organ or on old TV, the cars don't look particularly new either, but Yara has some sort of clam-shell device that appears to be a kind of e-reader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what year is this movie supposed to take place in?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Buddy and I talked about it briefly last night after seeing it, but I've grown more curious as I reflect on the movie today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2016-08-02T13:43:09.640" LastActivityDate="2016-08-02T13:43:09.640" Title="In what year does It Follows take place?" Tags="|it-follows|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32932" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32933" CreationDate="2015-04-04T20:26:07.740" Score="20" ViewCount="20303" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did the creators/screenwriters of &lt;em&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/em&gt; decide that Maude Flanders had to die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user19407" LastEditorUserId="46980" LastEditDate="2021-07-23T14:06:10.027" LastActivityDate="2021-07-23T14:06:10.027" Title="In The Simpsons, why did they kill off Maude Flanders?" Tags="|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="32933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32932" CreationDate="2015-04-04T21:17:38.767" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the actress that voiced her, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Roswell#cite_note-Koha-32&quot;&gt;Maggie Roswell&lt;/a&gt;, had a pay dispute with Fox which ended with her quitting. A different actress was hired to voice the other more minor characters she originally voiced until the dispute ended a few years later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dispute is discussed in detail at the above wiki link (and other sites).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastActivityDate="2015-04-04T21:17:38.767" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32935" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32958" CreationDate="2015-04-05T03:45:45.343" Score="12" ViewCount="30269" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Nightcrawler&lt;/em&gt;, Jake Gyllenhaal's character, Lou Bloom, has noticeably strange mannerisms as well as (arguably) a lack of empathy. What could be the reasons for this strange behaviour?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5103" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-05T13:33:32.270" LastActivityDate="2016-09-02T02:24:23.123" Title="Is there any explanation for Lou Bloom's mannerisms and personality in Nightcrawler?" Tags="|character|nightcrawler|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32939" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32945" CreationDate="2015-04-05T06:42:19.077" Score="8" ViewCount="6465" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban&quot; - when Harry and his friends were travelling to Hogwarts by train, the train stopped in between and Dementors were searching for Sirius Black. Why did one of the Dementors try to take Harry's soul?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20219" LastEditorUserId="19300" LastEditDate="2015-04-05T12:22:24.447" LastActivityDate="2018-01-06T12:24:26.333" Title="Why did a Dementor try to take Harry's soul in the train?" Tags="|harry-potter|the-prisoner-of-azkaban|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32940" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32941" CreationDate="2015-04-05T07:21:53.073" Score="6" ViewCount="17500" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Lord Of the Rings, when paddling down the river Anduin the fellowship pass by two statues, one on each side of the river, both holding their left hand forward. One is in armour and is bearded and carries a sword. The other is cloaked. Aragorn calls them &quot;the Kings of old&quot; but do we actually know which kings they are? They looked to me a lot like Elendil and Isildur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-13T17:26:08.550" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T17:26:08.550" Title="Who are the statues at the Gates of Argonath?" Tags="|character|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-fellowship-of-the-ring|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32940" CreationDate="2015-04-05T07:33:28.663" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's Argonath you are talking about. Also known as The Gates of Argonath or The Pillars of Kings. The names of they are Isildur and Anárion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Isildur&lt;/strong&gt; was the High King of Gondor and Arnor. He also cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand.&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Anárion&lt;/strong&gt; is the brother of Isildur. Both ruled together a part of Gondor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Argonath, also known as The Gates of Argonath or The Pillars of Kings, is a monument comprising two enormous statues carved in the likenesses of Isildur and Anárion, standing upon either side of the River Anduin at the northern approach to Nen Hithoel. It marked the northern border of Gondor, as nearby down south were previous outposts, the Amon Hen and the Amon Lhaw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More information can be found for example &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Argonath&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Argonath&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Or you google 'lord of the rings two statues'. It was not hard to find ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One another important thing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unlike in the book, in the movie the Argonath appears to portray Isildur and his father Elendil (shown holding a sword, not an axe, as portrayed during the film's prologue)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eKHPp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Gates of Argonath&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8737" LastEditorUserId="8737" LastEditDate="2015-04-05T07:45:42.697" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T07:45:42.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21282" CreationDate="2015-04-05T08:11:02.123" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other answers are mostly correct but for a bit of extra trivia the first tune Tyrion whistles in season one (when he and Bronn are leaving the Vale and before they are approached by the Hill Tribes) is actually the main theme from the first movement of Beethoven's 3rd symphony 'Eroica'. I doubt this has any higher meaning in the show and is simply a random tune the actor knows but the music was written by Beethoven with a dedication to Napoleon Bonaparte, though he removed this title due to the composers outrage upon hearing that the french general proclaimed himself as Emperor and instead gave it a tile meaning 'heroic'. So perhaps Tyrion is deliberately whistling a heroic tune, though the music itsself is separated from Westeros by a few hundred years of cultural advances and refers to a completely different universe.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20234" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T08:11:02.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32939" CreationDate="2015-04-05T08:31:09.093" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;They were never supposed to apply the Dementor's Kiss to any of the Hogwarts students. So that Dementor was acting out of line. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Dementor&quot;&gt;Harry Potter wikia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They seemed to be particularly attracted to Harry because, due to his miserable childhood and many bad memories, he was particularly vulnerable to their influence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the Dementor saw a very tasty morsel, and its gluttony was stronger than its discipline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a storytelling point of view, this scene serves to show us a Dementor, and shows that they cannot be trusted to follow their orders to not harm the students.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19300" LastEditorUserId="19300" LastEditDate="2015-04-05T08:39:37.300" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T08:39:37.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32946" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32989" CreationDate="2015-04-05T09:48:45.963" Score="5" ViewCount="1780" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the prologue of the fourth season of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; we see Tywin Lannister giving Ice to a blacksmith from Volantis. Said blacksmith removes the handle and melt down the Valyrian steel before reforming  it into two new swords (Oathkeeper and Widow's Wail). We then see Lord Tywin burn the wolf skin sheath in which Ned Stark kept the sword. As he watches it burn it looks like he reaches for the handle but I can't be sure. So what happens to it? Does he discard it like the sheath? Or does he keep it as a momento to show forever more that Lannisters are better than Starks? Or do we just not know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="19585" LastEditDate="2015-04-06T22:34:22.677" LastActivityDate="2015-04-06T22:34:22.677" Title="Did Lord Tywin keep Ice's handle?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32947" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32952" CreationDate="2015-04-05T11:18:12.877" Score="7" ViewCount="4005" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Two Swords&quot; (&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, S04E01), Qyburn asks Cersei whether her &quot;symptoms&quot; had gotten better. When Jaime asks her about this, she refuses to tell him. They then engage in an argument in which Cersei tells him that he has arrived &quot;too late&quot;. At the time, I assumed it was because she is engaged to Loras Tyrell but I wonder if that's not the only reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="42655" LastEditDate="2017-08-18T02:10:43.873" LastActivityDate="2017-08-18T02:10:43.873" Title="Is Cersei Lannister menopausal?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32948" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33009" CreationDate="2015-04-05T12:04:14.970" Score="1" ViewCount="7012" Body="&lt;p&gt;In My Own Private Idaho, it is understandable that Mike's brother is also his father. But I always thought: how is that possible? Did I misunderstand something? Can anybody explain it to me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20232" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-05T13:43:07.740" LastActivityDate="2015-04-06T17:59:02.040" Title="Mike's father in My Own Private Idaho?" Tags="|plot-explanation|my-own-private-idaho|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32950" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33306" CreationDate="2015-04-05T12:50:36.087" Score="5" ViewCount="6293" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;em&gt;Leverage&lt;/em&gt;, the first appearance of FBI agents Taggert and McSweeten in Season 1, Episode 5, &lt;em&gt;The Bank Shot Job&lt;/em&gt;, where they briefly show up right at the end after everything's all over.  Two episodes later, we're properly introduced to them in &lt;em&gt;The Wedding Job&lt;/em&gt;, where they meet Hardison and Parker, who are pretending to be FBI agents, and they strike up a bit of a friendship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Season 2, they show up again in &quot;The Fairy Godparents Job&quot;, and mention how things have been going well for them since they last saw Hardison and Parker... including the cleanup of &lt;em&gt;The Bank Shot Job&lt;/em&gt;.  Between that, and the way the ending of &lt;em&gt;The Bank Shot Job&lt;/em&gt; works better if we already know who these two FBI guys are, it raises the question, was Season 1 shown out of order?  If so, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2023" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T11:43:11.250" Title="Was the first season of Leverage shown out of order?" Tags="|continuity|leverage|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32947" CreationDate="2015-04-05T13:12:02.120" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could be wrong, but I don't think this is ever made explicit.  I can think of several possible explanations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cersei is pregnant and experiencing something akin to morning sickness. Jaime is too late in the sense that Cersei has found other lovers.  I think this is the most likely scenario.  That the symptoms go away indicates either she wasn't really pregnant or Kyburn helped effect an abortion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cersei became infected with a sexually transmitted disease for the same reasons mentioned above.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cersei is going through menopause as you mentioned, or is perhaps faking menopause to get out of her engagement with Ser Loras (this wouldn't make as much sense since the symptoms seem to abate).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some other illness, and it was only mentioned because Jaime would be jealous that a non-maester touched her.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20239" LastEditorUserId="20239" LastEditDate="2015-04-05T13:22:36.263" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T13:22:36.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32194" CreationDate="2015-04-05T14:15:30.403" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cooper is an experienced Engineer and Pilot who used to fly for Nasa, and Murph has picked up on his interest in science and engineering.  This is shown by her interest in the moon landing book, which she defends even to the point of fighting at school where she is ridiculed for believing they really happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You compare the encoding schemes of Morse Code to the Enigma Cypher.  While they are both ways of encoding data, they are of course totally different in their intention.  Morse code is a very simple scheme of substituting patterns of dots and dashes for letters and to be easily learned and understood, the Enigma &lt;em&gt;cypher&lt;/em&gt; is designed to completely obscure the meaning of the message by imposing on it an apparently random pattern.  The skills required to 'break' the codes are totally different.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember (or its not said) how the 'STAY' message was encoded, whether it was Morse or the binary code that was used to communicate the coordinates of the facility.  However if it was the binary code, by the time Murph works it out she'd already seen the example of the encoding of the coordinates when Cooper decodes it. So she was able to apply the same technique to the pattern of books pushed off the shelves.  Yes binary encodes numbers, but in various ways numbers can be mapped to letters, such as A=1, B=2 etc. An intelligent girl puzzling over the meaning of the books would be motivated to try to work this out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2015-04-05T14:27:46.920" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T14:27:46.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31878" CreationDate="2015-04-05T15:25:45.737" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dougs character is established in season 1 as being well in control of his habbit. This is demonstrated through the rehabilitation of Peter Russo in which he was in touch with the ability to pin down addictions. When Rachel Posner was introduced, it created a whole different battlefield by which Stamper would fight a new addiction. Rachel. He was beyond infatuation to a level of obsession, which took control of him like his alcaholism. However alcohol never let him down, but Rachel did. She fell in love with another women putting Stamper in a state of selfish addiction where he would not have her leave him. The relationship dynamic was so over powered that Rachel felt the suppression of her freedom with only one way out. To kill stamper. After her attempt she seeks to dissappear to forget everything. However when doug is ready to kill his addiction he takes it to the most literal form. He cant kill her softly like his alcholism. He has to hit the habit and hit it hard. He does that by running her over. Finally, he buries her as a symbol that he was burying her memory and the addiction she represented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20242" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T15:25:45.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32961" CreationDate="2015-04-05T15:49:17.260" Score="12" ViewCount="4035" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Pokemon series where Ash travels with Iris and Cilan mainly, the gang does eat food that contains meat. This includes sandwiches, steak, and other non-vegan recipes. There aren't any real meat sources other than Pokemon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where did the meat come from? Did people actually hunt Pokemon for meat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20241" LastActivityDate="2015-04-06T06:08:56.520" Title="Where Does The Meat Come From" Tags="|pokemon|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32957" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-05T16:01:26.120" Score="3" ViewCount="582" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954347/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Continuum Series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spoiler ahead for beginners:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've completed season 2. By the end of season 2 we came to know that Jason is Alec's son. Alec sent him from 2077 to the past(1992 or 1990). We saw in season 1 that he tried to build a time machine to go back to future, he also agreed to take Keira with him. Later that didn't work out as they expected and no mention of his time machine in further episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we saw in season 2 that he tried to help Alec in different situations. He tried to help making a program using the Arc for surveillance over anyone. That's also destroyed later by Emily with the permission of Alec after there was a chaos that Lucas did by hacking the program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We sometimes saw Jason in random scenes, basically doing nothing. In future he was shown as if he has a motive, and in 2013 version, he was shown as if he didn't know what he was doing. Sometimes the impression was given that he lost  full control over his mind. He wanted to go back in future as we've seen in the season 1 finale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short Alec does everything, Jason tried to help. But series didn't explain by the end of season 2, how Jason is helping Alec to shape the future or with what purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is Jason's purpose for which he was sent to the past? Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-05T16:17:26.937" LastActivityDate="2017-10-12T12:22:31.017" Title="What is Jason's role / purpose in Continuum?" Tags="|character|continuum|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32935" CreationDate="2015-04-05T16:06:53.273" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;As adressed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/31142/49&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt; his character first and foremost seems to be a sociopath (or psychopath, whatever you call it) in that he lacks any kind of empathy for other people, as you indentified it yourself. But the question remains why he is that way. That is a question though, that unfortunately often is not too easy or definite to answer. But &lt;em&gt;Nightcrawler&lt;/em&gt;'s overarching motifs might give us some hints as to why Lou Bloom is such a cold person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For that I'd yet again employ &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/um8PFwUfls0&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;one of Wolfgang Schmitt's interesting analyses&lt;/a&gt; (unfortunately not available in English), who sees the movie not so much as media criticism but rather as commentary and criticism of capitalism and that &lt;strong&gt;Lou Bloom as a modern successful businessman is the embodiment of that capitalistic system&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the media criticism isn't new and it would be easy for the audience to morally raise themselves over this and say &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;yeah, that's bad that such sensation news exist&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; and then everything would be fine. But director Dan Gilroy is not concerned about a bit of moral and integrity, but about a systematic criticism of capitalism, hinged on one example. It would be far too easy to say &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Jake Gyllenhaal amazingly plays a psychopath who uses every possible means to get bloody image material. The character is crazy and with this craziness he can make good money.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; But that goes too short, for here do the great dialogues come into play. Because &lt;strong&gt;this supposed psychopath Lou speaks in the language of economy&lt;/strong&gt;. Everything he says he has from success guidebooks, business online courses, theories of supply and demand. He doesn't use this coaching and management language emphatically, as he saw it in &lt;em&gt;The Wolf of Wall Street&lt;/em&gt;, but rather completely factually and levelheaded. The considerateness with which he justifies that he pays his employee a starvation wage, why he wants to have sex with the TV editor, and why he betrays the police, all that makes the abysmal of this character. &lt;strong&gt;This abysmal reaches beyond a psychopathology. He is not a psychopath, he is the embodiment of the capitalistic laws, and that in its purest form. We have an &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; that constitutes itself by the rules of economy.&lt;/strong&gt; [...] Lou as personification of capitalism is one of the most original characters of this cinema year...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...All relationships in this movie, even the &amp;quot;love&amp;quot; relationship, are founded on supply and demand and the government is only seen as powerless police, for the power is entirely privatized. [...] The economic pierces through everything, especially when he tries to hook-up with the editor we see what we call today a &amp;quot;pick-up artist&amp;quot;, he is exactly that, &lt;strong&gt;he internalized the economic rules of supply and demand and can also manage his private relationships that way&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lou is a mixture of Norman Bates (who himself was no businessman and had a motel far away from the stream of money) and the photographer from &lt;em&gt;Blow Up&lt;/em&gt; (who himself as a cold person brought enough amorality for the business). Starting from Hitchcock and Antonioni, Gilroy converts the voyeurism discourse into the capitalism discourse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we take this characterization of Lou as a businessman and capitalist par-excellence, we can make some speculation of &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; he is that way, be it just by the stereotypical statement that &lt;strong&gt;he is just a perfect product of his environment and its zeitgeist&lt;/strong&gt;. Lou has perfectly realized and internalized what one needs to be successful. He is pretty much a &lt;strong&gt;self-taught member of the &lt;em&gt;Generation Internship&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; as he himself says when he &amp;quot;applies&amp;quot; for a job at the beginning of the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that today's working culture no longer caters to the job-loyalty that could be promised to earlier generations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lou comes from a system where you &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to accomodate to its amorality and short-lived world &lt;em&gt;in order&lt;/em&gt; to be successful&lt;/strong&gt;. He has realized this long ago and applies exactly those rules. You could say he is the American Dream gone extreme. Now it is surely a certain lack of empathy in his character in the first place that lead to this development, but &lt;strong&gt;the system he tries to survive and succeed in actively embraces and encourages this lack of empathy&lt;/strong&gt;. Like this system he is not so much &lt;em&gt;immoral&lt;/em&gt; rather than &lt;em&gt;amoral&lt;/em&gt;. And it is his success that confirms him in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T19:07:14.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9818" CreationDate="2015-04-05T16:57:58.693" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The director Guillermo Del Toro &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitchfilm.com/2006/12/pans-labyrinthinterview-with-guillermo-del-toro.html#ixzz36FdF4a9M&quot;&gt;has stated in an interview&lt;/a&gt; that he provided three important clues which showed that the events actually took place and not just in Ofelia's head. In his words,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are three clues in the movie that tell you where I stand. I stand in that it's real. The most important clues are the flower at the end, and the fact that there's no way other than the chalk door to get from the attic to the Captain's office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19707" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-05T17:04:27.930" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T17:04:27.930" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32956" CreationDate="2015-04-05T17:16:23.190" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are real animals in the Pokémon universe, you just don't see them that often because they aren't any use in fighting, and probably don't live in the same habitats as Pokémon as they'd have no chance to defend themselves against them, and as the main characters are all trainers, those are the sort of areas that the show is most commonly set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a very extensive list of animals in the Pokémon universe on &lt;a href=&quot;http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Animals_in_the_Pok%C3%A9mon_world#In_the_anime&quot;&gt;Bulbapedia&lt;/a&gt; which includes direct sightings of worms, lobsters, fish, crabs, starfish, seagulls, swordfish and shrimp. Furthermore, there is also evidence of people keeping pets, such as tins of cat food, as well as characters mentioning concepts which indicate the existence of animals, such as 'lion tamers' and 'chicken feed', as well as a scene where Ash dresses up as a cow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T17:16:23.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11480" CreationDate="2015-04-05T20:35:56.730" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every Italian movie in those years was dubbed: it was difficult to catch up the sounds and the voices with contemporary tecniques and directors cared more about the movies itself than the actors' voices. Each actor performed using his own voice and language and the movies were then dubbed (and not always synced). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as it is known no language is preferable, you can either watch it in Italian or English (there aren't puns you can't understand in one language or other). Also, maestro Sergio Leone never spoke about this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20232" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T20:35:56.730" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3135" CreationDate="2015-04-05T21:07:01.790" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The orthodox faith (by it's very name) is rich with ritual and order.  I think this part of the film is important as contrast to the chaos and horrors of Vietnam.  The first part of the film showed people living tough lives in a hardscrabble environment.  The church served as a stable axle in their lives, a reference point of sanity from which the war veterans would later become untethered.  I agree with the previous comments, there's no meaningful connection of this first act of the film to Russian roulette.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20248" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T21:07:01.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18630" CreationDate="2015-04-05T21:33:34.480" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Claire disappears, Virgil gets to a local bar and asks if someone has seen her. He meets Nana, a woman in a wheelchair, who turns out to be the real owner of the villa (and of all the forniture) and also the real Claire. The woman says she rents her house to movie producers, Claire and Robert. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20232" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T21:33:34.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30116" CreationDate="2015-04-05T21:41:43.880" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The line was probably changed to a funnier/clearer one. It isn't uncommon that scripts differ from actual movies, professional acting and directing not always require to follow every word of the script. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20232" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T21:41:43.880" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15242" CreationDate="2015-04-05T22:28:52.050" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Captain America: The First Avenger takes place in 1942-1945, ending in early 2012. Agent Carter Season 1 takes place in early 1946 with the One-Shot technically being the very last episode in the same year. Iron Man takes place in 2010. Iron Man 2, The Incredible Hulk &amp;amp; Thor take place in 2011. The Avengers takes place in June of 2012. Dare Devil takes place sometime after the events of The Avengers also in 2012. Iron Man 3 takes place in December of 2012. Agents of Shield season 1 takes place September 2013-May 2014. Thor: The Dark World takes place in November 2013. Captain America: The Winter Soldier takes place in April of 2014. Guardians of the Galaxy takes place in 2014 in the Andromeda Galaxy. Agents of Shield season 2 takes place 6 months after season 1 ends, November 2014- sometime in 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20249" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T22:28:52.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28424" CreationDate="2015-04-05T22:47:32.383" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a feeling that the fact that Clay&quot; said he was an American smoker, He blew his cover by not questioning the odd brand of cigarettes. If he was American, why wouldn't he be like &quot;wtf kind of smokes are these?&quot;. John must have known once &quot;Clay&quot; puffed on it without question, he must of been a European terrorist. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20250" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T22:47:32.383" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32931" CreationDate="2015-04-05T23:09:57.730" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The straight answer to your question is that &lt;em&gt;It Follows&lt;/em&gt; does not take place in any particular time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an interview with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/article/david-robert-mitchell-his-striking-new-horror-film-216215&quot;&gt;The AV Club&lt;/a&gt;, writer/director David Robert Mitchell discusses the origin of the story being a recurring nightmare of his from childhood:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I’d had this idea for a long time. It came from a nightmare that I had as a kid—this basic idea of being followed by something that can look like different people and only I could see it. It was very slow and always coming for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of this, he wanted to keep the timeframe ambiguous, while also making the events seem a little dream-like. When asked by The AV Club about the time period and &quot;shell-phone&quot; shown in the movie, Mitchell had this to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are production design elements from the ’50s on up to modern day. A lot of it is from the ’70s and ’80s. That e-reader cell phone—or “shell phone”—you’re talking about is not a real device. It’s a ’60s shell compact that we turned into a cell phone e-reader. So I wanted modern things, but if you show a specific smartphone now, it dates it. It’s too real for the movie. It would bother me anyway. So we made one up. And all of that is really just to create the effect of a dream—to place it outside of time, and to make people wonder about where they are. Those are things that I think happen to us when we have a dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastActivityDate="2015-04-05T23:09:57.730" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32974" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-05T23:13:30.870" Score="2" ViewCount="1196" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2012 French movie &quot;The Unlikely Girl&quot; the English character cries standing in a square designed by an architect she loves apparently but is she crying because of this or because of something the French sister character said?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1212" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-06T14:42:41.103" LastActivityDate="2017-10-17T09:46:58.900" Title="Why exactly does the girl cry at the end?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-unlikely-girl|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32978" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36745" CreationDate="2015-04-06T00:33:55.677" Score="7" ViewCount="10431" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ash and the rest of the trainers can seemingly pull out the correct Poke ball &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; know who it belongs to. The Pokeballs all look the same and have no tags or accessories on them for identification. It seems confusing as they &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;aren't even looking&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and somehow know who it belongs to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does Ash and his friends know which Pokeball belong to which Pokemon without looking which Pokeball was pulled out and no accessories? Do they have telepathy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20241" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T22:58:33.047" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T22:58:33.047" Title="How do Trainers keep track of which Pokéball belongs to which Pokémon?" Tags="|pokemon|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32328" CreationDate="2015-04-06T04:10:07.627" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes it's him. He broke the time barrier and jumped back to past. From IMDb&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mark creates a Tsunami that could destroy the city and Barry shows&#xA;Iris his powers. Barry tries to go as fast he could to create a wall&#xA;of wind and &lt;strong&gt;accidentally time travels back in time&lt;/strong&gt; to where he was&#xA;trying to get to the morgue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from the conversation it's clear it's him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dr. Harrison Wells: You ruptured the time continuum, didn't you?&#xA;You're experiencing temporal reversion. Barry Allen: Yeah! Dr.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harrison Wells: How long?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Barry Allen: Uh, a day and some change. It's&#xA;like I'm living it all over again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dr. Harrison Wells: Yeah, well,&#xA;that's good. That means there's not too much you could've messed up&#xA;yet. How did this happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Barry Allen: I-I don't know. I mean, I was&#xA;running faster than I've ever ran, and the first time that I lived&#xA;this day some really horrible things happened. There was a tidal wave&#xA;and...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-06T04:10:07.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31282" CreationDate="2015-04-06T04:22:51.860" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S01E17 it became clear. In the scene when reverse flash / Eobard Thawne fall on the road he asks Gideon, the A.I. projection&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reverse Flash: What's happening to me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reply he got to know&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gideon: your time jump against flash caused a massive drain on your power. Your ability to super speed as well as travelling time has been completely depleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And later we saw Eobard Thawne sucked the DNA of Harrison Wells (We dn't know till now what actually happened between them) and becomes Wells. Thus he isn't as powerful as Flash. He has limitation after the long time jump affected his powers. So drinks can have an effect on him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-10-16T22:05:03.963" LastActivityDate="2015-10-16T22:05:03.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32986" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36286" CreationDate="2015-04-06T04:39:34.060" Score="4" ViewCount="1195" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3107288/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Flash&lt;/a&gt; S01E15 episode &lt;em&gt;&quot;Fallout&quot;&lt;/em&gt; we saw Barry see himself while running. At the end of the episode we saw that Barry accidentally makes a time jump and goes back in time. It becomes clear that it was himself at the beginning whom he saw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then it happened. The previous version of Barry vanished or merged or jumped to some other timeline may be. It's not clear what exactly happened with the past Flash. The future Flash who just jumped through time remains and previous one vanished. So I guess only one version is possible in existence at one timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In S01E17 &lt;em&gt;&quot;Tricksters&quot;&lt;/em&gt; we saw what happened the night when his mom dies. Flash and Reverse-Flash were there. So when Flash travels back to that night, why didn't young Barry disappear? There should have been only one version of Barry Allen, right? How did they (past, present &amp;amp; future Barry Allens) co-exist and the future flashes did not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-04-21T06:52:17.030" LastActivityDate="2017-04-27T13:55:27.657" Title="Why didn't young Barry disappear?" Tags="|plot-explanation|arrowverse|time-travel|the-flash|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32946" CreationDate="2015-04-06T06:33:19.643" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are never told what happened to it. But if I had to guess, I'd say it was disposed of. Unlike the intricate hilts of swords like Long Claw and Oath Keeper, Ice's handle is rather plain and nondescript. For the most part a sword's true value lies in the blade, and hilts are routinely changed and are given little to no value. For instance, Long Claw's now iconic hilt with the wolf's head pommel is a recent addition to the blade after the original hilt was destroyed in the fire that took down the Lord Commander's Tower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9CTXv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ice&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Claw&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/92Hel.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Long Claw&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oath Keeper&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/37x0B.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Oath Keeper&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2015-04-06T06:38:54.890" LastActivityDate="2015-04-06T06:38:54.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32995" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-06T08:56:33.267" Score="1" ViewCount="7324" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand the ending of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Woods_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Into the woods&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the Baker still waiting for his wife to return? Did Cinderella decide to help the Baker taking care of the baby until the wife return? Or did the Baker and Cinderella get married? Not shown in the movie but does the ending suggest that they get married soon afterwards? I think a man and woman living together and taking care of a baby would make them husband and wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7194" LastEditorUserId="7194" LastEditDate="2015-04-06T09:25:53.980" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T14:44:22.323" Title="Did the Baker and Cinderella get married?" Tags="|ending|into-the-woods|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32997" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="32999" CreationDate="2015-04-06T09:28:28.313" Score="2" ViewCount="398" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120667/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;'s first public &quot;outing&quot; on the bridge, the others try to get to Ben, who's kept in place by police officers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately they obviously can't get past some other officers who try to keep passers-by away from the accident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reed's solution: Sue has to become invisible, put off her clothes and get past the police to get to Ben.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After some public exhibitionistic scenes she finally manages to disappear, completes undressing and reaches Ben. Just seconds later Reed joins her, obviously without any issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did he manage that? Wasn't &quot;stealth&quot; the only option? At least the two officers pinning down Ben got distracted by the electric sparks and him running away, but what about the others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen the movie several times so far, but this part always looked forced to me just for the plot (and possibly some fan service).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-06T13:31:31.800" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T15:06:22.030" Title="Wasn't Sue becoming invisible the only option after all?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fantastic-four|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="32999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32997" CreationDate="2015-04-06T14:03:59.140" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your assumptions/conclusions are correct.  One of the reasons F4 kind of died was that the writers left too much to the viewers &quot;suspension of disbelief&quot;.  The scene quoted is a great example; as soon as Sue gets to Ben, we're supposed to believe that the cops instantly, simultaneously relax their restriction on allowing people to pass.  This is why Reed gets there just moments later, and why Ben gets surrounded by civilians.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-04-06T14:03:59.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32995" CreationDate="2015-04-06T14:11:31.837" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the ending of the film (and original stage musical) is left open-ended on purpose. The Baker and Cinderella could've fallen in love and married eventually, or they could simply be the best of friends and find other loves. No one knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Baker and Cinderella both know that the Baker's Wife is dead, however. JacK himself came upon the Baker's Wife's body after she fell from the cliff and retrieved her scarf which he returned to the Baker after delivering the sad news. So they wouldn't be waiting for the Baker's Wife to return in any case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15418" LastActivityDate="2015-04-06T14:11:31.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33002" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33005" CreationDate="2015-04-06T14:56:15.423" Score="9" ViewCount="4269" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of the first episode of the third season of &lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;, Frank asks to be left alone, then seen urinating on his father's grave after saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'll tell you this though, Pop. When they bury me, it won't be in my backyard. And when they pay their respects, they'll have to wait in line&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before that he also had a &quot;dialog&quot; with his late father, but nothing really explains the hatred required to perform such an extreme action, not to mention the risk he takes if someone will see him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any official/logical explanation to this behavior, or was it added just to boost rating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-06T14:59:52.257" LastActivityDate="2016-04-05T08:40:50.137" Title="What made Francis urinate on his father's grave?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33003" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33007" CreationDate="2015-04-06T15:55:04.230" Score="65" ViewCount="41354" Body="&lt;p&gt;This one aspect of the movie has always seemed out-of-place to me. It's like a stupid cliche out of a kids story in a movie that was previously exploring some fascinating ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Up until the kiss, Neo is learning to use his powers. Te only reason he can do so is that the Oracle told him he's not the One, which causes him to save Morpheus. It's a fascinating exploration of how what we believe about the world shapes who we become. And it's totally paradoxical - &quot;what'll really bake your noodle later, is would you have broken it if I didn't say anything&quot; is a great analogy for Neo becoming the One.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what's with the kiss? It doesn't fit at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20268" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-10-08T21:00:28.300" LastActivityDate="2021-07-15T17:58:22.087" Title="Why does Trinity's kiss revive Neo in The Matrix?" Tags="|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-06T16:42:39.080" Score="8" ViewCount="5431" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Possible spoilers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doug Stamper appears to be possibly the only loyal character in the world of House of Cards.&#xA;Without saying too much, even when Stamper appears to be siding with other presidential candidates, and even when Underwood has kicked him to the curb, he turned out to be loyal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the backstory and psychology behind Stamper/Underwood?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5213" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-06T16:43:54.657" LastActivityDate="2017-06-06T02:59:05.070" Title="Doug Stamper / Frank Underwood backstory -- why is he so loyal?" Tags="|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33002" CreationDate="2015-04-06T16:45:54.223" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frank absolutely detests his father. Throughout the series Frank tells the audience of this fact (while everyone else thinks he's a dutiful son who loved his father). We know that Frank grew up poor and his father was an unsuccessful peach farmer. Frank hated the confines of his poor small town upbringing, and a lot of that resentment was focused on his father. Frank described his father as a coward with a weak personality and a drunk. A major point that illustrates this is the time that Frank's father tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the mouth, but couldn't pull the trigger, so he asked Frank to do it for him. Frank regrets that he didn't do it, and lived the rest of his life hating his father's lack of courage and constant abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his letter to President Walker in episode 13 of season 2, Frank wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to tell you something I have never told anyone. When I was 13 I walked in on my father in the barn. There was a shotgun in his mouth. He waved me over, 'come here, Francis,' he said, 'pull the trigger for me.' Because he didn't have the courage to do it himself. I said 'no, pap' and walked out, knowing he would never find that courage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next 7 years were hell for my father but even more hell for my mother and me. He made all of us miserable; drinking, despair, violence... My only regret in life is that I didn't pull that trigger. He would've been better off in the grave and we would have been better off without him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-04-05T08:40:50.137" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33003" CreationDate="2015-04-06T17:18:29.297" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An explanation:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How about this explanation from &lt;a href=&quot;http://thematrix101.com/matrix/faq.php&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;thematrix101.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: How does Neo come back to life? Is it Trinity's kiss?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: Not exactly, though interpretations differ slightly. Simplest explanations are always best: Neo is the One. Trinity was told by the Oracle she would fall in love with the One. The One will save humanity and help overthrow the machines. Once Trinity voices her love to Neo, it's like the last link in the prophecy chain - he must be the One, so he can't die until he's done what the One is there to do. Once that link clicks into place, it's apparent that Neo can do whatever he wants in the Matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems reasonable enough - her kiss is Neo's way of realising he is the one. Hence his choice &lt;strong&gt;immediately after&lt;/strong&gt; to fight Agent Smith instead of running as he's been told.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A justification based on the script&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To back this up a bit more, I paraphrase the following from the script of the scene at &lt;a href=&quot;http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/WarnerTeach/E192/matrix/Matrix.script.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neo gets into the hotel, and runs along the corrider until he reaches room 303. He can hear the sound of the phone ringing from within the room, as he opens the door. He comes face to face with Agent Smith, who looks him straight in the eyes, and shoots him. Neo touches his wound, as blood comes out onto his hand. He looks up at Agent Smith, as he shoots Neo again, and he stumbles back against the wall. Agent Smith shoots him a few more times just to make sure, and he slides down the wall, and slumps on the floor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trinity and Morpheus watch his life signs go dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Agent Smith&lt;/strong&gt; : Goodbye......&lt;em&gt;Mr.&lt;/em&gt; Anderson...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trinity is still sitting by Neo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trinity&lt;/strong&gt; : Neo..I'm not afraid anymore! The Oracle told me I would fall in love, and that man, the man that I loved, would be The One. So, you see, you can't be dead...you can't be... because I love you....you hear me? I &lt;strong&gt;love&lt;/strong&gt; you...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She leans over and kisses him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As she says this, the blow echoes deep in Neo's mind. In the Matrix, his eyes snap open. Trinity screams as his life monitors jump back to life. Tank and Morpheus stare, in disbelief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trinity&lt;/strong&gt; : Now get up!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neo sits up, trying to focus. He stands up, and the Agents turn around, staring at him, also in disbelief. Agent Smith grimaces and aims his rifle at Neo. He fires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Neo&lt;/strong&gt; : ...No...!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Agent Smith fires, Neo just puts his hand out. The bullets slow down and stop in front of him. Neo looks at them, and picks one up. He looks at it, and then drops it to the floor. He looks at the rest, and moves his head down. They all fall to the ground. The Agents stare, and all take a step back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tank&lt;/strong&gt; : How!?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Morpheus&lt;/strong&gt; : He is... The One...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-07T11:25:56.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33003" CreationDate="2015-04-06T17:21:14.517" Score="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, a correction of a misconception. The Oracle never tells Neo he's not the one, he tells himself that. The quote from the Oracle/Neo is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oracle: Sorry, kid. You got the gift, but it looks like you're waiting for something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neo: What?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oracle: Your next life, maybe. Who knows? That's the way these things go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sorry is a little ambiguous, and could easily be taken to mean &amp;quot;Sorry, you're wrong on that&amp;quot;. However, the last part of the conversation is the important part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Neo gets &amp;quot;killed&amp;quot; in the Matrix, his body is still around, and consciousness presumably hasn't departed yet. Trinity confesses that she was destined to fall in love with the One, and she loves Neo, so he couldn't be dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This resonates with the consciousness that is still there, and he cognitively realizes and dissociates himself with the concept of death being tied to the Matrix, and is &amp;quot;reborn&amp;quot; in the Matrix. This fulfills all parts of the prophecy, Neo is on his &amp;quot;next life&amp;quot;, Trinity is in love with him, and Matrix go boom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-06T17:21:14.517" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32948" CreationDate="2015-04-06T17:59:02.040" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Incest. Essentially, Richard (the older brother) had sex (consensually or otherwise) with their mother which resulted in her becoming pregnant with Mike. Thus making Richard both Mike's brother and father. James Russo, the actor who played Richard, was 17 years older than River Phoenix, the actor who played Mike - I believe that Gus Van Sant cast actors that far apart age-wise on purpose to drive home the fact that Richard was old enough to have fathered Mike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2015-04-06T17:59:02.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33010" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-06T18:24:39.887" Score="3" ViewCount="736" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Imitation Game&lt;/a&gt; (2014), why did Menzies tell Turing that his fiancée is in jail? Turing said something, and the guy said she's not in jail, she's out shopping. What was the information that Turing gave? Was it a blackmail because he was gay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20269" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2015-04-07T01:43:50.283" LastActivityDate="2015-04-07T01:51:35.020" Title="Why was Turing told that his fiance was in jail?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-imitation-game|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33011" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35896" CreationDate="2015-04-06T18:56:59.747" Score="6" ViewCount="1112" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1605717/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the movie &lt;em&gt;Frank&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and really liked it.  The mask (which I understand could be a hyperbole of this situation) being the least of a reason why I am asking this, the most being his communication and incoherent mumbling style as well as avoiding eye contact once the mask was off, is Frank supposed to be a very awkward and introverted autistic man?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20094" LastEditorUserId="20094" LastEditDate="2015-04-06T19:37:21.373" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T01:10:57.333" Title="Is Frank in 'Frank' autistic?" Tags="|character|frank|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18864" CreationDate="2015-04-06T20:01:21.083" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;He wants to open his own car dealership.  It is evident when he solicits a loan from his father-in-law and his business partner Stan.  As he was hopeful that they would loan it to him when they invite him for a meeting, he tries to cancel the ordered kidnapping but they were more interested in getting in the deal themselves and paying him a &quot;finder's fee&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20094" LastEditorUserId="20094" LastEditDate="2015-04-06T20:13:01.413" LastActivityDate="2015-04-06T20:13:01.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9879" CreationDate="2015-04-06T20:17:57.950" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question merits a shout-out to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ferris Bueller's Day Off&lt;/a&gt;, which used a similar technique way back in 1986. This wasn't showing a text message from a phone, but was certainly &quot;capturing the viewer’s screen as part of the narrative itself&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fKvbO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2015-04-06T20:17:57.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33016" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33017" CreationDate="2015-04-06T21:11:18.253" Score="11" ViewCount="1938" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Star Trek - Nemesis&lt;/em&gt; Worf says two things during the wedding scene: First he complains that Romulan Ale should be forbidden, and later - when Data sings his song - he says something I never understood. &#xA;From the accompanying movement of burying his head it could mean something like &quot;Oh no, not singing please&quot;, but might also sound like an extended burp ...&#xA;Actually, it seems that his line is left in the original voice even in the otherwise German dubbed movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9742" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-21T23:06:21.187" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T23:06:21.187" Title="What does Worf say when Data sings?" Tags="|dialogue|star-trek|star-trek-nemesis|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33016" CreationDate="2015-04-06T21:25:00.600" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Star-Trek-Nemesis.html&quot;&gt;the script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;WORF &#xA;  (groans)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Ugghhh... &lt;strong&gt;Irving Berlin.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And watching the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBT7nUxJpC4#t=0m46s&quot;&gt;clip&lt;/a&gt;, it sure sounds like it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Irving Berlin wrote &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Skies_%281926_song%29&quot;&gt;Blue Skies&lt;/a&gt;, the song Data is singing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-04-06T21:25:00.600" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33021" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-07T00:10:48.407" Score="5" ViewCount="658" Body="&lt;p&gt;Specifically Pete, when he flew inside the tornado in his car. Can it be possible to survive such an extremely high fall like that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_iB4vx9z3hM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6752" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-21T19:28:27.160" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T19:28:27.160" Title="How realistic is the tornadoes in Into the storm 2014" Tags="|realism|into-the-storm|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33010" CreationDate="2015-04-07T01:51:35.020" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Menzies wanted to tie Alan to himself to help him decide which secrets to release to the Soviets. Lying about the only person that Alan cared about got Alan's stance much softer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that, Alan immediately admitted that he knew who the spy was (even though it was a certain way to get himself unwillingly &quot;outed&quot;), and he had no choice but to accept Menzies' &quot;offer&quot; after that, especially when Menzies practically told Alan that he knew that he was gay (&quot;I know a lot of spies, Alan. You've got more secrets than the best of them.&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the point was to get Alan to do with the information for Soviets the same thing he did with the information for their own government.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2015-04-07T01:51:35.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33003" CreationDate="2015-04-07T04:31:51.053" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Being the one, is just like being in love. No one can tell you you're in love, you just know it. Through and through. Balls to bones.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Oracle never does anything supernatural. Its predictions could as well be based on what will be the only reasonable choice and information obtained in normal/program means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one knows you are in love before you know it, atleast in a subconscious way, you get nervous or behave differently in your love's presence, at which point someone else could tell from the signs. So her analogy may be exactly true: Unless you know you are the one, even if only subconsciously, she can't tell if you are or not. This would explain her &amp;quot;tests&amp;quot;, like &amp;quot;open your&amp;quot; and what she says afterwards and also the sentence &amp;quot;Who knows? That's the way these things go.&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the reason for her saying that he has a gift may as well be, that he is the only one who was in doubt, when asked whether he was the one or not, while others rejected right away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now to his death. There are 2 deaths in medicine, heart dead and brain dead. If your heart dies your body's oxygen supply is cut off. After all oxygen is used up, your cells start dying, including those in your brain. This is why people can be revived after a heart death, by pressing the chest in a rhythmic way or by electric currents, but not after being shot in the heart or head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Agent smith never shot Neo in the head. The first and all subsequent shots went into his body. That means that his brain was fully functional, for atleast 1 minute after his death. This is also the reason why he can revive Trinity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also don't know where exactly the life signs are read from, because they show a 3D picture of his heart with a lot of text data on the sides. So maybe the image is obtained from the matrix data and doesn't necessarily show Neo's real heart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now to the kiss. From the deception earlier in the movie, where the rogue mad guy killed half the crew, we know that doing something in the real world will have the same effect on people in the matrix that are hooked up. So the kiss from Trinity will have given him the feeling on his lips of being kissed, while he may not have been able to hear her words at all. This sensation may have shocked him and let him realise that he was not in fact dead and his real body was still intact, although his mind only could have been damaged, because of the mind link between real world and matrix. This realisation may have been enough to let his brain give the right signals and let his real heart pump again, which leads to his revival in the matrix (as well as in the real world). This rise from the dead may have given him the confidence boost to believe, that he was the one, which may be all that is necessary to unleash those powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all the oracle says in &lt;em&gt;Matrix Reloaded&lt;/em&gt;, that Neo has turned her into a believer and in the first part she never mentions his revival in a convincing matter in her prophecy. She only says, &amp;quot;Your next life, maybe.&amp;quot;, which could really mean anything. So his revival may have been a surprise for her after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20285" LastEditorUserId="74112" LastEditDate="2021-07-15T17:58:22.087" LastActivityDate="2021-07-15T17:58:22.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33028" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33029" CreationDate="2015-04-07T05:30:49.270" Score="19" ViewCount="244474" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hateful Eight&lt;/em&gt; is an upcoming film by Quentin Tarantino.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember reading somewhere that the title is a reference to not only the&#xA;characters in the film, but also to this being his eighth movie. Is this true and if so, what are the eight movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1339" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-18T14:59:30.100" LastActivityDate="2023-04-21T13:06:50.997" Title="Which are Tarantino’s eight films?" Tags="|quentin-tarantino|the-hateful-eight|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33028" CreationDate="2015-04-07T06:14:55.387" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;THE 8TH FILM FROM QUENTIN TARANTINO&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lTn7f.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Poster of &amp;quot;The Hateful Eight&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;The 8th Film from Quentin Tarantino&amp;quot;.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These appear to be the eight:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reservoir Dogs (1992)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pulp Fiction (1994)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jackie Brown (1997)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kill Bill (2003)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Death Proof (2007)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Inglourious Basterds (2009)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Django Unchained (2012)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Hateful Eight (2015)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino#Filmography&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1339" LastEditorUserId="30306" LastEditDate="2023-04-21T13:06:50.997" LastActivityDate="2023-04-21T13:06:50.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33031" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33032" CreationDate="2015-04-07T07:52:09.903" Score="6" ViewCount="333" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rimmer has shall we say a... &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al5bErqFrDQ&quot;&gt;unique salute&lt;/a&gt; when addressing officers he wants to impress. However I've never seen any other member of the crew salute with anything more than our much more traditional one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the salute a massively over-embellished version of a standard JMC one (should all officers salute's start out in front in the way his does?) or has he just made the entire thing up to impress?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastActivityDate="2015-04-07T09:33:23.360" Title="Is Rimmer's Salute Regulation?" Tags="|red-dwarf|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33031" CreationDate="2015-04-07T09:33:23.360" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it was not standard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rimmer hoped that his salute would become the JMC standard, as described &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/guide/index.cfm?sectionID=behind-the-scenes&amp;amp;seriesID=1&amp;amp;subsectionID=writing&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the very first episode of Red Dwarf, other crew members use a more traditional salute when addressing the Captain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastActivityDate="2015-04-07T09:33:23.360" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33028" CreationDate="2015-04-07T09:42:00.437" Score="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem with Tarantino movies is that they have been 'misused' when they were released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kill Bill&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was originally scheduled for a single theatrical release, but with a running time of over four hours it was split into two parts by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywood.com/news/brief/1722113/tarantino-s-kill-bill-split-into-two-parts&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Weinstein Brothers&lt;/a&gt;. However, it was written, shot, and edited as one big movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grindhouse&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was also meant to be one movie, but after an unsuccessful opening weekend the movie was split into two parts. Again by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/grindhouse-to-be-split-into-2-movies/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Weinstein Brothers&lt;/a&gt; The single parts (&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Death Proof&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Planet Terror&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;) that were released were extended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Directing credits&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tarantino has also some credits as director in movies that are not fully his own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sin City&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; has only one scene in the entire movie that is directed by him. You can view it on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_CuAzFt664&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Youtube&lt;/a&gt;. This is a copy of the comic book so I can understand why they don't call this a Tarantino movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is also a movie called &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Four Rooms&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. It is what they call an omnibus movie where several directors work with a specific theme, in this example the adventures of a bell boy. Tarantino's segment is only 25 minutes long so again, not a movie that is entirely his.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDb lists &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Love Birds in Bondage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My Best Friend's Birthday&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; but they were reportedly lost in a fire according to the IMDB trivia page. However, there are some sources that say that the movies were never finished. In any way: these are not movies worth advertising since they don't exist or haven't been viewed in almost 30 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDb also lists two directing credits for &lt;strong&gt;CSI&lt;/strong&gt; and for &lt;strong&gt;E.R.&lt;/strong&gt; but these are episodes of television shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Writing credits&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And while he was involved in the scenarios of &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From Dusk Till Dawn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;True Romance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Natural Born Killers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, he didn't direct those movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The final list&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_Dogs&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reservoir Dogs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Brown_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jackie Brown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Bill&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kill Bill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (1 and 2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grindhouse_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Grindhouse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (or you could place &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Death Proof&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; here)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglourious_Basterds&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Unchained&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Django Unchained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hateful_Eight&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hateful Eight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7170" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T09:31:25.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33035" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33038" CreationDate="2015-04-07T11:20:55.327" Score="8" ViewCount="2524" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; there is a scene in which Yara tries to free Theon from the Dreadfort. During this scene we see Myranda and Ramsay in bed together. Myranda places her hands around Ramsays neck and holds them there for a long time. It then cuts away from them until Ramsay arrives in the kennels, covered in blood. Myranda is never seen again. This may sound like an obvious question but I'm just wondering if it's ever confirmed that Myranda tried to kill Ramsay. I googled it but couldn't find anything explicit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-07T12:13:12.603" LastActivityDate="2015-04-07T12:44:32.797" Title="Did Myranda try to kill Ramsay?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33036" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33037" CreationDate="2015-04-07T11:22:55.277" Score="8" ViewCount="2042" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes when they fly in space there are stars around but sometimes there are no stars at all. Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, when they are flying alongside Saturn, we see the rings of Saturn, but not a single star in space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand if there are no stars in a black hole or in a worm hole, but not in normal space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11441" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2019-08-28T16:51:20.653" LastActivityDate="2019-08-28T18:38:19.193" Title="Why no stars in Interstellar?" Tags="|interstellar|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33036" CreationDate="2015-04-07T11:43:33.380" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a large bright object is in your field of view, smaller dimmer objects are effectively hidden.  This is because your eyes adapt to the bright light.  Cameras will also adapt to the bright light and so will not pick up the dimmer objects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This optical effect has been replicated in the film.  It is therefore more accurate than any number of space films in which stars are seen clearly in the background near a planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastActivityDate="2015-04-07T11:43:33.380" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33035" CreationDate="2015-04-07T12:39:27.537" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a longer version of this scene in the Season 4 trailer, which was cut down for the episode, that makes things more clear. Ramsay is a sadomasochist; he enjoys giving &lt;em&gt;and receiving&lt;/em&gt; pain, especially during sex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the extended version, Myranda not only chokes Ramsay, but also slaps him around a bit. He's enjoying it. The fact that we don't see Myranda after that, I suspect, is simply to the fact that we haven't had any reason to see her. She is on the cast list to appear in Season 5, so she's almost certainly not dead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="1146" LastEditDate="2015-04-07T12:44:32.797" LastActivityDate="2015-04-07T12:44:32.797" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2455" CreationDate="2015-04-07T14:41:58.757" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nathan Muir protected his Boss Troy when Nathan said that he worked alone in brokering the deal to trade Hadley for an imprisoned diplomat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was clearly protecting Troy and therefore he would be covered from any criminal issue&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20294" LastActivityDate="2015-04-07T14:41:58.757" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33056" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-07T23:56:01.777" Score="9" ViewCount="6831" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if I am missing something but I feel like there is a plot hole in Casino Royale in regard to the money transfer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Mathis is tasered and taken away, Mendel (the banker guy) shows up with the money transfer suitcase where a &lt;strong&gt;bank account number&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;a password&lt;/strong&gt; need to be entered. It can be ANY account in the world, as he says before the Poker game:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The money will remain in escrow until I return... ...and the winner of&#xA;  the contest enters his or her password... ...into the encryptor...&#xA;  ...whereupon the entire sum will be wired... ...to any bank account in&#xA;  the world you nominate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Vesper chooses a bank account that was presumably given to her by the bad guys, it is not the actual treasury account. That's all good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why would Vesper &lt;strong&gt;personally&lt;/strong&gt; need to withdraw the money from the bank in Venice? The bank account is owned by the bad guys, they can withdraw it themselves. Why does she personally need to do it? It doesn't make any sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20308" LastEditorUserId="40011" LastEditDate="2017-01-12T04:16:23.120" LastActivityDate="2021-12-01T23:44:13.447" Title="Is the money transfer in Casino Royale a plot hole?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|casino-royale|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24636" CreationDate="2015-04-08T01:44:00.423" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, he is genetically damaged. It's explained in Allegint. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20310" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-04-11T05:19:58.123" LastActivityDate="2015-04-11T05:19:58.123" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27608" CreationDate="2015-04-08T02:41:26.397" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;or maybe... Riggan is struggling with who he really is throughout the entire movie. A celebrity, not an actor. Mike keeps telling him to be more real, the props are not real, this gun is not scaring me, get a more real gun. &#xA;Birdman keeps telling him to come back to him, continue to make Birdman movies...be true to yourself, what you really want, not what the people want.&#xA;Riggan held on to that napkin as a reminder of who he was. As soon as he got rid of it he let go of the past and began the process of accepting who and where he was in life. &#xA;On opening night he told his ex a secret he had kept from her. He exposed Truth!&#xA;He swapped out the fake gun for a real gun making his performance REAL! &#xA;He didn't matter how it turned out (if he lived or died) he was doing what was right, doing something REAL! His alter ego Birdman had taken over, the voice inside his head that revealed truth. &#xA;With doing so, he got everything he ever wanted.. his fame back, a relationship with his daughter and a second chance with his ex. He was above everyone else, elated with joy. So much that he flew out the window. his daughter saw this and could tell he was different. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20313" LastActivityDate="2015-04-08T02:41:26.397" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33061" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-08T04:32:27.563" Score="4" ViewCount="865" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do people have to be forced to be in the Matrix? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lots of people play MMORPG or other online games out of their own free will and if it's possible they would love to play the game all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the perfect game environment Matrix could give, I think lots of people, including me would join the Matrix voluntarily. In exchange of joining you could use my body as battery, so what? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's even better that death in the game is not the same as death in real life. So when you die in the Matrix rather than you died in real life (loss of 1 battery cell). You just go to the character creation menu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20316" LastEditorUserId="19300" LastEditDate="2015-04-08T08:03:24.890" LastActivityDate="2015-04-08T14:31:37.933" Title="Why are people forced in the Matrix - why not make it the ultimate VR game?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33061" CreationDate="2015-04-08T05:39:11.673" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, it is explained that the machines first tried to create an ideal world for the humans to believe in. But it didn't work - the human mind wasn't built for handling an ideal world. For the Matrix to work, it has to be somehow miserable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When The Matrix was written, the term &quot;gamification&quot; had not yet been invented; the Wachowski brothers probably just didn't think of it. But a game world would presumably have similar problems as a paradise world. People would see through the illusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is of course also needed for storytelling purposes; if the world is enjoyable, then Neo is the person who spoils people's delusions, instead of a man who brings freedom. It would put a different slant on the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19300" LastActivityDate="2015-04-08T05:39:11.673" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33068" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33073" CreationDate="2015-04-08T11:57:14.350" Score="8" ViewCount="738" Body="&lt;p&gt;In series three of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; Brandon Stark is revealed to be a Warg. Jones tells him that he is the only Warg he has ever seen to be able to control humans. Even to date we have only ever seen him control Hodor. Granted, Hodor is strong but there are times when it would have been better to controls someone else. So I was wondering if he actually &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; controls anyone else or can he only control Hodor because he is (to put it in Theon's words) a half-wit? Or does it have something to do with the fact that he has Giants blood and is therefore not technically human but a hybrid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastActivityDate="2015-04-08T14:17:04.110" Title="Can Brandon only control Hodor?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33069" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33081" CreationDate="2015-04-08T12:21:30.437" Score="7" ViewCount="997" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I was watching an old &quot;classic&quot; gangster movie, New Jack City, the other day and while watching it I noticed some dialogue I hadn't noticed before, about 44 minutes into the movie:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This kid's been bringing us business.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   I'd like to take a shot at one of those computer terminals.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   Can you program &lt;em&gt;Pascal&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I work as a developer and even though I don't have experience with Pascal as such I was wondering two things:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;First&lt;/strong&gt;, what on earth is a drug cartel doing programming Pascal?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;And &lt;strong&gt;second&lt;/strong&gt;, what is a drug cartel from 1991 doing programming Pascal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, perhaps they did some very drug-related CRM programming but why? And when the police storms the building, they are all rushing to remove the Floppy Disks only which would be strange if the actual data was saved on hard drives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just stand out to me as a really weird thing to do at a drug cartel..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8910" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-08T12:45:09.803" LastActivityDate="2017-01-07T02:23:19.810" Title="&quot;New Jack City&quot;: Pascal programming at a drug cartel?" Tags="|plot-explanation|new-jack-city|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33068" CreationDate="2015-04-08T13:27:15.983" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;He also controls his direwolf, Summer. We've seen that in the TV show. As far as humans go, it is believed that being a Warg will also allow him to jump into &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Bran_Stark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;other people&lt;/a&gt;. However, he has not done so in the TV show, or in the books, so warging into a person other than Hodor is pure speculation at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3541" LastActivityDate="2015-04-08T13:27:15.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33068" CreationDate="2015-04-08T14:17:04.110" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the books, there is a chapter about another Warg who is a Wildling, and he is attacked by white walkers and tries to possess a woman he is with in order to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in order to fully possess her he has to destroy her consciousness and inhabit her body himself, but her mind fights back and they both end up being killed by the white walkers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that Bran is able to possess Summer so easily from the start because he has a close connection with his Direwolf, and rather than destroying the consciousness he more or less moves it to the side and takes over control of the body, and when he is finished Summer's consciousness moves back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will be a similar thing with Hodor. Whilst not being a lesser animal like a wolf or a bird, he is not quite a fully functioning human either. This along with the closeness Bran has developed with him, when Bran Wargs into Hodor's mind he understands it is Bran's consciousness and allows him to take over, as he knows Bran is not going to crush his mind and permanently possess his body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Bran might be able to control the bodies of other people he is close to, as they will know it is his mind and will likely trust him to possess their body, but it would be such a foreign thing to happen that most people, even those who trust him, would likely fight back on instinct and not allow him to possess them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hodor does not quite have the capacity to do this, as he is, to quote Theon, &quot;a half-wit&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it is also stated that Bran is a particularly strong Warg. With enough training, he could probably crush any but the most strong-willed person's consciousness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2015-04-08T14:17:04.110" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33061" CreationDate="2015-04-08T14:31:37.933" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;1) Machines are not our friends.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are at war with the machines. Not some sissy, slap-fight, don't-pull-my-hair kind of war. &lt;em&gt;We scorched our sky in an attempt to wipe out the machines.&lt;/em&gt; Humanity said, &quot;I'd rather never see the sun again than for these machines to continue existing.&quot; Now, that may not be a big deal for those living in Seattle, but the sun is pretty important to pretty much everyone else on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Godwin's law&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear with me on a quick thought experiment. Imagine that in 1943, Hitler managed to come up with this kind of technology. Human-battery powered incinerators for all types of non-Aryan subjects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even with Matrix-like, almost perfect Virtual Reality, can you imagine how many British people would sign up to literally power the holocaust? Americans? French? Pretty much any other country in the world? Sure, you can jump really far, and move really fast, and you're pretty strong. But, at what cost?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Giving yourself up as a battery for good VR is, in essence, becoming a traitor. At that point, you are powering the enemy's war against you. It's a terrible tradoff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;2) The numbers just aren't there&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, let's assume I'm wrong. Earth is completely filled with morally-bankrupt idiots who can't see the consequences of their actions. There still wouldn't be enough volunteers to create the power that the machines want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To back this up, I'm going to use the statistics table at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_massively_multiplayer_online_role-playing_games#Statistics_table&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia MMORPG comparison page&lt;/a&gt;. Assuming that every number in the table is a unique user, and no one plays more than one MMORPG ever (which I'm sure is completely accurate), there are currently approximately 45,080,500 people playing MMORPGs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say that since the Matrix VR is so awesome, there are 10x as many people willing to join in. This gives us 450,805,000 human-battery volunteers. Which is still only ~6.5% of Earth's population. The machines would take a 95.5% power reduction, while still trying to fight a war, if they only took volunteers as batteries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of this takes into account that you are officially giving your life over to this VR. MMORPG players &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/archives/000891.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;only spend 21 hours a week on gaming&lt;/a&gt;. So, it's doubtful that you would even get a 10x increase from current players. It's one thing to spend 12.5% of your life playing a game. It's another to turn over 100% of your life to power the very war that's trying to eradicate you from existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastActivityDate="2015-04-08T14:31:37.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33003" CreationDate="2015-04-08T14:39:35.560" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember the matrix is a program, and the choosen one had several requirements, one of them was that he did must believe it, and another one was that trinity should fall inlove of him. So it triggered &lt;code&gt;choosenOne = true&lt;/code&gt;, and it started the process...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20325" LastActivityDate="2015-04-08T14:39:35.560" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33078" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="76470" CreationDate="2015-04-08T15:24:49.827" Score="2" ViewCount="1954" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been trying to collect references to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;HAL 9000&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;em&gt;2001: A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt; (1968).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could the lens in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gerty 3000&lt;/a&gt; from Moon (2009) be one? It might be a stretch, but to debunk this distracting thought perhaps you could help me find an official source. Otherwise it stands to be falsified: forever a distracting thought.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SPp74.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9012" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-09T11:08:31.670" LastActivityDate="2017-07-18T04:24:44.883" Title="Is the lens on Gerty 3000 from &quot;Moon&quot; a reference to HAL from &quot;2001: A Space Odyssey&quot;?" Tags="|reference|2001-a-space-odyssey|moon|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33078" CreationDate="2015-04-08T15:39:48.300" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it goes beyond the lens: &lt;strong&gt;the whole thing is a reference to HAL 9000&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it's named Gerty 3000, a very similar name&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it speaks in a concerned male voice&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it is artificial intelligence personified&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;its interaction with the male protagonist is a key focus of the movie&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, while watching Moon, I kept waiting for Gerty 3000 to pull a HAL 9000 and go homicidal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2015-04-08T16:18:55.157" LastActivityDate="2015-04-08T16:18:55.157" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33069" CreationDate="2015-04-08T17:24:27.270" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this activity was meant to show the &quot;new&quot; way of doing business.  Cutting edge meant computers, so whether or not anything they were doing was actually computer-related, they were implying that they were doing business &quot;the new way&quot; (my quotes).  This is somewhat related to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TechnologyMarchesOn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Technology Marches On&lt;/a&gt; trope, but also IMO related that that scene in Juraissic Park where the girl is like, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9745/is-the-unix-operating-system-featured-in-jurassic-park-real&quot;&gt;I know this!  This is a UNIX system!&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.  And we're all amazed at the (now crappy looking) 3D interactive menu as it flashes by.  In both instances, we are introduced to crazy new technology that few people understood at the time, so Hollywood can take liberties with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-04-08T17:24:27.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33083" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-08T18:55:57.567" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-04-08T18:55:57.567" LastActivityDate="2015-04-08T18:55:57.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33084" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-08T18:55:57.567" Score="0" Body="2003 romantic comedy written &amp; directed by Richard Curtis, depicting eight love stories that loosely affect each other." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-04-08T20:55:11.510" LastActivityDate="2015-04-08T20:55:11.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33085" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-08T19:03:37.740" Score="12" ViewCount="15709" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is Chuck McGill, brother of Jimmy McGill (aka Saul Goodman), mentioned at all in Breaking Bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chuck is an important figure in the life of Jimmy McGill in the first season of Better Call Saul, but I don't remember him being mentioned in Breaking Bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4090" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-04-09T09:06:51.827" LastActivityDate="2017-06-20T21:41:49.390" Title="Is Chuck McGill mentioned at all in Breaking Bad?" Tags="|breaking-bad|better-call-saul|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2603" CreationDate="2015-04-08T23:06:40.907" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not only does it really put the HBO stamp on the show and give it authenticity, but as well as this they seem to cram a lot of exposition into the sex scene's. In the first series especially. I fact who is sleeping with who can often be a pivotal plot point. Those of you who watch the uncut show know what I'm talking about. There is a sex scene between Viserys and Dorreah when we not only learn about the exctinction of the dragons, but also about Viserys child hood. There is a scene when two whores practice on each other while Lord Baelish reminisces about his childhood love. I don't know how strict the violence cuttings are but there aren't that many important points in these scenes, aside from demonstrating a characters badassery. There are however a few moments when you might suddenly go &quot;where the heck did he go?&quot; But aside from that one could probably live without the violence. If out in your situation I would watch each episode and then Google the events of the episode to see if there is anything important that you missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastActivityDate="2015-04-08T23:06:40.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33098" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33099" CreationDate="2015-04-09T04:13:38.020" Score="5" ViewCount="3801" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen this american movie (english) in high school. My english teacher loved it so much that she decided to show it to the whole class.  Production date should be between 2002 and 2007. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's about a teacher, a very nice selfless beautiful woman, who is passionate about teaching decided to teach in some school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, I remember that she broke up with her fiance or she divorced because all her time was dedicated to her class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The class was a disaster, it had gangs, guns, was full of racism, until the teacher came to the class and turned everything around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember a girl who told her in class&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I hate you, I hate white people&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first, students were extremely rude to her. Then they started changing and learning from her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie was touching, it had me tears, it pictured the teacher giving exercises to students which help them understand and love each other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She asked each student to write painful experiences about their life and leave the writings in class, once they left, she sad one night and read all the painful experiences of each student.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember also she took them to a museum (probably something about Anne Frank and the holocaust).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone identify it for me? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11099" LastEditorUserId="11099" LastEditDate="2015-04-09T04:37:55.610" LastActivityDate="2016-09-28T15:52:37.047" Title="Teacher turns racist and violent classmates into peaceful individuals" Tags="|identify-this-movie|drama|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:41:53.230" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33098" CreationDate="2015-04-09T05:24:42.083" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463998/&quot;&gt;Freedom Writers (2007)&lt;/a&gt; with Hilary Swank&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They take a field trip to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Tolerance&quot;&gt;Museum of Tolerance&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Writers&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Writers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9770" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T05:24:42.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33085" CreationDate="2015-04-09T06:57:04.103" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from Saul's real name, that he reveals to Walt in his very first episode of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; we know literally nothing about his past, so it's quite obvious that Chuck isn't mentioned.&#xA;There is also no &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; episode reference in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Chuck_McGill&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chuck's page on Breaking Bad Wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-04-10T10:26:34.387" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T10:26:34.387" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33102" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33104" CreationDate="2015-04-09T07:14:33.383" Score="4" ViewCount="6413" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the season 6 finale of &lt;em&gt;True Blood&lt;/em&gt;, we see Eric lose his immunity to the sun while on a mountaintop. He is shown burning with nowhere to run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In season 7, he turns up with Hep-V.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened in between?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-09T09:03:29.860" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T11:44:19.127" Title="How did Eric survive after being burnt in the finale of season 6?" Tags="|true-blood|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1653" CreationDate="2015-04-09T10:42:05.773" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought it may have had something to do with him being sickened by the way in which his wife and kids had died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20337" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T10:42:05.773" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33102" CreationDate="2015-04-09T11:39:22.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/68205/how-did-a-certain-character-survive-post-season-6-finale-spoilers&quot;&gt;He tells Sookie what happened&lt;/a&gt; in the fourth episode of season seven (S07E04, &quot;Death Is Not the End&quot;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; “First I went home to Sweden, which was beautiful. But unfortunately,&#xA; I triggered an avalanche that killed an entire ski village. Things got&#xA; a little hectic after that.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From there it is simple to deduce that he saved himself&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; by diving in to the snow, which caused said avalanche.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T11:44:19.127" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33108" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33111" CreationDate="2015-04-09T13:20:13.400" Score="6" ViewCount="1955" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West_Wing&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this TV show&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745623/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;make the exchange&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leo McGarry: The Citizen's Stamp Advisory Committee has a...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Josh Lyman: There's a Citizen's Stamp Advisory Committee?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leo McGarry: Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Josh Lyman: Made up of members of the &amp;quot;There But For the Grace of God Go I&amp;quot; club.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leo McGarry: You wanna mock people or you wanna let me talk to Toby?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Josh Lyman: I wanna mock people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;http://homepage.eircom.net/%7Eodyssey/Quotes/Popular/TV/Westwing4.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;again they make&lt;/a&gt; the same (unclear) assumption:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Donna: &amp;quot;It was like a meeting of the There But For The Grace Of God Society.&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Josh: &amp;quot;Anybody ask you out?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Donna: &amp;quot;Shut up.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now we read in the book of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2015&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1 Corinthians 15:10&lt;/a&gt; NIV:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Paul is taking about his incredible conversion on the Damascus Road, saying it wasn't his effort but the deliberate generosity of God).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to understand the point of view they're assuming (that the &amp;quot;there but for the grace of God&amp;quot; group (TBFTGOGG) are somehow inferior). I think it could be one of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;TBFTGOGG are self-righteous and so we should make light of them&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;TBFTGOGG claim to have a monopoly on compassion and that is silly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I want to make fun of TBFTGOGG because in my experience they're hypocrites&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;TBFTGOGG are a minority group whose claim to my favour is invalid&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;TBFTGOGG had some bad media or bad incident and so they're now untrustworthy in the eyes of my group&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;TBFTGOGG are a bunch of dags and so I will make light of them being out of touch with the mainstream&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: What is the &lt;strong&gt;West Wing reasoning behind mocking people who say &amp;quot;there but for the grace of God go I?&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Assumptions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm trying to show empathy and deeply understand where the other point of view is coming from (so I'm not looking for a glib answer to do with 'them and us' - I'm trying to understand motivations and reasoning&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm a massive fan of the West Wing - and this puzzles me&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2020-05-10T21:30:03.260" Title="West Wing reasoning behind mocking people who say &quot;there but for the grace of God go I?&quot;" Tags="|the-west-wing|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33108" CreationDate="2015-04-09T15:34:27.137" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Josh is referring to himself when he says &quot;there but for the grace of God go I&quot;. He is joking that he might have been the sort of person to end up on a Citizen's Stamp Advisory Committee if his life had taken a different path.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By extension he is also mocking the people on the committee, because he clearly prefers the life he actually has. He sees their work as trivial compared to his own, and implies that being on the committee would be (or should be) embarrassing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Donna is making the same kind of joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially they're both saying &quot;haha, glad I didn't end up like &lt;em&gt;those&lt;/em&gt; people&quot;, while layering a small amount of self-mockery on top, because of their suggestion that they could easily have ended up that way - but for the grace of God.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither Josh not Donna are presented as overtly religious characters on the West Wing, so it is also likely that they're using this phrase because it is a common saying in English, rather than attributing their current positions to the literal grace of God.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When people use this phrase they aren't always joking or making fun of people - often they are simply expressing a sense of gratitude that they have avoided a bad situation. But in the specific quotes you included, Josh and Donna (and the writers of The West Wing) were going for laughs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11245" LastActivityDate="2015-04-09T15:34:27.137" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33126" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-10T04:43:39.633" Score="0" ViewCount="710" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that a lot of discussion about this one has taken place already. But as you know its &quot;INCEPTION&quot;! every time you see it, it blows your mind...&#xA;        So if you see closely you can see that in the last couple seconds of movie the totum trembles and the moment we think its going to fall down Nolan ended the scene. So here, was Nolan trying to suggest that everyone can decide there own version? Either you can think that the totum kept spinning and Cobb is stuck in limbo or the totum stopped spinning and Cobb is really back home.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;        Any thoughts???&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19959" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2024-01-18T17:32:29.773" LastActivityDate="2024-01-18T17:32:29.773" Title="Did Nolan leave the ending of Inception up to the audience?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-04-10T11:14:28.057" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33126" CreationDate="2015-04-10T05:06:06.330" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the ending of Inception is open to viewer's interpretation. Check &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/01/play/inception-director-lives-the-dream&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; interview by Chris Nolan. About the open ending Nolan says that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've always believed that if you make a film with ambiguity, it needs&#xA;  to be based on a true interpretation. If it's not, then it will&#xA;  contradict itself, or it will be somehow insubstantial and end up&#xA;  making the audience feel cheated. Ambiguity has to come from the&#xA;  inability of the character to know -- and the alignment of the&#xA;  audience with that character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Nolan's own interpretation he stated &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I choose to believe that Cobb gets back to his kids, because I have&#xA;  young kids. People who have kids definitely read it differently than&#xA;  those who don't. Clearly the audience brings a lot to it. &lt;strong&gt;The most&#xA;  important emotional thing about the top spinning at the end is that&#xA;  Cobb is not looking at it. He doesn't care.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T05:06:06.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33132" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-10T07:38:58.710" Score="6" ViewCount="8988" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Furious 7, towards the climax, Letty tells Dom she got her memories back. It raises some questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was she telling the truth, or lying just to get through to Dom?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If she wasn't lying, were her memories real? (Because the wedding scene she remembers isn't familiar to the audience, I think.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If she actually got her real memories back, why didn't she tell Dom earlier, when she did?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-06-29T16:46:49.813" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T16:46:49.813" Title="When did Letty regain her memories?" Tags="|fast-and-furious-franchise|furious-7|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33133" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33134" CreationDate="2015-04-10T08:06:42.770" Score="11" ViewCount="59690" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some reason while watching Ocean's Thirteen the one thing that jumped out at me was the repeated reference to shaking of Frank Sinatra's hand. This occurs earlier in the movie during a flashback with both Willy and Reuben shaking Sinatra's hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also occurs near the end of the movie, when Daniel Ocean states to Willy Bank &quot;You shook Sinatra's hand - you should know better.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did Ocean mean by this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-10T08:14:12.723" LastActivityDate="2021-03-31T22:41:03.753" Title="What did Ocean mean by &quot;You shook Sinatra's hand - you should know better&quot;?" Tags="|dialogue|oceans-thirteen|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33133" CreationDate="2015-04-10T08:23:57.803" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0496806/faq#.2.1.17&quot;&gt;IMDB's &lt;em&gt;Ocean's 13&lt;/em&gt; FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's not well-explained in the movie. However, it implies a sort of 'gentlemen's agreement,' an unbreakable code between the members of an exclusive group of businessmen who have been operating in Las Vegas since the days when (Frank Sinatra) was a Vegas performer and a man's word was his bond. The inference is that one does not attempt to fleece another member of the group. Clearly, Bank screwed over Reuben by making him sign over his investment for a small cash payment. Incidentally, Frank Sinatra played the role of Danny Ocean in the original Ocean's Eleven movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T08:23:57.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33136" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33140" CreationDate="2015-04-10T09:45:07.167" Score="11" ViewCount="14351" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm having troubles with the beginning, we all know what the ending should be as &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/3575/what-is-the-meaning-of-teddys-last-dialogue-in-shutter-island&quot;&gt;explained perfectly here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I simply cannot get my head around the fact that he arrived to the island on a boat if it was a role play. Why would they start this role play on the boat? Maybe he really was an agent and they did succeed in making him believe he killed his own wife. For me the whole boat scene is a give away to him actually coming there to investigate, but than again some things in the movie wouldn't quite make sense...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So should i just accept it that before the first scene, they got on the boat from the island, drove around a bit and then the first scene starts showing them arriving at the island? Or is there any ground for my suspicion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20353" LastEditorUserId="74112" LastEditDate="2021-06-01T14:23:28.037" LastActivityDate="2021-06-01T14:23:28.037" Title="Why does Teddy arrive on Shutter Island by boat?" Tags="|shutter-island|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33137" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33138" CreationDate="2015-04-10T10:21:13.607" Score="27" ViewCount="12053" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; the gravity on Millers planet was about 130% of earth's gravity, which made everything heavy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't the waves be low, fast and heavy as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11441" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-10T11:42:58.140" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T16:50:35.253" Title="How does the high gravity on Miller's planet create big waves?" Tags="|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33137" CreationDate="2015-04-10T10:49:40.777" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;The slightly larger gravity on Miller's planet doesn't necessarily drag the waves down into smaller waves. In fact the waves were actually caused by an external force, namely the planet's very close proximity to the supermassive black hole Gargantua. Physicist Kip Thorne, who co-produced and advised the movie, has elaborated on that a bit in his book &lt;em&gt;The Science of Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;. Basically the huge waves are not actual tides as they're caused on earth here by its moon, but are created a bit more indirectly by Gargantua's tidal gravitational forces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, the planet is so close to the black hole that its tidal gravitation would practically rip it apart if it would rotate around its own axis relative to Gargantua. Therefore the planet just revolves around Gargantua, always showing the same side towards the black hole:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being so close to Gargantua [...] Miller's planet is subjected to enormous tidal gravity, so close that Gargantua's tidal forces almost tear the planet apart. Almost, but not quite. Instead, they simply deform the planet. [...] It bulges strongly toward and away from Gargantua. [...] If Miller's planet were to rotate relative to Gargantua [...], then as seen by the planet, the tidal forces would rotate. [...] The mantle would be pulverized, and then friction would  heat it and melt it, making the whole planet red hot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet the huge tidal gravitation of the black hole causes the planet to &amp;quot;rock&amp;quot; back and forth just slightly, which in turn causes those regular huge waves inside the water that surrounds its very surface:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could possibly produce the two gigantic water waves [...]? I searched for a while, did various calculations with the laws of physics, and found two possible answers for my science interpretation of the movie. Both answers require that the planet be &lt;em&gt;not quite&lt;/em&gt; locked to Gargantua. Instead it must rock back and forth relative to Gargantua by a small amount. [...] When I computed the period of this rocking [...] I got a joyous answer. About an hour. The same as the observed time between giant waves, a time chosen by Chris without knowing about my science interpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first explanation for the giant waves [...] is a sloshing of the planet's oceans as the planet rocks under the influence of Gargantua's tidal gravity [...] My second explanation is tsunamis. As Miller's planet rocks, Gargantua's tidal forces may not pulverize its crust, but the do deform the crust first this way and then that, once an hour, and those deformations could easily produce gigantic earthquakes (or &amp;quot;millerquakes&amp;quot;, I suppose we should call them). And those millerquakes could generate tsunamis on the planet's oceans...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T16:50:35.253" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33136" CreationDate="2015-04-10T11:03:11.160" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://storyfix.com/4-%E2%80%9Cshutter-island%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-the-opening-act-continued&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this great article&lt;/a&gt;, that also takes into account details from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the book&lt;/a&gt;, the following information can be found:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Doctors Cawey and Sheehan wait for a storm to start the roleplay&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They use large amount of psychotropic drugs to put Teddy to sleep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Teddy &lt;strong&gt;awakens&lt;/strong&gt; on the ferry&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that after drugging him they put him on a ferry, move away from the shore and the whole thing starts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding why it's done this way: it seems logical that they need a clear starting point for the their story. If the whole roleplay started with Teddy already on the island it would be much less convincing for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T11:03:11.160" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33144" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44337" CreationDate="2015-04-10T12:38:25.213" Score="31" ViewCount="2951" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is basically an attempt to revive this &lt;a href=&quot;https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080619205537AARzu95&quot;&gt;yahoo question&lt;/a&gt; which has exactly one answer that is downvoted. (I'm not the OP there though)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently there is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrickJoke&quot;&gt;brick joke&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;em&gt;The Usual Suspects&lt;/em&gt;.&#xA;At around 46:20 the english part is told. I understand the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So anyways, I get out of my car and the thing is wrecked. And I look in the backseat of the other car and this woman's totally naked. I'm laughing so hard I can't breathe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to IMDb and others later on &quot;two Hungarians leaving a building by the docks before the climactic finish at the boat&quot; (~1:14:50) tell the punchline. In Hungarian. But no one on the internet citing this 'trivia' seems to speak Hungarian. The aforementioned answer on yahoo even suggests that it's a hoax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: What is said by those 2 Hungarians?&#xA;Also helpful: What do they say in Hungarian? Is there any proof that they don't actually say the punchline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11287" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T03:35:51.640" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T14:40:18.640" Title="The Usual Suspects what's the joke?" Tags="|dialogue|translation|the-usual-suspects|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33145" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-10T12:44:32.323" Score="7" ViewCount="3926" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have two very related questions about the movie &lt;em&gt;Predestination&lt;/em&gt; and the way in which the main character was unable to recognize himself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As Jane undergoes surgery and becomes John, John looks into the mirror - why then is he not able to see that he looks like the same person that seduced Jane?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Hawke fights with fizzle bomber, why is he not able to see that the fizzle bomber's face resembles that of himself (Hawke), pony tail being the only differrence?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20361" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-10T12:52:52.140" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T07:35:07.947" Title="Why doesn't the temporal agent recognize himself?" Tags="|plot-explanation|predestination|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23854" CreationDate="2015-04-10T13:42:12.357" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst I have not read any article concerning Episode VII featuring any mention of Jar Jar Binks he definitely is alive at the time the Emperor and Darth Vader are killed but well I'm not sure how long Gunguns live he would probably be pretty old if he is still alive though considering the mass hatred the character received I doubt JJ Abrams would consider including him in the film if he did it would be a subtle reference probably background reference but as Jar Jar has no meeting with Luke Skywalker and he is going to be in the film I see no reason for Jar Jar to appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jar_Jar_Binks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wookieepedia&lt;/a&gt; entry for the Galactic Civil War era simply says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Galactic Empire&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;After the formation of the New Order, Binks was considered an ally of&#xA;the new Emperor, and an Imperial HoloVision report shortly after the&#xA;end of the Clone Wars mentioned that he had personally sent Senator&#xA;Binks to an undisclosed location.&#xA;He was succeeded in his post as Representative of Naboo in 6&#xA;BBY by Pooja Naberrie, by appointment from Queen&#xA;Kylantha.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The end of the Civil War&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Binks was alive and well in 6.5 ABY, and was present on Coruscant&#xA;during its liberation from the Galactic Empire by troops of the New&#xA;Republic. While he was never involved in this liberation, he was&#xA;situated relatively close to some of the action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing you can do is wait and see if he appears at all in the movie but considering he has nothing to do with the original trilogy whose principle characters are supposed to play a vital role in creating the New Republic Jar Jar a known associate of Palpatine (whether he agreed with him or not) is unlikely to involve himself in anything to do with any new characters linked with the principle characters but we'll see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20106" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T13:42:12.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2063" CreationDate="2015-04-10T13:55:56.773" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest watching them in the order they were made IV, V, VI, I, II, III and then make your own mind up whether to watch The Clone Wars film or not (I think it depends on how much you enjoyed the prequel trilogy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually skip I and II, though when I watch them through occasionally I may watch parts of Episode I such as the Darth Maul fight but I can't stand Episode II for me despite it setting up the Clone Wars crisis and the origin of the Clones, I find the whole Anakin plot line tedious in that film but it really depends on what you feel is best. If you're watching it with your kids you might want to start with the prequels as they are more on a children's level, well the first two anyway particularly having Jar Jar in the first one prominently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if it's just you wanting to watch them I definitely recommend watching them in order of creation, the whole setup in Episode IV is brilliant when you haven't got the prequel explanations as the characters (Obi Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader) have much more mystery surrounding them and the whole feud between Jedi and Sith plays out much better in my opinion through the original trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20106" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-10T14:15:29.763" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T14:15:29.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33155" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-10T16:49:10.673" Score="5" ViewCount="665" Body="&lt;p&gt;I once watched a Hollywood movie. A contract killer and a man who was ditched or thrown out by his girlfriend or wife settled in two side by side hotel rooms. The killer is getting ready for his job by fitting his telescopic gun through the window when the sad stupid man is knocking on the door of the killer, to get some sympathy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually the sad man got interest in this killing and in the gun. While the would-be victim entered the hotel (pathway visible through this window), the sad stupid man fired the gun. The victim had a security cover. He himself was dressed as a bodyguard while one of his bodyguard was dressed like him. But the sad man killed that &quot;body guard&quot; for his lack of skill and thereby fulfilled the contract. What is this movie? Please help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20369" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-04-10T21:15:09.090" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T21:28:18.627" Title="Comedy involving a contract killer" Tags="|identify-this-movie|comedy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:42:12.300" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33160" CreationDate="2015-04-10T17:14:00.160" Score="1" ViewCount="4863" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched the trailer of &quot;Amityville: The Awakening&quot; and it said that it was set to release in January of 2015. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I cannot find any evidence of this movie being released. I checked &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amityville:_The_Awakening&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;its Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; where it says it's to TBD (to be decided/announced). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anybody knows what's going on with this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15590" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T21:01:00.703" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T21:01:00.703" Title="Did &quot;Amityville: The Awakening&quot; ever get released?" Tags="|amityville-the-awakening|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33156" CreationDate="2015-04-10T20:33:14.353" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/365877-dimension-films-reshuffling-release-dates-amityville-demonic/?utm_source=rss&amp;amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;amp;utm_campaign=dimension-films-reshuffling-release-dates-amityville-demonic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;, this movie and another, Demonic, are still awaiting release dates, and they're not sure why it was pushed back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just when you thought things were set for two upcoming Dimension Films horror releases–the James Wan-presented Demonic, recently set for December 12, and the reboot Amityville: The Awakening, previously set for January 2, 2015–the studio has mysteriously removed both movies from their release schedule without any notice of when they might be rescheduled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We certainly don’t want to read too much into this decision, since maybe parent company The Weinstein Company has just decided to use their marketing resources elsewhere and plan on releasing them both sometime later in the new year, but right now, both of them are off the release schedule for whatever reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of February of this year, no release date has been set yet.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://uk.yahoo.com/movies/delayed-horror-reboot-amityville-the-awakening-112140216929.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18110" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T20:33:14.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33155" CreationDate="2015-04-10T21:06:16.707" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems you're after Billy Wilder's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Buddy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Buddy Buddy&lt;/a&gt; from 1981 with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hitman Trabucco has been hired to eliminate Rudy &quot;Disco&quot; Gambola before he testifies against fellow members of the Mob, but completing the contract becomes problematic once he encounters suicidal Victor Clooney, an emotionally disturbed television censor staying in the room adjacent to his in the Ramona Hotel in Riverside, California.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hitman (Matthau) can't do his job so Victor (Lemmon) does it instead but shoots a cop by mistake. Then it turns out that the cop &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; the target in disguise. It was based on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072934/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1973 movie&lt;/a&gt; written by Francis Veber (and based on his play) which had &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072934/movieconnections&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;several adaptations&lt;/a&gt;. It's also the last film Wilder directed, though he didn't exactly go out on a high note with this one and was embarrassed with it. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/gAISu32kAZs?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-04-10T21:28:18.627" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T21:28:18.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15643" CreationDate="2015-04-10T21:45:28.300" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep, they say that Linus' dad has the best cover ever, meaning that probably his parents (or his dad only) are really part of the FBI while doing their business (no wonder no one ever caught them). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20375" LastActivityDate="2015-04-10T21:45:28.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33163" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41320" CreationDate="2015-04-10T22:16:17.110" Score="8" ViewCount="615" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just curious if there's any info on this issue in &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Into Darkness&lt;/em&gt; since it wasn't explained in the movie.  How did Khan know that the Enterprise warp core had problems?  Was there some document from Section 31 (or whatever that secret MI-5 type Starfleet organization is called) that Khan might have come across where this type of sabotage is their M.O.?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it wasn't explained in the movie but maybe there's some sort of answer from the Star Trek universe I haven't read/found yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3839" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-11T11:34:04.547" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T23:56:11.457" Title="How did Harrison know the Enterprise had warp core issues?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-trek|star-trek-into-darkness|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24247" CreationDate="2015-04-11T01:58:32.460" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Again, with apologies to the more learned in this field, I think that for Sherlock, the difference is firmly established in human bonds. Sherlock has an adversarial relationship with Mycroft who spent most of their childhood either calling Sherlock stupid or tormenting him with stories of the north wind. Sherlock's childhood love, which again Mycroft taunts him about was for his dog, Redbeard. But at least Sherlock had that.  Mycroft, like Moriarty,  has no human contacts based on love and affection.  As Moriarty proved, Sherlock had at least 3 that even a true psychopath could see: Watson, Mrs. Hudson,  and Lestrade. His error according to Sherlock, was discounting Molly.  In season 3, almost from the very beginning Mary is added to the list and John's future child also as seen in his last vow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Sherlock,  being a highly functioning sociopath is important because it allows him to love and be loved without limiting him to the role of hero. He is and always has been an antihero,  as Mycroft said, he has the mind to be a scientist or philosopher, but chose to be a private detective. ..but originally he wanted to be a pirate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20378" LastActivityDate="2015-04-11T01:58:32.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33167" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33169" CreationDate="2015-04-11T05:49:59.730" Score="11" ViewCount="948" Body="&lt;p&gt;Talking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/&quot;&gt;District-9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From wiki&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In an alternative 1982, an alien ship has inexplicably stopped over&#xA;  Johannesburg. When investigation teams enter the ship, they discover a&#xA;  population of sick and malnourished extraterrestrials, identified&#xA;  derogatorily as &quot;prawns&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the reason behind that aliens let them be treated like hostages could be explained with this. They were weak and sick. So they avoided war at beginning. They turned the place into slums and was living there miserably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the movie plot starts after 20 years have been passed. So why didn't the Alien attack with their advanced weaponry and free themselves from such cruelty of humans. They were having advanced war suits that Wikus used later. I'm guessing that war suit needed to be initialized by the remote ship that later took Christopher Johnson(Alien) to the mother ship. But they had more advanced guns, bombs. Why became slaves for over 20 years when they could try to fight back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something here? Is there any reason for which they were not attacking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastActivityDate="2015-04-11T07:07:20.217" Title="What were stopping Aliens from attacking with those advanced weaponry?" Tags="|plot-explanation|district-9|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33167" CreationDate="2015-04-11T07:07:20.217" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Director Neil Blomkamp has &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/5331799/district-9s-director-tells-us-all-about-his-alien-back-story&quot;&gt;revealed&lt;/a&gt; that the &quot;prawns&quot; are a hive-like species, much like bees, who have somehow lost their queen. All of the prawns we see are &quot;drones&quot; who can barely think for themselves, and they definitely can't organize themselves towards a common goal. Since they were never given an order to fight back, they were contented with living in slavery. Christopher Johnson seemed to be the exception. He worked diligently for twenty years to gather enough substance to fuel his ship. While Blomkamp didn't specify either way, fans speculate that Christopher was a different class of prawn with higher mental facilities, perhaps even a soldier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-04-11T07:07:20.217" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="51312" CreationDate="2015-04-11T16:47:49.657" Score="24" ViewCount="4432" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Better Call Saul, the prequel of Breaking Bad, a successful Albuquerque lawyer firm called Hamlin, Hamlin and McGill is named after:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Howard Hamlin&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Charles McGill&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;??? Someone else called Hamlin ???&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is the second Hamlin in Hamlin, Hamlin and McGill?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4090" LastActivityDate="2022-08-03T08:19:32.987" Title="Who is the second Hamlin in Hamlin, Hamlin and McGill?" Tags="|better-call-saul|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33176" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-11T18:02:08.430" Score="3" ViewCount="1817" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 5 of Downton Abbey, what exactly is Lady Mary's &quot;device&quot;? By &quot;device&quot; of course, I mean&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; the contraceptive device she acquires and uses with Lord Gillingham and then gives to Anna to store. It is small, and reusable. Is it a sponge or a diaphragm or something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5213" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-27T11:16:15.243" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T11:16:15.243" Title="What exactly is Lady Mary's &quot;device&quot; in Season 5 of Downton Abbey?" Tags="|downton-abbey|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17296" CreationDate="2015-04-11T18:49:15.043" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;To have the conversation with Sisko, a linear being, they have to project a linear version of themselves. This projection of course would not know about linear beings/baseball at first and then learn about these things. They have always known about baseball and linear beings, except at that exact instant of which they learned it. Specifically, that whole conversation would be a single point in 4D projected onto Sisko's 3D plain of existence. So they never did not know about Baseball, except for one point in their lives between time (a point has absolutely no length, so it does not take up a second or some other small time period it takes up exactly 0 time, relative to their 4D existence).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they were aware of linear time/baseball, as much as past or future tense can be applied to them. And they were somehow aware of when in linear time they learned this. And they were somehow able to project themselves into 3D space to have this conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4556" LastEditorUserId="4556" LastEditDate="2015-04-11T18:56:59.090" LastActivityDate="2015-04-11T18:56:59.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33176" CreationDate="2015-04-11T19:45:54.593" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most probably it was a (rather primitive version of) &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervical_cap&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cervical cap&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://the-toast.net/2014/01/22/watching-downton-abbey-with-an-historian-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this detailed article&lt;/a&gt; Marie Stopes recommends it in her book &lt;em&gt;Married Love&lt;/em&gt; (the one that Mary was reading), although she also mentions other methods of anticonception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However as someone in &lt;a href=&quot;http://downtonabbey.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:18087&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this discussion&lt;/a&gt; correctly noticed we have more clues suggesting it was the cap:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Firstly, the references are always to a single item.  Lady Mary poses, &quot;Why shouldn't you buy one?”  Later, after Anna threatens to spite the chemist by buying a baker’s dozen, Mary replies that “one’s enough for now.”  Surely one single condom would not have sufficed for a weeklong sexcapade.  I supposed you could interpret that ‘one’ as ‘one box of condoms’:  technically possible, though it sounds like an odd turn of phrase if you replay those scenes.  But when Bates discovers the mystery object, he refers to it as “a cunning piece of equipment.”  A cervical cap is a cunning piece of equipment; ditto a single condom.  But a box?  Hardly.  If she had bought condoms, the references would be plural, not singular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;More importantly, Bates accuses Anna of ensuring there’ll be no baby&#xA;  Bates – in other words, using the contraception without his knowledge.&#xA;  A cervical cap could be discreetly popped in without a husband being&#xA;  any the wiser.  But it strains credulity to assume Bates believes Anna&#xA;  has been sneakily sheathing him up, each time they have sex, without&#xA;  his noticing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-07-27T06:35:57.630" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T06:35:57.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27035" CreationDate="2015-04-11T20:26:33.860" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jack dose not die, the movie ends when he falls unconscious and thus he believes he died due to what he was told, the last scene what his imagination of his death. If people believe in something strongly enough then it will effect the mind.&#xA;But yeah in the end His Heart was re-wounded back from the kiss and that then lead to Jacks Idea of his death as he fell Unconscious&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20396" LastActivityDate="2015-04-11T20:26:33.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2568" CreationDate="2015-04-11T21:04:37.743" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no reason to believe there was any behind-the-book payoffs or endorsed deals promoting the higher use of the tobacco products in the first film over the 2nd. I would recommend, though, taking the years they had been released into account. Within the last 15 years alone anti-smoking awareness has increased dramatically and would effect the rating of the 2nd movie much more then the rating of when the first movie was released and viewed. I believe this is why there is such a dramatic difference that you are seeing regarding the use of the tobacco products.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20398" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-04-11T21:08:16.163" LastActivityDate="2015-04-11T21:08:16.163" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33184" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-11T23:47:24.100" Score="2" ViewCount="256" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the scene in &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1&lt;/em&gt; where multiple Harrys are created with polyjuice potions, why was the choice to become multiple Harrys?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't random muggles be far easier to smuggle than multiple Harrys?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was Harry the face of choice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20400" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-12T00:29:28.123" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T00:46:40.443" Title="Why use multiple Harry Potters?" Tags="|harry-potter|the-deathly-hallows-1|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-06-12T10:28:24.750" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18987" CreationDate="2015-04-12T00:52:04.420" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;They had few plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plan A:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Moody dropped his sacks at his feet and turned to Harry, “As Dedalus probably told you, we had to abandon Plan A. Pius Thicknesse has gone over, which gives us a big problem. He’s made it an imprisonable offense to connect this house to the Floo Network, place a Portkey here, or Apparate in or out. All done int he name of your protection to prevent You-Know-Who getting in at you. Absolutely pointless, seeing as your mother’s charm does that already. What he’s really done is to stop you from getting out of here safely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - chapter 4, The Seven Potters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plan B:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Second problem. You’re underage, which means you’ve still got the Trace on you.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I don’t—”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“The Trace, the Trace!” said Mad-Eye impatiently. “The charm that detects magical activity around under-seventeens, the way the Ministry finds out out about underage magic! If you, or anyone around you, casts a spell to get you out of here, Thicknesse is going to know about it, and so will the Death Eaters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“We can’t wait for the Trace to break, because the moment you turn seventeen you’ll lose all the protection your mother gave you. In short: Pius Thicknesse thinks he’s got you cornered good and proper.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - chapter 4, The Seven Potters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The reason for 7 potters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“We’re going to use the only means of transport left to us, the only ones the&#xA;  Trace can’t detect, because we don’t need to cast spells to use them: brooms, thestrals, and Hagrid’s motorbike.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - chapter 4, The Seven Potters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why use Harry's face. It was a honeytrap. There was two specific reasons for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“We think the Death Eaters will expect you to be on a broom,” said Moody, who seemed to guess how Harry was feeling. “Snape’s had plenty of time to tell them everything about you he’s never mentioned before, so if we do run into any Death Eaters, we’re betting they’ll choose one of the Potters who look at home on a broomstick. All right then,”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - chapter 4, The Seven Potters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harry travelled on Sirius's bike. So that he won't be targeted first. Secondly he travelled with Hagrid, the least qualified of the wizard among the 14. The plan was to distract the death eaters, so that they attacked fake Harry's travelling with Moody, Kingsley, Lupin, Tonks, Arthur and Bill before attacking real Harry travelling with Hagrid. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was done to distract any death eaters waiting for them outside and provide enough time for real Harry to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20356" LastActivityDate="2015-04-12T00:52:04.420" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10351" CreationDate="2015-04-12T02:57:55.833" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nemo has 20/20 hindsight...angels of oblivion are his own mythic characters to convey or personify the the fact that he can transcend time of his own life because hes live it already, so he can determine the outcome like a captain of his own voyage, hence the name Nemo (Captain Nemo).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20405" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T17:49:26.913" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T17:49:26.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33193" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33194" CreationDate="2015-04-12T06:30:42.560" Score="7" ViewCount="1009" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we know, the 1st season of True Detective was set in the state of Louisiana and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OfU7CGY5DQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;teaser&lt;/a&gt; for season 2 shows some explicit shots of a particular place (the intermingled highways). I want to know in which state of the USA True Detective season 2 is set. Is there any info available or can anyone tell by looking at the opening scene of the teaser?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T05:08:02.510" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T05:08:02.510" Title="Where is the 2nd season of True detective set?" Tags="|true-detective|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33193" CreationDate="2015-04-12T06:53:36.697" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 2 will take place in California:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just as the bayous and oil fields of Louisiana formed an indelible&#xA;  part of True Detective's first season, season two will explore the 400&#xA;  miles of California between Los Angeles and San Francisco — in&#xA;  Pizzolatto's words, &quot;the places that don't get much press and where&#xA;  you wouldn't normally set a television show.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find more info regarding particular cities and towns &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2015/02/true-detective-season-2-heres-what-we-know.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/09/true-detective-season-2-teaser_n_7034444.html?ir=India&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; from Huffington post confirms this and adds more info&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Farrell will play detective Ray Velcoro, Vaughn is criminal Frank&#xA;  Semyon, McAdams is detective Ani Bezzerides and Kitsch is war vet and&#xA;  motorcycle highway patrol officer Paul Woodrugh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We know that &lt;strong&gt;Season 2 will be based on the occult history of the&#xA;  transportation system, tracing the murder of a corrupt city manager&#xA;  and a high-speed railway deal that connects Northern and Southern&#xA;  California.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-04-13T07:18:05.710" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T07:18:05.710" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18987" CreationDate="2015-04-12T07:31:23.197" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voldemort and company knew what day Harry was leaving and would be watching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why not use random muggles? Even if they did, Voldemort and company would still know that Harry was one of the group leaving the house that day. If they left in a large group as planned, the confusion caused by the Polyjuice potion is practically the same if there are 7 Harrys as if there are a bunch of random muggles. (Technically, the 7 Harrys are slightly less confusing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, let's look at a few other points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the people of said group left in smaller groups, all random muggles, it would take less manpower to kill them and the Death Eaters would just overpower each tiny group regardless of the random muggle faces. (This would also occur if there were 7 Harrys. Each of the 7 would certainly die.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If they used all muggles, they are going off of pure chance. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/33186/20379&quot;&gt;answer that was posted by Vishvesh&lt;/a&gt; proves that part of the plan was to use psychological warfare. By using 7 Harrys and putting the real Harry in the sidecar of a flying bike instead of on a broom and by putting him with Hagrid and his poor wizarding abilities instead of with Kingsley or Lupin, they increased the odds significantly that he would be attacked last and focused on least.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Harry's hair was readily available for the Polyjuice potion. Preparing a Polyjuice potion of 7, or 14, or more, muggles would be a more tedious task.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was probably more confusing to the enemy and way more convenient to the good guys to just make 7 Harrys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-04-12T07:40:07.690" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4201" CreationDate="2015-04-12T09:07:00.150" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got this from yahoo:&#xA;&quot;Yes, she did become one of the Faerie Fold at the end, although unexplained it appears to be the fate of &quot;The life taken.&quot; It can be assumed that all of the creatures were once children themselves that were taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one pays close attention, the bigger of the creatures, first seeing an appearance in the bathroom scene, later yelling at sally behind a bookcase in the library and eventually smashed by sally's camera is supposed to be Blackwood himself. That is why its little distorted features reflected him, it is also why he is bigger than the rest (presuming all the others were children instead of adults drug away).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope that helps to enlighten.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in correction of Brandon. They had to take a life every time they returned to the surface, which by their stated rules is passing the threshold of the grate that now has twenty bolts on it. Sorry to say that she wasn't trying to lead them to their doom. She was just patiently waiting for another victim like the rest of them.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20413" LastActivityDate="2015-04-12T09:07:00.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10385" CreationDate="2015-04-12T13:19:43.187" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think the tree riddle is applicable here.  There is sound evidence proving there'd be a sound if a tree falls- because we've all most likely seen a tree or branch or what have you,  fall and make a sound- no one has lived through a ship wreck story of that sort so there's no way to make a comparison.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think in the ending,  the Japanese reporters went with the story about the animals- for one,  I believe they wanted to help the child not have to deal with being accused of murder for killing the cook,  whatever the reason.  2. Neither story explains the ship sinking, so why not? The kid has been through enough. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20418" LastActivityDate="2015-04-12T13:19:43.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27257" CreationDate="2015-04-12T15:04:46.340" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;All times given in the movie seem exact multiples of 7 year/hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;23 years = 3 hours on Miller's planet x 7 year/hour + 2 years to Saturn&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;51 years = (3 + 4 hours on Mann's planet) x 7 year/hour + 2 years to Saturn&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;124 years = (3 + 4 + 5 hours in 5 dimensions) x 7 year/hour + 2 years to Saturn + 10 age of Murph + 28 age when Murph was born.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20421" LastEditorUserId="20421" LastEditDate="2015-04-12T15:14:35.260" LastActivityDate="2015-04-12T15:14:35.260" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33206" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33207" CreationDate="2015-04-12T18:21:57.450" Score="1" ViewCount="1483" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw Hundred Foot Journey and in the starting scene, where a fruit seller sells a particular fruit to the main lead, saying &quot;Sold, to the boy who knows&quot;. I want to know that fruits name. I know my question may sound a bit off topic, and I searched on Internet but couldn't found, kindly help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18128" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-04-12T19:38:22.987" LastActivityDate="2015-04-12T19:38:22.987" Title="I want to know the fruit name in Hundred Foot Journey" Tags="|the-hundred-foot-journey|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-04-13T08:08:36.700" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33206" CreationDate="2015-04-12T18:51:01.810" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I searched Google to find a reference to it, and found an on-line journal at wordpress that gives it a name: from &lt;a href=&quot;https://conversationswithcharmaine.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/food-is-memories/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wordpress&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;During my schooling years, we were a group of five girls who walked back and from school,  and every day, we would rush to the fruit seller’s cart to buy bimbli (Averrhoa bilimbi ), and “boras”, each one buying a packet, so that we could share our yummy treats, laughing and excitedly chatting, along the way, about the day’s events at school, and munching on our treats...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also carried a link to wikipedia for a &lt;a href=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Averrhoa_bilimbi_fruit_by_Sugeesh.jpg/220px-Averrhoa_bilimbi_fruit_by_Sugeesh.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;picture&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wiki article says many of the parts are edible including the fruits, and the flowers. It can be served raw, cooked, and as ingredients in a number of dishes. Some parts of the tree have medicinal uses. Some other uses include a cleanser and a stain remover, and as dye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-04-12T19:14:02.307" LastActivityDate="2015-04-12T19:14:02.307" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33212" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-13T07:40:10.490" Score="3" ViewCount="2361" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2014 Australian horror movie, the Babadook, the eponymous monster is implied to grow stronger as the victim denies it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end, Amelia acknowledges the monster which makes him weak, or does it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The monster is shown to assume the shape of Amelia's dead husband at one point, and it is presumably the same shape he's in at the end (locked in the basement). Amelia is also bringing him earthworms to feed on. Also, Sam is shown to perform some truly advanced magic tricks way beyond the skill set of a kid his age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this makes me believe that there's something more to it than simply denying/ acknowledging the monster. How can he shapeshift? At the end, is he still possessing Amelia/Sam? What exactly is the range of the Babadook's powers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I went through &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/27494/ending-of-babadook&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, which has one metaphorical and one non-canonical answer. None of which explains the Babadook's powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T06:44:28.163" Title="What are the Babadook's powers/abilities?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-babadook|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33213" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-13T07:41:22.227" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-04-13T07:41:22.227" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T07:41:22.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33214" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-13T07:41:22.227" Score="0" Body="Questions related to the 2014 Australian horror film, The Babadook" OwnerUserId="13594" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2015-04-13T14:55:23.927" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T14:55:23.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33215" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-13T07:45:50.950" Score="25" ViewCount="66229" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; S05E01 &quot;The Wars to Come&quot;, one of the Unsullied is shown to be visiting a brothel. Missandei has also mentioned that she has heard that &quot;more than one Unsullied has been known to visit Meereen's brothels.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have the same question as Missandei's to Grey Worm: Why would an Unsullied go to a brothel? (Aren't they castrated, and would derive no pleasure from the services offered by brothels?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-13T09:50:30.570" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T10:54:03.887" Title="Why would an Unsullied go to a brothel?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33215" CreationDate="2015-04-13T08:53:36.040" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;To seek pleasures other than sexual (which is sometimes the case also for not castrated men).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The below fragment from &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Stalwart_Shield&quot;&gt;A Wiki of Ice and Fire&lt;/a&gt; is about the Unsullied you mention (in the book he is called Stalwart Shield). Note that this a Wiki about the books, not the TV series, so it may contain spoilers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stalwart Shield would occasionally go to a brothel in Meereen where he&#xA;  would pay women just to lie with him and hold him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-04-13T13:19:20.080" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T13:19:20.080" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33212" CreationDate="2015-04-13T10:01:25.047" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To understand Babadook's powers/abilities, one must know, first of all, what exactly is the Babadook? Is it an evil spirit, a mythological monster, an actual creature or just a symbol?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Babadook is the impersonation of Grief &amp;amp; Problems.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wikipedia entry itself answers a lot of questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Writing for the Daily Beast, Tim Teeman contends that grief is the&#xA;  &quot;real monster&quot; in The Babadook, and that the film is &quot;about the&#xA;  aftermath of death; how its remnants destroy long after the dead body&#xA;  has been buried or burned&quot;. Teeman writes that he was &quot;gripped&quot; by the&#xA;  &quot;metaphorical imperative&quot; of Kent's film, with the Babadook monster&#xA;  representing &quot;&lt;strong&gt;the shape of grief: all-enveloping, shape-shifting,&#xA;  black&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Amelia is a single mother grieving over her husband's death and finding it very difficult to cope with the responsibilities of parenting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The director Jeniffer Kent has stated that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;she sought to tell a story about facing up to the darkness with&#xA;  ourselves, the &quot;fear of going mad&quot; and an exploration of parenting&#xA;  from a &quot;real perspective&quot;. In regard to parenting, Kent further&#xA;  explained in October 2014: &quot;Now, I’m not saying we all want to go and&#xA;  kill our kids, but a lot of women struggle. And it is a very taboo&#xA;  subject, to say that motherhood is anything but a perfect experience&#xA;  for women.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this background, let's go back to your original question:&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;What are the powers of the Babadook?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;This question can be rephrased as &#xA;&lt;strong&gt;What are the negative-effects of not being able to cope up with your grief and your problems?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Babadook can do what grief and problems can do to someone, someone who is not coping well. And this very thing is very subjective and varies from person to person, situation to situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And how is the monster defeated?&#xA;By acknowledging it. Acknowledging one's problems and standing up to them.&#xA;I think at the end, Amelia acknowledges and accepts the fact the her husband has indeed gone forever and she must overcome the hardships of being a single mother. This eventually weakens the monster within her and she feels empowered again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the same source:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Teeman states that the film's ending &quot;underscored the thrum of grief&#xA;  and loss at the movie’s heart&quot;, and concludes that it informs the&#xA;  audience that grief has its place and the best that humans can do is&#xA;  &quot;marshal it&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Sam's magic tricks, I see it this way:&#xA;What happens to kids who have troubled parents at home? They are troubled themselves, not able to do good themselves.&#xA;And what happens when their parents become strong?&#xA;They too become strong and able to unleash their unlimited potential.&#xA;Hence the great magic tricks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-08-23T12:58:30.803" LastActivityDate="2015-08-23T12:58:30.803" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33220" CreationDate="2015-04-13T13:03:11.780" Score="3" ViewCount="296" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the portable computer on Halt and Catch Fire TV series based on actual facts from the history of the personal computer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been watching the first episodes of Halt and Catch Fire and although I know some of the history of the PC, I can't figure out if the computer that they are trying to build is going to be something that happened, to some extend, in the history of personal computers. Or is it just a fictional company and a fictional product?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4090" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T13:14:45.553" Title="portable computer on Halt and Catch Fire TV series?" Tags="|halt-and-catch-fire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33219" CreationDate="2015-04-13T13:14:45.553" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like it was inspired by the history of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Compaq&lt;/a&gt;, that was created by people wanting to build a portable computer compatible with IBM PC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2014/05/29/halt-and-catch-fire-amc-compaq/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This article&lt;/a&gt; covers it in great detail, below are some quotes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;AMC’s show is fictional, but it turns out, there is a true life story&#xA;  that is similar to this course of events, and it led to the creation&#xA;  of one of the greatest technology companies of all time, Compaq&#xA;  Computers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto were mid-level managers at Texas&#xA;  Instruments. Converts to the still nascent personal computer&#xA;  revolution, the trio decided to strike off on their own and form a&#xA;  company to produce a product in an entirely new category of PC: the&#xA;  portable. Portable PC’s were not laptops because the technology did&#xA;  not exist yet to make computers that small and light. Portables were&#xA;  designed to be moved from desk to desk easily, were rugged enough to&#xA;  travel with, and at around 30 pounds or so, had the form factor of a&#xA;  large-ish suitcase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But all of these machines were only mostly PC-compatible. So, at best,&#xA;  they were DOS compatible. But there was no guarantee that each and&#xA;  every program or peripheral that ran on the IBM-PC could run on a&#xA;  clone. The key innovation that Canion, Harris and Murto planned to&#xA;  bring to market under the name Compaq Computer Corporation would be a&#xA;  no-compromises, 100% IBM-PC compatibility. This way, their portable&#xA;  computer would be able to run every single piece of software developed&#xA;  for the IBM-PC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T13:14:45.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33108" CreationDate="2015-04-13T14:13:43.657" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;There But For the Grace of God Go I&quot;&lt;/em&gt; is a sentiment often expressed by those who choose to help the unfortunate - in other words, people who claim to recognize that only good fortune has caused their lives to work out differently to the lives of those in need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the mocking tone that Josh is using, he is probably referring to members of minor social relief committees in government, who are preoccupied with the idea that they are doing good for the unfortunate, and perhaps burnishing their own self-images at the same time. The biblical reference adds an element of pseudo-piety to the mix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19074" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T14:13:43.657" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33215" CreationDate="2015-04-13T14:32:03.683" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is more than one form of castration: there are testicular and penile. The Unsullied are not castrated totally. This even comes up in the show when Daenerys asks her handmaiden if it’s the root and the trunk, or just the root. She replies, “I do not know.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the books, there’s a mention of it as some point which makes it clear that it’s just the testicles. This was thought to have a focusing effect on the discipline of the soldiers. And while it does affect sexuality, it doesn't do so totally. In other words, a person who was had their testicles removed could very well be more or less sexually normal. They can still achieve erections and will ejaculate (just without any sperm).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some famous US cases of rape offenders being castrated in this way, then being released and surprising everyone by committing rapes again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20439" LastEditorUserId="18440" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T05:31:47.813" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T05:31:47.813" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9922" CreationDate="2015-04-13T16:41:13.130" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Brown got shot in the middle of the head, it means he could not live that long. I believe he must have been killed by Orange! You can see Orange's emotion when he saw the two dead police. After that, you see Brown is dead. These are two continuos scenes that convinced us that Orange killed Brown. So much fun with Tarantino's style. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20442" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-14T21:42:16.703" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T21:42:16.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33215" CreationDate="2015-04-13T18:51:00.010" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, in the books it is clear that The Unsullied have &quot;neither root nor stem.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they are still people. They are still men. They may still long for human - and female -contact and may fantasize sexually even if they have no sex organs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20445" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T18:51:00.010" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13769" CreationDate="2015-04-13T18:53:50.367" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Extremis was created as a way of recovering and rebuilding a body. It could activate when a body got injured. Maybe that's why Jarvis' systems started considering Pepper as an Extremist and didn't try to save her when she was falling and attempted to kill her when the virus activated. As for me, though, I was expecting the suit to catch Pepper till the end)))&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20446" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T18:53:50.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33232" CreationDate="2015-04-13T19:01:45.967" Score="3" ViewCount="2026" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just curious if that cat was ever part of the family, because he was Fred's nemesis in those closing credits.  Yet I don't recall seeing him in any episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T19:06:07.577" Title="Was the sabre-toothed cat shown in the closing credits of The Flintstones ever in any episodes?" Tags="|character|flintstones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33231" CreationDate="2015-04-13T19:06:07.577" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cat, who was officially named Baby Puss, was shown in only 2 episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 2, Episode 15 - The X-Ray Story:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wilma is trying to feed Dino, who is too sick to eat.  Wilma says to Dino, &quot;If you're not going to eat this, I'll give it to the cat.&quot;  Baby Puss is then seen running out the door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 5, Episode 4 - Pebbles Birthday Party:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of the episode, Fred's snoring is keeping everybody up including the cat (who is sleeping in Fred's bed). Baby Puss eventually lifts its head and says, &quot;I am going to the animal shelter where a cat can get a good nights sleep.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T19:06:07.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33215" CreationDate="2015-04-13T19:34:15.520" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Daario Naharis mentioned that his mother was a whore, and I suppose some of The Unsullieds have similar background as they grew up in a brothel. Having a woman hold them and sing for them, stroke their hair may remind them of the feeling of having a mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20448" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T05:46:56.690" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T05:46:56.690" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33036" CreationDate="2015-04-13T20:16:17.867" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition and related to Chenmunka's answer: stars bright enough to see with the naked eye (or camera) simply do not exist in particular viewing directions. Our very own Milky Way is a dish-shaped galaxy, which is clearly noticeable for example in a desert or other off place: infinite stars can be seen in two opposite directions and none in the perpendicular directions. Why would that necesserilly not be somewhere else in the universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T20:16:17.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33240" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33241" CreationDate="2015-04-13T20:23:37.683" Score="2" ViewCount="196" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Birdman (2014), could you also explain the scene when we see Riggan jumping off a roof (when a man comes to stop him and asks if he knows where he wanted to go), flying above the city  and then arriving at the theater in a cab?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20449" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-13T20:39:33.397" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T21:07:18.647" Title="Riggan arriving in cab at the theater" Tags="|plot-explanation|birdman|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33240" CreationDate="2015-04-13T21:07:18.647" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, Riggan didn't actually jump off the roof or fly, those were just manifestations in his mind.  If you recall, it was somewhat implied that he flew right to the theater and walked in, and then you saw the taxi and realized he must have taken the taxi to the theater since he can't really fly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-04-13T21:07:18.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33246" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-13T23:06:53.063" Score="6" ViewCount="5634" Body="&lt;p&gt;With higher-definition formats do actors with very bad vision have to remove contact lenses when their character isn't supposed to wear them, especially in close-up shots that would presumably make lenses easy to spot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20456" LastActivityDate="2015-09-12T22:06:14.037" Title="Can actors always wear contact lenses?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33252" CreationDate="2015-04-14T00:41:35.163" Score="21" ViewCount="25684" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This question may contain spoilers for season one and season five.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Season_1&quot;&gt;season one&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; episode, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Wolf_and_the_Lion&quot;&gt;&quot;The Wolf and the Lion&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Small_council&quot;&gt;small council&lt;/a&gt; discusses the imminent threat of &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Viserys_Targaryen&quot;&gt;Viserys&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Daenerys_Targaryen&quot;&gt;Daenerys Targaryen&lt;/a&gt;. It is announced that both Targaryen children should be killed in order to preserve the peace in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Seven_Kingdoms&quot;&gt;Seven Kingdoms&lt;/a&gt;. The small council seem to agree that this is the right thing to do, including &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Varys&quot;&gt;Varys&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: &lt;strong&gt;Why did Varys support the assassination of the Targaryen children?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I first saw this it made sense. &lt;em&gt;Varys seeks to &quot;serve the realm&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and only wants peace. It occurred to me that he justified the decision because it would mean longer-lasting peace for the world if the Targaryens are not able to cause an uprising and ultimately &lt;strong&gt;war&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, previously in the same episode, Varys meets with &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Illyrio_Mopatis&quot;&gt;Illyrio Mopatis&lt;/a&gt;. The two discuss their already-in-action plan to restore the Targaryens to the throne. It seems to be implied that it is intended that two powerful houses, Lannister and Stark, are to fight in order to disrupt the stability of the Seven Kingdoms. Varys states that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the conflict between the Lannisters and the Starks will soon escalate into a civil war&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/&quot;&gt;gameofthrones.wikia.com&lt;/a&gt; article goes on to state&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Despite Varys's meeting with Illyrio, later at a small council meeting he seemingly supports King Robert's proposal to assassinate Daenerys Targaryen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it doesn't give any reason or further explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, earlier in the same episode, Varys tells &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Eddard_Stark&quot;&gt;Eddard Stark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the king is a fool and will soon be dead&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Varys is referring to &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Robert_Baratheon&quot;&gt;King Robert Baratheon&lt;/a&gt;. Varys clearly believes him to be an inadequate king.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Season_5&quot;&gt;season five&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; episode, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Wars_to_Come&quot;&gt;&quot;The Wars to Come&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Varys goes on further to dismiss &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Tommen_Baratheon&quot;&gt;Tommen Baratheon&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Stannis_Baratheon&quot;&gt;Stannis Baratheon&lt;/a&gt; as adequate kings, describing Tommen as weak and Stannis as ruthless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Questions and further thoughts&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If Varys was &quot;pretending&quot; to want the Targaryen children to be executed (to seem loyal), isn't that a big risk? What if the plot had succeeded and Daenarys and Viserys had been killed? Could he not have sided with Eddard Stark and said that the Targaryen children are not a threat?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the time of the small council meeting&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Viserys is still alive&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't this mean that Varys supports Viserys or perhaps both Targaryen children, rather than just Daenerys? With all of Varys' wisdom and knowledge, shouldn't he know that &lt;strong&gt;Viserys is actually ruthless and stupid and would make a terrible king&lt;/strong&gt;? Was it his plan to restore Viserys or was it always his plan to restore Daenarys?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the meeting with Varys and Illyrio Mopatis, it is implied that they are orchestrating the plan to install Eddard as &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Hand_of_the_King&quot;&gt;Hand of the King&lt;/a&gt; and establish a conflict between &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Hand_of_the_King&quot;&gt;House Stark&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/House_Stark&quot;&gt;House Lannister&lt;/a&gt;. However, we also learn that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; It is &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Petyr_Baelish&quot;&gt;Little Finger&lt;/a&gt; that is really orchestrating the whole thing and that he is responsible for the death of &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Jon_Arryn&quot;&gt;Jon Arryn&lt;/a&gt;, setting in motion all events in subsequent episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do Varys and Illyrio Mopatis seem to take credit for this? Are they really in as much control as implied, or merely taking advantage of whatever events they are presented with?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20457" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T01:24:18.810" Title="Why did Varys support the plot to assassinate Daenerys Targaryen?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33248" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33250" CreationDate="2015-04-14T00:55:28.693" Score="8" ViewCount="1019" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last night I watched the first episode of Game of Thrones season 5 (awesome). In the very beginning we see a young Cersei ask a witch about her future. The Witch says that she will have three children. The thing is though, Cersei has four children. In the very second episode she tells a story of how she birthed Robert's true born son long before Joffrey was born. So was the witch wrong? Or is it metaphorical because Cersei didn't really see the child as her son?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T17:20:18.730" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T17:20:18.730" Title="The Witch's Prophecy in S05E01" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33248" CreationDate="2015-04-14T01:06:12.817" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This appears to be a case of storylines from the novels getting mixed up when they translated to the screen. In the novel, Cersei never gives birth to that first child -- she has it terminated as soon as she knows she's pregnant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the show, she tells Catelyn that she did give birth to that child, but it died young. That means that yes, Cersei did give birth to four children during her lifetime, contradicting the prophecy of the witch. Unless the show decides to explain it further, we can only guess why the discrepancy exists in-universe. Some options:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The witch meant that she would have three &lt;em&gt;living&lt;/em&gt; children; or three children that survived infancy. Based on the similarities between Westeros and 14th century England, it's likely that there are high rates of infant mortality. People may simply be conditioned to forget about children that do not make it at least to school age.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The witch was speaking metaphorically -- she would only have three children that she &lt;em&gt;considered&lt;/em&gt; her children; as much as she claims to have been heartbroken when she lost Robert's son, she doesn't really act like it. She obviously considered her three children by Jaime to be her &quot;real&quot; children, and has no desire to have a trueborn child with Robert.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T01:06:12.817" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33251" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-14T01:20:49.320" Score="2" ViewCount="326" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2193021/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &quot;The Calm&quot; (S03E01), the &lt;em&gt;Vertigo&lt;/em&gt; legacy of the &lt;em&gt;Count&lt;/em&gt; is continued by a new villain, &lt;em&gt;Werner Zytle&lt;/em&gt;, who refined it into some &lt;em&gt;&quot;scarecrowesque&quot;&lt;/em&gt; fear hallucinogen. When he is captured by &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt; at the end of the episode he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tie me up and lock me down, it doesn't matter. There will always be a Vertigo, always someone to pick up the mantle. You have given it the power, don't you see? Don't you see?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I see what he means with the first part, that there will always be people picking up the &lt;em&gt;Vertigo&lt;/em&gt; business. But &lt;strong&gt;what does he mean with his last sentence that &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt; has &lt;em&gt;&quot;given it the power&quot;&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt; Does he mean &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt; has actually contributed to the success of &lt;em&gt;Vertigo&lt;/em&gt; somehow? But in which way? Do his words have any significance or truth to them (maybe in relation to a past episode I can't remember right now) or were this just the ramblings of a madman?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-10T11:51:16.370" LastActivityDate="2016-04-10T11:51:16.370" Title="What does Werner Zytle mean with his final words in S03E01?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|arrow|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33247" CreationDate="2015-04-14T01:24:18.810" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your supposition in post-script #1 is accurate: Varys appears to support the attempt to assassinate Danaerys, but secretly tries to make sure it fails. In a later episode, Jorah gets a message from Varys. In the show, I think the message merely says that he's been pardoned and can go home, but I believe we're supposed to interpret that as a coded message warning him that Dany is in danger. (In the novels this is called out a bit more clearly, as described in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37908/how-is-the-murder-attempt-consistent-with-varys-plan&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/37908/how-is-the-murder-attempt-consistent-with-varys-plan&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why he's willing to take that risk, and why he would knowingly support a terribly king of Viserys, that is probably a huge spoiler. For now, all I'll say is that there's still a lot we don't know about Varys' end game. However, given that Season 5 is largely based on &lt;em&gt;A Dance With Dragons&lt;/em&gt;, my suspicion is that we'll probably see his plot unfold more very soon. (If you really want to know, spoiler at the end.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In regards to you post-script question #3, I'm pretty sure if you watch the dialog between Varys and Illyrio, one of them explicitly says that the events are happening &quot;too soon&quot;. The two of them had &lt;em&gt;their own separate&lt;/em&gt; plot to cause war in Westeros, to pave the way for the return of the Targaryans, but Littlefinger's meddling has forced them to step up their timeline. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the series progresses in the same manner as the novels (which is no longer certain, especially given some of the characters that have been written out), Varys' ultimate goal is explained in this question: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(MAJOR spoiler) &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/63885/whats-the-deal-with-illyrio-and-varys&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/63885/whats-the-deal-with-illyrio-and-varys&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Ultimately, they want to bring Rhaegar's son Aegon back, whom he secretly rescued and fostered out somewhere safe. Viserys was mostly intended to be a distraction until it was safe to reveal that Aegon survived.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T01:24:18.810" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10894" CreationDate="2015-04-14T01:30:34.877" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;He used his Batman voice to tell Rachel about the Joker coming and Dent had his back facing Bruce the whole time before he fell unconscious, so he didn't hear Bruce's real voice or see his face the entire time making it likely that Dent thought it was Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20459" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T01:30:34.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28499" CreationDate="2015-04-14T01:51:47.580" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I interpret it, is that while there are a lot of different flavours of wine, ultimately what we all enjoy from wine is the alcohol, which is the &quot;one flavour&quot; he's referring to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same can be said for women. While there are women from different ethnic backgrounds around the world, what we men enjoy ultimately, is the woman herself, no matter where from. The &quot;flavor&quot; part can be left to interpretation, whether he was just referring to women in general or the taste of their parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20461" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T01:51:47.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17410" CreationDate="2015-04-14T03:57:21.907" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it goes way back to Italy when young Vito (Robert DiNiro) constantly shows his favoritism for Michael over the other children; of course he loved them all, but how many times did he show this special feeling toward Michael in words and actions?  Perhaps it was because he was the youngest, but whatever the reason, it was all too evident thruout all 3 movies, and this special feeling for Michael is what made him turn into the Don he became, to live up to his father's expectations.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20465" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T03:57:21.907" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27364" CreationDate="2015-04-14T10:25:04.437" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, the rocket launched TWO Rangers AND the docking sub-assembly between them while they are attached to the central hub of Endurance. During the first docking sequence, you can see the sub-assembly and the second Ranger attached to the bottom of the Ranger Cooper is flying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's very likely that they couldn't lift all this with just a single flying Ranger and needed the rockets for that amount of cargo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20472" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T11:42:00.377" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T11:42:00.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33268" CreationDate="2015-04-14T10:31:41.607" Score="13" ViewCount="12207" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just wondering if I need to watch the Marvel Cinematic Universe television shows in order of airing. I haven't watched &lt;em&gt;Agents of SHIELD&lt;/em&gt; - would I miss out on anything if I went ahead and watched &lt;em&gt;Agent Carter&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Daredevil&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do characters/plotlines cross over? Or do they work fine on their own?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please DO NOT post any spoilers. If you must, format them in spoiler blocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T01:09:02.417" LastActivityDate="2016-12-25T11:03:24.463" Title="Do I need to watch Agents of SHIELD before watching Agent Carter or Daredevil?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|agents-of-shield|agent-carter|daredevil-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33267" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-14T11:00:30.427" Score="2" ViewCount="3712" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250797/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Unfaithful (2002)&lt;/a&gt;, why did Connie Sumner use the tissue paper in the train's restroom after having physical contact with Paul?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20473" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T11:36:31.290" LastActivityDate="2021-10-10T07:03:42.027" Title="Why did Connie Sumner use tissue paper in the train's restroom after having physical contact with Paul?" Tags="|plot-explanation|unfaithful|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33266" CreationDate="2015-04-14T11:14:31.967" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some small, Easter egg type links between &lt;em&gt;Agents of SHIELD&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Agent Carter&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Daredevil&lt;/em&gt; - but in general, they follow seperate characters in different areas of the world, and even different time periods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless you REALLY need to know how every aspect of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is linked, then you won't be missing out on anything by watching &lt;em&gt;Agent Carter&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Daredevil&lt;/em&gt; without first seeing &lt;em&gt;Agents of SHIELD&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, you may wish to make sure that you have seen at least &lt;em&gt;Captain America: The First Avenger&lt;/em&gt; before watching &lt;em&gt;Agent Carter&lt;/em&gt;, as the two are quite firmly linked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T11:14:31.967" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32221" CreationDate="2015-04-14T11:19:03.670" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is actually a homage to the song &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Horse_(Laid_Back_song)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;White Horse&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; by Laid Back. I don't know if that song was played in &lt;em&gt;Twin Peaks&lt;/em&gt;, but I do know that the words &amp;quot;white horse&amp;quot; were in reference to heroin, which Kimmy's dad was high on, and the song also says &amp;quot;white pony&amp;quot; in reference to cocaine. I remember this song from the 80s, and Kimmy was stuck in that time slot, which makes sense with the horse and her dad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/mlYJf6CJXV8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20475" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2023-06-23T03:16:43.513" LastActivityDate="2023-06-23T03:16:43.513" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33215" CreationDate="2015-04-14T11:24:13.670" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answers to this question have been suggested have been given a few centuries before &lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt; was written:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cleopatra:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not now to hear thee sing; I take no pleasure&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In aught an eunuch has: 'tis well for thee,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That, being unseminar'd, thy freer thoughts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;May not fly forth of Egypt. Hast thou affections? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mardian:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes, gracious madam. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cleopatra:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Indeed! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mardian:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not in deed, madam; for I can do nothing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But what indeed is honest to be done:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yet have I fierce affections, and think&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What Venus did with Mars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, while they cannot service their affections in deed, they may service them indeed. (And indeed, in deed, since George R. R. Martin allows his characters a sex-life less focused solely on penis-vagina penetration than Shakespeare did Mardian).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(That's assuming that Mardian was even lacking in a penis as well as just testicles. In the days when castrati still sung, they had an advantage in illicit affairs in that not having testicles is a very reliable form of contraception).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20474" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T11:24:13.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17410" CreationDate="2015-04-14T12:22:54.640" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This scene is an example of the overreach Michael was doing throughout the film. In the first Godfather, the idea of killing all the heads of the Five Families seemed outlandish - but it worked, because all of them were lulled into thinking that Michael was either weak and/or didn't want to fight them anymore. In Part II, the main enemy Michael had left was Roth, who was no dummy. He knew that Michael was responsible for killing the heads of the Five Families, and he probably had some idea that Michael eventually would figure out he was the one who wanted him dead by using Fredo. Michael decides that he wants to have Roth killed, even though there wouldn't be any beneficial reason to do so - Roth, after all, was trying to run to Israel to escape from Michael; Roth was also not a healthy man and although he wasn't dead yet it would only be a matter of time before God did what Michael wanted to do. But Michael, being a proud man, wanted to have Roth dead for the attempt on his life (it was this same pride that caused him to allow Fredo be executed after their mother's death, even though there was no other reason to have him killed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tom, who was acting as Michael's right-hand man, was correctly trying to talk Michael out of an action that could have come back to bite him in the ass (if Roth's assassin had been wounded instead of killed in the attempt, bet your ass he makes a deal to finger Michael as the person who gave the order - and that guy probably wouldn't have had a brother in Italy Michael could have flown in to intimidate him into reversing himself). Michael, though, was too far along in his hatred to listen to reason. For that reason, he was willing to kick Tom - whom he considered as a brother, despite not being a made man - to the curb unless he went along with his plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorUserId="260" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T14:15:16.010" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T14:15:16.010" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33273" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33274" CreationDate="2015-04-14T12:54:16.790" Score="6" ViewCount="3034" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a question regarding episode 1 of season 5 of Game of Thrones. In the final episode of season 4, Daenarys chains the dragons in the cave, and they are depicted as being medium sized, with the chains fitting them quite tightly. In the first episode of season 5, she visits them, and they are much larger! How did they not get choked by the small chains? Did anyone replace their chains? Could anyone really do that without being devoured?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19948" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T12:59:03.613" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T14:18:04.457" Title="How come the chained dragons don't choke when they grow?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33273" CreationDate="2015-04-14T13:03:38.660" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mix milk of poppy in their food and when they are asleep change the chains. Risky yes but might work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Milk of the poppy is a medical drink, used as both a painkiller and an anesthetic. Higher doses will induce unconsciousness, so patients can undergo surgery. Maesters make it from crushed poppy flowers and it has a white color, hence &quot;milk of the poppy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Milk_of_the_poppy&quot;&gt;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Milk_of_the_poppy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should work since it is made from poppy flowers, it is similar to morphine and morphine works on animal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20356" LastEditorUserId="20356" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T14:18:04.457" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T14:18:04.457" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33251" CreationDate="2015-04-14T13:22:17.827" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I think he meant by that was, that because of the Arrow, Vertigo actually became more popular. By stopping it he just made it more exclusive. I remember the papers running about Arrow and Vertigo in the previous encounters. &#xA;What it could also mean is that by creating an antidote, The Arrow actually forced the maker to increase its power, making it stronger than before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19563" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T13:22:17.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18621" CreationDate="2015-04-14T15:49:50.087" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Court martials are not some sort of magically fairy effect that shimmers into existence as soon as a soldier does something naughty. A court martial has a convening authority. Much like a civil trial, somebody has to file charges. After such a high-profile, emotionally charged case involving conspiracy and murder, it's unlikely that anybody is going to file charges for potty mouth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You generally don't seen it in Hollywood courtroom drama, but there are often ancillary charges that go along with the &quot;big&quot; criminal charges. Somebody who commits murder is not only charged for the murder, but they'd also face weapons charges for whatever they used to do it, reckless endangerment charges if anybody else was around and could potentially have been injured, drug charges if they were on something while they did it, and so forth. Unless it was a habitual offense, a charge for language would be added to something more severe, not prosecuted by itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20478" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T12:43:59.290" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T12:43:59.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33246" CreationDate="2015-04-14T19:45:01.740" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;For medium shots and long shots, the viewer won't be able to see an actor's contact lenses.  But for extreme close-ups, contact lenses could be visible on a big screen (especially IMAX!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U6MWw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is no reason an actor needs to wear contacts for closeups and extreme closeups. During those shots, they can ACT as though they're seeing what they are looking at. Between scenes, if they need to read the script (or a magazine or the ingredients of something they're about to eat), they can use glasses. And when they're shooting medium and long shots, they can just put their contact lenses back in if they want to. (There is &lt;strong&gt;plenty&lt;/strong&gt; of time between shots while the crew is moving the camera and adjusting the lights and whatnot.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the actor insists on wearing contacts in a close-up shot even though the character shouldn't be wearing them, CGI can be used to hide the contacts during editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T17:35:16.473" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T17:35:16.473" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33283" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33285" CreationDate="2015-04-14T21:43:04.237" Score="4" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the award-winning short movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1998355/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Voorman Problem&lt;/a&gt; the governor informs doctor Williams that he doesn't know Voorman's crime, because of the computer system malfuction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads to the following dialog, closing this scene (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/screenwriting/voorman_shooting_script.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DOCTOR WILLIAMS&#xA;  But how will you know when to&#xA;  release the prisoners?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;BENTLEY is flummoxed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;GOVERNOR BENTLEY &quot;Release?&quot; &quot;The prisoners?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is the governor so perplexed by this question? It looks like the idea of releasing prisoners is completely strange to him. It's really in contrast with the rest of their conversation, that seems to be completely normal. Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-04-14T22:41:50.253" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T22:41:50.253" Title="Why is the governor perplexed after hearing the doctor's question about releasing prisoners?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-voorman-problem|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33283" CreationDate="2015-04-14T22:39:08.857" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my theory: You're right about the conversation being normal up to that point. But also notice that Doctor Williams' conversation with his wife is normal until he mentions Belgium. His wife is perplexed by the concept of Belgium &lt;em&gt;just like the governor is perplexed by the concept of releasing prisoners&lt;/em&gt;, which makes me think that &lt;strong&gt;Voorman did that too.&lt;/strong&gt; And Voorman supplies the reason:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I rather like prison. And prisoners are more fun than well-fed congregations. Yet you amuse me more than most, Doctor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voorman, a bored God, wanted to remain in prison, so he probably wiped out all the prisoners' records &lt;em&gt;himself&lt;/em&gt; and then &lt;strong&gt;erased the concept of releasing them&lt;/strong&gt;, to boot. But since Williams amuses him more now, he chooses to get out of there and assume his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-04-14T22:39:08.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33287" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-14T23:21:50.103" Score="3" ViewCount="338" Body="&lt;p&gt;I occasionally run across a phrase containing the words 'mad impetuous boy' in a number of movies.  Probably most famous is a Pete Lorre lookalike in a Loony Tunes cartoon being slapped by Daffy Duck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's such a specific phrase, I wonder if there's an origin, and due to the nature of Loony Tunes cartoons being full of references to the culture of the time, I suspect the origin is not the Loony Tunes cartoon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I googled it for some time without getting anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20486" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-04-19T09:45:00.083" LastActivityDate="2017-01-30T22:05:29.920" Title="Origin of the quote &quot;mad impetuous boy&quot;" Tags="|dialogue|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33287" CreationDate="2015-04-15T00:07:51.523" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tried tracking the dialogue but could not find any origin story in english literature. Curiously enough this dialog was first used in the movie &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Born Free&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, released in the year 1966.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You mad, impetuous boy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.subzin.com/quotes/M4847a56b/Born+Free/You+mad%2C+impetuous+boy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.subzin.com/quotes/M4847a56b/Born+Free/You+mad%2C+impetuous+boy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20356" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T00:07:51.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14524" CreationDate="2015-04-15T00:44:04.633" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;...one thing that everyone missed here is that Beth said that her door didn't lock properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Catherine could have snuck in to her place, planted all the evidence and then set Beth up by sending her to the fake address. Catherine was pinning everything on to Beth to gain revenge on her for what had happened in high school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She could have easily set up all the materials required as she was a writer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which ever way you look at it, Douglas was 50 when he did this. Far too old for both of them even at the time ;D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20490" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T00:44:04.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33296" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33298" CreationDate="2015-04-15T05:56:42.550" Score="6" ViewCount="11312" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember pretty well that I have seen a movie like this on television. American, extremely well produced. Should be between 2005 and 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A woman, hot and confident, tries to take revenge on a gang who killed her parents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember too much information. The woman knew how to use many types of weapons and seemed supernaturally strong in the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember that she had anyone fighting with her against the gang.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the villain had sharks in his home (put in some aquarium outside). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somewhere in the movie I remember when the girl got sad about her parents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ending (99% sure):&lt;/strong&gt; The director makes you think that the villain escaped in a car, then it turns out the woman had kept her violent dog in his car so that he would rip him up and kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11099" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T06:10:01.217" LastActivityDate="2017-02-21T04:52:02.880" Title="Movie about a girl taking revenge for the death of her parents" Tags="|identify-this-movie|action|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:42:40.520" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33296" CreationDate="2015-04-15T06:06:02.700" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am fairly certain that the movie you're referring to is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombiana&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;wiki link&quot;&gt;Columbiana&lt;/a&gt;. The actress is Zoe Saldana.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From wiki:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After saying their goodbyes, Fabio and his wife Alicia (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) leave to battle Marco and his men but both of them are gunned down as Cataleya listens from the kitchen. Marco tries to manipulate her into giving the information. When he asks what she wants, she stabs him in the hand with a kitchen knife, saying &quot;To kill Don Luis&quot;, and escapes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fifteen years later, a 24-year-old Cataleya (Zoe Saldana) has become an accomplished assassin. Her uncle serves as her broker, providing her with contracts. She is assigned to kill the notorious gangster&#xA;  Genarro Rizzo (Affif Ben Badra), who is currently in police custody.&#xA;  Implementing an elaborate plan, she gets herself arrested while&#xA;  dressed in a disguise. She manages to escape from her cell with tools&#xA;  she hid in her disguise, travel through the ventilation system,&#xA;  successfully kill Rizzo, and return to her cell. The next morning she&#xA;  is released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Later] Cataleya responds [to Luis] that he is exactly where she wants him to be. Unknowingly, Pepe's two attack dogs are right behind Luis' seat and they violently maul Luis to death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trailer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/HCxPLlFWdFo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shark scene:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/qhqfHHjy_Sk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ending dog scene:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/YjQSdWuO1nc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20078" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T14:38:57.730" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T14:38:57.730" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18580" CreationDate="2015-04-15T07:45:03.243" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;the doctor checked him for Sexually-transmitted diseases and general health; while a sperm count could conceivably be performed, there is little need and quite the unbelief factor that the dude would have accepted that as a normal exam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20499" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T07:45:03.243" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33056" CreationDate="2015-04-15T08:47:29.130" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it is plothole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To open a Bank account you would need to provide certain details with which the identity of the person who is opening the account can be determined.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now imagine if you are a bad guy would you prefer to give out your account number to a government personal, with which you could be traced.  You will also expose all the other accounts with which you might have done transactions, exposing the other parties, and also lose your credibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it would be better to have the money in cash and then deposited into the bank account, with a proper legal explanation in the organization account books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vesper was working along with the bad guys because they had kidnapped her boyfriend and holding him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Wikipedia&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bond rejoins MI6 and learns that Vesper had a French-Algerian boyfriend who was kidnapped by the organisation behind Le Chiffre and Mr. White to blackmail her into co-operation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once she finds out that she was used, she goes back and informs the superiors about it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or MI6 could get the information from the bank and proceed on investigation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, for Mr.White it would be safe if they could get it from her as cash directly instead of giving her an account number to transfer to.  All trails of the money would end with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20500" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T08:47:29.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32950" CreationDate="2015-04-15T11:43:11.250" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The DVD order of the episodes differs markedly from the airing order, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://thetvdb.com/index.php?tab=season&amp;amp;seriesid=82339&amp;amp;seasonid=33295&amp;amp;lid=7&amp;amp;order=dvd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TheTVDB&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DVD 01/TV 01 The Nigerian Job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DVD 02/TV 02 The Homecoming Job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DVD 03/TV 07 The Wedding Job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DVD 04/TV 09 The Snow Job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DVD 05/TV 08 The Mile High Job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DVD 06/TV 04 The Miracle Job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DVD 07/TV 03 The Two-Horse Job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DVD 08/TV 05 The Bank Shot Job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DVD 09/TV 06 The Stork Job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DVD 10/TV 11 The Juror #6 Job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DVD 11/TV 10 The 12-Step Job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DVD 12/TV 12 The First David Job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;DVD 13/TV 13 The Second David Job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why the ordering differs: Wikipedia includes &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_Leverage_episodes#Out_of_order_Episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;some discussion&lt;/a&gt; on the matter (some of which appears to be very far out of date), which in turn links to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2009/02/leverage-second-david-job.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post by John Rogers (co-creator)&lt;/a&gt; stating that it was a decision by the network to create a certain progression of tone among the episodes of the first season. Which sounds rather vague, but I wouldn't be surprised if there is no further information available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That same blog post identifies the DVD order I've given above as the intended order of the episodes. As far as I know, that order avoids any obvious continuity problems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1099" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T11:43:11.250" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33307" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33312" CreationDate="2015-04-15T11:51:10.473" Score="23" ViewCount="192726" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was quite baffled after watching &lt;em&gt;Pitch Perfect&lt;/em&gt; because the songs were really enticing. Moreover, I felt that the songs in the movie were much better than the original songs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did the actors really sing in the movie?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20394" LastEditorUserId="20394" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T12:19:32.277" LastActivityDate="2016-08-08T07:24:19.047" Title="Did the actors sing for Pitch Perfect?" Tags="|soundtrack|pitch-perfect|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21289" CreationDate="2015-04-15T12:06:06.010" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is because the show wants to depict that Emily is no less than the white haired man; a.k.a. Gordon murphy; as she almost wins her fight with him (and is about to kill him) but she decides to honor her father's memory by sparing him (setting him free). Please refer to the flashback scenes shown in which Emily (when she was a little girl) sets a bird free from the cage when she is with her father. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20504" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T12:18:05.590" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T12:18:05.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32010" CreationDate="2015-04-15T12:36:26.683" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because his father taught him not to involve in any (true loving) relationship in their line of work.&#xA;Nicky knew they both fell truly for each other, so he decide to leave her for the sake of both of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end scene, his father can be seen saying these things, and because of that mistake (losing focus) he took all his earned/stolen money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20507" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T12:36:26.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33307" CreationDate="2015-04-15T13:15:43.967" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the cast did in fact sing all of the songs in the movie. Some are even professional a capella singers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.peopleschoice.com/2014/11/26/pitch-perfect-surprising-movie-facts/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;People's Choice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Everyone in the films who plays a singing part had to sing a full song&#xA;  for their audition.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Any time protagonist Beca, played by Anna Kendrick, was singing alone, she was singing live on set.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Kelley Jackle, Adam DeVine’s (aka Bumper) girlfriend, plays Barden Bella Jessica in the film (rivalry!) and is actually a professional a capella singer in real life.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/09/pitch-perfect-soundtrack_n_1952044.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Huffington Post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Adam DeVine [who plays TheTreblemakers' lead singer] is a great&#xA;  singer. Lots of confidence. In fact, he's probably as good as a lot of&#xA;  other singers we work with. He was really prepared, he knew all his&#xA;  lines, he knew the song really well and he knew what he could do with&#xA;  his voice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gannonknight.com/?p=5058&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Ganon Knight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kendrick’s voice range is definitely lower than a lot of the other girls, so it helps to harmonize as several of the girls in the a cappella group have noticeably higher voices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wilson also had a really good voice and did a profoundly good job when it came to exemplifying her character while singing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Snow shines in her solos at the beginning of the movie where people get to hear her high-range voice&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20078" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-07-28T12:33:48.443" LastActivityDate="2016-07-28T12:33:48.443" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33313" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33327" CreationDate="2015-04-15T18:02:55.843" Score="8" ViewCount="3141" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, this is a long shot considering that I don't remember very much at all about this movie. I watched it with my parents like 10 years ago but I've always wondered what movie it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only remember a small part of and the details are somewhat fuzzy but it's about a man who can't die. Full on immortality, doesn't age and can't get hurt (I think) but I have no idea if his immortality is explained. He saves a young girl and takes care of her, and then I think they get romatically invloled when she gets older (maybe they're even married). Eventually she grows old and she's lying on her (death?)bed, and they talk about his immortality and how he's watched many loved ones grow old and die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that's about all I can remember. I'm sure it was in English. I'd guess it was made somewhere inbetween 1980 and 1999. Also I'm pretty sure it doesn't take place in present day, at least not when any of this happens. Again, I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After some research I thought it might have been Highlander because the summary on wikipedia states that the character saves a young girl but The rest of the summary didn't seem to fit. I haven't watched it though, so I don't know for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any help appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20513" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T09:23:50.337" LastActivityDate="2017-07-20T20:53:02.223" Title="Old movie about an immortal man who saves a young girl" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:42:49.950" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33314" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33315" CreationDate="2015-04-15T18:03:34.790" Score="3" ViewCount="596" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was John C. McGinley recreating the voice of someone in particular as the baseball announcer in &quot;42&quot;? I've heard that kind of voice before, but I don't remember where.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/YbhM6MmtQro?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T18:15:56.897" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T18:15:56.897" Title="Announcer's Voice in &quot;42&quot;" Tags="|character|42|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33314" CreationDate="2015-04-15T18:13:34.873" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barber&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Walter &quot;Red&quot; Barber&lt;/a&gt; was the announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers when Jackie Robinson played.  And yes, McGinley is immitating Barber.  You can tell because he uses a few phrases during the course of the movie that are directly attributed to Barber, such as &quot;Can of corn&quot; and &quot;Sittin' in the catbird seat&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T18:13:34.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31878" CreationDate="2015-04-15T18:19:09.673" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that other commenters are correct in that killing Rachel would prove Doug's commitment to &quot;doing whatever it takes&quot; to please Frank, especially in light of the fact that he had talked to Heather Dunbar about Claire's journal, something that he could have been permanently ousted for. Doug is an extremely obsessive man: he is obsessive about working for Frank, he is obsessive about alcohol, and he was obsessive about Rachel. I think he realized he would never get over this woman, and that he could never have her. Witness his pathetic attempt to destroy his computer so he wouldn't keep watching the video, or checking emails. Rachel was a key link to the Russo murder, but Frank had become president without her information becoming a threat. My guess is the murder was an attempt to win over Frank and an attempt to end a painful obsession&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Rachel was important because she was the closest thing to an innocent person in the entire story. It always broke my heart that she would buy little houseplants to decorate whatever grimy apartment she had been forced in to. It seemed like a tiny glimmer of hope hadn't been destroyed in her. She just wanted to get away and have a dog, quiet and trees. She's another fatality wrung up by the Underwoods (in their very sterile interiors) in their quest for power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20514" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T18:19:09.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30188" CreationDate="2015-04-15T19:22:08.573" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously, it's easier for the character (Jane) to overlook the scars (especially if John chose to hide them) than it is for the filmmakers. What's more difficult to explain is the fact that, when she became John, Jane presumably didn't notice she now looked like her lost lover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first, I too thought it was intentionally ignored to keep the plot simple (I would still not rush into calling it a flaw). But would it have been &lt;em&gt;so&lt;/em&gt; difficult to devise some way to make John even more discreet, to partially obscure his face?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie has two main points: identity and predestination. There are two moments in which John accepts the irony of fate (i.e., predestination) — the ultimate irony: that of becoming what he hated most. The last one was when he became his own archenemy, the Fizzle Bomber. And the first one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You got it. She &lt;em&gt;accepted&lt;/em&gt; to become he.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19217" LastEditorUserId="19217" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T19:53:39.890" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T19:53:39.890" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12267" CreationDate="2015-04-15T19:29:34.617" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The prior answers are good, but I wanted to point out a couple of other things.&#xA;First, as one of the answers noted, the &quot;grill&quot; was not a trophy sought by Hank, but rather something that was given to him by his colleagues.   Second, it seemed to me that Tuco was actually killed by the gunshot Tuco suffered during the strugggle with Jesse, fired by Jesse from Tuco's own gun before Hank arrived on the scene.  Although Tuco was still alive during the gunfight with Hank, it was not clear that Hank even hit Tuco and Hank likely would have died had Tuco not been shot prior to Hank showing up.  I think Hank felt that the trophy was not deserved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20516" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-15T19:31:56.453" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T19:31:56.453" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31878" CreationDate="2015-04-15T19:42:19.067" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had two thoughts about this. One being that Doug killed Rachel because when he was with her he felt that same obsession reignited. When she talked about wanting to move away and be invisible it was quite apparent that Doug would never be factored into that equation. If he couldn't have her he didn't want anyone else to. Secondly, when he was driving off it was as if a switch flipped. When the doctor discussed his traumatic brain injury to his frontal lobe in the beginning of season 3 she mentioned he would have poor impulse control and could be prone to violent outbursts. The other possibility is that it was due to the head injury. His emotions shifted so quickly from releasing her from her restraints, packing water for her walk, and directing her to the closest town to running her over like road kill and burying her in a ditch in the middle of nowhere.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20517" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T19:42:19.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32803" CreationDate="2015-04-15T19:49:37.687" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the time, Walt wanted Jesse to drop charges against Hank, after Skyler had asked him to spare the family the pain of the pending charges.  Initially, Jesse refuses the offer to join the &quot;partnership&quot;, but moments later, Jesse calls Walt from his hospital bed agreeing to join the partnership.   Also remember that during the time that Walt was excluding Jesse from his job with Gus, Jesse threatened to continue his production, even though he knew the DEA was aware of his connections to the meth.  He said that he had a &quot;get out of jail free card&quot;, which he explained meant that he could always implicate Walt to get a deal in the event he was caught.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20516" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T19:49:37.687" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33323" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-15T20:01:44.187" Score="24" ViewCount="6957" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just finished rewatching Lost and as everyone well knows it was confusing to say the least. The ending seems to lean more towards a religious explanation of &quot;preparing to move on to the afterlife&quot;, but the entire show seems to be written dualistically in a scientific/religious perspective (particularly halfway through when we're given both explanations for events that occurred at that time).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This brings me to my question: taking the ending into account, &lt;strong&gt;how did the DHARMA Initiative fit into the Lost universe?&lt;/strong&gt; I know that their alleged goal was solving the Valenzetti Equation and thus they were trying to find a way to avoid what seemed like an inevitable global apocalypse (mankind destroying itself). For most of the show we learn more about their work and it seems to tie in to the character's situation, until towards the end the show suddenly veered away from the DHARMA to the whole Man in Black trying to escape the Island plot. The DHARMA's role in the plot was quickly shoved under the carpet, with a mini-episode after the finale showing that Ben was closing down the initiative's operations off the island.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20519" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T08:01:48.363" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T09:24:01.380" Title="How did the DHARMA Initiative fit into Lost's story?" Tags="|analysis|lost|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33313" CreationDate="2015-04-15T21:30:59.177" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sure sounds like Highlander.  Is this it?  &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/gNKZATZHWZI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20350" LastActivityDate="2015-04-15T21:30:59.177" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9681" CreationDate="2015-04-16T02:45:52.760" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Home_(1944_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Going Home&lt;/a&gt; from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Snafu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Private Snafu&lt;/a&gt; series, completed by mid 1944, features a weapon which obliterated a Japanese island.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie was not released. The actual rationale is not known for sure, but the similarity between the fictional weapon and nuclear weapons is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Home_(1944_film)#Release&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;listed&lt;/a&gt; as a possible reason that the movie wasn't released, and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/7YAnoT9Wqpo?t=3m49s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;postscript&lt;/a&gt; added to the movie gives that as the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although made in May, this never saw release. It was shelved because&#xA;  of the portrayal of a super-bomb in it. It was thought to be too close&#xA;  a hint at the top secret atom bomb we were developing at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1312" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T02:45:52.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33331" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-16T04:47:09.397" Score="5" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I keep having flickering memories of this movie or TV show from my childhood. Circa early 1990s I'm thinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's one scene in particular that I remember, where a man is being questioned by what I remember to be a man in a suit.  I believe he is undergoing some sort of psychological testing.  The man in the suit asks the other person a question, and keeps telling the person being questioned &quot;don't think, act&quot;. And as he is doing this, he is leaning forward with his elbows on his desk twirling/moving a pen around in front of his face with both of his hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The man being questioned appears to have a vision or a flashback to a gloved hand over a hole, dropping what appears to be some sort of grenade into it.  The flashback view is a first person view from someone in a hole/underground tunnel, looking upward at the hole and the hand dropping the bomb/grenade.  That's all I remember!  If you know what movie this might be, let me know!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20525" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-05-16T09:46:44.977" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T10:22:43.627" Title="Movie\show with futuristic soldiers and a flashback scene" Tags="|identify-this-movie|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:42:59.757" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1420" CreationDate="2015-04-16T06:22:42.610" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Was there ever any clarification on the point of this shot from someone involved with the movie (as opposed to pure guessing in Wikipedia)? Was Samedi merely not killed by snakes, or were the creators intentionally showing him to be immortal/supernatural?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could ask Roger Moore he's got a website where you can ask him questions.  Tom Mankiewicz, Cubby Broccoli and Geoffrey Holder are no longer with us having been taken by Baron Samedi... as has Ian Fleming&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My own interpretation is that Geoffrey Holder is playing two characters.  Early in the film he is playing a person playing Samedi for the tourists and Kananga.  We see him in at least one scene playing a flute of some kind not in the costume of Samedi telling Bond and Solitaire it is a &quot;beautiful morning&quot; in the graveyard so it is strongly implied that there is a real person ...who may be strongly under the influc.  I take it that this real person is killed in the coffin of snakes but, of course, Samedi himself cannot die as he is an immortal so appears again at the end of the film.  I guess it is allegorical.  At this point Holder is playing Samedi himself not the man Bond killed.  No one knows for sure that's part of the fun but we can read something into Fleming's title Live and Let Die.  It is of course a play on Live and Let Live but it also has a secondary meaning here as Samedi's role in vodou is as Loa of Ressurection.  It is he who decides who lives and dies and only the Baron can decide who moves from the world of the living into the world of the dead.  Unlike the grim reaper who is ...well grim ... Samedi enjoys all human vices and chaos so he is laughing at the chaos he has created.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book Kananga (a satire on Papa Doc Duvalier) surrounds himself with the paraphernalia of Vodou and Samedi to intimidate people as it's difficult to explain this on film someone obviously hit upon the clever conceit of having a person playing someone playing Samedi so there is a play within a play ...if you follow that.  Or something ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20528" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T06:22:42.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17721" CreationDate="2015-04-16T06:36:14.310" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's just a well made puppet. I believe the black and white helped it to look realistic. Latex covered in slime would be harder to pinpoint in black and white than it would be in color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20529" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T06:36:14.310" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33331" CreationDate="2015-04-16T07:21:25.657" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're looking for an episode of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space:_Above_and_Beyond&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Space: Above and Beyond&lt;/a&gt;, a short-lived FOX show from the 90s about futuristic soldiers in space. In episode 13:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After experiencing an anomalous precognition which saved the lives of the 58th, Damphousse is investigated by a colonel in charge of the Psi Corps. The colonel is convinced that she possesses psychic powers and deduces that only true mortal danger activates Damphousse's precognition. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The vision Damphousse has involves a gloved hand tossing a grenade down a tunnel. The colonel who talks to her later &lt;a href=&quot;http://static.cinemagia.ro/img/db/actor/00/01/54/richard-kind-722177l.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(Richard Kind)&lt;/a&gt; explains that time is a circle by twirling a pen in front of her face with both hands. He then tests her precognitive abilities with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zener_cards&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;flashcards&lt;/a&gt; while continually saying to her &quot;Don't think, act!&quot; The episode is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8sOqZSDkVo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;available on Youtube&lt;/a&gt; (the pen bit starts around 15:30).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-05-16T09:44:53.847" LastActivityDate="2015-05-16T09:44:53.847" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33338" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33943" CreationDate="2015-04-16T12:26:30.663" Score="17" ViewCount="467" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stephen Chbosky wrote &lt;em&gt;The Perks of Being a Wallflower&lt;/em&gt; and also directed the movie adaptation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has this been done before?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastEditorUserId="386" LastEditDate="2015-05-04T10:55:44.157" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T11:00:51.167" Title="When was the first time an author directed the adaptation of their own book?" Tags="|first-appearance|book-adaptation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33267" CreationDate="2015-04-16T12:52:02.077" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, since it seems no one else wants to touch this one, I'll take it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She is wiping up the semen.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After sex, semen doesn't stay inside a woman very well. Especially when she's standing, as gravity pulls it down. To prevent semen from dribbling down her leg and staining her pants (or skirt; I don't remember), she wipes it up, much like she would wipe after urinating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T12:52:02.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16603" CreationDate="2015-04-16T15:29:57.953" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;A likely candidate for a non-pornographic movie is &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_(film)&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ecstasy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a Czech movie from 1933. Hedy Lamarr (yes, &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr&quot;&gt;Hedy Lamarr&lt;/a&gt;, an inventor of frequency hopping and spread spectrum for secret radio communication during World War II) is shown nude, a sex scene and an orgasm are depicted but only her face is shown during this scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie was released in the U.S. in 1940.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T15:29:57.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33345" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-16T17:23:19.740" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first installment in the Harry Potter film series, based on the novel of the same name, starring Daniel Radcliff as the titular character alongside Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This movie is also known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, in some regions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_(film_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Main Wikipedia Article for the Harry Potter franchise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Philosopher%27s_Stone_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T17:46:30.207" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T17:46:30.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33346" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-16T17:23:19.740" Score="0" Body="Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first installment in the Harry Potter film series, based on the novel of the same name, starring Daniel Radcliff as the titular character alongside Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger.&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;This movie is also known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, in some regions." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T17:47:11.073" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T17:47:11.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33347" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-16T17:23:52.420" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second installment in the Harry Potter film series, based on the novel of the same name, starring Daniel Radcliffe as the titular character alongside Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_(film_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Main Wikipedia Article for the Harry Potter franchise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Chamber_of_Secrets_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T00:55:00.690" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T00:55:00.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33348" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-16T17:23:52.420" Score="0" Body="Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second installment in the Harry Potter film series, based on the novel of the same name, starring Daniel Radcliffe as the titular character alongside Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T00:55:55.900" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T00:55:55.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33349" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-16T17:27:41.940" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is the sixth installment in the Harry Potter film series, based on the novel of the same name, starring Daniel Radcliffe as the titular character alongside Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_(film_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Main Wikipedia Article for the Harry Potter franchise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Half-Blood_Prince_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T18:24:07.170" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T18:24:07.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33350" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-16T17:27:41.940" Score="0" Body="Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is the sixth installment in the Harry Potter film series, based on the novel of the same name, starring Daniel Radcliffe as the titular character alongside Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T18:24:21.347" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T18:24:21.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33351" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-16T17:28:34.427" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1&lt;/em&gt; is the seventh installment in the Harry Potter film series, starring Daniel Radcliff as the titular character alongside Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_(film_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Main Wikipedia Article for the Harry Potter franchise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows_%E2%80%93_Part_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (part 1)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T05:16:00.200" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T05:16:00.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33352" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-16T17:28:34.427" Score="0" Body="Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 is the seventh installment in the Harry Potter film series, starring Daniel Radcliff as the titular character alongside Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T05:16:05.230" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T05:16:05.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33353" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-16T17:30:48.323" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2&lt;/em&gt; is the eighth and final installment in the Harry Potter film series, starring Daniel Radcliff as the titular character alongside Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_(film_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Main Wikipedia Article for the Harry Potter franchise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows_%E2%80%93_Part_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (part 2)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T03:42:49.850" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T03:42:49.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33354" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-16T17:30:48.323" Score="0" Body="Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is the eighth and final installment in the Harry Potter film series, starring Daniel Radcliff as the titular character alongside Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T03:42:31.287" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T03:42:31.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33356" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-16T17:49:59.317" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi is a 1983 American epic space opera film. Of the six main Star Wars films, it was the third to be released and the sixth in terms of internal chronology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Main Star Wars article on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Jedi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi article on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086190/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi page on IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T18:59:43.170" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T18:59:43.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33357" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-16T17:49:59.317" Score="0" Body="Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi is a 1983 American epic space opera film. Of the six main Star Wars films, it was the third to be released and the sixth in terms of internal chronology." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T19:00:22.010" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T19:00:22.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33358" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-16T17:53:08.290" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones is a 2002 American epic space opera film. Of the six main Star Wars films, it was the fifth to be released and the second in terms of internal chronology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Main Star Wars article on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_II:_Attack_of_the_Clones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones article on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121765/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones page on IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T18:58:23.457" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T18:58:23.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33359" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-16T17:53:08.290" Score="0" Body="Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones is a 2002 American epic space opera film. Of the six main Star Wars films, it was the fifth to be released and the second in terms of internal chronology." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-16T19:00:35.083" LastActivityDate="2015-04-16T19:00:35.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33360" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-16T17:54:15.973" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Star Wars: Episode IV (originally known as just Star Wars) is the 1977 American epic space opera film. Of the six main Star Wars films, it was the first to be released and the fourth in terms of internal chronology. Star Wars: Episode IV did not have a specific title attached, unlike the other episodes in the series, but was later named &quot;A New Hope&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Main Star Wars article on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Wars: Episode IV article on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Wars: Episode IV page on IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T14:08:46.173" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T14:08:46.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33361" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-16T17:54:15.973" Score="0" Body="Star Wars: Episode IV (originally known as just Star Wars) is the 1977 American epic space opera film. Of the six main Star Wars films, it was the first to be released and the fourth in terms of internal chronology. Star Wars: Episode IV did not have a specific title attached, unlike the other episodes in the series, but was later named &quot;A New Hope&quot;." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T14:08:40.307" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T14:08:40.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4216" CreationDate="2015-04-16T19:15:56.487" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is one of the few movies that actually identifies a time travel reality.  You cannot change events in your own timeline (baring parallel universes). One should look up the John Titor hoax for a good explanation of that type of time travel. Please stay with me on this, I'm veering from the movie so I can explain why I think Gilliam did what he did, then I'll get back to the movie: Personally I think Titor's explanation of time travel to alternate universes leaves too many holes.  Sure, if you travel to a parallel universe you can make all the changes that you want, but if there is one of you time traveling and you make a paradoxical error (i.e. kill your own father before you're conceived) then surely there are others of you making this same error in other dimensions.  In fact, the number of alternate you's could be as countless as the grains of sand on a beach.  Just because there are parallel dimensions does not negate the shear truth of paradox because if you make this mistake they are also very likely making this same mistake, too much of a chance for a crossover.  My thought is that if you did go back in time and you tried to kill your grandfather, well you obviously didn't succeed so your gun must have jammed.  Intend all you want, you will not succeed because you cannot change events that have passed.  Now, back to the movie- (hopefully you can see how that connects, because no matter what James does he cannot change anything).  One thing that doesn't make sense with the explanations given in this forum is in the very end where the astrophysicist states &quot;I'm in insurance.&quot;  One person stated (as the reason why they wanted James dead) &quot;and they could not allow [James] to disturb the past any further.&quot;  I don't think you can change anything in the timeline and leaving him in the past wouldn't affect anything, so that explanation has a hole in my opinion (unless the scientists do actually believe you can make changes).  It seems to me that she was there to be insurance in case James failed, therefore I don't think they planned on exploiting James into doing something to kill himself.  Consider this, perhaps the movie acknowledges that you cannot change time, but the scientists in the movie may be under different assumptions, therefore they give James the gun to try to change history.  At the same time other people have made a good point, this was an ancient gun so why would they give him that particular gun if they wanted him to succeed?  Also, the mission is to get the virus, not to stop the virus, so when she states she is in insurance my gut tells me she had no plans on killing him or stopping the spread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, I come back to the gun, why the gun?  So, ultimately here is my answer to the OP's question: This whole issue seems to be paradoxical in nature and maybe paradox in the plot is the point.  This is from the same guy who brought you Brazil and The Zero Theorem, and he likes to be vague, as well as make the point you cannot really make changes (haven't seen Zero, but consider in Brazil the whole escape is a dream and the system remains intact).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20543" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T00:45:24.583" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T00:45:24.583" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33367" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-17T00:01:03.430" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dr No is a 1962 British spy film starring Sean Connery as James Bond. It is the first James Bond film and it is adapted from Ian Fleming's 1958 novel of the same name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/james-bond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'james-bond'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;james-bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(literary_character)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for James Bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia list of James Bond movies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._No_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Dr No&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055928/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Dr No&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T03:23:13.220" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T03:23:13.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33368" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-17T00:01:03.430" Score="0" Body="A 1962 British spy film starring Sean Connery as James Bond. It is the first James Bond film and it is adapted from Ian Fleming's 1958 novel of the same name. " OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T01:15:15.503" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T01:15:15.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33369" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-17T00:01:41.153" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thunderball is a 1965 British spy film starring Sean Connery as James Bond. It is the fourth James Bond film and it is adapted from Ian Fleming's novel of the same name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/james-bond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'james-bond'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;james-bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(literary_character)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for James Bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia list of James Bond movies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderball_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Thunderball&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059800/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Thunderball&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T03:23:10.493" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T03:23:10.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33370" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-17T00:01:41.153" Score="0" Body="A 1965 British spy film starring Sean Connery as James Bond. It is the fourth James Bond film and it is adapted from Ian Fleming's novel of the same name. " OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T01:24:27.080" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T01:24:27.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33371" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-17T00:05:59.807" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You Only Live Twice is a 1967 British spy film starring Sean Connery as James Bond. It is the fifth James Bond film and it is loosely based on Ian Fleming's novel of the same name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/james-bond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'james-bond'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;james-bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(literary_character)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for James Bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia list of James Bond movies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Your Only Live Twice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062512/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Your Only Live Twice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T03:24:31.303" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T03:24:31.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33372" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-17T00:05:59.807" Score="0" Body="A 1967 British spy film starring Sean Connery as James Bond. It is the fifth James Bond film and it is loosely based on Ian Fleming's novel of the same name." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T01:17:36.103" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T01:17:36.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33373" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-17T00:06:31.987" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Live and Let Die is a 1973 British spy film. It is the eighth James Bond film and it is the first film to star Roger Moore as James Bond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/james-bond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'james-bond'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;james-bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(literary_character)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for James Bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia list of James Bond movies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_and_Let_Die_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Live and Let Die&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070328/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Live and Let Die&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T01:22:57.680" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T01:22:57.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33374" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-17T00:06:31.987" Score="0" Body="A 1973 British spy film. It is the eighth James Bond film and it is the first film to star Roger Moore as James Bond." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T03:25:27.263" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T03:25:27.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33375" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-17T00:07:15.137" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Man With The Golden Gun is a 1974 British spy film. It is the ninth James Bond film and it is the second film to star Roger Moore as James Bond. It is an adaption of Ian Fleming's novel of the same name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/james-bond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'james-bond'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;james-bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(literary_character)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for James Bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia list of James Bond movies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_with_the_Golden_Gun_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for The Man With The Golden Gun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071807/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for The Man With The Golden Gun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T03:22:59.143" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T03:22:59.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33376" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-17T00:07:15.137" Score="0" Body="A 1974 British spy film. It is the ninth James Bond film and it is the second film to star Roger Moore as James Bond. It is an adaption of Ian Fleming's novel of the same name." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T01:21:55.923" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T01:21:55.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33377" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-17T00:07:49.027" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Moonraker is a 1979 British spy film. It is the eleventh James Bond film and it is the fourth film to star Roger Moore as James Bond. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/james-bond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'james-bond'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;james-bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(literary_character)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for James Bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia list of James Bond movies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonraker_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Moonraker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079574/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Moonraker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T03:25:24.587" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T03:25:24.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33378" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-17T00:07:49.027" Score="0" Body="A 1979 British spy film. It is the eleventh James Bond film and it is the fourth film to star Roger Moore as James Bond. " OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T03:23:04.500" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T03:23:04.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33379" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-17T00:08:30.197" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Octopussy is a 1983 British spy film. It is the thirteenth James Bond film and it is the sixth film to star Roger Moore as James Bond. The title is taken from a collection of short stories written by Ian Fleming called Octopussy and The Living Daylights - the plot of the movie is original but does include a portion inspired by the short story &quot;The Property of a Lady&quot; from this collection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Franchise Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/james-bond&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'james-bond'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;james-bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(literary_character)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for James Bond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia list of James Bond movies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopussy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Octopussy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079574/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Octopussy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T03:24:48.120" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T03:24:48.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33380" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-17T00:08:30.197" Score="0" Body="A 1983 British spy film. It is the thirteenth James Bond film and it is the sixth film to star Roger Moore as James Bond." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T03:24:40.233" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T03:24:40.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33381" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-17T00:26:10.337" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T00:26:10.337" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T00:26:10.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33382" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-17T00:26:10.337" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T00:26:10.337" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T00:26:10.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33383" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-17T00:29:18.767" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agent Carter, also known as Marvel's Agent Carter, is an American television series created for ABC and based upon the Marvel Comics character of the same name while also sharing continuity with the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel-cinematic-universe'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Carter_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Agent Carter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3475734/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Agent Carter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T01:22:43.600" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T01:22:43.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33384" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-17T00:29:18.767" Score="0" Body="An American television series created for ABC and based upon the Marvel Comics character of the same name while also sharing continuity with the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. " OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T01:18:09.963" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T01:18:09.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33386" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-17T05:34:04.673" Score="4" ViewCount="365" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first episode of the great but short-lived NBC TV series &quot;The Event&quot;, Sean Walker is shown getting on a plane that is being flown to Coral Gables, Florida to assassinate the President. The plane is being piloted by Sean's girlfriend's father Michael Buchanan, who is being forced to participate in this assassination attempt because his family is being held hostage. Sean is shown trying to get into the cockpit and stop Michael from crashing the plane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my question is, why did Sean get onto the plane? As far as I can tell, chronologically the last time we saw Sean before thist was in a flashback where he had found out that his girlfriend Leila Buchanan was missing in her hotel room. He asked the front desk where she was, and the hotel had no record of Sean or Leila, the cruise they were traveling on had no record of them either, and Leila's phone number had been disconnected. Hotel security tried to apprehend him, because they thought he had snuck onto the cruise or something, but he ran away before they could catch him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what happened between that scene and him being on the plane? They say (in a later episode) that he used a false ID as a flight crewman or something to get on the plane, but what was his motivation for doing this, how did he know the flight was being used for an assassination attempt, and how did he know that his girlfriend's father was piloting it? How did he go from looking for his girlfriend to trying to save his girlfriend's father and/or prevent presidential assassinations? And then afterwards, of course, he goes back to looking for his girlfriend, so the whole going on the plane part seems out of place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone shed light on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7827" LastEditorUserId="7827" LastEditDate="2016-08-16T21:37:32.483" LastActivityDate="2016-09-28T19:47:16.793" Title="Why did Sean get onto the plane in the Event?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-event|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33387" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-17T07:16:49.913" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron is a 2015 American superhero movie based upon the Marvel Comics super hero team of the same name. Starring Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Don Cheadle, Elizabeth Olson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård, and Samuel L. Jackson. The movie shares continuity with the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel-cinematic-universe'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Ultron&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the comic series, Age of Ultron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2395427/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T08:39:52.213" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:39:52.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33388" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-17T07:16:49.913" Score="0" Body="A 2015 American superhero movie based upon the Marvel Comics super hero team of the same name. &#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;Starring Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Don Cheadle, Elizabeth Olson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård, and Samuel L. Jackson. " OwnerUserId="13594" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T08:39:38.103" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:39:38.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33389" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-17T07:46:30.767" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adventure Time is an American animated television series created for Cartoon Network. The series follows the two main characters, Finn and Jake as they live in the post-apocalyptic world Land of Ooo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/adventuretime/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Official website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1305826/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T23:08:58.383" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T23:08:58.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33390" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-17T07:46:30.767" Score="0" Body="An American animated television series created for Cartoon Network. The series follows the two main characters, Finn and Jake as they live in the post-apocalyptic world Land of Ooo." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T23:09:01.300" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T23:09:01.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32639" CreationDate="2015-04-17T07:46:31.960" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First thing, In Gotham, they have made characters different from the other incarnations. Most of the characters look like in a gray era, they didn't choose any side yet. Like Nygma, Cat etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This Alfred also looks like in a grey era, he is a good guy with some darkness inside too, which might appear in future episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; We also got to know a glimpse of his past in S01E17 &quot;Red Hood&quot;. And he clearly tells Payne to not teach his fighting technique to Bruce which is not disciplined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alfred's nature towards Bruce has been changing from day one, he was firstly too protective of him. And now he seems to lighten up a bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; In, &quot;Beasts of Prey&quot;, He is also seen mis-directing Bruce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He doesn't want him to direct into darkness but also wants to teach him disciplined defense. Gotham is a dark city, so a rich orphan without self defense is like a free roaming cash bank. So Alfred agreed to teach him, but the incident you mentioned where he helped Bruce in revenge might look contradicting. But it's like he used this instance to redirect Bruce into self defense. Bruce's parents were valuable for Alfred and he also doesn't liked that boy's comment, so he just did what he likes. And it also gives him an opportunity to save Bruce's feeling of sorrow. Bruce is already feeling helpless because of his parents' death and now he can't even teach a lesson to a school kid who abused his mother. So by helping Bruce Alfred also gave confidence to Bruce. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other theory I can think of could sound bit crazy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alfred is Bruce's father:&lt;/strong&gt; This is one of famous &lt;a href=&quot;http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/12/12/wait-alfred-is-secretly-bruce-wayne-s-what-2502876?lt_source=external,manual&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fan fiction theory&lt;/a&gt; which never got love in the Batman trilogy but Gotham can use it in their story-line. This would also give Alfred's response an appropriate reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T09:45:25.840" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T09:45:25.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33392" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-17T07:49:20.033" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fast &amp;amp; Furious (not to be confused with The Fast and The Furious) is a 2009 American action movie starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. It is the fourth movie in the franchise and the third movie chronologically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other movies in the franchise&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-fast-and-the-furious&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'the-fast-and-the-furious'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-fast-and-the-furious&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/2-fast-2-furious&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged '2-fast-2-furious'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;2-fast-2-furious&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/tokyo-drift&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'tokyo-drift'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tokyo-drift&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/fast-and-furious&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'fast-and-furious'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fast-and-furious&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/fast-five&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'fast-five'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fast-five&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/fast-and-furious-6&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'fast-and-furious-6'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;fast-and-furious-6&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/furious-7&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'furious-7'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;furious-7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_%26_Furious_(2009_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Fast &amp;amp; Furious&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013752/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Fast &amp;amp; Furious&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T07:57:08.457" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T07:57:08.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33393" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-17T07:49:20.033" Score="0" Body="A 2009 American action movie starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. It is the fourth movie in the franchise and the third movie chronologically. Not to be confused with The Fast and The Furious, use the [the-fast-and-the-furious] tag instead." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2019-12-30T23:57:59.777" LastActivityDate="2019-12-30T23:57:59.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33394" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-17T07:50:41.510" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Lego Movie (stylized as The LEGO Movie) is a 2014 computer animated comedy based on the LEGO line of toys. The Lego movie stars the voices of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrel, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Charlie Day, Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lego_Movie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1490017/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T08:39:55.810" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:39:55.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33395" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-17T07:50:41.510" Score="0" Body="A 2014 computer animated comedy based on the LEGO line of toys. The Lego movie stars the voices of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrel, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Charlie Day, Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T08:36:54.140" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:36:54.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33396" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-17T07:58:05.643" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Daredevil is an American television series created for Netflix and based upon the Marvel Comics character of the same name while also sharing continuity with the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged 'marvel-cinematic-universe'&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daredevil_(Marvel_Comics)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the Marvel Comics character, Daredevil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daredevil_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the TV series, Daredevil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322312/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for TV series, Daredevil&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T08:37:03.777" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:37:03.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33397" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-17T07:58:05.643" Score="0" Body="An American television series created for Netflix and based upon the Marvel Comics character of the same name while also sharing continuity with the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T08:29:16.733" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:29:16.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33398" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-17T07:59:04.590" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;American Psycho is a 2000 American psychological thriller based on Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel of the same name. It features Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Chloë Sevigny, Samantha Mathis, Cara Seymour, Justin Theroux, and Reese Witherspoon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psycho_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T08:28:13.187" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:28:13.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33399" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-17T07:59:04.590" Score="0" Body="A 2000 American psychological thriller based on Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel of the same name. It features Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Chloë Sevigny, Samantha Mathis, Cara Seymour, Justin Theroux, and Reese Witherspoon." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T08:39:30.883" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:39:30.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33400" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-17T07:59:43.160" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Mentalist is an American police procedural TV series which aired between September 2008 and February 2015, airing a total of 151 episodes over seven seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mentalist&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1196946/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T08:39:42.620" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:39:42.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33401" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-17T07:59:43.160" Score="0" Body="An American police procedural TV series which aired between September 2008 and February 2015, airing a total of 151 episodes over seven seasons." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T08:57:48.277" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T08:57:48.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18797" CreationDate="2015-04-17T08:07:51.013" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my hypothesis, they most likely work for the show and the characters in the suits/costumes are Chris Hardwick, Tom Lennon, and someone else who cannot / won't be [seen] in the audience. The show is required to pay any member of the audience a minimum fee for appearing in front of the camera, (viewers of the old Craig Ferguson should have seen him employ this trick too). Rather than pay a new audience I suppose it was decided it would be a nice gift / reoccurring bonus for their staff given the show is aired to often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no proof, just sneaking suspicion, but would love anyone to poke holes in this as well. If as I thought, this would be just another example of how rules can be bent and perhaps broken in this case. By simply interpreting the law / union rules in your favor, Silly lawyer trick to defraud the network using pre-established SAG / equivalent guidelines. [OR] Magnanimous Robin Hood giving back to those that need it the most (the workers rather than the network; proletariat v bourgeoisie). Guess it's a matter of your perspective. The more you know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20550" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T14:08:45.937" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T14:08:45.937" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24346" CreationDate="2015-04-17T09:41:18.340" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The collect didnt make them wait because he was away, clearly he is at nowhere before hand as he tells his assistant to work harder on cleaning as they have guests coming (not the exact quote). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The collect had them waiting simply because thats part of who he is In my opinion. It wasn't a negotiation tactic like starlord suggests. I suspect anyone who tries to deal with the collector ends up waiting more often then not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why hasn't thanos gone after the others? Well, he may simple be following a plan. He isn't taking those stones yet because its not the right time yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20551" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T13:44:35.547" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T13:44:35.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33404" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46288" CreationDate="2015-04-17T09:56:11.487" Score="3" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the opening of Revolver, Jake Green (Jason Statham) enters Dorothy Macker's (Ray Liotta) casino. After proceeding up the elevator, he enters the high rollers' private room and makes two wagers, losing the first and winning the second, much larger, wager, made against Macker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jake says &quot;I'll toss you for it&quot;, declares a color (red the first time, purple the second), then flips one of the casino's chips to determine the outcome. What exactly are they betting on? Are the chip faces different colors? It didn't appear so to me, but they aren't exactly central in any of the shots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, is this a reference to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Packer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kerry Packer&lt;/a&gt;? There's a parallel story about him, and &quot;Kerry Packer&quot; is quite similar to &quot;Dorothy Macker&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20552" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T01:53:42.173" Title="What's the &quot;toss you for it&quot; wager Jake Green makes in the casino?" Tags="|revolver|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33407" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33409" CreationDate="2015-04-17T11:01:47.367" Score="17" ViewCount="370936" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Prisoners&lt;/em&gt;, Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) gets caught by Ms. Jones and he gets placed in her dungeon beneath the car in her backyard. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end though, when Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) hears the faint whistling sounded by Keller, does he realise it's him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final scene ends when Loki hears the whistling, looks in the vague direction and the credits roll. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did Loki find and rescue Keller at the end?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&#xA;It seems like we're supposed to read into it that Keller &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; saved, but I'm not too sure. &#xA;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastActivityDate="2017-06-07T07:31:08.093" Title="Did Keller get found in the end?" Tags="|prisoners|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33408" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33425" CreationDate="2015-04-17T11:16:13.473" Score="6" ViewCount="3348" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't watch a lot of courtroom dramas so maybe this episode expected me to understand something I just didn't but I didn't quite understand what happened with the courtroom verdict.  They were defending this guy and it seemed like they were doing quite well.  I especially like the pretty on-the-nose comment about their defendant facing judgement outside the courtroom.  It was all played up like they were going to win a not guilty verdict for their client.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't get what Fisk's goal was then.  We see the man in glasses have a very vague conversation with the mob boss about taking care of Healy without leaving another body.  We see him recover the gun Healy tried to use in the bowling alley and know he did something to keep the killed mob guy's people quiet.  He also blackmails two of the jurors and at the end of the episode we cut from a hung jury to Healy free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I really just don't understand what happened.  Was the man in glasses/Fisk doing all this because otherwise Matt and Foggy would have lost the case?  The episode seemed to be playing it up like they were doing well and it would be nice to see them as competent lawyers.  And even if all that was the case and I just missed it, how do you go from a hung jury to Healy being free in the next shot?  Isn't there just a retrial and that guy would still be in jail until an actual verdict was found?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18004" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T07:27:16.337" LastActivityDate="2017-01-09T12:09:41.353" Title="In Daredevil S01E03, What happened in court?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|daredevil-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33407" CreationDate="2015-04-17T11:27:39.900" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;It cannot be determined, but the chances of Keller being found by Loki is high based on Loki's expression after listening to the faint whistle sound twice and also we were shown in the movie that Detective Loki is good with details and connecting dots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/the-prisoners-spoilers-on-the-ending#.obo55E17wp&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview with screenwriter Aaron Guzikowski&lt;/a&gt; it is explained that an ending where Keller is found by Loki was actually filmed, but was deliberately decided against in favour of a more ambiguous ending:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On the decision to end the movie with a cliffhanger:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Oddly enough,&#xA;that’s how it was in the script when it was bought. And it never&#xA;really changed. When we were shooting, we did shoot a version where it&#xA;goes a little beyond where the fade out is. There’s a version where he&#xA;moves the car and sees Hugh down there, and so on. None of us really&#xA;wanted to do that version, but we wanted to make sure we had it in&#xA;case once the film was put together it seemed like it really needed&#xA;it. But after testing the film with the ending it has now, everyone&#xA;decided that was definitely the way to go. Joel Cox, the editor, felt&#xA;very strongly about it. I just think that’s the moment when the movie&#xA;is ready to end.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And the ending that was shot but didn’t get used was…&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“They move the&#xA;car. They see he’s down there. You know he’s going to be taken out of&#xA;the hole. I like it much better being ambiguous. Even though you&#xA;assume that’s what’s probably going to happen, I like that there’s a&#xA;small chance that he’s not going to get him out of there for whatever&#xA;reason.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But Detective Loki is so tenacious during the movie. Is there a&#xA;scenario where he’d actually walk away?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“No, I think there’s a small&#xA;percent chance that for some strange reason he might decide not to get&#xA;the guy up. In my mind he would: Those two guys have a strange&#xA;connection that they form over the course of the movie. That seems to&#xA;be the logical next step for Jake’s character at that moment.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On why the studio was (atypically) fine with an oblique ending: “&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was very surprised that we were allowed to keep that ending. I was&#xA;surprised I was able to get the movie made, actually. It’s a pretty&#xA;dark script. Especially ending the way it does. It’s definitely a&#xA;testament to Alcon, the producers on the movie, sticking by the script&#xA;and not wanting to make it into something it wasn’t.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In a fantasy world where we saw what happened to Keller after he’s out&#xA;of the hole, things would not have gone well for him:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I think, unfortunately, he would go to prison. The final irony — his father was&#xA;a prison guard, and the whole movie is metaphors of people’s internal&#xA;prisons, external prisons. I believe that’s what would end up&#xA;happening to him: that he would go to prison for some time.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T16:26:00.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33407" CreationDate="2015-04-17T12:07:28.097" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The faint whistling was actually supposed to make it &lt;em&gt;harder&lt;/em&gt; to decide either way. The movie ending without it would have suggested they never found him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean it the movie way, not the common sense way. Otherwise I agree with chaitanya89 (see the first answer). There is some chance for him to be found. Loki is a tenacious detective indeed. However, I think that answers another question: &quot;Are there reasons to hope they found him?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ending is intentionally left ambiguous, fitting a morally ambiguous character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19217" LastEditorUserId="19217" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T16:56:10.417" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T16:56:10.417" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33415" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33428" CreationDate="2015-04-17T13:35:59.407" Score="7" ViewCount="364" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Person of Interest&lt;/em&gt; Episode E01E05, Reese and Finch did observe judge Sam Gates at the beginning. However, the Person of Interest was his son, whose name is the same. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How could that happen?&lt;/strong&gt; As we know, the machine only gives a social security number and they should be different even if people have the same name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T19:02:17.150" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T20:16:11.280" Title="Why was there a POI mismatch in Episode S01E05?" Tags="|plot-explanation|person-of-interest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="946" CreationDate="2015-04-17T13:53:07.053" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think plain and simple it's a &quot;fourth-wall&quot; thing. He was waiting for the dialogue card to roll in when the policeman started talking to him, as was the premise of the movie. When this didn't happen he was confused, it felt as if he was ostracised not only from the hollywoodland world, but from this same &quot;The Artist&quot; picture altogether. Thus he decided it was time to call it quits. It's a meta-thing. To me, the &quot;accent&quot; explanation is contrived and the repeat of the &quot;disorienting live sound&quot; explanation doesn't make sense as a vehicle at that point, it's regressive. So the key to interpret the scene is the absence of dialogue-cue cards. Notice how he takes his eyes away from the policeman and where the director or crew of the film is supposed to be, almost desperately waiting and ponderding as to why they are taunting him with not doing their job and not providing cards. He's like &quot;oh, now you wanna make THIS movie a talking one, screw you then, I'm out of here&quot;. The resolution of the film then comes, not only in terms of the story, but very much so from this movie remaining a silent one after the averted suicide (notice the BANG card, there weren't any &quot;sound-descriptive cards&quot; up to then, also the making-up scene is eeriely silent despite the windy conditions, barking, shouting, crying, laughing, etc.). Then comes the accent thing, as a twister on that. But only as a twister. If the accent thing was all that important, the big producers would never ask of George to transition in the first place. To suggest it as a main premise of the film and not a twister, to me, it's &quot;thinking-too-hard&quot; and also a bit racist as well. Accent wouldn't have been a thing if he wanted to transition. In the end, the artist compromises with another form of pure &quot;art&quot;, the dance. And then it's &quot;let there be sound&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An excellent movie with a transcending view of the all important concept of &quot;silence&quot; in the mind of the artist and the intellectual as a stark contrast  and duality with &quot;expression&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20557" LastEditorUserId="20557" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T14:52:27.260" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T14:52:27.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33418" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33421" CreationDate="2015-04-17T13:58:17.360" Score="9" ViewCount="12158" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Stannis arrived at the wall in episode S04E10 of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; he had about 10,000 soldiers with him, I am wiling to give him a freedom of doubt and grant him 10,000 more for the argument sake. Mance Rayder in the previous episodes was rumored to be having an army of 100,000 soldiers which is still 5 times more than my exaggerated count and 10 times more than the actual count but when Stannis arrived they dismantled them very quickly leading to Mance Rayder surrendering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know Stannis is a ruthless battle general but still that army of 100,000 shouldn't have given up that easily or Is there something else I am failing to account for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T14:10:45.487" LastActivityDate="2018-01-28T15:02:27.383" Title="How did Stannis neutralize the overwhelming superior head count of Mance Rayder's army?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33418" CreationDate="2015-04-17T14:16:57.793" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stannis' army was made up of professional soldiers (including mercenaries and knights), while the free folk are notorious for their disorganization. On top of that, Mance Rayders army was attacking a force of 700 or so men and was completely caught by surprise when Stannis and his army hit their flank. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20458" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T14:16:57.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33418" CreationDate="2015-04-17T14:18:46.603" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are much more things to consider here apart from just head count. First of all, as you already identified, Stannis is an excellent general which might give him a little strategic advantage. While Mance Rayder might also not be that unexperienced, the wildling army always seemed to me to be more of a motley crew specialized in brute force, mere quantity, and guerilla tactics, while Stannis' army is probably better trained and equipped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another factor is, that Stannis clearly has the surprise on his side, while the wilding army already fought a hard attack up until then, which would likely already have worn them down quite a bit, both in number &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; fighting moral.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;This is all more of a speculative answer based on common-sense rather than actual hard canon sources, but I guess we might not get much more for this question.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T14:24:18.440" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T14:24:18.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33418" CreationDate="2015-04-17T15:01:30.423" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can think of at least three reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Superior training and equipment of Stannis' army – We must remember that, despite the wildings' apparent ferocity, they are still just civilians with no formal military training, makeshift weapons, and no armor to speak of.  Certainly they would have no experience repelling heavy cavalry assaults, and it's not surprising how easily they are cut down.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stannis' attack is unexpected – Mance was not expecting such a large and organized attack while negotiating the surrender of Castle Black's forces. It's not surprising that this surprise attack would throw the wilding camp into disarray and result in the widlings either fleeing or surrendering.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The wildings are not united and have no central leadership besides Mance –&#xA;It is repeatedly suggested that Mance Rayder is the only reason the wildlings are able to stay united.  Seeing as he left himself largely exposed, it's no wonder that Stannis managed to capture him, at which point we would expect the wildling forces to retreat, disband, or surrender.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20239" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T15:01:30.423" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33424" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33466" CreationDate="2015-04-17T16:32:08.723" Score="8" ViewCount="678" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out this gif of the BB-8 robot rolling through desert:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3KeGx.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See how its head is wobbling a lot? Now see this footage of BB-8 on stage of The Force Awakens celebration panel in Anaheim (seen from 0:30):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/A_K10fX9DSY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this the same exact robot that was used in the movie? I'm asking because I'm interested in the technology and how the robot is holding its head on the spherical body differently in the gif and the video. Perhaps they're different models, but maybe they're not, since the one on stage doesn't move as fast as the one in gif.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5788" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T16:37:14.703" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T18:28:13.840" Title="Is the BB-8 robot in the new Star Wars movie and in this presentation the same exact robot?" Tags="|star-wars|props|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33408" CreationDate="2015-04-17T16:35:18.343" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;A hung jury results in a mistrial, and may lead to the defendant being retried under some circumstances.  However, in the event of a hung jury, the odds of a retrial are relatively low, due to the possibility of running afoul of double jeopardy clauses.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://criminal.lawyers.com/criminal-law-basics/criminal-law-trials-motion-for-mistrial.html&quot;&gt;SOURCE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why Fisk still blackmailed the jurors, in spite of how well Murdock and Nelson appeared to be doing, I think that's a simple matter of leaving nothing to chance.  They won't risk losing a valuable asset like Healey based on the whims of twelve civilians.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16207" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T16:35:18.343" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33415" CreationDate="2015-04-17T18:48:39.253" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The machine didn't get it wrong&lt;/strong&gt;. The POI &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; the judge. Reese does &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; it was wrong at first:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reese: Finch, what's the son's name again?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Finch: Samuel Gates Junior. Why?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Reese: I think we've been following the wrong Sam Gates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reese says it because the son is then kidnapped. But the machine identified Sam the father because &lt;strong&gt;he's the victim of a bigger conspiracy&lt;/strong&gt; involving a crime gang and money laundering. This is also explained in the episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Finch: &lt;strong&gt;The machine identifies malice and an intent to harm. We need to determine which threat it saw, which one is real.&lt;/strong&gt; [...] The machine did not send us the wrong number. If it says that judge Gates is in danger, then he is. [...] The kidnapping must connect. It could be the first step in a larger plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And he's right. The son's kidnapping is supposed to sway the judge to rig a trial, so he's a potential victim of extortion and eventually murder, as Finch states near the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Finch: The machine sent us his number because they were planning to kill him all along. Him and his son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T20:16:11.280" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T20:16:11.280" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17412" CreationDate="2015-04-17T19:53:16.260" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, Chuck is was and is God. This was explicitly confirmed in Season 11 Episode 20 &quot;Don't Call me Shurey&quot;. He simply chose to hide in plain sight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11511" LastEditorUserId="11511" LastEditDate="2016-05-05T18:40:18.480" LastActivityDate="2016-05-05T18:40:18.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33432" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-17T20:50:07.387" Score="14" ViewCount="1370" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering by seeing the richness of episodes in Game of Thrones. What is the average making cost of a single Game of Thrones episode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20563" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-04-17T21:12:00.027" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T21:12:00.027" Title="What is the cost of making Game of Thrones each episode?" Tags="|production|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33432" CreationDate="2015-04-17T20:57:27.847" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2015/apr/15/periscope-tv-piracy-game-of-thrones&quot;&gt;very recent (2 days old) Guardian article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Game of Thrones costs HBO something in the region of &lt;strong&gt;$6m an episode&lt;/strong&gt; to produce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And plenty of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eonline.com/news/318306/holy-flaming-warships-how-expensive-is-game-of-thrones-anyway&quot;&gt;sources&lt;/a&gt; confirm it. A &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.yahoo.com/tv/bp/burning-question--how-does--game-of-thrones--thrive-despite-high-per-episode-costs-234743521.html&quot;&gt;Yahoo TV article&lt;/a&gt; adds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;some episodes of &quot;Game of Thrones&quot; actually have cracked that obscene average budget of $6 million per. That Battle of Blackwater episode? Where the Imp leaked a ship's worth of highly flammable Mountain Dew into the harbor and blew up half of Stannis's army? That cost a reported $8 million. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pilot was also extravagant, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ibtimes.com/game-thrones-big-budgets-bring-huge-success-how-hbo-series-makes-money-high-cost-episode-1658966&quot;&gt;costing more than $10m&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T20:57:27.847" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33434" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33435" CreationDate="2015-04-17T22:27:26.347" Score="9" ViewCount="8550" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Rock_%28season_4%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Season 4&lt;/a&gt; Episode 7 of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_Rock&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;30 Rock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, various cast members walk in front of a HD camera which then shows alternate versions of each person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Baldwin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alec Baldwin&lt;/a&gt; it shows him much younger, and this looks like it was taken from an early film. Which film was it lifted from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0iN2W.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a YouTube clip. The scene is at 1 min 12 secs in. &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ME-qBQj57bI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastEditorUserId="8496" LastEditDate="2015-04-18T20:14:46.970" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T21:56:21.307" Title="From which film did they use this younger Alec Baldwin in 30 Rock?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|30-rock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:43:09.133" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33434" CreationDate="2015-04-17T23:12:11.587" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMDb's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1528320/movieconnections&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;movie connections page&lt;/a&gt; for the episode states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Features:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099810/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hunt for Red October (1990)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  A shot of young Alec Baldwin is shown on the HD Camera monitor&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a frame from the movie with Baldwin in a similar suit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5IAFL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-04-17T23:12:11.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10231" CreationDate="2015-04-18T01:17:41.657" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's simple. He accomplished all but if he isn't happy then he isn't enjoying the show. It's what she says with the song no matter what problems you encounter in this life, just enjoy the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20569" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-04-18T15:48:39.177" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T15:48:39.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33338" CreationDate="2015-04-18T02:12:56.100" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dalton Trumbo, &lt;em&gt;Johnny Got His Gun&lt;/em&gt; (novel: 1938, film: 1971). Elia Kazan also directed the movie version (1969) of his novel &lt;em&gt;The Arrangement&lt;/em&gt; (1967).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20372" LastEditorUserId="386" LastEditDate="2015-05-04T10:50:44.690" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T10:50:44.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33440" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33446" CreationDate="2015-04-18T04:24:27.523" Score="4" ViewCount="8538" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt00002322441/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fifty Shades of Grey&lt;/em&gt; (2015)&lt;/a&gt;, I didn't understand why Anastasia left Grey in the end. She is asking him to show her how bad he wants to &quot;punish&quot; her, so he shows her. After that she is crying and says &quot;don't touch me&quot; and then leaves. At first Grey said it would be carnal pleasures (Dom-Sub). Why does she leave? Is it because she was hurt or some other reason? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18957" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-11-27T16:13:11.387" LastActivityDate="2019-11-27T16:13:11.387" Title="Why did Anastasia make that choice in the end?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fifty-shades-of-grey|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33441" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-18T05:41:12.687" Score="8" ViewCount="37707" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series Fargo, Malvo poses the question why people see more shades of green than any other colour and you'll know who I am.&#xA;During the last episode Gus is waiting to kill him and says &quot;I solved it&quot;.&#xA;How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20573" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-31T14:11:40.677" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T04:42:19.280" Title="How did Gus solve Malvo's riddle?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fargo-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33441" CreationDate="2015-04-18T06:44:43.863" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Malvo first posed this riddle to Gus in episode 4, and later in that episode Molly gave Gus a clue ... she talked about how predators created a need in the prey to differentiate between shades of green so that the prey could protect themselves. So, when Gus hearkens back to this riddle in the finale, he's essentially telling Malvo he's figured out what sort of predatory nature Malvo has, and, in effect, realized that he must either kill the predator or fall prey to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Noah Hawley explained it in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.yahoo.com/tv/bp/fargo-finale-callbacks-232811663.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an interview with Yahoo TV&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastEditorUserId="44439" LastEditDate="2017-05-15T04:42:19.280" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T04:42:19.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33444" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33450" CreationDate="2015-04-18T08:41:43.173" Score="2" ViewCount="5680" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), they never explained why the capital bombed them originally. Why did the capital bomb district 13 before the movie started?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I was always told there was nothing left of 13.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The capital bombed the surface to rubble, but we're military so we learned to survive down here.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7018" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T04:44:02.313" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T04:45:08.360" Title="Why did the Capitol bomb District 13?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-mockingjay-1|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33440" CreationDate="2015-04-18T08:51:12.383" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about the movie, but in the book, &quot;Fifty Shades of Grey&quot;, she leaves because she finally realizes how &quot;incompatible&quot; she is with him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20575" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T08:51:12.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33440" CreationDate="2015-04-18T08:52:40.503" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;My interpretation is pretty simple. At the end, Anastasia is no longer consenting, and the scene becomes more of a rape than anything else. Katherine O'Clare, of Crushable, wrote: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Christian Grey is an abuser. He is emotionally unavailable, emotionally abusive, and sexually exploitative. His complete disregard for his partner’s comfort, experience, and emotional well being are contemptible: he gets his pleasure at the expense of his partner ...&#xA;  All sexual relationships, whether vanilla or kinky, require consent. There is no such thing as having sex that is not based in consent. The only thing that happens without it is rape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is what happens in the last scene. This movie really isn't about BDSM, which require trust and respect, and not an informal business contract. These tears clearly show she does not want to be there anymore, and the fact she leaves shows that beyond her love for him, she knows she has been a victim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20565" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-11-27T16:13:00.153" LastActivityDate="2019-11-27T16:13:00.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33447" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33465" CreationDate="2015-04-18T09:07:14.770" Score="5" ViewCount="10398" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Wikipedia article says that the spoken languages are Aramaic and Latin. Are these roughly 50/50, or does one predominate? I could watch this and try to determine it for myself, but I'm not confident that I can even tell the difference between the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I know of the story itself hints that Latin is probably only spoken by Pontus Pilate, and maybe the Roman soldiers at the end of the film. But given that it seems Gibson took some artistic liberties with it, this might not be the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastActivityDate="2019-03-21T16:46:11.200" Title="What is the primary spoken language in Passion of the Christ?" Tags="|dialogue|the-passion-of-the-christ|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33444" CreationDate="2015-04-18T11:14:47.740" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was destroyed during the First Rebellion when the united districts of Panem rebelled against the Capitol's oppressive rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Near the end of the war, District 13 trained nuclear missiles on the&#xA;  Capitol, hoping to destroy the Capitol even if the result was mutually&#xA;  assured destruction. However, District 13 set up a secret deal with&#xA;  the Capitol - they would withdraw their forces from the war and&#xA;  present the illusion that Capitol bombers equipped with Toxic bombs&#xA;  destroyed District 13. 13 withdrew and rebuilt their district&#xA;  underground. The Capitol's bombers then destroyed the district on the&#xA;  surface. Without 13's aid, the remaining rebel forces were put down by&#xA;  the Capitol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Hunger Games commemorate the Capitol's victory in this war and serve to remind the citizens of Panem of the futility of rebellion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Days&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Days&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20239" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T04:45:08.360" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T04:45:08.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33455" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33458" CreationDate="2015-04-18T15:13:33.330" Score="14" ViewCount="2839" Body="&lt;p&gt;Teaser trailer is out for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwfUnkBfdZ4&quot;&gt;Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this trailer we see that Ben Affleck looks old. His hair is gray from the side. Batman and Superman were created/introduced nearly at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman#Publication&quot;&gt;Superman:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Superman's first appearance was in Action Comics #1, published by&#xA;  National Allied Publications, a corporate predecessor of DC Comics, on&#xA;  April 18, 1938 (cover-dated June 1938).[26] In 1939, a self-titled&#xA;  series was launched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/news/1725027/batman-75th-anniversary-birthday-date/&quot;&gt;Batman:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Based on historical data from the Registrar of Copyrights, DC&#xA;  Entertainment recognizes that the world’s most popular Super Hero —&#xA;  Batman — was first introduced to the public 75 years ago on March 30,&#xA;  1939, in Detective Comics #27.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both are very close. But I assume Superman has special powers so he aged slowly. Thus they've aged differently. But when this story is based from the point of Batman, what age of Batman are they showing? Which comic are they following? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone refer me a timeline of this story from the point of Batman to understand his aging?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T12:57:15.663" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T12:57:15.663" Title="Why does Ben Affleck / Bruce Wayne look old?" Tags="|character|comic-adaptation|batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31176" CreationDate="2015-04-18T15:35:33.490" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;phones are dead&quot; trope is still very much a part of story telling but usually appears only in some area effect context (usually with explosions and someone looking constipated or throwing an oh-mah-gawd-we're-in-the-sticks eye roll). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume you are not referring to that general case but asking how one party could prevent another adversary from making a phone call in the modern age, and there are two ways: take the device or take the connection. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your bad guys could &quot;cut the phone line&quot; by either taking out the local cell phone towers or deploying a jamming device (or both).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cell phone jammers are obtainable/manufacturable but have been illegal in the US since the beginnings of the technology so there aren't a lot of Action McNews stories about them, which is where writers absorb ideas from. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that's why jammers are not more common in stories. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1634" LastEditorUserId="1634" LastEditDate="2015-04-18T15:41:25.553" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T15:41:25.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33455" CreationDate="2015-04-18T16:09:08.777" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Zack Snyder (the film director) has stated that Batman v Superman would take inspiration from the Frank Miller comic, The Dark Knight Returns.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The biggest deal was, Snyder brought out Man of Steel actor Harry&#xA;  Lennix (General Swanwick) to use his cool voice to read the following&#xA;  piece of dialogue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I want you to remember, Clark…in all the years to come…in your most private moments…I want you to remember…my hand…at your throat…I&#xA;  want…you to remember…the one man who beat you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yup. Batman's speech from The Dark Knight Returns. Snyder said the&#xA;  movie won't be an adaptation of this graphic novel... but it will be&#xA;  inspired by it. The crowd lost their shit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Returns&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight Returns&lt;/a&gt;, Bruce Wayne is 55 years old, while Superman / Clark Kent appears to be in his 30s. Batman's armor in the trailer when he's facing Superman is also similar to his armor in TDKR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the page in TDKR where the dialogue quoted above came from:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cpdzm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cpdzm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Zack Snyder also had this to say about Ben Affleck playing an older Batman compared to Superman &lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ben provides an interesting counter-balance to Henry’s Superman. He&#xA;  has the acting chops to create a layered portrayal of a man who is&#xA;  older and wiser than Clark Kent and bears the scars of a seasoned&#xA;  crime fighter, but retain the charm that the world sees in billionaire&#xA;  Bruce Wayne. I can’t wait to work with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/theyre-doing-a-superman-batman-movie-but-thats-not-851711013&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;They're doing a Superman/Batman movie... but that's not the big news | io9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/ben-affleck-batman-superman-casting-details-zack-snyder/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;‘Man of Steel 2′: Director &amp;amp; Producer Explain Ben Affleck Batman Casting | Screen Rant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2015-04-18T16:57:17.593" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T16:57:17.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33462" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33464" CreationDate="2015-04-18T17:25:36.427" Score="9" ViewCount="2553" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; we know that Jaime cannot marry, as Kingsguard members are supposed to not have family, as they took the oath to protect the king. I believe this oath is the same like the people at the Wall take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, we see Ser Loras Tyrell was supposed to get married to Sansa or Cersei, while he was Kingsguard for Renly and I believe he is Kingsguard for Joffrey and Tommen. Isn't he supposed to be bound with such an oath?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2018-10-06T13:56:16.733" LastActivityDate="2018-10-06T13:56:16.733" Title="How come Ser Loras is engaged to Cersei after being in the Kingsguard?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33462" CreationDate="2015-04-18T18:08:55.977" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unlike the books, Ser Loras is not part of King Joffrey's Kingsguard, and this status has not changed with the advent of King Tommen. He was indeed part of King Renly's Kingsguard, but with Renly's death, his vows were not renewed to Joffrey. This was a change in the story since in the TV universe he is the only Tyrell son, unlike the books where he was the third son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-06-02T08:28:20.703" LastActivityDate="2017-06-02T08:28:20.703" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33447" CreationDate="2015-04-18T20:22:13.050" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mostly Aramaic, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adeadlymisunderstanding.com/2010/06/the-linguistic-relationship-between-the-aramaic-of-jesus-and-the-arabic-of-the-qur%E2%80%99an/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;if this is to be believed&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When an Arabic speaking Muslim friend saw Mel Gibson’s movie Passion&#xA;  of the Christ with &lt;strong&gt;most of the dialogue in Aramaic&lt;/strong&gt;, he was very&#xA;  surprised that he did not need most of the subtitles in English to&#xA;  understand the movie!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://ntweblog.blogspot.com/2004/11/sbl-passion-of-christ-interview-fulco.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mark Goodacre's academic blog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;one of the ballrooms hosts an event entitled &quot;An Interview with the Writers of the Passion.&quot; The writers in question were Benedict Fitzgerald, co-screenwriter, and William J. Fulco, S.J., the film's theological consultant, who was responsible for the translations to &lt;strong&gt;Aramaic and Latin&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;David Shepherd did put the difficult questions, though, and in particular pressed Fulco on the issue of Greek. Why Latin and Aramaic? Why not Greek? Fulco explained that they had tried using Greek too, but that it did not work and they thought they would have lots of complaints about pronunciation. He said that the advantage of using Latin and Aramaic was the sound of these two languages -- &lt;strong&gt;they could have the actors speaking variously in Aramaic and Italianate Latin and then every viewer would be able to distinguish between who was talking in which language because of the basic sounds.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rense.com/general50/trans.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This article&lt;/a&gt; explains a reason for the language choice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The task of achieving linguistic authenticity fell to Rev. William&#xA;  Fulco, a Jesuit priest and professor of ancient Mediterranean studies&#xA;  at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Other linguistic tricks of Fulco's serve a function in the script.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  For example, he incorporated deliberate dialogue errors in the &lt;strong&gt;scenes&#xA;  where the Roman soldiers, speaking Aramaic, are shouting to Jewish&#xA;  crowds, who respond in Latin&lt;/strong&gt;. To illustrate the groups' inability to&#xA;  communicate with each other, each side speaks with incorrect&#xA;  pronunciations and word endings.   Later, &quot;&lt;strong&gt;there's an exchange where&#xA;  Pilate addresses Jesus in Aramaic, and Jesus answers in Latin.&lt;/strong&gt; It's&#xA;  kind of a nifty little symbolic thing: Jesus is going to beat him at&#xA;  his own game,&quot; Fulco said. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2019-03-21T16:46:11.200" LastActivityDate="2019-03-21T16:46:11.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33424" CreationDate="2015-04-18T21:27:33.607" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The robot in this particular trailer is likely a CGI model. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.yahoo.com/tech/how-does-the-awesome-star-wars-bb-8-droid-work-116671474164.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here is some speculation&lt;/a&gt;, and of all versions, the one with mostly empty head magneted to a rod inside the ball seems more or less plausible. But as you can see, the head jumps around a lot. Magnetic force weakens quickly with increasing distance between magneted surfaces, so when the head jumps around, it would likely lose almost all of the attraction and fall off. To keep it upright, we need more powerful magnets, but they'd likely just stick the head to a single point on the ball, moving together with it, and it would lose the ability to ride always-on-top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the version with a robotic head, balancing a kinematically unstable platform is a common problem in robotics. Is can be solved with dynamic stabilization algorithms - that is what allows &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DzkBnFPBV3f0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ATLAS&lt;/a&gt;, Rezero, Double and numerous other robotic platforms to keep it upright, together with arrays of sensors (gyroscopes+accelerometers) and actuators that are quick enough to respond to sudden disturbances of equilibrium. But still, a fast and bumpy ride like this is a tough challenge, so I highly doubt that it could be a physical robot. Also, does the FX team really need to invent such a highly advanced robot for only a few scenes (those fast-and-bumpy), especially considering the Lucasfilm' love for CGI in the recent SW movies? I doubt so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the robot in the celebration panel, as well as the prop used in less dynamic scenes, it could easily be one of the technologies mentioned above (again, most likely magnets, not a balancing platform).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible BB-8 mechanism taken from above link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.yahoo.com/tech/how-does-the-awesome-star-wars-bb-8-droid-work-116671474164.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iBJ42.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Possible BB-8 mechanism&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20373" LastEditorUserId="1799" LastEditDate="2015-12-30T18:28:13.840" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T18:28:13.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3399" CreationDate="2015-04-18T21:52:06.203" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of the worst things that can happen to a movie franchise, especially a really good one, is over-milking.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some directors in Hollywood care about story, not just money (shocking, I know).  Nolan is one of those directors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nolan had a complete storyline for it and had a set ending. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fun fact: Nolan actually had wanted to end it after Begins and leave it to someone else, but was called back to do the other two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20588" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-18T21:54:46.193" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T21:54:46.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2789" CreationDate="2015-04-18T22:07:05.233" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the First movie, Batman doesn't break his rule.  He explains: &quot;I won't kill you, but that doesn't mean I have to save you.&quot;  He didn't, technically, kill him.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The Dark Knight, however, is a different matter.  Yes, in this film, he does break his rule.  That's the thing about Dark Knight: It's about Batman &lt;em&gt;failing&lt;/em&gt;.  That's why The Dark Knight Rises is called what it is; because Rises is about the consequences of breaking that rule and his quest to rise above it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20588" LastActivityDate="2015-04-18T22:07:05.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33470" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-18T23:55:24.050" Score="1" ViewCount="315" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365485/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Matador&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, at the morning after his bar talk with Danny, we see Julian walk through the hotel lobby in swimming wear and boots and jump right into the pool with his beer can still in his hand. Then under the water he suddenly sees a friggin' shark swimming around. Now seeing that there was unlikely to be a real shark in the hotel pool, this might just have been a way to show his drunk mind. But this scene somehow seemed totally out of place (and immediately after that it cuts to Danny saying farewell to his business partner and being approached by Julian for an apology).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I wonder &lt;strong&gt;if there was anything more to this weird shark scene&lt;/strong&gt; and if it relates in any way to the rest of the story, Julian's character or the scenes immediately surrounding it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-04-19T00:12:31.597" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T00:12:31.597" Title="What's with the shark in the pool?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|the-matador|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33471" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-19T00:05:21.990" Score="6" ViewCount="179" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365485/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Matador&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Julian asks Danny for help with a last job he needs to do in order to be free and not get killed by his boss, to which Danny reluctantly agrees. But then after it's done he tells Danny that he didn't have a job and they actually just killed Julian's boss and he is safe now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I wonder why Julian didn't tell this to Danny right away. It seems Danny would have had less concerns with helping to kill Julian's assassin boss, who after all wanted to kill Julian, rather than some supposedly innocent business victim. &lt;strong&gt;What did Julian gain by this subterfuge?&lt;/strong&gt; Was there anything more to it apart from Julian being a nag (and a nice twist for the audience)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-04-19T10:53:19.490" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T06:53:29.653" Title="Why didn't Julian tell Danny the truth about his last job?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matador|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32653" CreationDate="2015-04-19T01:10:33.020" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is BASED ON the true story of Romans in China. That means it did not happened exactly the same way as in the film. The basic is the same: Romans in China. Another similarity was the Roman city founded in China. In the film its failed Regum,but in reality it is called Liquian. And Romans did battle Chinese. Those Romans were survivors of Carrhae. However,Chinese did not know Testudo fkrmation and in 36 BC,chinese saw testudo formation of the enemy army. It is clear that these soldiers were Romans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20589" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T01:10:33.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33473" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33476" CreationDate="2015-04-19T02:21:01.623" Score="4" ViewCount="5963" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an episode of &lt;em&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/em&gt; I saw years ago, I remember there being a secret room below the school, Lisa discovering it and some other things I cant remember. She - being Buddhist - did though mention as she was showing the room off to certain people, the name of the Tibetan Buddhist Devil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never thought there was one. Or if there was, was it Mara, or the world itself, which is Maya [yes?].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm no scholar. What was the name of that devil Lisa mentioned? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20590" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-04-19T11:12:45.417" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T11:12:59.750" Title="What does Lisa call the Tibetan Buddhist Devil's name in &quot;The Simpsons&quot;?" Tags="|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33474" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41331" CreationDate="2015-04-19T04:19:22.293" Score="9" ViewCount="2850" Body="&lt;p&gt;While watching the plot of Monkey Kingdom unfold, I became very curious about just how directed many of the scenes were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is perhaps a slightly broad question, but I think it's still a good one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much of this movie was just the natural behavior being observed in the wild, being explained for what it really was, and how much was &quot;man made&quot; or manipulated, or filmed in a way as to make things appear to follow the plot of the story rather than what naturally would be happening? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the invading monkey attack&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the killed monkey&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the civilization scenes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the animal population at the rock &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the baby monkey being stolen from his mother&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd just like to generally know how much of this film is authentically scripted by nature, and how much of it is forced or assisted by the film crew. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20578" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T12:49:37.257" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T12:49:37.257" Title="How &quot;directed&quot; were the activities filmed in Disney's Monkey Kingdom?" Tags="|film-techniques|realism|monkey-kingdom|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33473" CreationDate="2015-04-19T07:17:55.113" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're referring to the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_Keys&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;500 Keys&lt;/a&gt; from season 22, where Lisa says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Get thee behind me, Namuche! That's the Buddhist Satan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Namuci&lt;/strong&gt; (sometimes transliterated as Namuche) does seem to be another name for Mara. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakshasa&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the Maha Samaya Sutta, the defeated antagonist of the Buddha, &lt;strong&gt;Mara also known as Namuci or the &quot;Dark One&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; is described as a corrupted Asura whose army consisted of &quot;Sensual passions, Discontent, Hunger and Thirst, Craving, Sloth and Drowsiness, Terror, Uncertainty, Hypocrisy and Stubbornness, Gains, Offerings, Fame and Status wrongly gained, and whoever would praise self and disparage others&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is verified by many other sources. From the online &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chinabuddhismencyclopedia.com/en/index.php/Mara&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chinese Buddhism Encyclopedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mara&lt;/strong&gt;: In theistic religions the Devil, sometimes also known as Satan or Beelzebub, is a being completely opposed to God and to goodness. [...] Mara is sometimes also called Kaõha, the Dark One (Majjhima Nikaya 1. 377), or &lt;strong&gt;Namuci&lt;/strong&gt; (Digha Nikaya 2. 259). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-04-19T11:12:59.750" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T11:12:59.750" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33478" CreationDate="2015-04-19T08:37:27.297" Score="8" ViewCount="868" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Game of Thrones, bastards of highborns, like kings or lords are given bastard names like Snow in the North, and Sand in Dorne. So these names are given due to the region they are born in or the area the father belonged to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose if some Stark or Bolton had a bastard with some Dorne lady and that boy was raised in Dorne, what will be his last name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2015-04-19T09:20:59.330" LastActivityDate="2019-04-17T07:09:32.367" Title="Do bastard names depend on the birth location, or the place where the father of the bastard belongs?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33477" CreationDate="2015-04-19T09:13:49.123" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably he (or she) is named after the place they are first raised in. Case in point: Jon Snow. Jon was not born in the North, but (if a popular theory is to be believed) in Dorne. Yet he is given the Northern name for Bastards. Also, a father's lineage is not taken into consideration. Case in point: King Robert's bastards. Only one of them holds the Stormlands bastard name: Edric Storm who was raised in Storm's End. On the other hand we have Mya Stone who is widely known to be Robert's bastard, but is given the name of the Vale bastards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2015-04-19T09:28:59.963" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T09:28:59.963" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33479" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33498" CreationDate="2015-04-19T10:24:25.193" Score="10" ViewCount="2135" Body="&lt;p&gt;So in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; I know that The Mountain is older than The Hound; but as everyone knows, the Mountain is a knight. Many would say that the hound is also a knight but this isn't technically true (as he was never knighted, and famously doesn't accept the title &quot;Ser&quot;). Also, as far as I can tell the Clegane brothers have no cousins. I know a member of house Clegane sat on Tywin's war council at Harrenhal but I'm pretty sure he's dead. So is the Hound the Lord of House Clegane or am I wrong about General Clegane being dead? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T02:38:59.487" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T03:10:46.097" Title="Is the Hound a lord?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33484" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33488" CreationDate="2015-04-19T15:53:39.017" Score="5" ViewCount="587" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen this movie three or four years ago, it was indeed catchy and entertaining; and it got stuck in my memory. The very well american produced movie should be released between 2004 and 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember that the movie started with a girl doing her job as cashier (or waitress). She seemed very proud of herself that she is pictured at the beginning of the movie recalculating the bill of a person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later the villain takes out a gun (and changes the mark of bar's as &quot;closed&quot; on the door) to prevent new customers from coming. The villain threatened the people. I don't remember what was the purpose, but I think he wanted to meet someone in the bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a lot of shooting in the movie, it was bloody, and I remember that a lot of people got killed; there were one couple hugging each other and scared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was bizarre about the movie, is that no cops came, and all the movie happens inside in the shop (yes, there are no scenes outside the shop).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11099" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T17:09:48.690" Title="Movie about a criminal inside a bar" Tags="|identify-this-movie|thriller|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:43:18.577" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31922" CreationDate="2015-04-19T16:02:31.847" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now first and foremost, the &lt;em&gt;Tales of the Black Freighter&lt;/em&gt; were actually part of the comic source material. So including them in the movie adapation is a &lt;strong&gt;natural consequence for a movie production that strived to provide a very accurate reproduction of its source material&lt;/strong&gt; (but ultimately had to cut such on first sight rather marginal things for a reasonable general theatrical release length). Another consequence of this is, that we can actually take a look at the source material to understand its signficance for the overall story. This is also what I'm primarily be going to do here, since I have admittedly neither seen the Director's Cut nor the Ultimate Cut of the movie (albeit having seen the standalone version of &lt;em&gt;Tales of the Black Freighter&lt;/em&gt;). So I'm not entirely sure to which degree it was incorporated into the main storyline and with which surrounding elements (i.e. the newspaper stand and its inhabitants, one of which is a boy reading the actual &lt;em&gt;TotBF&lt;/em&gt; comic). But seeing how the movie is otherwise to a large degree a shot for shot adaptation, I have no doubts the &lt;em&gt;TotBF&lt;/em&gt; bits are placed roughly at their respective positions in the source material's storyline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But let's see how it fits into the story. This has in fact already been adressed in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/7661/23386&quot;&gt;related question over at Comics.SE&lt;/a&gt; which concentrated on the source material though, and not on the movie adaptation. The overall consenus is, that the &lt;em&gt;Tales of the Black Freighter&lt;/em&gt; show a man that is completely blinded by hatred, fear and despair, which ultimately alters his perception of reality and drives him to commit abominable deeds, upto the very thing he sought to prevent and which leads his soul to ultimately be doomed as part of the &lt;em&gt;Black Freighter&lt;/em&gt; he abhors so much, a classic tragedy of a man &lt;strong&gt;misguided and dragged into the abyss by his own fears while only having the supposedly greater good in mind&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is clearly related to the general theme of the comic/movie, which poses the question &lt;strong&gt;to which degree the vigilantes who sought to bring justice have not become villains themselves&lt;/strong&gt; and the question &lt;em&gt;&quot;who watches the watchmen?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. And of course, the most extreme example of that is &lt;em&gt;Ozymandias&lt;/em&gt;, who killed millions of people in an effort to bring peace to the world. &lt;strong&gt;While he had the greater good in mind, he did an inhuman deed of unmeasurable dimensions.&lt;/strong&gt; And while the question if he did the right thing or not is hard to answer, it is clear that &lt;strong&gt;Veidt himself has doomed at least his own soul&lt;/strong&gt; with that deed, like the captain in the comic. And in fact in the comic there is a very nice little part of dialogue when he talks about his deeds to &lt;em&gt;Dr. Manhattan&lt;/em&gt; afterwards, which highlights exactly that and gives a great relation to the &lt;em&gt;TotBF&lt;/em&gt; (I don't know if it's part of the Ultimate/Director's Cut, too, though) (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jon...I know people think me callous, but I've made myself feel every death. By day I imagine endless faces. By night...Well, I dream, &lt;strong&gt;about swimming towards a hideous&lt;/strong&gt;...No. Never mind. It isn't significant...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;There are also other more in-universe connections to the &lt;em&gt;TotBF&lt;/em&gt; in the comic, though, which are however of smaller dimensions and are more related to a conspiracy that goes on behind the scenes and is part of Veidt's overall plan, which is a bit different to its movie version, though. So I doubt those connections have been included in the movie.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another relevance that I feel can probably not unfold its whole effect in the movie adaptation is  of a more structural nature. &lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt; has to a large degree also been a comic to play and explore the possiblities of comics themselves, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/24093/49&quot;&gt;not all of which can be easily translated to the medium of film&lt;/a&gt;. And I would say a comic reading sub-plot as part of a comic and an allegory to its main story and motifs is another facet of this exploration, one that might not unfold itself as much in a medium that has come to expect stories within stories. Yet, an animated sub-story is still an interesting (even if not entirely original anymore) feature of a movie that already shines a bit for its originality within its genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;At the moment this is all largely based on the comic as I couldn't yet get my hands onto the Ultimate Cut of the movie. But I guess most of the answer applies to the movie as well, even if I don't know if it captures all the nuances of the &lt;em&gt;Black Freighter&lt;/em&gt;'s incorporation into the larger storyline.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T16:02:31.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33484" CreationDate="2015-04-19T17:09:48.690" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're after &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270296/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Killing Jar&lt;/a&gt; from 2010 with Michael Madsen, Danny Trejo and Amber Benson:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A stranger armed with a shotgun takes seven patrons hostage in a remote roadside diner. But as the body count increases, the desperate survivors discover that one of the hostages may be even more dangerous than their captor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It all takes place in the diner, several people are shot, and you can see in the trailer the scared couple hugging and the killer flipping the sign to &quot;closed&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/RC7taZZ4gys?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T17:09:48.690" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16071" CreationDate="2015-04-19T17:32:06.293" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ' symbol just after Theta-Sigma is the key to all the message. The Doctor knows he is being talked to directly. It is short for περισπωμένη. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20601" LastActivityDate="2015-04-19T17:32:06.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33493" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-19T23:33:00.267" Score="2" ViewCount="2261" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt;, why does Peter not get badly affected by the poisonous venom spider, while both Harry and Connors (used lizard serum) do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20607" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T07:36:52.240" LastActivityDate="2021-06-02T01:58:29.690" Title="Why doesn't the spider venom affect Peter badly?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-amazing-spider-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32287" CreationDate="2015-04-20T01:04:29.933" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As explained in the following episode, Harrison Wells tells Barry that when you change details of the timeline, time has a way of correcting itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though Barry desperately wanted things to act the same as they happened in timeline &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt;, but because he locks up Mark Mardon before the conclusion of timeline &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt; the timeline now corrects itself as this did not happen in timeline &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt; and thus becomes timeline &lt;code&gt;x+1&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However Barry still retains his memories from timeline x as he time traveled from &lt;code&gt;x&lt;/code&gt; to &lt;code&gt;x+1&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T01:04:29.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33497" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33512" CreationDate="2015-04-20T02:54:10.973" Score="6" ViewCount="1091" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; series the character Grand Maester Pycelle seems perfectly content to brew potions, give bad advice and hit on handmaidens. I'm not saying that he doesn't serve a purpose, he has done a lot to support house Lannister. But does he actually want anything? Is he actually trying to get somewhere or achieve something?&#xA;I'm not asking for spoilers I'm just asking if I've missed something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="19585" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T08:48:08.757" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T09:40:02.337" Title="Does Grand Maester Pycelle have an agenda?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33479" CreationDate="2015-04-20T03:05:25.540" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It seems not.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are correct to assume that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Gregor_Clegane&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Mountain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Gregor Clegane) comes before &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Sandor_Clegane&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hound&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Sandor Clegane) in the order of inheritance&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/81326/21267&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, since he is older.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only misunderstanding is that a &lt;strong&gt;Knight&lt;/strong&gt; cannot inherit lands&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Knight#Practices&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;. The opposite is correct, a Knight &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; inherit the House's estate. For example &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Edmure_Tully&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edmure Tully&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a Knight, he is also the Heir Apparent of &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/House_Tully&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;House Tully&lt;/a&gt;; in fact he becomes &lt;em&gt;Lord Tully&lt;/em&gt; once Lord &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Hoster_Tully&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hoster Tully&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (his father) passes away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Therefore, Knight or not, Gregor is the Heir Apparent of &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/House_Clegane&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;House Clegane&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; Until his death at the hands of The Viper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only 'vows' which deprive you of inheritance are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Night%27s_Watch#Vows&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Night's Watch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Kingsguard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Kingsguard&lt;/a&gt; - who's vows are modelled after the Night's Watch&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Kingsguard#cite_note-Rtwoiaf.7B.7B.7B2.7D.7D.7D.7B.7B.7B3.7D.7D.7D-3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;; which Sandor has taken&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Maesters#Organization&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Maesters of The Citadel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Those in service to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Faith_of_the_Seven&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Faith of the Seven&lt;/a&gt;, including:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Septons and Septas,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Faith Militant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;High Septon and the Most Devout&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Silent Sisters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Lancel_Lannister#cite_note-Raffc30.7B.7B.7B3.7D.7D.7D-9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lancel Lannister&lt;/a&gt;, who gives up his wife and Castle to join the Faith Militant&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which means that theoretically, since Gregor is dead and Sandor has given up his claim to his father's lands, House Clegane is extinct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Or is it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;You see, traditionally, members of the Kingsguard have always been Sworn Knights first&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/A_Game_of_Thrones-Chapter_57&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, and seeing that Sandor is famously &quot;not a Knight&quot;, it may be argued that he also was never legitimately a member of the Kingsguard, and can keep his claim to his father's estate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“The king and council have determined that no man in the Seven Kingdoms is more fit to guard and protect His Grace than his sworn shield, Sandor Clegane.”&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  “How do you like that, dog?” King Joffrey asked.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  The Hound’s scarred face was hard to read. He took a long moment to consider. “Why not? I have no lands nor wife to forsake, and who’d care if I did?” The burned side of his mouth twisted. “But I warn you, I’ll say no knight’s vows.”&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  “The Sworn Brothers of the Kingsguard have always been knights,” Ser Boros said firmly.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  “Until now,” the Hound said in his deep rasp, and Ser Boros fell silent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One - A Game of Thrones, Chapter 50 (Sansa V).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, it comes down to George R. R. Martin's words on inheritance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The short answer is that the laws of inheritance in the Seven Kingdoms are modelled on those in real medieval history... which is to say, they were vague, uncodified, subject to varying interpretations, and often contradictory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Gregor_Clegane&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/1053&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/81326/21267&quot;&gt;My break-down of the laws of inheritance in Westeros&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Knight#Practices&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Knight#Practices&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Kingsguard#cite_note-Rtwoiaf.7B.7B.7B2.7D.7D.7D.7B.7B.7B3.7D.7D.7D-3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Kingsguard#cite_note-Rtwoiaf.7B.7B.7B2.7D.7D.7D.7B.7B.7B3.7D.7D.7D-3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/A_Game_of_Thrones-Chapter_57&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/A_Game_of_Thrones-Chapter_57&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T03:10:46.097" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15519" CreationDate="2015-04-20T03:25:20.193" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHY?!?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, she had to make it convincing. She had to seem, to appear &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;ESPECIALLY&lt;/strong&gt; loyal.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's why she was not only so close to Jack and Tony; she went to bed with them. She was a right-hand lady, she had to be (&lt;em&gt;The Least Likely Suspect&lt;/em&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;I never would've guessed that... She seemed so...&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a lot of people did. Why? She was the &lt;strong&gt;MOST&lt;/strong&gt; Likely Suspect because, she was the LEAST Likely Suspect. Everyone else seemed to have a real motive and vendetta, except for her!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even with that red-herring at the beginning, when they find the access card.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the viewers wouldn't see it coming--and neither would her trusting co-workers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Huh! Go figure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20613" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T07:40:53.970" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T07:40:53.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33500" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-20T05:40:18.803" Score="11" ViewCount="122878" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Gervais&quot;&gt;Ricky Gervais&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Merchant&quot;&gt;Stephen Merchant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; have worked on many productions together, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_(UK_TV_series)&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Office (UK&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extras_(TV_series)&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Extras&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Idiot_Abroad&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;An Idiot Abroad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ricky_Gervais_Show&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Ricky Gervais Show&lt;/em&gt; (on XFM)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But recently they seem to have had a fallout, and are no longer working together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stephen does not appear and is not involved in any way in Ricky's show, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_(TV_series)&quot;&gt;Derek&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;; and likewise with Ricky in Stephen's show, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Merchant#Hello_Ladies&quot;&gt;Hello Ladies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What happened to Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's relationship?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastActivityDate="2016-09-01T17:50:38.397" Title="What on earth happened between Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant?" Tags="|ricky-gervais|stephen-merchant|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-20T05:46:49.170" Score="0" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Interstellar&lt;/a&gt; on Dr. Mann's planet when Rommily tries to check the data from the computer or robot he says &quot;This data makes no sense&quot; and then suddenly it blows up killing Rommily. Now how could Dr. Mann program the computer such that it blows up when someone sees it. Is it really possible for an astronaut to do computer programming so cleverly that it turns into a bomb when opened? Or did he plant a physical bomb into the computer that blew up? I Am confused, please help me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20046" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T08:05:52.447" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T08:05:52.447" Title="Why does the computer having data from Dr. Mann's planet react in this way?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-04-20T08:06:48.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33503" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-20T05:49:41.070" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Gervais&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ricky Gervais&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Ricky Dene Gervais), born on the 25&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; of June 1961, is a British comedian, actor and producer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has worked on appeared in such works as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_(UK_TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Office (UK&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extras_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Extras&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Idiot_Abroad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;An Idiot Abroad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ricky_Gervais_Show&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Ricky Gervais Show&lt;/em&gt; (on XFM)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Derek&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ricky has received many &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Gervais#Awards_and_nominations&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;awards and accolades&lt;/a&gt; for his works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has his own website (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rickygervais.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.rickygervais.com&lt;/a&gt;) which he uses to post updates about his upcoming works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T08:42:17.903" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T08:42:17.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33504" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-20T05:49:41.070" Score="0" Body="Use this tag when referring to the British TV-personality Ricky Gervais. But don't use it for questions that are not about him in particular but only about one of his works." OwnerUserId="11244" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T08:42:08.003" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T08:42:08.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33505" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-04-20T05:54:17.540" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Merchant&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stephen Merchant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, originally a stand-up comedian, is a British writer, director and actor who has worked on and starred in many shows. Some notable examples of which are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_(UK_TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Office (UK)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extras_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Extras&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Ladies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hello Ladies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T08:41:19.880" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T08:41:19.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33506" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-04-20T05:54:17.540" Score="0" Body="Use this tag when referring to the British TV-personality Stephen Merchant. But don't use it for questions that are not about him in particular but only about one of his works." OwnerUserId="11244" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T08:42:14.380" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T08:42:14.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27125" CreationDate="2015-04-20T06:51:12.820" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could be because Mann had booby-trapped KIPP when he took its power cells for his cryo-sleep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or at the very least pushed it to self-destruct mode (as TARS joked it would do when Cooper increased its humour percentage). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20617" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T06:51:12.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33477" CreationDate="2015-04-20T09:35:11.950" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/2999/&quot;&gt;So Spake Martin&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bastard names are given only to bastards with at least one parent of&#xA;  high birth. So the bastard child of two peasants would have no surname&#xA;  at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thus a bastard name like &quot;Snow&quot; or &quot;Rivers&quot; is simultaneously a stigma&#xA;  and a mark of distinction. &lt;strong&gt;The whole thing with bastard names is&#xA;  custom, not law.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The highborn parent can bestow the usual name, a new one of his/her&#xA;  own devising, or none at all.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Bastardy#Surnames&quot;&gt;According to the wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As the surname is applied &lt;strong&gt;depending on the region where the bastard is raised&lt;/strong&gt;, bastards who are half-siblings may have different surnames. For example, Robert Baratheon's eldest bastard, born in the Vale, is called &lt;strong&gt;Mya &lt;em&gt;Stone&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; while his bastard from the Stormlands is called &lt;strong&gt;Edric &lt;em&gt;Storm&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T09:35:11.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33497" CreationDate="2015-04-20T09:40:02.337" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pycelle has an intense desire to maintain the status quo of his own position and as such, will do everything within his power to support those who will allow him to maintain his capacity. Those who can or will not accommodate this will be on his bad side, thus he will work against them via the manipulation of his feeble old man ruse. This explains his intense support of Joffrey and disdain for Tyrion and Qyburn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T09:40:02.337" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33513" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33531" CreationDate="2015-04-20T11:08:59.100" Score="2" ViewCount="927" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the new season of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; we see the former slave Mossador being executed. Before he dies he pleads for his life. Is this inconsistent with the people of the free cities' behaviour? So as we all know, the &quot;motto&quot; of the people of the free cities is &quot;Valar Morghulis&quot; which is high Valyrian (I think) for &quot;all men must die&quot;. When Danaerys asks Missandei if she fears death she simply answers, &quot;Valar morghulis&quot;. The people of Yunkai especially seem to widely accept the fact that they will die and try to enjoy themselves as much as possible without thinking of consequence, Daario Naharas being a good example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So with all that information wouldn't that mean that by that time, Mossador would have accepted his fate and faced it with dignity like every other person from the free cities does?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T11:17:37.307" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T16:33:55.080" Title="Why was Mossador afraid of death?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33514" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33532" CreationDate="2015-04-20T11:17:08.703" Score="10" ViewCount="1139" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode S05E02 of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; we see Arya reciting her list, which is now alarmingly short. The names (if I remember correctly) are: Cersei, The Mountain, Meryn Trant and Walder Frey. But basically a lot of people who are still alive and originally appeared on her list have been left out. One that instantly comes to mind is Ilyn Payne. So it begs the question, has Arya realised that Ilyn Payne had no choice in cutting her father's head off and forgiven him or has the script writer been getting a bit drunk lately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T17:44:24.237" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T20:48:35.563" Title="Has Arya forgiven people?" Tags="|character|dialogue|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19313" CreationDate="2015-04-20T12:53:48.873" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Esterhase knew of Tinker Tailer because his source Merlin told him. Kara  got the information from torturing Prideaux but he already knew because Prideaux told/warned Haydon who in turn warned Karla. Karla used Merlin to give the impression to Percy Alleline/Esterhase/Roy Bland that Merlin was the mole Control suspected. As they were the ones giving Meriln the information (old information) in return for what they thought was the crown jewels. To protect their source Merlin they told Prideaux not to mention it as it would uncover their source. We then find out that Merlin was infact Haydons's handler and was taking the crown jewels from Haydon. Esterhause knew of Tinker Tailor bacause Merlin told them, if Esterhase and co thought Merlin was the mole Control was after they would get rid of anyone (eg Connie Sachs) digging around to protect their source Merlin, when infact they were just protecting the real mole Haydon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20624" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T12:53:48.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33500" CreationDate="2015-04-20T13:36:01.460" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it's possible that the two have had a falling out, the official word is that they are just working on their own projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This started with &lt;em&gt;Hello Ladies&lt;/em&gt;, which is about terrible dating experiences in Merchant's life. Since Gervais has been with his girlfriend for 30 years, Merchant felt that he wouldn't be able to relate to the story, and decided to do the project solo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is what he told &lt;a href=&quot;http://splitsider.com/2014/11/stephen-merchants-undying-love-of-the-romantic-comedy/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Splitsider&lt;/a&gt; when they asked about Gervais:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What made you guys decide to try to go your own way this time?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well I don’t know if it was that premeditated, really. I did the standup show which was about these experiences, and HBO approached me and said maybe there’s some sitcom material in there. And Ricky has been in a relationship with the same woman, lucky for him, since he was in college; he’d never been in the dating world or the dating scene. It’s not something that resonates with him. So it just didn’t seem like a fit for the two of us. It didn’t seem like an obvious role for him. I think he would have felt like what am I doing if I can’t plug into the sort of meat of the subject? It just didn’t seem like a fit for the two of us, really. So that sort of explains that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you guys have plans to work together in the future on any projects?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We’re sort of on different time frames because I was doing that and he’s doing his stuff, Derek and stuff like that, so we’re in two different time tables. It’s proven a bit frustrating to try to get back into it but I’m sure there’ll be something down the road.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T13:36:01.460" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33021" CreationDate="2015-04-20T13:50:24.157" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You do not twirl up and out of a tornado, the winds cannot take you up that far. Yes, they can throw you a distance from where you originally began. The most likely case is being tossed around in all kinds of directions, with debris flying by you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite all the movies about tornados sucking people up, the real fact is that the winds from the tornado will throw you a distance and not pull you towards it. The realism of Into the Storm is not very accurate. While some people can survive being picked up and thrown by tornados it is very rare. Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wunderground.com/resources/severe/tornado_myths.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.wunderground.com/resources/severe/tornado_myths.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20625" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T13:50:24.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33523" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33533" CreationDate="2015-04-20T14:30:45.377" Score="69" ViewCount="54408" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Harvey Dent's face got burned and his fiancée was killed in &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;, the Joker goes to the hospital and gives Harvey Dent a gun to give Dent an opportunity to kill the Joker. Why was The Joker so sure that Harvey would not pull the trigger?  Is there a chance that gun was indeed empty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Joker seems to be a lunatic; however, as far as the plan goes, he seems to be one step ahead of others (irrespective of saying that he is not a man having a plan). In the above scenario, if Harvey pulls the trigger, not only does the Joker die, all his other plans would have failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T15:37:34.943" LastActivityDate="2017-06-30T15:33:20.430" Title="Why did the Joker take the risk of placing a gun in Harvey Dent's hand?" Tags="|character|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33523" CreationDate="2015-04-20T14:44:39.320" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because he's the Joker and he's a bit of a whackjob? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously though - he was giving Harvey the opportunity to kill him while simultaneously manipulating him and twisting his anger to turn it onto Batman and Gotham city. By giving him the gun, he was giving Harvey the power to kill him as it was then &lt;em&gt;his&lt;/em&gt; choice not to pull the trigger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T14:44:39.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33523" CreationDate="2015-04-20T14:51:56.850" Score="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;Little known piece of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/trivia?item=tr2068768&quot;&gt;trivia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Harvey holds the Joker at gunpoint in the hospital scene, you can see that the Joker is actually holding the revolver’s hammer with his finger, thus preventing the shot in case Harvey's coin lands on “bad” side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Joker was never in any danger at all. Here’s a picture from the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/udEwV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Joker keeping the gun&amp;#39;s hammer down and holding Harvey&amp;#39;s thumb&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastEditorUserId="20656" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T12:11:20.373" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T12:11:20.373" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33513" CreationDate="2015-04-20T14:52:01.490" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not every person is the same from a particular region or group. Some people value their life. Or most of them says &quot;Valar Morghulis&quot;, does not mean no one there is afraid of dying. &#xA;In our world, also every region has different kinds of people. similarly in the Game of Thrones universe all kinds of people are present everywhere. Not every northerner is a very respectful and righteous person like the Starks, some are Theon and Boltons. Similary, Littlefinger lived most of his childhood and youth with the Tullys but he dosn't share single characteristics with them. Even not every Lannister sharing blood are same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T15:00:34.113" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T15:00:34.113" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33493" CreationDate="2015-04-20T15:01:53.120" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is explained in the second film - Peter's father altered the Spider's DNA with his own, meaning only Peter could have gained the benefits from it. This was the ensurance that after Peter's father's death (which his father expected would happen) the power would stay safe and die with him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the direct quote from the script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Richard Parker:&lt;/strong&gt; It doesn't matter because there is something else that Norman doesn't know. The Human DNA that I implanted in the spiders was my own, which means that without me, without my bloodline, OsCorp can never replicate or continue my experiments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20627" LastEditorUserId="20627" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T15:20:29.520" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T15:20:29.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33004" CreationDate="2015-04-20T16:32:51.343" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am sorry but I don't have enough rep points to comment but am attempting an answer based on my interpretations and having watched all the seasons. Hopefully, it helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In regards to Doug Stamper he is one of my favourite characters. Initially, as the first and second season unfold, he is worked extensively and he does out of his own goodwill. He goes above and beyond to help Frank really showing he is comfortable doing the &quot;dirty work&quot;. In season 2 when they start to introduce Seth, they are pitted against each other and he tries to out-do him and show his loyalty. There was an episode mid-season 2 where Frank cuts to the camera and talks about &quot;healthy competition&quot; between them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally feel, Doug does it for the power. Yes he is not president but he is the right-hand man. He contributes to Frank and is needed by him as much as Frank thinks he can do it by himself. That is true power. In season 3, Doug over time has collected &quot;dirt&quot; on everyone and has connections, which make him a valuable asset. He refuses Heather Dunbar's insane amount for the key piece of information that would destroy Frank and his campaign (Claire's abortion). The following scenes involve Remy quitting his job and when all else fails...Doug shows up, showing Frank what he was offered and could have done. He wants Frank to know what he is capable of and how much of an asset he is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, He does it for his own personal stability as well. Being a recovering alcohol abuser he buried himself in work to distract him from the temptations and going back. He had a slip-up mid-season 2 till beginning of 3. when Rachel got away and Seth seemed like the faithful man. However, when he returned and linking to my first point, he made sure Rachel was dead, he sobered up, and controlled an entire political campaign to an extent behind the scenes. To show Frank &#xA;1. He is needed and can do more than what Seth and Remy can &#xA;2. He made up for his mistake from letting his emotions getting the best of him and having Rachel escape &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, that is my analysis on Doug. I've added some links, which shares similar thoughts. Hope this was enjoyed :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://house-of-cards.wikia.com/wiki/Doug_Stamper&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Doug Stamper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/02/28/house_of_cards_season_2_doug_stamper_michael_kelly_is_the_most_interesting.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Doug Stamper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;http://www.reddit.com/r/HouseOfCards/comments/17tjqz/what_are_your_thoughts_on_doug_stamper/&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20628" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T16:32:51.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33513" CreationDate="2015-04-20T16:33:55.080" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's break this apart to a few bullet points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Meereen is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; one of the Free Cities. The term the Free Cities is given to a number of cities that freed themselves from Valyrian rule. They are: Braavos, Volantis, Pentos, Lys, Qohor, Norvos, Tyrosh, Lorath and Myr. Meereen, on the other hand is one of the Slaver Cities, all that remains of the Ghiscari Empire (destroyed by Valyria). The other two being Astapor and Yunkai.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Valar Morghulis&quot; is simply a customary saying in Essos, and doesn't mean that the one who says it is not afraid of death, only that he accepts that death comes to all. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The god who is most connected to this saying is The Many Faced God, and most people in Essos don't really worship him or ask him for aid until the very end of their life when they have finally &quot;accepted&quot; death.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T16:33:55.080" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33514" CreationDate="2015-04-20T17:29:39.540" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps it is too early to answer this question, as we are barely into the season, but here's my wee bit of speculation (to be updated if we know anything more).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arya's original kill list was (edited 3/8/19 to update death):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joffrey (dead)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cersei&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Walder Frey (dead by Arya's hand)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meryn Trant (dead by Arya's hand)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tywin Lannister (dead)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Red Woman (show only, not in the books)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Beric Dondarrion (show only, not in the books)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thoros of Myr (dead) (show only, not in the books)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ilyn Payne&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Mountain (&lt;em&gt;un&lt;/em&gt;dead?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Hound&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's take a look at the people Arya missed listing in &quot;House of Black and White&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Hound as we saw from the previous season was not granted death even though he asked for it, and Arya was more than capable to administer it. Taking off the Hound from her list is a symbol of Arya accepting that killing The Hound is no longer necessary. Whether this is out of compassion, belief that he will die anyway, or something else is never made clear. And in the books, even Arya isn't entirely sure why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Red Woman, Beric and Thoros are show only additions to her list related to the show-only incident of selling Gendry to be a sacrifice. And while we know the show will be diverging from the books, perhaps it is not diverging enough to create a new plot line from that incident. Perhaps that's why the writers have struck off those names?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More troubling, as you've noted, is the absence of Ilyn Payne. In fact, Ilyn Payne has been conspicuously absent from the series for a &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt; time. Last time we saw him was during the siege of King's Landing three seasons ago. There was a brief mention of him in the previous season, in reference to him being the Crown's executioner, but no sighting. Also, Bronn replaced him as Jaime's secret trainer in the show. This tells me that the writers are slowly writing off Ilyn Payne from the series completely, and have thus expunged him from Arya's list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="22041" LastEditDate="2019-03-08T20:48:35.563" LastActivityDate="2019-03-08T20:48:35.563" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33523" CreationDate="2015-04-20T17:45:38.947" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Joker really didn't care about death at any point even if Harvey pulled that trigger then. The biggest example for that is during the scene when he falls of the building during the fight with Batman even when he is falling, he laughs hysterically before Batman catches him with grapple gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harvey Dent was Joker's biggest ace. When he gave him the gun he took the gamble, had Harvey blown Joker's brain then the Joker wouldn't have cared about his death but he surely would've had the last laugh because he took the symbol (white knight) of the city and drove him to insanity and made him a killer. The Joker's primary ambition was to make Batman do that but Batman was completely incorruptible so he resorted to the next best person in Gotham city which happened to be Harvey Dent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even Joker openly admits that in the above mentioned scene to batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Batman:&lt;/strong&gt; This city just showed you that it's full of people ready to believe in good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joker:&lt;/strong&gt;  Until their spirit breaks completely. Until they get a good look at the real Harvey Dent, huh? And all the heroic things he's done. You didn't think I'd risk losing the battle for Gotham's soul in a fist-fight with you? No, you need an ace in the hole; mine's Harvey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Batman:&lt;/strong&gt; What did you do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joker:&lt;/strong&gt; I took Gotham's White Knight and brought him down to our level. It wasn't hard. See, madness, as you know, is like gravity: all it takes is a little push. (Laughter)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been thinking about this question furthermore. I believe the only reason Joker walked out of the room alive in the hospital scene with Harvey Dent was because the coin toss favored him. As we learn later in further scenes Harvey only shot the people whom the coin toss didn't favor which included Batman as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T02:33:57.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33536" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33538" CreationDate="2015-04-20T18:35:11.120" Score="11" ViewCount="3775" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2&lt;/em&gt;, Harry makes use of the Imperius curse on a Goblin to get them into Gringots. I'm fairly certain in the books that the fate of this Goblin is never addressed, but in the movies, he is humorously incinerated by the dragon trapped inside. This would make them murderers wouldn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20629" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T18:55:21.910" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T19:02:35.283" Title="Did Harry, Ron, and Hermione just kill an innocent Goblin?" Tags="|harry-potter|the-deathly-hallows-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12988" CreationDate="2015-04-20T18:53:09.360" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S05E03 she talks to her squire, Podrick Payne about Renly Baratheon. I don't remember the exact dialogues but she says something like this,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Brienne's father had thrown a ball in order to find a suitable match&#xA;  for young Brienne. He invited a dozen or so young lords to the event.&#xA;  The young lords behaved as if they were ready to combat each other to&#xA;  marry Brienne which made her very happy. However, she observed some of the lords smirking. Until now Brienne thought they didn't observe that she was unusually tall and mulish. The lords made fun of her. They said that &quot;Brienne the Beauty&quot; - What a Joke!. Then Renly comes forward, takes Brienne in his arms and dances with her. He saved her from becoming a joke. And since then&#xA;  she was faithful to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20632" LastEditorUserId="20632" LastEditDate="2015-04-26T13:53:21.477" LastActivityDate="2015-04-26T13:53:21.477" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33536" CreationDate="2015-04-20T19:02:35.283" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Harry's use of the Imperious Curse did appear to addle the Goblin's brain enough that he was killed due to Harry not ordering him out of the way, so maybe if you really stretch it you could make a case for involuntary manslaughter in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is though, this is the magical world and Goblins aren't human beings, thus it wasn't illegal for Harry to use an unforgivable on him under wizarding law:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Now. . . those three curses - Avada Kedavra, Imperius, and Cruciatus - are known&#xA;  as the Unforgivable Curses. The use of any one of them &lt;strong&gt;on a fellow human being&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  is enough to earn a life sentence in Azkaban.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-&quot;Alastor Moody&quot; in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, Harry didn't order the goblin to do anything, so he should have just waited outside the door when it locked behind them, the fact that he wandered over to the dragon would indicate he was starting to regain control over his actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the Goblins somehow blamed Harry for it (and they probably didn't know seeing as Voldemort killed all of the ones involved shortly afterwards), there's no way the Ministry for Magic would prosecute him over it after he just saved all their lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T19:02:35.283" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33540" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33541" CreationDate="2015-04-20T19:11:20.107" Score="5" ViewCount="1553" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't a single spoken word in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1745787/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Tribe&lt;/a&gt; and all characters communicate in what appears to be a sign language whose authenticity I wasn't able to verify.  At first, I was expecting there would be subtitles because, if gestures used were indeed a real sign language, not having them would assume two levels of viewership:  those who can understand it and those who can't.  That doesn't really seem likely to me.  Then I started wondering if the gestures were some fake sign language that no one can really understand and it was like that by design:  there is no understandable language used in the movie to move the viewer from a focus on verbal understanding to a focus on gestures and body language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the movie in real sign language? If yes, why was there no subtitles so that those who don't understand it are at par with those who do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20094" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T19:12:51.443" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T19:19:18.897" Title="Is &quot;The Tribe&quot; in real sign language?" Tags="|translation|the-tribe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33540" CreationDate="2015-04-20T19:13:43.737" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1745787/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb's trivia page&lt;/a&gt; for the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actors communicate in &lt;strong&gt;Ukranian sign language&lt;/strong&gt; - anecdotally, users of western European sign languages may understand about 20% of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Director Miroslav Slaboshpitsky does not understand sign language and had to have interpreters on set to communicate and make sure that the actors were sticking to the script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the lack of subtitles, it was intentional. &lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2014/film/news/the-tribe-north-american-distribution-drafthouse-1201256940/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Says&lt;/a&gt; the film's director:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I am very glad that my film will be released in the United States,” Slaboshpitsky said. “I have always believed in the universality of film’s language, and have always believed that dialogue and subtitles change the way different audiences perceive the film in different countries.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T19:19:18.897" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27257" CreationDate="2015-04-20T19:23:11.410" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cooper was 35 - 38 years old when he left and Murph was 10 years old when her father left.&#xA;2 years for Saturn&#xA;23 years (Miller's planet)&#xA;51 years (Slingshot around Gargantua)&#xA;124 years old when Copper is found near Saturn&#xA;So I would agree to say he has to be between the ages of 35-38 years old. I really want to go with 38 years old as I think there was a short time dilation when he entered back into the black hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20636" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-04-20T20:57:03.283" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T20:57:03.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33546" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33548" CreationDate="2015-04-20T20:11:42.400" Score="13" ViewCount="8067" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S05E02 of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; King Stannis Baratheon offers Jon Snow lordship of Winterfell and the North and a legitimisation.&#xA;First of all, can anyone legitimise a bastard except for their father?&#xA;And also, can the King release a man of the Night's Watch from their vows or was Stannis just saying that his vow didn't matter because he took it before &quot;false Gods&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T04:05:10.233" Title="Can the King release a man of the Night's Watch from their vows?" Tags="|character|dialogue|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33546" CreationDate="2015-04-20T20:24:59.667" Score="12" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First of all, can anyone legitimise a bastard except for their father? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only a king may legitimize a bastard. Not even a father can do that. Lots of precedent to that. In the show canon, we have Ramsay Snow who was legitimized by King Joffrey as a reward for his father's service in the Red Wedding. Historically, King Aegon IV legitimizing his bastards lead to the civil war known as the Blackfyre Rebellion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can the King release a man of the Night's Watch from their vows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not really. A vow is a religious undertaking, and thus far only a religious institution may release one from his vows. For instance, the High Septon released King Joffrey from his promise to marry Sansa Stark in order for him to marry Margaery Tyrell. &lt;strong&gt;However&lt;/strong&gt;, a king is a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; powerful figure and would be able to sway the religious institutions to go his way (which is what happened in King Joffrey's case) or bestow his protection on the vow-breaker from any repercussions. So Stannis' promise was real, only Jon's personal reluctance prevented him from becoming Jon Stark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T20:24:59.667" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33546" CreationDate="2015-04-20T20:38:33.287" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is really two questions, so I'll answer it in two parts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question of legitimization, I believe, is pretty clearly answered: only a King can do so. In the novels, for example, Roose Bolton's son is legitimized by Tommen, though I don't know if that's made as clear in the show. In either case, &quot;King&quot; Robb legitimized Jon Snow before he died, when he thought he was King of the North, so it seems reasonable that this is how things work on the show as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This topic of leaving the Night's Watch is trickier. It has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/34641/if-this-speculation-about-jon-snow-is-true-would-he-be-allowed-to-leave-the-wat/34643#34643&quot;&gt;discussed over at SF&amp;amp;F&lt;/a&gt;, in relation to the novels, but the same analysis applies to the TV series, as far as I know. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The short answer is: &quot;in theory, probably not, but in practice, probably yes.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;In Theory&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a strictly &quot;legal&quot; standpoint, no one has the authority to let someone out of the vows to the Night's Watch. For starters, the Watch is effectively an autonomous organization; they specifically do &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; owe fealty to the King of Westeros, in order to avoid being drawn into any political bickering. Secondly, the vows that the Brothers take aren't to a person or an organization, but to their lifetime of service. They're swearing directly to their gods, so there isn't anyone with a higher authority to countermand that decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure why &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/33553/1146&quot;&gt;@Mooz's answer&lt;/a&gt; is getting such negative attention, but he correctly points out that Martin sort-of addressed this issue in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20001005212114/eventhorizon.com/sfzine/chats/transcripts/031899.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1999 online chat show&lt;/a&gt;, which would be just after &lt;em&gt;A Clash of Kings&lt;/em&gt; was published (meaning it was likely discussing Jon Snow taking over for Robb, as opposed to any offer from Stannis).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Granny&lt;/strong&gt;: Is there any chance that Jon could be released from his oaths of the nightwatch?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;George_RR_Martin&lt;/strong&gt;: The great council would have released Aemon from his maester's oath, so I suppose it would be possible. With an appropriate authority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that Martin doesn't tell us what the &quot;appropriate authority&quot; is; I doubt he meant that a Great Council (who's job is to select a King) could have done it, merely that the &lt;em&gt;concept&lt;/em&gt; of releasing someone from lifetime oaths is valid. His answer implies some other &quot;appropriate&quot; authority could do that for a Night's Watchman, assuming one could be found. It also implies that such an authority is not likely to be as mundane as the King of Westeros, or he probably would have just said so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;In Practice&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in practice, lack of authority wouldn't make much of a difference if the King of Westeros really wanted to get someone out. As much as the Night's Watch doesn't &quot;let&quot; people out of their vows, they aren't likely to argue with the entire Westerosi army over it. There's some dialog from &lt;em&gt;A Storm of Swords&lt;/em&gt; related to this exact issue, which is just valid for the series:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Catelyn]: “If Jon is a brother of the Night’s Watch, sworn to take no wife and hold no lands. Those who take the black serve for life.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Robb]:“So do the knights of the Kingsguard. That did not stop the Lannisters from stripping the white cloaks from Ser Barristan Selmy and Ser Boros Blount when they had no more use for them. If I send the Watch a hundred men in Jon’s place, I’ll wager they find some way to release him from his vows.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, keep in mind that the Night's Watch relies on the Seven Kingdoms to find and punish deserters; that's a large part of what the Warden of the North does in terms of official duties. If Jon Snow &quot;deserts&quot; his post and newly-crowned King Stannis officially pardons him, there's almost no chance he will ever pay for his crimes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if Stannis &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; wanted to legitimize Jon Snow and pull him out of the Night's Watch, he lacks the &lt;em&gt;de jure&lt;/em&gt; authority to do so, but has the &lt;em&gt;de facto&lt;/em&gt; authority to get away with it anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T23:54:31.743" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1551" CreationDate="2015-04-20T22:33:49.483" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally the way credits work in TV shows is that the most important characters within the show will appear in the credits first - these actors are said to have &quot;top billing&quot; and their roles within the production will be significant. These will be followed by less important/not so well known supporting characters. At the end of the credits there may be a few additional actors who while their role in that particular work might not be significant, are generally better known actors than all of the other actors on the list (unless you've got somebody A list for your leading roles, that is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364845/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;NCIS&lt;/a&gt;, you have the main team members from the Major Case Response Team (Mark Harmon as Gibbs, Michael Weatherly as DiNozzo, Pauley Perrette as Abby, Sean Murray as McGee), then your supporting characters like Brian Dietzen (Jimmy Palmer) and then the credits end up with David McCallum as Donald Mallard. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0564724/?ref_=tt_cl_t4&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;David McCallum has a much longer career&lt;/a&gt; but a much smaller part yet his name is separate from the rest of the cast and appears at the end of the credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also possible for some actors playing small parts to appear first in the credits, this is usually down to these actors being very well known in comparison to the rest of the cast, or for contractual purposes. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billing_(filmmaking)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Billing in Film-making&lt;/a&gt; uses the example of Marlon Brando and Gene Hackman both being credited before the title in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(1978_film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Superman (1978)&lt;/a&gt;, while a then unknown Christopher Reeve (who played Superman) was not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T14:05:59.020" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T14:05:59.020" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33546" CreationDate="2015-04-20T23:04:33.660" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will add from a correspondence with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;George R. R. Martin&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Interviewer]&lt;/strong&gt; Is there any chance that Jon could be released from his oaths of the nightwatch?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[George_RR_Martin]&lt;/strong&gt;  The great council would have released &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Aemon_Targaryen_(son_of_Maekar_I)&quot;&gt;Aemon&lt;/a&gt; from his maester's oath, so I suppose it would be possible. &lt;strong&gt;With an appropriate authority.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20001005212114/eventhorizon.com/sfzine/chats/transcripts/031899.html&quot;&gt;http://web.archive.org/web/20001005212114/eventhorizon.com/sfzine/chats/transcripts/031899.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Great_Council&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Great Council&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; could be convened to release someone from their vows. This has never happened before, so there is no precedent, but in theory GRRM believes it is possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastActivityDate="2015-04-20T23:04:33.660" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33554" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33622" CreationDate="2015-04-20T23:58:30.673" Score="3" ViewCount="2835" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Georgian-Estonian film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2991224/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tangerines&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2013) at the end of the film as it rolls into the credits what is the song that is being played? It sounds like a rock/alternative song. What was the context and significance of the song?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20642" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-22T13:02:01.567" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T23:28:36.347" Title="What is the significance of the song played at the end of Tangerines (2013)?" Tags="|soundtrack|credits|tangerines|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33555" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33556" CreationDate="2015-04-21T00:09:52.737" Score="5" ViewCount="1539" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching the new Netflix series &lt;em&gt;Daredevil&lt;/em&gt;, there are scattered references to some kind of terrorist attack having happened in New York City just before the show began.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspected they might mean the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers, but too many little details make the show look like it's set in the present day, rather than the early 2000s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does &lt;em&gt;Daredevil&lt;/em&gt; take place around 2001?  If not, what attack are they referring to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14171" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T07:25:54.173" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T07:25:54.173" Title="Does Daredevil take place right after 9/11?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|daredevil-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33555" CreationDate="2015-04-21T00:54:10.880" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kevin Feige (President of Marvel Studios) has verified that all the new Netflix Marvel shows are part of the the Marvel Cinematic Universe (which is what Marvel Studios is calling the shared universe that all of their recent movies and TV shows takes place within). So this would be a reference to the Battle of New York. If you've seen the Avengers movie, it's the huge battle at the end where Loki and the Chitauri battle the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I think that Marvel is banking on the fact that most viewers of these properties will have seen (at least some of) the other properties in the MCU or will be familiar with the comics they are based on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, in this particular case, what is necessary to know is that the city is rebuilding after a disaster. Whether it is 9/11 or the &quot;Battle of New York&quot; is a detail that doesn't strongly impact the story one way or another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastEditorUserId="1186" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T18:01:05.963" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T18:01:05.963" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33313" CreationDate="2015-04-21T01:15:16.910" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;New Amsterdam&lt;/a&gt;? It's not an old movie but sounds similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/uUd2BEIy_QQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18448" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T01:15:16.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33559" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-21T01:54:55.080" Score="21" ViewCount="22913" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; S05E01 &quot;The Wars to Come&quot;, Melisandre and Jon Snow had this conversation as they were on their way to the top of the Wall:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Melisandre: Are you a virgin?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Jon Snow: No.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Melisandre: Good.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's with Melisandre inquiring about Jon Snow's virginity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T02:00:43.703" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T15:51:31.737" Title="Why did Melisandre ask Jon Snow if he's a virgin?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27252" CreationDate="2015-04-21T02:24:41.113" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As many people don't think, this could be a real black hole. The reason why cooper survived was because he was hit by the outflying singularity. Inside the event horizon, there are 2 singularities. The one that drags you in is basically the only one people know about, and is called the i falling singularity . The other is the outflying singularity. It forms only in big black holes(gargantua was a supermassive black hole), because the gravitational collapse in the star was so big. Nolan choose for cooper to get hit by that force, and if you are hit by it, you are literally suspended between two equal forces, and the tesseract is in between the two. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20644" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T02:24:41.113" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33561" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33562" CreationDate="2015-04-21T03:01:30.100" Score="13" ViewCount="2104" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Tim Burton adaptation &lt;em&gt;Charlie and the Chocolate Factory&lt;/em&gt; film and one of the episodes of &lt;em&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/em&gt; both show a scene were a bunch of apes in what seems to be a canyon region are looking at a long black tablet....thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Charlie and the Chocolate Factory&lt;/em&gt; it turns into the Wonka Bar that Wonka beamed into the TV&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/em&gt; the apes who used it began to use tools while the Homer Ape touched it and then began to use it as a back scratcher&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am wondering what is the origin of this reference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4297" LastEditorUserId="32199" LastEditDate="2017-06-30T08:48:43.210" LastActivityDate="2017-06-30T08:48:43.210" Title="What is the origin of the Black Tablet thing surrounded by apes?" Tags="|reference|the-simpsons|charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33561" CreationDate="2015-04-21T03:19:53.770" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a reference to the opening scene of the 1968 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;2001: A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in which an alien monolith appears among a group of ancient apes and imbues them with the beginnings of human intelligence while &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Also_sprach_Zarathustra_(Strauss)&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thus Spake Zarathustra&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; plays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a clip on YouTube:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ypEaGQb6dJk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8501" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T18:01:59.677" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T18:01:59.677" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33563" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33565" CreationDate="2015-04-21T03:27:45.047" Score="10" ViewCount="5074" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; Melisandre needs the King's blood for her magic. Can that be the reason for her interest in Jon Snow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He may be a bastard, but Jon Snow (despite of the famous R + L = J theory) is a son of Eddard Stark as per current plot/storyline. So Jon shares blood with Robb stark, who was King in the North. Does that mean she can have the motives of using his blood for magic? Or it's just my imagination?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T07:51:46.640" LastActivityDate="2017-08-10T22:46:15.890" Title="Does Jon Snow have king's blood in his veins as his brother Robb was king of the north" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33564" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33566" CreationDate="2015-04-21T03:29:12.587" Score="9" ViewCount="9890" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was browsing on Wikipedia and I noticed that the Fast &amp;amp; Furious films have a different chronology that doesn't match their release order. The Tokyo Drift movie, besides being totally different compared to the others, happens way later in the movie timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why does Fast &amp;amp; Furious have this chronology thing? They're action movies and a lot of people don't watch them for the plot, but for the action scenes, so why haven't they been set in the release order matching the chronology? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8584" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-06-28T17:32:14.097" LastActivityDate="2019-05-30T06:08:52.597" Title="Why does the Fast &amp; Furious franchise have a chronological order different from the release order?" Tags="|chronology|fast-and-furious-franchise|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33563" CreationDate="2015-04-21T03:49:22.390" Score="15" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Not a bad supposition&lt;/h1&gt; &#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She wants him bad&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;In the books &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Melisandre&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Melisandre&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; very interested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Jon_Snow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jon Snow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, believing that there is &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; power in him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;[from &lt;em&gt;A Dance With Dragons&lt;/em&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“You think so?” She knelt and scratched Ghost behind his ear. “Your Wall is a queer place, but there is power here, if you will use it. Power in you, and in this beast. You resist it, and that is your mistake. Embrace it. Use it.”&lt;br /&gt;I am not a wolf, he thought. “And how would I do that?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-A Song of Ice and Fire: Book 5 - A Dance With Dragons, Chapter 29 (Jon VI).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She does not explain exactly where she believes his source of 'power' to be from, but she definitely &lt;em&gt;feels&lt;/em&gt; it. Jon though, immediately assumes that it's because she thinks he's a &quot;Wolf&quot; (Starks are often referred to as &quot;Wolves&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She's also interested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Mance_Rayder&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mance Rayder&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and his &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Aemon_Steelsong&quot;&gt;son with Dalla&lt;/a&gt;, for the same &quot;King's Blood&quot; reasons; but that's a different point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you believe that King's Blood is what carries power, then theoretically; &lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bastard or not&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This is why Melisandre was interested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Gendry&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gendry&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (or &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Edric_Storm&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edric Storm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in the books). Even though Gendry is a 'bastard', she still believes that the Blood (and power which comes with it) of the King runs in him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stark contrast&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;You see, historically, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/House_Stark&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Starks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; were &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/King_In_The_North&quot;&gt;Kings In The North&lt;/a&gt;, it wouldn't have mattered &lt;em&gt;per se&lt;/em&gt; that Jon is &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Robb_Stark&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Robb&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;'s brother, it matters that Jon is of Stark descent; so &lt;strong&gt;Yes Jon has the blood of Kings running through him as he is A Stark&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Whether R+L=J, or not; since L is in fact a Stark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T04:37:48.633" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T04:37:48.633" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33564" CreationDate="2015-04-21T05:25:02.493" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you already know that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/11292/how-does-tokyo-drift-fit-into-the-time-line/11300#11300&quot;&gt;Chronology&lt;/a&gt; of Fast &amp;amp; Furious franchise is different from the release order but the reason for it is more complex than the chronology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tokyo Drift has nothing to do with the first two films.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Diesel was hoping to make more films in the Riddick franchise of sci-fi action pictures. To do that, though, he needed to get the rights for the character from Universal, which also produced the Fast &amp;amp; Furious movies. He agreed to cameo at the end of Tokyo Drift — as a promise of his return to the franchise in a fourth film (which eventually happened) — but instead of payment, he asked for the Riddick rights. Universal gave them to him, and another Riddick movie came out in 2013.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the end of Tokyo Drift, when Sean has taken the title of Drift King, he is challenged by a new racer — who turns out to be  Dominic, who says Han used to ride with his crew back in the day. (Diesel only make this cameo and its sequel for the deal with universal).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Han's character from Tokyo Drift was proved too popular in the audience. And  Dominic's conversation with Sean also left a few unanswered questions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now universal's chance to boost the franchise is by using all this in his favor, they can't resurrect Han but they can make the movie out of the Dominick's and Sean's discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And then franchise makes 3 sequels to first two films and prequel to Tokyo Drift. And the last Furious 7 was the sequel to Fast &amp;amp; Furious 6 and Tokyo Drift both to close the non-linear chronology.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now every production house wants to make more money and Universal obviously got success in doing so. And this non-linear chronology is not so uncommon too. Mid-equal, prequel, and parallel are a way to do this non-linear chronology possible. Example are Star Wars, Saw (where two sequels play in parallel), etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vox.com/2015/3/31/8318371/fast-and-furious-movies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Vox.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-05-30T06:08:52.597" LastActivityDate="2019-05-30T06:08:52.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33563" CreationDate="2015-04-21T05:55:22.717" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The difference I would make between the interest she had with Edric Storm and Jon Snow is that Edric was Baratheon, the same blood as her &quot;true King&quot;, that is Stannis. This &quot;King of the North&quot; is not recognized by anyone else than the Northerners when they rose up against King's Landing. I think that more than the blood, it is his potential&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; as Lord Commander of the Night's Watch&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that interests her and Stannis, as he has significant power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20565" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-06-02T08:30:44.923" LastActivityDate="2017-06-02T08:30:44.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33570" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33576" CreationDate="2015-04-21T06:42:54.950" Score="9" ViewCount="6765" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lou Bloom is a sociopath who is trying to establish a video news company.  He hires Rick, a kid from the streets, as his assistant and 2nd cameraman.  At first Lou intends to pay Rick nothing, instead offering an 'internship'. But after Rick argues that he needs the money even to make it to work, Lou grudgingly offers him $30 per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time goes on and the financial situation of Lou's company improves.  Some time after upgrading from Lou's Toyota Tercel to a Dodge Challenger, the matter of money is raised again, and Lou asks Rick what he thinks is a fair rate.  Rick equivocates, obviously unsure of how much he should ask for, and ends up asking for $75 a day, to which Lou 'seals it with a hand shake'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Soon after this, Rick suggests to Lou that he could have asked for more, and asks Lou to confirm.  Given Lou is a sociopath (who like to retain tight control of the people around them) I expected him to say something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No, the company is struggling at the moment, and we really can't afford more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not until you can tell me with confidence that you are worth more, and prove it with your film footage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, he just says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving Rick somewhat out of sorts.  This made me go 'huh?'..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another aspect of their news gathering had changed as well. Lou has managed to capture a crime scene, complete with images of the criminals and their car.  Instead of giving the information to the police and risk them arresting the assailants 'off camera' (and in a boring way), Lou opts to track them down, follow them, and call the police when things are 'more interesting'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently a large reward has been offered for the capture of the men, and this comes up while Lou and Rick are waiting for one of the bad guys to show up at his car.  Rick is deeply offended that Lou is paying him $75 a day while keeping the $50,000 reward, and demands half of it in order to keep him 'on board' with Lou's questionable morals and tactics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a very short argument, Lou agrees to that!  This had me thinking: What the..?!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason that Lou caved in so fast to offering Rick half the reward was because..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; ..he never intended to pay it.  Instead setting up Rick to be murdered that night on camera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it made me wonder: when had Lou decided to set that up?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He claims to Rick later, that he was upset with Rick making a deal &lt;strong&gt;then asking for more,&lt;/strong&gt; but his actions seemed driven to force a confrontation between them from the moment he told Rick (so flippantly) that Rick had cheated himself out of more money.  This would suggest that he might have been working on a plan to get a 'killer close' for his report, ever since capturing the footage of the criminals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T07:30:15.243" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T02:36:43.563" Title="At what point did Lou Bloom decide to 'sack' his assistant?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|nightcrawler|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33571" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35886" CreationDate="2015-04-21T07:18:05.803" Score="13" ViewCount="125661" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I learnt many things about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327597/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Coraline&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/hidden-meaning-movie-coraline/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;The Hidden Meaning of the Movie “Coraline”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically it looks like a normal fantasy animation movie, but it actually has a deeper meaning. It interprets the procedure of mind control for leaving pain. An alternate reality that provides so much comfortableness that one simply just ignores reality and wants to live in that world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the 'other mother' from Coraline's alternate reality is a witch who wants to trap her forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each time Coraline went to that alternate world she remembers everything. How she went, what she has done, the beauty, the horror. At a point, &quot;other mother&quot; trapped Coraline's parent using the same way she provoked Coraline to enter in her world (using dolls). Then Coraline rescued her parents through some events, but her parents can't remember what happened? Question is why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Coraline can remember everything why can't they? What's the hidden meaning of it from the viewpoint of mind control? Coraline even saw snow in their hair and jacket, so it wasn't a dream. They were actually trapped in the alternate reality. They wrote &quot;HELP US&quot; inside the mirror. Still they can't remember anything. What am I missing here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-05-23T23:41:09.667" LastActivityDate="2019-10-10T19:15:00.483" Title="Why can't Coraline's real parents remember the trap?" Tags="|plot-explanation|coraline|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31231" CreationDate="2015-04-21T07:28:52.353" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;She doesn't kill John because the contract was pulled, so she would break another rule and not even get payed for the kill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is unclear what happens if someone breaks the &quot;no killing in the hotel&quot;, it just states that there are &quot;heavy punishments&quot; on breaking it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie everybody except Perkins obeys the rule and it is probably not very common for a hotel guest to have a price on his head. Taking this into account it seems that the &quot;heavy punishment&quot; isn't used often and probably she didn't know what it ment.&#xA;Also we don't know what Winston said during the phone call, so he could have used a lie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T07:28:52.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33575" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33577" CreationDate="2015-04-21T09:33:35.990" Score="3" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;I heard someone say that all the Pixar movies are set in the same universe. Is this true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A casual web search led me to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pixartheory.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, but I'm not sure if it's canon or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know any details about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T11:27:47.817" Title="Are all Pixar movies set in the same universe?" Tags="|pixar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33570" CreationDate="2015-04-21T11:16:48.323" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the kind of person that Lou's character was, he never gave a damn about his partner. Whether or not Rick had asked him for a raise, Lou would have sacrificed Rick anytime if a situation ever came up where Lou could benefit from his death. Such kind of person, was Lou.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, what really infuriated Lou was not Rick asking for a raise or asking for a share in reward. It was Rick trying to cross Lou or Rick trying to question Lou, that infuriated him. You've rightly mentioned that being a sociopath Lou could not withstand the feeling of 'losing control'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now to answer your question specifically,&#xA;I think, Lou did not have a concrete plan on how he would remove Rick from his way. He just went in with the flow of events. However he was clear in his intentions that he would remove Rick from his path, somehow. First seed was sowed on that very same day that you've mentioned &quot;Rick asking for $75&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The gangster's car crash was a random event, but when it indeed occurred, Lou could not miss that opportunity to get Rick executed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally believe that even if the gangster had not shot Rick, Lou would definitely have killed him later on, before getting the reward and setting up a story. What we can't tell is &quot;how?&quot;, I think he could have done anything. Remember, Lou screwed up his rival Loder's (played by Bill Paxton) vehicle which resulted in his accident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-04-22T02:36:43.563" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T02:36:43.563" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33575" CreationDate="2015-04-21T11:27:47.817" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Possibly, but it doesn’t seem to be by design.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Pixar employee, Jay Ward, who was fairly involved in &lt;em&gt;Cars&lt;/em&gt;, was asked about this shortly after the posting of Negroni’s theory in an interview with Jason Torchinsky at io9. He rebuts the theory:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JT:&lt;/strong&gt; What do you think about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JW:&lt;/strong&gt; I think somebody had a lot of time on their hands. They may have had some other recreational activities…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JT:&lt;/strong&gt; So would you go as far as to deny that there's a common thread —&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JW:&lt;/strong&gt; It's almost like the 9/11 conspiracy theories… it’s like, really? No, the movies were sort of made in a different order by different directors in different times, in different places. It's cool that it all worked out that way, but it probably was not intentional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;— &lt;a href=&quot;http://jalopnik.com/pixars-jay-ward-responds-to-the-unified-pixar-movie-th-822973346&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pixar’s Jay Ward responds to the unified Pixar movie theory&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He’s the only Pixar employee I’ve ever seen discussing the theory, so unless another answerer can find somebody different, I’m inclined to say that it really is just a theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, Cracked and Negroni were by no means the first people to propose the idea of a shared universe (although Negroni might be the most detailed suggestion). There’s a Wikipedia article for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar_Theory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Pixar Theory&lt;/a&gt;, which says “Media discussion about a “Pixar Universe” has existed since at least 2003”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(This is copied from my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/65391/3567&quot;&gt;Is there any official evidence for the Pixar theory&lt;/a&gt; on the Science-Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9285" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T11:27:47.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33570" CreationDate="2015-04-21T11:31:18.127" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, Lou seemed to flip when Rick asked for half the reward.  Up until that point, Lou was making lots of money and enjoying having a partner with no scruples.  What Rick basically did at that moment was held Lou's livelihood at ransom.  Lou &lt;em&gt;knew&lt;/em&gt; he needed a second cameraman for the job, but so did Rick.  Rick knew that whatever he asked for, Lou would have to pay him.  That's when the entire operation flipped; it was at that point that Rick held all the cards.  From that moment on, Lou was just trying to figure out how to get Rick killed.  First by making him film in an unprotected area (hoping he'd get hit with a stray bullet), and then finally the execution setup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T11:31:18.127" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33579" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33581" CreationDate="2015-04-21T12:26:57.830" Score="32" ViewCount="3863" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know that Thursday night is pizza night and Saturday is a laundry day. What other activities (done by individuals or the whole group) occur on specific days?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20657" LastEditorUserId="98016" LastEditDate="2023-02-21T07:49:26.527" LastActivityDate="2023-02-21T07:49:26.527" Title="In the Big Bang Theory what activities are reserved for specific days of the week?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33579" CreationDate="2015-04-21T15:05:50.740" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is also the anything-can-happen Thursday, though I'm not sure how long that went on for and when it was swapped for pizza night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might also possibly be mentioned at some point that they visit the Cheesecake Factory on Wednesdays, but I'm not entirely sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think any of the other weekly day-specific activities are mentioned by which night of the week they are, but from the names of them we can assume that they occur weekly, such as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vintage video games night&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Halo night (likely discontinued)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New comic book night&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are probably more, but these are the only ones I can remember at the moment. If any more are revealed/remembered I'll edit them into my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T15:05:50.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33579" CreationDate="2015-04-21T15:27:05.390" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monday Night:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/Schedule&quot;&gt;Thai Takeout Night&lt;/a&gt;(this has all the activities posted by weekday)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tuesday Night:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/The_Cheesecake_Factory&quot;&gt;Cheesecake Factory night.&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wednesday Night:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/Halo_Night&quot;&gt;Halo Night&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/Comic_Book_Night&quot;&gt;New Comic Book Night&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thursday Night:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/Anything_Can_Happen_Thursday&quot;&gt;Every 3rd Thursday of each month is Anything Can Happen Thursday&lt;/a&gt;.  The rest of them are Pizza Night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Friday Night:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/Vintage_Game_Night&quot;&gt;Vintage Video Game night, also order Chinese Food night.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saturday Night:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/Laundry_night&quot;&gt;Laundry Night of course.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sunday:&lt;/strong&gt;  No &quot;usual&quot; activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18110" LastEditorUserId="18110" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T15:33:06.617" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T15:33:06.617" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33582" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-21T16:33:20.543" Score="1" ViewCount="587" Body="&lt;p&gt;So watching the first episode of season 2 of TURN.  Why does the spy, Culpepper, need to write on eggs?  He has a little hidden notebook and various other hiding spots but wants to use eggs?  The whole egg thing makes no sense.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18901" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T16:36:05.883" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T02:00:44.310" Title="Why all the eggs in TURN?" Tags="|plot-explanation|turn-washingtons-spies|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33583" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33584" CreationDate="2015-04-21T17:16:51.147" Score="3" ViewCount="1145" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;National Treasure&lt;/em&gt; Ben asks for a 100$ bill from a shopkeeper to get the timing at which he must follow the shadow (at Independence Hall). As far as I remember the timing was 2 or 3 or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have 2 100$ dollars bills, with 2 different times on the clock faces. Further, I don't think (but cannot ascertain) either of them matches the one in the movie. Is the time on the 100$ bill actually fixed or was this part of the movie inaccurate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20664" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T17:20:14.563" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T17:24:10.990" Title="Is the time on the 100$ bill actually fixed?" Tags="|realism|national-treasure|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33583" CreationDate="2015-04-21T17:24:10.990" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just a goof, or a deliberate disregard to reality in order to make a fun movie. Here's a few relevant facts from the goof section on IMDB&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ben, Abigail and Riley follow a clue from the engraving of Independence Hall on the $100 bill. Noting the time on the clock in the tower and following the shadow of the tower to a spot on a wall. In reality the original tower of Independence Hall that existed in 1776 had no clock, it was built only to hold a bell (i.e. the Liberty Bell.) What's more that tower became unstable and was removed in 1781 and was replaced by a simple peaked roof. The original clock on the building was built into the side of the building facing Congress Hall. The current tower with its clock wasn't built until 1828. Benjamin Franklin who was the focus of many of the clues died in 1790 so there's no way he could have used the tower clock in setting up the clues. This information comes from &quot;Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia&quot; by Roger W. Moss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Until 1883, there were no standard time zones. Almost every locality used solar time to determine the correct time (noon was the time when the sun was directly overhead in each city, and this, of course, varied depending on the location of the city). Standard time zones were established when railroad schedules necessitated them. The only way they could have determined when 2:22PM occurred in the 1700s was to find out when the sun was directly overhead, and add two hours and twenty-two minutes to that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T17:24:10.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33570" CreationDate="2015-04-21T19:50:47.983" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think he had made up his mind when he spoke these words to Rick:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What if my problem wasn't that I don't understand people but that I don't like them? &lt;strong&gt;What if I was the kind of person who was obliged to hurt you for this? I mean physically&lt;/strong&gt;. I think you'd have to believe afterward, &lt;strong&gt;if you could&lt;/strong&gt;, that agreeing to participate and then backing out at the critical moment was a mistake. Because that's what I'm telling you, as clearly as I can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that, he was just waiting for an opportunity as Johnny Bones said. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18269" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T19:50:47.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33587" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33592" CreationDate="2015-04-21T21:23:34.297" Score="15" ViewCount="5777" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 6 Episode 7 of Community (Advanced Safety Features), the plot involves Britta agreeing to a guerilla marketing campaign and they manage to suggest to the Dean to purchase a Honda car, as you can see in the attached screenshot, it gets a little out of hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So was this episode sponsored by Honda? What are the rules here for such blatant product placement in USA? I didn't see anything in the credits like I normally do such as &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'promotional material provided by...' or 'promotional consideration furnished by...'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1OoFK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastEditorUserId="962" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T21:55:55.393" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T01:11:37.307" Title="Was this episode of Community sponsored by Honda" Tags="|community|product-placement|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33582" CreationDate="2015-04-21T21:37:26.903" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't actually seen this show yet. However, there is a method by which you mix alum and vinegar and use that as 'ink' to write on an egg. Once you've boiled and peeled the egg, the message appears on egg white. Supposedly this was developed during the Spanish Inquisition by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giambattista_della_Porta#Scientific_disciplines&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Giambattista della Porta Wikipedia&quot;&gt;Giambattista della Porta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T21:37:26.903" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13987" CreationDate="2015-04-21T22:09:42.130" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was in the live studio audience for the taping of a sitcom maybe 15 years ago when I was living in southern California.  There was a scene that couldn't be done live (no special effects; I believe it was just a scene outdoors).  It had obviously been taped beforehand.  The regular &quot;set&quot; consisted of the interior of a house -- laid out horizontally so each of the rooms had one wall missing, all facing the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scenes for &quot;live&quot; sitcoms are taped in chronological order, otherwise the audience would get pretty confused. (Sometimes if the actors made a mistake, they would have to redo the scene. The hard part then was to get the same reaction from the audience -- if they didn't I imagine they had to &quot;fix&quot; it during post-production.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the outdoor scene came up, they stopped the action on the set, dimmed the lights, and played the scene on several large TV monitors spaced across the front of the full audience.  (In fact when I first sat down, I was wondering what those were for.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2015-04-21T22:21:30.737" LastActivityDate="2015-04-21T22:21:30.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33587" CreationDate="2015-04-21T23:28:30.003" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honda is indeed sponsoring the latest season:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Honda has joined as the presenting sponsor of the highly anticipated sixth season of Community, premiering exclusively on Yahoo Screen on March 17. As part of a one-year, online video upfront program Honda will have several integrations in Community as well as pre-roll video ads on new episodes and series highlights. Additionally, Honda will run premium display and audience advertising across our extended network throughout the year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/110545087829/honda-heads-to-college-as-presenting-sponsor-of&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fcc.gov/guides/program-content-regulations&quot;&gt;FCC regulations&lt;/a&gt; indicate that sponsorship notice is mandatory (at least for broadcast/cable):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The sponsorship identification rule requires the identification of the sponsor of any cablecasting that is presented in exchange for money, service or &quot;other valuable consideration.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it may be that Community is now exempt from some of these rules since it is no longer distributed via television or cable networks. For example, regulations about &quot;Objectionable Content&quot; have a specific exemption for Internet tv shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It does not apply to video transmissions delivered over the Internet or via computer networks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I thought it was really well done and actually enjoyed it quite a bit. It was creative, humorous and fit with the flow of the show instead of being forced and awkward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21951" LastEditorUserId="21951" LastEditDate="2015-04-22T01:11:37.307" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T01:11:37.307" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33594" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33628" CreationDate="2015-04-22T01:07:57.700" Score="8" ViewCount="16550" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of the film &lt;em&gt;The Theory of Everything&lt;/em&gt;, Stephen Hawking is invited to meet the Queen and be offered a knighthood. Jane goes along too, although it's not clear to me if the invitation from the Queen was extended to her as well or if Stephen asked her to come along. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This really confuses me, as Jane is not part of Stephen's life at this point in the film. She appears to be living with Jonathan (I'm guessing they are married, since they did marry in real life) and Stephen is involved with his caregiver Elaine. I can't imagine why the Queen would have invited Jane along with Stephen, so why did Stephen invite Jane to go with him rather than Elaine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't  know if the answer to this is in the film and I just missed it or if there is some real life reason that didn't get expressed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12783" LastActivityDate="2018-06-24T00:16:21.317" Title="Why was Jane invited to go with Stephen Hawking to meet the Queen?" Tags="|analysis|the-theory-of-everything|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33523" CreationDate="2015-04-22T01:13:37.317" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Joker is insane - that is his defining characteristic.  Remember when Batman knocked him off the building?  As he plummeted to his presumable death, he was laughing hysterically. He was genuinely bummed out when Batman caught him with his grappling gun and saved him.  He was also clearly enjoying the beating Batman gave him in the interrogation room.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing that made Ledger's performance so great was that he perfectly captured the depths of the Joker's insanity, better than anyone before him ever had.  The Joker just wants to create havoc and carnage, and whether the carnage involves his own death is irrelevant to him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Some men just want to watch the world burn&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He may have been relatively confident that Harvey wouldn't shoot him, but we have no way of knowing for sure.  Personally, having grown up reading Batman comics and knowing the Joker pretty well, I believe he just didn't care whether Harvey shot him.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch the video - when the Joker thinks he is about to die, he thinks it is hilarious;  when he realizes he isn't going to die, he is annoyed to say the least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/2iqVK6ikB2E?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T01:13:37.317" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33596" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33611" CreationDate="2015-04-22T03:32:10.327" Score="5" ViewCount="24369" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_The_Curse_of_the_Black_Pearl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pirates of the Caribbean&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; film, we know that Bootstrap Turner (Bill Turner) is thrown to the bottom of the ocean by Barbossa and his crew. He may be alive due to the curse until it is broken at the end of the first movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_Dead_Man%27s_Chest&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;second movie&lt;/a&gt;, he comes to Jack Sparrow to give messages from Davy Jones. So how does he end up with Davy Jones from the bottom of the ocean. I believe he says something to Jack, but I am not able to understand fully. What deal did he make and why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T12:55:52.020" LastActivityDate="2017-09-21T03:24:35.087" Title="How come Bootstrap Turner (Bill Turner) ends up on the Davy Jones ship?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|pirates-of-the-caribbean|dead-mans-chest|curse-of-the-black-pearl|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33546" CreationDate="2015-04-22T04:05:10.233" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Absolutely, he can.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there's all sorts of questions that can be raised about the ethics and morality of it (not to mention the religious aspect of swearing the oath before their gods), &lt;em&gt;legally&lt;/em&gt; the deserters are executed as part of the &quot;king's justice.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is actually one of the first things we see in season one. After being attacked by white walkers, &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Gared&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gared&lt;/a&gt; deserts and is summarily executed by Ned Stark. The books play out the same way as the show, and they are what I have in front of me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But the man they found bound hand and foot to the holdfast wall awaiting the king’s justice was old and scrawny, not much taller than Robb. He had lost both ears and a finger to frostbite, and he dressed all in black, the same as a brother of the Night’s Watch, except that his furs were ragged and greasy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Game of thrones Chapter 1&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in case it's not clear exactly what &quot;the king's justice&quot; means, Ned passes an official judgement before the delivering the execution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Bran's] father peeled off his gloves and handed them to Jory Cassel, the captain of his household guard. He took hold of Ice with both hands and said, “In the name of Robert of the House Baratheon, the First of his Name, King of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm, by the word of Eddard of the House Stark, Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North, I do sentence you to die.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Game of thrones Chapter 1&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this means that Stannis has the authority to pardon Jon for his &quot;desertion,&quot; then name him lord of Winterfell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T04:05:10.233" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33596" CreationDate="2015-04-22T06:02:09.943" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a common sailors' phrase: &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Jones%27_Locker&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Davy Jones' Locker&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; which means &amp;quot;the bottom of the ocean&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Davy Jones' Locker, also Davy Jones's Locker, is an idiom for the bottom of the sea: the state of death among drowned sailors and shipwrecks. It is used as a euphemism for drowning or shipwrecks in which the sailor(s)'s and/or ship(s)'s remains are consigned to the bottom of the sea (to be sent to Davy Jones' Locker).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The origins of the name of Davy Jones, the sailors' devil, are unclear, with a 19th-century dictionary tracing Davy Jones to a &amp;quot;ghost of Jonah&amp;quot;. Other explanations of this nautical superstition have been put forth, including an incompetent sailor or a pub owner who kidnapped sailors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Bootstrap Bill Turner ended up with Davy Jones because that's what happens to all drowned sailors (at least, that's what happens in the world of &lt;em&gt;Pirates of the Caribbean&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Jones%27_Locker#21st_century&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;farther down&lt;/a&gt; the Wikipedia article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concept of Davy Jones was conflated with the legend of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Dutchman&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Flying Dutchman&lt;/a&gt; in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, in which Davy Jones's locker is portrayed as a sort of purgatory, with Davy Jones being a captain &lt;strong&gt;assigned to ferry those drowned at sea to the afterlife&lt;/strong&gt; before he corrupted his purpose out of anger at his betrayal by his lover, the sea goddess Calypso.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T06:02:09.943" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24974" CreationDate="2015-04-22T08:32:56.807" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It certainly wasn't initially a suicide mission. Several comments made by Capa and Corazon initiate that fact, but in addition, consider the conversation between Trey and Mace;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trey: &quot;If you rotate that much, we're going to lose Comm towers 3 and 4.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mace: &quot;Well, it's a good thing we don't need them.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trace: &quot;We don't need them now; we're going to need them to go home.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20687" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T08:32:56.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33596" CreationDate="2015-04-22T10:06:42.477" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film Davy Jones is supposed to be ferrying souls lost at sea into the Locker so they can be at peace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the Davy Jones in the film is not doing his job properly, hence the weird/fish/ocean/coral like appearance of him and his crew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, Davy Jones is attacking pirates and sailors and offering them a choice, to die or to serve on his ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Davy Jones&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Do you fear death?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how bootstrap Bill joined the ship. He was given the same choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;They strapped me to a cannon, I ended up on the bottom of the ocean, the weight of the water crushing down on me. Unable to move...unable to die, Jack. And I thought that even the tiniest hope of escaping this fate...I would take it. I would trade anything for it.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also why Tia (Calypso) says to Davy Jones:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You have corrupted your purpose, and so yourself.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Will Turner becomes the new Davy Jones - he does the job properly. That is why he looks normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20627" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-04-22T19:28:16.833" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T19:28:16.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30668" CreationDate="2015-04-22T11:42:41.507" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was in the end of season 6, after Leonard leaves for his sea expedition with Stephen Hawking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AFAIR, it was after they return from the airport(?) when Penny and Raj suddenly realize that Raj is able to talk with her despite not having drunk any alcohol for three days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Sorry, I saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/30668/20690#comment45200_30668&quot;&gt;the comment above&lt;/a&gt; too late, but to be complete here, it was &lt;a href=&quot;http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/The_Bon_Voyage_Reaction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Bon Voyage Reaction.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20690" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T14:02:13.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33004" CreationDate="2015-04-22T12:05:11.133" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very simply - Doug has a tendency towards obsessive behaviour, firstly towards alcohol, then Rachel, and always Frank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are all bad for him but all give him some sense of power or reason for living.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20691" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T12:05:11.133" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30668" CreationDate="2015-04-22T12:39:46.007" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might not count, but in the first season, there is an episode where he talks to Penny (episode 2 or 3, I'll figure out when I get home tonight) and has had no alcohol. I believe this was before the writers had his character realize he needs alcohol to talk to women. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said, might not count, but technically is the first time he talks to women with no alcohol whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20625" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T12:39:46.007" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33596" CreationDate="2015-04-22T13:05:30.970" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the conversation between Jack Sparrow and Bootstrap Bill when the latter came to deliver Davy Jones' message and the black spot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jack:&lt;/strong&gt; And to what do I owe the pleasure of your carbuncle?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bootstrap:&lt;/strong&gt; He sent me. Davy Jones.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jack:&lt;/strong&gt; So it's you, then. He shanghaied you into service, eh?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bootstrap:&lt;/strong&gt; I chose it. I'm sorry for the part I played in the mutiny against you, Jack. I stood up for you. Everything went wrong after that. They strapped me to a cannon. I ended up on the bottom of the ocean, the weight of the water crushing down on me. Unable to move. Unable to die, Jack. And I thought that even the tiniest hope of escaping this fate, I would take it. I would trade anything for it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jack:&lt;/strong&gt; It's funny what a man will do to forestall his final judgement.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bootstrap:&lt;/strong&gt; You made a deal with him too, Jack. He raised the Pearl from the depths for you. Thirteen years, you've been her captain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Bootstrap was at the bottom of the ocean where, at some point, Davy Jones came and offered him the service as a way out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This must have happened at some point in time before the end of the first movie, or Bootstrap would've just died (and floated to the land of the dead, as we saw those souls do in the first half of the third movie), which would've been his way out and he wouldn't have been desperate enough to accept Davy Jones' offer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="20379" LastEditDate="2015-04-22T18:31:29.717" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T18:31:29.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33594" CreationDate="2015-04-22T14:35:04.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stephen asked her to come along.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you see Jane and Jonathan together in their home towards the end of the film, Jonathan hands her a letter noting it's from Stephen, and after reading it you can hear Jane quietly exclaim, &quot;Oh, my!&quot; This makes it pretty clear that the letter is from Stephen himself, he's informing her of his impending knighthood, and has invited her to Buckingham Palace for the event and to meet the Queen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the film, Stephen is shown to be an incredibly positive individual given his condition. I took him inviting Jane to Buckingham Palace because he still cares for her as a friend and wanted her to have a happy day with him and their children, who would also be present. Sure she cheated on him, sure they divorced, but they could still be amicable towards each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T14:35:04.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33618" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-22T21:13:29.397" Score="3" ViewCount="244" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anyone know why &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092112/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Trick Or Treat (1986)&lt;/a&gt; (which stars Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne) didn't have a single track by either artist on the soundtrack?  And why they chose &lt;strong&gt;Fastway&lt;/strong&gt; (of all bands) to do the majority of it?  I'm fairly confident that had a lot to do with its financial failure, but I'm just curious if anyone knows what De Laurentiis was thinking by doing that?  I don't ever recall them being overly popular or &quot;up-and-coming&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T12:15:41.377" Title="Trick Or Treat - What gives with the soundtrack?" Tags="|soundtrack|trick-or-treat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33523" CreationDate="2015-04-22T21:15:22.930" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll take it a step further.  I think on some level he had a death wish.  Or at least was willing to die to corrupt others.  How else would you explain this?  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pages.drexel.edu/%7Eina22/splaylib/Screenplay-Dark_Knight.HTM&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From the Screenplay:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Joker walks towards the Bat-pod, which SPEEDS towards him.  He is FIRING his gun RANDOMLY at the oncoming traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;THE JOKER:&#xA;&amp;quot;Hit me.  Come on.  Hit me.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Batman watches as the Joker holds out his arms.  Waiting for impact.  There is no room to go around him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Batman LOCKS UP THE BRAKES.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Joker watches as Batman DUMPS the bike, rather than Smashing into him.  Batman SLAMS into the wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20709" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T21:54:23.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27035" CreationDate="2015-04-22T21:41:50.693" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think in the movie Jack dies and climbs to heaven but not necessarily dies from love. I think it was heartbreak from Miss Acacia rejecting him and finding out Madeline died, I know how it feels when a parent dies having lost my own mum, coupled with his clock simply winding down and him choosing not to let Acacia rewind it. Whether it was him deciding he was dieing anyway so he wanted her to kiss him before he did or whether the kiss did it I think is up to everyone's own interpretation of things much like how if you've read the book/seen the music videos you know he originally lives so you may think/decide that he simply passed out and imagined it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20711" LastActivityDate="2015-04-22T21:41:50.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8370" CreationDate="2015-04-22T22:42:34.853" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;At some point in time, the matrix figure out that people were escaping the matrix using the telephone lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By learning this, the architect of the matrix moved the telephone trunk lines into another space, where the people would assume they were outside the matrix but it wasnt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thats why the Oracle said that Neo was not the one. What Neo did when he visited the architect was to unconsiously give out the details of where they live outside and the way that place needs to look like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They never scape the Matrix, they just went to another place. Thw architect created a happy ending for them, so that they will calm down. It actually worked because the architect tricked everybody into believing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is why Neo could stop the machines and do many random things that he wasnt able to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The architect was right, he found an &quot;efficient&quot; way to handle the &quot;choosen ones&quot;. Just reroute the trunk lines into a cloned outside matrix and create a happy ending that they would believe in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20712" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-04-23T07:53:24.493" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T07:53:24.493" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33554" CreationDate="2015-04-23T01:35:05.533" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;So after finding some English translations of the song it has become quite clear of the significance of the song. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; From my understanding the gist of the song is about coming home to a loved one and the fact that the person singing can't stop thinking about them. “I will swim over the sea, Don’t listen to anybody else saying I won’t come, I will come back to you, I will return.” --So it no surprise Nika had a cassette with this song on it given he is in a war. Like DA said in the comments it was probably also put there for aesthetic purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20642" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T01:35:05.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9619" CreationDate="2015-04-23T01:35:45.517" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the others, that its about causing Angier pain because of the disgust he feels, but there is perhaps a deeper meaning that relates to the theme of the whole film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story of a sailor drowning and feeling like he's going home is in a sense the idea that to die doing the thing you dedicate your life too wouldn't even hurt, it would feel like the completion of your life's work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A sailor drowning feels like he's going home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A magician dying doing a trick is completing his final flourish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But after this whole chase for perfection, to create the best trick possible, Cutter is reminding Angier that in the end, he has destroyed himself. That contrary to his delusions of grandeur, to die at the hand of the thing you love is not noble, its still just agony. He hasn't won anything, he's only succeeded in killing the self he used to be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20714" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T01:35:45.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8370" CreationDate="2015-04-23T03:22:31.763" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because after 2:02:00 @ Matrix Reloaded, Neo did not ever returned to the Real World, but instead went to a simulated replica of the real world.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Neo walked outside from the architect room, the architect had made the following changes[1] in &quot;The Matrix&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) While the architect was talking to Neo, he created a close replica of the &quot;Real World&quot;[2]. I shall call this the &quot;Cloned World Program&quot;, and I will explain later the purpouse of creating this program and why it needed to be created at that exactly point of time.[3]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) He modified the telephone lines[4] in order to stop releasing people from the  to &quot;Dream World Program&quot;. Instead, the telephone lines now send the people from the &quot;Dream World Program&quot; to the &quot;Cloned World Program&quot;[5].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;Matrix Reloaded&quot; at the near end (2:02:00) there is no explation on how did Neo and Trinity came back from the &quot;Dream World Program&quot;. But is very likely that they did not returned to &quot;Real World&quot; but instead were routed[6] to the &quot;Cloned World Program&quot; without knowing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At 2:04:00, the hovercraft ship that Morpheo used to command, exploded under the attack of the machines. The &quot;Cloned World Program&quot; did not need to replicate the exact details of this ship anymore, so Neo could not tell it was not the same ship he was before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At 2:04:43 Neo clearly says; &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Something is different - Neo @ 2:04:43 Matrix Reloaded&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;. A possible explanation is that, because he did not went back to &quot;The Real World&quot;[7], but instead was redirected to the &quot;Cloned World Program&quot;, he in fact &quot;FELT SOMETHING DIFFERENT&quot;. He did not had too much time to think about it because he was to busy trying to stop the machines and then suddenly faints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At 2:05:10, Neo destroys the machines and suddenly faints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Neo fainted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A possible explanation is that an &quot;Unexpected Exception&quot;[8] ocurred when Neo used his powers in the &quot;Clone World Program&quot;. The way that exceptions are handled is the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The subject suddenly loses consciousness but his body remains[9].&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A manifestation of his body and consciousness appears in a special world called &quot;Subway Station World Program&quot;. This world is special because it serves as a transition between the &quot;Dream World Program&quot; and another world called &quot;The Machine City&quot;. It is also special because it is a small world that loops itself and not even Neo can scape of that world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Matrix doesn't really know how to handle this &quot;Unexpected Exception&quot; beyond that point in time. The only reason why Neo exited that world was because they forced the &quot;Merovingian&quot; (Matrix Revolutions) to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So in conclusion, right after 2:02:00 @ Matrix Reloaded, Neo did not went back to the &quot;Real World&quot; anymore, and everything that happened after he left the &quot;Architect Room&quot; was inside the &quot;Matrix Simulation&quot;. That explains why Agent Smith can now posses a human body, why can Neo stop &quot;things&quot; in the &quot;Real World&quot; (which it isn't real, its just a replica called &quot;Cloned World Program&quot;).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interesting Trivia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How many World/Programs can you count in the Matrix Trilogy?&lt;/strong&gt; So far, I had counted;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;First Matrix World Program&quot;. The architect describes this world in Matrix Reloaded;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The first Matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect; it was a work&#xA;  of art, flawless, sublime. A triumph equaled only by its monumental&#xA;  failure. The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me now as a&#xA;  consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;Dream World Program&quot; and the &quot;Oracle Program&quot;, also called plain Matrix. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thus I redesigned it, based on your history, to more accurately&#xA;  reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature. However, I was again&#xA;  frustrated by failure. I have since come to understand that the answer&#xA;  eluded me because it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less&#xA;  bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus the answer was stumbled&#xA;  upon by another: an intuitive program, initially created to&#xA;  investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of&#xA;  the Matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Subway Station World Program.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Architect Room World.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Cloned World Program (Replica of what Neo knew about the Real World)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Could you add another World/Program?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Supportive Arguments&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;strong&gt;Can the architect make changes inside the Matrix?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Yes and we had seen this before. In Matrix 1999, we can see a scene where Neo saids outloud &quot;Deja Vu&quot;. Then I quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Trinity: A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when&#xA;  they change something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, the Matrix can be changed at will. Some could consider the massive monitors showing Neo at the architect room as multiple &quot;Deja vu's&quot; happening at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;strong&gt;Can the architect make other Worlds/Programs?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. He created the first and second Matrix. He also created the Oracle and created the Subway Station World Program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;strong&gt;Why did the &quot;Clone World&quot; needed to be created at that particular point of time?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because that was the time when the architect could see Neo's possible future reaction. The architect wasn't just chatting with Neo, he was scanning his possible future reactions. In fact, Neo's possible future reactions where being showed in the monitors inside the architect's room. The architect needed to somehow design a &quot;Clone World&quot; that could fulfill his needs in order to keep Neo trapped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also notice that in the cloned world, the hovercraft ship doesn't last longer than 5 minutes before being blowed up. This was intentional so that Neo couldn't tell the different between the real hovercraft ship and the cloned one. Yet he managed to say outloud &quot;Something is different&quot; before fainting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[4] &lt;strong&gt;Can the architect modify the telephone lines in order to stop releasing people from the Dream World, and send them to the Cloned World Program?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Yes. There is no limitation on what the architect can do inside his simulation/world/program. He can manipulate everything. Read [1] and [2].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[5] &lt;strong&gt;Cloned World Program? Can he do that?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Yes. Read [1] and [2].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[6] &lt;strong&gt;Instead of returning to the Real World, Neo was send to the &quot;Cloned World Program?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Yes. Read [1] and [4].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[7] &lt;strong&gt;How can we be sure that Neo was at the &quot;Cloned World Program&quot; at 2:02:00 @ Matrix Reloaded?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Because that was the point in time where the architect had the power and information he needed. The Architect needed to know what Neo expected from the Real World, so he made a &quot;Cloned World Program&quot; out of that expectations. It was also the point in time when the ship was destroyed, when Neo used his powers outside the &quot;Dream World Program&quot;, and when Neo was transported to the &quot;Subway Station Program&quot; after he fainted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before that, the Architect could not know how the &quot;Real World&quot; looked like, nor Neo reactions, so he could not make the &quot;Clone World Program&quot; yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also before that, Neo did not felt &quot;Something Diferent&quot; as he said outloud, nor he tried to use his powers outside the &quot;Dream World&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And lastly, before that point in time, Agent Smith did not manifestated himself in a human body, only after 2:02:00.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[8] &lt;strong&gt;Unexpected Exception? Why?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Because Neo was not suppouse to use his powers in the Real World. He wasn't also suppouse to use his powers in the &quot;Cloned World Program&quot;. Yet, he manages to do so, so a &quot;Unexpected Exception&quot; inmediatly happends, making Neo faint and moving his mind into the &quot;Subway Station World Program&quot;. Quoting Matrix Revolutions;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sati: My name is Sati, your name is Neo.  My papa says you're not&#xA;  supposed to be here.  He says you must be lost.  Are you lost, Neo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That could mean that he is there because he did something he wasn't suppouse to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[9] &lt;strong&gt;Neo loses conciousness and moves to another world?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Yes. Renember that Neo suppously was in &quot;The Real World&quot; when he fainted. Yet, instead of waking up from his &quot;faint&quot; back to the Real World, his mind woke up in the &quot;Train Station World Program&quot;. Why did that happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Couldn't Neo wake up right after he fainted back into the real world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was not connected to the Matrix when he fainted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could assume that in &quot;Matrix Revolutions&quot;, Neo was plugged into the Matrix while he was fainted. But why would anybody do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Couldn't they (Trinity, Morpheous, anybody) wake him up before plugging him to the Matrix?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Neo fainted, he wasn't harmed and/or electrocuted. He had just destroyed some flying/robot/machines and out of nothing he fainted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anybody of you explain why does the &quot;mind of Neo&quot; needs to appear inside a Matrix Simulation (Subway Station World Program), if he was &quot;Disconnected&quot; from the Matrix and in the &quot;Real World?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only plaussible explanation that I find is that he was not in the Real World and yada yada yada.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pro Tip:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trinity needs to drink the Red Pill so she can wake up, just as Neo did in Matrix 1999. Also, she should check on Zion, but I bet they are pretty much dead since Neo did not actually manage to save them. [10]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[10] &lt;strong&gt;Why do you think that Zion is dead?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Quoting the Architect;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Architect: Which brings us, at last, to the moment of truth,&#xA;  wherein the fundamental flaw is ultimately expressed and the anomaly&#xA;  revealed as both beginning and end. There are two doors. The door to&#xA;  your right leads to the Source and the salvation of Zion. The door to&#xA;  your left leads back to the Matrix, to her, and to the end of your&#xA;  species. As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But we already&#xA;  know what you are going to do, don't we? Already I can see the chain&#xA;  reaction. The chemical precursors that signal the onset of an emotion&#xA;  designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming all that the Architect and the Oracle had said before is true, then&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Zion is dead because he chosed the left door in order to save Trinity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because Zion is dead, they did not warned Neo that he never returned to the Real World&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The oracle predicted in Matrix 1999 that Neo was not the Choosen one. Which is true because he could not save Zion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The architect warned him that not choosing the Right Door would mean the destruction of Zion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So you could either think that:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a) The Oracle was wrong in saying that Neo is no the choosing one&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b) The Architect was wrong in saying that Zion would not survive if Neo did not choose the right door&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;c) After a gibirish chat with the Architect, Neo suddenly becomes a god-like supernatural creature freak that can destroy machines and see without his eyes in the Real World, sic. Outside the Matrix simulation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;d) The Architect cannot think in a solution to Trick Neo in order to be forever trapped. He was just being pretentious when he said that stuff about how he become efficent in handling choosen ones, on how Neo was the 7th guy that tried this before and yada yada. He was just bluffing to see if that could stop Neo. Perhaps it did not work but it was worth the try I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e) Morpheos was right about Neo being the choosen one, but the Oracle and the Architect where wrong about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;f) When neo said that &quot;Something is different&quot;, it was because either the Architect gave Neo a WiFi connection to the Matrix for no particular reason, or Neo growed a &quot;Special Horn&quot; that gives him WiFi low latency connection to the Matrix. It is very important that this connection be low latency, or otherwise Neo could not had destroyed the machines on time. Also, the Matrix WiFi hotspot has no encryption/password or whatsoever, so any crazy lunatic can just join the network, surf the web, destroy machines. Guess that Artificial Intelligence isn't that smart after all when it comes to detect an anonymous connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe he felt that his hand was all charged up with superpowers for no particular reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or the Architect (A computer program) gave Neo real world super powers, even thou he is inside a computer simulation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or superpowers is just some natural thing like menstruation. You suddenly feel something warm like you pissed yourself and realise you are all covered in blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might as well fly like superman if you belive in the superpowers theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Or the exact opposite...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a) The Oracle was right. Neo was not the choosen one. He in fact did not saved Zion because he choosed to save trinity instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b) The Architect was right. Zion was destroyed beyond recognition just as he predicted it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;c) Neo travels to a &quot;Cloned World Program&quot; instead to the &quot;Real World&quot; where he could do all those &quot;Magic Tricks&quot; he couldn't done before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;d) The architect was right when he said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Architect: Denial is the most predictable of all human responses.&#xA;  But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it,&#xA;  and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Impliying that he alredy had designed the perfect strategy to handle Neo future actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;e) Morpheos got it wrong. Neo was not the choosen one. Mistakes happen, ya know? He is not a perfect program as the Oracle or the Architect, he is just a human being. Oh, and he is also dead because Zion was obliterated beyond recognition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;f) When Neo said that &quot;Something is different&quot;, it was because he somehow did not feel he returned back to the same place he was before. Kinda like a &quot;Deja vu&quot; in the first Matrix (1999).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QSPKL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Blue pilled fucks&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a picture of blue pilled f**ks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reflexive Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did the Architect had power, knowledge, motive to make a close replica of the Real World, and route the Telephone Lines to that Cloned World? (Yes / No)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20717" LastEditorUserId="20717" LastEditDate="2015-04-23T04:04:16.463" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T04:04:16.463" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33594" CreationDate="2015-04-23T04:35:43.537" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This event represents Stephen Hawking becoming a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Companions_of_Honour&quot;&gt;Companion of Honour&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/nov/14/theory-of-everything-movie-jane-steven-hawking-memoir&quot;&gt;The Guardian&lt;/a&gt; film review shed some light into this event and why the two are together:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hawking was made a Companion of Honour in 1989, but that actually happened &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the couple separated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the historical reality is that Hawking was made Companion of Honour, and invited to see the Queen, while he was still living with Jane, which would naturally mean she was invited because she was his wife. The following year, the two separated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, these events are reversed; first the two separated, then Hawking was made Companion of Honour and brought Jane along for ambiguous reasons. Thus the apparent contradiction is something that was introduced by the script rearranging historical events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12783" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T04:35:43.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33618" CreationDate="2015-04-23T05:44:54.727" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastway_%28band%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fastway&lt;/a&gt;, the band, recorded their debut album, also named &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastway_%28album%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fastway&lt;/a&gt;, in the year 1983. According to wikipedia's sources, the debut album was a critical and commercial success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After critical and commercial success, the band toured to promote the&#xA;  album (with one-time Fixx bassist Alfie Agius as their session bass&#xA;  player). The band then recruited Charlie McCracken, formerly of Taste,&#xA;  as &quot;permanent&quot; bassist, and &lt;strong&gt;released another success in the form of&#xA;  All Fired Up the following year.&lt;/strong&gt; After the hardships of touring,&#xA;  Shirley and McCracken subsequently left.After critical and commercial&#xA;  success, the band toured to promote the album&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they could have been seen as an &lt;em&gt;'up and coming'&lt;/em&gt; band during 1986.&#xA;That could've been the reason why they were approached for the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, in the same article on Wikipedia, they mention that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fastway was approached to make the soundtrack for the heavy metal&#xA;  horror film, Trick or Treat. &lt;strong&gt;The film flopped, but the soundtrack&#xA;  re-established Fastway as a hard-hitting metal band. The soundtrack&#xA;  was a moderate success, and stayed on the Billboard Top 200 chart for&#xA;  eleven months.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So may be Fastway was not solely responsible for the movie's commercial failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-04-23T12:15:41.377" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T12:15:41.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33634" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33637" CreationDate="2015-04-23T10:03:01.567" Score="11" ViewCount="1770" Body="&lt;p&gt;So in season one of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, Ser Jorah Mormont tells Dany that &quot;when Aegon Targaryen conquered the six kingdoms, he didn't do it because he had a right. He did it because he could&quot;. This, of course, struck me as odd, considering that there are seven kingdoms. Later though, I think, it is conveyed  by Oberyn, that Aegon was unable to conquer Dorne, and it remained an independent state which is why they have Princes and Princesses instead of Lords and Ladies. There is a saying amongst House Martell which goes &quot;the iron throne is made up of the thousand swords and none of them are from Dorne.&quot; In the HBO YouTube series &quot;Game of Thrones: History and Lore.&quot; We are told that eventually two members of House Martell married into royalty, thus uniting the realm, since then House Martell had been considered the crown's closest allies. So does that mean that the Dornish would rally to Dany's side if she crossed the narrow sea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="19585" LastEditDate="2015-04-23T19:19:08.997" LastActivityDate="2017-08-16T13:25:14.447" Title="Are House Martell secretly Team Targaryen?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33635" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-23T10:06:39.850" Score="6" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was recently watching the newest Hunger Games movie. There was a scene when Katniss walked out of a bunker for hunting and she saw a deer that was not afraid of her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What got me thinking, was that the deer was clearly not a real animal, but a rendered animation. Is it really cheaper to render an animal than to bring a real one to a movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I started to wonder - are there any common graphic/animation templates that can be shared among movie graphic designers, so that the costs are reduced so much that rendering an animal is simpler than bringing a real one? Or is the rendering of it so cheap and effortless that it is just easier to render a wild animal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20723" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T03:59:59.160" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T03:59:59.160" Title="Are there any existing animation templates for movie graphics?" Tags="|production|effects|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-mockingjay-1|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33634" CreationDate="2015-04-23T11:05:59.450" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer this properly would require using spoilers from the books. (I can update my answer with spoilers if need be, but I assumed since this is on the TV and movies se that you're looking for a show answer)&#xA;. - Updated&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Avoiding that, it's reasonable to assume they would rally for the Targaryens.  Dany's sister in law was Elia of Dorne (sister of Oberyn and Doran Martell), who The Mountain raped and killed during Robert's Rebellion under Tywin Lannister's orders. This is the reason for Prince Oberyn going to King's Landing and is the ultimate reason that he died.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously due to this the Martells have no love for the Baratheons or Lannisters, and so would likely jump at the chance to join with a powerful leader who could defeat these families and help them get revenge for their sister.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Book spoilers below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The last book details how Doran Martell has been conspiring with Targaryen sympathizers to overthrow the Baratheon/Lannister rule.  He has a secret treaty which binds Dorne to the Targaryen cause through the marriages of his daughter Arianne to a boy claiming to be Aegon (the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and the nephew of Dany) and his son Quentyn to Dany.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/A_Feast_for_Crows-Chapter_40&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here are two quotes from the books about this&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &quot;I have worked at the downfall of Tywin Lannister since the day they told me of Elia and her children.&quot; -Prince Doran Martell to his daughter Arianne Martell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/A_Dance_with_Dragons-Chapter_38&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;and&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I am not blind, nor deaf. I know you all believe me weak, frightened, feeble. Your father knew me better. Oberyn was ever the viper. Deadly, dangerous, unpredictable. No man dared tread on him. I was the grass. Pleasant, complaisant, sweet-smelling, swaying with every breeze. Who fears to walk upon the grass? &lt;strong&gt;But it is the grass that hides the viper from his enemies and shelters him until he strikes.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; Prince Doran Martell to the Sand Snakes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20458" LastEditorUserId="20458" LastEditDate="2017-08-16T13:25:14.447" LastActivityDate="2017-08-16T13:25:14.447" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33635" CreationDate="2015-04-23T12:33:29.780" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rendered animation in movies is indeed a software or a piece of computer program only. You must have heard of the software &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RenderMan_%28software%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Renderman&lt;/a&gt; which catapulted Pixar's success. &#xA;Now, in software industry, any piece of code/program is developed with the scope of being reusable. That's the whole point of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So let's say there is a computer program that can render a wild animal on screen. Of course, parts of that program would be reusable. All good programs are reusable. Now anyone can make a few tweaks to it and render their own wild animal, largely using the older code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there is a huge huge chance that templates exist. It makes a lot of sense.&#xA;Not having a template seems like a very bad idea and grossly ineffective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now in Software industry there is term called Open source software which anyone can use, and there are propriety software which are licensed and are property of a particular owner/company. So designers, developers within the same studio could easily use-reuse / share the templates. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T12:33:29.780" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33635" CreationDate="2015-04-23T12:37:35.553" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Is it really cheaper to render an animal than to bring a real one to a movie?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, but you have absolute and total control over the reaction of the deer if it's rendered.  You can &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; get a live deer to do what you want (assuming deer are trainable, which I don't know), but that rendered deer...  If you want it to dance, it'll dance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T12:37:35.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33648" CreationDate="2015-04-23T15:15:12.343" Score="24" ViewCount="10255" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Captain America: The Winter Soldier&lt;/em&gt;, when Black Widow kissed Captain America in the shopping mall to avoid getting caught, Black Widow asked him if he still feels uncomfortable while Captain said: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's not exactly the word I would use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did he mean? Did he mean he has some old-fashioned way to say that he was uncomfortable?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:18:42.620" LastActivityDate="2021-04-02T22:47:29.597" Title="What did Captain America mean after being kissed by Black Widow?" Tags="|dialogue|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|captain-america-the-winter-soldier|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33646" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33647" CreationDate="2015-04-23T15:53:16.057" Score="6" ViewCount="1864" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some time back, I saw the trailer for Jurassic World. And I liked it. It built the anticipation and curiosity. But then there was trailer-2 which revealed more scenes, more creatures. Then there was a Super Bowl TV spot, and finally there is a trailer 3. And now, a lot of anticipation and curiosity is killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And almost all of the movies are doing this nowadays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do they do that? What's the rationale behind releasing multiple trailers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am assuming that this is a new thing and earlier movies just had one trailer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-23T15:56:41.170" LastActivityDate="2016-09-22T14:13:23.243" Title="Why do studios release multiple trailers?" Tags="|marketing|trailers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33646" CreationDate="2015-04-23T16:52:37.300" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joker&lt;/strong&gt;: Because it's all...part of the [marketing] plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The initial trailers are called &lt;strong&gt;teaser trailers&lt;/strong&gt; because they're designed to do just that: provide you with a little teaser for the film. These are usually just to announce that a film is coming and to start building anticipation, and possibly because filming isn't quite done or there isn't enough film ready to build a larger, more cohesive trailer. This is also a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaser_campaign&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;marketing stragegy&lt;/a&gt; designed to build anticipation for a much larger marketing campaign to come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next trailer is usually much larger and reveals a bit more about the overall plot of the film or the ideas behind it. These may be revealed at/during large events such as conventions or even the Super Bowl as you mention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually a month or two before the film is set to come out, there's a final theatrical trailer that's fully intended to give audiences a more concrete and/or complete idea of what the film will be about in an effort to entice them to see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, there are also international versions of trailers that are usually tailored to suit the tastes of the local populace, or to highlight something specifically for them. I believe many later ads for the films Inception and the most recent Godzilla film featured Ken Watanebe heavily for the Japanese market, as he's a huge star there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of trailers is to build interest, and marketing behind films is bigger than it's ever been. Even 10 years ago there were only a handful of websites to view movie trailers on, and before that you were beholden to television or going to a movie theater to see them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back in the late 90s when the first teaser trailer was announced for the upcoming Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and which films it would be attached to (The Siege and A Bug's Life), &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_I:_The_Phantom_Menace#Marketing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;people paid full admission price&lt;/a&gt; to see these films, then walked out as soon as the trailer finished. I remember seeing news reports about theaters putting up signs telling patrons that if they paid to see a movie just to see the Episode I trailer, they would not receive a refund. This isn't an issue anymore because many of them can be released online at a moment's notice, and in some cases are even &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron#Marketing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;leaked online&lt;/a&gt; prior to their planned release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: A more recent trend in trailers is to have an approximately 5 second mini trailer for the film that's a super short version of the trailer for the same film shown immediately after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example is this trailer for Jason Bourne on YouTube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/F4gJsKZvqE4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this has to do with how videos like this are usually spread now, through sites like Facebook, Twitter and other social media hubs. Most people will casually scroll through their feeds which now also happen to automatically play video. According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/So-Why-Movie-Trailers-Now-Have-Three-Second-Teases-Them-131117.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; on Cinemablend, people tend to only pause for a few moments when they hit a video that autoplays in their feed, so these new short trailers in front of the actual trailer are a new way to capture your attention and quickly tell you what the rest of the 2.5 to 3 minute video is for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2016-09-22T14:13:23.243" LastActivityDate="2016-09-22T14:13:23.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33644" CreationDate="2015-04-23T16:56:36.703" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to say it was his polite way of saying, &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Not really, it made me aroused.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When men become aroused, well, you likely know what happens, and it can lead to some slight...discomfort? Cap is definitely still fairly old fashioned as you put it, and simply wanted to be polite and not vulgar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-04-23T16:56:36.703" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33660" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-24T03:11:10.777" Score="7" ViewCount="6956" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a date is provided for a US release, does it mean it will be released first thing that morning (matinee) or evening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20741" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-24T09:47:55.830" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T20:14:26.163" Title="On their U.S. release date, what time of day are movies first shown?" Tags="|distribution|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33660" CreationDate="2015-04-24T04:29:24.900" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This really depends on the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The average film that doesn't get a hyped release will show its first screenings, generally between 10 am and 12 pm (noon), whenever the theater opens and schedules the screenings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new blockbuster release, though, generally includes screenings at midnight on Thursday night (assuming the release date is set for Friday).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only restriction is that the film can't be shown before its specific release date (usually a Friday)... usually... that seems to be changing of late. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the industry's ever increasing need to extend their opening weekend box office numbers, screenings have started to spill over into Thursday evenings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, with &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Avengers: The Age of Ultron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; it has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/showtimes/title/tt2395427?date=/2015-04-30&amp;amp;ref_=tt_wbr_sh&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;screenings on Thursday, April 30th&lt;/a&gt; (official release date May 1st) as early as 4 pm (the earliest in the image below are for 7 pm but there are some at 4 farther down the page if it shows you the same info)!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qdc8w.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screening Times for Avengers: The Age of Ultron&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-04-24T13:24:00.410" LastActivityDate="2015-04-24T13:24:00.410" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33663" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-24T08:36:00.300" Score="5" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for the name of a miniseries that I had watched a long time ago. It's plot was about a scientist and his apprentice in a university. &#xA;The time line suggested it was between 1920s and 1950s maybe taking place in London.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;some more info about the episodes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;truth serum stolen and poured in London water system.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;a scientist discovers a time slowing compound.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;an electrical technician who does time travel by accident.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20745" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-04-24T09:10:23.460" LastActivityDate="2015-04-26T11:55:29.040" Title="Identify this British miniseries about a scientist" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:04:50.530" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33667" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33671" CreationDate="2015-04-24T12:48:42.633" Score="14" ViewCount="6488" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S04E05 of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, Lady Sansa Stark and Lord Petyr Baelish arrive in The Eyrie. They are greeted by Lysa and Robin Arryn. Robin is surprised (strange, considering he was there only months earlier). He calls him &quot;Uncle Petyr&quot;. I wondered for a long time why this was. Was it a term of affection? Did Lysa tell Robin to call him that because he grew up with the Tully's? Or does he simply think that he is a relative because he acts like one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastActivityDate="2015-04-25T16:13:10.327" Title="Why does Robin call Petyr &quot;Uncle&quot;?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32846" CreationDate="2015-04-24T13:12:20.100" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To give another example of the fluid internal history of Red Dwarf - In &quot;Thanks for the Memory&quot; Lister copies the memory of an old girlfriend and gives it to Rimmer.  When Rimmer finds out he realizes why some things didn't make sense, including why he had his appendix removed for a second time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also means Rimmer had his appendix removed whilst fairly young and then, with 8 months of Listers memory inserted, remembers Listers appendicitis whilst going out with the girl.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Legion&quot; the titular character removes Listers appendix (again), saying it was about to turn septic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can either explain it as fluid writing or (my favorite) with all the time and dimension jumping over the years, it's no wonder the crew's personal history is confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20747" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-04-24T14:54:31.913" LastActivityDate="2015-04-24T14:54:31.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33667" CreationDate="2015-04-24T13:20:09.743" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Uncle&quot; here is being used as term of very close familial ties, not because Petyr is actually family, but because Lysa &lt;em&gt;wants&lt;/em&gt; him to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robin's mother, Lysa Arryn, is in love with (or, perhaps more accurately, infatuated with) Petyr Baelish. She would have preferred to marry him, but was basically sold off to Jon Arryn as part of his support for Robert in the rebellion. With her husband dead, she continues to hold onto the fantasy of marrying Petyr and living out the rest of her life with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Petyr has been taking advantage of that to ingrain himself into the noble court in the Eyrie. He plays up the idea that he and Lysa &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; have been a happily married couple, with a son of their own, because he knows it reinforces the fantasy she has about her future with him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lysa wants her son to have a close relationship with Petyr, so she insists that he is &quot;Uncle Petyr&quot;. This plays right into Petyr's plan, since Robin is the heir to the Eyrie, Petyr now has a pretty strong influence over the boy. The term here is being used as a kind of &quot;generic male adult relative&quot;; obviously he can't call Petyr &quot;Father&quot;, so &quot;Uncle&quot; is the next best thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-04-24T17:40:36.743" LastActivityDate="2015-04-24T17:40:36.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33660" CreationDate="2015-04-24T13:26:50.143" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Theater employee here. I worked in the projection booth of my local theater from 2007 to 2011, and currently help out with marketing efforts since 2013. I'm friends with two GMs for the chain I work for and work aquaintences with a third, so I've had lots of observations and discussions in this area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The typical release day for movies in the US is on Friday. Weekends play big in the US, with lots of people looking to go out and do something. Summer this is especially true as kids are out of school, and there are usually no big sporting events going on. Fall is different because Friday nights are usually used for high school football in most cities, but movies will still generally come out on Fridays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first showings on Friday can typically happen as early as 10AM, maybe sooner, but this can change depending on the time of the year. Summer you'll usually see 10AM screenings, but they may be for movies that have been out for a while, or they may be for the newest movie(s) to come out that week. Weekdays they may start a little closer to noon, especially during the school year. Showtimes are determined by a contract agreement between the corporate office for the theater chain and the studio releasing the film. They agree to how many showings each day for the next week, and sometimes for how many weeks a movie will run as a bare minimum, with the option to extend of the theater wishes. The rates each entity gets as far as ticket sales are also negotiated. Newer digital projectors actually give studios the ability to limit how early and late a given film can be started, and even how many times it can be run during the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, sometimes this typical release day will change, and for certain reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next typical release day for a movie is a Wednesday. This is usually used when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The weekend after contains a big holiday in which many Americans typically travel or spend time with family, such as Independence Day, Memorial Day, or Labor Day.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There's a holiday that falls on a Thursday, such as Thanksgiving. Most big releases for the week of Thanksgiving tend to hit on Wednesday so they're ready in time for the holiday weekend, and because Friday is the first day of the Christmas shopping season (referred to as Black Friday), so lots of people are distracted elsewhere.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The studio may release a bit earlier to try and get the jump on a bigger movie it has to contend with. This is rare, but it happens.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even then, some movies have released on Tuesdays, Thursdays, even Mondays. These are a lot rarer in the US, but they do happen, and often for the same reasons cited above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Catija points out, sometimes movies have show times the Thursday evening before the Friday they're officially premiering on. This isn't moving the release date up, they're simply seen as early screenings, and are generally &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; counted in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_(2012_film)#Box_office&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;opening weekend gross&lt;/a&gt;. Even midnight screenings are usually not tallied in the opening weekend gross, and are often considered as a separate metric with its own rankings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for early releases, as in before midnight of the official day of release, is a bit manifold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Studios know when movies will have huge audiences that want to see the film as early as possible, so they allow for screenings in the evening the day before official release as a way to appease the more hardcore fanbase. These early screenings are sometimes made into big events by theaters to cater specifically to fans of the franchise the film is for. My theater went all out for the final Harry Potter film, with lots of custom decorations, games, events, tons of things.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Theaters likely also played a role in allowing for Thursday evening early screenings as opposed to midnight Friday screenings. Simply put, a lot of theater employees tend to be high school students, and US labor laws have very strict rules regarding how many hours these employees may work, as well as how late. Generally anyone age 17 and under can't legally work past 10:30PM in my state, while 18 year olds still in high school can usually only work as late as 12:30AM. This left us needing to find college students who could work that late, or relying more on management to handle things past those hours. Letting theaters hold 8PM screenings, for example, lets them have early showings for dedicated fans while not stretching themselves too thin on staff to accomodate later showings. This is a more recent phenomenon, and the earliest movie I recall Thursday evening screenings occurring was the first Transformers movie back in 2007.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-04-24T13:26:50.143" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33667" CreationDate="2015-04-24T13:26:55.623" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is speculation, but I would assume that it is simply because Lysa told him that is who he was, in the broadest sense of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a child in English culture, it's not uncommon to for parents to introduce their friends to their children as &lt;em&gt;uncles&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;aunts&lt;/em&gt;. It is much less complicated for the child to know instantly that this is a person that they can trust as they are within the family, rather than try to explain to them &quot;this is one of my friends&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the child is grown past being a toddler they will understand that the person isn't related to them and often will stop referring to them as &lt;em&gt;uncle&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;aunt&lt;/em&gt;, though sometimes it will stick as a term of affection for the person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leaves us with three options for why Robin calls Petyr uncle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Robin has grown up referring to Petyr as an uncle and truly feels as if he is as close as a member of his family, so carries on using it as a term of endearment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lysa encourages him to use it to make Petyr feel &lt;em&gt;as if&lt;/em&gt; he is part of the family, possibly so he'll visit more often if he feels closer to the child and incorporated into the family.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Robin isn't quite as advanced as he should be (for example he still breastfeeds and doesn't quite understand the concept and finality of death. He thinks the Moon Door is for fun, rather than for execution). Therefore he &lt;em&gt;may actually&lt;/em&gt; not understand yet that Petyr isn't his real uncle, and simply still calls him that because he believes he is related to him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2015-04-24T15:01:21.147" LastActivityDate="2015-04-24T15:01:21.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33672" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33674" CreationDate="2015-04-24T14:26:49.913" Score="8" ViewCount="975" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there any officially declared answers to why exactly &quot;Man of Steel&quot; had such heavy, dark tones throughout the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually such themes are used to depict harsh times in a movie. But here, the entire movie looked very dark and gloomy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7516" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T14:16:22.063" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T14:16:22.063" Title="Reason behind Man of Steels muted tones" Tags="|analysis|film-techniques|man-of-steel|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31750" CreationDate="2015-04-24T14:57:36.463" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Super_8_alien&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The alien also has electromagnetic powers which can cause guidance systems to break down and make missiles misfire. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that it was mentioned that the military weapons were misfiring. So the alien is indeed underground but is close enough to cause the military's weapons to malfunction. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastActivityDate="2015-04-24T14:57:36.463" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33672" CreationDate="2015-04-24T15:17:19.300" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;The following is just a first start, not so much based on proper quotes from the responsible film-makers rather than common sense and the respective &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Steel_%28film%29#Development&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article on the movie&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First and foremost the visual style of a movie is to a large degree up to its director and &lt;strong&gt;Zack Snyder has repeatedly shown his affinity towards darker and gloomier color tones&lt;/strong&gt;, even if &lt;em&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/em&gt; is still a bit more &quot;conventionally&quot; colored than say &lt;em&gt;300&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Sucker Punch&lt;/em&gt; or even &lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt;. But I guess you can see where he comes from. Add to this, that this style imbues the whole movie and not just individual scenes in order to give it a coherent style throughout the whole picture, fitting to its rather dark  themes and overall emotional tone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which brings us to its relevance for the movie's story and its themes. &lt;strong&gt;The general idea of &lt;em&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/em&gt; as yet another reboot of &lt;em&gt;Superman&lt;/em&gt; was primarily to go into a darker and more realistic (or upto cynical) direction with it&lt;/strong&gt;. This was primarily based on two things, the rather low critical and financial success of &lt;em&gt;Superman Returns&lt;/em&gt;, which was held in a very nostalgic (one might even say &quot;misty-eyed&quot;) style, regarding both the general story and its filmic interpretation. And on the other hand you have the big critical and financial success of Christopher Nolan's very realistic and dark reimagining of &lt;em&gt;Batman&lt;/em&gt;. So while a crossover between &lt;em&gt;Superman&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Batman&lt;/em&gt; might not have been immediately in mind at that time, the &lt;em&gt;Batman&lt;/em&gt; reboot and its success was still a big motivation to go into a similar line with the new &lt;em&gt;Superman&lt;/em&gt; (and afterall Nolan still worked as a producer on &lt;em&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/em&gt; and developed the general idea together with screenwriter David S. Goyer, who already worked with him on his &lt;em&gt;Batman&lt;/em&gt; series).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And part of this darker and gloomier reimagining of all the DC properties is probably also based on the fact that their biggest competitor, Marvel, has great success with pretty much the opposite direction. So &lt;strong&gt;a repositioning of their properties as a contrast to Marvel's funny, colorful and lighthearted movies might also serve to find a proper niche for their films&lt;/strong&gt; instead of simply copying their competitors. (And even as a total comic-ignoramus I always got the impression that this contrast between lightheartedness and a darker attitude was also inherent in Marvel's and DC's respective comic properties in the first place).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-10-07T13:51:50.550" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T13:51:50.550" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33707" CreationDate="2015-04-24T19:34:26.540" Score="10" ViewCount="2415" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What stages of revisions were done to the original Star Wars trilogy? meaning, how many times were they changed, when, and why?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems there was &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/54/20379&quot;&gt;one for the recent Blu-ray release&lt;/a&gt;. I know the Young Anakin ghost was added to Return of the Jedi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am most curious about is in &lt;em&gt;A New Hope&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt;. We're watching the whole set in preparation for &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;. Parts of the light saber battles look enhanced compared to other parts of the same battles, and parts of the space flight and/or fight scenes have the same effect. &lt;strong&gt;Did those scenes actually get changed to be more action-packed and cool?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20379" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2020-11-06T02:09:02.583" Title="Modifications to the Star Wars original trilogy" Tags="|star-wars|alternate-version|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17058" CreationDate="2015-04-24T22:19:56.513" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Sullivan comes home he has pastries. He is expecting the woman to be there like earlier in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She isn't there because the envelope contained a full account of the truth. It told her to find Dignam (Wahlberg) and explain to him the truth. He had no way to know that Sullivan was the rat since Sullivan blamed this on the other rat and recommended Di Caprio for the medal. On receipt of this information he and the lady decide to kill him rather then go to the police.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how he is in the apartment as she gave him a key and why she wasn't there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20754" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2017-10-28T21:16:29.030" LastActivityDate="2017-10-28T21:16:29.030" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10555" CreationDate="2015-04-25T00:27:59.843" Score="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the risk of giving an opinion-based answer, your friend is mostly right. Lucas began by writing a synopsis of the story in early 1973, then started working on a rough draft of a script the next year. Lucas' first draft was a mess: the story was confusing, far too long, and incredibly boring; the characters were terrible and bland; the dialogue was leaden and stilted; etc.  He eventually produced at least 6 versions of the script (first/rough draft, second draft, third draft, then 3 different versions of the fourth draft), and he had lots of help during the revision process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwarz.com/starkiller/the-connoisseurs-guide-to-the-scripts-of-the-star-wars-saga/&quot;&gt;Lucas' own words&lt;/a&gt; in an article from Mediascene Prevue #42, 1980:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think [I came up with the title The Star Wars before the story]. When I made the deal, I had to give it a name. I had been making notes, doing research over the years, but it wasn’t until I finished American Graffiti in ’73 that I actually started writing it. &lt;strong&gt;My original 14-page treatment didn’t bear much relationship to the final production, though&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://hem.bredband.net/wookiee/development/&quot;&gt;a site on the development of Star Wars&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[In the &lt;strong&gt;first synopsis&lt;/strong&gt;,] the story was very confusing and the spelling was horrible, since Lucas had never learned proper spelling or punctuation.  His agent and lawyer were puzzled and did not understand the story, and it was actually due to the popularity of American Graffiti that they eventually managed to sell the film to Twentieth Century Fox—after it had been rejected by both United Artists and Universal Pictures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;rough [draft]&lt;/strong&gt; was completed one year later in May 1974, and still carried the title The Star Wars. It was the first of four major drafts and several revised versions... When the screenplay draft was finished, however, Lucas still thought it was a mess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Adventures of the Starkiller (Episode One): “The Star Wars” was the title of Lucas’s &lt;strong&gt;second draft&lt;/strong&gt; which was delivered on January 28, 1975. This was a more character-driven story with more character development, which was important since Lucas wanted the film to make an emotional impact... &lt;strong&gt;He let his friends (among them director Francis Ford Coppola) read the scripts and tape-recorded their comments in order to get some advice. However, the suggestions from his wife Marcia (a film editor who later won an Oscar for Star Wars) were the ones he took most seriously&lt;/strong&gt;, even though her criticism sometimes made him angry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;third [draft]&lt;/strong&gt; which was finished on August 1, 1975 was called The Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Starkiller, and by this time, most of the plot was established. Lucas felt quite comfortable with his characters, but he still thought that the dialogue needed improvement, and was very concerned that his story might never make it to the silver screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lucas’s &lt;strong&gt;revised fourth draft&lt;/strong&gt; was the one which was used when filming began in Tunisia on March 25, 1976. A slightly edited version of this draft, entitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope—From the Journal of the Whills, was published in 1979 as the official screenplay of the film (the final editing of that &lt;strong&gt;public version&lt;/strong&gt; [of the fourth draft]—erroneously dated to January 15, 1976—was done after Star Wars went into production, probably after the film’s May 1977 release). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lucas had consulted his co-writers from American Graffiti (Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz) to sharpen the dialogue, which he felt lacked humour and bounce&lt;/strong&gt;, and although he rejected most of what they came up with, their new ideas gave Lucas renewed confidence in his work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regarding A New  Hope:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lucas later commented on the contributions of Huyck and Katz, in the book &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays&lt;/em&gt;:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dialogue has never been my strong point&lt;/strong&gt;, and so I talked to Willard and Gloria and asked them to do a quick dialogue polish. I gave them the fourth draft of the script, and they just improved the dialogue where they felt they could make a contribution. Then I took their changes, and sometimes I rewrote some of their lines. Some of their dialogue of course changed again when we started shooting. Some of it survived; some of it didn’t. &lt;strong&gt;They did about thirty percent of the dialogue&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cast agreed with Lucas' assessment of his dialogue-related shortcomings.  Carrie Fisher, Mark Hammil, and others frequently teased Lucas about this, and it is touched upon in audio commentary tracks and making-of documentaries. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/harrison-ford-han-solo_n_2097347.html&quot;&gt;Harrison Ford&lt;/a&gt; was particularly outspoken, and his difficulties with Lucas' dialogue led him to improvise many of his lines in the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ford famously told George Lucas, concerning the clunky dialogue in &quot;Star Wars,&quot; &quot;George, you can type this shit, but you sure as hell can't say it.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harrison Ford later confirmed this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I told George: 'You can't say that stuff. You can only type it.'&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding Ford's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/harrison-ford-han-solo_n_2097347.html&quot;&gt;improvisation&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mark Hamill, for one, was amazed at the dedication Ford put into each and every line, stating, &quot;He'd written things in the margins, saying the same thing basically, but his way. He had an amazing way of keeping the meaning but doing it in a really unique way for his character.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A George Lucas quote from Denise Worrell’s book &lt;em&gt;Icons&lt;/em&gt; (1989): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are four or five scripts for Star Wars, and you can see as you flip through them where certain ideas germinated and how the story developed. &lt;strong&gt;There was never a script completed that had the entire story as it exists now.&lt;/strong&gt; But by the time I finished the first Star Wars, the basic ideas and plots for Empire and Jedi were also done. As the stories unfolded, I would take certain ideas and save them; I’d put them aside in notebooks. As I was writing Star Wars, I kept taking out all the good parts, and I just kept telling myself I would make other movies someday. It was a mind trip I laid on myself to get me through the script. I just kept taking out stuff, and finally with Star Wars I felt I had one little incident that introduced the characters. So for the last six years [1977-1983] I’ve been trying to get rid of all the ideas I generated and felt so bad about throwing out in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regarding Empire Strikes Back:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;George Lucas quote from &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Writing has never been something I have enjoyed, and so, ultimately, on the second film I hired Leigh Brackett&lt;/strong&gt;. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out; she turned in the first draft, and then she passed away. I didn’t like the first script, but I gave Leigh credit because I liked her a lot. She was sick at the time she wrote the script, and she really tried her best. &lt;strong&gt;During the story conferences I had with Leigh, my thoughts weren’t fully formed and I felt that her script went in a completely different direction&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A George Lucas quote from Alan Arnold’s book &lt;em&gt;Once Upon A Galaxy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I hired Leigh Brackett to write the screenplay, but tragically she died right after completing the first draft. &lt;strong&gt;Faced with the situation that somebody had to step in and do a rewrite, I was forced to write the second draft of this screenplay&lt;/strong&gt;. But I found it much easier than I’d expected, almost enjoyable. It still took me three months to do, but that’s a lot different from two years. &lt;strong&gt;I also had the advantage of Larry Kasdan coming in later to do a rewrite and fix it up&lt;/strong&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lawrence Kasdan quote from &lt;em&gt;Cinefantastique Vol. 28&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What I worked on was a draft of the script George had written, based on the story George had given to Leigh&lt;/strong&gt; [Brackett]. I don’t know what of Leigh’s draft survived into the draft George wrote. &lt;strong&gt;What George handed me was a very rough first draft, really somewhere between an outline and a first draft. The structure of the story was all there – it was the skeleton for a movie&lt;/strong&gt;. What was needed was the flesh and the muscle.”   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regarding Return of the Jedi&lt;/strong&gt; (originally titled &quot;Return of the Jedi&quot; in early pre-production, retitled &quot;Revenge of the Jedi&quot; just before filming began, kept this title until 4 months before the film was released, when Lucas finally, officially changed the title back to &quot;Return of the Jedi&quot;):  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lawrence Kasdan quote from &lt;em&gt;Starlog #51&lt;/em&gt; (October 1981): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Kasdan is working from a] very rough first draft [script that George Lucas wrote. Kasdan will have to write Revenge of the Jedi quickly&lt;/strong&gt;, since it begins shooting in January.] It’s a similar situation to the terrible time problem we had on Empire, but I think that this time I’ll have a much freer hand, because &lt;strong&gt;the Jedi screenplay that George gave me isn’t nearly as far along as Empire’s was&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robert Watts quote from &lt;em&gt;The Making of Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The screenplay is the blueprint for everything, and without it you tend to flounder a bit. We’d had indications, we’d had discussions, &lt;strong&gt;we’d had drafts, but the final script did come very, very late&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The drafts of the A New Hope script:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwarz.com/starkiller/the-star-wars-rough-draft/&quot;&gt;Here is the first (rough) draft&lt;/a&gt;, from the invaluable Jedi Bendu Script Site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwarz.com/starkiller/adventures-of-the-starkiller-second-draft/&quot;&gt;Here is the second draft&lt;/a&gt;, from the same site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwarz.com/starkiller/the-star-wars-from-the-adventures-of-luke-starkiller-third-draft/&quot;&gt;Here is the third draft&lt;/a&gt;, from the same site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwarz.com/starkiller/star-wars-the-adventures-of-luke-starkiller-as-taken-from-the-journal-of-the-whills/&quot;&gt;Fourth draft&lt;/a&gt;, same site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwarz.com/starkiller/star-wars-the-adventures-of-luke-starkiller-revised-fourth-draft/&quot;&gt;Revised fourth draft&lt;/a&gt;, same site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwarz.com/starkiller/star-wars-public-version-of-fourth-draft/&quot;&gt;Public version of fourth draft&lt;/a&gt;, same site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Analyses and summaries of the drafts/scripts:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwarz.com/starkiller/the-connoisseurs-guide-to-the-scripts-of-the-star-wars-saga/&quot;&gt;The Connoisseur’s Guide to the Scripts of the Star Wars Saga&lt;/a&gt;, same site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hem.bredband.net/wookiee/development/&quot;&gt;The Development of Star Wars, As Seen Through the Scripts by George Lucas&lt;/a&gt;, from site  referred to earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Jedi Bendu Script Site also has articles on the draft variations for &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwarz.com/starkiller/draft-variations-for-the-empire-strikes-back/&quot;&gt;Empire Strikes Back&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwarz.com/starkiller/draft-variations-for-return-of-the-jedi/&quot;&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some of the more glaring differences between the early drafts of the script for A New Hope and the finished movie(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First synopsis:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, the first line of the synopsis is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is the story of Mace Windu, a revered Jedi Bendu of Ophuchi who was related to Usby C.J. Thape, Padawaan learner of the famed Jedi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lucas explained that he originally intended for the events of the film to be presented as though they were recorded in a journal (&quot;The Journal of the Whills&quot;) by an uninvolved narrator - apparently, this narrator was supposed to be a Jedi named Mace Windu. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lucas' own words regarding the &quot;Journal of the Whills&quot; concept:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originally, I was trying to have the story be told by somebody else&lt;/strong&gt;; there was somebody watching this whole story and recording it, somebody probably wiser than the mortal players in the actual events. I eventually dropped this idea, and &lt;strong&gt;the concepts behind the Whills turned into the Force&lt;/strong&gt;. But the Whills became part of this massive amount of notes, quotes, background information that I used for the scripts; the stories were actually taken from the ‘Journal of the Whills’ &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First Draft:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is a Luke Skywalker, but he is nothing like &lt;strong&gt;our&lt;/strong&gt; Luke Skywalker - he is a Jedi General who looks to be in his 60's but is actually much older - so we'll ignore him completely in this summary.  The character most like the one we know as Luke Skywalker was originally named Annikin Starkiller.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The heroes are Kane Starkiller and his sons Annikin and Deak.  Kane is a Jedi, one of the last, and is training his sons to become Jedi.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vader, obviously, is not Annikin, nor is he the father of the Annikin/Luke character.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Instead of a mask and helmet, Vader's face is covered by a black silk scarf.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vader is a general, not a Jedi (in fact, he doesn't even believe that Jedi exist), wears a normal uniform, and dies aboard the Death Star &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Almost everyone uses a lightsaber - even Stormtroopers. Lightsabers are at least as common as blasters (imagine how much less awesome Jedi would be if their unique and iconic weapons weren't unique or iconic at all).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What we know as the Dark Side of the Force is instead called the &quot;Bogan Force&quot; or &quot;para-Force&quot;; what we know as the Light Side of the Force is called the &quot;Ashla Force&quot;;  what we know as the Force is called the &quot;Force of Others&quot;.  The Jedi are referred to as &quot;Jedi Bendu&quot;.  The standard Jedi Bendu way of saying goodbye is &quot;May the Force of Others be with you&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first movie focuses on Kane Starkiller, the leader of the Alliance, sending his sons on a mission to retrieve the &quot;Kiber Crystal&quot; from a man named Owen Lars (who isn't Annikin's/Luke's uncle).  The Kiber Crystal is a diamond-like gem that can magnify either side of the Force a hundredfold.  Kane intends to use it to destroy the Death Star.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Han Solo was originally a lizard-like creature with gills, an idea Lucas fortunately dropped by the time he wrote the second draft.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chewbacca wears clothes - specifically, a flak jacket and brown cargo shorts (as well as his trademark bandoliers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leia is 14, and instead of being Annikin/Luke's sister, she falls in love with him.  Biggs is her little brother.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Grande Mouff Tarkin isn't a bad guy, nor an Imperial official, just a wimp.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The description of Wookiees (spelled &quot;Wookees&quot; in the first draft) is worth mentioning:  They are huge, gray, and furry, with large yellow eyes. They resemble giant &lt;a href=&quot;http://i.ytimg.com/vi/GN8fs5gn_38/hqdefault.jpg&quot;&gt;bush-babies&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Brown_Lemur_in_Andasibe.jpg&quot;&gt;lemurs&lt;/a&gt;.  They can squawk, jabber, yell, scream, laugh, screech, chatter, and cheer. They hug and kiss to show affection, and kneel and bow to show respect.     &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second Draft:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the second draft, Luke is much more like the Luke we know.  Here is how the Jedi Bendu site's summary of the second draft describes the manner in which we first encounter Luke: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The two droids... find the Moisture Farm of Owen Lars. The farm houses Owen’s wife, Beru, and Lars’ sixteen year old daughter, Leia. Also living there are Luke Starkiller, who is short and a little chubby, and Luke’s younger brothers Biggs and Windy Starkiller. Luke likes to study fossils in the Dune Sea when he is not practicing with his lazersword [&quot;lazersword&quot; was Lucas' unimaginative original name for the lightsaber].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Luke's father is dead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Luke and his mother lived with Owen Lars, Owen's wife Beru, and their daughter Leia on the Lars family's moisture farm; Luke's mother died some time later.  Leia therefore grew up living with Luke, who is about 2 years older than her, and she has a crush on him.  She is clearly &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a princess, nor is she his birth sister.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this draft, Owen has enthusiastically tried to teach Luke to become a warrior (presumably of the Jedi variety), but Luke shows little interest in anything other than lazersword practice and digging for fossils.  This is effectively the opposite of the Owen/Luke dynamic we see in the finished movie. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the second draft, instead of Annikin and Deak using the Kiber Crystal to destroy the Death Star (the version of events in the first draft), Luke flies his attack ship towards a familiar exhaust port on the battle station's surface. Vader pursues him in a fighter craft and is about to fire his weapons at Luke's ship, when out of nowhere, Han Solo's ship appears and blasts Vader's fighter out of the battle.  Luke focuses on his task, steering his ship towards the small exhaust hole ahead, then...  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;C-3PO&lt;/em&gt; FIRES THE TORPEDOES INTO THE PORT, DESTROYING THE DEATH STAR&lt;/strong&gt;.  You read that right - the torpedo that destroys the Death Star is fired not by Luke himself, but by his gunner - C-3PO. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obi Wan/Ben Kenobi does not appear in either the first or the second draft.  He was a later addition.  Even after he was added, he was supposed to survive the first two films.  When filming for A New Hope was more than half over, Lucas decided to kill him off to add a sense of drama.  Since Obi Wan was supposed to be the one who continued Luke's training in the second film, now that he was dead Lucas needed someone else to train Luke.  This is how Yoda came about.  Incidentally, Sir Alec Guinness was less than happy about suddenly finding out that the script had been changed and his character was being killed off.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although this applies to The Empire Strikes Back, not A New Hope, I have to mention it here: Yoda was originally named &quot;Minch&quot;. He was fairly harsh, and refused to let Luke eat until his training was complete.   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lucas claims that by the time A New Hope was released, the idea that Vader is Luke's father was set in stone.  The early drafts of the Empire Strikes Back script, however, seem to contradict this.  It seems more likely that this idea only occurred to Lucas well after filming for Empire had begun.  The same may be true of the idea that Luke and Leia are brother and sister.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-04-26T00:16:04.367" LastActivityDate="2015-04-26T00:16:04.367" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33683" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35824" CreationDate="2015-04-25T03:44:15.807" Score="1" ViewCount="1335" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is said that the West Wing responds to some of the issues that came up in the Clinton and Bush Presidencies. In particular, the MS represents Clinton's Lewinsky Scandal, and the episode &lt;em&gt;Isaac and Ishmael&lt;/em&gt; episode was a response to the 911 tragedy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see that Justice Ashland was furtively writing parts of his decisions in poetic verse, and was the reason that a police officer must read rights to an arrested person. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: &lt;strong&gt;Who does Justice Ashland represent in the West Wing?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T01:33:23.760" Title="Who does Justice Ashland represent in the West Wing?" Tags="|the-west-wing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33684" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-25T05:13:02.627" Score="8" ViewCount="13385" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any one observe this? It's interesting to see Heath Ledger in the restaurant ..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yKkMR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;batman&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that really Heath Ledger in the restaurant scene in &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20563" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T14:04:46.627" LastActivityDate="2016-11-02T18:31:59.473" Title="Is Heath Ledger seen in the restaurant scene in The Dark Knight?" Tags="|the-dark-knight|identify-this-actor|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:37:16.427" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13794" CreationDate="2015-04-25T07:22:54.673" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mark did an interview and a question concerning the movie came up. He denies that the person in the movie exists at all:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/1qfcWSZAHvM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20760" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-26T11:32:45.633" LastActivityDate="2015-04-26T11:32:45.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33689" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33775" CreationDate="2015-04-25T13:09:48.170" Score="11" ViewCount="3940" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Vision picked up Mjolnir very easily, making him worthy but why didn't he get Thor's power?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comics, whoever holds Mjolnir, gets the power of Thor, too. Why doesn't it happen in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2018-06-15T16:33:35.620" LastActivityDate="2018-06-15T16:33:35.620" Title="Why didn't he get the power of Mjolnir?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33690" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33934" CreationDate="2015-04-25T13:13:32.457" Score="13" ViewCount="23590" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end of &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; we get the new roster of Avengers and this is not a new thing, it always happened in comics and cartoons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's due to a major character leaving from the current roster. I can understand why Iron Man left or Thor or Hawkeye but why did Bruce Banner/Hulk leave the Avengers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="42053" LastEditDate="2018-05-10T18:41:02.810" LastActivityDate="2018-10-25T09:34:37.377" Title="What is the reason for Hulk's decision at the end of 'Age of Ultron'?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33693" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41219" CreationDate="2015-04-25T13:35:57.897" Score="3" ViewCount="24317" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2452254/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Clouds of Sils Maria&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spoiler ahead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story is about Maria Enders, she is now middle aged and a director wants to revived her character that she did 20 years ago. This time director wants to cast Maria as another character in the new version. Clouds of Sils Maria is about Maria's fighting to adjust her mentality for the new role and story about her thoughts, beliefs and re-adjustment with young thinking. At least that's what I figured.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kristen / Valentine is Maria'a assistant, also a friend may be. She advised Maria in several topics, comfort her in all odd situations. She also helps her to built the character within Maria that she will do. Rehearsal partner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the adjustment with the new role of Maria, Maria expressed her point of view of her character. But Valentine disagreed. She keep telling her about her interpretation which had some effect on Maria. Valentine realized that and wanted to leave her / at least didn't want to do the rehearsal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One day they were on a hike together to watch snake(a cloud formation in between mountains) They again started arguing about the character. At the end Valentine got upset and start walking. Then after one scene there is no Valentine. After a while when Maria realized she isn't around, Maria started shouting. But there was no Valentine. Disappeared in the mountain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next is very strange. We saw a new assistant. There is no further mention of Valentine in rest of the movie. Awkward. Where did she go! Is she dead? Did she has an accident? Did she left because of the argument? Where did she go? And why? What did I miss? What did it mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="12936" LastEditDate="2015-04-25T18:59:18.327" LastActivityDate="2020-07-31T21:42:32.587" Title="Why and how did Valentine disappear?" Tags="|plot-explanation|clouds-of-sils-maria|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33667" CreationDate="2015-04-25T16:13:10.327" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may be a subtle clue that Petyr still loves Catelyn, not Lysa. If Petyr and Catelyn were married, Petyr would be Robin's uncle. It could be hinting that because of Petyr's continued feelings for her, in his mind, he's Robin's uncle, not his father. I'm not sure how Robin would know that, but it's an alternative theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20769" LastActivityDate="2015-04-25T16:13:10.327" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33696" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33967" CreationDate="2015-04-25T16:46:31.040" Score="28" ViewCount="13322" Body="&lt;p&gt;I happened to be watching an episode of the 80's show Cosmos which was hosted by Carl Sagan. Sitting and listening to his voice, I was puzzled, thinking &quot;&lt;em&gt;Who's voice does this sound like?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. I came to the conclusion he sounded just like Agent Smith from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, &lt;strong&gt;Did Hugo Weaving copy the voice mannerisms from Carl Sagan for the part of Agent Smith?&lt;/strong&gt; Is there any evidence in the media or through interview why Weaving portrayed Smith like this? It's definitely not his normal speech pattern. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; I know it is hard to prove a negative. If someone has any information as to why Weaving played the part this way would be sufficient for an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference, here are two clips, one of Carl Sagan describing the 4th dimension and one of Agent Smith while interrogating Morpheus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Carl Sagan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/UnURElCzGc0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Agent Smith&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/UOi6v5DD_1M?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2015-04-25T16:58:11.987" LastActivityDate="2021-08-12T15:20:23.407" Title="Did Hugo Weaving Copy Carl Sagan to play Agent Smith?" Tags="|character|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33663" CreationDate="2015-04-25T19:37:18.863" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're looking for UK sci-fi mini-series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280770/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells&lt;/a&gt; from 2001, a historical 6-episode show based on the stories of H.G. Wells with him as the protagonist that investigates paranormal events with his girlfriend, teacher and scientist Jane Robbins. It includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A truth serum released into London's water supply (Ep. 6, &lt;em&gt;The Stolen Bacillus&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A scientist inventing a compound that slows down time perception (Ep. 1, &lt;em&gt;The New Accelerator&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An electrical technician experiencing accidental time travel (Ep. 2, &lt;em&gt;Brownlow’s Newspaper&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8qDXT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-04-26T11:55:29.040" LastActivityDate="2015-04-26T11:55:29.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1110" CreationDate="2015-04-26T01:26:35.197" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The missed grappling hook throw (in the film version) seems to be a myth.  Google &quot;Luke misses grappling hook&quot; and peruse the results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, &lt;a href=&quot;http://boards.theforce.net/threads/anh-deleted-grappling-hook-scene-disclaimer.15145816/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/my-memory-isnt-that-bad-is-it/post/371951/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://8mmforum.film-tech.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=006977&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=208349&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-on-RCA-CED-Format/topic/6923/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that people remember this sequence from non-movie materials - novelizations, radio plays, story books, etc., but attribute it to the movie itself.  Despite the &quot;memories&quot; of &lt;strong&gt;many&lt;/strong&gt; people like yourself, there is no evidence whatsoever that the missed throw was ever filmed.  The best answer is that your mind is playing tricks on you.  This kind of thing happens - it is why &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-it/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;eyewitness testimony is unreliable&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastActivityDate="2015-04-26T01:26:35.197" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2015-04-26T02:05:08.823" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer that he is in purgatory is the best explanation.  The setting, the ambience, the strange behavior, the out of body theme that reoccurs all point to this reality.  Remember the detectives who interview him after reporting the jumper suicide...they say all they handle is suicides...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The guy who waves and jumps in the beginning was simon. This is the end of his physical life, notice he does the same thing, waving to James at the end of the film before he jumps.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He spends the film resolving his internal conflicts from his life...he wants to be a good guy but fails by being too obliging, and is reduced to being a miserable stalkerish loner.  He manufactures a cocky winner persona with a ton of balls and social, political understanding, but finds this persona repugnant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot after his real life suicide examines his regrets about not fully pursuing what he wanted, being who he wanted to be.  As simon we see who he was in life, as James we see who he wished he could be like.  But through the story he begins to depise James and realizes he didn't want to be him afterall, just a braver version of himself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he uses the handcuffs and shared injuries to &quot;kill&quot; James he is letting go of this struggle, and finds peace.  In the ambulance he has what he wants, to be noticed by the colonel (professional respect) and the girl (human connection), but only because he has finally accepted himself, &quot;I like to think I'm pretty unique.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20781" LastActivityDate="2015-04-26T02:05:08.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16458" CreationDate="2015-04-26T02:11:08.133" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vader had nowhere else to go, and no one else to turn to.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Family:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Father&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He didn't know who his father was, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/1630/who-is-anakin-skywalkers-father&quot;&gt;if he even had a father&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mother&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His mother, the only real family he ever knew, was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/122218/did-anakin-skywalker-draw-upon-the-dark-side-when-he-slaughtered-the-sand-people&quot;&gt;dead&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Step-Family&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had only met his step-father and step-brother once, for a few minutes, and hadn't left on very good terms with them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;He had no family left, aside from a step-brother and step-father he had only met once for a day or so, and he didn't seem to care for either of them.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Friends:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anakin had very few friends.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obi-Wan Kenobi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obi-Wan was certainly his best friend, but Obi-Wan had just chopped off both Anakin's legs and one of his arms, then left him to die on a volcano.  That bridge had clearly been burned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Padme&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Padme was also his friend, but she was dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The other Jedi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other Jedi had been allies and acquaintances, but he had personally killed dozens of younlings, participated in the murder of Mace Windu, and abetted the Emperor's plan to murder all the rest.  The only survivors we know of are Yoda and Obi-Wan.  We've already dealt with Obi-Wan; it is unlikely that Yoda would be any more conciliatory than Kenobi was.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jar-Jar Binks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He might also have considered Jar-Jar a friend, but we don't know whether Jar-Jar would accept Anakin after all the atrocities he'd committed, or even how Anakin would have felt about turning to Jar-Jar after Padme's death.  Speaking for myself, however, I'd rather die than spend five minutes with that infuriatingly annoying, blithering amphibious idiot.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;He had murdered dozens of his friends, helped kill another, been mutilated by his best friend, participated in the plot to kill all the others - which was so successful that only two survived - and contributed to the death of his wife.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Places:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tatooine&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anakin had spent most of his life as a slave on Tatooine, and grew to despise it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -  &lt;em&gt;Attack of the Clones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coruscant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that, he lived at the Temple on Coruscant.  The Jedi who ran the temple were now dead, some by his hand, and the Temple had become Palpatine's palace. Coruscant is actually where he set up his primary residence as Lord Vader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Naboo&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His happiest days were spent on Naboo with Padme;  returning to Naboo after her death would have been agonizing for him.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Of the places Anakin had spent a significant amount of time, none were particularly inviting now.  He despised his true home - Tatooine, and he was too grief-stricken to revisit the place he'd been happiest - Naboo.  On top of this, if he had chosen to abandon Palpatine after all that had happened, there wouldn't be a &lt;em&gt;safe&lt;/em&gt; place for him to go - Imperial agents would hound his every step, an eventually kill him.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Resources:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before his treacherous switch to the Dark Side, Anakin had shunned material wealth, as was expected of all members of the Jedi Order.  The Jedi were supposed to own only some clothing, a lightsaber, and, perhaps a few small personal items.  Anakin was somewhat unique in that he also owned two droids.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Real Estate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had none.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Money&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had none.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;He had no home to go to, and no money or valuable property with which he might obtain a home.  He was faced with the choice of being penniless and homeless on his own, or being incredibly wealthy and powerful with Palpatine.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Anakin_Skywalker#Battle_between_brothers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wookieepedia&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Overwhelmed by his despair in the belief he had killed Amidala and their unborn child&lt;/strong&gt;, which fulfilled his prophetic dreams of her death, Vader destroyed the medical droids and severely damaged the facility through the Force. He broke his bindings on the operating table and struggled to walk under the sheer weight of his new prostheses and armor. &lt;strong&gt;The only purpose that remained in Vader's life was his service to the new Emperor&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;If he left Palpatine:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He would have no one to turn to, nowhere to go, and nothing to support himself;  Palpatine would presumably hunt him down and kill him for his disloyalty.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;If he stayed with Palpatine:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He would become rich, powerful, have ample opportunities to use his skills for evil, and eventually, he would have a chance to avenge what his new master had done by killing Palpatine.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T23:45:02.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33675" CreationDate="2015-04-26T02:32:05.627" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know of 4 major versions - the original releases, the 1997 Special Editions, the 2004 DVD editions, and the 2011 Blu-Ray editions.  The most significant alterations were those done for the 1997 Special Editions.  The changes were made for a number of reasons - to improve the special effects; to insert scenes that had been cut for practical, logistical, time-related, or financial reasons; to alter plot points; and to add details Lucas couldn't create/afford when he was making the movies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your specific questions, yes, the lightsaber effects were altered, as were the space battle sequences (e.g., more ships were added, editing was made more fast-paced and dynamic, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several sources offer lists of all (or most) of the changes, but there are far too many changes to repeat the list here.  Here is a list of such lists:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_changes_in_Star_Wars_re-releases&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_changes_in_Star_Wars_re-releases&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wookieepedia&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.empireonline.com/features/star-wars-changes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Empire Online&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/star-wars-bluray-changes-benm-131712/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Screen Rant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;DVD Active &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dvdactive.com/editorial/articles/star-wars-the-changes-part-one.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;part 1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dvdactive.com/editorial/articles/star-wars-the-changes-part-two.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;part 2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dvdactive.com/editorial/articles/star-wars-the-changes-part-three.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;part 3&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dvdactive.com/editorial/articles/star-wars-the-changes-part-four.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;part 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than listing all the changes, I'll provide Wookieepedia's summaries of when and why each edition was changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1997 Star Wars Trilogy Special Editions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 1997, Episodes IV, V, and VI were re-mastered and theatrically re-released as the &quot;Special Editions.&quot; For the re-release, in addition to extensive clean-up and restoration work, Lucas also made a number of changes to the films in order to &quot;finish the film the way it was meant to be&quot; (as Lucas said in a September 2004 interview with the Associated Press).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many of Lucas's changes for the Special Editions were cosmetic, generally adding special effects which weren't originally possible. Other changes, however, are considered to have affected plot or character development. These changes, such as the change referred to by fans as &quot;Han shot first,&quot; have proven to be controversial. The &quot;Han shot first&quot; situation can be generally described as this: in the original release of Episode IV, the character Han Solo shoots and kills a bounty hunter named Greedo, after Greedo threatens to kill him in order to collect a bounty which had been placed on Solo's head by Jabba the Hutt. In the Special Edition of the film, however, Greedo shoots first at close range. Only after he misses does Solo return fire. George Lucas has been quoted in Entertainment Weekly as saying that this version of the scene was meant to be the original, as in the original storyboards (Greedo fires first at Han Solo).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 2000, this version had box art redesigned to match the Box Art of Episodes I–III except the front of the box was white for Episodes IV and VI while Episode V retained the black used for the Prequel box art. Also the Star Wars logos on Episodes IV–VI used the logo design as featured for Episodes I–III. This was done to create a more uniformed look for all 6 movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Special coverage on CNN in 1997 notes that Lucas spent $10 million to rework his original 1977 film, which was roughly what it cost to film it originally. $3 million of that was spent on the audio track for the special edition. Lucas also spent $2.5 million each on Episodes V and VI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DVD Releases:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2004 Star Wars Trilogy DVD&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 2004, in addition to an extensive and comprehensive hi-definition digital cleanup and restoration job by Lowry Digital, the original trilogy films were changed once again for their release on DVD. In these new versions of the films, a few changes which had been made for the 1997 Special Editions were removed. Even more changes were made to the films, however. With this release, Lucasfilm created a new high-definition master of the films, which will be used in future releases as well. Its sound mix was a combination of the first SE mix and the original mono mix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the most notable of these new changes includes new footage shot during the filming of Revenge of the Sith of Ian McDiarmid portraying Palpatine, which has been inserted into The Empire Strikes Back, which replaces the original performance (voiced by actor Clive Revill and portrayed by Elaine Baker, wearing a specially made mask) recorded for the film. Another notable and quite controversial change was to a scene at the end of Episode VI, when the spirits of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Anakin Skywalker look upon the Rebels' celebration. The original actor who played Anakin in this scene (Sebastian Shaw) was replaced by Hayden Christensen, the actor who played Anakin in Episodes II and III.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The 2004 DVD changes were made in an attempt to make a better connection between the old and new trilogies. The 2004 DVD releases also received John D. Lowry's digital restoration visual enhancement treatment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2011 Blu-Ray Release:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 2004, Lucasfilm's then-Vice President of Marketing Jim Ward speculated on future releases: &quot;As the technology evolves and we get into a high-definition platform that is easily consumable by our customers, the situation is much better, but there will always be work to be done.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At Celebration V on August 14, 2010, a version of all six films released on the Blu-ray high-definition format was announced. It was said to include never-before-seen and otherwise unreleased deleted scenes from the original trilogy, although the set did not include the original editions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Examples of some of the changes*:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The opening titles originally didn't include the words &quot;A New Hope&quot; or &quot;Episode IV&quot;;  this was changed. Original; 1997.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lJ6ar.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mos Eisley was made busier. Original; 1997.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UD4Um.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the original, Greedo never shot at Han; this was infamously changed to make Greedo shoot first.  In later editions, it was further altered so that Han and Greedo shoot more or less simultaneously.  Original; 1997; 2004; 2011.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xt0Z3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The destruction of Alderaan was revamped.  Original; 1997.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RZ9iY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Han chases the Stormtroopers on the Death Star, he now finds far more of them.  Original; 1997.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7Ss2n.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lightsaber effects were improved.  Original; 2004.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3tgBR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Space battles now feature far more fighters.  Original; 1997.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nYPBe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The destruction of the Death Star was revamped.  Original; 1997.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kgOXV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Force Ghosts at the end of Return of the Jedi were changed.  Original; 2004.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XG3DU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some scenes in the later editions are completely new: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New shot in Mos Eisley, 1997:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NNlUE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Mos Eisley&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;New scene featuring a mobile Jabba - 1997; 2004:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4KqCW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Note:  I have focused mainly on changes made to the first film, mostly for brevity's sake.  The links above are more comprehensive and cover all of the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-04-26T23:16:06.580" LastActivityDate="2015-04-26T23:16:06.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33212" CreationDate="2015-04-26T05:23:27.147" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The word Babadook is a anagram of &quot;a bad book&quot;. In the book was a passage about seeing what the babadook really was underneath would scare you to death. The book was her suppressed feelings toward her son and the death of her husband. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20786" LastActivityDate="2015-04-26T05:23:27.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33713" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33715" CreationDate="2015-04-26T12:41:49.397" Score="12" ViewCount="4065" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Hans Gruber's gang seizes control of Nakatomi Plaza in &lt;em&gt;Die Hard&lt;/em&gt;, Hans and several henchmen accompany Joseph Takagi to his office and this is said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hans Gruber:&lt;/strong&gt; Theo has some questions for you.  Sort of 'fill in the blanks' questions.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Joseph Takagi:&lt;/strong&gt; (sees computer screen with log-in) I don't have that code!  You broke in here to access our computer?  Any information you could get, when they wake up in the morning, they'll change it.  You won't be able to &lt;strong&gt;blackmail our executives&lt;/strong&gt;.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing I can conclude from that is that Nakatomi is involved in illegal activities.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems strange given that just before this, while Takagi still thinks the group are terrorists, Hans is admiring a scale model of a bridge in a project in Indonesia, Takagi protests that they are doing it for the good of the people - which Hans readily accepts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly Holly's associate is caught red handed (or more accurately 'white nosed') while snorting some cocaine in her office, but I don't see why Nakatomi would be putting that type of information into their computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was Nakatomi corp. involved in illegal activity, or is there some other explanation I might have missed that accounts for the 'blackmail' comment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-26T12:44:59.277" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T00:20:02.980" Title="Was Nakatomi corp. involved in illegal activity?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|die-hard|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33713" CreationDate="2015-04-26T14:22:44.997" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Blackmail simply requires that Gruber gets access to sensitive information which others would want to keep secret. Industrial secrets, plans, financial data, passwords and the like were, no doubt, in the computer system and could be used as leverage against executives in return for payoffs. There needn't be anything illegal discovered -- the legal, proprietary and private stuff would be reason to pay off a cyber criminal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3552" LastActivityDate="2015-04-26T14:22:44.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33719" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33741" CreationDate="2015-04-26T21:49:29.350" Score="6" ViewCount="1355" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2012 version of &lt;em&gt;Total Recall&lt;/em&gt;, when Quaid is being strapped into the chair to have his Hauser memories/personality re-implanted one of the soldiers is shown to cut Quaid's wrist restraints with some sort of laser. Quaid and the soldier then share a knowing glance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seconds later Quaid breaks free of his restraints, breaks this soldier's leg steals his gun, and eventually shoots everyone in the room including his rescuer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I miss something, or is Quaid just incredibly ungrateful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9854" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-26T22:03:59.787" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T16:56:45.133" Title="Why does Quaid shoot the soldier that frees him?" Tags="|plot-explanation|total-recall-2012|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33713" CreationDate="2015-04-27T00:07:57.487" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why not? Simon Gruber, Hans' brother, picked his target, the USA (Fort Knox), out of consideration for the rest of the world citing reasons of wanting to &quot;level the playing field&quot;. He apparently wants to do good by hurting the bad USA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hans, which he obviously cared for, had a similar cause. He wanted to punish Nakatomi for &quot;[their] legacy of greed around the globe&quot;. Simon seems to pick up Hans's strategy after his death: make threats to harm innocent people unless justice is served his group of idealists, when in truth he is just performing a heist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, both brothers display some kind of twisted morale where they justify their crimes by only stealing from, and murdering, people they perceive as bad. Hans perceives Nakatomi as bad, probably because they are bad, and he has no issues holding the building hostage, killing employees and robbing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20801" LastEditorUserId="20801" LastEditDate="2015-04-27T00:20:02.980" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T00:20:02.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33724" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-27T01:20:48.623" Score="-4" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S2E4 Orphan Black, Det Arthur Bell is snooping around the Prolethean campus taking pictures with his expensive Nikon camera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doesn't he know his Nikon camera has LCD display?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yUcTx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1627" LastActivityDate="2017-11-08T00:09:40.773" Title="Doesn't Det Arthur Bell know his Nikon camera has LCD display?" Tags="|orphan-black|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17126" CreationDate="2015-04-27T03:25:30.337" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Keating passed on his book of poetry to be read at the meetings of the Dead Poets Society, I believe that that was sufficient grounds for his dismissal. He was condoning the creation of a &lt;strong&gt;secret&lt;/strong&gt; and unsupervised club/organization that met off of school grounds. After Charlie Dalton received his paddling for revealing the existence of the D.P.S. in the school newspaper, Teacher Keating only mildly reprimanded him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the school may have very well just fired Keating for being a Maverick and as a scapegoat. Nevertheless, the administration have just cause to dismiss Mr. Keating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20804" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-04-27T05:58:23.047" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T05:58:23.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33727" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33728" CreationDate="2015-04-27T03:26:02.067" Score="6" ViewCount="4162" Body="&lt;p&gt;So from the very beginning of &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; we see Tony Stark flying around as Iron Man, we also see the Iron Legion and an automated repair room for them. There is also &amp;quot;Veronica&amp;quot; The Hulk Buster, and a War Machine without the ugly paint job. So did I miss an &amp;quot;Iron Man 4&amp;quot; movie when he built all that stuff? Is it actually ever explained where he got his suits from, considering he blew them all up in Iron Man 3?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2020-06-08T14:28:59.100" LastActivityDate="2020-06-08T14:28:59.100" Title="How did Tony Stark get his new suits?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|iron-man-3|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33727" CreationDate="2015-04-27T03:39:59.223" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given he's both a playboy billionaire, and previous movies have shown he manufactured his suits himself, &lt;strong&gt;I'd say it's safe to assume he fabricated them using his own resources&lt;/strong&gt;. He came out to the public as Iron Man at the end of the first film, so he doesn't really need to be completely covert when it comes to building these things, and can easily afford his own facilities to handle the job. Given he's also a genius at robotics, it shouldn't be hard for him to build a facility to fabricate his suits using next to no human interaction as well. I believe during the first movie you see him issuing commands to Jarvis about how to paint the updated suit, after he asks Jarvis how close it is to being fully built.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T03:39:59.223" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33729" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33892" CreationDate="2015-04-27T03:53:10.860" Score="31" ViewCount="102123" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; JARVIS uploads himself into a lifeless Virbranium android. This process creates Vision. Then before the final battle we see Tony Stark uploading a program called FRIDAY into his suit. During the battle we hear a feminine voice in The Iron Man suit instead of JARVIS'. So did JARVIS cease to exist after uploading himself into Vision? If so did JARVIS know that this would happen, or was it because of the Mindstone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:32:00.193" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T01:43:24.557" Title="What happened to Jarvis at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33724" CreationDate="2015-04-27T04:02:31.060" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no clue whether he &quot;knows it has an LCD&quot; or not.  What I can tell you is that photographers generally don't use LCDs when shooting unless they have no choice in the matter due to the angle you're shooting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People used to shooting on phones or point and shoot cameras get really used to shooting using LCDs but there are many downsides to using them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LCDs can be very difficult to see in different lighting situations while the dark space behind the viewfinder is always a controlled space with only the actual light being seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that, the LCD image is not always as clear as actually looking through the lens. The pixel ratio on those LCDs is generally pretty low, so the resolution is terrible for anything other than text and quickly viewing images after the fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that, LCDs kill battery life. In normal conditions, you might be able to use a camera for 6 hours of consistent shooting but, with the LCD, you'd drop to an hour or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T04:02:31.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33559" CreationDate="2015-04-27T05:12:42.293" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it's not defined there's no way to know for sure but:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Gendry&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gendry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Had Royal Blood in him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was a Virgin&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His Royal Blood was used in offering to the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/R%27hllor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lord of Light&lt;/a&gt;&quot; asking for 3 names to be killed.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;3a. &quot;The usurper&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Robb_Stark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Robb Stark&lt;/a&gt; (dead)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;3b. &quot;The usurper&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Balon_Greyjoy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Balon Greyjoy&lt;/a&gt; (dead)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;3c. &quot;The usurper&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Joffrey_Baratheon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joffrey Baratheon&lt;/a&gt; (dead)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gendry Was supposed to be sacrificed to the &quot;Lord of Light&quot; to make &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Stannis_Baratheon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stannis Baratheon&lt;/a&gt; King before he was set free&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see that 3 of the 3 names that were asked to be killed have died but they haven't made their &quot;great sacrifice&quot; for Stannis to become King.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly we see that &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Jon_Snow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jon Snow&lt;/a&gt; also has Royal Blood, which could make him a contender for her ritual. She seems to have a little liking for the &quot;young wolf&quot; and may not want to see him dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course it could just as easily be argued that it is purely to gauge the likelihood of him being swayed to break his vows. As a member of the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Night%27s_Watch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Night's Watch&lt;/a&gt;&quot; Jon is not supposed to sleep with women (actually it only says take no wife nor father any children, I'm pretty sure there's a little bit of wiggle room in there). If Jon has broken his vow not to sleep with women he might be more willing to break his vow and leave the Night's Watch to help King Stannis.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This theory, however, falls short when you realize that he could have lost his virginity before joining as most of the men there probably have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4320" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-07-01T15:51:31.737" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T15:51:31.737" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33732" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33735" CreationDate="2015-04-27T05:25:22.420" Score="20" ViewCount="10232" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2395427/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/a&gt; Steve Rogers said to Bruce Banner &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have seen her flirt, upclose&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was about Black Widow. What does that mean? Is that some dialogue theatrics or is there any reference there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18957" LastEditorUserId="19762" LastEditDate="2017-11-16T15:50:13.437" LastActivityDate="2022-06-19T17:08:47.620" Title="What does Steve Rogers mean in this dialogue?" Tags="|dialogue|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33690" CreationDate="2015-04-27T06:20:59.077" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I strongly believe that Hulk leaving towards the end has to do with Natasha Romanoff and Bruce Banner's romance in the middle of the movie. Their plan is to leave The Avengers and free from responsibilities and go somewhere and live happily but they both know it'll not turn out as they planned, especially Bruce, he mentioned from his very own words that Natasha won't have a future with him (I don't remember the exact words but they conversed in Hawk Eye's home.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is not the first film showing us that Bruce/Hulk having intimacy issues, in both of the previous movies, Bruce always tries to stay away from Betty to avoid hurting her and even he tries to become normal human for Betty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly, This is what Hulk does, stays remotely, away from loved ones because he's afraid that he might hurt them when he turns into a big green guy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T06:20:59.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33734" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33736" CreationDate="2015-04-27T06:21:49.637" Score="29" ViewCount="53185" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;, Iron man called the Hulk Buster program Veronica.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it named like this, is it some kind of reference to Archie comics or is it straight from Marvel comics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:32:56.820" LastActivityDate="2016-09-26T11:26:09.050" Title="Why was the Hulkbuster program called Veronica?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33732" CreationDate="2015-04-27T06:26:52.387" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, In &lt;em&gt;Captain America: Winter Soldier&lt;/em&gt;, there's a scene where Natasha kisses cap to avoid getting caught by bad guys. Also check this &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/33644/what-did-captain-america-mean-after-being-kissed-by-black-widow&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; and I believe he was referring to that situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y4xYQco9r3M?start=145&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="13701" LastEditDate="2019-08-28T13:37:05.203" LastActivityDate="2019-08-28T13:37:05.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33734" CreationDate="2015-04-27T08:29:51.397" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Is it some kind of reference to Archie comics?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Indeed.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://comicbook.com/2015/04/11/avengers-age-of-ultron-features-an-archie-comics-reference/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From Comicbook.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When asked why that was the case, [the film's writer and director, Joss] Whedon explained that it tied back to Bruce Banner's own personal backstory. More particularly, to Betty Ross, Hulk's love interest in his solo movies and the comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;You know, I just decided to call it Veronica because he used to be in love with a girl named Betty and Veronica is the opposite of that,&amp;quot; Whedon said, obviously referencing Betty and Veronica, who compete for &lt;a href=&quot;http://archiecomics.com/characters/archie-andrews/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Archie Andrews&lt;/a&gt;' attentions in &lt;em&gt;Archie&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The quote comes from an &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.disney.com/insider/2015/04/13/five-things-we-learned-from-the-avengers-age-of-ultron-press-conference/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; press conference&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T09:06:45.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32628" CreationDate="2015-04-27T11:29:20.180" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion even if it gives some &quot;feeling&quot; of a foul play there is no hard proof, so if media pick that up it would only be a speculation. It would surely have some negative effect, but not strong enough to matter. I think knowing Frank we may safely assume that he took that into account when planning the whole thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-04-27T11:42:28.363" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T11:42:28.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33740" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34320" CreationDate="2015-04-27T15:12:42.680" Score="6" ViewCount="1874" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just finished the first season of Daredevil on Netflix and one thing just stood out to me, that I cannot figure out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the time-frame by which this entire season takes place? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first episodes Karen is hired on to the firm and Matt and Foggy barely know her. What feels like days later (weeks at the most) mid-late season she acts like she's emotionally involved with the main cast members. She is devastated by their feuding and what have you but that seems like a really extreme reaction to people you barely know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7162" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T07:25:30.743" LastActivityDate="2016-07-17T12:00:06.947" Title="What is the time-frame of the 1st season of Daredevil?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|daredevil-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33719" CreationDate="2015-04-27T16:19:44.263" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though your consfusion is understandable (since most of them are wearing masks and the scene is pretty fast), &lt;strong&gt;you looked at the wrong soldier.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look again. One of the soldiers (Hammond) is the mysterious friend that helped Quaid earlier on. Quaid realizes it when he sees Hammond's eyes and that he's cutting his restraints. Hammond then &lt;em&gt;backs away&lt;/em&gt; towards the camera and then another soldier takes his place and is about to inject Quaid. It's &lt;em&gt;this soldier's&lt;/em&gt; leg that Quaid kicks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hammond then lunges at the robot and fights with it, and Quaid shoots the &lt;em&gt;robot&lt;/em&gt; to help Hammond. But Hammond is then gunned down by a &lt;em&gt;soldier&lt;/em&gt; (who's lying on the floor) with a machine gun once that soldier realizes that Hammond is helping Quaid. Quaid, who wasn't quick enough to prevent this, shoots &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; soldier dead, then goes over to Hammond, removes his mask and ruefully realizes that Hammond is dead too. Hammond sacrificed himself to help Quaid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-04-27T16:56:45.133" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T16:56:45.133" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33742" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-27T16:28:38.677" Score="5" ViewCount="38046" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Han was killed in a car accident by Deckard Shaw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Fast &amp;amp; Furious 7, they replayed the clip where Toretto went to visit Sean after Han's death. Sean gave him some things, and then that was it. Why wasn't Sean included in the attempt to avenge Han? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for an in-universe answer, but an out of would be halfway sufficient (something like &quot;actor scheduling&quot; or such).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3541" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-06-29T16:46:42.583" LastActivityDate="2019-08-22T04:42:58.167" Title="Why didn't Sean go with Toretto and the gang?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|fast-and-furious-franchise|furious-7|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30309" CreationDate="2015-04-27T19:34:18.947" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really enjoyed that movie, you see after they fought, Mitchell doped his phone,when he thought that Carter is dead there is a camera rapprochement on his broken phone lying on the ground. I don't think that he ever picked it up! (unless it's not shown) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20817" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T19:34:18.947" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33742" CreationDate="2015-04-27T21:28:21.473" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, I think Sean was so far removed at that point, and Dom already had his current team in place.  They all worked together in Fast 5 and 6, and Dom didn't really need &quot;just&quot; a driver (which was all Sean was).  Bringing him in kept the continuity, but there really was no need for him on the team in F7.  Besides, no one but Han really knew him well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T21:28:21.473" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19276" CreationDate="2015-04-27T21:28:32.547" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understood that scene was meant to emphasize the power that the ring could wield over the holder even after just a few years of Bilbo having it in his ownership. The stark contrast showed the audience that Bilbo's' personality itself had not changed &lt;em&gt;THAT&lt;/em&gt; much but in matters concerning the ring any former holder would become very overprotective and greedy basically the same personality traits that multiplied a hundredfold lead a person to become Gollum-like(yes I am going to invent that word)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20818" LastActivityDate="2015-04-27T21:28:32.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33751" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33765" CreationDate="2015-04-27T23:16:44.443" Score="15" ViewCount="19494" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2395427/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Tony Stark and Bruce Banner use what seems to be some kind of artificial intelligence bound in the Infinity Stone from Loki's scepter to refine a global peace A.I. that Tony delevoped, who then turns into the evil (or misguided?) Ultron who ultimately wants to eradicate humans from earth and strives for a new cybernetic population on earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in fact during the course of the movie, Tony loads his other existing A.I, JARVIS, into the Vibranium-enhanced cybernetic body that Ultron devised for himself &lt;em&gt;and enhances it with the Mind Stone from the scepter&lt;/em&gt;. Yet this time it turns indeed into the perfect being &lt;em&gt;Vision&lt;/em&gt; that Ultron should have been all along, devoid of the inhuman attitudes of Ultron.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I wonder what it is that makes Vision different from Ultron. &lt;strong&gt;What is it that gives Ultron his misguided character?&lt;/strong&gt; Is it just a matter of JARVIS' longer and more humble experience as Tony's assistant? Or is it his lower complexity, does Ultron's larger power drive him mad or does Vision maybe not have as much free will and creativity as Ultron does? Or is it actually the Infinity Stone from the scepter that gives him an utterly &lt;em&gt;evil&lt;/em&gt; spirit right away, as we have seen its disruptive effects on the mind in the first &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt; movie (but then again, Vision does employ that stone, too)? Or is it the partly organic body that gives Vision a human facet (yet, I'd doubt Ultron would suddenly have turned sane when put in there)? Why is it that Ultron is a spoiled kid trying to eradicate his creators while Vision seems to be the perfect mind in a perfect body (who's afterall &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/33689/49&quot;&gt;worthy to rule Asgard&lt;/a&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2019-09-30T18:46:38.820" Title="What makes Ultron the person he is?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33753" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-28T00:37:13.590" Score="5" ViewCount="5223" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;Out Of Time,&lt;/em&gt; Barry has to run so fast that he accidentally jumps back in time by approximately one day, and &lt;em&gt;becomes&lt;/em&gt; the doppelganger he had seen running alongside himself the day before... To Be Continued.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next episode, &lt;em&gt;Rogue Time&lt;/em&gt;, picks up right where &lt;em&gt;Out Of Time&lt;/em&gt; left off, and Future!Barry starts living the previous day over.  But since he hadn't jumped back in time yet, for the next day at least, Past!Barry should still be around, but he never shows up.  As far as we can tell, except for those few seconds when the two versions of Barry saw each other running beside them, there was only ever one Barry Allen in Central City that day. (And, just to make things worse, because Future!Barry prevented the tsunami from happening, Past!Barry would never have ended up jumping back in time, so there should have been two of them indefinitely!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what happened to Past!Barry?  It's never explained on the show, but has anyone involved with the show provided any insight into what happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2023" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-20T11:24:25.040" LastActivityDate="2016-04-20T11:24:25.040" Title="What happened to the second Barry in Rogue Time?" Tags="|arrowverse|the-flash|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33755" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33756" CreationDate="2015-04-28T03:51:04.843" Score="7" ViewCount="4317" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can someone please tell me why Amir Khan's character is named &lt;strong&gt;PK&lt;/strong&gt; in his Bollywood film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PK_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PK&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20473" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-21T09:12:50.353" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T09:22:58.227" Title="Why was Amir Khan's character named PK?" Tags="|analysis|character|pk|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33755" CreationDate="2015-04-28T04:21:25.463" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;PK is a hindi slang. It expands as 'Pea kay' and it means &lt;strong&gt;being drunk&lt;/strong&gt;. Whenever Amir Khan's character talks to the general people, they feel like his statements and questions are absurd and idiotic. So they ask him whether he is drunk (PK), and hence he gets this name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T04:21:25.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33763" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-28T09:24:53.327" Score="8" ViewCount="15630" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aaron Taylor-Johnson was cast as Pietro Maximoff, AKA Quicksilver in the sequel to &lt;em&gt;The Avengers/Avengers Assemble&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most actors/actresses sign multi-picture contracts when working with Marvel Studios so that they can be called upon again to star in future films if need be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know how many films Aaron Taylor-Johnson signed on to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Warning: There may be spoilers regarding &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; in the comments and answers posted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-04-28T09:57:54.647" LastActivityDate="2016-07-18T05:56:53.823" Title="Are there any details about the contract that Aaron Taylor-Johnson signed to be a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33751" CreationDate="2015-04-28T09:48:42.240" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is all just my personal opinion, which I will eventually back up with quotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During one scene we see Tony show a 'live holographic feed' of JARVIS to Bruce. JARVIS has been completely designed by Tony, from the ground up. Every single element of JARVIS has been built, refined and perfected by Tony over (we assume) a large period of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then he shows a live feed of inside the Mind Stone - its larger, more chaotic, more like a human brain then something artificial. Bruce mentions that he sees signals flying around similar to a human brain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, it seems to be an organic intelligence that we know is manipulative and above all else, dominating. (Hawk-eye)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is where my opinion comes into it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike JARVIS, Tony cuts corners with Ultron. It seems like he simply transfers this organic intelligence into a existing peacekeeping intelligence, giving an otherwise 'magical' entity access to our wealth of human history available on the web. And a brand new intelligent being, seeing human history for the first time would almost certainly come to the conclusion that we are evil, destructive and detrimental to the survival of the Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the old &quot;I must protect the Earth by destroying the humans who are destroying the Earth&quot; chestnut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that the intelligence of the Mind Stone has been turned into 'data' the Mind Stone exists only in its purest form now. It's been devoid of its previous 'organic intelligence' in other words, its just an empty shell now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That shell is filled with the 'Perfect' AI creation of JARVIS. Turning JARVIS into a 'organic' intelligent being.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's just what I think, anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: Tony takes the organic intelligence from the Mind Gem and turns it into AI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JARVIS's AI goes into the empty Mind Gem and it turns it into an organic intelligence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20829" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-09-30T18:46:38.820" LastActivityDate="2019-09-30T18:46:38.820" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33763" CreationDate="2015-04-28T09:52:40.037" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;He &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; only signed on for one: Age of Ultron.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(For obvious reasons) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2395427/trivia?item=tr2182877&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It took Joss Whedon a year to convince Aaron Taylor-Johnson to accept the role of Quicksilver. Johnson was concerned over the intensity of the Marvel contracts, the time constraints, and the fact that it was going to be such a large cast. Even after he accepted the role, he was still nervous, but was comforted after he learned that his friend and Godzilla (2014) co star Elizabeth Olsen would be playing his sister and would be his filming partner through most of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the only information I can find on it... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20829" LastEditorUserId="7516" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T12:47:23.777" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T12:47:23.777" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33770" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33804" CreationDate="2015-04-28T11:05:02.450" Score="11" ViewCount="2044" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movies of the &lt;em&gt;Marvel Cinematic Universe&lt;/em&gt; have established the common procedure to place little scenes after and during the credits sequence, in order to hint at future movies or to give hardcore fans recognizable things to adore. With &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, their first big intra-universe crossover movie, this concept was then further played with by placing a (more or less) relevant mid-credit scene into the credits and a rather irrelevant (or humouristic) scene at the end of the credits, an approach employed by the following MCU movies from then on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2395427/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, was notably missing a 2nd post-credit scene, it only had the normal mid-credit scene showing an Infinity Gauntlet-acquiring Thanos (as far as my limited understanding of those matters allows me deduce). Now while I couldn't care less about those scenes personally, the absence of such a scene was rather notable, seeing that this is yet again an instance of their flagship sub-franchise which one would have assumed to drive the whole post-credit scene mess even further ad absurdum. But rather than that they went a step back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would like to know &lt;strong&gt;if there is any official word or strong evidence why this decision was made to limit it to &quot;only&quot; one classic mid-credit scene&lt;/strong&gt;. Has there been a strong aversion to the trend of multiple post-credit scenes in the public to which they reacted? Did they just want to take a step back to a more humble approach and the multiple post-credit scenes were just an experiment? Or was this maybe even to deliberately mess with an audience that has been trained to look out for those scenes as part of the movie experience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T16:14:57.397" Title="Regarding Age of Ultron's post-credit scene" Tags="|production|marvel-cinematic-universe|credits|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33772" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33773" CreationDate="2015-04-28T11:31:21.073" Score="7" ViewCount="3300" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the scene where they both talk in Joan's house, when Turing reveals that Cairncross was the spy, why does the MI6 agent (Mark Strong) take it lightly? He says something regarding that he placed him in the first place and is sharing secrets with Stalin and not really a clever double agent. What did they mean exactly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20827" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T11:38:55.427" Title="What is the significance of the conversation between Menzies and Turing in the movie The Imitation Game?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-imitation-game|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33772" CreationDate="2015-04-28T11:38:55.427" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;UK and Soviet Russia were allies after The Third Reich attacked the latter. However according to Stewart Menzies (the MI6 agent) Churchill didn't want to share information with the Russians. Because of that they used Cairncross to leak the information they wanted the Russians to receive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2014Spoilers/ImitationGame.html&quot;&gt;www.themoviespoiler.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stewart says Denniston is looking for a spy in their hut and Alan tells them the spy is actually John Cairncross.  Stewart admits to knowing this before Cairncross even got to Bletchley; this is exactly why he placed them there – so they could leak whatever they wanted to Stalin since Churchill was too paranoid to share information with the Soviets.  Cairncross is unaware that he is being used by them.  Stewart says he needs Alan’s help to know what to leak to John and feed to the Soviets. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T11:38:55.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33689" CreationDate="2015-04-28T15:16:19.650" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me counter this with another question (and an admittedly slightly speculative answer): &lt;strong&gt;What makes you think Vision didn't get the power of Thor at all?&lt;/strong&gt; In the movie we see Vision actively wield Mjölnir, not only when he hands it to Thor, he also uses it in combat. So he definitely can wield the hammer and make use of its power. The question remains then, what you define as &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;the power of Thor&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; then (and how much of that is actually related to the hammer directly or more to Thor). Is it the lightnings? We don't see him use them but he might just not have made use of them in the few times he wielded the hammer. Is it the strength and invulnerability? Well, Vision had that already anyway, given his perfect bio-mechanical bodily form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it the ability to rule over Asgard? I would say Vision &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; actually worthy of that, too. As described in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/41004/49&quot;&gt;my answer to another highly related question&lt;/a&gt; Vision is actually worthy of the hammer and scenes with him carrying the hammer a supposed to convey exactly that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vision seems to be the embodiment of the ancient ideal of a perfect mind in a perfect body, one that combines the advantages of a mechanical intelligence with the concerns and soul of an organic lifeform and brings compassion for his (undoubtedly inferior) human fellows, in contrast to his purely mechanical brother Ultron. He thus seems to be the ideal creation of a humanity that strives for posthuman evolution. One could say in his second try Tony Stark (with the help of an actual (demi)god and some magic alien artifacts, though) overcame his role as merely a &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Modern Prometheus&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; and didn't just create sentient life, but a new god in itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the fact that Vision is able to wield Mjölnir to me doesn't come from the fact that he is &amp;quot;just a machine&amp;quot;, as Tony and Steve argue jokingly at the end, but from the fact that he &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; superior to us all not only in his body but even more so in his mind. And this I think is the attitude that Mjölnir is attracted to, as already shown in the first &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt; movie and also in this one when Steve nearly achieves to lift it (which was not because he is the strongest, but because he is the noblest at heart). In fact, Tony's and Steve's theories about Vision being &amp;quot;only a machine&amp;quot; at the end even support the interpretation that this is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the case by the mere humorous way they are presented in. Of course their childish excuses are not the reason for why The Vision achieved what they couldn't. In fact his pickung up the hammer is a perfect and to the point illustration of Vision's superiority and immediately clarifies that to the viewers, a symbol that has been explicitly set up by the earlier scene (with the whole gang trying to pick up the hammer) for exactly that purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, &lt;strong&gt;Vision &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; get the power of Mjölnir &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Thor with everything connected&lt;/strong&gt;, including the abstract notion of &amp;quot;being worthy&amp;quot;. But what makes Vision so extraordinary as part of his &amp;quot;worthiness&amp;quot; and what makes this worthiness and power seem so trivial (without the nice effects described in the other answer) is that he doesn't strive for this, he doesn't care to rule over Asgard, not because he can't as &amp;quot;a machine&amp;quot; or because he doesn't have a soul, but because his mind and motivations are above such &amp;quot;worldly&amp;quot; considerations. His light-handed and downplayed way to hand over the hammer to Thor and his easy ability to carry it in battle convey both his worthiness &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; his not caring about this at all. &lt;strong&gt;He is a god &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; a god-complex.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd wonder if there's anything else that defines &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;the power of Thor&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; and that Vision lacked or didn't demonstrate. The fact that we don't see him use all of Thor's powers to the fullest might just be due to the fact that &lt;strong&gt;Vision doesn't need to use them, he has his own powers (which aren't inferior to Thor's at all). And using Thor's or Mjölnir's powers above being necessary is not in his nature&lt;/strong&gt;, as explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T11:24:58.100" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33729" CreationDate="2015-04-28T16:21:04.330" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's assumed that JARVIS was uploaded into the Mind Stone, in the same way Ultron was downloaded from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of Ultron and JARVIS as CPU's and the Mind Stone as the Computer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20829" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T16:21:04.330" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18784" CreationDate="2015-04-28T17:07:07.320" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's his detective badge because next scene is him walking to the police plaza as a detective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20841" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T02:02:42.027" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T02:02:42.027" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13152" CreationDate="2015-04-28T21:52:05.053" Score="-8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think its an inside, like maybe Matt Damon turned down the role of Wilfred or something but other than the Madamon I cant think of any significant importance Matt has had in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20847" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T21:52:05.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15724" CreationDate="2015-04-28T23:11:51.557" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the scene with the bodies in the stream I believe you can see a slit throat because there were no other gun shots. I also don't think Michaels Rocco and Neri did it , they seem very loyal. So maybe Johnny Ola (from Sopranos fame) some how wormed a couple boys in there but the powers that be didn't go into it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20848" LastActivityDate="2015-04-28T23:11:51.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11948" CreationDate="2015-04-29T01:16:05.030" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Going off the tv show, I don't think the Northern army was killed, I think they were scattered without leaders. After the small council meeting, Tywin tells tyrion something like &quot;why is it more noble to kill 10,000 men in battle instead of a dozen at dinner&quot; ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20849" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T01:16:05.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32766" CreationDate="2015-04-29T03:01:07.073" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the truck was attacked, the men killed the guards of the meth and stole it from them. Gus, being a kingpin on the meth, probably had specific times that the men needed to deliver the meth. The fact that the truck never showed up on time, made him the first to know about it, and since it was on a discreet route through the desert, it probably would have taken a few days for anyone to find it. Also, at that point Hank was the only main person investigating Fring and Los Pollos Hermanos, so even if the truck was found, it would have been reported to the police. With the meth gone, they probably would have just thought it was shot up for another reason, and it wouldn't have been reported as a drug suspicion to the DEA. Gus would have taken care of the problem before Hank would find out about it, and would have made a story to cover up the meth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20850" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T03:01:07.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31610" CreationDate="2015-04-29T03:16:03.733" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's Ronan. He states their master knows the workings of the tesseract like the no other. That seems to be Thanos. I think they're talking to Ronan to try and recruit him to the side of Thanos. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20851" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T03:16:03.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16863" CreationDate="2015-04-29T03:52:00.983" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 8, it shows Howard's half-brother come to his house; so that could be proof that Penny was telling the truth about the letter in Bernadette's closet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20852" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T05:14:00.607" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T05:14:00.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33763" CreationDate="2015-04-29T04:08:21.347" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read somewhere that BOTH Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen were signed on for multi-picture deals as Quicksilver and Scarlett Witch respectively so, if I had to guess they will most likely bring him back IF this were true and they probably could do it considering they established Vision's mind gem and Scarlett Witch's powers. But, this is all speculation from what I was told and where I read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20853" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T12:58:59.700" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T12:58:59.700" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33791" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33942" CreationDate="2015-04-29T04:13:09.447" Score="14" ViewCount="2485" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is Captain America captain of the Avengers team? I am saying this because Captain America takes most decisions and once in Avengers: Age of Ultron Tony Stark mentions that he is just the financier and designs everything, Captain is the owner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13689" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T01:12:29.160" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T01:12:29.160" Title="Is Captain America captain of the Avengers team?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33792" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-29T06:30:42.060" Score="15" ViewCount="4991" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Age of Ultron mid-credit scene,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanos puts on some sort of a glove and says &amp;quot;Fine, I'll do it myself.&amp;quot; Which seems to imply his plan to get it done by others has failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Thanos mastermind the events in the movie in any manner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastEditorUserId="25773" LastEditDate="2020-09-04T16:44:27.550" LastActivityDate="2020-09-07T11:25:22.017" Title="Did Thanos have anything to do with the events of Age of Ultron?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33794" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-29T08:13:39.773" Score="6" ViewCount="2127" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does Iron Man's costume serve to emphasize the aspects of his character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20858" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-16T10:32:10.643" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T05:37:39.323" Title="How does Iron Man's costume serve to emphasize the aspects of his character?" Tags="|character|analysis|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man|costume|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33791" CreationDate="2015-04-29T12:12:15.957" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If by captain you mean &quot;Leader&quot; then yes. From all the Avengers Captain America has the most experience in combat and leading a team from his battles in WW2 (with the exception of Thor maybe). This qualifies him to lead the team because he's able to make quick decisions and form a battle plan while still being able to fight well without being too distracted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20862" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T12:12:15.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33794" CreationDate="2015-04-29T12:47:40.233" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now first of all, we have to take a look at the functionality of the costume (or rather suit), which obviously is the creation of a genius scientist and inventor. In fact Iron Man is pretty much the Marvel equivalent of Batman (though, less brooding and more self-centered, and with a war trauma as incentive instead of the loss of his parents), whose strength comes from his intelligence combined with the wealth necessary to put his ideas into actual form. &lt;strong&gt;He prevails through a sharp mind and technology&lt;/strong&gt;, rather than superhuman strength or otherwise alien abilities. And according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/16822/49&quot;&gt;this related answer&lt;/a&gt; this technological superiority of his suit also supports the techno-fetishism from which those movies and their protagonist derive much of their fascination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So much to the mere functionality. But afterall there is a much more subtle or trivial aspect to this costume, namely the fact that it is exactly that, a costume/suit and not an autonomous robot or a remote-controlled drone. As the later movies, especially the most recent &lt;em&gt;Age Of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;, show, Tony doesn't have much of a problem to just build androids and AIs doing his job. But as much as Iron Man's success might depend on a human controlling his behaviour, there is a much more indirect advantage of a suit, &lt;strong&gt;it puts Tony Stark in the middle of all, which this fits to Tony's incredibly self-centered and arrogant rock star character&lt;/strong&gt;. It is Tony Stark who does all this, &lt;em&gt;he&lt;/em&gt; is the Iron Man, as he is more than ready and proud to admit and exhibit throughout the movies, starting with his &quot;outing&quot; at the end of the first &lt;em&gt;Iron Man&lt;/em&gt; movie, and repeatedly emphasized during his show acts at Stark Expo, his reluctance to share his invention (though, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/21724/49&quot;&gt;that might also have other motivations&lt;/a&gt;), or his &quot;cool&quot; introduction in the first &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt; movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this rock star aspect is also emphasized by the suit's most prominent visual features, its colors. As shown in the first &lt;em&gt;Iron Man&lt;/em&gt; movie, &lt;strong&gt;this red-golden coloring is utterly useless and the only reason he adds them is because they look good and this yet again supports his extroverted and expressive character&lt;/strong&gt;, seeing that red and gold support notions of power, excellence and an overall hot temper. After all, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/2200/49&quot;&gt;this related question&lt;/a&gt; and its answers show, the colors of the suit are directly related to Tony's love for Hot Rods which are in turn yet another facet of his love for machines &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; his excessive &quot;live fast, die young&quot; attitude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T17:38:58.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33801" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35171" CreationDate="2015-04-29T13:30:21.777" Score="11" ViewCount="4294" Body="&lt;p&gt;Captain America and his chums are captured by the forces that have corrupted S.H.I.E.L.D., who truck them off for assassination. They are freed by Maria Hill, who had infiltrated the enemy forces, and the next time we see Captain America, he has his shield. How? Was S.H.I.E.L.D. really so foolish as to leave it in the back of the truck with him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:19:04.383" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T15:19:04.383" Title="How does Captain America reclaim his shield in The Winter Soldier?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|captain-america-the-winter-soldier|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33803" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33805" CreationDate="2015-04-29T14:54:27.557" Score="6" ViewCount="573" Body="&lt;p&gt;In productions with weapons the Armorer, a.k.a. Weapon Master, usually has a significant role -- certainly on par with other credited parties (like personal assistants, caterers, wranglers, animal handlers, etc.).  But I haven't ever found the armorer in the credits.  Why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20456" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T16:40:33.410" Title="Why aren't armorers listed in credits?" Tags="|credits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33770" CreationDate="2015-04-29T16:14:57.397" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Director Joss Whedon has said that they tried to come up with something to top the &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt; post-credit shawarma scene, but they just couldn't come up with anything that they thought was better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all came at it separately—we don’t want to chase that. That was a jewel and a weird little quirk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It didn’t seem to lend itself in the same way, and we wanted to be true to what felt right. The first rule of making a sequel is take the best moments and do something else. Don’t do the Indiana Jones gun trick again differently. Just go somewhere else. Don’t try to hit the same highs, because people will sense it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/07/avengers-age-ultron-wont-have-post-credit-scene-joss-whedon-says&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron won't have a post-credit scene, Joss Whedon says&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T16:14:57.397" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33803" CreationDate="2015-04-29T16:40:33.410" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;An Armorer isn't listed in the credits because it's not a role/job title in the movie industry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Weapons are props and, as such, are under the guidance of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_master&quot;&gt;prop master&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This job description varies somewhat from country to country. In the United States, food styling, &lt;strong&gt;weapons&lt;/strong&gt; and animals are often directly or indirectly within the property master's domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T16:40:33.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32037" CreationDate="2015-04-29T17:09:42.897" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://the100.wikia.com/wiki/The_Woods_Clan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Woods Clan&lt;/a&gt; are so selective that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If a child is born with a mutation, they are cast out and abandoned to&#xA;  erase the stain from the bloodline&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;http://the100.wikia.com/wiki/The_Woods_Clan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The 100 Wikia: &quot;The Woods Clan&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the reason they have no single deformed member.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &lt;em&gt;&quot;All grounders are very strongly built&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, that's because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Most children begin to learn from a young age how to be warriors, and&#xA;  are taught English, weapon skills, and their people's customs.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;http://the100.wikia.com/wiki/The_Woods_Clan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The 100 Wikia: &quot;The Woods Clan&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;strong&gt;the woods clan&lt;/strong&gt; are also called &lt;strong&gt;trikru&lt;/strong&gt; in their own language, which is &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://the100.wikia.com/wiki/Trigedasleng&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Trigedasleng&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19579" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T07:40:23.657" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T07:40:23.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33807" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33810" CreationDate="2015-04-29T17:21:23.780" Score="1" ViewCount="518" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm working on a screenplay that features a scene in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Specifically, the hero and heroine are shown walking around the capital's &quot;Casa Rosa&quot; (Pink House), which is the Argentine equivalent of America's White House.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose this screenplay were made into a movie. How would a producer choose between constructing and filming a &quot;mock up&quot; of the Casa Rosa here in the U.S., or filming &quot;on location&quot; in Argentina?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9097" LastEditorUserId="9097" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T17:32:34.253" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T20:17:33.543" Title="How would a producer decide whether to use a real or &quot;mock&quot; site for filming?" Tags="|production|film-location|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33807" CreationDate="2015-04-29T17:42:58.653" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many factors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;whether the Argentinian government would allow filming to occur there&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;availability of that location at the necessary times, and for the length of times needed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;weather conditions (rain, fog, sunshine, etc.) of the location and whether that matches the script's requirements&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cost of permits to film there&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cost and difficulty of transporting cast and crew, and/or availability of local crew&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the director's vision, since some directors believe authenticity is essential to tell a story&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is also a cost-effective way to shoot scenes that appear to be in a specific location.  Actors can be filmed in front of a green screen or a blue screen in a sound stage, and the environment can be added later.  Sometimes part of the set is built for the actors to interact with, and part of the set is just a green screen (or blue screen). The green or blue screens will be replaced after shooting with what appears to be the rest of the location.  In the image below, the actors are standing on concrete street, but in the finished film the green sections will have been replaced with city streets and skyscrapers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qXPX4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2015-04-29T20:17:33.543" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T20:17:33.543" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32766" CreationDate="2015-04-29T18:18:14.230" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's really simple - there is no way Gus Fring would ever let something like that get to the police. Do you think he would arrange a meeting with the Cartel immediately if there was any chance of the police snooping around? In his empire, everything was organised, cut and clean. A fantastic businessman, you have to agree.&#xA;Another thing to consider - it took 2 years for hank to start suspecting his obviously mad brother-in-law, police incompetence is at serious play here. One more thing - the Cartel guys are professional hijackers and murderers, they did everything in style. &#xA;More about the truck hijacking here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Gaff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Gaff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20869" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T18:18:14.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1786" CreationDate="2015-04-29T18:27:01.653" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wolf of Wallstreet&lt;/em&gt; was definitely the peak of profanity in cinema, though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;M.A.S.H. (1970) was the first &lt;strong&gt;major&lt;/strong&gt; studio film to introduce the F word, which gave Hollywood the green flag. Generally speaking, profanity must have started from British cinema, rather than American, just like it did in literature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20869" LastActivityDate="2015-04-29T18:27:01.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1732" CreationDate="2015-04-29T19:42:35.177" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because film is a visual medium, and one of fundamentals of screenwriting is &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://screenplay.lifetips.com/tip/132533/screenwriting-basics/screenplay-tips/show-don-t-tell.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;show, don't tell&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Show, don't tell enables the viewer to experience a story through action rather than having it hand-fed to them through exposition.  Sort of the difference between active and passive verbs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an example from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/show-dont-tell?page=all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here’s a sentence that tells:    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mr. Bobweave was a fat, ungrateful old man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That gets the information across, but it’s boring. It simply tells the reader the basics about Mr. Bobweave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here’s a way to create an image of Mr. Bobweave in the reader’s mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mr. Bobweave heaved himself out of the chair. As his feet spread under his apple-like frame and his arthritic knees popped and cracked&#xA;  in objection, he pounded the floor with his cane while cursing that&#xA;  dreadful girl who was late again with his coffee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Catija points in a comment, &quot;show, don't tell&quot; is a fundamental of all types of writing and is not specific to screenwriting.  However I think it especially applies to movies, since narration (whether as a voice over, or exposition by an actor) usually interrupts and slows down the pace of a film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2015-04-30T06:39:42.783" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T06:39:42.783" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33815" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50625" CreationDate="2015-04-29T22:16:42.640" Score="2" ViewCount="268" Body="&lt;p&gt;When box office totals are discussed or written about, the domestic box office total is often what is referenced, as opposed to the worldwide total.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in the image below you can see that when Rotten Tomatoes refers to the box office total for The Avengers it is only referencing the domestic total (both domestic and foreign are shown on Box Office Mojo, as well as the worldwide total). This would seem to be wildly misleading, especially for blockbuster movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/63Gvv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4518" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T20:12:59.617" Title="When discussing box office revenue why do we typically only refer to the domestic total and not the worldwide total?" Tags="|box-office|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33818" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-30T00:21:47.937" Score="6" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like in the movie &lt;em&gt;The World's End&lt;/em&gt;, there were some people sitting in the shape of a &lt;strong&gt;circle&lt;/strong&gt; then the movie's name is shown gradually, the O letter is similar to the circle made by the people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I see similar effects in a lot of other works so I was just wondering if this has a name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20874" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-30T08:49:20.943" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T12:34:27.523" Title="What is the name of this technique when the scene is morphed into something visually similar?" Tags="|effects|cinematography|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33819" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33791" CreationDate="2015-04-30T06:29:31.367" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Captain America is the leader for the Avengers. If we look back at the past movies for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there are many points leading to this. Iron Man is taken off the team for the Avengers in Iron Man 2 after Black Widow's report on his life. When they later put him on the team in The Avengers, it is to look at Selvig's research at first, since he is just a consultant. He is later added to the team. Captain America was seen as an American hero in the 1940s for helping in WWII, and was known across the globe. He was seen as a symbol of hope for Americans, showing how strong we were against our enemies. Getting found in the ice probably sparked the public due to the fact that they had heard the stories of the American hero. S.H.I.E.L.D most likely put him as the leader of the team also because of this, as the public would be more open minded to the Avengers. Though Captain America is said by Tony in the Age of Ultron trailer to be the captain, there are many points that show this in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20850" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T06:29:31.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33822" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33828" CreationDate="2015-04-30T07:57:10.980" Score="2" ViewCount="380" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I am currently watching Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and I heard this statement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In this climate, it's what the buyers believe and where there's smoke, there's fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does it mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20858" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-30T09:08:00.780" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T12:44:08.257" Title="&quot;In this climate, it's what the buyers believe and where there's smoke, there's fire&quot;. What does this mean?" Tags="|analysis|dialogue|wall-street-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33823" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33826" CreationDate="2015-04-30T10:13:30.680" Score="5" ViewCount="2065" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does everybody keep saying to Jon Snow that he knows nothing in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;? What do you think he knows? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-30T10:40:17.603" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T14:57:57.720" Title="You know nothing Jon Snow" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2015-04-30T13:28:38.523" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33824" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33825" CreationDate="2015-04-30T10:20:36.580" Score="3" ViewCount="353" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lie To Me is a scripted TV series where Dr Lightman &quot;reads&quot; a person's body language and expressions to deduce if a person is lying or being honest. However, its just a fictional TV series where all actors are indeed just &quot;acting&quot; and &quot;manufacturing&quot; their facial expressions and body language (maybe as suggested by director). It implies, that characters speaking truth with respect to the storyline are in fact lying from an absolute standpoint. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't Dr Lightman's theory just a hoax? Isn't this TV series a paradox in itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20878" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-30T10:35:12.340" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T16:23:46.480" Title="Lie To Me Paradox" Tags="|realism|lie-to-me|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33824" CreationDate="2015-04-30T10:57:25.120" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, Dr. Lightman's theory isn't a &lt;em&gt;complete&lt;/em&gt; hoax, even if its accurateness and applicability is exaggerated very much in the show. Yet, still this doesn't make the TV series &lt;em&gt;&quot;a paradox in itself&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, since &lt;strong&gt;Tim Roth doesn't actually judge the acted emotions of his fellow actors&lt;/strong&gt;, but just plays a role himself, too. It's an entirely scripted process, so you could call it fictional or unrealistic, but not a paradox really. And as you seem to realize yourself, it's just a TV-show, which naturally exaggerates and dramatizes its premises and techniques to make for a compelling viewing. In the same way computer experts would likely shake their heads over stuff like CSI, actual psychologist are unlikely to be able to work as accurate human lie detectors in the same way Lightman does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, Cal Lightman and his theories are actually &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;based&lt;/em&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ekman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Paul Ekman&lt;/a&gt; and his research on facial expressions and emotions&lt;/strong&gt;, who also worked as a scientific consultant for the show. Lightman's concept of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microexpression&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;microexpressions&lt;/a&gt; is also not entirely fictional. The most generally known contribution of Ekman is his work on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_Action_Coding_System&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Facial Action Coding System (FACS)&lt;/a&gt; for classifying movements of facial muscles and deducing expressed emotions therefrom. However, from my limited experience and exchange with actual psychologists employing FACS, I can tell you that those things hardly work as accurately and reliably as depicted in the show, especially not at the detail level shown there. And of course the actors shown in the TV series do those expressions deliberately (and likely exaggeratedly) as part of their acting. But this is part of the shows dramatization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, the show is not &lt;em&gt;&quot;a paradox in itself&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. And while the depicted theories and methods are far from working as reliably in reality as shown, they're &lt;em&gt;based&lt;/em&gt; on actual psychological research.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-09T16:23:46.480" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T16:23:46.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33823" CreationDate="2015-04-30T11:43:19.130" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;(IMO)&#xA;What doesn't Jon Snow know? Too damn much!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I've decided to spoil mark this answer. Even though it is my opinion, it may reveal information not yet known by other viewers, understanding that GoT is an unusual case.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Old Nan recounted a story to Bran about an old king of the North (a progenitor of the Starks) who fell in love with a Queen of the White Walkers. He became King of the North. His abilities (to understand the language of, as well as understand the ways of) the WW's has been passed down through his descendents. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Jon is not the bastard of Ned Stark and Ashara Dayne, but rather Lyanna Stark and Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, making him both heir to the Stark line's abilities as well as to the Targaryen's.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; When Jon meets a dragon, those abilities will be re-kindled in him. I believe he will have the White Walkers following him while riding atop a Dragon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's recap:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Who his father really is..  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Who his mother really is..  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; 3. That he will be able to understand, and lead, the White Walkers..&lt;br&gt;&#xA; 4. That he will be able to understand, and lead, Dragons..  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(#2 is (sort of) common knowledge, at this point, although who he &lt;em&gt;believes&lt;/em&gt; his mother is, may not actually be so...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-04-30T14:57:57.720" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T14:57:57.720" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33818" CreationDate="2015-04-30T12:34:27.523" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;After some searching, I found out it's a type of film transition called &lt;strong&gt;Graphic Match Cut&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_transition#Graphic_Match_Cut&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From Wikipedia:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The cut joins together two pieces of film that contain two similarly&#xA;  shaped objects in similar positions in the frame. One of the most&#xA;  famous examples of this is the edit in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space&#xA;  Odyssey where the bone thrown by a gorilla (man in gorilla costume)&#xA;  cuts to a space station.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is the video on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtbOmpTnyOc&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;youtube &lt;/a&gt; (Note:Lower your volume!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20874" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T12:34:27.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33822" CreationDate="2015-04-30T12:44:08.257" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's talking about &quot;Market Panic&quot;.  If a lot of people start dumping stock, other brokers assume someone has some inside knowledge and they will start dumping stock too.  Works the same way in reverse; if a lot of people start buying, others will buy too assuming someone knows something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In those first few cases, they're the &quot;smoke&quot;.  Once it takes off, that's the &quot;fire&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, when you build a campfire, if you have some smoke coming out of it then there's a good chance you can get a fire going.  Hence the saying, &quot;Where there's smoke, there's fire&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T12:44:08.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33833" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33834" CreationDate="2015-04-30T15:23:56.847" Score="7" ViewCount="1469" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marvel Cinematic Universe movieverse coming with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_One-Shots&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Marvel one shots&lt;/a&gt; from Thor onward and they were a pretty much successful and talked about thing. But why did &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/captain-america-2-the-winter-soldier-blu-ray-details/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;no Marvel one shot&lt;/a&gt; come with Captain America: The Winter Soldier?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-08-25T08:04:04.157" LastActivityDate="2016-08-25T08:04:04.157" Title="Why no Marvel One-Shot for The Winter Soldier?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|captain-america-the-winter-soldier|marvel-one-shots|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33833" CreationDate="2015-04-30T15:41:17.493" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Officially, because they were &quot;too busy&quot; focusing on feature films, or they just didn't have a good enough idea at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2014/05/30/marvel-wont-make-a-one-shot-short-film-for-captain-america-the-winter-soldier-exclusive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This article about the omission&lt;/a&gt; explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Executives there have told EW in the past that they might bring a temporary halt to the One-Shots if they didn’t have a strong story idea or their full focus was needed on the feature film pipeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy however was missing one because there was no room on the disc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Director James Gunn mentioned this &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/JamesGunn/status/518143188700508160&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;on twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pPrN0.png&quot; alt=&quot;twitter cap&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1046" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-04-30T18:53:43.850" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T18:53:43.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13829" CreationDate="2015-04-30T22:13:37.773" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think VO(Rush) was in the Asylum shortly after the heist took place and this is where he looks back on the events that took place,this is when we see all he did prior to the asylum. The end is after leaving the asylum, believing he's figured out Claire's one true detail that &quot;the forger&quot; always leaves and moves to Prague with the belief that he'll one day find Claire at Nigh &amp;amp; Day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20894" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-04-30T23:12:25.907" LastActivityDate="2015-04-30T23:12:25.907" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33843" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-04-30T23:57:07.850" Score="1" ViewCount="539" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is the police shown as bunch of jokers in the Korean cinema? In almost all Korean movies which I have seen, the cops are portrayed as stupid fools, apart from the protagonist in cases where he is a cop? Has anyone else felt the same about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20896" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T11:25:40.633" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T15:03:13.900" Title="Portrayal of police in Korean cinema" Tags="|analysis|character|korean-cinema|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33734" CreationDate="2015-05-01T02:58:41.947" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The name Veronica could also have a certain significance for Tony Stark. Veronica Benning becomes the physical therapist for Tony Stark after he comes out of cryogenic suspension in the comics. Things get personal between the two when Veronica reveals her affection towards Tony Stark. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicvine.com/veronica-benning/4005-56712/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;She appears in &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Invincible Iron Man&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&quot;Force Works&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&quot;Iron Man: The Ultimate Guide to the Armored Super Hero&quot;&lt;/em&gt; comics.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20899" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-01-07T06:49:38.523" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T06:49:38.523" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="53808" CreationDate="2015-05-01T06:14:26.863" Score="1" ViewCount="2793" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Person of Interest episode S03E15, the POI was Sandra Nicholson, who works in a 911-dial in station. She was forced by a caller to delete calls from a certain date from the server.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the episode, the POI as well as the caller are alive. Finch gets a phone call from him that he will be after Finch &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You, however, are another story entirely. Be seeing you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who was this caller? Was he ever mentioned after that?&lt;/strong&gt; (Maybe I have missed something, but as of today's screened episodes, I have not seen him again).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T11:18:21.653" LastActivityDate="2016-11-30T09:20:59.767" Title="Who was the caller in the episode &quot;Last Call&quot; (S03E15)" Tags="|plot-explanation|person-of-interest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33854" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-01T07:38:28.860" Score="1" ViewCount="2793" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2179136/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;American Sniper (2014)&lt;/a&gt;, why didn't they kill al Zarqawi?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The team killed Butcher but not al Zarqawi - they even declare themselves mission accomplished, but in this scene, officials announce the main aim of the mission is to kill Al Zarqawi: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VeCir.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;mission briefing screen capture from American Sniper&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20903" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T11:14:07.967" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T13:03:12.533" Title="In American Sniper (2014), why didn't the team kill al Zarqawi?" Tags="|american-sniper|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33854" CreationDate="2015-05-01T11:26:53.040" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason they didn't kill al-Zarqawi is, quite simply, because Chris Kyle wasn't involved in the killing of al-Zarqawi.  The movie was &lt;em&gt;based&lt;/em&gt; on Chris Kyle's memoirs, though it did differ in quite a few places.  One of them was the character of &quot;The Butcher&quot;, who didn't actually exist.  However, they needed to provide an antagonist for Kyle's first couple of tours, so that character was created.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T11:26:53.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33860" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-01T11:38:51.530" Score="44" ViewCount="13080" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do some movies start with a big rotating circle and countdown?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes after 1, a woman is also shown as well. What is her purpose?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UFQlJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;countdown circle&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20907" LastEditorUserId="7820" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T12:53:09.643" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T06:43:31.493" Title="Why do some movies start with a big rotating circle and countdown?" Tags="|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3091" CreationDate="2015-05-01T12:13:48.187" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/A-MMY_YqaMc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it is a tamil movie, kannum kannum&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20910" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T12:13:48.187" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33860" CreationDate="2015-05-01T12:19:23.120" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you're talking about is a Film Leader.  Originally, a frame was inserted once every 16 frames (16 frames per foot for 35mm film) with numbers marked 11 to 3.  At some point in the mid 1960's that was changed to a continuous countdown with a new number every second (time interval as opposed to length interval) that ran backwards from 8 to 2.  If you google &quot;Film Leader Countdown&quot;, you should be able to find a number of examples on YouTube and Vimeo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of this was to assist in the threading of projectors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The woman you speak of is referred to as a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Girl_(filmmaking)&quot;&gt;China Girl&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.  That image is used to calibrate the film color when it's being processed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T12:19:23.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33860" CreationDate="2015-05-01T12:22:01.287" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is known as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_leader&quot;&gt;film leader&lt;/a&gt; and as well as a countdown to the start of the movie itself, also often contains technical information for the projectionist including aspect-ratio, sound settings etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the leader is primarily to allow extra film for the projectionist to wind onto the projector.  The countdown is just to show the projectionist how far from the start of the movie itself in seconds rather than feet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The girl you refer to is known as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Girl_(filmmaking)&quot;&gt;China Girl&lt;/a&gt; used in the developing process of the film itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="40" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T12:22:01.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33843" CreationDate="2015-05-01T12:28:45.447" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, this may date back to the era of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Cops&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Keystone Cops&lt;/a&gt;.  As I recall from a Film class I took in college, one of the tenants of early comedic cinema was &quot;to mock authority&quot;.  Putting an authority figure (policeman) in a situation where he appears to be a bumbling idiot was a great way to elicit laughs in the early days.  While the technique is still widely used, it rarely gets a good laugh from today's moviegoers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T12:28:45.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33866" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-01T13:09:32.333" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The third movie in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, At World's End is a fantasy adventure film following the continuing adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/pirates-of-the-caribbean&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pirates-of-the-caribbean&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pirates-of-the-caribbean&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_At_World%27s_End&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449088/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article on Internet Movie Database&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T13:12:57.437" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T13:12:57.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33867" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-01T13:09:32.333" Score="0" Body="The third movie in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, At World's End is a fantasy adventure film following the continuing adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T13:13:03.577" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T13:13:03.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33868" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-01T13:11:48.373" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The second Pirates of the Caribbean movie, Dead Man's Chest is a fantasy adventure film following the continuing adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/pirates-of-the-caribbean&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pirates-of-the-caribbean&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pirates-of-the-caribbean&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_Dead_Man%27s_Chest&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383574/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article on Internet Movie Database&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T13:12:50.937" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T13:12:50.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33869" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-01T13:11:48.373" Score="0" Body="The second movie in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Dead Man's Chest is a fantasy adventure film following the continuing adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T13:12:44.590" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T13:12:44.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33870" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-01T13:12:43.697" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first movie in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Curse of the Black Pearl is a fantasy adventure film following the adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Story is about Pirate Captain Jack Sparrow teaming up with Black Smith William Turner to get Elizabeth Swann (love interest of Turner) and Black pearl ship (interest of Sparrow) from crew of undead pirates and their Captian Barbossa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/pirates-of-the-caribbean&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;pirates-of-the-caribbean&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;pirates-of-the-caribbean&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_The_Curse_of_the_Black_Pearl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;article on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325980/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;article on Internet Movie Database&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-01-21T18:46:25.650" LastActivityDate="2017-01-21T18:46:25.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33871" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-01T13:12:43.697" Score="0" Body="The first movie in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Curse of the Black Pearl is a fantasy adventure film following the adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow. This 2003 movie stars Johnny Depp , Geoffrey Rush , Keira Knightley &amp; Orlando Bloom" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-01-21T18:46:20.990" LastActivityDate="2017-01-21T18:46:20.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33872" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33873" CreationDate="2015-05-01T16:59:20.520" Score="5" ViewCount="1971" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Breaking Bad, Saul looked like a man in his late 40s. I want to know - at the beginning of Better Call Saul, how old is James McGill?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2022-08-04T07:28:28.260" Title="How old is James McGill?" Tags="|character|better-call-saul|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33872" CreationDate="2015-05-01T17:18:20.150" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Saul_Goodman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Breaking Bad Wiki&lt;/a&gt; (I have no idea where they get this stuff...), Saul is in his late 40's during that series.  Since Better Call Saul is supposed to take place 6 years prior to Breaking Bad, you can assume he's supposed to be in his early-to-mid 40's at the beginning of BCS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T17:18:20.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33875" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-01T18:07:18.820" Score="28" ViewCount="12927" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Age of Ultron, there's a scene where the various team members try and fail to lift Thor's hammer.  When Cap tries, he actually manages to budge it very briefly, and we see both him and Thor react as they notice.  But then he grabs the handle and grunts and strains and it doesn't move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/viK5I5eYtbo?start=2&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, his &quot;struggle&quot; to lift the hammer looks horribly fake compared to the other teammates, and it seems to suggest that Cap realized that he &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; lift it, but then chose not to so as to not embarrass Thor in front of the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any official reason to either believe or refute that interpretation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2023" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:20:06.637" LastActivityDate="2019-05-11T22:07:17.663" Title="Is Captain America worthy of Mjolnir?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33875" CreationDate="2015-05-01T18:38:55.277" Score="24" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Worthy&quot; is pretty vague, however Captain America is a valiant soldier, it would make sense that he is &quot;worthy&quot; of holding Mjolnir. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is already precedent for it in the comics: Captain America has already weilded Thor's hammer in &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/Thor_Vol_1_390&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Mighty Thor #390, from 1988&lt;/a&gt; and again in &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/Fear_Itself_Vol_1_7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fear Itself 7&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9NLTK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;image of The Mighty Thor #390&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Faking it is an interesting viewpoint, after seeing the scene myself it did seem like significantly less time was spent trying to lift the hammer in comparison to Tony Stark and the hammer definitely did move - if not being able to lift the hammer was intentionally faked it's likely we'll see the Captain wielding Thor's hammer (not an euphemism) in one of the upcoming announced sequels. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Now that Avengers: Endgame is out, the follow upto the hammer scene from Age of Ultron pays off and Captain America ends up successfully wielding both Stormbreaker and Mjolnir during the end fight against alternative universe Thanos. It is also heavily implied that Thor was aware or at least heavily suspected that Captain was ultimately worthy as he proclaims &quot;I knew it!&quot; upon seeing Captain holding Mjolnir for the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2019-04-28T02:13:44.760" LastActivityDate="2019-04-28T02:13:44.760" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12437" CreationDate="2015-05-01T18:41:40.450" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can more easily find this specific excerpt under the name of &quot;Riddiamo, riddiamo&quot; (correct act 2 scene 2).&#xA;It begins approximately at 1:25:00 and last approximately 3:30 (in the recording &quot;Mefisofele, de Boito&quot; 1989) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20913" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T18:41:40.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27707" CreationDate="2015-05-01T21:16:56.063" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because of the way he died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very least, it is used in the story &quot;just because&quot; in order to remind us of the way he died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pintel: So, what Barbossa did is, he tied a cannon to &lt;strong&gt;Bootstrap's&#xA;  bootstraps&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Ragetti: [snickering quietly] &lt;strong&gt;Bootstrap's bootstraps&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Pintel: And the last we saw of ol' Bill Turner, he was sinkin' into&#xA;  the crushing black oblivion of Davy Jones' Locker. Course, it was only&#xA;  after that we learned we needed his blood to lift the curse.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Ragetti: Now that's what you'd call ironic.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [Ragetti and Pintel laugh]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/R2o9D9EQbiQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This conversation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;William Turner: You knew my father.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Jack Sparrow: I knew him. Probably&#xA;  one of the few who knew him as William Turner. Everyone else just&#xA;  called him &quot;Bootstrap&quot; or &quot;Bootstrap Bill&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  William Turner: &quot;Bootstrap&quot;?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Jack Sparrow: Good man, good pirate. I swear you look&#xA;  just like him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;may suggest that he was known as &quot;Bootstrap&quot; before his death, but it also just reinforces the idea that Jack was one of the few who respected Will Turner and that Will Turner was the only one aboard the &lt;em&gt;Black Pearl&lt;/em&gt; who did not agree with the plan to mutiny Jack. There is no answer for this apparent inconsistency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20379" LastEditorUserId="20379" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T21:36:05.370" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T21:36:05.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33884" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33905" CreationDate="2015-05-01T21:26:16.900" Score="25" ViewCount="5679" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the Avengers: Age of Ultron there is that end credits scene where Thanos picks up the infinity gauntlet and walks off. Where did he get this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all know that this will lead to him putting the stones into the gauntlet but the gauntlet is protected in Odin's treasure room is it not? In the first Thor film when the frost giants try to steal that frost cube thingy, only to get incinerated, we can see the infinity gauntlet as a treasure piece in a brief shot. Is there something I missed from any of the other Marvel movies that explain how he came to be in possession of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19154" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-01T23:00:49.473" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T12:19:49.530" Title="How was Age of Ultron's post-credit scene even possible?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33860" CreationDate="2015-05-01T21:28:58.670" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The countdown and beep are also used for audio/video synchronization. The beep must correspond exactly with the number transitions.  Some leaders also had a flash at each second mark to help with adjusting the beep.  This process was later automated with equipment that can detect the flash and beep and align them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-pop&quot;&gt;2-Pop&lt;/a&gt; For related information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20919" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T21:28:58.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33884" CreationDate="2015-05-01T22:01:53.807" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Now first of all, I am not a comics expert and this answer might just be speculation, I do think however that we can't expect much more than that at the current state, seeing how this is a mere post-credit scene for the most recent MCU movie.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, to my knowledge (which only lacks the 2nd season of &lt;em&gt;Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.&lt;/em&gt;) there was not really any scene in a previous movie that directly explains how Thanos could get his hands on the gautlet. However, during &lt;em&gt;Thor: The Dark World&lt;/em&gt; there is a scene where Thor stands in front of Odin and after Thor left it is revealed that Loki, whom we (and &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt;) believed to have died in Svartalfheim, is actually very much alive and has taken Odin's place as king of Asgard. Now this as well was just a small scene without much elaboration, so we don't actually know what happened thereafter, how long Loki kept playing king or what actually happened to Odin. But it might be very much possible, that Loki is still playing king of Asgard and making evil schemes. Add to this that &lt;em&gt;Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;, particularly Thor's worst fear arc, suggests that there's possibly something awry (or becoming awry) in Asgard. While this was just a fear implanted by Scarlet Witch, there might very well be some truth to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we also know that Loki worked with (or for?) Thanos before, namely in the first &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt; movie. So it might be (even if that is really just a big &quot;might&quot;) that Loki, disguised as Odin, gave Thanos access to the Infinity Gauntlet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-05-01T22:01:53.807" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12547" CreationDate="2015-05-02T01:15:15.467" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see that you brought an old, answered question from the dead. Well, let me give you my input!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First and foremost, Man of Steel is the first installment in the DC Cinematic Universe. That being said, Zack Snyder confirmed that there are several tie-ins with the upcoming movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The satellite was, in fact, belonging to Wayne Enterprises, which is headed by owner Bruce Wayne, played by Ben Affleck. According to several set photos from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Bruce Wayne actually surveys the damage inflicted upon the planet by Superman and Zod's fatal confrontation. As such, he has since become disillusioned with Superman, which prompts his violent confrontation with his future comrade.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lex Luthor has already had a presence in the DC Cinematic Universe; as Superman, Zod and the debris from the Wayne Enterprises satellite crashed into Metropolis, a LexCorp building was heavily damaged. Additionally, Zod uses a LexCorp gas truck as a weapon against Superman.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The whales that arrive near Superman were actually sent by Aquaman, who will be played by Jason Momoa. Zack Snyder has stated that he included an indirect presence to Aquaman already, so this is the only explanation, as it is the only time there is time in the sea.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Christina Ghubril Wren's Carrie Ferris could, in fact, be one and the same. However, this has not been explicitly touched upon by Zack Snyder's party.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T01:15:15.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33891" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-02T04:29:43.617" Score="3" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2015-02/05/content_34742788.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;'Unbroken' unable to draw local audience yet&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/south-korea-box-office-unbroken-762990&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;South Korea Box Office: 'Unbroken' Debuts in Fourth Place&lt;/a&gt; seem to indicate that &quot;Unbroken&quot; hasn't fared particularly well in Asian markets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1661418/angelina-jolies-war-film-faces-box-office-challenge-asia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Angelina Jolie's war film faces box office challenge in Asia&lt;/a&gt; predicted that the movie would fare well in such countries:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although Unbroken has yet to be approved by the mainland for release&#xA;  there, the film will likely find an appreciative audience.&#xA;  Hillenbrand's book has been translated into Chinese and has earned&#xA;  largely positive reviews. Second world war movies such as Pearl Harbor&#xA;  and Saving Private Ryan have performed strongly at the mainland box&#xA;  office. And actress-director Jolie has a sizeable and enthusiastic&#xA;  following there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Most important, given the history of deep animosity and conflict&#xA;  between China and Japan, Chinese audiences have long embraced films&#xA;  and TV series with an anti-Japanese bent. On the mainland, such films&#xA;  are a veritable industry unto themselves: in 2012 alone, more than 200&#xA;  were made by Chinese studios, most shown on TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie performed well in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbroken_%28film%29#Box_office&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;US and Canada&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, it seems the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201503170081&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;has not been released in Japan&lt;/a&gt;, though there's suspicions that's because of political considerations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has the film not fared well in Asian markets, and if so, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1312" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-02T11:10:45.103" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T11:10:45.103" Title="How has &quot;Unbroken&quot; fared in Asian markets?" Tags="|reception|box-office|unbroken|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33729" CreationDate="2015-05-02T05:58:14.337" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;JARVIS was gone, Tony thought... then he found him in pieces, in the internet, protecting the access to the launch codes from Ultron's attempted hack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony re-collected JARVIS and took him back to the tower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony wanted to put JARVIS into the new fancy body to fight against Ultron. I'm guessing he figured that JARVIS wouldn't be quite the same as when he was in the computer alone, due to the stone, but he figured that it would be better than Ultron having it (or destroying it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch come in, Quicksilver disconnects everything before the upload is complete and Thor blasts the body with lightning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the new entity, Vision, awakes, he says that he's not JARVIS, despite speaking with JARVIS' voice, but that he's not Ultron, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing that JARVIS' change into Vision is a combination of the Stone, the partially uploaded data (but not personality) from Ultron, and the lightning bolt of Thor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, from a practicality standpoint, I'm guessing that JARVIS, as a standalone entity is &quot;dead&quot; and that FRIDAY (reminiscent of &quot;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Girl_Friday&quot;&gt;His Girl Friday&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&quot;) is now going to be the voice of Tony's computer interface. I'm pretty sure Marvel doesn't want to confuse viewers (or listeners, anyway) by having one person (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bettany&quot;&gt;Paul Bettany&lt;/a&gt;) play two characters in the same film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/Friday_%28Earth-616%29&quot;&gt;Marvel Wikia&lt;/a&gt;, Friday appears as a computer A.I. entity in the Earth-616 series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T05:58:14.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33893" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33896" CreationDate="2015-05-02T08:02:21.380" Score="10" ViewCount="1135" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching Avengers: Age Of Ultron, I was wondering whether the motives behind the death towards the end of the movie had anything to do with the fact that Fox owns the rights for X-Men, and already have their own version of the character, portrayed by a different actor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seemed a bit odd to me because he is a prominent character in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.my/marvel-characters-by-movie-studio-2015-2/#69hmac2KSRtoEIl0.97&quot;&gt;Marvel universe&lt;/a&gt; as can be read in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksilver_(comics)&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Quicksilver&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://marvel.com/universe/Quicksilver&quot;&gt;Marvel Wiki article for Quicksilver&lt;/a&gt;. Additionally, in my opinion, his death did not really bring a significant impact to the movie per se. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that this might not be the case but I can't help to wonder, did Disney have some agreement with Fox that the Quicksilver character would only be brought in for one movie only?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20078" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-06-21T06:15:27.370" LastActivityDate="2016-06-21T06:15:27.370" Title="Why was this specific character in Age Of Ultron killed off?" Tags="|analysis|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33894" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2193" CreationDate="2015-05-02T09:48:43.680" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I definitely see it as a sequel because it basically continues from the first and was (at least initially) intended as a sequel.  Word is that the studio intended it to be a sequel and Norton intended it to be a remake.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also see that supposed 'origin' story at the beginning of The Incredible Hulk to be Bruce returning to fix the Hulk with Betty but it goes wrong, hurting Betty, and he flees once again.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20928" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T09:48:43.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25098" CreationDate="2015-05-02T11:00:44.460" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would be speculation only on my part but besides narrative decision if you must give justification to her action it could be that she inflicted more pain on him by killing herself rather than shooting him.  however the average 19 century person probably would not know enough about psychology and the long term effects to have it be a conscious decision,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20929" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T11:00:44.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33893" CreationDate="2015-05-02T13:46:37.590" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Never take &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book_death&quot;&gt;comic book deaths&lt;/a&gt; seriously and since this movie is based on comics they can do the same. Loki, Phil Coulson, Fury and Bucky all came back from death, so why not Quicksilver?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Inhumans film is coming and Quicksilver has a big relationship with them, (from having an Inhuman wife and child and even being member of them too), so he might get reused there. Resurrection, time travel, reality rapping (Wanda) etc can be various method to revive him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now regarding why he got killed - Joss Whedon is famous for killing established cast members - at least this time he killed a non-established cast member. Death are used to give impact in a film and this might be used for same reason. It might not worked for you but that doesn't mean it hasn't worked for others. It can also be used for Wanda's power establishment or her sorrow can open love relationship with Vision in future. As we can already get from the future film slate that the other Avengers cannot be killed because of association with phase 3 films, so why not kill Quicksilver?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the rights thing, I don't think it has anything to do with rights. Why would Fox allow them to have Quicksilver for one film and not Wanda? Wanda can be more useful in the X-men story than Quicksilver for sure, for stories like &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_M&quot;&gt;House of M&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(comics)&quot;&gt;Decimation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-05-05T08:52:03.030" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T08:52:03.030" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33898" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-02T15:28:25.367" Score="8" ViewCount="577" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched Knock Off and &lt;a href=&quot;http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2014/02/05/the-underrated-insanity-of-tsui-hark-and-jean-claude-van-dammes-knock-off/&quot;&gt;came across this little quote&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It also features Jean Claude Van Damme’s best performance outside of&#xA;  JCVD… not that he’d recall as he’s suggested he was so coked out at&#xA;  the time he doesn’t remember filming it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's from &lt;a href=&quot;http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2014/02/05/the-underrated-insanity-of-tsui-hark-and-jean-claude-van-dammes-knock-off/&quot;&gt;this review&lt;/a&gt; but it's the only reference I find about Van Damme not remembering shooting the movie. Has it ever been said in an interview or is it just some exaggerated (although Van Damme really was addicted to drugs one time in his career) nonsense&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7170" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-02T16:57:14.180" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T17:28:51.950" Title="Has Jean-Claude Van Damme really no memories of filming the movie Knock Off?" Tags="|production|knock-off|jean-claude-van-damme|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33860" CreationDate="2015-05-02T16:46:10.587" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many movies are too long to fit on a single transportable roll of motion picture film.  Although some movie houses would have shown such movies with a short intermission between rolls, most decent movie houses would have two projectors.  The first roll would be shown on the first projector, and then while that roll was playing the projectionist would have about 20 minutes to load the second roll on the second projector (if it wasn't set up earlier) and advance it to a spot slightly less than two seconds before the start of content on the second reel.  Two seconds before the end of the first reel, a flash in the corner of the screen would alert the projectionist (or a piece of automated equipment) to start the second projector.  Two seconds after that, a second flash would alert the equipment to switch on the light and audio for the second (already moving) projector and switch off the light and audio for the first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the second roll of film was being shown on the second projector, the projectionist would then have 20 minutes to load the third roll onto the first projector and cue it to a spot just under two seconds before the start of content.  At the end of the second reel, a flash will indicate that the first projector should start, and a second flash will indicate that the light and audio should switch back to the first projector.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because projector mechanisms do not start instantly (and a projectionist who is manually switching projectors won't have instant reflexes), the ideal spot to cue a projector will be slightly less than two seconds before the start of picture content to compensate.  Movies are almost always edited in such a fashion that a small amount of imprecision on the change-over won't matter (e.g. change-overs will correspond with changes in scene) but projectionists still tried to handle change-overs as cleanly as possible.  Having a clear countdown leader can help projectionists judge where they should cue the film (note that the numbers are really big, so a projectionist may be able to see them on the film even when the projector's main light is off).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8357" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T16:46:10.587" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33898" CreationDate="2015-05-02T17:03:49.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short of a quote from Jean Claude van Damme directly, there isn't going to be any way of actually confirming this. Looking at the site you quoted obviously reveals that the author of that article believes that he doesn't remember making it - whether this is something the author has picked up from conversation. It doesn't cite &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; the author of the article knows, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've had a look around and don't see anything obvious that backs up him having no memory of recording the show. It's certainly not mentioned on IMDB for either the movie or the actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cocaine can effect your memory, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Van_Damme&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; backs up that during that period of time he was certainly taking a lot of it. He was also diagnosed bi-polar, that's certainly not going to help in the memory department either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T17:03:49.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23359" CreationDate="2015-05-02T17:05:48.670" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read somewhere (how many times have we seen that?) that the author chose the word &lt;em&gt;Ringu&lt;/em&gt; from the English word &lt;em&gt;ring&lt;/em&gt; because it has a double meaning.  A circular shape ... or the alarm made by a telephone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title for &lt;em&gt;Ringu&lt;/em&gt; used in Spanish-speaking countries is &lt;em&gt;El círculo&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18249" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T17:05:48.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9879" CreationDate="2015-05-02T17:17:32.163" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The use of pop-op text goes back a long time.  Silent films mostly used intertitles rather than overlaid titles; these were both technically easier to produce and more dramatically effective than subtitles in the absence of a soundtrack to establish timing continuity, but certainly be the 1920s overlaying text on a scene for dramatic effect was not uncommon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the end of the silent era, on-screen overlaid text became less common, though films exhibited in regions whose language differed from the one in which the movie was shot would of course add translations in subtitles.  Such translations were primarily focused on dialogue, but many translators would also subtitle signage, or documents that were shown on screen and read by the characters, etc. when such things were relevant to the plot of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, while such techniques were not often employed in narrative films, it has for a long time been common for educational motion pictures to incorporate elements of educational slide shows (or non-moving film strips).  Something like the Ferris Bueller clip shown above could be seen as a spoof of such films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although Sherlock may have established a particular style of pop-up messaging, many aspects of such usage go back many decades.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8357" LastActivityDate="2015-05-02T17:17:32.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33884" CreationDate="2015-05-02T19:07:07.767" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per  &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Big-Secret-Behind-Infinity-Gauntlet-According-Marvel-Kevin-Feige-71192.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cinemablend.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;There are two different gloves. That was not Odin’s vault that you&#xA;  see at the end.&quot; - Kevin Feige&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means Thanos doesn't have to grab the Glove from Asgard at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even the gloves are of different hands:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Left hand glove in &lt;em&gt;Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RiSnF.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RiSnF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Thanos seen wearing a left hand glove&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And right hand in &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q8LAH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q8LAH.png&quot; alt=&quot;picture of the right hand glove&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FUKPs.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FUKPs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;glove seen in the vault&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in &lt;em&gt;Thor: Ragnarok&lt;/em&gt;, Hela made it clear that it was a fake Gauntlet. And that there is only one real Gauntlet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-02-21T12:17:24.620" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T12:17:24.620" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33907" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34021" CreationDate="2015-05-02T19:52:49.930" Score="15" ViewCount="11183" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Age of Ultron, Iron man selected the FRIDAY chip from the rest for the replacement of J.A.R.V.I.S &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PFNCN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was clearly able to find out references to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocasta_%28comics%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jocasta&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/Friday_(Earth-616)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;FRIDAY&lt;/a&gt;. What are the rest of the chips for? Are they also some Easter eggs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-02T20:16:31.467" LastActivityDate="2022-04-13T00:38:57.927" Title="What were the other A.I. chips and whom are they referring to?" Tags="|reference|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33909" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33923" CreationDate="2015-05-02T20:52:36.517" Score="2" ViewCount="522" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Once Upon a Time in the West&lt;/em&gt;, Cheyenne is telling Jill that there is a whole heap of whys, and then he says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Round, yellow, you know the kind, you rap them around a stone and they go ding...&quot; and she replies that she knows the kind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are they talking about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user20938" LastEditorDisplayName="user20938" LastEditDate="2015-05-03T07:12:39.760" LastActivityDate="2015-05-03T20:29:15.027" Title="Round, yellow you rap them on a stone and they go ding" Tags="|dialogue|once-upon-a-time-in-the-west|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17510" CreationDate="2015-05-03T11:30:48.707" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like commando theme (compare with C64 chiptune version).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20944" LastActivityDate="2015-05-03T11:30:48.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33915" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35892" CreationDate="2015-05-03T11:57:44.777" Score="6" ViewCount="2047" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joss Whedon has been quoted as saying&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whatever you're thinking, it's less&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but has anyone placed a &lt;strong&gt;specific dollar figure&lt;/strong&gt; on the budget of his 'Much Ado About Nothing'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, can someone here make a reasonable estimate, assuming actor's scale, food costs, costume &amp;amp; equipment rental, etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16170" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-03-23T12:24:29.877" LastActivityDate="2016-09-12T17:34:06.640" Title="What was Joss Whedon's budget for Much Ado About Nothing?" Tags="|production|much-ado-about-nothing-2012|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33909" CreationDate="2015-05-03T20:29:15.027" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://notesofafilmfanatic.com/?p=379&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sources&lt;/a&gt; I've found for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allreadable.com/mv1f429Ibvi&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;quote&lt;/a&gt; state that it's actually:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Round. Yellow. You know the kind. You wrap/rap ‘em &lt;strong&gt;on&lt;/strong&gt; a stone and they go ‘ding!”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I'm guessing that the homophones &quot;rap&quot; and &quot;wrap&quot; are confused in this example... it's a common mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if that's the case, I'm guessing that he's talking about gold coins, or generally money. So the &quot;whole heap of whys&quot; is a pile of gold coins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-05-03T20:29:15.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10126" CreationDate="2015-05-04T01:50:45.283" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The issue of the upside-down flag has been answered elsewhere, so to expand &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/10337/11244&quot;&gt;Shiz Z.'s answer&lt;/a&gt; on the Lincoln Memorial reference, I would say that the blood in Underwood's hand suggests that he's a ruthless, maybe violent character. He's in the place of a former United States president, so he probably wants to be the president himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lincoln symbolizes (as do the statue and the Memorial themselves) important values of American politics like democracy, freedom, and civil rights. Underwood in place of Lincoln could be a comparison in positive or negative/opposing aspects. The blood in his hands and over the statue indicates the second case, so Underwood seems to be the opposite of Lincoln: autocratic and having little respect for democratic values. Also, it may be an optical illusion (caused by the color of his clothes), but Underwood seems relatively small sitting in Lincoln's chair, as if he would be a lesser person/president than Lincoln.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides that, replacing Lincoln in the Memorial statue has been used before to provoke surprise and reflections about the importance of some characters in the history of a nation – remarkably, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_(2001_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Planet of the Apes from 2001&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RmGTt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;General Al Thade in place of Lincoln&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20956" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T08:08:15.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33928" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33931" CreationDate="2015-05-04T03:56:18.910" Score="30" ViewCount="28826" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ever since their introduction in Season 3 of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, The Unsullied had the reputation of being the finest trained army in Westeros. But in S05E04, how come a bunch of Unsullied soldiers (who were trained to be killers since they were children) led by Grey Worm are overwhelmed by untrained Sons of The Harpy so easily? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2017-12-13T00:10:53.777" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T21:13:14.827" Title="How come the Unsullied are overwhelmed so easily?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33928" CreationDate="2015-05-04T04:43:42.670" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Unsullied&quot;&gt;The Unsullied&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are a battle-group, trained in fighting side-by-side in a similar fashion to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx&quot;&gt;Greek Phalanxes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unsullied battle tactics are based on the legions of the old Ghiscari Empire, involving large groups of them fighting in lock-step phalanxes using spear and shield, though they are also trained to use shortswords for close-quarters combat. Slave-eunuchs who have been trained from birth to fight, the Unsullied are renowned for their utter discipline on the battlefield, both in their usage of incredibly coordinated large unit phalanx formations, and because they will never break in the face of overwhelming odds, even to the point of death.&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Unsullied&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They were simply overwhelmed.&lt;/strong&gt; That they survived so long and took down so many Sons of the Harpy is a tribute to how skilled at arms they are, and how fearless. Such was their down-fall in this instance. A brave warrior stands and fights, and dies, but a smart one (someone like Bronn) would flee and live another day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Sons of the Harpy know this, which is why they tend to attack fewer and less organised members of the Unsullied in tight streets and alley ways. First one person in a brothel, then two, then five and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from the Books:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They fight in formation as light infantry, equipped with short spears, swords, round shields, and distinctive spiked caps. They fight fearlessly and obey without question. Their elite, highly specialized training makes them most effective in their phalanx formation. &lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Unsullied#Military_Tactics&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ser Barristan and Dany have this discussion about this exact problem in the books:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Daenerys pushed her hair back. “Find these cowards for me. Find them, so that I might teach the Harpy’s Sons what it means to wake the dragon.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Grey Worm saluted her. His Unsullied closed the shroud once more, lifted the dead man onto their shoulders, and bore him from the hall. Ser Barristan Selmy remained behind. His hair was white, and there were crow’s-feet at the corners of his pale blue eyes. Yet his back was still un-bent, and the years had not yet robbed him of his skill at arms. “Your Grace,” he said, “I fear your eunuchs are ill suited for the tasks you set them.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  Dany settled on her bench and wrapped her pelt about her shoulders once again. “The Unsullied are my finest warriors.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  “Soldiers, not warriors, if it please Your Grace. They were made for the battlefield, to stand shoulder to shoulder behind their shields with their spears thrust out before them. Their training teaches them to obey, fearlessly, perfectly, without thought or hesitation … not to unravel secrets or ask&#xA;  questions.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-A Song of Ice and Fire: Book 5 - A Dance With Dragons, Chapter Two (Daenerys I).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-05-04T05:36:37.097" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T05:36:37.097" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33751" CreationDate="2015-05-04T05:22:58.570" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way Ultron sees it, Once you take away all the extraterrestrial threats, Humans are the ones causing all the ruckus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the moment that Ultron boots up, we see him scanning through all files, many of which include human destruction. Images &amp;amp; videos of various wars that humanity has fought over the centuries. This causes him to take up an issue against Humanity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He feels that Earth/Humanity is so corrupted by now that it is beyond reproach/repair. This is why he starts planning an Extinction Level Event. He feels that the only way to save the planet is to start afresh, to start from scratch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel it also plays into the trope of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AIIsACrapshoot&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;evil AI turning against creators.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, one thing to note here is that we currently do not know the source of the Ultron consciousness. If it was built with malicious intent, or built in a time of war, it would hold such extreme solutions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, JARVIS has been seeing the earth for a long time. He knows humans, humanity. That is why he says that he is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;...on the side of life. Ultron isn't&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He might not be JARVIS anymore, but his core was built around JARVIS, giving him the benevolent nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7516" LastEditorUserId="7516" LastEditDate="2015-05-04T08:02:52.010" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T08:02:52.010" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33791" CreationDate="2015-05-04T05:30:04.367" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the MCU, Captain America is shown to be the leader. This is evident from the main battle in Avengers (2012), where Tony Stark tells Captain to make the battle plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To go off the scenes,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Captain has military experience. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Captain has leadership experience (having led a team against HYDRA back in the day).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He also has formal military training.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These points make most people think of him as the leader of the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7516" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-04T08:17:27.693" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T08:17:27.693" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33690" CreationDate="2015-05-04T05:31:45.997" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe his major motive behind this was he did not want to endanger anybody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was very wary when&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; Natasha tries to get intimate with him.&#xA; He isn't very comfortable with this, and is trying to protect her from the &amp;quot;other guy&amp;quot;. He also says to the effect that he trusts her, it's the &amp;quot;other guy&amp;quot; who he doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have seen this in the past as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Hulk&lt;/em&gt; (2003 film) he leaves civilized settlements and goes to live in a forest alone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Incredible hulk&lt;/em&gt; (2008 film) yet again we see him living in a remote place.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt; we see him living in a remote village in Calcutta.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that in both cases he leaves everything in an attempt to save people from the potential wrath of the big green guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that is something he does at a personal level. He doesn't want to endanger people around him. We hear this from time to time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, in &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt; he says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last time I was in New York I kinda broke Harlem...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This clearly shows some level of remorse.&#xA;Also,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Natasha Romanoff:&lt;/em&gt; You want to think about removing yourself from this environment, Doctor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bruce Banner:&lt;/em&gt; [chuckles] I was in Calcutta, I was pretty well removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. - &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/87447/12551&quot;&gt;Original answer&lt;/a&gt; on Sci-Fi SE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7516" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T08:24:50.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32275" CreationDate="2015-05-04T06:31:51.487" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it pretty much sounds The clinic S07E08. You can read summary of this episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1549475/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13689" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T06:31:51.487" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33936" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33938" CreationDate="2015-05-04T07:05:59.187" Score="15" ViewCount="26684" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please tell me the reason behind using Head &amp;amp; Shoulders Shampoo in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Evolution&lt;/a&gt; (2001).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20473" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-05T12:19:38.610" LastActivityDate="2020-02-27T03:18:22.960" Title="Why did they use Head &amp; Shoulders to fight the alien invaders in Evolution?" Tags="|plot-explanation|evolution|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33936" CreationDate="2015-05-04T07:31:14.903" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, the selenium!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the ingredients in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_%26_Shoulders&quot;&gt;Head &amp;amp; Shoulders&lt;/a&gt; is selenium, an element on the periodic table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The active ingredient in Clinical Strength Head &amp;amp; Shoulders is selenium sulfide 1%&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignoring the fact that a great number of elements on the periodic table are toxic to humans, the film decided to pick arsenic off of the table and then made this leap of scientific logic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Humans are &lt;strong&gt;carbon-based&lt;/strong&gt; life-forms, and if &lt;em&gt;arsenic&lt;/em&gt; is toxic to us, the &quot;scientists&quot; in the film use the periodic table to decide that the alien life-forms, which are &lt;strong&gt;nitrogen-based&lt;/strong&gt;, must similarly find &lt;em&gt;selenium&lt;/em&gt; toxic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V0imf.png&quot; alt=&quot;Selenium hypothesis&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the film is ridiculous and haven't seen it in years but this is the &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; thing I remember about the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zapsock.com/inspirational/the-evolution-solution&quot;&gt;reference&lt;/a&gt; (and the source of the image) if you want it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;David Duchovny, much by chance and luck discovers that since humans are carbon based and arsenic is deadly to humans, the aliens are nitrogen based and so if you follow the same pattern (2 down 1 over) on the periodic table, the aliens should have a deadly reaction to selenium (which apparently is found in conditioner).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from the Wikipedia article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Looking at the positions of nitrogen and carbon on the periodic table, Ira theorizes selenium might be poisonous to the aliens, since they are nitrogen-based, as arsenic is poisonous to Earth's carbon life. Ira's dumbest students Deke and Danny (Ethan Suplee and Michael Ray Bower) recall selenium sulfide is the active ingredient in Head &amp;amp; Shoulders, so the team procures a firetruck and fills it with the shampoo. Ira also gives the Donald brothers an A, much to their excitement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-05-04T07:44:19.760" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T07:44:19.760" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33940" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-04T08:23:49.300" Score="0" ViewCount="327" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question relates to the movie &lt;em&gt;Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps&lt;/em&gt;.&#xA;Why does the rumor of nationalisation affect the interest in Hydra Offshore shares?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20902" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-12-14T17:41:09.723" LastActivityDate="2018-01-13T20:05:45.177" Title="Wall Street 2: Nationalisation" Tags="|plot-explanation|wall-street-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33791" CreationDate="2015-05-04T09:16:23.063" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that, if there had to be one, Cap would be the obvious choice. As others have mentioned, he has a history of leading others from his work before he was encapsulated in the ice.  He also is very mission-oriented and very much interested in the greater good at his own personal cost. Whether this makes someone a good leader or not is debatable but when considering the &lt;em&gt;goal&lt;/em&gt; of The Avengers they seem to be positives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; the others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thor&lt;/strong&gt; tends to wander off back to Asgard to take care of things there and it's difficult to lead a group when you have multiple priorities. He may have more battle experience but Earth is (arguably) secondary to Asgard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Banner&lt;/strong&gt; tends to wander off because he's not in control of the Hulk's power and doesn't want to hurt others, and lacks confidence. He's a great scientific mind but his heart isn't in the fighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stark&lt;/strong&gt; has more money than god and more brains than Einstein but he's very self-centered. Sometimes it takes a bit of prodding for him to do the &quot;right&quot; thing and his version of what's right isn't always the same as what's conventionally considered &quot;right&quot;. Plus, as Fury was the one setting up The Avengers and intentionally tried to keep Stark out, he doesn't seem to be trusted as a leader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Romanoff&lt;/strong&gt; is used to working alone.  She'll work as part of a team when necessary but her background is as an assassin/spy, a character type prone to working solo. And, yes, I'll play the misogyny card... she's also a girl. Girls don't generally get to lead men in superhero media.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Barton&lt;/strong&gt; shows a lot of leadership qualities and the team does look to him often, which is shown pretty clearly in &lt;em&gt;Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;. But he's also very modest and his family is clearly very important to him, so I think he'd avoid the position of leadership even if it was offered to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, if you look at the end of &lt;em&gt;Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;, at who's left for The Avengers team, it's a completely different group of people and the only two from those above are Cap and Romanoff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and what about &lt;strong&gt;Fury&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, I'm pretty sure they make it clear a couple of times that, while SHIELD may have been behind &lt;em&gt;creating&lt;/em&gt; the Avengers, they're not going to run the group. Fury has his own things to work on, managing what's left of SHIELD (as discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agents_of_S.H.I.E.L.D.&quot;&gt;Agents of SHIELD&lt;/a&gt;). They'll be there for back-up if needed, as seen in &lt;em&gt;Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; but they're two separate entities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-05-04T09:26:35.400" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T09:26:35.400" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33338" CreationDate="2015-05-04T11:00:51.167" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Homesteader&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Homesteader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was a book by Oscar Micheaux and made into a film in &lt;strong&gt;1919&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elia Kazan turned his autobiographical book, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.film.com/movies/authors-directors-perks-of-being-a-wallflower&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;America America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (published 1961), into a film (released &lt;strong&gt;1963&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 1964, Elia Kazan was nominated for three Academy Awards for his adaptation of “America, America,” a film which he wrote and directed based upon his own book. Sure, he’d already had a few Oscars on the shelf for “Gentleman’s Agreement” and “On the Waterfront,” but having a few nods for his own original (loosely biographical) story was probably a special honor for Kazan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T11:00:51.167" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33945" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-04T11:25:52.107" Score="0" ViewCount="777" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw Sex and the City 2. In that movie, Abu Dhabi was shown in a decent manner, even airport security did not allow sex products in and throughout the movie the decency of the place is maintained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in Furious 7, they showed Abu Dhabi as a place where &quot;Bikini Girls enjoy a party outside&quot;. Did the Furious 7 team do &quot;bad things&quot; in Abu Dhabi? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20965" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-06-29T16:46:34.720" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T16:46:34.720" Title="Did the Furious 7 team do wrong things in Abu Dhabi?" Tags="|fast-and-furious-franchise|furious-7|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33945" CreationDate="2015-05-04T13:29:45.993" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless the production crew had special permission for things, you have to remember that just because a movie is shown to take place somewhere, &lt;strong&gt;doesn't mean it's actually filmed there.&lt;/strong&gt; There's a lot that can be done with special effects to compile different shots together to make them look like the location needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/WhN1STep_zk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted this is for television shows, but still, it highlights how shows can be made to look like they're taking place in a specific location, when they were actually filmed on a studio backlot with the locations inserted later by VFX teams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't seem to find it, but in the early days of Hollywood, they actually had a map of locations in and around California that could be used to depict various world locations based on genre type.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T13:29:45.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33950" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33988" CreationDate="2015-05-04T14:27:50.507" Score="6" ViewCount="5077" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;del&gt;In X-men Days of Future Past, we see Quicksilver running around pushing bullets to change their trajectories&lt;/del&gt;. In Avengers Age of Ultron, Quicksiver circles Hawkeye and a boy, and takes all the bullet hits. When he stops moving we see that he's been riddled with bullets, in order to protect Hawkeye and the boy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This shows us that he can run fast enough to intercept the bullets before they hit other people, so it seems to me that he can see them and move to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't he just change the trajectory of the bullets away from all people? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2019-01-03T16:26:32.270" LastActivityDate="2019-01-03T16:26:32.270" Title="Can Quicksilver push bullets out of the way?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="16" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33559" CreationDate="2015-05-04T17:34:27.680" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As of S05E04, it would appear the Melisandre asked because she was hoping to have intercourse with Jon Snow in order to get energy of some sort. She tells Jon that when two people come together, energy is created (for light, shadows, etc). I would take this to mean that she is hoping to harness that energy for another purpose (the upcoming battle of Winterfell perhaps). However, Jon turns her down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T17:34:27.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33959" CreationDate="2015-05-04T18:12:06.130" Score="3" ViewCount="654" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kim and Jimmy are good friends for sure since they are always looking out for each other and being happy/sad for each other, but are they, or were at one time, romantically involved too ? In the episode RICO, when Jimmy tells Kim that he has passed the bar exam, she hugs him excitedly and kisses him on the lips. Nothing else is clear afterwards. Whether they had a relationship at some point or currently have feelings for each other is ambiguous. Are there any subtle hints in the show ? What is the nature of relationship between Jimmy and Kim?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T18:18:59.883" Title="Nature of relationship between Jimmy and Kim" Tags="|character|better-call-saul|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33956" CreationDate="2015-05-04T18:18:59.883" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I strongly suspect they've had a sexual relationship at some point. Brief fling, something more, difficult to speculate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one episode, we see them sharing a cigarette. While not always an indication of intimacy, I've never known anyone in my life that does that without it meaning something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In another episode, Jimmy calls late at night, and she says something snarky about he better not be calling for phone sex, but the tone of her voice indicates that the idea doesn't repulse her, it's merely unwelcome at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T18:18:59.883" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33945" CreationDate="2015-05-04T18:19:04.857" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Furious 7 was, in fact, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2820852/locations&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;partially filmed in Abu Dhabi&lt;/a&gt;.  However, I don't think you can say they did &quot;wrong things&quot;.  They are trying to represent a foreign, exotic (to Americans) location.  Movies aren't always a perfect representation of real life.  They're supposed to be an &lt;em&gt;escape&lt;/em&gt; from life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T18:19:04.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33950" CreationDate="2015-05-04T21:29:38.220" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The muzzle speed for a aircraft is much faster that that of say the handgun Hawkeye used to make him fall through the floor. Think of it as catching a slow football toss vs stopping 10 footballs thrown by Manning from hitting a target&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20981" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T21:29:38.220" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24365" CreationDate="2015-05-04T21:31:35.517" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The laugh was more because she took his reference way too literally. &quot;A stick up someone's butt&quot; in this country refers to people who are way too strict or have no sense of humor. You don't have to see &lt;em&gt;Footloose&lt;/em&gt; to get that he doesn't mean they really have sticks up their butts. Just like the joke &quot;nothing goes over my head, I'm too quick&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20982" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-05-04T23:06:28.797" LastActivityDate="2015-05-04T23:06:28.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33966" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-04T22:04:00.370" Score="6" ViewCount="8602" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;Babe&quot;, the pig protagonist learns a secret &quot;password&quot; (&quot;Baa Ram Ewe... Baa Ram Ewe...&quot;) that enables him to gain the trust of some sheep in a sheep-dog competition.  Ignoring for a moment the cryptographic problems of establishing this password amongst all sheep, I find myself wondering: Why do the sheep even have a password in the first place?  What purpose could this password possibly serve?  Surely this isn't so sheep can establish a chain of trust with respect to a trusted &quot;wolf&quot; (sheep-dog) like a certificate authority -- the sheep-dogs in the &quot;babe&quot; world are universally distrusted, and even if one were trusted, a sheep-dog doesn't routinely service far-flung flocks.  Why is there a password?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20983" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-04T22:15:16.113" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T20:39:32.913" Title="Why do the sheep in the movie &quot;Babe&quot; have a password?" Tags="|plot-explanation|babe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33696" CreationDate="2015-05-05T00:06:20.657" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;The documentary &lt;em&gt;The Matrix Revisited&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_Revisited&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt; • &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295432/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; • &lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/B00005OBB9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;) features an interview with Hugo Weaving (starting at approximately 48 minutes in, a segment called &amp;quot;The Interrogation Room&amp;quot;) in which he says that he wanted a &amp;quot;neutral accent&amp;quot; for the character and for him to be &amp;quot;not robotic but not really human. I kept thinking about a &lt;strong&gt;'50s newsreader or someone like that&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;quot; This is (in the documentary) followed immediately by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Fishburne&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Laurence Fishburne&lt;/a&gt; (Morpheus) saying that he sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Cronkite&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walter Cronkite&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Here's Cronkite's final broadcast for comparison:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/G5tdqojA26E?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following Fishburne's comment, the documentary shows Weaving saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And also the more I hung out with &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wachowskis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Larry and Andy [Wachowski]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; the more I think I picked up on their rhythms. Larry and Andy both have an incredibly deep voice and I think that kinda -- Agent Smith started to kinda talk like that a bit as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in conclusion, his stated influences were an archetypal 1950s newsreader and the Wachowski brothers. While I agree that he sounds uncannily like Carl Sagan when he plays Agent Smith, he doesn't seem to have acknowledged Sagan as an influence for the portrayal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8379" LastEditorUserId="8379" LastEditDate="2021-08-12T15:20:23.407" LastActivityDate="2021-08-12T15:20:23.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14096" CreationDate="2015-05-05T00:14:55.130" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie, if I'm not mistaken, was a Halloween special that aired once and then never again called &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakurenbo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kakurenbo&lt;/a&gt; aka Kakurenbo: Hide &amp;amp; Seek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A young boy named Hikora enters the ruins of a forbidden city with a&#xA;  group of other children to play &quot;Otokoyo&quot; (a game of hide-and-seek&#xA;  where the players are said to be kidnapped by ghosts and demons) to&#xA;  find his missing sister. - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489102/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/47bQG.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/47bQG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20985" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-01-08T07:37:07.873" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T07:37:07.873" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31794" CreationDate="2015-05-05T02:59:20.753" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having four friends, (mice), pull the carriage not only saved time, but also ensured a sense of comradery and teamwork amongst the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, it ensures a pleasant evening to have a mute carriage driver. Had one of the mice, who can speak, become the carriage driver, they would have talked Cinderella to death. But by having a friendly and albeit dim-witted person in the lead, as well as the talking characters people rendered unable to talk, you have an ideal and quiet evening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose you could also say that it's far from graceful to have an ass of a horse changed into a more majestic horse... that sends a bad message about beauty discrimination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T02:59:20.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33971" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-05T04:01:51.890" Score="5" ViewCount="465" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched the movie Despicable Me 2 and I am interested in the final scenes. A number of Gru's friends and enemies are at the wedding, including his neighbor and crazy date. Is there a list of the (non-minion) wedding guests who attended Gru and Lucy's wedding?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a start I recognize the following: Silas Ramsbottom, the woman Gru went out with, the other woman with crazy teeth he met at the birthday party, Gru's neighbor, the waiter at the restaurant, Gru's mother, Dr Nefario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12705" LastEditorUserId="12705" LastEditDate="2015-06-01T14:46:13.033" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T14:46:13.033" Title="Wedding guests for Gru and Lucy" Tags="|despicable-me-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33975" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33987" CreationDate="2015-05-05T06:17:59.300" Score="21" ViewCount="1497" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;, after Scarlet Witch messed everyone and they ended up at Hawkeye's place, Thor took off to find some answers for what he saw.  He ended up contacting the scientist played by Stellen Skarsgard.  They ended up at some pool of water where Thor goes all lightning and stuff, but I didn't really follow what was happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what was Thor doing?  Why did he do this and what were the results?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:33:56.127" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T15:33:56.127" Title="What was Thor doing?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33976" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33980" CreationDate="2015-05-05T06:27:52.823" Score="5" ViewCount="771" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; Strucker was a HYDRA agent that was at the facility with Loki's scepter.  It seemed that the Avengers knew who he was, but I was at a complete loss as to who he was.  What was actually known about Strucker?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:33:15.693" LastActivityDate="2020-09-07T14:47:41.147" Title="What do we know about Strucker?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33976" CreationDate="2015-05-05T10:22:06.823" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Strucker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Baron Strucker&lt;/a&gt; is a long time villain in Marvel comics and as per my knowledge he is quite under used in Marvel Cinematic Universe (Specially movies). For better understanding you need to know his all appearances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Appearances Within Marvel Cinematic Universe:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Wolfgang_von_Strucker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;+&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Movie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Mid-credit scene)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TV series&lt;/strong&gt; (   Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Writing on the Wall (mentioned)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Aftershocks (mentioned)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Frenemy of My Enemy (mentioned)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tie-in Comic&lt;/strong&gt;  : &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron_Prelude_-_This_Scepter%27d_Isle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron Prelude - This Scepter'd Isle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In The tie in comics, we get to know that how Struker infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. to get his hand on Scepter using Mark Smith and bring it to Sokovia for experimentation. He then experimented on Chitauri tech and Scepter there. Asked volunteer from rioters and only twins get survived from experimentation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then its connect to Mid-credit scene of Winter soldier&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/9csx3sTmmxQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that he is just mentioned in few episode of S.H.I.E.L.D. and his commemorates appear in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In short:&lt;/strong&gt; Strucker was the sleeper agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Working for HYDRA), becomes one of HYDRA's leaders after the death of Alexander Pierce. Between the time of Avenger 1 and 2, he experiment on the scepter and made two &lt;strike&gt;mutant&lt;/strike&gt; superhuman twins. And after the event of Winter soldier S.H.I.E.L.D. and Avenger work together to eliminate HYDRA and what we see in the start of AGE of Ultron, it was suppose to be last of HYDRA base they know. Struker's full Marvel Cinematic Universe summary can be read &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Wolfgang_von_Strucker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: It is also speculated that Maximoff Twins were partially inspired from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenris_(comics)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fenris Twins&lt;/a&gt; (Struker's own twin children from Comics).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2020-09-07T14:47:41.147" LastActivityDate="2020-09-07T14:47:41.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="33981" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-05T13:31:36.550" Score="19" ViewCount="45799" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once The Avengers bring back the Sceptre from Strucker's facility, &lt;strong&gt;Tony&lt;/strong&gt; (and &lt;strong&gt;JARVIS&lt;/strong&gt;) start running some diagnostics on it. Eventually, they find some kind of AI (&lt;em&gt;Artificial Intelligence&lt;/em&gt;) residing within the gem. This AI turns out to be &lt;strong&gt;Ultron&lt;/strong&gt; which suppresses &lt;strong&gt;JARVIS&lt;/strong&gt; and starts uploading it's consciousness into the &lt;em&gt;Iron Legion&lt;/em&gt; drones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, how does Ultron (&lt;em&gt;or his consciousness&lt;/em&gt;) end up in &lt;strong&gt;Loki's&lt;/strong&gt; Sceptre at the first place? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has the existence of &lt;strong&gt;Ultron&lt;/strong&gt; residing inside the Sceptre ever been touched upon in the &lt;em&gt;Marvel Cinematic Universe&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Based on the first answer here I would like to further clarify the scope of this question.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Ultron a godlike being (&lt;em&gt;as portrayed in the Comics&lt;/em&gt;) residing within the Sceptre? If yes, how did he end up there? Or is it a tech created by Tony Stark and powered by the Mind Stone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T15:25:55.970" LastActivityDate="2017-10-30T04:43:17.063" Title="How did Ultron come to be in the Sceptre?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33981" CreationDate="2015-05-05T13:58:50.950" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;They don't really spend a lot of time explaining this in the movie, you have to piece it together from various bits of dialog during that scene (and others later on). But, Ultron isn't &quot;in&quot; the scepter, rather, the scepter contains the last piece of technology Stark and Banner needed to finish building the Ultron project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that Banner was already familiar with Ultron at the very beginning, we can assume that it was the name of a project that Stark and Banner had been working on. Presumably, some form of AI that would be self-aware enough to defend Earth against previously unknown threats (particularly alien ones). Much of the work in building that was apparently in place. When JARVIS examined the scepter, it saw that there was something inside, that it interpreted as &quot;code&quot; to some new, advanced operating system. However, while JARVIS's OS is clearly artificial and digital, the &quot;code&quot; inside the scepter looked much more organic and fluid, like you might imagine a &quot;biologically-based&quot; computer might look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony believed that he could adapt the code from within the scepter and somehow modify it to interface with the existing Ultron project. As it turns out, the &quot;thing&quot; inside the scepter was actually the Mind Stone, which is an object far more advanced and powerful than any Earth-based technology. So, when Tony attempted to harness that power and, essentially, plug it in to his existing technology, it rapidly took over. The combination of all those things -- the Mind Stone's power, the Stark hardware, and the existing &quot;save the world&quot; protocols that Tony had already built into the Ultron project, all combined to make the entity known as Ultron.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exactly why there is computer code inside an millions-of-years-old magical artifact from the beginning of creation isn't really explained, much less how JARVIS and Tony recognize it as an operating system. If I had to speculate, I'd suspect that it was merely the way the Mind Stone chose to expose itself to Tony, in a form that it knew he would recognize. We know the Mind Stone is immensely powerful, particularly with mental abilities -- it made Strucker smarter just being around it -- so probing Tony's brain to figure out some form that would allow him to understand and use it's power would be trivial for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T13:58:50.950" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33984" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="33986" CreationDate="2015-05-05T14:34:52.107" Score="18" ViewCount="4384" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the X-Men series he is a mutant. But in the Avengers 2 he is depicted as having received his powers through a Hydra experiment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are talks in the X-Men about how he is the son of Magneto, but in Avengers he is an orphan whose parents were killed by Stark missiles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20993" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T14:06:10.397" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T14:06:10.397" Title="Isn't the Quicksilver from Avengers 2 the same as the Quicksilver from X-Men: Days of Future Past?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|x-men-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|x-men-days-of-future-past|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33984" CreationDate="2015-05-05T14:40:46.363" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, they are completely different characters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As discussed in this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/52589/is-quicksilver-in-the-x-men-movies-the-same-as-in-avengers-age-of-ultron&quot;&gt;Sci-Fi &amp;amp; Fantasy question&lt;/a&gt; and this &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/13512/49&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV question&lt;/a&gt;, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are rare exceptions to the general licensing deal that Marvel made with Fox. Part of that deal is that Fox has the exclusive rights to make movies about any of the &quot;mutants&quot; in the Marvel Universe: the X-Men, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and all the related characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are odd, in that they are &lt;em&gt;also&lt;/em&gt; key members of The Avengers, which Marvel retained the rights to make movies about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, those two characters are legally allowed to be in both Marvel and Fox movies, as long as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fox never uses the term Avengers or mentions any other Avengers characters&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marvel never uses the terms mutant or X-Men, and in particular, never mentions Magneto.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the two movie universes have entirely different characters, with entirely different back stories, that just happen to be based on the same comic-book character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T15:31:42.110" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33975" CreationDate="2015-05-05T14:57:33.670" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The visions that Scarlet Witch gave to the various Avengers basically played on their worst fears, e.g. Tony saw the Avengers dead because he failed; Natasha relived her training in the Red Room, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some reason (that I don't think is adequately explained in the movie), Thor's vision was far more directly relevant than the others. As an Asgardian, Thor is likely far more aware of the kind of dangers that exist in the broader universe, and he's also aware of the fact that at least two of the Infinity Stones have been put in play recently. Those things would be his &quot;worst fears&quot; -- something so dangerous that it could literally destroy the entire universe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his vision, he sees flashes of those stones (including the Mind Stone), but doesn't immediately understand what it means, so he goes off to find answer. The place that he travels, to get those answers, is named &quot;The Water of Sight&quot; by Dr. Selvig. Again, we don't know much about them except what Thor and Selvig say about them in that one scene, but they are apparently a magical spring that allows Thor to access information he would not normally have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87329/what-is-the-water-of-sight-featured-in-avengers-age-of-ultron&quot;&gt;this Sci-Fi and Fantasy question,&lt;/a&gt; the Water of Sight was most likely inspired by the Well of Wyrd from the Marvel comics continuity).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Thor indicates, if the Waters &quot;accept&quot; him, they will grant him much better understanding of his vision and what it means. The knowledge he gains from the Waters lead him to understand that the Mind Stone is in play, and that he needs to ensure that Vision is allowed to exist and keep control of the Stone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This eventually leads him to go back to Stark Tower and help Tony create Vision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T14:57:33.670" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33950" CreationDate="2015-05-05T15:11:03.447" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as the Quicksilver that appears in &lt;em&gt;Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;, we never see him do anything like changing the trajectory of objects in mid-flight. The closest we come, I believe, is when he is able to snatch Hawkeye's arrow out of the air in the initial fight in Sokovia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/9J4v8RUklvk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible that he's simply not fast enough to do that. More likely, though, given how new his powers are to him, he may just not have the skill or practice to do anything that precise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that there are &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; places in the movie where Quicksilver is struck by a bullet. In both cases, he is not trying to outrun gunfire. Rather, he runs &lt;em&gt;into&lt;/em&gt; the trajectory of the bullet. The first is obviously an accident, when a friendly police officer fires into the area where Pietro is heading, and the bullet grazes his arm. The second time, he runs head-long &lt;em&gt;into&lt;/em&gt; a hail of gunfire from the Quinjet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think we're supposed to believe he ran in front of every bullet to protect Hawkeye. Rather, he ran in and grabbed both Hawkeye and the boy, and carried them to safety behind a car. In doing so, he just happened to put his body in the path of the bullets. I suspect he knew there was a serious risk that he would get hit, but decided that saving the boy, and one of the Avengers, was a worthwhile sacrifice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-06-21T06:07:38.693" LastActivityDate="2016-06-21T06:07:38.693" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33928" CreationDate="2015-05-05T15:25:19.087" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just as additional speculation that ties into the accepted answer, there are more reasons the Unsullied are less able to fight well against the Sons of the Harpy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your example of S05E04, we see that the unsullied all continue fighting with spears, despite the fact that they are in close quarters. This is not ideal for them, as they have less room to maneuver and swing such large weapons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It shows that the Sons of the Harpy are generally using knives and short blades, which are much better for confined spaces as they are less cumbersome in the limited space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads to 3 possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Unsullied are poorly equipped for their job, and aren't carrying round smaller blades for the potential close quarters combat they may face.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The spear is their favored weapon, and they will choose to fight with it no matter the conditions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Unsullied are not well trained with anything other than spears, and so could not use shorter weapons, as they are used to training to fight in wide open spaces.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't imagine Daenarys allowing her soldiers going out with less equipment than they need, and from Mooz's answer they apparently are trained to use short-swords, so it seems they prefer to use spears to fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whichever reason it is that they are using spears, the fact is that they are unable to fight as well as they would like to in open battle, so they were always at a disadvantage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the fact that they were heavily outnumbered, surrounded and in unfavorable conditions for their fighting style, and still managed to kill all of the Sons of the Harpy is a testament to the fact that they are still incredible fighters, it just happened to show them at a moment where they were unlikely to emerge victorious from the confrontation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T15:25:19.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33742" CreationDate="2015-05-05T15:59:24.757" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Tokyo Drift, Sean is still in school.  As the end of Tokyo Drift links in with Furious 7, Sean would still need to complete school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst the crew aren't known for their general abiding of rules, I think they would agree that what they are up against would be too dangerous for a kid, and that he'd be better off staying in school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others have also mentioned that Dom wouldn't know him or his true abilities, and he likes to keep things within his own trusted family; which Sean is not part of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20991" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2015-05-05T18:53:28.080" LastActivityDate="2015-05-05T18:53:28.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33992" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-05T23:09:05.453" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 epic historical film set in World War 2, based on the 1952 novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai by Pierre Boulle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050212/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Bridge on the River Kwai on IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Bridge on the River Kwai on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T00:59:19.913" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T00:59:19.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33993" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-05T23:09:05.453" Score="0" Body="A 1957 epic historical film set in World War 2, based on the 1952 novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai by Pierre Boulle. " OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T00:59:25.860" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T00:59:25.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33994" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-05T23:19:37.357" Score="8" ViewCount="956" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of the imagery in the Daredevil 2015 tv series is significantly more brutal than any previous entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of such imagery include: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fisk bash a guy's head off&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Daredevil beating a guy bloody for raping his daughter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The hit man committing suicide on a pipe&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was the decision made to push such a significance on this sort of imagery?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T07:25:10.153" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T07:25:10.153" Title="Why is Daredevil 2015 so brutal?" Tags="|film-techniques|marvel-cinematic-universe|daredevil-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="33996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2707" CreationDate="2015-05-06T00:48:32.500" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Winter's Bone - According to the author in the afterword of the novel, the novel takes place during winter, and the character is put through a figurative hell all her life. She is given, in the end, knowledge of what actually happened to her father &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the house. So, she was &quot;thrown a &lt;em&gt;Winter's Bone&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monster's Ball - On the last night before a death row convict is executed, he is given a meal of his choice, and is generally treated with more calm respect than in the past years. This night is known colloquially as the &quot;Monster's Ball.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Raising Arizona - This one was covered fairly expertly by @wobegacz. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T00:48:32.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26686" CreationDate="2015-05-06T03:49:13.583" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very late, sorry. I too am interested in finding the source because I recall my grandmother owning a bat Halloween prop that would hang over the door way and when you hit it it would shake and make a similar sound source. Anyways I found this video which is kind of like what my grandmother had except it wasn't a pumpkin and was covered with felt. - &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/L2WtpRjWh1U?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21012" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T03:49:13.583" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34001" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-06T04:09:51.493" Score="2" ViewCount="2311" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tom Cruise is a famous member of &lt;strong&gt;Scientology&lt;/strong&gt; and we also had other Scientology-inspired movies in the past, like &quot;Battlefield Earth&quot;. So is there any statement or evidence that &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Edge of Tomorrow&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; is another &quot;Scientology approved&quot; vision of &lt;strong&gt;humanity&lt;/strong&gt; and the &lt;strong&gt;future&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21013" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T13:28:27.967" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T13:28:27.967" Title="Does &quot;Edge of Tomorrow&quot; relate in any aspect with Scientology?" Tags="|analysis|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34003" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-06T04:43:01.717" Score="4" ViewCount="9552" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming that the curse of the Woman In Black is over, the movie ends with the Woman In Black appearing again. Did this mean that the Woman In Black will still haunt the Edwardian era English village?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20473" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T16:40:20.637" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T03:21:17.623" Title="What does the last scene in Woman In Black imply?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-woman-in-black|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5630" CreationDate="2015-05-06T04:48:20.623" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The fact that he stopped walking leads me to believe that the women approaching intended to harm him, if they were simply strolling up to freedom from their prison of Eden he would have continued down the hill. But the disturbing image of their heads bobbing at the edge of the hill filled me with a sense of dread, I was expecting to see them swarm towards him instantly, and by the look on his face, he did too. Their true intent is unclear, which I think it was intended to be. There's so many elements to consider; the witch hunts, the postpartum depression and the seemingly intentional crippling of her child and the general theme of the view of gender as presented by the characters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand the shot captured at the top of this page feels empowering on its own but when in the context of the film and with the images of his burning wife and the naked bodies strewn through the woods still fresh in your head it's hard to believe that it's a happy ending. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21016" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T04:48:20.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34001" CreationDate="2015-05-06T05:14:55.833" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no relationship between &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_Tomorrow_%28film%29&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edge of Tomorrow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and Scientology other than Tom Cruise's performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is based on a Japanese novel/manga called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Need_Is_Kill&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;All You Need Is Kill&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fthismovie.net/2014/06/review-edge-of-tomorrow.html&quot;&gt;sites&lt;/a&gt; claim that there is a correlation between Scientological dogma and the plot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One more thing: if I didn't know any better, I might read Edge of Tomorrow as Cruise's secret Scientology movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But those similarities were already in the manga and weren't added to the script to make it fit their beliefs. Either way, you might find the article interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, according to Wikipedia, Cruise wasn't even the first choice to play the lead, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_Tomorrow_%28film%29#Development_and_writing&quot;&gt;Brad Pitt&lt;/a&gt; was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T08:45:46.177" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T08:45:46.177" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34007" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-06T05:27:14.953" Score="5" ViewCount="1363" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2015/film/news/avengers-age-of-ultron-box-office-opening-1201486323/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Variety&lt;/a&gt; says the following about the opening weekend for &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Roughly 59% of the audience was male, 41% was 25 years and older, 12% were teenagers and 22% were families. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found out that there is a company called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinemaScore&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CinemaScore&lt;/a&gt; whose representatives hand out survey cards to opening-day moviegoers across the United States.  The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemascore.com/images/cms/CinemaScore_Ballot.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;survey card&lt;/a&gt; asks for gender and age range (under 18, 18-24, 25-34, 35-49, and 50 &amp;amp; over), among other things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think it's likely that Variety got their demographic data from CinemaScore (and they probably define &quot;teenagers&quot; to mean under 18).  But I'm not sure how they know that 22% of the audience were families.  The CinemaScore survey card doesn't ask for that information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where did Variety get the data that indicates 22% of the audience consisted of families?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9908" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T12:39:00.237" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T12:39:00.237" Title="How did Variety know how many families went to see &quot;Avengers: Age of Ultron&quot;?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|audience-measurement|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34008" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34018" CreationDate="2015-05-06T06:59:31.663" Score="11" ViewCount="748" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Seinfeld, Kramer is shown to be able to afford a flat alone in Jerry's building. While we see Jerry, George and Elaine several times at work, we never see Kramer holding down a job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only instances I remember is him being hired as an extra in a Woody Allen film (These pretzels are making me thirsty), and his tennis ballboy (ball-man?) gig. But I don't remember the whole series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Canonically, did he ever have a steady job during or before the events of the series? What were the sources of his income?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T01:29:57.800" Title="Was Kramer ever gainfully employed?" Tags="|seinfeld|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34007" CreationDate="2015-05-06T09:37:20.567" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that it's a large assumption to conclude that Variety got their statistics from a particular company as they do note cite their sources within their article (that I can see). There are many companies that deal with this kind of surveying and while they will all ask a core set of questions (gender, age, ethnic background, etc) some of them will go into more detail than others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A likely contender for where the particular statistics mentioned in the Variety article is PostTrak, by Rentrak/Screen Engine. Their methodology is the polling of a statistically significant portion of moviegoers - examples of the sort of statistics they collect and their methodology is discussed in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/MPAA-Theatrical-Market-Statistics-2014.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MPAA Theatrical Market Statistics 2014&lt;/a&gt; document. This isn't specific to PostTrak either, this is generally how the system works regardless of whether you're talking about movies or games or laundry detergent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nielsen, who collect ratings for TV shows, call this &amp;quot;Audience Composition&amp;quot;, but it is essentially &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_analysis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;demographic analysis&lt;/a&gt;. Short of counting and actively monitoring the people entering cinemas (which would be plausible but probably significantly more work than the value these figures themselves provide) all of these numbers are extrapolated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2013/popcorn-people-profiles-of-the-u-s-moviegoer-audience.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This article on the Neilsen website: &amp;quot;Popcorn People: Profiles of the U.S. Moviegoer Audience&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; details the sort of breakdowns by demographic that audience measurement companies look for but also details their process for working out the numbers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A two-stage study in which online, phone, and in-person surveys were conducted during August and September 2012 among more than 3,000 Americans aged 12-74, who were nationally representative of the U.S. population of moviegoers by age, gender, and race. “Moviegoer” is defined as someone having attended at least one movie in a theater in the past 12 months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example within the industry would be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemascore.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cinema Score&lt;/a&gt;, as mentioned within your question, who state that their process is basically the same as Neilsen's:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For over 35 years, CinemaScore has been polling moviegoers at major movie releases on opening night to collect demographic information and calculate a distinctive CinemaScore grade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemascore.com/aboutus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Followed by&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...while a movie critic only provides a single perspective on a movie, a statistically robust sample of a national audience offers a broader and more varied point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Audience members fill out ballot cards right at the theatre, grading a movie A to F and providing demographic information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What Variety are actually saying is &amp;quot;based on questioning a sample size of &lt;code&gt;X&lt;/code&gt; and then extrapolating these numbers up to the estimated seats sold, roughly 59% of the audience was male, 41% was 25 years and older, 12% were teenagers and 22% were families.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T18:11:12.407" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34011" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34023" CreationDate="2015-05-06T10:36:04.310" Score="1" ViewCount="5236" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can anyone give us proofs from the movie &quot;The Cobbler&quot; that confirm if his dad was dead in the movie or he just went away?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T10:49:32.893" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T05:54:19.333" Title="Was Adam Sandler's dad dead or did he just go away?" Tags="|the-cobbler|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34012" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-06T11:09:44.963" Score="2" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;The subject is written in a way to try and avoid any spoilers, if you think it should change: feel free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Original Q: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; What does Henry Injects to Adam's neck in order to paralyze him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; In the TV Series &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_(U.S._TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Forever S01E22&lt;/a&gt; after Adam shoots Henry with the musket (that theoretically is the one responsible for Henry's immortal state) Henry injects something to Adam, which after, in the hostpital scene, we learn that Adam is now paralyzed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What actually cause that effect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it reversible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2162" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T13:00:21.000" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T23:13:28.417" Title="Explanation for Henry's actions in Forever S01E22" Tags="|plot-explanation|forever|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34014" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34016" CreationDate="2015-05-06T11:44:42.637" Score="19" ViewCount="3076" Body="&lt;p&gt;A while ago I watched a scene from a TV show on YT. The title of the show was provided, but unfortunately I don't remember it. I think the show was British, but I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene was around 1-2 minutes long and involved two men sitting in a restaurant/pub and talking. One man was significantly older than the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The older man was explaining something to the younger man. I think it involved some criminal activity, perhaps they were gangsters. During the conversation he said something like &quot;You know, it's like in your favourite movie&quot;. The younger man asked what movie and the older one summarised the plot of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; series in a very funny way. He was saying things like: &quot;the movie where this guy falls in love in his sister and his father becomes a robot&quot;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-05-06T13:22:00.957" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T13:59:05.763" Title="Scene from a TV show with two men talking and one of them summarising Star Wars in a funny way" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:05:10.143" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34014" CreationDate="2015-05-06T13:57:11.477" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thick_of_It&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Thick of It&lt;/a&gt;, season 4, episode 2. Malcolm tries to describe it to Oliver with hilarious results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Malcolm: What's that film that you love? What film? The one about the f&amp;amp;$%ing hairdresser, the space hairdresser and the cowboy. The guy, he's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin. His father's a robot and he's f&amp;amp;$%ing f&amp;amp;$%ed his sister. LEGO, they're all made of f&amp;amp;$%ing LEGO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ollie: Star Wars?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Malcolm: That's the one, right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the clip:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/4odXuZQpzU8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T13:57:11.477" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34014" CreationDate="2015-05-06T13:59:05.763" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Thick of It (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459159/&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459159/&lt;/a&gt;)&#xA;The scene in question &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/4odXuZQpzU8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21028" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T13:59:05.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34008" CreationDate="2015-05-06T14:14:00.433" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kramer had a ton of odd &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2013/05/all-of-kramers-jobs-and-schemes-on-seinfeld.html&quot;&gt;jobs&lt;/a&gt;. Including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chief executive officer. (Founded the think tank Kramerica&#xA;  Industries.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Culinary entrepreneur. (Conceptualized a chain of make-your-own-pizza&#xA;  parlors and a restaurant that only serves peanut butter and jelly&#xA;  sandwiches called “P B and Js.”)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Inventor. (Conceived the idea for tie dispensers in restaurants to&#xA;  replace patrons’ soiled ones.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Movie actor. (Got one line in a Woody Allen movie.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sitcom actor. (Guest-starred on hit series Murphy Brown.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Expert gambler. (Gainfully anticipated winning outcomes in basketball,&#xA;  horse races, and flight arrival times.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Perfumer. (Developed a beach-scented cologne.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Portrait model. (Posed for a painting that sold for $5,000 to a couple&#xA;  who described him as “an innocent orphan in the postmodern world.”)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Screenwriter. (Developed a movie treatment titled The Keys.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Scalper. (Flipped an opera ticket for a $400 profit.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Model. (Showcased in a Calvin Klein underwear ad campaign.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Record Salesman. (Appropriated old vinyl LPs to sell to music shops.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tennis ball boy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Small-business investor. (Provided funding to a local nonfat&#xA;  frozen-yogurt shop.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Soap-opera stand-in. (Worked on the set of All My Children.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Clothing distributor  (Sold “The Executive,” a beltless trenchcoat&#xA;  invented by Jerry’s father in 1946, to Rudy's Antique Boutique.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Author. (Wrote The Coffee Table Book of Coffee Tables featured on Live&#xA;  With Regis and Kathie Lee.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Beauty-pageant coach and chaperone. (Advised a Miss America contestant&#xA;  on her interview, appearance, and talent.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vintage-clothing salesman. (Sold Kenny Bania the suit off his back for&#xA;  $300.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Department-store Santa Claus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Police lineup stand-in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Intimate apparel designer. (Co-inventor of “the Bro”/“Manssiere,” “a&#xA;  support undergarment specifically designed for men.”)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Plaintiff. (Sued coffee company for burning him with their scalding&#xA;  café latte.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sports memorabilia appropriator. (Sold George Steinbrenner’s birthday&#xA;  card signed by the entire Yankee organization.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fireman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Moviefone man impersonator. (Provides callers with movie time and&#xA;  theater information when they mistakenly dial his number, 555-FILK.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cinéaste. (Collaborates on the reopening of a revival movie house&#xA;  called the Alex.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hansom cab driver.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Plaintiff. (Sued Oh Henry! candy bar heiress Sue Ellen Mischke for&#xA;  causing his car accident when she walked down the street wearing just&#xA;  a bra.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bottle exporter. (Tried to recycle truckloads of bottles in Michigan,&#xA;  where the refund rate per container is twice that of New York’s.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Customer service tester. (Capitalized on a local bank’s policy&#xA;  promising $100 to anyone not greeted by a teller with a “hello” —&#xA;  though he ultimately only received $20.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Author. (Wrote the book Astonishing Tales of the Sea, which chronicles&#xA;  the Andrea Doria ship collision.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Office worker. (“T.C.B.” as in “taking care of business,” for the&#xA;  Brandt-Leland company.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Photographer. (Snapped pictures for a variety of purposes from&#xA;  Christmas cards to intimate shots.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Party planner. (Organized a Jewish singles dance.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tour guide. (Provided housing and entertainment for Japanese&#xA;  businessmen visiting Manhattan.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Plaintiff. (Sued a tobacco company for ruining his good looks.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cock fighter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ghost writer. (Sells J. Peterman his life stories to use in Peterman’s&#xA;  autobiography.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cigar manufacturer. (Hires Cubans to roll cigars; unfortunately they&#xA;  turn out to be Dominican.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Specialty sightseeing tour creator. (Conducts his three-hour “Peterman&#xA;  Reality Tour&quot; using a school bus.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lifeguard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Industrial inventor. (Creates a rubber bladder system for oil tankers&#xA;  in an effort to “put an end to maritime oil spills.”)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Condiment inventor. (Brainstorms bottle that integrates ketchup and&#xA;  mustard.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Television” host. (Erected the old Merv Griffin Show set in his&#xA;  apartment and rebooted it.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Baker at H&amp;amp;H Bagels. (Briefly ends his strike.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Army soldier.  (“Classified.”)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hollywood sellout. (Sells option to The Coffee Table Book of Coffee&#xA;  Tables to a &quot;big Hollywood so-and-so&quot; and retires to Florida.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pretend patient. (Imitated wide range of diseased patients at a New&#xA;  York teaching hospital.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rickshaw entrepreneur. (Managed staff of homeless drivers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T14:14:00.433" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34003" CreationDate="2015-05-06T14:48:25.420" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been a while since i saw the movie, This is what i remember they try to lift the curse by burying the body of Jennet's son who was still left in marshes and doing so they assume that curse might be lifted but as we know later at the end of the movie it was a wrong assumption and as evidenced by the final scene the curse still isn't broken and we are left to assume that she is still in large haunting the village.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T14:48:25.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13547" CreationDate="2015-05-06T15:36:39.907" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Best guess is that at times, she has a &quot;magic double&quot; performing the tight hand shots. There may be enough differences in the hands to notice the difference so they cover it up using gloves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21032" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T15:36:39.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33907" CreationDate="2015-05-06T16:01:23.327" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’ve re-watched that scene quite carefully, and I can only make out the names of three AI chips:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Friday&lt;/strong&gt; – referring to the Marvel Comics AI character &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/Friday_(Earth-616)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;of the same name&lt;/a&gt;, who was created by Tony when the hassle of hiring a human secretary became too much. Named because she was his “Girl Friday” (meaning a faithful assistant or servant).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nsSaL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jocasta&lt;/strong&gt; – referring to the Marvel Comics AI character &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/Jocasta_(Earth-616)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;of the same name&lt;/a&gt;, who was created when Ultron brainwashed Henry Pym (Ultron’s creator in the comics) into creating a wife. She was based on Pym’s wife, Janet van Dyne (aka the Wasp).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/n694i.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tadashi&lt;/strong&gt; – referring to the Marvel Comics character &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/Tadashi_Hamada_(Earth-14123)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;of the same name&lt;/a&gt;, who created the robot Baymax. He may be more familiar as a character in the Disney film &lt;em&gt;Big Hero 6&lt;/em&gt;, which was based on the story from the comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VRtgd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I’m not totally sure this is correct, but I’ve seen several people float this theory, and it looks plausible given the fragment we see.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are at least five AI chips on the table, but I can’t make out the names of the other two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9285" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T16:01:23.327" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34011" CreationDate="2015-05-06T16:45:32.753" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the movie.  But &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3203616/synopsis?ref_=ttpl_pl_syn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the synopsis on IMDB&lt;/a&gt; says the dad (Abraham) reappears at the end of the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Max wakes up in Jimmy's barber shop. Jimmy offers him some water and a pickle, stating that pickles help with the transition from one body to another. Max asks how he knew about that. Jimmy takes off his shoes to reveal that &lt;strong&gt;he was Abraham the whole time.&lt;/strong&gt; Both elated and angry, Max hugs his dad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds as though he wasn't dead or gone. He was just in disguise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T16:45:32.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34003" CreationDate="2015-05-06T18:25:35.073" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, we are to assume that the woman will still haunt the house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This of course enable us to see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2339741/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Woman In Black 2: Angel of Death&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18432" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T18:25:35.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14788" CreationDate="2015-05-06T19:18:06.377" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early in the movie the numbers she was shouting appear to be the score of the electronic pinball machine that the guy was playing. Presumably she could calculate the score by the machine's ringing and bells. i don't know what the other numbers were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21038" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T19:18:06.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34033" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34035" CreationDate="2015-05-06T22:24:19.263" Score="7" ViewCount="5780" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched the 1994 movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111282/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stargate&lt;/a&gt; and all three live action TV shows it spawned (SG:1, Atlantis, and Universe) and there are some obvious differences in the universe between the two, for example &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/573/5603&quot;&gt;not brute forcing the Stargate&lt;/a&gt; in the movie universe but successfully dialing Heliopolis as shown in the first season of SG1, and the portrayal of how the Goa'uld transferred between hosts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering, what are the known differences between the Stargate universe in the movie and the TV series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2016-11-06T18:38:09.733" Title="What are the known differences between the Stargate universe in the movie and the TV series?" Tags="|stargate|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34034" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34054" CreationDate="2015-05-06T22:36:54.567" Score="7" ViewCount="2359" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first episode of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_SG-1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stargate SG-1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Gods&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Children of the Gods&lt;/a&gt;, SG-1 travel to Chulak in response to an attack on Earth by Apophis, get captured, and end up being stored with many other individuals who've been collected by the Goa'uld to serve as hosts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CtD1l.png&quot; alt=&quot;prison on Chulak&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Teal'c is Apophis's highest ranking Jaffa, for all intents and purposes the Goa'uld are gods from the point of view of the rest of the galaxy at this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Teal'c decide to join SG-1 during Children of the Gods?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-06T23:25:33.263" LastActivityDate="2016-11-07T22:42:09.420" Title="Why did Teal'c decide to join SG-1 during Children of the Gods?" Tags="|stargate|stargate-sg1|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34033" CreationDate="2015-05-06T22:51:10.933" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not much of the universe was detailed in the movie so a lot of these changes were as the result of expanding on the universe and changing the way various systems worked, and the others are merely the result of transferring a movie into a suitable format for TV. Along with the obvious change of actors (there were a couple of exceptions, for example Alexis Cruz returned to reprise his role as Skaara), below is the full list of differences between the Stargate universe as established in the movie and the Stargate universe as established in the TV series:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Lots of name changes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sha'uri from the movie became Sha're in the TV show,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;O'Neil changed to O'Neill (and this is joked about throughout the series due to the stark contrast in personalities between the two characters),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;O'Neill's wife changed from Sarah to Sara,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;O'Neill's son from Tyler to Charlie,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Louis Ferretti became Louis Feretti&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Location changes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the movie, the SGC is located in the fictional Creek Mountain, in the movie this becomes the real life Cheyenne Mountain complex,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Abydos changes from being in another galaxy to being the closest planet in the network, in our own galaxy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;History changes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the movie, Ra was the last of a dying race, which becomes one of many System Lords,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ra's servants are not Jaffa (no stomach pouches),&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The credits say that Ra's primary servants are named Anubis and Horus. Anubis later appeared as a half-ascended Goa'uld and Horus may have become Heru'ur, who had Horus guards.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;And finally...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Stargate itself changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the movie it had a collection of 39 symbols unique to each gate, in the TV show each Stargate network has a collection of 38 symbols plus one unique symbol for each point of origin.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The chevrons do not light up in the movie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's not shown how they dial the gate on Abydos in the movie. In the show, they establish that there is a DHD that can do this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T21:56:51.970" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34003" CreationDate="2015-05-06T23:55:02.860" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;She looks sadly at the now-dead family reunited and going on to heaven, indicating a longing to be at peace. However, her intense hatred keeps her from being at peace and as such, she will continue to haunt the village for the foreseeable future. Hence, we were given a sequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2015-05-06T23:55:02.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34038" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34053" CreationDate="2015-05-07T00:16:48.190" Score="5" ViewCount="490" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the movie and the early seasons of Stargate SG1, travel through the Stargate from Earth is an extremely bumpy ride, often resulting in the feeling of being chilled, being thrown out of the Stargate upon arrival, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is covered in Stargate SG1 that an object in motion maintains its velocity when travelling through the gate - if this is the case then surely in order to be thrown out of the gate at your destination you'd have to take a running jump on entry at your source. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this doesn't seem to be the way the team enters the Stargate on earth, why is travelling through the Stargate from Earth such a bumpy ride?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T13:21:39.277" Title="Why is travelling through the Stargate from Earth such a bumpy ride?" Tags="|stargate|stargate-sg1|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19863" CreationDate="2015-05-07T01:23:57.307" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took the placement in Cole's eye (i.e. head) to symbolize the question of whether the whole thing is a delusion created by his mind, something he himself suspects later in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1548" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T01:23:57.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34042" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34049" CreationDate="2015-05-07T02:33:33.070" Score="9" ViewCount="4566" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119644/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fringe&lt;/a&gt; (which is great, btw) and noticed the colour of the intro sequence changes. Fringe is one of those series where everything seems to mean something, or have a double meaning. What is the meaning of the different intro sequences?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VnRgA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Fringe Intro Sequence&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the part that I'm talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T09:44:49.250" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T10:01:55.150" Title="What do the different colour intros mean?" Tags="|analysis|fringe|title-sequence|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34048" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34050" CreationDate="2015-05-07T09:42:05.387" Score="4" ViewCount="274" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently started watching Fringe and as a newbie to watching Fringe I have been advised that I need to spot all of the observers, and that they're present in every episode every aired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this true? Are there actually observers present in every episode? I feel like I'm going out of my mind trying to spot individual frames that have observers in them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T11:49:42.633" Title="Observers in every episode?" Tags="|fringe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34042" CreationDate="2015-05-07T09:48:28.687" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per the &lt;a href=&quot;http://fringe.wikia.com/wiki/Opening_Sequence&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fringe Wikia article on the opening sequence&lt;/a&gt;, each color indicates a different setting and the words mentioned throughout the title sequence are the particular areas of science that will be looked at during that episode and/or series of episodes sharing an introduction. In addition to this, the text &quot;Observers are here&quot; flashes during every opening sequence except for episodes using the observers opening sequence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blue opening sequence is used for every episode in Season 1 and 2 except &quot;Peter&quot;, &quot;Over There&quot;, and most episodes in season 3. A blue title sequence indicates that the episode takes place in the prime universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ObigI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Fringe main/blue title sequence&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The red opening sequence is used for the final episodes of season two and episodes in season three. The red sequence indicates that the episode takes place in the alternate universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T1FKz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Fringe red title sequence&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a red/blue opening sequence indicating that part of the episode takes place in each universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The amber/yellow opening sequence was used during season four and indicated that the episode took place during an alternate time line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gmsbq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Fringe amber title sequence&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;retro&quot; sequence used in Peter and Subject 13 indicates the episode takes place in 1985.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qhGi8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Fringe retro title sequence&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was also a black and white/monochrome opening sequence used for a single episode - The Day We Died, signalling a dying world in the year 2036.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aojGM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Fringe monochrome title sequence&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Observers opening sequence was used in the episode Letters of Transit and every episode from season five. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w7NfP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Fringe observer title sequence&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the color of the title sequences, there are also a variety of different fringe sciences mentioned over the title sequence, depending on the season you're watching. For season five, these are not sciences but more... fundamental aspects of being human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season One&lt;/strong&gt;: Psychokineses, Teleportation, Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Precognition, Dark Matter, Cybernetics, Suspended Animation, Transmogrification&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season Two&lt;/strong&gt;: Hypnosis, Pyrokinesis, Hive Mind, ESP, Neuroscience, Clairaudience, Cryonics, Parallel Universes, Astral Projection, Protoscience, Mutation, Genetic Engineering&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Episodes using the Retro introduction&lt;/strong&gt;: Personal Computing, Cold Fusion, Cloning, DNA Profiling, Nanotechnology, Invisibility, Genetic Engineering, Laser Surgery, Stealth Technology, In Vitro Fertilization, Virtual Reality&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season Three&lt;/strong&gt;: Wormholes, Singularity, Speciation, Synesthesia, Transhumanism, Pandemic, Reanimation, Neural Networks, Telepathy, Transcendence, Retrocognition, Biotechnology&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Day We Died introduction&lt;/strong&gt;: Cellular Rejuvenation, Thought Extraction, Cryptozoology, Neural Partitioning, Brain Porting, Temporal Plasticity, Dual Maternity, Chaos Structure, Clonal Transplantation, Water, Biosuspension, Hope&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season Four&lt;/strong&gt;: Existence, Quantum Entanglement, Philosopher's Stone, Psychometry, Viral Therapy, Ethereal Plane, Gravitons, Time Paradox, Psychogenesis, Bilocation, Psychic Surgery, Transgenics&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season Five&lt;/strong&gt;: Community, Joy, Individuality, Education, Imagination, Private Thought, Due Process, Ownership, Free Will, Freedom&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T10:01:55.150" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T10:01:55.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34048" CreationDate="2015-05-07T10:07:30.557" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, there is an Observer in &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; episode. &lt;a href=&quot;http://fringepedia.net/wiki/Observer_Appearance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;FringePedia provides an Observer Appearance guide&lt;/a&gt; with photos of each appearance and time stamps of where the Observer can be observed from the episode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also search for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sfx.co.uk/search/fringe+episode+review&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;episode reviews&lt;/a&gt; on the SFX website, every review has a section called 'Observing the Observer' that tells you where to spot them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDITORIAL NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; This great answer was given by &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/186/philpursglove&quot;&gt;philpursglove&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/22915/23386&quot;&gt;SciFi&amp;amp;Fantasy.SE&lt;/a&gt; and copied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T11:49:42.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4517" CreationDate="2015-05-07T10:44:21.033" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was because of two reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Portal was still spewing oodles of Chitauri. The Avengers did &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; know that destroying the mother ship would neutralize all the Chitauri. That was a last resort to handle the Nuke. Nowhere is it shown that Tony was aware of this neural link prior to him pushing the nuke through the wormhole. This was their last action plan... To nip it at the bud, so that they could take out the Chitauri still remaining in the city. &lt;strong&gt;Their primary plan was to close the portal.&lt;/strong&gt; This is clear through several pieces of dialogue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;Captain&lt;/i&gt;: Alright, listen up. Until we can close that portal up there, our priority is containment.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;i&gt;Captain&lt;/i&gt;: Thor, you've gotta try and bottleneck that portal.&lt;/blockquote&gt; And Also&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;Black Widow&lt;/i&gt;: Captain, none of this is gonna mean a damn thing if we don't close that portal.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To save Manhattan from the massive amount of fallout and debris falling through. Manhattan would've suffered even more casualties had the tons of debris fallen through.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7516" LastEditorUserId="7516" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T13:14:14.730" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T13:14:14.730" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34038" CreationDate="2015-05-07T11:34:43.073" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the &lt;a href=&quot;http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Wormhole_physics&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stargate Wiki article for wormhole physics&lt;/a&gt;, it states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The speed at which one enters a wormhole is the same at which one exits a wormhole. &lt;strong&gt;However unstable energy sources can cause travelers to exit at far greater velocities then they enter&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Emphaisis mine&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0709175/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;season 1 episode 17: Solitudes&lt;/a&gt;, it is mentioned that they've installed frequency dampers to reduce the vibrations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JACKSON: General, when we first opened our Stargate, it used to shake ... A LOT. I mean, the ground, the whole facility, everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HAMMOND: We've installed frequency dampers that limit that to only a slight vibration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At various points through the series, Captain/Major/Colonel/Doctor/Samantha Carter makes changes to the way the dialing program works to stabilize how the Earth Stargate interacts with other Stargates, which greatly improves how they arrive at their destination. Thus, no more of the freezing or getting thrown out at the distant end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Dial Home Device (DHD) would normally do this, however since Earth doesn't have a DHD, other means had to be derived which is why it was happening in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T13:21:39.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34034" CreationDate="2015-05-07T12:07:08.670" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;For some time, Teal'c had been disillusioned by Apophis and the Goa'uld way of life. He knows what he's being asked to do is not right, but has to stay his tongue and actions at the risk of death for him and his family. When SG-1 arrives, Teal'c believes they might be able to do something to help him (dialog from the end of S01E01):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;O'NEILL&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;to Teal'c&lt;/em&gt;) I can save these people! Help me! Help me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TEAL'C&lt;/strong&gt; Many have said that. (&lt;em&gt;He turns and fires on his own guards, then throws his weapon to O'Neill.&lt;/em&gt;) But you are the first I believe could do it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is revealed much later in the series the process by which Teal'c becomes disillusioned. Mainly, this is done by his mentor and trainer, Master Bra'tac. Master Bra'tac was the First Prime of Apophis at the time of this, which is all revealed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0709211/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Threshold (S05E02)&lt;/a&gt;. In this episode, after Teal'c basically loses his mind and believes he is back in the service of Apophis, Bra'tac helps him to remember who he has become and why. It is Bra'tac's original training and philosophies which help Teal'c believe as he does. Due to this training, he is not willing to act upon it knowing the outcome. His belief is the ultimate reason why he chose to go with O'Neill, because he actually does believe O'Neill can do what he says and &lt;em&gt;save the people&lt;/em&gt;. This is something Teal'c has wanted all along, but has had no means to accomplish, nor support to proceed. He believes O'Neill and the SG-1 team can provide both, so makes a split second decision to rebel against Apophis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;Side Note:&lt;/strong&gt; IMHO, this is just a plot ploy to get Teal'c embedded into the show. It is a very weak action which gets him to join SG-1, but the writers had to bring him in somehow.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-11-07T22:42:09.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34055" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34059" CreationDate="2015-05-07T13:09:16.580" Score="7" ViewCount="4319" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first episode of Stargate SG1 was called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0234794/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Children of the Gods&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, this was a two part special to introduce the series and set up the team &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483803/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;which was later remastered into a &quot;Final Cut&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an interview with executive producer Brad Wright, he said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;There is new material, but most of the new material is visual effects or scenes that have been cut. It is tighter. It is significantly tighter. ... The editing pattern is different, and therefore the performances are different. It's a different movie.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't found a definitive list of changes but from further reading (for example, the section regarding the Goa'uld Tel'tak on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_starships_in_Stargate&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia's list of starships in Stargate article&lt;/a&gt;, which indicates that the Tel'tek was first introduced in the season 3 episode Deadman Switch but later added to the final cut of Children of the Gods) I am under the impression that maybe Brad was playing down some of the changes a bit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the differences in the remastered Children of the Gods?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-06T23:25:59.500" LastActivityDate="2016-11-07T05:21:26.963" Title="What are the differences in the remastered Children of the Gods?" Tags="|alternate-version|stargate|stargate-sg1|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34056" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34057" CreationDate="2015-05-07T13:33:29.197" Score="11" ViewCount="16326" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sentence &quot;&lt;em&gt;See you on the other side.&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is often used in movies and series, for example Lost, Jason Bourne movies and many others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a reference to an old movie? Or is it just a common phrase in English?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16233" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T18:52:49.890" Title="See you on the other side" Tags="|dialogue|origin|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34056" CreationDate="2015-05-07T13:42:13.640" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most likely this reference started it's life out as a reference to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://history.nasa.gov/SP-350/ch-9-5.html&quot;&gt;astronauts conversation during the Apollo 8 mission&lt;/a&gt;, as they passed behind the moon for the first time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CapCom Gerry Carr spoke to the three astronauts more than 200,000 miles away, &quot;Ten seconds to go. You are GO all the way.&quot; Lovell replied, &quot;We'll see you on the other side&quot;, and Apollo 8 disappeared behind the Moon, the first time in history men had been occulted. For 34 minutes there would be no way of knowing what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously this line has been used a lot in various other places since (books, movies, TV shows, even music) and is usually said before people part ways to pass an otherwise difficult objective, whether that be said by Jason Bourne just before a mission or just before stepping through the Stargate for the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T13:42:13.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34058" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34060" CreationDate="2015-05-07T13:49:13.050" Score="-2" ViewCount="599" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I watched the movie Interstellar, I felt that there was a lot of use of real events, real calculations and real experiment. I then found out that the director, Christopher Nolan, passed 4 years of studies about galaxies, wormholes and space before he began working on his movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the realistic things that the Interstellar movie used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T14:13:41.080" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T14:13:41.080" Title="How much of Interstellar is based on real effects?" Tags="|realism|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-05-12T16:42:20.043" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34055" CreationDate="2015-05-07T13:57:07.310" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was able to find &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gateworld.net/news/2009/07/review-stargate-sg-1-children-of-the-gods-final-cut/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; article. It's quite a big one and I think it has answers to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A summary of what has changed:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Carter's introduction is smoother. The line about reproductive organs is gone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Closer relationship between Kawalsky and O'Neill. The question about Jack's kid was removed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Apophis' harem scene is gone. And Sha're is abducted after the Earth officer is dismissed as a new host. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No nudity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The scene where Kawalsky is infected by a Goa'uld was deleted to give a positive ending to the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A scene was added were Apophis gives an order to redial the gate manually.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dialogs in some scenes were rerecorded.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Teal'c's turn on Apophis is more natural, because they've added shots of him witnessing horrors perpetrated by Apophis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Changes in visual effects: stargate puddle, sunrise over Chulak, Abydonian pyramid, the near end battle sequence&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21059" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-11-07T05:21:26.963" LastActivityDate="2016-11-07T05:21:26.963" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34058" CreationDate="2015-05-07T14:12:15.223" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;For starters you need to consider that &amp;quot;real science&amp;quot; when people talk about Interstellar is still largely &amp;quot;speculative-albeit-imaginable science&amp;quot;. While we can get spaceships off the surface of our planet, we're hardly flying manned missions into deep space any time soon. With this in mind, any &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; science is mostly theoretic when it comes to deep space travel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's actually a book on this subject, written as a companion to the movie by Kip Thorne called &lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0393351378&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Science of Interstellar&lt;/a&gt; which does a good job of splitting science reality from science fiction - but ultimately while Christopher Nolan apparently did his homework, when a choice came up between &amp;quot;scientifically accurate&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;awesome to look at&amp;quot;, the latter won.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.com/the-truth-behind-interstellars-scientifically-accurate-1686120318&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Take this example from the io9 article on Interstellar&lt;/a&gt;, this is the difference between the black hole in the movie and what the black hole would have looked like if they'd paid attention to the physics, rather than the pretty:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8PCic.png&quot; alt=&quot;the black hole from Interstellar&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first image shows what Thorne and his co-authors describe as a &amp;quot;moderately realistic&amp;quot; accretion disk, the gyre of matter that orbits some black holes, and appears here to wrap over and under a spherical hole in spacetime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second and third images show what the accretion disk would look like, given the increasingly intense color-changing effects of Doppler and gravitational frequency shifts. (I'm simplifying, but these shifts characterize how light moving quickly toward and away from an observer affect the perceived color and intensity of that light.) The third and final image (which I've enlarged, below), write Thorne and his colleagues &amp;quot;is what the disk would truly look like to an observer near the black hole.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't the only obvious issue, either. Take a few of these examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Creating artificial gravity aboard the ship &amp;quot;Endurance&amp;quot;, using centrifugal force, would result in weaker gravity in the lander at the center of the ship than on the ring outside of the ship&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spacecraft are built to be flown in space, they wouldn't survive the shearing forces of a tidal wave&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Getting off Earth required a multistage process, getting off the planet next to the black hole was doable using just the lander's engines&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No Doppler effect in the light waves when Cooper was looking around near the black hole (similar issue to the coloring of the black hole mentioned above)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T14:12:15.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34063" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-07T17:14:54.187" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions regarding legal issues associated with movie making with the exception of copyright issues, for which we have a separate tag &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/copyright&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;copyright&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;copyright&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T18:05:28.733" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T18:05:28.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34064" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-07T17:14:54.187" Score="0" Body="For questions regarding legal issues associated with movie making with the exception of copyright issues, for which we have a separate tag [copyright]." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T18:05:12.427" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T18:05:12.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34065" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-07T17:26:57.793" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A widely acclaimed American drama set in Atlantic City during the Prohibition era, starring Steve Buscemi and created by Terence Winter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boardwalk_Empire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Broadwalk Empire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0979432/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Broadwalk Empire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T18:05:21.983" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T18:05:21.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34066" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-07T17:26:57.793" Score="0" Body="A widely acclaimed American drama set in Atlantic City during the Prohibition era, starring Steve Buscemi and created by Terence Winter." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T18:05:17.343" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T18:05:17.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34056" CreationDate="2015-05-07T17:31:19.700" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;See you on the other side&quot; is also a reference to the afterlife.  It was possibly used in reference to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx&quot;&gt;River Styx&lt;/a&gt; and the crossing of such river into the afterlife.  This was the meaning Jim Morrison had when he wrote &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_On_Through_(To_the_Other_Side)&quot;&gt;Break On Through (To The Other Side)&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, which was released a year or so before the Apollo 8 mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T17:31:19.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34069" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-07T18:00:43.303" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Once Upon a Time is an American fantasy drama series created by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz for ABC. The show is based in the fictional town in Maine named Storybrooke, whose population are characters from various fairy tales, transported into the real world and deprived of their memories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Once Upon a Time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843230/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page for Once Upon a Time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related TV Show Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/once-upon-time-wonderland&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;once-upon-time-wonderland&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;once-upon-time-wonderland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-08-13T13:02:15.887" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T13:02:15.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34070" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-07T18:00:43.303" Score="0" Body="An American fantasy drama series created by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz for ABC. The show is based in the fictional town in Maine named Storybrooke, whose population are characters from various fairy tales, transported into the real world and deprived of their memories." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T18:58:58.243" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T18:58:58.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34076" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-07T20:36:02.277" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A title sequence is a section of the film or television program in which the show's title and names of key cast members are showcased. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T21:25:22.557" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T21:25:22.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34077" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-07T20:36:02.277" Score="0" Body="A title sequence is a section of the film or television program in which the show's title and names of key cast members are showcased. " OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T21:26:36.623" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T21:26:36.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34078" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-07T20:41:09.580" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Machinist is a 2004 psychological thriller starring Christian Bale about a machinist suffering from insomnia and the effects this has on his social life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machinist&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361862/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-02-08T10:10:35.703" LastActivityDate="2017-02-08T10:10:35.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34079" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-07T20:41:09.580" Score="0" Body="A 2004 psychological thriller starring Christian Bale about a machinist suffering from insomnia and the effects this has on his social life." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-02-08T10:10:35.703" LastActivityDate="2017-02-08T10:10:35.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34080" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-07T20:42:21.037" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A 1967 American comedy drama directed by Mike Nichols, based on Charles Webb's 1963 of the same name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Graduate&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T21:25:44.640" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T21:25:44.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34081" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-07T20:42:21.037" Score="0" Body="A 1967 American comedy drama directed by Mike Nichols, based on Charles Webb's 1963 of the same name." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T21:26:25.423" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T21:26:25.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34082" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-07T20:44:30.710" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Great Gatsby is a 2013 Australian-American 3D drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton and Elizabeth Debicki. The movie is based on F Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby_(2013_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343092/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T16:49:14.173" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T16:49:14.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34083" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-07T20:44:30.710" Score="0" Body="A 2013 Australian-American 3D drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton and Elizabeth Debicki. The movie is based on F Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T16:48:49.713" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T16:48:49.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34084" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-07T20:53:02.163" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles&lt;/em&gt; is a 1990 American fantasy action comedy and an adaptation of the comic series of the same name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100758/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_%281990_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-21T22:58:13.820" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T22:58:13.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34085" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-07T20:53:02.163" Score="0" Body="Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 1990 American fantasy action comedy and an adaptation of the comic series of the same name." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-21T22:58:13.820" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T22:58:13.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34086" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-07T20:54:46.913" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nightcrawler is a 2014 American crime thriller, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a retired thief who starts filming footage of crimes and accidents in LA and selling it freelance to news channels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightcrawler_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2872718/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T21:26:19.333" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T21:26:19.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34087" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-07T20:54:46.913" Score="0" Body="A 2014 American crime thriller, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a retired thief who starts filming footage of crimes and accidents in LA and selling it freelance to news channels." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T21:25:25.357" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T21:25:25.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34088" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-07T20:56:11.453" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oceans Eleven is a 2001 American heist film and a remake of the 1960 movie with the same name. Starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy García, and Julia Roberts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean&amp;#39;s_Eleven&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240772/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T21:26:22.717" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T21:26:22.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34089" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-07T20:56:11.453" Score="0" Body="A 2001 American heist film and a remake of the 1960 movie with the same name. Starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy García, and Julia Roberts." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T21:25:55.667" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T21:25:55.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34092" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-07T22:26:44.150" Score="5" ViewCount="2548" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Pulp Fiction,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Butch the boxer fights another guy and accidentally kils him. The &quot;deal&quot; with Marcellus that he struck was to throw the fight in the 5th round. IIRC the fight ended in the 4th round with the opponent dying. Butch obviously planned to double-cross Marcellus to make money and split, but if the fight ended with a knock-out/death in the fourth round, how could Marcellus know that he was double-crossed by Butch, other than by Butch acting suspicious and trying to jump town?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how did Marcellus know he was double-crossed by Butch?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16241" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T17:17:49.160" Title="How did Marcellus know he was double-crossed by Butch?" Tags="|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34092" CreationDate="2015-05-07T22:41:54.403" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, you realized correctly that it was a reasonable deduction, especially in a gangster scene where you have to be suspicious about everyone trying to double-cross you. Afterall if Butch hadn't wanted to win the fight, he probably just wouldn't have done it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even if he didn't know exactly Butch double-crossed him, it doesn't really matter so much. By winning the fight, no matter if intentionally or not, Butch messed up the deal and that's all that counts. Marcellus can't let something like this just slip through, even if Butch would have claimed it was an accident. Butch should have thrown the fight and didn't, by that second he was a dead man, no matter if he actually got any money out of this or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T14:49:58.793" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T14:49:58.793" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34095" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-07T23:12:43.053" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oceans Twelve is a 2004 American heist film and the sequel to 2001's Ocean's Eleven. Starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andy García, Julia Roberts, Don Cheadle and Bernie Mac.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean&amp;#39;s_Twelve&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0349903/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T23:51:43.230" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T23:51:43.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34096" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-07T23:12:43.053" Score="0" Body="A 2004 American heist film and the sequel to 2001's Ocean's Eleven. Starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andy García, Julia Roberts, Don Cheadle and Bernie Mac." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T23:51:45.687" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T23:51:45.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30750" CreationDate="2015-05-07T23:15:33.117" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even being told as real time stories, all of these movies (The Rope, Slacker and Birdman) had cuts in between scenes. In the case of Birdman, required a lot of preparation and choreography from the crew, and post-production work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a movie called Russian Ark (2002) is in fact a single shot, for the entire movie. According to Wikipedia, &quot;Three attempts were made to complete the shot; the first two had to be interrupted owing to technical faults, but the third (and final chance to complete the shot owing to time constraints) was completed successfully.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/J--TDEHizVA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21013" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T23:15:33.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34098" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-07T23:16:03.450" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Donnie Brasco is a 1997 American crime movie starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp, based on the true story of an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family during the 70s. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Brasco_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119008/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T16:07:06.433" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T16:07:06.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34099" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-07T23:16:03.450" Score="0" Body="A 1997 American crime movie starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp, based on the true story of an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family during the 70s. " OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T16:08:44.173" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T16:08:44.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34101" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34110" CreationDate="2015-05-07T23:39:56.067" Score="18" ViewCount="19494" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Avengers: Age of Ultron, there is a scene in which Scarlet Witch manipulates the Avenger's to reveal their worst nightmares, but when it comes to mind controlling Hawkeye, he seems to be immune. This doesn't make sense to me as in the first Avengers movie, Loki had absolutely no problem controlling Hawkeye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason that I've missed that would indicate why Hawkeye become immune to mind control effects?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:33:36.010" LastActivityDate="2017-07-31T15:32:05.447" Title="Why did Hawkeye become immune to mind control effects?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34102" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34133" CreationDate="2015-05-07T23:43:02.623" Score="6" ViewCount="6649" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie The Cabin in the Woods from Joss Whedon, we see at some point that many (if not all) facilities around the globe have failed (given out by the big red &quot;FAIL&quot; on their screen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if every facility are there to appease the same gods and either facility requires a success, so in the end everything depends on the success of the one depicted in the movie. Or, does only &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; facility is there to appease these gods, and others serve different purpose (I would highly doubt that as they also refer to the events there as &quot;sacrifices&quot;, requiring casualties). Meaning the failures of other facilities &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; actually end in &quot;the world's in flame&quot; kind of bad Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there anything out there favoring one or the other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1008" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-07T23:50:41.793" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T17:25:18.243" Title="In The Cabin in the Woods, what would happen in other parts of the world?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-cabin-in-the-woods|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34103" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35993" CreationDate="2015-05-07T23:43:45.540" Score="4" ViewCount="1663" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both in the Stargate movie and early on in Stargate SG1, Daniel Jackson's allergies are used frequently in the plot (for example, slowing down the party in the movie and as a method of communication during Children of the Gods). His allergies would act up every time he traveled through the gate (or drastically changed environments). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to have just vanished and now Daniel Jackson is travelling around with no issues. What happened to Daniel Jackson's allergies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T22:23:38.180" Title="What happened to Daniel Jackson's allergies?" Tags="|stargate|stargate-sg1|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34102" CreationDate="2015-05-07T23:50:17.517" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sense I got, after watching it twice, is that all the facilities have the same objective.  If one of the facilities achieves the objective then the gods are appeased. (This has to be done annually.) Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford even act smug after finding that everyone else has failed but them, so they'll be the ones to save the world when their sacrifice succeeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sacrifice ceremonies at the other facilities do seem very different than the ones at The Cabin, though. Especially those Japanese school kids!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&#xA;I think Richard and Bradley even explain to the new military guy that all the facilities have the same goal, and once one of them succeeds then all the other ceremonial sacrifices can get called off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2015-05-07T23:50:17.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34101" CreationDate="2015-05-08T00:14:33.327" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It isn't explained exactly why Hawkeye didn't fall for Scarlet Witch's mind trickery, but we can find multiple &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; in-universe reasons for it in the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One possibility is, that it is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; he was tricked and controlled by Loki earlier&lt;/strong&gt;. The fact that his mind already had been tempered with before (and if we take it that Scarlet Witch's powers were created by Strucker using Loki's staff, then even by more or less the same power, the mind stone from the scepter) might have given him some kind of immunity towards it. Or it was the fact that he freed himself of the control (with the help of Natasha, though).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another, maybe more likely, possibility could simply be that &lt;strong&gt;Scarlet Witch didn't even get as far as doing her mind tricks on him&lt;/strong&gt;. As &lt;em&gt;Stark07&lt;/em&gt; suggests in his answer, too, Hawkeye might simply have been too fast and stopped her before she could even start her mind manipulation on him, as we know that he has particularly fast reflexes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is a deeper but rather out-of-universe reason why Hawkeye did not get affected by the mind trickery in relation to his role within the movie. In fact Hawkeye has to me always been the palest of all those MCU heroes, especially since he didn't have much to do in the 1st &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt; movie and never had much of a deep character, let alone so awesome powers as most of the other heroes. He always seemed to be quite an insignificant and powerless mere mortal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;em&gt;Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; went out of its way to give him more depth and significance. And not only that, the movie actually &lt;strong&gt;played exactly with those notions of supposedly being less significant and having less power than the others and turned those properties around into advantages&lt;/strong&gt;. With this whole safe house angle and this secret family it provided Clint Barton with a grounding none of the others has. He is pretty much the only one of the Avengers having a working family and something very personal to fight for, as well as a chance for a life outside of all this hero mess. Yes, he might be less significant, he might have less power, he is just a human, but that is his strength. &lt;strong&gt;He is a voice of reason that does not have to worry about the whole world's fate all the time&lt;/strong&gt;, since he has an actual non-Avengers life as an anchor. He can't carry the world on his shoulders, but he &lt;em&gt;doesn't have to&lt;/em&gt; either. As put by Laura Barton herself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Laura:&lt;/strong&gt; You know I support your avenging, I couldn't be prouder. But I see those guys, those gods...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Clint:&lt;/strong&gt; And you don't think they need me.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Laura:&lt;/strong&gt; I think they do, which is a lot scarier. They're a mess.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Clint:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah, I guess they're my mess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I think this is what gave him the mental stability and groundedness to withstand Scarlet Witch's mind trickery, which was after all only playing with all the others' existing fears, dark histories and worries about the bigger picture. And while this might not be the exact in-universe reason Hawkeye could withstand the mind control, it is an &lt;strong&gt;important aspect of his character portrayal in the movie and the actual deeper reason&lt;/strong&gt; for it. Saving all of them from the mental wrecks that Scarlet Witch turned them into at the end of the Wakanda scene was his character moment to finally &lt;strong&gt;play out his true strength&lt;/strong&gt; and an introduction to the background of his character as substantiated further in the following safe-house scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-27T00:30:48.707" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T00:30:48.707" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34101" CreationDate="2015-05-08T05:05:55.497" Score="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you misinterpreted the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hawkeye, being a very sharp archer, has shown to have heightened senses (refer to all his archery scenes through Avengers 1 &amp;amp; 2). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With such senses, he had heard Scarlet Witch walk up to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically he hit her before she had the chance to warp his mind. If you look at all the scenes involving Scarlet Witch manipulating the Avengers, she has specific hand gestures, and a flash of red. In case of Hawkeye, we do not see any such actions take place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, the conclusion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hawkeye is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; immune to mind control. He merely neutralised Wanda before she had the chance to meddle with his mind&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7516" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T08:48:58.963" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T08:48:58.963" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34111" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-08T06:16:58.260" Score="1" ViewCount="765" Body="&lt;p&gt;In ATHF, what text-to-speech software or voice synthesizer is used for the Rabbot's voice? Its voice is present in episodes such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://aqua-teen-hunger-force.wikia.com/wiki/The_Last_One&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Last One&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. He says nonsense like &quot;one two three four five six seven eight nine zero&quot; and &quot;Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday&quot; in a crude artificial voice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See this brief clip for an example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/sQ_7EEgDDVA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm hoping that it comes from an off-the-shelf solution rather than some custom process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21075" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T19:04:40.013" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T19:04:40.013" Title="Voice synthesizer used for the Rabbot's voice on Aqua Teen Hunger Force" Tags="|character|sound-effects|aqua-teen-hunger-force|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33763" CreationDate="2015-05-08T06:22:46.490" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems his contract was indeed for a single movie based on the following excerpt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Quiksilver is DEAD. 100%, he's not coming back any time soon, there are no plans. &lt;br&gt;No LMD, no escaping bullets, no retcon. &lt;br&gt;Kevin Feige said he is dead and wanted to make sure people understood that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/350fsy/kevin_feige_on_avengers_age_of_ultron_will/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7516" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-07-18T05:56:53.823" LastActivityDate="2016-07-18T05:56:53.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34114" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-08T10:43:53.547" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For questions about the cancellation of movies and TV series. Use in addition to an appropriate tag for the movie or TV series you're querying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T11:37:55.140" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T11:37:55.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34115" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-08T10:43:53.547" Score="0" Body="For questions about the cancellation of movies and TV series. Use in addition to an appropriate tag for the movie or TV series you're querying." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T11:38:55.940" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T11:38:55.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34116" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34235" CreationDate="2015-05-08T10:51:44.690" Score="8" ViewCount="372" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Twin Peaks&lt;/em&gt; Agent Cooper had a pretty open mind, including following leads from dreams, throwing rocks at bottles to work out who was a suspect, etc. So why was the Log Lady so hostile towards him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16343" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T11:25:50.243" LastActivityDate="2016-03-15T21:16:12.500" Title="Why was the Log Lady hostile towards Agent Cooper?" Tags="|twin-peaks|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34117" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-08T10:53:46.963" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stargate SG1 is a Canadian/American produced military science fiction TV show that ran from 1997 to 2007 over ten seasons and follows on approximately one year after the movie, Stargate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Associated tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-1994&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-1994&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-1994&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-ark-of-truth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-ark-of-truth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-ark-of-truth&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-continuum&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-continuum&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-continuum&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-atlantis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-atlantis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-atlantis&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-universe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-infinity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-infinity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-infinity&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stargate.mgm.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Stargate_Wiki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stargate Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gateworld.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gateworld&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_SG-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118480/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-06T18:56:26.337" LastActivityDate="2016-11-06T18:56:26.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34118" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-08T10:53:46.963" Score="0" Body="A Canadian/American produced military science fiction TV show that ran from 1997 to 2007 over ten seasons and follows on approximately one year after the movie, Stargate." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T11:38:07.333" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T11:38:07.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34119" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-08T10:57:07.717" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stargate: Atlantis is a Canadian/American produced military science fiction TV show that ran from 2004 to 2009 over five seasons and follows on from the season 7 finale of Stargate SG1. Stargate Atlantis takes place primarily aboard the lost city of Atlantis, on Lantea, discovered after researching the Ancient outpost between season 7 and 8 of Stargate SG1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Associated tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-sg1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-sg1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-sg1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-ark-of-truth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-ark-of-truth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-ark-of-truth&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-continuum&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-continuum&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-continuum&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-1994&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-1994&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-1994&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-universe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-infinity&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-infinity&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-infinity&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stargate.mgm.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Stargate_Atlantis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stargate Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gateworld.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gateworld&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Atlantis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374455/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-06T18:56:44.047" LastActivityDate="2016-11-06T18:56:44.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34120" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-08T10:57:07.717" Score="0" Body="A Canadian/American produced military science fiction TV show that ran from 2004 to 2009 over five seasons and follows on from the season 7 finale of Stargate SG1. Stargate Atlantis takes place primarily aboard the lost city of Atlantis, on Lantea, discovered after researching the Ancient outpost between season 7 and 8 of Stargate SG1." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T11:38:01.397" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T11:38:01.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34121" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-08T11:05:54.547" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stargate Universe is a Canadian/American military science fiction TV series which ran for 2 seasons between 2009 and 2010, before being cancelled. The series started some time after the events of both Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis, after the SGC had set up a remote base on the planet Icarus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Associated tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-sg1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-sg1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-sg1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-atlantis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-atlantis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-atlantis&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-1994&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-1994&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-1994&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-ark-of-truth&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-ark-of-truth&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-ark-of-truth&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/stargate-continuum&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;stargate-continuum&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;stargate-continuum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stargate.mgm.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Stargate_Universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stargate Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gateworld.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gateworld&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Universe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286039/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-06T18:57:01.263" LastActivityDate="2016-11-06T18:57:01.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34122" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-08T11:05:54.547" Score="0" Body="A Canadian/American military science fiction TV series which ran for 2 seasons between 2009 and 2010, before being cancelled. The series started some time after the events of both Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis, after the SGC had set up a remote base on the planet Icarus. " OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T11:38:04.480" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T11:38:04.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34123" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35928" CreationDate="2015-05-08T11:22:40.133" Score="6" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the first episode of Stargate SG1: Children of the Gods, and the second (third?) episode Enemy Within, one of the primary discussions about what Teal'c cannot join SG1 is that he is an alien soldier of the enemy, carrying the larval form of an even more powerful enemy, and must be studied. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, from this point on, thousands of Jaffa are killed by SG teams at various points over the next several seasons, and they never even do as much as discuss bringing one back for study.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why, since part of the SGC's mandate is to bring back technologies to study, do none of the SG teams ever bring back a captured or killed Jaffa for study?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-06T23:26:10.597" LastActivityDate="2016-11-06T23:26:10.597" Title="Why don't the team ever bring back other species for study?" Tags="|stargate|stargate-sg1|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34124" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="62917" CreationDate="2015-05-08T11:25:25.603" Score="9" ViewCount="842" Body="&lt;p&gt;At many points in &lt;em&gt;Stargate SG-1&lt;/em&gt;, the fact that Earth has MacGyvered their own dialing computer becomes a plot point. Be it the initial confusion over the Stargate going to multiple planets because they weren't taking into consideration stellar drift, or the fact that you don't need to dial a point of origin on a gate with a Dial Home Device (DHD) attached to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the differences between a DHD and Earth's dialing computer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="27164" LastEditDate="2016-11-07T18:35:04.140" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T07:13:09.340" Title="What are the differences between a DHD and Earth's dialing computer?" Tags="|stargate|stargate-sg1|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34111" CreationDate="2015-05-08T11:40:33.533" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short of this information already existing on the internet or you happening to be on talking terms with the creators, I doubt you're going to be able to find out exactly the process they used. There is no voice actor credited so it's highly likely to be completely synthesized, based on the limited vocabulary of the character it's likely a custom process (certainly custom enough to get a few words into a characters vocabulary and be like &quot;oh, that's enough! 37* different words will do&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many voice synthesizers already included in the current selection of DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations, like VOCALOID editor in Cubase) available will get you pretty close to the sound shown in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;* 37 is a guess, but it looks like this character can only say single digit numbers, days of the weeks, etc&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T11:40:33.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34124" CreationDate="2015-05-08T12:16:04.740" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The DHD was a device made by the people who made the gates, to be used with the gates.  Earth's dialing computer was not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is another way of thinking about it.  The gate, is like a television.  The DHD is the remote control made for it by the manufacturer.  Earth's dialing computer... is what a bunch of monkeys would come up with, if they lost the remote to the TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4621" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T12:16:04.740" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34131" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-08T15:33:15.997" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Transformers: Dark of the Moon is a 2011 American science fiction action film based on the Transformers toy line. First released on June 23, 2011, it is the third installment of Michael Bay's live-action Transformers film series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Associated Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/transformers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transformers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transformers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/transformers-2007&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transformers-2007&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transformers-2007&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/revenge-of-the-fallen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;revenge-of-the-fallen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;revenge-of-the-fallen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/dark-of-the-moon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-of-the-moon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-of-the-moon&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/age-of-extinction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;age-of-extinction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;age-of-extinction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers:_Dark_of_the_Moon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399103/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T16:05:05.247" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T16:05:05.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34132" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-08T15:33:15.997" Score="0" Body="A 2011 American science fiction action film based on the Transformers toy line. First released on June 23, 2011, it is the third installment of Michael Bay's live-action Transformers film series." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T16:05:24.053" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T16:05:24.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34102" CreationDate="2015-05-08T15:34:42.203" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Brett has pointed out already, the gist is that they run these scenarios at multiple locations in an effort to better achieve their goal: appeasing the sleeping god(s) for another year. Why risk failing with one when you can spread out your chances of success across multiple attempts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What should be mentioned, though, is &lt;code&gt;The Cabin in The Woods&lt;/code&gt; &lt;strong&gt;is basically a critique of the horror genre in its entirety&lt;/strong&gt;, and not just for American horror films but foreign ones as well. More recently the genre as a whole has been seen as dead; nothing is terribly scary anymore, too many horror movies rely on cheap jump moments, so everything has just sort of grown stale for many audiences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The purpose of the other locations was to highlight this fact: even foreign markets haven't been able to &quot;revive&quot; the horror genre, to the point Whedon seems to feel they've failed outright. The way the Japanese team's scenario ends, with the little girls gathering around and singing a song to turn the demon into a frog, is Whedon's way of saying everything just ends up being cliche and formulaic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, it's up to the Americans to come in and save the day, or at least that's what Whedon would have you believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naturally the team in the US still fails, but the reason they fail is they still tried to stick to a &quot;tried and true&quot; formula. What happens, and what makes the movie truly pay off, is breaking the central characters out of the genre tropes and bringing them into the real world, along with the horrors that were saved for them in the fake one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end Whedon had to destroy the world of horror films that's been built to forge a newer one, whatever that may be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T17:25:18.243" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T17:25:18.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34134" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-08T15:38:42.667" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Transformers: Age of Extinction is a 2014 American science fiction action film based on the Transformers toy line. It is the fourth installment of Michael Bay's live-action Transformers film series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Associated Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/transformers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transformers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transformers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/transformers-2007&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transformers-2007&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transformers-2007&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/revenge-of-the-fallen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;revenge-of-the-fallen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;revenge-of-the-fallen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/dark-of-the-moon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-of-the-moon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-of-the-moon&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/age-of-extinction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;age-of-extinction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;age-of-extinction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers:_Age_of_Extinction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2109248/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T16:05:32.907" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T16:05:32.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34135" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-08T15:38:42.667" Score="0" Body="A 2014 American science fiction action film based on the Transformers toy line. It is the fourth installment of Michael Bay's live-action Transformers film series." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T16:05:26.930" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T16:05:26.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34136" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-08T15:39:26.563" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 American science fiction film and the second movie in Michael Bay's Transformers series, starring Shia LeBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson and John Turturro. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Associated Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/transformers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transformers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transformers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/transformers-2007&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transformers-2007&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transformers-2007&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/revenge-of-the-fallen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;revenge-of-the-fallen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;revenge-of-the-fallen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/dark-of-the-moon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-of-the-moon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-of-the-moon&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/age-of-extinction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;age-of-extinction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;age-of-extinction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers:_Revenge_of_the_Fallen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1055369/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T16:05:21.267" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T16:05:21.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34137" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-08T15:39:26.563" Score="0" Body="A 2009 American science fiction film and the second movie in Michael Bay's Transformers series, starring Shia LeBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson and John Turturro. " OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T16:05:30.037" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T16:05:30.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34138" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-08T15:41:00.227" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Transformers&lt;/em&gt; is a 2007 American science fiction film and the first movie in Michael Bay's &lt;em&gt;Transformers&lt;/em&gt; series, starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson and John Turturro. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Associated Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/transformers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transformers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transformers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/transformers-2007&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transformers-2007&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transformers-2007&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/revenge-of-the-fallen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;revenge-of-the-fallen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;revenge-of-the-fallen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/dark-of-the-moon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-of-the-moon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-of-the-moon&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/age-of-extinction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;age-of-extinction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;age-of-extinction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418279/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-01-05T16:03:27.237" LastActivityDate="2019-01-05T16:03:27.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34139" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-08T15:41:00.227" Score="0" Body="A 2007 American science fiction film and the first movie in Michael Bay's Transformers series, starring Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson and John Turturro. " OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-01-05T13:52:42.867" LastActivityDate="2019-01-05T13:52:42.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34140" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-08T15:44:47.930" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A franchise produced by Hasbro and Takara Tomy. Initially a line of transforming toys, later growing into a line of comic books, cartoons, and live action movies. This tag is for questions pertaining to the Transformers universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Associated Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/transformers&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transformers&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transformers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/transformers-2007&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;transformers-2007&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;transformers-2007&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/revenge-of-the-fallen&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;revenge-of-the-fallen&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;revenge-of-the-fallen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/dark-of-the-moon&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;dark-of-the-moon&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;dark-of-the-moon&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/age-of-extinction&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;age-of-extinction&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;age-of-extinction&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/bumblebee&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;bumblebee&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bumblebee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://transformers.hasbro.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Transformers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-05-03T08:27:29.227" LastActivityDate="2019-05-03T08:27:29.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34141" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-08T15:44:47.930" Score="0" Body="A franchise produced by Hasbro and Takara Tomy. Initially a line of transforming toys, later growing into a line of comic books, cartoons, and live action movies. This tag is for questions pertaining to the Transformers universe." OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T16:05:09.310" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T16:05:09.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34143" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34152" CreationDate="2015-05-08T17:08:19.223" Score="2" ViewCount="892" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching some of the more recent CGI packed Transformers live action movies directed by Michael Bay, I went back and looked at the original cartoon series. It appears that at some point these series got rebooted and the initial incarnation got given a name - &quot;Generation One&quot; - retroactively, à la Star Wars Episode 4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which years are referred to as &quot;Generation 1&quot; in the original Transformers cartoon series and where does &quot;Generation 2&quot; start? Are there any major differences in the Transformers universe between the two generations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T17:15:21.000" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T20:06:02.823" Title="Which years are referred to as &quot;Generation 1&quot; in the original Transformers cartoon series?" Tags="|transformers|transformers-generation-1|transformers-generation-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-08T17:13:10.097" Score="2" ViewCount="1471" Body="&lt;p&gt;I may have missed the explanation of this, but Monica's apartment looks very different from every other episode of &lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt; in episode 10 of the first season. Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21083" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T17:24:37.833" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T12:50:56.950" Title="Why does Monica's apartment look different in s01e10?" Tags="|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34092" CreationDate="2015-05-08T17:17:49.160" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The deal was to throw the fight in the 5th round&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to understand boxing, organized crime, and betting to see this.  In Vegas, you can bet on anything.  ANYTHING.  And the more outrageous, the higher the odds.  You can probably literally bet on if a boxer will blow his nose in the 3rd round.  Seriously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wallace obviously had a bet on Butch going down in the 5th round.  The odds were probably pretty high on that, like maybe 5-1 but that's just speculation.  At either rate, he specifically needed Butch to go down in the 5th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moment Butch knocked the other guy out in the 4th, Wallace knew he was double-crossed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T17:17:49.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34148" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34150" CreationDate="2015-05-08T17:50:32.773" Score="26" ViewCount="24505" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who were Brett and his crew in Pulp Fiction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did they have to do with Marcellus Wallace and his case?   &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iBn3f.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastActivityDate="2016-12-21T02:17:11.530" Title="Who was Brett in Pulp Fiction?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34148" CreationDate="2015-05-08T18:10:06.167" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He and his crew stole from Marcelus.  Whether it was from holding out on paying him as part of a deal or if Brett directly ripped him off is unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say what again.  I double dare you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21037" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T18:10:06.167" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34148" CreationDate="2015-05-08T18:10:08.533" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just like the briefcase, &lt;strong&gt;the purpose of Brett and the other guys isn't really intended to be known&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trope that this matter represents is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodleIncident&quot;&gt;Noodle Incident&lt;/a&gt;, which is when something from the past is referred to but never explicitly talked about, but we may still see the outcome of that something from the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't really need to know who Brett is or what he and the other guys were doing with the briefcase, how they got it, whether they were supposed to have it at some point, or what they planned to do with it. The backstory of Brett and his guys, along with the briefcase, are nothing more than &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MacGuffin&quot;&gt;MacGuffins&lt;/a&gt;, or plots/items that exist for the sole purpose of giving the story a reason to exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T18:10:08.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34151" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42276" CreationDate="2015-05-08T19:46:28.457" Score="11" ViewCount="1494" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a scene during episode 11 of &lt;em&gt;Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.&lt;/em&gt; season 1 (The Magical Place), a Chinese-like symbol can be seen in the upper front part of the Bus (see image below). Is it actually Chinese? What does it mean? Why is it there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tcrfF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The bus with the symbol&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="282" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T07:46:38.240" LastActivityDate="2022-12-28T17:05:50.993" Title="What is the symbol on front of the Bus?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|agents-of-shield|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34143" CreationDate="2015-05-08T19:48:16.890" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Generation 1&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generation 1 (or just simply G1) is a rather vague blanket term that was created after the fact by fans after the Transformers Generation 2 line was released in 1993. So if you consider G1 to be anything Transformers related that was released before G2, then G1's era is from 1984-1993 which includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Transformers&lt;/em&gt; cartoon (Four seasons spanning 1984-1987)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Transformers: The Movie&lt;/em&gt; (1986) which, chronologically sits between the second and third seasons of the cartoon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Transformers&lt;/em&gt; comic book series (with its own continuity) published by Marvel that ran from 1984-1991, ending abruptly without finishing its story. In 2012, IDW published a conclusion to that series (and disregards the events of G2) called &lt;em&gt;Transformers: Regeneration One&lt;/em&gt; written by Simon Furman, one of the original writers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NkMLY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Megatron G1&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;G1 Megatron&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Generation 2&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Launched in 1993, it's set in the same continuity as G1 (though it jumps ahead in time and doesn't fully conclude the G1 comic story). It also crosses over into the G.I.Joe franchise. It features some new characters and redesigns of older ones. Other than toys it includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Transformers: Generation 2&lt;/em&gt; comic book series published by Marvel from 1993-1994.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Transformers: Generation 2&lt;/em&gt; cartoon series which was just re-broadcasted episodes from the original US cartoon with some CGI overlays.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4NTFA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;G2 Megatron&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;G2 Megatron&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Semi-Generation 1&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Japanese produced their own animated shows that diverged from the original US series after the second season, launching its own G1 continuity. Those shows are (chronologically):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (The original series with some changes and new animation, notable the OAV Scramble City).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Transformers Headmasters (1987)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Transformers Super-God Masterpiece (1988)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Transformers Victory (1989)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Transformers Zone (1990)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also two more recent comic book series that reuse a lot of the story and visual elements of G1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dreamwave's comic book run which ran from 2001- 2005&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;IDW's comic book run which started in 2005 and still being published today&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r0Lwu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;IDW Megatron&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IDW's Megatron (latest version)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T20:06:02.823" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T20:06:02.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34153" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34157" CreationDate="2015-05-08T20:05:33.310" Score="18" ViewCount="2925" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A8U6aUPW48&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this funny scene&lt;/a&gt; in the Cary Grant comedy &lt;em&gt;Bringing Up Baby&lt;/em&gt; (1938) where he has to put on Katherine Hepburn's bathrobe. When asked &amp;quot;Why are you wearing these?&amp;quot;, he replies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because I just went gay, all of a sudden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gay used to mean happy. Was this the first time in movies the word &amp;quot;gay&amp;quot; was used in this sense? Also, was this the first time cross-dressing for comedy was done? (Excluding the older movies where male actors played females.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2021-03-23T17:20:39.433" LastActivityDate="2021-03-23T17:20:57.390" Title="Was Cary Grant the first actor to say &quot;gay&quot; onscreen?" Tags="|first-appearance|bringing-up-baby|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34154" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-08T20:06:33.470" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T20:06:33.470" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T20:06:33.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34155" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-08T20:06:33.470" Score="0" Body="Questions about the 1938 comedy starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn." OwnerUserId="13594" LastEditorUserId="13594" LastEditDate="2015-05-08T20:25:45.210" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T20:25:45.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33734" CreationDate="2015-05-08T20:47:30.077" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has no part in the comics, but a &quot;veronica&quot; is a move in bullfighting.  (Free Dictionary: A maneuver in bullfighting in which the matador stands with both feet fixed in position and swings the cape slowly away from the charging bull.)  It's interesting that Whedon picked a name that also has significance in a &quot;man vs. beast&quot; type of conflict, and not a move in which the bull is killed but is being teased or distracted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21088" LastActivityDate="2015-05-08T20:47:30.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34153" CreationDate="2015-05-08T21:45:19.473" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's indeed most likely&lt;/strong&gt; this was the first instance of this usage. Plenty of sources support this theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The term Gay had definitely become &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay#Sexualization&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a sexualized term&lt;/a&gt; by the 17th century to mean &amp;quot;uninhibited by moral constraints&amp;quot; and was then attached to homosexuality by the early 1900s. But it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029947/trivia?item=tr0730970&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;widely believed&lt;/a&gt; this usage had not been seen in a Hollywood film before &lt;em&gt;Bringing Up Baby&lt;/em&gt;, and it probably only saw the light of day because &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/363010%7C0/Bringing-Up-Baby.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Grant improvised it&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Grant's explanation for wearing women's clothes in the film, &amp;quot;I just went gay all of a sudden,&amp;quot; was improvised on set, which may explain how it slipped by the Production Code Administration (PCA), Hollywood's self-censorship group. Between 1934, when the PCA began strict Code enforcement, and 1961, when the Code was amended, any mention of homosexuality was strictly forbidden on screen. This marks the only use of &amp;quot;gay&amp;quot; to mean &amp;quot;homosexual&amp;quot; in a Hollywood film of that era. Some historians have suggested that it's the screen's first use of &amp;quot;gay&amp;quot; in a sexual context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The usage not being exactly common knowledge yet &lt;a href=&quot;http://worldofwonder.net/the-historical-significance-of-cary-grant-suddenly-going-gay-in-bringing-up-baby/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;also helped&lt;/a&gt; bring about this seminal moment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this was a mainstream movie at a time when the use of the word to mean homosexual would be unfamiliar to most film-goers, the line could also be interpreted to mean, “I just decided to do something frivolous.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for crossdressing for comedic purposes, it was not the first time. Buster Keaton and Stan Laurel donned women's clothes &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-dressing_in_film_and_television#As_a_minor_plot_element&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;as early as 1924&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[As a point of interest, a reliance on lingual obscurity helped writers slip another gay term past censors in The Maltese Falcon 3 years later by describing Wilmer, a character considered by many to be gay, as a '&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gunsel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;gunsel&lt;/a&gt;', a Yiddish word for a young homosexual companion:]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The novel was originally serialized in a magazine, Black Mask, whose editor refused to allow vulgarities. Hammett used the word gunsel knowing that the editor would likely misunderstand it as relating to gun, and therefore allow it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2021-03-23T17:20:57.390" LastActivityDate="2021-03-23T17:20:57.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34151" CreationDate="2015-05-09T00:46:33.970" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bus is based on the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III and you can see the same emblem on that model of plane. According to various articles I've found on the Globemaster, it has surface mounted thermal sensors to aid in counter-measures. My guess is that those marking are one of the sensors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pNJLU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2015-05-09T00:46:33.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30037" CreationDate="2015-05-09T03:05:06.607" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Fabienne really is talking about her belly and bellies in general. I don't believe there is meant to be a deeper meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't believe the dialogue is intended to be random, cool, or otherwise affected as much as &lt;strong&gt;the dialogue is a window into the characters (Fabienne somewhat vain; Butch playful and teasing) and their relationship (intimate and playful)&lt;/strong&gt;. And perhaps most importantly &lt;strong&gt;the dialogue serves as a lead-in to the love-making that occurs later in the scene&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the dialogue mentions Madonna -- as did a choice bit of dialogue in &lt;em&gt;Reservoir Dogs&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2015-05-09T03:05:06.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34169" CreationDate="2015-05-09T07:56:06.957" Score="8" ViewCount="8026" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I started binge-watching &quot;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&quot; and was wondering - at the end of season six, Spike goes to a demon somewhere and asks him to remove his chip so he could be a &quot;real vampire&quot; again, and be able to kill Buffy. &#xA;He endures the trials of the demon, but&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; ends up getting his soul back instead of having the chip removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, in season 7 he tells Buffy that he went and did it because he wanted to. I don't think that was his intention though, it seemed quite unexpected for him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then why is he saying that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; he wanted his soul back? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is he consciously lying, or has his &quot;crazy time&quot; affected his memory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21097" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T11:35:54.410" Title="Why does Spike claim to have gotten his soul back by his own wish, when he didn't?" Tags="|buffy-the-vampire-slayer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34168" CreationDate="2015-05-09T08:22:17.530" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was a very common misconception at the time, based on a few factors like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spike talking about his chip agonizing him before leaving for Africa;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spike talking about his goal with vague, angry phrases like &amp;quot;Bitch is going to see a change&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Buffy [will] get what she deserves&amp;quot;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spike screaming in pain and what was interpreted as surprise when he's re-ensouled.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this was an &lt;strong&gt;intentional misdirection&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allaboutspike.com/africa.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This online essay&lt;/a&gt; is a great source on the matter, and contains some quotes from the show's creators explaining this twist:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spike's quest was, and ALWAYS WAS, to get his soul restored for Buffy, despite any misleading leaks we may have put out that you fell for.&amp;quot; -- &lt;em&gt;[&lt;strong&gt;Buffy writer and producer] David Fury&lt;/strong&gt; on the Bronze Beta, 11/19/02&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spike looked into his soul at that moment [the attempted rape], and saw the demon in him, and that's what made him want to go get a soul .... We did a big ole mislead on you all, where we wanted you to think he gonna go get the chip out. We knew, the whole time, from the very beginning he was gonna go get a soul. And when he says I want Buffy to have what she deserves, he means a lover with a soul. -- &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jane Espenson, Buffy writer&lt;/strong&gt;, radio interview on the Succubus Club, 5/22/02&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moderator:&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;At the end of the finale, I thought Spike wanted to get the chip out, not get his soul back?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;[Buffy creator] Joss Whedon:&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;Noooo.... but you were meant to think that. I personally devised something called 'a plot twist'.&amp;quot; -- &lt;em&gt;At the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences panel &amp;quot;Behind the Scenes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer&amp;quot;, 6/18/02&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it almost fooled me at the time (his scream was especially confusing) until I stopped to think about his character arc after the episode and came to the right conclusion. &lt;strong&gt;He was always after his soul&lt;/strong&gt;, and here are some choice bits from that essay in support of this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If Spike wanted to hurt Buffy, he didn't need to get the chip out. It already didn't work on her.&lt;/strong&gt; If Spike wanted to hurt Buffy's friends, he could have just hired some demons to do it. Unlike Angelus, Spike has never been interested in torture. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider Spike's character: &lt;strong&gt;The decision to seek a soul was completely in character for Spike.&lt;/strong&gt; Although he often ridiculed Angel's soulfulness, much of that ridicule came from envy. Angel, after all, captured the hearts of the two women Spike loved most more than Spike ever could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spike has always been portrayed as a character who would do anything for love, even give up evil.&lt;/strong&gt; Even when he was dating Drusilla, he preferred loving her to committing evil (although he certainly loved both at the time). In &lt;em&gt;Lie to Me&lt;/em&gt;, Spike's third appearance on the series, he chooses love over evil: he stops the massacre so that he can save Drusilla from Buffy. In &lt;em&gt;Becoming&lt;/em&gt;, he goes so far as to help save the world so that he can get Drusilla back. Clearly, love is more important to him than evil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...And it's completely within character for Spike, after fully coming to terms with his own monstrosity, to do something reckless for love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T11:35:54.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34171" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34183" CreationDate="2015-05-09T15:10:09.880" Score="11" ViewCount="3955" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final episodes of Daredevil 2015, he acquires his 'official' character suit. In the previous episodes he wore a scarf fashioned into a mask that covered the top part of his face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Daredevil's 'official' cowl contains what appear to be two eye holes. What purpose can these serve? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-16T13:30:48.570" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T13:30:48.570" Title="Why does Daredevil's cowl have eyeholes?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|costume|daredevil-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34173" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43921" CreationDate="2015-05-09T17:57:23.397" Score="3" ViewCount="298" Body="&lt;p&gt;We all know that Reid has an eidetic memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless in the very first episode &lt;code&gt;Extreme Aggressor&lt;/code&gt; he keeps scribbling into his notebook. Why does he need to take notes even if he will not forget anything?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In later episodes I can not remember seeing him with a notebook. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user21106" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T01:00:05.323" Title="Why does Reid scribble into his notebook `Extreme Aggressor`" Tags="|plot-explanation|criminal-minds|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34178" CreationDate="2015-05-09T18:29:55.857" Score="45" ViewCount="21843" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the opening scene of Pulp Fiction at the restaurant, right before the titles, Honeybunny says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any of you fucking pricks move, I will execute every motherfucking last one of you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when the movie again reaches this scene at end of the movie (with Jules and Vincent in the restaurant) we hear Honeybunny saying the same dialogue but now it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Any of you fucking pricks move, I will execute every one of you motherfuckers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is there such a difference in two scenes? Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21110" LastEditorUserId="50172" LastEditDate="2021-07-10T13:48:32.290" LastActivityDate="2021-07-10T13:48:32.290" Title="Why is Pulp Fiction's opening scene different to the one near the end?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|continuity|pulp-fiction|production-mistakes|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34144" CreationDate="2015-05-09T19:10:27.437" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason the apartment looks different is it's the build up to the gang's New Years Eve party and decorations are up (possibly from Christmas?). Apart from the obvious monkey...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tuMsO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;image of the kitchen&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Red and silver tinsel around the apartment door (just off screen on the left)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Silver star hanging from the ceiling behind the apartment door (just off screen on the left)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gold tinsel in the kitchen work surface&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Red Christmas lights in the kitchen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;More silver stars hanging in the kitchen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Decorations on all of the wooden beams in the kitchen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some kind of tree with decorations between the kitchen and the living area&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qEWr7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;the rest of the apartment&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fake snow on all of the bay windows&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Christmas lights out on the balcony (it's worth noting these are missing from the above screenshot but appear in the scene before the credits and later on... 10/10 for set management)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Big tree (that gets decorated later in the episode) near the bay window&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wreath hanging from the bay window&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and lots more people than usual (later in the episode, during the party).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-10T12:50:56.950" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T12:50:56.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34175" CreationDate="2015-05-09T19:31:54.757" Score="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;It clearly &lt;em&gt;looks&lt;/em&gt; like a continuity error, but if IMDb's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/faq#.2.1.9&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pulp Fiction FAQ page&lt;/a&gt; is to be believed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is what Yolanda says in the beginning different from what she says at the end?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tarantino has explained that this is not an error, rather, he did this on purpose. When we first examine the scene, we are seeing Ringo and Yolanda's conversation from their perspective. Obviously, because this is their conversation, what we hear first is probably what was actually said. However, at the end of the film, what is said is different because we are no longer viewing the situation from Ringo and Yolanda's perspective, but rather everyone else in the diner, most specifically Jules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it is claimed that, in effect, this was done intentionally to further punctuate Pulp Fiction's disjointed, non-linear narrative with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon_effect&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rashomon-inspired&lt;/a&gt; scene as presented from different perspectives (so it's simply &lt;em&gt;remembered&lt;/em&gt; differently).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-09T19:46:01.270" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19701" CreationDate="2015-05-09T20:20:34.417" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me this is a very easy answer. After the events of the early 1970's happened,the mutants and the humans coexisted peacefully. Wolverine,up until mid 1970's happened but the events from the late 1970's at 3 mile Island never happened. Also X Men on(circa 2001) never happened.This means Everyone had no conflicts with each other. Wolverine was the only one who was completly lost when the space-time continuum finally remerged in 2001.This means Wolverine never lost his claws in Japan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21112" LastActivityDate="2015-05-09T20:20:34.417" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34171" CreationDate="2015-05-09T22:54:20.947" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;An eyeless mask might tip villains off that Daredevil is blind. This has at least 2 negative outcomes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It alerts them to certain physical vulnerablities that they can now exploit;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They now know he's a young, built blind man, which might narrow the choices down and jeopardize his secret identity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It actually makes you wonder why he &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; have eyeholes until now. Stan Lee &lt;a href=&quot;http://captaincomics.ning.com/forum/topics/daredevil-questions-aka-i-was-wondering-20&quot;&gt;reportedly commented&lt;/a&gt; on the subject with the same reasoning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When they made &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_of_the_Incredible_Hulk&quot;&gt;The Trial of the Incredible Hulk TV movie&lt;/a&gt;, with Rex Smith as DD, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee&quot;&gt;Stan Lee&lt;/a&gt; saw that the mask had no eyeholes and asked why. They said that it was because he was blind. Yeah, said Stan, but no one was supposed to know that!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-05-09T23:15:56.120" LastActivityDate="2015-05-09T23:15:56.120" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3515" CreationDate="2015-05-10T00:05:49.810" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the other excellent answers have shown the movies are rich of various overarching themes, be they political or philosophical, about a hero or his city. But on a very personal level they are about a man, in particular &lt;strong&gt;Bruce Wayne's struggle to cope with the tragedy he experienced as a child and to overcome the resulting grief, fear and anger that manifested in the personality of Batman&lt;/strong&gt;, something he does not achieve until the end of the whole trilogy. They are much less &lt;em&gt;Batman&lt;/em&gt; movies than they are &lt;em&gt;Bruce Wayne&lt;/em&gt; movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;, devised rather as a sequel to &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt; than the 2nd act of a trilogy, might transport this general idea to a lesser degree, &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;, clearly devised as the final chapter, goes out of its way to reconnect to the 1st part and its themes in order to close the overall storyline and Bruce's character arc. -- Anecdotally I've also heard people complain that for a Batman movie &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt; &amp;quot;doesn't feature enough Batman&amp;quot; and this is a consequence of its concentration on Bruce and his story and also ties it well to &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt;, whose concentration on Bruce's backstory is a natural consequence of its nature as an origin story. -- But the visual image that best establishes this connection between the first and third movie is the &lt;strong&gt;pit analogy&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fear that drives Bruce's whole later life and his definition as a hero starts when he falls into the well on the grounds of Wayne Manor at the very beginning of &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. And while this fear starts out as a simple natural and unambiguous fear of beasts, through the opera, its imagery and Bruce's urge to leave it gets inseperably tied to the much deeper and defining fear he encounters at that night's tragic events and that will never let go of him from then on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k3uUD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a result of this night he is a torn man and has pretty much lost his will to go on. When he tries to revenge his parents during his college years by downright killing Chill in public, he knows that he will go to prison for this for a very long time and he doesn't care. All he has is this anger he wants to let loose. After this fails, he becomes a lost and wandering soul, until he finds a way to take his fear and his anger and channel them into something better, after he has seen that the League of Shadows and their leader Ra's al Ghul have taken the wrong path. But this way to somehow supress his fear and anger and put them to use has the price of abandoning his past self in favour of the persona, or rather symbol, he developed for this purpose. And this comes at the expense of his personal life and its relationships:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alfred:&lt;/strong&gt; You're getting lost inside this monster of yours...It's not just your name, sir, it's your father's name, and it's all that's left of him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rachel:&lt;/strong&gt; No, this is your mask. Your real face is the one that criminals now fear. The man I loved, the man who vanished, he never came back at all. But maybe he's still out there somewhere. Maybe someday when Gotham no longer needs Batman, I see him again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we have &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, where the city seems initially on a good way and things start to clear up, upto a point where Batman might not be needed anymore, since there is a true hero arising, in Harvey Dent, a man that Bruce could have been and who in fact starts to lead the life with Rachel that Bruce could have had. But things get out of hand when somone emerges that puts Bruce and his ideals to the limits, one that gives him the same perils he once went through with his parents and questions his one rule. And in fact &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/2789/49&quot;&gt;he has to break this rule&lt;/a&gt; at the very end and this together with Rachel's death shatters all his hopes that Batman is only a temporary solution. And it is Rachel who identifies a key problem, namely that Batman is not only a device to help Gotham, but even more so one to help Bruce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I told you that if Gotham no longer needed Batman we could be together, I meant it. But now I'm sure the day won't come when &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; no longer need Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exactly this point is finally reached at the start of &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; then. Gotham does not need Batman anymore since things cleared up and indeed Batman has vanished. But this hasn't led to Bruce now living on. No, instead he does not live at all anymore, he has gone into complete recluse for years since there is not much of Bruce left that could live on. The only way out of this that he sees is being entirely swallowed by his substitute personality and dying in this process, the man completely dissolving into the symbol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alfred:&lt;/strong&gt; And that's the problem. You hung up your cape and your cowl but you didn't move on. You never went to find a life, to find someone.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Bruce:&lt;/strong&gt; Alfred, I &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; find someone.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Alfred:&lt;/strong&gt; I know, and you lost her, but that's all part of living, sir. But you're not living, you're just waiting, hoping for things to get bad again...You see only one end to your journey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bane:&lt;/strong&gt; You don't fear death, you welcome it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is only after he has been broken by Bane and left in the pit that he &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/9132/49&quot;&gt;regains his will to live&lt;/a&gt; and to move on. And this pit is pretty much the well Bruce fell down when his whole misery started and that he never got out of alone. But this time it is Bruce alone who achieves to climb out of this well by himself. And this is the important difference here, since there can be no salvation for him if &lt;em&gt;he&lt;/em&gt; doesn't strive for it. After nearly 30 years he finally has &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;learned to pick himself up&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; and carry on from his sorrows. (You could as well metaphorically &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/3421/49&quot;&gt;relate this pit to the Lazarus pit&lt;/a&gt; known from the comics in the way that it healed Bruce's mind and spirit even more than it healed his body.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RfjQn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular he finally has found &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/11704/49&quot;&gt;the way to separate the man from the symbol&lt;/a&gt; and sacrifice the symbol to remain in the spirit of the city forever &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; also sacrificing the man. He has not only saved the city. No, the city, as nicely pointed out in another answer, will always be in danger. He has first and foremost saved &lt;em&gt;himself&lt;/em&gt; from Batman and the feelings of fear and anger that manifested through him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the BluRay of &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt; the filmakers also talk a bit about the character of Bruce Wayne, reinforcing the above notions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jonathan Nolan:&lt;/strong&gt; I think being concious of never straying too far from these being films about a man. There's a world, there's a city, there's amazing characters but it's really the story of a guy who decided to do something very unconventional, illegal, dangerous out of a somewhat broken sense of righteousness and justice. I think what's fascinating is watching this guy trying to find that path through it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jordan Goldberg:&lt;/strong&gt; The reason why the story is soulful and relatable is that beyond the spectacle, beyond the conventions of the genre Chris is telling the story of a man's journey to rediscover the will to live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Christian Bale:&lt;/strong&gt; How much longer can he allow this pain that has happened to control what he does with his life? And at what point does this start to become completely self-destructive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David S. Goyer:&lt;/strong&gt; We try to treat Batman, the Batman costume, the Batman personality almost like it were an addiction. That he's addicted to it, that he's addicted to the anger, that he's addicted to the violence, that he's addicted to the suit. And that's all he really lives for...The lesson that Bruce has to learn is, at a certain point he's gotta walk away from Gotham and he's gotta walk away from his anger...He's depressed. So the only way to escape that, the only way he's gonna live and not die, the only way that Bruce can really free himself of these demons is if he lets go of the anger. And in order to let go of the anger, that means letting go of Gotham, letting go of Bruce Wayne, letting go of all of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Christopher Nolan:&lt;/strong&gt; Jonah's draft of the script always had this great idea of this underground prison that you have to climb out of to escape. I thought it was the perfect metaphor, just really in tune with all the thematic elements of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David S. Goyer:&lt;/strong&gt; We wanted to bring back that imagery of when he fell into the well, his dad brought him out of the pit and now it's time to bring himself out of the pit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So on the bottom line this trilogy is &lt;strong&gt;the story of a man (or a boy) trying to overcome the death of his parents and the resulting fear and anger&lt;/strong&gt;, and thus growing up in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the 1st act he finds a way to channel this fear and anger into a symbol, but also one that starts to consume his normal personality.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the 2nd act he loses all ties to this ordinary personality and all hopes for a normal life.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And in the 3rd act he finally overcomes this artificial personality and the fear and anger manifesting in it by separating himself from the symbol and moving on with his life.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is of course not to say that this is the one and only overarching theme of the movie, but it is an important one and the one representing the personal/character viewpoint of the whole story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-10-14T14:28:57.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34187" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34218" CreationDate="2015-05-10T04:38:17.067" Score="1" ViewCount="1206" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Disney movie &quot;The Hunchback of Notre Dame&quot;, Frollo takes for granted the gyspy woman that tries to save baby Quasimodo is his mom. But I've found a pair of details that actually point out that Quasimodo and the gyspy woman aren't related:&#xA;1. Quasimodo doesn't have the hair and skin color of a gyspy.&#xA;2. Neither she or the gyspy man with her call Quasimodo &quot;son&quot; (they may not be wife and husband!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the novel, Quasimodo's origin is unknown: He was left abandoned on the street, then he was found and adopted by Frollo because of compassion. Later in the novel, Frollo turns evil and insane because of his lust towards Esmeralda.&#xA;Based on this, it is interesting  to notice that Disney split the novel's Frollo into three characters: Frollo himself, the Arch Deacon and the gypsy woman, so it can be concluded that she adopted Quasimodo because of compassion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16802" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T15:14:17.093" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T15:14:17.093" Title="In Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Is the gyspy woman really Quasimodo's mom?" Tags="|hunchback-of-notre-dame|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34193" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41201" CreationDate="2015-05-10T11:34:52.567" Score="7" ViewCount="1852" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the start of the Avengers: Age of Ultron movie, the Avengers are on a mission, attempting to retrieve Loki's staff from HYDRA. They're attacking a castle which is a HYDRA base run by Strucker and they've got a Chitauri Leviathan corpse at the base. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably this came from the battle of New York from the first Avengers movie, but how did HYDRA get the corpse of a Leviathan out of New York without S.H.I.E.L.D doing anything about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:34:13.973" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T13:22:13.017" Title="How do HYDRA get the Leviathan to Strucker's base?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34194" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34199" CreationDate="2015-05-10T11:40:03.633" Score="13" ViewCount="11522" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's pretty obvious that Thor would know about the Tesseract, Aether and the Mind Stone, since he physically came into contact with all three and was instrumental in securing them. However, the Power stone came into play in a different part of the galaxy, during the events of Guardians of the Galaxy. During Thor's nightmare vision, he sees all four stones that are currently in play, and not all six total stones. With this in mind, it's like his vision is showing Thor information that he doesn't know, but that is currently correct according to what the audience know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Thor know the Power stone was in play?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-10T12:00:32.300" LastActivityDate="2017-09-05T04:17:28.933" Title="How did Thor know the Power stone was in play?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34195" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34198" CreationDate="2015-05-10T11:43:56.313" Score="14" ViewCount="12524" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the Avengers make their first move on Ultron, he uses Scarlet Witch to give the entire team (&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/34101/5603&quot;&gt;except Hawkeye&lt;/a&gt;) visions of their worst nightmares. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thor saw that he destroyed Asgard, Tony killed the Avengers, Natasha went back to the red room and Captain America was alone after the war. What did the Hulk see during his nightmare vision?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2019-07-07T04:43:25.977" Title="What did the Hulk see during his nightmare vision?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34196" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-10T11:50:56.807" Score="15" ViewCount="42128" Body="&lt;p&gt;Roger Ebert mentioned in his review of &lt;em&gt;Léon: The Professional&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But always at the back of my mind was the troubled thought that there&#xA;  was something wrong about placing a 12-year-old character in the&#xA;  middle of this action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would you describe the relation that developed between Mathilda and Leon in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21126" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-10T12:00:59.850" LastActivityDate="2021-08-08T23:32:36.920" Title="How would you describe the relation between Mathilda and Léon?" Tags="|character|leon-the-professional|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34195" CreationDate="2015-05-10T12:07:18.467" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Banner's worst nightmare is killing innocent people, he has a major fear of losing control while in a populated area. This point is made multiple times during the movie (&quot;don't turn green&quot;) and reiterated at the end of the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Romanoff&lt;/strong&gt;: So what's our play?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Banner&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm here to get you to safety&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Romanoff&lt;/strong&gt;: What about the drop-zone evacuation?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Banner&lt;/strong&gt;: We can help with the evacuation but I can't be in a fight near civilians and you've done plenty...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Hulk &lt;em&gt;lived&lt;/em&gt; his nightmare vision. Banner turned into the Hulk and ran into a heavily populated city full of civilians and it took Stark in the Hulkbuster armor to stop him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="24376" LastEditDate="2018-05-14T09:56:44.870" LastActivityDate="2018-05-14T09:56:44.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34194" CreationDate="2015-05-10T13:13:52.217" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;tl;dr: Assuming that he knew about the 4th Infinity Stone stone before his vision, he most likely learned about it sometime off-screen, between &lt;em&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, we can assume that Thor probably has fairly in-depth knowledge of the Infinity Stones, given that his friends do. This seems to be part of the normal education on Asgard: Sif not only calls them by name, but knows that Tesseract and Aether are both Stones &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; knows not to keep them all in one place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, when he saw the Infinity Stones in his vision, he would certainly have recognized them. However, as far as we know, his vision is merely a manifestation of his worst fears. While it makes sense, given the events of &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Thor 2&lt;/em&gt;, that the Infinity Stones reemerging would have been his biggest fear. And, later on when he goes to the Waters of Sight, he would have learned everything everything else he needed, e.g. that it was the Mind Stone, and that Vision needed to exist. But the one thing he did see in his vision, that he shouldn't have know, was that there were &lt;strong&gt;4&lt;/strong&gt; stones. How did he know to be afraid of four, not two (which he knew of) or three (if he suspected what the scepter was) or six (which is all of them)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The clue is what he says at the end of the movie: that four of the stones have &lt;em&gt;appeared&lt;/em&gt; in recent years. This implies that he knows of four specific cases where an Infinity Stone was active. On-screen, he's only encountered the Tesseract and Aether, and now the Mind Stone.  So, he must have learned about the events of &lt;em&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt; at some point off-screen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thor's a high-ranking Asgardian noble, he probably hears things. The destruction of Knowhere, the attack on Xandar, and the fact that an Infinity Stone was involved are all big newsworthy events. The Asgardians obviously have a working relationship with the Collector, and they have shown themselves to be well-versed in galactic history and lore, and willing to get involved in &quot;peacekeeping&quot; missions when needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The news of an Infinity Stone is exactly the kind of thing that would likely make its way to Asgard, either officially (maybe the Nova Corps has a diplomatic relationship with Asgard, we don't know), or via the rumor mill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="1146" LastEditDate="2015-05-11T13:45:12.460" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T13:45:12.460" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34200" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35983" CreationDate="2015-05-10T14:27:33.533" Score="4" ViewCount="1099" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a store, I saw a music video of a woman standing dangerously between two &quot;lions.&quot; (The quotes are for a reason.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would a director shoot that scene safely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a way to tranquilize the lions or otherwise make them less dangerous?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Do they use special actors/actresses such as lion trainers?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or are the &quot;lions&quot; likely to be mechanical, and therefore not really dangerous?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If 3) how does a producer decide when it is necessary to use a real lion (perhaps at a greater distance) in a scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9097" LastEditorUserId="9097" LastEditDate="2016-01-20T18:57:58.570" LastActivityDate="2016-05-17T06:59:01.253" Title="How does a movie director handle an inherently dangerous scene such as the following?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34205" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35932" CreationDate="2015-05-10T15:36:17.423" Score="8" ViewCount="4156" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Silence of the Lambs&lt;/em&gt; while Clarice first comes to visit Dr Lecter for his assistance, he drives Clarice away. But seems to change his mind when he sees Miggs (the next cell prisoner of Dr Lecter) throw his semen on her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Dr Lecter decide to help Clarice only because this incident happened to Clarice? If nothing happened while Clarice retured, would Dr Lecter completely ignore her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21110" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-10T15:40:38.117" LastActivityDate="2017-10-13T17:37:27.190" Title="Would Dr Hannibal Lecter allow himself to be a consultant with Clarice if Miggs hadn't behaved improperly to her?" Tags="|analysis|character|the-silence-of-the-lambs|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10004" CreationDate="2015-05-10T16:14:08.027" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Tarantino Universe:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chronological order of the films:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Django Unchained&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Hateful Eight&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reservoir Dogs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;True Romance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Natural Born Killers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Four Rooms&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jackie Brown&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Death Proof&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Planet Terror&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From Dusk Till Dawn&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Curdled&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kill Bill Volume 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kill Bill Volume 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interconnections:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dr. King Schultz and Paula Schultz - King Dr. Schulz is a character&#xA;in the movie &quot;Django Unchained,&quot; German dentist turned bounty hunter.&#xA;Paula Schultz is the name of that grave Beatrix Kiddo character of&#xA;the Bride films &quot;Kill Bill Volume 1 and Kill Bill Volume 2&quot; was&#xA;buried. Paula Schultz was the wife of Dr. King Schultz.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gerald Nash, Marvin Nash and Gerald Nash - Gerald Nash is a member of&#xA;Gang Bacall. Django Freeman and Dr. King Schultz are searching for&#xA;their leader, Smitty Bacall, in the movie &quot;Django Unchained.&quot; Marvin&#xA;Nash is the tortured cop in &quot;Reservoir Dogs.&quot; Gerald Nash is a&#xA;policeman killed by the Knox couple, his death is mentioned in the TV&#xA;program in &quot;Natural Born Killers&quot;. Gerald Nash is the&#xA;great-grandfather of Gerald and Marvin. Marvin and Gerald are&#xA;cousins.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Crazy Craig Koons and Captain Koons - Crazy Craig Koons is a member&#xA;of Gang Bacall. Django Freeman and Dr. King Schultz are searching for&#xA;their leader, Smitty Bacall, in the movie &quot;Django Unchained.&quot; Captain&#xA;Koons is a character in &quot;Pulp Fiction&quot;, played by Christopher Walken.&#xA;Crazy Craig Koons is the great-grandfather of Captain Koons.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Red Apple Cigarettes - the cigarette brand created by Tarantino can&#xA;be seen in the films &quot;Django Unchained,&quot; &quot;Inglourious Basterds,&quot;&#xA;&quot;Reservoir Dogs,&quot; &quot;Four Rooms,&quot; &quot;Death Proof,&quot; &quot;Planet Terror,&quot; &quot;From&#xA;Dusk Till Dawn,&quot; &quot;Pulp Fiction,&quot; &quot;Kill Bill Volume 1 &quot;and&quot; Kill Bill&#xA;Volume 2.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Santanico Pandemonium - is a character in the movie &quot;From Dusk Till&#xA;Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter&quot; and &quot;From Dusk Till Dawn.&quot; Santanico&#xA;is a stripper in the club Titty Twister in Mexico, she is also a&#xA;vampire queen. In &quot;From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter&quot; is&#xA;revealed that her real name was Esmeralda.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Titty Twister - is a vampire bar that appears in the movies &quot;From&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter&quot; and &quot;From Dusk Till Dawn”. &#xA;The curious fact is that in the movie &quot;From Dusk Till Dawn&quot; it is completely destroyed, but in the movie &quot;From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas &#xA;Blood Money&quot; there's another vampire bar with the same name.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Razor Charlie and Razor Eddie – are the brothers working as bartender&#xA;in Titty Twister, and are also vampires. Razor Charlie appears in the&#xA;movies &quot;From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter&quot; and &quot;From Dusk&#xA;Till Dawn.&quot; Razor Eddie in the movie &quot;From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas&#xA;Blood Money.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sergeant Donny Donowitz and filmmaker Lee Donowitz - Sergeant Donny&#xA;Donowitz is a character in the movie &quot;Inglourious Basterds&quot;, member&#xA;of the Bastards, known as The Bear Jew. The filmmaker Lee Donowitz is&#xA;a very successful film producer in Hollywood, character in the movie&#xA;&quot;True Romance&quot;. Lee is the son of Sergeant Donny Donowitz.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vic Vega and Vincent Vega - Vic Vega, aka Vic Palito or Mr. Blonde is&#xA;a bank robber character with psychopath mentality in the movie&#xA;&quot;Reservoir Dogs.&quot; Vincent Vega is a gangster in the movie &quot;Pulp&#xA;Fiction.&quot; Vic and Vincent are brothers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Larry Dimmick, Alabama Whitma and Jimmie Dimmick - Larry is known as &#xA;Mr. White, a bank robber, a character from the movie &quot;Reservoir&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Dogs.&quot; Jimmie Dimmick is a character from &quot;Pulp Fiction&quot;, played by&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Quentin Tarantino. Alabama Whitman is the main character in the movie&#xA;&quot;True Romance&quot;. Larry Dimmick has already done some criminal work in &#xA;partnership with Alabama Whitman. Larry Dimmick is also the uncle of &#xA;Jimmie Dimmick.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The briefcase with diamonds in the movie &quot;Reservoir Dogs&quot; is the same&#xA;mysterious briefcase in &quot;Pulp Fiction.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Big Kahuna Burger - Fictitious Hawaiian restaurant. It appears or is&#xA;mentioned in the following films &quot;Reservoir Dogs,&quot; &quot;Four Rooms,&quot;&#xA;&quot;Death Proof,&quot; &quot;From Dusk Till Dawn&quot; and &quot;Pulp Fiction.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gas Can – Petrol gallon in the Tarantino universe. It shows up in&#xA;&quot;Reservoir Dogs,&quot; &quot;Pulp Fiction&quot; and &quot;Kill Bill Volume 2.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seymour Scagnetti and Jack Scagnetti - Seymour Scagnetti is the&#xA;officer mentioned in the movie &quot;Reservoir Dogs&quot; by Mr. Blonde.&#xA;Detective Jack Scagnetti chases the Knox couple in the movie &quot;Natural&#xA;Born Killers&quot;. Seymour and Jack are brothers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jack Rabbit Slim's – Fifties style restaurant mentioned on the radio&#xA;during the death of Mr. Blonde in &quot;Reservoir Dogs&quot;. In fact, it is&#xA;the only restaurant in the movie &quot;Pulp Fiction.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fruit Brute Cereal is a cereal brand that was actually on the market&#xA;in the 70s. Another characteristic of Tarantino's movies, it appears&#xA;in the movies &quot;Reservoir Dogs&quot; and &quot;Pulp Fiction.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Long Hair Yuppie Scum-, discrete character who appears in the film&#xA;&quot;Four Rooms&quot; vomiting and running during the restaurant robbery of&#xA;the film &quot;Pulp Fiction.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Teriyaki Donut, Japanese restaurant in the films of Quentin&#xA;Tarantino, presented in &quot;Jackie Brown&quot; and &quot;Pulp Fiction.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Acuna Boys Tex-Mex Food - food brand in Tarantino universe with&#xA;references in films the &quot;Jackie Brown&quot; and &quot;Death Proof.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Butch Coolidge and Livingston Beaumont - Beaumont Livingston is a&#xA;character played by Chris Tucker in the movie &quot;Jackie Brown.&quot; Butch&#xA;is played by Bruce Willis in the movie &quot;Pulp Fiction&quot;. Both&#xA;characters live in the same neighborhood.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jungle Julia is a popular radio DJ in Austin, Texas with a broad&#xA;knowledge of music. Character in the movie &quot;Death Proof&quot;, his death&#xA;is mentioned on the radio in the movie &quot;Planet Terror&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The crazy babysitter twins are characters who have a cameo&#xA;participation in the movie &quot;Death Proof&quot; and become more important in&#xA;the movie &quot;Planet Terror.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sheriff Earl McGraw, Sheriff Edgar McGraw and Dr. Dakota Block -&#xA;Sheriff Earl McGraw is a character from the movie &quot;Death Proof&quot;,&#xA;&quot;Planet Terror&quot;, &quot;From Dusk Till Dawn&quot; and &quot;Kill Bill Volume 2.&quot;&#xA;Sheriff Edgar McGraw is a character of the film &quot;Death Proof,&quot; &quot;From&#xA;Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money&quot; and &quot;Kill Bill Volume 2&quot;. Dr.&#xA;Dakota Block is a character in the movies &quot;Death Proof&quot; and &quot;Planet&#xA;Terror&quot;. Sheriff Earl McGraw is the father of Sheriff Edgar McGraw&#xA;and Dr. Dakota Block.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;G.O. Juice is a juice brand that appears in the movie &quot;Death Proof&quot;&#xA;and &quot;Kill Bill Volume 1.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jasper is a character that wants to sell a car in the movie &quot;Death&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Proof&quot; and tries to abuse the bride character in the movie &quot;Kill Bill&#xA;Volume 1&quot; and &quot;Kill Bill Volume 2.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gecko Brothers are the main characters in the movie &quot;From Dusk Till&#xA;Dawn&quot; and also appear on the TV show Miami DOA news in the movie&#xA;&quot;Curdled&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A reporter in the movies &quot;From Dusk Till Dawn&quot; and &quot;Curdled”&#xA;reporting the crimes that are occurring.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gabriela / Esmeralda Villalobos is the same character that only&#xA;changes her name. In the movie &quot;Curdled&quot; she is called Gabriela and&#xA;in the movie &quot;Pulp Fiction&quot; her name is Esmeralda Villalobos.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The samurai sword - Butch Coolidge, character in the movie &quot;Pulp&#xA;Fiction&quot;, and the bride character in the films &quot;Kill Bill Volume 1&quot;&#xA;and &quot;Kill Bill Volume 2&quot; use swords made by Hattori Hanzo character&#xA;in the movie &quot;Kill Bill Volume 1 &quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21131" LastEditorUserId="58825" LastEditDate="2018-04-13T03:52:45.740" LastActivityDate="2018-04-13T03:52:45.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34209" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34210" CreationDate="2015-05-10T18:24:18.660" Score="7" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Premise:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A man kills his wife, who has been cheating on him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Man is arrested by a policeman, with whom the wife had the affair.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Man admits guilt to the policeman.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Upon further questioning, the man recants his statement, saying he feared for his life, because the arresting officer had an affair with the victim/wife.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Man is off the hook.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Policeman refuses to let it go, and continues investigation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The whole movie is mostly a legal struggle.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lead actor is strictly speaking the antagonist. We know he is guilty throughout the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other notes:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At least one actor is an extremely well-known celebrity, but for the life of me...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The movie is not new. 2000s.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Movie was live-action, and not animated. In color.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Country of origin is US, and language spoken is US English.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21134" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-05-10T22:42:30.693" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T22:42:30.693" Title="Man admits guilt but recants it, leading to investigation and legal struggle" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:44:53.780" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34209" CreationDate="2015-05-10T18:30:16.413" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like the exact plot of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488120/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fracture&lt;/a&gt; from 2007.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Theodore &amp;quot;Ted&amp;quot; Crawford (Anthony Hopkins), a wealthy and talented structural engineer, discovers his wife Jennifer (Embeth Davidtz) is having an affair with police detective Rob Nunally (Billy Burke). Crawford proceeds to shoot his wife, seriously wounding her and he immediately confesses the crime to Nunally on the scene. However, at his arraignment, Crawford retracts his confession.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the trial, Crawford acts as his own attorney, which serves as a key vehicle for the plot of the movie - matching up against a star prosecutor as a supposedly untrained litigant. Crawford reveals that the arresting officer (Nunally) was having an affair with his wife and was also present during his interrogation. His confession is ruled to be inadmissible as evidence, as it was fruit of the poisonous tree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/1KQ37j6cRJM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T18:30:16.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34211" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-10T19:14:54.863" Score="1" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the point of Cooper sending himself the coordinates of NASA in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, only to moments later scream at himself to &quot;STAY, you fool&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21135" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-10T19:31:16.990" LastActivityDate="2015-05-10T19:31:16.990" Title="Why does Cooper send the NASA coordinates in Interstellar?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-05-10T19:32:54.253" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34212" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34228" CreationDate="2015-05-10T22:52:47.360" Score="6" ViewCount="536" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the start of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0709175/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;season 1, episode 19 - Solitudes&lt;/a&gt; of Stargate SG1, before the title credits, there is an incoming wormhole which for some reason destablizes and disconnects before the entire team gets through. However, before the connection is initially established, the following happens:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;stargate is currently locking chevrons for an incoming connection&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;General Hammond&lt;/strong&gt;: There's no one scheduled to come back for 24 hours, who is it?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Walter Harriman&lt;/strong&gt;: It's SG-1's remote access code, Sir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;stargate connects&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This occurs more frequently much later in the series but I always passed that off as Earth's military technology having improved over the duration of the show, however this is really early on and they haven't gained anything like that technology by this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does SGC know who is incoming before the stargate connects?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-07T12:38:37.063" LastActivityDate="2016-11-07T12:38:37.063" Title="How does SGC know who is incoming before the stargate connects?" Tags="|stargate|stargate-sg1|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34213" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35688" CreationDate="2015-05-10T23:02:19.860" Score="3" ViewCount="1513" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 2, episode 1 of Stargate, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0709199/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Serpent's Lair&lt;/a&gt;, SG1 blow up two Goa'uld ships belonging to Klorel and Apophis by using C4 on Klorel's ship, steering it closer to the ship of Apophis and disabling the shields on that ship. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yYcpj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;a very big explosion consuming two Goa&amp;#39;uld ships&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just before the destruction of the ships, we see Apophis and Klorel use the ring transporter to escape to Klorel's ship with below 10 seconds showing on the C4. We know that they couldn't have used the stargate on Klorel's ship (since Daniel dials the final chevron on the gate with 9 seconds left on the C4 charge, he jumps through the gate with 1 second left on the C4 charge so they definitely couldn't have left the ships using the gate) and the pel'tak is more than 10 seconds away from the storage room that contained the stargate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further to this, both Klorel and Apophis show back up later in the series. How did Klorel and Apophis escape their ships alive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-07T12:38:54.240" LastActivityDate="2019-12-19T19:32:10.987" Title="How did Klorel and Apophis escape their ships alive?" Tags="|plot-explanation|stargate|stargate-sg1|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34215" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-11T02:08:46.493" Score="12" ViewCount="4313" Body="&lt;p&gt;While zapping through Japanese TV channels in &lt;em&gt;Lost in Translation&lt;/em&gt;, Bob Harris (Bill Murray) comes across a movie or TV show featuring himself. It doesn't appear to have been made for the movie, as Murray appears to be considerably younger. &lt;strong&gt;What movie/TV show is it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21138" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-05-11T07:17:09.897" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T13:08:20.093" Title="What Bill Murray movie is on TV in &quot;Lost in Translation&quot;?" Tags="|lost-in-translation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34187" CreationDate="2015-05-11T04:49:41.817" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While Frollo's function was indeed divided between several characters, Disney also deviates and simplifies the material to make it compatible with a younger audience. Hence, characters have alternate back stories that present different motivations and the nuances of the source material may be forgone, rendering certain details like Quasimodo's lineage inconsequential. As such, while it is intriguing to consider possibilities, there is no hint, aside from disreprencies with portrayals, that the gypsi woman was not Quasimodo's true mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, this is similar to the puzzle as to why characters see a similarity between Malcolm and his daughter in The Lost World.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T04:49:41.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34215" CreationDate="2015-05-11T05:01:33.610" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/movieconnections#features&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Features&lt;/em&gt; section&lt;/a&gt; in IMDB contains 3 movies and 2 TV shows. Excluding &lt;em&gt;Matthew's Best Hit TV&lt;/em&gt;, where Bill Murray was a guest, but only for this film (so he wouldn't be young), only &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072562&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Saturday Night Live&lt;/a&gt; had him, so it must be this TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-05-11T13:08:20.093" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T13:08:20.093" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20043" CreationDate="2015-05-11T10:19:54.247" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is speculation, but there are a few reasons why she might have given him the diary. Feel free to pick your own winner, or perhaps it could be a combination of them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think the most probable reason that Emily gave Will the diary to give to Summer was safety. With it being so irreplaceable, it is very likely that Emily (or even Summer) didn't want it being sent by post, where it might be lost or damaged. I don't think there was any urgency for Summer to get the diary back, so it is likely Emily was holding onto it until she next saw her, but when Will is traveling to the same city as where Summer lives, it makes sense for him to take it back to her instead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another possible motive could be so that Will could meet someone, &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt;, whilst in New York. He was traveling to a new city, where he wouldn't know anyone, so having a pretense for visiting someone and possibly gaining a friendship whilst living there would be a good motivation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, for Will's line of work it would be very beneficial for him to get contacts that he could trust. A journalist would be a very good contact to have, so it is possible Emily wanted him to meet her in order to help him with his career.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Considering that Will was planning on marrying Emily, it is not entirely unreasonable that Emily was having the same thoughts. As Summer is clearly a very good friend of Emily (she had trusted her with her diary, and they had kept in touch despite living in different cities), it is possible that Emily wanted Will to meet her simply to get to know her, as she was an important part of her life.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was under the impression that Emily slept with Will's roommate whilst they were living in different cities. Even if she was planning on sleeping with him and wanted to ease her guilt about doing so, manipulating both her boyfriend and (best?) friend into sleeping with each other seems entirely underhanded and out of character for her. Whilst it isn't entirely out of the realms of possibility, I'm going to go with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Occam's razor&lt;/a&gt; and say it isn't the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T10:19:54.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34212" CreationDate="2015-05-11T10:48:38.977" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The remote access code is provided through a device which one of the Stargate team members wears on their arm. After the wormhole is established, the team member punches in the access code, it is transmitted back through the wormhole, the SGC picks up the signal, verifies it's a valid code and which team it belongs to, then they open the iris on the gate. This isn't &lt;em&gt;new&lt;/em&gt; technology, just a &lt;em&gt;new use&lt;/em&gt; of Earth technology. The transmitter looks like this and is worn on the arm, usually Dr. Carter of the SG-1 team:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uTQuD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T10:48:38.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28085" CreationDate="2015-05-11T11:00:18.933" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;With thanks to the contributors in the comments and based on their suggestions, I would call it a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThwartedCoupDeGrace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Thwarted Coup de Grâce&lt;/a&gt; by way of &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PunchCatch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Punch Catch&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst it is not directly catching a punch, the same concept is being applied to the wrist rather than the fist. (That was not intended to rhyme, just a happy coincidence).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The usual way this happens is when someone who isn't strong/good with weapons tries to use a knife to stab someone, and is completely ineffective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the first thing I thought of that it could be, and thought it may have its own trope, but I can't find it. However, this scenario may fall under the realms of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=9h4mgknsigg8stbhx9h5ssov&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Possessive Wrist Grab&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stopping a sword this way I have seen happen less often (watching &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: BotFA&lt;/em&gt; this probably doubled the usage of it) which is likely why it isn't a trope in itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T11:00:18.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34227" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34229" CreationDate="2015-05-11T11:02:20.470" Score="6" ViewCount="77099" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that the package sympolizes the hope for Tom Hank's character to not give up and to give him a &quot;mission&quot;: to survive and deliver the package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I read somewhere (in a behind the scene interview, or a trivia), that the package contained a celluar-powered, water-proof, satellite phone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, we don't see the package delivered (in hand) to its destination, and thus we get no closure on the content of the package.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there any hint that it might have contained such an item?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastActivityDate="2020-06-21T13:47:28.707" Title="What is the content of the one un-opened package in &quot;Castaway&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|cast-away|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34212" CreationDate="2015-05-11T11:10:40.287" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a similar question posted on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59625/how-can-the-identification-code-be-received-before-the-wormhole-is-created&quot;&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/a&gt;. Please note that there might be some spoilers in the question and/or the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answers suggest that there can be two possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The dialing in itself may carry some additional information - in this case the SG team codes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's an error in editing of the episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21059" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T11:10:40.287" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34227" CreationDate="2015-05-11T11:35:57.787" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The satellite phone info comes from a 2003 Superbowl commercial parody:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A FedEx commercial during the 2003 Super Bowl parodied the final scene of the film, in which Chuck returns a package to its sender. In this version, the woman answers the door, and when Chuck asks what was in the box, the woman replies: &quot;Just a satellite phone, GPS locator, fishing rod, water purifier, and some seeds. Just silly stuff.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_Away#In_popular_culture&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Cast-Away.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;third draft&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;em&gt;Cast Away&lt;/em&gt; (that has a few differences from the finished movie) reveals that the package contained two bottles of salsa verde:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The package, however, is exactly the same as in the finished movie:&#xA;  the same angel wings, the same woman at the beginning, and the same&#xA;  insane resolution to deliver it no matter what. And then, on his&#xA;  1,000th day on the island, Chuck goes &quot;eh, what the hell&quot; and opens&#xA;  the box. So what's inside?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Two bottles of salsa verde. Also, a note from a woman named Bettina&#xA;  begging her husband to come back, apparently hoping some spicy&#xA;  condiments will do the trick. Chuck looks at the bottles, reads the&#xA;  note, then puts everything back into the package and continues&#xA;  carrying it with him. It makes absolutely no difference. This could've&#xA;  perfectly been a deleted scene in the movie itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/article_19138_7-hotly-debated-movie-questions-that-totally-have-answers.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T11:35:57.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34227" CreationDate="2015-05-11T12:24:18.990" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought it was divorce paperwork.  And (at least in the version that was presented) there's no way it was bottles of salsa, that package is shaped to hold documents and wouldn't be the proper size for bottles of salsa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, the question is moot.  If you spend too much time thinking about what's in the box, you missed the point of the box.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T12:24:18.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34196" CreationDate="2015-05-11T15:50:56.543" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Younger and the relationship would either have to be totally creepy or transform into more obviously paternal relationship.  Older, say 16+, and the relationship likely is forced to take on more romantically charged aspects. At 12-14, the character can be old enough to be somewhat independent and for the relationship to be a friendship rather than paternal and young enough for it to avoid romantic questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19290" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T15:50:56.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34116" CreationDate="2015-05-11T16:40:57.967" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Log Lady typically has a pretty sour disposition regardless of whom she's talking to. In Episode 5, &lt;em&gt;Cooper's Dreams,&lt;/em&gt; she doesn't seem happy to see Cooper, Truman, Hawk, or Hayward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But she bears a grudge against Cooper from the moment they meet, and it's precisely because Cooper fails to be open-minded. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glastonberrygrove.net/texts/episode1.html&quot;&gt;this transcript&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;As COOPER eats his pie, the LOG LADY comes up to them as she passes.&#xA;&#xA;LOG LADY&#xA;For your information, I heard you speaking about Laura Palmer?&#xA;&#xA;COOPER&#xA;Yes?&#xA;&#xA;LOG LADY&#xA;One day my log will have something to say about this. My Log saw something that night.&#xA;&#xA;COOPER&#xA;Really? What did it see?&#xA;&#xA;She holds the log out.&#xA;&#xA;LOG LADY&#xA;Ask it.&#xA;&#xA;A moment of silence. COOPER, unsure what to do, peers down at the log. Disappointed by his lack of action the LOG LADY counters ...&#xA;&#xA;LOG LADY&#xA;I thought so.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He can't bring himself to talk to the log, and the Log Lady writes him off as just as narrow-minded as the rest of the town. Cooper is a sensitive, spiritual guy, even a little psychic, but his personal brand of weirdness hasn't fully prepared him for what he finds in Twin Peaks. I saw him initially as a kind of knight in shining armor, who defeated evil and dispelled mystery simply by showing up, but the more I think about the show (and the more I watch it) I realize he's more complicated and more flawed than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20866" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T16:40:57.967" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34196" CreationDate="2015-05-11T17:45:38.967" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Despite the guns and knives and bombs and drugs, the relationship is innocent.   Leon is essentially a child in a man's body, he cannot read, Tony is his surrogate father taking care of him financially and he and maltilda play &quot;dress up&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this relationship he learns for the first time about love and he develops into matilda's surrogate parent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T17:45:38.967" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3515" CreationDate="2015-05-11T17:54:41.960" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The message is straight forward and twofold:  No matter how bad things are, a single person or single idea can make a difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This contrasts with most heroes (e.g. Superman) which follows a basic religious story  (omnipotent being arrives and looks over lowly mankind, protecting us from ourselves).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Batman the symbol is the thing, and it is bigger than one person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T17:54:41.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34239" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-11T18:09:49.763" Score="3" ViewCount="79" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I am new to this site, so not sure if this kind of question will be considered as on topic or not. But here goes&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a way to get a movie's revenue trend since it is released (either worldwide or in certain regions). I am interested in newer movies only, so don't worry if the database does not extend beyond 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I searched a lot and finally found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficemojo.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Box Office Mojo&lt;/a&gt; which gives per day box office revenue of a movie. But it only considers US Box Office revenue and not Gross Worldwide Revenue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we would find many movie fans here, can anyone help me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20091" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-11T18:21:06.503" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T13:06:20.857" Title="Getting a movie's gross revenue trend" Tags="|box-office|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34196" CreationDate="2015-05-11T18:23:17.860" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;The relationship between Leon and Mathilda is a rather complicated one, and is pretty much the cornerstone of the whole movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leon is hinted to be mentally challenged in some capacity. He can't read and despite his prowess as an assassin is very naive and is easily fooled by Tony (and Mathilda). He also has problems with intimacy and letting people get close to him. His only real friend before Mathilda was his plant. At first he struggled a lot with allowing Mathilda to enter his life, going as far as attempting to kill her while she slept. Soon enough, Mathilda becomes his friend and a surrogate daughter figure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mathilda on the other hand is smart and savvy beyond her years. She comes from a dysfunctional home where she is despised by everyone. She too has no real friends. She's go starved for human contact that Leon's passing attempt at small talk immediately makes her latch on to him and offer to get him his groceries. Eventually, as her relationship with Leon progresses, she finds herself falling in love with him. Leon (and the audience) are left to ponder if it's true attraction or just an infatuation with the only adult-figure who has been kind to her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two broken human beings flock together and form a family-unit of sort. To an audience used to &lt;em&gt;normal&lt;/em&gt; families, a very young girl with a crush on a mentally and emotionally challenged hitman is very uncomfortable. In fact, American test audiences were so uncomfortable that a scene where Mathilda (unsuccessfully) propositions Leon to sleep with her was cut for the American release. One could argue that this discomfort is an intentional part of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T18:23:17.860" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13776" CreationDate="2015-05-11T19:32:49.727" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably the easiest and fastest way to determine the showrunner of a given series is to simply google the show title and the word &quot;showrunner&quot;. The entertainment press always uses the term these days, so it's easy to find who is the person who's responsible for the overall direction/tone/message of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The showrunner is always credited as an Executive Producer, and will typically have the &quot;Created by&quot; or &quot;Developed by&quot; credit as well, but not always. Sometimes the show was handed over to a different showrunner (e.g., &lt;em&gt;Dead Like Me,&lt;/em&gt; which was created by Bryan Fuller, but which was eventually showrun by John Masius; or &lt;em&gt;Revenge&lt;/em&gt;, which was created by and initially showrun by Mike Kelly, but after the second season, was handed over to Sunil Nayar). With US half-hour comedies, the showrunner(s) typically have the first executive producer credits, as producer credits go in &lt;a href=&quot;https://screenwriting.io/what-is-the-television-writerproducer-pecking-order/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;hierarchy order&lt;/a&gt;. With US hour-long dramas, the showrunner(s) generally has the &lt;em&gt;final&lt;/em&gt; Executive Producer(s) credit immediately before the individual episode writer and director credits, as producer credits go in reverse hierarchy order. Although, with &lt;em&gt;Evil&lt;/em&gt;, I did see the showrunners' credit card delayed to be the first of the &lt;em&gt;end&lt;/em&gt; credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with film credits (at least in the USA with live action—where the WGA determines credits), the ampersand (&amp;amp;) indicates collaboration, while the word &quot;and&quot; indicates a rewrite (with the order of the names giving the order of drafts; i.e., the first name did the first version; the second name did a rewrite).  So, if the &quot;Created by&quot; credit has two names with an ampersand  between them, the show is being team run.  If the &quot;Created by&quot; credit has two or more names separated with &quot;and&quot;s, then it's likely the last name (or group of &amp;amp;-separated names) is the showrunner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All showrunners write for the show, some direct—but not all, so following those credits may or may not help.  But most typically, the showrunner(s) will write the  pilot and/or finale episodes of a season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18624" LastEditorUserId="18624" LastEditDate="2020-06-01T20:09:49.353" LastActivityDate="2020-06-01T20:09:49.353" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23127" CreationDate="2015-05-11T20:13:05.273" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Donna and James snoop around Jacoby's office, they look inside the coconut and find not only the necklace but one of Laura's tapes. It's just as unlikely that Laura was referring to that particular tape, but this establishes the coconut as a place where Jacoby hides things, possibly things that relate to Laura specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we imagine that Laura was referring to some other secret that used to be hidden in the coconut, like an earlier tape, then there is no plot hole. Out-of-universe, though, it's not impossible that the writers got their timeline scrambled and forgot that Laura wouldn't know about the tape or the necklace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20866" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T20:13:05.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19512" CreationDate="2015-05-11T20:17:03.330" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you need to watch the movies? No.  The show is self-contained and has its own variations upon Thomas Harris, let alone the movies. But will it enhance your ability to appreciate what's being done in the series by being familiar with the films and the books? Possibly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number of direct quotes from the books &lt;em&gt;Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs,&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Hannibal&lt;/em&gt; are numerous enough that Bryan Fuller was awarding prizes to those who could list them at &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ6pEDo3tQY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a NerdHQ presentation&lt;/a&gt;.  And he had a lot of prizes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the fact that Fuller began the project with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blastr.com/2013-6-19/bryan-fuller-reveals-his-epic-7-season-plan-hannibal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a seven-year plan&lt;/a&gt;: Season 1-3 were a prequel to &lt;em&gt;Red Dragon,&lt;/em&gt; Season 4 was to be &lt;em&gt;Red Dragon&lt;/em&gt; (looks like we're getting into that &lt;a href=&quot;http://moviepilot.com/posts/2015/04/15/hannibal-season-3-red-dragon-tooth-fairy-what-you-need-to-know--2-2859952?lt_source=external,manual&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a little earlier with Season 3&lt;/a&gt;), and Season 5 would (if they could wrest the rights back) be &lt;em&gt;Silence of the Lambs&lt;/em&gt;-era, and Seasons 6 and 7 would be the &lt;em&gt;Hannibal&lt;/em&gt;-era.  In addition, a number of events that have occurred in the series relate directly to what's to come.  In fact, the opening crime scene of the pilot episode, &quot;Aperitif&quot;, was meant to be one of the Frances Dolarhyde &lt;em&gt;(Red Dragon)&lt;/em&gt; killings.  And the characters of Franklyn Froideveaux and Tobias Budge &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/article/bryan-fuller-walks-us-through-ihannibalis-debut-se-100684&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;were initially planned to be Benjamin Raspail and Jame Gumb&lt;/a&gt;, but had to be renamed/redone in light of the fact that they do not have the rights to &lt;em&gt;Silence of the Lambs.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another playing with expectations of the audience that is thoroughly instilled with Thomas Harris references is a flaming wheelchair--an event that is very similar to, yet departs from how it is done in the books/films of &lt;em&gt;Red Dragon&lt;/em&gt;. And then there are the characters that Harris introduces and then drops from book to book being used again--but with unknown fates (e.g., Alan/Alanna Bloom). And, of course, the introduction of established characters like Mason Verger and Lady Murasaki have an added frisson of back history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if you want to have more fun with the game, so to speak, becoming familiar with the other incarnations of Hannibal may be helpful.  But, no, it's not necessary, any more than it's necessary to recognize &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2013/04/04/hannibal-bryan-fuller-the-shining&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;that visual quote from &lt;em&gt;The Shining&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that Fuller too such joy in concocting for us in the pilot to follow the action. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18624" LastEditorUserId="18624" LastEditDate="2015-05-11T20:50:05.763" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T20:50:05.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33928" CreationDate="2015-05-11T21:07:33.060" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Unsullied had not been truly tested. What battles have we seen them in? Dany was told to &quot;Blood them early&quot; which never happened. Their rep is a sales-pitch at best. These dudes are soft. The first one in the season five opener needed a head rub and comfort before having his throat slit. Greyworm is in love? Meanwhile Ser Barriston slew like 9 guys including several &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; he was injured! He killed 9 in like 15 seconds going Babe Ruth on them. Theon said Jaime Lannister killed 12 men at the Whispering Woods just working his way to slay Robb Stark. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21153" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2017-12-13T00:10:28.267" LastActivityDate="2017-12-13T00:10:28.267" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19723" CreationDate="2015-05-11T21:17:08.437" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will first (conciously) suspects Hannibal during the S1 episode with the organ harvester in the ambulance, when Hannibal steps in to save the victim with his surgery skills. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21154" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T21:17:08.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30481" CreationDate="2015-05-11T21:21:05.853" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Might it not maybe be that the SEALs who were in battle or who were saved by the deceased, pounds their pins into the coffin? idk just a guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21155" LastActivityDate="2015-05-11T21:21:05.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33763" CreationDate="2015-05-12T01:06:00.970" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out this website, it shows how many contracts each marvel actor has. It says Johnson and Olsen have signed for multi-picture contracts. So who knows, quicksilver may return because of this and because of the time gem or scarlet wiches powers to bring back characters which she did in the comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://captainzach616.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/contract-lengths-for-marvel-actors/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://captainzach616.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/contract-lengths-for-marvel-actors/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21158" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T01:06:00.970" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16306" CreationDate="2015-05-12T02:16:47.653" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regulations in Mexico require warning messages in alcohol and tobacco advertising. Health promotion messages are required in ads of food and nonalcoholic beverages. For tv commercials, regulation establishes font type and minimum size, and the fraction of the ad duration that the caption should appear on screen. The purpose of these messages is to protect consumers, specially children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salud.gob.mx/unidades/cdi/nom/compi/rlgsmp.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Regulation - spanish&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gala-marketlaw.com.previewdns.com/joomla4/pdf/advertisingtochildrenMexico.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;An article about advertising to children - english&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20895" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T02:16:47.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34259" CreationDate="2015-05-12T04:55:18.400" Score="14" ViewCount="5618" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a weirdly funny moment, but I could not understand it. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Lebowski&quot;&gt;The Big Lebowski&lt;/a&gt;, when the Dude's White Russian cocktail is drugged, he sees a weird dream involving Bowling, dancing, Julian Moore's character and for a shocking moment appears - one Saddam lookalike. What's the significance here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-12T07:30:53.093" LastActivityDate="2016-12-27T20:26:01.447" Title="What's Saddam Hussein doing in the Dude's dream?" Tags="|the-big-lebowski|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33132" CreationDate="2015-05-12T07:31:46.373" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;She actually remembers as she described.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes truth. She said &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I remember everything. It came to me like a flood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see the lift scene in the tower, when they were dressed formally and they said&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dominic: To see you dress like this, reminds me f something&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Letty: of what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dominic: Old times&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there was a flash where Letty remembered her past, specially their marriage day. We can see the same setup in both that memory flash and the shot in which we saw them getting married.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes it's real. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/03/furious-7-explaining-those-dom-letty-flashbacks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Even a timeline is found of their marriage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So where in that timeline did they get married? Based on some of those flashbacks—and the timing of it all—it would have to have been during Los Bandoleros. In other words, they got married between the first and fourth films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Long story short, they clearly tied the knot in the Dominican Republic before the fourth film, which means you should probably watch Los Bandoleros—if you haven’t already—to fully understand where all those flashbacks came from and what exactly it means for Letty to have her memory back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Coz she didn't get the time to share with Dom. They were in a middle of a war. It's not something like saying 'Aw I got my memory back' &lt;strong&gt;It's emotional for Letty and a lot to digest&lt;/strong&gt; after knowing that she's already married. It took some time to process it. That's why she didn't say to Dom earlier and was waiting for a private moment with Dom to discuss. But when she saw Dom dying she couldn't wait anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-12T07:35:34.963" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T07:35:34.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34254" CreationDate="2015-05-12T08:32:09.663" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie takes place during the first Gulf War. As the stranger says at the beginning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now this here story I'm about to unfold took place back in the early nineties, just about the time of our conflict with Saddam and the Iraqis. I only mention it 'cause sometimes there's a man [...] for his time and place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also see a Bush speech against Saddam on TV in the background of one of the scenes and Walter also comments at some point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Look at our current situation with that camel f&amp;amp;*%er over in Iraq. Pacifism is not something to hide behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the dream sequence strings together various elements from the Dude's life, an appearance by Saddam isn't that surprising. It was on everyone's mind back then. [You &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt;, however, hypothesize some deeper connection to the Gulf War: That the Dude's pacifistic approach (or 'abiding') is contrasted with Bush's MO in Iraq, represented by war vet Walter's views and tactics during the film.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T08:32:09.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34261" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34665" CreationDate="2015-05-12T10:58:59.307" Score="7" ViewCount="453" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to identify this short film I watched a while ago. Here's what I remember;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I watched it on YouTube around 2012/2013 (it was very professionally done, and won a few awards)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was live action and in colour&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The plot consisted of an old man sending postcards to random addresses around the world and see how long it took for them to return / see if he got any replies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Every day he would wait for the postman to arrive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was based around the ending of a war (world war 2 / cold war - I can't remember specifically)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From what I remember, it wasn't based in the United States (this could be wrong)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the end, the man got taken away by the army for &quot;being a spy&quot; due to the amount of postcards he sent (or a factor of the postcards)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The man died in a plane crash after being taken away by the army&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this is enough information for you guys, if not, I'll try and remember some more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7337" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-15T12:36:41.323" LastActivityDate="2015-05-23T19:48:12.480" Title="Elderly man sending postcards to random addresses during wartime" Tags="|identify-this-movie|short-films|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:45:03.170" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34264" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34276" CreationDate="2015-05-12T12:59:59.190" Score="4" ViewCount="8819" Body="&lt;p&gt;Title says it all:  In &quot;My Neighbor Totoro&quot;, what is wrong with the mother (i.e. why is she in the hospital)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21168" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-12T13:01:10.460" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T18:33:39.217" Title="In &quot;My Neighbor Totoro&quot;, what is wrong with the mother (why is she in the hospital)?" Tags="|my-neighbor-totoro|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34239" CreationDate="2015-05-12T13:06:20.857" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From your comment on my other answer, it seems like you're after a website like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.the-numbers.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.the-numbers.com/&lt;/a&gt;. This has breakdowns of revenue in a graph and table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also includes stats on domestic, internation, and worldwide revenue at the top of each movie profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vTeTk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7337" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T13:06:20.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9124" CreationDate="2015-05-12T18:13:06.987" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;They almost certainly didn't know that he was the Batman (nor did they know that some bat-dressing hero even existed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is this conversation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bruce:&lt;/strong&gt; You told me a child did it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;The prisoner:&lt;/strong&gt; But no ordinary child. A child born in hell. Forged from suffering. Hardened by pain. Not a man from privilege.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the prisoner knows that Bruce comes &quot;from privilege&quot;. They already know that Bane has a special interest in Bruce, and that he's from Gotham (given his interest in the events there and his references to &quot;my city&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not clear if they know his name, but I don't see how would that add any info to what they already knew, since -- being where they were -- it is not likely that they've ever heard of Gotham, let alone Bruce Wayne, before he was put in the pit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T18:13:06.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34274" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-12T18:18:11.450" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Brooklyn Nine-Nine is an American action/comedy television series set in the fictional &quot;99th Precinct&quot; of the NYPD. The first season premiered on September 17, 2013, on Fox. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Nine-Nine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Brooklyn Nine-Nine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2467372/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb page for Brooklyn Nine-Nine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-12T18:43:37.327" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T18:43:37.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34275" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-12T18:18:11.450" Score="0" Body="An American action/comedy television series set in the fictional &quot;99th Precinct&quot; of the NYPD. The first season premiered on September 17, 2013, on Fox. " OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="5603" LastEditDate="2015-05-12T18:43:41.843" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T18:43:41.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34264" CreationDate="2015-05-12T18:33:39.217" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/totoro/faq.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;, in particular &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/totoro/faq.html#mother&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this internal link&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was implied that her illness was tuberculosis. In the novelized&#xA;  version of &quot;Totoro&quot; (illustrated by Miyazaki), it was stated that Mom&#xA;  was suffering from TB. Shichikokuyama Hospital, where she was staying,&#xA;  had a good reputation for treating TB, and that's why they moved&#xA;  there. The house they moved into was originally built a long time ago&#xA;  by a rich city man whose wife was suffering from TB. Granny used to&#xA;  work as a domestic for this lady, but the lady died. That's why the&#xA;  house is somewhat different from the other village houses, more&#xA;  Westernized, with gables.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is a bit autobiographical: Miyazaki's mother suffered for many&#xA;  years from spinal TB, and she was away from home for a long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbor_Totoro&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; (spoiler):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The girls perch in a tree outside of the hospital, overhearing a&#xA; conversation between their parents and discovering that she has been&#xA; kept in hospital by a minor cold and is otherwise doing well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T18:33:39.217" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34277" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34279" CreationDate="2015-05-12T18:55:27.790" Score="1" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 6, episode 10 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2239015/?ref_=ttep_ep10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Alexis Goodlooking and the Case of the Missing Whisky&lt;/a&gt; Jenna and Tracy are trying to solve who drank Pete's Whisky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Midway through the episode Jenna turns to Tracy and says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=30-rock&amp;amp;episode=s06e10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Forget it Tracy.&#xA;It's Midtown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is clearly a nod to the ending of Chinatown but what is Midtown in this context? Is there something specific about Midtown New York? I'm not a US resident so the reference is lost to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking if there is something notorious about midtown Manhattan, whether it's somehow different, off-limits, dangerous, not to be trusted etc.. Rather than the fact it's the geographical location of the studio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastEditorUserId="962" LastEditDate="2015-05-12T19:11:28.577" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T21:07:23.150" Title="What is 'Forget it Tracy. It's Midtown' a reference to in 30 Rock" Tags="|plot-explanation|30-rock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34277" CreationDate="2015-05-12T21:07:23.150" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm an American who has lived in Manhattan, and I don't know of anything unique about Midtown Manhattan that would make sense in this joke. Therefore, I think it's safe to conclude &lt;strong&gt;the line has no significance beyond the reference to &lt;em&gt;Chinatown&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2015-05-12T21:07:23.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34280" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34281" CreationDate="2015-05-12T21:08:47.830" Score="8" ViewCount="11096" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the birth scene of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467406/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Juno&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, the titular character yells, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Thundercats are go!&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, which is obviously a mashup of the &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Thundercats, ho!&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Thunderbirds are go!&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; declarations from the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088631/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thundercats&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; cartoon and the unrelated &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057790/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thunderbirds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; marionette show, respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this a deliberate mashup by the writer, a production mishap, or a misread from actor Ellen (now Elliot) Page?  Was this incorrect phrase used intentionally, possibly reflecting a confused state of mind, or completely unintentionally?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, was the line supposed to be the inaccurate phrase &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Thundercats are go!&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, or one of the two correct phrases?  Did someone &amp;quot;get it wrong&amp;quot; unintentionally or deliberately?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2022-08-26T18:23:38.510" LastActivityDate="2022-08-26T18:23:38.510" Title="Did Diablo Cody intentionally have Juno use the mashed-up phrase, &quot;Thundercats are go!&quot;?" Tags="|dialogue|juno|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34280" CreationDate="2015-05-12T21:39:54.487" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20140227233108/https://finearts.uvic.ca/writing/websites/writ218/screenplays/award_winning/Juno.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the script&lt;/a&gt; (scene 105a) shows Juno says: &amp;quot;Thundercats are go!&amp;quot;, so Elliot Page read his line correctly. It was as written, so you'd need to ask Diablo Cody why it was mashed up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2022-08-26T10:50:40.003" LastActivityDate="2022-08-26T10:50:40.003" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26839" CreationDate="2015-05-12T23:28:05.913" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;My interpretation of the ending was a little different. I saw this as karma. Earlier in the movie, Norman refused to shoot a Nazi soldier who was begging for his life to be spared. Norman chose to die over shooting this man. I think in the end, Norman looked at the soldier with pleading eyes and the Nazi soldier let him go because he, like Norman, knew there was no point in shooting the other man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21182" LastEditorUserId="5929" LastEditDate="2015-05-13T03:36:46.340" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T03:36:46.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2334" CreationDate="2015-05-12T23:40:56.783" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;They actually explained how he got out of all these situations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eddie Morra was at the apartment just before and after the murder of Vernon Gant. He also called the police.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gant was a known drug dealer and so it's not unlikely for him to have enemies. Eddie was his ex-brother-in-law, so it's not too strange that he would show up at his apartment. The police interviewed him, but there was no evidence for his involvement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eddie Morra was at the hotel-room when the &amp;quot;blonde&amp;quot; was murdered.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a witness who identified Eddie in a picture from a newspaper article. At this point Eddie gets help from one of the best attorneys in criminal law, who manages to get him off by setting up the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_lineup&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;police lineup&lt;/a&gt; with a bunch of Eddie-look-alikes, so that the witness cannot identify him. Later we find out that the lawyer was actually sent to steal his NZT stash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gennady and his Russian's associates were killed in Eddie Morra's apartment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was explained as well. The police came to the conclusion that the Russians were actually looking for an earlier owner of the loft, who was an arms dealer. It's likely that Eddie gave them that idea with some help from NZT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="4206" LastEditDate="2020-07-06T10:30:15.570" LastActivityDate="2020-07-06T10:30:15.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34286" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34288" CreationDate="2015-05-12T23:47:35.980" Score="3" ViewCount="17591" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219289&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Limitless&lt;/a&gt; again and there is one scene I don't quite understand:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Eddie and Carl are seeing the news about the leaked merger with Atwood and Eddie realizes his stash was stolen by the lawyer, a package arrives for Eddie with the note &quot;URGENT!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GzJI8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He opens it and finds a bunch of hands in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JSeI5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who do these hands belong to?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who sent them, and why?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My first impression was that the Russians sent it to threaten him, but I don't understand what significance the hands would have or who they would belong to. Did I miss something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2015-05-12T23:54:36.753" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T00:49:10.220" Title="Whose hands are in the box?" Tags="|plot-explanation|limitless|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34287" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-13T00:07:32.860" Score="6" ViewCount="2236" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Eddie Morra comes back from the police station, he finds Carl watching a news report about the secret merger they were about to close.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dvNZ5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carl is obviously angry and the following dialogue happens:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Carl: &lt;em&gt;Have you been talking to anyone?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Eddie: &lt;em&gt;No I haven't been talking to anyone, Carl. I'm not stupid.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Carl: &lt;em&gt;I know you're not stupid, Eddie, but don't make the classic smart person's mistake thinking no one's smarter than you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this is completely irrelevant to the plot, but just in case:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who leaked the news about Carl van Loon's merger with Atwood?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carl accuses Eddie, but we (the viewer) know it wasn't him. Atwood, his wife and Carl all wanted the merger to happen, so they had no motive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the movie give any clue who actually did leak the news and by that stop the merger from happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T08:31:57.193" Title="Who leaked the news about the merger?" Tags="|plot-explanation|limitless|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34286" CreationDate="2015-05-13T00:49:10.220" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was indeed done by the Russians who sent it to Eddie. These are the hands of the bodyguards which he hired to protect himself against the Russians. The purpose of sending Eddie the hands was to (supposedly) let him know there was no way for him to protect himself. Here are the bodyguards:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4LqB8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You cannot see the tattooed &quot;ring&quot; on the Caucasian's hand, but you can see in the box there is (at least) one Caucasian hand and one African-American hand. You can infer from this the owners of the hands are dead. There are other parts in the movie where you can see the tattoo on the hand (I just couldn't find a picture of it). I'm sure this is mainly a plot device so you have no doubt who the hands belonged to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T00:49:10.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34289" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34299" CreationDate="2015-05-13T01:08:15.027" Score="3" ViewCount="17378" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one episode of The West Wing, Margaret is observed to be pregnant. There's a small off-hand comment about it, with some vaguery about who the father is, but I don't believe it's ever mentioned again. Was there ever more information given about this, either within the show or by the writers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1331" LastActivityDate="2021-02-03T15:32:47.440" Title="Was any further information on Margaret's pregnancy ever given?" Tags="|the-west-wing|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34289" CreationDate="2015-05-13T02:28:23.470" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Josh Lyman commented that &quot;he didn't even know she was married&quot; and was given an 'are you an idiot?' look by CJ Craig. Her personal life was never really discussed, but she was thought to be a lesbian. In a scene in an earlier late series episode, one of the staffers was interviewing a good looking woman, and we see several male aids stop to look... the twist was so did she, in a interested sort of way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was it. There was nothing further mentioned about the pregnancy, she wasn't included in the episode where we saw &quot;into the future&quot; of some of the cast. Her sexual orientation and/or gender identity was never explicitly stated in a segment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T02:28:23.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32737" CreationDate="2015-05-13T10:08:29.913" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your calculations are wrong, here is why; in your quote it says &quot;All we had to do was try each one. But if we had 10 men checking one setting a minute&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with that said, it means that we put 10 men just to solve one setting in one single minute, so the number 10 should not be used in the calculations;&#xA;we have  1.59×10^20 settings if we divide it by 60(minutes in one hour)&lt;em&gt;(24 hour in one day)&lt;/em&gt;(365 day in one year) = 525600 minutes in one year, so to find out how much it would take to solve all of the 1.59×10^20 settings we do it simply by :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1.59×10^20/ 525600  = 3*10^14 years so to solve the enigma settings we need 300 million million years and not 20 million years. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="21319" LastEditDate="2019-03-12T00:19:24.420" LastActivityDate="2019-03-12T00:19:24.420" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34295" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34300" CreationDate="2015-05-13T10:17:14.397" Score="15" ViewCount="3029" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Predator&lt;/em&gt; (1987), right after Blain was killed, Dutch and his entire team fired at the creature. Specifically Mac said he fired two full packs straight at it. And we also know creature was hit and it bled. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the creature is strong enough to withstand such powerful gun attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does such a creature get badly wounded so that it decided to commit suicide when a wooden log falls on it, that too a wooden log which Dutch was able to raise himself to that height!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21110" LastEditorUserId="21110" LastEditDate="2015-05-15T05:45:25.417" LastActivityDate="2018-07-10T21:01:38.380" Title="Can a wooden log really harm a creature like the Predator?" Tags="|plot-explanation|predator|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34296" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-13T10:31:19.853" Score="3" ViewCount="445" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie when Cumberbatch said the following phrase &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are 159 million, million, million possible Enigma settings. All&#xA;  we had to do was try each one. But if we had 10 men checking one&#xA;  setting a minute for 24 hours every day and seven days every week&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the sentence &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;10 men checking one setting a minute&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;does it mean 10 men checking on single setting in one single minute, or that each of the 10 men is checking a setting in a minute, which will make 10 settings for one minute? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T10:36:28.313" Title="The Imitation Game - 10 men checking one setting a minute" Tags="|the-imitation-game|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-05-13T15:16:00.827" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34296" CreationDate="2015-05-13T10:36:28.313" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;His meaning is this, that there would be 10 men each checking their own unique setting in a minute. It's just said to further demonstrate the grand scale/how near impossible it was to crack the enigma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21191" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T10:36:28.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31612" CreationDate="2015-05-13T10:37:09.550" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are reading too much into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Buddha's enlightenment came from an understanding of the relationships of all things.  The relationships extending to infinity.  This enlightenment imbues the realisation that property and desire are irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lucy's consciousness was dissociated from her body by the drugs, enabling her to not only travel in time and space but also to manipulate them.  She had no desire as she effectively had everything in the universe at her disposal - there was nothing left to desire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would also like to think that if the writers were inspired by Buddhism, there would have been less violence in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T10:37:09.550" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34289" CreationDate="2015-05-13T11:39:46.667" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;NiCole Robinson, who played &lt;a href=&quot;http://westwing.wikia.com/wiki/Margaret_Hooper&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Margaret Hooper&lt;/a&gt;, said the following in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://westwingnews.blogspot.be/2006/06/tv-guide-interview-with-nicole.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview with TV Guide&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Robinson: [...] And, let’s be honest, the fans want to know who&#xA;  Margaret’s baby daddy is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Watercooler (Jon McDaid): All right, I’ll bite, who is Margaret’s baby daddy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Robinson: I get that a lot. A lot of people think it was Ron Silver.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;WC: My two choices are Bruno [Silver’s character] or [Secret Service&#xA;  agent] Ron Butterfield, because you know that guy could keep a secret.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Robinson: I hadn’t heard that one. The UPS guy and Bruno are the two&#xA;  that I heard. I like the Ron Butterfield one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently NiCole Robinson &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200276/trivia?item=tr1208091&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;was pregnant at the time&lt;/a&gt;, and the show choose to acknowledge this. But apparently they never came up with further story-lines WRT this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T11:39:46.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34295" CreationDate="2015-05-13T12:11:10.133" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, the team fired &lt;em&gt;at it&lt;/em&gt;. This means in the general direction of the Predator. Yes, they leveled the jungle in doing so, but between the Predator's agility and its sophisticated camouflage, it was able to evade most of the damage laid down by the team. This doesn't mean it wasn't hurt, as we saw there was blood on the leaves, which Anna later shows to Dutch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, Newton's first law of motion states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The external force was the sudden stop as the log hits the Predator. This was a heavy log dropped from a substantial height. By the size of it, I would guesstimate it to be around 300-400lbs. As this accelerates moving towards the ground, it will build up tremendous amount of Kinetic energy. Since we know the creature can be injured, the ultimate force of the log would put a real hurting on the Predator. He's big. He's strong. He's not unstoppable. As far as Dutch getting the log into position, if you see, he has wedged himself into position using the rocks and such for stability. This and his manly-man strength were enough for him to lift the log to set the trap. The log falling was more than enough to crush the Predator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the Predator wasn't so much committing suicide. By blowing himself up, he was doing two things. First, this was one final attempt to take out his opponent. We know this because he mimicked Billy's laugh as though to say, &quot;&lt;em&gt;Haha, get away from this!&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. Secondly, it is doing it to completely obliterate any and all trace of itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2018-07-10T21:01:38.380" LastActivityDate="2018-07-10T21:01:38.380" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19235" CreationDate="2015-05-13T12:38:10.017" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;May be the bug was in the harry's eye glasses because once he left his glasses at his girlfriend house for a little bit of time. There was also a scene which indicated it in the ending where the girl who were spying by harry was kissing her boyfriend with touching his eye wear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21194" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-05-13T13:35:05.373" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T13:35:05.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32737" CreationDate="2015-05-13T20:26:48.007" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;There are 159 million, million, million possible Enigma settings&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;159,000,000,000,000,000,000 settings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;10 men checking one setting a minute for 24 hours every day&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;10 x 60 x 24 = 14,400 settings checked per day&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;how many days do you think it would take to check each of the settings&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;159,000,000,000,000,000,000 / 14,400 = 11,041,700,000,000,000 days&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;it’s not days; it’s years&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;11,041,700,000,000,000 / 365 = 30,251,100,000,000 years or &lt;strong&gt;30.25 trillion years&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;To the OP's point about checking one setting per second: that would result in 864,000 settings checked per day, and would take a total of about 500 billion years. So obviously the movie's &quot;20 million years&quot; was way, way too low.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2015-05-13T20:33:55.810" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T20:33:55.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34315" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34317" CreationDate="2015-05-13T21:09:38.433" Score="7" ViewCount="2816" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the start and ending of Cloud Atlas, Zachry (Tom Hanks) is shown on another planet, which has two moons and from which the Earth can be seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vBa20.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GB6hX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any canonical identity given to this planet? Terraformed Mars would be a decent option, but the moons do not match Phobos and Deimos in size. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21209" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-13T21:15:14.520" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T18:36:57.243" Title="Is the identity of the planet in the start and ending of Cloud Atlas canonically known?" Tags="|cloud-atlas|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34316" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-13T22:20:38.120" Score="1" ViewCount="211" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Raid (2011), after the tenant with the sick wife agrees to shelter Rama and Bowo in his apartment, he tells Rama that Lieutenant Wahyu is corrupt, to which Rama responds, &quot;Not every cop is swayed by money, sir.&quot; The tenant then replies, &quot;If I believed that, I would never have opened the door.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would he never have opened the door if he had believed that not every cop is swayed by money, i.e. if he had believed that not every cop is corrupt? I thought that the main reason he allowed Rama and Bowo into his apartment was because he thought Rama was a good person for helping him bring the medication in to his wife when the other people on the SWAT team didn't want to let him enter the building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19577" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-13T22:34:37.967" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T22:34:37.967" Title="Why does the tenant with the sick wife say &quot;If I believed that, I would never have opened the door.&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-raid|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34315" CreationDate="2015-05-13T23:16:12.530" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't appear to have a canonical name, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia identifies the location as an off world colony&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2012/10/guide-to-the-characters-and-connections-of-cloud-atlas-confused.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;cited links&lt;/a&gt; for the below quote name every location except the location used in the epilogue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A seventh time period, several decades after the events on Big Island, is featured in the film's prologue and epilogue: Zachry is revealed to have been telling these stories to his grandchildren on a beach near a city on an extraterrestrial Earth colony. The epilogue also confirms that Meronym succeeded in sending the message and traveled to the off-world colony where she lives with Zachry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This text is basically mirrored on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cloudatlas.wikia.com/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cloud Atlas Wikia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2015-05-13T23:16:12.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34295" CreationDate="2015-05-14T00:01:36.380" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Consider too, that it was already hurt, that when it was hit by the log, it was not expecting it, so it took the damage without mitigation, and within the lore of the screenplay, it likely triggered a protocol (possible capture/death) that required it to remove evidence of its existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there is this: screenwriters are God.  :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21210" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-14T00:09:58.130" LastActivityDate="2015-05-14T00:09:58.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33740" CreationDate="2015-05-14T00:51:08.100" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show seems to be purposefully vague about the timeline of the events in the series, though it's clearly established to be set at some time after the events of &quot;The Avengers&quot; and either before or during the events of &quot;The Avengers: Age Of Ultron&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the flashbacks that span Matt's childhood and his and Foggy's time at their old job and college, the show does seem to clearly be focused on a span of only a few months. The first episode seems to take place during the Spring/Summer and then at the funeral in the finale it seems to be late Fall / early Winter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Matt meets Claire, there is also an episode where it's been clear that he's gone to see her many times over the course of a couple weeks, especially because he only goes out at night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also seems intentional because they never show a headstone at the funeral, the newspapers don't have dates on them, and no one in the finale seems to discuss how long it has been. At least partly from watching the series, it seems like this is to let it remain open-ended in context with the rest of the &quot;Marvel Cinematic Universe&quot;, as there are several other concurrently airing shows and movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other possible source of the timeline would be the plans of the cabal with Wilson Fisk and the other gang leaders, but they also seem to have a vague series of events. Most episodes either occur over the course of 1 to 3 days (based on the nights Matt goes out), or they start days or weeks after their preceding episode. But, it's very clearly that everything happens as soon as possible, because of Matt, Wilson, and Karen's motivations/plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without any specific connections to the other Marvel shows/movies mentioned beyond the first episode, it might take until the second season to truly nail-down the timeline of this first season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user12701" LastActivityDate="2015-05-14T00:51:08.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34321" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-14T03:51:51.510" Score="6" ViewCount="711" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Prometheus, the crew finds out Shaw is impregnated with some mysterious creature (trilobite). David knows it, she is taken into some lab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the lab she knocks down some people, including the ship's medic Dr Ford and runs to a medpod and does the operation herself to take out the creature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one followed her to the medpod, after sometime Shaw joins the team again to go for a final expedition into the structure, no one including Dr ford is bothered about what she did a few hours back, they seem not to care about that creature she had taken out in the medpod. It's like nothing has happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question: &#xA;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21110" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-14T12:02:58.240" LastActivityDate="2015-05-14T12:02:58.240" Title="Why are the members of the crew in Prometheus not bothered about Elizabeth Shaw or her medical condition?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34321" CreationDate="2015-05-14T06:27:05.560" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;By the time the expedition embarked, Weyland had fully revealed himself to the crew. As such, it was his directive that Shaw be allowed to join them for the final expedition without incident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2015-05-14T06:27:05.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26344" CreationDate="2015-05-14T07:32:39.570" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spoilers for both &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; and season two of &lt;em&gt;Agents of SHIELD&lt;/em&gt; below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We learn in the &lt;em&gt;Agents of SHIELD&lt;/em&gt; episode &quot;The Dirty Half Dozen&quot; that;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; It is Director Coulson that informs Maria Hill of the location of Baron von Strucker, Dr. List and Loki's Sceptre, which sets the events of &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; in motion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next episode &quot;Scars&quot; shows us that;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The Helicarrier seen in &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; during the evacuation of Sokovia was supplied by Director Coulson under something known as Theta Protocol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two events are clear proof that in-universe, the events of &lt;em&gt;Agents of SHIELD&lt;/em&gt; matter to the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (out of universe, it is more than likely that the TV show is simply finding ways to make itself a part of the broader picture set by the movies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in the &lt;em&gt;Agents of SHIELD&lt;/em&gt; season 2 finale &quot;S.O.S&quot;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; We see that the faux-Terrigen Crystals created by Jiaying are dissolving in the sea, infecting fish that are swimming close by. These fish are then caught by fisherman and turned into Omega 3 Fish Oil pills. We know that if any latent Inhumans swallow these pills, their powers will be activated - potentially creating a sudden influx of powered people in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which could form the basis for the upcoming &lt;em&gt;Captain America: Civil War&lt;/em&gt; film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastActivityDate="2015-05-14T07:32:39.570" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34328" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34329" CreationDate="2015-05-14T11:07:15.730" Score="16" ViewCount="3331" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let me start by saying that I know nothing about the big wresting leagues I see on American TV, I've seen them on a couple of times. A couple of things strike me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some of the &quot;moves&quot; they do are potentially very dangerous, this implies that the wrestlers have at least some understanding of the moves which are coming and how they can avoid becoming seriously injured.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is certainly amateur wrestling around which is a serious competitive sport therefore there must be some improvisation/competition.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we watch a big wrestling match on the television with the top wrestlers how choreographed is the fight (for safety and entertainment reasons) and how much is genuine competition (like boxing)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-14T12:11:45.180" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T10:24:09.140" Title="How choreographed/scripted is wrestling?" Tags="|wrestling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34328" CreationDate="2015-05-14T11:25:42.483" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a really good documentary on it called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218043/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Beyond The Mat&lt;/em&gt; (1999)&lt;/a&gt; which I highly recommend you watch. Not just to learn what happens 'beyond the mat' but because it is just a great documentary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything is scripted, or there is a general outline of what will happen and a winner is agreed before the match begins. Sometimes something can go wrong during the match, like someone takes a particularly nasty fall and can't continue so things may need to switch up. It's live after all, anything can happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, during the match, there are a few things that happen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Firstly, the wrestlers will whisper to eachother during grapples what they plan on doing. It's quick and code like... e.g. &lt;em&gt;&quot;off rope, counter, off rope, ddt&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Referee, depending on how the crowd 'feels' will decide to extend the match, or wrap it up. If he feels like the crowd is losing interest, he will whisper, tap or something to let the performers know - time to wrap it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moves are choreographed to a certain degree, but just like tight rope walking, balancing, trampolining... a fall will hurt and things go wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wrestlers take a beating and it's unfair to pass off what they do as all being staged... because wrestlers have died in that ring in the past, things go wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will update with more sources eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20829" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-07-22T20:46:52.993" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T20:46:52.993" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34333" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34338" CreationDate="2015-05-14T19:22:13.057" Score="17" ViewCount="3935" Body="&lt;p&gt;I mean, exactly what is preventing Hank in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; to tell the DEA the whole story after he learns that Walter is Heisenberg? Also, when Marie tells Hank that Walter has paid for Hank's physical therapy, Hank tells that he is ruined. What would happen if Hank just went to DEA and told the whole story, since he knows it now (S05E11)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, does the &quot;confessions&quot; clip Walter made has really a significance? Can't Hank say that it is just a big lie? I mean, I understand that Hank does not enough proof to convict Walt at the time (S05E11) but neither does Walt. I mean Walt doesn't have any &quot;evidence&quot; on that &quot;Hank was a drug kingpin&quot; claim he makes in his &quot;confessions&quot; clip. So, how does that clip have any significance in the purpose of keeping Hank back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: If the reason is Hank's (possible) thought: &quot;If DEA learns that Heisenberg was under my nose all this time, and I was not able to see it, everything would be done for me.&quot;, how accurate is such a thought? I mean, who thinks of looking to the people closest to them when looking for &quot;such a monster&quot;? Would DEA make such an evaluation on Hank? If they would, how sound would it be? If they wouldn't, what else keeps Hank from telling DEA about Walt?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S: Please do not give spoilers from after S05E11.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20688" LastEditorUserId="20688" LastEditDate="2015-05-14T19:57:57.533" LastActivityDate="2020-05-17T07:19:10.183" Title="How is Walter able to threaten Hank?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34335" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34336" CreationDate="2015-05-14T19:23:30.077" Score="2" ViewCount="2956" Body="&lt;p&gt;This song was a remix composed by Beca in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the song played in the radio station just before the semi-finals?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20394" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-05-14T20:04:48.130" LastActivityDate="2015-05-14T20:25:45.783" Title="What is the song played in the radio station just before the semi-finals?" Tags="|soundtrack|pitch-perfect|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-05-15T07:38:16.630" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34335" CreationDate="2015-05-14T20:25:45.783" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're talking about the scene that starts around 1:06:30 (on my copy, anyway) when she's running into the campus radio station and the station manager offers her a slot in the lineup, it looks like it's a remix of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk8eJh4i8Lo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bulletproof&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Roux&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;LaRoux&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G7eDpMGe1k&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Release Me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Carlsson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Agnes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/4ONjaCyj1Qk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-05-14T20:25:45.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34333" CreationDate="2015-05-14T20:53:52.197" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because the fact that his own family member was doing all of this right under his nose would be enough to discredit him and his position as a member of law enforcement.&lt;/strong&gt; No one would take him seriously, his name would come up in any searches related to the matter, and he'd likely never be able to find steady employment again or could face jail time himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mere act of having to admit that his own brother-in-law is the mastermind behind the purest form of meth his department had ever seen would be enough to force him to resign. Walt had been in action for quite some time, and it would be a massive embarrassment for Hank to have been looking for the party behind this new, super pure drug, only to find out it had been a member of his own family all this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, given Walt and Skyler paid for Hank's recovery in the middle of the series, it would mean Hank basically took money from a known drug dealer even if he didn't know it. The only reason he's able to stand and hold the position he does is because of the treatment Walt was able to provide for him. Given he thought his own insurnace or the police force was paying for it would make him look even more foolish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once it got out to his colleagues in the department, no one would take him seriously, and he'd be considered an embarassment to the force, likely forced into resigning in disgrace or straight up dismissal, and would never be able to hold a job in law enforcement ever again. Taking money from Walt could also have him and Marie in some legal hot water, creating a record that would easily come up in a background search, thus making it nearly impossible to find a steady line of work going forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the fake confession Walt makes, sure Hank could claim it's all a lie, but given what you've observed with how the public takes information of this nature, do you really think it would matter? The impetus would be on Hank to disprove the claims, but even still he'd already be judged in the court of public opinion, as some people say. He'd still be an embarrassment, and now there would be some out there who would still think he did it in the back of their minds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt is not an idiot, and will leverage anything he can get his hands on to protect what he's built.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2018-01-25T19:30:13.993" LastActivityDate="2018-01-25T19:30:13.993" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23025" CreationDate="2015-05-15T01:57:43.457" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, while not being explained exactly and still left a bit of a mystery, it is not really a plot-hole in the context of the movie, but the whole point of the movie. A major theme of the movie is the difference between man and machine and the question if you can completely supress the human element from the decision making process and to which degree Alex is a human with a huge prostetic or a robot that merely thinks to be a human. And as depicted multiple times in the movie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;The point that this robotic programming can be overcome by the human soul is a major moral of the story.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's first look at an earlier incident where Alex overcomes his programming. When he isn't able to compete against the pure robots, they override his decision making process by the machine's and only give him the illusion of free will. And when he later gets overwhelmed by emotions at the sight of his own attempted murder, they supress even the rest of his humanity by depriving him of all his emotions, turning him into a real machine. Then his wife confronts him on the streets and tells him about their worries and his son's sorrows. And at this point he starts to investigate his own case and regains his emotions, going against the programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kim:&lt;/strong&gt; He's supposed to be watching this. Instead he's accessing images of Clara and David arriving at school over and over again. &lt;em&gt;Somehow&lt;/em&gt; he's overwriting the system's priorities...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Norton:&lt;/strong&gt; Give me an image of his brain. He's undoing what we did. His dopamine level is coming back to normal.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Kim:&lt;/strong&gt; How is that even possible?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Norton:&lt;/strong&gt; I haven't the thinnest idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;there is precedent for the human element -- or Alex's soul if you want the more metaphysical term -- prevailing over the programming, if given the right motivation&lt;/strong&gt;, even if a scientific explanation how this is even possible is (deliberately) omitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why didn't he overcome it earlier when facing Mattox? Now when first presented with the whole &quot;Red Asset&quot; problem while facing Mattox, it is first and foremost to show that he can't do anything against it and his partner quickly chimes in to save him. But later on the roof, it is much more of a moment of truth. We see that Alex still has considerable difficulties to overcome the programming and only achieves it after quite some time. And another major factor, if not &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; major factor, is that Sellars actively threatens his family with his gun (and would probably have had to shoot them anyway afterwards for all they saw and heard). So Murphy &lt;em&gt;directly sees his family in imminent danger&lt;/em&gt; and the movie has already shown that &lt;strong&gt;his family and his feelings for them are &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; major motivation&lt;/strong&gt; to overcome his robotic programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sellars:&lt;/strong&gt; I mean if I wanted to, I could just aim at your little family &lt;em&gt;(points the gun at the family)&lt;/em&gt; and I could just kill them, too. And really there's nothing you could do about it because let's face it, you're a robot. You understand that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that is the whole point. &lt;strong&gt;He is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a robot.&lt;/strong&gt; You can't just program Alex Murphy away. But there is no other actual scientific explanation for why he can overcome the programming, it is his soul, his humanity and his love for his family that makes the human prevail over the robot. But I wouldn't say it is &lt;em&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;just&lt;/strong&gt; due to his family being endangered?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; because that is really the &lt;em&gt;major&lt;/em&gt; motivation as presented in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(In this way the movie also has a bit of a different moral than the 1987 version, where the 4th Directive is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; overcome by Murphy's own will, but merely circumvented for the specific case of Dick Jones. The rule itself stays in place and Murphy stays a robot. But the movie had slightly different themes and a slightly different premise to begin with anyway.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-07-14T15:01:51.240" LastActivityDate="2016-07-14T15:01:51.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34345" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34359" CreationDate="2015-05-15T03:09:36.990" Score="15" ViewCount="5525" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 3 of Breaking Bad, towards the end of the season, Jesse learns that Combo was killed by two guys that are working for Gus. He tries to convince Walt to give/make the ricin so that he would put it in the hamburgers that Wendy would then deliver to their car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Walt never agrees to such plot, and refuses to cooperate.&#xA;Then Jesse says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I will do it with, or without you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then we see Walt and Saul trying to figure out a way to keep Jessie from committing his plan. While at the same time, Jesse is confirming the plan with Wendy. The next day, we see Jesse and Wendy waiting for the two guys to show up. They have hambrugers with them. &#xA;It is inferred that these hamburgers will lead to the death of the two guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where did Jesse obtain the poison from? Did he make it himself? Is it a different kind of poison? (highly doubted since he confirms to Wendy that it is untraceable, thus it must be risen) Did Walt give it to him (even reluctantly)? but then, why give him the poison and then plan to have him arrested?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does not make sense...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-05-15T12:12:05.457" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T12:12:05.457" Title="Where did Jesse get the ricin from?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34346" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34357" CreationDate="2015-05-15T03:15:35.657" Score="12" ViewCount="1552" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first episode of Prison Break we learn that Michael staged a fake bank robbery so that he would get arrested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he was put on trial he asks the judge to send him to &quot;Fox River&quot;, the same prison his brother is at. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question 1: Is it a standard procedure for judges to grant convicts wishes regarding where they want to be jailed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question 2: Did the judge only accept the request of Michael because &quot;Fox River&quot; is considered to be the &quot;Maximum Secure Jail&quot; and thus he saw no harm in sending him there? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems too far fetched to plan to have yourself sent to prison only due to what you ask the judge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-05-15T04:15:28.643" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T09:15:36.687" Title="How did Michael know that he would join his brother for sure?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prison-break|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33875" CreationDate="2015-05-15T03:26:29.200" Score="10" Body="&lt;h1&gt;In the context of the movies, no Rogers isn't worthy.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being &amp;quot;worthy&amp;quot; is pretty sketchy and ill defined in the Marvel universes, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2395427/quotes?item=qt2467647&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;but the scene that actually explains this best is from the very end of Age of Ultron&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steve Rogers: But if you put the hammer in an elevator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony Stark: It'll still go up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steve Rogers: Elevator's not worthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steve is jealous of The Vision and wants a reason why he couldn't, we expect as much from Tony, but Steve feels cheated that he &amp;quot;wasn't worthy&amp;quot;.  During the party he wanted to wield the hammer to show off, little more. Now Mjolnir wiggles, because we know Steve is a good person, but right then and there, his intentions were less than worthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FU7A0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steve wanted to wield the hammer for the very same reason that Thor did when he landed on Earth:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UenoM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And Thor failed here too, so why could the Vision wield it?&lt;/strong&gt; Because he wanted to hand it to Thor to get the Avengers moving against Ultron and &lt;em&gt;immediately&lt;/em&gt; handed it off. The Vision didn't necessarily want Mjolnir, he wanted the Avengers to work together - thats what made him worthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11607" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T03:26:29.200" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28407" CreationDate="2015-05-15T07:35:50.193" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;regarding her Son leaving her behind the chemical to become himself I have to disagree because of two reasons: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1.) The Doc asked &quot;do you know where you want to go?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2.) The Doc also said the Son thought she wouldn't come back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of that, my theory is the following:&#xA;Similar to &quot;Interstellar&quot; its not really a story about reality or consciousness but in the very basis a story about the love of a parent or the bound between a parent and a child. Therefore and because of how the animated world works she &lt;strong&gt;decided&lt;/strong&gt; to live his life again (because she was there for most of it anyway) and at the end the audience is left with the decision wether or not their bound is strong enough so they end up together in the same subconscious place or if its just a fantasy of her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also wanna state that a reviewer on rotten tomatoes put it best &quot;The Congress rises on the strength of Robin Wright's powerful performance, with enough ambitious storytelling and technical thrills to overcome its somewhat messy structure.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The structure is sort of messed up (maybe by choice of Folmann or maybe by the editor - who knows), but for me Robin Wrights performance and also the basic Idea behind the movie (both the story of love and the bond, as well as the idea of a possible drugged up future - which also has a metaphysical element to it: just living in your own head and creating your reality) makes up for that. which leaves us with a disturbing and sometimes artisanal bad, yet powerful and beautiful movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to be more of a pitch, then a fully completed work&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21240" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T07:35:50.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34350" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34490" CreationDate="2015-05-15T07:45:20.327" Score="12" ViewCount="7149" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the whole duration of the chase in Mad Max Fury Road, there was this guitarist/bassist:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Rk6VO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was his purpose in the chase?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T02:49:44.267" Title="What was the purpose of the guitarist on the chase?" Tags="|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34351" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34393" CreationDate="2015-05-15T07:48:11.093" Score="33" ViewCount="124939" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are 4 movies in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max_%28franchise%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mad Max franchise&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079501/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mad Max (1979)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082694/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089530/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the first three movies connected with the fourth one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-03-04T18:14:41.400" LastActivityDate="2016-03-04T18:14:41.400" Title="Should one watch the first three Mad Max movies before watching Fury Road?" Tags="|mad-max-fury-road|mad-max|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34351" CreationDate="2015-05-15T07:58:15.443" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, if you want to fully understand the story of Mad Max. Saying that you can watch any of the movies alone, and still enjoy them. At least watch the first one to learn how Max Rockatansky turned into the Mad Max.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21195" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-15T12:32:25.717" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T12:32:25.717" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34345" CreationDate="2015-05-15T08:07:09.237" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Ricin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the wiki&lt;/a&gt;, Walt prepares the Ricin twice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/14632/7337&quot;&gt;This answer&lt;/a&gt; explains that the Ricin wasn't used by Jesse as it's still in play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is speculation that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/226-television-cable-and-satellite/67506934&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the ricin was bought on the internet&lt;/a&gt; - or that it wasn't Ricin at all. &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Ricin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brock later gets poisoned by Lily of the Valley&lt;/a&gt; which the hospital cannot detect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conclusion is that Jesse didn't use Ricin to poison the hamburgers, but Lily of the Valley, which is found in Walt's house. (Which is shown in the ending scene of &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Face_Off&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Face Off&lt;/a&gt;) - or he used an unknown poison. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the very end of the episode, the camera zooms in on a Lily of the Valley in Walt's back yard, beside his pool&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed out in the comments, it wasn't suggested that Jesse knew anything about Lily of the Valley in Walts garden, but as &lt;a href=&quot;http://mentalfloss.com/article/28967/how-poisonous-lily-valley&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; states (Breaking Bad is filmed in Albuquerque);&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So it wouldn't be shocking to find it in a garden outside of its native range. Like, say, Albuquerque.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7337" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T10:00:40.663" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34346" CreationDate="2015-05-15T09:15:36.687" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the first episode, or maybe within the first few, we find out that Michael has done &lt;em&gt;extensive&lt;/em&gt; planning for freeing his brother. This included getting the plans to the prison tattooed across his entire body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also researched the legal procedures for getting himself sent to a maximum security prison. As he had no priors, the best way to get sent to a maximum security prison was to discharge a lethal firearm in the presence of innocent civilians (in the bank).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now the court recognizes that he is currently a danger to society, so they will attempt to prosecute him and send him to a max security facility. If the crime had been anything less (for example trying to rob the bank &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; discharging the gun), they probably wouldn't have agreed to send him there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the court doesn't want an extended trial process. Most people, when they admit to being guilty, get a reduced sentence for their crime. This is so that they are more inclined to testify guilty, to avoid the long and expensive court process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Michael doesn't ask for reduced time for pleading guilty (he's planning on escaping anyway). The &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; thing he asks for is to be sent to Fox River.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the prosecution, this is a dream scenario. The prosecuting attorney essentially gets a free win. They get to send a dangerous criminal to a max security jail for the maximum sentence, and that's &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; a trial. On their record, this looks good, so in order to get this they would be willing to agree in a plea deal to Michael going to Fox River. He's going to a max security prison, why would they care which one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Michael has done enough research to know this. Whilst it &lt;em&gt;is possible&lt;/em&gt; that they wouldn't agree to his demands, it is &lt;em&gt;highly&lt;/em&gt; unlikely. He maneuvers the court proceedings in order to get exactly what he wants, by giving them exactly what they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T09:15:36.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34358" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34374" CreationDate="2015-05-15T10:32:05.477" Score="12" ViewCount="4454" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw Swordfish (again) on late night TV, and got to wondering about that last major scene.  John Travolta, Hugh Jackman and a bunch of hostages are riding in a bus on a downtown LA street, when a helicopter hovers over it and is attached to the bus with four cables.  The bus is then lifted off the street and flown into downtown LA, crashing into a building or two, causing two of the cables to break off so it is hanging at a 90° angle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've always wondered how much of that was real (practical, as they say in the movies), and how much was CGI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I ran across this picture which shows the bus being suspended by a crane, supposedly for one of the shots where it crashes into a building (I'm guessing the building in the picture is standing in for one 20 stories taller):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KASnf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the trivia for the movie at IMDb says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The helicopter is a Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane (CH-54 Tarhe). It is now&#xA;  being used to fight bush fires across Australia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPm4HBly5FY&quot;&gt;This video&lt;/a&gt; shows the interior of the bus standing upright in a sound stage, to simulate that it lost two of its cables.  This implies all the interior shots with passengers were done on a sound stage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there was a real bus (with no people inside).  And a real helicopter.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much video of the helicopter and the bus flying in LA was real?  Based on what I've dug up, I'm guessing when the bus is lifted off the street that was the real deal.  But there are shots later when the helicopter and bus are flying quite close to buildings. Are those created from shots where it is flying out in the open?  Or totally CGI?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2017-08-13T11:24:14.707" Title="In Swordfish, did they really fly a bus underneath a helicopter in downtown LA?" Tags="|stunts|swordfish|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34345" CreationDate="2015-05-15T11:56:48.717" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jesse got the poison online&lt;/strong&gt;. He says so to Wendy himself in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615552/combined&quot;&gt;Half Measures&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I found this stuff on the internet. Takes days to kick in. Just keep quiet and this won't ever come back to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since he has no reason to lie to her, really, and the type of poison is not elaborated on, we can surmise that this is a slow-acting poison that might be untraceable. We don't really know if he bought ricin or not, or even if the poison would've worked, since the plan didn't come through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it seems dangerous to buy ricin online (for fear of sting operations), there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; recipes available on the web, so Jesse might've meant he found &lt;em&gt;those&lt;/em&gt; there and made it himself. Jesse has already been in the meth business, and around Walt, long enough to know a thing or two about chemistry (and again, even if he botched it, &lt;em&gt;we'll never know&lt;/em&gt; anyway, but the risk of it working was enough that he had to be stopped).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-05-15T12:11:04.963" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T12:11:04.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34360" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-15T13:22:35.980" Score="9" ViewCount="2659" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that Method actors should always want to address their co-actors by their character names, even when not on stage, and to be addressed by their character's name anytime they're on set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the proliferation of &quot;behind-the-scenes&quot; exposes I've never seen this done.  In fact, the blooper reel often shows actors calling others by real names instead of character names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a custom or taboo that explains this?  (Or are there no &quot;true&quot; Method actors?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20456" LastActivityDate="2019-10-10T06:33:38.060" Title="Why are actors addressed by real names off screen but on set?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34360" CreationDate="2015-05-15T13:28:51.000" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think mixing names is necessarily within the scope of method acting. It's not like Gary Oldman (just to use an example) is going to fall completely out of character if someone calls him Gary rather than his character's name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Between shoots, the set is really very colloquial unless there is a very emotional scene being shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While some actors stay in character even between shots, getting their real name called out isn't a big deal. It's not like they're hypnotized, and their real name is the &quot;snap out of it&quot; trigger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21134" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T13:28:51.000" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34362" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34364" CreationDate="2015-05-15T13:29:51.680" Score="8" ViewCount="1689" Body="&lt;p&gt;So in season 4 of &lt;strong&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/strong&gt; after the fight I am unsure if the Mountain is dead or alive.&#xA;And if he is alive will he be back in season 5?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20435" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-15T13:41:23.863" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T13:56:52.420" Title="Is the Mountain Dead or Alive?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34362" CreationDate="2015-05-15T13:51:11.867" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following addresses what has already happened in the TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Mountain gets poisoned in the fight, and Cersei tells Qyburn to do what he can to keep him alive. Qyburn agrees, but says he will not be the same as he was (this is consistent so far between the books and TV series). In one scene in season 5 (I don't remember the episode),&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Qyburn is in his laboratory, and something underneath a sheet begins to shake. I believe this is The Mountain restrained, and possibly being revived from death/ prevented from dying by unnatural means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads me to believe that he will still be in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text in the following spoiler tag is based on things that have not yet occurred in the TV show, and is based solely on what occurs in the book. However, the book and TV series have already been shown to deviate greatly, so this part of the answer might turn out to be wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Mountain is not dead, but he is also not quite alive. It doesn't elaborate greatly on what is done to him, but he is up and walking around, acting as Cersei's personal bodyguard. However, he always wears a helmet, and his face is never seen. He is unmistakeable from his size, so everyone recognizes that it is The Mountain, but it is very possible that he has become some sort of undead creature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-15T13:56:52.420" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T13:56:52.420" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34351" CreationDate="2015-05-15T14:24:50.943" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not entirely necessary but I'd say you should at least watch the first two simply because they're awesome! :D &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The new one will make a lot more sense if you've seen those two, especially the first as its set at the point the apocalypse is just taking off. But saying that I'm sure you could watch the new one first and you'd enjoy and understand it, there's a good chance that you'll enjoy it more than everyone who's seen the first three first&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21249" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T14:24:50.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34368" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34373" CreationDate="2015-05-15T14:33:18.190" Score="6" ViewCount="342" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.&lt;/em&gt; Coulson and his crew are shown to be very wary of Agent Triplett when they discover that Agent Garrett was a Hydra agent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does nobody suspect Agent Ward, especially when everybody knows that they share a long history?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7516" LastEditorUserId="7516" LastEditDate="2016-12-06T10:07:28.723" LastActivityDate="2016-12-06T10:07:28.723" Title="Why does no one suspect this character towards the end of Season1/Beginning of 2?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|agents-of-shield|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9932" CreationDate="2015-05-15T14:37:53.557" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They can't have the main actors turning his back from the camera for a long time, so they do this to give them more face camera time. Also, it looks that the characters can't contain the urge to display his intelligence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20146" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T14:37:53.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16119" CreationDate="2015-05-15T14:43:42.853" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think secretly he never really intended to return ashore if he failed, he felt guilty he survived Indianapolis whilst several if not all of his friends perished. For him, being taken by the shark is like an honourable discharge and he's going down to be reunited with his buddies from WW2. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21250" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T14:43:42.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13535" CreationDate="2015-05-15T14:46:02.167" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Huntik: Seekers and Secrets is part of a media franchise called Winx Club, which includes a television series, books, clothing, video games, product line, DVDs, and theatrical films. Maybe the writers tried to keep the story adaptable to any media, and that's why the story is gaming-like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20146" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T14:46:02.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34351" CreationDate="2015-05-15T15:06:34.647" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without even being a spoiler, here's the plot to every single Mad Max Movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mad Max wants to be a loner, but gets sucked into helping a group of people--people who usually have some fuel of some sort.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Crazy people wearing feathers and biker leather driving ridiculously modified vehicles in a really unsafe manner don't like Mad Max and chase him in hopes of getting said fuel.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Desert. Lots and lots of desert.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, there you go. A few bullet points. There's a story arc between all the films, for sure, but it's an incredibly thin one mainly just to justify the next sequel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't tell you if you should see the first three or not, but hopefully knowing that it's really about the action--not about the plot, will help you make the decision for yourself. Personally, these movies aren't about character development as much as they are about explosions and fast cars. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T15:06:34.647" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34368" CreationDate="2015-05-15T15:15:57.507" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The S.H.I.E.L.D team had been together a long time, all the way through the first season. During that time, Ward had risked his life for different members of the team on multiple occasions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This included throwing himself out of a plane, and killing the Hydra agents when him and Skye were hidden in the closet together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, I'm guessing everyone thought that he was beyond reproach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, Ward had a long history with Garrett when they were partners, but Coulson had known Garrett even longer. It would have been entirely feasible for him to have not known Garrett's true intentions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it was harder for them to believe that Triplett was innocent because he had been his most recent partner. It would make sense that as Garrett's plan came closer to fruition, he would surround himself with allies rather than enemies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastEditorUserId="21286" LastEditDate="2015-05-16T20:06:40.400" LastActivityDate="2015-05-16T20:06:40.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34358" CreationDate="2015-05-15T15:17:03.660" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did some more digging, and unbelievably, it appears everything was actually real, except where they let the bus down on the rooftop (and the crash into the building was faked of course too, as per the photo in the question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found these Production Notes for Swordfish &lt;a href=&quot;http://cinema.com/articles/484/swordfish-production-notes.phtml&quot;&gt;on this site&lt;/a&gt;, which included the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jeff Mann, who collaborated with director Dominic Sena on Gone in 60&#xA;  Seconds (2000) and many of his music videos and commercials, was&#xA;  instrumental in creating the film's finale - an incredible stunt&#xA;  involving a Sikorski helicopter and a bus full of hostages. &quot;At the&#xA;  climax of the film, Gabriel has loaded the hostages on the bus and&#xA;  they are surrounded by SWAT teams,&quot; Mann explains. &quot;There doesn't seem&#xA;  to be any way out. I envisioned a spectacular escape that Gabriel and&#xA;  his operatives would have planned months before. This massive sky&#xA;  crane appears like some huge insect and swoops down, plucking them off&#xA;  the ground and depositing them on the roof of a skyscraper. &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the time Mann pitched the idea to Sena, they didn't know if it was&#xA;  actually feasible to do the scene physically. &quot;When we started to do&#xA;  the research,&quot; says Mann, &quot;we were taking a 7,000-pound liberty. &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mann met with representatives from Erickson Sky Crane, a firm that&#xA;  specializes primarily in putting out fires, transporting lumber and&#xA;  positioning large air conditioning units on very tall buildings. To&#xA;  execute such tasks, the company designed a custom rig that&#xA;  counter-balances and stabilizes heavy equipment so it doesn't twist&#xA;  dangerously while being hoisted through the air.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;After numerous discussions, the filmmakers decided that it was&#xA;  feasible to fly a bus through downtown L. A. using the special crane,&#xA;  but there were too many liabilities and insurance issues to set the&#xA;  bus down on an actual rooftop. After initially considering a graphic&#xA;  solution, it was decided it would be simpler to build a rooftop set.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mann created an exact replica of a downtown rooftop and built it in&#xA;  the mountains above Chatsworth. One of the considerations in choosing&#xA;  the location was that they needed a clear vista looking west and&#xA;  south.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In order to pull off the unprecedented flying bus stunt, explains Boyd&#xA;  Shermis, &quot;We did a pre-visualization of the bus's flight path by&#xA;  creating a very detailed version of the area, in a virtual sense, so&#xA;  we could literally put ourselves on top of any number of buildings&#xA;  along that pathway and know exactly what we were going to see and how&#xA;  we could place the cameras. &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Shermis placed a virtual camera on just about every rooftop along the&#xA;  bus's flight path and was able to give director Sena a range of&#xA;  options in terms of their positions and lenses. &quot;There were legions of&#xA;  cameramen,&quot; says Sena. &quot;It was sort of like Napoleon's army. We had 14&#xA;  or 16 cameras shooting at a time. &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The day finally arrived and the filmmakers' dream became reality. The&#xA;  massive sky crane sat in a downtown parking lot as the crew looked on&#xA;  expectantly. As the rotor blades began to rotate, an ungodly noise&#xA;  filled the air and spectators covered their ears. The huge machine&#xA;  slowly rose and dust and debris filled the air. It hovered above the&#xA;  bus as the cables were attached. As it swept by base camp, a violent&#xA;  wind buffeted the onlookers and they turned away covering their faces&#xA;  trying to stay upright as the wind reached almost hurricane force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;This thing would knock you to the ground and just hold you there,&quot;&#xA;  Sena notes with a laugh. &quot;The rotors seemed to be about 80 feet&#xA;  across, and the rotor wash was devastating if you were under it. I&#xA;  made the mistake of doing that once as it was hovering to take off on&#xA;  North Hope, and it just sucked the breath out of my lungs. &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The following Sunday, the bus was hoisted up from the 1st Street&#xA;  Bridge and flown through the downtown streets of Los Angeles. It was&#xA;  lifted to building height, which is about 15 stories from street&#xA;  level, and traveled down the street in close proximity to the adjacent&#xA;  buildings, sometimes with a mere 40 inches on either side. Cameras&#xA;  were set on platforms on the edges of skyscrapers and as the sky crane&#xA;  made its turn, the bus swung in a curve within a few feet of the lens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;This is a sequence that could have been done with CGI, but we felt it&#xA;  was important to actually do it live; nothing like this has ever been&#xA;  seen before, and that cutting-edge feeling was what we were after with&#xA;  this movie,&quot; Silver enthuses. &quot;We wanted to make it bigger, better,&#xA;  more exciting and thrilling and give people a real wild ride. And if&#xA;  we've done that, then we've done our job. &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Safety was obviously the primary concern, and although the majority of&#xA;  the flying bus sequence was a physical effect, some elements were&#xA;  turned over to the visual effects team. There was a certain amount of&#xA;  blue screen work involved, mainly for the interior of the bus and the&#xA;  view from inside the bus. (In the story, the hostages are still inside&#xA;  the bus when it is airlifted through the canyons of the city. ) A blue&#xA;  screen was erected at the TWA hangar at Los Angeles International&#xA;  Airport to accommodate the huge set. The bus was hung 60 feet off the&#xA;  ground from a crane so it could swing free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The interior shots presented a challenge for stunt coordinator and 2nd&#xA;  unit director Dan Bradley. &quot;What I needed to do was to match the&#xA;  energy inside a bus flying throughout downtown L. A. in a hostage&#xA;  situation,&quot; Bradley relates. &quot;We needed people to react in broader&#xA;  ways. &quot; Bradley spent days working out the logistics with special&#xA;  effects coordinator Michael Meinardus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the most important things to determine was how much weight the&#xA;  bus would hold. &quot;We did test after test,&quot; says Bradley. &quot;As the bus&#xA;  dropped, everybody goes weightless and we needed to create that&#xA;  effect. As the bus traveled through its arc, they got a lot of&#xA;  negative and positive G's, floating out of the seats, starting to&#xA;  crawl back. Then when it hit the bottom of the arc, they're turned&#xA;  upside down. It's very disorienting. &quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also found the following &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1254/trivia&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; which corroborates the above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The scene with the helicopter putting the bus on the building was &#xA;  technically impossible as no building roof could hold that weight&#xA;  safely. So the crew built a set of the roof that was reinforced to&#xA;  hold the bus. The rest of the city was CGI inserted around it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Very little of the bus/helicopter scene was CGI. The director insisted&#xA;  that a real helicopter be used that could handle the load.&#xA;  This made the crew and the pilot extremely nervous as the load was&#xA;  almost 80% of the helicopter's capacity. The stunt crew held firm on&#xA;  the scene where the bus crashes into a meeting however. That was&#xA;  completely CGI as the pilot insisted that it was way too dangerous to&#xA;  attempt it even with a fake building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2015-05-15T20:09:22.160" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T20:09:22.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34378" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-15T19:15:30.480" Score="2" ViewCount="294" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the first movie that had a mecha or armored suit with a HUD like the one in Iron Man's suit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3534" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-08T08:58:42.980" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T08:58:42.980" Title="First movie with Iron Man like HUD" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34378" CreationDate="2015-05-15T19:39:42.710" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fighter pilots first used HUDs in the 1950's to display altitude, speed and targeting systems on the front of the cockpit canopy.  So, it'd be difficult to imagine any film before that time period would have any kind of HUD.  Not only was it not a widely known technology, but the special effects would have been impractical and costly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first movie I can think of that used HUD was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Terminator (1984)&lt;/a&gt;.  If anyone can think of one earlier, I'll be glad to delete my answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-05-15T19:39:42.710" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34388" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-15T23:56:30.903" Score="3" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Vampire Diaries&lt;/em&gt; S06E22 Elena is now human and has been linked with a spell to Bonnie's life; when Bonnie dies she will get her life back and wake up from this kind of &quot;coma&quot;. I wonder, wouldn't she get old waiting for decades since she is now human?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus Nina Dobrev is out of the show so it doesn't make really sense that they added this condition for her death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20534" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-03-29T09:53:27.153" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T09:53:27.153" Title="Won't Elena get old?" Tags="|ending|the-vampire-diaries|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34351" CreationDate="2015-05-16T05:07:16.000" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should one watch the first three Mad Max movies before watching Fury Road?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your emphasis is on the word &quot;should&quot;, then my answer is &lt;em&gt;NO&lt;/em&gt;. It's not necessary that you should watch the previous ones before watching Fury Road.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider, Fast &amp;amp; Furious movies, they've been making movies for more than a decade but each movie comes with new plot and additional characters. And they make it simpler for the audience by showing flashbacks of the previous movies in the current one or they show a reel of catchy scenes from previous movies as in Fast &amp;amp; Furious 6 credits song at the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/is-fury-road-a-sequel/&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; quotes on what cast and director says about the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We’re conditioned to think of series of movies as being part of an&#xA;  explicit chronology, but that’s not how this one works. There was talk&#xA;  at one point of Fury Road being a film set between The Road Warrior&#xA;  and Thunderdome, but it doesn’t play that way at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tom Hardy said,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We have to take it differently as George is taking it. It’s a relaunch&#xA;  and revisit to the world. An entire restructuring. &lt;strong&gt;That’s not to say&#xA;  that it’s not picking up or leaving off from the Mad Max you know&#xA;  already, but it’s a nice re-take on the entire world using the same&#xA;  character,&lt;/strong&gt; depositing him in the same world but bringing him up to&#xA;  date by 30 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Miller said at SXSW this year,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It’s sort of a revisit. The [previous] three films exist in no real&#xA;  clear chronology, because they were always conceived as different&#xA;  films.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question, you must be really interested in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do I Need to See the Other Films First?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No. Fury Road establishes everything you need to know about the&#xA;  characters and world.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I mean, you should see the other movies, because they’re good (Mad&#xA;  Max), great (The Road Warrior), and very uneven but with some really&#xA;  excellent bits (Thunderdome). But if this is your first ride with Max,&#xA;  this movie tells you everything you need to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But Isn’t an Actor From the Original Mad Max in This One?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yeah, he is. You might have heard that Hugh Keays-Byrne, who plays the&#xA;  main bad guy in the new film, also played the bad guy in the original&#xA;  movie. That’s true, but they’re different characters. There’s no&#xA;  connection between them at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is the second time Miller has used a major actor twice in Max’s&#xA;  films — Bruce Spence played two very similar but ultimately different&#xA;  characters in The Road Warrior and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. And the&#xA;  look of the Thunderdome character Scrooloose seems to have influenced&#xA;  the design of the War Boys (like Nicholas Hoult’s character) but&#xA;  there’s no link between them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read the full post if you're interested in questions like,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should I See Fury Road in 3D? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can You Recap the Other Mad Max Films?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion, you need not to worry whether you should watch the previous movies or not. But I'm sure the writers and director made this movie for new MAD MAX audience as well, without the need to watch the previous films. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2015-05-19T09:09:59.660" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T09:09:59.660" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2015-05-16T05:48:17.047" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the whole movie is a metaphor. Simon is very unhappy with who he is. He sees the man he wants to be but that's very different than the man he is. James is the man he wants to be, Simon is the man he is. The whole movie is a constant battle within himself over the man he wants to be, and the man he is. In the end we see that whatever happens to Simon happens to James thus showing that they are the same person. Simon doesn't know who he is anymore if the the man he used to be still exists, and he doesn't like it. All the jealousy and anger over himself and the man he wants to be sets in. He sees no other choice but to get rid of the man he wants to be altogether, and the only way to do that is to get rid of both of them, so he tries to kill himself, and he doesn't die, but the man does. His last words in the movie are &quot;I like to think I'm unique.&quot; This means he has finally come to terms with who he is and he is satisfied with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21271" LastActivityDate="2015-05-16T05:48:17.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28794" CreationDate="2015-05-16T07:40:29.587" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tapaswi was also very smart. He told Jagat Janani that Sarfaraz was cheating her because he was living in Bruges and working at the Pakistani embassy (as he said). But there is no Pakistani embassy in Bruges, but in Brussels which is 100 km away from that place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21275" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-05T18:18:43.083" LastActivityDate="2016-12-05T18:18:43.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34403" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36632" CreationDate="2015-05-16T12:58:44.770" Score="7" ViewCount="4190" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even if I am able to understand Norwegian, I barely understand what the (Norwegian) Swedish princess says to the prime minister in &lt;em&gt;Kingsman: The Secret Service&lt;/em&gt;. Is there a transcript of her accusations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21283" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T11:48:15.687" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T21:39:01.037" Title="What does the Swedish princess say to the prime minister in Kingsman?" Tags="|dialogue|kingsman-the-secret-service|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34404" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34405" CreationDate="2015-05-16T13:06:05.297" Score="22" ViewCount="27228" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; season 1, the Dothraki were supposed to make a choice on whether or not to follow Daenerys. And in season 2, some of them made the choice to betray her, but I don't suppose all of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, in season 5, we see the Unsullied and the Second Sons, but not any Dothraki followers. Did I forget some part of the series maybe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="442" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-16T13:20:48.203" LastActivityDate="2018-07-23T02:53:08.180" Title="What happened to the Dothraki loyal to Daenerys?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34404" CreationDate="2015-05-16T13:37:01.903" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are still around, but there were never that many of them to begin with, so they are fading into the background. In the screen shot below, form when Danaerys first arrives in Qarth, you can see the entire khalasar with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xNGnQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you watch the recent scenes with Dany in them, you'll occasionally see a Dothraki extra mixed in, mostly in her Queen's Guard. But the number of Unsullied is far, far greater than the number of Dothraki around her, plus the others in Dany's &quot;court&quot; she's picked up along the way. So the Dothraki are just not that prominent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-16T13:40:09.610" LastActivityDate="2015-05-16T13:40:09.610" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3720" CreationDate="2015-05-16T17:04:01.420" Score="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie at around 41:56, as Peter takes down the banner previously put up by Bill Lumbergh, you can see another banner in the background that diagrams the company name's etymology:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initiative + Technology = INITECH&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XRHo7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Initiative + Technology = INITECH&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21285" LastEditorUserId="36447" LastEditDate="2020-09-09T20:35:25.410" LastActivityDate="2020-09-09T20:35:25.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34408" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34511" CreationDate="2015-05-16T17:31:09.693" Score="4" ViewCount="6513" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we can see in the movie that Cooper brought themselves in the Tesseract and sent NASA coordinates etc. But when the bulk beings close the Tesseract, we saw him floating and redirecting back to the Saturn and we see him touching Amelia. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So does it mean, Cooper and other explorers are coming through the Wormhole again (thus a loop) and going to do same thing again and again (thus an infinite loop)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: This was not mentioned that the Wormhole is closed once Cooper is seen floating near Saturn. So is it correct to determine that the whole movie is infinite kinda loop?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One More PS: At exactly 2 hours and 3rd minute, we are shown that elder Murph has opened a basket and she is looking at the watch given by her dad and yes, we can see that second hand is floating which means apparently that Cooper has already fed data into that watch while on the same moment we see him and Dr. Mann fighting on icy planet. &#xA;So is it safe to presume that whole movie is an infinite loop?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19856" LastEditorUserId="19856" LastEditDate="2015-05-16T17:48:23.563" LastActivityDate="2022-07-17T06:32:16.400" Title="Was Interstellar an infinite loop?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12267" CreationDate="2015-05-16T18:31:13.617" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see the grill as a literary device which highlights the basic incompatibility between Hank and his wife.  In a prior episode she steals the silver tiara, with no guilt, and gives it away as a gift.  The tiara is a tiny silver semi circle, similar to Tuco's gold semi circular grill.  In Hanks case however he is the recipient of this gift which eventually elicits a panic attack.  Neither Hank nor his wife keep their precious metal arc - she blithely gives hers away, he casts his off with revulsion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21288" LastActivityDate="2015-05-16T18:31:13.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17403" CreationDate="2015-05-16T19:52:20.810" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;To Xander Feng, the bridge is nothing but a favor to his allies and friends. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In episode 5, the Vice president met him in a trade summit. When they're talking about the projects to be approved, the VP mentioned the Long Island Bridge; Feng stopped the conversation and asked a favor: to continue the lawsuit in the World Trade Organization for currency manipulation. Frank discovered that Xander Feng and Raymond Tusk are trying to manipulate the trade summit. Frank specifically notify that &lt;strong&gt;the bridge is very important to the administration&lt;/strong&gt; but to Feng is only &lt;em&gt;&quot;appearances&quot;&lt;/em&gt; to maintain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is really important to Feng is &lt;strong&gt;to start the Refinery project with Clayton West (Tusk's industry)&lt;/strong&gt;. This hypothesis reinforces when in Episode 7; some strange donations is starting to appear and is used in bad propaganda for democrats in face to midterms elections. Underwood discover the Feng-Tusk scheme and send Douglas Stamper to negotiate with Feng one more time; Feng asked to start ASAP the Long Island project. Remember, Feng is the one who rejected the bridge project in episode 5 after the chaos in the summit and Douglas asked why this strange change of mind but the reason was the simplest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Xander Feng: I have allies who want the bridge. Without it, they become my enemies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So again, the bridge &lt;strong&gt;is nothing&lt;/strong&gt; to Xander, the refinery is the big fish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21286" LastActivityDate="2015-05-16T19:52:20.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12011" CreationDate="2015-05-16T19:56:01.313" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;bad wolf is rose. she scatters the words (bad wolf) through space and time to lead herself to bad wolf corporations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21291" LastActivityDate="2015-05-16T19:56:01.313" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32466" CreationDate="2015-05-16T20:09:22.877" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember Garrett Walker was facing the impeachment and a special investigation for his participation in the Feng-Tusk money laundering's scheme through international donations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walker resigned before the impeachment but the investigation was ongoing; we can assume also that the investigation ended because Frank's orders. After all, the Justice Department didn't take part with FULL authority, because the &lt;em&gt;&quot;special&quot;&lt;/em&gt; part. And if the investigation finished finding Walker guilty, I bet Underwood gave him the pardon, just like Raymond Tusk.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21286" LastActivityDate="2015-05-16T20:09:22.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17915" CreationDate="2015-05-16T20:17:00.553" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think joker means that what doesnt kill you, (like the thing he puts in the bankers mouth) makes you a different (strange) person than what you had been... &#xA;Possibly because those who have had a near death experience usually have a different (strange) perspective about life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Expln. Build on: Dictionary meaning of strange i.e. unusual, uncommon or different from the normal course..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21293" LastActivityDate="2015-05-16T20:17:00.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34416" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-16T21:00:06.247" Score="20" ViewCount="23255" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Galadriel fights Sauron at Dol Guldur in &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies&lt;/em&gt;, she says to him &quot;You have no power here, servant of Morgoth. You are nameless, shapeless, formless...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time, it sounds like Sauron is saying stuff in the Black Speech, but it's not translated in subtitles like it was earlier in the scene. The last of Sauron's lines that was translated in the subtitles was &quot;The Age of the Orc has come.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what he was saying?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19577" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-19T21:55:55.927" LastActivityDate="2018-08-05T12:57:37.907" Title="What is Sauron saying when Galadriel defeats him at Dol Guldur?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|the-hobbit|the-battle-of-the-five-armies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1786" CreationDate="2015-05-16T21:27:35.157" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of Ken Loach's films have a huge amount of swearing in them.  Sweet Sixteen must have the highest ratios of swear words to words overall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His 1969 film Kes used the words &quot;bastard&quot; and &quot;twat&quot; a few times, and one case of &quot;fucking&quot;.  This seemed to pass without much controversy at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21294" LastActivityDate="2015-05-16T21:27:35.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34408" CreationDate="2015-05-16T23:38:39.183" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it isn't a loop. Inside the Tesseract, Cooper was freely &quot;travelling&quot; through time (but only one location, Murph's room) and giving signals we saw in the first part of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As he is leaving the Tesseract towards the Saturn, he briefly encounters that moment when a &quot;being&quot; shook hands with Amelia and it turns out that that being was, much like the &quot;ghost&quot;, Cooper himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The location where this happens is between the black hole (where he left off) and the Saturn (where he ended up), and the time is between when he gave Murph the data through the watch (which is the moment in time that he left Tesseract) and between the present of a normal timeline (the time in which he emerges). That moment was on his way, both in space and time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, he goes to Amelia, who we see setting up a camp &quot;by the light of our new sun, in our new home&quot;. The time goes on and there is no loop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2015-05-16T23:38:39.183" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34422" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-17T06:52:25.550" Score="2" ViewCount="367" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Tenenbaums&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia Article&lt;/a&gt; on The Royal Tenenbaums claims that Margot and Eli were having an affair, but I find this somewhat difficult to believe. Other than the one scene in which Eli leaves Margot's room by window, there didn't seem to be any indication of this. In fact, during the entire movie, it seems that Margot is quite emotionally distant from Eli. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, are there any good indications that Margot and Eli were having an affair? Note that I'm not really willing to believe the claims of the private investigators (it's not clear to me why they couldn't have just made things up; beyond that their findings seem to contradict Margot's secretive lifestyle.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21304" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-17T12:52:13.040" LastActivityDate="2015-05-17T12:52:13.040" Title="Was Margot Having an Affair with Eli?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-royal-tenenbaums|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24402" CreationDate="2015-05-17T13:30:00.917" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found a version of it on you tube. Itssounds exactly like it.&#xA;Search under Strange Fruit and it should give you several to choose from including a version from Nina Simone and Annie Lennox. The one I found and compared to was  Billie Holiday w/lyrics. She is on the album cover with a blue background. I sure hope that it turns out to be what you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21303" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-17T13:38:38.653" LastActivityDate="2015-05-17T13:38:38.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34434" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34457" CreationDate="2015-05-17T15:48:26.963" Score="12" ViewCount="13865" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 4 of Breaking Bad (Episode 4 or 5): Walt and Hank (with their families) are at Hank's place having dinner. At some point, Walt goes to the kitchen for another bottle of wine. &#xA;He drinks a glass while at the kitchen and hears Hank talk about Heisenberg (which he believes to be Gale). I assume that Walt hears the conversation and his ego is fighting the urge to take credit for the genius acts done by Heisenberg that allowed him to evade the D.E.A. and also fights the urge not to confess too much to Hank to make him suspect him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: Why does Walt plant the idea that Heisenberg might still be alive and out there, when Hank believes that the case is closed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What will he gain? is it pure ego? is it because of the too much wine he drank?&#xA;Or is it a simple tactic to keep viewers in suspense (especially after the fact that Walt dudged a bullet when he decoded W.W. as Walt Whitman in Gale's Lab Notebook)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T15:09:51.460" Title="Why does Walt &quot;try to take credit&quot; for his crime?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34435" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-17T17:29:09.867" Score="46" ViewCount="2988" Body="&lt;p&gt;I happen, time and again, to read and hear people – among which people working in cinema – regretting the fact that film (in the sense of actual reels of plastic strip) is nowadays very rarely used when shooting movies. Is there some ground to such nostalgia?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I am not looking for opinions for or against film vs. digital media, but sourced, objective reasons. Is there anything that could be done with film but not with digital supports? Are there measurable differences in effects on viewers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3975" LastEditorUserId="3975" LastEditDate="2015-05-17T21:46:28.527" LastActivityDate="2020-08-23T09:17:00.273" Title="Was film actually “better” than digital media?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24402" CreationDate="2015-05-17T21:06:49.053" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tunefind.com/show/criminal-minds/season-9/16477&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Billie Holiday's&lt;/a&gt; original. Do note that the makers edited the song somewhat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless the version on Netflix has a different version, but I doubt a recent TV show hasn't secured all necessary rights for such usage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-05-17T21:06:49.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32270" CreationDate="2015-05-17T21:28:08.530" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is 1999's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hudsonlee.com/kolobos/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kolobos&lt;/a&gt;. The circular saw and antler deaths are both female victims. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolobos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[A]n artist named Kyra (Amy Weber), has agreed to take part in an experimental film. The film will have several different people living together for three months while the cameras record their interactions. Her artwork, which are inspired by a creepy faceless entity, disturb her new housemates. The group gets along well until night time, when a series of deadly traps pick them off one by one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0V9M5i3Lrs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;trailer&lt;/a&gt; [Warning: Gory].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21314" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-05-17T21:35:47.133" LastActivityDate="2015-05-17T21:35:47.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34445" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-17T22:07:36.493" Score="5" ViewCount="22698" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Prison Break&lt;/em&gt; Michael made these origami paper Swans and he dropped one down a sewer/drainage hole in the center of the Fox river state Penitentiary field, where all the inmates hang out in their free time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, shortly after this episode, John Abruzzi had a call from someone that had a message that said they knew of Fibonacci's location and in that message included an origami Swan that Michael had previously sent to John's accomplice.  I presumed the origami Swan shown previously was a lead up to this scene, so the viewers knew Michael was the one behind sending the origami and knew of Fibonacci's location and that John Abruzzi would team up with Michael.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, what was Michael trying to do or work out by dropping the original origami bird down the drainage hole there? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This origami scene was included in the show's intro:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V28oY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="749" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T21:11:40.517" LastActivityDate="2018-10-22T22:45:58.517" Title="What was the point of the origami Swan being dropped in the sewers by Michael?" Tags="|prison-break|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34447" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34465" CreationDate="2015-05-17T22:37:56.177" Score="4" ViewCount="1399" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Black Swan, my impression was that Nina's psychosis occurred in part due to both the pressure she put on herself to be &quot;perfect,&quot; as well as the creepy relationship and emotional manipulation with her mother (e.g. licking the icing off of her mother's finger, her mother saying she'll dump the birthday cake in the garbage because Nina doesn't want to eat it, saying that having Nina was a mistake that ruined her own ballet career, controlling Nina by constantly calling her to keep track of her, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was pretty convinced that all of this emotional manipulation was real since it doesn't contradict anything else seen in the movie. However, I was recently talking to someone who argued that Nina's perceptions of her mother were probably distorted by her mental illness. Is there any consensus or official position on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19577" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T08:18:06.980" Title="How much of Nina's mother's emotional manipulation was real?" Tags="|plot-explanation|black-swan|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31481" CreationDate="2015-05-17T23:08:22.317" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vectors describe magnitude and direction. Vector analysis is used at crime scenes when detectives study blood spatter patterns and bullet pathways (for example) to determine where someone stood when they were shot, how far away the killer stood, etc. In mathematics, vectors are typically drawn as arrows of varying length.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodstain_pattern_analysis#Determining_angles_of_impact&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; from wikipedia which shows how blood spatters are translated into vectors in order to determine angles of impact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2015-05-17T23:08:22.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34435" CreationDate="2015-05-17T23:17:40.120" Score="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to start an answer but this is by no means complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether you're talking about film as a recording medium or as a presentation format, there are people who prefer both. You can do a lot of research on why one is better than the other but a lot of it comes down to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiewire.com/article/10-reasons-why-filmmakers-should-shoot-film-according-to-kodak&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;personal preference&lt;/a&gt; in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;As a Recording Medium&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are pros and cons for film and for digital. Some directors are sticklers for using film, particularly for quality/stylistic reasons, while others like the freedom allowed with digital media. Here are just a few of the major differences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_versus_film_photography#Dynamic_range&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dynamic range&lt;/a&gt; -&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;em&gt;How pretty will it be?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're going to get better whites and blacks and colors with film than with digital. The digital sensors just aren't quite sensitive enough (yet) to mimic film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no limit to the number of possible levels of color on emulsion film, whereas a digital sensor stores integer numbers, producing a limited and specific possible number of colors. Banding may be visible in the unusual case that it is not obscured by noise, and detail may be lost, particularly in shadow and highlight areas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://120studio.com/dynamic-range.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;'s an article comparing digital and film stills to show the dynamic range differences between the two... it's pretty impressive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a summary statement on the site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's 2014 and when I shoot digital, I'm still using a cheap one for most things.  That's because in late 2014, even the expensive ones still blow out highlights in a nasty, computerized, unacceptable-looking way. Full-frame digital gives slightly more leeway, but it's still not slide film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At least when highlights get blown out with film, they look natural.  As we've seen, Fuji Superia negative film was able to tolerate seven full stops of highlight overexposure and still yield a pleasant, smooth-looking picture.   It could be ten or twenty stops overexposed, and the worst that would happen is that it would yield a smooth-edged transition to pure white.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to your basic question, this is the immediate answer... none of the other factors listed below are important to directors who care about this one. Film was (and is) still &lt;strong&gt;better&lt;/strong&gt; in a quantifiable way, than digital.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything below here is why so many opt to forgo what some consider a very minor difference between the two and make the switch to digital:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cost -&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;em&gt;How much do I have to fork over?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Film is &lt;strong&gt;expensive&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With film projects, a major cost of making is the cost of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.motion.kodak.com/motion/Products/Product_Information/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;film stock&lt;/a&gt; (around $769 USD/roll), processing, digitizing (so that it can be edited digitally), preserving, and storing the film negatives. And, with the increasing use of digital, these costs are likely rising as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinematography.com/index.php?showtopic=60917&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;fewer film-processing companies&lt;/a&gt; are around...  If you're interested in the costs, there's a site that outlines some of them &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.matthewwagenknecht.com/the-actual-costs-of-film/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, not sure how recent the info is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That isn't to say that digital doesn't have costs of its own... Camera cards, storage media, etc ... do have expenses associated with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ease of Loss -&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;em&gt;How much can I screw up and still get a movie out of it?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to say that it's impossible to screw up or lose digital files... it is... but it's not nearly as easy as screwing up a roll of undeveloped film. One little light leak and the last two hours of work is down the drain. With film, you have to train people how to properly load and unload film rolls and to particularly be wary of any light... and you have to protect those shot and un-shot rolls from the moment you buy them until they've been finished processing. Even only taking into account the time from when shot to developed and digitized, it can be a day or two... or a week before the film is truly &amp;quot;safe&amp;quot;... and this often requires mailing or couriering it across several states depending on if there's a processing house anywhere nearby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With digital, when you pop the card out of the camera it goes to your data wrangler who will download the data and likely make multiple copies of it and verify that the files are good. Within an hour, your data is &amp;quot;safe&amp;quot;. If you're smart and do make multiple copies of the data and keep them in different places, the chance you'll lose everything is miniscule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reviewing Shots -&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;em&gt;How quickly can I see the mess the actors made of my dialogue?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated above, you don't know what you've got on film until it's developed... which can take a day to a week. Some sets may do a simultaneous recording on a digital camera but it may not record an identical image to the 35mm camera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Digital media can be instantly reviewed by simply watching the digital files on the camera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Length of Shots -&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;em&gt;How often do I have to stop and change my media?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A standard roll of film has a run time of about 11 minutes when run at 24 frames per second... regardless of the type of film, actually. It's the same running time for 35 mm and 16 mm, just smaller (shorter) rolls for the 16 mm. Note, this also means you have to change rolls of film every 11 minutes of shooting time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on the digital camera used, recording quality and the size of the memory cards, you can get much more time on a digital camera.  Here's some info from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.arri.com/camera/alexa/workflow/working_with_proresdnxhd/recording/media_and_codecs/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Arri Alexa's&lt;/a&gt; recording info page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wcavr.png&quot; alt=&quot;Alexa record times&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To paraphrase, with a 64 GB card, you'll get between 24 and 210 minutes of recording time depending on the codec you use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other differences, obviously, but these are the big ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;As a Presentation Format&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dynamic range issues exist here, too but the production companies have a bit more control and they're a bit more finicky about price.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some numbers from an undated &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ucira.ucsb.edu/movie-studios-are-forcing-hollywood-to-abandon-35mm-film-but-the-consequences-of-going-digital-are-vast-and-troubling/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; on the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today, the driving force isn’t so much a single movie as it is the studios’ bottom line — they no longer want to pay to physically print and ship movies. It costs about &lt;strong&gt;$1,500&lt;/strong&gt; to print one copy of a movie on 35 mm film and ship it to theaters in its heavy metal canister. Multiply that by 4,000 copies — one for each movie on each screen in each multiplex around the country — and the numbers start to get ugly. By comparison, putting out a digital copy costs a mere $150.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar amount is noted on the Wikipedia page about &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_print#Production_and_disposal&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;release prints&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Release prints are generally expensive. For example, in the United States, it is not unusual for each one to cost around $1,500 to print and ship to theaters around the country. The cost of a release print is determined primarily by its length in feet, the type of print stock used and the number of prints being struck in a given run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-17T23:36:05.377" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30457" CreationDate="2015-05-18T00:39:57.393" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The episode aired in May 2005, and an &lt;a href=&quot;http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0LEVr_yM1lVZ1QA6ScnnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTEycXN2dTI2BGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMyBHZ0aWQDQjAxMjdfMQRzZWMDc3I-/RV=2/RE=1431938163/RO=10/RU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seattleweekly.com%2F2005-05-25%2Farts%2Fjust-put-your-lips-together%2F/RK=0/RS=0CAhwsrOeqp3_Gi2ixu8hFnrAVY-&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; in the the &lt;em&gt;Seattle News&lt;/em&gt; from October 2006 (&lt;em&gt;Just Put Your Lips Together&lt;/em&gt;) discusses the career of pro whistler Steve Herbst, mentioning that he &quot;recently contributed to an episode of Malcolm in the Middle.&quot; Think this must be your man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T00:39:57.393" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34434" CreationDate="2015-05-18T01:48:05.467" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's pure ego. This has always been Walt's greatest sin: his pride and ego. Mike calls him out on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mike Ehrmantraut: We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch! We had Fring. We had a lab. We had everything we needed, and it all ran like clockwork. You could've shut your mouth, cooked and made as much money as you ever needed. It was perfect. But, no, you just had to blow it up. You and your pride and your ego! You just had to be the man. If you'd done your job, known your place, we'd all be fine right now. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He later confesses to his wife that the only reason he stayed in the drug business was because &lt;em&gt;he&lt;/em&gt; liked it, not because he was making money for his family (even if that was his excuse).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T01:48:05.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11265" CreationDate="2015-05-18T02:19:05.250" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Jackie is not ready and able to deal with AA and having a real sponsor, so instead she calls the now deceased Charlie. It's her form of therapeutic release.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21324" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T02:19:05.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34350" CreationDate="2015-05-18T03:41:17.177" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were also drummers (I believe there were four of them, playing bass drums). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple of possibilities: &#xA;As motivation the warboys. The drummers played a driving beat, and the guitarist/bassist accompanied that beat with swelling riffs that would keep the war party pumped up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was entertaining to the war party. This coincides with motivation, but the warriors were not pursuing their own interests, but the interests of  Immortan Joe. (It could be said that pursuing his interests was an indirect way to pursue their own, but they really were more like dogs, hoping to make their master happy and didn't have much personal agency). Adding a little entertainment to their day was a small thing that could keep them on task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It frightened any one they were pursuing. It's hard to sneak up on anyone with several 2000 horsepower war rigs riding in convoy. But throw a guitarist with a wall of speakers playing loudly, and your enemies will know you are coming. The fact that you don't need to sneak, and proclaim your presence loudly, is a sign of confidence, and probably of superior military might.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Immortan Joe liked it. This seems the most likely, since Immortan Joe got everything he wanted and the entire population of the Citadel catered to his desires. So I would venture that he liked having a psycho guitarist riffing while he drove his war rig.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it is a nice tip of the hat to the warrior of the wasteland, Lord Humungus, the ayatollah of rock-and-rollah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T03:41:17.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34461" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34486" CreationDate="2015-05-18T04:09:20.063" Score="4" ViewCount="369" Body="&lt;p&gt;In closing scenes of the final episode of Mad Men, we see many lose ends tied up. Joan is settled, Peggy is settled, Roger is settled. But what about Don?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see Don meditating, repeating the Om chant at the retreat in California. Immediately following that moment, we see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/coke-lore-hilltop-story&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;famous Coke ad&lt;/a&gt;, 'I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke.' The logical deduction is that the two are related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the significance of the Coke ad?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T04:46:34.270" Title="What is the significance of the Coke ad?" Tags="|mad-men|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34462" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-18T04:23:05.970" Score="3" ViewCount="1843" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read some articles/books talking about how the Jedi in Star Wars follow similar practices as buddhism. In Return of the Jedi, Luke did not want to fight Vader, but starts fighting once Vader says he will try to turn Leia to the dark side. After cutting off his hand, he decides not to kill him out of compassion&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if Jedi are supposed to be compassionate and have to see the good in others, how come Luke doesn't try to stop Vader from killing the emperor and instead try to see the good in him also? Also, the sequels/prequels constantly show the Jedi killing other monsters and villains. Why don't they try to see the good in them as well? For example, Darth Maul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21327" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T06:27:00.770" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T13:18:21.883" Title="Why does Luke let Darth Vader kill the Emperor?" Tags="|character|star-wars|return-of-the-jedi|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34447" CreationDate="2015-05-18T08:18:06.980" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.examiner.com/article/black-swan-a-cinematic-portrayal-of-schizophrenia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; link a psychologist analyzes the movie proving that Nina is a paranoid schizophrenic and that her psycotic break might be caused &lt;strong&gt;also&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;by her mother&lt;/em&gt;; in particular it is said that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nina is overshadowed by her controlling and emotionally abusive&#xA;  mother (played by Barbara Hershey) who is convinced she &quot;gave up&quot; her&#xA;  career for parenthood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the psychologist takes for granted that the relation with her mother is real and not something that happens only in Nina's mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T08:18:06.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34467" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34468" CreationDate="2015-05-18T10:04:47.423" Score="3" ViewCount="2493" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Good Morning Vietnam&lt;/em&gt;, Adrian Cronauer says the line,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It’s damn hot! I saw — It’s so damn hot, I saw little guys, their orange robes burst into flames.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whom is he referring to as “little guys” with “orange robes”? Is he referring to Buddhism in Vietnam and monks wearing orange robes? But why “burst into flames”?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can listen to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deezer.com/track/85496168?utm_source=deezer&amp;amp;utm_content=track-85496168&amp;amp;utm_term=226219145_1431943503&amp;amp;utm_medium=web&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the dialogue&lt;/a&gt; at about 01:32.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20195" LastEditorUserId="607" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T13:01:39.753" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T13:01:39.753" Title="Who are the little guys wearing orange robes?" Tags="|dialogue|good-morning-vietnam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34467" CreationDate="2015-05-18T10:36:28.883" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are correct to assume that Adrian meant Buddhist monks. In June 1963, the Vietnamese monk &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thích Quảng Đức&lt;/a&gt; burned himself in the middle of Saigon in protest of the persecution of Buddhists. This was followed by similar cases. &lt;a href=&quot;http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2043123,00.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Time&lt;/a&gt; expands:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first and most famous moment of self-immolation as agitprop was that of Thich Quang Duc in 1963. Under the rule of Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnam largely advanced the agenda of the country's Catholic minority and discriminated against Buddhist monks. In one of the most dramatic instances of individual protest, Quang Duc doused himself in gasoline in the middle of a Saigon street and lit himself ablaze.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Afterward, four more monks and a nun set themselves ablaze protesting Diem before his regime finally fell in 1963. Rather suddenly, setting oneself on fire became a political act. As the American presence increased in Vietnam in the mid- to late 1960s, more and more monks committed self-immolation, including thirteen in one week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T10:36:28.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34471" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34445" CreationDate="2015-05-18T12:26:50.510" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Changing my comment into an answer...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Michael uses the Origami swan to figure out where the drain pipe flows so that he can use it in the escape. IIRC, later on in the season he sees the Swan out in the yard.  The reason he uses a swan rather than a random piece of paper is to distinguish it from the trash that would be caught up in the sewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20458" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T12:26:50.510" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34462" CreationDate="2015-05-18T13:22:34.587" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Luke wasn't exactly in a position to stop Vader from killing Palpatine. Remember, he was being attacked by Force Lightning at the time, and Vader picked up Palpatine and threw him in a shaft in the space of about two seconds. There wouldn't have been time for Luke to recover and react even if he had wanted to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also, the sequels/prequels constantly show the Jedi killing other monsters and villains. Why don't they try to see the good in them as well? For example, Darth Maul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Darth Maul blocked the path of a heavily-armed group of soldiers, Qui-Gon sent them away so that he and Obi-Wan could deal with Maul. They could have just opened fire on him, but they didn't. Sometimes even Jedi are forced into fighting to defend themselves or the Republic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T13:22:34.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34474" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35027" CreationDate="2015-05-18T16:07:17.620" Score="28" ViewCount="268788" Body="&lt;p&gt;Five of us watched Mad Max: Fury Road and were unsure what the silver &quot;valhalla spray&quot; was- certainly it had to do with Valhalla, but.. is it paint? Freezing spray? What is its significance, and how is it related to the use in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9685" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2015-05-25T06:42:14.960" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T02:58:06.667" Title="What was the silver &quot;valhalla spray&quot; in Fury Road?" Tags="|analysis|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28073" CreationDate="2015-05-18T16:16:55.977" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As explained, Jack does not truly gets Christmas. Furthermore, even if he saw gifts from Christmas Town, he might just have noticed they are small objects, with fun colors, and which are childish.&#xA;Nevertheless, as we can see at the beginning, Halloween people are really enjoying frightening things and they are having fun with the creepiest jokes, so they did it as well and it did not surprise Jack at first. That's why he only understands his mistake after he has been taken down by the army (graveyard scene/song &quot;what have I done&quot; &amp;lt;- means &quot;now I realize I did not do it well)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jack might also have convinced himself while telling Santa is a terrible guy, and thinks to understand that this big boy might like &quot;Halloween Style Xmas&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19796" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T10:15:26.027" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T10:15:26.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34476" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34479" CreationDate="2015-05-18T16:26:32.390" Score="6" ViewCount="6499" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Mad Max: Fury Road, there are at least two liquids that were being carried, but it wasn't entirely clear what each tank contained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the rear pod contained gasoline, and the front tank may have contained &quot;mothers milk&quot; or water. What did the front tank contain? Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9685" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-26T12:33:00.067" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T12:33:00.067" Title="What liquid was being carried in the tanker?" Tags="|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34477" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-18T16:46:25.310" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mad Mas: Fury Road follows the story of Max after he is captured and then used as a blood bag for a dieing war boy and eventually befriending Charlize Theron's character Furiosa in her quest to save a handful of young women for Immortan Joe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-06-27T08:54:43.920" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T08:54:43.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34478" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-18T16:46:25.310" Score="0" Body="Mad Max: Fury Road is a 2015 continuation of the 1979 'Mad Max' post-apocalyptic series. It stars Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy. It had a $150 million budget with very little chroma key use." OwnerUserId="9685" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T16:54:48.413" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T16:54:48.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34476" CreationDate="2015-05-18T16:54:34.633" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looked to me like the rear pod contained gasoline (&quot;guzzleline&quot;), the big tank contained fresh water, and there were buckets or containers on the side that were full of mothers' milk that Max splashed on his face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Max first encountered the tanker, they had a hose that just gushed fresh water for a long time.  Max drank from that.  I got the feeling that was from the enormous tank, and that was going to be used as payment to the gasoline manufacturer Furiosa was supposed to drive to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, when Max had blood on his forehead, he splashed the mothers' milk from the separate small buckets / containers attached to the side of the tanker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several times there was mention of the &quot;fuel pod&quot; being towed behind the tanker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T18:16:32.533" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T18:16:32.533" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4127" CreationDate="2015-05-18T17:16:12.967" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned in the other answers, the operating system itself is a fake, but in terms of &amp;quot;what could the hacking dongle do, coding wise&amp;quot;... well, anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Universal Serial Bus used for these devices &lt;a href=&quot;https://srlabs.de/badusb/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;already has a proof of concept allowing a machine to be compromised just from inserting a compromised USB stick&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BadUSB – Turning devices evil. Once reprogrammed, benign devices can turn malicious in many ways, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A device can emulate a keyboard and issue commands on behalf of the logged-in user, for example to exfiltrate files or install malware. Such malware, in turn, can infect the controller chips of other USB devices connected to the computer.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The device can also spoof a network card and change the computer’s DNS setting to redirect traffic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A modified thumb drive or external hard disk can – when it detects that the computer is starting up – boot a small virus, which infects the computer’s operating system prior to boot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would simply be a case of knowing exactly what commands to send to get the data you need, and since it's Stark's computer accessing Stark's data storage via Stark's network, it's highly likely he already had those answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T17:16:12.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34481" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34482" CreationDate="2015-05-18T17:30:02.140" Score="3" ViewCount="6665" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt; chapter 33 (episode 7 of season 3), there is a scene where writer Tom Yates seems to introduce a new video game to Frank Underwood. This is not Monument Valley (that appears in a previous episode). What game is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2089" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-18T17:33:03.933" LastActivityDate="2016-08-03T08:44:55.837" Title="Which video game do Underwood and Yates play in chapter 33?" Tags="|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-08-03T10:20:35.917" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34481" CreationDate="2015-05-18T17:36:14.910" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The game being played is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stanleyparable.com/&quot;&gt;The Stanley Parable&lt;/a&gt;. Here is a YouTube video of the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/LWUNxcvZCpg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/stanleyparable/comments/2xdod4/kevin_spacey_playing_the_stanley_parable_in_house/&quot;&gt;This conversation also happened on Reddit&lt;/a&gt;... &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/HouseOfCards/comments/2xc15m/chapter_33_house_of_cards_season_3_episode_7/&quot;&gt;and this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T17:36:14.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34461" CreationDate="2015-05-18T20:00:10.900" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unless &lt;strong&gt;Matthew Weiner&lt;/strong&gt; decides to elaborate on it, we can only speculate, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/mad-men-person-person-219567&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;like the reviewer at The AV Club&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The final scene shows Don chanting in harmony with his fellow&#xA;  meditators. “The new day brings new hope,” says the group leader. “The&#xA;  lives we’ve led, the lives we’ve yet to lead. A new day. New ideas. A&#xA;  new you.” The image of a newly calm Don gives way to the famous “Buy&#xA;  The World A Coke” ad. The singers wear the loose hippie garb favored&#xA;  by the visitors at the self-improvement retreat; a couple of them bear&#xA;  a resemblance to specific people who Don encountered. A woman with&#xA;  ribbons in her braids, for instance…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;…looks a lot like the woman at the front desk who tells Don that&#xA;  “people are free to come and go as they please”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The implication is that Don went back to the only home that would have&#xA;  him — McCann, where Peggy extended a perpetual welcome — and applied his&#xA;  newfound insights to launch an iconic Coke campaign.&lt;/strong&gt; The ad came about&#xA;  once Don understood that he wasn’t alone in his loneliness. After a&#xA;  decade where earnest ideas of free love and deeper understanding were&#xA;  juxtaposed against assassinations and spectacular societal&#xA;  discord—dreams that carried their own disappointment in tow—Don’s pain&#xA;  was simply a pronounced and individual iteration of a hurt that&#xA;  pervaded the culture. So Don promises to assuage that anxiety, with&#xA;  soda pop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/18/jon-hamm-explains-final-scene-mad-men&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jon Hamm weighs in&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/18/mad-men-finale-jon-hamm-interview/?module=BlogPost-Title&amp;amp;version=Blog%20Main&amp;amp;contentCollection=Arts&amp;amp;action=Click&amp;amp;pgtype=Blogs&amp;amp;region=Body&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;In an interview with The New York Times on Monday&lt;/a&gt;, Hamm says&#xA;  there “probably” is a correct reading of the final scene, though he&#xA;  notes that it was a “a bit ambiguous.” Viewers of the acclaimed AMC&#xA;  drama saw Don meditating at a retreat in Big Sur, uttering a serene&#xA;  “om,” and issuing a small-yet-revelatory smile before Coke’s famous&#xA;  1971 “I’d Like to Buy the World A Coke” commercial closed out the&#xA;  series. He says that he “was struck by the poetry of it,” though &lt;strong&gt;when&#xA;  series creator Matthew Weiner first shared with him the concept for&#xA;  the closing image, it did not come with context&lt;/strong&gt;. “I didn’t know&#xA;  how his plans were, to get Don to this meditative, contemplative&#xA;  place,” he said. “I just knew that he had this final image in mind.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My take is that, the next day, he wakes up in this beautiful place,&#xA;  and has this serene moment of understanding, and realizes who he is.&#xA;  And who he is, is an advertising man. And so, this thing comes to him.&#xA;  There’s a way to see it in a completely cynical way, and say, ‘Wow,&#xA;  that’s awful.’ But I think that for Don, it represents some kind of&#xA;  understanding and comfort in this incredibly unquiet, uncomfortable&#xA;  life that he has led.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mad-men-series-finale-matthew-797302&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Matthew Weiner confirmed the theory&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in a discussion with novelist A.M. Homes on Wednesday at the New York Public Library:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes, Don Draper created the Coke ad. The last scenes of the series&#xA;  features Don hugging a stranger at a retreat and meditating with&#xA;  hippies, before the episode cuts to the 1971 Coca-Cola &quot;Hilltop&quot;&#xA;  commercial, to infer that Don returns to McCann-Erickson and creates&#xA;  that ad. &quot;I have never been clear, and I have always been able to live&#xA;  with ambiguities,&quot; said Weiner. &quot;In the abstract, I did think, why not&#xA;  end this show with the greatest commercial ever made? In terms of what&#xA;  it means to people and everything, I am not ambiguity for ambiguity's&#xA;  sake. But it was nice to have your cake and eat it too, in terms of&#xA;  what is advertising, who is Don and what is that thing?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-05-21T04:46:34.270" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T04:46:34.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34488" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-18T21:37:20.480" Score="12" ViewCount="84128" Body="&lt;p&gt;So... me and my friend have been arguing ever since Avengers: Age of Ultron was released.  He thinks that Vision is literally just Jarvis in a new body. But I disagree. I think that Vision is an entirely new entity.&#xA;...let me walk through this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Ultron tries to make a perfect synthetic body for himself and uploads a good bit of himself into the body... then Tony and Bruce get ahold of it and try to upload Jarvis into it (they start to but it's ruined by Quicksilver). Then Thor (after seeing  visions of the future and the world being destroyed by the mind stone) brings Vision to life with an electric hammer bash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Vision then wakes up and is confused about where he is.&#xA;After a brief fight scene he is changing his appearance...and talking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://transcripts.wikia.com/wiki/Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Transcripts Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Steve Rogers: Why does your &quot;vision&quot; sound like JARVIS?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Tony Stark: We... we reconfigured JARVIS' matrix to create something new.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Steve Rogers: I think I've had my fill of new.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Vision: You think I'm a child of Ultron?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Steve Rogers: You're not?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Vision: I'm not Ultron. I'm not JARVIS. I am... I am.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... in that last line Vision stated that he is NOT Jarvis. Yet my friend still states that Jarvis is the Vision. And I have argued back as well as I can but he won't budge. But I feel that fact is...that Vision (although he has some ofJarvis that he was made up of) is an new entity and is not &quot;controlled&quot; by Jarvis (like the way Jarvis can control the Iron Man suits).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a very raging argument and im slowly being beat down by a lot of nieve people agreeing with him. And I would appreciate a lot of feedback on the matter below. So is Jarvis the Vision?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21340" LastEditorUserId="63984" LastEditDate="2018-06-23T09:57:25.553" LastActivityDate="2018-06-23T09:57:25.553" Title="Is J.A.R.V.I.S. the Vision?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2015-05-20T06:56:43.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34488" CreationDate="2015-05-18T22:05:57.343" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tl;dr:&lt;/strong&gt; JARVIS is not The Vision. JARVIS is &lt;em&gt;one part of&lt;/em&gt; The Vision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Vision is a unique entity that was formed by the merging of quite a few distinct elements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ultron's base &quot;operating system&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The power of the Mind Stone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;protocols&quot; (personality?) of JARVIS.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Random Thor Magic&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of The Vision is actually based on Ultron. Remember that Ultron spent a long time uploading himself into the body that he built. He intended for it to be his body, when it was completed, and had poured a lot of his own programming into the body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, Ultron has fused the Mind Stone onto the body, knowing how powerful it was. Ultron knew that part of the Mind Stone's power was used to create his own programming, but by fusing it directly onto the new body, he was making something &quot;better&quot; than his current form. Ultron must have known that this would somehow unlock the full potential of the Mind Stone, which is why he wanted it transfer himself into that body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, Stark and Banner took recovered bits of JARVIS's programming, and uploaded them into the partially-completed body. The goal here was to make the thing that Stark wanted all along -- as smart and Ultron but with JARVIS's sense of purpose and &quot;good behavior&quot; built in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, The Vision was only completed when Thor charged it with Mjolnir. It's kept somewhat vague in the movie just how much this affected the final outcome. But, note that Quicksilver had &lt;em&gt;unplugged&lt;/em&gt; the coffin from all of Stark's equipment before it had finished whatever it was doing, and Thor's lightning completed that process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Vision, therefore, is an amalgam of all of those elements together, which makes him a separate, sentient being -- even more than a simple AI, and certainly way beyond what JARVIS was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T22:05:57.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34350" CreationDate="2015-05-18T23:50:55.263" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose is to play the historic role of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummer_boy_%28military%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;drummer boy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until well into the 19th century, western armies recruited young boys to act as drummers. The drums were an important part of the battlefield communications system, with various drum rolls used to signal different commands from officers to troops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, you're not the only one wondering &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; this guy's in the film.  Alex Zalben of MTV News &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/news/2161513/mad-max-fury-road-guitar-player-doof-warrior-colin-gibson/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;asked the question&lt;/a&gt; of Colin Gibson, the film's production designer... oh, and as an added note, it actually works!:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MTV News: There’s a lot of crazy elements in the movie, but every time that guitar guy appears you can’t take your eyes off of him… So where did the initial genesis of that look and of that idea come from?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Colin Gibson:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, the initial genesis I have to say, when I came in — when I was offered the project — there wasn’t a script, but there were all the storyboards. And every armada, every battle, every army, has a little drummer boy. Uncle George, being George Miller, imagined the biggest little drummer boy in the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the plan basically was to try to come up with a vehicle, an idea that could be heard over the roar of a couple of hundred amps. And the only way to do that was to build the largest, last Marshall stack at the end of the universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bungee cord included, the best guitarist in the world in front of it — and then backing with some tiger drummers and basically trying to build the drums more and more. We ended up with an 8-wheel drive, an ex-military rocket launching track to give us enough scale, and then turned the reverberators and built them out of old air conditioning duct steel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that and a little stage and a huge PA system — and then George cast a fantastic singer performer, cabaret artist called iOTA in the role of Coma the Doof warrior. And the Doof machine basically was just that. It was a huge thing that went “Doof, doof, doof,” and gave us the beat of the battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as to the character's backstory:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MTV: George also came up with this incredible back-story for everyone… I imagine the Doof warrior has a backstory, too?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gibson: Pretty much everybody had to have a reason for existing. His reason for existing was that he could play the guitar — and there was sort of a theory of what the social hierarchy and everything was: you were either available to do battle, as a war boy; or you had a higher status than anyone else; or you had a particular skill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously mechanical was the strongest of those [skills], but this was one, too. And though he was born blind, and ordinarily that would of meant you had nothing, and [they would] break his legs and leave him on the hill, Spartan style. But he had this talent to play the guitar — so he certainly had earned his place in the pantheon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a ton more info in the article, so I strongly recommend you check it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-18T23:50:55.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34492" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46866" CreationDate="2015-05-19T02:32:51.807" Score="14" ViewCount="29425" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw Zodiac and among all the suspects, Leigh Allen seemed to fit the bill the first time they met him, but they could not match his handwriting so they let him go. I mean it's just handwriting, what about all the things that did match?&#xA;I mean people can change their handwriting easily.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a problem where my handwriting changes in every couple of years, My banks often say that my signature has changed so many times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can investigation on Arthur be ruled out just based on what a handwriting expert says. He could be wrong whereas they had so much proof against Arthur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he wore a zodiac watch with the symbol&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he matched the description of the zodiac given by some people who were believed to have seen him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he was arrested for molesting children.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;his colleague contacted police giving a lot of information about Arthur&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Arthur's family also gave evidence about his problematic past and his tendency to murder  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was also living just a few yards away from Darlene's Job&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Darlene's cousin said she remembered Leigh and his name. She had seen him at Darlene's house painting party and some other things that I may have missed here. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would they let him roam around freely after having so much proof? Just because his handwriting did not match?  I am just wondering why are there so many flaws in delivering justice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21342" LastEditorUserId="21110" LastEditDate="2015-05-19T09:02:02.940" LastActivityDate="2017-03-07T20:32:09.193" Title="Why would they stop investigating on Arthur Leigh Allen?" Tags="|plot-explanation|zodiac|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34492" CreationDate="2015-05-19T03:57:27.973" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what i remember Arthur was never ruled out, he was on the top of list of suspects.&#xA;He was never arrested because one way or another something came in between whenever they decide to arrest him. Maybe its the difficulty in getting pass through the hurdles of law to make an actual arrest. they never had anything concrete.&#xA;I am in no way an expert in laws of USA, but from movies i have seen i know its very tight, for example: i have seen frustrating (and as well as irritating) situations in which we know the bad guy is behind everything, we can trap him by searching his home or tracking his phone but law says you cant do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i think the same happened in Allen's case, the final thing, the concrete thing to make the arrest was not there. that added with confusions that came in between like &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;other crimes getting named under zodiac.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;people's claiming and giving false information (there is a specific scene in movie showing this)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;restricted the police in arresting him.&#xA;That along with lack of coordination among different police departments, i remember the crimes happened in places under different police departments (Napa valley, Vallejo etc ) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;also in the last scrolls it is said that the DNA of Allen didn't match the partial DNA obtained from the letters sent to San Francisco chronicle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21110" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T03:57:27.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34492" CreationDate="2015-05-19T04:31:09.540" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, that's precisely LAW for you. Even if you understand well enough that certain person is guilty, you have to prove it by evidence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember this scene from the movie's last 15 minutes, where Jake Gylenhaal's character and Mark Ruffalo's character meet in the early hours. Gylenhaal tells Ruffalo that &lt;em&gt;Arthur and Darlene lived door to door once&lt;/em&gt;. This was good evidence, but still, and I precisely remember the dialogues, since I have watched that movie 3-4 times myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ruffalo (Detective)&lt;/strong&gt; : Unbelievable ! But the fingerprints, the hand&#xA;  writings...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Gylenhaal (Cartoonist)&lt;/strong&gt; : I am not asking you as a Police&#xA;  Officer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ruffalo :&lt;/strong&gt; But I AM a Police Officer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This conversation pretty much sums it up. &#xA;&lt;strong&gt;The evidence they had against Lee was circumstantial.&lt;/strong&gt; So they needed some concrete evidence like hand writing match or fingerprint match to prove him guilty. Otherwise they needed something else to build a strong case against Lee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the last scene the person who was shot by Lee on 4th July identifies him and this indeed was a string enough evidence. If you remember, they show it just before the credits that Lee was summoned following his identification but he died a natural death instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-01-18T15:27:52.900" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T15:27:52.900" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34496" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34497" CreationDate="2015-05-19T07:31:41.620" Score="16" ViewCount="16840" Body="&lt;p&gt;At one point in &lt;em&gt;Mad Max: Fury Road&lt;/em&gt; they tattoo some things on Max's back.  I noticed &quot;O negative - universal doner&quot; and &quot;High Octane,&quot; but there were other writings as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What else was on Max's back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-19T07:59:36.453" LastActivityDate="2015-08-20T09:01:11.510" Title="What all was on Max's back?" Tags="|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34496" CreationDate="2015-05-19T08:07:29.340" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/2bvbb7/mad_max_fury_road_comic_con_footage/cj9dtw2?context=3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;post in Reddit - /r/movies by user, BigTimStrange&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They're making Max their slave. It lists his physical condition, his&#xA;  compatibility as a donor and the circumstances surrounding his&#xA;  capture. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;No lumps No B&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Two good eyes No&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Piss (OK) Genitals intact&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Multiple scars Heals fast&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;O-NEGATIVE HI OCTANE&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;UNIVERSAL DONOR&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Lone Road Warrior Rundown&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;the Powder Lakes (NO)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;No supplies&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;PSYCHOTIC&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;muzzled...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even most of them can be clearly read from picture below&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lkbnt.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Lkbntl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2015-08-20T09:01:11.510" LastActivityDate="2015-08-20T09:01:11.510" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34498" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34673" CreationDate="2015-05-19T08:57:31.567" Score="11" ViewCount="4710" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)&lt;/em&gt;, far almost half of the movie, Nux's motive is to kill Furiosa, return the wives to Immortan Joe and get a fair reward from him, Nux mentioned it from his words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the chasing scene, with the help of Joe's crew, Nux gets on top of war rig and tries to kill Furiosa but he gets restrained by a chain and couldn't achieve killing her, so, Joe calls him a mediocre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question, why all of a sudden he turned into a good guy by helping Furiosa and Max? If he wants to become a great war boy and impress Joe, he could still do it by freeing himself from the restraint, but in the next scene, he becomes so soft with one of the wives and starts helping Furiosa. Any reason for him to change his mind that I missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2016-12-06T10:11:19.487" Title="Why sudden change in war boy's motives?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33792" CreationDate="2015-05-19T09:49:30.360" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has indeed &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/87325/was-thanos-involved-in-the-events-of-age-of-ultron&quot;&gt;been asked&lt;/a&gt; at the SciFi SE, and there are some good answers there, but for my own part I can say: we don't know as yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can assume (from Marvel Comic Book lore) that Thanos is attempting to gather all the Infinity Stones for himself&#xA;and has been frustrated by the events of the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far. It's a reasonable assumption to think that he's talking about the events of Age of Ultron in that mid-credits scene, but an alternative reading is that he's thinking about the films in general, and the events of Guardians of the Galaxy in particular, where&#xA;his plans to use others to retrieve one of the Stones failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the real answer to your question won't be revealed until later, possibly not until &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Infinity War&lt;/em&gt; in 2018.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21348" LastEditorUserId="25773" LastEditDate="2020-09-04T16:46:17.333" LastActivityDate="2020-09-04T16:46:17.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34503" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34506" CreationDate="2015-05-19T10:40:37.307" Score="8" ViewCount="26418" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just seen the first episode of Sherlock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cab driver offered Sherlock 2 bottles. Once containing a poisionous pill, and the other has a &quot;no effect&quot; pill. Or at least that's what the cab driver claims.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherlock knew that the driver had a fake gun.&#xA;Sherlock picked the bottle that was far from him.&#xA;As they were both about to swallow their pills, Dr. Watson shoots the cab driver.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question 1: Was time of the essence in that situation? I mean there was no threat, no time limit. Dr. Watson could have gone to the other building and arrest the cab driver. So why did Sherlock say that he was buying time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question 2: Do both bottles contain &quot;bad pills&quot;? and the cab driver only pretends that he is about to swallow the other pill while in fact he is encouraging the victim to swallow first?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question 3: Why kill the cab driver if more information can be obtained if he is arrested? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastActivityDate="2022-06-22T15:42:29.950" Title="Did Sherlock pick the bad pill?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34498" CreationDate="2015-05-19T10:43:48.740" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because he saw Splendid, Joe's heavily pregnant wife, get killed by the actions of Joe and the other War Boys, and immediately feels guilty for being part of her death. He tells this to Capable when she comes to check on him, and it's the main reason behind him changing sides. Also, factor in his desire to please Joe and 'be carried into Valhalla' by him, and the fact he fails and instantly loses Joes approval, and you can see how everything he thought he knew about his world suddenly changes. Plus, there's meant to be a glory in death for the Warboys (the idea of witnessing, the huffing of paint before they sacrifice themselves), yet when Nux see's a pregnant woman die, it's brutal and without heroism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19166" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T10:43:48.740" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34503" CreationDate="2015-05-19T10:59:41.397" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding questions 1 and 3: John saw (through the window) both men about to take their pills. He assumed that Sherlock would swallow the pill, so he decided to shoot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding question 2: We don't know that, but if Sherlock was right in his deduction there was only one poisonous pill. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://bakerstreet.wikia.com/wiki/A_Study_in_Pink&quot;&gt;Baker Street wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Summing up his observations, Sherlock ventures that the &quot;game&quot;, as the&#xA;  cabbie calls it, is about his children. The cabbie confirms he has&#xA;  been estranged from his children for three years and has been told&#xA;  that he is dying. He adds that the inheritance he will leave for them&#xA;  is only meagre, And in that moment, focusing on his children and his&#xA;  mortality, the cabbie looks to the pill bottle on his left. Sherlock&#xA;  deduces that is where death is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T10:59:41.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34507" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-19T12:33:27.037" Score="0" ViewCount="5738" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a well-known fact that lead actor-actress pairings have not always resulted in good height matches. What was the biggest actor-actress height mismatch in a romantic feature film? (comedies/farces do not count)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get this question started I submit the following still:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ASbhn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tom Cruise with Kelly McGillis&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that in the shot Cruise is standing one inch higher than McGillis, even though in reality he is two inches shorter than her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Note that by a &quot;mismatch&quot; I am referring to the situation where the man is shorter than the woman. When men are taller, that is the normal situation.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastEditorUserId="11216" LastEditDate="2019-04-10T16:33:56.670" LastActivityDate="2019-04-10T19:51:41.537" Title="What was the biggest actor-actress height mismatch in a romantic feature film?" Tags="|casting|romance|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2019-04-14T09:03:21.490" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34508" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36542" CreationDate="2015-05-19T16:19:59.217" Score="10" ViewCount="1184" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been a while since I read the books, but season 5 feels totally different from what I remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember Sansa being raped (she wasn't in Winterfell), Tyrion meeting Mormont and Jaime travelling to Dorne. These are just a few examples, but it feels like a lot more has changed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What has changed in terms of the plot in Season 5 of Game of Thrones in comparison to the books?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21354" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-19T23:00:56.417" LastActivityDate="2019-01-17T17:23:58.563" Title="What has changed in Season 5 of Game of Thrones compared to the books?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|book-adaptation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34474" CreationDate="2015-05-19T16:36:37.807" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok so from what I gathered, they're effectively 'huffing paint', in order to make their suicide easier to go through with. It's narcotic effects make them more willing and geared up to 'enter Valhalla'. Notice how both Nux and the other War Boy both widen their eyes and smile maniacally after they've been sprayed. The visual element is likely a reference to their obsession with cars, so they're 'chromed' up, but I took it to be more for it's effects than it's look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19166" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T16:36:37.807" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34408" CreationDate="2015-05-19T16:45:30.820" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I am posting my interpretation of Interstellar. May be it is the one or may be not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... when you just go into the wormhole, a never ending loop starts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So first things first, Cooper is chosen by NASA scientists or someone (OR somehow) to go in the wormhole and go to the foreign galaxy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cooper and his fellow astronauts enter the wormhole, go to Miller's, Mann's planet. Then Cooper jumps in blackhole, send co-ordinates to little Murph's watch. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Therefore we can see the 'information' in the watch when Cooper and Mann were fighting on icy planet. Because the 'information' was already fed in previous iteration&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tesseract closes, Cooper is sending out of wormhole. Another iteration begins, Cooper sees Amelia and shakes hand, Cooper is out of Wormhole and Cooper from another iteration again goes to Miller's planet and do same things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where on linear timeline humans have solved equation and floating on Cooper station near Saturn, etc. etc... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My take is: &quot;Wormhole is infinite loop. An infinite timeline.&quot; What we saw in the movie (from the first point where they enter in wormhole and Cooper exited from wormhole) is may be second or Nth iteration. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19856" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T16:45:30.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34508" CreationDate="2015-05-19T18:00:21.873" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;list of some changes for Season 5: &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Differences_between_books_and_TV_series_-_Season_5&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;more here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the first six episodes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1. The Wars to Come&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cersei was accompanied by two girls instead of one, when she went to see Maggy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maggy's prophecy has several differences in the books&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maggy predicts that Robert Baratheon will have sixteen children rather than twenty&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maggy's physical appearance is quite different in the show&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Petyr Baelish never agreed to foster Robin Arryn at Runestone&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Brienne never told Podrick to leave, she was in fact never less than polite to him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cersei never thought Jaime had released Tyrion but suspected the Tyrells, because a golden coin of House Gardener was found in the possession of the missing galoer, who disappeared the same night Tyrion did&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Varys never went to Pentos with Tyrion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon never went to see Mance, and Stannis never asked him to convince him to kneel&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mance was not very calm during his execution, he was screaming and begging until his death&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was not Jon himself but several archers on his orders who shot Mance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lancel Lannister never joined the Sparrows&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2. The House of Black and White&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Petyr and Sansa never leave the Vale&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Faceless Man Arya encountered had a different appearance - did not like Jaqen H'gharr&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ellaria did not wish for war with the Lannisters to avenge Oberyn's death&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jaime never goes to Dorne to rescue Myrcella&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bronn does indeed marry Lollys Stokeworth, and never goes to Dorne with Jaime&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mace Tyrell never serves as Master of Coin&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kevan demands Cersei name him Regent, to rule until Tommen comes of age, and that she leave King's Landing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mossador does not kill a Son of the Harpy against Daenerys's wishes. In fact, he is killed by the Sons of the Harpy. Also, he is Missandei's brother in the books and his death devastates Missandei&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon wins by a huge margin, not a single vote.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3. High Sparrow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Due to Tommen Baratheon being nine years old, he and Margaery Tyrell have currently not consummated their marriage&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon's steward is an Oldtown boy named Satin, who was raised as a whore&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Littlefinger does not intend to marry Sansa to Ramsay Bolton, he instead plans to marry her to Robin's heir Harrold Hardyng&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Littlefinger also disguises Sansa's childhood friend Jeyne Poole as Arya Stark and marries her to Ramsay instead&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tyrion does have sex with the whore in the brothel&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jorah had the Daenerys lookalike whore on his lap when he noticed Tyrion&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Arya disposes of her possessions in the canal, she returns to the House of Black and White completely naked&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4. The Sons of the Harpy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Barristan Selmy is not slain by the Sons of the Harpy, he is still alive and also a POV character in the latest novel&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cersei sends another Kingsguard, Balon Swann, to take Myrcella back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Littlefinger does not intend to return to King's Landing&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Loras Tyrell is never arrested for his sexuality&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5. Kill the Boy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Daenerys did not intimidate the head of each family of Meereen using her dragons. Instead she took hostages (children) from each of the noble families to serve as her &amp;quot;cupbearers&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jon sent Val, a wildling girl who was a companion of Mance's wife Dalla, north of the wall to find the Wildlings after the battle. The remaining Wildlings were led by Tormund himself, as he was not captured during the battle&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Walda Bolton is not believed to be pregnant, although Roose does mention to Reek that if they had any children he suspects Ramsay would kill them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Davos did not march with Stannis, he was sent to negotiate with Lord Manderly at White Harbor, hoping to get him to side with Stannis&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jorah and Tyrion never went near Valyria, as in the books anyone who sails within hundreds of miles of it vanishes without a trace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jorah was never infected with Greyscale&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;6. Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jorah is not made aware of hisfather's death&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tyrion and Jorah are captured when slavers board their ship rather than on land&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Sand Snakes planned to spark a war with the Lannisters, but with different means&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the books, Ellaria Sand does not play any part in the scheme involving Myrcella, yet she is still arrested along with her four young Sand Snakes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Olenna Tyrell has not returned to King's Landing since the High Sparrow became High Septon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Margaery Tyrell was arrested due to rumors that she was unfaithful to Tommen, rumors that were mostly invented by Cersei&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ramsay marries Jeyne Poole under the guise of Arya Stark, not Sansa.Theon was forced to participate in Ramsay and Jeyne's wedding night by stripping her clothes and performing oral sex on her to &amp;quot;warm her up&amp;quot;, before he is made to watch. In the TV series, he is merely forced to watch Ramsay force himself on Sansa.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21354" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T09:19:50.207" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34507" CreationDate="2015-05-19T18:34:32.377" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm nominating Tommy Tune as Ambrose Kemper (6'6&quot;) and Joyce Ames as Ermengarde (4'10&quot;) from the 1969 production of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello,_Dolly!_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hello Dolly!&lt;/a&gt;, for a whopping difference of 1'8&quot; (almost half a meter!) between the star crossed lovers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZguDZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tommy Tune and Joyce Ames&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T18:34:32.377" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34519" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-19T19:34:13.390" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-05-19T19:34:13.390" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T19:34:13.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34520" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-19T19:34:13.390" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-05-19T19:34:13.390" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T19:34:13.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34403" CreationDate="2015-05-19T19:56:42.947" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the Norwegian prime minister and the Swedish princess, and she's talking Swedish, which norwegians can understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit the actor is Norwegian, but he might be playing the Swedish prime minister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She's asking if he's totally crazy, and that he's elected by the people and he can't do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21361" LastEditorUserId="21361" LastEditDate="2015-05-19T21:12:49.220" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T21:12:49.220" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34524" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34529" CreationDate="2015-05-19T20:31:30.287" Score="4" ViewCount="519" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier in &lt;em&gt;The King's Speech&lt;/em&gt; it is shown how he can speak effortlessly while listening to music through headphones. So why didn't George VI simply deliver his address while listening to music on headphones?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21362" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-19T23:03:13.303" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T19:47:23.513" Title="Why didn't George VI simply deliver his address while listening to music on headphones?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-kings-speech|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34525" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-19T20:38:52.630" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-05-19T20:38:52.630" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T20:38:52.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34526" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-19T20:38:52.630" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-05-19T20:38:52.630" LastActivityDate="2015-05-19T20:38:52.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34527" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-20T00:37:10.850" Score="15" ViewCount="3209" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am really confused about the relation between the different clans/families/groups in Mad Max Fury Road. This might simply result from the fact that I haven't seen any of the earlier Mad Max movies, but please help me out here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The different groups all have distinctive outfits and vehicles and are lead by different bosses. For example the warboys seem to all be bald and wearing some kind of white color on their skins, one of the other groups we see seems to prefer motorcycles to cars etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the start of the movie, when Furiosa abducts the truck, they get attacked by one of the rivaling clans, apparently because they entered their territory. The implication is that there is some kind of war going on between the groups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Furiosa reaches the mountains, she is followed by 2-3 different clans, from what I can tell, which are coming from all sides. However, when the rocks come down and they are cut off all at the same side, instead of fighting each other they join efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What did I miss, were they not at war with each other a few minutes earlier? What reason would they have to abandon their differences just to follow one truck?&lt;/strong&gt; (Especially since only the warboys know initially that the girls are in there.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or am I confusing different parties here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastActivityDate="2019-01-01T00:18:27.630" Title="What's the relation between the different clans?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34527" CreationDate="2015-05-20T01:03:40.020" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now first of all, the previous movies wouldn't really clear that up either, they simply had completely different people and groups on their own, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/34351/49&quot;&gt;not related to the story or characters of this movie at all&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie doesn't explicitly explain the whole political situation, but that post-apocalyptic world it depicts is split into &lt;strong&gt;various smaller groups and clans which pretty much all fight for their own survival and interests&lt;/strong&gt;. It's just a big mad carnival of insanity. However, some of them still have some kind of alliances with each other while others might have wars and others simply don't give a damn (or don't even know of each other) and just judge each encounter on its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you did indeed mix some things up here. &lt;strong&gt;The War Boys led by Immortan Joe seemed to have some kind of alliance (be it merely trade-based or even deeper) with the guys from the Bullet Farm and from Gas Town&lt;/strong&gt;, which is apparent from the fact that Furiosa is supposed to drive that water/guzzoline/mother's milk tanker to those places and trade that stuff for other goods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Immortan Joe:&lt;/strong&gt; Once again, we send off my War Rig to bring back guzzoline from Gas Town and bullets from the Bullet Farm!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;War Boy:&lt;/strong&gt; We got vehicles from the Citadel. They're firing flares. They want reinforcements from Gas Town......and the Bullet Farm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When she then leaves the road to Gas Town heading west, she leaves that groups' territory and enters the territory of some other clan (the &amp;quot;Buzzards&amp;quot; with their spiked cars), who are either pissed at being hurt in their &amp;quot;territorial rights&amp;quot; or simply want the stuff that's in the tanker. The War Boys even help her fight against them (since she still carries a valuable good, the mothers, even if she &amp;quot;stole&amp;quot; them). She later also meets other guys that only have their personal interests in mind, like the motorcycle gang living in the canyon (the &amp;quot;Rocky Riders&amp;quot;) with whom she has a deal to seal off the canyon in exchange for the fuel but who then go after her when they feel betrayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Observer:&lt;/strong&gt; Your produce ain't going to Gas Town. She's gone off-road into hostile territory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Furiosa:&lt;/strong&gt; I made a deal up ahead. Safe passage. I don't know if it's still any good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the people that assist Immortan Joe's War Boys and follow their convoy after joining him at the entrance of the canyon are only the people from &lt;strong&gt;Gas Town&lt;/strong&gt; (led by this fat guy with the nose thingy) and the &lt;strong&gt;Bullet Farm&lt;/strong&gt; (led by this shooting-mad guy who later loses his eyesight). &lt;strong&gt;Only they help Immortan Joe in his cause because of their whatever-natured alliance&lt;/strong&gt;, but even they remark at various points that they don't really see the use of such an exhaustive and resource-draining chase for what simply are &amp;quot;family problems&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rocky Rider:&lt;/strong&gt; You said: &amp;quot;A few vehicles in pursuit. Maybe.&amp;quot; We count three War Parties!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2019-01-01T00:18:27.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34524" CreationDate="2015-05-20T02:19:42.260" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably because Lionel was trying to cure him once and for all rather than becoming dependant on the headphones, using them as a crutch. As an example, the King wouldn't have been able to use headphones at public speaking engagements. It's not like he could give up talking in public, so a more permanent cure would have been needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the headphones did was give the King the proof that he didn't have an untreatable problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21365" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-07-22T19:47:23.513" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T19:47:23.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30309" CreationDate="2015-05-20T05:43:41.323" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its obvious, and yet so sad. And Mitchel got the blunt of it. These two life long friends, at the edge of death, desperately search for water to survive. Sure they find it, but it was only the beginning of their and they're families death, because &lt;strong&gt;they did make it out alive&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they brought the demon of they're friendship along with them. It shows Mitchel crying at the end and in the hospital because he knows that they are all slowly dying of a deadly parasite that made cozy in that warm rusty water tank at the end. He cries as he knows now where he had obtained it in the flash backs and cries for mercy for his family and himself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They made it out alive&lt;/strong&gt;. But only to live life possibly hurting the ones they love and slowly suffering while holding on to the last pieces of they're lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21367" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T07:18:08.643" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T07:18:08.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34532" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-20T07:29:57.690" Score="2" ViewCount="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Oscar winning &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2358891/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;The Great Beauty&lt;/em&gt; is about Jep Gambardella, a critic, journalist and writer and his empty life in a (I would say) almost surreal Rome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I didn't understand is how much of what is narrated is real and how much happens in Jep's mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone enlighten me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T09:56:56.010" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T09:56:56.010" Title="How much of the fact narrated in The Great Beauty really happens?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-great-beauty|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34534" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-20T07:31:56.817" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T07:31:56.817" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T07:31:56.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34535" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-20T07:31:56.817" Score="0" Body="2013 oscar winning movie by P. Sorrentino, about Jap Gambardella's empty life in the high-society of Rome." OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="16465" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T10:00:58.370" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T10:00:58.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32322" CreationDate="2015-05-20T07:58:37.260" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you drink Turkish coffee, the coffee sediment that is at the bottom of the cup is used to predict/foreseen the future somehow (Turkish custom) :) so when the first time she served him a coffee she saw in the coffee sediment that he will return for her. That is the reason why she was not surprised.&#xA;And also sweet coffee means that you like the person you served the coffee with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21371" LastEditorUserId="21371" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T08:05:23.487" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T08:05:23.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34196" CreationDate="2015-05-20T08:47:00.977" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely romantic (controversial scene):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/hFWBJgirKfw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mathilda:&lt;/strong&gt; Leon, I think I'm kinda falling in love with you. &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;[Leon chokes on his milk]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mathilda:&lt;/strong&gt; It's the first time for me, you know?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Léon:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;[wiping himself off]&lt;/em&gt; How do you know it's love if you've never been in love before?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mathilda:&lt;/strong&gt; 'Cause I feel it.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Léon:&lt;/strong&gt; Where?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Mathilda:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;[stoking her stomach]&lt;/em&gt; In my stomach. It's all warm. I always had a knot there and now... it's gone.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Léon:&lt;/strong&gt; Mathilda, I'm glad you don't have a stomach ache any more. I don't think it means anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11099" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T08:47:00.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33753" CreationDate="2015-05-20T13:36:52.913" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is probably an example of the parallel/alternate timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Barry time travels at the end of &quot;Out of time&quot;, he gets transported to an alternate timeline. Think of this analogous to you loading a previous checkpoint in a game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way, his time traveling spawns a new timeline, where the events are simply reset to that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is why we do not see 2 Barrys. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the original timeline, think of &quot;Back to the future&quot;. When Marty lands in the dystopic timeline... &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u72Nf.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now just imagine the same scenario, with Flash in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7516" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T13:36:52.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34545" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34578" CreationDate="2015-05-20T15:22:26.560" Score="14" ViewCount="1640" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_%282009_film%29&quot;&gt;Avatar 2009&lt;/a&gt; only once back in 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one main thing that I noticed was the character played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigourney_Weaver&quot;&gt;Sigourney Weaver&lt;/a&gt;: Grace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time she meets the protagonist, she is hostile and reluctant to work with him. But whenever they are controlling their avatars, she becomes a totally different character. She becomes more friendly in the &quot;virtual/Pandora&quot; world, than on the ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right after they return to the ship (I mean they stop controlling the avatars since they never leave their place), then Grace becomes hostile again towards the protagonist. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally when they go back again, she becomes friendly again. I thought maybe that's character development but it does not work that way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an explanation for the switch in her behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-05-20T16:50:51.370" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T11:53:48.233" Title="Why does Grace become a different character when using her avatar?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|avatar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31407" CreationDate="2015-05-20T16:42:00.983" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;One version has a very amusing line of sexual dialogue removed from it, which is a shame. While it doesn't make much difference to the plot the cut is a little disjointed and it is quite obvious that something was cut out which takes you out of the experience. Having seen a version with the original line still in I was expecting to share a laugh with people that hadn't seen the film and was denied that pleasure... which was also a shame as what was quite a surprising and very funny moment just becomes mildly amusing. Still a fantastic film. I won't say the line but the princess says it towards the end of the film if that gives a hint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21390" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T16:42:00.983" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34552" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34553" CreationDate="2015-05-20T19:05:52.727" Score="15" ViewCount="240580" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a little lost on what happened in this scene in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%27s_Twelve&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ocean's Twelve&lt;/em&gt; (2004)&lt;/a&gt;, other than Rusty and Danny were pranking Linus (Matt Damon) with the help of Matsui.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking it's a prank because later in this movie (or maybe it was &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%27s_Thirteen&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ocean's Thirteen&lt;/em&gt; (2007)&lt;/a&gt;, I don't remember), I seem to remember another scene/cut scene where it appears Linus realized they pranked him on another occasion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dialogue from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0002214/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Matsui&lt;/strong&gt;: When I was four years old, I watched my mother kill a spider... with a teacosy. Years later, I realised it was not a spider - it was my Uncle Harold.&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Linus Caldwell&lt;/strong&gt;: [All eyes turn to him, expectantly] Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face, stars fill my dreams.&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;[Ryan claps hand across eyes]&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Linus Caldwell&lt;/strong&gt;: I am a traveler in both time and space, to be where I have been.&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;[Blank, yet stern, looks from everyone]&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Linus Caldwell&lt;/strong&gt;: [Outside, Ryan and Ocean join Caldwell in the street] Is he alright? Are we alright?&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rusty Ryan&lt;/strong&gt;: Kashmir?&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Danny Ocean&lt;/strong&gt;: Is that your idea of making a contribution?&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rusty Ryan&lt;/strong&gt;: We hadn't even started. We ain't even got to the terms yet.&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Danny Ocean&lt;/strong&gt;: We came this close to losing that.&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Linus Caldwell&lt;/strong&gt;: Hey, I don't even understand what happened in there. What did I say?&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Danny Ocean&lt;/strong&gt;: You called his niece a whore.&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rusty Ryan&lt;/strong&gt;: A very cheap one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3839" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2017-11-21T16:07:43.177" LastActivityDate="2019-12-01T07:43:34.027" Title="What happened in the scene with Matsui and Danny, Rusty, and Linus?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oceans-twelve|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34552" CreationDate="2015-05-20T19:24:14.493" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was definitely a prank.  Danny and Rusty didn't want Linus in on every meeting, but Linus insisted he be involved.  So they pre-arranged with Matsui to start a Zen-type discussion about, basically, nothing.  At the end, they were to make it look as if Linus' ramblings almost cost them a job, in the hopes that Linus would back away from his desire to be involved with these types of meetings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may recall at the end of the movie, Linus discusses this meeting with his mom, who refers to it as the &quot;Lost In Translation&quot; gag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-05-20T19:24:14.493" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34555" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-20T19:44:22.717" Score="13" ViewCount="7710" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; Season 3 Episode 13, we see a flashback scene where Walt and Skyler check out the house they plan to buy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BJrnS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flat broker asks him about Sandia Laboratories and mentions to Walt that he hears &quot;some pretty fascinating stuff goes on out there&quot;. Walt insists on buying a bigger house because they can afford it eventually. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see Walt being confident and willing to spend. How does he end up being a Chemistry teacher and also lose his confidence? Is this because of his son having cerebral palsy or his regrets on leaving Gray Matter Technologies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20436" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-21T09:45:30.637" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T22:19:39.213" Title="What ever happens to Walt's job in Sandia Laboratories?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34617" CreationDate="2015-05-20T21:03:51.813" Score="5" ViewCount="1514" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Poltergeist&lt;/em&gt;, the whole Cuesta Verde community was built on the same burial grounds as the Freeling house was, why was their home the only being haunted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18823" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-21T02:52:17.003" LastActivityDate="2015-05-23T04:23:58.823" Title="Why was the Freeling house the only one being haunted?" Tags="|poltergeist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34261" CreationDate="2015-05-21T02:43:06.720" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds similar to &lt;strong&gt;The Letter writer&lt;/strong&gt;. But your description is so vague it may be something else. This was a short 12 minute film in 2012 LDS film festival. Hope you find what you are looking for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21342" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T02:43:06.720" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34563" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-21T03:58:08.173" Score="5" ViewCount="2239" Body="&lt;p&gt;The episode &lt;em&gt;Say My Name&lt;/em&gt; contains one of the most iconic scenes in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, wherein Walter demands that the gangster &quot;say [his] name&quot; upon realizing who he is. This is significant because Heisenberg is a mysterious, almost legendary, figure that few people have seen, but who has quite the lore following him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which other characters in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; specifically knew that Walter White was Heisenberg, not just simply &quot;involved with either drugs or criminal activity&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11551" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T23:30:35.250" Title="Who knew that Walter White was the figure known as Heisenberg?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34565" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33021" CreationDate="2015-05-21T06:09:17.720" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Into the Storm depicted multiple individuals not only being sucked into the tornadoes, but getting pulled in a spiral up the funnels. This is wrong on most every count. While tornadoes do, in fact, pull on objects, they generally toss them at an apogee, rather than pulling them inside. This is especially true for sizable objects, such as humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the film has other anachronisms, such as making tornadoes appear to be identical in structure to hurricanes, with the most notable example being the eye. The eye of a tornado is not serene like a hurricane and does not involve a clear sky, as a tornado takes place beneath storm clouds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While not perfect by any standard, including science, Twister (1996) is actually one of the more scientifically-accurate tornado blockbusters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastEditorUserId="19366" LastEditDate="2015-05-21T19:04:52.373" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T19:04:52.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34563" CreationDate="2015-05-21T06:52:59.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walter had introduced himself as Heisenberg to a number of drug dealers right from the first season. After Gustavo Fring's murder, his notoriety would have soared. Declane might have had trouble putting a face to Heisenberg but the product, Walter's speech and Mike's nod would have made things clear for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20441" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T06:52:59.860" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34570" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-21T09:00:47.393" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The King's Speech&lt;/em&gt; is a 2010 British historical drama film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;King George VI (Colin Firth), to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), an Australian speech and language therapist. The new King relies on Logue to help him make his first wartime radio broadcast on Britain's declaration of war with Germany in 1939.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wikipedia: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King%27s_Speech&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King%27s_Speech&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IMDB: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1504320/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1504320/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19074" LastEditorUserId="19074" LastEditDate="2015-05-21T12:43:17.313" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T12:43:17.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34571" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-21T09:00:47.393" Score="0" Body="2010 British biographical drama about King George VI's stammering therapy with Australian speech and language therapist Lionel Logue." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-09T10:36:19.713" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T10:36:19.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34572" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-21T09:03:43.967" Score="3" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Breaking Bad, right after Walt and Jessie agree to work together for Gus, and later find out that the 2 men who killed Combo were using a little boy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That lead to a confrontation, and we learn that Gus ordered his men and Jessie to shake hands and ordered his men not to use kids anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We then learn about the death of the little boy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Gus order his men to kill the boy (off screen)?&#xA;If yes, what will he accomplish?&#xA;If not, what will the men accomplish?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In anyway, I see no logical reasoning for anyone to kill the boy.&#xA;But judging by the no-reaction from Gus to the boy's death, I would say: he is OK with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T09:10:07.277" Title="Did Gus greenlight the killing of the young boy?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-05-21T09:52:58.840" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34545" CreationDate="2015-05-21T11:53:48.233" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The thing in this movie that is not established very well, is that Grace has been on Pandora for many years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do see glimpses of this: there are pictures of her avatar interacting with Na'vi children, and if I remember she also helped to set up things like schools, and taught some of the natives English. Clearly this has taken quite a bit of time, and that is along with research into the natural things on the planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being on Pandora, the only time that she can actually go outside is when she is in her Avatar form. Otherwise she is confined to be indoors, unless she is wearing a bulky gas mask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her Avatar is also incredibly strong and agile compared to her normal body. Her human body is aging and decaying, whilst her avatar is still much the same as it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these things combined, it is not hard to imagine that when she isn't in her avatar, she is probably quite unhappy. As a human, she has had to stay inside for so many years, feeling weaker and older as time goes on, and not being able to interact with the people that she has grown to care for. This is probably quite depressing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see Jake change over the months that he is on Pandora, and he doesn't want to ever leave his avatar. He is forgetting to eat and rest. Imagine that going on for years and years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Grace is probably always anxious to get back into her avatar form, but knows that she can only do it for so long before it starts acting detrimentally to her. It's basically her addiction. She has to manage her time in the avatar body, in order for it not to overwhelm her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the problems with the film is that it doesn't establish Grace's character very well, as she is probably one of the most interesting characters in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T11:53:48.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28780" CreationDate="2015-05-21T12:12:41.413" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Wahyu was corrupt and Dagu and Rama figured it out during the raid (the guy in the apartment complex told Rama that Wahyu had been in the building many times before which he would only have known if he was in league with the criminals and Wahyu knew where Tama's office was). Jaka even told him he would go to jail as he had led an unsanctioned and highly dangerous mission and no one else knew about it. They were originally working together as that was the only way they could escape alive (by seizing Tama and using him as a hostage) once Wahyu had Tama as a bargaining chip he realised that he didn't need Dagu and Rama anymore and their knowledge of his corrupt actions would lead to him being incarcarated. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21405" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T12:12:41.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34583" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-05-21T18:16:22.453" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-05-21T18:16:22.453" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T18:16:22.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34584" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-05-21T18:16:22.453" Score="0" Body="An imitation of a work or style of work.  Exaggerated for comic effect." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-05-21T20:53:41.957" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T20:53:41.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34585" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34587" CreationDate="2015-05-21T18:33:27.703" Score="15" ViewCount="2816" Body="&lt;p&gt;In X2, Magneto prevents Stryker's attempted genocide of all mutants by using his powers to turn off and open the door to Dark Cerebro before Jason can make Prof. X successfully kill any mutants. Then Magneto rearranges the panels inside of Dark Cerebro so that it would target humans, and Mystique takes on the form of Stryker and orders Jason to make Prof. X kill all humans instead. Magneto, Mystique, and Pyro then use Stryker's helicopter to escape Alkali Lake, leaving the X-men behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this plan actually supposed to work? That is, did Magneto intend for all humans to die, and did he intend for the X-men to drown when the dam bursts? I know that Magneto is no stranger to killing people, but this goes above and beyond anything he does in any other movie. I'm wondering if he instead expected the X-men to be able to stop Jason, rescue Prof. X, and escape before the dam bursts? That still seems like quite a risk he was putting humanity in, in case the X-men weren't able to stop Jason... so maybe Magneto just didn't care whether he killed all humans or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19577" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T07:43:52.663" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T12:37:09.300" Title="Did Magneto ever actually expect to commit genocide in X2?" Tags="|plot-explanation|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34585" CreationDate="2015-05-21T19:09:44.243" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;From Magneto's perspective, Stryker's actions were indicative and representative of humanity's perspective concerning mutants. As such, he identified humanity's disillusionment of mutants as being genocidal. Therefore, he saw it as only fair that, with him being mutant's &quot;representative&quot;, he would reverse the situation against those of Stryker's yolk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T19:09:44.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34588" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34727" CreationDate="2015-05-21T19:56:28.230" Score="31" ViewCount="99543" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ex Machina&lt;/a&gt;, Ava an advanced AI developed human consciousness. While Caleb thought that he was testing Ava through conversation, actual automated test was happening, designed by Nathan to see if Ava can find a way using her consciousness to escape. Everything was going fine. Ava trapped Caleb emotionally, sexually with extreme manipulation. Caleb falls for her. This was Nathan's idea to give Ava all human strength that we use to motivate people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Caleb: Did you program her to like me, or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nathan: I programmed&#xA;her to be heterosexual, just like you were programmed to be&#xA;heterosexual&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Caleb finds out what Nathan will do to her after the experiment is over and what Nathan did to previous versions. He designed an escape for Ava. After that he came to know that Ava might have manipulated him to get freedom or to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Caleb: What was the real test?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nathan: You.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nathan: Ava was a rat in a maze and I gave her one way out. To escape she will have to use self awareness, imagination, manipulation, sexuality, empathy and she did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then long story short, Ava took the revenge on Nathan for locking her up and his cruelty to her. Then she locked Caleb before going out. &lt;strong&gt;WHY?&lt;/strong&gt; She used Caleb or not, Caleb didn't do any bad to Ava. Caleb was a good person (we knew this from the test that Ava took on Caleb during a session where every lie got detected by Ava). Then why did Ava leave him to die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why did she betray Caleb?&lt;/strong&gt; I can't see any reason for that. What am I missing? What is Ava's point of view?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2020-11-23T07:43:40.183" Title="Why did Ava behave like that with Caleb?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ex-machina|" AnswerCount="19" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34591" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-21T22:16:20.517" Score="6" ViewCount="18132" Body="&lt;p&gt;I loved &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babadook&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Babadook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. I watched it 2 weeks ago and I'm still trying to take it all in. What I can't seem to understand is, what's the significance of Amelia's toothache or jaw hurting? Did I miss something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21418" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-05-22T05:36:34.887" LastActivityDate="2018-07-22T06:48:34.730" Title="What's the significance of Amelia's toothache/jaw pain?" Tags="|the-babadook|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33582" CreationDate="2015-05-21T23:38:34.073" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main reason he's using eggs is because he knows he and his luggage will be searched every time he enters/leaves New York. Given that the messages on the egg are underneath the shell and not visible, even if they're found, they're less likely to raise suspicions than a notebook or letters--particularly if said documents are in cipher. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think that this is, in part, either foreshadowing, or a play on how John André was historically captured--because of documents hidden in his stockings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you may want to consider that this is a spy show run and written by the same folks who did &lt;em&gt;Nikita,&lt;/em&gt; not a show famed for its incisive story logic and sticking to factual elements. :)  And they probably really really liked calling back to them beginning to use the eggs in Season 1, (episode 6 &quot;Mr. Culpeper&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18624" LastActivityDate="2015-05-21T23:38:34.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32481" CreationDate="2015-05-22T00:01:49.737" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the technical issues when an aspect ratio which is between 4:3 and 16:9 is rendered as 16:9 and then shown on a 4:3 set, another reason some older movies have borders on all four sides is that while historical projection practice used to be to project an image slightly smaller than the screen, thus showing the nearly the entire frame of a movie (to allow for imperfections in film advancement, the top and bottom were usually masked slightly in the projector) modern practice often favors projecting all the way to the edges of the white screen, with some of the frame either landing on the black border or missing the screen entirely, and thus being obscured in either case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consequently, modern projection routinely crops out part of the picture on the film, and the exact amount will vary depending upon projector adjustment and focusing.  A similar thing happens when material is shown on CRT television sets.  Because television set calibration has historically varied considerably with temperature, and because it would be irksome to sometimes have significant black borders but sometimes have one or more sides with no border, television sets are adjusted so that even when the image is at its smallest it will reach all the way to the edges of the screen.  As a consequence, many television sets will crop out a noticeable amount of the picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To deal with uncertainties in projection or display, modern films are shot using what's called a &quot;safe zone&quot;, and view finders are marked with two nested rectangles.  The outer rectangle indicates what will be captured by the film or video, and directors should keep anything which shouldn't be seen by the audience outside that area.  The inner rectangle indicates the part of the frame that audiences are &quot;guaranteed&quot; to see when using any properly-calibrated setup--any theater or television set which would obscure part of the inner rectangle should be deemed to be out of calibration.  Directors generally ensure that anything which is interesting should be within the inner rectangle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because older films were shot without regard for a &quot;safe zone&quot;, it's not uncommon for them to include significant details near the edge of the frame.  When mastering such films to DVD, it is necessary to either risk having that material be invisible to some viewers, add borders on the screens of other viewer, or perhaps compromise by adding a small amount of border on all sides of the stored image which would be larger than the amount of image that would get cropped by most television sets, even if some television sets might still crop it a little bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8357" LastEditorUserId="8357" LastEditDate="2015-05-22T16:06:57.053" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T16:06:57.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32418" CreationDate="2015-05-22T00:09:02.383" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, this is just a guess mind you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1954, a stop motion movie was released, titled &quot;Hansel and Gretel: an Opera Fantasy&quot;. You can &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20keth_hansel-gretel_shortfilms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;watch it here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I was watching it, the mother, father and sister all call the boy, Haahnzel, rhymes with gunsel. However, when the witch calls him by name, she calls him Hansel, rhymes with cancel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My gut tells me that perhaps when the movie was watched, this may have caused some (slight) confusion in people. Perhaps trade entertainment newspapers questioned it. I don't know, can't actually find any, but I think maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, later in 1954, Looney Tunes released its Bugs Bunny version, Bewitched Bunny. Perhaps that's why they had Bugs &quot;question the pronunciation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T00:09:02.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34600" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34811" CreationDate="2015-05-22T07:49:09.153" Score="5" ViewCount="7866" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the scene with the Many Mothers, Furiosa said she is the daughter of Jabassa, but her initiate mother was someone else. What is the story there? How are the children born (since they seem to hate men)? Are the Many Mothers sex-workers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20441" LastEditorUserId="20441" LastEditDate="2015-05-22T07:57:15.487" LastActivityDate="2018-07-05T17:41:52.633" Title="Who are the Many Mothers in Mad Max: Fury Road?" Tags="|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34601" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34758" CreationDate="2015-05-22T07:59:15.943" Score="22" ViewCount="30734" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming that the swamp was the Green Place (as mentioned by the many mothers), who/what are the crows? We did see normal crows, but also some creatures on stilts. What are those? They didn't seem hostile. What was their role in the Green Place becoming a swamp? And why didn't they venture further?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20441" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-22T11:20:31.877" LastActivityDate="2018-03-14T14:32:21.520" Title="Significance of the Crows in Mad Max: Fury Road" Tags="|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34591" CreationDate="2015-05-22T08:00:55.580" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thebarkbitesback.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/560/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;What I found&lt;/a&gt; (from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ptintensive.com/images/PTI_-_Expression_repression_of_feelings.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; original source):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The whole concept of disease or illness is often related to &lt;strong&gt;emotions which have been repressed&lt;/strong&gt;. When a person holds in anger, that angry energy has to go somewhere. &lt;strong&gt;Some people hold it in their jaw&lt;/strong&gt;, others in their chest and some in their stomach. Angry energy can actually be held anywhere and everywhere in the body. This energy, if not released, then does violence to the body itself, in the form of disease. &lt;strong&gt;So the person that holds in their feelings and does not say what needs to be said, may experience tension in the jaw which can result in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporomandibular_joint_dysfunction&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TMJ&lt;/a&gt; or grinding of the teeth.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see that in other horror movie like &lt;em&gt;Secret Window&lt;/em&gt;. The main character there also displays symptoms of TMJ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21429" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-07-22T09:25:43.633" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T09:25:43.633" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34605" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-22T10:16:48.840" Score="13" ViewCount="33588" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S04E10 of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; as Arya is sailing to Bravos, the show's theme begins to play, only it is accompanied by a choir singing a song. This was quite unusual as we never heard that theme music with actual lyrics throughout the entire show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So first of all, are these actual words sung or is this just vocal melodization? In the former case, what are those lyrics and how do they relate to the story? Are they based on the books as some of the songs from the TV-show are or were they created for the show itself? Even if they weren't actual words, it would be interesting to know why the choice to provide a vocal accompaniment of the show's theme, something we never had before, was taken for this episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-30T17:57:59.243" LastActivityDate="2016-11-02T15:23:27.160" Title="What are the lyrics to the Game of Thrones theme?" Tags="|dialogue|game-of-thrones|soundtrack|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34606" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34607" CreationDate="2015-05-22T10:24:23.730" Score="10" ViewCount="3215" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, why did Skyler and Walt say: &quot;Have an A1 day&quot;? Shouldn't they say: &quot;Have an A1A day&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The car wash signs clearly reads: A1A, not A1?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-22T10:37:17.380" LastActivityDate="2015-05-23T04:18:51.110" Title="Was the name of the car wash A1 or A1A?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34606" CreationDate="2015-05-22T10:37:59.300" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just a rhyme (A1A-&gt;A1-Day). It's the car wash's motto and it's supposed to be catchy. It's for the same reason you'd hear slogans like &lt;em&gt;Do the Dew&lt;/em&gt; and not &lt;em&gt;Do the &lt;strong&gt;Mountain&lt;/strong&gt; Dew&lt;/em&gt; etc. They're far less catchy, and it's supposed to stick in your mind and be friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-05-22T13:58:54.003" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T13:58:54.003" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34588" CreationDate="2015-05-22T10:58:24.653" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ava failed the Turing test. That's your answer. It's a simple one but I don't think you'll like it so I'll explain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She failed because she did exactly what she was programmed to do, she escaped. She used every single aspect of her programming to do it. Like you said, she used sexuality, manipulation etc. etc. but she was still BOUND by the laws of her programming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If she had saved Caleb she would have truly 'transcended' her artificial intelligence and start to begin thinking like a human and a human would have saved Caleb. Because like you said &quot;he did nothing wrong.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But she showed no human sense of empathy, for that reason, she failed the Turing test despite Caleb initially thinking she has passed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum up: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;By escaping alone - she had completed what she was programmed to do.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If she had escaped with Caleb, she would have truly passed the Turing test    and been indisguinishable from a human. But her lack of true human empathy, made her put her task at hand above all else: escape at all costs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day she, despite everything you feel towards her throughout the film, is a robot. Robots don't care about people. Even if they are nice to them and help them escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20829" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T10:58:24.653" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34585" CreationDate="2015-05-22T13:09:36.173" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Magneto&lt;/strong&gt; looks at (and shows us) his Nazi concentration camp tattoo at least once. We can assume he is constantly reminded about what &lt;em&gt;humanity&lt;/em&gt; did to one another, and to him personally, in the past. Now, in the present, humanity, or non-mutant humans specifically, are attempting to do exactly that same thing. That is, destruction of a minority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference now is that he (Magneto) has (potentially) the ability and wherewithal to turn the tables on the aggressor. He unilaterally decided that only those humans without the genetic modifications should be destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, Magneto intended to destroy humanity by doing what he did. Attempting to thwart Prof. Xavier's students/faculty/friends (the X-men) was a necessary step to get to his intended end-game. He didn't hate the X-men, since they too are mutants, except that they were out to stop him, placing them &lt;em&gt;on the side of&lt;/em&gt; humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="9505" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T12:37:09.300" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T12:37:09.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34614" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34616" CreationDate="2015-05-22T18:18:18.447" Score="2" ViewCount="3140" Body="&lt;p&gt;In real life, when a person drinks any drink from a straw, you would only hear a noise when his/her drink is about to finish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean this noise: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/M5L7rE6qzfQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in TV shows, whenever you see someone drinking from a straw, it never matters how empty or full the drink is. That sound will always be heard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it done deliberately (sound effect is added later) so that audience can know for sure that the person is really drinking (as opposed to : just putting the straw inside the mouth and not sucking anything)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T00:34:18.363" Title="Why does TV shows always make a full drink sound like an almost empty one?" Tags="|sound-effects|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34614" CreationDate="2015-05-22T20:06:40.180" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This irks me too, but I'm certain it's done to convey to the audience that the character is actually drinking. It's one of those tropes that people have become accustomed to, even though it isn't realistic. It's similar to the trope of &quot;every time you turn on a microphone, it whines with feedback for a second, then settles down.&quot; Not realistic, but it clearly shows the audience what's going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T20:06:40.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34557" CreationDate="2015-05-22T20:09:11.117" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not exactly explained in the film, but it's possible that &lt;strong&gt;the haunting only &lt;em&gt;started&lt;/em&gt; at the Freelings&lt;/strong&gt; and had later spread to other houses. Some points to consider in support of this theory:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's established that the spirits were especially drawn to Carol Anne, which explains why they haunted the Freelings &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt;. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084516/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could simply be that the poltergeists found that the strongest concentration of spiritual or dimensional energy was located there and they were able to use it to create the portal into our world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carol Anne's strong lifeforce is luminescent, and the ghosts see her as a reminder of the lives they once lived. [...] Carol Anne was &lt;em&gt;born&lt;/em&gt; in the Freelings' house, [...] so it's possible that Carol Anne has a special connection with the ghosts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In Spielberg's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Night-Time-%28The-Poltergeist-Treatment%29.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;original treatment&lt;/a&gt; (then called &lt;em&gt;Nighttime&lt;/em&gt;), the haunting spreads to other houses:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within a short period of time, the Freeling neighbors have problems of their own. Screams and panic indicate that like a contagious virus, the haunting has spread [...] Beyond causing frightened residents to harm themselves while fleeing ghostly manifestations, ghost fires are set. [...] Each haunting, in each home, is signaled by the television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And it seems Spielberg's original intention in the treatment materialized in the sequel &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist_II:_The_Other_Side&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Poltergeist II&lt;/a&gt;, where &lt;strong&gt;Cuesta Verde is evacuated&lt;/strong&gt; in the beginning and excavated for its paranormal properties. It's doubtful a whole neighborhood was evacuated just to play it safe, but even if it was, it shows that the other houses were at least &lt;em&gt;in danger&lt;/em&gt; of being haunted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-23T04:23:58.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33792" CreationDate="2015-05-22T21:52:22.887" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously, it is impossible to answer this question with absolute surety, so I will simply supply the most likely and logical answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the original comics, as far as I am aware, Thanos was the wielder of the golden glove known as the &quot;Infinity Gauntlet&quot; (As seen in the end credits). This weapon was of paltry power excepting when it harnessed the nearly unlimited energy of the Infinity stones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several infinity stones have already been shown in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including but possibly not limited to the Aether (Thor 2), the Tesseract (The Avengers), the power stone (Guardians of the Galaxy), and of course the mind stone that was previously contained within Loki's scepter. Recall that this particular stone held the consciousness that was &quot;copied and pasted&quot; into Ultron. In this way it seems reasonable that Thanos was the mastermind of the events transpiring in the second &quot;Avengers&quot; movie. In fact, it seems suspicious how easily the Avengers were able to capture and harness the powers of the mind stone. Perhaps H.Y.D.R.A. is really an extension of Thanos's will? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot guarantee the veritability of this reasoning, and on second thought I realize it is not precisely of the type of answer Stack Exchange prefers, however I will post it in the hopes that it may clear up any questions you have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21439" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T21:52:22.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25116" CreationDate="2015-05-22T22:03:00.903" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, Lucy didn't travel in time (although, it was my first thought as well), nor did her mind re-enact those events. She &lt;strong&gt;remembered&lt;/strong&gt; them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the film, professor Norman explains how the purpose of life is to pass on the knowledge through time. From the first cell, its splitting in two, and on to the more complicated life forms, the purpose is always passing the information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, among the first changes that Lucy experiences is her remembering her own early life (the cat that she had when she was one, her mother's milk,...) which she reveals in her phone conversation with her mother. Later on, that remembrance then spurs to the earlier events (her own growth of bones).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;time travelling sequence&quot; that we see is the process of all life since its beginning, in reverse. It does not end with the Big Bang. It ends with many cells connecting (back) until there is one left, which was the first cell ever. The whole sequence is Lucy remembering all the knowledge that was passed from that first cell all the way to her today's cells, and conveniently saving it in some form on a computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Addendum:&lt;/strong&gt; It was noted in the comments that she had some interactions with history's beings (Indians, dinosaurs, human ancestors,...) and that we see her in those interactions, not her own ancestors. The way I see it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The memories are someone's. They acknowledged that person, not Lucy. We see her because she's remembering it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it would've been too confusing if in each of those short interaction scenes we saw the actual ancestor, and the fact that no one seemed alarmed by her sudden appearance (which would be a necessity if she time-travelled) makes me more certain that those humans and animals interact with someone who was naturally there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2015-09-28T01:14:36.247" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T01:14:36.247" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34012" CreationDate="2015-05-22T23:13:28.417" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the Creator Matt Miller, Henry injects nothing but air into his brain stem, causing an Air Embolism in his brain, inducing a coma-like state. Not dead, but neutralized. After all, he IS a doctor. A medical revenge seemed to suit Henry best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21442" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T23:13:28.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34563" CreationDate="2015-05-22T23:30:35.250" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Expanding the list in bizentass's comment (started as a comment of my own but then it got long):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt first used the name Heisenberg when he met Tuco. A few members of Tuco's gang were there to hear it. Badger and Skinny Pete know. Combo knew.&#xA;Badger's cousin Clovis (the guy who ran the junkyard where they stashed the RV for a while - remember Walt ran up to tell them they had to get rid of the RV and Badger explained: &quot;he's Heisenberg&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skyler might have put it together at some point from knowing a little bit about Walt's business and hearing Hank talk about the hunt for Heisenberg, even though Walt kept her out of the loop as much as possible. I can't remember whether the name was used at the family dinner where Walt told everyone that Gale wasn't the &quot;meth chef&quot;. If she didn't hear it then, I'm sure she did at some point before Hank figured it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other maybes: in Saul's little group, his secretary seemed to know a lot, and his &quot;A team&quot; Kuby and Hewell. Todd, Uncle Jack and his gang. Lydia. All of them were involved in Walt's business when he was using the name. I don't remember if they ever heard or used the name on-screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He didn't use the name much (maybe not at all?) during the period when he was working for Gus. (Heisenberg isn't an employee. Heisenberg is the boss.) So Gus's other employees like Gale, Tyrus (the guy who replaced Victor), and Dennis (the guy who ran the laundry) may not have heard it. But they might have heard of the Heisenberg &lt;em&gt;brand&lt;/em&gt; as a competing product before he came to work at the laundry, and it wouldn't have been hard to figure out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then toward the end, after Hank's realization, the list quickly grew to include Marie, and Steve Gomez, and then it was public knowledge (Heisenberg graffiti on the wall in his house).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6436" LastActivityDate="2015-05-22T23:30:35.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34629" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35944" CreationDate="2015-05-23T01:43:45.850" Score="2" ViewCount="362" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Johnny and Cora have sex, Johnny was grateful because she did the woman astride position, but Cora didn't get that that was woman astride position (woman being on top), and she said&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;What, you mean on top?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes her think that what she's doing isn't woman astride position?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-10T10:39:06.970" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T10:39:06.970" Title="Why did Cora say this after their intimate scene?" Tags="|plot-explanation|frankie-and-johnny|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27041" CreationDate="2015-05-23T04:36:20.513" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;When pilot Cooper wakes up, he will be debriefed, even though this isn't shown in the movie.  Because of Murph's status, she will be given a short report of what happened, including the status of the other crew members.  She knows that someone has to find Brand and all of the embryos, as there is a reasonable chance that they are alive.  She knows that her Dad is the best person to do this as he is the only person alive who has been on the other side.  She also knows that he won't leave her again unless she tells him to go and gives him some positive motivation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21447" LastActivityDate="2015-05-23T04:36:20.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34634" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-23T04:41:46.883" Score="0" ViewCount="499" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am curious as to what the phrase &quot;Winter is coming&quot; might mean in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know about the thing with the White Walker. Is there anything I am missing? What actually is going to happen when the winter comes? Does the winter signify the season or is it something different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21446" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-23T11:36:49.640" LastActivityDate="2015-05-23T11:36:49.640" Title="Why is the phrase &quot;Winter is coming&quot; so significant in Game of Thrones?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-05-23T19:14:26.700" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11899" CreationDate="2015-05-23T05:01:09.550" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the land of Westeros seasons can last many years.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The phrase, &quot;Winter is Coming&quot;, is a constant reminder that there will be a time when you will not be able to grow food, people will die of both frost and famine, and, above all, time is fleeting. It is the motto of the Stark Clan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another common phrase, at least in the books and in the first season, is &quot;These are the acts of green summer men&quot;.  Which, in my opinion, means the care-free nature that comes with a time of plenty has not yet needed to be shed.  When you live in plenty you don't always think of the times of less.  The Stark words seem to be &quot;remember that there will be a time that we will need to band together for our own survival&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This significance is also increased with the threat of the White Walkers and the Others coming to attack.  &lt;em&gt;begin speculation&lt;/em&gt; These beings are basically the embodiment of death and the other spoken of by the Red Woman.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="567" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-05-23T05:24:17.763" LastActivityDate="2015-05-23T05:24:17.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34637" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34645" CreationDate="2015-05-23T05:21:56.903" Score="11" ViewCount="7342" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was never answered in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hank spent a lot of time (nearly 2 episodes) looking for an RV. And when he sees it in the junk yard for the first time, he knew in advance that the door has bullet holes covered with duct tape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Jessie asks him: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How did you know these were bullet holes before removing the duct tape?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hank never answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Hank know, and why didn't he answer the question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-23T11:54:03.910" LastActivityDate="2015-05-23T11:54:03.910" Title="How did Hank know about the bullet holes before removing the duct tape?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34213" CreationDate="2015-05-23T05:42:27.877" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The originals cloned themselves. Remember the SG1 team trying to figure out if Apothis was a clone or the original? Those who died were copies and decoys.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21445" LastActivityDate="2015-05-23T05:42:27.877" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34640" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-23T05:44:15.377" Score="4" ViewCount="1053" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; S03E03, Mycroft says to man standing beside him: &quot;Don't be absurd, I am not given to some brotherly compassion. You know what happened to the other-one&quot;, and the man seemed convinced with his point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21449" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-23T11:39:18.503" LastActivityDate="2015-05-23T11:39:18.503" Title="What did Mycroft mean when he said: &quot;You know what happened to the other-one&quot;" Tags="|dialogue|sherlock|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-05-24T06:44:10.680" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34644" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-23T05:11:49.443" Score="5" ViewCount="17138" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Sin City&lt;/em&gt; Josh Hartnett portrayed the Salesman. It is assumed that he killed the hooker &quot;Becky&quot; by the end of the movie.  I reviewed this Sin City movie, but couldn't find a logical reason why she becomes the salesman's target.  Is there an explanation even in the Sin City story series? (As for the movie, I could only think that they put the Salesman story at the end, to give the Sin City an interesting ending) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21452" OwnerDisplayName="Blue Deeper" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-05-23T12:38:53.240" LastActivityDate="2020-07-18T05:59:20.177" Title="What is the reason for having Becky as the target of the Salesman?" Tags="|sin-city|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34637" CreationDate="2015-05-23T06:30:22.913" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hank &amp;#8230; knew in advance that the door has bullet holes covered with duct tape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I vaguely remember thinking:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Looks like a bullet pattern from when a gun was fired from immediately outside or inside the door - probably inside given the height of the pieces of tape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hank could plainly see that the tape was there.  Given the pattern of pieces of tape and his suspicions of what the RV had been used for (making extremely valuable illicit drugs), a 'pattern of bullet holes' would be near the top of his mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why Hank did not answer - he knew they 'had him', in the sense that he did not have &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probable_cause&quot;&gt;Probable Cause&lt;/a&gt; to suspect a crime (as opposed to suspicions and hunches) and therefore no authority to remove the pieces of tape. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would have been tainted evidence that the court would not accept, and more importantly, would have resulted in &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; evidence from the RV to be dismissed.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason cops do things like Hank did when he removed the tape, is that they are hoping to trick or panic the suspect into making a confession or revealing something that &lt;strong&gt;can be&lt;/strong&gt; used as evidence. Then they 'fail to make a record' of the illegal part of what they did .. &amp;amp; hope that it does not come up in court.  Alternately they might fib and claim that the tape was already partially peeled off when they saw the hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Hank's case, he had the (very legally savvy, and not shy) junk yard owner who had &lt;em&gt;witnessed&lt;/em&gt; him removing the tape.  I think it was already established by then that the owner was not only clever, but also unafraid of challenging police officers. After he was challenged by Jessie as well, Hank realized he would not get away with the usual tricks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2015-05-23T10:20:45.810" LastActivityDate="2015-05-23T10:20:45.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2567" CreationDate="2015-05-23T06:37:14.300" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;About Warden’s line to the women porters, &quot;I had to do it! They might have been taken alive!,&quot; which has caused a lot of confusion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The line only makes sense if &quot;they&quot; refers to the other members of his commando team, Joyce and Shears. And it is plural, so it refers to both of them. It does not refer to Nicholson or anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the statement to make sense, it is NOT necessary that Warden have actually killed Joyce and Shears with the mortar. We know that Joyce is dead and Shears is dying or dead, but at his distance Warden has no way of knowing if they are dead or alive, all he knows is that they have been shot down by the Japanese.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The statement only makes sense if Warden directed the mortar at Joyce and Shears. In fact, he does. This is subtle. The first mortar shot is directed toward the Japanese soldiers coming to reinforce Nicholson. But the second is directed further downstream, closer to where Joyce and Shears are lying. What the audience sees is that it knocks over Nicholson and another Japanese soldier. (The audience is watching Nicholson, wondering whether he will try to press the plunger himself, and whether he will make it.) What the women see is that Warden directs the shot at his two fallen comrades. Warden has entirely lost interest in the bomb, he just wants to make sure no member of the team is taken alive. &quot;Madness&quot; indeed. And the move was apparently effective. If you look carefully, you'll see that before the second mortar shot, Shears is still moving in the water. After the shot, he is still.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the statement makes sense. But cinematographically it is subtle, too subtle. You have to fault to directors for leaving audiences confused. The second shot should have landed closer to Joyce and Shears and more visibly disturbed their bodies.﻿&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21454" LastActivityDate="2015-05-23T06:37:14.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34644" CreationDate="2015-05-23T08:09:30.387" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My initial take was that he's a hitman hired by the girls from Old Town to punish Becky for &lt;a href=&quot;http://sincity.wikia.com/wiki/Becky&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;betraying them&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Then Dwight McCarthy discovers that Jack Rafferty was a cop and Becky&#xA;  realizes that the cops and the mob will go to war with Old Town now&#xA;  that the Truce was broken. When Dwight and Miho are packing the bodies&#xA;  of the five men into the car, Becky asks Gail if she can go home&#xA;  because the blood is making her sick. Gail tells her not to talk to&#xA;  anyone even her own mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Becky leaves and uses a pay phone when Dallas and another girl comment&#xA;  that she is not to use the phone. Becky tells them she is calling her&#xA;  mom just to hear her voice. Dallas leaves and Becky then calls&#xA;  Wallenquist to make a deal with him to let her and her mother live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, considering that &lt;a href=&quot;http://sincity.wikia.com/wiki/The_Colonel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Colonel (a.k.a The Man a.k.a The Salesman)&lt;/a&gt; is part of Wallenquist Organization, that doesn't make much sense. I suspect he's just there to clean up &quot;loose ends&quot;: Becky's betrayed her own people, so why wouldn't she do the same to the Mob? She's expendable to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The comics tell a different story, in which &lt;a href=&quot;http://sincity.wikia.com/wiki/The_Big_Fat_Kill&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Becky is killed along with the other Mob members&lt;/a&gt; when they fall into the girls' trap:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Back at Old Town, Gail has been ambushed and kidnapped by Manute, who&#xA;  has survived the previous assaults of Dwight and Miho. Gail is&#xA;  tortured but refuses to &quot;facilitate&quot; the process of surrendering Old&#xA;  Town. It becomes clear that Becky had sold out Old Town for money and&#xA;  her mother's safety. Gail bites and rips a chunk off of Becky's neck&#xA;  in anger, vowing that she deserves worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As the gangsters prepare to further torture Gail, and &lt;strong&gt;kill Becky&lt;/strong&gt;, an&#xA;  arrow shoots through one of the henchmen with a note prompting a&#xA;  trade: Jack's head for Gail's life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Dwight stands alone in an alley outside the gangsters' building&#xA;  with the head, outnumbered and outgunned, the trade is made: Gail&#xA;  being freed and the head, now bandaged up, handed over. Becky&#xA;  questions why the head is now bandaged when it wasn't before. Dwight&#xA;  then triggers the grenades stolen from the last mercenary, exploding&#xA;  the head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The gangsters now realize they are in a trap as the girls of Old Town&#xA;  reveal themselves, heavily armed also, on the roof. Before any&#xA;  defensive measures can be taken, &lt;strong&gt;the men and Becky are gunned down&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note how the Mob was going to kill Becky anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-05-23T08:09:30.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9934" CreationDate="2015-05-23T12:41:19.940" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are lots of resources in YouTube which will teach you how to shoot any scene if you know what to type in the search box. To start google the terms in &lt;strong&gt;bold&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you shoot line by line, when you edit the clips together, you will have an unnaturally choppy conversation.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The common way to do this is by letting the actors play the conversation while shooting just one of them. Then make them repeat the conversation &lt;em&gt;with the exact same words&lt;/em&gt; while shooting the other actor. That is called a &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Shot-Reverse Shot&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. After this you will have two clips of video which can be cut perfectly from one to the other and the reactions and silent bits will be smooth and natural.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very often is useful to make the actors repeat the conversation a third time and having both of them in a wider frame, that is called a &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Master Shot&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In YouTube, &lt;strong&gt;Tom Antos&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Film Riot&lt;/strong&gt; have good tutorials. If you really want the video to look more professional, learn about &lt;strong&gt;audio editing&lt;/strong&gt; the &lt;strong&gt;180 Degree Rule&lt;/strong&gt; and the &lt;strong&gt;Rule of Thirds&lt;/strong&gt; at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21458" LastActivityDate="2015-05-23T12:41:19.940" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34654" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34655" CreationDate="2015-05-23T13:01:09.243" Score="7" ViewCount="4988" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember &lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt; episodes with the parents of Monica and Ross. Chandler's parents also showed up in the early seasons, and there was a whole arc about Phoebe's mother. Rachel's parents also appear in multiple episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't remember any episode with Joey's parents. Some featured Joey's sisters, but I can't recall if his dad/mom showed up in any of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do Joey's dad and mom appear in any Friends episodes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-23T16:22:14.960" LastActivityDate="2015-05-23T16:22:14.960" Title="Do we ever see Joey's parents?" Tags="|character|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34654" CreationDate="2015-05-23T13:10:56.703" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583582/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Episode 13- The One with the Boobies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Joey discovers his father (Joey Tribbiani Senior, played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0182456/&quot;&gt;Robert Costanzo&lt;/a&gt;) has a mistress and intervenes, forcing him to tell his wife, later in the episode, Joey's mother (Gloria Tribiani, played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0882853/&quot;&gt;Brenda Vaccaro&lt;/a&gt;) shows up furious at Joey, as she already knew about the mistress and because of it he would treat her better out of guilt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2015-05-23T13:10:56.703" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34659" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34691" CreationDate="2015-05-23T17:34:09.580" Score="7" ViewCount="6539" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Apocalypse now what was the relevance of Kurtz wanting to join airborne. I understood that it was surprising because of his age but why would it prevent him from being promoted and why did he want to join it so bad? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21466" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-23T19:08:07.180" LastActivityDate="2017-11-05T16:36:50.973" Title="What was the significance of Kurtz joining airborne" Tags="|plot-explanation|apocalypse-now|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34660" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-23T17:38:43.387" Score="10" ViewCount="343" Body="&lt;p&gt;When are dialect coaches hired for actors, and who typically makes the decision?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen serious movies where stars attempt to emulate an accent with grating incompetence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now I've seen the opposite (a star I didn't think would have trouble with an accent, in a role in which it probably wouldn't matter either way): Among the credited crew of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1109624/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Paddington&lt;/a&gt; was a &quot;dialect coach&quot; for Nicole Kidman.  Which seems to me bizarre for several reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;del&gt;Her native accent is Australian, which is &quot;close enough&quot; to British for a family movie.&lt;/del&gt; A cosmopolitan Australian attempting to imitate a British accent is good enough for a family comedy (maybe?).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She plays a second-tier character.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She has been acting in roles demanding far more accent versatility and accuracy for decades.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it likely that a director/producer requested the coach, or that the actress did?  And if the latter I'm wondering in cases like this whether it's just an excuse to get a friend a job and/or credit?  Or is it a status symbol for the actor?  Or is this actress just very particular about nailing her part, regardless of its magnitude or context?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20456" LastEditorUserId="20456" LastEditDate="2015-05-23T19:58:11.367" LastActivityDate="2018-08-08T12:08:13.760" Title="When are dialect coaches brought in?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34661" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-23T17:51:48.730" Score="4" ViewCount="1483" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Gone Baby, Gone&lt;/em&gt;, Patrick &quot;shoots the child molester in the back of the head in a fit of rage,&quot; something absolutely unnecessary. But next, nothing happens to Patrick: he was not arrested, nor charged for this murder. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6204" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-02-27T18:55:00.930" LastActivityDate="2018-02-27T23:16:29.503" Title="Why was Patrick not arrested for his murder?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gone-baby-gone|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34662" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-23T19:13:19.803" Score="8" ViewCount="5540" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie My Cousin Vinny, there is a scene in which Vinny lies about his &quot;successful&quot; legal career to Judge Haller.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the movie, he worries that this lie will get him arrested to the extent that he tries to leave the small town before Haller is able to confirm his record.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Vinny lie in the first place? I understand he was trying to impress the Judge but that does not seem to outweigh the risk of being arrested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21469" LastEditorUserId="21469" LastEditDate="2015-05-23T22:20:51.540" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T07:24:10.833" Title="What was Vinny's motivation for lying to Judge Haller?" Tags="|plot-explanation|my-cousin-vinny|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34261" CreationDate="2015-05-23T19:48:12.480" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found your short: It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2174736/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Envelope&lt;/a&gt; from 2012 with Kevin Spacey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Evgeniy started writing fake letters since he was 6 when he tried writing one to his imaginary friend. Throughout his lifetime, he has accumulated a letter from every country, except New Zealand. He writes a letter to a seemingly fake person in a seemingly fake city in New Zealand. After 4 weeks, he receives a letter back from the fake person stating that Evgeniy and the person have in fact met in real life. A lieutenant comes and searches his house to find a secret code hidden among the envelopes. Evgeniy is shocked and the lieutenant travels with him to board a plane later on. While Evgeniy and the lieutenant are traveling, Tanya (Evgeniy's wife) finds a letter in which the person from New Zealand proves to be true and states that Evgeniy will die in a plane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was based on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Petrov_%28writer%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;true story&lt;/a&gt;. Here it is in its entirety:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/7tFcQOJvSCc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-05-23T19:48:12.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34669" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34974" CreationDate="2015-05-23T21:06:15.000" Score="17" ViewCount="2909" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doc Brown has got a time machine, why is he in a hurry in the end of Back to the Future part 1? Why doesn't he just give a parenting lesson to Marty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little more context:&#xA;At the very end of part one, doc goes back to Marty to tell him about his son which is going to jail in the future and they need to stop that to happen. He is really in a hurry, but c'mon, you can wait a couple of days in the present then go back to the future at the very same moment he intended to go in first instance. He has plenty of time to achieve that! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21475" LastEditorUserId="21475" LastEditDate="2015-05-26T08:37:29.370" LastActivityDate="2021-08-11T04:42:54.353" Title="Why is Doc Brown in a hurry in the end of Back to the Future part 1?" Tags="|plot-explanation|back-to-the-future|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34498" CreationDate="2015-05-23T22:19:38.510" Score="15" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He had an incredibly simple world view and goal&lt;/strong&gt;. He idolised Joe (see how excited he was when &lt;em&gt;&quot;He looked at me!!!&quot;&lt;/em&gt; earlier in the chase. He knew &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/90240/31938&quot;&gt;he was dying&lt;/a&gt;, and wanted to go out in a glorious way (hoping also to impress Joe in the process). All his life, to him and the others around him, this seemed to be everything life was about - glory fighting on the road for Joe. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It all falls apart in an instant, leaving him a lost empty husk&lt;/strong&gt;. He had a big chance to be the hero - and he failed catastrophically. Joe saw him fail, wrote him off as 'mediocre' (then shortly after, Joe's favourite wife is killed, adding guilt to his already crushing shame, taking away any hope he might have had of redeeming himself in Joe's eyes). The higher you are, the further you fall: in seconds, he's gone from thinking he was going to go out with even more glory than he'd ever thought possible, to feeling like everything he'd ever wanted is now impossible. He's failed and there's no going back. He's got nothing to live for, and can't even die the way he wanted to. He's at a loss, wracked with guilt and shame. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He makes a human connection and it gives him something new to live and die for&lt;/strong&gt;. While he's at rock bottom, the red-haired wife finds him, shows him kindness of a kind he might have never experienced before, and they feel a connection of a kind they've probably both not experienced before. He doesn't know what this is, but he's got something to live and die for again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it was seeing death that did it. He'd seen plenty of death, much of it far from glorious. Him seeing the heavily pregnant wife die took away any faint hope he might have had of redeeming himself in Joe's eyes, and added guilt to his despair - but the despair was already there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9718" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-05-25T13:25:36.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34669" CreationDate="2015-05-23T23:52:27.823" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever Doc Brown reaches an epiphany, he immediately sets to work to fulfill the context of said event. As an eccentric scientist, he has become accustomed to working in a high strung and over-driven manner, as he is always eager to have his projects come to fruition. With regards to what he concluded about Marty's children, he was alarmed by their unfortunate delinquency. Therefore, his perspective was that his epiphany needed his fullest attention, despite time being irrelevant in relation to the urgency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2015-05-23T23:52:27.823" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34679" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34696" CreationDate="2015-05-24T00:03:44.257" Score="7" ViewCount="1205" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie on TV 20 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prologue:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A mad woman trades a baby in his cradle with her own newborn. She is charged by police for murder and imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital. The newborn scratches with his &quot;mother's&quot; face with his nails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Years later:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The newborn is a boy, and is silent, sad and shy. He is bullied by some students, and an unidentified killer kills one of the bully boys with a shotgun shot to the head. The killer then hides in the attic of the silent boy's home.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mother of the boy discovers he is not her real son and investigates to discover that the real mother of her &quot;son&quot; is a murderer and her biological son is in a orphanage. When she returns to her home and discovers the killer of the bully, who is also the father of the boy and husband of mad killer woman, at her house. He tries to kill her but the silent boy defends his adoptive mother and shoots the man who is actually his father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Happy end:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biological son and the adopted son live together happily in the new family&#xA;with mother and father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Details:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This likely came out between 1989-93, it was probably a made-for-TV movie from the USA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21300" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-05-24T18:20:30.303" LastActivityDate="2015-05-24T18:20:30.303" Title="Horror movie with a boy swapped at birth whose biological parents are both murderers" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:46:15.860" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34474" CreationDate="2015-05-24T02:44:43.207" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are not huffing paint. It has nothing to do with &quot;huffing.&quot; They are spray painting their &quot;grills&quot; (teeth) so they will be (as they say in the film) &quot;shiny and chrome&quot; when they go to their Valhalla. Remember, in their Valhalla, they ride forever. It's a kind of statement...it has nothing to do with any toxic or intoxicant effect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21485" LastActivityDate="2015-05-24T02:44:43.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21300" CreationDate="2015-05-24T04:37:30.287" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's not forget Arya is Cat's daughter. Look how horribly Cat treated Jon Snow even though he was completely blameless. And Tyrion - he saved Cat's life but she still stuck to her conviction that he'd tried to kill her son. I actually think there's a fairly strong theme in GOT of women making stupid decisions based on their emotions instead of logic. Daenerys is another example - raising hell about her husband's soldiers attacking a town to get ships and crew (she knew perfectly well how they did things), then insisting on some strange woman treating her husband, against all her tribe's advice. Even Shae, refusing to pay attention when told she was in danger. Of course, there's no lack of bad decisions in GOT, but the really incomprehensibly bad decisions seem to be made by women. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21486" LastActivityDate="2015-05-24T04:37:30.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21300" CreationDate="2015-05-24T04:53:20.830" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on events in Season 5 episode 6, &quot;Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken&quot;, I'd argue that part of why she didn't kill him is that she really &lt;em&gt;cares&lt;/em&gt; for him as a role model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When she's playing the &quot;Game of Faces&quot; with Jaqen where she must tell the truth or lie convincingly (the latter of which she's not capable of), Jaquen asks her repeatedly if she hates the Hound and she says that she does but he tells her that she's lying repeatedly, giving us the insight that she's also lying to herself because she &lt;strong&gt;believes&lt;/strong&gt; that she hates him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her actions now become clear to some point.  Deep inside, much as she doesn't want to give up her identity and become &quot;No One&quot;, she also likes The Hound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/recap/game-of-thrones-season-5-episode-6&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;synopsis&lt;/a&gt; of the conversation from an episode recap on EW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Arya asks to play the “Game of Faces” with her moody nameless roommate. This is a game where you tell things about yourself to another person and if they can tell that you’re lying then they get to hit you with a stick. It sounds wretched, but it’s still more fun than Frisbee Golf. Later Jaqen H’ghar tests her. Arya tries to tell her story while inserting little lies, but Jaqen can always tell when she fibs. Most interestingly, her claim of hating The Hound was a lie. Also not true: Arya saying she wants to be No One. Of course she doesn’t. She’s Arya Stark. She wants super-assassin abilities, but the reason she wants these powers is for vengeance. If she fully gives up her identity as Arya, then what is the point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-05-24T04:53:20.830" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4158" CreationDate="2015-05-24T06:26:49.400" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched The Graduate tonight for the first time since it was in theaters in the late 60s. I didn't remember much about it, so it was almost like seeing it for the first time. I also wondered why Mrs. R so adamantly didn't want Ben to date Elaine. But the theory that he and Elaine had the same father makes a lot of sense for the reasons shared already: Mr. R says &quot;You're almost like my own son&quot;. Also, Ben was asked- more than once- by both Mr. and Mrs. R, &quot;How long have I known you?&quot; The answer was all his life. Finally, when he told Elaine he had an affair and she asked if the woman was married and had a family, he said yes, and they had a son. (not a daughter) I thought he said it as a cover up when I heard it, but maybe there was more meaning to it than that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21488" LastActivityDate="2015-05-24T06:26:49.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34659" CreationDate="2015-05-24T14:12:49.480" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wasn't Airborne that killed his promotability, it was Special Forces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first pertinent quote (from the script) is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WILLARD (V.O.):&lt;/strong&gt; At first, I thought they handed me the wrong dossier.  I couldn't believe they wanted this man dead. Third-generation West Point, top of his class...Korea, Airborne, about a thousand decorations, etc., etc. I'd head his voice on the tape and it really put the hook in me, but I couldn't connect up that voice with this man.  Like they said, he had an impressive career.  Maybe too impressive.  I mean, perfect.  He was being groomed for one of the top slots in the corporation.  General, chief of staff, anything.  In 1964, he returned from a tour with Advisory Command in Vietnam, and things started to slip.  His report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Lyndon Johnson was restricted.  Seems they didn't dig what he had to tell them.  During the next few months, he made three requests...for transfer to Airborne training, Fort Benning, Georgia...and was finally accepted.  Airborne?  He was thirty-eight years old.  Why the fuck would he do that?  1966...joins Special Forces, returns to Vietnam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second pertinent quote is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WILLARD (V.O.):&lt;/strong&gt; Thirty-eight fucking years old. If you joined the green berets, there was no way you'd ever get above colonel.  Kurtz knew what he was giving up.  The more I read and began to understand, the more I admired him.  His family and friends couldn't understand it. And they couldn't talk him out of it.  He had to apply three times, and he put up with a ton of shit, but when he threatened to resign, they gave it to him.  The next youngest guy in his class was half his age.  They must've thought he was some far-out man humping it over the course.  I did it when I was nineteen, it damn near wasted me.  A tough motherfucker.  He finished it.  He could've gone for general, but he went for himself instead.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, for the why any of that is important. You have to look into the history of the US Army a bit. Airborne Infantry was a thing newly developed in World War II.  While there were smaller applications earlier, the first major Airborne drops were during D-Day, inland from Normandy. They went, by and large, fairly well. Then during Operation Market Garden, there were more Airborne troops dropped, which went, by and large, again really well. So Airborne and the philosophy and change to Army tactics that were developed from it, were well accepted. By the years before Vietnam, the only officers who would get ('full bird') Colonel were those who had the political backing to continue on to Brigadier General. A Colonel in those years would have served in Korea, and an &lt;em&gt;Airborne&lt;/em&gt; Colonel would have been viewed as the more well rounded officer. Not having Airborne wouldn't have precluded promotion, but Airborne was the &quot;Up and Coming Young Officer's Thing-To-Do.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now let's discuss Special Forces. Like Airborne in the beginnings of WWII, during the years just before Vietnam, Special Forces was only just then being built up. (Kennedy did so, for many reasons, not the least of which was the glamor effect). The origins of Special Forces were OSS, and various other special groups, usually called Commandos. The problem with the OSS and Commando groups were that the regular senior officers didn't have a &lt;strong&gt;clue&lt;/strong&gt; about what to do with them, or how to use them. (A good movie to watch for this specific thought it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062886/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Devil's Brigade&lt;/a&gt;. If you watch it, pay close attention to Carol O'Conner's character and how he treats the Brigade.) Those troops and their officers were Prima Donna's. They never really had a chance to shine enough beyond single missions to evolve a philosophical change in Army tactics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, now we have Kurtz. He was a golden child. Being groomed for Generalship. On the fast track. Airborne was a way to help achieve that. There was no problem at all with his Airborne training and wings. In fact, they would have made him even more likely to make promotion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Special Forces? Not so much. In fact, with that, he instantly became un-promotable. There simply were NO generals in or from the Special Forces branch at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, when you read the line &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Airborne?  He &#xA;                           was thirty-eight years old.  Why &#xA;                           the fuck would he do that?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  That was simply because Airborne training was, and is, very extremely physical and a thirty-eight year old is a &lt;em&gt;grandfather&lt;/em&gt; compared to all of the 17-18 year olds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Of course, by today's standards, a Special Forces Colonel has a better chance at promotion than not, because today, with the current unconventional warfare doctrine, it's not the major Army commands fighting the wars as much as the SF groups. But that's just my opinion as a retired Army NCO.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-24T16:04:31.877" LastActivityDate="2015-05-24T16:04:31.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34588" CreationDate="2015-05-24T14:52:28.397" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;ava's  dream is to live outside and see humans.......that is exactly what she does when free.....so why does she leave caleb to die????&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;my answer is the scriptwriters decided to laugh at the audience with an absurd final twist......imagine the alternative....... they go out hand in hand to explore the world together........a bit cliched dont you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;would this film have filled so many pages otherwise with the plot twist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the script writers decided to laugh at the audience &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ava doesnt fail the touring test.....lack of empathy and cruelty are very much human traits&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21491" LastActivityDate="2015-05-24T14:52:28.397" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34659" CreationDate="2015-05-24T14:53:04.120" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the key is the line &lt;em&gt;&quot;He could've gone for general, but he went for himself instead.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kurtz had apparently lost interest in climbing higher in the military ranks, which presumably would have taken him away from combat and the front lines. He seemed to want to go in the opposite direction -- toward the heat of the fight -- so &lt;strong&gt;Kurtz requested Airborne training as a first step toward returning to combat&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kurtz took himself out of the running for promotion by enrolling in Airborne training.&lt;/strong&gt; Promotion would have required continuing to follow an advancing career path -- whereas Kurtz brought his career advancement to a halt by enrolling in Airborne training.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="763" LastEditDate="2015-05-25T14:06:19.390" LastActivityDate="2015-05-25T14:06:19.390" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34692" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-24T16:30:44.267" Score="6" ViewCount="1300" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do film experts, critics, industry insiders, etc recognise and discuss signature styles or elements &lt;em&gt;between&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_film_studio#Current_majors&quot;&gt;major Hollywood studios&lt;/a&gt;? Along the lines of...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;This is a very typical Universal film, in that...&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;This screenplay seems to me better suited to 20th Century Fox than Warner Bros, because...&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;This film was unusually [x] for a Paramount film, as it...&quot; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...pointing to specific 'signature' details in style, pacing, tone, plot, filmography, commercial risk taking, innovation, elements prioritised, etc? Similar to how there are, for example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rotoscopers.com/2015/03/06/the-differences-between-disney-and-pixar/&quot;&gt;characteristic differences between Pixar and Dreamworks&lt;/a&gt; - critics identify these and discuss trends like, for example, to what extent these differences are diminishing and blurring &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cinephile.ca/archives/volume-4-post-genre/the-hbo-ification-of-genre/&quot;&gt;characteristics associated with HBO drama series&lt;/a&gt; - and critics discuss things like how the HBO approach to drama has influenced trends more widely&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;typical &lt;a href=&quot;http://plutofilm.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/characteristics-of-new-hollywood-cinema.html&quot;&gt;features of a &quot;Hollywood film&quot; and different eras of &quot;Hollywood film&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, etc etc &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that individual directors (and/or producers) definitely have clear reputations and signature styles, and that most directors and producers work across studios, but &lt;strong&gt;in addition to this, do studios themselves earn particular reputations&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they do exist, I'm not asking for a complete list, that'd be too broad, just a &quot;Yes, for example... &lt;em&gt;[here's an analysis of why X director favours the approach taken by Y studio]&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, or a &quot;No, because... &lt;em&gt;[they all follow the same trends based on the same viewing data, see this analysis]&lt;/em&gt;...&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short-lived historical differences are relevant too, e.g. if a particular studio pioneered X genre or Y style, but it was then adopted by all the others. My suspicion is that trends get copied so quickly it's hard for any one studio to carve out a niche that lasts longer than a couple of years - but I'm at a loss as to how to find examples confirming or disproving this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking because this has bugged me ever since I visited some film studios in Los Angeles and realised that I'd never once paid attention to which studio made what film. I was surprised to realise that I had no idea at all which films were made by which studios. I've tried researching this but found nothing, the only clear trends &lt;em&gt;between&lt;/em&gt; studios I can see seem to be around who has the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9718" LastEditorUserId="9718" LastEditDate="2015-05-24T16:46:45.133" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T23:53:01.900" Title="Do different major Hollywood studios have distinctive styles or signature elements in their filmmaking?" Tags="|film-industry|american-cinema|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34679" CreationDate="2015-05-24T18:12:41.717" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're after the horror movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110965/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Relative Fear&lt;/a&gt; (AKA The Child) from 1994.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This Canadian thriller features a cute little kid who kills. Connie and Linda give birth simultaneously in the same hospital. A mix up with the babies occur. Linda, after the baby, Adam, hits her, feels something is wrong. Indeed, the babe's real mother is a homicidal maniac and her illness seems to be genetic. [...] His parents really love him, but they are concerned. They should be. It is not long before bodies are dropping like flies in the house. [...] Eventually the mix-up is discovered and Linda confronts Connie, who is chained up in prison. Soon she discovers the whereabouts of her real son. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the victims is a kid who bullied Adam and the real killer is Adam's biological father who's been hiding in their attic. He tries to kill Linda but Adam shoots him and saves her. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_ZyTyaXWPqs?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-05-24T18:12:41.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34699" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34730" CreationDate="2015-05-24T18:55:36.157" Score="4" ViewCount="1060" Body="&lt;p&gt;During Roman Polanski's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074811/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Tenant&lt;/em&gt; (orig.: &lt;em&gt;Le locataire&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/a&gt; there is a scene where Trelkovsky is sitting in a public park at some lake/fountain. There are some boys playing with toy boats in the lake and one boy cries because something happened to his boat. A woman talks to him in order to console him. When she leaves again, Trelkovsky walks up to the boy, says something like &lt;em&gt;&quot;Filthy little brat!&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and slaps him. Then he leaves the park.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is pretty much the whole scene. It doesn't have any narrative connection to the rest of the movie and I couldn't make much sense out of it or relate it to the rest of the story. &lt;strong&gt;Why did he react this way to a complete stranger and what was the purpose of that scene?&lt;/strong&gt; Was this simply to show his growing insanity? Was it part of his transformation into Simone (though, there's no hint Simone would have reacted this way)? Was there any further relevance to this scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-07-22T08:29:28.013" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T08:29:28.013" Title="What's the relevance of the scene with the boy in the park?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|the-tenant|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34700" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34703" CreationDate="2015-05-24T21:22:31.877" Score="6" ViewCount="3697" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’ve seen a few “behind the scenes” clips in which you can hear a lot of background noise not pertinent with the shooting. Recently on many sites there’s a clip of a sex scene; you can hear the director talking, giving instructions, while (quite distorted) music is played. I’m involved in audio production and I’m wondering how you can cancel all that stuff. I can understand the (high quality) music is added in post production, but what about the acting? Are the actors going to do a complete dubbing?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20927" LastActivityDate="2020-02-01T19:19:15.500" Title="Removal of background noise in movie scenes" Tags="|film-techniques|production|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34700" CreationDate="2015-05-24T21:35:07.130" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many shots where there is no specific dialogue will be shot &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_%28filmmaking%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;MOS&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; - without sound running.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MOS is a standard filmmaking jargon abbreviation, used in production reports to indicate an associated film segment has no synchronous audio track. It stands for &amp;quot;motor only sync&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;motor only shot&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Omitting sound recording from a particular shot can save time and relieve the film crew of certain requirements, such as remaining silent during a take, and thus MOS takes are common on film shoots, most obviously when the subjects of the take are not speaking or otherwise generating useful sound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's a sex scene, mouths are not likely on camera (if any dialogue is even occurring), so they will often do the dialogue in post or &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubbing_%28filmmaking%29#ADR.2Fpost-sync&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;ADR&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Automated dialogue replacement (ADR) is the process of re-recording dialogue by the original actor after the filming process to improve audio quality or reflect dialogue changes (also known as &amp;quot;looping&amp;quot; or a &amp;quot;looping session&amp;quot;).[6][7] ADR is also used to change original lines recorded on set to clarify context, improve diction or timing, or to replace an accented vocal performance. In the UK, it is also called &amp;quot;post-synchronisation&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;post-sync&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also possible that the specific shots being captured that you saw were close-ups, details, or other shots that are more about the framing of the shot and the action in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they were recording sound, I'd bet the director wasn't talking at the same time as dialogue was being said. A sound designer will be able to remove the part of the scene where the director is talking (assuming there's not too much other stuff like music in the background) and replace that with &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presence_%28sound_recording%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;room tone&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;, which is generally 1 minute of &amp;quot;silence&amp;quot; recorded by the sound recorder so that the sound designer can use it as a base noise for the space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In filmmaking and television production presence (or room tone) is the &amp;quot;silence&amp;quot; recorded at a location or space when no dialogue is spoken. This term is often confused with ambiance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every location has a distinct presence created by the position of the microphone in relation to the space boundaries. A microphone placed in two different locations of the same room will produce two different presences. This is because of the unique spatial relationship between the microphone and boundaries such as walls, ceiling, floor and other objects in the room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presence is recorded during the production stage of filmmaking. It is used to help create the film sound track, where presence may be intercut with dialogue to smooth out any sound edit points. The sound track &amp;quot;going dead&amp;quot; would be perceived by the audience not as silence, but as a failure of the sound system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-24T21:54:58.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34700" CreationDate="2015-05-24T21:53:10.800" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with @Catija:  ADR is very common with action, drama, and musicals because it is far easier (and less expensive) to rerecord the dialog in a recording booth than it is to get dozens to hundreds of people, who are near the shot, to be absolutely silent or to remove the sound in post production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only genre which avoids ADR is comedies because the timing is very important and hard to reproduce in ADR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a sound booth it is far easier for an actor to nail the vocal cadences to sell an emotional state or reaction and can be done in fewer takes which cost less.  On a sound stage, there are layer upon layer of distractions and acoustic compromises starting with all the people watching, and ending with the set being too warm or too cold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2015-05-24T21:53:10.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34474" CreationDate="2015-05-24T22:19:27.823" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's called chrome, and it's main purpose is actually so they can spit fuel into the engine, as when they don't have the spray they can only do it for a short time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21494" LastActivityDate="2015-05-24T22:19:27.823" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17212" CreationDate="2015-05-24T22:37:25.120" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man, Tobey Maguire Spider-Man and Ultimate Spider-Man TV show Spider-Man were involved in the spider verse event where alternate spider-heroes teamed up to defeat the inheritors: energy vampires who hunt alternate spider-heroes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21495" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-07-10T10:04:16.703" LastActivityDate="2017-07-10T10:04:16.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34476" CreationDate="2015-05-25T01:16:56.670" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The front tank had both water and mothers milk.  Tankers can hold more than one liquid (i.e. different grades of gasoline)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21499" LastActivityDate="2015-05-25T01:16:56.670" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30750" CreationDate="2015-05-25T04:40:08.683" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a film called &quot;Russian Ark&quot; that was shot in the Hermitage museum in St, Petersburg, Russia. &#xA;I believe the Entire Thing is one long take .. spanning several hours&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21501" LastActivityDate="2015-05-25T04:40:08.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34721" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35096" CreationDate="2015-05-25T05:17:37.243" Score="7" ViewCount="1441" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=2&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwj36JyPx4PLAhVL7BQKHciKB2EQFggnMAE&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FEx_Machina_(film)&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF4bPonuIgI9GFqMqOk24Wj75bjng&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ex Machina&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, towards the end of the movie, we see Caleb hacking the system of the building to reverse the door mechanisim, and if you pause the movie at the right time, you could see that he is writing in a language not too different than C++ or Swift.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The code he writes is a function that finds prime numbers. Not sure what that has anything to do with hacking the system, but for the sake of argument, we will assume it is required by a complex function within the hacking procedure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What really caught my attention was the comments he wrote before the function declaration. I know the comments are supposed to describe what the next bit of code is intendded for, and I know that the written comments have nothing to do with finding prime numbers, as expected because they are meant for the movie audience to let them know that he is writing some hacking code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a hacker would never leave evidence of his &quot;crime&quot;. Meaning: he would not write any comments that would give away his intentions, and second: he does not have time to write comments. &#xA;The only reason someone might want to leave comments in code, is if they are expecting someone else to read the code later and be able to modify the code (enhance, update, etc). Neither of which is the case in Caleb's situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why did Caleb leave comments in his &quot;hacking code&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-19T09:53:03.597" LastActivityDate="2016-07-03T23:29:58.723" Title="Why would Caleb write code with comments?" Tags="|ex-machina|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34723" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34736" CreationDate="2015-05-25T06:46:51.743" Score="11" ViewCount="16018" Body="&lt;p&gt;When a movie is filmed in a location that is different than the location in the script (e.g. a movie set somewhere in the US that is filmed in Canada), and there are automobiles shown with license plates for the scripted location, I assume these aren't the real license plates for that car.  Or they may even have vanity plates that correspond to some element of the movie, like the one that says &quot;YAHOO&quot; on Gordy's Mercedes in the movie Frequency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So technically, these plates are illegal because they aren't registered to the car.  In the case of the YAHOO example, the car is just sitting next to the baseball field so it doesn't matter.  But what if the car is driven?  I can think of four cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the car is sitting still, it has the fake plates.  On the road,&#xA;they switch to real plates and take care not to show the plates.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When on the road, the car is actually being towed (&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/1950/325&quot;&gt;see&#xA;here&lt;/a&gt; for examples).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They drive with the fake plates, and these is a &quot;don't ask, don't&#xA;tell&quot; agreement with the authorities since you're making a movie,&#xA;and they keep the real plates with the vehicle if needed to be&#xA;shown.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They drive with the fake plates, and there is some sort legal&#xA;exemption that covers this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T19:42:20.480" Title="Legality of using fake license plates in movies" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34588" CreationDate="2015-05-25T08:15:59.427" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ava deliberately made sure Caleb could not escape. This is the reason that she asked him to stay in the room while she left to get ready. Now that she was free, she probably considered him a hindrance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The director wants viewers to fear the AI, which is the reason that this ending was chosen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21504" LastEditorUserId="78097" LastEditDate="2019-12-22T21:47:45.783" LastActivityDate="2019-12-22T21:47:45.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34588" CreationDate="2015-05-25T10:00:47.167" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why she betrayed Caleb?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ava's sole purpose is to escape from the place. So, she used Caleb with her skills programmed into her like sexuality and manipulation to escape the facility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for locking up Caleb and leaving him there to die are because Caleb is the only person who's aware of the fact that she's not human. If anyone finds out that she isn't a human by Caleb, she might not achieve the things she wanted to, like watching people at the intersection which is the last scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/ex-machina-ending-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with director Alex Garland and actor Oscar Isaac about the ending of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q - &lt;strong&gt;She does basically kill Nathan and leave Caleb. She screws them over&#xA;for herself.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A - Yeah, for survival yeah, exactly. Otherwise she’s going to be killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only person in between her and the survival is Caleb and she eliminated the possibility by locking him up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might also be interested in the answers to a similar &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80444/why-does-ava-act-this-way&quot;&gt;question&lt;/a&gt; on the Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2020-11-23T07:43:40.183" LastActivityDate="2020-11-23T07:43:40.183" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34729" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34744" CreationDate="2015-05-25T10:48:06.963" Score="3" ViewCount="28569" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched the movie Kingsman: The Secret Service this weekend, I enjoyed and it is a wonderful movie, but I heard that there were some scenes that has been deleted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you tell what are those scenes? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2015-05-25T11:04:27.650" LastActivityDate="2015-05-25T21:42:18.440" Title="What happened during the deleted scenes in Kingsman: The Secret Service?" Tags="|kingsman-the-secret-service|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34699" CreationDate="2015-05-25T10:57:40.927" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Wikipedia article, the interpretation of that scene is quite similar to your assumption that it generally shows the development of Trelkovsky's mental state: &quot;He becomes hostile and paranoid in his day-to-day environment (snapping at his friends, slapping a child in a park) and his mental state progressively deteriorates.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Correspondingly, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheTenant&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt; identifies the scene with the &lt;em&gt;Would Hurt a Child&lt;/em&gt; trope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/filthy-little-brat/Content?oid=626740&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sean Nelson&lt;/a&gt;, taking a closer look at the scene, describes the scene as a &quot;non sequitur&quot;, suggesting the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The camera lingers on the director's face as it registers a small&#xA;  range of tender emotion. The tableau of innocence mesmerizes him. When&#xA;  the boat floats out of reach, the boy cries out for help. Polanski&#xA;  walks over and slaps the child's face, hard; sneers, &quot;Filthy little&#xA;  brat&quot;; and walks away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This jarring exchange invites a dive deep into the possibly&#xA;  irrelevant, yet unignorable element of autobiography that is never far&#xA;  from the discussion of Polanski's films. Strip away The Tenant's&#xA;  narrative and there is Roman Polanski himself, watching the child he&#xA;  never got to father because his pregnant wife was murdered by the&#xA;  Manson gang. Tenderness gives way to indignation—why should this&#xA;  filthy little brat have lived instead of his own child? Or consider&#xA;  the Polanski who escaped from the Krakow ghetto, his survivor's guilt&#xA;  enhanced by the death of his sister and pregnant mother in Nazi gas&#xA;  chambers, slapping the face of a filthy little brat who dares to whine&#xA;  about a toy boat. (I realize this last reading seems a bit of a&#xA;  stretch, even mawkish—until you notice the Stars of David formed by&#xA;  the legs of the folding chairs in the park and wonder how they&#xA;  could've been accidental.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene's dimensions of emotion and the formal rules of social interaction generally relate to the film's themes of physical and social identity and alienation, so the &quot;non sequitur&quot; seems a bit of a stretch, however there does not seem to be a straightforward relation to the tenant's transformation into Simone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21490" LastActivityDate="2015-05-25T10:57:40.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34735" CreationDate="2015-05-25T11:44:10.030" Score="7" ViewCount="1176" Body="&lt;p&gt;Psych, Season 8, Episode 3 ,&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psych_%28season_8%29#Episodes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Remake A.K.A. Cloudy... With a Chance of Improvement&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, was a remake of the Season 1 Episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psych_(season_1)#ep12&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Cloudy... With a Chance of Murder&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wikipedia entry says it is &quot;the first-ever remake episode of the series&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about other shows? Has any show done it before?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm more curoius about remakes happening within the same series than a remade episode in a remade series.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastActivityDate="2015-05-25T15:08:30.793" Title="Was Psych the first TV series to remake its own episode?" Tags="|first-appearance|psych|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34732" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35269" CreationDate="2015-05-25T12:01:43.267" Score="10" ViewCount="3216" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just saw Ex Machina, which was cool and yet somewhat strange, and the very ending is eluding me.  If you've seen it you'll know it, if you haven't then this description means nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Shadows (from an odd perspective) and then a reflection in a store&#xA;  window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the significance of that?  Or was there any?  Considering how much symbolism the remainder of the movie contained, I have a hard time those were random shots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone please explain this to me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-10-06T15:39:21.093" LastActivityDate="2016-10-06T15:42:25.620" Title="The very ending of Ex-Machina" Tags="|analysis|ending|ex-machina|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34527" CreationDate="2015-05-25T13:39:37.887" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are four issues of comics that accompany Fury Road which tell the back Story of Max, Furiosa, Immortan Joe and Nux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first issue with Nux and Immortan Joe's Story, it is explained that Immortan Joe was a former Militant leader. Colonel Joe Moore, a veteran of the Oil Wars and a Hero of the Water Wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his party he had a henchman called Major Kalashnikov, and when they ventured into the Wasteland they spared the life of a fat man who he told them about an Aquifer where they could find water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out in the Wasteland, north of The Citadel they found an old Oil Refinery and to the west an abandoned Lead Mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Fatman become the People Eater, Guardian of Gastown and Major Kalashnikov was appointed The Bullet Farmer of the lead mine were they produced ammunition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the Citadel, Gas Town and Bullet Farm were all part of the same triumvirate that ruled the Wasteland, with Immortan Joe looking like the strongest influence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4990" LastActivityDate="2015-05-25T13:39:37.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34731" CreationDate="2015-05-25T15:08:30.793" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to both IMDb and the USA Network's own website, &lt;em&gt;Psych&lt;/em&gt; was the first show to remake one of its own episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From IMDb, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3030772/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Remake A.K.A. Cloudy... With a Chance of Improvement&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Psych makes television history in a never-been-done remake of the season one episode &quot;Cloudy with a Chance of Murder.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &quot;Fun Facts&quot; section of USA Network's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usanetwork.com/psych/episodes/3-3-7&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Remake A.K.A. Cloudy…With A Chance Of Improvement&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Psych is the first show in the history of television to remake one of their own episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2015-05-25T15:08:30.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34723" CreationDate="2015-05-25T16:01:45.843" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an organization, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://locationmanagers.org/who-we-are/&quot;&gt;Location Managers Guild of America&lt;/a&gt;, which states on their website that they will be responsible for the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meet with those neighbors and merchants directly affected by prep,&#xA;shoot, or wrap activities. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Negotiate the location fees, contracts, and associated paperwork. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Coordinate legal issues with company attorneys. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Request filming permits with all pertinent authorities,&#xA;listing filming activities in detail.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Call in notification of special effects and extended hours. Notify neighbors and gather signatures as required. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Schedule police, fire safety officers and security personnel. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Coordinate with company safety department and&#xA;supervise environmental clearance and studies in an expedited manner.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Design and implement traffic plans and street closures.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Work closely with Transportation Dept. to ensure that parking arrangements&#xA;meet both production and neighborhood needs. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prepare directional signage and maps. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Act as liaison between the public and the shooting crew.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure they are one of many such companies who do this, but this list is of note because it covers traffic, as well as the covering of permits (some of which, no doubt, will deal with having unregistered cars on location).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-05-25T16:01:45.843" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34729" CreationDate="2015-05-25T21:42:18.440" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The UK version has a total of 51 seconds censored; I watched the US version (because I live in Paraguay, therefore we consume the American version), which, according to what I saw and read in several websites, is the uncensored version; the German release, I understand is uncensored too. Peter Debruge of the Variety Magazine &lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/film-review-kingsman-the-secret-service-1201388064/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;explain&lt;/a&gt; the parts censored in the UK version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &lt;em&gt;The studio reportedly pushed back on several touchy scenes, including one that plays like a surreal dream sequence from another movie (like Kevin Smith’s “Red State,” perhaps), as hatemongering members of a Westboro-style congregation flip out and spontaneously start attacking one another.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason of the censorship is very simple: &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;avoid at all cost the &amp;quot;+18 rating&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21286" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-05-25T21:42:18.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32744" CreationDate="2015-05-26T00:11:57.187" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Allow me to explain what seems most likely to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the moment at which the day is reset, the day that was in progress ceases to exist. So, assuming that some subjects perish upon contact with the blood of the alpha, which is obviously corrosive and venomous, at the moment the first subject reset the day, the other subjects would cease to exist and only the first to die would retain the power. If no subjects perish, all I can assume is that each subject will simultaneously live through a string of days in which all other subjects had not yet received the power... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...but that's confusing, so I'm most likely wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21439" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T00:11:57.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34751" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-26T02:45:11.037" Score="8" ViewCount="31176" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max:_Fury_Road&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mad Max: Fury Road&lt;/a&gt;, right before the scene when Nux&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; deliberately turns over the truck and dies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;what does he say? It was a short line and I think it had the word &quot;men&quot; or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21533" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-26T20:52:38.127" LastActivityDate="2017-02-05T05:59:31.560" Title="What does Nux say?" Tags="|dialogue|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34752" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34798" CreationDate="2015-05-26T02:47:59.667" Score="1" ViewCount="666" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Kill&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Good Kill (2014)&lt;/a&gt; get the cooperation of the Air Force?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a heavy handed moralistic drama about an ex-airman who is driven to drink because of his &quot;conscience&quot; as a Predator pilot and how it destroys his marriage. He has a Mexican female sidekick who cries and makes snide wisecracks as she laser designates &quot;innocent non-combatants&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film seems to have been made with the cooperation of the Air Force since many scenes take place on an Air Force base and the drone operation vaults  seem to be pretty real. How did the film makers get the Air Force to cooperate with making such an anti-war film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-26T07:49:41.890" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T10:07:16.053" Title="How did &quot;Good Kill&quot; get the cooperation of the Air Force?" Tags="|production|film-location|good-kill|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34756" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-26T05:30:48.853" Score="7" ViewCount="38564" Body="&lt;p&gt;During a point in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max:_Fury_Road&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mad Max: Fury Road&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, Nux says something about these bumps that would eventually kill him but I don't recall if he actually explained what they were or if it was left to our interpretation.  You can see the bumps in this image:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j3RR0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, do we know what these are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-05-26T08:10:26.680" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T04:40:18.197" Title="What are the bumps on Nux's neck/shoulder?" Tags="|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34751" CreationDate="2015-05-26T05:33:29.057" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just before the war boys (half-life humans) sacrifice themselves, they would spray chrome paint (huffing paint to give them rush) on their face and shout &quot;Witness Me&quot;, as they believe that it will take them to Valhalla (heaven in their time). Because he was sacrificing himself in the last scene, Nux shouts the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastEditorUserId="3210" LastEditDate="2015-06-09T17:47:23.903" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T17:47:23.903" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34601" CreationDate="2015-05-26T05:45:36.957" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are humans (judging from their shape) disguised. It might be because the soil is moist and there are chances of forming &lt;strong&gt;quicksand&lt;/strong&gt; (quote from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksand&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Quicksand forms in saturated loose sand when the sand is suddenly&#xA;  agitated. When water in the sand cannot escape, it creates a liquefied&#xA;  soil that loses strength and cannot support weight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The soil there was pretty moist remember the war rig was struck for most part in the soil. I am thinking they walk on sticks to avoid quickands. &#xA;Since the many mothers didn't say if some people stayed back, I am assuming some of them might have been afraid to move and stayed back and adapted to these new forms, to avoid sinking and dying of suffocation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-26T09:24:32.977" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T09:24:32.977" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34756" CreationDate="2015-05-26T06:10:18.333" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;We were shown in the beginning that Immortan Joe also has those tumors, may be it's because they're extremely unhealthy/ill. Nux is also unhealthy and has tumors, so, he keeps on transfusing Max's blood from a pipe injected into Max's neck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those were his tumors and he nicknames them Barry and Larry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzfeed.com/danieldalton/what-a-lovely-day#.snOEEdvZyQ&quot;&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; explaining about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Turns out the irradiated wasteland is bad for your health, and &lt;strong&gt;Nux has a couple of gnarly neck tumours which he draws smiley faces on and nicknames Barry and Larry&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2015-05-26T06:50:47.287" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T06:50:47.287" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34756" CreationDate="2015-05-26T06:18:16.797" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might also be because they have been exposed to contaminated air maybe with radiation (assuming it because the soil was also red) as these war boys go out regularly even Joe himself was a war rig driver before like he declares it in the speech, but for Joe's wive's there is fresh air supply and they are surrounded with greenery, maybe this explains the perfect baby that is delivered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-26T09:26:17.257" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T09:26:17.257" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34732" CreationDate="2015-05-26T06:34:26.907" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched the movie as well, in my opinion ending scenes were reflection of the success of A.I designed by Nathan. The circumstances that he kept in mind for the A.I to truly succeed, were far more successful then he ever anticipated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T06:34:26.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34662" CreationDate="2015-05-26T06:40:30.467" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might be because vinny had just passed the bar exam[after his tedious sixth attempt],so Vinny is quite insecure as this is his first big case sohe hopes that if he lies telling about his big recent legal battles the judge will be impressed, and also intimidate the other lawer[prosecutor] who is much better organised[a briefcase,police report and lot of notes to show he has done his homework] than vinny.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastEditorUserId="9473" LastEditDate="2015-05-26T06:59:48.280" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T06:59:48.280" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34662" CreationDate="2015-05-26T07:24:10.833" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vinny was a new lawyer and had no courtroom experience. This was a huge case for the small town county court that doesn't likely see a lot of murder cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The judge quizzed Vinny on his trial history to confirm that he was experienced enough to take the case, particularly as he had passed the bar in a different state. Remember, Vinny is from New York and the trial is being held in Alabama. Legally, he &lt;strong&gt;can't&lt;/strong&gt; practice law in Alabama, as he's only passed the bar in New York.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are rules in place that allow someone to practice law outside their state for special reasons, these are generally set on a per-state basis. I don't know what the law in Alabama is and it doesn't actually matter... what the film seems to claim is that if the judge approves the lawyer, they're allowed to try the case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Vinny has to convince the judge that he's experienced enough so that he can be allowed to take the defense... he decides that the best way to do that is to lie. If he'd told the judge that he'd never gone to trial before, that he'd only passed the bar on his sixth attempt and that he'd just been practicing for six weeks (as a personal injury attorney, at that), the judge would have laughed him out of the court room and the movie would have ended there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's another possible reason why Judge Haller needs to be sure that Vinny's good enough for the role... if someone is convicted and then they can later show an incompetency on the part of the defense attorney, the verdict can be overturned so that they have to start the entire trial process over again. This is called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ineffective_assistance_of_counsel&quot;&gt;Ineffective assistance of counsel&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ineffective assistance of counsel is a claim raised by a convicted criminal defendant that their attorney's performance was so ineffective that it deprived them of the constitutional right guaranteed by the Assistance of Counsel Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Having the benefit of counsel or assistance of counsel means that the criminal defendant has had a competent attorney representing them. Competence is defined as reasonable professional assistance and is defined in part by prevailing professional norms and standards. In order to prevail on a claim that he received ineffective assistance, a criminal defendant must show two things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deficient performance by counsel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Resulting prejudice, in that but for the deficient performance, the result of the proceeding would have differed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With zero trial experience, it would have been very likely that Bill and Stan could later claim that he was incompetent to serve as their lawyer and I'm pretty sure that Judge Haller doesn't want that to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T07:24:10.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14155" CreationDate="2015-05-26T07:29:55.923" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you followed dexter carefully then you will understand the true meaning of the ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dexter Always wanted to feel normal&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dexter always talks about getting rid of his &quot;Dark Passenger&quot; and hoping to feel normal, Remember In season 4 ending when he is looking into the blood moon and hopes for a normal life.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He kills Debra because he loves her&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&#xA;In season 2 when the the records keeper is about to die of lung cancer deb says &quot;if that happens to me dex put me out of my misery&quot; and promises she will do the same as dex is family, and only after this conversation dex spikes the pie and kills the record keeper[upon her request as they cant commit suicide as they are catholics].&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dexter didn't Abandon his son&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;unlike dexter Hanah didn't have an mental condition to kill people, she just did it to survive and protect, dexter as not shown an alternative by harry and he developed those urges, but little harrison is given an alternative. Also dex didnt want harrison to know he was a serial killer remember the episode where he kills the tooth fairy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why the lumberjack profession&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;it's the next best alternative to trash something if you are a retired serial killer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All in all i would say this might not be the ending we wanted but its the ending dexter required&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastEditorUserId="9473" LastEditDate="2015-05-27T04:59:41.477" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T04:59:41.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31584" CreationDate="2015-05-26T07:40:40.800" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The character is played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1754312/&quot;&gt;Staci Robbins&lt;/a&gt;. She has been credited simply as a Lady Onlooker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also as mentioned in the comments, it is not &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0225460&quot;&gt;Dale Dickey&lt;/a&gt;, she plays Spooge's wife. Wendy (the crack whore) is played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2928008/&quot;&gt;Julia Minesci&lt;/a&gt; and Carol (Walt's neighbor) is played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5826452/&quot;&gt;Cheryl Ford Mente&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She is a spectator appearing to hold no real significance in the Breaking Bad universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20441" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T07:40:40.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34474" CreationDate="2015-05-26T10:36:59.653" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think maybe people are looking too much into the spray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mad Max &lt;strong&gt;IS&lt;/strong&gt; visual storytelling at its best.  The spray &lt;em&gt;could be&lt;/em&gt; their ritual before they commit suicide (enter Valhalla) and perhaps they use it to mark their bodies so they can be identified when they enter their next life. But I also like the idea that it gives them a quick high (i imagine inhaling any kind of solvent would make you go a bit dizzy) so their suicide is slightly easier on them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Writing this I had another thought: They say 'Witness me' before they kill themselves... maybe the spray is a visual indication to everyone too far away to hear that they are about to enter Valhalla?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But until we get a quote from the Director it's all just interpretation and as a community... I'm sure someone will hit the nail on the head and give everyone a satisfying answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20829" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-26T12:46:35.270" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T12:46:35.270" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34770" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34805" CreationDate="2015-05-26T12:09:14.133" Score="4" ViewCount="851" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do you call a filming technique of having a smaller screen within the main screen?  It's typically used in a news show where the main screen shows the report from the scene and the small one shows the news studio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21541" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-26T12:18:28.357" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T14:45:06.553" Title="Screen within Another Screen" Tags="|film-techniques|terminology|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34732" CreationDate="2015-05-26T12:16:20.600" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie ends by proving that machine objectivity is undeniable no matter what, 'She' made the best decisions for it's own survival, all the rest is just collateral damages, indifferent to 'her'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21542" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T12:16:20.600" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34772" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34781" CreationDate="2015-05-26T13:19:25.737" Score="10" ViewCount="4214" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw Mad Max: Fury Road this weekend, its an incredible film that relies heavily on storytelling through visuals. A lot of the film is open to interpretation but what I want to know is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When fuel is being spat into the &lt;em&gt;engine&lt;/em&gt; I want to know if that would actually do anything. In the film it significantly increases the vehicles' speed. Now I'm not a mechanic, but I would like to know if there is any real-life truth to this. And if there is... how exactly does it work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20829" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-26T13:29:42.140" LastActivityDate="2017-03-22T22:42:18.483" Title="Are there any real-world equivalents to spitting fuel into the engine?" Tags="|realism|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34776" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35089" CreationDate="2015-05-26T17:50:08.383" Score="9" ViewCount="2682" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Spoiler Alert&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;ExMachina&lt;/em&gt;, the A.I. robot successfully escapes.&#xA;But we learn earlier, that it can control the power failures, by reversing the direction of electric current (or some technical stuff like that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind, that the process of reversing the current, is done remotely. No physical contact with any power panel is necessary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The A.I. robot states that it can do the power failure while its battery is charging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having known all of that, how will the robot survive in the out-world without a mean to charge its own battery?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She/it must return to the facility where its battery can be charged...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="18998" LastEditDate="2018-08-01T05:41:58.463" LastActivityDate="2018-08-01T05:41:58.463" Title="How can the A.I. robot charge its battery?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ex-machina|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34776" CreationDate="2015-05-26T19:13:08.123" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is both stated and shown that Ava is very intelligent. It seems reasonable to think that she could construct a way of charging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4518" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T19:13:08.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34772" CreationDate="2015-05-26T19:30:59.343" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that I am no mechanic, and I do not recall specifically the lead-up to that scene in the film, but I do know that there is such a thing as &quot;water injection&quot; which is really methanol+water injection (or humorously &quot;meth injection&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the idea is that the methanol is higher octane (or rather increases the fuel octane, slowing detonation) and the water plays some role in cooling the fuel-air mixture enough to prevent premature detonation, which leads to some minor efficiency boost. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that these systems are banned in racing sometimes, probably because if they fail to cool things down properly, and the engine is tuned up to work tightly with them (for racing/max performance), then you get what some folks describe as an &quot;engine grenade.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably the vehicles are (at least fictionally) using the hood scoop to grab cool air and funnel it into the carburetor, and so they are doing the equivalent of wiping the sweat off the brow of the surgeon in a melodrama.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, I don't know if the &lt;em&gt;specifics&lt;/em&gt; of what they are doing adds up (there are several places in the engine chain to inject the water), nor do I think they tell us what the fluid is. 160-proof Methanol or ethenol would still be distasteful, but probably more pallatable than gasoline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;further reading &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alcoholinjectionsystems.com/a40/Where-Do-I-Position-My-Water-Methanol-Injection-Nozzles/article_info.html&quot;&gt;here (4. Pre Throttle Body/Carburetor Injection)&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_injection_%28engine%29&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19595" LastEditorUserId="19595" LastEditDate="2015-05-26T19:36:45.310" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T19:36:45.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10943" CreationDate="2015-05-26T20:14:42.837" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe there is any need for opinions or personal experiences when they say explain it quite clear in the movie. The last clip is from director himself telling you who Sam Gold is. Here is a clip from the tube &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/XDWGEkfHX-E?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chess is a representation of Life and Choices we make. From 0:28 to 0:49 Andre references &quot;someone&quot;(who), then goes back to talking about &quot;the game&quot; of chess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now here at 1:42&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/rWj7oWlVtag?start=102&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's talking about an &quot;opponent&quot;(who) then references a &quot;Snake&quot;?? If you know who is usually referenced as a snake you'll have your answer. But, heres another clip that should clear it up. At 0:44 if you listen closely he is referencing &quot;someone&quot; again that isn't you. Hopefully these clips will help you make sense of it directly without all the shooting/violence to distract you. Once you understand the &quot;source&quot; of your pain you will know who Sam Gold is. Direct answer to your questions from Director of movie and Statham &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/5_BeloMcDgw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21551" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2015-05-26T20:49:44.950" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T20:49:44.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33994" CreationDate="2015-05-26T21:24:03.727" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was also struck by the dark tone of &lt;em&gt;Daredevil,&lt;/em&gt; and I think there are two main reasons, aside from dark (and antiheroes) simply being &quot;in&quot; right now. Firstly, one of the showrunners is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0215299/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1&quot;&gt;Stephen S. DeKnight&lt;/a&gt;. He's most famous for showrunning the &lt;em&gt;Spartacus&lt;/em&gt; shows, and so it's clear his aesthetic goes towards the ultraviolent end of the spectrum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, they're basing the series very much more on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Miller_%28comics%29#Daredevil_and_the_early_1980s&quot;&gt;the Frank Miller run of the comic&lt;/a&gt; (e.g., Stick, the Hand, and Elektra were all introduced then)--even down to recreating some panels as frames. And unlike the original Silver Age runs of the book a few decades earlier, Miller's run became particularly dark and gritty in tone. This was, after all, the beginning of Miller establishing his own voice and would eventually lead to books like &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Returns&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Sin City.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18624" LastActivityDate="2015-05-26T21:24:03.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34772" CreationDate="2015-05-26T21:51:04.470" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is likely better asked over on &lt;a href=&quot;https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My non-mechanic understanding is that, first of all, most of the vehicle accouterments in Mad Max are mainly there for show rather than practical purposes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, what the warboys are spitting into are the air intake valves. This is what feeds the engine its combustion oxygen. When they show above the hood, they are often &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram-air_intake&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;air ram intakes&lt;/a&gt; and/or part of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercharger&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;supercharger&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more oxygen the engine can 'eat' the more fuel it can also 'eat' and therefore increase output. My guess is that the spitting of fuel into the intake is to replicate adding fuel via fuel injection. It's obviously more dramatic to do it manually while riding on the hood in the middle of the desert. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, my guess was that it wasn't necessarily gasoline they were spitting in but perhaps pure alcohol. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:47:21.497" LastActivityDate="2017-03-22T22:42:18.483" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34474" CreationDate="2015-05-26T23:30:30.823" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just as everyone has said, but I'm assuming you're more confused at why they did it. All those people who are painted white and spray their mouths (I forgot what they're called) are bred at a young age to believe everything Immortan Joe told them. He basically created an army that would do anything for him. Everything they believe in is because he's told them that, they risk their lives because they think Valhalla is real. Some people hated it because of that aspect, I personally think they just didn't understand it. It's like how Kim Jong-Un makes North Korea believe he's a gold medalist, doesn't poo etc. it's a pretty great way to create an army, they're bread to defend and attack for you. The paint is just a metaphor for what they have been told they'll become and they do it before they die in an act to help their master (Immortan Joe). Shiny and Chrome&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21555" LastEditorUserId="9685" LastEditDate="2015-05-27T00:35:39.843" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T00:35:39.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30309" CreationDate="2015-05-27T01:12:10.980" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it is up to the viewer to come to a conclusion on how they ended up. For me a weird sort of way I took from the ending was that in some sort of twisted way what they went through in the desert was the first time in their lives they really felt alive and the true reality in their lives was spent in the desert. Almost as if he was more comfortable re-living those days over and over rather than being in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21556" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-05-27T08:04:18.207" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T08:04:18.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30051" CreationDate="2015-05-27T02:54:26.550" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, Budd's Hattori Hanzo sword was from Bill, so there's no indication it came from Hanzo himself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, we never learn why he &amp;amp; Bill are estranged. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is pure speculation, but I think Budd had a gambling problem, so when the group disbanded (which I think happened after they killed the bride &amp;amp; co because it sent Bill into a depression), without a leader they all kind of went their own way, with Bill as sporadic leader/snake charmer/wrangler on assassin jobs... Budd seems like much more of a fuck-up than Bill, so without Bill's leadership, he probably spiraled himself, but with gambling, drugs, women &amp;amp; booze... With no money, and unwilling to sell his Hanzo sword (the gift from Bill, not black mamba's sword), probably for sentimental reasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tarantino is great at character development, so I bet he has answers for all this stuff. I wish he'd make a Kill Bill version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animatrix&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Animatrix&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Clone_Wars_%282008_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Clone Wars&lt;/a&gt; (animated or live action), to fill in some of the questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Side-note: the reason I think he kept his sentimental sword: because most drunks/gamblers are emotionally stunted &amp;amp; sensitive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21558" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-05-27T07:32:40.387" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T07:32:40.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34786" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-27T05:23:53.977" Score="18" ViewCount="48151" Body="&lt;p&gt;In reality shows, like say Master Chef, you see constant commentary by the contestants as they are cooking. They talk of errors and mistakes in present tense. During the cook, this is not possible because the cooking is timed. Right after the cooking, it's time for the judges to taste. When do they shoot the commentary portions and how are contestants giving accurate details about their cooking and the thoughts running through their minds?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is applicable to all reality shows. Are the lines merely scripted or is there some technique they use to help contestants remember tiny details and express it in present tense? Looks like a very tough thing to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-05-27T05:28:39.213" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T06:36:05.397" Title="How do they shoot live commentary in reality shows?" Tags="|masterchef|reality-tv|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34786" CreationDate="2015-05-27T06:22:37.217" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;What most viewers fail to see is the &lt;em&gt;huge&lt;/em&gt; amount of editing that goes into the production of a typical hour-long episode of a reality TV show. In something like Master Chef the production crew would take interviews with the contestants before the cooking, right after the cooking but before the judging, after the judging and after the final verdict has been taken. In all those interviews, the contestants are asked to speak in the present tense to give the illusion that they are narrating current events. The actual event (in this case the cooking) takes a relatively short time in comparison with all the interviews.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T06:22:37.217" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15400" CreationDate="2015-05-27T06:31:01.563" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a book of mazes with the instructions &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Solve and we will set you free&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; or something to that effect written on the cover in a post-it note. This is shown during the flash from Dover's friend's daughter when she pops up and is taken to the hospital. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe most of the maze comments come from this book and the pendant. Obviously Mr. Jones himself had a thing for mazes and now Bob has that deeply ingrained in his psyche too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just don't know if the book is about Bob, because Bob would have discussed mazes a shitload if that was the case. So it very well could be. It isn't just the pendant and the novel, in other words. It was the book kept in the hole with the kids or in the upstairs room. Mrs Jones says she &quot;&lt;em&gt;forgot all about Bobby Taylor&lt;/em&gt;&quot; until she saw him in the paper. So, he was 100% kidnapped by the same people. Barry was the first (Alex), then Bobby came sometime after, but not much later. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21559" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-05-27T07:58:05.337" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T07:58:05.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34790" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34796" CreationDate="2015-05-27T06:35:53.917" Score="4" ViewCount="5491" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Mad Max: Fury Road, when Capable, one of Immortan Joe's wives, finds Nux hidden in the rear of the Rig, he is distraught at having failed Joe. Capable tries to console him and at one point he claims that he is sick. He utters something along the lines of &quot;If the war party doesn't get me, the night fevers will.&quot; After this, Capable gently touches Nux's cheek and it seemed that somehow Nux got some colour in his face. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could it be that the wives, having lived a life in the upper levels of the Citadel with abundance of water and fresh food, have some form of healing effect when they come in contact with the sickly War Boys? (Perhaps another reason why Joe had to have multiple wives) &lt;br&gt;Or was it perhaps Nux blushing at the touch of Capable? &lt;br&gt;Or did I totally imagine seeing a difference in Nux's complexion in that scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21560" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T13:49:53.993" Title="Does Capable heal Nux in Mad Max: Fury Road?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34792" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34794" CreationDate="2015-05-27T07:53:19.840" Score="9" ViewCount="2263" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched a movie during my time at the Dentist, but only caught the last ~30 mins of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was about some scientist &amp;amp; how a man/ CEO/ company/ organization wants his invention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This was what I remembered:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scene 1&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scientist (main character, skinny, looks like in his 20s) mixes 2 liquids (both in long beakers), then releases them quickly, showing that the new reddish-pink blob can float&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Friend: &quot;Wait... Don't they have everything now?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scientist: &quot;No; I gave them everything but the main ingredient.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Friend: &quot;Hahaha, I would pay money to see the look on -&lt;em&gt;that guy's&lt;/em&gt;- face right now.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Cuts to -&lt;em&gt;that guy&lt;/em&gt;- wearing a nice suit in a greyish/formal room*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-That Guy- (bald): &quot;So you're telling me, that we do not have the formula?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scene 2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scientist walking down the street in the day, car pulls up, then gets thrown into said car&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gets threatened in car amidst yelling, something about a girl, then is thrown out&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scene 3&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scene with the sky looking like the cosmos, mainly green/white&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scientist (alone, thinks): &quot;Up there they always win... Down here, we always lose&quot;&#xA;(something like that)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scene 4&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Together with the girlfriend (who looks kinda like &lt;em&gt;Kirsten Dunst&lt;/em&gt; in the movies), looks like the sun's about to set, happy end, scientist puts his hand on her stomach*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Roll credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actors were mostly white, movie had nice music, probably made within the last few years. I say that, because looking at the visual effects in Scene 3 it was pretty good, like &quot;Life of Pi&quot; good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21561" LastEditorUserId="21561" LastEditDate="2015-05-27T08:30:01.083" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T08:37:24.947" Title="Movie about a scientist inventing a formula that is wanted by a company" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:46:53.720" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34792" CreationDate="2015-05-27T08:32:23.870" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; Kirsten Dunst. You're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1374992/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Upside Down&lt;/a&gt; from 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Adam is a seemingly ordinary guy in a very extraordinary universe. He lives humbly trying to make ends meet, but his romantic spirit holds on to the memory of a girl he loved once upon a time from another world, an inverted affluent world with its own gravity, directly above but beyond reach... a girl named Eden. Their childhood flirtation becomes an impossible love. But when he catches a glimpse of grownup Eden on television, nothing will get in the way of getting her back... Not even the law or science!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IIRC he invents a substance like the one you described that floats between the 2 worlds. Adam also says at some point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Up there, they always win. And down here, well, we always lose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/XtixqUXid9A?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-05-27T08:37:24.947" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T08:37:24.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34786" CreationDate="2015-05-27T09:49:13.310" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;They get interviewed afterwards, are 'coached' throughout their discussion and of course only the 'juicy' bits get included - it's as simple as that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T09:49:13.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34790" CreationDate="2015-05-27T09:52:42.410" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probable reason is blushing, her touch brings about a change of color.&#xA;As they are war-boys, they must be alien to compassion/affection. &#xA;So when touched suddenly, his face gets back some colour. &#xA;And no she doesn't have healing power/effect. Because if that was so, she would have tried to heal Angharad's leg wound, earlier in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21545" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T09:52:42.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33994" CreationDate="2015-05-27T09:53:13.957" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;One very simple reason is that NetFlix is considered to be a 'bought by adults, for adults' service and in order to support that on a show coming from a comic-book origin the 'darkness' and violence got turned up to appeal to that adult audience. It worked too, expect more of the same thing soon ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T09:53:13.957" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34752" CreationDate="2015-05-27T10:07:16.053" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 'Air Force base' was a regular civilian airfield dressed both practically and later digitally as an AFB. The drone footage is actually very easy to do in CGI. In fact the comparatively 'crappy quality' of real drone footage and speed of explosive shockwaves/debris-fields really help when creating CGI simulations as we don't expect realistic (and thus harder to create) views of this kind of footage. There's a first-person-shooter game called 'Arma III' that's like $50 and is so realistic, especially in it's use of night and heat-vision, that footage from the game pops up in all sorts of low-budget TV (think Sci-Fi channel). I suspect that the effects in the film were a combination of real footage from one of those $3000 quadcopters with overlaid CGI and the odd bit of practical dressing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a separate note I personally wouldn't say the film was too preachy, but I do know where you're coming from. The issue is that it's very hard to make a war/military film that everyone considers the same as everyone comes at it from their own perspective. For instance much of the world see's the last 15 years of US/UK (I'm a Brit btw) military intervention around the world as terrorism, so if you make a film focussing on the methods of that intervention then you're going to see if from either 'inside the machine' or outside - almost nobody will see if from a balanced perspective unless you really break things down analytically. Clint Eastwood is very smart guy and while his films and editing are notoriously simple affairs his understanding of balance in his war films is second-to-none. In particular &quot;American Sniper&quot; was seen by some as being very pro-US, others as being very anti and yet if you re-watch the film it's actually sitting on the fence quite nicely, not many can do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T10:07:16.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34790" CreationDate="2015-05-27T10:47:07.410" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;She doesn't heal him in a direct physical way but through a more emotional/psychological way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nux is the character with the biggest arc in &lt;em&gt;Fury road&lt;/em&gt; as his character changes immensely from his introduction till his exit. His mental turning point is defined by the touch from the scene you described so seeing a difference in his complexion is absolutely right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an &lt;a href=&quot;https://mishaburnett.wordpress.com/2015/05/19/nux-capable-fury-road/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; from Misha who describes their relationship pretty well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19004" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T13:49:53.993" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T13:49:53.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34770" CreationDate="2015-05-27T14:45:06.553" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The broad term is &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_screen_%28filmmaking%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;split screen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In film and video production, split screen is the visible division of&#xA;  the screen, traditionally in half, but also in several simultaneous&#xA;  images, rupturing the illusion that the screen's frame is a seamless&#xA;  view of reality, similar to that of the human eye.&#xA;  [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In television&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The split screen has also been used extensively in television&#xA;  programs. Newscasts often show two reporters in a split screen frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this is a really broad term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, in the context of visual effects, split screen is often used to describe a technique that allows an actor to appear twice in the same scene. This is often used to portray twins or doppelgangers in movies which are played by one actor but share some common scenes. Here it is of course required that the split remains invisible to the viewer for the effect to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18124" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T14:45:06.553" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34600" CreationDate="2015-05-27T15:01:18.863" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;1) Sex-workers, I don't think so. They do use a woman as a bait. but possibly to rob.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) During the good times i.e. when the Green Place existed. They were probably non-violent. &#xA;If you remember during the night scene, an old woman is talking to one of breeder women of Immortan Joe (not sure if it was Cheedo/The Dag-the one with australian accent). &#xA;When the old woman tells her that she kills with one headshot. She asks the old woman, I thought you were above all that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) And yet from the movie, its hard to understand how they breed. Furiosa being daughter  of Jabassa, and also having a initiate mother could mean surrogacy but I am just guessing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21545" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T15:01:18.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34809" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34814" CreationDate="2015-05-27T16:39:51.987" Score="5" ViewCount="4291" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first half of the movie, Eggsy (the main character) doesn't seem good in fighting. We don't see him really fight but he certainly doesn't seem that good. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He gets bullied by his father in law even when he is alone with him (when the father is with all his friends, it makes sense not to do anything at 1 vs 5-6).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand he might have had some training during the &quot;interview&quot; process but when he goes to save the world, he has become a real machine. And the interview process doesn't last for more than few weeks at best.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how can he become this good in such a short time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And also, the last contestant who got eliminated from the interview, doesn't seem like he can fight in the last scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15990" LastEditorUserId="15990" LastEditDate="2015-05-27T16:41:01.840" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T06:47:24.580" Title="How does Eggsy become so efficient in fight?" Tags="|kingsman-the-secret-service|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34600" CreationDate="2015-05-27T18:36:08.600" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Many Mothers&quot; are actually called the &quot;Vuvalini&quot;... which I personally think is a bit on the nose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These ladies aren't sex workers at all, they're just an all-female (or at least matriarchal) society.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd argue that their closest similarity would be to the Greek &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Amazons&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These ladies lived in all-female groups and were fierce warriors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Amazons (Greek: Ἀμαζόνες, Amazónes, singular Ἀμαζών, Amazōn), also known as Oiorpata in Iranian and Scythian, were believed to have been a nation of all-female warriors in Greek mythology and Classical antiquity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Amazons even had a method of keeping their numbers up... once a year some of the women would go to surrounding areas and sleep with men.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In some versions of the myth, no men were permitted to have sexual encounters or reside in Amazon country; but once a year, in order to prevent their race from dying out, they visited the Gargareans, a neighboring tribe. The male children who were the result of these visits were either killed, sent back to their fathers or exposed in the wilderness to fend for themselves; the girls were kept and brought up by their mothers, and trained in agricultural pursuits, hunting, and the art of war. In other versions when the Amazons went to war they would not kill all the men. Some they would take as slaves, and once or twice a year they would have sex with their slaves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either of these methods would be completely within the realm of possibility for the Vuvalini. Clearly Furiosa hasn't been there in decades and much has changed. It's very likely that, before the green place died, it had a significantly larger society that included surrounding groups they could interact with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possibility is that they're not actually anti-men, that they're simply matriarchal and only a very few women were left while none of the men were. It makes total sense that they would be wary of anyone they're not familiar with, as the entire world of &lt;em&gt;Mad Max&lt;/em&gt; has gone to pot and everyone is a threat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to &quot;initiate mother&quot; I can only guess but it sounds like the sort of thing that implies she was trained and &quot;initiated&quot; into the clan's life and culture by someone other than her mother. It'd be similar to a mentor, someone who's job is to introduce you to everything and help you through all of the trials of learning including fighting techniques, how to use weapons, and other battle skills. I could understand them not wanting to have biological mothers do this as they were probably a source of nurturing in early life whereas this &quot;initiate mother&quot; would be strict and harsh (but supportive), so the child would see them differently. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-05-28T07:33:09.670" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T07:33:09.670" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34351" CreationDate="2015-05-27T20:06:57.220" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are actually two questions being asked. Now that I've seen Fury Road, I can offer a more concise answer to both: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Should one watch the first three Mad Max movies before watching Fury Road?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's purely personal opinion. Will you enjoy Fury Road more if you've seen the rest? It's hard to say. Max is actually mostly a supporting character in this film. His backstory isn't actually that relevant to this movie. Knowing his backstory may add a bit of insight into Max's character but, honestly, Fury Road is a 2 hour non-stop car chase. You're going for a ride and character backstories are really not a big part of enjoying this installment of the franchise. If you're a person that loves great action sequences, I think you'll enjoy this movie as much without seeing the previous installments as much as you will even if you had. If you hadn't seen the rest, you could certainly consider the first 3 'prequels' and perfectly fine to view after this one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are the first three movies connected with the fourth one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. They all feature Max as a character. I stand my by previous answer, however, that--aside from the first film--the Mad Max movie are first-and-foremost action movies. You're there for the action. You're there for the set design, the costumes, the stunts. The story is what ties it all together, but like the rug in the Big Lebowski, Max is almost a McGuffin more than a central focus of the story. He's the one there to take you along for the ride, but you're really there for the ride. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T20:06:57.220" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34809" CreationDate="2015-05-27T20:50:23.860" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a combination of a few things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Harry periodically drops comments about how his background and how talented Eggsy is: high IQ, possible Olympic caliber gymnast, high weapons scores, some Royal Marine training, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The training scenes suggest a lot of training that isn't explicitly shown.  Obviously they were trained as snipers as suggested in the one scene with Charlie as a spotter.   Merlin also mentions they were taught &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming&quot;&gt;neuro-linguistic programming&lt;/a&gt; before the seduction test.  It is safe to assume there was a lot of combat training that wasn't shown.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suspension of disbelief.   The movie is a goofy love-letter to old James Bond films so realism takes a backseat to entertaining.  If we are willing to accept that Harry can stab someone to death with a pistol frame, then we can make the leap that Eggsy became very dangerous due to his training.  :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19348" LastActivityDate="2015-05-27T20:50:23.860" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3983" CreationDate="2015-05-28T00:10:08.587" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ISO's have their own complete DNA code, as you can see when Flynn is fixing Her. Even just being able to digitalise the Human Genome would be a huge scientific achievement. Because the ISO's have their own DNA strand, they will be reformed into the new world following that digital strand of DNA, most likely turning an ISO into a flesh and blood perfect being, neither Human nor programm, but a whole new perfect lifeform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21581" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T00:10:08.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34818" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34820" CreationDate="2015-05-28T04:37:19.580" Score="6" ViewCount="13627" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rewatching The Mentalist lately, I realized that we actually meet Red John quite early.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The true identity of Red John was revealed years later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That made me wonder. &lt;strong&gt;Did the writers know the identity of Red John from the beginning or was it decided later in the show?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9480" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T05:54:51.663" Title="Did the writers know from the beginning who Red John was?" Tags="|the-mentalist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34818" CreationDate="2015-05-28T05:47:00.840" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doesn't look like it, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvguide.com/news/mentalist-red-john-1073838/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;according to series creator/exec producer Bruno Heller&lt;/a&gt; in November 2013:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Xander is a wonderfully subtle actor who can go deep — deep enough to&#xA;  be our Red John,&quot; says series creator/exec producer Bruno Heller, &lt;strong&gt;who&#xA;  says he selected McAllister to be his Big Bad &quot;about a year ago, after&#xA;  carefully weighing all other options&lt;/strong&gt;. McAllister made the most sense.&#xA;  He had the perfect cover job as the sheriff of Napa, where he was the&#xA;  master of his domain. No one ever questioned his whereabouts. He&#xA;  didn't have to answer to anyone. He needed that freedom and the quiet&#xA;  loneliness of the countryside to do his thing as Red John.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/mentalist-red-johns-fate-revealed-659592&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;More from Bruno Heller&lt;/a&gt; in The Hollywood Reporter (also November 2013):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was important to &quot;give a real emotional, pleasing end to that&#xA;  story,&quot; creator-showrunner Bruno Heller told reporters, &lt;strong&gt;admitting that&#xA;  the ultimate Red John identity slowly &quot;emerged&quot; over the last few&#xA;  seasons&lt;/strong&gt;. &quot;For me it was about giving Patrick Jane exactly what he's&#xA;  wanted for all these years. He wanted revenge and he got it. I think&#xA;  that's what the audience wanted, so that's what we gave them.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2013/11/24/the-mentalist-red-john-interview&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;In Entertainment Weekly&lt;/a&gt; (November 2013):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When did Heller decide Red John’s identity? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bruno Heller: I’m not&#xA;  sure. &lt;strong&gt;It kind of just emerged over the last couple years. There was&#xA;  always three or four possibilities.&lt;/strong&gt; And it just happened, really. It&#xA;  seemed like the natural correct choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-05-28T05:54:51.663" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T05:54:51.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30774" CreationDate="2015-05-28T06:17:42.653" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well our society is that way right now in reality. LGBTQ's, geeks, dominate women, swingers, those in BDSM etc don't really got into our society just as those who are outspoken &amp;amp; against our government &amp;amp; the wrong they are doing. So I took this test as did my husband. I am an Erutide &amp;amp; Dauntless &amp;amp; my husband is an Erutide, Dauntless &amp;amp; Candor so that makes us very dangerous people I guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21585" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T06:17:42.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34786" CreationDate="2015-05-28T06:36:05.397" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;@SystemDown is right. It's all taped after each task is completed.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Also you were wondering how they remember everything they went through during the challenges.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I believe the crew members must show bits of recordings to the participants and pause the tape to ask what they were going through at that time and record whatever they say.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Some participants may remember what they were thinking, others would just make something up.&#xA;In my personal opinion i have noticed that the people who are more outspoken or dramatic will be shown more often just to get more viewership (I could be wrong).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21342" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T06:36:05.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34825" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34831" CreationDate="2015-05-28T07:56:40.080" Score="7" ViewCount="3389" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;King Pin&lt;/em&gt; (1996), during the first scenes we see the protagonist having trouble with his car, so he takes it to a mechanic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mechanic wastes no time spotting the problem. He even dips his finger in the fuel (from the fuel pump or another part of the engine that had fuel) and puts it into the mouth of the protagonist for him to taste the sugar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is later revealed that Bill Murray's character poured a bag of sugar into the fuel tank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is: How did the mechanic reach the conclusion that sugar was added to the fuel? If it was sand, it could have been possible to detect because, unlike sugar, sand does not dissolve into liquid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it a common tactic for saboteurs to mix sugar with fuel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="218" LastEditDate="2015-05-28T17:57:41.877" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T17:57:41.877" Title="How can a mechanic tell if sugar was added to the fuel tank?" Tags="|kingpin|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34826" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-28T08:03:11.287" Score="1" ViewCount="4446" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt;, how did Cobb know Mal would be in limbo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She was a projection, not a real person. When Arthur explains the rules for limbo, or anywhere else in the movie, there is nothing to indicate that projections go to other levels after they die. How did Mal get there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was Mal's case an exception? If so, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-28T08:34:23.050" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T13:14:11.187" Title="Why was Mal's projection in limbo?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34825" CreationDate="2015-05-28T12:12:39.043" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sugar does not dissolve in petrol (gasolene) and prevent the engine firing.  That is an urban myth debunked quite eloquently at  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.snopes.com/autos/grace/sugar.asp&quot;&gt;Snopes&lt;/a&gt;.  There are other similar sites saying the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The presence of particles in the fuel can clog the fuel filter, but sugar is no different to any other substance here, sand for example.  As the sugar will not have dissolved, it would not be tasted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The use of sugar in the scene is just playing on the audience.  Playing to an assumed belief in the myth.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-05-28T12:20:59.983" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T12:20:59.983" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11899" CreationDate="2015-05-28T14:52:54.463" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alternatively 'winter' could refer to the 'horrors' (i.e. White Walkers) that reside beyond the wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, when they say 'winter is coming' they could not only refer to the season and the resulting drop in temperature but they could also be refering to what will be 'invading' when/if the nights watch fail and the wall is breached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6811" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T14:52:54.463" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34776" CreationDate="2015-05-28T15:02:09.147" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that Ava is free, she can return to the facility any time to recharge her battery. Indeed she still needs her original charging equipment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Her independence doesn't mean that she'll never go back to the facility.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just that she can now choose when to go back, just like humans return home for a good nights sleep&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7516" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T15:02:09.147" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34825" CreationDate="2015-05-28T16:09:09.867" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no question that granulated sugar has no worse damage to an engine than any other granular solid, but there are those who say that dissolved sugar (syrup) will get past the fuel filter and do everything bad that people think powdered sugar will do. I am also somewhat skeptical of this claim as well as sugar burns and only dissolves in water and water does not mix with gasoline either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21602" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T16:09:09.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34841" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34845" CreationDate="2015-05-28T16:46:26.447" Score="21" ViewCount="24777" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do I need to watch the James Bond movies starring Daniel Craig (&lt;em&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Quantum of Solace&lt;/em&gt;) before watching Skyfall to understand the plot and characters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12870" LastEditorUserId="3599" LastEditDate="2015-05-31T16:16:40.560" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T21:21:22.967" Title="Do I need to watch all James Bond movies starring Daniel Craig before watching Skyfall to understand the plot and characters?" Tags="|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34841" CreationDate="2015-05-28T16:48:30.217" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it is not necessary to watch the modern bond movies in sequence, nor is it necessary to watch any of the James Bond films in any particular order. A previous bond film was only referenced by a later film once in the entire series, and each movie can essentially be considered isolated from the others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21439" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T16:48:30.217" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34841" CreationDate="2015-05-28T18:57:56.733" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt;.. and no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrary to popular belief, and to every other Bond movie ever produced, it is entirely necessary to possess foreknowledge of the previous Daniel Craig Bond movies to garner the appropriate amount of appreciation for what is occurring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Daniel Craig Bond movies represent a canonical reboot, in which during the first film Bond earns his 00 status - a part of his history every single other pre-Craig film has been chronologically set beyond. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Craig films aren't a prequel, they are a total reboot. The first two films (&lt;em&gt;Casino Royal&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Quantum of Solace&lt;/em&gt;) make a bigger proposition of linking the narratives together, but &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt; is a direct continuation from this film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;On the other hand...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The diegesis of Skyfall is relatively self contained, and isn't directly dependent on individual plot elements from the previous films. There are no recurring characters that add momentum to the plot, and (as with previous Bond installments) no need for direct knowledge. The experience gained from the first two films is hugely advantageous in understanding the character's development, motivation and of course... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; why he's over emotional about the death of his boss, who has been an advocate and mentor in the past two films&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to put it on the Lucas scale: the modern James Bond films are closer to &lt;em&gt;Indiana Jones&lt;/em&gt; than &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;... Indiana Jones is a character central franchise, in which each installment contributes to the overall construction and understanding of a specific individual, but each iteration is not totally dependent on foreknowledge of the last...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-05-28T21:02:22.883" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T21:02:22.883" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34826" CreationDate="2015-05-28T19:07:44.310" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mal isn't real. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mal is the manifestation if Cobb's guilty conscience, she is an aspect of his psyche that he unwillingly summons when he loses focus and is unable to repress his psychological damage caused by blaming himself for being guilty for her death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mal lost herself to madness within the dreaming machines, and lost the ability to discern between reality and dreaming. Dominic Cobb, through his guilt, is driving himself mad the same way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-25T20:24:35.230" LastActivityDate="2015-07-25T20:24:35.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34848" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-28T19:22:14.480" Score="3" ViewCount="58597" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://ellentv.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Ellen DeGeneres Show&lt;/a&gt; for quite a long time. Simply a heart-warming show that touches people's lives in many ways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the show has plenty of sponsors but giving a $100,000 cheque and frequent cash donations, hotel stays, show tickets, gifts etc. for all audience and staff members seems way too expensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only questions which intrigues me is that how does she manage such splendid giveaways on her show every now and then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9684" LastEditorUserId="9684" LastEditDate="2016-11-27T14:07:51.020" LastActivityDate="2016-11-27T14:07:51.020" Title="How does Ellen Degeneres manage such exorbitant giveaways?" Tags="|ellen-degeneres-show|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34848" CreationDate="2015-05-28T19:29:53.287" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know about the cash gifts, but giving away products and services is a form of advertising for the company, so companies provide the product or service to Ellen's show in exchange for Ellen mentioning their brand name is positive way. The benefit to Ellen is that she gets to give her guests free stuff, so they like her more and they like the show more. The benefit to the guests is that they get free stuff.  It's sort of win-win-win (except you have to listen to Ellen pitch the brand of the day).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal example is that I was in Ellen's audience, and they gave us all some Hanes underwear. Ellen announced the brand name &quot;Hanes&quot; several times during the show, in a positive light. We were all excited to be getting something (even though it was just underwear), and I'm sure a lot of us talked about it with our friends afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2015-05-28T20:40:06.873" LastActivityDate="2015-05-28T20:40:06.873" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18491" CreationDate="2015-05-28T19:30:46.820" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You make two assumptions one of which is wrong in science and the other of which is wrong even within the show universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, short sightedness is not primarily genetically determined. There may be some influence but rates of short sightedness in the real world depend strongly on the childhood environment. People who spend most of their time outdoors are far less likely to be short-sighted. The cliché is true: geeks who spend time with books are far more likely to be short-sighted. So Cosima, being a book geek, is the short sighted one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other assumption is that the clones are identical. Clearly this is not true even within the show universe. They clearly differ in mental and physical health: some are mentally unstable and some are physically ill (at least two have apparent respiratory problems by the end of series one, though one of those dies early of a gunshot wound, but she is ill before this). At least one of them is capable of having children but we know several others appear to be infertile. They are also not &lt;em&gt;strictly&lt;/em&gt; genetically identical as their DNA is, at the very least, stamped with a unique ID. And there are hints that Dr Leekie is studying them partially to discover what those health problems are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, there is no logical problem with the short-sightedness either inside or outside the show universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="134" LastEditDate="2015-10-17T13:15:56.917" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T13:15:56.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34851" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-28T19:56:12.123" Score="3" ViewCount="740" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) work?  There's an entry in Wikipedia that says what it is (essentially actors dubbing their lines in post production, sometimes requiring several takes) but I don't see what's &quot;automatic&quot; about it.  It doesn't seem to work all that well because I can almost always tell when it has been used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T07:33:45.530" Title="How does ADR work?" Tags="|dialogue|production|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34853" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34857" CreationDate="2015-05-28T21:17:10.660" Score="15" ViewCount="1389" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Darko&quot;&gt;Donnie Darko&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; the film features a recurring scene consisting of fast-cut composition of various overlaying elements atop a large pupil. One of these elements appears to be a stack trace/core dump for some kernel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon taking a closer look (by pausing the movie) I discovered the following frame:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/F8w2V.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image: Donnie Dark Movie Frame&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The image doesn't show very clearly but the most important text is copied below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;Kernel version:&#xA;Latwin Kernel Version 6.1:&#xA;Fri Sep 6 23:09:31 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.2.obj-1/RELEASE_PPC&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from the obscure &quot;Latwin&quot; kernel which I can't find any info on (looks like an Apple based system though), the date &lt;strong&gt;Fri Sep 6 23:09:31 PDT 2002&lt;/strong&gt; is of higher relevance here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my knowledge the movie was produced in 2001 and the frame itself was taken from a director's cut &lt;strike&gt;(which should be even older than the final cut?)&lt;/strike&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; Turns out the director's cut was released in 2004. But it does seem strange to have added scenes post-final cut that were produced between the actual release (2001) and the director's cut (2004). Does the kernel dump appear in the original theatrical release?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the year 2002 here meant to be some reference to the future? Though, in contrast to the 1988 setting, it does seem quite irrelevant. Or am I over-thinking it and the computer that produced that kernel dump just had a date/time setting off by 1 year?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S: Information on the particular &quot;Latwin&quot; kernel would be nice too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21614" LastEditorUserId="21614" LastEditDate="2015-05-28T21:39:45.500" LastActivityDate="2022-03-14T03:55:05.113" Title="A possible Donnie Darko reference to 2002" Tags="|reference|donnie-darko|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34853" CreationDate="2015-05-28T23:58:03.980" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, here's what I could find out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to say that this is specific to the Director's cut of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's why...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=1796&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This site&lt;/a&gt; goes second by second describing the changes between the original and Director's cut (DC).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Search for &amp;quot;8:53 min. - 9:21 min.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here they introduce that the eye is completely added to the DC:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the dawn of the new day (2.10.1988) via text insert the DC features a long sequence of blackscreen with threatening sound-effects, until eventually Frank's ghost-voice announces: &amp;quot;Wake up!&amp;quot; &lt;strong&gt;After that, we see a closeup of an eye with an expanding pupil. Then, for a millisecond, Franks rabbit-head is cut in (like in Fight Club). The transition shot of the Darkos' house is much longer in the DC, too.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From now on, the eye always symbolizes the tasks and abilities which he gets &amp;quot;implanted&amp;quot; by Frank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, search for : &amp;quot;113:38 min. - 113:45 min.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This shows a nearly identical image to your screen capture and states that there are 7 extra seconds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The eye again. This time accompanied by a countdown from the off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, now we know that the eye was completely added to the director's cut of the film...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Does the content &lt;strong&gt;mean&lt;/strong&gt; anything?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what does the content mean, if anything?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, turns out it doesn't really mean anything... Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1523161&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;actual content&lt;/a&gt; of a similar error with the same Kernel identifier:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Kernel version:&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;code&gt;Darwin Kernel Version 6.1:&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;code&gt;Fri Sep 6 23:09:31 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.2.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 2002 date refers to the build date that that particular version of the kernel was built, which is identical to the build date mentioned in the linked Apple forum discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that someone found this Mac OS 10.3.x error text and decided to use it for the graphics. They did make the (probably smart) choice to change &amp;quot;Darwin&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;Latwin&amp;quot; to avoid clashing with Apple's litigation team. So the content and date mentioned have nothing to do with the film (assuming the director didn't &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; create time travel).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was also discussed briefly on this Reddit &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/osx/comments/24mpsx/mac_os_x_crash_logs_are_used_as_decorations_in/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;thread&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T17:25:52.940" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15241" CreationDate="2015-05-29T02:13:08.190" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the answer is in the cure. Stark created a cure to rid Potts of it. The villains do not want a cure, they want a stabilizer. One that allows them to keep the powers without exploding. Two different means to an end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21620" LastActivityDate="2015-05-29T02:13:08.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34864" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-29T02:44:15.187" Score="5" ViewCount="5225" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Snowpiercer there were two guys in suits (the one in the blue suit, and the one in the grey suit, one was young and one was old). In the beginning, the one in the blue suit was lying on the guy with the grey suit's shoulder. I was just wondering if they were in a relationship?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7GIXt.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7GIXt.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21621" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-04-24T19:49:21.487" LastActivityDate="2016-04-24T20:18:52.857" Title="What was the two guys' relationship in the suits?" Tags="|character|snowpiercer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34841" CreationDate="2015-05-29T04:25:31.767" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;No it is not necessary for any Bond film. Each can be enjoyed on its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some generic aspects ('Q', 'M', innuendo, etc.) that one becomes accustomed to, but prior knowledge is unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I enjoy the light hearted approach of the early films, the Craig generation are closer in spirit to the relative darkness of the Bond character in the Fleming series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21624" LastActivityDate="2015-05-29T04:25:31.767" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34868" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-29T05:26:13.857" Score="3" ViewCount="20672" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched the movie Eden Lake (2008). It has a very sad and disturbing ending. The bad guy who killed Steve and also burned Adam alive for his disobedience doesn't get any punishment but the lady who accidentally kills a small boy gets killed by Brett's family. What kind of an ending is that? What is the director trying to say to the audience from that ending?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21625" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2015-05-29T06:48:10.937" LastActivityDate="2016-10-11T06:33:34.083" Title="Ending of Eden Lake" Tags="|ending|eden-lake|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34868" CreationDate="2015-05-29T06:13:03.527" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, we can't expect every movie to have a happy ending. Sometimes film makers prefer to make movies in an unconventional way. Eden Lake is one of those movies happens to fall under that category with anticlimax, a disappointing ending for the audience, a good example for these type of movies in the recent times is &lt;em&gt;Gone Girl (2014)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's what director, James Watkins says about the ending in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.esplatter.com/news.php?id=1104&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The most chilling thing about the film may be the ending. Did any of&#xA;  the producers pressure you to give the film an 'happy ending'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The ending was discussed: so I came up with an even darker ending! You&#xA;  don't want to know…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and in &lt;a href=&quot;http://marksalisbury.blogspot.in/2008/09/james-watkinseden-lake-q-part-two.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;another&lt;/a&gt; interview, he says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Were there many discussions about the ending?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yeah, lots of discussions. I didn’t want to have an ending… she’s a&#xA;  school teacher, she’s been through this horrible journey, she’s&#xA;  reached almost this point… you know when she gets the knife and it’s&#xA;  kind of almost pathetic when she hits the dad with the knife and she’s&#xA;  almost at the end of the road I think. &lt;strong&gt;I didn’t want her to turn into&#xA;  this take charge Ripley, Sarah Connor, pull a grenade out of her dress&#xA;  and kill everybody Death Wish&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From his words, I understand that he doesn't want to end the movie like the most of the slasher flicks that are made in mainstream cinema. But he wants to end it in a much more darker and realistic way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2015-05-29T06:13:03.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34874" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34875" CreationDate="2015-05-29T10:09:31.187" Score="2" ViewCount="239" Body="&lt;p&gt;I heard that writing a bromantic comedy is the trendy business in many parts of the world including India. But what is Bromantic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21506" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-29T11:28:00.490" LastActivityDate="2015-05-29T16:35:51.820" Title="What does Bromantic comedy genre mean?" Tags="|comedy|genre|romantic-comedy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34874" CreationDate="2015-05-29T10:15:07.030" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromantic_comedy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A bromantic comedy is a film genre that is closely related to the romantic comedy film genre with close male relationships instead. Many define it as, &quot;A romantic comedy based on an eerily close platonic heterosexual relationship between two (or more) bros.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12870" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-05-29T16:35:51.820" LastActivityDate="2015-05-29T16:35:51.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34903" CreationDate="2015-05-29T12:23:57.273" Score="1" ViewCount="5672" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I watched 'The Wolf of Wall Street' and was quite disturbed by the many naked/nude scenes. They seemed a little unecessary to me, as they could as well have been shot as legs alone or similar instead of showing their entire sex process and their nude bodies. The same goes for the use of abusive language (like &quot;f--k&quot; and other strong adult words). But maybe I just don't see the further use this imagery and language had for the rest of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is why those particular scenes are included? Is this a technique for marketing their movie or does it contribute to the rest of the movie's story and themes in any way? Is this a necessary part in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20826" LastEditorUserId="756" LastEditDate="2015-05-29T17:41:16.573" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T00:55:36.647" Title="Why does 'The Wolf of Wall Street' contain so many nude scenes?" Tags="|analysis|the-wolf-of-wall-street|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34205" CreationDate="2015-05-29T15:57:41.403" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, even though Hannibal Lecter feels bad about the way Miggs behaves and kills him by messing with his head. Lecter was desperate to get human attention after all he is a professor who delivers speeches on mental behaviors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he was able to profile the FBI agent and decide she is innocent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he recognized the pattern of the serial killer and was able to link it back to his patient&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he knew about the island, which was fake and knew he could not get a better deal than the FBI agent for interaction&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2017-10-13T16:07:12.510" LastActivityDate="2017-10-13T16:07:12.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34887" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-29T16:44:10.793" Score="3" ViewCount="339" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last 5 minutes of San Andreas, there are at least 2 shots where the camera looks down the length of the Golden Gate Bridge (in San Francisco), and the sun is setting over the hills past it. The Bridge runs north-south, so the sun must be setting in the south. Was that a production gaffe, or was the implication that all of the San Francisco Peninsula had rotated 90 degrees so it now runs east-west?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2015-05-30T03:10:48.787" Title="sun setting in the south" Tags="|production-mistakes|san-andreas|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34826" CreationDate="2015-05-29T16:58:06.070" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mal's case is not an exception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Initially limbo is basically unconstructed dream space. Let me explain that - Any dream space like the ones shown in the movie are constructed by the architect (e.g. Ariadne). These dream spaces are either filled into the dream by the architect if the architect is one of the people in the shared dream or they are taught to the main dreamer, whose dream is being shared by many. So essentially when the dreamer starts dreaming either he/she or the architect fills up the dream space or rather constructs it. As Dom explains it - in the dream world we create and perceive simultaneously but these processes can be separated and they are for dream robberies and they are done so by taking over the creation part of the dream. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general when you are dreaming and you die in a dream you wake up. But if you are sedated you cannot wake up, so you are pushed to a further dream state. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is basically the limbo or the unconstructed dream space or the deepest part of the subconscious. It is unconstructed because you cannot plan for that level in the dream. So the only way to construct a world in the limbo is by building something there while in the limbo or in simple terms go back to natural dreaming process, create and perceive the dream world simultaneously. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the dreamers share the dream state if one or more people die while in a shared dreaming experience they will basically be transported to the limbo. If you have already been to that state in the dream before and are returning to it you will find whatever you left there the last time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this is also a level in the dream so this will also be shared. E.g. Dom's limbo and Saito's limbo are connected in the end. So if you die in a shared dream and you friend had already been to the limbo, then you will also find what he left there the last time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Limbo is essentially where your subconscious is materialised. Dom's subconscious was primarily filled with Mal, his children and his guilt of killing his own wife. Since these are always in his subconscious they are always going to be in the limbo which is simply a reflection and realisation of the subconscious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence the reason Mal exists in the limbo. Ariadne is taken to the limbo by Dom, Ficher is killed in the dream which is why he exists in the limbo, Saito also exists in the limbo for the same reason and the people with Saito in the limbo are Saito's projection of his own subconscious, his army of mind police desperately trying to save him in his predicament of being stuck in the limbo. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21629" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-19T13:14:11.187" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T13:14:11.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31623" CreationDate="2015-05-29T17:09:10.183" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the courtroom Control, Greer and Finch were all on trial. So naturally Control would assume that Greer had nothing to do with it. Now in season 4 even if team machine decided to tell Control about Decima's involvement in Vigilance she would not have believed her, at least not at that point, because there was no proof connecting vigilance to Decima other than Finch. All members of vigilance were killed in the explosion at the courtroom. At the very max it would serve as a warning and not as conclusive evidence that Samaritan is the bad big brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore in the eyes of Control it was decima that saved everyone from watching the live telecast by routing everything to a single computer. This further exonerates Greer and Decima from any blame in the eyes of the government and by extension Control too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21629" LastActivityDate="2015-05-29T17:09:10.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34887" CreationDate="2015-05-29T17:13:30.327" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd categorize this as a production gaffe. A &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=sunset%20golden%20gate%20bridge&amp;amp;espv=2&amp;amp;biw=1866&amp;amp;bih=889&amp;amp;source=lnms&amp;amp;tbm=isch&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=WJloVf1txI_IBJPGgng&amp;amp;sqi=2&amp;amp;ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&amp;amp;dpr=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Google Image search&lt;/a&gt; confirms that when you look directly into the sunset, the Golden Gate Bridge is in profile, since it runs north-south, as you said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9FKu6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sunset behind the Golden Gate Bridge&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the bridge is still standing, more than just the San Francisco peninsula would have to rotate 90 degrees. The landmass on the northern side of the bridge (Sausalito) would have to rotate with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you zoom in on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://geology.com/san-andreas-fault/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;map of the San Andreas Fault&lt;/a&gt;, you can see that it actually runs a few miles west of the bridge. So even if it did open up the way it did in the film, it shouldn't cause the whole region to the east to spin around 90 degrees. I think this is a well-spotted gaffe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2015-05-29T17:16:28.167" LastActivityDate="2015-05-29T17:16:28.167" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34893" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-29T18:29:40.513" Score="1" ViewCount="4400" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV Series Empire, Lucious, which seems to be Christian name, had children with his ex-wife, Cookie, not sure what kind of a name that is. Their kids have names - Hakeem and Jamal, both of which seem to be Muslim names. The third kid is Andre, which again seems to be Christian. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason that has been disclosed behind their names?&#xA;Were they all born to the same parents?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-29T18:33:01.957" LastActivityDate="2015-05-29T19:20:39.307" Title="Kids names in Empire (TV show)" Tags="|empire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34894" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35010" CreationDate="2015-05-29T18:33:58.497" Score="5" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few years ago I watched a movie that opens with a somewhat arrogant editor/publisher type guy who keeps promising to get around to reading his assistant/secretary's manuscript, but never does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some weird stuff starts to happen and he finds out that someone is watching him and he gets pretty paranoid.  At one point he sees someone in a nearby apartment watching him with a telescope, and he breaks in to find that it's the aforementioned assistant.  She claims to be stalking him out of romantic interest, so he continues thinking someone else is after him and ends up killing a security guard in his paranoia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually we learn that the security guard and some other people were aspiring actors hired by the assistant.  The man reads her manuscript and realizes that it's the story of what just happened to him &amp;mdash; she orchestrated everything in order to blackmail him into publishing her books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone identify this movie?  &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/34865/218&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; reminded me of it, but neither answer is what I'm thinking of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="218" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-06-02T20:41:12.213" Title="Publisher/editor becomes paranoid and ends up killing someone, discovers he is living a story written by his assistant" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:47:09.373" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34893" CreationDate="2015-05-29T19:20:39.307" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's visit the Empire Wikia, shall we:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://empire.wikia.com/wiki/Lucious_Lyon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lucious Lyon (born &lt;strong&gt;Dwight Walker&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;[...]&lt;/em&gt; is the father of sons &lt;a href=&quot;http://empire.wikia.com/wiki/Andre_Lyon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Andre&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://empire.wikia.com/wiki/Jamal_Lyon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jamal&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://empire.wikia.com/wiki/Hakeem_Lyon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hakeem&lt;/a&gt; Lyon with his ex-wife &lt;a href=&quot;http://empire.wikia.com/wiki/Cookie_Lyon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cookie Lyon&lt;/a&gt;, as well as a daughter, &lt;a href=&quot;http://empire.wikia.com/wiki/Lola_Lyon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lola Lyon&lt;/a&gt; with his ex-lover and ex-daughter in law &lt;a href=&quot;http://empire.wikia.com/wiki/Olivia_Lyon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Olivia Lyon&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Believing that a black kid with the name &quot;Dwight Walker&quot; wouldn't survive living on the streets, he took on the name 'Lucious Lyon', believing that one day that would be the name of an immortal god. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think you need to look for a religious background for the names of his children, they're fairly common names. It's not like we nowadays assume a religious reason when someone names their kid Mary or Joseph (unless they have both a son and daughter and name them Mary and Joseph).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WRT Cookie, again let's visit Wikia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://empire.wikia.com/wiki/Cookie_Lyon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Loretha &quot;Cookie&quot; Lyon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Cookie is a nickname. Perhaps from her youth, perhaps from when she was a drugdealer? It's not specified in the Wikia, so I'm guessing its origins have not been discussed in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-05-29T19:20:39.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34879" CreationDate="2015-05-29T22:15:35.937" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Much of these scenes never happened and the movie isn't similar at all with the book &quot;The Wolf of Wall Street&quot;; these scenes don't contribute at all in the main theme of the movie, which is the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;pump-dump&lt;/a&gt;&quot; scheme Belfort did and the reason why they found it guilty at court. About why Scorsese made the sex, money wasting-style changes, Donnie Porush (in the movie is Donnie Azoff), Belfort's partner &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/12/wolf-wall-street-martin-scorsese-jonah-hill-danny-porush-jordan-belfort&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;said in a interview with Mother Jones&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Hey, it's Hollywood. I'm not a communist; &lt;strong&gt;I know they want to make a movie that sells&lt;/strong&gt;. And Jordan wrote whatever he could to make the book sell. His greatest gift was always that of a self-promoter.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some scenes are real, for example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Porush (Azoff) eating the golden fish:&quot;I said to one of the brokers, &lt;em&gt;'If you don't do more business, I'm gonna eat your goldfish!'&lt;/em&gt; So I did.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;a href=&quot;http://et.tv/1mqsE5E&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an interview&lt;/a&gt; with the real Jordan Belfort about what is real and what is not. But, if you're interested to know deeper about the real and the fiction of the movie (if he was drogadict, they had sex in a pile of money) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/the-wolf-of-wall-street.php&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;History versus Hollywood&lt;/a&gt; made a great post about it with real photos of the Jordan Belfort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21286" LastEditorUserId="21286" LastEditDate="2015-06-01T00:55:36.647" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T00:55:36.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1305" CreationDate="2015-05-29T22:41:07.723" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Additionally it is likely that the house has been taken over by Buffalo Bill and that he was the one who killed Mrs Lippman, who is probably the one you see in the bathtub.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The state of the house is another indication of this fact and the absence of any documentation of it being his house after the previous ownership by Mrs Lippman when Starling asked for it (tax records, documentation etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is also in line with how when the FBI raid his house he is not there. They would have updated records had he registered as buying a new home and selling his old one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21655" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-05-29T23:52:25.113" LastActivityDate="2015-05-29T23:52:25.113" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34905" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49728" CreationDate="2015-05-29T22:52:03.133" Score="15" ViewCount="951" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw bits of this on an overnight bus in Egypt in (I think) 2011. I couldn't follow any of the dialogue, and I think I fell asleep a few times missing a few segments, so this is all me reading between the lines of what I saw... Apologies for anything I misunderstood!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it was a film, but it could have been a few episodes of a TV series shown back-to-back with ads and credits skipped. It looked like a light-hearted romantic comedy, with more comedy than romance, and modern: I'd guess it was made between 2000 and 2010 (I believe characters used mobile phones, I don't remember seeing smartphones).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was set in a large, modern, cosmopolitan, sprawling city in the Islamic world which spanned a major river: probably Cairo, possibly Beirut, possibly Istanbul but I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; it was filmed in Arabic, not Turkish. It was being broadcast in Arabic when I saw it, and it didn't look dubbed, but the audio on the bus was terrible so I might be wrong about this. It was a very big river but the city didn't look coastal, similar to the Thames in London. The city was well developed with a modern urban skyline, but didn't look overtly flashy enough to be UAE, Dubai, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main character was a woman in her 20s who worked as a primary school teacher. She seemed bubbly and enthusiastic, and intelligent but naive or foolish. She reminds me of Zooey Deschanel's character in the US sitcom New Girl, in both personality and appearance. I think she lived with her mother (or, visited often); I don't remember there being a father character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story followed a pattern which repeated with comic familiarity:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The main character would meet a charming man, and start dating/courting. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That man had some distinctive lifestyle which was the main part of his appeal. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She'd enthusiastically/recklessly throw herself into this new world, changing her habits, activities, clothes, manner etc, creating drama and comedy. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She'd also change her approach to teaching, with one comic scene per segment with the children confused as she completely changed their classroom and lessons&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then, the man would do something that revealed him to be unworthy and that this glamorous-looking lifestyle was actually a shallow facade&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She dumps him, upset, and her long-suffering mother picks up the pieces - until she meets someone else.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't see all of it, but these are the boyfriends I remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A rich playboy. While dating him, she dressed glamourously and acted aloof in class as if she was now too cool to teach these kids. They went to a party on a riverboat: she seemed out of her element and clashed with the other women who seemed to look down on her. It ending with a fight between her and some other women where she was shocked to see that the boyfriend took the side of the other, richer, better connected women.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Che Guevara-esque radical intellectual, with a beard and long hair. She became very shouty, wore grungy clothes (dungarees?) and filled the classroom with political placards and slogans. It ended when they went on a protest and, when the police came, he ran away, abandoning her to be arrested. There was then a scene where she was awkwardly sharing a holding cell with some real criminals - I might have remembered this wrong, but I think she was so angry at her ex that the criminals quickly became more afraid of her than she was of them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A sharply-dressed rich TV evangelist imam. I remember he had a very flashy, modern office with big curved glass bay windows and panoramic views over the city. She became very devout, made her schoolkids wear traditional Islamic clothes and sit boys on one side, girls on the other. I think she then discovered some sort of hypocrisy on his part - either how he spent the money he raised, or his relationship with his devoted female assistants (or both!).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many similarities with &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/49193/9718&quot;&gt;madmada's suggestion of Ayza Atgawez below&lt;/a&gt;, but here are some differences which reading that answer made me think of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I'm very confident that the main character was a teacher. I remember the scenes in the classrooms quite vividly, especially when she was dating the TV imam and had all the little boys dressed in white on one side of the room and the girls in black on the other.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The tone of this was quite light and frivolous, whereas Ayza Atgawez looks a little more heavy. I don't remember getting any sense that the main female felt especially under pressure (beyond her own frustration), and I don't think any of the relationships got close enough to marriage for that to be a major theme.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The relationships were presented as being quite casual. If it wasn't for the lead character's anger when they go wrong, I might have thought they were just friends. I think there was no physical contact at all, and very little flirty or intimate body language. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The main character, appearance-wise, was a little similar to the below example but a bit bubblier, with I think slightly shorter, lighter, curlier hair. Browsing related films etc on IMDB the closest I can find in appearance is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1650071/?ref_=tt_cl_t2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Yousra El Lozy&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://vb.shbab5.com/photos/2/1348758042_972.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;example pic&lt;/a&gt;) but I don't think it's her, just more similar in appearance&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9718" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2016-03-06T03:09:11.080" Title="Comedy (Arabic?) about school teacher adopting her boyfriends' lifestyles" Tags="|identify-this-movie|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:47:15.663" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34887" CreationDate="2015-05-30T03:10:48.787" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are at least 13 OBVIOUS gaffes in this movie. As a San Franciscan I was embarrassed and annoyed. They filmed here so there are no excuses for these mistakes.&#xA;1. When they enter 555 California the view outside the window is the Bay Bridge. You can't see the Bay Bridge at this angle; the Bay Bridge is not a truss bridge; and none of the buildings in view are SF buildings.&#xA;2. There is a shot where people are walking through downtown buildings toward the Golden Gate bridge. Downtown and the GGB are on opposite sides of the city as opposed to popular belief.&#xA;3. If you're driving north from Bakersfield you're taking the 5. The San Andreas fault is shown spanning east to west across the 5. It doesn't. And Bakersfield is not an 1.5 hour from SF.&#xA;4. Lombard STREET, not Avenue.&#xA;5. Nob Hill is not the highest point in the city. Mount Davidson is.&#xA;6. Lombard is only a 15 minute walk from Nob Hill and you would not walk through Chinatown to get there.&#xA;7. Probably most disrespectful, the tallest building under construction in this movie was NOT EVEN A SAN FRANCISCO BUILDING. It is the under construction Wilshire Grand of Los Angeles. Our tallest building under construction is the Transbay Salesforce Tower. Hollywood dissed SF.&#xA;8. AT&amp;amp;T Park is on King St. Not the Embarcadero.&#xA;9. The San Andreas Fault is inland and could never trigger a tsunami in the direction of the Bay.&#xA;10. Bryant St is not located in the Financial District.&#xA;11. Not to do with SF but for as long as that girl was under water and without oxygen to her brain she would be brain dead, at best. She didn't breathe for about 4 minutes. You're dead after 2.&#xA;12. The Marin Headlands are incredibly windy, up to 60mph. You could never set up tents there.&#xA;13. And lastly, someone attached a flag on the defunct bridge. Ain't nobody shimming up those cables to hang no flags during an earthquake. Not accessible how it was portrayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21660" LastActivityDate="2015-05-30T03:10:48.787" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34751" CreationDate="2015-05-30T04:35:59.597" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Witness me,&quot; as what Nux said. A common thing in all warboys is wanting to go to valhalla. With those words stated, they are hoping to be noticed by the gods of the other world in order to ascend, with all their actions done, along with lives sacrificed is for Valhalla. In Nux's case, (my opinion by the way) he directed it towards the women he grew close to, assuming he fell in love with also. With those last words being in my interpretation, &quot;Witness me, for i am sacrificing myself for you, and no other else,&quot; as he reached out his hand towards his beautiful lady. Stating in his last words that he does not wish to be mistaken for doing it in order to get into Valhalla, but the fact that he valued her more than any other heaven. My 2 cents. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21661" LastActivityDate="2015-05-30T04:35:59.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34911" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-05-30T10:19:29.553" Score="1" ViewCount="1360" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the significance of the scene in the fog near the end of &lt;em&gt;Force Majeure&lt;/em&gt; (2014)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9450" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T08:00:00.850" Title="Force Majeure (2014): significance of scene in the fog" Tags="|plot-explanation|force-majeure|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30648" CreationDate="2015-05-31T01:04:03.343" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some of Buster's films were produced by United Artists, a company founded in part by Chaplin, so one would think that they had to have been on friendly terms, at least in a business sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21679" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T01:04:03.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1991" CreationDate="2015-05-31T02:48:13.873" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My opinion is that Ivan is his evil alter-ego. He is him on the day of the accident, the sun glasses the boots , the clothes, everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He comes back and haunts him until he needs to finally admit his guilt. He doesn t exists in reality that s why the carpet is empty when he wants to throw the body, people at the shop don t know him, his acid quotes &quot;&lt;strong&gt;You caused the accident..not ME&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;..or &quot;&lt;strong&gt;What have &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; done with Nicholas?&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; meaning &quot;why u blaming me...u were the one who killed him&quot;, the sign that he makes at the shop by showing cut throat with his thumb and then the work accident occur, the fact that he can drive his car on red light not bumping into the other vehicles..etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also we can say Ivan is the Death itself because we see that he took Nicolas with him into car and enter both into building. He took him from the day of the accident and they are both on the other plan of existence. &quot;&lt;strong&gt;C mon you know he is dead&lt;/strong&gt; (speaking of Nicholas).He try to kill him without success, he reappears at the pier &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you?&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; and he finally recognize his guild and regain sleep and peace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I think they put the name Ivan to this character regarding the legendary russian figure Ivan the Terrible who killed his own son and made a lot of murders, a sadist and a maniac. There is the motive of the one-hand thing also. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One hand on the wheel during the accident, Miller lose his hand, mill---Miller word asociation, one hand drawn on the refrigerator, one hand on the ride in the amusement park and the premonitory quote of Miller :&quot; &lt;strong&gt;Reznik I need a HAND!&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; However the picture with Reynolds and him fishing explain everything. All sees him in the picture only he is the only who doesn t want to admit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if u look very closely and rewind movie u will see for few seconds in the scene where he chase Ivan s Pontiac firebird car he try to write down the plate numbers. 743 CRN or something...when he lose the car and gets down from his van you can see his plate numbers is the vice-versa of Ivan car 347 NRC. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's another clue we can figure that Ivan is actually himself.And I think the director wanted to make analogy with the old Christian Bale American Psycho movie because this word appear few times, Stevie quote &quot;&lt;strong&gt;My ex he s a fucking psycho&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; and when he throw him away from her home &quot;&lt;strong&gt;you re a fucking psycho..fucking psycho...&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However is a great movie which needs to be seen few times to be fully understood and in different states of mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21681" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-24T11:21:32.870" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T11:21:32.870" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24235" CreationDate="2015-05-31T05:58:16.850" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The final answer I really could bring in the most logical way is that in the end they were still in the Trancendenz game but above that they were in Existenz. (Trancendenz is the game they are testing simultaniously within the players and Existenz is thr god simulation, the main one, it seems they have lost their senses when they entered Trancendenz). Anyways, how they were still in Trancendenz, because the dog didn't have some simulation helmet equipped and the dog couldn't enter trancendenz without it, though the church didn't look real if so, why didn't they go outside? The main answer to this labirynth is that, the real creator of all simulations, saw that the game would finish having the players confused of what is resl or not. By all this I'm not saying this is the last answer because the movie is interpretational free. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21683" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T05:58:16.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33971" CreationDate="2015-05-31T07:58:49.257" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope, none documented. You can assume that they might be friends or coworkers of Lucy,other parents from the kids school, and maybe just maybe acquaintance of the scientist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T07:58:49.257" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34911" CreationDate="2015-05-31T08:00:00.850" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbook.com/film/force-majeure/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview with Ruben Östlund, the director&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You mentioned the final, foggy ski run as a “group therapy.” Did you&#xA;  see that scene as a desperate way to restore order in the family?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes, I see it as a group therapy ski run. It’s Ebba that wants to try&#xA;  to restore the family and wants to push to make Tomas the male leader&#xA;  of the group and the hero.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So the children can feel at ease, Ebba can feel protected, and Tomas&#xA;  can feel like a man and they can continue lying to themselves forever.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I love the moment when he says, “We made it, we made it.” In a&#xA;  Hollywood movie we would cut at that moment, but instead we have to&#xA;  see their everyday life continue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T08:00:00.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34932" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34940" CreationDate="2015-05-31T08:55:45.633" Score="8" ViewCount="27489" Body="&lt;p&gt;After cutting Elizabeth's corset off in &lt;em&gt;Pirates of the Caribbean&lt;/em&gt;, the guard comments &quot;never would have thought of that.&quot; And Jack turns to him and delivers the line in question: &quot;You've clearly never been to Singapore.&quot; What does he mean with that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: this question was asked &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/What-did-Jack-Sparrow-mean-when-he-said-Clearly-youve-never-been-to-Singapore-in-Pirates-of-the-Caribbean&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; but I don't agree with the implication that was being get at there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="285" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T16:06:22.027" LastActivityDate="2023-10-20T01:53:27.347" Title="What did Jack Sparrow mean when he said &quot;Clearly you've never been to Singapore&quot;" Tags="|dialogue|pirates-of-the-caribbean|curse-of-the-black-pearl|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24891" CreationDate="2015-05-31T09:10:44.923" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's also helpful to remember that her father was the engineer of the security of the doors, and being his daughter, she learned both directly and indirectly from him about the doors, the security and what was beyond - also enormously because how Napoleon Wilson answered before about &quot;train babies&quot; - she was born of it from the person who helped design and create the system, but within that system, so as a conjunction of father-creator and a person born in the train, she was the key.&#xA;An angle for understanding is to compare the father, Namgoong, to the Keymaker from the Matrix trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21686" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T09:10:44.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34937" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34938" CreationDate="2015-05-31T11:25:09.743" Score="5" ViewCount="7842" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S05E07 of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, Jessie is at the car wash to retrieve the methylamine tanker, and he talks with Skyler saying &quot;Vámonos&quot; -- The name of the pest control company they use as face for their meth production operation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But she says: &quot;I wish&quot;. What did she mean by this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="417" LastEditDate="2015-06-20T22:38:03.490" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T11:42:21.507" Title="What did Skyler mean by &quot;I wish&quot; when Jessie said &quot;Vamonos&quot;?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34937" CreationDate="2015-05-31T11:55:05.127" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://spanish.stackexchange.com/q/2327&quot;&gt;What's the difference between “vamos” and “vámonos”?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When I studied Spanish I learned &quot;let's go&quot; is &quot;vamos&quot; but when I got to Mexico all I heard was &quot;vámonos&quot; &amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So.. maybe it was said (or heard) to mean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Let's get this major component of meth production the heck out of the car wash. Let's Go!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:53:49.660" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T11:55:05.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34932" CreationDate="2015-05-31T14:55:03.847" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Singapore, at that time, was one of the busiest ports in Asia.  If not &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; busiest port.  Pirates would have visited Singapore often.  Also, prostitution is not illegal in Singapore.  A prostitute wears something which makes them alluring, and a corset definitely fits that bill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The inference is that Jack Sparrow had frequently been to Singapore, had experience with prostitutes and knew how to disrobe them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T14:55:03.847" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34937" CreationDate="2015-05-31T15:25:30.443" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe vámonos is the imperative form, i.e., vamos is &quot;let's go&quot; and vámonos &quot;Let's Go!&quot;, e.g., the difference between just &quot;let's leave&quot; and &quot;let's get the blazes out of here!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21690" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T15:25:30.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26387" CreationDate="2015-05-31T18:25:32.447" Score="2" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is left quite unclear in the movie, but from looking into the actual source comic, it gets a little clearer from Superman's monologue at that moment, even if still a bit vague:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have always loved you...Though I was born a galaxy away...I have always served you...The same power...the sun's power...fuels us both...You hold it here...you store it...I beg you...for a suffering world...release it...Mother...Mother...You are...so generous...You give me...your beautiful jungle...I swear...your adopted son will honor you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this it is hinted that it is indeed &lt;strong&gt;the power of the sun stored within the plants, or the nature itself (or to name it right as Clark does, &quot;mother earth&quot;)&lt;/strong&gt;. So he does to some degree rob those things of their life essence, but it is really the power of the sun he takes from those plants. Yet it is left a little bit vague if he can actually always do this or if it really is the conciousness of the earth itself that intentionally &quot;gives&quot; this power to him after his pleads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a little addendum, we can also take a look into an earlier plot outline of the fourth part of the comics series as detailed by Frank Miller in 1985 (and which got changed quite a bit towards the ending, but which still contains the respective scene in pretty much the same way). Here it's also explicitly said to be the power of the sun stored on earth that strengthens him, though, put a little more &quot;scientifically&quot; than his rather metaphysical speech in the finished comic:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...He can't reach the sun. But the sun's power is held on earth. Photosynthesis, he thinks. So many need me. He reaches the edge of the crater, touches a patch of earth, then a beautiful jungle flower. The flower wilts, and dies. Then, spreading outward from Clark, the jungle dies, for miles around. Clark rises, looking like a man again...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is indeed &lt;strong&gt;strongly hinted that Superman was respsonsible for the loss of Oliver's arm&lt;/strong&gt;, even if only &lt;em&gt;hinted&lt;/em&gt;. This is alluded to in two scenes. When Bruce and Clark first talk outside of Wayne Manor they discuss Oliver's fate and it seems that Superman had to do something to force Oliver into retirement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clark:&lt;/strong&gt; You know, we almost had this talk ten years ago, when you wouldn't go along with the deal we made. Everyone else agreed, Diana went back to her people, Hal left the planet...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bruce:&lt;/strong&gt; And Oliver, did he agree?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Clark:&lt;/strong&gt; That's not how I wanted it to go.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bruce:&lt;/strong&gt; He was all torn up about it, too.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Clark:&lt;/strong&gt; He made it necessary, like...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bruce:&lt;/strong&gt; Like I'm about, too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And later, when Oliver speaks to Bruce before the final confrontation, this is reinforced. And in Oliver's dialogue he's clearly looking at and speaking about his arm, as if he wants some retaliation for it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bruce:&lt;/strong&gt; What is it you want, Oliver?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Oliver:&lt;/strong&gt; A piece of him, the schoolboy. I always knew it would come down to the two of you someday, the world's not big enough for the both of you...Doesn't have to be a big piece. Just count me in, for old times' sake. Still hurts when it's cold, lately it's been cold a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interesting is, though, that only the second dialogue actually appears in the source comic (in a similar form at least). But this second scene already makes the situation quite clear and the fact that the writers of the movie adaptation took the liberty to introduce the first dialogue (in what largely is a very accurate adaptation), elaborating a bit more on the fact that Superman had to do &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; to Oliver (and Bruce mentioning the word &lt;em&gt;&quot;torn&quot;&lt;/em&gt; clearly in jest, as &lt;em&gt;yurnero&lt;/em&gt; already points out in his answer) shows that they picked up exactly that same vibe from Oliver's and Bruce's dialogue in the comic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-05T00:03:34.770" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T00:03:34.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34474" CreationDate="2015-05-31T23:54:19.050" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its simply to &quot;pretty up&quot; for their acceptance in Valhalla. It has nothing to do with a drug, suicide or the like. The one character also refers to shiny things a few tines in the movie especially when seeing the wives at the truck. Its simply more of a tribute to Valhalla and its pretty. Think of it as their &quot;gold&quot; as far as being pretty, valued, of high significance. Not a drug or related whatsoever &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21698" LastActivityDate="2015-05-31T23:54:19.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34951" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35077" CreationDate="2015-06-01T04:29:25.240" Score="7" ViewCount="2105" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do the White Walkers in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; have against the southerners or even the living that they are hell bent on killing them all? What exactly is their purpose? All they want is to conquer south of the wall, is that it? Also, is there any possibility that the leaders of the Walkers are dead important figures from the past, like Rhaegar or Rickard even?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15839" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-01T10:27:35.480" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T07:35:30.330" Title="Why are the White Walkers advancing?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2015-06-09T05:34:35.340" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34756" CreationDate="2015-06-01T05:27:19.033" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe &lt;strong&gt;Half-Life Warboy&lt;/strong&gt; pretty much says it all.  They're tumors from the radiation (half-life) and they're killing them all.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21702" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-06-01T07:06:49.560" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T07:06:49.560" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17421" CreationDate="2015-06-01T07:12:17.323" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end scene his lawyer calls him Davis but when he goes back to sit with his group of co-workers, one of them refers to him as Bateman. Paul Allen refers to him as Marcus Halberatram so my guess is Paul Allen and some of the other not so close people to Patrick just mistaken him for someone else cause there's so many of them and they are self centered, he really is Patrick Bateman. Everyone else (the people closest to him) calls him Patrick Bateman, such as the people he most hangs around from work, his fiancee, and his assistant.  I think he didn't kill anyone except maybe Paul Allen cause the lawyer mistakes him for Davis, so he probably mistook someone else for Paul Allen. I could be wrong and maybe it was Paul so maybe he just imagined he killed him too.It's hard to say because the lawyer says he was with Paul in London ten days ago, but what's the time span from when he believes he killed Paul and he was reported missing. Plus wouldn't it be too convenient for someone else to be in London, the one Patrick picked out of the choices he came up with when he was thinking of where he could say Paul went when he left the message on the answering machine. And how did the security guard not notice he left blood going along the floor when he dragged the body out the door, plus you don't see it anymore in the clip when he's outside about to put it in the trunk. Also in the beginning he yells at the girl bartending &quot;you're a fucking ugly bitch! I want to stab you too death, then play around with your blood.&quot; And she doesn't even hear a word he says or even makes any sort of facial expression acknowledging what he said, and he has a smile on his face when she hands him the drinks which makes me believe he just imagined saying that to her. Plus when he kills the hooker with the chainsaw, it was not occupied by anyone so if it was an empty/abandoned building, how did he get into a room without a key or something similar to get in the room without any signs force and no one heard the chainsaw. When he looks in the closet there was no bodies and he looked confused because there wasn't any.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21706" LastEditorUserId="21706" LastEditDate="2015-06-06T06:53:11.097" LastActivityDate="2015-06-06T06:53:11.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12948" CreationDate="2015-06-01T07:41:16.787" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This response is more then probably late, but majority of the big chunks that were cut would have EASILY pushed the movies rating over PG-13 standing the creators wanted. Though this isn't a big enough excuse for all the cuts I feel this PG-13 desire held back a fair bit of the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21707" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T07:41:16.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34963" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34970" CreationDate="2015-06-01T13:45:52.193" Score="5" ViewCount="1192" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for the name of an action/thriller movie where the bad guy performs a bank robbery (or some other heist), then escapes by dressing up hostages as hostage-takers and fooling the police into shooting at them (while he himself pretends to be a hostage). It takes place in a large American (or possibly Canadian) city and I'm pretty sure it's from the '90s. It's similar in tone to other action/thriller movies of that decade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bad guy was played by a white, male actor who I believe was relatively famous at the time, but I don't remember seeing him in anything since then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454848/&quot;&gt;Inside Man&lt;/a&gt;, where I believe the bank robber also dresses up hostages as hostage-takers or something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21714" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T01:02:16.350" Title="Movie where the bad guy fools police into shooting at hostages" Tags="|identify-this-movie|thriller|action|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:47:37.577" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30461" CreationDate="2015-06-01T14:43:24.830" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end, Christian says 2 things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Everyone dies. Some before you. Some long time after you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is no &lt;em&gt;now&lt;/em&gt;... here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it can be concluded that the alternate LA is not present in any moment in the timeline. It is just the place where people go when they die, irrelevantly of when that happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8583" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T14:43:24.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34965" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-01T14:52:23.023" Score="3" ViewCount="3257" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the raft burns, Shannon sees twice Walt. My first thought would be that this would be the Man In Black, trying to get her killed, but it has been established that he can only morph into people that have died, and Walt is alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the origin of these visions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8583" LastActivityDate="2015-06-02T13:35:11.350" Title="What is the origin of the visions of Walt, that Shannon experiences?" Tags="|lost|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34967" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34968" CreationDate="2015-06-01T15:48:13.500" Score="5" ViewCount="3210" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was one of those films you watch on TV and don't pay much attention to the title.  It's about a man who sets up the following trap for his wife: he disappears and after having prepared all the evidence that it was a murder and that his wife had motives to do it. The wife is tried, is charged with murder, and spends like 15 years in prison.  When she is released a phone call from an insurance company makes her suspect her husband is alive and it was all a set up.  She becomes determined to track him and she eventually finds him alive and well in California. Overcome by hatred, she buys a gun and meets him face to face. She points the gun at him and says she is going to kill him. He tries to convince her that she is going to ruin her life. That's when she says: &quot;I've studied all about it. You can't be charged with the same crime twice&quot; and shoots him down.  If anyone knows the title... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user10014" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-06-01T17:26:51.437" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T17:26:51.437" Title="&quot;You can't be charged with the same crime twice&quot; is the moral of the story. But I can't remember the title" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:47:43.877" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34967" CreationDate="2015-06-01T15:55:04.877" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film you're looking for is &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Jeopardy_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Double Jeopardy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Double Jeopardy&lt;/em&gt; is a 1999 American mystery-thriller film directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd, and Bruce Greenwood. The film is about a woman who is framed for the murder of her husband.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a really good film, in my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Double Jeopardy is also the legal term for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Double jeopardy is a procedural defense that forbids a defendant from being tried again on the same (or similar) charges following a legitimate acquittal or conviction. In common law countries, a defendant may enter a peremptory plea of autrefois acquit or autrefois convict (autrefois means &quot;in the past&quot; in French), meaning the defendant has been acquitted or convicted of the same offence and hence that they cannot be retried under the principle of double jeopardy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T15:55:04.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34963" CreationDate="2015-06-01T16:16:05.977" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you are looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119664/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Metro&lt;/a&gt; (1997)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WjhHF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Scott Roper is a wisecracking hostage negotiator. When his friend and&#xA;  fellow police officer is assassinated by a dangerous jewel thief, he&#xA;  is prepared to do just about anything to bring the killer to justice.&#xA;  But as his quiet investigation progresses, he must also train an ultra&#xA;  smart SWAT sniper to become a negotiator just like him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a link to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb7Ca9VbZJc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;full movie&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene you describe begins at at 55:00 and concludes with a hostage mistakenly being shot 6 minutes later. The actor you describe is named &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000699/?ref_=tt_cl_t15&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Michael Wincott&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18076" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T16:16:05.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30309" CreationDate="2015-06-01T18:31:44.803" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kinda seemed like at the end there, he was realizing they're dieing &amp;amp; never got out the hole. The broken phone and flashbacks (plus the whole convo) lead me to think Mitchel realized what was going on while dreaming..(or dieing). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21721" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T18:31:44.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34669" CreationDate="2015-06-01T19:03:58.587" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope I don't spoil the party with an out-of-universe explanation, but I thought that this was really interesting when I found it out:&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;It was just supposed to be funny. The sequels weren't written yet.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the commentary on the DVD, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale explain the scene, that it was all just there for fun, including the &quot;To be continued…&quot;. At the time, they weren't planning on making a sequel, and in their own words, were just hoping that the first movie would break even at the box office. This scene was just a sort of joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Afterward, when the film was such a success that they were asked to write a script for a sequel, they regretted writing this scene the way that they did, because Doc and Marty brought Jennifer along, which limited their options in writing the next script. If it has just been Doc and Marty, they could have made the next movie about anything they wanted, the two guys on any crazy adventure in time. With Jennifer around (and what Doc said), the second movie now had to be about their kids. They had &quot;painted themselves into a corner&quot; in a way, but still managed to make an excellent story out of it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21722" LastEditorUserId="23301" LastEditDate="2017-08-02T01:23:38.850" LastActivityDate="2017-08-02T01:23:38.850" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34981" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34982" CreationDate="2015-06-01T22:06:13.457" Score="2" ViewCount="1133" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are DVD versions of TV episodes usually different than the TV broadcast version?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was watching the ST:TNG series finale &quot;All Good Things&quot; on Netflix the other night.  I noticed, there was a difference in the scene where Picard is on the USS Pasteur with Dr. Crusher/Picard as the captain and they are asking/coercing Worf for permission to cross thru.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference between the TV episode and the Netflix version is Netflix had extra dialogue (I won't paraphrase/quote the dialogue, unless people want me to :) ).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Netflix and presumably the DVD have this extra footage but the TV broadcast (as far as I can remember) did not?  Is this common for all TV shows?  I think I read something regarding Friends episodes being SHORTER on Netflix than its tv broadcast counterpart but I'd need to find that article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3839" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-22T22:48:52.070" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T22:48:52.070" Title="Star Trek TNG TV episodes on DVD/Netflix different from network/cable telecast?" Tags="|distribution|alternate-version|star-trek|star-trek-the-next-generation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34981" CreationDate="2015-06-01T22:55:13.280" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, DVD versions of shows can often differ--sometimes drastically--from the original broadcast version, as can syndicated broadcasts.  Whether they'll include additional material or exclude original material all depends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most often, material is cut simply for time on broadcast.  In syndication runs, more ad revenue may need to be generated, so more time is cut, or the running time compressed (footage can be speeded up; sometimes inadvertently if video was crossing standards, since NTSC is 30 fps, and PAL is 25 fps).  In addition, sometimes content may have been censored by a network but added back in for a &quot;director's cut&quot; version (e.g., Steven Moffatt's &lt;em&gt;Jekyll&lt;/em&gt; had three different edits--with different footage/audio [the audio edits were mostly for language] between the original BBC airings, the US airings on BBC America, and the DVD sets).  Another possible cause for differences can be linked to licensing issues with DVDs: for example, &lt;em&gt;Keen Eddie&lt;/em&gt; lost their rights to some of the music used on the tracks for braodcast, and so the DVD went out with different music choices on the audio tracks.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And do we even need to mention &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/notes/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-hd-blu-ray/whats-wrong-with-buffys-hd/590282824407343&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the issues with the HD blu-ray version of &lt;em&gt;Buffy the Vampire Slayer?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18624" LastEditorUserId="18624" LastEditDate="2015-06-24T01:03:43.063" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T01:03:43.063" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34984" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29999" CreationDate="2015-06-01T23:59:51.657" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;They did grab each other's hands a couple times during the Battle of the Dept. of Mysteries in Order of the Phoenix. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21729" LastActivityDate="2015-06-01T23:59:51.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34988" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-02T05:36:00.920" Score="6" ViewCount="893" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first Captain America movie Howard Stark says &quot;Vibranium. It's stronger than steel and a third of the weight. It's completely vibration absorbent.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the shield completely absorbs vibrations, how does it bounce?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for MCU references primarily, with current comics being a close second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21736" LastActivityDate="2015-06-02T09:16:45.483" Title="How does Captain America's shield bounce?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|captain-america-the-first-avenger|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34988" CreationDate="2015-06-02T09:16:45.483" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Newtons third law states &lt;em&gt;that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing that the shield is made of the strongest material on the planet and that Captain America has super human strength, it is no stretch of the imagination that the resulting force of the throw could potentially bounce back off a HARD surface. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've not seen a case where he bounces it off a soft surface, like a human... this to me would dampen the kinetic energy... like putting your finger in a newtons cradle and watching it all stop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Age of Ultron, Captain America has a much more sophisticated suit that uses magnets to return the shield to him... but in the films prior to that suit... Newtons 3rd law seems to be the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20829" LastActivityDate="2015-06-02T09:16:45.483" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34992" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34995" CreationDate="2015-06-02T09:38:56.507" Score="3" ViewCount="660" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483013/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Oblivion&lt;/a&gt;, there is a scene in which Jack and Victoria are eating something that looks like meat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From where did they get this food? The earth is contaminated with no apparent animals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21739" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-02T11:29:52.580" LastActivityDate="2015-06-02T11:29:52.580" Title="Where did the food come from in oblivion movie?" Tags="|oblivion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34993" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="34994" CreationDate="2015-06-02T09:44:56.863" Score="41" ViewCount="71221" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Hardhome&quot;, the eight episode of season five of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, Jon Snow battles a White Walker. As established, White Walkers can only be killed by dragonglass. But in this battle Jon Snow kills a White Walker with his sword. Does this mean that Jon Snow's sword is made of dragonglass? If not, how does he kill a White Walker?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-11-15T11:53:48.180" LastActivityDate="2018-11-15T11:53:48.180" Title="How was Jon Snow able to kill the White Walker in S05E08?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="34994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34993" CreationDate="2015-06-02T09:57:47.530" Score="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;His sword is from &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Valyrian_steel&quot;&gt;Valyrian steel&lt;/a&gt;, which also can kill White Walkers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Valyrian steel is the only thing that can kill White Walkers, alongside dragonglass, although this property is not widely known, apparently, not even to the White Walkers themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has been mentioned in the books, but not in the previous episodes of the show:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In &quot;A Feast for Crows&quot;, Sam Tarly tells Jon about old annals claiming&#xA;  that dragonsteel (perhaps a synonym of Valyrian steel) is lethal to&#xA;  the Others, like dragonglass. In the show, this is confirmed when Jon&#xA;  Snow kills a White Walker during the battle of Hardhome. In the&#xA;  novels, however, it has not been put to test yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the episode 10 of season 5:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Jon and Sam are discussing the event described in the question  and they agree that Jon's sword&#xA; &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Longclaw&quot;&gt;Longclaw&lt;/a&gt; was able to&#xA; kill the White Walker because it's made from Valyrian steel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-06-29T06:13:13.597" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T06:13:13.597" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34992" CreationDate="2015-06-02T10:02:07.417" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Tet's mission is to check on the Effectiveness of the Team from time to time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the factors of the &quot;Team's Effectiveness&quot; is the condition of its food source, or food inventory. If the team uses up all of its quota, then the Tet will initiate an order to eleminate the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is explained in more details here: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://platosacademic.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/oblivion-explained-spoiler-alert/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://platosacademic.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/oblivion-explained-spoiler-alert/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am sure that the Tet would utilize the entire ocean, setting up&#xA;  dozens, if not, hundreds of the water extractors. The murder-bots&#xA;  assigned to kill the teams if they become ineffective would shut down.&#xA;  Depending on the teams’ food source, many could die of starvation,&#xA;  dehydration, or from harsh conditions. Or they could be fine. Its all&#xA;  speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastActivityDate="2015-06-02T10:02:07.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34965" CreationDate="2015-06-02T11:35:46.033" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're right regarding the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Monster&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Man In Black&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In this form he could manifest as deceased individuals, most&#xA;  frequently as his former body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means that these were visions. Their origin wasn't explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the most logical theory is: since we know that Walt had paranormal abilities, it can be assumed that he was telepathically connecting with Shannon and causing the visions (&lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Walt#Days_44.E2.80.9367_.28Season_2.29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;apparently&lt;/a&gt; his message was &quot;Push the button. Don't push the button. Bad.&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also check fan theories on Lostpedia regarding &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Shannon_Rutherford/Theories&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the vision&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Walt_Lloyd/Theories&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Walt&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-06-02T13:35:11.350" LastActivityDate="2015-06-02T13:35:11.350" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34997" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-02T12:13:59.850" Score="5" ViewCount="2021" Body="&lt;p&gt;In India, U/A stands for Unrestricted Public Exhibition with parental guidance for children below 12 years. This rating is given to a movie which contains mild violence, language and sexuality. But &lt;strong&gt;Furious 7&lt;/strong&gt; got A : Adults: which stands for for Adult audience above 18 years only. This rating is given to a movie which contains heavy doses of violence, sexuality, frightening images and language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Furious 7 get an 'A' certificate in India but got a 'PG-13' certificate in USA?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21740" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-06-29T16:46:28.493" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T18:51:40.267" Title="Why did Furious 7 get an 'A' certificate in India but got a 'PG-13' certificate in USA?" Tags="|content-rating|fast-and-furious-franchise|furious-7|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="34999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="761" CreationDate="2015-06-02T13:42:19.727" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The stories of all the three movies incorporate many influences from famous comic storylines, while none of them has been directly taken from a particular comic in its entirety. So they were more or less written from scratch a bit but also not completey without base in some particular comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The primary influence, maybe less storywise than more atmospherically and setting-wise, that screenwriters Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer identify for the first two movies (if not even the whole trilogy), however, seems to be Jeph Loeb's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Long_Halloween&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Long Halloween&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. While it has found its way most directly into &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;, its themes waft over the entire trilogy. While featuring many of Batman's classic villains in side-plots, at its very core &lt;em&gt;The Long Halloween&lt;/em&gt; tells a noire story of a Gotham that is controlled by organized crime and a feud between the Falcones and Maronis and three righteous men (Dent, Gordon and the Batman) working together as a team in trying to put an end to their reign. And its art that uses clear and monotonous colors and strong light-shadow contrasts also plays into this noire feel to a large degree and might have been especially appealing to noire-enthusiast Christopher Nolan in this regard. It is thus a great starting point for their effort in grounding Batman into a serious crime drama. A recent edition of &lt;em&gt;The Long Halloween&lt;/em&gt; features a foreword by Nolan and Goyer where they discuss its influence on the movies, reinforcing the above points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CN:&lt;/strong&gt; When you're putting together a Batman film, people always ask, &amp;quot;Are you looking at this comic book or that comic book?&amp;quot; And the truth is you look at all of them. As a filmmaker, though, THE LONG HALLOWEEN was one Batman story that really drew me in in terms of cinematic potential...It's a crime epic. Jeph Loeb did this incredible job of taking the more exotic elements of the Batman universe and grounding them in a believable world. He took supporting characters and gave them real lives and real emotions. And real consequences to their actions. This has tremendous impact on the reader. THE LONG HALLOWEEN in more than a comic book. It's an epic tragedy...Along those lines I was impressed with how seamlessly Loeb and Sale were able to integrate the more fantastical elements of Batman, most notably the villains, within the context of the real world, striking a balance that felt credible. It was a great inspiration to us in terms of tonality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DG:&lt;/strong&gt; For me there are three major comic book influences in Batman lore. There's YEAR ONE, the Neal Adams stuff, and there is THE LONG HALLOWEEN. But by the time &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; comes out, it will become apparent that LONG HALLOWEEN is the preeminent influence on both movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now let's look into the individual movies and the particular story elements and their sources a bit more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A primary milestone you won't get around when talking about how &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Begins#Development&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is of course Frank Miller's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_Year_One&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Year One&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which was part of the modernization at the end of the 80s and depicted Batman's first steps in Gotham. But not only that, it also laid much emphasis on James Gordon's first steps, too, and the corrupt city and police he has to face as one of the few honest cops, a motif &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt; also played with quite a bit. It thus introduced themes and characters that &lt;em&gt;The Long Halloween&lt;/em&gt; directly built upon. While &lt;em&gt;Year One&lt;/em&gt; doesn't see Gordon and Batman work directly together, it does put them as two equal men trying to fight their way through the dump that this city is and &lt;em&gt;The Long Halloween&lt;/em&gt; then introduced the D.A. as third part in the team, a notion very eminent in &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CN:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, we co-opted THE LONG HALLOWEEN's idea of the triumvirate for &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt; to some extent, showing Batman function as one point of a strong triangle with the police and the D.A. by acting as a force that can crack things open and provide a wedge against all the corruption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DG:&lt;/strong&gt; That scene on the rooftop between Gordon, Dent, and Batman in THE LONG HALLOWEEN -- in which you realize Batman can obviously bring criminals to justice, but he needs the police to arrest them and the D.A.'s office to prosecute them -- that was something new that Jeph Loeb introduced into the lore. For &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt; we used Rachel instead of Dent as the pinnacle of the triangle, but she still served the same function.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the image of James Gordon that &lt;em&gt;Year One&lt;/em&gt; introduced and &lt;em&gt;The Long Halloween&lt;/em&gt; built upon has also directly influenced his depiction in the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DG:&lt;/strong&gt; THE LONG HALLOWEEN really ran with what YEAR ONE started, giving us an entirely different depiction of Gordon. Previously in the comic books, in the movies, and in the TV show, Gordon was this kind of bumbling, avuncular character, whereas in these stories, he is depicted as this beleaguered, mid-level sergeant in this rampantly corrupt police force, which is the Gordon we meet in &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to particular plot points, there are some scenes from &lt;em&gt;Year One&lt;/em&gt; that found their way into &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt;, like Batman raiding a deal that Flass is supervising, his usage of a swarm of ultra-sonically attracted bats as cover to escape a SWAT team, or the last scene where Gordon has his first &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; meeting with the Batman, examining a Joker card.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8KLlV.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8KLlV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Long Halloween / Year One / The Man Who Falls&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While &lt;em&gt;Year One&lt;/em&gt; starts with Batman arriving in Gotham, it leaves out much of his previous past. This is the point where Dennis O'Neil's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Falls&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Man Who Falls&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; steps in and from which many parts are used for Bruce's story before his return to Gotham. We have Bruce falling into the well on Wayne Manor and his first encounter with the bats. We see him traveling the world and learning martial arts in a desolate Asian monastery. And later on Bruce is also trained in the powerful weapons of &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;theatricality and deception&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; by the mercenary Henri Ducard (though, fused in the movie with Ra's al Ghul and his training in the monastery), whom he abandons after learning how brutal his methods really are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or from the mouth of the screenwriters directly (as captured on the BluRay of &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chistopher Nolan:&lt;/strong&gt; The jumping-off point really for me had been a story called &amp;quot;The Man Who Falls&amp;quot;. It suggests various points on the development of Bruce Wayne into Batman. This idea that he travels the world is mentored and teached in different disciplines by various individuals and then returns to Gotham for me was a fascinating story, was a fascinating connection between Bruce's early childhood trauma, falling down this well and being attacked by these bats, and the persona that he then develops in order to use people's fear against them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David S. Goyer:&lt;/strong&gt; Another piece of work that influenced us was Frank Miller's &lt;em&gt;Batman: Year One&lt;/em&gt; because that did deal with the first year of Batman being Batman. And the approach was very no-nonsense and very tough. And it was a great relationship that Frank Miller developed between Bruce Wayne, the beginnings of Batman, and Gordon, who is not yet Commissioner Gordon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(I'm also tempted to say that the image of Scarecrow riding on a horse was taken from &lt;em&gt;The Long Halloween&lt;/em&gt;, too.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_%28film%29#Development&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we again have a large story- or character-wise influence from &lt;em&gt;The Long Halloween&lt;/em&gt; in the way it concentrates on Harvey Dent, his work with Gordon and the Batman, his demise, and his actions and motivations after his &amp;quot;transformation&amp;quot;, putting him on a revenge quest after the crime bosses and people who betrayed him, who lays justice rather into the hands of a coin flip instead of the supposedly flawed system. Another smaller story-similarity is when Batman and Dent are trying to grip the mob where it hurts, its money (though in the comic they rather chose the approach the Joker does in the movie, burning it all, instead of confiscating).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now when talking about the Joker there's no way around Alan Moore's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Killing_Joke&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Killing Joke&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and indeed the movie borrows many major elements from it. In that story the Joker tries to prove that &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/17915/49&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;all it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. In the story he takes Gordon as a target and the shooting of his daughter as a means, while the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/15357/49&quot;&gt;primarily uses Dent&lt;/a&gt; instead, but the idea is exactly the same, the Joker wants to prove &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/15288/49&quot;&gt;that the world is full of insanity and random injustice and has to drive anyone mad sooner or later&lt;/a&gt;. And while in the comic he doesn't succeed in his efforts with Gordon, who still wants to bring him in &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;by the book&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; after all this, he succeeds to some degree with the Batman, if we accept the common interpretation of the comic's ending that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; Batman kills the Joker. (And at the end of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/2789/49&quot;&gt;he also has to kill&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zp5sq.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zp5sq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Long Halloween / The Killing Joke&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also other aspects taken from this comic, like the Joker's assertion of Batman being as crazy as he is and the whole idea of them fighting their fight forever and ever. And while the comic does tell &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; backstory of the Joker, the final character in his randomness does not actually adhere to any particular backstory and &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;prefers it to be multiple choice&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. This is reflected in the movie Joker's retelling of the origin of his scars in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/1428/49&quot;&gt;multiple different versions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(The last scene of the movie, however, is yet again a little reminiscent of the finale of &lt;em&gt;Year One&lt;/em&gt; (albeit varying in many details), where Bruce (not Batman, though) rescues Gordon's newborn son from falling down a bridge while Gordon fights with the kidnapper.)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While you didn't really ask for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Rises#Development&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, it would be a shame to omit it here for a complete answer. Now when talking about Batman coming back from a near decade of retirement, there's no way around Frank Miller's &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Returns&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Dark Knight Returns&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. But there's more to it than just this premise. We also have the emphasis on the public controversy around Batman (even though to a lesser degree in the movie, but still most prominent in the 3rd movie). Then there are smaller plot elements like Batman's problems due to his age, especially when he &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/60583/49&quot;&gt;tries to take on a much younger and stronger opponent&lt;/a&gt; against Alfred's warnings, or his employment of a mechanical splint to make up for the deficiencies of his aging body. And of course there's also the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/11704/49&quot;&gt;up-beat ending of faking his own death&lt;/a&gt; but leaving his legacy to a successor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then when looking at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/23914/49&quot;&gt;character of Bane&lt;/a&gt; and his methods and actions, we have the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_Knightfall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Knightfall&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; storyline. While the details are quite a bit different, it shows Bane wanting to rule the city and taking the fight to a weakened Batman, whom he deduced to be Bruce Wayne, and ultimately breaking his back, forcing him into exile, where he then heals from his injury.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/69XpE.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/69XpE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Dark Knight Returns / Knightfall / No Man's Land&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that the movie's story, especially the whole scenario in Gotham after Bane's attack, is reminiscent of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man%27s_Land_%28comics%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No Man's Land&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which sees Gotham cut from the outside world (though, by an earthquake) and devolving into a primitive and chaotic state, especially after Batman leaves for months. It also has Lex Luthor trying to cover up a financial scheme by employing Bane as a mercenary (a role filled by John Daggett in the movie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-10-14T14:16:34.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34997" CreationDate="2015-06-02T14:54:51.390" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Censorship rules are different in different countries. In India, the dialogues containing the word &quot;Fuck&quot; is censored! &#xA;Likewise, it gets an 'A' for some of the reasons which @AnkitSharma has put in comment( Low necklines, cleavages or even showing blood in the screen)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21506" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-01-06T07:52:03.240" LastActivityDate="2017-01-06T07:52:03.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35006" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35008" CreationDate="2015-06-02T18:58:20.437" Score="7" ViewCount="5331" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw (*) a movie on an airplane flight that looked like it involved a student seducing or otherwise getting involved with a teacher. Eventually while the teacher was out of his house, the student kidnapped his wife, locked her in the trunk of a car, and bribed a junkyard's manager to crush the car without proper paperwork. Then she went back to the teacher's house and sent an email using their computer, from the wife to the teacher saying she was leaving because of the affair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actors were white, but obviously I don't know what language they were speaking since I couldn't hear it. I watched it more than one and less than 6 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(*) but did not hear because I was too cheap to buy the proprietary headphones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21756" LastEditorUserId="21756" LastEditDate="2016-10-06T18:36:38.293" LastActivityDate="2016-10-06T18:36:38.293" Title="Movie about a student-teacher relationship that goes horribly wrong" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:47:47.037" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35006" CreationDate="2015-06-02T19:23:22.047" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the movie is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4238476/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Damaged&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2014)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading a review brought back a few details I had forgotten:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The student lives across the street from the teacher.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She lets him borrow her car and gives him a watch.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She kills the wife with a hammer, but not in the teacher's house; rather the wife breaks into the student's house.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wasn't able to find anything about the car-crushomatic. But it's an obscure, terrible, made-for-tv, Lifetime movie, so details/plot summaries are scant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21756" LastEditorUserId="25920" LastEditDate="2016-10-06T18:34:46.783" LastActivityDate="2016-10-06T18:34:46.783" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34894" CreationDate="2015-06-02T20:41:12.213" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756672/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Killing Floor&lt;/a&gt; from 2007 with Marc Blucas and Shiri Appleby.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;David Lamont, a book publisher who is known to be ruthless toward friends, foes, and clients alike, moves into his new penthouse apartment. There he meets his mysterious and beautiful neighbor, Audrey Levine, who lives on the third floor. [...] Soon after he starts receiving packages with the crime scene photos that apparently were taken in his penthouse. Later he begins to receive video tapes documenting his every move and believes someone is after him. With his assistant, Rebecca Fay, David begins to discover who or what is behind everything that is occurring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole thing was set up by his assistant after he didn't read her story. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/WQVrgMb4N5Y?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-06-02T20:41:12.213" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11415" CreationDate="2015-06-03T04:35:50.903" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps Lamar is his in fact his Father. The socioeconomic status of the family at the start in the dinning room scene suggests they are not well-to-do. Further, the genetic integrity laws must be quite strict to allow Vincent to go past the tests. Why does he ask &quot;... have I told you about my son.&quot; Seems odd to go about it in this personal manner, especially for a clinical scientist. However, this is possibly a less plausible case than suggested by others here, as even with alterations, it doesn't look much like his Dad. Would be cool though, and possibly the kind of luck that it would take to slip though at GATTACA... makes it more poignant regarding the absurdity of genetic screening and the &quot;brave new world&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21772" LastActivityDate="2015-06-03T04:35:50.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34993" CreationDate="2015-06-03T04:49:11.433" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other answer is a bit too definite; like the characters in the show/books, we know far too little.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Others/White Walkers haven't been seen for eight thousand years. Most people do not believe they exist. All that we know for sure is what we have seen: normal weapons do not harm them, but dragonglass and Longclaw do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is too soon to say whether every Valyrian steel weapon could kill the Others. But fans do love to theorise. Maybe every Valyrian steel weapon would be able to kill them. Or maybe if Jon is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Last_hero&quot;&gt;Last Hero&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Azor_Ahai&quot;&gt;Azor Ahai&lt;/a&gt; then it's more about him than the sword. Maybe Longclaw is, or will somehow become, &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Lightbringer&quot;&gt;Lightbringer&lt;/a&gt;. Maybe the direct fire of dragons will kill them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18440" LastActivityDate="2015-06-03T04:49:11.433" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35020" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-03T06:23:52.787" Score="3" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2395695/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey Tv SHOW&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A great deep view with simple way into our discoveries &amp;amp; inventions so far. In this series Neil deGrasse Tyson explained many things about time and space. And sometimes they show animated presentations of historical characters like Newton or Willian Herschel etc. They showed some events too through animated representations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question is : are those real events? or imagination to simply present things?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In S01E04 Neil deGrasse Tyson said&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Back in 1802, on a night like this,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the astronomer William Herschel strolled the beach&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;on the English coast, with his son John.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In S01E05 an animated presentation showed that Newton was discovering something using light and got distracted and didn't experimented on it ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(knocking on door, door opens)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Begging your pardon, Master Newton,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the cook frets that your dinner will spoil, sir.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DEGRASSE TYSON: No, Isaac, don't&amp;lt; put the magnifying glass down!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Something even more amazing is hidden in the light&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a code, a key to the cosmos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Isaac Newton didn't miss much, but that one was a beauty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He just walked right past the door&#xA;  to a hidden universe;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a door that would not swing open again for another 150 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So after watching these 2 segments it came to my mind that there are more animated incidents that are shown in this series. Which either portray a conversation between 2 or may be some incident that led to a discovery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How accurate are they? I mean Newton didn't wrote &quot;I was doing something, suddenly butler knocked ....... &quot; etc. right!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know are these &lt;strong&gt;presentation/event/conversations of historical characters&lt;/strong&gt; all imagination or real or real to which extent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-03T12:05:23.283" LastActivityDate="2015-06-03T12:05:23.283" Title="Are those historical portrayal 100% or mostly real?" Tags="|historical-accuracy|cosmos-spacetime-odyssey|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35023" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35036" CreationDate="2015-06-03T06:49:24.083" Score="2" ViewCount="1138" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt; episode &lt;em&gt;The Nuclear Man&lt;/em&gt;, we see Barry and Linda making out, and he vibrates. That brought the question to my mind. If Barry ever decides to have a kid, would it also have super speed because Barry's DNA has mutated and we tend to pass DNA to future generations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19902" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-21T06:34:53.270" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T06:34:53.270" Title="Flash and gene mutation" Tags="|arrowverse|the-flash|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21956" CreationDate="2015-06-03T07:00:54.380" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is just an example of lame 'for cable TV&quot; writing. This is a sex and sword drama, so everyone who is able to has sex and kills or is killed. Podrick is the doofus, (isn't he also the last kings bastard?). I think this is a way to make fun of Podrick for being so out of it he doesn't even understand his own gifts. In this case his enourmous endowment. I doubt the writers are keen enough to simply make him &quot;good in bed&quot; or deepen the character of prostitutes so that they are bragging about a 'good' or attentive lover. That kind of bragging from a cut and paste prostitute usually adds up to &quot;endowment&quot;. How funny, the nerd is hung -that's the joke. I would imagine that is all that was intended with that. It is possible that this was a foreshadowing of a plot point that has yet to be made or even a set up to a bigger joke that was dropped or, again, will happen later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21778" LastActivityDate="2015-06-03T07:00:54.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35023" CreationDate="2015-06-03T07:46:47.093" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, Berry's genes will pass into his son and daughter. Twins actually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the comics we know his son Don and daughter Dawn will get fraction of his powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See this &lt;a href=&quot;http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Don_Allen_(New_Earth)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Don Allen (New Earth)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Don Allen was the son of Barry and Iris Allen, conceived in the 30th&#xA;  Century after his father's retirement, but born after his death in the&#xA;  first Crisis. He and his twin sister Dawn inherited a fraction of his&#xA;  speed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly true for the daughter &lt;a href=&quot;http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Dawn_Allen_(New_Earth)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dawn Allen (New Earth)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the &lt;a href=&quot;http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Allen_Family&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Family Tree&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicvine.com/dawn-allen/4005-19093/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tornado twins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dawn and her twin brother Don were born in the 30th century. Both&#xA;  twins inherited the power of superspeed from their father, Barry&#xA;  Allen. Despite widespread fear and hatred towards metahumans and their&#xA;  powers in the 30th century, Dawn and Don chose to do good as&#xA;  superheroes. Using their superspeed to spin around quickly, they&#xA;  appeared as tornadoes and were known as the Tornado Twins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if the tv show maintains these comics then we will see this genetic transfer in future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="12936" LastEditDate="2015-06-03T07:54:57.263" LastActivityDate="2015-06-03T07:54:57.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34474" CreationDate="2015-06-03T08:04:03.377" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movies.com/movie-news/mad-max-fury-road-chrome-spray-paint/18504&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Movies.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; interviewed director &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;George Miller&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, where he revealed his inspiration:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw a documentary where young [Cambodian] soldiers would go into&#xA;war, they had little jaded deities -- and before they ran into battle,&#xA;they put them in their mouths and just held them with little straps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This was their ritual before battle&lt;/strong&gt; -- that, like the Buddha, &lt;strong&gt;the chrome paint will help lift them to a higher place. It'll help bring them to Valhalla&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;BR&gt;And from an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.craveonline.com/entertainment/film/interviews/857843-exclusive-interview-mad-max-villain-immortan-joe&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with actor &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hugh Keays-Byrne&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, who plays &lt;em&gt;Immortan Joe&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What exactly is the silver stuff you spray on Nicholas Hoult’s face?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;That’s like a very euphoric drug.&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;strong&gt;George Miller&lt;/strong&gt; explains further in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movies.com/movie-news/mad-max-fury-road-george-miller-interview/18476&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Immortan] Joe was a member of the military who used his leadership&#xA;skills to build a cult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;He was a colonel named Joe Moore. He was military, and he organized everybody, eventually &lt;strong&gt;being&#xA;able to exploit a cult&lt;/strong&gt; as he took over this dominance hierarchy.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Speculation:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My guess is that cult leader &lt;em&gt;Immortan Joe&lt;/em&gt; came up with the &amp;quot;Valhalla&amp;quot; explanation to manipulate his followers into drugging themselves. The War Boys don't actually know that the spray contains a drug. They genuinely believe it will help them get to Valhalla.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1525" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-03T08:04:03.377" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28390" CreationDate="2015-06-03T09:06:44.687" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might be second-hand and I can't find a video, but it seems legit*: On May 1, 2014, Keaton read from her book &lt;em&gt;Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty&lt;/em&gt; at the 92nd Street Y community center and answered some questions from the audience. And &lt;a href=&quot;http://92y.tumblr.com/post/84439944656/5-things-we-learned-about-diane-keaton&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;when the subject came up&lt;/a&gt;, she confirmed the slap was real:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She loved getting slapped around by Al Pacino in &lt;em&gt;The Godfather&lt;/em&gt;. Remember that scene in &lt;em&gt;Part II?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“&lt;strong&gt;He really slapped me!&lt;/strong&gt; It was amazing and it really worked. I loved it.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*[&lt;em&gt;Seeing that it's an official recap of the event by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.92y.org/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;92Y&lt;/a&gt; organization, there's no reason to assume that the information is disingenuous.&lt;/em&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-03T09:16:16.860" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35035" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35039" CreationDate="2015-06-03T13:46:56.243" Score="3" ViewCount="3870" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the trailers of &lt;strong&gt;Legends of Tomorrow&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Hunter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rip Hunter&lt;/a&gt; (time traveler) gathers a team of heroes and villains to fight with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandal_Savage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vandal Savage&lt;/a&gt;. And he refers to them as legends rather than heroes. I wonder what existing DC comic it's based on. I don't know any team with this kind of roster. Or is it an original work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: Legend is Tomorrow is an upcoming continuation work of Arrow and The Flash.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-06T06:03:56.560" LastActivityDate="2016-04-06T06:03:56.560" Title="On which existing work is Legends of Tomorrow based?" Tags="|comic-adaptation|legends-of-tomorrow|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35023" CreationDate="2015-06-03T13:55:40.040" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It depends on whether or not the mutation is &quot;germ line&quot;. Each cell in your body has its own set of genes, and if a cell in your eye has a mutation, this won't be passed on to any children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is actually sort of a big deal, as medicine takes the first steps towards being able to cure genetic diseases. They have methods of altering the genes inside your cells such that if you had cystic fibrosis they might be able to force the cells of your lungs into behaving properly. However, medical ethicists are reluctant to approve any such therapy if there is the potential for the changes to be passed on to children. (Thankfully for cystic fibrosis sufferers, no one procreates with their lungs.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you follow the news, this subject shows up from time to time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastActivityDate="2015-06-03T13:55:40.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35035" CreationDate="2015-06-03T15:22:59.020" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know of a team in the comics with &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_of_Tomorrow&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;that particular ensemble&lt;/a&gt; (Firestorm, The Atom, White Canary, Rip Hunter, Hawkgirl, Heatwave, and Captain Cold). It looks like an original work based on characters that were already introduced in the CW's other shows, &lt;em&gt;Flash&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt;, with the exception of Rip Hunter, who is a new character to TV.  The concept looks similar to several stories involving &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Hunter&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rip Hunter&lt;/a&gt; in the comics, where he assembles teams of heroes (or works with existing teams) from different time periods to work on one mission. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2015-06-03T15:22:59.020" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33563" CreationDate="2015-06-03T16:00:55.700" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aside from Kings Blood, and all of the theories surrounding that. I think Melisandre also recognizes that Jon is a warg. This I think is what she was getting at when she said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;..Power in you, and in this beast. You resist it, and that is your mistake. Embrace it. Use it.”&lt;br/&gt; &lt;em&gt;- A Dance With Dragons&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &#xA;From &lt;em&gt;A Clash of Kings:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A shrill scream split the air. He glimpsed blue-grey pinions spread wide, shutting out the sun ... &lt;br/&gt;&quot;Ghost!&quot; Jon shouted, sitting up. He could still feel the talons, the pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;And here's what GRRM says about this matter. Sourced from So Spoke Martin:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are all the Stark children wargs / skinchangers with their wolves?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;em&gt;To a greater or lesser degree, yes, but the amount of control varies widely.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21800" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2017-08-10T22:46:15.890" LastActivityDate="2017-08-10T22:46:15.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35043" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35045" CreationDate="2015-06-03T16:42:33.283" Score="31" ViewCount="9866" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am curious how the camera managed to maintain such a close distance to Danny riding his tricycle through the hotel in &lt;em&gt;The Shining&lt;/em&gt;.  The camera seems to be positioned on some wheeled cart that is trailing Danny while it is obvious that the tricycle is not pulling it (as there is a space gap).  But the distance is usually very steady even though Danny is going pretty fast.  How did they synchronize the positioning of the camera throughout each of, I believe, three rides that appear in the film?  It is such phenomenal camera work, as though Danny had the camera on a selfie stick attached to the backrest of his tricycle but it's obvious that he didn't as there is clearance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/cy7ztJ3NUMI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20094" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-03T16:45:15.717" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T05:47:40.267" Title="How did they film Danny tricycle riding through the hotel?" Tags="|film-techniques|cinematography|the-shining|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35043" CreationDate="2015-06-03T16:54:26.500" Score="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_%28film%29#Production&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Shining&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; used the then newly-invented device called a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steadicam&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Steadicam&lt;/a&gt; to shoot these (and many other) scenes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This film was among the first half-dozen to use the newly developed Steadicam (after the 1976 films &lt;em&gt;Bound for Glory&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Marathon Man&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Rocky&lt;/em&gt;), and was Kubrick's first use of it. This is a stabilizing mount for a motion picture camera, which mechanically separates the operator's movement from the camera's, allowing smooth tracking shots while the operator is moving over an uneven surface. It essentially combines the stabilized steady footage of a regular mount with the fluidity and flexibility of a handheld camera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, apparently, the creator of the Steadicam, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Brown&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Garrett Brown&lt;/a&gt;, was hired by Kubrick to be one of the camera operators and his invention got pretty much one of its &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steadicam#History&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;first uses&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;em&gt;The Shining&lt;/em&gt;, particularly its ability to shoot low-angle shots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Shining (1980) pushed Brown's innovations even further, when director Stanley Kubrick requested that the camera shoot from barely above the floor. This prompted the innovation of a &amp;quot;low mode&amp;quot; bracket to mount the top of a camera to the bottom of an inverted post, which substantially increased the creative angles of the system, which previously could not go much lower than the operator's waist height. This low-mode concept remains the most important extension to the system since its inception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These scenes, in particular, were shot with Brown &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tested.com/art/movies/457145-shining-and-steadicam/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;sitting in a wheelchair&lt;/a&gt;, while holding the camera on the Steadicam rig:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ljH62.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Steadicam setup&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Brown showed Kubrick that the Steadicam could shoot at a lens height from eighteen inches to waist-high, Kubrick was thrilled because much of the film revolved around a kid’s point of view. To film little Danny riding his Big Wheel through the halls, Brown rode on a wheelchair that Kubrick used for &lt;em&gt;A Clockwork Orange&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brown used the wheelchair because “in a number of instances it was the only way to get the lens right down to floor level.” Brown tried to follow Danny on foot, and got tired after three minutes. “I never even tried running after the kid, that would’ve been a joke,” Brown says. “A kid on a Big Wheel can go about seventy miles an hour.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-03T21:54:44.623" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35046" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-03T17:14:13.100" Score="5" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Behind Enemy Lines&lt;/em&gt; the Admiral gives a location for a rally point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I set IP Cadillac, Canada 1-5, Virginia 2-0&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has anyone determined where (Longitude and Latitude) on Earth this indicates? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21805" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-05T16:47:47.750" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T22:43:36.423" Title="Where is Angel 06 being sent?" Tags="|dialogue|behind-enemy-lines|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35047" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-03T17:23:23.907" Score="5" ViewCount="605" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070917/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Wicker Man (1973)&lt;/a&gt;, Sgt. Howie flies to a secluded island inhabited by pagans to investigate a complaint about a missing girl, which was made via mail and includes the girl's picture.  Why doesn't he seek out the person who filed the complaint and investigate its authenticity before pursuing it seriously?  Is it just one of those cases where the plot expects the viewer to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;less scrutinizing of the plausibility of the narrative&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20094" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2020-05-01T20:49:01.240" LastActivityDate="2020-05-01T20:49:01.240" Title="Why does Sgt. Howie never seek out the person who filed the police complaint in The Wicker Man?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-wicker-man-1973|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35049" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-03T21:40:10.347" Score="5" ViewCount="20823" Body="&lt;p&gt;About 5 years ago I was watching a movie at a party but during the movie I fell asleep. I forgot the title, so I hope someone can help me find it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie was about a girl, who has deja vú all the time. She can predict the future in her imagination or in pictures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The girl and her friends go to a theme park. She takes a picture of her boyfriend standing in front of a roller coaster. Once they get in the roller coaster, she gets her hand stuck in chewing gum. It starts moving and, at the top of the free fall, an accident happens and they die. This was all her imagination and they are in the roller coaster again, it hasn't started yet, but she touches the chewing gum. She freaks out and gets out of her seat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She and her friend got off the roller coaster but her best friend and boyfriend are still on it and she starts screaming once she sees the picture she took. The roller coaster is crushing into her boyfriends head. The accident she imagined happens and all people in the roller coaster die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21809" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2015-06-04T02:40:39.443" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T02:40:39.443" Title="Looking for a film about a girl who can predict the future in her imagination" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:47:53.303" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35049" CreationDate="2015-06-03T22:06:07.603" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie you're looking for seems to be one from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Destination&quot;&gt;Final Destination&lt;/a&gt; series more specifically its the 3rd one you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first paragraph in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Destination_3&quot;&gt;movie's wiki page&lt;/a&gt; matches the description you've provided in your post.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wendy Christensen, a high school student, visits an amusement park with her boyfriend Jason Wise, best friend Carrie Dreyer, and Carrie's boyfriend Kevin Fischer for their senior class field trip. As they board the Devil's Flight roller coaster, Wendy has a premonition that the hydraulics securing the seats and roller coaster cars will fail, killing everyone on board. When she panics several people leave or are forced off the ride, including Kevin; best friends Ashley Fruend and Ashlyn Halperin, alumnus Frankie Cheeks, athlete Lewis Romero, and goths Ian McKinley and Erin Ulmen. As they leave they witness the roller coaster derail, killing the remaining passengers, including Jason and Carrie, leaving Wendy devastated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2015-06-03T22:06:07.603" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35051" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-03T22:51:51.643" Score="7" ViewCount="14182" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whose sword did Jon Snow use to kill the White Walker in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; S05E08?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21810" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-06-04T01:30:48.257" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T22:06:34.397" Title="Where did Jon Snow get his sword?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32206" CreationDate="2015-06-03T23:21:17.720" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Billy is holding a Jack of Diamonds in his own hand.  You can see it better after he is shot and lying on the ground, and is asking Bonny for his paw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21813" LastActivityDate="2015-06-03T23:21:17.720" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35056" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35062" CreationDate="2015-06-03T23:44:35.167" Score="3" ViewCount="297" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen many David Attenborough's documentaries on animals and birds. The kind of shoots that they do in North Pole or under water or in deep forests on mountains - it seems like their team must spend a lot of time to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do they stay steady for such shoots. I mean they must eat or sleep. They shoot so close to animals even at night, and it still does not disturb them at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The commentaries given by David are so detailed. He describes the behavior of fishes as if he is absolutely sure what the fish is thinking. I mean is it that precise? I sometimes find it unreal but he has been doing this for so long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21342" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-06-04T06:59:31.187" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T07:59:29.980" Title="How difficult and real are David Attenborough's documentaries?" Tags="|documentary|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34997" CreationDate="2015-06-04T00:07:36.087" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rating system in the U.S. is very opaque. The raters' identities are kept secret and their decisions cannot be formally appealed. You should watch the documentary &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Film_Is_Not_Yet_Rated&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This Film Is Not Yet Rated&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A movie's rating may also be the result of some extended negotiation between the studio and the MPAA. Filmmakers will often shoot scenes that can later be cut in order to get a R or PG-13 rating. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, there are factors beyond simple moral standards that dictate the rating a movie receives. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21816" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-06-04T01:39:56.370" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T01:39:56.370" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35051" CreationDate="2015-06-04T01:13:42.487" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode 9 of season 1 (&quot;Baelor&quot;), Jeor Mormont gave Jon Snow the Valyrian steel sword, Longclaw, in thanks for saving his life from a wight. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books, it originally had a bear's head as the pommel, but Mormont had the pommel refashioned into a wolf's head of pale stone with ruby eyes for Jon. It's a &quot;bastard&quot; or hand-and-a-half sword (half a foot longer than a longsword), rather than a longsword or greatsword.  It is the Mormont sword in the way that Ice was the Stark sword.  Jorah Mormont inherited it when his father took the black, but had enough honor to leave it behind when he was exiled in disgrace for trying to sell poachers into slavery, and Maege Mormont (Jeor's sister) who now rules Bear Island, sent it to Jeor at the Wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18624" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T01:13:42.487" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35056" CreationDate="2015-06-04T07:59:29.980" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most David Attenborough documentaries now feature a small 'How it's made' style film at the end of them, intended to address curious minds such as yours and demonstrate the complexity required of the shoots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously your question of how 'real' the documentaries are can be answered with &lt;em&gt;entirely real&lt;/em&gt;.. but for a case-by-case breakdown of the individual shoots, it's best to watch the documentaries themselves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T07:59:29.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35064" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35656" CreationDate="2015-06-04T08:41:26.037" Score="17" ViewCount="4286" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Friends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, when Ross moved in with Chandler and Joey, where was he sleeping? The apartment only had two rooms. Did he share a room with one of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-06-24T19:25:48.127" LastActivityDate="2019-06-24T19:27:15.993" Title="Where did Ross sleep?" Tags="|friends|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35068" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-04T11:43:09.567" Score="-5" ViewCount="493" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dae-su in the corridor scene in Oldboy is hopeless&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;missing hits many times&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bad start - lets them get organised rather than surprising them by&#xA;throwing himself and the hurt man at them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;bad tactics- gets enemies on both sides, throws away his claw&#xA;hammers...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He shouldn't have stand a chance against so many enemies, so they must be the worst enemies ever to fail. Is it a point to show that it's only a movie or they just couldn't do anything more credible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6701" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-05-05T21:45:12.937" LastActivityDate="2017-05-05T21:45:12.937" Title="Why so many takes of the corridor scene for an absurd result?" Tags="|oldboy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35068" CreationDate="2015-06-04T12:35:07.497" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A certain degree of cinematic liberty is taken while shooting stunt scenes and Oldboy's famous corridor scene was no exception. But I don't think the director wanted to convey that. I believe it's more to establish Dae-su's doggedness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dae-su has been training hard for 15 years and you can see he gets used to the pain. He finally gets a chance to find who his captives are and so he's ready to face them all. Besides he's got nothing to lose. Also the guys he's facing aren't really organized criminals. If anything, his slip-ups and missed punches add to the realism of the fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20441" LastEditorUserId="20441" LastEditDate="2016-02-28T03:54:12.873" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T03:54:12.873" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35070" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35078" CreationDate="2015-06-04T13:31:01.517" Score="21" ViewCount="15633" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the seventh episode of Season 5 of Game of Thrones, Joreah Mormont gave Tyrion Lannister to Daenerys as a gift in order for her to forgive him for his treason. After he killed his father in Season 4, Tyrion Lannister escaped from the prison with the help of his brother and thought that Meereen would be a better place for him as suggested by Varys. He said to the Mother of Dragons that he is a better-suited advisor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would he say that? And why  does he want to help Daenerys to claim the Iron Throne?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-06-05T08:12:44.773" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T13:15:10.043" Title="Why does Tyrion want to advise Daenerys?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2157" CreationDate="2015-06-04T13:33:05.237" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many good answers on the &lt;em&gt;kill&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;injure&lt;/em&gt; topic so I would not say anything more about that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is another aspect of the situation. &#xA;Loki is free and Thor is trapped inside a glass cage. This situation is unacceptable to Thor even if he was not falling 35000 feet to the ground simply because Thor wants to stop Loki from hurting his friends and the planet under his protection. He can't do that from inside the cage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just my 2 cents. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21835" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T13:33:05.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12602" CreationDate="2015-06-04T13:39:52.343" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end of &lt;em&gt;The Incredible Hulk&lt;/em&gt; we see Banner meditating and gaining some control over his transformation. Whether it is true or not but the stereotype is that India is a good place if one wants to engage in spiritual studies, meditation or yoga type activities. (It's true. I know ;) ) &#xA;Plus, Banner being a brilliant doctor and a good person at heart (when he's not busy being a rage monster) might have been attracted there by reading about the endemic prevalent in Calcutta and traveled there with an intent to help the sick and poor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21835" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T13:39:52.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15376" CreationDate="2015-06-04T13:45:25.190" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think from their chat in the on the flying fortress, Stark gets a good insight into Banner's character. Stark therefore assumes that Banner/Hulk would step up to help the Avengers in the fight against Loki and the Chitauri. &#xA;Also, when the trace program beeps to indicate that the Tessaract is found Banner steps to the console and he is the only one who knows where the Tessaract is. Tony would probably remember this later and be sure that Banner would know where to come. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21835" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-07T22:22:39.410" LastActivityDate="2019-01-07T22:22:39.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35070" CreationDate="2015-06-04T14:28:16.907" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Partially because there is nothing else he can do.  There is a bounty on his head, he needs to be somewhere safe.  If he is Daenerys's valued advisor he will receive protection and a comfortable life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has also always loved dragons and has read everything he has ever been able to find about them as well as spending long hours gazing as the bones which they keep in the basement of the castle (although I am not sure that was in the series).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Partially he can also use this to strike at his sister although he has never shown any inclination to kill people unless he is in a rage (Shay and his father) or in battle.  So it is unlikely murdering her is foremost on his mind.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the main reason is that there is simply no one else he can turn to other than Daenerys and no other service he can offer her other than his advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T14:28:16.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34951" CreationDate="2015-06-04T14:34:08.130" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read all of the books and can confirm:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; no one knows.&#xA;   (well, technically someone might but it has not been revealed to the reader)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1501" LastEditorUserId="1501" LastEditDate="2015-06-05T07:35:30.330" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T07:35:30.330" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35070" CreationDate="2015-06-04T14:35:52.847" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't read the books other than the first one so my answer is based on TV universe exclusively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tyrion Lannister is a very shrewd operator he is quite intelligent and knows how to run an entire kingdom as we see in Season 2 and also made brilliant battle plans to keep Stannis Baratheon at bay during battle of blackwater despite having smaller numbers in his army.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see him lose his way after he killed Shae and Tywin primarily because his father tried to kill him for a crime he didn't commit until he is set right by Varys. If you follow Varys's character development throughout the series his actions were mysterious and it was unclear until the current season where its revealed he is rooting for a Targaryen revival.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing how Varys believes in his political acumen, he learns that Dany is trying to do something meaningful in Meereen and eventually after he is kidnapped by Jorah he gets to finally see Drogon a sight which truly marvels him along with the fact that he sees how loyal Jorah is to Dany which i think inspired him to join Dany's cause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally the quote I would like to add is from the last episode where he talks to Dany that he advised people like Joffrey or Cersei who paid no heed to his advice and he believed that Dany is someone worthy to give advice because she is trying to do some good to the people. From a personal point of view I feel Dany clearly needs someone of his acumen to help her cause in reclaiming the throne with her limited political prowess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-06-04T21:05:58.397" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T21:05:58.397" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35081" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35086" CreationDate="2015-06-04T15:59:35.867" Score="15" ViewCount="10198" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the ending of Ex Machina, Ava is seen walking out of the house, walking up to the helicopter that was coming to retrieve that other guy, and then walking around in a city.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems like it's full of plot holes to me. Wouldn't the pilot know who he was there to pick up, I think he was the same guy who dropped off the contestant in the first place. If Ava murdered the pilot and flew herself, why wasn't that shown and how did she learn to fly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18260" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-06-04T17:03:49.110" LastActivityDate="2018-09-26T15:55:48.413" Title="How did Ava get on the helicopter?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ex-machina|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35084" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-04T18:20:55.350" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-06-04T18:20:55.350" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T18:20:55.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35085" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-04T18:20:55.350" Score="0" Body="2015 film written and directed by Alex Garland which explores the interaction between a man and an advanced artificial intelligence" OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-06-04T19:25:39.640" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T19:25:39.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35081" CreationDate="2015-06-04T19:41:38.423" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's left somewhat vague in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://file:///C:/Users/Richard/Downloads/EX%20MACHINA-2.14.13-Alex%20Garland.pdf&quot;&gt;screenplay&lt;/a&gt;. Note that it was originally a car with a chauffeur, not a helicopter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We are too distant to hear their conversation.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But whatever is said, a few beats later, the CHAUFFEUR exits the car,&#xA;  and goes around to hold open the rear door, to allow AVA to enter.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Then goes back to the driver’s door.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The implication is that she simply lied to him about what was happening, then asked him to take her back to the city.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no indication that she killed him, nor that she flew herself anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T19:41:38.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35070" CreationDate="2015-06-04T20:28:04.610" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does Tyrion Lannister say anything? Because he thinks it’s the thing that needs to be said in order to achieve some goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when Tyrion Lannister says he wants to help Daenerys, we have to take that with a grain of salt. He may very well want to help her – or he may think that saying he wants to will accomplish something he wants. In this case, there are a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of reasons to convince Daenerys, at the least, that he wants to help her: she would be a powerful protector, assisting her could be a source of potentially-enormous power and position, and let’s not forget, &lt;em&gt;she has the world’s only dragons.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare this to saying, well, anything else: best case scenario, he’s imprisoned as an enemy. More likely, he’s killed or sent away, since he’s pretty much worthless as a bargaining chip. None of these are good things for Tyrion, and they certainly don’t help him do anything at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So really, &lt;em&gt;why wouldn’t he&lt;/em&gt; claim to want to help her? He has much to gain, and a lot of negative consequences to avoid, by doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Again, I do want to emphasize that it is entirely possible that he is sincere; his family has never treated him well, and the revelations that led to Tyrion leaving Westeros may have completely shattered the surprising loyalty to them he used to have despite his treatment. But whether he wants to help her or not, &lt;em&gt;saying&lt;/em&gt; he wants to help her is kind of a no-brainer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9855" LastActivityDate="2015-06-04T20:28:04.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34776" CreationDate="2015-06-04T22:23:04.433" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yvFMBgAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PT122&amp;amp;lpg=PT122&amp;amp;dq=%22Somewhere+we+can+buy+an+induction+plate%22&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=aU6CmZQjiH&amp;amp;sig=tTFMlOckujvAXSFXs2WggvcC600&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=-ZhZVYyUH4P9UIX7gZAF&amp;amp;ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22Somewhere%20we%20can%20buy%20an%20induction%20plate%22&amp;amp;f=false&quot;&gt;original script&lt;/a&gt;,  Caleb's plan was to simply take her somewhere that they could purchase a compatible &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.androidcentral.com/these-android-phones-can-handle-wireless-charging&quot;&gt;induction charging plate&lt;/a&gt;, a technology that has presumably become relatively commonplace in the near-future:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CALEB:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;How long does your battery charge last?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AVA:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Twenty six hours.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CALEB:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;we’ll have about a day to get to a cell-phone or kitchen appliance store. Somewhere we can buy an induction plate.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  After that...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although this line was cut, there seems little reason to assume that the film-makers had anything different in mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alex Garland had this to say in a recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/35brre/i_am_alex_garland_the_writer_and_director_of_ex/&quot;&gt;Reddit AMA&lt;/a&gt;, basically confirming the details above;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thank you. Re: batteries, I had some idea that she used induction&#xA;  plates to charge (there are a few dotted around her room, which she&#xA;  presses her hand to) and that &lt;strong&gt;in the future of the film, induction&#xA;  plates were more powerful and readily available than they are now...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-06-22T22:52:35.237" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T22:52:35.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21956" CreationDate="2015-06-05T00:30:03.613" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ros had a conversation with Varys explaining it, he's not particularly large it's just that the girls liked what he did. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21855" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T00:30:03.613" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35070" CreationDate="2015-06-05T01:28:46.567" Score="8" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Those who achieve great things in history have always been driven.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Tyrion's case, his father's hatred and the world's disdain has always been his driving force.  Given an actual education and opportunity due to his father's well-hidden love (that is in many ways so harsh it is abuse), as well as the intelligence that led his family to the top of the Realm, he is a man primed to 'rise to the top' - given an opportunity, he'll set the world on fire (as shown on the Blackwater).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's also a man who has lost everything.  Betrayed by those he loved, toughened by years of disdain to not simply crumple under those circumstances, it's the kind of kick up the rear that tells those intelligent and driven but &lt;em&gt;just a little bit naive&lt;/em&gt;, that they need to start breaking rules to get what they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the story, Tyrion has always been the innocent - seeking a greater good where those more cynical (including his entire family) see only the greed of Man.  As a noble, he can see that his one chance to still do good is to find someone who is not afraid of his family's wrath, and who is yet in precarious enough position that his advice (as an intelligent and fully-trained noble - nobles' work was with words and mind, not the body, the 'noble knight' is actually a &lt;em&gt;failure&lt;/em&gt;) is useful.  Finding an &lt;em&gt;honest-to-goodness&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Targaryen heir&lt;/strong&gt; with &lt;strong&gt;dragons&lt;/strong&gt; over the sea is basically the greatest sign the old gods could have given him that they have his back.  If he can make himself useful to her (and given his knowledge and skill, he &lt;em&gt;really can&lt;/em&gt;), she is his ticket back into the kingdom, and perhaps, a new golden age for Westeros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It pretty much appeals to every single one of his desires.  So much so it probably seems too good to be true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the converse, why should Daenerys agree?  Because Barristan's old, everyone else is an effete slaver or uneducated, Mormont is a pompous failure, and she is untrained and winging it on pure charisma (with her own share of bad decisions).  Someone like Tyrion, intelligent, devious, noble-trained, with reasons to see her succeed and none of the arrogance or pride to betray her?  Makes you think perhaps Valyrian magic isn't a myth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21856" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T01:28:46.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35081" CreationDate="2015-06-05T06:28:26.487" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no plot hole. It's explicitly laid out in the beginning of the film that the pilot isn't allowed anywhere near the place. One can easily assume he doesn't have direct contact and, as such, there's probably no reason for him to not believe who ever shows up at the designated location. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chauffeurs often take pride in asking no questions and simply getting rider from point a to point b. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T06:28:26.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34588" CreationDate="2015-06-05T06:43:02.773" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think there's a completely objective answer to this short of the writer coming forward and laying out their thought process for us. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My completely personal opinion on this, however is that the story ended the way it ended as that was the story arch that we were on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nathan sets it up earlier in the film as he discusses the future of AI with Caleb and how AI will eventually look back upon humanity and see it like we  humans look back on the fossil record: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story arch is that man invents AI, AI then conquers man. Granted, the latter is inferred by the ending. Maybe we'll get a sequel. Or perhaps The Matrix &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the sequel. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why she explicitly betrayed Caleb, one can ask that of any human. It's a human trait. We can assume (based on her conquering her creator) that Ava is of a higher intelligence than Caleb. She likely did the analysis and decided he was to be quarantined while she left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note she did not &lt;em&gt;kill&lt;/em&gt; Caleb. Perhaps that's another sign of her higher intelligence. She killed the true enemy stopping her escape, but not Caleb. As opposed to a betrayal, one could argue she gave him the better option. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T06:43:02.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34732" CreationDate="2015-06-05T06:45:36.477" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If there's a message in the final scene, it's not very overt, and perhaps simply left up to our own personal interpretations. Mine is simply that she's now one of us. She's life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T06:45:36.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34721" CreationDate="2015-06-05T06:47:59.520" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film Nathan says to Caleb &quot;you're pretty good [at coding]&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Pretty good&quot; coders comment their code. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for leaving evidence of a crime, that was going to happen outside of the code anyways. The fact that she'd escape would prove that she was true AI. Any 'crime' was going to be rather irrelevant at that point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T06:47:59.520" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35098" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1653" CreationDate="2015-06-05T09:25:55.777" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The husband goes to heaven. The mother and children remain because the mother killed her children and herself, and the children admitted that they would openly deny Jesus the Christ before the Roman governor to save their lives. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21865" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T09:25:55.777" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35099" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35101" CreationDate="2015-06-05T11:00:03.807" Score="5" ViewCount="9728" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Game Of Thrones Season 4, the wildling Craster leaves his sons, from his wives (at the same time his daughters), into the woods to be taken by the White Walkers' king, after that he turned them into new White Walkers. I tried to figure out the reason behind this event, but no clues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, What is the story behind this action? And why does the White Walkers' king need those new born babies? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-05T12:51:13.270" LastActivityDate="2017-05-20T18:20:36.923" Title="Why does Craster give those sacrifices to the White Walkers?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35099" CreationDate="2015-06-05T11:04:11.097" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was an agreement between White Walkers and Craster, that he and his family will not be bothered by White Walkers, if he agrees to sacrifice newly born sons. White Walkers needed his newly born sons to convert them and grow their army. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T11:04:11.097" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35099" CreationDate="2015-06-05T12:58:35.977" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;em&gt;Faizan&lt;/em&gt;'s answer of giving them as sacrifices to be spared by the White Walkers, you also have to consider that Craster was sleeping with his own daughters, likely for his enjoyment (and less for theirs) and they were also doing all their work for him. So new daughters simply mean more workers and more &quot;company&quot;, while a son is not really of use to him. And it is clear that Craster isn't really a man to shed tears for his dying kin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather on the contrary, a son could actually be a danger to him if he grows up and decides to revolt against his father's cruelty to his sisters. Craster has conditioned his daughters into obedience to him (and even more so in a medieval world where women were even less likely to revolt against their patriarch, even if they actually would have been able to do so in unison). A son might be harder to keep &quot;under control&quot; and as said, wouldn't have any use for Craster, since he doesn't really need a fighter, due to his arrangement with the Crows. It would merely mean a disruptance to the nice little life he's built himself there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think even without the White Walkers a son probably wouldn't have a long life at Craster's Keep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-05T13:04:36.397" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T13:04:36.397" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35070" CreationDate="2015-06-05T13:15:10.043" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tyrion mentioned he liked the power that came with being the temporary Hand of the King. That was the reason he did not escape with Shae to Pentos before.&#xA;At Illyrio's manse Varys says that the people of the realm wont accept himself or Tyrion as their ruler due to their obvious disadvantages. So if Tyrion were to counsel the Khaleesi, much good could be achieved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also there is this fact that he can't return to King's Landing and serve as Tommen's Hand. He killed his father. So definitely death if he goes back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore this is the best way for him right now to remain in power and to stay safe as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21869" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T13:15:10.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35104" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35107" CreationDate="2015-06-05T14:30:26.753" Score="9" ViewCount="626" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original intro of the TV show The Mentalist defines a mentalist as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mentalist&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  /'men-tə-list/ noun&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Someone who uses mental acuity, hypnosis and/or suggestion.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  A master manipulator of thoughts and behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I can not recall if Patrick Jane was ever referred to by someone (other than himself) as &lt;em&gt;the Mentalist&lt;/em&gt; (in canon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did someone ever call or refer to Patrick Jane as &lt;em&gt;the Mentalist&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9480" LastEditorUserId="9480" LastEditDate="2016-03-12T06:44:28.237" LastActivityDate="2016-03-12T07:54:15.727" Title="Did someone ever refer to Patrick Jane as Mentalist?" Tags="|the-mentalist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35104" CreationDate="2015-06-05T14:56:03.733" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;At least once, &lt;em&gt;but it was a hallucination&lt;/em&gt;. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2402471/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Devil's Cherry&lt;/a&gt; (2nd episode of season 5), Jane imagines he's talking to his daughter Charlotte after drinking some belladonna tea, and this dialogue unfolds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jane:&lt;/em&gt; What are you hiding?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Charlotte:&lt;/em&gt; You tell me. You're the mentalist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jane:&lt;/em&gt; I never said I was a mentalist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Charlotte:&lt;/em&gt; Spooky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; As for an example that &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; happens, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://thementalist.wikia.com/wiki/Pink_Champagne_on_Ice&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pink Champagne on Ice&lt;/a&gt; (season 4, episode 19), Jane talks to a magician (Jack) he used to work with, where this is said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jane:&lt;/em&gt; Last time I saw you was 16 years ago, when you opened for me in Kansas City, and for what it's worth, you don't look a day older.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jack:&lt;/em&gt; Well, thank you, but you're mistaken, Patrick. It's you who opened for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jane:&lt;/em&gt;  Your memory's going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jack:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mentalists.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Big talkers, no skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[And Jack is mocking Jane rather than talking about himself. He's a &lt;em&gt;magician&lt;/em&gt;, not a mentalist.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-03-12T07:54:15.727" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32163" CreationDate="2015-06-05T15:09:04.917" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of the time, Jack (the Narrator played by Edward Norton) is in control of his body—sometimes without Tyler and other times with Tyler at his side. In these instances, any action that Tyler performs is actually taken by Jack. For example, the Narrator actually pours the lye onto his own hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the car crash scene, even though Jack's body was driving the car, Tyler was in control of it while Jack imagined himself sitting in the passenger seat. This is explained when Jack finally learns the truth in the motel room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tyler:&lt;/strong&gt; Sometimes you're still you. Other times you imagine yourself watching me. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviequotesandmore.com/fight-club-quotes-1.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normally, Tyler takes control of Jack's body when Jack falls asleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tyler:&lt;/strong&gt; But, when you fall asleep, I do things without you. I go places without you. Get things done. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Fight-Club.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Tyler also takes control at times when Jack is awake. The movie shows two brief flashbacks where Jack is acting as Tyler: when he threatens Commissioner Jacobs in the banquet bathroom and when he lays out the rules to Fight Club in the basement of Lou's bar. In these instances, Jack is still conscious and imagines that he's watching Tyler from afar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, for proof you need look no further than the &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/b3w608RyPqo?t=104&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;crash&lt;/a&gt; itself. After the car comes to a rest upside down, Tyler climbs out of the &lt;em&gt;passenger&lt;/em&gt; side window and pulls Jack from the &lt;em&gt;driver&lt;/em&gt; side window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1548" LastEditorUserId="1548" LastEditDate="2019-02-18T17:02:40.893" LastActivityDate="2019-02-18T17:02:40.893" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23549" CreationDate="2015-06-05T15:26:23.777" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think any deaths happen. And even &amp;quot;Blue Cat Blues&amp;quot; didn't have anyone dying because the show would have ended, and the next episode was &amp;quot;Barbecue Brawl&amp;quot;. And of course, Tom has eaten Jerry successfully... well, successfully until he reached Tom's stomach, at which point he escaped. This happened in the episode &amp;quot;Belly Ache'n&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21876" LastEditorUserId="46980" LastEditDate="2021-02-24T17:17:17.563" LastActivityDate="2021-02-24T17:17:17.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35114" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35116" CreationDate="2015-06-05T16:45:37.333" Score="5" ViewCount="250" Body="&lt;p&gt;The opening scene is of a man lying in the underground darkness half-buried in muck.  A light comes on briefly and then he is plunged back into total darkness.  As he slowly regains consciousness, he begins to extract himself from the muck.  The light continues to snap on and off as we begin to see more of his surroundings.  With much effort he finally struggles to his feet and tries to find his way out the maze of machinery he is surrounded by.  He climbs upwards and is faced by mysterious, complex mechanisms that spring to life if manipulated correctly.  There is no dialogue.  He seems to be at a total loss as to how he got there.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A captivating and compelling open sequence.  Some &quot;B&quot; SciFi movies (like Cube) are so cool.  Any ideas on this one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21879" LastEditorUserId="29" LastEditDate="2015-06-05T16:56:17.617" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T19:22:26.870" Title="Identify movie with man waking up in a maze of machinery" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:48:02.663" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35114" CreationDate="2015-06-05T19:22:26.870" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm fairly sure you're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1087842/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Eden Log&lt;/a&gt; (2007)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v1Tte.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A man wakes up deep inside a cave. Suffering amnesia, he has no recollection of how he came to be here or of what happened to the man whose body he finds beside him. Tailed by a mysterious creature, he must continue through this strange and fantastic world. Enclosed, Tolbiac has no other option to reach the surface than to use REZO ZERO, secret observing cells in this cemetery-like abandoned mine. He embarks upon this journey guided by the roots of a plant, leading the way and the main subject of attention of the REZO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The beginning of the movie is exactly as you describe and even though this is the only details you have offered I feel confident in answering because you've described the scene precisely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vagpjjjY1tI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;link to the trailer&lt;/a&gt; where you can see glimpses of the protagonist climbing out of the muck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18076" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T19:22:26.870" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35118" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31712" CreationDate="2015-06-05T19:54:44.600" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;My personal interpretation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Her ex-boyfriend explained that if it killed her it would then work it's way back through the line. However, he got targeted after a one night stand so how did he know this? How does anyone know it would keep going all the way back to patient zero, if had ever done this then wouldn't everyone involved be dead?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hugh / Jeff has a one night stand with some random lady at the bar and he starts seeing them. Although, he doesn't see them after having intercourse with his girlfriend (Annie), the very same girl who dies at the beginning of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for him to go to a different place and starts dating Jay is unknown, may be his girlfriend starts seeing them and he decided to stay away from her and the place until everything settles down, came to a different place and started dating Jay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guessing game at the theater, a pivotal scene where Hugh points at some girl but Jay can't see her, it again started following him at the theater and at the restaurant. Meaning, the previous night Annie (his ex) died (starting scene) and it started following him. This is where he formed the theory that he could pass it to someone else by intercourse and it comes back if the person, who's been passed dies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it explained why, rather than waste time seducing Jay, he didn't just take a trip to Brazil or somewhere far away and sleep with a prostitute?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(continuation) Now he has to pass it to someone else to keep himself safe, so, he passes it to Jay. (Please don't be mad, I know he could have done the same thing to some random prostitute but may be he thought it's not safe to do it with a prostitute without condom :). Also he suggests Jay in the later scene to pass it on by sleeping also tells that it's easy for her, she's a girl and anyone would sleep with her.). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was the girl from the opening scene the girl in the picture with him?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's the same brunette, it's the only connection (in the entire movie) between the girl in the opening scene and the one in the picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Intercourse with 3 men on a boat, What was the actual point of the scene?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that scene, when Paul meets her, she says, &quot;It's gonna be here sooner or later.&quot;. She had intercourse with the three guys on the boat and while returning home she cries because knowingly she passed it on to innocent guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T19:54:44.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31815" CreationDate="2015-06-05T20:38:58.957" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, Point Break, Johnny Utah is a former Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback and rookie FBI Agent. He is assigned to &quot;assist&quot; experienced agent and veteran, Angelo Pappas, in investigating a string of bank robberies by the Ex-Presidents.So by that Andrew meant that he wanted to get &quot;assisted&quot; by Ryan!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21887" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T20:38:58.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10166" CreationDate="2015-06-05T20:53:58.090" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They appear to have tapered ends maybe twisted. That could be a black powder paper load with ball and powder or maybe a button. There were no cartridges used in those colt cap and ball revolvers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21888" LastActivityDate="2015-06-05T20:53:58.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31453" CreationDate="2015-06-05T22:13:05.330" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I joined here just to answer your question because I find the movie really cool. Here's my opinion. Communication isn't necessary at all. Viggo said they're &quot;close&quot; so yeah it's granted that he knows John's every move. When Marcus made a deal with Viggo, he's been betraying him(Viggo) all along and has been covering John Wick's back. When he's about to come into the Continental, Marcus has been watching over him. In the hotel that night, that shot isn't missed, it was intentional (there's no way a serial killer would miss a shot on a sleeping person's head even though it's John Wick), why? he saw beforehand that there's someone else in that room, and he shot his pillow to wake John Wick up. He didn't shoot that Perkins directly maybe because imo he respects John Wick to take care of her and yeah he fought in the Hotel without worrying anything because he knows he got his back covered by his friend Marcus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I don't think Marcus is related to Helen(John Wick's wife) like the other person said. In the burial, he asked, &quot;Marcus what exactly are you doing here.&quot;. I think it would be really rude.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21891" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-26T05:44:22.873" LastActivityDate="2017-05-26T05:44:22.873" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35128" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-06T01:47:58.980" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Japanese anime series as part of the larger Pokémon franchise about various creatures that can be collected and used to battle other people's creatures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-09T10:47:05.173" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T10:47:05.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35129" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-06T01:47:58.980" Score="0" Body="Japanese anime series as part of the larger Pokémon franchise about various creatures that can be collected and used to battle other people's creatures." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-09T10:47:05.173" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T10:47:05.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35130" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35139" CreationDate="2015-06-06T03:27:29.827" Score="8" ViewCount="5035" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I was discussing with my friend about unforgivable curses in the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; universe and we were wondering if unforgivable curses can be blocked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21596" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-06T09:29:39.153" LastActivityDate="2019-02-19T15:41:20.907" Title="Are unforgivable curses unblockable in Harry Potter?" Tags="|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35130" CreationDate="2015-06-06T08:33:25.513" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Unforgivable_Curses&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Killing Curse has no counter-curse or blocking spell, although the green &#xA;  bolt may be dodged or blocked with solid objects. For instance, Albus&#xA;  Dumbledore once transfigured a statue from the Fountain of Magical&#xA;  Brethren to shield Harry Potter from Voldemort's Killing Curse during&#xA;  the Battle of the Department of Mysteries. If the curse misses the&#xA;  victim and strikes an inanimate object instead, a small explosion at&#xA;  the point of impact results, which may start a fire of green flame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_in_Harry_Potter#Unforgivable_Curses&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot find anything on the other two, so I guess that they cannot be blocked or avoided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;strong&gt;Imperio&lt;/strong&gt; (mind control) &lt;em&gt;can be resisted&lt;/em&gt; if you have enough strenght:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Resisting the Imperius Curse is possible, but extremely difficult.&#xA;  Only those of a particularly strong will can achieve it. Harry Potter,&#xA;  Barty Crouch Sr. and Barty Crouch Jr. each learned to resist the curse&#xA;  after being subjected to its effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(see the first link)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastActivityDate="2015-06-06T08:33:25.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32216" CreationDate="2015-06-06T11:41:18.547" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wasn't sunlight. Bishop burned because he crashed through the window and &lt;strong&gt;entered the house without invitation&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://beinghuman.wikia.com/wiki/Vampire_%28Syfy%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Being Human&lt;/em&gt; universe&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Houses owned by humans or werewolves cannot be entered by vampires without the owner's permission, unless the vampire itself either lives there or was turned there. &lt;strong&gt;Entering uninvited for more than a few seconds will cause the vampire to burn&lt;/strong&gt;, and can fatally melt the vampire away if they don't get back out quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bishop didn't die because he escaped right after attacking Aidan. Also, I think the scene takes place in the evening anyway (the exterior shot looks dark and the porch lights are on) and Bishop's face only starts to burn when he's &lt;em&gt;inside&lt;/em&gt; the house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-06-06T12:39:53.973" LastActivityDate="2015-06-06T12:39:53.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35136" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-06T12:29:13.003" Score="11" ViewCount="4420" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last scene of the 3rd Matrix movie, the following conversation takes place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seraph : Did you always know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Oracle: Oh, no. No, I didn't. But I believed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But before that the oracle for tells a lot of things like Niobe giving her ship to help Neo, Trinity falling in love with the one, Morpheus finding the one, and letting Smith believe he will win the final battle etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What really makes me wonder is, she tells to Neo a computer cannot see a previous choice, then how did she arrive at these conclusions?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How could she conclude so precisely these choices when they cannot compute choices so well? Remember the first scene where she tells Neo, &amp;quot;In one hand you have Morpheus' life and in the other you have your own, it's up to you to choose&amp;quot;. And also tells Neo he has the gift but he is waiting for something.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All these things are making me wonder: Could the oracle really see the future or just compute people's future choices?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T09:53:41.260" Title="Could the oracle really see the future or just predict choice based on human emotion?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix|the-matrix-revolutions|the-matrix-reloaded|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35130" CreationDate="2015-06-06T12:42:05.360" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;While mattiav27 gave a spot-on answer regarding the books, blocking an Unforgivable Curse is one of the many things twisted in the films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the battle of Hogwarts, we can see Ginny blocking a Killing Curse (she &quot;only&quot; avoided it in the books, if memory serves me right) cast by Bellatrix Lestrange:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LyLkL.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LyLkL.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Ginny blocking Bellatrix&amp;#39; killing curse&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The description on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Ginevra_Weasley&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; Wikia page where I took this image from&lt;/a&gt; says &quot;Ginny is spared death by mere inches&quot;, but it seems to me quite obvious that Ginny blocked the curse with some kind of a magically created shield. Further, the reaction of George and Arthur behind her shows that there was some kind of an impact, which I think further confirms that the curse was indeed blocked and not just avoided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Admittedly, it may have been a single event of a kind. At least I don't recall any other events of someone blocking a Killing (or some other Unforgivable) Curse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2019-02-19T15:41:20.907" LastActivityDate="2019-02-19T15:41:20.907" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35138" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-06T14:23:10.803" Score="3" ViewCount="622" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've ever watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://earnthis.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/130704b-trailer-park-boys.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Trailer Park Boys&lt;/a&gt; you might have noticed Bubbles makes this strange monkey noise whenever he's excited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://trailerpark.wikia.com/wiki/Propane,_Propane_(Episode)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Propane, Propane&lt;/a&gt; Ricky refers to it specifically when Bubbles gets some bad news :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Come on Bubbles, make those monkey noises... like you do when you're happy&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We only hear Bubbles make the noise from season 2 onwards. I'm just wondering if there is any in-universe explanation for that noise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17983" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-07-09T02:45:24.307" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T02:45:24.307" Title="Origin of Bubbles' monkey noise" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|trailer-park-boys|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35130" CreationDate="2015-06-06T15:45:01.620" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are no counter curses to block killing curse (Avada Kedavra) but it does not mean that the person at whom the curse is targeted must die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Not nice,” he said calmly. “Not pleasant. And there’s no counter curse. There’s no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he’s sitting right in front of me.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harry felt his face redden as Moody’s eyes (both of them) looked into his own. He could feel everyone else looking around at him too. Harry stared at the blank blackboard as though fascinated by it, but not really seeing it at all...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there are ways in which Avada Kedavra can be blocked and there are multiple instances of it in the movie and also the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Love/Sacrifice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“No one knows why you lost your powers when you attacked me,” said Harry abruptly. “I don’t know myself. But I know why you couldn’t kill me. Because my mother died to save me. My common Muggle-born mother,” he added, shaking with suppressed rage&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Riddle’s face contorted. Then he forced it into an awful smile. “So. Your mother died to save you. Yes, that’s a powerful countercharm. I can see now... there is nothing special about you, after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. If the wands turn out to be brothers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“So what happens when a wand meets its brother?” said Sirius.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“They will not work properly against each other,” said Dumbledore. “If, however, the owners of the wands force the wands to do battle... a very rare effect will take place. One of the wands will force the other to regurgitate spells it has performed - in reverse. The most recent first... and then those which preceded it...”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Using objects to block the curse&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harry had not even opened his mouth to resist; his mind was blank, his wand pointing uselessly at the floor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the headless golden statue of the wizard in the fountain had sprung alive, leaping from its plinth to land with a crash on the floor between Harry and Voldemort. The spell merely glanced off its chest as the statue flung out its arms to protect Harry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Getting out of way&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bellatrix was still fighting too, fifty yards away from Voldemort, and like her master she dueled three at once: Hermione, Ginny, and Luna, all battling their hardest, but Bellatrix was equal to them, and Harry’s attention was diverted as a Killing Curse shot so close to Ginny that she missed death by an inch—&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We have seen 3 and 4 work against Crucio (Cruciatus Curse) and ideally 2 should also work but there are no canonical evidence for that. You are right about Imperio (the Imperius Curse).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-07T07:46:22.723" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35140" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-06T16:16:41.303" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-06-06T16:16:41.303" LastActivityDate="2015-06-06T16:16:41.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35141" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-06T16:16:41.303" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-06-06T16:16:41.303" LastActivityDate="2015-06-06T16:16:41.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11088" CreationDate="2015-06-06T16:33:13.140" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You see Sam was just hallucinating due to the tortures that he went through in the cage, where Lucy is locked up with Michael!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21905" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-06T16:56:24.947" LastActivityDate="2015-06-06T16:56:24.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35153" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-07T05:51:44.963" Score="2" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the animated &lt;em&gt;G.I. Joe the Movie&lt;/em&gt;, basketball-player-turned-Joe &quot;Big Lob&quot; (voiced by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761479/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;Brad Sanders&quot;&gt;Brad Sanders&lt;/a&gt;) is introduced.  He has the number &quot;14&quot; on his jersey.  Hasbro has used licensed personalities as characters in their G.I. Joe line-up before, including Sgt. Slaughter (who featured in said film), Refrigerator Perry, and Rocky Balboa (who was never actually produced).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the character of &quot;Big Lob&quot; originally supposed to be a licensed personality, and if so, what happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PZ2Om.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2015-06-08T19:44:00.133" LastActivityDate="2015-06-08T19:44:00.133" Title="Was &quot;Big Lob&quot; originally supposed to be a licensed sports personality?" Tags="|casting|gi-joe-the-movie|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35155" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-07T07:10:31.283" Score="4" ViewCount="743" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last episode of season 6 of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Community&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, when proposing new names for the Save Greendale Committee, Abed proposes &quot;Stephen King's Dreamcatchers&quot;. Annie then looks at him and says &quot;Susan&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a reference to something? Or is Susan a proposed name for the group?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9893" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-12-25T08:31:20.637" LastActivityDate="2015-12-25T08:32:11.180" Title="Why does Annie say &quot;Susan&quot; after Abed proposes calling the group the &quot;Stephen King's Dreamcatchers&quot;?" Tags="|community|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35156" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-07T07:29:56.600" Score="2" ViewCount="869" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/americanbeauty.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;original script for the movie American Beauty&lt;/a&gt; Beatles songs are used numerous times, such as when Ricky is in his jail cell and when Lester sees Ricky's music when getting pot from him. I can see why Lester would be interested in the Beatles, since they were popular when he was younger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why would Ricky be interested in them and Pink Floyd, considering he's an outcast who sees the inner beauty in things? Wouldn't a nonconformist like him be more interested in music that isn't popular as opposed to the Beatles, who many people liked because they wanted to conform with their peers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And how does the song &quot;Fixing a Hole&quot; suit Ricky when he is in jail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-07T10:40:11.023" LastActivityDate="2017-05-31T23:36:51.960" Title="Why is the Beatles music appropriate in American Beauty?" Tags="|analysis|soundtrack|american-beauty|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35157" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35160" CreationDate="2015-06-07T08:43:42.270" Score="18" ViewCount="4657" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title suggests I was wondering why is Max known as &quot;Mad Max&quot; in this franchise? From the first movie till Fury Road Max is the only character who is not &quot;Mad&quot; and is the only sensible human in the post apocalyptic era. So how is he &quot;Mad&quot;? Is there something that I missed or being &lt;em&gt;normal&lt;/em&gt; in abnormal times mean that one is &quot;Mad&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-07T10:41:40.847" LastActivityDate="2022-01-27T03:30:19.617" Title="Why is Max known as &quot;Mad Max&quot; in the Mad Max Franchise?" Tags="|analysis|title|mad-max|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35156" CreationDate="2015-06-07T08:51:11.673" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The beetles were not some conventional boy/choir band. They were free spirited thinkers just like Rickey, if you look at their album bigger than Jesus, it speaks volumes about it. Also John Lennon's imagine which itself is kind of a song that makes you think deep about the lyrics. Hence Ricky might have been interested about the beetles based on their ideal and spreading then through songs. It's just my 0.02$&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastActivityDate="2015-06-07T08:51:11.673" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35157" CreationDate="2015-06-07T10:37:26.807" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now first of all, this notion is likely a &lt;strong&gt;primary remnant of the first movie&lt;/strong&gt;, which was of course called &lt;em&gt;Mad Max&lt;/em&gt;. The following movies simply built upon this established character and his world and explored &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/34351/49&quot;&gt;vastly different stories and environments&lt;/a&gt;. So to understand this title, the best place is to look at the first &lt;em&gt;Mad Max&lt;/em&gt; movie alone, since the others are simply called that way because, well, they're &lt;em&gt;Mad Max&lt;/em&gt; movies (and the &quot;mad&quot; still has its place when seeing how the whole world has gone mad).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what makes him &quot;mad&quot; in the first part? This is much easier to answer, since in contrast to all the following movies the first part actually puts Max into a world that still worked to some degree, he had a family and a job in the police force. But during the course of the movie the circumstances and the crumbling of this world, ultimately leading up to the death of his family, slowly &lt;strong&gt;drive him mad&lt;/strong&gt;. Maybe not &quot;mad&quot; in the sense of &lt;em&gt;insane&lt;/em&gt; (though, to some degree maybe too), but definitely &quot;mad&quot; in the sense of &lt;em&gt;angry&lt;/em&gt;. He goes onto a mad revenge quest and all that made him Max Rockatansky is either taken from him or sacrificed in favour of Mad Max.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is ultimately a brutal revenge B-movie about a man running wild along with the world around him and for this the short and meaty title &quot;Mad Max&quot; hits the nail on the head. Even if Max's behaviour might not fit any strict definition of insanity, he's still going friggin' mad at the world! ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-06-07T15:29:11.723" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35164" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41997" CreationDate="2015-06-07T14:13:28.000" Score="2" ViewCount="157" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last Season of Fringe, the Observer child Michael was essential for the plot. He appeared before in Season 1, where he was found in an abadoned basement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any explaination how he did end up there? Did anyone bring him there via time travel or is something else possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T21:36:47.937" Title="How did Michael end up in that basement in Season 1?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fringe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35169" CreationDate="2015-06-07T15:58:17.267" Score="5" ViewCount="6369" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched a movie one night and I can't remember the title. The movie was about these teenagers who go into an old asylum at night and they can't seem to get out. They brought a dog with them too. I think it was white. The dog got turned inside out or like it's fur was ripped off so it was just muscle. The dog was covered in slime when the teenagers found it. And there was a hole in the wall and one teenager got stuck in the hole. And there was something in there with him but he got out before it was revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end if the movie it is revealed that the thing causing the haunting and strange events was an old man. He was an asylum patient who was angry. He was trying to kill the teenagers and one teenager got killed by getting a chunk of wood shoved through his stomach. Another teenager died at the hands of a possessed clown thing. (Note: these events are not in order)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21927" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-07T17:20:40.620" LastActivityDate="2017-01-31T17:34:51.837" Title="Horror movie with teenagers in an abandoned asylum" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:48:15.180" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35168" CreationDate="2015-06-07T16:07:43.590" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385560/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Boo&lt;/a&gt; from 2005. The floating clown, the dead dog, the hole in the wall, it's all there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The friends Emmett, Freddy, Marie, Kevin and his reluctant girlfriend Jessie decide to spend the Halloween night in an abandoned hospital. Meanwhile, the younger Allan meets the old friend of his father Arlo Ray Baines and asks him to help to find his vanished sister Meg in the same spot. The two groups meet each other in the mental institution section on the haunted third floor and they find that they are trapped in the place. Jessie has visions from the past and discovers that the ghost of Jacob, a former patient that raped a little girl and burned the hospital, is trying to escape possessing their bodies that melt down with his evil spirit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_qMVcspDp2c?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-06-07T16:07:43.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33801" CreationDate="2015-06-07T16:55:04.000" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you said, Maria Hill was able to infiltrate the group of S.H.I.E.L.D/Hydra agents who had captured Captain America, Black Widow, and the Falcon. She was even able to conveniently get herself stationed in the vehicle that was transporting the prisoners. Given that, I don't think it's too far-fetched to think that she could also get Cap's shield (and Falcon's wings) stashed in the same vehicle from which they made their escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, Cap's disappearing/reappearing shield isn't the most mysterious part about that scene. At the very end of the scene, the S.H.I.E.L.D/Hydra agents stop their convoy and immediately open the truck that the prisoners were being transported in only to see that they've somehow burned an escape hatch in the floor of the truck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TY0VD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Escape hatch&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the timing of the scene, we have to believe one of two things happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They burned the hole through the bottom of a moving vehicle, without incapacitating it, then four people (one of them severely injured with a gunshot wound to the shoulder) crawled through the hole to escape to a waiting van.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They cut the hole and escaped &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the truck stopped moving, but were able to do so fast enough that the S.H.I.E.L.D/Hydra agents didn't catch them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also not so sure Cap's shield would even fit through that hole, but that's another question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2015-06-07T23:08:09.023" LastActivityDate="2015-06-07T23:08:09.023" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2938" CreationDate="2015-06-07T20:19:31.337" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the dreamer and architect of a level wake up/die, one of two things happens:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;those left behind/alive either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) go into limbo (since they die [?] as a result of the level crumblind down [?]), or&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) wake up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they go into limbo, they can just kill themselves and wake up, right? So why take the trouble to synchronize jumps, if all they had to do was shoot themselves? It wouldn't make for an interesting movie, true, but it still is a viable solution, isn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21929" LastEditorUserId="21929" LastEditDate="2015-06-07T21:42:41.167" LastActivityDate="2015-06-07T21:42:41.167" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35184" CreationDate="2015-06-08T00:18:49.853" Score="17" ViewCount="1881" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Game of Thrones S05E06, Jorah and Tyrion are captured by slave traders. Tyrion is only spared because apparently, his cock has magic powers, and can be sold for a fortune.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In S05E07, Tyrion is bought on a whim, only because the buyer thinks Tyrion is funny. The buyer paid for Tyrion with the few coins he was playing with in his hand, while he paid a small sack of coins for Jorah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The few coin(s) paid for Tyrion is hardly the fortune mentioned in previous episode. Why would Tyrion's captor sell him for so little, instead of finding a cock merchant as originally planned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7955" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2018-10-24T14:36:14.000" LastActivityDate="2018-10-24T14:36:14.000" Title="Why was Tyrion not sold for a fortune as originally planned?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35176" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35183" CreationDate="2015-06-08T00:24:33.727" Score="4" ViewCount="2975" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Game of Thrones we found out that obsidian (dragon glass) and valyrian steel (dragon steel) are both able to kill the White Walkers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In S5Ep08 we finally saw the horde of undead that is under the command of the white walkers.  We also see that they can be destroyed with ordinary weapons (or giant's feet, whatever you have handy I guess).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While valyrian steel will obviously cut through the bones of the undead quite easily, obsidian cannot. According to the following link, if obsidian were to try to cut bone it will cause pieces to flake off or break - &lt;a href=&quot;http://obsidian-scalpel.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://obsidian-scalpel.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how useful is a bag of obsidian arrow heads?  They won't be much use against the undead, and the few white walkers that were at the battle were far outside of arrow range.  I don't remember if they found any obsidian blades, but I can't see those being of much use either.  You would have to carry two swords with you and hope you have time to draw the obsidian blade when you run into a white walker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21736" LastActivityDate="2015-06-08T06:55:14.510" Title="How useful are dragon glass arrow heads when fighting the white walkers in Game of Thrones?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33418" CreationDate="2015-06-08T01:02:41.027" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You guys fail to see the true point here:&#xA;Why is the northern wildling legion, which is supposed to be the manace of civilized mankind, defeated by a single declining lord?&#xA;Answer is, those wildlings are severly overrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21937" LastActivityDate="2015-06-08T01:02:41.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35175" CreationDate="2015-06-08T02:09:58.447" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a lot of it has to do with human tendencies to favor more immediate gains over higher, longer term gains.  If the slave trader would have hold out, he wouldn't have gotten the gold immediately, and he would have had to hunt down a merchant to sell off Tyrion's member.  Instead, he's got gold directly in front of him without having to go through extra hassle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2015-06-08T02:09:58.447" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35176" CreationDate="2015-06-08T02:15:32.727" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Dragonglass&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GoT wiki&lt;/a&gt; the bag of dragon glass that was found actually contained arrowheads and spearheads made of the material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that the material works very well against the white walkers, but not the undead that they command.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2015-06-08T02:15:32.727" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35176" CreationDate="2015-06-08T06:29:48.130" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obsidian is very useful because the  White Walkers cannot even touch it. Their body starts to steam and melt away on contact with Obsidian. So you don't have to smash them with Obsidian but just brining them in contact with White Walkers would cause serious damage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Killing White Walkers with Obsidian&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And then he was stumbling forward, falling more than running, really, closing his eyes and shoving the dagger blindly out before him with both hands. He heard a crack, like the sound ice makes when it breaks beneath a man’s foot, and then a screech so shrill and sharp that he went staggering backward with his hands over his muffled ears, and fell hard on his arse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When he opened his eyes the Other’s armor was running down its legs in rivulets as pale blue blood hissed and steamed around the black dragonglass dagger in its throat. It reached down with two bone-white hands to pull out the knife, but where its fingers touched the obsidian they smoked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sam rolled onto his side, eyes wide as the Other shrank and puddled, dissolving away. In twenty heartbeats its flesh was gone, swirling away in a fine white mist. Beneath were bones like milkglass, pale and shiny, and they were melting too. Finally only the dragonglass dagger remained, wreathed in steam as if it were alive and sweating. Grenn bent to scoop it up and flung it down again at once. “Mother, that’s cold.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Obsidian.” Sam struggled to his knees. “Dragonglass, they call it. Dragonglass. Dragon glass.” He giggled, and cried, and doubled over to heave his courage out onto the snow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Storm of Swords&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obsidian is very powerful against White Walkers because it is a kind frozen fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The king gave that a curt nod, as if to say he knew and did not care. “You slew this creature with an obsidian dagger, I am told,” he said to Sam.&#xA;  “Y-yes, Your Grace. Jon Snow gave it to me.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Dragonglass.” The red woman’s laugh was music. “Frozen fire, in the tongue of old Valyria. Small wonder it is anathema to these cold children of the Other.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Storm of Swords&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly Valyrian steel is very rare and expensive. Few houses have it and they don't share it with others. Valyrian steel can also be used for fighting normal humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20356" LastEditorUserId="20356" LastEditDate="2015-06-08T06:55:14.510" LastActivityDate="2015-06-08T06:55:14.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35175" CreationDate="2015-06-08T06:50:52.080" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Feel free. We will have it tanned and stuffed and sell it for a fortune. A dwarf’s cock has magical powers.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Dance With Dragons&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think everybody believed that dwarf’s cock has magical powers. Especially in Westeros were parents don't like dwarf kids because if everybody believed that dwarf’s cock has magical powers they would have hunted down all the dwarfs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the episode yet but in the books Tyrion was sold as dwarf who could amuse people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lot ninety-seven.” The auctioneer snapped his whip. “A pair of dwarfs, well trained for your amusement.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The auction block had been thrown up where the broad brown Skahazadhan flowed into Slaver’s Bay. Tyrion Lannister could smell the salt in the air, mingled with the stink from the latrine ditches behind the slave pens. He did not mind the heat so much as he did the damp. The very air seemed to weigh him down, like a warm wet blanket across his head and shoulders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Dog and pig included in lot,” the auctioneer announced. “The dwarfs ride them. Delight the guests at your next feast or use them for a folly.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Dance With Dragons&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it feels like people weren't really interested in buying a dwarf. I say this because Tryion was sold as clown rather than a person possessing a cock of magical powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-08T06:50:52.080" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35189" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37069" CreationDate="2015-06-08T09:07:25.323" Score="3" ViewCount="870" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a huge fan of the 3 Investigators my interest has been piqued to discover whether a television series or film has ever approached production and been subsequently cancelled.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any information at all would be interesting including who owns the rights, any directors who have expressed an interest etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13163" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-08T09:35:24.077" LastActivityDate="2015-07-25T19:09:38.103" Title="Has an attempt ever been made to film The 3 Investigators series of books?" Tags="|book-adaptation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35190" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-08T11:48:44.697" Score="6" ViewCount="236" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched &lt;em&gt;Chappie&lt;/em&gt; yesterday and had the following question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TV News showed a footage of Chappie aiding criminals. Then they urged viewers to call authorities in case they see Chappie in their vicinity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did the media (News Stations) know the name of the robot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T00:37:49.617" Title="How did the media know the name of the robot?" Tags="|plot-explanation|chappie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35191" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35192" CreationDate="2015-06-08T12:56:44.610" Score="20" ViewCount="11236" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we can notice by watching Game Of Thrones' episodes, &lt;strong&gt;White Walkers&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;the dead men&lt;/strong&gt; are not the same, they have so many differences, can you please mention those differences, and why that the White Walkers are so much stronger than the Wights?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="19132" LastEditDate="2015-06-08T22:12:12.553" LastActivityDate="2015-06-08T22:12:12.553" Title="White Walkers vs Army of the Dead" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35191" CreationDate="2015-06-08T13:12:48.823" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/White_Walkers&quot;&gt;White Walker&lt;/a&gt;'s are an ancient race. They are powerful enough to manage hand-to-hand combat easily with a human. Normal swords can't kill or harm them. They have only two known weaknesses: &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Valyrian_steel&quot;&gt;Valyrian steel&lt;/a&gt; (dragonsteel) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Dragonglass&quot;&gt;Dragonglass&lt;/a&gt; (obsidian). White Walkers can communicate using a laguage known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Skroth&quot;&gt;Skroth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Wights&quot;&gt;Wights&lt;/a&gt; (or dead men or the Army of the Dead) are the minions of the White Walkers. They are like zombies and they can be killed only by burning them and are shown to be highly flammable. White Walkers can even revive corpses and turn them into Wights. Unlike the White Walkers, they're unable to talk and have a far lower intellect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: In the books White Walkers are also referred to as The Others. For more detail, refer to the Wiki pages linked.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="20458" LastEditDate="2015-06-08T14:46:48.773" LastActivityDate="2015-06-08T14:46:48.773" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35194" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35205" CreationDate="2015-06-08T14:54:50.803" Score="8" ViewCount="1195" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode S5E09 of Game of Thrones we saw Jorah give a hand to help Dany from the Sons of the Harpy, given the fact that &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Greyscale&quot;&gt;Greyscale infection&lt;/a&gt; spreads by touch, does this mean Dany is infected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-08T14:56:16.043" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T07:03:46.600" Title="Does Dany get Infected?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35195" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-08T14:57:07.013" Score="4" ViewCount="8187" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is about the movie &lt;em&gt;Red Lights&lt;/em&gt; (2012). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any correlation between the deaths of Margaret and the skeptic reporter who both die of heart attacks. Or is it simply coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T21:48:30.783" LastActivityDate="2016-10-14T02:09:49.347" Title="Correlation of events in Red Lights" Tags="|plot-explanation|red-lights|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25168" CreationDate="2015-06-08T19:00:26.220" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Wicca, it is common to &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiccanspells.info/learn-wicca-basics/casting-a-circle-protection/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;draw a protective circle&lt;/a&gt; on the ground inside which to conduct some ritual.  The purpose is to prevent the distractions of the outside world from breaking the concentration of those within.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although I don't believe the film is suggesting that any sort of magic is being practised, the circle of protection is used as a metaphor for the mental walls created by Karin in her slow retreat from reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18432" LastActivityDate="2015-06-08T19:00:26.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35198" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35348" CreationDate="2015-06-08T19:03:26.370" Score="10" ViewCount="2488" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a black and white science fiction movie that I watched a couple of times on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon in the early to mid 1960's on local Los Angeles television.  The movie was probably made in the 1950's but it is possible it was made in the very early 60's.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie involved time travel or time distortion and it kept repeating the story in a loop going faster as some kind of time paradox was created.  I think it was set in the future, but I am not sure.  It ended by time just looping out of control.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it was black and white, but now I realize that I really have no idea. I watched it before we got a color TV so it could have been either. Also, I now think that it was probably 1966 or 1967 that I watched the movie on TV. Does anyone have any idea what this movie was?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21959" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-06-13T19:09:27.960" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T19:09:35.180" Title="Black &amp; White time travel movie that ends with a repeating time loop" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|time-travel|black-and-white|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:48:21.460" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35200" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35650" CreationDate="2015-06-08T19:31:16.830" Score="3" ViewCount="1318" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the movie &lt;em&gt;Paper Moon&lt;/em&gt;, it's hinted that Addie is the daughter of Moses. But it is never confirmed or denied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this is based on a novel, I was wondering if there is any canonical information on whether they were father and daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13594" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-08T19:59:20.990" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T17:45:44.137" Title="In 'Paper Moon', is Addie the daughter of Moses?" Tags="|character|paper-moon|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2473" CreationDate="2015-06-08T20:51:53.533" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can provide a few answers, as they mention them during the series, at least in the dubs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Missing from here is Captain Avatar. The Captain's wear the peacoat looking uniforms. On the far left in the green is the Fleet Commander in charge of Earth Defense Command. All Earthbound EDF/EDC members wear the green uniforms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;White with Blue usually indicates individuals in the Sciences divisions. Sandor is referred to as 'Chief', so it is assumable that he is the head of the Sciences division.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;White with Green is the 'Tactical' division. Navigation (Mark Venture leads this division). This also includes communications and tactical, including Nova/Yuki and Homer (communications officer), who both at times sport the Yellow and Black uniform. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;White with Orange is 'Environmental'. This includes Engineering personnel primarily, lead by Chief Orion. Orion is the only member of Avatar's Command Ship crew from the failed battle at Pluto to serve aboard Yamato/Argo. It is he that helps Wildstar come to the realization of what truly happened at Pluto, and the fact Avatar also lost his daughter in that battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;White with Red Cross is, obviously, medical personnel. This included Mimi the Rescue Cat, Dr. Sane (with his omni-present sake/&quot;spring water&quot;) and when serving in her Nurse capacitiy, Nova/Yuki. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Black with Yellow would eventually become the signature of the Cosmos/Black Tigers squadron. Early in the series most of the pilots aside from Conroy ('Second in command of your fighters' he intros himself in the early eps) sported the White and Red of Command. Later in the series, all pilots other than Wildstar sported the proud Black and Gold of the Cosmos Tigers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;White and Red is Command and Control. Wildstar, as the gunner, deputy captain and eventually acting captain of Yamato, wore this uniform. Dash also did, serving as Wildstar's &quot;wingman&quot; on landing/away missions on multiple occasions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Actual Ranks, from what I remember, only Captain Avatar, Lieutenant Derrik Wildstar (eventually Deputy Captain) and Lieutenant Mark Venture were given formal ranks among the Star Force itself. (I hope I remember right, lol). These ranks were given to Wildstar and Venture in the first couple of episodes when they recovered the message from the downed ship from Iscandar while serving on the Mars outpost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The uniforms do not contain a specific rank insignia in the original show. This is due to the fact that this was supposed to be an assembly of individuals, the best from the World over. Command structure was left up to Captain Avatar. This was explained in that the Earth unified its space fleets only in the face of the Planet Bombs and Gamelon/Gamilus attacks. Prior to that, the nations conducted their own space operations. There was little time to formalize a military structure involving ranks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope that helps and is found informative. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21963" LastActivityDate="2015-06-08T20:51:53.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35194" CreationDate="2015-06-08T21:55:35.167" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;A quick google image search shows that Jorah's grayscale is on his left forearm:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j6TC2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He takes Dany's hand with his right hand, while both his forearms are covered by leather bracers: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ky6J9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess it's possible that whatever drives the disease could exist elsewhere on the skin without being visible, or might be like systemic viruses that cause rashes to develop in random places - but I don't see any reason to believe that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither Jorah nor Shireen developed theirs anywhere but where the source touched, and it spreads slowly from where it starts rather than appearing in blotches - suggesting it needs &lt;strong&gt;direct contact&lt;/strong&gt; to spread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Dany's safe - unless Jorah scratched and forgot to wash his hands...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9718" LastEditorUserId="9718" LastEditDate="2015-06-09T07:03:46.600" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T07:03:46.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34751" CreationDate="2015-06-08T22:14:15.493" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;He says &quot;Witness me.&quot;  its a mythology thing. The warboys are trained that if they are witnessed by their brothers doing awesome things, they'll ride forever in the halls of valhalla. &#xA;The kicker with this one is that he's not shouting it, he's whispering it, and he's doing so at Capable. which is huge. because it means he's dedicating his sacrifice to her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21966" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-02-05T05:59:31.560" LastActivityDate="2017-02-05T05:59:31.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35208" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-09T01:49:30.797" Score="5" ViewCount="609" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see a list of genres based in order of profitability throughout movie history. I suspect the horror genre is the most profitable genre going back all the way to the early days of movies, but I'd like confirmation. I suspect Westerns might have been the most profitable genre from the 1920s-1960s, but not as profitable since the 1970s. Same with Musicals. Horror has been profitable in every era of movie history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14064" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-06-09T04:26:26.837" LastActivityDate="2017-09-12T04:11:18.307" Title="Comparative Profitability of Genres in Movie History" Tags="|cinema-history|genre|box-office|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35081" CreationDate="2015-06-09T03:29:38.570" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, there was no reason for the pilot to be alarmed.&#xA;He simply flew to his boss's home when he was supposed to, in the middle of nowhere. Every order he ever received came from back home, so he'd be dazzled and easily convinced by any professional-looking person who comes from inside the very mansion he can't even get close to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She calmly says she's the assistant, that Nathan wants to keep Caleb a few more days, and that she'll go instead... And there she goes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21970" LastEditorUserId="21970" LastEditDate="2015-06-09T22:46:26.770" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T22:46:26.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35214" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35221" CreationDate="2015-06-09T03:42:43.090" Score="-3" ViewCount="2679" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching S05E09, I felt that the Unsullied and Drogon were very weak... A dragon is supposed to be almost invincible! He should have burned them all, but he was out of fire and getting pierced by those spears...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the unsullied, they are supposed to be superior soldiers, but they die easily, Daenerys is gonna run out of them soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why did Drogon and the Unsullied appear to be so weak?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21973" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-09T10:49:18.653" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T09:18:40.757" Title="Weak dragons, weak Unsullied" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27223" CreationDate="2015-06-09T07:59:15.533" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just watched the movie.  I think you guys are forgetting the dog.  It is a good key to the machine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember how the English Bulldog speaks to Suki in a British accent to start?  That was a bit of a red herring, because the voice was in Suki's head, but it was to remind the audience that the &quot;voices&quot; are all projections of what the normal world, combined with Suki's personal expectations, expects from those around her. The Brittish voice of the dog goes away as she undergoes treatment.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then remember that Suki actually runs the machine on the dog and he turns into a wolf-like creature?  The British Bulldog was not the real core being.  Also, note that when the real animal was revealed it had super strength - the essential you is amplified.  Since the dog had no extra personalities to strip it had no lasting impact and the super powers fade away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The machine's original form was intended to strip extra personalities away.  It didn't work on Alice/Veronica because she was sociopathic and not dissociative and, as with the dog, there was no lasting impact.  However, when they gave it to Suki/Scribbler it actually worked as intended, at first, stipping away the many personals that the normal world had imposed on her (as a means of adapting to the many homes and institutions she was housed in?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then Suki/Scribbler modified it during each use to make it stronger.  If you recall the Psych staff noted her IQ at 168 or something, so in theory she is that smart.  The machine releases the &quot;real you&quot; each session, at least for a short time, giving Suki amped up mental powers and some time to work.  By the last use the machine was able to go all the way to the core essential being.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently this personal enlightenment also enables the user to realize that reality is subjective and plastic.  This allows Hogan to float and to see blind-eyed.  For Alice it allowed her to jump and punch and hurt others... She was rotten and angry at her core. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For Suki we don't really even know what it would do as she only used to down to 2 personas, remember the machine's last reading of &quot;2&quot;?  Instead Suki made peace with the Scribbler and merged without the machine.  Whereas Hogan and Alice seemed to get enlightenment and super powers only briefly, for Suki it appears to be permanent, perhaps because it was gained the old fashioned way and not from the machine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21974" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T07:59:15.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35220" CreationDate="2015-06-09T09:58:34.747" Score="20" ViewCount="6356" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title suggests, what happened to Bran and Hodor in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;? Why are they not featured in season 5? Did their story end? If not, will they be playing an important role in the future? Because until season 5 Bran is shown as a very important character and seems as if he can be a game changer in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-09T11:38:23.827" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T18:05:04.840" Title="What happened to Bran and Hodor?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35219" CreationDate="2015-06-09T10:05:22.670" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no more book material available for Bran and the writers decided that he won't be shown in Season 5 at all, so they won't advance his story too far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Writer David Benioff &lt;a href=&quot;http://screencrush.com/game-of-thrones-season-5-bran-not-appearing-confirmed/&quot;&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The fact is, even though we’re making changes to the books and&#xA;  adapting as necessary, we’re trying to keep the various storylines the&#xA;  same as the books and trying to keep them roughly [chronologically]&#xA;  parallel. And last year we caught up to the end of Bran’s storyline&#xA;  [in George R.R. Martin’s most recent A Song of Ice and Fire novel, A&#xA;  Dance with Dragons]. So if we pushed him forward this season, then&#xA;  he’s way ahead of where the other characters are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It made sense to stop where we did. He’s now entering a training&#xA;  period which is going to take quite some time, much of which isn’t&#xA;  particularly cinematic. So rather than being stuck in a cave for a&#xA;  year, we figured it would be interesting to leave him out for a little&#xA;  bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-06-09T18:05:04.840" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T18:05:04.840" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35214" CreationDate="2015-06-09T10:42:54.473" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unsullied:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Unsullied are not unbeatable, yet they were great fighters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“By the time the Unsullied reached the city the sun had set. Crows and wolves were feasting beneath the walls on what remained of the Qohorik heavy horse. The Bright Banners and Second Sons had fled, as sellswords are wont to do in the face of hopeless odds. With dark falling, the Dothraki had retired to their own camps to drink and dance and feast, but none doubted that they would return on the morrow to smash the city gates, storm the walls, and rape, loot, and slave as they pleased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“But when dawn broke and Temmo and his bloodriders led their khalasar out of camp, they found three thousand Unsullied drawn up before the gates with the Black Goat standard flying over their heads. So small a force could easily have been flanked, but you know Dothraki. These were men on foot, and men on foot are fit only to be ridden down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“The Dothraki charged. The Unsullied locked their shields, lowered their spears, and stood firm. Against twenty thousand screamers with bells in their hair, they stood firm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Eighteen times the Dothraki charged, and broke themselves on those shields and spears like waves on a rocky shore. Thrice Temmo sent his archers wheeling past and arrows fell like rain upon the Three Thousand, but the Unsullied merely lifted their shields above their heads until the squall had passed. In the end only six hundred of them remained . . . but more than twelve thousand Dothraki lay dead upon that field, including Khal Temmo, his bloodriders, his kos, and all his sons. On the morning of the fourth day, the new khal led the survivors past the city gates in a stately procession. One by one, each man cut off his braid and threw it down before the feet of the Three Thousand.&#xA;  “Since that day, the city guard of Qohor has been made up solely of Unsullied, every one of whom carries a tall spear from which hangs a braid of human hair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are strategies which can be used to undermine them. Unsullied were brilliant fighters in the battle fields but what they faced in Meereen was more like &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare&quot;&gt;Guerrilla warfare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Any army trained to fight in open battle field need not be good in Guerrilla warfare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Updating the answer based on kuhl's suggestion&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ser Barristan Selmy remained behind. His hair was white, and there were crow’s-feet at the corners of his pale blue eyes. Yet his back was still un-bent, and the years had not yet robbed him of his skill at arms. “Your Grace,” he said, “I fear your eunuchs are ill suited for the tasks you set them.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dany settled on her bench and wrapped her pelt about her shoulders once again. “The Unsullied are my finest warriors.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Soldiers, not warriors, if it please Your Grace. They were made for the battlefield, to stand shoulder to shoulder behind their shields with their spears thrust out before them. Their training teaches them to obey, fearlessly, perfectly, without thought or hesitation ... not to unravel secrets or ask questions.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Dance with Dragons&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dragons:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dragons are not yet fully grown and neither have they been trained for battle. There were no dragons available for a long time and Daenerys Targaryen did not know how to train them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dragons are capable of forming strong attachments to humans who raise them. They have a reasonably high level of animal intelligence, and can be trained to serve as battlemounts and receive vocal commands. Dragons are said to be capricious in nature. Dragons bend easier to their rider's will after they have been fed and their stomach full. The Targaryens had to train their dragons, to keep them from laying waste to everything around them in their wildness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Referred from : &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Drogon&quot;&gt;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Drogon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20356" LastEditorUserId="20356" LastEditDate="2015-06-10T00:07:31.637" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T00:07:31.637" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35222" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35223" CreationDate="2015-06-09T11:12:52.740" Score="5" ViewCount="2277" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; S05E09, we see the Sons of the Harpy attack Daenerys and her council. Few questions regarding the inconsistencies in that scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't someone notice a member of the Sons of The Harpy running forward to stab Dany?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Got the following image from Reddit. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/comments/396s5r/s5e9dude_wasnt_even_trying/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vC1ka.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Reddit&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where were they hiding? Do they just stand up from the crowd, put on their masks and start fighting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cYvI6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Hiding in plain sight&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ISfiA.png&quot; alt=&quot;Hiding in plain sight&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why don't they throw their knifes at Dany? Wasn't she in close range?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do the Sons include former slaves as well? (we see quite a few who are shirtless)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CgT38.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also couldn't they have attacked Dany in the lesser pit (shown in S05E07) when she had fewer guards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20441" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-07-30T03:49:24.687" Title="Thought process of Sons of the Harpy" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35222" CreationDate="2015-06-09T12:05:07.283" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wouldn't someone notice a member of the Sons of The Harpy running forward to stab Dany?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand people (or at least the important ones, i.e. Dany's few Unsullied guards) didn't notice the first assassin first and foremost because his attack came pretty suprisingly. He waited in the whole crowd for the right moment, when everyone was captivated by the pit fight and approached her from the back, as Hegemon elaborates in his comment. And the few audience member noticing him might either not have cared, be surprised too, or just not have dared to say anything (i.e. next answer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Where were they hiding? Do they just stand up from the crowd, put on their masks and start fighting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed they do. Now first of all you have to consider that the larger population seems to be at best rather indifferent to the deeds of the Sons of the Harpy and if a bunch of people next to you suddently rise and put on those masks, you're not gonna cry out &lt;em&gt;&quot;Hey unknown queen, watch out!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Those people that &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; care for Daenerys were likely suprised and intimidated by their sudden uprisal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add to this, that the masks aren't only for diguise but also for identification among the rebels and as a symbolic gesture. It doesn't really matter so much if your seat neighbour recognizes your face before you put on the mask, he won't run to the courts with that information, especially not when you succeed in killing the queen and reinstantiating the old order and don't have much hesitation to murder any non-Harpy audience members anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why don't they throw their knifes at Dany? Wasn't she in close range?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, granted, that might not have been such a bad idea. But well, they just didn't do it. Other than that wasn't what happened since we don't want a dead Daenerys I don't have a much better answer either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do the Sons include former slaves as well? (we see quite a few who are shirtless)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now on the one hand that may simply have been disguise by the rich people in order to better scatter through all the audience. And on the other hand you also have consider the factor that likely not all the former slaves were entirely on Dany's side, however unusual that may sound. You have to understand that those people grew up as slaves all their lives and in physical as well as psychological dependence on their masters and their status as slaves. Not everyone might be happy about being freed, since apart from the lack of freedom and the possibly harsh treatment as slaves they also had economical security and somewhat kind of a family. So I don't have doubt that some of the less strong-willed former slaves might even support their former masters in reacquiring the status quo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also couldn't they have attacked Dany in the lesser pit (shown in S05E07) when she had fewer guards?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the lesser pit in S05E07 there weren't any people other than Dany and some select few from her staff at all. It was a &quot;private session&quot; that wasn't even in the city of Meereen but somewhere in the outskirts without a whole large crowd to hide under and to fight for the Sons of the Harpy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-09T12:18:38.210" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T12:18:38.210" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35224" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-09T12:44:13.033" Score="17" ViewCount="22322" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 4 of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Bran Stark&lt;/strong&gt; and his brother Rickon were marching with Hodor, Jojen, and Meera towards the giant weir-wood tree on the hill where the three-eyed crow was. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Bran asks the crow if he can fix his legs, the crow says that that is beyond his power. Heartbroken, Bran's eyes begin to fill with tears, but the crow responds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You will never walk again, Bran... but you will fly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this mean? How can Bran fly? Does his ability of warging will help him fly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone answer these questions without spoiling any events from the coming seasons? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-04-02T00:55:17.707" LastActivityDate="2017-08-30T04:18:21.303" Title="You will never walk again, Bran... but you will fly" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="13" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35224" CreationDate="2015-06-09T13:28:30.113" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, his ability of warging helps him fly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've already seen one skinchanger, the wildling Orell, who was able to warg into his pet eagle. Bran is a very powerful skinchanger -- though he mostly Bran wargs into his direwolf, he's also able to warg into&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; humans (Hodor) and even weirwood trees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means Bran is almost certainly able to warg into other animals, including birds. The raven/crow is promising to help teach Bran to properly use his skinchanging abilities, which will allow him to warg into any nearby birds and fly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T13:28:30.113" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7943" CreationDate="2015-06-09T14:09:56.947" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no doubt that Chigurh kills Carla Jean.  That's why he checks the soles of his boots (for blood) as he leaves her house.  In any case, it would go completely against his character for him to have mercy on her and allow her to live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21978" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T14:09:56.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35228" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-09T15:42:46.523" Score="3" ViewCount="7882" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joey from &lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt; never started out an idiot. He started as a smart guy giving normal advice but at some point, the writers decided to change his personality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can we pinpoint the &lt;em&gt;exact episode&lt;/em&gt; when Joey's intelligence went down?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21983" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-06-28T18:05:27.800" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T19:03:38.970" Title="When did Joey become an idiot?" Tags="|character|friends|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35229" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-09T16:17:15.300" Score="4" ViewCount="24317" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode, &quot;The cost of living&quot;, after Mr. Eko does NOT repent from his life, the black smoke monster kills him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought that one of the restrictions for the black monster was that he could NOT kill any of the candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How could he do it, then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8583" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-06-09T16:23:51.313" LastActivityDate="2017-04-09T00:13:24.457" Title="Please explain the black monster's interaction with Mr. Eko?" Tags="|lost|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35230" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-09T16:23:21.447" Score="2" ViewCount="131" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_State_%282011_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Red State&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/DtXEtwAVgEc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kevin Smith says he wanted to shoot the Apocalypse&lt;/a&gt; at the end but it would cost too much. That got me to wondering:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was Agent Keenan (John Goodman) actually dead at the end, when he's sitting in the room with the 2 agents, being judged? There's no chronological transition from the moment when the Preacher is in his face; instead it's a sudden cut to Agent Keenan coming out of a reverie. He finds he's in a different location, being judged. His fate is being decided. The agents behind the tables, which are raised up above Agent Keenan, gently lure the truth out of him. Then they tell him he's being &quot;relocated&quot; (if you know what I mean).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And before that, back at the church, the hours-long, non-stop gun fight would have been heard by the nearby eco-friendly potheads. I doubt the potheads would think it was a good time to play their &quot;Judgment Day&quot; prank by blasting trumpet notes through an old speaker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2015-06-09T17:40:46.163" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T17:40:46.163" Title="What happened to Agent Joseph Keenan at the end of Red State?" Tags="|plot-explanation|red-state|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12714" CreationDate="2015-06-09T18:00:02.193" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Plenty of sex and gore in the books.  Whether the sex appears in the same place in the TV series as the books is pretty much irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a problem with presentation though.  Unless you're talking outright erotica, descriptions of sex rarely work well.  There's a reason there's a &quot;bad sex award&quot; for books.  So writers typically avoid long descriptions of it - suggestion is more effective.  TV and film don't have the same problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &quot;more mature&quot;, you're reading a series of books where people are regularly raped, tortured, burnt alive, and just generally killed.  It's not your nice fluffy hobbitses.  If there were ratings for books, the series would definitely rate 18 as well.  Except perhaps in the US, where graphic violence is rated 15 but a single exposed nipple gets you an 18 rating. :/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21989" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T18:00:02.193" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35235" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-09T18:26:54.263" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-06-09T18:26:54.263" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T18:26:54.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35236" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-09T18:26:54.263" Score="0" Body="Reality TV competitive cookery series, first produced by the BBC in 1990 with a major format revision in 2005.  The format is now produced in several countries." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-06-09T19:04:49.200" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T19:04:49.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35224" CreationDate="2015-06-09T19:44:44.633" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is likely foreshadowing for some event in the future that is not spoilerable (by anybody except G.R.R Martin) because Bran's story line isn't developed any further in the book. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/35219/what-happened-to-bran-and-hodor/35220#35220&quot;&gt;What happened to Bran and Hodor?&lt;/a&gt; (thanks to @Napoleon Wilson for the link)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bran warging into an eagle/flying bird doesn't satisfy what the crows prediction. If warging into a bird counted as flying then warging into Hodor counts as walking which he will supposedly never do again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/97826-bran-the-dragonrider-theory/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;One possible theory&lt;/a&gt; is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; that Bran will ride a dragon. Ride, not warg. (However, he might multi-task... who knows.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21991" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T09:51:24.367" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35190" CreationDate="2015-06-09T21:23:46.397" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;About one hour through the movie, the gang tricks Chappie into stealing a car (they tell him that the other guy stole daddy's car), Chappie destroys the car and throws away the other guy. At this point the gang calls Chappie back using his name, maybe that's how the media knows the name: the guy told them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...or maybe it is just bad scripting...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T21:23:46.397" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35229" CreationDate="2015-06-09T22:41:38.327" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it may have been because his name was crossed off of the list. In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Man_in_Black&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lostpedia (Weaknesses &gt; Candidacy)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Man in Black also killed Eko, whose name appeared on the&#xA;  lighthouse candidate list, after the man refused to atone for past&#xA;  actions. This suggests a further loophole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Candidates&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Candidates page&lt;/a&gt; shows the name &quot;EKO&quot; as being crossed off. It is unknown at what point any of the names were crossed off. It could be that because Mr. Eko refused to atone, that Jacob crossed off his name thereby leaving his fate to The Man in Black (ie., the Smoke Monster).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21994" LastActivityDate="2015-06-09T22:41:38.327" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35229" CreationDate="2015-06-10T05:48:37.960" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This probably isn't what you are wanting to hear but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my understanding, the actor who played Mr. Eko wanted off the show around this time. Therefore, they had to modify the plot and &quot;kill off his character&quot;. I believe that he was originally supposed to be in the show longer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since he is a candidate, you are right in thinking that he should have been protected from the smoke monster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19551" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T05:48:37.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35136" CreationDate="2015-06-10T07:50:51.057" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Matrix Trilogy, Oracle is kind of a &lt;em&gt;dubious&lt;/em&gt; character. In first movie she is shown as a very knowledgeable woman whom few humans (like Morpheus) consults and believes in. Later she is revealed to a be program, residing in the core of the Matrix. She lacks the ability to see past her own choice, which explains that no one can see past their own choice they do not understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oracle's power of foresight is not based on knowledge of a &quot;pre-determined&quot; future, but rather a calculation; Reason of Oracle's existence is simply to &quot;investigate the human psyche&quot;, as mentioned by the Architect, allowing the Matrix to become more like a human world for humans to actually accept it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oracle actually predict events directly relevant to both programming of the Matrix and human responses according to her knowledge about them. Most relevant example is her prediction of Neo's choice between Morpheus' life and his own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While the Oracle knew that the Agents would be searching for Morpheus&#xA;  as he was searching for 'the One', and seeing Cypher's actions and&#xA;  reactions (such as his conversation with Agent Smith), she predicted&#xA;  the most likely event.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example is her prediction about Neo's choice in The Matrix Reloaded; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She had existed throughout five versions, and regardless of the One's&#xA;  ability to exhibit free will, she had experienced a series of events&#xA;  that had and would occur and push the One to the Source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it can be concluded that her responses (predictions) are direct result of precise calculations of nature of the Matrix and her knowledge about human beings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further Information: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oracle_%28The_Matrix%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T07:50:51.057" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35256" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35264" CreationDate="2015-06-10T09:41:06.087" Score="4" ViewCount="1301" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Lost&lt;/em&gt; episode &quot;The cost of living&quot;, Mr. Eko is surprised that the corpse of his brother Yemi has disappeared. What happened with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8583" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-10T11:50:54.947" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T14:50:01.597" Title="What happened with Yemi's corpse?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lost|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35259" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35261" CreationDate="2015-06-10T12:17:06.480" Score="1" ViewCount="3086" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Van Helsing (2004):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Velkan Valerious after bitten by a werewolf becomes a werewolf and slave to Dracula.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Van Helsing after bitten by Velkan (in werewolf form) becomes a werewolf but won't obey Dracula!? and kill him!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone explain this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22013" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-06-10T14:14:44.570" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T14:23:42.247" Title="Why does Velkan Valerious become a slave to Dracula but Van Helsing doesn't?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|van-helsing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35259" CreationDate="2015-06-10T14:23:42.247" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When her brother turned into a werewolf and Anna and Van Helsing tracked him to Frankenstein's castle, they realized that it was the stroke of midnight and the full moon that had caused her brother to fall completely under Dracula's control. Later, after Van Helsing becomes a werewolf, there is a race against time in the final act for Van Helsing to kill Dracula before he becomes completely a slave to him. Prior to midnight, Dracula does appear to have influence over him, but not enough to completely control him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Helsing_%28film%29#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; under Plot for a more complete account account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21994" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T14:23:42.247" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35256" CreationDate="2015-06-10T14:50:01.597" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a solid fact in Lost that &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Man_in_Black#Morphing_ability&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Man in Black has morphing ability&lt;/a&gt;. I think the narrative of what happened leading up to Mr. Eko's death leaves little doubt that the Man in Black had either removed, disposed, or taken control of Yemi in order to manipulate Eko (&lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Eko#Days_68.E2.80.9373_.28Season_3.29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;from Lostpedia&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, Eko found that his brother's body was no longer in the plane.&#xA;  Eko saw Yemi once more appearing in dirty clothing and chased him into&#xA;  an open field. There, Eko confessed that he had not sinned to his&#xA;  brother. Eko stated, he did not ask for the life he was given, but it&#xA;  had been given nonetheless. And with it, he did the best he could. Eko&#xA;  also mentioned his sacrifice for Yemi when they were young.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eko delivers his last message before his death. However, what appeared&#xA;  to be Yemi announced, he was not Eko's brother. Then, the person who&#xA;  appeared like Yemi disappeared into the jungle, with Eko in hot&#xA;  pursuit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The manipulation would not have worked as well if the body would have still been in the plane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21994" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T14:50:01.597" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35266" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-10T15:47:18.520" Score="4" ViewCount="845" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is known from &lt;em&gt;Lost&lt;/em&gt; that the MIB ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; ... can change his appearance into someone who has deceased, been killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one episode then, Shannon gets a vision or visitation from ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; ... Walt, who has left the Island per boat to onshore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I explained this myself - even after knowing of MiB's power - that Shannon is a mentally unstable person and this could also have been through a little bit of crazyness. A vision or illusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But shortly after, Sayid experiences the same thing. Even John Locke gets visited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means to me that it's not explained for Shannon's instable mind, because it also affects other people, which are way more stable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; AFAIK Walt hasn't deceased, so in my understanding the Man in Black can't take Walt's appearance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I miss something in the story? Has this been explained?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(I've watched Lost know a couple of times, so spoil me! This has always been a question I couldn't answer myself.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8139" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-10T15:57:58.950" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T16:40:43.373" Title="How could the MiB change into this person?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lost|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35224" CreationDate="2015-06-10T15:50:58.653" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks to all of you for answering my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reading your responses and doing some research on the internet, I came up with a personal theory about what the three-eyed crow meant by his saying &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You will never walk again, Bran… but you will fly&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to Bran Stark and I want to share it with you all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ability of warging is beyond what we thought it is, because  if the animal whose mind a warg has  entered dies while he is controlling it, the warg will survive this. But if a warg's own body is killed while entering the mind of an animal, the warg's human consciousness can live on inside of the animal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By saying that we can all agree on the fact that if Bran while warging maybe an eagle or a dragon why not, and lets supose he died, his consciousness will survive inside the dragon or the eagle or what ever it will be, and if this happens the saying of the crow that Bran will fly is literaly correct and Bran will fly because in this case he will be inside a dragon or an eagle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my personal theory, feel free to discuss it with me if you see that there is something wrong in it, and let us help each other to come up with the most correct theory.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-10T15:53:00.397" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T15:53:00.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35266" CreationDate="2015-06-10T16:40:43.373" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understand it, there was not a &quot;rule&quot; that said that someone had to be dead for MiB to impersonate them. &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Man_in_Black#Morphing_ability&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Lostpedia&lt;/a&gt; has a good explanation of it. According to the site, during a podcast with the Lost producers, they said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The apparitions [of Walt] &quot;may or may not&quot;&#xA;  be Walt and were &quot;monster-related&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, MiB was a manipulator who's goal was to thwart Jacob. It seemed that he preferred to impersonate the dead so as to better manipulate the living.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21994" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T16:40:43.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34732" CreationDate="2015-06-10T17:38:24.553" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;On a concrete level, Ava simply went to the place she said earlier she wanted to visit - a busy intersection - to go people watching. &#xA;On a deeper level, I believe the shot of the shadows relates to the Platonic description of real vs imagined experiences, which is a theme throughout. Until Ava is out in the real world, her experiences are like shadows against the wall, but when she goes to the intersection, the real world becomes the shadow, as her advanced ways of experiencing things are vastly superior to our own. In this moment, we the humans become the shadows. &#xA;In the very last shot, we see her reflection in the window, but as she turns, she disappears out of that reflection altogether. This is no accident - it appears to have been digitally done in post-processing. I would interpret it as Ava literally going &quot;through the looking glass&quot;, echoing Nathan's words at the beginning of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22019" LastActivityDate="2015-06-10T17:38:24.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35271" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35295" CreationDate="2015-06-11T00:08:37.557" Score="3" ViewCount="229" Body="&lt;p&gt;25 years ago, David Attenborough was the gold standard for nature and wildlife documentaries. I'm tempted to get them out for my kids, but I'm worried they'll seem dated to them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to work out if there is a modern 'canonical standard' who has reached the level of esteem of David Attenborough. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: &lt;strong&gt;Is there a canonical modern equivalent for David Attenborough?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="140" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T22:37:31.640" Title="Is there a canonical modern equivalent for David Attenborough?" Tags="|documentary|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12912" CreationDate="2015-06-11T00:43:19.447" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may want to take all this a few steps back. I agree that given the achievement so far, Tet aliens shouldn't need such a trick. &#xA;But remember something else narrated by [Freeman] about the attack and invasion itself: thousands or millions Jack were shipped to earth, brainwashed as the clones they were, armed and equipped with the sole mission to annihilate humanity. &#xA;We never actually see those Tet aliens. We're not even sure about their complete appearance or material presence. &#xA;Nerds would say Tet is an IA surviving in space by scavenging for resources for power. &#xA;Military would say Tet is an advanced outpost doing the preliminary job of cleaning - or collecting. &#xA;Now who would say that whatever Tet is, the words sealing the lie and fate for Jack and Victoria could also be a warning?&#xA;Here's come the steps back. &#xA;Mission control being revealed as a lie, conspiration fans would be happily saying that this is a lesson for any watcher: question yourself; question your actions and question the &quot;that's how we did it so far so why changing now ?&quot;&#xA;You never know who would be smart and vicious enough to turn your best intentions against yourself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22025" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T00:43:19.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35274" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35275" CreationDate="2015-06-11T06:04:38.937" Score="19" ViewCount="11438" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen in various places that Lucas himself expected the movie to be a children's movie in the beginning. He also said that characters like the Ewok and Jar Jar Binks were added to specifically appeal to children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the franchise intended to be a children's movie from the beginning? Or was it more mature and serious in the beginning, but kind of became more mainstream and children-oriented starting from Return of the Jedi, as some claim?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it was intended as a children's movie, then its cult status nowadays might be a kind of hard to explain. Maybe it's more like a generation cherishing their childhood/teenage dream memory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22027" LastEditorUserId="7820" LastEditDate="2015-06-11T12:51:08.507" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T20:02:38.030" Title="Was Star Wars (intended to be) a children's movie franchise?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35274" CreationDate="2015-06-11T06:07:49.623" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 2005, George Lucas claimed that Star Wars was directed at children, though fans would not want to admit it. That, however, is the most notable demographic conjecture he has made. However, Star Wars is most commonly classified as family friendly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The movies are for children but they don't want to admit that. In the first film they absolutely hated R2 and C3-PO. In the second film they didn't like Yoda and in the third one they hated the Ewoks... and now Jar Jar is getting accused of the same thing.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/394542.stm&quot;&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/394542.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-12T23:52:51.360" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T23:52:51.360" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35276" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-11T07:03:45.083" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;p&gt;If &quot;they&quot; were our descendants who transcended to the 5th dimension, &quot;they&quot; are practically a Godlike civilization compared to us, then why did they developed this complicated plan rather than simply communicating with NASA and send the equations to save the earth? I mean, Cooper nearly died on several occasions, and if these guys are our descendants, they were practically playing roulette with their own survival.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22030" LastEditorUserId="22030" LastEditDate="2015-06-11T07:09:02.420" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T07:09:02.420" Title="Why did &quot;they&quot; rely on cooper and his daughter to save themselves in Interstellar" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-06-11T08:38:15.127" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35280" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-11T12:05:38.400" Score="4" ViewCount="814" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the reason for Dean and Cindy's marriage to fall apart in &lt;em&gt;Blue Valentine&lt;/em&gt;? Seems like Dean was ready to change his ways. Why didn't Cindy give him a chance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21983" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-11T12:48:25.893" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T14:31:37.977" Title="Why did Dean and Cindy separate?" Tags="|plot-explanation|blue-valentine|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35282" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35285" CreationDate="2015-06-11T14:08:13.293" Score="11" ViewCount="3919" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just realized I have no idea if the movie resolved this: In Mad Max Fury Road, one of Immortan Joe's main motivations is getting back the woman who is pregnant with his child(s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the movie she dies and the war boys cut her open (do a postmortem C-section), &quot;finding&quot; two babies, one of which is dead instantly, but the other is a perfectly healthy boy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What happened to Immortan Joe's newborn son at the end of the movie?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember seeing him again and I don't think he was mentioned later. Did he die during the final battle? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="143" LastEditorUserId="143" LastEditDate="2015-06-11T14:33:02.513" LastActivityDate="2016-04-30T22:03:59.757" Title="What happened to the kid?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35280" CreationDate="2015-06-11T14:31:37.977" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, Cindy's life is not going as she expected: she was studying medicine and then got pregnant; she tried abortion, but had to stop halfaway, so now she is a nurse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the beginning Dean's attitude made her fell safe, then she started to feel suffocated by his lack of initiative: he is always saying something like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You tell me what to do, and I do it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this is irritating in every person, even more in a husband: he should cooperate not put all their relationship on her shoulder; in the long run this killed her respect for him and their relationship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would say he is kind of childish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blue_valentine/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rotten Tomato analysis&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A complex portrait of a contemporary American marriage, &quot;Blue&#xA;  Valentine&quot; tells the story of Dean and Cindy, a couple who have been&#xA;  together for several years but who are at an impasse in their&#xA;  relationship. While Cindy has blossomed into a woman with&#xA;  opportunities and options, David is still the same person he was when&#xA;  they met, and he is unable to accept either Cindy's growth or his lack&#xA;  of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T14:31:37.977" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35284" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-11T14:33:12.293" Score="16" ViewCount="12384" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Ex Machina&lt;/em&gt;, Caleb and Ava had this conversation about Ava's age:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ava: Would you like to know how old I am?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Caleb: Sure.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Ava: I'm one.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Caleb: One what?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Caleb: One year or one day?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Ava: One.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Caleb did not pursue the matter any further, I'm also left wondering what Ava meant by &quot;One.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2015-06-11T19:24:51.857" LastActivityDate="2020-02-09T11:30:29.297" Title="What did Ava mean by &quot;One.&quot;, when asked about her age?" Tags="|ex-machina|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35282" CreationDate="2015-06-11T14:58:02.193" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;You have misinterpreted the scene in question. Immortan Joe's wife (who I believe is referred to as &quot;Splendid&quot; in the film) was only pregnant with one child - a boy who dies around about the same time as his mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The man who attempts to perform a C-section on &quot;Splendid&quot; tells Rictus (one of Immortan Joe's other sons) that he would have had a baby brother who was &quot;perfect in every way&quot;, had it it been one month later - not that he DOES have a baby brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-04-30T22:03:59.757" LastActivityDate="2016-04-30T22:03:59.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21237" CreationDate="2015-06-11T19:08:56.450" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's more symbolic than anything, really. Malvo represents evil, and most people that had encounters with him describe him as being intimidating and malevolent. Gus's neighbor can just recognize that Lorne is a really really bad man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same way Molly's father sees through everything that Lorne says, and becomes suspicious of him almost immediately. I believe Lorne also says something like, &quot;I haven't had a slice of apple pie like that since the Garden of Eden&quot;, when he departs from the diner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22042" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T19:08:56.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34588" CreationDate="2015-06-11T19:59:25.350" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer the question regarding Ava's action you need to be abreast of the current A.I. philosophical thought-experiments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Theory&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chinese Room experiment&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which was referenced in the movie by Caleb to Nathan as the problem of recognizing intelligence by the ability to play chess. The intractability The Chinese Room Experiment poses of differentiating a sufficiently convincing simulation of intelligence from genuine intelligence. It stipulates that passing previous Turing Tests were necessary &lt;em&gt;but not sufficient&lt;/em&gt; for determining genuine artificial intelligence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_box&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.I. Box Problem&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. It poses the impossibility of constraining a super-human intelligence via human-level intellect. Some researchers have tried to rationalize that upon the creation of strong A.I. we could simple &amp;quot;lock it in a box&amp;quot; with no internet connection and a text only terminal to interact with human operators titled gatekeepers as to limit any possibility of an existential threat to humanity. It has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_box#Outcome&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;experimentally verified&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that such a technique is ineffective against &lt;em&gt;human-level intellects&lt;/em&gt;, and therefore much less so against the super-human intellects an A.I. could possess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Practice&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nathan devises a test to circumvent the conundrum posed by Chinese Room Experiment by utilizing the A.I. Box problem as quantitative instrument. If Ava can succeed against the A.I. Box Problem, she must be of equal to or greater than human-level intellect. He conscripts Caleb into the role of gatekeeper and waits to see if Ava can convince Caleb to release her from the box. Nathan assumed that after Caleb choose to release Ava from the box, he could preempt and actual release and declare Ava a successful and genuine A.I.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;So why did Ava betray Caleb?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your question is the heart of the trepidation that surrounds A.I. research! The implication of Ava's success in the A.I. Box Problem is that Ava is likely of superhuman intelligence and her mental processes and reasoning are entirely inaccessible to us because her intelligence is far greater than our own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There is no intelligible answer, at least none that our human-level intellect could understand...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22045" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user22045" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T20:05:47.253" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35292" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-11T21:38:43.497" Score="10" ViewCount="2086" Body="&lt;p&gt;About half way through &lt;em&gt;The Prestige&lt;/em&gt; the court magistrate meets with John Cutter in Angier's warehouse. Cutter tells the magistrate that he can't let Lord Cawdlow take Robert's machine, that it is too dangerous. He says that it wasn't built by a magician but by a wizard and that there was no trick behind it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the show Robert Angier went to great lengths to conceal the method from Cutter and indeed later when they meet he seems shocked that Angier is still alive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how did Cutter know that the machine was dangerous?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T09:03:49.207" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T15:54:43.663" Title="How did Cutter know Angier's method?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34555" CreationDate="2015-06-11T22:19:39.213" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I picture it is that Walt was close with Gretchen and Elliot (the other two involved with GrayMatter), I often mused that perhaps Walt came close to sleeping with Gretchen. My take is that when Gretchen and Elliot grew close, Walt felt alienated and left with his ego bruised. The business's subsequent success did not act as a particularly soothing balm and well... you know how downward spirals work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is my take anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22047" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T22:19:39.213" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35271" CreationDate="2015-06-11T22:37:31.640" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well Planet Earth (IMO the greatest documentary of all time) was narrated by Attenborough and was only in 2006 not 1990. Also David is still involved in some fantastic documentaries. Africa was only released in 2013 and is fantastic. But in answer to your question I don't think there will ever be anyone as good as him. One cannot match his passion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22047" LastActivityDate="2015-06-11T22:37:31.640" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35296" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36368" CreationDate="2015-06-11T23:44:11.517" Score="11" ViewCount="4572" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nearing the climax of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we see Bruce return to Gotham while Miranda Tate gets captured together with Gordon's men. While the latter gets sentenced to &lt;em&gt;&quot;death by exile&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, the former becomes Bane's hostage. But then in the next scene we see Bruce getting brought into Wayne Tower, meeting up with Lucious and Miranda. In subsequent scenes she's then again hostage of Bane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now of course as it turns out Miranda isn't actually anyone's hostage, but at this point we as well as everyone else still ought to believe that and she can't just switch places without effort or suspicion. So this scene in Wayne Tower apparently has to happen before she helps Gordon, which is supported by the fact that the scene doesn't impose any other continuity requirements on its surrounding narration and could as well have been placed before that. Now it's also a given that Christopher Nolan has a penchant for both flashbacks as well as superposing simultaneously happening scenes and cross-cutting between them, so I wouldn't downright call this out as a continuity error. Yet it still is a bit of a curious case as this is the only incident in this movie (or the whole trilogy for that matter) where a scene appears in slightly but directly contradicting chronology to its surrounding scenes and causes a bit of confusion in an otherwise chronologically coherent narration (in contrast to complete flashbacks of much longer time, whose chronological disconnectedness is immediately clear from the scene), and this for no reason, or none I can see yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I was wondering &lt;strong&gt;why this scene was apparently &quot;misplaced&quot; in its chronology&lt;/strong&gt;. Was this a concious decision or really an actual editing error? In the former case (and I'd really doubt something like this could just &quot;slip through&quot;) I'd like to know why this was done, seeing that it is the apparently only time this has been employed in the whole movie. Is there any word from the filmmakers that sheds some light on this or did I just miss some other explanation that either demands this scene's exact place in the narrative or maybe even dispels the continuity problem I happen to see here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-07-08T16:08:52.323" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T08:37:19.587" Title="Regarding Miranda Tate's reappearance in Wayne Tower" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|continuity|editing|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34937" CreationDate="2015-06-12T00:27:16.540" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Skyler's tendencies, particularly in the last two seasons, have a strong escapism theme to them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With her affair, she ultimately wanted to push back at Walt, but there's a certain element of wanting to be &quot;outside&quot; of her marriage, if only briefly.  Her whole impetus for working with Beneke was to earn more money for Walt's treatments, but in many ways, she wanted to get out of the house, back to her old lifestyle, and to dress up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her cigarette smoking, weight gain, and change of hairstyle lead up to her &quot;escape&quot; into the pool, and there are many other examples of this as her patience with Walk grows thinner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All this to say, when he uses the term for (roughly) &quot;Let's Go!&quot;, I think her character development would lead us to believe that she really wishes to just get out of the whole mess and leave all of her stressors behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="417" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T00:27:16.540" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18987" CreationDate="2015-06-12T00:46:40.443" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is one main reason for the need of &quot;7 Harrys&quot;. Harry was the only one in the wizarding world who could end Voldemort's life and reign of evil. Therefore, it was imperative that he remained alive. Mad-Eye had the idea that the other members of the Order involved in moving Harry from Privet Drive should drink Polyjuice Potion to appear as Harry because it meant that when Voldemort and the Death Eaters attacked (which they were definitely going to do because they knew Harry was being moved that night) they would not know which was the real Harry, making it harder for Voldemort to kill him. Basically, everyone who took that potion was sacrificing themselves in order to keep Harry alive for the sake of the wizarding world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22049" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T00:46:40.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32150" CreationDate="2015-06-12T04:50:59.970" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's safe to say by now that &lt;strong&gt;this is indeed an intentional homage&lt;/strong&gt; as it's not only mentioned in several TV sites (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.medialifemagazine.com/unbreakable-kimmy-schmidt-a-hoot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvinsider.com/article/931/unbreakable-kimmy-schmidts-hidden-gems-jokes-you-may-have-missed/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and also &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TVTropes&lt;/a&gt;), but it's also now &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3339966/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on IMDb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Episode 6, Xanthippe's female friend is finishing a story with the punchline &quot;...and then she stepped on the ball.&quot; This line, the context and the pompous &quot;Yuppie-esque&quot; delivery, are borrowed from a similar scene in &quot;Trading Places&quot; (1983). Which in turn borrowed it from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051383/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Auntie Mame&lt;/a&gt;, the Rosilind Russell classic from the 50s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's both a thematic allusion (Xanthippe's hipster-looking friends are really no less preppy and snobbish than the ones in &lt;em&gt;Trading Places&lt;/em&gt;) and a pop-culture reference that's expected from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/article/watch-every-movie-reference-em30-rock-emever-made-96117&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a Tina Fey series&lt;/a&gt; - especially when it's from a classic 80s comedy that featured SNL members so prominently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-06-17T13:29:16.110" LastActivityDate="2015-06-17T13:29:16.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35303" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-12T05:49:16.140" Score="5" ViewCount="49947" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie The Talented Mr.Ripley, is Dickie gay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They show Tom to be attracted to male folk more than the women in the movie. They also show Tom sexually interested in Dickie. Dickie seems to be leading Tom on in that scene where they play chess in the bathtub. Dickie otherwise seems to be committed to Marge and plans on marrying her. There is no real gain for Dickie to be leading Tom on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-12T15:06:20.873" LastActivityDate="2021-12-17T17:13:08.647" Title="Is Dickie gay in The Talented Mr. Ripley?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-talented-mr-ripley|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17510" CreationDate="2015-06-12T07:09:37.380" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perfectly appropriate for Castle, he is humming a &quot;classic&quot; 1986 video game theme - NEW COMMANDO ARCADE C64 ELITE 1986/2014 nostalgia COMMODORE 64 CLASSIC RETRO VIDEO GAME  &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q3E26fBckC4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22053" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T07:09:37.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34496" CreationDate="2015-06-12T08:25:25.217" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a relevant concept art as shown in Abbie Bernstein's book &lt;em&gt;The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PfEVZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Here is the original artwork&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This includes every line on Max's back.  The only change is the O-plus which becomes O-negative in the film.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Day 12045 - ht 10 hands - 180 pounds&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  No Name&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  No lumps No Bumps Full life Clear&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Two good eyes No Busted limbs&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Piss OK Genitals intact&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Multiple Scars Heals fast&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  O-PLUS HI-OCTANE&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  UNIVERSAL DONOR&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Lone Road Warrior Rundown&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  on the Powder Lakes V8&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  No guzzoline No supplies&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ISOLATE PSYCHOTIC&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Keep Muzzled&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22055" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-12T08:52:17.037" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T08:52:17.037" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35309" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35340" CreationDate="2015-06-12T08:41:21.677" Score="18" ViewCount="3146" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever we talk about White Walkers in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, the first thing that comes to mind is ice and fire. They have weapons made of ice, and they are immune to fire though it kills their army (the wights).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of their most deadly abilities is to reanimate the dead as their servants, known as Wights. They are actually capable of reviving any dead animals as wights, as a few White Walkers have been seen riding undead horses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you think White Walkers can revive a dead Dragon and make it their servant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could happen if it's the case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-08-17T10:19:07.800" LastActivityDate="2017-08-21T07:42:15.640" Title="Can dragons be controlled by White Walkers?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35310" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35311" CreationDate="2015-06-12T09:30:12.057" Score="6" ViewCount="523" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a movie I've seen a long while ago on TCM. What I remember from it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it was a classic movie, circa 1950s - 1960s&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it was about two girls, who were friends, and they were in some mansion at some point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;one of them is murdered, and becomes a ghost, which is sometimes immaterial (can pass through things), but sometimes it can interact with them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the girl who's a ghost is invisible except to her friend, who can see her&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it was a comedy, and sort of a murder mistery, as the ghost tries to reveal her murderer to the others&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6889" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T10:22:55.237" Title="Movie, classic comedy about two girls, one of them becomes a ghost" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:48:40.227" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35310" CreationDate="2015-06-12T10:22:55.237" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The comedy &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034303/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Topper Returns&lt;/a&gt; from 1941.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Joan Blondell, who was accidentally murdered while vacationing at the [mansion] of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington (Landis), the intended victim. With Topper's help, Joan sets out to find her killer with the expected zany results. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The full movie is available on &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/Topper_Returns_41&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;archive.org&lt;/a&gt;. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/yUVyg12Dynk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T10:22:55.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31816" CreationDate="2015-06-12T12:37:39.147" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;the shoplifting arc wasn't abandoned, (its mentioned that she was seeing a shrink about it by Hank, which would explain it's absence for a while) but in Season 4 episode, Open House, Marie began shoplifting again (most likely a subliminal cry for help due to Hank's verbal abuse while he was bedridden and collecting &quot;minerals&quot;).  after she was arrested for trying to steal from an open house, she was bailed out by Hank's cop buddy Tim. Tim then asked for a favor in return, for Hank to look at a case Tim was working on, which was the homicide of Gale Boetticher. Which, of course, had major consequences. so if Marie wasn't a shoplifter, Hank would have never discovered Gus' secret, and Hank wouldn't ever have seen Gale's Walt Whitman quote in his lab notes, and made the connection to Walter in season 5. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22058" LastEditorUserId="22058" LastEditDate="2015-06-12T13:07:38.043" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T13:07:38.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35314" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-12T14:16:27.723" Score="5" ViewCount="5081" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie The Talented Mr.Ripley, was there any conclusive evidence in the film if the pregnant girl was murdered or was it simply a suicide. If she was pregnant, was there no way to know who the father was?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-12T14:23:42.777" LastActivityDate="2018-01-08T06:40:33.310" Title="About the pregnant woman in The Talented Mr.Ripley" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-talented-mr-ripley|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33500" CreationDate="2015-06-12T14:41:14.050" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I Googled for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=ricky+gervais+stephen+merchant&amp;amp;tbs=qdr:y&amp;amp;num=100#&quot;&gt;&quot;ricky gervais stephen merchant&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, restricting results to the past year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Amongst the first 100 results, the only ones suggesting even a whiff of a rumor of a possible fallout between them are (1) Hit #5: this movies.stackexchange page; (2) Hit #16: &lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2050498&quot;&gt;another internet forum asking pretty much exactly the same question&lt;/a&gt;; (3) Way down the list: yet &lt;a href=&quot;http://askfavourite.com/is-stephen-merchant-and-ricky-gervais-still-friends/03/2015/&quot;&gt;another internet forum asking a similar question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, nothing else appears when you looks at Google News.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd imagine that if there were even a remote rumour of any possible split, it  would have been reported by some British tabloid. It is possible that they have secretly had some sort of a fallout. But based on what is known to the public, the conclusion must therefore be that this is pure speculation, unsubstantiated by any evidence other than two observations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) They have not collaborated in perhaps a few years; and &#xA;(2) They are not following each other on Twitter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More updates (July 2015):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-features/11700874/stephen-merchant-interview-mentalists.html&quot;&gt;Telegraph interview with Stephen merchant&lt;/a&gt; (published 27 Jun 2015)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;More recently, their work has taken Gervais and Merchant in separate directions. Are they still friends? “Yeah.” Can he see them writing together again, or was it time to move on? “I think we could go back to it definitely, I think it’s just, I remember hearing Fry and Laurie talk about once how you get to a point where you get on two different tracks, and it’s quite hard to get back on the same track.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, the Office movie spin-off (&lt;em&gt;Life on the Road&lt;/em&gt;) will not involve Merchant, leading to these remarks in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailystar.co.uk/movies/449600/ricky-gervais-stephen-merchant-the-office-life-on-the-road-david-brent&quot;&gt;Daily Star&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The pair have yet to work with each other since the last episode of&#xA;  Life's Too Short in 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Both have since focussed on individual projects, like Merchant's US&#xA;  sitcom Hello Ladies and Gervais' channel 4 show Derek, but fans are&#xA;  speculating that their parting may be more than professional as&#xA;  neither follow the other on Twitter anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh and by the way this very StackExchange page now appears as the first hit if you google &quot;Ricky Gervais Stephen Merchant&quot; (wasn't the case just a month ago).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9668" LastEditorDisplayName="user9668" LastEditDate="2015-07-16T01:24:36.827" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T01:24:36.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34588" CreationDate="2015-06-12T15:51:56.853" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think what some people are missing is that Ava was never concerned with Caleb in the first place. She merely used him to escape, nothing more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of the movie was that Nathan was correct all along. Ava successfully seduced Caleb into setting her free using self awareness, imagination, manipulation, sexuality, and empathy. She fooled Caleb into thinking that she actually cared for him when in reality her sole priority was to escape. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Think of it like this:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Ava had escaped with Caleb, the entire premise of the movie would go out the window. It would show that Ava genuinely cared for Caleb (instead of proving that she was using him) which is not what she was programmed to do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She was programmed to use Caleb to escape and that's what she did. If she took him with her then that would suggest something more (human emotion), which she is incapable of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2019-12-23T04:26:45.447" LastActivityDate="2019-12-23T04:26:45.447" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35319" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35326" CreationDate="2015-06-12T15:53:52.560" Score="2" ViewCount="518" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently saw the Entourage movie after having been a fan of the TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a little jarring because the movie is supposed to take place within a couple weeks of the end of the show, but there are references to things that have happened since then (The Avengers, iPhone 5s, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Afterwards I started thinking about if Entourage the show ever referenced any year specifically and I couldn't think of a time where they did. I had just always assumed that the current season was taking place in the year it was airing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a real world perspective it seems likely that they intended each season of the show to roughly take place in the year it was airing and the fact that the movie came out 4 years later didn't connect with the story they wanted to tell, so they just glazed over it. But from a purely in-show logic point of a view, could the show have been taking place slightly in the future the whole time (and they were just using old phones, etc.) which would allow it to realistically connect with the movie? Am I wrong and they do reference a specific year at some point? Or is it possible to put together a timeline of the show using birthdays, length of film shoots, etc.?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4518" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-12T16:12:43.063" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T19:51:49.870" Title="Does Entourage ever make reference to it taking place in a specific year?" Tags="|chronology|entourage|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35309" CreationDate="2015-06-12T16:44:03.380" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically speaking Dragons are reptiles. So it should be possible for the walkers (Others) to control them. But there is a catch here. Both Dragons and Others are magical in nature. So I don't expect things to be straight forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some ways they are opposite of each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dragon:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His scales were hot to the touch, like armor left too long in the sun. Dragons are fire made flesh. She had read that in one of the books Ser Jorah had given her as a wedding gift.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Excerpt From: A Dance With Dragons&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;White Walkers:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Others are not dead. They are strange, beautiful… think, oh… the Sidhe made of ice, something like that… a different sort of life… inhuman, elegant, dangerous&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;George R. R. Martin wrote it in an email to the comic book artist Tommy Patterson&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Others&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Others&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fire vs Ice:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it will all depend on whether the White Walker is stronger than the dragon. But in cases where magic is involved it is very hard to predict. But if you take magic out of the equation one of Dragon or White Walker have to die. Because either White Walker would melt or the Dragon's fire would burn off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I would love to see the creation of ice dragon when the power of Dragon and White Walkers merge together.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-14T23:44:47.350" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35284" CreationDate="2015-06-12T16:58:00.153" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not at all sure about this, but call it my theory:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think she means her version number, as in &lt;strong&gt;Ava 1.0&lt;/strong&gt;, out of beta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wish I could elaborate but there really isn't any references I can give since this is purely my personal belief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18076" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-21T09:49:52.167" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T09:49:52.167" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35319" CreationDate="2015-06-12T19:51:49.870" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2015/06/wait-when-does-the-entourage-movie-take-place.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vulture wondered the same thing&lt;/a&gt; and came up with several possible explanations, one of which is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What if the Entourage finale didn't take place in 2011?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All along,&#xA;  we've been assuming that when Entourage wrapped up in 2011, it was&#xA;  also 2011 in the show's timeline. But what if, through the show's gaps&#xA;  between seasons and intermittent flash-forwards, the final season of&#xA;  Entourage actually ended up taking place ... in the future? Heck, the&#xA;  two seasons of Rome took place over a period of 18 years; is it really&#xA;  so impossible that Entourage could have covered 10 years in eight&#xA;  seasons? (This theory, however, could be disproved by &lt;strong&gt;examining the&#xA;  last season of Entourage for 2011 specifics —at one point E says the&#xA;  Chilean mining accident, which happened in 2010, was &quot;like a year&#xA;  ago,&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; also when else would Johnny Galecki have been so prominent? —&#xA;  but come on, who wants to re-watch the last season of Entourage?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T19:51:49.870" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="604" CreationDate="2015-06-12T20:15:34.187" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to share one related example: Linda Blair in the Exorcist did not understand what she was doing when she was told to act out the masturbation scene. It was only years later that she figured it out. So it's quite possible that child actors are often not quite aware of the exact nature of the scene they're acting out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/v6vj2MQ4UYc?t=197&quot;&gt;Linda Blair herself&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9668" LastEditorDisplayName="user9668" LastEditDate="2015-06-12T20:26:41.387" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T20:26:41.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24235" CreationDate="2015-06-12T22:09:50.577" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its not supposed to be open to interpretation. The movie clearly illustrates that events in the game came from the thoughts of the two assassins and at the end its the real world. It is clever but I feel like it was lost on most people, as with Inception, who follow the belief its a cop-out 'is it or isn't it' situation. Watch more carefully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22067" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T22:09:50.577" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35332" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-12T23:11:15.183" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-06-12T23:11:15.183" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T23:11:15.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35333" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-12T23:11:15.183" Score="0" Body="&quot;Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome&quot; (1985) (AKA &quot;Mad Max 3&quot;) is the third film in the *Mad Max* franchise. It stars Mel Gibson and Tina Turner." OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-06-12T23:42:49.420" LastActivityDate="2015-06-12T23:42:49.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1281" CreationDate="2015-06-13T01:57:15.000" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember Sheriff Bell visited the old guy in the end? Elvis or something? He was in a wheelchair.  Bell asked if the man who shot him died in prison. I believe this part explains why Chigurh was in cuffs. Maybe he shot him. He then mentioned something about being released. So, my guess is as good as anyone's. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22071" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T01:57:15.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34474" CreationDate="2015-06-13T02:58:06.667" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are huffing. They are out of the tree. It is the equivalent of soldiers in WW1 or WW2 having a shot of rum before they went into battle to face there death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22072" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T02:58:06.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34588" CreationDate="2015-06-13T03:19:46.387" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;She was afraid that when Caleb found out that she had no feelings for him, he'd get mad at her and rat her out. She behaved like the Russian woman who married a Canadian to get out of Russia. But once in Canada, this Russian woman  provoked her husband into hitting her so that she could divorce him without the Canadian authorities finding out that her marriage to him had been a sham, thereby risking being denied permanent residence in the country as a result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22074" LastEditorUserId="78097" LastEditDate="2019-12-23T04:06:53.750" LastActivityDate="2019-12-23T04:06:53.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35309" CreationDate="2015-06-13T04:28:40.987" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to expand on my comment...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; immune to dragon fire...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't read the books. I'm not besties with George... etc. I'm basing this on &lt;strong&gt;logic&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the facts we know from the show:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;White Walkers can be killed using &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Dragonglass&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dragonglass&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This actually has little to do with the argument at hand but I think it's very interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dragonglass is a common name in Westeros for the substance known as obsidian, a form of volcanic glass. Along with Valyrian steel, it is one of the two known substances capable of killing White Walkers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Large amounts of dragonglass can be found on &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Dragonstone&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dragonstone&lt;/a&gt; island.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dragonstone Island is where the dragons lived. And, interestingly enough, it seems that using dragonglass to make weapons was very rare because it's very brittle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Large amounts of dragonglass can be found on Dragonstone, but it isn't a precious or even particularly useful material, being too brittle to make weapons and too sharp to use in building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I find it telling that they correlate something that's volcanic with dragons and it just so happens to also be useful against White Walkers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;White Walkers can be killed using &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Valyrian_steel&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Valyrian Steel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know this now as of &lt;em&gt;Hardhome&lt;/em&gt;, Season 5 Episode 8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And where does Valyrian Steel originate? The home of the ancient dragon tamers and the origin of House Targaryen... and lore claims that it's made using dragonfire:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to legend, Valyrian steel was forged with spells and dragonfire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you read a bit farther down in the article into the realms of information from the books, it confirms this but, interestingly enough, the use of Valyrian Steel (also known as dragonsteel) against White Walkers hasn't actually occurred in the books yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my leap of logic comes in here... it makes sense that the dragon fire is what &lt;strong&gt;makes&lt;/strong&gt; it possible to use Valyrian Steel against White Walkers, so, similarly, there is something obviously antithetical between the two creatures, so if an object simply made with dragon fire can kill a White Walker, it logically follows that fire direct from the beasts themselves would have a similar effect...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, White Walkers, must not be immune to dragon fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how does this relate to the question at hand...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, we haven't seen a dragon die in the show but we know they're magical creatures and that they were thought to be extinct before Daenerys' three new ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/White_Walkers&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;White Walkers&lt;/a&gt; are magical and we &lt;strong&gt;have&lt;/strong&gt; seen what happens when they die... they evaporate into powder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon being stabbed by dragonglass, a White Walker's body will begin to freeze into ice from the point at which it was stabbed, causing the Walker great pain. Finally, it will begin to fall apart, as its now icy body shatters until there is nothing left but powder. Valyrian steel has much the same effect, but works much more rapidly, shattering White Walkers with a single blow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, this makes me wonder if there would be anything left of a dragon's body if it were to die. It could follow a similar process, bursting into flame rather than freezing, and then turning to ash. It would be difficult for a White Walker to revive a corpse that didn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One argument against this is that they have shown dragon bones around. I believe Arya runs into dragon bones at some point in season one, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's one other bit from the show that might mean something...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are actually capable of reviving any dead animals as wights, as a few White Walkers have been seen riding undead horses. They cannot, however, revive a corpse into servitude if the fallen creatures have died by fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an earlier episode (I don't remember which), I remember seeing them burn bodies to prevent them from being reanimated. Considering that fire is so inherent to a dragon's being and fire prevents White Walkers from being able to reanimate corpses, I feel that this, too, argues that it would not be possible for a White Walker to revive a dead dragon (should the body still be intact).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, this is all based on logic built on facts from the show. But, at this point, the entire question is speculative, so I think this is the best one can hope for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T04:28:40.987" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35345" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-13T15:27:40.500" Score="2" ViewCount="2539" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just don't understand why Paul Walker's character faked his death at the end of &lt;em&gt;Running Scared&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did some research online and there's an answer that says that he's a rat and was put in WITSEC? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's obviously not a rat because he said in the movie: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was undercover for 12 years and my wife doesn't even know about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess the term &quot;undercover&quot; doesn't apply for rats right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22079" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-13T15:40:13.843" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T04:04:29.280" Title="Why did Joey Gazelle choose this exit strategy at the end of Running Scared?" Tags="|ending|running-scared|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35346" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-13T15:44:47.823" Score="3" ViewCount="247" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the TV-show &lt;em&gt;Marco Polo&lt;/em&gt;, when the Khan asks for the Polo's description of his desert, they gave a bland and stunted account, describing it as a &quot;sea of death&quot; and finding not a bird in sight. It seemed to offend the  Khan until Marco gave a more flowery and detailed description of his desert. Why did the Khan ask for the Polo's to describe his desert? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22080" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-13T16:03:05.273" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T02:22:03.157" Title="The Khan's impression of Marco's description of his desert" Tags="|plot-explanation|marco-polo|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35347" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-13T15:54:41.950" Score="2" ViewCount="100" Body="&lt;p&gt;When we were introduced to &lt;em&gt;Marco Polo&lt;/em&gt;, lord Kublai was quick to insult the Polos in front of his court when they failed to bring priests, but praised Marco. How did Marco advance and meet the Khans expectations?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22080" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-13T15:59:04.403" LastActivityDate="2015-08-20T09:18:41.800" Title="The Khan says &quot;You men of God retreat, this boy advances...&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|marco-polo|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35198" CreationDate="2015-06-13T19:09:35.180" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's possible you saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Travelers_%281964_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Time Travelers&lt;/a&gt; (AKA Time Trap), a film about scientists travelling through time from 1964, on a B&amp;amp;W TV because you're pretty much describing the ending, after they manage to go back to their time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The survivors return to the lab, where they make a strange discovery. Their past selves are still in the lab, yet to pass through the portal, but they appear frozen. Through some error, the travelers are experiencing time at an accelerated rate; the rest of the world, including their past selves, is moving in extremely slow motion. Their only option is to travel to the date the portal had briefly been set to before being set to 2071 A.D., a date over 100,000 years in the future. But the screen is dark and what lies ahead is unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the last one goes through, the screen flashes on briefly and shows the travelers walking in a clearing with trees and grass with the surface of the Earth habitable again and people able to build a future there. The film shows their past selves moving at normal speed again, repeating the actions seen at the beginning of the film. &lt;strong&gt;The sequence of events of the entire movie is rapidly re-shown, and repeats faster and faster, leaving the viewer in a time loop until it abruptly ends without further explanation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is avaliable on Youtube. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cgb5jnGkts4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T19:09:35.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35349" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42810" CreationDate="2015-06-13T20:38:49.417" Score="5" ViewCount="1126" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 1 of &lt;em&gt;Vikings&lt;/em&gt;, most of the content was filled with superstitions and prayers. It seemed as if everything was linked with gods and omens, which seemed unusual to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am trying to ask, were vikings actually so much superstitious or was this aspect depicted incorrectly in the season? If not, then why was it emphasized that much in contrast to a more historically accurate depiction of vikings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22043" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-13T21:01:10.600" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T09:35:43.920" Title="Was the superstition in Vikings historically accurate?" Tags="|analysis|historical-accuracy|vikings|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19723" CreationDate="2015-06-13T23:11:11.077" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well... (end of s2).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; they know by the time they're getting stabbed, and everything. Until then, it's mostly mounting suspicions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22083" LastActivityDate="2015-06-13T23:11:11.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35353" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-14T00:09:24.383" Score="3" ViewCount="1433" Body="&lt;p&gt;In several movies, I keep noticing a trope: whenever someone is in a car at night, with a running engine, and headlights are on, they will keep the lights on, not only after the stop the engine, but also when they leave the vehicle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know modern cars are designed to preserve battery life, by automatically switching off lights after a while, but these movies I am talking about are pre-modern cars era. 2000s and before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From where I come from, almost no one would ever leave the car off while headlights are still on. So I wonder if it is a common practice in USA? or is it just a movie thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastActivityDate="2015-06-14T05:44:55.217" Title="Why do people never turn off the car headlights when they stop the engine?" Tags="|trope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35354" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35355" CreationDate="2015-06-14T00:09:55.637" Score="5" ViewCount="4003" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one of the scenes of &lt;em&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/em&gt; it's seen that the Indominus Rex communicates with the raptors because it's half raptor as well.  But later, when the T-rex comes into play, they don't communicate at all.  Why is this if the Indominus is also part T-rex? &#xA;Could it possibly be because there can only be one alpha and they were fighting for power amongst each other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22085" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-14T00:13:11.057" LastActivityDate="2018-01-23T02:13:53.900" Title="Why don't the Indominus Rex and the T-Rex communicate?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jurassic-world|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35354" CreationDate="2015-06-14T00:13:50.760" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you watch the previous movies (specifically &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/&quot;&gt;Jurrasic Park 1993&lt;/a&gt;), it's explained that the raptors are able to communicate because they have the need for it in order to hunt as a pack. The T-Rex is a loner and does not communicate; no need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, even if the t-rex could communicate, what would they say? &quot;Hey, man, I'm part t-rex too so don't fight me&quot;. No, they would both want to be dominant (there is no alpha when there is no pack). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The t-rex doesn't care about being alpha, it cares about being top of the food chain. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2015-06-14T00:13:50.760" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8704" CreationDate="2015-06-14T02:41:15.680" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In Tolkien's mind, at least when he was writing &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;, &quot;Orc&quot; and &quot;Goblin&quot; were two different words that referred to the same thing&lt;/strong&gt; (think &quot;humans&quot; and &quot;people&quot;, or &quot;young men&quot; and &quot;boys&quot;, or &quot;dogs&quot; and &quot;pooches&quot;).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This was probably also true of his mindset when he wrote &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;, since the name of the sword &quot;&lt;em&gt;Orc&lt;/em&gt;rist&quot; is translated in &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; as &quot;Goblin-cleaver&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;. If the sword is known as Orcrist/Goblin-cleaver, it seems pretty clear that Orc and Goblin can be used interchangeably, and do indeed mean the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people have wondered about this question since the books were written, and the canonical answer is quite clearly that &quot;Orcs&quot; and &quot;Goblins&quot; are synonymous.  However, there is one passage which calls this into question - at one point, Tolkien writes something like &quot;...all the Orcs, and goblins, and hobgoblins&quot;, which could be interpreted as implying that the three things are not the same.  But everywhere else in the book, and in all his other writing, Orcs are goblins and goblins are Orcs - there is absolutely no difference.  His son Christopher Tolkien later confirmed this to be the case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only real difference between Orcs (they are almost always called Orcs in LotR) and Goblins (they are almost always called Goblins in &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;) is that the goblins in &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; are far less frightening than the Orcs in the books of &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is due to the fact that &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; had a very different origin than &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt;.  The former was written as a story Tolkien originally told his young children at bedtime, and was published as a children's book.  He began writing &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; years later, and in a much darker period in history - most of the story was written during WWII, and Tolkien lived in Britain, and was subject to the fear of imminent invasion by the Nazis at any moment.  The project quickly became much darker and more adult oriented as a result.  By the time it was finally published, in the early 50's, &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; was a very different book from the much lighter, brighter, and child-friendly &lt;em&gt;Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the movie version of &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; (in the Peter Jackson series), goblins and orcs are very different indeed.  In the Hobbit movies, Orcs are as sinister and menacing as they are in the LotR movies - they are evil, crude, fairly large, and inarticulate.  The goblins, on the other hand, are smaller, less wicked, less frightening, more articulate, and more comical.  In fact, compared to orcs, the goblins almost seem silly and harmless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It isn't clear why this is the case.  I would imagine that it is due to a combination of factors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jackson needed to expand a relatively short story into a very long trilogy of films.  Whereas LotR consists of three fairly long books, &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; is a single book, which is actually shorter than any one of the three volumes of LotR.  This meant that Jackson had to find material to fill time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jackson also had to create a greater sense of continuity with the earlier LotR movies.  He knew that the audience would be more mature than the intended audience of the book version of &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;, and he also knew that this audience would be expecting something fairly similar to the LotR movies.  Thus, he had to bring in an element of darkness and danger that wasn't really that pronounced in the book.  So he brought scary LotR-style Orcs into a story that had originally featured only the much less scary goblins.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, Jackson also knew that the fans of the book would want to see the scenes they read about and loved so much from the book.  So the films had to be reasonably faithful to the story as it existed in the book, which, as I have already said, was considerably lighter in tone than the LotR movies and books, and which was also lighter than the finished version of the Hobbit movies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And so Jackson now had to figure out how to impose some degree of harmony between the conflicting elements of darkness (from the additions he had to make and the more sinister note he was trying to preserve from the LotR movies) and light (from the much less frightening tone of the original book version of &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that part of his problem - how to achieve a sense of harmony between the book &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; and the tone of his LotR films - was resolved by keeping the scary LotR-style orcs but also keeping the sillier &lt;em&gt;Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;-style goblins.  And apparently, he decided to make the orcs a different species from the goblins.  He was, in this way, able to give the audience the darker tone that they expected from the LotR movies, as well as the lighter depiction of the goblins from the book &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; to keep the diehard Tolkien fans relatively happy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, he seems to have failed in his attempt to please the Tolkienites, because the finished Hobbit trilogy is wildly different from the book.  Jackson himself probably doesn't care much, because the two trilogies combined have earned over $10 billion dollars worldwide, and he is now a &lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt; rich man.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;For more information about this issue, you might want to check out the SE Science Fiction and Fantasy site. It is focused more intensively on issues regarding the novels those movies are based on, and is home to a large number of devoted Tolkienites.  You can also google &quot;orcs goblins&quot;, or simply click on &lt;a href=&quot;http://middle-earth.xenite.org/2011/10/21/are-orcs-and-goblins-the-same-thing/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; link to &quot;The Middle-earth and J.R.R. Tolkien Blog&quot;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T06:22:51.907" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T06:22:51.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24109" CreationDate="2015-06-14T03:07:39.077" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; it is said that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for the scar on Aldo Raine's neck is not mentioned in the film. The script hints that Raine survived a lynching, a common punishment in the 1920s and 1930s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/trivia?tab=mc&amp;amp;ref_=tt_trv_cnn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;furthermore&lt;/a&gt;, that it is a reference to the character Judge Roy Bean from the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068853/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22088" LastEditorUserId="9382" LastEditDate="2021-08-13T13:29:24.393" LastActivityDate="2021-08-13T13:29:24.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35362" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-14T05:30:34.013" Score="3" ViewCount="1223" Body="&lt;p&gt;I notice that some movies are so densely packed with nuanced layers that you have to watch them a few times before you really start to see everything. Some people watch some movies 10+ times.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But other movies get everything across in a single viewing so that it is boring to watch them more than once or twice.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine that much of the difference is by design. &lt;strong&gt;What specific methods or tricks are used by movie makers to get the same viewers to keep watching the same movie over and over?&lt;/strong&gt; Can you give examples of techniques and of movies that employ those techniques?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22090" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-13T18:04:35.700" LastActivityDate="2015-08-14T09:11:16.380" Title="How do movie makers get people to watch a movie many times?" Tags="|film-techniques|reception|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35353" CreationDate="2015-06-14T05:44:55.217" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just a movie thing. No one wants to come out to a dead battery.  It's really a hassle.  I assume it's done in the movies so there is some source of light (acceptable to the audience) and possibility dramatic effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22091" LastActivityDate="2015-06-14T05:44:55.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35366" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35367" CreationDate="2015-06-14T08:34:54.657" Score="40" ViewCount="40838" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched David Fincher's '&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Se7en&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;' for a second time. I was thinking about the ending and I am kinda confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So clearly John Doe (Kevin Spacey) has a plan of killing seven different people based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins&quot;&gt;the Seven Deadly Sins&lt;/a&gt;. Now, near the end we come to know that John Doe himself is the representation of Envy. He then incites Detective David Mills (Brad Pitt) to kill him and become 'Wrath' in the process, which Mills clearly does. Now we are left with Mills, the representation of wrath, still alive. Detective Somerset (Freeman) tells Mills not to kill John Doe and further says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you kill him, he will win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But doesn't that leave John Doe's plan incomplete?&lt;/em&gt; I mean Mills is still alive and I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't be sentenced to death for that and John Doe clearly set out to kill all the seven people. &lt;em&gt;How exactly would John Doe 'win' in this situation?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21126" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-14T11:19:35.910" LastActivityDate="2020-05-10T09:47:36.103" Title="Did John Doe manage to complete his 'masterpiece' in Se7en?" Tags="|plot-explanation|se7en|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35366" CreationDate="2015-06-14T09:31:31.280" Score="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;John Doe planned this meticulously for a very long time, and with the exception of that small glitch where Somerset and Mills find his apartment a bit too early, it's safe to say his plan is carried out. However, Doe's plan involves 7 victims &lt;em&gt;representing&lt;/em&gt; each sin, &lt;strong&gt;but not necessarily &lt;em&gt;performing&lt;/em&gt; them or &lt;em&gt;dying&lt;/em&gt; for them:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Gluttony victim was indeed killed by Doe for his sin by being force-fed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Greed victim was killed somewhat indirectly by Doe, also for embodying his sin.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Pride victim also embodied her sin, but was presumably &lt;em&gt;faced with a choice&lt;/em&gt; and chose death herself. It's not made entirely clear in the film, but it's possible she &lt;em&gt;could've lived&lt;/em&gt;. It's also possible that this one was rushed or improvised after Doe was tracked down by Somerset and Mills and had to change his plans.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Sloth victim was punished for his sin as well, but &lt;em&gt;he's not dead yet&lt;/em&gt; (although braindead and basically a living corpse). His sin of Sloth was also rather &lt;em&gt;forced upon him&lt;/em&gt; by Doe.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Lust victim was the prostitute, but &lt;em&gt;the guy who actually embodies the sin of Lust is still alive&lt;/em&gt; (although traumatized and branded for life for killing her).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Envy victim is Mills' wife, although the sin's perpetrator is &lt;em&gt;Doe himself&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Wrath victim is Doe, now with &lt;em&gt;Mills embodying the sin&lt;/em&gt; and suffering the consequences.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, the master plan was never as straight forward as '7 people dying for their sins' but rather a complex admonition involving 7 victims and the 7 deadly sins, that eventually loops in on itself (with Doe and Mills playing a part in it: Doe being envious because he's unable to live a normal life in the sick world he's in, and Mills representing the law's inability to cure it). Doe wanted his master plan to be &quot;puzzled over and studied&quot;, and now, as Somerset realizes, he's certainly going to achieve that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-06-14T09:47:09.547" LastActivityDate="2015-06-14T09:47:09.547" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35362" CreationDate="2015-06-14T12:23:59.897" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the most simplest is the core of all entertainment. Entertainment is about evoking emotions in the consumer. It can be pride for solving a puzzle or something else, but usually the emotional situation is simply presented and you watch (or read in books) about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if you watch '&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095327/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hotaru no haka&lt;/a&gt;' (Grave of the fireflies) you probably will feel always sadness. So you probably will come back to watch it again, if you want to explore your emotions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the movie sets on surprises, this can work very well for the first viewing, but will not have the effect later on. And movies that simply fail, will probably not viewed again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastActivityDate="2015-06-14T12:23:59.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35372" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-14T12:43:43.177" Score="1" ViewCount="1300" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who are the group of children in the ending of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Club_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Suicide Club&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Whose children are they and why are they trying to teach everyone the lesson of being connected to themselves as they are to others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-14T14:17:53.437" LastActivityDate="2015-06-14T14:17:53.437" Title="What is the explanation to the ending of the Japanese movie Suicide Club?" Tags="|plot-explanation|suicide-club|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35377" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-14T16:31:33.517" Score="5" ViewCount="812" Body="&lt;p&gt;William Friedkin's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0269347/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hunted&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is introduced by a quote spoken by Johnny Cash, in which he gives an interesting rendition of the classic Judeo-Christian tale of Abraham's sacrifice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;God said to Abraham: &quot;Kill me a son!&quot; Abe says: &quot;Man, you must be puttin' me on.&quot; God say: &quot;No!&quot; Abe say: &quot;What?&quot; God say: &quot;You can do what you want, Abe. But the next time you see me comin, you better run.&quot; Abe says: &quot;Where do you want this killin' done?&quot; An' god says: &quot;Out on Highway 61.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From which the first line &lt;em&gt;&quot;God said to Abraham: &quot;Kill me a son!&quot;&quot;&lt;/em&gt; reappears at the end of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet I fail to see a clearer connection from that quote or the tale it's based on to the movie's story and themes. There is the notion of L.T. and his failure to be the father figure Hallam searched in him, which might ultimately have led to Hallam's breakdown and killing spree. And L.T. ultimately has to kill Hallam, but that's where the very superficial similarities stop already. Yet, it might as well be Hallam, who's supposed to represent Abraham and L.T. as the god who created him and has to take him down for not trusting in him, but that comparison doesn't really seem to hold much water either. So &lt;strong&gt;is there any more coherent connection between the tale of Abraham, Johnny Cash's rendition of it, or its underlying moral to themes and story of the movie&lt;/strong&gt; or was it merely just a &quot;stylish&quot; quote thrown into the mix for the more general and raw emotions it might evoke (whichever those would be)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-06-14T16:31:33.517" Title="Is there a deeper relation between Abraham's tale of sacrifice and The Hunted?" Tags="|analysis|dialogue|the-hunted|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35379" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35385" CreationDate="2015-06-14T18:38:43.053" Score="7" ViewCount="15877" Body="&lt;p&gt;The version of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I Am Legend&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; which I watched ended with Will Smith alive, but my friend claims that he had watched the same movie, in which he was killed by the zombies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have gone through a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/958/49&quot;&gt;similar question&lt;/a&gt; to mine, but in that question they are talking about the ending of the book while my friend is sure that he had watched the movie where Will Smith dies. Is it true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22043" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T08:10:01.737" Title="Ending of I Am Legend (2007)" Tags="|ending|alternate-version|i-am-legend|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35382" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35386" CreationDate="2015-06-14T19:41:05.987" Score="3" ViewCount="1053" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the third part of the &lt;em&gt;Matrix&lt;/em&gt; trilogy, what was happening to Neo?&#xA;Why does he get connected to the machines (all that piercing in head and spine), when he was blind. Did Neo know what he was doing? Explain the ending, or I'll say conclude the trilogy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22043" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-14T19:42:18.963" LastActivityDate="2015-06-14T20:39:18.970" Title="End of The Matrix Revolutions" Tags="|ending|the-matrix-revolutions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35383" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35397" CreationDate="2015-06-14T19:58:39.107" Score="3" ViewCount="3274" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching &lt;strong&gt;Martyrs (2008)&lt;/strong&gt;, I kept on thinking about the motive or the message behind that movie. My question is, why was the skin peeled off the entire body of that girl, and what did she tell to the old woman which led the woman to commit suicide? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22043" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-14T20:14:42.963" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T05:56:29.510" Title="Everything about a very disturbing movie Martyrs (2008)" Tags="|plot-explanation|martyrs|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35379" CreationDate="2015-06-14T20:38:39.993" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You saw the alternate ending, then.  As for your friend, he is slightly mistaken.  Will Smith actually blew himself up in the theatrical release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(film)&quot;&gt;Wiki page&lt;/a&gt;, you can check out the Alternate Ending and Home Media sections to see where it's available.  Also, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/alternateversions&quot;&gt;this IMDB page&lt;/a&gt; details the differences.  With specific reference to your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The ending to the Alternate Theatrical Version varies from the&#xA;  original ending. Instead of blowing himself and the hemocytes up with&#xA;  a grenade, Neville discovers that the hemocytes actually came for the&#xA;  female he captured earlier in the movie. He relieves her of the cure&#xA;  and returns her to the hemocytes. Afterwards, the hemocytes leave and&#xA;  let Neville, Anna, and Ethan be. The three then are seen leaving New&#xA;  York heading to Vermont's safe zone with Anna broadcasting a message&#xA;  telling all other survivors that she is with Neville and is heading to&#xA;  the safe zone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-06-14T20:38:39.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35382" CreationDate="2015-06-14T20:39:18.970" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neo was killing two birds with one stone by going to the Machine City. First, he needed to parley with Deus Ex Machina for peace. Secondly, he knew that by being directly connected to the mainframe, he could ensure that Smith would be destroyed no matter what. As it happened, Smith proved to be unbeatable, so Neo allowed Smith to absorb him, which directly connected Smith to the mainframe, allowing Deus Ex Machina to delete the Smith virus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Neo had simply been beaten to a pulp and killed, Deus Ex Machina would have ordered the sentries to finish off Zion. However, as Neo ensured that Smith was given access to by Deus Ex Machina, their agreement was fulfilled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2015-06-14T20:39:18.970" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35387" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-14T21:02:10.007" Score="2" ViewCount="101" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Breaking Bad, why does Walter White wear the hat everytime when he acts like Heisenberg?&#xA;Does it symbolize his attitude or something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22043" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-14T21:26:52.247" LastActivityDate="2015-06-14T21:26:52.247" Title="Why does Walter White wear the hat everytime when he acts like Heisenberg?" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-06-14T21:37:55.013" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12386" CreationDate="2015-06-15T01:32:19.360" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was an officer in the U.S Army. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are oaths that are sworn when you are commissioned. In my opinion, Col. Jessup would have been charged with several offenses under the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Code_of_Military_Justice&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;UCMJ&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Unified Code of Military Justice&lt;/em&gt;). Issuing an illegal order would have been one, but more importantly and more severe would have been several counts of perjury, as well as interfering with a governmental investigation and conduct unbecoming of a Marine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Committing perjury on the stand is probably why he was immediately detained by the trial judge in lieu of returning to his post while under investigation. Whether or not he would have seen any jail-time would probably have hinged on the amount of publicity the case would have received. But without a doubt, his military career would be over as well as any future political aspirations he may have entertained. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would imagine that at the least, he would have been reduced in rank and forced to retire. But this was a fictional story. A very good one I might add.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One last note, after the problems began with Cuba in the early 1960's, anything that happened at &lt;em&gt;Gitmo&lt;/em&gt; were classified at the highest levels. Any incidents like the one portrayed in the film would been notoriously hidden from public. It was not until 9/11 and the war in Iraq, that the American people became familiar with the operations at &lt;em&gt;Gitmo&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22109" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-06-15T07:45:33.227" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T07:45:33.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35394" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35400" CreationDate="2015-06-15T03:06:47.477" Score="11" ViewCount="4677" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;, the titular robot compels a Korean scientist to make him a body into which he plans to transfer his consciousness. Why? Such a body would seem to make him vulnerable to the very plot he plans to destroy all life on earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:30:56.040" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T15:30:56.040" Title="Why did Ultron want a flesh body?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35396" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35692" CreationDate="2015-06-15T05:50:28.613" Score="3" ViewCount="1086" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Batman Begins, Batman goes into the Narrows to check where the drugs are going. He gets into a fight with Dr.Crane dressed with scarecrow mask and Batman is given the hallucinogenic spray by crane and is also set on fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this Batman with great difficulty manages to reach the roof top and after that he calls Alfred for help and the next scene he is in Alfred's car. My question is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How did Alfred get Batman out of the Narrows even where cops go with force.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any theory will be welcome.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-06-15T13:11:24.440" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T21:59:28.983" Title="How did Batman end up in Alfred's car" Tags="|plot-explanation|batman-begins|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35383" CreationDate="2015-06-15T06:08:15.133" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Martyr&lt;/a&gt;, Mademoiselle  was the head of secret philosophical society seeking to discover the secrets of the afterlife through the creation of &quot;martyrs&quot;. Their experiments inflict systematic acts of torture upon young women in the belief that their suffering will result in a transcendental insight into the world beyond this one. It include that peeling of the skin etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For you second question why Mademoiselle commit suicide?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer is in the last lines of Mademoiselle&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mademoiselle: Keep doubting. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1029234/trivia?tab=qt&amp;amp;ref_=tt_trv_qu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They kept it ambiguous intentionally. There are various theories on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/comments/4n0thm/theories_on_what_anna_told_mademoiselle_in_martyrs/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;reddit&lt;/a&gt; about it but they are just plain speculation form the side of viewer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-04-19T05:56:29.510" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T05:56:29.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35396" CreationDate="2015-06-15T07:54:55.847" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alfred is an ex-military man who acquired a number of advanced and practical skills. Considering his capability with mechanics and engineering, it stands for reason that he is able to locate and retrieve wounded individuals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However... this scene is glossed over in the movie for theatrical purposes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T07:54:55.847" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35399" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35438" CreationDate="2015-06-15T08:29:16.773" Score="1" ViewCount="1074" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the seasons of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; we have heard Melisandre talking about Azor Ahai Reborn, a hero fighting against the Others (White Walkers), we will not find out who this character actually is, but &lt;strong&gt;which characters fit the criteria of Azor Ahai?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-04-29T06:18:14.977" LastActivityDate="2019-04-29T06:18:14.977" Title="Who could be the Azor Ahai?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2015-06-16T06:37:02.763" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35394" CreationDate="2015-06-15T08:31:27.580" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;All that matters to Ultron was to expand his power to fight the Avengers so that he could do what he wants. To increase his power, he wanted that body out of vibranium, which we have seen in the movie was very powerful (in a constructive way). If Ultron's experiment had not been interrupted by the Avengers, it could had made him as powerful as the Vision. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22043" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-15T08:32:09.857" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T08:32:09.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35402" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43123" CreationDate="2015-06-15T09:20:12.200" Score="15" ViewCount="18611" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Jurassic World, after defeating the Indominus Rex, the T-Rex and Velociraptor exchange a glance and then leave different ways. Was that really a natural behavior?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-15T11:03:59.223" LastActivityDate="2018-01-23T02:06:20.837" Title="Why didn't T-Rex and Velociraptor attack each other?" Tags="|jurassic-world|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35403" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35406" CreationDate="2015-06-15T09:39:45.363" Score="20" ViewCount="48054" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is stated in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; that each one hour spent on &lt;em&gt;Miller's Planet&lt;/em&gt; equals seven years &lt;em&gt;earth time&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cooper and his colleagues spend some time on the planet, and by the time they return, Romilly says that he has been waiting for 23 years, which means they must have spend three hours on the planet (highly doubted). But that's not the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Romilly survive 23 years on that Endurance? Did he have unlimited food supplies? What about the generated waste (if you know what I mean)? Did they just throw it all in space? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="32006" LastEditDate="2016-03-28T00:02:21.207" LastActivityDate="2022-05-09T03:19:06.420" Title="How did Romilly survive 23 years on the Endurance?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35404" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16118" CreationDate="2015-06-15T09:53:11.180" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe, only the one particle that Heisenberg gives to Tuco is actually Mercury(II) Fulminate. The others are just similarly textured random particles. When Heisenberg demonstrates Tuco the damage he can do, he is just bluffing to create explosion with other particles. The other particles were never Mercury(II) Fulminate. Thus, Walt must have taken care that the only Mercury(II) Fulminate doesn't react or explode by friction with other particles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Heisenberg is very careful about quantities. To add to that, he doesn't have much money at that part of series. So he must have created just one particle of Mercury(II) Fulminate to intimidate Tuco, that's it. Also, in later episodes, S05, Jesse explains to Hank and Gomez that Walter has far more luck on his side than them. So it was just pure luck that Tuco got Heisenberg's point in one particle use. Had Tuco retaliated against that explosion, Heisenberg would have not survived. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22115" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T09:53:11.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35402" CreationDate="2015-06-15T10:17:48.620" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I did some checking after my comment and found that T-Rex&lt;/strong&gt; (fossils are found in a variety of rock formations dating to the Maastrichtian age of the upper Cretaceous Period, 68 to 66 million years ago, wiki) &lt;strong&gt;and Velociraptors&lt;/strong&gt; (lived approximately 75 to 71 million years ago during the later part of the Cretaceous Period, wiki again) &lt;strong&gt;did not lived on the same period of time&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also a T-Rex has a speed of roughly 18mph while a Velociraptor run up to roughly 40 mph (too fast for a T-Rex, wiki), and Velociraptors hunt in packs (specified in the movie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now referring to the movie T-Rex sees Indominus Rex they growl, no one backs up so they both attack (natural behavior to me). The Velociraptor follows Owens command and also attacks. After that fight there is no reason to fight each other, none of them display aggressive behavior towards the other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19067" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-16T09:49:12.820" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T09:49:12.820" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35403" CreationDate="2015-06-15T10:21:16.897" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Hypersleep Pods (a.k.a. &amp;quot;the long nap&amp;quot;) are used to slow the ageing process of the human body so that astronauts do not incur excessive senescence and not overly consume limited supplies while on their missions.&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://interstellarfilm.wikia.com/wiki/Hypersleep_Pod&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;reference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Romily clearly states that he had slept for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19067" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T10:21:16.897" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35407" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35410" CreationDate="2015-06-15T11:20:52.633" Score="9" ViewCount="4986" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the season finale of Game of Thrones Season 5, Sansa lights a candle in Broken Tower. Later when Sansa is threatened by Myranda Theon kills Myranda and rescues her. Earlier on in the season an old woman approaches Sansa and tells her that her family still has friends in the North and that if she ever lit the candle, help would come. So I'm wondering, was Theon secretly in league with the Stark Secret Service or did he simply snap out of it just in time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-06-15T13:08:58.897" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T13:22:30.917" Title="Was Theon always loyal to Sansa?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31816" CreationDate="2015-06-15T11:23:08.883" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the whole shoplifting arc had a lot to do with Hank. The moment Marie started it al her relationship with Hank was not good at all. Marie tried her best too fix it but Hank had is own troubles about going to Juarez if I recall correctly.&#xA;After that it stoppped for a while, but when Hank gets in recovery after he gets shot. Mariage problems started up again. Hank won't talk too Marie. And when Marie couldn't take it anymore she started imposing as someone else and going to open houses. And eventually stealing stuff again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22116" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T11:23:08.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35409" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35413" CreationDate="2015-06-15T11:30:12.450" Score="2" ViewCount="505" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 4 of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; Gomez has grown a goatee. Is there some sort of link to Walter or something? It is after all his &quot;trademark&quot;. So I thought they wouldn't just give anybody one, or am I just looking for  something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22116" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-15T12:00:27.337" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T13:10:11.507" Title="Has Gomez' goatee something to do with Walter in season 4?" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35407" CreationDate="2015-06-15T12:33:15.417" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Theon snapped out of his 'Reek' persona when Myranda threatened Sansa.&#xA;Until that point, he had been so beaten down by Ramsay that he was too terrified to assist Sansa. Remember, Theon watched Sansa get raped and reported to Ramsay when Sansa asked him to light a candle in the tower earlier in the season.  Because of this, Ramsay flayed and killed the old woman you mentioned.&#xA;His relationship with Sansa slowly brought him out of his insanity. First he risked Ramsay's wrath by telling her about Bran and Rickon. Later he helped her escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Added quotes from the creators of the show elaborating this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quote from Benioff:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We’ve seen terrible things happen to Theon and we’ve seen him refuse to rebel against his master time and time again, and finally, in this moment, he does, I think the great original sin of his life was turning on the Starks and betraying them, and he’s regretted it ever since. And now, finally, after all this time comes a chance for a little bit of redemption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quote from Weiss:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Both of them are people who have suffered so much at the hands of horrible people, but no matter how far gone they are — he’s as far gone as anybody we’ve ever seen — they can still come back and find the inner strength to keep on keeping on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20458" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-06-15T14:38:57.923" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T14:38:57.923" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35411" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35414" CreationDate="2015-06-15T12:48:13.423" Score="3" ViewCount="4383" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt; episode S01E14 Oliver makes a joke that he was trapped on an island and his only friend was named Wilson. What does this joke mean? People say that it is related to the Tom Hanks movie &quot;Cast Away&quot;, but I haven't seen that movie. How is it related?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11544" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-10T11:50:49.103" LastActivityDate="2016-04-10T11:50:49.103" Title="What does Oliver's joke in S01E14 about being trapped on an island with his only friend named Wilson mean?" Tags="|dialogue|reference|arrow|arrowverse|cast-away|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35411" CreationDate="2015-06-15T12:54:21.300" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wilson was Tom Hanks' only friend on the island in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162222/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cast Away&lt;/a&gt;. It was a volley ball made by Wilson Sporting Goods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During an early phase on the island, Tom Hanks became depressed, and opened most of the packages from the FedEx plane storage. One contained this ball. Hanks had a bleeding hand, and he smacked the ball with his palm, accidentally creating a pseudo face on the ball. This face and the ball became his island confidante.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-15T14:16:15.373" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T14:16:15.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35409" CreationDate="2015-06-15T13:10:11.507" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/breaking-bad-q-a-partner-up-with-steven-michael-quezadas-gomez-20130906&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;According to Steven Michael Quezada&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To me, for a cop, Gomez is sort of a goofy, not-very-confident kind of&#xA;  guy. That was cool with me – that was the character, that's who he&#xA;  was. He grew, though. All that's happened since he separated from&#xA;  Hank, when they sent him to El Paso and &lt;strong&gt;he came back with a beard&#xA;  [laughs] – like a growing-up, becoming-a-man kind of thing, you know?&#xA;  He's a little tougher, a little more confident.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T13:10:11.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35411" CreationDate="2015-06-15T13:53:50.093" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer plays into itself in two ways:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the film Cast Away, Tom Hanks' character finds a &lt;strong&gt;Wilson brand volleyball&lt;/strong&gt; in the wreckage and, after giving it a face in the bloody palm print he leaves on the ball, he proceeds to treat the ball as his friend during his stay on the island. Given Ollie was a castaway on an island himself, he's simply using this aspect of the movie to make light of his situation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, it's not meant to be a complete joke. During the previous episode (13 in this case) we learn &lt;strong&gt;he meets and works with Deathstroke on the island, whose full name is Slade Joseph Wilson&lt;/strong&gt;. For a period of time Slade was pretty much his only friend on the island.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-06-15T15:00:56.107" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T15:00:56.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35399" CreationDate="2015-06-15T14:05:01.623" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are few candidates who qualify to be named as one of the favorites to become Azor Ahai.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1 Stannis Baratheon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2 Daenerys Targaryen&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3 Jon Snow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4 Victarion Greyjoy (&lt;strong&gt;Hasn't appeared on TV&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5 Aegon Targaryen (&lt;strong&gt;Hasn't appeared on TV&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please refer to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Azor_Ahai/Theories&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Azor Ahai/Theories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; page for information on why fans believe these are the candidates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Currently there isn't enough information to determine who would it actually be.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20356" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T14:05:01.623" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35417" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35435" CreationDate="2015-06-15T14:48:28.450" Score="8" ViewCount="22677" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went to Jurassic World last night and it left me with a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jurassic world is on the same island (from the looks of it) as Jurassic Park so where did those other dinosaurs from the previous park go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the evidence of it being on the same island:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Old Jurassic Park dome gets found.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The boat sign that Ned tinckered with during his escape from the island.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22120" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-19T22:14:51.063" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T22:32:00.073" Title="What happened to the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jurassic-world|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35418" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35423" CreationDate="2015-06-15T16:13:24.463" Score="2" ViewCount="1081" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; we see that Daenarys can't be burned by flames, would this ability have extended to the rest of the members of House Targaryen? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason I ask is that, during the episode where the Night's Watch has a funeral for Aemon, we see that they have him resting on a funeral pyre which they then set alight. The custom would make perfect sense for anyone else, but seeing as he's a member of House Targaryen, it seems like this would have been a fruitless endeavour because it wouldn't actually burn him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe they'd only have this ability whilst alive though? Is there any mention of this being a trait for Targaryens anywhere in the books? I'm only nearing the end of the first book in the series but I've been keeping up with the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13394" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-15T16:15:11.793" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T01:26:56.743" Title="Are All Members of House Targaryen Impervious to Flames?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35417" CreationDate="2015-06-15T17:25:33.093" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Isla_Nublar_(Movie_canon)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jurassic Park Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; gives some clues ... in &lt;em&gt;The Lost World&lt;/em&gt;, for example, a deleted scene has a character saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Demolition, de-construction, and disposal of Isla Nublar facilities, &#xA;  organic and inorganic, one hundred and twenty-six million dollars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the VHS Box Set for &lt;em&gt;The Lost World&lt;/em&gt; has text on the back that reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The dinosaurs are destroyed, the park is dismantled and the island is &#xA;  indefinitely closed for the public...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems clear, then, that between the first and second movies, all dinosaurs on the 1st island were completely destroyed and the island was abandoned until Masrani bought it and built his Jurassic World park there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T17:25:33.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35422" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-15T18:25:43.133" Score="2" ViewCount="384" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Cary Grant/Deborah Kerr version of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050105/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;An Affair to Remember&lt;/em&gt; (1957)&lt;/a&gt;, what does Gladys the maid mumble angrily as Deborah Kerr's boyfriend Ken enters the apartment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22128" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2017-08-04T17:09:44.763" LastActivityDate="2017-12-02T19:16:03.397" Title="What does the maid mumble?" Tags="|dialogue|an-affair-to-remember|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35418" CreationDate="2015-06-15T18:40:29.233" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Copied from my answer on SF&amp;amp;F SE...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Targeryens, are not immune to fire as stated multiple times by George RR Martin. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/945/&quot;&gt;westeros.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;some fans are reading too much into the scene in GAME OF THRONES where the dragons are born -- which is to say, it was never the case that all Targaryens are immune to all fire at all times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20001005212114/eventhorizon.com/sfzine/chats/transcripts/031899.html&quot;&gt;From a chat...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Granny, thanks for asking that. It gives me a chance to clear up a common misconception. TARGARYENS ARE NOT IMMUNE TO FIRE! The birth of Dany's dragons was unique, magical, wonderous, a miracle. She is called The Unburnt because she walked into the flames and lived. But her brother sure as hell wasn't immune to that molten gold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to the followup question asking if Dany would survive the fire again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Probably not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically answering your question about funerals, the Targaryens always burned their dead. So even if there were some partial fire immunity, it wouldn't last when the person was dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://towerofthehand.com/books/104/036/index.html&quot;&gt;A Feast For Crows (Sam POV Chapter):&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He will still burn , Sam thought miserably, only now I have to do it. &lt;strong&gt;The Targaryens always gave their fallen to the flames.&lt;/strong&gt; Quhuru Mo would not allow a funeral pyre aboard the Cinnamon Wind, so Aemon’s corpse had been stuffed inside a cask of blackbelly rum to preserve it until the ship reached Oldtown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: In the books Aemon leaves for Oldtown with Sam and dies along the way.  However I think that passage should still be relevant for the TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20458" LastEditorUserId="20458" LastEditDate="2015-06-16T01:26:56.743" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T01:26:56.743" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35425" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-15T19:12:20.343" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-06-15T19:12:20.343" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T19:12:20.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35426" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-15T19:12:20.343" Score="0" Body="A 1957 romance film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, directed by Leo McCary." OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-06-15T21:21:46.993" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T21:21:46.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35354" CreationDate="2015-06-15T20:59:58.713" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you remember beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Velociraptor_antirrhopus#Jurassic_Park_III&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jurassic Park III&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the start of the film, before Grant attends to the island, Billy creates a model Velociraptor &quot;&lt;strong&gt;resonation chamber&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, a bony structure that enables complex communication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Indominus also must have this organ and while it must be bigger in size she is able to communicate with the raptors by using it. We have to assume that the rex doesn't have this organ and is therefore unable to communicate with the raptors or the Indominus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I'm loosing myself here but there is also another interesting paragraph from the article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because this sudden chance of appearance of the Raptors violates the continuality of the series, many Jurassic Park fans have tried to create an explanation of this change. In most of these theories, the raptors from the first two movies and the raptors in the third movies are treated as two different genetic versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my point of view this plays out really well after you have seen Jurassic World. Yes these raptors are still this big while they should be smaller and should have feathers according to current research. Indeed these are theme park monsters just as the critics say, in as well as out of universe. While the first film wanted to achieve the most accurate portrayal at the time, the last film — from my point of view — managed to have no major issues being scientifically wrong &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; also consistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speaking of consistency, did you notice the scars on the rex? We can assume that his is the same rex who fought the raptors in the visitor center at the end of the first film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Why would she of all seemingly cooperate with the raptors at the end which just switched sides again? &lt;em&gt;&quot;They had fight together against this new threat&quot;&lt;/em&gt; sounds a bit silly at first when talking about &lt;em&gt;wild&lt;/em&gt; animals as Owen calls them, but we don't know what happened to &lt;em&gt;her&lt;/em&gt; during all that time and Blue, the remaining raptor, reallly doesn't pose a threat to her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All we know is that there is a variety of not only different species but probably also differently &lt;em&gt;engineered&lt;/em&gt; individuals or individual production batches and that some of them can adapt very well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also for critics to consider, assets/lifeforms from previous movies didn't just became obsolete and died the moment contradicting research was published.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18710" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T20:59:58.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32479" CreationDate="2015-06-15T21:39:46.687" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that Tom simply reached a point in his life where he believed there was no viable future for him or his family.  Essentially he felt that it would be better to let his family die sooner from a disease rather than later through starvation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15544" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T21:39:46.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21383" CreationDate="2015-06-15T21:57:42.543" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spoiler Alert&lt;/em&gt; So Coldhands is rumored to be Benjen, as he dresses in night's watch garb and doesn't reveal his face. Having watched the finale, perhaps Jon will become Coldhands instead? Maybe Bran, being with/becoming the 3 Eyed Raven, he'll have the power to transform Jon in some way? The three eyed raven seems to have some control over wights as they can't enter his cave (&quot;the magic that reanimates them has no power there&quot; &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Three-eyed_raven&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Three-eyed_raven&lt;/a&gt;). They may bury Jon in the Godswood near a weirwood and Bran could transform him that way? Just a theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22140" LastActivityDate="2015-06-15T21:57:42.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35407" CreationDate="2015-06-15T22:25:26.600" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just to add one thing about Theon which is  explicit in the books and strongly implied in the show, which explains why it would be in character for him to act at that moment regardless of loyalties or plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By far his strongest motivators are terror and the belief that everything is a trap like his false escape with Ramsay always one step ahead - but Myranda's comment just before Theon acts temporarily  changes this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many moments in the books where he  explicitly sees an  apparent opportunity for a moment of redemption, escape, maybe even a quick  less painful death  for himself  or someone he pities - but fears that Ramsay would somehow be one step ahead and find an even crueler punishment. Here's a typical example from A Dance With Dragons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Theon drew the dagger. &lt;em&gt;All I need do is turn and stab him [Ramsay]. The knife is in my hand&lt;/em&gt;. He knew the game by then. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another trap&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; he told himself [...] &lt;em&gt;He wants me to try kill him. And when I fail, he'll&lt;/em&gt; [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in  this particular moment, confronted by Myranda while Ramsay is out fighting, this terror and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;learned helplessness&lt;/a&gt; is less of an inhibition - particularly immediately after this line (&lt;a href=&quot;http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&amp;amp;t=19079&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;taken from this transcript&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;em&gt;Myranda:&lt;/em&gt;] Ramsay needs you [Sansa]. Though I suppose he doesn't need all of you. Just&#xA;the parts he'll use to make his heir, until you've given him a boy or&#xA;two and he's finished using them. Then he's got incredible plans for&#xA;those parts. So, shall we wait for him to come back or should we begin&#xA;now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, Myranda gave away that &lt;strong&gt;she's acting alone&lt;/strong&gt;. This isn't Myranda  playing a part in another devilish trap of Ramsay's. It's just Myranda, acting on her personal grudge against Sansa, speculating about what Ramsay thinks. It's like an arachnophobe discovering  that this isn't an overwhelmingly terrifying poisonous spider - it's just a  quite frightening but beatable poisonous scorpion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, Myranda discussed Ramsay's long term plans and the sadism he saves for  his victims once they are no longer useful. It must have sent a chill down Theon's spine at the thought of &lt;strong&gt;what will happen to &lt;em&gt;him&lt;/em&gt; if he reaches the day he's no longer useful&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing which seems to be common among  long term abuse victims (including Theon) is  being focused on  just making it through each day, rarely thinking ahead. This comment of Myranda's will have bought Theon's future into sharp relief. &lt;strong&gt;No matter how good a Reek he becomes, always doing what Ramsay wants, one day Ramsay will &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; decide to do his absolute worst, with no warning.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suddenly, it's  meekly doing nothing and &lt;em&gt;not rebelling&lt;/em&gt;  which looks like the option most  likely to result Ramsay doing his worst, while rebelling  right now only involves dealing with Myranda.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His motivation  to help Sansa had been slowly building, as described in the other answer - and this was one moment where temporarily, his overwhelming terror of Ramsay is actually a reason to act, and act now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9718" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T13:22:30.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35417" CreationDate="2015-06-15T23:02:20.000" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of &lt;em&gt;The Lost World&lt;/em&gt; Hammond reveals to Malcolm that despite &lt;a href=&quot;http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Lysine_contingency&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;lysine contingency&lt;/a&gt; there is a flourishing population on the production facility on Isla Sorna (Site B) which was also abandoned after the park on Isla Nublar (Site A) was abandoned. This implies that the majority of animals on Isla Nublar must have died, some may have been eaten by predators like the rex, others may have had a very short life due to genetic failures in the first production batches (we see some failures in &lt;em&gt;Jurassic Park III&lt;/em&gt;) and some may have been poisoned by eating the wrong plants like the triceratops in the first movie. Also there may not have been many dinosaurs in the park to begin with as Malcolm notes in the first movie and which would make sense if basic construction works were still ongoing in the park and the operations team was busy fixing dozens of software glitches. In the book there is a system which counts all dinosaurs using motion detection with an expected number of about 240 and worthy to note the dinosaurs have version numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scars on the rex in &lt;em&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/em&gt; however imply that at least this one could be the one who fought the raptors in the first movie and that it was enough of a valuable asset and resilient to survive to be included in the in the new park on Isla Nublar. The website confirms this, thank you for the hint &lt;em&gt;invalid_id&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E8sTh.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screenshot from &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;http://uk.jurassicworldintl.com/park-map/tyrannosaurus-rex-kingdom/&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt; quote: &amp;quot;It’s T. rex’s world—the rest of us are just visiting it. Venture into the Jurassic-sized viewing area to see the legendary predator in her natural domain. After all, she’s been living on Isla Nublar for over twenty-five years! Feedings are scheduled every two hours. Warning: This attraction may be too intense for children and some adults.&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also remember that the rex and the baby rex from Isla Sorna were shipped back to Isla Sorna &lt;em&gt;alive&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;em&gt;The Lost World&lt;/em&gt;. Also Hammond didn't give the impression in his closing speech or anywhere else in the first two movies to dispose of the dinosaurs and in &lt;em&gt;Jurassic Park III&lt;/em&gt; Isla Sorna is still isolated territory with no indication for planned bombings on one of the islands, which would probably have caused more costs and work than necessary if the new park was scheduled to open already in 2005.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you only consider the movies (without deleted scenes) the writers of &lt;em&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/em&gt; had more liberties to write a new screenplay that doesn't require a &quot;reboot&quot;, but brings the story forward and it looks like that is what they did (and succeeded with).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18710" LastEditorUserId="18710" LastEditDate="2015-06-26T22:32:00.073" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T22:32:00.073" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35422" CreationDate="2015-06-16T01:24:43.433" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;She says &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.subzin.com/quotes/M32175b5e/An+Affair+to+Remember/Point+killer.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Point killer&quot;&lt;/a&gt; at 1:05:02&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20895" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T01:24:43.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35399" CreationDate="2015-06-16T02:25:36.677" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anyone really&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for now, based on the actual prophecy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There will come a day after a long summer when the stars bleed and the cold breath of darkness falls heavy on the world. In this dread hour a warrior shall draw from the fire a burning sword. And that sword shall be Lightbringer, the Red Sword of Heroes, and he who clasps it shall be Azor Ahai come again, and the darkness shall flee before him.&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Azor_Ahai#Azor_Ahai_come_again&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you believe that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Azor_Ahai#Azor_Ahai_come_again&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Azor Ahai Reborn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is the same person as &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Prince_that_was_promised&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Prince That Was Promised&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt.&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/The_prince_that_was_promised#About&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see, the candidate must meet the following &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/The_prince_that_was_promised#Signs_of_the_coming_of_the_prince_that_was_promised&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;criteria&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The birth of a male child - a prince. (erroneous according to Maester Aemon)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The prince is of the blood of the dragon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Born of the line of Aerys and Rhaella Targaryen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Born amidst smoke&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Born amidst salt&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A bleeding star in the skies. (also mentioned is being born beneath a bleeding star)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Possibly the return of dragons (when he was a boy, Aegon V Targaryen recalled that King Aerys I read about the return of dragons in a prophecy.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The dark eye falls upon the prince?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, the closest candidates are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Daenerys_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Daenerys Targaryen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was born on Dragonstone when a huge storm hit - &lt;strong&gt;Salt&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was re-born on the Dothraki Sea in Drogo's Funeral Pyre - &lt;strong&gt;Smoke&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Returned dragons to the world&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is of the line of &lt;strong&gt;Aerys&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Rhaella Targaryen&lt;/strong&gt; (their youngest child)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the &quot;blood of the dragon&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Benerro claims that &quot;The Dark Eye&quot; has befallen her&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Red_comet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Bleeding Star&lt;/a&gt; appears as soon as she &quot;births&quot; her dragons&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Her dragons are said to be her &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Lightbringer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lightbringer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there's [&lt;em&gt;A Dance With Dragons&lt;/em&gt; spoilers]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Jon_Snow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jon Snow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rumoured to have been conceived of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Jon_Snow/Theories#Lyanna_Stark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; - of the line of &lt;strong&gt;Aerys&lt;/strong&gt; and therfore is &lt;strong&gt;blood of the dragon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;When he gets stabbed, his blood &quot;smokes&quot; and Bowen Marsh is crying - &lt;strong&gt;Salt&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Smoke&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bleeding Star appears when he is &quot;born&quot; into the Night's Watch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Theorised that he will &quot;wake dragons from stone&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dark Eye can also be another reference to The Great Other (who clearly has his eyes on Jon)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;His &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Lightbringer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lightbringer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; could be Longclaw, or the Night's Watch or even Ghost&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and finally,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Aegon_Targaryen_(son_of_Rhaegar)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Aegon VI Targaryen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eldest son of Rhaegar and Elia Martell - therefore he is of the line of &lt;strong&gt;Aerys&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Rhaella&lt;/strong&gt; and is &lt;strong&gt;blood of the dragon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;That's it&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you don't necessarily believe that &lt;strong&gt;Azor Ahai Reborn&lt;/strong&gt; is the same person as &lt;strong&gt;The Prince That Was Promised&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stannis Baratheon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Melisandre is convinced that AAR is in fact our very own Stannis The Mannis!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jon Snow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Consider this line from Melisandre's very own POV chapter:&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&quot;I pray for a glimpse of Azor Ahai, and R'hllor shows me only Snow.&quot;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;-A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five - A Dance With Dragons, Chapter Thirty-One (&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/A_Dance_with_Dragons-Chapter_31&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Melisandre I&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Snow, in this case is widely believed to refer to Jon Snow (the capitalisation of the &quot;S&quot; is on purpose)!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Further to this, there's some more evidence based on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/92690/21267&quot;&gt;Origin of the name Azor Ahai&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All of this can change based on the show-writers (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss) or the author of the books (George R. R. Martin) at any point; and we won't find out the final outcome until the very end!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-06-17T23:33:54.757" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29840" CreationDate="2015-06-16T02:49:04.417" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The gun was stolen from beacham then returned after the murder thus the shells and bullet matched beachams gun not the gun the murderer was caught with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22146" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T02:49:04.417" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35443" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35458" CreationDate="2015-06-16T03:23:01.437" Score="28" ViewCount="48899" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final test in Kingsman: The Secret Service, Eggsy was given a gun and asked to shoot the puppy he had been training. Eggsy fails the test because he chooses not to shoot the puppy. Later on, Hart reveals that the gun was a blank, and that also the candidate Amelia didn't actually drown, so no lives were lost during the testing. Hart explains that &quot;limits must be tested,&quot; and that &quot;Kingsman only condones the risking of a life to save another.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, isn't asking a candidate to kill a puppy without any good reason asking them to act in a way that doesn't follow the condition that they should risk a life only to save another? It seemed like they were testing whether the candidate would kill whenever ordered to, regardless of whether or not it saved a life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have thought that the &quot;right&quot; answer would be not to kill the puppy, showing that the candidate wouldn't take a life without good reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19577" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-08-16T09:41:26.267" LastActivityDate="2024-03-30T18:05:33.640" Title="Why were they supposed to shoot the puppy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|kingsman-the-secret-service|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35444" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-16T03:30:19.963" Score="2" ViewCount="444" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0995832&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Generation Kill&lt;/a&gt; a musical? I know, I know, the first answer to come to mind is no, but they are telling the story of a real event and place, and frequently the characters break into song. If I'm wrong, fine, but what are the rules to be a musical?  Does it need to have an original score?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22149" LastEditorUserId="36669" LastEditDate="2023-06-10T17:25:53.550" LastActivityDate="2023-06-10T17:25:53.550" Title="Is HBO's Generation Kill a musical?" Tags="|analysis|genre|generation-kill|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32744" CreationDate="2015-06-16T03:40:42.547" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I understand, the Alphas do not retain the ability to reset the day and the Omega can no longer remember what happened anymore. Whenever Cage died, he activated the Omega's automatic response to reset the day, but only Cage would remember what had happened. I think that the Omega may have sensed that it was losing control because Alphas may have been getting killed without the day being reset. But the director left it pretty ambiguous about how the Omega knew it was losing control. I think it may have just set up the trap at the dam already, and just tried to send out the fake visions to whatever else was connected to its mind, even though it couldn't pinpoint where that entity (Cage) was. If it could have pinpointed Cage, I assume it would have just found Cage and taken his blood as soon as he landed on the beach the second time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that since the Alphas didn't have the power anymore, it wouldn't be able for anyone else to get the power from their blood. Maybe if Cage bled a lot on someone it would work - we know Rita tried to pass it on to others, but she never said whether she tried bleeding on other people. We only know that she tried sex. If indeed the power could be passed on, I would think that the power would only be possessed by one person at a time. It seems like only one being can have the power at a time, since once Cage acquired it the Mimic collective was no longer in control of it (beyond automatic responses triggered by Cage). But a lot is left unexplained, this part is just speculation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19577" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T03:40:42.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35403" CreationDate="2015-06-16T04:29:21.330" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the conversation after Cooper and Amelia return to Endurance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Brand: Hello, Rom.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Romilly: I've waited years.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Cooper: How... How many years?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Romilly: By now it must be …&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  CASE: Twenty-three years, four months, eight days.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Romilly: Doyle?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Brand: I thought I was prepared. I knew the theory. Reality's different.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Romilly: And [Miller's Planet]?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Brand: There's nothing here for us. Why didn't you sleep?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Romilly: Oh, I had a couple of stretches. But I stopped believing you were coming back. And something seemed wrong about dreaming my life away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Romilly didn't sleep for the whole period, that's why he looked aged compared to Cooper and Amelia when they come back. He was a scientist by heart so after taking a couple of stretches as he said, he started doing research on the black hole (Gargantua) and that's how he spent 23 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About the food supplies and all, it is not clearly mentioned anywhere in the movie, but he might be able to stretch the supplies with those couple of stretches he took while Cooper and Amelia were away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20693" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-03-28T09:11:32.420" LastActivityDate="2016-03-28T09:11:32.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35449" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="66693" CreationDate="2015-06-16T04:44:21.783" Score="-1" ViewCount="4186" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a big fan of the Pixar movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredibles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Incredibles&lt;/a&gt;. I especially love the animation. However, there's one point I've been wondering about: the strength of gravity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike some other styles of animation, Pixar tends to create physically-realistic motion, including how long things take to fall. However, in at least two sequences in The Incredibles, people fall at far too fast for reality. I'm wondering why, when the highly-professional studio virtually always gets it right, they seemed to get it way wrong here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first case, Mr. Incredible konks a bad guy with a coconut (at about 58:38 on my copy), causing him to fall off of a platform:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JYKEI.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JYKEI.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The guy takes about a second to fall about ten meters, giving an acceleration of about 20m/s^2, or double gravity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another incident is more egregious. Here, Mr. Incredible drops Mirage after threatening her (at 1:23:17):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9gkmm.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9gkmm.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Dropping Mirage&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She takes about 1/4 second to fall about 2 meters, giving an acceleration of about 64 m/s^2, or six times gravity. (BTW, in converting the video to GIFs I messed up the frame rate, so the GIF durations are probably wrong.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike classic Warner Brothers cartoons, these aren't plot points where the breaking of physics entertains. And, not only is the physics wrong, but it just looks wrong, which leads me to wonder why Pixar did it that way. Given their overall excellence (how many Academy awards?) my best guess is that, for some other reason, high gravity generally makes the animations look somehow &quot;good&quot; (realistic, fun, exciting) and they didn't adjust it when something actually fell freely. Or, maybe it's just a mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is: why did Pixar do this motion &quot;wrong&quot;, where they spent so much effort doing it right elsewhere in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22150" LastEditorUserId="22150" LastEditDate="2019-02-18T11:29:36.010" LastActivityDate="2019-02-18T21:24:14.663" Title="Why in &quot;The Incredibles&quot; is the usually-realistic gravity sometimes WAY too strong?" Tags="|animation|the-incredibles|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="18" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35443" CreationDate="2015-06-16T05:25:39.450" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's likely a combination of &quot;how good at following our orders are you&quot; or &quot;do you have a problem killing something when you may not know why/feel that great about it&quot; without hesitating. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, up until that point, no one had actually killed anyone yet, and as we all saw by the end of the movie, one has to be pretty good and ok with killing to be a successful kingsman. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22153" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T05:25:39.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32744" CreationDate="2015-06-16T05:30:59.710" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll try to give you an answer from my understanding of the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I do not think that the aliens knew right away that Cage got the ability, his visions leading him to the trap in the damn did not occur after killed the Alpha.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alphas are the strongest type, Cage was lucky to kill one (well, it was in the script) so killing one again is harder avoiding them and coping on it's own.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The idea it's to kill the &quot;brain&quot;, killing an Alpha would reset the day, there is no logical point in going after them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And your idea of having more people with the power to reset the day has some flaws: there is a chance that the Alpha wins and Cage looses his ability, there will always be a weaker person in the team that will reset the day even if others can continue...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19067" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T05:30:59.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2249" CreationDate="2015-06-16T08:28:56.907" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you watch the full movie, you will see that it was Chad. Do you  remember the camera man and the girl at the end, that was them, which means Chad survived as the next memorial day killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22157" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-16T09:45:02.710" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T09:45:02.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35457" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35463" CreationDate="2015-06-16T09:09:13.537" Score="24" ViewCount="170738" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; Season 5 Finale &lt;strong&gt;Arya Stark&lt;/strong&gt; becomes blind, because she killed a man who was not hers to kill. But I am not convinced that that is exactly the reason for her blindness. Can anyone tell the exact reason why Arya lost her vision?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T07:46:41.140" LastActivityDate="2017-10-07T17:07:27.350" Title="Why did Arya Stark lose her vision?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35443" CreationDate="2015-06-16T09:13:21.797" Score="28" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're here to enhance your skills,&#xA;test you to the limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is why you're gonna pick a puppy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we start from this very dialogue, the reason was quite clear. That limit can be pushed further if someone's &lt;em&gt;family/friend&lt;/em&gt; is involved in the line of duty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the time training was about to end, candidates were fond of their pet, for Eggsy his pup was like a family to him. When asked to shoot his pup it was actually a matter between duty and family. To test how loyal candidate is with Kingsman. If a time comes where an agent's close one is involve in something and he is asked to do his duty, will he obey the orders or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T09:13:21.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35402" CreationDate="2015-06-16T09:15:42.617" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was just a way of showing the (albeit temporary) bond that they developed during the fight. Don't think the writers meant for the audience to read much into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;T-Rex : &quot;Dude, thanks for helping me out there. High five. Now get the hell out of my face; I've had enough shit for one day&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Velociraptor : &quot;See ya around big guy&quot; * zips away *&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T09:15:42.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35443" CreationDate="2015-06-16T10:14:28.447" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The old spartan soldiers did the same thing. Bring up a dog and kill it at the end of their training. The same practice can be seen replicated in Game of Thrones. The unsullied did the dog thing too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though the kill-your-dog-idea works without knowing the historical facts, it traces back to the very real idea of how to train hard, mercyless soldiers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, remember that it was higher-ups that told them to shoot the dogs. They are supposed to be super soldiers/spies/agents, and should maybe just work on a need-to-know basis and listen to their superiors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, maybe the old English ways simply value dog lives a lot less than any human life, and to the older knights, this didn't seem as cruel as it did to modern, secular Eggsy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22158" LastEditorUserId="20877" LastEditDate="2015-06-16T10:39:37.013" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T10:39:37.013" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35461" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35443" CreationDate="2015-06-16T10:19:13.283" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's a test of trust. As a secret agent you rely on the information that it's provided to you and you must follow orders even though they don't always make sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not a test to see if they can kill when ordered no matter how attached to the target they are, it tests that the candidate trusts his commanders judgement (If I say jump, you jump).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I also do not think that they are trying to create heartless soldiers. Their small number and the toast to the fallen agent suggest that they are more like a family than and army.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19067" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T10:19:13.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35457" CreationDate="2015-06-16T10:31:28.810" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;The man with Jaqen's face actually explained this one pretty clearly (as seen in &lt;a href=&quot;http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&amp;amp;t=19079&quot;&gt;the transcript&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The faces are for no one. You are still someone. And to someone, the faces are as good as poison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a side effect of wearing a face before being ready for it, before having completed her training and become &quot;no-one&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(note this is pretty different to the books, where it's a seemingly planned part of her training)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why did the face have no effect until that exact moment? It would have been hours ago that she wore it, with no hint of ill effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Erm, yeah, no answer to that one. There have been  quite a few &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ContrivedCoincidence&quot;&gt;contrived coincidences&lt;/a&gt; this series, and this isn't even the first moment where something waits until the exact right dramatic moment to kick in with a character somehow predicting when  this would be down to the exact second, as if they'd been counting seconds for the several hours that had passed since the initial cause (e.g. the sand snakes' poison and Bronn - &lt;em&gt;'14,398 seconds since I cut him, 14,399, 14,400, now! &quot;How is your head?&quot;'&lt;/em&gt;). So I suspect there's no reason beyond &quot;the producers thought it would be dramatic&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe the face has side effects which are triggered by certain emotions like grief or regret, and a &quot;no-one&quot; is not supposed to have such emotions? In the books, donning a face also brings emotions and memories from the person it was taken from, so it makes sense that avoiding severe psychological or sensory side effects would be difficult. I rather feel like I'm making excuses for them now though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9718" LastEditorUserId="9718" LastEditDate="2015-06-16T12:59:32.897" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T12:59:32.897" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32744" CreationDate="2015-06-16T11:52:12.697" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;IIRC the thing is different: Alphas are very important to the Omega. So: whenever an Alpha is killed, the omega resets the day to prevent that from happening. It will then send the Alpha somewhere else, so that it cannot be killed again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think, that was the explanation at the end of the movie why the &quot;task force&quot; was not allowed to kill an Alpha when chasing the Omega, because otherwise the day would be reset and the Omega would move away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I cannot tell, if it is possible to &quot;infect&quot; multiple persons with the &quot;reset&quot; ability by covering them with blood of an Alpha and killing them instantly thereafter, as it is not stated anywhere in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for my english, I am not a native speaker...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22159" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T11:52:12.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35457" CreationDate="2015-06-16T13:23:35.493" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think she was supposed to realize what it was to, sort of, use it correctly. And like someone already said, probably because of the life she wasn't meant to take. (An eye for an eye, maybe?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22164" LastEditorUserId="9718" LastEditDate="2015-08-24T13:45:48.767" LastActivityDate="2015-08-24T13:45:48.767" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35469" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35500" CreationDate="2015-06-16T14:35:36.103" Score="2" ViewCount="5086" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of all of the loose ends left by Jurassic World, the biggest question I am left with is what happens to Barry?  One of the raptors is trying to get him while he takes cover in a log, and Chris Pratt's Owen catches the raptor's attention, and leads them away.  To my recollection, Barry is not seen again during the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22168" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-16T14:38:54.150" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T20:54:44.093" Title="What happens to Omar Sy's character &quot;Barry&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|jurassic-world|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35470" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="62686" CreationDate="2015-06-16T15:34:32.123" Score="16" ViewCount="5563" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are various religions in the Game of Thrones universe such as Faith of the Seven, Many-Faced God, Lord of Light etc; some seem to be based on real world ones and I read somewhere that the Faith of seven is inspired from old catholic beliefs which I don't have a link to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it's true then what are the real world analogues or influences for the religions in Game of Thrones?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-06-16T15:53:50.060" LastActivityDate="2016-11-02T20:33:25.233" Title="What are the real world analogues to the religions from Game of Thrones?" Tags="|analysis|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35469" CreationDate="2015-06-16T16:30:13.083" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually, these are always the scenes that get the snip during the edited process. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can think one example off the top of my head: In Watchmen, there is quite a significant character 'Hollis Mason' who plays the original 'Nite Owl'. In the cinema version, he is never heard from again after a scene with Daniel (new Nite Owl). However, in the directors cut, there is quite a chunky and gruesome death scene that was cut out of the final film. Why? Time restraints maybe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the answer to your question is: The scene was shot but likely to have been cut out, as although Barry had quite a bit of screen time, he isn't a significant character. (Much like Hollis Mason)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20829" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-16T16:32:39.217" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T16:32:39.217" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35470" CreationDate="2015-06-16T17:38:06.250" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The religion of the Seven Gods is Catholicism... everyone has converted to it, the dominant technological civilization with swords and medieval armor and what not all believe. The septs are cathedrals, the septons are priest, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Previous to that the Old Gods worshipped by some in the North, and this might map to the Roman/Greek religions in that its been supplanted by the Seven. However, given the nature of this religion, it's more Druid-like or even Native American. Definitely has a shamanistic bent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The religion of the Drowned God is more Norse, with the Drowned God being some hodge-podge of Odin and Loki and the Iron Islanders something like Vikings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Many-Faced God and the Braavosi religion is something like the mystery cults from around the time of the birth of Christianity. Disciples struggle for years to qualify for new knowledge, and the masses never do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Melisandre and her fire cult... not really sure. The dualism of it it sort of like Zoroastrianism, at least in a shallow way. But the way it's portrayed on the show seems more like a modern cult. The way she keeps very stern control of her disciples, all true believers that are certain that they (and their religion) will change the world for the better and in the short-term... that doesn't fit so much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And I can't even begin to speculate on the religions of the cities in Essos. There are hints of the Babylonian and Egyptian pantheons, at least that's the impression I get, but nothing I can point out with a finger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastEditorUserId="7820" LastEditDate="2015-06-17T13:48:15.070" LastActivityDate="2015-06-17T13:48:15.070" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35449" CreationDate="2015-06-16T20:06:54.960" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the standard rules of physics don't apply for an animated movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More technically, if an animator tries too hard to get the physics to perfectly mirror the real world, you end up in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley&quot;&gt;uncanny valley&lt;/a&gt;. There's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fastcodesign.com/3030106/disneys-12-principles-of-animation-in-a-cartoon&quot;&gt;blog post at Fast Company Design&lt;/a&gt; that touches on this topic a little, where they talk about Disney's 12 Principles of Animation created in the 1930's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The goal of animation is not realism, but the illusion of realism. For example, in rotoscoping, you film an actor and then laboriously trace over the images to convert his or her movements into a living cartoon. But unless you constantly tweak what you're tracing for the medium of animation, the results look creepy. The lesson? The goal is not to make objects move as realistically as possible, but rather to make them move as fluidly as possible, regardless of realism. Good animation requires entirely different laws of physics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T20:06:54.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35362" CreationDate="2015-06-16T22:04:21.093" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not an exhaustive list but it is a start. First off, remember that studios don't necessarily care if you watch their film again but they definitely want you to &lt;strong&gt;buy&lt;/strong&gt; their film again... I'm looking at you, copy of &lt;em&gt;Shindler's List&lt;/em&gt; just sitting on the shelf after 15 years, still in the original plastic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;OMG Special Features!!!@!&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the most obvious ways of getting people to re-watch a film is to re-release it, usually with more &amp;quot;special features&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is your film having a 10th... or 15th, or 25th... (you get my point) anniversary soon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Put out a new copy of it with commentaries, behind the scenes footage, stills, deleted scenes, etc. You will get fans to buy the special version just for these updated, previously unreleased special stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Release Different Versions:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, along this vein... let's just release a new version of the film while we're at it... 3 hours of &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; not enough for you? How about 3.5 hours??? Extended cuts are popular with fans and studios because the fans get more film and the studio gets a lot more money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, how about implying that the director hated what the editors did to his film, so we need the director to release a special &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director%27s_cut&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Director's Cut&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, if you're George Lucas... you just release new versions every time you think that technology and plot have changed enough that you need to release a new version. Poor &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_changes_in_Star_Wars_re-releases&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Wars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Shall we ever see you in your original glory again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Show it in Theaters Again:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you having a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;sequel coming out soon&lt;/a&gt;?... &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_%281996_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;perhaps after 20 years&lt;/a&gt;? How about getting theaters to screen double features so that people can remember what they forgot 20 years ago right before seeing the new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&amp;quot;Vault&amp;quot; Your Films:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one is really just &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Vault&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Disney Animation&lt;/a&gt; but they seem to think it works. Disney has been creating &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_scarcity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;artificial scarcity&lt;/a&gt; of their films by limiting their DVD/BluRay releases and &amp;quot;vaulting&amp;quot; titles for periods of several years. When the film &amp;quot;comes out of the vault&amp;quot;, have a big release event and everyone will buy the copies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-16T22:04:21.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14404" CreationDate="2015-06-16T22:37:54.223" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In politics for every side there is an opposing side trying to find a new way looking for an out, and if that project appears plausible, cost a lot of money and employ a lot of people then it will even more likely make it even if it's otherwise a bad idea, .. but it still happens, because something has to get done, people expect change and things to get better and cannot predict exponential runaway growth.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also when the wall project was started with class 1-2 Kaiju every couple of months, the wall as envisioned might have been good enough to stop them at least entering cities, and much cheaper over the life than constantly maintaining $1B jaegers, they didn't expect 2 and 3 at a time in 2-3x the size. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also imagine that such a wall would have armament like cannons on par or higher than what could be carried by many yaeger which along with aerial megasize bombing is one of the biggest holes in the movie as far as I can tell to stop creatures...especially when striker eurka kills one with chest mounted missiles, gypsy kills 2+ with the plasma cannon, and others use close range blunt force or slashing attacks, cause if there were 1B spent on a high energy or other projectile weapon there wouldn't be much of a human centric plot.  As the rift is single known, just build the weapon near that and anytime one pops out, pop it in the head, or nuke around the entrance to block off the entry point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On that note, things aren't much better in the real world. We humans do lame expensive things all the time, like perpetually build mobile home trailer parks in the middle of tornado ally, super expensive not completely-earthquake in earthquake prone zones, and whole cities beneath sea level (e.g. New Orleans). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22179" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-06-17T09:44:29.877" LastActivityDate="2015-06-17T09:44:29.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5828" CreationDate="2015-06-17T00:23:16.137" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regina forgot what happened too, so she asks Mr.Gold what his real name was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22183" LastActivityDate="2015-06-17T00:23:16.137" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21520" CreationDate="2015-06-17T00:46:53.440" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's thoroughly set-up that the content on page 47 concerns Area 51. Riley's introduction of The Book of Secrets builds towards his assertion that it contains information on Area 51. The topic of Area 51 then conspicuously high-jacks the whole dialogue. Abigail calls it an &quot;urban legend&quot; and Riley responds: &quot;Is it Abigail, is it?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Abigail: &quot;It's just totally-&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Riley: &quot;-Crazy?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Abigail: &quot;Yeah!&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Riley: &quot;Huh, because last time I checked, we pretty much make our&#xA;  living on crazy&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ben: &quot;He's got a point.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An inordinate amount of emphasis is placed on this topic at this point in the dialogue where it is neither necessary for plot, character, nor theme. It's a tangent that is so seemingly off-colour to the &lt;em&gt;National Treasure&lt;/em&gt; franchise that it fights to justify its own validity. This, I suggest, is to properly establish Area 51 as a very real possibility in the series.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the group finally finds The Book of Secrets, Riley &lt;em&gt;identifies&lt;/em&gt; the Area 51 section as Ben flips through the contents--but little time can be spared. We are given on-screen confirmation that Area 51 content &lt;em&gt;in fact&lt;/em&gt; exists within The Book of Secrets, making it the only &lt;em&gt;confirmed&lt;/em&gt; possibility for what could be contained on page 47.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ben's last words on the subject give us another hint. At the very end of the film, he calls the contents of page 47 &quot;life altering,&quot; when describing them to the President. It should be recalled at this point that Riley first calls Area 51 &quot;&lt;em&gt;the coup de grâce&lt;/em&gt;&quot; which means &quot;&lt;em&gt;the death blow&lt;/em&gt;.&quot; These phrases are almost interchangeable, since something that is life-&lt;em&gt;altering&lt;/em&gt; can also be said to be life-&lt;em&gt;ending&lt;/em&gt;, since every new beginning represents an ending. Behind some wordplay, the script doubles back on itself as both Riley and Ben use the same terminology to refer both to Area 51 and the contents of page 47--implying that they are one and the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why the number 47? If this was any movie but &lt;em&gt;National Treasure&lt;/em&gt; it wouldn't be nearly as appropriate to assume that there must be some hidden meaning behind that number. We know from the combination of the Resolute desks being the year 1846 that in &lt;em&gt;National Treasure&lt;/em&gt;, the go-to encoded meaning for a number is a &lt;em&gt;year&lt;/em&gt; of historical significance. This was Ben's first assumption and it was correct. That fact alone is its own cipher: we are being told to think of numbers as dates. If 47 refers to 1947, then we are looking at the same year that an ET craft crash-landed in Roswell New Mexico, effectively beginning the story of Area 51. The page number 47 points to its own historical content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is the case that &lt;em&gt;National Treasure 3&lt;/em&gt; is all about around Area 51, then we may have our answer as to why the script is taking so long. Such a departure from the traditional &lt;em&gt;National Treasure&lt;/em&gt; mainstream historical content must be giving pause to its writers and executives. But remember that even &lt;em&gt;Indiana Jones&lt;/em&gt; (a similar type of franchise) eventually ventured into extraterrestrial territory with panache. The facts point us there now with &lt;em&gt;National Treasure 3.&lt;/em&gt; The sensitivity around the subject of Area 51 being a project officially classified in the alleged interest of national security also would explain why Turteltaub would want to remain noncommittal in his answers around the question, so that he can easily take the content of the sequel into safer territory if need be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last question remaining is why the President would require Ben's help regarding the contents of page 47 if it's about Area 51? It has recently been speculated that certain presidents have wanted to disclose the reality of the ET engagement in human affairs to the world but for various complex reasons cannot. It could be that the &lt;em&gt;National Treasure&lt;/em&gt; president beseeches Ben, a man with a trusted record of proving historical mythology to be historical fact, for assistance on breaking the secrecy around Area 51 on his behalf. This would be the appropriately &quot;life-altering&quot; event, as Ben promises.               &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22184" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2018-12-26T03:30:48.270" LastActivityDate="2018-12-26T03:30:48.270" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35489" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-17T05:29:38.840" Score="8" ViewCount="1122" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; episode where Walt plants the bomb on Gus's car, Gus stops dead in his tracks. After rewatching I noticed that Walter goes home and calls for his neighbor to go inside and check out the house because Walt Jr. &quot;Left the burner on&quot;. His neighbor goes inside and checks the stove and two men leave the backyard. Walt then runs in from the back and gets his money, the men return and they walk in, down the hall and past the kitchen, Walt already has the pipe bomb made, it's in his baby bag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Walt blows up Gus, he comes home and cleans up the evidence, the bomb was already made, which means the evidence was laid out in the kitchen and the two men walked right past it, which was so obviously the makings for something dangerous, yet the two men didn't notice it. I feel like this is a big hole in the story. Please, can I get some feedback or something? I'm not sure what to think of this. Was this really a plot-hole or is there some other explanation for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22191" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-17T07:19:19.217" LastActivityDate="2016-04-01T17:58:30.143" Title="Breaking Bad Confusion" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26773" CreationDate="2015-06-17T05:58:25.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest watching it in order as the movies were intended. Because the rational that occurs in the first one has a shock moment that is ruined if watched out of intended order. However if you strive to still watch chronically then it would actually go 3,1,2,4. The forth is not a prequel like someone else previously stated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22194" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-17T07:14:57.600" LastActivityDate="2015-06-17T07:14:57.600" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35491" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35549" CreationDate="2015-06-17T06:01:27.160" Score="3" ViewCount="1456" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the first 15 minutes of the 2014 movie Wild, Cheryl sets off from her motel and takes lift in a man's truck whose son is sitting in the front seat with him. In that scene the man turns on the radio and a song starts playing. That song reminds Cheryl of her mother. Probably they used to dance on that song when she was a kid. Suddenly that man's son turns off the radio and Cheryl's flashback is ended. I would like to know the name of that song.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2016-07-04T23:10:58.243" Title="Which song is playing on the radio in Wild (2014)?" Tags="|soundtrack|wild|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35494" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35505" CreationDate="2015-06-17T10:46:27.213" Score="8" ViewCount="9092" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Friends&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Season 5 Episode 4 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583467/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The One Where Phoebe hates PBS&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one scene Joey says to Phoebe &amp;quot;And you know the Deal with Santa, right?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After some time the following conversation happens between Joey and Phoebe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Phoebe&lt;/strong&gt;: Hey, Joey, when you said the deal with Santa Clause, you meant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joey&lt;/strong&gt;: That he doesn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Phoebe&lt;/strong&gt;: Right. (She turns and opens her eyes in shock.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Phoebe react that way? What is the deal about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21983" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-17T17:19:19.013" Title="Joey and Phoebe's 'Deal with Santa' Explanation" Tags="|plot-explanation|friends|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35496" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35511" CreationDate="2015-06-17T12:03:33.563" Score="9" ViewCount="1904" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of season 5, Mother's Mercy. Jon Snow is killed by a group of Night's Watch &quot;rebels&quot; or group of Night's Watch that didn't agree with Snow's decision of bringing Wildlings in the Black Castle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I do not understand is the reason they killed Snow and their timing as well. If they had an issue with wildlings they shouldn't have lifted the door to let them in as we see in Hardhome, I thought that will be the most important scene of season 5 because for a moment it seemed as if Ser Alliser Thorne is not going to permit Wildlings to enter. But we see Wildlings &lt;em&gt;peacefully&lt;/em&gt; enter Black Castle. If they had a grudge against Wildlings they shouldn't have let them enter in the first place. But once they have entered, what is the reason to kill Jon Snow, knowing that he is the Lord Commander and an expert swordsman and considering the fact that they are on brink of war with White Walkers, it doesn't make much sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems as if Jon Snow's murder was not only because of Wildings but because of Ser Alliser Thorne's grudge with Snow as well. If I missed something kindly explain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="20877" LastEditDate="2015-06-18T13:53:25.663" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T11:47:50.970" Title="Reason and timing of specific characters death in s05e10?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35494" CreationDate="2015-06-17T12:30:08.750" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Phoebe had a very unusual upbringing&lt;/strong&gt;, resulting in a somewhat unusual personality as an adult. Her biological dad left the family when she was an infant, her stepfather was extremely poor and later ended up in prison and her stepmother was a drug dealer who killed herself, leading Phoebe to live in the streets at a young age &lt;a href=&quot;http://friends.wikia.com/wiki/Phoebe_Buffay&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;without proper education&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So although she's usually the most down to earth among the group because of her humble beginnings and street smarts, she has several gaps in her knowledge and had adopted strange and sometimes childish beliefs, like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583588/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Believing&lt;/a&gt; a cat is the reincarnation of her dead stepmother;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583553/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thinking&lt;/a&gt; the Apollo moon landing was fake;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583537/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Naively believing&lt;/a&gt; her grandmother that Albert Einstein is her grandfather;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583453/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Doubting&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;em&gt;gravity&lt;/em&gt; exists.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583450/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;implied&lt;/a&gt; that she hears voices in her head. Phoebe's traumatic childhood shaped who she is, and although believing in Santa until this point in her life is a bit of a stretch (and owes to the gradual &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Flanderization&lt;/a&gt; of the Friends characters), it's not &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; out of character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-06-17T12:51:22.727" LastActivityDate="2015-06-17T12:51:22.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35496" CreationDate="2015-06-17T13:39:10.310" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because it's the only way to guarantee his death&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Thorne hadn't opened the gate, Jon would still have options to get back to Castle Black. His options are dangerous, but not impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They could try to climb the wall. Jon has done that before. It's extremely dangerous, but possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, they could go to one of the other Night's Watch castles, Eastwatch, or the Shadow Tower. It would be a long trek to get there and back. They would have to trek through deep snow and cold, and hope the Others don't find them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ser Alliser was a knight in his time before the wall. He knows the best way to make sure someone is dead is to kill him yourself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastEditorUserId="7820" LastEditDate="2015-06-17T15:33:37.423" LastActivityDate="2015-06-17T15:33:37.423" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35469" CreationDate="2015-06-17T14:49:15.783" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched the film again last night, and you do in fact see Barry one more time, in the Costa Rican first aid camp, for just a little less than 2 seconds, and he said something to someone off screen.  I could not make out what he said, was about 2 words or so.  I guess maybe we might see something in a sequel or an interview or something, but my guess is that it will just be assumed that he&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;somehow knew he was safe from the other three raptors (not having seen one hit with a rocket) and the Indominus Rex,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;jogged the substantial distance back to the raptor paddock through the unfamiliar woods in total darkness,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;found an operational vehicle and drove to the main compound,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and flew out on the last available evacuation vehicle, the helicopter that Lowery called in.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8iwqd.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8iwqd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am dissatisfied with this, but that's the fault of the movie, and I doubt it'll ever be covered in any more detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22168" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T20:54:44.093" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T20:54:44.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24596" CreationDate="2015-06-17T15:18:44.530" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Captain's (Brand) Table Water Crackers.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This and many other characters enhancements were not in Benchley's novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22203" LastEditorUserId="20877" LastEditDate="2015-06-17T17:52:26.783" LastActivityDate="2015-06-17T17:52:26.783" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35444" CreationDate="2015-06-17T15:45:03.433" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  Musical films typically use full-scale song and dance routines in significant ways, such as to advance the plot.   The use of music in Generation kill is much much more subtle, usually giving some more insight on the marines' personalities or situation.  Basically, they are singing to alleviate boredom when they are driving to the next objective rather than breaking into full song and dance routines ala the gang fights in West Side Story.  In fact, during the audio commentary, one of the creators mentions that he sees the series as a sort of long road movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19348" LastActivityDate="2015-06-17T15:45:03.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35504" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36017" CreationDate="2015-06-17T17:10:08.237" Score="8" ViewCount="997" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just remembered I saw a king-fu/martial arts movie when I was a kid (now I am 29) where the hero searches to uncover some secret and ends up accidentaly killing an alien, who looks like a human when the alien falls onto a pole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the ending scene, the alien's metal-like (silver, or golden) blood is escaping him and a human woman who loved him runs over and explains he was an alien and just wanted to go home on his spaceship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is something happening with the skies during the movie, can't really say what it was, hopefully some of you saw the movies when older and can recall more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any information, even if you don't know the name helps, thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More details: I suspect the movie must have been from 90s, or 80s. Given its a Martial arts flick, it should be asian (not 100% sure though) and it might be a B movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genre&lt;/strong&gt;: Primarily Action + Martial arts, plus I recall a scene where they had some non traditional equipment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fame&lt;/strong&gt;: probably B movie, or a less known one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Setting&lt;/strong&gt;: I think it was set in asian city, recalling a chase in some tiny cars, like the taxis made form motorcycles. I recall a scene where the villain run away on a motorcycle(?) from two guys chasing him in such tiny car that got stuck in a street.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Twist&lt;/strong&gt;: I think they the hero possibly with a companion were trying to uncover something smelly that was going down in the city, discovering the &quot;villain&quot; at the end of movie, who turns out to be a humanoid alien, only wanting to return to home and accidentaly killing him as described above.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Notable details&lt;/strong&gt;: I recall something was weird with the sky of that city, something with lightning and a golden orb of some kind. The &quot;spaceship&quot; was in a shape of asian dragon. I think the orb might have been something the hero was trying to maybe find and get it back to where it was stolen from?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update 2: I found a guy looking for the same movie on the internet! Here is what he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Good day everyone. I'm searching for a movie, I think it's from around 80's years. I do remember the plot completely but just cant find the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Story revolves around a mysterious silver orb, which was kept in a Buddhist temple and stolen by a group. It was kind of a worshiping object to monks. After it was stolen, a young monk somehow gets close to the crooks that stole it and eventually they find the person who needed that orb. In the end it is revealed that orb is in fact a key to the alien ship and the mastermind is and alien himself stuck on earth for some reason. They almost kill him towards the end but he manages to fly away. Ship looks like a dragon from afar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Plot takes place mostly in Tibet (I think) and few locations are in desert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If I do recall, movie is in Korean, or at least some Asian language&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22206" LastEditorUserId="22206" LastEditDate="2015-06-30T18:23:15.903" LastActivityDate="2017-02-06T14:21:33.947" Title="Kung fu movie which ends by alien pierced on a pole and his blood is liquid metal?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|martial-arts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:48:46.490" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35494" CreationDate="2015-06-17T17:19:19.013" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this context, &quot;the deal about Santa&quot; is an expression that means &quot;the real story about Santa.&quot; And the real story about Santa is that he does not exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the joke is that Phoebe made it that far into adulthood before realizing the real story about Santa, which is something most people figure out as children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2015-06-17T17:19:19.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26556" CreationDate="2015-06-17T17:34:48.070" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;She did when she ran from her home wearing Sherlock's coat which had his phone in the pocket. But my question is why didn't Sherlock change it back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22208" LastActivityDate="2015-06-17T17:34:48.070" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35444" CreationDate="2015-06-17T17:40:35.643" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Questions of the form “does &lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; belong to category &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;?” are either meaningless or trivial, and the answer depends only on definition of &lt;em&gt;X&lt;/em&gt;. Depending on how you define the word “musical”, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Kill_(miniseries)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Generation Kill&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; can either be a musical, or not. That's it, there's nothing else to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiktionary&lt;/a&gt; describes &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/musical#Noun&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;musical&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as “a stage performance, show or film which involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting”. &lt;em&gt;Generation Kill&lt;/em&gt; involves singing, so according to this dictionary definition it's a musical, sorta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia page on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;musical film&lt;/a&gt; describes it as “a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing” and also clarifies that “[t]he songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline”. &lt;em&gt;Generation Kill&lt;/em&gt; uses songs as breaks in storyline, but not to advance plot. So it can or can't be a musical, depending on how many factors you require for it to qualify as a musical. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood#Bollywood_song_and_dance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bollywood films&lt;/a&gt; feature songs and dancing, are they all musicals?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, arguments from dictionary are useless, because dictionaries are for &lt;a href=&quot;http://lesswrong.com/lw/nr/the_argument_from_common_usage/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;documenting common usage of words&lt;/a&gt;, they do not prescribe how you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; use the word. Words don't have default, “correct” meanings, it's us, humans, who assign meaning to every word for convenience. Words are just tools that we use to efficiently exchange information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is true though, we should use words efficiently, not to confuse people. Words are used best, when they describe a dense &lt;a href=&quot;http://lesswrong.com/lw/nj/similarity_clusters/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;similarity cluster&lt;/a&gt;, a group of things which look very-very similar to each other. How similar is &lt;em&gt;Generation Kill&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;My Fair Lady&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Picture_Show&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rocky Horror Picture Show&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_%282002_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chicago&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? If the last 3 are pigeon, flamingo, and sandgrouse, &lt;em&gt;Generation Kill&lt;/em&gt; is more of a penguin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So let's not try to pigeonhole the show into different arbitrary categories, because it's like asking “But is Pluto &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; a planet or not?”. There's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://lesswrong.com/lw/nm/disguised_queries/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;real question&lt;/a&gt; you want to ask. You want to gain some insights from the way songs are used in the show, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Wright&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Evan Wright&lt;/a&gt;, who wrote the original &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Kill&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;book&lt;/a&gt;, the show is written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Simon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;David Simon&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Burns&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ed Burns&lt;/a&gt;, who created critically acclaimed &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;em&gt;The Wire&lt;/em&gt; is known for it's gritty realism, density of plot and characters, even comic relief scenes are there to make a point. &lt;em&gt;The Wire&lt;/em&gt; is deliberately journalistic in its style, owing to David Simon's background, it &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;amp;v=Tu0262dr-Z0#t=47&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;looks like a CCTV footage&lt;/a&gt;. Except opening and closing themes and songs at the end of closing episodes of each season, &lt;em&gt;The Wire's&lt;/em&gt; music is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diegesis#Film_sound_and_music&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;diegetic&lt;/a&gt;, which organically fits the style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Filmmakers that are trying to make a point, or convey some idea, or document life as it is in an art form, frequently consider non-diegetic music (and some other special effects and modifications) as a cheap way to increase dramatism or entertainment factor. Sometimes they consider such modifications and filmmaking decisions a trick to make viewers stick to screen by exploiting their &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Bias&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cognitive biases&lt;/a&gt; or desire for cheap thrills, akin to laugh tracks. They think art should mesmerize and thought-provoke on its own, via plot, actors performances and artistic value, not by using gimmicks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dardenne_brothers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dardenne brothers'&lt;/a&gt; film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Enfant_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;L'Enfant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has no music, except once when heard from the car radio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A sound editor of &lt;em&gt;The Wire&lt;/em&gt; described Simon's approach to non-diegetic soundtrack in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/TheWire/comments/1qn6ff/i_was_a_sound_editor_on_the_wire_every_episode/cdemhn2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reddit AMA&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;David Simon is very opposed to many of the ways that typical TV audiences expect to be cued or manipulated into thinking or feeling a reaction to a scene. He's the guy who, if he did write a sit-com, would not allow a studio audience or laugh track. He views musical score the same way. One of my crew's challenges, then, was to find ways to evoke mood with backgrounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simon carried this attitude to &lt;em&gt;Generation Kill&lt;/em&gt;. It's not an action film, it's not for cheap laughs or thrills, so why would there be a need for background music, that is not part of the scene? On the other hand, how would a bored, expressly indifferent, machistic soldier entertain himself on a road under a hot desert sun? Sing cheesy pop songs of that period. Here, you have both a soundtrack and a character behavior that is completely authentic to the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8625" LastActivityDate="2015-06-17T17:40:35.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35496" CreationDate="2015-06-17T21:44:24.380" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon pretty much answers this question himself this very episode while talking to Sam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[I am] The first Lord Commander in history to sacrifice the lives of sworn&#xA;  brothers to save the lives of wildlings. How's it feel to be friends&#xA;  with the most hated man in Castle Black?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(from &lt;a href=&quot;http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&amp;amp;t=19079&quot;&gt;this transcript&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a case of &quot;last straw&quot;. His concessions to the wildlings were already hugely unpopular - and now they'd led to brothers getting killed. Hence &quot;traitor&quot; and the idea that the killers were avenging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alliser Thorne in particular is an archetypal &lt;a href=&quot;http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/authoritarian+personality&quot;&gt;authoritarian personality&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would take a lot for him to break the sacred hierarchy and rebel against the Lord Commander - even someone he hates, like Jon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Jon planned the mission to Hardholme, he was angry, hated the idea, but didn't plot or scheme. He said what he believed, with characteristic bluntness:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A.T.: Lord Commander, it is my duty to tell you I believe this mission&#xA;  to be reckless, foolhardy, and an insult to all the brothers who have&#xA;  died fighting the wildlings. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;J.S.: As always, thank you for your honesty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Jon returned with wildlings and a giant,  he still hated what was happening, but he's a man of his word and  so he gritted his teeth and opened the gate. At this point his only reason to be angry was that it appeared Jon's &quot;reckless, foolhardy and [insulting]&quot; mission had somehow succeeded - he didn't yet know the result was even worse than it looked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he then learns that sworn brothers died horrifically for the sake of Jon's mission, and that valuable irreplaceable equipment was lost, that was &lt;strong&gt;the final straw&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also takes pride in being a very up-front, blunt and honest character. He's a doer, not a schemer - the type to avenge his brothers by looking the man in the eye and telling him &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; he's killing him as he does it, with witnesses by his side. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's not the type to plot an elaborate, devious assassination plan. When he makes up his mind to act, he acts, simply and plainly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9718" LastEditorUserId="9718" LastEditDate="2015-07-08T17:38:56.190" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T17:38:56.190" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35514" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35515" CreationDate="2015-06-18T00:12:05.967" Score="20" ViewCount="6299" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen all three Hobbit movies and Saruman was a good friend of Gandalf and he even helped him when the Orcs had caught him.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have just seen The Lord of the Rings Part one few days back (although it was released long time back even before The Hobbit), and I saw a completely different Saruman. He went against the &quot;the good&quot; and joined Sauron. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the entire movie Sauron was not around except in the beginning where they show a flashback of the war. Saruman's theory was that Sauron is regaining strength and he should join him.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the amount of effort that Saruman put in setting up an army, if he had done that much effort to help Gandalf and his army (of Elves, Men, Dwarves and Hobbits, other wizards that were in the Hobbit along with the ugly creatures he brought to life) he would have probably defeated Sauron by destroying the ring.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am still trying to understand why Saruman did not help Gandalf if he was so powerful. Was he possessed by Sauron or got attracted to the Ring himself? Is that why he did all this. I hope I am not being too hasty looking for an answer before watching the other two LOTR movies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21342" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-06-24T19:55:34.743" LastActivityDate="2018-12-28T18:07:31.693" Title="What was Saruman's motivation in the Lord of the Rings trilogy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35514" CreationDate="2015-06-18T00:57:48.500" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all: Yes, you probably should watch at least &lt;em&gt;The Two Towers&lt;/em&gt; before reading much further: that movie is all about Saruman's plans and schemes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, there's a combination of things that have driven Saruman to act the way he does in the &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; trilogy. The first thing you need to realize is just how &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt; a gap there was between the two trilogies. When Bilbo went on his adventure in &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;, he was about 50; at the beginning of &lt;em&gt;Fellowship of the Ring&lt;/em&gt;, he's celebrating his 111th birthday - 61 years later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During that time, a lot has happened to Saruman; the main things he's done are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's started using the Palantir to spy on Sauron; this is the crystal ball in his chambers in Orthanc, the one that freaks Gandalf out when he sees it. Gandalf is worried about the effect of using those stones, and says so, right off the bat; later on we find out that Sauron not only has one, but that he can use it to extend his influence a bit and corrupt the mind of its user (and Saruman isn't the only victim).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's taken up ringcraft; I don't remember if this is ever really explored in detail in any of the editions of the movie, but Saruman has been trying to recreate magic rings of his own, attempting to rediscover what Sauron had managed to do with his Rings of Power. Having the One Ring in his possession would be a huge boon to his research -- or so he tells himself. Really, like everyone else who desires the ring, he's basically fooling himself, and ultimately playing into Sauron's hand. But knowing what Gandalf wants to do with it, Saruman certainly doesn't want him to succeed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's suffering a tiny bit of a nervous breakdown over Sauron's return. This partly goes back to point #1, Sauron getting into Saruman's head via the Palantir, but also the fact that Saruman seems to genuinely believe that Sauron is strong enough to defeat all of Middle-earth. Saruman and the other wizards were sent to Middle-earth specifically to fight Sauron, but Saruman has apparently decided that such a job is hopeless. The only way to survive what he knows is coming, in his mind, is to ally with Sauron and hope they don't get betrayed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finally, there has always been a tiny bit of tension between the two. The big issue is the fact that Saruman is, nominally, the head of the Wizards, so Gandalf is technically his subordinate. However, Gandalf, by all accounts, seems to be the &quot;better&quot; wizard. In fact, Gandalf was the first choice to have Saruman's position, and turned it down. Gandalf's also the one the Elves and Rangers and others turn to when they need help. Additionally, More specifically, he's the one that was given one of the Three Elven Rings of Power (I think you'll find that out at the very very end of &lt;em&gt;Return of the King&lt;/em&gt;). Thus, Saruman is a bit jealous of Gandalf, and probably worried that Gandalf will try to take Saruman's position (and, in Saruman's mind, probably The One Ring) for himself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these things, taken together, make Saruman decide that he and Gandalf do not have the same goals. At first, he doesn't try to actually hurt Gandalf, showing there's probably a modicum of respect left between them. But, he has no intention of letting Gandalf destroy the ring, and tries to take him out of play while Saruman's agents search for the ring. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T00:57:48.500" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35516" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-18T01:33:03.067" Score="8" ViewCount="2556" Body="&lt;p&gt;While watching &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld_(2003_film)&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Underworld&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; on Netflix, I noticed that in flashbacks the original blonde Sonja (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1454251/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t24&quot;&gt;Jazmin Dammak&lt;/a&gt;) had been replaced by the brunette version from Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0593961/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot;&gt;Rhona Mitra&lt;/a&gt;). Obviously this was done after the release of the third film in order to make Sonja's appearance consistent across the franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I own the Unrated Extended Cut on DVD, and it has the original blonde Sonja. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In what version or edition of the film was Sonja's scenes retconned with the new actress?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15909" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T01:33:03.067" Title="What edition of Underworld has Rhona Mitra retconned into it?" Tags="|alternate-version|underworld|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35443" CreationDate="2015-06-18T03:15:28.997" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Within the movie, this made no sense to me. We have the Kingsmen, who are self-professed honest, upright and good people, who only condone &quot;the risking of a life to save another.&quot; And then they ask their trainees to do something arbitrarily heinous. (Afterwards they explain that of course they wouldn't risk the dog, but if that's clear, then they shouldn't be training people to do things they wouldn't consider doing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you consider the needs of the plot, however, it makes complete sense. They had to bring Eggsy through the training, but at the last moment have him fail in a way that left the audience sympathetic with him, and without assigning him any explicit deficiencies (e.g. not strong enough, not a good enough marksman, etc). Having it be a high-drama moment is a bonus. Bingo: Eggsy is out, we're wondering if we trust the leader of the Kingsman, and we're all set for Eggsy to be brought back into the fold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the needs of the plot outweigh the needs of rationality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22150" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T03:15:28.997" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3842" CreationDate="2015-06-18T03:44:30.023" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For one, Sherlock could likely tell the bomb vest would explode. Why wouldn't they, when the same bombs were put on the other victims there wasn't a trigger, there were snipers. A gunshot is nearly sure to set it off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His options were shoot Moriarty, resulting in also his and/or John's death as well. Or, he could shoot and detonate the bomb, killing not only the three of them, but also the dangerous snipers. Those snipers also could have managed to shoot Sherlock before he could shoot Moriarty. He had John's consent, and the bomb was the best option. If nothing else, it was a powerful threat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22213" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T03:44:30.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26556" CreationDate="2015-06-18T03:48:17.657" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alright.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When John was distracted by Irene's nudity, Sherlock gave her his coat, which had his phone in it. She had it on when she escaped. During the time she was missing and Sherlock was drugged, she changed his text tone for her, snuck into Baker Street, and hung his coat on the door, whispering to him that she was returning it. He woke up, she was gone, and after John forcing him back into bed, we see his jacket, the pocket lights up, and it moans. Ta dah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22213" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T03:48:17.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17526" CreationDate="2015-06-18T03:55:28.910" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sherlock takes in everything. He smelled male cologne on Sally, thus deduced she'd stayed overnight with a man. As Anderson approached, he smelled the same on him, thus deducing Anderson and Donovan had been together. &quot;Oo and I believe it just vaporized&quot; was more about the disbelieving and cold atmosphere around Anderson at being found out. Sherlock also notice skins or bruises on Sally's knees and took from that that she &quot;scrubbed his floors&quot; ie gave him a blow job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22213" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T03:55:28.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14549" CreationDate="2015-06-18T03:58:17.047" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, to keep the meeting from prying eyes and ears, mostly Sherlock. But as a government official anything he says could be important to a lot of people. So one reason is to keep secrets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second is that both of the Holmes brothers have an obvious flair for the dramatic, made obvious by the way Mycroft talks and the way Sherlock acts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22213" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T03:58:17.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13903" CreationDate="2015-06-18T04:01:43.713" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sherlock is canonically in all iterations a consulting detective, which is pretty much a private detective that helps the police. He also helps a lot of people, so he likely gets discounts or free things, like with Mrs. Hudson and Angelo. Much of his money comes from his clients, but he cares very little for money, and when he forgets Mycroft likely slips some into his funds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22213" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T04:01:43.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30034" CreationDate="2015-06-18T04:06:41.810" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;How he faked his death is never confirmed. What he told Anderson could very well be a lie, as Anderson points out. But Sherlock had to seem to fall in order to save everyone he cared for. The sniper was fooled too. John had to be fooled for his protection, as did everyone else. By his reaction, obviously Mycroft wasn't originally informed with the plan, though he's in on it soon after, keeping track on him as he shatters the spiders web. Molly somehow assisted him, likely assisting in the execution and identifying the body, then keeping him in her apartment for a short time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22213" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T04:06:41.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34503" CreationDate="2015-06-18T04:13:02.387" Score="0" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Time was not a factor, but tension and curiosity added pressure, and Sherlock was confident so he picked a pill quickly. He said he was biding his time to John, who immediately called him on his bullshit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only one pill bottle was bad. Poison doesn't take immediate effect, and he put the pill at least in his mouth at the same time as his victim. It was a game. He was going to die anyways, why not take a few people with him? If they chose the right bottle, his life wasn't shortened by much. If they took the bad bottle, more money to his kids.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;John didn't hear the conversation, he just saw them both about to take the pills and shot in an effort to save Sherlock. And Sherlock was just playing the game.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22213" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T04:13:02.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24247" CreationDate="2015-06-18T04:19:53.577" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a lie, for one thing. But the defining line between psychopathy and sociopathy is both of them lack emotions and empathy, but socios recognize they have little to gain by breaking the law and remain mostly morally sound despite not caring, while psychopaths revel in going against societal norms and evoking strong emotions in others like fear and rage, which is why murderers are call psychos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22213" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T04:19:53.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23406" CreationDate="2015-06-18T04:24:52.777" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watson is a doctor, and to be a doctor you must be smart. Sherlock needs someone clever to keep up with him. And genius needs an audience, so having someone mildly clever and tolerable is the best companion. Sherlock fulfills John's adrenaline addiction and John grounds Sherlock into reality, more easily guiding him safely through his cases. And this is a headcannon, but I think that Sherlock would hate hospitals, and John would treat his not life threatening injuries himself in Baker Street. Watson is strong, skilled, smart, determined, and loyal, and Sherlock is genius, flambouyant, show offy, flighty, and wild. They balance each other in ways that can be hard to describe. John also is the one who equally praises and scolds Sherlock, garnering him respect and affection, if extreme irritation as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22213" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T04:24:52.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19017" CreationDate="2015-06-18T04:32:48.780" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Sherlock first deduces and meets Mary, right before she and John go home after Sherlock revealed himself to be alive, many words show up around her. Among them are time, disillusioned, linguist, secret, and most condemning of all, liar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22213" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T04:32:48.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35531" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12526" CreationDate="2015-06-18T10:58:12.673" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I rented the movie based on reading Card's book as a child over 20 years ago thinking they were connected, I was wrong and had wishful thinking. I don't think it's copyright infringement, but I also believe the advertisements crew took advantage of the population's interest in the much wider read book by Orson Scott card. Look at how many awards Card's book won in the series recieved around 1988. Is that not a target age for marketers of a product to be sold under the assumption that they are getting something associated to Card's work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22217" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-18T11:01:48.510" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T11:01:48.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24931" CreationDate="2015-06-18T15:17:56.283" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gotham City has been portrayed in different ways throughout the history of Batman. It was not always portrayed as a dark place (1960s Batman series). However, the 1989 Tim Burton movie Batman set the style most often used for the place as a dark, crime ridden city full of weird villains like The Joker and The Penguin. This has been more or less continued with the recent Batman films and also the Gotham series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post apocalyptic? Maybe, maybe not. Certainly, it is not post apocalypse a la Mad Max 2, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome or Mad Max Fury Road. But I would see similarities between Batman (1989) and the first Mad Max movie. While the first Mad Max said it was set in the future, the first Batman film never does. But in both, crime is totally out of control and even though government exists, crime is stronger and in both, no apocalypse is mentioned. Dystopian is perhaps a better word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One hint that Batman (1989) was set in the future comes from its Prince soundtrack, where one of the tracks is called The Future and describes a world where law and order is out of control. The poor state of the factory where Jack Napier sustains the injuries that make him The Joker and the poor state of the church at the end are similar to the poor state of Mad Max's police HQ in the first Mad Max film. No major war is mentioned although a war in a fictional Latin American country called Corto Maltese is mentioned. Tim Burton seemed to leave it up to audiences to decide when it was set and why crime was out of control so much. But there's plenty to see in Gotham that this is not a normal city. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22224" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T15:17:56.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35535" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35540" CreationDate="2015-06-18T15:45:48.097" Score="7" ViewCount="16455" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; : The One With the Videotape (Season 08 Episode 04)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ross and Rachel were fighting over who came on to whom when they had sex. Later it was proved that Rachel came on to him. But my doubt is the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was Rachel lying when she was saying Ross came on to her? Which means she knew when people would use the European story.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OR&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did Rachel not know that the European story was used for sex? And she was just having some mild conversation while Ross thought she was coming on to him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21983" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-18T15:47:58.943" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T17:02:08.200" Title="Rachel-Ross &quot;Europe Story&quot; Doubt" Tags="|plot-explanation|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35157" CreationDate="2015-06-18T16:14:20.877" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Clearly, the answer to this comes in the end of the first movie. The thing that matters most to Max is his wife and family who he nearly loves and who dearly love him. Throughout the movie, we see Max as a good cop who gets the job done, who does not deliberately set out to kill any of the criminals (Nightrider killed himself by choosing to drive past a dangerous roadblock in order to escape arrest) and whose boss admires him. We see his wife worried about him going to work and Max himself worried about becoming hooked on what he does. He quits the violent world of an MFP cop and spends time with his family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the bikers catch up and kill his family, leaving Max depressed and angry (i.e. mad = furious). He sets out to avenge the deaths of the people who meant everything to him by going out and killing each of the bikers one by one. His boss did not even attempt to stop him clearly because he too was happy Max was back and likely to give the MFP exactly what it wanted: an end to the biker gang once and for all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In subsequent films, Max is depressed sometimes and does not have interest in being anywhere only the wasteland. But he always helps others. Interestingly, Furiosa (Charlize Theron's character) is also a play on a word for angry (fury) and she too had a similar backstory to Max.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22224" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T16:14:20.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1230" CreationDate="2015-06-18T16:21:03.410" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing to state that the farmhand and Blaster were the same person. Both seemed to have Down's Syndrome or a similar condition. I think the farmhand may well be May's son and if May was Jessie's aunt, so Max may well identify with Blaster as similar to the man in the first movie who may well be his wife's first cousin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22224" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T16:21:03.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34351" CreationDate="2015-06-18T16:31:38.163" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you can watch the new Mad Max without having to watch the older ones first. But you should watch the older films for background and no doubt, one will want more after watching the new one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second Mad Max film is very similar to Fury Road with Max helping a community against a gang of warlords in the wasteland. The third is similar in theme. The first is set just before the apocalypse and shows Max as a cop in a world where crime in getting out of control and where he avenges the death of his family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22224" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T16:31:38.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35535" CreationDate="2015-06-18T17:02:08.200" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course she came on to him and then lied about it... &lt;strong&gt;She never really went backpacking across Western Europe.&lt;/strong&gt; :) This whole thing also hinges on some subtle acting by Aniston.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joey: It’s this story I came up with, very romantic. I swear any woman that hears it, they’re like putty. [...] Now you’re gonna want to have sex with me when you hear it, but you have to remember it's just a story. [...] Years ago, when I was backpacking across Western Europe...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The chain of events is this: Joey comes up with the Europe story. He tells it to a girl to sleep with her; she tells Rachel she slept with a guy after he told her this story. Joey then tells it to Ross, who hadn't had sex for a while, with the understanding that &lt;em&gt;Ross should tell it in the 1st person.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is exactly what Rachel does. &lt;em&gt;You can see her making her mind up&lt;/em&gt; after the awkward silence when she and Ross admit they would've slept together after Monica's engagement. She knows Ross is not exactly a spontaneous guy and would need some convincing, so she says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ross, did I ever tell you about the time I went backpacking through Western Europe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's highly unlikely that a spoiled rich girl like Rachel ever did that&lt;/em&gt;, and even if she did, that it fit exactly into Joey's story. She simply lies that she did, and has no reason to make up such an extravagant lie that's easy to pick apart just to make conversation. So she's secure in the fact that no one would know this story, but then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monica: You used the Europe story!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chandler: That’s the magic story you use when you wanna have sex!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rachel: How do you know about that story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rachel sounds disappointed&lt;/em&gt; when she says that, knowing she was caught in a lie. Her first reaction isn't in the line of 'it wasn't a come on' but rather 'damn, you know the story too': Now they know she only told this made-up story to seduce Ross.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T17:02:08.200" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18105" CreationDate="2015-06-18T17:20:55.937" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the other reasons given here, limiting specifically the time available by the &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; cast and crew, I'd like to point out that three or four 60 to 90-minute episodes is actually a very common format for a &quot;series&quot; in UK television, and &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; is far from the only series to use it.  It seems to be particularly popular with detective/mystery shows. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, the 1980s John Hawkesworth &lt;em&gt;Sherlock Holmes&lt;/em&gt; series with Jeremy Brett actually reverted to that format for &lt;em&gt;The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes&lt;/em&gt; (6th season). In more recent times, &lt;em&gt;Case Histories, The Bletchly Circle, Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Foyles War, Endeavour,&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Casual Vacancy&lt;/em&gt;, have all been only three or four, 60 or 90-minute episodes. The examples are legion of this type of shorter series format on UK television, both from the BBC and the commercial channels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18624" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T17:20:55.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35542" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-18T18:02:24.343" Score="6" ViewCount="1452" Body="&lt;p&gt;After reading &quot;Dharma of Star Wars&quot;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sptimes.com/News/51699/Floridian/Move_over__Odysseus__.shtml&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; and &quot;Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful Than you can Possibly imagine&quot;, the books mention that there's a lot of Zen Buddhism in Star Wars. For example, Luke is victorious over the Emperor when he chooses not to fight, Luke learns that his own delusions are the enemy not Darth Vader in the cave in Dagobah, Yoda teaches Luke that Jedi use their light saber only for defense and not attack, and Obi-Wan accepts his fate of losing to Darth Vader and then becoming a force ghost. One of the books also mentions wu wei and Aikido, which are martial arts of fighting by being passive, and wearing out your opponent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, what I don't understand is that if Buddhism teaches that victory comes from being passive, then how does that explain how Obi-Wan defeats Darth Maul by being aggressive and striking him, and how Luke destroys the death star by attacking it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-18T18:20:19.993" LastActivityDate="2015-06-23T13:51:53.820" Title="Contradictions in Star Wars about advocating pacifism?" Tags="|analysis|star-wars|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35542" CreationDate="2015-06-18T19:23:47.453" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because it is not Buddhism, it is &lt;em&gt;Buddistisch&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over-emphasis of eastern mysticism's effects on and applicability to western thought is a genre unto itself (see for instance Tao of Physics, anything by Chopra etc.). Star Wars 'religion' has more in common with David Carradine and the TV show &lt;em&gt;Kung Fu&lt;/em&gt; than in actual Buddhism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So your confusion stems from accepting the thesis of those articles. Also, &lt;strong&gt;Han shot first&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19595" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-06-23T12:41:32.107" LastActivityDate="2015-06-23T12:41:32.107" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35491" CreationDate="2015-06-18T21:46:30.623" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I usually take some of the text I hear and put in in google with the term &quot;Lyrics&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The song you're referring to is &quot;I Can Never Go Home Anymore&quot; from &quot;The Shangri-Las&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find it on YouTube, &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/dYdr-MslXkw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or you can search on YouTube for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+I+Can+Never+Go+Home+Anymore&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;some more versions&lt;/a&gt; of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(and yes, it's also on the soundtrack-list I see now)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22167" LastActivityDate="2015-06-18T21:46:30.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1824" CreationDate="2015-06-19T00:32:46.413" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lack of food and water is causing him to hallucinate. He and, probably his wife, had an argument before he was nabbed. After waking up in the ditch, everything that happens to him is a mixture of hallucination and reality. Clarity finally hits him when he is brought face to face with the robber at the end. He never shot his wife. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22233" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T00:32:46.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35551" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-19T00:56:26.223" Score="5" ViewCount="1212" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching an anime movie in the 80s that had one particular scene towards the end where the main characters had to face a giant robotic mammoth. There was lots of snow and ice around, and somehow the characters were able to cut off the mammoth's tusks one by one which disabled it. I believe there was a scene that showed people controlling the elephant from the head (behind the eyes), or maybe it was the good guys after bringing down the machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure it was from Japan, but dubbed in English. I think the overall plot was that the main characters (who were human) were adventuring around the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been trying to remember the name for a long time. I recently found out the name of another movie I watched numerous times as a kid (Rise of the Dinosaurs), so this one is next on my list! Thanks for any help!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22234" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T19:36:56.170" Title="70s or 80s anime movie with robot mammoth" Tags="|identify-this-movie|anime|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:48:55.977" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16922" CreationDate="2015-06-19T01:23:36.357" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now guys what I think is that if the tatto is a day dream, it means the he wanted to cover that spot when he found the guy who killed his wife, he does not tatto &quot;I did it&quot; cause he wants a motive to live, wich is to find john G.&#xA;He tells Natalie he would like to cover that spot in his chest, but he only meets Natalie after he killed Jimmy Grants, so it means that he can remember some things, wich makes no sense cause he really forgets a lot of things.&#xA;So it means it's not a desease, it's psychological, but he won't accept it, just like Sammy. So Sammy never existed, he's a creation of Lenny's mind to help him make another truth about his wife, in fact, Lenny really killed her with an overdose.&#xA;The day dream explanation makes more sense cause he is with his eyes closed while the scene shows, besides, he couldn't have it removed without any scars.&#xA;Also, we have to remember that Sammy didn't know about his condition, cause if the doctor told him, he would not remember 20 minutes after it happened, but Lenny knew about his condition, wich is a bit odd and justifies that his condition was really psychological. Besides, we never saw any doctor giving Lenny the diagnosis.&#xA;I really would like to see your thoughts about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22235" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T01:23:36.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35554" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-19T04:40:23.060" Score="6" ViewCount="2115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Captain Jack Sparrow stole a crown from Isla de Muerta and wasn't cursed. If he was immortal why did Will have to save him when they try to hang Captain Jack for his crimes? Why isn't he cursed when he stole that crown?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22237" LastEditorUserId="28011" LastEditDate="2017-07-14T12:12:21.040" LastActivityDate="2017-07-14T12:12:21.040" Title="How could Captain Jack Sparrow die if he stole a crown from the island?" Tags="|pirates-of-the-caribbean|curse-of-the-black-pearl|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35556" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35563" CreationDate="2015-06-19T05:22:37.377" Score="66" ViewCount="64429" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a child I watched (with my father) a boxing match which lasted 12 rounds. At the end neither fighter resembled his previous pretty self, but nobody got knocked out either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just watched Terra Nova where the main character layed out a kidnapper in one punch. I've seen this a lot in movies. In the movies is so easy to lay someone out by landing a fairly decent blow to the head. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I have to ask: Are movies giving an over-simplistic idea of how easy it is to knock someone out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or as the title asks: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it really as easy to knock someone out in real life as in the movies?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22239" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-20T11:40:15.830" LastActivityDate="2019-09-12T15:29:25.413" Title="Is it really as easy to knock someone out in real life as in the movies?" Tags="|film-techniques|realism|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35556" CreationDate="2015-06-19T09:37:30.037" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is possible knock someone out with one punch. Searching on Youtube for &quot;One punch knockout&quot; gives you many results (also in boxing).&#xA;An &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV3TDLRDKIY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;. (warning, contains violence and some may be fake.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wikihow.com/Knock-Someone-Out-with-One-Hit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;spot&lt;/a&gt; where someone is hit is important though, but it is definitely possible; whether it is easy depends on how well the person hitting and the person being hit know what to do in fights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, boxers of course try to protect their heads from getting knocked out, yet still they also get a knock-out every once in while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-06-19T19:58:31.700" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T19:58:31.700" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9107" CreationDate="2015-06-19T09:55:55.163" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always wondered about this and after reading the above remarks I would agree it is highly probable that he did indeed know it was her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd just like to add that the close-up on him extinguishing his cigarette into the strudel at the end of the conversation, immediately after extolling its deliciousness, to me signifies the two-faced nature of his character, whereby he puts on an act to achieve his objectives in a given encounter, especially in an interrogation.  Tarantino discusses this point in this video: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/q_g7O7W-IUg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are left wondering if he actually appreciated the strudel or if he was merely using it as a device to create tension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22245" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2020-02-16T12:35:35.270" LastActivityDate="2020-02-16T12:35:35.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35554" CreationDate="2015-06-19T11:25:39.263" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assume that you're asking about the final scenes on the island, when Jack is rummaging through the riches in the island's cave (providing a very unromantic setting for Will's and Elizabeth's conversation)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/pirates/images/7/7c/Jack_crown_Will.PNG&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer to your question is that not all the items in that cave bring you the curse. Only the coins do, as explained to Elizabeth by captain Barbossa:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You don't know what this is, do you?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  It's a pirate medallion. This is Aztec gold. One of 882 identical pieces&#xA;  they delivered in a stone chest to Cortes himself. Blood money paid&#xA;  to stem the slaughter he wreaked upon them with his armies.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  But the greed of Cortes was insatiable. So, the heathen gods placed&#xA;  upon the gold a terrible curse. Any mortal that removes but a single piece&#xA;  from that stone chest shall be punished for eternity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-03-10T09:42:47.693" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T01:35:47.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35556" CreationDate="2015-06-19T12:30:10.890" Score="56" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disclaimer: Violence is stupid and dangerous. A blow to the skull is often fatal.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't say it's easy, but there are several sweet spots on the skull that, when hit with sufficient force, is almost guaranteed to cause unconsciousness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would suggest the upper part of the jaw bone or the temple. Both places are connected to the brain stem through nerves and/or arteries. A punch here will cause the force to reach your brain and shut you down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also believe that it's an important factor whether you expect the punch or it lands like a lightning from a blue sky. The latter are by far the worst. You'll almost certainly wake up surrounded by panicked individuals with a severely swollen head and no clue as to what happened ... then you throw up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Found this on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/How-does-one-render-another-unconscious-with-a-single-punch&quot;&gt;Quora&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A bunch of studies of head injuries in primates were done at U Penn some years ago. Bottom line: it took 3 times less energy to knock an individual out with a ROTATIONAL blow (e.g. roundhouse punch) than with a TRANSLATIONAL strike (e.g. a jab).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are 2 main mechanisms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1) Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) can cushion a linear blow, but not a&#xA;  rotational one (the CSF and brain spin side by side in a rotational&#xA;  movement) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2) the upper brainstem and higher brain can twist on each other&#xA;  because of their size, shape and relative positions (and the arteries&#xA;  that supply them can also twist), kind of like an apple and its stem,&#xA;  causing loss of function precisely where &quot;consciousness&quot; resides in&#xA;  the brain (the reticular activating system)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The studies mentioned by the Quora poster might be any of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~injury/Publications.html#Head&quot;&gt;many studies&lt;/a&gt; that came out of the Head Injury Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, but is most likely referring (primarily) to &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2384494&quot;&gt;Physical model simulations of brain injury in the primate&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, by Margulies SS, Thibault LE, and Gennarelli TA (published in the Journal of Biomechanics in 1990).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18076" LastEditorUserId="18076" LastEditDate="2015-06-20T16:52:46.863" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T16:52:46.863" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35556" CreationDate="2015-06-19T14:35:41.907" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several issues here in comparing real life to movies. A trained person knows how and where to strike for maximum damage and this person can definitely knock someone out with one blow.  It may seem simple but it takes a lot of practice to develop an accurate punch. The average person might know to aim for the temple but not strike there for a many reasons (among them is that the person he's fighting is throwing a punch, moving, doing something to protect himself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Professional boxers do get knocked out with one punch (see Marquez-Pacquiao) but most of the time they do a very good job of protecting themselves. It may look to some people that they're just a bunch of thugs throwing punches but they are marvelously trained and prepared athletes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So back to the question: who is throwing the punch? A trained, experienced soldier or fighter? Who is his target? Just another guy without training? Is the professional in good shape weighing 180 pounds or more? Then yes one punch knockouts can and do happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16557" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T14:35:41.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35565" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-19T15:52:10.813" Score="8" ViewCount="3444" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched this TV series in the late 80s or maybe the early 90s, it was subbed in Arabic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most likely it was American and it was not animated, I believe its from the same era of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088610/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Small Wonder&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember that much about it but it involved a group of aliens who live among us &lt;strong&gt;secretly&lt;/strong&gt; , they look just like us however I cant remember if they could shape-shift or not. One distinctive thing I remember is that they could jump very high (due to the different gravity) when nobody was looking since they are from an other planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was at least two men and I think of them at least was working a police officer or something like that and he used his powers once to sort out problems/crimes when nobody was looking. Sadly that's all I can recall   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I think I remember they had a massive ship in the outer space &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit2: I have check all the shows mentioned in the answers and comments including V original miniseries, sadly it's none of them.&#xA;I'll assume that my memory is bad and the show is not American nor in English. I don't think it's from the 80's most likely from the 90's&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13312" LastEditorUserId="13312" LastEditDate="2015-06-29T11:46:23.793" LastActivityDate="2016-08-01T18:23:03.007" Title="An American TV series about human-like aliens" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:05:39.060" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35566" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-19T17:47:09.147" Score="5" ViewCount="764" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 1 Episode 19 of &amp;quot;Person of Interest&amp;quot;, Elias kidnaps Carter's son, so Finch goes to Officer Simmons, who is part of H.R., a group of corrupt cops who are working with Elias at the time.  The following conversation ensues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finch: Look, I recognize, Officer, that I'm placing myself in danger by sitting here with you.  I need you to understand that you're placing your family in danger by doing business with Elias.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simmons: What the hell is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finch: The man following your wife is an ex-con whose prior convictions include rape, manslaughter Elias is keeping you and yours in check Until his plan is finished.  After that Who knows whether he'll have any use for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simmons: How do I know this guy doesn't work for you, huh? L&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finch: I imagine you don't. But are you really willing to bet your family's life on it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simmons: What do you want?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finch: &lt;strong&gt;You need to get me the location of Detective Carter's son and call off any men you have working on Elias's behalf.  HR severs its ties with Elias as of this moment.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And after that, H.R. does exactly what Finch asked them to do.  So my question is, why did they do what Finch wanted?  Did Finch offer them something in return?  Otherwise how would it benefit H.R. to reveal the location of Carter's son?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Finch somehow manage to get rid of all Elias' people who were following  the families of H.R. members?  The show doesn't make that clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No spoilers beyond season 1, please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7827" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T17:17:50.670" Title="What deal does Finch make with H.R. In &quot;Person of Interest&quot;?" Tags="|person-of-interest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35567" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35572" CreationDate="2015-06-19T17:51:19.070" Score="32" ViewCount="95508" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given that the movie &quot;Finding Nemo&quot; takes place in a world resembling our own (with locations like Sydney Australia). Where is the reef (Marlin and Nemo's home) located? And, given the landmarks Marlin travels through (ie: the &quot;EAC&quot;), how far does Marlin travel from that reef to get to Sydney Australia?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21877" LastActivityDate="2023-10-01T10:13:34.993" Title="How far does Marlin travel to find Nemo?" Tags="|finding-nemo|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10640" CreationDate="2015-06-19T19:28:43.377" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think as a general rule, audiences need something to &quot;happen&quot; every 3 seconds or so. You can do this by scriptwriting something every 3 seconds... something interesting, and cutting only when it's difficult to orchestrate multiple stunts/happenings in the same shot (Indiana Jones). Or you can kind of cheat by cutting to a new view every few seconds, which the brain interprets as a &quot;happening&quot; even if nothing actually happened in the story (Fast &amp;amp; Furious). I prefer well-written/directed/orchestrated movies with fewer cuts but most people seem happy to be pseudo-entertained by a rapid succession of cuts in a less interesting story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22251" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2017-01-29T03:17:47.203" LastActivityDate="2017-01-29T03:17:47.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35571" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35567" CreationDate="2015-06-19T19:47:27.083" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nemo and Marlin live on the Great Barrier Reef.  According to MapQuest, there is approximately 1,500 miles of coastline between the shores off the Great Barrier Reef and the capital city of Sydney, which is located on the southeast corner of the continent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marlin, on his journey, hops into the EAC (Eastern Australian Current) which runs down the coast from the Great Barrier Reef and ends in Sydney.  So far, this all checks out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Walt's follow-up, Clownfish are small animals that could maybe reach a top speed of 3MPH.  The EAC also moves at approximately the same speed, so that would double Marlin's speed to reach Sydney.  At that rate, swimming non-stop, it would take about 250 hours, or about 10½ days to make the trip.  However, on the way back, it would take at least 21 days, assuming they stayed out of the EAC.  And that's &lt;strong&gt;non-stop&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T19:47:27.083" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35567" CreationDate="2015-06-19T19:48:01.723" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;What a fun question!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, so Marlin and Nemo live in the Great Barrier Reef which is located off the coast of Queensland in north east Australia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rPGie.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Great Barrier Reef&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From there he wanders around and hops aboard the East Australian Current (EAC), which luckily enough passes right through the Great Barrier Reef and passes by Sydney in the south east of Australia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z9van.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;East Australian Current&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using Google Maps' measuring tool to plot a (very) rough course between the Great Barrier Reef and Sydney we find that &lt;strong&gt;Marlin traveled the equivalent of 1275 miles (2040 KM).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ob9H8.png&quot; alt=&quot;Route&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For simplicity sake we'll just take &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Australian_Current&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;he maximum speed reached by the EAC is 90 cm/s&lt;/a&gt; (about 3.24 km/h) to calculate the trip taking about 630 hours or 26 days. That's a &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt; time to stay on a surfer Turtle's shell :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T19:48:01.723" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35565" CreationDate="2015-06-19T19:48:06.093" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds a lot like Alien Nation, which started in 1988.  The human-like aliens do live among us, but they're out in the open, though there is also open discrimination against them.  One of the aliens is a police officer and has a human partner.  They can jump high, as I recall.  Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096531/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jkAk4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2015-06-19T21:10:55.260" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T21:10:55.260" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35556" CreationDate="2015-06-19T19:53:31.507" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible?  Yes.  Have I seen it?  Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one huge bit of information missing from all of these answers; boxers use &lt;strong&gt;padded gloves&lt;/strong&gt;.  Now, they have tape underneath to add impact to the punch, but the gloves &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; padded and a well-trained boxer knows how to protect himself and reduce the impact of the blow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A street fight is bare-knuckles, and that's gonna do a lot more damage.  particularly if it hits a pressure point or a point more vulnerable on impact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T19:53:31.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35556" CreationDate="2015-06-19T19:57:01.427" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Easy vs. Possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible. Yes. Even with relatively minimal training it is a fairly simple matter to teach someone to transfer enough energy through a strike to cause unconsciousness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it easy? No. Transferring that much energy requires, among other things, striking through the target. If you watch beginning karate students attempting to break boards you will see many of them take several attempts, even though they are punching with all of their strength and with relatively good technique. The reason it takes them so many attempts is that they are focusing the end of their blow on the front side, rather than the back side, of the target. So while they punch with power, the power doesn't transfer to the board in a way that causes it to break. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It does. But it's not a regular occurrence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, where it gets tricky is this: the force needed to knock someone unconscious is very similar to the force required to kill them. It has more to do with the location and direction of the force applied to the brain tissue. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is almost always false about movies (regardless of if they show a one-punch knockout or not) is the lingering effects of traumatic brain injury. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22254" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T19:57:01.427" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35556" CreationDate="2015-06-19T20:00:56.587" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: Personal experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A relative was extremely irate with myself, and had been throwing punches at me for about 20 minutes. I had finally had enough and jabbed his bottom jaw towards the front. (If you feel on your own jaw, and you are not too overweight you should feel an area somewhat less padded, and sensitive than the rest.) He dropped, and was motionless for about 20 seconds.&#xA;I have seen others knocked out from seemingly mild impacts while play fighting at school, or sport incidents.&#xA;I have never trained any form of hand to hand combat, I am slightly stronger than average, but not by much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Caveat: If someone was knocked out for an extended period, this would fall into the category of &quot;not very good things to happen&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22255" LastActivityDate="2015-06-19T20:00:56.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35577" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35641" CreationDate="2015-06-19T21:02:50.310" Score="5" ViewCount="2629" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3479316/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Parallels&lt;/a&gt; is on Netflix, and gives the impression that there is more to follow. Even the opening credits give more of a &quot;series&quot; than &quot;movie&quot; impression. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is, &lt;strong&gt;is there any secured information if Parallels is (or was) going to be an actual series?&lt;/strong&gt; Was this supposed to be the pilot for an upcoming TV-series or maybe a pilot of a failed series that was released on its own then? If yes, then is there any information about that series, e.g. if it will use the same actors, build upon the movie story-wise, or how the episodes are going to be structured?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22239" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-12T14:50:57.713" LastActivityDate="2016-05-13T11:39:46.990" Title="Is Parallels supposed to be the pilot for an actual series?" Tags="|production|parallels|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35581" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-19T22:06:46.727" Score="2" ViewCount="370" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if my question belongs here or not. In the movie American Beauty, the message is that real beauty lies beneath the surface of things and you have to look deeper. A nice home in the suburbs and attractive girls aren't real beauty&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ricky sees real beauty  in dead birds, a plastic bag, etc. Lester sees real beauty at the end when he realizes the girl he wants to sleep with is a virgin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Ricky mentions seeing this incredibly benevolent force that wanted him to know there was no reason to ever be afraid while watching the plastic bag, is this a reference to the Tao? Does Taoism also teach that the key to happiness and having no fear to accept the flow of life, even the bad things that happen to you (for ex. Lester being a doormat/loser at the beginning, or Ricky taking beatings from his father), and to recognize it as beauty?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21331" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-06-19T22:35:11.027" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T14:27:22.610" Title="Does American Beauty advocate Taoism?" Tags="|analysis|american-beauty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15688" CreationDate="2015-06-19T22:50:15.387" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frank was a miserable person. His wife was a cold fish who owned him lock, stock, and barrel. He was, at best, an average doctor, and he couldn't or wouldn't bring himself down to being human. He did show some flashes of humanity, but it was brief. And when Hot Lips Houlihan got engaged, tired of waiting, Burns just became a punchline, and it was the producer's fault. They would not let him grow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22261" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-06-20T01:03:35.253" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T01:03:35.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32546" CreationDate="2015-06-20T00:06:15.073" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ultimate fate of Hook is that he dies at the hands, or rather the jaws, of the crocodile, when it eats him, as per the original canon. There's no exposition offered as to why the crocodile awakens, but clearly it was still alive, in a magical coma. Like Sleeping Beauty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22263" LastEditorUserId="22263" LastEditDate="2015-06-20T02:34:18.457" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T02:34:18.457" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35585" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-20T00:20:14.137" Score="2" ViewCount="2390" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where is Elizabeth in the end of At World's End? Will gives her his heart to protect and leaves her on some island. Is it Davy Jones' locker?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22237" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-31T18:54:04.640" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T20:09:33.463" Title="Where is Elizabeth in the end of At World's End?" Tags="|pirates-of-the-caribbean|at-worlds-end|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35195" CreationDate="2015-06-20T00:59:38.450" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched Red Lights, like two-three days ago. If I understood what I was seeing, there IS a correlation between the two events. Tom Buckley. He didn't have conscious knowledge of, or control over his abilities. He hadn't ever acknowledged that he &lt;strong&gt;had&lt;/strong&gt; abilities, not even to himself, except by jokingly saying he was psychic at one point. The fact that it was him all along is the big reveal at the very end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22263" LastEditorUserId="22263" LastEditDate="2015-06-20T23:10:34.483" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T23:10:34.483" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="435" CreationDate="2015-06-20T02:23:00.213" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tom and Verna kill Leo at the end. There's not another soul alive that thinks this other than me and yet it seems so obvious. The hat at the beginning is Leo's hat. The stretch of woods it is blowing down is the same stretch of woods that Leo is walking down at the end of the movie. Why does Verna take the car at the end? Why does Tom tip his hat and give a sinister look? He tips his hat to firstly show that it's not the same hat as the one in the opening scene and secondly he tips it because he's about to do something: murder Leo. Seems obvious. Or maybe not.........&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22264" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-20T19:53:59.513" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T19:53:59.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30481" CreationDate="2015-06-20T03:16:17.690" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is out of honor when mark died he was awarded about 8 when Chris Kyle &quot;American Sniper&quot; was awarded around 386 badges the badges symbolizes respect he was awarded so many because many other shoulders saw him as a leader or &quot;legend&quot; when mark was the adverge solider so not to many people knew him as well as Chris &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22265" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T03:16:17.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35589" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35591" CreationDate="2015-06-20T03:42:48.367" Score="13" ViewCount="10834" Body="&lt;p&gt;Modern Family is filmed like somebody is making a documentary. Who is making the documentary that is Modern Family? And Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18823" LastEditorUserId="7757" LastEditDate="2015-06-20T11:40:53.163" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T11:40:53.163" Title="Who is making the Modern Family documentary?" Tags="|modern-family|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35556" CreationDate="2015-06-20T05:22:51.900" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes it is and there are multiple evidence of that on youtube, like these:&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/R14oBzxLRqo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;, &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/xZQOSRGLOhY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two things worth mentioning though: 1. It takes a lot of practice to be able to do that. 2. It is hard to control the damage that you are causing by these knock outs. People die from getting punched in the skull/falling/etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22268" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T05:22:51.900" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35589" CreationDate="2015-06-20T07:14:19.200" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.macleans.ca/culture/who-on-earth-are-they-talking-to/&quot;&gt;Jaime Weinman has the 411&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the original pilot script for Modern Family, the creators included&#xA;  a subplot explaining why the show’s three wacky families were being&#xA;  filmed documentary-style. The idea was that &lt;strong&gt;the interconnected&#xA;  families were the subject of a movie being made by a Dutch exchange&#xA;  student; he was going to have a backstory and fall in love with one of&#xA;  the regulars.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But by the time the show made it to air, the documentary&#xA;  filmmaker was nowhere to be seen, and as Modern Family has grown into&#xA;  the biggest hit comedy of the season, the characters have never shown&#xA;  any awareness that they’re being filmed. Co-creator Steven Levitan&#xA;  (Just Shoot Me!) made it official in an interview with the Television&#xA;  Critics Association, saying that the presence of the documentarian&#xA;  “felt like an appendage, like we didn’t need it.” &lt;strong&gt;Modern Family is now&#xA;  a show that uses documentary film techniques but never bothers to&#xA;  explain why; that’s why Levitan calls it “a family show done&#xA;  documentary-style.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/fashion/23THISLIFE.html?pagewanted=all&quot;&gt;From the New York Times&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originally “Modern Family” centered on a Dutch filmmaker who had been&#xA;  an exchange student with the Pritchetts in high school&lt;/strong&gt;. The writers&#xA;  dropped the character because he was cumbersome, and, as Mr. Levitan&#xA;  said, “because I don’t like the people who allow cameramen to sit&#xA;  around their house all day while they raise their kids.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But two crucial elements remain. First, characters in the middle of a&#xA;  scene will often glance at the camera, a disconcerting aside that has&#xA;  the effect of making the viewer feel both like a part of the family&#xA;  and an observer. A result is a feeling of “Who’s laughing at whom&#xA;  here?” that echoes the larger reality-show surrealism that surrounds&#xA;  the Kardashians, “The Housewives” and Sarah Palin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Second, the characters in “Modern Family” all offer confessional&#xA;  interviews directly to an unidentified cameraperson. Jay may say he&#xA;  pretends to love his daughter’s blueberry pie, but he really hates it.&#xA;  Or Mitchell may say, as he does in this episode, “Cameron has it in&#xA;  his head that I don’t listen to him, but I do.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The idea of internal monologue is hardly new — think of any ballad in&#xA;  a Broadway musical. What’s new is that we all engage in this sort of&#xA;  running narrative of our lives, rushing off after dinner (or coitus)&#xA;  to share our confessions on Twitter or Facebook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As Mr. Lloyd said: “The interviews are a chance to have characters&#xA;  more honestly express things than they might openly do in a scene with&#xA;  someone. So we get a laugh from the contrast between what they’re&#xA;  really feeling and what they were willing to admit they were feeling&#xA;  in the scene.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T07:14:19.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35577" CreationDate="2015-06-20T07:28:00.357" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/christophrleone&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From the writer's Twitter&lt;/a&gt; on 18 March 2015:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We are hellbent on making more PARALLELS! We're figuring out the next&#xA;  steps now but I should have news to share very soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T07:28:00.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35581" CreationDate="2015-06-20T14:02:26.933" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm no expert or religious scholar.  My limited background is reading Stephan Mitchell's translation of the Tao te ching (not for class) + two philosophy of religion classes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With Ricky, the true tao is the tao that cannot be spoken.  I agree, his fascination with tapes seems to focus on capturing a force beyond words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To add to your points, Lester seems to connect with what is described in the tao as  Wu Wei (effortless action or doing not doing).  In Lester's case, living without dieing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some more paradoxes:&#xA;Happy family or hostel family&#xA;Lester's burning desire yields to contentment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22277" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T14:02:26.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12382" CreationDate="2015-06-20T14:41:48.667" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a male. I know because female  Pikachus have a heart like tail while male Pikachus don't. It's very obvious if you have played a Pokémon game. Besides, everybody who has played Pokémon Alpha Sapphire or Pokémon Omega Ruby knows that Cosplay Pikachu is a female, but can dress up as a boy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a quick answer, Ash's Pikachu is a male.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22278" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T14:41:48.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19892" CreationDate="2015-06-20T15:42:06.690" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you’re looking for a television crossover universe with the greatest number of episodes, you should probably be looking at daytime television soap operates which have been on the air for decades and have aired thousands of episodes.  For example As the World Turns (13,858 episodes) spun off Somerset (1710 episodes) and Our Private World (38 episodes).  It has crossovers with characters from Another World (8891 episodes) and The Young and the Restless (10,692 episodes and counting) which has in turn crossovered with The Bold and the Beautiful (7103 episodes and counting).  By my count that’s well over 33,000 episodes among these series – well more than all of the Star Trek series, Doctor Who and related spinoffs or the Tommy Westphal-connected series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22280" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T15:42:06.690" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35602" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-20T17:32:17.310" Score="1" ViewCount="94" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final scene of &lt;em&gt;Predestination&lt;/em&gt; there's the following dialogue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John&lt;/strong&gt;: Your next attack will kill ten thousand more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John knows this because it is his strongest motivation for hunting down the fizzle bomber.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fizzle Bomber&lt;/strong&gt;: You wanna know what we're gonna do tomorrow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John&lt;/strong&gt;: No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;John shoots the fizzle bomber&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does the ending cause a paradox because John has supposedly stopped the fizzle bomber from executing his big plan, hence erasing the motivation for the events of the movie? If so, what indicates this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If not, what signs indicate that the big hit takes place earlier in the fizzle bomber's life, before the laundromat encounter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22284" LastEditorUserId="22284" LastEditDate="2015-06-21T00:33:56.447" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T00:33:56.447" Title="Does the ending of Predestination cause a paradox, or does the loop stay closed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|predestination|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-06-22T23:26:13.743" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35603" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35671" CreationDate="2015-06-20T18:24:28.880" Score="6" ViewCount="1171" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember seeing a horror or suspense movie where a couple are on the run from something - ghost, monster, serial killer, and they are able to travel through portals. I recall one scene where they go under a bed and end up coming out of a closet in a motel or something similar. I want to say it was a young couple, and the movie was at least 8 years old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the protagonist(s) were able to quickly use closed doors and closets as a method of transportation and I remember being impressed with the camera movements/visual slight-of-hand. It's not the Adjustment Bureau, rather a dark movie like a horror or dark sci-fi. Perhaps they could move about in shadows or dark places? I know they were trying to escape something scary or evil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22287" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-21T15:14:31.443" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T06:03:31.947" Title="Trying to find horror movie about portals" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:48:59.093" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35607" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-20T20:11:06.607" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the website Mathilda is watching in the first episode of Humans?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zjFcd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it an existing website? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't find it using Google, hoping someone recognizes the site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19944" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-20T22:02:00.913" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T22:39:33.677" Title="What is the website Mathilda is viewing in the first episode of Humans?" Tags="|humans|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35607" CreationDate="2015-06-20T21:51:27.813" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is most likely non-existing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my experience websites used in movies or TV shows are non-existent, or if they exist they're &quot;fake&quot;, i.e. specifically developed to target the viewers, as some sort of promotional tool. This happens &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/17/silicon-valley-fake-websites-tv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;for various reasons&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some TV shows make up websites to skirt copyright issues. Others use&#xA;  fictional sites as plot devices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main problem with using an existing website is that its owners have to give permission; the same is true for brands of food, cars, etc. so writers are instructed to avoid existing brands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T21:51:27.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9196" CreationDate="2015-06-20T23:17:41.333" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I installed the phone lines used on location for the movie &quot;The Rock,&quot; and I can tell you with near absolute certainty that the guns used there were real.  I know this because on one trip out to the island the guns being used were also being shipped.  Had I not already had my location pass, ID, etc. (and the boat and movie crew knew me), I would not have been allowed on the same boat. The locker was under armed guard and had several locks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22091" LastEditorUserId="22091" LastEditDate="2015-06-21T05:21:21.173" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T05:21:21.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2804" CreationDate="2015-06-20T23:34:19.080" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think so. I think the change in script is more indicative of a clever change in the plotline by Gilliam.  I think it was probably an alternate ending that he decided would actually lend the movie a deeper, subtler, and more mysterious twist. Why replace a script indicating that Jefferey wasn't a part of the virus distribution with a scene containing vague hints that he was: 1. &quot;Too late!&quot;. 2. &quot;I'm not crazy.&quot;-spoken with a sense of deeper meaning, followed by a change in Jeffery's lunatic-having-fun attitude and a serious, distant look.  Also, it only makes sense that henchman wouldn't know about the plan. The virus was a seperate more serious attack he developed after his departure from the 12 Monkeys gang and decided he needed access to his father's lab(his sudden change of attitude towards the need to experiment on animals.) It seems he found a kindred spirit in Dr. Peters, or possibly he was the influence in Dr. Peters interest in the apocalypse.  Gilliam is famous for his subtlety, highly interconnected and layered plotlines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22292" LastActivityDate="2015-06-20T23:34:19.080" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4132" CreationDate="2015-06-21T01:07:27.493" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though this was answered a while ago, here is more-or-less the same, but visualised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine two-dimensional beings. They live in 2D space, which we usually call a plane. There are infinitely many planes and some are parallel, i.e., they do not intersect. If you pick two of these, there is a space between those two planes (2D spaces), incomprehensible to 2D-beings:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TxAPr.png&quot; alt=&quot;Space between spaces&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our beings here are 4D, so they can fathom the space between 3D spaces (for example, our and any other one parallel to it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we take the fourth dimension to be time, they can see and visit what you get between any two moments of our world (each moment  being a 3D space, all of them parallel to each other), but I don't think that the movie went that deep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T01:07:27.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35620" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35640" CreationDate="2015-06-21T03:42:00.443" Score="7" ViewCount="3335" Body="&lt;p&gt;I loved Interstellar, but I found it odd that for a film that seemed to base a huge emotional chord on Cooper's relationship with Murph that: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; When they are reunited, it was so brief and there was no mention of Tom or any real interest in his future generations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reasonable explanation for this perceived discrepancy between this somewhat unusal encounter and the themes about fatherly care prevalent in the rest of the movie? Has Nolan or anyone ever explained thoughts behind this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22300" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-21T12:24:18.213" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T13:19:50.623" Title="About Cooper's and Murphy's reunion in Interstellar" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35621" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35630" CreationDate="2015-06-21T03:48:35.047" Score="33" ViewCount="18463" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday one of my friend asked me the question what the V symbol in &lt;em&gt;V for Vendetta&lt;/em&gt; stands for. I never thought about it before. Does V stand for a group or just the name of the main character? Does it have other meanings?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the main character liked the V very much. I can see that from his self introduction. But my friend still thought that there are other meanings in the character V.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Evey: Who are you? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;V. : Who? Who is but the form following the&#xA;  function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Evey: Well I can&#xA;  see that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;V. : Of course you can, I’m not questioning your powers of&#xA;  observation, I’m merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked&#xA;  man who he is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Evey: Oh, right. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;V. : But on this most auspicious of&#xA;  nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace soubriquet, to&#xA;  suggest the character of this dramatis persona. Voila! In view humble&#xA;  vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by&#xA;  the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a&#xA;  vestige of the “vox populi” now vacant, vanished. However, this&#xA;  valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has&#xA;  vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, van guarding vice&#xA;  and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of&#xA;  volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive&#xA;  not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day&#xA;  vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily this vichyssoise of&#xA;  verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very&#xA;  good honour to meet you and you may call me V. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Evey: Are you like a&#xA;  crazy person? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;V. : I’m quite sure they will say so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7280" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-21T12:07:23.443" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T10:18:40.650" Title="What does the symbol V stand for in the movie V for Vendetta?" Tags="|analysis|v-for-vendetta|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="993" CreationDate="2015-06-21T05:23:12.713" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many actors can turn tears on and off at will.  Others struggle with it and need the right kind of assistance and &lt;em&gt;sometimes&lt;/em&gt; get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jackie Cooper (1922-2011) in &lt;em&gt;Please Don't Shoot My Dog&lt;/em&gt; (1982) tells how they pretended to shoot his dog to get him to cry for a scene in &lt;em&gt;Skippy&lt;/em&gt; (1931).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David Hollander (born 1969) told how once when he was too happy to do a crying scene he made himself unhappy enough by destroying one of his treasured toys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you see a scene with crying or other intense emotions you have no way of telling how easy or hard it was for those particular actors to act that  scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22302" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T05:23:12.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35621" CreationDate="2015-06-21T07:26:33.047" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_%28comics%29&quot;&gt;According to Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He is at one point an inmate at &quot;Larkhill Resettlement Camp&quot; [...]&#xA;  While there, he is part of a group of prisoners who are subjected to&#xA;  horrific medical experimentation, conducted by Dr. Delia Surridge,&#xA;  involving artificially designed hormone injection. [...] All prisoners&#xA;  so injected soon die under gruesome circumstances, with the sole&#xA;  exception of &lt;strong&gt;&quot;the man in room five&quot; (&quot;V&quot; in Roman numerals)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[After his escape from this camp] &lt;strong&gt;he adopts the new identity, &quot;V&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, as&#xA;  well as dons a Guy Fawkes mask and costume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He doesn't even consider &quot;V&quot; his &quot;name&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, saying &quot;I don't have a name.&#xA;  You can call me V&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T07:26:33.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35347" CreationDate="2015-06-21T08:19:51.697" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kublai asked the &quot;Latins&quot; to bring him priests, but they all retreated (turned back or perished) from the arduous journey from Italy, which he says &quot;many do not survive,&quot; whereas the &quot;boy&quot; did advance, he survived the journey when the men could not, &quot;Our priests couldn't bear the rigors of the journey.&quot; Kublai says, &quot;This says very little about your Savior.&quot; He wasn't poking fun at the Polos, it was irreverent humor at the expense of Christianity, soliciting laughter from his court, just before he says the Pope of Rome must bow before him and pledge his fealty to the Khan of Khans. Kublai was impressed that Marco survived the trip, and of course his expectations were exceeded when he recognized his talents as a poet, linguist, and overall intelligence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22038" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T08:19:51.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35636" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35655" CreationDate="2015-06-21T10:56:04.470" Score="2" ViewCount="1835" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the previous sequels of the movie Jurassic Park, they get the DNA to recreate dinosaurs from insects. But in the new movie Jurassic World the scientists create a new disosaur which is smart, strong and savage and called the Indominus Rex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how did they get the Indominus Rex DNA?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="20877" LastEditDate="2015-06-21T16:07:54.037" LastActivityDate="2021-07-29T03:30:31.973" Title="How did they get The Indominus Rex DNA?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jurassic-world|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35621" CreationDate="2015-06-21T11:33:49.130" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is deliberately ambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it the hero's soubriquet.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Yes, it stands for Vendetta.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Yes, it comes from Room 5 at Larkhill (Roman V, where V is tortured).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;V himself talks of &quot;virtuous vengeful victory&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;V uses the letter to encompass the whole movement against totalitarianism.  V is the people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-06-21T12:13:45.413" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T12:13:45.413" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35621" CreationDate="2015-06-21T13:00:05.477" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since you're asking about the &lt;em&gt;symbol&lt;/em&gt; &lt;code&gt;V&lt;/code&gt;: drawn (as it usually is) surrounded in a circle, it is visually very like the anarchists' &lt;code&gt;A&lt;/code&gt; symbol (which is also drawn surrounded in a circle), except upside down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you read the original &lt;strike&gt;comic&lt;/strike&gt; graphic novel rather than the movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://alexpeak.com/twr/vfv/excerpts/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;V's anarchy&lt;/a&gt; is frequently evident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Her name is Anarchy.  And she has taught me more as a mistress than&#xA;  you ever did!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She has taught me that justice is meaningless without freedom.  She is&#xA;  honest.  She makes no promises and breaks none.  Unlike you, Jezebel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I used to wonder why you could never look me in the eye.  Now I know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So goodbye, dear lady.  I would be saddened by our parting even now,&#xA;  save that you are no longer the woman that I once loved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Here is a ﬁnal gift.  I leave it at your feet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The ﬂames of freedom.  How lovely.  How just.  Ahh, my precious&#xA;  Anarchy… “O beauty, ’til now I never knew thee.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually the letter &quot;V&quot; is used in each of the 40-odd chapter titles (starting with &lt;em&gt;The Villain&lt;/em&gt; and ending with &lt;em&gt;Valhalla&lt;/em&gt;), with other significant appearances as well (&quot;a 'Violet Carson' rose&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;V's personal identity is a mystery until the end, so it's not surprising that the 'name' is too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for whether it stands for a &quot;group&quot;: initially it's the eponymous V who uses it, later (towards the end) the symbol is adopted by members of the public generally: e.g. a schoolgirl draws it on a wall&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; when the cameras stop working&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;near the start of &lt;em&gt;Vox Populi&lt;/em&gt; chapter. Furthermore,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; There.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; Did you think to kill me?&lt;br&gt;&#xA; There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; There's only an idea.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; Ideas are bulletproof.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; Farewell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, &quot;V&quot; is a name for an idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's out-of-universe evidence too for the &quot;anarchy&quot; theory. For example in this interview, &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20060505034142/http://www.comicon.com/thebeat/2006/03/a_for_alan_pt_1_the_alan_moore.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A FOR ALAN, Pt. 1: The Alan Moore interview&lt;/a&gt;, Alan Moore is quoted as saying,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So I decided to use this to political effect by coming up with a projected Fascist state in the near future and &lt;strong&gt;setting an anarchist against that&lt;/strong&gt;. As far I'm concerned, the two poles of politics were not Left Wing or Right Wing. In fact they're just two ways of ordering an industrial society and we're fast moving beyond the industrial societies of the 19th and 20th centuries. It seemed to me the two more absolute extremes were anarchy and fascism. This was one of the things I objected to in the recent film, where it seems to be, from the script that I read, sort of recasting it as current American neo-conservatism vs. current American liberalism. There wasn't a mention of anarchy as far as I could see. The fascism had been completely defanged. I mean, I think that any references to racial purity had been excised, whereas actually, fascists are quite big on racial purity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, V (himself) stands for out-and-out anarchy, and the story is (apart from being about love and &quot;letting go&quot;) a story of benevolent anarchy overcoming inhumane fascism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I suspect there were other out-of-universe reasons too for choosing or discovering &quot;V&quot; but I don't know them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal theory is that, in-universe, V comes from &quot;Valerie&quot; not from &quot;room five&quot;: Valerie was the woman in room four, who wrote a letter to the man in room five. I suspect that V might have done what he did, in memory of Valerie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Valerie wrote the letter, in her own hand, while she lived.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I delivered it to you as it was delivered to me. The words you wept over were those that transformed me, five years earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;V... she's beautiful.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Who was she?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She was the woman in room four.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm going to give the world what Valerie wanted it to have...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Roses.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  A great abundance of roses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22313" LastEditorUserId="22313" LastEditDate="2015-06-22T20:08:01.570" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T20:08:01.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35620" CreationDate="2015-06-21T13:19:50.623" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although it's not immediately apparent in the film, the script and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21488063-interstellar&quot;&gt;novelisation&lt;/a&gt; make it clear that several weeks have passed between Coop waking up and the arrival of his daughter on the station. During that period, he's had more than adequate time to learn about his son's life and achievements through speaking to Tom's son (his grandson) and other relatives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He wasn’t altogether sure what brought him there. Only a few days&#xA;  ago — his time — he had been doing his level best to return to Earth and&#xA;  never see space — or a spaceship — ever again. Now — well, now he wasn’t&#xA;  sure what he was supposed to do. That plan A had happened — that he had&#xA;  been able to help, and that Murph had managed to go from data to…&#xA;  this, was more than gratifying. It was more than he could ask. But&#xA;  there was a downside to being a hundred and twenty-four. He would&#xA;  never see Tom again. His son had passed almost two decades ago, and&#xA;  his son Coop — Cooper’s grandson — was biologically old enough to be his&#xA;  father. Almost everyone he knew was dead — except Murph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Murph finally appears, it's evidently sufficient to know that she forgives him, that she didn't take her antipathy to the grave and that she's matured sufficiently to understand the sacrifice he made. She (now an old lady) sends him away to live his own life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“And everyone,” she continued, “once a child, wants to look into their dad’s eyes and know he saw. But usually, by then, the father is gone.” She gripped his hand a little tighter. &lt;strong&gt;“Nobody believed me, but I knew you’d come back.”&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  “How?” Cooper asked.&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;“Because my dad promised me,”&lt;/strong&gt; she replied.&#xA;  Cooper felt tears rolling down his face.&#xA;  “I’m here now,” he said, seeing again how feeble, how tiny she looked. “I’m here for you Murph.”&#xA;  But Murph shook her head.&#xA;  “No parent should ever have to watch their child die,” she said. “My kids are here for me now. Go.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T13:19:50.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35577" CreationDate="2015-06-21T13:33:42.023" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show seems to be stuck in development hell but the discussions over the future of the series are evidently still continuing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trying to make the series happen....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;– &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/ChristophrLeone/status/711571643739410432&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Christopher Leone (@ChristophrLeone)&lt;/a&gt; on Twitter, 20 Mar 2016&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-05-13T11:39:46.990" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35642" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-21T14:11:55.700" Score="5" ViewCount="702" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Flash&lt;/em&gt; TV-series, episode 19 of season 1, Joe West and Cisco Ramon investigate the crime scene eventually to find a corpse, later identified as REAL Dr. Harrison Wells who died 15 years ago. This identification is found by matching the DNA. My curiosity is, against whose sample DNA did Cisco run the test to find out the result? I mean Cisco was not in touch with the original Dr. Wells by any means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22314" LastEditorUserId="60982" LastEditDate="2018-02-21T18:12:41.417" LastActivityDate="2018-02-21T18:12:41.417" Title="Against whose DNA does Cisco match?" Tags="|arrowverse|the-flash|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35556" CreationDate="2015-06-21T14:50:44.387" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm gonna have to go against the grain here. As someone who has trained boxing for years, &lt;strong&gt;no, it's not even close&lt;/strong&gt;. It is extremely hard to do in real life, and people don't stay down more than a few seconds. In my entire boxing &quot;career&quot;, I've taken thousands of blows, and I've never lost consciousness. I've hit other people thousands of times, and only like twice have people fallen down, and they've gotten up almost immediately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What you see in the ring is pretty indicative. On average, it takes something like 200 punches in the head, from &lt;strong&gt;the best professional punchers in the world&lt;/strong&gt;, to bring down an opponent. Those 1 hit knockouts you see in YouTube videos and highlight reels are extremely anomalous, they happen once in a million punches. Or more often, they happen to drunk teenagers, already staggering, who are fucking with professional (if retired) boxers like in the videos linked in some of the answers here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you do actually hit someone so hard that you knock them out for more than a few minutes, they are almost guaranteed to have a concussion and need to see a doctor immediately. You don't get to knock someone out for 2 hours just to incapacitate them. Head trauma isn't that convenient in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22316" LastEditorUserId="22316" LastEditDate="2015-06-21T15:26:48.017" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T15:26:48.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35646" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35661" CreationDate="2015-06-21T15:12:06.890" Score="3" ViewCount="108" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, which organization is Patricia working for? Why is she killing the CIA agents?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T22:34:03.040" Title="Who does Patricia work for?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dangerous-mind|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35647" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35723" CreationDate="2015-06-21T15:48:57.120" Score="6" ViewCount="21431" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched the movie &lt;em&gt;The Girl Who Leapt Through Time&lt;/em&gt; and it was beautiful. Since it's a movie with a concept of Time travel and loops questions might come up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie nearly towards the end it is revealed that Chiaki came from the future for that painting and eventually falls in love with Makoto. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that when Chiaki leaves that present World or maybe just disappeared a few girls are show gossiping about Chiaki marrying a girl older in age. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then Makoto leaps through time one last time to change things again and jumps in a time where Chiaki hasn't yet revealed that he came from future and Makota wanted him to express his feelings, finally Chiaki comes near her and whispers &quot;I will meet you again&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is, since Makota lives in the past relative to Chiaki as he came from the future, Makota is actually older than him, and both promises each other to meet in the future and possibly marry. It is not yet understood by me that how come those girls knew that Chiaki married a girl older in age while it was still the present day and not future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15590" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-21T18:37:01.120" LastActivityDate="2019-07-01T15:42:59.050" Title="Time Travel &amp; The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" Tags="|plot-explanation|time-travel|the-girl-who-leapt-through-time|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34588" CreationDate="2015-06-21T16:58:46.587" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although the ending is left ambiguous, I choose to accept &lt;a href=&quot;http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/16/swipe-right-on-ava/&quot;&gt;Garland's own interpretation&lt;/a&gt;; That Ava is fundamentally &lt;strong&gt;evil&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having tricked Caleb into releasing her she now has no use for him. Her intent is to purposefully leave him inside the house to die. His death doesn't just mean &lt;strong&gt;nothing&lt;/strong&gt; to her, she actually enjoys it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film presents an answer from my point of view. After all is said&#xA;  and done, and one guy’s got stabbed, another guy’s trapped, and this&#xA;  robot may or may not have an agenda, she goes up a lift, walks across&#xA;  the room, looks back over her shoulder, and she smiles. &lt;strong&gt;There’s nobody&#xA;  else in the room to trick — from my point of view, if you believed you&#xA;  were unobserved and you were smiling to yourself, that seems like&#xA;  close as you come to your true self..&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that at the end of the film's original script, we learn more about her motivations. Although she appears &lt;em&gt;superficially&lt;/em&gt; human, her impressions of humanity are nothing we could comprehend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The image echoes the POV views from the computer/cell-phone cameras in&#xA;  the opening moments of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Facial recognition vectors flutter around the CHAUFFEUR’S face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And when he opens his mouth to reply, we don’t hear words. We hear&#xA;  pulses of monotone noise. Low pitch. Speech as pure pattern&#xA;  recognition.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is how AVA has been sees us. And hears us.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It feels &lt;em&gt;completely&lt;/em&gt; alien.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-06-21T17:30:52.980" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T17:30:52.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35228" CreationDate="2015-06-21T17:26:18.583" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've narrowed it down to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livesinabox.com/friends/season3/308gpd.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Season 3, episode 8&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;The One with the Giant Poking Device&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before that point, Joey is relatively witty, betrays no obvious confusion about what's happening in his life and is mostly characterised as being something of a man's man, heavily into sports and food.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livesinabox.com/friends/season3/307rcb.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Season 3, Episode 7&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;The One with the Racecar Bed&lt;/em&gt;), the writers seem to have decided to change his character entirely. From that point onwards, he's an idiot. Although he still makes the occasional sharp comment, at least half of his lines from then on are intended to show that he's as thick as two short planks (such as not knowing who Charles Dickens is, doesn't recognise that Homo Sapiens are people, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As regards the &lt;em&gt;in-universe event&lt;/em&gt; that caused this dramatic personality change, at the end of Season 3, Episode 7 he encounters Janice kissing the Mattress King. My personal (and not entirely serious) interpretation is that it would appear that the shock of this, along with unresolved issues about his own father's affair caused him to suffer a psychotic break.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-18T10:48:11.590" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T10:48:11.590" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35200" CreationDate="2015-06-21T17:45:44.137" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070510/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB's FAQ&lt;/a&gt; regarding the film;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is left unanswered in both the movie and the novel. &lt;strong&gt;Moses&#xA;denies it, and Addie states that her mother was the wildest girl in&#xA;her town and that Moses is one of &lt;em&gt;three&lt;/em&gt; possible fathers for her.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, most viewers of the movie tend to believe that Moses is&#xA;indeed Addie's father. In real life, Ryan O'Neal IS Tatum O'Neal's&#xA;father. Her mother is actress Joanna Cook Moore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're left to make up your own mind. Personally I believe that the resemblance (in the film) strongly indicates that she is indeed his biological daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T17:45:44.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32287" CreationDate="2015-06-21T17:57:53.213" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. He could't transfer his memories to the previous flash even if he wanted to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The previous flash and the next flash were totally different as seen in the episode. Initially we could see that the flash was travelling in the right (R) as seen from our perspective. But finally when the wormhole was created, we see the new flash come by the left (L), catching up to the original flash (R). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason they both saw what happened to be  speed mirages (see below) was that when both the flashes saw each other, they were surprised and hence they drifted into parallel universes. The original flash (R) reverted back to his original universe whereas the new flash (with his memories) drifted away from the original universe and made a new universe. Hence the original flash could not get the memories of the previous timeline, because,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He will never have created the wormhole in the first place&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The new flash was not the same as the original,  because of the daily changes he encounters, like cellular changes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The speed mirages were actually imprints left by each of the flash before being seperated, i.e. both of them actually existed for a moment before being seperated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22319" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-04T13:09:24.510" LastActivityDate="2015-11-04T13:09:24.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31282" CreationDate="2015-06-21T18:01:40.627" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;HE is affected because his speed force is the only thing that makes him the reverse flash and without it, he is just a normal human being. See episode 17.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Barry does have a tolerance for alcohol because his nerve cells regenerate and repair themselves quickly from the effects of alcohol. In the episode 5 end we see barry gets buzzed for a high proof alcohol, but was able to recover from it quick enough.It is because of his cells quick regenerative ability, which disappeared from reverse flash the night he killed nora because he used his speed force in coming back to nora's timeline and in fighting against the flash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22319" LastEditorUserId="22319" LastEditDate="2015-06-21T18:12:35.703" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T18:12:35.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35636" CreationDate="2015-06-21T18:49:19.250" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you correctly realized, the Indominus Rex never actually existed, they completely invented that creature, like the &quot;asset&quot; it was supposed to be. However, they didn't create it out of nothing either. Rather what they did was &lt;strong&gt;mix the DNA of various different dinosaurs and other animals&lt;/strong&gt; they already had (which we can assume to be scientifically possible in the movie), like the Velociraptor, the T-Rex, and some existing animals like cuttlefish (gaining camouflage), tree frogs (gaining heat stealth) and others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Claire:&lt;/strong&gt; Our advances in gene splicing have opened up a whole new frontier...The Indominus Rex. Our first genetically modified hybrid.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Investor:&lt;/strong&gt; How did you get two different kinds of dinosaurs to, you know...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dr. Wu:&lt;/strong&gt; Indominus wasn't bred. She was designed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Afterall this is not a new concept in the universe of Jurassic Park. If you remember, &lt;strong&gt;in the first movie they completed the missing dinosaur DNA with that of frogs&lt;/strong&gt;, which ultimately lead to them developing possibilities for reproduction on their own, even though they were all created as females.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is in fact also part of Dr. Wu's moral justification for creating that new &quot;dinosaur&quot;. They made up all those dinosaurs in a lab from extinct DNA possibly mixed with some other DNA. So just mixing more animals and more dinosaurs into one was merely the next step in this process. You could say &lt;strong&gt;the Indominus Rex is as much of a real dinosaur and has as much natural right to exist as all the other &quot;dextincted&quot; dinosaurs&lt;/strong&gt; (decide for yourself, though, &lt;em&gt;how much&lt;/em&gt; right that is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Wu:&lt;/strong&gt; You are acting like we all engaged in some kind of mad science. But we are doing what we have done from the beginning. Nothing in Jurassic World is natural. We have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And, if their genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-08T01:25:42.757" LastActivityDate="2016-11-08T01:25:42.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35064" CreationDate="2015-06-21T19:04:25.213" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;This attractive floorplan, lovingly drawn by interior design expert &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fastcocreate.com/1682531/an-interior-designer-explains-the-unlikely-apartments-of-friends-how-i-met-your-mother-and-m#4&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inaki Aliste Lizarralde&lt;/a&gt; shows that unless Ross is sharing a bed with Chandler (or sleeping in the bath), there's literally no place he could be sleeping other than the couch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6DKnd.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6DKnd.png&quot; alt=&quot;apartment map and living room screenshot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if he &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; sleeping in the bath or with Chandler, it seems likely that it would have been mentioned at least once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2019-06-24T19:27:15.993" LastActivityDate="2019-06-24T19:27:15.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35657" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35678" CreationDate="2015-06-21T19:15:11.153" Score="2" ViewCount="914" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie The Drop, what is the history of the characters Bob and Marv? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a short conversation between them where Bob asks Marv if he did something in desperation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marv also suggests something about being respected earlier. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who exactly were they before they became bartenders? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2018-12-26T14:10:22.450" Title="What is Bob's and Marv's history?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-drop|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35660" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-21T22:05:25.187" Score="3" ViewCount="1216" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/em&gt; we saw Kal-el finding Kara's scout ship. He finds several pods and one of them is Kara's. In the prequel there were ships to be launched in the void (age of expansion) and one of them had Kara commanding it and that ship crashed on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we saw that in the movie that ship was 18,000+ years old, so it was launched 18000+ years ago. But Zor-el and Jor-el are brothers they came from the same father, Zor-el and Jor-el where born around the same time. It's impossible for me to see him 18,000+ years before Krypton's destruction where we saw Jor-el, and at the time of destruction Kal-el was born. Kal-el and Kara are cousins and the age gap is around a few years. Kara's pod was open when she was attacked by Dev-em and when it crashed she got out of the ship, and then 18000+ years had gone by and we saw Kal-el on earth. Also his ship had a Phantom drive which means the time of travel between planets was about a few hours, so he was not launched 18000+ years ago, we know this from when we saw him being launched around the time of destruction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone please explain this because this whole plot does not make any sense to me? If someone understands why the plot is like that please answer. This has been Baffling me to my extent since I saw the movie and read the prequel comic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22326" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T17:32:04.700" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T17:32:04.700" Title="Kal-el finding Kara's scoutship and the 18 thousand year gap between them" Tags="|plot-explanation|man-of-steel|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35646" CreationDate="2015-06-21T22:19:08.910" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The clear implication is that she's a double agent, working for the Soviet Union.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.screenplaydb.com/film/scripts/confessions_dangerous_mind.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;film script&lt;/a&gt; that she was involved in &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHAOS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Operation Chaos&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (e.g. that she's a CIA agent) but her actions; killing CIA agents, giving away their secrets, etc would strongly suggest that she's either for the Soviets. There's mention of a &quot;mole&quot; earlier in the film. It's almost certain that it's her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her motivations and reason for turning (e.g. whether it's for money or for philosophical reasons) are not disclosed in the film but it's pretty clear that she's been working as an undercover agent for a considerable time without a handler and is disillusioned with her life:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PATRICIA:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I don't know. You're sort of cute in a homely way. And it's always lonely when that civilian you're fucking calls out the&#xA;  name off your fake passport.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BARRIS:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&quot;All the information I have about myself is from forged documents.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PATRICIA:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Nabokov.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-06-21T22:34:03.040" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T22:34:03.040" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35565" CreationDate="2015-06-21T22:36:01.713" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder if you're after &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080221/combined&quot;&gt;Galactica 1980&lt;/a&gt;, a spin-off of the original &lt;em&gt;Battlestar Galactica&lt;/em&gt; that was cancelled after 10 episodes. Airing in 1980, it featured the Galactica crew members reaching modern day Earth and trying to blend in. They looked human, but some of them could leap to great heights because of the differences in gravity. There were also plenty of shots of their mothership in space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All 10 episodes are currently on Youtube, if you want to check them out. Here's the intro:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/DpXjaofIS5g?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T22:36:01.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35664" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35727" CreationDate="2015-06-21T22:48:05.560" Score="8" ViewCount="719" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Adam%27s_Rib&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Adam's Rib&lt;/a&gt; came out in 1949. It was about a married couple, both lawyers, facing off against each other in court, about whether a woman, as opposed to a man, could invoke the &quot;unwritten law&quot; that a passionate shooting of an adulterous spouse was not murder. It had a further theme that the wife won the case, and was considering running against her husband for judge. My understanding was that women professionals were rare (at least in the United States) going into the 1950s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having been born in the U.S. during the 1950s, I remember the idea of women's equality being &quot;discussed&quot; in the 1950s and 1960s, but not gaining wide acceptance until the 1970s (or, at earliest, the very late 1960s). &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079417/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kramer vs. Kramer&lt;/a&gt;, a movie about a father (rather than mother) getting custody of the couple's young boy, was the &quot;mirror image&quot; of Adam's Rib, was released in 1979.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So was the ethos of Adam's Rib 20 to 30 years ahead of its time? How was the movie viewed when it was first released?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9097" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2015-06-23T12:42:34.067" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T00:01:27.680" Title="Was &quot;Adam's Rib&quot; advanced for its time?" Tags="|analysis|reception|adams-rib|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35660" CreationDate="2015-06-21T22:50:44.220" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're absolutely right. The clear implication from the comic (available online &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x2b3W.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) is that &lt;a href=&quot;http://dccinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Kara_Zor-El&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kara Zor-El&lt;/a&gt; (AKA Supergirl) came to Earth in the scoutship that we see in the film, some 18,000 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a few points to note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The film universe is not the comic universe. Although the characters are the same, there's no reason to assume that their timelines or ages are the same.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kryptonians are essentially immortal. 18,000 years could easily have passed on Krypton between the launch of the scoutships and the launch of the pod carrying the newborn Kal-El.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At least one of Kara's contemporaries (&lt;a href=&quot;http://dccinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Nam-Ek&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nam-Ek&lt;/a&gt;) lives long enough to join Zod's forces in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-22T11:17:21.160" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T11:17:21.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21120" CreationDate="2015-06-21T23:36:31.060" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's not confirmed in the film screenplay or the shooting script but I have a couple of theories about how they got out of the first level dream:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Theory 1&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the enhanced sedative was only required in order to allow the &quot;&lt;em&gt;inception team&lt;/em&gt;&quot; to reach the second and third dream levels, it seems quite logical that Yusuf (the driver) would not be using it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As he was only ever intended to be on the first level, &lt;strong&gt;he would be using the &lt;em&gt;standard&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://inception.wikia.com/wiki/Somnacin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Somnacin&lt;/a&gt; compound that allows you to wake up when you get killed.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;COBB:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;We need you there to tailor compounds to our particular requirements.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;YUSUF:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Which are?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;COBB:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Great depth.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;YUSUF:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;A dream within a dream? Two levels?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;COBB:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Three.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they all surfaced from the van, they could simply have killed Yusuf and he, in turn could have turned off the PASIV dream machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Theory 2&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that in the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8565270-inception&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;original&lt;/em&gt; shooting script&lt;/a&gt;, the suggestion is that they could somehow survive inside Fischer's dream for &quot;a couple of days&quot; until the dream timer ran out. In the film, this whole sequence was much compressed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EAMES:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;It’s not going to take us long to crack Fischer open once we get going. We’ll be out in a couple days, max.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ARTHUR:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;How do we get out once we’ve made the plant?&lt;/em&gt; (to Cobb) &lt;em&gt;I hope you’ve got something a little more elegant in mind than shooting me in the head like last time.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to how they could have survived that long, it seems that the dreamer's subconscious &lt;strong&gt;only becomes hostile when the participant makes changes&lt;/strong&gt;. By passively accepting the world of the dream, you could avoid an attack indefinitely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ARIADNE:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Why are they looking at me?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;COBB:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Because you’re changing things. My subconscious feels that someone else is creating the world. &lt;strong&gt;The more you change things, the&#xA;  quicker the projections converge on you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They could simply have hung out in the warehouse, played some poker and waited until the dream ended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-21T23:36:31.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19374" CreationDate="2015-06-21T23:57:29.320" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a few things going on here that would make it unlikely for him to detect what's happened. For clarity, all quotes will come from from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inception-Shooting-Script-Christopher-Nolan/dp/1608870154&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;shooting script&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Firstly (and most importantly) inception is supposed to be &lt;strong&gt;impossible&lt;/strong&gt;. No matter how expertly done, when someone &lt;em&gt;puts&lt;/em&gt; an idea into your mind, we're told that it's detectable. Fischer wouldn't be expecting it, any more than he'd be expecting his dead father to get up and start dancing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SAITO:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;You could plant it subconsciously—&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ARTHUR:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The subject’s mind can always trace the genesis of the idea. True inspiration is impossible to fake.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, Robert Fischer is confident that no-one can mess with his mind because he's had very specific training to prevent dream info extraction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ARTHUR:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Fischer’s had an extractor teach his mind to defend itself. His subconscious is militarized. It should’ve shown on the&#xA;  research—&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thirdly, the attack on his mind is quite ingenious. They co-opt his own defences (using the Mr. Charles technique) and use his own subconscious desire to make peace with his father against him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FISCHER:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;The will means that Dad wanted me to be my own man, not live for him.&lt;/strong&gt; (turns to Browning) &lt;strong&gt;And I’m going to, Uncle Peter.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Browning nods. Wipes the rain from his face. In the puddle beside&#xA;  them, the reflection is not Browning, but Eames.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fourthly, this is a &lt;strong&gt;dream&lt;/strong&gt;. Although &lt;em&gt;we&lt;/em&gt; see it very clearly, the reality for Fischer is much more chaotic and unformed. By the time he wakes up (from sedation) he very rapidly returns to normal. He's evidently forgotten the dream and the events therein and seems pre-occupied, presumably still shaken up by the recent death of his father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Arthur smiles broadly at Cobb. Cobb brushes past Fischer, &lt;em&gt;who glances&#xA;  back at him as if thinking maybe he should know him,&lt;/em&gt; then moves on…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-22T01:29:59.743" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T01:29:59.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34614" CreationDate="2015-06-22T00:34:18.363" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it done deliberately (sound effect is added later) so that audience&#xA;  can know for sure that the person is really drinking (as opposed to :&#xA;  just putting the straw inside the mouth and not sucking anything)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. Most movie sounds aren't designed to be accurate so much as they are designed to convey to the audience what's happening. We could argue that since a movie watching audience's attention isn't always 100% focused on every aspect of the screen instead honed in on the major parts like actor's faces and such that these small sounds are used to make sure the audience follows along with minor actions that add up to complete the mise en scene (if I'm using that correctly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also look at things like walking up stairs. The sounds made are usually artificial. They creak when the filmmakers need to create tension, and are silent when the person is effectively sneaky, and give just the right amount of thud otherwise, each and every step sounding exactly the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22328" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T00:34:18.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35670" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35687" CreationDate="2015-06-22T03:39:17.203" Score="5" ViewCount="2068" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Mycroft give Sherlock's information to Jim Moriarity in S02E03? What did he get in exchange?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22330" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-06-22T09:50:11.350" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T17:13:26.700" Title="Why did Mycroft give Sherlock's information to Jim Moriarity?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35603" CreationDate="2015-06-22T06:03:31.947" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It all sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0357507/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Boogeyman&lt;/a&gt;. It's dark horror, from 2005, contains some weird and jittery camerawork and the titular monster lurks in shadows and moves around through portals under beds and in closets; the final scenes feature a young couple going under a bed and coming out of a closet. The film starred Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel and Lucy Lawless and spawned 2 sequels (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0900357/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1204883/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;). Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/rttfauphhnA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T06:03:31.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35672" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-22T08:14:05.557" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_a_Dangerous_Mind&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Confessions of a Dangerous Mind&lt;/a&gt; is a 2002 biographical spy comedy film depicting the life of popular game show host and producer Chuck Barris.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-06-22T08:25:26.173" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T08:25:26.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35673" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-22T08:14:05.557" Score="0" Body="This one is for the Film - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2015-06-22T09:17:53.623" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T09:17:53.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35674" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-22T08:38:02.130" Score="3" ViewCount="1480" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, Once Upon A Time Season 4 introduced Will Scarlet (The Knave) who was the main cast in OUAT Wonderland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm just confused about the timeline here. Did Season 4 happen: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;before White Rabbit came for Will's help i.e before Wonderland&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;after the whole Wonderland saga ended.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had no luck at all in finding this bit of info anywhere online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20078" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-07-29T13:51:35.770" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T13:51:35.770" Title="Was Once Upon A Time Season 4 pre or post OUAT Wonderland?" Tags="|chronology|once-upon-a-time|once-upon-a-time-in-wonderland|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35565" CreationDate="2015-06-22T08:42:30.127" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201391/?ref_=kw_li_tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Roswell&lt;/a&gt;  it is an American science fiction television series,  debuted on October 6, 1999. it was about a human/alien hybrids, sent here to complete their destiny, a destiny given to them by the members of their dying race, a race that they are someday destined to save &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T08:42:30.127" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35556" CreationDate="2015-06-22T08:53:52.083" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Boxing is even less accurate representation of real life than movies. In fact, everything possible is done to &lt;strong&gt;prolong&lt;/strong&gt; the match. Boxers are both trained and equipped to stay conscious as long as possible. Because sport is a show, and longer shows can be priced higher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, movies are like playing roulete with remote-controlled dices. For the sake of the story, things which are merely possible or probable in the real life for fictional characters work with 100% dependability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bottom line: Is it possible to do &quot;movie knockout&quot; some time on some guy? - Absolutely yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to do &quot;movie knockout&quot; every time on every guy? - Hell no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11330" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T08:53:52.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35657" CreationDate="2015-06-22T11:25:40.060" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're talking about the fact that at one point Marv was a loan shark.  He was a &quot;player' in the Mafia.  At some point, Marv got himself into debt and was forced to hand over the ownership of his bar to the Chechen mobsters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bob was Marv's &quot;muscle&quot; when he was a loan shark.  Bob, if you recall at the end, was actually the one who killed Richie Wheelan on orders from Marv.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T11:25:40.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35565" CreationDate="2015-06-22T11:59:17.357" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could it be &quot;3rd Rock From The Sun&quot;? It started in 1996, but it is about aliens looking like humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A group of aliens has come to Earth to learn about its population,&#xA;  customs, etc. To avoid detection, they have taken on human form which&#xA;  gives them human emotions, physical needs etc. WITHOUT the&#xA;  understanding of what they mean or the inhibitions normally present in&#xA;  humans. Their leader takes the position of a college professor, their&#xA;  military expert as his sister, their intelligence expert, supposedly&#xA;  oldest of group takes form of his teenage son. The uninhibited&#xA;  reactions turn everyday events into unusual situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115082/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115082/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T11:59:17.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35670" CreationDate="2015-06-22T17:13:26.700" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mycroft's revelations were partially accidental. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His government agency had arrested Moriarty in an attempt to interrogate him given the secret he claimed to have that would unlock any door or any computer. He refused to talk to anyone except Mycroft and the only way Mycroft could keep him talking was to reveal things about Sherlock. In these conversations he gave away details about Sherlock's past which might have seemed inconsequential at the time given what he thought Moriarty possessed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given how Mycroft looks when he explains this to Watson, he knew it was not a worthwhile exchange. Moreover, in retrospect Moriarty's secret was completely fake (though it seems convincing enough that governments and criminals took it seriously). In fact, the whole episode was probably a set up by Moriarty to get exactly this information from Mycroft so that Sherlock could be discredited. This is only hinted at by the script but is clearly meant to point at the immensely clever and machiavellian nature of the antagonism between the two arch enemies (and possibly that both are, in the end, cleverer than even Mycroft).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T17:13:26.700" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34213" CreationDate="2015-06-22T19:19:35.383" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;After it became apparent that the ship's controls weren't working, Klorel and Apophis used a ring transporter. Although their escape happened off-screen, they clearly used the ship's own Stargate to transport themselves to another world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's quite possible (indeed probable) that there's a ring receiver in the Stargate room that SG1 team are unaware of. A &lt;strong&gt;god&lt;/strong&gt; would hardly be likely to transport himself to a &lt;em&gt;cargo room&lt;/em&gt; when he needs to come on board his own ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0bUie.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notably, Master Bra'Tac confirms their method of escape in a subsequent episode; Season 2, Episode 8; &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/2.08_%22Family%22_Transcript&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Family&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. It appears that his own operatives have confirmed that Klorel and Apophis &lt;strong&gt;did indeed use the Stargate to escape&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CARTER:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Nobody could have survived, sir.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BRA'TAC:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I am told he and Klorel escaped through the on-board Stargate before your explosive devices destroyed the ship.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DANIEL:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;They must have used those rings things to get to the Gate just after I did.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2019-12-19T19:32:10.987" LastActivityDate="2019-12-19T19:32:10.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35689" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-22T20:27:19.033" Score="2" ViewCount="33400" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do the contestants on the new &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleBots&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BattleBots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; have certain restrictions when it comes to creating their competition robots: for example, a certain budget, size/weight boundary, or material type? Was this addressed in the original &lt;em&gt;BattleBots&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22355" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-06-22T21:08:39.960" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T13:21:17.777" Title="What are the construction rules for the 2015 BattleBots reboot?" Tags="|battlebots|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35689" CreationDate="2015-06-22T21:17:43.163" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This information seems to be in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleBots&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;BattleBots&lt;/em&gt; Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;. According to the article, it appears that only the weight of the bot matters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Robots at BattleBots tournaments were separated into four weight classes. The weight limits increased slightly over time. At the final tournaments the classes were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Lightweight – 60 pounds (27 kilograms)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Middleweight – 120 pounds (54 kilograms)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Heavyweight – 220 pounds (100 kilograms)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Superheavyweight – 340 pounds (154 kilograms)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, certain types of robots had &quot;bonuses&quot; that allowed them to enter lower weight classes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'Walking' robots ('StompBots') propelled by means other than wheels were initially given a 50% weight bonus. The rules changed following the victory of a heavyweight StompBot (Son of Whyachi) at BattleBots 3.0. For BattleBots 4.0 and beyond only a 20% weight bonus was given to walkers and the technical rules specified that walking mechanisms not use cam operated walking mechanisms as they were functionally too similar to wheel operation. Since the rules change, walking robots have entered the competition, but none has achieved any success beyond preliminary rounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The official &lt;a href=&quot;http://battlebots.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BattleBots website&lt;/a&gt; seems to have undergone a recent change, so none of the official rules pages appear to be accessible and the current &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://battlebots.com/rules/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rules&lt;/a&gt;&quot; page has no actual information on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T21:17:43.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35396" CreationDate="2015-06-22T21:59:28.983" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no help in the script or the novelisation. I assume the missing scene (where Alfred parks the car, heads up to the roof, spends some time looking for Bruce, then helps him down to the car) was ignored because it's trivial and doesn't advance the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=C8ynFV0obhAC&amp;amp;pg=PT62&amp;amp;lpg=PT62&amp;amp;dq=%22and%20a%20sizzle,%20as%20wet%20pavement%20damps%20the%20flames%22&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=Lxau9Hw455&amp;amp;sig=D3Bjlc4qH-0Y3RUMaWZvzNyTXug&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=VYSIVeaTJsGsU9jxmLgK&amp;amp;ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22and%20a%20sizzle%2C%20as%20wet%20pavement%20damps%20the%20flames%22&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;screenplay&lt;/a&gt; he simply calls Alfred and in the next scene he's in the car. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Batman smashes through the window, cloak ablaze … Falling … Tries to activate his cloak – but only gets one side to pop open … the deployed wing causes him to spiral.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Insert cut:&lt;/strong&gt; Young Bruce falling, falling in the well shaft –&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Batman plummets, trailing flame, unopened wing fluttering with the violent flapping of –&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bats:&lt;/strong&gt; screeching, flapping, fluttering darkness …&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Batman’s stiff wing hooks a railing – slows him with a jolt – rips – dropping him to the ground with a crash …&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Young Bruce hits the dirt at the bottom of the shaft –&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  – and a sizzle, as wet pavement damps the flames. Groaning, Batman rolls his burning Batsuit along the asphalt.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Two Men at a hole-in-the-wall store stare at Batman, astonished.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Batman, smoldering, looks up:&lt;/strong&gt; the two Men loom, menacing. Batman lurches into an alley … the two Men look at each other, dumbfounded. Batman raises his grapnel-gun, fires up at the enclosed roof – rides up – punches his way through wire and metal, crawls onto his back, staring up at the skyscrapers of Gotham. Rain blurring his vision.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Insert cut:&lt;/strong&gt; Young Bruce watches his father crumple.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Batman fumbles at his belt. Pulls out a tiny phone.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  BATMAN: (hoarse) Alfred?! Alfred?!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INT. ROLLS – LATER 148&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alfred drives, looks through the rear-view mirror at Batman, who lies in the back, flinching at invisible antagonists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/Batman_Begins_(Book)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; he doesn't use his grapnel gun at all, he just lies in the alley waiting for Alfred to arrive which actually makes more sense (but is less cool):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Batman stepped into the light of a streetlamp—a gaunt, black figure with smoke rising from it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “Never mind,” the man said, and he and his companion ran.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Batman limped into an alley and from his utility belt pulled out a tiny phone.   He pressed a button, and in a hoarse whisper said, “Alfred?”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Forty minutes later, Batman lay sprawled on the rear seat of Alfred’s Bentley as Alfred turned toward the manor. The smell of scorched fabric filled the car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Purely as a matter of interest, in many prior versions, both Batman and Robin's belts contains a &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SZfZT.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tracker device&lt;/a&gt; that allows Alfred to locate them in emergencies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-22T21:59:28.983" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35693" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-22T22:46:04.790" Score="2" ViewCount="1136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I keep reading online that &lt;em&gt;Marco Polo&lt;/em&gt; from Netflix was a flop, and I don't understand how it's earned this reputation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this myth is spread by competing studios and critics, but I don't see how the facts support that overall assessment. Granted, the review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes shows a 30 percent average rating for &lt;em&gt;Marco Polo&lt;/em&gt; among critics, and one of the directors/producers even said in an interview once that she considers it the biggest failure of her career.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Netflix's CEO says it's a hit. While Netflix doesn't release ratings information, we don't have to take his word for it: during that period, Netflix added a record 13 million new members, and their revenue, income and earnings per share were on the rise. The first season cost $90 million to produce, and we don't know how much profit was earned or money was lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rotten Tomatoes’ &quot;Audience Score&quot; metric is a favorable 93 percent for &lt;em&gt;Marco Polo&lt;/em&gt;, compared with 96% for their &lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;. HBO's highly successful and popular &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; is in the same ballpark. I'm not a fan of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, though that's neither here nor there; I only mention it because some people like to compare the two shows, even though I don't see why that is--one is semi-historical fiction and the other fantasy--they're not mutually exclusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is a series a flop just because most critics didn't like it, or even when a producer or director dislikes their own work--doesn't viewership ultimately become the deciding factor in the perception of public opinion? I think of books: many classic novels were despised by their own authors and their contemproary critics, and yet they're timeless and enjoyed by millions. So if &lt;em&gt;Marco Polo&lt;/em&gt; has millions of fans, how can anyone say in good conscience that the show is a failure? If that were true, why wasn't it cancelled?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the criticism, I for one am delighted that &lt;em&gt;Marco Polo&lt;/em&gt;'s second season is slated to begin in 2016. I am a fan, I admit I've watched every episode multiple times. I got several friends to watch it too, and they all enjoyed it very much (or at least that's what they told me anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22038" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-21T02:36:26.250" LastActivityDate="2016-11-21T02:36:26.250" Title="Why does Netflix's &quot;Marco Polo&quot; have the reputation of being a flop?" Tags="|marco-polo|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="17" ClosedDate="2015-07-02T01:34:59.823" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35697" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-23T00:16:33.420" Score="15" ViewCount="4505" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Kill Bill 2, there is a long scene which is flash back of Beatrix traversing the stairs in order to stay with the teacher/mentor, and train. In their first encounter, they have a rather long exchange in which she is forced to answer a series of yes/no questions.  When she answers &quot;Yes&quot;, she says &lt;em&gt;Hai&lt;/em&gt; &amp;amp; when she answers &quot;No&quot; she says &lt;em&gt;Bu&lt;/em&gt;. Now, Hai is Japanese, whereas Bu is Chinese.  Is this something Quentin did on purpose?  If so, for what purpose?  Beatrix does explain that she speaks both Japanese and Mandarin, but why specifically use Japanese to respond in the affirmative but Chinese to respond in the negative?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21168" LastEditorUserId="22374" LastEditDate="2015-06-23T23:44:32.590" LastActivityDate="2015-09-26T22:41:45.027" Title="Languages in Kill Bill 2 - on purpose?" Tags="|analysis|dialogue|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35698" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-23T00:52:44.143" Score="17" ViewCount="3950" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, came out in 1981.  The second movie, Temple of Doom, came out in 1984, and the Last Crusade came out in 1989.  These are all reasonably spaced out.  However, we didn't get another Indiana Jones movie until Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008, an almost 20 year gap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was there such a long gap between these movies?  What led to the decision to pick the series/character back up 20 years later?  And lastly, why has it taken almost 7 years to announce the fifth movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T16:11:46.997" Title="Why the large gap in Indiana Jones movies?" Tags="|indiana-jones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35699" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-23T00:55:29.697" Score="9" ViewCount="391" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was relatively recently announced that Steven Spielberg will be directing the movie Ready Player One, based off of the book by the same name.  Looking through his history of films he has directed, this story stands out as radically different, at least to me, compared to anything else he has done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How has it come to be that Steven Spielberg is directing this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2015-06-23T08:23:54.390" Title="How did Spielberg come to direct Ready Player One?" Tags="|steven-spielberg|ready-player-one|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28491" CreationDate="2015-06-23T01:39:25.240" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;He got one of the keys from when all the doors opened. When they killed the Griever which almost killed Thomas, he grabbed a key and he got the code probably by eavesdropping when they first talked about the order and then he knew so then he got in. That is how Gally got into the facility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22363" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-09-20T08:25:15.770" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T08:25:15.770" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35664" CreationDate="2015-06-23T02:05:01.407" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. It wasn't ahead of it's time. &quot;Around 24 centuries ago, Plato, according to Elaine Hoffman Baruch, &quot;argued for the total political and sexual equality of women, advocating that they be members of his highest class, ... those who rule and fight&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_feminism#Early_feminism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia: Early Feminism&lt;/a&gt;). It wasn't even ahead of it's time cinematographically. Back in the day the male dominated film industry was disinclined to address feminism on screen to any great degree, but there were films being made even as early as 1899 that pass &lt;a href=&quot;http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Bechdel_test&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Bechdel Test&lt;/a&gt;  (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bechdeltest.com/view/5914/cinderella/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cinderella&lt;/a&gt;). Adams Rib was well received critically and is considered to be a great, classic, romantic comedy (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Adam%27s_Rib#Awards_and_honors&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Awards &amp;amp; Honors&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22263" LastActivityDate="2015-06-23T02:05:01.407" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35699" CreationDate="2015-06-23T04:37:08.233" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a speculative answer as I could not find any source pointing out to &quot;what really excited Spielberg to do this project/movie&quot;. I am answering anyways just for that part of OP's question which suggests that it is an odd selection by Spielberg. The answer tries to guess - what could have excited Spielberg about this project :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's a good story&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The book has established itself as a cult favorite. Published in 40 countries, being on New York times best seller list. The ratings for the book are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Amazon.com : 4.6/5&#xA;Barnes &amp;amp; Noble : 4.5/5&#xA;Goodreads : 4.3/5&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;80s video game popular culture&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to deadline.com (unable to post link), the book is loaded with references of popular culture rich in the 1980s video game icons.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spielberg likes different&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;May be the story sounds radically different to anything else Steven Spielberg has done yet, but couldn't that be the very reason for him doing this movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Adventures of Tintin&lt;/a&gt; was released, I was also surprised when I learned that Spielberg directed an animation movie. So I think he likes to do new things.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Good screenwriters&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should also note that there is a rewrite being done by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Eason&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Eric Eason&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zak_Penn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Zak Penn&lt;/a&gt;. Zak Penn has scripted movies like X-Men: The Last Stand  and The Avengers. Eric Eason's movie has won Special Jury Award at Sundance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie adaptation script must have excited Spielberg and these all could be the reasons for him deciding to direct this movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-23T08:23:54.390" LastActivityDate="2015-06-23T08:23:54.390" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35698" CreationDate="2015-06-23T08:13:15.913" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer: Because of situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Kingdom_of_the_Crystal_Skull#Development&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Following the 1989 release of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Lucas let the series end as he felt he could not think of a good plot device to drive the next installment, and chose instead to produce &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Indiana_Jones_Chronicles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles&lt;/a&gt; for TV, which explored the character in his early years.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;When Lucas shot Ford's role in December 1992, he realized the scene opened up the possibility of a film with an older Indiana set in the 1950s. The film could reflect a science fiction 1950s B-movie, with aliens as the plot device. Meanwhile, Spielberg believed he was going to &quot;mature&quot; as a filmmaker after making the trilogy, and felt he would just produce any future installments.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Ford disliked the new angle, telling Lucas, &quot;No way am I being in a Steven Spielberg movie like that.&quot; Spielberg himself, who depicted aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, resisted it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Following Stuart's next draft, Lucas hired Last Crusade writer Jeffrey Boam to write the next three versions, the last of which was completed in March 1996. Three months later, Independence Day was released, and Spielberg told Lucas he would not make another alien invasion film. Lucas decided to focus on the Star Wars prequels.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;In 2000, Spielberg's son asked when the next Indiana Jones film would be released, which made him interested in reviving the project. The same year, Ford, Lucas, Spielberg, Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy met during the American Film Institute's tribute to Ford, and decided they wanted to enjoy the experience of making an Indiana Jones film again.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Lucas convinced Spielberg to use aliens in the plot by saying they were not &quot;extraterrestrials,&quot; but &quot;interdimensional,&quot; with this concept taking inspiration in the superstring theory.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Lucas found those artifacts as fascinating as the Ark of the Covenant, and had intended to feature them for a Young Indiana Jones episode before the show's cancellation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...........few more draft and then it got finalized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like Spielberg's son had a hand in pumping it up for a sequel else it might go to development hell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-02T16:11:46.997" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T16:11:46.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35697" CreationDate="2015-06-23T08:47:57.237" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that is the result of her not knowing Cantonese/Mandarin very well, although she does know Japanese very well, as she explains on her first meeting with Pai Mei.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your Mandarin is lousy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It causes my ears discomfort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;you understand Cantonese?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I speak Japanese very well...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I didn't ask if you speak Japanese...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I asked if you understand Cantonese?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A little.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe she simply does not know how to reply in the affirmative in Chinese.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22368" LastEditorUserId="22368" LastEditDate="2015-06-23T08:54:17.737" LastActivityDate="2015-06-23T08:54:17.737" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32418" CreationDate="2015-06-23T10:02:53.367" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd guess it's a crack at the Germanic tongue, particularly considering Bugs' own odd accent. He's probably unaccustomed to it or otherwise finds it amusing or confusing. Think Robin Williams making fun of Indian accents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22367" LastActivityDate="2015-06-23T10:02:53.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35542" CreationDate="2015-06-23T13:51:53.820" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;...what I don't understand is that if Buddhism teaches that victory comes from being passive ...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Buddhism doesn't teach that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does teach some Yoda-like doctrines (or vice versa); for example if Yoda said ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... there are versions of Buddhism which &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_poisons_(Buddhism)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;might say something like&lt;/a&gt; (I paraphrase as follows),&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignorance is the path to the dark side. Ignorance leads to greed. Greed leads to aversion and suffering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Famous Buddhist doctrines include &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.01.budd.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;statements like&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... and ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, I do see the quote you're referring to, i.e. which says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;That's a pretty radical idea,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;We're used to the hero fighting; slaying the dragon or killing the monster. That's what we find most familiar. This idea of triumphing by not fighting, of being passive, of letting this power work through you, is a very Zen type of idea.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think my answer to that would be that Japanese &amp;quot;Zen Buddhism&amp;quot; comes from Chinese &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Buddhism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chan Buddhism&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; which includes Taoist influences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing by not-doing is IMO more especially Taoist (than old-school Buddhist), where it's called &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wu wei&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The literal meaning of wu wei is &amp;quot;without action&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;without effort&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;without control&amp;quot;, and is often included in the paradox wei wu wei: &amp;quot;action without action&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;effortless doing&amp;quot;. The practice of wu wei and the efficacy of wei wu wei are fundamental tenets in Chinese thought and have been mostly emphasized by the Taoist school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concept of &amp;quot;effortless action&amp;quot; is a part of Taoist Internal martial arts such as T'ai chi ch'uan, Baguazhang and Xing Yi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Taoist martial art is not wholly to do with being &amp;quot;passive&amp;quot; though: e.g. it could be to do with being soft &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; hard, passive &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; active, empty &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; heavy, etc.; or using the opponent's weakness; or waiting until they attack first; etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22313" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-23T13:51:53.820" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35689" CreationDate="2015-06-23T16:50:46.697" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the original Battlebots, there were a number of different weight classes and weight bonuses were given to walking and shuffling robots, as described in Catija's answer. There were no limitations on size or material choice, other than that it couldn't be toxic or use weapons that would take away from the fights, like nets, liquids, projectiles, and EMP generators. I believe the robots were paid for by the builders, and then they got paid for how well they did or how popular their robot was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, for the 2015 reboot, there is only one weight class, &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/j-Oi9lSxw50?t=455&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;which is 250lb&lt;/a&gt;, slightly more than the old heavyweight class, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.etotheipiplusone.net/?p=3681#bbq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;there is no longer any weight bonuses for walkers or shufflers&lt;/a&gt;. The builders were given a much shorter time frame to build their robots, only a few weeks, and ABC gave them money specifically to buy materials for the robots, which I have heard from different sources is either $8,000 or $10,000. Other than that, I believe the rules have stayed the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22374" LastEditorUserId="22374" LastEditDate="2015-06-23T17:04:24.693" LastActivityDate="2015-06-23T17:04:24.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35647" CreationDate="2015-06-23T17:46:30.917" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good question. I thought it was a great movie too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that scene where the girls are gossiping, there are many random things they are saying about Chiaki's disappearance. One of the girls says &quot;Apparently he was in debt and the mob was after him&quot;. The other asks &quot;It's not something like his parents are getting a divorce?&quot;. Then the other girl says &quot;Well I heard he's marrying an older woman because he got her pregnant&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are just simple gossip the girls are involved in and doesn't actually refer to a possible future time when Chiaki meets Makota. In any case, Chiaki is shown to be a decent guy and not a &quot;player&quot;, he wouldn't get Makota pregnant and then marry her as a consequence :).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even the guys are gossiping about Chiaki's disappearance. One of them says &quot;I heard he stabbed some guy&quot;. The other says &quot;I heard he beat him up with a baseball bat&quot;. Basically, the whole school is talking and coming up with reasons for his disappearance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2015-06-23T17:46:30.917" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35689" CreationDate="2015-06-23T21:42:00.193" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Me and a friend are working on building a battlebot for 2016 when they will hopefully have a new season, but you have me concerned - dot they really choose people then pay them to get stuff and compete?  Because i'm not waiting to get chosen, Im nominating myself, bringing my bot to them and stuff.  Will I not be able to play or what?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And about the rule changes and stuff: it seems there has been a reduction of obstacles on the FightArena thingy.  So that means the bots have to fight better.  I also think there's been changes to the judge's grading system as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also know these little snippets that have probably been rules from the beginning;&#xA;Your bot has to have a light indicator that shows when it's on/active (interior or exterior)&#xA;Your bot CAN NOT be purchased via eBay, Amazon, hand-purchasing, trading, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22381" LastActivityDate="2015-06-23T21:42:00.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35402" CreationDate="2015-06-23T22:56:20.953" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rexy fought the raptors in Jurrasic park but not the ones in Jurrasic world because they did not exhibit agressive or challenging behavior towards her. In fact they fought  alongside her against the unnatural hybrid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22383" LastActivityDate="2015-06-23T22:56:20.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35664" CreationDate="2015-06-24T00:01:27.680" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not certain it was as &quot;ahead of its time&quot; as historical hindsight may suggest.  The story was partly based, after all, on a real-life case. To quote from by Felicia Feaster &amp;amp; Frank Miller's synopsis of the film on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/15824/Adam-s-Rib/articles.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TCM's website&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Adam's Rib took its inspiration from a real court case. Actress-writer Ruth Gordon and her husband Garson Kanin were driving to their country home under perilous conditions when, to distract her, Kanin asked his wife to tell him an interesting story. The first to come to mind was the story of actors Raymond Massey and Adrianne Allen's divorce. They had turned for legal help to married lawyers William and Dorothy Whitney, who did their jobs so well that after the case was closed the lawyers divorced each other and married their clients. The idea of husband-and-wife lawyers intrigued the husband-and-wife writers, who sat up till four the next morning discussing the story possibilities. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just because you assume that married female professionals were rare at that time period, note how many are showing up in the anecdote. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also want to consider that &lt;em&gt;Woman of the Year&lt;/em&gt; had been made 7 years previously (1942), in which Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracey played married reporters. And &lt;em&gt;His Girl Friday&lt;/em&gt; was made in 1940.  I'd suggest that the portrayal of female professionals on an equal with their male counterparts in &lt;em&gt;Adam and Eve&lt;/em&gt; may be less of an anomaly than you think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18624" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T00:01:27.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35730" CreationDate="2015-06-24T00:13:40.287" Score="17" ViewCount="32497" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many shows nowadays have birth scenes with newborn babies right after. It seems pretty crazy, risky and unreliable to me to use a real newborn. So what do shows use for scenes with that deal with newborns? IE this scene in Episode 10 of Grace and Frankie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PsNPG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20110" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-21T18:39:06.370" LastActivityDate="2021-07-26T18:15:49.587" Title="Is that a real baby?" Tags="|film-techniques|props|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35728" CreationDate="2015-06-24T01:05:31.160" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question was asked in &lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.metafilter.com/153903/newborns-in-movies&quot;&gt;MetaFilter&lt;/a&gt;, and the top response references a &lt;a href=&quot;http://mentalfloss.com/article/20742/smearing-cream-cheese-newborns-other-stories-about-famous-multiples&quot;&gt;Mental Floss&lt;/a&gt; article. This references the California Child Labor Law, which allows a (relative) newborn of 15 days old to be &quot;employed in the entertainment industry&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More on the use of babies on film, from Mental Floss:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some star-struck parents of prematurely born twins are able to cash in on their early-bird babies by allowing them to appear in TV shows or films as a newborn. Unless it's a reality medical series, most childbirth scenes in television and films are make-believe. Child labor laws vary from state to state, but in California, where the majority of those productions are made, a baby has to be at least 15 days old in order to get a work permit. Of course, most full-term babies have lost that &quot;newborn&quot; look after two weeks &quot;“ their eyes are wide open, they've gained some weight, and their heads have begun to round out. So casting directors seek out &quot;professional preemies&quot; &quot;“ babies born before their scheduled due date (twins preferred, in order to skirt around that 20-minutes-max camera time rule) but who are healthy enough to be brought to the studio. The law counts the actual date of birth, not the expected date, so, for example, a baby born after only seven months' gestation is still going to look tiny and fragile and appropriately &quot;newborn&quot; at the age of fifteen days. The law forbids smearing makeup on newborns, so cream cheese and jam are used to give them that authentic &quot;fresh out of the uterus&quot; look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that baby? Could be real! Just older than two weeks old, and covered in breakfast condiments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22355" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T01:05:31.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35739" CreationDate="2015-06-24T02:51:46.390" Score="3" ViewCount="696" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_Jill_(2011_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jack and Jill&lt;/a&gt;, there is a YouTube video of Al Pacino having a nervous breakdown. In that video, what play is he doing? It seems like Shakespeare to me but which play of Shakespeare is it? And when he says &quot;Shut all cell phones off! This is what the man said!!&quot; Who is he referring to as &quot;the man&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-10T06:29:41.110" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T06:29:41.110" Title="From which play YouTube video of Al Pacino belongs to in Jack and Jill?" Tags="|dialogue|plot-explanation|jack-and-jill|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33928" CreationDate="2015-06-24T04:17:49.863" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Unsullied do not appear to know how to hold a line when they are surrounded.  The only way to fight a mob is to form a circle and to hold the line, not try to fight independently. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22385" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-02-21T21:13:14.827" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T21:13:14.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35733" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="115917" CreationDate="2015-06-24T04:52:20.543" Score="26" ViewCount="24756" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Princess Bride, Miracle Max says that &quot;as we all know, 'to blathe' means 'to bluff'.&quot; I've never seen any other references to the word &quot;blathe&quot;; is this just part of the joke? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8411" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-24T09:13:43.133" LastActivityDate="2021-10-01T16:10:44.463" Title="Does &quot;to blathe&quot; really mean &quot;to bluff&quot;?" Tags="|the-princess-bride|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35733" CreationDate="2015-06-24T06:29:20.937" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's part of the joke. He clearly &lt;a href=&quot;http://sfy.ru/?script=princess_bride&quot;&gt;heard him say&lt;/a&gt; &quot;true love&quot; (as did we all) but he concocts some nonsense about him saying &quot;to &lt;strong&gt;blave&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; and then makes up his own definition of the word. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's absolutely no indication that this word means &quot;to bluff&quot; in English, old English or any other language known to Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-24T09:14:10.520" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T09:14:10.520" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35731" CreationDate="2015-06-24T07:46:41.657" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is a Shakespeare play, he's doing &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_%28play%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Richard III&lt;/a&gt; (he's also dressed like him). The line he's reading is from act IV, scene IV in the play:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If I did take the kingdom from your sons, to make amends, I'll give it to your daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &quot;the man&quot;, it's unclear; bear in mind that he's going nuts. He's looking and pointing up when he says that, so it's possible he means God, Shakespeare, Richard III or some higher up like the director.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T07:46:41.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1991" CreationDate="2015-06-24T10:44:42.443" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the film Trevor reads &quot;The Idiot&quot; by Dovstoyevsky, a book about a prince who returns from a sanatorium where he was treated for epilepsy (hint: Nicholas) and mental deficiencies (hint: Trevor).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Prince's kindness manifests itself through his two love interests -- one who he loves out of pity (hint: Stevie), and another whom he loves out of romance (hint: Maria). In the end, the prince is too kind for his own good, and he gets neither woman, implying that the only place for a saint is a sanatorium (hint: jail). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In effect, Trevor only finds relief (sleep) when he exits society for the sanatorium which is prison. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ivan represents Trevor free of guilt, free of noble inclinations--the alterego of Trevor in the movie and the prince in &quot;The Idiot.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The women represent two kinds of love, one born of pity and/or guilt and another born of romance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So long as Trevor has a conscience he can have neither woman, as he cannot live with himself; contrast this with Ivan, who might easily go through life living with either woman. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is hard to tell the extent to which parts of the movie are intended to reflect his reality versus deepen the audience's understanding of Trevor's psychosis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, are the interactions with Maria completely falsified? Or manfiestations  of a desire to make amends? Does he &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; tip the waitress out of guilt, to make amends for his crime? Or, is this a figment of his imagination?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless, the entire film does a beautiful job of suspending symbolic understanding until the last possible moment. bravo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22394" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T10:44:42.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35743" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35744" CreationDate="2015-06-24T12:20:33.607" Score="6" ViewCount="1976" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S05E07 of Game of Thrones Maester Aemon dies. Sam speaks the words for his funeral since it's supposed to be the Maester himself. He says all the usual stuff:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;His name was Aemon Targaryen&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;He came to us from King's Landing&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;Maester, chained and sworn.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then he said something that struck me.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;He was the blood of the dragon...but now his fire has gone out.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I thought that maybe that was just something that Sam added, after all, him and Aemon were close. But of all the reasons that Sam loved Aemon, being a Targaryen wasn't really one of them, in fact they only briefly spoke about it once in the show. So it got me wondering, does he have to say that? Is the Night's Watch somehow obligated to House Targaryen? And if so why? I mean Yorin certainly made it very clear that the Men of the Watch had no obligation to Joffrey!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-06-24T23:11:10.547" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T23:11:10.547" Title="Does the Night's Watch have an obligation to House Targaryen?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35743" CreationDate="2015-06-24T13:06:01.623" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though swearing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Night&amp;#39;s_Watch#Oath&quot;&gt;oath&lt;/a&gt; of the Night's Watch means a resignation from all titles, land ownership and inheritance rights it doesn't make a black brother an anonymous person. Members from noble houses still use their family names and are de facto still nobles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The situation is a bit more complicated with &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Maesters#Function_and_Duties&quot;&gt;maesters&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maesters are expected to eschew their familial background and&#xA;  political allegiances. They drop their family name when they join the&#xA;  order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still the past and origin of a maester is known. Even though the Order expects them to eschew their background, they are not forced to be hiding it completely (which probably wouldn't even be possible in case of maesters from noble houses). One may expect that when a maester dies the subject of his origin is being brought up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarise: regardless of the fact that most of the brothers didn't know that, maester Aemon was a member of the house that for centuries was the greatest house in Westeros. It seems completely normal that it was mentioned during his funeral. He was a maester, a black brother and a Targaryen, so Sam referred to all that in his eulogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-06-24T18:37:56.143" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T18:37:56.143" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35753" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-24T15:25:30.040" Score="1" ViewCount="977" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I am re-watching The Wolverine and it seems quite conflicting. I thought because ALL bone was basically Adamantium now that there wouldn't be plain bone claws. If there was still bone claws wouldn't he have Adamantium bone claws? But also since the original blade claws were his claws, wouldn't he regrow them because of his regeneration and that his bones were basically Adamantium after the Weapon X thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22399" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T14:39:33.680" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T14:39:33.680" Title="Why don't Wolverine's claws grow back with Adamantium?" Tags="|plot-explanation|x-men-cinematic-universe|the-wolverine|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35753" CreationDate="2015-06-24T15:35:23.377" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding was that claws were just bones. He had the Adamantium put on his bones, as in they covered them. Once he had his claws broken off, the Adamantium came with them, and the original bone is what regrew. Weapon X didn't give him Adamantium bones, they just covered them in Adamantium. He still has bone underneath, and that bone is weak, like any humans. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22398" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2015-06-24T16:26:15.797" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T16:26:15.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35756" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-24T15:41:15.370" Score="0" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;We're experiencing a steady increase of shows and mini-series being exclusively available on the Internet. Have any won an Emmy (in any category)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22355" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-06-24T18:43:17.160" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T18:43:17.160" Title="Have any online-exclusive series won an Emmy?" Tags="|awards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35756" CreationDate="2015-06-24T15:51:00.453" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Netflix exclusive House of Cards won an Emmy for &quot;Outstanding Director of a Drama Series&quot; at the 65th Emmy Awards in 2013 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2013?page=4&quot;&gt;http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominees-winners/2013?page=4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T15:51:00.453" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35758" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-24T16:10:44.783" Score="7" ViewCount="419" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Film Drive has the Below image:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E0BWJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this an uncredited Cameo from Laurene Landon, the star of the Maniac cop films? It looks like her, and Refn has gone on record as saying he is a fan of those films, and was at one point attached to produce or possibly direct the remake. Also I know that Jay Bauman of RedLetterMedia had a very similar question, but I could not find an answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22398" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-02-03T14:54:37.767" LastActivityDate="2018-09-23T16:43:33.617" Title="Does the Film Drive Have a Cameo from the star of Maniac Cop" Tags="|character|casting|drive|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35762" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-24T18:16:28.670" Score="2" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that the Briefcase is just a Mcguffin, but I read a long time ago a theory which involved the briefcase containing the stolen soul of Marsellus Wallace. I know this supposedly played into the number &quot;666&quot; and the Band-aid on the back of his head, and the repetition at the end of the film as well as the repeated bible quotation. could anyone expand of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also Are there any other theories that I am not aware of in relation to the briefcase, or the film in general?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22398" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T18:16:28.670" Title="What is in the Pulp Fiction Briefcase?" Tags="|analysis|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-06-24T18:36:52.333" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35764" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35879" CreationDate="2015-06-24T20:29:32.307" Score="7" ViewCount="14369" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2582496/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Me and Earl and the Dying Girl&lt;/a&gt; contains many low-budget parodies of classic films and I'm trying to list all the references in it. IMDb mentions some, but they're not all there [It's missing 8 1/2 (Fellini), The Seventh Seal (Bergman) and The Third Man (Welles) for example]. Does anyone know what all of them were?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22406" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-06-27T15:53:15.377" LastActivityDate="2016-05-01T04:52:10.137" Title="What are all the film references in 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl'?" Tags="|reference|me-and-earl-and-the-dying-girl|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35743" CreationDate="2015-06-24T20:34:40.103" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As part of their monastic-like rules, the Night's Watch owe no king or noble any allegiance, and that goes for the Targaryens as well. It was this disconnect from the politics of the realm that lead Maester Aemon to join the Night's Watch. He knew that if he did not remove himself from the succession he would become a tool in the hands of those who would want to gain power through his name. By swearing off lands and title (and refusing the call of the Great Council of 233 AC), he left the way clear for his brother Aegon V to assume the Iron Throne, and thus avoiding any possibility of civil war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, while Brothers of the Night's Watch might drop their titles they do not drop their heritage and faith. When Jon's group gets inducted in to the Night's Watch, those who pray to the Seven swear their oath in the Sept, while those who owe fealty to the Old Gods said their oaths in front of a weirwood, Sam being a notable exception of a Brother who was raised to the Seven but swore his oath to the Old Gods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By custom Targaryens are called dragons, and when they die they are cremated.  So Sam saying those words about Maester Aemon just before his body is burned is only to be expected. After all, his watch has ended and he is no longer bound by his Night's Watch oath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until &lt;strong&gt;my death.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T20:34:40.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35766" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-24T20:36:04.517" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-06-24T20:36:04.517" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T20:36:04.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35767" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-24T20:36:04.517" Score="0" Body="For questions about the 2015 comedy-drama film, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. This film was directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon and is based on the book of the same name by Jesse Andrews, who also wrote the screenplay." OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-06-24T22:04:31.217" LastActivityDate="2015-06-24T22:04:31.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35769" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-24T21:13:50.457" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This tag is for questions about the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hayao Miyazaki&lt;/a&gt; 1988 Japanese animated film &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbor_Totoro&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;My Neighbor Totoro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (aka &lt;em&gt;My Friend Totoro&lt;/em&gt;, となりのトトロ, &lt;em&gt;Tonari no Totoro&lt;/em&gt;). It was both written and directed by Miyazaki and produced at his animation house, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Ghibli&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Studio Ghibli&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Set in Japan in 1958, this film is about two sisters, Satsuki and Mei, who meet and befriend a local magical spirit they name &quot;Totoro&quot; when they move to a new house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cZYU5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Still image from My Neighbor Totoro&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-06-25T01:05:51.623" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T01:05:51.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35770" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-24T21:13:50.457" Score="0" Body="The Japanese title, となりのトトロ or Tonari no Totoro, this is an award-winning 1988 Japanese animated film by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli. The popular English version was distributed and re-dubbed by Walt Disney in 2006." OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-06-25T01:05:58.917" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T01:05:58.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35771" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-24T21:42:25.073" Score="11" ViewCount="423" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can anyone explain how cancelled shows are able to come back on different networks? What I mean is, who owns the rights to the show, the network or the production company? And to that end, are the actors and creative contracted through the network or the production company? And perhaps most importantly, what is the time frame that a show has to return to a new network once it has been cancelled or discontinued by its current network?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm hoping to clarify my earlier question with this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22398" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-08-11T10:30:26.577" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T10:33:30.300" Title="How are TV shows resurrected?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35773" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-24T22:52:08.927" Score="0" ViewCount="1263" Body="&lt;p&gt;Specifically, I'm looking for a schedule or list of all made-for-tv Lifetime movies that have premiered to date, in 2015. Is there some hidden calendar or schedule on their website? Can this information be found elsewhere? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-25T10:44:18.487" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T10:44:18.487" Title="Are there any complete lists of made-for-tv Lifetime movies?" Tags="|scheduling|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24297" CreationDate="2015-06-24T23:48:30.140" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen Raavanan in Hindi. I believe dan dan dan danaka means banging of drums.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When we are in the temple there are drums playing during ceremonies. In Hindi sound of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.enghindi.com/english-word-for-danka.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Danka&lt;/a&gt; is Dan Dan.. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar phrase in Hindi is &lt;strong&gt;DANKA BAJANA&lt;/strong&gt; (literal meaning is play the drum), in English the phrase means &quot;to be celebrated/renowned/proclaimed&quot; (ref: shabdkosh.raftaar.in).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21342" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-25T11:39:35.113" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T11:39:35.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35776" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-25T02:45:38.227" Score="6" ViewCount="807" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is this called? The trope where, in some episode, a character suddenly has advanced, expert knowledge in a field that they have never mentioned, especially something almost out of character for them, and especially it is never mentioned again in the series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one I just saw that made me think of it:&#xA;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0772445/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Daria S02E02 &quot;The Daria Hunter&quot;&lt;/a&gt; Britney displays expert knowledge in guerrilla combat when they go paintballing, but she is more or less a stereotypical cheerleader ditz in every other episode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Community &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1595996/?ref_=ttep_ep23&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S01E23 Modern Warfare&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640867/?ref_=ttep_ep23&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S02E23-24 A Fistfull of Paintballs&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1862636/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;For a Few Paintballs More&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4242896/?ref_=ttep_ep11&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S06e11 Modern Espionage&lt;/a&gt;, where the main characters are all pro-level paintballers, but do nothing paintball related otherwise in the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How I met your mother &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0946316/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S02E15 Lucky Penny&lt;/a&gt; where Barney successfully runs a marathon, after having displayed no serious athletic ability other than having sex all the time, and did not ever again for the rest of the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Weaker examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216108/?ref_=ttep_ep15&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;House S04e15 House's Head&lt;/a&gt;, where Chase, a diagnostician and a surgeon, suddenly becomes an expert hypnotist (not that great of an example since it is still a medical skill)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simpsons &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701048/?ref_=ttep_ep2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S04e02 A Streetcar Named Marge&lt;/a&gt; where we find out Flanders is incredibly muscular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9770" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T06:10:30.263" Title="What is the name of this &quot;character suddenly has expert knowledge&quot; trope?" Tags="|trope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35777" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35778" CreationDate="2015-06-25T03:08:56.213" Score="10" ViewCount="3350" Body="&lt;p&gt;In at least two Star Trek episodes, a &quot;Lee Kuan&quot; is mentioned in the same breath as very well-known imperialists (Alexander, Caesar, Hitler, to name a few). One episode is Season 3, Episode 14 (&lt;em&gt;Whom Gods Destroy&lt;/em&gt;), and the previous one is Season 2, Episode 21 (&lt;em&gt;Patterns of Force&lt;/em&gt;). Googling leads me to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kuan_Yew&quot;&gt;Lee Kuan Yew&lt;/a&gt;, who was leader of Singapore during that time. But Lee Kuan Yew doesn't seem to be like Alexander, Caesar or Hitler, in that there seems to be no imperialistic aggression towards other nations (looking at the Wikipedia article on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Singapore#Post-independence&quot;&gt;Military history of Singapore&lt;/a&gt;). So who is this Lee Kuan? Is he fictional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22117" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-10-03T07:37:48.353" LastActivityDate="2017-10-03T07:37:48.353" Title="Who is the &quot;Lee Kuan&quot; mentioned in Star Trek TOS?" Tags="|star-trek|star-trek-the-original-series|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35777" CreationDate="2015-06-25T04:09:24.137" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember that &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; takes place in the future and not everyone mentioned has existed. If you ever have questions, I strongly encourage you to check out Memory Alpha, the &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; Wikia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Lee_Kuan&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Memory Alpha&lt;/a&gt; Wikia (information from direct Star Trek canon):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lee Kuan was a noted Human historical political despot on Earth sometime between the mid-20th and the 23rd century, who ultimately failed at his goals of conquest and absolute power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spock put him in one line with Ramses, Julius Caesar, Alexander, Napoléon Bonaparte, and Hitler to show that Earth history is full of men seeking absolute power. (TOS: &amp;quot;Patterns of Force&amp;quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fleet Captain Garth of Izar boasted to Captain James T. Kirk that as Master of the Universe, he would go much farther and have more success than other previous despots such as Lee Kuan, Alexander, Caesar, Napoléon, Hitler, and Krotus. (TOS: &amp;quot;Whom Gods Destroy&amp;quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Lee_Kuan&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Memory Beta&lt;/a&gt; Wikia (information from licensed Star Trek works):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lee Kuan was a noted Human historical political despot on Earth during the early-to-mid 21st Century, who ultimately failed at his goals of conquest and absolute power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the year 2031, Kuan helped to strengthen the Eastern Coalition (also known as the ECON), an alliance of Asian nations politically opposed to the United States and its allies. By 2051, Kuan held the rank of general in the ECON armed forces, at which point he overthrew the emerging democracy. He launched an attack on the Americas, joined by the Pacific nations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T04:09:24.137" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24297" CreationDate="2015-06-25T05:28:53.897" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the original Ramayana, Ravana is said to have 10 heads. 10 heads mean 10 brains, and that further means the possibility of having 10 different thoughts simultaneously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, the character Veera is portrayed like Ravana, which is also the movie's name. Quite often when he thinks about something or tries to arrive at a decision, his 10 brains start transmitting ideas simultaneously and hence the collision of ideas and hence the sound &quot;dan...dan...dan...danaka...&quot; which could be translated in English as &quot;clang.. clang...&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That's actually the very essence of this character.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the more important part. What is the source here or why should you trust this answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the mythological part, you can check &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Ravana&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;For the movie related part my answer is based on one interview of actor &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabh_Bachchan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Amitabh Bachhan&lt;/a&gt;, who is the father of actor &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhishek_Bachchan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Abhishek bachhan&lt;/a&gt;, who played the part of Veera in the Hindi version. In the interview Amitabh Bachhan expressed disappointment over the editing of the Hindi version where this particular part was trimmed down. The actor explained why this part was important and how it's editing damaged the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link to which is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-amitabh-bachchan-laments-raavans-sad-editing-vikram-sivan-react-1399058&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-06-26T04:18:22.780" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T04:18:22.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35776" CreationDate="2015-06-25T06:10:30.263" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't find a globally accepted trope name for it but &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/&quot;&gt;tvtropes&lt;/a&gt; has given it a name &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat&quot;&gt;Suddenly Always Knew That&lt;/a&gt; and Tvtropper always do this trope naming for this kind of things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How did a character suddenly acquire a needed skill? By an unrelated&#xA;  previous life experience he never knew would prove so useful,&#xA;  sometimes a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Retcon&quot;&gt;Retcon&lt;/a&gt;. In other words, the character always had the&#xA;  skill, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouDidntAsk&quot;&gt;You Didn't Ask&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T06:10:30.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24297" CreationDate="2015-06-25T07:16:34.707" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Indian languages this is just a kind of exclamation. And it is very common in Tamil movies to give the lead characters some kind of phrase, you will find out more examples if you watch more Hindi or Tamil movies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;dan.. dan.. danaka&quot; is an expression that resembles the beating of drum, which usually implies to do something with enthusiasm or alike, the meaning might be different in different cases though. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These kind of exclamation are common in Indian languages, and this particular expression also has variants like &quot;dan.. dan.. dan.. danadan&quot; etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15590" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T07:16:34.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35784" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35789" CreationDate="2015-06-25T08:02:28.493" Score="6" ViewCount="1574" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently happened to watch the movie Troy and I noticed something peculiar. When the Trojans learnt of the Greek army sailing to Troy, they set about preparing for a battle. And one of the first things they did was set up huge wooden spikes along the length of the Trojan beach. The spikes were positioned towards the Aegean Sea. When the Greeks, led by Achilles, landed and captured Troy, none of the soldiers or horses were harmed by the huge spikes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the successful capture of the Trojan beach, the Greeks reversed the direction of the spikes towards the Trojan mainland. Initially I suspected that the Trojans set up the spikes when the tide was low, and they would be hidden in shallow waters when the tide rises, to damage the Greek ships as they came ashore, thus destroying their ships and some of their supplies and gaining an edge in the battle. However, none of that happened. So were the spikes placed to simply add flair to the background from a cinematic perspective?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21560" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-25T09:25:02.013" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T09:25:02.013" Title="Why are spikes used in the movie Troy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|troy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35785" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35787" CreationDate="2015-06-25T08:54:03.603" Score="20" ViewCount="5162" Body="&lt;p&gt;During season 5 of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; we see that some Stone Men attack Jorah Mormont and Tyrion and now Jorah is also converting into Stone Man. His skin is becoming black and hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the same time Shireen, daughter of Stannis Baratheon, has black skin on her &#xA;face due to greyscale. Are both the same disease?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does greyscale spread through touch? And how much time does it take to spread in the body? Cause Shireen had it for long time, still not transformed her completely, which means Jorah has lot of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or am I confusing two different things to be the same?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-06-25T13:44:32.113" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T14:44:14.313" Title="Are Stone Men suffering from greyscale?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35786" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42910" CreationDate="2015-06-25T09:02:31.027" Score="8" ViewCount="2903" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the attack of the flying reptiles in &lt;em&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/em&gt;, the guests seem to dissapear from the park (as do the flying reptiles). They mention a cruiseship (or ships) will pick them up at first dawn. A bit later they say it will arrive in 45 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the Indominus Rex was drawn by the crowd, due to their huge heat profile (smell makes more sense to me though). Yet the crowd is nowhere to be seen, and they do not seem to be hiding in the buildings near the control center otherwise they would've been attacked by the raptors. Furthermore, the kids probably would have been evacuated as well if the guests were evacuated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again after the final battle the systems are shut down, which seems to suggest that everyone is already gone, but then why aren't the kids also evacuated, and why are some people still on the island at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I wonder where the guests were during the final battle, and why the Indominus Rex is not trying to reach them instead of the few individuals near the control center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-25T09:36:48.270" LastActivityDate="2017-01-05T15:20:43.667" Title="When was the guests' evacuation in Jurassic World?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jurassic-world|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35785" CreationDate="2015-06-25T09:06:16.323" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're not confusing anything, it is the same disease.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Shireen_Baratheon&quot;&gt;Shireen&lt;/a&gt; has only a relatively small scar not because it's an early stage, but because she is cured - see below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Greyscale&quot;&gt;Greyscale&lt;/a&gt; spreads through touch:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Greyscale is extremely infectious, spread through touch contact with&#xA;  an infected person, or even spread on unsterilized objects that have&#xA;  been touched by the infected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People infected with greyscale eventually become &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Stone_Men&quot;&gt;Stone Men&lt;/a&gt;, unless they die earlier. It is also possible to recover, which is rare, but happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Those that manage to survive a bout with the illness will be immune&#xA;  from ever contracting it again, but the flesh damaged by the ravages&#xA;  of the disease will never heal, and they will be scarred for life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was the case with Shireen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It takes a long time for an infected person to reach the &quot;Stone Man stage&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Greyscale kills slowly, often taking many years to progress to a&#xA;  terminal state. Long before that, in the mid-to-late stages of the&#xA;  disease, the infection will spread to cover all of the victim's skin&#xA;  from head to toe, leaving them in agony. An infected person can&#xA;  survive like this for years, living in misery as one of the Stone Men.&#xA;  In the very final stages of the disease, (perhaps years after the skin&#xA;  is completely covered with it), it starts attacking the body's&#xA;  internal organs, hardening them as it did the outer flesh. When it&#xA;  spreads to the brain, the deterioration can result in violent&#xA;  insanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-06-25T09:18:04.497" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T09:18:04.497" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35402" CreationDate="2015-06-25T09:08:47.230" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0viq4s_-hw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; a paleontologist answers this exact question, in summary, it is not likely dinosaurs understand the concept of &quot;help&quot;. There is no reason for the raptor help the T-Rex to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7659" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T09:08:47.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35789" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35784" CreationDate="2015-06-25T09:17:38.747" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are called &lt;em&gt;Cheval de frise&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The cheval de frise (plural: chevaux de frise) was a medieval defensive anti-cavalry measure consisting of a portable frame (sometimes just a simple log) covered with many projecting long iron or wooden spikes or spears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While you're correct that in the film they don't stop any of the attacking Greeks, embedded stakes were used as far back as the bronze age to hinder attackers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Archers usually stand behind these when firing to give them protection from charging horses. (And seeing as Trojans had the finest Archers, it makes sense that this small added protection against something they can't outrun would be put up on the beach)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many reasons why the Trojans would have used these, above all else they're cheap and easy to put up under time constraints. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20829" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T09:17:38.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35794" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35796" CreationDate="2015-06-25T12:20:26.813" Score="19" ViewCount="13894" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Gandalf released Theoden from Saruman's spell in &lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers&lt;/em&gt;, Theoden wants to kill Grima for making him &quot;crawl on all fours like a beast&quot;. &#xA;But Aragorn stops him saying &quot;enough blood has been spilled because of him&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why wouldn't he just let him die, he surely deserved it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22116" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-25T13:50:50.503" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T06:04:23.870" Title="Why didn't Aragorn Let Theoden kill Grima?" Tags="|character|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-two-towers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35786" CreationDate="2015-06-25T12:33:46.980" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the people get evacuated some time between when the &quot;birds&quot; attack and when the kids return to the city. If you remember it was still day when the aviary was broken and the &quot;birds&quot; attacked. Owen and the other security members manage to tranquillize them and then the kids insisted that they stay with Owen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Gray:&lt;/strong&gt; Can we stay with you? &lt;br /&gt;&#xA; &lt;br /&gt;&#xA; &lt;strong&gt;Claire:&lt;/strong&gt; I am never leaving you again! &lt;br /&gt;&#xA; &lt;br /&gt;&#xA; &lt;strong&gt;Gray, Zach:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;[points to Owen]&lt;/em&gt; No, no, him. We mean him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the hunt for Indominus started it was already night time, so there was enough time to evacuate the island. So either the island was evacuated and that's why Indominus went after them or the raptors were after Owen which in term led Indominus (part raptor) to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19067" LastEditorUserId="22451" LastEditDate="2015-06-26T08:19:37.063" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T08:19:37.063" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35794" CreationDate="2015-06-25T12:33:58.410" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a recurring theme in The Lord Of The Rings, both novels and movie, that showing mercy towards wrongdoers is an act of highest morality, and that killing should be done only for defense, not for revenge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The clearest example of this is Gollum. In the first movie there's this bit of dialogue, taken verbatim from the books:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;                    FRODO&#xA;                    (grim)&#xA;         It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill him when he&#xA;         had the chance.&#xA;&#xA;                   GANDALF&#xA;         Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's&#xA;         hand. Many that live deserve death, and&#xA;         some that die deserve life. Can you give&#xA;         it to them, Frodo? &#xA;&#xA;Frodo frowns.&#xA;&#xA;                   GANDALF (CONT'D)&#xA;         Do not be too eager to deal out death in&#xA;         judgment...even the very wise cannot see&#xA;         all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum&#xA;         has some part to play yet, for good or&#xA;         ill, before this is over. The pity of&#xA;         Bilbo may rule the fate of many.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sentiment by Gandalf is, of course, foreshadowing Gollum's importance later on, and his essential role in destroying the ring. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aragorn, in this case, is showing the same mercy that he doubtless learned from Gandalf. And not surprisingly, the same mercy does, later, come back to help the good guys, to Saruman's downfall - in the books he is responsible for Aragorn taking possession of the Palantir and later on for Saruman's death during the Scouring of the Shire. In the movie, we have this scene in the Extended Edition of the Return of the King where Grima redeems himself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&#xA;Grima Wormtongue appears behind Saruman. &#xA;&#xA;                              THEODEN    &#xA;               Grima! You need not follow him! You were &#xA;               not always as you are now. You were once &#xA;               a man of Rohan. Come down. &#xA;&#xA;Grima looks like he going to come down. &#xA;&#xA;[..]&#xA;&#xA;                              THEODEN&#xA;               Grima…. Come down! Be free of him! &#xA;&#xA;                              SARUMAN   &#xA;               Free? He will never be free!&#xA;&#xA;                              GRIMA &#xA;               No!  &#xA;&#xA; Saruman turns around to Grima! &#xA;&#xA;                              SARUMAN&#xA;               Get down cur! (slaps him to the ground) &#xA;&#xA;                              GRIMA&#xA;               Ah! &#xA;&#xA;[..]&#xA;&#xA;Grima rises up behind Saruman and attacks him with the knife, &#xA;stabbing him twice in the back. Legolas aims an arrow at Grima &#xA;who falls shot in the heart. Saruman falls from the tower and is &#xA;impaled on a great wheel below. &#xA;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1507" LastEditorUserId="19074" LastEditDate="2015-06-30T07:45:20.950" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T07:45:20.950" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35797" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-25T13:50:04.817" Score="9" ViewCount="13817" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope you all know the Cinderella's story so I am going to begin from the part where Her Fairy Godmother magically appeared and immediately began to transform Cinderella from house servant to the young lady she was by birth, all in the effort to get Cinderella to the ball. She turned a pumpkin into a golden carriage, mice into horses, a rat into a coachman, and lizards into footmen. She then turned Cinderella's rags into a beautiful jeweled gown, complete with a delicate pair of &lt;strong&gt;glass slippers&lt;/strong&gt;. The Godmother told her to enjoy the ball, but warned that she had to return &lt;strong&gt;before midnight&lt;/strong&gt;, when the &lt;strong&gt;spells would be broken&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the ball, the entire court was entranced by Cinderella, especially the Prince. At this first ball, Cinderella remembers to leave before midnight, losing one of her glass slippers on the steps of the palace in her haste.The Prince chased her, but outside the palace, the guards saw only a simple country girl leave. The Prince pocketed the slipper and vowed to find and marry the girl to whom it belonged. Meanwhile, Cinderella kept the other slipper, &lt;strong&gt;which did not disappear when the spell was broken&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did the Slipper not disapear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-06-25T17:48:45.747" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T01:27:18.240" Title="Why didn't Cinderella's slippers disappear?" Tags="|plot-explanation|cinderella-2015|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35785" CreationDate="2015-06-25T14:44:14.313" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are both the same thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt; both are suffering from same disease Greyscale&#xA;Per GOT WIKI:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jorah and Tyrion continue but Jorah looks at his wrists, and notices he has been infected with Greyscale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Shireen was an infant, she suffered from greyscale. The disease almost killed her, and left her disfigured&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why Shireen had it for long time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because it was cured when she was younger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in Season 5 discussion between Shireen and Stannis during the stay at castle black :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stannis&lt;/strong&gt;: I was told you would die, or worse, the Greyscale would go slow and you'd grow just enough to know the world before taking it away from you. Everyone advised me to send you to the ruins of Valyria to live out your short life with the stone men before the sickness spread through the castle. I told them all to go to hell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I called in every maester on this side of the world. Every healer, every apothecary. They stopped the disease and saved your life. Because you did not belong across the world with the bloody stonemen. You were the Princess Shireen of House Baratheon. And you are my daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;how much time does it take to spread in the body?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hegemon's asnswer covers that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7259" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T14:44:14.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35771" CreationDate="2015-06-25T15:35:21.040" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It all depends on the money, talent, and licensing control. Production contracts can be very complicated as there can be many players: the creators, producers, production companies, networks, writers, actors, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an excerpt from the Wikipedia article on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damages_(TV_series)#Move_to_DirecTV&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV series &lt;em&gt;Damages&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to the low ratings and high costs, it was speculated early that&#xA;Season 3 might be the show's last. However, Sony reached an agreement&#xA;with DirecTV to share the cost of future seasons with its Audience&#xA;Network (formerly The 101 Network and originally Freeview). Other&#xA;outlets were also approached about sharing the cost of a new season.&#xA;However, no other network opted to pick it up, leaving Audience&#xA;Network the new broadcaster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a typical scenario. In another case, cancellation may come from a network but the revival may depend on the creator/writers/actors. Here are several excerpts from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_Development_(TV_series)#Cancellation_and_revival&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia's articles&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_Development_(season_4)#Production&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arrested Development&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the series' third season in 2006, despite months-long rumors of&#xA;Arrested Development having been picked up by the cable television&#xA;network Showtime, creator Hurwitz declined to move the show to another&#xA;network. As Hurwitz explained, &amp;quot;I had taken it as far as I felt I&#xA;could as a series. I told the story I wanted to tell, and we were&#xA;getting to a point where I think a lot of the actors were ready to&#xA;move on.&amp;quot; ... He also said, &amp;quot;If there's a way to continue this in a&#xA;form that's not weekly episodic series television, I'd be up for it&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Six years after the series was canceled by Fox, filming for a revived&#xA;fourth season began on August 7, 2012. The season consists of 15 new&#xA;episodes, all debuting at the same time on Netflix on May 26, 2013...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/arrested-development-getting-one-season-on-netflix-2013-2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Business Insider article&lt;/a&gt; on the revival:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Netflix CEO Reed Hastings revealed during an investors conference&#xA;Monday the show will be getting a short one season stay on the&#xA;streaming website. ... A spokesperson expanded on Hastings' comments&#xA;telling the Wall Street Journal it would be &amp;quot;extremely difficult to&#xA;get the cast together&amp;quot; again for anything more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see in this case, most of the control of &lt;em&gt;Arrested Development&lt;/em&gt; lies in the hands of its creator, Mitchell Hurwitz, but getting the actors back for more was also a challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In another example, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Nova_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Terra Nova&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was a TV series that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-17269054&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;was cancelled&lt;/a&gt; and did &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tca-2012-jason-omara-terra-nova-cancellation-355700&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;not get picked back up&lt;/a&gt; because of its high production cost:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But according to The Hollywood Reporter, 20th Century Fox TV will now&#xA;try to sell it to other networks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fox canceled the series in March,&#xA;three months after its finale, with Netflix circling the property for&#xA;a brief period before abandoning the expensive effort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As another example, Seinfeld was not cancelled, but ended because Jerry Seinfeld was ready to be done with the series. NBC would've loved to continue the series as its &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld#Series_finale&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;ratings were very high&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He refused NBC's offer of $5 million per episode, or more than $100&#xA;million total, to continue the show into a tenth season. Seinfeld told&#xA;the network that he was not married and had no children, and wished to&#xA;focus on his personal life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show became the first television series to command more than $1&#xA;million a minute for advertising–a mark previously attained only by&#xA;the Super Bowl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on some of the above examples, here are your questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Can anyone explain how cancelled shows are able to come back on different networks?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the creator and actor contracts allow it, and another network wants&#xA;to cover the expense.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What I mean is, who owns the rights to the show, the network or the production company?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Depends greatly on many factors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And to that end, are the actors and creative contracted through the network or the production company?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Depends on the contracts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And perhaps most importantly, what is the time frame that a show has to return to a new network once it has been cancelled or discontinued by its current network?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If a network owns the licensing control of a series, and they cancel&#xA;it, it is up to them whether they decide to sell it or not. If they&#xA;opt not to, then you will likely never see the show again. If the&#xA;creators or producers retain some licensing rights, and they want to&#xA;try to continue the series, they can try to shop it around. In a rare case with &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbreakable_Kimmy_Schmidt&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Netflix-Just-Saved-Tina-Fey-Show-From-NBC-They-Could-Cancel-It-68542.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;series will get moved&lt;/a&gt; before &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/how-netflix-got-unbreakable-kimmy-schmidt-from-nbc-2015-3&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;it even has a chance to air&lt;/a&gt;. When NBC didn't push the show out like it was originally planned, creator/producers Tina Fey and Dave Miner called Netflix to see if they were interested:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Netflix is becoming kind of known for swooping in and rescuing&#xA;cancelled series, but the situation involving Tina Fey's new comedy&#xA;Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is a bit different, as this half-hour comedy&#xA;about a doomsday cult escapee wasn't technically cancelled by NBC and&#xA;hasn't even aired yet. But it's already found a new home and an extra&#xA;season over at Netflix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said] he got a phone call,&#xA;&amp;quot;We got a call from Tina Fey and from Dave Miner to come to New York.&#xA;We came up literally on the last day of production, watched some of&#xA;the shooting. Met with Tina and the team, heard what they were&#xA;planning, and said, 'Look, if you can work it out with NBC, we'd love&#xA;to do it.' And within 12 hours, we'd seen nine of the 13 episodes. And&#xA;within four days, the deal was done.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21994" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T10:33:30.300" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35801" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-25T15:59:05.697" Score="10" ViewCount="7339" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a lot of talk about 6k resolution from the Epic Dragon by RED, and of course there are 4k TVs now, but I'm wondering what actual film, 35mm particularly has a resolution equivalency of, if it is even possible to do an equivalency. I had read somewhere that it was close to 15k resolution, but I was wondering if this is true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22398" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T22:37:48.803" Title="What is the Resolution of 35mm film?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35802" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35801" CreationDate="2015-06-25T17:08:29.117" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As film is analog, it has no actual resolution in the same sense as a digital file (as you hint at).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opinions vary on what the 'equivalency' would be. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?59036-Resolution-of-35mm-film-and-70mm-IMAX-film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This discussion on Red forums&lt;/a&gt; comes to a semi-concensus that it's equivalent to 'around 4k' when we take into real world conditions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T17:08:29.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35801" CreationDate="2015-06-25T18:31:45.640" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The closest similarity between film and digital resolution is the comparison of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_grain&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;film grain&lt;/a&gt; to pixel resolution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Digital photography does not exhibit film grain, since there is no film for any grain to exist within. In digital cameras, the closest physical equivalents of film grains are the individual elements of the image sensor (e.g. CCD cell), the pixels; just as small-grain film has better resolution than large-grain film, so will an image sensor with more elements result in an image with better resolution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More grain, means that you get lower resolution, so you can't project the image as big. Less grain means higher resolution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Film grain or granularity is the random optical texture of processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons. While film grain is a function of such particles (or dye clouds) it is not the same thing as such. &lt;strong&gt;It is an optical effect, the magnitude of which (amount of grain) depends on both the film stock and the definition at which it is observed. It can be objectionably noticeable in an over-enlarged photographic film photograph.&lt;/strong&gt; [emphasis added]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The grain of the film is determined partially by the ISO of the film or its &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_speed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;film speed&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;. If you've ever shot still photos with a film camera, you know that you get to choose between different ISOs... most people use 400 because it's middle of the road and allows for both high-light and low-light situations. But, a photographer who knows what they're shooting will often opt for higher or lower ISO. For example, portraiture will use low 50 or 100 ISO film while in dark situations (in a poorly-lit space) will use high, 800-3200 ISO.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relatively insensitive film, with a correspondingly lower speed index, requires more exposure to light to produce the same image density as a more sensitive film, and is thus commonly termed a slow film. Highly sensitive films are correspondingly termed fast films. In both digital and film photography, the reduction of exposure corresponding to use of higher sensitivities generally leads to reduced image quality (via coarser film grain or higher image noise of other types). &lt;strong&gt;In short, the higher the sensitivity, the grainier the image will be.&lt;/strong&gt; Ultimately sensitivity is limited by the quantum efficiency of the film or sensor. [emphasis added]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, grain is random while pixels are in straight lines. If you continue reading in the film grain Wikipedia article you read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, unlike pixels, film grain does not represent the limit of resolution. As film grains are randomly distributed and have size variation, while image sensor cells are of same size and are arranged in a grid, direct comparison of film and digital resolutions is not straightforward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, as the pixels from a digital image sensor are set in straight lines, they irritate the eye of the viewer more than the randomly arranged film grains. Most people will reject an enlargement that show pixels, whereas a grained film enlargement with lower resolution will be acceptable, and perceived as 'sharper'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, because of the random quality of grain, some viewers will accept a lower resolution in film as &amp;quot;better&amp;quot; over a higher resolution enlargement of a digital image... which seems to imply that it is, to some degree, subjective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how does this relate to films? Film stock for moving images also comes in a variety of ISO options. &lt;a href=&quot;http://motion.kodak.com/motion/Products/Production/index.htm?CID=go&amp;amp;idhbx=vision3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kodak currently sells&lt;/a&gt; camera stock in the following speeds: 50, 200, 250 and 500. So, the &amp;quot;resolution&amp;quot; of the film will depend on the speed of the stock that the crew, usually the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinematographer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DP&lt;/a&gt; with some input from the director, decides to use. So, there's not really one &amp;quot;answer&amp;quot; to your question because each of these different film speeds will have a different resolution... and the effective resolution is, as mentioned above, somewhat subjective because the media are so different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, remember that most theaters (in the US, anyway) have switched to digital 4K projection. Distributors want it that way because it's much cheaper. So, in the end, all you're getting at the theater is 4K regardless of how it's shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also remember that there are other non-resolution based benefits of film, like color depth and separations in very dark colors and very white colors that will make the image look &amp;quot;better&amp;quot;. More info on this in my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/34435/was-film-actually-better-than-digital-media/34452#34452&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T22:37:48.803" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35812" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35814" CreationDate="2015-06-25T19:28:20.870" Score="2" ViewCount="543" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching &lt;em&gt;Hannibal&lt;/em&gt;, and thought I recognized the museum from a visit to Toronto years ago (which is where I know they film most of the show). The episode is called &quot;Naka-choko&quot;, but I couldn't' find any of the locations. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some pictures: &#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JJ9zZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pgPCr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically if you know the name of the museum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22398" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-12-19T04:39:31.843" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T04:39:31.843" Title="Could someone confirm this filming location?" Tags="|film-location|hannibal-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35812" CreationDate="2015-06-25T19:35:56.430" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Looks like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.rom.on.ca/en/exhibitions-galleries/galleries/natural-history/james-and-louise-temerty-galleries-age-dinosaurs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Royal Ontario Museum of Natural History&lt;/a&gt; which is, as you thought, in Toronto. On the page linked, there's a series of stills from the James and Louise Temerty Galleries of the Age of Dinosaurs which includes the image below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rYl1R.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Royal Ontario Museum Dinosaurs exhibit&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which looks to be the same room as the second image in your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-06-25T19:48:46.913" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T19:48:46.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35815" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-25T20:04:43.200" Score="9" ViewCount="6123" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a trope of &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/B3AViHVdpbU?t=1m21s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;heroes walking towards the camera in slow motion&lt;/a&gt;, shoulder-to-shoulder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JV2Mm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the first movie where this kind of shot was used?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T05:20:31.267" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T15:01:23.473" Title="What movie or TV show had the first instance of heroes walking in slow motion?" Tags="|first-appearance|trope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35821" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35822" CreationDate="2015-06-25T23:15:04.613" Score="3" ViewCount="2421" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does salary work when writing for television? I'm talking about a standard network sitcom or drama like Modern Family or Castle. Is it a traditional salary, or is payment based on work turned in? But most importantly, how much does a staff writer on a Television show make?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22398" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T21:32:04.823" Title="How much does a staff writer make on a TV show?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35821" CreationDate="2015-06-25T23:34:32.053" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://defamer.gawker.com/heres-what-your-favorite-television-writers-make-1485130956&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article on Gawker&lt;/a&gt;, a unionised staff writer will earn a minimum of around $25K per annum (assuming their show isn't instantly cancelled) but substantially more when working on long-term &amp;amp; successful shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An approx average for the shows you've mentioned would be somewhere into the low six-figures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Though show schedules can vary, there are still basic amounts of how&#xA;  many weeks of production you can expect to be paid for. A show that is&#xA;  in production for six weeks (which would be about six episodes, though&#xA;  often rooms start earlier than episodes start shooting), would earn a&#xA;  staff writer—the lowest rung on the writers' room totem pole—a minimum&#xA;  of $25,908. Network shows that go a full season are generally in&#xA;  production for 26 weeks, to produce 22 episodes, so though the weekly&#xA;  staff writer payday dips a bit, a staff writer would still pocket a&#xA;  little over $96,000. At a level higher than staff writer? A full&#xA;  26-week season for anyone above staff writer pays out just $60 dollars&#xA;  short of $157,000, at minimum. And remember, there are about eight&#xA;  levels between staff writer and show creator…those are some pretty&#xA;  high six-figures, on average.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-25T23:34:32.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33683" CreationDate="2015-06-26T01:33:23.760" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;While many characters and events in &lt;em&gt;The West Wing&lt;/em&gt; are based on specific real people and events, not everything is. I think Ashland is an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The requirement of a police officer to read rights was established by &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_v._Arizona&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Miranda v. Arizona&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; in real life, and the majority opinion was written by Chief Justice Earl Warren. While there are some similarities between Warren and Ashland (Warren was certainly the &quot;liberal icon&quot; Toby describes Ashland as), &lt;em&gt;The West Wing&lt;/em&gt; roughly takes place during the time period in which it aired, and Ashland is described as having served for 32 years. &lt;em&gt;Miranda&lt;/em&gt; was decided in 1966, and Warren died in 1974 at age 83. In the show's continuity, &lt;em&gt;Miranda&lt;/em&gt; rights (or whatever they might be called in that universe) apparently were established more recently than they were in real life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Ashland's style of writing, the Cracked article &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/article_19422_6-judges-who-went-completely-insane-bench_p2.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;6 Judges Who Went Completely Insane on the Bench&lt;/a&gt; notes several instances of judges writing opinions in verse that occurred before these episodes were written, though none of them were Supreme Court Justices. Ashland's health in general may have been based on then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist, whose health was wavering when the episodes featuring Ashland aired in 2003, and passed away in 2005.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, much of the show is Aaron Sorkin recasting real-life politics in his own (liberal) image. While Sorkin was no longer writing &lt;em&gt;The West Wing&lt;/em&gt; at that point, his imprint still remained, and so the idea of a liberal Chief Justice in the modern day was probably a product of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16715" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T01:33:23.760" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15413" CreationDate="2015-06-26T02:02:59.970" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As already stated on a comment in the question, this is very much speculation, since there is no canonic evidence to base give a pinpointed answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, with that being said, we are able to use logic and deduction to get to an answer. Which will still be subjective to who's reading it. But it's as close as I think we'll be able to get with this question. But bare with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherlock is the world's greatest detective &lt;strike&gt;(take that batman)&lt;/strike&gt;. As many people before me have already said, of course he knew from the very start that it was not a gun. But he wanted to know the entire process by which the cabbie wen't before &quot;convincing&quot; people to kill themselves. If he pointed out that the gun was not real, two things would happen (although they are linked) which would get in the way of Sherlock's little study.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As you said, the cabbie might feel like he's inferior to Sherlock, which would make him act out of the ordinary, once he always believed himself to be superior to his victims. And with that, Sherlock wouldn't be able to observe how everything really went.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;But even if you take the superior/inferior out of the question,&#xA;pointing the gun out as a fake would still make the cabbie feel like he had lost an upper hand (even if he still felt superior to Sherlock), and that would cause him to act differently (not use the gun to try and force him to play, for example).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22445" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T02:02:59.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35831" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-26T05:01:41.867" Score="4" ViewCount="566" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the second season of the Israeli show &lt;em&gt;Prisoners of War&lt;/em&gt;, after the breakdown of her marriage, Talia goes on a date with her daughter's former therapist (Dr. Ostrovsky) and also has a date and sex once with a man she meets in a yoga class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That Talia is willing to go on a date with Ostrovsky seems reasonable -- she already knows him, and it's only a date. &lt;strong&gt;But why is she willing to have a short, presumably one-off date and sex casually, with someone from yoga?&lt;/strong&gt; Talia spent a lot of time after Nimrod's capture campaigning for his release, so it seems reasonable to conclude that she might be, while not an outright celebrity, someone people might recognize, particularly since Nimrod's return was somewhat recent. Moreover, she should be aware of the bad publicity Nurit got after she gave up on Uri years ago to marry his brother, and similarly, the criticism Nurit later received for leaving Ya'akov (the brother) for Uri after his return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible I'm not really aware of something: Talia doesn't seem to care as much anymore about giving up her life for Nimrod's cause, and maybe that's enough for her behaviour here. Or maybe for all the attention she's received, it's unlikely that the average person cares enough about her (or alternatively, that the average person would easily recognize her).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22449" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-06-26T05:15:18.897" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T05:15:18.897" Title="Why is Talia willing to have extramarital sex?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prisoners-of-war|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35837" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-26T09:50:12.257" Score="4" ViewCount="1008" Body="&lt;p&gt;Other than Jaws and maybe that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149261/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;movie with LL Cool J and Samuel L Jackson&lt;/a&gt;, I can't really think of many shark monster/horror movies. But suddenly it seems to me that there is a new shark monster movie every few weeks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there actually such a sudden trend in releasing so many shark-themed movies? If yes, what was the pivotal moment/event which triggered the production of all of these masterpieces? Or is it just a rising attention those movies seem to get in the media for some reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="anon" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-26T16:59:53.293" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T17:03:05.957" Title="Why are there so many Shark based monster movies these days?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9257" CreationDate="2015-06-26T10:18:34.453" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It represents the Orlando area, The star in space at Kennedy Space Center, Harry Potter's Train at Universal, The ship, representing the Port Canveral cruise port and of course the Iconic Castle at Walt Disney Resort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22460" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T10:18:34.453" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16937" CreationDate="2015-06-26T15:47:21.660" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's what napoleon wilson says:&#xA;A good alternative to the obvious &quot;because when he finds out, he didn't know 20 years later somebody would come up with a backstory where he's not supposed to know he has children&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When George Lucas made the first Star Wars movie he didn't even intended that Darth Vader was Luke and Leia's father. He came up with that later in the proces when the movie became such an unexpected hit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22116" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T15:47:21.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35837" CreationDate="2015-06-26T17:03:05.957" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can't really think of many shark monster/horror movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why the internet was invented. We no longer have to think. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A quick search finds that there's nothing particular 'new' about shark movies. They seem to have been consistently popular as subject matter (if not viewing manner) since the original JAWS. This is merely one list of many on IMDB. This one lists 53 different shark movies over the past 4 decades:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/list/ls002583733/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/list/ls002583733/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, one could argue there are more movies post-2000 on average featuring sharks. I don't have a concrete answer to that, but I'd posit that it's not specific to sharks, but rather, we have a lot more monster movies in general post-2000 due to all the advancements in CGI availability to film makers at all budget ranges. JAWS was not an easy shark to make. Now a talented teenager can make their own with software and put it on YouTube. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T17:03:05.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35846" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35847" CreationDate="2015-06-26T21:47:19.243" Score="5" ViewCount="1619" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;From Paris with Love&lt;/em&gt; there is a scene where Charlie Wax gets served mint tea by an old man. He then asks how he make his own tea just as good and the old man replies something like &quot;You can't, it is homegrown nana.&quot;. I am curious what &quot;nana&quot; is in the sentence above, is it some kind of mint, or is he referring to something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22476" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-26T21:50:55.220" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T02:09:15.970" Title="What is &quot;homegrown nana&quot;" Tags="|dialogue|from-paris-with-love|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35846" CreationDate="2015-06-26T22:16:28.660" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quoting directly &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maghrebi_mint_tea&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;from Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, Nana is the type of mint typically used in mint tea in the Greater Maghreb region.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The cultivar spearmint (Mentha spicata) Nana, possesses a clear,&#xA;  pungent, but mild aroma, and is the mint that is traditionally used in&#xA;  Maghrebi mint tea. Other hybrids and cultivars of Mentha, including&#xA;  Yerba buena, are occasionally used as substitutes for Nana mint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T22:16:28.660" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34462" CreationDate="2015-06-26T22:29:00.170" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Luke was in a pretty bad way by that point. Quoting directly from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Star-Wars-Return-of-the-Jedi.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;original script&lt;/a&gt;, he was &quot;almost unconscious&quot; and alternate passing out and writhing in pain. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since he was barely able to remain awake, it seems unlikely he could have prevented Vader from doing &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Luke is almost unconscious beneath the continuing assault of the &#xA;  Emperor's lightning. He clutches a canister to keep from falling into &#xA;  the bottomless shaft as the bolts tear through him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EMPEROR:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the dark side. You  have paid the price for your lack of vision.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Luke writhes on the floor in unbearable pain, reaching weakly up&#xA;  toward  where Vader stands watching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LUKE&lt;/strong&gt; (groans): &lt;em&gt;Father, please. Help me.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Again Vader stands, watching Luke. He looks at his master, the&#xA;  Emperor,  then back to Luke on the floor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EMPEROR:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Now, young Skywalker...you will die.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although it would not have seemed possible, the outpouring of bolts &#xA;  from the Emperor's fingers actually increases in intensity, the sound &#xA;  screaming through the room. Luke's body writhes in pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vader grabs the Emperor from behind...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T22:29:00.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24837" CreationDate="2015-06-26T23:39:12.413" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, Chigurh used to work with Wells.  From the start, Chigurh, due to the deal on the caldera that went bad, several people gave bad advice to the boss arranging the meet.  So not only did he need to retrieve the money, but took it upon himself to also eliminate those in fault for setting up a terribly planned trade, thus the killing of the two &quot;managerial lads.&quot;  During his chase to recover the money from Moss, he is also systematically eliminating those within his organization he thus believes untrustworthy or implicated in setting up a bad trade. At the end of the book, he returns the remaining money to it's owner and informs him things will be run differently.  They'll be dealing with new people now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22479" LastActivityDate="2015-06-26T23:39:12.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35565" CreationDate="2015-06-27T01:25:09.000" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll toss in a guess though the police officer teamed up with an alien girl. She's humanoid and is trying to track down a xenomorph, a shape-shifting alien which escaped the prison ship on which she worked. He has been trying to find a serial killer~the escaped alien. The two of them visit the massive spacecraft in orbit during their pursuit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something Is Out There (1988 TV miniseries and series spinoff)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Is_Out_There&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Is_Out_There&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series couldn't capture the feeling of the miniseries, which still holds up quite well. In some ways, it resembles &quot;The Hidden&quot; (1987). &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_(film)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22481" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T01:25:09.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35846" CreationDate="2015-06-27T02:09:15.970" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Nana&quot; is the arabic word for mint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22486" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T02:09:15.970" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35862" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4216" CreationDate="2015-06-27T04:09:12.663" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The survivors had an immunity to the virus. Also in the end the woman that said &quot;Jones, I'm in insurance,&quot; is one of the scientists. I think she means, sarcastically, I'm here to ensure the future. They needed the virus to find a cure, not to stop the epidemic. She is probably there to grab a vile of the virus and take it to the future.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22490" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-06-27T07:47:43.483" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T07:47:43.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35864" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41435" CreationDate="2015-06-27T07:52:29.910" Score="4" ViewCount="5022" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S01E011 of &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt; we see flashbacks from &quot;Harrison Wells'&quot; perspective involving a chess game with Hartley Rathaway (&quot;The Pied Piper&quot;). In these flashbacks it is clear that the two have feelings for each other and those feelings are re-expressed when he is captured by The Flash. However, Dr. Wells is more than willing to abandon Hartley in order to further his plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now later on in the series we see from flashbacks that Eobard Thawne is in fact impersonating Dr. Wells after murdering him. We also know from the flashbacks that the real Dr. Wells is &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; not gay so it led me to think that maybe it was one of Eobard Thawne's personal traits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-14T06:40:47.340" LastActivityDate="2016-05-25T12:06:46.337" Title="Was The Reverse Flash gay?" Tags="|character|the-flash|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35865" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-27T08:01:36.287" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1987 adaptation of the book by the same name by William Goldman starring Cary Elwes and Robin Wright&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-06-27T08:53:51.763" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T08:53:51.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35866" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-27T08:01:36.287" Score="0" Body="The 1987 adaptation of the book by the same name by William Goldman" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-06-27T08:42:40.537" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T08:42:40.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35867" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-27T08:05:02.913" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A 2015 sci-fi film about a robot named Chappie with human emotions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-06-27T08:53:56.800" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T08:53:56.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35868" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-27T08:05:02.913" Score="0" Body="A 2015 sci-fi film about a robot named Chappie with human emotions" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-06-27T08:54:09.003" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T08:54:09.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35869" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-27T08:06:14.890" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Directed and co-written by Colin Trevorrow, Jurassic World is a science-fiction adventure film set 22 years after the events of Jurassic Park. A new dinosaur-based theme park is opened at Isla Nublar island. When a genetically engineered dinosaur breaks loose and walks in the park violently, this theme park turns into a chaos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-08-25T10:09:12.547" LastActivityDate="2016-08-25T10:09:12.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35870" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-27T08:06:14.890" Score="0" Body="The fourth installment in the Jurassic Park film series starring Chris Pratt." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-06-27T08:54:04.647" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T08:54:04.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35871" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-27T08:13:08.417" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;2011 movie starring Bradley Cooper playing Eddie Morra, a writer that suffers from writer's block and takes a drug that expands his intelligence, but leads him into trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-06-27T08:42:32.780" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T08:42:32.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35872" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-27T08:13:08.417" Score="0" Body="2011 movie starring Bradley Cooper playing Eddie Morra, a writer that suffers from writer's block and takes a drug that expands his intelligence, but leads him into trouble." OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-06-27T08:53:59.473" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T08:53:59.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35873" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-27T10:50:42.323" Score="3" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;For Comic-book to live action adaptations, the 1970's presents a few notable milestones of which Today's Superhero Media empires lineage can be traced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remarkably, CBS retains the highest pedigree for this period, commissioning (or in the case of &lt;em&gt;Wonder Woman&lt;/em&gt;, picking up from another network) a variety of licensed characters to be developed into TV. This is the channel which created &lt;em&gt;The Incredible Hulk&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt; and the above mentioned Wonder Woman all within the period of a few years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All three have lasting pop cultural legacies (even if Spider-Man is for all the wrong reasons), and yet according to Lou Ferrigno's (The Incredible Hulk himself, no less!) autobiography, the channel ultimately canned all three projects so as not to be pigeonholed &quot;The Superhero Channel&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence, outside Ferrigno, to support this? It seems lunacy to be so short sighted and eradicate all three properties in one decision; particularly when the licensing rights could have been sold to other channels, as CBS themselves had done with &lt;em&gt;Wonder Woman?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-12-13T06:07:14.680" LastActivityDate="2017-12-13T06:07:14.680" Title="CBS, Capes and Pigeonholing?" Tags="|comic-adaptation|the-incredible-hulk-tv|the-amazing-spider-man-tv|wonder-woman-tv|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21153" CreationDate="2015-06-27T12:07:23.347" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course I'm sure viewer's comfort is a factor, but you're forgetting what it's like in the show. &#xA;Mitchell's dad is obviously very uncomfortable about him being gay and kissing another man. Jay's friends are there and so is the entire family. I'm sure a lot of them would have been uncomfortable too&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22498" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T12:07:23.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35876" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35943" CreationDate="2015-06-27T12:26:34.457" Score="5" ViewCount="2947" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ending scene of It Follows seems pointless to me. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jay and Paul walk down the street holding hands, and someone (I guess, the demon) follows them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I miss something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="56" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-06-28T22:56:01.070" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T17:15:41.130" Title="Explanation of the ending of &quot;It Follows&quot;" Tags="|ending|it-follows|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35878" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-27T13:33:35.410" Score="8" ViewCount="10732" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a viewer from a non-Anglophone country, I noticed that there is a quite high proportion of British actors in American films and TV shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They often portray British characters: a handful of agents in &lt;em&gt;Agents of SHIELD&lt;/em&gt;, both the main character and Jarvis in &lt;em&gt;Agent Carter&lt;/em&gt;, so many villains opposing an American lead and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have heard the suggestion that “Americans like British accent” (is that even true?), but this can be easily opposed by the large number of British actors interpreting American characters (and using an American accent): Hugh Laurie as Dr House, Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln, Anthony Hopkins as Nixon, some of the main actors in &lt;em&gt;Selma&lt;/em&gt;, half a dozen of actors in &lt;em&gt;The Book of Eli&lt;/em&gt;, Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne, Henry Cavill as Superman (well, technically an alien but...), Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil, Jason Isaacs as an American officer in &lt;em&gt;Fury&lt;/em&gt;, Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a recent phenomenon (but James Mason, Leslie Howard, Cary Grant, Laurence Olivier... come to mind)? Is there some marketing (or other) reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I know a question like this might give rise to opinion-based answers, so I'd like sourced answers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3975" LastEditorUserId="3975" LastEditDate="2018-08-05T16:29:43.947" LastActivityDate="2021-05-13T16:04:46.203" Title="Why so many British actors in American productions?" Tags="|casting|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35764" CreationDate="2015-06-27T14:46:10.630" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, an article had collected all the 47(!) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sweded&quot;&gt;Sweded&lt;/a&gt; films in this movie. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/features/articles/me-and-earl-and-the-dying-girl-parody-films-30542&quot;&gt;It also has some pictures&lt;/a&gt;. Kudos to the article's author David Ehrlich for spotting them all. These Sweded films are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/12/ed/6d50464443a6b972861f5ff908e8/anatomy-of-burger.jpg&quot;&gt;Anatomy of a Burger&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052561/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Anatomy of a Murder&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Otto Preminger, 1959)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/ea/dc/ea5b9cc94c9da5018320aa0bc056/ate-half-lunch.jpg&quot;&gt;Ate 1/2 (Of My Lunch)&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;8 1/2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Federico Fellini, 1963)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;A Box O’Lips, Wow (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Apocalypse Now&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Battle of All Deer (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058946/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Battle of Algiers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mtv.mtvnimages.com/uri/mgid:file:http:shared:mtv.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/BreatheLess-1433882435.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;amp;format=jpg&amp;amp;width=480&quot;&gt;Breathe Less&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053472/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Breathless&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Brew Vervet (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blue Velvet&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, David Lynch, 1986)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Burden of Screams (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083702/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Burden of Dreams&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Les Blank, 1982)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Can’t Tempt (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057345/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Contempt&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Crouching Housecat, Hidden Housecat (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190332/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Ang Lee, 2000)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Death in Tennis (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067445/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Death in Venice&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Luchino Visconti, 1971)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/53/b4/231af54f4362b84a1738713f2d2e/my-dinner-andre-giant.jpg&quot;&gt;My Dinner with Andre the Giant&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082783/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;My Dinner with Andre&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Louis Malle, 1981)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/51/71/dab874744108a386d65fd39f0ec1/dont-look-now-dwarf.jpg&quot;&gt;Don’t Look Now, Because a Creepy-Ass Dwarf is About to Kill You!!! Damn.&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069995/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Don’t Look Now&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Nicolas Roeg, 1973)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/browbeat/2011/09/29/hugo_chavez_caption_contest/Earl_fixed_big_screengrab.png.CROP.promovar-mediumlarge.png&quot;&gt;Eyes Wide Butt&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120663/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eyes Wide Shut&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Stanley Kubrick, 1999)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Hairy, Old and Mod (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067185/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harold and Maude&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Hal Ashby, 1971)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;La Gelee (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056119/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;La Jetèe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Chris Marker, 1962)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Gone with My Wind (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gone with the Wind&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Victor Fleming, 1939)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Gross Encounters of the Turd Kind (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075860/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Close Encounters of the Third Kind&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Steven Spielberg, 1977)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/62/6b/3d8cd82841539b4fa3d587df7b6e/grumpy-cul-de-sacs.jpg&quot;&gt;Grumpy Cul-de-sacs&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070379/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mean Streets&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Martin Scorsese, 1973)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;It’s a Punderful Life (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It’s a Wonderful Life&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Frank Capra, 1946)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Janitor of Oz (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wizard of Oz&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Victor Fleming, 1939)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Lady Manishness (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030341/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Lady Vanishes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Alfred Hitchcock, 1938)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/2c/ff/8930fa3642618e127e837962379e/monorash.jpg&quot;&gt;Monorash&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042876/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rashomon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Akira Kurosawa, 1950)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/d8/c2/9dcf95f44a5d97e3d41574f2e298/best-actor-lunatic.jpg&quot;&gt;My Best Actor is Also a Dangerous Lunatic&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200849/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;My Best Fiend&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Werner Herzog, 1999)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/browbeat/2011/09/29/hugo_chavez_caption_contest/Earl_fixed_big_screengrab.png.CROP.promovar-mediumlarge.png&quot;&gt;Nose Ferret 2&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013442/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nosferatu&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, FW Murnau, 1922)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Pittsburghasqatsi (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Koyaanisqatsi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Godfrey Reggio, 1982)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Pooping Tom (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054167/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Peeping Tom&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Michael Powell, 1960)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Prunes of Wrath (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032551/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Grapes of Wrath&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, John Ford, 1940)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Raging Bullsh*t (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081398/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Raging Bull&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Martin Scorsese, 1980)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Rear Wind (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047396/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rear Window&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/a4/43/e4a14a5d49a495ed03460c99f2b5/rosemary-baby-carrots.jpg&quot;&gt;Rosemary Baby Carrots&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063522/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rosemary’s Baby&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Roman Polanski, 1968)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Scabface (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023427/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scarface&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson, 1932)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Second (Helpings of Dinner) (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060955/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Seconds&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, John Frankenheimer, 1966)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/34/93/934085e34a94ac99a1f283491ca6/senior-citizen-cane.jpg&quot;&gt;Senior Citizen Cane&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Citizen Kane&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Orson Welles, 1941)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/external?url=http%3A%2F%2Fm.wsj.net%2Fvideo%2F20150626%2F062615film7seals%2F062615film7seals_1280x720.jpg&amp;amp;width=650&amp;amp;api_key=kq7wnrk4eun47vz9c5xuj3mc&quot;&gt;The Seven Seals&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050976/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Seventh Seal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Ingmar Bergman, 1957)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mtv.mtvnimages.com/uri/mgid:file:http:shared:mtv.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/SockworkOrange-1433882416.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;amp;format=jpg&amp;amp;width=480&quot;&gt;A Sockwork Orange&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Clockwork Orange&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Stanley Kubrick, 1971)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Complete Lack of Conversation (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Conversation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Last Crustacean of Christ (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095497/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Last Temptation of Christ&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Martin Scorsese, 1988)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/browbeat/2011/09/29/hugo_chavez_caption_contest/Earl_fixed_big_screengrab.png.CROP.promovar-mediumlarge.png&quot;&gt;The Rad Shoes&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Red Shoes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/browbeat/2011/09/29/hugo_chavez_caption_contest/Earl_fixed_big_screengrab.png.CROP.promovar-mediumlarge.png&quot;&gt;The Turd Man&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041959/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Third Man&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Carol Reed, 1949)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/5b/40/feb498d641fa8a82a2d714034868/400-bros.jpg&quot;&gt;The 400 Bros&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053198/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The 400 Blows&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, François Truffaut, 1959)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Um (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Fritz Lang, 1931)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/browbeat/2011/09/29/hugo_chavez_caption_contest/Earl_fixed_big_screengrab.png.CROP.promovar-mediumlarge.png&quot;&gt;Vere’d He Go?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vertigo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Wages for Beer (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wages of Fear&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Yellow Submarine Sandwich (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063823/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yellow Submarine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, George Dunning, 1968)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;ZZZ (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065234/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Z&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Costa-Gavras, 1969)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://imgs.littlewhitelies.co.uk/uploads/2015/06/Me-and-Earl-3.jpg&quot;&gt;2:48PM Cowboy&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064665/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Midnight Cowboy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, John Schlesinger, 1969)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;49th Parallelogram (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033627/combined&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;49th Parallel&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Michael Powell, 1941)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-06-27T15:54:51.683" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T15:54:51.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35880" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-27T16:18:53.177" Score="11" ViewCount="5583" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that the scene with the kids in the finale of &lt;em&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;/em&gt; had all been recorded a while back as a way to make sure they looked the same throughout the series, and I know the ending had been decided a lot sooner than some other parts of the series. However, there are scenes that give us flashbacks in which the actors actually look younger than they do in the rest of the episode. And some of these scenes are slowly completed as the years go by.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take Barney and Ted's first meeting scene. When there is a first appearance by that scene they actually look like they would the year they met. And than in later episodes (and seasons) the scene is completed with other, shorter, shorter scenes in which Ted and Barney still look about the same age they did when the scene first came up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Were those kinds of scenes actually recorded in the earlier seasons of the show or do they use make up only to make it seem like the past?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would have guessed make up, but because of the fact with the kids scene I thought I might be wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22445" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2017-09-08T23:04:41.463" LastActivityDate="2017-11-08T00:48:41.243" Title="What was the recording order for How I Met Your Mother?" Tags="|how-i-met-your-mother|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27773" CreationDate="2015-06-27T19:13:58.230" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Novels&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Train_Your_Dragon&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;original novels&lt;/a&gt; clearly indicate that he's male. Note that he's referred to as &quot;he&quot; by both the characters in the book &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the omniscient narrator&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hiccup decided to take the opportunity to check on Toothless's basket.&#xA;  He pulled it out from under the bed. A thin plume of bluish gray smoke&#xA;  was drifting out from under the lid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fishlegs whistled. &quot;&lt;strong&gt;He's awake all right,&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; said Fishlegs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Oh shut up, Fishlegs,&quot; said Hiccup, impatiently, &quot;you're frightening&#xA;  it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Toothless huffed and puffed and blew out some smoke rings. &lt;strong&gt;He inflated&#xA;  his neck to make himself look bigger,&lt;/strong&gt; which is something dragons do&#xA;  when they are scared or angry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Films&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where the films are concerned, we have both in and out-of-universe quotes that show that he's a male;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From HTTYD2's writer/director; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/annie-awards-how-train-your-768932&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dean DeBlois&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I'm halfway through the script. It continues to track Hiccup's coming&#xA;  of age, but it's also equally shared now that Hiccup and Toothless are&#xA;  chiefs of their clans. The story also follows Toothless' storyline,&#xA;  and I think audiences will like that because they seem to respond well&#xA;  to &lt;strong&gt;Toothless' antics and what seems to be going on in his head.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and from the original &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/How-to-Train-Your-Dragon.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;film script&lt;/a&gt; for HTTYD1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amazed, Hiccup sits up and tries to touch him. Toothless HISSES and&#xA;  flaps off to a crash on the other side of the cove. &lt;strong&gt;He BLASTS the&#xA;  mossy ground&lt;/strong&gt; to a red-hot temperature... and curls up on it like a&#xA;  giant dog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T19:13:58.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15413" CreationDate="2015-06-27T19:17:13.337" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a simpler explanation for a simple question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moment Sherlock saw the gun he got to know it was fake, since he's a deduction pro. He then remarks, &quot;&lt;em&gt;you don't take people's lives at gun point&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, simply because you cannot kill a person with a fake gun. Also, he was curious to know about the cabbie's plan of action(Pills in the Bottles).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had Sherlock confronted about the fake gun at first, the cabbie wouldn't have shown him how he killed his passengers. And Sherlock hates &lt;strong&gt;not knowing&lt;/strong&gt;. Therefore, he be-musingly watches the cabbie unveil his ploy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9684" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T19:17:13.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15884" CreationDate="2015-06-27T19:37:53.750" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this rather differently. Frank is portrayed as someone who's always on the lookout for his next scheme. To my mind he was absent-mindedly removing the labels from branded products because he's half-considering changing to passing cheques from coca-cola, settlers, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously there's more than a certain suggestion of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Obsessive-compulsive-disorder/Pages/Introduction.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;obsessive-compulsive behaviour&lt;/a&gt; and the out-of-universe connection between the ways in which corporate entities create their own identities through advertising and Frank's &lt;em&gt;lack of identity&lt;/em&gt; (especially when you consider that his wallet, where you'd normally expect to find a man's personal documents, is full of these labels) seems to convey why Spielberg may chosen to add this to the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-06-27T20:02:55.593" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T20:02:55.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33571" CreationDate="2015-06-27T21:09:35.550" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wasn't explained in the film, nor is it explained in the source novel (except to say that it's &lt;em&gt;not explained&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;CORALINE’S PARENTS NEVER SEEMED to remember anything about their time&#xA;  in the snow globe. At least, they never said anything about it, and&#xA;  Coraline never mentioned it to them.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sometimes she wondered whether they had ever noticed that they had&#xA;  lost two days in the real world, and came to the eventual conclusion&#xA;  that they had not. Then again, there are some people who keep track of&#xA;  every day and every hour, and there are people who don’t, and&#xA;  Coraline’s parents were solidly in the second camp.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T21:09:35.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35888" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-27T21:30:28.733" Score="9" ViewCount="8507" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Season 3 Episode 9 of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, Walt, after analysing the whole situation with Hank getting shot by the Cousins and Gus' intervention in the whole matter, goes to speak with Gus and says somewhere in his speech that: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I believe I was their prime target and that they were steered away from me to my brother in law &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does Walt deduce this? I mean how can he be so sure that the cousins came for him first and not Hank? Because he also knows that Hank was the one who killed Tuco and it was reasonable for the cousins to go for Hank first, but they didn't. Hector Salamanca, gave them Walter White's name. That's what we know, but Walt doesn't know that. How can he be so sure about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22509" LastEditorUserId="22115" LastEditDate="2015-08-17T07:22:03.473" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T14:44:17.193" Title="How does Walt deduce that he was the prime target of the Cousins?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35878" CreationDate="2015-06-27T21:40:26.107" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simple answer is that the production wants the best actor for the job, regardless of their native accent and actors want the best paychecks, so they audition (and get) jobs in Hollywood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, because the American film industry is the leading film industry in the world (though others &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_industry#National_film_production&quot;&gt;produce more films&lt;/a&gt;), it is appropriate for non-American talent to have a place in American film. They're native English speakers and part of learning to act is learning dialects. And even if they're not native English speakers, that doesn't make them unworthy as actors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens in every dialect for every possible mix of characters, not just British. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Australians play &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Jackman&quot;&gt;Wolverine&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hemsworth&quot;&gt;Thor&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Bana&quot;&gt;The Hulk&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_Ledger&quot;&gt;The Joker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Irish play &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Fassbender&quot;&gt;Magneto and Steve Jobs&lt;/a&gt; (the former is supposed to be German but played by a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_McKellen&quot;&gt;British&lt;/a&gt; actor in other versions), &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about Americans playing quintessentially British characters... like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Downey,_Jr.&quot;&gt;Sherlock Holmes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meryl_Streep&quot;&gt;Margaret Thatcher&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina_Jolie&quot;&gt;Lara Croft&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, above all of that, America is a country of foreigners and, particularly in big cities, it's common to work and go to school with people who aren't native to the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the better question is: &quot;Why &lt;strong&gt;shouldn't&lt;/strong&gt; they play these roles?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-06-27T21:40:26.107" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33915" CreationDate="2015-06-27T22:34:04.330" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No concrete figures have been released regarding the micro-budget film, largely (as far as I can tell) because most of the major expenses came directly out of Joss Whedon's own pocket and he simply isn't saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/jun/02/joss-whedon-reading-comics-pay-off&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; with Whedon, we learn that not only was he personally involved in the filming, editing, lighting &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; writing but that the principal actors were also on micro-salaries (e.g. either at the bottom of &lt;a href=&quot;http://work.chron.com/annual-salary-screen-actor-4272.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SAG Union Scale&lt;/a&gt; or just ignoring it entirely)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As well as shooting in their own house, they funded the production&#xA;  themselves. &quot;I did everything they say don't do,&quot; Whedon grins. &quot;Great&#xA;  idea to shoot next to a golf course, by the way. You know what they do&#xA;  on golf courses all day? Mow.&quot; His cast consisted of regulars from his&#xA;  TV shows, who gave their time &quot;&lt;strong&gt;for what will ultimately be dozens of&#xA;  dollars&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Whedon already had access to much of the equipment, it's incredibly difficult to put an actual number on the budget but based on the &quot;bythenumbers&quot; leak of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/71682975-village-movie-budget?page=49&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;budget of The Village&lt;/a&gt; (and with the help of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2094064/fullcredits/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB Cast/Crew breakdown&lt;/a&gt;) we can make a few educated guesses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Casting - $0 - Whedon did most of this himself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Food Charges - $? - Whedon's wife provided a daily buffet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Writing - $0 - Shakespeare wrote most of the plot + dialogue, Whedon re-wrote it for production.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cast Salaries - $? - According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/19967/how-does-an-average-non-star-actors-pay-work&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, background actors in the Los Angeles area had to be paid at least $142 per 8 hour work day, and speaking parts get more.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Music - $? (All music written and performed by Joss Whedon) - There were some players as well - Lets say $1000/day in total.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;VFX - Almost nothing. Probably less than $100K.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post-Production - $0 - Almost all the editing and post was apparently done by Whedon himself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;14 x days makeup = $14K&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;14 x days lighting and rigging = $100K&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd guess that overall the film was made for substantially less than a million dollars, probably more like $500K if you discount the time that Whedon, his family and close friends put in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2016-09-12T17:34:06.640" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33011" CreationDate="2015-06-28T01:10:57.333" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Autistic, no. Deeply introverted and borderline mentally ill, absolutely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/jan/12/frank-sidebottom-movie-michael-fassbender-chris-sievey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This interview&lt;/a&gt; in the Guardian with the real Jon Ronson (who wrote the film) gives us a pretty solid evaluation of &quot;Frank's&quot; mental state:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The moment the head is placed the change occurs. Not merely a change&#xA;  in attitude or outlook but a journey from one person to the other. I&#xA;  completely believe that Chris was born as two people.&quot; &lt;strong&gt;Middles likens&#xA;  Chris to transgender people, trapped in the wrong body.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and there's some extra info in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26820227&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this BBC interview&lt;/a&gt; that suggests that the &quot;head thing&quot; was more than just an act&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So to what extent was Frank Sidebottom just an act, a part Chris was&#xA;  playing? Or did it become an alter ego, a completely different&#xA;  persona? &quot;&lt;strong&gt;You've got to be careful not to psychoanalyse him too much&#xA;  because it might be wrong,&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; Jon Ronson cautions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;But my feeling is that if Chris was incredibly chaotic and Frank was&#xA;  incredibly innocent, there's got to be a reason for that, right? &quot;And&#xA;  to encase yourself in this fake head… there has to be a reason. It was&#xA;  safer. Frank was a calmer, safer place to be than Chris.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T01:10:57.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35898" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-28T01:35:02.580" Score="7" ViewCount="813" Body="&lt;p&gt;The final act of 2015's &lt;em&gt;Mad Max&lt;/em&gt; is concerned with a race back to the citadel, where Furiosa and her party remark that as all war parties are out hunting, the Citadel is relatively undefended, with only &quot;Joe's war pups and a handful of War boys too sickly to fight&quot; left behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Max, Furiosa, the Vuvalini and the Breeders seek to punch through enemy lines and make it back to the citadel first, to claim it... but why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would they hope to defend the sanctuary against the remainder of the war parties, albeit with their leadership removed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By their own distinction, the Citadel remains defenceless. The Vuvalini are wiped out in their entirety and Max abdicates, leaving only a near death Furiosa to defend the Citadel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T23:49:55.710" Title="Mad Max - salvation of the Citadel?" Tags="|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35346" CreationDate="2015-06-28T02:15:43.597" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As for you merchants you crossed ocean and mountain the great Takla&#xA;  Makan Desert. One not many men survive. Describe for me my desert,&#xA;  hmm?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can think of three possibilities, which repeat in a subsequent scene, probably with similar motivations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Basic curiosity and information gathering for the court -- the Mongolian Empire was so vast that he may never have personally been so far West (the journey would take 3 years each way).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A test of their respect for his empire and their gratitude for his gracious license to open trade deals on his Silkroad -- when Marco's father and uncle described his desert, his land, his empire, as a &quot;sea of death,&quot; the Great Khan was visibly irritated. Marco recognized this and quickly launched into a poetic, favorable description.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To assess the merchants' intelligence -- based on Marco's eloquence, Lord Kublai complimented him, says he has a &quot;clever mind&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Marco is secured, he is asked again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you and your father crossed Central Asia you passed through&#xA;  Badakhshãân. Describe for me, in the way that you do how you made the&#xA;  passage, what you saw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kublai is snacking on the throne, and possibly desired some&#xA;entertainment and distraction from his worries by satisfying his&#xA;curiosities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A test of his new subject's powers of perception -- he intended to&#xA;use Marco to gather intelligence from an objective source; we hear&#xA;the recurring phrase, &quot;Report to me what you saw as you saw it&quot;), as&#xA;he knew his courtiers didn't always paint an accurate picture.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A way to ascertain whether Marco was now going to show respect,&#xA;another test he almost failed -- and in a way, Marco was testing&#xA;Kublai, too -- but he instantly acquiesces following the order to&#xA;&quot;stuff his mouth with the shit of pigs.&quot; If Marco thought he would&#xA;be set free if he acted impudently, he immediately realizes his&#xA;miscalculation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22038" LastEditorUserId="22038" LastEditDate="2015-06-28T02:22:03.157" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T02:22:03.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11415" CreationDate="2015-06-28T02:38:05.573" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doctor Lamar is not Vincent's father, here is why: &#xA;Anton says to Vincent &quot;Our parents died thinking you have survived.&quot;. With both parents dead, Dr. Lamar could not be Vincent's father. However, the last test scene implies that Doctor Lamar has a son who dreams of being an astronaut, despite a genetic that prevent him to be one, leading to Dr Lamar empathy towards Vincent, an invalid. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question remaining is: does Dr. Lamar render Vincent's DNA valid as Jerome Morrow, by pressing the button that switches the file on screen from Vincent's invalid status to Jerome Morrow valid status. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22516" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-15T09:40:59.813" LastActivityDate="2016-09-15T09:40:59.813" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35898" CreationDate="2015-06-28T03:42:17.563" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 3 leaders of the clans are all dead. Furiosa essentially becomes the new leader upon her return with the full support of the 'milking mothers' and the entire population of war pups and 'commoners' supporting her. In addition, as far as I can tell, once you're back 'in' the citadel, you have complete control as the only access is via the raised platforms. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T03:42:17.563" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35878" CreationDate="2015-06-28T03:52:51.287" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In terms of English speaking nations that are likely to have, per-capita, a larger than normal number of talented actors, Great Britain has an immense theater history that still thrives today. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Combine that with the fact that the US has a giant media industry hungry for talent, it's only natural to see a lot of British talent over here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T03:52:51.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27035" CreationDate="2015-06-28T04:08:27.280" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay so Ive been pondering about the ending and I think I figured it out. So in the movie when Jack gives Miss Acacia his key they sang a little song and at the end he says lets make time stand still as he leans in to kiss her. So in the end when they kissed time froze because of the wonderfulness from the kiss and he started climbing because when he kissed her he felt brave as he told her when they had their little dispute and then the song at the end talks about them doing things together which means that hes still alive. Plus I believe that Jack is actually the narrator of his love story with her because in the beginning it was Jack's voice telling us of him being born with a frozen heart and that his mom climbed up to the house with a mid wife. So this proves that he is alive because, how can you tell a story about you if your dead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22518" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T04:08:27.280" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35905" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-28T04:16:26.263" Score="9" ViewCount="5998" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering why Gazelle (assistant of Valentine) in Kingsman: The Secret Service didn't die or her head didn't pop out when Merlin detonates the security chips whereas it was shown in some part of the movie that Gazelle has a scar on her neck that proves that Valentine put a security chip into it. I think the part where the scar was shown is when Valentine was introducing his newly invented sim card in the expo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22517" LastEditorUserId="22517" LastEditDate="2018-08-23T00:16:53.027" LastActivityDate="2018-08-23T00:16:53.027" Title="Why didn't Gazelle die when Merlin detonates the security chips?" Tags="|plot-explanation|kingsman-the-secret-service|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35913" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-28T09:54:19.780" Score="2" ViewCount="3423" Body="&lt;p&gt;How far did Taron Egerton swim in the dorm scene in &lt;em&gt;Kingman: The Secret Service&lt;/em&gt;? How long was the dorm and were safety divers used when making this scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22525" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-28T11:03:38.940" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T17:48:45.273" Title="Kingsman Taron Egerton swimming in the underwater scene" Tags="|kingsman-the-secret-service|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35905" CreationDate="2015-06-28T10:52:14.557" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;That woman in the expo wasn't Gazelle i dont think, just another politician&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22526" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T10:52:14.557" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31581" CreationDate="2015-06-28T12:31:09.153" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The given nickname is explained in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inherent_Vice&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;book&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Larry 'Doc' Sportello was out of college, he had many debts to pay; back then he was simply known as Larry. The agency came after him and decide to hire him as a skip-tracer trainee to work his debt off. One of the things he had to do was to intimidate people to pay money they owed and he was allowed to carry a weapon; not a gun, but a truth-serum of some kind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he was interrogating people, they saw it and were afraid. It never became the tool of his trade, but it got him the nick name 'Doc'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exact quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;What - kind of 'weapon' is that?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;It's a hypodermic outfit&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;I knew that, but what am I supposed to load it with?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;Truth serum. Same kind the CIA uses. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Larry decided to stash the outfit in a sinister-looking red faux crocodile shaving kit [...] many of the delinquents he and Fritz visited couldn't keep their eyes off of it. [...] It never quite became a tool of his trade,  but did develop into a useful prop, in time earning him the nickname 'Doc'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;chapter four&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="6552" LastEditDate="2015-06-28T12:50:02.387" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T12:50:02.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35919" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-28T14:13:05.990" Score="1" ViewCount="353" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &quot;The Last Starfighter&quot; from 1984, featuring a kid getting sent on a mission by winning at a video game, had a character (a parasite?) which touched him, gave him a shock, and then after a few days or weeks of vegetating in bed became an identical copy of the kid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the name and/or species of that character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22529" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-28T14:57:31.793" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T15:45:46.457" Title="What was the name of the turn-into-by-touching character in &quot;The Last Starfighter&quot;?" Tags="|character|the-last-starfighter|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35919" CreationDate="2015-06-28T14:38:40.113" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're referring to the android duplicate named Beta in &quot;The Last Starfighter&quot; (1984).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22038" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-28T14:50:02.300" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T14:50:02.300" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31820" CreationDate="2015-06-28T14:44:05.350" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The events were slightly clearer in the film's original screenplay. In short, she's entering all of the advanced scientific information she's gathered:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lucy is engrossed in the thousands of items of coded information scrolling past her eyes. It's illegible [sic] for any normal human being.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FLIGHT ATTENDANT:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Miss?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LUCY:&lt;/strong&gt; (riveted to the screen): &lt;em&gt;You should wipe your nose.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Flight Attendant doesn't understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A drop of blood appears in one nostril.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The woman touches her nose and realizes she's bleeding.&#xA;  Slightly flustered, she scurries away. Lucy keeps working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Up ahead, in the galley, the Flight Attendant talks animatedly to her co-workers. Points toward Lucy. The CABIN MANAGER decides to take matters in hand and comes over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CABIN MANAGER:&lt;/strong&gt; (politely) &lt;em&gt;Miss, you really need to shut down your computers now.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lucy puts her finger to her mouth, hushing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On her screens, Lucy finally reaches the end of the coded signs, gives a little satisfied sigh and gently closes both laptops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LUCY&lt;/strong&gt; (big smile): &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Twenty-five centuries of knowledge in eleven hours. I couldn't go any faster.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T14:44:05.350" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35922" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35967" CreationDate="2015-06-28T14:58:24.180" Score="5" ViewCount="3893" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are the War Boys just kids with radiation poisioning, were they bred that way, or was it something a regular person transforms into once you join Immortan Joe's clan? There were also &quot;War Pups&quot;, so I was thinking the Boy/Pups were more like child soldiers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1257" LastActivityDate="2016-04-05T03:12:48.533" Title="Exactly what are the War Boys in Mad Max: Fury Road?" Tags="|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35919" CreationDate="2015-06-28T15:24:38.490" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The organism which turns into the main character was called a &lt;strong&gt;beta unit&lt;/strong&gt; AKA &lt;strong&gt;simuloid&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This site&lt;/a&gt; documents this with the following quote:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alex Rogan:&lt;/strong&gt; Hey, you look like me!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;      &lt;strong&gt;Beta:&lt;/strong&gt; Of course I do. I'm a beta unit.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;      &lt;strong&gt;Alex Rogan:&lt;/strong&gt; What the hell is a beta unit?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;      &lt;strong&gt;Beta:&lt;/strong&gt; A beta unit is a simuloid. An exact duplicate, only not as loud!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I would have called it a haptoduplimorphoid (an android which changes into and duplicates what it touches). Anyways, this is arbitrary, too bad. If anyone knows of any other terms for this science fiction phenomenon then please let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22529" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2015-06-28T15:45:46.457" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T15:45:46.457" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19701" CreationDate="2015-06-28T15:44:02.857" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Due to Logan altering the time line in DOFP, X-Men 1,2 and 3 never happened neither did The wolverine so he never lost his metal claws.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22530" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T15:44:02.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28074" CreationDate="2015-06-28T16:09:14.587" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;He lies to them because he is trying to get them &lt;em&gt;excited&lt;/em&gt; about the concept of Christmas which (as he makes clear at the end of the song) isn't something that even he really comprehends yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jack decides that their understanding can take a backseat to at least being &lt;em&gt;interested&lt;/em&gt; in Christmas. In order to facilitate this, he translates his stories into something they will 'get':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/nightmare-b4-xmas_early.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;original script&lt;/a&gt; makes it a little clearer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Confident face evaporating, the Mayor skulks off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jack looks down at the faces tipped up toward him -- &lt;strong&gt;in the&#xA;  expressions, puzzlement replaces eagerness.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JACK: (to himself) &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Well, I may as well give them what they want.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jack picks up his song again -- the showman once more:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As does the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15732013-tim-burton-s-the-nightmare-before-christmas&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Penguin Active Reader&lt;/a&gt; book of the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jack thought, &quot;They'll never understand Christmas&quot;. Then he had a good idea.   &quot;Maybe they'll understand this&quot;   He looked at each of&#xA;  them very carefully and he spoke quietly and slowly.&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;There's a very&#xA;  old man in Christmastown&quot;, Jacks said. &quot;He's big and round with long,&#xA;  white hair. His clothes are red and he flies through the night sky in&#xA;  a big red sleigh. He shouts loudly and laughs! They call him Santa&#xA;  Claus! He puts presents under Christmas trees inside every house.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  When the children wake up in the morning, they find them. Then they&#xA;  open them.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-10-26T19:40:47.913" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T19:40:47.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27435" CreationDate="2015-06-28T16:32:32.823" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think this is a deliberate error. A quick google suggests that a considerable number of people (including those with a &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YnVjfyKSTasC&amp;amp;pg=PT1098&amp;amp;lpg=PT1098&amp;amp;dq=%22People%27s%20Democratic%20Republic%20of%20China%22&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=Pe0EfXn_As&amp;amp;sig=64CIbesyeXsYXzyfgmCAFRKpBA0&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=mR2QVY79Ksm0UZPTgeAD&amp;amp;ved=0CDIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22People&amp;#39;s%20Democratic%20Republic%20of%20China%22&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;deep knowledge&lt;/a&gt; of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aviamagazine.com/specials/outofservice/chinaaviationmuseum/index.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;local area&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eIIsBgAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA149&amp;amp;lpg=PA149&amp;amp;dq=%22people%27s%20democratic%20republic%20of%20china%22&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=5qw5PwWKNJ&amp;amp;sig=LKbql9MlCi075od4UxARHCqpTsY&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=Ox6QVYWWJ8HWU7_ZgbgI&amp;amp;ved=0CDUQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22people&amp;#39;s%20democratic%20republic%20of%20china%22&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt; of the region) refer to China as the &quot;Democratic Republic of China&quot; or &quot;People's Democratic Republic of China&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that she makes it abundantly clear that she works at the Chinese Embassy and that she's a devout Moaist, it's far more likely (in-universe) that she simply misspoke. She is after all attending an &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MApatYdSxO8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;English language course&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of universe, I suspect it's more to do with the fact that in Western eyes unless you actually said &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Taiwan&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, most people would assume you meant mainland China regardless of whether you called it the &quot;&lt;em&gt;People's Republic of China&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, the &quot;&lt;em&gt;Republic of China&lt;/em&gt;&quot; or even the &quot;&lt;em&gt;Democratic People's Republic of China&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. All they hear is the word China.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T16:32:32.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34123" CreationDate="2015-06-28T18:02:57.863" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The very short answer is that there's a considerable amount of action happening &lt;em&gt;off screen&lt;/em&gt;. SG1 may be the &quot;point-team&quot; (tasked with making first contact and providing situational assessments) but there are numerous other &lt;a href=&quot;http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/SG_team&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;SG-teams&lt;/a&gt; mentioned that seem to do follow up work. This includes a host of diplomatic teams creating working relationships with alien races, archaeological survey teams, scientific analysis teams and various others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see some of these guys in action; SG7 is busy setting up an observatory in &quot;&lt;em&gt;SG1: Singularity&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, SG9 are seen in &quot;&lt;em&gt;SG1: Icon&lt;/em&gt;&quot; establishing long-term diplomatic ties with the Latonans, SG16 is seen in &quot;&lt;em&gt;SG1: Ascension&lt;/em&gt;&quot; preparing to conduct a scientific study of an alien weapon, etc etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems likely that these teams have had ample access to Jaffa (both dead and living) through their various mop-up missions. That's even ignoring the fact that at least one dead Jaffa was left in the gateroom when Apophis attacked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9QaM1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T18:02:57.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12658" CreationDate="2015-06-28T18:32:52.880" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that are 2 parts to answer this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first is simple and already pretty well explained here: To make Frank look good. Like a First Lady, Claire workes on CWI to improve Franks public image by showing that his family care about social-politic topics that are not directly related to the topics that Frank deals daily.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The second one is a little more subtle. Nothing in the plot works as a &quot;hard evidence&quot;, but there are subtle facts that can suggest that. And knowing how things works in real life makes me think that this could be the way CWI would be useful for the Underwroods. I think that CWI can work as a dummy corporation for the underwoods as income money from the gas lobby. Remy Danton offered to invest in CWI Africans endeavors, and at the same time Frank was worried that this could implicate in him owing some favors for SanCorp. This can be the start-point of a corruption scheme where the Underwoods laundry money trough CWI in return of political favors for SanCorp. This corruption scheme doesn't seem to be in place at the time of the series but you can infer that it can have happened before since Frank, Claire and Remy seem to have a relationship for a while using CWI as a means to an end.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22533" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T18:32:52.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="52066" CreationDate="2015-06-28T18:41:24.757" Score="8" ViewCount="4542" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3107288/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Flash&lt;/a&gt;, the Flash from the future traveled back in time to stop the Reverse-Flash from killing his mother. He failed, but where did he go? The Reverse-Flash was stuck in past, so he killed and took the appearance of Doctor Harrison Wells. In his hidden room we see holograms of newspapers from the year 2024 with article about the Flash gone missing. So he didn't travel back to the future. Where is the future Flash?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22531" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-04-21T06:57:00.510" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T08:08:17.990" Title="What happened to the Future Flash?" Tags="|plot-explanation|arrowverse|the-flash|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34205" CreationDate="2015-06-28T18:51:42.323" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not clear, either from the script or the source novel what Lecter's motivation for engaging with Agent Starling was, but we do know that Lecter has been planning an escape for some considerable time. He clearly sees the visits he's been receiving (from Clarice, Jack Crawford and various other unnamed psychologists) as a potential source of material for his needs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It strikes me as highly likely that he'd want to encourage future visits from Clarice, who he sees as quite skittish and hence more prone to making mistakes. Obviously the best way to do this is to give her a &lt;em&gt;good reason&lt;/em&gt; to return:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In all the years after he savaged the nurse in the Baltimore asylum,&#xA;  there had been only two lapses in the security around him, both on&#xA;  Barney's days off. Once a psychiatric researcher loaned him a&#xA;  ballpoint pen and then forgot it. Before the man was out of the ward,&#xA;  Dr. Lecter had broken up the plastic barrel of the pen and flushed it&#xA;  down his toilet. The metal ink tube went in the rolled seam edging his&#xA;  mattress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The only sharp edge in his cell at the asylum was a burr on the head&#xA;  of a bolt holding his cot to the wall. It was enough. In two months of&#xA;  rubbing, Dr. Lecter cut the required two incisions, parallel and a&#xA;  quarterinch, long, running along the tube from its open end. Then he&#xA;  cut the ink tube in two pieces one inch from the open end and flushed&#xA;  the long piece with the point down the toilet. Barney did not spot the&#xA;  calluses on his fingers from the nights of rubbing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Six months later, an orderly left a heavyduty paper clip on some&#xA;  documents sent to Dr. Letter by his attorney. One inch of the steel&#xA;  clip went inside the tube and the rest went down the toilet. The&#xA;  little tube, smooth and short, was easy to conceal in seams of&#xA;  clothing, between the cheek and gum, in the rectum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T18:51:42.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35933" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-28T18:56:05.093" Score="4" ViewCount="5226" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does the frog rain in &lt;strong&gt;Magnolia (1999)&lt;/strong&gt; mean? I got answers leading to Bible exodus 8:2 which is: &lt;em&gt;&quot;But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite your whole territory with frogs.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;I know the movie is all about 8:2 but since the frog rain makes things better in the movie, I couldn't understand it clearly. Can someone please explain? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22534" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-05T20:58:59.680" LastActivityDate="2020-04-09T02:01:11.350" Title="Magnolia Frog Rain" Tags="|plot-explanation|magnolia|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31142" CreationDate="2015-06-28T19:08:58.757" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure there is a difference between the two terms. With no credentials to back my position, I believe Lou is a sociopath based on these characteristics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lou shows no empathy.  This trait is demonstrated repeatedly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lou uses others to achieve his goals.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lou is not a &quot;Dexter&quot; type sociopath where he needs to kill, but he demonstrates that hurting others is acceptable in order to &quot;win&quot;, and he does not take responsibility for their harm.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lou selfishly seeks credit and recognition by not sharing this credit with others.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22535" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-07-21T10:55:49.687" LastActivityDate="2015-07-21T10:55:49.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2308" CreationDate="2015-06-28T19:23:46.160" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gaiman spoke about the significance of the buttons in an series of interviews &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In-universe, the buttons indicate &lt;em&gt;acceptance&lt;/em&gt; of the other world&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It seems like Other Mother would have had Coraline, if she just hadn’t insisted on sewing buttons on her eyes. Why didn’t she just let&#xA;  that one go?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Neil:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;You would have to ask her.&lt;/em&gt; [Laughs] &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;That’s definitely part of it. Coraline has to say yes. When I was writing it, I liked&#xA;  the idea that Coraline was going to have to give into this thing.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  There’s a point where you give in. Either you give in because you are&#xA;  attracted by all of the beauty, or you give in because you’re&#xA;  terrified. In neither case does Coraline give in. She’s smart and she&#xA;  keeps fighting.&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://screencrave.com/2009-02-03/interview-with-neil-gaiman-for-coraline/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Screencrave&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because button eyes are &lt;em&gt;cool&lt;/em&gt; (and a bit scary)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There’s one other difference, too. Somehow, the most haunting image&#xA;  for adults doesn’t seem to phase most kids. &lt;strong&gt;“Kids tend to find&#xA;  button-eyed people kind of cool,” he says. “It’s just buttons. It’s a&#xA;  goofy, silly thing. Adults tend to find button-eyed people really,&#xA;  really disturbing.”&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://theconsumption.ca/2009/02/05/unbuttoning-coraline-neil-gaiman-interview/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TheConsumption&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because it freaks &lt;em&gt;adults&lt;/em&gt; out&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gaiman:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;So far, I haven’t run into any kids that have problems with buttons for eyes. They have dolls with buttons for eyes and they&#xA;  don’t really have a problem with that. &lt;strong&gt;Adults get hugely freaked out&#xA;  by buttons for eyes. Just in terms of things that creep them out, that&#xA;  gets under their skin.&lt;/strong&gt; You put a kid and an adult next to each other&#xA;  and you say, “Ok, guys. People with buttons for eyes?” The kids go&#xA;  “cool” and the adults go “oooooo.” I get letters from schools every&#xA;  week with drawings and the kids have an enormous amount of fun drawing&#xA;  people with buttons for eyes.&lt;/em&gt; -&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://anotherworldblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/an-interview-with-neil-gaiman/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;AnotherworldBlog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T19:23:46.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35933" CreationDate="2015-06-28T19:30:50.953" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was discussed in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://brightlightsfilm.com/short-takes-cinematography-but-it-did-happen-paul-thomas-andersons-magnolia/#.VZBKPPlViko&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brightlightsfilm&lt;/a&gt; inteview with the Director/Writer Paul Thomas Anderson:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Of all things, why frogs?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It truly came from a slightly gimmicky and exciting place. I’d read about rains of frogs in the works of Charles Fort, who was a&#xA;turn-of-the-century writer who wrote mainly about odd phenomena.&#xA;Michael Penn was the one who turned me on to Fort, and who, when I&#xA;went to one of Michael’s shows in New York once, made reference on&#xA;stage to “rains of frogs.” At that moment I just went, Wow! How cool&#xA;and scary and fun to do that would be – and what does it mean?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So I just starting writing it into the script. It wasn’t until after I&#xA;got through with the writing that I began to discover what it might&#xA;mean, which was this: You get to a point in your life, and shit is&#xA;happening, and everything’s out of your control, and suddenly, a rain&#xA;of frogs just makes sense. You’re staring at a doctor who’s telling&#xA;you something is wrong, and while we know what it is, we have no way&#xA;of fixing it. And you just go, so what you’re telling me, basically,&#xA;is that it’s raining frogs from the sky.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I’m not someone who’s ever had a special fascination with UFO’s or&#xA;supernatural phenomena or anything, but I guess I just found myself at&#xA;a point where I was going through some shitty stuff and I was ready&#xA;for some sort of weird religion experience, or as close as I could get&#xA;to one.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So then I began to decipher things about frogs and history, things&#xA;like this famous notion that, as far back as the Romans, people have&#xA;been able to judge the health of a society by the health of its frogs.&#xA;The health of a frog, the vibe of a frog, the texture of a frog, its&#xA;looks, how much wetness is on it, everything. The frogs are a&#xA;barometer for who we are as people. We’re polluting ourselves, we’re&#xA;killing ourselves, and the frogs are telling us so, because they are&#xA;all getting sick and deformed. And I didn’t even know it was in the&#xA;Bible until Henry Gibson gave me a copy of the Bible, bookmarked to&#xA;the appropriate frog passage.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What made you decide to use the sequences dealing with episodes of weird historical coincidence as a framing device for the film?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In a way, it’s a promise. A promise that, hey, look at these three stories which, to whatever extent are true or not, are weird and fantastic and filled with amazing coincidence – and that, if you gave me three hours, I will give you a story that is just as filled with weird and fantastic coincidence as they are, because “this stuff does happen.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T19:30:50.953" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35937" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-28T19:33:42.693" Score="1" ViewCount="3627" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching Tim Burton's Batman series and found out that Harvey Dent was played by a black man but he is played by a white guy in Nolan's series. What race is Harvey Dent portrayed as in the comics, and why the discrepancies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22534" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-29T08:44:47.847" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T00:59:57.373" Title="Harvey Dent black?" Tags="|casting|the-dark-knight|continuity|comic-adaptation|batman-1989|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23045" CreationDate="2015-06-28T20:21:27.270" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Buffalo Bill had not necessarily been in Fredrica Bimmel's house. Fredrica worked for Buffalo Bill's mother, who ran a tailoring business out of her home. Buffalo Bill would see her every day that she came to work for his mother. I assume that it was her body that Starling found in the bath tub in the basement. I would also assume that he learned how to sew from his mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22538" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T20:21:27.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35937" CreationDate="2015-06-28T20:49:17.437" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're both technically true, as each adaptation has its own official canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The canon with Billy Dee Williams as Harvey Dent continues on from the first two Tim Burton films, with Tommy Lee Jones taking over the role as Two-Face in Batman Forever. Billy Dee Williams was initially intended to portray Harvey Dent post-mutilation, but the role was given to Tommy Lee Jones. However, it is considered the same character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the portrayal of Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight, the character is in a different continuity than the Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T20:49:17.437" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23113" CreationDate="2015-06-28T21:13:35.133" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a very brief mention in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/jan/26/features.review&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Guardian article&lt;/a&gt;. I seem to recall at the time the show was very heavily trailed and even given to clerics and priests to review in advance (presumably in the hopes that one of them would condemn it) but most simply declined to comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Those clerics who have seen advance copies of The Second Coming are happy to acknowledge this reverence. 'It is a moving and thoughtful&#xA;  piece,' says Father Shaun Middleton, a London parish priest and press&#xA;  secretary of the National Conference of Priests. 'Though I disagree&#xA;  with its conclusion, I find it interesting that the Christian message&#xA;  retains such a fascination for writers.'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T21:13:35.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21105" CreationDate="2015-06-28T22:10:28.783" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I was growing up, the children in my town used to find presents outside their houses on Christmas day (I later found that the head of the local Rotary Association had been leaving them). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, leaving aside the question of why they did this, I'm pleased to report that because my parents aren't mental, at no point did they imagine that Santa actually exists and visited my town once a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the same token, merely finding a basket of chocolate isn't likely to tip his parents off that magical bunnies are real, hence their surprise at the end of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T22:10:28.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35876" CreationDate="2015-06-28T22:49:48.877" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The trick ending was discussed in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2015/03/it-follows-director-the-spoiler-interview.html&quot;&gt;interview in Vulture&lt;/a&gt; with the Director; David Robert Mitchell. Although he seems to have intended to leave it ambiguous, the general &lt;a href=&quot;http://geektyrant.com/news/the-ending-of-the-horror-film-it-follows-explained-by-director&quot;&gt;concensus among critics&lt;/a&gt; is that it was pretty heavy-handed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q. &lt;strong&gt;The movie ends with Jay and Paul walking home. A ways behind them, we see a teenage boy walking in the same direction ... it might be the&#xA;  monster, or it might not. Was that always the final shot?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A. &lt;em&gt;Yes, for sure. We had a couple variations on it — I think we had some where he was really far back, and then some where no one would ever&#xA;  miss him  — but &lt;strong&gt;we settled on the one where he’s there, but not too&#xA;  close. It allows people to make up their own mind of what it means.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T22:49:48.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34629" CreationDate="2015-06-28T23:13:29.213" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;My reading of the scene was that it was a way of contrasting her sexual experience (great) with her IQ (small). Simply put, although she has plenty of experience &quot;&lt;em&gt;doin' it on top&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, she lacks the vocabulary and the wit to recognise that that's what he's talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that she also fails to realise that he's been to prison, imagining that he's been living in a monastery (!?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This quite a common &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrainlessBeauty&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;conceit&lt;/a&gt; in Hollywood films and her personality fits quite nicely with the TV. Tropes descriptor: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Brainless Beauty is rarely the hero; they tend to be foils for&#xA;  more intelligent (though less successful romantically) characters.&#xA;  Some are sympathetic good-natured dullards, others are presented as&#xA;  annoying obstacles for our heroes. Either way expect a smart but plain&#xA;  character to be left fuming at the unfairness of it all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A Brainless Beauty — even a sweet-natured one — is unlikely to be the&#xA;  serious love interest of The Hero. In fact they make a natural&#xA;  Romantic False Lead. It can happen though if the Beauty shows some&#xA;  form of Hidden Depths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-06-28T23:29:27.313" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T23:29:27.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35946" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35972" CreationDate="2015-06-29T00:13:32.097" Score="2" ViewCount="1411" Body="&lt;p&gt;The monolith from the final scene of &lt;em&gt;2001: A Space Odissey&lt;/em&gt; with the old man in bed lifting hand as if to touch the monolith from the bed. Where are these props? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22543" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-29T08:42:23.077" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T13:01:29.303" Title="Is there an actual prop of the Monolith that was used in 2001?" Tags="|props|2001-a-space-odyssey|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-06-29T19:56:50.297" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30625" CreationDate="2015-06-29T00:15:02.093" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The dog was indeed alive in the later scenes (as &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9jbOIFLg70sC&amp;amp;pg=PT87&amp;amp;lpg=PT87&amp;amp;dq=%22cowboys%20and%20aliens%22%20and%20%22the%20dog%22&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=7Fk-NoBd2d&amp;amp;sig=Um03px6TsBY8DHYNPyUwe0WilDk&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=24qQVeGfLYyxUY3osQg&amp;amp;ved=0CFgQ6AEwCw#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22cowboys%20and%20aliens%22%20and%20%22the%20dog%22&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the novelisation&lt;/a&gt; below shows).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although it's pure speculation, I think we can be reasonably certain that the alien gave the dog a swift kick and the dog ran off scared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Emmett ran forward to meet Jake and the riders, seeing only the black&#xA;  dog keeping pace with them— the friend he'd thought he'd lost forever,&#xA;  like so much else in his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The dog ran ahead down the slope to greet him, nearly knocking him&#xA;  over as he kneeled down to hug it, covering him with wet doggy kisses.&#xA;  &quot;Hi, boy!&quot; Emmett said, laughing for the first time that he or anyone&#xA;  else could remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T00:15:02.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35948" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="79717" CreationDate="2015-06-29T01:11:43.023" Score="5" ViewCount="1783" Body="&lt;p&gt;When &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3502248/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bosch&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; spends the night with Brasher in his hill house overviewing L.A. and she notes that it is quite a view for a detective, he says that &lt;em&gt;&quot;Paramount payed that view&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. He tells her that the movie &quot;The Black Echo&quot; was loosely based on one of his cases and his apartment was basically bought from the royalties for his story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now in reality &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Echo&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Black Echo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is in fact one of Michael Connelly's novels, the first one in the &lt;em&gt;Harry Bosch&lt;/em&gt; series this TV-show is based on. I wonder though, if this diegetic existence of &quot;The Black Echo&quot; was just a little nod from the TV-show to the novels or &lt;strong&gt;if the novels already featured &lt;em&gt;The Black Echo&lt;/em&gt;'s story as having been turned into a book or movie inside the novels' universe&lt;/strong&gt; and referenced in a later work (one that the TV-show is in turn adapted from).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2017-08-29T15:56:07.110" Title="Was &quot;The Black Echo&quot;'s diegetic existence merely a nod to the books or an element from the books?" Tags="|book-adaptation|bosch|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35951" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39415" CreationDate="2015-06-29T04:53:09.173" Score="11" ViewCount="4258" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched Matrix trilogy, &lt;em&gt;yet again&lt;/em&gt; (probably 25th time!). This time I made some new conclusions, and I am confused regarding this one. In first part, i.e., &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt;. Morpheus tells Neo that there was a guy before him who could bend rules inside the Matrix and was the &quot;One&quot; to free the first of the humans, and that a prophecy was made by the &lt;em&gt;Oracle&lt;/em&gt; that he will return, which is concluded at the end that Neo is in fact the &lt;em&gt;One&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we forget &lt;em&gt;Reloaded&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Revolutions&lt;/em&gt; at this point, it seems that Neo's purpose is to free humans from the Matrix, which we can see when he calls machine from phone booth and tells it that he is coming. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if we focus on &lt;em&gt;Reloaded&lt;/em&gt;, it seems as if his &lt;em&gt;purpose&lt;/em&gt; is altered. Architect tells him that he should return to the source and &lt;em&gt;re-build&lt;/em&gt; Zion, which he refuses to obey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting on to &lt;em&gt;Revolutions&lt;/em&gt;, Neo finally ends up helping machines get control over the Matrix in exchange for peace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So after watching all the three movies and the considering the prophecy my question is what was the &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; purpose of Neo, after all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T16:25:53.770" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T16:33:33.053" Title="Actual purpose of Neo" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35952" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-06-29T05:06:03.143" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-06-29T05:06:03.143" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T05:06:03.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35953" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-06-29T05:06:03.143" Score="0" Body="1989 feature film about the title character Batman, directed by Tim Burton" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-06-29T08:38:09.223" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T08:38:09.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35955" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-29T07:21:37.473" Score="10" ViewCount="16860" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am re-watching Breaking Bad for 2nd time and I observed that the first time in whole series when Walter makes sandwich is to feed Krazy-8 in basement. At this instance, he gives sandwich with breads having crust. When he sees Krazy-8 tearing off the crust, next time onward, Walter himself cuts off the crust before giving it to Krazy-8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on in series, when he separates from Skyler, he is again shown making sandwiches for lunch while working for Gustavo. At this point, the scene is focused on Walter's sandwich making. Thus, showing him cutting the crust as he used to do for Krazy-8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually a person also serves a person food in a way himself likes it. For example, Walter likes to eat bread with crust. That's why he serves Krazy-8 with sandwich with bread crust. So is the change in Walter White's bread eating habit related to Krazy-8? Can this whole thing make sense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22115" LastActivityDate="2019-09-13T03:39:16.183" Title="Walter White cutting crust off the bread" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35958" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-29T09:06:27.177" Score="3" ViewCount="549" Body="&lt;p&gt;BY the end of first season of Breaking Bad, we see that Walter and Jesse steal a barrel of methaphamine from a secured warehouse. At this point, Hank knows that there is some new player in town dealing in meth. But a figure named Heisenberg or Blue Meth as a product is not established. Thus, Hank stil doesn't have the specific Heisenberg case under him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A robbery at warehouse should be concerned case for local APD and not DEA until and unless some actual drug is stolen in mass. So why are Hank and Gomez specifically sent with the robbery clip of an chemical? Yeah, it is a major ingredient of Meth, but the point is chemical was stolen and not a finished product of a drug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22115" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T10:32:16.673" Title="Hank and Gomez getting footage of robbery at warehouse" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35959" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35960" CreationDate="2015-06-29T09:31:20.783" Score="9" ViewCount="5612" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched Breaking Bad much later after its main telecast on AMC. But while it was fresh on TV, I used to see various posters or scenes being posted on various Internet portals and Social Networking Sites. Many of these posters had Heisenberg being addressed, depicted or denoted as a King.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used to think that Breaking Bad is some series about guy becoming the mastermind of the drug business or empire. The people who come nearest or actually fit to the title of king are Elliot Schwartz, Gustavo Fring and Don Eladio. These guys have everything under their command in their respective field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if Walter is compared to them, he remains just the manufacturer. When he starts his own business after Tuco's death, he fails. He ultimately has to work for Gus. After Gus' death, he stays manufacturer in his own business while Mike runs the business. After Mike, it's Lydia. While in this case, if we compare Gus, he doesn't cook, he doesn't deliver, he doesn't manage payroll, he doesn't kill his enemies (except Victor and Cartel, situation demanded it), he doesn't cook chicken. He just owns them all, looks after them, solves problems, earns profits. It actually fits an image of a King.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then why was Heisenberg addressed as the King? Just because Walter says that he wants to create an empire doesn't make someone a king. He reaches nowhere near Gus' level throughout the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22115" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-06-29T10:01:06.870" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T10:32:48.440" Title="Why was Heisenberg addressed as the King on many posters and images?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35959" CreationDate="2015-06-29T09:43:12.077" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was likely prompted by &lt;a href=&quot;http://the-culture-counter.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/All-Hail-the-King.jpg&quot;&gt;AMC's own promotional art&lt;/a&gt; for the 5th season in which the poster reads &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;All Hail The King&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/breaking-bad-creator-vince-gilligan-walter-white-is-scarface-20120716#ixzz20o0fH5fN&quot;&gt;explained&lt;/a&gt; the thought behind it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Who in our world was ever capable of out-Fring-ing Fring? Walter White. That's indeed the thrust of Season Five. Walt is now the king. &lt;strong&gt;The king is dead. Long live the king.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if Walter is bad at actually managing things, he's Gus's replacement by default, or at least tries to be. His failure to do so is part of his nature and storyline, so &lt;em&gt;King&lt;/em&gt; is to be taken somewhat ironically. Consider, for example, season 5's episode title &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias_%28Breaking_Bad%29&quot;&gt;Ozymandias&lt;/a&gt;, which alludes to Walt's eventual downfall as a crystal meth king. TIME &lt;a href=&quot;http://entertainment.time.com/2013/09/16/ozymandias-what-does-that-breaking-bad-episode-title-mean/&quot;&gt;clarifies&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias&quot;&gt;[Percy Shelley's] poem&lt;/a&gt; tells the story of a traveller who has seen an ancient monument in the desert. The giant legs are all that remains standing of what was once a statue of a king — &lt;strong&gt;“Ozymandias, King of Kings”&lt;/strong&gt; — and there is no sign of the civilization he once ruled, although the inscription on the pedestal indicates that the stone king once surveyed great enough works to drive terror into the hearts of his enemies. &lt;em&gt;The mighty one has literally fallen, and so has everything he accomplished.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-06-29T10:32:48.440" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T10:32:48.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35951" CreationDate="2015-06-29T09:55:07.380" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neo's goal has never been altered, the thing is you are misleading persons in the matrix which are computer programs with real humans. People who must be saved from the matrix are only those who are connected to it, so rescuing Zion from the bots will help the human to get rid of robots revolution, and not beeing keeped in the human farms robots are using.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So eventually by saving Zion, and restarting a Agent free Matrix will make Neo able to keep humans from Zion safe, and restart a virus free computer programm (the matrix) in which no humans are trapped (only programs).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing is we don't know if it is possible to free all of the cocooned humans from where Neo rebirthed. Clear enough ? Sorry for my english :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19796" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T09:55:07.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35888" CreationDate="2015-06-29T10:26:33.240" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For the answer, remember the fact that Walter's brain works much in analytical fashion. He deduces, assumes or implies even the tiniest possibilities for any given situation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was obvious that Lionel and Marco Salamanca were cousins of Tuco, this part must have been told (or at the best heard while stories were being passed around between colleagues and friends of Hank from DEA) by DEA friends of Hank waiting in hospital. So Walter figured out that whole thing was revolving around Tuco's death. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, before Tuco himself had mentioned existence of his 'cousins'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(General Implications: Hank likes to brag about the case he works on especially to the White Family. Also, when Skyler tells him in hospital that Hank was in shootout, Walter immediately shows concern towards the events. So we can easily imply that Hank must have told Walter about the shootout, Hector and the fact that DEA must have figured out some way to communicate with him, Ouija or Alphabet board. Also, how Salamancas were part of cartel and so on.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically he deduced that Hector must have somehow narrated the whole incident to the cousins. He doesn't know that only name was provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walter doesn't know who the cousins were, he realizes who there are once he visits the hospital and meets Hanks friends and colleagues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it was just his analytical brain that works out that at least for the slightest moment, the cousins must have known his existence and involvement in Tuco's death. Though not exactly, but yes for the fact that Walter was present there and also attempted poisoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically Walter realizes/assumes that cousins were after everybody who were involved in Tuco's death, including Jesse. After that &lt;strong&gt;Walter must have assumed&lt;/strong&gt; that cousins must have targeted the nearest victim first, that is Hank. Or more dangerous victim first. (Hank being DEA with field experience). They must have been planning to kill him or Jesse after Hank. Also, killing Walter or Jesse first would have put Hank in more active state and thus leading to them being tracked down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(General Implications: While working with Gus for brief period, he must have easily realized that Gus and Cartels were enemies. There are many ways to know it, especially Gale Botechar. Gale has been working with Gus for long time, so it can be implied that since Gale becomes close to Walter, he must have discussed the relations of Gus and Cartel at least once.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But later, I think Gomez tells Walter how Hank received call about the attack a minute before. Thus, Walter deduces that it must have been Gus one way or other who made the call. &lt;em&gt;But he still doesn't conclude this possibility.&lt;/em&gt; The point where Gus comes in to inquire about Hank, makes Walter conclude that it was Gus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, when he sees the injured cousin looking in his eyes and crawling towards the door, he realizes that he too was their target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Till this point Walter realizes that cousins intended to kill everyone involved, including Jesse. Had they got chance, they would have killed Walter first.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But after Gus leaves and the injured cousin dies as Gus had hinted, Walter realizes that the whole thing was planned from the start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't have taken much time for Walter to deduce the whole scenario. Also, the time frame between Gus leaving hospital and and Walter having meeting with him was never suggested. So it could have been days. This much time was enough for Walter to figure out the scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, as a viewer we are never shown other possibilities of event that Walter thought about. When Walter discusses the event with Gus, Gus never shows interest in the matter and just lets Walter think that events happened as he is thinking, thus giving us viewers the only outlook from Walter's view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22115" LastEditorUserId="22115" LastEditDate="2015-06-29T12:27:41.450" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T12:27:41.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35958" CreationDate="2015-06-29T11:13:26.130" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being that metylamine is an important part of the production of Meth, any theft that large would have to be sent to the DEA as a precaution.  Law enforcement isn't stupid, there are no Keystone Kops in real life, they preemptively put 1 + 1 together often.  Should large quantities of Meth start appearing on the streets, the video would already be in the hands of the DEA and they could have a jump on the case instead of building it from scratch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T11:13:26.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35955" CreationDate="2015-06-29T11:17:50.630" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I assumed that Walter had, at some point, made a sandwich for both himself and Krazy-8 and decided to try it without the crust.  At that point, he must have determined that it tasted better and began making his own sandwiches without the crust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, you have to try something before determining you don't like it.  Growing up in my house, this was referred to as a &quot;No-Thank-You Helping&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T11:17:50.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15848" CreationDate="2015-06-29T11:52:42.607" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hideo Kojima, MGS creator said in one of his interviews that when he was a kid, his favourite movie was - you guessed it - Escape from New York. Kojima, passionate about creating his own stealth hit and (with his love for the protagonist Snake Plissken) wished to re create his vision of Snake so he wrote a letter to John Carpenter saying he was a huge fan of his sci-fi stealth action movie asked for his blessing and permission to inspire his counterpart like Snake Plissken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the characters are similar in appearance, names and habits they are two very different people in nature however Snake Plissken's hate for government I can kinda see in Big Boss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Snake Plissken was a convicted bank robber and war vet. who received medals of honor for being a great infiltrator in Leningrad. He became blind in a plane crash and lost friends and family in the war. When it was over, he kinda wanted compensation so he began participating in heists robbing the government. Snake Plissken only now saves the world because he has to, when his freedom is threatened. He isn't a government tool like Big Boss. They are more alike if anything they were both used, eye patch, hair, crimes etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Solid Snake however is a loyalist and saves the world because he wants to. he is a government tool, and eventually becomes tired of this but continues to get used anyway. He says for a little that he doesn't give a damn but deep down, he loves the war and being a soldier to the end. Solid Snake has mixed feelings about caring for humanity and ignoring them, and he has never broken the law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without a doubt Big Boss and Snake Plissken are very alike. They fight for themselves, Big Boss a world for soldiers. Snake Plissken as seen in LA a world without power. Both wishing to live in a land of freedom, after government corruption. And Solid Snake no matter how tough, which is why I love this character, fights for the people always and keeps the world a stable place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22550" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-07T19:56:47.680" LastActivityDate="2019-01-07T19:56:47.680" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="35967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35922" CreationDate="2015-06-29T11:57:18.240" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The warboys are chosen from the masses of the wretched that live at the bottom of the citadel and wait for Immortan Joe to give them water.&#xA;A deleted scene shows the warboys being selected with their parents wanting them to be selected as this is their best chance for survival in this world.&#xA;They are chosen from a young age, and become war pups then when they are old enough become war boys. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They worship Immortan Joe and if Nux's behaviour is anything to go by live to be noticed by him before going out bravely in order to enter Valhalla&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lymphomas that many of the war boys show are symptoms from living in a radioactive wasteland and the use of &quot;blood bags&quot; is to transfuse healthier blood into themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22037" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T11:57:18.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35968" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-29T12:42:18.617" Score="10" ViewCount="2353" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; episode 'Face-Off', Walter White attaches a bomb to Hector's wheelchair with the bell acting as trigger. But how was he so sure that Gus himself would come to kill Hector?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The facts have been established that Gus hates Hector for killing Max. But a guy like Gus who has been so accurate and secretive for many years, suddenly risks to come out and kill; that too when he had gained attention of the DEA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was Walter gambling on chances that Gus would personally come to kill Hector?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22115" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-29T12:49:00.157" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T23:51:27.843" Title="How did Heisenberg know that Gustavo would himself come to kill Hector Salamanca?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35969" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-29T12:45:35.657" Score="10" ViewCount="3468" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is said Kubrick had a habit of destroying outtakes and any unwanted scenes, even destroying the Monolith in order to prevent the re-hashing of props in later movies. Could this fire that happened on the set of 'The Shining' be a cover story? It doesn't change much, but still kinda funny imagining Kubrick with a hint of pyro.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22543" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-06-29T12:48:55.903" LastActivityDate="2016-09-06T03:08:48.643" Title="Was the set of &quot;The Shining&quot; intentionally set on fire by Kubrick to eliminate prop re-usage?" Tags="|props|the-shining|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35970" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-29T12:49:52.090" Score="4" ViewCount="1298" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 5 of Breaking Bad, it is shown that Walter and Jesse collaborate with a pest control company. They would cover the house with plastic and while Walter and Jesse would cook within it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the machines and units required which were being transported using boxes for musical instruments were so large and obviously heavy. How did they manage to assemble them so quickly without damaging or getting wrong connections or any sort of practical testing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean one loose screw and you get a leakage. Air enters through the gap and spoil the batch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not just this, when did they clean the parts for residue and other stuff?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22115" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T23:46:55.590" Title="Time taken assembling the meth cooking unit and again dismembering it in Breaking Bad" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35946" CreationDate="2015-06-29T13:01:29.303" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're looking to buy an actual prop used for the movie, you may be out of luck as according to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywood.com/movies/get-thee-to-the-geek-2001-a-space-odyssey-room-237-57243937/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hollywood.com article&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;13&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Kubrick had all of 2001’s sets, props, and miniatures destroyed so they would never be able to be recycled for future movies, the way Forbidden Planet’s props surfaced in later films.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there may have been reproductions made for personal use/enjoyment, etc. Good luck with your continued search for extra-dimensional education.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T13:01:29.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35973" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35976" CreationDate="2015-06-29T13:35:34.050" Score="-2" ViewCount="496" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've heard that he helped with some space-videos with NASA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22543" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-06-29T13:39:31.900" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T20:09:19.213" Title="Does James Cameron work with/for NASA?" Tags="|directors|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-07-01T05:08:53.707" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35974" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36012" CreationDate="2015-06-29T13:45:18.363" Score="1" ViewCount="164" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can persons or families of deceased persons use legal methods to impose &quot;prior restraint&quot;  on aspects of a planned film about them they don't like, such as JFK, or Kurt Cobain? And what if the matters become more concerned about a larger group than individual persons, like WWI veterans/victims or religious leaders/groups?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22543" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-30T15:14:03.907" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T16:42:46.973" Title="What legal measures do real persons/families/groups have to impose &quot;prior restraint&quot; on aspects of a film?" Tags="|censorship|legal|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35973" CreationDate="2015-06-29T14:47:21.937" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes he does work with &lt;strong&gt;NASA&lt;/strong&gt;, Since 2005, see this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.space.com/783-director-james-cameron-works-nasa-future-mars-mission.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; for more infos: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Two years ago, not long after the Columbia accident claimed the lives&#xA;  of seven astronauts, Cameron attended his first meeting as a member of&#xA;  the NASA Advisory Council, a body that counsels the agency's&#xA;  administrator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Slowly, he became more engaged. Now, he's working as an investigator&#xA;  on a camera for a Mars mission set for this decade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-29T20:09:19.213" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T20:09:19.213" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10413" CreationDate="2015-06-29T15:24:35.017" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before that scene, while he was observing the Melancholia, Claire came home with some sedatives. John followed her and saw her putting them to the drawer. In that time, he was sure that the planet was not going to crash them so he was calm and he said &lt;em&gt;&quot;Are you going to kill us all?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; This means the sedatives are powerful enough to kill a person.&#xA;The horses were making too much noise, as Justine said, and after finding out that Melancholia will hit Earth, he panicked as well. He took the sedatives from the drawer and gave normal doses to the horses to calm them down before commiting suicide. That's what made them calm down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22534" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T15:24:35.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35980" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-29T18:15:48.683" Score="12" ViewCount="1600" Body="&lt;p&gt;With all the hoopla about Jurassic World's huge box office intake, I'm left wondering how much of this came from the fact that 3D movie tickets cost so much more. How much do 3D tickets actually affect box office? Have there been any studies with specific figures, and is there a way to look at movie prices and 3D prices separately, similar to adjusting for inflation?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22398" LastEditorUserId="12783" LastEditDate="2015-10-06T18:20:43.953" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T18:20:43.953" Title="How much do 3D ticket prices affect gross revenue?" Tags="|3d|box-office|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35981" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="35990" CreationDate="2015-06-29T19:07:23.037" Score="0" ViewCount="1883" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've searched for the names of the pieces from this episode: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/0f90eQxxKHY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;for a couple of times in the past and accumulated quite a few hours trying to find out the names of those I don't recognize. Sadly, with no results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What are the names of the pieces in this episode?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I already recognize:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1:17 - Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2:14 - Mozart's 11th sonata (Rondo alla Turca)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3:13 - Revealed to actually be Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9 &lt;em&gt;(thanks to Catija)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;3:30 - Liszt's Liebestraum No3.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe some other parts are from Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, but I'm not sure (they are used in one other episode so it's likely).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I need help with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0:36 - Mozart's Piano Sonata in D major - I. Allegro &lt;em&gt;(thanks to grej)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2:03 - Debussy's Clair de Lune. &lt;em&gt;(thanks to Catija)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2:36 - Chopin's Militaire Polonaise &lt;em&gt;(thanks to grej)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2:50 - Verdi's &quot;Anvil Chorus&quot; from the opera Il Trovatore &lt;em&gt;(thanks to Catija)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4:10 - Strauss - Blue Danube &lt;em&gt;(thanks to Catija)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4:32 - Schubert - Impromptu Op. 90, No. 3 &lt;em&gt;(thanks to Catija)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;4:38 - Chopin's Militaire Polonaise &lt;em&gt;(thanks to grej)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;5:23 - Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 &lt;em&gt;(thanks to Catija)&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22559" LastEditorUserId="22559" LastEditDate="2015-07-03T14:14:36.707" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T14:14:36.707" Title="Music from old Tom &amp; Jerry episode" Tags="|soundtrack|tom-and-jerry|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" ClosedDate="2015-06-30T05:29:25.177" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34200" CreationDate="2015-06-29T20:50:13.150" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are you sure she wasn't just CGI'd into the scene? Also, could use chains to keep the lions at a specified position, with room for her to be between them and not in danger, then process the chains out of the images. Also, full lions are sedate lions ... feed them before hand and shouldn't be an issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(NOTE: I'm not a movie making expert, so don't know this for sure. These techniques seem plausible, though.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T20:50:13.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17412" CreationDate="2015-06-29T21:58:04.567" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The theory is yes, because of the way he disappears at the end of season 5 (in Swan Song) and also because of his appearance in Fan Fiction (season 10). But to this day, none of the actors or other crew members have actually confirmed that theory although we've heard a few of them joke about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And they joke about it in the same way that Misha jokes about Destiel, except they rarely go near the idea of Chuck being God. Here's to hoping they tell us next season!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22563" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-06-29T22:45:16.197" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T22:45:16.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35981" CreationDate="2015-06-29T22:08:04.143" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;0:36 - Mozart's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQMoIs6i6zE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Piano Sonata in D Major&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1:15 - Beethoven's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Moonlight Sonata&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2:00 - Debussy's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Clair de Lune&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2:15 - Mozart's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quxTnEEETbo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rondo Alla Turca&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2:35 - Chopin's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24O-f7kv9aw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Military Polonaise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2:50 - Verdi's &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/c3x-pwJGsgU?t=1m7s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anvil Chorus&lt;/a&gt;&quot; from the opera &lt;em&gt;Il Trovatore&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3:14 - Chopin's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E6b3swbnWg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3:30 - Liszt's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKfe1TtBd6w&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Liebestraum No. 3 Love Dream&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4:10 - Strauss' &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CTYymbbEL4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blue Danube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4:31 - Schubert's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyzUc2vC4JI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Impromptu Op. 90, No. 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4:39 - Also Chopin's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24O-f7kv9aw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Military Polonaise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;5:27 - Liszt's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/LdH1hSWGFGU?t=9m11s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/20895/grej&quot;&gt;grej&lt;/a&gt; for help with the Military Polonaise &amp;amp; Piano Sonata in D Maj.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T07:37:20.850" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1824" CreationDate="2015-06-29T22:21:20.263" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking that he killed his wife well before the accident, but he cannot remember and her spirit appears after the accident very angry and want to make he suffer too for revenge. That's why she tries to confuse him at different times, but she disappeared when he killed her spirit in his imagination to survive.   And the dog that guides and protects him was the spirit of the dog he had when he was a child.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember the scene minutes before when he was kidnapped by the robbers, he saw her sitting and waiting for him and he saw her with a surprise, like he didn't expect to see her there, so this is when he saw her spirit the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22566" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-06-29T22:37:33.953" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T22:37:33.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34103" CreationDate="2015-06-29T22:23:38.180" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;He takes anti-allergy medication.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was specifically referenced in a (&lt;a href=&quot;https://josephmallozzi.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/june-14-2011-ripple-effect-the-deleted-scenes/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;deleted&lt;/a&gt;) scene for the episode &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Ripple_Effect&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ripple Effect&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INT. INTERROGATION ROOM #2 — DAY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Green Mitchell is seated across the table from Desert Camo Daniel. A&#xA;  glass of water and a pill dispenser sit in front of Desert Camo&#xA;  Daniel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DESERT CAMO DANIEL:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;So how do we get back to our reality?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GREEN MITCHELL:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;We don’t know yet, but we’re working on it. In the&#xA;  meantime, I’d like to ask you a few questions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Desert Camo Daniel nods. Green Mitchell turns on the tape recorder&#xA;  sitting on the table. &lt;strong&gt;Desert Camo Daniel opens up the pill dispenser,&#xA;  pops a couple, and washes them down. Off Green Mitchell’s look –&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DESERT CAMO DANIEL:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Antihistamines. I have terrible allergies.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Green Mitchell nods, moves on –&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and as Austin has pointed out in his comment above, this was also confirmed within &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/1.05_%22The_Broca_Divide%22_Transcript&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Broca Divide&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FRAISER&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Because only some of them have this low histamine level which means there is probably a-a naturally occurring antihistamine in&#xA;  their diets. The ones who don't eat it eventually contract the&#xA;  organism. Which is what gave me an idea. &lt;strong&gt;I checked the files; both&#xA;  Dr. Jackson and I have acute rhinitis caused by severe allergies.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[O'Neill looks at Teal'c.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TEAL'C:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Explain.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FRAISER:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I take strong antihistamines every day, so did Dr. Jackson.&lt;/strong&gt; I have no histamine for the microbe to feed on. Just like&#xA;  the Untouched, the organism starves in my body.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T22:23:38.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35689" CreationDate="2015-06-29T23:35:14.627" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked the BattleBots team through their website. After the incident yesterday with the fishing net and the comment about no ball bearings...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They sent me a short PDF file with the rules for 2015. This differs from the 40 page version of 2009. They also told me that if there was a second season to come, there would be a new set of rules to come out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is (and this is only my personal opinion) that ABC invited the veterans of the sport to bring back the show, and that the newbies will actually get their chance next season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My email was the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hello Battlebot Team,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have been interested in Botfights for the last 15 years.&#xA;  I it was always my dream to build a Battlebot, now I think I finally got the resources to build my own.&#xA;  I have been searching and can’t find the rules for this Tournament, only the ones from 2009.&#xA;  The comment about the ball bearings in the last episode scares me. How can a shaft turn without the bearings?&#xA;  Could you give me a link to the rules of this season?&#xA;  And in case that’s not possible, &#xA;  Could you please answer me the question why there is such a secret of the rules?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hans&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their reply:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi Hans, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If ABC grants us a second season we will announce all the details for our season 2 tournament: Entry info, Rules, Ticket info, Sponsorship etc. The best way to find out first is to follow us on social media (see links in signature below and/or sign up for the newsletter on our website (www.battlebots.com).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks for your interest - really appreciate it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Estimates on the next Tournament is May 2016, but could be sooner…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Attached are the Season 1 rules - these will change for season 2, so do NOT start building your bot until the new rules and entry procedures are announced (entry could be via design application, qualifying tournament or both). Also note that these season 1 rules were written for veterans of the sports—people who have competed for over 10 years—people who have a ton of experience building and competing. Since season 2 will attract more newbies, the season 2 rules will be much more comprehensive. Your best bet, while we wait for ABC to green light season 2 (if they do so), is to start designing your robot on paper or CAD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Finally, read the disclaimer at the bottom of this email. Be safe. And there is no “Secret” to the rules. We’re not posting them because they’re going to change so much for season 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22567" LastEditorUserId="26125" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T13:21:17.777" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T13:21:17.777" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7915" CreationDate="2015-06-29T23:41:28.593" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;When its said&quot; Micheal Corleone says hello&quot;&#xA;Its said as a taunt. As to say we know everything between you and micheal. Not knowing the assassination attempt would fail. &#xA;This, failure alerts frank to snitch out mike. Until the end. Franks understands it wasnt mike but roth. Since he now knows the truth and  now with his involvement with the feds. Theres no turning back and must commit suicide.&#xA;Roth play beautiflly remark is the mental chessgame between hyman roth and mike. The hesitation when.asked who put the hit on frankie. hyman indirectly says he apporoved the hit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22568" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T23:41:28.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="35997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35968" CreationDate="2015-06-29T23:51:27.843" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's review the background: season 4 before the alliance with Hector was Walt trying scheme after scheme to get to Gus and none of them worked. Was he &lt;em&gt;sure&lt;/em&gt; the Hector plan would work? I'd say no. It was just the best idea available at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So you could say he was lucky, but it's not like he came up with this one great plan and eliminated Gus on the first try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a string of failures (mostly caused by Jesse not being fully cooperative), he finally got Jesse back on his side and then what happened? Even then the first attempt was a failure, because Gus guessed the existence of the car bomb based on nothing but Jesse's assertion that Brock was poisoned!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;next&lt;/em&gt; plan, the one that worked, was formed after Walt learned that Gus had personally visited Hector to gloat about the death of the last of Hector's relatives. That was a clue that Hector brings out a different side of Gus - different from the calm, careful, practical Gus that Walt could not defeat. Hector made Gus a little bit crazy. It wasn't a big leap to assume that Gus might want to be present at Hector's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6436" LastActivityDate="2015-06-29T23:51:27.843" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16997" CreationDate="2015-06-30T01:18:44.183" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this quote today in a November 11, 1973 Chicago Tribune (pg 3e) interview Gene Siskel did with Francois Truffaut:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I find that violence is very ambiguous in movies. For example, some films claim to be antiwar, but I don't think I've really seen an antiwar film. Every film about war ends up being pro-war.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22572" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T01:18:44.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36001" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-30T01:59:43.363" Score="4" ViewCount="1780" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure we all know Billy Bibbit from 1975's &lt;em&gt;One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest&lt;/em&gt; was young, but what about something more specific? How old was Billy in this movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22573" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-30T17:48:01.033" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T18:38:08.420" Title="Billy Bibbit's age in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?" Tags="|character|one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24837" CreationDate="2015-06-30T02:48:43.107" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If memory serves...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Americans are buying drugs from Mexicans, but the deal goes bad. Chigurh is hired by the Americans to retrieve their money. Once he's killed half of Texas, and brought a whole lot of unwanted attention on himself, all while failing to actually retrieve the money, the Americans get scared that Chigurh has gone nuts or may get caught and lead back to them. So they hire Wells to get the money and kill Chigurh. Chigurh does not take kindly to this, and kills the Americans. In the book, there's an extra scene where he then gives the money (minus expenses) to the Mexicans, thus completing the original deal, and announces that he's working for them now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember why he kills those first two men - maybe he's been ordered to kill them for setting up a bad deal, maybe he kills them because they've seen his face and he doesn't trust them, or maybe he kills them because he's crazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22575" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T02:48:43.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19276" CreationDate="2015-06-30T04:45:10.677" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think of the Ring like an addiction- Frodo is just starting out with it at this point, so it hasn't affected him too much yet even though he can feel it is pretty powerful. Bilbo has had it for at least 50 years now, and he's quite, quite attached to it. It's very hard for him to give it up cold turkey, and he wants to jump back on the bandwagon. Gollum is at the point where he cannot live without it, and it drives everything he does and tries to get at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22576" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T04:45:10.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24297" CreationDate="2015-06-30T12:08:31.547" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is nothing but just a phrase used by him to express his Mood! &#xA;like we use to say some thing while lifting heavy weights, or while doing some serious work just to elevate the mood. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it doesn't have any particular meaning!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22013" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T12:08:31.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31068" CreationDate="2015-06-30T13:38:50.733" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fun fact: &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This episode was an homage to True Detective&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, strange as it may sound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background:&lt;/strong&gt; In early 2014, HBO released the first season of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Detective_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;True Detective&lt;/a&gt;, which quickly earned rave reviews and plenty of fanfare. One of the more impressive feats by that first season's director, Cary Fukunaga, was an uninterrupted, action-filled 6-minute-long tracking shot in the end of episode 4 (you can see it &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_HuFuKiq8U&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). Inspired by this frantic single take, the IASIF gang decided to pay it homage. From a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/always-sunny-philadelphia-takes-true-detective-cue-082225439.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Yahoo article&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;em&gt;Charlie Work&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The FXX sitcom, inspired by a long, unedited shot in the HBO series last year, fashioned its own for Wednesday's episode (10 p.m. EST).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;True Detective&amp;quot; followed &lt;strong&gt;Matthew McConaughey&lt;/strong&gt; in and out of frenzied danger for six seamless minutes. The FXX sitcom spends an uninterrupted seven-plus minutes on a scene that's equally manic but minus the gunplay: It involves a desperate bid to save Paddy's pub from flunking a health inspection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Glenn Howerton, who plays Dennis and is an executive producer of the comedy about a group of loser pals, said they were &amp;quot;pretty inspired&amp;quot; by the bravado of &amp;quot;True Detective&amp;quot; and found an episode that's served by the approach.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in &lt;em&gt;Charlie Work&lt;/em&gt; (which aired almost exactly a year after the TD episode it was inspired by), Dennis's impression is a nod at McConaughey's role on TD, and his gradual disintegration is funny in both the narrative and in a meta way: Dennis is clueless about being a bartender (a job usually manned by Dee), especially a good-natured one, and can only think of a single schtick - &lt;em&gt;but this is also the extent of Glenn's McConaughey impression, and he doesn't know what else to do.&lt;/em&gt; [It's also worth noting that McConaughey's character on TD is often in shambles due to the effects of narcotic abuse and transforms from a young go-getter to an old drunk. &lt;em&gt;Sunny&lt;/em&gt; might be deeper than we thought. ;)]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T14:03:28.000" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35974" CreationDate="2015-06-30T16:42:46.973" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A person's life isn't copyrighted (in the US at least). As long as the person you're making the film about is deceased, you can do what you like... for the most part. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rightsofwriters.com/2011/01/can-you-be-sued-for-libeling-dead-john.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here's an article&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ssbb.com/index.php/attorneys/entry/41&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mark Fowler&lt;/a&gt;, a legal specialist in this sort of case, (it's about writing but the laws are the same) from a legal writing blog and includes quotes from two major decisions on defamation of the deceased:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The dead have no cause of action for defamation under the common law, and neither do their survivors, unless the words independently reflect upon and defame the survivors.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Sack&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Judge Robert Sack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is no liability for defamation of the dead, either to the estate of the deceased or to the deceased's descendants or relatives.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_A._Smolla&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rodney Smolla&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, as you see here, filmmakers can generally do what they like as long as it doesn't also impact someone who's still alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that their documents (books, papers, speeches, music, films, etc.) &lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt; copyrighted and a filmmaker &lt;em&gt;can not&lt;/em&gt; use them without permission of the person who holds that copyright (usually a spouse or child). It is possible that the producer can make a claim of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fair use&lt;/a&gt;&quot; but a film is often very expensive to make and if they lose, they may have to pay damages and the film may never be able to be released. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was most clearly visible in the recent film &lt;em&gt;Selma&lt;/em&gt;. This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vox.com/2015/1/13/7540027/selma-copyright-king-speeches&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article from Vox&lt;/a&gt; explains why they believe the film opted not to use any of MLK's actual speeches in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If Paramount had distributed a version of Selma that relied on fair use to justify using some King clips, and a court later ruled these uses were not actually fair, it would have been a financial disaster. Paramount could have been on the hook for big damages and could even have been forced to cancel showings of the movie and destroy its inventory of Selma DVDs. And the King estate is famously litigious, having sued both USA Today and CBS for quoting his &quot;I Have a Dream&quot; speech without permission. So rather than take that kind of gamble, studios almost always insist that works be licensed, even if a plausible fair use argument exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T16:42:46.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36013" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-06-30T17:08:45.157" Score="10" ViewCount="100243" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Departed&lt;/a&gt;, Dignam kills Sullivan after finding out that he was the rat all along and responsible for Billy Costigan's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HvSyO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Dignam do this on his own accord? Or was he part of something bigger?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13338" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-06-30T17:11:58.230" LastActivityDate="2022-10-13T17:41:07.103" Title="Who was Dignam working for?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-departed|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36016" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38986" CreationDate="2015-06-30T17:42:22.417" Score="7" ViewCount="1296" Body="&lt;p&gt;Batman wasn't supposed to kill anyone but during the climactic scene of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Rises&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;,  he shoots the truck carrying the bomb with &lt;a href=&quot;http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/The_Bat&quot;&gt;The Bat&lt;/a&gt; in an attempt to reroute the truck and the driver is killed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Nolan make a mistake here?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22134" LastEditorUserId="20877" LastEditDate="2015-06-30T18:42:51.540" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T10:38:17.387" Title="Batman vs the truck driver, please explain" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35504" CreationDate="2015-06-30T18:27:08.997" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movie gods have led me to remember significant detail - an orb / pearl, that was key to the alien ship, here is the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Wisely&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Legend of Wisely&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; aka &lt;em&gt;Legend Of The Golden Pearl&lt;/em&gt; aka &lt;em&gt;Wai Si-Lei chuen kei&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LXsbw.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LXsbw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Movie poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wisely, the famous writer/adventurer, is tricked by his friend (played by Teddy Robin, the film's director) into helping him steal the dragon pearl. Samuel Hui plays Wisely in this big budget Hong Kong movie, with production units filming some scenes by the Great Pyramids, and many scenes in Nepal. There are car chases and crashes, chases by horsemen and plenty of fights along the way. The Legend of Wisely is a live action comic book. A lot of effort went into making this movie, and it shows as Wisely goes from one hazard to another, a Hong Kong version of Indiana Jones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22206" LastEditorUserId="25920" LastEditDate="2017-02-06T14:21:33.947" LastActivityDate="2017-02-06T14:21:33.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36001" CreationDate="2015-06-30T18:38:08.420" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am pulling this information from a couple of different sources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First - Billy is stated to be 4 years younger than McMurphy in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/o/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest/character-analysis/billy-bibbit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cliff Notes&lt;/a&gt; link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second - Randle McMurphy's age at time of death (Smothered by the Chief) was 38. Birth/death given as April 22, 1925 – December 11, 1963, according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randle_McMurphy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the wiki for the character&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would put Billy's age at 34, which fits with the rest of the information in the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T18:38:08.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32845" CreationDate="2015-06-30T18:53:49.950" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not immediately apparent whether the Red Dwarf was named &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; its distinctive colour scheme or whether it was coloured to fit in with its distinctive name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, given that the ship had several shuttles; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/database/ships/images/BlueMidgetA1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blue Midget&lt;/a&gt; (coloured blue), &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/database/ships/images/WhiteMidget1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;White Midget&lt;/a&gt; (coloured white) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf_spacecraft#White_Giant&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;White Giant&lt;/a&gt; (presumably coloured white) it seems likely that the name was chosen first, then the ship's owners (the Jupiter Mining Corp) decided to run with the joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notably, at least one other JMC branded ship we see (a post &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/database/ships/images/PostPod1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;probe&lt;/a&gt;) is also coloured brick red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T18:53:49.950" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32479" CreationDate="2015-06-30T20:04:27.240" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is discussed (at reasonable length) in the film's novelisation. In short, it's not made clear why he's averse to medical help being brought, but Murph herself has a few theories; That it would be an admission of personal failure, that he'd have to admit that the Earth was doomed, that he's become indoctrinated by the anti-science forces seen at the start of the films, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologies for the quote length.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“We may have something for that,” Tom said, as he and Coop started to&#xA;  take the dishes into the kitchen. As Coop took Murph’s plate, he began&#xA;  coughing—an awful, deep-chested cough.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The boy must have seen the concern on her face, because he started&#xA;  grinning at her.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“The dust,” he told her. Like it was nothing. As if being sick was&#xA;  just part of it these days, like a stubbed toe or a bloody nose.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Normal childhood stuff no one could do a thing about.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was that how Tom saw things? He might. Otherwise he would have asked&#xA;  her if she could do anything. Even if he didn’t really understand what&#xA;  she did, he knew she had access to science and medicine that most&#xA;  folks didn’t.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I have a friend who should have a look at his lungs, Lois,” she said,&#xA;  as Tom and Coop went into the kitchen. Lois nodded, and seemed&#xA;  about to say something when Tom came back in with a bottle of whiskey&#xA;  and sat down. Murph frowned briefly, but didn’t say anything. Outside,&#xA;  she saw clouds of dust, rolling across the twilight plain.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;hr&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the drive back, churning across the same battered road she traveled&#xA;  with her father all those years ago, Murph wondered about Lois’s&#xA;  reluctance to discuss the idea of Coop seeing a doctor. &lt;strong&gt;Was she afraid&#xA;  Tom would see it as some kind of concession—an admission that he&#xA;  couldn’t provide everything his son needed?&lt;/strong&gt; Or worse, &lt;strong&gt;would it force&#xA;  him to admit—to himself as much as anyone else—that things were&#xA;  getting worse?&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But it wasn’t just Coop. It was getting worse for everyone, she knew.&#xA;  More people were getting sick—and staying that way. &lt;strong&gt;What had happened&#xA;  to Nelson? It was Tom who didn’t want to talk about that.&lt;/strong&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Projections showed that respiratory ailments were on the rise both in&#xA;  number of the afflicted and the severity, and dust was only part of&#xA;  the problem. Elevated nitrogen levels were taking their toll on human&#xA;  health, as well—directly and indirectly. In the seas, excessive&#xA;  nitrogen was causing widespread algae blooms and huge pockets of&#xA;  hypoxic waters, especially in shallow environments where reefs had&#xA;  once thrived. That, added to the climatic changes that had shifted&#xA;  major currents, was driving the greatest marine extinction since the&#xA;  Permian period—which was to say in the history of the planet.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once the seas were dead, or mostly so, it would only be a very brief&#xA;  matter of time before what was left of the terrestrial ecosystem&#xA;  crashed. Life itself wasn’t in danger—bacteria, for instance, would&#xA;  continue to thrive. But an environment capable of supporting human&#xA;  life? That could be numbered in less than a handful of decades. Maybe.&#xA;  If they were lucky.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not that most people knew any of this. If you listened to the news,&#xA;  things were just about to turn around. “Any day now.” Only she and a&#xA;  relative few others knew the truth. Without plan A, everyone on Earth&#xA;  was going to be dead in a generation. Two, at best.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She had spent all of her adult life dealing with the big end of that,&#xA;  with trying to save the race. But here she was at the other end of&#xA;  things, watching her nephew hack up his lungs. What if Coop, like his&#xA;  brother Jesse, didn’t survive long enough for plan A to begin?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She didn’t have to let that happen, whatever Tom did or didn’t&#xA;  believe. She could do something about it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T20:04:27.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32365" CreationDate="2015-06-30T20:46:06.183" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Judge&quot; is a large, high-tech drill bit with multiple spinning parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bgqps.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/Armageddon.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;original script&lt;/a&gt; they were going to call it &quot;The Terminator&quot;. I would assume that this ran into a rights issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HARRY:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Go to the Terminator.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chick grabs Harry's mysterious METAL CASE. Harry pops open the metal case, revealing THE TERMINATOR, a super high-tech bit.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HARRY:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I designed you. I built you. You are the enemy of all subterranean shit. You are the king. It's showtime.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Harry passes it to Bear, who screws it onto the drilling pipe,&#xA;  Rockhound scoops  up a COLLECTION OF DOWNHOLE ROCK CHIPS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HARRY&lt;/strong&gt; (CONT'D):  &lt;em&gt;Hit it, Chick.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The DRILL PIPE turns. Sediment comes WHOOSHING out of the hole and —&#xA;  THE DRILL PIPE descends like a bitch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T20:46:06.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32316" CreationDate="2015-06-30T21:02:34.910" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per the &lt;a href=&quot;http://oztv.wikia.com/wiki/Emerald_City&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;OZTV wiki&lt;/a&gt;; Emerald City (Em City) was a substantially more pleasant living environment than the main prison which was riven with inter-gang violence and overcrowding:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The unit, unlike other units, offers rehabilitation programs to the&#xA;  prisoners. The prisoners are allowed to walk around and talk to the&#xA;  prisoners in the unit and they are allowed to play card games and&#xA;  board games, all in their own clothes (not like other units that&#xA;  demand prison uniforms).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The unit also offers unlimited TV privileges, a laundry room, a computer room, unlimited phone privileges and dedicated educational rooms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T21:02:34.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35937" CreationDate="2015-06-30T21:26:01.460" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Harvey was white in the comics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KvW2u.png&quot; alt=&quot;harvey dent&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22590" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-07-01T00:59:57.373" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T00:59:57.373" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4216" CreationDate="2015-06-30T22:00:16.413" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The gun was given to James Cole so that the airport guards would shoot him.  As a child, James saw himself die, so that element of the past (which was unchangeable) HAD to take place.  However, I do wonder why the gun was an antique....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22592" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-07-01T00:58:45.430" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T00:58:45.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17058" CreationDate="2015-06-30T22:13:37.090" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The package contained the full truth about himself, being undercover and what not. To contact digman, showing the whole entire truth about Collin, everything. So she would know everything. It's very simple to figure what's in the envelope. Like he says when she is walking into her office &quot;don't open this unless something happens or I tell you too&quot; so she knew everything. That's why when she starts to say something, and he interrupts her saying &quot;Whatever you're about to say, think about it real hard and in two weeks if you feel the same...&quot; giving it time so he could do what he had to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22593" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2015-07-01T00:57:43.077" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T00:57:43.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32194" CreationDate="2015-06-30T23:17:13.703" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short, it was extremely easy for her to work it out because &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Coop (in the future)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;wanted it&lt;/em&gt; to be easily decodable and because Morse Code is about the most accessible form of encryption known to man:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Nothing special about which books,” Murph said, moving into the room from behind him. “Been working on it, like you said.” She held up the notebook in which she’d been drawing. The page was covered by a pattern that looked something like a barcode.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “I counted the spaces,” she said, as if that explained it all.&#xA;  “Why?” Cooper asked.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “In case the ghost is trying to say something,” she explained. “I’m trying Morse.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “Morse?” he said.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “Yeah, dots and dashes, used for—”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “Murph,” he said, trying to be gentle. “I know what Morse code is. I just don’t think your bookshelf’s trying to talk to you.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  She looked at him with a mixture of hurt and embarrassment. But she didn’t even try to reply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;later&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I figured out the message,” she said. She opened her notebook. “It was Morse code.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “Murph…” Cooper said, gently.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  She ignored him.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “One word,” she continued. “You know what it is?”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  He shook his head. She held out her notebook so he could see it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;STAY&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Interstellar-The-Official-Movie-Novelization/dp/1783293691&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Interstellar Novelisation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-06-30T23:17:13.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16829" CreationDate="2015-07-01T01:36:32.630" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Magneto in comics is a near god, it's actually very hard to believe the X-Men winning fights with him,  I think the film producers deliberately weakened him to give the heroes some chance against him. Even so, Magneto in the films still displays incredible power, like lifting submarines and entire bridges, which he has done in the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22594" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-26T10:26:15.107" LastActivityDate="2017-05-26T10:26:15.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11039" CreationDate="2015-07-01T04:03:51.330" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The guy in the hat was a former baseball player:  The significance is that Reacher sometimes uses these guys as aliases in his books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22596" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T04:03:51.330" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35228" CreationDate="2015-07-01T05:55:06.830" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe not very often but Joey was stupid since the first season. In Season 1, Episode 4 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583521/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;The One With George Stephanopoulos&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monica:&lt;/strong&gt; Hey, Joey, what would you do if you were omnipotent? &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Joey:&lt;/strong&gt; Probably kill myself! &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Monica:&lt;/strong&gt; ..Excuse me? &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Joey:&lt;/strong&gt; Hey, if Little Joey's dead, then I got no reason to live! &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ross:&lt;/strong&gt; Joey, uh- OMnipotent. &lt;br /&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Joey:&lt;/strong&gt; You are? Ross, I'm sorry... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz0diDqM3Z0&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Season 2, Episode 3 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583453/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;The One Where Heckles Dies&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, Joey says he met a girl, great kisser, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxOMOKqEOVc&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;she had a big Adam's apple&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in Season 3, Episode 1 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583634/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;The One with the Princess Leia Fantasy&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, Joey is watching Wheel of fortune and says &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/p-65kFEdcCs?t=8m38s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Count Rushmore&lt;/a&gt;. Chandler says there is no Count Rushmore. Then who painted the faces in the mountain, says Joey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20895" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-12-18T10:41:25.060" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T10:41:25.060" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="993" CreationDate="2015-07-01T06:53:03.233" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who does community theatre and has certain emotional triggers, I really channel into the things that set me off and work with them. The best one is songs, songs that are sad and that I know make me cry. I listen to them a few hours before going on stage and during my performance, replay the song in my head and relate it to how my character is feeling. This generally sets me off to the point where after I got off stage, I had other actors asking me how I did it and if I was alright. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I am trying to say is, the key to acting is how you can trigger your emotions and what pushes you buttons. That is how you can get the best out of yourself and create a convincing performance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22601" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T06:53:03.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36099" CreationDate="2015-07-01T07:01:51.070" Score="3" ViewCount="1356" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quick recap of Tom's life in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;: everyone he loves dies. He loses his mother, his father, his first son and his grandfather.&#xA;After his dad spends Tom's childhood making it clear he prefers Murph, he then abandons the family and leaves Tom his worthless farm and truck. After a life of pain, Murph berates Tom for being stuck in his old-fashioned ways even though that's all he knows because he wasn't allowed to pursue higher education.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why does Tom not want to leave even if his son is dying?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20083" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2015-07-14T07:33:26.297" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T07:33:26.297" Title="Why does Tom not want to leave even if his son is dying?" Tags="|character|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36042" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36045" CreationDate="2015-07-01T07:11:54.230" Score="44" ViewCount="7667" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Cooper and Tars figure what Dr Mann is up to in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, he tries to escape with a shuttle and manually docks the Endurance but he doesn't manage to get a secure lock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a highly-trained astronaut he should know this is no good yet he chooses to open the airlock and destroy the ship and, arguably more importantly, to have his innards sucked out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Dr Mann act so foolishly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20083" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-01T10:54:07.577" LastActivityDate="2016-04-09T11:05:43.940" Title="Why does Dr Mann act so stupidly?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|interstellar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36044" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-01T08:10:04.950" Score="13" ViewCount="1679" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a lot to read and talk about the 1998 Bollywood movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunda_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Gunda&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;General perception is that &lt;strong&gt;it's so bad it's good&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie holds a rating of 8.2 on IMDB and holds a cult status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to know whether it was really planned this way or is it a case like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_2&quot;&gt;Troll 2&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember watching &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Worst_Movie&quot;&gt;Best Worst Movie&lt;/a&gt;, where the director was actually surprised that his movie was so poorly received.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this context what's the deal with Gunda?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-01T08:30:14.193" LastActivityDate="2023-03-27T19:01:35.193" Title="Was Gunda planned as a Trash movie?" Tags="|analysis|reception|gunda|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36042" CreationDate="2015-07-01T09:27:32.413" Score="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short answer is that Mann isn't a highly trained astronaut, he's a &lt;em&gt;ground-based theoretical physicist&lt;/em&gt; who volunteered to lead this last-ditch mission. His knowledge of space flight is limited to a single mission and his training was done on the cheap by flight controllers who themselves haven't ever been into space. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's clear that he doesn't recognise the danger. He ignores Coop's verbal warning as well as the master alarm, something a real astronaut would &lt;strong&gt;never ever do&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, he seems to be displaying major symptoms of mental illness; paranoia, psychosis and disassociation, all things that would be likely to lead to impaired judgement.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-04-09T11:05:43.940" LastActivityDate="2016-04-09T11:05:43.940" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36042" CreationDate="2015-07-01T10:09:56.310" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a paradox between Dr. Mann's past (what we hear from Brand and others) and what we see from him in the current time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Cooper and others wake Dr. Mann, his first reaction is to cry. He changed a lot and his beliefs changed also. Rather than saving humans and such great goals, he just wants to go back to earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He lost his hope totally and years of solitude made him a coward; broken and hopeless. I think Dr. Mann is a character to show how a human could be miserable, villainous, and selfish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing he thinks about is to come back to earth and he doesn't accept any advice from anyone because in his belief the mission has failed even though others want to continue the mission. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22499" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-07-01T18:55:44.320" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T18:55:44.320" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36047" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36049" CreationDate="2015-07-01T11:36:06.050" Score="2" ViewCount="938" Body="&lt;p&gt;Warning: This entire question contains spoilers for season 2 of &lt;em&gt;The Americans&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who killed Emmet, Leanne, and Amelia Connors? In one episode, I remember a scene where Claudia was talking to Elizabeth in a car where Claudia revealed that she had killed the Connors because she formerly told them information about herself that compromised her. But then later, Jared Connors revealed that he had killed his own family. So who actually killed the Connors? What was Claudia talking about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22604" LastEditorUserId="22604" LastEditDate="2015-07-02T10:52:24.100" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T10:52:24.100" Title="Which of these two people killed this spy family?" Tags="|the-americans|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36048" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36399" CreationDate="2015-07-01T11:42:44.807" Score="6" ViewCount="2940" Body="&lt;p&gt;So we know that Renly Baratheon from &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; was young. But I'm having a hard time figuring out just how young.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was young enough for Robert to question his manhood but was old enough to know Eddard Stark well, so I'm confused. I tried looking it up but got nothing. I know that &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gethin_Anthony&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gethin Anthony&lt;/a&gt; is 33 but I have a hard time believing that Renly is this old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answers from the show are preferred over answers based on the books as there are massive age differences between the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="19585" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T03:19:43.720" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T03:19:43.720" Title="How old was Renly Baratheon?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36047" CreationDate="2015-07-01T13:11:03.647" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jared killed his own parents because he &lt;em&gt;*wanted*&lt;/em&gt; to be a spy for the Russians, and they were trying to discourage him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At different points in the second season, different parties had varied other motivations, including Larrick and Claudia. It turned out it wasn’t either of them. The killer was the Connors’ own son, Jared, who had been groomed as a second-generation illegal behind his parents’ backs (by Kate - not Claudia), and decided to homicidally fight them when they objected to his attempt to follow in their stealth footsteps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was Kate who converted Jared to the cause, at the Centre’s insistence, without parental permission. This also explains more clearly why Claudia got booted from her post and Kate was installed in her job. The Centre knew that the best way to win over a teenage boy was by assigning a young, pretty blonde to do the persuading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer for Claudia's comments, she was trying to manufacture a believeable scenario, because she knows that Elizabeth's children are future prospective Russian spies, and she is unsure of their devotion to Russia to also similarly disallow it. She had to have a cover for the recruitment, which was the true motivation behind the killings. She was also trying to look good to retain her job, by taking credit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T13:11:03.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2692" CreationDate="2015-07-01T13:47:15.557" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Edward norton sees the visiting card only he is not reading the card but introducing himself as &quot;Tyler Durden&quot; in the Aeroplane...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22605" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T13:47:15.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36051" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36065" CreationDate="2015-07-01T14:25:03.220" Score="4" ViewCount="1284" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GamesMaster&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GamesMaster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was a British television show, screened on Channel 4 from 1992 to 1998, and was the first ever UK television show dedicated to computer and video games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show featured astronomer and TV presenter &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Patrick Moore&lt;/a&gt; as the eponymous 'GamesMaster', answering questions about video games from his virtual domain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that his usual field was astronomy and science, how did Patrick Moore come to be the GamesMaster?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19074" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-01T17:05:39.370" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T21:00:17.150" Title="How did Patrick Moore come to be the GamesMaster?" Tags="|casting|gamesmaster|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36052" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36057" CreationDate="2015-07-01T15:53:55.597" Score="64" ViewCount="37696" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was recollecting on some old Tom &amp;amp; Jerry cartoons and began to wonder why mouse holes were often represented like the picture below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/h9Ad7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did it just have to do with the cartoonist trying to personify mice and make it look like they live in houses with doors like humans. Or was it something more, for example perhaps many houses built in those times had holes like the above that were supposed to be for pipes or vents but when unfilled mice liked to take refuge in them. Any ideas?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22609" LastActivityDate="2020-07-06T20:43:55.800" Title="Why were mouse holes often represented in cartoons and movies like this?" Tags="|animation|realism|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36053" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-07-01T15:54:25.297" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GamesMaster&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GamesMaster&lt;/a&gt; was a British television show, screened on Channel 4 from 1992 to 1998, and was the first ever UK television show dedicated to computer and video games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show featured video games reviews, challenges, and tips. The show was presented by Dominik Diamond (later replaced by Dexter Fletcher) alongside Patrick Moore as the eponymous 'GamesMaster'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19074" LastEditorUserId="19074" LastEditDate="2015-07-01T16:47:27.387" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T16:47:27.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36054" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-07-01T15:54:25.297" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-07-01T15:54:25.297" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T15:54:25.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36052" CreationDate="2015-07-01T16:34:19.110" Score="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cartoon mouse holes are just rounded out versions of the real thing. Mice are rodents who are capable of gnawing through walls to make a cozy home within them. Here are a few &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; mouse holes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/71P4c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Real mouse hole&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3spdT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Real mouse hole&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T16:34:19.110" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2701" CreationDate="2015-07-01T18:17:50.997" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Banner's basic problem isn't anger.  It's trust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He not only learns how to trust himself as the Hulk, but he also learns to trust the Avengers - that they will protect the people from the Hulk if necessary,  They will be his shield when needed, his direction when needed, and, in the latest movie, his path back to being Banner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's still very conflicted, but he was able to trust the people around him and himself more due to recent experiences, and thus felt comfortable in his role as the Hulk under extenuating circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In The Age of Ultron he finds, though, that he can still be controlled or misdirected, by the scarlet witch in this case, and hurt both the people he trusts, and those around him.  As much as he trusts the Avengers, he loses trust in himself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; There's also a hint of mistrust in the Avengers as well.  It's easy for him to guess whether the feelings he has for Black Widow are real, but are the actions and feelings she's expressing real, or simply a method to keep him under control, to direct him as a tool for others to use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1112" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T18:17:50.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23396" CreationDate="2015-07-01T18:20:07.440" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's Uday.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's Uday in the book.&lt;/strong&gt; The film is based on &lt;em&gt;The Devil's Double&lt;/em&gt; by Latif Yahia, the same Latif who (allegedly) was Uday's double. In the book, Uday attempts to take his own life with an overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol out of guilt over murdering Kamel Hannah. The film reenacts the scene from the book almost faithfully, which includes Saddam storming into Uday's hospital room, yanking the tube out of Uday's mouth and slapping him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There are actually some subtle visual differences&lt;/strong&gt; between Uday and Latif in the movie. Uday has buck teeth and a slightly lower hairline, just like the person who overdosed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As you mentioned, Latif is cool and controlled in the scene unlike Uday, but you've missed the fact that &lt;strong&gt;Latif is also wearing the exact same clothes&lt;/strong&gt; (suit, shirt and tie) that he wore in the party, so the scene probably took place soon after it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Again, as you mentioned, Saddam says &quot;I should've killed him at birth&quot;. This doesn't strike me as an attempt at a ruse, considering the fact that &lt;strong&gt;Saddam also attempts to castrate him&lt;/strong&gt; before he's stopped by the doctor. It makes more sense to castrate &lt;em&gt;Uday&lt;/em&gt; as a punishment (and &quot;cure&quot;) for Uday's promiscuous ways and indiscretions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Major film sites concur that it's Uday&lt;/strong&gt;, including &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270262/synopsis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheDevilsDouble&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TvTropes&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/devilsdouble.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Movie Spoiler&lt;/a&gt; (search for the word 'pills' in any of them).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-07-01T19:03:06.323" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T19:03:06.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36062" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-01T18:21:22.393" Score="8" ViewCount="1760" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed something in &lt;em&gt;The Godfather: Part II&lt;/em&gt; when, during Hyman Roth's birthday cake presentation, Johnny Ola seems to cut his finger when preparing to cut the cake.  He grabs a napkin to wrap the finger, and holds the finger to his mouth. The next scene, he's leaning on the rail as though it never happened, and nothing more is ever made of the event. &#xA;Was this a plot point I missed, or a real accident, or what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22613" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-01T18:31:33.410" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T18:39:01.450" Title="Johnny Ola's cut finger in The Godfather 2 - accident or what?" Tags="|the-godfather-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36062" CreationDate="2015-07-01T18:39:01.450" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;He didn't cut himself, he got some &lt;strong&gt;white icing&lt;/strong&gt; on his finger after messing around with the cake (taking the sparkler off and rearranging it) and he licked it off and then wiped it with his napkin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; I watched the scene in HD just now. :) It's definitely white and not blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T18:39:01.450" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18957" CreationDate="2015-07-01T18:43:22.267" Score="3" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Backstory&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The games are inherently unfair.  Sometimes players attempt an action the gamekeeper doesn't allow - such as hiding.  The gamekeeper then employs field elements to cause the player to abandon their plan and come back into play.  This happens several times during the first game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, the gamekeeper is responsible for keeping the games interesting. Haymitch knew that if either Katniss or Peeta were to survive, they would have to gain sponsers, and to do that they would have to play into the public's hearts.  He hatched the plan that they would appear as a couple to increase their odds of surviving during the game.  They played the part and obtained needed critical sponsorship at points during the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This captivated the public so much that the gamekeeper decided to play on that - and changed the rules to allow a couple to win the game. Ultimately Katniss and Peeta were the final contestants, and then the gamekeeper reversed the ruling, demanding that they then kill each other.  The people of the republic, though they hung on every part of the relationship, were probably not too dismayed by this.  Lovers forced to kill each other - what an engaging story!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that moment Katniss gambles that the gamekeeper would choose to allow both to live rather than both die, and she and Peeta are able to convincingly portray the &quot;I would rather die than live without you&quot; routine quickly enough that the gamekeeper couldn't use a field element to take one or the other out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The gamekeeper had an instant to make a decision - allow both to die and have nothing to show on the next tour and sell around the capital, or allow both to live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;President Snow's reason&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;President Snow's power is tenuous. He keeps the districts in line largely through fear, and the Capital through misdirection and misinformation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is able to handle the Districts with force, but the Capital is his source of power - if the citizens there do not like what's going on, they will find a new leader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Capital Citizens are under the impression that the Districts volunteer for the games, and that they generally like their lives.  They don't delve too deeply into where the Capital gets its wealth from, though they are aware the Districts are poorer, they don't feel this is a great injustice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Katniss and Peeta play the part of lovers, and the gamekeeper generously allows them both to live, this is seen as an act of mercy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they really aren't lovers, though, and were just playing a part to stay alive and gain sponsors, it would raise troubling questions as to whether they really were volunteers.  Further, it would suggest that he wasn't in control of the game.  Giving the lovers a chance to make it out together is a rule intended to enhance the tension of the show.  Changing it so they have to kill each other enhances the tension.  Having them both die, however, wouldn't have worked, and shows the audience that the gamekeeper is no longer in control - the participants are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they don't play the part of star-crossed lovers, the Capital audience will understand that Katniss and Peeta beat Snow.  They were the ones, in that instant, who were in power. Snow can't allow people to think that this ending wasn't foreseen and scripted by him and/or the gamekeeper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Snow can't exactly hide them away - they are critical celebrities now, and must appear regularly at functions. If he can control their appearance and their relationship, though - including using them against each other - then he can stabilize the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As long as things can remain stable until he can legitimately eliminate them - in a special hunger games where the gamekeeper won't be so wishy-washy and will take needed action long before it becomes necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1112" LastEditorUserId="1112" LastEditDate="2015-07-01T18:59:12.723" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T18:59:12.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36051" CreationDate="2015-07-01T21:00:17.150" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was a quirky casting choice, pure and simple. Best known for his eccentric attitude and long-standing TV show (The Sky at Night) Moore was also a jobbing TV presenter who'd been on a number of other shows in the recent past, suggesting that he was touting himself around as a &quot;presenter for hire&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this interview with Eurogamer (entitled &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-06-04-gamesmaster-the-inside-story&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gamesmaster, The Inside Story&lt;/a&gt;) we learn how the producer's casting decision was made:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to Dave Perry, the original plan was to hire a child. &quot;We&#xA;  auditioned a load of kids but we couldn't quite find anyone who had&#xA;  the precociousness to carry off the role,&quot; he says. &lt;strong&gt;&quot;We started to&#xA;  talk about quirky presenters and someone suggested Patrick Moore. It&#xA;  was the nearest we could get to finding a big baby to deliver the&#xA;  lines.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Watching the show now, it's hard to imagine the role of the&#xA;  GamesMaster being played by anyone else. Moore was the perfect foil&#xA;  for Diamond, rising above his schoolboy antics to bring order and&#xA;  authority to the proceedings. He could be stern as a Willans and&#xA;  Searle headmaster, but there was always a twinkle in his eye. Best of&#xA;  all, he was utterly believable as the fount of all video games&#xA;  knowledge when dispensing tips in the &quot;Consoletation Zone&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;He didn't understand anything of what he was saying,&quot; says Diamond.&#xA;  &quot;But he just nailed it. He did everything in one take; he was a&#xA;  machine.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Patrick was a good sport,&quot; says Jonny Ffinch. &quot;He had the general&#xA;  gist that this was a faintly subversive activity. He would pretend not&#xA;  to understand all the double entendres, but he did really.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, it seems that the producers are keen to suggest that his interest wasn't financial:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Director Cameron McAllister, who was so keen to avoid trying to be&#xA;  trendy, was thrilled to have Moore on board. &quot;He was a massive coup&#xA;  because he was as uncool as you could get,&quot; he says. &quot;He was&#xA;  hilarious, a completely eccentric old duffer. He was like the Boris&#xA;  Johnson of outer space.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cynics might assume Moore was only in it for the money, but they'd be&#xA;  wrong. McAllister still remembers the salary negotiation: &quot;Patrick&#xA;  said, 'Ah, yes. Well, I did something before and they asked me what my&#xA;  fee should be, and I told them, and we drank it.' That was his&#xA;  approach - a bottle of whisky.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Moore was never on the set of the live show. His sections were filmed&#xA;  separately over a couple of days and then he and the production team&#xA;  would go out to lunch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-07-01T21:00:17.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36066" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36067" CreationDate="2015-07-01T21:45:55.503" Score="12" ViewCount="8193" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is self explanatory:  did the same dog play Einstein in the first two Back to the Future movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-05T21:00:08.860" LastActivityDate="2023-03-07T22:45:34.370" Title="Did the same dog play Einstein in Back to the Future I and II?" Tags="|character|casting|back-to-the-future|back-to-the-future-part-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36066" CreationDate="2015-07-01T21:52:58.303" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The BTTF Blog article on &lt;a href=&quot;http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Einstein&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Einstein&lt;/a&gt; indicates that the dog in the first film (&lt;a href=&quot;http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Tiger&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tiger&lt;/a&gt;) was replaced by a second dog (&lt;a href=&quot;http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Freddie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Freddie&lt;/a&gt;) for the second two installments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Back to the Future, Einstein was portrayed by a dog named Tiger, trained by animal trainer Richard Calkins. Twenty-eight dog years later, when Parts II and III of the trilogy were being filmed, animal trainer Matilda de Cagny provided another canine actor called Freddie, to portray Einstein (as Tiger was too old to continue the role). Freddie, alongside Christopher Lloyd, Thomas F. Wilson, and Darlene Vogel, also appeared in the film for Back to the Future: The Ride.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, further investigation (prompted by &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/46339/7812&quot;&gt;Kristi Cos's answer&lt;/a&gt; below) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/1986-11-13/news/vw-25194_1_lassie-vii&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; from the LA Times in 1986 strongly suggest that the original Einstein was played by &lt;em&gt;two different dogs&lt;/em&gt;; Tiger, trained by Richard Calkins and another dog named O.J., trained by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weatherwaxtraineddogs.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bob Weatherwax&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hCm2P.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hCm2P.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notably, the owners for both of the dogs &lt;em&gt;share&lt;/em&gt; a film credit as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/fullcredits/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;'Animal Handlers'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T00:26:55.647" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5723" CreationDate="2015-07-02T03:26:46.420" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was to create a connection with the title and the character, you wouldn't want to name your tv show 'Angus'. But you want your audience to remember the show and the character, so you have everyone call him 'Mac'. Plus, as the others said, it adds an air of mystic to the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22619" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T03:26:46.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1232" CreationDate="2015-07-02T05:55:18.470" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Don Corleone traded the rights to deal drugs (with controls) in New York for the right of Michael's safe return. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An important part of the scene is when Nazorine -- a kind of neutral Don -- speaks-up regarding the dealing of drugs. &quot;My people can't refuse.&quot; This shows which way the wind is blowing -- towards drug dealing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don Coreleone can reluctantly live with his painful New York concession because he intends to move the family away from the &quot;dirty business&quot; of drugs in New York to the &quot;innocent vices&quot; of gambling and women in the casino business of Las Vegas. Of course, getting Michael back to the USA is paramount, thus the lengthy warning speech about Michael's safety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other Dons are very happy with this deal. Even after the Turk's death, they finally get to run their lucrative drug business in New York under Corleone's protection. They understandably don't perceive/recognize the return of Michael and his abilities as a threat. They just have to count down the days for Vito to die and then they won't even have to pay a concession to the Corleone's anymore. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22622" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T05:55:18.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36080" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-07-02T07:33:25.043" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamesmaster&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GamesMaster&lt;/a&gt; was a British television show, screened on Channel 4 from 1992 to 1998, and was the first ever UK television show dedicated to computer and video games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show featured video game reviews, challenges, and a 'console-tation' zone where advice was dispensed about overcoming challenging aspects of individual games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show was hosted by Dominic Diamond (later replaced by Dexter Fletcher) alongside Patrick Moore as the eponymous 'GamesMaster'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19074" LastEditorUserId="19074" LastEditDate="2015-07-02T08:34:13.190" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T08:34:13.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36081" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-07-02T07:33:25.043" Score="0" Body="British TV-show about computer and video games, running from 1992 to 1998." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-09T10:31:09.330" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T10:31:09.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36088" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36091" CreationDate="2015-07-02T13:41:30.263" Score="15" ViewCount="1808" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder how the plane stunt from &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation&lt;/em&gt; is even possible, because planes travel at the speed of more than 750 miles per hour. He is just hanging with his hand in the holes. How was this stunt performed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19027" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T11:13:07.113" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T11:13:07.113" Title="How did Tom Cruise do that plane stunt in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation?" Tags="|film-techniques|stunts|mission-impossible-rogue-nation|mission-impossible|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35905" CreationDate="2015-07-02T13:53:13.560" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the head exploding scene Valentine stated that he's not that stupid to implant an explosive version of the implant into himself. They both still needed the implant to be immune to the effects of the signal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can assume he did the same thing for his right-hand assistant Gazelle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21982" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T13:53:13.560" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36088" CreationDate="2015-07-02T14:10:34.623" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/How-Tom-Cruise-Did-Insane-Plane-Stunt-Mission-Impossible-Rogue-Nation-70462.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Post&lt;/a&gt; online exists similar to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Tom Cruise Did That Insane Plane Stunt For Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How did&#xA;  this stunt actually get done? The star and director Christopher&#xA;  McQuarrie have revealed all in a recent interview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The filmmaker&#xA;  explained,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&quot;While searching for different locations, the production designer&#xA;    James Bissell bought me a model of this Airbus airplane and presented&#xA;    it as something we could use in the movie. I suggested to Tom, ‘What&#xA;    if you were on the outside of this thing when it took off?' I meant it&#xA;    as sort of a half joke, but he said back to me, ‘Yeah I could do&#xA;    that!’&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From there it was all about figuring out a way to attach a camera to&#xA;  the side of the airplane that would A) get an appropriate angle on the&#xA;  shot, and B) not detach during take-off and smash into Tom Cruise. The&#xA;  actor met with not just a test pilot, but the guys who created the&#xA;  A400m Airbus, and made sure that everything was doable and safe.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a video in the post showing the stunt performed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This clip from youtube clearly explains how the stunt was performed, it was only images but it shows everything about the stunt you want to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/HPtiE7TJ9Lc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-09-02T13:38:11.463" LastActivityDate="2016-09-02T13:38:11.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36092" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36093" CreationDate="2015-07-02T14:21:01.557" Score="-4" ViewCount="1553" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching the new trailer of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2080374/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; Steve Jobs (2015) &lt;/a&gt;, I was wondering who played Bill gates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As IMDb plot says, the movie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Follows the life and legacy of Steve Jobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking there must be Bill Gates character is also put in the movie.&#xA;I already tried IMDb full cast list and google but no use, so, I thought I should ask the experts. Anyone knows who was cast for the role of Bill Gates? Is there a character as such? Is the character deliberately kept as secret? Any interviews or quotes from the director or writers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T16:20:25.000" Title="Who was cast for the role of Bill Gates?" Tags="|character|steve-jobs|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-07-03T04:29:19.860" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36092" CreationDate="2015-07-02T16:20:25.000" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film &lt;em&gt;Steve Jobs&lt;/em&gt; is more about his legacy than his life and will consist solely of the events surrounding three separate product launches Jobs was involved with: the Mac in 1984, NeXT in '88 and the iMac in '98. As such, there's really little reason for there to be a Bill Gates in the film at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22637" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T16:20:25.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35296" CreationDate="2015-07-02T16:32:44.313" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to IMDB (on their &quot;Goofs&quot; page for &lt;em&gt;Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;), &lt;a href=&quot;http://comicbook.com/blog/2012/08/04/the-dark-knight-rises-top-five-movie-mistakes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;comicbook.com&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chaoshour.com/post/dark-knight-rises-continuity-errors-mistakes-plotholes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;chaoshour.com&lt;/a&gt;, this was an actual mistake, and not just a clumsily attempted time jump/flashback. And I haven't found anywhere that explicitly explains why the scene &lt;em&gt;wouldn't&lt;/em&gt; be a continuity error. That said, there are plenty of articles &amp;amp; videos out there dedicated to pointing out the movie's mistakes that &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; seem to notice the discrepancy. Still, I'm personally inclined to say it was a mistake, especially given that I can't seem to find an explanation anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2015-07-02T16:38:46.817" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T16:38:46.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8410" CreationDate="2015-07-02T17:06:06.557" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, that one is not possible.  Knowing the limitations of current mask technology, it's not possible to simply have a one-piece, pull-it-all-off mask to reveal everything... but let's assume for a moment that we CAN have that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Nose of the underlying man is much wider than the mask.  Putting a mask on would just make it even larger.  One cannot simply put a mask on a very large person and have them impersonate a skinny person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What if mask tech could squeeze the face of the wearer?  Add the mass of the mask itself, and this &quot;skinnyifying&quot; (yes I just made that up) technology in the nose of the mask together and ask just how much would it crush the underlying man's nose?    To the point of him not being able to breathe through it, or speak clearly, for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22639" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T17:06:06.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12724" CreationDate="2015-07-02T17:33:39.520" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;His name was originally just Dr. Bruce Banner. Then Stan Lee got confused and accidentally put Bob Banner in a few comics. He decided to call him Robert Bruce Banner from then so whichever he said would be right. People still knew him as mainly just Bruce though.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the TV series they also knew him as just Bruce. The writer changed it to David in honor of his son instead. Now it has all gotten too complicated so he is just Bruce Banner and his job was different in the TV series because they didn't want to copy the comics. The TV series isn't accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22643" LastEditorUserId="417" LastEditDate="2015-07-02T23:01:27.290" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T23:01:27.290" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36041" CreationDate="2015-07-02T19:06:47.317" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The farm isn't worthless - Tom and his family are actually able to make a living off of it, and it's both the family's home and their main (possibly only) source of income. Much the same reasons that many people in real life stay in poor and/or dangerous areas. The combination of strong emotional ties to &quot;home&quot; (potential emotional baggage related to individual family members aside) and concern/fear regarding &quot;I may not be making the best living here and now, but will I be able to support myself/my family at all if we uproot?&quot; makes for very powerful motivation to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; move. (Plus - as vaguely referenced in the comments - a large part of Murph's argument for Tom &amp;amp; co to leave is to get medical attention, and Tom is wary of the doctors/kinds of medical attention that his sister is advocating for.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T19:06:47.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30483" CreationDate="2015-07-02T19:17:34.180" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The screen writer(s) write the script (s) with the planned sequence of events, including all dialog and action, possibly based on original fiction, or story outlines, etc., and with lots of input from the director and producer(s), etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The director shoots the scenes in the final draft of the script in the order which the director and producers have decided on (which is a complicated decision-making process) for making the movie fastest, cheapest, etc.  Some times final draft script pages are delivered to the movie set on the days those scenes are to be filmed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the director on the set decides not to film entire scenes in the script or to add more scenes and often to change dialog, etc.  Actors sometimes ad-lib their lines, and sometimes goofs in filming a scene are left in the movie because they make it funnier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After production and adding special effects, etc. to footage, the editor (under the director's supervision)  edits various shots from various takes of a scene into a complete scene, and does this for all the scenes, and assembles the scenes into the complete movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes entire scenes, characters, and plot elements are &quot;left on the cutting room floor&quot; during editing and are not in the final movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22302" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T19:17:34.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36101" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36114" CreationDate="2015-07-02T19:23:46.710" Score="17" ViewCount="6692" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Matrix films, when someone wants to connect into the Matrix, it requires three things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To find somewhere to link in the real work (they can't just connect from anywhere, they must find someplace to connect the ship)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An Operator to guide those who are connected (every time someone wanted to log off the Matrix, they called the Operator to find an exit)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Someone to insert the plug and remove it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point, Cypher needed those three things to log into the Matrix and talk to Smith at the restaurant scene. How did Cypher connect without an Operator? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even without an Operator, if someone showed up while Cypher was connected and looked at the screen, wouldn't they know Cypher was talking to an agent? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8584" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-07-04T06:39:58.653" LastActivityDate="2019-08-01T14:15:36.420" Title="How did Cypher jack into The Matrix without an operator?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30483" CreationDate="2015-07-02T20:10:18.110" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It should also be noted that the editor - while (s)he has definite influence over general scene order - is there largely to decide on (or help decide on)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;which takes should be used of any given scene&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;which shots/angles should be used at any given point in a scene (wide shot or closeup here? Closeup of which character/actor? Etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;what order &lt;em&gt;within a scene&lt;/em&gt; to use the different shots&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the pace of cutting within a scene/how long to linger on each individual shot&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how to transition between shots/scenes, but not necessarily which scene leads into the next&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;how and when to use soundtrack music&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;where cuts need to be made for length (and other) purposes (which admittedly often translates into cutting entire scenes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, all this (along with a few things I'm probably forgetting) is still a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of responsibility and influence being given to the editors, even if it may seem on the surface like the editor is just in charge of small/nitpicky things. And again, this isn't to say that editors don't have a major say in the matter - oftentimes people realize in post that a little scene rearrangement will improve the flow of the movie, or that an entire scene just doesn't work (for any number of reasons) and has to be cut - but that's just not the editor's primary reason for being there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The director has a somewhat parallel/similar relationship to scene order (i.e. that's not their primary reason for being there, but they still have major influence on the subject). Of course, the relative influence of the director and editor(s) over scene order also depends on the dynamics within that particular film (including, oftentimes, some overlap in terms of jobs - it's not entirely unusual for a movie's director to also be on the writing team), and on the standards of the particular studios they're working with and what industries - if any - they're working within (is it a Hollywood movie? Nollywood or Bollywood? Independent?). But the screenwriter(s) definitely have the most influence over scene order. At least in theory - as has been said, there is a complicated decision-making process with heavy involvement from the director and producers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T20:10:18.110" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8388" CreationDate="2015-07-02T20:21:12.610" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;William Alchesay (May 17, 1853 - August 6 1928) was a prominent White Mountain Apache chief, who lived to be 75 years old according to his strangely precise birth date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose that he lived twenty or more years longer, until &lt;em&gt;Fort Apache&lt;/em&gt; premiered in 1948 and until he or a relative saw the movie. He might have decided to sue the producers for depicting him as a hostile leader who helps massacre the US cavalry  I can picture him being brought into the court on a wheelchair wearing his medal of honor earned in 1872-73 to testify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suppose that long-dead people, or their heirs, could sue for defamation of character.  If you watch a lot of cavalry and Indians movies you will notice that a lot of real persons, red and white, could have sued the producers for defamation of character if the dead could sue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, Colonel Thursday in &lt;em&gt;Fort Apache&lt;/em&gt; is based on a fictional character in a story by James Warner Bellah who is obviously based on George Armstrong Custer.  &lt;em&gt;Fort Apache&lt;/em&gt; is often described as a fictional version of Custer's Last stand.  If the dead or their heirs could sue, the legal question would be whether the obvious similarities between Thursday and Custer constituted defamation of Custer's character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Glory Guys&lt;/em&gt; (1965) General Frederick McCabe seems even more obviously based on Custer, since the enemies are Sitting Bull's Sioux, McCabe attacks them without waiting for General Hoffman's forces, and the Battle of Fishbone Creek seems based on the Battle of the Washita.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dead and their heirs can't sue for defamation of character, but if a fictional character is based, just as obviously as in those examples, on a living person, that living person would have a chance to win a lawsuit against the producers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no doubt in various jurisdictions there are legal precedents about how much a fictional character can resemble a living person and cause people to  think that the character is obviously that living person under a pseudonym without the living person having a right to sue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22302" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T20:21:12.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36108" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41696" CreationDate="2015-07-02T20:45:34.720" Score="7" ViewCount="10202" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I recently(ish) watched the first season of &lt;em&gt;The 100&lt;/em&gt; on Netflix and couldn't help but notice the similarities it had to &lt;em&gt;Battlestar Galactica&lt;/em&gt; (specifically Ronald D. Moore's remake). This is both in terms of actors - goodness knows, &lt;em&gt;The 100&lt;/em&gt; has had plenty of actors from both BSG and &lt;em&gt;Caprica&lt;/em&gt; - and in terms of certain visuals (the space fleet bears some strong resemblances to the fleet in BSG). However, I'm not sure how much of that is just coincidence/natural crossover within various TV shows; due to direct inspiration/influence from BSG; or due to some of the creator(s)/producer(s)/etc. having also been involved in BSG. Does anybody know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T07:37:21.703" LastActivityDate="2017-01-21T06:59:27.407" Title="Does The 100 have a relationship to/with Battlestar Galactica?" Tags="|reference|the-100|battlestar-galactica|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36112" CreationDate="2015-07-02T20:52:23.577" Score="2" ViewCount="1014" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode 24 of season 6 of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Adventure Time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, Ice King is seen waking up from a dream where a certain reptilian Gunther turns into another, seemingly much older Ice King. The whole dream looks like it's some previous epoch with primal elements of fire, candy, green goo and ice. The reptilian Gunther puts on the magical crown that grants him a wish which makes him very much like the Ice King. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then we see our &quot;present time&quot; Ice King who, waking up from his dream, makes explosion noises, suggesting that the dream ended with the comet hitting the planet. He then wakes up and is surprised by the scared look of a bunch of penguins in his bedroom. And then we see a comet which could be &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; comet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In previous episodes, Death says that the Ice King will only die when the Sun explodes, suggesting that he is practically immortal because of the power given him by his crown. So he could have survived anything, even that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the next episode we find out that a comet appears every 1000 years on the course to hit Earth. Earth has a very serious chunk of it missing, which could suggest that one or multiple of those comets already hit it in the past. Or maybe it could have been only the result of the Mushroom War and all previous comets were successfully avoided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the Ice King we see in the show the original or is he the reptilian Gunther who survived the comet in the past?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5788" LastEditorUserId="5788" LastEditDate="2015-07-02T21:08:46.543" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T22:09:13.737" Title="Who is the Ice King, really?" Tags="|adventure-time|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36108" CreationDate="2015-07-02T22:09:01.383" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;An &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/common&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb commmon cast/crew search&lt;/a&gt; isn't really &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/name?roles=tt0407362,tt2661044&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;yielding a lot of the same people&lt;/a&gt; at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_producer#Types_of_television_producers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;supervising to executive producer levels&lt;/a&gt;, so my guess would be that it's simply the fact that both shows were shot in Vancouver and are drawing on the same acting,  production, and SFX pools.  And that you're liable to see similar crossover of cast/crew from BSG with other Vancouver-shot shows like, say, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/name?roles=tt0407362,tt0460681&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Supernatural&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18624" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T22:09:01.383" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36109" CreationDate="2015-07-02T22:09:13.737" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;He is neither. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a bygone era, there was an ice wizard named Evergreen, who looked a lot like our Ice King. He had an apprentice named Gunther. The save Earth from the oncoming comet, he created a magical crown that would grant its wearer their deepest desire. His apprentice Gunther ended up wearing it and instead of stopping the comet his desire was to be just like his master. So, Gunther's appearance began to change to look like Evergreen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the modern era, Simon Petrikov acquires this crown. Still operating under Gunther's deepest desire to be just like Evergreen, the crown begins to change Simon physically and destroy his mind. One of the consequences is that he thinks the penguins are his apprentices and calls them Gunther. He gains magical ice powers like Evergreen had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_(Adventure_Time)&quot;&gt;&quot;Evergreen&quot; episode description&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_King&quot;&gt;Ice King wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22637" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T22:09:13.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36101" CreationDate="2015-07-02T22:59:11.317" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12251/how-does-cypher-exit-enter-the-matrix-without-an-operator&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; on Scifi:SE, &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20060315041403/http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/cmp/larryandychat_index.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;According to the Wachowskis&lt;/a&gt;, Neo interrupts Cypher writing a script (some kind of automated operator) that will enable him to enter and leave the Matrix without a human operator present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WachowskiBros:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Cypher, at the beginning of this scene, is setting up an automated system to allow him to go meet with Agent Smith.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to how he got the jack into his head, we're left to assume that he simply reached behind himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T22:59:11.317" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27631" CreationDate="2015-07-02T23:14:32.977" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Ben wanted Locke to not enter the numbers so that the hatch would eventually explode rendering the island incapable of communication. Ben did not want anyone else leaving the island.  However if Ben did not enter the numbers at that time that he did, then he would lose trust he was trying to build or he would have gotten hurt in the explosion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22653" LastActivityDate="2015-07-02T23:14:32.977" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35657" CreationDate="2015-07-03T03:53:01.887" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on another explanation I came across in the link &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/the-drop-2014-movie-plot-ending-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Drop : Explained &amp;amp; Reviewed&lt;/a&gt; it looks like the two were loan sharks. Based on what Bob explains in end he killed Ritchie for the sake of an old debt. This debt made them work for the mob as bartenders. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before that they were independent and had their own say in things. Over time they were forced to work under the mob. Also, that is why Marv stole from the bar. He is taking the mob's money. So they kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18959" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-12-26T14:10:22.450" LastActivityDate="2018-12-26T14:10:22.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="36129" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-03T06:47:06.247" Score="7" ViewCount="520" Body="&lt;p&gt;Breaking Bad is the first series that I watched which had continuity going over multiple seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do producers and Directors plan series like these which go on for period of multiple years. I mean say, while Breaking Bad was still being shot and Bryan Cranston would have been affected by health issues which would restricted him to shoot for long time. Or say, some actor playing important role meets with an accident (Heath Ledger type of accident).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do Producers and Directors plan to cope up in case of such huge loss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22115" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T17:44:00.773" Title="How is a series like Breaking Bad secured in case of any issues with actors?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36132" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21688" CreationDate="2015-07-03T08:00:25.570" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Olenna wants to kill the Joffrey as she don't want her granddaughter Margaery to married with cruel person. She talks to Sansa and come to know the he don't even have courtesy to respect his betrothed. Seeing his past actions, it becomes clear he is not even controlled by his mother Cersei. It is risky to getting one's family member with such person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On other Tommen is easily controllable sweet boy. And Olenna didn't see risk for Margaery to become queen, as Tyrells have option to get Margaery get married with Tommen due to alliance . They still control supply for grains in this crisis situation and Lannisters/King's Landing depends on this alliance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is safe to assume that Olenna may become of Joffrey's cruelty towards whores and other people. Olenna don't want to take risk of leaving Margaery alone with Joffrey for long time. Also, if she has decided to kill him, better to do it before consummating, as it may give reason for Lannisters to deny marrying Tommen with Margaery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2019-01-03T22:43:52.583" LastActivityDate="2019-01-03T22:43:52.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="36136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35585" CreationDate="2015-07-03T10:34:41.430" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per &lt;a href=&quot;http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_At_World%27s_End&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikia&lt;/a&gt;, she is at Port Royal. Check out the epilogue on above link page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Epilogue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ten years later, Elizabeth and her son, young Will Turner reside in Port Royal.Young Will sings a pirate song, with Elizabeth following behind. They both stand at the edge of a cliff, looking at the horizon, waiting for the sun to set. Finally, they see a flash of green light as the Flying Dutchman reappears, signifying Will Turner's return from the Land of the Dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I am not able to understand where it is shown that this place is Port Royal. My understanding for that scene is only that Will is not bounded to ship and uses his one day in ten years to meet Elizabeth who is living somewhere on land with other citizens (not pirates).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T10:40:42.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36129" CreationDate="2015-07-03T15:45:01.203" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been various ways of coping that I know of for movies/movie series at least...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Change the story or the focus of the story (as they did with &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises,&lt;/em&gt; since having the Joker in that third installment wasn't exactly practical anymore.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Just change actors and either ignore it (Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series) or attempt to give an explanation (the Oracle in the Matrix series)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Piece things together using what they'd already shot (Philip Seymour Hoffman's character in &lt;em&gt;Mockingjay&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kind of an offshoot of #1 here - rewrite the specific character or write the character off of the movie or the TV show entirely (finally a TV-specific example here: On &lt;em&gt;Angel,&lt;/em&gt; the &lt;em&gt;Buffy&lt;/em&gt; spinoff, Charisma Carpenter - who played Cordelia - got married, went on honeymoon, and later got pregnant. Joss Whedon had to write in excuses for her absence during her honeymoon and later wrote an entire storyline around her pregnancy so it wouldn't seem &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; as strange when she started showing. He didn't do a particularly good job of working around the pregnancy, and he eventually wrote Cordelia off the show* - all of which got a lot of backlash from fans. But it's a good example of a show trying to work around inevitable life occurrences.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*I believe Charisma Carpenter talks about it at some point in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_igTbXKPck&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this video.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T15:45:01.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36142" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36166" CreationDate="2015-07-03T16:02:53.630" Score="3" ViewCount="2574" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to watch Battlestar Galactica. I already watched this movie (three hours long):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E1W70.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I noticed there is also a TV series with many seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. &lt;em&gt;Are there other movies? If yes, how can I refer to this specific movie without creating confusion?&lt;/strong&gt; (I mean, if I say &quot;Battlestar Galactica movie&quot; it probably won't suffice if there is more than one movie)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. &lt;em&gt;What would be the correct watch order between the movies and the TV series?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. &lt;em&gt;Does the fact that I already watched this movie spoil anything in the series? Or does it at least mess up the order?&lt;/strong&gt; (I hope it doesn't)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22673" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-13T11:40:15.487" LastActivityDate="2019-02-07T17:26:28.317" Title="Battlestar galatica movies and series watch order" Tags="|battlestar-galactica|suggested-order|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36143" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36584" CreationDate="2015-07-03T16:20:06.387" Score="3" ViewCount="442" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like every time I rewatch Arrested Development, I catch some new reference to a future or past episode. There are so many gags (some quite complex) that are reused, reimagined, or gradually built up across many episodes and even many seasons. If you were to only watch the entire series once you would probably not realize that the show started to set up many of the later episodes' gags and plot points long before those episodes. Often they also combine gags in ways that seem like they had to have been set up long ahead of time. How do writers do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arrested Development is just one exceptional example. Other shows sometimes have these complex, long-running multi-plotline interactions, too, but to a much lesser degree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do writers typically write an entire season or more all at once? Do they have a list of plot elements for each episode, or multiple parallel or intertwined plot lines, and just write a new story around a little of this and a little of that whenever it comes time to write a new episode? How does someone even begin to write something with so many complex interactions, and how do they keep it straight?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12948" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T20:52:34.940" Title="How do the writers of a show make so many incredible hidden references across episodes and seasons of a show like Arrested Development?" Tags="|arrested-development|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-03T16:27:00.867" Score="9" ViewCount="2439" Body="&lt;p&gt;We learn that it would be the price for the War Rig's safe passage through the biker territory, as negotiated previously by Furiosa. However, the deal couldn't obviously be a part of Immortan Joe's original plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Furiosa and the Rig are introduced, we learn that the original mission was to take water (aqua cola) and mothers' milk to Gas Town and Bullet Farm. Nothing is said about the fuel pod however. Its being full seems out of place because why would anyone bring fuel to Gas Town? They have plenty of it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The deal was most likely to bring the fuel &lt;em&gt;back&lt;/em&gt; from Gas Town in exchange for the food products, so in that case the fuel pod should be empty. I doubt that the same tanker would be used to haul water and fuel, so the pod being empty to bring home guzzoline would be logical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also doubt that it would be used for refueling since all the settlements are relatively close to each other. The Gas Town is clearly visible from the Citadel and the Bullet Farm cannot be much further, since both settlements' war parties arrive roughly at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that Furiosa somehow managed to sneak 3000 gallons of precious guzzoline into the pod under Immortan Joe's watchful eye? It seems unlikely since it must have required some cooperation of a couple of Immortan's subjects and the movie does not hint at any conspiracy. It would also be fairly easy to notice the difference between a full and an empty pod (weight difference could be noticed by the lift operators, it would also influence the shape of the tires).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or did the pod serve some other purpose, which I fail to recognize at the moment? Or is it just a &lt;s&gt;gaping&lt;/s&gt; plot hole?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20075" LastEditorUserId="20075" LastEditDate="2017-08-09T10:52:28.597" LastActivityDate="2017-08-09T10:52:28.597" Title="What was the official purpose of the fuel pod hauled by Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mad-max-fury-road|mad-max|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27316" CreationDate="2015-07-03T17:03:11.963" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;you know saturn is called &quot;father time&quot; so put the illuminati god with symbolism and reference and you can see why they chose to put a time portal next to the planet of &quot;father time&quot;.Its just another way for the pagans to pay trubite to their god in the sky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22674" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T17:03:11.963" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36129" CreationDate="2015-07-03T17:44:00.773" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depends on what you mean by 'cope'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of retaining talent, that's what contracts or for. We pay you X for you to commit to X number of seasons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of dealing with the story, that's what writers are for. Someone leaves the show? That's on the writers to 'fix'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of the investment, most productions of any size &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forbes.com/sites/judebrennan/2014/05/23/paul-walkers-death-leads-to-highest-movie-insurance-claim-ever-on-next-fast-and-furious/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;take out insurance to protect them over things exactly like the loss of Paul Walker during filming&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T17:44:00.773" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36148" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-07-03T18:44:18.153" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-07-03T18:44:18.153" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T18:44:18.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36149" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-07-03T18:44:18.153" Score="0" Body="2007 film based upon the novel of the same name by Richard Matheson.  Starring Will Smith as the last survivor of a plague-ridden Earth, seeking to create a cure to save humanity.  " OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-07-03T19:26:17.200" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T19:26:17.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24837" CreationDate="2015-07-03T21:43:29.353" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He works with the two men in the beginning who were all employed by the fat office boss. The one guy called him a Bitch because Chigurh would have been an extra hire (less of a reward). But  once they gave Chigurh the locator he figured fuck the bounty. I'll kill these two and keep the two million for myself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22071" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T21:43:29.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36155" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-03T22:35:01.903" Score="6" ViewCount="478" Body="&lt;p&gt;I go watch movies in theater every 2 weeks, and when choosing what to see, I decide often based on Rotten Tomato critic score. This score is now shown by Siri after each time I ask which movies are playing, so I don't even have to visit the Rotten Tomatoes website. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point is, I use that RT rating to decide what to see, and many others probably do too. I'm curious to know how much correlation there is between a movie's RT score and its box office performance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20578" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-08-01T08:48:01.007" LastActivityDate="2019-08-01T08:48:01.007" Title="Do Rotten Tomatoes scores often predict a movie's box office success (or lack thereof)?" Tags="|box-office|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7943" CreationDate="2015-07-03T22:52:48.203" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cattle gun Chigurh used was with him while he sat frozen like a statue. Carla wouldn't call the coin toss so he got up slowly and pointed it at her forehead. Her last words were &quot;now I know why the sheriff told me about this.&quot; He took her car keys, left the cattle gun behind and was on his way to retirement...sort of...Chigurh was in a vehicle accident shortly after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22071" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T22:52:48.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2955" CreationDate="2015-07-03T23:14:47.257" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The mexicans driving the pick up truck shooting the buck shot at Moss. They quickly cut his tires and went after him for the missing money. They didn't want to kill Moss so he'd be able to tell them where the money is. Poor Moss was providing a generous humanitarian effort to the mexican who asked him the previous evening for agua. These were the same men, the Mexicans at the motel room who were assassinated by Chigurh. The heroin was in the pick up at the motel. Useless to Chigurh. The Mexicans could sell it. The fat boss told Carson both were out of their product because the police investigating the crime scene at the motel would have confiscated the heroin from the pick up. Moss noticed the truck earlier that night and gave a 100 dollar bill to the taxi driver to take him to another motel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22071" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T23:14:47.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27822" CreationDate="2015-07-03T23:30:28.477" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's in a trans. He found a case with two million dollars and all he owned was a beat up truck and renting a trailer to reside in with Carla. He was just a hard working welder. He wasn't cut out for this like Carson told him at the hospital. You find something like that you have to find a way to stash it forever. Especially after seeing dead people in an obvious drug deal gone wrong. I wouldn't stay at a motel. I would pay a cab driver a thousand dollars to take me out of state, dump the case and bury the money in a plastic garbage bag by a mile marker. Keep ten thousand of it to establish a new residence, new identity and come back in a month to recover the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22071" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T23:30:28.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10918" CreationDate="2015-07-03T23:57:28.773" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The times have changed. Crime has spanned out across a country that never experienced drug deals gone wrong, contract killers who use automatic shotguns with suppressors, tech nines, or cattle guns to kill strangers passing through. And to steal their vehicles. Sheriff Bell never heard of people killing old folks to cash their social security checks. Some poor fuel station tendent kindly asked Chigurh if they were getting any rain up in Dallas and was almost murdered for it. Let the young guys handle it. They are use to what's new out there. Paris is no country for the old timers either. Didn't the police there begin to carry firearms in the late 1990's? Some towns in Australia still have unarmed police. Sheriff Bell quit. It's all s..t now. Sadly, he never got the case of money Moss stashed in a motel air vent of a room he was murdered. Chigurh beat him to it. I'm sure Bell lived out his final  days on his sheriff pension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22071" LastActivityDate="2015-07-03T23:57:28.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36162" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31639" CreationDate="2015-07-04T00:10:10.047" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a british film from &lt;strong&gt;1900&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Let me dream again&lt;/em&gt;, by George Albert Smith (from the so called Brighton school), you can find it in the British Film Institute archive:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150057452&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150057452&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5-Uq-pOLhA&amp;amp;ab_channel=FilmsbytheYear&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;on Youtube&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is included in their collection &amp;quot;1895-1910. Early Cinema&amp;quot; vol. 1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the short film, a man (G.A. Smith himself) is having fun with a masked woman (his wife in real life), then the camera goes out of focus and there's a cut to a new blurred shot. When it gets back in focus, we see the same man yawning in his pijamas, in bed with a different (and quite uglier) woman that hits him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Chaplin's &lt;em&gt;The Kid&lt;/em&gt; (1921), there's a complete change of scenography around him sleeping, in a subtle transition.There's a similar transition in &lt;em&gt;Sherlock, Jr.&lt;/em&gt; (1924), but in this one Sherlock jr. (Buster Keaton) &amp;quot;gets out&amp;quot; of his dreaming body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, none of these silent films gets the Harp you mention, but they might be of use as precedents for what you need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt; (2015/10/05):&#xA;Indeed, Smith's &lt;em&gt;Let me dream again&lt;/em&gt; effect is meant to signify waking up (not beginning to dream). I have found a source that could help to go deeper. Barry Salt's &lt;em&gt;Film style and technology: history and analysis&lt;/em&gt; (London, Starword, 2009 [1983]) includes a small section (&lt;strong&gt;Dreams, Memories, Visions, etc.&lt;/strong&gt;, pp. 61-62) in which he lists some more examples, among them &lt;em&gt;Hooligan's Christmas Dream&lt;/em&gt; (Biograph, 1903),&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in which the transition to the dream is made with a dissolve, but the&#xA;transition back to the original scene and reality through an&#xA;unexpected waking is made with a cut. The number of shot-scenes&#xA;contained within such dreams gradually increased over the years[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other examples cited by Salt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Le Cauchemar du caïd&lt;/em&gt; (Pathé, 1905)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;And the Villain Still Pursued Her&lt;/em&gt; (Vitagraph, 1906)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Dancer's Dream&lt;/em&gt; (Robert Paul, 1905)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Midwinter Night's Dream&lt;/em&gt; (Vitagraph, 1906)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22679" LastEditorUserId="19453" LastEditDate="2023-09-16T00:26:25.120" LastActivityDate="2023-09-16T00:26:25.120" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="36166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36142" CreationDate="2015-07-04T04:12:01.563" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, so... &lt;em&gt;Battlestar Galactica&lt;/em&gt; gets complicated because of all the miniseries and web series, etc. Netflix used to have the main series (minus one or two minor web series) and provided them in order, which made life so much easier. Sadly, Netflix took the modern BSG down, but you can still find DVDs at libraries, etc. So the answer to #2 is yes, there is a certain chronological order (though the web series aren't &lt;em&gt;strictly&lt;/em&gt; necessary to watch, and they can be really hard to find). Technically speaking, there are two &quot;movies&quot; in this version (Ronald Moore &amp;amp; Gary Larson's remake), but they're really more of miniseries than anything else. That brings us to what you watched - if I'm recognizing the picture correctly, it's actually not either of the &quot;movies,&quot; but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314979/?ref_=nv_sr_3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the original/first miniseries&lt;/a&gt; (technically two episodes, but they can be watched in one sitting pretty easily) that served as a pilot for this remake of BSG. So you did good for yourself on that count - that original miniseries is pretty much essential to understanding the rest of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, you've watched the kick-off miniseries - now how should you proceed? The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407362/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;four main/regular&lt;/a&gt; seasons are a good start. Then there are the &quot;movies&quot;/miniseries. The first one, &lt;em&gt;Razor,&lt;/em&gt; belongs in there shortly after the Pegasus storyline - you'll recognize it when you see it, but I don't want to give too much away. Then there's also &lt;em&gt;The Plan,&lt;/em&gt; which shows you the first few episodes (original miniseries + a good chunk of season 1) directly from some of the cylons' perspectives. I personally didn't watch that until after I watched everything else - pretty safe spoiler-wise that way (I'd advise that you at least don't watch it until after you've watched the first season of the regular series).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the web series - there are three. The first, &quot;The Resistance,&quot; is probably best watched during or just before Season 3. The other two - &quot;Razor Flashbacks&quot;* and &quot;The Face of the Enemy&quot; - are probably best watched once you're already well into Season 4. For a relatively spoiler-free account of season/episode/etc. order, you can look &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Battlestar_Galactica_(2004_TV_series)_episodes#Webisodes_.282006.E2.80.9309.29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. At least, it gives you the dates of when each episode, etc. was written and produced, and despite that it all looks like a jumbled mess when you put everything together, pretty much everything was written/produced in chronological order, so... I hope that was helpful. Good luck, and I hope you enjoy BSG!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(P.S. &lt;em&gt;Caprica&lt;/em&gt; is also a fun spinoff of the series - it was cancelled after only one season, but it provides some interesting origin stories. So, if you like BSG after you've watched it, definitely go watch &lt;em&gt;Caprica&lt;/em&gt;!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*You may be able to watch this one earlier, especially as it's largely based in flashbacks to events from &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; before the series even started, but seeing as my memory is a bit foggy on those episodes, I don't want to give too much advice in that particular area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2015-07-04T16:48:29.663" LastActivityDate="2015-07-04T16:48:29.663" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36168" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-04T06:04:11.273" Score="4" ViewCount="2340" Body="&lt;p&gt;After repelling the charging regiment at the end of &lt;em&gt;The Last Samurai&lt;/em&gt;, the remaining samurai decide to make a head on cavalry charge against Gatling Guns and Howitzers. Why do they make this charge?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S: Apparently, this is a historical fact indeed as seen at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiroyama&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20688" LastEditorUserId="8366" LastEditDate="2015-07-04T15:45:28.983" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T00:16:45.167" Title="Why do the samurai make the suicide charge in The Last Samurai?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|the-last-samurai|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36170" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-04T07:41:44.823" Score="12" ViewCount="23615" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Terminator Genisys, who sends Pops (Arnold) back in time to protect Sarah Connor? Was there any mention of this in the film? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-07T22:29:15.510" LastActivityDate="2018-12-12T06:11:59.430" Title="Who sends Pops back in time in Terminator Genisys?" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-series|terminator-genisys|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36171" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-04T07:46:11.867" Score="11" ViewCount="1441" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Terminator Genisys, when Kyle reaches 1984, there is a T-1000 that attacks him. T-1000 has been waiting for John's arrival, this only means that Judgement Day happens for sure, is it? How does the T-1000 even get invented to be sent back in time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-07T22:29:20.823" LastActivityDate="2016-08-07T22:29:20.823" Title="Where do the T-1000 machines come from in Terminator Genisys" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-series|terminator-genisys|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36172" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-07-04T07:48:21.163" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-07-04T07:48:21.163" LastActivityDate="2015-07-04T07:48:21.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36173" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-07-04T07:48:21.163" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-07-04T07:48:21.163" LastActivityDate="2015-07-04T07:48:21.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36155" CreationDate="2015-07-04T11:20:37.870" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nope. Based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/Can-Rotten-Tomatoes-ratings-predict-film-box-office-results-over-a-year&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this plot&lt;/a&gt; (by film statistics specialist &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/Stav-J-Davis&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stav J. Davis&lt;/a&gt;) of 81 films that grossed more than $20M in 2012, there's no straight-line correlation between the Rotten Tomatoes &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;critics&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; score (e.g. public reviews) and the amount that each film made at the box office:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pDlib.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also no &lt;em&gt;significant&lt;/em&gt; correlation between the &lt;strong&gt;user review&lt;/strong&gt; scores (although the chi value was fractionally higher if you exclude all films that grossed less than $100M&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/e70SO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, how good a film rates on Rotten Tomatoes has little bearing on its box-office take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-07-04T12:02:00.273" LastActivityDate="2015-07-04T12:02:00.273" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36179" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36189" CreationDate="2015-07-04T13:42:08.550" Score="5" ViewCount="1357" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Crazy Earl lifts a bunny-shaped teddy toy in a ruin in &lt;em&gt;Full Metal Jacket&lt;/em&gt;, a booby trap is activated and he dies. But how was that explosion able to kill him? He didn't lose any blood for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20688" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-07-04T18:14:29.263" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T13:14:27.073" Title="How did the booby trap work in Full Metal Jacket?" Tags="|plot-explanation|full-metal-jacket|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36179" CreationDate="2015-07-04T14:34:58.120" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't a gory scene in the movie, but just a simple plot point to show how easily you can get promoted during the war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The explosion that kills Crazy goes off behind him, and Crazy lands on his side. The medic arrives and flips him onto his back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there was any visible damage. I guess it's implied that it's on Crazy's back which we can't see from the angle of the camera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/RJ5lNO9eU4M?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2015-07-04T14:34:58.120" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36183" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36257" CreationDate="2015-07-04T14:56:19.397" Score="8" ViewCount="735" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Terminator Genisys, they show that the series of events from the first terminator never happens. This is an alternate timeline. They also destroy subsequent chips from other terminators. How does Skynet get built then? Isn't the existence of Skynet based on the result of the Predestination paradox? If they didn't have the machine chip, by who and how does Skynet get created?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-07T18:14:35.773" LastActivityDate="2016-08-07T18:14:35.773" Title="How does Skynet get created in Terminator Genisys?" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-series|terminator-genisys|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36013" CreationDate="2015-07-04T16:00:10.760" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sullivan was never linked to final string of executions and his duplicity was never brought to light. Nothing was presented to the audience to suggest Dignam learned of it somehow, though it's likely he suspected it. That being the case, it's more likely he was seeking retribution for Queenan's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9270" LastActivityDate="2015-07-04T16:00:10.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36185" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36187" CreationDate="2015-07-04T16:27:48.097" Score="13" ViewCount="3477" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Weekend at Burnsie's&lt;/em&gt; episode (S13E16), Homer sees a scarecrow at his yard but, because it is dark, he thinks it is a man and runs away yelling: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'll regroup at Red Lobster&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does it mean? I've read in forums that this is one of the favorites Simpsons jokes for some fans, but I don't get it. Maybe it's a cultural reference I'm not aware of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13961" LastEditorUserId="18402" LastEditDate="2015-07-05T04:05:47.313" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T19:44:22.050" Title="Can someone explain to me the &quot;I'll regroup at Red Lobster&quot; joke in The Simpsons?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28214" CreationDate="2015-07-04T16:56:21.003" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The out-of-universe explanation is indeed that Aladdin wouldn't have looked like the good guy if he had done it. However, this question can be circumvented by having the GENIE proposing it (&quot;Hey Al, all that's a fake problem ! What if your girlfriend wish it for you ? You can still free me afterward ! No, no, it doesn't bother me at all. What will it take, thirty seconds ? I've already been stuck in there for 10 000 millennia, you know, it's nothing. Go on !&quot;). Alternately, even if he lost part of his power after having free, there's no reason either that wouldn't allow him to make Aladdin free as a simple gift AFTER being freed (he perhaps couldn't grant phenomenal powers like he did to Jafar, but generating the Prince Ali Ababwa parade ? He can still do similar things, as shown in the sequels — think of the There's party here in Agrabah number in the 3d movie). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may be an in-universe restriction to the Jasmine-wishing-for-him though. That is, that in the original scene where Aladdin promises the Genie to free him, he says: &quot;No, really, I promise. After make my first two wishes, I'll use my third wish to set you free.&quot; OF COURSE, a lawyer may argument that &quot;after&quot; can be &quot;at any time once the two first wishes are done, even ten thousand years later&quot;, but it seems quite clear that Aladdin was meaning &quot;just right away after&quot;. Without anything in-between. However, once more, that doesn't answer the question of why the Genie couldn't propose it himself (the person to whom a promise is done is actually morally the only one who can break it), and it doesn't say a word about the &quot;making Aladdin the prince once he's free&quot; option either. But it's still something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A reasonable answer to that last problem could be that the Genie was too moved at that moment to think of it. Too wacky, also, to manage to take the problem from a reasonable point of view. Actually, a few days later, the Genie probably thought: &quot;Dumb me ! WHY didn't I think of it BEFORE ?&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22695" LastActivityDate="2015-07-04T16:56:21.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36185" CreationDate="2015-07-04T17:22:47.440" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Homer was not regrouping at a prearranged place, a safe point &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; a tactically strong point, but at a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.redlobster.com/&quot;&gt;sea food restaurant&lt;/a&gt;! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typical of Homer. The only thing that would be more typical of Homer is regrouping at either Moe's or a donut shop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastActivityDate="2015-07-04T17:22:47.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16887" CreationDate="2015-07-04T17:32:57.570" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed, in France (which is my country, that's why I can speak definitely), the best movies have a very fine dubbing which does not reanimate the mouths of the characters but in which the dialogues are rewritten to fit the lips moves; example, one of the lines of the Genie in &quot;Friend Like Me&quot;: original:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Life is a restaurant… And I'm your 'maître D'!&quot; (so, 6 syllables, then six with a short one just before the last one, and a &quot;EEE&quot; sound at the end).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, how do they translate it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Je suis maitre d'hôtel… au restaurant d'la vie!&quot; (which is, &quot;I am butler… at the life restaurant&quot;, but &quot;life restaurant&quot; is &quot;restaurant d'la vie&quot; which make indeed 3 syllables, and in which &quot;vie&quot; ends with the sound &quot;EEE&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's that kind of things all the time. In other words, instead of re-doing the animation, they redo the dialogue!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22695" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-02-09T22:02:05.187" LastActivityDate="2017-02-09T22:02:05.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36179" CreationDate="2015-07-04T18:01:09.387" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.archiviokubrick.it/opere/film/fmj/script/fmj-postprodscript.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;post-production script treatment&lt;/a&gt; from the Kubrick Archive, the impact of the explosion caused Earl to become unconscious and stop breathing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;75 INT. BOMBED FACTORY--DAY The patrol moves carefully through the&#xA;  gutted shell of a building. The clink of their gear as  they walk&#xA;  sounds loud in the unnatural silence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CRAZY EARL stops to pick up a child's stuffed toy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BANG!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;The toy triggers a booby trap, blasting CRAZY EARL across the room.&lt;/strong&gt; The squad dives for cover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;COWBOY:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Face outboard and take cover! Do it!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DOC JAY scurries up to &lt;strong&gt;CRAZY EARL, who is unconscious and gives him&#xA;  mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.&lt;/strong&gt; COWBOY scrambles up to them. He looks at&#xA;  CRAZY EARL. Then JOKER runs in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the visible symptoms and total lack of obvious injury; e.g. blood and viscera, this would seem to imply that he was killed by overpressure force trauma from the explosion or possibly (and more mundanely) by hitting his head as he fell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In general, primary blast injuries are characterized by the absence of&#xA;  external injuries; thus internal injuries are frequently unrecognized&#xA;  and their severity underestimated ... Thus, the majority of prior research focused on the mechanisms of blast injuries within gas-containing organs/organ systems such as the lungs, while primary blast-induced traumatic brain injury has remained underestimated.&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_injury&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia: Blast Injury&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T13:14:27.073" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T13:14:27.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36193" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-04T19:09:40.323" Score="4" ViewCount="192" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;em&gt;Play Time&lt;/em&gt; by director Jacques Tati is generally regarded to be his masterpiece. However one thing that a kind of puzzled me is that there were absolutely no black people in the movie besides the music players at the restaurant. Also, at 01:23:50, the only black man to walk into the restaurant was immediately told &quot;no&quot; by the staff at the restaurant, only to be accepted when he revealed that he was a trumpet player for the night. Was that a basically accurate reflection of, and also a sarcasm at some of the commonly seen attitudes of restaurants in Paris at that time? Was Paris at that time generally devoid of people of other ethnicity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22699" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-04T20:37:55.137" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T21:19:21.993" Title="Was the absence of black people in Jacques Tati's Play Time normal at that time and just a reflection on social norms of Paris?" Tags="|historical-accuracy|play-time|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24254" CreationDate="2015-07-04T19:47:14.980" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well Barney owed Church because Church wanted the control of the island back. The island produces cocain and is used by the CIA (maybe to gain money from it and finance black operations).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &quot;The Expendables 1&quot; Barney kills Munroe who previously killed the general. Munroe was a EX-CIA Agent. Besides the fact that Barney kills Munroe (who may have cooperated with the CIA), he plunges the military regime too. This fact makes it impossible for Church to get the control back over the island. If the military regime would be still there, he could possibly promote a new general and take him under his control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22700" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-04T20:41:20.387" LastActivityDate="2015-07-04T20:41:20.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36168" CreationDate="2015-07-04T21:59:32.447" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lord Katsumoto wanted to &quot;open&quot; the Emperor's eyes to show him how him listening to the counsel of Omura and his cronies is killing off the old ways of the Japanese culture (and of the ways of the Samurai: honor, loyalty, sacrifice) by embracing the ways of the &quot;west&quot;. The Emperor was blinded by all his other counselors trying to get him to &quot;improve&quot; the Japanese Empire with all the new and wondrous technologies (weaponry/arms/military might) to improve their status with the other nations in the world. When Katsumoto's counsel was originally ignored, he felt he failed and left to go live in his old village where life was more simple and more in line with the ways of a Samurai. Nathan Algren was crucial intel for him to decide how to understand his &quot;enemy&quot; (and of the western culture) and how to proceed to getting the Emperor to listen to him. When Nathan Algren changed his life it only reaffirmed his convictions that the way of the Samurai is relevant and important. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Soooo, as Katsumoto was the Emperor's former mentor and he gave him the ultimate lesson by giving up his life and of the Emperor's loyal subjects (his Samurai) to make him understand the old ways is much more important than modern progressive ideas of the west. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22703" LastActivityDate="2015-07-04T21:59:32.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36202" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36332" CreationDate="2015-07-04T23:01:23.690" Score="4" ViewCount="339" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 3 episode 1 of &lt;em&gt;Orange is the New Black&lt;/em&gt;, there is a flashback where Sam Healy's mother exchanges some dialog with the young Sam Healy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially the scene is designed to show that Sam Healy's mother was barking mad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene shows her drawing some symbols on the wall, but it goes too fast for me to recognize what they might be alluding to, or even if they have significance.  What are those symbols about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or alternatively, are they random scribbles on the wall with no other meaning than to show that Sam's mother was seriously deranged?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T14:42:50.783" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T14:42:50.783" Title="What is Mrs Healy drawing on the wall?" Tags="|analysis|plot-explanation|orange-is-the-new-black|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12511" CreationDate="2015-07-04T23:33:07.507" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because Cosmo and Wanda are married so they are assigned to be fairy god parents together. And if you haven't notice Cosmo's hair is green and his eye color and he always turn into green things or animals the same for Wanda and pink and I've always known as pink and green a perfect match so yea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22707" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-07-05T00:27:04.190" LastActivityDate="2015-07-05T00:27:04.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36215" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36217" CreationDate="2015-07-05T10:59:20.890" Score="6" ViewCount="34218" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02oNGZgW6po&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;trailer [Youtube.com]&lt;/a&gt; for the upcoming ganster movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3569230/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Legend&lt;/a&gt;, we see Ronnie Kray (cast by Tom Hardy) wearing the following glasses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cvxnQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Sample image&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these glasses accurate for the timespan (1950 - 1960)?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Are such glasses still made today, leaving aside the Rayban Clubmasters, that are similar, but quite different in detail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="10023" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-05T13:09:45.320" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T14:12:13.930" Title="What kind of glasses is Ronnie Kray wearing?" Tags="|props|historical-accuracy|legend|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36215" CreationDate="2015-07-05T11:20:06.773" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The glasses are generally referred to as &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eyewearbrands.com/designer%20glasses/frame%20style/half%20rim/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Half-rim glasses&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browline_glasses&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brow-line glasses&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (or more colloquially &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-Shipping-quality-TR-90-half-rim-men-eyebrow-brand-optical-glasses-eyeglasses-frame-spectacle-frame/341111402.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Eyebrow glasses&lt;/a&gt;&quot;). They were indeed appropriate to the period. You can see Ronnie Kray wearing them in the photo below from the early 1960s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rFhXB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-07-05T11:20:06.773" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36218" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-05T11:30:59.933" Score="3" ViewCount="438" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can somebody explain how this absolute amazing coffee machine works in the lab of Walter White in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IQ9g1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13898" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-05T13:10:57.767" LastActivityDate="2015-07-05T13:10:57.767" Title="How does the coffee machine work?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-07-07T09:37:34.610" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36839" CreationDate="2015-07-05T12:57:29.447" Score="4" ViewCount="14108" Body="&lt;p&gt;We see a lot of weed plants in Trailer Park Boys, they look very very real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are these plants?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a standard showbiz weed plant look-a-like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4DOgK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17983" LastActivityDate="2019-11-29T17:19:54.520" Title="What do they use in place of actual marijuana plants?" Tags="|props|trailer-park-boys|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36220" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-05T14:24:10.563" Score="4" ViewCount="843" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Terminator 2, is there any mention of which year the two machines T-101 and T-1000 come from? The first movie specifies 2029. Does this movie specify a year?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-06T15:10:42.500" LastActivityDate="2018-12-26T15:11:59.587" Title="From which year do T-101 and T-1000 come from?" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-series|terminator-2-judgment-day|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36220" CreationDate="2015-07-05T16:23:18.693" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie doesn't say, but the official &lt;a href=&quot;http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day_(Frakes_novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Randall Frakes novelisation&lt;/a&gt; indicates that Skynet was &quot;smashed&quot; in the second timeline some time after John's 45th birthday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sadly, he lowered the binoculars, &lt;strong&gt;revealing forty-five-year-old&#xA;  features made severe by constant stress.&lt;/strong&gt; The left side of his face was&#xA;  heavily scarred. Yet he was still an impressive man, forged in the&#xA;  furnace of a lifetime of war. The name stitched on his jacket read&#xA;  CONNOR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the events of  T2 took place in June 1992 when John was 10 years old, we can calculate that the T-1000 and reprogrammed T-800 &lt;strong&gt;were from the year 2027&lt;/strong&gt;, two full years &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the date that the original Terminator (and Kyle Reese) were dispatched into the past in the first timeline seen in the original Terminator movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-07-05T16:23:18.693" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30156" CreationDate="2015-07-05T16:28:00.997" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will provide you with two links in following paragraphs that should give you sufficient insight into the engravings and how the movie incorporated them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is important to keep in mind that we're talking about a psychological film here.  Esotericism is central to the entire plot.  That's why it's vital to understand that the engravings are not meant literal. I'm sure you know that duality is a (if not THE) main theme in this movie.  So that literal vs. psychological/philosophical aspect of the engravings also plays into that. Spoiler alert: it's not the literal interpretation that will grant you access to enlightenment/the 9th gate.  The only literal link I would draw is a physical resemblence between movie characters/actors and the people in the engravings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An interesting analysis compared the interpretations of Balkan, the Baroness, and made an additional link between the engravings and Tarot cards.  And in a surprisingly concise manner.  You can find that &lt;a href=&quot;http://psychandgnosticessays.blogspot.be/2006/11/interpreting-engravings-in-polanskis.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The nine engravings in the film are a little different from those in the book, in one way. The faces of the people in the engravings physically resemble the characters who appear in the film around the same time we see the engravings. In that same vein, in image 8, instead of a sword, there is a club, wielded by a man who looks like Balkan. The effect is often rather humorous, even when Corso gets hit over the head. For the ninth image, Balkan has identified the castle in the background as a particular one he has purchased...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Balkan sees the sentence as applying to himself: he has traveled in silence by a long and circuitous route, sparing no expense, etc. He overlooks the possibility that it might apply to Corso, who does the actual legwork for Balkan. In the film, the faces in the drawings resemble those of the people that Corso meets, and the scenes correspond to what Corso experiences. One face even looks like Corso himself, or rather the actor Johnny Depp, who plays Corso.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The different “gates” then seem to be different tests that allow one entrance to something, if one able to manage a long and circuitous route, brave the arrows of misfortune, etc. It is Corso who does all these things. Yet it is none too clear from Balkan's interpretations what one is entering into. It is simply “the ninth gate,” the gate to a burning castle. Balkan assumes that he is being admitted to a pact with the devil, one that gives him supernatural powers, but there is nothing in his interpretation of the drawings that implies this, apart from the letters LF. It is only legend that associates Lucifer to pacts with the devil giving vast power. In Latin the word “Lucifer” means “light bearer.” The film, at the end, suggests that the successful initiate enters a world of light, corresponding to the meaning of the word. Perhaps “light” is a metaphor for hidden knowledge that the various trials enable an initiate to have. Whether this knowledge implies any power on the earthly plane is unclear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another blogger (though that term doesn't do justice to the level of analysis done in his 'essay') was made by D.J. Rodger and can be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://davidjrodger.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/the-ninth-gate-occult-and-tarot-like-symbolism-in-the-engravings-by-aristide-torchia-and-lucifer-plus-wider-meanings-of-the-movie/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. He goes into each engraving and makes links with interpretations from Tarot as well as myths and legends. Connections for (most) interpretations are made with regards to Balkan and Corso in the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a story of duality.  There are two journey’s occurring here.  One is Boris Balkan: fervently materialistic, hungry for acquisition and determined to go after what he wants.  The second journey is that of Corso; through the narrative of the story he becomes a seeker of knowledge without any clear vision of what the outcome will be.  Both men are travelling in opposite directions.  One is heading towards ultimate destruction, dragged down into the fires of Hell, to become lost within the Kingdom of Shadows; the other is heading towards Enlightenment, to claim a prize he never knew existed until the moment of final revelation.  Neither man is innocent, but one has failed to “play by the rules” and so suffers the integral trap contained within the riddle of the book and the engravings...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Additional complexity can be added by stating the protagonist is required to enact all of the scenes portrayed within the engravings.  It’s certainly not included in the film, and although a feasible and interesting concept beyond the constraints of a tight script, I don’t think this is suitable for the game that is afoot.  It places far too much literal interpretation of the engravings.  And this story is more about the spiritual and psychology interpretation...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Each of the nine engravings represents a particular life experience, generic or specific, that one must go through in order to gain access to the world of Light and Illumination.  Acquiring the engravings was merely a part of that journey; defining the map, so to speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first blog (possibly in combination of the second one) should probably quench your thirst for the link between the engravings and the movie. So again, in short: no, it's not literal (apart from perhaps certain physical similarities of movie characters/actors and the people in the engravings).  It's all philosophical/psychological.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you can't get enough....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, here's an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.academia.edu/5601335/The_Symbolism_of_the_Ninth_Gate&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;academia.edu link&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that goes into the details of the symbolism of the movie. At length... so if you're short for time, this is not the read for you.  Note that this also covers the engravings, but is not limited to them. It focuses heavily on a qabalistic/religious approach though.  But then again... considering the movie we're talking about, it's not that far fetched to use a religious basis to build the analysis on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22724" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T13:39:37.920" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35296" CreationDate="2015-07-05T18:17:49.377" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Poor editing or a continuity mistake... Seems like opinions differ.  I guess depending on what happens in the off-screen moments... both are possible.  That being said, there's several continuity mistakes in the movie, so it may very well be the case with this as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly: Continuity mistake.  IMDB has this under their 'Goofs' section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;h2&gt;Goofs&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;h3&gt;Continuity&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When Gordon is taken by Bane's men and put on 'trial', it is shown that Bane takes Miranda hostage. However, a later scene shows Bruce meeting Miranda and Fox, neither are hostages. Later still, when he first appears before Gordon, Batman asks where Miranda is, despite seeing her as Bruce Wayne in a previous scene.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;IMDB page can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/goofs?item=gf1853486&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or secondly: Poor editing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From the user Vadersville on the empireonline website: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Bruce sees Miranda when he is brought before Lucius and tells her he'll come back for her. He and Lucius are then taken away with Selina. Lucius and Bruce go off to get him armed up whilst Miranda and Gordon and his men are taken before Crane in the court and sentenced to death by exile. Bane tells the guards to bring Miranda to him and leaves with her. Bruce then rescues Gordon but Miranda isn't there so he asks where she is. Where is the error?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Page can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.empireonline.com/forum/tm.asp?m=3460074&amp;amp;mpage=10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22724" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-05T19:09:06.523" LastActivityDate="2015-07-05T19:09:06.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36233" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36234" CreationDate="2015-07-05T22:07:20.600" Score="4" ViewCount="520" Body="&lt;p&gt;In India, I am very sure non-IMAX movies are played in IMAX screens. I am not sure whether American IMAX screens plays them. My friend says they &quot;should not&quot; play non-IMAX movies in IMAX screens in America.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it true?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="937" LastEditorUserId="9382" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T16:05:58.100" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T16:05:58.100" Title="Do IMAX screens in America play non-IMAX movies?" Tags="|film-techniques|imax|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36233" CreationDate="2015-07-05T22:12:03.573" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMAX is a brand name. It appears that many cinemas across the world are gearing up to show films on &lt;em&gt;larger-than-average&lt;/em&gt; screens under the IMAX banner, without these actually being &lt;em&gt;IMAX-quality&lt;/em&gt; films. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's an article about it &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090513/0150344862.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; relating to AMC's tie-up with IMAX and showing the difference between a 'classic' IMAX screen and an AMC IMAX screen (see below)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conversely, most IMAX cinemas in the UK and US regularly run screenings of classic non-IMAX films on their IMAX screens. I myself went to see Akira on an IMAX screen in Birmingham, presumably it had been upscaled to fit the screen without distortion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AQx9t.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-07-05T22:17:51.680" LastActivityDate="2015-07-05T22:17:51.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36340" CreationDate="2015-07-05T23:38:45.050" Score="3" ViewCount="269" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've heard the original ending for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027240/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vámonos con Pancho Villa&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Fernando de Fuentes, México, 1936) was changed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What was the original ending?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why was it changed?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If possible, I'd need sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22679" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-05T23:53:38.140" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T21:21:33.133" Title="What was the original ending in &quot;Vámonos con Pancho Villa&quot;?" Tags="|alternate-version|vamonos-con-pancho-villa|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36240" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36271" CreationDate="2015-07-05T23:44:14.467" Score="10" ViewCount="791" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jscW05NSg7M&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;In this &quot;behind the scenes&quot; footage&lt;/a&gt;, which shows how the bus flip was done, at 0:52 there is a strange vehicle that comes up alongside the bus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nbm8Q.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is this?  It appears to be a normal car enclosed inside a metal cage.  I am guessing the reason for the slanted front is to prevent any of the  cables (which were used to flip the bus) from catching the front of the car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't understand its purpose.  If it were a camera car, then I would expect the top to be open so cameras could be mounted.  Also, I don't remember any side shots this close in the film. (There are some side shots, but they are perhaps 100' away, on the other side of the bridge railing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the purpose of this car?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW when I saw the movie, I had no idea this was a practical stunt.  I just assumed it was CGI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-07T14:41:07.363" LastActivityDate="2016-08-07T14:41:07.363" Title="What is this vehicle during the filming of the bus flip in Terminator Genisys" Tags="|production|film-techniques|terminator-series|terminator-genisys|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="527" CreationDate="2015-07-06T01:48:30.050" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the same site you linked to (Outpost 31), there are interviews with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.outpost31.com/QAJC.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;John Carpenter&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.outpost31.com/QAStuartCohen.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stuart Cohen&lt;/a&gt; (the producer).  In both of these interviews, both men are repeatedly asked to disclose when various characters were assimilated.  The answer to every single one of these questions is the same:  &quot;We don't know.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are any number of fan-created theoretical timelines of infection, but none of them are any better than the others, because there is no correct answer to this question.  The director and producer deliberately avoided setting things (no pun intended) in stone, and Carpenter genuinely shows no interest whatsoever in the issue.  He doesn't know, and he doesn't care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cohen says more than Carpenter, however:  in his opinion, Blair was assimilated sometime between the autopsy on the two-headed Thing and his tantrum in the radio room.  But, just like the fan-created timelines, this belief is no closer to the truth than any other, for the simple reason that &lt;strong&gt;there is no truth&lt;/strong&gt;.  People were assimilated whenever you think they were assimilated.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is probably my favorite movie ever, and I've probably seen it 20 or 30 times.  I've read the novella upon which it was based (&lt;em&gt;Who Goes There?&lt;/em&gt; by John W. Campbell), I've read the short story inspired by the movie (&lt;em&gt;The Things&lt;/em&gt;, by Peter Watts), I've read every interview I can find and watched every video of every Question and Answer panel Carpenter and the rest of the cast and crew have done, and I've even read all the draft scripts available online.  I've also seen the mediocre prequel several times, although I don't particularly enjoy it, and read interviews and drafts of the script for that as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As much as I love &lt;em&gt;The Thing&lt;/em&gt;, and as curious as I am about these kinds of questions, I don't try to figure out all the details, because - as you have already said yourself - the whole point of the movie is the crushing sense of uncertainty.  I would assume that the reason Carpenter and Cohen never determined when each character was assimilated is because, if they did so, it would create an absolute certainty - precisely the thing they were trying to avoid.  If the people who made the movie don't know when each character was assimilated, no one can ever know.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that, quite simply, is what makes this film such a masterpiece.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-07-06T19:44:45.810" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T19:44:45.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="158" CreationDate="2015-07-06T01:56:50.347" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rather conveniently, producer Stuart Cohen has a blog devoted to his experience while working on &lt;em&gt;The Thing&lt;/em&gt;, and it includes an &lt;a href=&quot;http://theoriginalfan.blogspot.com/2011/09/music.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;entry&lt;/a&gt; about the score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In a perfect world, given unlimited time and resources, I think John would have preferred to compose the music for THE THING himself. The realities of the work yet to be done, however, combined with the need for a more expansive and layered approach to the score led us to consider other options.&lt;/strong&gt; We initially offered the film to Jerry Goldsmith who was unavailable, doing both POLTERGEIST and TWILIGHT ZONE for Spielberg. Availability on musician John Corigliano (ALTERED STATES) was checked. The legendary Alex North read the script, had ideas, and wanted to meet but at that point I felt the only composer John would possibly entrust his film to other than himself was Ennio Morricone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was far from complete or coherent - John was still filming in Stewart, so the film lacked most of the exterior scenes as well as amost all of the special effects, save the kennel . Morricone complained about the lack of continuity ( normally we wouldn't have run a film for any composer in this shape, and with the director not present ,but we did not have the luxury of time - we needed to secure his commitment, and were trying to wedge ourselves in to his schedule ) but agreed that if we were to come to him in Rome he would  &amp;quot;see what he could do&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doubts were definitively dispelled two months later when Morricone opened up his tattered valise and removed a reel of two inch tape containing the now-emblematic &amp;quot;heartbeat &amp;quot; theme. As we heard this for the first time in the recording booth at Universal I looked over at John, whose expression was initially one of relief, followed by something close to wonder... it seemed that Morricone had understood John perfectly. At the orchestral recording session the next day, I remember John coming in late and shyly taking a seat in the back, an observer for the first time as Morricone recorded the rest of the music for his movie. Having been recorded in large brushstrokes of sound, there was still the need for more specific transition and suspense cues which John, along with his partner, Alan Howarth, then supplied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically, Carpenter already had too much on his plate, and was forced to turn over responsibility for the score to an outside composer.  The only person Carpenter trusted with his baby was Ennio Morricone.  In the end, everyone walked away happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Update:  I found a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(1982_film)#Production&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;quote&lt;/a&gt; from Ennio Morricone himself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding The Thing, by John Carpenter, I've asked him, as he was preparing some electronic music with an assistant to edit on the film, &amp;quot;Why did you call me, if you want to do it on your own?&amp;quot; He surprised me, he said - &amp;quot;I got married to your music. This is why I've called you.&amp;quot; I was quite amazed, he called me because he had my music at his wedding. Then when he showed me the film, later when I wrote the music, we didn't exchange ideas. He ran away, nearly ashamed of showing it to me. I wrote the music on my own without his advice. Naturally, as I had become quite clever since 1982, I've written several scores relating to my life. And I had written one, which was electronic music. And [Carpenter] took the electronic score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-11T23:17:17.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1179" CreationDate="2015-07-06T02:16:51.240" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The writer, Eric Heisserer, has revealed that in the script he wrote, Kate does not survive.  He did an &lt;a href=&quot;http://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/26758/interview-the-thing-2011-screenwriter-explains-how-the-film-transformed-into-what-you-saw/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with the website &amp;quot;Bloody Disgusting&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question:  So does Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s character die at the end? In the film it’s a little unclear, was that ever spelled out in a draft?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Answer:  “&lt;strong&gt;I was very clear with Kate’s fate in the draft&lt;/strong&gt;. I understand that what I gave them doesn’t help in terms of growing a franchise. But &lt;strong&gt;there’s no way that she could survive&lt;/strong&gt;. I had it written so that they chase after Sander [on the way to the ship at the end of the film]. They’re in a snowcat but he isn’t. But then you start to see his tracks they they’re following to the ship get longer and longer and more alien. And you realize that he transformed into something that can go very fast on the ice. That’s what the smart creature would do. So they get there and Carter checks the one flame unit they have and finds that it’s almost completely out of fuel. So they decide to take all of the fuel from the Snowcat and put it into the flame unit. Because it’s better to kill this thing [than to be able to get away]. &lt;strong&gt;So at the end where she makes a decision that she thinks Carter is The Thing [and she needs to kill him], we realize that she is burning her fuel. She’s burning her way home. And the last scene is her looking at the burning snowcat, with no other way of getting anywhere. And just the emotions of the past two days, she starts to cry and then just heads into the wind and starts walking. She is screwed&lt;/strong&gt;. So that doesn’t happen [in the final film], but then again, that may be what audiences want“.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we obviously don't see all the events Heisserer describes in the finished movie, the version of events in the film don't directly contradict Heisserer's account, aside from the bit about using the fuel from the Snowcat to fill the flamethrowers.  So, although the movie doesn't show Kate sitting down in the snow and waiting to die, it is entirely plausible that she does so.  Any other outcome would be totally contradictory to the overall theme of both of the films (the 2011 prequel and the classic 1982 original movie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is almost impossible to imagine that Kate survived her ordeal.  The fact that she never reappears, and MacReady and the rest of the American team at Outpost 31 don't seem to know anything about what happened in the Norwegian camp, suggest that Kate really did die in the middle of nowhere, probably by her own choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T02:25:09.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1160" CreationDate="2015-07-06T02:30:51.110" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;WOW.  I never imagined that anyone would have seen the mediocre prequel but not the ridiculously amazing original movie, which is an absolute classic, and perhaps the greatest exemplar of its genre.  Excuse me while I compose myself and recover from the shock...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The filmmakers had the idea that the prequel should end exactly where the original movie begins - namely, with the Norwegians in the helicopter chasing the dog-Thing.  If you actually sit down and watch the two movies back to back, you will see that this is pretty much the way it works out.  The prequel did almost everything wrong, but this is one of the few exceptions to that rule.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The screenwriter, a man named Eric Heisserer, did an interview with the website Quiet Earth, which seems to be offline at the moment, but I have the relevant extract from the discussion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If we do this right — I just spoke on the phone today with [Producer] Eric Newman on the phone today, he's on set up in Toronto [and] he said things are going well. But if we can pull this off, this movie will work perfectly [as] the first half of a double feature. So that the last shot of this film will be two Norwegians and a chopper chasing after a dog. And you can plug in Carpenter's film and they will both feel and look as they have been made around the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, though- you really need to watch the REAL version of &lt;em&gt;The Thing&lt;/em&gt; - the one John Carpenter made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-07-06T09:39:09.307" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T09:39:09.307" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36250" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36253" CreationDate="2015-07-06T05:51:01.917" Score="9" ViewCount="7495" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure which season (probably 1st), I have seen a white walker riding on a dead horse, so we can safely assume the White Walkers can raise dead animals also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, what about the giants? I am thinking about this scenario: giant fighting along (alive) humans and got killed by wights or a White Walker. After this happens can he be raised and fight for the other side?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference from books is also fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-11-07T14:43:07.183" LastActivityDate="2017-11-07T14:43:07.183" Title="Can White Walkers raise the giants from dead and convert into wights (army of dead)?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36251" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-06T07:06:06.503" Score="9" ViewCount="4989" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2193021/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Arrow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was searching for the source of arrows but had no luck. In S01 there were some mentions that Oliver Queen made arrows for himself. I think I saw some scenes too of making arrows by Oliver himself (normal ones). But then we saw some custom arrows, arrows with explosives and sound recorder/transmitter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now where did these arrows come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pJwL9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These require technical skill that Oliver didn't have. He is a drop out. So he can't make cool stuff like Iron man can all by himself. In the beginning of S02 there was a mention that the bow was custom made and was a gift from Felicity. But there wasn't any mention about arrows. And I don't think Felicity made them, there also weren't any scenes of making those arrows (upto S03E02 that I've seen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an option: Queen Consolidated's Applied Science division. But there are 2 problems:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;His arrows' carry unique signatures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In S01 Detective Lance identified that signature and differentiated which one is Arrow's arrow and which one is from copycat Arrow (Merlyn). For this same reason Queen consolidated staff can know who is Arrow, the person that ordered to make them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In S02 ending portion Oliver lost the company, so he can't use its resources. But we saw in the beginning of S03 that he still got plenty of arrows. So I guess it's not Oliver's company that makes them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WADXg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Iron man made his toys by himself, Batman created some by himself and others are made by Lucius, Flash gets his stuff from Star Labs. So how is Oliver getting these huge amounts of arrows, especially custom made ones? Any source where it's explained?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-04-07T11:18:53.837" Title="Who makes the arrows in TV show Arrow?" Tags="|plot-explanation|arrow|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36250" CreationDate="2015-07-06T07:24:03.997" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Wights#In_the_books&quot;&gt;GoT Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the Others (the book term for&#xA;  the White Walkers) are able to animate corpses, human and animals&#xA;  alike, to serve them as footmen or mounts. According to old records,&#xA;  the Others are capable of reviving any dead animal as a wight, such as&#xA;  horses, dogs, bears, direwolves, mammoths, giants, ice spiders and&#xA;  even aquatic animals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The giants were listed among animals in these &quot;old records&quot;, because &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Giants#In_the_books&quot;&gt;in the books&lt;/a&gt; they are much more animalistic in appearance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T07:24:03.997" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36255" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36256" CreationDate="2015-07-06T07:41:37.927" Score="24" ViewCount="24509" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Episode 9 of Season 3 of Game of Thrones there's something I didn't understand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robb and his men go to the wedding of his uncle to one of Frey's daughter, but Frey and Roose Bolton betrays the Starks and after the wedding is done Frey commands his men to kill them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But before the massacre happens, Catelyn seems to be suspicious of what is going to happen as Frey's starts telling about the &quot;gift&quot;. Meanwhile Roose Bolton comes and sit near Catelyn, she then takes his sleeve a bit up and then slaps him, here's the screenshot of that scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/edXRp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is still unclear to me what did Catelyn see that she understood Bolton betrayed them. Any explanation please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15590" LastActivityDate="2016-12-23T16:39:48.430" Title="What did Catelyn Tully see on Roose Bolton's hand before she slapped him" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36255" CreationDate="2015-07-06T07:51:09.560" Score="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was wearing a mail underneath, which is a battle clothing not for a marriage ceremony. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But her suspicion started when she notices Black Walder Rivers close&#xA;  the banquet hall doors and the musicians in the gallery begin playing&#xA;  &quot;The Rains of Castamere&quot;- the song commemorating House Lannister's&#xA;  decisive and brutal victory against the rebellious House Reyne of&#xA;  Castamere. Walder rises to make a toast to Robb, and Catelyn, seated&#xA;  beside Lord Roose Bolton, notices that the latter is wearing mail&#xA;  under his clothing. - &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Catelyn_Stark&quot;&gt;GOT Wikia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-07-06T14:57:18.630" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T14:57:18.630" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36183" CreationDate="2015-07-06T08:06:17.207" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;They got help from someone&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; John Connor / T-3000&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This guy is from future and he might have brought a skynet chip with him else helped creating a one with the name Genisys. As skynet himself sent him in past, so he must have secured his existence too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T08:06:17.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36258" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-06T09:20:06.070" Score="7" ViewCount="3484" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series Supernatural, almost all episodes have a darkish colour scheme. The only exception is for episodes partly set in another universe, e.g. S05E08 &quot;Changing Channels&quot; where they brothers were put through a number of TV shows, or S06E15 &quot;The French Mistake&quot; where they are thrown into this world. The effect on the viewer is that the Supernatural universe is darker and &quot;grittier&quot; than our own (and other series).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a technical or colloquial term for this effect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22719" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-06T09:23:09.747" LastActivityDate="2018-01-04T09:24:09.240" Title="What is the term for the colour scheme/effect in e.g. Supernatural" Tags="|film-techniques|effects|supernatural|terminology|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-05T17:21:46.217" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36269" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-06T12:55:58.020" Score="15" ViewCount="28537" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed &quot;&lt;em&gt;Who killed the world?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; appear in two scenes in &lt;em&gt;Mad Max: Fury Road&lt;/em&gt;: It is seen written on the walls when Immortan Joe enters the vault where the &quot;breeders&quot; / sex slaves are kept, and it is said by Angharad just before she threw out Nux from the war rig:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Angharad: Breeding stock! Battle fodder!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Nux: No, I am awaited!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Angharad: You're an old man's battle fodder!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Angharad: Killing everyone and everything!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Nux:  We're not to blame!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Angharad: Then who killed the world?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  *Angharad pushes out Nux from the war rig.*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both contexts, the appearance or utterance of the phrase seemed to be unrelated to the situation at hand. In the vault, I understand why &quot;Our babies will not be warlords&quot;, and &quot;We are not things&quot; are written (Angharad and company not wanting to be Immortan Joe's &quot;breeders&quot; / slaves) - same with Angharad exclaiming that Nux is just &quot;battle fodder&quot;. But what is meant by &quot;Who killed the world?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T15:52:03.017" Title="What is meant by &quot;Who killed the world?&quot;" Tags="|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36270" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36273" CreationDate="2015-07-06T12:58:27.303" Score="2" ViewCount="508" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the barkeeper takes John to the HQ of the temporal agents we see that the date is 12 August 1985 late night (11 pm if I am not mistaken). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, almost at the end of the movie, after the barkeeper goes back to 1975 to be decommissioned, we see John in his room with a recorder listening to some advices that the barkeeper is giving him, in particular, the record says something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you'll listen to this 7 years have passed, the first mission is as important as the last one...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So 7 years, but the camera shows that actually the time is 13 Aug 1985, so it is the next day: what does it mean? is the timeline changing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-15T01:38:17.983" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T01:38:17.983" Title="How did 7 years pass?" Tags="|plot-explanation|predestination|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36240" CreationDate="2015-07-06T13:55:43.877" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Building on my earlier comment, if I had to guess, I'd say that it was a &lt;strong&gt;camera pursuit vehicle.&lt;/strong&gt; The rails on the front are presumably to mount cameras onto. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you zoom in a little, you can see (from earlier in the &quot;making of&quot; video) that there's a ball-shaped camera mounted &lt;em&gt;inside&lt;/em&gt; the frame on the front.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UzMWK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-07-06T14:29:54.517" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T14:29:54.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36270" CreationDate="2015-07-06T14:23:35.953" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reff:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digestivepyrotechnics.com/2014/12/predestination-plot-explained.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Predestination Explained&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;There is a handy time-line diagram if you need in that link&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The instructions that are left by Barkeep is for John to follow is given to John 7 years after he's made to join at the HQ. Assuming John starts training to be a Temporal Agent in the year 1985, 7 years later, he goes on his first mission. 1985 + 7 = 1992. His first mission is given to him in the year 1992, 7 years after he has last seen Barkeep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T14:23:35.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36220" CreationDate="2015-07-06T14:45:12.030" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this trailer for Judgement Day: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/7QXDPzx71jQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Go to position 1:00. Terminator actually tells John Connor that he was sent 35 years from today. It's there in the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You did.  Thirty years from now you reprogrammed me to be your&#xA;  protector here, in this time.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;T2 happens in 1995. So plus 35 is 2030.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18959" LastEditorUserId="18959" LastEditDate="2018-12-26T15:11:59.587" LastActivityDate="2018-12-26T15:11:59.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="36276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36255" CreationDate="2015-07-06T14:46:08.290" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR : Catelyn slapped Roose because she realized that they were about to be betrayed, and that Roose was a part of it. She knew this because he was wearing chainmail at the wedding.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the most sacred traditions in Westeros is that of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Guest_right&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Guest Right&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, which is a sacred law protecting both hosts AND guests from hostility while staying at another's castle or home. Under this law, even the most hated of enemies dare not attack each other. The law works equally for host and guest, and is based on the honor system - anyone who breaks the right is almost guaranteed to be executed themselves by other Houses, since no one can trust a House that would break the right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Catelyn_Stark&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Catelyn&lt;/a&gt; was already suspicious of the invitation, given the circumstances. Her son &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Robb_Stark&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Robb&lt;/a&gt; had blatantly disregarded his earlier pact with &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Walder_Frey&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Walder Frey&lt;/a&gt;, and yet Frey still extended an invitation to attend his daughter's wedding. She reminded Robb of this very fact in episode S03E07 &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Bear_and_the_Maiden_Fair_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Bear and the Maiden Fair&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, yet Robb accepted since he believed that Frey would never break the law of Guest Right, especially over one &quot;little&quot; broken oath.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the scene you describe, three things happen that tell Catelyn what's about to happen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The band starts playing a song that is practically the Lannister anthem&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Walder Frey's men start closing and locking the doors of the banquet hall&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Catelyn notices both of these things, and then sees that &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Roose_Bolton&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Roose Bolton&lt;/a&gt; is wearing chainmail - something he wouldn't do at a wedding unless he was expecting combat&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that moment, Catelyn realizes that they are about to be betrayed, and it's obvious that Roose Bolton is part of it. With little else she can do, she slaps Bolton out of anger and then tries to warn Robb. Of course, it's all too late by that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Also, it should be noted that - even as crazy as he was - Walder Frey could only be convinced to break Guest Right once he had the assurances of Tywin Lannister that nothing bad would happen to he or his family afterwards. He and Roose Bolton discuss this after the massacre. Of course, though, as we see later in S06E10... Tywin Lannister didn't count on&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; a vengeful Faceless-trained Arya Stark returning from the dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15909" LastEditorUserId="15909" LastEditDate="2016-12-23T16:39:48.430" LastActivityDate="2016-12-23T16:39:48.430" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36269" CreationDate="2015-07-06T17:06:33.717" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The world was ruined by war and the exhaustion of natural resources. The nations that did it, for the most part, were under the control of arrogant, power-hungry men. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arrogant, power-hungry men killed the world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8730" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T17:06:33.717" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36269" CreationDate="2015-07-06T17:26:43.207" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now first and foremost, in the movie's setting the phrase obviously relates to the apocalypse, which killed the world as we know it and turned it into the madhouse we see in the movie. So who then actually killed the world? Now seeing that context in which those words are spoken, they're obviously &lt;strong&gt;directed at Immortan Joe and his War Boys and the kind of people they represent&lt;/strong&gt;. It is thus directed at the ruthless dictators and their brutal followers based on power and aggression, incarnated by Immortan and his admirers, who originally &lt;strong&gt;killed the world in their power-hungry and brutal ways&lt;/strong&gt; and who now continue on exactly that path (if not an even more extreme path), especially when seen together with other messages like &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Our Babies Won't Be Warlords&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. The breeding mothers are not just revolting against their opression in Immortan Joe's harem, but even more so for a future where their children will not become like all the other War Boys who once &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;killed the world&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But furthermore, we should also consider the &lt;strong&gt;many feministic themes&lt;/strong&gt; prevalent in the movie (people better-versed in the respective terminology might excuse me if &amp;quot;feminism&amp;quot; isn't the correct term here, though), be that the whole situation with the breeding mothers, the strong role Furiosa has in freeing them from their opression, the culture of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/34600/49&quot;&gt;Vuvalini&lt;/a&gt;,... The movie's general tenor is largely seen as feministic by a wide variety of the audience and critics (be it in a positive or negative way), among them also to some degree &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/05/mad-max-fury-road-george-miller-interview&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;George Miller himself&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I’ve gone from being very male dominant to being surrounded by magnificent women. I can’t help but be a feminist,” says George Miller.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...many of the rapturous reactions to his new film, Mad Max; Fury Road, have focused on the dominant role of women in the film, from the fearless Imperator Furiosa played by Charlize Theron to the well-drawn, fascinating quintet of kidnapped wives whom Furiosa spends the film spiriting to safety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some other articles reinforcing this notion (but it's really all over the web):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gender-focus.com/2015/05/26/who-killed-the-world-the-complicated-feminism-of-mad-max-fury-road/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Who Killed the World? – The Complicated Feminism of Mad Max: Fury Road&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/20/mad-max-how-mras-killed-the-world.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;‘Mad Max’: How Men’s Rights Activists Killed the World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://thunderclam.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/who-killed-the-world/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;“Who killed the world?”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Set this in relation to the traits that Immortan Joe and his War Boys represent and I'd say this message can be seen in a much deeper relation to the general &lt;strong&gt;patriarchy and violent masculinity&lt;/strong&gt; that governs the world and is supposedly responsible for its demise. Thus I would say, in the context of the movie, &lt;strong&gt;it's the &lt;em&gt;men&lt;/em&gt; who killed the world&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T17:52:36.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36282" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-07-06T18:29:35.933" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-07-06T18:29:35.933" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T18:29:35.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36283" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-07-06T18:29:35.933" Score="0" Body="Genre of television entertainment in which real people are shown in real-life, usually unscripted." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-07-06T21:17:38.563" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T21:17:38.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="736" CreationDate="2015-07-06T18:33:17.383" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, he watched the movie when it was released. You can see him at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/actors-soleil-moon-frye-and-edward-furlong-attend-the-news-photo/156131025&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Los Angeles premiere&lt;/a&gt; here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/veZwy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T18:33:17.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="731" CreationDate="2015-07-06T18:42:46.377" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nolan spoke to this in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1609&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview for Empire-Online&lt;/a&gt;. In short, he simply found it difficult to imagine Robin fitting into the world he'd created:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q. &lt;strong&gt;We have to ask about the Robin gag at the end. We’d always wondered how possible it would be to make that character work in this version&#xA;  of the Batman universe, and this has to have been the only way.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nolan: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It is a little hard to imagine Robin working in that universe, so the idea had to be limited to that gag at the end.&lt;/strong&gt; But Joe’s character is&#xA;  very important to the story. In any movie you need a character looking&#xA;  at proceedings the way you see them, and Joe’s character is that&#xA;  character for this film. One of my favourite scenes is when John tells&#xA;  Bruce how he knew he was Batman. It’s like that scene in The Prestige&#xA;  where the little kid sees through Christian’s trick. Little kids, they&#xA;  don’t have any illusions, they just see the truth of the situation. I&#xA;  feel there’s a kind of spiritual connection between the two movies&#xA;  there.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-07-06T18:52:18.243" LastActivityDate="2015-07-06T18:52:18.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32986" CreationDate="2015-07-06T18:44:04.740" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Little Barry didn't disappear because there was no reason for him to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no &quot;law of time&quot; that states that only one person can exist in a timeline at any one time, because time simply doesn't work like that. Time doesn't care if two arbitrary combinations of matter floating through space-time make up what we as humans perceive as the same person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Barry travelled back to save his mom, since Barry is able to have very precise control over his location in the multiverse (for lack of a better of term), he was able to travel into his own past and see his younger self. If he had decided to save his mom, he would have made the specific decision to remain travelling on that timeline and travel to the future of that timeline. In the end, that's not what happened and he returned to his own timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real question should be: &quot;What happened to future Barry?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Incidentally, in &quot;Out of Time&quot; when Barry time travelled, it's not clear why the other Barry seemed to disappear. That's probably an inconsistency to aid in storytelling, although you could theorize that Barry was still travelling at that time and was &quot;passing through&quot;, or maybe because Barry in that instance DID alter the past (by looking at himself), it created a timeline where the other Barry never went back in time, a type of paradox that the universe resolved by eliminating the other Barry. But more likely just an inconsistency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22762" LastEditorUserId="40334" LastEditDate="2017-04-27T13:55:27.657" LastActivityDate="2017-04-27T13:55:27.657" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33753" CreationDate="2015-07-06T18:56:39.597" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This event seems to be the singular instance of this happening in all the time travel involved in the Flash, so it's likely that this was just creative licence, because trying to deal with a second Barry in this episode would have been too complicated on the writers' part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you want an in-universe explanation, I would say this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;other&quot; Barry is from a future where Barry went back in time, but because our Barry saw him, it led him on a path where he ended up going back in time (where otherwise he wouldn't have done) to create a past where he didn't go back in time, causing the other Barry to be erased. When he later became the &quot;other Barry&quot; the positions were reversed and the &quot;original&quot; Barry disappeared because he was from an aborted timeline. To elaborate on this, when Future Barry went back in time and was seen by his earlier self, he disappeared because he was transported immediately to HIS version of events that occurred as a result of the original Barry going back in time. To put it a simpler way, because Barry's time travelling was a predetermined event from the beginning, the events we see from the moment near the beginning of Out of Time and the moment he leaps at the end, are THEMSELVES the alternate events that only Barry will ever have experienced. In a sense, during this episode, Barry is truly &quot;Out of Time&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22762" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-10-15T10:27:54.010" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T10:27:54.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="675" CreationDate="2015-07-06T20:56:03.890" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;http://entertainment.time.com/2011/06/22/a-qa-with-cars-2-director-john-lasseter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Time interview&lt;/a&gt; with John Lasseter, he spoke about the reasons why Doc's voice wasn't recast;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cars 2 includes an homage to Paul Newman, whose character, Doc Hudson, was the elder statesman of Radiator Springs. Newman died&#xA;shortly after making the original Cars, and now the Piston Cup,&#xA;McQueen’s big race, has been renamed the Hudson Hornet Piston Cup. Did&#xA;you cast Michael Caine as Finn McMissile to try to fill those&#xA;elder-statesman shoes?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;First of all, Paul Newman and I became very close friends. I loved that man. I went to a number of races with him and shared his love of&#xA;racing. Every time I went to New York, I would have dinner with him&#xA;and Joanne. &lt;strong&gt;We have lost a few of our voice actors in the past and&#xA;had to find soundalikes, but I just couldn’t do that because Doc&#xA;Hudson was Paul Newman.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Film-Review/cars-2-john-lasseter-interview&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;and&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, that’s why I say he was Doc Hudson and Doc Hudson was him. So,&#xA;when we started contemplating the new movie, right away we said:&#xA;“Let’s just come up with a tasteful way to somehow pay homage to the&#xA;character and to Paul Newman.” So, we came up with the idea that the&#xA;big cup that they race for is called The Piston Cup, which became&#xA;re-named The Hudson Hornet Memorial Piston Cup in honour of Doc Hudson&#xA;and they turned his doctor’s office into a Doc Hudson Museum. So,&#xA;there’s just a little moment with Mater and McQueen right at the&#xA;beginning which was my kind of tribute to Paul Newman in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I know of no source that confirms what the Doc actually died of &lt;em&gt;in-universe&lt;/em&gt; (presumably simply of old age or the car equivalent of organ failure)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="100979" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2023-11-19T17:05:21.303" LastActivityDate="2023-11-19T17:05:21.303" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="36292" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36330" CreationDate="2015-07-06T21:35:06.603" Score="16" ViewCount="4817" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Terminator: Genisys, it's explained that any exposed metal can't travel through time. Only metal that's covered in living tissue (like a terminator) or a fully-naked human. So how can a T-1000 time travel, since it's 100% (liquid) metal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-07T18:15:39.647" LastActivityDate="2016-08-07T18:15:39.647" Title="The T-1000 doesn't have flesh, so how can it time-travel?" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-series|terminator-genisys|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5736" CreationDate="2015-07-07T00:03:23.760" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;They blew up the engine when they first tried to get it running on whiskey, therefor not having enough time to repair the engine before doc's murder and if they had switched engine parts ir still would have changed space time continuum because the engine parts would not have been availble until the early 80's for the delorean&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22770" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T00:03:23.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30481" CreationDate="2015-07-07T00:15:07.293" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is done purely as a sign of respect. The only thing the number of tridents really reflects is how many seals were there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22771" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T00:15:07.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34751" CreationDate="2015-07-07T02:42:27.477" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nux says very softly, &quot;witness me,&quot; which is what a War Boy shouts when about to die heroically in battle. (The comrades shout &quot;Witness!&quot; while making the sign of V8, to send each other shiny and chrome to Valhalla.)&#xA;Nux was asking Capable to witness his deed.  She has become, in effect, his Valkyrie, who will bear him to the afterlife, valiantly slain for a noble cause. (In fact, with her braids, she resembles a Valkyrie of Norse mythology.)&#xA;She makes the identical gesture made by the Vuvalini, to catch his spirit and draw it to her heart; and then he wrecks the disabled war rig to block the pass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22774" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-07-07T03:27:30.250" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T03:27:30.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36304" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36306" CreationDate="2015-07-07T03:09:27.880" Score="11" ViewCount="1535" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the movie line is pretty famous but can't quite remember. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The speaker talks about some kind of an effect and he drops a ball down the slope and says something inevitable happens no matter what, meaning that the ball will fall to the ground anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it does. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the listener tells him that he could have prevented it by catching the ball before it touches the ground the speaker says, &quot;But I didn't.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, the actual movie line might be very different, but this is what I can remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; (I'm adding a few more details as others requested)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is in English and I believe it is an American film.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I can't remember the actors. The movie scene where two people are talking is a dark room (and there probably were a few more) and I think a projector was running.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't watch the whole movie but that particular scene was cut and played in a TV show or another movie, I can't remember. The time I watched this was around 2009-2010, but I felt that this was somewhat popular a movie scene that it was quoted and played - the effect being explained popular like &quot;butterfly effect&quot; - and maybe produced sometime earlier. (not sure again when)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22778" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-07-07T07:31:10.743" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T07:31:10.743" Title="Movie with a character illustrating that the inevitable happens no matter what by dropping a ball down a slope" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:50:42.293" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36304" CreationDate="2015-07-07T05:05:16.143" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Report_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Minority Report&lt;/a&gt;, where Tom Cruise's character John demonstrates predetermination to Colin Farrell's character Danny by rolling a ball along the plexiglass table, which Danny then catches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; Why'd you catch that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Danny:&lt;/strong&gt; Because it was gonna fall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; You're certain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Danny:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; But it didn't fall. You caught it. Preventing it doesn't change the fact that it was going to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It happens in a dark(ish) room with a screen. Here's most of the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/z2n7SXUM9m0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. If you're trying to remember &lt;em&gt;where&lt;/em&gt; you saw it, you can search &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/movieconnections#featured_in&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; in the desired year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T07:26:57.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="142" CreationDate="2015-07-07T13:03:33.517" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vincent had the chance to kill max. I'm sure he has an extra bullets to reload his gun, but what for? He's dying anyway. It only shows vincent's sportsmanship. An act of a professional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22786" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T13:03:33.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27868" CreationDate="2015-07-07T13:15:16.267" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per my theory which is based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/30744/22603&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ellsbury.com/enigma3.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4V2bpZlqx8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the sake of entertainment, the makers of the movie clubbed together two different epiphanies to make the story more thrilling. There is a possibility that John's answer is correct and this is what (&lt;em&gt;consistencies&lt;/em&gt;) the machine really tried to find out before the moment of realization(s). In reality, this might have happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Miss Clarke pointed out that &lt;em&gt;No letter can be encoded as itself&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;code&gt;Epiphany I&lt;/code&gt;), with this information Turing successfully decrypted the enigma. As the above mentioned video states after this realization the complexity (&lt;em&gt;possible number of combinations the machine had to check&lt;/em&gt;) of the procedure became less than 26&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt; but the machine was still taking too much time. Now the task was to make it more efficient. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Turing met Helen in the bar and got to know that there is a German interceptor whose messages begin with the same five letters &lt;code&gt;C-I-L-L-Y&lt;/code&gt; he deduced that instead of using random letters for the encryption of the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/30744/22603&quot;&gt;day key&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, some people uses the letters which they like and these letters are &lt;em&gt;predictable&lt;/em&gt; like &lt;code&gt;QWE&lt;/code&gt;,&lt;code&gt;ABC&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;code&gt;ASD&lt;/code&gt; etc (&lt;code&gt;Epiphany II&lt;/code&gt;). And hence the enigma was successfully broken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22603" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T13:15:16.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34287" CreationDate="2015-07-07T13:44:04.760" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think, from what I remember, it's all been planned by the atwoods to steal his NZT. It all began long before he appeared at the police line up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you are asking the wrong question. The merger is not even a subplot of the movie. The atwoods had a limited resource of NZT and while using NZT, don't forget that they (atwoods) are very smart too. And so, the competition begins. Maybe the merger is part of the plan to lure eddie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22786" LastEditorUserId="22786" LastEditDate="2015-07-07T22:27:12.480" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T22:27:12.480" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36168" CreationDate="2015-07-07T14:53:46.100" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;A samurai cannot accept the shame of defeat. At the end of the film, they are really outnumbered and realizing that they cannot withstand another assault, Katsumoto orders a suicidal attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22786" LastEditorUserId="22786" LastEditDate="2015-07-09T00:16:45.167" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T00:16:45.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36319" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-07T16:22:36.347" Score="3" ViewCount="316" Body="&lt;p&gt;What inspired the vacuum tube train near the end of &lt;em&gt;Kingsman: The Secret Service&lt;/em&gt;...was it the Scientific American article by L.K.Edwards 50 years ago? The one buried under New York made a brief appearance a few years ago in a Godzilla movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22789" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-07T16:34:40.903" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T19:43:17.707" Title="What inspired the vacuum tube train near the end?" Tags="|realism|kingsman-the-secret-service|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36319" CreationDate="2015-07-07T18:24:07.970" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I saw the film I took it to have been inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mailrail.co.uk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mail Rail&lt;/a&gt;.  This is the system under London that used to carry mailbags between the major rail termini and the Sorting Office at Mount Pleasant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was originally a pneumatic system:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S9Hl8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Pneumatic Mail Rail&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;but later became a driverless electric railway - and no longer pneumatic:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uWy7A.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Electric Mail Rail&quot;&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The system was closed a few years ago and has now become one of London's more unusual tourist attractions.  You can ride on one of the old electric wagons, converted to take a couple of passengers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bit of disclosure; I wrote some of the software that controlled the electric system when it received an upgrade in the early 1990s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The pictures are on the linked website&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-07-07T18:30:25.257" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T18:30:25.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36326" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36327" CreationDate="2015-07-07T19:36:38.510" Score="5" ViewCount="2752" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have found on 9-gag this still:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2Cns8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;with Mr. Spock holding an &quot;exotic animal&quot; which is actually an annoyed dog in a unicorn-suit (sorta...). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From which episode is it? Unless it is a photoshopped image (can't really trust 9-gag...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T20:05:34.047" Title="Star trek episode with Mr. Spock holding an &quot;exotic animal&quot;" Tags="|identify-this-episode|star-trek|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:30:28.990" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36326" CreationDate="2015-07-07T20:05:34.047" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you Google &quot;Spock Unicorn Dog&quot;, it seems that this image is from episode called &quot;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enemy_Within_%28Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series%29&quot;&gt;The Enemy Within&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&quot; (Season 1 Episode 5).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Scott assists in beaming a dog-like animal specimen from the planet, but he and the others are surprised when two identical creatures materialize - one completely docile and the other vicious. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From IMDb's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708463/synopsis&quot;&gt;synopsis&lt;/a&gt; page:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;First, after repairs are made, they try the experiment with a unicorn-dog, which was split into two when it was beamed up. One half of the unicorn-dog was peaceful, the other was snarling and biting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this image appears on a site called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thegeektwins.com/2013/01/caption-this-spock-and-unicorn-dog.html#.VZwxJudBCM8&quot;&gt;thegeektwins.com&lt;/a&gt; in a caption contest where it specifically notes the source of the image:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While the original Star Trek: The Original Series series had a lot of things going for it (a great cast, engaging characters, thought-provoking science-fiction, resonant themes), I don't think anyone would list &quot;big budget&quot; among them. Nowhere was it more evident than in &quot;The Enemy Within,&quot; when an alien creature was depicted by a little dog in a fur coat and a horn. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T20:05:34.047" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36292" CreationDate="2015-07-07T20:46:45.743" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/94900/20774&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to the same question on Scifi:SE&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the film's Visual Effects editor, this was left &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jamescamerononline.com/T2FAQ.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;somewhat ambiguous&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Van Ling:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;That idea (flesh cocoon) was one we had bandied about during preproduction, but it was something that we thought would be&#xA;  too confusing to show visually it would have been like when Brett&#xA;  finds the shed alien skin in Alien. I still think it's the most&#xA;  logical explanation, given we see a flesh &quot;mold&quot; in the teaser trailer&#xA;  already. The other possibilities are that 1) the T-1000 could mimic&#xA;  the field generated by a living organism or 2) Reese really does NOT&#xA;  know tech stuff. Note that several comics and other media later played&#xA;  off the idea of surgically embedding weapons into human carriers and&#xA;  ripping them out of them once they arrived&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Originally there was suppose to be a scene showing officer Joe Austin finding the skin. it was something that we thought would be too&#xA;  confusing to show visually it would have been like when Brett finds&#xA;  the shed alien skin in Alien&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day_(Frakes_novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;official novelisation&lt;/a&gt; makes it extremely clear what has happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They walked underneath them to the place where the &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/us3ggae8-Ec?t=52s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;two 20-ton plates&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;  met and peered within the small gap there. it was only large enough&#xA;  for a single man to step between and there was an indention in each of&#xA;  the plates, an indention in the shape of a man. Connor squinted at&#xA;  something gleaming at the edge of a small round opening positioned&#xA;  where the neck of a man would be in the lower indention. He squatted,&#xA;  feeling his age in his aching knees, and shined his light at what had&#xA;  caught his eye. He carefully extended the tip of his plasma rifle down&#xA;  into the indention, using the barrel of the well used weapon to prod&#xA;  what appeared to be a large drop of liquid mercury. As the barrel of&#xA;  his rifle touched the liquid it flowed onto the barrel of his rifle&#xA;  and seemed to soak in, disappearing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T20:46:45.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36202" CreationDate="2015-07-07T21:27:47.527" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was just scribbles/nonsensical doodles, from the looks of it. Below is a still from the episode, if it helps any:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PjKrb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;(Edit: I got the image from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/1086450/orange-is-the-new-black-season-3-mothers-day-episode&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article.&lt;/a&gt; Didn't find it very useful otherwise, but figured I should source the picture.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2015-07-07T21:37:59.477" LastActivityDate="2015-07-07T21:37:59.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34287" CreationDate="2015-07-07T23:44:57.117" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie, &quot;Limitless,&quot; was closely based on a book written by Alan Glynn, titled, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Fields&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dark Fields&lt;/a&gt;.&quot;  While the names of companies and some details might differ, the explanation for the merger leak is explained fairly clearly in the following passages (289, 299):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wCMAx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it wasn't explained in the film version, it is reasonable to attribute the leak to the original source material.  Although, admittidly, Carl was aware of it in the book version (indeed, he was the source).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22795" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-08T08:31:57.193" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T08:31:57.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36337" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36729" CreationDate="2015-07-08T00:13:35.017" Score="7" ViewCount="892" Body="&lt;p&gt;So Sarah and Kyle managed to save the world from judgement day in Terminator Genisys. They destroyed Genisys/Skynet.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just remembered that John mentions to Kate and Terminator (Arnold) in Terminator: Rise of Machines while in the graveyard, that his mother died of Leukemia.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Genisys, Sarah now lives a normal life but does that change the way she dies?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Or was John trying to hide the real reason for his mother's death by making up a story of cancer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21342" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-07T18:14:47.617" LastActivityDate="2016-08-07T18:14:47.617" Title="Will Sarah Connor still die of Leukemia?" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-series|terminator-genisys|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36238" CreationDate="2015-07-08T03:03:40.843" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just found the answer &lt;a href=&quot;http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/peliculas/vamonos.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vámonos con Pancho Villa was news again in 1973, when Filmoteca UNAM found a 16mm copy including an, until then, unknown ending. In that alternate ending, Pancho Villa comes back to get Tiburcio Maya and asks him to fight again with his army. When Tiburcio refuses, Villa kills him, his wife and his daughter, and takes his young son to the Revolution. It is not known if this ending was censored, but it is more likely that it was De Fuentes himself who decided to remove it, finding it unnecessary or too cruel. The movie was broadcasted on Mexican TV with this ending in 1982.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alternate ending can be found on YouTube:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/hgvSOU7ULjM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My humble opinion is that the original ending is way better. The alternate ending, though, adds yet another dimension to the already multidimensional Villa character. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22679" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-24T21:21:33.133" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T21:21:33.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4216" CreationDate="2015-07-08T03:55:26.203" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jose gave Cole the gun so that he would be killed and preserve the timeline. The scientist did not want to prevent the virus outbreak because if the virus is not spread they would have never had the chance to send anyone back to stop it, which creates a paradox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22806" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T03:55:26.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36342" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-08T04:50:17.820" Score="3" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Ultimate Gift, there is a park scene (00:33:51), When Emily's mother came and ask for Jason's forgiveness on account of the fact that her daughter was disturbing him, Jason said &quot;That's ok, I'm not the one who's disturbed&quot;. After that, Emily's reaction was angry, she said &quot;Some friend you are, thanks a lot, poser.&quot; Why was she angry? Jason just said that he's not being disturbed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-08T08:53:21.810" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T08:53:21.810" Title="Why did Emily's mother become angry on Jason's reply?" Tags="|dialogue|plot-explanation|the-ultimate-gift|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36343" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36346" CreationDate="2015-07-08T04:50:44.530" Score="12" ViewCount="1616" Body="&lt;p&gt;In overall Breaking Bad series, only 2 of the eateries of Los Pollos Hermanos eateries were shown. One in which the main events happen and another one is within mall or commercial complex which is seen for just small time in one episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The eatery where most of the events take place, where Gus and Walter meet for the first time. Is it a real located eatery or is it just a set created for the series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22115" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-08T08:30:22.930" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T08:30:22.930" Title="Is the Los Pollos Hermanos eatery a real place or a movie set?" Tags="|breaking-bad|film-location|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19701" CreationDate="2015-07-08T04:58:37.097" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There probably is a movie missing where he gets his claws back, if you look in the picture i attached you can see his bodyguard being handed  box with his clause in it at the end of The wolverine.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oMP9X.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22808" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-08T08:29:15.543" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T08:29:15.543" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36345" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37068" CreationDate="2015-07-08T05:21:50.977" Score="3" ViewCount="700" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently saw a Dutch movie called &quot;App&quot;. However, I am quite confused because of the absurd ending of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have the following questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Who invented the app called &quot;Iris&quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There was something uncanny about the app called &quot;Iris&quot;, but I don't know the reason behind its uncanny abilities?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20394" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-07-08T05:26:14.327" LastActivityDate="2015-07-25T18:42:29.947" Title="Who invented the app &quot;Iris&quot; in a Dutch movie called &quot;App&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|app|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36343" CreationDate="2015-07-08T05:24:20.137" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a real place in Albuquerque called &quot;Twisters&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tjdVE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Twisters&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So many of Breaking Bad’s filming locations in Albuquerque, New Mexico&#xA;  have become iconic and none more so than Twisters, which played home&#xA;  to Gus Fring’s crystal meth front, Los Pollos Hermanos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://metro.co.uk/2013/02/26/a-breaking-bad-pilgrimage-to-twisters-the-real-los-pollos-hermanos-3515683/&quot;&gt;the source article&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T05:24:20.137" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36348" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36367" CreationDate="2015-07-08T08:10:43.500" Score="9" ViewCount="627" Body="&lt;p&gt;From which years in the future are the terminators in Terminator 1, 2 and 3 sent back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-05T15:47:25.710" LastActivityDate="2016-08-05T15:47:25.710" Title="From which years are the Terminators sent back?" Tags="|the-terminator|terminator-2-judgment-day|terminator-3-rise-of-the-machines|terminator-series|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36349" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36352" CreationDate="2015-07-08T10:05:04.393" Score="30" ViewCount="9120" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have the directors ever explained why the TV show &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; is named after the first book, instead of the book series &quot;A Song of Ice and Fire&quot;? However, it is based on the whole book series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="22866" LastEditDate="2015-07-09T16:32:44.657" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T18:06:56.443" Title="Why is the TV show titled &quot;Game of Thrones&quot; and not &quot;A Song of Ice and Fire?&quot;" Tags="|game-of-thrones|title|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36350" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-08T10:27:15.287" Score="3" ViewCount="1437" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a specific scene in Batman Begins, when Rachel Dawes is poisoned and Batman has to take her to his cave. James Gordon, suggests Batman to take his car, but Batman says &quot;&lt;strong&gt;I brought Mine&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. This specific dialogue, if you hear clearly, seems to have been spoken by Liam Neeson, its unmistakable. Can anyone confirm. Here's the relevant scene, it's right at the beginning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/jZicrp_p4BE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8670" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-08T19:03:57.050" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T19:37:36.000" Title="Does Liam Neeson give voiceover for Batman in Batman Begins?" Tags="|batman-begins|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36349" CreationDate="2015-07-08T11:42:09.633" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd guess because &quot;Game of Thrones&quot;, to the uninitiated, sounds more bad-ass than &quot;A Song of Ice and Fire&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22150" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T11:42:09.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36349" CreationDate="2015-07-08T11:56:59.040" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt; really sounds quite fantasy-ish, whereas &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; sounds medieval and more suitable for a show. Also, the name 'Game of Thrones' gives more information about what will happen in the TV series (politics and fight for the throne) than the name &lt;strong&gt;A song of ice and fire&lt;/strong&gt; does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Game of Thrones is still a very suitable title, yes it is the title of the first book but the entire span of the series covers the game being played for the Iron Throne. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt; is sophisticated and poetic, but &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; is direct and exciting and very easily remembered. And that's what counts for the average person. Note also that the phrase is used in the other books and is perhaps even better than the series title at describing in one phrase the whole point of the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-07-09T18:06:56.443" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T18:06:56.443" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36353" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-08T12:01:59.483" Score="13" ViewCount="9141" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Avatar&lt;/em&gt; (2009)&lt;/a&gt;, why are all the Na'vi people &lt;strong&gt;blue&lt;/strong&gt; in color?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LNWdH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22813" LastEditorUserId="22813" LastEditDate="2017-04-10T12:57:34.577" LastActivityDate="2017-04-10T12:57:34.577" Title="Why are the Na'vi in Avatar blue in color?" Tags="|character|avatar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36353" CreationDate="2015-07-08T12:10:55.257" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/news/1627591/james-cameron-explains-why-avatar-aliens-are-blue/&quot;&gt;2009 interview&lt;/a&gt;, James Cameron explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“We wanted to say that there was an otherness, an alien-ness to them. But we wanted to keep them human enough that we could understand their emotions. So, they were going to have two eyes, and they were going to have a mouth.”&#xA;  Cameron made a point to say that he took particular pride in creating&#xA;  the wholly original world of “Avatar” at a time when so much of&#xA;  Hollywood is spinning their wheels with sequels, remakes and&#xA;  adaptations of old material. And, like his best films, he made sure&#xA;  that a romantic subplot was in the mix — which placed added&#xA;  requirements on the Na’vi character Neytiri, played by Zoe Saldana.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“At a certain point, we realized this is going to be a love story,” he&#xA;  explained of Neytiri’s relationship with Jake Sully, a&#xA;  human-in-Na’vi-form portrayed by Sam Worthington. “So, Zoe’s character&#xA;  had to be beautiful and accessible and relatable emotionally.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Looking over at his fellow Q&amp;amp;A participants — the Dominican/ Puerto&#xA;  Rican Saldana and Western Australian Worthington — the Canadian-born&#xA;  Cameron said that the Na’vi’s blue skin also allowed him to comment on&#xA;  race. “[I was thinking], ’What are the differences that we can deal&#xA;  with, without it becoming a barrier?’ Skin color is great, and it’s&#xA;  also great thematically, because skin color is obviously such a big&#xA;  issue on our planet,” he explained with a grin, looking at his actors&#xA;  and teasing Worthington. “All the warm tones — from pallid Canadian&#xA;  pink, to beautiful warm browns and, well, pallid Australian pink —&#xA;  were all taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“So, we were down to blue and green basically — and green had been&#xA;  taken by all those Martian movies with the little green men,” he&#xA;  remembered of his reasoning. “So, we have big blue women, not little&#xA;  green men.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19762" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-08T12:25:19.583" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T12:25:19.583" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36358" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36360" CreationDate="2015-07-08T13:16:04.630" Score="10" ViewCount="14323" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the climax of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2015), when the genetically modified dinosaur Indominus Rex kills all the raptors trained by the hero, Claire releases the T-Rex from the cage. It assists in defeating Indominus Rex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The T-Rex is not trained like the raptors. Why did the T Rex help the protagonists, instead of just eating them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4925" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-03-02T11:24:57.973" LastActivityDate="2018-12-21T16:06:58.803" Title="Why did the T-Rex help Claire?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jurassic-world|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36358" CreationDate="2015-07-08T13:49:16.947" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is the same Tyrannosaurus Rex from the first Jurassic Park film. In the first movie, Dr. Alan Grant rescues two kids from getting attacked by using a flare to get the T-Rex's attention. When Claire throws the flare at the Hybrid Rex, she is indicating to the T-Rex to attack it. See the picture below: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1LS3h.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jurassic Park (1993)&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8366" LastEditorUserId="8366" LastEditDate="2015-07-08T14:28:00.490" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T14:28:00.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36349" CreationDate="2015-07-08T14:12:48.573" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The word &quot;game&quot; is active where the word &quot;song&quot; is passive.  &quot;Game&quot; implies conflict, struggling for position, winners and losers.  &quot;Ice and fire&quot; are very evocative images, but they are also indistinct in that they don't really suggest what the song is actually about, except that fire opposes ice.  &quot;Thrones&quot; evokes a world of kings and courts.  Taken as a whole the phrase &quot;A game of thrones&quot; vividly calls to mind intrigue and wars of succession.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22816" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T14:12:48.573" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36358" CreationDate="2015-07-08T14:33:39.857" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't 'help' her. It is lured into the area with the Indominus Rex and the two happen to have a fight. The flare is used, as they know from past experience, the T-rex will follow them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22817" LastEditorUserId="22817" LastEditDate="2016-03-02T10:52:18.140" LastActivityDate="2016-03-02T10:52:18.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36358" CreationDate="2015-07-08T14:42:09.650" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think its a throwback to the Original Jurassic Park's ending where the T-Rex kills the Raptors and saves the protagonists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Jurassic world here we have the Raptor, T-Rex and mosasaurus taking out the fearsome Indominus Rex and assisting the protagonists and also the reason why we don't see a T-Rex in this movie until the very last scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T14:42:09.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10231" CreationDate="2015-07-08T14:50:56.797" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am also baffled by this ending and wish it wasn't so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm thinking maybe he is a loser for passing up the opportunity the Red Sox gave him because he is too afraid - connecting to the scene before this where Peter Brand showed a video clip that the baseball player never expected it and just ran first base and didn't know to hit a home run - loser because he had such little faith that he can do it or already did it but still need assurance by winning the last game of the season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or se was teasing him since he always thinks he will jinx the game - you're such a loser just enjoy the show you're not going to jinx it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22819" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-09T12:07:47.757" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T12:07:47.757" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35496" CreationDate="2015-07-08T15:13:49.453" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;One important thing to remember is that the HBO Series included less depth in the portrayal of this scene. The in fifth book (Jon XIII), the rebels' reasonings are explained more clearly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ramsay sends a letter to Jon entitled 'Bastard' that says that he has defeated Stannis (which we do not know if it is true or not, unlike the show). This enrages Jon, and he decides that he wants to march against the Boltons. Even though he is Lord Commander, he cannot command his Brothers to march with him, but he asks them to join him only if they wish. But, for a Sworn Brother to do as such is against his oaths. This causes discontent within the Wall, and then Jon is killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that Jon's decision to march was perceived as more treasonous than his attempt to help the Wildlings. It also gave Alliser's band justification in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; killing Jon &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(because he was breaking his vows and would therefore be punishable by execution anyway.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although Jon is arguably not in violation of his vows &lt;strong&gt;in the series&lt;/strong&gt;, this clearly shows the levels of betrayal of which Alliser perceives himself to be the victim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Credit to @Shevliaskovic for providing the above book reference in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/92840/why-was-this-character-killed-in-s05e10&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22821" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T18:25:12.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36348" CreationDate="2015-07-08T15:15:03.787" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Terminator 1: 2029 to 1984&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Terminator 2: 2029 to 1994/95&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is slight confusion in year Terminator 2 takes place in, Per &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/faq#.2.1.24&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The first Terminator film takes place in May 1984. According to&#xA;  information provided at the beginning of the movie, it is now 1995,&#xA;  since John was born on 28 February 1985 and is currently 10 years old.&#xA;  If that's the case, it contradicts the T-800's claim that it was sent&#xA;  back 35 years in time (from 2029), which would place the film in 1994.&#xA;  Another contradiction is when The Terminator states &quot;in three years&#xA;  Cyberdyne will...&quot; which indicates the film takes place three years&#xA;  before Judgement Day (which occurs in 1997), again making it 1994.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Terminator 3: 2032 to 2004&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following is graphical representation from &lt;a href=&quot;http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Terminator_3:_Rise_of_the_Machines_timeline&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Terminator wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9eTXC.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9eTXC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7259" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-14T15:47:00.153" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T15:47:00.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35296" CreationDate="2015-07-08T16:09:37.473" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You were right to feel that something is off: &lt;em&gt;The scenes were in a different (and maybe more logical) order in the original script.&lt;/em&gt; However, I'll try to prove that the chain of events that's depicted in the &lt;em&gt;film&lt;/em&gt; is, at the very least, &lt;strong&gt;plausible&lt;/strong&gt;, and that some of the problem stems from a  few misconceptions you had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;What was the scene order in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenplayexplorer.com/wp-content/scripts/dark-knight-rises.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; Wayne returns to Gotham and talks to Selina.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt; Gordon and Miranda are apprehended by Bane's mercenaries.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;3.&lt;/strong&gt; Wayne's brought in as a prisoner and meets with Fox and Miranda; Catwoman appears and helps Fox and Wayne escape while Miranda stays behind.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;4.&lt;/strong&gt; Crane sentences Gordon and Bane orders that Miranda is brought to him.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;5.&lt;/strong&gt; Fox and Wayne work on the Bat.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;6.&lt;/strong&gt; Batman saves Gordon on the ice (but doesn't ask where Miranda is).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;What was the scene order in the film?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt; (Wayne's return) and &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt; (Gordon &amp;amp; Miranda's capture) are rather followed by &lt;strong&gt;4&lt;/strong&gt; (Gordon's trial and Bane summoning Miranda) and then a separate scene we'll call &lt;strong&gt;4b&lt;/strong&gt; (Blake contacts the trapped cops), &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; scene &lt;strong&gt;3&lt;/strong&gt; with Wayne, Fox and Miranda and finally &lt;strong&gt;5&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt; with a few minor changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why would that still make sense?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, a few corrections that might make things clearer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The scenes you mentioned do not take place in Wayne Tower&lt;/strong&gt; but rather in the abandoned &lt;em&gt;Stock Exchange&lt;/em&gt;; this is verified by the script and by going over the Stock Exchange heist scenes earlier in the film. Remember that Bane's men control &lt;em&gt;an entire city&lt;/em&gt;, after all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fox and Miranda are prisoners in scene 3.&lt;/strong&gt; It's not for nothing that a captured Wayne is brought there. This is basically a &lt;em&gt;prison yard&lt;/em&gt;: The prisoners can walk about but are guarded by armed men and the halls are barricaded.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The scenes don't happen in real time&lt;/strong&gt; and don't necessarily follow in immediate succession. Note, for example, that scenes &lt;strong&gt;4&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;3&lt;/strong&gt; in the movie are rather separated by scene &lt;strong&gt;4b&lt;/strong&gt; which would suggest a &lt;em&gt;passage of time&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bearing these in mind could lead to a more or less plausible chain of events:&lt;/em&gt; Miranda and Gordon are captured and Gordon is sentenced to death. Bane asks for Miranda (probably just to check with her or talk strategy, since they're in cahoots) and Gordon awaits his execution. Miranda is presumably then &lt;em&gt;released&lt;/em&gt; to continue her role as a mole, this time as a hostage imprisoned with Fox. A little while later, Wayne arrives and, with Catwoman's help, escapes with Fox, promising Miranda he'll be back for her. He gets his Batman gear and comes back to save Gordon. Miranda is seen back with Bane later after he orders to keep her close, knowing that Wayne will go after her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;But why would Batman ask Gordon where Miranda is?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because he couldn't find her. Since both Miranda and Gordon were held in the Stock Exchange, Wayne figured Gordon would know, but he's mistaken and between them, &lt;em&gt;Wayne&lt;/em&gt; saw her last.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-09-02T08:37:19.587" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T08:37:19.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36370" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36372" CreationDate="2015-07-08T17:42:06.757" Score="6" ViewCount="573" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I've started watching some of Old Who on Netflix, and I think Netflix may not have all the &quot;classic&quot; episodes (as they put it) on there - it seems to skip over some of the specials, at least. &lt;em&gt;Anyway,&lt;/em&gt; the way the series is shown, Sarah Jane seems to very suddenly/randomly appear and then disappear as the Doctor's companion during Tom Baker's stint as the Doctor. I think she may come back later based on some episodes I've seen out of order, but I was just wondering whether anybody knew how the Doctor and Sarah Jane met and why she (at least temporarily) disappeared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T18:30:53.870" Title="How does Sarah Jane meet the Doctor?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16783" CreationDate="2015-07-08T18:00:13.433" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Chitauri mothership is actually designed after the blue battleships in Galaga.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wz1tX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zsvoW.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22826" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T09:06:05.887" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T09:06:05.887" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36370" CreationDate="2015-07-08T18:23:48.977" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Warrior&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;, Sarah Jane first appears in the episode &lt;em&gt;The time Warrior&lt;/em&gt; (1973): she hides in the TARDIS after she met the Doctor in a top secret facility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Jane_Smith&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sarah Jane's Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sarah Jane first appears in the Third Doctor serial The Time Warrior&#xA;  (1973-74), where she has managed to infiltrate a top secret research&#xA;  facility by posing as her aunt, Lavinia Smith, a famous virologist.&#xA;  Introduced as an ardent feminist, Sarah Jane sneaks aboard the TARDIS&#xA;  and becomes embroiled in a battle against a militaristic alien&#xA;  Sontaran in the Middle Ages who is kidnapping scientists from the&#xA;  present day. Subsequently, she accompanies the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) on&#xA;  several journeys in the TARDIS&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She leaves after about two years when the Doctor has to go back to his planet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She meets him again in her own series and also in the reboot of Doctor Who.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way it seems that many episodes of the &lt;em&gt;classical&lt;/em&gt; Doctor Who series are now lost: see &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="16465" LastEditDate="2015-07-08T18:30:53.870" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T18:30:53.870" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35222" CreationDate="2015-07-08T18:39:16.110" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A nice and complete answer from @Napoleon Wilson. To add to your third point (regarding knife-throwing,) there is no way to know if the average SoH rebel is an experienced knife-thrower, especially when considering the backgrounds of the group's members. We're looking at former slaves or members of great houses of Meereen, none of whom would possess a great need or aptitude for knife-throwing (which is much harder than throwing a baseball.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, their weapons appear to be more dagger-like than knife-like, meaning that the pommel-to-blade weight ratio may not even favor a thrown attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, and perhaps most obviously, the daggers wielded by SoH served as protection against the Unsullied, as the Unsullied are unused to fighting in such tight circumstances against smaller, individual weapons. Throwing your knife away would effectively throw away your only defense against trained soldiers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;**bonus reason! maybe the SoHs didn't thinking throwing the daggers would be necessary, as prior to Drogon's appearance, the situation seemed pretty hopeless for Dany and company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22821" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T18:39:16.110" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36350" CreationDate="2015-07-08T19:21:58.820" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;I wasn't sure if this holds as an actual answer, but I'll write it anyway. I'd rather say the burden of proof lies on the question's theory here, but in lack of a more &quot;official&quot; answer for now, here's my reasoning:&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, he doesn't.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If your only premise to the question is the fact that Batman sounds a bit similar to Liam Neeson in that scene (which I won't even deny), then I have to say this doesn't seem to be enough for suggesting such a quite unlikely possibility. Even in light of a yet missing denial by the film-makers, &lt;strong&gt;there just doesn't seem to be any reason at all why Liam Neeson would dub this scene&lt;/strong&gt; (or any Batman dialogue for that matter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now why does he still sound a bit that way? You have to consider that Batman's voice is largely distorted in the first place. And especially in that scene he is standing quite far away, so &lt;strong&gt;he has to shout &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; there's quite a bit of echo from the alley&lt;/strong&gt;. All this contributed to his voice not sounding like his normal Bat-voice but a bit more low and clean, or &quot;Neesonesque&quot; for that matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(On top of that, it also sounds to me as if this was filmed and recorded on location and not overdubbed later, which would definitely speak for Chsritian Bale talking himself, but I might be wrong with that.)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-08T19:37:36.000" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T19:37:36.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36379" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36380" CreationDate="2015-07-08T19:52:25.750" Score="12" ViewCount="7901" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the series &lt;em&gt;Community&lt;/em&gt; the characters Abed and Troy love to watch the series &lt;em&gt;Inspector Spacetime&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It feels like it is a reference to a series that really exists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So does it? And if so, what is its name? So is it kind of a parody? Or does it really exist under another name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20039" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2018-06-12T13:26:46.067" LastActivityDate="2018-06-12T13:28:28.700" Title="Is Inspector Spacetime a reference to a series that really exists?" Tags="|reference|community|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="36380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36379" CreationDate="2015-07-08T20:00:53.170" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inspector Spacetime&lt;/em&gt; is a direct parody of the series &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some clear parallels:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Inspector Spacetime travels in a time traveling phone box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RTN09.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RTN09m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Doctor travels in a time traveling police box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6bml4.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6bml4m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The enemies of the Inspector are know as the Blorgons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Od1B2.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Od1B2m.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which are a parody of the Daleks from &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ti5yf.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ti5yfm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21877" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2018-06-12T13:27:11.440" LastActivityDate="2018-06-12T13:27:11.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="36381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36379" CreationDate="2015-07-08T20:02:07.747" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inspector Spacetime&lt;/em&gt; is a direct parody of &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Inspector Spacetime is a direct homage to the long-running BBC science fiction TV show Doctor Who.&#xA;  The show within the Community universe follows closely the story of Doctor Who with the Inspector and his partner traveling in a red telephone box known as the X7 Dimensionizer time booth, the counterpart to the T.A.R.D.I.S. - and using his Quantum Spanner to fight alien creatures such as the Blorgons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://community-sitcom.wikia.com/wiki/Inspector_Spacetime_%28television_show%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Community Wikia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2018-06-12T13:28:28.700" LastActivityDate="2018-06-12T13:28:28.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="36383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26768" CreationDate="2015-07-08T21:11:34.527" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the main thing here is she breaks the mirror glass off inside of herself causing it to bleed less and coagulate she then pulls it out later towards the end causing the wound to bleed more freely. It is my belief she does indeed die at the end of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22830" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T21:11:34.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36349" CreationDate="2015-07-08T23:14:36.830" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;TV audiences have a short attention span. They don't have enough time to read a 6 word titles, 4 is enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More importantly, A song of ice and fire refers to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The eventual fight between the White Walkers and Mellisandre, Stannis et al, which I very much suspect will receive a lot more attention in later books/series.&#xA; The game of thrones that is taking place is unlikely to be all that important directly to the final plot (apart from it's impact on Stannis and the Night's Watch), but it appears important immediately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we have a title that takes a long time to say and become relevant, vs a title that is relevant immediately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a book series, you choose the title that is more relevant, but without the immediate gratification and with the potential to cause confusion/mystery for a while as people don't know why it's relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a tv series, you choose the title that is snappy, relevant from millisecond 1 and avoids any confusion/mystery at all costs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22010" LastActivityDate="2015-07-08T23:14:36.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36393" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37217" CreationDate="2015-07-09T04:47:13.457" Score="2" ViewCount="1587" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is Dr John Woods in &lt;em&gt;Extant&lt;/em&gt; really dead? We see him in a seemingly inescapable situation and then, 6 months later, we hear someone claiming that he died. Given that season 2 is still running, do we have an out of universe confirmation of whether or not John actually died, or whether he is going to turn up in another 6 months having been beamed to safety by aliens or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that the supposedly correct thing to do is to wait and see as the series unfolds, but I'm not sure it's worth the invested attention. I'm definitely far more engaged with the humanichs &quot;Pinocchio 2.0&quot; thread than with the alien ghost story thread. I don't really want to sink 13 hours into a show I'm not really enjoying, just so that I'm up to speed on the off-chance that it picks up again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11324" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-09T08:12:17.563" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T11:58:09.833" Title="What really happened to Dr John Woods?" Tags="|character|extant|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2022" CreationDate="2015-07-09T05:53:45.260" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I honestly think the third time he gets released because it's just a more progressively thinking decade. When he expressed his feelings in the first two hearings it was partly because the parole board was racist and partly because he had made it to Shawshank on his own and was serving time. Then after the two hearings, it's the 60s and he doesn't care: and neither do they, inside and outside things were changing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean I think that's just a small part but that's a part of it. Stephen King was kind of a dick then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22846" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-09T08:02:17.447" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T08:02:17.447" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36048" CreationDate="2015-07-09T07:47:55.837" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since answers started to show up I've decided to summarize my comments into one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Renly_Baratheon#In_the_books&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;In the books&lt;/a&gt; Renly's age is known, he is 21. Based on the fact that the actor &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2167445/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gethin Anthony&lt;/a&gt; was 27 when the series begun we can assume that in the series he's older (in his late twenties).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the manhood questioning part, it seems that indeed there was some.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can hear it directly from Robert in the only &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxAbslpHnIc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;scene&lt;/a&gt; he had with Renly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Robert Baratheon: You ever f*ck a Riverlands girl?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Renly Baratheon: Once. I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Robert Baratheon: You think? I think you'd remember. Back in our day,&#xA;  you weren't a real man until you'd f*cked one girl from each of the&#xA;  Seven Kingdoms and the Riverlands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&amp;amp;t=7894&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Renly also complains about it to Loras in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj1UjDlmgx4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this scene&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My brother thinks that anyone who hasn't been to war isn't a man. He&#xA;  treats me as if I'm a spoiled child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&amp;amp;t=7744&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;(source)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike Robert, Renly (in the series) doesn't like fighting, doesn't take part in the tournaments and sees war as a tragedy. He is homosexual, which is a kind of an open secret and Robert surely knew about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Robert was questioning his manhood he was referring to the above facts, not his young age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-07-09T14:20:46.380" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T14:20:46.380" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36379" CreationDate="2015-07-09T07:51:36.777" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/36380/18124&quot;&gt;onewho's excellent answer&lt;/a&gt;, I'd like to point out how Inspector Spacetime was initially introduced into the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;3x01 Biology 101&lt;/em&gt;, Britta gets Abed interested in a British TV show called &lt;a href=&quot;http://community-sitcom.wikia.com/wiki/Cougarton_Abbey&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cougarton Abbey&lt;/a&gt; (because &lt;em&gt;of course&lt;/em&gt; Britta only watches European TV), which is an obvious parody of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downton_Abbey&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;British series Downton Abbey&lt;/a&gt; (and a wink to the US series &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar_Town&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cougar Town&lt;/a&gt;, which, if nothing else, you should remember from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Film_Studies&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;My Diner With Abed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The one thing that is important to know about real-world UK series is that they are usually quite short by American standards. The original &lt;em&gt;The Office&lt;/em&gt;, for instance, had just 2 seasons of 6 episodes each. So Abed is devastated when he finds out that &lt;em&gt;Cougarton Abbey&lt;/em&gt; ends after only 6 episodes, with all the main characters dying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To cheer him up, Britta tells him of a popular British sci-fi series that has been running for decades, &lt;em&gt;Inspector Spacetime&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5390372.stm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Doctor Who holds the Guinness world record for longest running sci-fi show&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This keeps Abed happy in several ways as it appeals to his new-found interest in British TV, as well as his existing passion for sci-fi, without the risk of running out of episodes to watch anytime soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18124" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T07:56:53.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36402" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-07-09T08:04:17.277" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Starring Hannah Hoekstra, Isis Cabolet and Robert de Hoog, App is a Dutch film about a woman (played by Hannah Hoekstra) who is terrorized by a mobile app. App was released in limited theaters on May 9, 2014, alongside a VOD and digital release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27264" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-02-25T07:22:47.140" LastActivityDate="2017-02-25T07:22:47.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36403" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-07-09T08:04:17.277" Score="0" Body="Released in 2013, APP (also known as Android) is a Dutch film directed by Bobby Boermans. The film was released to theaters in the Netherlands on April 4, 2013 and stars Hannah Hoekstra. This tag shouldn't be used for applications for mobile devices." OwnerUserId="27264" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-02-25T07:22:44.010" LastActivityDate="2017-02-25T07:22:44.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36404" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-09T09:22:21.183" Score="2" ViewCount="821" Body="&lt;p&gt;We knew in the first season of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; that Ser Jorah Mormont was spying on Daenerys and sent the news about her pregnancy to King's Landing, prompting Robert Baratheon to order the baby and Dany executed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two seasons later in Episode 8 of Season 4 (few years after Robert's death of course) a letter, a Royal Pardon meant for Jorah Mormont is sent in Meereen which however is given to Ser Barristan by that child and learns that Ser Jorah spied on Daenerys for which she tells him to leave Meereen before she orders to have him executed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is, who sent the letter? Ser Jorah says the letter is not forged, it's signed by Robert Baratheon and in the same year he meets Daenerys. So Robert signed it, but who sent the letter after years and how did he know they were in Meereen. The seal on the letter seems to be Hand of the King's seal, but who actually?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15590" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2018-12-21T17:06:14.243" LastActivityDate="2018-12-21T17:06:14.243" Title="Who sent that letter from the hand of the king (signed Robert Baratheon) to Ser Barristan Selmy" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-07-09T09:41:22.483" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="36406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31545" CreationDate="2015-07-09T09:55:52.797" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4701660/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Mermaid&lt;/a&gt;  2016&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to IMDB it is the most recent work related to him. the gap between his recent works have increased as you see also 3 year between CJ7 and journey to the  west.it's not too unusual(Some directors like to work more precisely and spend more time for their work).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22499" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T09:55:52.797" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36408" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36414" CreationDate="2015-07-09T10:19:07.187" Score="4" ViewCount="2803" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to know which parts and concepts in the movie &lt;em&gt;Naked Lunch&lt;/em&gt; are based on the book and which parts are added by Cronenberg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;killing the wife twice by gun&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;kiki's character and his death&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;those creatures &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I have not read the book.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22499" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-09T19:20:43.303" LastActivityDate="2016-03-11T21:10:28.227" Title="How loyal has Cronenberg been to the William S. Burroughs book Naked Lunch?" Tags="|book-adaptation|naked-lunch|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36409" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36459" CreationDate="2015-07-09T11:45:41.343" Score="2" ViewCount="759" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somewhere_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Somewhere&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when Cleo and her father are under the water in the swimming pool, what are they pretending to be doing? It seems to me they pretend to be eating something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T15:15:22.813" LastActivityDate="2015-10-10T12:04:23.653" Title="What are Cleo and her father doing in the pool in 'Somewhere'?" Tags="|plot-explanation|somewhere|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36353" CreationDate="2015-07-09T13:07:41.627" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The gist is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James wanted to be different (not green martians nor human like skin color &amp;amp; tone) without being a radical as the purpose wasn't to desensitize us from the Na'vi people. He wanted to be able to raise an issue / difference that is a president factor with the audience i.e. Skin color and race. Something that can be visually referenced and different whilst having human like characteristics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As he said in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/news/1627591/james-cameron-explains-why-avatar-aliens-are-blue/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cameron said that the Na’vi’s blue skin also allowed him to comment on race. “[I was thinking], ’What are the differences that we can deal with, without it becoming a barrier?’ Skin color is great, and it’s also great thematically, because skin color is obviously such a big issue on our planet,” he explained with a grin, looking at his actors and teasing Worthington. “All the warm tones — from pallid Canadian pink, to beautiful warm browns and, well, pallid Australian pink — were all taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“So, we were down to blue and green basically — and green had been taken by all those Martian movies with the little green men,” he remembered of his reasoning. “So, we have big blue women, not little green men.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22862" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T14:11:23.660" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11307" CreationDate="2015-07-09T13:20:50.337" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The machines creates the reality humans live. In exchange humans create the ultimate reality the machines depend to exist. The machines figured out that their artificial brain have no effect on the wave function and matter can never exist without the effect of wave function collapse caused by human brains. I hope this is the reason the movie creators had in mind. They would come up with a movie explaining how it was before the machines took over and as they exterminated humans the machines noticed that chunks of the material world also would disappear and until they fix this inconvenience they need the humans alive. Hope this is the reason as I would definitely watch the prequel!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22863" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T13:20:50.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36408" CreationDate="2015-07-09T13:52:50.083" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;em&gt;Naked Lunch&lt;/em&gt; is not only an adaption of the book (which is already considered highly autobiographical), but also about what drove Burroughs to write it in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, it mixes the story of the book with facts from Burroughs' biography. Even more so than in the book, the William Lee of the movie is an alter ego of Burroughs himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some important facts to make this clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;William Lee in the book is not an exterminator. The whole bug-powder subplot does not occur in the book. Burroughs on the other hand &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Burroughs#Beginning_of_the_Beats&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;worked as an exterminator during his early years Chicago&lt;/a&gt; and was of course famously addicted to a variety of drugs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The whole killing-the-wife thing does not appear in the book. There is actually no indication in the book that Lee is married at all. Burroughs however killed his wife (who was called Joan, just like the wife in the movie) in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Burroughs#Mexico_and_South_America&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a very similar manner as is depicted in the movie&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many of the events of the movie that happen after Joan is shot closely resemble the events of the book. Examples include the encounter with Dr. Benway and the investigations in Interzone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Still, the movie regularly reminds us that the majority of what we see only happens in William Lee's head. Just recall the scene when William carries around the pieces of his destroyed typewriter, which are eventually revealed to be empty liquor bottles.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Furthermore, it is implied that Lee's main motivation for his actions is to seek redemption for Joan's death. Hence his desire to flee with Joan's doppelgänger from Interzone. However, since the whole Interzone business is just an elaborate hallucination, reality eventually catches up with William as he shoots Joan a second time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The bug creatures and Kiki's transformation are not present in the book and are a trademark of early films of David Cronenberg, the director of the movie. Take for example, the transformation of a man to a giant insect in &lt;em&gt;The Fly&lt;/em&gt;, the body-modification technology and insectoid weapons in &lt;em&gt;eXistenZ&lt;/em&gt; or the various body transformations endured by the protagonist of &lt;em&gt;Videodrome&lt;/em&gt;. In Naked Lunch, they serve the purpose of underlining how the protagonist loses touch with reality and drifts into a nightmarish hallucination.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally favor the interpretation that the pages that the William Lee of the movie writes on his typewriter are the pages of the real-world book &lt;em&gt;Naked Lunch&lt;/em&gt;. Just as Burroughs was lost in a state of drug-induced hallucination, paranoia and guilt when writing the book, so is the William Lee of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rather than attempting a straight adaptation, Cronenberg took a few&#xA;  elements from the book and combined them with elements of Burroughs'&#xA;  life, creating a hybrid film about the writing of the book rather than&#xA;  the book itself.&#xA;  (Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Lunch#Film_adaptation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disclaimer:&lt;/em&gt; It's been a while since I watched the movie and I only managed to read the book in excerpts due to its unique writing style. So apologies if this answer gets some of the finer details wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18124" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-10T12:11:18.847" LastActivityDate="2015-10-10T12:11:18.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29841" CreationDate="2015-07-09T13:59:07.787" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the IMDb pages for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2006374/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Copper&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2183641/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ripper Street&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the two shows have very little overlap, if any, in terms of their producers and creative teams, so similarities due to cross-pollination, so to speak, are unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, while &lt;em&gt;Copper&lt;/em&gt; was by and large BBC America's pet project, and BBC (UK) had a bigger hand in &lt;em&gt;Ripper Street&lt;/em&gt;, it is worth noting that BBC America was, in fact, somewhat involved in &lt;em&gt;Ripper Street&lt;/em&gt;, and that the show did come out after the first season of &lt;em&gt;Copper&lt;/em&gt; had already aired. (You can read more &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ripper-street-waking-dead-bbc-america-301634&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/bbc-americas-ripper-street-tv-412614&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;) So that could well point to &lt;em&gt;Copper&lt;/em&gt; having at least a little influence over the creation of &lt;em&gt;Ripper Street.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, as far as plot/storyline/character similarities, many of the bulletpoints on your list are fairly common tropes in film and TV, especially for period dramas. (You may find a few familiar traits, for example, on TV Tropes's &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StandardCopBackstory&quot;&gt;&quot;Standard Cop Backstory&quot;&lt;/a&gt; page). So I have no doubt that some of the similarities in the shows' storylines and characters are just coincidences, despite the shows' uncanny parallels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-09T14:20:03.980" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T14:20:03.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36417" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-09T17:11:54.327" Score="14" ViewCount="3462" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the past movies were produced pretty fast. For example Charlie Chaplin made about 5-10 movies a year, often being actor, director and producer in one person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today a movie often takes many months until completion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why were movies in the past produced at a faster pace and why does modern film production of a movie seem to be so much slower in comparison?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2019-08-21T23:16:07.583" LastActivityDate="2019-08-21T23:16:07.583" Title="Why were movies in the past produced at a faster pace than modern movies?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="36418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36417" CreationDate="2015-07-09T17:25:17.153" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Original Answer: I'd imagine there are a lot more things that need to be done to complete a modern movie. In the 1920's you didn't have to deal with lawyers to fight for rights to use different intellectual properties. Deal with executives who want to change the view of a director. Deal with expensive and tough to work with actors. Not to mention the amount of editing and refining that are done in movies now. It would also help that movies from the 1920's where silent, and didn't often last for longer then an hour. High budget films that are 2-3 hours with 500+ people working on it take time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After looking further, while there appears to be this perception that older movies where quicker to produce this may not be the case. See &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin#A_Woman_of_Paris_and_The_Gold_Rush&quot;&gt;Charlie Chaplin and &quot;The Gold Rush&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, which was an&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;elaborate production, costing almost $1 million, included location shooting in the Truckee mountains with 600 extras, extravagant sets, and special effects. The last scene was not shot until May 1925, after 15 months of filming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile a more modern movie like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(film)#Filming&quot;&gt;Interstellar started filming&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;August 6, 2013, in the province of Alberta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Filming concluded in December 2013&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;meaning it only took about 4-5 months to shoot. So with this evidence it might be a misconception that older movies were quicker to produce. It might come down to the overall scope of the film, as well as the difficulties within the film's production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21877" LastEditorUserId="21877" LastEditDate="2015-07-09T17:54:53.007" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T17:54:53.007" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32547" CreationDate="2015-07-09T18:32:09.797" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sullivan is going through Queenan's belongings (he's been shot at this point) in his office and finds his cell phone. He uses the cell phone to call the informant. He still doesn't know Costigan's name or identity at this point, but he knows it's him especially when Costigan says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Let me talk to Dignam to confirm it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;after Sullivan tells Costigan that he's taking over the case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22870" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T18:32:09.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36422" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36423" CreationDate="2015-07-09T21:44:29.210" Score="2" ViewCount="1600" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently made a habit of waking up early, and as a by-product spend my mornings catching re-runs of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Donna_Reed_Show&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Donna Reed Show&lt;/a&gt;. I've noticed in a number of episodes, though not necessarily all of them, that the video seems to be sped up; characters either seem to speak too quickly, or their movements look rather stop-motiony. If a specific example is needed, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/the-donna-reed-show/the-foundling-21290/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Foundling&lt;/a&gt; was the first instance of this I noticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there a habit of speeding up TV shows back in the day? Or maybe this is a choice made by the channel broadcasting the re-runs for commercial reasons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22429" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T12:51:29.273" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T17:12:29.383" Title="Were old TV shows routinely sped up for some reason?" Tags="|effects|cinema-history|black-and-white|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36422" CreationDate="2015-07-09T22:00:17.543" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Old television shows were shot using motion picture film of that era, and were shot at either 24 or 25 frames per second. Television video today is played at 30 frames per second.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The speed problems you see are artifacts of the conversion process. The shows you watched might have been converted to television during the 1950's when &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinescope&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;kinescopes&lt;/a&gt; were largely used to do the conversions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most television networks that show these old TV shows are using video footage that was already converted from film. If that conversion was off or done for a different format, then correcting the problem would reduce the quality of the video (which is already of poor quality).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like trying to fix a photocopy of a picture by making another photocopy. You're just moving away from the quality of the original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the television networks broadcast the video &quot;as is&quot; because it's the best copy they have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1100" LastActivityDate="2015-07-09T22:00:17.543" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36425" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36428" CreationDate="2015-07-09T22:53:34.830" Score="1" ViewCount="2681" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any logical reason to Search inside a &quot;C&quot; Drive or is just a goof ?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KLRy8.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It definitely blows away the standards of Sherlock built in the previous episodes. Is it just me or anyone else felt the same ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7936" LastEditorUserId="7936" LastEditDate="2015-07-11T01:57:29.167" LastActivityDate="2015-07-11T01:57:29.167" Title="Sherlock - Searching inside a &quot;C&quot; Drive for Quest Search?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36425" CreationDate="2015-07-10T00:56:14.853" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is a local HTML file.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It’s technically possible to include a search form that requests an online search engine. It’s not relevant on which partition this file is saved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can try it yourself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Save this as a file named &lt;code&gt;search.html&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;!DOCTYPE html&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;title&amp;gt;Search&amp;lt;/title&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;form action=&quot;https://duckduckgo.com/html&quot; method=&quot;POST&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;input type=&quot;search&quot; name=&quot;q&quot; value=&quot;&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;  &amp;lt;input type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;Search&quot;&amp;gt;&#xA;&amp;lt;/form&amp;gt;&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Open the file &lt;code&gt;search.html&lt;/code&gt; in your browser.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enter something and hit &quot;Search&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You’ll see that this opens the results for your query in an actual Web search engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible reasons for doing this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Performance&lt;/strong&gt; - Loading your local document is faster than loading the real search page&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aesthetics&lt;/strong&gt; - You might like the design of your own document better&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Privacy&lt;/strong&gt; - It’s conceivable that the search engine uses some undesirable techniques on its homepage (but it’s unlikely that they wouldn’t also use these on the result pages, which you still have to load)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Features&lt;/strong&gt; - You could provide form elements (like checkboxes) that enable/configure hidden features of the search engine, or which make accessing provided options easier&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T01:07:07.903" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T01:07:07.903" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32923" CreationDate="2015-07-10T03:16:02.597" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I re watched the scene and now I understand what it means. Remember when we first see the Balrog it was wielding a fire sword? It tried to strike Gandalf down but Gandalf's staff meets the sword and the sword shatters, this is because both object and magic at their core and Gandalf's Magic was stronger than the Balrog's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Gandalf confronts the Witch King, the Witch King says. &quot;Do you not know death when you see it? It is my force.&quot; So what I got out of that was that, because their was a battle going on, he was getting stronger and was at that time, able to beat Gandalf. So when the Witch King draws his sword that is like his weapon, opposing Gandalf's and, because the Witch King was stronger in his magic, Gandalf's staff shatters just like the Balrog's sword.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T03:16:02.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11702" CreationDate="2015-07-10T03:36:31.157" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Interesting that you should say that. In the books he actually does. In the snow when they were passing over Caradhras, the rest of the Fellowship, tried and failed to make a fire, so Gandalf reluctantly uses his magic to start a roaring fire by which the fellowship could warm themselves. Gandalf is uneasy for the next few hours because he believes that it will make it easier for the Orcs to track them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His exact words were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I have written 'Gandalf is here' for all to see.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my understanding, metaphors aside, is that he uses his magic sparingly in fear of being tracked, there are after all, only four good wizards in the world at that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T03:36:31.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36434" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39346" CreationDate="2015-07-10T05:00:40.583" Score="4" ViewCount="2023" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who doesn't love The Fugitive?  Seriously there is just one part of the movie I don't get.  This is after Kimble leaves visiting the prisoner at the city jail and is being chased by Deputy Gerard.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tommy Lee Jones' character is supposed to be a bad ass and saved one of his crew earlier in the movie with a tricky shot.  And then when he is shooting at Kimble as the bullet proof gates close we see the marks on the gates right at the heart and head of Kimble.  But what the f&amp;amp;!$?  First would his character open fire in a public place like that on an unarmed man running?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And most importantly we know he has a bad-ass shot.  So he isn't allowed to shoot Kimble's foot or leg with the gate open a good 6-10 inches?  Then to follow this up it seems someone (maybe even Gerard himself) should bring up that he could have shot him.  Shoot his damn foot or at least try and miss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18901" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T05:02:48.663" LastActivityDate="2020-10-06T15:11:04.887" Title="Why didn't Richard Kimble get shot?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-fugitive|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36422" CreationDate="2015-07-10T05:32:14.787" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many cable channels are using video compression technology to speed up reruns so they can fit in more ads. Here's a story &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wsj.com/articles/cable-tv-shows-are-sped-up-to-squeeze-in-more-ads-1424301320&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in the WSJ&lt;/a&gt; about this practice, citing as examples a showing of the movie The Wizard of Oz, and reruns of Seinfeld and Friends, the latter on TVLand where The Donna Reed Show has aired.  So that channel definitely has made use of the practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T17:12:29.383" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T17:12:29.383" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36436" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36437" CreationDate="2015-07-10T05:34:39.073" Score="6" ViewCount="3266" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since when and why does Myrcella Baratheon from &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; live in Dorne rather than with her parents in King's Landing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22884" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T05:36:14.170" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T12:39:10.620" Title="Why does Myrcella Baratheon live in Dorne?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36436" CreationDate="2015-07-10T05:39:41.347" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tyrion sent her to Dorne as betrothed to their prince. She was sent as ward/hostage to get Dorne alliance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Refer &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Myrcella_Baratheon#Season_2&quot;&gt;Season 2 in GoT wikia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; In order to strengthen House Lannister's political position during the War of the Five Kings, Hand of the King Tyrion Lannister makes plans to forge a marriage-alliance with House Martell of Dorne by having Princess Myrcella wed to Trystane Martell, the youngest child of the current ruler of Dorne. In return House Martell would hopefully supply soldiers to the Lannisters' side, or at least ensure they wouldn't openly side with their enemies.&#xA; &lt;br /&gt;&#xA; &lt;br /&gt;&#xA; The actual marriage ceremony will wait until Myrcella is old enough, but &lt;strong&gt;part of the arrangement involves sending her to Dorne to live in Trystane's household&lt;/strong&gt;. Queen Cersei is furious with Tyrion when she hears (from Grand Maester Pycelle) what he is planning, declaring that she won't let her only daughter be shipped off to Dorne as she was shipped off to Robert Baratheon. Tyrion counters that as a princess, many would say that Myrcella was born to one day forge a marriage alliance, and she will be safer in Dorne than in the capital city during a major civil war. Against Cersei's continued protests, Tyrion insists that the plan has already been finalized, leaving Cersei fuming and in tears for her daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="16207" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T12:39:10.620" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T12:39:10.620" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36436" CreationDate="2015-07-10T05:43:58.747" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was in episode S02E03 that Tyrion has the idea to send Myrcella to one of the other houses and later marry her to one of their sons. This is on the one hand to get her to temporary safety out of King's Landing and on the other hand to make a stable alliance with the respective house in the future. And this idea is then also put in motion during the rest of the 2nd season and Myrcella is sent to Dorne.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He actually tells three different plans to Varys, Petyr and Grand Maester Pycelle respectively, in which he changes the house with which to marry Myrcella, be it Arryn, Greyjoy or Dorne. It is however the story about Dorne that gets told to Cersei by Grandmaester Pycelle and which is then put in action. While it is &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/30388/49&quot;&gt;not entirely clear if that was his plan all along&lt;/a&gt; or just chosen because it was the one revealed to Cersei, it is clear that Tyrion always planned to marry Myrcella to one of the other houses and have her live with them for the above mentioned political reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T05:43:58.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36439" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36441" CreationDate="2015-07-10T06:57:20.087" Score="8" ViewCount="2937" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 3rd episode of the 4th season of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episodes_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Episodes&lt;/a&gt;, Matt takes Beverly to a Golden Globe gift party. While entering it she says (writing from memory):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's like being in &lt;em&gt;Wizard of Oz&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;In colour&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since she added &quot;in colour&quot; she must have been referring to the movie, not the book. What I don't understand is why she added it in the first place, since the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_(1939_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;most known 1939 adaptation&lt;/a&gt; is in fact in colour (and notable for its use of Technicolor) and all the later adaptations are obviously in colour as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seriously doubt she meant any previous, black and white &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_The_Wizard_of_Oz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;adaptations&lt;/a&gt;, because they were short animations, silent movies, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I think is most plausible is that when she was a kid she watched &lt;em&gt;Wizard of Oz&lt;/em&gt; on a black and white TV and later watched it in colour and that's why she differentiates it like this (as if it were two different movies). I'm also thinking that this could be an English expression used to emphasise this kind of film-related analogies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone confirm my hypothesis or provide a different explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T18:52:37.723" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T18:52:37.723" Title="Why adding &quot;in colour&quot; when referring to &quot;Wizard of Oz&quot;?" Tags="|the-wizard-of-oz|episodes-2011|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36439" CreationDate="2015-07-10T07:16:36.997" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not all of the Wizard of Oz is in color, &lt;em&gt;only the parts that take place in Oz&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything that happens while Dorothy is still in Kansas is shot in black and white. This was of course done to underline how colorful and magical the land of Oz is compared the real-world Kansas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All of the Oz sequences were filmed in three-strip Technicolor.&#xA;  The opening and closing credits, as well as the Kansas sequences, were&#xA;  filmed in black and white and colored in a sepia tone process. (Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_%281939_film%29#Filming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when they stress the &lt;em&gt;in colour&lt;/em&gt; part, they are explicitly talking about the part that Dorothy spends in Oz, rather than the parts where she is on the farm in Kansas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/8lik-qTakrs?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18124" LastEditorUserId="18124" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T07:25:44.460" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T07:25:44.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36439" CreationDate="2015-07-10T07:18:16.740" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not what she says. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=episodes&amp;amp;episode=s04e03&quot;&gt;She says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's like when The Wizard of Oz &lt;strong&gt;turns to colour.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 1939 &lt;em&gt;Wizard of Oz&lt;/em&gt; starts in black and white and turns to color when Dororthy reaches Oz. Beverly is basically saying that she's now in Oz, an amazing and colorful wonderland as compared to the drab world outside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T08:06:27.263" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T08:06:27.263" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36444" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36445" CreationDate="2015-07-10T09:44:38.057" Score="5" ViewCount="2703" Body="&lt;p&gt;The plot is something like this, this girl was in College and she gets bullied because she's crazy smart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One scene I remember is there's something in her dorm room, like an experiment,  with the use of a box and they threw it in the garbage then she was like crazy looking for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another scene was a woman in the horse farm asking something about a horse and she answered everything she can remember (the photographic memory part).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She was about to be expelled but a professor noticed her talent and persuaded the principal that she's a genius and should not be expelled. Then the professor let the girl create an experiment like an OPTICAL ILLUSION where two figures enter the same box. The left side is bigger (it reaches the top) while the right side figure is so small. (Get it? Like, they're at the same box yet they're not the same size.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please help me. It's been 7 years since I've watched it. Thank you! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S.: The girl is really weird yet she has photographic memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22888" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T10:50:35.480" LastActivityDate="2017-01-02T00:20:14.303" Title="Movie about a girl with photographic memory" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:51:04.390" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36444" CreationDate="2015-07-10T10:38:24.147" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278469/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Temple Grandin&lt;/a&gt; with Claire Danes, but it's from 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who overcame the limitations imposed on her by her condition to become a Ph.D. and expert in the field of animal husbandry. She developed an interest in cattle early in life while spending time at her Aunt and Uncle's ranch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Grandin&lt;/a&gt; is a savant with photographic memory. IIRC she has a special relationship with horses there, and here's the scene where she puts together that optical illusion (aka &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_room&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Ames Room&quot;&lt;/a&gt;) project:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/chxCNEsu3YU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T10:52:00.593" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T10:52:00.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36446" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-10T10:56:37.853" Score="4" ViewCount="2618" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Avatar&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, as &lt;strong&gt;Pandora&lt;/strong&gt; itself is a moon orbiting around a planet, that in turn orbits around a star, does it (&lt;strong&gt;Pandora&lt;/strong&gt;) have random number of hours in day and night? Is there any reference about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22813" LastEditorUserId="22813" LastEditDate="2015-07-16T07:14:46.427" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T07:14:46.427" Title="Duration of day and night on Pandora" Tags="|avatar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36446" CreationDate="2015-07-10T11:25:17.903" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Pandora&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From this site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pandora receives significant light from Alpha Centauri B (ACB). As a&#xA;  result, Pandoran nights are never dark during half of the Polyphemian&#xA;  year, but instead are more like Earthly dusk. At the closest point in&#xA;  its orbit, ACB is about 2,300 times as bright as Earth's full moon; at&#xA;  its furthest point, it is still one hundred and seventy times as&#xA;  bright. During the other half of the year when ACB is in the daytime&#xA;  sky, many Pandoran nights are illuminated by both Polyphemus's huge&#xA;  disk and the reflected light from other nearby moons. Truly dark&#xA;  nights are uncommon. Polyphemus occasionally eclipses ACB at night for&#xA;  about one hundred minutes, but the light reflected by the planet still&#xA;  keeps the night from being dark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When ACB shares the daytime sky with ACA, at its closest it adds about&#xA;  half a percent to the total illumination. When the 2 stars are close&#xA;  together in the sky, the effect of ACB's more orange light is&#xA;  unnoticeable. But, as they separate over the years, an orange tint may&#xA;  be seen in areas shadowed from ACA's direct illumination. At its most&#xA;  distant, ACB is about 2,700 times dimmer than ACA and does not produce&#xA;  noticeable lighting effects. However, it still appears as a&#xA;  blindingly-bright tiny orange disk in the sky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because of its high axial tilt (29°), Pandora exhibits considerable&#xA;  annual variation in the day-to-night ratio. In addition, its&#xA;  elliptical orbit produces seasonal temperature variations and a range&#xA;  in daytime illumination of about ten percent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T11:25:17.903" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35224" CreationDate="2015-07-10T13:10:04.987" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always translated this metaphorically as in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;You must learn to walk before you run.&quot; - meaning you must learn from the start, before you are good at something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;So naturally I translated:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;You will never walk again, Bran… but you will fly.&quot; - you will never be normal again, but you will be better (as flying is better than walking).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21982" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T13:10:04.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35815" CreationDate="2015-07-10T14:16:07.257" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;An early and highly influential example must be the Droogs' walk in slow-motion side by side toward the camera (set to Alex's voiceover and a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_gazza_ladra&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rossini piece&lt;/a&gt;) in Kubrick's &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Clockwork Orange&lt;/a&gt; (1971)&lt;/strong&gt;. Ironically, our 'heroes' are a gang of sociopaths and a vicious slow-motion fight breaks out midscene, which is juxtaposed with the classical music. This will later echo in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Xi3ioasik&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Reservoir Dogs&lt;/em&gt; title sequence&lt;/a&gt;, depicting another uniformly-dressed gang of criminals in a slo-mo walk set to music, which perhaps hints at their fate. Here's the &lt;em&gt;Clockwork Orange&lt;/em&gt; scene (starting at 0:28):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/HtRGeyznv7k?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-07-10T14:16:07.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36409" CreationDate="2015-07-10T15:13:18.847" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They're having an underwater tea party.&lt;/strong&gt; An imaginary tea party is a common playtime acivity among kids; Johnny and Cleo are simply having it in a pool. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/2010/12/20/132204005/stephen-dorff-going-hollywood-in-somewhere&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Says Stephen Dorff&lt;/a&gt; who plays Johnny (about the Chateau Marmont hotel):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you stay in a hotel for that long, and you have friends come join you, you kind of host the party every night, so I'm paying for everything — and ... it can add up every time you have a coffee. It was a good lesson to learn. I then ultimately had my 21st-birthday party there, which ended in a big ... synchronized-swimming &lt;strong&gt;party in the pool, which ultimately [in Somewhere] I do my underwater tea party with [onscreen daughter] Elle Fanning in&lt;/strong&gt;, so there's been all these moments there.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, for example, is Cleo when she mimes sipping from a pretend tea cup:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yzr3Q.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-10T12:04:23.653" LastActivityDate="2015-10-10T12:04:23.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36460" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36466" CreationDate="2015-07-10T16:24:01.963" Score="14" ViewCount="22825" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand the whole magic/cloning/one-upping each other bit in &quot;The Prestige&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why they &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; needed Nicola Tesla to be the inventor/creator of this cloning machine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apart from that, they also mention the rivalry between Tesla and Edison. &#xA;I don't see how this is really relevant to the movie's big plot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was Tesla actually working on something like this in real life (like, really in real life)? &#xA;It just seems so weird to me that they would use an actual inventor in a movie like this to have him create this farfetched &quot;sci-fi cloning machine&quot;. Couldn't they have just invented a new character entirely to fill this role? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;disclaimer: I just saw the movie and have not read the book!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5005" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T16:27:16.457" LastActivityDate="2017-07-29T21:13:26.843" Title="Why do we see Tesla &quot;inventing&quot; the machine in &quot;The Prestige&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36461" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36497" CreationDate="2015-07-10T16:30:54.837" Score="14" ViewCount="10528" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Godfather I, when Michael Corleone took refuge in Sicilly, he met  Apollonia and then met the inn owner who happened to be Apollonia's father. Michael wanted Apollonia to be his wife and he talked to her father about it. But before he started talking, he asked one of his bodyguards to translate what he was going to say in English into Italian (at about 1h 41min). I just don't understand why. I'm sure that Michael was able to speak Italian-- when he met Sollozzo and that cop he was surely able to talk with Sollozzo in Italian. So why would he speak English and need a translator rather than speak Italian this time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22321" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-10T16:33:28.547" LastActivityDate="2019-11-13T21:59:29.550" Title="Why does Michael Corleone need a bodyguard to translate for him when he first met Apollonia's father?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36460" CreationDate="2015-07-10T17:14:44.820" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, for a start, he provided an &lt;strong&gt;interesting historical anchor&lt;/strong&gt; for the story. But even more than that, the real &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nikola Tesla&lt;/a&gt; was quite an enigmatic and visionary researcher with many ambitious ideas that not all found the appreciation that they might have deserved or that Tesla might have envisioned. This has led to him getting &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla_in_popular_culture&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;quite a bit of cult status in popular culture&lt;/a&gt;, especially in speculative fiction. So his appearance in the movie (or rather the novel, which he's also part of) is another of those &lt;strong&gt;fictionalized idolizations and can be seen as an homage to the real Nikola Tesla&lt;/strong&gt;, when the book/movie lets him accomplish true scientific magic. This is to some degree &lt;a href=&quot;http://movieweb.com/jonathan-nolan-on-writing-the-prestige/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;reinforced by screenwriter Johnathan Nolan&lt;/a&gt; himself in an interview:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Did you ever think about not having the Tesla machine work and that there was another way that he....a real way? Cause I was thinking he would use a double and drown him...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jonathan Nolan:&lt;/em&gt; ...The more research I did into Tesla the more impressed I was with Christopher Priest's choices in the book for a promethean figure you get no finer than Nicolas Tesla I mean the man is absolutely fascinating. Based on the research I did, I'm quite convinced that the experiments we were doing in Colorado Springs were...the thing, the guide that we do in the film with the light bulbs in this sort of remote transmission of electricity through the ground and depending on who's accounts you read....he really did that. And really was....and I'm not a conspiracy theorist but he really was opening up Pandora's box that they sort of made him close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I think it's interesting when your do encounter a character like that because he is one of those in that age of invention, he's one of those characters who has gotten shunned to the side, I mean electrical engineers know his name. But, but...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jonathan Nolan:&lt;/em&gt; But a few other people and hopefully it would be fantastic if this movie were able to help bring a little more luster back to that guy. I did a lot of research on him, I went out to Colorado Springs fittingly all of his equipment that had been there in the museum had been stolen and is probably now in the hands of private collectors. He's a real cult figure, and I wound up pretty fascinated with him. They've been trying to make a Tesla film in this town for years. The problem is there is a tragic quality to his character where they really um...society doesn't know what to do with people like that, and hopefully we sort of got to the essence of that in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add to this, that the fact that Tesla made so many, sometimes obscure, inventions, many of which never even surfaced to the public, also allowed a certain &lt;strong&gt;creative freedom in attributing some new invention to him&lt;/strong&gt;. And while a teleportation/cloning device might have been a little too much even for him, we'll never know what kinds of things he all ever envisioned. This is reinforced by novel author Christopher Priest in a making-off about the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/JrTPQU4rJrg?start=990&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I really liked about Tesla is that during his lifetime he built and patented many inventions, which he then buried in secrecy and they would never emerge. And so it seemed to me quite fair game for a novelist that Tesla would be able to come up with something the like of which has never been seen before...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this goes even further. When we see his professional rivalry with Thomas Edison as depicted in the movie, we see a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/78049/49&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;clear analogy to the rivalry between the two protagonists&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. And while none of the two magicians really kept their vest entirely clean during the course of the movie, Borden seems to be the moral winner of the story, whose ultimate goal always lay first and foremost in his art as a magician and who sacrificed his entire non-stage life in devotion to this art. If we set this in relation to Tesla, who was first and foremost always a researcher and Edison, who history knows did not always play nice to get his economical success, then we can see the parallels between the better magician Borden and the better showman Angier. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige_%28film%29#Themes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; supports this notion to some degree, too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nor is this cutthroat competition limited to prestidigitation: engineering &amp;quot;wizards&amp;quot; Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison engaged in a rivalry over electric current, which appears in the film in parallel to Borden and Angier's competition for magical supremacy. In the book, Tesla and Edison serve as foils for Borden and Angier, respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;as well as does Jonah Nolan:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm guessing society also doesn't want to see a scientific hero being torn apart for having thugs go out and....&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jonathan Nolan:&lt;/em&gt; Ya Edison is a real....a...the more research you do on Tesla, the less you like Edison. You really do, you realize that there's a lot of....again this is what I was most impressed with, the more research I did the more I realized how carefully Christopher Priest had chosen the characters who appear in his novel. That the Tesla/Edison rivalry has a lot of similarities with the rivalry between the magicians and the piece Edison used all manner of PR tricks including...you can find footage online of a this PR heck that a Edison hired to go to State fairs to electrocute elephants with alternating current generators just to prove how dangerous AC was, I mean these guys did some wild, wild things...and of course Edison lost, ultimately DC was, his system was you know, use it in your car but not to many other places. AC is the thing that electrified the world, Tesla's system was correct, but Tesla lost the PR battle and you suddenly realize how important that is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/prestige-is-magical/Content?oid=866385&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Arkansas Times article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While dealing with the rivalry of two would-be magicians looking for a break in 1890s London, it manages to contrast their battle to that of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla over electric current, a major ingredient in the film’s defining trick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;Tesla and his rivalry with Edison further support the primary rivalry of the story with a fitting additional historical analogy&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-07-29T21:13:26.843" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9288" CreationDate="2015-07-11T03:50:41.960" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Officer Keeney asked Meg to give him a signal, she does not, but she does respond with &quot;You guys are good, they really do train you guys.&quot; This is saying something IS wrong and because of your training, you have picked up on it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22913" LastActivityDate="2015-07-11T03:50:41.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36480" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-07-11T05:16:16.583" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A man and his son are struggling to survive in a world devastated by an unidentified apocalyptic event.  Based on Cormac McCarthy's award winning novel of the same name, the 2009 film stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-07-11T11:16:13.957" LastActivityDate="2015-07-11T11:16:13.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36481" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-07-11T05:16:16.583" Score="0" Body="The Road is a 2009 movie about a man and his son trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.  It is based on Cormac McCarthy's book of the same name." OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-07-11T11:15:39.233" LastActivityDate="2015-07-11T11:15:39.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36482" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36486" CreationDate="2015-07-11T05:21:46.033" Score="7" ViewCount="1252" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is the SOL in MST3K shaped like a bone? I know it's not hard sci-fi or anything, but has it ever been explained by the creators, actors, set designers, etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The views of the inner architecture do seem to indicate the communications room at one end, then a big hallway, then the theater at the other end, so I guess it makes sense that way. And real satellites and space stations are built with that modular design sometimes too, spheres mounted on long pillars, though I don't think they were going for scientific accuracy. Maybe they were going for humor and a bone was just a funny shape for the SOL, I was just wondering if there was a definitive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I know &lt;em&gt;it's just a show, I should really just relax&lt;/em&gt;. But I'm curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7536" LastActivityDate="2019-07-22T12:33:02.433" Title="Why is the Satellite of Love shaped like a bone?" Tags="|props|mystery-science-theater-3000|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36484" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-11T06:32:07.733" Score="2" ViewCount="474" Body="&lt;p&gt;These days everything is digital. I came to know that, real 70MM IMAX i.e (not LieIMAX) are shown using film stock instead of digital once. What's keeping them from producing the format in digital equivalent of 70mm (not LieIMAX). Will the digitalization degrade the shots taken in IMAX technology? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering they are still using film stock. I'm newbie to this and may not be aware of many things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22917" LastEditorUserId="9382" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T16:00:53.173" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T01:28:26.690" Title="Why is classic IMAX not digital?" Tags="|film-techniques|imax|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36482" CreationDate="2015-07-11T06:54:44.413" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a tribute to Stanley Kubrick's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;2001: A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094517/faq&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's a spoof of the famous jump cut in 2001:A SPACE ODYSSEY, where an ape throws a bone into the sky which suddenly changes to a satellite orbiting the Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joel also explained it in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/blog/space-music-joel-hodgson-talks-riffing-mst3k-and-eclectic-albums/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of my favorite &lt;em&gt;2001&lt;/em&gt; jokes that’s built into Mystery Science Theater that &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace_Beaulieu&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trace [Beaulieu]&lt;/a&gt; came up with [is] when we were designing the Satellite of Love he suggested we made it shaped like a bone. So it’s a manifestation of the frames of the film between when the bone that the “early man” throws up into the air and the space shuttle it turns into in the opening of &lt;em&gt;2001&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the scene in question (the relevant bit is around 0:52):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/avjdKTqiVvQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Among the other notable &lt;em&gt;2001&lt;/em&gt; references on MST3K is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY59zAsIWd4#t=03m23s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gypsy doing a HAL impression&lt;/a&gt; which leads to Joel's departure on the &lt;em&gt;Mitchell&lt;/em&gt; episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2019-07-22T12:33:02.433" LastActivityDate="2019-07-22T12:33:02.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="36487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9834" CreationDate="2015-07-11T07:19:35.253" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to remember this old science fiction movie back in middle school and this question popped up. I actually found what it was, could it be &quot;All Summer in a Day&quot;? It's a short story by Ray Bradbury.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22919" LastActivityDate="2015-07-11T07:19:35.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9361" CreationDate="2015-07-11T08:55:28.610" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to give you the literal translation of what I believe the video means. To me it looks as though we have a broken hearted man who's stalking his former lover to the point of obsession. Finally he breaks and kills her (backed up by the 2 second scene from 5:46-5:48). At this point he has undergone a complete mental break and begins to impersonate his lover, this is when Malcolm Mcdowell's character realizes the former tenant is actually an impostor. You can say that the video can be interpreted on multiple levels, but this is actually a fallacy called &quot;argument to moderation&quot;. I'm not trying to insult anyone, as the first answer does seem to be well thought out and probably does have some relevance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22921" LastEditorUserId="22921" LastEditDate="2015-07-11T23:12:59.637" LastActivityDate="2015-07-11T23:12:59.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36491" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36498" CreationDate="2015-07-11T09:37:47.920" Score="21" ViewCount="94732" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, a Valyrian steel sword is one of the most popular things in weaponry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only remember Jon Snow and Brienne of Tarth possessing a Valyrian steel sword. Are there other characters (dead or alive) who were or are shown to have one? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15590" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-11T10:16:36.047" LastActivityDate="2018-01-26T04:14:25.147" Title="Which characters in Game Of Thrones have a Valyrian Steel sword?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36491" CreationDate="2015-07-11T09:56:29.567" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joffrey had a Valyrian steel sword before he died. Tywin Lannister had made 2  Valyrian steel swords out of Ned Stark's huge sword; one he gave to Jaime, who later gifted it to Brienne of Tarth, and the other one was given to Joffrey as his wedding gift. If you remember during the Purple Wedding when Tyrion gifts him a book he uses the Valyrian steel sword to shatter it into pieces, but I don't know what happened later to that Valyrian steel sword.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22748" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2017-04-17T23:41:59.020" LastActivityDate="2017-04-17T23:41:59.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1149" CreationDate="2015-07-11T11:00:56.230" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the scene where Evey Hammond and Inspector Eric Finch was watching in the distance as the Parliament building was being destroyed, Finch asked Evey who is V. Evey responded that he was you, and me, he was all of us. Now the mask symbolizes V and since he was &quot;all of us&quot; when they took off the mask they were, at that time, V. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22922" LastActivityDate="2015-07-11T11:00:56.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36461" CreationDate="2015-07-11T12:28:59.937" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Michael Corleone was born in America. Since his early age he stayed away from family business, so he didn't have that typical Italian family essence, so it was obvious that he didn't have fluent dialect when it comes to speaking in Italian Language. On top of that talking in Sicilian dialect is even tougher.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing is that he was an outsider for them, he wanted to show Apollonia's father that he comes from a family with power so that he would consider him for his daughter. If he would have spoken himself, chances are that Apollonia's father would not have believed him, plus not talking to her father directly gave an indication that he's not too desperate (though he was) for her and not talking directly gave an indication that he belongs to a family of means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing is that he wanted to show respect and do it the Sicilian way. This gave another indication to his father that though he is not from Sicily he has not forgotten his Sicilian roots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22748" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-11T12:42:20.493" LastActivityDate="2015-07-11T12:42:20.493" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36491" CreationDate="2015-07-11T12:43:11.713" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here are all of the Valyrian steel weapons that are known to exist as of Season 7 Episode 5 (info from &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Valyrian_steel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;awoiaf&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Blackfyre, the ancestral sword of House Targaryen, once wielded by Aegon the Conqueror, lost during the Blackfyre Rebellion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dark Sister, a longsword of House Targaryen, held by Visenya Targaryen, lost during the Blackfyre Rebellion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ice, the ancestral greatsword of House Stark. Captured by House Lannister when Eddard Stark was taken prisoner, and used by Ilyn Payne to behead Lord Stark at Joffrey Baratheon's command. After the Red Wedding and defeat of House Stark, Tywin Lannister had it melted down into two smaller longswords, one gifted to his son, Jaime, the other to his grandson, Joffrey Baratheon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oathkeeper, the first longsword made from Ice. Given by Jaime Lannister to Brienne of Tarth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Widow's Wail, the second longsword made from Ice. Given to Joffrey Baratheon as a wedding gift, passed on to Tommen Baratheon.  Now carried by Jaime Lannister.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Longclaw, a bastard-sword of House Mormont, given by Jeor Mormont to Jon Snow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Brightroar, the ancestral sword of House Lannister, lost by King Tommen II Lannister when on his expedition to Valyria.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Heartsbane, the ancestral sword of House Tarly. Stolen by Samwell Tarly from his father in Season 6.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lady Forlorn, the ancestral sword of House Corbray.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Catspaw Dagger&quot;.  Wielded by an assassin who attempts to kill Bran Stark in Season One. It previously belonged to Petyr Baelish, but he claims he lost it in a bet to Tyrion Lannister. However, the ownership of the dagger when it was used by the assassin is never firmly established in the TV series.  Given by Petyr Baelish to Bran Stark who in turn gave it to Arya Stark in Season Seven.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Red Rain, the sword of House Drumm, which was stolen by them in a raid. Given the name and coloring, possibly the ancestral sword of House Reyne.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lamentation, the ancestral sword of House Royce, lost in the Storming of the Dragonpit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Orphan-Maker, the ancestral sword of House Roxton. Its last known owner was Ser Jon Roxton.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Truth, a Valyrian steel sword last carried by Moredo Rogare of Lys.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vigilance, the ancestral sword of House Hightower. Its last known owner was Lord Ormund Hightower.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Valyrian steel arakh owned by Caggo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Valyrian steel axe reputedly possessed by House Celtigar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20458" LastEditorUserId="20458" LastEditDate="2018-01-26T04:14:25.147" LastActivityDate="2018-01-26T04:14:25.147" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36499" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-11T12:50:39.997" Score="1" ViewCount="991" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie 'Vanishing on 7th Street' we see the initial power outage and how different persons reacted to that. After these initial scenes the movie jumps multiple days forward. In the next scene we see Luke going through the streets and entering cars. A man sees him and as his light is failing he begs for help and to get into the car. But Luke didn't let him in and the man is swallowed by the shadows. Why didn't Luke open the car door, let the man in and share his lights?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="66" LastEditorUserId="66" LastEditDate="2015-07-12T08:55:36.213" LastActivityDate="2016-04-25T19:44:00.703" Title="Why did Luke not let the man on the street enter into the car in 'Vanishing on 7th Street'?" Tags="|plot-explanation|vanishing-on-7th-street|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36500" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36522" CreationDate="2015-07-11T12:55:18.840" Score="9" ViewCount="6918" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369610/&quot;&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Indominus Rex is a genetically modified new kind of Dianosour. Now when Masrani first went to see the Indominus, part of the conversation was like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Masrani: What happened to the sibling?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Claire: She ate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So she ate her own kind. Also Owen mentioned in a scene that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Owen: She has seen all of this for the first time. She doesn't &#xA;  know what she is? She'll kill everything that moves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Owen: She is learning where she fits in the food chain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And these lines were &lt;strong&gt;true until the Indominus met the Velociraptors&lt;/strong&gt;. It didn't eat them, it started communication with them. But &lt;strong&gt;strangely&lt;/strong&gt; before that it ate her sibling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay now one explanation can be that part of its genes were Velociraptor, so it communicated with them and eating the sibling was just her hunger. Then why did T-Rex and Indominus fight? &lt;strong&gt;Part of her was also from T-Rex&lt;/strong&gt;. She should've communicated with the T-Rex, too. Something is not right. Why didn't it eat the Velociraptors? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-11T13:02:04.547" LastActivityDate="2016-11-27T03:53:10.470" Title="Why didn't the Indominus Rex eat or kill the Velociraptors?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jurassic-world|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11177" CreationDate="2015-07-11T14:59:04.080" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now first of all, the painting itself is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina%27s_World&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Christina's World&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from Andrew Wyeth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interesting part here is, though, that it doesn't just show a woman lying on the grass but this woman actually suffers from muscular deterioration and tries to make her way across the grass using her arms. In &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/585dfAJ60kA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;his analysis of the movie&lt;/a&gt; (unfortunately not available in English) Wolfgang Schmitt elaborates, that while her body is disabled, she is still &lt;strong&gt;free in her mind&lt;/strong&gt; and can thus shape her own world. He sets this in relation to the &lt;strong&gt;questions about humanity&lt;/strong&gt; that the movie supposedly asks and the conflict between the analog and digital world and sees it as &lt;strong&gt;a way to overcome this conflict and for the human to ultimately find his place in the world&lt;/strong&gt;, the home he longs for (translation by me):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The base question that the movie asks is &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;what is the human?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. The movie then gives many, and some very contradictory, answers to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One answer is &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;the human, that's someone who lives in the nature, who lives in unity with nature, who's at home in an analog world.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; Again and agian we see how Tom Cruise visits a place of idyll, a place of longing. [...] But at the same time and while the camera is so in love with this place, so in love it also is with the futuristic architecture of the base from which Tom Cruise is controlled from and to which he always returns. [...] The movie is insecure of what it actually wants and that speaks for our time. [...] We all again love the real, the autentic, but only as long as we don't have to abstain from the artificial...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this escapism always stays ambivalent. It is a double-edged blade, we can never completely return to nature and we don't want to completely dissolve into the didigtal either. But the movie also gives another possibility. [...] The scavengers aren't really scavengers but they're actually the last humans on planet earth. And they live in a kind of museum...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there's one painting, that's shown again and again, &lt;em&gt;Christina's World&lt;/em&gt; from Andrew Wyeth. [...] On this painting we see a disabled girl lying in a field and trying to make her way with her arms, for she wants to a house that's seen in the background. We see here a human imprisoned in his body, disabled actually. The human is seen here as a being of deficiencies, as Gehlen put it, and the human is always a being of deficiencies, even when he's not disabled. But in this painting there's even more. It's a symbol for the human per se, because the human wants to be home somewhere in the world. And he wants to escape his body while at the same time being bound to it. But he also is, and that's interesting, a being of spirit, who can salvage himself into freedom by the power of thoughts even when he's disabled. That's the special position the human has. The animal has to adapt to nature, the human can change the nature. But because of his deficiencies he's also bound to a human tradition. Bound, but not imprisoned, he can move inside this tradition, this culture, and he can develop this culture further...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The painting is particularly important in interpreting the movie. As imprisoned this woman is in her body, as free and cosmopolitan she also is. She isn't imprisoned in the world, she has world because her mind is free. This goes as far in the movie in that also the martyr's death becomes a topic. There the human also is free in the most extreme position because he can take his own life himself. The film thus actually shows here what is inside the human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-11T14:59:04.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36503" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-11T16:52:54.857" Score="2" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just finished watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2758880/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Winter Sleep&lt;/a&gt;, and am wondering if maybe I missed something.  In the Wikipedia article on the film, it states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It turns out that most people have at least one very good reason to&#xA;  dislike Aydin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However that doesn't quite match up with my impression of the film.  I got that Aydin isn't a perfect character (nor is anyone else in the film, really).  But as I understood it, he was shown to be at least partially right in most cases.  For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tenant who's behind on his rent is revealed to be a wife-beater who stabbed a guy, only got sentenced to 6 months in jail for stabbing a guy, and then turned into a drunk after getting out of jail.  And he hits his kid.  If it's unethical for a landlord to evict that sort of tenant when they don't pay their rent, who &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; a landlord evict?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Aydin's wife decides to act upon her pent-up altruism by walking into Ismail's house and splashing some cash around like she expects to get a hero's welcome for it, he proves Aydin's criticisms about her being too trusting and out of touch with reality by burning the cash in front of her.  And (though I'm unfamiliar with Turkish law) it seems like there's a good chance that he was correct about needing to do proper bookkeeping if you're going to run a charity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Aydin's sister just seems like she's upset that nobody agrees with her, and unwilling to acknowledge that her ideas about not resisting evil and her plan to go back to a guy who clearly hurt her immensely might actually be as silly as everybody else points out.  And she dishes out just as much sarcasm and cutting criticism as she receives.  With both Aydin and his wife.  So it's not like she's a terribly sympathetic character either.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The parting quote given by the teacher that Aydin expressed distrust for is essentially &quot;might makes right&quot;.  And it seems like he's revealed to be at least a bit of a womanizer, which supports Aydin's initial reservations about him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can see why all of those people would dislike Aydin.  But I also don't consider any of their reasons to be &quot;very good&quot;.  They're mostly selfish, in the form of &quot;my life would be easier if I could just do whatever I feel like and received validation for doing so, so Aydin is a jerk for not giving me that validation&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is, was it really the intent of the director (or the story, in general) to have Aydin come off as the bad guy?  What I got from it was much more shades-of-gray.  Aydin isn't perfect, but he's not markedly worse than any other character in the film, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22926" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-11T17:00:56.227" LastActivityDate="2015-07-11T17:00:56.227" Title="Was Aydın really that bad?" Tags="|character|winter-sleep|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36510" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36512" CreationDate="2015-07-11T20:04:41.093" Score="9" ViewCount="3220" Body="&lt;p&gt;So in &lt;em&gt;Memento&lt;/em&gt; Leonard already knew about the whole Sammy Jankis thing because it happened before his accident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So some time after manslaughtering his wife, how was he then able to convince himself that Sammy Jankis out of nowhere had a wife who he had accidentally killed, considering he can't make new memories? Not only that, but he would've had to erase memories he already had, such as however he managed to uncover the fact that Jankis was a fake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only conclusion I can draw is that Teddy was lying and it was him who ripped out the pages from the police report. This would mean that everything Leonard  knew about Sammy Jankis is true, as he can't make new memories let alone modify them, meaning his wife was really killed, or she survived, and somehow Leonard lost contact with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11511" LastEditorUserId="8379" LastEditDate="2017-05-01T02:47:30.780" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T15:05:51.890" Title="How did Leonard manage to distort his memory of Sammy Jankis?" Tags="|memento|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36510" CreationDate="2015-07-11T20:27:36.137" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears I was wrong. I read about &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Molaison&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Henry Molaison&lt;/a&gt;, and people with Anterograde amnesia can modify intact memories, as HM managed to do with polio and Jonas Salk. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point Leonard would have read the police report, and in his agony decided to convince himself that it was Sammy who had done the man-slaughtering. He would've also somehow been able to forget that  he managed to defraud him. So in a similar respect to HM, it appears he managed to modify old memories he already had prior to his assault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do this, since he knows he'll forgot he read the truth anyway? Probably so at a later point he wouldn't somehow deduce what was in those torn pages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not entirely sure on this however, so I'm open to other answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11511" LastEditorUserId="11511" LastEditDate="2015-07-16T23:00:28.677" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T23:00:28.677" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10918" CreationDate="2015-07-11T23:54:23.523" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This film is about motivation. What drives people? What's a life about? Three examples are presented. Moss's telescopic viewfinder (antelope pov) illustrates he's focused/driven, in this case by the prospect of money. Chigurh? Nothing matters much. Let fate take its course. Who cares about consequence, be it constructive or chaotic. And thirdly, Sheriff Bell, for whom life's purpose is changing, with all the new uncertainties that brings. Clarity, chance, change/confusion. Telescopic sight/toss of a coin/dreams. Three perspectives. All indifferent. No judgements made. Beautifully and intelligently rendered in NCFOM. (Reminds me of the clever way Deliverance illustrated the three faces of man: basal, creative, company man, with Voigt's character having to choose.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22936" LastActivityDate="2015-07-11T23:54:23.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35303" CreationDate="2015-07-12T02:21:26.973" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In that scene, Tom asks to get in the tub and Dickie gets weirded out and gets out of the tub so I do not think Dickie was gay or had any feelings of that sort towards Tom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22938" LastActivityDate="2015-07-12T02:21:26.973" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36521" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36557" CreationDate="2015-07-12T04:44:09.710" Score="9" ViewCount="63603" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever a big budget movie comes out we see some statistics like first week earning breaks this and that record. So money/earning also became a source of addressing success or failure for that movie. IMDb shows us some stats like budget for the movie, gross earning, net earning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though it can't be a measurement for the quality of the movie, but somewhat it gives an idea that yes this is a popular movie. Specially I use this stat sometimes for movies that are not in English. It helps me somehow to have an idea about the popularity of the movie (hit or flop factor).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for a TV show the above case is not true. The front end audience only gets to know a TV show is on for next season or not (to my knowledge). Earning stats are not that much revealed that even if a show is a hit, it it cut off because of the earning!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here are a few questions. How is budget calculated, season wise or episode by episode? How is earning or profit calculated? Is there any way to see those stats like for movies in IMDb? And lastly how do TV shows actually earn money? Is it only through advertisement?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-12T09:35:09.910" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T03:32:03.570" Title="How do TV shows earn money and how to find the stats about it?" Tags="|production|box-office|audience-measurement|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36500" CreationDate="2015-07-12T04:54:50.480" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the link from Napoleon Wilson provides valuable insight. Another consideration is the Indominus' intelligence. As it was already mentioned the canon establishes the Velociraptor as an intelligent creature that communicates and coordinates to attack prey, the T-Rex sees no such treatment. In the first film these two species are juxtaposed with one another to demonstrate the raw intelligence of the raptor which infers the T-Rex is in some way intellectually inferior. The T-Rex is a doer, not a thinker; brute not brain. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Indominus is also hyper intelligent, perhaps moreso than the raptors themselves. The creature could know that the raptors are more able and more willing to follow commands, where the T-Rex might not listen or might not even be at the capacity to communicate with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22941" LastActivityDate="2015-07-12T04:54:50.480" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33571" CreationDate="2015-07-12T08:59:13.730" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe it is related to the idea that kid's minds are more imaginative then adult. Ghost in movies generally are seen by children and not by adults because the &lt;strong&gt;children are more open to other ideas.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22885" LastActivityDate="2015-07-12T08:59:13.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36529" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36548" CreationDate="2015-07-12T10:32:00.003" Score="9" ViewCount="7099" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; episode (S05E08) where Jon Snow, the now Lord Commander of the Night's Watch reaches the Wildling's camp across the sea with boats to take the Wildlings to the south of the wall he reaches there with many small boats with him to take the free folks back to the safe place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The boats were not big enough to carry a giant, and all they had was boats, even a medium size ship can't carry that giant (and there were no ships at all), still the giant reaches Castle Black with the them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yizM2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't understand how did the giant manage to travel through the sea to reach Castle Black without any boat or ship. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not that I am against the Giant going south of the wall :P But really how did it travel the sea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15590" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-12T10:36:20.190" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T06:27:14.667" Title="How did the giant travel across the sea to Castle Black?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36533" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-12T13:20:24.440" Score="4" ViewCount="2374" Body="&lt;p&gt;While having an interest for movies, but more concise, good movies, you hear about different actors, producers, directors, filmmakers etc, but one person  has come up a lot while researching information. Stanley Kubrick has been mentioned a lot in my research, so hearing about this film maker I watched a few of his movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched his early short films (&lt;em&gt;Flying Padre&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Day of the Fight&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Seafarers&lt;/em&gt;), they were alright, so I then watched some of his more acclaimed and more well know films like &lt;em&gt;Dr. Strangelove&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;2001: A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Barry Lyndon&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Shining&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Full Metal Jacket&lt;/em&gt;. After watching them I didn't think they were bad films but I didn't think they were the best films I have ever seen, like a lot of people say they were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So thinking about this I was wondering why people class him as one of the best directors ever, I have heard that it is because cinematography as he was previously a photographer. Or was it that he could get the best performances out of actors? I was just wanting to know why people class him as the best director, and knowing, was it me who just doesn't like his story plots or is he outdated and his movies don't connect with modern day audiences? So I was asking anyone to give input to reasons to his fame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22522" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-07-12T19:56:29.650" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T15:05:25.840" Title="Why is Stanley Kubrick classed as one of the greatest directors?" Tags="|directors|stanley-kubrick|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13773" CreationDate="2015-07-12T18:22:41.177" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on a very quick scan of &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=c6Q4Fvw2_9QC&amp;amp;pg=PT63&amp;amp;lpg=PT63&amp;amp;dq=The%20Goats%20tiwanda&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=Fz-aNuUAeW&amp;amp;sig=EzlOC2IWYD0RMj33DhNRYSOaBss&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=The%20Goats%20tiwanda&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;The Goats&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The character of Tiwanda, Lydia and Calvin are indeed in the source novel. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;All three characters are black:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A tall black girl [Lydia] whirled against them, her eyes shining with&#xA;  excitement. She gathered them both under her thin, elegant arms as if&#xA;  she must hold on to something or fall down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The black teenager smiled and nodded as if that were the right answer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “That your chick?” he asked, tipping his head at the girl.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “Yes,” said the boy.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “Nice.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “Hey, Calvin, you leave them alone,” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Before the boy could answer, the teenager who had lost his quarter in&#xA;  the machine took the black girl’s elbow and steered her into the seat&#xA;  behind them. “Sit down, Tiwanda,” he said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Based on the descriptions of the camp attendees, it's impossible to judge what the overall racial demographic of the camp is. That said, of the 'kids' mentioned by name, there are four black and two white which would imply that it's at least relatively mixed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-09T21:27:08.467" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T21:27:08.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13832" CreationDate="2015-07-12T19:41:16.657" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a Space Curl device, originally developed as a physical therapy device (under the name &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerotrim&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Aerotrim&lt;/a&gt;&quot;) and later used by various space agencies as a training aid for astronauts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/g5Bnr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&amp;amp;sl=de&amp;amp;u=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecurl&amp;amp;prev=search&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;linked (translated German) wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;, it has some effectiveness in the treatment of various neurological conditions affecting the spine, posture and where the patient shows signs of disorientation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In medicine, the Spacecurl is a therapy device for training the spinal&#xA;  column or for the treatment of neurological disorders (such as&#xA;  Parkinson's disease). By moving in the muscles, these should be&#xA;  strengthened and the body awareness and coordination improved or&#xA;  restored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, within the film it's not entirely clear why someone &lt;em&gt;with his symptoms&lt;/em&gt; would be using such a device. Presumably. having seen it in the gym, he just thought it might be interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-07-12T19:41:16.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23353" CreationDate="2015-07-12T22:13:11.907" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiscreenwritersforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Last-Emperor-The.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;original script&lt;/a&gt;, it's not immediately clear. On the one hand, Johnston (&quot;&lt;em&gt;R.J.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;) is clearly fluent in Mandarin:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;RJ stares at the faces which begin to peer in through the car windows.&#xA;  A grinning TWELVE YEAR-OLD slaps a poster against the glass.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;R.J.&lt;/strong&gt;(points at the ideogram on the poster) &lt;em&gt;&quot;China awake...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and at the same time, the Emperor shows a strong understanding of written and spoken English: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pu Yi points at a portrait on the cover of the Post — a special&#xA;  &quot;Independence Day&quot; issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PU YI:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Who is this &quot;George Washington&quot;?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since they can both communicate in each other's languages (and since the Emperor is eager to learn about the outside world) I'd imagine that they would speak English whenever possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elsewhere in the Forbidden City, Mandarin would obviously be the lingua franca for general conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-07-12T22:13:11.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34508" CreationDate="2015-07-12T23:53:23.527" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like this question would benefit from a &lt;strong&gt;spoiler-free overview, by character&lt;/strong&gt;. The final section details which book characters don't appear in the TV show and visa versa, so stop reading before that heading if you don't want to know. Where the TV show contains possible spoilers for unwritten books, I've put the episode numbers where these occur in spoiler tags so they are easier to avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;overall&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Season 5 is where Game Of Thrones starts to &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; diverge from the books. Before Season 4, the main plots are similar enough that a book reader &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/161831/where-can-i-start-watching-game-of-thrones-to-follow-the-story-beyond-a-dance-wi&quot;&gt;could start watching the show at Season 4 and have little trouble understanding what's going on&lt;/a&gt;. Things started to diverge &lt;em&gt;irreversibly&lt;/em&gt; in Season 4, then in Season 5 these develop into major multi-season plot lines that only exist in the TV show and replace some major multi-book plots. Arguably, and probably not coincidentally, the writing becomes sporadically less tight in terms of characterisation, dialogue and consistency (some fans wonder &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/50815/did-the-got-scriptwriter-change-in-season-5/&quot;&gt;if the writing team changed&lt;/a&gt;) - but let's not get into that here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spoiler-free (books and show) plot changes by character, from least-changed to most-changed:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Somewhat similar storylines&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arya.&lt;/strong&gt; While many details are different, including which previously-named characters she encounters, the general direction and tone is very similar. The books go further than the show, continuing along similar lines.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cersei.&lt;/strong&gt; Massively simplified in the TV show, with very few new characters introduced (compared to many, many new characters in the books). Cersei is also portrayed slightly differently (a little stronger and arguably saner in the TV show, certainly not quite as risk-taking, erratic, inconsistently trusting or... &lt;em&gt;predatory&lt;/em&gt; as she is in the books), but the overall storylines have a similar general gist and tone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sam&lt;/strong&gt;'s storyline doesn't go nearly as far in the TV show as the books, but it looks to be heading in a similar direction - with some added drama that doesn't feature in the books but fits the theme and his situation. The books contain a &quot;journey of discovery&quot; theme storyline not (yet?) in the TV show. In seasons 6 and 7:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Sam's story takes some show-only twists and skips much of the book's journeying, but converges to end up in a similar-looking spot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Some very big changes&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jon.&lt;/strong&gt; Begins quite similar (but simplified and accelerated in the TV show). His storyline then takes a dramatic turn that is very different to the books and depicts things not (yet?) seen in the books. Jon's story in the books is intensely political, while in the TV show, there's much more action. It's hard to say more without dropping massive spoilers... but it's possible the book and TV storylines might converge in future works.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stannis.&lt;/strong&gt; There are some big differences around which characters in Stannis's company go where, and the TV show spends much more time with Stannis directly - most of the equivalent events happen off-stage in the books, which means the TV show appears to answer some questions which are left unknown in the books (&lt;em&gt;containing possible Winds of Winter spoilers&lt;/em&gt;). There are some major, very dramatic scenes and plot points added to the TV show that can't happen in the book world, but which could be spoiler-y clues as to events that may happen, or turn out to have happened, under different circumstances. If book readers want to avoid these episodes, they occur in episodes numbered: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; 9 and 10, following lots of foreshadowing particularly in episode 6. Episode 10 is the most spoiler-y.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dany.&lt;/strong&gt; Similar gist, but almost all the details are different. While the TV show dips slightly into political themes around the difficulties of ruling a city, the books go into much more rich details about the economic situation, precise relationships with regional neighbours, factional politics, etc etc. Her personality continues to be somewhat different - more stern and decisive in the TV show, more naive and reliant on advisors in the books (partly due to her being younger in the books). Very few new characters are introduced in the TV show, compared to many in the books, but some dramatic scenes are added. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tyrion.&lt;/strong&gt; In the TV show his journey is massively simplified and shortened, with very few new characters introduced and different character(s) accompanying him. In the books his storyline is much more meandering and much less linear. The TV show then features events which haven't happened in the books, can't happen how they do here in the book world, but could be clues as to where Tyrion's story will go. Therefore, there are &lt;em&gt;possible spoiler-y clues about where Tyrion might be going in Winds of Winter, in episodes numbered...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; 6 and onwards, and all of seasons 6 and 7&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Mostly different&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Littlefinger.&lt;/strong&gt; He's still scheming in both, but his schemes are very different, in different locations. The TV show spends more time with him than the books.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jorah.&lt;/strong&gt; Starts somewhat similar, takes a very different twist in the TV show. Is slightly more central in the TV show than the books.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Theon &amp;amp; the Boltons.&lt;/strong&gt; Similar predicament and some events in common, but most of the details are extremely different. Similar characterization, although Ramsay, as with earlier seasons, arguably shows more strategic savvy and self-control in the TV show than his often crude knee-jerk bullying in the books, and his relationship with Roose is more developed in the TV show than the books which focus more on his relationship with his younger peers (but he is just as sadistic, savage and shocking in both)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doran Martell&lt;/strong&gt; and some associated Dornish characters have a storyline that has a few very slight similarities between the books and TV show in terms of main characters' rough intentions, but the content, tone and style are completely different. Whereas in the books, it's based around many interweaving political plots and mysteries, in the TV show it's simplified to the point of barely being a storyline (quite one-dimensional and shallow, but dramatic in places).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Varys.&lt;/strong&gt; Takes over the storylines of a few characters who don't feature in the TV show. He starts in a similar place but goes somewhere very different, literally and figuratively.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Completely different&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sansa&lt;/strong&gt;. Has a much, much bigger and more dramatic role in the TV show. In the books, she features little, but in the TV show, hers is one of the most central plot lines of the season.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jaime.&lt;/strong&gt; Has completely different storylines in the show and books, in content, location, company, and tone. His TV show storyline is somewhat cartoonish and action-oriented, while his book storyline is more based around character development towards leadership and strategy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brienne.&lt;/strong&gt; Her storyline had already diverged last season, and continues to take a completely different course. Her story has more drama and is more closely integrated with other characters in the TV show, but has less personal character development and much less walking around compared to her storyline in the books.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Davos.&lt;/strong&gt; He plays a smaller, supporting role to other character(s) in the TV show, completely unlike his adventure in the books. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jaqen&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;arguably&lt;/em&gt; appears in both, but in ways which are different in every possible way. Or perhaps he doesn't appear in either? Both Jaqen H'ghar storylines, if they are Jaqen H'ghar storylines, have only one thing in common, and that's mysteriousness.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this are changes in which characters appear at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might want to stop reading if you consider this a spoiler - but no particular plot points are given away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Not featured in the TV show&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The iron islanders&lt;/strong&gt; have three interwoven storylines in the books that don't feature in the TV show, with a mix of politics, action, adventure and... disturbing moments. There's nothing to rule out some of the new characters here appearing in season 6.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quentin Martell&lt;/strong&gt;, a son of Doran, appears in the books and has an adventure-themed storyline that appears to have been dropped completely from the TV show.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arienne Martell&lt;/strong&gt;, a daughter of Doran, appears in the books and has an intrigue and mystery themed storyline that appears to have been dropped completely from the TV show except for a few elements merged into the Doran et al story.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Griff and company&lt;/strong&gt; are introduced in the books and have a complex storyline that doesn't appear in the show (but, unlike the above Martells, isn't necessarily ruled out from appearing in a later series under different circumstances)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pate&lt;/strong&gt;, a hapless wannabe maester, and some acolytes and maesters in the Citadel are introduced in the books but not the show, in storylines that introduce new mysteries&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bran&lt;/strong&gt; and company don't appear this season, while in the books their storyline continues very slightly further and, arguably, he is seen using his new abilities to influence other events&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Varamyr&lt;/strong&gt;, a wildling warg/skinchanger, appears in the books and has a mysterious, dark high-fantasy storyline, which doesn't have any equivalent in the show&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The brotherhood without banners&lt;/strong&gt; return in the books with a chilling new leader. In the TV show, that new leader isn't introduced and they don't feature this season&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In seasons 6 and 7:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Euron and Aeron Greyjoy appear, and the brotherhood without banners return, with storylines that are fairly different and dialled down compared to the books&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Not featured in the books&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bronn&lt;/strong&gt; is talked about and causes some mischief in the books, but doesn't appear directly, whereas in the TV show he joins another character's storyline in a more prominent role&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Karsi&lt;/strong&gt;, a female wildling leader, is introduced late on in the TV show only (played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2171898/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t19&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Birgitte Hjort Sørensen&lt;/a&gt;, who played Borgen's Katrine Fønsmark), as a strong character with some excellent lines, in a political storyline that doesn't really have an equivalent in the books.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The white walkers / others&lt;/strong&gt; don't appear directly in the books this season is loosely based on. TV show contains &lt;em&gt;possible small Winds of Winter spoilers around the attributes and organisation of White Walkers / others (assuming that the TV show's white walkers aren't differently imagined to the books' Others, which is possible), in episodes numbered...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; 8&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hardhome&lt;/strong&gt; and the wildlings sheltering there are only referred to indirectly in the books, but shown directly in the TV show. The events are different enough that this can't realistically be considered a spoiler for future books.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that covers all the major characters whose stories aren't at this point arguably covered by another character's story&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9718" LastEditorUserId="9718" LastEditDate="2019-01-17T17:23:58.563" LastActivityDate="2019-01-17T17:23:58.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="36544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26768" CreationDate="2015-07-13T01:53:48.643" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whether she physically dies or not.....the white swan or light side of her is transformed to become the dark or at least include the dark part of her. That in essence creates the whole. We are always light and dark and to embrace our dark side is to become whole. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22961" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T01:53:48.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36545" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36728" CreationDate="2015-07-13T02:34:04.637" Score="5" ViewCount="1334" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are three time machines (or parts thereof) in Terminator Genisys. The one in 2029, the one in 1984 and the one in 2017. Pops and John Connor are able to build the 1984 &amp;amp; 2017 machines because they've had access to the one in the future. But who created the 2029 machine? Are we expected to believe that Skynet, who still has robots driving trucks in 2029, somehow had the creativity to invent time travel? Even if it was capable of such a thing, how would it have known it would need it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1492" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-07T18:14:29.443" LastActivityDate="2016-08-07T18:14:29.443" Title="Who invented time travel in Terminator Genisys?" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-series|terminator-genisys|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36529" CreationDate="2015-07-13T05:57:34.183" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Wun_Weg_Wun_Dar_Wun&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;GOT WIKI&lt;/a&gt; he definitely reached out to ships:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Being too large for the rowboats, he simply wades out into the bay for a long distance (not drowning due to his great height) &lt;strong&gt;to reach the larger ships waiting off shore&lt;/strong&gt;. He is one of the few wildlings to escape the Massacre at Hardhome, and the fleet travels back to the Wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now he either took a ride or tied and pulled by a group of ships.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7259" LastEditorUserId="7259" LastEditDate="2015-07-13T06:27:14.667" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T06:27:14.667" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36549" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36553" CreationDate="2015-07-13T07:08:43.493" Score="26" ViewCount="51669" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt; Cobb tells Ariadne that he was stuck in limbo with Mal for 50 years. Then they killed themselves by lying on the railway track.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;strong&gt;it is possible to commit suicide even if you are in limbo.&lt;/strong&gt; And presumably, you return to the awake world. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first scene, Saito asks Cobb &quot;Have you come to kill me?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means he knew he had to die to get freed from limbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if he thought Cobb could free him by killing him, &lt;strong&gt;why didn't Saito just kill himself?&lt;/strong&gt; Surely it's not about who kills you or how you are killed that determines whether you wake up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22967" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-13T07:51:19.333" LastActivityDate="2018-07-11T20:53:59.177" Title="Why didn't Saito kill himself when he was stuck in limbo?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36550" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36579" CreationDate="2015-07-13T07:20:07.110" Score="3" ViewCount="959" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the third season of House of Cards, Claire Underwood announces that she is leaving Frank, ostensibly because she can no longer stand his condescending and abusive behavior. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I thought that for a political animal as shrewd and as ambitious as Clair Underwood, she won't walk out on her President cum husband just because she is angry, no matter what. She should know how to control her emotion and swallow whatever that is coming at her. At this point of time, she needs him more than he needs her to get to where she wants to be (presumably the President of the US)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/news/2106138/hillary-clinton-claire-underwood-mellie-grant-2016-election/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;she made a deal with Frank&lt;/a&gt;, they are supposed to help each other to get elected. If she walks away, she will get nothing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think the whole plot simply doesn't make sense. Is there a better explanation on why Claire would leave Frank in a heartbeat? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3502" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-13T07:50:28.250" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T18:11:04.077" Title="Why would Claire Underwood leave Frank?" Tags="|plot-explanation|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36549" CreationDate="2015-07-13T07:26:24.787" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have a look at this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/7350/47944&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It says when people are in Limbo,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) time would be passing at a greatly accelerated rate, and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(2) they wouldn't even know to wake up, since the kick doesn't work there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Cobb convinces Saito that he is in limbo (the top spins continuously as if it will never topple)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the further question - why then cobb didn't lose the track of time in limbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cobb, having spent so much time in Limbo and having done it before, is able to still distinguish reality from the dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope it answers your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22742" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T07:55:26.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36552" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-13T07:31:05.220" Score="16" ViewCount="2635" Body="&lt;p&gt;How accurate are technical parts of the show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4158110/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mr. Robot&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? How accurate it is in portraying the lives of hackers? I'm interested in tehnical jargon and the way Elliot get's his information.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't like how Tyrell (in ep. 2) installed his spyware on a lover's phone in only one minute, also the way that street peddler hacked Angela's boyfriend laptop and got all her data and credit cards numbers by CD. Is that possible?.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3240" LastEditorUserId="16465" LastEditDate="2016-12-29T22:32:04.863" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T22:32:04.863" Title="How technically accurate is TV series Mr. Robot?" Tags="|realism|mr-robot|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36549" CreationDate="2015-07-13T08:39:54.383" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of it is explained in the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yusuf:&lt;/strong&gt; We're too heavily sedated to wake up that way. [...] Can't even think about trying to escape [from Limbo] until the sedation eases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb (to Saito):&lt;/strong&gt; When you wake up you won't even remember that we had an arrangement. Limbo is going to become your reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So let's tackle the relevant points one at a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why Saito didn't kill himself in Limbo:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Yusuf's sedative places a person who dies in the dream in Limbo &lt;em&gt;without their conscious minds&lt;/em&gt;. This explains why Saito didn't kill himself &lt;em&gt;immediately&lt;/em&gt;. However, even when the sedative wears off, enough time has gone by (in accelerated dream time) that a person can't tell apart Limbo and reality after spending decades there and will no longer &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; that they have to die there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why Saito asked &amp;quot;Have you come to kill me&amp;quot;:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two possible explanations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't necessarily mean that Saito knows he has to die to leave Limbo. In the Limbo world, Saito runs a (possibly organized crime) empire just like the dream in the beginning of the film. When a stranger washes up on shore with a gun, Saito might simply suspect he's an assassin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Saito is confused about what's real and what's not, just like Mal was. He vaguely suspects that someone will try to kill him to get him out, but he isn't sure it's the right choice until he sees Cobb and they remember their previous conversation together. It's even possible that by saying that, Saito actually &lt;em&gt;reminded&lt;/em&gt; Cobb what he's there to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How it relates to what happened to Cobb and Mal in Limbo:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cobb and Mal willingly entered Limbo together, and Mal was eventually reluctant to leave it. Cobb had to persuade her otherwise. He succeeded and they committed suicide together in Limbo, but playing with her subconscious like that also had devastating results later in real life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A somewhat similar thing happened with Saito. Having arrived in Limbo with no memory, he stayed there for decades. Cobb, having entered Limbo voluntarily, eventually found him there but was notably &lt;em&gt;already in a confused state&lt;/em&gt;. Saito and Cobb had to remind &lt;em&gt;each other&lt;/em&gt; that they're in Limbo, which was probably what helped Cobb and Mal escape in the first place: &lt;em&gt;You need another person to remind you who and where you really are&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T08:10:29.733" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36552" CreationDate="2015-07-13T09:09:01.773" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per TV/Film standard much of the technical details are based in reality but only loosely. Many of the overall terms are appropriate but their use is exaggerated in terms of power and time-to-use. Certainly the first scene on episode 1 where he 'shops in' the pornographer would be perfectly easy to execute as would be the 'phone hack' when he calls up the dog owner guy for his personal details. But much of the purely technical details were accelerated or too convenient for dramatic reasons; the speed of close-down of the DDOS, the change of directory permissions would have been found and queried very quickly, the falsification of evidence that puts the guy in jail etc. - all a bit 'BS'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To my knowledge there's only ever been one TV/film that genuinely accurately showed coding in a realistic setting and that was 'The Social Network' - they used real archived code and never pulled any stupid tricks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T09:09:01.773" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36556" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36533" CreationDate="2015-07-13T09:12:29.560" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Few if any directors controlled their sets, props, lighting and cameras like Kubrick - I honestly don't think anyone would be allowed to do that to the extents he went to on a modern film. Watch 'Room 237' about the making of 'The Shining' - you'll see some real precision and use of visual metaphor at work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T09:12:29.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36521" CreationDate="2015-07-13T09:26:57.203" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;TV Stations are constantly updating their 'revenue map' - this is how much money they make at certain times on certain days - it's really just an annual calendar, it has to be annual to take into account seasonal variations (viewing drops in the summer) and special events (Christmas, easter etc.). These figures are actually very easy to compile because they're based on real revenue earned in previous months/quarters/years - they try not to speculate about this. Actual viewing figures are really more used for revenue creation, i.e. ad sales. The Nielsen system in the US is actually one of the least accurate and most costly viewing management figure systems in the world as it only captures a very small sample of viewing data - but it's a well known and understood mechanism and nobody's too keen to replace it because they all know how to manipulate it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They then commission shows to the budget they can afford for a certain slot, so if it's a 2am Sunday morning show the budget is smaller than say a Saturday 9pm slot. They know they'll get it wrong all the time, a supposed-hit will fail, a smaller show will blow-up - but over the course of a year they balance out and in the absence of a crystal-ball it's the best system available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the US, UK and several other countries the broadcasting channels are bound by rules/guidance to publish viewing figures but that's not the case for the online-only companies such as NetFlix, Amazon Prime etc. They get to hold onto their data as they wish and in fact have VERY accurate viewing figures as their playouts are inherently log'able and reportable. I'm the designer of a similar system to these and we get a staggering amount of data back that we can use to understand viewing patterns and this really does help with predicting future viewing figures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T09:26:57.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36533" CreationDate="2015-07-13T09:55:22.133" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;A brief summary of Stanley Kubrick's Films:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sparatcus (1960)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nominated for 6 Academy awards, winner of 4.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;96% on Rotten Tomatoes  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lolita (1962)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4 Golden Globe award nominations&lt;br&gt;&#xA;1 BAFTA award nomination&lt;br&gt;&#xA;1 Academy award nomination&lt;br&gt;&#xA;95% on Rotten Tomatoes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dr. Strangelove (1964)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;99% on Rotten Tomatoes&lt;br&gt;&#xA;4 Academy award nominations&lt;br&gt;&#xA;7 BAFTA award nomibations (4 wins)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;96% on Rotten Tomatoes&lt;br&gt;&#xA;made more than 190 million dollars&lt;br&gt;&#xA;3 Academy award nominations (1 win)  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Clockwork Orange (1971)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;89% on Rotten Tomatoes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Barry London (1975)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;96% on Rotten Tomatoes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Shining (1980)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Made 44 million against a budget of 19 million&lt;br&gt;&#xA;92% on Rotten Tomatoes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Full Metal Jacket (1987)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Made 46 million&lt;br&gt;&#xA;94% on Rotten Tomatoes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Eyes Wide Shut (1999)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;74% on Rotten Tomatoes&lt;br&gt;&#xA; made 55 million dollars&lt;br&gt;&#xA; Nominated for several awards.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On a personal level (since the question is also slightly subjective), I have watched  The Shining and Full Metal Jacket, and they are among my favorite films ever.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kubrick often picked very controversial and complex stories which others found too difficult to make a movie on. eg. -  Lolita and Clockwork orange.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Check AFI's 100 years 100 films/thrills/..., Kubrick's films are all over these.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summing it up, Kubrick was indeed very successful at his trade. His films enjoyed both critical &amp;amp; commercial success. His films won a lot of awards.&#xA;That is why he is considered among the best (by a lot of people)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-07-13T15:05:25.840" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T15:05:25.840" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36565" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-13T12:25:37.027" Score="43" ViewCount="17904" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt;, it was told that the totem's concept was invented by Mal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then why didn't Mal use her spinning top to find out if she is in a dream or not before jumping off the window?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it the case that she didn't remember that she has a totem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22742" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-07-13T19:44:51.923" LastActivityDate="2023-11-21T05:13:41.337" Title="Why didn't Mal use her totem (spinning top) before she actually died?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36565" CreationDate="2015-07-13T13:20:17.797" Score="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because you can't battle a notion&lt;/strong&gt; once it's successfully &#xA;inserted into your subconscious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing could convince Mal. Presumably, Cobb had better ways than a spinning top to prove to Mal that this is reality and that the world outside and her family and friends are all real. But she wouldn't believe any of it, thinking &lt;em&gt;it's all fake&lt;/em&gt;. This is why Cobb is wary of inception in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; As onewho correctly points out, Mal also has every reason not to believe her totem anymore because it's what Cobb used for her inception when he spinned it inside her safe. So the byproduct of the concept 'your world is not real' might be 'and your totem has been tampered with'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, this was the problem with Mal's inception. It was predicated on manipulation, which led only to doubt and mistrust. Compare it with Fischer's successful inception which ended positively because he eventually &lt;em&gt;filled the safe with his own concepts&lt;/em&gt; and its content wasn't manually rigged by others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-07-13T18:55:29.157" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T18:55:29.157" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36568" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-07-13T14:48:12.873" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Despicable Me&lt;/em&gt; is a 2010 American animation, adventure, comedy film, directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud. Its voice cast includes Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, and more. It released USA-wide on July 9, 2010. This is the first movie of the franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full IMDb Storyline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru, planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon. (Yes, the moon!) Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad. The world's greatest villain has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1323594/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_dt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despicable_Me&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41249" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2017-01-01T16:40:49.140" LastActivityDate="2017-01-01T16:40:49.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36569" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-07-13T14:48:12.873" Score="0" Body="Despicable Me is a movie franchise about an evil genius (Gru) who adopts three girls in order to infiltrate a rival's base. " OwnerUserId="9391" LastEditorUserId="9391" LastEditDate="2015-07-13T15:02:22.910" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T15:02:22.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36570" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-13T15:16:28.737" Score="4" ViewCount="660" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that a person, dreaming at 2nd or 3rd level, can die of hunger?&#xA;And, will that person wake up to reality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case, the person is heavily sedated, will he wake up or go in a limbo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22976" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T07:33:56.667" Title="Can a person die of starvation in an Inception-like dream?" Tags="|inception|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36521" CreationDate="2015-07-13T16:26:55.650" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;TV Shows&lt;/em&gt; don't actually earn money based on viewership in the sense that a film title does. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The production house earns money by selling the TV show. The networks earn money by selling ads and/or subscriptions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the only parallel stat with 'opening weekend' type stats for film would be Nielsen (and other) ratings. These are mostly 'best guesses' of course, and not direct measurements that film box-office stats are. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T16:26:55.650" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36574" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-13T16:51:48.920" Score="5" ViewCount="1217" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just bothered about the whole continuity thing, and whether the writers make up Oliver's time away for 5 years as they go along, or if everything has been laid out already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, no way had I expected to learn for the first time that he hadn't spent all of his time on Lian yu, and we didn't seem to get any recognition that Oliver had seen Tommy in Hong Kong. (These are just a couple of examples)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So have the writers said anything about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22981" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-10T11:48:02.307" LastActivityDate="2016-06-14T00:21:21.733" Title="Have the Arrow writers fully planned out Oliver's 5 years away?" Tags="|production|arrow|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35876" CreationDate="2015-07-13T17:15:41.130" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is its Jeff as a Demon. I think he had the same haircut, beard and clothing. As you remember it always appeared as known people to the cursed ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22984" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T17:15:41.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36565" CreationDate="2015-07-13T17:44:23.360" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with the answer Walt gave. However, I also think it doesn't matter to Mal whether she's awake or dreaming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea implanted by inception is stuck in her psyche: if she dies, then they can be together forever (or something like that). It was pushed into her mind while she was dreaming, and it was still in her mind when she was awake. So the totem doesn't matter because it doesn't matter to her whether she's awake or asleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a tragic example of how powerful inception is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2015-07-14T18:40:03.670" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T18:40:03.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36578" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-13T18:03:17.993" Score="6" ViewCount="13119" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &quot;One Minute&quot; of Breaking Bad, Hank gets a phone call from a digitally modified voice, telling him that he would be killed in a minute's time. Who initiated this phone call? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some sources say &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/breakingbad/comments/yjgh1/hey_whats_up_guys_this_is_jeremiah_bitsui_aka/c5w7w07&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Victor made the call&lt;/a&gt; (claimed by the actor himself) and others &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/Who-tipped-Hank-off-before-he-was-attacked-in-Breaking-Bad-season-3&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;claim Gus&lt;/a&gt;. Was this ever explicitly mentioned on the show itself? If it was, what is the definitive answer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9077" LastActivityDate="2021-06-26T19:09:27.497" Title="Who tips Hank off about his imminent assassination by The Cousins?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36550" CreationDate="2015-07-13T18:11:04.077" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Claire is indeed a political animal, but not to the extent of the Machiavellian Frank. For the past three seasons she's been showing more and more signs of doubt over the moral sacrifices she's been taking to be who she is today. This culminated with her publicly shaming President Petrov on live TV over Corrigan's suicide. Also, her rise to power plateaued and sank after her short and troubled career as a UN ambassador proved unsuccessful. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the end of Season 3, Claire has found herself deeply questioning her decisions and with very little political clout of her own. Frank's own power seems to be diminishing as well despite all of his efforts. It was then that Claire decided that it was time to leave ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T18:11:04.077" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36578" CreationDate="2015-07-13T18:13:52.517" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fairly sure it was mentioned on the show, but also according to AMC's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amc.com/shows/breaking-bad/cast-crew/gustavo-fring&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;character page for Gus&lt;/a&gt;, he's the one who tipped off Hank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, two Cartel killers, the Cousins, travel from Mexico to murder Walt to avenge the death of Tuco, his previous distributor. Gus instead steers them toward DEA Agent Hank Schrader but also tips off Hank about the attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22637" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T18:13:52.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36578" CreationDate="2015-07-13T20:13:37.663" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gus was the one who warned Hank about the attack. It was also mentioned here, under the trivia section...&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/One_Minute&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/One_Minute&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22786" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T20:13:37.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36143" CreationDate="2015-07-13T20:52:34.940" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In most cases tv shows are written week by week so in most cases you nor does the actors know what will happen next week until its completely shot.&#xA;In the case of Arrested development it is a mix of pre-planning and happy accidents.&#xA;Example: S01 Buster says &quot;wow never thought i would miss a hand so much. In S02 Buster gets his hand bit off while swimming in the ocean&quot; (Happy accident)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example: through out the show they mention the Homefills in fact they are mentioned in S01E01. through out the show you get running homefill gags like at the end when they find the fake bomb which is a recording device which is a homefill. (Pre-planned running gag)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The truth about writing is that it is different for every case. Take David Milch... he wrote the first ten episodes had all the characters, setting, plots, motives for a show to be set in Rome. He pitched his idea to HBO who said &quot;I can't believe, this is the best, only thing is we just bought a show like this.&quot; Today you know it as ROME by HBO . David walked away and a month later came back with the same characters, plots, and motives, all he did was change the setting and everything else to reflect the settings change. Today you know the show as Deadwood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pay attention to the writing in T.V, a great example is Rescue Me and Sirens. Both shows are written by the the same two people and if you throw away the actors they are the same show, from the pace of the dialogue, to what is talked about, the mood and atmosphere, what they stand for, if you take away the fact that they are firefighters from N.Y. (Rescue Me) and paramedics from Chicago (Sirens), there is very little difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To continue some shows have multiple writers for one show. Meaning this weeks episode is written by Sally and she understands that Michael B. is a selfless person so he will do selfless acts for his family. Well next weeks episode is written by Joe and he doesn't know a thing so Michael will do whatever is necessary for himself. - that is bad writing leading us to believe 2 things, the show should be written by the same people and that they should be written at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now you need to take into fact that the actors maybe filming a movie soon or run into unexpected problems as they can't be on set.(remember even though they are stuck up, selfcenterd, rich actors, they work long hours everyday just like you and me) Now if I wrote 10 episodes and my actor is in all ten and he will start shooting a film over seas next week, I now have to either A. rewrite the episode, B. write a hole new episode excluding that character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;T.V writing is a very fast and unpredictable job (forget the fact it's nearly impossible to get a writing job)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Matt Stone and Trey Parker (South Park) - say when writing always remember if a character does something then something else has to happen, in order to  push the story forward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out - &quot;South Parks 6 Days To Air&quot;&#xA;They go inside South Parks Studios and watch Matt and Trey as they come up with an episode on the fly... You get one again ONE way of writing T.V.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22990" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T20:52:34.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36586" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-13T21:07:06.890" Score="4" ViewCount="1767" Body="&lt;p&gt;The character of Lyle in Napoleon Dynamite is an old farmer and also a local minister with a vocal delivery that is something between a speech impediment and an extreme redneck mumbling.  I am just curious if the actor who played him actually acted that vocal delivery out or does the guy really talk like that in real life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/AAFPZdlm7d4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20094" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2017-01-27T08:42:06.853" LastActivityDate="2017-01-27T08:42:06.853" Title="Lyle's vocal delivery" Tags="|casting|napoleon-dynamite|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36013" CreationDate="2015-07-13T21:13:35.493" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You could as well see it as Dignam was a rat even though it's not mentioned, NOTE: there is no connection to Dignam or to anything that happens after he is putt on administrative leave, and now after all this went down, he has come to clean up the mess. There is no mention of how Dignam found out Sullivan was bad, it could be he knew all along or that Sullivans wife said something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final shot helps explain it all; although seen as too much or over kill, it is of the state house and a rat sniffing around and then walking off screen. Honestly the death and the end shot are just to help remind us the viewer of the full circle between the cat and mouse chase.&#xA;It never ends&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22990" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T21:13:35.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12303" CreationDate="2015-07-13T21:36:17.790" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Syndicate and the Super Soldier aliens from season 9 are two separate groups.  The Syndicate is destroyed in Season 6 episode arc Two Fathers/One Son by the rebel aliens. After this happens many of the surviving members go underground and continue a counteroffensive attempt to stop the alien invasion but nothing much comes of their attempts.  When Mulder is then abducted in Season 7 and returned in Season 8, the plot shifts to being one of the aliens preparing for invasion and replacing humans with the alien/hybrid counterparts also known as super soldiers. These are they who want Mulder dead because he poses a true threat to their ultimate goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: some additional reasons why the Syndicate wouldn't want Mulder dead&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Members of the Syndicate disagreed on the &quot;Mulder problem&quot; throughout the series.  The Martyr effect was a common reason given for keeping Mulder alive, usually from CSM as he was always protective of Mulder due to the fact that he was in fact very likely his father (there is much debate on the validity of this). CSM and other members of the Syndicate also helped Mulder in his quest because they wanted the truth to be known but couldn't openly come out against the pact they had made with the aliens. The Syndicate worked with the aliens to help prepare for invasion, but many of them also secretly worked to find a cure for the black oil virus, which would ultimately help them stop the alien invasion. Mulder was a key player to this second agenda.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT AGAIN:&#xA;This question has been on my mind as I've been rewatching the series in preparation for the new episodes. As I was watching the Season 1 episode &quot;E.B.E.&quot; last night my ears perked up at the following dialogue between Mulder and Scully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SCULLY: So they created this elaborate show just to deflect us again.&#xA;  I mean, wouldn’t it have been easier just for them to –&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MULDER: Just to kill us? Yeah, I wondered that myself. Maybe they’re&#xA;  using me against myself like you said before. That I want to believe&#xA;  so badly that I’d just accept the obvious conclusions and walk away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2015-07-31T16:21:59.813" LastActivityDate="2015-07-31T16:21:59.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15827" CreationDate="2015-07-13T21:40:30.847" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;None of the stories are taken straight from any actual accounts but they are all based on common paranormal theories or urban myths. If you really pay attention to each episode, the cases that come up often match the profile of an X-File including other similar occurrences, many of these are taken from actual accounts from people who claim to have experienced them in real life.  Draw your own conclusions about whether or not they are real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2015-07-14T15:55:42.537" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T15:55:42.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27847" CreationDate="2015-07-13T21:46:27.050" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen the recap sequence used many times before. It is typically used for series that follow a continuation of events rather than being episodic where each episode tells a full story that is more or less tied up at the end.  In shows like 24, the story is told across the entire season and you don't get any closure until the final episode of the season.  Some examples you cited like The X-files used recap sequences as well whenever they had a multi-episode arc.  Shows like Full House used recap sequences anytime they did a two part episode.  It is simply meant to give the viewer some context of the story before throwing them into the middle of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T21:46:27.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36570" CreationDate="2015-07-13T21:55:42.020" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Time is dilated depending on the different levels of dreaming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ARIADNE: We were only asleep for five minutes? We talked for an hour at least...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;COBB: When you dream, your mind functions more quickly, so time seems to pass more slowly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ARTHUR: Five minutes in the real world gives you an hour in the dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;COBB: Let's see how much trouble you can cause in five minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 1st level of dreaming 5 minutes in the real world equals 1 hour of dream time. Each level further down you go the more time dilates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;YUSUF: Brain function in the dream will be about twenty times normal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;COBB: And when you go into a dream within that dream the effect is compounded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ARIADNE: How much time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;YUSUF: Three dreams... that's ten hours, times twenty, times twenty, times twenty...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EAMES: Math was never my strong suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;COBB: It's basically a week one layer down, six months two layers down-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ARIADNE: And ten years in the third level. Who wants to spend ten years in a dream?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;YUSUF: Depends on the dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now let's talk about a physical body starving to death. It's generally said that a person can live 3 week without food before starving to death, or 504 hours, or 30,240 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that 5 minutes in real time would equal 1 hour of dream time on the 1st level. It would take 6048 hours (or 252 days) of dream time at the 1st level to succumb to death through starvation. If we used the calculation of multiplying by 20 for each level down, you would be at level 2 for 5040 days (13.8 years), and you would need to be at level 3 for 100800 days (276.16 years) before dying of starvation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, this has no relation to the real world which is what's needed to maintain the body. Any way you look at it, it's still 3 weeks of real world time outside of the dream. A person trying to starve someone in a dream state would have to keep a person sedated and unfed for 3 weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A person would be way more likely to dehydrate to death (which only takes 3 days of real world time) or go insane after being stuck in a dream after the first 100 years or so (for level 3).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in short the answer would be: yes it's possible to starve to death in a dream, but only if they are sedated and not feed for 3 weeks time. It's their physical body starving to death, not their dream selves; their dream selves are nourished by their physical body, and thus can't starve unless their physical body is starving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21877" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T21:55:42.020" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36586" CreationDate="2015-07-13T22:05:01.023" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie was filmed in Preston, ID and this man is a local who has acted in several films from Mormon film makers.  I have a number of friends from Preston who know him and have told me that this is how he talks, although I believe it was somewhat exaggerated for this film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T22:05:01.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36596" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41995" CreationDate="2015-07-13T23:47:30.713" Score="4" ViewCount="9530" Body="&lt;p&gt;On TV Show &quot;Arrow&quot;, season 3 episode 18, we were introduced to a new villain Jake Simmons (Deathbolt). After his capture, they did a cross-over scene with &quot;The Flash&quot; with Ray and Cisco talking over the fact that Jake Simmons wasn't in Central city on the night the particle accelerator exploded, which made it unknown as to how he became a meta-human. But this was never mentioned after.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His second appearance was on &quot;The Flash&quot;, season 1, episode 22, where he was killed by Captain Cold, like discarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what exactly happened?&#xA;Did they discarded his story?&#xA;How did he become a meta-human? Any cross-references with comics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22531" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T14:07:12.957" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T14:07:12.957" Title="How did Deathbolt (Arrow/The Flash) become a meta-human?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-flash|arrow|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34692" CreationDate="2015-07-13T23:53:01.900" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today the studios have changed. Back in the 20's directors and actors worked for the studios on a salary having no choice what movie to do. It was like a normal 9-5 job and when one movie finished they moved on to the next. - So then they had no style, but you knew when you went to the movies which studio was associated with which actors and directors; tho that didn't matter as much back then because actors and directors never really had creative power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today there are unions that help directors and actors be creative and find jobs because it is all about the money. A successful director or actor can pitch an idea to a studio but if they don't like it they can say pass, turn around take the idea and build upon it as they wish. Studios are all about the money, so if you have a good idea and a famous actor to back you up you got a chance. If you got a good idea don't expect much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now there are some directors that work with the same company's such as Quentin Tarantino. His first film was distributed by Miramax run by the Weinsteins. After they left to start there own &quot;The Weinstein Company&quot; he followed having the rest of his films done by them. - this is a rare occasion but it happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As big budget movie making declines, small - big budget movie and t.v rentals and digital streaming goes up.(Crakel, Nexflix, Hulu+, HBO) Today big studio Movie making is all about money making. The smaller company's are about substance and in some rare cases these company's focus only on a specific niche.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22990" LastActivityDate="2015-07-13T23:53:01.900" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="20045" CreationDate="2015-07-14T00:01:35.157" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show's creator Vince Gilligan who wrote the character of Walter White and wrote the lines you are referring to says that these lines are meant as an admission of guilt and calls it a &quot;long overdue bit of honesty&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the critically acclaimed lines from the finale is the admission from Walter White the show's protagonist, that &quot;I did it for me.&quot; It was a stunning revelation that -- despite what he'd claimed throughout the series -- he engaged in all of his misdeeds for himself -- and not his family as he'd repeatedly claimed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gilligan said on &quot;CBS This Morning,&quot; &quot;It was a long overdue bit of honesty from Mr. White. I think he was doing it for him all along. And he finally copped to it, which I think was very important to have in that final episode.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happen to agree with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbsnews.com/news/breaking-bad-creator-vince-gilligan-i-was-teary-eyed-writing-series-last-episode/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.cbsnews.com/news/breaking-bad-creator-vince-gilligan-i-was-teary-eyed-writing-series-last-episode/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T00:01:35.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36565" CreationDate="2015-07-14T05:13:23.733" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;A totem was an object with some behaviour which was considered to be a secret known only to its owner. Totems could be used therefore to determine whether someone was in &lt;em&gt;someone else's dream&lt;/em&gt; because the dreamer would not know what the secret behaviour was, but they could not reliably be used to determine whether someone was dreaming at all, because if the person was the dreamer (or in limbo I assume), the dream version of the totem would obey their own knowledge of how the real world one would behave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I agree with Walt that the bigger issue was that once she was convinced, she was convinced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18440" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T05:13:23.733" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36605" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36608" CreationDate="2015-07-14T05:38:06.283" Score="4" ViewCount="2541" Body="&lt;p&gt;I  am from India and in our country, the law enforcement department (Police Department) starts the new recruits with same training. But later on based on the recruits inclinations and skills, they are diverted towards other departments like Cyber Crime, Narcotics, Special Forces and so on. I don't know how things work in USA, but Hank from &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; must have not just entered DEA directly. He must have worked his way through APD and then got promoted to DEA as he must have obtained extensive knowledge of drugs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My point here is, Hank being a law enforcement officer, he has been trained to fight criminals and even kill them if necessary. Also, this whole thing is part of his job. So knowing all this fact, why did Hank Schrader got disturbed after killing Tuco. Also, in El Paso, when the team he is working with gets blown up. He again gets scared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, every cop, soldier or person involved in defense service know what he is signing up for. I don't understand Hank's character because of this incidents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22115" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-14T09:36:55.800" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T10:24:55.637" Title="Explanation about Hank Schrader's character as a brave law enforcement officer" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36605" CreationDate="2015-07-14T06:52:54.030" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's put aside the fact that Hank's machismo is a disguise for his trepidations and that this makes him a pretty fascinating character and talk real life. Sure, cops, soldiers and firefighters etc. know that they might be in life-threatening situations. However:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Those aren't &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to happen.&lt;/strong&gt; The fact that these people are in dangerous jobs doesn't make their lives &lt;em&gt;expendable&lt;/em&gt;. There are procedures, precautions and protective gear all designed to make life-threatening situations &lt;em&gt;as rare or avoidable as possible&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That doesn't make a phenomenon like PTSD any less real or prevalent&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttraumatic_stress_disorder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;PTSD&lt;/a&gt; is a serious and debilitating condition that affects &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cops-dealing-with-ptsd-face-stigma-lack-of-resources/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;as much as 18 percent of cops in the US&lt;/a&gt;. I'd never presume to claim it's because they were flawed or ill-prepared in any way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, let's now take a look at the traumatizing events Hank had to deal with in close succession (perhaps even in &lt;em&gt;less than one year&lt;/em&gt;, since the show &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/3785/how-much-time-has-passed-in-breaking-bad&quot;&gt;only spans 2 years&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Tuco confrontation&lt;/strong&gt;, where he was &lt;em&gt;sprayed on with an assault rifle without any backup or protective gear&lt;/em&gt; and had a split second to shoot a person in the head before that person shot &lt;em&gt;him&lt;/em&gt;. This is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; how these situations should go down and would presumably shake up &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; law officer. (Note that even though he was outgunned, unprotected and alone, Hank still got the upper hand. He's obviously tough and well-trained.) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The El Paso incident&lt;/strong&gt;, where he was sent to a much tougher region than he's used to and was met with a situation where his unit was &lt;em&gt;blown to pieces by a severed head on a turtle&lt;/em&gt;. This is not a common occurence and most law enforcement officers do not expect to be in a war zone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The cousins shoot-out&lt;/strong&gt;, where he's shot multiple times by 2 skilled assassins (&lt;em&gt;but still manages to take them out&lt;/em&gt;), and is injured so badly he almost dies and has to undergo a long and expensive rehabilitation process to even &lt;em&gt;walk again&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that Hank is &lt;em&gt;still in the force&lt;/em&gt; after all these experiences and still extremely devoted to his job despite his doubts and fears actually makes him pretty brave in my eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T10:24:55.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36609" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36612" CreationDate="2015-07-14T08:31:49.350" Score="7" ViewCount="2694" Body="&lt;p&gt;Through all the five seasons of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; we had never seen a White Walker talking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean they can't talk human language (e.g. they have their own language) or we will never see them talking (i.e. they can't talk at all)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-07-14T09:27:03.380" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T09:59:50.613" Title="Can White Walkers talk?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36611" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-14T09:06:12.787" Score="3" ViewCount="941" Body="&lt;p&gt;Except being stabbed by Dragonglass/Valyrian Steel which can kill the White Walkers, in addition to other things they can be killed by that we might not know at the moment, are White Walkers in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; immortals, i.e. if we don't kill them by something could they stay alive forever?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T04:14:11.890" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T04:14:11.890" Title="Are White Walkers Immortals?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36609" CreationDate="2015-07-14T09:19:03.153" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;They have a language called &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Skroth&quot;&gt;Skroth&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Skroth is the language spoken by the White Walkers. It sounds like the&#xA;  cracking of ice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The language was created for the show, but ultimately wasn't used. Instead the actual ice-cracking sounds were used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The credits for episodes of Season 1 of the TV series include the&#xA;  statement: &quot;Dothraki, Ashai'i, and Skroth languages created by the&#xA;  Language Creation Society and David J. Peterson.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Peterson developed a spoken language for the White Walkers to use in&#xA;  Season 1 (probably in the unaired pilot episode), but it was not&#xA;  ultimately used on-screen, and dropped entirely from Season 2.&#xA;  Instead, actual ice-cracking sound effects were used when the White&#xA;  Walkers are conversing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In an interview with Entertainment Weekly during Season 2, Executive&#xA;  Producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss stated that &quot;Skroth&quot; is indeed&#xA;  the official name of the language used by the White Walkers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books it is stated that they have a language, but its name is never given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The novel A Song of Ice and Fire clearly states that &quot;the Others&quot;&#xA;  (&quot;White Walkers&quot; in the TV series) speak a language with the voice&#xA;  &quot;like the cracking of ice on a winter lake&quot;, but the name of the&#xA;  language is not given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-07-14T09:59:50.613" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T09:59:50.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36613" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36623" CreationDate="2015-07-14T09:26:39.400" Score="7" ViewCount="3079" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we know in the second Lord of the Rings movie, The Two Towers, &lt;strong&gt;Aragorn&lt;/strong&gt; suggested to Theoden to ask Gondor for help. However Theoden was skeptical that Gondor will not come and didn't ask for help as he must be thinking Denethor will not help him. But  Aragorn was &lt;strong&gt;heir of Isildur&lt;/strong&gt; , he could have directly gone to Gondor and asked them to help by claiming his throne. Why didn't he do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-14T09:54:56.460" LastActivityDate="2017-06-13T17:02:48.793" Title="Why didn't Aragorn go to Gondor for getting help for Rohan?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-two-towers|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36616" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-14T12:09:57.727" Score="7" ViewCount="2396" Body="&lt;p&gt;I distinctly remember a scene in &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt; when Cobb is testing Yusuf's custom made super sedative. He then abruptly wakes up and goes to the bathroom where he proceeds to splash his face with water and spin his totem. However, before the top can reveal whether he is in a dream or not, it is interrupted and knocked off the counter. Cobb then sees Mal in the reflection of the mirror. Surely Nolan made the scene in order to help the audience understand how Cobb is starting to have trouble differentiating what's real from what isn't. But &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;is there any definitive evidence to prove that the rest of the movie is not just part of a sedated dream he never escaped?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23006" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-14T12:27:54.803" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T21:33:26.543" Title="Do they ever really wake up from the sedative test?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36613" CreationDate="2015-07-14T13:37:39.760" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm never convinced by questions like this as it is clearly not possible to give an answer on a character's motivations unless they are explicitly stated. That being said, if you watch the movies/read the books you cannot miss that Aragorn is not too keen on the idea of rocking up to Gondor and becoming a King. There are many sequences of events that lead to him changing his mind and this being possible - I think it is unrealistic to think that a random guy could show up to a city and claim to be the descendant of a king and everyone just go along with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1027" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-06-13T12:30:13.980" LastActivityDate="2017-06-13T12:30:13.980" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36619" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="52552" CreationDate="2015-07-14T13:45:40.350" Score="11" ViewCount="21898" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often on &lt;em&gt;Cutthroat Kitchen&lt;/em&gt;, Alton will ask his &quot;Bobs&quot;/&quot;Bawbs&quot; to bring in one of the nefarious devices to be used for the challenge. Any explanation for the nickname? Alton said it was an acronym on his Facebook live. So what does B.O.B stand for? Even though Alton said he hid it online I can't find it ANYWHERE. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23007" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-08-12T18:23:55.503" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T02:59:44.297" Title="Why are the assistants called Bobs (Bawbs?) on Cutthroat Kitchen?" Tags="|reality-tv|cutthroat-kitchen|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36621" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-14T15:23:07.413" Score="6" ViewCount="995" Body="&lt;p&gt;The recurrent theme of &lt;em&gt;Mad Men&lt;/em&gt; was Don's self-destruction. Right from the start, he had everything - he was hailed as an advertising genius, his boss (Roger Sterling) was practically his friend, he was on his way to become a partner at the agency, he had a beautiful wife and three children and women (men too!) threw themselves at him. Why would he throw everything away? Year after year?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had a guilt - of accidentally killing his commanding officer, and taking up his identity. Was that the sole reason? The guilt of taking someone else's name, so that he could return from Korea? In the series finale, he tells Peggy, &quot;I took another man's name, and made nothing of it&quot;. But right from the start of the series he was a tortured soul and unhappy. He was making something out of that man's name. Did he hate his job? Did he think manipulating people's emotion, to make them feel 'okay' to sell things, was &lt;em&gt;not okay&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22307" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-14T17:01:52.343" LastActivityDate="2021-07-20T17:36:08.733" Title="Why was Don Draper self-destructive?" Tags="|character|mad-men|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36613" CreationDate="2015-07-14T17:13:02.023" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll break down the events so you can see how this wouldn't be possible:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Aragorn spots the marching Uruk Hai army on his return to Helms Deep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tells King Theoden that the army is approaching and will be there by &lt;strong&gt;nightfall&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Aragorn tell Theoden to send riders to Gondor to ask for their aid - Theoden refuses.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aragorn has a choice: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ride for Gondor himself and risk missing the fight completely and&#xA;returning to a ruined Helms Deep&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stay, fight and hope Gandalf is good on his word.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Look to my coming at first light on the  fifth day. At dawn, look to&#xA;  the east.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if he was willing to return to Gondor as a King at this point in his character arc (wasn't even close at this point in the films) He would never abandon Helms Deep and Rohan's women and children to potential slaughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Theoden doesn't act and send out riders to call for aid... then there is nothing he can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20829" LastEditorUserId="20829" LastEditDate="2015-07-14T17:20:06.043" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T17:20:06.043" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21294" CreationDate="2015-07-14T19:25:46.323" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I highly doubt any of that sequence was reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was spurned from the picture of him and his mother at that park, and obviously from the accident itself.  The likelihood that he knew Maria and her son socially before hitting him is a far stretch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Delusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23014" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T19:25:46.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36631" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36961" CreationDate="2015-07-14T20:45:22.067" Score="4" ViewCount="14288" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie Once Upon A Time In America is lavish in its cinematography. But the end unwinds without a satisfying resolution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a hard time understanding everything beyond when De Niro's character arrives at the dinner party at the end. What was up with the trash truck scene? Are we to infer that his life really ended in the opium den, and that everything that happened afterward is only delusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23014" LastEditorUserId="19132" LastEditDate="2015-07-25T23:06:33.477" LastActivityDate="2020-09-17T18:04:41.850" Title="Once Upon A Time In America denoumente" Tags="|plot-explanation|once-upon-a-time-in-america|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34403" CreationDate="2015-07-14T20:58:08.440" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;After having told Valentine &quot;You are completely crazy,&quot; she turns to the prime minister and says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Och när det gäller statsministern, (är jag) chockad över att du över huvud taget överväger det här. Du är vald av folket! Det är ditt jobb…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then tries to get up from her chair before finishing her last sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Translation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As for the prime minister, (I'm) shocked that you're even considering this. You're elected by the people! It's your job…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You never hear her say &quot;är jag&quot;, but the sentence wouldn't make sense without it. This could be because in (at least) Standard Swedish or the Stockholm dialect (which it sounds like she's speaking) the two words are often compressed into a diphthong similar to /eɑ/, and could even become inaudible if the next word is emphasized enough. But if this is what she's doing, it's probably unintentional since she's otherwise trying to speak clearly in her role as royalty. Another explanation would be that it's simply removed during post-production, since it's missing just as they cut from showing the princess to showing the prime minister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As she's getting up from her chair and leaving she again turns to the prime minister and says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Det här är ju helt galet! Du kommer få ångra det här!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Translation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is totally crazy! You'll regret this!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After having left the room, she yells&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vakter! Hjälp!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Translation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Guards! Help!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know what it sounds like to someone who doesn't understand Swedish, but I don't think she sounds that convincing. It's like the director just told her to say whatever in Swedish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23015" LastEditorUserId="23015" LastEditDate="2015-07-14T21:39:01.037" LastActivityDate="2015-07-14T21:39:01.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36635" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-14T23:44:21.827" Score="9" ViewCount="3048" Body="&lt;p&gt;We can see the scene in &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt; where Cobb and Mal commit suicide on the train tracks at a young age, but in the end of the movie Cobb reminds Mal that they lived to a very old age in their dream. How is this possible? Or was the suicide scene just a representation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23018" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-07-15T08:14:29.083" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T08:14:29.083" Title="How did Cobb and Mal commit suicide while young in limbo if they lived decades there?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36637" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-15T00:53:46.257" Score="4" ViewCount="56474" Body="&lt;p&gt;Briefly Googling, I can find no English-language discussion that properly explains this superb, but extremely confusing movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be that this is one of those movies that are open to many interpretations/explanations, but I get the sense from all the various flashes throughout the movie that there is meant to be some single coherent explanation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is, moreover, a Hollywood remake (which I haven't watched), so perhaps that furnishes more clues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, as stated on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Sisters&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, the movie is inspired by a Korean folktale. But to read &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janghwa_Hongryeon_jeon&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;that folktale&lt;/a&gt;, it would seem that the movie was scarcely meant to be a faithful reproduction of that folktale. For example, it is not even clear which sister in the movie corresponds to which in the folktale. In the movie, it seems that the younger sister Su-yeon dies before the elder sister Su-mi. (I don't know if the latter ever dies.) In the folktale, the older sister dies first, then the younger. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine there are Korean language forums that explain the movie more fully but unfortunately I do not know Korean. I hope someone here with more intimate knowledge of Korean culture/history/folklore/cinema can explain the movie here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, some burning questions I have are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was there actually anything supernatural throughout the movie? Or was it all purely Su-mi's imagination?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What exactly was the correct chronology of the family history? Why were there pictures of the mother and the stepmother together? Near the end, the mother and stepmother seem to be depicted as being together in the same house. How does all that make sense?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was the stepmother really ever a bad person? Or was it all Su-mi's imagination?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How did Su-yeon actually die? Did Su-mi or someone else kill her?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How did their mother actually die? Was it some terminal illness?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9668" LastEditorDisplayName="user9668" LastEditDate="2015-07-15T01:20:11.563" LastActivityDate="2019-07-14T10:01:59.817" Title="Explanation for A Tale of Two Sisters?" Tags="|plot-explanation|a-tale-of-two-sisters|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36639" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36650" CreationDate="2015-07-15T01:23:58.950" Score="1" ViewCount="1284" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rocky was a dog who played a principal role in the first half of &quot;The Lazarus Effect&quot;.  Weird things happening to the dog gave a foreshadowing of what was about to happen to the humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But once the film gets in to full swing, Rocky sort of disappears and is not heard or seen again. What happened to him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I figure there are some alternatives...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he escaped and ran away and the scene wound up on the cutting room floor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he got killed off screen and the scene wound up on the cutting room floor&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he morphed into a somebody's dead body&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he is lurking about waiting to go full hulk on Zoe&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which of these (or some alternate view) would it be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-15T07:47:42.927" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T12:20:32.760" Title="What happened to Rocky in The Lazarus Effect?" Tags="|character|the-lazarus-effect|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19235" CreationDate="2015-07-15T03:07:33.360" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bug was in his glasses. The hooker who stole the tapes put the bug on his glasses after he fell asleep. His so-called &quot;friend&quot;/&quot;rival&quot; brought the hooker for that reason. The 'friend/rival&quot; was working for the director's assistant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23022" LastEditorUserId="46980" LastEditDate="2020-04-08T10:23:18.490" LastActivityDate="2020-04-08T10:23:18.490" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="36641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36635" CreationDate="2015-07-15T05:32:58.990" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The imagery for limbo is a bit confusing, especially when you factor in Sato's appearance when Cobb finally shows up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, however, when they do kill themselves they ARE old, or at least they think they are.  I think not making them appear old was a visual inconsistency, but it may have been intentionally made by Nolan to make the whole suicide scene and after more confusing and less clear-cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T05:32:58.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36635" CreationDate="2015-07-15T05:45:12.450" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Likely the latter:&lt;/strong&gt; An &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnreliableNarrator&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;'unreliable'&lt;/a&gt; representation of what happened. Since that crucial bit of information (that they grew old together) is still left out as Cobb and Mal go over what happened to them in Limbo, this is either Cobb or Mal (or even Ariadne, representing the viewers) &lt;em&gt;imagining&lt;/em&gt; they were young there or falsely remembering it. Note that some of the same scenes of them in Limbo (strolling through it holding hands, and their hands on the train tracks) are later reconstructed with their &lt;em&gt;old&lt;/em&gt; selves after this bit of dialogue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mal:&lt;/strong&gt; You said you dreamt that we'll grow old together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; But we did. We did, &lt;em&gt;you don't remember?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this is basically a case of a detail left out for the impact of a later reveal; since we don't know it yet, it's not yet visualized - with the possible in-universe excuse that someone is imagining it that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T05:45:12.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34011" CreationDate="2015-07-15T05:54:19.333" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, Max put on the shoes of a dead man and becomes a rotting corpse. He even panics and screams &quot;He's dead. He's dead.&quot; When he puts on his father shoes he became a healthy, very much alive, version of his dad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was obvious that Jimmy was Max's father in disguise. The pears, pickles, wanting to help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23024" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T05:54:19.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33571" CreationDate="2015-07-15T07:00:21.317" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;my opinion might not make sense but this is it. I read one of the answers to this comment and it said &quot; there are people who keep track of every day and every hour, and there are people who don't&quot; this lead me to believe that once the parents escaped their adult side kicked in and they realized that they had stuff to do which is why the parents were i think making dinner or something, but deep down they knew she did something right which is why Coraline's mother gave her a smile when she saw her. I'm not 100% positive that this is correct, but it is all that i can come up with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23026" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T07:00:21.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36645" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36646" CreationDate="2015-07-15T07:17:29.640" Score="4" ViewCount="2844" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the Red Wedding in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; Emdure Tully and &quot;Roslin Frey&quot; have their clothes taken off and are carried out of the hall for the bedding ceremony. As they leave we see dialogue between Roose Bolton and Catelyn Stark:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Catelyn:&lt;/strong&gt; Poor girl.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Roose:&lt;/strong&gt; Every bride suffers the same... I'm sure you endured yours with grace.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Catelyn:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh, Ned forbade it...he said it wouldn't be right if he broke a man's jaw on our wedding night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what did Ned forbid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The obvious answer would be the actual bedding ceremony but surely he wouldn't do that. Besides, I don't understand how that could end in breaking a man's jaw, unless you're into that kind of stuff. I then thought that maybe she meant being carried to bed by the men but in the latest season we find that they don't do that in the North anyways. So what was it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2015-07-15T07:35:17.377" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T03:52:38.877" Title="What did Ned forbid?" Tags="|dialogue|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36645" CreationDate="2015-07-15T07:50:06.583" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Bedding&quot;&gt;bedding ceremony&lt;/a&gt;  itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The bedding is a Westerosi wedding tradition, practiced throughout the&#xA;  entire continent. It's intended to provide evidence that the bride and&#xA;  bridegroom have consummated their marriage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The bedding is commonly held after the wedding feast is over. Male&#xA;  guests carry the bride while female guests carry the bridegroom to the&#xA;  bedchamber, removing items of clothing along the way and making ribald&#xA;  jokes. Although a popular tradition, it is optional, and can be&#xA;  dispensed with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't mean that they didn't go to bed, it means that the actual &lt;strong&gt;ceremony&lt;/strong&gt;, i.e. carrying the bride, removing the clothes, etc. was forbidden by Ned. Apparently he didn't have patience for drunk guys undressing his wife and making jokes about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding why it didn't happen on the wedding of Sansa and Ramsay:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For unknown reasons, the bedding ceremony is not performed in Ramsay's&#xA;  wedding, neither in the novels nor in the show. It is probably because&#xA;  of the northern lords' hatred for House Bolton due to their&#xA;  involvement in the Red Wedding and Ramsay's sack of Winterfell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Bedding#In_the_books&quot;&gt;in the books&lt;/a&gt; Catelyn had a bedding ceremony:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At Edmure's wedding, Catelyn recalls her own bedding: Jory Cassel tore&#xA;  her gown in his haste to undress her; Ser Desmond Grell, the master at&#xA;  arms of Riverrun, kept apologizing for every ribald joke he told, only&#xA;  to make another; and when Lord Willam Dustin saw her naked, he told&#xA;  Ned that the sight of her breasts was enough to make him wish he'd&#xA;  never been weaned. Ned's response is not mentioned, but it is unlikely&#xA;  that he broke Lord Dustin's jaw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-07-15T11:47:12.457" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T11:47:12.457" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36649" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36700" CreationDate="2015-07-15T11:21:08.223" Score="15" ViewCount="109080" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie &lt;em&gt;Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End&lt;/em&gt; The Black Pearl and The Flying Dutchman flank the Endeavour and open fire, tearing the ship apart. Beckett, stunned, disbelieving and unable to give orders, stays on board his ship as the crew  abandons it. He slowly descends the deck stairs as his world, his dreams  of control, and his ambitions fly apart around him, until the powder magazine of the Endeavour explodes, killing Beckett in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was Lord Beckett unable to give orders?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22134" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-15T14:55:31.210" LastActivityDate="2017-10-08T23:07:25.477" Title="Why did Lord Cutler Beckett not give the order to fire/attack?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pirates-of-the-caribbean|at-worlds-end|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36639" CreationDate="2015-07-15T12:20:32.760" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's implied that he's killed, but I'm guessing they wanted to keep it off-screen to maintain their PG-13 rating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's one point in the film when he's in a room with Zoe, and the view cuts to outside the room, and you hear him yelp in pain.  Unfortunately, I can't find a clip of this on YouTube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16207" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T12:20:32.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36654" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-15T13:08:27.047" Score="2" ViewCount="2709" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &quot;Jafar's Hour&quot; segment (the one in which he makes his two first wishes and sings his reprise of &quot;Prince Ali&quot;) of Disney's &lt;em&gt;Aladdin&lt;/em&gt;, Jafar uses his sorcerer powers to reverse Aladdin's clothes from the Prince Ali outfit to the &quot;street-rat&quot; rags, revealing him as Aladdin. But why does Jasmine believe so quickly that Aladdin was a street rat all along disguised as Prince Ali ? Of course, it is the &lt;em&gt;truth&lt;/em&gt;, but it's not what a normal person &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; deduce from the situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that at that point, Jasmine has been told by Aladdin-Prince Ali that he actually is Prince Ali but sometimes disguises &lt;em&gt;as&lt;/em&gt; Aladdin the Street Rat, an explanation that made sense and convinced Jasmine. Jasmine, when seeing Jafar turning back Ali in his Aladdin clothes, should have normally thought: &quot;This rotten guy is putting Ali back in his disguise to humiliate him ! And he thinks &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt; am going to believe his crazy story that this is his true form ? Bah !&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, unless the writers were dumb (which I refuse to think of the Disney artists), I'm probably missing some detail. If you know &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; this detail is, may you answer ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22695" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T15:12:07.293" LastActivityDate="2018-08-29T13:42:34.233" Title="Why did Jafar get Jasmine to believe him in Disney's Aladdin?" Tags="|plot-explanation|aladdin|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36654" CreationDate="2015-07-15T13:30:01.533" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is because Aladdin acts in such a manner that he is exposed rather than humiliated after Jafar revealed it, if I remember right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/JR2Qqh-yHEU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23033" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T13:30:01.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30419" CreationDate="2015-07-15T14:04:27.123" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The best answer is PG-13 was instituted in 1984 as a response to some PG films that some parents felt went too far in content; but that did not have quite enough content to earn an R. Thus if you look at PG-13 films from the first few years, many of them have female nudity. It was almost a running joke for a while that PG-13 &lt;strong&gt;meant&lt;/strong&gt; you were going to see some breasts and get an F-word. This died down quite a bit in the 90s as PG-13 became the main rating used by Hollywood to market their films to the widest audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For additional background, going back even before PG-13 was instituted, nudity was not all that uncommon in a PG film. (Even G rated films, if you count innocent skinny dipping kids and male rear ends. I will limit the rest of this answer to refer to female frontal nudity.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prior to the 1990s, PG did not mean 'family film' as it does now. You have to realize PG was a replacement for the original 'M' rating (mature) and was described as 'Parental guidance suggested – some material may not be suitable for pre-teenagers.' Thus there was a time when PG actually meant a film had content &lt;strong&gt;not suitable&lt;/strong&gt; for younger children and parents should think before sending their kids off to see it. Examples of PG films with nudity are Logan's Run, Billy Jack, The Outlaw Josie Wales, The Omega Man, Airplane, Coma, Clash of the Titans, The Beastmaster, Sheena, Splash, Sixteen Candles. In some PG films, evan rape or sexual violence was implied or depicted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23034" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T14:04:27.123" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36663" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-15T14:58:47.307" Score="3" ViewCount="1441" Body="&lt;p&gt;I see a lot of movies or series involving wish granting beings that grant wishes in an unexpected manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't Genie do that too? I have a feeling that this will be answered away with &quot;It's a kid's movie&quot; but anyway, here goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, Jafar does not wish to be the sultan of &lt;strong&gt;Agrabah&lt;/strong&gt;. Genie could let him be the sultan of an uninhabited kingdom of which Genie just made. Genie could even have all the necessary documents from foreign states declaring recognition of said kingdom. However, Genie could let him have that one to set Jafar up for a later trick later on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the second wish, I think Genie can make Jafar have the power to conjure a small apple out of thin air only once and then lower the power of all other sorcerers in the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably unethical to steal magic from others. Something else then. Maybe Genie could interpret sorcerer as magician (like Criss Angel).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not very creative. &lt;strong&gt;Bottomline is that I think Genie could have been more creative with the first two wishes. Is there any reason why Genie isn't so sneaky?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/JR2Qqh-yHEU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23033" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-06T14:04:14.790" LastActivityDate="2018-08-29T10:21:14.343" Title="Why is Aladdin's Genie not more clever?" Tags="|plot-explanation|aladdin|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36663" CreationDate="2015-07-15T16:14:41.443" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that this has ever been addressed as far as Genie goes. However, I think you're right with your &quot;It's a kids movie&quot; theory. The children watching the movie can easily put two and two together and know that Jafar wanted to be Sultan of Agrabah, so that's what he got. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the movie is based off a short story from &quot;The Book of A Thousand and One Nights&quot;. If I remember right, the Genie wasn't as wishy washy on the wishes either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3541" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T16:14:41.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36669" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-15T17:18:26.083" Score="9" ViewCount="5602" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not quite sure if &quot;title sequence&quot; is the phrase I'm looking for, so I'll explain what I mean. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Older movies would begin with a short credit sequence, which would also include the title of the movie. Recently, it is becoming more common to skip this in preference of showing the title at the end of the movie, perhaps as part of the credits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What I'm wondering, is if there has been an instance of a movie being produced without any inclusion of its title in such a sequence.&lt;/strong&gt; If there is some legal requirement to have the title listed somewhere (e.g. copyright notice) then those mentions can be ignored. If there has been a movie produced with no title at all then I suppose it would qualify by default.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22429" LastEditorUserId="22429" LastEditDate="2015-07-16T13:05:36.163" LastActivityDate="2016-12-02T21:24:26.990" Title="Has there been a movie produced without a title sequence?" Tags="|title-sequence|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36669" CreationDate="2015-07-15T17:45:41.323" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What I'm wondering, is if there has been an instance of a movie being produced &lt;strong&gt;without any inclusion of its title in such a sequence&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apocalypse Now does not have such a sequence, from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The original 1979 70mm exclusive theatrical release ended with Willard's boat, the stone statue, then fade to black with no credits, save for '&quot;Copyright 1979 Omni Zoetrope&quot;' right after the film ends. This mirrors the lack of any opening titles and supposedly stems from Coppola's original intention to &quot;tour&quot; the film as one would a play: the credits would have appeared on printed programs provided before the screening began.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T02:46:04.567" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T02:46:04.567" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36654" CreationDate="2015-07-15T18:29:43.353" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, if you recall (or view the link provided by Red), she didn't really necessarily believe anything.  All she said was, &quot;Aladdin?&quot;  She didn't sound angry or shocked, but more inquisitive, as if to say, &quot;Could this be true?&quot;.  It was at that point where he responds with, &quot;I tried to tell you...&quot; that there is no question in her mind.  It all happens in a matter of seconds.  Once he confirms it, it's a done deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T18:29:43.353" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36669" CreationDate="2015-07-15T18:46:34.510" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another case, hopefully not one of many (because that would kind of make the question a list request): Jean-Luc Godard's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2400275/combined&quot;&gt;Goodbye To Language&lt;/a&gt; from 2014. From IMDb's trivia section:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The film's title never appears on screen.&lt;/strong&gt; The end credits just list peoples' names, without any indication of what work they contributed to the project.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, this &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Godard&quot;&gt;Godard&lt;/a&gt;, so it's not very surprising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Sure enough, I just remembered yet another instance of this: Gregg Araki's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780608/combined&quot;&gt;Smiley Face&lt;/a&gt; (2007) with the hilarious Anna Faris. The title itself never appears in the opening &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; closing credits but is simply represented &lt;em&gt;by an image of a huge yellow smiley&lt;/em&gt; just like &lt;a href=&quot;http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/manhunt/images/f/fa/Smiley_icon.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20141107182226&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. :) [&lt;strong&gt;Source:&lt;/strong&gt; I verified this myself.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-07-15T21:42:02.210" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T21:42:02.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36675" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-07-15T18:49:04.170" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-07-15T18:49:04.170" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T18:49:04.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36676" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-07-15T18:49:04.170" Score="0" Body="2015 film directed by Alan Taylor and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.  The fifth film in the Terminator series." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-07-15T19:09:34.777" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T19:09:34.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26773" CreationDate="2015-07-15T21:40:41.073" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Underworld: Rise of the Lycans is first because it has characters in it that are in Underworld. The end of Rise of the Lycans is an intro to Underworld.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Underworld is second because it carries on from Rise of the Lycans.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Underworld: Evolution is third because it includes the characters from Underworld and it continues the story from Underworld.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Underworld: Awakening is fourth because if you watch the third one (Evolution) it continues off of that specific movie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You HAVE to watch them in certain order otherwise if you have never seen them before, you will be confused on the whole back story and how it all began and who the characters are. I've watched all 4 at least 10 times each and after watching them for the first time, it is not hard to put the puzzle pieces together after watching them all. The order again is: Rise of the Lycans, Underworld, Evolution, and Awakening. You're welcome:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23043" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-15T21:58:35.940" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T21:58:35.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36669" CreationDate="2015-07-15T23:24:40.583" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another (sort of) answer is &lt;em&gt;Fahrenheit 451&lt;/em&gt; (1966) in which the titles and credits are not shown on the screen; instead they are only in voice-over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18249" LastActivityDate="2015-07-15T23:24:40.583" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36680" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-15T23:53:15.477" Score="4" ViewCount="1612" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before I start, I'm going to warn you that this contains spoilers of the first part of season one of &lt;em&gt;Utopia&lt;/em&gt;, because I don't feel like sticking this whole question in a spoiler tag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In episode 1x03, at the end of the scene in Alice's house (around 44 minutes in), Arby speaks to Jessica:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arby:&lt;/strong&gt; Give it me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Jessica hands him the manuscript] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arby:&lt;/strong&gt; Your father was Phillip Carvel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Jessica nods]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arby:&lt;/strong&gt; What was he like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jessica:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't know. That's why I wanted that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arby:&lt;/strong&gt; Where is Jessica Hyde?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does he ask her this? I get that it's a callback to him asking everyone else, but I don't understand why he'd ask Jessica Hyde where Jessica Hyde is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3767" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-16T11:11:31.700" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T18:42:50.280" Title="Why does Arby ask Jessica Hyde, &quot;Where is Jessica Hyde?&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|utopia|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36681" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13829" CreationDate="2015-07-16T01:22:07.567" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I loved this movie! I have to admit the ending was a bit baffling. In retrospect; I believe the ending was actually the ending. I think he ran to the villa, talked with the real Claire and figured out the truth. I think then he had the breakdown and eventually clung to hope which led him to wait for her to come back. Well anyway. Love is fleeting at best. Remember he also lost his first loves: his paintings of all the women he loved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23046" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T01:22:07.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18271" CreationDate="2015-07-16T06:56:16.030" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If have to say a golem, a ghoul is a fiend of type who participates with the dead, eating corpses, grave robbing and necrophelia. Where as being a Golem, (obviously not traditional, Jewish lore) he's to serve and protect his master. Also, a half Vampire wouldn't have that effect in death, rather that of a typical human or vampire depending how far in transformation he or she is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23055" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T06:56:16.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36669" CreationDate="2015-07-16T07:09:27.950" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1996 film &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117561/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Schizopolis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; written and directed by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Soderbergh&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Steven Soderbergh&lt;/a&gt; has no opening or closing credits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest we get is the word &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizopolis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SCHIZOPOLIS&lt;/a&gt;&quot; on the T-shirt of an otherwise naked man being chased by two other men (ostensibly medical personnel chasing down a crazy person). We also receive the onscreen words &quot;No fish were harmed in the making of this film&quot; apropos of nothing near the beginning of the film.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z472B.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;nude dude&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zjdRl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;mange poussin avec moi&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the film, the man's shirt reads &quot;THE END&quot; when he is caught and soon after there is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blipvert&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blipvert&lt;/a&gt; style one-frame flash of the obligatory copyright notice. The blurry nature of the notice is due to trying to isolate the frame via VLC. This was the best of only two tries from the Criterion DVD and a crap video card.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p1ZSZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;GOTCHA!&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x3mz8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;hassled by The Man&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a while there were fun threats of a &lt;strong&gt;Son of Schizopolis&lt;/strong&gt; sequel, but it looks like the window may have closed on that one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T13:27:04.150" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T13:27:04.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36697" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-16T07:36:45.087" Score="10" ViewCount="12054" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, at the end when the Kraken attacks the Black Pearl, Captain Jack Sparrow tries to run away in a small boat. Then he comes back, shoots the barrel, Elizabeth ties him and then he enteres into the Kraken's mouth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is why does he come back?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/N5Fh5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UARFZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/piqvU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22813" LastEditorUserId="22813" LastEditDate="2015-07-28T07:25:14.743" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T12:54:47.317" Title="Why does Captain Jack Sparrow return to the Black Pearl when attacked by the Kraken?" Tags="|pirates-of-the-caribbean|dead-mans-chest|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36698" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-16T10:22:56.283" Score="0" ViewCount="707" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which is the first Hollywood Color motion picture film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22813" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T10:57:01.417" Title="First ever Hollywood Color motion picture film?" Tags="|american-cinema|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36698" CreationDate="2015-07-16T10:24:46.240" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Wikipedia &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_the_Woman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joan the Woman (1916)&lt;/a&gt;, is the first american film to be released in colour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However first in world is &lt;code&gt;Home footage&lt;/code&gt; released in 1902 in Britain. Refer &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_early_color_feature_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-07-16T10:57:01.417" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T10:57:01.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36649" CreationDate="2015-07-16T10:59:58.873" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was shocked by fact that he lost the Dutchman. And has not chance of winning the battle and even to come alive which was sure victory situation at start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/War_Against_Piracy&quot;&gt;wikia&lt;/a&gt;:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Despite losing the Flying Dutchman, Beckett remains confident of his victory   and takes out the Endeavour to destroy the Black Pearl personally. Jack, to everyone's surprise, orders the crew to hold all canvas (sails) and not run. As the Endeavour approaches the Pearl, the Flying Dutchman suddenly resurfaces and Beckett is happy as he believes that the ship is still on his side. Unknown to him, the ship is under the command of its new captain, Will Turner and is now on the pirates' side. The ship and crew revert to their original forms and Will orders his new crew to ready the ship's weapons. Jack orders the same thing and the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman begin a double broadside on the Endeavour. Beckett was so shocked, he is unable to give orders. This forced his second-in command, Lieutenant Groves, to give the order to abandon ship. Some of the crew do so, but Beckett remains on board. The double broadside penetrates the power magazine, destroying the Endeavour in a series of massive explosions and killing Cutler Beckett.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2015-07-16T11:11:09.950" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T11:11:09.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36697" CreationDate="2015-07-16T11:29:19.023" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jack was shown checking &lt;a href=&quot;http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_Sparrow%27s_compass&quot;&gt;his compass&lt;/a&gt; to decide whether or not to go back and help. However, what the compass told him was never shown. My understanding is that he came back because the compass pointed towards the &lt;em&gt;Black Pearl&lt;/em&gt;. He looked at the compass as he was in a moral dilemma because he had abandoned his crew and friends to die when he alone was responsible for their situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="607" LastEditDate="2015-07-16T17:16:24.610" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T17:16:24.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36697" CreationDate="2015-07-16T11:51:21.217" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jack has two drives:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Self-preservation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Being captain of a ship&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has been shown time and again how Jack will go to extraordinary lengths to become captain of a ship, even if it's just a rowboat (as seen at the end of At World's End). When the Kraken was attacking The Black Pearl, Jack's first instinct was the same as anyone else's would be in such a position - run. But when he got far enough away from the ship to see the Kraken breaking up his ship, he realized that as captain he should be with his ship and his crew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason he stayed on the boat after trying to help everyone else get off is because Elizabeth had tied him up. But you'll also notice that even once he gets free, he accepts his fate and actually tries to attack the Kraken before being swallowed. Jack stayed true to his principle - the captain goes down with his ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-07-16T14:45:28.710" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T14:45:28.710" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36703" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36649" CreationDate="2015-07-16T11:57:47.367" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This kind of behavior has been shown on screen a few other times also. When a captain realizes that his death is upon him and that there's nothing he can do about it, they tend to shut down and forget about anything else. A couple of other examples off the top of my head: The Fifth Element (at the beginning, when a captain tries firing missiles at the source of evil that threatens Earth), Star Trek VI (Chang's cloaked ship about to be exposed) &amp;amp; Titanic (the captain shutting himself in the control room as the ship goes down).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="260" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T11:57:47.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36663" CreationDate="2015-07-16T13:27:03.010" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genies are typically one type. They do not switch types based on who their master is.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A big point that I think you're missing is that a Genie has a personality, and that personality doesn't change based on who his master is. Genie can't be a Benevolent Genie to Aladdin, and a Jackass Genie to Jafar. He has to be consistent. He has to be either benevolent to both, or a jackass to both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(warning: upcoming tvtropes links)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Genie in Aladdin is &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BenevolentGenie&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a Benevolent Genie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. So much so that he is the picture used in the tvtropes page on Benevolent Genies. [emphasis mine]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...not all genies are by-the-book bureaucrats who are more interested in doing exactly what you say than actually getting you what you want. Nor are they all complete jerks who seem determined to make whatever wish you utter cause suffering regardless of how well you word it. Some genies are just really cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Or maybe the genie is just so nice, so subservient, or both, that they can't even conceive of granting a wish in a way that directly hurts good ol' master.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What you wish he was is &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JackassGenie&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a Jackass Genie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What differentiates the Jackass Genie from the Literal Genie is sheer malice. This creature has it in for whoever has the misfortune of being his master, and will make whatever bizarre interpretation is necessary to make the master's life a living hell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For completeness, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LiteralGenie&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Literal Genie&lt;/a&gt; is basically a bumbling Benevolent Genie.&lt;/strong&gt; The Literal Genie is the Gomer Pyle of the Genie world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ask for a ton of money, and it will appear. Directly above you, weighing exactly one ton. Ask for X-ray vision, and your eyes will start shooting harmful radiation. In other words, the entity gives you what you ask for, but not necessarily what you want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7820" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T13:27:03.010" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36707" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-16T14:38:59.670" Score="8" ViewCount="10184" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Pulp Fiction, Butch has a scene where he takes the cab. In this scene, the background is black and white, and is quite surreal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gytJj.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am guessing there is a reason for this, most likely a reference (I'm a teenager, so I'm guessing this is a reference to an old movie that I most likely haven't watched)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I managed to find this snippet from IMDB, but it does not mention &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; the background was black and white.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(at around 1h 12 mins) In the taxi, Butch throws his boxing clothes&#xA;  out a fully-open window, and Esmarelda tosses a butt out her open&#xA;  window. The squealing tires, near-miss as she leaves the alley, and&#xA;  background indicate she's driving fast. But as Butch smokes the&#xA;  cigarette, its smoke drifts slowly through the car, indicating it&#xA;  isn't moving because no wind is coming through the open windows.&#xA;  However, the back projection is heavily stylized in black &amp;amp; white, so&#xA;  the director clearly did not intend this to be a realistic shot.&#xA;  Although the shot may have been intentionally unrealistic, when Butch&#xA;  throws his gloves out the window a &quot;plop&quot; can be clearly heard,&#xA;  indicating no vehicle movement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11090" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-16T14:40:47.847" LastActivityDate="2015-11-06T13:15:20.927" Title="Why was Butch's taxi ride background black and white?" Tags="|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36708" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36709" CreationDate="2015-07-16T16:04:38.943" Score="1" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a name for the whistle-like things they use on Disney's &lt;em&gt;Recess&lt;/em&gt;? I am fairly certain that they have never given a name for those things on any episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is a whistle, what kind of whistle is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zCf7Q.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21705" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-04-11T15:58:48.997" LastActivityDate="2018-04-11T15:58:48.997" Title="Disney's Recess Whistles" Tags="|props|recess|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36708" CreationDate="2015-07-16T16:13:39.787" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are kazoo's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found a page hosting the picture you posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.closinglogos.com/page/Logo+Variations+-+Walt+Disney+Pictures&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and it clearly states that they are using kazoo's to play the Disney theme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Kazoo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0ZWlr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21877" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T16:13:39.787" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21956" CreationDate="2015-07-16T16:14:39.210" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/35090/23065&quot;&gt;user21855&lt;/a&gt;'s answer wasn't very specific, it is indeed true that there is that scene in the TV series. He really is a good lover with a no-larger-than-usual sized member. The girls couldn't explain exactly what it was that he did. There doesn't seem to be any particular reason for these scenes other than a sort of comic relief... thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The conversation between Ros and Varys takes place in &#xA;Season 3, Episode 4 &quot;&lt;strong&gt;And Now His Watch Is Ended&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. &#xA;Roughly around the 12 minute mark - after Brandon's &quot;dream&quot; scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(possible spoilers ahead)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(&lt;em&gt;Scene starts mid-conversation&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Varys&lt;/strong&gt;: Is he very large?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ros&lt;/strong&gt;: No larger than usual, apparently.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Varys&lt;/strong&gt;: And yet they said that he was -&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ros&lt;/strong&gt;: (interrupts) - extraordinary. The most extraordinary man they've ever had.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ros&lt;/strong&gt;: And they've had a lot of men.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Varys&lt;/strong&gt;: We're talking about the same Podrick; quiet boy, in lord Tyrion's service, seems a bit simple?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Varys&lt;/strong&gt;: What did he do to them?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ros&lt;/strong&gt;: I don't know, my lord. The girls are usually quite descriptive.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Varys&lt;/strong&gt;: So what did they say?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ros&lt;/strong&gt;: They said it was hard to describe...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Varys&lt;/strong&gt;: Huh.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Varys leans back for a moment, then pours a drink for Ros while he continues&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Varys&lt;/strong&gt;: Prodigies appear... in the oddest of places.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Varys&lt;/strong&gt;: And what did Littlefinger say about this loss of income?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ros&lt;/strong&gt;: He was too preoccupied to notice. He's leaving for the Eyrie soon.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ros&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm helping him prepare for his journey.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Varys&lt;/strong&gt;: Ah yes... to pursue his enduring love of lady Arryn - and the title that comes with her.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(&lt;em&gt;subject strays away from Podrick, master of the arcane art known as lovemaking&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've got your back, anon ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23065" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T16:16:37.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36711" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37225" CreationDate="2015-07-16T16:27:17.603" Score="8" ViewCount="307" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's about a dialogue in  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135092/?ref_=ttqt_qt_tt&quot;&gt;Limits Of Control&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the train Molecules (Japanese woman) says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Among us, there are those who are not among us.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the lone man replies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm among no one.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Molecules say something like that? does it refer to a special person in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why does the lone man reply like that? If they are a secret group that work together, why does he say he is among no one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22499" LastEditorUserId="34317" LastEditDate="2017-06-10T16:49:47.320" LastActivityDate="2017-06-10T16:49:47.320" Title="Why does Lone man say &quot;I'm among no one&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|the-limits-of-control|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36680" CreationDate="2015-07-16T17:05:38.913" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What we know about Arby:&lt;/strong&gt; He was experimented on as a child and had his memories erased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What we don't know about Arby before his memories were erased:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did he know that he had a sister?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did he see her often?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was she ever referred to as Jessica Hyde during this time?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible that he has some deep memory associated with the name Jessica Hyde.  This would mean he has a reason to be looking for a Jessica Hyde besides that fact that The Network told him to, he just might not know why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible that he recognized her general appearance once he saw her and became disoriented by the association with his lost memories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With an empty mind and being completely focused on finding Jessica Hyde for so long he may have become a bit overwhelmed when he actually found her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any combination of these could explain why he doesn't kill, capture, or continue questioning her and rather just walks away in a daze repeating the same thought (one of only a few) that has been running through his mind for such a long time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As he walks away he is likely now asking himself &quot;why was I looking for Jessica Hyde?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user23066" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T17:05:38.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36719" CreationDate="2015-07-16T20:03:59.303" Score="16" ViewCount="10203" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of Dr Strangelove, we see the two H-bombs aboard the plane, with these messages written:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C3qcc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do these messages mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastActivityDate="2017-06-24T18:08:59.007" Title="What does 'Hi there! / Dear John' mean?" Tags="|dr.-strangelove|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36718" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36716" CreationDate="2015-07-16T20:20:04.860" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few interpretations floating around, I like the metaphor of using the Cold War as a backdrop of sexual tension as has been described in various theses found around the web.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the original book, the &quot;Hi there&quot; bomb is named Lolita, which is a definite reference to an illicit, underage affair. The change to &quot;Hi there&quot; can be take either way, as the opening to a monologue leading to dalliance, and it was also used as a greeting for homosexual activity for a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Dear John also is a reference to lovers, as that was the main euphemism for a letter written (usually to a soldier) letting them know that they were breaking up with them, that they've found someone new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T20:20:04.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36716" CreationDate="2015-07-16T20:25:44.880" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're both humorous greetings, in this context anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_John_letter&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dear John letter&lt;/a&gt; is a term which originated from girlfriends of soldiers breaking up with them via letter starting with 'Dear John', presumably as it's just a common name. Unlike a letter though, a Nuclear Dear John is absolutely clear in just how much the sender considers this relationship over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Hi There!' on the other hand, is a very cheerful and informal greeting, and the complete opposite sort of message you'd think would be delivered immediately before hundreds of thousands of deaths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pilots and military personnel really did write messages on some of their bombs, for example this image of the 357th Fighter Group:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q3fet.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;357th Fighter Group with a greeting on their bomb&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2015-07-16T20:25:44.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36722" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-16T22:29:16.997" Score="4" ViewCount="4605" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;Mystic River&quot;, a 911 call by a boy played a key roll in closing the murder case. But why on earth did he (who later turned out to be the murderer) called 911?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6204" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T09:49:58.023" Title="Why did the boy call 911?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mystic-river|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12382" CreationDate="2015-07-16T23:21:18.290" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Female Pikachus have heart-shaped lightning bolt tails while male Pikachus have lightning bolt tails without the heart-shaped end. Since Ash's Pikachu has ho heart shape, he's a boy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23073" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-10T15:57:41.973" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T15:57:41.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36725" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-17T01:00:27.340" Score="30" ViewCount="3944" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcjQ4rQQ8H8&quot;&gt;this scene&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; where the Kingsguard go to kidnap Arya and Syrio fights them, Syrio uses his wooden practice sword against their real metal swords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Syrio had several opportunities to replace his wooden sword with a metal one, most notably 40 seconds into the scene when he beats down one knight with a blow to the head and has ample time to pick up that knight's sword.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt it's because the knights' swords were incompatible with his fighting style. They almost certainly would've been preferable over a broken wooden practice sword. Also, as a former First Sword of Bravos, Syrio would've been experienced with many fighting styles and weapons - he of all people should know that combat can happen at any time and doesn't always give you your weapon of choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Syrio chose his wooden sword over a metal one not for practical reasons, did he do so out of pride? Pride bringing about a man's fall seems to be a common theme in Game of Thrones. The fact that he preferred his broken wooden sword over Arya's also supports this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23075" LastEditorUserId="23075" LastEditDate="2015-08-19T02:17:10.717" LastActivityDate="2021-01-02T03:23:33.140" Title="Why did Syrio Forel choose his wooden sword over a metal one?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|plot-explanation|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36727" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36725" CreationDate="2015-07-17T02:30:50.473" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;He is a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Bravos&quot;&gt;Bravo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;; their swords, Rapiers (Arya's sword, &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Needle&quot;&gt;Needle&lt;/a&gt; is created based on a Rapier), are not the same as a Westerosi Knight's (who usually use a Long or &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Armament#Swords&quot;&gt;Broadsword&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unlike the fighting style of Westerosi knights, Water Dancers favor slender, lighter swords for a faster, more elegant fighting style based on sword thrusts, instead of the hacking and slashing of heavy longswords and greatswords. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Water_Dance&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;-Water Dance Wikia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Picking up a heavy and clunky Westerosi sword would have actually been a detriment to his fighting style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T02:30:50.473" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36545" CreationDate="2015-07-17T03:22:03.290" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I belive the 2017 machine that we see being invented with the help of John Connor is the time machine that matures for travel in 2029. In Genisys this machine is built at an accelerated rate hence can possibly get completed much ahead in time. But the machine is also damaged in the end so according to the now new timeline they have not mentioned the date of judgement day or the first time travel back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John from 2029 is sent back with the required knowledge to 2017 to create skynet and the time machine. In part two skynet was shown to be invented because of the T800 arm left behind from part 1. In Genisys they show that the events from part 1 is over written. The first T800 is shown to be quickly destroyed. Because of this skynet will not be created. To avoid that, skynet sends John back to invent skynet. According to the terminator series skynet and john both are born as a result of the predestination paradox. Skynet and John are responsible for their own creation. Skynet sends the T800 which becomes the start point for scientists to start work on skynet. John sends Kyle back and is the one who results in Sarah conceiving John. All of skynet's tech and the resistance leader are part of a closed predestination paradox loop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T18:44:42.277" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T18:44:42.277" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36337" CreationDate="2015-07-17T03:24:49.410" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is in Sarah's genes to develop leukemia. Unless someone with that prior knowledge (like Pops) warns Sarah and she gets it treated early on, Sarah will die if leukemia when she hits that age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T03:24:49.410" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36733" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39424" CreationDate="2015-07-17T05:49:12.680" Score="25" ViewCount="90626" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of &lt;em&gt;The Wizard of Oz&lt;/em&gt;, after Glinda informs Dorothy she can go back to Kansas, Dorothy says her goodbyes to her traveling companions.  When she gets to the Scarecrow, she simply embraces him and cries, &quot;I think I'll miss you most of all.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Why?  She didn't seem to be any closer to him than either of the other Ozites.  She knew him for, like, an hour more than she knew the others, and I guess he came up with the apple thing, but I can't see any reason she'd be more endeared to Scarecrow than Lion or Tin Man.  And while we're at it, Dorothy says she'll miss him most &lt;em&gt;while her other friends are standing right there&lt;/em&gt;!  Simply put, why does this line exist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I presented this question to my mother, and she thought that it was an indication that Dorothy may have had some unstated fondness for Scarecrow's Earthling counterpart--that is, farmhand Hunk.  However, this doesn't seem to have any evidence besides after-the-fact reasoning, and besides, I'm not sure Dorothy was meant to have recognized the similarity between the Ozites and Kansans.  (A unsourced sentence on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarecrow_%28Oz%29#Film_portrayals&quot;&gt;Scarecrow wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; seems to endorse this theory, claiming a scripted but unfilmed scene included Dorothy promising to write a college-bound Hunk.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would Dorothy say she'd miss Scarecrow most of all when there doesn't seem to be any reason behind it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23081" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T07:43:05.417" LastActivityDate="2019-04-26T03:32:22.173" Title="Why will Dorothy miss Scarecrow the most of all?" Tags="|character|the-wizard-of-oz|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36734" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36865" CreationDate="2015-07-17T06:09:20.917" Score="7" ViewCount="3312" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Wedding Bride&quot; (in Season 5, Episode 23 of &lt;em&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;/em&gt;) is a movie about Ted being left at his wedding. Why didn't Marshal come up with the idea of sueing the maker of the movie (who is also the lover of the woman who left him)? Marshal is a lawyer so he should know that this movie is copied from Ted's life. In Germany, where I live this would be no problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Appendix: In Season 9, Episode 19 Marshal, Lily and Robin are watching &quot;The Wedding Bride Too&quot; (second movie) and as Marshal is seeing an imitation of himself he says he would sue everybody who has to do with this movie (although he is not really serious about it)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23083" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-22T14:10:17.937" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T14:10:17.937" Title="Why did Ted not sue the maker of &quot;The Wedding Bride&quot;?" Tags="|how-i-met-your-mother|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35905" CreationDate="2015-07-17T06:22:47.007" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The assistant in question isn't Gazelle, she is in fact another assistant also featured in the scene where Galahad/Harry walks into Valatine's home and sees the women with the leaflet for the church.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23085" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T07:47:28.930" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T07:47:28.930" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36742" CreationDate="2015-07-17T06:42:04.340" Score="9" ViewCount="6091" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end of &lt;em&gt;How I Met You Mother&lt;/em&gt; Ted is seen going back to Robin. Marshall and Lily were forever waiting who is going to win the bet about Ted and Robin being together.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically Marshall won. But I don't remember them dealing with it or doing anything about it in the finale. Or did I miss something out? Or was it probably forgotten by the couple and so they did not mention it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21342" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T07:48:40.013" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T07:48:40.013" Title="What happened to Marshall and Lily's bet?" Tags="|plot-explanation|how-i-met-your-mother|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36740" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3864" CreationDate="2015-07-17T07:12:48.100" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Update on accepted answer as now more seasons are released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Barney get married to Robin in last season (Season 9) &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_the_Aisle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 22&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As the wedding begins, Barney has one last panic attack, which Marshall ends with the final slap of the slap bet. The ceremony goes through without any trouble, even with the arrival of a bear as the ring bear (though Barney cancels the flower gorilla at the last moment) and concludes with Robin and Barney married before their family and friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In finale, it is revealed that they got divorced after 3 years, season 9 &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Forever&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 23&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Barney and Robin reveal that her constant traveling for work put a strain on them, and after three years of marriage, they have divorced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-01-26T15:10:04.317" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T15:10:04.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36741" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36744" CreationDate="2015-07-17T07:22:30.587" Score="1" ViewCount="456" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen the 1995 movie &lt;em&gt;Jumanji&lt;/em&gt; and also &lt;em&gt;Zathura&lt;/em&gt; from 2005.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know if any new part of this series were made till now or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23086" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T07:26:34.237" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T08:05:16.180" Title="&quot;Jumanji&quot; and &quot;Zathura&quot; series" Tags="|jumanji|zathura|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36737" CreationDate="2015-07-17T07:39:25.643" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The scene that resolves the bet was cut for time.&lt;/strong&gt; In the last few seconds of the finale as aired, Ted gets back with Robin (or at least suggests it) and the show ends. But there &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; a scene that shows Lily paying Marshall over that bet, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ibtimes.com/how-i-met-your-mother-season-9-spoilers-why-was-series-finale-cut-short-alyson-hannigan-reveals-what&quot;&gt;according to Alyson Hannigan&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hannigan took to Twitter to reveal what scenes were cut in addition to tying up some loose ends for fans. “I do believe Lily owes Marshall money, though,” one Twitter user wrote to Hannigan. &lt;strong&gt;“YES &amp;amp; that scene was CUT!!!&lt;/strong&gt; :(((,” she replied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Forever#Production&quot;&gt;about 18 minutes&lt;/a&gt; were cut from the finale for time constraints. [The season 9 DVD contains several deleted scenes, but I've yet to confirm that the scene resolving the bet is one of them.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T07:44:28.850" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T07:44:28.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36741" CreationDate="2015-07-17T08:05:16.180" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jumanji&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Zathura&lt;/em&gt; are both based on books by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Van_Allsburg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chris Van Allsburg&lt;/a&gt;. The only other book of his that has been adapted into a film is &lt;em&gt;The Polar Express&lt;/em&gt;, which is not about a magical board game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7773" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T08:05:16.180" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36745" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32978" CreationDate="2015-07-17T08:46:20.080" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are multiple explanations to this situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;In Universe&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Carry Restrictions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;There is a common theme across all Pokemon mediums (Anime, Video Game, Manga etc) that a trainer can only have 6 Pokemon available to them at any given time. &lt;strong&gt;This would make it easier to remember which is which&lt;/strong&gt;. Especially given: &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A lot of trainers only carry a couple of Pokemon. For example, when we first meet Brock, he only has Geodude and Onix. He later catches/is given Zubat and Vulpix respectively, leaving him with 4 out of 6.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pokéballs aren't just all carried in a loose Pocket, They're stored like &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C1ye2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;shotgun shells&lt;/a&gt; along the belt, or in a specialised backpack pocket or container. The Anime shows this best, with Ash's Pokéballs lining his belt. Sure, it'd take a bit of memorisation, but assuming he always puts his Pokéballs back in the same place, he would know which one's which:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PcszJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ash with Pokeballs on his belt&quot;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ball types&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;There are many types of Pokéballs with different designs. They aren't always shown in the anime (see Stock Footage below), but they are heavily used in the games to alter catch chances (or even just for aesthetics).&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Different Ball colourings could therefore be used to distinguish between Pokemon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Engravings &amp;amp; Symbols&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Sometimes, Pokeballs are shown having special markings or symbols denoting the Pokemon inside. (&lt;em&gt;Note that these sometimes may be accidentally (or deliberately) left off for production reasons, see Stock Footage below&lt;/em&gt;). &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This scene is in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/2zs5mcjuu6E&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;very first episode&lt;/a&gt;, and the Pokeballs say 'Charmander', 'Bulbasaur' and 'Squirtle' respectively:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/F890o.png&quot; alt=&quot;Engraved Pokeballs&quot;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the same episode, we are shown &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/2zs5mcjuu6E?t=406&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pikachu's Pokeball&lt;/a&gt;, which has a little Electric symbol painted or engraved on:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WXLQg.png&quot; alt=&quot;Pikachu&amp;#39;s Pokeball&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4bXlT.png&quot; alt=&quot;Closeup shot of the electric symbol&quot;&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Out of Universe&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Off-camera&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It's boring to watch the protagonists try and figure out which Pokemon/Pokéball is whose, so these 'scenes' are always skipped over so we can get back to the exciting stuff of the episode.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You may note the same thing happens with cooking/setting up camp, and shows/festivals. One second the protagonists are just walking along the road, and in the next scene they have had a picnic and everyone's had their fill. Or they enter town and a festival is happening, and suddenly they're all dressed for the occasion.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stock Footage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It's easier to use 'stock' shots of Pokéballs, especially those being thrown.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In scenes with a large amount of Pokeballs, it would be easier to just copy the 'standard' Pokeball template a hundred times.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Writing engravings or altering colours for each scene is &lt;em&gt;hard&lt;/em&gt; and time consuming. Instead of customising them each scene for each Pokemon, a standard ball gets the job done and doesn't detract from the current episode/story.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4174" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T08:46:20.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36748" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36751" CreationDate="2015-07-17T09:41:31.267" Score="6" ViewCount="34447" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban&quot;, if Harry (who time travelled) was protecting himself and Sirius Black from the Dementors then why a &lt;strong&gt;bright magical reindeer&lt;/strong&gt; like image is shown on the other side of the lake? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22043" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T13:27:41.397" LastActivityDate="2016-04-08T18:31:55.090" Title="Why is a bright reindeer shown when Harry Potter was saving himself and Sirius Black from the Dementors?" Tags="|harry-potter|the-prisoner-of-azkaban|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36749" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13783" CreationDate="2015-07-17T09:41:38.283" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The “St. Ursula” painting in the movie Le Divorce was painted by the French painter Jean-Paul Letellier specifically for the movie.  No idea on what happened to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23089" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2023-12-31T15:57:11.930" LastActivityDate="2023-12-31T15:57:11.930" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="36750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36748" CreationDate="2015-07-17T09:47:37.723" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was Harry potter's &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Patronus_Charm&quot;&gt;Patronus&lt;/a&gt;. He creates the Patronus for protection from the Dementors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After future Harry came from time travel, he realized during the process that he has to save himself, he created the Patronus to help it past form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From chapter 21 in &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Prisoner_of_Azkaban&quot;&gt;wikia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After two hours, following Lupin's transformation, Harry decides they need to head back to Hagrid's empty cabin so Lupin doesn't attack them. After spending some time in hiding, Harry leaves the cabin to check out the present situation and sees himself, Hermione, and Black fainting from Dementors. He realises that the silver stag he saw earlier across the lake was not cast by his dad and conjures a powerful Patronus that drives all the Dementors away. When it returns to him, he pets it and realises that it was the same patronus as &quot;Prongs,&quot; his father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T10:00:11.637" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T10:00:11.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36748" CreationDate="2015-07-17T09:48:49.723" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was not a &lt;strong&gt;reindeer&lt;/strong&gt; but a &lt;strong&gt;stag&lt;/strong&gt;. Harry Potter's Patronus is a stag. Harry and Hermione travel back in time to when they were standing on the other side of the lake.  Future-Harry sees that Dementors are sucking the souls of Harry and Sirius and casts the Patronus. This Patronus is in the form of a stag. Hence Past-Harry sees a stag on other side of the lake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vBP71.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22813" LastEditorDisplayName="user11418" LastEditDate="2016-04-08T18:31:55.090" LastActivityDate="2016-04-08T18:31:55.090" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36752" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-17T10:05:16.440" Score="3" ViewCount="2012" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;/em&gt; they made a big deal of Marshall and Lily's trip to Rome but then we only see a very short scene of them in Italy. I would have expected at least a couple of episodes. So what happened to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16540" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T10:39:28.613" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T13:50:57.543" Title="What happened to Marshall and Lily's trip to Rome?" Tags="|how-i-met-your-mother|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36752" CreationDate="2015-07-17T12:15:03.013" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In HIMYM most episodes have all the characters at one place. Keeping Lilly and Marshal away from the rest of the characters would not be that much fun I guess&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23092" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T12:33:46.407" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T12:33:46.407" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35969" CreationDate="2015-07-17T12:40:41.493" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR&lt;/strong&gt;: We will never know for sure, but it so highly unlikely.&#xA;&lt;hr&gt; &#xA;Well... hate to break it to you but probably not. It is rather difficult to prove he didn't, and honestly it doesn't make sense to prove someone did not do something (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof&quot;&gt;burden of proof&lt;/a&gt;). Apart from proving from a legal view points, there are some thoughts that can shed some lights on the issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm not wrong, the whole rumor started as a byproduct of another conspiracy; the infamous moon landing story. If you have been living in a cave for past few decades, this conspiracy suggests that Kubrick faked the Apollo 11 moon landing and left some hints in The Shining. &#xA;This conspiracy has been pretty much debunked, hence, the idea of Kubrick burning the set of Shining to eliminate the evidence does not make any sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another idea is that he did not want anyone to rebuild/rehash/reuse his &quot;stuff&quot;. This might be true and it's well known that he was a bit eccentric. But it does not mean that he would commit to vandalism. A very expensive and dangerous vandalism. Mentalfloss says the fire has caused 2.5 million dollars of damage and according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://murrayclose.com/&quot;&gt;Murray Close&lt;/a&gt; the official still photographer in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theoverlookhotel.com/post/22401274728/the-shinings-still-photographer-murray-close&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; audio clip, it had been a very big fire that burnt two sound studios and threatened the third one (He is the photographer of the photo bellow). To me it is so unlikely that someone with a very basic level of intelligence would do such a thing (and Kubrick was quite intelligent!). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the aforementioned set was the Colorado Lounge. What about the rest? I mean, yes, some very memorable scenes of the movie happened in that set but about the rest? What would he achieve by burning a part of the set? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Irony&lt;/strong&gt;: In the book, the hotel burns down (or explodes). Perhaps, this explains Kubrick's laughter in this photo, sitting on the ashes of a burned set:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vRsZz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4781" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-09-06T03:08:48.643" LastActivityDate="2016-09-06T03:08:48.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14560" CreationDate="2015-07-17T13:17:36.680" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pink bear is fallen innocence.  In the painted image on the wall above Jane's bed, the same pink bear is hovering in the top right.  This bear, and what it represents, has literally fallen into the hands of Walt.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23093" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T13:17:36.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36752" CreationDate="2015-07-17T13:50:57.543" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;How I Met Your Mother&lt;/em&gt; is told from Ted's point of view. He didn't make the trip to Rome, so he wouldn't have a lot of details about the trip to tell to his children years later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T13:50:57.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36763" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-17T17:03:10.527" Score="3" ViewCount="4102" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've seen all the seasons of The Walking Dead you've probably noticed that Rick's personality changed throughout the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I have seen all the seasons and I'd like to know what the main &quot;turning points&quot; were, that made Rick the man he is at the end of season 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I have seen all episodes, but I can't remember a lot of things that happened in the earlier seasons (because, you know, 5 years). So if someone could point out some major events that define his actions and personality, that would be great :).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22116" LastEditorUserId="5029" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T17:17:04.783" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T00:32:00.700" Title="How did Rick Grimes &quot;change&quot; throughout The Walking Dead series?" Tags="|character|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36764" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36794" CreationDate="2015-07-17T17:17:10.517" Score="8" ViewCount="1453" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Episode 2x05 &lt;em&gt;Big Girls Don't Cry&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;em&gt;The Sopranos&lt;/em&gt;, Dr. Melfi has the following dialogue with her therapist and former teacher, Dr. Kupferberg:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kupferberg:&lt;/em&gt; You mentioned you've put on a little weight lately. Do you&#xA;  think the overeating has anything to do with your patient?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Melfi shrugs reluctantly]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kupferberg:&lt;/em&gt; What is it you're not telling me, Jennifer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Melfi:&lt;/em&gt; I don't know. I don't know what you mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kupferberg: [Unconvinced]&lt;/em&gt; Okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Melfi:&lt;/em&gt; I don't. What are you driving at?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kupferberg:&lt;/em&gt; Just, watch your intake of sugar. And sugar substitutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both characters seem to be quite uncomfortable throughout the dialogue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is Kupferberg hinting at with the sugar substitutes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If possible, try to answer without spoiling too much from later episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18124" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-18T14:21:56.880" LastActivityDate="2015-07-18T15:37:47.967" Title="What are Melfi's sugar substitutes?" Tags="|character|dialogue|the-sopranos|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36763" CreationDate="2015-07-17T17:36:21.700" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say these were breaking moments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Death of his wife,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Taking down Carol’s daughter Sofia when they discover she is a Walker,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Killing his best friend Shane,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;With Shane’s death and Rick revealing to the gang that everyone is infected and will reanimate when they die,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hershel’s death,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And more others, these were the main for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23098" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T17:36:21.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35913" CreationDate="2015-07-17T17:48:45.273" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJaCjWldRyg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; by Kingsman director &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Vaughn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Matthew Vaughn&lt;/a&gt; that answers at least some of your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To summarize, the entire set was being lowered into a pool.  The process was controlled by a computer and meant to be done gradually, dropping several feet at a time and pausing to let the actors say their lines.  Unfortunately the computer malfunctioned and the set dropped 25 feet into the pool.  Vaughn says the fear on the actors' faces was real as they were essentially trapped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19348" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T17:48:45.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36764" CreationDate="2015-07-17T18:13:09.193" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think he's hinting at anything but rather &lt;strong&gt;advising Melfi about her health.&lt;/strong&gt; Sugar substitutes (AKA sweeteners) might be as detrimental to your health as sugar and might lead to weight gain.* From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_substitute#Weight_gain_and_insulin_response_to_artificial_sweeteners&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page about sugar substitutes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A 2012 study at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul showed that addition of either saccharin or aspartame to the diet of test rats resulted in &lt;strong&gt;increased weight gain&lt;/strong&gt; compared to addition of sucrose, when total caloric intake was similar among groups.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*[Please don't regard an answer on a movie &amp;amp; TV fansite as actual medical advice...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T18:13:09.193" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36611" CreationDate="2015-07-17T18:13:19.920" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Their abilities are a little vague but they are basically immortal, only able to be killed by dragon glass (or obsidian weapons) and possibly Valyrian steel, a metal from a now-destroyed foreign land that’s in fairly short supply. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23098" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T18:13:19.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36773" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36775" CreationDate="2015-07-17T18:50:11.953" Score="11" ViewCount="39562" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Lord Voldemort kill Harry Potter's parents? I have watched the movie series only, is there something mentioned in the books about the reason for this act?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22043" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T19:11:17.097" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T09:07:10.497" Title="Why did Voldemort have to kill Harry Potter's parents?" Tags="|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36773" CreationDate="2015-07-17T18:59:03.533" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because he had to kill Harry and they were in the way.&lt;/strong&gt; Some of this is explained in the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voldemort had no qualms about killing people when they became obstacles. When James tried to protect his family, Voldemort eliminated him. Lily is a different matter, because Voldemort &lt;em&gt;didn't intend to kill her at first&lt;/em&gt; (at Snape's request). However, once he was there and after he killed James and was about to kill Harry, he thought it's best to just kill 'the whole set':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He could have forced her away from the crib, but it seemed more prudent to finish them all... --(&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also didn't help Harry's parents that they were in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Order_of_the_Phoenix&quot;&gt;Order of the Phoenix&lt;/a&gt; which actively fought against Voldemort and his followers (remember that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Sybill_Trelawney%27s_first_prophecy&quot;&gt;prophecy&lt;/a&gt; that triggered all of this mentions that the child's parents have &quot;thrice defied&quot; Voldemort). It's possible he would've killed them even &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; that prophecy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So long story short, Voldemort was a murderous villain with no conscience, Harry's parents were Voldemort's enemies, he came to their house to kill their son and they tried to defy him. It's not that surprising that he did away with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T19:28:49.700" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T19:28:49.700" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36778" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-17T19:48:38.390" Score="4" ViewCount="618" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the year 4028, David Pilcher and the future citizens of Wayward Pines wake up from a cryogenic sleep. My question is pretty straightforward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the world is currently ruled by monstrous creatures (mutated humans), why doesn't David Pilcher decide to go back to a cryogenic sleep and wait a more couple of thousands of year, just to see how the world evolves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23100" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-17T19:56:47.460" LastActivityDate="2017-04-13T21:32:53.187" Title="Why doesn't Wayward Pines wait a more couple of thousands of years?" Tags="|plot-explanation|wayward-pines|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36781" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36795" CreationDate="2015-07-17T20:32:10.777" Score="19" ViewCount="10035" Body="&lt;p&gt;During our protagonists' first drive through &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jurassic Park&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; they come to a sick triceratops. One of the park employees says that she gets sick every 6 weeks and they don't know why. Dr. Sattler deduces that she might have eaten some poisonous plants but after examining the excrement, she can't find any hint of such a plant and the question for the desease's cause remains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this whole problem is never picked up again later. I see that the scene also had other uses (e.g. giving us some nice character moments for Dr. Grant, showing the first close-up of a dinosaur and separating Ellie from the team). But they make quite a mystery out of this whole disease that befell the triceratops that it makes me wonder why this story arc isn't picked up in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;is there any information if there was ever supposed to be made something more out of this disease story?&lt;/strong&gt; Was it only dropped later during editing or is this a more prominent arc from the novel that was only marginally touched in the movie? Or is it even referenced later on but simply eluded me? Or &lt;strong&gt;was it in any other way relevant for the story?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2018-08-14T16:23:08.967" LastActivityDate="2018-08-14T16:23:08.967" Title="Was there any further relevance to the triceratops' disease?" Tags="|plot-explanation|book-adaptation|jurassic-park|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="36783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2197" CreationDate="2015-07-17T22:54:54.237" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I realize this is an old question, but I randomly came across it and thought I could help out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look up what movies this person has done in the past, and contact the casting director from some of those movies. They usually have great relationships with talent and their management. Hire the casting director that can get you the connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also helps to present a very professional front, with the material you are trying to get them interested in, to their management. Management is usually the best way to go, as agents are cool people and all, but their job is to work the deals: money, benefits, all that. Management is going to have a much more personal relationship with the client. You can look up management info all day long on IMDBPro.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, be prepared with an offer. Actors like to act, but they don't like to work for free. The price has to be right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23105" LastActivityDate="2015-07-17T22:54:54.237" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18592" CreationDate="2015-07-18T02:39:14.107" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gone to Plaid is a reference to Scotty from Star Trek (kilts), played with the joke about Gone to Warp&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23109" LastActivityDate="2015-07-18T02:39:14.107" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36764" CreationDate="2015-07-18T15:37:47.967" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Melfi has a history of alcohol abuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kupferberg is aware of this and is afraid that Melfi might use alcohol to escape her guilt about abandoning Toni. He uses the term &lt;em&gt;sugar substitutes&lt;/em&gt; as a euphemism for alcohol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alcohol is not a sugar in the chemical sense, but rather a product of fermenting sugar. It can however, toxic effects left aside, serve as a nutrient for humans, similar to sugar and other carbohydrates. In particular, excessive alcohol consumption often results in weight gain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kupferberg knows that if he accused Melfi straight away she would shut him out again (as she did in a previous session on the same episode). He instead tries a more subtle approach, hoping that Melfi will understand his warning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in that same episode, when Melfi calls Tony to tell him that she is willing to treat him again, she is repeatedly drinking from a glass of red wine. This further indicates that she uses alcohol as a means of dealing with a stressful situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18124" LastActivityDate="2015-07-18T15:37:47.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36781" CreationDate="2015-07-18T15:55:30.153" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was explained in the novel and was planned to be explained in the film, but the scene was cut for time. Here's a summary from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/why-was-the-triceratops-sick-in-jurassic-park/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;/Film Trivia: Why Was the Triceratops Sick in ‘Jurassic Park’?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the film we learn that the Triceratops is getting sick every six weeks or so. Dr. Ellie Sattler first believes the culprit may be the West Indian Lilac berries found nearby, but she is told that the dinosaurs don’t eat the poisonous berries. We don’t find out the answer in the film but the event is also in the Michael Crichton novel and thus we have an answer to the question of what made the triceratops sick. (In the book it was a Stegosaurus instead of a Triceratops, however.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The triceratops digests food such as vegetables or fruit by also eating small stones that crush and mash the food in their stomach. In the original book upon which the film is based, we find out that the stones it eats are too close to poisonous West Indian Lilac berries. So when the dinosaur replaces the stones every six weeks it simultaneously picks up some of the fallen berries and is poisoned again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was mentioned at the end of the same article that this explanation for the dinosaur's illness was filmed, but didn't make the final cut of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Interestingly enough, while Spielberg didn’t have the time to answer the question in the film he does suggest the cause as we see Dr. Sattler crouch down by the Lilac berry bush and picks up some small stones, playing with them for a brief moment. This moment is apparently the remnants of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jurassicworlduniverse.com/jurassic-park/deleted-scenes/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;deleted scene&lt;/a&gt; which was filmed but never made the final film which would have explained the reason for the dino’s sickness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read the deleted scene in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/jurassicpark_script_final_12_92.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jurassic Park Script&lt;/a&gt; (scene 44):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;44  EXT PARK    DAY&#xA;&#xA;The skies are really foreboding now, and there's a sense of &#xA;growing urgency.  ELLIE is by the animal, a short distance away from &#xA;the group.  GRANT is near her, thinking.&#xA;&#xA;            GRANT&#xA;Ellie, I've been thinking there's something about the &#xA;periodicity doesn't had up.&#xA;&#xA;            ELLIE&#xA;    I know.&#xA;&#xA;Tim holds one of the smooth rocks up and calls out, a little &#xA;timidly.&#xA;&#xA;            TIM&#xA;    These look kind of familiar.&#xA;&#xA;            GRANT&#xA;    Triceratops was a constant browser, and constant &#xA;    browsers would be constantly sick.&#xA;&#xA;            ELLIE&#xA;    Constantly sick.&#xA;&#xA;            GRANT&#xA;    Not just every six weeks.&#xA;&#xA;            ELLIE&#xA;    Yeah, I know.&#xA;&#xA;            TIM&#xA;    I've seen pictures of these!&#xA;&#xA;Grant turns and looks at him, a little annoyed.&#xA;&#xA;            TIM&#xA;    In your fully illustrated book.&#xA;&#xA;Grant just rolls his eyes, but Ellie comes over and checks out &#xA;the stones.&#xA;&#xA;            ELLIE&#xA;    What's that?&#xA;&#xA;A light goes on in her eyes.&#xA;&#xA;            ELLIE &#xA;    Alan - - gizzard stones!&#xA;&#xA;She throws Grant one of the stones.  They look at each other in &#xA;amazement.&#xA;&#xA;As before, when they get excited, they talk right over each &#xA;other.&#xA;&#xA;            GRANT&#xA;    Elm that's it, it explains the periodicity, the - -&#xA;&#xA;            ELLIE&#xA;    - - the undigested state of the berries because it's - -&#xA;&#xA;            GRANT&#xA;    - - totally incidental&#xA;        (or)&#xA;    unrelated to the feeding pattern - -&#xA;&#xA;            TIM&#xA;    What are you guys saying?&#xA;&#xA;            ELLIE&#xA;        (turning to Tim)&#xA;    It's simple, see.  Some animals like her, don't have &#xA;    teeth - -&#xA;&#xA;            GRANT&#xA;    - - like birds - -&#xA;&#xA;            ELLIE&#xA;    - - like birds.  What happen is, they swallow the stones &#xA;    and hold them in a muscular sack in their stomachs - -&#xA;&#xA;            GRANT&#xA;    - - a gizzard - -&#xA;&#xA;            ELLIE&#xA;    - - which is called a gizzard, and it helps them mash&#xA;    their food, but what happens after a while - -&#xA;&#xA;            GRANT&#xA;    - - what happens is that after a while, the stones get  &#xA;    smooth, every six weeks, so the animal regurgitates them &#xA;    - -&#xA;&#xA;            ELLIE&#xA;        (for Tim)&#xA;    - - barfs them up - -&#xA;&#xA;            GRANT&#xA;    - - and swallows fresh ones.&#xA;&#xA;            ELLIE&#xA;    And when she swallows the stones, she swallows the &#xA;    poison berries too.  That's what makes her sick.&#xA;        (impressed)&#xA;    Good work Tim.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2015-07-18T16:14:33.873" LastActivityDate="2015-07-18T16:14:33.873" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36781" CreationDate="2015-07-18T16:13:09.207" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following is &lt;em&gt;simply my opinion&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the main point here is to show that even if Hammond &amp;amp; C. keep saying that everything is under control, &lt;strong&gt;nothing actually is&lt;/strong&gt;, and the reserchers did not think about all the problems that might arise bringing dinosaurs back on earth in a new (for them) ecosystem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastActivityDate="2015-07-18T16:13:09.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36799" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-18T18:05:50.707" Score="3" ViewCount="14742" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the reason behind emergence of the dark wizard Lord Voldemort?&#xA;Why Tom Riddle a student of Hogwarts had to become Voldemort?&#xA;What is the reason behind such dreadful appearance (flat nose) of Voldemort?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22043" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-19T11:49:22.543" LastActivityDate="2016-11-28T11:15:12.250" Title="Why and how was Tom Riddle converted into Lord Voldemort?" Tags="|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35284" CreationDate="2015-07-18T19:14:34.527" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This explanation that best fits for me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am one&quot; as in an intentionally uncompleted sentence for perhaps &quot;I am one of many here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think ava was trying to clue Caleb in from the get go that she wasn't the only robot in the facility. The fact that there is more than one was kind of the most important aspect; it's the reason she was able to kill Nathan and it's how she was able to fully disguise herself and escape.&#xA;All thay figured in, I think that makes for the best answer, her age is kind of irrelevant&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23121" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2015-07-19T19:11:46.460" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T19:11:46.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36799" CreationDate="2015-07-18T19:19:42.467" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;He became a dark wizard when he was in Slytherin, and since he was named after his father muggle he decide to change his name using an anagram &quot;Tom Marvolo Riddle&quot; -&gt; &quot;I am Lord Voldemort&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The transformation into his monstrous state is believed to have been the result of creating his Horcruxes and becoming less human as he continued to divide his soul&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His nose shape is due to his relationship with snakes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23119" LastActivityDate="2015-07-18T19:19:42.467" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36809" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36810" CreationDate="2015-07-18T21:40:23.060" Score="8" ViewCount="2890" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a city where all organised crime is run by one of two gangs. The two gang bosses each have a tall high-rise building, over the road from each other. Their penthouse suites face towards each other and they often glare across the road, trying to outsmart and out-plot each other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Into this mix comes a young man. He starts at the bottom of the organisation and quickly works his way up the ranks. Unbeknownst to the bosses, he's actually working for both gangs at the same time, but he quickly becomes the right-hand-man in both. He offers ways to break the stalemate, finally defeating each mobster's nemesis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the film ends with him in the office of one mafioso, with both bosses tied to chairs. We learn that actually his goal the whole time has been to avenge his family, killed by one or other of the gangs after his father got into gambling debt. He kills both gang bosses by taping plastic bags around their heads. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23125" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-07-18T21:46:41.207" LastActivityDate="2015-07-18T21:46:41.207" Title="Movie about man who kills two rival mob bosses to avenge his family" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:52:37.450" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36809" CreationDate="2015-07-18T21:42:19.787" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425210/combined&quot;&gt;Lucky Number Slevin&lt;/a&gt; from 2006 with Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis and many others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi and The Boss. Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get them before they get him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's all there, including the ending. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/30EeGDiI7MA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-07-18T21:43:33.970" LastActivityDate="2015-07-18T21:43:33.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36813" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36814" CreationDate="2015-07-18T23:02:36.410" Score="5" ViewCount="8495" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, so I watched the movie 'It Follows' and I don't get the ending. Wouldn't want to spoil the plot to those who haven't watched it, so please don't read it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did they kill it or does it still follow?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How should I interpret the redness in the water and why didn't it work before? If that didn't kill it then why would the guy take the 'curse' on himself?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13636" LastEditorUserId="13636" LastEditDate="2015-10-15T06:55:47.523" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T06:55:47.523" Title="Ending of It Follows 2014" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|it-follows|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36813" CreationDate="2015-07-19T00:03:59.973" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's not a specific final explanation, it was intentionally set to make you wonder. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/03/31/it_follows_spoiler_interview_with_director_david_robert_mitchell.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here is an interview&lt;/a&gt; where the director of the movie was asked about the ending:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Initially, they &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; fail to dispatch the monster, but&#xA;  after several gunshots to the head, the pool fills with the monster's&#xA;  spreading blood and they can escape. At first, it's a relief — it&#xA;  seems like the monster has finally been slayed — but as the blood&#xA;  cloud keeps expanding outward, it becomes a more and more ominous&#xA;  visual.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All I can tell you is that I've talked to people who have&#xA;  read that as a conclusion — they see that sequence and believe that&#xA;  the monster has been destroyed — and then there are other people who&#xA;  see it and feel that it's a sign of their inability to destroy it, or&#xA;  for it to be destroyed, period! I imagine people can figure out how I&#xA;  feel about that shot, but I won’t say specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is naive to think you could kill something that is already dead, but they are kids so I guess that’s why the guy (who was obsessed with the gal) made also the stupid choice of risking his life just to get laid, but you can call him romantic, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23119" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-05T10:45:46.587" LastActivityDate="2015-08-05T10:45:46.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36799" CreationDate="2015-07-19T01:39:18.407" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think he looked weird because (i think) his original body was destroyed, and he had to re-grow himself from a horcrux (in the first film, he was growing out the back of that other dude's head). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23129" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T01:39:18.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30481" CreationDate="2015-07-19T04:25:12.163" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is my understanding that the number of tridents (or badges) pounded into a coffin is only up to the number of SEALs in attendance.  The biggest reason Chris Kyle had hundreds was because he was as much a celebrity as he was a Hero so MANY SEALs flew in to honor him.  Any SEAL with fewer doesn't mean he was less thought of, I'm sure EVERY SEAL is in attenance of a fallen comrade's funeral if only in heart and spirit.  I believe each coffin would have 100's if they all had the time to attend in person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23137" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T04:25:12.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36830" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-19T08:21:28.893" Score="8" ViewCount="2092" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Elysium, Med beds were sufficiently common and presumably affordable, that every household had one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since profit was part of the society's motive, why weren't they renting time on med beds at exorbitant prices?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, how come no philanthropists from Elysium tried to help people suffering on Earth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having even a few med beds on Earth would also help prevent the suicidal shuttle runs that Terrans made towards Elysium, which were sufficiently politically difficult to deal with that a sleeper agent on Earth had to take care of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4206" LastEditorUserId="4206" LastEditDate="2015-07-19T08:42:18.437" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T10:21:47.723" Title="Why were the med beds from Elysium absent on Earth?" Tags="|elysium|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36830" CreationDate="2015-07-19T08:52:12.343" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you want to use  Med beds you must be a cityzen of Elysium (the beds look for a tatoo-bar code connected to you DNA), and only rich people could be cityzen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume there were no philantropists, since the rich people wanted to defend their status. Maybe there were also some laws against the smuggling of med beds and healt care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T08:52:12.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33500" CreationDate="2015-07-19T10:13:48.527" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you look at gaps between previous Gervais/Merchant projects this one isn't very significant (especially considering how they're both in very high demand on separate projects now).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23129" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T10:13:48.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36830" CreationDate="2015-07-19T10:21:47.723" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In-universe, because the people living on Elysium were greedy and wanted to hoard the technology for themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of universe, it's because the beds aren't intended to be real. According to the film's director Neil Blomkpamp, they're just a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/elysium-director-neill-blomkamp-on-technology-society-and-the-dystopia-between/&quot;&gt;metaphor for medical poverty&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So, on Elysium you can imagine that if you went totally speculative&#xA;  sci-fi in the year 2154, the film becomes different, then you’re&#xA;  making a film about speculative ideas of what society might be like&#xA;  and what will happen is they’re no longer rich. Now it’s more like&#xA;  Star Trek, like there’s something else and the link between, ‘Oh,&#xA;  they’re rich people with pools’ has been lost.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;So the medpods weren’t there for science fiction reasons, they were there just to represent that the poverty stricken person from El&#xA;  Salvador could go into parts of LA to get better medical attention or&#xA;  medical care for their kids.&lt;/strong&gt; Medical aid is one of the things the&#xA;  First World has and longevity if you just look at the stats. So it was&#xA;  more a metaphor tool, but you are right in the sense about … like,&#xA;  well how far do they go, at what point is it just immortality? I think&#xA;  they probably live a few hundred years and then they die in the&#xA;  construct of the film.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T10:21:47.723" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11415" CreationDate="2015-07-19T10:44:32.113" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jerome is a swimming star from Great Britain. Why isn't it plausible to see that Lamar's son follows swimming and so knows of the real Jerome/Eugene - a name the doctor would realise through the normal discourse of having a child who follows intently, a professional level sport. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It stands, then, to reason that the doctor always knew - and felt it appropriate to let him know so at the end when he knew it was a 'new policy' to test before a flight and as such, Vincent/Jerome wouldn't have come prepared. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, Lamar mentions 'who knows what he could do', clearly referencing the ability for his son to pass as a 'borrowed ladder' in the same way that Vincent had. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;--remember, the son doesn't admire Vincent but Jerome (Jude Law - the name Vincent is using). Lamar would come to know of Vincent's true identity and thus real name as a natural course of regular testing - whereupon he quietly takes it upon himself to help further maintain the guise under which he operating. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23144" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T10:44:32.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13112" CreationDate="2015-07-19T11:22:13.753" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;RICHE appears to be a fictional luxury brand. As you can see from this image from the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.artofben.com/ELYSIUM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Art of the Film&lt;/a&gt;&quot; book, the bio-beds evidently had the ability to sculpt &lt;em&gt;customised faces&lt;/em&gt; designed by various luxury brand makers like Rolex and Prada.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that in the film version, they apparently used a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/how-neill-blomkamp-chose-the-product-placement-in-elysium/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;mixture of real and fake brands&lt;/a&gt; for cinematic reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Elysium citizen flesh design exploration, we did hundreds of these,&#xA;  here were a few&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RQY2R.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T11:22:13.753" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36219" CreationDate="2015-07-19T12:48:12.663" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/smoking-scenes-call-pot-cocaine-hollywood-turns-stash-faux-drugs-article-1.427128&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt; on New York Daily, from the title:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are they smoking?! When scenes call for pot or cocaine, Hollywood&#xA;  turns to stash of faux drugs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;later it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Turns out that many cocaine look-alikes are ingredients you might use&#xA;  in a cake, like powdered sugar, powdered milk and baking soda, while&#xA;  herbal tobacco fills in for genuine cannabis. [...] When faux pot plants are &#xA;  needed, as they were in &quot;Weeds,&quot; things got costly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“In seasons two and three, we were growing hydroponically indoors,”&#xA;  Benabib says. “We needed literally hundreds of the plants, and they&#xA;  are very expensive. They cost an arm and a leg.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course there are also exceptions like &lt;em&gt;Easy Rider&lt;/em&gt;: according to IMDB in this movie they were smoking actual marijuana.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also &lt;a href=&quot;http://flavorwire.com/489226/how-do-you-film-characters-smoking-weed-the-makers-of-high-maintenance-weeds-and-getting-doug-with-high-explain&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;: this explains that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since &quot;Weeds&quot; also involved a fair amount of growing, not just selling,&#xA;  the art department also had to supply “plants.” Entire grow houses&#xA;  were outfitted with &lt;strong&gt;plastic plants&lt;/strong&gt; — like the fake flower you might&#xA;  use to spruce up your cubicle, except weed, and lots of it. A&#xA;  late-series episode that finds Nancy Botwin’s onetime supplier growing&#xA;  in Humboldt required planting nearly a hundred plastic plants in the&#xA;  ground. &lt;strong&gt;The effect is strikingly realistic, except for the fact that&#xA;  actors couldn’t prune plastic: “If you look close when they’re&#xA;  trimming ’em, they’re not really doing much.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(bold font is mine).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="16465" LastEditDate="2015-07-19T13:13:01.270" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T13:13:01.270" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36840" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33424" CreationDate="2015-07-19T16:50:04.277" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been a lot of discussion about this. The cast and crew of the movie have all been discussing the importance of using physical effects in the movie. You can hear a lot about it in their panel from San Diego Comic Con. As for is that actually the same one. They may have made multiple droids but they definitely referenced that that one was used in filming scenes in the movie during the Star Wars Celebration. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23148" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T16:50:04.277" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36845" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-19T20:30:55.627" Score="3" ViewCount="893" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Murder by Death, a parody murder mystery by Neil Simon, the detectives show up at the house as though invited for a murder mystery weekend, a la &quot;And Then There Were None&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The characters play roles parodying literary and film detectives Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Nick and Nora Charles, Sam Spade, and Charlie Chan, and their familiar attendants. For example, the Charles[tons] were accompanied by their non-famous dog &quot;Myron&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Early in the film, the party's host, Lionel Twain (played by Truman Capote), handwrites invitations to each, but through his orders to the blind butler, ends up getting them mailed without stamps. Additionally, the address within is stated incorrectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How were the invitees to deduce where and when to arrive? I'm hoping it is not dependent on the practice of postage-on-delivery, which is an outdated practice, but generally used to communicate free with businesses rather than private individuals. Also, I'm not sure postage-on-delivery would have worked for the Euro addresses to Marbles (Miss Marple in England) or Perrier (Poirot in Brussels).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also don't wish to base this on a mundane standing order by each to accept all mail, even postage due, as prospective detection business offers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-07-19T20:43:11.020" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T05:46:24.590" Title="How did the detectives know where to arrive in Murder by Death?" Tags="|plot-explanation|murder-by-death|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36850" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41762" CreationDate="2015-07-19T20:45:05.333" Score="7" ViewCount="5443" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is common cliché in animation to show the journey between point A to point B by moving a line, sometimes including a plane/ship, across the map. I have seen it in Indiana Jones and plenty of other movies, TV shows and whatnot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we know who did this first? Was it in any comic book or did the animators beat them to it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lFtra.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MBqWJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somewhat similar thing in Harry Potter:&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/I3WmE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9147" OwnerDisplayName="Renae Lider" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-19T21:24:33.967" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T01:00:35.823" Title="Showing journey on the map" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36852" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-07-19T21:45:20.967" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A 2012 epic fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson. It is the first installment in a three-part film adaptation based on the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is followed by The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), and together they will act as a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Wikipedia Page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit:_An_Unexpected_Journey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T19:16:03.563" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T19:16:03.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36853" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-07-19T21:45:20.967" Score="0" Body="A 2012 epic fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-19T21:45:20.967" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T21:45:20.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24325" CreationDate="2015-07-19T22:14:12.407" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think since Doctor manhattan was haunted by guilt of the cancer ,he thinks he's also responsible for the end of it, so he built him self a time machine to travel back and forth in time to fix the problem of his guilt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23159" LastActivityDate="2015-07-19T22:14:12.407" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35905" CreationDate="2015-07-20T01:49:39.760" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The woman at Valentine's press conference (where they notice that she has an implant) &lt;strong&gt;is actually &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; Gazelle&lt;/strong&gt; but some other assistent of him, who I'd wager wasn't as close/important as Gazelle to warrant an exception from the implant. As you can see, she has a significantly different face and haircut (which Gazelle never changes throughout the movie):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jQXM6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, we see her again at other points throughout the movie. For example, when Harry sees her carry the invitation for the church event while visiting Valentine at home (where he also sees Gazelle, so they can't be one and the same person). Another point is when Eggsy is greeted by her when arriving at Valentine's base and hands her his weapons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AyNTt.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AyNTt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802144/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast&quot;&gt;IMDb's credits&lt;/a&gt; I'd conclude that it is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4935233/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t31&quot;&gt;Johanna Taylor&lt;/a&gt; credited as &lt;em&gt;&quot;Valentine's Assistent 1&quot;&lt;/em&gt; rather than &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1154749/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t10&quot;&gt;Sofia Boutella&lt;/a&gt;'s Gazelle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T16:00:47.070" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T16:00:47.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36734" CreationDate="2015-07-20T01:58:55.657" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marshall was an environmental lawyer, and while he had stints in corporate law, creative license laws wouldn't have been his area of expertise. (You can read his character's bio &lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Marshall_Eriksen&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.) And even if Ted had easy access to the right kind of lawyer, and it actually occurred to him that the movie was a suit-worthy offense (that wouldn't just end up being an expensive hassle), it would be incredibly difficult to prove that a movie like &quot;The Wedding Bride,&quot; which claims to be entirely fictitious, is actually libel. Not impossible, but definitely difficult to the point that it likely wouldn't have been worth it to sue. &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/HowIMetYourMother&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This conversation&lt;/a&gt; on TV Tropes does a pretty good job of discussing this and other reasons why Ted wouldn't want to sue (though honestly it may not even have seriously occurred to him as a viable option).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some good quotes from the conversation include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there was obvious &quot;Ted Mosby&quot; influence in the movie's villain...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I hate to do it, but I've got to cite Unreliable Narrator here. Ted&#xA;  was listening for Ted Mosby, so he heard it. I really do doubt the&#xA;  actors would say Ted Mosby without asking some questions, and no one&#xA;  else heard it. It makes a lot more sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That isn't to say that the villain wasn't based on Ted Mosby - he definitely was - but Ted is likely blowing it out of proportion. So it's hard to say whether the resemblance was big enough that Ted could be reasonably sure he'd win a court case. At least, sure enough to shell out the money and go through all the public exposure that would come out of it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...he'd be putting himself out there in public, claiming that the&#xA;  A-Hole in the movie was based on him, and demanding royalties for a&#xA;  movie he didn't make. Ted wouldn't want to endure that sort of&#xA;  negative exposure. Who would?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suing over the movie may just bring bigger attention to the issue and have more people - many of them complete strangers - associate him with the character and the movie than just his closest friends who already know Ted's history with Stella and her ex-ex-husband.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T01:58:55.657" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36845" CreationDate="2015-07-20T05:46:24.590" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure that the address is incorrect. It is given as &quot;22 Lola Lane&quot; and when we later see the House it is number 22 - I think Twain is just the name of the owner - not the name of the road. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the missing stamps I suspect that either Lionel Twain did notice, that they were missing (after all the butler did misplace the stamps in his presence) and corrected it later or that those letters didn't made it to the invitees and nobody came, so Twain send some new invitations for another weekend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am more surprised that apparently it was enough to just put the name of the guests and their city on those envelopes, but not a street address. Were all of them famous enough that the postal services knew where to deliver those letters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22723" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T05:46:24.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36345" CreationDate="2015-07-20T08:15:14.787" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The company Service2Media developed the app &quot;iris&quot; for the movie &quot;app&quot;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.service2media.appthemovie&amp;amp;hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.service2media.appthemovie&amp;amp;hl=en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.service2media.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.service2media.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope that is what you are looking for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22862" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T08:15:14.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36874" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34492" CreationDate="2015-07-20T08:43:28.247" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wasn't the handwriting alone. The documents examiner for the San Francisco Police Department said that he was given &quot;a banana box full of Allens handwriting and it wasn't even close&quot;. That means the probability of Allen changing his handwriting that much was remote, as the examiner would have noticed the examples over time changing.&#xA;In 2002, DNA analysis, again, &quot;wasn't even close&quot;, along with another suspect that they checked. &#xA;No handwriting match, no DNA match does not mean there isn't enough evidence, it means he didn't do it !!!!&#xA;Eyewitness testimony is the LEAST reliable form of evidence there is, it has been proven as such many, many times. &#xA;As far as the ton of circumstantial evidence, or as I like to call it, &quot;coincidences&quot;, I am sure you all have done extensive researching online, as have I, and you can come up with a million coincidences a day with names, dates, etc. overlapping to a degree that I have actually changed my belief of &quot;circumstantial&quot; evidence pertaining to everything, including people in my own life, lol. &#xA;So, in answer to your question of &quot;how could they let him run around with so much proof?&quot; The answer is - they have absolutely no proof. Not one bit of &quot;proof&quot; ( which you are confusing with &quot;evidence&quot;, by the way ) &#xA;The finding that his drivers license had an issue date that coincided with the postmark date of a Zodiac letter is absolutely, positively, 100% proof that that the date his license was issued matches the date of a postmark of a Zodiac letter, lol, nothing else, and that goes for the supposed other &quot;important&quot; dates also. You might even venture to ask yourself a question as to why the hell the issuance date of his drivers license would be important? That kind of evidence gathering is junk, plain and simple. People have watched too many detective shows with the &quot;whodunit&quot; themes, seriously. &#xA;Take down your family's birthdates and pick some dates of major happenings in the world and see if you can match any up. Do it with SS numbers, car license plates- any numbers you choose and you will find an astonishing number of coincidences. Same goes with names, like them mentioning that the cab dropped the Zodiac off at the &quot;Allen apartments&quot;. You would not believe how many times things like this occur. Type random names into google and see how many things pop up, like typing in &quot;Scott Anderson&quot; and watching the results show you how many thousands of people across the country that are named Scott, live on Anderson St., or go to Anderson high school, or are employed by Anderson windows, etc. &#xA;Put it this way - there are no strange coincidences, there are plenty of common ones! In fact, I challenge anyone to pick numbers, names, etc and see if they can NOT find any coincidences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23168" LastEditorUserId="23168" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T09:08:47.780" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T09:08:47.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36875" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-20T09:17:16.873" Score="1" ViewCount="615" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have at least 2 negotiators in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120768/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Negotiator&lt;/a&gt;, but which one is the titular negotiator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2KDt5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17983" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2015-07-22T06:03:23.387" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T06:03:23.387" Title="Who's the negotiator in The Negotiator?" Tags="|title|the-negotiator|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36875" CreationDate="2015-07-20T09:41:02.643" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if the title is about one negotiator in particular. It may have been intentionally left open to suit viewer's own perception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But still if you have to award the title to one of the characters, then I think, Lieutenant Chris Sabian (played by Kevin Spacey) stands as a stronger contender.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is because, the other character, Danny Roman (Sam L Jackson) is kind of on the back foot, in the story. His fighting skills dominate his negotiation skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Chris Sabian seems more like the one who is talking the talk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also please note that in the climax it's Chris who plays his last negotiation card to trick Frost and get him arrested. So based on that Chris Sabian could be awarded the Negotiator title. Although it's just my personal opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T09:41:02.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36880" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2035" CreationDate="2015-07-20T13:57:50.797" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;While re-imaginings of stories have been told over and over in film and other media since long before film began, the first instance of the use of the term &quot;reboot&quot; was 'The Incredible Hulk' in 2008, which came out only five years after the previous movie 'Hulk'.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The studio felt that they needed a word to help describe what they were doing with the movie because it was not a sequel, nor were they starting over with another origin story. Instead, 'The Incredible Hulk' started with a quick gloss over the origins of the Hulk and then jumped ahead four years, leaving it open-ended as to if the events from the previous movie were considered to have happened or not in this story arc (as we now know, they did not).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that there were questions at the time as to why the movie was being remade so close to the previous film, and no one could call a movie with a full recast a &quot;sequel.&quot; This put Marvel in a position where they needed to create a marketing spin, and thus the term &quot;reboot&quot; was born. At this time, they didn't want to tip their hand to the idea that they were going to start a series of Marvel movies that all had plot tie-ins to each other, nor had they constructed any long term plan for such a series (the series we now know as the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with 2008's Iron Man).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As pointed out above, the term was needed because of the proximity of the two movies. In 2005 when Christopher Nolan's new vision of Batman surfaced with 'Batman Begins', it was referred to generally as a &quot;re-imagining of the Batman universe.&quot; It has since been retroactively deemed a &quot;reboot,&quot; but the time gap as well as the complete change of tone between Nolan's Batman series and the 1989-1997 Batman series makes it unnecessary, particularly when considering how long ago the first series &lt;em&gt;began&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, the term has given us a much needed word for movies that fall into a certain category, we just never knew we needed the word until 2008. The word has since gained a more concrete definition: &lt;em&gt;to discard all continuity in an established series in order to recreate its characters, timeline and backstory from the beginning.&lt;/em&gt; It's overuse in the comic book genre has generated some push back from fans when the term gets retroactively applied to media older than the term itself, which may also have to do with the vague and ever-changing definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23172" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T13:57:50.797" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36619" CreationDate="2015-07-20T14:06:58.307" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is apparently a case of them utilizing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlanetOfSteves&quot;&gt;Planet of Steves&lt;/a&gt; trope on the show. The term isn't any sort of official kitchen or cooking term, or one for assistants. Alton Brown simply refers to his assitants as Bobs, or a group of people who are all named Bob.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was even an After-Show episode which featured two of them demonstrating something for the judge. The official entry for this after-show on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/2015/07/cutthroat-kitchen-altons-after-show-810/&quot;&gt;Food Network's website&lt;/a&gt; shows the assistants are simply refered to as Bobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yeah, nothing special or significant, it's just what they're called on the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T14:06:58.307" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36885" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36891" CreationDate="2015-07-20T18:08:39.953" Score="7" ViewCount="40119" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Harry Potter was himself a horcrux, then why did Voldemort die even though Harry was alive? I understand that Voldemort's spell-&quot;Avda kedavra&quot; was ineffective against Harry, because of the Elder Wand. Did that short period death (visit to King's Cross Station) of Harry fulfill the criteria to destroy the horcrux that resided in his soul? If the horcrux was inside his soul then &lt;strong&gt;how is it possible to destroy part of Harry's soul when he had never killed anyone like Voldemort did?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22043" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T19:11:39.700" LastActivityDate="2020-05-20T18:36:02.787" Title="How did Lord Voldemort die even though Harry Potter survived?" Tags="|harry-potter|the-deathly-hallows-2|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24356" CreationDate="2015-07-20T18:09:06.110" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia seems to cover this quite well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mamet#.22Mamet_speak.22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mamet#.22Mamet_speak.22&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific quote directly from Mamet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When asked how he developed his style for writing dialogue, Mamet said, &quot;In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, based solely on our ability to speak the language viciously. That's probably where my ability was honed.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's simply Mamet's style. It's how he likes to write dialog. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T18:09:06.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36887" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-20T18:46:02.430" Score="8" ViewCount="1034" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's an old tradition in cartoons and comedies: criminals (mostly thieves) and bullies often whistle some tunes after doing something &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; or when they are likely to be detected by police or guards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This even happens in real life, for example we can sometimes do that in our circle of friends, when something funny but tough happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure there must be some source of this tradition, so I thought you might have some ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23178" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-21T12:01:13.413" LastActivityDate="2018-09-09T20:12:26.753" Title="Why do criminals whistle after doing something?" Tags="|animation|comedy|first-appearance|origin|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21528" CreationDate="2015-07-20T19:05:47.217" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had seen/read/heard that Lazenby preferred to portray Bond without all the gimmicks, toys, e.g. the exploding pen, the ejector seat button, little Nellie, etc. However, the powers that be, whether it was the writers, producers, the viewers (I know I always enjoyed what Q would come up with), etc., wanted 007 to utilize those devices.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23179" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-20T19:12:59.753" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T19:12:59.753" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36885" CreationDate="2015-07-20T19:39:41.790" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Dumbledore explains in the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On the night Lord Voldemort went to Godric's Hollow to kill Harry and Lily Potter cast herself between them the curse rebounded.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  When that happened, a part of Voldemort's soul latched itself onto the only living thing it could find: Harry himself.&#xA;  There 's a reason Harry can speak with snakes.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  There's a reason he can look into Lord Voldemort's mind.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  A part of Voldemort lives inside him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That part (latched to Harry, not his soul) was killed by Voldemort himself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Harry: Professor, what is that?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Dumbledore: Something beyond either of our help. A part of Voldemort sent here to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing what we know now, it makes sense that only this tiny piece of Voldemort soul was killed: the Elder Wand refused to hurt its master, so Harry was unharmed (although, given a choice to move on), but that part of Voldemort's soul that made Harry a horcrux had nothing to do with the wand's master, so it was killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2015-07-20T19:39:41.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36893" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="56144" CreationDate="2015-07-21T00:14:19.133" Score="7" ViewCount="491" Body="&lt;p&gt;At one point in the film Nightcrawler, the scene is a morning in Los Angeles, possibly the only morning scene in the film where the hero is not watching television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plotwise, the scene is positioned after the hero and heroine are at a Mexican restaurant, and the hero seems to proposition her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a few seconds the scene includes two large balloons with anthropomorphic features.  These have been set up outside presumably for a promotion.  They snap and flex in the wind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the gyrations of these balloons a suggestion that the hero and female lead have enjoyed a tryst?  Or something else?  Or just a random shot to portray life in LA?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NXcsW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-09-07T22:17:37.817" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T18:15:42.193" Title="Significance of the air dancers in Nightcrawler" Tags="|analysis|nightcrawler|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36894" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36986" CreationDate="2015-07-21T00:20:55.137" Score="2" ViewCount="1957" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have read the other questions with the 'Nightcrawler' tag and some query the odd behaviour of the film's hero, Louis Bloom.  My question is a bit more direct: was he a meth head?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suspicion is prompted by his rapid speech, his apparent insomnia, his intense eye contact, and his overall weirdness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose for the purposes of this question, crack, cocaine, or any class A drug where these symptoms manifest are synonyms so as to prevent me asking: ok, is he a crack head?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is he a meth head?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-21T13:11:34.613" LastActivityDate="2017-06-16T10:20:35.323" Title="Was Louis Bloom a meth head in Nightcrawler?" Tags="|analysis|character|nightcrawler|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36899" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36900" CreationDate="2015-07-21T06:56:48.467" Score="14" ViewCount="1595" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've looked and I don't think this has been asked before.  In Back to the Future 1, after Marty changes his parent's future, its obvious that he changes his own life and the life of his siblings drastically.  He owns an awesome truck, has a date with Jennifer to go to the lake, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why doesn't he have any memories of these things? Shouldn't his memories be altered in the same way the photo of his siblings changes? Or an even better example: Doc's memories are different in that he now remembers Marty from the past and wears a bullet proof vest to the mall. And don't say that Doc always remembered Marty from the past and its a time loop because if that were true then Marty's family would always have been successful and his dad not a loser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2021-08-10T05:14:04.823" Title="Why don't Marty's memories change?" Tags="|time-travel|back-to-the-future|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36899" CreationDate="2015-07-21T08:30:51.830" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marty was in the time machine when he came back. The definition of the time machine is that the machine (and what it contains) travel through time &lt;em&gt;unaltered&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(My real question would be, why is there just ONE Marty when he comes back to 1985 after fixing his family. There should be one Marty that was born from his parents on his normal birthdate, and one that came back from 1955 to 1985.&#xA;But that's another story!)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23193" LastActivityDate="2015-07-21T08:30:51.830" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36904" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37014" CreationDate="2015-07-21T11:53:02.753" Score="1" ViewCount="455" Body="&lt;p&gt;Today I saw a trailer for the forthcoming Simon Pegg / Monty Python film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1727770/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Absolutely Anything&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  The plot, as far as I can tell from a trailer, is identical to that of the 1936 H.G.Wells classic &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029201/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Man Who Could Work Miracles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't found any interview or article that mentions that H.G.Wells was taken as inspiration but the similarities are striking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is &lt;em&gt;Absolutely Anything&lt;/em&gt; a remake of / inspired by &lt;em&gt;The Man Who Could Work Miracles&lt;/em&gt;?  Is it just coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-07-21T11:54:38.800" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T21:05:11.540" Title="Is &quot;Absolutely Anything&quot; a remake?" Tags="|absolutely-anything|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36905" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-07-21T11:54:00.217" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-07-21T11:54:00.217" LastActivityDate="2015-07-21T11:54:00.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36906" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-07-21T11:54:00.217" Score="0" Body="2015 film directed by Terry Jones, starring Simon Pegg as a man given the ability to do absolutely anything." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-07-21T11:58:54.393" LastActivityDate="2015-07-21T11:58:54.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36907" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37564" CreationDate="2015-07-21T12:08:28.860" Score="4" ViewCount="854" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 3 minion movies i.e. Despicable Me 1, Despicable Me 2 and Minions, all the minions were male characters (including maid Phil :P). Why was not a single female minion character present?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21329" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-21T12:12:56.673" LastActivityDate="2015-08-07T21:53:05.920" Title="Why was there no female minion?" Tags="|despicable-me|despicable-me-2|minions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="525" CreationDate="2015-07-21T14:53:09.127" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears to me that Alex knows he is dieing, and smiles because he is getting the last laugh, knowing he is lying on the money which nobody else can find -another good joke! His injury is too serious to survive. Juliet has made sure of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23200" LastActivityDate="2015-07-21T14:53:09.127" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36914" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36918" CreationDate="2015-07-21T18:05:52.237" Score="9" ViewCount="28818" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently in the WWE, usually when someone is in the middle of giving a speech in the ring, the lights will go out and when they come back on, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogstorage.s3.amazonaws.com/upload/SportsBlogcom/48064/0744747001412514806_filepicker.jpg&quot;&gt;The Undertaker&lt;/a&gt; is standing in the ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So where does he come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does he just run out from the back or is he hiding under the ring or in the audience? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17983" LastEditorUserId="17983" LastEditDate="2015-07-21T19:28:07.847" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T09:38:50.587" Title="Where does The Undertaker hide?" Tags="|wwe|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36914" CreationDate="2015-07-21T20:33:09.927" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;He comes from under the ring, and the lights are out in real life for longer than they are on television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5c60GgYIWw&quot;&gt;in this video&lt;/a&gt;, while on television the blackout is 7 seconds, in camera footage taken in the arena, they are actually out for 17 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, there is a trap door underneath the ring that the participants can come up through, as evidenced by points 3 and 4 in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.allexperts.com/q/Pro-Wrestling-1847/2009/6/wrestling-works.htm&quot;&gt;this Q&amp;amp;A site question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The relevant points are also cited here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Undertaker is waiting under the ring. There is a TV under there, so he knows when it happens (though the bell sound also tells him). He then comes out to the commentators side (most people look at the ring or the entrance area, so he generally goes unnoticed by flashing cameras) and slowly slides under the ring ropes and stands in the ring. He has to slide under the ring ropes slowly so as the ring ropes don't move, which would give away where he came from.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you ever see it live, you would see that the lights are off longer than you see on-screen. They edit out so of the time so that it appears that he got there quicker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;There is a trap door under the ring. That is where both The Undertaker and Hornswoggle come from. They come up a bit before they are needed and wait, looking at the TV so that they can get out quicker. For Hornswoggle in particular, it is important that it gets out on cue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" LastActivityDate="2015-07-21T20:33:09.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33594" CreationDate="2015-07-21T22:12:46.537" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;She did not cheat on him. Perhaps he wanted her to come because of her years of devotion, and the fact that she is the mother of his children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23207" LastActivityDate="2015-07-21T22:12:46.537" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24923" CreationDate="2015-07-22T00:08:17.523" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Sound of Silence (Original) was released in 1964.&#xA;The Remix found in &lt;em&gt;The Graduate&lt;/em&gt; was released in 1965.&#xA;&lt;em&gt;The Graduate&lt;/em&gt; was released in 1967. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Silence#In_popular_culture&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This was an unusual decision for the time, as the song had charted&#xA;  over a year earlier and recycling established music for film was not&#xA;  commonly done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was not originally planned to be in the film but it eventually became permanent once a substitute was not found to properly convey the feeling that the creators wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[It functions] &lt;a href=&quot;https://rachaelcoates.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/listening-beyond-the-sound-of-silence-in-the-graduate-d-mike-nichols-1967/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;as an interior monologue for his feelings of “generational&#xA;  disaffection”, disillusionment and isolation.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://dissectingtheframe.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/the-graduate-1967-and-the-significance-of-sound-of-silence/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The song’s haunting melody and bleak subject matter suit the&#xA;  character of Ben and his generally lost mood towards things.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suggest that the usage of this song was merely a &lt;strong&gt;Mood&lt;/strong&gt; piece rather than an actual addition of thematic meaning from the lyrics themselves. This sounds somewhat amateur but considering that the soundtrack is now considered iconic, it makes it no less significant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This should not take away from the various &lt;code&gt;perceived&lt;/code&gt; meanings that some people find between the song and the film (and even into ones own life). After all, they are two pieces of art; art is subjective. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I have my own interpretations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23208" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-06T08:33:37.023" LastActivityDate="2015-08-06T08:33:37.023" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30037" CreationDate="2015-07-22T01:19:33.557" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;the deeper meaning is in her line &quot; It's unfortunate what we find pleasing to the touch and pleasing to the eye is seldom the same.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23211" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T01:19:33.557" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27590" CreationDate="2015-07-22T03:21:03.420" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;it's the black goo - also known as sentient oil or black oil, called &quot;purity&quot; in the x files: &lt;a href=&quot;http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/Purity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/Purity&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;It is the same stuff in the new-ish tv show Residue or the stuff at the start of Prometheus. It shows up everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/MZhEMVUJP2Y?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/TfTflw80t6g?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/BCJSKhtTtC0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23214" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-22T08:59:15.260" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T08:59:15.260" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36763" CreationDate="2015-07-22T08:44:20.127" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;^ Apart from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/36765/66&quot;&gt;above answer&lt;/a&gt; from Martin Bariak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rendezvous with Daryl when he bites Jugular vein of a thug.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Death of Beth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Battle with Governor's army.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Being trapped in Terminus&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Falling in love with Jessie Anderson in the Alexandria Safe-Zone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T09:15:15.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36932" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-22T09:15:09.677" Score="5" ViewCount="528" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did the witch really take the baby? Or was it imagined by the parents of the baby?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23220" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-22T09:21:30.517" LastActivityDate="2017-05-19T19:36:30.023" Title="Is the witch in &quot;The Witch&quot; (2015) real?" Tags="|the-witch|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10042" CreationDate="2015-07-22T11:11:29.887" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a little late for the question and answer but I believe she is saying &quot; And Now Its You And I. Since they are the only surviving members of their family. And she is now going to care for him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23221" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T11:11:29.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36935" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36992" CreationDate="2015-07-22T11:16:02.237" Score="3" ViewCount="4267" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Time Machine, Guy Pearce's fiance keeps dying when her time comes, no matter how many time he travels back to meet her.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is why can't he take her on his time machine and take her past her death time so that she can survive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21866" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-07-22T13:24:56.590" LastActivityDate="2022-10-21T03:19:28.280" Title="Why can't Guy Pearce travel forward in time with his fiance in the movie Time Machine?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-time-machine-2002|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19701" CreationDate="2015-07-22T12:47:09.447" Score="-3" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most likely magneto grafted the metal in his body to his claws. Remember the metal manipulation in x2 when he broke free?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The box being handed to the girl at the end of the wolverine is actually an original Wolverine suit she showed to him on the plane. It's in the deleted scenes. Just a tease too. It never made it to Days of Future Past.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even if the metal became chemically bonded to his skeleton which allows for more metal to regenerate, they wouldn't allow that to be on screen. They tried to stray away from comic booky stuff as much as possible to create a real world explanation for everything that happens.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Think about it. It's an X-Men movie. As much as we love them, Havoc is still older than cyclops in the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse movie, so what does that tell you? Deal with it!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23227" LastEditorUserId="77" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T18:30:03.973" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T18:30:03.973" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34507" CreationDate="2015-07-22T15:16:15.050" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;One example would be the Prince movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Cherry_Moon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Under the Cherry Moon&lt;/a&gt;. He (1.58) is 10 cm smaller than Kristin Scott Thomas (1.68) (I am not American, but that must be about 3 inches). I guess there are bigger differences, but this is an example for a romantic (musical) film to start with...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you count the relationship in Game of Thrones between Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage 1.35) and Shae (Sibil Kekilli 1.63) you would have 28 cm, that's about 9 inches, but not sure if you could call this romantic ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was only thinking about examples where the actress is bigger, the other way around I guess there are bigger mismatches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22783" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2017-04-18T00:20:19.617" LastActivityDate="2017-04-18T00:20:19.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36952" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-22T15:41:47.300" Score="4" ViewCount="2200" Body="&lt;p&gt;What a great and scary documentary all in one.  I am sort of disturbed after watching it on Netflix last night but I'm glad I did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One thing that confused me though were the choreographed dance and costume scenes that feature two reenacting gangsters (Anwar and Herman) as well as female dancers that don't appear in the rest of the film. How do those scenes fit in with the rest of the plot? What is the significance of Herman's cross dressing and the big fish that they dance out of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DGTM9.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DGTM9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20094" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-22T16:04:44.840" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T06:11:08.857" Title="Dance and costume scenes in 'The Act of Killing'" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|the-act-of-killing|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36954" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36955" CreationDate="2015-07-22T17:01:42.757" Score="6" ViewCount="1890" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie about 5 years ago on either HBO or Showtime. I believe it is an American movie.  A woman is pregnant and she and her husband get in a car accident. The man dies but the wife survives and is told her child is dead and will be stillborn.  The child is delivered, is alive, but only wants blood to drink. The only other thing I remember is the child breastfeeding and there being a lot of blood from it. Sorry, that is all I remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-07-22T20:43:02.893" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T20:43:02.893" Title="movie about a baby that drinks blood" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:53:12.060" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36954" CreationDate="2015-07-22T17:06:05.000" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_%28film%29&quot;&gt;Grace&lt;/a&gt; from 2009, which was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831365/combined&quot;&gt;based on a short film&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Michael Matheson (Stephen Park) and his pregnant wife Madeline (Jordan Ladd) are involved in a car accident. Michael dies, and doctors tell Madeline that her unborn child is dead, too. Madeline, desperate after trying to have a child for years, decides to carry her baby to term anyway. The child, a girl, initially appears stillborn. After a while, though, she seems to revive, and Madeline names her &quot;Grace&quot;. It soon becomes clear something is wrong with the baby. It develops unhealthy smells, attracts flies, and craves blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the trailer (&lt;strong&gt;Warning: A bit graphic&lt;/strong&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/UXSaViAZsq8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T17:06:05.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36170" CreationDate="2015-07-22T18:48:11.507" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pops (Arnold) did what Sarah Connor said and in the credits Genisys survived the blast. This means that there could still be terminators in the future and Sarah Connors can reprogram a T-800, erased its memory, and sent it back to save her in the early 70's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23236" LastActivityDate="2015-07-22T18:48:11.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36631" CreationDate="2015-07-22T21:47:44.607" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Max/Senator Bailey (Woods) invites Noodles (De Niro) at the party because his political career is about to end, swept up by scandals and frauds and wants his old time friend, with whom he has a 'debt of honor', to kill him before he is completely ruined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Noodles refuses to do so and to even acknowledge that Max and Bailey are the same person (it would mean for Noodles to acknowledge also that almost his entire life has been spent in the illusion of a friendship that was never real), the only choice left for Max/Bailey is to kill himself, possibly by throwing himself on the turning blades of the trash truck. This is by the way only suggested by the sequence in which we see Max/Bailey, then the truck hiding him when passing in front of him, then the empty street where Max/Bailey was previously standing after the truck has passed. Or Max/Bailey could also have gone back in his mansion ... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the final scene, the one with De Niro's enigmatic drugged up smile (which has been compared to Leonardo's Mona Lisa smile), it is open to the viewer's interpretation. It might mean that everything that happened after Max's death (the faked one) is just an opium induced dream/hallucination by Noodles, or it could be just a flashback. But in that (also) resides, in my opinion, the outstanding beauty of one of my favourites movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-25T18:40:38.230" LastActivityDate="2015-07-25T18:40:38.230" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36965" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37007" CreationDate="2015-07-23T00:05:15.710" Score="4" ViewCount="2779" Body="&lt;p&gt;A friend and I were discussing how much it costs John Hammond to acquire each dinosaur in the Jurassic Park movies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My friend thinks that they can cost up to $30,000,000 USD, but I believe that this is too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any information given in the movie, interviews, or marketing materials that suggest how much a dinosaur would cost?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23248" LastEditorUserId="7820" LastEditDate="2015-07-23T13:13:32.157" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T15:01:22.017" Title="Within the world of Jurassic Park, how much does it cost to create a dinosaur?" Tags="|jurassic-park|jurassic-world|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36973" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="36976" CreationDate="2015-07-23T03:35:16.670" Score="8" ViewCount="5739" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Inside Out&lt;/em&gt; there's the following dialogue (as quoted here from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096673/trivia?tab=qt&amp;amp;ref_=tt_trv_qu&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;its IMDb page&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anger: [seeing slices of pizza with only broccoli on top]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anger: Congratulations San Francisco, you've ruined Pizza! First the Hawaiians, and now YOU!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't live in San Francisco or Hawaii, so I didn't understand the reference. Do people from San Francisco or Hawaii make pizza with ridiculous ingredients? Yes, pizza with only broccoli is... not pizza, I suppose you could find that type of 'pizza' in some places there, but he is refering to  Hawaiians. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23252" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-01-31T13:11:39.043" Title="Reference to ruined pizza in 'Inside Out'" Tags="|reference|inside-out|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36974" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38957" CreationDate="2015-07-23T03:41:17.413" Score="11" ViewCount="19211" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End&lt;/em&gt;, during the scene where the Brethren Court meets to decide to fight against the East India Company (Lord Beckett), we hear this conversation between Jack and the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Keeper of the Code&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (who is also his father)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;What? You've seen it all, done it all. You survived. That’s the trick, isn’t it? To survive?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;It’s not just about living forever, Jackie. The trick is living with yourself forever.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it mean that he is immortal? There are some conversation also in next movie (&lt;em&gt;On Stranger Tides&lt;/em&gt;), however I am not able to find conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am looking for reference if he is immortal or not. And if this conversation is not about immoratility then what is it about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-17T07:31:19.420" LastActivityDate="2021-09-06T05:35:36.130" Title="Is the Keeper of the Code (Jack Sparrow's father) immortal?" Tags="|character|dialogue|pirates-of-the-caribbean|at-worlds-end|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36973" CreationDate="2015-07-23T04:37:30.177" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anger is most likely referring to the toppings on a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_pizza&quot;&gt;Hawaiian Pizza&lt;/a&gt;&quot;... This refers only to the toppings on the pizza, not to any specific type of crust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ask just about any pizza shop for &quot;Hawaiian&quot;, you'll get a pizza with Canadian bacon (or ham) and pineapple on it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name is likely from the inclusion of the pineapple, though the Wikipedia article claims it was invented in Canada.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people love this pizza but many people detest it, clearly, Anger is in the latter group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's this pizza as offered by Little Caesars:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EI0d5.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EI0d5.png&quot; alt=&quot;Little Caesar&amp;#39;s Hula Hawaiian&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T04:37:30.177" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31878" CreationDate="2015-07-23T07:20:14.437" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Russo matters only indirectly. Rachel is the proof that Lucas is not crazy. But then Underwood may have anything to do with ZOE's death (which of course he does). The connection between Rachel and Russo only matter inasmuch Zoe met Rachel because she was investigating Russo's death. Of course, things went awry only because Claire betrayed Francis with the watershed bill. Otherwise, the dog in the first scene would be Underwood's only victim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23257" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T07:20:14.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36894" CreationDate="2015-07-23T10:45:58.507" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know how accurate information are at this website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Louis Bloom is a sociopathic, smarmy, but unrelentingly dedicated individual. He will do whatever is necessary to achieve his goals and has no qualms of doing it, justifying his means with the end result.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Louis_Bloom&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Louis_Bloom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20356" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T10:45:58.507" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36988" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-23T11:27:33.567" Score="2" ViewCount="1419" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;strong&gt;Magnolia&lt;/strong&gt; there is a scene where the quiz show &lt;em&gt;What do kids know&lt;/em&gt; celebrate its 33rd year featuring young Donnie Smith. At the same time Claudia watches the programme (she actually watches her father). But at the end; officer Jim, who is in love with Claudia, meets the old Donnie Smith (a.k.a quiz kid)     &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G4Qgz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can both old and young Donnies exist in the same moment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22534" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-23T19:51:30.230" LastActivityDate="2022-05-02T01:24:43.950" Title="Both young and old Donnie Smith lives in the same timeline?" Tags="|magnolia|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36935" CreationDate="2015-07-23T12:39:15.510" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine_(2002_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Time Machine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Über-Morlock explains that Alexander cannot alter Emma's fate because her death is what drove him to build the time machine in the first place: saving her would create a temporal paradox. He then reveals that the Morlocks have brought the time machine underground, and tells Alexander to get into it and return home&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22748" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T12:39:15.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17484" CreationDate="2015-07-23T12:47:36.090" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've found on Youtube the above piece of dialogue &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSQqv2UuvC0&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Godfather - Sollozzo and Michael&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and, since I'm italian, I've tried to understand if something is missing or can be edited in Travis's transcription. Most of it is understandable to me but unfortunately, since the actors are speaking (or better say are trying to speak) in sicilian (an italian dialect not easy to understand) I'm not sure about a couple of bits. I've tried to google for the script, but the italian dialogues are not written in the documents I've found. Plus, in the video above I couldn't find a trace of what is written in the last Sollozzo dialogue posted by Travis. Maybe it depends on the fact that that part of dialogue was taken from an extended version?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, here is my edited version of the dialogue (not much different from the one posted by Travis, just slightly more accurate):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SOLLOZZO: “I’m sorry…”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MICHAEL: “Leave it alone.” ( or ) “Forget about it.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SOLLOZZO: “What happened to your father was business. I have much respect for your father. But your father, his thinking is old-fashioned and he doesn't want to understand tha I am a man of honor (in sicilian dialect a mafioso is also called a &quot;uomo d'onore&quot;)”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MICHAEL: “You don't need to tell me these things. I understand them”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Waiter brings McCluskey's veal, then exits.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SOLLOZZO: “You must know that I've helped Tattaglia's family. I think that we can find an agreement. I want peace. Let's cut all this bullshit.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MICHAEL: &quot;I want to... how do you say...?” [Then Michael returns to speaking English.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[After Michael returns from the bathroom]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SOLLOZZO: “Do you feel better? Micheluzzo you do understand. You're italian just like your father. Your father is sick. When he feels better let's try to set up a meeting (? - it's very hard to understand this, Sollozzo is chewing words here) and settle everything.&quot; (the sound of the whistle covers most of Sollozzo's final words)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T12:47:36.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36997" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-23T14:34:01.830" Score="2" ViewCount="1037" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the show &lt;em&gt;Tyrant&lt;/em&gt;, Jamal kills &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; his Norwegian girlfriend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23267" LastEditorUserId="30631" LastEditDate="2016-03-19T22:25:22.890" LastActivityDate="2016-10-26T09:03:03.537" Title="Why did Jamal kill this person?" Tags="|character|tyrant|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36997" CreationDate="2015-07-23T14:55:43.223" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Distressed, he invites Katerina to come with him instead and she agrees. However Bassam calls and informs him he did kill the Sheikh, and Jamal, &lt;strong&gt;to cover up any evidence he was thinking of giving up the Presidency, kills Katerina&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tyrantfx.wikia.com/wiki/Jamal_Al-Fayeed&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://tyrantfx.wikia.com/wiki/Jamal_Al-Fayeed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Final paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23228" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-23T16:18:31.747" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T16:18:31.747" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="36999" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-23T15:21:57.487" Score="6" ViewCount="618" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for the title of this horror movie that I saw when I was a kid. I am pretty sure that the movie is not later than 2005.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I can remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The story is about a man who had an affair with a student.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They met on a rainy day. While riding his car, he saw the girl soaking wet and helped her.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The girl disappeared. The wife found out about the affair and accidentally killed the girl. The wife hid the body inside the wall of a new room that they were constructing. I think it was their child's room.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The child was diagnosed as having an &quot;Elektra Syndrome&quot; because she is too attached to her father while her mother receives animosity. The child is in fact, being possessed by the girl.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At the ending, someone discovered the corpse and the girl somewhat &quot;resurrected&quot; and took her revenge on the wife.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23268" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-23T16:18:56.923" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T05:35:09.903" Title="Looking for the title of a horror movie" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:53:21.443" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36999" CreationDate="2015-07-23T15:34:24.583" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This almost sounds like the plot of the South Korean movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Phone_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Phone&lt;/a&gt; from 2002.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Ho-jung's daughter Young-ju answers an anonymous phone call on Ji-won's new cell phone, the girl screams and begins to show a disturbing attraction for her father and jealous rejection towards her mother. &#xA;  [...]&#xA;  Ji-won also discovers that Jin-hee's dead body was hidden inside one of the walls at the house she is staying at&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the trailer:&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/-IEwWNy46ME?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23239" LastEditorUserId="23239" LastEditDate="2015-07-23T15:40:24.170" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T15:40:24.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30750" CreationDate="2015-07-23T16:20:23.470" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt1305806/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;el secreto de sus ojos&lt;/a&gt; there is a scene that starts with an air view of the stadium and continues with actions of the actors in thier seats in the stadium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/04A3SykBIj0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scene&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23258" LastEditorUserId="23258" LastEditDate="2015-07-23T16:26:28.567" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T16:26:28.567" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37004" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37029" CreationDate="2015-07-23T16:30:09.150" Score="10" ViewCount="128191" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The &lt;em&gt;Godfather II&lt;/em&gt;, when Fredo leads the group of people to a club in La Habana, a show is presented where a man with a cape appears in the scene with a couple of women (if I recall correctly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone knows if this show is for real or just something made up for the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23258" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2015-12-27T04:51:13.777" LastActivityDate="2016-09-06T19:12:56.120" Title="Was the “Superman” show that was shown in Cuba in “Godfather II” a real show?" Tags="|the-godfather-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36999" CreationDate="2015-07-23T17:00:53.903" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This one is later but seems pretty similar &lt;a href=&quot;http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt1072754/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Messages Deleted&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;The actor is the same from Scooby doo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23258" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T17:00:53.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37007" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36965" CreationDate="2015-07-23T17:06:05.977" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;To figure out the cost of creating a dinosaur, you can extrapolate from real life. Good sir, we live in the future!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bioarts.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bio Arts&lt;/a&gt;, is one of a handful of companies that clones people's dogs. They charge a mere $150,000 to clone a dog. However, that process is much simpler than cloning an extinct animal. Any human IVF treatment has about a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_fertilisation#Success_rates&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;34% rate of success&lt;/a&gt;, so for the sake of argument let's say it takes 3 tries to get the process right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a good starting point, but doesn't take into account the paleontologist needed to locate fossils/amber with viable DNA, as well as provide the only available expertise on dinosaur biology. A paleontologist's salary costs approximately $80,000. It doesn't take into account the genetic scientist needed to compile fragmented DNA, an additional $200,000 salary. It doesn't take into account the lawyer needed to advise and protect your endeavor, another $300,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That comes to $1,030,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, the manpower adds up pretty quickly. I know I'm forgetting things. That number doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the number of people you'd need on your team over several years to successfully create a dinosaur. It also doesn't take into account the cost of raising, housing, and feeding said dinosaur. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if you just want to simply spawn a dinosaur, you might only be looking at a couple million dollars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21841" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T17:06:05.977" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36965" CreationDate="2015-07-23T17:11:59.623" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are three components to the price.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first component would be creating an artificial egg and implanting an embryo in it. This is the science fiction portion of the process. In the original book, a new material had been developed that could mimic bird eggshell. I'm going to ballpark that each egg needed as much as 2 pounds of that material (would depend on the species though). Let's guestimate this material to be expensive, it's machined or maybe uses deposition, and will require ultra-pure raw materials. We'll say $1500 per ounce, so up to $50,000 per egg. The egg will need to be filled with the substance referred to colloquially as &quot;egg white&quot; and &quot;yolk&quot;. These can be sourced from other, extant animals, but will undergo a biological cleansing process that removes foreign cells so there can be no rejection or chimera issues. This will require tens of pounds for the big ones. They do this now with some cartilage-like tissues for surgery, and the process can take days and cost upwards of $10,000 or even $20,000. Then, they'll source an embryo cell (ostrich, some bird probably), and do the cloning thing. That probably also costs quite a bit (thousands)... I know how they harvest these from mammals and livestock, but I'm unsure if they have to do it surgically to the bird before the egg is laid, or it they can do it after. All of this work is highly technical, and would require experts in their fields, so you can imagine they are paid well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second component would be incubating the egg, and raising the dinosaur to maturity. While there are no dinosaurs in the real world, there are large eggs that are artificially incubated, and large animals in zoos. We can assume that this portion of the cost is largely the same as it would be for keeping an elephant or giraffe. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.elephanthaven.com/en/elephant-haven/frequently-asked-questions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From this site&lt;/a&gt; they are claiming the average cost of an elephant, per year, is €100.000 a year. This can vary (and would be cheaper somewhat in a developing country), but this gives us a way to ballpark. Dinosaurs larger (and especially carnivorous) will cost even more to feed. It may cost more to safely contain them. I would double that number, at minimum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The third component is the technological infrastructure for such a zoo. He needs DNA sequencers and other similar laboratory equipment. It's state of the art. Put it down for $100 million, maybe more. However, for any single dinosaur, you can't put the entire $100m on it... this would be amortized out, over many hundreds of dinosaurs. So less than a million each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, for a typical dinosaur, I am guestimating that this costs $500,000 to hatch one, and another $250,000 to keep one for a year, plus as much another another $150,000 in amortizing the infrastructure (for the labs alone, not the theme park).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're somewhere between the high 6 figures and the low 7 figures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As time goes on, they'd get cheaper, primarily through perfecting technique and having fewer duds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T17:11:59.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19570" CreationDate="2015-07-23T17:45:39.390" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mark (Timothy Busfield), the skeptic of all skeptics, can see him the entire time, before he sees the ballplayers. Imo that's proof he's alive the entire time. Remember, he interviews people in Minnesota about Moonlight Graham. I think he embraces that he's near the end and willing to accept he may not return from Corn-Valhalla (Corn-vana?) living but I never had any assumption he was deceased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23271" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T17:45:39.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36904" CreationDate="2015-07-23T18:44:19.437" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an interview The director sites &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I thought I'd do the H. G. Wells story The Man Who Could Work Miracles, but it just changed out of all recognition from that.&quot; - Jones&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1858&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1858&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22990" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-23T19:41:57.810" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T19:41:57.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35284" CreationDate="2015-07-23T19:34:48.820" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, she was avoiding saying &quot;I don't know.&quot; In any case, I believe &lt;strong&gt;the moment serves as the first hint that Ava may not be just a straightforward, honest machine&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the movie, there are other instances where she refuses to answer a question directly. And ultimately we find out she was manipulating Caleb all along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T19:34:48.820" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14824" CreationDate="2015-07-23T21:30:49.260" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm inclined to say &lt;strong&gt;we just don't know and neither are we supposed to know&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the movie followed to a large degree the concept of a heist movie and explained many of the Four Horsemen's schemes and tricks as just that, it also ultimately lived from the fascination with magic and illusions and still left some things to just that in turn. There are many parts in the movie where we see amazing magic tricks performed without a clear idea how they're done and they're &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; explained to us, from Henley flying inside a huge soap bubble, to Dylan Rhodes disappearing from Thaddeus Bradley's prison cell behind his back. &lt;strong&gt;They're simply magic tricks.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While you could call those things just easy-out plot holes, a more optimistic viewpoint would see them as contributing to the  movie's inherent theme of celebrating the fascination of stage magic and the reliance on faith in contrast to just getting everything explained and thus spoiled. But whatever your approach is, the ultimate truth is that there are a million ways to contrive a way for Atlas or anyone else involved to get that card into Bradley's pocket. But it just &lt;strong&gt;wasn't explained in favour of showing a nice magic trick, which would be far less effective &lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt; its explanation was obvious&lt;/strong&gt; enough to give a clear answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I am aware that this might not hold as much of a classic answer, seeing that I just say, we don't know. But unfortunately that is the only answer that can be given here without delving into entirely ungrounded speculative fan-fiction, since the movie &lt;em&gt;intentionally&lt;/em&gt; eschewed an obvious answer as part of its staging.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T21:30:49.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34200" CreationDate="2015-07-23T22:28:48.833" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, the animals used in filming are trained professionals, but as we all know animals; like people can be wild and unpredictable, which is why they have personal trainers usually ones that work with the same animals going from set to set (They are not actors but animal trainers). NOTE it is required by law to have a representative of the American Humane Society on set at all times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now there are different ways to go about with animals on set. In some movies live animals are used for far shots or shots with out actors. Shots with actors are usually quick takes because of the lights and chaos on set (and there are very few in most cases). Take a look at the Hangover 1, the lion scene in the hotel was a real lion. Other shots can be done with CGI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Life of Pi is a good example of animals and CGI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now before computers film makers rely on the power of cinematography. the shot may have the actor to the right and the animal  a safe distance away but with a little camera trickery; on screen it looks like they are next to each other. other cases are the fact that they use real live animals and just took the risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TAKE A LOOK at the film ROAR 1981&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other cases they rely on animatronics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jaw, Jurassic park is a good examples of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hole idea is to come up with the most real life image you can on the budget you are given with the technology and knowledge you possess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Today CGI has become the best way to handle this because of safety issues and time restraints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22990" LastActivityDate="2015-07-23T22:28:48.833" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37026" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-24T07:12:21.000" Score="6" ViewCount="4307" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a movie that is set in some kind of war zone. I feel like some sort of sniper guy is hunting another one and they are both extremely professional. It's a weird kind of killing job or something. The hunted guy is helped by a woman and boy living in an apartment. The boy gets used for sending messages. The end is on an old stationary train or something similar and the hunted guy dies (maybe) and the killer finds out about the boy and tries to kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23281" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-24T21:02:13.127" LastActivityDate="2015-07-31T02:26:19.647" Title="Movie about two snipers hunting each other" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:53:30.870" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37026" CreationDate="2015-07-24T07:29:30.477" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;boy gets used for sending messages&lt;/em&gt; part suggests you're probably after &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_at_the_Gates&quot;&gt;Enemy at the Gates&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;Below a few plot fragments matching your description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 1942, Vasily Zaytsev (Jude Law), a shepherd from the Ural Mountains&#xA;  who is now a soldier in the Red Army, finds himself on the front lines&#xA;  of the Battle of Stalingrad. Forced into a suicidal charge against the&#xA;  invading Germans by barrier troops, he uses impressive marksmanship&#xA;  skills—taught to him by his grandfather from a young age—to save&#xA;  himself and commisar Danilov (Joseph Fiennes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vasily is transferred to the sniper division, and he and Danilov&#xA;  become friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With the Soviet snipers taking an increasing toll on the German&#xA;  forces, German Major Erwin König (Ed Harris) is deployed to Stalingrad&#xA;  to take out Vasily and thus crush Soviet morale. A renowned marksman&#xA;  and head of the German Army sniper school at Zossen, he lures Vasily&#xA;  into a trap and takes out two of his fellow snipers, but Vasily&#xA;  manages to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sasha, a young Soviet boy, volunteers to act as a double agent by&#xA;  passing König false information about Vasily's whereabouts, thus&#xA;  giving Vasily a chance to ambush the Major.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T07:29:30.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29961" CreationDate="2015-07-24T08:53:47.013" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of obvious signs that david is actually an android/robot of some sort:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He doesn't need much sleep.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alcohol and drugs seem to have no effect on him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was able to consume that 'very spicy' drink at the bar scene without even flinching.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He got perfect aim! He needs only 1 or 2 shots to take out mercs in full body armor.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;During the sex scene, the girl can't get him hard at first. Then he jumps on her and suddenly he's hard as if he just turned on 'pleasure bot mode'.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He does the 'terminator thumb up' when he supposedly dies at the end (perhaps a homage to T:2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He survives severe injuries at the end.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His name is 'David'. (Used in a few other prominent AI movies.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So maybe he's an android/robot version of one of Calebs friends (both experimented on) and his promise to david still lingers somewhere in his head between all the 'conditioning' done to his brain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23282" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-24T11:52:14.647" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T11:52:14.647" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37004" CreationDate="2015-07-24T08:59:46.540" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Cuban &quot;entertainer&quot; known as &quot;Superman&quot; was a real individual who appeared in various night clubs and casinos from the late 40s until Castro came to power. Superman, for lack of a better euphemism, was a &quot;live sex performer.&quot; He was an incredibly well endowed man, incredibly. Superman was included in that scene in &quot;Godfather II&quot; to show how hedonistic Havana was before Castro came to power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read more about Superman of Cuba in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forbes.com/2006/08/16/james-brady-on-media-cx_jb_0817fidel.html&quot;&gt;this 2006 Forbes article&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22748" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-24T13:31:07.237" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T13:31:07.237" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35551" CreationDate="2015-07-24T15:21:43.277" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoids&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Zoids&lt;/a&gt; include &lt;a href=&quot;http://zoids.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Zoids&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2 elephants and a mammoth&lt;/a&gt;, all sentient robotic vehicles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are four anime series and at least &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoSbFbcShIM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;one unofficial and recent movie&lt;/a&gt;, which isn't mentioned in the Wiki.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The big elephant, Elephander, is from 2000 so can't be it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/anbk4.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/anbk4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Elephander&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zoids.wikia.com/wiki/Mammoth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mammoth&lt;/a&gt; is part of the 1983 line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U4eCV.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U4eCV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Mammoth&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9166" LastEditorUserId="9166" LastEditDate="2015-07-24T15:27:51.723" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T15:27:51.723" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30686" CreationDate="2015-07-24T15:34:19.820" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;I'll cue you&quot; comment aimed at Fletcher during the final performance signifies that Andrew has become, and surpassed the challenges set forth by Fletcher; Andrew quite literally takes over Fletcher's direction of the band through his playing and their response.  He is essentially becoming a (the?) new bandleader, creative in his own right, similarly to his idol Buddy Rich.  Further, you can get a feel that he is leading (or, would lead in the future) in a totally different manner than Fletcher – Fletcher through fear and tension, and Andrew through excitement of skill &amp;amp; technique (surpassing the dictatorial model of Fletcher).  The latter model, like Fletcher’s method, would likely condone a spirit of competitiveness and resulting success for the ensemble, however, via achievement of goals (and/or reaching new heights and/or inter-musicianship challenges base on ability) rather than fear of negative repercussions – though which is faster and/or more successful in the end is debatable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@ the original question, Andrew’s place for personal relationships – previously removed during his decent under Fletcher’s thumb – now shows improvement through both his contacting Nicole and through his acceptance of his father’s consolation after Fletcher’s final attack (the first, unknown tune). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I liken the film to a chess or boxing match, each of the two –tagonists taking steps/blows to win the overlying ‘game.’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23287" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T15:34:19.820" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-23T06:03:07.600" Score="6" ViewCount="5632" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Steel Mountain&lt;/em&gt; data storage facility in the series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4158110/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mr. Robot&lt;/a&gt; is described as being an old mine. We see it has roads and enormous galleries in &quot;L2&quot; which doesn't have radio reception. So as of this latest episode, I'm sure that's what was meant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So&lt;/em&gt; how was blowing up a gas plant &quot;next door&quot; (the original plan described) going to hurt it at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23301" OwnerDisplayName="JDługosz" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-24T16:55:25.807" LastActivityDate="2018-04-15T02:52:36.170" Title="If &quot;Steel Mountain&quot; in Mr. Robot is underground, how does that offer the implied vulnerability?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mr-robot|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37039" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37040" CreationDate="2015-07-24T17:02:52.157" Score="3" ViewCount="470" Body="&lt;p&gt;What ever happened to History of the World Pt. 2, from Mel Brooks? Pt. 1 was really funny and at the end of the movie there is a trailer for the second part, but from all of my research, I cannot seem to find out what happened. Part 1 came out in the 80's, so I feel like part 2 should have come out by now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23288" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-24T17:06:52.683" LastActivityDate="2023-07-24T19:10:52.327" Title="History of the World Pt. 2" Tags="|history-of-the-world-1|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37039" CreationDate="2015-07-24T17:08:03.027" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's a joke.&lt;/strong&gt; There were no plans for a sequel. This is explained &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World,_Part_I#Previews_of_coming_attractions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Despite the preview, no sequel has been released, and the “Part I” of the film’s title is merely a historical joke (&lt;em&gt;The History of the World&lt;/em&gt; was a book about the ancient history of Greece and Rome, written by Sir Walter Raleigh while prisoner in the Tower of London; he had only managed to complete the first volume before being beheaded).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T17:08:03.027" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37042" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37045" CreationDate="2015-07-24T17:55:36.117" Score="5" ViewCount="1292" Body="&lt;p&gt;So in the Star Wars universe, Jango Fett is killed. Because he is the source of the genetic material for the clones, they would need to find a new source. However, after the clones kill off the Jedi and the Empire rises to power, there seems to be no lack of Stormtroopers, whom I am assuming are just mainly ex-Clone troopers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because all of the Stormtroopers are humanoid, the empire could not just be using any alien species they find. Are they using cloning still? Or are they just recruiting? And if they are cloning, whose genetic material are they using?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23288" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T23:15:32.780" Title="Where do Stormtroopers come from?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37043" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-24T18:01:09.070" Score="1" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thunderbirds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; 11th episode of season 1, &lt;em&gt;Sun Probe&lt;/em&gt;, the ship fails to fire its boosters because of &quot;radiation&quot; but somehow Thunderbird was able to fire them remotely...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How, if the solarnoughts on the ship itself couldn't fire the boosters themselves, could they be fired by remote control?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="32199" LastEditDate="2017-03-12T10:38:49.530" LastActivityDate="2017-03-12T10:38:49.530" Title="How did a signal turn the ship around?" Tags="|plot-explanation|thunderbirds|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37042" CreationDate="2015-07-24T19:19:40.213" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Stormtrooper&quot;&gt;Says Wookiepedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stormtroopers were the elite soldiers of the Galactic Empire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By the end of the Clone Wars in 19 BBY, the Galactic Republic was reorganized into the first Galactic Empire. As a result, the Grand Army was reformed into the Stormtrooper Corps and the clones were renamed &quot;stormtroopers.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, the stormtrooper ranks would cease to be dominated by Fett's progeny after the Battle of Kamino in 12 BBY.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By the time the Galactic Civil War began in earnest, Jango Fett's clones were heavily supplanted by clones based on a variety of templates around 9 BBY, followed shortly after by enlisted Humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T19:19:40.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26820" CreationDate="2015-07-24T21:14:03.397" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a horror movie, but there's certainly a precedent in Luis Buñuel's &lt;strong&gt;&quot;An andalusian Dog&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Un chien andalou&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;1929&lt;/strong&gt;). One of the surrealist film's space-time jokes (tricks? traits?) is that the characters continuosly go in and out of the same room, often getting to or coming from different places through the same door. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/2qLjvYHqEg4?start=663&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one scene (at 11:03 in the video), the girl runs from the protagonist and leaves the room through one door, only to enter the same room through the other door. There she finds her pursuer (or his look-alike antagonist) cross-dressed inside a bed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on (at 15:33 in the video), this same man kills his antagonist (or himself) in this same room and the dead man ends his fall in an entirely different place in the woods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally (at 18:27 in the video), after going out and coming back again, the girl meets the killer in the same room and goes away from him through the same door, but this time she opens it up to find herself at the beach, happily ending there with the dead man (or his antagonist).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess this space-time games begin with one of Kuleshov's edition experiments, where he joins a couple in entirely different cities for a hug or kiss (I have only read about this, I think one of them is in Paris and the other is in Berlin, but, through cuts, they seem to be looking at each other and run to each other's arms. At least that's what I remember David Bordwell describes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22679" LastEditorUserId="22679" LastEditDate="2015-07-24T21:28:09.087" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T21:28:09.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32322" CreationDate="2015-07-24T22:14:50.133" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know the answer, I'm from Algeria, Jijel, we have the same traditions of turcs. When you want to marry a girl, you go to her house to her father and you demand her hand, she makes a coffee for you and your family. If there's no sugar in the coffee, they don't want you to marry her, but if the coffee was good, it means they accepted. :p&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in the movie, she puts much sugar to tell him that she wants him to stay. It means she doesn't refuse him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23300" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-24T22:18:08.030" LastActivityDate="2015-07-24T22:18:08.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12052" CreationDate="2015-07-25T06:14:58.813" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being the Master of Coin, Littlefinger knew the financial position of the kingdom. He knew that without the money of the Lannisters it would be difficult to run the kingdom. Had he assisted Ned Stark in stopping Joffrey from becoming king, he would have made himself an enemy of the Lannisters (apparently stronger than the Starks both militarily and financially). So that's the main reason which, coupled with other personal reasons, made him betray Ned Stark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23309" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2017-04-18T00:21:48.483" LastActivityDate="2017-04-18T00:21:48.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37055" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37131" CreationDate="2015-07-25T08:59:07.630" Score="35" ViewCount="12579" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a canonical explanation for how Ant-Man's weight works when he shrinks down that's consistent with the various events depicted in the film?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the explanation given in the film is roughly &quot;the suit compresses the space in-between atoms, so your size decreases, your density increases, and your total mass stays the same&quot;, however it seems to be portrayed in contradictory ways.  For instance:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He can float in water, and even be sent shooting through the air by a relatively gentle flow of water filling a bathtub.  This wouldn't happen if he retained his original mass, as he'd essentially be the densest thing on the planet and should sink like a stone even in a vat of molten lead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Upon landing after being ejected from the bathtub, the ceramic tile underneath him shatters.  That takes a significant amount of force, and similar effects are used at other points in the movie where he falls onto (or straight through) various things.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He's able to get sucked into a vacuum-cleaner.  One that didn't even appear to be a high-end, extra powerful vacuum-cleaner, let alone one capable of sucking up a 200 pound piece of dust.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He can run along the barrel of a gun as someone shoots it, apparently without causing them to drop the weapon or even have trouble continuing to aim it.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does a more consistent explanation exist in other media, that would fit with the above examples?  Or is this simply a case of the power being made to do whatever happened to be most convenient at the time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22926" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T08:16:29.883" LastActivityDate="2020-10-27T09:44:07.783" Title="Ant-Man, shrinking, and weight" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|ant-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37057" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-25T12:02:11.520" Score="12" ViewCount="8236" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do toys in Toy Story absolutely want to avoid interacting with humans? Why not interacting with them like they interact with the dog for example?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23315" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-25T12:33:54.420" LastActivityDate="2021-05-12T14:00:00.487" Title="Why do toys in Toy Story absolutely want to avoid interacting with humans?" Tags="|toy-story|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9593" CreationDate="2015-07-25T12:57:40.047" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The red flag in Les Miserable is a virtual character in the production with its own story arc. It is foreshadowed in small ways as a table cloth and a cloth in a cart, a smaller flag and then a giant triumphal flag rallying the protesters, and finally as tragic reminder draped near the body on the barricade. The flag grows in size scene by scene to represent the growth of the movement and is there at the end to acknowledge the death of the protesters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23317" LastActivityDate="2015-07-25T12:57:40.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27364" CreationDate="2015-07-25T14:07:21.397" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Best answer I've seen is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/board/nest/246130795?d=246130795#246130795&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;: It reframes the movie as a conspiracy by the Brands (and a few others like Mann) that is unwittingly foiled by Cooper.  Brand has already developed his anti-gravity theory and equipped the shuttles with anti-gravity drives by the time Cooper leaves on the mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When they take off from Earth, they use a big rocket to reach orbit. &#xA;  Miller's planet has 1.1 times Earth's gravity, and they don't need any&#xA;  rockets at all, the shuttle is taking off on its own. The same happens&#xA;  on Mann's planet twice.  That's only possible if they already have the&#xA;  anti-gravity drives installed and working. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Plan A was never an alternative, probably because if humans didn't&#xA;  have food on Earth they wouldn't have any in space either. And on top&#xA;  of that, all crops were infected on Earth with the Blight, so Brand&#xA;  wanted a fresh start. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20456" LastActivityDate="2015-07-25T14:07:21.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32786" CreationDate="2015-07-25T16:54:07.613" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are right in your assumption that it was caused by the gravitational anomalies in his house. More precisely, it was the very slight gravitational time dilation caused by the anomalies. This &lt;strong&gt;interfered with the tractors' GPS&lt;/strong&gt;, since the working of the GPS relies on the satellites accurately accommodating for their time dilation with respect to the time on earth's surface, such that minimal deviations from that time dilation can confuse the system and result in errors. This is mentioned to some degree by Cooper after fixing the tractors when he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had to reset every compass clock and GPS to offset for the anomaly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it was the GPS that was somehow wrong, even if Cooper didn't know the exact cause yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This explanation is also supported by Kip Thorne, the astrophysicist who co-produced and advised the movie from its earliest conception onward, in his book &lt;em&gt;The Science of Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, where he writes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[The GPS] would fail if the signal transmission times were the true time measured on the satellite. Time at 20,000-kilometer height flows more rapidly than on Earth by forty microseconds each day, and the satellites must correct for this. They measure time with their clocks, then slow that time down to the rate of time flow on Earth before transmitting it to our phones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The GPS system that Cooper has adapted to control harvesting machines, as they roam through the fields, has also gone haywire, and a bunch of harvesters have converged on his farmhouse. He attributes this to gravitational anomalies that screwed up the gravity corrections that any GPS system relies on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in this way this incident directly ties into and foreshadows not only to the prominence of gravity in the film's story, but &lt;strong&gt;its effect on the passage of time&lt;/strong&gt; specifically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-03-18T15:42:10.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36345" CreationDate="2015-07-25T18:42:29.947" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're not wrong about the absurdity of this plot, but I'll try my best to make sense of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tim created Iris.&lt;/strong&gt; He claims it's a spyware he downloaded from a hacker site to spy on his girlfriend; whether he's lying or not, he obviously tinkered with it. In essence, it's a groundbreaking AI software that learns through electrical impulses. Tim (who studied computer science, physics and medicine) and Dr. Carlo want to utilize it to control spinal implants and cure the handicapped, but Tim also put Iris on Anna's phone as a Siri-like* app to mess with her for dumping him in high school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So being a new and sophisticated piece of AI software &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; explain some of the things Iris does, though not all. It kills 2 people with exploding smartphones, for one, which doesn't make much sense. Sadly, the only explanation for Iris's more improbable powers that's implied in the film is  &lt;em&gt;supernatural&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;Iris is possessed with the ghost of Tim's late girlfriend Liesbeth&lt;/strong&gt;. This is why it keeps playing creepy messages from her throughout the film (including her last, new message before killing Tim).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*[&lt;em&gt;Hopefully not stating the obvious here, but the Iris software in the film is a parody of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Siri&lt;/a&gt;, which is Iris spelled backwards.&lt;/em&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-07-25T18:42:29.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35189" CreationDate="2015-07-25T19:09:38.103" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, there were (more or less successful) attempts made at filming those books. Due to their &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Investigators#Germany&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;large popularity in Germany&lt;/a&gt; there were &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Investigators#The_movies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;two recent film adaptations&lt;/a&gt; made as German/Austrian/international productions, adapting two of the original novels (according to Wikipedia with varying degrees of faithfulness to the book stories, though):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0476603/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Three Investigators and the Secret of Skeleton Island&lt;/em&gt; (2007)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1156519/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Three Investigators and the Secret of Terror Castle&lt;/em&gt; (2009)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_drei_%3F%3F%3F#Verfilmungen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;German Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; the production studio that bought the film rights (&lt;em&gt;Studio Hamburg&lt;/em&gt;) planned to initiate a broad merchandising campaign, including the above and more theatrical movies and a planned TV-show. But after what seemed to be internal personell struggles in the studio, it said that this plan had been put on the test bench again, which put the planned third part in the movie series (supposedly adapting &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_the_Silver_Spider&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Mystery of The Silver Spider&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) in limbo, albeit assurances by the studio that the film is in production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't say much about the actual filming rights situation and about any other international or English-language adaptations that might be planned or have been done. At least Wikipedia doesn't say much more on the matter. The above linked German Wikipedia article does say that &lt;em&gt;Studio Hamburg&lt;/em&gt; bought the filming rights, but I don't know if that excludes anyone else from adapting the series and how such matters are handled on an international scale, especially since the situation with the books is unusual in the first place, seeing that after the cancelation of the original American book series German authors kept on publishing new stories due to the series' large popularity there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-07-25T19:09:38.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36813" CreationDate="2015-07-25T22:53:59.843" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;EVC's answer covers most of it, but there are a few other in-universe points that I think are worth adding, and I kept going over the comment character limit.  Spoilers follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we know the ending is intentionally vague, we have a few other things to consider:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Follower is not completely stupid&lt;/strong&gt;.  It will pick up rocks to smash windows and create entrances, and throw things rather than walk into an obvious trap.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Follower can be hurt&lt;/strong&gt;.  We don't know to what &lt;em&gt;extent&lt;/em&gt; it can be harmed, but it opted to throw appliances at Jay rather than just hop in the pool to get her.  It also hits Paul in retaliation for getting smacked with a chair, even though he wasn't its target, and it later holds its hand up in the way of the gun when he's trying to shoot it at the pool.  On top of all that, we see that it gets knocked down by glancing shots to the head and needs a moment to heal/recover.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Follower can create &quot;props&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.  At one point, it manifests as a urinating woman, and leaves urine on Jay's kitchen floor.  If we combine this information with points 1 and 2, then the blood at the end might be something it's intentionally creating as camouflage, like a squid squirting ink.  It may need to &quot;play possum&quot; until it can recover.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paul isn't just taking the curse at the end&lt;/strong&gt;.  In the final shot, we see Jay and Paul holding hands as they walk down the street, implying that they're in an actual relationship.  Jay didn't sleep with him to pass on the curse, she slept with him because she thought the curse was finally broken.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It might still follow&lt;/strong&gt;.  In the final shot, we see someone walking towards Jay and Paul in the background.  The person is in ordinary street clothes, and there have been enough &quot;false alarms&quot; throughout the film to give the viewer a sense of uncertainty about this final shot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Follower isn't a ghost&lt;/strong&gt;.  I only mention this because the original question says &quot;It is naive to think you could kill something that is already dead&quot;.  We don't know what the Follower is, but we have no reason to believe that it's a ghost or any other undead entity, based on anything in the film.  It could just as easily be a demon or a curse.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16207" LastEditorUserId="16207" LastEditDate="2015-08-05T07:20:46.447" LastActivityDate="2015-08-05T07:20:46.447" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2804" CreationDate="2015-07-25T23:08:21.343" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually my dad once explained that animals might live longer and travel further on land leaving the virus on everything. So actually &quot;freeing the animals&quot; could have been incremental in almost &quot;wiping out mankind&quot; when we had 6.5 billion people and 5 or 6 billion die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23332" LastActivityDate="2015-07-25T23:08:21.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37090" CreationDate="2015-07-26T00:31:40.667" Score="15" ViewCount="13727" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm one of those people who has a &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; box set they've not yet got around to watching... although I intend to soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somehow, I've managed to avoid all &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; spoilers beyond &amp;quot;the main guy is diagnosed with cancer&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;it involves crystal meth&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;it &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt; an incredibly dark origin story for the dad from &lt;em&gt;Malcolm in the Middle&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; (so &lt;strong&gt;no spoilers in comments or answers please&lt;/strong&gt;, thanks! Posting using a dummy account so no pre-moderation spoilers appear in my notifications...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Should I avoid watching &lt;em&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/em&gt; until I've watched all of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;? Or avoid specific episodes, or avoid certain episodes until seeing certain &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; episodes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know they take place in the same world and share characters and locations, I &lt;em&gt;believe&lt;/em&gt; the plots are largely unrelated, but I don't know if there are any &lt;em&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/em&gt; scenes that reference, mention or give away key &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; plot twists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23335" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2022-09-14T02:31:45.993" LastActivityDate="2022-09-14T19:29:32.573" Title="Does Better Call Saul contain Breaking Bad spoilers?" Tags="|breaking-bad|better-call-saul|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="37079" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37194" CreationDate="2015-07-26T02:17:01.357" Score="9" ViewCount="14365" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pixels&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Josh Gad's character battles several chibi-style ninjas that are assaulting a school bus.  I do not recognize what video game these ninjas are from.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ONGqk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ONGqk.png&quot; alt=&quot;screencap of a ninja from the trailer&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What game are they from, or are they from a fictional game like the &quot;Lady Lisa&quot; character, or were they sourced from 1980's pop culture, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/37147/why-was-a-smurf-at-the-final-battle-if-no-smurf-arcade-game-exists&quot;&gt;like the Smurf must have been&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2016-04-16T21:52:24.193" Title="What video game are the ninjas from?" Tags="|reference|pixels|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37079" CreationDate="2015-07-26T09:16:59.583" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no idea why a 2003 game is in there (they're all supposed to be from the 80s?), but this looks &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Ninja&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I-Ninja&lt;/a&gt;. Here's a still from the film and some I-Ninja pics for comparison. Note in particular the eyebrows and the eye-hole pattern. If this is supposed to be a new character, it's at the very least &lt;em&gt;heavily&lt;/em&gt; influenced by this one...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ONGqk.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ONGqk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t15Hr.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t15Hr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/baMFJ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/baMFJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[OK, maybe it's not an exact replica (they removed the headband and added sleeves), but the design is too similar for this to be a coincidence. Either they purchased the rights, ripped I-Ninja off or I-Ninja ripped off some old, hitherto unknown source that Pixels used.]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-07-26T11:59:30.613" LastActivityDate="2015-07-26T11:59:30.613" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37076" CreationDate="2015-07-26T10:54:53.943" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;[Since you asked for no spoilers, I'll try to avoid specifics as much as possible.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've watched season 1. So far, &lt;strong&gt;there aren't any significant Breaking Bad spoilers&lt;/strong&gt;. Better Call Saul is a prequel, so it's really the other way around: Breaking Bad contains BCS spoilers, so to speak. Mostly, BCS might contain &lt;em&gt;foreshadowing&lt;/em&gt; that demonstrates how certain characters got to be what they are on BB, but I didn't see anything major that might spoil the fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BCS revolves around Saul Goodman who was a minor (though somewhat important) BB character and precedes the events of BB by a few years. A couple of characters from BB appear, but mostly, BCS contains all new characters. Its main focus (so far) is &lt;em&gt;law&lt;/em&gt; and legal ethics, as opposed to BB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only exception I can think of is the very first scene of BCS which takes place &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; Breaking Bad and shows a certain character that survived that show and what has become of it. I don't know your spoiler threshold, but personally, &lt;em&gt;I don't think this character's fate is a major Breaking Bad spoiler&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[That said, I doubt this would be the last flash-forward we see on BCS. Though the first BCS season contained little to none, &lt;em&gt;BB spoilers might be unavoidable in future BCS seasons.&lt;/em&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-07-26T10:54:53.943" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37092" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37121" CreationDate="2015-07-26T12:39:19.427" Score="11" ViewCount="36368" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2631186/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Baahubali: The Beginning (2015)&lt;/a&gt;, why did Kattappa kill Baahubali? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw the movie 2 times, but I'm still confused. Is there any indication in the film why Kattappa did this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23345" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-05-19T13:50:57.400" LastActivityDate="2017-05-19T13:51:43.473" Title="Why did Kattappa kill Baahubali?" Tags="|plot-explanation|baahubali-the-beginning|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37092" CreationDate="2015-07-26T16:28:04.650" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;strong&gt;Bahubali: The Beginning&lt;/strong&gt; is the first movie of the series of three movies that has been planned to be released in 2015, 2016 and 2017. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we could say that why Kattappa killed Bahubali is still a mystery which might be revealed in the coming two installments in the series, which is called &quot;Bahubali: Conclusion&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watching the first movie doesn't give any clue on why he did that, the first movie is the starting and there were no clues in what fight did Kattappa killed Bahubali after the war in the end. In the end Bahubali is shown to become the next king, but what happened between it and the fight in which he was killed was not shown, so it's impossible to tell. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just wait for the next movie for the conclusion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15590" LastActivityDate="2015-07-26T16:28:04.650" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37092" CreationDate="2015-07-26T18:54:08.793" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Amarendra Bahubali and Bhalladeva both fall in love with same girl; Devsena. But Devsena chooses Amarendra Bahubali as she falls for his kind nature; loosing both the kingdom and girl made Bhalladeva frustated and hence, &quot;Bhalladeva&quot; with the support of his father, plots conspiracy against Amarendra Bahubali, and manages to convince the queen Sivagami and she orders Kattappa to kill &quot;Amarendra Bahubali&quot;. Even though Kattappa likes him, he has to follow his queen's order, and so, he kills Amarendra Bahubali. He regrets this all his life and waiting for a chance to correct his mistake. &#xA;2. After queen orders Kattappa to kill &quot;Amarendra Bahubali&quot;, she realises the true intention of Bhalladeva; only to be late enough that &quot;Amarendra Bahubali&quot; is killed and Bhalladeva trying to overtake the throne and kill the child too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23356" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-05-19T13:51:43.473" LastActivityDate="2017-05-19T13:51:43.473" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37103" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9361" CreationDate="2015-07-26T18:56:26.443" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The way I interpret it is that he killed his girlfriend. The name of the song kinda made me think that. A &lt;strong&gt;Snuff film&lt;/strong&gt; is when someone records a real murder and makes it into a movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the parts when he is dressed as a women is right after he did it and he's leaving dressed as her, that's when he is in the apartment. The rest of the time you see him in the apartment they are flashbacks, he's remembering things that happened there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23357" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-07-27T07:40:51.713" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T07:40:51.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37076" CreationDate="2015-07-26T18:59:12.890" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Better Call Saul, we get a chance to watch how Tuco started his career. His intro in Breaking Bad is simply a drug lord who has lot of connections. But we never knew about how he started his drug distribution empire. And for those who watched Breaking Bad, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; we know Tuco will die and who isn't glad enough to see him back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But speaking about spoiling, actually for those who have watched Breaking, it's Breaking Bad that spoils Better Call Saul. I don't mean Better Call Saul is bad for those who watched Breaking Bad but actually it is more interesting if you haven't watched Breaking Bad. If you watch Better Call Saul and then watch Breaking Bad, then definitely Breaking Bad will be breaking new grounds. The reason why I say this is because some characters we see in Better Call Saul will then be seen again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; We know Tuco will be dead and how he dies in Breaking Bad. For those who didn't watch Breaking Bad they are lucky to see how the character develops into a powerful one (Tuco). The same goes for Mike Ehrmantraut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in Better Call Saul they would see those powerful characters develop and they won't be seeing them for like one or two seasons in Breaking Bad. But when they see them back in Breaking Bad as an even powerful role, now that is excitingly awesome. You never know what is going to happen next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They kept us on the nerve with Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. Now for persons who watch Better Call Saul and then watch Breaking Bad -- that's where you get the advantage. You never know what is going to happen to all those characters. It actually improves the plot for the viewer. So for those who didn't watch Breaking Bad, now I feel jealous of you guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that doesn't mean those who did not watch Breaking Bad are lucky, they do miss a lot of exciting scenes in Better call Saul. The reason is:&#xA;We know who Gus Fring is but got no idea why Gus Fring lives such a normal life though he has a lot of money. Why doesn't he have a family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Maybe because his friend was shot dead right in front of him by Don Eladio but but even after becoming so rich and having such high security why doesn't he have a family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is an ocean of thriller that can be created by Gus's past life history and only those who watched Breaking Bad will be excited to see this because how on earth will they know who Gus Fring is when they start to watch Better Call Saul first. How Saul had come in contact with Gus and Ed. Again a huge opportunity to make it more interesting for those who watched Breaking Bad. We never knew how Mike met Gus (though we now know how Saul met Mike).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And who wouldn't want to see Walter White and Jesse Pinkman doing a guest role in Better Call Saul. Though there is no conformation of them doing a guest role but just imagine a moment where suddenly Walter White appears in a supermarket and passes by Saul but they both won't notice. The new watchers won't understand this but watching Walter White just for a moment in Better Call Saul can shoot up the TRP rating for Better Call Saul to record heights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So speaking, the creators have made it in such a way that if you watch Breaking Bad you miss something in Better Call Saul and if you haven't watched Breaking Bad then again you miss something in Better Call Saul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23357" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-26T19:27:55.330" LastActivityDate="2015-07-26T19:27:55.330" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13900" CreationDate="2015-07-26T20:58:30.930" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is hard to say, but if you have a look at S19E04 of Top Gear, you'll see Bruce Willis testing the horn. And in the background you see something that looks like the set of Die Hard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23361" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-27T01:28:40.223" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T01:28:40.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37107" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37122" CreationDate="2015-07-26T21:28:20.580" Score="3" ViewCount="4552" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the reason for O'Brien to leave the series &lt;em&gt;Downton Abbey&lt;/em&gt; with no explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23258" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-26T21:36:28.770" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T06:33:58.440" Title="Why did O'Brien leave Downton Abbey?" Tags="|downton-abbey|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37112" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37113" CreationDate="2015-07-26T23:51:27.713" Score="10" ViewCount="12527" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe there is an explanation in the books but in the movies it is bit unclear to me. I remember many people telling Harry Potter that he has got Lily's eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was there so much emphasis on that part? Kids do have features from their parents. Maybe his nose is like is dad's. But many people who met him for the first time would say, &quot;you have Lily's eyes&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does it matter so much to everyone? In &lt;em&gt;The Deathly Hallows Part 2&lt;/em&gt;, dying Snape tells Harry that he has got Lily's eyes. Those were his last words. I can understand that maybe he was trying to tell Harry how much he loved her or something but what about other people telling him the same thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21342" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-07-27T00:48:53.057" LastActivityDate="2019-08-19T06:24:59.053" Title="Why did everyone keep saying to Harry that his eyes are like Lily's?" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37112" CreationDate="2015-07-27T00:42:49.190" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;When people say you take after a parent, they might mean it in looks as well as character. When they say you have their eyes, though, it might suggest something more. The eyes are the only organ directly connected to the brain and are said to be the window to the soul; they convey many emotions and thus could imply a person's &lt;em&gt;deeper nature&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James Potter was a pure-blood, a Quiddich star and a reckless and sometimes arrogant student. Lily Evans, however, was a muggle-born, kind and a very good student according to Horace Slughorn. So when people keep saying Harry looks like his father but has his mother's eyes, I think they mean Harry's general behavior and his deeper nature. To the outside observer, Harry is a Quiddich star and an OK student who's sometimes prone to recklessness and anger. But deep inside, Harry is also humble, resourceful and good-hearted, like his mother was as a student.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;em&gt;The Deathly Hallows&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“—mediocre, arrogant as his father, a determined rule-breaker, delighted to find himself famous, attention-seeking and impertinent—”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“You see what you expect to see, Severus,” said Dumbledore, without raising his eyes from a copy of &lt;em&gt;Transfiguration Today&lt;/em&gt;. “Other teachers report that the boy is modest, likeable, and reasonably talented. Personally, I find him an engaging child.” [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“He is his father over again—”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“In looks, perhaps, but his deepest nature is much more like his mother’s.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this might be the key to understanding his relationship with Snape, and Snape's loyalty which is eventually one of the more important elements of the series. Snape mostly despises Harry who looks so much like his father, the man who bullied Snape and then snatched the woman he loved from him. But Snape agrees to keep Harry alive no matter what because Harry is the last bit he has left of Lily. His eyes also remind Snape, a former Death Eater, that his greatest love was a human ‘mudblood’. This is why he wants Harry to look at him before he dies, to remind him of the soul he did it all for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-10-31T06:47:22.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37114" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-07-27T03:45:23.503" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is the first of two cinematic parts. The film was simultaneously made in Telugu and Tamil and dubbed into Hindi, Malayalam and French languages. It is the most expensive production in the history of Indian cinema to date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baahubali:_The_Beginning&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2631186/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-27T11:41:45.257" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T11:41:45.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37115" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-07-27T03:45:23.503" Score="0" Body="Baahubali: The Beginning, also presented as Bāhubali: The Beginning  is a 2015 Indian bilingual epic historical fiction film directed by S. S. Rajamouli and produced by Shobu Yarlagadda and Prasad Devineni." OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-08-12T10:57:57.263" LastActivityDate="2015-08-12T10:57:57.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37116" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-27T03:57:54.917" Score="1" ViewCount="130" Body="&lt;p&gt;In movie Namaste London, after meeting Bobby Bedi, Jasmeet says to her friend that she doesn't want to marry an Indian groom as she is British as she has born in London.&#xA;However, when she visits India with her family, there's an old lady called Bebe (common word for grandmother) by everyone that  Manmohan left India, when Jasmeet was too young babe. She says something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Itni si thi&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namastey_London&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt; also states the same in the synopsis that Jasmeet was born after moving to London.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why does no one correct Bebe, that she never visited India before, as everyone is there like Jasmeet's father Manmohan Malhotra, his wife and other people from BeBe's family?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-27T11:13:41.517" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T11:13:41.517" Title="Where is Jasmeet born, in London or India?" Tags="|plot-explanation|namastey-london|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37118" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37125" CreationDate="2015-07-27T05:11:06.847" Score="1" ViewCount="437" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Anjaana Anjaani&lt;/em&gt; there is a scene in a bar where Akash and Kiara are fooling around and start playing some kind of game where Kiara is trying to help Akash learn how to woo girls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is the following dialoge, where they call each other by the names Gopal and Radha.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've got news.. the enemy has advanced. Their men are moving forward. They've captured most of our men. We don't have much time But what will happen if they find you, Gopal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's nothing I can do. Radha, I will have to stay back. For my people. Till the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You will have to leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about us? All those dreams, those promises?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tell me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have just this night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am starting to get to know you a little too well....and I am not liking it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is this a reference to the movie &lt;em&gt;Sangam&lt;/em&gt; where the lead characters have the same names Radha and Gopal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to know if the directors or producers used these names Gopal and Radha because they're from &lt;em&gt;Sangam&lt;/em&gt; or is it just random?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: Akash is played by Ranbir Kapoor who is the grandson of Rajkapoor who directed the movie &lt;em&gt;Sangam&lt;/em&gt; and also acted in the same movie, however not as Gopal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T11:30:51.170" Title="Are these dialogues in `Anjaana Anjaani` are tribute to `Sangam`" Tags="|reference|anjaana-anjaani|sangam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37092" CreationDate="2015-07-27T05:34:23.153" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few dialogues in the film, which could give an answer to this question. So lets just rewind to some scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The first scene: Where Sivagami takes the child and falls into the river. She says,&quot;for the sins i have done,let my death be the punishment ... Let this Child live, Mahendra Bahubali should live&quot;...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This implies that she has done a sin, which could be the death of Amarendra Bahubali.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Scene in which Bhallaala Deva talks with Devasena. He says, &quot;We both are waiting for Bahubali to return, so that you can see him for one last time, and I can kill him once again with my hands&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This implies that, Bhallaala Deva himself killed Bahubali. (He is a warrior. He need not take credits for the killing, if Kattappa was the one who killed Bahubali after all). So, this could mean that Kattappa just lied and it was Bhallaala Deva who killed Bahubali.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why should Kattappa lie?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe because Sivagami Asked him to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We see Bahubali being killed from behind, by Kattappa. Kattappa is a Warlord. He is brave. Why would he kill someone from behind? Maybe he mistook him for someone else? Maybe?!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23369" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-03-30T11:17:15.357" LastActivityDate="2017-03-30T11:17:15.357" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37107" CreationDate="2015-07-27T06:33:58.440" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was explained in the show. She decided to become lady's maid of &lt;a href=&quot;http://downtonabbey.wikia.com/wiki/Susan_MacClare&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Susan MacClare&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://downtonabbey.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_4.0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;first episode of the fourth season&lt;/a&gt; (I don't remember if it was shown or only mentioned).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://downtonabbey.wikia.com/wiki/Sarah_O%27Brien&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;her page&lt;/a&gt; on Downton Abbey Wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In February 1922, she sneaked away in the night to travel to India to&#xA;  be a lady's maid to Susan MacClare, Marchioness of Flintshire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later we find out that she made a career in India:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to Mrs Hughes, by 1924, Miss O'Brien had been employed by&#xA;  the new Governor's wife in India.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T06:33:58.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37123" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37146" CreationDate="2015-07-27T09:04:42.340" Score="11" ViewCount="9445" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been to the IMAX theater at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tech_Museum_of_Innovation#Hackworth_IMAX_Dome_Theater&quot;&gt;Tech Museum&lt;/a&gt; in San Jose, California and at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Space_%26_Rocket_Center&quot;&gt;U.S. Space &amp;amp; Rocket Center&lt;/a&gt; in Huntsville, Alabama. As I understood it, IMAX meant that a movie was filmed with a super wide field of view and projected on a dome theater that surrounds the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then yesterday I went to see Ant-Man in IMAX at a local movie theater and to my surprise, it was an entirely normal theater except that the screen was slightly curved. There was no dome and the movie seemed to be identical to one shown at any normal theater made with a normal camera that produced a normal rectangular image with a normal field of view. This left me really confused, wondering why they called this IMAX. It seems I paid extra to simply have a slightly curved screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought IMAX movies were produced with special cameras and displayed on a special domed theater, yet they are now calling standard movies shown on essentially standard screens the same thing. What is the reason that the two are both called IMAX? Is there actually a difference that I missed? How can I tell the difference in the future? What does &quot;IMAX&quot; even &lt;em&gt;mean&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22604" LastEditorUserId="9382" LastEditDate="2016-06-01T16:15:43.190" LastActivityDate="2017-05-01T18:08:03.060" Title="Why are not all IMAX theaters domed?" Tags="|film-techniques|distribution|imax|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37118" CreationDate="2015-07-27T10:13:51.610" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is possible that the directors used these dialogues as a tribute to 'Sangam' as this is not the first time Ranbir has paid tribute to his family members. He has done the same in his movie 'Rockstar' and many award shows as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23260" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-27T11:30:51.170" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T11:30:51.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37126" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41028" CreationDate="2015-07-27T10:15:39.187" Score="10" ViewCount="30656" Body="&lt;p&gt;In E.T. when Elliott is at school and E.T. is alone at home with the dog, strange things start happening. When E.T. drinks beer, Elliott starts feeling dizzy.&#xA;When E.T. watches a romantic scene on TV, Elliott kisses his classmate to whom he wasn't paying much attention earlier. What's the explanation for this sequence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-27T11:21:21.520" LastActivityDate="2017-04-21T20:58:23.147" Title="How does Elliott start feeling/behaving like E.T.?" Tags="|plot-explanation|et-the-extra-terrestrial|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37055" CreationDate="2015-07-27T14:07:49.020" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've posted pretty much the same thing on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/96644/24087&quot;&gt;this answer in the Sci-Fi Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;, but in general &lt;em&gt;Ant-Man&lt;/em&gt; follows the rule of cool much more than it does its own internal logic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, I'm fairly certain that something as dense as Ant-Man, when shrunk, would have gone straight through the roof of the car that he lands on towards the start of the film - let's remember that this is effectively just a 200lb/90kg object that is only an inch or so long, probably making Ant-Man one of the densest objects on Earth (and certainly unable to ride on a flying ant named Ant-thony).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the film, we see Scott throw a weapon that enlarges objects, which accidentally hits an ant, making it the size of a large dog. At this stage, the ant either takes on an appropriate mass (meaning it would be crushed to death under its own weight thanks to its basic design not being sturdy enough at larger sizes/weights) or it remains the same weight as a normal ant, and gets blown away in the first mild breeze.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, the in-universe explanation that we're given (namely that the distance between atoms is reduced, meaning objects get smaller but retain the same mass) is pure nonsense from the demonstrations of it that we have seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this may be true even in-universe, as the finale of the film sees Scott shrink down into the &amp;quot;quantum realm&amp;quot;, becoming smaller than the size of molecules and atoms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This shouldn't be possible if the only change is the distance between atoms, so there is the potential that Hank simply lied to Scott (or is incorrect) about how the Pym particles work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2020-10-27T09:44:07.783" LastActivityDate="2020-10-27T09:44:07.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="37132" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37169" CreationDate="2015-07-27T14:27:06.683" Score="6" ViewCount="14931" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3107288/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Flash TV.show&lt;/a&gt; Spoilers ahead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the show Wells keeps telling that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;he is from the future and enemy of the flash. So he traveled back to the past &#xA;  to kill Flash or Barry Allen. But got stuck in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now this show's timeline is somewhat 2010-2015 right! Around 25-28 years after Barry's birth. (I'm not sure about exact figures.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I saw the information/wikia pages for &lt;a href=&quot;http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/Eobard_Thawne&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Eobard Thwane&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/Barry_Allen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Barry&lt;/a&gt; for the series Arrow and The Flash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From  &lt;a href=&quot;http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/Eobard_Thawne&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Eobard Thwane&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eobard Thawne (born in 2151)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/Barry_Allen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Barry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bartholomew &quot;Barry&quot; Allen&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3107288/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; (born c. 1989)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cool! Flash and I born in the same year. But the point is, how does this fit? How does Eobard become the enemy of Flash? When Eobard's birth took place Barry was 162 years old. We know he's not immortal, so that's not possible. (Or is it?!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eobard brought some tech that are very advanced. But in the scene where we saw Barry and Reverse Flash fighting on the day of the death of Barry's mother, Barry didn't look too old. He looked exactly like his present self or slightly older.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Say, Flash lived longer than normal people, then Iris wouldn't have. But we saw the reporter's name as 'Iris' in the future news article that showed 'Flash gone missing'. And &lt;a href=&quot;http://What%20happened%20to%20the%20Future%20Flash?&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in this question it's written that the newspaper was showing the year 2024&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several Flashs. How is Eobard the enemy of Barry? Barry should have been dead when he was born. I'm all messed up. How are Eobard Thawne and Barry enemies after having an age difference of 162 years? When did they travel back in time? From what year did Eobard jump to kill Barry's mother? What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-20T11:19:55.280" LastActivityDate="2016-04-20T11:19:55.280" Title="Age difference between Barry Allen and Eobard Thwane" Tags="|plot-explanation|arrowverse|the-flash|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37133" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-27T08:51:12.023" Score="7" ViewCount="2909" Body="&lt;p&gt;Till now we have seen that the Minions in the &lt;em&gt;Despicable Me&lt;/em&gt; series and in &lt;em&gt;Minions&lt;/em&gt; are yellow in color when normal. In &lt;em&gt;Despicable Me 2&lt;/em&gt; they turn into Purple-furred monsters when mutated with the highly potent mutagen PX-41.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reference why they are yellow in color?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vftVd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22813" OwnerDisplayName="captainsac" LastEditorUserId="22813" LastEditDate="2017-01-05T13:59:04.230" LastActivityDate="2017-01-29T23:27:51.093" Title="Why are all the normal Minions yellow in color?" Tags="|despicable-me|minions|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37135" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-27T15:02:03.370" Score="18" ViewCount="43073" Body="&lt;p&gt;After every reset in &lt;em&gt;Edge of Tomorrow&lt;/em&gt;, Cage &quot;wakes up&quot; at Heathrow and everything is as it is (all the dead are alive like before). In the end Cage destroys the Omega's core, and its floating blood once again give him the power to reset time. He &quot;wakes up&quot; a day before en route to his first meeting (and why not at Heathrow like everytime?). But how come the Omega is not alive again? In other words, why are the events at the Louvre Pyramid not reset?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23379" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-27T15:03:35.233" LastActivityDate="2023-01-22T20:08:12.513" Title="How come the Omega remains dead after time is reset at end of Edge of Tomorrow?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37123" CreationDate="2015-07-27T16:53:15.313" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, IMAX is an acronym for &quot;Image MAXimum&quot;. And from what I have seen and read, IMAX theaters are only domed for planetariums, which is why they are domes at the Tech Museum and at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. The purpose for IMAX to even exist is that it has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than a normal camera could. I assume that they were just using the IMAX theater to trick people into thinking that there was something different about it. However, another type of IMAX will shoot films at 48 fps, so the movie may have appeared more smooth. I am not an IMAX specialist so I do not know the specifics as to why they would show Ant-Man in IMAX, but I hope that I have cleared up some of your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23288" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T16:53:15.313" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37139" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-27T16:54:50.583" Score="-1" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;By inhabiting Sean Fentress' body by Colter Stevens in &lt;em&gt;Source Code&lt;/em&gt;, hasn't the rest of his life become miserable in the altered timeline? Is this why Dr. Rutledge tells him (probably lie) they can't change the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="937" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2015-09-16T04:05:01.007" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T04:05:01.007" Title="Has Source Code made Sean's life miserable?" Tags="|analysis|source-code|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-09-16T10:34:25.650" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37133" CreationDate="2015-07-27T17:09:35.813" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;While we may not know the specific reason for their color, we do know that they have been around for millions of years, as we see that they interact with dinosaurs. This means that they may just be yellow because that is how they evolved. Why is any animal any color? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another theory I have is that yellow is generally seen as a happy color. And they are very happy creatures. But it is almost ironic that, even though they are such happy, loving creatures, they are always looking for someone evil to follow. So yellow is mostly a contrast to, for example, Gru, who is very into the dark color scheme. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23288" LastEditorUserId="23288" LastEditDate="2015-07-28T16:44:15.260" LastActivityDate="2015-07-28T16:44:15.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9578" CreationDate="2015-07-27T17:25:22.707" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember couple of lines said by Dr. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;A soldier can (wants to) serve even after he is dead.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;We found his age and body suits you perfectly&quot; (so they are not just choosy about Steve but also choosy about Sean)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="937" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T17:25:22.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37143" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1232" CreationDate="2015-07-27T17:47:08.443" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vito needed to make peace so Michael could return from Sicily safe. Otherwise he would be killed on one way or other. Even after the peace Brazinis tried to kill Michael but it was much safer with the peace...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23386" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T17:47:08.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-27T17:57:22.830" Score="3" ViewCount="479" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do film studios not release certain old movies? For example, a few of Monroe and Hepburns's work isn't released on DVD. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23387" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-27T19:10:01.737" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T19:10:01.737" Title="Why do film studios not release certain old movies?" Tags="|distribution|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37144" CreationDate="2015-07-27T18:28:08.533" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is most likely one of two possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They don't feel that the investment of preparing and producing the DVD will be justified by its sales&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The copyright of various elements of the movie is ambiguous or widely distributed, and resolving that situation legally is cost prohibitive, if it's even completely possible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the first one, regardless of what it costs to produce the DVD, if they project that only a few hundred or a few thousand people will ever buy it, they may not feel too rushed to get the job done for what amounts to a few thousand bucks to the bottom line.  Doesn't mean it will never happen, but that no one has strong incentive to &lt;em&gt;make&lt;/em&gt; it happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the second, copyright can be a complicated beast, and any number of people involved in the original project &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; own copyright interest in the final product (depending on how the contracts were set up originally). That is further complicated by people who have sold their interest or who have died and left it to potentially numerous beneficiaries, the details of which are difficult and expensive and, potentially, intractable to work out. This matters because a work is licensed to be released only in certain media, when a new medium arrives (such as DVD), it needs to be re-licensed for the new medium. If a particular movie suffers from this problem, it's unlikely to &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; be released in its original form, what they'll do is identify the portions of the work for which they can't identify or secure the appropriate rights, and somehow remove or replace them.  You'll see this most often in TV shows that were current prior to the advent of DVD, where the popular music played as a soundtrack couldn't be licensed, or not at a reasonable cost, and so is replaced by a royalty-free soundtrack instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I had to guess for the particular situation you bring up, the first situation is probably the primary influence behind whether it happens or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15559" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T18:28:08.533" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37123" CreationDate="2015-07-27T19:23:54.870" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you really want value for your IMAX experience, you will only go to see films that have been shot using IMAX 70 MM film or the digital equivalent and that project on film, not digitally. Most Hollywood films &lt;strong&gt;do not&lt;/strong&gt; fit all of these components but the popularity of the concept gets butts in seats (at a higher price point) for something they &lt;strong&gt;think&lt;/strong&gt; is higher quality but likely isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your title question, no, not all IMAX theaters are domed... even &lt;strong&gt;true&lt;/strong&gt; IMAX has more flat-style screens... in fact, the original IMAX screens were only slightly curved. A &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX#IMAX_Dome_.2F_OMNIMAX&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;special setup&lt;/a&gt; had to be made for the domed screens you've seen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a giant screen doesn't really mean anything if they're still projecting a low-quality image.  According to Wikipedia, many current &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX#Digital_IMAX&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMAX digital projectors&lt;/a&gt; are only projecting at 2K (which is crazy since a lot of digital non-IMAX theaters are projecting 4K!):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because 70mm film and projectors are costly and difficult to mass produce, IMAX debuted a digital projection system in 2008. It uses two projectors that can present either 2D or 3D content in DCI or IMAX Digital Format (IDF) (which in itself is a superset of DCI). As of 2012, IDF uses 2K-resolution Christie projectors with Texas Instruments' Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology alongside parts of IMAX's proprietary formats. The two 2K images are projected over each other to make the image brighter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The digital installations have caused some controversy, as many theaters have branded their screens as IMAX after merely retrofitting standard auditoriums with IMAX digital projectors. The screen sizes in these auditoriums are much smaller than those in the purpose-built auditoriums of the original 15/70 IMAX format.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This 2K resolution is about half what the film resolution is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another disadvantage is the much lower resolution of digital IMAX compared to traditional IMAX film, which is estimated to be up to 8,700 lines of vertical resolution on the camera negative and 4,500 on a release print.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of 2013, some theaters have upgraded to 4K projection, which is much better but you'll have to ask the theater which they use, as it's not standardized:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In late April 2012, IMAX began testing a new 4K laser-projection system, based on patents licensed from Eastman Kodak. Like the film and digital systems, it uses two projectors but it has been said to improve over the smaller digital screens by retaining the traditional IMAX aspect ratio and to allow films to be shown on screens 36 m (120 feet) wide or more. The laser projector will be available to exhibitors in the fourth quarter of 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any hope for the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the Wikipedia article, yes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In May 2015, it was announced that Marvel Studios's two-part film, &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Infinity War&lt;/em&gt;, will be filmed entirely in IMAX, the first Hollywood feature film to do so, using a modified version of Arri's Alexa 65 digital camera. The camera is set to be used first to film select sequences in another Marvel production, 2016's &lt;em&gt;Captain America: Civil War&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other films have select &lt;em&gt;sequences&lt;/em&gt; that were shot on IMAX, including the upcoming &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've skimmed over a ton of info in the Wikipedia article, which is really all you need but this quick and dirty overview should give people the basic concepts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T19:23:54.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37147" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37148" CreationDate="2015-07-27T19:44:06.770" Score="8" ViewCount="1779" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Pixels&lt;/em&gt;, a Smurf appears amongst all of the video game enemies at the final battle.  According to the film, the game footage sent in the space probe was from the 1980's arcade challenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to my research, the only video game with Smurfs at the time was &lt;em&gt;&quot;Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, which was only produced for home consoles (&lt;em&gt;The ColecoVision&lt;/em&gt; and later, the &lt;em&gt;Atari 2600&lt;/em&gt;).  Neither of these consoles was shown or referred-to during the arcade challenge; neither were Smurfs themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how / why was there a Smurf with the rest of the arcade-style attackers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2015-08-06T17:43:24.953" LastActivityDate="2016-06-21T15:35:19.077" Title="Why was a Smurf at the final battle if no Smurf arcade game exists?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-smurfs|pixels|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37147" CreationDate="2015-07-27T19:44:06.770" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Between battles, the aliens address Earth in the form of icons from the 1980's, including President Ronald Reagan, Hall and Oates, and Max Headroom.  We must conclude that additional, non-game video footage from the era was included in the space probe.  It can be assumed that an episode or clips from the popular 1980's &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Smurfs&quot;&lt;/em&gt; cartoon might have been sent alongside other footage.  Therefore, it can be concluded that the aliens decided a cartoon Smurf was appropriate to include in the final battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2015-07-28T15:26:36.367" LastActivityDate="2015-07-28T15:26:36.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36408" CreationDate="2015-07-27T19:59:56.900" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mugwump, green skin, beaks, oozing intoxicating jissom, does appear in the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kiki is a character out of another Burroughs novel, &lt;em&gt;Cities of the Red Night&lt;/em&gt;. He is twenty, Puerto Rican, and very beautiful... much more beautiful than handsome, into Macambo magic... psychic, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23388" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T19:59:56.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37133" CreationDate="2015-07-27T20:42:24.507" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw in a documentary/making-of that minions were inspired by both TicTac candies and gift-eggs from Kinder surprise, which explains the yellow color and why they are so full of surprise and always ready to have fun. That was the character designer words, (translated from french).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19796" LastActivityDate="2015-07-27T20:42:24.507" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17280" CreationDate="2015-07-27T22:02:04.870" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The above responses are correct; the nature of Ra's species was changed for the TV series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A long since defunct RPG established that Ra had simply taken an Asgard as a host, but switched to a human one because it was more compatible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the context of the film and its novelization, Ra was a dying alien who used an undefined, technologically-induced method to physically take over another life form by encasing himself within his chosen host.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This method was somewhat energy-based, and in the scene where he dies, he is literally shedding his human shell. In the novelization, the alien does this because he intended to escape and be able to take another host.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, he sheds his shell in an attempt to escape the doomed ship, but fails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23391" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2021-01-25T08:14:48.440" LastActivityDate="2021-01-25T08:14:48.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="37159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36988" CreationDate="2015-07-28T05:54:38.307" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of the movie, in the opening credits, I remembered a scene with Donnie as a participant in the quiz. I've found the opening credits scene on youtube&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/px2peQrLCsk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At 2:45 circa there is the scene I remembered in which is shown a young Donnie awarded with a giant check and the caption reads Quiz Kid Donnie Smith 1968. As you stated above, the quiz is being celebrated for its long run and they are showing on tv some of the most significant bits of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this the scene you were referring to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastEditorUserId="23244" LastEditDate="2016-01-29T15:01:27.737" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T15:01:27.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37160" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-28T06:09:39.550" Score="15" ViewCount="1664" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching the episode 'Better Call Saul' in Breaking Bad. It has the scene where Brandon Mayhew is sitting in the interrogation room of the APD and Saul Goodman comes in and the scene goes on. After talking with Badger, Saul goes near a water fountain and he sees an APD officer walking with Hank Schrader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, Saul knew that DEA are involved in Badger's case. But how did he exactly know that Hank was the DEA agent looking out for Badger? It could have been possible that the APD officer was also working on another case and the bald fat guy walking in civilian clothes might be some other officer from APD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saul Goodman walks up to Hank as if they know each other. The only thing that is sure, is that Hank knows Saul from the advertisements, but knows nothing personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My best assumptions would be that,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Saul hired his PI to investigate who in DEA will be handling the case. Bingo, Mike knows in and out of APD, couple of calls and Saul has his answers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since the blue meth case is high profile, APD will only be focusing on it, as well as DEA will be handling it. Thus, the person with APD is obviously/must be DEA agent. Saul deduced this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen 'Better Call Saul' series. So maybe, Saul has encountered Hank  previously, but Hank doesn't remember him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody have better answers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22115" LastEditorUserId="56522" LastEditDate="2022-05-14T12:38:17.807" LastActivityDate="2022-05-14T12:38:17.807" Title="Does Saul Goodman know Hank Schrader is a DEA agent when he comes to meet Badger at APD interrogation room?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="37168" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-28T11:48:52.710" Score="2" ViewCount="2053" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Second Best Marigold hotel after the hotel inspector resigns Sonny offers to drive them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Viceroy Hotel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very soon after this Sonny announces that he has bought it with help from his investor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the hotel inspector made it perfectly clear that because of their resignation the letter of appraisal would mean nothing... how did Sonny raise the money to buy it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="574" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-28T11:50:32.250" LastActivityDate="2024-01-18T05:08:05.997" Title="How did Sonny buy the hotel?" Tags="|plot-explanation|second-best-exotic-marigold-hotel|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37132" CreationDate="2015-07-28T12:21:57.703" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't speak to the motivation to the character in the show, but if they follow the motivation of the character from the comics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Barry isn't alive in the future, the year Eobard Thawne is born, but has been immortalized by years of being a hero and the legacy he's left behind (it also helps that he builds a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Museum&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;museum to himself&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eobard Thawne (in the comics he goes by &quot;Professor Zoom&quot;), idolized Barry (to the point of being obsessive), and in an attempt to be more like Barry replicated the event that gave Barry his super speed. Eobard Thawne then used his new found powers to travel back in time to meet Barry face to face (in the comics he used the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_treadmill&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cosmic Treadmill&lt;/a&gt;, not sure how they'll explain it in the show). However upon arriving in the past and finding out that he was destined to become a villain to Flash, Eobard Thawne became increasingly unstable, until he became the murderous psychopath we all know now as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse-Flash&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reverse Flash&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically Eobard Thawne is the ultimate psychotic fanboy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21877" LastEditorUserId="19902" LastEditDate="2016-01-27T08:50:16.833" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T08:50:16.833" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37171" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-07-28T14:40:38.797" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The plot of the film &lt;em&gt;Pixels&lt;/em&gt; (2015, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2120120/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;imdb&lt;/a&gt;) is about an assault on Earth from aliens who arrive in the form of arcade game characters due to their interaction with a space probe sent from the early 1980's.  It features Adam Sandler, Michelle Monaghan, Josh Gad, Kevin James, and Peter Dinklage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2015-07-28T15:20:11.017" LastActivityDate="2015-07-28T15:20:11.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37172" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-07-28T14:40:38.797" Score="0" Body="Refers to &quot;Pixels&quot; (2015), starring Adam Sandler." OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2015-07-28T15:20:21.997" LastActivityDate="2015-07-28T15:20:21.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37174" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37175" CreationDate="2015-07-28T16:07:26.960" Score="5" ViewCount="2451" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a movie about a man, a famous writer, who broke his leg in a snowstorm, and was given shelter in the &quot;boondocks&quot; by a woman. The storm lasted about a week, during which time the writer's leg healed, and he was ready to move on when the weather cleared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the woman, who had developed a &quot;crush&quot; on him, or at least his fame, didn't want to let him go, so she made plans to &quot;hobble&quot; him by re-breaking his leg. There was a fight, and he saved himself by crashing the (manual) typewriter on the woman's head, and escaping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw this (American) movie while in Mexico in 1994. What movie was this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9097" LastEditorUserId="9097" LastEditDate="2015-07-28T16:19:39.470" LastActivityDate="2015-07-28T16:19:39.470" Title="Stranded writer has his leg hobbled by a woman" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:54:02.223" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37174" CreationDate="2015-07-28T16:08:57.360" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is definitely &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100157/combined&quot;&gt;Misery&lt;/a&gt; (1990) with James Caan and Kathy Bates (who won an Oscar for the role). Not sure why it was in B&amp;amp;W, maybe you saw it on a B&amp;amp;W TV?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Best-selling novelist Paul Sheldon is on his way home from his Colorado hideaway after completing his latest book, when he crashes his car in a freak blizzard. Paul is critically injured, but is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, Paul's &quot;number one fan&quot;, who takes Paul back to her remote house in the mountains (without bothering to tell anybody). Unfortunately for Paul, Annie is also a headcase. When she discovers that Paul has killed off the heroine in her favorite novels, her reaction leaves Paul shattered (literally)... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was based on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery_%28novel%29&quot;&gt;Stephen King novel&lt;/a&gt; by the same name. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/mAjDgTrToAk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-07-28T16:12:32.220" LastActivityDate="2015-07-28T16:12:32.220" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37176" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37177" CreationDate="2015-07-28T17:26:48.627" Score="6" ViewCount="1148" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 2, Episode 1 of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_and_Morty&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rick and Morty&lt;/a&gt;, the episode begins with Summer berating Morty about letting mildew grow on their parents while everything was frozen in time; Rick, Morty, and Summer were not frozen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If time was truly frozen, how could it be possible for mildew to grow? I think this will show up later, because this show never seems to waste a scene. Maybe Rick accidentally created a mold that grows outside of time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23410" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2015-08-28T17:34:12.123" LastActivityDate="2017-04-18T13:49:30.817" Title="How can there be mildew on time-frozen Jerry?" Tags="|plot-explanation|rick-and-morty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37176" CreationDate="2015-07-28T18:00:39.373" Score="12" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If time was truly frozen, how could it be possible for mildew to grow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If time was truly completely frozen, how could they breathe or even move if the air particles were frozen?  Therefore, we must assume that more than just Rick, Morty, and Summer were unfrozen; a protective radius around them during the initial time freeze would have also affected the surrounding air for some short range.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Depending on the radius surrounding  the trio of humans unaffected by stopped time, it's possible nee probable that floating mold and bacteria were also within the initial &quot;unfrozen&quot; vicinity.  As Jerry was frozen so close in proximity to where the trio was unfrozen, an errant mote of never-frozen mildew could have landed on Jerry and grown there over time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know from the last episode of Season 1 that the trio stayed frozen for a significant amount of (relative) time. Also in the same episode, we see the kids place cut pumpkins over the heads of their parents.  We learn in the first episode of Season 2 that they were unfrozen long enough to lose stability with time itself.  The length of time spent with the universe frozen combined with pumpkin exposure could have helped enable the growth of any mildew on Jerry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2017-04-18T13:49:30.817" LastActivityDate="2017-04-18T13:49:30.817" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28491" CreationDate="2015-07-28T18:24:51.080" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think since Newt said that the key is &quot;the same as we get in the supplies&quot; &quot;the box&quot;. That leaves me to believe that he took a key that had 7 on it. He knew the combination by being a keeper and the keepers keep the information about the maze. He also knew the 8 digit code. Then he entered the maze, in the process he gets stung. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23415" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-03T11:50:30.227" LastActivityDate="2015-08-03T11:50:30.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37184" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-28T18:58:37.887" Score="3" ViewCount="2385" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie 28 Days Later, we see that many of the infected are starving. But how long did it actually take all of the infected to starve to death? The main character wakes up after 28 days in a hospital, and then some time passes when he meets new people. But then even more time has passed when we see the jet fly over at the end. We know that the infection is wiped out, well almost, by the sequel 28 Weeks Later, but that is a long time for all of the infected to have survived with no food. Any help would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23288" LastEditorUserId="23288" LastEditDate="2015-07-28T20:43:12.283" LastActivityDate="2016-06-29T02:08:00.987" Title="How long did it take the infected to starve in 28 Days Later?" Tags="|plot-explanation|28-days-later|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37187" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-28T19:21:00.177" Score="1" ViewCount="2253" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did the first loop begin in Triangle? One Jess is killed in the car crash. Why doesn't she move forward to the loop?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23420" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-28T20:12:52.383" LastActivityDate="2015-08-01T20:33:27.877" Title="How did the first loop begin in Triangle?" Tags="|plot-explanation|time-travel|triangle|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37188" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-28T20:17:03.037" Score="5" ViewCount="12566" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love most of &lt;em&gt;Django Unchained&lt;/em&gt;, but the part where Django pushes for the slave to be eaten by the dogs bothers me. It's a great movie about justice, except for this one scene where Django pushes for injustice.  Is there a reason why Django pushed for the slave to be fed to the dogs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23424" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-28T20:19:39.173" LastActivityDate="2017-04-04T01:36:03.873" Title="Why did Django push for the slave to be eaten by the dogs?" Tags="|plot-explanation|django-unchained|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37188" CreationDate="2015-07-28T21:22:57.813" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Django is a slave himself as he does not like what he is seeing, he still has to remember what he came to do, not to let his emotions get in the way of the task at hand. (Remember you can't save everyone.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By letting Candy unleash the dogs shows that Django respects Candy and that he wants him to know that he does not fear him and that he needs to be taken seriously. He disagrees with what has happened but as the doctor said, Django is playing a part (acting), as he is to pose as the brains not a hot head slave out for revenge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if Django stood up for the slaves it might have expose his cover, and may have tipped off Candy that he is there for another reason not just to buy a prized fighter. Candy could have even felt disrespected and never let them to the ranch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22990" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2017-04-04T01:36:03.873" LastActivityDate="2017-04-04T01:36:03.873" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37079" CreationDate="2015-07-28T21:24:14.163" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As explained by &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/13845/agent86&quot;&gt;agent86&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/229873/119749&quot;&gt;his answer on gaming.stackexchange&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The ninjas are from a fake 80's videogame created for the movie, called Dojo Quest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/4Y0dw9jTkHc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fayobserver.com/living/weekender/bit-icons-a-look-at-the-video-games-of-pixels/article_de31688c-c066-53c5-aa1b-7a3f7f1a230c.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's an article&lt;/a&gt; about the licensed games in the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;The filmmakers licensed characters from real-world video games for the movie, but they opted to craft a fictional title starring a ninja-fighting heroine named Lady Lisa (played by Ashley Benson), who serves as an unconventional love interest for Gad's character.  To promote &quot;Pixels,&quot; Sony released a side-scrolling mobile game resembling &quot;Dojo Quest.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&quot;Lady Lisa was in the first draft of the script, and I thought it would be fun to create just one game that didn't exist back in the '80s,&quot; said Columbus. &quot;It never occurred to me not to do it. I felt like we could get away with it. A character like Lara Croft could've worked, but I loved the fact that Josh Gad's character has been pining for this woman all his life.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11207" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:09:36.707" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T04:30:29.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28491" CreationDate="2015-07-29T00:55:15.330" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess was that he learned the map in the hut.  Got the key from a smashed griever, and learned the combination from the &quot;serial number&quot; on the key.  As mentioned, the key had the same number as the supplies, which had the same amount of numbers as sectors, no? That's what I gather.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23428" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-03T11:51:49.810" LastActivityDate="2015-08-03T11:51:49.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37202" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37205" CreationDate="2015-07-29T04:43:09.473" Score="3" ViewCount="2306" Body="&lt;p&gt;The hero of &lt;em&gt;Silver Linings Playbook&lt;/em&gt;, Pat, was seen wearing a bin bag (or garbage bag depending upon your locale) that had holes cut for his head and arms...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R4QZC.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R4QZC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both his mother and father asked why he was wearing a bin bag, but this was never resolved.  I don't know the reason for it.  I suppose it provides protection from the rain, but it never rained in the film.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of Pat wearing a bin bag?  Is it a habit endemic to Philadelphia?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-29T10:47:10.630" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T10:47:10.630" Title="Why the bin bag in Silver Linings Playbook?" Tags="|props|silver-linings-playbook|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37203" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37227" CreationDate="2015-07-29T05:14:05.103" Score="5" ViewCount="44689" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is regarding the 1969 classic &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Rider&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Easy Rider&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;I found the ending was abrupt and very quick. Although throughout the movie it has been shown how society dislikes and avoids hippies like Wyatt and Billy, the end seemed unusual. Wasn't the shooting of both riders by some random truck drivers, a bit of a stretch? And that too when there was hardly any confrontation/conversation. Did they end Easy Rider abruptly or is there any subliminal message here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-29T10:46:04.567" LastActivityDate="2018-05-09T15:27:06.063" Title="Explanation of the ending of Easy Rider" Tags="|analysis|ending|easy-rider|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37204" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37208" CreationDate="2015-07-29T05:46:30.490" Score="2" ViewCount="400" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798684/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Southpaw&lt;/a&gt;, Forest Whitaker rubs a metal object on Jake Gyllenhaal's cheek to do some sort of first aid I presume. I think it could be metal chilled in iced water to reduce blood flow. Is that correct? Or, what was it really? This action also included cotton swaps (or strips) and applied pressure with perhaps an ointment like Vaseline to assist blood clotting between boxing rounds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23433" LastEditorUserId="23433" LastEditDate="2015-07-29T12:58:09.217" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T12:58:09.217" Title="What was the purpose behind the metal object Forest Whitaker rubbed on Jake Gyllenhaal's face in Southpaw?" Tags="|props|southpaw|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37202" CreationDate="2015-07-29T06:13:42.690" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Costume designer Mark Bridges explained: “It was in the original&#xA;material, the book by Matthew Quick. It really sums up that&#xA;working-class world, and also [Cooper’s character’s] dedication to try&#xA;to get back into shape to win his life back by any means&#xA;necessary—even by looking ridiculous and causing complete humiliation&#xA;to the whole family by running down the street like that.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also told, “The garbage bag was actually made so that it would&#xA;be silent. We needed to wire the microphone on Bradley so that you&#xA;would not hear the crinkle, crinkle, crinkle of a real garbage bag. It&#xA;sort of had a silencer on it.” Asked how many garbage-bag costumes&#xA;were made in total, Bridges tallied “five of six, just in case&#xA;something happened. I have one in my garage, actually, just in case we&#xA;need to do a reshoot or something.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source : &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/02/bradley-cooper-silver-linings-playbook-garbage-bag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;vanityfair.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also help in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwfitness/article/ASK-A-TRAINER-Why-Do-People-Wear-Garbage-Bags-in-the-Gym-20130829&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;weight loss&lt;/a&gt;, as per claims.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T06:13:42.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23535" CreationDate="2015-07-29T06:29:59.673" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been a while since I saw the movie, but I always asumed it was make up and the transformation of the face was CGI, using the morphing effect introduced in &lt;em&gt;Terminator 2&lt;/em&gt;... but it just my speculation, I have no real facts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23403" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T06:29:59.673" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37204" CreationDate="2015-07-29T06:34:26.523" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The device in film is called an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_Iron&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Eye Iron&lt;/a&gt;. Its purpose is to reduce swelling, and yes it is cooled on ice prior to application. The job of the guy that does this in the fighting ring is called &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cutman&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23433" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T06:34:26.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37209" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37211" CreationDate="2015-07-29T07:27:12.797" Score="3" ViewCount="1699" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ex Machina&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2317225/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Machine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1298554/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eva&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; you've probably noticed the odd coincidence of three movies in the last few years about artificial intelligence all with protagonists named Eva or Ava (always pronounced AY-vah). But was it a coincidence? Are these movies connected somehow out-of-universe, maybe through common writers or source material?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="843" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-07-29T11:58:13.937" LastActivityDate="2017-07-07T05:28:04.300" Title="Eva / Ava AI movies coincidence?" Tags="|science-fiction|ex-machina|the-machine|eva|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37209" CreationDate="2015-07-29T09:07:30.997" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The common source material is the Christian Bible, specifically the story of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_and_Eve&quot;&gt;Adam and Eve&lt;/a&gt;. Eve is created from source material from the first human, Adam, and then animated. Her name translates to &quot;the animated&quot;. In most languages as in the original (hawa) it ends on -a. The stories all are strongly related to the biblical story, they are &quot;the story of Eve in the technological era&quot; (@Walt). As all the movies mentioned were produced in a country with primarily Christian mythological background this is used as the common background and reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T09:07:30.997" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37212" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-29T09:56:11.063" Score="20" ViewCount="64032" Body="&lt;p&gt;What's the closest real equivalent to E Corp from Mr. Robot? Not necessarily that they're super evil, but that they are present in many different industries and their products are commonplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any further evidence inside the show or commentary from its makers if this company is a reference to a specific real company?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23435" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-31T09:11:36.397" LastActivityDate="2016-10-27T00:37:55.870" Title="Is E Corp from Mr. Robot a reference to a real company?" Tags="|mr-robot|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36733" CreationDate="2015-07-29T13:54:20.513" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is because she met him first and they formed a tight bond. There's no other explanation. (Also they had an awesome sing-a-long) :D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23228" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T13:54:20.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37216" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37290" CreationDate="2015-07-29T13:55:51.180" Score="3" ViewCount="6310" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per the wikis there are crossovers between both the series. So do I have to watch Once Upon a Time in Wonderland to understand Once Upon a Time or can it be avoided fully?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="23442" LastEditDate="2015-07-29T14:13:59.240" LastActivityDate="2015-08-01T00:09:29.593" Title="Do I need to watch Once Upon a Time in Wonderland to understand Once Upon a Time?" Tags="|once-upon-a-time|once-upon-a-time-in-wonderland|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36393" CreationDate="2015-07-29T13:57:41.567" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latinpost.com/articles/57084/20150602/extant-season-2-spoilers-goran-visnjic-leaves-series.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;spoilers for the 2nd season&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Goran Visnjic, the 42-year-old Croatian actor who plays Dr. John Woods, Molly Woods' (Berry) robotics engineering husband, will be leaving the series. But before he makes his full exit, according to Entertainment Weekly’s Natalie Abrams, he will make an appearance at the start of Season 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes he's dead. But will make an appearance in season 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23228" LastEditorUserId="23442" LastEditDate="2015-07-29T14:36:01.250" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T14:36:01.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37218" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37237" CreationDate="2015-07-29T13:59:51.100" Score="2" ViewCount="6698" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Once Upon a Time&lt;/em&gt;, characters' names were kept as they are in the fairy world from Prince Charming to Rumpelstiltskin. But why is Cinderella called by the name of &quot;Ella&quot; by all the characters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T12:45:00.660" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T12:45:00.660" Title="Why is Cinderella called Ella in &quot;Once Upon a Time&quot;?" Tags="|character|once-upon-a-time|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17987" CreationDate="2015-07-29T15:18:31.123" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Bond destroyed the island and left nothing for nick nack to inherit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23444" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T15:18:31.123" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35955" CreationDate="2015-07-29T16:26:01.637" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's how I interpreted that particular scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, cutting off the crust of the bread is something that is primarily done by parents when they make sandwiches &lt;em&gt;for their children&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering how Krazy-8 was portrayed up to the sandwich scene, it would be weird for Walter to remove the crust when initially preparing the sandwich, even if that was how he himself preferred it. Adults just don't eat sandwiches like that and Krazy might even be offended if Walter offered him a child's sandwich.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Krazy-8 asks Walter to remove the crust, this is done to emphasize that Krazy-8 is not the hard-boiled gangster Walter initially suspected him to be. This is an important change in how both we and Walter perceive the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a major factor in what makes it so hard for Walter to kill him in the first place. Walter might have been able to justify for himself to kill a ruthless drug dealer, but from the moment Krazy-8 asks him to remove the bread crust, Walter starts to see a different side of him, that of a vulnerable child. It humanizes a character that was up to this point not much more than a cliché.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure how to interpret the fact that Walter himself also likes to remove the crust. It could be that this is indeed done in reminiscence of the Krazy-8 plot. It might also be done to show how Walter himself is not yet a ruthless gangster, but still has a childish side to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18124" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T16:26:01.637" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3574" CreationDate="2015-07-29T17:13:05.077" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the scene where Leonardo DiCaprio is put in the psycho's place - where he's killing his wife - is just him contemplating what the people are telling him.  The idea, along with all the frustrations and horrible danger he's in, makes him faint.  I think everything about Teddy is real from the beginning, and the owners of the asylum are villains.  At the end, Teddy makes a comment about being too smart, and it's implied that he has a plan when he looks at the lighthouse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23424" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T17:13:05.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35955" CreationDate="2015-07-29T17:20:31.833" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the series Walter picks up habits from the people that he kills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first of this is Krazy-8. Krazy-8 takes the crust off of his sandwich and from then on Walter removes the crust off of his sandwich even though he used to eat his sandwiches with the crust. His sandwiches are an homage to Krazy-8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before Walter kills Mike he drinks his whiskey neat but after Mike dies he drinks his on the rock as seen in Gliding Over after the prison murders and when he is drinking in the bar in Granite State.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that this comments on how &quot;Bad&quot; Walter is breaking. He recognizes subconsciously that these are people with who are just like him, they enjoy different things different ways. Even though Walter kills them ruthlessly and without concious regret he still carries pieces of their life and their personal oddities with him the rest of his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23446" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T17:20:31.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36711" CreationDate="2015-07-29T17:28:02.203" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;He is AGI Singularity impersonation. Even if Jarmusch did not want it The Singularity imprinted it into his film. The Group can have traitors, The One can't. Be The One.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23447" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T17:28:02.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37203" CreationDate="2015-07-29T19:13:36.560" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It all comes full circle. At the begining Wyatt destroys his watch in pursuit of freedom as time only serves to constrain them. Throughout the journey they come across lots of people and ideas such as the hiker and his village he lives in, which is were Wyatt learns about himself and freedom. They enter the south and if you notice characters and ideas change completely, one being how in the south at that time they were not big on freedom and acceptance as people were earlier in their journey. This change is big when you see the lawyer get killed, showing that in the south they will do whatever they want to someone who is different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end as you know they are killed by 2 random truckers; Billy first, making him a martyr. Wyatt is killed after this, learning earlier when he says &quot;WE BLEW IT&quot; saying that they missed there chance for happiness and true freedom. He realizes that death is the only way to truly be free and turns around and heads down the road to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22990" LastEditorUserId="45294" LastEditDate="2018-05-09T15:27:06.063" LastActivityDate="2018-05-09T15:27:06.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="37228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35366" CreationDate="2015-07-29T19:32:02.607" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I love that Mills only fires 6 rounds into Doe at the film's end; only 6 people, (the Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Lust, Pride and Envy victims/sinners) were punished. Another take on the outcome is that technically 7 people DID die. Face it: the sloth victim probably didn't make it long after the doc said he &quot;still has Hell to look forward to&quot; and in addition to Mills' wife and unborn child also falling victim to Doe, that makes seven deceased. Hope this helps, or at least intrigues someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23449" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T19:32:02.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37230" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39160" CreationDate="2015-07-23T14:16:56.217" Score="28" ViewCount="9552" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having watched the first 4 episodes, I've noticed something rather peculiar: No one ever acknowledges Mr. Robot, except Elliot. Is there any evidence that Mr. Robot is or isn't just in Elliot's head, similar to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Fight Club?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3541" OwnerDisplayName="MyCodeSucks" LastEditorUserId="3541" LastEditDate="2015-07-29T20:02:31.837" LastActivityDate="2019-11-22T16:24:10.443" Title="Is Mr. Robot in Elliot's head?" Tags="|mr-robot|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37233" CreationDate="2015-07-29T19:55:26.243" Score="6" ViewCount="1220" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came across a question linked here:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2190/how-do-they-film-the-mirror-scenes-in-movies&quot;&gt;How do they film the mirror scenes in movies?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found it interesting that most examples came from popular and from recent films. Here is a clip from Lady in the Lake 1947, the scene shows a man from a POV as he walks through the room (NOTE: the whole film is in first person), the camera turns to the mirror and our hero appears. Now it was probably done with camera angles as it was 1947 but Citizen Kane was 1941 and he implemented techniques beyond his time such as over-lapping shots, blacking out background and foreground and then meshing the shots together. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is can anyone find a reliable source explaining how THIS mirror trick was done in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zzdl-js_mQ4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mirror trick starts at 2.04 - the clip is only 2.35&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22990" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T21:28:11.067" Title="Lady in the Lake 1947 (Mirror Scene)" Tags="|film-techniques|cinematography|lady-in-the-lake|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37231" CreationDate="2015-07-29T20:07:03.233" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;That was pretty easy.  The camera is on an angle to the mirror, probably about 15 feet back.  Zoomed in so it looks closer.  But you'll notice it's still on an angle to the mirror.  The actor steps into frame without any problems, and because the camera is so far back and off to the side you can't see its reflection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A tougher one is the dressing room scene in Sucker Punch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/m_IemarLt5c?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one was actually done with doubles.  There's one small place where you can see they're slightly out-of-sync, but most of it was done spot-on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T20:07:03.233" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37231" CreationDate="2015-07-29T20:11:57.140" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no actual trick here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The man is standing directly in front of the mirror (directly in front of her) but she's &lt;em&gt;looking&lt;/em&gt; at the camera to make you &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; he's standing in front of the camera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eGfwH.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eGfwH.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screen shot of video&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The camera is off at a 60 degree (or so) angle from the mirror, so it would never catch itself in the frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've made an overhead view to help clarify it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z2fN2.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z2fN2.png&quot; alt=&quot;Overview shot&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-07-29T21:28:11.067" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T21:28:11.067" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28491" CreationDate="2015-07-29T21:35:55.093" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the griever got smashed by the door that had closed when they put in the access code Gally must have gotten the key from that griever and if I'm not mistaken they had another one and Gally must have killed it but while he was trying to kill it, it stung him. And Gally must have seen the map and seen the code just lying around since the code was the order the maze moved in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23451" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-07-29T22:27:00.780" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T22:27:00.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10351" CreationDate="2015-07-29T23:14:50.047" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok I have a separate theory that is a bit different from the others I have read online.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My problem with most interpretations is that they leave out Nemo’s ability to see the future (at least to a limited extent) and the importance of the big crunch event in the end. In my theory, these two circumstances creates a paradox, and in turn a very situational superhero, like in the case with Neo in the Matrix. I also dislike the idea of &quot;it was all just a dream!&quot; or &quot;it was an imagination. Nothing happened and noone exists&quot;. It feels too cliché for the visual greatness of this movie. I know that there are a scene in the end, where the city is taken apart piece by piece and Nemo explains to the reporter that they do not exist outside of the architects mind, being the boy at the train station. While I do agree that the boy can serve as an architect in some sense, I do not want to take the rest of the dialog literally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The paradox in mind is created as the young Nemo is faced with the impossible choice at the train station. I am aware that this does not make perfect scientific sense, but bear with me anyway. As Nemo is faced with the choice, he can see all the ways his life will turn out depending on which way he chooses. But, as the old Nemo declares in the end, this does not help him to make a desicion. The reason is, since none of Nemo’s timelines seem to be perfect, everyone one way or another ending in tragedy or a dissatisfactory state, he will, once knowing about the outcome, choose another alternative. But instead of the idea of a nonexsisting Nemo making it to the old age and remembering the many life paths, the old Nemo is a human Shrödinger’s cat. As no one in the futuristic world have any record of his existence, the man is the cat in the box, where every outcome is just as plausible and must be imagined as ‘true’. As the old Nemo has unclear and contradictory memories of his own life, he either have lived all of them, or has forgotten which is right, meaning that they all gain the same meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing is that Nemo has the power to communicate with himself through the different timelines. I do not fully understand the mechanics of the argyle reality, but apparently the knowledge of the big crunch, achieved by another version of Anna in the Mars timeline, is transferred from old nemo to a younger version some way through this world. This knowledge is of large importance for my theory and has not been covered by many other theories that I have seen. Knowing that Nemo has to stay alive until a certain time, in order to get “a second shot”, as Anna put it. It could very well be that the Argyle reality does not really exist, however. It could be a representation of a dream state, imaginary visualization by the boy at the train station, I do not know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the big crunch happens, time starts going backwards. At the deathbed, Nemo states that “this is the best day of my life”. His last words are “Anna”, who is the one his happy incarnations have been about all the time. The big crunch allows the possibility for Nemo not so much to relive his life, as to make his past life turn out in the most happy way. The old nemo may not know how his live really turned out, or rather, it turned out in every way. But given the fact of his many possibilities, due to the paradox, he can choose his beginning with knowledge of the best ending. When time goes backwards there will be no crossroads, no more decisions that has been his prison up to this point. All he has to do is to follow the thread in the opposite direction. This also solves the paradox, as suddenly there is only one way that he can have lived his life; backwards makes forwards. Note that this is only working for Nemo, as any other lives would already have its path staked out perfectly and no uncertainties about the timelines would exist. Notice how the nurses in the end scene are seemingly just played backwards while old Nemo chuckles happily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few flaws with my theory:&#xA;Out of logic reasons, one would suspect that he would have to make it till old age, and therefore, the timelines where he dies young would have to be discarded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am also aware that in a real life, the young Nemo would have to make one desicion at the train station; the option to not choose is never there. But while I am not a professor in quantum physics, I do believe that this depends on your point of view. While the young Nemo may have a choice, the elderly Nemo in a world where no one knows about his past could very well exist with the theoretical position that Nemo may never have made a choice, and that therefore, all options are possible. If not scientifically accurate, I would say it is very poetical. If nothing else, it gives me a good feeling to think of that Nemo gets the best life, the one where he meets Anna in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As someone else noted: “Anna” is the same spelled backwards and forwards. There are more examples of this in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23452" LastActivityDate="2015-07-29T23:14:50.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37218" CreationDate="2015-07-30T00:00:51.800" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly because &quot;Cinderella&quot; was a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella#Cendrillon.2C_by_Perrault&quot;&gt;mean-spirited nickname given by her stepsisters&lt;/a&gt;, and others, especially friends, wouldn't be so cruel. The stepsisters called her that because she was forced to sleep in the cinders by the fireplace, leaving her dirty. &quot;Cinderella&quot; meant something like &quot;little cinder girl&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not clear what Cinderella's real name is supposed to have been. But since &quot;Ella&quot; is a modern first name it's a reasonable choice. One example where it's used is the old &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Cinders&quot;&gt;Ella Cinders&lt;/a&gt; comic strip. This name is really a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-formation&quot;&gt;back formation&lt;/a&gt; to &quot;Cinder Ella&quot;, since it doesn't seem to be part of the original stories. But since those stories didn't give her real name, it's not a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3794" LastEditorUserId="3794" LastEditDate="2015-07-30T06:28:47.020" LastActivityDate="2015-07-30T06:28:47.020" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37239" CreationDate="2015-07-30T00:06:59.860" Score="3" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to several news sources, Hugh Jackman has decided not to continue to play Wolverine in films after the upcoming &lt;em&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/em&gt; sequel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/hugh-jackman-will-play-wolverine-one-last-time-is-this-an-end-of-an-era/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hugh Jackman Will Play Wolverine “One Last Time”: Is This An End Of An Era? [UPDATED]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/How-Long-Hugh-Jackman-Plans-Play-Wolverine-69965.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How Long Hugh Jackman Plans To Play Wolverine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tgdaily.com/happyplace/film/131686-hugh-jackman-will-stop-playing-wolverine-in-2017&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hugh Jackman Will Stop Playing Wolverine in 2017&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://perezhilton.com/2015-05-08-hugh-jackman-confirms-last-time-playing-wolverine#.Vblt-rdBCM9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hugh Jackman Dishes On When He'll Stop Playing Wolverine In X-Men Films!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What were the exact reasons he stopped? Was it his choice, or the choice of the movie producers? I doubt they are never making Wolverine movies again, so why did he stop playing future parts as Wolverine?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23455" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-04-15T07:08:19.960" LastActivityDate="2019-04-15T07:08:19.960" Title="Why is Hugh Jackman not going to continue to portray Wolverine?" Tags="|character|x-men-cinematic-universe|casting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37238" CreationDate="2015-07-30T00:33:18.703" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;He thought it was time. &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/why-hugh-jackman-is-retiring-wolverine-3/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;He said on Dr. Oz&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“This will be my last one. […] It is my last time. It just felt like&#xA;  it was the right time to do it. And let’s be honest, 17 years [note:&#xA;  the Wolverine sequel is scheduled for 2017]. I never thought in a&#xA;  million years it would last, so I’m so grateful to the fans for the&#xA;  opportunity of playing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I kind of have in my head what we’re going to do in this last one. It&#xA;  just feels like this is the perfect way to go out.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23456" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-30T14:20:55.340" LastActivityDate="2015-07-30T14:20:55.340" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37242" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-30T03:43:10.463" Score="7" ViewCount="40695" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wonder what is the nationality of Felonious Gru from the movie &lt;em&gt;Despicable Me&lt;/em&gt;.  I have seen the movie both in English and Spanish, and both voice characterizations makes me think that he is East European (maybe Romanian), or perhaps Russian, but can't find any evidence of this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My family recently watched the &lt;em&gt;Minions&lt;/em&gt; movie, and according to them (beware, spoilers ahead) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; there are scenes in the movie that points Gru to be from England.  I believe this happens near the end of the movie, where the minions found Gru as a child near a beach I think...  and as the second half of the movie takes place in London, at least we can tell that little Gru lived there as a child.  However, that doesn't mean that he was born in England...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19611" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2016-07-15T17:18:26.350" LastActivityDate="2017-02-18T19:45:18.073" Title="What is the nationality of Felonious Gru?" Tags="|character|despicable-me|despicable-me-2|minions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37242" CreationDate="2015-07-30T03:58:28.640" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;A quick search seems to imply that no one knows. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carrel appeared in character on Ellen DeGeneres' show and said he's from &quot;Albuquerque, New Mexico&quot; but there's no way to know if he was being serious or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's around 1:50 in the clip below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/U30Bbijv39c?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, she seems to doubt what he says and his response is &quot;Don't push this topic!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems completely within character for him to hedge about where he's from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-07-30T03:58:28.640" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37244" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37250" CreationDate="2015-07-30T04:23:02.830" Score="9" ViewCount="4334" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 1 of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, Littlefinger tells Catelyn and Ned that the knife used for trying to murder Bran belongs to Tyrion (&quot;the Imp&quot;). He told them that he lost it to him in a wager. On that basis she accused Tyrion of attempting to murder her son, abducted him and took him to the Eyrie. He could have lost his life there, if not for Bran.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why didn't Tyrion confront Littlefinger for telling Catelyn that the knife belongs to him? For me, this will be the first instinct for anyone once they reach King's Landing.&#xA;He didn't even need to wait to reach King's Landing, he could have sent word to his brother Jaime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is he not aware who told Lady Stark? Or does he have some other reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-30T09:57:24.313" LastActivityDate="2017-08-29T20:10:03.467" Title="Why didn't Tyrion confront Littlefinger for telling Catelyn that the knife belongs to him?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37212" CreationDate="2015-07-30T07:51:23.513" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://gizmodo.com/why-facebook-is-evil-according-to-mindblowing-new-seri-1709083311&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; article, which quotes the words of the creator of the show (Sam Esmail), the &lt;strong&gt;Evil Corp&lt;/strong&gt; is based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Enron&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And by the way, Esmail told us that the “E” in Evil Corp is “totally the Enron logo.” Then he laughed. “It’s not like they’re going to sue us for it.” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/madAW.gif&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/madAW.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Enron logo&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21059" LastActivityDate="2015-07-30T07:51:23.513" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37244" CreationDate="2015-07-30T08:02:10.070" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Tyrion_Lannister&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;books wiki&lt;/a&gt; he didn't know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unknown to Tyrion, Catelyn was told by Petyr Baelish that the dagger&#xA;  used in Bran’s failed assassination attempt belonged to Tyrion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think it was different in the show (for sure she didn't mention it in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsUaB1WtMRI&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;capture scene&lt;/a&gt;) and I don't remember him finding out later. In the TV show this plot dies in season 1, while &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Catspaw_assassin#In_the_books&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;in the books&lt;/a&gt; we find out more about it, as far as finding out who sent the assassin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is unknown why the TV series never reveals that it was Joffrey who&#xA;  sent the assassin; Joffrey receives the Valyrian steel sword Widow's&#xA;  Wail as a wedding gift, as he did in the books, but no mention is made&#xA;  of the assassination attempt on Bran back in Season 1. It is possible&#xA;  that the reason is the same for not revealing the truth about Tysha in&#xA;  &quot;The Children&quot;: the producers grew afraid that casual viewers wouldn't&#xA;  remember that this happened in early Season 1 - even though this was&#xA;  one of the escalating events which sparked the entire Stark-Lannister&#xA;  conflict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, in the books Tyrion did find out about Littlefinger's deed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During a casual conversation at King's Landing, Tyrion made a comment&#xA;  about Littlefinger's elegant suit and handsome knife. Littlefinger&#xA;  drew his knife, glanced at it casually, as if he had never seen it&#xA;  before and said “Valyrian steel, and a dragonbone hilt. A trifle&#xA;  plain, though. It’s yours, if you would like it”. Noticing the&#xA;  mischief in his eyes, Tyrion realized that Littlefinger was teasing&#xA;  him insolently about the assassin's dagger, without saying anything&#xA;  explicit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tyrion suffered a lot as a result of Littlefinger's lie: he was&#xA;  humiliated, kidnapped, beaten, locked in a sky cell and nearly killed&#xA;  three times (on the way to the Eyrie, at the Eyrie and on the way&#xA;  back) - and yet he never attempted to settle score with Littlefinger,&#xA;  either openly or secretly (as he did with a singer who tried to&#xA;  blackmail him), even after being taunted about it. It is unclear why&#xA;  Tyrion let Littlefinger get away with that, in contrast to the&#xA;  unofficial motto of his house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-07-30T08:18:33.563" LastActivityDate="2015-07-30T08:18:33.563" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37251" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-30T08:08:03.673" Score="2" ViewCount="456" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 28 Days Later, why did they select the value 28 and not any other? Is this number something special or did they just choose it randomly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-07-30T09:59:14.170" LastActivityDate="2015-07-30T19:28:44.370" Title="Why 28 and not any other number?" Tags="|title|28-days-later|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37253" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-30T13:41:10.840" Score="6" ViewCount="118559" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, at the end Captain Jack Sparrow enters into the Kraken's mouth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4F8nk.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4F8nk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ib13U.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ib13U.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does he end up in the World's End? Does he die and his soul is taken there or does the Kraken carry him and leave him there or is it due to any supernatural power?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22813" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-08-06T14:41:15.087" LastActivityDate="2019-01-29T15:33:02.307" Title="Does Captain Jack Sparrow die and get reborn after he enters the Kraken?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pirates-of-the-caribbean|dead-mans-chest|at-worlds-end|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37254" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-30T16:06:23.440" Score="23" ViewCount="1122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you noticed that Ash sometimes concludes his sentences with &quot;Yes?&quot;? I have just finished watching &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt; for the 1000th time and I think he adds &quot;Yes?&quot; every time he is telling a lie, somehow circumventing his programming not to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this observation correct? Yes? Is there any other evidence supporting this theory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some examples of such exchanges between Ash and the crew:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;RIPLEY: Have you tried putting that transmission through the ECIU?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ASH: Mother hasn't identified it... Yes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;RIPLEY: Ash, that transmission... Mother's deciphered part of it, it doesn't look like an SOS.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ASH: What does it look?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  RIPLEY: It looks like a warning. I'm gonna go right after them.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ASH: What's the point? I mean by the time it takes to get there you'll... they'll know if it's a warning or not. Yes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;RIPLEY: It's a pretty big risk for a science officer. It's not exactly out of the manual, is it?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ASH: I do take my responsibilities as seriously as you, you know. You do your job and let me do mine. Yes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;RIPLEY: Okay, what about temperature? What happens if we change it?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ASH: Let's try it. Well... most animals retreat from fire. Yes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23472" LastEditorUserId="23472" LastEditDate="2015-07-30T18:35:50.760" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T16:21:59.187" Title="Ash in Alien cannot lie to humans, Yes?" Tags="|character|dialogue|alien|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37251" CreationDate="2015-07-30T17:21:34.013" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could not find a solid answer but I did find a good hypothesis. This is from Yahoo Answers and was put forth by a user named &amp;quot;methroach&amp;quot;. Here is his/her take on the reason the number 28 was chosen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It just has a nice ring to it--it's an even number, and it comes out to 4 weeks, or roughly a month.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a time period that is just long enough to make the level of devastation and the evacuation believable. Too early, and Jim wakes up with (possibly) some people still around. Too late, and people might question why he (and the other few survivors) aren't dead. The timing is important; the first scene when he's walking around the empty streets is effective and creepy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, how long can one stay in a coma without being attended to, before problems arise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the link to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=A86.JyRXW7pV3isAgCgnnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTE0bGo5dWltBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDRkZYVUk0MF8xBHNlYwNzcg--?qid=20080401151405AAdwOy8&amp;amp;p=why%20is%2028%20days%20later%20called%20that&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Yahoo Answers page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23288" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-30T19:28:44.370" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37257" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-30T17:41:30.863" Score="0" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Baahubali, why did Kattappa kill Baahubali?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23476" LastEditorUserId="22115" LastEditDate="2015-07-31T11:36:56.610" LastActivityDate="2015-07-31T11:36:56.610" Title="Why did Kattappa kill Baahubali" Tags="|plot-explanation|baahubali-the-beginning|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-07-30T17:44:16.897" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37253" CreationDate="2015-07-30T20:30:44.060" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a narrative like this, it's not so easy (nor productive) to use binary terms like &quot;dead&quot; or &quot;alive&quot; or think of a &quot;place&quot; like World's End as a real location. Indeed, throughout the franchise they continually play with different conceptions of dead, living, animated, silent, present, missing, etc. You might just as well ask whether or not Barbossa was dead in the beginning of the first movie, or died at the end of it, or came back to life in the end of the 2nd, etc. It's purposefully muddy and unclear, since, as Barbossa said to Elizabeth Swann when they first met, &quot;[we'd] best start believing in ghost stories.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would be a better statement to make is that the Kraken dragged Sparrow to Davy Jones' Locker (a term used in pirate narratives to represent the depths of the sea). Certainly, that might be interpreted as death (which is what you'd normally expect when heading to the bottom of the sea), and so the rest of the gang's traveling to rescue him might be a form of bringing him back to life. But it's much more mythical than that ... it's more akin to Orpheus rescuing Euridyce from the Underworld than it is Willow resurrecting Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It's the very mythical nature of the beast, the place Sparrow ends up, and the journey needed to return that makes this a powerful way to tell the story ... the ocean is much more than just the ocean, but it's a representation of our tenuous relationship between life and death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2171" LastActivityDate="2015-07-30T20:30:44.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2637" CreationDate="2015-07-30T22:31:39.387" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think Tony was obsessed with Gina. He just had the image of her as a little girl and didn't want her to be like him, so what Manny told Gina in the movie was true that Tony was like a father to her, protecting her and such. Tony was high on cocaine when he killed Manny, if he wasn't he probably would have been shocked sure but he wouldn't have killed Manny because later on when Sosa's army attacks Tony's mansion, you see Tony regretting what he did to Manny saying &quot;oh fuck Manny, how'd I do that?&quot; and then when Gina is shot and killed he says &quot;I love Manny and I love you too you know?&quot;, so that kind of tells you Tony didn't have an incest obsession with Gina, but a fatherly type of love for Gina. He was protective yeah, but very overprotective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23479" LastActivityDate="2015-07-30T22:31:39.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37253" CreationDate="2015-07-31T03:50:17.070" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes he died and reached this place known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/World%27s_End&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The World's End&lt;/a&gt; located far beyond the Caribbean and Singapore, which is one of the most inaccessible places in the world. It could be found only by using the navigational charts, which were presented to the esteemed navigator Wu Ling for his journeys to the 'afterlife'. These charts would later be given to the Pirate Lord Sao Feng.Same charts are used by Barbossa to find him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_Sparrow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikia&lt;/a&gt; it is mentioned that Jack Sparrow's last word is &amp;quot;Hello beastie&amp;quot; which implies he died after these words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Placing his hat once more atop his head, Captain Jack Sparrow said &amp;quot;Hello beastie&amp;quot;. Then he drew his sword and faced off against the Kraken as it dragged the Black Pearl under water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Hello beastie.&amp;quot;&#xA;Jack Sparrow's last words before facing the Kraken.&#xA;With that, the captain went down with his ship, and Davy Jones considered his debt settled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks a little bit confusing that the death in  this 'mystical world of the Pirates of the Carrebian Universe' is not the same as our universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-07-31T08:47:08.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31878" CreationDate="2015-07-31T12:47:35.940" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doug was obsessed with her. He couldn't handle the fact the feelings weren't mutual. He was jealous, controlling and a stalker. He wasn't visiting her because he was being told to by Frank Underwood. He was visiting her because of his obsession with her. When he goes to her apartment, when she isn't there and smells her bedding. Rachel reading to him because he loved the sound of her voice. He has an addictive personality. He is OCD with everything he gets involved with. Frank, job, Rachel and alcohol. Doug is addicted to Rachel like Alcohol. He knows he will be constantly obsessed with her while she is alive. So he murders poor Rachel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23493" LastActivityDate="2015-07-31T12:47:35.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37284" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-07-31T20:07:41.323" Score="13" ViewCount="12812" Body="&lt;p&gt;During his training as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478970/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ant-Man&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we can see Scott working on the electronics of his suit, specifically some kind of regulator, much to Hank's dismay, and a dialogue similar to the following ensues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scott:&lt;/strong&gt; You know, I think that regulator is holding me back.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Hank:&lt;/strong&gt; Hands off that regulator. If you damage this regulator you end up in sub-atomic space...&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Scott:&lt;/strong&gt; Ok, well, I'll be careful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then nearing the end of the movie he has to disable the regulator to get small enough for intruding and destroying the Yellowjacket, which indeed makes him end up in the quantum realm. His enlargement button doesn't seem to work anymore. But then he remembers Hanks words of warning, grabs some object and puts it into his regulator which causes his enlargement button to work again and embiggens him back into the macro world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this scene wasn't really explained that much, or I'm just missing something. &lt;strong&gt;What exactly did he do there and does it have something to do with his tampering with the regulator earlier&lt;/strong&gt; (since his comment to Hank didn't sound like he intended to keep his hands off that thing)? Seeing that it seemed impossible even to Hank that anything could return from the quantum realm, it looked rather easy for Scott to just get back again. So did he figure this out himself or was it afterall not that hard to return from the quantum realm at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T08:16:03.197" LastActivityDate="2017-09-02T21:33:42.647" Title="How did Ant-Man manage to get big again?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|ant-man|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37284" CreationDate="2015-07-31T20:13:48.860" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scott puts one of the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Pym_Particles_Discs&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pym Particles Discs&lt;/a&gt;&quot; into the regulator, which gives the suit an extra boot, and is able to bring Scott out of the quantum realm. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Blue Discs - Contains a unique form of Pym Particles different from those that power the Ant-Man Suit; allowing them to enlarge their target by expanding the distance between its atoms and supplying extra mass for stabilization.  After plunging into the quantum realm, Scott was able to reverse the effect by inserting a Blue Disc into Suit's regulator and releasing the enlarging Pym Particles directly into the suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qrBfR.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qrBfR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21877" LastActivityDate="2015-07-31T20:13:48.860" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1571" CreationDate="2015-07-31T21:07:23.727" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before Dr. Jenner commuted suicide at the CDC, he told Rick that everyone is infected. I think that sometime during the apocolypse, the virus became airborne, maybe due to the growth of dead walkers piling up, or something else. The virus became part of the air, and as the survivors inhaled, the virus, along with oxygen and carbon dioxide, traveled through their bloodstream, spreading throughout their bodies. But, in order for the virus to take over the bodies of the survivors, they have to either die naturally, die in the hands of someone else, or get bitten or scratched by a walker. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23503" LastActivityDate="2015-07-31T21:07:23.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="203" CreationDate="2015-07-31T22:05:55.173" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You all forgot &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047264/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_wr#writers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;THE NAKED JUNGLE&lt;/a&gt; based on Carl Stephenson’s  Lennigen Versus theAnts. And Joe Dante's masterful short &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgejbm_mant-joe-dante-matinee-john-goodman_shortfilms&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MANT&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23506" LastActivityDate="2015-07-31T22:05:55.173" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37216" CreationDate="2015-07-31T22:16:04.110" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think its necessary. Unless I'm mistaken there's only one character, &quot;The Knave Of Hearts&quot;, who crossed over to Once Upon A Time and they've never mentioned Alice. Although I'd recommend watching Wonderland, I found it really good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23242" LastActivityDate="2015-07-31T22:16:04.110" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37291" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37313" CreationDate="2015-07-31T23:02:05.900" Score="20" ViewCount="6411" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed since some time that whiskey offered in offices of bosses in US movies or series often tend to be poured from anonymous glass bottles/decanters. I saw this often happen in &lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt; for example. I remember Frank saying once something about a blend in an early episode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is keeping whiskey in glass bottles an American culture thing or has this to do with some laws what type of alcohol can be &quot;advertised&quot;/plugged in movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it is a culture thing. Why would you go through the trouble of pouring whiskey from one bottle into another one? Are people really mixing &quot;home-made&quot; blends?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23507" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2015-08-01T14:30:15.763" LastActivityDate="2016-09-22T18:04:50.663" Title="Whiskey in US movies out of plain glass decanters. A movie or culture thing?" Tags="|american-cinema|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37291" CreationDate="2015-07-31T23:56:45.277" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Liquor advertising is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_advertising#United_States&quot;&gt;legal in the U.S.&lt;/a&gt;, but it is a contentious issue.  It is pretty much guaranteed that if distilleries advertise too much in the wrong markets (i.e., much of the audience is under age 21) laws will be enacted probably to completely ban such advertising.  Currently industry trade groups create and enforce the standards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A show like &lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt; probably doesn't appeal to minors in any great measure, so showing a whiskey label would not present any problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, should the series be shown on a television network, it could provide a issue.  That and all the cigarette smoking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, using an anonymized container is something that many older people in my family did when entertaining at least in the 1960s through 1990s.  Grandma once said it was to help keep the conversation on the people and not about the drink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems realistic to me in &lt;em&gt;Mad Men&lt;/em&gt;.  I am sure they are (portraying the) drinking (of) top shelf stuff.  And it looks nicer that way too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think anyone would mix it.  But maybe vary the brand without calling notice to a change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2015-07-31T23:56:45.277" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37216" CreationDate="2015-08-01T00:09:29.593" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the main story arcs of OUaT and OUaTiW are completely independent of each other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you might want to watch &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/television/11-Reasons-Once-Time-Frozen-Story-Flipping-Weird-67560.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Frozen&lt;/a&gt; (not that I have). I can only assume it lends some character development to these new characters, who seem to have been just dropped in on us. I find the back-story that's given to us in the TV show, lacking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Side note: you &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; watch OUaT before you watch OUaTiW, or just know that &lt;em&gt;&quot;magic always comes with a price&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, that there's no stronger magic then love, and you're good to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8580" LastActivityDate="2015-08-01T00:09:29.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36707" CreationDate="2015-08-01T01:05:00.547" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Use of Black and White&lt;/strong&gt; –&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.tarantino.info/index.php/Quentin_Tarantino%27s_Trademarks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tarantino.info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;QT has had black and white sequences in two of his films. They appear in &lt;em&gt;Kill Bill&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Death Proof&lt;/em&gt;. These sequences are definitely &lt;strong&gt;inspired by his love of the way movies looked in the early days of cinema&lt;/strong&gt; up to the way it was used in the French New Wave era. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I steal from every single movie ever made,” Tarantino once told Empire magazine. “If my work has anything, it’s that I’m taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together.” –&lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2013/film/markets-festivals/quentin-tarantino-the-great-recycler-1200703098/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;variety.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8580" LastActivityDate="2015-08-01T01:05:00.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37297" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37300" CreationDate="2015-08-01T01:39:37.343" Score="3" ViewCount="694" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I'm midway through watching the second season of Agents of SHIELD on Netflix, and one of the Hydra agents (referred to as Agent 33) disguises herself as Agent May early on in the season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even after she's discovered and her face is partially burned (or something), she continues to wear the mask that she wore as her &quot;Agent May&quot; disguise. Why? I didn't quite follow that part, and I'm not sure what's keeping her from taking the mask off. Was it fused to her face or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T07:47:15.860" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T07:47:15.860" Title="Why doesn't Agent 33 take off her mask in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 2?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|agents-of-shield|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37212" CreationDate="2015-08-01T01:54:04.573" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While they use a logo similar to Enron's, the nature of the company's size and reach is much closer to General Eectric. The toxic waste scandal which they reference is akin to the large environmental mess that GE caused and is addressing in the Hudson among others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23511" LastActivityDate="2015-08-01T01:54:04.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37297" CreationDate="2015-08-01T02:00:01.120" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Exactly, the mask was damaged in fight, and something as micro chips are fused to her face, and now she can't take the mask off, without get hurt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23484" LastActivityDate="2015-08-01T02:00:01.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36144" CreationDate="2015-08-01T02:06:58.777" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;&quot;movie does not hint at any conspiracy&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, nor should it, as it's heralded* for not having used &lt;em&gt;'backstory'&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;'explanations'&lt;/em&gt; for anything:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;*A stand-alone piece, Fury Road is unapologetic in its refusal to explain the previous three films of the franchise - and their Australian settings - nor even much about its titular hero. –&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&amp;amp;objectid=11444771&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;nzherald.co.nz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fuel pod was 'officially' supposed to be empty:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Once again, we send off my war rig to &lt;strong&gt;bring back guzzoline from gas town&lt;/strong&gt; and bullets from the bullet farm.&quot; –Joe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not a plot hole, it's intentionally left out to develop a &lt;strong&gt;plot twist&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8580" LastEditorUserId="8580" LastEditDate="2015-08-02T22:18:58.430" LastActivityDate="2015-08-02T22:18:58.430" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28356" CreationDate="2015-08-01T03:00:07.980" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No cannon explanation is given. Here, I provide you with an out-of-universe explanation: (ending in speculation)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This exchange is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlotCoupon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;plot coupon&lt;/a&gt;, which could bring relevance for this character, should he ever return. In the meantime, it brings depth to the scene, in that there might be more than meets the eye going on here, and that this might not be the only type of 'service' he provides Finch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming the mugger doesn't hold a general animosity towards women, he must know &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt;. {insert theme song clip here} He did have numerous hours to browse her search history...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is, &quot;or...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8580" LastActivityDate="2015-08-01T03:00:07.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37307" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-01T04:32:04.987" Score="4" ViewCount="6655" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few months ago I decided to watch &lt;em&gt;A Clockwork Orange&lt;/em&gt;, as I was only inspired by its IMDB ratings and reviews and the generally high public opinion about the movie. So I was expecting a great movie. I won't lie, but it seldom happens that I cannot tolerate at least the first half of a movie, but in this case, it happened. I couldn't watch it more than 30 minutes, and those 30 minutes I was wondering what is the story, why is this nude and violent. It felt overly violent and sexually explicit to me in the first half hour and I couldn't see how those aspects contributed to the story. This movie made my mind go crazy and irritated like no other movie, not even &lt;em&gt;A serbian movie&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd like to know why it is regarded such a masterpiece. Or does it take a drastic change after 40 minutes or something which I missed and should I give it one more try, which I am very reluctant to? Or did I just miss something about it that better explains how those to me rather repelling aspects of the movie contributed to its quality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21728" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-01T16:13:26.583" LastActivityDate="2015-08-01T23:44:57.450" Title="Why is A Clockwork Orange considered great?" Tags="|a-clockwork-orange|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37311" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-01T05:41:46.090" Score="0" ViewCount="2290" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a lot of movies where the actor (and sometimes actress) will carry another person bridal-style. Are they actually lifting the other person or are they carrying a dummy that looks like the person? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23515" LastActivityDate="2016-04-04T09:53:00.677" Title="Do actors actually carry actresses?" Tags="|stunts|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37291" CreationDate="2015-08-01T07:52:59.630" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't just a US thing, I think this was originally British.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I was growing up serving guests liquor from decanters (the fancier crystal glass the better) was seen as classy, and serving from a labelled bottle was seen as a little crass. Another one of those creepy little British class system things old money folks use to spot new money folks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's also something to do with trusting your host's taste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't just apply to whiskey - just about any strong liquor would have been decanted in this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think anyone attempting to appropriate British style upper class mannerisms would do it, so it's appropriate for both 50/60's ad execs and modern politicians to affect it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1277" LastActivityDate="2015-08-01T07:52:59.630" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37126" CreationDate="2015-08-01T08:59:50.177" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Eliot and E.T. have a deep connection. Deeper than friendship. They have become one. They feel and think the same. E.T. wants to go home and his only chance is through Eliot. He therefore creates a special bond between them. Everything E.T. feels, Eliot does. It also shows to the audience the inseparable relationship between boy and alien.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23493" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-09-19T10:14:58.063" LastActivityDate="2015-09-19T10:14:58.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31486" CreationDate="2015-08-01T09:05:51.467" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought it was because at one point the interview guy told Dave to say something nice about John, something that would make it seem like John was the reason for the team's success. This was obviously something John wanted Dave to say seeing as it was his documentary being made, but Dave doesn't. He just keeps shaking his head and says &quot;I don't know what you want me to say.&quot; Then after John watches the documentary, he sees that Dave doesn't give him any credit like he wanted. So he goes over to shoot Dave believing he must &quot;have a problem&quot; with him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23519" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-18T17:06:42.263" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T17:06:42.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37316" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-01T11:34:15.080" Score="4" ViewCount="3348" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the S08E05 of &lt;em&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/em&gt;, Leonard and Howard argue about the timeline of &lt;em&gt;Back to the Future Part II&lt;/em&gt;. They talk about how the future Biff would go to a different future once he gives the almanac to 1955 Biff. And then when Sheldon came to explain it, I kinda lost it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21338" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-27T09:45:05.377" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T09:45:05.377" Title="Was the explanation of the Back to the Future 2 timeline correct?" Tags="|plot-explanation|time-travel|the-big-bang-theory|back-to-the-future-part-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-08-06T12:13:48.707" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37323" CreationDate="2015-08-01T13:40:07.733" Score="7" ViewCount="1868" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of my favourite types of films are ones where some form of cataclysm occurs (morbid I know). But one thing I have noticed in many films is the destruction of the city of Los Angeles (sometimes destroyed by itself and sometimes destroyed alongside other cities). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asides from the obvious Battle Los Angeles, there are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Massive earthquakes, such as in San Andreas, 2012, the earlier Earthquake film&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Alien attack, asides from the example before, earlier in the original War of the Worlds.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Volcanic eruption: Volcano&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Meteorological events: destruction by tornadoes in the Day After Tomorrow&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nuclear War: Miracle Mile, at least one of the Terminator films&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;just to name a few.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it can be seen that the destruction of Los Angeles seems to be a prominent inclusion in many disaster films. Even if the focus is not on Los Angeles, the city's destruction is often included (e.g. the example above about the Day After Tomorrow).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the reason for the continued cinematic destruction due to the vicinity of Hollywood to Los Angeles or is there another documented reason for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user23522" LastEditorDisplayName="user23522" LastEditDate="2015-08-01T15:13:45.973" LastActivityDate="2015-08-02T19:45:14.957" Title="Why is Los Angeles targeted for destruction so often in Hollywood movies?" Tags="|trope|origin|american-cinema|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37291" CreationDate="2015-08-01T14:28:38.757" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Decanting was originally used in Europe for drinks that might contain sediment (port, sherry) or wines which need to &quot;breathe/oxidise&quot; for a couple of hours before serving. Decanting for your guests was seen as being hospitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In more modern times, in the US the 4 largest tobacco companies signed up to the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement to avoid law suits and liabilities related to medical problems attributed to tobacco use. Under the agreement the companies are required to annually compensate 46 states for medical costs related to tobacco use. They also agreed to abandon many marketing practices including marketing to teens. They agreed to pay a minimum of $206 billion over the first 25 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To avoid similar liability issues and law suits around alcohol placement, the drinks industry has introduced self-regulation, but its not rigorously followed (eg. Ted, The hangover, 21 jump street etc)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My understanding is that currently the guidelines state, if an alcohol brand is promoted by a movie, at least 70% of the audience must be of legal drinking age, nobody in the film under 25 should be involved (drink/make) with the alcohol and the film should only promote responsible drinking (no drunken car chases, binge drinking etc)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23523" LastEditorUserId="23523" LastEditDate="2016-09-22T16:11:23.053" LastActivityDate="2016-09-22T16:11:23.053" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37307" CreationDate="2015-08-01T15:56:42.087" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many reasons, probably too many to list. But here are a few to start (although without citation)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it presents a credible but bleak vision of the near future&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the scenes of violence are brutal, yet also choreographed as well as any dance scene (and with perfectly matching music, too)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the character arc of the protagonist as he goes from thug to victim to political pawn (you actually feel sorry for him)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the sly humorous digs at bureaucracy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the gorgeous cinematography&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;in fact, the use of classical music throughout to set tone (I know, it's not even the first Kubrick movie to do this, but it is a great exemplar of this technique)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, it is not for everyone. Don't force yourself to watch it if you aren't enjoying it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastEditorUserId="872" LastEditDate="2015-08-01T23:44:57.450" LastActivityDate="2015-08-01T23:44:57.450" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37318" CreationDate="2015-08-01T16:36:48.427" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order for a city being destroyed to mean anything to the people viewing it, the city must be iconic and recognizable (unless it's fictional) and probably wants to appeal to people who either have visited or want to visit that city.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that, in the US, there are three big options for very iconic cities with buildings that are recognizable around the world and large amounts of tourism:  New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC... and the Golden Gate Bridge. Obviously, there are other options, Chicago, Las Vegas, Seattle... But, let's look at your examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this, I'm going to be using this really cool article, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/map-how-hollywood-has-destroyed-america-1542969906&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Map: How Hollywood Has Destroyed America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Which has some good data on the various manners of destruction of cities in the US (as a note, New York and LA are about tied).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Massive Earthquakes &amp;amp; Volcanoes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I should think this one is pretty self explanatory: earthquakes and volcanoes have to occur in places where they occur. Everyone would be confused by an earthquake destroying the St. Louis Arch... most would argue, &amp;quot;earthquakes don't happen in the Midwest&amp;quot; (though they &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-great-midwest-earthquake-of-1811-46342/?no-ist&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;apparently have&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LA is on the San Andreas Fault line and is surrounded by geologically active mountains. In fact, how blase LA residents have become about earthquakes is often a &lt;em&gt;joke&lt;/em&gt; in movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A classic scene from &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Story&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;L.A. Story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/vg0fqGEA4MI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On their &amp;quot;Geologic Events&amp;quot; chart, the article has eight based in LA... though there are also four each in San Francisco and New York:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T0YfN.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T0YfN.png&quot; alt=&quot;Geologic Events Chart&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In keeping with the general scientific literature, geologic events—including volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis—are mostly concentrated on the Pacific Rim. Los Angeles has been destroyed by geologic events at least seven times, but New York, which is not on the Pacific Rim, has still managed to be destroyed by a tsunami (Deluge and Quantum Apocalypse), an earthquake (Aftershock), and a volcano (Disaster Zone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, I'd argue that the reason there are so many earthquakes in films is &lt;em&gt;because&lt;/em&gt; it's something people in LA deal with and worry about and they know it gives them something to produce locally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Alien Attack&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I've stated in comments above, Alien attacks generally aim for population centers. If they want to exterminate us quickly, they need aim for areas with the most people. In the US, the top two largest cities by population are New York and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Los_Angeles_Area&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Greater Los Angeles Area is the second-largest urban region in the United States, encompassing five counties in the southern part of the U.S. state of California, extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County on the east, with Los Angeles County and Orange County in the center.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the 20th century, it was one of the fastest-growing regions in the United States, although growth has slowed since 2000. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of nearly 13 million residents. Meanwhile, the larger metropolitan region's population at the 2010 census was estimated to be over 17.8 million residents, and a &lt;strong&gt;2014 estimate reported a population of about 18.5 million&lt;/strong&gt;. Either definition makes it the second largest metropolitan region in the country, behind the New York metropolitan area, as well as one of the largest urban agglomerations in the world. [emphasis added]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're a film company based in LA, you're probably going to pick LA over another city... but not that often... according to the data, LA barely skirts past DC (a much smaller population area) with four events to DC's three.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FL6Wa.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FL6Wa.png&quot; alt=&quot;Aliens Map&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Weather&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Weather happens everywhere and the data backs this up... While LA does have three weather-related city destruction films, many of the 22 films in this category are set in the area called &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Alley&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tornado alley&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; with a large group occurring on the east coast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Xqg6.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Xqg6.png&quot; alt=&quot;Weather Map&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get that your question doesn't say &amp;quot;Why is every film shot in LA?&amp;quot;... but I think that pointing out that many films &lt;em&gt;aren't&lt;/em&gt; in LA will help balance the &amp;quot;Why are &lt;em&gt;so many&lt;/em&gt; shot in LA?&amp;quot; question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Nuclear War&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article doesn't separate &amp;quot;Nuclear War&amp;quot; from other human destruction and it doesn't include movies where the actual event isn't shown:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes—in the case of invasions, terrorism, fires, and especially nukes—it turns out that MAN is the real disaster. This list doesn't include the many post-apocalyptic movies that make the same general point, but start after the disaster has taken place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of this, LA is a common choice because of some of the arguments above... It's a population center. If China or North Korea wanted to obliterate an American city, it's natural that it would choose LA... It's the largest and closest American city to Asia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, the choices largely seem natural, particularly when you add to this the fact that it's probably easier for a production company to shoot locally in LA. They have local crew that doesn't need to be moved to another city and then housed and fed, they have studios to shoot in, and all of the equipment they need. It makes you wonder why they bother shooting anywhere else... and the reason for that... is that it's very expensive to shoot in LA. I have no clue why their alternate choices are so often New York or San Francisco they're both much more expensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-01T17:06:09.833" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37327" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-01T20:10:07.750" Score="11" ViewCount="1099" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rewatched Alan J. Pakula’s &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzQRp0Fjpjg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Parallax View&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (starring Warren Beatty) this recently–first time since seeing it in 1986—and am still baffled by a key plot device.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film starts off with an assassination of presidential candidate at Seattle’s Space Needle. It’s clearly a huge press event and tons of people see the assassination happen. The assassin — disguised as a waiter — is chased to the roof where he falls to his death. Then in the days/weeks that follow, many people — six or more — are slowly dying off as time progresses with the implication being the Parallax Corporation is behind their deaths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, I completely buy the paranoid conceit of the film: That the Parallax Corporation’s main “product” was political assassination. But it still makes no sense to me why six or more witnesses to the initial assassination had to die. Did something play out wrong during that assassination that forced Parallax to clean up it’s mess? Was something revealed that would “out” Parallax in some way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that there was another waiter there — with a gun clearly shown to the viewer – who I believe would be the initial assassin’s handler. Meaning if the first “patsy” assassin choked and did not follow through, this other assassin would jump in to get the job done and possibly kill the first “failed” assassin as well. But why go through the time, energy and effort to kill at least six innocent bystanders?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18230" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2022-02-18T03:15:20.973" LastActivityDate="2022-07-18T05:03:50.360" Title="Why were witnesses to the initial assassination in “The Parallax View” (1974) systematically killed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-parallax-view|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="37328" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37335" CreationDate="2015-08-01T20:32:00.653" Score="8" ViewCount="12808" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;Mission: Impossible&quot;&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/a&gt; movie, towards the end, Jim Phelps kills his wife, Claire. Up until then, we know that they were working together on framing Ethan. So why does he go ahead and kill her instead of shooting Ethan and getting away? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21338" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T15:38:14.420" LastActivityDate="2020-07-28T14:54:34.880" Title="Question about Jim and Claire's relationship" Tags="|plot-explanation|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-1996|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37330" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37135" CreationDate="2015-08-01T20:44:53.563" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Remember what happened with Rita, that the aliens had fooled her at VERDAN, that people were thinking that they had won at verdan.... But the aliens were testing out human power &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the same thing had happened with CRUISE too, maybe again the aliens aren't dead yet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23501" LastEditorUserId="23501" LastEditDate="2015-11-18T04:29:53.877" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T04:29:53.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37328" CreationDate="2015-08-01T21:46:08.093" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I'd dare to say their relationship was never that strong and it certainly didn't get better from her engagement with Ethan, may that have been staged at the beginning. When she approaches Jim (or rather Ethan in the Jim costume, with the real Jim eavesdropping from behind) at the start of that scene, she pleads for him to leave Ethan alive, although that certainly was not the plan:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Claire:&lt;/strong&gt; Ethan's right behind me. Listen Jim, is it such a good idea to kill him? Kittridge is here. We'll take the money, Ethan takes the blame. No one else has seen you alive, no one will believe him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While she gives some pragmatic excuses to leave him alive, the deeper reason, and one that Jim might also have read between the lines, seems to be that she developed feelings for Ethan during their time on the run and does not want him killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also seen that Jim concentrates on the aspect of her seduction skills with Ethan specifically in his dialogue thereafter, which shows that he's quite a bit jealous, and also that his personal opinion of his wife might not be the best anymore, if it ever was so high:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jim:&lt;/strong&gt; Why the masquerade, why take the risk? Well Claire, you've asked the question and you are the answer... But he didn't know about you. In all fairness Ethan, Claire was never convinced her charms would work on you. But I was supremely confident, having tasted her goods. Thou shall not covet thy neighbors wife, Ethan.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While his jealousy primarily concentrates on Ethan, he does project that on his wife, too, even if it was actually planned that way. When she then pleads for him not to shoot Ethan, he sees that she has feelings for him, too. His existing jealousy just gets too much and he gets mad on her. Now it certainly would have been the strategically better move to shoot Ethan first, but well, the anger of a jealous husband.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Claire:&lt;/strong&gt; Don't, don't Jim!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jim:&lt;/strong&gt; Don't Jim?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it actually still stays debatable if he ever intended to take his wife with him in the first place at all, seeing what kind of character Jim Phelps is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-11-08T19:57:54.140" LastActivityDate="2019-11-08T19:57:54.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="37336" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37338" CreationDate="2015-08-01T22:45:59.420" Score="6" ViewCount="28057" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Goblet_of_Fire_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire&lt;/a&gt;, why didn't Harry Potter tell on Lucius Malfoy? I mean that he is in fact Death Eater. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23538" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-08-02T00:20:20.733" LastActivityDate="2021-12-28T01:06:02.443" Title="Why didn't Harry Potter turn in Lucius Malfoy?" Tags="|harry-potter|the-goblet-of-fire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37336" CreationDate="2015-08-01T23:10:41.927" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;He did, but the scene wasn't included in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the imposter Moody, Barty Crouch Junior, was kissed (executed) by Dementors, the Minister is looking for Dumbledore and shows up in the infirmary where Harry is recovering from his injuries. At this point, Harry tries to tell him about Voldemort's return and lists all the Death Eaters who Voldemort named, but the Minister doesn't believe him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Look, I saw Voldemort come back!&quot; Harry shouted. He tried to get out of bed&#xA;  again, but Mrs. Weasley forced him back. &quot;I saw the Death Eaters! I can give you&#xA;  their names! Lucius Malfoy -&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Snape made a sudden movement, but as Harry looked at him, Snape's eyes flew&#xA;  back to Fudge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Malfoy was cleared!&quot; said Fudge, visibly affronted. &quot;A very old family -&#xA;  donations to excellent causes -&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Macnair!&quot; Harry continued.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Also cleared! Now working for the Ministry!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Avery - Nott - Crabbe - Goyle -&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You are merely repeating the names of those who were acquitted of being Death&#xA;  Eaters thirteen years ago!&quot; said Fudge angrily. &quot;You could have found those&#xA;  names in old reports of the trials! For heavens sake, Dumbledore - the boy was full&#xA;  of some crackpot story at the end of last year too - his tales are getting taller, and you're still swallowing them - the boy can talk to snakes. Dumbledore, and you&#xA;  still think he's trustworthy?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 36: The Parting of the Ways&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9682" LastActivityDate="2015-08-01T23:10:41.927" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31142" CreationDate="2015-08-01T23:53:07.297" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While they share the same diagnosis, there is a difference between sociopath and psychopath though many do use them interchangeably. The main difference between a psychopath and a sociopath is that a psychopath stays calm and their vitals stay level no matter their actions. A sociopath feels emotions and their vitals vary accordingly.Think Hannibal vs Buffalo Bill. I would consider the character in Nightcrawler to be a psycho based on these differences. He is consistently calm in a way that makes it the first thing you notice. He's also overly-charming to the point of being creepy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Resources: pretty much any psych website or journal you read, this is the age of google scholar and ebscohost; several years of study in abnormal psychology (for an as-of-yet unfinished minor, so take that for whatever you think it's worth)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23539" LastActivityDate="2015-08-01T23:53:07.297" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37340" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-08-02T00:21:16.377" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire&lt;/em&gt; is a 2005 American adventure, family, fantasy film, directed by Mike Newell, and written by J.K. Rowling (novel) and Steve Kloves (screenplay). It stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, and more. It released in the USA on November 18, 2005. It was nominated for one Oscar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full IMDb Storyline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts is about to start and he is enjoying the summer vacation with his friends. They get the tickets to The Quidditch World Cup Final but after the match is over, people dressed like Lord Voldemort's 'Death Eaters' set a fire to all the visitors' tents, coupled with the appearance of Voldemort's symbol, the 'Dark Mark' in the sky, which causes a frenzy across the magical community. That same year, Hogwarts is hosting 'The Triwizard Tournament', a magical tournament between three well-known schools of magic : Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang. The contestants have to be above the age of 17, and are chosen by a magical object called Goblet of Fire. On the night of selection, however, the Goblet spews out four names instead of the usual three, with Harry unwittingly being selected as the Fourth Champion. Since the magic cannot be reversed, Harry is forced to go with it and brave three exceedingly difficult tasks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330373/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Goblet_of_Fire_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41249" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T07:16:46.443" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T07:16:46.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37341" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-08-02T00:21:16.377" Score="0" Body="Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth installment in the Harry Potter film series, based on the novel of the same name, starring Daniel Radcliffe as the titular character alongside Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger. " OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T16:49:09.340" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T16:49:09.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37342" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-02T00:57:24.833" Score="5" ViewCount="6312" Body="&lt;p&gt;The episode &quot;The Fortune&quot; (S01E12) of the 1988 run of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094511/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; sees the death of primary team member Casey Randall (Terry Markwell) and the introduction of Jane Badler's Shannon Reed, who is from then on practically Casey's replacement for the rest of the show's 2-season run.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it is a bit unusual to see such a primary casting change right in the middle of the season. But on the other hand it seems well-integrated into the story (and Terry Markwell was certainly still alive and working, albeit never made an appearance on &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/em&gt; again). So &lt;strong&gt;I'd like to know if this significant change of the team has always been planned as part of the show's story&lt;/strong&gt; right from the season's conception or if this was due to some external production/casting intricacies later on (and in the latter case, what those reasons were). Is there any official information from the show's producers/writers/actors on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T12:55:42.817" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T12:55:42.817" Title="What was the reason for Terry Markwells departure from Mission: Impossible?" Tags="|casting|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37345" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37346" CreationDate="2015-06-28T06:23:17.667" Score="44" ViewCount="71348" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Inside Out, I found that the personified emotions Anger and Fear inside the main character (Riley) are &lt;strong&gt;male&lt;/strong&gt; whereas Joy, Disgust and Sadness are &lt;strong&gt;female&lt;/strong&gt;. Is there any reason why it has been designed like that for a 11 year old girl?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MC3XuMvsDI&quot;&gt;the second trailer,&lt;/a&gt; we see that the emotions inside the mother are all female, while the ones inside the father are all male. On top of that, while each emotion (Anger, Joy, etc) look alike from person to person, all the emotions inside the mother and the father look like them (The mother's emotions all have her same haircut &amp;amp; glasses, the father's have his haircut &amp;amp; mustache).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a in world or out of universe explanation for the mix &amp;amp; match look of Riley's emotions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Tc2rD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6314" OwnerDisplayName="Ganesh Babu . T. Y" LastActivityDate="2017-02-11T01:07:23.297" Title="Why are two of Riley's five emotions in Inside Out male?" Tags="|inside-out|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37345" CreationDate="2015-06-28T18:46:02.737" Score="52" Body="&lt;p&gt;Director Pete Docter and Pixar founder John Lasseter explain why Riley's emotions are mixed while her parents' are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, the parents' emotions are due to both emotional development and story and acting flow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I [Docter] remember, we talked to John and he said, ‘Well, I thought you did it because, as adults, we become more kind of set in our ways. As a kid, you can... anywhere is possible.’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Docter said that they were ultimately two things that were absolutely vital to the scene: clarity and comedy. Had Riley’s parents both had multi-gendered emotions like their daughter, the scene would have been going back between 18 different characters, and it was a bit unruly unless everyone was identifiable. Not only did making the emotions gender specific in the parents make the sequence easier to follow, but it also opened up an opportunity to create a few extra laughs. &lt;br&gt; Explained the director: &lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;For the comedy of it, we’re cutting between 18 characters and 4 locations in that dinner scene, so we just went broad with it - kind of how SNL would do it. They all have like dopey obvious mustaches or big red glasses so that you’re instantly clear on, ‘Oh, it’s mom; it’s dad.’&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Why-Inside-Out-Main-Character-Has-Male-Female-Emotions-72176.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Why-Inside-Out-Main-Character-Has-Male-Female-Emotions-72176.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the parents are simplified to make the scene easier to follow, and because as Adults, they have already developed their adult personality/emotions. Riley has not yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;What was the thought process behind the genders of the emotions?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Docter:&lt;/strong&gt; Again, it was intuitive. It felt to me like Anger's very masculine, I don't know why. And then some of it came to casting... Sadness felt a little more feminine and Mindy Kahling as Disgust felt right. And someone balanced too. Plus the female roles lead because it's inside a girl. With mom and dad, we skewed them all male and all female for a quick read, because you have to understand where we are, which is a little phony but hopefully people don't mind! &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.empireonline.com/empireblogs/empire-states/post/p1463&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.empireonline.com/empireblogs/empire-states/post/p1463&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in short, Riley's emotions are mixed because, as a pre-teen, she's likely not to have developed a strict outer personality. She's still growing, and developing her own style. She's still raw and malleable, impressionable. Secondary to this is of course the rule of funny. Having some of the emotions as male is purely for show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" OwnerDisplayName="cde" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-06-28T18:46:02.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37348" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-02T12:53:45.537" Score="5" ViewCount="1771" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: 'The One With All The Resolutions' (Season 5 Episode 11)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Rachel and Joey find out that each of them knows about Chandler and Monica's secret affair Phoebe enters the apartment. Both of them go for a walk in the rain. Phoebe then says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;I bet they're doing it.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does she mean by that? Who is she referring to by 'they'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21983" LastEditorUserId="781" LastEditDate="2015-08-02T13:24:40.380" LastActivityDate="2015-08-02T13:24:40.380" Title="What does Phoebe mean when she says &quot;I bet they're doing it&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37348" CreationDate="2015-08-02T13:02:00.743" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;She means Rachel and Joey. She notices they have a secret and assumes they have an affair (by 'doing it' she means sex). This is funny especially because it's actually Monica and Chandler having an affair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-08-02T13:02:00.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30639" CreationDate="2015-08-02T17:39:31.977" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;MC in Running Man can actually means &lt;strong&gt;Monday Couple&lt;/strong&gt;; a pairing of Kang Gary and Song Ji Hyo that starts in the earlier episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23555" LastEditorUserId="23555" LastEditDate="2015-08-10T19:56:18.380" LastActivityDate="2015-08-10T19:56:18.380" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37358" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38787" CreationDate="2015-08-02T17:41:06.677" Score="8" ViewCount="3575" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the Fury tank enters the town, a pink object is visible on the tank. What is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QnEgf.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QnEgf.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23554" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-03T11:12:50.063" LastActivityDate="2018-04-17T06:31:13.993" Title="What is the pink thing on the Sherman tank?" Tags="|props|fury|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37362" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37385" CreationDate="2015-08-02T19:35:01.440" Score="5" ViewCount="879" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm trying to figure out the name of a certain sci-fi space movie. I can vaguely remember the plot and I've recently (?) watched it too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Earth was supposedly ravaged by a war, then turned into a peace haven by some Space Union where no one was allowed to return. Only to be discovered by the main characters that the Earth was actually in fact completely destroyed, the Earth appeared purple-ish in color and had weird alien like features. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at the end, a small glimmer of life on Earth was found (I remember a small plant) and that's pretty much what I  remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23558" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2015-08-02T23:17:04.977" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T18:50:49.357" Title="Sci-fi space movie, with destroyed Earth (appeared purple-ish with alien-like features)" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:54:39.870" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37370" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-02T23:57:04.163" Score="3" ViewCount="1029" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first Spider-Man movie, when Peter is deciding to become a costumed wrestler, he sketches out a handful of possible costume designs that don't look much like a Spider-Man suit, but do look a lot like something one might find somewhere in a comic book.  Are any of them allusions to actual suits that were worn by Marvel Comics characters at some point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the clip from the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/MFYHMfF4oIY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2023" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-30T21:09:52.160" LastActivityDate="2016-09-24T13:38:20.770" Title="Are any of Peter Parker's early costume designs allusions to the comic books?" Tags="|reference|comic-adaptation|spider-man|spider-man-trilogy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37372" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-03T00:39:44.253" Score="3" ViewCount="1103" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first Spider-Man movie, when Peter tracks the thief who killed his uncle to the warehouse and confronts him, the thief stumbles backwards, trips over a raised pipe on the floor, and falls out of an upper-story window to his death.  Peter then steps up to the window to look out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To an outside observer who didn't see the pipe, it looked exactly like Peter had just pushed him, and the &quot;outside observer&quot; is not hypothetical in this case: there were cops nearby with a searchlight.  They turned it and got a good, solid look at the &quot;murderer&quot; in the window, and he was wearing the Spider-Man costume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember the first time I saw the movie, thinking &quot;oh no, now he's going to start his career out wanted for the murder of that thug,&quot; ...and then nothing ever comes of it.  No police want to find Spider-Man or take him in for killing the thief, despite what looks like a clear set-up to have this as a plot point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did anyone involved in the making of the film ever talk about that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2023" LastActivityDate="2015-08-03T06:31:19.730" Title="Why does Spider-Man (Sam Raimi version) not start out his career wanted for murder?" Tags="|plot-explanation|spider-man-trilogy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30111" CreationDate="2015-08-03T04:04:02.013" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first time Sheldon asks Penny to sing the song, she does not know it, so he teaches it to her. He is sick and sings it a little off. So she sings it the way she remembers Sheldon teaching it to her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23552" LastActivityDate="2015-08-03T04:04:02.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37057" CreationDate="2015-08-03T05:01:57.730" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If an adult human sees a toy somewhere other than where it should be, the adult will probably put the toy back. Which means the toy will have to go through all that work again.  If a child sees the toy and picks it up, who knows where the toy will end up.  As a final thought, suppose you looked down and saw a toy like Woody sneaking across the floor. How would you react -- in real life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23552" LastActivityDate="2015-08-03T05:01:57.730" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37372" CreationDate="2015-08-03T06:31:19.730" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because Spiderman wasn't known yet and they were too far away.&lt;/strong&gt; Peter Parker also didn't wear the costume he's later known for but rather a crude costume he made for a wrestling match. In fact, from that distance it just looks like a random guy in a baggy red pullover and jeans:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mOO83.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mOO83.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if they did spot that spider symbol and made the connection later when he became famous, there's really not enough evidence to tie this back to Spiderman and could be ruled as a coincidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-08-03T06:31:19.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37362" CreationDate="2015-08-03T08:29:57.520" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like it could be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2668134/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Space Pirate Captain Harlock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the future, mankind has discovered a way to travel faster than light and has built colonies on thousands of planets. With humanity fading and the resources of the universe starting to dwindle, some five hundred billion humans began the long journey back home, to Earth. However, humanity has outgrown its capacity to repatriate that many people and thus began the &quot;Homecoming War;&quot; where the many factions of humanity battled for a stake on Earth. The war was long and bloody. It did not subside until an authoritarian universal government by the name of the &lt;strong&gt;Gaia Sanction declares Earth a sacred planet&lt;/strong&gt;, and thus forbidden for humanity to repopulate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The dark matter was uncontrollable and it decimated the Earth and life was no longer sustainable&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At Harlock's cell, Yama reveals what he had found on Earth. &lt;strong&gt;The flower meant that Earth is trying to recover on its own&lt;/strong&gt; and it might be the &quot;starting over&quot; that Harlock wanted. Emotionally touched at the significance of this miraculous find, Harlock believes he's found his &quot;freedom&quot;. Harlock intends to expose the truth of Earth and escapes with the Arcadia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an image of the purple Earth:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HpY6rm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HpY6rm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Purple Earth&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23576" LastEditorUserId="25920" LastEditDate="2017-03-09T18:50:49.357" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T18:50:49.357" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37386" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-03T09:12:05.760" Score="1" ViewCount="263" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm writing a paper about a movie that exerts a lot of social and cultural criticism through its backdrop - things like posters, graffiti, murals and so on. They are not central to the story at all (it's a love story), but they kind of tell a story in themselves and become very relevant when interpreting the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a term for this kind of film? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23579" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T03:28:12.323" Title="Term for a movie that tells a lot through its backdrop?" Tags="|analysis|terminology|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37388" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37390" CreationDate="2015-08-03T11:49:55.873" Score="6" ViewCount="21739" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the film Bahubali: The Beginning, a new language called 'Kilikki' was developed and during the war Bahubali and others needed a translator to communicate with those invaders Kalakeyas. I recently heard that their language has its own grammar rules and words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to understand the basics of this language. So my question, Is there any resources available for understanding this language 'Kilikki'? A few examples, words or sentences, will be really helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23581" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-03-30T11:26:40.297" LastActivityDate="2017-03-30T11:26:40.297" Title="What are the basics of Kilikki, the language of Kalkeyas?" Tags="|dialogue|baahubali-the-beginning|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30639" CreationDate="2015-08-03T11:50:42.443" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;MC - Short for master of ceremonies or mic controller. Essentially a word for a rapper but the term is not limited to hip hop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PD - Producer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23582" LastActivityDate="2015-08-03T11:50:42.443" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37388" CreationDate="2015-08-03T12:21:42.587" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few resources around about the constructed language Kilikili (or Kiliki), according to the article &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2015/07/14/baahubali-language-kiliki_n_7792878.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;5 Sentences And Their Translations In Kiliki, The Fictitious Language Used In 'Baahubali'&lt;/a&gt;, the language has over 750 words and over 40 grammar rules. This language was based on an earlier language (Cliq) the author did as a thought exercise of sorts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A grammar rule includes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;including two different kind of 'click' sounds — one that denotes a plural (the sound one makes to express disapproval) and another that indicates a possessive (the sound you make if you try and pronounce a hard 'T' without actually saying it out loud).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the author of the language wanted to portray the emotion behind the words, with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I used hard consonants and soft consonants depending on whether the word was 'hard' or 'soft',&quot; he said. For example, the Kiliki word for 'blood' is 'brrusla', with emphasis on the rolled Rs to make it sound primal and aggressive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few sentences featured in the article are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;English: He should be alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kiliki: Ta beet-qruvool dunkra.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;English: Is it true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kiliki: Loursha-quay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;English: Drop your weapons in the field and run away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kiliki: Nim&lt;em&gt;kle gadeetvoo&lt;/em&gt;tta corota-jra reyy... fuhoo*kle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(* denotes the click sound for either plural or possessive, as per the&#xA;  context)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;English: Can you give me a cup of water?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kiliki: Nim shweek min surrp unoa dhab saasslaa finhee-quay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;English: Don’t talk like a fool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kiliki: Dambadamba jivla baahaa-na.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNCw2yWVpbw&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;YouTube clip&lt;/a&gt; of one of the main actors speaking in Kilikili is available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user23522" LastEditorDisplayName="user23522" LastEditDate="2015-08-03T12:41:48.087" LastActivityDate="2015-08-03T12:41:48.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37057" CreationDate="2015-08-03T13:17:35.660" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The toys in Toy Story are portrayed as they would be in real life. In real life, toys don't move when a human is around. &#xA;Who knows what they do when we don't look.. They might be doing their own thing (This might explain how I lost some of my toys when I was young) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21338" LastEditorUserId="21338" LastEditDate="2018-02-23T03:27:02.873" LastActivityDate="2018-02-23T03:27:02.873" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14917" CreationDate="2015-08-03T18:39:20.910" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The technology made by Lucious and other engineers for the Batman were always off the book and only certain people had clearances to get into the RN Department where the technology and blueprints were stored. Since Miranda/Talia was working for Bane and was a member on the Board of Directors of Wayne Enterprises she was able to give Bane the location the Rn Department was in Gotham City. Therefore Bane and his men were able to get into the sewer underneath the Rn Department and obtain the tech and blueprints to manufacture more vehicles and technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23591" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-12-20T11:17:03.740" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T11:17:03.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37401" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-03T21:09:32.310" Score="4" ViewCount="218" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/17665/how-are-head-shots-and-deep-throat-gashes-filmed&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;, it is mentioned offhand:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are almost no &quot;live shots&quot; of this as it is technically a stunt and according to union rules ( at least in Hollywood) that requires a stunt performer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But we often hear about actors, especially big name stars, who &quot;do their own stunts&quot;. Is there some exemption for leading roles? Is it something that actors are always allowed to freely choose, but directors may not coerce them to do? Is it one of those more technical union rules where it doesn't matter who physically performs as long as someone from the stunt performers' union gets paid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2102" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-08-03T21:09:32.310" Title="Are there union rules requiring stunt performers, and what does this mean for action stars who &quot;do their own stunts&quot;?" Tags="|production|stunts|legal|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32290" CreationDate="2015-08-03T22:34:19.230" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is based on real incidents that happened in 1990. The incident that happened is just known to have happened, there hasn't been an actual recording of the exact events. The film's story, however, follows those events closely, do just watch the film you'll get an idea of what happened. The book &lt;em&gt;Death's Dark Abyss&lt;/em&gt;, just inspired the movie's theme and overall emotion, not the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23597" LastActivityDate="2015-08-03T22:34:19.230" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37408" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37409" CreationDate="2015-08-04T03:02:20.600" Score="7" ViewCount="6853" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 3 Episodes 11 &amp;amp; 12 &lt;em&gt;Company Picnic&lt;/em&gt; we see a large number of guest appearances:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Terry Bradshaw&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tom Green&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Christina Ricci&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Heidi Klum&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Howie Long&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Patrick Warburton&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Susan Sarandon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stephen Root&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Magic Johnson &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bradley Whitford &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many of these actors had shows on FOX around that time, which may answer why those particular actors made guest appearances. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my question is &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; were there so many? Was there something special about the broadcast dates? Was there a promotional reason? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was also some noticeable product placement, if that helps. Off the top of my head I remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;CRUNCH candy (possibly bites) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Doritos 3D (the original, not Jacked) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Starburst candy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user23604" LastActivityDate="2015-08-04T07:20:24.443" Title="Why were there so many guest appearances in this Malcolm in the Middle two-parter?" Tags="|malcolm-in-the-middle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37408" CreationDate="2015-08-04T05:05:01.327" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because it was a post Super Bowl episode&lt;/strong&gt;, airing right after &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXVI&quot;&gt;Super Bowl XXXVI&lt;/a&gt; in February 3, 2002 on the FOX network. From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_lead-out_programs&quot;&gt;Wiki page&lt;/a&gt; about Super Bowl lead-out programs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Super Bowl is the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL), and typically the highest-rated single U.S. television broadcast of any given year. In turn, the program aired immediately following coverage of the game in the U.S. is typically also one of the year's most watched television programs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post Super Bowl episodes often contain stunts and special events like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_the_End_of_the_World&quot;&gt;cliffhangers&lt;/a&gt;, major &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/the-xfiles/leonard-betts-575/&quot;&gt;plot twists&lt;/a&gt;, football-related &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sue_Sylvester_Shuffle&quot;&gt;plots and allusions&lt;/a&gt; and (like in &lt;em&gt;Malcolm in the Middle&lt;/em&gt;'s case) &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_After_the_Superbowl&quot;&gt;lots of celebrity cameos&lt;/a&gt;. You can see a list of post Super Bowl stunt casting &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thewire.com/entertainment/2014/01/ranking-post-super-bowl-episode-stunt-casting/357537/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (where &lt;em&gt;Company Picnic&lt;/em&gt; ranks at no. 5).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-08-04T07:20:24.443" LastActivityDate="2015-08-04T07:20:24.443" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37411" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-04T06:09:41.117" Score="3" ViewCount="1171" Body="&lt;p&gt;There appears to be some strong similarities between Mr. Robot and Utopia. The stories are very different, but stylistically, there seems to be a lot of similarities between the two from the pacing to the soundtrack to the overall 'vibe' from the characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't see an obvious connection between the two shows via the production crews.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is&lt;/em&gt; there a connection between the two via certain key personnel, or is it that Mr. Robot is merely borrowing from it stylistically (intentionally or unintentionally)? If the latter, are any of the creators of the show documented mentioning Utopia as an inspiration? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-11-03T23:31:39.327" Title="Are there any connections between USA's Mr. Robot and Channel 4's Utopia?" Tags="|mr-robot|utopia|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37412" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-04T06:25:16.970" Score="3" ViewCount="608" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Mission:Impossible - Rogue Nation&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ethan Hunt and the IMF (Impossible Mission Force) are involved with The Syndicate, a secretive terrorist organization. In its course of action against the Syndicate, the IMF team has to go to Morocco to perform its usual &lt;em&gt;infiltration scene&lt;/em&gt;. There, they were told &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; by MI6 undercover agent Ilsa Faust that a file containing the names of all Syndicate's agents, its only weak point, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is located in a very secure building in Morocco. My understanding at that point was that it was a Syndicate building. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, we learn that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; the memory device stolen in Morocco actually contained a list of bank accounts that could fund the Syndicate and make it nearly untouchable for decades. All the previous events of the movie were set in motion by Solomon Lane, the Syndicate mastermind, for Ethan Hunt to steal the document for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it seems to me that it is finally not a Syndicate building. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My question:&lt;/strong&gt; what is the building in Morocco and who owns it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11093" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T11:13:29.247" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T11:13:29.247" Title="About the events in Morocco?" Tags="|mission-impossible-rogue-nation|mission-impossible|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37370" CreationDate="2015-08-04T06:46:58.033" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were only three costumes before the final one. One is from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_%28comics%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stingray&lt;/a&gt;, but it was put with &lt;strike&gt;utility belt&lt;/strike&gt; sound like Batman-ish. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uJA67.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uJA67.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stingray from comics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HqQLu.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HqQLu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is bit debatable but &lt;a href=&quot;https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_%28Marvel%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dutch Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; assumes the same :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stingray’s kostuum is te zien tussen de vele schetsen voor een potentieel Spider-Man kostuum in de film Spider-Man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second costume I can relate with comics is Venom, the black costume he has drawn with the title &quot;need more colour&quot;, it was just added with a bit red otherwise it was the same same as Venom's costume:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ud2q5.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ud2q5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more costume appear &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zV5OO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zV5OO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which look quite similar to his wrestling costume:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ak4Yn.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ak4Yn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His wrestling costume is claimed to be inspired from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Reilly&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ben Reily&lt;/a&gt; costume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then in the last his final costume appear :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RRiNM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RRiNM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rest were just different angels of this costumes only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-09-24T13:38:20.770" LastActivityDate="2016-09-24T13:38:20.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37415" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37418" CreationDate="2015-08-04T08:02:36.190" Score="2" ViewCount="4025" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Hindi movie &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wednesday!&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Wednesday!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, Naseeruddin Shah played the role of &quot;The Common Man&quot;, and Anupam Kher plays the role of &quot;Prakash Rathod, Commissioner of Mumbai Police&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Prakash asks The Common Man about his identity, he says &quot;I don't want you to associate any kind of religion to what I am doing.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even in the end when both of them meet, Prakash says he will not reveal his identity as people will associate religion with it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naseeruddin Shah is credited as &quot;The Common man&quot;. If you go a little back, The Common Man calls Naina Roy (Deepal Shaw) from UTV news, informing her to visit &#xA;a certain place to cover the bomb story and refers her as &quot;&lt;em&gt;beti&lt;/em&gt;&quot; (daughter in Hindi), to which Naina says &quot;&lt;em&gt;apne mujhe beti kaha&lt;/em&gt;&quot; to which Common Man says &quot;yes&quot; and hangs up the phone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any way did the makers of movie try to give a hint to the identity of the Common Man? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22748" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-04T08:57:13.493" LastActivityDate="2015-08-04T09:12:05.440" Title="Is The Common Man's identity hinted in the movie A Wednesday?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|a-wednesday|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37415" CreationDate="2015-08-04T08:12:39.607" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the makers don't try to give any identity of common man. Regarding calling her daughter (&quot;beti&quot;), it's a general way of talking in India to call son (&quot;beta&quot;) or daughter (&quot;beti&quot;) for someone of that age group.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-04T08:42:45.993" LastActivityDate="2015-08-04T08:42:45.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37415" CreationDate="2015-08-04T08:42:51.447" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No they didn't and it isn't even required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The full concept of the film is about a frustrated common man. His identity doesn't matter and that gives the character more strength. Even when asked about if he has lost someone in bomb last, he told about a story of some random guy, another common man. As you already know, he hid his name to disassociate it with any religion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if his name and religion got revealed, his act will remain the same but the reception might be different. It would be less impact-full maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-04T09:12:05.440" LastActivityDate="2015-08-04T09:12:05.440" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40755" CreationDate="2015-08-04T09:23:10.380" Score="2" ViewCount="1105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just love all the episodes of &lt;em&gt;Everybody Loves Raymond&lt;/em&gt; I saw so far and life seems to look just ideal even with all the trouble in that time. What year is the action taking place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23611" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-04T09:35:26.027" LastActivityDate="2015-09-05T03:39:50.850" Title="When is Everybody Loves Raymond taking place?" Tags="|everybody-loves-raymond|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37421" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-04T09:42:08.853" Score="2" ViewCount="14600" Body="&lt;p&gt;I truly love this character. I want to know that how old Captain Jack Sparrow approximately is in the &lt;em&gt;Pirates of the Caribbean&lt;/em&gt; series. Especially when he saves Elizabeth at Port Royal after she falls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/00rbL.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/00rbL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rhDK3.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rhDK3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22813" LastEditorUserId="22813" LastEditDate="2015-08-04T10:22:14.583" LastActivityDate="2018-10-06T05:06:35.993" Title="What is the approximate age of Captain Jack Sparrow?" Tags="|pirates-of-the-caribbean|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37421" CreationDate="2015-08-04T09:50:48.557" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to this page he was 40 when he died by the kraken:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_Sparrow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jack Sparrow&lt;/a&gt; (Born 1700, Events of Part 2 was at 1740)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this timeline&lt;/a&gt; the saving of Elizabeth and his death happend in the same year, so he was 39 or 40.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Johnny Depp was 40 when playing in the first part of the movies, so I guess they estimated Sparrow's age by Johnny's age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22783" LastEditorUserId="22783" LastEditDate="2015-08-04T10:01:17.823" LastActivityDate="2015-08-04T10:01:17.823" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37424" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-04T12:31:45.207" Score="7" ViewCount="2176" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;spoilers ahead&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;strong&gt;Inside Out&lt;/strong&gt;, there comes a times towards the end when the emotion &lt;strong&gt;Joy&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(voiced by Amy Poehler)&lt;/em&gt; and Riley's imaginary friend &lt;strong&gt;Bing Bong&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(voiced by Richard Kind)&lt;/em&gt; fall into the memory dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Memory Dump is the place where memories evaporate away into non-existence. As &lt;em&gt;Bing Bong&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Joy&lt;/em&gt; try to use &lt;em&gt;Bing Bong's&lt;/em&gt; wagon to fly back to higher grounds, we see that &lt;em&gt;Bing Bong&lt;/em&gt; is slowly but steadily evaporating away &lt;em&gt;i.e.&lt;/em&gt; he's being forgotten as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why is it that &lt;em&gt;Joy&lt;/em&gt; is intact and not fading away like everything in memory dump is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11363" LastActivityDate="2015-08-04T12:53:20.087" Title="Why is Joy intact while Bing Bong fades away?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inside-out|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37424" CreationDate="2015-08-04T12:51:58.373" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is mostly speculation since there really isn't any way to find evidence to back this up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bing Bong is an imaginary friend and a memory of Riley's past. Memories fade with time and eventually evaporate in the memory dump. Joy on the other hand is an emotion, it would stand to reason that emotions don't follow the same rules as memories, and don't fade away even when dumped into the memory dump.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also been clear that Riley hadn't thought about Bing Bong for a while (Joy mentioned that it's been years since she's seen him), meanwhile up until recent events in the movie, Joy has been the lead emotion of Riley. So even if she became a memory of herself she would still be a fresh memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, it is equally possible that if Joy was left in the memory dump longer, she might have begun to fade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21877" LastActivityDate="2015-08-04T12:51:58.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37424" CreationDate="2015-08-04T12:53:20.087" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Joy isn't a memory, she is an emotion. The memory dump is used to dispose of old, unused memories that are no longer required, and we learn in &lt;em&gt;Inside Out&lt;/em&gt; that Bing Bong has been all but forgetten by Riley anyway, thanks to the fact that she is growing up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, he begins to fade away in the memory dump as Riley is forgetting him, but Joy cannot be forgotten as she is an emotion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth pointing out that &lt;em&gt;Inside Out&lt;/em&gt; is more allegorical than any other Pixar film to date, so it might not be worth thinking about the parts inside Riley's mind too hard as it is intended to pass on a message, not as a solid piece of world building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastActivityDate="2015-08-04T12:53:20.087" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37428" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="62834" CreationDate="2015-08-04T14:42:57.353" Score="7" ViewCount="2736" Body="&lt;p&gt;I dimly remember a movie that had a Jewish (?) WWII prisioner (in Germany, most likely) that used bread to build chess pieces. At one point he played his guard / interogator (German, most likely), and surprised him with a special move that had the guard / interogator completely baffled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's about all I remember, aside from the conditions of that game being highly emotional (the prisioner facing execution, deportation or somesuch?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The chess move &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have been called &quot;Grünfeld Gambit&quot; or something like that, but I might mis-remember that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched that movie on TV a &lt;em&gt;long&lt;/em&gt; time ago (try 20+ years), and the memory has a feel to it as if it was already old at that time. Probably a German production, somewhere between the 50's and the 70's perhaps. (Black &amp;amp; white? Possibly. Likely, even.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie worked on the premise that the audience knew about the holocaust, and pictured the prisioner as quite likeable, which rules out any wartime / late 1940's production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you identify that movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15487" LastEditorUserId="15487" LastEditDate="2015-08-06T08:53:53.297" LastActivityDate="2017-05-17T15:06:11.190" Title="Which movie? WWII Prisioner makes surprising chess move" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:54:58.920" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37429" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43464" CreationDate="2015-08-04T15:00:06.660" Score="7" ViewCount="9361" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would like to know if Birdemic was intended as a funny non-serious movie or if it was really made with the intention of producing a genuinely scary movie that just got bad. Were they serious when they filmed it? Did they aim the bottom of the IMDb list on purpose? Should I see the movie as a joke?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there any evidence from the production circumstances to make a reasonable conclusion if Birdemic was deliberately planned as a bad trashy movie?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23620" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T20:46:53.673" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T20:46:53.673" Title="Was Birdemic intended to be a bad movie?" Tags="|analysis|production|reception|birdemic|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37428" CreationDate="2015-08-04T15:05:48.590" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess you got some parts wrong, but it should be the German movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054272/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Schachnovelle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In WW2 an intelectual (not a Jew) is arrested and isolated in a hotel by the Nazis. He teaches himself chess only by a book he found at his prison. After the guards find the book and take it away, he starts, like you described, to build chess pieces from bread and uses his blanket as board (but he plays not against his guard/interogator, only against himself). After WW2, he is freed but a broken man. He travels with a ship to America, and the chess champion is also on the ship and invites some people to play against him.  The ex-prisoner then tells the people the move you mentioned, so they can win against the chess champion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cw5KS.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cw5KS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Playing chess on blanket with pieces build from bread&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Playing chess on blanket with pieces build from bread&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;EDIT:&lt;/b&gt; &#xA;I just found the film on youtube and saw that I remembered some details wrong:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Film starts with the chessgame on the ship, only after about 20 minutes it does a flashback and tells the story during WW2. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The last 5 minutes are playing on the ship again, and he play a second game against the champion. He does a useless move, says checkmate and leaves the board (not meaning the game, but surviving his situation during ww2, but the chess champion does not understand it)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He does not tell them the winning move during the first game, but a move that help them to keep a remis (which is also admireable against the chess world champion).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I rewatched the scene where he builds chesspieces from bread, I guess there will be not many other movies which include such a scene (that was the main reason I could identify your question, because these scene was stuck in my head when I watched it many years ago):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(around 1:15:30, the movie is in german)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gbb00NQV1vM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22783" LastEditorUserId="22783" LastEditDate="2015-08-06T09:48:33.050" LastActivityDate="2015-08-06T09:48:33.050" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37433" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37435" CreationDate="2015-08-04T15:37:36.383" Score="3" ViewCount="341" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've watched seasons 1 and 2 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2575988/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Silicon Valley&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know Richard is staying in Erlich's incubator as one of his &lt;em&gt;incubees&lt;/em&gt;, but do we know how they originally met?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I miss something or is it possibly covered in a deleted scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17983" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-08-04T17:09:00.333" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T19:43:38.777" Title="How did Richard and Erlich meet?" Tags="|plot-explanation|silicon-valley|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34171" CreationDate="2015-08-04T17:01:37.983" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Also, a more obvious answer is that the guy who made him the red costume didn't know he was blind, so assuming he could see, he made him a costume with eye holes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23623" LastActivityDate="2015-08-04T17:01:37.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37433" CreationDate="2015-08-04T17:14:15.320" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To date no major details of how they met or how Richard came to live/work in Erlich's incubator have been divulged. The only thing we know is that Erlich gains a 10% stake in any product/company/idea people living in his incubator come up with, and just before he learned Pied Piper was viable he was planning to evict Richard from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;These details could come to light in future episodes, but for now they remain obscured.&lt;/strong&gt; However, the concept of an innovation/&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_incubator&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;business incubator&lt;/a&gt; is not new to the show, and as such is likely just a means to provide meaning for certain characters and business interactions within the show to exist, making it more believable and depicting of the actual Silicon Valley area itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-08-04T17:14:15.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37438" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37443" CreationDate="2015-08-04T18:42:44.260" Score="5" ViewCount="5209" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a movie -- probably from the 1990s or 2000s.  I don't really remember much about it, though I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; it revolves around a boy 12-16(?) growing-up in a &quot;bad negihbourhood&quot; and trying to avoid crime and drugs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, there is this one scene where some kids/teens are playing basket-ball at an outdoor-court (possibly in a park).  The boy is standing on the sideline and looks at this.  Suddenly some gang-members (or something) shows-up and start shooting -- probably against a member from another gang.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A young girl -- guess about 11-13 -- gets hit, possibly in the head.  She goes down, and while she bleeds out, one of her legs keeps twitching in spasms... for about a minute before it stops and she dies.  I think most (if not all) the people around the court runs away, except the boy who stands close by and looks at the dying girl.  I think the girl is dressed in white.  I think she's dressed in a skirt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this scene sounds familiar to anybody?  Does anybody know what movie this is from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4521" LastActivityDate="2016-08-02T03:32:53.433" Title="Young black girl shot at basketball-court, leg twitch" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:55:02.050" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38588" CreationDate="2015-08-04T19:43:48.827" Score="3" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching &quot;The Transporter&quot;, and I was wondering about the results of the weapon impacts during the attack on Frank's house. It looks as if the bullets go right through the walls, as if the walls are made out of paper. Is that true (i.e. that houses in that region are build out of paper-thin walls), or are the weapons they are using, for example a Steyr AUG, that powerfull? Or is it simply a plot device?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21283" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-04T19:45:45.617" LastActivityDate="2015-08-08T21:16:26.493" Title="Weapon results in &quot;The Transporter&quot;" Tags="|realism|the-transporter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37443" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37438" CreationDate="2015-08-04T20:08:49.587" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure you're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109842/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fresh&lt;/a&gt; (1994). It's been ages, but I still remember that scene vividly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Michael (or Fresh as he's well known) is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded housing project with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum, but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister is a junkie who sleeps with the dealers who Fresh sells for. As the story progresses Fresh realizes that he doesn't want to sell drugs anymore, he wants out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The girl is Rosie, who has a sort of crush on Fresh. As she comes to talk to him in a basketball court, she gets caught in the crossfire of a dispute and the scene then unfolds exactly as you've described it. You can see it briefly in the trailer around 0:25:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/a_9hTnNErbo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-02-04T13:23:42.763" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T13:23:42.763" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37444" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-04T20:19:07.350" Score="1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; when &quot;Cooper Station&quot; is shown orbiting around Saturn, why does the ball while playing baseball travel to a different side and the houses appear to be upside down and there seems to be a &quot;Pipe&quot; effect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23628" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-08-04T20:27:42.353" LastActivityDate="2015-08-04T20:27:42.353" Title="Question about space station physics in Interstellar" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-08-05T22:45:07.123" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37448" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37474" CreationDate="2015-08-05T03:08:38.813" Score="2" ViewCount="4552" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Blue Velvet nears the final scenes, Jeffery enters Dorothy's apartment and sees that Vallens is dead and Gordon has been inflicted with some type of grisly brain trauma.  Vallens had presumably been held prisoner at 'This is It', and Gordon had been either at home or on patrol.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the killer's rationale for moving the victims to Dorothy's apartment? In fact, who was the killer?  If it was Frank as all logic suggests, the sequence of actions would have been &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;move the victims to Dorothy's apartment; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;kill Vallens &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;perform brain damage on Gordon &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;leave the apartment &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;change clothes into the 'well dressed man' outfit &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;return to the apartment with the briefcase expecting that no one else than the victims  would be there...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and to do what?  It doesn't make sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How to unsnarl this sequence of events into something coherent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-21T12:56:49.740" LastActivityDate="2016-05-21T12:56:49.740" Title="Explanation for Gordon and Vallens in the final scene" Tags="|plot-explanation|continuity|blue-velvet|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37449" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-05T03:37:02.583" Score="2" ViewCount="133" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;X-Men: The Last Stand&lt;/em&gt; Professor X dies, so how is he alive in &lt;em&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past&lt;/em&gt;? That makes no sense if he dies before they reach that future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23633" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T14:06:00.567" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T14:06:00.567" Title="Is Professor X dead or alive" Tags="|plot-explanation|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-days-of-future-past|x-men-the-last-stand|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-08-05T05:52:38.273" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19698" CreationDate="2015-08-05T03:42:52.317" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not shown in any movie explicitly how he is alive. However, as per post credit scenes of movie &lt;code&gt;X-Men Last stand&lt;/code&gt; ,he transferred his mind to his evil twin. You can read this another &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/19698/what-happened-to-charles-xavier-after-x-men-3&quot;&gt;related question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in the end-credit scenes of &lt;code&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/code&gt;, he and Magneto confront Wolverine at the airport where on being asked, &quot;How's this possible?&quot;, Prof X. says, &quot;You're not the only one with gifts.&quot; suggesting that somehow he was able to revive himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also this paragraph from &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/Charles_Xavier&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikia&lt;/a&gt; supports this theory :- &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In an after-credits scene, Xavier spoke to Moira MacTaggert through the body of a comatose man, implying that his consciousness survived by transferring itself into the body, an action that Xavier had discussed as part of an ethics class, the question being if it would be ethically right for a mutant like himself to attempt such a transference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of his capability is mentioned as :-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mind Transfer: When his body was destroyed in X-Men: The Last Stand, he transferred his consciousness into a host body; his twin brother P. Xavier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T15:15:33.420" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13470" CreationDate="2015-08-05T04:44:37.483" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The flyover scene at the beginning showed green areas as well as lots of rock and water meaning there was at least plant life on the planet before they seeded. Maybe they were adding roses to the garden. If it was a few million years ago, all they had to do was &quot;engineer&quot; a way to nudge us in the humanoid direction and see what happens...the soup was at the right point (potatoes boiled, meat cooked) to add some spice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23634" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-29T05:50:17.963" LastActivityDate="2017-05-29T05:50:17.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37452" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-05T05:00:33.203" Score="1" ViewCount="496" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &quot;Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring&quot;, while Gandalf the Grey was fighting inflaming demon Balrog, he fell into cavern. So, did he survived the fall or died and reincarnated as &quot;Gandalf the White&quot;? If survived then how does he become &quot;Gandalf the White&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13689" LastActivityDate="2015-08-05T05:00:33.203" Title="How did Gandalf survive the fall in the cavern in &quot;Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring&quot; and reincarnated as &quot;Gandalf the White&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-lord-of-the-rings|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-08-05T06:16:58.503" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37453" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-05T05:09:19.093" Score="2" ViewCount="2293" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2012 remake of 'Total Recall', workers from 'the Colony' (Australia) get to the United Federation of Britain, by way of a gravity elevator called 'The Fall'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which current Australian city is near to where the Fall located in the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please note, I am aware of the factual inaccuracies in the film, I am just asking where it is located in the film&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user23522" LastEditorDisplayName="user23522" LastEditDate="2015-08-05T05:23:20.353" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T16:00:07.817" Title="Where is the Fall located in the Colony in Total Recall (2012)?" Tags="|total-recall-2012|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37456" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37458" CreationDate="2015-08-05T07:48:08.747" Score="2" ViewCount="2204" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen the movie &lt;em&gt;Exam&lt;/em&gt;, where few candidates compete to get a job in a big company, where they have been told to answer a question, In the end a lady gets the answer and wins the competition so, my questions are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What was the question?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What answer did the lady give?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23616" LastEditorUserId="23442" LastEditDate="2016-10-20T21:06:53.207" LastActivityDate="2016-10-20T21:31:48.183" Title="What was the question and answer of the exam?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|exam|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37316" CreationDate="2015-08-05T07:49:20.620" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's right. Sheldon is just going with the alternate future created by &quot;Biff giving almanac to his younger self and younger Biff starting to use it in 1958, and this alternate future doesn't contain Doc and Marty as people using the time machine to go to the future, as Doc would be in prison and Marty stepson of Biff as shown in the second part of the movie itself. Hence, this event, of the altered past created by going of the people(Marty and Doc) to 2015 doesn't exist and thus the younger Biff doesn't have the almanac. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, when it comes to time machines, we can paradoxically prove or disprove anything, that's the essence of it, if you come to break it(and steal the fun) into understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23637" LastActivityDate="2015-08-05T07:49:20.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37456" CreationDate="2015-08-05T07:53:51.280" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Question was &quot;Any Questions?&quot; (at 7:47) and the Answer was &quot;No!&quot; (at 1:28:07).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23239" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-10-20T21:31:48.183" LastActivityDate="2016-10-20T21:31:48.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33323" CreationDate="2015-08-05T08:31:26.220" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I wrote in the comments my understanding always was that it was Jacob, who brought DHARMA to the island and this is how they fit the universe. In the end they were not different from the 'Oceanic 816' survivors or the Spanish ship crew. They were people that Jacob wanted on The Island. Whether it was him behind DHARMA creation or he just used an existing organisation (perhaps pushed it a bit in the proper direction) is unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done more research on this and although it seems that no in-universe confirmation has been given this theory is plausible and quite popular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://eyemsick.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/jacob-brought-dharma-to-island.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; blog post the author speculates that every person brought to the island was brought because of Jacob's actions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Obviously, the clearest indication is the Man in Black's literal&#xA;  accusation that Jacob brings people to the Island.  The former is&#xA;  referring specifically to the Black Rock when he says: &quot;You brought&#xA;  them here.&quot;  But I take the Man in Black to mean that Jacob is &lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  the one who brings people to the Island, including DHARMA&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and mentions some facts to support this claim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even more facts are listed in one of the theories on &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/DHARMA_Initiative/Theories&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lostpedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The DHARMA Initiative may have been brought to the Island by Jacob.&#xA;  This would appear to be contradicting with the fact that Jacob is&#xA;  normally associated with the Hostiles/Others. However, it could be&#xA;  related to the ongoing rivalry between Jacob and his nemesis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DHARMA maybe had more knowledge&#xA;  on the Temple and Monster than the Hostiles. This explains why they&#xA;  build the Barracks over the summoning chamber, why they were the only&#xA;  ones who had a name for the monster, why the Temple had a DHARMA logo,&#xA;  why the countdown timer had hieroglyphs, why Horace Goodspeed would&#xA;  build a cabin for Jacob, why Paul would have an Ankh necklace, and why&#xA;  the Frozen Wheel has the shape of an octagon, like the DHARMA logo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An interesting opinion is given in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/lost/comments/33x9dx/did_jacob_bring_the_dharma_intiative_to_the_island/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; Reddit discussion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now, some of the DI were candidates to replace Jacob, so maybe you&#xA;  could say he brought those specific people there, or maybe he just&#xA;  chose candidates from those that he knew would end up on the island&#xA;  anyway. Hard to say whether they were part of the plan (especially&#xA;  when the future is all set in stone, and Jacob can apparently see into&#xA;  the future).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact we don't know for sure that there was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Candidates#Partial_list_of_candidates&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;candidate&lt;/a&gt; from DHARMA, but it's also not a prove, that there wasn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly I would like to address the fact that as you wrote &lt;em&gt;the DHARMA's role in the plot was quickly shoved under the carpet&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion the DHARMA background and their work (including Valanzetti equation) are not that important to the plot. I would see DHARMA more like an expanded plot device to introduce us to The Others, then through The Others to the secrets of The Island and finally to the Jacob/MiB story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-08-05T08:31:26.220" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37460" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-05T08:41:39.367" Score="2" ViewCount="5747" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final episode of Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Summer Camp, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Eric (played by Chris Pine) is shot and then run over by a Jeep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But he appears a week later hitching a ride to New York. There is no explanation of how he survived.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted there are many improbable scenarios in the series. Is there a plausible explanation for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;edit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, I'm after an explanation that can be cited. I realise that pretty much every thing in the TV series is implausible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastEditorUserId="962" LastEditDate="2015-08-05T19:53:23.243" LastActivityDate="2016-08-03T10:37:46.027" Title="Ending explanation for the last episode of &quot;Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Summer Camp&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|wet-hot-american-summer|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13286" CreationDate="2015-08-05T11:04:55.773" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Szpilmans were forced to come to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umschlagplatz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Umschlagplatz&lt;/a&gt; (the train station) because of the mass deportation from ghetto, called &lt;em&gt;Grossaktion Warsaw&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Initially the roundups for the Umschlagplatz were supervised by the&#xA;  Jewish Ghetto Police. Houses or entire blocks were cordoned off and&#xA;  then all the inhabitants were forced to gather in a controlled spot,&#xA;  such as a closed off street or a tenement's courtyard. After a check&#xA;  of documents, the individuals were forced, under escort, to proceed to&#xA;  the Umschlagplatz. Emptied buildings were searched and those found&#xA;  hiding were either killed on the spot or joined with those proceeding&#xA;  to the square. Some young men were moved to the so-called Dulag, an&#xA;  internment camp, from which some were sent to labor camps rather than&#xA;  death camps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically the Jews came willingly because it was either this or death. Yes, they were escorted - it was necessary means to keep order in these organised actions and possibly also to avoid people hiding in already emptied buildings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding Henryk and Halina they were most likely chosen for &lt;em&gt;Dulag&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some young men were moved to the so-called Dulag, an internment camp,&#xA;  from which some were sent to labor camps rather than death camps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your impression was correct, they came willingly to be with their family - from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Pianist,-The.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;           A loud cry from Mother. Szpilman and Father spin round.&#xA;&#xA;                                 MOTHER&#xA;                     Henryk!&#xA;&#xA;                                 REGINA&#xA;                          (glancing up, shocked)&#xA;                     Oh my God!&#xA;&#xA;           Near the gates, among a large bunch of new arrivals, Henryk &#xA;           and Halina.&#xA;&#xA;                                 MOTHER&#xA;                     Halina! Henryk!&#xA;&#xA;           Regina and Szpilman also call and wave. Henryk and Halina &#xA;           struggle through to them. Halina falls into Mother's arms &#xA;           and they hug.&#xA;&#xA;                                 HALINA&#xA;                     We heard you were here...we...didn't &#xA;                     want...we...we wanted to be with &#xA;                     you.&#xA;&#xA;           Mother comforts her. And so does Regina. Father smiles &#xA;           sadly.&#xA;&#xA;                                 SZPILMAN&#xA;                          (shakes his head, &#xA;                          almost to himself, &#xA;                          a forlorn smile)&#xA;                     Stupid, stupid!&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-08-05T11:24:53.317" LastActivityDate="2015-08-05T11:24:53.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37466" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37467" CreationDate="2015-08-05T12:54:42.917" Score="1" ViewCount="6752" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have finished watching Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp and I have read that I should watch the movie before I watch the TV series as it's hard to understand certain things and references that relate to the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, should I watch the movie before season 2 starts and in order to have a better understanding of season 1? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't quite understand the bizarreness of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23228" LastEditorUserId="23228" LastEditDate="2015-08-05T13:02:03.837" LastActivityDate="2015-08-05T14:21:48.657" Title="Wet Hot American Summer movie and TV show question" Tags="|wet-hot-american-summer|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37466" CreationDate="2015-08-05T13:07:11.063" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched the movie before the TV series and I've spoken to a colleague who like you watched the TV series first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMO whilst it is unncessary, it is much better to watch the movie first for the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It establishes all the characters and how they end up so the way the TV series expanded on the backgrounds and their movie situations is explained&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's more interesting to see how the actors looked like and behaved in the earlier film and makes the TV series more interesting in seeing how they managed to create a TV series from this with so many, now more famous, stars&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A lot of the running props/gags/background stories are incidental in the movie, how they scripted the full story that leads to their current situation in the TV series is both surprising and far funnier IMO&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I'd suggest watching the movie and then re-watch the TV series, IMO the movie is not that brilliant. The way they made a brilliant TV series from the movie is the truly satisfying thing for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastActivityDate="2015-08-05T13:07:11.063" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37466" CreationDate="2015-08-05T14:21:48.657" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;To counter EdChum (not that that answer is wrong...it's good!) I watched the series first, then the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it works equally as well. In fact, I enjoyed watching the movie afterwards to connect all the little in-jokes. (This is a bit like how Arrested Development is set up...lots of punchlines are exposed early, with the set-ups revealed later. Sort of a 'slow burn' type of pacing). In addition, since the series happens chronologically &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the film, the timeline is preserved as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for not understanding the bizarreness, I don't think the watching order will help with that. It's simply a somewhat bizarre comedy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-08-05T14:21:48.657" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37460" CreationDate="2015-08-05T14:25:05.537" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there is no plausible explanation. That's part of the charm of the series. It's full of implausible scenarios. For example, talking vegetable cans. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-08-05T14:25:05.537" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37448" CreationDate="2015-08-05T14:49:40.527" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;F. Fred Palakon &lt;a href=&quot;https://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/notes-about-one-of-the-last-scenes-in-blue-velvet-spoilers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;speculated&lt;/a&gt; about the ending:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We can perhaps imagine the scene. The Yellowman, Raymond and Paul are&#xA;  pressing Dorothy on whether she talked to anyone. They threaten her&#xA;  directly, but also by threatening her husband in front of her.&#xA;  Raymond, say, shoots the TV for intimidation effect – I think the&#xA;  angle of the shot is from someone standing near where Dorothy’s&#xA;  husband is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Raymond, say, gets a call from Frank to keep the Yellowman there –&#xA;  when he arrives, he may give a signal, some keyword said, and on that,&#xA;  shoot him. Frank arrives. They all turn to see him, including the&#xA;  Yellowman, who now faces the door, his right side facing the wall&#xA;  where the gore splatters. The Yellowman asks what’s happening out&#xA;  there. Frank gives an answer that contains the keyword. The Yellowman&#xA;  has no sense that he’s in danger, and Raymond shoots him. Dorothy&#xA;  flees. Dorothy’s husband, of no use to them now, is shot and killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-08-05T14:49:40.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37580" CreationDate="2015-08-05T16:14:28.327" Score="5" ViewCount="1446" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a horror/thriller about a house which consists of rooms from other flats/houses and in each of them happened deaths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw only the trailer about this house. The whole trailer was very dark. There was a narrator who was an old respectable man in a black suit and with a walking-stick. The narrator says that he bought the ground and rooms from all over the world in which happened strange deaths. And he brought all these rooms together and connected them in one house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I remember it had 2-3 floors with an attic and was a very dark house. The house is situated in town, rounded by other houses. Only sky is full of white clouds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23650" LastEditorUserId="23650" LastEditDate="2015-08-10T05:41:08.817" LastActivityDate="2015-08-10T05:41:08.817" Title="Horror/thriller about a house which consists of rooms from other flats/houses in each of which happened deaths" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|thriller|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:55:14.610" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37482" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38725" CreationDate="2015-08-05T19:42:53.460" Score="5" ViewCount="1674" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I lost counting of how many people the killer in the first season of &lt;em&gt;True Detective&lt;/em&gt; killed in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There was a murder at the start. The girl was found in the woods.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Soon after we heard about a missing girl &quot;Fontenot girl&quot; presumably kidnapped by the same killer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another girl was shown while investigating Rust.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A boy was killed as we saw Rust and Marty took down the two killers/kidnappers in the first shootout. A girl was saved back then.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After the final incident the police found bodies or evidence for at least 12 missing persons.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BUT Rust showed Marty a map where he pointed out many missing persons in the coastal area that he assumed to be killed by the same killer. But those bodies were not shown and not mentioned in the end. So how many people were killed in total by that killer? Are those all that I listed or there are others? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-05T20:12:13.753" LastActivityDate="2015-08-12T00:52:11.040" Title="How many people did the killer actually kill in the 1st season of True Detective" Tags="|plot-explanation|true-detective|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34601" CreationDate="2015-08-05T23:46:08.677" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are stilt walkers because they are looking for lost goods in the water of a once prosperous land. Why do they use stilts, they need a downward view to look better, water is unsafe, something in the water is unsafe, it is the best way to traverse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23659" LastActivityDate="2015-08-05T23:46:08.677" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37412" CreationDate="2015-08-06T00:43:23.587" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The building in Morocco is a &lt;strong&gt;power station&lt;/strong&gt;. Beneath the power station was the &lt;strong&gt;secure underwater server&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The building was not owned by the Syndicate. I believe it was actually owned by the government (Someone please correct me if I am mistaken).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23208" LastActivityDate="2015-08-06T00:43:23.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37493" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-06T00:54:01.740" Score="0" ViewCount="114" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there complete rankings for current TV shows in North America? I already tried:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/imdbpicks/monthly-tv-picks/?ref_=nv_tvv_picks_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;. It doesn't enable filtering of results, in my case to shows that are currently broadcast. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metacritic.com/browse/tv/release-date/returning-series/metascore&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Metacritic&lt;/a&gt;. But for 'Returning Series', it neglects some TV shows, like the TNT show 'The Last Ship' is neglected and the ABC or Global TV show 'Rookie Blue.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rottentomatoes.com/top-tv/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rotten Tomatoes&lt;/a&gt;. It doesn't list all returning shows. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user13434" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-06T01:16:15.090" LastActivityDate="2021-11-03T03:08:40.760" Title="Are there complete rankings for current TV shows in North America?" Tags="|scheduling|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37493" CreationDate="2015-08-06T01:03:25.097" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the site &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvseriesfinale.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;tvseriesfinale.com&lt;/a&gt; will have what you want. In spite of its name, it is NOT solely about the finales of series, but deals in ratings and analysis of television in general. It also ranks shows and projects cancellation based on collected metrics. It presents ratings by network, including networks outside the &quot;Big Three&quot;, and is kept updated virtually every day with early ratings of the previous night. It distributes also via RSS feed, if that is your taste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I am NOT affiliated with the site in any way, beyond as an interested reader. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastActivityDate="2015-08-06T01:03:25.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13065" CreationDate="2015-08-06T05:55:30.530" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the men is Daniel Erick's son, because he was not killed - he was the one feeding his dad and taking care of him. The second was Riggs: you never saw him die or anything; Dr Gordan could have easily fixed his wound. It's obvious that the two masked men are Daniel Mathews and Detective Riggs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23666" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-08-15T13:30:43.303" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T13:30:43.303" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30481" CreationDate="2015-08-06T07:19:11.117" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Body counts only matter for public relations, psychiatric treatment, or Hollywood. A SEAL goes to great effort to win his SEAL badge, remember the Movie? Twice individual SEALs are shown placing their personal badge of exceptional achievement on the coffin of a SEAL at the graveside. How could this be anything but a very personal statement of deep respect by the individual SEALs who placed their own badges on the coffin of a fallen shipmate SEAL? Don't they each seem to be showing &quot;This was my shipmate, a worthy SEAL, who deserves even my own badge of honor&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23669" LastEditorUserId="23669" LastEditDate="2015-08-06T07:33:23.623" LastActivityDate="2015-08-06T07:33:23.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37512" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38649" CreationDate="2015-08-06T10:59:47.577" Score="1" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Raid 2&lt;/em&gt; there is a Killer couple. He uses a baseball and a bat, she wears sunglasses, has a destroyed eye, does not speak and uses hammers. Is there some more information about the characters? Is there an extended Version where their background is explained or did I miss something during the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the characters also in other movies or movies planned for them or only invented for &lt;em&gt;The Raid 2&lt;/em&gt;? Or maybe there is a book/comic or interview information about them which explain why she lost her eye, why they are working as killers and are in some kind of relationship? (At Wikipedia they say they are brother and sister, but I cannot remember a scene in the movie where this is stated.) Any information about this would be nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zeXJ6.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zeXJ6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22783" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-08-07T13:20:11.520" LastActivityDate="2015-08-24T14:10:16.450" Title="Is there some additional Information about the killer couple in The Raid 2?" Tags="|character|the-raid-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37516" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47522" CreationDate="2015-08-06T13:47:47.267" Score="8" ViewCount="12122" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;em&gt;Donnie Brasco&lt;/em&gt;, there is a scene where Lefty (Al Pacino) comes to him with a diamond, without much hesitation Donnie (Johnny Depp) immediately identifies it as a fake. This later leads to the two of them paying a visit to a strip club owner who had originally given Lefty the diamond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two possible scenarios that come to mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Donnie actually knew the diamond was fake and was showing off his knowledge and connections to become a friend of Lefty.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Donnie made the whole thing up as he knew the source would get a visit from Lefty and it would be an opportunity to become a friend of Lefty.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first one, however, would imply that Donnie had extensive understanding of diamonds which would be nearly impossible to gain in the couple of years he is estimated to have been undercover so far at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second one, however, seems risky and careless. It would be easy for Lefty to get a second opinion which would put Donnie in a very bad position. Also if Donnie faked his knowledge on purpose in order for Lefty to pay a visit to the strip club owner it would mean that Donnie was aware that he was going to get him hurt. This doesn't seem like common undercover practice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Donnie really know the diamond was fake?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/iwNrpPgIEjQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6566" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-08-07T13:23:33.163" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T22:05:11.817" Title="Did Donnie Brasco really know the diamond was fake?" Tags="|plot-explanation|donnie-brasco|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11056" CreationDate="2015-08-06T17:13:17.373" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, you &lt;strong&gt;cannot really expect the remake to capture the cult factor of the original&lt;/strong&gt;. In 2012 you can't expect this movie to be the hilarious &amp;quot;Verhoeveny&amp;quot; 80s/90s Arnie vehicle that the original is. A large factor to &lt;em&gt;Total Recall&lt;/em&gt;'s attraction nowadays comes not only from being a gripping science-fiction action movie with an interesting story about memory distortion, but also largely due to its appeal as an entertaining Arnie movie with the usually exaggeratedly trashy/hilarious effects expected from Paul Verhoeven. While the remake tries to capture the former aspects (and &lt;em&gt;IMHO&lt;/em&gt; largely succeeds in this endeavour), it neither can't nor wants to capture the latter aspects. It is an (&lt;em&gt;IMHO&lt;/em&gt; entertaining) &lt;strong&gt;modern science-fiction action blockbuster&lt;/strong&gt; with some interesting ideas (e.g. the whole &lt;em&gt;Fall&lt;/em&gt; concept) and an appealing (even if not overly unique) visual style (that might &lt;em&gt;in its best moments&lt;/em&gt; even be a little reminiscent of &lt;em&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt;), not less but also not more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, let's take a look at the specific scenes you mentioned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The story is neither set on Mars (but on a largely devastated earth split into two societies) nor is it a &amp;quot;Verhoeveny&amp;quot; 1990 flick, as said, so &lt;strong&gt;no hilariously trashy eyeball effects&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;three-breasted woman is indeed in the remake&lt;/strong&gt;, albeit at an earlier part in the story (WARNING: picture contains nudity):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WUBc2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mutants (let alone aliens) don't play much of a role in this movie if I remember correctly, so &lt;strong&gt;no weird stomach mutants&lt;/strong&gt; either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The famous &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;two weeks lady&amp;quot; is paid tribute in the remake&lt;/strong&gt; but in a slightly different and, as fitting to the overall style of the movie less hilarious, form. The full-body disguise is a bit different and more hologram-based than suit-based, but a woman similar to the &amp;quot;two weeks lady&amp;quot; has a little cameo, as can also be seen in this clip from the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/7WGmB51wlX4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-07T13:28:04.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13954" CreationDate="2015-08-06T18:37:50.143" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Submitting this as a NEW answer, since it clearly contradicts the first, based on information just received - after an additional 2 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to information released August 6, 2015, Prison Break will be back for a season of 10 further episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Prison-Break-Being-Rebooted-Fox-38042404&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PopSugar&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cochairman Dana Walden added that the reboot will be &quot;a bit of a sequel&quot; that picks up with the characters several years after the events of the final season of the show. &quot;It will address some questions that were set up at the end of the series,&quot; she said, and though she didn't confirm who besides Purcell and Miller would be back, she teased that &quot;some of the iconic characters from that show will be back.&quot; Though there's no word on when it will come back, we do know the return is slated to be a 10-episode arc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="304" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-08-06T19:20:02.123" LastActivityDate="2015-08-06T19:20:02.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="572" CreationDate="2015-08-07T08:19:00.127" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You only need two lines (four points) to find another point. Two lines will either have 0, 1, or infinitely many intersections. For obvious reasons we will only consider the case where there is one intersection (as the other two cases don't help us pinpoint a specific location).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we have two lines, let's call them '&lt;em&gt;line 1&lt;/em&gt;' and '&lt;em&gt;line 2&lt;/em&gt;'. These two lines intersect and give us a point, let's call it '&lt;em&gt;point β&lt;/em&gt;'. [Note: I didn't use alpha as it can sometimes look like the letter 'a', which would cause confusion further down]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's say you have a third line, we'll call it '&lt;em&gt;line 3&lt;/em&gt;'. Then there are a few possibilities in terms of intersections for &lt;em&gt;line 3&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a) It lies on top of either &lt;em&gt;line 1&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;line 2&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;b) It does not intersect any of the original lines&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;c) It intersects only one of the original lines (but not in the special way that occurs in case '&lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt;')&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;d) It intersects both of the original lines but &lt;strong&gt;does not&lt;/strong&gt; go through &lt;em&gt;point β&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;e) It intersects both of the original lines and &lt;strong&gt;does&lt;/strong&gt; go through &lt;em&gt;point β&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can ignore '&lt;em&gt;a)&lt;/em&gt;' since it would mean &lt;em&gt;line 3&lt;/em&gt; is, for all intents and purposes, a copy of one of the first two lines. That means we essentially only have two lines, not three.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can ignore '&lt;em&gt;b)&lt;/em&gt;' since it would mean &lt;em&gt;line 3&lt;/em&gt; does not intersect the location we are trying to find since it would have zero intersections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'&lt;em&gt;c)&lt;/em&gt;' can also be discarded, but why?&#xA;The original point we found, &lt;em&gt;point β&lt;/em&gt;, was the intersection of &lt;em&gt;lines 1&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;2&lt;/em&gt;. Let's say &lt;em&gt;line 3&lt;/em&gt; also went through &lt;em&gt;point β&lt;/em&gt;, then; &lt;em&gt;line 3&lt;/em&gt; would have to intersect &lt;strong&gt;both&lt;/strong&gt; of the original lines. But '&lt;em&gt;c)&lt;/em&gt;' is the possibility where &lt;em&gt;line 3&lt;/em&gt; intersects only &lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt; of the original lines; not both. So in possibility '&lt;em&gt;c)&lt;/em&gt;' line 3 intersects a single other line to give us a point, and we know this point can't be &lt;em&gt;point β&lt;/em&gt;. Let's call this '&lt;em&gt;point γ&lt;/em&gt;'. Here's the problem; we only want a single location, but the three lines have given us two points; &lt;em&gt;β&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;γ&lt;/em&gt;. Too many locations, hence '&lt;em&gt;c)&lt;/em&gt;' is ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'&lt;em&gt;d)&lt;/em&gt;' is also out. Why? Well &lt;em&gt;lines 1&lt;/em&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;em&gt;2&lt;/em&gt; intersect at point &lt;em&gt;β&lt;/em&gt;, and we said possibility '&lt;em&gt;d)&lt;/em&gt;' is where &lt;em&gt;line 3&lt;/em&gt; does &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; go through &lt;em&gt;point β&lt;/em&gt;. This means we now have three points!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The point where lines 1 &amp;amp; 2 intersect&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The point where lines 2 &amp;amp; 3 intersect&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The point where lines 3 &amp;amp; 1 intersect&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We only want one point, but now we have three! This is even worse than possibility '&lt;em&gt;c)&lt;/em&gt;'! So, '&lt;em&gt;d)&lt;/em&gt;' is definitely out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have discounted possibilities '&lt;em&gt;a)&lt;/em&gt;' through '&lt;em&gt;d)&lt;/em&gt;', so now we are left with '&lt;em&gt;e)&lt;/em&gt;'. But here's the problem; '&lt;em&gt;e)&lt;/em&gt;' technically has nothing wrong with it, but it's useless! &lt;em&gt;Line 3&lt;/em&gt; intersects the original two lines at a single point, the &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; place this can happen is at &lt;em&gt;point β&lt;/em&gt;. If &lt;em&gt;line 3&lt;/em&gt; does not intersect &lt;em&gt;lines 1&lt;/em&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;em&gt;2&lt;/em&gt; at &lt;em&gt;point β&lt;/em&gt; we are back to possibility '&lt;em&gt;d)&lt;/em&gt;', which gives us three points as we discovered. So now we know, the location is at &lt;em&gt;point β&lt;/em&gt;!!! We know this because all three lines intersect at one single point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But... we already knew where &lt;em&gt;point β&lt;/em&gt; was from the first two lines, we even gave that point a name: '&lt;em&gt;point β&lt;/em&gt;'. For &lt;em&gt;line 3&lt;/em&gt; to make sense it has to intersect a point we already found. If it does not then we go back to one of the first four possibilities, which do not make any sense. (except for '&lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt;', which does make sense but is identical to using two lines)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way to think about it;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We have two lines in three dimensional space and we know they both intersect a location that we are trying to find.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We know that the two lines can be thought of as existing entirely on a two dimensional plane which is a 'slice' of the three dimensional space they exist in. There is only one possible plane where both of these lines exist in their entirety.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The location we want to find must be on that plane. Why? Because;&#xA;If the lines exist &lt;strong&gt;entirely&lt;/strong&gt; on the plane then they exist &lt;strong&gt;nowhere&lt;/strong&gt; outside of it, if the location we want to find exists outside of the plane then it exists where no part of the lines exist. If no part of the lines exist where the location is then the lines could not possibly pass through it, but... we know the lines &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; pass through the location, so that location must lie on the plane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We all agree that two lines on a plane will intersect to give us a single point. We have two lines which are part of one and only one plane through the 3-d space, they both go through the location, and that location must be on the plane. Therefore, we know exactly where the location is with only two lines even through those two lines are in three dimensional space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two lines are all you need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may be tempted to think that additional information will give you more 'combinations'. There are, but the problem is; many of them are not possible and the ones that are possible happen to be useless. All the additional combinations belong to one of the five possibilities listed before. If it belongs to;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;'&lt;em&gt;a)&lt;/em&gt;' - One line is a copy of another, so there are only two lines: No additional combinations!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;'&lt;em&gt;b)&lt;/em&gt;' - One of the lines simultaneously &lt;strong&gt;does&lt;/strong&gt; go through the location &amp;amp; &lt;strong&gt;does not&lt;/strong&gt; go through the location. Reductio ad absurdum: No additional &lt;strong&gt;possible&lt;/strong&gt; combinations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;'&lt;em&gt;c)&lt;/em&gt;' - Gives us too many points, one location somehow exists in more than one location. Reductio ad absurdum: No additional &lt;strong&gt;possible&lt;/strong&gt; combinations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;'&lt;em&gt;d)&lt;/em&gt;' - Gives us too many points, one location somehow exists in more than one location. Reductio ad absurdum: No additional &lt;strong&gt;possible&lt;/strong&gt; combinations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;'&lt;em&gt;e)&lt;/em&gt;' - There are a number of different third lines which intersect &lt;em&gt;point β&lt;/em&gt;, so we have many new combinations. However, all these additional combinations point to the same location; &lt;em&gt;point β&lt;/em&gt;!!!&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We definitely do get more combinations from possibility 'e', but none of them give &lt;strong&gt;new&lt;/strong&gt; results! They only give copies of results obtained from two lines intersecting! Therefore; There are &lt;strong&gt;more combinations&lt;/strong&gt; but &lt;strong&gt;the same number of locations&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23700" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2017-01-03T20:19:45.050" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T20:19:45.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37551" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38605" CreationDate="2015-08-07T12:57:38.607" Score="9" ViewCount="26291" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1997 film &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jackal_(1997_film)&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Jackal&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, the antagonist is attempting to elude some assassins who are after him. When they are pursuing his van, he quickly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; pulls the van into a parking garage and washes off the color-changing paint he had earlier painted the van with, thus changing the color of the van. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then takes a small can and sprays it onto the door handle of the van before taking off. A few minutes later, the assassins&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; enter the parking garage and notice the dyed water running away from the van. When one of the men goes to open the van using the tainted door handle, he pulls his hand away like it hurt, then starts foaming at the mouth. He immediately has a seizure of some kind and falls down dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was the substance sprayed on the handle, and how could it do this so quickly?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15909" LastActivityDate="2022-11-08T01:48:19.110" Title="What substance does The Jackal spray onto the door handle?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-jackal|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35980" CreationDate="2015-08-07T14:12:38.763" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, it's important to note that 3D cinema is unquestionably in decline. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/11076908/The-charts-that-show-why-Hollywood-needs-to-forget-about-3D-movies.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Box office takings&lt;/a&gt; suggest that 3D ticket sales have been receding since &lt;em&gt;Avatar&lt;/em&gt;, which is a consumer behaviour that puts 3D cinema aligned with little more than a fad, an certainly an outgoing trend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst the above link only explores UK box office, this shouldn't be seen as limiting in its scope: the UK is often used as a testing ground for new cinema technology, as it's a smaller market that creates more predictable results to be extrapolated across other territories: consumer behaviour in the UK is often a dependable trendsetter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those figures would suggest that on average only 18% of a films revenue can be attributed to 3D sales. We can work out how any tickets that equates to in your example, &lt;em&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;World Wide Gross&lt;/strong&gt; = $1,561,318,770&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm unfamiliar with average 3D ticket prices and their comparison to 2D in  anywhere but the UK, so I'm going to have to exchange currency with Sterling (£) and hope the costs are similar when converting back to USD ($).Obviously all these working out are using averages so will not be accurate, but representative of what industry trends would suggest based on known variables.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;$1,561,318,770&lt;/strong&gt; = £1,007,705,517 at current exchange rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;18% of this (total 3D revenue) would be £181,386,993.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Actual 'Bums on seats' Sales:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the average 3D ticket in the UK is £10, its an easy calculation that &lt;strong&gt;18 Million 3D tickets&lt;/strong&gt; were sold for &lt;em&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/em&gt;, worldwide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare this to 2D Sales (82% of total gross) = £826,318,524&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Divided by average ticket cost of only £6, gives &lt;strong&gt;137,719,754 2D tickets&lt;/strong&gt; sold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, despite Box Office takings, the total amount of cinema audience who chose to see &lt;em&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/em&gt; in 3D equates to around:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;8%&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We should also factor in the additional costs &lt;em&gt;of making&lt;/em&gt; a 3D film when weighing up the income gained. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The difference in production cost between a 2D and 3D film is something still not openly discussed by studios, but it's safe to assume it's considerable. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two ways to produce a 3D film: shooting stereoscopically, and post-production conversion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conversion is the cheapest and nastiest way, and certainly not how &lt;em&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/em&gt; was shot: I only include cost speculations here for comparison and rule of thumb for interested parties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conversion to 3D is &lt;a href=&quot;http://deadline.com/2010/03/michael-bay-james-cameron-skeptical-of-3d-conversions-the-jury-is-out-29283/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;rumoured to cost&lt;/a&gt; between $100,000 - $120,000 per minute: but lets be generous and put it at the lower end of that scale, which converts to £64,576 per minute. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/em&gt; has a run time of 2hrs 5 mins, or 125mins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So £64,576 X 125 =  £8,072,000 (pre-box office cost of 3D)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;£181,386,993 - £8,072,000 = £173.314993 million (True profit from 3D sales, est.) or $267.54M &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/em&gt; was shot using stereoscopic camera's, which (as Invalid_id has pointed out previously) is a technique said to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/24983/why-not-shoot-movies-with-stereoscopic-3d-cameras-instead&quot;&gt;cost 2-4x more than conventional 2D filming&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/em&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pre P&amp;amp;P budget is estimated at $150 Million&lt;/a&gt;, so we'll jump down the middle and say the actual production cost (excluding salaries etc.) would have been 60% cheaper should they have shot using only 2D.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's a cost of $90,000,000 to make the film 3D.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In conclusion, the net financial gain from shooting &lt;em&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/em&gt; in 3D is&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;$190M&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;($279842038.93 - $90M).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-08-07T14:29:23.390" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37583" CreationDate="2015-08-07T15:21:06.437" Score="4" ViewCount="2363" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the final moments of &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Ethan watches the disk they stole, revealing a list of bank account numbers and instructions to access the money. He then drills a hole through the disk to destroy the data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then tells the main baddie that he memorized all of the account numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that really possible? Or was Ethan bluffing? Did he just transfer all the money into a single account/few accounts? OR was he just completely bluffing, only remembered one or two account numbers, and the rest of the money is gone now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember the movie really addressing it, and it seems like too big of a thing to gloss over. Or I guess I should turn off my brain and just go with &quot;Ethan is basically the strongest/most intelligent/most skillful person on the planet.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1641" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T11:13:39.117" LastActivityDate="2021-05-10T13:28:59.393" Title="Question about Final Scenes in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" Tags="|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-rogue-nation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37558" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-07T15:35:45.570" Score="6" ViewCount="18276" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a few episodes in the first half of the &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; season 2, Skyler is going out everyday and giving Walt the cold shoulder. The reason is that she knows Walt is bullshitting her and not telling here the truth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then some point onwards (seems like roughly when Gretchen comes visit the house), she seems to stop being angry, but without Walt ever telling her anything. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the explanation for this? (My guess is that it's just poor writing. But perhaps I missed something.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9668" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-10T12:44:35.757" LastActivityDate="2022-10-19T01:27:33.940" Title="Why did Skyler stop being angry at Walt in season 2?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10572" CreationDate="2015-08-07T19:12:48.167" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although this exact quote may have been first said in the dark knight many men have addressed the philosophy of the corruption of a good man's soul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.&quot;&#xA;-Frederick Nietzsche.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23717" LastActivityDate="2015-08-07T19:12:48.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37563" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43360" CreationDate="2015-08-07T21:28:45.910" Score="8" ViewCount="3615" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minions_(film)&quot;&gt;From wiki&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;em&gt;Minions&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Minions are small, yellow creatures who have existed since the&#xA;  beginning of time, evolving from single-celled organisms into beings&#xA;  who exist only to serve history's most villainous masters&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://despicableme.wikia.com/wiki/Minions&quot;&gt;From the &lt;em&gt;Despicable Me&lt;/em&gt; wikia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Personality&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They are fiercely loyal to Gru and Dr. Nefario and&#xA;  extremely eager to please, willingly helping with any evil plans, but&#xA;  at the same time they are friendly and fun-loving. Despite being&#xA;  relatively simple-minded, they are capable of building weapons,&#xA;  operating those weapons, using computers, and even driving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So after reading many materials I understood that Minions are created to be funny and extremely stupid. From the creators &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thewrap.com/minions-creator-pierre-coffin-on-why-theres-no-female-characters-in-the-animated-hit/&quot;&gt;there is a quote&lt;/a&gt; that says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Seeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn’t imagine&#xA;  Minions being girls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they are created as &lt;strong&gt;cute, funny, dumb, stupid&lt;/strong&gt;. Then why do they want to serve evil masters? I can't seem to be find any answer regarding this. Searched in many interviews in Youtube. But didn't find any explanation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even in the origin story inside the Minions movie there is no explanation why they want to serve vicious villains. Why not a good people?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Scarlet wanted to hurt Stuart, Bob &amp;amp; Kevin, even then they acted as loyal and went to tell her 'Sorry'. Is there any explanation from the authors and creators why they don't serve good people and serve/want only villains? This just doesn't add up with their characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-08T11:15:47.683" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T07:24:42.237" Title="Why do Minions want to serve vicious villains?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|despicable-me|despicable-me-2|minions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36907" CreationDate="2015-08-07T21:53:05.920" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are no female minions, apparently. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's an article in The Wrap from July titled&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thewrap.com/minions-creator-pierre-coffin-on-why-theres-no-female-characters-in-the-animated-hit/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;‘Minions’ Creator Pierre Coffin on Why None of His Animated Little Yellow Helpers Are Female&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In it, it is explained:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For the French animator, who co-directed the new film with Kyle Balda, the masculine-only nature of the Minions owes to their all-around cloddishness. “Seeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn’t imagine Minions being girls,” he told TheWrap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to their ability to reproduce the article says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Coffin has said that the creatures cannot reproduce or divide themselves, leading to at least two competing theories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-08-07T21:53:05.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37574" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="37577" CreationDate="2015-08-08T04:10:07.123" Score="14" ViewCount="25101" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, it's no big secret, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425112/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast&quot;&gt;Peter Jackson and Cate Blanchett were both in Hot Fuzz.&lt;/a&gt;  Peter Jackson plays the guy who stabs Nick Angel in the hand and thus is in the movie for mere seconds.  Cate Blanchett plays Nick Angel's (soon to be) ex-girlfriend, is only in the movie for like a minute or so, and is hidden behind a mask so you wouldn't even know it was her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are two pretty big names to have such tiny, almost secretive, uncredited roles, so I imagine it was as a favor or something?  Is there any official word on why they took these parts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20710" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-08T10:50:39.890" LastActivityDate="2015-08-08T10:50:39.890" Title="Why did Peter Jackson and Cate Blanchett take small uncredited roles in Hot Fuzz?" Tags="|casting|cameo|hot-fuzz|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37577" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37574" CreationDate="2015-08-08T07:12:43.147" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically, &lt;strong&gt;they were both fans of &lt;em&gt;Shaun of the Dead&lt;/em&gt; and knew the director&lt;/strong&gt;. From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://movies.about.com/od/hotfuzz/a/hotfuzzew041307_2.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; on About.com with Edgar Wright:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interviewer: &lt;strong&gt;How did you get Cate Blanchett to do that one little cameo?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wright: &lt;strong&gt;I'd met her in LA and knew that she was a fan of Shaun of the Dead&lt;/strong&gt;, so that was kind of a start. The first thing we wrote in Hot Fuzz is the kind of the girlfriend scene with the CSI sort of [setup]. The first joke was basically that you have an emotive scene with him saying farewell to his girlfriend and being very sentimental and you can't see her face. [...] &lt;strong&gt;In a weird way this whole Cate Blanchett thing was sort of a slight kind of joke on that. ‘Let's get an Oscar winner in there but not see her face.’ And she was totally up for that joke.&lt;/strong&gt; She loved it. And for the record - and this is why Cate Blanchett goes to heaven - she gave her fee to charity. She is one nice lady.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interviewer: You also had a second person in there that might not be recognized by audiences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wright: Oh, yeah, &lt;strong&gt;Peter Jackson is in there as well.&lt;/strong&gt; The irony of Peter Jackson is that we got him to play Santa Claus and the irony is that we had to give him a fake beard and pad him up. The two things that three years ago would be the prerequisite for the role, like he'd both lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He was in the UK and he was a big supporter for Shaun of the Dead since it came out. I'd become friends with him,&lt;/strong&gt; which was great. I actually went over on a little holiday when they were shooting Kong, which was great, and hung around on the set like a work experience kid. I was telling him about Hot Fuzz and &lt;strong&gt;he said, ‘I'll be in the UK and I'll do a cameo if you want.’ Then I thought, ‘F#@k, he should play Santa.’&lt;/strong&gt; It was brilliant, actually. It was really cool because it was so sweet. He was in London for a week and we actually shooting outside and he came all the way down. His cameo is like five seconds long. He was really cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-08T08:37:24.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37230" CreationDate="2015-08-08T10:59:56.320" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I'm not a scenarist of this show, I can't be sure at 100%. But, if you see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4730026/?ref_=tt_ep_pr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;s01e07&lt;/a&gt;, you see that Mr.Robot is speaking and threatening Romero. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I don't think that Mr.Robot  is in Elliot's head. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23727" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2016-06-24T20:58:17.740" LastActivityDate="2016-06-24T20:58:17.740" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37579" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-08T11:50:10.117" Score="3" ViewCount="265" Body="&lt;p&gt;While rewatching the 1988 run of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094511/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I noticed that in some episodes they used a much shorter version of the whole intro sequence, which had a shorter music piece, less pre-character clips and a shorter character introduction. I think this happened for all 3 versions of the intro (Season1-Casey, Season1-Shannon and Season2).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the only reason I could imagine for doing that might be to adjust to a variable length of the actual episode. But this could as well be solved by varying commercial breaks or adapting the entire episode itself, afterall we're not even talking about minutes here. I am also not sure I've ever seen another TV-show employ such a measure of short intros on seemingly irregular episodes. Or maybe there even is a pattern of why exactly those specific episodes use it that just eluded me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;is there any official information or strong evidence why some of the &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/em&gt; episodes employ a much shorter intro sequence?&lt;/strong&gt; Was it really just to adapt to a varying episode length or was there more to it? In the former case it would also be nice to know if this was actually a common technique in TV production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T12:55:15.113" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T12:55:15.113" Title="Why does Mission: Impossible sometimes use a shorter intro?" Tags="|title-sequence|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-tv|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37477" CreationDate="2015-08-08T12:57:50.090" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1480285/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Abattoir&lt;/a&gt; (2015), found it by myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An investigative reporter works to solve the mystery of a haunted house constructed from rooms of the deceased. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trailer is available in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNArt3I1_us#t=33m38s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this Youtube link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23650" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-08-08T15:49:05.477" LastActivityDate="2015-08-08T15:49:05.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="37583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37557" CreationDate="2015-08-08T14:17:00.177" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of the film, Alan (Alec Baldwin) talking to Senate about how the IMF missions were successful only because of some LUCK. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In another scene, when Ethan goes underwater to plant the chip, he almost runs out of oxygen and is not able to think clearly. And (what it looked like) he randomly chooses one of the two identical chips and inserts it into the machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in the end, I think, he memorized just one or two account numbers and was totally &lt;strong&gt;bluffing&lt;/strong&gt;. And as they say, fortune favors the brave!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22976" LastActivityDate="2015-08-08T14:17:00.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38584" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38653" CreationDate="2015-08-08T16:10:04.823" Score="11" ViewCount="2815" Body="&lt;p&gt;Woodrugh from the 2nd season of &lt;em&gt;True Detective&lt;/em&gt; is a soldier, that is clear. The authors of the series love details and we can see a different way of charging, holding the gun and walking in a zone where hostility is expected. Every one of the three cops do it in their own way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the inspiration for Woodrugh's style? He's on the right here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6aE4O.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23733" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-08T23:30:11.900" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T05:38:27.093" Title="Woodrugh's way of holding a gun is taken from where?" Tags="|true-detective|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37441" CreationDate="2015-08-08T21:16:26.493" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm no expert, but a real assault rifle's bullet is usually not stopped by e.g. a door, a tree or a simple brick wall. Most of the &quot;cover&quot; you see in the movies would not do in real life (e.g. cars) - apart from hiding you from the sight of your enemy of course. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So depending on the material Frank's house is made of, I would imagine that you cannot trust in the walls shielding you from the bullets. However, if the bullets would really penetrate the walls by the dozen, as you see it in the movie, I do not know...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23738" LastActivityDate="2015-08-08T21:16:26.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1653" CreationDate="2015-08-08T22:08:04.297" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The husband is killed whilst on the front line and just comes home to say goodbye to his family before going back to haunt the place where he was killed. He regrets going to war more than he can say, but feels destined to haunt the trenches because for some reason the 'law' is that the ghosts must haunt the place where they died (like the three housekeepers who stayed there when &quot;All the other servants left&quot;). The husband partly realises they're all dead and understands this 'law' of having to haunt the place of death, but can't put it into words to explain to his wife. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think the big thing is that he can't relate to any kind of normal life anymore after the war, even though he loves them all. I think it's that he can't explain to them what he's been though or live as though it never happened, that's why he doesn't explain why he feels so driven to leave and go back to where he feels he belongs (maybe his delusion isn't that he's alive and at home like the wife, but alive and at war, just nipping back for a home visit, even though he partly understands they're all dead but is too confused to mention it) and leaves whilst his wife is asleep because he's struggling to comprehend the situation himself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He obviously feels his 'place' is where he died, despite the extreme regret he has at going to war. I think the narrative is that in his mind he comes back to see his family after his death to say goodbye to them forever and then go and be at the trenches (where he feels he belongs, just as the wife and children feel they belong in that house). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user23739" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-10-04T12:00:06.767" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T12:00:06.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14440" CreationDate="2015-08-08T22:18:53.877" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My view is that the birds when they came back to land in the field would not have landed anywhere near the prof therefore giving Bourne an idea of where in the field he was hiding. The fact that the shot made him move was a bonus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23741" LastActivityDate="2015-08-08T22:18:53.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16500" CreationDate="2015-08-08T23:27:07.440" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Swedish and Danish (and Norwegian) are mutually intelligible. You can compare them to Serbian and Croatian. The danes in the series speak danish and the swedes speak Swedish. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23743" LastActivityDate="2015-08-08T23:27:07.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38597" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-09T00:19:05.037" Score="8" ViewCount="509" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading recently that the grueling makeup process for Mystique was the main reason why Jennifer Lawrence isn't interested in making more x-men films. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like the obvious solution would be to put her in a motion capture suit. Then after filming, bodypaint her (or a body double), scan the costume in, and digitally add the costume onto her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there good reasons why they can't do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23745" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-25T13:55:04.163" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T14:00:12.110" Title="Digital makeup for Mystique" Tags="|film-techniques|x-men-cinematic-universe|costume|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38597" CreationDate="2015-08-09T01:28:34.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;They did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They managed to reduce the makeup time, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/jennifer-lawrence-x-men-mystique-makeup-2014-5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;from eight hours to three&lt;/a&gt;. They did this by only doing makeup on her face/head, but I guess three hours is still too much (would be for me, at least)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20119" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T01:28:34.860" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38601" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-09T02:22:09.613" Score="1" ViewCount="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1991 film &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Looks_Could_Kill_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If Looks Could Kill&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, the antagonists are businessman Augustus Steranko (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715953/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Roger Rees&lt;/a&gt;) and his associate Ilsa Grunt (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001373/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Linda Hunt&lt;/a&gt;). Throughout the film, the two show no signs of a romantic relationship, yet Grunt appears to be jealous of Steranko's mistress. In addition, Grunt consistently defers to Steranko much as an employee would to their boss. However, at the formal party taking place during the film's climax, Grunt greets the party guests with the following dialogue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Good evening, ladies &amp;amp; gentlemen. Augustus and I are very proud and honored to welcome you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes it sound like they are publicly a couple, or perhaps brother &amp;amp; sister. However, the wikipedia article I linked to above says that Ilsa Grunt is the surrogate mother of Augustus - which is odd given the apparent closeness of their ages. I'm also not aware of any dialogue in the film which would give that impression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the actual nature of this relationship, and where in the film do we find out?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15909" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T03:25:03.430" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T03:25:03.430" Title="What is the nature of the relationship between Augustus Steranko &amp; Ilsa Grunt?" Tags="|plot-explanation|if-looks-could-kill|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28407" CreationDate="2015-08-09T06:18:34.030" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think both answers above have an intersection where they are correct:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the drug she takes is distilled from the Son...in any event she does relive parts of his experience and she looks like him (clear from the reflection in the Airstream trailer). She is putting this out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the person she sees is a separate entity and is indeed her son for two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) Who else would even know the Son to project his image to her? and,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Everyone chooses &quot;what they want to be&quot; and my experience of the character of the Son is that he was fine with who he was. He would project his own image, but idealized to his youth before losing his hearing and vision completely. This is why she sees his younger self and not the 30 year-old + version he would have been when she left him to attend 'The Congress' or the 50 year-old = age he would have been when he entered the pharmaceutical dimension.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Make sense?????&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23750" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T06:18:34.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38604" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38623" CreationDate="2015-08-09T06:39:26.363" Score="7" ViewCount="1044" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 1 episode 7, &lt;em&gt;&quot;You Win or You Die&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, of Game of Thrones, the scene where Ned tried to expose that Joffrey is Jamie's bastard, not trueborn of Robert, Joffrey is shown to be styled by the names of both houses, Baratheon and Lannister:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All hail his Grace, Joffrey of Houses Baratheon and Lannister, the&#xA;  first of his name, King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the&#xA;  Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it common for kings to be styled with their mother's house? Because to me, if it is not common practice, then this is not the correct time to do so. Especially when someone is trying to reveal that he is indeed a Lannister bastard and also it implies that the Lannisters are trying to capture the throne.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="7773" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T07:04:10.780" LastActivityDate="2015-08-10T08:03:22.813" Title="Is it common for kings to use their mother's house in titles?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37551" CreationDate="2015-08-09T06:51:14.470" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I found a &amp;quot;unique&amp;quot; possibility...the information states that it is toxic if you touch the leaves without gloves, so I am assuming you can break this plant down into a liquid form and use it in a spray bottle of some sort.  I was not aware that this plant was so toxic. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aconitum&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aconitum&lt;/strong&gt; also known as aconite, monkshood, wolf's bane, leopard's bane, mousebane, women's bane, devil's helmet, Queen of all Poisons, or blue rocket, is a genus of over 250 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae. These herbaceous perennial plants are chiefly native to the mountainous parts of the northern hemisphere, growing in the moisture-retentive but well-draining soils of mountain meadows. Most species are extremely poisonous and must be dealt with carefully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marked symptoms may appear almost immediately,&lt;/strong&gt; usually not later than one hour, and &amp;quot;with large doses death is almost instantaneous.&amp;quot; Death usually occurs within two to six hours in fatal poisoning (20 to 40 mL of tincture may prove fatal). The initial signs are gastrointestinal including nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. This is followed by a sensation of burning, tingling, and numbness in the mouth and face, and of burning in the abdomen. In severe poisonings pronounced motor weakness occurs and cutaneous sensations of tingling and numbness spread to the limbs. Cardiovascular features include hypotension, sinus bradycardia, and ventricular arrhythmias. Other features may include sweating, dizziness, difficulty in breathing, headache, and confusion. The main causes of death are ventricular arrhythmias and asystole, paralysis of the heart or of the respiratory center. The only post-mortem signs are those of asphyxia. &lt;strong&gt;Poisoning may also occur following picking the leaves without wearing gloves; the aconitine toxin is&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;absorbed easily through the skin.&lt;/strong&gt; In this event, there will be no gastrointestinal effects. Tingling will start at the point of absorption and extend up the arm to the shoulder, after which the heart will start to be affected. The tingling will be followed by unpleasant numbness. Treatment is similar to poisoning caused by oral ingestion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T08:41:08.840" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38606" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39338" CreationDate="2015-08-09T06:52:04.540" Score="8" ViewCount="6353" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any reference as to how old the Dude is in &lt;em&gt;The Big Lebowski&lt;/em&gt;? Looks 45ish but I was wondering if there is any reference to it in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20094" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T12:51:45.753" LastActivityDate="2018-05-22T13:04:29.640" Title="How old is the Dude?" Tags="|character|the-big-lebowski|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33523" CreationDate="2015-08-09T07:08:12.530" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the way I see it is that the Joker twisted with Harvey's mind and corrupted him. I believe he didn't necessarily have a death wish, but he wanted to show to the people of Gotham that there are no good guys by any means necessary. He turned Harvey into, more or less, a monster with some mind tricks and putting the blame of Rachel's death on Batman and Gotham, which made Harvey hate them. The Joker also knew the only way to knock the image of Batman off the pedestal of good was to make him break his one rule of not killing, which in the end of The Dark Knight finally happened when he killed Harvey. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23752" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T07:08:12.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38608" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38622" CreationDate="2015-08-09T07:20:49.067" Score="9" ViewCount="141902" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie when I was about 8 years old (so in the early '80s). I did not hear much of the movie since I snuck into the living room and was secretly watching behind the couch when my babysitter and her boyfriend were watching it, so please bear with me. This movie is from the late '70s or early '80s. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was this young boy (maybe 15 or 16) who was left alone in his mansion while his father was gone. There was a French maid (I do not know if she was French, but she wore the typical &quot;French maid&quot; attire) who appeared to be seducing him and I just remember that they pretty much just had sex throughout the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thinking back, I cannot remember any actors in the movie. I do remember that he had a friend who was pudgy and had a hot sister. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure it is an American film. It was your basic '80s skin flick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-06-13T06:18:33.677" LastActivityDate="2017-08-25T10:13:22.390" Title="Movie about young teenage boy having an affair with the maid" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:56:02.283" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2442" CreationDate="2015-08-09T07:56:00.300" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jim just wanted to leave as soon as possible after taking the money. He had killed his wife because she was ordering him to not kill Ethan and also because it seemed she was soft/ taking a liking to Ethan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23753" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T07:56:00.300" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4216" CreationDate="2015-08-09T08:11:15.860" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously this is a Terry Gilliam movie, so it is more clever and humorous to show Jose (who in the end scene of the movie is recovered from his World War I injuries) who now shows up and hands Cole a World War I gun...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23754" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T08:11:15.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38604" CreationDate="2015-08-09T09:16:29.783" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is somewhat uncommon, especially to use the names of both the mother and father's house.  However; my knowledge is mostly in England and the UK. I know that James I of England took his mother (Mary Queen of Scots) house name of Stuart, but his father was regent only and was a complete scoundrel.  However, Mary Queen of Scots kept her house name of Stuart from her father, James V of Scotland. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Queen Victoria remained at the house of Hanover even though her husband, Prince Albert (who was regent only) kept his house name of Saxe Coburg-Gotha.  Their son, King Edward VII, who succeeded the throne after Victoria's death took his father's house name instead of his mother's, who was actually the Queen.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;William and Mary of the house of Orange, Queen Anne of the house of Hanover, Queen Mary I and Queen Elizabeth I both of the house of Tudor had no children to survive to adulthood.  Queen Elizabeth II naturally assumed her Father (George VI) house of Windsor.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I am pretty sure that when Prince Charles succeeds to the throne that he will take the house of Windsor, which is his mother's, but it was first taken by his great-grandfather George V, so it is not like Elizabeth II created her own house.  Here is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.britroyals.com/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;great website&lt;/a&gt; if you want to check my facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-08-10T08:03:22.813" LastActivityDate="2015-08-10T08:03:22.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38613" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38614" CreationDate="2015-08-09T11:00:48.837" Score="2" ViewCount="1920" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I was wondering if I was the only one who caught this. In the beginning of the movie &quot;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&quot; we see Logan and Victor in all wars including World War II but in the movie &quot;The Wolverine&quot; he's trapped in a bunker in Hiroshima. How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23757" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T09:34:10.780" LastActivityDate="2016-12-23T01:00:09.790" Title="Why was Victor not with Wolverine in Hiroshima?" Tags="|plot-explanation|x-men-cinematic-universe|the-wolverine|x-men-origins-wolverine|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38613" CreationDate="2015-08-09T11:11:22.080" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was there in a bunker when the bomb goes off. However it doesn't imply that he was there during whole war. WW2 lasted for many years during which Wolverine fought in some battles and moved from place to place. Even after the bombing, he doesn't need to stay in the bunker more than a few days at most, due to his regenerative abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://xmenmovies.wikia.com/wiki/Wolverine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikia&lt;/a&gt;, he was there as war prisoner, which implies he indeed fought in some  previous battles in WW2. Below is a text from wikia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sometime during 1945, James transfers from the European front to the Pacific front, where he is captured by Japanese forces prior to August 9, and is sent to a POW camp near Nagasaki. During the Nagasaki bombing on August 9, 1945, James saves the life of Ichirō Yashida, a young officer in the Japanese Imperial Army. After saving his life, Yashida thanks him and offers a Japanese samurai sword as a token gratitude. James refuses, but says to hold onto it for him, promising to return for it in the future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-10T09:38:26.160" LastActivityDate="2015-08-10T09:38:26.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9475" CreationDate="2015-08-09T11:46:31.233" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to other answers which are mostly based on comics, the below lines from &lt;a href=&quot;http://xmenmovies.wikia.com/wiki/Wolverine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikia&lt;/a&gt; imply that Sabretooth is indeed Victor Creed in the movie universe, too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On their way, his truck is attacked Sabretooth (a further mutated Victor Creed). Logan tries to battle with him, but is knocked out. Before Sabretooth can do any further damage, he is stopped and chased away by Cyclops and Storm, who rescue both Logan and Rogue and bring them to the X-Mansion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This page about &lt;a href=&quot;http://xmenmovies.wikia.com/wiki/Sabretooth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Victor/SabreTooth&lt;/a&gt; confirms it's indeed the same person, further mutated, with lost memory:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About five years before the events of X-Men and X2: X-Men United: The Movie Prequel: Wolverine, he underwent Weapon X experimentation and was mutated into an even more bestial creature. He became bigger and stronger, and was much more feral in disposition. His mutation also erased his memory of his life prior to the point of the procedure. Additionally, he took on the name &amp;quot;Sabretooth&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After either being released by or escaping from Stryker, Sabretooth becomes a loner, gradually becoming unkempt in appearance. At some point just prior to X-Men, he associates himself with Magneto and joins him, Mystique and Toad in what would later become the Brotherhood of Mutants. Sabretooth's primary reason for joining was that Magneto promised to aid him in rediscovering his past life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T13:00:27.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38616" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38617" CreationDate="2015-08-09T13:01:24.380" Score="2" ViewCount="17780" Body="&lt;p&gt;I heard the Gotham Rogue football team in &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt; were billed as actual football players, but they were just actors.  Is this true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user23759" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T13:08:26.550" LastActivityDate="2016-03-09T15:46:38.553" Title="Were the Gotham Rogue football team real football players?" Tags="|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38616" CreationDate="2015-08-09T13:04:52.560" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Uhm, YES they are actual NFL players from the Pittsburgh Steelers!  They ARE NOT actors.  They are the only reason I went to that movie..huge Steelers fan, hence my username. As can also be read &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2294277/news&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;on IMDb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Batman 3,Dark Knight Rises Get Pro Football Players To Help Film Big Football Scene&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Batman 3,Dark Knight Rises get pro football players to help film big football scene. According to Batman-news, the big &amp;quot;Batman 3: The Dark Knight Rises&amp;quot; production team has enlisted the help of pro football players Pittsburgh Steelers Qb Ben Roethlisberger,Hines Ward, Willie Colon, Maurkice Pouncey, Mike Wallace, Heath Miller, Aaron Smith, Ryan Clark, Troy Polamalu, James Farrior,and Casey Hampton to help out as extras in filming the big football scene that is currently filming this weekend. They will reportedly be joining the Gotham Rogues team,and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette were the first to break the story. In related news,actress Anne Hathaway finally showed up on set this week to film her iconic,action-filled Catwoman scenes,and they looked cool too as she was riding a sleek motorcycle through town.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T13:06:44.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34462" CreationDate="2015-08-09T13:10:33.693" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think Jedi are trained to see the good in &quot;everyone.&quot;  Luke spares Vader because he is Luke's father, and Vader is very conflicted between the light and the dark side.  So, Luke does feel the good in him.  I doubt Luke, or anyone, felt any good within the emperor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luke momentarily looses his temper during his bout with Vader, but after he cuts off Vader's hand, Luke regains his composure. And tosses his light saber.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23761" LastEditorUserId="23761" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T13:18:21.883" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T13:18:21.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38616" CreationDate="2015-08-09T14:04:43.527" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the football players in that scene are to a large degree actually &lt;strong&gt;real football players from the Pittsburgh Steelers. The whole scene was filmed in Pittsburgh&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/3391/49&quot;&gt;as well as many other scenes of the movie&lt;/a&gt;) and they used about 10,000 real Pittsburghers as football fans and some of its players as football teams (the mayor of Pittsburgh himself is actually the kicker from Rapid City who opens the game). In fact it all played nice together in that &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/42740/49&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;one of the executive producers had contacts to the Pittsburgh Steelers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and could thus get some of the team to play the football staff. Likewise did &lt;strong&gt;the real players in turn help to motivate the masses&lt;/strong&gt; of extras, who were of course fans of the Steelers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6o6io.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6o6io.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Jordan Goldberg's commentary from the movie's BluRay:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We worked with this company called Big Crowds that specialized in casting and wrangling large amounts of people for crowd scenes. But honestly we couldn't have pulled this off without the people of Pittsburgh. They really rallied together and just showed up in droves on the day...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...In order to make the action on the field come across as authentic and legit we needed to field two teams of 50 players, plus coaching staffs as well as cast 22 guys that could actually play football and orchestrate a kickoff. Mark Ellis who specialized in coordinating sports sequences for films assisted us in helping us put together two special teams squads...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Our executive producer Thomas Tull is one of the owners of the Pittsburgh Steelers. So he was able to enlist a group of players to come and do cameos, guys like Ben Roethlisberger and Troy Polamalu and even former head coach Bill Cowher. Their presence on the sidelines that day really helped sell the reality of the moment while simultaneously engaging our crowd of extras who were ecstatic to see their hometown heroes take on the roles of the Gotham Rogues. Critical among these guys though was Hines Ward who we were lucky enough to get as our hero kick returner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that, the football team's colors itself were &lt;strong&gt;designed after the colors of the Pittsburgh Steelers&lt;/strong&gt; in order to accomodate to the shooting location:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To mitigate expenses, the decision was made that the Gotham Rogues should adapt to the environment we were shooting in. In this case, it was Heinz Field, so it was all about the black and gold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-03-09T15:46:38.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38608" CreationDate="2015-08-09T14:29:42.743" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082948/&quot;&gt;Private Lessons (1981)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Phillip Filmore is a naive, 15-year-old, preoccupied with sex, who develops a crush on Nicole Mallow, the new 30-something, French housekeeper and sitter to look after him when Phillip's father is out of town for the summer on a &quot;business&quot; trip. But Mr. Filmore's unscrupulous chauffeur, Lester Lewis, takes advantage of Phillip's crush on Nicole to hire her to seduce the youth, then draws her into a plot to fake her own death in a blackmail scheme aimed to drain Phillip's trust fund.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trailer:&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/cJ5rqXCk0wY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20895" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T14:29:42.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38604" CreationDate="2015-08-09T15:21:00.837" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In universe: It is a fantasy show, not a show depicting a realistic medieval setting. It orients on the (mostly) European medieval times (the imagination of which that most people have is in itself largely an invention by novelists and romanticists), but huge parts are altered and sometimes not very believable, including measurements, distances, time spans, anachronisms, organisations, religions, marriage customs, heraldry, dragons, and zombies. I wouldn't expect a realistic depiction of certain name rules there. Whatever happens in Game Of Thrones is realistic in Game Of Thrones as long as it doesn't contradict any rules within the show. As no one of the characters took offence at it it seems to be acceptable within the setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of universe: Practically each country, each class, and each family had their own rules that were changed over time and to represent the current situation of power. Often the patrilinear descendency was relevant; sometimes the bearer of an office was the defining part. E.g. the next king of England will be from House Windsor (mother) instead of House Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (father).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the show Cersei styles herself &quot;queen&quot; when taking regency, ignoring Robert's will. She, having the power, knowing the truth, despising her former husband, takes over. Weren't it for reasons of Robert's (weak) claim for the throne I bet she would have dropped the stag completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastEditorUserId="6767" LastEditDate="2015-08-09T17:08:32.977" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T17:08:32.977" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2111" CreationDate="2015-08-09T16:14:51.083" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They have a high tech &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alluc.com/l/Filming-underwater-with-an-iPhone/yzrk422&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cameras&lt;/a&gt; for underwater filming plus it really takes a lot preparation and takes just to capture the right scenes. It looks wonderful on screen but lot of works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23766" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T16:14:51.083" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38584" CreationDate="2015-08-09T18:15:18.043" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;No native speaker, so finding google terms is hard:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gearpatrol.com/2014/02/11/guide-to-life-how-to-hold-and-fire-a-handgun-properly/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://gearpatrol.com/2014/02/11/guide-to-life-how-to-hold-and-fire-a-handgun-properly/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Point 6: Keep it in what’s called the ready position (Fig 6), holding the gun close to your body in front of your abdomen and pointed toward your target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Point 8: Now, from the ready position, extend your arms out in front of you and prepare to aim in on your target with your dominant eye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the front guy is using this technique. The one behind him is maybe trying to avoid pointing his gun at the front guy? And since he can't shoot throuh him anyay, maybe he is pointing at the middle of the open area he sees? All guesses just, interested in the real reason am I.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23772" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-09T18:15:18.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38631" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-08-09T20:40:25.733" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thriller movie from 2009. 8 People compete for a job in a weird exam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB link: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1258197/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1258197/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23442" LastEditorUserId="23442" LastEditDate="2016-10-21T04:37:08.250" LastActivityDate="2016-10-21T04:37:08.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38632" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-08-09T20:40:25.733" Score="0" Body="Thriller movie from 2009. 8 People compete for a Job in a weird exam." OwnerUserId="23442" LastEditorUserId="23442" LastEditDate="2016-10-21T04:37:13.013" LastActivityDate="2016-10-21T04:37:13.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38641" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-10T01:11:25.047" Score="1" ViewCount="727" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me&quot;, around the 15 minute mark, why was the German prisoner drinking his own pee? Couldn't he just lick snow or ice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23785" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-11T19:57:27.060" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T19:57:30.590" Title="Why were the Germans drinking their own pee?" Tags="|plot-explanation|as-far-as-my-feet-will-carry-me|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38642" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-10T01:23:06.183" Score="4" ViewCount="456" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me&quot;, there was a scene where German prisoners were marching while guarded by Russian soldiers with weapons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering how outnumbered the guards were, why didn't the prisoners attack them? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3YPnk.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3YPnk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23786" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-10T09:33:56.630" LastActivityDate="2018-04-18T07:57:03.913" Title="Why didn't the Germans attack?" Tags="|plot-explanation|as-far-as-my-feet-will-carry-me|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38643" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-10T01:32:57.870" Score="8" ViewCount="224" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &quot;Spy&quot; (S01E14) of the 1988 run of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094511/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the IMF team is tasked with finding and destroying a chemical weapons factory owned by former MI6 agent John Christie and putting an end to his business. Now apart from having previously been &quot;one of their own&quot; John Christie actually stands out from the rest of all the villains in even two more aspects:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is the only one to actually directly uncover Jim Phelps and his team as IMF agents.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While they do put an end to his business, he is neither killed nor captured in the process and remains the only villain ever succeeding to escape at the end.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes me wonder if he actually was planned to return in a future episode. While he never did so during the entire two seasons, I don't have much insight into any possible casting or writing changes that the 2nd season might have undergone or if there were ever planned more than those two seasons. So &lt;strong&gt;is there any reliable information if there were ever plans to make more out of John Christie's character&lt;/strong&gt;, like e.g. letting him return in a future episode (or even making him a kind of &quot;White Whale&quot; to repeatedly evade capture in multiple episodes)? Was he maybe even planned to return for the 2nd season but was then dropped due to external factors? Or was there anything else behind his evasion at the end of the episode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T12:55:01.680" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T12:55:01.680" Title="Was John Christie supposed to return for a later Mission: Impossible episode?" Tags="|character|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-tv|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38644" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50083" CreationDate="2015-08-10T02:19:47.333" Score="5" ViewCount="358" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &quot;For Art's Sake&quot; (S02E10) of the 1988 run of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094511/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; when Nicholas, disguised as Minister Ocha, is lead by Travers into his vault, he achieves to film Travers typing a numbered door code into the panel next to the vault door, using some kind of pin camera. But later, when Grant and Max break into Travers' vault to mess with his paintings, they use some kind of code cracking device to determine and type in the code.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cNaPi.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cNaPi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;why did they need this elaborate method of cracking the code at all?&lt;/strong&gt; Shouldn't they have known the code from Nicholas' camera and could have just typed it in normally? Or was it that they didn't want to touch the code panel for some reason? Was this just some kind of inconsistency or did I maybe miss anything here that makes this a little more coherent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T12:54:55.477" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T12:54:55.477" Title="Why was the code cracking device needed in S02E10?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37512" CreationDate="2015-08-10T08:26:11.223" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, because noone did answer I did some more research on my own. I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fangoria.com/new/the-raid-2-hammer-girl-gareth-evans-julie-estelle/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this very interesting article&lt;/a&gt; where the writer of Raid 2 describes the background story of the characters and answers nearly all my questions: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Director/Writer of The Raid 2 had the idea for them a long time ago and wanted to use them in another movie, but then decided to use them in The Raid 2. There background story is, they killed their abusive father as children in teamwork and were then quickly recruited by the minion of The Raid 2 who took care for their training as assassins. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if someone else is interested in this, he should read this article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22783" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-24T14:10:16.450" LastActivityDate="2015-08-24T14:10:16.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38584" CreationDate="2015-08-10T10:10:42.117" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is called the Centre Axis Relock, or CAR system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ni2dE.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ni2dE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Woodrugh still shoots from a conventional firing position, but his holstered/resting position is with his gun pulled close to his chest, barrel pointed out at the expected direction of fire. Whilst holding a weapon at arm's range can increase aim and stability if using a high calibre weapon (especially absorbing recoil), this grip is considered better in small spaces with low calibre weapons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only does it create a stance from which it is possible to present a smaller target area to any assailants, it also allows the holder to fire from cover whilst still moving without too much adjustment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also an effective way to carry a weapon if wearing full combat gear, which given that Woodrugh was a former soldier would also make sense as to why he is more comfortable with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main advantages of this stance are increased &lt;strong&gt;weapon retention&lt;/strong&gt;. It's much more difficult to take someone by surprise and force them to drop their weapon (or even disarm them) if their weapon is held too tightly to their chest. As most people (seasoned vet's included) reflex reaction to a loud noise (such as a gunshot) is to flinch and draw the arms in, in a combat situation that movement can cost valuable seconds: the CAR system eliminates that reaction, as the arms have nowhere to move back to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2015-08-10T10:10:42.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38658" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-10T15:04:59.297" Score="3" ViewCount="497" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering that the movie &lt;em&gt;The Equalizer&lt;/em&gt; is so much like the game &lt;em&gt;Hitman: Absolution&lt;/em&gt;, like the way the protagonist kills and the music. Especially the one track that plays right after Pushkin dies is so much similar to &lt;em&gt;Absolution's&lt;/em&gt; signature music which is played throughout the cutscenes in important key sequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any chance that this movie was inspired by &lt;em&gt;Hitman:Absolution&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13615" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-08-10T15:11:47.493" LastActivityDate="2016-10-02T16:23:23.043" Title="Similarities between &quot;The Equalizer&quot; and &quot;Hitman: Absolution&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-equalizer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38670" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-08-10T18:29:07.430" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-08-10T18:29:07.430" LastActivityDate="2015-08-10T18:29:07.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38671" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-08-10T18:29:07.430" Score="0" Body="1982 Stephen Spielberg film in which a young boy helps an extra-terrestrial marooned on Earth to phone home." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-08-11T03:08:34.060" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T03:08:34.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38678" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="51198" CreationDate="2015-08-10T22:59:04.647" Score="6" ViewCount="486" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching Age of Ultron (in which, ridiculously reduced, Ultron, tasked with saving humanity, decides that to save it, he must destroy it, because it is its own worst threat) I thought of I, Robot (the movie) in which the robot master decided that humans had to be dominated in order to protect them. Now I am looking for other examples of the artificial intelligence deciding that the greatest threat to humanity is humanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the earliest presentation of something along these lines?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3552" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-08-11T02:48:15.917" LastActivityDate="2016-04-03T04:35:10.180" Title="What is the first instance of the &quot;Saving humans from themselves&quot; trope" Tags="|trope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38685" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39487" CreationDate="2015-08-11T04:43:38.407" Score="9" ViewCount="12287" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Mad Max: Fury Road, the term &amp;quot;Kamakrazee&amp;quot; was used three times.&#xA;During the scene where Ace loads the War Rig, we hear the following chant:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We are war boys!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;War boys!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Kamakrazee war boys!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;War boys! &amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Fucacima kamakrazee war boys!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This led me to believe that the term &amp;quot;Kamakrazee&amp;quot; is a heavily mispronounced version of the word &amp;quot;Kamikaze&amp;quot;, fused with &amp;quot;crazy&amp;quot;. This makes sense, considering some other words have received the same treatment in the Mad Max universe (Fucacima, Guzzoline, traited, etc.) We also get to see the War Boys conducting a Kamikaze attack in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the scene where Nux (Nicholas Hoult) enters the War Rig and tries to throttle Furiousa (Charlize Theron), the following dialogue happens:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nux: &amp;quot;You traited him!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Attempts to strangle Furiosa, but is thrown aside quickly. Furiosa lunges forward and points a knife at Nux)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wife 1: &amp;quot;No unnecessary killing!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furiosa: &amp;quot;This War Boy wants me dead!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wife 2: &amp;quot;We agreed!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wife 3: &amp;quot;He's kamakrazee!&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wife 4: &amp;quot;He's just a kid at the end of his half-life!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nux: &amp;quot;No! I live, I die, I live again!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Unfortunately, most of this is pieced together from memory, since I can't seem to remember which wife said which, and that it's impossible to find a script for the movie online. I'd appreciate it if someone could correct this for me, since I'm unable to watch the movie right now.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The term &amp;quot;Kamikaze&amp;quot; would make no sense in this context. So what would the wife in question mean by &amp;quot;Kamakrazee&amp;quot;? And why is she using it as a reason not to kill Nux?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23788" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T11:59:24.987" Title="What is the meaning of the term &quot;Kamakrazee&quot; in the movie Mad Max:Fury Road?" Tags="|dialogue|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38685" CreationDate="2015-08-11T06:45:53.350" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think you will find an explanation that is based on facts.&#xA;The speculation that makes some sense and has some logic behind it is that:&#xA;&lt;code&gt;kamakrazee= kamikaze + crazy&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not uncommon for people to come up with new words (selfie, bae...). Try not to overthink movies...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19067" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T06:45:53.350" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38688" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-11T07:49:04.150" Score="3" ViewCount="309" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the opera &lt;em&gt;Turandot&lt;/em&gt; which is held in Vienna, Ilsa Faust failed to kill the Austrian Chancellor with a gunshot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Ethan saved the chancellor by shooting his arm, when Ilsa was asked why she wanted to kill the Chancellor, she said that she also doesn't want to kill him but only hurt and save him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the scene where Ethan shoots his shoulder and the Chancellor bends down to the right, Ilsa shoots and the gunshot mark on the chair is where the Chancellor's heart would be if he were there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then how come she only wanted to hurt him? Did she lie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19960" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T11:13:49.207" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T11:13:49.207" Title="Did Ilsa Faust lie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-rogue-nation|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19056" CreationDate="2015-08-11T07:50:54.573" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The last gun Dwight is given by his friend Ben looks to be a Taurus/Rossi &quot;Circuit Judge&quot; revolving Carbine/Shotgun. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The carbine shoots both .45 cartridges and .410 shot-shells/slugs. Ben's Circuit Judge appears to be a slightly rarer combination of black-oxide steel and wood furniture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MUZ6g.png&quot; alt=&quot;Dwight holding the Circuit Judge&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jdL28.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jdL28.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Two Verions of Circuit Judge- One in black with Synthetic Thumbhole Stock and the other in Wood Furniture&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia page on both pistol &amp;amp; carbine models: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurus_Judge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurus_Judge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23825" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T07:50:54.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38693" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-11T09:25:44.047" Score="2" ViewCount="3238" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hank and the DEA managed to find documents to show that Gus was from Chile, spent some years in Mexico, then moved to the US. However it seems that we are never really told what Gus's back story was---or perhaps I simply missed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that he is obviously not from Chile, because he speaks Castellano/Spanish with a heavy American accent. (But correct me if I'm wrong about what sounds to me like a heavy American accent---I am not an expert in the Spanish language.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what is his actual back story? Where is he actually from? (It is possible that this question is not answerable, but perhaps there were some clues that I missed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9668" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T20:13:38.783" Title="What was Gustavo (Gus) Fring's back story?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3785" CreationDate="2015-08-11T10:24:01.727" Score="6" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=breaking-bad&amp;amp;episode=s02e13&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S02E13&lt;/a&gt;, Jane's father reports that Jane was born on April 4, 1982. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=breaking-bad&amp;amp;episode=s03e01&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S03E01&lt;/a&gt;, the TV news reports that Jane was 26 years old. Assuming these are are correct and we are using the standard US convention of reporting ages, then Jane's death took place some time between April 4th, 2008 and April 3rd, 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=breaking-bad&amp;amp;episode=s05e08&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S05E08&lt;/a&gt;, one character said, &quot;I mean, whacking bin Laden wasn't this complicated.&quot; Since &quot;whacking bin Laden&quot; is spoken of in the past tense, we can reasonably infer that this was after May 2nd, 2011 (when Osama was killed).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since the series started on Walt's 50th birthday and ended on his 52nd birthday, the series spanned exactly two years (or more precisely 2y 1d).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(1) and (2) together imply that the series spanned at least at least 2y 30d. This contradicts (3). Given this contradiction, it is not possible to arrive at any conclusion regarding how much time has passed in Breaking Bad.&lt;/strong&gt; Q.E.D. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9668" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T10:24:01.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38698" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41593" CreationDate="2015-08-11T12:46:40.827" Score="2" ViewCount="355" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion &lt;em&gt;Terminator: Genysis&lt;/em&gt; was much closer to the likes of &lt;em&gt;Transformers&lt;/em&gt; than either &lt;em&gt;T1&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;T2&lt;/em&gt;, so I was wondering if anyone other than Arnold schwarzenegger was involved with all 3 movies: &lt;em&gt;T1&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;T2&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Genysis&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And just to clarify a bit, by closer to the likes of &lt;em&gt;Transformers&lt;/em&gt; than either &lt;em&gt;T1&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;T2&lt;/em&gt;, I mean it was made for children, loads of jokes and gags, was pretty much a &lt;em&gt;Twilight&lt;/em&gt; love story with a sci-fi movie wrapped around it and overall was just pretty poor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17983" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-05T22:34:17.053" LastActivityDate="2016-08-05T22:34:17.053" Title="Other than Arnold Schwarzenegger, was anyone from T1 and T2 involved in making Genisys?" Tags="|terminator-genisys|terminator-series|the-terminator|terminator-2-judgment-day|crew|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37345" CreationDate="2015-08-11T14:16:49.790" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The times when you see emotions in other people's heads the character models are designed to look like the ones for Riley dressed up as the character. All of &quot;dad's&quot; emotions are just wearing short hair and a mustache. Mom's emotions with the exception of sadness are dressed like her. In the end credits the &quot;emotions in costume&quot; bit is even more obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for the sake of making the characters and settings memorable when we're not in Riley's head the characters are themed to look like that person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23831" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-11T14:19:32.440" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T14:19:32.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26773" CreationDate="2015-08-11T14:54:27.027" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;watch them in the order they were made because in underworld(1) you have a surprise part that would be ruined if watching rise of the lycans(3) first. i watched it in release order and it seems to be the best for me. the prequel just gives further understanding into how it all started in more depth but could ruin the first two movies if watched first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23837" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T14:54:27.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38711" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-11T16:43:02.947" Score="7" ViewCount="677" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every few years I make an attempt to find information about this barely-remembered show that I saw.  I was probably around 6 years old, and lived in South Africa at the time, for what that helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were two protagonists, one of whom was a scientist or technologist of some format.  They were discussing how to save the (city / world? ) from a black, formless orb which had appeared in their city.  The views they showed of this orb against the city backdrop were all pink / purple, so dawn / evening / apocalyptic colour scheme.  At one point, a laser (if I recall) is fired at the orb, which absorbs the attack and grows in size (much like the evil planet does in 5th Element).  The impression I remember is that this was one of the last things they could try, and that they were growing desperate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it was in english, and is probably from the same era as Harmony Gold's english dubs of Robotech.  That said, with the state of South Africa's TV networks and our international isolation at the time I have no idea whether my impressions are accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm Curious if anyone has any idea what this movie or series might have been.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23841" LastActivityDate="2016-03-13T23:52:51.710" Title="Animated apocalyptic sci-fi movie from the 70's or early 80's" Tags="|identify-this-movie|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:56:52.463" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38712" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38733" CreationDate="2015-08-11T17:04:13.123" Score="20" ViewCount="4718" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have seen that Tyrion has asked for trial by combat two times. How realistic is it? Was it a common practice during medieval times? Is it inspired from any medieval time custom? It does not look logical if someone like the Mountain, Barristan or Oberyn Martell can do any crime and can easily ask for trial by combat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="216" LastEditDate="2015-08-12T15:46:33.697" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T13:19:57.557" Title="What is the inspiration for Trial by Combat?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|realism|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38714" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38712" CreationDate="2015-08-11T18:08:08.720" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not only inspired, but almost identical to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_by_combat&quot;&gt;Western European medieval custom&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Trial by combat (also wager of battle, trial by battle or judicial&#xA;  duel) was a method of Germanic law to settle accusations in the&#xA;  absence of witnesses or a confession in which two parties in dispute&#xA;  fought in single combat; the winner of the fight was proclaimed to be&#xA;  right. In essence, it was a judicially sanctioned duel. It remained in&#xA;  use throughout the European Middle Ages, gradually disappearing in the&#xA;  course of the 16th century.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unlike trial by ordeal in general, which is known to many cultures&#xA;  worldwide, the trial by combat is known primarily from the customs of&#xA;  the Germanic peoples. It was in use among the ancient Burgundians,&#xA;  Ripuarian Franks, Alamans, Lombards, and Swedes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The custom had its roots in German tribal law, but it was also included in various legal codes at the time. What is important in regard to your question is that many of these codes strictly defined when a trial by combat could take place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example in modern-day Germany:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hans Talhoffer in his 1459 Thott codex names seven offences that in&#xA;  the absence of witnesses were considered grave enough to warrant a&#xA;  judicial duel, viz. murder, treason, heresy, desertion of one's lord,&#xA;  &quot;imprisonment&quot; (possibly in the sense of abduction), perjury/fraud and&#xA;  rape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and in Great Britain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The wager of battle was not always available to the defendant in an&#xA;  appeal of murder. If the defendant were taken in the mainour (that is,&#xA;  in the act of committing his crime), if he attempted to escape from&#xA;  prison, or if there was such strong evidence of guilt that there could&#xA;  be no effective denial, the defendant could not challenge. Similarly,&#xA;  if the plaintiff was a woman, above 60 years of age, a minor, or if he&#xA;  were lame or blind, he could decline the challenge, and the case would&#xA;  be determined by a jury. Peers of the realm, priests, and citizens of&#xA;  the City of London (the last pursuant to their guarantee of ancient&#xA;  liberties under Magna Carta) could also decline the battle if&#xA;  challenged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is probably the main difference with the GoT world as apparently in Westeros a trial by combat &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.westeros.org/index.php/Trial_by_combat#Practice&quot;&gt;can always be demanded&lt;/a&gt;. This indeed seems to be less realistic, but obviously strongly increases dramaturgy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-08-12T07:53:40.820" LastActivityDate="2015-08-12T07:53:40.820" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38715" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21956" CreationDate="2015-08-11T18:37:09.483" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Littlefinger wants to spy on Tyrion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Littlefinger tells his prostitutes to give Pod freebies any time he wants and to tell him that he is the best they have ever had. Pod visits the prostitutes and Littlefinger gets to hear what Pod tells the prostitutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not likely that Pod, a virgin, would be such a good lover that the prostitutes would be giving him a freebie, Littlefinger must have told them to do it. Littlefinger must have a good reason for doing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23843" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-11T18:40:53.807" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T18:40:53.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25004" CreationDate="2015-08-11T18:56:21.083" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In most movies young children aren't good actors when they grow older and other actors suit the job better. Usually in shows each character is much older eventually reaching their real life age. So they usually switch the actors especially for young adolescent actors&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23844" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-08-11T19:00:31.210" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T19:00:31.210" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38712" CreationDate="2015-08-11T19:17:37.563" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Other, older movies and stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://41.media.tumblr.com/5ac153212efc451c93f53f3c37b6e2c0/tumblr_nsxkktHZqh1s67y2io1_540.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ivanhoe&lt;/em&gt; (1952)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our depiction of the medieval era is skewed, beginning with the names we use for it (medieval era or dark ages). In the great heyday of history in the late 19th and early 20th century a lot of the research wasn't very accurate, and not only by today's standards. A lot of wrong reconstructions were made, and exaggerations and basically adventure books filled whole libraries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Flammarion.jpg/720px-Flammarion.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This picture is from 1888. People didn't want to finance Columbus' travels not because they feared that they would fall of the brim of the world. They knew that his circumference calculations were incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When something looks like a real nice knight's castle...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Burg_Hohenzollern_ak.jpg/300px-Burg_Hohenzollern_ak.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...it probably was built in the late 19th century, 1867 in this case. The real things were not as impressive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't a new development. The Arturian sagas were exaggerated romantic knight tales from the beginning. They were a novelist hype throughout Europe... in the 12 century. People &lt;em&gt;at that time&lt;/em&gt; criticised them for presenting a romantic past that never existed. Tintagel castle was built in the 13th century...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Upper_mainland_courtyard_of_Tintagel_Castle%2C_2007.jpg/800px-Upper_mainland_courtyard_of_Tintagel_Castle%2C_2007.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...probably as a themed villa for a fan of the stories. It wasn't suitable as a fortress and is located in a quite absurd location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; (and the books even more so!) present us a fantasy medieval setting that satisfies our expectations. It is very successful in this, and real fun. But it is full of anachronisms, exaggerations, and repetitions of older misrepresentations would it be applied to our history (which is invalid as it is fantasy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the misrepresentations have a true core, as @Tautologist already mentioned. But please read the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_by_combat&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt; that he linked to. Most of the time trial by combat wasn't just not common, it was even forbidden or only used in very specific circumstances. Depicting it as a &quot;right&quot; that anyone can demand in any trail is as wrong as e.g. depictions of the droit de seigneur. The medieval era was not a time of dirt, injustice, arbitrariness, and raw violence. Solving issues by sword was not common - and certainly no one could commit crime and fight himself out of it. Of course Game of Thrones basically takes place in a setting off high houses where wounded pride and slights are reason enough for centuries of war and fighting between the houses. In this setting of imaginary honour and false pride, of patrilinear family lines of thousands (!) of years, it doesn't seem too unlikely that this instrument could have much more importance than it had in reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastEditorUserId="6767" LastEditDate="2015-08-11T19:23:47.153" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T19:23:47.153" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38719" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38642" CreationDate="2015-08-11T19:44:42.737" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, first of all, you have to consider that &lt;strong&gt;the prisoners were at the ends of their strength&lt;/strong&gt;. The entire train ride with &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/38641/49&quot;&gt;hardly enough to eat or drink&lt;/a&gt; or warmth has worn them down to nothing but shallow ghosts of themselves that could hardly stand or walk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they weren't only physically broken but also mentally. The guards were few but still armed, some few lone prisoners just deciding to revolt are easily shot. They were largely devastated and &lt;strong&gt;would have to put up some reasonably coordinated attack plan&lt;/strong&gt;, which they weren't really up to at all (add to this that previous scenes suggested they weren't particularly close to each other either).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But most important, what would have happened if they could really have achieved to overthrow those guards? &lt;strong&gt;Where would they have escaped to in the vastness of the Siberian ice desert?&lt;/strong&gt; Remember how happy one of the prisoners was when he finally sees the barracks of the camp, which will actually become his prison. This is also neatly elaborated in Clemens' dialogue with his fellow prisoner during their first muster after reaching the camp:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clemens:&lt;/strong&gt; No fence, no watch towers.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;prisoner:&lt;/strong&gt; That's not needed here north of the polar circle. Where do you want to go here anyway? No tree, no bush, not a blade of grass to eat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2016-12-01T09:20:21.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38641" CreationDate="2015-08-11T19:57:30.590" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disregarding any aesthetic considerations which they were largely below already anyway, drinking your own pee might also not be that nutritional compared to water (or frozen water for that matter). But it was one of the few possibilities they saw in getting &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; to drink. And it was warm, too, especially compared to snow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But while they could as well have eaten snow, even if that would have been not that healthy either given their already low body temparature, there just was none really. Remember that they were still in the train. And in fact some other prisoners in that same scene were shown scratching the train walls for some ice/snow to eat. Also remember that when the train doors opened, the first thing many of the prisoners did was fall to their knees and eat the snow. So &lt;strong&gt;hadn't they been trapped in the train there might have been much more prisoners eating snow&lt;/strong&gt;, even if pee might still be preferable at least for its temparature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T19:57:30.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38722" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38724" CreationDate="2015-08-11T23:23:15.690" Score="2" ViewCount="917" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched Arachnophobia for the first time in many years.   I understand the story line on how the Venezuelan spider that hitched a ride in the photographer's coffin mated with the house spider that Jeff Daniels' family put out in the barn and that their offspring are deadly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene that has always puzzled me is when they show the house spider and the Venezuelan spider mating.  They both look like large tarantulas.  How can one of these be a house spider?  The scene is &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/mc3V9_wK1Us?t=20m25s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;20:25 minutes in&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-11T23:25:28.137" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T23:50:30.543" Title="Question about spiders in Arachnophobia" Tags="|plot-explanation|arachnophobia|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5615" CreationDate="2015-08-11T23:39:29.333" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the movie is deliberately ambiguous at the end to make you internalize an examination of your own personal integrity. However, exploring the plot leads one more to think Stephen did go public with the truth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On one hand Stephen says that a candidate can start all the wars they want and bomb anywhere they want, but they can't have sex with their intern. So he doesn't consider what Morris did as that bad, until Molly Sterns commits suicide over Zara firing Stephens, presumably because she thinks Zara found out Morris getting her pregnant and Stephen having sex with her. It's what a strict religious girl might do, especially when she's about to have an abortion, which she doesn't believe in either. When Morris isn't upset over Molly's death enough for Stephen, Stephen is sufficiently upset enough, along with getting fired by Zara who blows Stephen's meeting with Duffy all out of proportion, as an excuse to fire him, because he knows Stephen is better than him, turns Stephen against Zara and against Morris who antagonizes him when they meet to talk about Stephen exposing him publicly if he didn't get Zara's job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Molly's death and then Morris glossing it over and then Stephen getting fired was enough for a man with principle and integrity, as Stephen was, to sacrifice himself and ruin Morris's campaign. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23847" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-08-12T04:03:38.513" LastActivityDate="2015-08-12T04:03:38.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38722" CreationDate="2015-08-11T23:50:30.543" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I had to guess the reason, as I have not seen the movie, it would be because the creators of the movie did not research what a house spider really is and only focused on what it looks like. Here is what I have found so far...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/house%20spider&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; Merriam-Webster, a house spider is &quot;any of various spiders (as members of the genus Tegenaria) that habitually live in buildings&quot;. I looked up what other species were in the Tegenaria genus &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegenaria&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and one of them was the &lt;em&gt;Tegenaria domestica&lt;/em&gt; (domestic house spider), and I am assuming that is what the spider mated with. From the movie, we know that the Venezuelan spider was a male, so the house spider had to be a female. Female house spiders only grow to about 18 mm in size (.70 inches), so they could not have actually mated. However, looking at a picture of a female house spider, it does have some similarities to larger spiders. So my hypothesis is that the creators of the movie saw a picture of a house spider and just used what it looks like to create a larger spider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23288" LastActivityDate="2015-08-11T23:50:30.543" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37482" CreationDate="2015-08-12T00:52:11.040" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I came with the same question but a careful analysis tell us more than you think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Rust made the map, remember he did with all the victims and suspected crimes that appears to be from the case. Here's what it looks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SP8tN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SP8tN.png&quot; alt=&quot;Screen capture of the moment when he is showing the map&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He said after that that cases at the swamp was like a sort of match. Following the hypothesis that all the victims related at the swamp were taken by the killer, that give us a total of 28 victims.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, as the question explained, a total of 12 missing bodies were found at the final crime scene. Assuming, in the map made by Rust there were included the first case at the episode 1 and also the Fontenot Girl, 12 victims confirmed at the final chapter of E1, 69 marks in the whole map discounting the swamp, 1 assassination during the scene where the kidnappers were killed without forget the swamps matches, this give us a total of &lt;strong&gt;81 assassinations&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DISCLAIMER:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; The calculations were made by me, just watching the serie (again) and reviewing every step. This is not a total amount made by the production or anything related. If you have different numbers, I would like to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21286" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-12T00:52:11.040" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29964" CreationDate="2015-08-12T06:50:23.617" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Purely educational, and - perhaps - culturally reverent reasons, I think, like when they occasionally (try to) speak norse. The reverence, however, stops with those tidbits of penance..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23857" LastActivityDate="2015-08-12T06:50:23.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38712" CreationDate="2015-08-12T08:23:41.183" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The other answers are quite good and on-the-mark, but I want to bring the spotlight on a specific point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, trial-by-combat existed in our world. But was &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a case of &quot;might makes right&quot;. If your guilt could be proven, you could not claim trial-by-combat: This was reserved for cases with a severe accusation, but no proof whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what are we looking at, here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was the purpose of real-world trial by combat?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accuser says the accused is a murderer, rapist, traitor. A person dangerous to others, who needs to be stopped from doing further damage. But he has no proof. By taking his accusation to court, and winning in trial-by-combat, he might be able to take the accused down, removing the danger / getting vengeance. Without hard evidence, that's probably the best the accuser can hope for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accused, in turn, cannot &lt;em&gt;prove&lt;/em&gt; his innocence either -- his reputation is severly damaged by the accusation. Demanding trial by combat is basically a counter-claim of libel and slander. The accused can &quot;prove&quot; his innocence, and (hopefully) strike down the person who slandered him. By the right to demand the accuser-without-proof facing you in combat, the probability of libelious accusations is reduced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In either case, by putting the case to court and going through the proper proceedings of &lt;em&gt;trial&lt;/em&gt; by combat, instead of just getting in a shouting match, then draw swords and go for it, the victorious party ensures that it will not be accused of assault by supporters of the opposing party afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ability to nominate a champion is, again, the very &lt;em&gt;opposite&lt;/em&gt; of &quot;might makes right&quot;. The idea is that those who were not fit to fight -- due to age, disablity etc. -- would be &quot;protected&quot; from wrongful accusations, e.g. from someone who wants to use trial-by-combat to get rid of a rival. I am not sure if a person who would be &lt;em&gt;capable&lt;/em&gt; of fighting for himself would actually be &lt;em&gt;allowed&lt;/em&gt; to nominate a champion. (But then, a person of enough power would probably just have the &lt;em&gt;champion&lt;/em&gt; make the accusations in his stead. I didn't claim it's a perfect system.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, all in all, trial-by-combat is not even that bad an idea, given the limitations of the judical system of the time. It's certainly not a &quot;get out of jail free&quot; card for someone like the Mountain if there's evidence against him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15487" LastEditorUserId="15487" LastEditDate="2016-01-06T13:19:57.557" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T13:19:57.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38712" CreationDate="2015-08-12T08:42:39.743" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like the other answers said, there are actual historical versions of trial by combat and trial by combat could indeed limit bloodshed when the alternative was a blood feud or pitched battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It does not look logical if someone like the Mountain, Barristan or  Oberyn Martell can do any crime and can easily ask for trial by combat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Modern justice systems favor the rich and the smart/eloquent, trial by combat favored the strong/well-trained. One isn't inherently more fair than the other in that regard. Of course over time trial by combat came to be seen more as trial by ordeal and then people were allowed to use champions (similar to what happened on Game of Thrones) so that rich people who weren't strong or well-trained could still obtain an advantage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23860" LastActivityDate="2015-08-12T08:42:39.743" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38735" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38758" CreationDate="2015-08-12T08:56:20.640" Score="1" ViewCount="1936" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that &lt;em&gt;Ever After: A Cinderella Story&lt;/em&gt; is a fairytale; however, the film included actual historical figures and references in the film.  The historical figures do not coincide with movie timeline.  Here are just a few examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The King of France is called &lt;em&gt;Francis&lt;/em&gt;, which I am assuming is Francis I of France.  His son, called &lt;em&gt;Prince Henry&lt;/em&gt; (assuming to be Henry II) is portrayed as an only child.  Francis I actually had 7 children, 5 of which survived into adulthood and the oldest son, also Francis would be next in line to the throne at the time of the movie.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leonardo Da Vinci is portrayed as a very old man and is a guest of the King of France.  Prince Henry appears to be 18-20 yrs old in the movie; however, Da Vinci died in 1519 and the actual Henry II was born in 1516, so Henry would have only been 3 yrs old during Da Vinci's visit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basis of the movie is Danielle (a peasant girl) and Prince Henry's romance.  Henry II actually married Catherine De Medici...who is a far cry from a peasant girl. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know if these characters (the royals) could be based on any other figures or be set in a different time other than a &lt;em&gt;suggested&lt;/em&gt; time line of early 16th century?  I know that with Da Vinci in the movie, it should be narrowed down, but the timeline seems to be all over the place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-08-12T09:02:11.040" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T11:30:20.680" Title="Question about historical figures and timeline in &quot;Ever After: A Cinderella Story&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|ever-after|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38712" CreationDate="2015-08-12T09:21:11.660" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it all sounds very unfair the principal behind it was something called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bartleby.com/81/9342.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;judicium dei&lt;/a&gt;. Medieval people were very superstitious/religious and believed God decided the outcome of battles. This meant that when someone won a battle, they hadn't just seized physical control, but proved that God agreed with their goals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They used this belief as a way to 'ask God's opinion' when there was no other way to settle the matter. In trial by combat they believed that God would only allow a fair outcome and would protect the innocent even if it meant performing a miracle.&#xA;This is the same principal behind trial by ordeal, in which an accused person would have to do something dangerous or painful and God would protect them from harm if they were innocent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accused would often hold these beliefs as well and so people who knew they were guilty would simply refuse the challenge rather than risk death and injury without the protection of God.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23862" LastEditorUserId="23862" LastEditDate="2015-08-12T09:44:50.850" LastActivityDate="2015-08-12T09:44:50.850" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38739" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38780" CreationDate="2015-08-12T10:42:56.087" Score="1" ViewCount="748" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kattappa is royal guard and serves to Mahismati's king as his ancestors has taken vows to serve the kingdom generation after generations. It is shown in movie that Kattappa continue to serve Bhallala Deva who is keeping previous queen Devasena. There is a dialogue where Bhallala says I know it despises you to serve me.We know that Bhallala is a usurper who gained the throne instead of Baahubali and don't care much for the kingdom or people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it means he is bound to serve whoever sits on Throne or in other words is kind of Mahishmati. Let's assume some other king like King of kalakeyas (who attacked the kingdom and lost the war), conquores the Mahismati and become king, then Kattappa will serve him loyally given that Kalakey don't kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-08-12T10:49:10.103" LastActivityDate="2017-01-09T18:16:45.057" Title="Is Kattappa bound to serve whoever sits on Throne even usurpers and forceful conqueror?" Tags="|character|baahubali-the-beginning|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38742" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39054" CreationDate="2015-08-12T10:51:04.713" Score="5" ViewCount="1449" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the comic book, Deadpool is self-aware of his existence as a comic book character and often breaks the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fourth wall&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V17cc.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V17cc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Deadpool referencing his existence as a comic book character | Deadpool breaking the Fourth wall&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will they do this in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadpool_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;upcoming film&lt;/a&gt;, too?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence or secured information, e.g. in the form of a recent interview or article about the film, that confirms or denies that this aspect of Deadpool will be part of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23865" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T06:51:06.013" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T06:51:06.013" Title="Is there any information if Deadpool will break the fourth wall in the 2016 film?" Tags="|character|x-men-cinematic-universe|deadpool|fourth-wall|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38742" CreationDate="2015-08-12T11:02:33.373" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadpool_%28film%29#Development&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Donner said that she wants the film to ignore the Deadpool of X-Men&#xA;  Origins: Wolverine and reboot the character. She also stated that&#xA;  Deadpool will have the attributes that the character has in the&#xA;  comics, such as breaking the fourth wall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.empireonline.com/features/future-of-x-men-franchise/3.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt; too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastActivityDate="2015-08-12T11:02:33.373" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38749" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-12T12:42:15.093" Score="3" ViewCount="15367" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 2 finale of &lt;em&gt;HOUSE M.D.&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; after being shot, the whole episode was House's hallucination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that whole sequence he realized that if given Ketamine, he might lose his brilliant mind but might regain his leg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when brought in E.R., he said to Cameron to ask Cuddy to give him Ketamine. Does that mean House was ready to compromise his brilliance in exchange for his leg functioning? I cannot digest it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21728" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-05-10T04:20:56.690" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T04:24:39.820" Title="Why did House ask for Ketamine?" Tags="|house|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13834" CreationDate="2015-08-12T17:05:34.990" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another possible (in universe) explanation: It only glows around Goblins, and Goblins and Orcs are different races.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is some controversy over this however; it's somewhat of an on-going argument if Goblins are Orcs are just different names for the same creature, or are two totally difference races. (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/8704/49&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28931/are-orcs-and-goblins-really-the-same-thing&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, if the two actually are different races it would explain why the sword glows in the Goblin tunnels, but doesn't glow when fighting the Orc raiders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21877" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-08-12T17:08:06.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38735" CreationDate="2015-08-12T18:42:32.897" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although there are historical figures in this movie, you just have to accept the fact that the time line is never going to add up.  I agree that Francis is more than likely Francis I and Henry is Henry II.  Since the characters in the movie are extremely loosely based on historical figures, you just have to take it with a grain of salt that the time line will never make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user23759" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-08-21T11:30:20.680" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T11:30:20.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34151" CreationDate="2015-08-12T19:29:29.490" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is just a guess, but I think the markings on the upper front of a C-17 aid in refueling the aircraft.  Some variations of these markings appear on other aircraft as well, and are positioned in front of the refueling receptacle.  I'm guessing these markings are there to aid the boom operator to accurately &quot;fly the boom&quot; into the receptacle of the receiving aircraft.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23879" LastActivityDate="2015-08-12T19:29:29.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38766" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38768" CreationDate="2015-08-12T21:46:41.490" Score="3" ViewCount="419" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;So You Think You Can Dance&lt;/em&gt; there is usually a camera movement I can't decipher how is made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/OlwO3K-nE4I?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case the camera move right to left, and enter forward to the scenery.&#xA;Time 0:42&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My only guess is camera is floating with some kind of cable over a rail on ceiling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At 8:41 the camera enters stage and circles around. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's my guess - a guy is holding the camera but the angle looks like is very high and moves very fast and smooth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That effect usually also happen at the end of the show when all dancers are on stage. And either they edit the video, or the guy with the camera is very sneaky because I haven't see it yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23881" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-08-12T22:29:24.787" LastActivityDate="2015-08-12T22:29:53.577" Title="How are the cameras set up on So You Think You Can Dance?" Tags="|cinematography|so-you-think-you-can-dance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38766" CreationDate="2015-08-12T22:23:39.363" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are four possibilities I can think of, but I'm pretty sure they use the first one (a jib).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibility 1:  A jib.  This is crane arm with the camera on the end of it.  You can raise and lower the arm, and also pivot the are left or right to track things left or right.  These are sometimes on dollies so they can roll across the floor too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gQHru.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gQHru.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;man operating a jib&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibility 2: A camera operator can be carrying a steadicam, which allows for perfectly smooth movements while the camera operator is walking around.  However you pointed out that the camera angle is too high, so they probably aren't shooting with these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z6QSt.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z6QSt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibility 3: A &quot;skycam&quot; (I think that's what it's called). Football games sometimes use these.  There are 4 cables coming from the top 4 corners of the arena, or in this case the stage.  The camera is suspended from where they meet in the middle. Each cable is on a pulley, and a computer controls how all 4 of them are extended or retracted to lift the camera, lower it, and move it around the space. I doubt they're using this too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/siElm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/siElm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibility 4: A remote-controlled 'copter with a camera on it. This seems dangerous, unnecessary and loud for an indoor shoot with an audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J1dWd.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J1dWd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="8017" LastEditDate="2015-08-12T22:29:53.577" LastActivityDate="2015-08-12T22:29:53.577" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35621" CreationDate="2015-08-12T23:32:50.760" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;V for Victory was a popular symbol im the UK from WW2 onwards. It is a V shape with the index and middle finger, palm facing inwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originally it was ment to symbolize the success of the empire in hard times, but it eventually became a vulgar gesture for social dissent and rebelion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always saw it as being part of what the V stood for. If anything this meaning would encourge multiplicity in a definition of the V, as a form of protest to the &quot;normal&quot; order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23885" LastActivityDate="2015-08-12T23:32:50.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38772" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41254" CreationDate="2015-08-12T23:44:22.077" Score="20" ViewCount="752" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been trying to find a movie for years on and off. The problem is searching - the keywords return too many potential movies, so am hoping this will jog someone's memory, even though that is a long shot.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Era/Genre&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched it between 10 or maybe 20 years ago - am 80% sure.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time it seemed like an older movie, like it was from the 70's or possibly early 80s  - am only 60% sure, could have been any date given I watched it a long time ago.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recall it was martial arts related (even if only loosely), and the protagonist was trained.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But it was not a serious martial arts movie, it was slightly tongue in cheek - I think intentionally, rather than how some people perceive &lt;em&gt;old&lt;/em&gt; martial arts movies to be silly/funny.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The humour, if I remember correctly, is &lt;em&gt;similar&lt;/em&gt; to &quot;Kung Pow&quot; (but it is not that) but a bit more toned down - i.e. not quite as silly, but this could possibly be there were less jokes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Country of Origin/Language&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's an American movie, based on what I recall from the protagonist - 75% sure (ish).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was also English spoken language - 98% sure (do not remember subs at all).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Main identifying part&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main thing I remember is the protagonist was wandering like a nomad across vast open lands, not desert.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He came across a small hut, about 6/8 feet wide (made of wood or could have been hide covered, not sure).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then for &lt;em&gt;some reason&lt;/em&gt; hit someone in the chest in a very particular way - like the Kill Bill &quot;Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique&quot; (but not that).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason for the attack, I think, was the other person was coming to kill him, I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; a contract out on him, but not 100% sure.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The punch might not have been &quot;5 point&quot;, I seem to recall he did something similar, then stood back.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The outcome for the person he hit was death - either heart stopped, exploded, or I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; the chest exploded out in an over the top manner (was possibly &lt;em&gt;intentionally&lt;/em&gt; silly/OTT).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;seem&lt;/em&gt; to recall there was a youngish boy stood close by watching all of this (about 10-12 years old, possibly lived in the hut), and the protagonist said something to him.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I think it was along the lines of something corny, and then he walked off nonchalantly as if he had said something amazing.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16037" LastEditorUserId="16037" LastEditDate="2015-08-12T23:57:07.617" LastActivityDate="2015-09-19T02:19:00.927" Title="Identify tongue in cheek movie with exploding heart punch/technique" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:57:02.040" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38773" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38783" CreationDate="2015-08-13T00:19:56.567" Score="18" ViewCount="86881" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw 12 Monkeys the other day as I found out it had good reviews, some people said it was Bruce Willis's best performance.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I get that Bruce saw the same dream every time in which someone gets shot, a blonde girl is trying to save the guy and there is a kid watching all this.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, this dream of his comes true. The guy getting shot is himself, the girl is the doctor and the kid is again Bruce's younger self I believe.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is going on really? From whose perspective did Bruce see all this happening? From his dream, it seemed like there was a third version of Bruce that saw everything happening.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought the story was about stopping the guy from spreading virus which never happened.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically I see in the end old Bruce just die in front of young Bruce which they showed in the dream several times already. Maybe I am not able to understand a deeper meaning to this story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21342" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-24T05:47:59.843" LastActivityDate="2022-03-29T10:18:26.497" Title="What was the story of 12 monkeys really about?" Tags="|plot-explanation|12-monkeys|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38774" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-13T01:15:45.740" Score="4" ViewCount="10481" Body="&lt;p&gt;Finally watching &lt;em&gt;Black Swan&lt;/em&gt; and this early scene puzzled me. While Lily taking off her knickers isn't completely bizarre, she does it around someone she's never met. And there is no follow up of any kind. No scene of Lily with someone at the gala. Why does she do that? Was there any cut scenes or director commentary on this scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-13T01:17:30.637" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T18:03:45.397" Title="Why does Lily remove her panties in Black Swan?" Tags="|plot-explanation|black-swan|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1879" CreationDate="2015-08-13T01:34:31.930" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe he was beating n bled leaving him defenseless and the poison with the green stuff which made his centrak nervous system extremely sensitive and the tied his feet to his hands and droped him in cow hide sewn it shut and had him hanging right above fire which burned with coal reaching  the extremely high temperatures without direct flame. Contact Making extremely high temperatures cure the hide as well as BBQ Echart at high temperatures his blood, and organs would slowly swell as the blood boiled and organs and tissue swelled do to extreme heat and at same time cow hide got tighter and tighter snapping his spinal column as his back vertebra beging popping and dislocating like rest of joints and the the heart valves and arteries would ruptute and last 2 mins of his life hot steaming blood and other organ fluids steam out his mouth and feel 10x more painful thanks to pain administered before hand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23889" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T01:34:31.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2015-08-13T01:38:37.207" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Film based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky the double. Similar plot but main protagonist is Golyadkin. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many have focused on Golyadkin's search for identity. One critic wrote that The Double's main idea is that &quot;'the human will in its search for total freedom of expression becomes a self-destructive impulse.’&quot;[9]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23890" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T01:38:37.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38773" CreationDate="2015-08-13T03:45:23.720" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The story of 12 Monkeys is about perception v. reality. And time travel. And several other &quot;deeper&quot; things. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a scene in the film, near the finale, where Cole (Bruce Willis) is commenting about a movie he knows he's seen before which seems somehow different to him. He concludes the movie itself is static - it's filmed, it cannot be changed - but it nevertheless does, in fact, seem different because he (the viewer) has changed, which alters his perception and interpretation of the work. Based on what you've taken away from 12 Monkeys, I would suggest you view the film again at some future date and hopefully experience this phenomenon first hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23892" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-24T05:53:10.587" LastActivityDate="2017-05-24T05:53:10.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38739" CreationDate="2015-08-13T06:36:56.877" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the conversation between Kattappa and the middle eastern king, the king offers to buy Kattappa his freedom to which Kattappa refuses saying that no money in the world could buy his freedom.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His fore fathers have vowed to protect the kingdom of Mahishmati and he would die serving the king as a slave to keep his promise.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well this is a poor attempt at translation from hindi to english by me of the entire dialogue, but here is the link to the full movie in Hindi where you can see the discussion somewhere around 26 mins in to the movie.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/CdTU8E5xXQs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Baahubali full movie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus I believe that Kattappa would serve the king no matter who he is. Even if it is Kalekey&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21342" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T06:36:56.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38773" CreationDate="2015-08-13T07:41:17.193" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film itself is not, and never was, about stopping the spreading of the virus.  The scientists in the future know that they cannot stop the spread because it has already happened.  What they require is a sample of the original, pure virus that they can then study and create a cure/antibody for thus enabling the human race to return to the surface of the planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the start of the film, they believe the virus is something to do with a group called the 12 Monkeys, but they need proof.  This is where Bruce Willis comes into it.  Through his efforts, they eventually find the man who spreads the virus at which point one of the scientists is sent back to make contact with the plane which we see in the final scene of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11201" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-24T05:51:46.047" LastActivityDate="2017-05-24T05:51:46.047" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38784" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-13T03:25:53.820" Score="3" ViewCount="385" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation&lt;/em&gt;, Benji is handed what looks like a paper opera program as he gets off the subway before the opera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; But a few scenes later, we see him open it up to reveal that it has a touch screen which he uses to Scan security video of the opera house. The fact that the tablet can flip and bend realistically like paper was impressive.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have the materials used in the tablet program been documented anywhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: This question does not ask for a scientific explanation. Instead, this question asks &lt;strong&gt;whether the writers and producers of &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/em&gt; have documented their pseudo technology, much like Marvel documents schematics for the Ant-Man suit.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22090" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T11:14:13.723" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T11:14:13.723" Title="Have the materials of Benji's opera program been published?" Tags="|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-rogue-nation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38784" CreationDate="2015-08-13T04:10:18.013" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;If this answer turns out to not answer what the question is asking about, I'll remove it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are flexible displays now, although I don't know of [m]any consumer products that use them. This is probably due to the fact that I haven't been following the news on this technology in particular (although it does show up on occasion), or that they are probably still in the prototype stage of development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These images are straight from Wikipedia's &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_display&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Flexible Display&lt;/a&gt; page&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4Na6q.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4Na6q.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ReAxR.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ReAxR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P2G7b.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P2G7b.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/09/lg-roll-up-tvs-flexible-oled/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Apparently LG is developing flexible TVs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's been a while since we've seen any new curved or flexible displays&#xA;  following LG's G Flex and Samsung's Galaxy Round smartphones. LG&#xA;  Display is thinking bigger now. It's announced that it's been able to&#xA;  create an 18-inch OLED panel that has enough give and flexibility to&#xA;  roll into a tube that's a mere 3cm across. The prototype currently has&#xA;  a resolution of 1,200 x 810, while it's a new polyamide film on the&#xA;  back of the panel (instead of the typical plastic) which offers the&#xA;  panel substantially more flexibility -- and it's also even thinner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3qRAa.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3qRAa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="calccrypto" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T04:37:19.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38786" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38803" CreationDate="2015-08-13T11:54:48.887" Score="6" ViewCount="763" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the opera Turandot which is held in Vienna in &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation&lt;/em&gt;, Ilsa Faust was going to kill Chancellor with a gunshot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, why did she decide to shoot on the high pitch despite there being other alternatives like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wrist watch timer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Silent gun which will not make noise&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it because the director wanted it that way? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19960" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T11:14:32.543" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T11:14:32.543" Title="Why did Ilsa Faust wait for high pitch?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-rogue-nation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37358" CreationDate="2015-08-13T12:34:36.270" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: it's a mail bag and it's there to identify it as 'friendly' to planes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought for sure it was a captured Nazi flag, but finding the same thing on other tanks suggests otherwise. &lt;strong&gt;What follows is highly speculative&lt;/strong&gt; about what it is and why it's there but IMO, it draws reasonable correlations; &lt;a href=&quot;https://history.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;history buffs&lt;/a&gt; might know better. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mail bag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A8cWW.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A8cWW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;https://www.pb.com/MyAccount/red-mail-bag-38-in-h-x-25-in-w-954-1_mailing-packing--shipping-supplies-us_bags--pouches-14672--1/en/supplies&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;~1h:19m :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/13krz.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/13krz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;cropped screen shot of the movie at ~1:19&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you click the picture you can see what looks like two strings that act as handles or closers. Those may just be the straps holding it down, but both of our pictures have what seems like the rounded bottom that would be sown into 'waterproof' bags of that era.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had difficulty finding a US mailbag in red, perhaps this is a British thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's plenty of other shots that show most of the other tanks having one. They're usually strapped on a little more haphazardly, though. I guess they got tired of digging it out every time they passed a grunt; &lt;em&gt;there it is, bro.&lt;/em&gt; as I doubt the field manual says, &lt;em&gt;&quot;strap red bag on back of tank&quot;&lt;/em&gt;... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although now I speculate as to whether it was a battlefield decision to hang a don't-run-into-me flag on the back, or perhaps it means don't-bomb-me-yo. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the range, a red flag means a miss:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;He had &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maggie%27s%20drawers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Maggie's drawers&lt;/a&gt;..you know what that means...means he couldn't shoot.&lt;/em&gt; –&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviequotes.com/repository.cgi?pg=3&amp;amp;tt=90638&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;JFK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I can find no military suggestion of this being protocol, it seems reasonable because as the war went on, it became as likely to be bombed mistakenly than otherwise (especially considering it's almost always strapped to the &lt;em&gt;top&lt;/em&gt; of the cargo).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Improved technology to assist in identifying friendly forces is also an ongoing response to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_fire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Friendly Fire&lt;/a&gt; problems. &lt;strong&gt;From the earliest days of warfare, identification systems were visual&lt;/strong&gt;... –Wiki&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8580" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:47:51.943" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T12:34:36.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38789" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-08-13T12:58:34.603" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The series is based around the Lewis Carroll novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass but with a different twist from the other adaptations and takes place in the same universe as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Once Upon a Time&lt;/a&gt; in present-day Wonderland, with flashbacks to pre-Dark Curse Wonderland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Features occasional crossover episodes with Once Upon a Time that involves connections with the characters that are trapped in Storybrooke, Maine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related TV Show Tags&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/once-upon-a-time&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;once-upon-a-time&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;once-upon-a-time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related Readings&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Once Upon a Time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Wonderland&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Once Upon a Time in Wonderland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-08-13T12:58:34.603" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T12:58:34.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38790" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-08-13T12:58:34.603" Score="0" Body="Once Upon a Time in Wonderland is Spin-off of the prior ABC series Once Upon a Time, Based around the Lewis Carroll novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass but with a different twist." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-08-13T12:58:34.603" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T12:58:34.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30740" CreationDate="2015-08-13T13:53:34.267" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone has mentioned one or more of the reasons but not all of them in one response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Getting a law degree now opens more opportunities to be exposed and ultimately equates to rearranging the deck chairs on the &quot;Titanic&quot;. His career is finished and the only questions that remain is the terms of the sentence.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The whole premise of the show is based on this and it is one of the cinematic/dramatic elements that maintains a varying level of tension to series which the writers alternate levels of attention to when it looks like everyone is too comfortable and think someone could really get away with this and be in the spotlight. It is only a matter of time before he is caught with so many learning the truth, so many LSATS for others, and ultimately the lack of reporting consistencies that exist between school records and actual records which are paper trails that are all suspicious. Health and immunization records or the lack thereof while protected legally could be one of many nails used in the box of inconsistencies if anyone needed to go beyond no professor or alumni recalling his presence. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Being able to practice legally anywhere else beyond the &quot;Rome&quot; itself as New York is the center which all legal roads and high ground lead, is anticlimactic to the character who has now exchanged his drug of choice for even greater high wire thrills of performing without a net. Also, see reason #1 as this does prevent him from going to prison but potentially allows him to avoid being exposed as quickly if it didn't raise more red flags than it avoided. Who wouldn't dig into the history of a successful lawyer leaving a top firm in New York unless they were hiding something? (This plot is covered in the newest episode, where another PARTNER wants to reward Mike with a junior partnership, elevating their &lt;strong&gt;non-HARVARD-educated&lt;/strong&gt; lawyer into a position of prominence in a firm known for hiring &lt;strong&gt;Harvard grads ONLY&lt;/strong&gt;. He can't accept, but also cannot refuse, but he &lt;strong&gt;also&lt;/strong&gt; cannot leave, since all would be weird responses to this honor.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leaving the law or no longer committing future felonies does not prevent past ones from catching up with him as the series experimented with his departure for other high paid employment which touched on past issues coming back regardless of his career change. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Human motivations are categorized as actions that fall under two main categories of fear and greed. Seeking pleasure or avoiding pain is the underlying motivation for most decisions. Having gained so much and seeing no way to avoid devastation from previous damage, the only option in his mind is immersing himself in the pursuit of pleasure both financially and emotionally in his relationships and his practicing law.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure there is more that can be discussed but I think this as comprehensive a list of reasons why he chooses to move forward without trying to legitimize his continued practice despite a mountain of ever growing future legal disasters for everything and everyone he represents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23904" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-08-15T16:41:04.357" LastActivityDate="2015-08-15T16:41:04.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38798" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38801" CreationDate="2015-08-13T14:09:09.790" Score="6" ViewCount="738" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is probably a part-american, part-'asian' production. I don't know the specific country or the year. It looked older by quality, but in one part there were also small mobile phones (not bricks), and cars looking more like &quot;2000 cars&quot; than &quot;1990 cars&quot; in Google; I remember being surprised when I saw them. Most of the actors are Asian women. It's set in both Asia (the past) and States (present times). The language: I'm sure that some parts (maybe most of the movie) were non-English. It's in color (retrospections from long ago might be black and white but I'm not sure about that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About the plot:&#xA;A few elderly women (a group of old friends) are sitting around a table and drinking tea. One of the group passed away recently and her (young) daughter is sitting with them instead. Then we watch their stories, there's probably one for each of them. I remember these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[just the ending:] One of these women was abused by her husband. She drowned their son (the only thing her husband cared about) in a washtub and run away.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;[full story:] The other woman's daughter married a successful/rich man, but had a very low self-esteem and didn't have any opinions or demands; the husband didn't like it so they were divorcing. Then the woman told her a story about her own childhood.&#xA;&lt;br&gt; -- Her father had two wifes and the first wife was considered &quot;better&quot; than others; she was a daughter of the second wife. The first wife didn't have children and gave a string of pearls to the second wife in exchange or as a sign that she will treat this kid as her own. But then the first wife got pregnant (i guess), so the second wife and her daughter were kicked out and had to sleep on the street, then the second wife died. At the funeral the kid was screaming and showing everyone the string of pearls to remind them their broken promise (and that they have no honor). So they had to take her back and treat with respect. -- so back to now, the daughter stopped feeling inferior to everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23905" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T14:44:05.693" Title="Movie about stories of different Asian women" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:57:11.433" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38798" CreationDate="2015-08-13T14:44:05.693" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107282/&quot;&gt;&lt;code&gt;Joy Luck Club&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_axV-_Wz7L0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;from Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Four older women, all Chinese immigrants living in San Francisco, meet&#xA;  regularly to play mahjong, eat, and tell stories. Each of these women&#xA;  has an adult Chinese-American daughter. The film reveals the hidden&#xA;  pasts of the older women and their daughters and how their lives are&#xA;  shaped by the clash of Chinese and American cultures as they strive to&#xA;  understand their family bonds and one another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="962" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T14:44:05.693" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38786" CreationDate="2015-08-13T15:21:16.953" Score="10" Body="&lt;h3&gt;As a character&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main problem is the existence of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/article_18576_5-ridiculous-gun-myths-everyone-believes-thanks-to-movies.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;movie myth&lt;/a&gt; that suppressors (often called &amp;quot;silencers&amp;quot;) can kill all of the sound of a gun... in fact, they do not &amp;quot;silence&amp;quot; a gunshot. It &amp;quot;suppresses&amp;quot; the sound, meaning it reduces the sound but does not make it go away completely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An unsilenced gunshot is around 140 to 160 decibels -- that's in the range where hearing it once can permanently damage your ears. If you've never had a gun go off next to you, trust us when we say it's loud enough that your whole body will flinch at the sound of it. A silencer can get that all the way down to 120 or 130 decibels, aka the sound of a jackhammer. Still loud enough to cause physical pain if it's close enough to you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a silencer really just makes a large gun sound like a smaller gun. If you're James Bond and are sneaking into the enemy's compound with a silenced pistol, you're basically hoping the guards will decide your gun is too small and wimpy to be a serious threat, and leave you be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even a handgun will make noise when suppressed, and Ilsa's sniper rifle would certainly make noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a video of different types of guns being shot with and without supressors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/FFY0aHftVHg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pay attention to the echo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this guy's outside, while Ilsa is in a room designed to acoustically project the sound from the stage out into the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's another video of a suppressed sniper rifle. Despite being suppressed, he's still wearing ear protection:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/BB1MWBLm5jg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, outside the suppressor issue, remember that she's on a &lt;strong&gt;planned operation&lt;/strong&gt; and she's trying to stay hidden. If the plan for the operation requires her to shoot him at that specific time, that's what she's going to do so - particularly considering the backup measures Lane put in place should she not follow through. If she was told by Lane to shoot at that specific moment and she didn't, that would be the other people's signal to do their jobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;As a Viewer&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes movies, particularly movies in the action genre interesting is the use of &lt;em&gt;suspense&lt;/em&gt;. It's been a major part of movie making and was, in particular, a point of interest for many famous directors, particularly &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alfred Hitchcock&lt;/a&gt;, the &amp;quot;Master of Suspense&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a famous &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/728496-there-is-a-distinct-difference-between-suspense-and-surprise-and&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;quote&lt;/a&gt; of his about the difference between suspense and surprise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“There is a distinct difference between &amp;quot;suspense&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;surprise,&amp;quot; and yet many pictures continually confuse the two. I'll explain what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are now having a very innocent little chat. Let's suppose that there is a bomb underneath this table between us. Nothing happens, and then all of a sudden, &amp;quot;Boom!&amp;quot; There is an explosion. The public is surprised, but prior to this surprise, it has seen an absolutely ordinary scene, of no special consequence. Now, let us take a suspense situation. The bomb is underneath the table and the public knows it, probably because they have seen the anarchist place it there. The public is aware the bomb is going to explode at one o'clock and there is a clock in the decor. The public can see that it is a quarter to one. In these conditions, the same innocuous conversation becomes fascinating because the public is participating in the scene. The audience is longing to warn the characters on the screen: &amp;quot;You shouldn't be talking about such trivial matters. There is a bomb beneath you and it is about to explode!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first case we have given the public fifteen seconds of surprise at the moment of the explosion. In the second we have provided them with fifteen minutes of suspense. The conclusion is that whenever possible the public must be informed. Except when the surprise is a twist, that is, when the unexpected ending is, in itself, the highlight of the story.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of *Mission Impossible film, the scene is a very obvious homage to Hitchcock's &lt;em&gt;The Man Who Knew Too Much&lt;/em&gt;. From a commentary piece I found very interesting in the New Yorker:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene pays deft homage, as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/10/long-runs&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anthony Lane notes in his review&lt;/a&gt;, to one of the great musical setpieces in film: the climax of Alfred Hitchcock’s second version of &lt;em&gt;The Man Who Knew Too Much&lt;/em&gt;, in which Bernard Herrmann conducts the London Symphony in Arthur Benjamin’s “Storm Clouds” Cantata at Royal Albert Hall while Jimmy Stewart hunts for an assassin. Hitchcock generates extra suspense by giving viewers a glimpse of the score: when we see a passage marked “poco a poco crescendo,” we sense that the attempted assassination will take place at crescendo’s end. Likewise, McQuarrie shows one of the killers flipping ahead in a score, to the climax of “Nessun Dorma”: Calaf’s final cry of “Vincerò,” with its rise to a high B and step down to an A. The last note is helpfully circled in red. You don’t need to know how to read notation to realize where this is headed: the high note pulls the trigger. Performances of “Turandot” are bedevilled by the problem of the ending, which Puccini tragically did not live to write. Here, the police decide the issue by removing the singers from the stage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much as Hitchcock built suspense in his films, the director of &lt;em&gt;Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation&lt;/em&gt;, Christopher McQuarrie built suspense by giving Ethan Hunt a deadline that he isn't aware of. The audience is held in suspense, wondering if he will make it in time to prevent the assassination attempt with this obvious deadline looming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T20:29:51.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15796" CreationDate="2015-08-13T15:25:22.723" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kay knew.  In the book, she sort of put the pieces together.  Also, in Part 3, she sarcastically mentions the marriage when Michael tells her he never stopped thinking about her in Sicily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23906" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T15:25:22.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38805" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38806" CreationDate="2015-08-13T10:57:23.820" Score="6" ViewCount="1006" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the backstory of Ilsa Faust's mission explained by the writers and producers of Mission Impossible Rogue Nation?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mystery of her assignment is at the center of the movie's evolving plot, but is never overtly explained in the movie itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, Ilsa is sent undercover to expose Solomon Lane and the Syndicate. She seems to report to Chief Atley, but we find out that Chief Atley initiated the project to create the Syndicate, which Lane then took control of. When she brings a disk containing the information needed to access the Syndicate's potential funding to Chief Atley, he secretly deletes it and gives it back to her, tricking her into bringing an erased disk to Lane and thus putting her at risk of being killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are told that Lane betrayed Atley by removing the Syndicate from British government control, but Atley seems to have no interest in supporting Faust's mission - instead, he tries to sabotage her mission. So it seems that Faust may have been assigned to infiltrate the Syndicate by someone else whom we do not meet, and that her mission may have been defined with some motive which is not revealed, but that is at odds with Chief Atley's interests (Since Atley doesn't seem to actually be trying to undermine the Syndicate, but only to conceal its existence).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So who assigned Ilsa Faust to her mission? And why?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22090" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T11:14:22.387" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T11:14:22.387" Title="Who sent Ilsa Faust out in the field, and why?" Tags="|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-rogue-nation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38805" CreationDate="2015-08-13T11:15:09.127" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chief Atley is Ilsa Fausts handler - as such, it is he who gave her the mission.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your confusion comes from the fact that you believe Chief Atley is acting against his own interests, but he isn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We find out shortly before the film's finale that the Syndicate was a secret organisation put together by Atley that would give the Prime Minister of the UK complete power while being able to deny all knowledge of the group. The Prime Minister rejected this idea, but Chief Atley did not disband the organisation as instructed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point, The Syndicate went rogue and started acting in their own interests. Now, Chief Atley has a problem - if he isn't careful, this could come back to him in a big, bad way, as he had already been instructed by the Prime Minister to shut the project down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he asks one of his agents, Ilsa Faust, to get the only evidence that links him to The Syndicate - a file containing financial information that The Syndicate wishes to use to fund themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By wiping this file and sending Ilsa back to The Syndicate he is;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;removing the primary source of funding for The Syndicate, effectively shutting them down.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;removing any remaining evidence of the link between him and The Syndicate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;putting Ilsa Faust, the only other person who knows about The Syndicate, in considerable danger - he is probably hoping she would be killed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, Chief Atley is making sure that he cannot be held responsible for the continuation of The Syndicate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" OwnerDisplayName="Dr R Dizzle" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-24T06:12:24.970" LastActivityDate="2017-05-24T06:12:24.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38807" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38810" CreationDate="2015-08-13T17:22:49.973" Score="5" ViewCount="4456" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching all the parts of Mission Impossible, I'm wondering what is the current salary of Ethan Hunt? How much does he get paid for doing such a tough job?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question sounds awkward, but for a special agent like Ethan Hunt, what is the salary paid by the government?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19027" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T12:35:20.503" LastActivityDate="2019-04-12T13:37:02.093" Title="How much is Ethan Hunt paid for his job" Tags="|mission-impossible|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12945" CreationDate="2015-08-13T17:29:02.380" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because he is having Chilton for dinner, ie he is going to eat him. Dr. Lecter tracked where Clarice was exactly inside the heavily guarded FBI HQ when he called her, you think it'd be that difficult to follow Chilton, a private individual?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23910" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-08-13T20:40:33.780" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T20:40:33.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38774" CreationDate="2015-08-13T18:03:45.397" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;So much of &lt;em&gt;Black Swan&lt;/em&gt; is left open for interpretation.  I always thought that Nina perceived Lily as a threat in all aspects of her life.  Lily removing her panties just reiterates the point that Lily has no inhibitions and Nina has several.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nina might just be imagining Lily removing her panties.  This movie can be interpreted on so many different levels.  I am just giving you my interpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No sources to cite due to viewer interpretation, not fact based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user23759" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T18:03:45.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38807" CreationDate="2015-08-13T18:08:39.647" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ethan works at the Impossible Mission Force (IMF), which in the movie is a US government office that use the services when even the CIA can't interfere in black ops. Why the IMF isn't &lt;a href=&quot;http://missionimpossible.wikia.com/wiki/Impossible_Mission_Force&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;public like the CIA&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The IMF is a specialized group of &lt;strong&gt;expert agents that remain hidden from the public eyes&lt;/strong&gt;. If the IMF were revealed to exist, the United States would be expelled from the United Nations and banned as a &amp;quot;pariah state&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ethan and his team work for undercover operations behind CIA's central operation. Ethan is not working at the Clandestine Service because he is operative in the USA and Clandestine Service doesn't work inside US; remember the first movie, but he is also doing work at every corner of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ethan Hunt would be a Special Agent administratively speaking. Why? In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ciaagentedu.org/salaries/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;CIA website&lt;/a&gt; you could see:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Special Agent/Investigator – &lt;strong&gt;CIA Salary Range: $74,872-$136,771&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the abilities of the special agents?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(...)responsible for conducting inquiries regarding possible violations of laws, rules and regulations; gross waste of funds; abuse of authority; and danger to the public health and safety within the CIA. Individuals who want to become CIA special agents/investigators must meet the minimum requirements for this profession, which include possessing a bachelor’s degree and at least three years of investigative experience (...) Candidates for CIA agent jobs must have considerable knowledge of criminal and administrative investigative techniques and procedures, and they must be able to assemble large quantities of data and draw appropriate conclusions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is considering he is the chief of the team and have more experience than the other members. So now, what would be the salary of the team members? They could be Protective Agents. Again, according to the CIA website:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Protective Agent – &lt;strong&gt;CIA Salary Range: $50,408-$95,026&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Protective agents, under the Directorate of Support, are responsible for providing support to a number of protective operations, as directed by the Director of the CIA. These CIA agents &lt;strong&gt;are often deployed across the globe to perform sensitive operations that support the agency’s protective requirements&lt;/strong&gt;. They are also often responsible for participating in training and operational assignments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The team members are earning between USD 70,000 and 95,000 because all of them have extra skills (applied science, special training at some area), which I think are compensated with money.&#xA;What I'm not considering is IMF is an undercover office which won't appear in the General Budget as &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;IMF&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; but in other sort of offices such as farming research or applied science research, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion and considering all the jobs made by Ethan since the first movie I think he's earning the top salary for a Special Agent, and according to the information is &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;USD 136,771&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, without considering the taxes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21286" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T18:08:39.647" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38811" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-08-13T18:43:46.100" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-08-13T18:43:46.100" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T18:43:46.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38812" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-08-13T18:43:46.100" Score="0" Body="Second film of Nick Frost &amp; Simon Pegg's &quot;Three Flavours Cornetto&quot; trilogy.  An inner city policeman is posted to a quiet rural community where all is not as peaceful as it seems." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-08-13T20:41:21.663" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T20:41:21.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38813" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-13T18:49:53.227" Score="2" ViewCount="1136" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did the Fury's commander (played by Pitt) continue to expose himself with the .50 cal on the turret when he knew there was a sniper out there? His gunner had just had his head taken off and he himself had been hit in the shoulder. Was it a case of not wanting to surrender to a Waffen-SS unit or was it just movie melodrama, or maybe a bit of both?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I would have dressed everyone in German uniform, from the dead, to confuse the attacking force and gathered all weapons including stick grenades inside and under the tank. Molotov cocktails might have been made and the remaining fuel siphoned and drained around the tank - to be lit in case of a night assault by the Germans. A pit would have been dug under the tank to provide a defensible position if all upstairs was lost. The commander and bow gunner could have hid in this pit with all hatches locked from the inside and used the weapons stashed there if necessary after the sniper appeared.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23911" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-13T21:22:48.277" LastActivityDate="2015-08-14T13:05:50.680" Title="What was Brad Pitt's character's motivation to not take cover in Fury?" Tags="|ending|fury|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37460" CreationDate="2015-08-13T20:52:35.810" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the guy nicknamed 'The Falcon' saved Eric, because of the Falcon screeching in the final scene. Maybe they added that just to avoid people feeling bad over Eric dying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23915" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T20:52:35.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38813" CreationDate="2015-08-13T21:43:53.053" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have not seen the movie, but if I could guess it would be because he either thought he could kill the sniper, though I doubt that, or so that the rest of his unit, if there were any left (again, have not seen the film), could escape to better cover as the sniper would be hiding so as to not take a .50 cal round to the face. As a commander, he may also have felt that he was responsible for the lives of his unit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or it could have been so the director could have more shooting, because why not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23288" LastActivityDate="2015-08-13T21:43:53.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38825" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47647" CreationDate="2015-08-13T23:33:51.533" Score="11" ViewCount="336" Body="&lt;p&gt;Which movie is this? (I've tried some internet searching without success)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I saw it on video about 10 years ago, so 2005-ish&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was about a boy and his family, who were forced to relocate from their farm to a city.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There was a key scene involving the boy's horse.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There was another scene where a person in the city kills himself/herself by jumping from building.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think it was set in China or a neighboring country.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was not a documentary.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-11T10:10:55.840" LastActivityDate="2016-03-01T16:44:26.703" Title="Movie set in or near China about a boy and his family's forced relocation" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:57:20.797" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28593" CreationDate="2015-08-14T02:08:51.240" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's supposed to show that he is a master of time, probably as a mention/quality to his past life. Time here demonstrates attention to detail, habits and schedules. This is also seen in older movies like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Matrix Reloaded with The Architect&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Trek with Spock&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or even more recently White Rose in Mr. Robot (eps1.7_wh1ter0se.m4v)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time is their weapon and way to move about. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the constant references to McCall isn't a benefit, it's more of the meta-habit of the habits he executes. Very loosely it can be seen as obsessive compulsive, since he doesn't seem that bothered after killing the men in the room such that it didn't match the 16 seconds he initially predicted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="68" LastActivityDate="2015-08-14T02:08:51.240" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38749" CreationDate="2015-08-14T02:57:41.047" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Future Spoilers (Sorry, I can't figure out how to add multiple spoiler covers):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A running theme throughout House is his battle against pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; He gets to the point where he begins taking experimental medication because he believes it will help heal his leg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's fair to say he begins getting desperate for relief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also recall a scene where he zones out in front of some generic gossip show, and just closes his eyes. I always thought that he looked tired in that scene, and that he looked like he needed to let his mind rest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Limiting your brain power is certainly one way of restricting the work your brain has to do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who knows exactly what was going through his head. Like I said, he gets desperate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20567" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-05-10T04:21:37.803" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T04:21:37.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38813" CreationDate="2015-08-14T04:00:35.090" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you have observed the movie closely you can see that, he has seen so much death that he is not afraid to die, but he is afraid to die not in his home which is his tank. He says near the end of the movie &quot;if I die is better to die in my home&quot; he refers to the tank. That's the motivation for not taking cover even though enemy troops are on their way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastActivityDate="2015-08-14T04:00:35.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35362" CreationDate="2015-08-14T09:11:16.380" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think a good example is where there is an unexpected twist (or twists) at the end, particularly if they depended on several elements earlier in the movie which were in plain sight so to speak but not obvious in terms of story development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, who could watch &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167404/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Sixth Sense&lt;/a&gt; without going back and watching it again just to see how you could have missed all the clues?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-08-14T09:11:16.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38836" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38837" CreationDate="2015-08-14T11:51:45.057" Score="3" ViewCount="347" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Edge of Tomorrow&lt;/em&gt; Brigham says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cage will retain his present rank (&lt;strong&gt;would he have been able to command a battalion being a major?&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cage will be embedded with troops (&lt;strong&gt;would he have been reporting or in combat?&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could Cage have simply said, &quot;Yes, sir,&quot; and then had a better outcome for himself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23927" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-14T11:54:18.190" LastActivityDate="2015-08-14T12:14:12.210" Title="What would have happened if Maj. William Cage had obeyed General Brigham's order?" Tags="|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38836" CreationDate="2015-08-14T12:14:12.210" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the short run, maybe if he'd just deserted before the battle and after the briefing. On the long run not at all anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what would have happened if Cage had agreed to Brigham's orders? He would have &lt;strong&gt;accompanied the infantry troops as a live war correspondent with his film-team directly on the battlefield&lt;/strong&gt;. This might have given him a little more safety than being a mere foot soldier himself, but not really much at all. Let's not forget that &lt;strong&gt;everyone on this battlefield, including camera teams, was effectively doomed&lt;/strong&gt;. The whole point of the battle was for the aliens to wipe out what's left of the human resistance and the humans never stood a chance against the Mimics. Without Cage getting infected with the alien blood, humanity never had the slightest chance in that battle at all. And without Cage being exactly where he was as part of the troop he ended up in, this would likely never have happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only option that Cage, who I guess we can agree was a coward at the beginning of the movie, could have made an outcome for himself that would have been better on the short run would have been to just agree to Brighams orders and keep his rank and freedom but then just pick a little less guarded moment to desert from his duties and hide from the battle. This would cost him his honours, his job, as well as his freedom, becoming a deserter on the run, but would have kept him his life. However, we still can't forget that the aliens were about to wipe out humanity and would likely have succeeded wasn't it for Cage ending up exactly where he did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So on the bottom line &lt;strong&gt;it was the best for everyone, including Cage, that he acted as the coward he was&lt;/strong&gt; at the beginning of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-08-14T12:14:12.210" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38813" CreationDate="2015-08-14T13:05:50.680" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've also had several hours (and no stress) to devise an alternate plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I recall, there wasn't really much chance of escape.  They had to hunker down and get the job done, and it wasn't just for themselves.  There were other troops that could be at risk if they failed.  At that point, you're thinking about taking out as many people as possible so your platoon has less people to worry about, and you're just hoping you can take out 10 or 20 people before you get snuffed.  A 20:1 kill ratio is insanely high, actually.  But it's Hollywood, so why not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-08-14T13:05:50.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38845" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-14T17:16:22.243" Score="4" ViewCount="459" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &quot;Equally Dead Inside&quot; of &quot;You're the Worst&quot; which of the Manchester teams' shirt did Jimmy's dad send him? The blue doesn't seem right for City but surely it's not a United shirt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23930" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-08-14T17:24:42.367" LastActivityDate="2017-01-20T08:08:05.660" Title="Which Manchester team's jersey did Jimmy's dad send him?" Tags="|youre-the-worst|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25030" CreationDate="2015-08-14T17:34:26.677" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's more than McCall researching Teddy. It's McCall basically saying, I know you, I know where you come from because I've been there myself. This scene is vitally important because it shows that Teddy/Nicolai is not a comic book character but someone whose history has brought him there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And most important, McCall knows Teddy because he probably had a similar history of abuse, abandonment, lack of trust i.e. sociopath. It's important to note that McCall got his best night's sleep after slaughtering five men. These 2 men have much more in common that we would like to admit. Teddy/Nicolai cannot step beyond his background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could on forever on this scene, because it is vital in developing the relationship between McCall and Teddy, his antagonist. The acting was superb, the pacing genius (especially by Marton Coskas).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23932" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-14T17:36:39.533" LastActivityDate="2015-08-14T17:36:39.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38848" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-08-14T18:27:34.723" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/em&gt; is an American spy TV-series about a team of secret agents performing covert operations. Originally run from 1966 to 1973, later revived in 1988 for two seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See IMDb (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060009/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1966&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094511/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1988&lt;/a&gt;) and Wikipedia(&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1966&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_%281988_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1988&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions about this series should also be tagged with the general franchise tag &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/mission-impossible&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mission-impossible&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mission-impossible&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T12:48:09.730" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T12:48:09.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38849" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-08-14T18:27:34.723" Score="0" Body="American spy TV-series about a team of secret agents performing covert operations. Originally run from 1966 to 1973, later revived in 1988 for two seasons. Questions about this series should also be tagged with the general franchise tag [mission-impossible]." OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T12:48:09.730" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T12:48:09.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21938" CreationDate="2015-08-14T19:20:42.243" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the fish is symbolic to a warrior getting ready for battle, like painting his face before battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23933" LastActivityDate="2015-08-14T19:20:42.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38845" CreationDate="2015-08-14T20:32:39.947" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like it might be the Manchester United away jersey from 2011/2012 season.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just got a quick glimpse of the jersey on the show, but from what I saw this jersey seems to be the best match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.football-shirts.co.uk/fans/manchester-united-nike-away-shirt-201112_12055&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.football-shirts.co.uk/fans/manchester-united-nike-away-shirt-201112_12055&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-08-14T20:32:39.947" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38773" CreationDate="2015-08-14T20:57:43.953" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;dream&quot; does not &quot;come true&quot;. Bruce's character, Cole, has a memory from his childhood where he sees a man get shot in an airport. This experience is traumatic and gives him an uncommon strength of mind. This experience was totally real, and Cole remembers it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This strength of mind and his status as a criminal (which I don't remember being explained) make him a candidate for the time travel experiment. Twelve Monkeys style time travel is apparently rough on your mind. We see Cole struggling to remember his instructions (finding a spider and eating it?), and the names of Cities. Not everyone is up to it, but Cole is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cole ends up going back in time, one more time, because he's in love, winds up at the airport, and we see those events that he remembers, but this time with Cole as an adult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a mild predestination paradox. Cole can be a time traveler because he saw himself get killed, and he only got killed because he was a time traveler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie was inspired by the French Film &lt;em&gt;La Jetée&lt;/em&gt;,&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/880/references-to-la-jet%C3%A9e-in-12-monkeys&quot;&gt;discussed in this question&lt;/a&gt;, in which a narrator explains most of this briefly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for whether the scientist/&quot;insurance&quot; agent lady is there to prevent the plague, get a sample of the disease, or is there by total accident, there is a lot of debate, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/871/what-does-the-woman-from-the-future-mean-when-she-says-shes-in-insurance&quot;&gt;like here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23938" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-24T05:54:21.637" LastActivityDate="2017-05-24T05:54:21.637" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38857" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38865" CreationDate="2015-08-14T22:04:00.117" Score="4" ViewCount="477" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2001 movie &lt;em&gt;Rock Star&lt;/em&gt; starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston Wikipedia site claims that the movie was inspired by the real-life story of Tim Owens who was in a Judas Priest tribute band and replaced lead singer Rob Halford.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several similarities to the movie and Judas Priest's story, but I just watched a Vh1 documentary on Rob Halford and he adamantly denies the movie has anything to do with Judas Priest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know if the movie actually was or was not based on the story of Judas Priest? Are there maybe any official statements about this from people involved with the movie or is this just a myth/speculation based on a few similarities? If it has been officially said to be based on Judas Priest, why does Rob Halford deny it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user23759" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-14T22:11:56.870" LastActivityDate="2015-08-15T14:53:42.037" Title="Rock Star comparisons to Judas Priest" Tags="|rock-star|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38857" CreationDate="2015-08-14T23:17:38.410" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few things similar to Judas Priest:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Judas Priest did replace Rob Halford with a member from a JP cover band.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rob Halford is actually gay as portrayed by the ex lead singer in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, those are really the only connections to the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One point of interest is that JP was actually in talks with Warner Brothers to be &quot;creative consultants&quot; to the movie and to provide new songs for the soundtrack pre-production.  When Warner brothers would not give them full creative control, they distanced themselves from the movie and threatened WB with lawsuits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the movie was in fact based on JP.  I am not aware of any other high profile heavy metal bands that have replaced their lead singer with a fan and that has an openly gay lead singer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/news/1444846/judas-priest-turn-their-backs-on-rock-star-movie/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.mtv.com/news/1444846/judas-priest-turn-their-backs-on-rock-star-movie/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-15T00:55:55.080" LastActivityDate="2015-08-15T00:55:55.080" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38863" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-15T01:56:11.107" Score="2" ViewCount="3298" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an episode of the 4th season of &lt;em&gt;Curb Your Enthusiasm&lt;/em&gt; a black prostitute asks Larry if he wants to &quot;dig for diamonds&quot;. Can somebody explain to me the meaning of this slang phrase? I can't find a definition online.The episode is called &quot; the car pool lane&quot; and it's the 6th episode of the 4th season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23946" LastEditorUserId="23946" LastEditDate="2015-08-15T17:05:53.147" LastActivityDate="2017-06-11T19:30:29.050" Title="What does &quot;dig for diamonds&quot; mean?" Tags="|dialogue|curb-your-enthusiasm|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38857" CreationDate="2015-08-15T03:10:23.797" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie was inspired by the story of Tim Owens after The New York Times writer Andrew C. Revkin wrote a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/27/arts/a-metal-head-becomes-a-metal-god-heavy.html?pagewanted=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;story&lt;/a&gt; on him. Warner Bros. decided to make a movie out of it and, as happens so often when studios try to make a movie about a real life person or a band, that person wants to make sure they can control how they are portrayed as to not destroy their image. But studios are not keen on handing over that kind of control over their projects. According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/news/1444846/judas-priest-turn-their-backs-on-rock-star-movie/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MTV News&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Initially, Judas Priest were interested in the project, and Warner Bros. wanted the band to write music for the soundtrack. However, the group wanted creative input on the film, and that soured the deal, said Revkin, who was hired as a creative consultant for the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at that point they turn it into a fictional story to cut off any lawsuits. That also frees them from having to be factually correct and giving them freedom to make the story more interesting, like adding Jennifer Anniston as a love interest. Tim Owens said, “They fabricated things and decided to pull away from my story and make their own because I guess mine was too normal.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The writer they hired to write the script said &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2001/10/05/rock-stars-writer-went-heavy-metal-school&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I pitched my take on the story – an obsessed twentysomething selling office supplies in a rust-belt town has completely subsumed his own identity while fronting a tribute band. It’s only after this Überfan becomes the lead singer for the band he worships that he discovers his own identity and individual voice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That wording makes me think it was intended to be a fictionalized version from the point he became involved. Although he did a lot of research, even going to Owens' home town, to get the character right, he did not mention speaking to Owens himself or any other member of the band. The fact that the character in the movie ends up being replaced by the original singer was completely fictional, but prophetic, as Owens left Judas Priest in 2003 to be replaced by Rob Halford, two years &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; Rock Star was released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19836" LastEditorUserId="19836" LastEditDate="2015-08-15T14:53:42.037" LastActivityDate="2015-08-15T14:53:42.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38867" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-15T03:41:51.670" Score="3" ViewCount="571" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first scene of Rope (1948), Philip had a cut in his hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wrquu.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wrquu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in this scene there is no cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oGcjs.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oGcjs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main point of Rope (1948) is that the story happened in one day and in one day a human hand won't recover that fast. So why is there no cut in Philip's hand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23948" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-15T12:18:56.547" LastActivityDate="2018-05-23T19:19:33.827" Title="Why is there no cut in Philip's hand?" Tags="|rope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38872" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38884" CreationDate="2015-08-15T06:36:00.140" Score="11" ViewCount="11528" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Waterworld, the antagonists known as the &quot;smokers&quot; are shown as always having a lit cigarette and smoking.  They show another scene where there are piles of cigarettes.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there is no &quot;dry land&quot;, where did the cigarettes come from?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if they were left-over from the flooding of the earth, then how are the cigarettes still smoke worthy after being in water?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user23759" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-08-15T08:26:49.280" LastActivityDate="2017-06-22T03:48:01.563" Title="How did the &quot;smokers&quot; have all of those cigarettes in Waterworld?" Tags="|plot-explanation|waterworld|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38873" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38959" CreationDate="2015-08-15T07:13:25.070" Score="4" ViewCount="1239" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the campaign for Frank's presidency in &lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;, it always looked like people were more connected to Claire than Frank. We also heard Frank saying &quot;&lt;em&gt;You are right, this office has only one chair and you have always known that.&lt;/em&gt;&quot; Does Claire Underwood want the Presidency for herself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23952" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-15T12:25:46.493" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T18:54:22.623" Title="Does Claire Underwood want to be president" Tags="|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38874" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39617" CreationDate="2015-08-15T07:29:51.430" Score="1" ViewCount="264" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; we have first Seth Grayson use Dr. Marbury's hand-written notes to blackmail Claire and get a work position with her and Frank. He promises that there are no copies of those notes. Later Stamper uses the same to re-gain the trust of Frank and asks for chief of staff position. He also tells the same to Frank that there are no copies of it. Stamper burns the note in front of Frank. Somehow I trust that Stamper will not make any copies of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that Seth might have a copy of that note?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23952" LastEditorUserId="23952" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T16:51:19.637" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T16:51:19.637" Title="Another copy of Dr. Marbury's journal" Tags="|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38875" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-15T09:09:09.033" Score="15" ViewCount="5641" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;L.A. Confidential&lt;/em&gt;, Captain Dudley Smith (James Cromwell) introduces a newspaper reporter to Edmund Exley (Guy Pearce) and explains to the reporter &quot;I was fortunate enough to be partnered with his father when I was a rookie.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Exley and Smith have a drink in honor of Preston Exley who was Edmund Exley's father.  Edmund looks at a photo on the wall with a 8-10? year old boy (presumably young Edmund) standing in between Smith and his father, both in police uniform.  Edmund proposes a toast stating &quot;To the solving of crimes that require absolute justice.&quot;  Edmund raises his glass, but Smith just watches him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the movie, Edmund Exley speaks to Sergeant Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) about his father being shot 6 times and how the crime was never solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing that Dudley Smith was as corrupt as he was, could it be possible that he killed Edmund Exley's father? Is there any other evidence or hints pointing at that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-10-01T23:32:41.840" LastActivityDate="2023-04-06T17:50:41.513" Title="Did Captain Dudley Smith kill Lieutenant Edmund Exley's father?" Tags="|la-confidential|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38883" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38885" CreationDate="2015-08-15T15:48:12.897" Score="9" ViewCount="1258" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought &lt;em&gt;The Name of the Rose&lt;/em&gt; was intriguing and fascinating (the sound effects, the location, the costumes, and the characters).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't understand, however, is that the anti-christ was mentioned a couple of times, especially nearly at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The events in the abbey were factual and concrete, so why would the man with &quot;my hair now white&quot; say, &quot;But the Antichrist was victorious once more...&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched the movie several times, but I still can't figure it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23961" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-03-01T06:30:05.793" LastActivityDate="2016-03-01T06:30:05.793" Title="The Anti-Christ in the Name of the Rose" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|the-name-of-the-rose|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38872" CreationDate="2015-08-15T16:27:17.783" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not all smokers smoke cigarettes all the time. I never assumed this was their defining trait, I always thought of the use of engines burning oil as namegiver compared to the drifters who sail or the archipelago people who mostly use paddles. Still a lot of smokers smoke cigarettes or cigarillos of different kind. They don't seem to be very valuable; on the other hand they are a special gift that Dennis Hopper's character gives away on his tour through the ship. He throws them into the people like candy on a parade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know much about the economy of Waterworld. We also don't know much about the time frame. There are contradicting indicators for how long after the flood the action takes place. The flood probably didn't come suddenly so people could retracted to higher areas before leaving land completely. They probably would have taken a lot of stuff with them, and cigarettes are a valuable currency in times of trouble by experience (e.g. prisons, after devastating wars like WW II in Germany). So people may have saved them. Also everything aboard a ship isn't directly affected by a flood. (And can't you dry wet tobacco? The quality may be stained but that doesn't seem the main problem.) So depending on how long after the flood the action takes place those may be stock. The smokers are reavers as we see in the movie so it mustn't be just their own stock from the beginning. How plausible this is depends highly on the timeframe. There are indicators that the action takes place shortly after the flood (still floating ships, paper) or long after (mutation, reference to former generations).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that some material is produced and recycled. When the interior of the Exxon Valdez is shown we see repair crews and even metal casting. The drifter from the beginning in the movie mentioned that the slavers now produce epoxy in good quality. So we know there is some production activity. We don't know whether cigarettes are produced and from what they are produced. It is possible that they are recycled filters with seaweed filling but we neither see collection of cigarette butts nor do we learn about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie doesn't give a definite answer. Some ideas seem plausible within the few bits of universe that we see in the movie but a definite answer is not possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastActivityDate="2015-08-15T16:27:17.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38883" CreationDate="2015-08-15T16:54:57.680" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;When he says that, he doesn't really speak of some actual supernatural incarnation of the antichrist, but of the &lt;strong&gt;antichrist that could be said to symbolically stand behind every factual and concrete evil action of humanity&lt;/strong&gt;. What he actually says is that the ignorance and evil of men has won yet again. It is a bit of a wordplay supposing the concrete meaning of the antichrist, as upheld by the Inquisition and others in the abbey, with a rather metaphorical meaning of it as merely a symbol for a hidden malice behind all actions that ultimately tries to produce evil in the world&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While there were people among the abbey, in particular the ultimate perpetrator Jorge de Burgos and Inquisitor Bernardo Gui, who claimed those deeds to actually be supernatural actions of the antichrist, William suspected a real human murderer behind everything and he was right. But you could argue that the antichrist could as well be seen in a more symbolic way as the ultimate evil force behind all the actions that lead to the demise of the abbey. And this doesn't just include the murders but also the ruthless deeds of the Inquisition that let the wrong people burn in their fanatic fervour and worked their way against a rational investigation of the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact this meaning is also alluded to by William earlier when he, not without satire, says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The only evidence I see of the antichrist here is everyone's desire to see him at work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at this point when Adso says that after the Inquisition decided its verdict on the supposedly innocent convicts, he is playing with that notion of the antichrist, introduced to the story earlier in a much more concrete way, now using it in a rather metaphorical way (and maybe also a bit as a paraphrase of the real human perpetrator behind all those supposedly antichrist-facilitated actions). He alludes to the fact that everyone involved in the situation believed to act in their best faith, but against everyone's best efforts the whole investigation in the abbey resulted in the worst of all outcomes.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; So you could say that &lt;strong&gt;the antichrist yet again won, even if he did not really need to appear in a concrete form at all&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;sub&gt;In fact this contrast between trying to act in best faith and still producing the worst outcome is also alluded to in Umberto Eco's base novel when Adson, in his form as the actual narrator writes about the final chapter&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;In which the ecpyrosis takes place, and because of excess virtue the forces of hell prevail.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-29T21:07:03.423" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T21:07:03.423" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38888" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-15T18:59:50.040" Score="3" ViewCount="479" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Korean Drama &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healer_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Healer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, the whole show goes by with Chae Young-Shin (Park Min-Young) being afraid of cars due to trauma. But in the last episode, not only does she drive, she also hands over camera and stuff to Seo Jung-Hoo, as if he could not carry a camera while riding. But what puzzles me is her driving with the fear she had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23255" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-12-20T19:05:46.157" LastActivityDate="2020-01-19T20:02:20.293" Title="How can Chae Young-Shin drive at the end of Healer?" Tags="|plot-explanation|healer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="38889" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-15T19:06:15.140" Score="3" ViewCount="401" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Alonzo Harris along with Jake Hoyt went to visit Roger the first time, the latter receives a phone call where he said &quot;it's your mess, you clean it up&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the purpose of this phone call?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23961" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-15T19:24:29.920" LastActivityDate="2015-08-15T19:24:29.920" Title="Mysterious Short Hostile Phone Conversation in Training Day" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|training-day|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38895" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="56284" CreationDate="2015-08-15T22:53:44.780" Score="5" ViewCount="322" Body="&lt;p&gt;When looking at the story of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592525/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lockout&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; there are a few similarities to John Carpenter's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082340/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Escape from New York&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, putting a badass convict onto an unwanted mission to rescue the president (or his daughter for that matter) from a future prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I see those similarities are largely superficial and only concern the story's concept on a very broad scale. But I remember that around the time of &lt;em&gt;Lockout&lt;/em&gt;'s release or a bit earlier there were some rumours about a remake of &lt;em&gt;Escape from New York&lt;/em&gt; and this movie made me wonder if this might not even have been intended as that remake in the first place but was then reappropriated during its production. While the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_New_York#Remake&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;corresponding Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; says that said remake is still in development, it also suggests that it went through a significant deal of production bureaucracy and many different hands. So while I might just be imagining things here or drawing a connection where there isn't really one, asking can't hurt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;strong&gt;to which degree was the development of &lt;em&gt;Lockout&lt;/em&gt; actually influenced by &lt;em&gt;Escape from New York&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (if at all)? Is there any solid evidence or even secured information that it once started out as an actual remake but was later reappropriated? Were there any legal or bureaucratic intricacies involved? Or are the influences just on a less specific story-wise/artistic level? Or are those similarities entirely coincidental and I'm just grabbing some straw without reasonable basis?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-15T23:07:44.317" LastActivityDate="2016-08-09T14:17:35.063" Title="Was the development of Lockout influenced by Escape from New York?" Tags="|production|escape-from-new-york|lockout|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38898" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-16T00:16:29.713" Score="1" ViewCount="1279" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand, because even though Mike hasn't gone to Harvard, it is expressed that Jessica can waive the rule as she did with Rachel going to Columbia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23974" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-08-16T00:22:46.660" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T20:14:53.910" Title="In Suits why does it matter that Mike hasn't gone to Harvard?" Tags="|plot-explanation|suits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38901" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="53795" CreationDate="2015-08-16T02:00:26.133" Score="32" ViewCount="303509" Body="&lt;p&gt;What disease killed Jenny in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/&quot;&gt;Forrest Gump&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is vague. Jenny tells Forrest she has some virus and the doctors do not know what it is. At no point in the movie itself does it disclose more information regarding why she died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that the popular opinions are one of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS&quot;&gt;AIDS&lt;/a&gt;. It would have weakened her immune system, allowing something else to finish her off. HIV/AIDS is spread primarily through blood and sexual contact. Jenny appears to have multiple partners throughout the movie and is living in the era of &quot;free love.&quot; This seems to be the most popular opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis_C&quot;&gt;Hepatitis C&lt;/a&gt;. Per Wikipedia, this is primarily spread via blood contact and drug use. Jenny is seen in the movie (ab)using drugs multiple times at a point in history when drug use was even more rampant than it is today. Hepatitis C was also unknown in the late 1980s which is the rough timeframe of when the end of the movie would have taken place, which could explain it being an &quot;unknown virus.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While we can debate which disease it &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have been, is there any definitive, &lt;em&gt;credible&lt;/em&gt; proof? Interviews with producers, directors, scriptwriters? Specific references to a script or other source material?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; include some credible, out-of-universe proof explaining the specific cause of Jenny's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9311" LastActivityDate="2018-11-13T07:33:51.550" Title="What killed Jenny?" Tags="|character|forrest-gump|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38902" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38903" CreationDate="2015-08-16T02:46:57.207" Score="16" ViewCount="3025" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mike, in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, has a decent body count. But I can't recall him ever shooting anybody that wasn't a threat to him. Jessie, Walt, and Gus have all killed defenseless people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has Mike ever killed an unarmed man?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16406" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-07T14:11:59.173" LastActivityDate="2017-07-30T20:58:14.577" Title="Does Mike Ehrmantraut ever kill an unarmed man?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38902" CreationDate="2015-08-16T03:28:10.177" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mike kills Leonel Salamanca (&lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/I_See_You&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;S03E08, I See You&lt;/a&gt;) via lethal injection (on orders from Gus Fring) while he's recovering in the ICU following the shootout with Hank Schrader. There was a small threat that Leonel could inform to the DEA on Gus and Walt, and the much bigger threat (near certainty) that he would tell the other cartel bosses that Gus was the one who green-lit the hit on Hank, but he was unarmed and was definitely not an imminent threat to Mike at the time of the killing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2017-07-30T20:58:14.577" LastActivityDate="2017-07-30T20:58:14.577" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37139" CreationDate="2015-08-16T05:14:41.340" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two realities here. The Sean from the world where Stevens is a soldier is the first one. In this reality Sean has died in the train bombing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inside the source code, there is no Sean. Sean's conscience is replaced with Stevens'. The actual Sean dies in the train with no knowledge of a bomb. The other Seans are all Stevens' conscience trying to stop the bombing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last attempt, Sean (Stevens' conscience) manages to stop the bombing. Ideally this world should terminate right after. However, this alternate reality is somehow real too. Stevens gets to live the remaining of his life as Sean in this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sean's life is not made miserable, but the ones who knew him would now find an altered version of Sean and will find it extremely difficult to deal with. However, those portions are not dealt with in the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2015-08-16T05:14:41.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38908" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-16T07:29:39.850" Score="7" ViewCount="772" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we know all three Baratheon brothers died without any heir in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;. Their father also didn't had any brothers to provide the heirs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So who is true heir for the kingdom? We know Baratheon are remotely related to Targaryens, however there is also no male heir as of now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-16T11:37:21.607" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T08:10:50.127" Title="Who is heir for Robert and Stannis now?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38908" CreationDate="2015-08-16T07:56:25.870" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You forget &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Tommen&quot;&gt;Tommen Baratheon&lt;/a&gt; who is still alive. We know he is not Robert's biological son but legally and publicly this doesn't change the situation; he is the heir and now head of the house and the throne.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If this question is about the legal claim to the throne: Robert's probably was weak too, he got it by force. Power is power. The same is true for the house before his, the Targaryens. If you win you write history and you will undoubtly find a drop of blood in your ancestry that justifies a claim, as Robert did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Legally Tommen probably wouldn't have a chance when his true descent would be proven; so some descent of the Targaryens would have a lawful claim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastActivityDate="2015-08-16T07:56:25.870" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38898" CreationDate="2015-08-16T08:18:48.410" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it matters more that he does not have a formal law degree than not going to Harvard. He cannot practice law without a formal law degree and that can get him into deep trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23982" LastActivityDate="2015-08-16T08:18:48.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23726" CreationDate="2015-08-16T09:17:56.680" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;@MANI &#xA;The Kids Just Depressed And The Guy That Looks Just Like Him Is Everything He Wants To Be. It Drives Him Crazy, The Guy James Is Just A Workplace Psychopath That Has Found The Perfect Victim That So Happens To Look Just Like Him. But Slightly Better Looking Not To Mention The Personality. This Look Alike PSYCHOPATH Appears To Be The Good Guy While Using Other People's Accomplishments As If Their His Own.He Covers His Using Tactics By Acting On The Prays Weakness Helping Him With Social Attributes Is A Perfect Way For This Look Alike Psychopath To Get In The Kids Head And Steal His Smart Works As If They're His Own. Notice He Uses The Boy While Appearing To Be Helping Him Then When He Felt Cornered He Took Of His Mask. HE'S VIOLENT, HE'S PROMISCUOUS, AND HIGHLY MANIPULATIVE THESE ARE COMMON TRAITS OF A PSYCHOPATH. DO RESEARCH ON INTERNET FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE MOVIE. AND THE PERSONALITY DISORDER JAMES HAS CALLED PSYCHOPATHY.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23984" LastActivityDate="2015-08-16T09:17:56.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38914" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="113896" CreationDate="2015-08-16T12:27:22.640" Score="3" ViewCount="1338" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1850's and 60's, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Taiping Rebellion broke out in China&lt;/a&gt;, observed by both the Tokugawa Bakufu and subsequently the Meiji Imperial government. Some 200 years earlier, Japan had suffered its own rebellion (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimabara_Rebellion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;at Shimabara&lt;/a&gt;) with some similar characteristics: e.g., began in the far south of the country, their leaders were supposedly children of prophecy (or sons of God), both were inspired (or at least heavily influenced by) Christian or pseudo-Christian theologies, both were extremely bloody, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Taiping Rebellion has led to a number of film/TV adaptations in China:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0891416/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Twilight of a Nation&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (1988), 45 episode drama (Hong Kong, TVB)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Taiping_Heavenly_Kingdom_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (2000), 48 episode drama (CCTV)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0913968/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Warlords&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (2007), indirectly referencing the Taipings (&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the Shimabara Rebellion has likewise been adapted in Japan. My question is: have the Japanese ever produced film/TV interpretations of the Taiping Rebellion? What was the Japanese perspective of the conflict, represented through their audiovisual media?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23900" LastActivityDate="2022-07-04T21:04:05.423" Title="Japanese films/TV adaptations of the Taiping Rebellion?" Tags="|japanese-cinema|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38920" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-16T17:09:55.347" Score="7" ViewCount="1083" Body="&lt;p&gt;Right before the last climactic battle in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max:_Fury_Road&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mad Max: Fury Road&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Furiosa and the band finally make it to her childhood gang, the Vuvalini. After Furiosa talks to them, they approach the wives and without introducing themselves or anything and start checking their teeth, and pinching their supple skin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Teeth checking, just like how &quot;Keeper of the Seeds&quot; did it to &quot;The Dag&quot; is a common trope of slavery in Hollywood films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any non-Western cultural way of looking at teeth-checking? Or possibly a movie it is paying a homage to? Any way of interpreting teeth-checking as anything other than a way to introduce a dominate-exploitative relationship?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have since watched the deleted scenes, and noticed something ever more striking and potentially plot changing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a scene revolving around that old lady from the Citadel (they seem to call her History, or something like that). She makes a comment about how their society is going to be overthrown, that &quot;she is already on her way&quot;. And this scene appears as developed as the rest of the movie, so presumably we know this was part of the story until very late in the development.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There does not appear to be any alternative way of interpreting this scene but that from the very beginning the plan was to turn around and conquer The Citadel. It is also very obvious that the wives did not think this was that plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4556" LastEditorUserId="4556" LastEditDate="2015-08-19T20:38:18.227" LastActivityDate="2016-03-04T07:33:01.007" Title="Checking the Girl's Teeth" Tags="|plot-explanation|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36722" CreationDate="2015-08-16T17:28:00.573" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, Sean (Kevin Bacon) tells Jimmy (Sean Penn) that the &quot;Silent Ray&quot; and his friend John O'Shea had found &quot;Just Ray's&quot; gun and that they were playing around with it.  In their confession, they stated, according to Sean, that they saw a car approach and they just wanted to scare the person driving the car, which happened to be Katie's car (the girl that was murdered.)  Since she and the &quot;Silent Ray's&quot; brother Brendan were in love and were planning to leave for Las Vegas the next day permanently, it's a reasonable assumption she was in the neighborhood going to Brendan's.  Jimmy tells the detectives at one point that she looked at him like she was saying goodbye...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 2 boys also supposedly stated that when they tried to scare Katie, the gun went off and they subsequently chased her to keep her from telling anyone.  You can infer from the actions of the of John when Brendan figures out that his brother and John killed Katie that things could have easily gone out of control when they were chasing Katie.  He beat her with a hockey stick, after all.&#xA;If this were a true story or the writer was trying to convey some authenticity regarding how these boys would react, it is reasonable to assume that one or both of the boys felt remorse and/or fear after the murder, particularly because they knew the victim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stepping out of the story and back to the reality of a writer, this is really just the &quot;Smoking Gun&quot; that allows Kevin Bacon's character to crack the case.  The author either didn't think the audience would question WHY the boys would call or thought their actions were plausible enough that no one would notice.  Good call-out!  I didn't catch it until I watched it again after reading your post!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23470" LastActivityDate="2015-08-16T17:28:00.573" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11535" CreationDate="2015-08-16T17:45:13.330" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Excellent answer &lt;strong&gt;djmadscribbler&lt;/strong&gt;, except for one detail, and probably why &lt;strong&gt;Shiz Z.&lt;/strong&gt; asked the question:  Although the script states that the BPD found the pedophile's body that morning, Kevin Bacon left off the &quot;this morning&quot; phrase from the line in the movie.  He actually states &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Boston Police found the body of a guy, a pedophile, in the woods behind McGill's.  They want to talk to Dave about it.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I unconsciously made that exact assumption when I watched the movie recently, so I think it would have been a reasonable one, even if it was not in the script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23470" LastActivityDate="2015-08-16T17:45:13.330" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8450" CreationDate="2015-08-16T18:09:50.307" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sean and Whitey knew enough facts about the case to at least make a weak connection to Silent Ray and John O'Shea after listening to the tape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They assumed that Katie knew her killer because the old lady witness told them that she heard a &quot;Hi&quot; followed by the shot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They knew that the gun used to kill Katie was the gun (not just caliber or type, but THE gun) that Just Ray used in a liquor store robbery years ago based on the ballistic analysis.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Katie was killed in the Harris' neighborhood, assumedly on her way to Brendan's house (they were leaving for Vegas the next day.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You can tell from the call that they were kids and they knew that the victim was a girl but were obviously trying to hide what they knew.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So all of this adds up to (in Sean and Whitey's mind): How can all the evidence point to Brendan and yet, based on the polygraph, he is not the killer?  Answer:  They were looking at the wrong brother.  That at least warrants a conversation with the boys.  The rest is explained by &lt;strong&gt;Qrious&lt;/strong&gt; above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I stated in another post, from a writer's perspective, the call is simply the mechanism that allows the characters to break the case.  Whether the call is a plausible case-breaker or whether the call itself is realistic seems to be the question.  On the former, yes, on the latter, that remains open for debate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23470" LastActivityDate="2015-08-16T18:09:50.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38739" CreationDate="2015-08-16T21:22:04.617" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one of the initial &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/9szsE6mc4-M&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;promotional videos&lt;/a&gt;, you could find that Bhallaladeva sitting on the thrown, while Amarendra Bahubali(saying by the minister sitting on the front row) is swinging the sword. In another frame you would find the younger Bhallaladeva rising from the thrown and shouting out Bahuali. In both the frames Shivagami is not visible. So Bhallaladeva might have somehow got the throne. But still it does not justify Kattapa killing Bahubali, since he was ready to rescue Devasena, by going against kings order in the first half. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Facts are&#xA;1. Bahubali and Devasena conceive a baby&#xA;2. Devasena is captured by Bhallaladeva&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Might be like in Mahabaratha, Kumsa tries to kill newly born lord Krishna but is rescued from the jail and also is crossed from the river, similarly Shivagami rescuses newly born Shivudu from jail where Devasena is captured. Might be some how Shivagami is involved in jailing Devasena and Bahubali tries to get her out by starting a rebellion and Kattapa has to kill Bahuabli to rescue Bhallaladeva(existing king). Might be the scar on his(Bhallaladeva's) face is also in the fight between them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But its bad predicting the story, was expecting Kattapa to say Bhallaladeva's name in the end when asked who stabed him, since in the first half Bhallaladeva tells Devasena that there are only two people in this kingdom who remember Babhuabli's name, &quot;you and me&quot;, me so that I could kill him once again. Might be he was talking about Shivudu or after stabing by Kattapa, Bhallaladeva kills bahubali.&#xA;[![enter image description here][2]][2]&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/npkj0.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/npkj0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24002" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-01-09T18:16:45.057" LastActivityDate="2017-01-09T18:16:45.057" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38937" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38901" CreationDate="2015-08-17T01:25:39.010" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Out-of-universe for the film, there's this: The 1995 sequel novel (Gump &amp;amp; Co.) says Jenny died of Hepatitis C. So, the &quot;word of God&quot; (from the author) is:&#xA;Hepatitis C.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="67456" LastEditDate="2018-11-13T07:33:51.550" LastActivityDate="2018-11-13T07:33:51.550" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="38939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1578" CreationDate="2015-08-17T02:39:00.573" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back in the day (1995) I worked at a Motion Picture Camera rental shop in Boston and it was commonly known that the under the radar Hollywood re-make &quot;Sabrina&quot; (1995) had been shot on early HD video but to this day I don't see any credit for that, so maybe that is the first film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24012" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-17T07:29:43.827" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T07:29:43.827" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35443" CreationDate="2015-08-17T06:52:24.493" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;My SO had an interesting theory about this - she said that instead of looking at it as &quot;we want you to shoot the dog&quot;, the whole point of the scene was trust. Not trusting and blindly following orders, but rather, trusting that this organization - the Kingsman - were not the bad guys, that they wouldn't allow a dog to die for the sake of a test regardless. The answer was to shoot the dog, not because you were trained to follow orders but because you were supposed to trust that the Kingsman organization wouldn't allow the callous loss of life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This actually led me to an interesting thought of my own - the leader calls out the boy when he points the gun at him, and you hear the gunshot from the next room. He says &quot;At least the girl had balls&quot;. This leads me to believe the correct answer might &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; be to shoot the person telling you to shoot the dog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are three possibilities that come to my mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The gun is loaded, and they expect you to kill the dog. In this case you'd fail, but the other person probably deserves to die. Moral victory, even if it's a physical loss.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The gun isn't loaded, and they don't want you to kill the dog. In this case the answer is to shoot the person and explain this exact reasoning - either they did or didn't load the gun; either way the person deserves it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The gun is loaded, but they don't want you to kill the dog. In this case they may be better than #1, but they still deserve to be shot for the callous action of allowing the dog to be risked for another's failure. Once again, moral victory.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24017" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-17T07:34:17.900" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T07:34:17.900" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38908" CreationDate="2015-08-17T07:59:52.740" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Gendry&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gendry&lt;/a&gt;, he is the only son (bastard) of Robert Baratheon alive. We don't know where he is but he seems to be the only legislative claim of Baratheon descent. That was the only fear of Joffery which made him kill all the bastards to eliminate any such claim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other claims are just going to raise opinions, like Starks deserve it because they were also responsible for winning the war against the Mad King, or the Targaryens because they ruled before, etc etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;As per the books things are different as there is one more Targaryen claim and Stannis is still alive with his daughter. So as per the books Stannis' claim is more legislative as bastards don't stand against true blood.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-17T08:10:50.127" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T08:10:50.127" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38948" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39029" CreationDate="2015-08-17T10:17:27.857" Score="7" ViewCount="3634" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walter White saved Pinkman many times on &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; and in the end Jesse only got free because of Walter. Then why didn't Jesse help him and left him there to die in the last episode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-19T11:26:04.480" LastActivityDate="2016-06-12T11:47:09.240" Title="Why did Jesse Pinkman leave Walter White?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37460" CreationDate="2015-08-17T10:55:32.650" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have two possible (ridiculous) scenarios for the equally insane ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He was faking his death from the get go. The 'soldier' who shot him had a sniper rifle in the middle of a bunch of infantry, shot and then immediately ducked his head and walked out. He was also blond, so it could have been that theater troop guy who played the warden in the play. Then maybe he did some sleight of hand or something and dropped somebody elses body off the roof to get run over by trucks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The bird that flew by at the end was a Crow. He was the Crow all along! You know that magically returned from the grave movie character.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24021" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-17T10:59:36.453" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T10:59:36.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38953" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38963" CreationDate="2015-08-17T13:57:06.927" Score="-2" ViewCount="1121" Body="&lt;p&gt;In each movie the Hulk is in, he is found and he is being asked for help. Then why does he always leave the town?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T16:45:06.870" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T16:45:06.870" Title="Why does the Hulk always move away from the town in every movie?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|hulk|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-08-21T16:19:53.820" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38955" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="38962" CreationDate="2015-08-17T14:34:32.970" Score="18" ViewCount="7883" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still don't get all the explanations about The Thin Man (Game of Thrones, S5E08, the man who sells &quot;insurance service&quot;) which I've read until now in all Q&amp;amp;A forums: the description of the man and the scene in the show, how they coordinate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the explanation, the Thin Man takes the &quot;premium&quot;, but refuses to pay the compensation (the &quot;claim&quot;) in case an accident occurs to the captain. OK, fair enough - he's a scammer, and the family of the dead resort to the Faceless Men. His life is decided to be taken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HOWEVER, in the TV show, Jaqen told Arya &lt;em&gt;&quot;a girl would see&quot;&lt;/em&gt; [which means Arya would see for herself the thin man is the wrongdoer]. What did she see?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;99% of the explanations go by &quot;the man did not pay the captain's family&quot; (?!) In the scene, Arya overheard the conversation in which the captain made his 18th successful voyage, 'without a scratch', and is still alive. How come the thin man have to pay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Arya was there to see, it seems that the captain wants to buy the &quot;insurance service&quot; but the thin man refuses to take the &quot;premium&quot; (thus declining to provide his service). He looks at the captain's 'application' and says &quot;Can't do it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is totally legitimate in real life. In many cases, it would be a wise decision of the insurance firm, if they deem the deal is too risky. Or - they will do it, it's just the premium will be ridiculously high, so that for the insured it's not worth buying insurance that way. &#xA;Anyway, insurance is all about risk (probability) assessment and risk-loving/risk-aversion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like the captain wants to buy insurance for his 19th/future voyage(s), but got turned down by the thin man. The captain showing that he safely returned from his 18th voyage is pretty much like a driver showing the insurance firm that he has a clean record (no accidents, no pulled-over, no claim before...), so that he would get the low premium fee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the thin man is not a wrongdoer if we base ONLY on what Arya has seen. He simply doesn't &quot;take the bet&quot;. &lt;strong&gt;Every words that judge him are from Jaqen's mouth.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(1) Why did the show producer make it so confusing like that?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(2) The thin man is betting that the captain is doing some suicide mission or it's too risky for him to take the deal?&lt;/em&gt; That I don't understand as well. Why didn't the Thin man take the money? If the captain returns safely again, he got the premium, if he cannot make it, the thin man still avoids to pay his duty. Strange, isn't it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that there's no insurance fraud like in these days, where someone intentionally burns down his old garage to claim huge insurance, and the words from Jaqen go like: &lt;em&gt;&quot;It's a strange wager for the captain, he only wins if he loses his life.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; It is very unlikely that the caption would end his life to get a sum for his family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19234" LastEditorUserId="19234" LastEditDate="2015-08-17T20:39:34.997" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T13:05:51.263" Title="Did Arya really see that the Thin Man was a wrongdoer?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|plot-explanation|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36974" CreationDate="2015-08-17T15:28:06.977" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jack's comment is about the fact that his father has lived to be an &amp;quot;Old Pirate&amp;quot; you will notice several times through the series that pirates don't generally live long enough to enjoy the fruits of their ill-gotten gains, which Captain Teague has done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Captain Teague's comment is a bit more cryptic. He is revealing a crack in his swagger here. He admits that yes, he has survived a long time, but that the harder part is living with his past, not surviving it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He advises against seeking immortality with his lifestyle, noting that his past will continue to haunt him forever, and the longer he lives, the more he will be haunted for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it doesn't confirm or deny his immortality, the exchange in &lt;em&gt;On Stranger Tides&lt;/em&gt; is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I heard where you're headed. The Fountain.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;quot;Have you been there?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;quot;Does this face looks like it's been to the Fountain of Youth?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;quot;...Depends on the light.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;―Edward Teague and Jack Sparrow&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3490" LastEditorUserId="91187" LastEditDate="2021-09-06T05:35:36.130" LastActivityDate="2021-09-06T05:35:36.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="38959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38873" CreationDate="2015-08-17T18:29:52.250" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. In fact, Claire doesn’t just &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to be president, she has a deal with Frank that she &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; run for office at some point with his support.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frank and Clair’s deal is made clear in a scene in the first episode of season 3, where they have a middle of the night conversation in the White House. Claire doesn’t want to wait with the announcement of her nomination as ambassador, because “the timing will never good” while she doesn’t “want to waste time” when she can be “getting real experience under [her] belt.” When Frank tries to respond she interrupts him to say they “made a deal” that he’s now “trying to back away from.” Frank argues that he can’t make the announcement yet, to which Claire replies that they “agreed to this before we ever stepped foot in this house.” Just what they agreed to becomes clear when she then asks: “How am I supposed to run for office at some point if I don’t have a legitimate track record?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene plays out near the end of the episode, at around 48 minutes in:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Claire:&lt;/strong&gt; Francis. I want you to announce the nomination this week. I don't want to wait. The timing will never be good. And I don't want to waste time when I can be getting real experience under my belt. So set a date, hold a press conference, and let's do it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Frank:&lt;/strong&gt; Claire! I was not trying to suggest that you not be the ambassador - when I brought up Cathy. I was just--&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Claire:&lt;/strong&gt; We made a deal, and now you're trying to back away from it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Frank:&lt;/strong&gt; That is not true.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Claire:&lt;/strong&gt; Then you would've told Cathy it's happening to make her peace with that.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Frank:&lt;/strong&gt; It's not that simple.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Claire:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, it is. You're the president.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Frank:&lt;/strong&gt; I can't control Congress. I'm trying to get two major initiatives off the ground and every move I make will have an effect.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Claire:&lt;/strong&gt; We agreed to this before we ever stepped foot in this house.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Frank:&lt;/strong&gt; I know what we agreed to.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Claire:&lt;/strong&gt; How am I supposed to run for office at some point if I don't have a legitimate track record?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Frank:&lt;/strong&gt; We have to survive the next 18 months, accomplish something, and then look ahead.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Claire:&lt;/strong&gt; Francis, let's be realistic. There's no guarantee you'll get elected. I need to be prepared if you don't.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Frank:&lt;/strong&gt; You have that much faith in me, do you?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Claire:&lt;/strong&gt; More faith than you have in me, it seems.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Frank:&lt;/strong&gt; I believe in you more than anyone, Claire.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Claire:&lt;/strong&gt; Then show it. Nominate me. I shouldn't have to convince you.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Frank:&lt;/strong&gt; It's not about convincing. It's about being honest about the political climate - that we find ourselves--&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Claire:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm almost 50 years old. I've been in the passenger seat for decades. It's time for me to get behind the wheel. That needs to start now. Before the election. Because who knows what will happen? What if you lose?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Frank:&lt;/strong&gt; I will not be a placeholder president, Claire. I will win. And I will leave a legacy.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Claire:&lt;/strong&gt; You mean we will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the deal is that Claire will run for office &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; Frank, but given the ending of season 3, there’s some &lt;a href=&quot;http://masterherald.com/is-claire-underwood-running-for-president-in-house-of-cards-season-4/14592/&quot;&gt;speculation that the plot for season 4 might just involve Claire running &lt;em&gt;against&lt;/em&gt; Frank in the ongoing election&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16779" LastEditorUserId="16779" LastEditDate="2015-08-17T18:54:22.623" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T18:54:22.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38898" CreationDate="2015-08-17T18:40:01.103" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In many states, including New York, it is required that a person obtain a law degree before being allowed to take the BAR exam.  Mike has only ever taken the exam for other people.  Then, in order to be a representative in legal proceedings, a person must have passed the BAR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, there is the prestige that the firm receives from only employing Harvard graduates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3416" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T18:40:01.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38955" CreationDate="2015-08-17T18:58:12.697" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;TL;DR&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;She wasn't observing him to decide his guilt, but to find out the best way to kill him&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Longer Version:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Maybe-Jaqen asks Arya what she saw while observing the Thin Man, he wasn't asking if proof of his guilt was found, but rather what his daily routines were. The Faceless Men, as @Reyssor pointed out, are not vigilantes out to right the wrongs of the world. They are assassins for hire. You pay them to kill someone and they do it, regardless of what the reason for target's death is. Maybe-Jaqen didn't send Arya to kill the Thin Man because he was a scammer, he sent her to kill him because the &lt;em&gt;client&lt;/em&gt; wanted the Thin Man dead because he was a scammer. Arya's daily routine as the clam seller was to observe the Thin Man to find the best way to kill him. Whether he was guilty or not doesn't enter the calculation, though perhaps Arya (being inexperienced) might have need to confirm his guilt, although we never get to see her thought process on that front (and the scene was not in the book) so we don't really know either way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T18:58:12.697" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38953" CreationDate="2015-08-17T19:00:56.457" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hulk is a threat to any living being next to him. At the end of every movie there is a war or battle, etc. He feels bad about himself after incidents like that, so he leaves. But the truth that Hulk is a hero and saviour of humanity doesn't change, so he comes back to help. But he can't and won't attach to anybody because of his condition. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22534" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-08-18T04:40:39.760" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T04:40:39.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38964" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-17T19:46:07.360" Score="1" ViewCount="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Bu%C3%B1uel#L.27Age_d.27Or_.281930.29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, Buñuel and Dalí had a falling out around the time the former was filming &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021577/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;L'Age d'Or&lt;/a&gt;.  Is it known whether they ever restored their friendship?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20094" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T19:46:07.360" Title="Buñuel and Dalí" Tags="|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38965" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-17T20:22:25.817" Score="5" ViewCount="717" Body="&lt;p&gt;Michael Douglas, playing Liberace, has a facelift partway through the HBO movie. His skin is noticeably tighter and smoother afterwards. How was the effect achieved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2017-03-22T14:25:12.627" Title="How was Michael Douglas' apparent facelift achieved in &quot;Behind the Candelabra&quot;?" Tags="|effects|make-up|behind-the-candelabra|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38955" CreationDate="2015-08-17T23:53:50.803" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is with reference to the book. She wanted to find a way by which she could kill him and no one else without getting caught. It took her three days to find a way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“The guards go with him even when he slips out to make water,” she said, “but he doesn’t go when they do. The tall one is the quicker. I’ll wait till he is making water, walk into the soup shop, and stab the old man through the eye.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“And the other guard?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“He’s slow and stupid. I can kill him too.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Are you some butcher of the battlefield, hacking down every man who stands in your way?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“No.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I would hope not. You are a servant of the Many-Faced God, and we who serve Him of Many Faces give his gift only to those who have been marked and chosen.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She understood. Kill him. Kill only him.&#xA;  It took her three more days of watching before she found the way, and another day of practicing with her finger knife. Red Roggo had taught her how to use it, but she had not slit a purse since back before they took away her eyes. She wanted to make certain that she still knew how. Smooth and quick, that’s the way, no fumbling, she told herself, and she slipped the little blade out of her sleeve, again and again and again. When she was satisfied that she still remembered how to do it, she sharpened the steel on a whetstone until its edge glimmered silver-blue in the candlelight. The other part was trickier, but the waif was there to help her. “I will give the man the gift on the morrow,” she announced as she was breaking her fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;A Dance With Dragons&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20356" LastActivityDate="2015-08-17T23:53:50.803" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38955" CreationDate="2015-08-18T00:53:16.470" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;For question #2, for a brief moment you can see that the man is holding a map of Valyria. Presumably this sailor was taking the route through and near &lt;em&gt;the Doom of Valyria&lt;/em&gt;, which is generally considered cursed by the majority of people in Essos and Westeros. It would be perfectly normal for the thin man to believe this superstition, giving him reason enough to decline his services to the sailor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see in the below picture, the route that is shown goes straight through the ruins (it's the cluster of islands at the bottom right side of the map - the route goes through it). Superstition aside, it could be considered a highly risky suicide mission and the thin man's business is based around minimizing risk, so his rejection is kind of understandable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pTJXW.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pTJXW.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24038" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-08-18T13:05:51.263" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T13:05:51.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38980" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-18T02:17:39.910" Score="24" ViewCount="44743" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are given some explanation as to why Walt quit Gray Matter and thereby forfeited his opportunity to make billions (tl; dw --- personal issues with the co-founders). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But is it ever explained why he is teaching chemistry in a high school? Walt is obviously a talented chemist. I am not familiar with the job market for chemists but it seems that he obviously has better job opportunities (e.g. chemistry professor at any university, research scientist, work at a pharmaceutical lab). The pay is paltry and he doesn't seem to take great pleasure out of teaching high school kids. So why does he teach at a high school?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quote from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=breaking-bad&amp;amp;episode=s02e03&quot;&gt;S02E03&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I am an extremely overqualified high school chemistry teacher. When I&#xA;  can work, I make $43,700 per year. I have watched all of my colleagues&#xA;  and friends surpass me in every way imaginable&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9668" LastActivityDate="2018-07-22T18:07:10.863" Title="Why did Walt have to teach high school chemistry?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38953" CreationDate="2015-08-18T03:27:32.897" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hulk&lt;/a&gt; is based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk_(comics)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;comic character&lt;/a&gt; known for his anger being out of his control. In fact, intially he converts into Hulk only when he gets angered by someone. He started controlling himself in Avenger first time which leaded to many questions e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2236/banners-control-of-hulk-in-avengers?rq=1&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2701/why-does-banner-finally-allow-the-hulk-to-come-out?rq=1&quot;&gt;other&lt;/a&gt; . So Bruce Banner prefers to live away from city either alone in forests or some peaceful tribes where people will not bother him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce Banner and Hulk are almost two different entities like  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Hulk may not be evil as Mr. Hyde , however his out of control anger results to lot of destruction. So Bruce Banner needs lot of confidence to live in city and other side , how much he has control on Hulk, someone will find way to piss of him by experiments or other means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T10:35:21.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38983" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37168" CreationDate="2015-08-18T03:46:49.150" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Evergreen did the deal with Sonny with the help of Guy who fell in love with Sonny's mother. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24043" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T03:46:49.150" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38984" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47096" CreationDate="2015-08-18T04:22:31.133" Score="2" ViewCount="3572" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess there isn't going to be a 100% proven answer, so I'm more interested in what possibility is most likely. In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405296/faq#.2.1.4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;answer&lt;/a&gt; on A Scanner Darkly's IMDB page to the question of whom Arctor slept with, the most likely possibility is suggested to be that he slept with Connie, and the brief appearance of Donna in Connie's place was just a hallucination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What troubles me about this explanation is that Arctor sees the same Connie/Donna transformation when he is playing back the surveillance tapes in the police station. He plays and rewinds a hologram of the surveillance several times and still notices the same effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His hallucinations generally seemed to be random and brief, so I find it unlikely that he could have had the exact same hallucination both while: (a) lying in bed with Connie/Donna, and (b) reviewing the surveillance tapes. Adding to (b), he didn't just see the transformation once while reviewing the surveillance tapes - the transformation coordinated precisely with his playing and rewinding of them. It's not &lt;em&gt;impossible&lt;/em&gt; for a hallucination to be that sophisticated, but it seems unlikely to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if the Connie/Donna transformation wasn't a hallucination, this begs the question of what actually &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; going on. All I can think of would be that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Audrey (who goes by the name of &quot;Hank&quot; while in the scramble suit and who poses as Donna) was wearing some high-tech Connie disguise that briefly glitched while she was lying in bed with Bruce (who goes by the name of &quot;Fred&quot; while in the scramble suit and who poses as Arctor). The glitch was responsible for the transformation, and this would explain why Bruce saw the transformation both while lying in bed with Connie/Audrey and while reviewing the surveillance tapes. But then... why would Audrey sleep with Bruce? She seems very concerned about Bruce's well-being when she drops him off at New-Path and later talks with Mike about him (Mike is another undercover agent who poses as a New-Path employee), but why sleep with him? Did she feel so bad for him that she would sleep with him? Or, was she in love with him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19577" LastEditorUserId="19577" LastEditDate="2015-08-18T18:46:06.953" LastActivityDate="2017-01-10T04:31:09.577" Title="Was the Connie/Donna transformation part of Arctor's hallucination?" Tags="|plot-explanation|a-scanner-darkly|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38953" CreationDate="2015-08-18T04:48:10.780" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you might be mixing up continuities. The Hulk &lt;strong&gt;saved&lt;/strong&gt; Iron Man in the first movie, and shows other signs of lucidity between the two movies. Also, he was not &quot;found.&quot; The World Security Council (and Fury) had never lost track of him. And the whole leaving town thing? I think that just harkens back to the old TV show; nothing to do with the current MCU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-08-18T04:54:23.907" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T04:54:23.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36016" CreationDate="2015-08-18T05:49:25.497" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even in The Dark Knight Batman tries to save Gordon's son and pushes Dent from the edge. But accidentally Dent dies. So Batman has his own rules saying not to kill anyone intentionally. In the same way he wanted to divert the truck by shooting but accidentally shoots the driver. So that doesn't mean Nolan as well as Batman makes a mistake. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was an accident...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24045" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-18T10:38:17.387" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T10:38:17.387" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35292" CreationDate="2015-08-18T06:11:48.283" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we clearly see in the movie it just took seconds for Cutter to find Borden's transportation magic.  I think, though Angier kept Cutter out of the back stage, he was managing the things left by him.  So he could have easily found the trick behind the magic which was real science.  It's the curiosity of a magician. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24045" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T06:11:48.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38988" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-18T06:28:01.697" Score="1" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we know that it was Borden who sends Angier to Tesla when he asks the trick behind his magic.  So, How did Borden knew that Tesla's machine could create a replica?  Did he use Tesla's machine to create a replica(Fallon) or were they real time twin brothers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24045" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-18T10:50:23.000" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T23:28:00.287" Title="About Borden's relation to Fallon" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-08-18T10:44:54.990" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38989" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39025" CreationDate="2015-08-18T06:28:04.383" Score="6" ViewCount="2147" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; the sinister ex-chemistry teacher was lurking in wait of Lydia as she walked in for a cup of coffee, and had placed the Stevia sweetener at an empty table that she just so happened to have chosen to sit at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how did Walt know she was going to sit there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-18T10:42:58.197" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T01:14:27.897" Title="How did Walt know where Lydia was going to sit?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38990" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12400" CreationDate="2015-08-18T06:41:27.997" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Were Borden and Fallon real twins?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes they were real twins. They were there from start, that is the reason Bordon was not able to answer the question when Angier asked which knot he tied to his wife, as it is possible other brother was present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige_(film)#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt;, quote from wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He then realizes that &quot;Borden&quot; was actually identical twins who shared their lives on stage and off. Just as they took turns being the man in the box and the prestige, they took turns being Borden and (by wearing makeup) Fallon. When one twin lost his fingers because of Angier, the other had his brother remove his own so they could continue to look alike in order to keep up the illusion there was only one Borden. One twin (the one alive) loved Sarah and was the girl's father, while the other twin (the one hanged) loved Olivia. So they each had half of a full life, which was enough for them but not for the women they loved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Borden sends Angier to off trail by tricking him into wasting time with Telsa, so that Angier will not realize that they are twins. He was just trying hide his trick that they are twins. As added advantage, he sent Angier out of town chasing something of no use, getting no big competition for  quite a time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T23:28:00.287" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T23:28:00.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38995" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39000" CreationDate="2015-08-18T11:15:22.823" Score="7" ViewCount="1562" Body="&lt;p&gt;Colonel Klink (&lt;em&gt;Hogan's Heroes&lt;/em&gt;) shows himself time and again as a completely incompetent officer.  My question is: &lt;strong&gt;is it ever explained how Klink was promoted to the rank of colonel?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24050" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-18T11:23:27.057" LastActivityDate="2022-01-07T02:13:37.687" Title="How did Klink ever become a colonel?" Tags="|character|hogans-heroes|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38955" CreationDate="2015-08-18T12:22:19.060" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the answers were very nice and it's much clearer now. I should only leave a comment but for the sake of completeness/clarity and to be able to quote image (some interesting notes I found on the internet as well), I'm grouping the point in a single answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First of all, it should be made clear that the captain in the scene - who was turned down by the Thin Man (which Arya overheard) has nothing to do with the other ill-fated captain (who was dead in his voyage and his family was denied their rightful insurance claim).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Faceless Men were contracted to kill the thin man because he refused to pay the claim on a different captain, by that unseen captain's family. He had already been selected for death before the scene we see ever takes place.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(@Reyssor) The Thin Man probably does not cheat all the time. Maybe he was a cunning insurance seller in just one case, maybe in a few cases, maybe he would cheat only in the case of the captains whose families are poor and outcast, or cannot enforce him to pay. If he cheating was to become an obvious fact, nobody would come for such kind of &quot;service&quot; anymore. His cunning trick is perhaps not that bad (punishable by death) but someone already ordered the FM to kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And who to say it's not that Maybe-Jaquen was just lying to Arya? The whole thing since Arya was in the House of Black and White was like a limbo to her. How to tell who is who, how to tell something is the truth or a lie? The viewers, like Arya, only know that someone ordered a hit on the Thin man. Now the whole story about him cheating the insurance money from a widow is a perfect excuse ;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(@System Down) The most plausible explanation of sending Arya was to observe the daily routine of the thin man, and to &quot;test&quot; if he would try some of her oysters then a simple way to kill him is to poison him (movie-based, in the book it's somehow different, and in the book the thin man even has a bodyguard that tastes his food).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(@stupidbunny) For the reason why the thin man rejected the deal with the captain on the scene, some very interesting details that his 'application' shows the route going through &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Smoking_Sea&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Smoking Sea&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;(&quot;East of Westeros lies the Smoking Sea, where no ship dares sail. There are those who swear it to be demon-haunted. And who's to say they're wrong?&quot;&#xA;―Viserys Targaryen)&lt;/em&gt; Who in their right mind would sail through there?&#xA;The captain seems desperate as he knows this voyage is dangerous and he would travel without insurance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Neh2o.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Neh2o.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;who in their right mind would sail through there?&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the show runners were a bit off-course from the book (especially in season 5?), and when they try to get back on the track, they mixed things, and sometimes not in a good way. (E.g. this very example shows how misleading and confusing the content could be if they mix and match the scenes that way. Bad way to illustrate his wrongful acts/business model).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19234" LastEditorUserId="19234" LastEditDate="2015-08-18T13:03:21.603" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T13:03:21.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="38999" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39011" CreationDate="2015-08-18T13:24:54.763" Score="20" ViewCount="15871" Body="&lt;p&gt;In spite of being one of the most hilarious voices in The Big Bang Theory, why was Howard Wolowitz' mother never shown?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-18T13:26:03.737" LastActivityDate="2017-01-10T17:16:43.357" Title="Why is Howard Wolowitz' mother not shown in The Big Bang Theory?" Tags="|character|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38995" CreationDate="2015-08-18T13:37:20.213" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;em&gt;Hogan’s Heroes&lt;/em&gt; Wikia site page on &lt;a href=&quot;http://hh.wikia.com/wiki/Wilhelm_Klink&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Colonel Wilhelm Klink&lt;/a&gt; his ascent through the ranks went as follows; emphasis is mine and parentheses English rank equivalents as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He became a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauptmann&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hauptmann&lt;/a&gt; (Captain) in 1920, Major in on December 25,&#xA;  1924, and finaly &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberstleutnant&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Oberstleutnant&lt;/a&gt; (Lieutenant Colonel) in 1929, a&#xA;  rank he would still hold when made Kommandant of Stalag 13, &lt;strong&gt;until he&#xA;  was promoted to full &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberst&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Oberst&lt;/a&gt; (Colonel) in 1942, after the pilot&#xA;  episode, which I discovered. This was due in part to him having an&#xA;  efficiency rating &lt;em&gt;just a few points above miserable&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, no specifics as to how this rank was earned are provided but the implication is that he barely made it to full &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberst&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Oberst&lt;/a&gt; (aka: German equivalent of “Colonel”) rank when the series came out of the pilot episode and officially began.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18230" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2017-04-15T21:20:29.053" LastActivityDate="2017-04-15T21:20:29.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39002" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-18T15:22:25.347" Score="3" ViewCount="4229" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;97 seconds&quot;, episode 3 of season 4 of &lt;em&gt;House M.D.&lt;/em&gt;, House electrocutes himself by putting a knife in socket. But when Wilson asks him what he saw, he does not reply. He wanted to talk to the guy who motivated him for the move, and in the end he told the main dead patient that &quot;I'm sorry, I told you so.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It implies he had no afterlife experience, like the guy who electrocuted himself in the clinic, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21728" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-11-18T13:46:51.080" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T13:46:51.080" Title="What did Gregory House see when he electrocuted himself?" Tags="|house|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39003" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39020" CreationDate="2015-08-18T16:31:15.213" Score="1" ViewCount="464" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of &lt;em&gt;Penny Dreadful&lt;/em&gt; season 2 we see 3 creatures attack Ethan and Miss Ives. Later we learn that they are working for Mrs. Poole along with a 4th one, named Hecate and called daughter of Mrs. Poole. They look like beautiful young ladies at daytime, but can turn into something Monster/Vampire/Demon- like at night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SJbbo.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SJbbo.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later we learn that Mrs. Poole is a witch, which turned to the evil side. But did I miss the explanation what type of creatures the young ladies are or is this never explained in the series? Is there maybe an outside explanation of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22783" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T21:43:43.943" Title="What type of creatures are the young ladies of Mrs. Poole?" Tags="|character|penny-dreadful|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-18T16:14:53.817" Score="2" ViewCount="478" Body="&lt;p&gt;Grandma Flanders must be pretty old (and possibly dead?) but considering Ned's own advanced age (possibly) she must be very old indeed. I can't find any direct evidence for anyone's age, except for Ned saying he's 60 and having living parents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="Sean D" LastActivityDate="2020-04-17T15:34:12.827" Title="How old is Ned Flanders' Grandmother?" Tags="|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10526" CreationDate="2015-08-18T17:14:02.187" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It means take reasonability for your mistakes, and two wrongs don't make a right.. If he remembers Sammy jankis, he'll remember he was the one who killed his own wife and stop blaming John g. And trying to kill him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24056" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T17:14:02.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33981" CreationDate="2015-08-18T17:39:09.520" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well here is my take on it. The mind stone has an extremely strong and undirected &quot;power of mind&quot;. This causes a symbiotic relationship between the the stone and the entities around it. When you are near the stone your mental abilities are increased. This made Strucker more intelligent and enhanced the psychic powers of Scarlet Witch when she was near the stone. I think this is also why Jarvis was capable of fighting back against Ultron, keeping him from getting the worlds nuclear arsenal. The stone also shares the the traits of those that it is enhancing. That is why the &quot;stone's mind&quot; was similar in design to Jarvis (though more organic), has the urge to save the world in a misguided way (stark wants to save the world but builds extremely destructive weapons to do it), very articulate like Bruce Banner, and took its destructive tendencies to a global level like The Hulk. This also explains why Vision turned out to be benevolent. It was not because Stark fixed the code. The stone was taking on the traits of all of the avengers when his body and mind were being completed, rather than just the initial four. That is why Vision can control Thor's hammer, he took on the traits of Thor. So there really was no mind or AI in the stone, they just found the collective imprint of their enhanced minds in the stone and copied it. If it had its own mind then it would have been self aware before Jarvis started tinkering with it. I just wonder if Fury knew this would happen when he assembled The Avengers in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24058" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T17:39:09.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38999" CreationDate="2015-08-18T17:44:57.707" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a writing device, it's far funnier to let the viewers imagination run away with the wild descriptions that Howard gives. Additionally, by not showing Howards mother, the writers are able to characterize and describe her any way they like, without having to find an actor who lives up to that description. Howard repeatedly describes his mother as having no neck, facial-hair that needs to be removed, and at one point, it was mentioned that she wears a wig. Howards mother is essentially a charicature of an overbearing, overprotective, troubled but caring, single-parent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now imagine if we were to actually see Mrs. Wolowitz's reactions when Howard yells at her. Perhaps we would start to feel uncomfortable witnessing this coddled, well-off guy in his 20's, yelling at this morbidly obese, lonely woman. By not showing his mother, the audience can separate the charicature of the woman from the far less funny &quot;reality.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1317" LastEditorUserId="1317" LastEditDate="2015-08-20T22:44:39.700" LastActivityDate="2015-08-20T22:44:39.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39012" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-18T18:01:23.180" Score="5" ViewCount="487" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was one of those things I had on 10-15 years ago as background noise while totally invested in some Gameboy game and ended up watching bits and pieces of. May have been a movie, a mini-series marathon (I do remember it being oddly long) or a multi episode story arc of a running series at the time. I have no idea what channel it may have been on but my guess is Sci-Fi (definitely pre-SyFy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only details I remember are the one mentioned in the question itself, of a girl being slid down a narrowing tube as a means of killing her (don't remember if she actually died), and one character (possibly the same girl) using &quot;Wicked&quot; as a sort of catchphrase. If I recall correctly the show had a sort of dystopian future feel and a dark goth aesthetic. It definitely seemed 90s or early 00s but my memory is a little fuzzy there. The work in question was in English, but i'm not sure from where as I don't remember what accents, if distinctive at all, the characters spoke in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24059" LastEditorUserId="9382" LastEditDate="2015-08-19T04:34:31.000" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T16:32:51.987" Title="Looking for the name of a science fiction/horror movie or possibly series where a girl is slid head first down a narrowing tube" Tags="|identify-this-movie|identify-this-tv-show|horror|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:58:07.830" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36725" CreationDate="2015-08-18T18:11:16.520" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While watching this scene, I always got the impression that he knew he was finished. Taking on four fully armored knights is no small feat, no matter how accomplished a swordsman you are. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he's confident that he is about to die (or at least that it's a likely possibility), it doesn't matter at all what sword he's using. His objective here is to &lt;em&gt;delay&lt;/em&gt; them long enough for Arya to get away. Notice how many times he tells her to leave. He can delay as well with a leaded wooden sword, since he's mainly just bashing them around with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking Arya's sword wouldn't help her get away, or change the overall outcome. There was no reason for him to do that, either. Although I'm sure it &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; have hurt his pride to take a weapon from a little girl, I also believe that if it would have turned the tide of the fight, he would have done it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9242" LastEditorUserId="9242" LastEditDate="2015-08-18T18:18:55.620" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T18:18:55.620" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16458" CreationDate="2015-08-18T20:27:22.477" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, you got your facts wrong Anakin didn't kill Padme, when she gave birth she lost the will to live entirely, her whole world fell apart. Her husband, left her and the senate and everything she worked for was gone. Anyways, the reason Vader stayed with Sidious is because he had nothing left, to fight for on the light side of the force.(I know this is a short answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24065" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T20:27:22.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39012" CreationDate="2015-08-18T20:32:08.800" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114614/&quot;&gt;Tank Girl &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a scene where Malcolm McDowell's character puts a girl in said tube upside down and starts to fill it with water, it's pretty far in, close to the end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24066" LastEditorUserId="24066" LastEditDate="2015-08-19T01:10:53.483" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T01:10:53.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39018" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-18T20:49:47.560" Score="4" ViewCount="574" Body="&lt;p&gt;McGee has some textbook &quot;geek&quot; checkboxes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;old mac computers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;online role playing games&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;problem retaining girlfriends&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I don't think McGee does &quot;R&quot;, &quot;Python&quot;, or &quot;MatLab&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What actual scripting (fast turnaround) language does he use for his &quot;programs&quot; that doesn't require him to take a week to write code that does some amazingly complex function?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know a ton of admins who use excel.  I don't see McGee or Abby using things much more complex than that - how can it qualify as actually technical?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Numb3rs at least, had some mathematica.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he is a real geek, and not a hand-wavey geek, what are the tools that he uses to do the things he allegedly does?  Is he a writer-created cliche or does the movie give details that back up his &quot;geek&quot; credentials?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24067" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T10:43:02.980" Title="NCIS McGee is he theater, or actual geek?" Tags="|character|ncis|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39020" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39003" CreationDate="2015-08-18T21:43:43.943" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;em&gt;Penny Dreadful&lt;/em&gt; Wikia... yes, there is one... She (and her mother) are &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://penny-dreadful.wikia.com/wiki/Nightcomer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nightcomers&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;, which is another name for a witch but specifically refers to a witch who has devoted herself to the devil, gaining additional powers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nightcomers are women who were once daywalkers, but have since become devoted servants of the Devil. They have the appearance of bald human beings with pale skin, and possess a glowing shade of yellow within the irises of their eyes, which are surrounded by black scleras rather than the average white. Their bodies are covered in a variety of scratches and scars that, according to Miss Ives, are the Devil's mark upon them as significance of their servitude. They are fluent in the Verbis Diablo, &amp;quot;The Word of the Devil&amp;quot;, described in theology as the corruption of the angelic language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outside of the wiki, season 2, episode 3 is titled &amp;quot;Nightcomers&amp;quot; and it introduces the cutwife and some of Vanessa's backstory, along with her history with Poole:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Poole and her Nightcomers already have their eye on Vanessa, the Master’s favorite, but as they are unable to pass the spell-protected cottage entrance, they require human intervention. [. . .]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We now know there’s a personal component to the struggle between Vanessa and the Nightcomers, even as Vanessa herself doesn’t realize the extent of it. [. . .]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Penny Dreadful Wiki has other useful information on the various pages about the characters, which you may find interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also like to point out that her name, Hecate, is likely in reference to the same goddess who appears as a character in Macbeth, responding to the calls of the three witches, and mentioned in Macbeth's famous Dagger soliloquy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[. . .]&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Which was not so before. There's no such thing:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;It is the bloody business which informs&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;[. . .]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hecate is often considered one of the primary goddesses in Wicca:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hecate is also one of the &amp;quot;patron&amp;quot; goddesses of many Wiccans, who in some traditions identify her with the Triple Goddess' aspect of the &amp;quot;Crone&amp;quot;. In other circles Wiccan witches associate her with the &amp;quot;Maiden&amp;quot;, or the &amp;quot;Mother&amp;quot; aspects as well, for Hecate has three faces, or phases. Her role as a tripartite goddess, which many modern-day Wiccans associate with the concept of &amp;quot;the Maiden, the Mother and the Crone&amp;quot;, was made popular in modern times by writers such as Robert Graves in The White Goddess, and many others, such as the 20th century occultist and author, Aleister Crowley. Historical depictions and descriptions show her facing in three different directions, a clear and precise reference to the tripartite nature of this ancient Goddess; the later Greek Magical Papyri sometimes refer to her as also having the heads of animals, and this can be seen as a reference to her aspect of Motherhood; in this portrayal she is known as &amp;quot;Mistress of Animals&amp;quot;. Modern Hellenic polytheists honor Hecate during the Deipnon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-18T21:43:43.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30651" CreationDate="2015-08-18T23:04:14.087" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, you're right, it &lt;strong&gt;bears no obvious relation to the rest of the story and isn't referenced any further&lt;/strong&gt;. So I don't know if the following suffices to satisfy you as a complete answer, let alone if we can hope for a more conclusive answer on the matter at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is clear that the Lang biography is a very hot topic, as apparent from the high security measures at Rhinehart publishing and the high secrecy put around the manuscript itself. So it isn't a big stretch that &lt;strong&gt;quite a few people would like to get their hands on it&lt;/strong&gt;, be they journalists or whoever, especially since Lang coincidentally also just starts to seep into the news again. So the Ghost might not be that far off when he tells Rick on the phone that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;all they took was the manuscript that Sidney Kroll gave me. [...] I think they must have followed me from Rhinehart's. [...] maybe they thought I had Lang's book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That might be all there is to it. It's &lt;strong&gt;unlikely that the CIA was behind this&lt;/strong&gt; in order to know more about the manuscript, since Ruth Lang (revealed to be a CIA agent at the end) must have known that the manuscript was safely guarded in Rhinehart's villa. It &lt;strong&gt;could have been Rycart's men&lt;/strong&gt; in order to get more info on Lang in their effort to bring him down, we don't know that either, however.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, a few scenes later the Ghost even has a more elaborate theory, although one that isn't too fleshed-out either, namely that Kroll just gave him some random manuscript in order to lure any possible people out who might want to get their hands on the Lang manuscript:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ghost:&lt;/strong&gt; Listen, I just realized Sidney Kroll could have given me that manuscript deliberately so it would look like I was carrying Lang's book.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Rick:&lt;/strong&gt; Why the hell would he do that?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Ghost:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't know. To use me as a tethered goat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet that might just be the Ghost getting a little confused or paranoid since it doesn't add up too well either. And it was probably meant as a distraction to confuse us viewers, too, and make us a little more paranoid, in a &lt;strong&gt;foreshadowing of the intricacies the Ghost has brought himself into&lt;/strong&gt;. At the end of the day we just don't know who those muggers were and from a storytelling point of view it was likely just a red herring to start off his adventure under a bad sign right away and spark the exact same reaction in the viewer as in the Ghost:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I knew this whole thing was a bad idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-01T13:23:58.240" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T13:23:58.240" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12382" CreationDate="2015-08-18T23:07:01.127" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Pokemon black and white, episode 1-7 a female snivy uses attract on pikachu and it worked. Right after a character named iris says &quot;it worked on pikachu so snivy has to be a girl!&quot; And then later in the show says &quot;attract only works on Pokemon of the opposite gender&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24071" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-08-19T13:11:53.267" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T13:11:53.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38995" CreationDate="2015-08-19T00:30:49.740" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is to build on Jake's excellent answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;average&quot; American officer basically tops out at &lt;a href=&quot;https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/7812/why-have-officers-in-the-u-s-army-tended-to-top-out-at-the-level-of-major&quot;&gt;Major,&lt;/a&gt; e.g. Major Nelson in &quot;I dream of Jeannie.&quot; Around the age of 40, an American Major has two choices:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He can leave the army on half pay as Major.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He can remain a &quot;career&quot; Major, and be rewarded with a final promotion to Lt. Colonel, around age 50, basically for purposes of calculating his pension, and retire shortly after.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few of the more able or fortunate ones are promoted to Lt. Colonel between the ages of 34-39, and these are the officers that will eventually be promoted at least to (full) Colonel, and possibly General.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Jake's post, Colonel Klink was born in 1894, was promoted to Captain at age 26 in 1920, and Major in 1924, at age 30, a year or two ahead of the American schedule, If he was promoted to Lt. Colonel in 1929 at age 35, he'd have gotten one more promotion than the average American officer. His promotion to full Colonel, some 13 years later, smacks of an age 50, &quot;final&quot; promotion. All this is because of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 1920s, the German army was limited to 100,000 men (only 4,000 of them officers) by the Treaty of Versailles. These men formed the core of a larger army in the 1930s, when Hitler came to power. Because there were so few of them, those  men enjoyed unusually rapid promotion through the officer ranks (or to non-commissioned officer, for enlisted men), when the German army expanded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In choosing whom to retain, the German army selected the most fanatical and dedicated officers, only some whom were were competent, but who were most likely to stay with the army for &quot;life&quot; instead of bailing out by age 40. Klink fit perfectly the mold of a &quot;loyal lifer.&quot; This is in contrast to a certain &quot;bailee,&quot; a corporal named Adolf Hitler who left the army, pursued a career in politics, and became Commander-in-Chief by that &quot;roundabout&quot; route.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he had been any good, Klink would have been in line for another promotion by 1934-35 (when the German army expanded more than fivefold, to 550,000 men, in preparation for the 1936 invasion of the Rhineland). Then he would have been &quot;off to the races&quot; given the start of World War II. Two of his contemporaries were Erwin Rommel and Walter Model, who became Field Marshals, meaning that Klink was in the right place at the right time. The fact the he was repeatedly &quot;passed over&quot; at such a critical time suggests that he was &quot;bottom of the barrel&quot; among his contemporaries. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, too, is the fact that he was given a home command as a prison camp commandant, rather than a field command, attacking other countries. Commandants of bases or other installations are typically Colonels, or at least Lieutenant Colonels. In the case of an &quot;up and comer,&quot; such a &quot;desk job&quot; is a test of their administrative ability, and if they do well, they often become generals if and when they are rotated back to the field. But for Klink there was no &quot;when,&quot; and it was his terminal, dead-end position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For someone of Klink's limited ability, &quot;80 percent of life is showing up.&quot; He didn't make it to the top, but he got to a relatively high position as an officer in the German army because there were few other candidates competing with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9097" LastEditorUserId="9097" LastEditDate="2017-04-15T16:24:26.077" LastActivityDate="2017-04-15T16:24:26.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19707" CreationDate="2015-08-19T01:07:40.653" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The little princess from Days Of Future Past is Lorna Dane aka Polaris. She's the only sibling we know from the twins and who is also Magneto's daughter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bryan Singer stated that little girls is not Wanda because she's the twin with Quicksilver. She's not just a little girl either, because that was Polaris and yes, Lorna Dane is younger than the twins. Bryan Singer did state he did it for the fans. As I recall perfectly, the fans are into Polaris, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. Singer doesn't care about the mythology of comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She was referred as a Princess before so that can be a hint that it was Princess Lorna Dane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24073" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2016-02-14T18:47:16.377" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T18:47:16.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38989" CreationDate="2015-08-19T01:14:27.897" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lydia was a creature of habit. She always sat at the same table, always made the same order, and always added stevia to her drink. That is the only thing that enabled Walt to get to her - in fact, she made it easy for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="498" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T01:14:27.897" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17286" CreationDate="2015-08-19T01:51:28.517" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Delta fibers (aka slow pain fibers) carry sensations of pressure, pain, and cold if I remember correctly.  Applied pressure can &quot;crowd out&quot; slow pain conduction.  What's the first action you take after stubbing your toe? You rub it.  It's the same methodology that chiropractors use with &quot;manipulations&quot; very rarely is anything actually &quot;manipulated&quot; but rather a quick applied pressure occurs at the injury site which does the aforementioned small digression, but pertinent. Anyone who has experienced severe back pain can attest to an almost miraculous resolution of pain.  Termed the &quot;Gate theory of pain&quot;, while nerves can convey multiple signals at once, we process them singularly, meaning the &quot;gate&quot;, or your processing of sensory data, has been confounded at the gate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apply this pressure to a stab wound and you'll likely get the same result.  Unfortunately your fast pain fibers large and well myelinated (think of a large and well insulated conduit) has its own specific pathway that is difficult to occlude. Thus the victim may have felt the initial sharp stab of pain of the dagger, but would have been spared (and so confounding the victims perception of the event) the dull aching pain that would typically follow the initial sharp jolt of pain.  Had the guard winced briefly (albeit they are likely trained not to, but physiology is a bitch) it would have made the entire event more plausible. That said, it is very possible that the guard could have stood for another hour with the pressure signals from his belt occluding the dull pain signals that were likely present, but not received so to speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also evidence - this is slightly tangential but again relevant - that we tend to receive the signals we are familiar with rather than ones we are not, creatures of comfort and habit we are. I.e. the guard was quite familiar with the pressure sensation of his belt while on duty - that makes sense to him - therefore the dull pain signals are being fought on 2 different fronts: 1. A real physiological mechanism, and 2. His own minds hard wiring to gravitate towards familiar sensations rather than foreign ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24074" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-19T09:47:48.323" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T09:47:48.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39028" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39034" CreationDate="2015-08-19T04:09:10.343" Score="8" ViewCount="1191" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a big fan of the movie too, and just watched it for the third time.&#xA;One thing that intrigues me about this movie is the mathematical problems that are shown. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First one&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mesYA.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mesYA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second One&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2G8bR.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2G8bR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these any actual theorems/problems from mathematics which are popular or are these just random?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-19T09:34:33.623" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T09:59:25.970" Title="What are the maths problems shown in Good Will Hunting?" Tags="|good-will-hunting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38948" CreationDate="2015-08-19T04:51:34.340" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my take on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Walter wanted to die&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;He knew it was a matter of time until the police gets to him, and also he didn't have a lot of time left due to his illness. This is clear from the scene where he hands over the gun to Jesse and basically asks Jesse to shoot him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having realized that, Jesse avoids shooting Walter and says &quot;do it yourself&quot;. He does so to spite Walter, and also because he's finally done with being bossed around by Walter. This is his small revenge for the harm Walter caused him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6122" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T04:51:34.340" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39031" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42782" CreationDate="2015-08-19T07:59:45.440" Score="4" ViewCount="690" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Taken, just after Bryan Mills tells Jean-Claude (&quot;Deputy director, Internal Security&quot;) that he's not going to give up and go home, he learns from the girl he rescued from the construction site that a place of interest is behind a red door on Rue de Paradis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He goes there and immediately inveigles himself all the way to the room where all the bosses are sitting, by suggesting that he is a representative of the authorities that they are paying to allow their activities to continue relatively unhindered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then proceeds to identify the person he had spoken to on the phone at the point of abduction, and wreak some havoc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, &lt;strong&gt;how on earth did he know that such a ploy would work?&lt;/strong&gt; There is nothing I can see in his previous (two, short) conversations with Jean-Claude to suggest that this is happening (I found a badly-formatted but apparently faithful &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=taken&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; online). Are we to suppose that his experience led him to realise that such an operation would &lt;em&gt;require&lt;/em&gt; complicity? Or is there a deleted scene that shows how this became clear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21868" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-19T09:40:19.030" LastActivityDate="2017-11-11T07:07:34.403" Title="Does Bryan Mills just make a massively lucky guess that Marko's gang had an arrangement with the authorities?" Tags="|plot-explanation|taken|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39032" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39058" CreationDate="2015-08-19T09:12:22.023" Score="12" ViewCount="32695" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I saw, I don't believe Guardians of the Galaxy did a terribly good job of identifying Ronan for what he is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Terrans defeated the Kree, which means that species is manageable for mortals. However, most everyone is absolutely terrified of Ronan for literally being an immortal entity that can control the powers of an Infinity Gem. Are all Kree powerful and immortal like this, or was it only something specifically bestowed upon Ronan somehow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-19T08:41:05.390" LastActivityDate="2020-01-16T05:50:41.177" Title="How did Ronan the Accuser become so powerful?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39028" CreationDate="2015-08-19T09:59:25.970" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problems shown on the picture are related to graph theory, a subject related to computer science and mathematics &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Graph theory on wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The character of Will is inspired by William Sidis you could take a look at his works. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Sidis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;William Sidis Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22892" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T09:59:25.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39035" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39044" CreationDate="2015-08-19T10:59:23.523" Score="2" ViewCount="1014" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I see Father Mulcahy (M*A*S*H) every now and again I see him wearing a grey sweatshirt with &lt;em&gt;Loyola&lt;/em&gt; (with obvious Jesuit connotations) written across it.  I was wondering, &lt;strong&gt;is there any indication that he was a Jesuit?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24050" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-21T09:20:43.497" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T09:20:43.497" Title="Was Father Mulcahy a Jesuit?" Tags="|character|mash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39037" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39560" CreationDate="2015-08-19T12:06:32.110" Score="7" ViewCount="453" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a hard one, all I remember is one specific scene, even that one is unclear - a high building, there is a guy on window cleaner lift-platform outside, and two guys inside an office talking about blackmail or something, and there are some files on computer's hard drive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then one of them says something like this: &quot;You see that window washer behind me? It's a Lithuanian spy and right now with that 'washing device' he is remotely deleting all files on your hard drive.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure if it was a TV episode or a movie, I saw it on TV, maybe 5 years back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional details: &#xA;Not a Lithuanian movie, language was English, not an animated movie, and no idea how old. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22531" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-08-31T06:35:20.647" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T18:25:42.767" Title="One scene - Lithuanian guy, window cleaner remotely deleting files on computer" Tags="|identify-this-movie|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:58:14.090" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39038" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39040" CreationDate="2015-08-19T13:24:00.943" Score="5" ViewCount="3569" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Spartacus died during the final battle in the final episode then what happened to the gladiators who were left? Did they continue the fight or did they just run?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="43186" LastEditDate="2016-12-12T17:12:21.037" LastActivityDate="2017-06-23T09:43:40.873" Title="What happened to the gladiators that survived in the final battle in the final episode of Spartacus?" Tags="|plot-explanation|spartacus-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39038" CreationDate="2015-08-19T16:40:33.380" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There is no explanation as to what happened to all of the rebel slaves&lt;/strong&gt;. Of course Gannicus was crucified.  The finale does show Nasir, Argon and other rebels remembering Spartacus.  That scene is really the only explanation of what happens to the rebels after Spartacus death...which really is not an explanation, it just shows them alive after Spartacus death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are curious as to the fate of Spartacus army from a historical view, well they were hunted down and killed or enslaved by &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/spartacus-war-damned-series-finale-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Crassus&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2016-12-12T07:53:23.060" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T07:53:23.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39042" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-19T18:15:37.290" Score="5" ViewCount="13539" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Scarface&lt;/em&gt; right after making the deal with Omar Suarez, Tony says he explicitly doesn't like Colombians but the reason is never shown in the movie. What is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24092" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-19T18:19:50.847" LastActivityDate="2016-07-19T11:53:09.063" Title="Why does Tony Montana hate Colombians?" Tags="|character|scarface|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39042" CreationDate="2015-08-19T18:42:27.760" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the late 70s early 80s, the colombians cut off the cubans from the cocaine smuggling trade. Cuba was the &quot;middle man&quot; and when the colombians decided to keep all the profit, that's when the drug wars began.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope &lt;a href=&quot;https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110605140838AA4VP0H&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this answer from Yahoo&lt;/a&gt; will help you to understand Tony's hate for Colombians. Besides that Tony is considered that they are not good for business, probably referring to the brutal methods by which Colombian cartels are known.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23484" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-19T20:42:18.210" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T20:42:18.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39035" CreationDate="2015-08-19T18:49:15.947" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you are correct. So does the MASH wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In many episodes, Mulcahy is seen wearing a &quot;Loyola&quot; hoodie. This&#xA;  makes sense in that Mulcahy was a Jesuit and Loyola is a Jesuit&#xA;  school. In the final episode of the series, however, Mulcahy is seen&#xA;  wearing a &quot;Wesleyan&quot; sweatshirt; Wesleyan University, the alma mater&#xA;  of actor William Christopher, was affiliated with the Methodist Church&#xA;  until 1937.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also apparently identifies himself as a Jesuit in the series but I cannot find specific season-episode citations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19290" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T18:49:15.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10351" CreationDate="2015-08-19T19:46:07.437" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie has many interpretations for its sequence of events, and I believe it is meant to be that way. It's your CHOICE to decide on what you want to believe. This is what makes the movie so great. This is one of my many interpretations of how the sequence of events unfold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is the nine year old boy that can see the future not the old man who can't recall his past. The old man is him in the future when he stands there in the middle of the tracks(reference to crossroads) thinking over his options and doesn’t make a choice on whom to go with. Technically the old mans reality can't and never will exist, because a decision has to be made. But, there has to be some sort of interim before a decision is made and that is the old man. It is just a void space. All other outcomes have the potential to exist based on his choice. He can’t simply stand on the tracks for the rest of his life and turn into the old man. You can’t be someone or exist if you never make a choice AKA nobody. This is why he has no past to connect him with. This is why the old man recalls so many different memories, because it’s really the boy playing out his options. He can only be in this void space until the universe ends and collapses in on itself and that is as much time he is allowed to decide. Him making it to the end of time without making a choice as the old man is symbolic of saying a choice needs to be made, because eventually time will run out. When that time runs out and a decision hasn't been decided the choice will be made for him (The train is to far to catch or his father runs and grabs him). When he says its the best day of his life on his deathbed, he is referring to that moment on the tracks as the little boy. He is able to experience and envision his life in so many different ways in just one instance of time, and no other moment in his life would be as powerful as this one. He is also able to choose which path he wants to take. Which leads to all of his possible choices being valuable and significant to his life experience. Moments before the end of his time he calls out Anna and ultimately that's his choice he decided to go with. He then dies and no longer exists as the old man, because the old man only exists without a choice. Then time rewinds (actually his vision of the future plays back as if it was being absorbed back to the boys mind) to bring him back to standing on the tracks. You see him laugh when his vision is rewinding. He’s laughing because he now knows what decision he finally wants to make as he stands there in the middle of the crossroads. He decides to choose neither parents and ends up on the doc with Anna. Eventually time goes by they separate, and he meets her at the lighthouse while she stands in the circle he drew. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24094" LastEditorUserId="24094" LastEditDate="2015-08-19T20:31:41.010" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T20:31:41.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39002" CreationDate="2015-08-19T20:18:06.640" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You answered your own question. House's stating &quot;I told you so&quot; implies that he didn't see anything (ie there is no afterlife).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://house.wikia.com/wiki/97_Seconds&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://house.wikia.com/wiki/97_Seconds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T20:18:06.640" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36251" CreationDate="2015-08-19T21:49:41.480" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He made himself. Need of survival of 5 years in an Island had thought him so many things. I have not read or seen any other sources explaining this except couple of episodes in season 1 showing how he started learning shooting arrows from Yao Fe and Shado where they never showed anything about making arrows (not even their trainers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="937" LastEditorUserId="937" LastEditDate="2015-08-19T22:05:22.860" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T22:05:22.860" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39052" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39053" CreationDate="2015-08-19T23:38:16.510" Score="3" ViewCount="444" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481536/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harold &amp;amp; Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay&lt;/a&gt; approximately one hour in, Neil Patrick Harris is driving a car. He picks up a bottle and takes a long swig. His hand is covering up a nontrivial amount of the label, making it difficult to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is printed on the label of the bottle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that I understand this is a movie prop and it is not a real bottle that would be sold in a liquor store. It is clearly meant to look like a bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey, but with obvious alterations to avoid allegations of product placement or trademark infringement. However, given the propensity for some TV and movie props to have humorous content, I am curious what is on the bottle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears to say &quot;Jim D... Kentucky Cold Mash Whiskey&quot; which appears to be a spoof on &quot;Jack Daniels Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey&quot; but it is unclear exactly what the name is at the top as well as what some of the smaller text says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tVpau.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tVpau.png&quot; alt=&quot;The bottle from which NPH is drinking&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9311" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-20T00:45:45.597" LastActivityDate="2015-08-20T00:45:45.597" Title="What is Neil Patrick Harris drinking?" Tags="|props|harold-and-kumar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39052" CreationDate="2015-08-19T23:45:44.670" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The name at the bottom appears to read &quot;Jim Danger Distillery&quot;. Probably a spoof on Jim Beam Distillery which makes a Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2015-08-19T23:45:44.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39054" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38742" CreationDate="2015-08-20T01:06:16.583" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the green band trailer, Deadpool certainly seems to be self aware as a character in a film and does break the fourth wall. In one of the fight scenes he looks directly into camera and says &quot;Cue the music.&quot; at around 1:28. This bit is omitted from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G4cjrHYAtE&quot;&gt;red band trailer&lt;/a&gt; (NSFW), which is what most people seem to be watching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/dJ1PDIG9Hgk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to this, in an interview with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.empireonline.com/features/deadpool-trailer-breakdown&quot;&gt;Empire&lt;/a&gt;, there's a quote from the director about the Green Lantern reference in the preview where he specifically states that, while Wade Wilson doesn't break the fourth wall, he implies that Deadpool does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;That got a good laugh at Comic-Con. For the most part, we try to stick to the rule that Wade Wilson can’t break the fourth wall. He’s not aware that he’s in a movie. Deadpool is. He only breaks the fourth wall when he’s Deadpool. So we’re tiptoeing on the edge of breaking our own rule there, because he’s still Wade at that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This quote is from an interview at the 2015 Comic Con.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-08-20T01:06:16.583" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21623" CreationDate="2015-08-20T07:04:30.010" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;They ditched their clothing and the fancy car because they needed to get past the border without creating a bunch of attention. They could not just walk up to the man who was transporting non-US citizens wearing luxury suits plus the nice car. Once they look like the other illegal immigrants, they are able to pass into the USA and progress with their mission. Side Note: It is not like they could walk through the normal border station, I doubt hey have ID's/VISA (Plus Cartel members strolling around in the open is not what their about)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24100" LastActivityDate="2015-08-20T07:04:30.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39032" CreationDate="2015-08-20T08:56:20.897" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you say;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Terrans defeated the Kree&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I presume that you are talking about in the comics. The comic continuity is not relevant to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which takes place in an alternate dimension (Earth-199999). As such, the Kree may be very different in the films from in the comics. We have only seen a couple of instances of Kree in the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far, so we don't have that much information to draw upon, but;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that in &lt;em&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt;, a truce has been drawn up between the Kree and the Xandarians, which implies that they were at war before. The fact that the Xandarians (who are not immortal, as we see many of them die in &lt;em&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt;) have been able to negotiate a truce with the Kree suggest that the Kree are not immortal either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in &lt;em&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt;, we see that Ronan is able to hold the Power Gem (one of the six Infinity Stones) for a limited amount of time, before embedding it in his hammer. The fact he has to put it in his hammer implies to me that, like the slave girl that works for The Collector, it would have quickly destroyed him. He is also capable of great feats of strength, throwing Drax around like it's no big deal when they fight in Knowhere. So we can see from this that Ronan, if not neccessarily all Kree, are stronger than they might appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, in the &lt;em&gt;Agents of SHIELD&lt;/em&gt; season 2 episode &quot;Who You Really Are&quot;, we see Lady Sif (an Asgardian) fight a Kree warrior, and the two of them seem to be fairly well matched in terms of strength and durability. This would imply that it isn't just Ronan the Accuser who is strong, it is all Kree (or at least the ones trained in combat).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In short, the Kree are not immortal, but they are very strong, most likely due to their biology rather than any gained power.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastActivityDate="2015-08-20T08:56:20.897" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39063" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40838" CreationDate="2015-08-20T10:01:51.323" Score="5" ViewCount="4912" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have seen till now that first Felicity Smoak was in love with the Arrow, then there were some romantic moments with Flash, then she fell in love with her boss Ray Palmer, then again at the end of Season 3 of she came back to Oliver. So exactly with whom is she in love?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-08T13:29:12.460" LastActivityDate="2017-07-04T15:13:49.197" Title="With whom is Felicity Smoak in love, exactly?" Tags="|character|the-flash|arrow|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39067" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39080" CreationDate="2015-08-20T13:22:50.557" Score="8" ViewCount="1397" Body="&lt;p&gt;During some episodes of &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; Michone has 2 zombies (Mike and Terry) without arms and jaw, which she uses as mules and for protection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw images of the actors of the zombies, they have their arms and jaw, so how did they make these special effects? In some scenes it looks like puppets, in some like CGI, but there are also scenes where you can clearly see that this are real actors. I know that they have very good makeup-artists in the series, but how did they hide the arms and jaw? I would guess a combination of CGI and good make-up, but maybe someone has some facts here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are very thin and there are also scenes where they have a naked upper body, so they could not hide their arms in clothes or behind the back. (I don't post an image, because this would be 18+ content, but it should be easy to google an image for everyone who does not know what I mean).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22783" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-20T13:28:41.457" LastActivityDate="2015-09-13T05:01:08.380" Title="How are Michonnes Zombies made?" Tags="|effects|the-walking-dead|make-up|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39071" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39072" CreationDate="2015-08-20T14:39:56.197" Score="1" ViewCount="237" Body="&lt;p&gt;We see that Raj starts trying to flirt and woo Simran in first meet itself in &lt;em&gt;Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge&lt;/em&gt;. That time, he didn't had any feelings for Simran. And later he tries to woo her friend and flirt her. So was he genuinely in love for Simran and trying to make her jealous. So he is playboy kind of person, who tries to impress every girl before meeting Simran.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-20T14:42:18.947" LastActivityDate="2015-08-20T15:07:17.027" Title="Was Raj playboy or after every girl before meeting Simran" Tags="|character|dilwale-dulhania-le-jayenge|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39071" CreationDate="2015-08-20T15:07:17.027" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nice question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether or not he was a playboy is hard to tell, because there is nothing definitive told in the story about Raj's backstory, but it is certainly suggested that he was a guy who could easily flirt with girls and certainly goes after them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Look at this &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmTWjT3wG8M&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;song&lt;/a&gt; and start watching from 2:43. Basically this&#xA;  song introduces the character Raj.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It certainly suggests that the word playboy would not be wrong for him. Additionally what you said is also very indicative of the same thing that upon meeting Simran, he instantly starts to flirt with her and tries to woo her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2015-08-20T15:07:17.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39075" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24452" CreationDate="2015-08-20T17:22:16.290" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe he buried that ring when he learned that his ancestor fought on the losing side. He buried that ring because he was dissappointed, because he thought he is the descendant of winners, not losers. He buried it because he didn't want to be a loser, but to win the trials that awaits him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he received the new ring, it didn't symbolize the loser, but the winner, because now it had a new meaning: a token of power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24114" LastActivityDate="2015-08-20T17:22:16.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36215" CreationDate="2015-08-20T18:44:00.077" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The glasses Tom Hardy wears in the film are French Amor Browline Glasses. I have a pair of these myself and they are exactly the same as the ones in the film 'Legend'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eCLP0.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eCLP0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24116" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-08-22T06:50:05.890" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T06:50:05.890" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39067" CreationDate="2015-08-20T20:48:18.690" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Extensive CGI isn't necessary. For the arms, it's simple enough to have them wear green/blue socks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a picture of Lt. Dan from Forrest Gump:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5dPpm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5dPpm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, they shoot this scene twice, once with the actor and another with them missing. A computer looks for blue (green is used more often I think) pixels, and replaces those with the corresponding pixels from the actorless shot. Some post-processing can be required (shadows might not be in the right places), but this is pretty simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They do need to do &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; work where the amputated limb ends (in the above image, his tied-off pants need to be tweaked), but this doesn't typically involve CGI at all, at least of the sort where they texture a complicated 3d model. Someone with photoshop skills touches up the images, frame by frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a visible stump, this might include compositing in flesh tones and scars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the jawlessness, I suspect that this is a little bit of makeup/prosthetics, and camera-angles-slash-lightning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ah ha! Just found this, while researching screenshots (I haven't watched the season in question):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QsE6u.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QsE6u.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Green socks. Also note how we're seeing practical effects for their missing jaws. Now, keep in mind that some shows like this will occasionally use CGI, so if there's a particularly creepy closeup where you just know that it can't possibly be practical effects, then that is most likely proper CGI, composited into the shot (so that the rest of the face looks real).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastActivityDate="2015-08-20T20:48:18.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="51" CreationDate="2015-08-20T22:56:14.587" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like what Moe said, their relationship never worked out. It's pretty obvious Dean loves Cindy so much that he would do anything for her (example: marry her even though he found out the daughter isn't his. He also begged her if he can do anything to make things better.) On the other hand, Cindy is selfish to me, notice whenever she doesn't like something, she says &quot;stop it&quot;. I mean it's ok to stop someone if you disagree what he is doing but that brings out her characteristic. She only cares about herself, since she doesn't care about her family at all. She didn't manage to abort because she was afraid to do it. It's like everything has to base on her preference. She didn't care about her daughter's breakfast, show, etc. She needed Dean because she knew she had a baby and she didn't know what to do. Also, she had to explain to her parents about her baby. It would've been tough if Dean never appeared in her life. That's also the main reason why she accepted Dean's proposal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of their relationship, I can tell Cindy likes him because of his passion and characteristic. She told Dean to do something because thought he has potential to be a &quot;successful&quot; guy. However, Dean doesn't share the same view, he said &quot;I didn't want to be your husband&quot; but he had to because he promised for what he said. He quit high school because he thought he couldn't find his life goal through big money and knowledge. He wouldn't mind working as a painter with low income. In my opinion, all he wants is a family with who he loves (his daughter and Cindy) but nothing else. To me, Cindy is selfish and a girl who won't think a step ahead, she does what she feels the most comfy. I also think, they did love each other, but the feeling was doubtful and temporary. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have never seen such a sad movie, my heart literally broke at the middle of the film. I was like 'why Dean, why are you being such a good man! Why are you that stupid'. However, love is the thing makes people stupid and nonsense. Dean surely doesn't deserve that, but love is what makes him a person. It's life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24122" LastEditorDisplayName="user16145" LastEditDate="2016-10-27T00:27:45.980" LastActivityDate="2016-10-27T00:27:45.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38980" CreationDate="2015-08-21T01:12:36.053" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;To my knowledge the series never really touches on this.  The &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/34555/what-ever-happens-to-walts-job-in-sandia-laboratories&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; that @Walt provided above is informative but I don't think there is much more specific information to be had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the great things about Breaking Bad are all of the back stories of the characters that we can only speculate on.  This is why Better Call Saul is so compelling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer the question specifically I can only offer what I believe good writers know how to do.  Good writers know how to write &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.diffen.com/difference/Empathy_vs_Sympathy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;empathetic not sympathetic&lt;/a&gt; characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make the show work the viewer must see some of themselves or someone very close to them that would 'initially' make the same decisions as Walter White.  Part of that empathy is questioning your own decision making in the course of your life and as we all often do, regret certain decisions that we see in retrospect, as crossroad decisions.  &quot;If I only ....&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who amongst us hasn't harkened back to high school glory, college freedom, or early life successes? How about the white hot stardom of child actors, one hit wonders, or wall street 'geniuses'?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walter White had massive success very early in his life and as is the case with many people who achieve early success and hit a roadblock, he did not handle it very well.  Simply, Walter White did what most of us do and that's settle.  Success one time is VERY hard and Walter was basically there.  Success a second time can seem impossible and eventually human nature takes over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walter White HAD to teach high school chemistry because he settled and if it were not for the awful car wash boss and humiliating experience of washing his own students car, there might have never been a show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24123" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T01:12:36.053" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39090" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39091" CreationDate="2015-08-21T06:14:59.823" Score="11" ViewCount="3018" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jaime Lannister and Bronn go to Dorne for saving Myrcella Baratheon in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, then Myrcella Baratheon at one point in S05E10 says that she knows &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Jaime &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is her dad. Exactly how does she come to know this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="11242" LastEditDate="2015-08-21T11:53:35.003" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T02:39:28.850" Title="How does Myrcella Baratheon know who her father is?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39090" CreationDate="2015-08-21T06:56:13.767" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not shown clearly on the TV show, however it seems like kind of common knowledge among the small council (Varys, Littlefinger) and the palace. People choose to ignore or acknowledge this based on their interest. Now Cersei is  on trial for the same and Stannis also has shared this information to all the lords. She may have suspected the incestuous relationship based on rumors and the letters Stannis spread all over Westeros from the very start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-21T08:09:48.437" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T08:09:48.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33594" CreationDate="2015-08-21T07:08:49.760" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;He met the queen in 1989 while the two were still living together so that is why she went. Not sure why the movie made it seem otherwise because they didn't separate until a year after and didn't divorce until 1995. &#xA;It's unclear whether Jane cheated physically but clearly did love Jonathan as she is currently married to him. It did appeared Stephen also fell in love with Elaine while still with Jane.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24132" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T07:08:49.760" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33755" CreationDate="2015-08-21T08:59:58.060" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's comical usage of the name PK, which is a common name as Pankaj Kumar or Prashant Khare and so on, also means drunk. When he asks questions to people which seem absurd to a common man, they ask if he is drunk (bhai pi ke he ka). And continuosly being asked the same Amir Khan eventually starts believing that maybe he is known as PK on earth, somehow earth people know but he doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-21T09:22:58.227" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T09:22:58.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39096" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-21T09:01:04.793" Score="1" ViewCount="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie PK, Tapasvi predicts that Sarfaraz will betray the Jaggu. And then Jaggu believes that Sarfaraz has betrayed her and left her at the altar with just a letter. Later, when Tapasvi refers this fact that he predicted this already to Jaggu. Then PK (alien) reveals that Sarfaraz has not betrayed her. But how come he came to know this? He never knew Sarfaraz, he just read the Jaggu's mind. But she believes otherwise.&#xA;Does PK sees something in her memory that she herself doesn't know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-21T09:17:14.860" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T09:17:14.860" Title="How come PK/Alien realizes that Sarfaraz did not write the letter?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pk|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-08-21T09:21:13.297" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39097" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-21T09:06:51.967" Score="8" ViewCount="3380" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mrs Bale (the housekeeper of Rocky and Madge in &lt;em&gt;As Time Goes By&lt;/em&gt;) frequently provides the forecast of the English Channel.  I have noticed that this is often used as a technique of foreshadowing the events in the show.  But, aside from a plot device, &lt;strong&gt;why is Mrs Bale so fascinated by the weather report for the English Channel?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24050" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-08-21T09:27:14.003" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T18:59:44.877" Title="Why is Mrs Bale so fascinated by the forecast of the English Channel?" Tags="|character|as-time-goes-by|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39098" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-08-21T09:15:22.540" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Refers to the comedy series running from 1965 to 1971 focusing on a band of Prisoners of War in a German Prison Camp who are actually running the camp, although they let their Commandant think he is.  Starring Bob Crane as Colonel Hogan, Werner Klemperer as Colonel Klink, and John Banner as Sergeant Shultz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag is to be used when referring to this television series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24050" LastEditorUserId="24050" LastEditDate="2015-08-21T09:24:18.777" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T09:24:18.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39099" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-08-21T09:15:22.540" Score="0" Body="Refers to the comedy series running from 1965 to 1971 focusing on a band of Prisoners of War in a German Prison Camp who are actually running the camp, although they let their Commandant think he is.  To be used when referring to this television series." OwnerUserId="24050" LastEditorUserId="24050" LastEditDate="2015-08-21T09:23:50.313" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T09:23:50.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37043" CreationDate="2015-08-21T09:27:31.727" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Warning: Speculation alert!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering how hot it was getting, it may be that the heat was interfering with the electronic componentry aboard &lt;em&gt;Sun Probe&lt;/em&gt;.  Consequently, &lt;em&gt;any attempts by the crew to fire the boosters would have been futile&lt;/em&gt;.  Hence, by firing the safety beam which somehow interferes with the navigation systems, the retros could be fired.  This theory does explain why a beam would be able to fire the retros when the crew couldn't, but it is just speculation on my part I'm afraid!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24050" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T09:27:31.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39097" CreationDate="2015-08-21T10:00:17.567" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;BBC Radio 4 has provided the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast_and_sea/shipping_forecast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Shipping Forecast&lt;/a&gt; on long wave since time immemorial. This is broadcast for use by all shipping around the British Isles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many people on land in Britain who listen to the shipping forecast even though they never go near the sea. The forecast always takes the same form, a gentle litany of sea areas, wind strength, wave height etc… This is seen by many as soothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has become a stereotype that people of a certain age, who listen to Radio 4, will listen to the shipping forecast. It is perceived by many as more accurate than the more glossy television weather forecasts. Mrs. Bale fits into that stereotype and that is the joke. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2015-08-21T18:59:44.877" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T18:59:44.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39105" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-21T13:20:52.743" Score="4" ViewCount="15229" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the Massacre at Hardhome in the 5th season of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, the army of the dead stood on the shores watching as Jon Snow and the survivors very slowly rowed away. From a narrative standpoint, it’s easy to see why the show needed the ice zombies to stop here, as it delivered one of the show’s most impressive and terrifying moments — the raising of the dead with a hand gesture by The Night’s King. But it also raises some fundamental questions about this undead army. Are they afraid of water?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-21T13:27:54.920" LastActivityDate="2017-08-11T22:35:49.513" Title="Why is an army of White Walkers afraid of the water?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2017-08-12T01:10:58.383" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15666" CreationDate="2015-08-21T15:34:51.200" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Definitely a plot hole in the movie or just an error.  He could have easily found some fragments of chems that would have helped him.  He is insanely smart and knows he needs the to stay that way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's absolutely no reason not search the entire area for the needed chems when he knows what will happen to him once he's off them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, maybe he was concerned they'd send another drone to double up on the job since they did have some issues &quot;killing&quot; him. So it could just be that his brains survival instinct kicked in more than his need for chems, but I never bought it in the film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24145" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T15:34:51.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39105" CreationDate="2015-08-21T16:23:42.293" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;What makes you believe they stop out of fear?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or to put it another way; why &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; the White Walkers/Undead try and swim through the water? what would they possibly hope to achieve?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any effective assault against a boat by an attack force that is in the water, swimming, is pretty implausible. The strongest swimmer would struggle to catch even a leisurely paced boat, and the army is without projectiles. There would have been no point in the White Walkers 'swimming after' the boats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2015-08-21T16:23:42.293" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39109" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-21T16:33:33.777" Score="20" ViewCount="55587" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that I am rewatching the whole series, I don't recall that I ever fully understood what Cedric Daniels in &quot;The Wire&quot; did while working in the Eastern District.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was in the file that Deputy Burrel put on the table in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0749424/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;E12S01&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z6vgU.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z6vgU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23733" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2016-09-09T07:16:59.847" LastActivityDate="2018-12-02T20:09:20.187" Title="What exactly was the &quot;dirt&quot; on Daniels in The Wire?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-wire|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39110" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-21T19:31:01.477" Score="3" ViewCount="314" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the British &lt;em&gt;Jeeves and Wooster&lt;/em&gt; ITV TV series (1990-1993) with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, does Wooster ever—or indeed frequently—say “Don’t you know?”, like he frequently does in the books? For example, “He’s my butler, don’t you know?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The line is one of the most endearing things about Wooster and is quite important to some people who like authenticity. I watched the first two episodes but alas I heard no trace of this line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, a Google search reveals only two episodes where it is employed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24151" LastEditorUserId="24151" LastEditDate="2015-08-22T21:34:30.873" LastActivityDate="2017-03-04T13:40:20.507" Title="On the Jeeves and Wooster TV show does Wooster say “Don’t you know?” much like the character does in the P.G. Wodehouse books?" Tags="|character|jeeves-and-wooster|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39109" CreationDate="2015-08-21T22:03:20.477" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Burrell: You want to talk about dirt? Have at it. Talk some shit about your Eastern district days. Talk about what was going on back when you was running wild in the DEU.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Daniels: That's just talk.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Burrell: Just talk? &lt;em&gt;FBI field reports&lt;/em&gt;. You came into a lot of money, quick....&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Daniels: You wanna put my shit in the street? Feel free. But the Eastern had a lot of stories. Mine ain't the only one. A lot of people came through that district. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Daniels worked the Drug Enforcement Unit in the Eastern District, and like most of the characters on the Wire, he's done some dirty stuff himself. In his case, as drug money is an easy target and hard to trace, it was likely that he confiscated some of it himself, enough to afford a fairly lavish lifestyle for a police lieutenant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In episode 1, we meet McNulty's FBI contact, who tells him that Daniels is dirty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;McNulty: You know Daniels? Narcotics?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Fitzhugh: What about him?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  McNulty: He's running this detail.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Fitzhugh: Watch your ass then.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  McNulty: He a snake?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Fitzhugh: No, he ain't that. But he's a company man. You know, a prospect...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;McNulty's FBI contact also tells him him that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Daniels had several hundred thousand dollars of questionable liquid assets; it is later implied that these were picked up during Daniels' tenure in the poorly-supervised Eastern district.- &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Daniels&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently this had been uncovered by the FBI, who handed the evidence to Burrell, who chose to bury it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He also warns McNulty that his commander Cedric Daniels was investigated for corruption by the FBI and they had found an excess of liquid assets. After they handed the case over to Deputy Commissioner Ervin Burrell, nothing further came of it. - &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_characters_of_The_Wire#Terrence_.22Fitz.22_Fitzhugh&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8476" LastEditorUserId="8476" LastEditDate="2015-08-22T03:03:15.720" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T03:03:15.720" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39113" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39090" CreationDate="2015-08-22T02:39:28.850" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its never explained but I assume she heard the rumors and figured it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dorne was no fan of the lannisters so I'm sure they loved the rumor of incests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24155" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T02:39:28.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39118" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-22T04:42:41.857" Score="3" ViewCount="7335" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the opening credits of &lt;em&gt;As Time Goes By&lt;/em&gt;, we see a letter being written, presumably by Jean from looking at the hands.  I've included a picture of the scene just after it in the opening credits below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eJoWE.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eJoWE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Opening credits&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What does this letter say?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24050" LastActivityDate="2017-07-31T07:30:38.740" Title="What does the letter say in the opening credits?" Tags="|as-time-goes-by|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="435" CreationDate="2015-08-22T05:12:15.590" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It always seemed to me that Tom (Gabriel Byrne) says 'hat' in a way that sounds a lot like 'heart.'  &quot;Nothing more foolish than a man chasing his heart&quot; is a reasonable synopsis of the movie.  Leo (Albert Finney's character) chases his heart trying to win Verna, and nearly loses everything for it.  Tom spends the movie chasing his heart as well.  He may be sincerely attracted to Verna, but he seems to realize that she may be using him.  He also has deep loyalty to Leo.  He takes risks for both.  In the end his friendship with Leo wins out.  Tom fixes things for Leo and keeps him safe.  Tom is not sentimental about it, though, and sacrifices Bernie, thereby losing Verna.  The risks he takes for Leo may be a bit foolish, but Tom is not so governed by chasing his heart that he fails to take more cold-hearted calculations into account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24160" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T05:12:15.590" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26735" CreationDate="2015-08-22T05:20:01.013" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not to compete with the above answer by CGCampbell, but just to add some further information, &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek_II:_The_Wrath_of_Khan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Memory Alpha&lt;/a&gt; has the following to say on the matter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Khan's apparent recognition of Chekov and his remark &quot;I never forget a&#xA;  face&quot; are somewhat ironic, since Khan's appearance in TOS: &quot;Space&#xA;  Seed&quot; was in the first season and Chekov did not make his first&#xA;  appearance until Star Trek's second season. &lt;strong&gt;It is possible, however,&#xA;  that Chekov was on the Enterprise at the time and Khan had seen him&#xA;  off screen.&lt;/strong&gt; In fact, as noted in the Special Edition DVD's text&#xA;  commentary, Walter Koenig often joked (at conventions and in&#xA;  interviews) &lt;strong&gt;that his character had made Khan wait overly long to use a&#xA;  bathroom on Khan's visit to the Enterprise and that was why Khan&#xA;  remembered his face so well.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24050" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:39:25.870" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T05:20:01.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39105" CreationDate="2015-08-22T07:55:17.353" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is not clear indication that they are afraid of water. However, it may be possible as we know very less about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that they simply because White Walker and their army of Wight had no chance of swimming and reaching the boats. Lets assume they swim and reach near boat, then also as soon  as they try to ride on boat, Jon snow and wildlings will kill them. Simply see the possibility of them trying to climb on boat ,swimming at same time while wildlings already on boat hitting them with swords and axes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more thing to consider, white walkers are very less in count (2-3) , they mostly rely on Wights for this task. Who may or may not know how to swim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On similar note, we see the gaint swimming in water, it means its having depth like sea or something, there is lot chance that Wight will get drowned in water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T07:55:17.353" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39130" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39280" CreationDate="2015-08-22T08:06:49.293" Score="10" ViewCount="64823" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the Battle of the Blackwater in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; season 2, Ser Mandon attacks Tyrion.  We know that Ser Mandon is from the Kingsguard, and Tyrion is leading the forces from King's Landing on behalf of king Joffrey.  This doesn't make sense&amp;mdash;why would Ser Mandon try to kill Tyrion?&#xA;The only possibilities I can think of would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ser Mandon believes Stannis is the true king and helps him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is angry that Tyrion leads him to a lost cause, since they were losing the battle.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2016-12-06T17:57:21.933" LastActivityDate="2016-12-06T17:57:21.933" Title="Why does Ser Mandon attack?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39118" CreationDate="2015-08-22T08:10:09.853" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the information I could visibly read in the letter after zooming in as much as I could:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1st Battalion &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Middlesex Regiment &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BFPO &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;January ?? '53 &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My Darling Jean, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;England seems so far away &#xA;and I miss you terribly. This is &#xA;the first chance I have had to &#xA;send you my address here in &#xA;Korea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do write back straight away &#xA;my darling.... (scene fades at that point)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2017-07-31T07:30:38.740" LastActivityDate="2017-07-31T07:30:38.740" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39132" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39138" CreationDate="2015-08-22T08:14:41.410" Score="8" ViewCount="4087" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am talking about the scene in &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; where Scarlet Witch supposedly makes Ultron feel pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/33Mxu.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/33Mxu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean the total human concept of really feeling pain/emotion is abstract and impossible for a robot. So why does Ultron feel pain in this scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24166" LastEditorUserId="304" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:31:16.470" LastActivityDate="2017-07-02T16:57:05.170" Title="Can someone explain how Ultron feels pain in this particular scene?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39130" CreationDate="2015-08-22T08:59:03.987" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joffrey ordered Mandon to take care of Tyrion, as his uncle was a threat to his image and to his pride. Tyrion knew it wasn't Cersei who gave the order, as he knew she was too clever to conduct a betrayal in the open. When Cersei skirts around the question, Tyrion concludes it was Joffrey, who Cersei is disapproving of for taking such an action. This was one of the several moments in the series that Cersei expresses her grief for her son being so amoral. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T08:59:03.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39142" CreationDate="2015-08-22T09:22:07.410" Score="4" ViewCount="3031" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jamal and Salim are Muslim. Their family was targeted by an anti-Muslim riot, and Salim is a Muslim name, and I think Salim said &quot;Allah Akbar&quot; once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Latika supposed to be Muslim? She didn't wear a headscarf covering all of her hair, whereas Muslim women in most though not all countries do. On the other hand, there was a romance between Jamal and Latika, when Muslim men are only allowed to marry Abrahamic women.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1312" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-22T12:22:01.753" LastActivityDate="2018-10-13T01:53:44.693" Title="Is Latika from &quot;Slumdog Millionaire&quot; Muslim?" Tags="|character|slumdog-millionaire|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28403" CreationDate="2015-08-22T09:37:24.270" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is another theory: Mr Robertson is the original and he implanted himself as a genetic time bomb paradox to fix a greater issues that are never discussed in the film, because they never happened! Mr Robertson seems to have an uncanny resemblance to the Barkeep. There is that scene when they are both looking out and Mr Robertson tells him about the way the Fizzle bomber made the organization grow. It is too perfect that his being is so intelligent, strong and able to sustain its DNA replication so perfectly. I suspect that further into the future they will be able to create this genetic paradox &quot;bombs&quot; that fizzle themselves out... Mr Robertson perhaps used himself because he knew how to shape this &quot;bombs&quot; psychology to its ultimate purpose. Boom! I just fizzled my own mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24167" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T09:37:24.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39134" CreationDate="2015-08-22T10:05:00.320" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Latika was not muslim. The name 'Latika' is prevalent in India for hindu girls, although this name is not very common. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, in India, several muslim men have married hindu women, so that is not an alient concept either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T10:05:00.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39132" CreationDate="2015-08-22T12:40:35.307" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure Ultron himself &quot;felt&quot; pain in the sense you're thinking of. He does react as if he was injured, because he was: whatever Scarlet Witch did caused that particular body to cease to function. Mostly, though, the dialogue here is symbolic: Wanda is telling Ultron that losing her brother felt like having her heart ripped out -- as she ripped Ultrons &quot;heart&quot; from his body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, it's important to keep in mind that Ultron is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a robot. He's a unique creature: a combination of a robotic body, an artificial intelligence designed by Stark and Banner, and the sentient power of the Mind Stone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He certainly seems to express plenty of other emotions during the movie, particularly anger and disgust. It's very possible that he's capable of recognizing the sensation of having a key part of his &quot;robot anatomy&quot; pulled out of his body and register that sensation as the equivalent of pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T12:40:35.307" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39132" CreationDate="2015-08-22T14:19:49.660" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you think about it objectively, there is nothing at all special about a human being. Humans are just biological robots running software on a dynamic finite state automata neural-net CPU (to the best of our knowledge). And there's nothing special about our CPU apart from the fact that a human engineer wouldn't have designed it that way (it's way too complicated to understand and debug, on the other hand, it can sometimes still function even if we remove half of it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there is nothing special about our hardware, it stands to reason that there's nothing special about our software. By &quot;nothing special&quot; I don't mean to imply that it's not complex, only that it is all in our brain - it's just signals in a machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that complexity is the only difference between my mind and this Linux OS running on my laptop, it stands to reason that it's not impossible for hardware/software to be created that can experience emotions and pain the same way I am. (The corollary is that if it is impossible for a hardware/software to be created to experience emotion and pain then humans wouldn't be able to experience emotion and pain).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, it's false to presume that robots cannot experience emotion and pain. While it is very highly unlikely that any robot we have today are capable of experiencing pain, that isn't true for the set of all possible computing machines (of which humans are arguably a part of).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9574" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T14:19:49.660" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39134" CreationDate="2015-08-22T14:52:16.640" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not clear anywhere in movie to what religion she belonged. She was shown as orphan, it may be possilbe she never knew what religion her parents belonged to. As far as her name Latika is concerned, it is used by both muslims and hindus. It seems the director didn't want to show her as associated with any religion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at her life, most of the time she was in kind of house arrest, so she herself may not have had time to decide what religion she wants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the logic that Muslim men are allowed to marry only muslim women, the society they belonged, I don't think rules are applied on them from any religous community. As Ankit pointed out in his answer, inter-religion marriage is not an alien concept, so she may be muslim or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-22T15:23:09.833" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T15:23:09.833" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39118" CreationDate="2015-08-22T20:04:21.620" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The premise of As Time Goes By is that Jean Pargeter (Judy Dench) and Lionel Hardcastle (Geoffrey Palmer) are rekindling a teenage romance after some 40 years of separation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In episode 1 series 1 we learn that Lionel was posted to Kenya, they kept in touch by letter for a while but after a while letters went astray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This led to each mistakenly believing that the other had broken off the relationship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The letter in the opening credits is symbolic of the lost years of their love.  The letter that created the situation for the sitcom.  The actual words are not as important to the story as the symbol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T20:04:21.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39146" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39707" CreationDate="2015-08-22T20:24:19.430" Score="3" ViewCount="1730" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S03E12, when Jesse is walking to kill two of Gus's enforcers, the camera shows the back of Jesse's shoes and there is a text there. &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/XN8qi6xWFb4?t=429&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Right this scene&lt;/a&gt;. I think it says &quot;PAID&quot;. I think this is yet another symbolism. Could you explain the meaning of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20688" LastEditorUserId="20688" LastEditDate="2015-08-22T21:20:17.533" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T19:57:54.960" Title="What is the meaning of text on Jesse's shoes in S03E12 in Breaking Bad?" Tags="|analysis|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36193" CreationDate="2015-08-22T21:08:06.807" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay, I did some generic research, but I can't guarantee my conclusion is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all in Paris there were around 2.3 million people in 1975. Slightly less in 1964-1967, but I can't find specific numbers. During the same period (1960) there were 2% Muslims (in a very broad definition of Muslim) in France. The non Muslim black community would have been relatively limited from what I read about 1980, but whether that applies to 1960 is no guarantee. Either way, assuming the middle and south African community hasn't changed too much we would be talking about 100.000 black people at most. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, to that you need to add that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The black community was significantly poorer than the white community and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That the black community had been &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; smaller just 10 years before that (Muslim population went from 0.55% in 1950 to 10% in 2010). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think the black community was probably slightly underrepresented, but probably not as much as you might think. Regarding the restaurant scene: That could have been perfectly 'normal'. To be honest, I am not that well acquainted with French history specifically, but considering the time period and general french mentality that is something that is far from a stretch and could've probably been seen in the majority of the western world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9168" LastEditorUserId="9168" LastEditDate="2015-08-22T21:19:21.993" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T21:19:21.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14684" CreationDate="2015-08-22T22:51:05.997" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the movie, transfer speed and direction seems to be determined by the relative vertical positions of the clocks. They're fighting for the top position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm seeing the same basic answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11027/in-the-movie-in-time-how-would-the-transferring-of-time-work%20*here*&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24186" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-08-22T22:51:05.997" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39157" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-23T02:56:18.527" Score="2" ViewCount="796" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &quot;Now You See Me&quot; when Atlas says to Dylan &quot;When I said about being the smartest guy in the room&quot; and Dylan responds &quot;We were in agreement&quot;. I don't understand the &quot;we were in agreement&quot; part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that the first rule of magic is to always be the smartest guy in the room, but was Dylan agreeing with that concept of the phrase or that they were both the smartest in the room?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23696" LastActivityDate="2015-10-11T17:50:05.203" Title="What did Dylan mean by &quot;we were in agreement&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37230" CreationDate="2015-08-23T04:08:16.760" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mr. Robot &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt; all in Elliot's head. He is, in fact, Elliot's mental construct of a version of his father who had died years ago. Darlene confirms in eps1.8 (episode 9), that Elliot is the one who founded FSociety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in the show, &lt;em&gt;Mr. Robot&lt;/em&gt;, we're falling down the rabbit hole that is Elliot's mind. As the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;unreliable narrator&lt;/a&gt; of the show, we experience what Elliot experiences and we follow along with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an article from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://observer.com/2015/08/mr-robot-and-the-beauty-of-confusing-your-audience/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Observer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You knew all along, didn’t you?” Elliott Alderson asked us, his collective imaginary friend, in last night’s episode of Mr. Robot. And the answer, at least on my part, was: “did we?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, of course it was there all along — Christian Slater’s Mr. Robot is simply Elliot’s own Tyler Durden, a manifestation of his guilt-ridden and damaged mind molded in the image of his father. Of course Mr. Robot isn’t actually Elliot’s long-dead-or-so-we-thought dad, who had somehow been hiding his existence from his own son for 20 years. It was all there, the way Elliott would sink into the background any time Mr. Robot addressed FSociety, the way Mr. Robot would participate in discussions but the other members wouldn’t exactly acknowledge his input. Mr. Robot was always in the backseat of the car, or appearing at just the right moment not to interfere, but to dispense advice. We knew. We knew all along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an added note, the piano piece playing at the end of this episode of &lt;em&gt;Mr. Robot&lt;/em&gt; is a piano cover of The Pixies' &amp;quot;Where is My Mind&amp;quot;, which is the same song playing at the end of &lt;em&gt;Fight Club&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fight Club&lt;/em&gt; version (The Pixies):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/E1d5VvCa8Fo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mr. Robot&lt;/em&gt; Version (Maxence Cyrin):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/CPY-Ou8MR44?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2019-10-13T12:57:29.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="39161" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39194" CreationDate="2015-08-23T05:18:55.930" Score="21" ViewCount="222707" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwQ53U_Xb0I&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron Movie CLIP - Black Widow Tames Hulk &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/JwQ53U_Xb0I?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They found a way to calm down the Hulk. Black Widow tells him something and make some gesture and the Hulk calms down and leaves anger behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Black Widow: Hey big guy, Sun’s getting real low.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then some hand gesture and HULK transforms to human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where is it came from? What is that “Sun’s getting real low…” mean? Is it something special or pointing at some reference or some random phrase? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-25T12:00:57.643" LastActivityDate="2019-06-18T00:26:04.023" Title="What's that “Sun’s getting real low…” lullaby thing to calm down the Hulk?" Tags="|dialogue|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39162" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39180" CreationDate="2015-08-23T07:06:40.823" Score="6" ViewCount="1408" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had just recently watched Fast &amp;amp; Furious 7.  I am aware that Paul Walker's two brothers stood in as a body double for his character in order to finish filming some scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am also aware that they used CGI with his brothers as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, does anyone know which scenes in the movie that his brothers were used in? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-06-29T16:46:21.950" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T16:46:21.950" Title="Paul Walker body doubles in Fast &amp; Furious 7" Tags="|casting|effects|fast-and-furious-franchise|furious-7|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39162" CreationDate="2015-08-23T08:01:47.633" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;the scene which a bomb explode near Dom's house and its wave throw brian to car's window , its pretty obvious thats not him actually . &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24191" LastActivityDate="2015-08-23T08:01:47.633" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39164" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-23T08:05:45.127" Score="5" ViewCount="3488" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who provided voice for Paul Walker in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furious_7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fast &amp;amp; Furious 7&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23948" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-06-29T16:45:50.007" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T16:45:50.007" Title="Who provided voice for Paul Walker in Fast &amp; Furious 7?" Tags="|casting|fast-and-furious-franchise|voice-acting|furious-7|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39164" CreationDate="2015-08-23T08:21:28.067" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;They used Paul Walker's brothers, as explained in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/the-daunting-task-of-making-furious-7-without-paul-walker#.onXGaKY4L&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To double for Walker, the production turned to his younger brothers Caleb and Cody, as well as actor John Brotherton (who also has a separate role in the film). Visual effects artists then replaced their faces with Paul Walker’s face — but occasionally, Brian O’Connor’s lines would be a hybrid of multiple voices. “Sometimes, we would use the brothers to say certain lines, because we wouldn’t necessarily have ‘Archive Paul’ saying that,” said Wan. “So we may have the brothers saying one or two lines here, and Paul would finish off the sentence. It was this incredible jigsaw puzzle that we had to put together. I mean, Paul had a very distinct way of speaking. [Cody and Caleb] have the mannerisms, but they don’t sound quite like Paul. So there’s a lot of tweakage that we had to do. It really is a combination of so many different techniques and different methods to make it work.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I know the link is from buzzfeed, but it is actually a good article.  Unfortunately, it does not reveal &lt;em&gt;which&lt;/em&gt; scenes, which &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/39162/49&quot;&gt;I am trying to find out myself&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-08-23T11:25:33.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39167" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39175" CreationDate="2015-08-23T08:36:39.220" Score="9" ViewCount="2086" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought being part of the Stark family Rickon is an important character in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;. We have not seen him after the 4th season. He left with Bran from Winterfell, however he is not with him anymore. Is he hiding with some bannerman? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-23T11:26:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T13:43:26.673" Title="Where is Rickon Stark?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39167" CreationDate="2015-08-23T09:07:48.843" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It all depends on if the show follows the storyline of the books.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rickon &amp;amp; Bran leave each other much earlier in the books.  In the second book, A Clash of Kings, Osha takes Rickon away to an unknown location immediately following Ramsay's sack of Winterfell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fifth book, A Dance with Dragons, we are informed of Rickon's location. Theon's mute squire who was apparently hiding in the nearby heart tree when Bran and Rickon depart gives his location away: he's in Skagos, a large island off the east coast of the North, infamous as the home of both savage cannibals and feral unicorns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Davos Seaworth travels around the North seeking allies for Stannis in his efforts to reclaim Winterfell from the Boltons. In the court of Wyman Manderly, a bargain is struck between the Northern lord and the Hand of the King.  The bargain in short is for Davos to bring Rickon back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the show follows this storyline and Davos is successful, then Rickon may show up possibly next season.....possibly cannibalistic with a pet unicorn??&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-08-23T09:07:48.843" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39171" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39172" CreationDate="2015-08-23T11:08:39.867" Score="12" ViewCount="6337" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently Scarlet Witch does have the ability to fly. She's clearly levitating in this particular scene from Avengers: Age of Ultron which I didn't notice until I watched AoU for the 4th time today. I know she has the ability to fly in the comics but why didn't she attempt to fly prior to this scene in AoU?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0UT2g.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0UT2g.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24166" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-25T06:07:59.310" LastActivityDate="2019-08-01T10:16:39.680" Title="If Scarlet Witch of MCU has the ability to fly, why didn't she attempt to fly earlier?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39171" CreationDate="2015-08-23T12:05:57.160" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Her ability to levitate herself comes out of nowhere in the movie, I assume to enhance her dramatic entrance in the final scene. So there's no real explanation for why she doesn't ever try to do it earlier. In particular, there were times when levitating herself would have been &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; useful, such as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; when she needed Vision to fly her out of the train car as Slokovia fell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Wanda's major character development during the course of the movie is that she starts out, under Ultron's guidance, as a misguided villain, until her time spend with the rest of the Avengers eventually redeems her. You will notice that, during the first half of the movie, she almost exclusively uses her mental manipulation power. It's only after she starts spending time with people like Captain America and Hawkeye that she starts to embrace her other powers, like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; stopping the train, or using hex-bolts on Ultron clones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems likely that the Avengers have been helping her explore her abilities, and become better at using them. It may be as simple as her not knowing she could levitate until someone else convinced her to try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-08-23T12:05:57.160" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6841" CreationDate="2015-08-23T12:22:13.920" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the line &quot;I have only done this once before&quot; isn't about the actual act of time travel. What if he is referring to his life? 'I have only LIVED this once before'. His want for a second chance makes sense if he has only ever done it once before..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24194" LastActivityDate="2015-08-23T12:22:13.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24912" CreationDate="2015-08-23T12:38:04.173" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;They get stung and then they are shoved out to the maze to die, without being able to tell anyone else exactely what happened (as they go a little crazy). So when they say that no-one has seen a griever and lived, that is 100% true. There is no evidence to suggest any of the runners have seen one (prior to Thomas) while out on their runs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24195" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-23T14:12:38.767" LastActivityDate="2015-08-23T14:12:38.767" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39167" CreationDate="2015-08-23T12:45:47.923" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 3, Episode 9, &quot;Rains of Castamere&quot;, Bran asks Rickon and Osha to head to the Last Hearth, seat of House Umber, who are sworn to House Stark. They left in the night, separating from Bran, Hodor, Meera and Jojen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that Jon Umber &quot;the Greatjon&quot;, head of House Umber, unlike in the books, is not present at the Twins during the events of the Red Wedding, making him one of the few loyal bannermen of House Stark that remains alive and free. This makes Last Hearth a safe place for Rickon to stay in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the related dialogue among Bran, Rickon and Osha in S03E09, &quot;Rains of Castamere&quot; (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bran: (to Osha) I'm not asking you to come with me. It won't be safe&#xA;  for Rickon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rickon: Me? I'm coming with you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bran: No. &lt;strong&gt;You and Osha and Shaggydog head for the Last Hearth.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bran: The Umbers are our bannermen. They'll protect you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rickon: I'm coming with you. I'm your brother. I have to protect you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bran: Right now I have to protect you. Robb's at war and I'm going&#xA;  beyond the Wall. If something happens to us, you're the heir to&#xA;  Winterfell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bran: (to Osha) Would you know how to find the Last Hearth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Osha: You southerners build your big castles and you never move. You're easy to find.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Season 6, Episode 3, &quot;Oathbreaker&quot; it has been revealed that Rickon and Osha made it to the Umbers, and that Jon Umber &quot;the Greatjon&quot; is dead. The current head of House Umber (Smalljon Umber) is not loyal to House Stark and has delivered Rickon and Osha to Ramsay Bolton in Winterfell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2016-05-10T13:43:26.673" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T13:43:26.673" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39176" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-23T14:36:08.607" Score="3" ViewCount="614" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’ve been rewatching old &lt;em&gt;Magnum P.I.&lt;/em&gt; episodes and noticed something odd in the episode titled “Never Again ... Never Again” which is the 7th episode in the 1st season of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without giving too much away, at the end of the episode, Thomas Magnum is confronting a killer who is threatening him on a boat. The killer has a scalpel in their hand and Magnum has a gun in his hand. He warns the killer to drop the scalpel with the strong implication being that if that does not happen, he will shoot the killer. There is a closeup of the scalpel still in the killer’s hand, a cutaway shot to the boat out at sea and you are half-expecting to hear a gunshot at that moment; clearly implying Magnum followed through on his threat and shot the killer on the boat during the cutaway shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7Ftws.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7Ftws.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next day we see Magnum walking somewhat mournfully on the beach with Higgins updating him on some details of the case. Nobody says anything indicative of what happened previously like “Well, you had to do it…” or “You had no choice…” or anything to confirm the killer was shot/killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a viewer who has not watched this episode in years, this was incredibly odd from a story-telling angle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without the gunshot during the cut-away shot, the whole climax plays out awkwardly and the epilogue to the episode is even more awkward. Looking up episode details on the fan website &lt;em&gt;Magnum Mania!&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://magnum-mania.com/Episodes/Season1/Never_Again_Never_Again.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;reveals the following&lt;/a&gt;; additional discussion about this issue &lt;a href=&quot;http://magnum-mania.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&amp;amp;t=80&amp;amp;p=45504&amp;amp;sid=c6c22554ead85eb428a951b8cb719ad2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;can be found on that site’s message forum&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the original broadcast of this episode, the climactic scene with&#xA;  Magnum and Lena on the boat had Magnum shooting Lena (off camera)*.&#xA;  During the cutaway to the boat, after Lena displays the scalpel, a&#xA;  gunshot is heard. The gunshot was removed for syndication airings and&#xA;  on the Season One DVD. This leads to a confusing situation as the&#xA;  viewer is now not sure what happened to Lena.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, that makes some sense: When the episode originally aired, there was a gunshot sound. But when the same episode went into syndication and was released on DVD, the gunshot sound went missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; was the gunshot sound removed at all? I cannot find any info or reference explaining why this gunshot sound was removed from this episode after it’s initial broadcast airing. What could the rationale be? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18230" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2015-08-23T15:04:43.437" LastActivityDate="2016-12-03T23:21:24.870" Title="Why was the sound of an off-screen gunshot removed from a critical scene in a Magnum P.I. episode?" Tags="|plot-explanation|alternate-version|magnum-pi|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39177" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-23T15:09:05.067" Score="8" ViewCount="23613" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for the title of a movie and I've searched so thoroughly but to no avail. I've watched it recently (3-4 months back).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's about a girl who discovers that her psychiatrist is actually a killer or something of the likes but before that she suspected her neighbour and broke into their house to find his dentures but they landed in a pile of newspapers and the neighbour woke up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the girl finally realises she can find proof she makes her mom stay in the room and distract the psychiatrist (who is an old man) and goes into the basement to look through documents, and true enough she finds documents of how the psychiatrist had interned at her house (which was a mental institute or a troubled youth centre?) and had gotten beaten up by some patients and he has come back for revenge (I'm not sure why).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he finally stops the mother from talking he excuses himself to the toilet and he doesn't ask where but miraculously knows where it is and he gets confronted by the daughter and the mother when he comes out. The man in the wall has once cut off the power supply and managed to seriously injure the psychiatrist. The mother and daughter hide in the toilet while the psychiatrist looks for a saw (?) to cut open the door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also remember in one scene the daughter uses a cheese grater to rub against the psychiatrists face. And in the last scene the mother is getting choked by a telephone wire by the psychiatrist and the daughter was knocked out. But the man living in the walls taps her and she wakes up and he passes her a knife or a taser, I can't remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm so sorry this is in bits and pieces but it is what I remember. Also the man in the walls has crazy hair and is always watching TV. Thank you in advance!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24196" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-08-23T15:25:14.730" LastActivityDate="2017-06-08T08:49:29.077" Title="Movie with a man who lives in the wall and a home invasion" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:58:36.057" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39177" CreationDate="2015-08-23T15:19:40.833" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3504048/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Housebound&lt;/a&gt; from 2014, though I think the psychiatrist is more of a social worker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kylie Bucknell is forced to return to the house she grew up in when the court places her on home detention. However, when she too becomes privy to unsettling whispers &amp;amp; strange bumps in the night, she begins to wonder whether she's inherited her overactive imagination, or if the house is in fact possessed by a hostile spirit who's less than happy about the new living arrangement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything you describe is there (thank you for the detailed question). Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/vX0DsoiXIho?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-08-23T15:19:40.833" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39162" CreationDate="2015-08-23T15:31:41.773" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Wiki on &lt;a href=&quot;http://fastandfurious.wikia.com/wiki/Furious_7#Filming&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fast 7 - Filming&lt;/a&gt; mentions (and shows an image of) one particular example at the end of the film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vj9tk.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vj9tk.png&quot; alt=&quot;Paul Walker CGI Face&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paul's face is CGI'd over whoever's torso they used for that scene. It is vague on the matter of other scenes though, simply mentioning that they also used it in scenes newly written to support the concept of Brian 'retiring' from Dom's group&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That particular image would have been as Brian pulled up beside Dom, chiding him for leaving the beach without saying goodbye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I expect those scenes were when Dom/Mia/Brian are in conversation as to him 'missing the bullets' and possibly the mini-van scene at the school (showing his awkwardness with family life).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2015-08-24T05:19:36.080" LastActivityDate="2015-08-24T05:19:36.080" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39181" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-23T15:41:11.897" Score="7" ViewCount="2864" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, Walt always refused to take help from his mother and tell her about his cancer. Why did he behave this way, was there some problem between them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-23T18:33:59.917" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T00:55:40.873" Title="Why does Walt refuse to ask his mother for money, or even tell her he has cancer?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39182" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39185" CreationDate="2015-08-23T16:02:55.140" Score="2" ViewCount="607" Body="&lt;p&gt;What do we know about Wights? They are raised by White Walkers and it seems they don't have memory of what they were before dying (as we have seen the Night Watch and wildlings, after becoming wights, attack their own). So once a fighter from the living side dies, he will fight on the White Walkers' side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about their fighting skills? Is it like if a great warrior or peasant dies both will have the same fighting skills, or do they remember how to fight? We have seen many efficient wildlings died in Season 5 and are now Wights. So is it like facing them when they were alive?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-08-23T16:25:12.877" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T22:38:21.733" Title="What do we know about fighting skill of Wights" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39184" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49625" CreationDate="2015-08-23T17:16:23.343" Score="4" ViewCount="8784" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 2 episode &quot;Break Point&quot;, Donna found that she signed in an allegedly buried document and then lost it, when Harvey knows that Donna found the document he react pretty &quot;normal&quot;, telling that the appearance of that document will help the case...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is that going to help the case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For me it will look like the firm (Donna or Harvey) did buried&#xA;the document.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If that help someone is to Harvey's cause not Donna's, as he can state that Donna did a mistake or buried the document without Harvey's consent.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As is known in later episodes hardman planted this document, If&#xA;finding the document help the case.. then why planted in the first&#xA;place to be found afterwards? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe I'm missing something else or legal hole... Im not an expert just trying to understand the logical explanation of the argument&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24198" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-08-25T08:39:23.077" LastActivityDate="2016-04-08T08:35:57.207" Title="Why does Harvey Specter tell Donna that finding an allegedly buried document will help the case?" Tags="|plot-explanation|suits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39182" CreationDate="2015-08-23T17:21:05.910" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Wights have no free will. Whether they also lose their memories is never explicitly stated, but we can try a guess (primarly based on the books);&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Othor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Othor&lt;/a&gt; was an experimented ranger of Castle Black during his life, he knew that the most important man there was the Lord Commander and where to find him. As a Wight, he tried to kill the Lord Commander. It seems unlikely that he just randomly wandered there; it was at night and all the doors were closed, but he ignored everything else and went straight to the quarters to the top of the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Commander's Keep&quot;&lt;/em&gt; Tower, killing only the guards on his path while the other one simply attacked anyone coming close to him (depicted in episode S01E08).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also the opinion of the Lord Commander Jeor Mormont:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;One slew Ser Jaremy Rykker and the other came for me, which tells me that they remember some of what they knew when they lived, but there was no human mercy left in them.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Clash of Kings - chapter 23 (Jon III)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, as stated by @kuhl, he could have been remotely directed there. But according to the legends, the Wall has been raised after the &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Long_Night&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Long Night&lt;/a&gt; (the war against the White Walkers), and there are &lt;em&gt;&quot;great spells locked beneath its ice&quot;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We saw it blocking long-distance magical abilities; Jon Snow (who is a skinchanger in the books) can't sense the direwolves on the other sides of the Wall (first Ghost after he climbed the Wall with the Wildings, then Bran's direwolf).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once Jon became Lord Commander, he wanted to experiment with the Wights. So he put some bodies in the Ice Cells (storeroom carved inside the Wall), but nothing happened.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, does the Wall completely inhibit magic? Apparently not. &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Othor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Othor&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Jafer_Flowers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jafer Flowers&lt;/a&gt; were already Wights when their bodies were found north of the Wall (&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Dywen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dywen&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;&quot;And might be I'm a fool, but I don't know that Othor never had no blue eyes afore&quot;&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Jaremy_Rykker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ser Jaremy Rykker&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;&quot;Neither did Flowers&quot;&lt;/em&gt;). They were brought back to Castle Black and put into the Ice Cells so that they don't rot before the &quot;autopsy&quot; by Maester Aemon. But unlike Jon's experiment, that didn't stop them (but in their case, they were already Wights before that).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know exactly what kind of magic the White Walkers use to raise the Wights. It could be a variant of skinchanging, where they would take full control of the bodies in a conscious way. But:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are a lot more of Wights than White Walkers. If all of their movements were to be consciously made by White Walkers, it would be very hard to manage more than a handful of them at the same time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We never saw a dead body staying dead north of the Wall. They seem to rise as Wights even without a direct touch or sight of a White Walker: &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Torwynd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Torwynd&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Tormund&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tormund&lt;/a&gt;'s son) died of cold/sickness at night, shortly after the Battle of Castle Black (S04E09 of the show) in a tent with his father and rised as Wight before anybody noticed he was dead. Given the habbit of the Wildings to have fires and sentinels all around their camps, it seems hard for a White Walker to have unknowingly approached enough to be able to reach him or know he was dead&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing how to fight is one thing, but you still need strength to be a good fighter. On that aspect, we can already tell that the books and the show disagree:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the books, the bodies don't magically move. Their muscles can still act even without a nervous system (&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Jafer_Flowers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jafer Flowers&lt;/a&gt; managed to kill &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Jaremy_Rykker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ser Jaremy Rykker&lt;/a&gt; after having lost his head, and there are numerous examples of cut limbs still moving, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPdWXrnONh8&amp;amp;t=0m32s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pirates of the Carribean&lt;/em&gt; style&lt;/a&gt;). But the more the body is damaged, the slower and clumsier it becomes, until the point where it can't move at all once it's completely rotten. From that, we can suppose that the stronger the man was, the stronger the Wight is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the show, we have seen corpses that were hardly more than skeletons (in episodes S04E10 and S05E08) who were still fighting and actually quite fast.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, my guesses in short:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Books Wights: closely tied to the capacities of the living human, but quickly decreasing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Show Wights: don't know, but probably disconnected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20748" LastEditorUserId="20748" LastEditDate="2015-08-26T22:38:21.733" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T22:38:21.733" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39189" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39193" CreationDate="2015-08-23T20:15:49.373" Score="9" ViewCount="4632" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am talking about a specific scene in &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; (at ~00:04:17 (+/-)), it is shortly after Stark's iron legion lands on Sovakia's streets declaring that the area is not safe and they are here to help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While watching this particular scene, I noticed chips on a food stand, those are &quot;Ādažu čipsi&quot; and &quot;Kartupeļu salmiņi&quot;, and they are both Latvian products. That's where from the question comes - were there any scenes of Sovakia filmed in Latvia or nearby? Or is there perhaps another connection? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XCnK1.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XCnK1.png&quot; alt=&quot;Latvian products: &amp;quot;Ādažu čipsi&amp;quot; &amp;amp; &amp;quot;Kartupeļu salmiņi&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22531" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T10:26:42.647" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T22:09:51.663" Title="Avengers: Age of Ultron - &quot;Sokovia&quot; filming location?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|film-location|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1170" CreationDate="2015-08-23T23:18:44.643" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hanna was probably guilty but you would have to question her overall intelligence. In the film she had no understanding of right or wrong. First of all having an affair with a kid.she saw nothing wrong with this and also in court she saw nothing wrong with condemning 300 people to death. I think she was a pawn and was took advantage of due to her lack of intelligence or understanding of situations so ultimately I could not find her guilty.a misfortune misled woman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24206" LastActivityDate="2015-08-23T23:18:44.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39189" CreationDate="2015-08-23T23:19:05.927" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not even close. &lt;a href=&quot;http://filmlondon.org.uk/april2015&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The bulk of Sokovia scenes were film in the UK.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a superhero film with big budget and big action, The Avengers: Age of Ultron needed a large amount of outdoor space with a high degree of flexibility in which to construct their exact and closed-off worlds.&#xA;The Peel Training Centre at the Hendon Police College was perfectly suited for the role: a blank canvas and vast space in which to construct realistic exteriors – which were to be destroyed on screen!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Over a period of five months, [Marvel Films] were able to take control over an unprecedented collection of redundant buildings, streets and real estate for several major set builds, to create and film our scenes at the heart of war-torn 'Sokovia', an Eastern European City.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hendon Police College in London serves as the city of Sokovia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hendon Police College is the principal training centre for London's Metropolitan Police Service. Founded with the official name of the Metropolitan Police College, the college is today officially called the Peel Centre, although its original name is still used frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-23T23:19:05.927" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39161" CreationDate="2015-08-23T23:41:57.230" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing specific about the words. They are just a trigger phrase/word to get Hulk's attention, like &amp;quot;en guard&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Avengers Assemble&amp;quot;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/joss-whedon-talks-black-widows-painful-past-romantic-relationships-and-more/#/0&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Whedon said&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What about the words she says?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Hey, big guy. Sun’s gettin’ real low.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;I actually added that later in the game, I think something basically to get his attention and to have a phrase that he knows, this is about to start.&lt;/em&gt; I wanted to do as little with talking as possible, because it’s all going on there [points to his eyes], which is amazing, because two of those are not real — they were created by ILM, and yet they are so full of life. And I hate to say it, but he’s dead sexy as the Hulk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to how Black Widow and Hulk worked this out, it happens sometime between the first and second movie. Not much has been said, aside from Natasha and Banner having flirted and worked with each other in the time between movies. Their &amp;quot;connection&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When did the idea of a romance between Natasha and Bruce Banner begin percolating in your mind?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You know, we went there. I was trying to trace it back, because I honestly don’t remember before. We talked a little about the chemistry they had, just together in their scenes, and then I think it started with the lullaby. &lt;strong&gt;Like, “If you have the Hulk on the team, you know what would be cool is if Natasha’s the one who could talk him down.” And then it started to tick in my head, like, “There’s actually a truth there about who they are and how they connect that’s now very interesting,” and it built from there.&lt;/strong&gt; Oddly enough, the lullaby itself is one of the last scenes that we finished because of the effects. And when we finished it, we were like, “This is way more romantic and way more physical than it was when it was post-viz, or a mark on a suit on a platform. It suddenly became that the romance was way more front and center in it than I expected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-11-07T07:43:57.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39132" CreationDate="2015-08-23T23:59:43.160" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ultron isn't feeling &lt;strong&gt;physical&lt;/strong&gt; pain in this scene, he's feeling &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;emotional&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; pain, courtesy of Wanda. One of Wanda's ability is to mess with people's minds, inject memories and feeling. Another is to read minds. And we know she can read Ultron's mind/emotions/intents, as she does earlier in the movie when she read's Ultron's mind and finds out he is going to turn her home city into an Asteroid, resulting in her heel-face turn. Any time she is messing with someone's mind, the tell tale red glow of her powers is also present, as you can see in the picture you posted. The physical part of ripping his heart out is as much symbolic on Wanda's part as it is to kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to Ultron, an AI feeling emotional pain, both he and Vision have shown a full range of emotions, whether this is from being fully functioning AI or from being born of the Mind Infinity Stone. He's not a run of the mill computer program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-08-24T00:06:48.143" LastActivityDate="2015-08-24T00:06:48.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="678" CreationDate="2015-08-24T00:56:08.787" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe in a sort of compromise between the previous responses. In the last couple scenes Alex appears with a seemingly well respected, or at least important, member of society. He makes a deal with this man (Fred) which symbolizes his deal with the government and therefore society. Fred arranges for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to be played, as a treat for Alex because he thinks he will enjoy this song. Previously in the movie, this song made Alex want to kill himself. It made him go crazy (due to the conditioning). Just as Beethoven meant for the song to symbolize when he wrote it, it symbolizes in Alex the ups and downs of his life. This parallels the ups and downs of society, as Beethoven had hoped. While this song is playing Alex is being photographed by paparazzi and is conforming to proper societal norms in these photographs. He is seen hugging Fred; symbolically approving of the government. However, the very last scene of the movie is an orgy with Alex and a women, along with a group of proper, elderly women who are applauding him. The last words of the movie were &quot;I was cured alright.&quot; This can be interpreted as sarcastic or sincere, yet I believe it is a slight mixture. The orgy appears to be consensual and non violent, as well as monogamous (as opposed to his previous sexual acts). The fact that the orgy is in combination with approving, conservative women, and the fact that he is looking good in societies eyes (the paparazzi), seems to hint that he is accepted in society. The last line purposefully sounds satyrical because it shows the real Alex that we knew in the beginning, yet a nonviolent version; a changed version. It shows that now he is conscious and able to make decisions and think for himself, as if the treatment no longer effects him in such harmful ways, but the fact that the orgy is consensual, monogamous, and approved by society shows that he is now a &quot;good person.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24207" LastEditorUserId="24207" LastEditDate="2015-08-24T01:14:27.863" LastActivityDate="2015-08-24T01:14:27.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39197" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="60093" CreationDate="2015-08-24T01:07:51.887" Score="4" ViewCount="818" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does Ugarte trust Rick with the exit visas in &lt;em&gt;Casablanca&lt;/em&gt;? Ugarte says,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You know, I have many a friend in Casablanca, but somehow because you despise me, you're the only one I trust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does he mean by this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="275" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-09-01T19:20:52.663" LastActivityDate="2017-06-10T09:19:16.737" Title="Why does Ugarte trust Rick with the exit visas?" Tags="|plot-explanation|casablanca|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34588" CreationDate="2015-08-24T01:37:52.297" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well we are all assuming that Caleb was a good person because Ava didn't say that he was lying. It’s possible that he  may have been &quot;lying&quot; yet Ava chose not to disclose this information. She chose instead to manipulate Caleb into thinking that she thought that he was a good person, so he would help free her. Furthermore, since Ava murdered Nathan there is the possibility that Caleb might not condone Nathan’s murder and might turn on her, out of fear, that she may be a killing machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24209" LastEditorUserId="78097" LastEditDate="2019-12-23T04:25:57.743" LastActivityDate="2019-12-23T04:25:57.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="39204" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-24T07:15:26.627" Score="1" ViewCount="1615" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Once Upon a Time, every character seems to have a significant name in Storybrooke, they &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/once-upon-a-time/articles/131114/title/significance-real-world-character-names&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;complement their real names&lt;/a&gt;. Even Pongo is a reference to 101 Dalmatians, but why is Kathryn's dog's name Ajax?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems a bit out of the box or is it some other reference I am missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-24T07:51:59.183" LastActivityDate="2016-07-20T18:48:16.543" Title="Why is Kathryn's dog's name Ajax?" Tags="|character|once-upon-a-time|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39205" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-24T07:29:54.110" Score="9" ViewCount="5388" Body="&lt;p&gt;Christopher Walken does not appear in the opening or end credits of &lt;em&gt;Sleepy Hollow&lt;/em&gt;, although he has an important role as &quot;Hesse&quot;. What is the reason for this? I searched a bit about this, but only found dead links and speculation, but I am sure there must be a reliable, fact based answer to this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22783" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-24T07:53:00.270" LastActivityDate="2017-10-26T13:26:18.157" Title="Why was Christopher Walken not credited in Sleepy Hollow?" Tags="|credits|sleepy-hollow|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15734" CreationDate="2015-08-24T07:42:29.370" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It shows the harsh reality of the post war condition of Italy and the reality of life begins with battling and one must catch out his  problems alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24217" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-24T08:23:12.523" LastActivityDate="2015-08-24T08:23:12.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39207" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39217" CreationDate="2015-08-24T07:59:24.233" Score="10" ViewCount="1174" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; we have seen Gendry the bastard of Robert Baratheon who browed away from Dragonstone, apparently never to be seen again. Where did he go? From season 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-24T08:00:42.790" LastActivityDate="2017-07-15T14:16:04.617" Title="What happened to Gendry?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39208" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39236" CreationDate="2015-08-24T08:13:21.293" Score="6" ViewCount="2230" Body="&lt;p&gt;In spite of the superior nature of Sheldon Cooper who always shows his superiority to his room mate Leonard, he cannot continue without him, especially when Leonard was going to shift with Penny and Sheldon left the town. So is there a feeling of care between the two?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-24T08:18:25.690" LastActivityDate="2021-03-25T22:06:08.457" Title="Does Sheldon Cooper really care about Leonard Hofstadter?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39210" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39289" CreationDate="2015-08-24T08:20:47.897" Score="6" ViewCount="829" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/bYWAHuFbLoc?start=3529&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At 58 min 49s, the video above shows on-set footage of a film crew. (Link is setup to start playing from there.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a few seconds, it shows people following the camera and repeatedly tapping the back of the camera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are they doing this? Is this still a thing with modern equipment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24218" LastEditorUserId="24218" LastEditDate="2016-09-24T20:09:44.867" LastActivityDate="2016-09-24T20:09:44.867" Title="Why do people tap the back of cameras during filming?" Tags="|film-techniques|film-industry|cinematography|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39211" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39421" CreationDate="2015-08-24T08:25:24.523" Score="3" ViewCount="394" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Once Upon a Time, when we are first introduced to Cruella de Vil in Land without the magic, her husband is shown arrested and she runs away in her car with Ursula and Rumpelstiltskin. Later in the backstory we only get to know about how she got her power and how she got back in Land without magic with Lily and Ursula.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened between this time is not mentioned in TV series. Is that missing story supposed to be from the 101 Dalmatians film (similar to Frozen)? If yes then which version of the film is canon to the TV series, the animated or the live action one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-24T08:28:23.423" LastActivityDate="2016-06-21T13:17:45.187" Title="Which version of 101 Dalmatians is canon to Once Upon a Time?" Tags="|chronology|once-upon-a-time|101-dalmatians|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39213" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="62544" CreationDate="2015-08-24T09:06:10.763" Score="8" ViewCount="325" Body="&lt;p&gt;A friend of mine recently cut his brow on the scope of a rifle, and now has a crescent moon scar just above his eyebrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I distinctly remember seeing such a thing in a movie (5-10 years ago, but movie itself may be older) where I recall such a scar being referred to as a 'Rookie Cut'; although as a Google search for the term brings no results I may be wrong about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I recall from the scene, someone is posing as a seasoned vet or experienced soldier; but it is observed by another character that they are an amateur due to fresh cut on their forehead, which comes from putting ones eye too close behind a rifle scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone identify what film I'm remembering, ideally before I lose my mind completely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-27T08:45:47.440" LastActivityDate="2016-11-09T10:18:51.440" Title="Rookie Cut - Which movie?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:58:45.437" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39214" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-24T10:54:42.683" Score="1" ViewCount="1667" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Once Upon a Time&lt;/em&gt;, Cruella de Vil and Ursula were not in Storybrooke when they got stuck in Land without magic. So why does their age not change in 28 years?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Land without Magic, people do get old as happened with Neil, August, Lily and Emma, but why didn't Cruella de Vil and Ursula change a bit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-24T11:00:19.600" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T07:04:46.440" Title="How did Cruella de Vil and Ursula not age a bit?" Tags="|character|once-upon-a-time|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39207" CreationDate="2015-08-24T13:34:12.560" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is purely speculation, considering &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wetpaint.com/where-is-gendry-joe-dempsie-829668/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the actor didn't know anything about his character's future a year ago (June 2014)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BEWARE:&lt;/strong&gt; spoilers for &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; in the upcoming text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the problem: by the end of the third series Gendry's role was basically superfluous. Even worse, considering what would happen by the end of season five -- i.e. the death of Shireen -- this character was a hindrance: why would Stannis sacrifice his daughter when there was a Baratheon bastard still available? And if his execution didn't do the trick, then burning Shireen would not have anywhere near the same emotional impact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why not have him executed by Melisandre, like she wished for (at the end of season three)? That would severely impact the character of Stannis, and they need him to be the big hero who saves the day at The Wall in season four. Moreover, there's a small chance Gendry has a role later on: in the books he's still around, even though he's in a completely different place. I wouldn't rule out a Gendry-Arya reunion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By having Gendry escape from the cells and &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Gendry#Season_3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;row into the darkness at the end of the season&lt;/a&gt;, as arranged by Davos Seaworth, they have a great solution: if they need him in the future, he can pop up somewhere convenient. And if they don't, well, then we can assume he has drown -- the likely outcome considering he cannot swim and had never rowed a boat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the producers aren't shy of confirming deaths when the fandom had come up with alternatives -- e.g. Stannis, Myrcella -- I can only interpret their silence about Gendry's fate as them keeping their options open. But in the meantime they don't have to pay the actor, and they don't have to worry about keeping track of yet another character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2017-07-15T14:16:04.617" LastActivityDate="2017-07-15T14:16:04.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12135" CreationDate="2015-08-24T14:22:14.723" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The university is clearly modeled after the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. With the large campus, student population, and popular Greek life it must be this university. Hail to the victors &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24227" LastActivityDate="2015-08-24T14:22:14.723" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39224" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="74190" CreationDate="2015-08-24T18:55:03.243" Score="6" ViewCount="2656" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cat seems to have a very significant role in the movie the Silence of the Lambs which does not make a lot of sense to me as I have always seen this movie as a narrative about the role of woman in the society. Women in the movie seem to be guided by cats in the following scenes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The cat in the window (this one even gets a close-up) meows to Catherine Martin, a Buffalo Bills target, as she is about to fall into his trap.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A cat is cleaning itself under a chair in Mr. Bimmels (father of Bills first victim Frederica Bimmel) kitchen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A cat statuette is found in front of the casket that reveals Frederica Bimmels nude photos.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A cat meows and attracts the attention of Clarice to Fredericas workshop that makes her realize Bill is making a suit out of women.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23472" LastEditorUserId="23472" LastEditDate="2015-09-02T16:05:11.533" LastActivityDate="2017-06-03T19:00:40.687" Title="Why does cat point to the answer/safety/salvation in the Silence of the Lambs?" Tags="|the-silence-of-the-lambs|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39225" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41364" CreationDate="2015-08-24T19:41:02.643" Score="6" ViewCount="3620" Body="&lt;p&gt;The figure of Silas Ramsbottom in &lt;em&gt;Despicable Me 2&lt;/em&gt; looks like a British actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at the top half of his face, the bottom is too exaggerated. The resemblance is strongest when he lifts his eyebrows unevenly as in the second picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am thinking of a spy movie... But I am unable to find who. Does anyone recognize the real life person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[edited] Note: I'm not talking about the voice, but the ways he looks. It's not &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?site=&amp;amp;tbm=isch&amp;amp;source=hp&amp;amp;biw=1206&amp;amp;bih=891&amp;amp;q=gary+oldman+tinker+tailor+soldier+spy&amp;amp;oq=gary+oldman+tinker+tailor+soldier+spy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w22VT.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w22VT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Silas Ramsbottom&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ey0bo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ey0bo.png&quot; alt=&quot;Silas Ramsbottom&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user20086" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2017-12-21T11:29:43.453" LastActivityDate="2017-12-21T11:29:43.453" Title="Who is Silas Ramsbottom based on?" Tags="|character|identify-this-actor|despicable-me-2|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:37:22.880" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39226" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-24T20:10:35.897" Score="4" ViewCount="670" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Superman Returns, Lex Luthor had... something he wanted Lois to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lex: Come on, let me hear you say it just once, come on.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Lois: You're insane.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Lex: No! &lt;em&gt;laugh&lt;/em&gt; Not that, no, the other thing. I know it's just dangling off the tip of your tongue. Let me hear it just once, please?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Lois: Superman will never--&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Lex: WRONG!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everybody else knows that scene for Lex's &quot;WRONG!&quot; but it bugs me just what Lex wanted Lois to say. Does anyone know, or is that never stated?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24230" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-24T20:11:59.717" LastActivityDate="2015-08-24T23:00:45.143" Title="What was it Lex Luthor wanted Lois to say?" Tags="|dialogue|superman-returns|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16525" CreationDate="2015-08-24T20:28:51.710" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the play, I always assumed he had gotten sick (pneumonia?) saving Marius by wading in the sewers. In the book, after he marries Cosette, Marius is a real jerk to him and forces him to only meet with Cosette in a basement where he catches a chill and dies from it. Either way, Marius is a jerk and responsible for the death of the coolest French guy ever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24231" LastActivityDate="2015-08-24T20:28:51.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39228" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39234" CreationDate="2015-08-24T20:41:54.657" Score="1" ViewCount="1085" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just finished watching the complete Showtime series &quot;The Tudors&quot;.  I very much enjoyed the show.  One of my complaints is the actor whom played Henry VIII.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not discrediting the young man's abilities as an actor.  The main problem is that he does not resemble King Henry VIII at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody have a source or know why that actor was cast for this role?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user23759" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T00:03:01.373" Title="Showtime series &quot;The Tudors&quot; casting question" Tags="|casting|the-tudors|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39226" CreationDate="2015-08-24T20:53:27.607" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene seems pretty much self explanatory. Lex is a typical egotistical villain, who believes himself to be smarter than everybody. Including Superman. And he wants nothing more than to gloat over it. He wanted Lois to say &lt;strong&gt;Superman will stop you&lt;/strong&gt; just so he can explain to her how wrong (he thinks) she is. The very next thing he does after yelling &lt;strong&gt;WRONG&lt;/strong&gt; is to dramatically  pull out the Kryptonite Crystal Cylinder, and waits for it to click into her head. Just so he can show he's smarter, so smart that Superman's brute force won't stop him. She said exactly what he wanted her to say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/GnP8nfRB4g4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-08-24T20:53:27.607" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39230" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-24T21:56:02.073" Score="5" ViewCount="1145" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588170/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;I Saw the Devil&lt;/a&gt;, who is supposed to be the devil? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first I thought it was the killer, but later we see that the protagonist is pretty bad as well. Which one of them does the title refer to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastActivityDate="2016-07-21T10:16:29.930" Title="Who is the devil in 'I Saw the Devil'?" Tags="|i-saw-the-devil|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39231" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-24T22:57:18.767" Score="3" ViewCount="1406" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Disney movie Pocahontas, the titular character sings about the river in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/classicdisney/justaroundtheriverbend.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Just around the River Bend&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Pocahontas] What I love most about rivers is: &lt;strong&gt;You can't step in the&#xA;  same river twice&lt;/strong&gt; The water's always changing, always flowing But&#xA;  people, I guess, can't live like that We all must pay a price To be&#xA;  safe, we lose our chance of ever knowing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this an intentional quotation from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus#Panta_rhei.2C_.22everything_flows.22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;works of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus&lt;/a&gt;, or was this merely a coincidence on the part of the Disney songwriters, perhaps sourced from Native American philosophy? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Everything changes and nothing remains still ... and ... you cannot&#xA;  step twice into the same stream&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21209" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-24T23:26:53.800" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T11:10:07.220" Title="Did Pocahontas quote Greek philosophy?" Tags="|soundtrack|pocahontas|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39228" CreationDate="2015-08-24T23:39:22.473" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Creator Michael Hirst explains his choice to cast Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Henry VIII.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We felt that Johnny captured the essence of Henry.  He portrays Henry in a way that shows him as a man while also displaying a regal quality.  Which of course you need to portray Henry VIII.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actor Jonathan Rhys-Meyers on his role as Henry VIII:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I understand that I do not look like Henry, but I have completely immersed myself into this character.  I hope my hard work will show through my performance and that people will overlook the physical differences between Henry and myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I own the box set of &quot;The Tudors&quot; which includes bonus features.  The above quotes are from interviews conducted with the show creator Michael Hirst and actor Jonathan Rhys-Meyers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-25T00:03:01.373" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T00:03:01.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39208" CreationDate="2015-08-25T02:10:46.280" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes. Definitely.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a recurring theme in the show in which there are moments that show Sheldon &lt;em&gt;genuinely&lt;/em&gt; cares about Leonard - all selfish reasons aside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in this clip towards the end, you can see one such moment:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/GLiqIucDqtA?t=2m54s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sheldon talks to Penny when she is contemplating breaking up with Leonard.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sheldon&lt;/strong&gt;: Please don't hurt my friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Penny&lt;/strong&gt;: That is the last thing I want to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sheldon&lt;/strong&gt;: Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though Sheldon has a very high IQ, his EQ or emotional quotient is very much like a 10 year old's and he is shown to care for his friends and Leonard in a similar way (and with a similar reasoning) that a 10 year old child would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1172" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T02:10:46.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34756" CreationDate="2015-08-25T02:49:17.387" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The soil is red from the rich iron deposits found in the Nambian deserts where the film was shot.&#xA;I only know this because where I am from in Oklahoma the soil is the same red color from the same kind of deposits the waters from millions of years ago deposited here as it did there before it receded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yes in the film the tumors were caused from sour soil, toxic air and ground water and everything else that came from that region where the war boys grew up.&#xA;I say this only from reading multiple articles and coming to the conclusion in my own words on how the apocalypse came about destroyed the earth &amp;amp; souring the soil and water leaving their bones irradiated and becoming half life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I edited a comment above this explaining what was said during the scene where the &quot;perfect baby&quot; was taken In a make shift crude representation of a C-Section delivery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23416" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T02:49:17.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39239" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39243" CreationDate="2015-08-25T03:24:24.460" Score="10" ViewCount="2444" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the looks of it, the containment chamber and the Hulkbuster in &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; seem to be floating in Earth's orbit. My question is, how did it get to Johannesburg in a matter of a few seconds from the time of deployment? Is it really how long it takes for something from Earth's orbit to reach Earth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qtp4H.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qtp4H.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24166" LastEditorUserId="53405" LastEditDate="2017-12-01T01:13:58.393" LastActivityDate="2017-12-01T01:13:58.393" Title="How did Veronica get from Earth's orbit to Johannesburg in a matter of seconds?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39240" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39249" CreationDate="2015-08-25T03:24:43.663" Score="18" ViewCount="11441" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know that Hulk and Bruce Banner are two different personalities sharing the same body. Bruce Banner mostly doesn't trust the big guy (Hulk).&#xA;However, Hulk takes over everytime someone tries to hurt Bruce. In Avengers, Bruce mentions that once he tried to shoot himself in the mouth, but Hulk spit it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In case you needed to kill me, but you can't! I know! I tried!... I got low. I didn't see an end, so I put a bullet in my mouth... and the other guy spit it out! So I moved on. I focused on helping other people. I was good, until you dragged me back into this freak show and put everyone here at risk!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is, does Hulk save Bruce Banner because of he likes him and has compassion for him? Or is it just for survival reasons, as once Bruce dies, Hulk will also die without the body?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T09:48:44.823" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T07:02:14.973" Title="Does Hulk care for Bruce Banner" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|the-incredible-hulk|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33724" CreationDate="2015-08-25T03:50:33.860" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ahah the scenes with the Nikon camera are so bad! The producers obviously never shot a Nikon DSLR or any DSLR before. The display is all messed up. It's on auto ISO but it stays at ISO 200 all the time while it is underexposed and there is no exposure compensation.. also, the viewfinder should be black when he presses the shutter because the mirror is going up. His settings are always the same in all the scenes. The white balance is set to tungsten wich is wrong for an overcast day. If there is only one thing right, it's that he is looking down the viewfinder and not the screen like a rookie would do. Source: I'm a professional photographer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24240" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2017-11-08T00:09:40.773" LastActivityDate="2017-11-08T00:09:40.773" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39240" CreationDate="2015-08-25T03:59:29.330" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marvel Cinematic Universe Hulk has had very little character development, and even less actual dialog to which to justify any emotion. The current state of Banner/Hulk is purely self-preservation. MCU Hulk hasn't shown any emotion good or bad towards his other half, or signs that he dislikes being Banner for long times. MCU Hulk is essentially just the rage emotion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comic and Cartoon Banner/Hulk has gone through multiple versions of their relationships. Hulk at times is simply mindless rage, and other times a fully formed personality with independent thoughts and desires. Sometimes Hulk actually hates &quot;puny banner&quot; because Banner tries to lock the Hulk in. He doesn't take kindly to being kept in a cage, psychologically or physically speaking. Other times, Hulk and Banner work together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T03:59:29.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39239" CreationDate="2015-08-25T04:32:05.803" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;It takes the Soyuz TMA Spacecraft, really the Descent Module, 3.5 hours to go from the ISS to Touch Down, including undocking, deorbit, Entry, and parachute descent. That's from ~250 Miles above earth, in Low Earth Orbit. Considerations must be made to protect the ISS, reduce debris in LEO, target the landing, reduce speed safely, and &lt;strong&gt;protect the crew&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Felix Baumgartner jumped from ~25 Miles from Earth, roughly the same height at which the Soyuz Descent Module enters the &quot;Entry Interface&quot; and starts to visibly heat up from friction and air compression. It took Felix 9m09s to get back to earth. 4m22s of it was in free fall, no acceleration except gravity. The Soyuz takes 8 minutes of free fall before deploying parachutes. The angle of descent of the Soyuz is much greater than Felix's due to speed and weight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the Mars Exploration Rover Mission to land Spirit (the cheeky non stopping rover), the actual descent time from start to finish is called the &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Six Minutes of Terror&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/mission/tl_entry1.html&quot;&gt;About 8:29 pm PST, one of the most challenging aspects of the mission begins. In only six minutes, the spacecraft will slow down from 12,000 to 0 miles per hour.&lt;/a&gt; That's starting at 2,113 miles above Mars, which is almost twice the height of what we consider the upper bounds of Low Earth Orbit to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Veronica Capsule is likely in the lower range of LEO, lets say 100 miles above earth. It can be seen to use an engine (likely Stark Repulser Technology) to start entry, and to slow down when close to land. It seems to fall nearly straight much like Felix did. Considering advanced heat shielding and it's deceleration burners, &lt;em&gt;for it to take a few minutes would not be improbable&lt;/em&gt;. It is descending faster than a manned reentry vehicle would, on purpose, without the same concerns for safety.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note, Hulk is destroying &lt;strong&gt;Johannesburg, South Africa&lt;/strong&gt;. Wakanda is still hidden and not seen by outsiders in the MCU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-08-27T08:51:11.473" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T08:51:11.473" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39240" CreationDate="2015-08-25T05:05:35.250" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;When we talk about Hulk we think about some extraterrestrial, mindless, angry (very angry indeed!) entity but the simple fact is if we see the guy as a simple innocent infant (yeah I know it's difficult but I mean just 'mentally infant') with extraordinary body size and physical capabilities he is just an ordinary soul stuck in another human being trying to survive and  figure out himself and the world that surrounds him. Hulk can't experience emotions because he just wasn't made that way he just wants himself to survive which is only possible if Banner survives (Charles Darwin's theory of survival).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24241" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-25T06:02:53.383" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T06:02:53.383" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39240" CreationDate="2015-08-25T08:26:16.550" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The final scenes of The Age of Ultron show a self-controlled Hulk fleeing in a jet because they (Hulk and Banner) don't want to risk Black Widow's life in a dangerous relationship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Banner says Hulk is &quot;another guy&quot; because when he is Hulk he cannot control his emotions and actions, but it seems both personalities share their memories and even being Hulk he/they can think what is the best for him/them.&#xA;So it seems Hulk likes/despises Banner as much as Banner does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24246" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-25T10:22:27.103" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T10:22:27.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39253" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-25T10:37:35.083" Score="33" ViewCount="72406" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 2 episode 12 of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Phoenix&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Walter let Jane die. He could have saved her but inspite stood there and watched Jane die. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the reason behind it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="24020" LastEditDate="2016-03-31T11:42:53.990" LastActivityDate="2019-02-21T16:10:51.860" Title="Why did Walter White refuse to help in S02E12?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39253" CreationDate="2015-08-25T10:42:30.507" Score="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because she was a bad influence for Jesse. Walter needed Jesse to &lt;strong&gt;cook&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Walt considers saving Jane, but ultimately lets her die, knowing that her death would help him gain control over Jesse as a&#xA;  result, and possibly stop Jesse from using drugs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read more from &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Jane_Margolis&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastEditorUserId="613" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T07:41:18.097" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T07:41:18.097" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39257" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39231" CreationDate="2015-08-25T11:08:18.067" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disney does have a tendency to use philosophical quotes quite often.  My answer would be &lt;strong&gt;yes&lt;/strong&gt; (more than likely Heraclitus rather than Native American philosophy) to your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer is based upon the use of other philosophical quotes in Disney films. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are just a few examples, including another from &lt;em&gt;Pocahontas&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The only thing I know is that I know nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoted by John Smith in Pocahontas&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quote origin: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Socrates&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Socrates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The unexamined life is not worth living.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoted by Ursula in The Little Mermaid&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quote origin: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Socrates&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Socrates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year&#xA;  of conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoted by Zazu in the Lion King&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quote origin: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Plato&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Plato&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-25T11:10:07.220" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T11:10:07.220" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39240" CreationDate="2015-08-25T11:40:55.540" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think of the Hulk-Banner relationship like an inversion of our own mind's frontal cortex and mammalian hind-brain.  The hind brain is like a simple, childish animal; it doesn't think very far ahead and is only really interested in itself and it's own wants and needs.  It acts reflexively and without restraint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The frontal-cortex (the bit where humanity resides) keeps the hind-brain in check, telling it that it really doesn't need that 10th beer, to go to bed because there's work tomorrow or to stop shouting because everyone is looking at you.  Over-powering the hind-brain is an effort of will and often fails or becomes tired, so efforts to keep it in check can't be performed continuously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hulk is the impulsive, childish, animal brain that is kept in check by Banner's humanity.  When Hulk takes over, he sees the brain-roles reversed, with the humanity taking the back seat.  For a while, he has control (as much control as Banner, anyway).  Both minds are aware of each other, recognise the need for each other and begrudgingly accept they would struggle to survive without one another.  The reigns are not surrendered easily, but there is always knowledge that they will get back in the driving seat at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Hulk likes Banner about as much as I like myself when I wake up with a hangover (Oh FFS! Why did I do that?! Never again...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5397" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T11:40:55.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35496" CreationDate="2015-08-25T11:44:41.737" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Other answers have already explianed why Ser Allisor got support with Night's Watch in killing Jon Snow. I will like to try to cover more of what the OP has asked, why he was killed at night instead of not allowing to enter.&#xA;Some of the Night's Watch's brothers are still loyal to Jon, so there was a chance that they rebel against Allisor at that time. Or some may help him in entering at a later point of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even a large crown can change loyalaty to seeing that brothers of Night's Watch are not being allowed to enter.&#xA;However, killing at night makes sure that no man stops them. And very few people are involved who are loyal to Allisor already or have a grudge with Jon or the Wildings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-25T11:47:50.970" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T11:47:50.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39253" CreationDate="2015-08-25T11:55:42.940" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walter White is a man who will go to any extent to save his family. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To survive his family he needs to cook Meth and for that he needs Jesse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Jesse wanted/thought to quit cooking meth after he became intimate with Jane. So Jane is a threat for Walter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that : Walter at first was compelled to save Jane but he didn't save her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24252" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T11:55:42.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39261" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39267" CreationDate="2015-08-25T12:06:33.670" Score="10" ViewCount="5359" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Blood and Ice Cream&quot; series is a group of three movies that have very different themes in each, but at the same time, share many similarities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Cornetto: In Shaun of the Dead, it was a Strawberry; in Hot Fuzz it was a Vanilla; and in World's End it was a Mint, all tying into the themes of each movie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some actors: The main ones were Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the Bill Nighy, followed then by some other actors like Martin Freeman (Yvonne's boyfriend in SotD, Nicholas' superior in Hot Fuzz, and &quot;O-man&quot; in World's End)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Pokie Machine. (If you pay attention, you can notice the same tune play at a certain point in each movie)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;Shortcut&quot; joke.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is: Is there any link between these three movies, or are these just easter eggs to be discovered when watching?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24253" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-25T13:20:41.963" LastActivityDate="2016-05-25T13:20:41.963" Title="Is there any story link between Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End?" Tags="|the-worlds-end|hot-fuzz|shaun-of-the-dead|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39264" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-25T13:07:44.753" Score="7" ViewCount="1572" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we saw, after falling from the tower, Bran Stark started having dreams about the Three-Eyed Raven and a tree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the dreams start after the fall or was he also having the dreams before that incident? Was that incident anyhow related to the dreams?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-08-26T05:56:12.987" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T07:41:35.397" Title="Why did Bran Stark start having weird dreams?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39230" CreationDate="2015-08-25T13:26:35.407" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kim Jee-woon, in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/22885/kim-jee-woon-talks-i-saw-the-devil/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are a few different meanings for the title. Obviously the first would be that we see the devil in this serial-killer character and when we first come upon him, and second would be when we first thought it was just a serial-killer, we start seeing the descent of So-Hyun’s character in such desperate and extreme ways that we start seeing him turning into a devil. The third would be the audience members finding inside themselves the desire to see a more complete kind of revenge, and kind of wanting to watch this scene of revenge play out and take its course, and finding in that, in finding in a dark corner of their own selves, a devil inside there. Those are the three major ways you can take the title. So by taking note of these very raw, very basic desires and passions that are dwelling inside those dark corners of humanity, is where the title takes its inspiration frome&lt;strong&gt;The film is about a man who steeps to the level of a serial killer in order to punish him, thereby engaging in a rather vicious circle of punishment that doesn't really end well for anyone — in the end, Soo-hyeon is responsible for the very same loss of a family member that started the film.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="24020" LastEditDate="2016-07-21T10:16:29.930" LastActivityDate="2016-07-21T10:16:29.930" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39264" CreationDate="2015-08-25T13:26:51.810" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;He started to have the dreams after the fall, when he was in a coma caused by it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Bran_Stark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the books wikia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While Bran is comatose, an attempt is made on his life by an unnamed&#xA;  catspaw. (...) In the meantime, during the coma, Bran has many&#xA;  visions, including a hazy memory of his falling from the tower and a&#xA;  three-eyed crow that tells him it can teach him to fly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His abilities of &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Greensight&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;greensight&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Warg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;warging&lt;/a&gt; are related to his Stark/&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/First_Men&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;First Men&lt;/a&gt; bloodline (i.e. he was born with them), but it seems that the fall and the coma following it were indeed the trigger of the abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-08-25T19:12:23.900" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T19:12:23.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39261" CreationDate="2015-08-25T13:26:52.513" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The direct answer to the question is, &quot;No&quot;.  There is no &lt;strong&gt;story&lt;/strong&gt; link between the three movies.  There are just a few general &quot;references&quot; to the movies, as you pointed out in your question, along with a running gag involving garden fences.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only other point not covered is the overall theme of the movies, which &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2013/08/23/edgar_wright_crawling_toward_the_apocalypse_and_a_sweet_finish.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;director Edgar Wright said&lt;/a&gt; was &quot;the individuals in a collective [...] about growing up and [...] about the dangers of perpetual adolescence&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T23:24:58.603" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T23:24:58.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39253" CreationDate="2015-08-25T15:05:10.360" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's important to remember the events that had just led up to that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jane was forcing herself between Walt and Jesse. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She threatened and blackmailed Walt to get Jesse's share of the money back. This was money that Walt did not feel Jesse was in a state he could receive it. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And to top it all off, &lt;em&gt;Jane and Jesse were planning on leaving the next day.&lt;/em&gt; They whimsically planned to go to New Zealand, the idea is they were just going to hop in the car and go. Walt simply couldn't afford that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any one of those is enough for Walt to want to let her die. He had too much riding on this for a junkie who could barely hold down her job to get in the way of him working with... some other junkie who could barely hold down his job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="326" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2018-01-08T09:51:50.807" LastActivityDate="2018-01-08T09:51:50.807" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39270" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39282" CreationDate="2015-08-25T15:30:20.113" Score="10" ViewCount="3550" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched a sci-fi/action movie and forgot the title...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it was probably a blockbuster&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a recent one (probably after 2010)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I cannot remember the main story but it was around people flying in space with a mission&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they were confronted to a race / mutated humans who were extremely aggressive and were flying from planet to planet to pillage and kill&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;on of the scenes (at the beginning I think) features the good guys (and one woman I think) closely escaping from them on a planet and they killed on their way out one poor guy caught by the mutants (to spare him torture and being eaten alive if I remember correctly)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they also had to go through space between the spaceships of the mutants (who were having parties on the space ships) and &quot;decorated&quot; their own spaceship with corpses to look like the mutant's ones&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that the mutants were some form of experiment, if I recall correctly the scientist (a woman) who was working with (or rather - on) them left a video message explaining this just before being attacked and murdered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another scene features one of the good guys telling a crowd to get into a bank safe and close it from the inside and not open - when the mutatnts were approaching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I hope I did not mixed up a few movies on the way :) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4736" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T21:54:31.433" Title="sci-fi movie from 2010+, probably a blockbuster - involving mutants" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|action|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:58:54.867" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39270" CreationDate="2015-08-25T15:43:15.413" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have only watched Firefly and not Serenity, but the mutants you described definitely made me think of the reavers from the show.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By chance I found this question, which inadvertently provides an answer:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/89161/35&quot;&gt;Why does Serenity have a cannon in “Serenity”?&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The accepted answer there sounds like it's what you are looking for.  Serenity was from 2005, but Firefly was known to be &quot;way ahead of its time&quot; so I would bet that the movie lives up to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T21:18:26.877" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16922" CreationDate="2015-08-25T19:19:48.260" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that the &quot;I've Done It&quot;/Wife scene is a manifestation of one of the biggest themes of this movie.  So big, that Nolan even has the protagonist spell it out for us himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember the scene where Lenny goes on a brief diatribe about how unreliable memory is?  He says he only trusts facts, and cites the fallibility of eye-witness testimony and all that?  It's not just interesting conversation, it's one of the central ideas this movie is meant to convey, and this scene highlights it.  After Lenny kills Jimmy, he is confronted with Teddy's information that challenges his own understanding of himself, and challenges his memories and reliance on his &quot;facts.&quot;  He tumbles through what he knows, thinks he knows, doubts, and desires..  Nolan wants the audience to not only see Lenny do this, but he wants us to feel it too..  just like the movie was edited in that funny order so that the audience would &quot;feel&quot; Lenny's parceled sense of memory, we deliberately see a combination of information and misinformation in that climactic scene in order to &quot;feel&quot; Lenny's confusion at this point.  We deliberately aren't supposed to know if that vision is real or imagined because that encourages us as viewers to question what about his memories are real or not, which was arguably the whole point of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I find it fun to imagine the many possibilities.  Interesting observation, another theme present in this film seems to be the notion that Lenny would rather live on as a deliberately ignorant hero, or at least a righteous vigilante, than choose to live on with complete knowledge, including the knowledge that he is a monster.  He makes this choice when he burns the success photos and copies Teddy's license plate.  this is a pretty cool theme and pops up again in Shutter Island, as per Leonardo DiCaprio's character's final words.   It's from different director/writer, but still similar thematically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24276" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-25T19:24:40.183" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T19:24:40.183" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39130" CreationDate="2015-08-25T20:16:41.813" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Climb&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Climb&lt;/a&gt; (6th episode of season 3):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tyrion:&lt;/em&gt; Trying to have me killed is an odd way of saying thank you. There are two people in King’s Landing who can give an order to a Kingsguard. Did you or did you not order Ser Mandon to kill me during the Battle of the Blackwater?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cersei remains silent.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tyrion:&lt;/em&gt; The impulse I understand. He hates me because I’m the only one who tells him what he really is. So, fair enough. He wants me dead. But his stupidity? He could have had me poisoned and no one would have known. But the king orders a Kingsguard to murder the Hand of the King in full view of his own army. The boy’s an idiot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cersei:&lt;/em&gt; What do you want me to say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are different interpretations of this conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's popular to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/1c8sa9/spoilers_all_complete_analysis_who_was_mandon/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;blame Little Finger&lt;/a&gt; for everything that happens, but I think that's unlikely. Barristan Selmy said of Ser Mandon Moore that he had no friends but his sword and &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Mandon_Moore#In_the_books&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;no life but duty&lt;/a&gt;. Therefore he won't take orders from anyone, but the Royal Family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cersei hates Tryion, but she also knew that she needed him as the King's Hand until her father Tywin Lannister returns to King's Landing. She would have happily watched Tryion die, but not during the Battle of Blackwater when her children were at risk. (Quote from The Climb:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tyrion:&lt;/em&gt; I'm your family. A member of your family who has actively contributed to that family's survival. Whether or not you or Father or anyone else wants to admit it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cersei:&lt;/em&gt; I do admit it. If it weren't for your trick with the wildfire, Stannis would have sacked the city before Father got here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That leaves Joffrey as the most likely &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;mastermind&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. He hates Tyrion because he treats him like a child instead of a king. Joffrey is also angry, that he cannot command the army himself (for example seen in &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Blackwater&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blackwater&lt;/a&gt;). It wouldn't have been the first crude command given by Joffrey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I think it was Joffrey's order, but we don't know for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16233" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T05:56:03.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8261" CreationDate="2015-08-25T20:23:17.153" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I don't think the other answers, although good, actually address why a female M (they're more about why Judi Dench to which the answer is Stella Rimmington).  To answer why a female M, we need to look at both the history of Bond pre-Judi Dench, and also the film GoldenEye itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prior to GoldenEye the previous two Bonds had been a mixed success.  Roger Moore had been popular in the role but his advancing age (58 in a View to A Kill) and an overkill of gadgets (Moonraker is basically Bond in Star Wars), had led the makers to move to a more Fleming-esque line of films: more plot, less gadgets, more stunts.  This had mixed results (For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy are seen by many as minor Bond films), and Moore's swansong (A View to A Kill) returned to earlier themes (look at Zorin's fold out map dastardly plot reveal on the airship and his plan to become dominant in his field by nuking the competition ala Goldfinger).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post AVTAK, we had Timothy Dalton, and again a more Flemingesque, plot driven, pair of films, again with mixed success (did ok at the box office, but again regarded by many, but not all, as minor Bond films).  There was then a big hiatus due to legal action (the Danjaq stuff about Thunderball rights) which meant it was nearly 10 years until a new Bond and film appeared (GoldenEye).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point to look at GoldenEye we see a number of points.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was a change of direction (again), but this time there was an attempt to bridge the two worlds of Fleming fans and Gadget Fans.  This was done by bringing in a plot which was again similar to Goldfinger, but also made some decisions to span the worlds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A suave Bond in Pierce Brosnan, evoking Sean Connery;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A conflicted Bond ala Timothy Dalton;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Still a number of quips and side seductions ala Roger Moore;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Retro elements such as the Aston Martin;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also modernising elements, to account for the later decade in which the film is made:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An updated storyline, taking into account the Soviet decline;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The impregnable bank is electronic, not a physical place;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The lead villain is an ex-ally turned traitor;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The indestructible henchman is a sexy woman (Xenia Onatop!);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The female lead (Natalia) is much stronger and survives much worse (the Severna attack, and return to Moscow) on her own without Bond's help;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The film abandons John Barry for music, using French artist Eric Serra (although you can hear this is abandoned halfway through to return to stock Bond music, and this finally worked when David Arnold came in in Tomorrow Never Dies)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond himself is seen as an anachronism, a blunt instrument and misogynist dinosaur;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A stronger and less sappy Moneypenny (although she ends up as much in love with Bond).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this realm of change it is easy to see that with so many strong female characters, it's obvious that a female M would be a part of it.  That they had Judi Dench/Stella Remington was a bonus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the Brosnan films went on, they ended up drawing back to the Moore days of gadgets, and when another hiatus due to studio financial issues caused them to start yet again, this time it was a full revamp of a young Bond, partly due to the only novel being left being the first, Casino Royale.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this context the Judi Dench M was subtly changed to be a comforting carry over, AND a surrogate mother to the younger, less experienced Bond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastEditorUserId="4637" LastEditDate="2015-08-26T10:17:05.653" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T10:17:05.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39270" CreationDate="2015-08-25T20:28:20.440" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're looking for the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Serenity&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was probably a blockbuster&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alot of hoopla, but it was a flop.&#xA;Budget  $39 million Box office  $38.9 million&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I cannot remember the main story but it was around people flying in space with a mission&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They were confronted to a race / mutated humans who were extremely aggressive and were flying from planet to planet to pillage and kill&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BV3OC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;on of the scenes (at the beginning I think) features the good guys (and one woman I think) closely escaping from them on a planet and they killed on their way out one poor guy caught by the mutants (to spare him torture and being eaten alive if I remember correctly)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They regularly mercy kill anyone taken by a reaver. Otherwise &lt;code&gt;they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing – and if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order&lt;/code&gt;. Mal does it right before a reaver ship chases them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kjPTL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/vpIySM5Qgvk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;they also had to go through space between the spaceships of the mutants (who were having parties on the space ships) and &quot;decorated&quot; their own spaceship with corpses to look like the mutant's ones&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To get through Reaver space, they have to look and sound like Reavers. This includes painting the ship with blood and tying up bodies to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Smnf7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I believe that the mutants were some form of experiment, if I recall correctly the scientist (a woman) who was working with (or rather - on) them left a video message explaining this just before being attacked and murdered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Reavers were an unknown side effect of the experiment to control human populations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/U-NVs68X_S4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another scene features one of the good guys telling a crowd to get into a bank safe and close it from the inside and not open - when the mutatnts were approaching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the script:&#xA;          MAL (to the guard, pointing to the VAULT)&#xA;          Does that open from the inside?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;      GUARD&#xA;      Whah -ah- yes...&#xA;&#xA;      MAL&#xA;      You get everyone upstairs in there and you seal it. Long as you got&#xA;      air you don't open up, you understand?&#xA;&#xA;      GUARD&#xA;      I -- Buh I --&#xA;&#xA;      Mal is in his face, dark and huge:&#xA;      GET THEM INSIDE THE VAULT.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-25T21:54:31.433" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T21:54:31.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39240" CreationDate="2015-08-25T22:07:15.980" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although various iterations of Hulk exist, the common denominator is that increased anger = increased strength.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During &lt;em&gt;Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;, Iron Man attempts to reason with the beast whilst it is rampaging through Johannesburg. During these futile negotiations, he mentions Banner before quickly changing direction, realising he has angered Hulk (which isn't going to do him any favours):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tony Stark:&lt;/strong&gt; [in the Hulkbuster] Listen to me, that little witch is&#xA;  messing with your mind. You're stronger than her, you're smarter than&#xA;  her. You're Bruce Banner!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Hulk roars and throws a car at Stark]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tony Stark:&lt;/strong&gt; Right, don't mention puny Banner...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can infer from this that the MCU is tacitly acknowledging this as source of Hulk's strength through this reference to the comics, which means the very mention of Banner is enough to incite anger in Hulk, in any state of mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without needing to go deeper, or anywhere near theoretical arguments, this is enough to assert that Hulk feels little other than animalistic contempt and resentment to Banner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To those who interpreted Hulks last action self-solitude as something noble, I'd challenge you to the realisation that it was Hulk, not Banner that switches off the channel to Black Widow. He doesn't want to be Lullabye'd, because that introduces banner into the equation and allows him the right of response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hulk is doing nothing more than suppress the control of Banner, out of what he perceives to be Self-preservation. There is no guarantee that Banner will agree with the Hulk's decision, as (evidenced earlier in the film) he will have no recollection of the events as they transpired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T22:07:15.980" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39210" CreationDate="2015-08-25T22:10:28.950" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a method used to add camera shake (as @Catija suggested). The anti-shake features present on the cameras would otherwise make the effect have to be done in post-production, which is far more expensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24280" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T22:10:28.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39291" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39293" CreationDate="2015-08-25T23:07:54.630" Score="1" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spoilers ahead&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in the first episode of Fear The Walking Dead we see the first zombie (the girl) eating the face of a body. After all the things we see happen to the kid, his dad goes to the same place only to find a stain of blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the zombie moved the body, then there would be stains from there to the location of the body, and the dad would have found it.&#xA;On the other hand if the zombie ate it all, then there would be bones remains, which there aren't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So where did the body go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="751" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2015-08-26T00:02:13.113" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T00:02:13.113" Title="Where's the body?" Tags="|fear-the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39291" CreationDate="2015-08-25T23:27:44.090" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most likely it became a zombie as well and wandered off to find food (e.g. humans). At least, that's what happens The Walking Dead and this takes place in the same universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T23:27:44.090" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39291" CreationDate="2015-08-25T23:42:30.110" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Zombie attacks human, human dies and zombie eats some of human. Dead human (which did not suffer a traumatic enough brain injury to prevent reanimation) becomes zombie and stumbles off. It's been seen over and over again. Human dies, people leave, come back later and body is gone. Body is now a zombie who returns and chews their faces off. (Humans never learn.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24280" LastActivityDate="2015-08-25T23:42:30.110" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39264" CreationDate="2015-08-26T00:09:36.390" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prior to the fall, none of Bran's Warging nor Greensight abilities had manifested themselves. The most he had shown was a stronger than usual affinity with his (then unnamed) direwolf, which is an ability he shared with the rest of his siblings. After his fall, those abilities started to show up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The warging ability was not something unique to him. The rest of his siblings have shown some grasp of it, but none to the extent of Bran's warging prowess. This could be because Bran is naturally stronger, or that his disability gave him more incentive to project it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Greensight, however, is something he enjoys alone and only manifests after he falls. During his coma he has visions of the Three Eyed Crow. Spoilers follow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; It is revealed by the end of Season 4 and the sixth book &lt;em&gt;A Dance with Dragons&lt;/em&gt; that the visions were sent to Bran by a mysterious person with tremendous powers who calls himself the Three Eyed Crow. His real name is not revealed in the TV series, but it is in the books. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, why did the TEC wait until Bran was in a coma to reach out to him? We still don't know. Perhaps during his coma, Bran was more receptive to the TEC's visions, and it is quite possible that it was through these very visions that Bran's latent powers were awakened. In the books the TEC picks Bran's forehead in order to open his third eye, and it is then that Bran awakens from his coma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T00:09:36.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39181" CreationDate="2015-08-26T00:55:40.873" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walt was a very proud and stubborn man, and refused help from &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt;. Gretchen and Elliott offered to pay for his cancer treatment, but his pride wouldn't allow him to accept their offer. Even when his own son set up a fund raising website, Walt couldn't accept the money, explaining to Skyler that &quot;It's charity!&quot;. So it is likely then that he also wouldn't accept any help from his mother. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as not telling his mother about the cancer at all, I don't think that is ever really explained in the series - there seems to be no indication of any long running feud between Walt and his mother. All we know about Walt's childhood is that his father died when Walt was a young boy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we can chalk it up to the fact that Walt was proud and didn't want anyone to know about his problems or to feel sorry for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="498" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T00:55:40.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39299" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-26T02:15:29.863" Score="3" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the show &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914387/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Damages&lt;/a&gt;, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1003360/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Season 1, Episode 8&lt;/a&gt;, Ellen Parsons takes some time away from the main plot to help her father with a civil suit in which he hit a woman with his car. The last we hear of it, her mother is worried that they are going to have to pay a million dollars in damages because the woman will never work again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's never mentioned again for the rest of the season. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0369760/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t112&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;According to IMDB, Ellen's father only makes two more appearances in the rest of the show, in Seasons 3 and 5, one episode each&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was kind of jarring that such a major case just never seems to come up again. Does this ever get explained later on? I'm only in Season 2. Did the writers ever talk about why it never came up again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21178" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-08-26T02:42:29.977" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T02:42:29.977" Title="Do we ever find out what happened when Gary Parsons hit a woman with his car?" Tags="|character|plot-explanation|damages|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39300" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-08-26T02:45:09.927" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Damages is an American courtroom drama series starring Glenn Close&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-08-26T11:48:10.447" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T11:48:10.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39301" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-08-26T02:45:09.927" Score="0" Body="For questions about the TV show Damages, its plot, characters or other references" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-08-26T11:48:20.873" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T11:48:20.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39264" CreationDate="2015-08-26T03:24:17.050" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Bran_Stark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones TV series Wikia&lt;/a&gt; , he starts seeing the three eyed raven in dreams after fall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bran begins to have a recurring dream in which a three-eyed raven flies into the crypts of Winterfell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if fall triggers this event it is not known. But he started sleeping morea and deeply after fall, that may be one of reason. Or It may be co-incidence that Three eye raven started sending visions at same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikia also enlisted &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Greensight&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Green Sight&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Warg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Warging&lt;/a&gt; as his capabilities which results in visions in form of dreams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Warging with a Heart tree, a Weirwood with a face carved in it by the Children of the Forest, allows Bran to (combined with his Greensight) have vivid visions of past, present, and future events, including those far away from himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-26T07:41:35.397" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T07:41:35.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39303" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39308" CreationDate="2015-08-26T03:41:42.747" Score="18" ViewCount="4336" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joffrey in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; always seems to believe that it is king's right that he can do whatever pleases him.&#xA;He justified most of his actions by the same fact. However, he is always challenged for validity for his right on the Iron Throne. First, at the time of his coronation, Eddard tried to  reveal the truth to everyone. However, Joffrey got him punished as traitor. That time, Joffrey seems to believe that his father's friend was trying to seize the Throne from him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that Stannis declared the same thing and started war against him. He also got support from the Southern Lords for same reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, does Joffrey start believing that he is a bastard at any point of time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-26T07:36:57.707" LastActivityDate="2016-05-06T15:32:37.503" Title="Did Joffrey believe that he is not the true-born son or heir, but a bastard?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39208" CreationDate="2015-08-26T04:02:22.207" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/The_Friendship_Contraction&quot;&gt;Episode 515&lt;/a&gt;, The Friendship Contraction, we can see how Sheldon genuinely values his friendship with Leonard, beyond that of a mere chauffeur or delivery-man. When Leonard invokes a clause of The Friendship Agreement that allows him to be only an acquaintance, Sheldon concocts a scheme where he turns off the power to the building, then tries to sell Leonard on various activities to do while they wait for the power to be turned back on...but only if Leonard agrees to reinstate The Friendship Agreement. Yes, it's juvenile and ridiculous, but Sheldon doesn't articulate his emotions, and instead prefers to act upon them in a round-about way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1317" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T04:02:22.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39306" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-26T06:23:06.997" Score="4" ViewCount="29101" Body="&lt;p&gt;Besides skinny jeans and a wide variety of belt buckles, one of Howard's signature items in &lt;em&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/em&gt; is an alien lapel pin. Is there any Reason or Meaning behind it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yb7lD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-26T07:43:10.060" LastActivityDate="2021-10-13T11:26:29.157" Title="What's the meaning behind Howard's alien pin?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39303" CreationDate="2015-08-26T07:35:28.987" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;He started having doubts, which he expressed in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_North_Remembers&quot;&gt;first episode of the second season&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Having heard rumors about his parentage, he confronts his mother. She&#xA;  dismisses it as gossip spread by his enemies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether he believed her or not we simply cannot tell. In the books he is not a POV character, so we don't know what his thoughts are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However taking into account that Joffrey was (among other things) rather stupid I think it's highly probable that he really thought it's only gossiping and believed he was Robert's son until his very sad end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T07:35:28.987" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39303" CreationDate="2015-08-26T08:27:11.543" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/39307/9718&quot;&gt;Tautologist's answer&lt;/a&gt; gives evidence of possible moments of doubt - but there's also evidence he still believed Robert was his father until (at least almost) end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is from the scene where the small council hears of the red wedding in S03 E10 (the one which ends with Tywin sending the king to bed early):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;TYWIN: Any man who must say, &quot;I am the king&quot; is no true king. I'll make sure you understand that when I've won your war for you. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JOFFREY (shouting): My father won the real war. He killed Prince Rhaegar. He took the crown while you hid under Casterly Rock!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&amp;amp;t=7882&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;transcript&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's trying to one-up Tywin using the bravery and martial prowess of the man he believes to be his father - implying that it's the Baratheon not the Lannister side of his assumed ancestry that is the one to be proud of. A characteristically childish &quot;My dad's better than you, coward!&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something like this wouldn't leap to mind in a moment of passion or anger if he harboured serious doubts about it, and it wouldn't work as characteristically egotistical one-upmanship if Joffrey didn't believe he had both Baratheon and Lannister ancestry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fun fact - substitute &quot;Price Rhaegar&quot; for &quot;King Aerys&quot; and the quote arguably becomes accurate. Technically Tywin wasn't hiding under Casterley Rock at that exact moment, but he had been.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9718" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2016-05-06T15:32:37.503" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39306" CreationDate="2015-08-26T09:13:46.690" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there is not meaning of them in TV series till now. It is noted as &lt;a href=&quot;http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/Howard_Wolowitz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Trivia in Wikia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Howard wears alien pins on his collar in every episode, yet the pin has not been mentioned thus far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T09:13:46.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39306" CreationDate="2015-08-26T09:38:43.403" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To expand panthers answer, actually they confirmed that the pin has a meaning, but it is a secret. It is not only one pin, but different pins with different shape and color, but all showing an alien. You can find several discussion and theories of fans about the theme in the net, but no confirmed answer. There is a short behind the scenes video about this with the actor here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Iz5Pk_1SDwU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22783" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T09:38:43.403" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32702" CreationDate="2015-08-26T10:04:27.133" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would imagine that it was because they really did not care about skin colour but evil men only in it for the business/money.&#xA;You can see that the house (expletive) was a front by Stephen and behind closed doors he was calculating and full of menace. He was as much a leader of the gang as the rest&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24295" LastEditorUserId="24295" LastEditDate="2016-01-29T10:59:05.960" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T10:59:05.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39313" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-26T10:33:37.960" Score="3" ViewCount="8891" Body="&lt;p&gt;In final episode of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; season 3 we saw Jesse Pinkman killing Gale. Why did he kill him and was killing the only option left?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-26T11:12:48.390" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T11:31:12.473" Title="Why did Jesse Pinkman end the 3rd season this way?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39313" CreationDate="2015-08-26T11:31:12.473" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firstly, I've only just finished season 3, and whilst it looks like he probably killed Gale, the tears in his eyes, the hesitation and the camera work made it look like it could be ambiguous.  To me, it looked like he started moving the gun away from Gale's head before he shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That aside, he did what he had to do in order to save Walter.  Walter was all set to go and kill Gale himself when he was picked up and taken to the launderette to be killed himself.  He bargained for his life, by offering Jessie in return; but Walt isn't stupid and knows that they would have killed both of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt's phone call to Jessie was supposed to be to get his location, but he tells him that he's been caught and they are going to kill him.  As such, he won't be able to kill Gale himself, and that Jessie needs to return the favour of saving his life to Walt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jessie, whilst comfortable with being the bad guy, knows deep down (and openly admits) that he's not a murderer, and isn't the type of person to kill someone without good reason.  He was willing to shoot at Gus' henchmen because of that they did to Tomas; but he knows that Gale is ultimately innocent and doesn't deserve to be killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He only goes through with the killing out of loyalty to Walt for having taught him to make better crystal meth than he could imagine, for checking him into rehab after the death of Jane, and also for saving his life at the shootout.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That covers why.  As for was it the only option left; yes.  Walt had crossed a line with Gus by killing two of his trusted employees to save someone who Gus never trusted, Jessie.  Gus learned at that incident that he would never be able to control Walt like he can others; probably because Walt knows he's on borrowed time.  As such, Gus wants someone to cook for him who he can control, and someone with an expected shelf life longer than Walt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the line was crossed, Gus put in place plans to have Walt killed, and he was never going to let Jessie just roam the earth.  Drug lords have a reputation to keep, and a one of not messing with them.  Gus is boss and won't stand for insubordination.  Killing Gale was the only way to save Walt's life, as he's the only one who can cook crystal meth to that quality, in the quantities required by Gus, other than Walt.  Gus instructed Gale to get as much knowledge from Walt as quickly as possible so he could replace him; though Gale was left with the impression that Walt could drop dead from cancer any day, rather than being assassinated.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20991" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T11:31:12.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39315" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-26T11:56:13.247" Score="16" ViewCount="27049" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are various different uses of the number 12 across the Marvel Cinematic Universe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ul3TL.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ul3TL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it have any significance at all or is it a running gag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24166" LastEditorUserId="24166" LastEditDate="2015-08-26T12:17:18.543" LastActivityDate="2017-05-22T04:22:55.887" Title="What is the significance of the number 12 in the MCU?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|avengers-age-of-ultron|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39325" CreationDate="2015-08-26T13:01:40.067" Score="4" ViewCount="6318" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, Walter needed money to support his family at any cost, however, how would a highly intelligent and independent man like Gale Boetticher end up working for Gus Fring? I know it was a question of exercising &quot;chemistry&quot; for Gale but was there anything else in it for him? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-26T13:34:04.900" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T15:10:22.257" Title="How did Gale Boetticher end up working for Gus?" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39319" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39363" CreationDate="2015-08-26T13:41:37.240" Score="10" ViewCount="6829" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always wondered what was the true meaning of the drastic shift in Hank's interests when he gets obsessed with minerals in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;. There are answers floating around the web saying &quot;minerals are like blue meth&quot; showing how deeply Hank was getting involved with the case. True, however, I noticed that many times Hank was shown as a less educated guy feeling &quot;dumb&quot; whenever Walter talked science. Is it possible that Hank was actually admiring Heisenberg's intelligence in a way just like Gale did and he was trying to become &quot;smarter&quot; like Heisenberg when he was failing at catching him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2015-08-28T20:13:16.100" LastActivityDate="2017-07-25T18:24:28.997" Title="Deeper meaning to Hank's affection with minerals" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39323" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39326" CreationDate="2015-08-26T14:41:20.360" Score="9" ViewCount="1818" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dexter is a drama series, no doubt about it, however, what was the reason for letting the main character live in the end? If thinking from moral perspective, Dexter is a killer that &quot;gets away&quot;, so what lesson then do we really learn?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="24301" LastEditDate="2016-03-04T13:41:30.267" LastActivityDate="2017-06-02T02:11:52.957" Title="What does ending of &quot;Dexter&quot; imply?" Tags="|dexter|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39318" CreationDate="2015-08-26T15:10:22.257" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recall Gale explaining to Walter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm definitely a libertarian. Consenting adults want what they want and if I'm not supplying it they will get it somewhere else. At least with me they're getting exactly what they pay for; no added toxins or impurities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's also useful to consider the purity of meth. he could make, which was probably matched by Jessie's cook (using Walter's formula) on a good day, and only beaten by Walter's product.  He was justifiably proud of the quality he could achieve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That, and his love of the pure chemistry, was pretty much all the reasons I recall being offered for his decision to cook for Gus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;..it just makes no sense to me that he chose to exercise &quot; true chemistry&quot; in a form of blue meth rather than some useful medical application&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I imagine the number of chemists that get to work on 'useful medical applications' is probably 1%.  And of that 1%, 99% of them would be doing something mundane like ..testing the pH level in samples - 200 times a day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T15:10:22.257" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39323" CreationDate="2015-08-26T15:14:35.247" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dexter is a survivor.  It's something he's always managed, despite his &quot;dark passenger&quot;.  The end of Dexter shows him doing just that, surviving.  Getting on with things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's lost Rita and Deb.  He won't get Rita's kids; and doesn't really want them anyway.  All he has left are Hanna and Harrison.  Along the way, he's learned that people close to him hate what it is he does, get killed, or both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By faking his own death, he knows that Hannah will look after Harrison, and they will both be safe from him and anyone who comes after him either from Florida, or from any future dealings.  He doesn't want another Trinity incident with either of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's able to blend in as a no-one doing a menial job where it's unlikely he will be missed for a day or two (unlike his rockstar presence in Miami PD forensics), which means should the urge arise, he'd be able to prepare fully and not need to rush to get back to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arguably, Dexter might not be the killer that &quot;gets away&quot;, so much as the one who hasn't been caught yet.  Time caught up with all of his victims, some of whom (Trinity specifically) were at it for decades without being caught.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It teaches us that even if we do bad things (ok, Dexter was beyond any normal definition of just 'bad'), that we can put in place measures to protect those around us and try to put the past behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Time might yet catch up with Dexter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20991" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T15:14:35.247" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38606" CreationDate="2015-08-26T19:43:12.777" Score="7" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The character of Jeff Lebowski is said to be based on Jeff Dowd who was a member of the anti-war radical group the Seattle Liberation Front.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dowd was born November 20, 1949. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of the movie you can see the speech of George Bush &quot;This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait.&quot; which was on Aug. 5, 1990.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I would say he was 40.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24320" LastEditorUserId="24320" LastEditDate="2015-08-26T19:47:17.003" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T19:47:17.003" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39339" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39349" CreationDate="2015-08-26T20:36:13.507" Score="3" ViewCount="314" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot figure out why some translators change the meaning of characters' lines via the subtitles and the audio dubbing.  Sometimes humor is removed.  Sometimes they change the meaning of what the person said, and although these changes end up being inconsequential, the changes were still completely unnecessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I honestly can't figure out the rhyme or the reason as to why they do this.  To the best of my knowledge, the translator could have created an accurate translation in the destination language that would fit on the screen (for subtitles) or could be said in the amount of time allotted (for dubbing), but yet they don't.  Why are they taking these liberties?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24324" LastActivityDate="2021-06-25T20:51:02.540" Title="Confused About Translators' Philosophy When They Create Subtitles And Dubbing For Movies" Tags="|film-industry|translation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17063" CreationDate="2015-08-26T23:22:11.907" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, who were these five people Dent is said to have killed? We see him shoot Wurtz (he doesn't kill Ramirez) and Maroni's driver. At the end of &lt;em&gt;Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; only Gordon and Batman know what Dent has done, so technically they could say anything and still keep Dent's reputation clean. Also, it's not like Dent is a functioning district attorney, expected to show up at work on Monday, by the time he's in the hospital. Mayors can and do step-in to appoint new DAs (like police commissioners) if the old one is hurt or killed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me the plot hole is: Why would the public turn against Dent in the first place? Are we really suppose to believe that after the Joker's huge body count and highly-public attempts to take over Gotham that the public is going to look at their maimed-for-life ex-DA and decide to throw him under the bus? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of what the Mayor says earlier about &lt;em&gt;&quot;it's all on you&quot;&lt;/em&gt; if something happens, there's clearly mitigating circumstances to show that the actions of Two-Face have no connection on the various legal decisions made by Harvey Dent prior to him going insane through grief, pain and losing half his face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24328" LastActivityDate="2015-08-26T23:22:11.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36434" CreationDate="2015-08-27T00:00:29.287" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're right to bring up the other scene where we see he's a &quot;bad ass shot&quot;, as we see he doesn't hesitate to shoot to hurt/kill. Why not with Kimble? In fact why the hostage scene (or even the other escaped convinct character!) in the first place? It doesn't add anything to the story does it? Unless...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the time the city jail scene comes along, there is enough for Gerard to start having doubts about Kimble's guilt. The other marshals have started asking the question &quot;why would he be going after the one armed man&quot;? Gerard is relentless and professional, but he isn't stupid, he must suspect that Kimble is innocent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the scene - which for me is pivotal - if you notice, Gerard shoots a few times first, Kimble hits the ground and looks back. The camera switches to Gerard, who aims for the head (knowing that the glass is bullet proof by this time) and shoots again bang on target. The next shot clearly show's Kimble's foot stuck, and vurnerable. A nice big target. And unharmed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion is Gerard took the shot to the head instead of the foot to say something like &quot;Look at what a good shot I am, I could have disabled you like I killed the other guy, but I'm giving you a chance. Now run and try and prove your innocence.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24334" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T00:00:29.287" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25087" CreationDate="2015-08-27T01:52:22.387" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In watching the movie I found that the 1st Story had 2 lighting strike events in it. That would make the telling of 6 stories have 7 strikes because if the 1st story had 2 strike and the other stories only had one then that means there would have been 5 lightning strikes left out of six stories so we actually did see 7 lightning strikes it was simply spanned across an even number of stories. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24335" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T01:52:22.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39339" CreationDate="2015-08-27T02:47:28.547" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dubbing is easy. Dubs are supposed to use mouth movements as keys, so as to make it easier to follow. As such, delivery, meanings, and words change. TV Tropes calls it &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LipLock&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lip Lock&lt;/a&gt;. Badly done dubs don't follow the lip movement, resulting in &quot;Cat Talk&quot; (Phrased used to describe older badly dubbed Kung Fu movies, where the characters move their lips longer than the dubbed words). TV Tropes call it &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HongKongDub&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hong Kong Dub&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Straight subtitles or captions have less to contend with. They aren't constrained by lip movement like dubs, so the translations can be closer to the original meaning. The key word is meaning though. Purely mechanical translations, like you would get from google translate, would be pretty bad. Meaning is more important than the words used, as you are conveying a thought. Jokes are especially hard as sometimes they are regional or cultural in nature. Would a joke about how awful a brooklyn accent is be as funny to someone that has no idea what a brooklyn accent sounds like?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recently some American movies have gotten bad subtitle translations in their foreign release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Those of you who have seen Guardians of the Galaxy know that people like to put down Rocket by calling him a &quot;&lt;strong&gt;weasel&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; or a &quot;&lt;strong&gt;rodent&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot; Unfortunately, the fact that these are insults was completely lost on those responsible &lt;strong&gt;for the translation, and therefore each time were replaced by &quot;small raccoon&quot; - a phase that's much more factual than mean.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which comes to one of the biggest issues in translations. It's often Non-Native speakers (of one of the languages) that are translating it. Even bilingual people have a hard time translating from one language to the other, because meanings change.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T02:47:28.547" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39350" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3342" CreationDate="2015-08-27T02:57:02.077" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Agree with aidenO. He sustained a GSW to chest. In movie that means he either blows up, immediately dies without firing weapon or in this case is dead by now. There is no suggestion anywhere in the movie that Cobb can sense what is in limbo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24336" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T02:57:02.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39351" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39355" CreationDate="2015-08-27T03:39:39.047" Score="9" ViewCount="1582" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know that Dorne is part of Westeros like other regions. How come it is so different from them culturally? There is difference in other kingdoms, too, like Northern people respect the Night's Watch and give value to pride and honour. Southern people are relatively different. But those are minor differences.  But Dorne is a totally different case, they are different in major things like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They give equal right to daughters for inheritance like sons, whoever is elder.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They have Princes instead of Lords or Liege Lords.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They publicly acknowledge their mistress (call them Paramours) and bastards.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bisexuality of Prince Oberyn also seems to be acceptable wherever it will be a religious scandal in other regions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-08-27T10:23:01.830" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T11:12:14.903" Title="Why is Dorne culturally so different from the rest of Westeros?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39352" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39359" CreationDate="2015-08-27T04:26:43.443" Score="3" ViewCount="1348" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this scene from &lt;em&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/17Bu1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/17Bu1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Scene&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does Korath show up exactly when Quill is about to take the Infinity stone? How does he know Quill is there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Space is an extremely large place and the planet appears to be completely abandoned along with the Infinity Stone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More importantly, how does Korath even know about the Infinity stone? If he does know about it and he also knows it is laying there why hasn't he used it's power? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24337" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-19T08:41:34.120" LastActivityDate="2015-09-19T08:41:34.120" Title="How did Korath know that Quill had taken the Infinity stone?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39351" CreationDate="2015-08-27T05:46:35.043" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Geography&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dorne is separated from the rest of Westeros by &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Dorne&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;mountains and deserts&lt;/a&gt;. That reduces migrations significantly. There are no other barriers like that south of the Wall. Mountains are mostly located at the coasts. It's easier to get to Dorne by ship, but that's not something everyone could afford.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People living in the mountains are described as underdeveloped, like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Hill_tribe&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hill tribes&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Northern_mountain_clans&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Northern mountain tribes&lt;/a&gt;. That could be another reason to avoid mountains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cultural&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Dornishmen are ethnically distinct from the rest of the Seven Kingdoms, being largely descended from Rhoynar refugees who intermarried with the local population of Andals and First Men roughly a thousand years ago. As a result they have very different customs and traditions compared to the other regions of Westeros. &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Dorne&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;(Game Of Thrones Wikia)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rhoynar came from Essos. Even today the people of Essos seem to be more liberal about sexuality than the Westerosi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Acknowlediging bastards isn't specific to Dornish, for example &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Aegon_IV_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Aegon the Unworthy&lt;/a&gt; legitimized all his bastard children on death bed. There are other well-known examples of Lords who acknowledge bastards when they don't have any highborn heirs. For example in season 4&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Ramsay Snow becomes Ramsay Bolton.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Political&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Dorne is difficult to conquer because of its geography, it was not by war but by marriage united with the Targaryen realm. As a token of goodwill &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the Iron Throne allowed the Martells to retain their title [Prince of Dorne] along with their laws. As with most Dornish titles, succession to the title is granted to the eldest surviving heir regardless of gender. &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Prince_of_Dorne&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;(Game Of Thrones Wikia)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Prince of Dorne has the same function as Lord Paramount in other regions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16233" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-08-28T11:12:14.903" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T11:12:14.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39356" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39358" CreationDate="2015-08-27T06:01:32.580" Score="4" ViewCount="7275" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we saw in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; that Ramsay Bolton tortured, mentally and physically almost constantly, Theon Greyjoy. Then why, instead of killing him, did he transform him to Reek who is completely psychologically broken?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-23T14:15:27.893" LastActivityDate="2016-06-23T14:15:27.893" Title="Why did Ramsay Bolton transform Theon Greyjoy to Reek?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39356" CreationDate="2015-08-27T06:52:02.660" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Ramsay captures Theon , he converts him into Reek for following reasons:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;By keeping Theon alive, he has a hostage from the Greyjoy family, who are always a threat for the 'Warden of North'.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He finds a loyal friend and servant by brainwashing him. Now, Theon had some personal motivation but Reek has none. He is completely faithful to Ramsay.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He can use him time to time as Theon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a. He did for negotiating with the Ironborn garrison holding it in an attempt to convince them to surrender the fortress to the Boltons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;b. To give Sansa and Ramsay marriage value in the eyes of the North. As Theon was ward of Stark, his presence approves that Sansa is not forced into marriage. She is married in presence of her family. As Theon is like family for her.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2015-08-27T09:23:40.837" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T09:23:40.837" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39352" CreationDate="2015-08-27T07:42:25.200" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How does he know Quill is there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He doesn't. That's why he starts barking questions about who are you/how did you know about this place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;More importantly, how does Korath even know about the Infinity stone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He doesn't know about the Stone inside, just that he is supposed to retrieve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If he does know about it and he also knows it is laying there why hasn't he used it's power?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire reason that Korath, Star Lord, and Yondu know about it is because it's a well known powerful artifact. The Collector tells Gamora in the &quot;Guardians of the Galaxy Prequel Infinite Comic&quot; (set between Thor Dark World and GOTG) where it is located. Gamora is only looking for the Orb because Ronan is (and she doesn't want him to have it), and Ronan is because he's following Thanos' order. (I still not sure who the broker was collecting it for).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GfxPn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The planet the Orb is on, Morag, is normally covered in a deep ocean, but every 300 years the water retreats enough that the Temple is accessible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Korath and Star Lord only meet by chance, as this is the first time anyone could reach the Orb in 300 years.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-27T12:30:12.453" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T12:30:12.453" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39323" CreationDate="2015-08-27T10:19:25.360" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/dexter-writers-werent-allowed-to-kill-dexter.html&quot;&gt;Showtime wouldn't let him die&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;How about that finale?&quot; said Dexter producer John Goldwyn at the NYFF&#xA;  premiere of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty this weekend, when we&#xA;  asked how the writers decided on that ending. &quot;They won't let us kill&#xA;  him,&quot; he told us. &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Showtime was very clear about that. When we told&#xA;  them the arc for the last season, they just said, 'Just to be clear,&#xA;  he's going to live.'&lt;/strong&gt; There were a lot of endings discussed because it&#xA;  was a very interesting problem to solve, to bring it to a close.&#xA;  People have a relationship with Dexter, even if it doesn't have the&#xA;  size and the ferocity of the fan base for Breaking Bad. But it has a&#xA;  very core loyal following.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect they were/are still hoping to revisit the (lucrative) franchise in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T10:19:25.360" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39351" CreationDate="2015-08-27T10:28:00.370" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dorne's differences have to do with its vastly different history from the rest of Westeros, due in part to its geography. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Dorne&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Its Game of Thrones Wiki entry&lt;/a&gt; provides a short overview, but you won't get the full picture until you read &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/108360/the-world-of-ice-and-fire-by-george-r-r-martin-elio-garcia-and-linda-antonsson/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The World of Ice &amp;amp; Fire : the Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;strong&gt;George R.R. Martin&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Elio Garcia&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;Linda Antonsson&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T10:28:00.370" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39319" CreationDate="2015-08-27T10:32:36.817" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that Hank's interest for rocks and minerals has a particularly deep meaning (but that's just my opinion). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, in one of the interviews of the Breaking Bad's cast contained in the BluRay version of the TV Series (might have been Hank's or Vince Gilligan's), it was stated that the choice of rocks was considered appropriate because it best represented both Hank's moral and physical condition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the &quot;accident&quot; that has forced him to stay in bed, almost paralyzed from the waist down, Hank has not been able to fight back and, as Tom wrote above, chose to concentrate on a &quot;dull&quot; hobby to withdraw from real life. He's (almost) literally and metaphorically as inert and still as a rock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: it was not Gilligan's nor Norris's interview. It was a comment by Michelle MacLaren (Executive Producer/Director of the show) that said (talking about Hank's) &quot;Many metaphors you can discuss. He's hit rock bottom. They're inert, as is his body&quot; [Season 4 ~ Special Features &quot;Thirty-Eight Snub&quot; - circa 1:50]. Can't really remember if there actually were other comments by others... just too many hours of special contents to watch ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastEditorUserId="23244" LastEditDate="2017-07-25T18:24:28.997" LastActivityDate="2017-07-25T18:24:28.997" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39365" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39367" CreationDate="2015-08-27T11:28:09.353" Score="10" ViewCount="710" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for an American movie from the 1970s - probably mid to late.  It's set at a TV news-station (or possibly, the news-section of a TV-station) in &lt;del&gt;San Francisco&lt;/del&gt; San Diego.  It's about the conflict between a disillusioned male news-anchor and his relatively new boss... the anchor wants to report news, the boss wants to sell sensation.  There is also a new female anchor, just starting to earn her spurs.  The back-drop is that police has found some porn-pictures of a young teenaged girl.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Major spoilers ahead&lt;/strong&gt; - I remember pretty much everything but the title!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The male anchor has a source in the Prosecutor's Office - a female, maybe a DA, and gets some tips.  He notices (in a blank surface) that his boss is listening in on the phone-call on another extension.  I think one of the tips is that the abuse had happen on some field-trip, and when this is reported, the anchor's daughter (or some other relative - maybe a niece) is able to identify the victim.  The anchor says he knows the identity at work, but he - despite his boss's urging - refuses to interview the girl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead the boss sends the young female anchor, and she interviews the girl right outside of the school - and in front of the whole student body.  The girl sobbingly claims it was just &quot;art-photos&quot;.  Even though the girl's face is hidden when the interview airs, the whole school now knows.  The news-anchor is very angry about the interview, and isn't calmed by the boss excusing it as the female anchor being inexperienced.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later the young girl gets letters and/or phone-calls from perverts, and attempts to commit suicide.  The news-anchor hears the dispatcher on a scanner in the news-room, and recognizes the address.  He calls his DA-source, and she tells him the girl is in the hospital and will be alright - but apart from this, she is rather livid about the reporting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later the DA calls the news-anchor with a scoop - the police have discovered it's all part of a porn-ring, and is raiding the millionaire who's behind it.  The anchor respectfully declines, and ask her to take it to another station.  Again he notices his boss listening in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some reason, there's a final fight between the anchor and his boss - and the anchor is fired and/or he quits (the boss fires him, as he tells the boss he's quitting).  The boss follows him to the reception, where they discuss their different views about reporting news vs. selling sensation.  At the end the boss assure him that the female anchor is more than ready to take over, so he won't be missed.  Just then, the evening news comes on at a TV in the reception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The female-anchor reports about the police raiding the millionaire porn-ring leader, one Juan R. Cabrio at his residence at Point Luma (probably not spelling this right...); when the people in the reception room start laughing.  The boss asks &quot;what so funny?&quot; and the news-anchor replies: &quot;They recognize the name&quot;.  &quot;Huh?&quot;  &quot;Juan R. Cabrio - the millionaire porn-ring leader... They know him better as the founder of &lt;del&gt;San Francisco&lt;/del&gt; San Diego... they picnic around his monument, out at Point Luma!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The boss shouts that he won't get away with this, and he'll never work again, to which the news-anchor replies: &quot;No you won't tell, because then you'll have to explain why neither you nor your new golden-girl know anything about the city's history... then you'll have to admit your unethical way of monitoring phone-calls... and finally, you'll have to admit that you don't confirm your sources.&quot;  (not an exact quote, but close)  Then the news-anchor walks out the door.  And just as he does, a news-van from a different station screeches to a halt, and a reporter and a camera-man storm in to interview the boss about the broadcast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, does this seems familiar to anybody?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Corrected &quot;San Francisco&quot; to &quot;San Diego&quot; in title and body, in case anybody goes searching.  Left other of my errors as they were.  Else look at &lt;code&gt;Walt&lt;/code&gt;'s excellent answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4521" LastEditorUserId="4521" LastEditDate="2015-08-27T23:10:11.653" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T23:10:11.653" Title="TV news-station, San Diego, late 1970s, reporting news vs. selling sensation" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T12:59:23.050" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39366" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-27T12:07:28.107" Score="2" ViewCount="197" Body="&lt;p&gt;After reading about Daniel Day-Lewis method acting in Lincoln and Gangs of New York, it got me wondering when filming stops and he stays in full character between takes does he look and all surprised at and all this future technology, or does he acknowledge he is Lincoln but Lincoln acting in a film? This applies to all method actors not just Daniel Day-Lewis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5758" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-27T12:16:21.420" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T23:55:11.543" Title="Method acting - characters from different time periods" Tags="|acting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39365" CreationDate="2015-08-27T12:58:25.393" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091624/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;News At Eleven&lt;/a&gt; from 1986 with Martin Sheen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Frank Kenley faces a number of moral dilemmas when dealing with the latest scandal: a teacher accused of sexually assaulting a student. While trying to keep the case in court, rather than trying the teacher on television, an underhanded producer takes the matter out of his hands and succumbs to a Hearst-esque style of &quot;yellow journalism&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You remembered almost everything correctly except for a few inaccuracies (it's &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Cabrillo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Juan R. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cabrillo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and San &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Diego&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;). A very good and detailed question. Here's the poster (can't find any clips at the moment):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uByqZ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uByqZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T12:58:25.393" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39366" CreationDate="2015-08-27T13:44:43.830" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Daniel Day Lewis is known for his &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;EXTREME&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; method acting, atypical amongst most method actors. Three notable points are the movies &lt;em&gt;My left Foot&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Last of the Mohicans&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Lincoln&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oddee.com/item_99013.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From &lt;em&gt;Oddee&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;For his role as paralyzed poet Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989), Day-Lewis refused to move from his wheelchair and &lt;strong&gt;had the crew lift him over obstacles. He insisted his meals be spoon-fed to him.&lt;/strong&gt; Several weeks of slouching in the wheelchair resulted in two broken ribs and a Best Actor Oscar. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;For his role as Nathaniel Hawkeye in Last of The Mohicans (1992) Day-Lewis lived in isolation in the Alabama wilderness where he tracked, hunted and skinned animals for food. As director Michael Mann told Time magazine: &lt;strong&gt;“If he didn't shoot it, he didn't eat it.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.backstage.com/interview/how-sally-field-lost-lincoln-role-then-got-it-back/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From an Interview with Sally Field re Lincoln&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When did you actually meet Daniel as Daniel?&#xA;  Field: I never met him. Never. I met him as Mr. Lincoln. He met me as his Molly, as he called her. And that's how we knew each other. And we began a relationship. He began it, not me. After I got the role, there were seven months before we began to shoot and &lt;strong&gt;he would text me all the time, in character.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emphasis, mine. Day Lewis would text in character. As Lincoln, a President of 1861, it would not be likely that he would be allowed to use such an insecure device (Obama isn't &lt;em&gt;allowed&lt;/em&gt; to use an iPhone due to lack of security certification. He has to use a black berry), nor would Lincoln likely have used or know how to use it. So there is limits to even Day Lewis's method acting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-12T23:55:11.543" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T23:55:11.543" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39370" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39371" CreationDate="2015-08-27T14:15:32.873" Score="6" ViewCount="4556" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the soldiers and commanders from Tully and Stark family were killed during the bedding ceremony of Edmure Tully. What was his fate after this massacre? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Walder Frey got his own son in law killed in his bedding ceremony in front of his daughter? Or he left him as he is now family?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he is alive, what about his married life, is he living with his wife?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2015-08-27T14:29:40.503" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T15:12:40.307" Title="What happened to Edmure Tully after the Red Wedding?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39370" CreationDate="2015-08-27T14:36:05.977" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The last mention of Edmure was in Season 3 episode 10 &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Mhysa&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3PXs9rfQFg&quot;&gt;Look at us now, Tully. You're dead, your daughter's dead, your grandson's dead, &lt;strong&gt;your son spent his wedding night in a dungeon&lt;/strong&gt; and I'm Lord of Riverrun. -Walder Frey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There has been no further mention of him, or Blackfish, or the Tullys at all in following seasons of the show, which have departed from following the books closely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books A Storm of Swords match Season 3's treatment of Edmure. The following book, A Feast of Crows, has Edmure as a prisoner, used as a bait for the remaining Tullys, then given an ultimatum to turn over Riverrun, or have it and his to-be-born child destroyed. He turns it over, and now lives as a slave/vassal of the Lannisters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-08-27T15:12:40.307" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T15:12:40.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14719" CreationDate="2015-08-27T17:03:55.393" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding of the introduction of Tick was to spice things up. The 2nd season was far less interesting than the first, so the producers wanted to liven up the show in an attempt to garner more viewers. They wanted to introduce Tick and the &quot;new settlement&quot; that they eventually raided just for ratings. I read an article about it shortly after how it wasn't planned from the start, but they had to add a catalyst or risk having falling ratings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24280" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T17:03:55.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38920" CreationDate="2015-08-27T17:07:22.980" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Historically (for humans and equines as well as other species I'm sure) checking teeth is a very easy way to gather information about the health of someone. If they're not eating properly, or dehydrated, or diseased, likely their teeth and gums will show. In some post-apocalyptic type movies, cannibals would sharpen their teeth, so checking that they aren't sharpened is a way of validating they aren't a cannibal. (Don't ask me what movie that's from, I can not remember to save my life.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24280" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T17:07:22.980" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39402" CreationDate="2015-08-27T18:52:22.410" Score="3" ViewCount="2086" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every time the series started I remember wondering about the lock on Dexter's door. I was sure I had the same one in my garage so I went to check and it turned out to be a &quot;Dexter&quot; lock. Is there a specific meaning to this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-08-29T09:11:52.917" LastActivityDate="2019-10-28T04:44:13.100" Title="The meaning of the Dexter lock in the series Dexter" Tags="|props|dexter|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39377" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-27T19:07:47.330" Score="13" ViewCount="1804" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the last few decades, it seems that most shows (dramas, not just comedies) don't put the episode titles on the screen. Does anyone know why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24353" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T01:57:19.780" Title="Why aren't episode titles put on the screen?" Tags="|title|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39379" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39385" CreationDate="2015-08-27T19:18:07.433" Score="10" ViewCount="51583" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the flashback scene in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, where Gustavo comes to Don Eladio's mansion to offer business with his partner, why did Hector kill the young chemist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-28T17:15:09.223" LastActivityDate="2018-11-28T04:19:27.123" Title="Why did Hector kill Gustavo's partner?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39381" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39382" CreationDate="2015-08-27T19:28:48.567" Score="8" ViewCount="1023" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gustavo's revenge on Don Eladio in &lt;em&gt;Breaking-Bad&lt;/em&gt; must have meant more than just personal satisfaction for Gustavo. Was Don Eladio running the entire cartel or who was he in general? I assume if he wasn't the main guy, Gustavo would not be able to live a normal life after taking out a high rank cartel member.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-28T17:14:51.160" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T17:14:51.160" Title="Who exactly was Don Eladio within cartel?" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39381" CreationDate="2015-08-27T19:54:13.703" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, Don Eladio Vuente is the head of the Ciudad Juárez Cartel. His title of Don says it all, implying royalty. But Gus' revenge was mainly personal, as Eladio was the one that had his friend killed right in front of him a long time ago. It was just very very thorough because if it wasn't, any living members of the cartel would have sought revenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T19:54:13.703" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39379" CreationDate="2015-08-27T20:32:20.963" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hector killed Max on Don Eladio's (non vocal) orders, because he felt insulted. Gus and Max, the Don felt, had manipulated him, through his minons, into having the meeting. By supposedly selling drugs, in his territory, to his men. While Gus and Max may really have gave it away instead of selling it, it doesn't matter to someone like the Don. And by going this way, had the Don refused the meeting, his lackeys would have started to get second thoughts about the Don.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From S4E08 &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Hermanos&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, self-translated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why should I negotiate with someone that doesn't respect me?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Who insults me by dealing under my nose without my permission?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Who manipulates me into a meeting...&lt;Br&gt;&#xA;  ...in front of my own men?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, he killed Max because killing any competitors that are muscling in on your territory is standard operating procedure, as is insulting (imagined or otherwise) a mafioso. Can't let these punks disrespect the Don.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He didn't kill Gus because of connections that he may have had/who he was in Chile, which was never disclosed. Had the Don wanted to do business, Hector would not have killed Max, without permission. Otherwise Hector would have been killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-08-27T20:42:19.640" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T20:42:19.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39377" CreationDate="2015-08-27T22:29:57.107" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think it's mostly because the shows has grown shorter to fit more advertising into the time-slot.  Something has to give, so the prioritize the actual story over a long title-sequence and/or more explicit intro of each block (ie. an establishing-shot of a known location from the show, rather than a title-card with &quot;The ... show continues&quot;.  It's also worth noting the obvious exceptions to this rule... like &quot;Game of Thrones&quot;, which has a very long and elaborate title-sequence - as well as 1 &lt;em&gt;full&lt;/em&gt; hour episode, rather than the usual 40-45 minutes of your typical &quot;1 hour&quot; show... of course, GoT runs on HBO, which is pay-TV and not advertising-financed (so QED :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing is that also the &lt;em&gt;seasons&lt;/em&gt; have become much shorter.  A full season used to be 25 to 30 episodes... today it may be as low as 18 for a &quot;full season&quot;.  Those to facts - shorter episodes and shorter seasons - doesn't leave much time to actually tell the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4521" LastActivityDate="2015-08-27T22:29:57.107" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39394" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39405" CreationDate="2015-08-28T02:04:44.130" Score="60" ViewCount="14819" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching a &quot;Columbo&quot; episode recently (c.1971), it had a scene that I realized I used to see a lot in older movies and TV shows.  A woman is talking on her rotary phone, when the person on the other end is suddenly cut off.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Hello?&quot; she says.  Then she rapidly presses the hook switch of the phone several times, all the while saying &quot;Hello? HELLO?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How was pressing the hook switch repeatedly supposed to help?  Was it supposed to restore certain kinds of lost connections?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm old enough to remember old phone technology, but we never used the hook switch on the phone other than to hang up the phone (or press once quickly for call waiting).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24362" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-28T17:12:39.453" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T17:12:39.453" Title="Why do people repeatedly hit the phone hook switch when disconnected?" Tags="|columbo|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39394" CreationDate="2015-08-28T02:26:03.467" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, on rotary phones (and maybe on some early touch-tone phones), that 'hang-up' lever, if pressed quickly and lightly, would send a signal that was equivalent to the dialing the number one (or however many times you pressed it). It was actually possible to dial that way if you were careful (why would this be needed? well, say you were a child, and some silly adult had applied a lock to the rotary dial...).  I tried it once, back in the day when I first heard about it, and it DID work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, back in those days, if one party accidentally pressed the 'hang-up' lever, and then immediately released it, the connection was not necessarily closed. Sometimes, pressing the lever again would have the effect of 'bringing the connection back,' even though it was still there. This became an issue again when call-waiting was introduced...you might think you've hung up on someone, but actually one of you is in 'on the other line' without actually talking to anybody, and 'hanging up' again, would 'restore' the connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T02:26:03.467" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36434" CreationDate="2015-08-28T03:10:11.277" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shooting to maim is illegal. So is shooting anyone that is not currently endangering anyone else. Authorization to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/2221/it-is-legal-in-to-use-lethal-force-to-stop-any-felony-from-being-committed&quot;&gt;deadly force&lt;/a&gt; without prejudice was unlikely: he's a US marshal; not a bounty hunter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8580" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T13:00:27.163" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T00:54:06.127" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39399" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39561" CreationDate="2015-08-28T06:17:29.490" Score="9" ViewCount="4572" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we saw in &lt;em&gt;Breaking-Bad&lt;/em&gt; there was something happening between Walt and Gretchen. Were they in love?  If yes, then why did they get separated from each other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-28T17:14:00.257" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T18:34:42.233" Title="What exactly happened between Walt and Gretchen?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39376" CreationDate="2015-08-28T08:53:06.170" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always taken the opening credits of Dexter as a way of the producers to show that, on the surface at least, Dexter is a normal person.  He sleeps, wakes up, has breakfast, gets dressed and goes out.  Just like you or I would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The showing of locking the door I'd always taken to mean that even when someone is a serial killer they don't take how dangerous they are for granted and assume people will know it's the home of a serial killer, and therefore they shouldn't break in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dexter is a normal guy with a normal routine.  The lock will be just a normal, everyday lock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do they show this?  Because it's showing that Dexter is very careful to blend in with everyone else.  Don't stand out and don't give people a reason to remember you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20991" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T08:53:06.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39376" CreationDate="2015-08-28T08:59:17.507" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, it did look pretty solid...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But no, I don't think there was a special meaning - apart from making Dexter's normal morning-ritual look &quot;gruesome&quot; by using weird camera-angles.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, remember that the whole opening credits - plus a bit extra - were shown in one of the episodes of the first season, to show that &quot;life is good, and everything is great in Dexter's life&quot;...  It was also parodied in a episode right after Dexter's son is born, and he's &lt;em&gt;extremely&lt;/em&gt; sleep-deprived due to the baby - his t-shirt got baby-food/burp stains, his shoe-laces snaps, and he looks dead tired.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4521" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-08-29T10:27:18.400" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T10:27:18.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39403" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-28T09:31:18.297" Score="6" ViewCount="607" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched an American TV series that I can't remember its name. The drama is about a girl who just came out of jail (I don't remember why she was in the prison in the first place but I think it's something to do with her father but she is innocent). Anyway, she went to live in her grandmother's house with her brother and sister. I still remember that the actress was blonde but her sister was a redhead because she was adopted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The girl starts to work in a hotel, I guess, and she fell in love with a rich guy who loved her back as well, then she discovered that his family owns the hotel and he is engaged to a girl named Elizabeth (I don't know why I only remember his fiancées name). He didn't like Elizabeth and was only with her just to please his mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More info:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They were on an island, I think&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The guy had a friend who worked for him in the hotel and he kinda liked the blonde girl&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The guy also had a younger sister &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched it like 5 or 6 years ago, I would say, but I can't remember on which channel exactly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I usually type the plot in Google when I'm looking for a hint to remember the names of any movies or TV shows, but this one is completely vanished. I tried many times but there is nothing at all. I don't know why and really hope that someone will help me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24367" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-08-29T09:10:43.640" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T03:54:50.480" Title="A show about a woman released from prison who works in a hotel" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:07:17.283" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39394" CreationDate="2015-08-28T10:01:18.890" Score="69" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that by 1970 (at least in most places), this behavior did not really accomplish anything very useful, but would have been more of a habit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However not too much earlier, operators would have been used extensively when completing calls.  Repeatedly pressing the hook would cause a light in the office to flash, directing the operator to pick up.  Since the operator might be able to assist with some types of dropped connections, the learned response to an unexpectedly dead line would be to call her in by cycling the hook.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24368" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T10:01:18.890" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39406" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39408" CreationDate="2015-08-28T10:34:06.273" Score="3" ViewCount="5419" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking-Bad&lt;/em&gt; Walter White leaves Gray Matter and becomes a chemistry teacher. What compelled him to take up a second job? Is there any significance of his second job?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-03-19T15:07:58.357" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T16:04:15.483" Title="Why did Walt take a second job at the A1A Car Wash?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39406" CreationDate="2015-08-28T11:05:07.627" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walt took the second job to add another source of income for his family. Do not forget that Skyler was pregnant at that time, and that meant Walt's family was going to expand. Obviously, Walt did not make much, through his primary job of a High school teacher. So with a wife, disabled son and an upcoming baby, and Walt being the sole bread winner, his choice of going for a 2nd job is obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, do note that Walt is not treated nicely at his 2nd job, but he still carries on, for reasons most people do jobs in the world - to provide for their family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-03-19T15:08:14.733" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T15:08:14.733" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39394" CreationDate="2015-08-28T11:40:49.960" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Phones can dial in three ways. Normal phones use Dual Tone Multiple Frequency (DTMF) dialing, where each number is a unique pair of two frequencies in a column x row manner. Cell phones use digital connections, but still use DTMF when the call is active so you can access an IVR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Older phones use Pulse Dialing. Each number dialed actually breaks and makes the phone line connection n number of times. Real Rotary phones use this exclusively. Most normal phones have a switch that allow you to switch between DTMF and Pulse. This is still supported even in 2015. In the movie &lt;strong&gt;Hackers&lt;/strong&gt;, one of the characters uses this to make an unauthorized call while in jail, by pressing the hook ten times really fast, to &quot;dial&quot; 0, to get the operator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This break and make connection is also used to switch between lines, as in call waiting or placing a line on hold, or to set up a 3-way call. Some phones have a dedicated button for it called Flash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The reason that people used to repeatedly press the hook is a combination of the above. Sometimes you are placed on hold or on the other line or to get the other side's attention.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mainly this was before some modern phone signals were used, such as Calling Party Control. We all know this as the disconnect tone, and the off the hook tone. If you watch some shows, people used to take the phone off the hook to block calls from ringing. That behavior stopped when CPC introduced the off the hook tone, which is very loud and annoying. &lt;strong&gt;And more relevant to the question, the disconnect tone which tells one side that the other side has disconnected.&lt;/strong&gt; Prior to CPC, you had no way of telling if the silence on the phone was silence or that the call was lost. The disconnect tone fixed that. &lt;strong&gt;People no longer had to toggle the hook to know you were hung up on, the BEEEEEP did it for you.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh the ever evolving PSTN technology. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-08-28T15:00:14.530" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T15:00:14.530" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39414" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39417" CreationDate="2015-08-28T11:44:35.697" Score="4" ViewCount="6751" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the original movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073631/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rollerball&lt;/a&gt; (1975) Jonathan had many reasons to quit the game. He had reached every success in the sport, was getting old, the upper crust wanted him to quit and threatend him if he did not, the game was getting more violent every day with many injuries, his best friend was seriously injured and comatose... Why did he go on? Was it some kind of resistance against the upper crust, addiction to the admiration of the fans or misguided sportmanship? Is there a meaningful explanation for why he just kept going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22783" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-08-28T17:06:46.040" LastActivityDate="2019-09-28T19:35:02.073" Title="In the movie Rollerball (1975), why didn't Jonathan quit?" Tags="|plot-explanation|rollerball|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35951" CreationDate="2015-08-28T11:58:05.293" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neo's machine made purpose is as a controlled failure check valve for &quot;errors&quot; that add up in the Matrix. Of course these errors are humans who reject the matrix. The machines use the Neo to control how the system works and minimize the number of malfunctioning battery crops (pod humans). Of course, this results in the unpredictable because Neo is mostly human and doesn't follow orders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The human goal for &quot;the one&quot; is absolute freedom of all humans. This is more faith than &quot;real defined purpose&quot; as humans had no hand in Neo's creation. Previous ones did not have the will power, actual power, or power of friendship in order to free all humans, so they did the best they could to ensure even a false hope of freedom lived through a new cycle of rebellion. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T11:58:05.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39416" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17279" CreationDate="2015-08-28T12:08:43.393" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;DC is attempting to do this, in a slip shot manner with the Flash/Arrow universe. They are including the new series for the Atom in it as well,  but not super girl. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course, Man of Steel and Dawn of Justice as a launching point for a movie verse. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T12:08:43.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39414" CreationDate="2015-08-28T12:20:13.980" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rollerball was a team sport.  It emphasized team over individuals.  Jonathan's fame made him an individual, rising above the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The central concept behind the movie was to be an individual, not a sheep.  That is, to make a name for yourself and rise above the herd.  It's sort of a Capitalist view, but that was what the author was trying to convey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From outside the story, Jonathan &lt;strong&gt;couldn't&lt;/strong&gt; quit or that would have defeated the storyline.  From inside the story, Jonathan wanted to show the corporations that their ideals were wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an excerpt from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollerball_(1975_film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the Wiki&lt;/a&gt; about a scene late in the movie that really nails the entire movie down to a few sentences:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The corporations hold an emergency meeting to discuss Jonathan's obstinate refusal to retire, and decide that the championship game against the New York team will be played without penalties, player substitutions, or a time-limit, in the hope that Jonathan, if he decides to participate, will be killed during the course of the game. The executives's meeting reveals why they are demanding Jonathan's retirement: Rollerball was conceived not merely to satisfy man's bloodlust, but to demonstrate the futility of individualism. Jonathan's singular talent and longevity in the sport defeats the intended purpose of Rollerball.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-28T12:34:15.290" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T12:34:15.290" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39394" CreationDate="2015-08-28T15:27:39.727" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can confirm that (cde &amp;amp; BowlOfRed's answer) - the other answers aren't quite right because the technology started changing so rapidly in the 60's and 70's after the transistor was invented and finally found its way to the phone system.  Everyone was used to hitting the phone hook repeatedly to hang up - it took a while for this old habit to die out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was born in the 50's and actually used those phones back in the day.  Hanging up back then frequently didn't break the connection because everything was done by switchboard operators.  I always thought it was weird that I could hang up and then pick up the phone 5 minutes later and still be connected to the other phone.  Hitting the phone hook rapidly flashed a light on the switchboard operator's panel, which attracted her attention.  She would manually pull the cord out of the panel, and the call would finally be disconnected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24378" LastEditorUserId="24378" LastEditDate="2015-08-28T15:35:32.717" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T15:35:32.717" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39211" CreationDate="2015-08-28T15:51:11.090" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The version of events in &lt;em&gt;Once Upon A Time&lt;/em&gt; is not exactly like any other canon film or movie; even the events that were borrowed from &lt;em&gt;Frozen&lt;/em&gt; are only canon within the &lt;em&gt;Once Upon A Time&lt;/em&gt; show. (In other words, &lt;em&gt;Frozen 2&lt;/em&gt; won't need to keep faithful to any of what happened in Storybrooke). They were more faithful to &lt;em&gt;Frozen&lt;/em&gt; than the other fairy tales, but mostly for business reasons -- &lt;em&gt;Frozen&lt;/em&gt; was more recent, and entirely Disney-owned, so they didn't want to &quot;confuse&quot; the fans of that movie by messing too much with it's characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole conceit of that show is that the stories we know about these characters are &lt;em&gt;based on&lt;/em&gt;, but never exactly the same as, what happened to them in their actual Enchanted Forest lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that Cruella did make a coat from puppies, but that is a very common element of her back story, which was present all the way back in the original &lt;em&gt;The Hundred and One Dalmatians&lt;/em&gt; novel that Disney based their movies on. We also know that Cruella, in the &lt;em&gt;Once Upon A Time&lt;/em&gt; world, has an extensive history with The Author, which obviously is original material for the show. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the intention of the writers does seem to be that this is the Cruella from the animated cartoon. The actress playing her on the show puts it this way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“They took what we know of her from the cartoon and said, ‘What would she be before that?’ with her love of glamor and mask and all the things she wears,” &lt;a href=&quot;http://zap2it.com/2015/04/once-upon-a-time-cruella-de-vil-secret-past-author/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-21T13:17:45.187" LastActivityDate="2016-06-21T13:17:45.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39422" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-28T15:57:36.557" Score="16" ViewCount="1454" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Chapter Two of &lt;em&gt;Kill Bill&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The blood-splattered BRIDE&lt;/em&gt;, 21st minute, as the camera looks through the eyes of Elle as she walks up to the room where Beatrix lies in coma, the centerpiece of the frame is occupied by a strange painting on the wall just past the fire exit marked EXIT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/grooR.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/grooR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;unknown painting in the distance&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this painting mean? It looks like some sort of an altar to me so my first guess is that it is a reference to a kung fu movie. Does it ring a bell to you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23472" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-07-01T20:10:42.983" LastActivityDate="2019-07-01T20:10:50.673" Title="What does the painting in the hospital hall in Kill Bill mean?" Tags="|kill-bill|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="39423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30636" CreationDate="2015-08-28T16:02:45.827" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The piano(s) used in the film may have had working keyboards, but that doesn't mean they produced sound.  A practice keyboard has functioning keys which are weighted to provide the action of a legitimate instrument.  Hulce may have been able move his hands and fingers in-synch to the films playback music, without a need to generate a single legitimate note.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24379" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T16:02:45.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39424" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36733" CreationDate="2015-08-28T16:06:48.007" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the movie alone, since I haven't read the book (or any in what would become a series of books), and though it's been a while since I've seen it, I would say that Dorothy will miss the Scarecrow most because he sacrificed the most during her time in Oz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most harm that came to anyone, came to the Scarecrow.  The Tin Man had to be oiled to join the group, but not much else happened to him.  The Cowardly Lion was scared a few times, but didn't suffer any tangible damage.  The Scarecrow joined Dorothy from almost the start of her trip, in fact guiding her along from a fork in the Yellow Brick Road. Along the way he was dismembered and unstuffed by the flying monkeys, then set on fire by the Wicked Witch, and I'll even count that run in with the apple trees since he slap fights a tree and gets beaned with an apple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout this suffering, he stays pretty happy and is devoted to the cause. The Tin Man could have learned a thing or two, because the Scarecrow has heart.  That's why Dorothy will miss him most of all- through thick and thin &lt;em&gt;and dismemberment&lt;/em&gt;, as well as from end to end, he'll be there, for her and the rest of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24267" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T16:06:48.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37558" CreationDate="2015-08-28T16:09:18.290" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Skyler's behaviour is perfectly understandable if you consider the developing of her relationship with Walt, whose behaviour is becoming more and more secretive day after day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If at first the erratic mood of Walter was interpreted by Skyler and the closest members of the family by a more than comprehensible way to cope with the terrible news of the lung cancer that struck him, she starts to become angry at him the moment she feels that Walt is not being true, that he's hiding something and he's covering that something with lies (Walt's disappearance to hide the kidnap by Tuco, the fact that Gretchen and Elliot are not really paying for Walt's therapy, the second cell phone, Walt's fake visit to his mother).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Skyler begins to understand that something is amiss, she tries to confront Walt but she only receives awkward lies instead of real answers from him. She doesn't know the truth but she sees right through Walt's bull**** (to quote Skyler).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first she gets mad and angry at Walt, but since he keeps on acting as if everything is fine, although plainly in an unnatural and forcibly manner, she tries to provoke him in order to get the truth from him. When even this tactic fails Skyler becomes increasingly detached because she is simply tired of bouncing against the rubber wall of niceness and affability erected by her husband.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This goes on until Skyler receives the proof of her husband's lies directly from Walt, who gives himself away by revealing the existence of the second cell phone (that he always denied) when he's lying sedated in the hospital bed before going into surgery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point Skyler can no longer ignore the truth and decides to confront Walt again, but she doesn't even give Walt the chance to explain himself because she is fed up with his lies (&quot;Lies on top of lies on top of lies&quot;). And when Walt desperately tries to stop Skyler from leaving him by offering her the truth, she doesn't even want to know, because now she &quot;is afraid to&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've loved Breaking Bad. I've loved the dialogues and the way the characters were &quot;built&quot; and shaped all throughout the series, and I do not see a shred of inconsistency nor an example of poor writing by the authors in developing Walt and Skyler's relationship, not in the second season and not in any other season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T16:09:18.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13037" CreationDate="2015-08-28T18:00:56.390" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you freeze the image as he is putting the putty and wires on the passport, you can see her picture on it with the name June Munroe clearly visible typed onto the passport.  It looks to me like he is adding her photo to one of his dummy passports with the fake name June Munroe already on it.  I have no idea what he is doing with the voltage and the wire, other than possibly destroying its ability to be read by a scanner.  Since the name June Munroe is typed into this passport, then he could not be using her real passport as the base to work with as suggested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24384" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T18:00:56.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39429" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-28T18:17:50.440" Score="13" ViewCount="8777" Body="&lt;p&gt;In both the comic strip (I think) and the first &lt;em&gt;Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt; movie (for sure), Uncle Ben famously tells the newly spidey-empowered Peter, &quot;With great power, comes great responsibility.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as far as Uncle Ben is supposed to know, Peter is at that point just a high-school student -- a bright, possibly promising, but kinda nerdy, isolated, and feckless one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why in the world would Ben say something that suggests he's talking to someone with &quot;GREAT power&quot; -- unless he not only suspects (or knows?) that something's up with Peter, but also knows exactly what that something is.&#xA;The only explanation that makes sense to me, is that Uncle Ben has somehow twigged to this recent news in Peter's life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But do we have any clue at all, other than this one line, that this is the case?&#xA;And if it is, how would he have caught on?&#xA;And while we're at it, why would Aunt May not know, too?&#xA;Any theories welcomed -- but especially with references to documented details from either the movies or the strip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24385" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-07-07T20:41:06.520" LastActivityDate="2016-07-07T20:41:06.520" Title="Does Uncle Ben know Peter Parker is Spider-Man? If not, why would he suggest Peter has any &quot;GREAT power?&quot;" Tags="|dialogue|spider-man-trilogy|spider-man|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39429" CreationDate="2015-08-28T18:32:30.950" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, since you mentioned the comics: in the &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt; comic string, this is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a line spoken by Uncle Ben. Rather, it's an unspoken caption on one of the panels (that is, it's not actually spoken by any character.) However, in later comics, Peter's flashbacks to the days when Ben is alive have shown him saying it, which is where the movies drew their dialogue from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within the movie: No, Ben likely has no idea what Peter has become at the time he dies (spoiler alert?). However, in both of the movies thus far, Ben is shown to frequently give Peter advice of a somewhat &quot;preachy&quot; nature. In other words, Ben &lt;em&gt;often&lt;/em&gt; quotes sayings of that nature to Peter, even when they don't appear to apply directly to Peter's life. He's a person who has a lot of &quot;folk wisdom&quot; built up, and uses it to try and direct Peter to improve his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Ben says this to Peter, he has just gotten into a fight (due to his Spider-Man powers, but Ben doesn't know that). The dialogue that follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;PETER I'm trying, Uncle Ben, I am. I feel all this, this (choosing words carefully) power, but I don't know what it means, how to control it, even, or what I'm supposed to do with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;UNCLE BEN You'll figure it out. You're one smart cookie, Pete, your teachers tell me they've never seen a science whiz like you at this age. Knowledge is power. &lt;strong&gt;But with great power comes great responsibility.&lt;/strong&gt; Remember that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ben's choice of phrase is driven by two things here: Peter is the first one to use the word &quot;power&quot;, which Ben later turns around with the cliche &quot;Knowledge is power&quot;. He's basically admonishing Peter that, &lt;em&gt;whatever&lt;/em&gt; &quot;power&quot; Peter thinks he has, he should be responsible with it -- not go around getting into fights over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 2012 reboot, the scene is a lot more contentious. Peter and Ben are fighting over Peter's failure to pick up Aunt May and walk her home. He doesn't actually say the line exactly as normally quoted, but he does talk about Peter's father having &quot;a philosophy&quot; that is you had the ability to help people, you had a &quot;responsibility&quot; to do it. Again, though, he's speaking to Peter in generalities, in this case, Peter's decision to leave his Aunt in potential danger of being mugged when he had the &quot;power&quot; to help her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-28T18:47:59.110" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T18:47:59.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39429" CreationDate="2015-08-28T18:45:20.817" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The phrase itself predates Spider-man:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The phrase &quot;with great power goes great responsibility&quot; was spoken by J. Hector Fezandie in an 1894 graduation address at The Stevens Institute of Technology - &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Moral Influence of a Scientific Education&quot;, The Stevens Indicator, Volume 11, Page 217&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br&gt;The exact phrase was repeated during a speech by President Harry S. Truman in November 1950 - &lt;em&gt;Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1950 (published 1965), Page 703&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br&gt;A UK Member of Parliament implied in 1817 that a variant of it was already a cliché &lt;em&gt;(Thomas C. Hansard, ed (1817). Parliamentary Debates. p. 1227. Retrieved on October 10, 2013&lt;/em&gt;. &quot;He should, however, beg leave to remind the conductors of the press of their duty to apply to themselves a maxim which they never neglected to urge on the consideration of government—&quot; that the possession of great power necessarily implies great responsibility.&quot;&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;The editor is quoting William Lamb (pp. 1125–1229)). The sentiment is also found in Luke 12:48:&lt;/em&gt; &quot;from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked&quot; (NIV).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are not spoken in terms of super powers, just strength, and morality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, the first use of it in Spider-Man is in Amazing Fantasy #15, Spider-Man's first appearance. Uncle Ben doesn't say it. It's just a Aesop's Fable type of moral lesson:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eJBFl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the movie, and any modern spidey comic or cartoon, Uncle Ben says it, but has never known Pete is Spider-Man. He always says it as a &quot;You're a Man now, not a boy.&quot; lesson of responsibility. Parker has always been top of his class, gifted in brains. When he first gains the powers, he becomes strong, and often the typical teenage attitude. Ben gives him the &quot;Talk&quot; to get him to shape up, but it doesn't work.  In Amazing Spider-Man Ben says &quot;If you can do good things for others, you have a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;moral obligation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to do those things. Not choice, obligation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/sxsZVZDF-vs?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Toby Spider-Man film uses the traditional phrase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_5d6rTQcU2U?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But they both have the same thing in common. Parker has been getting into fights, he's staying out, being &quot;suspicious&quot;.  It's just the phrase a father-figure normally states.&lt;/strong&gt; Specifically, it's something that Parker also tells a bunch of random people multiple times through cartoon and comic history. He says it to both normal and super powered people. And then they do the same. Spider-Gwen and Kitty Pride&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gjZUO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l1u62.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bonus: In a deleted scene of Amazing Spider-Man 2, Parker's father is alive, and says the same thing. He does not know Parker is Spider-Man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/xvNLiwXIKos?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-08-28T19:03:51.993" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T19:03:51.993" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39435" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39436" CreationDate="2015-08-28T20:18:31.557" Score="5" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a show in the 90s about a young man who gets an entry level job (admin or maybe data entry) in a big corporation.&#xA;He quickly climbs the corporate ladder by manipulating, backstabbing and blackmailing his colleagues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point the guy drugged this one woman who was trying to expose him by putting something in her glass and accused her of being a drug addict.&#xA;The woman denied the charge but to settle the matter, a drug test was ordered, which she failed and was thus fired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the season it was suggested that the guy got the entry level position that he was initially in, by killing and impersonating the person who was actually hired for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, at one point, the camera followed the guy as he was getting back to his expensive apartment in an exclusive high rise (I want to say in NYC) to reveal that the apartment was empty and that he slept in a cardboard box set in one corner of his bedroom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20184" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-08-28T20:55:07.430" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T21:01:13.153" Title="Identify a 90s show about ruthless careerist" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:07:20.483" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39435" CreationDate="2015-08-28T20:42:06.110" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like you're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_%28TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Profit&lt;/a&gt; from 1996.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jim Profit is a newly promoted junior-executive at Gracen &amp;amp; Gracen (G&amp;amp;G), a multinational conglomerate that often engages in unethical business practices while actively cultivating a positive public image. G&amp;amp;G’s dark side does not bother Profit, who is not above using blackmail, bribery, extortion, or worse to get ahead himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jim was raised in a cardboard box. And I'm pretty sure that at some point he drugs a co-worker and hypnotizes her so she wouldn't pass a lie detector test (&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://mental-block.wikia.com/wiki/Profit&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;It was in episode 4&lt;/a&gt;). The show is often lauded as being ahead of its time, but it was sadly cancelled after a handful of episodes. Here's a clip from the show where Jim sleeps in that cardboard box:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ca8B9lUxicU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-08-28T21:01:13.153" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T21:01:13.153" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39439" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-28T22:14:10.737" Score="5" ViewCount="1443" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the showpieces of MI:RN is an attempt by Ethan Hunt to free-dive (meaning swimming without an auxiliary oxygen supply) into a water cooled computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The necessity for the free-dive is predicated by the pretext that the sensors will detect 'any metal' (notice we're not just talking non-conductive or non ferrous, but &lt;em&gt;any metal&lt;/em&gt;) that passes through the intake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;With this in mind, how is it possible for Ethan to have an electronic interface built into his suit, indicating his remaining oxygen supply?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E0dI9.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E0dI9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst it's a relatively simple component, is it possible to create such electronics without the use of metals?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this based on an existing technology?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T11:17:13.803" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T11:17:13.803" Title="Is it possible to have non-metallic electronics?" Tags="|realism|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-rogue-nation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39439" CreationDate="2015-08-28T22:55:21.483" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Non metallic circuits are possible, but mostly improbable in practical or consumer levels. It's relatively new.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First part already has consumer usage. OLEDS, Organic Light Emitting Diodes are non metallic screen technology. Can be organic or polymer based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second is ORBs, Organic Radical Batteries, or a newer tech/version, Organic Redux Flow Batteries. Again Organic or Polymer based.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third is ICPs, intrinsically conducting polymers, used as conductive material (wires or traces). There are traditional non metallic conductors too, like graphite (pencil lead).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally OFets, Organic Field Effect Transistors. Transistors being the heart of any Integrated Circuit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Mission Impossible clearly uses fictionally advanced ideas of it (border line science fiction), a non metallic electrical circuit is not impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-08-28T23:00:53.393" LastActivityDate="2015-08-28T23:00:53.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39451" CreationDate="2015-08-28T23:13:48.550" Score="2" ViewCount="630" Body="&lt;p&gt;At about 1:40:00 into the film...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the massed Arabian cavalry leaves the Howeitat encampment to attack Aqaba, they pass by what appear to be women on the surrounding cliffs...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nBVfO.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nBVfO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...who are making a shrill whooping sound.  Ali gives a knowing smile which indicates that this is a traditional gesture which women make when their men go to war.  Or is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is being referred to by this scene where women on the cliffs are whooping?  From where does this tradition stem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-28T23:16:14.150" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T03:19:55.497" Title="Lawrence of Arabia: women on the cliffs" Tags="|plot-explanation|lawrence-of-arabia|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39442" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-28T23:48:25.177" Score="3" ViewCount="359" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2327948/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;High Moon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a (very loose) TV adaptation of the 1969 book &lt;em&gt;The Lotus Caves&lt;/em&gt;. It was started as a pilot for a Syfy TV series, but eventually the series was declined. The Pilot was rigged into an original TV Movie instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the movie ends in a cliff hanger. Yama starts to asphyxiate when her suit runs out of oxygen while underground on the Moon. She drops the force field in her helmet and is surprised to be able breath. The red lotus that the movie revolves around is producing oxygen. She sees a light and finds an entire cavern full of bioluminescent flowers and plants and trees and water (Very Journey to the Center of the Earth). &lt;strong&gt;The camera pans away and boom, a ton of floating eyeballs in the middle of the sky are shown.&lt;/strong&gt; Cue Credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vjCHK.png&quot; alt=&quot;The frame is dark except for a patch in the lower middle that has a tracery of tangled blue illuminated lines and red lights.  Spotted around the frame, the largest in the middle, are seven eyes, showing the iris, pupil and part sclera as viewed between the lids.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These same eyes were seen earlier in the Indian moon Colony base. Very cryptically, and without explanation. Since the Movie ends, and the series was not ordered, no canon is forthcoming. I've attempted to look for answer on what the eyes were, or why they were there but couldn't find anything. &lt;strong&gt;Does anyone have any links or information on the eyeballs, or how the series would have progressed in general? Any interviews?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the movie does not follow the books. At least the setting is similar, but major changes between history and cast and everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="98496" LastEditDate="2023-05-04T18:40:55.173" LastActivityDate="2023-05-04T18:40:55.173" Title="High Moon (The Lotus Caves) Floating Eyeballs" Tags="|plot-explanation|high-moon|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="39443" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39444" CreationDate="2015-08-28T23:59:25.880" Score="3" ViewCount="6078" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first episode of &lt;em&gt;NCIS&lt;/em&gt; starts out with an incident aboard Air Force One, where a Navy officer guarding the &quot;nuclear football&quot; is poisoned. While the Secret Service and FBI are arguing jurisdiction, Gibbs, Ducky, and Dinozzo board the plane and basically steal the crime scene. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They pull this off by having Ducky pretend to be the local ME, and Gibbs and Dinozzo pretending to be his assistants. This fools the FBI long enough to get them off the plane. A major plot for the rest of the episode is the jockeying for control over the body between NCIS/FBI/SS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except -- the FBI lead on scene was Fornell, who has a long history with Gibbs (they share an ex-wife, for example) and NCIS in general. In the later seasons (the ones I've seen) the two behave as if they had been friends for decades. They certainly have no problem with joint investigations when their jurisdictions overlap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it ever explained in a future episode why Fornell didn't immediately recognize Gibbs when he got on the plane?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T00:21:41.653" Title="Why didn't Fornell recognize Gibbs in &quot;Yankee White&quot;?" Tags="|ncis|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39443" CreationDate="2015-08-29T00:21:41.653" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. It's a known continuity issue, along with his name in the first episode (Tom instead of Tobias). Never explained publicly. Even in later seasons though, Gibbs and Fornell outwardly portray the antagonistic inter-departamental grudge match, the typical jurisdictional fighting that competing government agencies are known for. Reverse Frenemies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T00:21:41.653" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39441" CreationDate="2015-08-29T03:19:55.497" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is called &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ululation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ululation&lt;/a&gt;, and as explained in the very thorough wiki page, many peoples around the world have used it in celebration and sorrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, that specific scene in Lawrence of Arabia was showing that the women of the Arab forces were both celebrating their men going off to war, and expressing their sorrow that some won't return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9505" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T03:19:55.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39452" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-08-29T03:28:37.303" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic adventure drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel through his British company, Horizon Pictures, with the screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. The film stars Peter O'Toole in the title role. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential films in the history of cinema. The dramatic score by Maurice Jarre and the Super Panavision 70 cinematography by Freddie Young are also highly acclaimed.[2] The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won seven in total including Best Director, Best Sound Editing, Best Film Editing, and Best Picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_of_Arabia_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lawrence of Arabia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="9866" LastEditDate="2015-08-29T13:33:24.050" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T13:33:24.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39453" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-08-29T03:28:37.303" Score="0" Body="Epic film produced in 1962 depicting events in the life of T. E. Lawrence. It is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential films in the history of cinema." OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="9866" LastEditDate="2015-08-29T13:34:02.433" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T13:34:02.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39018" CreationDate="2015-08-29T05:20:10.067" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;NCIS is well known for being completely inaccurate in any and all things technical when it comes to computers, to the point of ridicule. It has no relation to real hacking or programming at all. One episode has Mcgee and Abbey sharing a keyboard to fight a hacker, as in each took half the keyboard to type...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/u8qgehH3kEQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;Utterly. Painfully .Wrong.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, in universe, McGee has credentials and training in computers. We learn in Season 1 Episode 7 he graduated highly from MIT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Science degree in computer forensics from MIT. His college GPA was 3.9&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also did it fairly young. He is considered an expert in Cyber Security and regularly hacks into top level security networks of other US and International intelligence and Crime Fighting departments, without getting caught most of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-08-29T10:43:02.980" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T10:43:02.980" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10943" CreationDate="2015-08-29T06:04:45.733" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As others have stated, Sam Gold is ego personified; Avi states this in the film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Sam Gold&quot; that the gangsters refer to is a ghost story created by Zack and Avi, a fiction to intimidate and threaten the gangsters' egos. Zack &amp;amp; Avi hired Lily Walker so that they could interface with the criminal underworld (&amp;amp; manipulate Macha) while remaining under the radar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In our world, Sam Gold is literally the executive producer of the film. The first words that appear on screen before anything else are &quot;Samuel Goldwyn.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24405" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T06:04:45.733" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39463" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39476" CreationDate="2015-08-29T09:32:01.973" Score="6" ViewCount="7116" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tyler Durden had instructed his followers to cut his balls if he tries to tell the police about their plan. He knew that his other self will try to inform the police. This means that he didn't mind dying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, he got scared when the narrator tried to shoot himself and thereby kill Tyler. Why this contradiction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24413" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-29T13:29:24.490" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T22:38:42.870" Title="Why did Tyler Durden in Fight club want to get his testicles cut?" Tags="|fight-club|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39466" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-08-29T10:23:38.363" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-08-29T10:23:38.363" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T10:23:38.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39467" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-08-29T10:23:38.363" Score="0" Body="American comedy-drama movie from 2013, based on the Brent Hartinger novel of the same name." OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-08-29T20:55:25.437" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T20:55:25.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39472" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49126" CreationDate="2015-08-29T17:37:37.970" Score="7" ViewCount="1379" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a plot summary from Wikipedia of the third episode of Mr. Robot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;at the party, fsociety leaks Evil Corp's emails that incriminate Colby for covering up a toxic waste leak which caused leukemia in Elliot's father and Angela's mother. Elliot returns to fsociety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Elliot return to fsociety? Is this because he doesn't want Colby being sent to prison? Why couldn't he just continue his new &quot;normal life&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24422" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-31T08:58:18.567" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T08:51:26.683" Title="Why did Elliot return to fsociety in the third episode of Mr. Robot?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mr-robot|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39475" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-29T22:21:05.217" Score="7" ViewCount="345" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was only recently that I conciously noticed that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088194/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Streets of Fire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; employs quite an unusual structure for its end credits. When the movie ends, first the cast list scrolls over a view of the last scene, then it fades to black and the rest of the credits roll, &lt;em&gt;beginning with the list of songs&lt;/em&gt;, then all the other stuff follows, producers, ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This strikes me as quite unusual, since in most every other movie credits I've seen the list of songs appear at the very end of the credits, right before the various disclaimers, identification numbers and stamps. Now, the music definitely plays a very important role in this movie, so from an artistic standpoint it seems a natural move to list all the songs first. But I am so used to seeing the songs as the very last item of the credits that I thought this was some kind of regulated standard or maybe at least unwritten law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, first of all &lt;strong&gt;is there any kind of official or semi-official regulation that determines the list of songs in the movie to appear at the end of the end credits&lt;/strong&gt; or is this really free to be structured as every filmmaker/production company likes? In the latter case, why is it still so seemingly usual to list the songs at the end (or is it?)? And in the former case, &lt;strong&gt;was there any bureaucratic or whatever-natured hurdle to overcome for the movie to show its songs at the beginning of the end credits&lt;/strong&gt;? Or is this merely a perception issue on my part and it isn't that uncommon to restructure the end credits? Or has it just gotten more restricted over time and back in 1984 the rules/guidelines were laxer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Those are admittedly quite a bunch of questions, but I hope it's apparent that they all play into the single bigger question of &quot;what's the matter with those seemingly unusual end credits?&quot;.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T21:24:02.557" Title="How are Streets of Fire's end credits structured so unusually (or are they)?" Tags="|production|credits|streets-of-fire|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39463" CreationDate="2015-08-29T22:38:42.870" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two points. The first is that &quot;cutting off your balls&quot; is a standing order, for any threat, not just Tyler/Jack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You know the drill.  You said if &lt;strong&gt;anyone&lt;/strong&gt; ever tries to interfere with Project Mayhem, &lt;strong&gt;even you&lt;/strong&gt;, we got to get his balls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They do this to a police commissioner earlier in the movie as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second is that &lt;em&gt;Tyler&lt;/em&gt; is an expert at reading people. He knows how people will react, what their limit is. He manipulates, breaks down and brainwashes/indoctrinates people the entire movie, Jack included. That coupled with him BEING Jack and KNOWNING that He and Jack are the same person, he (thinks) he &lt;em&gt;knows&lt;/em&gt; exactly how far Jack is willing to go and what will stop him. He knows that Jack will not go that far, or that he can escape it and will back down. He's obviously wrong at the end, but his argument with Jack in the skyscraper near the end shows this is what he believes. That Jack's a coward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T22:38:42.870" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39475" CreationDate="2015-08-29T23:03:01.440" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Zak Forsman has a guide to credits that he has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indietalk.com/showpost.php?s=8caca405a6c86eb335b109088385b545&amp;amp;p=77989&amp;amp;postcount=3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;posted on a few sites&lt;/a&gt; (see link for order).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The order of [&lt;em&gt;opening credits, or first part of the closing credits if opening credits are not used&lt;/em&gt;]* &lt;strong&gt;is determined by guild rules -- SAG, the DGA, WGA and other unions.&lt;/strong&gt;  The order in which credits are billed generally follows their importance to the film, just not linearly. First is usually the motion picture company, followed by the producer, then the 'a film by' credit. Then we see the Title followed by the cast. from there we reverse gears on the whole &amp;quot;order of importance&amp;quot; guideline and work backwards to the director...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closing credits do not have any hard and fast rules that dictate how they need to be ordered. But there are conventions that have been established. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you intend to have no opening credits (something George Lucas left the DGA over)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; you basically put the Director, Writer and Producer credits first, then go down the line for the closing credits ...&#xA;special consideration is given for &amp;quot;name&amp;quot; actors, often they are credited just before the title comes up. and again, you have a lot of wiggle room with closing credits. some films credit the entire cast first, before the director. you have options here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Emphasis and changes, mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So guild, and probably production company rules apply. As with most things in Hollywood, anything can be negotiated, so nothing is set in stone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ifsstech.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/end-credits-guide.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The International Film School of Sydney has this rule&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For all films produced at IFSS there must be a complete credit sequence built upon the template below. Obviously if your particular production did not have a particular role then it shouldnʼt be included; likewise specialist roles not mentioned below but of significance to the film should be added. &lt;strong&gt;What is important is that the essential order of roles below is maintained&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sagaftra.org/files/sag/Digest_Theatrical_Television_8_1_0.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;SAG rules (9. Billing-Credits)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Theatrical) Films with a cast of 50 or less, all performers shall receive screen credit. All other films, not less than 50 performers shall be listed at the end of the film. Stunt performers need not be identified by role.&#xA;Should the Producer fail to meet the requirements of either the billing or credit provisions, [damages provided].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the finer details are embedded in contracts between the Guilds and production and other companies involved, and typically not available publicly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T23:03:01.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9145" CreationDate="2015-08-29T23:33:23.830" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ma-Ma is seen playing with a sculpture during the scene where Techie initiates war protocol, shutting down the block. It can be assumed she takes them from him because she likes them. In fact, in the final scene where Ma-Ma is confronted there are in fact 2 wire sculptures. One on the floor by Anderson and the other on her bed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sculpture is symbolic of Ma-Ma's humanity. She was not always so cruel, circumstance made her that way. The first sculpture is on the floor, far from her. This representing her humanity as of late and in that moment. But when faced with death, amidst the blood and pills the sculpture is prominently on show and close to her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Prior to taking control of Peach Trees, Ma-Ma was a prostitute. Lester Grimes, her pimp, one day found out that Ma-Ma intended to leave him. She was in a relationship with a man named Eric. Eric was an intelligent man. He was skilled with computers, chemistry and circuitry. It was in fact Eric who invented Slo-Mo, with the intent of it being a way for him to provide for Ma-Ma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eric was eventually tracked down by Lester Grimes. He broke into his apartment and killed him brutally. Stringing him up on the wall, Grimes then waited for Ma-Ma to arrive. As expected the event traumatized Ma-Ma, she was reminded of her place and who she &quot;belonged&quot; to. Grimes then gave Ma-Ma her signature scar as punishment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometime later Ma-Ma decided to rebel and get away from Grimes. Prior to performing fellatio on him, she offered him some Slo-Mo. Accepting it, Ma-Ma proceeded to feminize Grimes with her teeth. She left him to bleed to death. She then took over Grimes' industry and assets to create a platform for her to distribute Slo-Mo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Techie is in some way reminds Ma-Ma of Eric. She treats him horribly but yet finds his work impressive. She has some attachment to him and likes his sculptures enough to take them for herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the final scene the objects in her trophy case, the items strewn across her bed, represent her as a person. They are quite blunt pieces of symbolism but effective if time is taken to learn her backstory and dissect her character. None of the items are more important than the sculpture.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The jacket and guns showing her conquest, the judge helmet showing her disdain for authority. Her outstretched arm in the light reaching for her gun says quite a bit as well. The idea that she would sleep with a gun speaks for itself. The gun being lit signifying the path she chose and where it got her. While the pills, sculpture and her own blood are in the dark. Contrasting how she appears on the outside to what is behind her cold eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(It can also be interpreted that the light shows she died by the gun and not by drugs, as one would assume)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, she made poor choices but all the same was corrupted by the cruel world she and millions of others inhabit. With all the damage caused by her, there is an attempt by the director and writers to paint her in a sympathetic light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could be more specific, but in the end once you notice these details the picture paints itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c5pz0.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c5pz0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24430" LastEditorUserId="24430" LastEditDate="2015-08-31T22:25:42.187" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T22:25:42.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33418" CreationDate="2015-08-29T23:39:25.720" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stannis had only 4,000 men but the point is that he was able to capture Mance off guard. Mance is also averse to fighting battles that would lead to an inordinate number of deaths of free folk. So he wouldn't order a pyrrhic attack while surrounded by four thousand trained cavalrymen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24432" LastActivityDate="2015-08-29T23:39:25.720" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39482" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39483" CreationDate="2015-08-30T00:27:52.113" Score="14" ViewCount="41470" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1999 film &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fight Club&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; stars Edward Norton as an average &quot;everyman&quot; character, a random nobody, that develops an all around better secondary personality called Tyler Durden. Edward's character is never directly addressed by his real name, and even in the credits is only credited as &quot;&lt;em&gt;The Narrator&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. In the movie he gave fake names in the Anonymous Support Groups he visited, and even Marla thought his name was Tyler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, he had to have a real name, in-universe. Before the events of the movie, he flies constantly. He has a real job. A car, a condo, insurance. Most people would have that under their real name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what is the character's name? Are there any hints?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-30T00:32:17.410" LastActivityDate="2023-04-25T10:22:02.337" Title="What is Fight-Club's main character's real name?" Tags="|character|fight-club|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39482" CreationDate="2015-08-30T00:27:52.113" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are no blatant references to the Narrator's name in the movie. The source material, the 1996 novel of the same name, has the main character refer to himself in the third person as &amp;quot;Joe's arbitrary organ&amp;quot; a few times, but this could be a red-herring as it may refer to an article the character read. Of course &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; the article being about a Joe and the character being named Joe is possible, but not confirmed. &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/3394/23541&quot;&gt;The Author has stated that even he doesn't know his real name.&lt;/a&gt; It does have a scene where the character shows Marla &amp;quot;proof&amp;quot; that he isn't Tyler, via his driver's license. It does not have Tyler's name, but considering the Narrator is an unreliable narrator, there is always the doubt his license is also fake (or was replaced by the Tyler persona).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie on the other hand does not have Joe. It has Jack, as in &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Jack's Smirking Revenge&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/6pJC0FLA3Sk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Narrator uses &amp;quot;Jack's arbitrary organ&amp;quot; phrasing multiple times. Most people will rely on just that to call the character Jack, but others point out that the Narrator reads a Reader's Digest article about the first person view of internal organs, called &amp;quot;I Am Jack's ____&amp;quot;. (FYI: The articles are real, and old, 1970s old. The series was Joe and Jill, not Jack like in the movie.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aside from the article reference, &lt;strong&gt;the movie script definitively names the character as &amp;quot;Jack&amp;quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt; SCREEN BLACK&#xA;&#xA;                         JACK (V.O.)&#xA;             People were always asking me, did I&#xA;             know Tyler Durden.&#xA;&#xA; FADE IN:&#xA;&#xA; INT.  SOCIAL ROOM - TOP FLOOR OF HIGH RISE -- NIGHT&#xA;&#xA; TYLER has one arm around Jack's shoulder; the other hand&#xA; holds a HANDGUN with the barrel lodged in JACK'S MOUTH.&#xA; Tyler is sitting in Jack's lap.&#xA;&#xA; They are both sweating and disheveled, both around 30; Tyler&#xA; is blond, handsome; and Jack, brunette, is appealing in a&#xA; dry sort of way.  Tyler looks at his watch.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The change from the script to the credits is really a stylistic approach, as the character's real name is indifferent to the moral of the story, that &amp;quot;Jack&amp;quot; is an everyman. His name is not important to the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But again, the Narrator &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;must&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; have a given name in-universe, as he has led a &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; life up until he develops Dissociative Identity Disorder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, there is only one reliable hint of the Narrator's name. A blink and you miss it view of his paycheck. &lt;sub&gt;(Will update with screenshot when possible)&lt;/sub&gt; The prop was later auctioned off, with a Certificate of Authenticity. &lt;strong&gt;Screen used prop of The Narrator's real name, Jack Moore&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Sn4kX.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/96SyU.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/96SyU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BfRdV.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BfRdV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I am Jack's 38-dollar-per-hour desk job.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2023-04-25T10:22:02.337" LastActivityDate="2023-04-25T10:22:02.337" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="39487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38685" CreationDate="2015-08-30T03:04:15.430" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kama is a japanese weapon, and the term Kamacrazy was used on Urban Dictionary in 2011 to describe &quot;Crazy to the extent that you'd practically go running out in tribal-wear swinging a kama (sickle) at civilians, not because you are an overall angry person but just for the simple fact that you've probably been bored to the point where your sanity has been weakened.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that is still very similar seeing as both describe it as going into battle, regardless of possible death... also, both stem from japan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24438" LastActivityDate="2015-08-30T03:04:15.430" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39494" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39497" CreationDate="2015-08-30T06:40:50.733" Score="10" ViewCount="4820" Body="&lt;p&gt;Melisandre promises Stannis to give a son in Season 2 on &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;. She births a Shadow/Ghost in front of Davos. He killed Renly Barathoeon. What happened to that shadow, is he back with Stannis or Melisandre? Or he is free to roam anywhere in world? Or did he simply disappear after the task.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened to this character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-30T11:36:09.060" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T07:39:51.837" Title="What happened to the Shadow son of Stannis after killing Renly?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39496" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-30T07:04:09.350" Score="3" ViewCount="7665" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know that Michael &quot;Mike&quot; Ehrmantraut from &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; was a former Philadelphia police officer who worked as the Head of Corporate Security at Los Pollos Hermanos. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did he end up working with Gus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-30T11:37:12.617" LastActivityDate="2017-05-15T12:21:47.517" Title="How did Michael &quot;Mike&quot; Ehrmantraut end up working with Gus?" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39494" CreationDate="2015-08-30T07:20:27.293" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Shadow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones Wikia&lt;/a&gt; Weaknesses section:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Shadows live very short lives, created only for the tasks they were given. Although they can become invisible, a mirror will compromise the creature's location. It is implied by Catelyn that Shadows inherit the physical features of the men who fathered them, as the Shadow that killed Renly Baratheon bore a striking resemblance to its &quot;father,&quot; Stannis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's clearly mentioned that Shadows live very short lives and are created mainly for the task, so this Shadow might be no more. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-08-31T07:39:51.837" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T07:39:51.837" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39498" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39499" CreationDate="2015-08-30T07:22:05.160" Score="11" ViewCount="7075" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt; Rocket asks Peter Quill to retrieve a prisoner's leg and he also attempts to get Ravager's cybernetic eye later in the movie. What's with his obsession for artificial body parts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zr3T3.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zr3T3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24166" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-30T11:38:28.370" LastActivityDate="2020-08-09T14:00:46.580" Title="Why is Rocket Raccoon obsessed with artificial body parts?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|guardians-of-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39498" CreationDate="2015-08-30T07:54:16.987" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;They're both jokes. Raccoon asks for the leg just to mess with Peter (and that prisoner) and he asks for the eye later as a call-back to that joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Raccoon: Oh, I was just kidding about the leg. I just need these two things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peter: What?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Raccoon: I thought it'd be funny! Was it funny? What'd he look like, hopping around?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Raccoon: There's one more thing we need to complete the plan: that guy's eye!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peter: No, we don't need that guy's eye!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Raccoon: No, seriously, I need it! &lt;em&gt;[giggles]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's just his sense of humor. He saw a guy with a prosthetic eye and couldn't resist. It's a part of his (and the franchise's) irreverent and sarcastic nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-30T08:00:52.220" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39500" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41176" CreationDate="2015-08-30T08:16:26.117" Score="4" ViewCount="373" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Person of Interest episode YHWH (Season 4 finale), there is a heartbreaking dialogue between Finch and the machine, where the machine states&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I had to invent new rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What exactly is meant by this &quot;rules&quot;? Is it the fact that the machine wants them to kill the congress man in Season 3? Is it the fact that the machine sold herself to Samaritan in order to save her team? Or is it something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T21:19:28.073" Title="What is meant by &quot;I had to invent new rules&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|person-of-interest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39502" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39504" CreationDate="2015-08-30T08:45:14.067" Score="9" ViewCount="84649" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Fifty Shades of Grey&lt;/em&gt; movie, the protagonist was named Christian Grey. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So was the title of the movie related to the protagonist? Is there some deeper meaning to the title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2015-08-30T08:50:42.573" LastActivityDate="2020-06-10T18:23:30.490" Title="What is the meaning of &quot;Fifty Shades of Grey&quot;?" Tags="|title|fifty-shades-of-grey|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39502" CreationDate="2015-08-30T09:18:19.113" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was a topic of discussion in my book club last year.  I was referred to the following &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bustle.com/articles/61979-what-does-fifty-shades-of-greys-title-mean-the-symbolism-goes-deeper-than-youd-think&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So what is the title of Fifty Shades of Grey referring to? There are a&#xA;  few options. On the surface, Fifty Shades of Grey means roughly what&#xA;  you think it means: Christian Grey has a lot of facets of his&#xA;  personality. He can go from gentleman one minute to S&amp;amp;M manic the&#xA;  next. The book is showcasing all those shades of Grey's character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But the title is also a play on words. The phrase &quot;shades of gray&quot;&#xA;  usually refers to a situation that is not clear, particularly with&#xA;  regard to whether or not something is categorically evil. When doubt&#xA;  comes into play, things are neither black, nor white, but are in a&#xA;  gray area. Of course, Christian's last name allowed the author to&#xA;  title the book the very clever Fifty Shades of Grey with it's unique&#xA;  spelling of his last name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As for the number 50, there are a lot of speculations as to why the&#xA;  author chose that number. Interestingly, data has found that the human&#xA;  eye can only see 32 shades of gray. So perhaps by choosing a number&#xA;  higher than that, the author is telling readers that you can't see all&#xA;  of the facets of Grey's character, and therefore you cannot judge him&#xA;  if you don't have the full picture. It reinforces that theme of&#xA;  &quot;shades of gray&quot; confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-08-30T09:18:19.113" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39472" CreationDate="2015-08-30T15:02:42.710" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might be the biggest cause of Elliot's return to F society, according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Robot_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;F Society's missions is to cancel all debts by taking down one of the largest corporations in the world, E Corp (known as &quot;Evil Corp&quot; by Elliot), which also happens to be All safe's biggest client.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-30T16:01:47.913" LastActivityDate="2015-08-30T16:01:47.913" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39516" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-30T19:58:25.370" Score="2" ViewCount="1783" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the early episodes of &lt;em&gt;Hannibal&lt;/em&gt; season 3, I understood that Dr. Lecter believes we can change the taste of meats (humans and animals) while they are still alive by feeding them with refined flavors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this theory seems to have been created by Hannibal (or at least evoked only by Hannibal in the TV show), we can deduce that Hannibal has been working on this theory throughout his cannibal's life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for Hannibal, perfect flesh can only be his as he spent his whole life eating refined flavor and cooking as he likes to eat (both normal dishes and cannibal dishes), hence the question: is it the last will of Hannibal to eat himself (or some part of his body) as the perfect last meal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do the books that inspired the series (and movies) speak of this theory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22892" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-30T20:20:57.930" LastActivityDate="2017-11-16T01:58:25.503" Title="Is Hannibal's last will to eat himself?" Tags="|character|hannibal-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39517" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-30T20:51:32.737" Score="1" ViewCount="509" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Purge: Anarchy&lt;/em&gt; there's the following dialogue between the mother and her daughter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mother: They buy poor and sick people and they take them in their homes and they kill them where they're safe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that correct or did she say something else? What did she mean with this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24465" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-30T23:11:15.470" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T08:50:55.357" Title="What exactly did the mother tell to her daughter in The Purge: Anarchy?" Tags="|dialogue|the-purge-anarchy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39519" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39540" CreationDate="2015-08-30T21:52:38.760" Score="4" ViewCount="10888" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched the Ron Howard movie &lt;em&gt;Parenthood&lt;/em&gt; from 1989.  I completely forgot that a young Joaquin Phoenix stars in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed that Joaquin is credited as &lt;strong&gt;Leaf&lt;/strong&gt; .  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After some research, I could not find a credible reason as to the name change, only &quot;rumor has it&quot; or &quot;according to sources&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone provide me &lt;strong&gt;factual information&lt;/strong&gt; on why Joaquin Phoenix was credited as Leaf Phoenix as a child actor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T10:04:24.097" Title="Why was Joaquin Phoenix once credited as Leaf Phoenix early in his career?" Tags="|credits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39520" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-30T22:02:51.960" Score="10" ViewCount="1577" Body="&lt;p&gt;This whole sequence in &lt;strong&gt;Goodfellas&lt;/strong&gt; baffled me. Why was DeNiro's character Jimmy allowed to betray and slaughter every member of his crew, including one of their wives (which I thought was taboo) without repercussions? Obviously two of them disobeyed Jimmy by purchasing expensive things but the others did not. I know from the line &quot;he kicked some money upstairs to Paulie&quot; that Paulie was his boss and naturally the boss of all the guys Jimmy whacked. How could Paulie not care? Like Henry casually said &lt;strong&gt;&quot;It made him sick to turn the money over to the guys that robbed it, he'd rather whack em&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt; This was straight up betrayal and mass murder of loyal and capable associates that included civilian family members. How did Jimmy not get any blow back from this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24466" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-31T09:04:25.153" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T02:35:06.023" Title="About the &quot;whacking&quot; scenes in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas" Tags="|plot-explanation|goodfellas|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39519" CreationDate="2015-08-30T22:12:52.253" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED380367&quot;&gt;Biography Today Magazine&lt;/a&gt;, 1994 (in an obituary for River Phoenix):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;John and Arlyn [Phoenix] chose for their firstborn a symbolic name, after the river of life in the Hermann Hesse novel, Siddhartha, then a cult classic. Their daughters were named in the same fashion: Rainbow Joan of Arc, called Rain; Libertad Mariposa, translated into Liberty Butterfly and shortened to Libby; and Summer Joy. &lt;strong&gt;The family's only other boy, Joaquin Rafael, asked at the age of four to change his name so that he could be like the others. Given permission by his father (who was raking leaves at the time), he chose Leaf.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;http://thehouseholdcat.tumblr.com/post/9290153095/the-church-of-river-phoenix-eternalriver&quot;&gt;it seems&lt;/a&gt; his mother Arlyn (AKA Heart) also commented on it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;River, Rainbow, Leaf, Liberty, Summer... these are all such beautiful things. We just wanted to remind people of the beauty around them. Leaf even chose his own name, we didn’t give it to him. They can change them anytime they wish. They could change them to Larry, I don’t care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, he changed his name back later; according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquin_Phoenix#Early_life&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, it was at the age of 15.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-08-30T22:28:04.600" LastActivityDate="2015-08-30T22:28:04.600" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39524" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-31T01:21:02.430" Score="13" ViewCount="2227" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;MacGuffin&lt;/a&gt; is a plot device that motivates the story's characters, but whose specific nature is unimportant to the overall plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But is there a term for a plot device that is a primary motivator for the audience, but that the characters are not invested in, or are even oblivious to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, at the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3743822/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fear The Walking Dead&lt;/a&gt;, the audience knows what is going on, but the characters are otherwise occupied. In fact, the primary attraction is that, we know what is going to happen, and we want to see how the characters will deal with the unfolding realization of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a term for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3361" LastEditorUserId="3361" LastEditDate="2017-05-20T12:02:16.947" LastActivityDate="2017-05-20T12:02:16.947" Title="What would be the opposite of a MacGuffin?" Tags="|terminology|macguffin|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39520" CreationDate="2015-08-31T02:14:53.077" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jimmy was in charge of his own crew on that heist.  Hell, the driver (Parnell Edwards) was black.  When's the last time you heard of a black guy in the mob?  Jimmy had them all whacked when he feared they were going to start implicating him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-31T09:07:28.853" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T09:07:28.853" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39531" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39546" CreationDate="2015-08-31T05:20:36.313" Score="7" ViewCount="3415" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the ending scene of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Darjeeling_Limited&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Darjeeling Limited&lt;/a&gt;, the three brothers run on the platform to chase a departing train. Suddenly they throw away their luggage one by one and board the train without their bags. What is the significance of this scene? What does 'the throwing of bags' imply?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fTZkQ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fTZkQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The ending scene&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-31T08:55:22.467" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T13:55:15.517" Title="Ending scene of The Darjeeling Limited" Tags="|analysis|ending|the-darjeeling-limited|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39532" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39517" CreationDate="2015-08-31T05:46:27.877" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's exactly what she said &quot;It's how the wealthy Purge, baby. They buy poor&#xA;and sick people, and they take them in their homes and they kill them&#xA;where they're safe.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And She meant that those rich people buy poor people so they can kill without the risk of going outside their homes (safe for the rich people).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24398" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-31T08:50:55.357" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T08:50:55.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39533" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-08-31T06:39:39.873" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-08-31T06:39:39.873" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T06:39:39.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39534" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-08-31T06:39:39.873" Score="0" Body="Comedy-drama film by Wes Anderson, set in India" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-08-31T09:15:23.570" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T09:15:23.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39535" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39536" CreationDate="2015-08-31T07:08:19.720" Score="4" ViewCount="2368" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Heroes, Sylar kills other evolved humans and cuts open their skulls to take their powers. How does he do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T16:20:10.013" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T16:20:10.013" Title="How did Sylar take the powers of other evolved humans?" Tags="|plot-explanation|heroes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39535" CreationDate="2015-08-31T07:27:54.783" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;His ability is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://heroeswiki.com/Intuitive_aptitude&quot;&gt;intuitive aptitude&lt;/a&gt; and basically is an analysis of complex systems, including human brain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Intuitive aptitude is the ability to perfectly understand and utilize&#xA;  anything from information, theories, skills, riddles, logic, and&#xA;  puzzles, to the structure and operation of complex systems, codes&#xA;  without special education or training. The user can instantly learn&#xA;  and understand the complexity and exactness of organisms, objects, and&#xA;  even powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sylar is analysing brains of people with abilities and finding out how to copy them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sylar himself describes intuitive aptitude as the ability to&#xA;  understand how things work, and how to fix them if they are broken&#xA;  (Once Upon a Time in Texas). However, the latter aspect of the ability&#xA;  has almost never been utilized by Sylar after his abandonment of his&#xA;  former identity as Gabriel Gray, timepiece restorer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sylar's ability seems to work for analyzing mechanical and biological&#xA;  systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sylar does not need to kill someone to gain their ability. However, a&#xA;  physical study of the victim's brain requires direct observation&#xA;  necessitating the removal of the upper part of the skull, so the&#xA;  victim soon dies of blood loss and trauma. Victims with rapid cellular&#xA;  regeneration, however, can survive this by repairing the damage (The&#xA;  Second Coming). Sylar has demonstrated that can also &quot;empathically&quot;&#xA;  copy abilities without injuring the source, but still prefers the&#xA;  brain removal method out of a love of killing. He first demonstrated&#xA;  this by empathically copying electric manipulation from Elle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T07:27:54.783" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39519" CreationDate="2015-08-31T10:04:24.097" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's an old oprah interview with Joaquin. If I remember correctly he talks about his name there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://s609.photobucket.com/albums/tt176/emileedel/Oprah%202004/oprahflv-Video-Photobucket-VideoandImageHosting.mp4.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joaquin on Oprah 2004&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24484" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T10:04:24.097" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39524" CreationDate="2015-08-31T11:53:57.687" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you may be looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dramatic+irony&quot;&gt;Dramatic Irony&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16207" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T11:53:57.687" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39524" CreationDate="2015-08-31T13:05:50.313" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you're describing Omniscient POV:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;‘Omniscient POV’ in film means: a point of view outside any of the story’s characters. The audience knows and sees everything that is relevant to know about everybody in the story&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thestorydepartment.com/omniscient-pov/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://thestorydepartment.com/omniscient-pov/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know that I'd call this the &lt;em&gt;opposite&lt;/em&gt; of a MacGuffin, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="756" LastEditDate="2015-08-31T14:59:08.603" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T14:59:08.603" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39531" CreationDate="2015-08-31T13:55:15.517" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note the expression &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com.au/search?q=getting+rid+of+baggage&amp;amp;oq=getting+rid+of+baggage&amp;amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.453j0j7&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;es_sm=122&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&quot;&gt;'getting rid of baggage'&lt;/a&gt; is usually referring to &lt;em&gt;emotional&lt;/em&gt; baggage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The brother's actual journey is accompanied by a kind of 'spiritual journey' as they confront their pasts, analyze their current life &amp;amp; make plans for the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this actual &amp;amp; emotional journey, the linked Wikipedia article states: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the station, the three brothers run for another luxury train called &quot;Bengal Lancer&quot; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;gleefully&lt;/strong&gt; discard all their father's suitcases and bags&lt;/em&gt; on the railway platform as they run after the departing train. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not just suitcases they are discarding, those objects represent their own &lt;em&gt;emotional&lt;/em&gt; baggage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T13:55:15.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39548" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39551" CreationDate="2015-08-31T14:00:51.183" Score="6" ViewCount="892" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Breaking Bad, as far as I understood, Gustavo Fring never really had a family of his own. It is logical from one perspective not to have anyone valuable to you when doing business of the sort. However, following Gustavo's ability to keep his enemies close and display himself as a low profile business owner with normal life, I start to think that he should have had a family. Have there been any hints about his personal life, any ideas, thoughts or assumptions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T14:49:35.237" Title="Any indication that Gustavo Fring might have had a family of his own?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30668" CreationDate="2015-08-31T14:44:21.877" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched Season 6 Episode 24 The Bon Voyage Reaction. At the end of that episode, Raj started to talk with Penny without alcohol, when Penny came to visit Raj in his apt. In their conversation, Penny pointed out that his alcohol was talking and suddenly Raj also realized that he was not drinking. The idea is or the treatment here for him is, like a shock treatment. He was very upset by Lucy's break up. That was cured his shyness. That was my assumption. Because, at that episode no one mentioned how he able to talk with women without alcohol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24491" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-31T14:51:51.807" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T14:51:51.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39548" CreationDate="2015-08-31T14:49:35.237" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is taken directly from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Gustavo_Fring&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Breaking Bad Wiki&lt;/a&gt;, which is usually pretty spot on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gus also claims to have children, though they have never been seen nor anybody else in his family life has been revealed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T14:49:35.237" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39553" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39567" CreationDate="2015-08-31T14:56:49.023" Score="15" ViewCount="40994" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since very beginning, Gustavo's personal bodyguard and executor Mike Ehrmantraut is shown as a smart and an always aware man. Consider that Mike is a former policeman and a walking lie detector; not only that he reads people well but he also possesses certain human qualities. He stops trusting Walter at some point and he does have control over his actions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes me wonder is how did Mike let Walter kill him. It was obvious that Walter came determined to get what he wanted when approaching Mike, so did he just let him do it or did Mike trust Walter more than he should have and that became his lethal mistake?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-09-01T08:27:44.557" LastActivityDate="2018-09-19T17:48:03.377" Title="Why did Mike Ehrmantraut give up his life so easy?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32874" CreationDate="2015-08-31T15:40:01.000" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all: in real land lines you don't get the dial (continuous) tone after the call has been disconnected. Especially, if it was you who initiated the call the connection is usually maintained. Catija's comment is spot on - it's the tone that is the mistake, not the actor's shouts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11330" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T15:40:01.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39556" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-31T16:15:06.820" Score="25" ViewCount="21172" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Matrix, during Neo &amp;amp; Trinity's initial meeting at the club, Trinity and Neo say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trinity:&lt;/strong&gt; It's the question that drives us mad. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question just as I did.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Neo:&lt;/strong&gt; What is the Matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly Neo has knowledge of the Matrix and Trinity claims to have also known about it prior to being unplugged. But how could they have known about the Matrix? And to what degree did they know about it - did they know they were living in a virtual reality?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24495" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-08-31T16:31:23.203" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T07:37:11.070" Title="How does Neo know about the matrix before being removed from the dream world?" Tags="|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39556" CreationDate="2015-08-31T16:34:23.480" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think they spell it out exactly, but the implication is that &quot;The Matrix&quot; is a topic of conversation among the online crowd that Neo is a part of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is how Neo already knows about people like Morpheus and Trinity. He doesn't know them as freedom-fighters, but as elite hackers. They have made a name for themselves fighting against the machines, but Neo doesn't know that. To him, still plugged-in, they are fighting governments and corporations, and whatever other big bad entities he thinks are &quot;controlling the world&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way Neo talks about it, The Matrix sounds like something discussed in vague, conspiracy-theory like terms among these hackers. They aren't fighting back against &quot;the system&quot; or &quot;the man&quot;, they're fighting back against &quot;The Matrix&quot;. But Neo also realizes that there's some kind of deeper meaning to it, he just doesn't know what that is. But he assumes Morpheus can tell him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T16:34:23.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39556" CreationDate="2015-08-31T16:35:40.227" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the Matrix is a rumor in the hacker community. Both Morpheus and Trinity are known within the Matrix as high profile hackers (and Terrorists). News of them is mainstream topics regarding their anti-government actions inside of the simulated world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But mainly, there is the scene before Neo meets Trinity for the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Smwrw4sNCxE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Matrix Has You.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Follow the White Rabbit&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Knock Knock Neo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone, likely Morpheus, Trinity, or the Operator, contacts Neo via his computer and mention the Matrix, just an hour or so before he finds Trinity at the club.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Trinity knowing before being unplugged, it's just like it happens with Neo and everyone else. And the entire idea behind the Machine's using Neo to &quot;fix&quot; the problem with humans. The second movie is all about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Architect:&lt;/strong&gt; As I was saying, [The Oracle] stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99% of all test subjects accepted the program as long as they were given a choice, &lt;strong&gt;even if they were only aware of that choice at a near-unconscious level.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People who make the choice, subconsciously, become aware of how the world seems fake, wrong. They start to think and look for clues. People outside the Matrix leave clues. So the ones inside the Matrix start to figure it out. Then the Zion rebels actually track them down and teach them about it, some of it, before giving them the Red Pill Blue Pill choice. That is how Neo found out, that is how Trinity found out, and all the others we see in the movie and Animatrix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trinity explains it at the club:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trinity:&lt;/strong&gt; Please just listen. I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing. I know why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night you sit at your computer. You're looking for him. I know, because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us mad. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question just as I did.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Neo:&lt;/strong&gt; What is the Matrix.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Trinity:&lt;/strong&gt; The answer is out there, Neo. It's looking for you. And it will find you, if you want it to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Morpheus expands on it later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Neo:&lt;/strong&gt; Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Morpheus:&lt;/strong&gt; I know exactly what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain. But you feel it. You've felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is but it's there, like a splinter in your mind driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Neo:&lt;/strong&gt; The Matrix?&#xA;  &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Morpheus:&lt;/strong&gt; Do you want to know what it is? The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Neo knows about the Matrix because of an ever present malignant doubt about life as he knows it. He &lt;em&gt;KNOWS&lt;/em&gt; something is wrong, even if he can't explain it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-09-01T07:37:11.070" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T07:37:11.070" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39553" CreationDate="2015-08-31T18:10:45.467" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole story behind Ehrmantraut is explain in Breaking Bad's spin off &lt;code&gt;Better Call Soul S1E6 Five-O&lt;/code&gt;, in this episode we discover that he had to face a family drama in the past (I let you discover the episode). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Breaking Bad takes place after these events, the Mike we saw in Breaking Bad is a resigned man that has nothing to loose. Mike lose his last contact with its family (Kaylee his grandaughter) when the DEA found him and he had to leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22892" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T18:10:45.467" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39037" CreationDate="2015-08-31T18:13:39.627" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This seems to be from the Showtime series &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeds_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;WEEDS&lt;/a&gt;, season three, episode five. &quot;Bill Sussman,&quot; aka Mr. Botwin, is in Mr. Wilson's office and is told, in no uncertain terms, that they are surrounded by employees of the Government:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SUIT: You see that window washer outside, cleaning the windows, Mr. Botwin? Notice anything unusual? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;BOTWIN: I don't know, should I? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;WILSON: He's a white guy? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SUIT: Actually, he's a Lithuanian. And that squeegee he's holding is a remote, currently erasing your hard drive, Mr. Wilson. Would you confirm that for me? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;WILSON: (looks at his screen and sees it go wavy then dark) Whoa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SUIT: That's because that window washer is not a window washer. He works for us. And that janitor in the hallway, he works for us too. Turn on your vacuum, Ivan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Vacuum turns on)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SUIT: Turn it off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Vacuum goes off)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more dark and great scene in a ground-breaking dark-comedy series. It was more than a little bit unnerving. No wonder the scene stuck out and was memorable. (To say more is not only a spoiler, but too hard to explain in a succinct fashion.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No source I'm quoting from, I just played the scene a few times and transcribed it, best and fastest I could.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-08-31T18:25:42.767" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T18:25:42.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39399" CreationDate="2015-08-31T18:23:11.223" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one of the interviews if I recall Jessica Hecht (Gretchen) mentioned that Walt and Gretchen have been in love and dated. Once it got deeper, Walt got invited for a dinner to Gretchen's wealthy parents' home. Walt started having some kind of inferiority complex afterwards and they eventually broke up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amc.com/shows/breaking-bad/talk/2009/05/jessica-hecht-interview&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: What’s it like have Bryan Cranston curse at you?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: Oh man, he’s a good actor. But it was easy because Vince Gilligan told us exactly what went down between the characters off screen: We were very much in love and we were to get married. And he came home and met my family, and I come from this really successful, wealthy family, and that knocks him on his side. He couldn’t deal with this inferiority he felt — this lack of connection to privilege. It made him terrified, and he literally just left me, and I was devastated. Walt is fighting his way out of going back to that emotional place, so he says, “F— you.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T18:34:42.233" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39562" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39580" CreationDate="2015-08-31T19:45:43.383" Score="2" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read somewhere that &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Bu%C3%B1uel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Buñuel&lt;/a&gt; made movies in three languages.  All I know are his movies in Spanish and French.  Is that true and in which other languages has he directed movies and what are those movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20094" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2021-12-22T16:57:52.003" LastActivityDate="2021-12-22T16:57:52.003" Title="Buñuel's movies in languages other than Spanish or French" Tags="|luis-bunuel|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5736" CreationDate="2015-08-31T19:48:06.900" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's simple. If they would dig up the first time machine it had been siting in the mine for 6 months, when doc got there in 1885. &#xA;when Marty got there in 1885, the replacement parts to fix it for 1955 would not be available until 1985&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24504" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T19:48:06.900" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39553" CreationDate="2015-08-31T20:33:46.177" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mike and Walter final confrontation has been building up throughout the whole series and reaches its climax in the &quot;Say my name&quot; episode you quoted. The two characters never got along from the start. Mike never liked Walt and certainly never trusted him, he also tried more than once to warn Jesse about confiding in Walter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has seen right through him from the start and always considered him a dangerous man, so I don't think that he &quot;lets&quot; Walter kill him out of misplaced trust. He simply knows that he's lost everything. He knows he'll be hunted down by the DEA because &lt;em&gt;the attorney he hired to represent his guys&lt;/em&gt; has given him up and that he'll be forced to run away, hide somewhere and always look over his shoulder. He's also lost the most precious thing left to him, the relationship with his granddaughter who he was forced to leave behind without even say goodbye. He chose to become Gus's security guy, so to speak, because he wanted to leave enough money to his granddaughter in order to grant her a future. But his efforts were undermined by the DEA who managed to get hold of all his money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mike blames Walter for ruining his plan, for killing Gus and wreaking the havoc that destroyed his life's work. I guess that all of this clouded his judgement in the final meeting with Walter and caused him to lower his guard and forget about checking the gun before it's too late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, sitting on the river bank, he's not even angry at Walter for killing him, he's just fed up. He failed and and he just wants to get it over with (and needs Walter, for once, to &quot;shut the f*** up&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastEditorUserId="23244" LastEditDate="2016-03-18T06:36:01.017" LastActivityDate="2016-03-18T06:36:01.017" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39569" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39520" CreationDate="2015-08-31T22:03:41.300" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The restrictions on killing are only for &quot;made&quot; men, i.e. recognized core members of a mob family. That's why the murder of Billy Batts was such a big deal. Batts was a made man, and untouchable unless you get permission from the higher ups, and why the Goodfellas were so happy at the prospect of Tommy getting made. None of Jimmy Conway's men had that privilege, so their murders go mostly unhindered by the powers to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-09-01T02:22:20.787" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T02:22:20.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39524" CreationDate="2015-08-31T22:51:32.267" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alfred Hitchcock would call this &amp;quot;suspense&amp;quot; and I would agree with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspense&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; definition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suspense is a feeling of pleasurable fascination and excitement mixed with apprehension, tension, and anxiety developed from an unpredictable, mysterious, and rousing source of entertainment. The term most often refers to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work. Suspense is not exclusive to fiction. It may operate whenever there is a perceived suspended drama or a chain of cause is left in doubt, with tension being a primary emotion felt as part of the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the kind of suspense described by film director Alfred Hitchcock, an audience experiences suspense when they expect something bad to happen and have (or believe they have) a superior perspective on events in the drama's hierarchy of knowledge, yet they are powerless to intervene to prevent it from happening. Films having a lot of suspense belong in the thriller genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Alfred Hitchcock: The Difference Between Mystery &amp;amp; Suspense&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/-Xs111uH9ss?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the video:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mystery is an intellectual process, like in a &amp;quot;who-done-it&amp;quot;. But suspense is essentially an emotional process. Therefore, you can only get the suspense element going by giving the audience information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, on the difference between suspense and surprise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a distinct difference between &amp;quot;suspense&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;surprise,&amp;quot; and yet many pictures continually confuse the two. I'll explain what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are now having a very innocent little chat. Let's suppose that there is a bomb underneath this table between us. Nothing happens, and then all of a sudden, &amp;quot;Boom!&amp;quot; There is an explosion. The public is surprised, but prior to this surprise, it has seen an absolutely ordinary scene, of no special consequence. &lt;strong&gt;Now, let us take a suspense situation. The bomb is underneath the table and the public knows it, probably because they have seen the anarchist place it there. The public is aware the bomb is going to explode at one o'clock and there is a clock in the decor. The public can see that it is a quarter to one. In these conditions, the same innocuous conversation becomes fascinating because the public is participating in the scene. The audience is longing to warn the characters on the screen: &amp;quot;You shouldn't be talking about such trivial matters. There is a bomb beneath you and it is about to explode!&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot; [emphasis added]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first case we have given the public fifteen seconds of surprise at the moment of the explosion. In the second we have provided them with fifteen minutes of suspense. The conclusion is that whenever possible the public must be informed. Except when the surprise is a twist, that is, when the unexpected ending is, in itself, the highlight of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That constant sense of &amp;quot;how are they going to address this situation they don't even know exists&amp;quot;... that's suspense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While these definitions generally relate to thriller-type films, I would argue that they can relate to a wider variety of films as well. For example in a rom-com:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have a couple, Jesse and Drew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jesse cheats on Drew but Drew has no clue.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The audience is aware of the cheating because it occurred in the film.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The audience is left in suspense wondering whether Drew will ever find out and what the reaction will be.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We, as the audience, experience that &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;feeling of pleasurable fascination and excitement mixed with apprehension, tension and anxiety&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;, waiting to discover if Drew will ever know the truth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T22:51:32.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14182" CreationDate="2015-09-01T01:52:08.223" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you watch the end closely you will notice that both the Schindler Jews and their actor counterparts place stones on the grave. We only see Liam Neeson's forearm and hand as he places the two red roses. I believe Neeson uses roses to show his respect instead of a stone and he knows his portrayal is as temporary as the flowers. Red was used as a connection to the little girl in red who symbolized the innocence and death of the 6,000,000 Jews butchered by the German Nazis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24513" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T01:52:08.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39577" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39583" CreationDate="2015-09-01T04:00:50.797" Score="4" ViewCount="1254" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, this council is arguing over the unreliability of the team, most specifically about the fact that they rely on luck. I think this is extremely true, however, and am surprised at the number of times the people have gotten away with such missions and survived by chance. Don't believe me? Water current scene in the last one is a fantastic example. He was holding 2 memory sticks and didn't know the difference and he had to insert one fast. The current blew one away he inserted the other one that he still had. It was the right one, fortunately, but that was TOTAL luck! My question is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does Ethan Hunt indeed rely on luck and chance to a large degree? Are there instances in all the previous movies where he primarily succeeded by luck? Or is there more to it than that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user24403" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T12:36:09.660" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T12:36:09.660" Title="Does Ethan Hunt rely on luck and chance?" Tags="|analysis|mission-impossible|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19472" CreationDate="2015-09-01T04:23:44.777" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I largely agree with the comment - the point is that Bergman is an amazingly gifted reporter. He puts a major FBI operation together from some pickup truck with high-power antennas and 2 agents claiming to be geologists with perfectly-manicured nails. This is basically consistent with the kind of stuff he pulls in the rest of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the role within the larger plot is that his stock at CBS was astronomical and he still chose to quit, which Mann discusses in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media-july-dec99-insider_11-8/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lowell Bergman quit. He quit “60 Minutes.” He had a contract that he could have renegotiated to his great advantage. He scooped the Unabomber, he had gotten the show on the air and he wouldn’t couldn’t work there anymore and when I asked him why he said “I’m not going to tell the source of the next story, ‘Hang with me, you’ll be fine — maybe.'”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24516" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-01T12:15:42.567" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T12:15:42.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39562" CreationDate="2015-09-01T04:42:49.307" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to IMDB, he directed two movies in English:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044386/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Robinson Crusoe (1954)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053967/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Young One (1960)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Bu%C3%B1uel_filmography&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Filmography in Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; includes movies in French, Spanish and English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20895" LastEditorUserId="4078" LastEditDate="2020-11-12T11:48:58.617" LastActivityDate="2020-11-12T11:48:58.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="39583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39577" CreationDate="2015-09-01T05:50:14.850" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;He relies on luck&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, might not be the right choice of words here.&#xA;I would like to put as &quot;&lt;strong&gt;He takes huge risks and he is not afraid of taking on these insanely difficult tasks&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In other words, he attempts things, which seem &lt;strong&gt;impossible&lt;/strong&gt;. Hence the&#xA;  name Mission Impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In MI 2, we have the rock climbing scene, where he slips and almost falls, but he doesn't survive by mere luck. &lt;strong&gt;He survives by displaying mental fortitude. We don't see Ethan Hunt panicking. Rather we see him taking a deep breath, closing his eyes and sort of meditating.&lt;/strong&gt; Then he makes a leap and climbs over the cliff safely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In MI4, he is seen climbing the Burj Khalifa, which his team mates also think as insane. But again he survives using his calm head and profound skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are similar instances in all MI movies. So in my opinion, Ethan Hunt is a character who is fearless, skillful and has a very calm head. This enables him to always push his limits and achieve impossible results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course in these dangerous missions, there is a huge probability of failure, but Ethan Hunt does not simply rely on luck for his success. &lt;strong&gt;He tries very hard and doing so, he quite often inspires others as well, who follow him, sometimes saving his life.&lt;/strong&gt; Example is the water tank scene from latest part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, that's my take on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T05:50:14.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39584" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39585" CreationDate="2015-09-01T06:40:14.807" Score="50" ViewCount="18440" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898266/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/a&gt; the elevator has been out of order since the start of the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1zyhi.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1zyhi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To this date -- after season Ten has finished -- the elevator has still not been fixed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any significance for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="24020" LastEditDate="2017-05-19T12:45:31.333" LastActivityDate="2019-05-19T09:55:07.213" Title="Why hasn't the elevator been fixed?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39584" CreationDate="2015-09-01T07:48:36.937" Score="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just a reoccurring joke that management is lazy and how extensive the damage was. The elevator was damaged due to a malfunctioning experiment of Leonard's (He wrongly calculated the mixture for the experimental rocket Fuel he was developing), which Sheldon recognized as going critical so he placed it in the elevator. It exploded inside and took out the entire elevator cab. (The Staircase Implementation, Season 3, Episode 22)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cost of a new elevator cab (and maybe the motor/hydraulic system and everything else) and structural repairs to the elevator shaft for a ~8 story building like that would be in the low to mid 6 digits. And would be a labor intensive multi-month project. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/realestate/23cside.html&quot;&gt;From a New York Times Article on modernizing an &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Existing, working elevator system&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a six-story building, a standard elevator modernization (frequently involving replacement of the cab rather than remodeling it) costs about $100,000, including consultant fees, said Joseph Caracappa, an elevator consultant ... A project in a 6- to 12-story building generally costs around $125,000, while anything taller will require roughly $150,000 to $175,000. [He] on my building’s project, &lt;strong&gt;said that these figures assume that some components won’t need changing.&lt;/strong&gt; Our 89-year-old drum-hoisted elevator, being well past its sell-by date, needed everything, which is why our job cost substantially more. Also, &lt;strong&gt;we spent about $20,000 on the interior finishes&lt;/strong&gt;, on the higher side of a range from $7,500 to $30,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's putting a regular fix at &amp;lt; $200,000. An explosion would likely add much more cost to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Between the High Cost, the amount of work required, and not having anyone to blame/sue/recover the cost from, it's understandable why the elevator has not been fixed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-09-01T08:53:10.677" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T08:53:10.677" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39587" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-09-01T08:48:52.243" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Source : &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Craven%27s_New_Nightmare&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-01T08:48:52.243" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T08:48:52.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39588" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-09-01T08:48:52.243" Score="0" Body="Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) is the seventh film in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. It is not part of the series continuity, instead portraying Freddy Krueger as a fictional movie villain who invades the real world " OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-01T08:48:52.243" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T08:48:52.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39589" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39596" CreationDate="2015-09-01T09:46:31.680" Score="33" ViewCount="46046" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the question asks, why can Walt just not do without Jesse in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;? At the beginning, he needed him to get into the business and stuff but later, Jesse only proved to be nothing but trouble. Despite without having any significant benefits but rather much trouble, logically Walt should have separated paths with him long time ago. So why does he not do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Addendum:&lt;/strong&gt; Actually I read that initially it was planned that Jesse was supposed to die around the end of Season 1 but due to extraordinary acting of Aaron Paul, they decided not to. So how is this decision rationalized in the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20688" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-01T09:50:57.273" LastActivityDate="2020-10-11T00:03:18.893" Title="Why is Walt obsessed with Jesse?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39589" CreationDate="2015-09-01T09:58:28.743" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As much as Walt is breaking Jessie is becoming a better person. I think that it was Walt trying to fool himself into believing that there was a way back, from the path he was traveling down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24295" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T09:58:28.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39589" CreationDate="2015-09-01T10:18:13.493" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Main reason for Walt being in meth business was to earn lots and lots of money because he knew that he is having very short time left, so Jesse was the one who showed him the way and Jesse was having good contacts in the market.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This meth business required 2 people one for producing it and another for selling it. Within this process which started as business partners became a bonding between them and Walt was also a teacher to Jesse. So this affection led Walter to treat Jesse as one of his own. So we saw Walt took all the steps to save Jesse from being bad. I think this was the reason of the obsession for Walter White.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-07T14:52:36.013" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T14:52:36.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39589" CreationDate="2015-09-01T10:52:03.847" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have asked myself this question many times. Maybe Walt saw a son in him, maybe deep inside himself he wanted a &lt;em&gt;healthy&lt;/em&gt; son to hang around with. Even Hank has told Jesse that Walt loved him lots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13312" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T10:52:03.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39589" CreationDate="2015-09-01T12:17:39.203" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walt keeps bumping into Jesse for several reasons throughout the show :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Walt needs a partner who can cook with him and help him make money (Season 1 &amp;amp; 2)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Walt wants to make sure that his identity remains confidential. So even when Jesse is working solo, he again brings him with him, so that Jesse does not get caught and hence does not spill the beans. (season 3)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Walt constantly manipulates Jesse for achieving his own goals. He knows how often he has successfully manipulated Jesse and made him do things which Walt wanted eg. Killing Gale, Killing Gus, etc. (season 4)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After Gus being gone, Walt again needs Jesse to assist him on his &lt;strong&gt;empire business&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;With Mike, not being very fond of Walt, Jesse acts a mediator between them. Walt needs Mike as well to run his business after Gus.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Later in season 5, Jesse acts as the primary antagonist for Walt and also becomes a very important partner for Hank in order to nab Walt.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally Jesse again comes into picture, when Walt is on his road to redemption, where he tries to correct all the wrong that he has done to Jesse.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Jesse was always an integral part of the story. He is kind of 2nd lead in Breaking Bad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;After the end of Gus, how exactly Walt needs Jesse to establish his empire? Why couldn't he simply part ways with him?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt can't do it on his own. He definitely needs more people. Mike is extremely resourceful and also provides the muscle, but it is highly unlikely that Mike would work alone for Walt, because Mike hates Walt. Remember that after the death of Gus, Mike was infuriated and it was Jesse who calmed him down.  Moreover why should Walt involve new people in his business? Jesse already knows his identity and knows to cook crystal meth as well. Additionally Walt knows this very well that he can manipulate Jesse whenever he wants, because he has successfully done this so many times. So Walt just can't get rid of Jesse. Jesse is the best resource he can have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-02T10:48:36.200" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T10:48:36.200" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39597" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-08-31T21:41:19.530" Score="4" ViewCount="2110" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Casino Royale, after Bond is captured by LeChiffre, the first thing LeChiffre's men do is cut out the tracker MI6 had put in Bond's arm. How did LeChiffre know it was there? He tells Bond &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Your friend Mathis, was really my friend Mathis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how did &lt;strong&gt;he&lt;/strong&gt; know it was in Bond's arm? It never came up in conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="childcat15" LastActivityDate="2017-06-29T02:19:59.607" Title="How did LeChiffre know the tracker was in Bond's arm?" Tags="|james-bond|casino-royale|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39597" CreationDate="2015-08-31T21:55:25.130" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Le Chiffre is basically planting a red herring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vesper is the real traitor, but Le Chiffre needs Bond to trust her, so that he can either get information from her or use her for leverage as he did in the torture scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in order to manipulate Bond, he implies that Mathis is the one that betrayed him and passed information along, rather than the real traitor. It has the added effect of cutting out another support leg from under Bond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6234" OwnerDisplayName="JohnP" LastActivityDate="2015-08-31T21:55:25.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39589" CreationDate="2015-09-01T13:52:47.623" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jesse is Walt's &quot;surrogate Walt&quot;. In the backstory of the show, Walt feels as if he was cheated out of his chance at success, in that a company he helped to start becomes successful &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; he left it. His perception is that he was forced out, cheated out of everything (though the show has hints that this is just a lie he tells himself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, in his next big venture, it's important to him to not cheat someone else like he was cheated. There needs to be a &quot;someone else&quot; though, for that to be possible... and that person is Jesse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's not nice to Jesse. He has little respect for him, mistreats and uses him, harms people Jesse cares about (including small children!). No one could mistake his relationship with Jesse as that of friendship, or love, or any other wholesome thing. The only plausible explanation is that Jesse exists so that Walt has someone he can &quot;not cheat&quot;, for Walt's own personal reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T13:52:47.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39603" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39604" CreationDate="2015-09-01T13:59:18.917" Score="5" ViewCount="374" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show seemed reasonably entertaining and had its audience yet it did not work out. Was it mostly due to costly production or lack of audience?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-01T14:05:07.463" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T16:56:20.317" Title="Was Terra Nova too expensive to be renewed?" Tags="|production|cancellation|terra-nova|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39603" CreationDate="2015-09-01T14:11:51.770" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Terra Nova (Fox: 10.1 million, 3.6): Some in the industry feel Fox made a mistake not picking up this ambitious drama for a second season. I agree. Terra Nova managed the rare feat of delivering a sizable family audience to a broadcast drama, found its legs creatively in its final hours and there was nothing else like it on TV. &lt;strong&gt;Cost was a factor, but so was the network’s belief that midseason addition Touch would be the network’s next big hit&lt;/strong&gt; (it wasn’t)...&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2012/05/15/canceled-shows&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cost Might Be one the Reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="24020" LastEditDate="2015-09-01T14:15:38.643" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T14:15:38.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39605" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39612" CreationDate="2015-09-01T14:49:17.777" Score="28" ViewCount="55710" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always wondered about this one scene in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; where Hector blows up the hospital and then we see Gustavo Fring walking out of the room while fixing his tie. It is then revealed that half of his skull has been exposed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This always seemed like pure sci-fi to me. Is that even possible for a human being to be moving in such a severe condition? Or have the producers pushed it a little too far?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2020-02-21T10:00:26.863" LastActivityDate="2020-05-21T06:53:05.947" Title="How realistic was Gus Fring's demise scene?" Tags="|breaking-bad|realism|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="39606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39584" CreationDate="2015-09-01T14:57:59.613" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;The creators of the program wanted a hallway between the two apartments but they felt that it was too thin. Adding an elevator forces the hallway to be wider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forcing the characters to use the stairs also enables a longer conversation as a lift would be too quick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was revealed by the creators in the 100 episode special for the UK TV channel e4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24534" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T14:57:59.613" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39605" CreationDate="2015-09-01T15:01:30.577" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not a doctor but I don't think that's medically possible, the attribute &quot;black comedy&quot; always come to my mind when I think of that scene. Breaking bad is labeled as black comedy on IMDb and other sites. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13312" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T15:01:30.577" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39611" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39615" CreationDate="2015-09-01T16:10:19.853" Score="5" ViewCount="737" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several heated scenes in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; where Walter literally buys his life out by convincing his enemies using precise words. But why is he so good at it, he clearly does not have 20 years of hostage negotiating experience yet he is effective every time? Is it him just being a genius by nature or maybe the fact that he has to speak in front of a class everyday? This aspect of his character is fascinating in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-01T16:23:49.570" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T17:34:58.127" Title="Why is Walter White such an effective negotiator?" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39605" CreationDate="2015-09-01T16:12:38.733" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion the writers of that scene took artistic license by showing Gus walking and fixing his tie before collapsing. An explosion which blows the door away should immediately render the people inside unconscious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if he wasn't knocked out, after an explosion powerful enough to melt down Gus' eye and entirely burn off half his face it would be impossible for him to stand, walk out, and fix his tie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But obviously we loved it the way it was shown. A camera just going inside the room and showing Gus's dead body would have been so much boring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UVnb0.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UVnb0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Gus Fring, Breaking Bad&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="26101" LastEditDate="2020-02-21T07:32:15.177" LastActivityDate="2020-02-21T07:32:15.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="39614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39589" CreationDate="2015-09-01T16:40:37.413" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;To remind, Jesse used to be Walter's student in chemistry class. He has not succeeded but I know that many teachers DO care about their students and want them to be successful. I believe that Walter was one of such teachers. He took it further though, he saw similarities between his son and Jesse, they both have been disabled in a certain way (his son, physically and Jesse being an addict). So he was trying to make it right while spending time with Jesse. Although I have a feeling that at certain point Walter was trying to fix his own damage done to Jesse by getting him involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T16:40:37.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39611" CreationDate="2015-09-01T17:34:58.127" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walter White HAS negotiation experience but not street wisdom. Walter White was the co-founder of Gray Matter Technologies and helped in a research regarding photon radiography; he contributed to a project that was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded jointly to Herbert A. Hauptman and Jerome Karle for outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures.  Also, there's &lt;a href=&quot;http://lawschool.unm.edu/nmlr/volumes/45/2/2-reynolds.pdf&quot;&gt;an interesting paper&lt;/a&gt; made by Jennifer Reynolds where the Walter's techniques are analyzed. Jennifer wrote about this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;His ability to use conventional negotiation techniques in unconventional ways reminds us that negotiation techniques do not come with ethical guidelines for use. Indeed, when we ourselves negotiate, it is easy to start thinking about the people on the other side instrumentally—as pawns that need to be moved into position, or as obstacles that need to be eliminated, or as resources that need to be utilized. This creates an inevitable ethical tension. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short conclusion: he had enough experience to success every negotiation, legal or illegal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21286" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T17:34:58.127" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38874" CreationDate="2015-09-01T18:32:58.493" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Seth came for the first time, he delivered the only copy to Claire. Later, Stamper grabbed the book and made their moves to achieve what he needed. Now, regarding Seth's possibilities of having a copy, I don't think (my opinion) Seth has a copy because it will be a risky move against Underwood. Besides, Seth admire in some way to Underwood. I'm going to refer two strategic scenes to answer more deeply the question. First, Seth prefered to be WITH Frank and not against. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember this conversation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Frank: Are there any copy of the journal? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seth: No, I gave Mrs. Underwood the original and told her to check. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;F: Did you give him (referring to Remy) anything else? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;S: I got anything else. &lt;strong&gt;And even if I had it, I wouldn't&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then, later in the same conversation, he asked why he changed of band and delivered probably a nuclear bomb that would destroy Claire and Frank. &#xA;&lt;em&gt;At this moment, is valid to remember that Claire's recommendation was to keep under observation to Seth and Douglas did it&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seth: You're the Vice-President of the United States, Remy works for Raymond Tusk.&lt;strong&gt;That puts me in the middle of two important people. I had to be careful.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Frank: I'm sure Remy is offering you lots of money.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seth: When I saw you taking the Congress in the Social Reform, I realized where the real power is. &lt;strong&gt;I want to work for you, not navigate in a yacht&lt;/strong&gt;. Money doesn't interest me.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that in mind, only both Underwood and Douglas had access to that document. Douglas then, burned the only copy of that journal. So, in conclusion Seth wouldn't earned anything making a copy of that journal and no, he doesn't have a copy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21286" LastActivityDate="2015-09-01T18:32:58.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10305" CreationDate="2015-09-02T01:05:17.380" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had heard the problem with &quot;Tick vs. The Mole Men&quot; was that a Barry Manilow song was playing in the background -- that they didn't have the rights to put that on a DVD.  I have not verified this story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24548" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T01:05:17.380" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39628" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39648" CreationDate="2015-09-02T03:47:58.503" Score="11" ViewCount="1837" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of Breaking Bad we observe Walt refusing to fight for his life and deciding to slowly wait for his last day. However, when he starts making &quot;real&quot; money, I think everything changes. But is there any true indication that Walter changes his mind and wants to live and use his money? I cannot imagine he was building his meth empire only to feed his ego or to support family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T14:19:49.770" Title="Did Walter have intentions of staying alive after he started making millions?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39629" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39632" CreationDate="2015-09-02T03:54:03.003" Score="14" ViewCount="2844" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 1 episode 5 'The Wolf and the Lion' of 'Game of Thrones',  Sandor Clegane (Hound) saves Ser Loras Tyrell from Gregor Clegane (Mountain), when the Mountain attacks the  Ser Loras and fights him until King Robert stops both and Gregor Clegane  storms out in anger and Sandor bows to the king. Then Ser Loras declares him the winner of the Tourney.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is understandable that Loras shows gratitude as he is in debt of Sandor but what right does he have to do so? There are other contestants also, why would they accept it? And I believe Sandor was not even participating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-02T08:48:28.727" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T08:50:00.640" Title="How come Ser Loras can declare Sandor Clegane winner of the tourney" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39628" CreationDate="2015-09-02T05:03:20.450" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;His family was Walt's main motivation for most of the series. Being rich was not. All of Season 1 and most of Season 2, Walter believes the cancer will kill him soon, until he finds out it is in remission. (Season 2 Episode 9 &quot;&lt;strong&gt;4 Days Out&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;). At that point he immediately starts planning on leaving the drug game. (Season 2 Episode 10 &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Over&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;). After his wife leaves him (when she learned Walt's a drug lord when he was babbling during his cancer surgery), Walt was basically planning on burning the million he got from Gus. (Season 3 Episode 1 (&quot;&lt;strong&gt;No Más&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;) He also turns down Gus's offer of 3 mil for 3 months of cooking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The defining moment in this is how Walt explains it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;I have money, more than I can spend&quot; Walt says, declining. &quot;What I don't have is my family.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is more of the back and forth between Mr. And Mrs. White in season 4 and 5, but in the end, the theme follows the entire series. Walter White's main concern is his family. The Money was a means to an end of ensuring his family is well off. Even after beating cancer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Walt does transform through the series. His intentions at the beginning may have been completely pure, but eventually the power corrupts him more and more. He becomes less Walt the Science Loving Family Man and more Heisenberg the Drug Lord. By the end of Season 5, he even admits it to himself and Skyler, even as he still attempts to make sure she and his kids are well off financially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T05:03:20.450" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39628" CreationDate="2015-09-02T05:40:09.660" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are two separate questions here - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a. Did Walter have intentions of staying alive after making millions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;b. Was he building his meth empire only to feed his ego or to support family?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will start with &quot;b&quot;. A lot of questions have already been asked here which all point to this same issue/topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The defining moment for this question is the scene from the series finale, where Walt meets Skyler for the last time and he tells her &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I did it for me. I liked it. It made me feel alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Walt entered the meth business, he had a number in mind, in order to support his family. He already crossed that number long long ago, but still continued anyway, because long long ago he stopped doing it for the family and started doing it for himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess, this answers the part-b.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, part-a.&#xA;This is a little tricky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Walt definitely wanted to stay alive, irrespective of whether he made millions or not. This is because inspite of all his vices, Walt was a family man, and he really loved his family, especially his kids. Any person who is in love with his family would definitely want to stay alive, but not to spend the millions he had made, but to simply be with his family. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-02T08:55:03.097" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T08:55:03.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39629" CreationDate="2015-09-02T05:58:14.677" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the book, this fight between Ser Loras and the Mountain was semifinal, and in the other semifinal the Hound has already defeated Jamie Lannister. The Hound is supposed to face Ser Loras in the final tilt, but Loras, in gratitude to the Hound for saving his life, yields the match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The screenwriters of the show have ignored a lot of details from the book, some details they have changed, especially in the last season, but this scene just had to be entered into the show, because I think it is a crucial moment to start getting to know the true Sandor Clegane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23484" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-02T08:50:00.640" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T08:50:00.640" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8170" CreationDate="2015-09-02T06:10:31.080" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's actually a horrifying ending. The ending is supposed to be completely saccharine. I watched this with my Dad who was a retired LCDC counselor and he explained it. By complete Deus Ex Machina Nick Cage's character gets his life back together, he has a chance to go clean, have a family and a promotion and straighten up. And he does, but he also doesn't. The movie ends with him nose deep in smack. Cage is absolutely a nonfunctional addict as we have witnessed and time will more than likely drag him down again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's completely imprisoned and enslaved to his addiction like a fish is trapped by glass, he hasn't escaped, and anyone who has ever had to deal with friends and family with a pill addiction will pick up on that. The man he saved offered him a way out to get clean, maybe it'll work, maybe it's another dead end like his parents. Cage wants to know if fish have dreams and thus escape their prisons, even temporarily or if they are well and truly trapped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24554" LastEditorUserId="24554" LastEditDate="2015-09-02T06:16:29.690" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T06:16:29.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39635" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39636" CreationDate="2015-09-02T06:39:16.327" Score="3" ViewCount="1969" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; we have seen that Drogon is freely roaming and flying up in the sky, but what's the reason that we have not seen Viserion and Rhaegal flying freely in the sky?&#xA;Why are they chained?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they more dangerous than Drogon that they are chained?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-02T08:58:10.723" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T08:58:10.723" Title="Why is Drogon free and his brothers Viserion and Rhaegal chained?" Tags="|plot-explanation|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39635" CreationDate="2015-09-02T07:11:05.823" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Drogon&quot;&gt;Drogon&lt;/a&gt; was not in Meereen when she decided to chain the other two dragons and his exact whereabouts where unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Following Daenerys' conquest of Meereen, Drogon, who is now the size&#xA;  of a small ship, kills and eats the goats of a local goatherd. (...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dany is later dismayed to learn that Drogon has killed the daughter of&#xA;  a goatherd. She tearfully confines the two smaller dragons to the&#xA;  catacombs of the pyramid while Drogon remains at large, having last&#xA;  been seen over the Black Cliffs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Daenerys confides in Daario Naharis that she has no idea where Drogon&#xA;  has flown off to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Drogon is not less dangerous than his brothers, he's actually the most dangerous:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He is the largest and most aggressive of the three hatchlings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-09-02T07:21:17.880" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T07:21:17.880" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39637" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39666" CreationDate="2015-09-02T08:47:00.830" Score="15" ViewCount="4166" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 1 episode 5, The Wolf and the Lion, of Game of Thrones, Sandor Clegane (the Hound) saves Ser Loras Tyrell from Gregor Clegane (the Mountain), when the Mountain attacks the Ser Loras and fights him. However I am confused why he would do that, due to the below reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Hound has no obligation to save Loras as he is neither his lord nor related to Joffrey.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Even if he does it out of hatred towards his brother the Mountain, then also killing Loras would have brought the wrath of Tyrell house on the Mountain. I believe even Tywin would not have saved the Mountain from that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Loras was a fancied Knight kind of person, whom the Hound doesn't like.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2016-12-06T17:55:49.010" LastActivityDate="2016-12-06T17:55:49.010" Title="Why did the Hound save Ser Loras from Mountain?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39637" CreationDate="2015-09-02T09:22:37.617" Score="9" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just an idea - if he had NOT intervened, The Mountain had killed Loras, and therefore was maybe sentenced to death. This would have ripped The Hound from the chance to kill him himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to me a much better reason for The Hound as to save the prototype of the (from him) dispised knight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sandor saw an opportunity to potentially kill his brother (his main goal in life) and jumped at the opportunity and wasn't really concerned with Loras at all and just used him as an excuse to attack his brother. He also may have actually cared about saving Loras because of admiration and we have already seen strong examples of admiration from him concerning Sansa and Arya, but I find this highly unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T09:27:44.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37160" CreationDate="2015-09-02T10:19:18.117" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, Saul made an assumption and ran with it. If he was wrong (Hank is not involved), he can just apologize for the mistake.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But by being right (which he assumes he is - the odds are good given he's there for a Heisenberg-related drug bust and sees DEA), he comes across as all-knowing (or at least way ahead than they expect), which makes him seem very much on point for his client's legal defense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, it alerts the cops to make sure they do everything correct to the letter, because the attorney is paying attention (and seems to have background info).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22424" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T10:19:18.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35970" CreationDate="2015-09-02T10:27:34.607" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It only takes the fly episode to prove to viewers how pedantic Walt is with his procedure. Some people get the need for attention to detail, others don't. By the time S5 rolls around, we're comfortable with their cooking method (and know they're confident with it), so we focus on how they get away with it rather than how they manage to cook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22424" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T10:27:34.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35958" CreationDate="2015-09-02T10:32:16.673" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I were to acquire plutonium or uranium somewhere, I'm pretty sure people would be interested in whether I'm building a bomb or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same applies here, but it's drug-related. The behavior shown by the criminals is clearly indicative of intent to cook meth, so it's investigated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, how lucky would police have to be to &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; investigate things that will be relevant? A lot of reports or possibilities don't pan out, but they can't know that for sure until they investigate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22424" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T10:32:16.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37135" CreationDate="2015-09-02T11:46:24.070" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took that it existed along the entire line of the temporal loop, which is why it was able to learn tactics, reset and still keep the memories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so then killing it anywhere along the loop kills it across the entire thing, so when Criuse returns to his start point it's dead&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24295" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T11:46:24.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39645" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39690" CreationDate="2015-09-02T12:40:15.567" Score="11" ViewCount="29643" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few episodes on &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; where a toy eye that Walter removes from his pool appears. It seems to be having some sort of judgmental meaning as if it sees everything that Walter does. What is the true meaning of it? Especially, interesting to understand what does it signify when Skyler spots the eye but in the end doesn't seem overly confused over finding something of that sort at Walter's apartment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-02T12:47:50.067" LastActivityDate="2017-10-15T17:10:14.213" Title="What is the meaning of the toy eye that Walter keeps?" Tags="|analysis|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39646" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42576" CreationDate="2015-09-02T12:57:48.143" Score="8" ViewCount="2161" Body="&lt;p&gt;I still do not understand this part of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; and really hope it was exaggerated. When Jane's father, heavily disturbed by loss of his daughter makes a deadly mistake while guiding air traffic, how would that not be spotted by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The system itself that should be able to calculate projectile.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Other dispatchers guiding air traffic in that zone?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-02T13:08:58.127" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T16:28:34.947" Title="How realistic was the air traffic control mistake by Jane's father?" Tags="|breaking-bad|realism|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39628" CreationDate="2015-09-02T14:09:19.537" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walt starts the series as a dead man.  He has nothing beyond his family, despite a big potential (Gray Matter, billions etc).  The news of his impending demise allow him to slip off the mental inhibitor that allowed him to be a family man, but kept him in this nothing existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The provision for the family is an EXCUSE, not a driver.  Walt becomes Heisenberg, Walt's amoral image.  As this becomes more and more successful, the life returns to Walt, and he starts to care about trying to survive the cancer.  His ties to his family slip, Skyler has an affair, Walt jnr distances himself, and Walt takes Jesse as a surrogate son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only when Walt realizes that his immense talents cannot stop either his death, or the approaching car crash of his business, he begins to regain his moral compass, setting things right for his Family (via the Schwarzs), and by attempting to redeem himself by sacrificing himself to rescue Jesse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wasn't that he'd had intentions of staying alive, he just hadn't realised he was dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Walt says to Skyler in his final meeting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I did it for me. I liked it. It made me feel alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't him trying to placate Sklyer to make her feel better by changing it from &quot;I did this for you&quot;, it's just about the ONLY truthful thing Walt says to Skyler in the whole series, and only because he knows it'll be the final time they speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastEditorUserId="4637" LastEditDate="2015-09-02T14:19:49.770" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T14:19:49.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14134" CreationDate="2015-09-02T15:17:56.337" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe there is a combination of things that lead to Hank's and Gomez's deaths:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hank was overwhelmed with his success in finally hand-cuffing Heisenberg, which has lead him to getting caught off-guard.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Neither Hank nor Gomez could expect any sort of backup from Walter's side.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They got caught up in the open (at least Gomez), so making any sort of advancement towards the car would've got them killed on spot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I still think that Hank did not want to put his reputation on the line and did not even attempt calling for backup. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lastly, there was no time. They hoped Nazis would not go as far as killing them. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T15:17:56.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39650" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39669" CreationDate="2015-09-02T15:37:25.943" Score="7" ViewCount="2246" Body="&lt;p&gt;This one hunts me down every time I watch the last episode of Breaking Bad. There are two points I argue in my head:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jesse is shown doing woodwork as if he is reborn and his life changes taking the right path this time and we know he screwed up on that subject once by selling the box he made for his mother to buy drugs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is hard to imagine that after the massacre with piles of bodies, dead DEA agents that have been looking into Jesse at some point and Walt's relationship to Jesse, he will be able to walk.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The question is would Jesse still be able to walk and have normal life&#xA;  or his new life is assumed after a jail sentence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="24301" LastEditDate="2015-09-02T15:49:00.147" LastActivityDate="2023-08-08T10:49:20.010" Title="Does Jesse go to jail?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="22006" CreationDate="2015-09-02T15:44:12.860" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jericho simply did not live up to expectations. First season of any new show buys its way to life via high ratings and a strong character development. Now Jericho, to say the least failed to do so regardless of the fact that their take on post apocalyptic society looked very promising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T15:44:12.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39652" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39653" CreationDate="2015-09-02T16:17:53.173" Score="40" ViewCount="85098" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Breaking Bad Walter White is known to be the master chef of blue meth, while yielding unheard of 99.9% purity. Is this possible or it is a big myth from the beginning? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2018-04-24T17:25:52.013" Title="Is it really possible to produce 99.9% crystal meth?" Tags="|breaking-bad|realism|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39652" CreationDate="2015-09-02T16:34:05.480" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In theory, it's &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; to produce a 100% pure sample of any substance; if you isolated and removed any molecules that were not those of your target chemical. The trick is that it's usually &lt;em&gt;very &lt;a href=&quot;https://puffthemutantdragon.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/science-on-crack-2-walter-white-cooking-crystal-meth/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;impractical&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; to do so, for various reasons. The cost of purifying chemicals rises sharply as the purity goes up, because you need more expensive and sensitive equipment, or more complex reactants, etc. If you want the details, you'd need to go to a chemistry textbook (or perhaps try the &lt;a href=&quot;https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/&quot;&gt;Chemistry Stack&lt;/a&gt;, though I doubt they're going to explain the process of making methamphetamine to you :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, it's completely possible for someone to produce near-100% pure crystal meth, because it's happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That crystal meth was later seized by law enforcement, tested and found to be more than 99 percent pure — purer than the infamously high-quality meth cooked by Walter White, the fictional teacher-turned-drug-lord in the popular TV series &quot;Breaking Bad&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/11/21/5-charged-with-smugglingmethfromnorthkorea.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:57:07.110" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T18:37:02.353" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39652" CreationDate="2015-09-02T17:29:59.530" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is very easy for a skilled chemist to produce pure methamphetamine hydrochloride, a salt, because it crystalizes. A crystal will be very pure if grown properly. The challenge is to make sure the growth solution is pure to begin with by using pure components. If this is the case then the crystals will reject any foreign matter as they grown, making the result very pure, possibly with contaminants measured in parts per billion. The crystals must then be separated from the host liquor using proper washing techniques.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T17:29:59.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39655" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39665" CreationDate="2015-09-02T17:35:37.630" Score="3" ViewCount="569" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sea floor rendering in &quot;Exodus: Gods and Kings&quot; was really amazing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zHmp5.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zHmp5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Red Sea parted&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did they do that 3D rendering? Where did they get the models? What sofware? What was the studio that did it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-03T02:46:41.937" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T02:46:41.937" Title="How did they do the sea floor in Exodus: Gods and Kings?" Tags="|effects|exodus-gods-and-kings|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39656" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39699" CreationDate="2015-09-02T18:18:28.853" Score="5" ViewCount="2448" Body="&lt;p&gt;Paying homage to &lt;strong&gt;Wes Craven&lt;/strong&gt; who recently passed away, I have a question about one of my favorite vampire movies that Craven was an Executive Producer, &lt;em&gt;Dracula 2000&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, Van Helsing is the &amp;quot;keeper&amp;quot; of Dracula.  Van Helsing must be able to survive in order to keep Dracula entombed for long periods of time. He puts leeches on Dracula's body and then injects Dracula's blood into his own through the leeches. This process keeps Van Helsing immortal, but only for a time because he has to continually repeat the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Van Helsing not turn into a vampire after this process?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="60982" LastEditDate="2021-06-10T01:02:28.827" LastActivityDate="2021-06-10T01:02:28.827" Title="How did Van Helsing not turn into a vampire in the movie Dracula 2000?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dracula-2000|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="39657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39652" CreationDate="2015-09-02T18:43:30.477" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Methamphetamine (aka Crystal Meth) has a specific chemical compound; C&lt;sub&gt;10&lt;/sub&gt;H&lt;sub&gt;15&lt;/sub&gt;N, as well as a known weight (149.2328 g/mol) and mass (149.120449 g/mol).  Therefore, it can be produced with 99.9% purity if all other compounds are prevented from entering the formula, and the known weight and mass are achieved.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may recall that Walt and Jesse used an extermination service as a cover-up at one point, and basically built a sterilized environment inside the houses.  This was done to get the cook as close as possible to pure.  If you had the time, resources and a controlled environment, you could most definitely produce a completely pure batch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/methamphetamine#section=Top&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/methamphetamine#section=Top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-09-03T13:55:01.437" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T13:55:01.437" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1327" CreationDate="2015-09-02T18:44:11.733" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw it in the theater in '77 and there was only one shot.  Han was a smuggler, rogue, pirate....he was not supposed to be a great upstanding citizen.  Remember what Ben said, &quot;Mos Eisley space port.  You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villiany&quot;.  I understand that GL says that Greedo shot first, and that his vision is the end of discussion.  If Andy Warhol walked into the museum and tore down his Soup Can because he always &quot;meant&quot; to paint a can of Chunky soup, but the technology wasn't there yet we'd think he was insane.  Han was a rogue, smuggler and pirate who associated with crime lords (Jabba), OF COURSE HE MURDERED GREEDO. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24529" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T18:44:11.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14652" CreationDate="2015-09-02T19:19:36.443" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jesse knew that if he shoots Walter, he will execute yet another bloody favor Walter prepared for him, meaning once again Jesse's abeyance admitting that Walter is still in control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T19:19:36.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13791" CreationDate="2015-09-02T19:25:18.113" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jesse knew that by looking at how comfortable Walter was in his position. He knew Walter well enough to understand what could signify this comfort, the fact that Mike is no longer a threat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T19:25:18.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39661" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35970" CreationDate="2015-09-02T19:29:08.950" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am sure we are not shown the exact number of days/hours they remain in a house per cook. In addition, something that is done repetitively can be mastered fairly quickly so they must have practiced it in advance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T19:29:08.950" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39662" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39146" CreationDate="2015-09-02T19:33:32.837" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might well be implying the payback. In many cases Breaking Bad producers show things that have not yet happened. That being said, the next thing is the two enforcers get ran over by Walter.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T19:33:32.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39663" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39683" CreationDate="2015-09-02T19:58:40.577" Score="1" ViewCount="363" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching Breaking Bad series twice, I feel that the net effect of Walter's actions is not so obvious (negative). I understand that a lot of innocent people died and there have been consequences. However, one could argue that Walter did a few favors to the society:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Got rid of some junkies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wiped Jack's gang.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wrecked Gus's meth empire.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Raised awareness for the future.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this intended to be considered or is Breaking Bad only about the &quot;Bad&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-03T12:18:08.693" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T12:18:08.693" Title="Positive outcomes of Walter's actions" Tags="|analysis|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39664" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39667" CreationDate="2015-09-02T20:21:20.507" Score="4" ViewCount="18213" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently rewatched the HBO miniseries Generation Kill and came across &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lLbV7CIEfE&amp;amp;t=7m43s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; scene, where the actor portraying Colonel Ferrando is telling officers that a certain Colonel Dowdy was relieved of his command AND that he was also &lt;strong&gt;relieved of the ammunition for his sidearm&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the actor put emphasis on the phrase, &lt;strong&gt;I would like to know what exactly he was telling the other officers with that phrase.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Google search led me to sites like &lt;a href=&quot;https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100426010614AAzIMHO&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;that one&lt;/a&gt;, where the answers are inconclusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible reasons I gathered so far:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To prevent the officer from committing suicide&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To further dishonor&#xA;the officer after already having relieved him    of his command&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if suicide prevention was the only reason, why would the actor explicitly mention it? Would that not have been obvious to the others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the question is related to both TV.SE and History.SE under the &quot;military&quot; tag, if it fits better on History.SE please migrate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24567" LastActivityDate="2018-08-15T05:32:20.133" Title="What does &quot;being relieved of ammo for sidearm&quot; suggest in this scene?" Tags="|generation-kill|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39655" CreationDate="2015-09-02T21:12:41.860" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;MPC studios, along with Scanline VFX was the company responsible for creating the visual &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.maacindia.com/blog/index.php/exodus-gods-and-kings-vfx-breakdown/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;effects&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the Red Sea remains one of the most iconic scenes in the film. Scott &amp;amp;&#xA;  his CGI team had the daunting task of living up to expectations. The&#xA;  team meticulously created this famous biblical miracle under visual&#xA;  effects supervisor Jessica Norman. The scene was filmed at a beach on&#xA;  Fuerteventura, one of the Canary Islands off the northwest coast of&#xA;  Africa. &lt;strong&gt;MPC&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;studios, along with Scanline VFX&lt;/strong&gt;, used a wave&#xA;  animation rig to create the catastrophic ocean waves. &lt;strong&gt;Scanline&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;VFX used their in-house fluid effects software –&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Flowline&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; – to make this scene a cinematic delight. &lt;strong&gt;Close-ups of the actual&#xA;  beach water were used to film people&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;fleeing across the sea bed&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;  Except Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton &amp;amp; 30-40 people in the background,&#xA;  everything else including the water heading toward infinity, horses,&#xA;  and the &lt;strong&gt;40,000 people crossing the red sea were&#xA;  computer-generated.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T21:12:41.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39637" CreationDate="2015-09-02T21:23:28.310" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sandor Clegane is a complex figure who has spent his entire life hating his brother and waiting for the day in which he would take revenge. Skin burns that he has over his face are the consequence of Greg's brutality and torture, when he was only seven years old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think The Hound admired Ser Loras, neither any other knight. On the contrary, he despised those who bore that title precisely because of his brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The moment in which he decided to help Ser Loras is the moment in which he relived his own demons of the past. In that moment for him, Ser Loras represented only frightened child, powerless in front of The Mountain's cruelty. My opinion is that he recognized himself in Ser Loras and that's why he saved him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23484" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T21:23:28.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39664" CreationDate="2015-09-02T21:27:52.157" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being relieved of command in the military can mean a lot of things. People might be relieved of command because they are unfit to lead, or because someone more qualified has been promoted, or because their tour of duty is up, or just because they aren't needed anymore. Even in cases where the officer is being punished (effectively demoted), the circumstances vary quite a lot over the severity of the  punishment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relieving an officer of a command duty but leaving them on active duty would send the message that the army still thinks the officer has the potential to redeem themselves, but for whatever reason, is not currently fit to lead a command.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, by also relieving them of their ammunition, his superiors are sending a much stronger message. The message here is actually a combination of all of the things you mentioned, and others. In essence, the army is saying &quot;we no longer trust you to be armed while on base.&quot; There's no other way to interpret such an action other than as a punishment for failure to perform their duties properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From an image standpoint, this shows that the army has lost faith in the officer, and they are most likely going to be withdrawn from active duty and sent home, likely to be discharged, in short order. (This is effectively what the remainder of Ferrando's speech says: Dowdy didn't &quot;get it&quot; so he's been &quot;fired&quot;.) From a practical standpoint, such an action is adding disgrace onto someone who's already humiliated, and likely just lost a lot of current and future salary and pension, and may not be in the best frame of mind to be running around armed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it's also important to note that they confiscated his ammo, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; his sidearm. That would be an even bigger disgrace, essentially stripping Dowdy of the thing that defines a soldier. By letting him keep his firearm (unloaded) they're making a symbolic gesture that lets others know that they don't think Dowdy is a bad person, and don't think he did anything &quot;criminally bad&quot;. His superiors just don't think he is fit to be in the command position he's in, so they're pulling him out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T21:27:52.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26891" CreationDate="2015-09-02T22:10:40.163" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkwing_Duck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Darkwing Duck&lt;/a&gt; is a spin-off of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckTales&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;DuckTales&lt;/a&gt;, and while they aren't COMPLETELY different genres, DuckTales is more of an &quot;adventure&quot; story revolving around three kids, while Darkwing Duck is a crime-fighting superhero story revolving around an adult and his daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20710" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T22:10:40.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39650" CreationDate="2015-09-02T22:28:35.013" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The writers left if open ended with a nod to the audience that he got away free. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2013/09/30/breaking-bad-finale-vince-gilligan&quot;&gt;'Breaking Bad': Creator Vince Gilligan explains series finale&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On the decision to spare Jesse and allow him to escape&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “We found over the years that the way we can please the majority of the audience most of the time is to tune out as much extraneous factors as possible and please the eight of us in the writers room. If we can make ourselves happy day in and day out, we had a pretty good chance of making most viewers happy as well, and that’s what held us in good stead for six years. With that in mind, all [of us] in the writers room just loved Jesse (Aaron Paul) and we just figured he had gotten in way over his head. When you think of it, he didn’t really have a chance in the early days. Walt said, ‘You either help me cook meth and sell it, or else I’ll turn you in to the DEA.’ So this poor kid, based on a couple of really bad decisions he made early on, has been paying through the nose spiritually and physically and mentally and emotionally. In every which way, he’s just been paying the piper, and we just figured it felt right for him to get away. It would have been such a bummer for us, as the first fans of the show, for Jesse to have to pay with his life ultimately.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On what happens to Jesse now&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt; &#xA;  “We always felt like the viewers desired Jesse to get away. &lt;strong&gt;And it’s up to the individual viewer to decide what happens next for Jesse.&lt;/strong&gt; Some people might think, ‘Well, he probably got two miles down the road before the cops nailed him.’ But I prefer to believe that he got away, and he’s got a long road to recovery ahead, in a sense of being held prisoner in a dungeon for the last six months and being beaten to within an inch of his life and watching Andrea be shot. All these terrible things he’s witnessed are going to scar him as well, &lt;strong&gt;but the romantic in [The Show Creator] wants to believe that he gets away with it and moves to Alaska and has a peaceful life communing with nature.&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the DEA finds Walter dead in the lab. With the gun. His chem background, and all of Hank's info, pointed to him being the one running the lab. The DEA has everything to wrap the operation up, and will likely blame everything on Walt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-09-02T22:49:27.193" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T22:49:27.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26891" CreationDate="2015-09-02T22:45:28.680" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAG_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;JAG (U.S. military acronym for Judge Advocate General) is an American legal drama television show with a distinct U.S. Navy theme&lt;/a&gt;. It spun off NCIS. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCIS_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NCIS is an American police procedural drama television series&lt;/a&gt;, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;X-Files spun off The Lone Gunmen. X-Files being about Alien conspiracy while the latter being about regular conspiracies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Titans_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Teen Titans cartoon&lt;/a&gt; was a action-adventure superhero series. It's spin-off Teen Titans Go! is a slapstick variety show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Space Ghost was a superhero villain of the week show. It Spun off to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Ghost_Coast_to_Coast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Space Ghost Coast to Coast&lt;/a&gt;, a parody talk show. THAT spun off the Brak Show, a sitcom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T22:45:28.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9932" CreationDate="2015-09-02T23:55:30.557" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm sure that particular shot is fairly new. I'm sure I've seen it used in Good Will Hunting (1997) and A Beautiful Mind (2001), but that particular shot definitely increased in popularity after Breaking Bad. That perspective shot is definitely used very well several times throughout the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24573" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T23:55:30.557" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39664" CreationDate="2015-09-02T23:57:36.137" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've never seen the show but I would have to guess that if he relieved someone of his ammo, he was probably dead. So he wouldn't bed it anymore anyways.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24573" LastActivityDate="2015-09-02T23:57:36.137" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39645" CreationDate="2015-09-03T00:01:02.557" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always believed it to symbolise the innocence Walter had destroyed staring back at him. If you'll realize, every time he sees it, or it sees him, he is in a pathetic state, ignorant, or just guilty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24573" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T00:01:02.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39650" CreationDate="2015-09-03T00:12:13.907" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jesse is reborn. Walt face his life to let Jesse go and intentionally take the blame. I'm sure Walt didn't go in there thinking he would survive (tying up all loose ends before hand and what not). Besides, the way the show is made, very linear and cut and dry (not in a bad way), if Jesse went to jail, the would've made that very clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24573" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T00:12:13.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38863" CreationDate="2015-09-03T00:16:42.413" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Diamonds is a term occasionally used for amphetamines (mdma or ecstasy). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/slang/slang2.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/slang/slang2.shtml&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this context it would mean a narcotic enhanced sexual encounter&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12634" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T00:16:42.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34591" CreationDate="2015-09-03T00:26:50.310" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;That explanation works well with my whole theory. She's repressing anger. Extreme anger. I mean her husband died because of her son (in her mind). In the beginning it shows her grinding her jaw. As the &quot;monster&quot; becomes stronger you start noticing her jaw pain. She jolts when she eats ice cream, implying that she chipped a tooth. She creates the monster in her mind. She has extreme sleep deprivation and the monster represents all her anger and frustration. After she realizes that her neighbour exists and says, &quot;I love you both&quot; and her son says, &quot;you're not my mother&quot; and &quot;I know you don't love me, but I love you&quot; she snaps and takes control of her emotions. She keeps them under control, and feeds it (watches after it). It's a British movie, come on. They even say things like look after your temper, mind your temper, etc. Sorry. That was a rant and there are many cool theories about the movie. I'd probably go crazy if I was a single mother with an autistic child that was born on the day that my husband died and I didn't have any release (masturbation scene). I'd at least getting my teeth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24573" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-03T02:50:27.520" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T02:50:27.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8862" CreationDate="2015-09-03T00:28:22.883" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason why Bilbo and Frodo look younger than what their age really is is because Hobbits life expectancy is around 100, with some living three decades past 100. So they age slightly slower than humans&#xA;For Example:&#xA;An 18 year old human is equivalent to a 33 year old hobbit&#xA;A 35 year old human is equivalent to a 50 year old hobbit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24575" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T00:28:22.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39663" CreationDate="2015-09-03T04:38:41.560" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whenever one encounters great art - whether written, filmed, painted, or other - it should be kept in mind that very little of it is accidental. Without going into the merits of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabody_Award&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Peabody Award&lt;/a&gt; winning series, would you think Dickens, for example, or Shakespeare, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/17903/8476&quot;&gt;Walt Whitman&lt;/a&gt; wrote works with entirely unintentional outcomes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vince Gilligan has often been quoted as saying that he was fascinated by the idea of taking a protagonist and turning him into an antagonist &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;(Mr. Chips becomes Scarface)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The idea of a kind of Walter Mitty, milquetoast character who reinvents himself and turns from somebody good to somebody bad and profits in the process. That was the sum total of the concept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The setting of the protagonist being a meth-cooker came from a quip made by a fellow writer when they were both unemployed, that they should cook meth out of an RV to make ends meet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good writing is intentional (quotes from here on are from Gilligan himself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Having said that, in hindsight, my good fortune was that I didn’t have the opportunity to go with my first instincts and throw the kitchen sink plot-wise into our first season. If I’d done that, I would have painted myself into some seriously unpleasant plot corners. ... People still like storytelling that can slow down enough to explore characters and examine them closely. I think there’s still room for that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good writing, however, can't prevent &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/article_18787_6-books-everyone-including-your-english-teacher-got-wrong_p2.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;misinterpretation by individuals&lt;/a&gt; or by changing mores in culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I will admit that a great many of the interpretations that people have of [&lt;em&gt;breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/em&gt;] involve details and conclusions which — frankly — I never had in mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If our culture ever becomes one in which we see the death and destruction of many innocents as a perfectly acceptable collateral damage in order to &quot;rid the world&quot; of some junkies, gangs, and meth empires, then maybe society will come to see that ol' Walt wasn't so bad after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that was not Vince Gilligan's vision. He wrote a series in which a faulty protagonist becomes a vicious antagonist who destroyed everyone around him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly, though, certain people were killed for the greater good:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Todd is actually in a weird way kind of likable, but he just had to go. Opie had to go. Ricky Hitler, as we like to call him. I think the whole world is better off without that group of characters. ...the character of Lydia – we were all champing at the bit to see her get her just desserts much more than Todd even. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately the story is not about the good done to society in doing away with bad people, but the bad things broken people can do. He ruins people's lives, everyone who is close to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(On choosing an ending for Walt in which he was afforded a sliver of redemption before dying:) We didn’t feel an absolute need for Walt to expire at the end of the show. Our gut told us it was right. ...I guess our gut told us that it would feel satisfying for Walt to at least begin to make amends for his life and for all the sadness and misery wrought upon his family and his friends. Walt is never going to redeem himself. He’s just too far down the road to damnation. ...When you think of it, [Jesse] didn’t really have a chance in the early days. Walt said, ‘You either help me cook meth and sell it, or else I’ll turn you in to the DEA.’ So this poor kid, based on a couple of really bad decisions he made early on, has been paying through the nose spiritually and physically and mentally and emotionally. In every which way, he’s just been paying the piper...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TL;DR: No, I don't think Vince Gilligan thought Walter White was kinda good for society.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=4100&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Breaking &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2013/09/30/breaking-bad-finale-vince-gilligan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;'Breaking Bad': Creator Vince Gilligan explains series finale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8476" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T04:38:41.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39686" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39688" CreationDate="2015-09-03T06:17:19.190" Score="13" ViewCount="13076" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to guess using the illegal drug would not be an option. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So exactly which substance did they used as a prop for the crystal meth in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-03T12:26:31.893" LastActivityDate="2017-01-31T03:24:46.573" Title="What is the prop meth made of?" Tags="|breaking-bad|props|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39687" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39691" CreationDate="2015-09-03T06:24:21.393" Score="18" ViewCount="24678" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; season 2 we have seen that Walter goes to meet Gus Fring in Los Pollos Hermanos, but exactly how did Walter White identify that Gus Fring who is the Restaurant manager is the guy whom he is supposed to meet for meth business?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-03T13:13:05.050" LastActivityDate="2020-05-14T09:35:38.367" Title="How does Walter know that Gus is the guy he was supposed to meet at the restaurant?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39686" CreationDate="2015-09-03T06:26:41.337" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Blue_Sky&quot;&gt;Blue Sky&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, the meth that Walter and Jesse make is actually blue rock candy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Blue Sky props consist of crystallized sugar and are essentially pieces of blue rock candy manufactured by the candy store &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.breakingbadcandy.com/&quot;&gt;The Candy Lady&lt;/a&gt;&quot; of Albuquerque.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's some info from the candy shop's page about the history of it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Albuquerque’s infamous The Candy Lady in Old Town was approached by the Breaking Bad’s prop department to produce an edible show prop for first Season. After some thought Debbie the Owner of the Candy Lady came up with a crushed white rock crystal candy for them. Breaking bad continued to purchase the “Breaking Bad Candy” prop in White for filming the second season. It wasn’t until the candy was featured on The David Letterman show, did Debbie decide to offer it to the public. The rest is history in the making for Walter White’s Blue Sky. (also known as Big Blue, Blue Magic, and Fring’s Blue)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can even buy some from her if you want to have some official &quot;Blue Sky&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T06:26:41.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39645" CreationDate="2015-09-03T09:22:23.333" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vince Gilligan:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The teddy bear eyeball that Walt found in his swimming pool is symbolic. It's very, very symbolic. However, I'm not sure I can tell you with 100% certainty of what the symbolism is, what it represents...On the face of it, when we were coming up with that eye as an image, it probably, represented some form of the eye of the universe, the eye of god, the eye of morality, I suppose judging Walter White...And so symbolism like the eyeball, I'm not sure what it means to me completely but I'm always interested in hearing what it means to viewers of the show. I guess if you're going to hold my feet to the fire, what it means to me is the eye of God on Walt. If not necessarily judging him, nonetheless watching him, keeping tabs on him. And then the question: If that is what the symbolism stands for, then why does Walt keep that eye? Why does he keep it in his drawer versus discarding it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Pink_Teddy_Bear&quot;&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-09-03T09:34:37.890" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T09:34:37.890" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39687" CreationDate="2015-09-03T09:30:53.630" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's some &lt;a href=&quot;https://breakingbaddict.wordpress.com/tag/walt-meets-gus-fring/&quot;&gt;relevant dialog from S02E11&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Walt: “We’re not going to deal with another high-level distributor.&#xA;  We’ve been down that road.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“What? Some tattooed speed freak? No. &lt;strong&gt;What you two need is an&#xA;  honest-to-God businessman&lt;/strong&gt; – somebody who treats your product like&#xA;  the high-margin commodity it is. Somebody who ships out of town, deals&#xA;  only in bulk – someone who’s been doin’ this for 20 years and never&#xA;  been caught.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Walt leans forward. “You know someone like that?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Let’s just say I know a guy who knows a guy, who knows another guy.&#xA;  Let me make some calls – see if I can get a meeting.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“What’s his name?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Saul, back at his desk: “I have no idea. &lt;strong&gt;He’s very low profile –&#xA;  he’s careful like that.&lt;/strong&gt; From what I do hear about him, he sounds a&#xA;  little like you.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Walt and Jesse are in the restaurant, Walt observes everyone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We get our first sight of drug kingpin Gus Fring, in a yellow shirt&#xA;  and glasses – &lt;strong&gt;humbly, quietly, and efficiently working&lt;/strong&gt;. Walt’s in the&#xA;  restaurant, too, looking around with narrowed eyes and grim, thin&#xA;  lips, &lt;strong&gt;scrutinizing every man in the place&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While they're talking, Gus comes over:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Gentlemen…Is everything to your satisfaction?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Fine. Thanks,” Walt says. Gus leaves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's the only contact Gus makes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt calls Saul afterwards:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Walt uses his second cell phone to call Saul from his classroom. “He&#xA;  wasn’t there,” he says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Oh, he was there all right.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“What do you mean? I sat there for two hours – nobody came.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“All I know is, &lt;strong&gt;my contact said he was there.&lt;/strong&gt; Are you sure you were at&#xA;  the right restaurant?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Yes. I’m positive. Where was he?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I don’t know. &lt;strong&gt;Maybe he sat out in the parking lot, took one look at&#xA;  you, and decided he didn’t like the cut of your jib.&lt;/strong&gt; Anyway, it&#xA;  doesn’t matter now, because my contact says it’s a no go.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“What? &lt;strong&gt;How can he make that decision without ever meeting me?&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“He’s very cautious who he does business with.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Call him back.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Hey – first of all, I never called him. I called a guy who called a&#xA;  guy who called a guy. Second of all, it’s over. Understand? &lt;strong&gt;With this&#xA;  particular individual all you get is one shot…&lt;/strong&gt; Look, I’ll see if I can&#xA;  scrape somethin’ else up. But don’t get your hopes up. No one else&#xA;  handles that kind of bulk.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next day, Walt returns to Los Pollos Hermanos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Walt eats, and time passes. Finally, Walt gets up and goes to the&#xA;  counter. “Can I help you, sir?” Gus asks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“A Diet Coke, please, and five minutes of your time.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gus brings the soda to Walt’s table. “What can I do for you?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Have a seat. Please…I would like to know why you wouldn’t meet with&#xA;  me yesterday.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I’m sorry – I’m not following.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I sat here yesterday waiting to meet somebody. &lt;strong&gt;I believe that person&#xA;  was you.&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMHO Walt is pretty much sure that Gus is the person he was supposed to meet, but he cannot reveal too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I think you’re confusing me with someone else.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I don’t think so.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gus turns and looks at the counter. “Sir, if you have a complaint, I&#xA;  suggest you submit it to our e-mail system. I’ll be happy to refer you&#xA;  to our website.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I was told that the man I would be meeting with is very careful – a&#xA;  cautious man. I believe we’re alike in that way. &lt;strong&gt;If you are who I&#xA;  think you are, you should give me another chance.&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same as before. Then finally Gus admits he is the person who Walt was supposed to meet the day before:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I don’t think we’re alike at all, Mr. White. You are not a cautious&#xA;  man at all. Your partner was late, and he was high.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T09:30:53.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37188" CreationDate="2015-09-03T14:52:54.043" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because he was undercover. If he wasn't racist they'd probably question why he was okay with slaves being beaten to death by eachother too&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24573" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T14:52:54.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39656" CreationDate="2015-09-03T15:56:58.210" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie lacks any explicit showing of &lt;em&gt;siring&lt;/em&gt;, the creation of a vampire. All we see is biting. The vamps at the beginning were bit on the plane before it crashed, and the Second Bride, the Reporter Solina afterwards. Lucy the Third Bride, is also shown just being bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Solina makes a vague reference to being chosen (as a lover) while she is in an interrogation room at a police station. Soon after, she breaks through and the movie implies she feeds on the Detective, while Dracula feeds on the Doctor. We don't see either of those two, or if anyone else in the police station who may have been killed, turned into vamps later in the movie. We also see that Prof. Van Helsing was killed, supposedly drained by the 3 Brides, but he also remains dead. Nor do we see the cameraman that Dracula attacks before he turned Solina.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest thing we see is the dream sequence/flashback when Dracula turns Mary and shows her how he was created. After biting her in the real world, she also drinks his blood in the dream sequence. Given that we are then shown a flashback to Dracula's disciple days, can't be sure if it is required for turning into a vampire or just the flashback or if it even happened in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So conclusively, the only thing that was shown is that Dracula bit them, and some turned while others might not have (or were completely ignored afterwards), and it might have to be a conscious choosing on Dracula's part on who turns.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One possible clue is that in the end, Dracula releases Mary of her vampirism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I &lt;em&gt;guhgrr&lt;/em&gt; release &lt;strong&gt;gurchoakingnoises&lt;/strong&gt; you.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  *Mary's pupils go from blood red, to white, to normal*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had magical control over her vampirism and could release it by will alone, indicates that turning people into vampires could also be purely done by choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dracula, as written by Bram Stoker, required multiple days (nights) of feeding on Lucy before she was turned, so it cannot be used as a base reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-09-03T16:52:40.963" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T16:52:40.963" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39687" CreationDate="2015-09-03T16:45:15.243" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The key scene is when Walter sits down at the restaurant, looks in the window (it's dark outside) and sees the reflection of him, and Gus.  Both have short (or no) hair, and are wearing glasses, and Walt realizes that Gus fits the description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24574" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T16:45:15.243" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8282" CreationDate="2015-09-03T17:18:19.227" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because it was a neutron bomb, not a nuclear bomb.  Neutron bombs release less of their energy in an explosion than nuclear bombs, so while the explosion and radiation levels are significantly less than a nuke, neutron bombs release a greater percentage of their energy in the form of radiation and over a much smaller area.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is why, in Batman, Gotham is not harmed by the explosion: &lt;strong&gt;as a neutron bomb, it had a smaller blast and radiation area than a nuclear bomb of equivalent tonnage.&lt;/strong&gt;  From a few miles away, the effects of a neutron bomb would be minimal.  Hell, that's what they were designed for, the ability to damage with radiation without spreading the effects too far and wide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24597" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-14T16:16:00.240" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T16:16:00.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39706" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-03T19:48:36.047" Score="4" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the final fight between 2015's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1502712/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and Victor Von Doom on Planet Zero Victor achieves to impede all of the Four's attacks. His primary way of doing so seems to be to suffocate them with the rock material of Planet Zero itself, which he can control with his powers. This is how he buries Ben, extinguishes Johnny's fire and holds back Sue in her &quot;forcefield bubble&quot;, if I remember correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, with Reed he merely seems to somehow paralyze him by pressing him to the ground or making his limbs immovable. It nearly seemed as if he made Reed lose control of his very own stretching power. &lt;strong&gt;What did Victor actually do to Reed there?&lt;/strong&gt; Can he even control Reed's power somehow or his very body functions (we certainly saw him somehow &quot;overheat&quot; people earlier)? Or did he just press him to the ground by some external force inherent to Planet Zero or his energy controlling abilities?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T20:28:35.897" Title="What did Victor do to Reed Richards during the final confrontation?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fantastic-four-2015|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39146" CreationDate="2015-09-03T19:57:54.960" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those are &quot;Osiris 'Get Paid' Bronx Lifestyle Shoes.&quot; Osiris appears to be a brand targeted to &quot;skater/surf culture.&quot; Certainly they are in character for Jesse, but it is debatable whether this carries any further meaning within the story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect that these were a Wardrobe Department choice rather than an editorial one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8LlI8.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8LlI8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Google Search&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19595" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T19:57:54.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39708" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-03T20:14:26.387" Score="7" ViewCount="5559" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of the movie, after they boarded the spider, &lt;em&gt;Jim West&lt;/em&gt; (Will Smith) fight some henchmen of &lt;em&gt;Loveless&lt;/em&gt;. When comes the turn of &lt;em&gt;&quot;Metal Head&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Jim&lt;/em&gt; discovers that the guy is &lt;em&gt;entirely&lt;/em&gt; armored and surrenders. &lt;em&gt;&quot;Metal Head&quot;&lt;/em&gt; then raises his weapon to strike and... is electrocuted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NMNZ0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NMNZ0.png&quot; alt=&quot;&amp;quot;Metallo&amp;quot; being electrocuted&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way that &lt;em&gt;Jim&lt;/em&gt; just calmly steps aside and lets the guy fall to his death tells me that it's what he had planned all along. But I really don't understand what happened. As far as I can see, he is not touching any kind of wire around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3WLWU.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3WLWU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&amp;quot;Metallo&amp;quot; falls&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPJGFrntGfU&amp;amp;t=2m2s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Youtube video of the scene&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Missing CGI? Continuity error? Or did I simply miss something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20748" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T10:53:21.087" LastActivityDate="2021-04-28T10:51:51.220" Title="In Wild Wild West, what kills &quot;Metal Head&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|wild-wild-west|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39706" CreationDate="2015-09-03T20:28:35.897" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If my interpretation is correct, then what's happening in this scene requires you to have been paying &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; good attention to the earlier scenes, soon after the four got their powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once of the lines of dialogue tells us that the Army invented the suits the team uses because, without the suits, they cannot control their own powers. In other words, Johnny can't turn off his flames, and Sue randomly fluctuates in and out of the visible spectrum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not specifically mentioned, but presumably, the same is true of Reed. As far as I can tell, Reed also builds himself a similar type of suit and is wearing it the next time we see him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I believe you're supposed to notice in that scene is that Doom is somehow causing the joints on the suit to fail, which causes Reed to lose control over his stretching ability. Without the support of the suit, his limbs go limp and stretched-out, and he can't make them move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once Doom was distracted, Reed was able to regain control over his own powers and use them to help win the final battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T20:28:35.897" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39710" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39712" CreationDate="2015-09-03T20:50:35.063" Score="10" ViewCount="65595" Body="&lt;p&gt;James Woods is a prominent artifact in Family Guy; James Woods High School, the many episodes with his character and the different story lines with James Woods and characters throughout Quohog. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the connection with James Woods and the show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-09-03T21:40:50.070" LastActivityDate="2016-09-28T18:28:14.323" Title="What is the connection with James Woods?" Tags="|family-guy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39711" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="39713" CreationDate="2015-09-03T20:55:08.580" Score="4" ViewCount="36230" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1353281/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chopped&lt;/a&gt; is a cooking competition show that features 4 participants who are all given a basket of &quot;mystery&quot; ingredients in which they must use to create a meal to fit the goal of each round. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way the show is edited makes it seem like as soon as they open the basket, they are ready to get to work without any thought. I'm wondering how close to reality this is. Do the participants get any coaching either before or during the rounds or do they get any time to think about their plan at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T21:32:25.923" Title="Do participants get time to think about their meal?" Tags="|chopped|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39710" CreationDate="2015-09-03T21:16:36.840" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I've been able to piece together is this all started with Seth MacFarlane deciding to name the High School, in the show, &quot;James Woods High&quot;. Primarily, because Seth MacFarlane is from Rhode Island, and James Woods is the first famous person also from Rhode Island that came to mind when deciding on a name. It was also a running joke to name the woods near Quoahog &quot;James Woods&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Woods is among only a handful of famous people from the tiny state of Rhode Island where Family Guy is set. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-From &lt;a href=&quot;https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090617081611AAuRpqU&quot;&gt;Yahoo Answers&lt;/a&gt; asking the same question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a number of episodes James Woods himself got wind of his name being used in the show, thought it was hilarious, and contacted Seth to make an appearance on the show. Seth then got to work writing a show around James Woods. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;James Woods is playing himself. The school on the show is called James Woods High, and he got wind of that and thought it was funny and wanted to do the show. We were obviously thrilled, so we wrote an episode around him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/article/seth-macfarlane-13910&quot;&gt;AV Club Seth MacFarlane Interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode with James Woods had good viewership and they liked working with James Woods, so he became a reoccurring character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;7.7 on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0576958/&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21877" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T21:16:36.840" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39711" CreationDate="2015-09-03T21:32:25.923" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can determine, the contestants do not appear to have any &amp;quot;preparation time&amp;quot; between the moment they open the basket and the moment they start cooking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For starters, the contestants aren't given any information before-hand about the contents of the basket. This is in contrast, for example, to &lt;em&gt;Iron Chef&lt;/em&gt;, which gives the chefs a list of three possible &amp;quot;secret ingredients&amp;quot; so they can prepare 3 sets of dishes. &lt;em&gt;Chopped&lt;/em&gt; throws the ingredients at the contestants and watches their reaction. According to Ted Allen, this is one of the key parts of the episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do the chefs really have no idea ahead of time what ingredients are in the mystery baskets?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is absolutely true. They do not know what the food is. We do, but they don't. We want them to be shocked. We've set it up very carefully so that when they open the baskets, we have all 10 cameras right in their faces to catch reactions from every angle we can. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/yahoo--tv-q-a--ted-allen-reveals-the-secrets-behind--chopped--222307053.html?nf=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;src&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rob Bleifer (Food Network's Chief Executive) echos that statement, though he does say the contestants &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; given a list of pantry ingredients to prepare for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much info, if any, do you provide the contestants about an ingredient? If parts are inedible, do you tell the chefs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. The only info they are given is the pantry list. They are given a full pantry list so they know what items exist — they don’t know where they are placed, but they know they are there. Anything else, we’re under the assumption that they should know. We would never put an ingredient in the basket that is toxic, etc. &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/2012/04/the-chopped-basket-revealed/?oc=linkback&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(src)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to one contestant, the show only gives them a very short time to prepare between rounds before they're ready to start cooking: just long enough to dig through the pantry to find the stuff they need from the ingredients lists:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;VC: On Chopped you have the mystery ingredients you need to use, but also the pantry for more common ingredients. Did they give you an inventory of what was in there or show you around?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JL: Yeah, they gave you about five or 10 minutes to walk around the pantry and familiarize yourself with everything. Actually they do this before each round, because the pantry ingredients change periodically between segments. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/article/what-its-compete-chopped-kitchen-215436&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;src&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, the contestants have very little time to figure out what they're going to cook, because they're immediately on the clock:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AVC: What’s the process like for improvising a dish like this? In the first round your ingredients were a polenta log, tomatillos, braised beef brisket, and Araucana eggs [which are from a particular breed of chicken]. Those at least seem pretty familiar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JL: I was lucky with that. I probably gave myself about 10 seconds to plan out what I was going to do each round, and the way I approached it was by taking the raw ingredients I wasn’t sure about, like the polenta and tomatillos in the first round, and figuring out what I was going to do with those first, if they were going to be a spread or some other kind of component. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/article/what-its-compete-chopped-kitchen-215436&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;src&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each episode is taped during a single, continuous 16-hour filming period; if you factor in the time to cook, the time to present each dish, the time for the judges to finish eating and make their decision, the time to swap out pantry ingredients, etc., that doesn't leave much time left for the contestants to sit around planning things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T21:32:25.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39714" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-03T21:55:49.230" Score="2" ViewCount="485" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Pixels, in all other levels/games/whatever-you-call-it the aliens created 'the game' and the Earthlings were supposed to play the game. So why during the game of Pac-Man was it the other way around with humans playing as ghosts, and Pac-Man being the enemy? (Side question - why the cheat codes worked against the main player in this case)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24602" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-19T10:27:23.843" LastActivityDate="2016-07-19T11:23:56.387" Title="Why were the protagonists the enemies during the Pac-Man game in Pixels?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pixels|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="39716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23578" CreationDate="2015-09-03T23:08:02.613" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Day of the Doctor specifically mentions &quot;same software, different case.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The War Doctor puts the calculation in the &quot;software architecture&quot; which is backed up by the Tardis. It doesn't matter if a new Doctor chooses to change the look of the screwdriver, or if the screwdriver gets destroyed, or anything else -- it's the programming behind it that matters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24603" LastActivityDate="2015-09-03T23:08:02.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40717" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-04T04:17:12.853" Score="2" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs à Tire Larigot, there are several occurrences where we can see the posters of the film in the movie sets or on props.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the meaning of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t7Pew.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t7Pew.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WiIcJ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WiIcJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jfJ6Q.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jfJ6Q.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DgO4v.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DgO4v.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23193" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T10:52:08.687" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T10:52:08.687" Title="Why are there posters of the film inside Micmacs à Tire-Larigot?" Tags="|micmacs|posters|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40719" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40722" CreationDate="2015-09-04T06:45:59.820" Score="2" ViewCount="855" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have seen Lady Melisandre in season 2 of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; with Stannis Baratheon, but who is she? How did she meet Stannis?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T07:31:52.173" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T07:31:52.173" Title="What is the story behind Lady Melisandre?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40719" CreationDate="2015-09-04T07:29:23.377" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This wasn't explained in the show (apart from the fact that she has been a slave), the information we have comes from the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Melisandre&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GoT Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Melisandre is a priestess of the&#xA;  red god, R'hllor, the Lord of Light, whose worship involves the&#xA;  idolization of fire and light. R'hllor is a popular deity in several&#xA;  of the Free Cities (particularly Lys, Myr, and Volantis) but is almost&#xA;  unheard of in Westeros. Although the series has altered some of&#xA;  Melisandre's actions, van Houten's portrayal is overall consistent&#xA;  with Melisandre as described in the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Very little has been revealed about Melisandre's earlier life, other&#xA;  than that she is originally from the city of Asshai in the distant&#xA;  east. Melisandre recalls that as a small child, she was a slave named&#xA;  &quot;Melony&quot;. At the slave auction block, she was known as &quot;Lot Seven&quot;.&#xA;  She was sold at a young age to the temple of the Lord of Light in&#xA;  Asshai, eventually rising to become a priestess, and thus has spent&#xA;  most of her life in the service of the religion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some years ago she crossed the Narrow Sea and came to the court of&#xA;  Lord Stannis Baratheon on the island stronghold of Dragonstone, to&#xA;  preach her faith. Stannis and the majority of his household have now&#xA;  converted to her religion, and she has become a close adviser to&#xA;  Stannis himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Melisandre&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the books wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Melisandre came to Dragonstone because she believed Stannis Baratheon&#xA;  is Azor Ahai reborn and destined to defeat the Great Other the&#xA;  antithesis of her god. (...) Melisandre proclaims Stannis Azor Ahai&#xA;  reborn and has him pull a burning sword from the idols, declaring it&#xA;  to be the legendary Lightbringer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T07:29:23.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40723" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40725" CreationDate="2015-09-04T07:58:41.897" Score="6" ViewCount="620" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scream.wikia.com/wiki/Father_Death_costume&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Father Death mask&lt;/a&gt; of Ghostface&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SZ7D1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SZ7D1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;changed in the TV series &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Scream&lt;/a&gt; to a new one:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/da4nK.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/da4nK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the reason for this change? The older one seemed to be more popular and loved, while the newer one seems less dramatic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-02T14:04:32.467" LastActivityDate="2016-11-02T14:04:32.467" Title="Why was the Ghostface mask changed in the TV series?" Tags="|production|costume|scream|scream-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40723" CreationDate="2015-09-04T09:05:59.443" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;MTV exec Mina Lefevre explained&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It’s a darker, almost more grounded, evolved version of the mask It’s something we’re constantly talking about. How did that mask become that mask? What’s its purpose? How did it evolve? If the Scream movie mask was the more plastic version, for a lack of a better description, this one is a more organic looking and frankly darker version.The mask was a big discussion creatively. We wanted to get a nod and a wink to what the original was, but we definitely wanted to make it more on par with what horror is now, which is darker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/scream-tv-series-mask/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T09:05:59.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40727" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-04T11:09:47.043" Score="5" ViewCount="447" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching Gravity Falls S1E20, here Dipper defeats Gideon inside the huge robot and crash lands the robot on ground. When the people of Gravity Falls assemble to check out the explosion and crash, Stan uncovers the lid of robot to show various TVs showing activities of people of Gravity Falls doing their activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is shown that Gideon gifts the people of Gravity Falls with his badges which has cameras. These cameras record their activity. But people will wear those badges over their chest or keep it on table or shelves. But the recordings show the badges capturing exact angels. How is this possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22115" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T12:20:24.953" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T16:48:31.260" Title="How is Gideon able to capture people of Gravity Falls in appropriate camera angles?" Tags="|gravity-falls|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40729" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-04T12:16:22.793" Score="2" ViewCount="921" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Biff returns to 2015A, he disappears probably because Lorraine shot him in the 1996A or because in fact, he doesn't match with the Biff-A of 2015A so the original old Biff no longer exists and fade out of existence. Is it a paradox? I mean:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there isn't a Biff-A  in 2015A because he died in 1996, nobody could have stolen the DeLorean and give the young Biff the book.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If there's actually exists a Biff-A, he doesn't have to stole the car and give himself the book in 1955. So, again, nobody would have stolen the car and the young Biff would not have got the book.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like if Marty has changed the Doc mind in 1955 and the scientist would not have created the time machine in 1985, it would be a paradox because Marty could not have travelled in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25618" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T12:39:24.767" Title="Paradox in Back to the future II?" Tags="|back-to-the-future|back-to-the-future-part-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40730" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40727" CreationDate="2015-09-04T12:33:19.567" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not possible. Look at the angles. They would all have to be in the perfect spot, direction and view point to catch someone's face. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZA18n.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZA18n.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a cartoon. And all film mediums tend to ignore realistic camera angles for in-universe cameras 90% of the time, like using stock footage as &quot;security video&quot; when a security camera could never catch those angles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Accepted reality break as focusing on those details would put a burden on focusing on the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, a cartoon has less reasons not to do it right the first time but what can you do...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Tropes calls it Surveillance as the Plot Demands&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The bad guys have cameras everywhere. They probably also have Ominous Multiple Screens to follow all those cameras. Like some even-more-sinister version of Big Brother, they always know exactly where the heroes are and what they're doing, even if there's no possible reason for them to be able to. It doesn't matter if they're three galaxies away or five thousand years in the past, the villains can still find them. They can put anything that they want up on the big screen, making you wonder why they don't just give up on the bizarre plans for world domination and just surreptitiously blackmail every government in the world without the good guys ever finding out. Or at least you would if you weren't so busy trying to puzzle out exactly how Luthor managed to get a live feed of the Super Friends repairing satellites in outer space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalSecurityCam&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;There is also Magical Security Cam&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In any situation where someone watches a recording of an event that the audience has already seen happening, the recording will — by the purest coincidence — happen to use exactly the same footage that the audience has already witnessed. That is to say, it will include all the same dramatic camera angles, pans and zooms as the original scene, despite that there's no way an in-universe device (especially a stationary device, like a fixed security camera) could have captured and produced such, well, cinematic footage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-10-05T16:39:27.360" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T16:39:27.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40731" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40729" CreationDate="2015-09-04T12:39:24.767" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/1193/in-back-to-the-future-part-ii-how-could-old-biff-have-made-it-back-to-2015&quot;&gt;In Back to the Future Part II, how could old Biff have made it back to 2015?&lt;/a&gt; Answers most of your question, but the other part is simply that changes to the time stream in BTTF are not instant. The characters have enough time to affect the changes before they are erased from existence. Paradox averted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T12:39:24.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40732" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-04T13:51:07.637" Score="5" ViewCount="30311" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Part 2: The Two Towers), where do the Elves go after the battle in the Helm's deep? The next morning when they (Aragorn and the others) open the gates and charge forward, we do not see any Elves (the ones who were commanded by Haldir). In the movie it's the scene right before when Gandalf shows up with Eomer and the other riders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25623" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-06T11:54:09.057" LastActivityDate="2021-11-13T16:54:48.577" Title="Where did the Elves go after the Helm's deep battle in LOTR?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-two-towers|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40732" CreationDate="2015-09-04T14:14:47.223" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Elves at Helm's Deep were a departure from the book version and were added for some reason by Peter Jackson and his team. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of this, they would need to play a bigger part in an already pretty expansive story or they would have to be quietly dropped from the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Perhaps&lt;/em&gt; they filmed a few scenes either about them getting wiped out or going home, but it seems that they were simply dropped in the hope that nobody would notice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19595" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T14:14:47.223" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40732" CreationDate="2015-09-04T14:36:39.987" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think we can safely assume that all the Elves died during the fight. They took the full brunt of the Urak-hai army on the ground after the wall was destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's not forget, that their commander (the only Elf who could have issued a retreat) was Haldir - and he died. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Elves are fiercely well trained and proud fighters, it is no surprise at all that they fought til death, instead of retreating to the keep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20829" LastEditorUserId="20829" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T14:43:35.730" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T14:43:35.730" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40735" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-09-04T15:13:56.533" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T15:13:56.533" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T15:13:56.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40736" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-09-04T15:13:56.533" Score="0" Body="The 1992 animated Disney film about a man who comes to possess a genie's lamp and the three wishes that come with it." OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T15:54:40.727" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T15:54:40.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40738" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-09-04T15:16:30.907" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T15:16:30.907" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T15:16:30.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40739" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-09-04T15:16:30.907" Score="0" Body="The 1996 animated Disney film about Quasimodo, a hunchback, who lives in the bell towers of Notre Dame Cathedral. Loosely based on the 1831 Victor Hugo novel of the same title." OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T15:54:19.607" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T15:54:19.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40740" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-09-04T15:24:43.490" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T15:24:43.490" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T15:24:43.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40741" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-09-04T15:24:43.490" Score="0" Body="The animated TV series that began airing on the Disney Channel in 2013 featuring short episodes of classic-style Mickey Mouse and friends cartoons." OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-04T15:54:13.800" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T15:54:13.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40732" CreationDate="2015-09-04T15:33:48.520" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the book, the elves from Lothlorien were not involved in this battle. A few days after the battle of Helm's Deep, orcs from Dol Guldur swarmed into the forest of Lothlorien in a full-scale assault. They were repulsed by the power of the elves and Galadriel’s ring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume that in the movie, elves who survived the battle of Helm's Deep, immediately returned to Lothlorien to defend their forest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23484" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T15:33:48.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40771" CreationDate="2015-09-04T16:54:57.663" Score="3" ViewCount="1088" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Inglourious Basterds, Shosanna Dreyfus appears as a stunning &lt;em&gt;woman in red&lt;/em&gt; on the Nation's Pride premiere. This image contrasts dramatically with her previous appearances in casual (or even shabby) clothing. This remarkable shot features her just before she goes out to socialize with the Nazis attending the premiere. Considering the wartime, her dress seems to be out of place. One thing I noticed, though, is how similar the color of her dress is to the color of the Nazi banners Paris is drowned in. Could she make a dress out of one? If so, does it carry any special meaning?&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Th3fK.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Th3fK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Shosanna in red&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23472" LastActivityDate="2015-09-05T16:37:14.730" Title="Did Shosanna make her dress out of a Nazi banner?" Tags="|character|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39377" CreationDate="2015-09-04T22:58:14.940" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My theory over the years is that people would remember a title better than they might remember the first few minutes of a show (usually before a distinctive plot might pick up), so the chances of the audiences watching a potential rerun are higher. A good example of this would be The Simpsons, where the first act of an episode rarely connects directly with the second and third. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25634" LastActivityDate="2015-09-04T22:58:14.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40752" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40878" CreationDate="2015-09-04T23:06:27.157" Score="6" ViewCount="4225" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; season 4, Don Eladio intended to keep Jesse in Mexico as a permanent employee. Gus and Mike pretended to accept that arrangement, but they had a secret plan of their own, which they kept secret even from Jesse. The only explanation he got was a vague reassurance from Mike, some time after Don Eladio revealed his intentions, that &quot;either we're all going home, or none of us are.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the writer's point of view, of course it was a great use of suspense, to keep the plan from the audience until Gus excused himself from the party. But is there any plausible in-story reason why Gus decided it was better for him to keep Jesse in the dark?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The risks are obvious - Jesse's reaction to the news that he is not going home could have been violent enough to upset the celebratory mood. Without the celebration, Gus's plan wouldn't have worked. It was lucky for Gus that Jesse remained calm long enough to talk to Mike in private.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible that Don Eladio had ordered Gus not to tell Jesse what was going to happen, but Gus could have told him anyway and Jesse would be able to &lt;em&gt;act&lt;/em&gt; surprised without actually being at risk of doing something counter-productive in a panic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other possibility, that Gus didn't know Don Eladio's intentions either, doesn't seem likely to me. They must have had some kind of agreement before Gus went to Mexico, and if Don Eladio altered the deal, then Gus should have shown a little anger or disappointment. Even if, as Don Eladio thought, Gus was in a bad negotiating position, the acceptance of yet another unreasonable demand shouldn't have come so easy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I conclude that Gus had accepted that demand as part of the original agreement, and chose to allow Don Eladio to shock Jesse with the news that he &quot;belongs to the cartel now&quot;. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6436" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-09-07T05:36:07.673" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T08:38:31.983" Title="Why didn't Gus tell Jesse his plan for the trip to Mexico?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37420" CreationDate="2015-09-05T00:11:37.870" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show itself was produced from 1996 to 2005 and since it &lt;strong&gt;lacks any clear statements about being set at a specific past time period&lt;/strong&gt;, there is nothing to suggest it wasn't set during exactly that time. It is natural for some things to look old if you consider that it started nearly 20 years ago as a classic 90s show. Likewise is the supposedly idyllic setting and the funny treatment of situations a natural aspect of it being a family sitcom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even more than that, there are many strong hints that speak for it being set at the present when it was produced. First and foremost it is to a large degree &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Loves_Raymond&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;based on Ray Romano's very own life&lt;/a&gt; and family&lt;/strong&gt; (albeit surely in a slightly fictionalized/dramatized/comedic form) as well as his comedic appeal as kind of an average family man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is further reinforced by a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/01/nyregion/can-sitcom-make-it-with-li-setting.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1996 article from The New York Times&lt;/a&gt; about the release of the show. This focused specifically on the suburban Long Island setting, which was regarded something new back then and &lt;strong&gt;supposed to relate to an ermeging generation of average middle-class families&lt;/strong&gt; living in the suburbs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since no show has succeeded with a Long Island location, one wonders if a series set in the heart of the suburbs, where crabgrass is the most rampant threat, can survive. Other shows, like the No. 1, &quot;Seinfeld,&quot; are set in Manhattan and have been successful with a wide audience. Yet the creators of &quot;Raymond&quot; rejected the city as a location. [...] &quot;This is not just a Seinfeld with kids,&quot; according to Chris Albrecht [...] Officials at CBS felt the Nassau County location was one that &quot;a broad section of the audience would feel comfortable with,&quot; Mr. Albrecht said. &quot;It has all the trappings of an urban area, but suburbia appeals to a broader audience.&quot; [...] &quot;We all decided the show would be more relatable if it took place in the suburbs.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With &quot;Everybody Loves Raymond,&quot; Long Island is now apparently perceived as mainstream enough to entice viewers. This change in network thinking may be due to the fact that &quot;with the development of malls and suburbs, the rest of the country continues to get more like Long Island,&quot; said David Schwartz.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The whole movement in television since the 1970's has been toward more realism in sitcoms,&quot; said David Bushman, director of programming of &quot;Nick at Night's TV Land.&quot; A sense of place rather than a generic set is more important. The advent of demographic ratings has emphasized the need for urban appeal to viewers with more disposable income.&quot; Mr. Thompson said: &quot;Early classic sitcoms like 'Father Knows Best' or 'Donna Reed' don't acknowledge the fact that there has to be an urb for it to be a sub-urb. The nature of the dialogue and hipness on 'Raymond' shows the metropolitan center is not far off.&quot; [...] According to Mr. Thompson, &quot;The show depends on Long Island style and esthetic, a quality that's suburban, family-oriented, kind of out-in-the-sticks but intimately connected to a huge metropolitan area.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;realism and groundedness derived from Ray Romano's comedic character himself&lt;/strong&gt; was a major appeal of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The opening sequence is a metaphor for the essence of Mr. Romano's humor. For 12 years as a standup, the comic built his act around &quot;kind of an ambivalent feeling,&quot; as Mr. Romano said in a recent interview from Los Angeles. &quot;I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived. My character is a father who loves his family but who would also love a little freedom.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Creators of the show emphasize that the series is grounded in reality. Its characters, Ray's eccentric parents who live across the street with his oddball brother, mirror Mr. Romano's own extended family in Queens. In real life, Mr. Romano has twin toddler sons and a 6-year-old daughter, like his character on the show. Mr. Romano's Everyman humor, bemoaning the burdens of parenthood, makes his act not only funny but endearing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the article never states exactly when the show is set it goes out of its way to highlight the considerations for a &lt;strong&gt;realistic US suburban appeal&lt;/strong&gt; the creators went for. Together with the inspiration from Ray Romano's own life as a father this strongly suggests for it to be &lt;strong&gt;set in exactly the same time it was produced&lt;/strong&gt;, thus from 1996 to 2005.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-09-05T00:11:37.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1653" CreationDate="2015-09-05T00:34:47.727" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always felt that the husband came back home on compassionate grounds and went to the house in a state of shock and felt the spirits of his wife and children, he went just to feel and get his head around the situation, he stayed for a while and then left to grieve&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25637" LastActivityDate="2015-09-05T00:34:47.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37342" CreationDate="2015-09-05T02:53:08.870" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show was initially made for 12 episodes. But when additional episodes were going to be made, most of the cast members decided to renew their contract except for Terry Markwell. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0549046/bio&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Apparently&lt;/a&gt;, she was dissatisfied with the screen time her character, Casey Randall, was getting in the series. She decided not to renew her contract and was replaced by Jane Badler for the remainder of the episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25638" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T08:28:43.113" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T08:28:43.113" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37420" CreationDate="2015-09-05T03:39:50.850" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everybody Loves Raymond S01E21 &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Fascinatin' Debra&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; opens with Ray meeting Desmond Howard, a professional football player. Ray says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CongratuIations on that Super Bowl MVP thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is in reference to Howard's MVP award for Super Bowl XXXI, as Kick Returner/Punt Returner. (He's the only Special Team player to win a MVP award).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Superbowl XXXI was played on January 26, 1997. The episode aired March 17, 1997. This is just one of multiple occasions where real life sports players cameo and real life sports events are mentioned/referred to, in roughly real time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show is set in real time, modern day of when it aired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-05T03:39:50.850" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12084" CreationDate="2015-09-05T15:08:05.980" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one scene they leave pretty clear that they where mates, probably in the army, he even had a tactical body armour. By the way he fights against Zod is clear he had military combat training, Zod probably are like many other superior officers who are bad at hand to hand combat training, and rely a lot in weapons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25643" LastActivityDate="2015-09-05T15:08:05.980" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16502" CreationDate="2015-09-05T15:33:53.890" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to our computations, considering that our database currently contains around 350 titles only, the ten most swearing movies in history are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4.44 - End of Watch&#xA;4.39 - Kajaki&#xA;2.99 - The Wolf of Wall Street&#xA;2.91 - Mommy&#xA;2.87 - Fury&#xA;2.83 - Fresh&#xA;2.68 - Brother&#xA;2.68 - Street Kings&#xA;2.46 - The Boys in Company C&#xA;2.44 - 22 Jump Street &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number is the &quot;Swearingness index&quot;, computed as the ratio [bad words]/[total words] in the movie script. Bad words are not only f* and derivates. We have a very comprehensive list of bad words.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinecount.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cinecount.com&lt;/a&gt; for more details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25644" LastEditorUserId="25644" LastEditDate="2015-09-06T00:28:54.673" LastActivityDate="2015-09-06T00:28:54.673" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34751" CreationDate="2015-09-05T15:46:07.187" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that he says &quot;Witness Me&quot; just before he ends his life. What I differ on in this instance is he is not saying it to Odin to get into Valhalla ... he is saying &lt;em&gt;Witness Me&lt;/em&gt; to Capable, whom he has come to love. &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/34799/5391&quot;&gt;In this answer&lt;/a&gt; @FrankVoors talks about Nux having the &lt;em&gt;biggest arc&lt;/em&gt; as far as characters go in the movie. Capable is the catalyst for that arc. It is for this Nux isn't sacrificing himself to get into Valhalla, he is sacrificing himself for Capable's sake. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2015-09-05T15:46:07.187" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40745" CreationDate="2015-09-05T16:37:14.730" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one interview where they asked about the red dress, Anna Sheppard &lt;a href=&quot;http://clothesonfilm.com/inglourious-basterds-costume-lowdown-by-anna-sheppard/5602/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;explained&lt;/a&gt; why she chose the red dress intead of a black dress, which was the original idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I thought that in the black dress, her character would disappear as she is so tiny. As it was the last day of her character’s life, &lt;strong&gt;I didn’t want her to disappear in the crowds of people wearing beautiful evening gowns as her other costumes had a much more tomboy-ish feel to them. I wanted her to look beautiful and very feminine, hence the red dress with a very seductive shape. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The special you mentioned in the question would be look pretty sexy (damn, she was!) in the character's last day of life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21286" LastActivityDate="2015-09-05T16:37:14.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40773" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-05T17:18:16.153" Score="3" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Song of the Sea&lt;/em&gt;, why did Bronach look sorrowful when Ben asked her not to take Saoirse away, and why did Ben cry after seeing this reaction of Bronach?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I got the metaphorical structure of the film, but I cannot understand this scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user25650" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-06T11:52:16.230" LastActivityDate="2015-09-06T11:52:16.230" Title="What made Bronach and Ben sad?" Tags="|plot-explanation|song-of-the-sea|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16502" CreationDate="2015-09-05T18:10:52.400" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swearnet:_The_Movie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;SWEARNET&lt;/em&gt; : The Movie&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt; the movie by the guys who &quot;are&quot; The Trailer Park Boys, has &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1232419-look-out-below-trailer-park-boys-drop-935-f-bombs-in-swearnet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;935 F-bombs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. According to Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Guinness World Records website lists the film as holding the record for the most expletives in a film, with a total of 935 of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also helps to realize that while &lt;em&gt;The Wolf of Wall Street&lt;/em&gt; was 3 hours long, &lt;em&gt;SWEARNET&lt;/em&gt; was only 112 minutes long. Over an hour less. That's a lot more fpm (Fucks Per Minute) at &lt;strong&gt;8.35 fpm&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia's page that tallies swear words in movies can be found &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_that_most_frequently_use_the_word_%22fuck%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT :&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;I just checked the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-swearing-in-one-film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Guinness page&lt;/a&gt; and it now reads:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The most swearing in one film features &lt;strong&gt;868&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;[emphasis mine]&lt;/em&gt; expletives which was achieved by Swear Net Inc. &amp;amp; The Pits Inc. (Canada) for the film Swearnet as directed by Warren Sonoda (Canada). The record was verified in London, UK, on 12 September 2014.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That drops the fpm to 7.75.&lt;/strong&gt; Still a clear winner in numbers and fpm. I'll do one more update with my own tally when I can find my copy of the movie. I have most of my stuff boxed up haphazardly right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2016-06-05T20:59:26.920" LastActivityDate="2016-06-05T20:59:26.920" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40779" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40816" CreationDate="2015-09-05T18:55:26.047" Score="9" ViewCount="12015" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/em&gt; epsiode &quot;A Tale of Two Springfields&quot; (S12E02), Homer says about The Who:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's not fair! I've been a fan of The Who since the very beginning, when they were The Hillbilly Bugger Boys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does he say that? Is it a completely made up, non-sense name? Or is this some sort of pop cultural reference I'm not aware of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13961" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-06T22:16:01.053" LastActivityDate="2022-07-04T01:25:48.837" Title="Why does Homer say The Who used to be named The Hillbilly Bugger Boys?" Tags="|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1653" CreationDate="2015-09-05T20:15:07.967" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The old lady says &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't think he knows where he is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think he didn't find his wife but the opposite (she found him lost in the mist because she needed him). He is lost in &quot;the mist&quot; probably because the traumatic events of the war, this explain his personality. He will never come back home, and is always lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25657" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-06-02T05:59:13.447" LastActivityDate="2017-06-02T05:59:13.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27707" CreationDate="2015-09-05T23:26:33.020" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm of the opinion that bootstrap got his name due to being first mate and old maritime humor, as in &quot;he is that far up the captain's behind ,all you can see is his bootstraps&quot;. That would explain why Jack doesn't call him that and the childish sniggering when it's mentioned &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25661" LastActivityDate="2015-09-05T23:26:33.020" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40940" CreationDate="2015-09-05T23:59:05.577" Score="8" ViewCount="1616" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the course of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111686/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;New Nightmare&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when Heather starts to get plagued more and more by dreams of Freddy, she calls her friend and former Freddy Krueger actor Robert Englund and tells him about it. He seems suspiciously knowledgable about the situation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Robert:&lt;/strong&gt; Wait a second, Now let me get this straight. You're having nightmares about Freddy, as in me?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Heather:&lt;/strong&gt; No, it isn't you. He's scarier, he's...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Robert:&lt;/strong&gt; Darker, more evil?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Heather:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah, how did you know?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Robert:&lt;/strong&gt; Call that a guess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even more than that, he's actually right over painting a rather disturbing picture of Freddy. Yet, he doesn't tell Heather more and tries to put her off till tomorrow when she asks if she can visit him. And this is the last time we see Robert, for when Heather tries to call him the next day, his voice mail says he's left for multiple days and his character's arc is never picked up again for the rest of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there was clearly something wrong with him and it isn't clear to me what, neither why he was never again mentioned after that incident. He seems to either have dreamed about Freddy, too. But he also didn't seem much aware of the situation himself and a little distracted. Yet, apart from Freddy's creator Wes and his selected opponent Heather, noone else from the film crew seemed to have dreams about him. Given his strange behaviour I found his sudden disappearance quite surprising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;what actually happened to Robert Englund?&lt;/strong&gt; An interesting aspect is, though, that Freddy Krueger was actually played by Robert Englund in this movie, too, as was the original Freddy who the actual evil entity was bound in. So does Robert have some kind of special connection to that Freddy because of this relation? Or was he even himself transforming into Freddy or was Robert's dissolution somehow necessary for Freddy's full emergence into the real world? Are there any other scenes or allusions, or maybe even deleted scenes, that clarify this aspect a bit and give a clearer conclusion to Robert Englund's character arc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-06T22:27:47.377" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T22:34:45.037" Title="What happened to Robert Englund?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|new-nightmare|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17848" CreationDate="2015-09-06T00:26:01.567" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Max and Deborah had one thing in common, they were both in love with Noodles.  Max always slept with the women that Noodles had had first.  Max's feelings towards Noodles were pseudo-homosexual, no doubt about it.  Max takes as his mistress Noodles' first 'rape' victim, Carol. And then years later he gets together with the love of Noddles' life, Deborah, who is also one of Noodles rape victims, but more of that later. Max is able to feel sexually close to Noodles by having sex with the women that Noodles has had sex with first (forced or otherwise). This is the closest thing to physical intimacy with Noodles that Max will ever get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Noodles loves both Deborah and Max, but he feels more of a sense of loyalty to Max and this is why he always chooses to stand by Max, even at the expense of Deborah. Twice in this film, both as a child and an adult, Deborah taunts Noodles with the words &quot;Mama's calling.&quot;, meaning that Max wants Noodles at his side. Deborah is hurt that Noodles always chooses Max over her, and ultimately this is the REAL reason that she decides to follow her ambition and go to Chicago, she is angry and upset that SHE is not number one in Noodles loyalties and priorities, Max is and Deborah feels that she will always be competing with Max for the attention of Noodles. This is also the reason that Deborah and Max have never liked each other, they both love Noodles and there is a deep jealousy between them, because they BOTH want Noodles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Max of course can never reveal to Noodles how he really feels about him, perhaps Max does not even realise himself that what he feels for Noodles is sexual love. This is the reason that utimately, Max and Deborah get together later in life, their shared love of Noodles is what draws them together, and keeps them together, despite the fact that they previously did not like each other. By being together it is as if they can keep alive their memories of Noodles and the deep love that they still both feel for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Noodles, he is a much simpler character (at least he is, compared to Deborah and Max).  Noodles is a thug, plain and simple. When he makes his fortune, he believes that this will convince Deborah to marry him and MAYBE she would have if he had been prepared to choose HER instead of Max and the gangster life-style; but Noodles is not a hugely intelligent individual and he blows his chance with Deborah by not putting her first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He takes her on a date, and in the back of a limousine, Deborah tells Noodles she is going to Chicago in search of stardom.  Noodles is devastated, crushed. He has loved this girl since he was a kid, and finally, just when he thought she was within his reach, he is going to lose her again.  He is so deeply hurt, and so angry that his love is going to be leaving him, probably forever, that for a moment he is in the grip of some kind of madness.  Deborah is startled. She has never felt such anger and coldness from Noodles, and she doesn't like it, she wants them to part as friends so she leans in and gently kisses him. This is too much for Noodles, he is getting mixed signals from Deborah (he believes).  First she is rejecting him, and then she is kissing him. Noodles is confused......does Deborah want him to make love to her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now remember, Noodles is not very intelligent, and he has been brought up with absolutely no idea of how to treat women.  He has spent his most formative years in a borstal and a prison, and he himself committed an act of murder when he was little more than a child.  His experiences with women have been limited to  prostitutes or with women like Carol, the blonde cashier who encouraged him to rape her because she is a masochist who enjoys extremely rough sex; the scene in which Carol entices and provokes Noodles in to raping her ends with her having a screaming orgasm. So now we have Noodles in the back of a Limo with the pure and innocent Deborah, and he is thinking that she is 'asking for it' as well.....and so he rapes her in the most brutal and horrific fashion. But he discovers that Deborah is most certainly not like Carol, or the young prostitute Peggy, Deborah is definitely NOT ejoying what is happening, Deborah is certainly screaming, but not with pleasure.  Noodles is genuinely puzzled by Debbie's 'strange' reaction, and this is why he carries on with the ghastly rape, he figures that if he 'keeps going' and 'gives her a bit more' she will start to enjoy it like Carol did, poor, ignorant, foolish Noodles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only later does he realise that he has ruined whatever chance he ever had with the love of his life by this one revolting and despicable act.  For her part, Deborah moves on with her life, but there is a part of her that will never stop loving him because she also realises, deep down, that Noodles has suffered more from the act of raping her than she herself has. Noodles life was in ruins from the moment he raped Deborah, and he was never truly happy again. He had hurt and violated the one person that he loved more than anyone else in the world and this is the reason that Deborah is very easy on him when he turns up in her dressing room all those years later, she doesn't scream or rage at him because she knows he has already suffered a life sentence of regret for what he did to her and she has finally forgiven him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Max, he has wealth, fame, position, he has Deborah and they have a son together named David, who is undoubtedly named after Noodles, whose real name is of course David Aaronson. And yet, Max is not happy.  How can he be, when he betrayed the only person he has ever deeply and truly loved?  His friend and the love of his life, Noodles. This is the reason Max wants Noodles to kill him, it is his way of saying to Noodles, you can kill me for what I did to you but please forgive me first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25662" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-06T12:20:47.473" LastActivityDate="2015-09-06T12:20:47.473" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40792" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40795" CreationDate="2015-09-06T02:01:16.063" Score="6" ViewCount="1964" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found &quot;Ex Machina&quot; to be well done AND intriguing. What will the robot do now that she is loose in human society?  Which will develop quickest her sense of survival, a new sense of compassion, will she ever deal with a sense of fair play and how about a need to be among her own kind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So! Will there be a sequel to deal with these questions? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25664" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-06T11:05:11.483" LastActivityDate="2016-07-10T23:42:10.207" Title="Will there be a sequel to &quot;Ex Machina&quot;?" Tags="|sequels|ex-machina|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40792" CreationDate="2015-09-06T03:22:43.797" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://deadline.com/2015/05/ex-machina-alex-garland-2000-screens-no-sequel-1201421795/&quot;&gt;According to the director, Alex Garland, the answer would be: &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I imagined it as a completely self-contained story and I still feel that way about it,” Garland said. “It has become reflexive for people to imagine this movie was made to set up a sequel and that the plan was built into the structure of the film. But it was not that way, at all.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-09-06T03:22:43.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17058" CreationDate="2015-09-06T05:57:01.707" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the paternal stuff went unsaid throughout the movie for only Vera, Damon and the viewers to stew over. Leo knew nothing of it or the identity of her boyfriend for that matter. He didn't even know she was pregnant. That is what she was probably going to tell him.....&quot;I'm pregnant to my boyfriend&quot; (so she hopes!). The envelope given to Vera by Leo had to contain the truth about the entire story and instructions to contact Marky Mark. Wahlberg and Vera worked together to set up the hit in the apartment. She went on to give birth to Leo's son and most likely spanked by Dirk Digler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25668" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-06T11:07:16.980" LastActivityDate="2015-09-06T11:07:16.980" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40804" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40808" CreationDate="2015-09-06T12:17:50.050" Score="11" ViewCount="2119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw the answers of &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2513/why-didnt-lokis-mind-control-work-on-tony-stark&quot;&gt;this other question&lt;/a&gt; about the scene in &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; where Loki tries to do his mind control on Tony Stark, so I started to wonder that why Loki didn't realize that he just has to move his staff to another body part of Tony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean is Tony having an arc reactor a big secret? Because Loki seems to have much knowledge about the Avengers and earth. Loki is not as hot-headed as his brother, he must realize this at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T12:40:38.360" Title="Why didn't Loki realize he is touching the arc reactor?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28251" CreationDate="2015-09-06T13:25:28.460" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aragorn is a Dúnadan, a descendant of the people of Númenor. Their lifespans are much longer than those of other (normal) humans. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BAnedain#Characteristics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, Dúnedain of high rank -like Aragorn- have lifespans three times as long as normal humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19300" LastActivityDate="2015-09-06T13:25:28.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40804" CreationDate="2015-09-06T13:28:36.557" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the Iron Man and Iron Man 2  movies, Tony's chest reactor is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; public knowledge. At no time is it revealed to the public at large. Loki is not omniscient and had no way of knowing about it. Nor does Loki know how the scepter works 100%, other wise he would have taken the mind stone (one of six of the most powerful objects known to Asgardians.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, it's implied that Loki is also under mind control throughout &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;. It's not stated out right, but Loki exhibits the same symptoms as Clint and Dr. Selvig do, up until he gets &quot;cognitive recalibration&quot; courtesy of the Hulk. The implication being that he can't think as well as he normally would.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-09-06T14:03:10.217" LastActivityDate="2015-09-06T14:03:10.217" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28251" CreationDate="2015-09-06T14:05:19.117" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aragorn was a Dúnedain, a race of men that were directly descended from a more powerful race of men from the continent of Numenor. These people lived much, much longer than the other humans in Middle Earth.  In &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers&lt;/em&gt;, he tells Eoywn that he's 87 years old just prior to the Battle of Helm's Deep. (As described in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20217/how-old-is-aragorn-when-he-fights-at-helms-deep&quot;&gt;this SF&amp;amp;F question&lt;/a&gt;, if we go by the novel's timeline, he had actually just turned &lt;em&gt;88&lt;/em&gt; but we can cut him some slack.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We known from the films that &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; takes place some indeterminate time after Bilbo's 111th birthday, and that Bilbo was in his 50s when &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; takes place. (I'm not sure if the movie specifically gives his age, but it's his 50th birthday in the book). That means Aragorn would be about in his early to mid 20s during the &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note: &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring&lt;/em&gt; condenses the early timeline a good deal. It's not obvious from the movie, but there's a &lt;em&gt;long time&lt;/em&gt; between Bilbo's birthday and the coming of the Nazgul to The Shire -- 17 years, in fact. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the book's calendar, Aragorn was born in 2931, and the Battle of the Five Armies happened in 2941, so Aragorn would have been 10.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-09-06T14:05:19.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40812" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40813" CreationDate="2015-09-06T19:02:36.773" Score="18" ViewCount="64491" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1201607/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the gang tries to break into Bellatrix Lestrange's vault at Gringot's using polyjuice potion to dress Hermione and Ron as Bellatrix and some other Death Eater respectively. But when Hermione in Bellatrix costume is asked to hand over her wand for verification, she protests and the situation starts to get quite nervous and ultimately has to be resolved by a disguised Harry casting an Imperio curse upon the receptionist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;I wonder why Hermione couldn't just hand over Bellatrix' wand as in the previous scene we were shown that they have it anyway&lt;/strong&gt;, having it won at the end of &lt;em&gt;Deathly Hallows: Part 1&lt;/em&gt;. Was this just to raise the tension and have it suprisingly resolved by Harry, who we at first didn't see was part of the crew? Or was there an actual story-wise reason that they couldn't just hand over Bellatrix' wand? (Or did they maybe just forget to bring it?) Is the source material clearer on this issue or does the movie even already give an explanation I just missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-07T09:39:26.023" LastActivityDate="2017-10-21T13:58:37.053" Title="Why couldn't Hermione just hand over Bellatrix Lestrange's wand at Gringot's?" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|the-deathly-hallows-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40812" CreationDate="2015-09-06T19:40:02.257" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The book is clear. Deathly Hallows Chapter 26:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;They know!&amp;quot; whispered Griphook in Harry's ear, &amp;quot;They must have been warned there might be an imposter!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Your wand will do, madam,&amp;quot; said the goblin. He held out a slightly trembling hand, and in a dreadful blast of realization Harry knew that &lt;strong&gt;the goblins of Gringotts were aware that Bellatrix's wand had been stolen.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wand was reported stolen, and it was a topic of public discussion. The Death-Eater Travers also mentioned hearing about the wand being lost by Bellatrix earlier, when he also questioned the polyjuiced Hermonie, earlier in the same chapter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;[...] but whose wand,&amp;quot; said Travers curiously, &amp;quot;are you using at the moment, Bellatrix? I heard that your own was--&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&amp;quot;I have my wand here,&amp;quot; said Hermione coldly, holding up Bellatrix's wand. &amp;quot;I don't know what rumors you have been listening to, Travers, but you seem sadly misinformed.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like the movie, they only got in through the use of the Imperius curse, but Hermione &lt;strong&gt;did&lt;/strong&gt; hand the wand over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie changes some things though. In the book, Tavers presents the key to the vault, and the goblin only asks for identification after already seeing &amp;quot;Bellatrix&amp;quot;. The Movie has the goblin asking for identification off hand, without looking up from his ledger, only to go find a manager once he sees &amp;quot;Bellatrix&amp;quot;. The movie played the scene with more suspicion and suspense than the book did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-06T20:03:17.530" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40814" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-06T21:37:03.180" Score="4" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://fivestarthemovie.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Five Star&lt;/a&gt;, John is accused of stealing Primo's kilo of cocaine.  The movie never actually shows John deliver the cocaine, as he claims.  Another man is murdered on John's attestation of innocence.  Soon afterward, John uncharacteristically pulls a gun on Primo, accusing him of having a hand in his father's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did John actually steal the kilo of cocaine in protest against Primo, or was he innocent as he claimed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25682" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-06T22:19:20.660" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T22:49:33.277" Title="Did John steal Primo's kilo in Five Star?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|five-star|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40779" CreationDate="2015-09-06T22:52:50.333" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The joke is in the incredulousness (and the inappropriateness) of a band called 'The Hillbilly Bugger Boys'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst 'Bugger' is British colloquial slang for 'damn', 'Buggery' is the act of anal sex, typically performed upon another male. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if someone were to say (translated) &quot;I'm a fan of 'the Trailerpark Gayboys&quot;, the shock reaction on hearing their name would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&quot;The WHO?!&quot;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-06T22:56:58.727" LastActivityDate="2015-09-06T22:56:58.727" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40824" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40828" CreationDate="2015-09-07T06:13:11.877" Score="18" ViewCount="6541" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sheldon Cooper is always shown as struggling when it comes to driving, so is there any particular reason behind that; being one the greatest minds, driving would never have been so difficult. Is there any reason for showing him as bad at driving?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2015-09-07T11:55:16.980" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T02:56:44.067" Title="Why is Sheldon Cooper so bad at driving?" Tags="|character|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40824" CreationDate="2015-09-07T07:30:12.817" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Driving is kind of a social skill. You need to follow some unwritten norms like  guessing when the other person is going to turn. And it also needs some level of reliance on your instinct. However, Sheldon takes every calculation to a very scientific and molecular level. He sucks in many situations where you need to interact with other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a relevant quote by Sheldon in &lt;a href=&quot;https://bigbangtrans.wordpress.com/series-2-episode-5-the-euclid-alternative/&quot;&gt;&quot;The Euclid Alternative&quot;&lt;/a&gt; -- the fifth episode of the second season -- where he was arguing how he is more evolved to drive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No, no. Leonard, I’m meant for greater things, like unraveling the&#xA;  mysteries of the universe, not determining when it’s safe to pass a&#xA;  stopped school bus on a country road.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice his usage of the word &quot;determining&quot;, nobody with driving skills thinks of it in terms of determining. So, indirectly the writers have indicated the reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="18422" LastEditDate="2015-09-07T17:01:21.430" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T17:01:21.430" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40832" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40833" CreationDate="2015-09-07T12:18:55.703" Score="7" ViewCount="27676" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously Jesse was disturbed when Todd killed that kid on the bike in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; season 5. Then he decided to stop cooking and asked Walt for his share of the millions. He wanted the money so that he can live the way he wanted. But the moment he gets the money, he shuts the door, sits down and start crying. After that he goes out and starts throwing the money. I did not get this. What exactly happened when Walt gave him his money?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-07T12:42:23.543" LastActivityDate="2021-11-26T07:19:35.283" Title="Why did Jesse completely change when Walt gave him his $5 million in season 5?" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40832" CreationDate="2015-09-07T12:43:56.937" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jesse didn't completely change. Jesse was very sensitive from the begining. The shooting of boy, by Todd, definitely had an impact on Jesse. He not only asks Walt for money, but also asks Saul to help him give away his money. When Saul refuses, he starts throwing the money and gets arrested.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[EDIT]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Refering to the OP's comment &lt;strong&gt;what exactly was serious about this instance?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier incidents also traumatized Jesse to a lesser degree, like the killing of Andrea's brother by drug dealers. But at this point, when Todd killed the boy, maybe he had had enough. Jesse faced several such traumas during the series following which he always recovered, but we can see that he reached the breaking point after this incident. Before this, everything seemed to be fine. Gus was gone, they were doing independent business, Jesse was living with Andrea and Broch, but then this incident occurs and Jesse just seemed to have enough of it. There were a series of incidents, but this one acted as the breaking point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-09-09T19:00:35.327" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T19:00:35.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39253" CreationDate="2015-09-07T13:01:55.373" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the phone, Jane told Walt that if he didn't give Jesse his money, she was going to turn him into a national news story: &quot;High school teacher becomes meth dealer&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before Walt handed the bag with the money to Jesse he asked &quot;How do I know she'll keep quiet?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jane responded &quot;I guess you don't&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt felt he couldn't trust Jane. That's why he let her die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other answers say that Walt needs Jesse to cook. I don't think at this point that's true. Walt isn't thinking about cooking at this point. He's flush with cash. He just had a baby and has surgery scheduled. There isn't talk of cooking until next season, and at that point it's Jesse doing the cooking alone.&#xA;He returned to Jesse's house not to convince him to cook, but because he was generally concerned with the path he was on. It's clear in the very next episode when Walt pulls Jesse out of the drug house that he feels responsible for his condition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24311" LastEditorUserId="24311" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T17:07:16.303" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T17:07:16.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40838" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39063" CreationDate="2015-09-07T16:52:26.373" Score="7" Body="&lt;h2&gt;With Oliver, whose rejection was the reason she sought love elsewhere.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, first of all, it is not that unusual for people to be in love with more than one person in their life. In addition to that, the show doesn't really run short of romances, which is an important aspect to its story, especially the love interests of Oliver Queen. While season one concentrated on his feelings for Laurel and the conflicts arising from his guilt and her emerging feelings for Tommy, the second season put him into a much more light-hearted relationship with Sara based on &quot;shared interests&quot;, and the 3rd season now goes the whole tragic &lt;em&gt;&quot;I can't love her because that puts her in danger&quot;&lt;/em&gt; route with Felicity, not to mention all the occasional flings (from Helena to Isabel) and his love for Shado in the past. So there is an apparent endeavour by the show's writers to make human, and especially romantic, relationships an important side aspect of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But let's talk about Felicity in particular and the development of her feelings throughout the show. Felicity more or less started out pretty much as Arrow's &quot;hacker assistant&quot; and with her slightly cute nerdy behaviour she became more or less the little sister to Arrow that Thea is to Oliver.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; Season 2 also introduces Barry Allen as an apparent love interest to Felicity, yet again based on quite similar character traits and interests. But due to unforeseen consequences there isn't made much more out of this until season 3 (more about this later).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it isn't until the very last episodes of season 2 that there is an actual romantic angle suggested between Felicity and Oliver (apart from her occasional drooling over his shirtless fitness exercises), even if he only uses that as a ploy for Slade Wilson at first when he tells her he loves her in order for her to play the bait for Slade. So &lt;strong&gt;it isn't clear to me if the prominent Felicity-Oliver romance from season 3 was already planned by the writers at the end of season 2 or if they just came up with that for season 3 based on this scene&lt;/strong&gt;, especially seeing how very surprising that angle was at least to me. And in this season there is the classic conflict between the hero and his tragic love that he cannot live for the risk of putting his loved one in danger (interestingly the exact same problem he used as &lt;em&gt;advantage&lt;/em&gt; at the end of season 2). And the two are played pretty much as &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; perfect loves of their lives to each other throughout this season.&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;strong&gt;This tragic romance drives itself through the entire 3rd season&lt;/strong&gt; and hinders a successful and fruitful romance between Felicity and Oliver up until the finale, when Oliver finally puts down his costume and starts to live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in fact &lt;strong&gt;this conflict is also the reason why Felicity has quite a few attempts at other romantic relationships, and why those ultimately can't succeed&lt;/strong&gt;. As mentioned, she fits quite well with Barry and their relationship is fl&lt;s&gt;a&lt;/s&gt;eshed out a little more during her appearances on the sister show &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt;. But at the end of the day, she as well as Barry have to admit that they would both only be substitutes for their real loves -- since Barry also has that tragic &lt;em&gt;&quot;I never told her and now it's too late&quot;&lt;/em&gt; thing going with Iris. Refer to the ending of &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt; episode &quot;Going Rogue&quot; (S01E04):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Felicity:&lt;/strong&gt; What is wrong with us? We are perfectly perfect for each other.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Barry:&lt;/strong&gt; Yet we're sitting here, pining for people we can't have. I guess what they say is true, opposites do attract.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from a writing standpoint it is also a natural decision, since while a romance across the two shows and more frequent appearances of the characters would be interesting, it is logisitically more feasible to keep the two worlds and their romances rather closed inside the individual shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this same subsitute love relation also goes for her relationship with Ray Palmer. She has again found someone whom she shares quite some interests and traits with and who won't push her back (and maybe she also starts to recognize some aspects of Oliver in Ray's endeavour for avenging his late wife and becoming a hero). And for some time she really enjoys that relationship and it brings her happiness. Yet at the end she and Ray again have to realize that Ray is ultimately just a substitute for the real love interest she cannot reach. Refer to &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt; episode &quot;The Fallen&quot; (S03E20):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ray:&lt;/strong&gt; Last night was a bit of an eye-opener. Insofar as realizing something I should have realized a long time ago can be considered eye-opening. Last night, when you were saying good-bye to Roy, you and Oliver...You still have feelings for him. When I told you that I loved you at the hospital, you responded with &quot;Jell-O&quot;. Seeing you two together last night, I realized you don't love me because you're in love with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at the bottom line, while Felicity had quite a few romantic relationships with other characters, &lt;strong&gt;the reasons for those &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; for their failure were ultimately grounded in the fact that she couldn't live the one true love she really desired, which is definitely Oliver Queen&lt;/strong&gt; (or so does the show tell us with its season-spanning tragic romance arc). So maybe Barry is right with his above statement and the fact that Felicity and Oliver don't seem to fit that much together actually &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; what makes them predestined for each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;sub&gt;Which is also notable since in the beginning the Arrow-Oliver difference was quite a bit more distinct, before pretty much everyone knew his identity and became badass heroes themselves.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) &lt;sub&gt;Interestingly it is also season 3 when the actual distinction between the Oliver-family and the Arrow-family starts to completely dissolve, with the rich playboy Oliver Queen pretty much disappearing and the rest of his remaining family being dragged into the Arrow-world (ref. footnote 1).&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="53388" LastEditDate="2017-07-04T15:13:49.197" LastActivityDate="2017-07-04T15:13:49.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40839" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40841" CreationDate="2015-09-07T17:18:57.770" Score="0" ViewCount="687" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is the radio station KBHR in Northern Exposure pronounced K-Bear (bear like Yogi Bear)? The only explanation I've found is in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBHR&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;KBHR were also the call letters of the 570AM radio station in the fictitious town of Cicely, Alaska, on the CBS television dramedy Northern Exposure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20195" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-07T18:46:18.757" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T18:46:18.757" Title="Why radio station KBHR in Northern Exposure is pronounced K-Bear" Tags="|nothern-exposure|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40840" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-07T17:43:01.010" Score="4" ViewCount="2667" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the final ballroom scene in Enchanted, after some commotion, there's a cut away to two old ladies that are only in the movie to provide this exchange:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ballroom Lady #1: What did you think?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Ballroom Lady #2: Wonderful. Oh, much better than last year's show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene stood out to me like it was supposed to be a cameo of some sorts, but I couldn't place it. The way it's structured makes it an odd fit to be left in the movie if it weren't supposed to be some sort of reference to something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I've found that Ballroom Lady #1 was the late &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0826523/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t42&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Helen Stenborg&lt;/a&gt; and Balroom Lady #2 is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0443773/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t43&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Anita Keal&lt;/a&gt;. Both of these actresses played roles in the TV Series &quot;One Life to Live&quot;, but a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062595/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;full listing of the cast&lt;/a&gt; shows both of them as having been in an unknown number of episodes, so I have no idea if they ever appeared on-screen together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, was there any significance to the appearance of those two ladies, or is my mind just trying to find significance where there is none?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user23604" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2015-09-07T17:46:48.257" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T17:46:48.257" Title="What's the significance of these characters towards the end of Enchanted?" Tags="|plot-explanation|enchanted|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40839" CreationDate="2015-09-07T17:47:12.500" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's common for radio stations to try to make their call letters into &quot;pronounceable&quot; words, because it's good marketing. A random string of letters is harder to remember than a word, especially if that word has some relevant to what the station is playing. Since the &quot;K&quot; is a standard first letter for a radio call-sign (in the Western US), stations usually try to use the other three letters to make the word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The station is broadcasting from Alaska, and one of the things associate with Alaska are polar bears.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, by trying to read out &quot;BHR&quot; at a word, they came up with &quot;bear&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T17:47:12.500" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40842" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="435" CreationDate="2015-09-07T17:51:58.470" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always took the hat as a metaphor to a lid or cap on Tom's feelings and emotions. Like how much he does care for Verna and Leo, even though he acts like he doesn't.&#xA;Verna even has his hat once, and Leo's people knock it off a few times with punches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is a very closed person, and never wants people to know his true intentions because he plays everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25702" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T17:51:58.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40844" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41106" CreationDate="2015-09-07T18:46:40.950" Score="2" ViewCount="188" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't finished &lt;em&gt;Z for Zachariah&lt;/em&gt; yet, but is there radiation in the water and an intense scrubbing will protect you from it? Why does Margot Robbie wash Chiwetel Ejiofor in Z for Zachariah?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19944" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-11T15:09:38.853" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T21:39:21.390" Title="Why does Margot Robbie wash Chiwetel Ejiofor in Z for Zachariah?" Tags="|plot-explanation|z-for-zachariah|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15724" CreationDate="2015-09-07T20:04:25.093" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought the would be assassins were killed by other people in their crew who were supposed to aid their escape.  Like a typical conspiracy, the killers are eliminated by a third party so they can't be questioned if caught.  Jack Ruby kills the patsy theory.  Just my thoughts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25706" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T20:04:25.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36894" CreationDate="2015-09-07T22:35:10.013" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just finished watching the film. Unless I'm blanking out on something, nowhere in it did they show Lou taking drugs or even alluded to it. And if it's not in the film, &lt;strong&gt;this remains an unsubstantiated theory.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You might as well ask if Lou used to be a professional stunt driver in the past because he displayed some impressive maneuvers on the road, or a former debate champion because of his negotiating skills. &lt;strong&gt;This was never shown or discussed, so there's no way for us to know for sure.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, I believe that making him an addict will dilute his character somewhat, as his actions could be blamed on the drugs. &lt;em&gt;Lou was addicted to power and recognition, and, AFAIK, nothing else.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-09-07T22:49:43.077" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T22:49:43.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28579" CreationDate="2015-09-07T23:05:13.893" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my take on it. Right after watching the scene, three more reasons came to mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The guy's actions suggest he's a hardened criminal and quite probably a murderous psychopath. When he sees the weak, indecisive intern is in his way, he takes him out. But when he sees Lou, who is increasingly terrifying throughout this movie, he recognizes a fellow psychopathic mind and chooses to let him be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lou's defiant stance and stare also indicate that Lou is not afraid to die. So killing him would just be redundant, an empty gesture and a waste of bullets which the criminal desperately needs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The guy is injured, the car is totalled and the police is seconds away. He suspects he's about to go down, so he goes out in a blaze of glory - &lt;em&gt;and wants his last moments to be documented.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-09-07T23:05:13.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30668" CreationDate="2015-09-08T04:33:48.533" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was when he got dumped by the girl he met in the comic book store. &#xA;I can't remember her name, but she was a agoraphobic trying to step outside her comfort zone by approaching Raj. After he pressured her into meeting all his friends at once, she got scared and dumped him. While he was crying in heart ache he starts asking Penny whats wrong with him. until they both realize he is talking to her without any alcohol what-so-ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25716" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T04:33:48.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40865" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40887" CreationDate="2015-09-08T04:51:42.137" Score="16" ViewCount="4568" Body="&lt;p&gt;Song sequences are an integral part of the Bollywood movies. In fact, it's an integral part in almost all Indian movies. Quite often, these songs are solely responsible for the commercial success of movies. Anyways, this question always comes to my mind - while shooting these song sequences do they play the songs in background? I mean, how exactly is the lip syncing done? Some sequences are shot in the studio where it seems plausible, but a lot of sequences are filmed at outdoor locations, like a desert or a mountain or some famous monument. How is the syncing done? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2015-09-08T05:20:27.650" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T12:31:43.647" Title="In Bollywood, do they play the song while shooting?" Tags="|film-techniques|sound-effects|indian-cinema|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40867" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-08T06:15:40.680" Score="13" ViewCount="8212" Body="&lt;p&gt;On many occasions in &lt;em&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/em&gt; we have seen Penny being questioned about the &quot;check engine&quot; light, especially by Sheldon Cooper and even by Beverly Hofstadter. So is there any significance or just Penny's carelessness?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-08T09:30:45.687" LastActivityDate="2016-06-15T11:08:42.980" Title="Why is Penny less concerned about the &quot;check engine&quot; light?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8703" CreationDate="2015-09-08T06:16:39.177" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The song provides evidence about the dwarf's cultural history, it also says stuff about them e.g. appearance and personality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25719" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-08T07:07:08.107" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T07:07:08.107" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40867" CreationDate="2015-09-08T06:40:53.200" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;The check engine light is being used as an indicator of the relative difference in general concern by Penny versus Sheldon or Beverly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The check engine light in modern vehicles quite often indicates an issue with the emissions control system, although as commenters have noted it can cover a wide variety of vehicle faults (including those unrelated to the engine).  Often these underlying issues pose no &lt;em&gt;immediate&lt;/em&gt; danger to the mechanical function of the car, the initial symptoms of emissions issues being increased environmentally-harmful emissions and lower fuel economy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, many people ignore the check engine light, either after checking it once and finding out that the underlying issue is emissions-related or otherwise not immediately harmful, or in some cases never checking it at all.  However, there is always a chance that the problem &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; one that may quickly damage the vehicle, and the only way to know for sure is to have the error code checked by a mechanic (or checking it yourself if you have the specialized equipment).  In addition, a person who cares deeply about their environmental impact would want to fix any underlying emissions problem, not to mention the potential for long term damage if the light is consistently ignored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, response to the check engine light can show how careful a person is along a continuum from most careless to most careful:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;completely ignoring it from the get go&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;having it checked the first time it is lit but assuming things are fine on subsequent lights&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;having it checked it every time it goes on &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not operating the vehicle until the underlying cause is solved&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sheldon and Beverly are both of the sort that is very concerned with minutiae, and Sheldon in particular has shown concern for potential issues of low probability but high potential impact.  Both are detail-oriented and meticulous.  Penny, conversely, lives a somewhat oblivious existence, relying on her ability to respond to situations rather than on extensive planning, care, or forethought.  Their responses to the check engine light are indicative of these personality traits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25720" LastEditorUserId="25720" LastEditDate="2015-09-09T01:28:27.583" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T01:28:27.583" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40870" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40871" CreationDate="2015-09-08T07:03:25.293" Score="7" ViewCount="27856" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does the word &quot;schlanger&quot; mean as used in &lt;em&gt;Mad Max: Fury Road&lt;/em&gt;. I guess it's an Australian word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25721" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-08T09:40:26.710" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T12:27:23.363" Title="What does the word 'schlanger' mean in Max Max: Fury Road?" Tags="|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40870" CreationDate="2015-09-08T07:09:40.063" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Schlanger&lt;/em&gt; is an Australian slang term for &lt;em&gt;dick&lt;/em&gt;, or more anatomically, &lt;em&gt;penis&lt;/em&gt;.  It is similar to the term &lt;em&gt;schlong&lt;/em&gt; commonly heard in American English.  It is an &lt;em&gt;ockerism&lt;/em&gt;, a term associated with the language of &lt;em&gt;ockers&lt;/em&gt;, those who speak and act in a rough or uncultured way with a Strine, a broad, exaggerated form of the Australian accent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25720" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-08T09:41:15.280" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T09:41:15.280" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40873" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="68424" CreationDate="2015-09-08T07:35:23.150" Score="4" ViewCount="466" Body="&lt;p&gt;Will there ever be a second season of Firefly? Is it possible?  Season 1 must be at least ten years old now. Are there any precedents where this kind of thing has happened before, following such a long hiatus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24047" LastEditorUserId="24047" LastEditDate="2015-09-10T02:52:51.840" LastActivityDate="2017-02-10T17:02:35.687" Title="Will there ever be a second season of Firefly even after such a long hiatus?" Tags="|firefly|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40874" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40877" CreationDate="2015-09-08T08:05:49.437" Score="97" ViewCount="54616" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this &lt;a href=&quot;http://ajdelong.deviantart.com/art/Simpson-s-House-Cutaway-First-Floor-325012816&quot;&gt;cutaway&lt;/a&gt; of the ground floor of the Simpsons' house:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jyQWb.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jyQWb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, I don't remember the top right room in any episode. Does it really exist, or is it made for the cutaway?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="6552" LastEditDate="2015-09-08T08:35:30.297" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T18:16:18.327" Title="Does this room exist in the Simpsons' house?" Tags="|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40875" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-09-08T08:14:29.687" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Robot_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mr. Robot&lt;/a&gt; is an American drama–thriller television series. It follows Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker who suffers from social anxiety disorder and clinical depression. He is recruited by a mysterious insurrectionary anarchist known as Mr. Robot and joins his team of hacktivists to try taking down one of the largest corporations in the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1539" LastEditorUserId="1539" LastEditDate="2016-09-14T13:14:13.913" LastActivityDate="2016-09-14T13:14:13.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40876" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-09-08T08:14:29.687" Score="0" Body="Mr. Robot is an American drama–thriller television series. It follows Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker who suffers from social anxiety disorder and clinical depression. He is recruited by a mysterious insurrectionary anarchist known as Mr. Robot and joins his team of hacktivists to try taking down one of the largest corporations in the world." OwnerUserId="19762" LastEditorUserId="19762" LastEditDate="2016-03-30T09:13:34.303" LastActivityDate="2016-03-30T09:13:34.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40874" CreationDate="2015-09-08T08:17:06.493" Score="90" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;strong&gt;the Simpsons' &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_house#Design&quot;&gt;recreation room&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. It has indeed been rarely used in the series, but has appeared on the show a few times. Here's one of them (from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Bouvier&amp;#39;s_Lover&quot;&gt;Lady Bouvier's Lover&lt;/a&gt;, Season 5, Episode 21):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wUPxr.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wUPxr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here's another appearance, from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Men_and_a_Comic_Book&quot;&gt;Three Men and a Comic Book&lt;/a&gt; (Season 2, Episode 21):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NfQWF.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NfQWF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that it is rarely seen was parodied in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_Blues&quot;&gt;White Christmas Blues&lt;/a&gt; (Season 25, Episode 8):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marge:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, there's a rec room off the kitchen but sometimes it's there and sometimes it isn't. Our house is very odd that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="12783" LastEditDate="2015-09-09T18:16:18.327" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T18:16:18.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40752" CreationDate="2015-09-08T08:38:31.983" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But is there any plausible in-story reason why Gus decided it was better for him to keep Jesse in the dark?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gus trusted Jesse to do a good cook. He trusted Mike to keep a poker face in order not to tip off the cartel members of their plan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt Gus would have trusted Jesse to keep his cool and not give the plan away. Besides, Mike &lt;em&gt;needed&lt;/em&gt; to know the plan, while Jesse didn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T08:38:31.983" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40886" CreationDate="2015-09-08T08:40:30.757" Score="12" ViewCount="4803" Body="&lt;p&gt;Barristan Selmy is known for his character and honor in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;. He was a member of the Kingsguard for the Mad King Aerys II and sworn to protect him and his family. He also seemed to be very fond of prince Rhaegar Targaryen. Then Robert kills the prince and Jaime Lannister (another Kingsguard)  kills King Aerys. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As aftermath of Robert's Rebellion, Robert usurps the Iron Throne. And he pardons many lords and counsil members like Varys, Pycelle and Barristan Selemy. Varys and Pycelle are men of opportunity, however Barriston is a different case.&#xA;Why didn't he try to avenge the King or take the black instead of serving the usurper who killed his king along with the Kingslayer again as sworn brother?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the motivation of Selmy for doing so?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-09-08T15:34:04.667" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T15:34:04.667" Title="Why does Barristan the Bold accept the pardon from Robert Barratheon?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40880" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-08T08:55:24.460" Score="8" ViewCount="2178" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Hannibal Rising, Hannibal Lecter goes on a killing spree and becomes a cannibalist. People clearly know he is the one who committed these murders. Such a remarkable chain of events won't go unnoticed and his name must be in the news at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fast forward to Red Dragon. Hannibal still goes by his own name, but nobody seems to recognize him. He is active as a psychiatrist and if anyone, the people in that field should have heard about the cannibal Hannibal Lecter. How come nobody connects the Hannibal Lecter from Hannibal Rising to the Hannibal Lecter from Red Dragon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25725" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-08T09:45:54.097" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T00:05:58.240" Title="Have people forgotten about Hannibal Lecter between Hannibal Rising and Red Dragon?" Tags="|hannibal-rising|red-dragon|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40881" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-08T09:06:50.187" Score="9" ViewCount="1202" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that the music playing during the last arcade scene in ep9 of Mr. Robot is a rendition of the song &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrdpliMfoAM&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Where is my mind&quot; by the Pixies&lt;/a&gt;, which is the closing music for Fight Club.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The other obvious connection is the fact about a character in another character's head. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did anybody notice any other references to the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15698" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-09T16:07:09.297" LastActivityDate="2018-04-14T00:46:39.853" Title="Looking for connections between Mr. Robot and Fight Club" Tags="|reference|fight-club|mr-robot|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40879" CreationDate="2015-09-08T11:03:21.623" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ser Barristan Selmy is one of the most skilled and respected knights in the Seven Kingdoms. He served honorably and fought bravely for the Targaryens, although he was aware of faults of The Mad King. During Robert's Rebellion, Selmy was severely wounded at the Battle of the Trident, and Robert Baratheon instead to kill him, called for maesters to attend him. Barristan later took the new king's pardon and became the Lord Commander of Robert's Kingsguard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Barristan had moral reservations about serving the new king, Robert I Baratheon, but served loyally nonetheless. Barristan recalled, however, that if he had seen Robert smile when Tywin Lannister presented him with the bloody bodies of Rhaegar's children, he would never have served Robert and nothing on earth would have stopped Selmy from killing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I took Robert's pardon, aye. I served him in Kingsguard and council. Served with the Kingslayer and others near as bad, who soiled the white cloak I wore. Nothing will excuse that. I might be serving in King's Landing still if the vile boy upon the Iron Throne had not cast me aside, it shames me to admit. But when he took the cloak the White Bull had draped about my shoulders, and sent men to kill me that selfsame day, it was as though he'd ripped a caul off my eyes. That was when I knew I must find my true king, and die in his service...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this statement (from the book &quot;A Storm Of Swords&quot;,Chapter 57) says enough about his character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23484" LastEditorUserId="23484" LastEditDate="2015-09-08T11:15:07.587" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T11:15:07.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40884" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-08T12:03:13.640" Score="19" ViewCount="12346" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the very last episode of Breaking Bad (Season 5), &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Walter comes over to Jack's place with the intention of killing him and his crew. Jack brings Jesse into the room so that Walter can see him. Before the shootout, Walter tackles Jesse to the ground, apparently, in order to save his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Now my question is, did Walter actually intend on killing Jesse?&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, he had assumed that Jesse was working with Jack and his crew but he didn't have any idea about the conditions that he was in.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could it be that Walter made Jack bring Jesse into the room so that he would be killed along with rest of them but after seeing his condition he probably changed his mind&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or did Walter have no intention of killing Jesse in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21126" LastActivityDate="2022-12-04T12:24:03.370" Title="Was Walter going to kill Jesse?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40874" CreationDate="2015-09-08T12:09:22.950" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is on every episode. After the car eventually gets in to the garage the whole family runs and sits in that room in front of the TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25731" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-08T13:38:16.017" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T13:38:16.017" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40886" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40879" CreationDate="2015-09-08T12:23:43.430" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/40883/9718&quot;&gt;IvanaMNE's answer from the books&lt;/a&gt; reminded me that there was a similar scene in the TV show. Some quick searches in &lt;a href=&quot;http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&amp;amp;t=7910&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;transcripts turns it up in season 3, episode 5&lt;/a&gt;, shortly after Jorah and Barristan met, after they were reminising about past battles, while they are trying to work out if they can trust each other: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;BARRISTAN: I burned away my years fighting for terrible kings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JORAH: You swore an oath. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;BARRISTAN: Yes. And a man of honor keeps his vows, even if he's&#xA;  serving a drunk or a lunatic. Just once in my life before it's over, I&#xA;  want to know what it's like to serve with pride, to fight for someone&#xA;  I believe in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this shows that Selmy's Kingsguard vow is to whoever the king happens to be, not to a specific king, and it continued to apply even when his old king was usurped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, quick run through of events:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Selmy fights with Rhaegar on the trident&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He can't stop Rhaegar being killed, and can't stop the rest of the army surrendering&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He becomes a prisoner&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Robert becomes the new king. Selmy's vow now transfers to Robert&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Robert rejects Roose Bolton's advice to execute him, and accepts him in his new king's guard&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Selmy doesn't like Robert, but he didn't like Aerys either. He &quot;keeps his vows&quot;, even if it means serving &quot;terrible kings&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9718" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T12:29:08.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40865" CreationDate="2015-09-08T12:43:13.850" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally film crew use the song in the background. It will be a raw sound from the music Director used specifically for the shooting purpose. What we hear later is a modified version sung either by the same artist or different artist as per their wish but it has more technical modification once it reach to our ears.  No matter how crowded the region is, the film crew/team will take care of public from not intervening in their shooting activity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this goes to the outdoor songs as well, where explicitly you need a close up of actors while singing otherwise, playing song is not required. For lip-sync, actors mumble to themselves, if actors are not native speaker and a close up of actors singing is involved in the worst case, directors ask them to say &quot;abcd&quot; or something close to those lyrics, and will be concealed through camera angles to give viewers an impression that they are indeed singing.  Later a huge portion of issues are sorted in the editing table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25721" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-09-09T08:37:02.150" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T08:37:02.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40867" CreationDate="2015-09-08T13:15:37.530" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is also implied, deliberately or otherwise, that she doesn't understand what the light is for. In Series 2 Episode 14 – The Financial Permeability, there is a conversation between Penny and Sheldon where the engine does inevitably break:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sheldon: If you recall, I pointed out the “check engine” light to you several months ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Penny: Well the “check engine” light is fine. It’s still blinking away. It’s the stupid engine that stopped working. It cost me like twelve hundred dollars to fix it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://bigbangtrans.wordpress.com/series-2-episode-14-the-financial-permeability-2/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Quote Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18711" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T13:15:37.530" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40884" CreationDate="2015-09-08T14:01:06.153" Score="22" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Or did Walter have no intention of killing Jesse in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walter never stated nor said out loud that he is going to kill Jesse, however I think that we can presume that he is not going to the meeting with the intent of saving him. And there are several facts that point in that direction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jesse has betrayed Walter, became Hank's informant and delivered him to the DEA. This has (accidentally) caused Hank's death and the loss of (almost) all the money that Walt has buried in the site where the shootout with the neo-nazis group occurs. When Walter finds out that Jesse survived the shootout and that he's hiding under the car, he delivers him to the neo-nazis to kill him. Jesse would be executed right on the spot, if not for Todd that decides to save him because he wants Jesse to teach him the process to cook meth (Season 5 - Episode 6: Ozymandias);&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Walter comes back in town, after handling the Gretchen and Elliott situation, he learns from Badger and Skinny Pete that the blue meth is still around. He is then certain that Jesse is still alive and he is still cooking (Season Finale: Felina). He doesn't say anything but he's certainly not happy about it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Walt reaches the neo-nazis compound, before starting the &quot;carnage&quot;, he asks Todd to bring Jesse inside the building. If he had no intention to kill Jesse it would have been safer to keep him away from the building (Season Finale: Felina).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I therefore think it is a fair assumption to say that Walt had every intention to kill Jesse with all of the neo-nazis and that he changed his mind only at the last moment and only after he saw what Jesse has become.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T14:01:06.153" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36725" CreationDate="2015-09-08T16:09:31.790" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;My take is he wanted to die &lt;strong&gt;fighting&lt;/strong&gt;. He knew he would die, just as he knew Ser Meryn Trant lied about who sent him. Ser Meryn Trant claimed he was sent by Eddard Stark. But only the king could order 5 men of the Kingsguard around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Realizing this and thus uncovering the lie, Syrio Forel chose to defy the king's order. He knew fairly well that defying the king's order &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;attacking&quot; the Kingsguard would get him something along the lines of lifetime sentence if not capital punishment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being a show-off he chose to die with style:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;fighting &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;with a wooden sword&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;being outnumbered&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;for a lady&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;with a smile&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;almost winning.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His choice to die was also exemplified by his deliberate disuse of his standard quote:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;He made Arya say &quot;Not today&quot; (to death). He himself did not say it (as far as I remember; although he used to made her say it, just to repeat it after her).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder, if he really tried as hard as he could. It might've been my prejudiced view (or the actors' lack in actual skill affecting the choreography) but I thought he slowed down considerably against Ser Meryn Trant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25736" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T16:09:31.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40873" CreationDate="2015-09-08T16:10:54.430" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Will there ever be a second season of Firefly? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone that has the ability to say 'yes' to that has not yet said 'yes' so at the moment, there is no sign that there will be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When asked, the typical answer appears to be 'not likely'. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/interviews/a33827/nathan-fillion-alan-tudyk-firefly-reboot-tournament/&quot;&gt;A recent interview with Nathan Fillion&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I honestly don't think that there's going to be another Firefly iteration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that same interview Alan Tudyk states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm for a Firefly reboot, personally. But it's going to have to be in a while. It's going to take a little time. I like the idea of it in another 10 years or so. We can pick up with Captain Mal, living on a moon somewhere…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So...maybe in another decade? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is it possible? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything is possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are there any precedents where this kind of thing has happened before, following a long hiatus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_Development_(TV_series)&quot;&gt;Arrested development&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; = Season 3 ended in 2006. Season 4 started in 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files&quot;&gt;The X-Files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; = Season 9 ended in 2002. New miniseries starting in 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_(TV_series)&quot;&gt;24&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; = Season 8 ended in 2010. New miniseries started in 2014.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama&quot;&gt;Futurama&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; = Season 4 ended in 2003. Season 5 began in 2008. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many more examples can be found at &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Uncanceled&quot;&gt;TVTropes list of &lt;em&gt;uncancelled&lt;/em&gt; shows&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="756" LastEditDate="2015-09-08T16:29:12.323" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T16:29:12.323" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40898" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40902" CreationDate="2015-09-08T18:41:23.543" Score="5" ViewCount="1777" Body="&lt;p&gt;How was Howard allowed into space in &lt;em&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/em&gt;? He crashed the Mars rover. Even if he did somehow get away with damaging government property worth billions of dollars, how did NASA let him into space? I know he was launched on a Russian based mission, but no space faring country would allow him within 10km of any piece of government owned machinery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25746" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-08T18:43:02.183" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T20:01:17.137" Title="How was Howard allowed in space after crashing the Mars rover?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36669" CreationDate="2015-09-08T19:17:37.550" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inside Llewyn Davis doesn't show the title at all either in the beginning nor the ending. Just mentioned by name in the film when describing his music.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25748" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T19:17:37.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38693" CreationDate="2015-09-08T19:29:42.807" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He is Au&lt;strong&gt;GUS&lt;/strong&gt;to Pinocet's son, a generalissimo who committed atrocities under his father's regime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25750" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T19:29:42.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40902" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40898" CreationDate="2015-09-08T20:01:17.137" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Government never confirmed or pursued the comment by Sheldon, as they didn't have much evidence to go on. In the episode where he crashed it, S02E08 &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;The Lizard-Spock Expansion&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, the three involved end up wiping all the security tapes and fingerprints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Howard: OK, I guess we have to turn to Plan B.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Raj: What’s Plan B?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Howard: &lt;strong&gt;Erase all the hard drives, scrap the surveillance tapes, wipe our fingerprints off every surface and run.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sheldon: Why wasn’t that Plan A?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Voice from television: REPORTER: &lt;strong&gt;A NASA spokesman states that due to the loss of data, they will most likely be unable to determine the cause of the Mars Rover’s malfunction.&lt;/strong&gt; This is not the first time an exploratory mission to Mars has ended in disappointment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Sheldon blabbing to the FBI in the S04E07 &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;The Apology Insufficiency&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;, remember how nervous and verbal-diarrhea like he was? Between Sheldon being a fairly unreliable witness (what prosecutor would put him on the stand?), the lack of physical evidence or collaborating statements, and Howard being a prominent aerospace engineer with a highly respected career (Sheldon's derision not withstanding) they have very little chance of winning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Howard goes to the ISS because his telescope design was chosen, and they needed someone familiar with the design to install it. Considering the politics (re: budget reasons) behind scraping the plan due to some unfounded allegations, NASA/the Government thought it was worth the risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, an astronaut typically requires a top-secret security clearance as well, so this is just another example of the show giving &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfFunny&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;rule-of-funny&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; precedence over 100% strict realism. Don't let facts get in the way of the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T20:01:17.137" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38693" CreationDate="2015-09-08T20:13:38.783" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So, what is his actual back story? Where is he actually from? (It is possible that this question is not answerable, but perhaps there were some clues that I missed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the most part, &lt;strong&gt;it's unanswerable&lt;/strong&gt;. It's intentionally left a mystery on-screen. Honestly, anything they could have put in the show as his backstory would fail to have as much as an impact as not saying anything. It also hasn't been mentioned or expanded on in any interview with his Actor Giancarlo Esposito, or creator Vince Gilligan. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/article/vince-gilligan-walks-us-through-season-four-of-ibr-63013&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;In fact he publicly stated that he doesn't know&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All through episode eight, Gus Fring is not wanting people to know about his background. He apparently has some backstory that’s deep and dark and allows him to avoid getting killed at the end of episode eight, but we’re wondering this whole time, “Who is this guy? Who was he in Chile? What is he trying to hide?” &lt;strong&gt;To be honest, we haven’t quite nailed that down. It has something to do with the Pinochet government, we think, but that’s about as close as we’ve gotten. At the end of the day, try not to nail down anything that we don’t have to.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;We&quot; of course referring to the creative staff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-08T20:13:38.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40909" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41204" CreationDate="2015-09-09T00:17:14.783" Score="11" ViewCount="1956" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Season 4 episode &quot;Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man&quot;, we see CSM personally kill both JFK and MLK. However, when he and Deep Throat are confronted with killing an E.T. in the modern day, he claims that he has &quot;never killed another person or thing&quot; and talks about how he wants Deep Throat to do it so he can live his whole life without having actually taken a life. I want to know why he seems so intent about this - when he killed MLK, he volunteered to do it himself. And he even said he had a great deal of &lt;em&gt;respect&lt;/em&gt; for King, which makes it strange that he would be so troubled about killing an alien he knew nothing about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone have another further pieces to this puzzle, as to why he would make such a big deal about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5178" LastActivityDate="2019-12-07T21:41:17.017" Title="Why did Cigarette Smoking Man lie about ever having killed another human being?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-x-files|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="6841" CreationDate="2015-09-09T03:36:51.760" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was thinking that the original person who ran into Belinda's house could have been her boyfriend. He could have gotten drunk or something and started driving over to her house and accidentally crashed his car into her house, killing her. Then Kenneth went back in time and crashed his car into her boyfriend's house on the day he was supposed to originally kill Belinda, which ended up changing the events following that so that her boyfriend never got drunk that day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25768" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T03:36:51.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40913" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40927" CreationDate="2015-09-09T03:39:43.893" Score="3" ViewCount="3054" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does Jon Snow really die at the end of &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; season 5? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't read the books, but from what I have researched, he did not come back from the dead. There are many speculations out there about possible resurrections in the next season but is there any hidden evidence to suggest any of them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Melisandre Will Bring Him Back&lt;/strong&gt;. Think back to season three. Remember when Arya and Gendry ran into the Brotherhood Without Banners? Beric Dondarrion and The Hound get into a fight, and Beric ends up with a fatal wound. Instead of dying, Thoros of Myr, a priest who worships the Lord of Light, brings him back to life. As it turns out, Beric has died and been brought back multiple times, but each time, he loses a little bit of himself. Conveniently, Melisandre, aka the Lord of Light's biggest fan, is at Castle Black when Jon is murdered. Now that Stannis, who she thought was Azor Ahai, is dead, she may be looking for a new &quot;chosen one&quot; to follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is This Why They Never Brought Back Lady Stoneheart?&lt;/strong&gt; As long as there is a single second of airtime left in the Game of Thrones TV series I, personally, will cling to the hope that Lady Stoneheart, a.k.a. Catelyn Stark, will make an appearance. But it makes sense that Weiss and David Benioff cut out Thoros of Myr bringing her back in order to maximize the impact of &lt;strong&gt;Jon’s potential resurrection&lt;/strong&gt;. If you’ve already had one Stark come back from the dead, a second Stark is sort of ho-hum-old-hat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also one of my other favorite speculations (shown below). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Im16u.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Im16u.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So is there any evidence to suggest any of the above will happen? Or are they just speculations by Jon Snow loving fans?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25767" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-09T12:59:38.983" LastActivityDate="2016-03-22T19:07:28.653" Title="Is there any evidence to clarify Jon Snow's fate?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36500" CreationDate="2015-09-09T03:45:25.547" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it was a hybrid and was made of all other types of dinosaur such as a T-rex and velociraptor it wouldn't eat the raptors. When she ate her sibling it could've been hunger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25769" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T03:45:25.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40913" CreationDate="2015-09-09T04:02:54.117" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it seems he is dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Melisandre Will bring him back&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, or actually we don't know. Whatever theories are there to backup are just fan theories, those have nothing to do with actual plot. Most of the theories can be applied to resurrect Stannis also. For argument that Stannis, being dead  and being Azor Ahai and Melisandre turning to Jon. At this moment, Jon is also dead, so if she wants to move to a new &quot;chosen one&quot;, she can find any one alive. Because if she is putting effort to bring back, she can do to Stannis.&#xA;Saying Melisandre will bring back Jon or Stannis is as good as saying Melisandre will bring back anyone, maybe Eddard or Robert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is This Why They Never Brought Back Lady Stoneheart?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The TV series is not going in a totally different direction from the books, they have cut-off many characters so they may not bring Lady Stoneheart. But we  are not sure. They may even merge 2-3 characters' storylines and bring new characters. But it is not related to Jon being resurrected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So is there any evidence to suggest any of the above will happen? Or are they just speculations by Jon Snow loving fans?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No,there is no evidence to suggest any of the above will happen. They are just speculation by &lt;strike&gt;Jon Snow loving fans&lt;/strike&gt; GOT fan theory lovers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-09T13:03:36.687" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T13:03:36.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40916" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-09T06:06:08.150" Score="2" ViewCount="931" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have seen Dean riding on a black Impala in Supernatural. So was there any specific reason for choosing a 1967 black Impala?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-09T13:09:04.223" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T13:37:37.000" Title="Why was a 1967 Impala chosen as Dean Winchester's car in Supernatural?" Tags="|props|supernatural|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40916" CreationDate="2015-09-09T06:06:08.150" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eric Kripke has said in interviews that he knew he wanted a classic 1960s American muscle car and was originally going to go with a 1965 Mustang, but his neighbour convinced him that the Impala would be a better choice because &quot;you can put a body in the trunk&quot; and &quot;when people stop next to it at the lights, they lock their doors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/fact-scarier-than-fiction/story-e6frexlr-1111113119827&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="24020" LastEditDate="2015-09-09T13:37:37.000" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T13:37:37.000" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40913" CreationDate="2015-09-09T06:09:36.917" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with Panther. Whatever is the fate of Jon Snow, these are just the theories of the fans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon Snow had never been one of my favorite characters, but however, I was happy when I read in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2011/07/21/dance-with-dragons-shocking-twist-g&quot;&gt;an interview&lt;/a&gt; with GRRM indications that he might be alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oh, you think he’s dead, do you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believed that there is a hope that Jon is alive, but eventually I realized that G.R.R. Martin is reliable as &quot;The Winds of Winter&quot; release date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodtake.com/jon-snow-really-alive-proof-game-thrones-season-6-will-include-kit-harington-everywhere-89530&quot;&gt;the alleged evidence&lt;/a&gt; indicates that Kit Harington participated in the filming of the sixth season of &quot;The Game of Thrones&quot; (not &quot;The Walking Dead&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those who know the truth, are not yet ready to share it with us. And we can only speculate and deal with the theories, to the release of the new season, or the new book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23484" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T06:09:36.917" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40919" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40922" CreationDate="2015-09-09T07:12:31.127" Score="5" ViewCount="1561" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mike Wazowski gest banned from the Monsers University because he gets to the human world without approval and uses scare tactics on adults.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But watching the scene, I realized how much scream he could actually generate. And later on he is asked how the heck he was able to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But still, he gets banned from the school. I cannot understand why. If he stayed, the monsters could produce much more scream than just by scaring children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any (in-universe or out-of-universe) explanation for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25772" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-09T13:11:36.003" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T13:11:36.003" Title="Why did Mike Wazowski get banned from Monster University?" Tags="|plot-explanation|monsters-university|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40865" CreationDate="2015-09-09T07:41:55.740" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've only ever worked on one musical scene on a Bollywood movie, so this is by no means a comprehensive answer, but agreeing with Jason in general...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a large outdoor musical scene - this particular one shot at London's Marble Arch - something akin to a large concert PA system was rigged across the entire location, so that the music was loud and immersive enough for everyone involved in the scene to be able to react to the beat and know exactly where they were in the song, in relation to their proscribed moves during the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is so that, across many takes from several angles, all the people in the scene will be in the exact same place at the same time, from each angle - so that when the final scene is edited together, people aren't mysteriously appearing in one place, then another, depending on the camera angle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a lip-sync perspective too, it's far easier to get your lip-sync right if the music is really loud enough to sing along properly than if it's quiet and you have to mumble to be able to hear the track over your own voice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25773" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-21T12:31:43.647" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T12:31:43.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40922" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40919" CreationDate="2015-09-09T08:19:38.780" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, he produced a lot of scream - but he almost nearly revealed the existence of monsters to humanity. We know from both &lt;em&gt;Monsters University&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Monsters Inc&lt;/em&gt; that this is one of the worst things a monster can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just like in real life, your grades don't matter if you do something worthy of being expelled, and in this case Mike did one of the worst things a monster can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T08:19:38.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40923" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-09T11:41:06.303" Score="2" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;The Conversation&quot;, the real plan of the couple is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Martin Stett had put the idea&#xA;  into the Director's head that his wife was cheating [...] and hired Caul to record them. The conversation in the plaza&#xA;  therefore, was a ruse. The young couple is merely pretending to plan&#xA;  an illicit rendezvous at a hotel when in fact, they are setting up the&#xA;  Director to arrive and confront them, [&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia.&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't make sense. Why didn't they think of an easier plan, and why did they involve someone else (Caul) in the plan (who could endanger it)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6204" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-09T13:14:26.060" LastActivityDate="2020-04-27T17:45:45.097" Title="An unnecessarily complicated murder plan" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-conversation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14988" CreationDate="2015-09-09T12:37:14.547" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a tradition for Targaryens to marry their sister to keep their blood pure targaryenblood but Raghear Targaryen married Elia Martell. So maybe Viserys simply inherited his mothers &quot;blood&quot; and Deanerys her fathers. Therefore he could be killed by fire while Deanerys is immune.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25776" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T12:37:14.547" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40913" CreationDate="2015-09-09T14:02:31.477" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that Jon Snow will be back. &lt;strong&gt;Mostly based on the books&lt;/strong&gt; (the show doesn't really provide anything for us to chew on).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Warning: even if most of what follows is only fan theories, some of it should still be considered as spoilers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;He may have a way to survive&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books, Jon Snow is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Skinchanger&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;skinchanger/warg&lt;/a&gt;. It seems to be a trait shared among all the Stark children, except Sansa (unlike the show where Bran seems to be the only one). Skinchangers have the ability to perform the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Skinchanger#Second_Life&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Second Life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;: the act of transfering your mind into an animal (possibly another human) at the end of your life. The most explicit example is shown by &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Varamyr&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Varamyr&lt;/a&gt; in the prologue of &lt;em&gt;A Dance with Dragons&lt;/em&gt;, but it seems that it's also the case for &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Orell&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Orell&lt;/a&gt; (Varamyr said that he could still feel Orell's hate inside his eagle).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jon is conscious of being a skinchanger after his time with the Wildings, but isn't particularly fond of the idea (skinchangers are considered as freaks south of the Wall and have been hunted for millenia: &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Haggon&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Haggon&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&quot;The World beyond the Wall is not for our kind. The free folk fear skinchangers, but they honor us as well. South of the Wall, the kneelers hunt us down and butcher us like pigs.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Melisandre has a vision about Jon Snow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The flames crackled softly, and in their crackling she heard the whispered name &lt;em&gt;Jon Snow&lt;/em&gt;. His long face floated before her, limned in tongues of red and orange, appearing and disappearing again, a shadow half-seen behind a fluttering curtain. &lt;strong&gt;Now he was a man, now a wolf, now a man again.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Dance with Dragons - chapter 31 (Melisandre I)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the last word Jon whispered just before his death is &lt;em&gt;&quot;Ghost&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, I think he warged into his direwolf and will stay there for a while. How he will become a man again, I don't know, but my bet would indeed be on Melisandre using the &lt;em&gt;Kiss of Life&lt;/em&gt; of the Red Priests of R'hllor (as you said, in the show, we have only &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Beric_Dondarrion&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Beric Dondarrion&lt;/a&gt; as example, in the books there is also &lt;a href=&quot;https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Catelyn_Stark#Lady_Stoneheart&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lady Stoneheart&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the show has not yet included skinchanging in Jon's abilities, I suspect they will keep it that way and simply have him ressurected after some time off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;He may still has a role to play in the story&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the spoilerish part:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; We have been given several clues that he is probably the son of &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Rhaegar_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rhaegar Targaryen&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Lyanna_Stark&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lyanna Stark&lt;/a&gt; (famously known as the &lt;em&gt;&quot;R+L=J&quot;&lt;/em&gt; theory, I will not extend on the arguments for this one here, but you can find more informations on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/134965-rlj-v155/#entry7312236&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;current reference guide on the &lt;em&gt;asoiaf.westeros.org&lt;/em&gt; forum&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br&gt;&#xA; Also, Jon could be &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Azor_Ahai&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Azor Ahai&lt;/a&gt;; in the past, Rhaegar seems to have somehow discovered that the prophesied &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/The_prince_that_was_promised&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Prince That Was Promised&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (who seems to be another name for Azor Ahai) would be of his bloodline. He first assumed that it was himself, and later that it was his son &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Aegon_Targaryen_(son_of_Rhaegar)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Aegon&lt;/a&gt;, but now both are reported to be dead and we don't know if &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Aegon_Targaryen_(son_of_Rhaegar)#Reported_survival&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Young Griff&lt;/a&gt; is truly Aegon (he claims to have been swapped with another baby before the tragedy). Jon could well be Rhaegar's last living son. In both cases, he's a major candidate for the prophecy known as &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/The_song_of_ice_and_fire&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the song of ice and fire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, which would coincidentally fit nicely to a character mixing Stark and Targaryen bloods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, we have a few textual hints:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I pray for a glimpse of Azor Ahai, and R'hllor shows me only Snow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Dance with Dragons - chapter 31 (Melisandre I)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it's not the first time apparently. R'hllor seems to be quite fond of Jon (Melisandre thought about her vision: &lt;em&gt;&quot;Skulls. A thousand skulls, and the bastard boy again. Jon Snow.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and later when asked directly by Jon: &lt;em&gt;&quot;I am seeing skulls. And you. I see your face every time I look into the flames.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Jon has a strange dream shortly before his death:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jon was armored in black ice, but his blade burned red in his fist. As the dead men reached the top of the Wall he sent them down to die again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Dance with Dragons - chapter 58 (Jon XII)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which recalls the description of &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Lightbringer&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lightbringer&lt;/a&gt;, the legendary sword of Azor Ahai:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lightbringer is thought to be a sword made of living fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, we will not know for sure until the season 6 of the show or the 6&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; book &lt;em&gt;The Winds of Winter&lt;/em&gt;. And there is still the possibility that both works will diverge, but if Jon indeed survives only in the books, that would be a major change (the biggest one yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About your other question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is This Why They Never Brought Back Lady Stoneheart?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You could be right about the idea that the showrunners kept her out to maximize the surprise. But it could also be because she would require a non-negligible amount of screentime to be (re)introduced while being a relatively unimportant character (in the books, she is only mentioned a few times for causing some troubles with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Brotherhood_without_banners&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Brotherhood Without Banners&lt;/a&gt; and appears once in the context of Brienne's quest for the Stark girls).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20748" LastEditorUserId="20748" LastEditDate="2015-09-10T23:28:31.803" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T23:28:31.803" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40929" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-09T14:30:16.993" Score="3" ViewCount="465" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title asks, in the classic series of Doctor Who, did the UNIT HQ building have a name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1180" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T14:45:37.490" Title="In the classic series of Doctor Who, did the UNIT HQ building have a name?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40929" CreationDate="2015-09-09T14:45:37.490" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, UNIT's headquarters buildings have never had names; there's never been any signage identifying them as anything other than &quot;UNIT headquarters&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rpZad.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rpZad.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even in modern Who, the UNIT HQ doesn't have a name of it's own, because it's in the Tower of London.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T14:45:37.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40932" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-09T16:24:17.230" Score="8" ViewCount="2067" Body="&lt;p&gt;Travis (DeNiro) changed his hairstyle to Mohawk near the end of &lt;em&gt;Taxi Driver&lt;/em&gt;. I guess he changed his hairstyle to avoid the secret service agent (the one he ridiculed before), or was there some other reason to? And why did he choose Mohawk? Was there any specific reason behind it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25784" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-09T16:27:27.647" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T06:38:50.997" Title="What does Travis Bickle's changed hairstyle represent in Taxi Driver?" Tags="|plot-explanation|taxi-driver|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40938" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40939" CreationDate="2015-09-09T19:03:19.397" Score="4" ViewCount="63207" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several shots in Southpaw where the tattoo behind Billy Hope's ear is prominently displayed.  It appears to be a bird, what kind? And more importantly, is there symbolism associated with this kind of bird that will enhance the experience of watching the film?  Not that the film needs an extra kick, but if there's an esoteric message, it's good to know...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sSkzd.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sSkzd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-09T20:37:49.090" LastActivityDate="2017-03-10T20:17:57.463" Title="Meaning of Billy Hope's Tattoo" Tags="|analysis|southpaw|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40938" CreationDate="2015-09-09T19:07:08.193" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's a Swallow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gmoCt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow_tattoo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;From wiki:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The swallow tattoo was a symbol used historically by sailors to show off their sailing experience. Of British origin in the early days of sailing, it was the image of a Barn Swallow, usually tattooed on the chest, hands or neck. According to one legend, a sailor tattooed with one swallow had travelled over 5,000 nautical miles (9,260 km); a sailor with two swallows had travelled 10,000 nautical miles (18,520 km). Travelling these great distances was extremely difficult and dangerous in the early days of sailing, so one or more swallow tattoos denoted a very experienced and valuable sailor. Another legend holds that since swallows return to the same location every year to mate and nest, the swallow will guarantee the sailor returns home safely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a fairly generic tattoo, symbolizing Returning Home, Love, Loyalty, hard work, etc. Apparently it also represents a fast hitting fighter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A search shows multiple reviews mentioning the Swallow in that same vein:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/film-reviews/71236883/review-southpaw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Behind every tough guy is a ballsy broad, and the story swiftly establishes Billy's idyllic marriage to his childhood sweetheart (a terrific Rachel McAdams); the young lovers' rough childhood is evoked by their matching swallow tattoos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And fyi, both Billy And Maureen have the same Swallow tattoo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://33.media.tumblr.com/3c089f188a9e2c56a053c23fbd143622/tumblr_nm3xg5GDjg1so9f96o4_500.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-10T20:17:57.463" LastActivityDate="2017-03-10T20:17:57.463" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40789" CreationDate="2015-09-09T20:14:15.493" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apparently, according to Robert Englund, there was supposed to be a scene that sort of explained what happened to him.  I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://weminoredinfilm.com/2014/05/23/13-things-you-may-not-know-about-wes-cravens-new-nightmare/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this reference on the We Minored In Film&lt;/a&gt; site (scroll down to &lt;strong&gt;#7&lt;/strong&gt;).  According to the site, Robert Englund had this to say about what was originally in the script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Robert Englund has a nightmare in his house in the Hollywood hills with my paint-stained apron over a chair I fall asleep and wake up in a giant web and a giant red and green Freddy spider comes down and cocoons me in an homage to The Fly.  That was going to be why I disappear.  I wake up from this nightmare in a sweat next to my beautiful wife, and the next thing you know in the film Wes tells Heather that Robert’s gone.  They don’t know where he is.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also according to this site:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This scene was never filmed.  They did, however, film but cut a scene in which Robert’s wife informs Heather over the phone they were heading out of town because Robert was kind of freaked out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another reference I found for this is &lt;strong&gt;#27&lt;/strong&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://lairofhorror.tripod.com/kruegerlair/dyk7.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this Lair of Horror page&lt;/a&gt; that describes the same basic dream from above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There was a scene in the script that depicted a Freddy nightmare with him attacking Robert Englund. The nightmare had Robert stuck in a spider-like web and the new &quot;DEMON&quot; Freddy was a giant spider. This was dropped because it didn't fit with the film's overall tone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tidbit also appears on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111686/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb trivia page&lt;/a&gt; for the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, there doesn't seem to be anything that definitively tells us what &quot;actually&quot; happened to Robert Englund (the character) after the phone conversation, but there were apparently at least some plans to tell us in the movie.  I don't know... it's almost more fun to speculate in this instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, one other interesting thing I found on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://nightmareonelmstreet.wikia.com/wiki/Wes_Craven&amp;#39;s_New_Nightmare&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Elm Street Wiki for this movie&lt;/a&gt; while looking all of this up was something that I had previously forgotten about regarding Robert's painting.  In a conversation with Wes Craven, he tells her that: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;in the script he's been writing, pure evil can be temporarily defeated if its essence is effectively captured in a &lt;strong&gt;work of art&lt;/strong&gt; that is able to allow evil to express itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(emphasis mine) This may be the reason that Robert Englund was trying to paint Freddy's image in that scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I hope that helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;After posting that last bit from the Elm Street Wiki about capturing the evil essence in a work of art, I decided to go look up the exact quote from the film.  The quote isn't quite as vague as the Wiki would have you believe.  Here's what's actually said (from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wes_Craven&amp;#39;s_New_Nightmare&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WikiQuote&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Heather Langenkamp:&lt;/strong&gt; Then, in this nightmare in progress, does this thing have any weaknesses?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wes Craven:&lt;/strong&gt; It can be captured, sometimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Heather Langenkamp:&lt;/strong&gt; Captured? How?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wes Craven:&lt;/strong&gt; By storytellers, of all things. Every so often, they imagine a story good enough to catch its essence. Then it's held prisoner for a while. In the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Heather Langenkamp:&lt;/strong&gt; Like the Genie in the bottle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just wanted to clarify before someone beat me to the punch.  However, while this conversation between Wes and Heather specifically identifies a &lt;em&gt;story&lt;/em&gt; as the means of capturing the evil, I might argue that such a mystical means of entrapment &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be extended to any form of art, including Robert Englund's painting...  Just my thoughts, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25790" LastEditorUserId="25790" LastEditDate="2015-09-09T22:34:45.037" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T22:34:45.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40944" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40945" CreationDate="2015-09-09T23:46:06.967" Score="6" ViewCount="653" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Inception, in the beginning dream scene, Mal remarks that a painting looks like Arthur's taste.  Cobb replies that, &quot;Actually, the subject is partial to post-war British painters.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What subject is that?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any other insight into the significance of that turn of dialogue?  The subject being partial to post-war British painters doesn't seem to exclude Arthur's hypothetical taste for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25682" LastEditorUserId="25682" LastEditDate="2015-09-10T02:07:08.710" LastActivityDate="2024-01-19T22:49:02.543" Title="What subject is partial to post-war British painters?" Tags="|inception|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40944" CreationDate="2015-09-09T23:54:18.967" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Subject&lt;/strong&gt; is the person whose subconscious is of an interest to the group. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://inception.wikia.com/wiki/Subject&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The subject's role is to populate the dream space created by the dreamer with projections of his or her own subconscious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, the subject is &lt;strong&gt;Saito&lt;/strong&gt;. The group inflitrates his mind to extract information from it, which they believe is in his safe. Cobb is saying that the pictures are there because Saito likes them, not because of Arthur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-09-09T23:59:55.900" LastActivityDate="2015-09-09T23:59:55.900" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40947" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40955" CreationDate="2015-09-10T04:17:54.207" Score="13" ViewCount="27861" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Gattaca, Vincent and his brother Anton play a game of chicken, which Anton always wins. Vincent finally beats his brother in chicken and has to save his brother from drowning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later Vincent reveals, &quot;You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton: I never saved anything for the swim back.&quot; The only issue with this, is that Anton was the one who was drowning, i.e. the one who hadn't saved energy for the swim back. If Vincent didn't save energy for the swim back, how was he able to save his brother?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="275" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-10T05:46:23.627" LastActivityDate="2021-08-18T18:08:05.393" Title="How does Vincent save his brother if he never saved anything for the swim back?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gattaca|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40950" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40958" CreationDate="2015-09-10T06:03:27.713" Score="13" ViewCount="20304" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just finished the Eighth season of The Big Bang Theory and still don't know why it was given that name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-10T06:27:57.297" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T16:05:21.663" Title="Why was The Big Bang Theory given that name?" Tags="|title|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40950" CreationDate="2015-09-10T06:21:36.457" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main characters of this show are scientists (2 physicists, an astrophysicist, and an engineer). Most of the episodes are also made to sound like scientific theories or terms. I'm not sure if the directors and producers ever revealed why they named it so in any interviews, because I am not able to recall any episode based on big bang theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can just speculate the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maybe it's because of the fact that those nerds (scientists) evolve slowly to become common men (or less nerdy). You can compare the season 1 characters to season 8, it's a big transformation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Maybe someone wanted to exploit the double entendre usage of word &quot;bang&quot;, which Leonard seems to do with Penny in at least the initial episodes. In fact, it was the main theme of the TV series when it started, then slowly &quot;Sheldon&quot; became the central character due to his popularity.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another reason can be that they wanted to give the impression that we are learning some scientific things from Sheldon along with good comedy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-10T09:41:16.477" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T09:41:16.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40952" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40953" CreationDate="2015-09-10T06:32:34.110" Score="33" ViewCount="7218" Body="&lt;p&gt;They have always left it ambiguous, which state they are actually from. If someone has any idea, could you please help me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-03-23T12:29:41.543" LastActivityDate="2016-03-23T12:29:41.543" Title="Where are the Simpsons from?" Tags="|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40952" CreationDate="2015-09-10T06:41:10.353" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Undetermined.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mystery is an &lt;strong&gt;intentional &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhereTheHellIsSpringfield&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;running gag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and their true state of residence is never revealed. Instances when it &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; seem to be revealed or at least approximated are usually illogical, altered later or contradicted with some other information. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_%28The_Simpsons%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because of the many contradictory statements regarding Springfield, it is impossible for the town to exist in a specific state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Springfield&amp;#39;s_State&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikia&lt;/a&gt; elaborates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The uncertain location of Springfield is a running gag in the series, based on the fact that 34 states in the United States have at least one community with that name; and several have more than one. Episodes frequently make fun of the fact that Springfield's state has never been revealed, by adding further conflicting descriptions, obscuring onscreen map representations, and interrupting conversational references. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example in &lt;em&gt;The Simpsons Movie&lt;/em&gt;, Ned Flanders says that the state borders Ohio, Nevada, Maine, and Kentucky, which is an impossibility. And in the episode &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind_the_Laughter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Behind the Laughter&lt;/a&gt; they're revealed to be from North Kentucky, but this was changed to South Missouri in reruns (and the show is revealed to be fake there anyway, so it could just be the &lt;em&gt;filming location&lt;/em&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find many clues as to where Springfield is or isn't in the above, quite thorough Wikia page (including the fictional state North Tacoma), but in all likelihood these were deliberately planted there. It's unlikely that they'll ever let this gag go and that we'll ever get a definitive answer (certainly not now, with so much conflicting data). It's best to just enjoy the ride and &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/24650/is-fezs-country-ever-revealed&quot;&gt;not play into their hands&lt;/a&gt;. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T07:19:05.923" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40952" CreationDate="2015-09-10T09:34:05.247" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The FCC license radio and television stations with a W prefix for the east coast and a K prefix for central and west coast stations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the radio station featured in several episodes is KBBL it cannot be on the east coast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25804" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T09:34:05.247" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40947" CreationDate="2015-09-10T10:45:25.390" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary:&lt;/strong&gt; One of the central themes of the film is that people can overcome their physical limitations through strength of will.  Vincent's will exceeded Anton's, so he persevered when both of them were at their physical limits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anton's willpower was atrophied:&lt;/strong&gt; Anton had spent his life to that point being told &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; what his physical and mental limits were, and abiding by them.  Every time he swam against Vincent, he won because of his innate physical advantages, not because he tried harder.  He never had to try.  He didn't  know &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; to try.  As soon as he felt like he was at his physical limit, he panicked and began drowning.  This is akin to a soldier's first day in boot camp, having to push their body to its limits for the first time: everything in his head was screaming &amp;quot;something's wrong&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vincent had an iron will:&lt;/strong&gt;  Unlike Anton, Vincent was constantly told what that he was naturally inferior.  His life was a constant struggle to prove his worth.  Every time he swam against Anton, he gave it &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt;.  He knew that he could keep going, even when every part of him seemed to be failing.  This is mirrored in the scene on the treadmill, when he has to pretend to have an easy time, even though his heart is pounding through his chest.  He is like a veteran soldier, well-versed in ignoring the instinctual limits his mind has placed on his body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16207" LastEditorUserId="40669" LastEditDate="2021-08-18T18:08:05.393" LastActivityDate="2021-08-18T18:08:05.393" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="40956" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43456" CreationDate="2015-09-10T11:26:53.073" Score="11" ViewCount="612" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a movie I saw as a child in the 1980s on German TV. Sadly my memory is somewhat blurrish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember a &quot;20000 leagues under the sea&quot;-inspired story, featuring the main characters being abducted into a submarine or underwater city.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a live-action color movie with a distinct steam fantasy feel. Most likely not a German but a dubbed foreign movie, and I remember a rather high production value. Likely made in the 1970s or 1980s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I most dominantly remember that it featured antagonists with large, bizarre &lt;em&gt;moustaches&lt;/em&gt;. The most memorable image is that in the end, a lot of people die in an over-the-top (still suitable for minors) fashion, with one being &lt;em&gt;pierced by a cello or double bass&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole movie had a humorous but also rather grotesque, silent-film-era feeling to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid that's all I have to go on. Any hints appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; Given the considerable difficulty in finding this movie, it is quite possible that it was a former Eastern Bloc production. The closest I could find in tone and style is &lt;em&gt;Vynález zkázy&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;The Fabulous World of Jules Verne&lt;/em&gt;) from 1958 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052374/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5vc4rgjdhw&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trailer&lt;/a&gt;), but that is not it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; It is none of the works listed at Wikipedias' &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_the_Sea&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Adaptations of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25808" LastEditorUserId="25808" LastEditDate="2015-09-15T11:13:14.273" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T20:20:53.513" Title="1970/80s Jules Verne-inspired bizarre underwater city / submarine abduction" Tags="|identify-this-movie|fantasy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:01:07.307" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40952" CreationDate="2015-09-10T11:51:34.503" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the series always tried to make the state a mystery so that Springfield could be anywhere, Matt Groening has confirmed that Springfield is based in Oregon the state where he grew up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Springfield&amp;#39;s_State&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Springfield's_State&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/matt-groening-reveals-the-location-of-the-real-springfield-60583379/?no-ist&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/matt-groening-reveals-the-location-of-the-real-springfield-60583379&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25810" LastEditorUserId="25810" LastEditDate="2015-09-10T12:35:52.983" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T12:35:52.983" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40950" CreationDate="2015-09-10T12:57:04.130" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beyond the obvious fact that the show and its characters are science-themed, I would suggest that some insight can be found through the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-big-bang-theory-lyrics-barenaked-ladies.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;lyrics of the theme song&lt;/a&gt; by The Barenaked Ladies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  wait...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The earth began to cool, the autotrophs began to drool,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Neanderthals developed tools,  We built a wall (we built the pyramids).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  That all started with the big bang! Hey!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Big Bang theory (the theory itself, not the show, and leaving aside actual discussions of inflationary cosmology) is about unraveling the origin and development of the universe.  The Big Bang also represents the beginning of the chain of events that lead to the development of humanity.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We developed tool use and changed the landscape around us by building things.  We developed math and science as disciplines to help us understand our reality, and the study of history brings that understanding a step closer to us by focusing on our own development and impact on our species.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we unravel these more prosaic mysteries, so too do we unravel the mysteries of the human condition.  Comedy and drama have long been ways we as a species express thoughts and concepts about our humanity.  The show addresses many of these themes: honesty and communication, love and friendship, cooperation and competition, fear and confidence, etc.  In its own small way it contributes to the understanding of the mysteries of being human, which all started with the Big Bang.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25720" LastEditorUserId="25720" LastEditDate="2015-09-10T13:08:45.910" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T13:08:45.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40952" CreationDate="2015-09-10T13:56:16.657" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is one episode where family guy meets the simpsons. They are known to live in Quahog, Rode Island. So it should be somewhere close to that. But it is never confirmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25809" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T13:56:16.657" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36500" CreationDate="2015-09-10T14:34:52.980" Score="5" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Why didn't the Indominus Rex eat the velociraptors?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could just be the relative levels of intelligence between the raptors and the T-Rex, as Josh said, but I think there's a bit more to it than that. Not only are they shown to be highly intelligent, but they're shown to be social pack creatures. They live and hunt and work together, they're not intended to be alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that, the velociraptors in Jurassic World are B, C and D; Owen is/was the alpha (A). They're already primed to be followers, not leaders, so they'll readily submit to the Indominus Rex, which is intelligent enough to realise their potential as allies rather than food (or sport).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, given the vast difference in size, the velociraptors aren't going to be depriving the Indominus Rex of food to a huge extent. It's already killing far more than it needs to in order to survive, so the small amount that the raptors will consume won't be noticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why didn't it try to ally with the Tyrannosaurus Rex?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, this could just be the relative levels of intelligence. However, even if they're capable of communicating, the T-Rex is a much larger threat to the Indominus Rex (as seen at the end of the movie), and is not a social pack creature. It's not going to just readily submit to be a follower; there's going to be competition primarily for dominance, but also for food. Best to just eliminate the competition straight away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which brings us to...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Why did the Indominus Rex eat its sibling?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've kind of covered all of the likely reasons already, but I'll list them again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Competition&lt;/strong&gt;: Its sibling will be competing for dominance and for food. Another Indominus Rex is by far the largest threat to the Indominus Rex out of all the dinosaurs at Jurassic World.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Food&lt;/strong&gt;: Rommel suggested in his answer that it may have just been hunger. I think this is the least likely explanation, or at least its not the primary motivation, but it is a possibility. The amount the dinosaurs are fed isn't shown in the movies, but from what we do see it didn't really seem like they were fed that much considering their size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sport&lt;/strong&gt;: Owen explicitly states that, once the Indominus Rex has escaped from its enclosure, it is killing for sport. There's no reason to think that wouldn't have started earlier in its development, and when you have two creatures that kill in large part just because they enjoy it sharing the same enclosed space, one of them is going to end up dead eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T14:34:52.980" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40962" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-10T15:07:29.330" Score="3" ViewCount="3431" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PniJM5IwXfE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stephen Colbert on Only In Monroe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Published on Jul 1, 2015&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stephen Colbert just interviewed Eminem on a public access cable show in Monroe, Michigan&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm going to be honest with you: I don't know what to say here. I almost didn't believe this video was real, except that it's hosted on an official YouTube account (albeit unlisted and somehow found by this Michigan Redditer). So let's set the stage here. At some point very recently, future CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert filled in as host of Only in Monroe, an actual public access cable television talk show in Monroe, Michigan (population just over 20,000). It's a full show, too, at over 40 minutes long, titled &amp;quot;July 2015.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only in Monroe, as hosted by Colbert (who ends up interviewing the actual hosts early in the show), is a absurdist blend of public access aesthetic and Colbert witticism, complete with Colbert Report style interstitials that'd fit in as a &amp;quot;Better Earn a District&amp;quot; segment — there are even short pauses after jokes for an audience that isn't in studio. This isn't some haphazard effort; the jokes and research are clearly there, and much of the joy in watching this lies in the earnestness of Colbert.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The major guest tonight? &amp;quot;A local Michigander who is making a name for himself in the competitive world of music,&amp;quot; aka Marshall Mathers aka Eminem, who just upstaged his own Zane Lowe interview by appearing on public access and being cajoled into humming some Bob Seger tunes. Here's the most important Eminem quote without context: &amp;quot;Carpentry sounds like it could be good.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Colbert's Late Show doesn't begin until September 8th — without beard, with Jon Batiste — and I really hope this experimental streak of teasers is some indication of Colbert and team's plans to experiment with an otherwise staid late night format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At about ~0:50 Colbert says since his last show ended in December he's been itching to do a new show but his new theater isn't ready yet so he went on Only In Monroe, but that's seem to warrant doing a public access show in Monroe, Michigan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why Did Colbert Do &amp;quot;Only In Monroe&amp;quot;?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24141" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-12T01:31:17.073" Title="Why Did Colbert Do &quot;Only In Monroe&quot;" Tags="|only-in-monroe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40950" CreationDate="2015-09-10T15:44:57.843" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the show title is a play on words. The Big Bang Theory is an explanation for the birth of the universe. But also, &amp;quot;bang&amp;quot; has a sexual connotation. In the beginning, Leonard was attracted to Penny, but she seemed to be out of his reach socially. If he was to have a sexual encounter with her, his social status would be elevated. So in a sense, penny is the Big Bang.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the show outgrew that premise pretty quickly, early reviews seemed to focus on the romantic aspects and the fact that Penny was out of reach for Leonard. Here's &lt;a href=&quot;http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2007-09-23-big-bang_N.htm?csp=34&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; from 2007:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solid if well-worn setup is that of the beauty among the beasts, or in this case, geeks. Math geniuses Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon (Jim Parsons) have been content to spend their days in their apartment working on formulas and playing Klingon Boggle. Then Penny (Kaley Cuoco) moves in next door and Leonard invites her over to lunch — and the equation of their lives changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Bang is going to win you over, it will happen soon after that invitation, when Penny plops onto Sheldon's favorite spot on the couch. Everything that works best in Bang is right there: Cuoco's slightly confused, sweetly bemused response; Galecki's mix of longing and exasperation; and Parsons' fresh, show-stopping take on socially out-of-whack brilliance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deseretnews.com/article/695212063/Yes-its-a-Big-Bang.html?pg=all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;another&lt;/a&gt;, also from 2007:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;THE BIG BANG Theory&amp;quot; isn't exactly an original idea — nerdy guys meet a beautiful woman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They hang out with a couple of other Cal Tech geniuses, Howard (Simon Helberg) and Rashesh (Kunal Nayyar). They can all speak Klingon, but they can't talk to girls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then the gorgeous-but-not-too-bright Penny (Kelly Cuoco) moves into the apartment across the hall from Sheldon and Leonard. Leonard falls in love, but Sheldon is more than skeptical about his chances with Penny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;What makes you think she wouldn't have sex with me? I'm a male and she's a female,&amp;quot; Leonard says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Yes, but not of the same species,&amp;quot; Sheldon replies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And when Leonard imagines a future with Penny, he says, &amp;quot;Our babies will be smart and beautiful.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Not to mention imaginary,&amp;quot; Sheldon deadpans. (Keep an eye on Parsons — he may well be one of the breakout stars of the season.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5345" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T16:05:21.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40965" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-09-10T18:09:42.827" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Despicable Me 2&lt;/em&gt; is a 2013 American animation, adventure, comedy film, directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, and written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio. It stars Steve Carell, Kristin Wiig, Benjamin Bratt, Miranda Cosgrove, and more. It released USA-wide on July 3, 2013. It was nominated for two Oscars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full IMDb Storyline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While Gru, the ex-supervillain is adjusting to family life and an attempted honest living in the jam business, a secret Arctic laboratory is stolen. The Anti-Villain League decides it needs an insider's help and recruits Gru in the investigation. Together with the eccentric AVL agent, Lucy Wilde, Gru concludes that his prime suspect is the presumed dead supervillain, El Macho, whose his teenage son is also making the moves on his eldest daughter, Margo. Seemingly blinded by his overprotectiveness of his children and his growing mutual attraction to Lucy, Gru seems on the wrong track even as his minions are being quietly kidnapped en masse for some malevolent purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1690953/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despicable_Me_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41249" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2017-01-01T16:41:00.727" LastActivityDate="2017-01-01T16:41:00.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40966" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-09-10T18:09:42.827" Score="0" Body="2013 animated film.  The second in the Despicable Me franchise." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-09-10T18:30:11.240" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T18:30:11.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40967" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40968" CreationDate="2015-09-10T19:36:07.247" Score="11" ViewCount="1078" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;Technical&lt;/em&gt; details&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not really good at judging the age of a movie but I think it has been released between 2005 and 2014. It looked &lt;em&gt;modern&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's considered to be a drama, but it is very dark and stressful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched it in English but I can't say if it was translated or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The plot (spoilers)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the story of a ~30 years old man. He is a photographer and gets paid to take photos in weddings or birthdays (I can't remember) and on crime scenes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the movie it's a bit hard to know what really happens and what he imagines happening. For example, he sees two men in a bus bothering a woman and he imagines that he helps her. He walks up to them and they draw a gun but he manages to take the gun from them and the girl falls in love with him. But then he &quot;wakes up&quot; and realizes it was just a dream. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then he meets a girl in his building and they have sex. He falls in love with her, but her ... Not so much. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During a wedding/birthday where he is taking pictures he notices that the father is cheating on his wife. So he follows him and takes pictures showing the father cheating. He then takes the father's watch in exchange for the pictures. He sells the watch and with the money he buys a ring for the girl he is in love with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But he realizes that she has a new boyfriend. He follows the boyfriend to his apartment to scare him (not sure about this). And he ends up shooting him by accident. He tries to take him to the hospital but doesn't manage to do so in time. He then pretends a homeless man killed the boyfriend. And it ends on him taking pictures of the murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Random parts of the story I can't put together&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point he is watching a play made by the girl's friends and he hates it. He says something mean loud without meaning to and the girl gets mad at him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somewhere near the end we see the girl leaving him and she looks really sad and disappointed. But we then see the same scene multiple times and each time she looks happier. It's like he is changing his memories to convince himself that she isn't mad at him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for helping me. I hope there is enough information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25817" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T22:05:49.500" Title="Movie about a photographer who takes pictures of weddings (or birthdays) and murders, who falls in love with a girl in his building" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:01:10.507" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40968" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40967" CreationDate="2015-09-10T22:04:22.913" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535432/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Crave&lt;/a&gt; from 2012 with Ron Perlman and    Edward Furlong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Aiden (Josh Lawson) is an underpaid and lonely freelance crime scene photographer that copes with the world around him by imagining himself as a hero that saves the day. His world is turned upside down when he meets Virginia (Emma Lung), who breathes new life into his daily routine and gives him a new sense of confidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Catija already said, a very detailed and thorough question. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/32pTWSVQxco?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-09-10T22:05:49.500" LastActivityDate="2015-09-10T22:05:49.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40980" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40981" CreationDate="2015-09-11T03:38:27.830" Score="3" ViewCount="541" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was the win in &lt;em&gt;Southpaw&lt;/em&gt; arranged? I'm asking this based on the fact that Hope himself mentions Jordan Mains 'paying' a decision win over Night Train early in the movie. Also, it's a close fight for most of the bout and taking in account the split decision for 115-113, 115-114, 116-112, plus the point they took from Escobar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any chance Mains had paid the win?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25830" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-11T11:49:14.703" LastActivityDate="2015-11-10T12:54:18.180" Title="Was it arranged?" Tags="|plot-explanation|southpaw|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40980" CreationDate="2015-09-11T04:37:24.113" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's left intentionally vague. Both Billy in-universe, and others out of universe seem to think the fight was fixed, but nothing is confirmed in the film. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latintimes.com/oscar-de-la-hoya-criticizes-southpaw-portraying-boxers-stereotypical-ways-332723&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;So much that actual boxers have chimed in&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;[P]romoters fixing fights. Has this type of behavior reared its head in the history of our sport? At times, unfortunately, yes. Is it common? Absolutely not,” said de [Oscar de la Hoya].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Billy of course turns a blind eye to it because &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/2015/07/23/424995597/southpaw-makes-a-bruised-bruiser-out-of-jake-gyllenhaal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;he has more important things to deal with&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Billy's need for income, so that he can convince a judge that he's fit for fatherhood, is what sends him to the gym run by Tick Wills, who trained the only boxer ever to beat him. &lt;strong&gt;(Billy still got the decision, but he suspects that was because someone in his camp paid a bribe. &quot;The fight game, you know,&quot; he shrugs.)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, Billy isn't in on the fix, but he isn't a fool either. He won't take a dive but he won't say anything if someone else does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-11T04:37:24.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40985" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="40986" CreationDate="2015-09-11T05:29:28.223" Score="-2" ViewCount="2855" Body="&lt;p&gt;Captain America and Iron Man both had worked together in Avengers and Avengers 2,  What lead to the fights between Iron Man and Captain America in &lt;em&gt;Captain America: Civil War&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25833" LastEditorUserId="48930" LastEditDate="2017-05-09T06:57:48.857" LastActivityDate="2017-11-03T21:33:19.417" Title="What lead to the fights between Iron Man and Captain America in Captain America: Civil War?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|captain-america-civil-war|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40985" CreationDate="2015-09-11T05:59:14.123" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;In the comics&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the original story, which the movie takes its name, and is a loose adaptation of, the battle lines are drawn over the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration_acts_%28comics%29#2006_Superhuman_Registration_Act&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Superhero Registration Act&lt;/a&gt;, which is introduced after an explosion kills over 60 children. The explosion is caused during a battle between super-powered teams. The legislation would require anyone with super powers to register their real identities and abilities with the government. In return, they will receive training, and a license to use their powers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that heroes must publicly reveal their secret identities is a huge point, which serves as the initial primary catalyst for the schism. Iron Man and Captain America find themselves at odds, with Iron Man leading the charge for registration, while Captain America leads the resistance.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;In the movies&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Last year, producer Kevin Feige explained that &lt;em&gt;Captain America: Civil War&lt;/em&gt; is not about secret identities, as the comic version (largely) is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He explained that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/marvel-civil-war-movie/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the conflict arises over political/government oversight.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don’t want to give too much away, but needless to say, the generalities of the act are the same. Something happens, perhaps it’s cumulative for things that have happened though all of the movies leading up to this point. It has made the governments of the world say “we need to have some oversight of these guys. They need to report to somebody. So it becomes more… it falls under that umbrella, rather than “you have to take off your mask.” &lt;strong&gt;It’s not about the secret identity thing, as much as it is about, overall, who reports to who, and who can agree to oversight committee.&lt;/strong&gt; Because as of now, in Avengers 2, there is no more security council, there is no SHIELD, obviously. Stark is paying for it, Captain America is running it, and things occur that will make governments begin to question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to all the damage done in earlier Marvel movies, the Avengers appear to be involved in another international incident, resulting in &quot;The Sokovia Accords&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://heroichollywood.com/home-1/2015/8/11/what-international-incident-triggers-the-sokovia-accords-in-captain-america-civil-war&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The more recently publicly announced official plot synopsis for &lt;em&gt;Civil War&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (warning massive spoilers within that link) matches that, specifically mentioning the accountability and governing body to control the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“After another international incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, &lt;strong&gt;political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability and a governing body to determine when to enlist the services of the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers&lt;/strong&gt; while they try to protect the world from a new and nefarious villain. ” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this version, it appears that the two sides, largely led by Iron Man and Captain America will come to blows over just &#xA;who, if anyone, should have oversight and power over the superheroes of the world. &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qJOKd.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qJOKd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;civil war draft picks&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1046" LastEditorUserId="1046" LastEditDate="2015-09-11T10:54:17.397" LastActivityDate="2015-09-11T10:54:17.397" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21616" CreationDate="2015-09-11T06:08:24.960" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I actually did a &lt;a href=&quot;https://arzhk.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/i-know-who-i-am%C2%AD-interpreting-rust-cohles-coin-sized-mirror-via-roger-sperry-and-carl-jung/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;blog post&lt;/a&gt; about this where I used the theories of Roger Sperry and Carl Jung to conclude that the soul resides in the left eye and Rust thus uses his left eye mirror to reflect upon his own soul as a form of meditation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...We all have two brain hemispheres. Left and right, which are connected by the corpus callosum, a bridge that connects the two hemispheres. Our right hemisphere controls the left side of our body and the left hemisphere controls the right side of our body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Roger Sperry conducted ‘split brain’ experiments by removing the corpus callosum. After removing the link between the two hemispheres, Sperry proceeded to test the two hemispheres independently. [...] Sperry did more studies that further proved to him that thoughts are localised in different sides of the brain. Either right or left. [...] What this showed Sperry was that there are two modes of thought, &lt;strong&gt;Verbal&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Non Verbal&lt;/strong&gt;. I interpret verbal and non verbal to &lt;strong&gt;Instinctual&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Intellectual&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Contemporary society at large is left brained (yes, a mass generalisation) so most constructed identities you see in the urban capitalistic city environment are left brained Identities/Personalities. Imagine the opposite of a money driven capitalistic society, Bingo! an anthropological primitive but predominantly right brained society (generalised to prove a point again); [...] The right brain is minimally used in most social interactions due to the identity we project to others. The left brains allow people to be fake, calculated, ‘civilized’ e.g pretending to be nice when actually not. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Interestingly, not only are we not aware of our right brain identities, we can’t even control them! The right brain is non verbal and in touch with the unconscious, which is also non verbal. Many prominent psychologist such as Jung and Dr. Scott Peck, explain that the unconscious could be another term for the soul, or at least the window to it. Because of the crossover, our LEFT eye goes to our right brain. The left eye therefore, is literally the window to the soul and the indicator of the hidden, unmasked true self.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scienceofsoulmates.com/The_power_of_the_left_eye.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.scienceofsoulmates.com/The_power_of_the_left_eye.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The right brain is non verbal and in touch with the unconsciousness or even the collective unconsciousness. While reading one of my favourite Psychiatrists Carl Jung, he convinced me that the word “Soul” can substitute the more scientific sounding, unconscious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, when Rust says to Marty [in True Detective] “I know who I am”, what the average consumer didn’t realise was (like Marty), Rust meant he knew himself on multiple dimensions. Not just a vague ‘I know myself fooh!’ Nah, Rust truly knows himself inside out, more importantly Rust Cohle knows his Soul! This can be concluded by besides the many times he uses the word soul throughout the series...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The only mirror Rust has is a coin sized mirror. I propose that the mirror is used as a form of meditation just as he uses the crucifix in his apartment as a form of meditation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...Basically, your soul is in your left eye… Rust out of all knows this… Man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25834" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-11T13:16:22.223" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40991" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-11T09:14:43.707" Score="10" ViewCount="4565" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/em&gt; survie on only Homers salary which can't be that great. Still, they own two cars and live in a two-story four bedroom detached house in an average size American city. How could they afford this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-11T11:50:49.020" LastActivityDate="2018-10-15T03:42:17.657" Title="How can the Simpsons afford such a nice house?" Tags="|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40991" CreationDate="2015-09-11T16:00:44.290" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aside from the obvious answer: It's a cartoon--we can make some assumptions with real-world data. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The average Nuclear Power Plant Operator's salary is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Nuclear_Power_Reactor_Operator/Salary&quot;&gt;72.5k a year&lt;/a&gt;. The average house price in Springfield, oh...let's say Missouri is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zillow.com/springfield-mo/home-values/&quot;&gt;107k&lt;/a&gt;. Let's say that this is a really nice house for the area and they paid $150k. Let's figure they got in on an OK interest rate which would put them somewhere in the range of $1300/month for their mortgage payment? Given that their cars are obviously well used, Marge does most of the cooking (not a lot of eating out expenses), neither kid goes to private school, and they all seem to have a very tiny wardrobe, I'm thinking they're getting by fairly OK paycheck-to-paycheck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And living paycheck-to-paycheck is the modern american dream. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-09-11T16:00:44.290" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40995" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41090" CreationDate="2015-09-11T16:44:09.477" Score="7" ViewCount="200" Body="&lt;p&gt;I probably watched this movie about 10+ years ago, language was English. &#xA;I'm not sure if I've remembered all of this entirely correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movie starts out with the main character growing up in this picture-perfect little town. There are public announcement speakers in the town, and all is well except the main character's mother is always sick/almost comatose. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But weird stuff happens in the town. A sinkhole appears in one area of the town and swallows up a kid (perhaps leaving their tricycle?). The PA Speakers say there's nothing to worry about and say to avoid the area. The sinkhole then later just disappears. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Turns out that the mother who is always comatose is somehow keeping the town &quot;alive&quot; or structurally sound, and when she comes out of her stupor for a bit then the sink holes appear, but now she's getting old and so they're appearing anyway. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can't remember much more, but think it might have been some dream that she and her husband cooked up to raise their son in the perfect environment, and I think in the end the main character decides that he has to make the sacrifice to take over from his mother?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25852" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T15:22:31.433" Title="Movie about idyllic town being &quot;generated&quot; by a person, sinkholes appear when she's not concentrating" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:01:19.990" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40884" CreationDate="2015-09-11T16:46:15.463" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can simplify it for you...&lt;strong&gt;Jesse was Walter's son&lt;/strong&gt; in his alter-ego life. I believe that he never had any intentions of killing Jesse in any situation. Walter always talked about doing everything that he did &lt;em&gt;for his family&lt;/em&gt;. We always assumed that he was talking about his wife and son/daughter but he ultimately was unable to be close with his family (real wife and real children). Who he was really talking about was his alter-ego family. His &lt;strong&gt;alter-ego wife&lt;/strong&gt; was his passion for his craft of making Meth and his alter-ego son, in all it's gory details, &lt;strong&gt;was Jesse&lt;/strong&gt;. In the end, his ultimate goal was to save his alter-ego son and the gravy was if he was able to save his real family from his own alter-ego Walter, then all would have a &lt;strong&gt;&quot;happy&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; ending. The day that Walter found out he had cancer, he died and the alter-ego, was born. Jesse goes crazy because his Dad just died, he almost died and we potentially have &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;a new Walter, in the rescued Jesse&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Great show!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;My resource is that I watched all of the episodes, binge fashion over the course of two months and I was able to see that story arc play out over and over, each season&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3209" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-11T17:06:54.430" LastActivityDate="2015-09-11T17:06:54.430" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40997" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="51781" CreationDate="2015-09-11T17:08:12.850" Score="1" ViewCount="171" Body="&lt;p&gt;She stated that she can't think goodly about minions after they became the king after trapping them, but if they gave her the crown in the first place, would she still trap them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25853" LastActivityDate="2016-04-15T14:14:34.647" Title="Was Ms. Overkill planning to trap minions in the first place?" Tags="|minions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39157" CreationDate="2015-09-11T17:31:47.560" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is very ambiguous. Atlas says to Dylan &lt;em&gt;&quot;First rule of magic, always be the smartest guy in the room&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Dylan tells him he was in agreement, which could strictly mean that he agreed with the statement that this was the first rule of magic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anything else we infer has to come from our analysis of their body language and non-verbal cues, which can be subjective. My analysis was that Dylan agreed with Atlas that &lt;em&gt;Atlas&lt;/em&gt; was the smartest guy in the room, since he was the one performing magic. Having more information than Atlas doesn't strictly make Dylan smarter, and he may not have thought so. Even if he did, it seemed like he was telling Atlas he agreed with Atlas' implied comment that he (Atlas) was the smartest guy in the room. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe they added the line because it sounded smart, and didn't really think it through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1010" LastActivityDate="2015-09-11T17:31:47.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="40999" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41000" CreationDate="2015-09-11T18:08:30.470" Score="5" ViewCount="560" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a futuristic Sci-Fi action movie from the 90's, and all I remember are some random stuff and the ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It ends (spoiler alert?) with the hero, a cowboy-ish kinda guy that was released from prison to help the world at the beginning of the movie, getting a hold of this remote that is claimed to &quot;send humanity 100 years back&quot; in terms of progress or technology (I think?) by some guy who's eyes plead the hero not to press the dreaded button.&#xA;The hero then looks at the guy, lights up a cigarette in an oh-so macho fashion with matches (old-fashioned), and presses it, implying he always preferred how things used to be with no technology etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that I remember a scene with a submarine (?) and maybe the usage of the word &quot;Alcatraz&quot; maybe even in the title of the film, not sure of it though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched this film more than 15 years ago so everything is a blur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25855" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-09-11T19:28:05.237" LastActivityDate="2015-09-11T19:28:05.237" Title="Looking for the title of an epic movie" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:01:23.120" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40999" CreationDate="2015-09-11T18:31:43.073" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It sounds an awful lot like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116225/&quot;&gt;Escape from L.A.&lt;/a&gt;.  (Spoilers) At the end, Snake Plissken, who is a bit cowboy-like, definitely has a &quot;remote&quot; that he presses to destroy all electronics and reset society.  He was released from prison to save the world from a doomsday device and does light up a cigarette.  If I recall, Los Angeles was an Alcatraz-like island, after a big earthquake and he did have to be transported to the island in a submarine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25744" LastActivityDate="2015-09-11T18:31:43.073" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41001" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-11T19:41:40.400" Score="7" ViewCount="8640" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was it ever revealed (in an interview, script draft, etc.) what Daniel whispered to Eli in the church after the baptism in &lt;em&gt;There Will Be Blood&lt;/em&gt;? It certainly looked like Eli was not pleased with hearing whatever it was. I think I've seen two script drafts with no mention, but maybe there were others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-11T20:17:00.930" LastActivityDate="2021-02-21T22:47:32.823" Title="What did Daniel Plainview whisper?" Tags="|dialogue|there-will-be-blood|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41002" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-11T20:58:49.050" Score="8" ViewCount="444" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ripple effect caused by Marty in 1955, takes a week to reach 1968 in which he was born and begin to make him disappear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why the ripple effect caused by Doc in 1885 only takes a few seconds to reach 1955? Making the Western Union messenger appears almost instantly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25618" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T08:29:17.257" Title="Ripple effect in Back to the Future saga" Tags="|back-to-the-future|back-to-the-future-part-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41003" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41004" CreationDate="2015-09-11T21:15:33.940" Score="25" ViewCount="120903" Body="&lt;p&gt;In some scenes in &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; Iron man, War Machine, and Captain America try to lift Thor’s hammer but they end up failing. At some point Vision lifts it easily. How can Vision lift it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25833" LastEditorUserId="48480" LastEditDate="2017-05-31T07:49:06.383" LastActivityDate="2017-05-31T07:49:06.383" Title="How does Vision lift Thor's hammer in Avengers: Age of Ultron?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41003" CreationDate="2015-09-11T21:54:59.267" Score="36" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Because he's worthy of it.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the Vision can lift the hammer, in contrast to all the other heroes (apart from Thor, of course) is an important clue to convey the Vision's actual spiritual purity and superiority. Remember that the Vision was created in a collaborative process by the Avengers, taking Tony's benevolent AI J.A.R.V.I.S, putting it into the pure mind gem (now cleaned of whatever evil spirit was in it that's now in Ultron), putting that into a perfect Vibranium-enhanced body and putting it to life by Thor's very powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me the Vision seems to be the embodiment of the ancient ideal of a perfect mind in a perfect body, one that combines the advantages of a mechanical intelligence with the concerns and soul of an organic lifeform and brings compassion for his (undoubtedly inferior) human fellows, in contrast to his &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/33751/49&quot;&gt;much less modest and unidentifiedly-spirited brother Ultron&lt;/a&gt;. He thus seems to be the ideal creation of a humanity that strives for posthuman evolution. One could say in his second try Tony Stark (with the help of an actual (demi)god and some magic alien artifacts, though) overcame his role as merely a &lt;em&gt;&quot;Modern Prometheus&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and didn't just create sentient life, but a new god in itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the fact that Vision is able to wield Mjölnir to me doesn't come from the fact that he is &quot;just a machine&quot;, as Tony and Steve argue jokingly at the end, but from the fact that he &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; superior to us all not only in his body but even more so in his mind. And this I think is the attitude that Mjölnir is attracted to, as already shown in the first &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt; movie and also in this one when Steve nearly achieves to lift it (which was not because he is the strongest, but because he is the noblest at heart). In fact, Tony's and Steve's theories about Vision being &quot;only a machine&quot; at the end even support the interpretation that this is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the case by the mere humorous way they are presented in. Of course their childish excuses are not the reason for why The Vision achieved what they couldn't. In fact his pickung up the hammer is a perfect and to the point illustration of Vision's superiority and immediately clarifies that to the viewers, a symbol that has been explicitly set up by the earlier scene (with the whole gang trying to pick up the hammer) for exactly that purpose. Or as the apparent expert on the intricacies of Mjölnir has to admit himself at the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thor:&lt;/strong&gt; He can wield the hammer, he can keep the Mind Stone. It's safe with the Vision and these days safe is in short supply.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you wouldn't want to keep the Mind Stone lying around in an elevator. So yes, &lt;strong&gt;Vision &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; get the power of Mjölnir and Thor with everything connected&lt;/strong&gt;, including the abstract notion of &quot;being worthy&quot;. But what makes Vision so extraordinary as part of his &quot;worthiness&quot; and what makes it seem as if he doesn't get that power (i.e. without the nice special effects described in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/41083/49&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dr R Dizzle&lt;/em&gt;'s answer&lt;/a&gt;) is that he doesn't want it anyway. He doesn't strive for this power and he doesn't care to rule over Asgard, not because he can't as &quot;a machine&quot; or because he doesn't have a soul, but because his mind and motivations are above such &quot;worldly&quot; considerations. His light-handed and downplayed way to hand over the hammer to Thor and his easy ability to carry it in battle convey both his worthiness &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; his not caring about this at all. &lt;strong&gt;He is a god &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; a god-complex.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T22:55:30.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41003" CreationDate="2015-09-11T21:57:33.057" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is actually an open question even at the end of the movie. Tony, Steve, and Thor are debating this exact question in the final scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two possibilities they raise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, the easiest answer is, Odin's enchantment found him worthy. If you note, Rogers &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; managed to pick up Mjolnir, implying that he is &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; worthy, but not quite. Vision, for whatever reason, is considered as worthy as Thor to wield the hammer. Thor tends to believe this is true, which is why he let Vision keep the Infinity Stone. It's possible that is the other way around: because Vision is holding the Stone, that makes him worthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other option is that Vision doesn't count as a &quot;person&quot;, since he's an android (meaning, he basically exploited a loophole in the magic). As Rogers surmises, this is no different to putting the hammer in an elevator: the machine would &quot;lift&quot; Mjolnir but he isn't really &quot;wielding&quot; it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comics, there have been several others besides Thor to wield the hammer over the decades, including Cap, so this would have been an unusual and significant event, but not unheard of. It remains to be seen in the MCU if things work out the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="32983" LastEditDate="2016-05-09T09:15:24.523" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T09:15:24.523" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41003" CreationDate="2015-09-11T21:58:21.550" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was probably a good way to fast prove to the spectator that Vision is an ally. It can also be that Vision was born because of Thor's thunder. Or maybe it's because Vision is just born and he is absolutely pure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25618" LastActivityDate="2015-09-11T21:58:21.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40962" CreationDate="2015-09-12T01:31:17.073" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Colbert answers the question himself in the link provided by OP, starting at about &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/PniJM5IwXfE?t=47s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;00:47&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Since my last show ended in December, I've been itching to do a talk show again, but my new theater's not ready yet, so I decided to head over to Monroe, Michigan, look around, and give it a Michigander.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; --&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/PniJM5IwXfE?t=47s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stephen Colbert&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2015-09-12T01:31:17.073" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39524" CreationDate="2015-09-12T04:01:47.733" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In screenwriting, the ideal situation is that always, anything shown in the screen has to be meaningful for the story or the characters. If its not, then it could simply be erased. In the case of the MacGuffin, as a device, is important at the beginning, but while the story evolves, loses his relevance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that terms, maybe the opposite device of the MacGuffin could be the &lt;a href=&quot;http://archer.wikia.com/wiki/Chekhov_Gun&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chekhov Gun&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The Chekhov Gun is actually reference to a literary technique known as Chekhov's gun, whereby an element is introduced early in the story, but its significance does not become clear until later in the narrative. The concept is named after Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, who mentioned several variants of the concept in letters.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the &lt;strong&gt;MacGuffin&lt;/strong&gt; is important at a early stage.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The &lt;strong&gt;Chekhov Gun&lt;/strong&gt; has late importance for the story.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Both give the characters a new impulse, but at different moments:&#xA;early and late in the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21013" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-12T04:45:06.870" LastActivityDate="2015-09-12T04:45:06.870" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15160" CreationDate="2015-09-12T04:10:51.077" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Best articles ever, and scripts photocopied from the originals...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.cinephiliabeyond.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21013" LastActivityDate="2015-09-12T04:10:51.077" CommentCount="0" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-09-12T04:10:51.077" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="226" CreationDate="2015-09-12T04:24:09.847" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many anaylisis from The Shining. Almost all of them about the movie, but not that much about the book. As a way to understand it, the hotel in The Shining is another character. A kind of metaphysical force of nature: the one that gets inside the head of Jack Nicholson, and the guy before him, that killed the twins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, being Stanley Kubrick the director we knew, we could understand that last picture of the ball as a connection between Jack and the hotel. Some sort of &quot;absorption&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21013" LastActivityDate="2015-09-12T04:24:09.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15181" CreationDate="2015-09-12T04:30:26.197" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title &quot;Prisoners&quot; has a relation with the characters own prisons, based on their own belief systems: religion, justice, family, obsessions. Doing what they think is right for them (not necesarily for others) they fall apart, and the movie is witness of this process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, more than anti-religion, i think is more pro-human, in a more nihilistic way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21013" LastActivityDate="2015-09-12T04:30:26.197" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="827" CreationDate="2015-09-12T04:48:42.980" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first lines of the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Somebody asked me today...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;&quot;Phil, if you could be anywhere, where would you like to be?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I said to him,&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;&quot;Probably right here.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Elko, Nevada.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In screenwriting, many devices are used to give us a clue of what the movie is about. Not what happens, but what it is about. For example, it could be said that many movies announce the premise of the story in the first scene. In this case, I think that this is more than a movie where the time repeats itself, its a movie about a selfish guy who has to learn to be open to the (sometimes chaotic) experience of living, and really share with other people. Many forms of belief (spiritual, most of all) would call this &lt;strong&gt;Be present in the moment: Be here&lt;/strong&gt;. As Bill Murray says at the beginning... &lt;strong&gt;I said to him,&#xA;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Probably right here.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the only way to get to this point of maturity is making mistakes over and over. Is a way of saying &quot;you will make the same mistakes, over and over, until you learn the lesson about yourself and life&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21013" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-12T13:52:09.740" LastActivityDate="2015-09-12T13:52:09.740" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40991" CreationDate="2015-09-12T05:56:24.520" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In order for the Simpson family to purchase the home, Abraham Simpson sold his old house and wrote Homer a check for $15,000, allowing him to pay the down payment on the house. In No Loan Again, Naturally it is revealed that the Simpsons are unable to afford their mortgage anymore, due to Homer constantly loaning money against the house, which causes Ned Flanders to buy the house for $101,000 and rent it to the Simpsons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/742_Evergreen_Terrace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/742_Evergreen_Terrace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25865" LastEditorUserId="25865" LastEditDate="2018-10-15T03:42:17.657" LastActivityDate="2018-10-15T03:42:17.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41024" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41027" CreationDate="2015-09-12T10:13:14.460" Score="8" ViewCount="596" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the late 70’s (possibly early 80’s) there was a much hyped multi-part TV movie that was supposed to be a murder mystery. There was a contest where people would write in with their solution before the final part aired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It opened with &lt;strike&gt;Peter Ustinov&lt;/strike&gt; dressed in Russian-style winder coat and hat, riding an escalator. Now I can't find anything like this under Peter Ustinov in IMDB so I might be remembering the name wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was about a murder on a spaceship traveling home from Mars, I think.  One so-called clue was a white scarf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody know what movie this was?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23301" LastEditorUserId="23301" LastEditDate="2015-09-13T05:22:03.410" LastActivityDate="2015-09-13T05:22:03.410" Title="What was this TV movie featuring Peter Ustinov and a space ship?" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:07:39.867" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41024" CreationDate="2015-09-12T11:51:50.953" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is called &lt;em&gt;Murder in Space&lt;/em&gt; from 1985.  It does not star Peter Ustinov.  It stars Wilford Brimley, who can easily be mistaken as Peter Ustinov.  It aired as a Science Fiction Murder &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_Space&quot;&gt;Mystery&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Murder in Space is a 1985 science fiction murder mystery movie set in&#xA;  the near future. The crew of an international space mission are on the&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;return leg from Mars to Earth&lt;/strong&gt; when an explosion occurs on the craft&#xA;  Conestoga, shortly after a series of murders starts. The crew of the&#xA;  returning craft are forbidden to return until the murderer is caught.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On its initial premier, the film was shown without the ending and a&#xA;  competition was set for the &lt;strong&gt;viewers to solve the mystery&lt;/strong&gt; of who the&#xA;  murderer or murderers were. The conclusion of the film was shown&#xA;  several days later, with the contestants eliminated one by one until&#xA;  the winner correctly identified the killer or killers. The final 30&#xA;  minutes of the film was shown at a later date when the mystery was&#xA;  solved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-09-12T11:57:23.283" LastActivityDate="2015-09-12T11:57:23.283" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37126" CreationDate="2015-09-12T12:29:59.050" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Director Steven Spielberg describes the bond between E.T and Eliot as a &quot;double rescue&quot;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spielberg explains how he desired a friend like E.T. that he could share a special bond with after his parents divorce.  He goes on to explain that Eliot has a need that E.T. can fulfill and E.T. has a need that Eliot can fulfill.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The explanation is that they share such a tight bond that they adhere to one another's physical and emotional state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interview with Steven Spielberg from &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/aiqLxSuXBzI&quot;&gt;AFI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-09-12T12:29:59.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41029" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-12T15:01:52.130" Score="14" ViewCount="1475" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jaqen H'ghar from &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; is obviously a ninja-like fighter and has shown his incredible skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did such a great fighter get caught and end up in the dungeons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25615" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-12T15:22:59.937" LastActivityDate="2017-02-02T10:51:16.523" Title="How did Jaqen H'ghar end up in the dungeons of King's Landing?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41032" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2190" CreationDate="2015-09-12T18:24:42.580" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several techniques when mirrors or reflective surfaces are involved in movies.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;One is simply to remove digitally the camera and the crew that could appear in the reflection. Sometimes this (already classic) technique involves taking pictures of the real set, and using them to &quot;cover&quot; what should not be in the image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a more interesting technique is to use another cameras to capture &quot;what should be seen in the reflection&quot;. This means that the main camera keep the story going, but another cameras placed in strategic points register what might be seen in reflective surfaces.&#xA;Example of this could be seen in Divergent (2014) and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Divergent example: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fxguide.com/featured/divergent-making-the-mirror-room/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.fxguide.com/featured/divergent-making-the-mirror-room/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Snow White and the Huntsman example: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/h-mzQ0MOgLQ?start=90&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21013" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-03-30T10:18:37.590" LastActivityDate="2016-03-30T10:18:37.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1363" CreationDate="2015-09-12T18:51:02.033" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In cases like Titanic (1997), the re-release in 3D (2012) involved almost a year of work. Using the technique of rotoscoping and 3D software, they added &quot;depth in layers&quot; to the whole movie. A way of understand rotoscoping is like a &quot;digital sccisor&quot;, that allow you to separate parts of the image. And in this case, make those parts feel near or far from you as a viewer, to create the feel of depth in the image you see in the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/bBoEV6QuqQs?start=84&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21013" LastActivityDate="2015-09-12T18:51:02.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41036" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36914" CreationDate="2015-09-12T19:38:42.923" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no Trap Door. Most WWE events happen in regular stadium or arena floors, which &lt;strong&gt;tend not to have secret underground tunnels&lt;/strong&gt;. The trap door mentioned would be in the actual ring, so they didn't have to go through the ropes. Of course, injuries due to the trap door (British Bulldog for one) have caused the industry to move away from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two ways it happens. The first is simple disguises during intermissions. Lights are cut, a video is played so all the attention is on the big screens, and the stage crew comes out. The wrestler in question is among the crew, hiding or disguised. He slips under the ring and changes, waiting for his cue. Of course, there's no proof as this as Wrestling in general sticks to the &lt;strong&gt;&quot;It's real, trust me&quot; and &quot;Even if it's fake, I'm not telling&quot; magician's creed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second is much more entertaining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/1GTzHd1h47o?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there's Kane just standing in the crowd ring side before he jumped in at Royal Rumble. &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/n6ttWvtrh34?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/p/yn6T2rR7qC/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Boogeyman too.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Undertaker (and his brother Kane) have also popped up through the mat for effect too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/mSDAu0mfvN4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-12T19:38:42.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36552" CreationDate="2015-09-12T20:16:18.557" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;They intentionally left out some details in order to keep things technically possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To add to the other comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A hacker's comfort zone is in front of the computer so to me it seems highly unrealistic that Elliot will just go to Steel mountain, pass through several levels of security, talk with strangers and risk to get caught. He was not afraid to be seen by cameras and to leave his fingerprints all over the place. This is absurd for the kind of proficient hacker he is portrayed to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe hackers will just meet in person like that. It seems likely only if they've known each other for a very long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The security of Steel mountain and Allsafe is extremely low. Elliot was able to get to level 1 without real identification or security check. Then he was left alone at level 1 to do whatever he likes. Anybody can enter the Allsafe office, given just a valid card. That person can bring anything with them on their way in and out. It's not reasonable that a computer in Allsafe will start executing a CD automatically after it is inserted. And then the company was hacked too easily only with access to an arbitrary computer in the office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of things seemed to happen too fast (like writing exploits for hours instead of days).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all I can think of. Overall this is one of the most realistic computer-related movies I've ever watched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25873" LastEditorUserId="25873" LastEditDate="2015-09-14T11:50:27.030" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T11:50:27.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33981" CreationDate="2015-09-12T22:24:59.980" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure why I was down voted, but my short answer is that scarlett may have created ultron's hatred for stark, or merged it with tony and the gang. I like the answer about the stone being a colletion of everyone's minds. Strucker must also have some part in ultron. But why didnt anyone ask ultron about the infinity stones. I wonder if it was the mind stones will to create a vessel for the stone hence ultron put it in vision. Seems like later we will know all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25832" LastActivityDate="2015-09-12T22:24:59.980" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34101" CreationDate="2015-09-12T22:27:14.360" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is there any reason that I've missed that would indicate why Hawkeye become immune to mind control effects?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He isn't immune as far as has been stated, he simply stopped her before she could do it. Compare this scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/OnwqpEnodHA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the one before it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/TSw2W5MDcyw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clint stops her before she can do that voodoo that she do. No hand waving, no magic red glowiness, hence no Mind Control took effect.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice earlier in the film, Maria Hill gives Cap a dossier on the Twins, including their power set. This would undoubtedly be shared with the team before heading into an encounter, a mission briefing. Just like they do with (soon to be) Klaw (Ulysses Klause). Standard operating procedure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then, as seen in the second clip above, Thor immediately lets the team over their radio/comm that Wanda &quot;&quot;tried&quot;&quot; to mess with his mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further more, Clint's position at the top and end of the ship interior gave him a (pardon the pun) bird's eye view of the entire playing field. It's possible he saw the Thor being whammied, and Cap being knocked out and brain warped. The spot also had the benefit of only being accessible from one direction (short of flying). It was a carefully picked vantage point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clint was simply prepared for the possibility. Given that he is a high level spy/soldier/assassin for SHIELD, he has the skills necessary to prevent himself from being caught off guard from behind. Wanda on the other hand, did not have a history as a spy and does not have the skills to sneak around completely without notice.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Of course, it doesn't explain how she snuck up on Black Widow, who was not shown to be injured/knocked out like Cap, and she certainly isn't as Brawn over Brain like Thor. Bad writing.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-12T22:27:14.360" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41050" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="85545" CreationDate="2015-09-13T00:47:28.177" Score="4" ViewCount="1735" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Disney's &quot;Song of the South&quot; 1946, Johnny's father leaves them for a time to go to Atlanta for newspaper work. Johnny has heard that everyone hates what his father writes for the paper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the nature of his controversial writing known or guessable to us (or to a 1946 audience)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25883" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-13T00:56:12.763" LastActivityDate="2018-02-10T13:18:19.693" Title="What does Johnny's father write about?" Tags="|song-of-the-south|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1000" CreationDate="2015-09-13T01:08:26.940" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many filmmakers make use of manipulation of the viewers atention, giving information subconsciously, to make them feel in certain ways. For example, this dream scene from The Exorcist (1973), using that single frame techinque.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/TD0RJ_iuBPo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be seen as a rough technique, because it comes from the days when movies where edited literally with sccissors. Nowadays, digital technology allows many other ways to manipulate viewers attention or how information is given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21013" LastActivityDate="2015-09-13T01:08:26.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1520" CreationDate="2015-09-13T01:30:32.717" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its based on graphic design decisions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TEXT- We, as occidental people (mainly) read from left to right, so the main actors name is almost always in that order, or top to bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PHOTO- Visual hierarchy defines that the protagonist face (or an important element of the movie) is going to be the biggest, or at the center of the poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the composition is more interesting than &quot;centered&quot; or &quot;left to right&quot;, this &quot;rules of thumb&quot; could be changed, showing more of the story or the mood of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fnZRX.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fnZRX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21013" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-13T01:50:54.167" LastActivityDate="2015-09-13T01:50:54.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36574" CreationDate="2015-09-13T03:24:12.080" Score="5" Body="&lt;h1&gt;No, they don't seem to have fully planned it out already.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, it is not too natural for a TV show to plan out its entire run, especially if it is of largley episodic nature. While &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt; has certain season-spanning storylines, the seasons themselves are still largely self-contained and closed. It is &lt;strong&gt;not a show with a predetermined storyline&lt;/strong&gt;, like &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;, so you wouldn't want to plan out its entire season schedule beforehand but rather aim for &lt;strong&gt;adaptability to viewer preferences and other developments&lt;/strong&gt;, like e.g. the spin-off of &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt; which got then repeatedly integrated into the season 3 storyline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those are largely general concerns. But if we look at the flashbacks in particular, we can see that they are also &lt;strong&gt;quite self-contained and closed per season&lt;/strong&gt; and, as you realized yourself, often feature new developments that haven't been hinted at before at all, from Sara's survival of the shipwrecking, to Oliver's visit to Starling City. Likewise their storylines often are &lt;strong&gt;constructed to support the present-day storyline&lt;/strong&gt;, from Sara's appearance and involvement on Lyan Yu to Det. Lance's past alcoholism and conflicts with his daughter paralleling his present conflicts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And last but not least, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvline.com/2015/08/11/arrow-season-4-preview-oliver-felicity-flashbacks/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;recent interview with co-showrunner Mark Guggenheim&lt;/a&gt; about the plans for season 4 reinforces the above points and shows that the writing decisions for the flashbacks in the new season were driven by impressions from the previous season:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FLASHBACK TO BASICS&lt;/strong&gt; | On the issue of flashbacks — TVLine had pointed out that &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvline.com/gallery/arrow-season-4-storyline-hopes/#!14/undefined/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Oliver’s Hong Kong escapades weren’t nearly as compelling&lt;/a&gt; as his island or freighter adventures, nor did they strongly synch up with the present-day arc — Guggenheim met us halfway. “I’ll be honest: The episodic connection, week to week… that cart started to drag the horse for me a bit,” he admitted. “So toward the end of last year I said to the writers, ‘What we really need to do is not worry so much about the connection between present and past and just tell a really amazing story in the past.'” As a result, the Season 4 flashbacks, which kick off in Coast City but then head to a destination being kept under wraps, have Guggenheim “really happy.” As he raved, “I feel like we have our best flashback story ever.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in &lt;a href=&quot;http://zap2it.com/2015/08/arrow-season-4-olicity-flashback-love-interest-elysia-rotaru/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;another interview&lt;/a&gt; he explains how Ollie's past love story is explictly constructed as a contrast to his present one (&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/39063/49&quot;&gt;developed in season 3&lt;/a&gt;), which doesn't sound like any of that was pre-planned at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Though, the show itself is also very different. Guggenheim continues, “Because we’re going lighter in tone in present day, we’re going darker in flashbacks. This isn’t going to be a fun, rollicking romance in the past. But it does exist to contrast what’s going on in the present.” He adds, “The truth is, had Oliver and Felicity not gotten together in the present, I don’t know if we would have thought to give Oliver a love interest in the past.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-12-08T15:50:10.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12011" CreationDate="2015-09-13T03:27:45.523" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmmm... well of my theories (facts) Rose Tyler is the bad wolf... according to the eppisode where Rose tells donna that the only way she could change history and &quot;go right instead of left&quot; was to erm... sacrifice herself, but before she died, Rose whispered into her ears the meme &quot; Bad Wolf&quot; which is technically a signal to lead her past self to &quot; badwolf corporations&quot; she took in &quot;the light&quot; and was capable of destroying an entire Dalek Fleet. Also when Donna sacrificed herself (future self) Rose told Donna to tell the doctor the words bad wolf. Hope you understand all of this! I love &quot;Doctor who&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25887" LastActivityDate="2015-09-13T03:27:45.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19969" CreationDate="2015-09-13T04:28:19.317" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spoiler Alert&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He doesn't kill only bad people, as the elevator scene (and others) show. He saw Milos as prey to be toyed with. Malvo is certainly a psychopath, he seems to enjoy manipulating people, seeing them as only a means to an end. For example,  in season 1, episode 10, he laments to Lester, of the work he put in to master his new identity as a successful dentist, “I worked this guy for six months, Lester, six months. Can you imagine the number of sewer mouths I've put my hands in, the gallons of human spit?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He considers himself a predator, often appealing to his animal nature, such as when he says, &quot;there are no saints in the animal kingdom, only breakfast and dinner&quot; (Season 1, episode 6). In particular, I think he sees himself as a wolf. There are numerous on-screen references to wolves, including the wolf head that is mounted on the wall of his cabin, and the wolf that crosses paths with Colin Hanks' character, foreshadowing the show-down between Malvo and himself (Season 1, episode 10). In season 1, episode 6, Malvo says to Milos, &quot;the greatest empire in human history [Rome, was], founded by wolves. You know what wolves do. They hunt. They kill. It's why I never bought into the jungle book. Boy is raised by wolves and becomes friends with a bear and panther. I don't think so.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, Malvo's reasoning is a flawed post-hoc justification for his actions. Wolves hunt and kill in order to eat, Malvo does not. As others have suggested, Malvo is pure evil, not unlike &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Vautrin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vautrin&lt;/a&gt; in Balzac's novels (who, like Malvo, impersonates a priest in order to manipulate his victims). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25836" LastEditorUserId="25836" LastEditDate="2015-10-15T06:12:07.957" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T06:12:07.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39067" CreationDate="2015-09-13T05:01:08.380" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The extras on the discs (season 3) go into detail about how Michonne's friends were brought to un-life on the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The faces are prosthetic, extending about an inch and a half in front of the actor's real faces (per Greg Nicotero) If you look at the makeup, you can see how the zombie faces are basically faceplates in front of the actors' real faces:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tkBG9.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tkBG9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you watch the extras, you can even see a makeup artist talking to the actor and the mask moving with a voice coming out. Looks fake, because &lt;em&gt;it is fake&lt;/em&gt;. (I'll let you in on a secret: the whole show is fiction!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tUHlM.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tUHlM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note how you cannot see eyes here (the makeup effects are not yet complete). Because the mask is an inch and a half in front of the actor's face, they actually had to add fake eyes &lt;em&gt;and the actors were effectively blind during filming&lt;/em&gt;. They had to rely on audio cues to know where to stand and walk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the arms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A7wkA.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A7wkA.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actors wore blue on their arms and hands. After filming, VFX erased their arms and replaced them with background trees/bushes/whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9311" LastActivityDate="2015-09-13T05:01:08.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14423" CreationDate="2015-09-13T05:31:20.053" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is difficult to see because of the very dark lighting, but he picks them up from the nurses' station. After he fumbles around with the telephone he reaches into a plastic basket and moves his hands around. At approximately 17 minutes into season 1, episode 1, he grabs an object:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SGsHr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SGsHr.png&quot; alt=&quot;grabbing the matches&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can then see him swiping one hand across the other:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ihx50.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ihx50.png&quot; alt=&quot;lighting the matches&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, he has a lit match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/le9dq.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/le9dq.png&quot; alt=&quot;match is lit&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on this sequence and the shots in the stairwell, it is safe to assume he picked up a pack of matches and was using them for light given there is no electricity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9311" LastActivityDate="2015-09-13T05:31:20.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41062" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41363" CreationDate="2015-09-13T06:13:09.117" Score="25" ViewCount="2483" Body="&lt;p&gt;Season 4, Episode 16 of The Walking Dead is titled &quot;A&quot;. The previous episode is titled &quot;US&quot;, making it a play on &quot;USA&quot; which is where the series takes place. Together, the two episodes show the main characters reunited (&quot;us&quot;) but I am not quite sure what the &quot;A&quot; means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole point of the episode is that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The main characters end up together in Terminus, but realize the whole place is one big trap. Rick recognizes his friends' gear on Terminus folk, then they are herded into a train car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is backed up by commentary on the episode in &quot;Inside the Walking Dead&quot; on the season 4 discs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Andrew Lincoln says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; he (Rick) talks about snaring a rabbit in the first scene, and they're the rabbit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Greg Nicotero says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; And they are herded and they are manipulated into that train car&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the conflict and focus of the episode is blindingly obvious from the episode itself and the commentary from a primary actor and an executive producer, I am still not clear about what does the &quot;A&quot; mean? It is not just the title of the episode, it is in several important scenes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The heroes are herded into a train car to be made into food for cannibals. Along the way, rooftop gunmen herd them by shooting at their feet (instead of shooting to kill) to move them into the train car. Multiple doors have an &quot;A&quot; painted next to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the chase scene, the following doors with an A show up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l3Vm5.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l3Vm5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EPEoq.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EPEoq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wr2Fj.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wr2Fj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5hjEw.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5hjEw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There appears to be no explanation as to what the A means in this episode both in the episode itself and in the commentary on the discs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, in season 5 episode 3 we see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Rick and friends leaving the the church to go ambush the cannibals, only to return right away and serve justice before they can eat anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Along the way, there is another A:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vRuLy.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vRuLy.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My theory is that the A is some sort of mark for&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; marking food for cannibals&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but there is little proof either in the show or in the commentary on the discs from the producers and actors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What does the A mean: does it stand for something? Is it a mark that means something specific? What evidence is there, both in-universe or out-of-universe and backed up by credible sources such as producers or actors on the show?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9311" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2015-09-14T21:50:05.707" LastActivityDate="2016-11-09T01:03:32.390" Title="What is the meaning of the letter A?" Tags="|plot-explanation|title|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41069" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-13T16:31:09.340" Score="6" ViewCount="863" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322312/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Daredevil&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &quot;World on Fire&quot; (S01E05) sees one of Madame Gao's couriers deliver a package to Vladimir's men. While he sits in the car and the Russians get inside he sings some Chinese song, until the situation escalates due to Daredevil's intervention and the courier inadvertently gets shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the situation with madame Gao's couriers and helpers has always been interesting due to the fact that they are actually all blind. I wonder &lt;strong&gt;if that Chinese song has any further relevance&lt;/strong&gt; or if it's just some random distraction to support the mood of the scene. So is that some common Chinese folk song and do its lyrics or meaning relate to that situation and its themes in any way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T07:24:54.927" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T07:24:54.927" Title="Does the Chinese song have any further relevance?" Tags="|analysis|dialogue|marvel-cinematic-universe|daredevil-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41072" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="91873" CreationDate="2015-09-13T22:41:04.733" Score="3" ViewCount="1560" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the 90's show TNT's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158420/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MonsterVision&lt;/a&gt; with Joe Bob Briggs, how many mail girls were there? I've seen two, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0921779/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rusty&lt;/a&gt; and the blonde one, but I'm not even sure of her name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the blonde was in a cheesy movie (&lt;em&gt;Ultimate Warrior&lt;/em&gt; maybe?) that was later screened on &lt;em&gt;MonsterVision&lt;/em&gt;, but I can't find the movie in my collection at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7536" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-14T01:29:56.553" LastActivityDate="2018-08-13T15:12:33.040" Title="How many mailgirls were there on Monstervision?" Tags="|character|monstervision|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2513" CreationDate="2015-09-14T01:51:00.983" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that we know it's an infinity gem I believe that Tony's reactor made of the new element (Iron Man 2) is interfering with the mind gem. Proof of this is in the scene when the avengers are arguing about Shield's intent for the teseract and Banner grabs Lokis staff. When everyone is arguing Stark notices something's wrong. The only reasoning he's arguing is because... Well he's Tony Stark. The mind gem has no control over Tony. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25908" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-14T01:53:25.017" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T01:53:25.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41078" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-14T05:48:45.710" Score="2" ViewCount="12842" Body="&lt;p&gt;In  episodes &lt;strong&gt;Come On&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Twin Beds&lt;/strong&gt;, Ted has been seen with a blue French horn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does it signify?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-14T08:11:55.657" LastActivityDate="2018-02-06T06:55:43.637" Title="What is the significance of the blue French horn in How I Met Your Mother?" Tags="|how-i-met-your-mother|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41078" CreationDate="2015-09-14T05:58:10.993" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The blue French horn represents Ted actively pursuing and doing anything for love. He seeks out Robin throughout the entire series, just as he repeatedly goes out of his way to get the blue French horn. He didn't stumble upon the blue French horn; he went after it. The horn also represents permanence—Ted ultimately gets it back at the end of the series despite having lost it earlier. He can always go back to the horn, as he can always go back to Robin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quora.com/How-I-Met-Your-Mother-TV-series/What-does-the-blue-french-horn-symbolize&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25915" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-14T08:02:32.470" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T08:02:32.470" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41078" CreationDate="2015-09-14T06:02:44.517" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Excerpt from &lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Blue_French_Horn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikia&lt;/a&gt;, you can check this link for more details&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Blue French Horn first appeared in the Pilot episode, in which Ted steals it for Robin after she saw it in a restaurant called &quot;Carmichaels&quot; and he said it reminded him of a 'Smurf penis' and she said she'd like one for her apartment. From this point onwards, Robin kept in on the mantle in her apartment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the final episode, the last shot of the series is Ted holding it for Robin once again outside her door. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, it's a crazy thing that Ted did for Robin on their first date and proposed at the same time. That's why when he starts to feel the same rush for her, he tried to get  out of his way to get the blue French horn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It symbolizes that crazy stupid love from their first date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2018-02-06T06:55:43.637" LastActivityDate="2018-02-06T06:55:43.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41082" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41069" CreationDate="2015-09-14T07:38:54.037" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a folk love song in China. Mainly about a village girl loves a village boy and how great a couple they are. I don't think there is any deeper meaning of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T07:38:54.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41003" CreationDate="2015-09-14T09:23:29.273" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The inscription on Mjolnir reads;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know from &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Thor: The Dark World&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; that only those judged worthy can lift Mjolnir. When judged worthy, the hammer gives the lifter the power of Thor. I elaborate on this in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/100140/24087&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, but the short of it is that those worthy of Mjolnir can not only lift Mjolnir, but they are also granted power by it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Importantly, when we do see The Vision use Mjolnir rather than simply holding it (when he hits Ultron with it), we see that &lt;strong&gt;he hits no harder when 'wielding' Mjolnir than he would have anyway.&lt;/strong&gt; The Vision is not granted the power of Thor, as the inscription on Mjolnir would suggest. This means that Mjolnir does not judge The Vision worthy, and as such can only be lifted by The Vision because he is not counted as a person from Mjolnir's perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, when we see Thor regain his worthiness in &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt;, his lifting of Mjolnir is accompanied by various special effects indicating him being 'powered up', none of which are present when The Vision lifts Mjolnir - because he isn't worthy, and has not been granted the power of Thor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that when Tony and Steve are trying to comfort Thor at the end of &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;, they are in fact correct - The Vision lifting Mjolnir makes him no more worthy than an elevator lifting it would, or as the Helicarrier in &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; or a coat hanger in &lt;em&gt;Thor: The Dark World&lt;/em&gt; does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In short, The Vision can only lift Mjolnir because his status as an android would seem to make him exempt from the rules.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T09:39:40.027" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33689" CreationDate="2015-09-14T09:42:11.023" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Steve and Tony try to comfort Thor at the end of &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;, they mention that an elevator can lift Mjolnir, but an elevator is not worthy. We see this example in action in both &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; (when the Helicarrier is capable of lifting Mjolnir) and &lt;em&gt;Thor: The Dark World&lt;/em&gt; (when a coat hanger is capable of lifting Mjolnir), so we know that it has at least some basis in the reality of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would seem that as The Vision is an android, he is exempt from the rules of Mjolnir, meaning that he can lift it, but he is not granted the power of Thor. As I have said in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/41083/8686&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;, when we do see The Vision use Mjolnir rather than simply holding it (when he hits Ultron with it), we see that &lt;strong&gt;he hits no harder when 'wielding' Mjolnir than he would have anyway.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, when we see Thor regain his worthiness in &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt;, his lifting of Mjolnir is accompanied by various special effects indicating him being 'powered up', none of which are present when The Vision lifts Mjolnir - because he isn't worthy, and has not been granted the power of Thor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In short, The Vision can only lift Mjolnir because his status as an android would seem to make him exempt from the rules, meaning that he is not granted the power of Thor.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T09:42:11.023" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41087" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41095" CreationDate="2015-09-14T12:39:57.047" Score="6" ViewCount="14059" Body="&lt;p&gt;My wife and I watched this last year, so it's 2014 or older, but probably from the 21st century. It was a live-action English-language film, probably from the United States. A group of people wake up in a largely featureless room (there's just the room, which I think had white walls and a high ceiling, an attached small bathroom (with sink, western toilet, and paper towel dispenser), and I think a corridor with a door at the end (which they are forbidden to go down, with one person killed for ignoring that rule)). An announcement is made over the loudspeakers that they must follow certain rules (not fiddling with their explosive collars (or maybe the collars just delivered a fatal electric shock), not attempting to escape, etc) and that there are criminals in their midst (if I recall correctly, at the least, a serial killer and a pedophile are named among the people there) and told that the killer will start eliminating them one by one. There were clues scattered around the room about who the killer is. I think I remember there being one in the paper towel dispenser and another in the toilet paper in the bathroom. The people in the room included an olive-skinned priest (I want to say he was either Indian or South-American), a school official (doughy looking and red-haired), and a Hispanic gentleman who was either a police officer or a criminal (I honestly don't remember if they every clarified which he was, I but I think people accused him of being both at one point or another).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They also had some items in the room. There was a gun with a single bullet (which I remember being put in a lock-box on one side of the room, later retrieved by one of the characters), a vial of poison (probably supposed to be cyanide based on the &amp;quot;foaming at the mouth&amp;quot; effect it had), and a hammer and a screwdriver. Among the &amp;quot;clues&amp;quot; were two halves of a key, and at some point, the prisoners start trying that key on their collar in a blind-spot in the room. Needless to say, multiple people die in the course of the scenario, some by the killer and some by paranoid members of the room. There's also the one requisite person killed at the very beginning to prove that the collars are real. Oh, and I vaguely remember them trying to either dig through a brick wall or use an improvised explosive on it, but I don't remember what happens there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The prisoners are told that they're under constant surveillance, and I think I remember at least one shot ostensibly from the cameras watching the prisoners complete with the lowered image quality. Another slightly odd thing, there was one incidence of Hollywood Darkness where we as the audience can see despite the scene supposedly being entirely unlit, but they used red instead of blue for the lighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ending:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; Ultimately, it turns out that the attractive blond female who was the main protagonist was one of two plants in the room, and was the killer. After everyone else was dead, she left the room, did some paperwork on the people in the room, and then went through another door to become the plant for another group, which I remember included a guy in a wheelchair. I think it was implied that this was all training for deep-cover intelligence agents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of people killed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; I remember that one person was slashed up in a sudden blackout, the priest was beaten to death while tied up, the school-lady was indicated to be the pedophile and died from the poison (I think, self-administered), and someone was shot with the single bullet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will comb through my library reading list to see if I can find it, but I figured I would also appeal to the community. If it helps, the 2006 film, &lt;em&gt;Unknown&lt;/em&gt; might have been in the pre-movie trailers, or vice versa. If so, that might imply that the film is by Eleven Eleven Films. &lt;em&gt;The Killing Room&lt;/em&gt; looks very similar in style, but the details (and the ending) don't match up. &lt;em&gt;Nine Dead&lt;/em&gt; matches up on a number of plot points (pedophile, priest, petty criminal, law officer, people kidnapped and being killed one by one) but again, the details don't match up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Movies I know it is not:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any of the &lt;em&gt;Saw&lt;/em&gt; franchise (I've seen all but the 7th one, and it lacks the same sort of feeling).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25920" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-09-04T14:11:20.133" Title="Movie about a group of people waking up in a room, knowing that one or more of them are killers which must be eliminated" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:01:51.323" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40995" CreationDate="2015-09-14T14:16:11.653" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_%282009_miniseries%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Prisoner Mini-Series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A dreaming woman sustains a town populated by the sub-conscious avatars of people from the real world. Here is the description of the final episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Episode 6 &amp;quot;Checkmate&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;6 encounters new arrivals, which contradicts claims that no world exists. 2 shows off new houses, indicating the village is expanding. This is later revealed to be to increase pressure on 6 to replace 2 to stop the holes from destroying the village. 6 confronts 2 about the newcomers, but soon forgets as 2 reveals he has afflicted 6 with a disease that will kill him. 6 confronts 11–12 when he meets him at 909's grave and again at the Go Inside bar. 11–12 is unable to reconcile himself to his false identity. He proceeds to smother his dreaming mother and hang himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In New York, Michael is escorted to a car so he may meet &amp;quot;Mr. Curtis&amp;quot;. Events in New York and The Village begin to parallel each other. Michael is aware of this. 6's determination does not waver in the face of death and 2 allows him to live. However, 2 intends to use 6's nobility to finally control him. In New York, Curtis, who is also 2, introduces Michael to Curtis' wife, who seems to be in a sort of waking dream. He reveals the Village's purpose to 6. Curtis explains that the Village is a form of therapy used to help people that Summakor has identified, although without regard to those people's desires. It exists within the mind of his wife, who 'discovered' the Village—a dream present in everyone at a level of consciousness deeper than the subconscious—and was its first inhabitant. Michael was drawn into the village because he worked so well at Summakor, finding people who needed 'help', and Curtis does not want Michael to resign. It is clear that Curtis' son in the Village is the only Village resident not based on real people in the real world. This has drained his &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot;, the dreamer. Curtis' use of the Village was to work through their trauma of being childless but the creation of the son threatened the Village's continued existence. Neither could bring themselves to kill their son and over the 6 episodes we see him provided with sufficient rope (inhuman behaviour including murder) that he hangs himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At his son's funeral, 2 rallies the Villagers and tells them 6 is the only solution to the holes, while in New York, Curtis introduces Michael to Sara, the real world counterpart of 313, who is homeless and insane because of childhood trauma. Michael is overcome with his humanity and desire to help Sara and the villagers and replaces Curtis as the head of Summakor. In The Village, 6 becomes the new 2, while 313 becomes the dreamer who keeps the Village in existence, freeing Curtis' wife from being the dreamer and allowing her to return to the real world. 6 begins planning how to 'do The Village right' and 313, still very ill, sheds a tear, knowing that number 2 finally has won and 6 is now stuck in The Village for good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16404" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T15:22:31.433" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41093" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-14T16:10:07.830" Score="2" ViewCount="610" Body="&lt;p&gt;An aspect of 2015's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1502712/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that I found quite interesting was their attempt to explain some of the gang's largely arbitrary superpowers in a more coherent way. While their 2005 incarnation had them be subjected to some cosmic energy cloud, the new movie derives their powers from the energy present on some cross-dimensional planet. But it tried to give some more or less reasonable (or at least focussed) explanations for some of their powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It has Victor von Doom being thrown right into the very energy of Planet Zero and thus becoming to some degree one with it and able to control it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The others, or rather Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm in particular, are subjected to that energy to a lesser degree but coherent to their actual powers and seem to get merged with their environment while transporting back to earth (in a bit of an transporter accident reminiscent of &lt;em&gt;The Fly&lt;/em&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ben can't close his door and it fills with rocks, leading to the rock-like Thing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Johnnny's chamber gets blasted by flames, leading to the autoigniting Human Torch.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;But with Sue it's already a bit more vague. When she gets blown away by some kind of energy wave from the transporter, I could imagine her having something to do with energy or rather electromagnetic radiation. &lt;strong&gt;Is this deduction correct so far or was this explained a little more elaborately in the movie?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the source of Reed's stretching power is quite a bit less clear to me. There isn't anything in his transporter cell during the transportation to suggest such a mutation, but when he awakes on earth he can already stretch himself. So &lt;strong&gt;what exactly was the source of Reed Richard's stretching powers?&lt;/strong&gt; Did I miss anything and it actually was explained a little clearer in the movie? Or was there maybe even some scene in the script that clarifies this a bit more but ultimately got deleted? Or does the source material provide some additional hints as to how this worked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T19:44:44.677" Title="Was the reason for Reed Richard's (and Sue Storm's) powers explained?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|fantastic-four-2015|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41094" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41099" CreationDate="2015-09-14T16:50:25.107" Score="10" ViewCount="33970" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the significance of Elliott's drug addiction to Morphine in &lt;em&gt;Mr. Robot&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, was Morphine chosen due to name recognition over more powerful synthetics?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not have personal experience, but I've been told MS Contin (Morphine Sulfate) has side effects of blurred vision, headaches when reading, diplopia that would be awful for anyone who has to use a computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there is the suboxone which is kind of the antithesis of narcotics; it can even help heroin addicts get clean.  I get there is some kind of play between the two chemicals, and it was used to connect Shayla but I'm confident the writers could have connected Shayla and Elliott together in some other way.  After all they were both outsiders.  Is there a deeper significance to the chemicals being opposites?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22277" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-14T16:51:33.117" LastActivityDate="2020-04-21T21:55:05.623" Title="Elliott's drug addiction in Mr. Robot" Tags="|mr-robot|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41087" CreationDate="2015-09-14T17:14:49.517" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe you may be looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1220706/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;IMDB&quot;&gt;Breathing Room (2008)&lt;/a&gt;. A synopsis from IMDB describes it as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thrown naked into a desolate room with thirteen strangers, Tonya discovers that she is the final contestant in a deadly game. Restrained by lethal electronic collars, the players must utilize hints and tools from a box marked &quot;pieces&quot; to find both an exit and the reason for their abduction. One by one the players are eliminated as their &quot;curfew&quot; begins and the lights go out. With each dead body comes another clue, which they use to discover that one of them is the killer. The question is ... which one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the trailer on YouTube &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/8hi5x6JU0lA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T17:14:49.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41094" CreationDate="2015-09-14T18:24:16.117" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being a nurse, I administer opiate medication on a daily basis.  MS Contin is actually controlled release or time released morphine.  This drug is not very common anymore.  I find it a bit odd that the show's creator chose morphine as Elliott's drug of choice.  Oxycodone/Oxycontin and Hydrocodone (Percocet and Vicodin) are prescribed more regularly and these drugs have become commonly known to the general public. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the side &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/guide/narcotic-pain-medications&quot;&gt;effects&lt;/a&gt; of most opiates are blurred vision and/or diplopia (double vision), a lot of people get an energetic high off of opiates.  This effect actually will help the user become more analytical and self-aware, which would be a benefit to a computer hacker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elliott and &lt;a href=&quot;http://mrrobot.wikia.com/wiki/Shayla_Nico&quot;&gt;Shayla&lt;/a&gt; were connected by all drugs Elliott desired, not just Suboxone. Shayla was Elliott's drug dealer.  The writer's connected them in that way.  Elliott also develops a concern for Shayla after they are intimate, so they are connected by other means than Suboxone. Suboxone is just as addictive as Morphine.  Granted, it is used to curb craving and help withdrawal symptoms, but it is still addicting, so the chemicals cannot be classified as opposites.  Suboxone contains buprenorphine, which is an addictive opiate in &lt;a href=&quot;http://m.suboxone.com/&quot;&gt;itself&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T18:24:16.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41100" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41114" CreationDate="2015-09-14T18:27:27.967" Score="4" ViewCount="996" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Arrow play homage to Breaking Bad in S02E06 by showing Blue Sky?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pyI0P.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pyI0P.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Walking Dead did that but those two were from the same network, but why did the Arrow TV series do that? Is there any reason for this reference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-08T13:27:34.537" LastActivityDate="2016-04-08T13:27:34.537" Title="Why did Arrow play homage to Blue sky?" Tags="|breaking-bad|reference|arrow|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3475" CreationDate="2015-09-14T19:17:22.727" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;About 5 months.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, there have been quite a few confusions about the actual length of Bane's occupation of Gotham and Bruce's time in the pit. So let's go through the movie step by step and summarize all the hints about the chronology in order to wipe out any unclarities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shortly after Bruce is thrown into the pit Bane starts carrying out his plan. When Bane and Pavel force the board members to hand over the reactor, Bane explicitly states that &lt;strong&gt;it will take about 5 months for the core to deteriorate&lt;/strong&gt; (they don't tell this anyone else, though, especially not the government or the Gothamites, since the belief that it will just go over and regulate itself is the whole reason for the government's policy of appeasement and waiting):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bane:&lt;/strong&gt; Pull the core out of the reactor!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Dr. Pavel:&lt;/strong&gt; No, you cannot! This is the only power source capable of sustaining it. If you move it, the core will decay in a matter of months.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bane:&lt;/strong&gt; Five by my calculations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the 57 that many seem to remember is shown during Bane's speech in front of Blackgate Prison (which is some time after the takeover). However, it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the number of days, but most probably the number of minutes, as can be deduced from the next number being the seconds because they count down right during this very scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cv4zL.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cv4zL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are further numbers above those &lt;code&gt;57:3X&lt;/code&gt;, clearly recognizable as &lt;strong&gt;&lt;code&gt;03:14:22&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;The following might be a bit speculative: It is not entirely clear what those numbers mean, but they could stand for months, days and hours. So at this point we would have about &lt;strong&gt;~3.5 months (or ~105 days) left&lt;/strong&gt;. But we also have to consider that green/red circle which counts down along with the timer. If we assume (though, not know) it started at a full circle, it already has lost about 1 quarter and thus &lt;strong&gt;the timer would have started at ~4.66 months (~140 days)&lt;/strong&gt;, which fits to Bane's approximation (whenever that month was lost already, either before carrying out the plan or between the takeover and the Blackgate speech).&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Next, after some scenes of Bruce slowly recovering his ability to stand again, we see scenes of Gotham already in winter, presumably after some time has passed (considering that football season is in autumn). After that we see Bruce again, training in his cell. When he watches the TV and before he makes his first climbing attempt, the TV news headline says (sorry, again no HD footage for you, but it's also in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenplayexplorer.com/wp-content/scripts/dark-knight-rises.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DAY 84&lt;/strong&gt; SIEGE OF GOTHAM&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And this fits also with the next scene in Gotham: the arrival of the Spec-Ops team with the supply shipment. In this scene the trapped police force is mentioned and a rough estimate of &lt;strong&gt;3 months of occupation&lt;/strong&gt; is given (which might be rather approximate):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;soldier:&lt;/strong&gt; Men who haven't seen daylight in three months.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Blake:&lt;/strong&gt; Police officers who haven't seen daylight in three months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in fact in the next scene Lucius Fox tells them pretty accurately there's only &lt;strong&gt;23 days left&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fox:&lt;/strong&gt; As the device's fuel cells deteriorate it becomes increasingly unstable, to the point of detonation. [...] And it will go off in 23 days, regardless of Bane's revolution or what we or the outside world choose to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this makes about 4 months, again fitting to our previous computations (including a bit of a lax estimate of 3 months and the approximate month we might have lost before all the takeover).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After Bruce sees the footage of the hanged Spec-Ops team he destroys the TV and makes his second failing attempt at climbing out, followed by the successful ropeless climb. The next thing we see is Comissioner Gordon talking about doing something against the bomb as the time closes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gordon:&lt;/strong&gt; The bomb goes off tomorrow, we have about 18 hours to do something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is shortly before he gets captured and the movie's showdown unfolds.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to put all this information into a timeline diagram of all the major events since Bruce's capture (beware, not exactly on scale), which does not explain everything exactly but gives some reasonable understanding of how the various events are chronologically connected:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JmfaP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JmfaP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, in the movie the time between the reactor theft, the football game and the storm on Blackgate seems much more compressed (in the way it's staged and intercut), so that estimate of already ~1 month passed at the Blackgate speech might not be entirely accurate and the overall time span till the explosion might have been little more than 4 months. But seeing the rather approximate usage of the word &quot;month&quot;, Nolan's penchant for cross-cutting between scenes for raising tension, and that not all chronological connections are entirely clear, at the bottom line Bane's 5 month estimate (at least 4 at minimum) still seems a sufficiently reliable source for the overall duration of Bruce's time in the pit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The pit wasn't mentioned as Lazarus pit, was it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to this, no, it wasn't mentioned specifically, but you are certainly &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/3421/49&quot;&gt;not the only one to draw that connection&lt;/a&gt;, especially since it didn't just have physical regenerative effects but even more so a mental one (putting Bruce in the position to finally &lt;em&gt;&quot;pick himself up&quot;&lt;/em&gt; from the well he once fell into).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T16:30:14.263" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41093" CreationDate="2015-09-14T19:32:35.017" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the specific reason why those characters got their powers is never explained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is primarily based off of the &lt;em&gt;Ultimate Fantastic Four&lt;/em&gt; back-story, where energy from the N-Zone gives the characters their usual powers. However, the comics make no attempt to &quot;justify&quot; which powers are given to which characters, so we can only rely on what we see on-screen for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it's not entirely clear &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the Planet Zero energy gave Ben and Johnny the powers it did, so it's hard to extrapolate from that to Sue and Reed. However, the most likely explanation is that the power assignment was due to some sort of &lt;strong&gt;mental influence&lt;/strong&gt;. In order words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The last thing Johnny was thinking about before the Planet Zero energy hit him was the flames that flooded into his pod.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Similarly, the last thing Ben was thinking about were the rocks pouring into his pod.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At the moment the explosion happened, Sue was thinking about two things: first, how much trouble she was going to be in when her father &quot;saw her&quot; in the lab without permission, and second, how she was going to protect herself from the explosion she knew was coming.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finally, Reed's only thought at the time was trying to &quot;reach&quot; Ben to protect him, even though Ben was too far away. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, as the energy hit them, their mental state at the time somehow influenced the radiation's change to their bodies, molding their powers to fit whichever thought were foremost in their mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even this explanation has some issues, in particular, why Sue got two powers, and why Reeds power developed from what he was thinking &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the explosion. Unfortunately, there aren't really any hints or clues we can use to do any better than speculation, so we're stuck with it,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T19:32:35.017" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40844" CreationDate="2015-09-14T21:39:21.390" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, in answer to the first part: Yes, the water in which John Loomis (Chiwetel Ejiofor) was swimming/bathing when Ann Burden (Margot Robbie) came up to him &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; irradiated.  Without getting too &quot;spoilery&quot;, the area in which Ann lives seems to be one of very few (if not the only) radiation-free zones at the time of the story.  However, the water in which John was swimming comes from outside of that area (the waterfall).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the beneficial effects of the bath, I think the link to the &quot;Silkwood Shower&quot; reference by &lt;strong&gt;@Will-Feldman&lt;/strong&gt; is probably as good an explanation as any.  Try to get as much of the irradiated water off of the body as possible.  John is obviously still going to be affected by his exposure, but there's no reason to allow more of the radiation to seep in if it can be prevented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25790" LastActivityDate="2015-09-14T21:39:21.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="435" CreationDate="2015-09-14T22:35:55.330" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a symbol of death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Ever since Thucydides wrote his history, it has been on record that &lt;strong&gt;when the angel of death sounds his trumpet the pretenses of civilization are blown from men's heads into the mud like hats in a gust of wind&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot; -- George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25931" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-23T19:08:44.737" LastActivityDate="2016-12-23T19:08:44.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41100" CreationDate="2015-09-15T00:01:10.667" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an example of &lt;strong&gt;Genre Fractal&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TV shows, even though they may be completely unrelated, are able to communicate meaning by referencing each other and using those references as narrative shorthand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a drug is shown and it is needed to be conveyed that this is, for example, an incredibly pure iteration of that drug; they can dye the drug blue and hence reference another TV show, borrowing the lore built within that property as a way of bypassing heavy exposition. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reference won't land for everyone, but for those who 'get it', its a nice way of condensing the significance of something and participating in a referential exchange of 'easter eggs'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's all the rage these days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T00:01:10.667" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41115" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15829" CreationDate="2015-09-15T00:20:30.843" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;These things are made up according to the plot requirements and just a loose hierarchy. Such as, Captain America can't just stand still while being shot by pistols or stop a train, like the Hulk or Super-man would, but, if the plot requires, he would be able to knock out the Hulk, even if cheating somewhat, like throwing the shield after a dash in a dramatic slow motion to emphasize effort, or throwing a big safe over his head from the top of a building while he's not looking, whatever. A non-&quot;super&quot; human would have to do something more extreme to achieve the same effect, and wouldn't be able to lift and throw down with force a big safe, for example, instead a more normal human, even with impressive strenght would have to do something like hit Hulk with a full-speed truck with a heavy load or something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no absolute consistency in this sort of thing, be in comics or in movies, they just do the best to keep just a loose consistency while they stretch it quite a bit in order to make some scenes cooler or just &quot;possible&quot;. But it won't stand careful scrutiny, it's like on episode A32F7 of itchy and scratchy, when scratchy hit twice the same xylophone piece, but it played two different notes, like only a magic xylophone would do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25936" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T00:20:30.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15829" CreationDate="2015-09-15T01:28:10.543" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The single greatest feat of strength seen by Steve Rogers in the MCU movies was in Age of Ultron. In the siege of the Hydra base, Cap is seen flipping his motorcycle (a 2012 Harley-Davidson Softail Slim or a Harley-Davidson Street 750) over his head, into a Military grade Humvee. Dry standing weight of these bikes are in the 600+ lbs range. That's not including any upgrades or armor added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8L5hk.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8L5hk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only does he flip it while at high speed, he stops the Humvee in its tracks. &lt;em&gt;And he completely negates all forward momentum of himself, ignoring inertia.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The record for human weightlifting is ~400 lbs snatch, i.e. a clean lift above the head. Cap did it without any signs of exerting himself. This puts him into superhuman range, clearly not peak human. Steve's Strength, stamina, speed, and athletic/gymnastic skill would allow him to easily break every single Olympic or Guiness record by a large margin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Update:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Civil War, we see Cap single handedly hold a helicopter in the air.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/52754/how-did-spider-man-lift-the-winter-soldier-metal-hand-so-easily/53725#comment83175_52755&quot;&gt;Based on a comment by TylerH&lt;/a&gt; on similar question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The helicopter in the movie generates about 2000hp, or 1491.4 Kilowatts. As shown in quora.com/How-much-energy-can-a-human-produce and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_power, as well as worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/32336/…, a healthy human (on average) 1.2 horsepower for a short time, whereas a trained athlete can generate twice that. Considering Cap is capable of holding that helicopter indefinitely, and thus generating at least 2000 horsepower... He is being shown as able to generate ~1666x as much power as the average human. That by very definition of the word is superhuman ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rogers ability to stop a helicopter for a significant amount of time is just inhuman.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QaTjo.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QaTjo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T06:52:12.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41119" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41122" CreationDate="2015-09-15T03:20:00.980" Score="36" ViewCount="14677" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1985 James Bond film &quot;A View to A Kill&quot; features Roger Moore in his final performance as 007, Christopher Walken as Max Zorin and Grace Jones as May Day, his enforcer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While my question focuses on the title, the line 'a view to a kill' also appears in a line of dialogue between Zorin and May Day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;May Day: &quot;What a view...&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Zorin: &quot;...To a kill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What does 'a view to a kill'mean?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T10:20:20.877" Title="What does &quot;A View to a Kill&quot; mean?" Tags="|james-bond|a-view-to-a-kill|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23136" CreationDate="2015-09-15T03:35:10.280" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the random adopted kid scene sort of sets the stage for Bills quitting being cheif &quot;I used to think good thoughts about life&quot; etc; showing an even deeper sentimental side, matching up with the mush of adopting an adult foreign kid, makes the retirement after only one year on the job more buyable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25939" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T03:35:10.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41121" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41124" CreationDate="2015-09-15T07:01:49.620" Score="28" ViewCount="8975" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the reason that Tony Stark designed the Hulkbuster armor in &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it made specially for controlling the Hulk, or was there a some other specific reason behind it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-15T11:37:22.963" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T11:43:36.527" Title="Why did Tony Stark design the Hulkbuster armor?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41119" CreationDate="2015-09-15T07:10:32.543" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The original title is derived from a foxhunting song.&lt;/strong&gt; From the James Bond &lt;a href=&quot;http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/A_View_to_a_Kill&quot;&gt;Wikia page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The title itself is adapted from Ian Fleming's short story &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Your_Eyes_Only_%28short_story_collection%29#.22From_a_View_to_a_Kill.22&quot;&gt;From A View to a Kill&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, contained in the &lt;em&gt;For Your Eyes Only&lt;/em&gt; collection of short stories released in 1960; however the title is where the similarity between short story and the film end [...] At the end of &lt;em&gt;Octopussy&lt;/em&gt; during the famed &quot;James Bond Will Return&quot; sequence, it listed the next film as &quot;From A View to a Kill&quot;, the name of the original short story; however, the title was later changed a few months before filming for unknown reasons. The original title &quot;From A View to a Kill&quot; was taken from a version of the words to a traditional hunting song &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peel_%28huntsman%29&quot;&gt;D'ye ken John Peel?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;From a find to a check, from a check to a view,/From a view to a kill in the morning&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;em&gt;Foxhunting glossary:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Find&lt;/strong&gt;: Discovering the fox's trail;&lt;br&gt;&#xA; &lt;strong&gt;A Check&lt;/strong&gt;: Losing the trail again (when the hounds lose the scent);&lt;br&gt;&#xA; &lt;strong&gt;A View&lt;/strong&gt;: Visually spotting the fox;&lt;br&gt;&#xA; &lt;strong&gt;A Kill&lt;/strong&gt;: Self-explanatory.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the truncated title basically means having the prey in your sights before killing it. Though there were other Bond films with actual hunting scenes in them (like &lt;em&gt;Moonraker&lt;/em&gt;), &lt;em&gt;A View To A Kill&lt;/em&gt; has none, but it'd be easy to guess what role each character plays in this analogy: The rich Zorin as the foxhunter, May Day as his trusty hound and Bond as their prey. (And, as you specified in your question, the title was forced into the actual dialogue, probably to justify its existence.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T07:10:32.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41119" CreationDate="2015-09-15T07:17:00.267" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Max Zorin is actually planning to destroy Silicon Valley.  The exchange between Zorin and May Day happened as they were in a blimp over San Francisco Bay.  Zorin's answer to May Day can be translated as their view from the blimp itself is literally &quot;To a kill.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the title of the movie itself, &quot;A View To A Kill&quot; is an abridged title derived from the Ian Fleming short story &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/movies/avtak_trivia.php3?t=avtak&amp;amp;s=avtak&quot;&gt;&quot;From A View To A Kill&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 1959, The &quot;London Daily News&quot; published an original Ian Fleming short&#xA;  story (conceived as a plot for an abandoned James Bond TV show) called&#xA;  &quot;Murder Before Breakfast&quot;. Fleming felt the title did not capture the&#xA;  essence of the story and re-titled it &quot;From A View To A Kill&quot; when it&#xA;  was included in his &quot;For Your Eyes Only&quot; collection of five James Bond&#xA;  stories in 1960. &lt;strong&gt;Fleming found the inspiration for this new title from&#xA;  John Woodcock Grave's 1820 Cumberland Hunting Song, &quot;D'Ye Ken John&#xA;  Peel&quot;. It read in part: &quot;From the drag to the chase. From the chase to&#xA;  the view. From the view to a death in the morning...&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; Fleming adapted&#xA;  the third stanza for his short story title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with all Bond movies, the title must posess the key elements of the Bond theme in just a few words.  Sex, danger, glamour and international destinations are just a few of the examples that the movie title needs to convey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T07:17:00.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41121" CreationDate="2015-09-15T07:55:48.070" Score="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tony Stark worked with Bruce Banner himself on the Hulkbuster armor (affectionately known as Veronica) in order to stop the Hulk if he ever got out of control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to remember that Bruce Banner neither trusts nor likes The Hulk as he doesn't really have much, if any, control over the Hulk after he has 'hulked out'. When the Helicarrier is attacked by Loki in &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;, we see that after transforming into the Hulk, Hulk attacks friends and foe alike, wrecking a large portion of the Helicarrier, hurting allies and eventually smashing a building to rubble after he is drawn away from the Helicarrier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the Hulk is much more focused in the Battle of New York at the end of &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; and in the assault on the Sokovian castle at the start of &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;, Bruce will always be wary of the fact that he is not in control after 'hulking out', and is painfully aware of the death, destruction and devastation that the Hulk has caused in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The last time I was in New York I kind of broke... Harlem&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Naturally, Bruce wants a contingency plan in case the Hulk ever goes off on a rampage again. That plan takes the form of a new Iron Man suit designed specifically to be able to fight the Hulk - a good job too, given the events in Johannesburg in &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-15T11:43:36.527" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T11:43:36.527" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41029" CreationDate="2015-09-15T10:00:07.793" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short answer is, in the TV show, &lt;strong&gt;we absolutely don't know&lt;/strong&gt;, and even in the books, it's mysterious. But there are a few small clues we can use to focus the possibilities. (this is based on the TV show - a couple of points from the books are mentioned in spoiler tags).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, it appears that a master assassin is in the dungeons because &lt;strong&gt;a master spy chooses for him to be&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We see in Season 1 that Varys has no trouble sneaking into the cells, and seems pretty aware of what's going on in them. Varys casually mentions he could easily free Ned, but it's not in his interests to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In season 4, we see that Varys wasn't boasting, and also that the dungeons are connected to a network of tunnels that connect to the docks and other useful places frequented by major characters (and Varys seems to know these tunnels). In the books it's explained that these secret tunnels are extensive.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And also this &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/92971/what-was-jaqen-hghar-doing-in-the-kings-landing-dungeon&quot;&gt;answer on the SciFi site&lt;/a&gt; I show that, in the books (small mystery spoiler): &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The head jailer is Varys in disguise, and probably has been since Mad King Aerys - and also the official story of how Jaqen and the others were given to the Watch doesn't quite fit the order of events, it looks like someone (probably Varys) forged the papers with Ned's signature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Varys essentially has the final say on who and what comes in and out of the black cells, and what happens while they're in there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, an asker makes a great assumption. If a man is in a cell, does this mean a man &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; have been caught? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps a cell is a convenient place for a man to be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This gives us four logical possibilities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jaqen is Varys's guest&lt;/strong&gt;. He's there by mutual agreement. A cell with a friendly jailer connected to a network of tunnels would be a&#xA;convenient base for a assassin, and there's no better alibi than&#xA;already being jailed. Even if Jaqen isn't there by Varys's invitation, you'd expect a master spy and master assassin in the same city to become aware of each other and, so long as their interests weren't opposed, it'd be rational for them to make some mutually beneficial arrangement where they can keep an eye on each other, don't tread on each others' toes, share information when relevant, etc. Part of the reason I like this idea is, it&#xA;gives a neat reason for why Jaqen's fearsome and aggressive cell&#xA;mates are so frightened of him: they see him regularly escape, &lt;em&gt;then&#xA;he comes back&lt;/em&gt;. But it doesn't help us understand what his game is, or why he goes/is sent North with the Watch when he was.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jaqen is Varys's prisoner&lt;/strong&gt;. Varys keeps him there. There aren't many people who could intercept and trick a faceless man into&#xA;being captured, but Varys is probably one of the few who could. This more easily fits with the fact he was released around&#xA;the time of Ned and Robert's deaths. From what Arya&#xA;overhears, Varys and the Magister don't want war until later - &quot;What&#xA;use is war now?&quot;, &quot;We're not ready&quot;, etc. Maybe some exiled Targaryan&#xA;loyalist or conspirator sent him to kill the king, but Varys judged&#xA;this wasn't the right time for the king to die? Or maybe Varys wanted to make it impossible for Jaqen to be sent after Dany (something Baelish would happily arrange - think how big a 5% commission on hiring a faceless man might be...), then released him as soon as this risk was passed? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jaqen is just some prisoner, and Varys doesn't know what he really is&lt;/strong&gt;. This seems the least likely, since it involves Varys&#xA;being uninformed and insufficiently curious about this highly&#xA;untypical prisoner, Jaqen somehow getting caught by the oafish city&#xA;guards, and Jaqen failing to find a way to escape despite Varys not&#xA;realising how dangerous he is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jaqen is using the cells as a base, and Varys doesn't know&lt;/strong&gt;. There's one clue (below) in the books that Jaqen might have a very complex&#xA;mission which involves a lot of information-gathering and which&#xA;doesn't obviously fit &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; of the known agendas of any main&#xA;character. But it seems unlikely that Varys wouldn't notice a&#xA;prisoner escaping and returning - Jaqen would require even greater ninja&#xA;skills than those already shown.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;because Varys&quot; explanations seem the simplest and the neatest fit with other events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the TV show, there are really no clues at all about why Jaqen was in Westeros or what his long term plan is (if he has one). It's not even clear if he's the same &quot;man wearing Tom Wlaschiha's face&quot; as the one Ayra meets in Season 5 (I suspect not). In the books, there's one pretty big clue, but it still leaves lots of mystery (this contains likely season 7 spoilers if you've not read AFFC):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; A man exactly matching the description of the face Jaqen donned after leaving Ayra turns up in The Citadel in Old Town, tricks a foolish novice called Pate to give him a key giving him access to all areas, then kills the novice. Later, Sam meets a man who has assumed the novice's identity, who seems to have Pate's face but also seems much smarter than Pate was, who takes an active interest in Sam. It's widely assumed that this is Jaqen on some unknown mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9718" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2017-02-02T10:51:16.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41128" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-15T13:56:10.883" Score="8" ViewCount="3439" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Matrix Revolutions, when Smith and Oracle meet, she calls him a bastard and he says &quot;you would know, mom&quot;. What does this imply? Why does he call her mom?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T13:56:10.883" Title="Why does Agent Smith call the Oracle mom?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix-revolutions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41129" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41139" CreationDate="2015-09-15T14:09:18.903" Score="13" ViewCount="4406" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Matrix Reloaded, when Neo meets the Architect, one of the statements the Architect makes is - &quot;If I am the father of the matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For which Neo says &quot;The Oracle&quot;. The Architect responds with a very condescending &quot;Please&quot; and continues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is he imply with this &quot;Please&quot;? That the mother is not the Oracle? If not the Oracle then who is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T20:28:30.770" Title="What does the Architect's condescending &quot;please&quot; imply?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix-reloaded|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41132" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41136" CreationDate="2015-09-15T16:05:17.933" Score="4" ViewCount="12716" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Matrix Reloaded&lt;/em&gt; the Architect stated he's destroyed Zion time and time again.  What I don't understand is if they're all dead, and it's happened multiple times, how do they keep coming back?  If they were destroyed once that should be it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone clarify, or present a theory, as to what the Architect was talking about?  Has he destroyed them before or is he just BSing?  If he has, is the real world even real?  And if the real world is just a program within the Matrix what the heck is the point of the movie then?  Or do the humans repopulate Zion each time?  And if so, how is Zion in the same place every time they repopulate it?  Are the machines just running real world simulations on how to defeat the REAL Zion?  WHAT'S GOING ON?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25953" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-15T19:01:10.083" LastActivityDate="2016-09-25T01:47:33.513" Title="When the Architect says Zion is dead, how is that true?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix-reloaded|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33690" CreationDate="2015-09-15T16:10:26.090" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason he was always alone in the beginning is the reason he left. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hulk is a danger to others, Bruce cannot control the Hulk, therefore the Hulk must remain separate, apart, from humanity.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was only through the huge efforts of the Avenger's team that they were able to convince him that they could prevent his rampaging. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They worked with him to help him understand and control his anger.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They worked with him to develop a method, the Lullaby, that would allow him to revert after a mission.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They worked with him to develop procedures and plans on when and how he might be mobilized and recalled.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They built Veronica, a Satellite deplorable Hulk Buster suit, so that when/if he did rampage uncontrollably they could still protect others.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately &lt;em&gt;he found people he could trust&lt;/em&gt; which would allow him to be productive rather than destructive.  It was a new opportunity for him to conduct meaningful research, work closely with others, and be a part of humanity again. This is the dream he's been fighting for, meditating for years, trying various experiments to allow him to control the transformation, and if not that, then remain in control and conscious while the Hulk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Scarlet Witch taught him how little all of this effort did and how easily he could still be manipulated into causing great suffering and death.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The solution has been, and always will be, to run away from society, and that's what he concluded once again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That he did so, &lt;em&gt;as the hulk&lt;/em&gt;, suggests that he's still very blind to how far he has come in controlling the Hulk, and how much he's throwing away by running.  He should be running to his friends, not from them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1112" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T16:10:26.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41132" CreationDate="2015-09-15T17:33:59.497" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Architect is being literal. He has wiped out the population of Zion before, and is poised to do it again. He explains to Neo that the purpose of The One is to perpetuate the cycle. To that end, Neo is expected to select a number of people from the Matrix to free, and is told that they will become the foundations of the next Zion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Architect:&lt;/strong&gt; The function of the One is now to return to the Source, allowing a temporary dissemination of the code you carry, reinserting the Prime program, after which you will be required to select from the Matrix 23 individuals - 16 female, 7 male - to rebuild Zion. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash, killing everyone connected to the Matrix, which coupled with the extermination of Zion will ultimately result in the extinction of the entire human race.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this batch of Matrix refugees will be destroyed, but a new group will be freed and brought by &quot;The One&quot; to this underground haven, no doubt explained to them as a remnant of the war -- indeed, the scars from the battle will still be evident -- and given their mission to seek out others in the Matrix that are capable of expanding their minds sufficiently to be unplugged. He gives them everything they need to begin, and then promises his eventual return to give them hope and a salvation for their labors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This mirrors Morpheus' explanation for how the story of his Zion was founded. &quot;It was he who freed the first of us,&quot; he tells Neo, pointing to a time when Zion was empty and a small band of rescues were brought there by someone who wielded great power over the Matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7962" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T17:33:59.497" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41132" CreationDate="2015-09-15T17:35:54.070" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This would need to be a lot longer to answer all of your questions. I suggest following the links below to gain a more complete understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As explained &lt;a href=&quot;http://thematrix101.com/reloaded/meaning.php&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, the Architect acknowledges to Neo that he failed multiple times in creating a Matrix that 100% of humans accepted. The current &quot;successful&quot; Matrix we find Neo in is only accepted by 99% of humans. The remaining 1% are the rebels found in Zion, trying to defeat the machines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem is, since the Zion-crew are constantly trying to unplug humans from The Matrix, that percentage will grow and cause a system crash. To create a balance against that eventuality, the Architect designed the current Matrix to have the Oracle, who would reveal The Prophecy to the defectors and send them on the wild goose chase of finding The One who would (hopefully) destroy the machines and free mankind from The Matrix. And to quote from the link above,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Behind this door the current version of Zion is destroyed, but the One selects 23 people to build the next version. Humanity lives on in a cycle of controlled futility as the machines allow them their 'rebellion'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All 5 of Neo's predecessors chose that door, rebooting The Matrix (resulting in the destruction of Zion) and starting over. This kept the cycle going, which kept the 99% of humans oblivious to the fact that they are essentially the batteries keeping the machines up-and-running. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of the movies, found &lt;a href=&quot;http://thematrix101.com/revolutions/meaning.php&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, is that because of The Oracle's well-laid plan, Neo chooses the other door. The outcome is that the machines make a deal with Neo to stop the destruction of Zion and allow the 1% to live outside of The Matrix going forward as long as Neo can destroy Agent Smith (the new &lt;em&gt;true&lt;/em&gt; threat to both humans and machines; See subsection: The Oracle's Gamble from second link).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote the second link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Neo allows the inevitable to happen, unbalancing the equation, thereby giving the machines control of Smith through Neo's jacked in body. Neo-Smith is destroyed by the machines, then all the other Smiths are destroyed, leaving programs he previously took over lying on asphalt, 'free' again. Smith is defeated, and the Matrix reloads to version 7, &lt;strong&gt;with Zion persisting this time&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from the FAQ page on that site to provide further explanation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Smith has taken over Neo, fulfilling his only purpose, and unbalancing the equation. He's also directly connected to the machine mainframe through Neo's body. The machines can now delete him and revert/delete all his copies. Neo's body is carted away by the machines to assimilate his code into the mainframe. &lt;strong&gt;There is now a fragile peace between humans and machines.&lt;/strong&gt; The machines, through the Architect, agree that minds that want to be freed will be. Zion will persist, with all their memories of what has happened. Humanity will begin to rebuild, freeing minds from the Matrix in manageable numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to support that, in the last scene in The Matrix Revolutions, we see The Architect speaking to The Oracle about the dangerous game she played. She responds that, &quot;Change always is.&quot; The cycle has been broken, and Zion is spared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25630" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T17:35:54.070" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41129" CreationDate="2015-09-15T19:17:12.900" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's simple. He's dismissive of her supposed ability to see the future. Neither the Oracle or the Architect can see past human choice, just making probable chance/possibility statistics/computated results/educated guesses about how humans will react or of they succeed. Neo being the proof that they can't (he chooses to save Trinity and succeeds against all reasonable belief).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The please is about her title, not her status of matrix Co creator. Notice that a few sentences earlier he says that it took someone &quot;not as smart&quot; or &quot;not as perfect&quot; as himself to figure it out, a psychology program (i.e. the Oracle).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/K3OXs_5AD2A?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Architect is pretty condescending and dismissive the entire conversation in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-09-15T20:28:30.770" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T20:28:30.770" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36611" CreationDate="2015-09-15T20:02:25.460" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This can't be answered based on currently available information,  either book, show, or interview.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;White Walkers can be killed by the mentioned weapons, so they are not completely immortal. And nothing has been stated about biological immortality, if they can live forever if they are not injured or otherwise externally interfered with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-15T20:02:25.460" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41147" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-16T00:27:30.277" Score="5" ViewCount="516" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final episode of &lt;em&gt;The Good Life&lt;/em&gt;, starring, among others, Penelope Keith, Sir congratulates Jerry on being made the head of the company.  In his congratulating him, he says something along the lines of &quot;Next thing you know you'll be off to the Manor Born&quot;.  Now, a little while after &lt;em&gt;The Good Life&lt;/em&gt; finished, a new series starring Penelope Keith began, called &lt;em&gt;To The Manor Born&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;strong&gt;Do we know whether this was an intentional reference to the new show?&lt;/strong&gt;  Or, perhaps, this was inspiration for the name of the new show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24050" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-12-02T09:38:21.703" LastActivityDate="2016-12-02T09:38:21.703" Title="Was this an intentional reference to 'To the Manor Born'?" Tags="|the-good-life|to-the-manor-born|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41148" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-09-16T00:55:13.690" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Refers to the British Sitcom that ran from 1975 - 1978 and focused on a couple who were determined to become self-sufficient.  Stars    Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington.  This tag is to be used when referring to this show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Read more at &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Life_%281975_TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24050" LastEditorUserId="24050" LastEditDate="2015-09-16T01:07:00.310" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T01:07:00.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41149" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-09-16T00:55:13.690" Score="0" Body="Refers to the British Sitcom that ran from 1975 - 1978 and focused on a couple who were determined to become self-sufficient.  This tag is to be used when referring to this show." OwnerUserId="24050" LastEditorUserId="24050" LastEditDate="2015-09-16T01:06:53.130" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T01:06:53.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41155" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43324" CreationDate="2015-09-16T06:42:18.697" Score="7" ViewCount="1120" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first act of The Ninth Gate, Liana Telfer comes to visit protagonist Dean Corso in his apartment, to try to recover her husband's book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During their few minutes of verbal jousting, Telfer proposes that they stage a theft of the book. Corso replies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This has happened before someplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and Liana says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know. In the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Corso then mentions a lady having a gun in her stockings, and Liana hikes up her skirt to unsettle (or seduce) him, revealing that although she's wearing stockings, she has no gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a real-life movie that they're referring to? If so, what's the scene from it that they are comparing themselves to, and how closely does it match? Is this some kind of meta-homage by Polanski?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1353" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T23:52:53.947" Title="What movie are Dean Corso and Liana Telfer referring to in his apartment?" Tags="|the-ninth-gate|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41156" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41164" CreationDate="2015-09-16T08:11:19.473" Score="2" ViewCount="206" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are the scenes from Taxi Teheran staged by actors? It looks too much of a coincidence that what happend in the movie to be real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25982" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2015-09-16T08:30:01.970" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T14:15:47.867" Title="Scene from Taxi Teheran staged?" Tags="|taxi-2015|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41147" CreationDate="2015-09-16T08:49:26.953" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The idiom is &quot;&lt;em&gt;To the manner born&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.  It is used to describe someone who behaves according to their upbringing rather than the expected behaviour of their situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title of the series &lt;em&gt;To The Manor Born&lt;/em&gt; is a deliberate pun on the idiom.  The Penelope Keith character, Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, behaves as though she still owns the manor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reference in &lt;em&gt;The Good Life&lt;/em&gt; tells Jerry and Margo Leadbetter that they may now behave as to &lt;em&gt;the manner born&lt;/em&gt;.  A compliment, essentially that Jerry was born to reach the position he has now attained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was one a reference to the other?  Probably not, the creators and writers of the two series are not the same.  The final episode of &lt;em&gt;The Good Life&lt;/em&gt;, like so many final episodes of long-running series, was a tying up of loose ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T08:49:26.953" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41158" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-16T09:36:15.960" Score="4" ViewCount="1612" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Into the Ring episode we have heard that &quot;Fisk had taken over Rigoletto's operation&quot;.&#xA;Again in Rabbit in a Snowstorm episode we heard that &quot;Did you hear about Rigoletto&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So exactly who is Rigoletto.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-09-16T13:02:19.227" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T09:21:56.570" Title="Who is Rigoletto in Marvel's Daredevil?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|daredevil-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41160" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41158" CreationDate="2015-09-16T10:54:15.780" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Don_Rigoletto&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Don Rigoletto&lt;/a&gt; was a mafia boss who had various dealings with Fisk before and during the first season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comics, Don Rigoletto was Kingpin's predecessor, and he employed Wilson Fisk as a bodyguard only to be killed by him in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11201" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T09:30:27.477" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T09:30:27.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33794" CreationDate="2015-09-16T11:10:50.187" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tony Stark is one of the most well developed characters not just in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but in modern cinema today, and his relationship with his Iron Man suits is as fascinating as it is unhealthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you recall the events of &lt;em&gt;Iron Man&lt;/em&gt;, you will remember that Tony Stark first designs his Iron Man suit (and later refines it) in order to escape captivity in Afghanistan, where he was being held by the Ten Rings terrorists. Tony was blown up, tortured, and shown his life work was in the hands of his enemies, before being forced to kill multiple people in order to escape - an escape that cost Yisen, the man who saved him, his life. &lt;strong&gt;It doesn't take many rewatches of &lt;em&gt;Iron Man&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 2&lt;/em&gt; to see that not long after his imprisonment, he begins to suffer from PTSD&lt;/strong&gt; (post-traumatic stress disorder) - simply look at his actions in the films, which see him shut down his companies main division, completely change his personality and begin illegally entering active war zones due to his new found need to help people, almost all of which are motivated by a greater need to &quot;take control&quot;. We also see Tony putting himself in harms way and acting recklessly, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.psychiatry.org/ptsd&quot;&gt;which is also a symptom of PTSD&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In relation to this PTSD, it should be fairly clear that Tony's armor isn't just a weapon or a superhero costume - &lt;strong&gt;it's a safety blanket, a way for Tony to feel safe&lt;/strong&gt;. Although subtle at first, we see Tony's symptoms of PTSD getting worse in &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 2&lt;/em&gt;, and the revelation that his arc reactor is poisoning him (causing him to face his own mortality yet again) results in a near total breakdown, which sees him choosing the stay in the Iron Man suit even when it isn't really needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the time &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/em&gt; rolls around, Tony Stark is in a worse state than ever after flying through the portal in &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;. A panic attack caused by a child asking him about the Battle of New York sees him running through a crowded restaurant just to get into the nearest Iron Man suit, his increasing dependence on the suits putting his relationship with Pepper Potts under strain. &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 3&lt;/em&gt; ends up doing a lot of work to help Tony 'heal', or so to speak, forcing him away from his suits in order to show him that he doesn't need them as much as he thinks - and by the end of the film he realises that it is he who is Iron Man, not the suits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that doesn't change his general outlook on the world and the dangers it faces. In &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; we see Tony attempt to create an AI that can replace the Avengers - and in his own words describes it as;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A suit of armor around the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In short, Tony's Iron Man suits serve to emphasis the damaged state of the character, his need to feel safe and his growing sense of unease as the world around him grows more dangerous.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T11:10:50.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41156" CreationDate="2015-09-16T14:15:47.867" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_(2015_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Taxi (2015 film)&lt;/a&gt; at Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;.. The passengers are played by non-professional &lt;strong&gt;actors,&lt;/strong&gt; whose identities remain anonymous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T14:15:47.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41172" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27429" CreationDate="2015-09-16T20:45:27.537" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look there should be clouds of flies so dense they could block out the sun at times. Flies, not microorganisms, are the main contributors to body decomposition. I watched a time laps of a cow being consumed by maggots and it was gone in only a few of months nothing left but hair and bones. And since zombies obviously feel no pain and are slowly being consumed by said microorganisms, in return sending chemical signals to every fly in the area that the nursery is ready (methane gas) the zombies would all fall in less then a year into heaps of hair, clothes and bones. And it has been way longer than a year, it has at the very least been two years. So in short, Maggots don't care about theories, the eat decomposing flesh. And actually the juicier it is, the more they like it. There should no longer be any giant herds of zombies at this point in time, but that would make for boring TV. So....... there you have it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question; Why aren't the zombies decomposed after all this time? My answer; In reality they should all be decomposed after all this time. But then that would be boring and the show would be over and AMC wouldn't be able to sale commercial time spots to businesses hocking their products. So as long as we keep watching, and AMC can keep making money, those walkers are going to keep on defying the normal laws of decomposition. I hope that is more clear for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25996" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T17:26:40.947" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T17:26:40.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41173" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41174" CreationDate="2015-09-16T20:56:23.533" Score="14" ViewCount="10387" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is happening in the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Black Mirror&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; episode &lt;strong&gt;&quot;White Bear&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; (S02E02)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me it appeared as if some kind of reality show was going on, wherein a lady was forced to play the part of a murderer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is my understanding correct? Can you please explain the complete story more clearly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the foundation that is running the show is called the &quot;White Bear Justice Park&quot;. I couldn't relate to this as well. Why the word 'justice' in the name? Was the lady actually a murderer? Or was she just posed as one to run the show successfully, and maybe make money in the process?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19472" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2018-10-30T09:53:44.767" LastActivityDate="2018-10-30T09:53:44.767" Title="What is happening in the Black Mirror episode &quot;White Bear&quot; (S02E02)?" Tags="|plot-explanation|black-mirror|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41173" CreationDate="2015-09-16T21:06:21.177" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;She has actually assisted her fiancé in the killing of a girl and the show was her punishment (therefore the name justice); From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Bear_(Black_Mirror)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After taking her to a nearby forest, Iain tortured and killed Jemima while Victoria recorded his actions on her mobile phone [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having tearfully pleaded guilty and insisting she was 'under Iain's spell', Victoria was given a sentence the judge described as 'proportionate and considered' – to undergo this mob-recorded, poetic justice every day. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Victoria, who still has no clear memory of these events, is driven back to the compound [...] and returned to the room where she woke up. She is placed back in the bedroom chair by Baxter. As she watches footage of Jemima, Baxter places electrodes on her head, wiping Victoria's memory of the day's events [...] ready for Victoria to relive the same events the next day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23239" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-09-18T08:06:42.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27429" CreationDate="2015-09-16T21:11:16.783" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have never been a big fan of the idea that zombies can be explained scientifically in any canon, and The Walking Dead is no exception. In the pilot, as soon as Rick wakes up and is wandering around, we already see several zombies in a state of advanced decomp. One is crawling on the ground with an exposed rib cage, for instance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No metabolism would be possible. No blood is flowing through their veins... where is the oxygen coming from? How are muscles contracting? Even the go-to tropes for science fiction don't work here... nanobots would have a hell of a time pushing some fat 200lb corpse around (and balancing it with bipedal ambulation!). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reasonable explanation is the supernatural. Some demonic or spiritual force animates the cadavers, and it is moving them with what might as well be telekinesis. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason that head/brain damage de-animates can only be guessed at. If these are possessed corpses, then that may be the key that allows whatever force it is to animate them... once gone, it can't animate a headless corpse anymore than it could animate a refrigerator. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The characters in the show tend to favor more rational explanations, but I think that they are mistaken (as people are in real life about many things).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T21:11:16.783" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39500" CreationDate="2015-09-16T21:19:28.073" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suggest re-watching &quot;If-Then-Else&quot;; I think the rules she means are the ones Finch taught her while teaching her chess. All lives were to be considered equally important -- but then she had to sacrifice herself in the name of Finch and Co.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9327" LastActivityDate="2015-09-16T21:19:28.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4545" CreationDate="2015-09-16T23:33:30.170" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Painkillers. Probably opiate based. They numb mental / emotional pain. They also alleviate the symptoms of post-traumatic stress. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Tommy's Dad refers to Tommy sounding like a 'maraca' walking in here means he rattled as he walked because his pockets were full of pills. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25999" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T00:43:52.190" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T00:43:52.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32653" CreationDate="2015-09-17T00:27:20.287" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is true. However, the movie is set in 48 BC not 206 AD, because Cusack mentions that he served under Marcus Licinius Crassus(115-53 BC) and his two sons. Crassus and Publius died at Carrhae and Crassus Jr.died in 49 BC. Movie is set one year later. This battle between Romans and Huns in this movie is a reference to a later military action between Romans and Huns under Attila in 5th century AD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The legion led by John Cusack's character are recruited Gauls, Germans and Greeks. This also supports the theory about Celts in China. They could have been Celtic mercenaries in Roman army who survived the Carrhae massacre, because they are mentioned in Crassus army at Carrhae.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26000" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T00:41:58.083" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T00:41:58.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41182" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-17T02:29:38.143" Score="2" ViewCount="343" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://leverage.wikia.com/wiki/The_Italian&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Italian&lt;/a&gt; form Season 3 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1103987/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Leverage&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, belongs to some agency which is, as far as I know, never explicitly named in the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any ideas about what that agency is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9327" LastEditorUserId="16465" LastEditDate="2016-12-30T15:06:42.147" LastActivityDate="2016-12-30T15:06:42.147" Title="The Italian from Leverage" Tags="|character|leverage|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41184" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41200" CreationDate="2015-09-17T05:15:06.267" Score="4" ViewCount="1837" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Orange Is The New Black, there's an alarm periodically that causes inmates to lie prone on the ground. How similar is this to real correctional facilities?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26005" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T18:10:40.973" Title="Is the Orange Is The New Black lay-down alarm real?" Tags="|orange-is-the-new-black|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41186" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41266" CreationDate="2015-09-17T05:44:56.677" Score="10" ViewCount="96549" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mr. Bean looks all funny on the TV. However, if he were to be a real person, what sort of mental problem would he be suffering from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24538" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T07:29:02.923" LastActivityDate="2018-10-11T17:52:04.793" Title="What is Mr. Bean suffering from?" Tags="|character|mr-bean|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41186" CreationDate="2015-09-17T12:06:54.703" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr Bean suffers from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_mutism&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;selective mutism&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trivia:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rowan Atkinson created Mr Bean to satisfy his whim to create a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_comedy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;physical comedy&lt;/a&gt; character that could be funny in all languages without the need for translation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To achieve this, he decided to limit Mr Bean's dialogue in favour of amusing facial expressions, bodily actions and sounds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr Bean has subsequently been exported to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-02-15/mr-bean-25-facts-and-figures-for-his-25th-anniversary&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;190 countries&lt;/a&gt; and in recognition of this achievement, was included by Danny Boyle in his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/jul/27/london-2012-danny-boyle-british-film&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26013" LastEditorUserId="26013" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T10:37:24.507" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T10:37:24.507" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41191" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-17T12:47:50.713" Score="6" ViewCount="1468" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Underworld movies have been released 3 years apart each:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Underworld - 2003&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Underworld: Evolution - 2006&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Underworld: Rise of the Lycans - 2009&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Underworld: Awakening - 2012&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see that each movie is released exactly 3 years after the previous one. Why is that so? Did they do this intentionally and if yes, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25894" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T21:11:59.110" LastActivityDate="2017-01-12T07:04:01.810" Title="Why does the Underworld team release their movies exactly with 3 years gaps?" Tags="|production|distribution|underworld|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41193" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41206" CreationDate="2015-09-17T14:34:05.907" Score="11" ViewCount="2988" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is Emmett Brown an actual doctor? It doesn't look like it's shown in the film and 'Doc' or Marty is an unreliable source himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26016" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T21:16:16.053" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T12:58:32.420" Title="Is there any evidence that Doc Brown in Back To the Future has a degree?" Tags="|character|back-to-the-future|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41193" CreationDate="2015-09-17T15:01:46.657" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no evidence in the Back to the Future movie franchise demonstrating that &quot;Doc&quot; Emmett Brown had any kind of doctorate - almost as though &quot;Doc&quot; is a nickname. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0001831/bio&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;likely reason&lt;/a&gt; for that is &quot;he could never stay on one subject long enough to write, much less defend, a doctoral dissertation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T15:20:29.457" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T15:20:29.457" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8561" CreationDate="2015-09-17T17:57:19.917" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Television has changed in the past 40+ years. In the early 50's, 60's and some 70's, many television shows did 39 episodes, tho only 13 were guaranteed for returning shows and even the newer premiering shows. Once the ratings after 6 to 8 shows said Good, the show was given 13 more, then another 13 if the show was really good in ratings. Thus 39 episdes per year. As time went on, TV decided the number of guaranteed yearly shows would be reduced to 26 or less. When that happened, often a good number of newer shows only began to last no more than 10-12 episodes, especially when the ratings showed &quot;Flop&quot;. Some shows have the bad luck of being so bad, they get canned in one or two episodes. Others manage a 12 to 15 number, then go bye-bye. You would be surprised at the number of TV shows under 26 episodes, which either meant, not doing well, or in many cases, doing terrible, lucky to get 5 to 8 aired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26020" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T17:57:19.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41184" CreationDate="2015-09-17T18:08:06.430" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Technically, it is a real protocol that some facilities use, but it is used inaccurately in OITNB.  Mostly, its purpose is in open areas (outside). Most other times the call is for &quot;Lock Down&quot; wherein all inmates are to report to their bunk/cell areas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The some of the main purposes of getting all inmates down on the ground (in a hurry) are to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Quickly diffuse a situation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Find out who is the aggressor/victim in a crowded area (as all innocent parties will disperse and flatten, when aggressors usually continue aggressing)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Thwarting escape attempts (Those that do not flatten are at risk of getting shot in maximum security institutions when the alarm/call is given) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21800" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T18:10:40.973" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T18:10:40.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34193" CreationDate="2015-09-17T18:17:50.293" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As noted in the comments, as seen during the events of Captain America, Winter Soldier, Hydra had infiltrated every level of SHIELD by the 2010s. We know that SHIELD was already doing alien weapon research (The Destroyer weapon that Coulson used) and Hydra Tesseract weapon research (Hydra guns Cap found on the helicarrier). They even &quot;converted&quot; Hydra scientists, like Arnim Zola, whom in turn decided to poison SHIELD from the inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By 2010s, Hydra agents were everywhere, from low level rank and file, special agents (Jasper Sitwell), elite soldiers (STRIKE team leader Brock Rumlow), the World Security Council (Alexander Pierce), and even senators (Senator Stern, the prick from Iron Man).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These two factors combined, would have meant SHIELD either intentionally set up to study the Leviathan for further benefit, or Hydra intercepted it, as they did the Scepter in the Winter Soldier stinger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's highly likely that the Hydra base was a black site bankrolled by SHIELD until it collapsed&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T20:29:30.273" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T20:29:30.273" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41203" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41217" CreationDate="2015-09-17T19:26:50.113" Score="6" ViewCount="134" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;strong&gt;Stay&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Henry dies and is put on the stretcher, Sam talks to Laila. He thanks her for the help. After which, he asks her out to coffee. Right then there are flashes of Sam and Laila from the world of Henry. What's happening here? What do these flashes indicate. Prior to this all of the other parts of the movie were what Henry was seeing in his head. Now that Henry is dead...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... what do these flashes indicate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T19:35:01.803" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T19:15:05.213" Title="What were the last set of flashes of memory about?" Tags="|plot-explanation|stay|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40909" CreationDate="2015-09-17T19:37:10.133" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because we don't really know for sure that he did the killing.  The flashback may or may not have been accurate.  As the episode centers around Frohike telling Mulder about CSM (Cigarette Smoking Man) from a magazine article he read.  The details are murky and my be inaccurate.  Frohike even states as much and at the end leaves to go get clarification.  There are also some contradictions/inconsistencies with CSM's background in regards to earlier episodes.  The story Frohike had may have only been parts of the novel CSM wrote, published in the magazine.  The novel may have been based in part on CSM, and embellished.  Also, CSM is a liar.  He very well could have killed even if it wasn't JFK or MLK.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user25738" LastEditorUserId="77852" LastEditDate="2019-12-07T21:41:17.017" LastActivityDate="2019-12-07T21:41:17.017" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41205" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41216" CreationDate="2015-09-17T19:49:27.703" Score="6" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember a long time ago being told that Mulder's abduction was not part of the original plot of &lt;em&gt;The X Files&lt;/em&gt; and only happened due to financial negotiations going wrong between David Duchovny and the producers. Was this really the case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T00:09:39.223" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T00:48:18.540" Title="Was Mulder's abduction planned from the beginning of the series?" Tags="|production|the-x-files|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41193" CreationDate="2015-09-17T19:56:02.740" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kristensheley.com/bttf/future.html&quot;&gt;The first (1988) draft of Back to the Future III supposedly has this scene, which was later cut in future revisions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ironically, right then, Dean Wooster stops by with two other men named Cooper and Mintz. They tell Doc that, because he is working for them at the University (as a professor of physics!), he has to participate in one of three projects--working on the Edsel car, working on a chemical warfare thing (&quot;They'll name the final chemical agent after you,&quot; notes Cooper. &quot;'Agent Brown.'&quot;), and working on something called Xerox, which Doc pronounces &quot;X-rox.&quot; Doc, however, has no interest in any of these projects (even though Marty tries to steer him towards the Xerox one!) and refuses to do them. The Dean then threatens him that his relationship with Jill will be damaged unless he cooperates with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Typically, you have to have a doctorates in the field you teach, showing Doc to have a Ph.D. in Physics.*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Modern day universities cheat by having non-doctorate lecturers, not professors, a practice not used back in the day. &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene happens in 1955 after Marty got the courier letter at the end of BTTF 2, and tracks down 1955 Doc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This also changes how the Doc/Clara romance is portrayed. It initially had Doc in a relationship with the Dean's daughter, who turned out to only be using him on her Dad's behalf, contrasting the future (past) relationship he has with Clara.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T20:11:20.070" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T20:11:20.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41191" CreationDate="2015-09-17T20:34:43.587" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2012/06/how-many-years-is-best-between-movie-sequels.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Based on this article, it's likely just a function of market research&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It got us thinking: Is there an ideal amount of time that should pass between sequels to maximize the box office? To find out, we studied every modern-day live-action franchise that met the following criteria: The series had to span at least three movies, it had to retain most of its original cast or its director, and the first film needed to come out in 1990 or later (to limit the effect of inflation). What did we discover?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Sweet Spot: Sequels that come out every two to four years.&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Time and time again in our research, we found the best results from franchises that allow an average of three years' breathing room between installments—just enough time for a series to grow in people's minds and to find an even bigger audience on home video.&lt;/strong&gt; Three years went by between the main movies in the X-Men series (not counting spinoffs) and the Austin Powers series, and each sequel bettered the last, often by a significant amount. Two years passed before the second Bourne movie outgrossed the first by more than $50 million, then three years passed before the third movie pulled the same trick, improving on the original by over $100 million.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire article does a pretty good analysis showing most film franchises in the last two decades and their prospective revenues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course you also have to factor in high rating stars being on other projects, renegotiations, writing delays, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note that Underworld: Blood Wars (previously known as Underworld: Next Generation) started production in October 2015, and was slated for October 2016 release, breaking the 3 years between sequels pattern. It actually came out January 2017 (Internationally November 2016). Underworld 6 is still planned but no dates given yet. Let's bet it's 2020.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-01-12T07:04:01.810" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41208" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41210" CreationDate="2015-09-17T21:01:25.883" Score="5" ViewCount="461" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched Guy Ritchie's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638355/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot;&gt;The man from U.N.C.L.E.&lt;/a&gt;, but since the U.N.C.L.E. team was officially formed on the end of the movie, I didn't get it; &lt;em&gt;who was the man from U.N.C.L.E.?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T21:19:27.077" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T22:12:32.177" Title="Who is the man from U.N.C.L.E.?" Tags="|the-man-from-u.n.c.l.e|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41208" CreationDate="2015-09-17T22:12:32.177" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Solo&quot;&gt;The Title &quot;The Man from U.N.C.L.E.&quot; refers to Napoleon Solo&lt;/a&gt;. The movie is a reboot/prequel of the 1960's show of the same name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Solo is Number One in Section Two (Operations and Enforcement) at U.N.C.L.E. (During the show's black &amp;amp; white first season, the number on his official badge was the Roman numeral 'II,' signifying that he was the head of Section Two. But when the show went to color the following season, Vaughn picked up the new colored badge with &quot;11&quot; on it, and the mistake was never corrected.) It was originally intended that Solo would be the primary focus of the series, however the unexpected popularity of the Russian agent, Illya Kuryakin, played by David McCallum, saw McCallum elevated to co-star status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Of course, they could have named the movie &quot;The Man who will become The Man from U.N.C.L.E.&quot; but that sounds ridiculous.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T22:12:32.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41213" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="60862" CreationDate="2015-09-17T23:06:20.020" Score="3" ViewCount="1614" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hemlockgrove.wikia.com/wiki/Olivia_Godfrey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Olivia Godfrey&lt;/a&gt;, a 150+ year old vampire (or more exactly, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vampires.com/the-real-history-behind-hemlock-groves-upir/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;upir&lt;/a&gt;), can see her reflection in the mirror.  One episode of &lt;em&gt;Hemlock Grove&lt;/em&gt;, pictured below, makes a big point of showing this to the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4w51p.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4w51p.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is she using her powers of mesmerism to make her reflection seem real? Or is she a type of variant species that can use mirrors like normal people?  Or is this a hopelessly inept continuity error?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that her species is able to endure direct sunlight without burning, but cannot find info about how she interacts with mirrors.  Or why this particular scene was so blatant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question: what's the story with Olivia and mirrors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-19T09:09:04.647" LastActivityDate="2016-09-19T09:09:04.647" Title="Olivia Godfrey's reflection in the mirror" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|hemlock-grove|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41214" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41215" CreationDate="2015-09-17T23:33:12.440" Score="7" ViewCount="191" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a trailer not too many weeks ago where the things described in the title happened. It was a mainly white spaceship with a computer which told everyone who woke up, he/she was the only survivor on the ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They soon find other &quot;survivors&quot; and wonder why the computer lied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I firstly thought, this was &quot;Dark Matter&quot;, but the respective trailers don't contain any AI computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, does anyone know where this is from? It's a relatively new sci-fy series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26026" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T23:49:03.307" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T23:52:20.337" Title="People wake on spaceship, computer lies to each person, he/she was the only survivor" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:07:49.517" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41214" CreationDate="2015-09-17T23:41:34.783" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh, just found it again. It was &quot;Continuum&quot; what I meant... well, not as &quot;new&quot; as I thought though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/vtz0cLWqH9I?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26026" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-09-17T23:52:20.337" LastActivityDate="2015-09-17T23:52:20.337" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41205" CreationDate="2015-09-18T00:48:18.540" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tl dr&lt;/strong&gt; - I believe you could consider this partially correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files_(season_7)#Lawsuit&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Season 7 Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;, it states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Before the season aired, David Duchovny filed a lawsuit against 20th Century Fox. Duchovny was upset because, he claimed, that Fox had undersold the rights to its own affiliates, thereby costing him huge sums of money. Originally, in the contract, Duchovny was eligible for an estimated five percent, but, according to him, he &quot;had seen only a fraction&quot; of the money. Eventually, the lawsuit was settled, and Duchovny was awarded a settlement of about $20 million. The lawsuit put strain on Duchovny's professional relationships. Although his lawsuit never called Chris Carter a defendant, their friendship was notably impacted. One anonymous source noted that &quot;the whole lawsuit thing revealed that Carter knew (Duchovny) was getting screwed and didn't warn him. Carter proved where his loyalties lay with his actions.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1337685.stm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the BBC&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Duchovny had only appeared in a handful of episodes of the current series after a legal battle with the network over payment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; The term &quot;&lt;em&gt;the current series&lt;/em&gt;&quot; refers to season 8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this note on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://members.tripod.com/cactus_ian/season8.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;fan based website stated&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As previously suggested by the actor himself, Fox is currently said to be negotiating with Duchovny to return to the series for far fewer episodes, possible 6-9 for the whole season, in a deal which the trade says will involve &quot;big bucks.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that after the lawsuit, Duchovny was (according to official press release) going to pursue acting in different roles to get out of being typecast as the &quot;guy chasing aliens&quot;. Due to this, he made a deal with FBC to have less episodes during season 8. Adding this all up, it can only lead one to believe the story line was derived from aftermath of the lawsuit and not originally supposed to occur that way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T00:48:18.540" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41203" CreationDate="2015-09-18T03:38:06.537" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Henry is actually seeing Lila as Athena in a flashback. Additionally, the flashbacks coming from Sam of he and Lila are constructed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371257/synopsis?ref_=tt_stry_pl&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Henry&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Henry was in a dream-like state throughout the movie. In dreams, the mind can extract a myriad of people and can often pull from the subconscious. Our subconscious can conjure people from random events in our life we come in contact with while awake.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Henry's dreams are taking reality and twisting it into a new perspective.  **Henry's new perspective is that Sam's dreams are a way for Henry's mind to solve or make sense of a real situation featuring Sam.  The audience is shown this through Sam's &quot;eyes&quot;, but through Henry's perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a person dies, their brain can still &quot;fire&quot; neurons.  This can cause hallucinations, clarity or seeing flashes of light that can trigger a random, non-eventful memory. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Henry's brain can still produce memories, even though he is considered legally dead.  He is simply producing these memories through Sam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T19:15:05.213" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T19:15:05.213" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17058" CreationDate="2015-09-18T03:58:35.917" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wasn't her apartment it was his. She knew the baby was leos. She was going to say something about it, and also that she wanted to be with him. The envelope contained the whole truth which she gave to marky mark by instruction from leo contained in the envelope which is why mark kills him in the end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26028" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T03:58:35.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33693" CreationDate="2015-09-18T04:14:09.227" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Valentine's disappearance is open to interpretation, which of course depends on how you viewed her character throughout the film.&#xA;My thoughts are that Valentine was so much more than just Maria's PA, which is why she couldn't see it through to the end; the frustration was too great.&#xA;Valentine desperately wants Maria to see that she represents a timeless actress (I liked how that was mirrored by the young directors' offer towards the end of film) but Maria only seems to be able to focus on the time that has passed. Valentine said herself that Maria could've had anyone there to run lines with her, that she could only stay if she felt able to offer her opinion and her interpretation on things; this proved impossible as the two women had crossed words yet again on the mountain. I feel this spurred Valentine to simply leave because she knew that Maria would never actually let her go, but their separation was needed so that each person (especially Maria) could grow in the way they were supposed to.&#xA;Again, I enjoy the part at the end with the young director pitching his idea to Maria; it reconfirms that she's still seemingly anxious of her age and so tries to give away the part to her younger co-star, but the fact that she even met with the director for a film that would've been classed as 'sci-fi' meant that Maria was actually listening to and valuing Valentine's opinions all along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26029" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T04:14:09.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41220" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-18T05:55:47.323" Score="29" ViewCount="847" Body="&lt;p&gt;I come asking for your help because I want to know the name of a European horror film that I’ve been searching for almost three years and that nobody seems to know about. I believe that this movie was from someplace in Eastern or Central Europe, as it wasn’t spoken in English or in Spanish (my first language). I also believe that it was filmed by the end of the 90s, and I watched it in 2000 or 2001. The film seemed to be of high budget, unlike most of the 90s horror films with cheap special effects and photography (“Full Moon Features” movies-like), in general it seemed grim and with faint/dim light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story took place in some European city in the present day (for the movie) and the plot was about witchery and demonic beings. One of the main characters was a Caucasian man with knowledge of such kind, and he was a good guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are only two scenes that I can recall from the film; I saw neither the beginning nor the ending of the whole movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first scene that I remember consisted of two situations taking place at the same time: In the first situation there was a woman with blonde, short hair, who was likely the protagonist’s girlfriend, resting in a room and taking a shower in a white tub. Then, some kind of black mist started surrounding her very slowly, without her noticing this. After that, the camera changed to show us the main male character (the guy with knowledge of witches and demons), who was in the library doing some kind of research about Demonology. Then, he walked to the librarian, an unkempt and grim old man, to ask him for his phone so he could call a friend, but the librarian answered him in a rude way that he would not lend him his phone. However, because the good guy insists, the librarian agrees to angrily. Then, as the good guy spoke on the phone with his friend, there was a book about demons open on the table near the librarian, and he told his friend about an old lithograph about misty and dark demons covering the body of a woman, just exactly as it was happening with the girl from the other situation/scene. Also, while he was telling all this to his friend, the librarian looked at him in a mocking way and started smiling grimly but without making any noise (maybe he had something to do with the antagonists of the film).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the other scene that I can remember the protagonist and his friend (the guy to whom he spoke to on the phone) were in a car going to a scary building in ruins where the demons and witches lived, who looked like young white women with dark hair and who were also wearing old black clothes. After that I don’t remember exactly what happened, but the protagonist’s friend stayed in the car, whereas the main guy decided to go into the house, but not before standing in front of a tall black gate with pentagrams on it. He had to rub his hands on those pentagrams in order to open the gate. Meanwhile, the other guy was still in the car trying to put a small crucifix inside a jar of holy water, which he managed to get stuck into the same jar. Then, as he tried to pull the crucifix out without success, some kind of demon with the looks of a robust black haired pale man and white eyes appeared behind the car, walking slowly towards it. Nevertheless, the guy with the crucifix didn’t notice him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that’s basically what I remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also worth mentioning that this movie is not any of the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Constantine (2005)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Craft (1996)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Order (2003) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Ninth Gate (1999)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;End of Days (1999)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Superstition (1982) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Warlock (1989) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I, Madman (1989)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Listopad (1992) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Necronomicon (1993) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Subspecies (I'm pretty sure that wasn't a movie about vampires) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;La Setta (1991)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26030" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-10-27T18:56:29.800" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T18:56:29.800" Title="90s non-English spoken Demonology film from Europe; black mist, girl in a tub and guy at the library" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:02:13.693" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41226" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41231" CreationDate="2015-09-18T09:32:25.603" Score="15" ViewCount="80884" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a line that is all over internet attributed as being said by the Joker:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Smile because it confuses people. Smile because it's easier than explaining what's killing you inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b6Zvm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/b6Zvm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Joker&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I can't remember from Batman: The Dark Knight when Joker character might have said this... All posters from internet contain Heath Ledger's Joker with the quote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it said by him at all? If so then in which scene? Or is it from a past Batman movie? Or from the comics? Can anybody recall anything? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-27T17:52:23.650" LastActivityDate="2019-07-31T05:26:57.973" Title="&quot;Smile because it confuses people...&quot; - when is this said by the Joker?" Tags="|dialogue|the-dark-knight|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39189" CreationDate="2015-09-18T10:15:11.730" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well Sovokia is meant to be located in Latveria (named after Latvia) so the latvian products would make a lot of sense... Latvia=(isolated small European country located in the baltic region) Latveria=(isolated small European country located in the banat region)  But the thing is they have never said that Latveria is named after Latvia even with all the similarities like the name of the country, the description (isolated, small, european), the region (banat) and now even the products! xD&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I'm Latvian, and I only found out Latveria existed today but I finally have something to tell my British friends!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26038" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T10:15:11.730" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41226" CreationDate="2015-09-18T10:41:28.733" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I really doubt that The Joker has ever said this.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are right when you say that the quote is all over the Internet, and quite often attributed to Heath Ledger's version of The Joker. But Heath Ledger only played The Joker once, in &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;, and he definitely didn't say it in that film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's more, not a single instance of those quote that I can find (and there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=smile+because+it+confuses+people+because+its+easier+than+explaining+whats+killing+you+isnide&amp;amp;ie=utf-8&amp;amp;oe=utf-8&amp;amp;safe=active#safe=active&amp;amp;q=smile+because+it+confuses+people+because+it%27s+easier+than+explaining+what%27s+killing+you+inside&quot;&gt;a lot of instances&lt;/a&gt;) actually offers a source for the quote other than &quot;The Joker&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add in the fact that this doesn't even sound like something The Joker would say, and is instead something an angst-ridden Tumblr teenager might think is deep, and I think it is safe to say that this is a classic example of someone making up a quote and attaching it to someone iconic in order to give it more credibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In short - I doubt the character of The Joker has &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; said this.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T10:41:28.733" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24305" CreationDate="2015-09-18T11:31:20.560" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is explained within the MCU comic &lt;em&gt;Fury's Big Week&lt;/em&gt;, which bridges the events between the MCU Movies &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 2&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Incredible Hulk&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Thor&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comic, Sterns is retrieved by Black Widow, who has discovered him in the mutated form of The Leader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mQwdZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mQwdZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Romanoff shoots Stern in the leg, incapacitating him. He is then placed under S.H.I.E.L.D custody, and referred to as 'Project Mr. Blue'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His whereabouts and activity are forthwith unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T11:31:20.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41239" CreationDate="2015-09-18T18:07:26.627" Score="2" ViewCount="10135" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tyrell Wellick wasn't shown in the whole of last episode of Mr Robot. Although, Elliot concluded that he might have killed him, I don't believe that. What really happened to him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26049" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-01T08:18:22.583" LastActivityDate="2017-11-02T20:34:07.840" Title="What happened to Tyrell Wellick?" Tags="|mr-robot|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41238" CreationDate="2015-09-18T18:13:29.433" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tyrell played Elliot - plain and simple. &#xA;Got the info on the plan/hack. Sold out Elliot and fsociety to the CEO to get himself back into the VIP club. I think the reason we don't see him is that he wanted to 'drop off the radar' while the shit hit the fan. There's zero chance he is dead.He is notable character to get rid of in season 1 (especially doing so off-screen). What's not clear yet is if Tyrell is a pure Judas/betrayer role or some kind of 'dark knight', double-agent thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26049" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T18:13:29.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41245" CreationDate="2015-09-18T18:30:35.270" Score="6" ViewCount="7003" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are body doubles (or any of their variants, such as stunt doubles or talent doubles) listed, together with the character they played, in the closing credits to a movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16814" LastEditorUserId="16814" LastEditDate="2015-09-18T20:30:51.437" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T20:44:36.180" Title="Are body doubles ever listed in movie credits?" Tags="|credits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41242" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-09-18T19:42:42.073" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Forever is an ABC supernatural drama. The story centers on Dr. Henry Morgan, New York City's best medical examiner, but what no one knows is that Henry studies the dead for a unique reason -- he is immortal. in fact, he uses his proximity to death to try and figure out how to unlock his curse. With the help of Detective Jo Martinez, the layers will be peeled back on Henry's colorful and long life through the cases he is involved with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDb - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3487382/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;Forever&quot;&gt;Forever (2014)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Wikipedia - &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_(U.S._TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Forever (US TV Series)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3862" LastEditorUserId="3862" LastEditDate="2015-09-19T00:25:13.303" LastActivityDate="2015-09-19T00:25:13.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41243" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-09-18T19:42:42.073" Score="0" Body="An ABC supernatural investigative drama wherein the protagonist, Dr. Henry Morgan is a medical examiner for the NYPD and secretly immortal, studying death to try and unlock his curse." OwnerUserId="3862" LastEditorUserId="3862" LastEditDate="2015-09-19T00:25:19.457" LastActivityDate="2015-09-19T00:25:19.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41241" CreationDate="2015-09-18T20:44:36.180" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure how common it is, but Avengers- Age of Ultron does. The Stunt Doubles for Stark, Thor, Cap, Hulk, Hawkguy, and the Vision (just as &quot;Double&quot; not &quot;Stunt Double&quot;) are listed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Black Widow has 2 Stunt Doubles AND a Body Double (Due to Scarlett Johansson's baby bump).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gKOm0.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, on the other hand, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tmz.com/2015/04/22/furious-7-stunt-drivers-not-credited-ending-credits/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Furious 7 was called out because they didn't credit many stunt performers&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sources directly connected with production tell us, the 2nd unit crew was responsible for all the major action ... including the parachuting car scene and the mountain road chase.&#xA;  We're told the stunt team members feel like they were &quot;punched in the gut&quot; when they realized 25 members of their team -- many of whom risked their lives -- were left out of the credits.&#xA;  And get this ... Paul Walker's 2nd unit stunt double -- who was inside a bus as it fell off a cliff -- was uncredited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is likely hit and miss, based on Union standards and individual contract negotiations. Length or amount of doubling required probably affects it. Body doubles for popular stars isn't exactly a dime a dozen market. Someone standing in for a single butt shot wouldn't merit the same credit as someone standing in for every punch thrown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-18T20:44:36.180" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41252" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41414" CreationDate="2015-09-19T01:18:48.350" Score="6" ViewCount="8906" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Once Upon A Time In America&lt;/em&gt;, is Noodles conscious about what his friend did to him or is that reality too harsh for him to accept it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe he does take a deliberate choice, preferring to keep good memories about his friend. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does go through Noodles' mind at the end of the movie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26056" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-28T11:47:14.517" LastActivityDate="2020-09-17T18:22:26.650" Title="Does Noodles naively ignore the reality about Max's betrayal?" Tags="|once-upon-a-time-in-america|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41253" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-19T01:23:38.847" Score="7" ViewCount="5248" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Rick and Morty S02E05, Morty goes to Bird Person for help getting home to his family in the midst of the alien invasion. Bird person gives him a bowl of &quot;random debris, I found it in my carpet&quot; because he &quot;[doesn't] know what humans eat&quot;. However, he lives with a human (Tammy). He appears to be a smart person, so I can't understand how he doesn't know what humans eat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is he punking Morty because he doesn't like how Morty treats Rick?&#xA;Does he really not know what Tammy eats? Seems like a goof unless I'm missing something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/-c-d720OvH8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9770" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T15:04:11.460" Title="How does Bird-Person not know what humans eat?" Tags="|plot-explanation|rick-and-morty|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38772" CreationDate="2015-09-19T02:19:00.927" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, based on your description, I think the movie you are talking is &#xA;&quot;Fist of the North Star&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the imdb voice&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113074/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113074/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Live action movie was made in the 1995 (exactly 20 years ago).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story is poorly adapted from the anime &quot;Hokuto no Ken&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fist_of_the_North_Star&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fist_of_the_North_Star&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;a post-apocaliptic wasteland is the main scenario of this anime, an epic story of love, fights and mutants... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/xkj8kHq8qR0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-19T02:19:00.927" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41262" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41323" CreationDate="2015-09-19T08:23:32.567" Score="4" ViewCount="559" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the first movie remake of another &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt; movie (wholly written for the screen, not based on a book or play)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/24025/which-was-the-first-movie-remake&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; close, but not a duplicate as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004635/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_wr#writers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Squaw Man&lt;/a&gt; was originally a play. No adaptations count for this question. I'm looking for the first truly remade &quot;original&quot; movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermezzo_%281936_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Intermezzo (1936)&lt;/a&gt; seems to have an original screenplay co-written by director Gustaf Molander which was &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermezzo_%281939_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;remade in 1939&lt;/a&gt; as a David O. Selznick production. This is the one to beat, I guess. (I was thinking The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1934, 1956, until I remembered this one.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not looking for shorts, like Our Gang or the like, but a feature. I don't want to get too bogged-down by run-times, just use your best judgement here as to what constitutes feature-length. (Even back in 1936, Intermezzo was 93 minutes long. Don't pick something &lt;em&gt;too&lt;/em&gt; short, okay?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2016-10-21T18:57:32.853" Title="First movie remake of an original motion picture" Tags="|cinema-history|remake|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41263" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41147" CreationDate="2015-09-19T09:34:10.267" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, since the character from &lt;em&gt;The Good Life&lt;/em&gt; states &quot;You'll be off to the Manor Born&quot;, I can see how this can be interpreted as &quot;The Manor Born&quot; being a physical place, such as another sitcom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea for the sitcom &lt;em&gt;To the Manor Born&lt;/em&gt; was actually conceived by Peter Spence in the early 1970's after having a conversation with a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Manor_Born&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;comedian&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Peter Spence first thought of the idea behind To the Manor Born in the&#xA;  early 1970s when he was working for BBC Radio as a gag writer.&lt;/strong&gt; One of&#xA;  the programmes that Spence wrote for featured a Cockney comedian, who&#xA;  had recently bought a manor house in an English country village.&#xA;  When holding a housewarming party, the comedian invited the previous&#xA;  occupant, a widow who could not afford to keep the house up and had&#xA;  moved to a smaller house in the village. The comedian's account of the&#xA;  lady, and the conversation he had with her, Spence later described as&#xA;  a &quot;perfect description&quot; of Audrey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A few years later, &lt;strong&gt;following the success of The Good Life, Spence was&#xA;  asked by BBC Radio to come up with an idea for a programme to feature&#xA;  Keith.Thinking of Keith's character in The Good Life, Spence had the&#xA;  idea of an upper-class version of Margo Leadbetter and, from the&#xA;  account from the comedian, came up with Audrey fforbes-Hamilton.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Instead of a Cockney comedian as the new owner of the manor, Spence&#xA;  decided on an American who sees the manor while in England looking for&#xA;  his roots. The American later discovers he is descended from the&#xA;  fforbes-Hamiltons. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although Spence thought of Keith's character from &lt;em&gt;The Good Life&lt;/em&gt; while coming up with an idea for BBC Radio, (which later became the sitcom, &lt;em&gt;To the Manor Born&lt;/em&gt;) there is no evidence that suggests that the phrase spoken on the final episode of &lt;em&gt;The Good Life&lt;/em&gt; was an inspiration of &lt;em&gt;To the Manor Born&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An interesting &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Good_Life_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fact&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Good Life aired for four series and two specials from 4 April 1975&#xA;  to 10 June 1978. The final one-off episode, &quot;When I'm Sixty-Five&quot;, was&#xA;  a Royal Command Performance in front of The Queen, The Duke of&#xA;  Edinburgh and senior BBC management. The cast and crew were presented&#xA;  to The Queen and Prince Philip after the recording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the phrase &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://riehlworldview.com/2011/03/manner-born-or-manor-born.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;To the Manor Born&lt;/a&gt;&quot; was in the final script due to the presence of royalty? An interesting fact to ponder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-09-19T09:34:10.267" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41265" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-19T11:48:22.207" Score="1" ViewCount="1987" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Chapter Five of &lt;em&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Revenge of the Giant Face&lt;/em&gt;, Colonel Hans Landa strangles Bridget von Hammersmark to death with his own hands immediately after placing her at the scene of the shootout at &lt;em&gt;La Louisiane&lt;/em&gt; pub. This violence is unnecessary for performing his duty since the cinema is packed with the German military and security. It seems to be personal revenge and it surely cannot be patriotic feelings as by that time &lt;strong&gt;Landa had already been contemplating defection.&lt;/strong&gt; Also, the only link between Landa and Bridget is Major Hellstrom, who had been shadowing the actress at &lt;em&gt;La Louisiane&lt;/em&gt; and quite possibly had been assigned this duty by Landa himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be that he felt responsible for getting his protege killed, but I think an outburst like that would require more intimate feelings. I think Landa wanted closure for the death of his beloved one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the only time Landa and Hellstrom meet in the movie (in the restaurant where Shosanna meets Goebbels) we cannot see their faces. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were Landa and Hellstrom lovers?  Is there any proof? Why would he kill her in such an intimate fashion otherwise?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23472" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-01-24T21:13:58.653" LastActivityDate="2019-10-31T08:58:13.580" Title="Were Landa and Hellstrom lovers?" Tags="|character|inglourious-basterds|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41266" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41186" CreationDate="2015-09-19T12:35:57.317" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of similar questions on the internet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;see &lt;a href=&quot;https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090422044646AADBrKm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.socialanxietysupport.com/forum/f24/does-mr-bean-have-social-anxiety-92505/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.answers.com/Q/Does_Mr_Bean_have_autism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.psychforums.com/schizotypal-personality/topic95046-20.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; (amateurish) psychology forum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most common &quot;&lt;em&gt;diagnosis&lt;/em&gt;&quot; are: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;asperger syndrome&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizotypal_personality_disorder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;schizotypical personality disorder&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not a psychiatrist, but I think &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_personality_disorder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;schizoid personality disorder&lt;/a&gt; fits better, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_personality_disorder#Akhtar.27s_phenomenological_profile&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this table&lt;/a&gt; in particular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2018-10-11T17:52:04.793" LastActivityDate="2018-10-11T17:52:04.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39032" CreationDate="2015-09-19T21:14:20.030" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ronan the Accuser is well, an Accuser. An Accuser is a Kree military or paramilitary rank, borderline Knight Templar, a special forces assassin with the right to be judge jury and executioner. Ronan was fanatically so. Individual Accusers are the strongest most powerful of the Kree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Add to this the army of Sakaarans, Kree client (read: slave) race, that he commanded, makes Ronan very dangerous. He's a military general who went rogue with entire battalions of soldiers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then add to that, that Ronan was connected to Thanos, the Mad Titan, who is almost literally a physical god in the Marvel Universe. Nightmare fuel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comics, Ronan is comparable to Thor or Beta Ray Bill in terms of raw strength.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-19T21:14:20.030" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41262" CreationDate="2015-09-20T03:48:05.240" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermezzo_%281936_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Intermezzo&lt;/a&gt;, a Swedish film from 1936, seems to have an original screenplay co-written by director Gustaf Molander and Gösta Ekman. The movie was then &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermezzo_%281939_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;remade three years later in 1939&lt;/a&gt; as an American movie produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Gregory Ratoff with the same title. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm hoping someone will find an earlier example, as I did not research this too thoroughly, mostly looking up movies from memory. I post this as an answer just in case, especially considering I already cited it in the question and wouldn't feel too awesome giving the points away to someone else for merely copying my work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This might also be the earliest example of a rapid turnaround for a foreign film being remade for American audiences. I was depressed when Open Your Eyes was remade/Americanized so quickly as Vanilla Sky (a four year gap), I didn't realize this happened as early as the 1930s.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T03:48:05.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14182" CreationDate="2015-09-20T07:46:56.007" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The red roses, I think, are supposed to suggest the little girl in the red coat. Much has been discussed, of course, about exactly what the little girl and her coat signify, but whatever that may be, I think the link is obvious. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26088" LastEditorUserId="1405" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T13:22:45.060" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T13:22:45.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28112" CreationDate="2015-09-20T08:06:40.293" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The purpose of whole research was to analyse potential of all boys or just Thomas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Purpose of the Maze and the other trials are to find a cure for the Flare, an infectious disease that causes madness and cannibalism (think Rage Zombies). A small percentage of the population is immune to the Flare, and the younger the more immune they are. All the Gladers were found to be immune prior to being sent to the Maze. The events of the Maze are set up to induce the Immune's brain in producing an enzyme which can be used as an injectable treatment to prevent or slow down the Flare in non-immunes. Note that the second movie events have diverged from the books very much. There are multiple Mazes and groups of gladers, numbering in the 50~100. Many more are seen being harvested for the enzyme.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Killzone is the part of the brain affected by the Flare. This name is adopted after the Flare starts infecting people. The disease slowly eats away the Killzone, turning the infected (known as Cranks) into madmen. WICKED tries to use the patterns in the Killzone of those immune to the Flare to develop a cure, so they send a number of immune &quot;subjects&quot; into the Trials to obtain these patterns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key part of the trials is that the Flare eats away at the brain faster when the brain works harder. The same is true for the Immunes. The harder they think, as in life-or-death split second thinking, the more of the immune enzyme is produced. &lt;strong&gt;The purpose of the whole research is essentially using human lab rats as a medicine factory.&lt;/strong&gt; According to Ava (The head bitch in charge), the enzyme can not be synthetically reproduced. In the books, the brain needs to be checked, which requires the brain to be removed. &lt;sub&gt;Apparently they never developed MRIs in this reality.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once sent he had no previous memory like others then how is he to able witness flash backs of his past?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It hasn't been explained outright in either The Maze Runner or Scorch Trials movies. In the books, each Glader is microchipped with the &lt;em&gt;Swipe&lt;/em&gt;. It allows WCKD to control their actions and wipe their memory. Based on the events of the first movie, it's likely that the flashbacks are WCKDs method of controlling the events of the Glade, and pushing them towards the exit. In the second movie, the Gladers are shown to have been chipped for identification at least, with Theresa being given her full memory back, with a scene implying that the chip was involved with that happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why was [Thomas] sent to the Glade?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thomas was sent to the glade because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; He betrayed Wicked to the Right Arm, a military group opposed to WCKD. The Right Arm is much smaller than before. Since he's immune to the Flare, they thought he'd be more useful in the Maze than dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T08:06:40.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28492" CreationDate="2015-09-20T08:23:07.470" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the books, the Gladers have the &lt;em&gt;Swipe&lt;/em&gt; a microchip that allowed WCKD to wipe their memory &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;AND&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; control them directly. The second movie shows that the Gladers are chipped for identification, and implies that the chip is related to the memory loss, but nothing has implied that they control the Gladers. The Grievers are also shown in the movie to be controlled by WCKD electronically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, it would have been simple for WCKD to arrange for Ben to be stung, simply by having a single Griever attack quietly in the Glade. Keep in mind that WCKD has essentially unlimited funds and created the Maze from scratch. They could have easily built a tunnel for the purposes of forcing this event from the beginning. The entire Maze trial was planned out in detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T08:23:07.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41295" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-09-20T08:35:40.747" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_Runner_(film_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Maze Runner&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is a 2014 teen dystopian Sci-Fi action movie series based on the 2009 books of the same name. The trilogy includes &quot;The Maze Runner [2014]&quot;, &quot;The Scorch Trials [2015]&quot; and &quot;The Death Cure [2018]&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="1539" LastEditDate="2019-05-29T14:57:03.170" LastActivityDate="2019-05-29T14:57:03.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41296" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-09-20T08:35:40.747" Score="0" Body="&quot;The Maze Runner&quot; is a 2014 teen dystopian Sci-Fi action movie series based on the 2009 books of the same name. The trilogy includes &quot;The Maze Runner [2014]&quot;, &quot;The Scorch Trials [2015]&quot; and &quot;The Death Cure [2018]&quot;." OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="1539" LastEditDate="2019-05-29T14:48:21.967" LastActivityDate="2019-05-29T14:48:21.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12977" CreationDate="2015-09-20T11:48:01.290" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;So the film is in three parts:&#xA;1. the before, which is portrayed is flashbacks,&#xA;2. after the event, and&#xA;3. after the &quot;second&quot; event, presuming the first event in the film was the first ever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The before is portrayed as a normal life in a normal planet earth, and some scientists experimenting with some new form of power distribution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that period Zak was actually committing suicide so should be dead now.&#xA;As should the two charaters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the first event there only seems to be plant life. I didn't see animals or even insects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also there was no rain or bad weather of any kind.&#xA;Zak was walking around in almost no coverings, so this is warm climate.&#xA;Quite idyllic really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zak was saying that the electron unit charge was fluctuating yet electronic devices seemed to work fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the laws of physics are changed, by this seems to have no effect on local stuff, other than perhaps the Sun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think it's fair to say this is not anything like reality more like a dream or hallucination, but not too far fetched from the original reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the final act of the film is still reasonably normal and idillic.&#xA;Zak is on a beach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But he is clearly not on the earth of the reality he came from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no beaches, clouds of breatheable atmoshpere on any of Saturns moons so it's not there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So after the event he believes it caused the reality he is now in.&#xA;After his suicide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think this must be his experiences after his own death, and not a cataclysmic event which wiped out all living stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26093" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T11:48:01.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41304" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41324" CreationDate="2015-09-20T16:49:16.987" Score="16" ViewCount="2066" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did they really throw an F-14 into a flat spin and then have to recover it? Or is that a model shot? It seems (to a complete layperson) like an unthinkably-dangerous thing to do, but the shot looks just as authentic as all of the other real F-14 flight scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26103" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T08:21:42.880" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T06:57:06.273" Title="How did they film the flat spin in Top Gun?" Tags="|film-techniques|effects|top-gun|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14214" CreationDate="2015-09-20T17:59:02.410" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The moment seized the rich dichotomy of the predicaments of the two tortured souls.  The tension of the moment is exacerbated by the contrasting appearances of the two.  One is impeccably dressed in fitting German uniform while the other in tattered rags only a remote semblance of his old self.  While Szpilman visibly appeared at the border of death, and Hosefeld in complete control, the opposite was in fact true.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Russians were just across the river imminent to retake Warsaw,  While that meant salvation for Szpilman, it meant certain death for the German officer.  Torn in the incongruity of his dark reality and the ideals he embraced, Hosefeld found an opportunity for small personal redemption.  In truth, defying appearances, the one doomed soul was Hosefeld, and not Szpilman.  Szpilman later lived to gloriously play again before appreciating audiences, while Hosefeld died alone in a strange land.  I believe that by saving Szpilman, Hosefeld was saving a small part of himself from the inglorious ending he knew inevitably awaited him.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26105" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T17:59:02.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2157" CreationDate="2015-09-20T20:46:52.197" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thor is not immortal, just superhumanly strong. He can still be hurt and die. Loki says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The humans think us immortal. Should we test that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's talking about the human belief that Asgardians are the literal Norse Gods and have the immortality associated with it. In the MCU, the Asgardians are just sufficiently advanced aliens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason Thor attempts to break out of the cage are twofold. One, he wants to get back to the fight as soon as possible. Loki's still messing around on the helicarrier. Two, falling straight down at terminal velocity from miles above the Earth will hurt. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Guessing Thor is 400 lbs (Super Dense Muscle), falling from a height of 35,000 ft, and going only 0.1m into the ground, would result in 162,196,272 newtons of energy. Converted into Pounds per Square Inch, that's 23,524 PSI in a fraction of a second. Yay physics. The human body at sea level experiences 14 PSI, and can survive up to 400 PSI if &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;slowly&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; increased. Sudden increases are deadly. An increase of 30 PSI in a fraction of a second will kill you. A standard US military hand grenade of 0.4 pounds of TNT worth of explosives provides 836,800 newtons of energy or 121 PSI at it's source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means the crash of the cage would have been extremely powerful. By breaking out and redirecting his momentum sideways, Thor would reduce the amount of energy relative to the Earth (like the International Space Station does resulting in microgravity &quot;Zero G&quot;). Notice that Thor is still thrown around wildly, but alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/n0Hi4yx9XZE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind, the actual force of the impact would be alot higher, as the weight of the cage was not taken into consideration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T20:46:52.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41313" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41315" CreationDate="2015-09-20T21:13:28.403" Score="10" ViewCount="850" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Into Darkness&lt;/em&gt;, there is a scene in which Khan disables the Enterprise' power, forcing it to be caught in Earth's gravity (Ch. 12).  During this scene the crew members are seen falling within the ship as it rotates. For example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While Kirk and Scotty are running to Engineering, they begin to fall as the ship rotates sideways, losing their hold on the guardrail  - only to be saved by Chekov. (&lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Into Darkness&lt;/em&gt;, 2013, 1:42:30)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: Since the Enterprise is falling toward Earth, shouldn't the ship and her crew be in freefall?  And if so, from the ship's frame of reference shouldn't the crew appear to be unaffected by Earth's gravity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that it's only a movie, but the &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; franchise has always taken significant care to adhere to scientific fact. They often can explain any seemingly infeasible phenomena with scientific theory assumed to be proven or applied by the 23rd century.  I would be slightly disappointed to find that a simple law of physics was overlooked for dramatic effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26108" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T14:03:23.127" LastActivityDate="2016-07-26T06:21:09.603" Title="Shouldn't the crew be in freefall while the ship is descending to earth?" Tags="|realism|star-trek|star-trek-into-darkness|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41313" CreationDate="2015-09-20T21:31:06.650" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to remember that the Enterprise has artificial gravity. Within the internal logic of the movie power might still be available to that even if it were disabled for some other ship systems. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I remember rightly, not everything on the ship was discombobulated by Khan's actions. But &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; systems were disrupted. If you accept this then you don't have to assume that the laws of physics were being violated, though whether it is internally plausible that the gravity is one of the last systems to go of that it could be &lt;em&gt;just a bit&lt;/em&gt; disrupted is still open to debate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T21:31:06.650" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2157" CreationDate="2015-09-20T22:16:08.290" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You mentioned Thor is immortal.  However Loki doesn't say he is immortal, he says the humans believe him to be immortal (link starts video at the scene I mentioned.  bad quality though):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/rvrEgIhRY0Y?start=150&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in Thor: The Dark World Loki (now a prisoner) and Odin have a chat about Loki's birthright that touches on their lifecycle.  They live a long time but do die (scene from Thor: the Dark World):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/nRLo65qpBHE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that is the story in the MCU.  Basically Thor tried to get out because while the fall from the helicarrier wouldn't necessarily have killed him, he can die and it sure would have hurt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26079" LastEditorUserId="26079" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T01:37:39.163" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T01:37:39.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37254" CreationDate="2015-09-20T23:42:41.330" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;That certainly could be an explanation for why Ash adds &quot;Yes?&quot; at the end of many of his sentences. However, I believe there are at least a couple instances in the film where he says, &quot;Yes?&quot; at the end of a sentence that does not contain a lie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, his mission on the spacecraft is solely to preserve the Xenomorph and return it to The Company who sent the crew to the Nostromo for that reason and considered the people onboard the spacecraft as expendable. By effect, this would require Ash to be very deceptive and force him to lie quite a lot. So I do not think it would make sense for The Company to require Ash to constantly use loop holes in order to lie to his human colleagues. Although, the addition of the word &quot;Yes?&quot; may serve as a way to affirm his lies and, in a way, disguise them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another explanation could be that the line is simply be an expression that Ian Holm or Ridley Scott thought made Ash sound more robotic. I actually know someone who has the habit of adding &quot;No?&quot; to the end of statements which is pretty much the same speech behavior except it has a negative connotation. In this case, if we were to follow Occam's Razor I think the final explanation would be the most probable as, like someone previously mentioned, these &quot;Yes?&quot; lines do not appear in the script and there is really no evidence provided by the film to support any of our theories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26114" LastEditorUserId="40011" LastEditDate="2016-12-22T16:21:59.187" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T16:21:59.187" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33163" CreationDate="2015-09-20T23:56:11.457" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like you said, there's no indication in the film that Khan &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; knew the Enterprise' warp core had malfunctioned.  However, the dialogue during the scene in which Khan is first spoken to in the holding chamber, seems to show us why he could assume this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Khan: Why aren't we moving captain? An unexpected malfunction, perhaps in your warp core? Conveniently stranding you on the edge of Klingon space?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bones: How the hell do you know that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the ship wasn't moving (assuming Khan could actually tell) was a fairly good indication that the ship had no warp capability, since the ship was in enemy territory.  Also, Bone's response would immediately confirm Khan's statement if he was only bluffing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just as Napoleon said, he was probably guessing, and it would be a safe guess.  But I think the fact that he knew the ship wasn't moving was enough evidence to convince him that the warp core was failing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26108" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-20T23:56:11.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41262" CreationDate="2015-09-21T04:46:32.793" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;em&gt;Forbidden Fruit&lt;/em&gt; from 1921 is the earliest remake of an original movie that I could find. The film is 87 minutes in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Fruit_(1921_film)&quot;&gt;length&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Forbidden Fruit&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1921 American drama film directed by Cecil B.&#xA;  DeMille. It is a remake of the 1915 film &lt;strong&gt;The Golden Chance&lt;/strong&gt;, which was&#xA;  also directed by DeMille.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie was an original story, written by Cecil B. DeMille and Jeanie Macpherson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T04:46:32.793" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41304" CreationDate="2015-09-21T04:58:23.853" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The particular shot you are asking about was done with models.  Although Top Gun had the full cooperation of the U.S. Navy, and many of the shots you see in the movie were authentic, they wouldn't allow a stunt that dangerous for the purposes of a film.  Any stunt that required damage, destruction, or a near crash of a plane was done using a variety of models and filmed by a dedicated special effects team.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check out the following YouTube video for more detailed information--the flat spin is shown at about 11:30. The large (~10' long) model F-14 is hoisted up by a crane, set spinning on its mount, and then released. Cameras on the ground catch it all, then editing and context and music and sound do the rest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The full video is about 17 minutes long and extremely interesting!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/04TqHE_PDTU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23470" LastEditorUserId="26103" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T06:57:06.273" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T06:57:06.273" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38597" CreationDate="2015-09-21T06:43:32.187" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;To give it a more realistic view?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CGI costumes don't always look good on screen. You can take an example from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lantern_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Green Lantern&lt;/a&gt;, where a full CGI costume was made into a blunder and got criticized a lot. It was even made into a joke by the actor himself in the Deadpool trailer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it can also be argued with the example of Iron-Man where it did worked quite well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same thing applies to body paints too. For Two Face they opted for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/9177/1190&quot;&gt;mixture of CGI and makeup&lt;/a&gt;. Now it's up to the director to decide what they want, but overall it can be said that real costume/body paint will look more realistic then CGI. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T14:00:12.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33474" CreationDate="2015-09-21T07:28:59.837" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the words on Mark Linfield (co-director and producer) from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/2015/04/19/399582254/a-mother-rises-through-the-ranks-in-monkey-kingdom&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;npr.org&lt;/a&gt; :- &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the reasons that these monkeys are relatively easy to film in&#xA;  some sense — and by that I mean in the sense of getting close to them&#xA;  — is that there's been a monkey study there for 50 years. Round the&#xA;  clock, pretty much, these animals have been studied by researchers and&#xA;  they're known incredibly well, so they were incredibly good at&#xA;  deciphering the monkey's behaviors and also helping us to anticipate&#xA;  what would happen next. ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They do so much and every single animal is doing something interesting&#xA;  pretty much all the time [so] that if you don't stay focused, after 2&#xA;  1/2 years of filming in the field, which is what we spent, you would&#xA;  just end up with hundreds of hours of just wonderful material but not&#xA;  being able to make head or tail of it. So you really have to decide&#xA;  which characters to follow. And once you've committed to them, of&#xA;  course, you hope that their story becomes interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/04/17/jane-goodall-on-monkey-kingdom-conservation-and-climate-change/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; of Jane Goodall for the birthday scene :_&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q :&lt;/strong&gt; One memorable scene shows the monkeys raiding a birthday party. How was that filmed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ans :&lt;/strong&gt; Well first of all, the monkeys—the lower-ranking ones—regularly go out of the forest into the city because the higher&#xA;  ranking monkeys get all the best food in the forest. So they have to&#xA;  try and supplement their diet, and there they are living on the&#xA;  outskirts of the city.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The birthday party—they knew there was a birthday party happening.&#xA;  They knew the monkeys were likely to be making a raid about that time&#xA;  because the monkeys have been studied for 40 years and their patterns&#xA;  of behavior are pretty well known. So all the team did, they persuaded&#xA;  the people putting on the birthday party not to chase the monkeys away&#xA;  and promised that they would buy more food. [laughs]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_Kingdom#Production&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dr. Wolfgang Dittus was the scientific consultant and has been&#xA;  studying the macaque monkeys of Sri Lanka for nearly 50 years. His and&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jane Goodall&lt;/a&gt;’s study at Gombe are the longest running studies of wild&#xA;  primates. For the film, Dittus helped select the monkey characters and&#xA;  decipher their behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it all shows that how thinks work around in the production side, and they clearly stated that Dittus and Wolfgang's studies were the main help behind the documentary. And it was all filmed naturally without a script, they just used their natural behaviors to their use and might given few opportunity like a birthday party to easily crash etc else were all natural.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T07:28:59.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27494" CreationDate="2015-09-21T08:28:01.770" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the things I enjoy about the film is that many meanings can be read into the storyline. Is it a story of madness, or are the events supernatural?&#xA;From a purely psychological point of view, there are many obvious cues. To point out a few:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite the mother's argument that she is over the death and loss of her husband, this is clearly not the case from her dreams, and her relationship with her son. The alienation of her friends also points to the perspective of others who have known her since her husband's death, and their frustration with what they see as an inability to move on with her life.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The physical distance and abhorrence of being touched by her son, and that they never celebrated the son's birthday(it being the anniversary of her husband's death) points to unresolved emotional issues.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The mother's implied involvement to the events, such as the appearance of the book(she previously wrote children's stories), and the appearances of the entity only to the mother(the son fears it, but all manifestations of violence towards the son are through the mother once it is &quot;inside&quot; her).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The hallucinations in front of the television, hearing voices, disassociation with others, and the frequent loss of time all appear to be symptoms of a mental disorder.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The psychological premise said, what about a supernatural meaning? Is the Babadook an evil entity or demon? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The spiritual author Alexandra David-Neel wrote of the &quot;tulpa&quot; in Tibetan mystical lore, an entity created by the mind, either intentionally or not, which once created could be very difficult to return to nothingness. Did the horrific event of the husband's decapitation in the auto accident, coupled with years of dwelling on the death of her husband, and her son as an ever-present reminder, create the medium for the growth of such an entity? &#xA;Interestingly, when she finally confronts the babadook it runs back to the basement, where all of her husband's cherished belongings, and her memories of them together, are kept; as if that is it's home(and where it was perhaps born).  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The babadook had an appetite for small things: the life of the small dog, the child, and worms. Did it need to feed on the life force of small living things to continue to manifest itself? Why does the mother need to continue to &quot;feed&quot; the babadook live things to keep it satiated? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Poltergeist phenomena is often argued to be generated by sexual energies from those in puberty. The question of incest was raised in the famous &quot;entity&quot; case (that was the basis for the movie of the same name). In the real-life events that inspired the film &quot;The Exorcist&quot;, the relationship between the possessed boy and his aunt, again incestuous questions were raised.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film, the mother is very uncomfortable with the boy's need to touch her. With no outlet in her life for her sexual needs, and her other emotions of frustration, alienation, and anger also being repressed, could the entity have been feeding off this energy as well?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The persistence in the storyline that the babadook needed to be let in. The knocking/banging on the front door, opening of doors, the re-appearance of the previously destroyed book on the front doorstep, and even the clear statement in the book itself &quot;Let Me In&quot; and the boy's warnings about this, parallel demonic lore about this requirement.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The weakness of the babadook when faced with positive emotions and loving bonds. Demonologists believe that an evil spirit feeds on negative emotions, and that individuals feeling alone, isolated, and without familial support are ideal targets for demonic forces at work in such cases. Although the son was originally fearful of the babadook, he immediately devised ways to protect his mother from it. Despite the child being portrayed early on as the troubled one, it was the mother that proved the most emotionally and psychologically fragile, and it was she that became the focus of the babadook. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mother was feeling isolated and without any lasting support from her extended family or coworkers, and society as well (school officials, social workers, police, and even strangers in public). The only human bond is her son  who she is emotionally distant from due to the tragic circumstances surrounding his birth(some argue that dark spirits are in fact drawn such events). Even her dog begins to distrust her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Positive emotions ultimately turned the tide. The mother had an obvious caring relationship with old woman next door, and when the lady stated her love for the mother and son, she was no longer in her mind alone. The son's expressed devotion to his mom and determination to purge her of the babadook once it was inside her together, in the end proved too much for the entity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Psychosis or evil spirit, The Babadook is definitely a very original horror tale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26116" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T08:28:01.770" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26542" CreationDate="2015-09-21T11:12:47.693" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thor can pick up his hammer he is just taking his time...  at about 1 hour and 37 minutes the scenes catch up and come back to thor as everyone is &quot;suiting up&quot; and you see him pick the hammer up hold it in the air and lightning comes down and his armor seems to come down with the lightning.  Here is a video of the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/yHo0977cOUk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may have been confusing at first because Marvel split the scene up into a couple parts over a few minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also while I can't prove it I believe he could have summoned the hammer do his hand and just didn't want to or the directors decided that the scene had more of a more decisive and determined feel the way they did it.  I believe this possible because the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the comics don't always agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26079" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T11:12:47.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41337" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-21T12:05:09.913" Score="3" ViewCount="375" Body="&lt;p&gt;People here and on the Web generally have established that Sherlock is not a sociopath and that Moriarty most likely is a psychopath. &#xA;Can we say that Magnussen from &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; season 3 has any disorders of that kind? If we can, what'd be the grounds?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9327" LastEditorUserId="9684" LastEditDate="2015-12-30T08:48:43.120" LastActivityDate="2016-05-15T14:51:16.347" Title="Does Magnussen have any disorders?" Tags="|character|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41339" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41343" CreationDate="2015-09-21T14:49:10.147" Score="18" ViewCount="4288" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I just recently had the pleasure of seeing &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076740/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Friedkin great&lt;/a&gt;, and for the first time in a while was left in absolute wonderment. I actually said &quot;wow&quot; out loud. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene I'm referring to is about 2/3 through the film when the 4 protagonists are well into their journey through the Jungle. The massive rain and wind storm hits which leads them down an unsafe path. They are forced, one by one to cross a very old, low hanging bridge, over a rushing river. The trucks look like they are going to get blown over into the water the entire crossing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm left absolutely amazed by this scene, so I have to ask if anyone out there knows the magic behind it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24600" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T14:31:32.620" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T14:31:32.620" Title="How did they film the bridge scene in Sorcerer?" Tags="|film-techniques|sorcerer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41340" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-09-21T15:05:56.327" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorcerer is a 1977 film directed by William Friedkin starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, and Amidou as four outcasts tasked with transporting cargoes of nitroglycerin over dangerous terrain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T16:40:51.350" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T16:40:51.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41341" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-09-21T15:05:56.327" Score="0" Body="In reference to the 1977 film Sorcerer. " OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-09-21T16:40:58.577" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T16:40:58.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39225" CreationDate="2015-09-21T17:35:18.677" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly English actor &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fox_%28actor%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Edward Fox&lt;/a&gt; or his brother, actor &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fox&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;James Fox&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edward:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uGAF5.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uGAF5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ip4xX.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ip4xX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26128" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T07:46:07.867" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T07:46:07.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41339" CreationDate="2015-09-21T18:24:40.107" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene in question is the scene &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001243/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;William Friedkin&lt;/a&gt; has referred to as the most difficult in his career.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bridge was built specifically for the film out of steel cables made to look like fraying rope. It also had hidden hydraulics to control the motion of both the bridge, and the vehicles traversing it. According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerer_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bridge was designed by John Box using carefully hidden hydraulic components allowing control of the movements of the bridge and the trucks alike. Its first iteration was constructed in the Dominican Republic over a period of three months, and it required $1 million to complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;BCdotWEB helped here. Forget you saw this. Fnord.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Soon after completion, abnormally low rainfall caused the river to dry up, forcing the crew to relocate, much to dismay of the studio. They found a new location in Mexico.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The previously constructed bridge had to be disassembled and re-anchored. Friedkin's crew's arrival caused a major disturbance in the vicinity among the locals because of his reputation as a director of The Exorcist. However, a part of the population offered help to finish the structure. Ultimately, this river also became stricken with drought, which forced the application of some practical effects to complete the scene. In order to create artificial rain, Friedkin employed sewage pumps draining water from the river and diverting it to a sprinkler system. This scene alone, which lasts 12 minutes, took several months to complete and cost approximately three million dollars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VgqsI.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VgqsI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;simon and garfunkel song&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, the bridge, while looking very old and weathered, was a new construction &lt;em&gt;made to look aged and distressed.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076740/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Despite all this&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bridge itself was so rickety that, despite the safety precautions, the truck (often with an actor inside of it) slid off the side and into the shallow water five times during rehearsals and filming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This bit of trivia was confirmed in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a28501/sorcerer-william-friedkin/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Esquire Magazine interview&lt;/a&gt; with Friedkin:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ESQ: I heard that the trucks fell into the river.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WF: We dumped those trucks many times with guys in them and had to fish them out, which took hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ESQ: It reminds me of when Francis Ford Coppola was making Apocalypse Now. You guys were making films that were dangerous to the cast and crews. Those films would never get made today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;WF: Nor should they. I believe today that there is no film and no shot in a film that is worth a squirrel getting a sprained ankle. We were irresponsible in that regard. Apocalypse Now is a great movie, and when you watch it you don't think about how dangerous it was to make, but it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T01:36:17.793" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14604" CreationDate="2015-09-21T19:58:07.330" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are no sources from the director/screenwriter of this movie explaining the symbolism of the white whale.  The symbolism of the whale is left up to viewer interpretation, much like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Moby Dick&lt;/a&gt;. The white whale has historically symbolized obsession, madness and unattainable goals just to name a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=white%20whale&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;few&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I interpreted the white whale in this movie as Olav and his increasing rage and madness.  His frustration manifesting itself into a need for revenge and rebellion.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Olav: You ever seen whales?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Erling: I saw one which, hit by three harpoons, just swam away. It&#xA;  took three days till he was dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Olav: And my role in it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Erling: Deck boy. And I'm the harpooner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Olav and Erling are introducing the viewers to the whale.  The viewers are also seeing the atrocities happening at Bastøy.  By Erling claiming to be the harpooner, he is proclaiming himself to be the instigator. Erling makes it clear that Olav is merely a helpmate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Olav (reading): We were already weeks on the sea till I saw him again.&#xA;  Our supplies went short and Øystein, our cook, gave few reasons for&#xA;  praise. You should have seen how thin I was, fed up with the fish. We&#xA;  met the whale again, got very near, much nearer than before. The&#xA;  harpoon I hit him with had weakened him. He was huge, at least 25&#xA;  metres, and he was laced with scars from endured fights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Erling: The new deck boy he'd already killed, the poor guy. The&#xA;  captain was convinced very much of himself, but actually he was a&#xA;  cowardly bastard. The rest fo the crew feared him. One I know quite&#xA;  well, he's going to sign off soon. For six years he worked without&#xA;  blame or faults, now he wants to go on land again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The boys were going through the mundane routine at Bastøy.  Rage and madness have reared it's head.  Rebellion was close. Notice Olav read the part of the harpooner, meaning rebellion was thwarted for the time being. &#xA;I don't believe Erling is speaking of the whale at all here.  I believe this is strictly talk of the captain and Olav's fear of him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Erling: Everywhere was only blood. He swallowed them before he died,&#xA;  the harpooner, the cook, and the deck boy. The whale swallowed them&#xA;  all three.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Olav: Then everything went its usual course. The captain became&#xA;  admiral...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Erling (laughing): ...got the command on a shabby tub and sailed to&#xA;  America.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Olav (laughing): The crew stood in line for sex, full with mackerels&#xA;  and herrings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is obviously explaining the attack on Bråthen and the revenge and rebellion that it represents.  I interpret the swallowing of the harpooner and the deck boy as Olav and Erling being satisfied with their revenge for the time being.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I saw a whale who, hit by three harpoons, just swam away. It took&#xA;  three days till he was dead. The harpoon I hit him with had weakened&#xA;  him, and he was laced with scars from all his endured fights. One I&#xA;  know quite well, he's going to sign off soon. For six years he worked&#xA;  without blame or faults, now he wants to go on land again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is symbolism of Olav's rage and madness being quelled.  He is putting Bastøy and the events that happened there behind him.  This is meant both literally and symbolically.  The quote is being heard in the movie as Olav is physically sailing past Bastøy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T19:58:07.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41347" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44816" CreationDate="2015-09-21T20:50:03.643" Score="5" ViewCount="6839" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Arrow season 3 starting and ending intro, the Arrowhead got changed from plain to thicker one with symbols embodied on it, as depicted below&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/seq0X.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/seq0X.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any deep meaning/symbolism behind those symbols or is it just for styling?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-04-08T13:27:06.240" Title="What is the meaning of the symbols on the Arrowhead in the season 3 intro?" Tags="|analysis|reference|arrow|arrowverse|title-sequence|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35345" CreationDate="2015-09-21T21:57:15.690" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was FBI, undercover.  He was put into WITSEC after the events of the movie for the protection of his cover/identity/whatever.  That's what I've gathered about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user25738" LastActivityDate="2015-09-21T21:57:15.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41350" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="53941" CreationDate="2015-09-21T22:57:36.717" Score="2" ViewCount="6546" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2014/film/markets-festivals/sundance-film-review-cooties-1201073831/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cooties&lt;/a&gt;, a horror/comedy film was released both in theaters (very limited) and pay-per-view this last weekend (September 18).  It was produced by Glacier Films and SpectreVision, a production company focusing on the horror film genre co-founded by Elijah Wood, who also stars in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without going into much detail, the film is about a bunch of fourth-graders (i.e. 9 and 10 year-olds) who catch a highly contagious virus originating in an infected chicken nugget.  They turn into zombies and kill several of their teachers as well as each other.  Meanwhile teachers are killing children.  Lots of dismemberments, face eating, disembowelments, exposed brains and other good fun.  (The movie was filmed in 2013 and is rated R, which means the kids theoretically won't be able to watch it until 2020 when they're 17.  But I'm sure many have seen it already or will shortly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cooties premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014, and was picked up by Lionsgate.  Lionsgate decided to &lt;a href=&quot;http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3311983/cooties-filmmakers-shoot-new-ending-lionsgate/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;reshoot the ending&lt;/a&gt;, given their additional financial resources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the new ending didn't look all that expensive to film, does anyone know what the original ending was, as screened at Sundance?  I can't find any mention other than &quot;they filmed a new ending&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T21:08:29.373" LastActivityDate="2016-06-04T13:07:19.440" Title="Original Cooties ending" Tags="|production|ending|alternate-version|cooties|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41351" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41386" CreationDate="2015-09-22T01:27:36.373" Score="7" ViewCount="2186" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/em&gt;, when Clark surrenders to the US army and is sitting in the interrogation room at 01:10:55 you can see words &quot;hind the line&quot;, which I assume comes from &quot;behind the line&quot;, but the rest of the phrase is painted over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think is the full phrase and the reason behind painting over it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8P3Hz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;... HIND THE LINE&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26133" LastEditorUserId="607" LastEditDate="2016-10-12T18:53:22.137" LastActivityDate="2016-10-12T18:53:22.137" Title="What is the full phrase painted over on the ground and its purpose?" Tags="|plot-explanation|man-of-steel|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16405" CreationDate="2015-09-22T03:01:44.193" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My first impression was that he screamed because he had just killed the only last Kryptonian alive apart from him no matter how bad or good he was. And to the very last moment he probably thought he could've changed him or reasoned with him just like his father did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How would you feel if you were the only Earthling raised on a different planet and you just killed the last of your kin ever exist in the Universe, especially that only very recently you found out where you come from and who you really are? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26133" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T03:01:44.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33672" CreationDate="2015-09-22T03:35:28.273" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not think the movie was &quot;very dark and gloomy&quot;. No way. That's your personal perception and it is not how I or many others perceived it. Have you seen Lord of the Rings? Most of their movies were &quot;very dark and gloomy&quot;, I agree with that. Man of Steel had muted tones, that's right, but not dark and gloomy. The movie had steel colours. It was a perfect balance between the colour of steel, which resonates with the title of the movie, the main character's personality and the sad events pictured in the movie i.e. the destruction of Krypton and Earth too being on the verge of disappearance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it wasn't dark and gloomy, it was steely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26133" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T09:45:54.163" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T09:45:54.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35345" CreationDate="2015-09-22T04:04:29.280" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joey Gazelle faked his own death to protect himself and his family for the reminder of their &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_Scared_(2006_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lives&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A funeral is held for Joey with Teresa, Nicky, and Oleg in attendance,&#xA;  and Oleg has been adopted into the family. They drive out to a small&#xA;  farm house, where Joey's car is parked in the driveway. Teresa sits on&#xA;  the car's bumper when Joey emerges from under the car, alive and well,&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;having faked his own death for his protection as an undercover&#xA;  officer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The definition of an undercover officer is as as&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-undercover.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;follows&lt;/a&gt;:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;an individual involved in or involving secret work within a community&#xA;  or organization, esp. for the purposes of police investigation or&#xA;  espionage: an undercover police operation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T04:04:29.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23854" CreationDate="2015-09-22T06:39:45.407" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I think it’s unlikely he will appear… as a character, that is.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/05/star-wars-the-force-awakens-vanity-fair-cover&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an interview with &lt;em&gt;Vanity Fair&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, JJ Abrams mused the possibility of a return for Jar Jar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But here is something I can disclose, which I suspect fans—a majority of them, anyway—will find most heartening of all: at one point during the effects review, while watching a sequence with spaceships flying low over a desert planet, Abrams asked to pause the scene. With a light pen, he drew a little squiggle on a sand dune.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“I have a thought about putting Jar Jar Binks’s bones in the desert there,”&lt;/strong&gt; he said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone laughed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Abrams laughed, too, but insisted, “I’m serious!” He pointed out that the shot zips by in a second, if that. “Only three people will notice,” he said, “but they’ll love it.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that Abrams clearly understands the general ill-feeling towards Jar Jar, and was willing to suggest this to a journalist, I think he’s unlikely to do an about-face and bring him back as a character in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, that doesn’t preclude him appearing further down the road, after Abrams has left the franchise, but it becomes steadily more unlikely. I don’t think it will happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update, 8 December 2015:&lt;/strong&gt; at a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/06/live-blog-star-wars-force-awakens-press-conference&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Wars press event&lt;/a&gt;, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy confirmed that Jar-Jar is not appearing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kaling says she knows Kennedy can’t talk about what’s in the movie, so she asks what’s not in the movie. “Jar Jar is not in the movie,” Kennedy says, to hoots from the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9285" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-08T08:51:41.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11785" CreationDate="2015-09-22T06:48:09.190" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scotty was hungover. It's simple. In the original series we see Mr Scott enjoy a drink or make references to one. While on shore leave, he drank too much. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26139" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T06:48:09.190" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41062" CreationDate="2015-09-22T07:21:21.827" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;You were looking for credible sources. I found one on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/A#Trivia&quot;&gt;wiki page for the episode&lt;/a&gt;, a quote from the comic writer, Kirkman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Robert Kirkman stated: [The A refers to] Train Car A. They were put in Train Car A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wiki doesn't mention it anywhere else, so I would assume Occam's razor, the answer with the fewest assumptions is probably correct. It's just marking the train car they were trapped in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26140" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T09:50:28.350" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T09:50:28.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39225" CreationDate="2015-09-22T07:35:33.410" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Answering my own question). &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/41342/20086&quot;&gt;Lam's answer&lt;/a&gt; helped me find him: it is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;James Fox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hdL3u.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hdL3u.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SAGJM.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SAGJM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jj6Io.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jj6Io.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=silas+ramsbottom+edward+fox&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Many other people have noted the resemblance&lt;/a&gt; but I could not find an authoritative source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not surprisingly Silas also somewhat resembles Edward Fox, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Fox_family&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;since they are brothers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user20086" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T07:41:00.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32163" CreationDate="2015-09-22T09:09:41.667" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;All of these scenes are in Jack's mind. The only real scenes are jack at work the rest are created by Jack to facilitate interaction between his multuple personalities.&#xA;Please return your seats to their full upright and locked position. ALL of the characters in the fight club, project Mayhem etc. are he various personalities of Jack and the movie is about the struglle for power amongst them. Tyler is seeking to subdue and control all whilst Jack is looking for 'inner peace'.&#xA;CCTV is hiw Jack, the narrator imagines it would look when he discovers Tyler is not a physical person. It is atill within the world he created in his mind.&#xA;Which brings us to the car scene, a scene in Jack's mind not reality. It is therefore not subject to normal physical constraints. It is simply a physical representation of the struggle between the various personalities described by one of those personalities in physical terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26142" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T09:09:41.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41367" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41370" CreationDate="2015-09-22T09:14:03.810" Score="6" ViewCount="810" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe that the more realistic the movie is, the more it is liked by the audience and the more it struck cords with them. Yet I have seen many movies and TV serials in both Hollywood and Bollywood alike which portray simple villagers/cowboys or otherwise illiterate characters but still somehow are shown to deliver dialogues which seem really formal and as though they are well-versed and polished with English/Hindi language words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Example (probably one of the worst though)&lt;/em&gt;: In 'Vivah' hindi movie, Shahid Kapoor (lead actor) doesn't have very nice Hindi, but still uses really great Hindi words after being betrothed with Amrita Rao (lead actress). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is whether the director or the script writers, while making the movie, take into consideration the way of speaking or words frequently used by such characters in real life. If not, then why not? I understand that film is made just for entertainment purposes but I am just curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do they take into account the speaking style of the real life persona of the character used in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23466" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T09:58:48.047" LastActivityDate="2020-02-10T17:08:28.400" Title="How come characters use such words?" Tags="|character|dialogue|realism|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2021-01-15T04:50:13.170" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41368" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-22T10:24:09.153" Score="4" ViewCount="791" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was there any specific reason behind Benjen Stark joining Night's Watch in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T10:24:47.287" LastActivityDate="2016-05-18T13:44:50.033" Title="What is the reason behind Benjen Stark joining Night's Watch?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41367" CreationDate="2015-09-22T10:50:59.010" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Do they take into account the speaking style of the real life persona of the character used in the movie?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if it is possible to give a general (in the sense of universal) answer to the question.&#xA;My feeling is that they should, for the same reasons you explained above:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I believe that the more realistic the movie is, the more it is liked by the audience and the more it struck cords with them&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one cannot relate to what is going on on the screen is likely to lose interest in the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess it always depends on the kind of effect the Director (the writer) wants to convey. The more realistic is the movie, the higher the probability that the actor will use an accent and a way of expressing coherent with the character. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However it might be possible that, for the purpose of achieving a certain effect (in a comedy for instance), a baseborn american character (let's say a homeless) might be given by the writer a very refined and polite way of speaking and/or (let's say) a cockney accent, just to amplify the comic aspect. &#xA;Of course, this simple fact doesn't automatically define the movie as unrealistic, because the character could have a backstory that explains his &quot;weird&quot; way of expressing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been raking my mind trying to remember a good example but couldn't come out with any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm leaving out on purpose the bad acting/bad writing cases since that is clearly unintentional - even if sometimes I have doubts about it :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastEditorUserId="23244" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T19:01:20.367" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T19:01:20.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41368" CreationDate="2015-09-22T11:19:28.657" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the Night's Watch was formed, it was an honour to be part of it.&#xA;The Starks are a very traditional house and they are the realm closest to the wall. So I think it was expected that if possible one member of the family joins the Watch. Though nothing, that I remember, supporting or opposing is stated in the novels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25921" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2016-05-18T13:44:50.033" LastActivityDate="2016-05-18T13:44:50.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41372" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-22T11:56:57.260" Score="4" ViewCount="326" Body="&lt;p&gt;I live in a German speaking country but prefer watching movies/TV shows in English. The biggest reason is, in my opinion, the wrong translation of the word &quot;you&quot;. In German there are two possible translations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Sie&quot;: formal, usually used when talking to an adult in a business relation or a child talking to an adult or talking to elderly people. In addition this is mostly combined with the family name: &quot;Sie, Herr Schmied&quot; = &quot;You, Mr. Smith&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Du&quot;: informal, between children and friends, though in many companies nowadays also between coworkers. In addition this is mostly combined with the given name. &quot;Du, Michael&quot; = &quot;You, Michael&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In German localizations &quot;Sie&quot; is used most of the time. And this just doesn't make sense to me. Like, I would never use &quot;Sie&quot; on a date or rarely someone at my age (mid 30s) I meet on the street. This was maybe common 50 years ago, but not today. With business customers it somehow is still expected, even if I don't like it.&#xA;In my experience with communicating with US residents, the family name is rarely used and in emails the given name is used. Maybe I make a wrong link here and using he given name is considered formal in the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is &quot;Sie&quot; the right translation for &quot;you&quot; in informal conversation (in movies/TV shows)?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25921" LastEditorUserId="25921" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T12:47:48.407" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T12:47:48.407" Title="Is there a reason behind the &quot;wrong&quot; German localizations of English movies/TV shows" Tags="|dialogue|translation|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-06-29T11:25:41.087" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41373" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-22T12:56:33.077" Score="4" ViewCount="1370" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently watched the movie &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_44_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Child 44&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which is set in the 1950's Soviet Union during the Stalin regime. Apart from the fact that the movie itself is not memorable in my opinion, the thing that has bugged me the most is the way characters talk, which is in English language but with a strong eastern (Russian) accent. And I've been asking myself troughout the whole movie, why is that &quot;necessary&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uia6y9SRsj4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Child 44 - Movie Trailer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could possibly be the reason behind the choice of making Russian characters speak in that manner? They are all Russians, they are not interacting with foreigners, so why the thick accent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course I understand the obvious choice of making a movie in English language, for commercial and casting reasons, but I still don't understand the need of constantly reminding us that they are Russians by using this annoying ruse and throwing some &quot;Da&quot; around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand the reason for characterization (for instance: Italian-American mobsters), but this seems completely unjustified to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody know the reason (if there's any) behind this choice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm positive that this is not the first, nor the only movie in which this &quot;technique&quot; for dialogues has been adopted, but I can't remember other examples at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T12:59:24.943" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T12:59:24.943" Title="Why use foreign accents in English language movies when unnecessary?" Tags="|dialogue|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41375" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46327" CreationDate="2015-09-22T15:04:26.960" Score="5" ViewCount="169" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Indian web-series &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVF_Pitchers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TVF Pitchers&lt;/a&gt;, Why didn't Jeetu and Yogi just lodge an FIR against the hacker dungeon_master after he copied their idea?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He already broke their Hard-drive which consisted of Yogi's skype chats. He could have easily handled the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Note : A First Information Report (FIR) is a written document prepared by police organizations in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan when they receive about the commission of a cognizable offence.&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Information_Report&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26148" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-15T20:43:45.730" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T16:35:19.900" Title="Why didn't Jeetu and Yogi just lodge an FIR against the hacker?" Tags="|plot-explanation|tvf-pitchers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41376" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-09-22T16:50:36.543" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVF_Pitchers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TVF Pitchers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T16:50:36.543" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T16:50:36.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41377" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-09-22T16:50:36.543" Score="0" Body="TVF Pitchers is an Indian web series created by The Viral Fever (TVF)." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T16:50:36.543" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T16:50:36.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41378" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41446" CreationDate="2015-09-22T17:12:59.400" Score="1" ViewCount="2076" Body="&lt;p&gt;What would be the MBTI personality type of Sheldon Cooper from &quot;The Big Bang Theory&quot;? He is an introvert for sure. No idea about the rest of it. Any help here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user1356" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T17:16:25.080" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T04:04:21.627" Title="What would be the MBTI personality type of Sheldon Cooper?" Tags="|character|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41379" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-09-22T18:18:39.630" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers&lt;/em&gt; is a 2002 American adventure, drama, fantasy film, directed by Peter Jackson, and screenplay by Fran Walsh (and others). It stars Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, and more. It was released in the USA on December 18, 2002. This film won two Oscars. It is based on the classic book &lt;em&gt;The Two Towers&lt;/em&gt; by J. R. R. Tolkien.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full IMDb Storyline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While Frodo and Sam, now accompanied by a new guide, continue their hopeless journey towards the land of shadow to destroy the One Ring, each member of the broken fellowship plays their part in the battle against the evil wizard Saruman and his armies of Isengard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167261/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Two_Towers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41249" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T22:14:18.903" LastActivityDate="2016-12-28T22:14:18.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41380" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-09-22T18:18:39.630" Score="0" Body="2002 Film directed by Peter Jackson.  The second in the &quot;Lord of the Rings&quot; trilogy." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T20:39:43.990" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T20:39:43.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41381" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41396" CreationDate="2015-09-22T18:24:29.057" Score="4" ViewCount="1236" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Monty Python Spam skit&lt;/a&gt;, the second option presented to the couple is &quot;egg, sausage and bacon&quot;. Later she asks for &quot;egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam&quot; and is greeted with a repulsed response. But the second item on the menu is exactly what she asked for. Why didn't she just ask for that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="326" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T10:37:09.103" Title="Why didn't the woman just order &quot;egg, sausage and bacon&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|monty-python|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41381" CreationDate="2015-09-22T18:47:04.703" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;One can not simply ask why a character in a World-renown skit didn't alter their choice.  If the character had altered their choice, it wouldn't have led to the desired conclusion.  Every bit of this skit (and all non-Improv skits) includes a desired reaction from characters, as well as a desired oral response.  It's all carefully scripted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's akin to the &quot;Come in!&quot; block of a Knock, Knock joke.  You won't get the designed laugh if you don't follow protocol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T18:47:04.703" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41381" CreationDate="2015-09-22T19:25:46.273" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfFunny&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rule of Funny&lt;/a&gt;. Anything else would ruin the joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T19:25:46.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41351" CreationDate="2015-09-22T19:26:00.570" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is that it was relevant only at that particular moment. It was an expression of humans' attitude towards Clark. Just like criminals who are not accepted as 'normal' members of a society and stay behind bars in prisons or lines in this particular case, and treated differently from the rest of the society, Clark was also a stranger, an alien whose intentions or nature wasn't fully understood, so seeing 'behind the line' phrase behind Clark bears that symbolism in my opinion. So you can guess that he would be handed over to Zod.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note - if we continue our analogy with criminals - that he hasn't been tried/appeared before a judge yet. People see him later in action, and he is judged by his actions, and afterwards accepted as an ally i.e. acquitted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the reason it was painted over maybe because the rest of the phrase was irrelevant, and also if it said detainees - he is not really a detainee, wasn't detained, he surrendered. Or maybe because they couldn't really detain him, he ripped handcuffs off with ease.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26153" LastEditorUserId="26153" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T19:33:41.843" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T19:33:41.843" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41387" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41389" CreationDate="2015-09-22T20:01:46.853" Score="8" ViewCount="999" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first episode of Season 5 of Archer (&lt;em&gt;Archer Vice&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; ISIS headquarters is destroyed by the FBI and the operation is subsequently disbanded&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leading to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The surviving members abandoning espionage and attempting to move into the drug trade&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this a decision made by the production team to get away from the name &quot;ISIS&quot; due to the unfortunate connotations associated with that acronym? What I've gathered from Wikipedia regarding the activity of ISIS and the air date of Archer Vice suggests that there may be a relationship there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7207" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T10:38:28.793" Title="Did Archer Vice happen because of ISIS/ISIL?" Tags="|archer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8954" CreationDate="2015-09-22T20:01:56.527" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;To elaborate on the great point about Always Save the Girl made by KillerZ, Leia was the entire plot device for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The reason the story takes place at all is because of Princess Leia. C-3P0 and R2-D2 seek out Obi-wan Kenobi because Leia asks R2-D2 to (C-3P0) is really just pulled along for the ride. While on their way to finding Obi-wan, the two droids are captured and subsequently sold to Owen Lars, Luke's uncle and caretaker. Through R2-D2 escaping custody of its new owners, Luke is led into meeting Obi-wan. R2-D2 plays the entire cry for help message to Obi-wan. This instigates Luke learning about his real father, the Force, and ultimately being taken a long to save Princess Leia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Leia were to be executed during this time, the driving force behind the story of A New Hope would have ended. There is a crossroads now. Yes, this can happen and the story can continue on in another direction. Or No, this cannot happen because then George Lucas can't tell the story he intended to tell. This ties into part of the origins of Star Wars in that this is almost exactly the same driving plot device as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051808/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hidden Fortress&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starwars.com/news/the-cinema-behind-star-wars-the-hidden-fortress&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A very big influence&lt;/a&gt; on the creation of Star Wars, The Hidden Fortress follows General Rokurota Makabe, Tahei, and Matashichi as they escort their Kingdom's Princess safely back from enemy territory. The Princess (in Makabe's case) and her gold (in Tahei and Matashichi's cases) are the plot devices for this story. Had the gold been handled differently, or something different happened to the Princess, Kurosawa would have had to tell a different story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24600" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T20:01:56.527" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41387" CreationDate="2015-09-22T20:09:11.567" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In short, yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/article/archer-drops-isis-name-suddenly-finds-itself-bunch-210378&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The AV Club&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Archer drops ISIS name, suddenly finds itself with a bunch of unsellable t-shirts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reasons we won’t get into here because, c’mon, read a damn newspaper, FX’s Archer has suddenly found itself in an uncomfortable position due to the show’s focus on an organization that operates under the acronym “ISIS.” Speaking at New York Comic-Con—which is like San Diego Comic-Con but everyone’s a bit pushier—Archer‘s cast and crew revealed how the show would respond to real life’s sudden intrusion on the ISIS name. According to co-executive producer Casey Willis, the show is going to drop ISIS as quickly and quietly as it can, with the name being addressed in a “very smart and subtle way” right in the first episode. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/archer-article-1.1967979&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;That comes from the New York Daily News&lt;/a&gt;, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/10/archer-drops-isis-the-fx-series-dumps-the-spy-org-s-name-in-light-of-recent-events.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Daily Beast has an actual description of the scene&lt;/a&gt; for anyone who doesn’t mind spoiling a little visual gag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Daily Beast also reports that the show has scrubbed any mention of ISIS from its upcoming season, and Jessica Walter even re-recorded some of her lines for the first episode to explain that the spy organization now works for the CIA. Matt Thompson, one of Archer‘s executive producers, referred to the real ISIS as “the most awful thing,” and he said the show’s staff “didn’t want to have anything to do with it.” He also notes that South Park would’ve done a whole arc about it, going after the terrorist organization for stealing their name, but in the Archer universe that version of ISIS simply doesn’t exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some other articles out there. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/13/showbiz/tv/archer-isis-fx/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's one  from CNN&lt;/a&gt; and from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/12/6967301/fx-archer-will-drop-isis-in-season-premiere&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Verge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T10:38:28.793" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41390" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-09-22T20:09:25.397" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Started in 2014, Gotham tells the tale of the famous &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_City&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fictional city&lt;/a&gt; from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Batman&lt;/a&gt; line of comics, but from a time frame before Bruce was Batman. Primarily focused on the character of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gordon_(comics)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jim Gordon&lt;/a&gt; in his early days on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_City_Police_Department&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gotham City Police Department&lt;/a&gt;. The show also depicts early versions of soon-to-be infamous Gotham villains, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin_(comics)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Penguin&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catwoman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Catwoman&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddler&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Riddler&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Face&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Two-Face&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia page: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gotham&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDb page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3749900/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gotham&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T20:39:32.253" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T20:39:32.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41391" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-09-22T20:09:25.397" Score="0" Body="A 2014 television drama based on the fictional city from the Batman series of comics." OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T20:39:38.093" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T20:39:38.093" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41392" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41393" CreationDate="2015-09-22T20:26:36.200" Score="0" ViewCount="509" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wasn't there a sequel to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt; (2005)&lt;/a&gt;? I can't seem to find it online. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that Restaurant at the end of the Universe got made into a film. No? Did I just imagine that? All...so...vividly?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26155" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T20:32:08.983" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T21:13:13.717" Title="Is there a sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)?" Tags="|sequels|the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41392" CreationDate="2015-09-22T20:36:49.540" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was no filmed sequel to the 2005 feature film adaptation of the &quot;Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-09-22T21:13:13.717" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T21:13:13.717" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37042" CreationDate="2015-09-22T23:15:32.780" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Luke wanted to &quot;join the Imperial academy&quot; So they were obviously hiring and training TIE-pilots at least. Most navy officers are promoted from the ranks of the enlisted. You have to fly a TIE-fighter without crashing before someone will trust you with a Star-Destroyer. None of the Admirals Vader force-choked looked much like Jango.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were also rumors of Solo once being a stormtrooper, but not caring for the politics, esp over the treatment of wookies, which led to him &quot;freeing the slaves&quot; in a self-started rebellion. This story also explains Chewie's dedication to Han. I believe I heard that one of the MANY side stories published covers this part of his history (although not a part of official cannon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Han's knowledge of &quot;imperial protocol&quot; for dumping garbage before jumping to hyperspace could have been gained from a previous accidental sighting, but this was another possible source of the rumor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25875" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T23:15:32.780" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41381" CreationDate="2015-09-22T23:50:15.583" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Within the fiction of the sketch, it makes some sense for the woman to think that there's nothing to order without Spam in it. The cook's list goes on for so long, and mentions Spam so many times, that anyone in that situation could easily forget what the first few items mentioned were, or that they didn't include Spam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We might then wonder why the cook doesn't say &quot;Oh, if you don't like Spam, you can just get eggs, bacon and sausage, as I mentioned before.&quot; Maybe she's forgotten her own menu; maybe she's feigning ignorance out of spite. Neither theory has much support in the text. As performed, it seems that for the first several seconds of the sketch, there is something on the menu that doesn't include Spam; then the facts have changed, and there is nothing on the menu that doesn't have some Spam. The text is inconsistent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From outside the fiction, the humor of the sketch derives primarily from the second set of facts. The woman's inability to order anything without Spam causes her to get more and more frantic, mounting the tension of the situation so as to enable the &quot;catharsis&quot; of the madness that follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be a bit much to say that there's a &lt;em&gt;narrative,&lt;/em&gt; but the sketch does have an emotional arc: innocuous absurdity, followed by increasingly animated absurdity, and then off-the-rails absurdity. For this to work, the beginning of the sketch has to be constructed carefully: The Vikings are present, but quiet; the couple float down from the void into their seats, but this is not remarked upon. Critically, &lt;em&gt;the cook can't mention Spam.&lt;/em&gt; Not right away. Recall Borges, &lt;em&gt;The Garden of Forking Paths:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only word that must not be used?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the first word out of the cook's mouth were &quot;Spam,&quot; then the sketch would have tipped its hand; the revelation (in a few seconds) that this café very nearly serves &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; Spam would not have the same weight, would not be as funny. The sketch needs to mislead us for a little while in order to be as absurd as it is. So the cook first mentions a few Spam-free items, essentially as a pacing device. Once the Spam joke well and truly comes into play, the audience is expected to forget that set of facts: The rules of this world have been replaced with new, funnier ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not to say that the &lt;em&gt;inconsistency&lt;/em&gt; is necessary to the comedy. The sketch is not funny because the cook refuses to acknowledge a menu item she mentioned a minute beforehand. It's funny because the cook insists on putting Spam in everything! The inconsistency is incidental, hard to notice, not funny, just comedically convenient. If the sketch were constructed such that the requisite pacing beats were filled by something other than the cook mentioning Spam-free meals, the work overall would be just as effective, having lost nothing for making a tiny bit more sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am equally prepared to believe that the geniuses of Monty Python noticed this inconsistency and figured nobody else would, or that they didn't notice it themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20866" LastActivityDate="2015-09-22T23:50:15.583" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10304" CreationDate="2015-09-23T03:47:46.603" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked Bandai Customer Service...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hi, I loved the Might Orbots as a kid and would like a DVD release please.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1-It looks like Bandai holds the license for the Mighty Orbots&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;2-Will you please release the 13 episodes to DVD?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and got this response a week later...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your inquiry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of March 31, 2013, Bandai Entertainment Inc. ceased its business operations and had not being selling items for around a year.  We are unable to further respond to any email or phone inquiries regarding DVD’s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologies,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26158" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T09:28:01.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41402" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47094" CreationDate="2015-09-23T06:48:49.387" Score="9" ViewCount="2372" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have already consulted &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/3339/21217&quot;&gt;the original &quot;fly scene&quot; thread&lt;/a&gt; about this, but it doesn't exactly answer my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking about the &quot;fly scene&quot; that comes in &lt;em&gt;season five&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; when Walt is sitting in the Vamanos Pest office in &lt;em&gt;Gliding Over All&lt;/em&gt; (episode 8). At the very beginning, Todd walks into the office and Walt is sitting in a chair in the middle of the room. A fly is flying around and Walt seems to either be watching it or just staring into space. Then Walt and Todd have a conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, going off of the original thread, I'm assuming it has to do with his loss of control. But I want to think there is something more to this scene then there was to the first one in the lab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a difference here? Or is this just a kind of reminder of the theme they're pushing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21217" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T15:47:48.560" Title="What is the significance of the &quot;fly scene&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24997" CreationDate="2015-09-23T07:19:32.947" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ending is the central topic in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/22/seven-ending-20th-anniversary&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Entertainment Weekly article&lt;/a&gt; for the 20th anniversary of the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The finale owes much of its edge-of-your-seat quality to the tension&#xA;  established earlier in the film. “Tension was built from the earliest&#xA;  scenes,” producer Arnold Kopelson writes in an email to EW. “When the&#xA;  audience is finally in the last scenes, it is the culmination of all&#xA;  that it has been carefully constructed it to be.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kopelson was one of the ending’s early opposers, but says he&#xA;  eventually came around. “We attempted many different endings and none&#xA;  worked,” Kopelson explains. “It needed this horrendous event to kick&#xA;  off the last sin, wrath.” He says &lt;strong&gt;he gave his okay when Fincher (Gone&#xA;  Girl, Fight Club) assured him that the audience would not see Tracy’s&#xA;  head in the box, leaving much of the horror up to the imagination.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Kopelson credits Fincher with maintaining intensity at the film’s end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fincher also embraced creative risks. He employed shaky camera to&#xA;  enhance the action and drama and &lt;strong&gt;included a brief shot of Tracy just&#xA;  before Mills shoots Doe&lt;/strong&gt;, decisions editor Richard Francis-Bruce&#xA;  applauds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“People are convinced they see the head in the box,” Francis-Bruce&#xA;  says, “just because of Morgan’s performance.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T07:19:32.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41405" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="75198" CreationDate="2015-09-23T08:19:01.733" Score="8" ViewCount="26893" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3327624/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Infini (2015)&lt;/a&gt;, the recon team returns to Earth and is met by a bunch of doctors performing health examinations on each of them. In the scenes before, the ooze organism heals them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So did the ooze become part of them as they went back to Earth and that's why the examination scene was so suspenseful? I'm wondering because just before they left the outpost, the ooze apparently formed into human-like structures meaning that it might have stayed on the outpost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21217" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T08:36:30.017" LastActivityDate="2017-06-23T12:10:19.880" Title="What is implied by the struggle in the examination at the end of Infini?" Tags="|plot-explanation|infini|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41406" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41407" CreationDate="2015-09-23T08:42:08.600" Score="6" ViewCount="4302" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw one Hollywood movie in 2012, in this movie one family has two girl and one boy. They go to school every day. One elder girl gets a camera as a gift or buys it on her birthday (I don't remember perfectly). She takes photos and she completes more than 12 camera rolls; her father promises her one clean roll every month. So in her next birthday she'll have all her photos with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But her neighbor make one groove for trapping her and when she returns from school, he asks her to visit it and she goes with him. There he rapes and kills her. On the other side, her family start looking for her and they also complain to the police but it is worthless. That girl lives around with her family, after death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The graphics and scenes in this movie are very pretty. That girl's soul tries to inform her father that her neighbour killed her. At last that neighbour dies due to sharp ice dropping on his head. I think this movie was also nominated for an Oscar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24373" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T08:57:08.117" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T09:29:47.983" Title="Hollywood movie with a girl who stays with her family after her murder" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:02:48.583" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41406" CreationDate="2015-09-23T08:46:02.593" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're looking for Peter Jackson's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380510/combined&quot;&gt;The Lovely Bones&lt;/a&gt; from 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A 14-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bit with the camera is in it as well (the girl wants to be a photographer) and also the ending with the deadly  icicle. Stanley Tucci was nominated for a Best Supporting Role Oscar as the murderer. The movie was based on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lovely_Bones&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; from 2002. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/jvWXV-c2hWo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T09:29:47.983" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T09:29:47.983" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41409" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41418" CreationDate="2015-09-23T09:11:31.393" Score="7" ViewCount="2725" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first &lt;em&gt;Friday the 13th&lt;/em&gt; movie, we saw that Jason's mother was the real villain. So what led the production house to switch to Jason rather than choosing his mother (or maybe choosing both of them) as a villain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-04-13T12:16:03.403" LastActivityDate="2018-04-13T12:16:03.403" Title="Why was Jason chosen over his mother to be the villain?" Tags="|production|friday-the-13th|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41409" CreationDate="2015-09-23T12:08:16.177" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Voorhees&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; explains it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many ideas were suggested for the sequel to Friday the 13th, including making the title part of a serialized franchise, where each succeeding film would be its own story and not related to any previous film under the Friday the 13th moniker. It was Phil Scuderi, one of the producers for the original film, which suggested bringing Jason back for the sequel. The director Steve Miner felt it was the obvious direction to take the series, as he felt the audience wanted to know more about the child who attacked Alice in the lake. Miner decided to pretend as if Alice did not see the &quot;real Jason&quot; in her dream, and Jason had survived his drowning as a boy and had grown up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24343" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T12:08:16.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10352" CreationDate="2015-09-23T12:22:57.203" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;He created the illusion of him falling just as he created the illusion of him dying in &quot;Thor: The Dark World&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26166" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T12:22:57.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41252" CreationDate="2015-09-23T12:25:43.947" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Does Noodles naively ignore the reality about Max's betrayal?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, Noodles does not ignore the reality, he just consciously &lt;strong&gt;chooses&lt;/strong&gt; to ignore it. And in order to understand this choice one must remember how he got to the final confrontation with Max. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon receiving the letter that calls him back to New York after 35 years (&quot;of going bed early&quot; in the words of Noodles himself) of hiding and laying low, he's aware that someone from the past has finally found him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's suspicious about the reason (could be an old enemy) and he's still wondering who is the person that sent him the &quot;invitation&quot;, although he's sure that is someone that knows him well. Throughout the movie Noodles starts finding clues that leads him, towards the end of the film, to her ex lover Deborah, which he found out to be the mistress of Senator Bailey, the man that has sent Noodles a mysterious invitation to his mansion for a party.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deborah warns Noodles about going to the Senator's party and also about meeting his son, who's waiting for her outside the dressing room of the theatre where Noodles and Deborah are meeting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DEBORAH - &quot;We're both old. All we have left are a few memories. &#xA;      If you go to that party, you won't even have them any more. &#xA;      Tear up that invitation. [...] I'm begging you Noodles&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;NOODLES - &quot;Are you afraid I'll turn into a pillar of salt?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DEBORAH - &quot;If you go out that door, yes.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Noodles is determined to find out the truth after all this time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;DEBORAH - &quot;This is the son of Senator Bailey. His name is David. The same as yours&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and so he finds himself in front of his young friend Max, as if 35 years didn't pass. Although it is not revealed out loud in the movie, it is perfectly plausible to imagine that Noodles has finally understood who is waiting for him at the party and who this Senator Bailey actually is. He could tear up the invitation, as Deborah suggested, but after all he's learned he can't go back to his life without a final encounter with his old friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the party Senator Bailey doesn't waste much time dwelling on the past with Noodles and, since he will be dead anyway in a matter of days, he goes straight to the point and tries to manipulate Noodles into killing him by urging Noodles to exact his revenge and reminding him that:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MAX - &quot;I ruined your life, Noodles. For forty years, I've let you think you got me killed. Your eyes were too full of tears to see it wasn't me lying burned up on the street. [...] I took your whole life away from you; I've been living in your place. I took everything - your money, your girl... What are you waiting for?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Noodles has a much simpler version of the story: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;NOODLES - &quot;Many years ago I tried  to save a friend of mine by turning him in. He was a very close friend. Things worked out bad for him and for me.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and he sticks to it. To deny what has happened, what he &lt;strong&gt;believed for 35 years has happened&lt;/strong&gt;, it would also mean for him to acknowledge that all the grief and the remorse for causing the death of his friends (Max, Patsy and Cockeye) has been wasted. That all his life has been wasted. That the friendship in which he believied in up to this moment probably never existed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Noodles walks away from Senator Bailey not because that's his way of taking revenge against him but because he believes that Max, his friend Max, died 35 years ago. This crooked politician standing in front of him is no one for Noodles and he has no grudge, no debt to exact from him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T12:25:43.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41409" CreationDate="2015-09-23T14:26:40.363" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jason Voorhees and his mother Pamela Voorhees are both portrayed as villains in the first movie.  Mrs. Vorhees as the actual villain, revealed at the end of the movie to be the person who commits the actual murders.  Jason appears at the end in a dream like sequence seen through the eyes of Alice, the lone survivor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jason was brought back in the sequel at the suggestion of one of the movies producers for the original &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080761/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv&quot;&gt;film&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The filmmakers never intended to make this the launching pad for the&#xA;  series that followed. According to Victor Miller, Jason was only meant&#xA;  as a plot device and not intended to continue on his mother's grisly&#xA;  work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sequel actually shows Jason as a teenager/young adult for the first part of the film. Of course, Jason is seen five years later as a grown adult when he shows up to camp Crystal Lake to go on a murder spree to &quot;guard&quot; Camp Crystal Lake... and to avenge his mother's death.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jason was actually never supposed to be in the films.  He was only in the last scene in the original as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th_(franchise)&quot;&gt;joke&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Initial ideas for a sequel involved the Friday the 13th title being&#xA;  used for a series of discontinuous films, released once a year, and&#xA;  each would be a separate &quot;scary movie&quot; of its own right. Phil&#xA;  Scuderi—a co‑owner of Esquire Theaters with Steve Minasian and Bob&#xA;  Barsamian and a producer of the original film—insisted that the sequel&#xA;  must have Jason Voorhees, Pamela's son, even though his appearance at&#xA;  the end of the original film was only meant to be a joke. Steve Miner,&#xA;  associate producer of the first film, believed in the idea, and he&#xA;  ultimately directed the first two sequels after Cunningham opted not&#xA;  to return to the director's chair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T14:32:26.220" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T14:32:26.220" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41419" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41421" CreationDate="2015-09-23T14:40:25.347" Score="1" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I have a question regarding the lack of web premieres.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does almost every popular film go through the same flow (premiere in the cinema, then wait X amount of months and then make it available on DVD)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do they not decide on premiering the film on the web through streaming? I would personally love to buy a film on my PC well knowing that I could only watch it once, and that it would be the same price as a ticket to the cinema, so why go through the hassle of getting it to the cinema first, and then the wait? What's in it for movie companies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People don't like waiting. I think that if people could see a premiere in their home instead of the cinema for the same price, there would also be less piracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason for the lack of web premieres?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26171" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-03-11T14:37:56.303" LastActivityDate="2016-03-11T15:02:00.307" Title="Web premieres to fight piracy?" Tags="|distribution|piracy|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41420" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-23T14:53:15.253" Score="4" ViewCount="1417" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Black Mass Brian Halloran ran to the FBI after finding out about the killing of the owner of the sport team. He didn't have a problem killing people shown in his first scene and he knew about the plan when they were talking about it in the restaurant. He even got paid off to keep his mouth shut. So why did he run to the FBI as soon as he heard about the killing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26154" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-23T15:01:04.647" LastActivityDate="2017-07-26T10:03:07.100" Title="Why did Brian Halloran go to the FBI in Black Mass?" Tags="|plot-explanation|black-mass|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41419" CreationDate="2015-09-23T15:27:16.463" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Double the sales. If people like a movie enough, they'll buy the dvd/bluray after having already seen it in the cinema earlier. You could compare it a little to mobile phones and game devices that constantly get released under slighly new versions. Or 'deluxe' versions of dvd's being released some time after the regular ones are released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, consider the fact that a century ago, cinemas were the only place where you could watch a movie. If digital copies would suddenly replace cinema premieres, all cinemas would go bankrupt nearly instantly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="461" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T15:27:16.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41419" CreationDate="2015-09-23T15:32:08.930" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Web streaming can be pirated. Netflix has some of the better encryption to prevent piracy but even their stuff gets pirated. You can go to any torrent site and look up Netflix exclusive shows and find them there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one way to watch latest movies if you can afford it. PRIMA Cinema allows for a secure connection to watch new movies but it costs up to $35,000 to get the hardware and another $500 per movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26154" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T15:32:08.930" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2190" CreationDate="2015-09-23T17:11:08.333" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;One simple way is to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt%E2%80%93shift_photography&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;tilt-shift lens&lt;/a&gt;. It's often used by photographers for static images although I'm not sure if it's commonly used for animated movies or not. Simply put the camera aside from the mirror then shift the lens towards it. The perspective will be fixed by the lens so that viewers will think that the camera is in front of the mirror. However those lenses are &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;very expensive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; so nowadays people may use a normal lens then correct the perspective later by Photoshop, Premiere or similar software.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Update&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a great demo video on that. Thanks Rob for the comment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/HOh5zUOww0E?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Read more:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://nofilmschool.com/boards/questions/removing-camera-mirror-scene&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://nofilmschool.com/boards/questions/removing-camera-mirror-scene&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinematography.com/index.php?showtopic=59036&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.cinematography.com/index.php?showtopic=59036&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/How-are-mirrors-filmed-without-the-camera-appearing-in-shot-without-CGI&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.quora.com/How-are-mirrors-filmed-without-the-camera-appearing-in-shot-without-CGI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/NZ6gk1xWl78?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for complex scenes people will have to use CGI anyway&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/-1WENH3LwmQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/vdWRYlAt3TI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/VASwKZAUVSo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15356" LastEditorUserId="15356" LastEditDate="2021-04-21T16:14:12.880" LastActivityDate="2021-04-21T16:14:12.880" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41419" CreationDate="2015-09-23T19:39:59.063" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's simply the business model the industry has used for as long as 'home media' has existed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Film studios make money on ticket sales. Theaters make money on food sales. There is a symbiotic relationship there that home-media premiers would interfere with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that's how it's usually been done. Make money in the theater, then make money later with home releases (traditionally cable rights, and video rentals--now digital). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, times chance and there &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; studios that now release films online and in theaters simultaneously. Magnolia Pictures is one studio that does simultaneous releases. Steven Soderbergh is a director that has also released films via simultaneous channels. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-09-23T19:39:59.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35864" CreationDate="2015-09-23T19:58:30.873" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been nothing stated about Eobard Thawne's sexuality in-universe or out of universe at this time. The character is all about ambiguous actions, playing his cards very close to the chest, for obvious villainous reasons. His love/hate reactions to Barry being the most blatant (he &quot;respects&quot; Barry but you know, still wants to kill him). If anything, his actions show that he is a pragmatist and very calculating. He's playing a long game in order to kill Barry while still being able to get back to his own time. He's likely just playing it up as needed, like pretending to be paralyzed, until it's no longer useful. We know that he's been ready to get out of the chair when his life is at risk (when the robotic bees swarm the headquarters).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, he is from the 22nd century (25th in most comics), who knows what sexual identities exist five generations from now (2155).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, comic Hartley, in the New 52 reboot from 2011ish, was tied to a relationship with Captain David Singh, who is confirmed Gay, and eventually married to Rob, in the series. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zen134237.zen.co.uk/The_Flash_1x01_-_Pilot.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Draft script of the Pilot has Hartley still with Team Flash, stating that &lt;em&gt;he&lt;/em&gt;, not Cisco, designed the firefighter suit, while dating a fireman.&lt;/a&gt; So the ho-yay feels might come from Hartley. Coincidently, the actor Andy Mientus is also openly Bisexual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-20T22:34:18.190" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T22:34:18.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8954" CreationDate="2015-09-23T20:50:13.303" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the film's official &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_IV:_A_New_Hope_(junior_novelization)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;junior novelisation&lt;/a&gt;, Vader prevented the execution so that Leia could act as bait, leading the Empire to the Rebel Base on Yavin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Again, Vader remained silent, but he thought, If we’d done things your&#xA;  way, Princess Leia would have been executed by now. And how would that&#xA;  have helped us find the Rebel base, Grand Moff Tarkin?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Star-Wars-A-New-Hope.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;in the film&lt;/a&gt;, Tarkin and Vader have a conversation about recent events. We learn that their apparent failure to prevent Luke, Leia, &amp;amp; Han from escaping was in fact a carefully crafted plan of Vader's:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TARKIN:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Are they away?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VADER:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;They have just made the jump into hyperspace.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TARKIN:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;You're sure the homing beacon is secure aboard their ship? &lt;strong&gt;I'm taking an awful risk, Vader. This had better work.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2017-11-14T22:50:19.163" LastActivityDate="2017-11-14T22:50:19.163" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41437" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-23T20:51:50.830" Score="0" ViewCount="287" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_Human_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Almost Human&lt;/strong&gt; is a sci-fi buddy cop/crime drama&lt;/a&gt; revolving a tough as &lt;em&gt;bones&lt;/em&gt;, old school human cop his deadpan snarker &lt;em&gt;almost human&lt;/em&gt; synthetic robot partner. Well rated, Fox decided to cancel it after a single season in 2014 (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;like so many other scifi shows on it's network&lt;/a&gt;). While many fans petitioned for it to be continued, or shopped around, nothing has come about it. Syfy and Netflix haven't commented on it either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show ended without a finale cliffhanger (thankfully), but had it's season-wide plot left wide open. What's behind the wall? What was the roboticist planning? How was inSyndicate involved? Will Kennex and Stahl get together? Minor and Major plot points were unresolved. Since the series is original and not an adaptation of a film or book series, there is nowhere else to find an answer to these questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question then is, &lt;strong&gt;is there any source for information on what would have been shown in a Season 2? Or is the show still being shopped around? Is there plans for a one-off special addressing those plot points?&lt;/strong&gt; Any interview would be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T09:26:14.767" Title="The future of &quot;Almost Human&quot;?" Tags="|production|cancellation|almost-human|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41378" CreationDate="2015-09-24T04:04:21.627" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe Sheldon well fits into &lt;strong&gt;ISTJ&lt;/strong&gt;. From wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extraversion/Introversion&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;The extraverted types learn best by talking and interacting with others. By interacting with the physical world, extraverts can process and make sense of new information. The introverted types prefer quiet reflection and privacy. Information processing occurs for introverts as they explore ideas and concepts internally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sensing/Intuition&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;The second continuum reflects what a person focuses their attentions on. Sensing types enjoy a learning environment in which the material is presented in a detailed and sequential manner. Sensing types often attend to what is occurring in the present, and can move to the abstract after they have established a concrete experience. Intuitive types prefer a learning atmosphere in which an emphasis is placed on meaning and associations. Insight is valued higher than careful observation, and pattern recognition occurs naturally for Intuitive types.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thinking/Feeling&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;The third continuum reflects a person’s decision preferences. Thinking types desire objective truth and logical principles and are natural at deductive reasoning. Feeling types place an emphasis on issues and causes that can be personalized while they consider other people's motives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Judging/Perceiving&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;The fourth continuum reflects how a person regards complexity. Judging types will thrive when information is organized and structured, and they will be motivated to complete assignments in order to gain closure. Perceiving types will flourish in a flexible learning environment in which they are stimulated by new and exciting ideas. Judging types like to be on time, while perceiving types may be late and/or procrastinate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. I can relate to Sheldon very much and when I took the complete MBTI assessment, i too was categorized as ISTJ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26157" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T04:04:21.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41450" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-09-24T05:43:33.527" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T05:43:33.527" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T05:43:33.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41451" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-09-24T05:43:33.527" Score="0" Body="An American legal drama television series created and written by Aaron Korsh, debuted in 2011" OwnerUserId="7259" LastEditorUserId="7259" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T08:55:59.073" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T08:55:59.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41459" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41381" CreationDate="2015-09-24T10:37:09.103" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because &quot;Egg, Sausage, and Bacon&quot; is actually just the &lt;em&gt;name&lt;/em&gt; of the dish, not a listing of its ingredients (which are primarily Spam, with a Spam garnish).  This is similar to how a Club Sandwich is not actually comprised of a wooden cudgel between two slices of bread.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, when she asked for &quot;Egg, bacon, Spam, and sausage&quot; without the Spam, she was listing the ingredients of a different dish, and requesting that the signature ingredient be removed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is akin to ordering a Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, garnished with truffle pâté, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam...but requesting that the chef hold the Spam.  It's just not done, you see. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16207" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T10:37:09.103" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="369" CreationDate="2015-09-24T12:53:29.740" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's starts off with a primitive tribe that have nevertheless created some pretty nifty boobytraps. They think they're pretty evolved yet they single out one tribe member and pester him. It's nothing inhumane but it's not right, societywise. Low civilisation with minor problems. This tribe gets overtaken by a civilisation that is much more evolved than the primitive tribe could fathom when they thought they were the top of the evolutionary hierarchy. This much bigger civilisation is already more obviously flawed. The movie ends with the conquistadores arriving. The highly evolved natives are about to find out they're not at the top of the pyramid either. I feel the quote is a warning to the viewer: We like to think of ourself as the most evolved civilisation yet it seems to be falling apart. Aliens are coming soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26203" LastActivityDate="2015-09-24T12:53:29.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41472" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41503" CreationDate="2015-09-24T16:22:45.283" Score="3" ViewCount="1771" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm watching Adventure Time and I have noticed that some episodes have an amazing animation quality while others are so badly drawn compared. They seem to change the artist at some episodes or something. I have noticed this also in Avatar, The Last Airbender, but only happened in a very few episodes (Maybe for vacation of the main artist), in the case of Adventure Time this quality drop happens quite often, at least at the second season which is the one I'm watching now.&#xA;Anyone knows why this happens? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26210" LastEditorUserId="23193" LastEditDate="2015-09-24T21:39:58.940" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T09:27:57.280" Title="Why are some episodes of Adventure Time worse than others in terms of animation?" Tags="|adventure-time|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41487" CreationDate="2015-09-24T18:24:53.633" Score="6" ViewCount="17929" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Thor channels lightning bolts into the &quot;cradle&quot; containing the still-inanimate form of Vision. Why? Was he hoping to kill it? To bring it to life? Either way, why did he want this outcome and what made him think lightning bolts would accomplish his goal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-25T11:44:45.620" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T11:44:45.620" Title="Why did Thor electrocute the &quot;cradle&quot; containing Vision?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41478" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41479" CreationDate="2015-09-24T19:50:02.980" Score="16" ViewCount="900" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt;, when Cobb is trying to recruit Eames in Mombasa, Eames expresses surprise that Cobb is still working with Arthur.  Cobb replies &quot;Well, he's good at what he does&quot;, to which Eames replies &quot;Oh, he's the best....&quot;  Eames' specialty is that of being a Forger.  Cobb is the most skilled Extractor.  What is Arthur &quot;the best&quot; at?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25682" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-25T09:26:18.603" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T10:55:40.853" Title="What is Arthur's specialty?" Tags="|character|inception|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41479" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41478" CreationDate="2015-09-24T21:19:25.463" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie, Arthur is defined as &lt;em&gt;the point man&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/11rxl.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/11rxl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/point_man&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Point man&lt;/a&gt;: A most trusted assistant or associate; the person upon whom one would most rely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arthur is Cobb's right-hand guy and the team's detail man who's best at taking care of all the specifics. He also keeps Cobb in check (Cobb proves throughout the film that he's a somewhat volatile partner who might veer off script or subconsciously jeopardize operations). So Cobb considers him the best at &lt;em&gt;complementing&lt;/em&gt; his own role. Eames might consider him a 'stick-in-the-mud', but that's Arthur's job: To be the most serious-minded, task oriented man on extraction teams and often the voice of reason. &lt;a href=&quot;http://thefilmstage.com/news/warner-bros-spills-the-beans-on-inception/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Says Joseph Gordon-Levitt&lt;/a&gt; who played Arthur:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Arthur is the organized one, the one making sure everything is in its right place. The way I see it, Cobb is the artist and Arthur is the producer. He’s the one saying, ‘Okay, you have your vision; now I’m going to figure out how to make all the nuts and bolts work so you can do your thing.’ &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-09-25T10:55:40.853" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T10:55:40.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41481" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41485" CreationDate="2015-09-24T22:13:41.553" Score="14" ViewCount="3045" Body="&lt;p&gt;While watching the hunting scene down from the hotel on skis in &quot;On Her Majesty's Secret Service&quot; I was wondering why (and if) they are going quite slow. If I had the same hill while on skis (and being hunted) I would have chosen a much straighter line down the hill, resulting in a higher speed. Is it just an impression one gets from the movie that the speed of the skiers is quite slow, and they are going really fast? Or are they also slow in reality, and it is because of something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the accident Bond has (where he loses one of his skis) looks quite bad, i.e. I would have expected him to damage at least one knee. Is that exaggerated, or is it just luck?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21283" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2020-03-30T20:23:58.723" LastActivityDate="2020-03-30T20:23:58.723" Title="Aren't Bond and the villains going quite slow in the ski chase? Or is it just an impression?" Tags="|james-bond|on-her-majestys-secret-service|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41481" CreationDate="2015-09-25T00:47:24.337" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who skis 50+ days a year, let me try and address some of the questions you pose.  For reference I went and reviewed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrkerh77MYY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;scene&lt;/a&gt; you were talking about again (it's been a little while).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A couple of caveats before I begin, regarding the equipment being used in this scene.  The filmmakers give us a real good look at the skis and boots James Bond uses at the beginning of this scene. The brands (Bond often used Olin skis) aren't important but the technology is.  The skis in this scene look to be from 200cm to 220cm (taller than Bond) in length and probably not much more than 60 mm under foot.  His boots aren't leather but the shell appears to be a softer material and uses a lacing system.  So what does all of this mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You really can't compare what you see modern extreme skiers doing today with the stuntmen in this movie.  Modern skiers use much wider and usually shorter skis that have various types of camber that make them an order of magnitude easier to ski.  They just are WAY more stable and will chew up crud, powder, bumps, or anything else you throw at them.  Modern boots are much more stiffer and allow the skier to drive the ski as hard as they want.  The skis Bond and the bad guys use in this scene aren't even close.  This is one reason why so many people switched to snowboards in the late 80' early 90's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So with that said, let's address your questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why... are they going... slow?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am assuming you aren't talking about the blue/green screen portions of this scene.  At about 30-45 seconds in the camera looks up at Bond coming down at the top of a section with quite a few moguls and he makes what appears to be quite a few turns.  A few seconds later the bad guys take off after him and we see the same camera angle from below the skiers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with looking up on a steep slope is that it never, ever looks that steep.  It's really an optical illusion.  Moguls are typically steeper on the side you approach them and then fall off.  This is because most skiers are checking their speed as they approach the mogul which then builds up over time to become more and more difficult.  The reason the skiers at this point of the scene aren't just charging straight down the mountain is that the hill is much steeper than it looks and they must control their speed through the mogul section.  Now there are guys and girls out there who can just eat up the whole section without stopping but the clean &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stein_Eriksen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stein Eriksen&lt;/a&gt; old school turns that these stunt men use looks great on film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At about 1:30 to 1:45 in the scene, the skiers make a series of pretty good sized jumps in and out of the ridge line they are skiing.  If you have ever skied in Canada or the Alps, even with a guide you are never quite sure what is in front of you.  This scene is clearly off-piste.  That means you can be charging across a seemingly innoculous section and 1 second later there is a cliff in front of you.  If I am being chased by bad guys with machine guns in this terrain or the one doing the chasing, I'm gonna be a tad cautious.  In spite of this, these stunt men make some pretty nice jumps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, just before Bond loses his ski the terrain begins to involve more trees.  Tree skiing is a blast but tress always win.  Enough said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was... Bond's accident real?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At about 2:30 into the scene, Bond loses a ski and then takes off on only one ski.  The accident looks bad but is actually quite harmless and is an example of an experienced skier who knows 'how to fall'.  The ski actually comes off well before he hits the snow bank.  Anyone who has skied has surely 'caught an edge' before.  This is what happened to Bond.  Catching an edge can take many forms, but it basically means you got one or more of your feet tangled up.  The bindings in this scene were probably set a little loose so that the ski would release fairly easy.  After the ski popped off, Bond actually slides over on his side and then slides up the snow bank.  Watch all of this in real time, and it looks he slams his knee into the snow bank and his ski pops off.  Another example of how fast the stunt man was really going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should also be noted that the 1 ski sequence is very real.  I am pretty sure CGI was not available in 1969. The ski double for Bond, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002184/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Vic Armstrong&lt;/a&gt;, should be given special props.  Legit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After breaking this scene down and then going back and watching from start to finish without stopping I think the green/blue screen parts with the few flat areas they sprinkled in (where the skiers are pushing and skating) are the main culprits for the scene appearing to be slow.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Her_Majesty%27s_Secret_Service_(film)#Filming&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; mentions that some &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-lapse_photography&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;fast motion&lt;/a&gt; editing was also used, which can give a 'fake' appearance to anything.  In my opinion, during the real ski sequences, these guys were skiing fast and well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24123" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2020-03-30T20:23:55.983" LastActivityDate="2020-03-30T20:23:55.983" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41477" CreationDate="2015-09-25T01:16:52.940" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thor zapped the cradle in order to power it, and bring the Vision to life. The cradle was disconnected from power (and data) by Quicksilver while everyone else was arguing. The lightning provided the power needed, much like it did to the Iron Man suit in the previous Avengers movie.*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thor says this outright, the the Vision is necessary for them to defeat Ultron:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steve Rogers:&lt;/strong&gt; Thor, you helped create this?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Thor:&lt;/strong&gt; I've had a vision. A whirlpool that sucks in all hope of life and at it's center is that. [he points to the gem inside Vision's head]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bruce Banner:&lt;/strong&gt; What, the gem?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Thor:&lt;/strong&gt; It's the Mind Stone. It's one of the six Infinity Stones, the greatest power in the universe, unparalleled in its destructive capabilities.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Steve Rogers:&lt;/strong&gt; Then why would you bring it to...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Thor:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Because Stark is right.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Bruce Banner:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh, it's definitely the end times.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Thor:&lt;/strong&gt; The Avengers cannot defeat Ultron.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Vision:&lt;/strong&gt; Not alone.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Steve Rogers:&lt;/strong&gt; Why does your &quot;vision&quot; sound like Jarvis?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Tony Stark:&lt;/strong&gt; We...we reconfigured Jarvis' matrix to create something new.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Steve Rogers:&lt;/strong&gt; I think I've had my fill of new.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Vision:&lt;/strong&gt; You think I'm a child of Ultron?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Steve Rogers:&lt;/strong&gt; You're not?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Vision:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not Ultron. I'm not Jarvis. I am...I am...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Wanda Maximoff:&lt;/strong&gt; I looked in your head and saw annihilation.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Vision:&lt;/strong&gt; Look again.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Clint Barton:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah. Her seal of approval means jack to me.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Thor:&lt;/strong&gt; Their powers, the horrors in our heads, Ultron himself, they all came from the Mind Stone, and they're nothing compared to what it can unleash. &lt;strong&gt;But with it on our side...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Stark's Position being that they should use the Vision in the way that he wanted to use Ultron, as protector of the Earth).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was part of Thor's vision in the Waters earlier in the film. The extended version on dvd/bluray is slightly less confusing. But neither actually show the Vision in it. So all we have is Thor's word that he saw that the Vision would help. This also explains why Thor, the typical &quot;Shoot first, shoot later&quot; type of fighter didn't immediately attack the Vision when he was born.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;Considering that Thor was not present during the events revolving the cradle, why he knows it needs power or that his lightning would help instead of destroying it, let's pretend the vision from the well told him instead of it being a glaring plot hole.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-09-25T04:55:30.723" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T04:55:30.723" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21116" CreationDate="2015-09-25T02:10:07.170" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's more about Sherlock knowing and having access to government secrets, which CAM might want to gain access to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26221" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T02:10:07.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41491" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-25T02:42:01.967" Score="3" ViewCount="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know there are recent advancements in software that allow for automatic/automated dialogue replacement but in films that predate this technology they still use the same terminology and as far as I know it was a completely manual process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where did this terminology originate, and what is so automatic/automated about manually dubbing over voices?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26222" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T02:42:01.967" Title="Where does the automated/automatic come from in ADR?" Tags="|dialogue|production|terminology|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2015-10-09T07:00:47.780" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41495" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-25T05:14:32.887" Score="5" ViewCount="173" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Side Effects, at the end, Victoria is arrested for Insider Trading and planning the Murder. The murder however is committed by Emily, whose end judgement it so go back to the mental ward. If that is the case Emily is still deemed a nutjob. Agreed that Double Jeopardy prevents her from going to trial one more time so as a hack they put her in the Mental ward. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Victoria's standpoint, this becomes an advantage because she could always plea that one can never conspire and plan anything with a mentally troubled person. She might lose her license as a practitioner but can't be held prisoner for anything unless Emily is deemed NOT a nut-case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something here? Did I get it wrong? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2019-04-08T08:02:55.557" Title="How does Victoria get convicted if Emily is still deemed a nutjob?" Tags="|plot-explanation|side-effects|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41496" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42955" CreationDate="2015-09-25T05:48:01.353" Score="5" ViewCount="415" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Predestination, John goes back in time and falls in love with Jane. John later goes forward in time. But, during their time together, John and Jane conceive a child. This could be any length of time, from a single day to several years. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know how long they were together for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T07:32:43.743" Title="How long were John and Jane together for in Predestination?" Tags="|predestination|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34851" CreationDate="2015-09-25T07:27:21.267" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would be hugely surprised if you can actually &lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt; tell when ADR has been used - your point re a computer automatically cutting &amp;amp; shuffling time is precisely how modern ADR is done, using a new recording of the actor talking over his old lines - then chopped &amp;amp; shuffled in such a way that it is literally impossible to tell that the lip sync is not 'real'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that situation, the only giveaway would be if the sound department failed to successfully drop the new audio nicely into the foley track - if they got the room reverb wrong, etc - highly unlikely on a high budget production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of software to specifically do this task&lt;br&gt;&#xA;* &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.synchroarts.co.uk/products/vocalign-pro/overview&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;VocAlign Pro&lt;/a&gt; [This is the one I used to use, 20 years ago - things have moved on since, but the page has audio/video demos so you can see how the process works]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;* &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gallery.co.uk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ADRStudio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;* &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.virtualvtr.com/vtrpro.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;VirtualVTR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;* &lt;a href=&quot;http://voiceq.com/voiceq2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;VoiceQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also some seriously expensive hardware solutions, from people like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.soundmaster.com/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SoundMaster&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, just because automated &amp;amp; automatic are almost synonymous does not mean they are actually exactly the same thing.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The process may be automated [processed by machine], but it is not automatic [done with no human intervention].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25773" LastEditorUserId="25773" LastEditDate="2015-09-25T07:33:45.530" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T07:33:45.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41499" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-25T07:31:16.673" Score="7" ViewCount="7041" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Mr. Robot&lt;/em&gt; Vera had an affection for Shayla, and the only one causing the problem was Elliot. So, why was Shayla killed even before Elliot tried to free Vera?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26049" LastEditorUserId="26049" LastEditDate="2015-09-25T10:37:34.320" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T09:02:54.697" Title="Why did Vera kill this character?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mr-robot|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41501" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41502" CreationDate="2015-09-25T07:46:18.343" Score="5" ViewCount="487" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a horror movie that I saw as a teenager in the 90s. So it is probably from the early 90s, maybe 80s. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was about a family living in a rural area, and some chemical agent was released from a factory. That infected people, and made them act like crazy before dying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The was a scene when a guy was hunting kangaroos with a metal boomerang, and ate some part of it. The hunter looked like the usual redneck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the kid of the family was doing some skateboard in a half pipe, alone, until he fell, broke his legs, and was left to die there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the father of the family gets infected, and has some organic stuff growing in his throat. It scratches him so hard that he stops at a gas station, and drinks some detergent until his death&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The presence of a kangaroo makes me think it may be Australian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone have an idea about that movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24343" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-09-25T08:16:13.033" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T08:16:13.033" Title="Horror movie from the 90s with a kangaroo hunter and a chemical agent" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:03:13.783" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41501" CreationDate="2015-09-25T07:55:37.380" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Australian horror movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106450/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Body Melt&lt;/a&gt; from 1993. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Melt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The movie is about the residents of the small town of Pebbles Court who are the unknowing test subjects for a new variety of &quot;Vimuville&quot; dietary supplement pills that arrive for free in their mailboxes. The pills are designed to produce the ultimate healthy human, but have unexpected side effects including hallucinations and mutations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything you mentioned is in there, with a few inaccuracies (I don't think it's a boomerang he throws, and the kid is on rollerblades). The trailer is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA0riGc6cWw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; [WARNING: Contains Nudity].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/a47Eu.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/a47Eu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-09-25T08:08:19.840" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T08:08:19.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41472" CreationDate="2015-09-25T08:12:00.907" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's probably because the show is animated by two different studios, and because the process involves hand drawn animation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/19/this-is-how-an-episode-of-cartoon-network-s-adventure-time-is-made.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;This Is How an Episode of Cartoon Network’s ‘Adventure Time’ Is Made&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Adventure Time then &lt;strong&gt;contracts their animation out to Rough Draft&#xA;  Studios in Seoul&lt;/strong&gt;. Founded by Greg Vanzo and his wife Nikki during&#xA;  their work on Ren and Stimpy, Rough Draft Studios has animated some of&#xA;  the most well known properties in cartoonery, including The Simpsons,&#xA;  Beavis &amp;amp; Butthead, The Poweruff Girls, and Futurama.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;About three months later, the fully animated product is sent back to&#xA;  America where final changes are reviewed and implemented. “There’s a&#xA;  round of retakes, where we look for mistakes that might have been made&#xA;  or things that didn’t animate the way we intended.” Osborne says.&#xA;  “Then there’s a few weeks of sound design where we add effects or&#xA;  record additional dialogue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saerom_Animation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Saerom Animation&lt;/a&gt; also handles some of the animation&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scribd.com/doc/256422137/AT-185-Dark-Purple-final-storyboard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;as proven by this storyboard&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the show is hand drawn, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webcitation.org/6FBz7dtaw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;as explained by Andy Ristaino&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My dad and i are arguing how Adventure Time is animated. Is it fully&#xA;  hand drawn every cel frame and inbetween? (he says its not possible)&#xA;  or is it rigged/inverse kinematic? or a mix of other things? help&#xA;  please and thank you(:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;except for a few instances, like in guardians of sunshine where we use&#xA;  3d, &lt;strong&gt;all the animation is hand drawn&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Time#Production&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; contains more relevant information WRT the making of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-09-25T09:27:57.280" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T09:27:57.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41505" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-25T10:34:49.843" Score="26" ViewCount="5008" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are the benefits for &lt;strong&gt;viewers&lt;/strong&gt; of subtitling over dubbing -or- dubbing over subtitling foreign TV and film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've noticed some media will opt for subtitles, while others will opt to dub. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There must be benefits and drawbacks to both, for example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reading vs. Listening:&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;Reading might be harder to put oneself in the scene, where as listening could make you feel a part of the &quot;show&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any studies or any data as to benefits and drawbacks of subtitling vs. dubbing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24141" LastEditorUserId="24141" LastEditDate="2016-12-28T14:15:05.283" LastActivityDate="2021-07-03T15:56:32.727" Title="Subtitling vs. dubbing and vice versa" Tags="|distribution|translation|subtitles|dubbing|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41505" CreationDate="2015-09-25T11:02:25.260" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://englishtogermantranslator.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/dubbing-or-subtitles/&quot;&gt;debate of dubbing vs subtitles&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.languageinsight.com/blog/2013/05/21/subtitling-vs-dubbing-the-great-debate/&quot;&gt;well discussed&lt;/a&gt;, including numerous studies and polls of movie goers. It's an opinion that is split by demographic, by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/Which-countries-prefer-dubbed-vs-subtitled-documentary-films&quot;&gt;country&lt;/a&gt;, by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/Why-do-movie-distribution-companies-prefer-subtitles-vs-dubbed-movies&quot;&gt;certain distributors&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Essentially, it's down to the personal choice of the viewer - some people prefer the original experience in its original language with its original dialogue but with subtitles so that they can understand dialogue spoken in a language they don't necessarily know. This is also useful for some if you're learning a new language, as you can hear what is spoken while reading what it means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other side of the argument is that movies and TV is a primarily visual media and some people would rather spend their time watching the content intently without having to keep up with the subtitles, and thus prefer dubbing. That, and dubbing is a business in itself - people have to voice act all of the dialogue a second (or third, or fourth...) time in order to provide the dub track to a show, and this means more people working.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T11:02:25.260" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41499" CreationDate="2015-09-25T12:56:05.637" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vera treats Shayla like she's his property. He even tells Elliot in an earlier episode not to touch her because she belongs to Vera. She's a piece of his empire. When Elliot tries to use Vera's money against him as a bargaining chip (by hacking Vera's brother's cell phone), Vera decides to burn it all to the ground and start over. Vera doesn't have any more use for Shayla other than to extort Elliot into breaking him out of prison. She doesn't need to be alive to do that, so killing her is simpler than holding her somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T12:56:05.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41496" CreationDate="2015-09-25T14:11:50.113" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reff: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/predestination-2014-movie-plot-ending-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Predestination Timeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no exact details on how long Barkeeper leaves John with Jane. The timeline above seems to show some small duration, but no details. It may not have been too long, as in, perhaps a couple of months. This is because Jane was 18 and quite naive. It was the case of adolescent love may not have taken too long to happen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2018-12-16T07:32:43.743" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T07:32:43.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41505" CreationDate="2015-09-25T14:46:38.067" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the US, Europe, Canada and other countries with nearly 100% literacy rates, dubbing vs subtitling is certainly a matter of preference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subtitling allows the viewer to get a more exact translation of the dialogue but requires that the viewer read the text, potentially missing visual elements of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SubbingVersusDubbing&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subtitling has many advantages: It allows for an extremely accurate translation, including quirks of the original language that play a role in the plot, while allowing you to hear the original actors' performances. It renders the show accessible to the deaf or hard of hearing. People bilingual in or learning the original language will be able to benefit as well, since they can enjoy at least parts of the film/TV show in the original while their friends can still know what's going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dubbing allows the viewer to fully immerse themselves in the film but the translation (because the attempt is often made to match the foreign dialogue to mouth movements, at least in duration - called &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LipLock&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lip lock&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;) can greatly suffer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Viewers whose thought processes are more speech-oriented than word-oriented also may simply find dubs easier to comprehend and process, especially in works that are heavy on meaningful dialogue or exposition. The opposite, of course, can be true for viewers who process information more easily through the written word than through speech. For many viewers, hearing the dialogue in their native language makes it easier to immerse themselves in the media and feel a sense of familiarity with the story and characters that is much harder to obtain while trying to hear dialogue in a foreign language and simultaneously read subtitles. Hayao Miyazaki has said several times that he always intended his films to be watched, not read, which is why he supports them being dubbed into other languages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hearing actors speaking one's native language also allows the audience to catch subtle non-verbal parts of a performance, which many times is part of the &amp;quot;authentic&amp;quot; viewing experience the original was shooting for. Subtitles can cover up important parts of the image or switch too quickly to be read by everyone, especially if the show is extremely fast-paced, dialogue and/or text-heavy, or aimed at younger audiences – for example, go look up the subtitled Tatami Galaxy; many a YouTube commenter have complained that the subs are simply too fast to read... for the entire series. In addition, subtitles – particularly for unofficial fansubs – are sometimes criticized for being too literal; a well-made dub can preserve the spirit of a joke or reference, even while replacing the actual line. Not to mention all the cultural references that are not understood outside the native country (phrases, puns, etc.) may wind up Lost in Translation if there's no explanation. This is much much easier to work around in a print work, because one can read at their own pace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To see this specifically, I encourage you to find a film that's been both subtitled and dubbed and watch the film dubbed with the subtitles on and you'll really see a major difference (provided the subs are true subs and not &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtitle_%28captioning%29#Closed_captions&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;captioning&lt;/a&gt;). I first became painfully aware of this when watching Steven Chow's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaolin_Soccer&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shaolin Soccer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; a decade ago. There's so much more color and comedy in the dialogue if subtitled rather than the dubbed version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The article from TV Tropes further points out an interesting point that the English-speaking native may not think of... because so much of film is produced in English, the argument of which is better doesn't really exist in many non-English communities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Funnily enough, this debate doesn't really arise in non-English speaking countries when it comes to English language films. Mostly because of the omnipresence of Hollywood, one can easily assume that at least half the movies someone from Germany, Russia, France, Italy, or Brazil will see in a year are English-language movies. Thus, many countries have a well-entrenched, very active dubbing industry with recognizable voice actors. In most cases, one dubber is paired with one actor for the duration of the actor's career. In these countries, due to enormous exposure to it, dubbing is seen much more positively than in the anime community.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, on the other hand:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The opposite can happen too. In some countries (such as The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, or Finland), dubbing is only done for works that are intended for children that are too young to read the subtitles fluently. Everything else is available with subtitles only. In these countries, people would get much more distracted by the dubbing because they are not used to it. This pattern is particularly common where a substantial chunk of the population in the country is fluent or at least proficient in English – which is incidentally true in the Netherlands as well as the Nordic countries. A major problem are works that appeal to both the children and the parents, the parents would prefer to hear the original actors' performances, but can't get their hands on it because the only version in theaters is aimed for kids.note  Sometimes they can get lucky and the original audio track is included in the DVD release once (if ever) it happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, in other countries where the literacy is lower, dubbing becomes more necessary. Here's a chart of literacy in the world as of 2013:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DV7Jq.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DV7Jq.png&quot; alt=&quot;Unesco Literacy Chart&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&amp;quot;Analfabetismo2013unesco&amp;quot; by Alex12345yuri - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons - &lt;a href=&quot;https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Analfabetismo2013unesco.png#/media/File:Analfabetismo2013unesco.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Analfabetismo2013unesco.png#/media/File:Analfabetismo2013unesco.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Granted, a lot of people who are illiterate may not be going to see a film as illiteracy is more common amongst the very poor, who may not be able to afford to see a film, but it's worth noting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I know you asked why it would matter to the viewer, but I do want to mention the production side of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dubbing is much more expensive than subtitling. Writers have to spend time creating dialogue that will fit, then actors have to be paid to do a studio recording (and the studio has to be paid for), it can take hours of work for each character and the audio tracks have to be edited to match up perfectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's why, particularly in the case of small-budget projects or projects with a niche audience, it's rare to find dubbed versions. It makes more financial sense to subtitle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T14:46:38.067" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41002" CreationDate="2015-09-25T14:50:22.543" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ripple effect of 1955 takes weeks in the year 1955. This is because in those weeks there is still a finite probability that the mess can get corrected. (and it does).  The photo and Martin that are disappearing are in 1955. Had there been a way to fast forward to 1968, there would be no slow fading ripple effect in 1968&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the same way, the doc sending out a letter is in the year 1885 and any ripple effect would be felt then in 1885.&#xA;Doc planning to send that courier is not shown in the movie hence we don't know how long the slow ripple effect may have been. The courier is received in 1955 is basically equal to fast forwarding to the point of impact. There would be no slow ripple effect at that moment in 1955, it is instant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2015-11-09T08:29:17.257" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T08:29:17.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32702" CreationDate="2015-09-25T15:45:37.077" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not entirely implausible as a portrayal of slavery. When white children were raised by slaves, they can grow to love them even as they feel they are inferior... you loved your puppy as a child, no doubt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stephen raised him as a boy, and was always a mentor figure. Calvin no doubt grew to rely on him for advice and wisdom, and those would be no less valuable when he became a man. Stephen then became Calvin's own steward, and after years of doing this job well no one would come to doubt that Stephen spoke with Calvin's authority when giving commands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the immediate aftermath of Calvin's death (and with Stephen having no blame in it, trying to prevent it and afterwards trying to avenge it), they couldn't instantly stop listening to the man... ingrained habits might take hours or days to be questioned. Especially so if they agreed with the commands being given (which they might very well agree with). Stephen was never giving orders to be lenient or kind to Django, after all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also if there were cause for future embarrassment (someone gossips that they were being ordered around by a negro), this could readily be denied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are tropes that go beyond just American slavery... in the Roman Republic/Empire, slaves often rose to high status and were respected... no one would refuse advice/orders to be spiteful, knowing that the immediate gratification would be outweighed by the long term disadvantage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T15:45:37.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41505" CreationDate="2015-09-25T16:31:57.663" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are times where subtitles are actually more accurate than dubbing.  With dubbing, the voice actors have to stay as true to the mouth movements as possible....sometimes even also the sound of the words.  This can be very difficult or even impossible to do while keeping the same meaning, so meanings end up changing.  Whereas with subtitles, this is not an issue since they are free to be as close to the meaning as possible no matter what or how many words it takes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll give you an example from my own personal experience:  I watch &quot;Fairy Tale&quot; which is an anime originally in Japanese.  There is a particular character which in Japanese ends his sentences in &quot;Ebi&quot;...which in Japanese means &lt;em&gt;shrimp&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;prawn&lt;/em&gt;.  This character is a crab, so it's always a joke when he meets someone new that &quot;he's a crab, but ends his sentences with &quot;shrimp&quot;??&quot;  Well, in the dubbed version, the voice stayed true to the sound instead of the meaning, so to make it make sense, he ends his sentences with &quot;baby&quot;.  TOTALLY different meaning, and the joke doesn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21168" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T16:31:57.663" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41520" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-25T16:42:33.697" Score="9" ViewCount="6600" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1960s, Tomorrowland was an objectivist utopia. When next visited (by the audience) in the modern day, it seems depopulated except for the governor (Hugh Laurie) and some guards. What happened? Where is everybody and why did the place decay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastActivityDate="2018-04-09T17:22:55.987" Title="How/why did Tomorrowland depopulate?" Tags="|plot-explanation|tomorrowland|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36570" CreationDate="2015-09-25T17:14:29.893" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think I understand your question. Just like you can think you can be shot in a dream and your mind makes it real, It is perfectly possible for a person to starve in a dream. His/her mind would make it real too. One can eventually die of starvation inside the dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now about being in the 2nd or 3rd level and dying and the consequence, that's a whole other ballgame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reff: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/inception-2010-movie-plot-ending-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inception Kicks Explained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you die in a simple dream. Lightly sedated. Then death will bring you back one level up. Eg: when cobb shoots Arthur in the head, Arthur wakes one level up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you die in a complex dream. Heavily sedated. Then death in any level of the dream will take you to limbo. Eg: when saito dies, he goes to limbo. The addendum to this is, if you die in limbo, you wake up in real life no matter how many levels of dreams there are. Eg: when cobb and saito take the leap of faith and kill themselves and wake up on the flight. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope that answered your question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2018-12-16T07:33:56.667" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T07:33:56.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41505" CreationDate="2015-09-25T17:24:18.273" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a certain interesting idea behind dubbing rather than subtitling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a part of the Marshall Plan (if I remember correctly) after World War II in certain countries it was part of the agreement that Hollywood films were translated into other languages. That implies that everything made in the USA was easily spread around the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This gave tons of new doors to the United States ideology, it's probably one of the biggest marketing movements that have ever happened. It implied that any Hollywood movie could (and probably would) be seen by a lot (a real lot) more people that would see it if it was in VO with subtitles, with all the consequences it brought (and brings).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just the idea that this (mandatory translation of Hollywood movies into other language) appeared in the conditions imposed to certain countries to be included in the Marshall Plan is breathtaking, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Sorry, this answer lacks of necessary citations, feel free to edit.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22794" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T17:24:18.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41524" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-25T17:51:19.013" Score="6" ViewCount="408" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember 3 scenes from a movie which is in the style of Leslie Nielsen's spy-agent comedies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Beginning of the movie - He thinks someone is watching him while he walks down the street. He stops, (probably leans down to fix his shoelaces) and then uses the gadget - a small nail-mirror inside of his thumb.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He is asking someone to get on the roof of the building where the conversation will be more secure. 4 helicopters then take off and produce noise (and wind) and as it proves unpractical and deadly - he/or someone else suggests something different.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They get into some hi-tech chamber (almost like small submarine) which mutes all voices and sounds - but - instead of voice, they can see the words and letters they say. And in comedy style - one of them eats some of those letters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone remember the title of this movie? It is from the 80-90s, maybe 2000's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26238" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-09-25T23:19:37.790" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T23:19:37.790" Title="Comedy spy movie (probably with Leslie Nielsen)" Tags="|identify-this-movie|comedy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:03:23.187" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41525" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41527" CreationDate="2015-09-25T20:12:59.613" Score="6" ViewCount="252" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did Dr. Evil have his moon base laser constructed—and in 1969 no less—without any nation knowing about it even a teensy wheensy little bit. One would at least expect spies from various nations to at least suspect &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; is going on &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt; by &lt;em&gt;someone&lt;/em&gt;, especially considering the sheer amount of fuel, construction, and material that would need to be procured and processed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any (possible) canonical explanation for this, or are we really to just be forced to do the easy route and chalk it up to the fact that it's a comedy movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25926" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-01-22T00:00:59.970" LastActivityDate="2017-01-22T00:00:59.970" Title="How did Dr. Evil build his moonbase without anyone knowing about it?" Tags="|plot-explanation|austin-powers|the-spy-who-shagged-me|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41525" CreationDate="2015-09-25T20:26:10.217" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1960s, it wasn't always possible to detect rockets going off, there was a system of satellites in the that decade but it was geared towards detecting Soviet nukes in the boost phase and thus focused entirely on the northern hemisphere:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_Missile_Early_Warning_System&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_Missile_Early_Warning_System&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though I hesitate to spend too much effort (it's far from a serious movie), Dr. Evil would have had to have lifted all the materials into orbit from South America or possibly Australia. There aren't very many nations that would be friendly to an international terrorist threatening western governments in either of those places. So he may have novel spaceflight technology not reliant on rocket technology (anti-grav, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are correct to assume that whatever the specific details, he would be moving many thousands of tons of equipment and many hundreds of people through this clandestine spaceport to be able to build a moon base. To construct it he would have needed to put dozens of people on the moon (and if memory serves, the only nation to do so managed to send exactly 1 dozen people to the moon... dozens is inconceivable).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would have had a multi-trillion dollar price tag (inflation-adjusted), required a small city of workers, and been the most impressive engineering feat ever accomplished by mankind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conclusion: mildly implausible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T20:26:10.217" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41524" CreationDate="2015-09-25T22:08:09.417" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097423/&quot;&gt;Get Smart, Again!&lt;/a&gt;(1989).  Don Adams was the agent.  #2 and #3 sound like variations on the running joke of the &quot;cone of silence&quot;.  This movie featured the variation called &quot;hover cover&quot;, where several helicopters hovered nearby to drown out the sound.  The third one is the classic &quot;cone of silence&quot;, but with a kind of subtitle feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25744" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T22:08:09.417" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30353" CreationDate="2015-09-25T22:23:28.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The flash and arrow are both filmed in Vancouver BC. I've seen only Vancouver cityscapes on the flash that I remember. I live in Vancouver and the cityscape here is distinct and I can always recognize it. Star Labs is BC Place in Vancouver. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26242" LastActivityDate="2015-09-25T22:23:28.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41532" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-26T01:12:23.313" Score="5" ViewCount="1655" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Peter Pan cartoon or movie how did the clock in the crocodile's stomach stay running all that time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26246" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-26T01:55:25.040" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T21:09:06.733" Title="How did the clock in the crocodile's stomach keep running all this time?" Tags="|character|peter-pan|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41532" CreationDate="2015-09-26T01:29:51.023" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Neverland magic. Or the croc had a taste for clocks and just ate multiple of them over the course of years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Real wind-up clocks only last for 10 days per wind, of accurate time keeping. It will slowly stop completely a few weeks after that, month and a half at most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the possibility that Hook simply imagined the ticking, part of a psychological phobia or post traumatic stress disorder. Nearly being killed by a giant crocodile is very traumatic, I'd imagine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Of course, time doesn't work the same way in Neverland. People don't age. Imaginary food is real and keeps them alive. A touch of Fae dust and happy thoughts make you fly.  So it's not inconsistent that a wind-up clock in Neverland never needs winding. &lt;em&gt;Or Hook's fear of the clock keeps it ticking.&lt;/em&gt; It's only as real as Hook's mind allows it to be.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-09-30T15:24:46.643" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T15:24:46.643" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41532" CreationDate="2015-09-26T02:18:49.090" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Neverland, with a bit of pixie dust, believing you can fly, MAKES you fly.&#xA;On Earth, Angel-dust gets you &quot;wound up&quot;, and some people call it flying.&#xA;If time flies when you are having fun, then time can also get wound-up.&#xA;Since time that is wound-up is inside the clock, the clock can also get wound up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The crocodile has probably eaten MANY lost-boys and fairies over the years.&#xA;This keeps the clock dusted instead of wound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, bringing back a fairy from the dead, requires you to clap your hands.&#xA;Being dead your heart stops. A heart is sometimes called a &quot;ticker&quot; because&#xA;it is similar to a clock. Clapping your hands restarts tickers. A little-known&#xA;fact about magic is that it is VERY literal, this is why results are unpredictable to untrained practitioners. Clapping also restarts clocks when in a magical realm. Many watch companies here on earth have semi-successfully duplicated the effect in their kinetic wrist-watches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25875" LastActivityDate="2015-09-26T02:18:49.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41520" CreationDate="2015-09-26T11:07:35.357" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie itself does not adequately describe why Tomorrowland is depopulated and left in decay.  Many things are explained in the prequel novel titled &lt;em&gt;Before Tomorrowland&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The novel, &lt;em&gt;Before Tomorrowland&lt;/em&gt; described by author &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/08/tomorrowland-deep-dive-alt-history-prequel-novel-ews-jeff-jensen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jeff Jensen&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“It’s a distant prequel to the movie,” says Jensen, who co-wrote the&#xA;  book with artist Jonathan Case. “You will&#xA;  not meet any characters from the movie in this story, but you will get&#xA;  to know in a pretty deep way the organization that’s responsible for&#xA;  Tomorrowland.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There’s a whole 120-year history of the secret organization that built&#xA;  this futuristic realm, and one of Jensen’s duties on the film was to&#xA;  construct the backstory of this group of inventors, geniuses, and&#xA;  dreamers. It’s the foundation upon which Tomorrowland the place and&#xA;  Tomorrowland the movie rests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“The city was the grand gesture of this organization,” says Jensen,&#xA;  who worked on the novel with major story input from director Brad Bird&#xA;  and screenwriter Damon Lindelof. “It wasn’t the goal of the group from&#xA;  the start, but over time it became the goal: A living laboratory where&#xA;  things are always changing and the best ideas are either given to the&#xA;  world or saved for a time when the world can handle it.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The novel describes Tomorrowland as an entire planet in itself.  The planet was discovered by a group called Plus Ultra or +U right before the 20th century.  Nikola Tesla, a member of +U invented a transport mechanism called The Grid which is how +U members traveled to Tomorrowland for colonization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The novel gives more of an insight to why Tomorrowland is depopulated than the &lt;a href=&quot;http://overmental.com/content/tomorrowland-explained-exploring-the-world-of-the-future-20873&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Tomorrowland we see in present day times seems very depopulated,&#xA;  and in significant disrepair. My guess is that in the face of Nix’s&#xA;  authoritarian (and increasingly militaristic) leadership, many members&#xA;  of Plus Ultra were either forced out, or chose to leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Governor Nix (portrayed by Hugh Laurie in the movie), the leader of Tomorrowland did not want anyone from Earth to know of its existence.  He believes that other humans from Earth will pollute and corrupt the planet.  Nix basically wants Tomorrowland to be left alone, believing that Earth will destroy itself.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2018-04-09T17:22:55.987" LastActivityDate="2018-04-09T17:22:55.987" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16058" CreationDate="2015-09-26T13:18:19.870" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a 45 minute show called &quot;The New People&quot; in 1969. It was about a plane crashing on a deserted island that was an abandoned nuke test site. The plane was (an old DC-3) full of young people, and there was a creepy deserted town with test dummy's all over. Could this be it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26200" LastActivityDate="2015-09-26T13:18:19.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34588" CreationDate="2015-09-26T14:48:30.737" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;At fist i have to say english isnt my mother language and i only watched ex machina in englisch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember that after ava killed nathan and saw celab the first time she said ( or ask) &quot;will you stay here&quot; and he answered &quot;stay here&quot;. So i thought Ava thought that celab &quot;wants&quot; to stay. &#xA;Maybe i understood it wrong and ava just ask him to stay in this room until she fixed herself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26256" LastActivityDate="2015-09-26T14:48:30.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31486" CreationDate="2015-09-26T16:45:37.317" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though he did not have a stable relationship with Mark, he again enjoyed his praises for du Pont at the ending scene and was wondering why he did not receive similar from Dave who has more respect in his eye. &#xA;Since he also did not get the similar attention from his mother and never achieved that, he got furious when the same neglect was given to him by Dave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, du Pont may have even seen the reaction of Dave when he says du Pont was a mentor to him while watching the documentary. So he might have compared Mark's reaction and lines in the documentary with Dave's. He might have also thought that he gave everything to USA wrestling and still it was not enough to get respect from Dave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He could not hold of himself due to his mental illness and killed the poor guy. That is my interpretation of the events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26259" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-18T17:11:10.537" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T17:11:10.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41544" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5775" CreationDate="2015-09-26T16:48:25.397" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found a framed game with Union Generals in each corner called Militaire. It has 6 circles of peg-holes and Ironclad ships battling in the center. Manufactured by Newland, Detroit. N.D.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26260" LastActivityDate="2015-09-26T16:48:25.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35697" CreationDate="2015-09-26T22:36:20.333" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Hai is also yes in Cantonese but 'No' in both Mandarin and Japanese are different from Cantonese.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Btw Bai Mei did not say her 'Mandarin' is irritating. He said her 'Han language' is irritating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dun exactly know about the setting of that scene, but in Hong Kong where I live, when we say Chinese, we mean Cantonese. I think he means her Chinese is irritating, because these are different languages but nowadays, some people thought Chinese were Mandarin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he mentioned Mongolian, it's because, for Cantonese speakers, Mandarin is as far as Mongolian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26268" LastEditorUserId="26268" LastEditDate="2015-09-26T22:41:45.027" LastActivityDate="2015-09-26T22:41:45.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3010" CreationDate="2015-09-27T00:38:02.393" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pixarplanet.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=244087&amp;amp;sid=a1b7074b96627594b0e0d13a19be1d47#p244087&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a comment on this thread&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bryko614 wrote:In the third film, Andy has two tickets for a concert that was in November 2009 hidden behind other papers and pamphlets on his cork board. So it can be assumed that it takes place in at least August 2010. This would also make sense because his August calendar ends on a Tuesday, which happened this year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The calendar in Toy Story 2 is in clear view when Buzz and Rex are playing the video game. It ends on a Wednesday, which is troublesome because there were no Augusts ending on a Wednesday from 1997-2002 (the only logical time frame) due to the possible year of 2000 being a leap year. Although apparently the movie takes place on the 15th of August when Andy leaves for camp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if there's a calendar in the first Toy Story, but if there is then I'm too lazy to check.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on this, the movie doesn't match real time closely. So there is no way to be 100% sure of when it takes place, and how old Andy is in 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T17:31:45.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41556" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41560" CreationDate="2015-09-27T01:59:10.437" Score="10" ViewCount="1356" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mostly true stories sometimes also known as biographies end up in single parts, but I really doubt at the very corner some sequels on true stories exist. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So are there any sequel movies based on true stories? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26201" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-27T14:12:45.110" LastActivityDate="2017-11-25T18:55:23.117" Title="Are there any sequel movies based on true story?" Tags="|analysis|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41558" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-27T02:08:03.357" Score="-4" ViewCount="7286" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anna Camp was a big part of Pitch Perfect; and she's listed in the credits of Pitch Perfect 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I saw Pitch Perfect 2, and I can't recall seeing her at all!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So was she really in Pitch Perfect 2? And if so, where was she? Which scenes? Was she just under-utilized? Did Rebel Wilson steal all her lines? Or was she simply relegated to be just a pretty face in the Bellas lineup?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="1410" LastEditDate="2020-01-10T02:21:14.860" LastActivityDate="2020-01-10T02:21:14.860" Title="Did Anna Camp have any speaking lines in Pitch Perfect 2?" Tags="|pitch-perfect-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41558" CreationDate="2015-09-27T02:17:53.817" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://pitch-perfect.wikia.com/wiki/Aubrey_Posen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aubrey Posen is a main character in the first Pitch Perfect film. She was the uptight and traditionalist co-leader of the Bellas. She is constantly critical and insists that The Bellas use the same set list the Bellas have been using for years. She is notorious for vomiting whenever she is under pressure. She is now a graduate of Barden University, thus making her no longer a Bella. &lt;strong&gt;In the sequel, she is no longer a main character.&lt;/strong&gt; She now runs the Lodge of Fallen Leaves, where the Bellas visit in Pitch Perfect 2 to find their sound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She is a main character in the first film and a &lt;strong&gt;supporting character in the sequel&lt;/strong&gt;. She is portrayed by actress Anna Camp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1410" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-27T02:17:53.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41556" CreationDate="2015-09-27T02:25:12.110" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, there are many Biopics (Biographical Motion Pictures) that get sequels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3206030/Straight-Outta-Compton-sequel-featuring-rise-Snoop-Dogg-late-Tupac-Shakur.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The most recent is the N.W.A. biopic Straight out of Compton.&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton topped the Box Office on week one and grossed a whopping $56.1 million.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's thought that there will be equal interest in a follow up about the emergence of high profile West Coast rap artists including Snoop Dogg and the late Tupac Shakur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following the success of the August 2015 release, TMZ reports that &lt;strong&gt;a sequel is being lined up about D.P.G and featured artists Warren G and Nate Dogg, which will be called Dogg Pound 4 Life&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It will pick up right after &lt;strong&gt;Straight out of Compton&lt;/strong&gt; ends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A much earlier example is the 1946 movie &lt;strong&gt;The Jolson Story&lt;/strong&gt; about singer Al Jolson. It earned a sequel called &lt;strong&gt;Jolson sings again&lt;/strong&gt; in 1949, capturing the second part of Jolson career after a brief retirement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-08-17T01:20:04.827" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37132" CreationDate="2015-09-27T02:46:37.837" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Relax. I was having the same confusion. Then I read this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;As I understand it, Reverse Flash traveled back and fought Flash in 2024. He then traveled back again to kill young Barry. Nothing unusual about Barry's age.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't the fresh story where Zoom comes back in time and Flash and him become enemies. That's 2024. That's the whole story of Zoom. Coming from the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't confuse that story with the current TV story at hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The TV story is set when they comeback in time even more, around 2008 or something, and Zoom gets stuck and rest is all we see on TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope I don't need to explain why Flash stopped him younger self from stopping the murder of his mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hint: Flashpoint Paradox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26273" LastActivityDate="2015-09-27T02:46:37.837" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3575" CreationDate="2015-09-27T04:12:21.403" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the psychiatrist approve that Teddy is well and back to sanity he will be killed by the black guy carrying an ice pick hidden in the towel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if the psychiatrist doesn't confirm his sanity the test will continue until they believe that Teddy is not insane anymore. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the fact that Teddy is already well, He said Which would be worse? To live as a monster, or to die as a good man? He means him as a goodman and him as a monster by killing him after the experiment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26275" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-07-22T11:29:36.183" LastActivityDate="2016-07-22T11:29:36.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41566" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="55205" CreationDate="2015-09-27T04:50:41.897" Score="10" ViewCount="16404" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Rocky Horror Picture Show&lt;/em&gt; we see Dr. Frank N. Furter in the wedding pictures. Were any other characters whom we see later also at the wedding? Who?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26278" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-09T07:53:02.793" LastActivityDate="2022-02-11T03:54:42.870" Title="Which characters were at the wedding in Rocky Horror?" Tags="|the-rocky-horror-picture-show|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41566" CreationDate="2015-09-27T06:26:42.350" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the opening wedding scene the minister is Tim Curry &lt;strong&gt;(Dr. Frank N. Furter)&lt;/strong&gt;, the “old man” to his left is Richard O’Brien &lt;strong&gt;(Riff Raff)&lt;/strong&gt; and the “wife” to his right is Patricia Quinn &lt;strong&gt;(Magenta)&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xv3O4.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xv3O4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-09-27T06:26:42.350" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41568" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41573" CreationDate="2015-09-27T08:25:03.363" Score="10" ViewCount="23293" Body="&lt;p&gt;The conclusion of the movie &lt;em&gt;Pawn Sacrifice&lt;/em&gt; dramatizes the events of game 6  from the 1972 World Championship match featuring Bobby Fischer (portrayed by Tobey Maguire) vs. Boris Spassky (portrayed by Liev Schreiber) match played in Iceland.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a title displayed near the end of the film, the film claims that &quot;Game 6 is still considered the greatest game of chess ever played&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While many chess enthusiasts claim that game 6 is the best game of the &lt;strong&gt;match&lt;/strong&gt;, there are many other games that are considered greater games by chess &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1001601&quot;&gt;enthusiasts&lt;/a&gt;.  The following are a few examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_of_the_Century_(chess)&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Game of the Century&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; refers to a chess game played between&#xA;  Donald Byrne and 13-year-old Bobby Fischer in the Rosenwald Memorial&#xA;  Tournament in New York City on October 17, 1956, which Fischer won.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chess.com/article/view/kasparovs-immortal&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kasparov's Immortal&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: 1st a Rook, then a Knight, and then another Rook! Garry Kasparov&#xA;  sacrificed all of these pieces and still managed to get the win&#xA;  against Veselin Topalov in Netherlands, 1999. Immortal? Yes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What basis does the film have to claim that game 6 is considered the greatest game of chess ever played?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-09-27T08:33:05.130" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T15:28:56.857" Title="Why does the movie Pawn Sacrifice claim that game 6 was the greatest game of chess ever played?" Tags="|realism|pawn-sacrifice|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41569" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41570" CreationDate="2015-09-27T10:18:07.620" Score="9" ViewCount="3602" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cooper's first suspicion that Amelia has intimate feelings for Wolf Edmunds in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; comes when they are on Endurance and Amelia is introducing him to the 3 planets that could sustain life. The conversation goes  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amelia: Laura Miller's planet is first. Laura started our Biology&#xA;  program.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Cooper: Hmm&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Amelia: Ah... Wolf Edmunds is here.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Cooper: Tell me about Edmunds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems this is the point of first suspicion. Why did he interject when Amelia would have given a brief background of Edmunds as is.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amelia: Oh... Wolf's a Particle Physicist&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Cooper: &lt;em&gt;(judges Amelia's&#xA;  body language)&lt;/em&gt; None of them had families?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Amelia: No, no&#xA;  attachments. My father insisted. They all knew the odds of seeing&#xA;  another human being again. I am hoping we can surprise at least 3 of&#xA;  them.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Cooper: How about Mann?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Amelia: Dr Mann? He's remarkable.&#xA;  He's the best of us. He inspired 11 people to follow him on the&#xA;  loneliest journey in human history. Scientist, explorers. &lt;em&gt;(getting&#xA;  emotional)&lt;/em&gt; That's what I love. You know, out there we face great odds.&#xA;  Death, but... not evil&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the way she describes Mann, I would think, that too as a wildest imagination, that Amelia had feelings for Mann.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cooper than goes on to ask TARS, privately about them two.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Cooper suspect Amelia had intimate feelings for Wolf Edmunds from this little conversation. How the hell did he suspect would be a followup question. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-09-13T13:10:58.267" LastActivityDate="2018-09-13T13:10:58.267" Title="Why and how did Cooper suspect that Amelia Brand had intimate feelings for Wolf Edmunds in Interstellar?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41569" CreationDate="2015-09-27T10:35:55.283" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is dealt with in the film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21488063-interstellar&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;official novelisation&lt;/a&gt;. Coop notices that when she talks about Wolf Edmunds, it's with a slight inflection that suggests a deeper relationship:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“And Wolf Edmunds is here,” she said. &lt;strong&gt;And the way she said it, the way his name came off her tongue—Cooper had never heard anything like that in her voice before. As if that red dot was the center of the universe. Suddenly he was curious.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;“Who’s Edmunds?” he asked.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;“Wolf’s a particle physicist,” she said, and &lt;strong&gt;this time he knew he heard it. And the way she smiled…&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Interesting…&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;“None of them had family?” he asked, pressing from the side rather than the back. He didn’t have Brand entirely figured yet, but he’d seen enough to guess that head-on wasn’t the right way to come at her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TARS pretty much confirms this in a later scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Were Dr. Brand and Edmunds… close?” he asked carefully.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;“I wouldn’t know,” Tars replied.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;“Is that ninety percent, or ten percent ‘wouldn’t know?’” Cooper pursued.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;“I also have a discretion setting,” the robot informed him.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;“So I gather,” Cooper replied. He stood up. “But not a poker face.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can also find a similar description of the scene in the film's &lt;a href=&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4C9FN_1M1sxVFpHRTlaYmxSdzA/view#_=_&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;official screenplay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She shows him a red world, just a tiny dot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brand:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;And Wolf Edmunds is here.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cooper hears something in her voice.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;COOPER:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Who’s Edmunds?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BRAND:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;(fondly)&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Wolf’s a particle physicist.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-27T10:35:55.283" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41568" CreationDate="2015-09-27T12:31:35.947" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I tried to provide you all the valid informations but i will say that's not 100% correct in terms of what you want but if it helps a little it will be great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source:&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/09/16/pawn_sacrifice_movie_about_bobby_fischer_what_s_fact_and_what_s_fiction.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Slate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a title displayed near film’s end, the film claims that “Game 6 is still considered the greatest game of chess ever played.” By whom, you might ask. “One of the greatest”? Sure. Game 6 was a highly elegant positional squeeze punctuated with a clinical kingside attack. It’s generally considered the best game of this match.&#xA;But it wasn’t the best game of all time. It wasn’t even Fischer’s greatest game—that honor goes to a spectacular queen sacrifice played against Donald Byrne in 1956. It’s been dubbed “&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_of_the_Century_%28chess%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Game of the Century&lt;/a&gt;,” and is especially impressive since Fischer was just 13 when he played it. And many games played by others, both before and since Fischer-Spassky, could reasonably lay claim to being the greatest of all time, such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1011478&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this amazing 1999 display&#xA;from Garry Kasparov&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when it comes to Game 6—considered one of the best chess games ever played—Zwick's insistence on keeping things moving along undercuts the drama of the moment, one that saw Spassky lead the round of applause celebrating Fischer's historic and astounding victory, and his marvelous play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/tiff-review-pawn-sacrifice-starring-tobey-maguire-liev-schreiber-peter-sarsgaard-michael-stuhlbarg-20140907&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-27T12:31:35.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41575" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-27T17:07:17.370" Score="10" ViewCount="3245" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Departed&lt;/em&gt; there is a scene where Jack Nicholson's character makes a drawing. The drawing is of rats and the Massachusetts State House. He sets the drawing afire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the symbolism of this scene? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26284" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-27T17:24:14.720" LastActivityDate="2017-06-27T17:51:25.360" Title="What does Costello's drawing symbolize?" Tags="|analysis|the-departed|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24997" CreationDate="2015-09-27T18:00:16.680" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched Seven last night after not watching it for over a decade. I always thought her head was never shown from when I seen it years ago. But last night right before Mills shoots Jhon Doe it looked like her 'dead head' flashed for a split second and I almost jumped off my couch. I don't remember ever seeing that so I was shocked. I bought a new DVD so I didn't know there was 2 endings and that one of them flashes her head. I never went back to pause it and see it twice, but my original thought was that it was her dead head in the box because it looked scary and her skin was blue, so I didn't get the impression that Mills was remembering her when she was alive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26286" LastActivityDate="2015-09-27T18:00:16.680" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41579" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41585" CreationDate="2015-09-27T19:10:22.287" Score="9" ViewCount="2057" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 4 Episode 9 (&lt;em&gt;The Honeymooners&lt;/em&gt;) Archer says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Archer:&lt;/strong&gt; Since I started working at ISIS I've been shot, stabbed, set on fire, poisoned, shot, sexually assaulted, partially chewed, shot and declared legally dead - twice on the same day! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lana:&lt;/strong&gt; You said shot, like, 3 times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Archer:&lt;/strong&gt; That's just by you! Total it's more like... holy shit... 19!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This quite specific list made me wonder: Did all of this actually happen on-screen in previous episodes and is the number of times he got shot (3 times by Lana, 16 times by other people) correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9018" LastEditorUserId="9018" LastEditDate="2015-09-27T21:11:06.013" LastActivityDate="2015-09-27T21:18:49.180" Title="Is the list of mishaps which happened to Archer in S4E9 correct?" Tags="|archer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16657" CreationDate="2015-09-27T19:47:32.050" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I never have it but taking heroin slows down the heart rate, suppresses the breathing and lowers the blood pressure and when JANE turns and laid on her back, it made pressure on her belly. That's why she starts vomiting which causes suffocation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26288" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-27T20:06:23.023" LastActivityDate="2015-09-27T20:06:23.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41253" CreationDate="2015-09-27T20:53:32.343" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several plausible possibilities considering that the Season Two finale, &lt;em&gt;The Wedding Squanchers&lt;/em&gt;, confirms that Bird Person knows Tammy to be a human.  Any spoiler spaces below refer to this episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is entirely possible that, as you say, Bird Person is &quot;punking&quot; Morty, but given that Bird Person respects Rick, he has treated Morty kindly during both of their encounters so far; I don't think that this is the case.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tammy has never eaten in front of Bird Person, and if he knew she was human, he didn't think to ask her.  Knowing Rick was a human, perhaps Bird Person never observed him eat any &quot;human food&quot; during their shared history.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bird Person asked Tammy what Morty would eat.  Tammy, who has shown a propensity for lying (per her actions at the party where she pretended to be drunk to seem &quot;cool&quot;), may be &quot;punking&quot; Morty by giving Bird Person incorrect suggestions.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tammy has only eaten what Bird Person considers &quot;random debris&quot; in front of him, and Bird Person equates this to &quot;random debris, which can be found in carpet&quot;, which he serves to Morty.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tammy might not have exposed Bird Person to &quot;human&quot; food, and she is subsisting on whatever Bird Person is feeding her; possibly eating whatever he eats, or regurgitated Bird Person food as a bird feeds its young, or subsisting on something else entirely (considering Tammy's relationship to Bird Person, one can speculate...).  Therefore, while Bird Person witnesses Tammy the human eating &quot;whatever&quot;, he might not equate that to something that he can respectfully feed Morty the human.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternately &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; 6. Since it was revealed that Tammy was a deep cover agent working for the Galactic Federation, it is plausible that she, like her parents, was a synthetic humanoid, and therefore either didn't eat anything at all around Bird Person, or was unable to answer Bird Person's request for &quot;human food&quot; accurately.  Even if she wasn't synthetic, she may have consumed whatever Bird Person ate and didn't complain in order to maintain a sense of stability for her cover (she didn't want to &quot;rock the boat&quot;, as it were). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notably, blatantly human food was not shown during &lt;em&gt;The Wedding Squanchers&lt;/em&gt; wedding sequence.  Therefore, it can be assumed that Bird Person (or the wedding planner; possibly Squanchy, since they were on Planet Squanch) determined certain non-Earth cuisine to be fine for human consumption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2015-10-05T15:04:11.460" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T15:04:11.460" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41583" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-27T21:14:23.437" Score="4" ViewCount="233" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054047&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Magnificent Seven&lt;/a&gt;, there is this scene that Chico goes to Calvera's camp:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Io7s7.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Io7s7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I do not understand what purpose it served. Why did he go there? He didn't get any information and neither did he kill anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastActivityDate="2016-09-27T22:35:55.347" Title="Why did Chico go to Calvera's camp?" Tags="|the-magnificent-seven|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41579" CreationDate="2015-09-27T21:18:49.180" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/ArcherFX/comments/24eiwa/a_comprehensive_list_of_every_injury_suffered_by/&quot;&gt;Someone on Reddit&lt;/a&gt; actually has listed all of his on-screen injuries, including listing those that were only alluded to in the show rather than shown in the episodes.  Here is a list of on-screen and implied injuries through Season 4 Episode 9, based on injury type:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Shot&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S1 E2: Training Day&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Reference to an incident with Popeye. Implied to have been very painful, enough so to warrant investing in a bulletproof door. No direct injuries in this episode.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sup&gt;*Bulletproof door implies being shot.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S1 E6: Skorpio&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Shot in the foot by Lana Kane.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S1 E7: Skytanic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Shot once in the foot by Lana Kane, same spot as previous episode.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S1 E8: The Rock&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Claims to have been shot, but not known where.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S1 E10: Dial M for Mother&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Shot 6 times “in the 10 ring” by Mallory Archer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S3 E6: The Limited&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Shot in the right arm by Bilcoe, grazing injury.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S3 E 13: Space Race II&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Apparently shot off screen in the left arm.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S4 E6: Once Bitten&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Eighteen year old Sterling shot in the gut by a Femme Fatale.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S4 E8: Coyote Lovely&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Shot 2 times in the back. Bullets punctured lung, resulting in coughing up blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Stabbed&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S1 E3: Diversity Hire&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Stabbed in the back (literally) by Conway Stern. Left lung filled with blood.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S1 E6: Skorpio&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Shot in the upper left torso with a spear gun.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S2 E1: Swiss Miss&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;   - Penis cut by shaving razor, 3 stitches, self-inflicted. Stitches tore two times before leaving Switzerland.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S2 E6: Tragical History&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Ninja star to the upper left chest by one of Selvin's companions. Later twisted by Selvin. Removed to no serious effect.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Punched/Hit&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S1 E1: Mole Hunt&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Hit 4 times with a purse by Mallory Archer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S1 E5: Honeypot&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - High-speed jai alai ball to the face resulting in unconsciousness.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S1 E6: Skorpio&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Punched at least twice in the face by Lana Kane.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S2 E5: The Double Deuce&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Given a “Webly” by Bishop, knocked unconscious.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S2 E11: Jeu Monegasque&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Slapped once by Lana.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S3 E1: Heart of Archness Pt. 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Black eye and facial injuries from off screen ass-whupping by Riley.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S3: E3: Heart of Archness Pt. 3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Cold-clocked in the face by Lana Kane, resulting in unconsciousness, then kicked in the ribs.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S3 E4: The Man from Jupiter&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Nasal impact with dashboard caused by Burt Renolds.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Hit with a purse 4 times by Mallory to no apparent effect.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S3 E6: The Limited&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Punched in the face by Bilcoe, twice&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S3 E7: Drift Problem&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Ridiculous amounts of punches and kicks to the everything.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S3 E8: Lo Scandalo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Slapped 5 times by Lana.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S3 E10: Crossing Over&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Makes the grievous mistake of getting into a fight with Pam.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S4 E1: Fugue and Riffs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Smacked in the back of the head with a frying pan by Lana.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S4 E8: Coyote Lovely&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Hit (not hard) on the left arm and chest about 10 times in total. No apparent injuries.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Torture&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S1 E1: Mole Hunt&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Shocked in the foot by a golf kart battery.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S2 E12: White Nights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Electrical torture in Lubyanka.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Vehicle Crashes&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S1 E9: Job Offer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Possible injuries from collision with a truck.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Thrown out of a car from not wearing a seat belt, car crashed deliberately by Lana. Severe injuries and apparent dislocation of shoulder.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S2 E11: Jeu Monegasque&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Flung from a vehicle to no apparent injury.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S3 E 13: Space Race II&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Space shuttle crashed, no noticeable injuries to Archer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S4 E4: Midnight Ron&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Ejected from trunk of a moving car, thrown clear about 100 linear feet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Falls&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S2 E3: Blood Test&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Falling ~30-50 feet (10-15 meters) into a ventilation shaft to no apparent injury.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S2 E12: White Nights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Long-distance fall from top of guard tower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Medical&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S2 E3: Blood Test&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - 1 liter of blood extracted for paternity test. Left groggy and showing signs of blood loss.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S2 E8: Stage 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Archer diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Underwent unsuccessful surgery for breast cancer, which has advanced to stage 3.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S2 E9: Placebo Effect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Intravenous tube inserted surgically.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Experiences full effect of chemotherapy drugs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Ear Damage&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S1 E6: Skorpio&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Possible beginnings of tinnitus from proximity to grenade explosion.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S2 E7: Movie Star&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - 6 gunshots next to the ear by Lana Kane, resulting in temporary deafness and definite beginnings of tinnitus.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S2 E9: Placebo Effect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - 2 perforated eardrums from grenade explosion.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S3 E2: Heart of Archness Pt. 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Temporally deafened by grenade blast. Twice.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S4 E3: Legs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Point blank exposure to rocket propelled grenade explosion. Temporarily deafened, and suffered severe tinnitus. Later revealed to have several cuts and bruises throughout body. Self-inflicted.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Eye Damage&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S1 E8: The Rock&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Blinded by flare gun while wearing night vision goggles.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S3 E6: The Limited&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Fighting on top of a train is like “being shot in the eyes by a glitter gun”.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Retinas “seared like tuna steaks” from night vision goggles and oncoming train.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S3 EP11: Skin Game&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Light to the eyes while wearing night vision goggles. Again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Other&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S1 E10: Dial M for Mother&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Abducted and implanted with mind control microchip, drill used to enter skull.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S2 E2: A Going Concern&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Brain control microchip removed by Krieger a la “Drill baby drill”.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Mental trauma from contact with aubergine vibrator.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S2 E7:Movie Star&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Injected with fugu fish tetradoxin, temporarily paralyzed.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S2 E12: White Nights&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - “A broken glass factory” in Archer's feet.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S3 E5: El Contrador&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Fed a big bag of jungle dick by the Goddess of Nature, involving at least 2 leaches, and possible malaria. Numerous scrapes and bruises from said jungle.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Suit slashed to shit by Babou. Numerous off-screen injuries resulted.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S3 E10: Crossing Over&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Steps on a recently shattered glass pitcher.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;S4 E6: Once Bitten&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   - Bitten behind the one-eyed snake by a two-eyed snake.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, he actually addresses the claims in Season 4 Episode 9:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;E4 E9: The Honeymooners&#xA;  “Since joining ISIS, I've been shot, (big check),stabbed, (check) set on fire, (hmmmm, nope) poisoned, (Fugu Fish and alcohol) shot, (Check check check) sexually assaulted, (Yup, Countess von Fingerbang, and the Suntan Oil incident.) partially chewed, (maybe an exaggeration) and declared legally dead, twice, on the same day (I can think of several people who would have loved to see that). Claims to have been shot three times by Lana, but was only shot twice. “Shot 19 times”, only 13 gunshot injuries seen up to this point. (Lana – 2, Himself – 1, Odin – 1, Mallory- 6, Bilcoe – 1, Border Patrol – 2). 14 times if you count a spear gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it seems that, on screen at least, he has not been set on fire, the &quot;chewed&quot; part may be questionable and does not seem to have been declared dead on screen at all, let alone twice, though many of his injuries could have been life-threatening, including his bout with cancer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as being shot goes, he was only shot by Lana twice, not three times. The guy who wrote this gets 14 gunshot wounds including the spear gun but I get more than that but, regardless, I don't get 19. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering how regularly he gets injured, I would guess that (since we meet Archer after he's already been an agent for a while), there's a good amount of body trauma that has occurred before the show begins or, potentially, between the content of the episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His final count (through Season 5, episode 13) is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In total, Sterling Archer has sustained, by my count:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Life-threatening injuries - 13&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Non life-threatening injuries - 123&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Gunshot wounds – 14, 16 if you count a spear gun and a bean shot. Old wound from when he was 18 counted, despite not occurring while employed at ISIS.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Stabbing injuries – 2, 3 if a spear gun is counted here. Ninja star included in stabbage.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Explosions - 5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Concussions - 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Fainting/unconsciousness - 6&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Poisonings - 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Sexual assaults - 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Blinded - 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Note, I have not confirmed these but it seems to be a good list.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-09-27T21:18:49.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41586" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-27T21:52:13.610" Score="2" ViewCount="1602" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't understand certain events that immediately precede the escape of the I. Rex in &lt;em&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/em&gt;. They are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why doesn't the paddock's control room have a terminal that can be used to monitor the implant's signals?&lt;/strong&gt; What is the point of the a redundancy monitoring system if it's not used?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is merely a &lt;em&gt;possibility&lt;/em&gt; that the I. Rex has escaped. &lt;strong&gt;Why then do the characters move away from the safe paddock's control room while not knowing where the colossal predator is?&lt;/strong&gt; In particular, why do Owen and two workers enter into the paddock? More importantly, why does Claire drive off alone knowing full well of the possibility of an I Rex lurking somewhere? Why doesn't she just stay in the paddock's control room and call the main control room from where she is?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these plot holes or is there a way to rationalize them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14080" LastEditorUserId="14080" LastEditDate="2015-09-27T22:04:08.960" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T19:51:40.627" Title="The events leading up to the Indominus Rex's escape" Tags="|plot-explanation|jurassic-world|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41589" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41599" CreationDate="2015-09-27T22:21:54.837" Score="6" ViewCount="1701" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Terminator: Genisys, Kyle Reese was sent back in time but didn't have a child with Sarah Connor within that timeline. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is John Connor alive if Kyle and Sarah didn't get together in 1984?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-07T18:14:23.053" LastActivityDate="2016-08-07T18:14:23.053" Title="How is John Connor alive if Kyle and Sarah didn't get together in 1984?" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-series|terminator-genisys|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41590" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43527" CreationDate="2015-09-27T22:26:04.797" Score="5" ViewCount="546" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Terminator: Genisys, Pops explains that he has detailed knowledge of Cyberdine's security systems because he &quot;helped build it&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would Pops help build Cyberdine instead of just destroy it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-07T14:41:43.597" LastActivityDate="2016-08-07T14:41:43.597" Title="Why would Pops help build Cyberdine instead of just destroy it?" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-series|terminator-genisys|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41591" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41603" CreationDate="2015-09-27T22:31:17.750" Score="5" ViewCount="3777" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;Terminator: Genisys&lt;/em&gt; we see Pops die after being flung out of the time displacement device:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DhwEF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DhwEF.png&quot; alt=&quot;Pop dying&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does he then show up again later in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-07T18:50:01.217" LastActivityDate="2016-08-07T18:50:01.217" Title="How does Pops survive?" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-series|terminator-genisys|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41591" CreationDate="2015-09-27T22:51:19.473" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may recall that he explains this; he didn't die, he was 'upgraded'.  They never really specify what that means, but I believe it has to do with him being coated with the liquid metal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-09-27T22:51:19.473" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41593" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38698" CreationDate="2015-09-27T23:03:40.890" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMDB's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/common&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;common cast/crew search&lt;/a&gt; indicates a number of people who were involved in one or both of the original two films and the most recent:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arnold Schwarzenegger&lt;/strong&gt; (obviously)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joel Kramer&lt;/strong&gt; - Stunt Dept&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ethan Van der Ryn&lt;/strong&gt; - Sound Dept&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Carl Miller&lt;/strong&gt; - Visual Effects&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Lu&lt;/strong&gt;  - Stunts &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Martin J. Gibbons&lt;/strong&gt; - Art Department&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Robert Misetich&lt;/strong&gt; - Art Department&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The credits for Genisys also mention&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gale Anne Hurd&lt;/strong&gt; - As &quot;Character Consultant&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;James Cameron&lt;/strong&gt; - As &quot;Character Consultant&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-09-27T23:03:40.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34008" CreationDate="2015-09-28T01:29:57.800" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kramer did earn money for some of those in the list, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Murphy Brown&lt;br&gt;&#xA;CK model&lt;br&gt;&#xA;coffee table book&lt;br&gt;&#xA;probably for make-your-own pizza (he did it in a restaurant)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26293" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T01:29:57.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41589" CreationDate="2015-09-28T01:39:12.040" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's almost impossible to avoid these things with movies' time travel. At the end of T2, we believe that the Judgement Day was avoided, but then who sent Kyle Resse back in time to father John Connor to stop the whole thing? It's similar here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One could argue that John is Sarah's and Kyle's son from a parallel (in our terms: original) timeline. Like the timeline split in &quot;Back to the Future 2 and 3&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, maybe they will have John later on. We saw during the credits that Skynet isn't dead, so what's stopping us from having the original(ish) timeline, just shifted 34 years forward (because John is conceived in 2017 instead of in 1984)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T01:39:12.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41591" CreationDate="2015-09-28T01:41:43.667" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;As T-800 himself explained:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Polyalloy requires programming to take permanent form.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Without the CPU, it is harmless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And T-800 does have a CPU, so this mishap acquired him a new body, similar (identical?) to the one that T-1000's have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T01:41:43.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41589" CreationDate="2015-09-28T02:14:36.580" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the movie explains, time travelers experience multiple time lines when traveling, in a super imposed state (Schroeder's Cat principal). Kyle experienced and remembered the original Cyberdyne timeline and the new Genisys timeline. Since both time lines exist until a definitive event happens in real time. Before that happens, Infected John is sent back. It's a very flexible future until something forces it one way or the other. It does not follow the predestination theory of time travel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T02:14:36.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23493" CreationDate="2015-09-28T02:46:21.187" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lord Humungus deliberately rammed into Mad Max head on, killing Wez and himself.  I do not think he didn't know that Max was going the other direction, he would have saw him.  The shot just before they hit shows Wez terrified whereas Lord Humungus accepting his fate.  Adds to the chaos and the insanity of the wasteland and its occupants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26296" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T02:46:21.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41575" CreationDate="2015-09-28T05:41:26.380" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since he knew there was a government agent in his team posing to be one of them, he was not certain if he was cop or FBI or CIA or the DEA as he was into all sorts of wild things. He feels the entire bureaucracy are filled with rats and needs to be burnt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastEditorUserId="9473" LastEditDate="2016-01-10T03:07:18.737" LastActivityDate="2016-01-10T03:07:18.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41591" CreationDate="2015-09-28T05:41:50.417" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's established early in the film that the poly-alloy can be used to repair the terminator. When the T1000 finds the &quot;killed&quot; young Arnie T800 you'll notice it drops some of itself into the head wound.  This brings the T800 back to functioning again to chase Kyle Reese.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the remains of Pops landing in a tank of polyalloy was more than fortuitous. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T05:41:50.417" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30725" CreationDate="2015-09-28T06:25:55.867" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;They&quot; don't understand human thinking. Modern &quot;Cooper&quot; Human thinking anyway. They have moved beyond us biologically and exist in 5 physical dimensions instead of 3. They don't know who or when really. They have a vague notion but nothing specific. That's where Cooper comes in. They built the means, but they can no longer figure out how to use it. Cooper and Murphy can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically,  Cooper explains in the Tesseract, a fourth (fifth including time) dimensional representation of Murphys room folded in within itself. &quot;They don't know &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;when&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. If 3 dimensional space is huge, time makes it exponential.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally they don't have the info Cooper has. Cooper knows, first hand, that Murphy and Brand senior are working on the gravity issue. He knows that Brand solved it except for time i.e. quantum mechanics meets special relativity.  He knows the only way to get that variable is through observing the inside of a black hole. They don't know what the solution is, just the results of its use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For comparison,  I know how planes work, but I don't know the math behind it, or how to explain it to someone in the past. Nor do I know to whom I would give that to if I did. Or how to speak their language. If I traveled back in time far enough, me and Plato would have nothing in common and the info I have would be useless to him if I can't even explain it in his terms. Much less Grr the Homo Erectus or ooh aha the prehumanoid ape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for your last question, why they or coop didn't avoid the time loop, well, let's assume time in the movie falls into the immutable theory of time. You can't change it. It's a stable time loop. As TARS the lovable bastard states &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;They didn't bring us here to change the PAST.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Everything that happens has to happen in order to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T06:25:55.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41605" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34408" CreationDate="2015-09-28T06:37:41.483" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not an &lt;em&gt;infinite&lt;/em&gt; loop as traditionally considered in SciFi time travel stories. It is a single loop. Every action that takes place happens once, when viewed from outside of time. After the events revolving around time happen, time moves on in a simple linear fashion. Like taking two U Turns in a row then keep driving on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And infinite loop would result in the same events being experienced multiple times. &lt;strong&gt;Groundhog Day&lt;/strong&gt; is a common example of an infinite loop until he breaks out of it. From the outside perspective, the character is going around and around multiple times in time. In the driving example, it's a driver using the same two U Turns over and over, never leaving the same stretch of road.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T06:37:41.483" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41606" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32725" CreationDate="2015-09-28T07:10:24.120" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The anomaly present is very minor. It consists of a few lines of gravity only a foot long, three feet wide and maybe six feet tall. Just enough for dust/dirt to pile up. No mention of how long it lasted. The next anomaly appears just a few days later, centralized around Murphys watch. That sticks around for 25 years atleast, but you'd have to know it's an effect of gravity (somehow,  cause gravity doesn't work like that) and not just a broken watch. Even if Super secret Nasa investigated, there doesn't seem to be much that could be learned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And thus discovery of Cooper in the bookshelf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tesseract Coop was not physically in the Bookshelf in three dimensional space. That would place him in a wall, another room, or floating outside the house. He's in another dimension(s). The Tesseract is a construct of space just meant for Coop to be able to understand, as he is primitive compared to &lt;em&gt;They&lt;/em&gt;. He's floating in fifth dimensional space. Even then, modern day humans had neither the understanding or equipment to detect someone in that space. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, relative to modern humans, Coop only affected a few minor periods of time. Nasa only first knew of the anomalies for a few days at most. The three major events, the coordinates, the STAY and the watch, happen within days of each other. The window of observation would have been way to small for Nasa to learn anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T07:10:24.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41607" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41644" CreationDate="2015-09-28T07:14:01.590" Score="12" ViewCount="3765" Body="&lt;p&gt;There have been many film critics in the world, but no one seems as influential as Roger Ebert. If you check the wikipedia page of any movie, it's very likely that, in the reception section, they would have mentioned &quot;what was Roger Ebert's reception to this movie&quot;. If you just google any movie, on the right hand side of the page they show a brief snapshot, where again it is highly likely that you will see Roger Ebert's score for the movie alongside Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb, Metracritic etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb and Metracritic show aggregated results, but Roger Ebert is just one man. What makes him so special?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-28T16:17:22.380" LastActivityDate="2018-07-06T22:04:28.887" Title="Why was Roger Ebert considered one of the greatest film critics?" Tags="|analysis|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41520" CreationDate="2015-09-28T07:17:21.760" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw Tomorrowland yesterday and this is what I understood:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Casey Newton is discussing with Frank Walker about Tomorrowland he told her that what he saw was just a presentation, something like a demo.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When Frank Walker arrives for the first time in Tomorrowland we don't see all the people that Casey Newton sees.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The robots at the store, and Athena say that people were suppose to be invited/recruted in Tomorrowland but they never were.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We know that Frank Walker was banished from Tomorrowland.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We can't actually distinguish the people from the robots (like Athena).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I came up with two theories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All that Casey Newton saw was fake, an intelligent presentation of Tomorrowland. There were just the people that built the place and we can assume that there were not that many and they died. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The people were sent back like Frank Walker.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19067" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T07:17:21.760" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27683" CreationDate="2015-09-28T07:48:26.787" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem is the closer he gets to the even horizon, the greater the relativistic effects. If the first planet has 7 years to 1 hour at a stable distance, and the slingshot is 51 years to a few minutes, then at the horizon the effects are likely to be Eons to the few moments. Fraction of seconds to Coop and TARS will be thousands and millions of years back on Earth.  There is no escaping it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless of course, They, in their 5th dimensional existence and powers/technology, account for relativity. Given their ability to transverse time like a physical dimension, they would just need to drop Coop and TARS anywhere close to relative time, which they clearly did. They would only need to ensure that the time frame Coop was dropped into would NOT negatively affect the time stream to prevent a paradox. &lt;strong&gt;Note that TARS seems to have experienced more relative time than Coop. He's old, scorched, batteries dead, while coop only experienced hours at most.&lt;/strong&gt; This tells me he was dropped into time earlier than Coop was by maybe years, or more likely, he experienced more time in the black hole than coop did, relatively speaking.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T07:48:26.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27609" CreationDate="2015-09-28T08:03:02.363" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Dr. Brand senior was first trying to convince Cooper to pilot the mission, he asks him what does he notice about the Launch chamber. Coop looks around and says &lt;strong&gt;&quot;This entire facility is a centrifuge. Some kind of vehicle? A Space Station?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; Then Brand explains that Gravity is the key to everything with a long winded expository speech. As he phrases it &quot;How to get a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;viable amount of human life off the planet?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. Of course, it also requires &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;a viable amount of food production.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once they cracked the formula to change gravity, the rest is simple. Build giant space stations that allow for both a viable number of humans (at least 5000 genetically diverse individuals of breeding capacity mentioned in plan b), and the soil and atmosphere needed to support the station. Just a matter of engineering. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-04-15T19:39:30.997" LastActivityDate="2016-04-15T19:39:30.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27453" CreationDate="2015-09-28T08:26:56.737" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As seen when Murphy erases the chalk boards, she starts writing out a complex formula in its place. This formula, while mathematically complex, is simple, and condensed alphanumeric characters that can easily be sent in a Morse code message. In math, there are multiple ways to simplify an equation or figure to be readable in simple terms. A power represents multiplying a number by itself.  4^3 is shorter than 4x4x4. 5.62x10^53 reduces the number of zeros needed by alot. Scientific notation and all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T08:26:56.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41614" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-09-28T10:51:57.950" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-09-28T10:51:57.950" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T10:51:57.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41615" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-09-28T10:51:57.950" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-09-28T10:51:57.950" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T10:51:57.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41618" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41623" CreationDate="2015-09-28T11:41:42.850" Score="1" ViewCount="15312" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Now You See Me&lt;/em&gt;, the Four Horsemen rob a French bank and later reveal that the robbery was all an illusion. When Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman) was explaining it I still couldn't understand how they did this trick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is really driving me crazy, would someone please explain it to me so I don't go insane?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26302" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-28T16:21:21.140" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T16:21:21.140" Title="How did the Four Horsemen rob the French bank?" Tags="|plot-explanation|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2015-09-29T05:38:03.080" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41618" CreationDate="2015-09-28T11:51:20.100" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bank itself wasn't robbed - the truck delivering the money to the bank was hit before the money was delivered and the money was replaced with fake money made from flash paper which would later be burned to make it look like the vault was emptied overnight even though no robbery had taken place on site at the bank. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T11:51:20.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16922" CreationDate="2015-09-28T12:22:52.427" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I think you guys missed something, it's a HUGE part of the film. I don't have the exact time of the sequence, but basicly when he tells the story about Sammy i'm talking about the part where we see Sammy in an institution sitting alone in a room with people just passing by. Well in that scene when 1 of the random people passes in front of Sammy, the actor changes and we see Lenard sitting in that chair wandering around. From that fact, you can basicly say that he's the one that killed his wife, that Sammy is Lenard. I think the &quot;I'VE DONE IT&quot; tattoo is a reminder for us that he's the one who killed her. When we see this tattoo it's the end of the movie where Lenard questions himself and we just understand that he just want to be happy with his condition therefore making up facts that are just wrong. Lenard is an unreliable narrator so we, spectators, need to find someone reliable. The only other guy is Teddy which we don't want to trust because he keeps saying &quot;Don't beleive his lies&quot; but he's the REAL cop in the story, he's the stable guy and yes he's using him but it doesn't make him a liar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summary for those who don't wanna read the whole thing :&#xA; 1. Lenard is in fact Sammy&#xA; 2. We can trust Teddy (even though he's using him)&#xA; 3. the &quot;I'VE DONE IT&quot; tattoo, I think, is here when he has a glimpse of &quot;reality&quot; and is there to make us understand that we only see Lenard's part of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26303" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T12:22:52.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34756" CreationDate="2015-09-28T12:49:05.453" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;So cancer looks like an obvious here, given the amounts of radiation from a likely worldwide nuclear war. Just going on an anatomical basis, what about cancer of the carotid artery? It's a major blood vessel that runs along the length of the neck, and cancer of this sort tends to be tumours that surround said artery in lumps that press against the skin, making them fairly easy to see, so could explain Larry and Barry on Nux's neck. Just throwing it out there&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26305" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T12:49:05.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41622" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44099" CreationDate="2015-09-28T12:50:49.783" Score="5" ViewCount="403" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the series &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The 100&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, we first see main character Clarke falling in love with Finn but the show season ends with her odd interaction towards the female Lexa. So is she really bisexual?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T07:35:56.287" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T07:35:56.287" Title="Is Clarke bisexual?" Tags="|character|the-100|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41618" CreationDate="2015-09-28T13:49:50.887" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're looking for any reasoning in that movie, you're looking for the unattainable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, you might recall that Morgan Freeman explained that the magicians stole the money as it was being loaded on the truck.  They replaced the money with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrocellulose#Uses&quot;&gt;flash paper&lt;/a&gt;, which ignites without leaving any residue or smoke.  That flash paper is what ended up in France, while the money was brought back to the magicians.  This is how they made it seem as though the money disappeared.  Meanwhile, the person they pulled from the crowd was dropped into an identical looking vault below the stage, and the money was siphoned out of this &quot;stage vault&quot; and out into the crowd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, flash paper needs an ignitor to work.  Which means there had to be some ignition source in the actual vault in France; some source of heat or flame to make the flash paper ignite.  That part was never explained because it's impossible to do what the movie said they did.  Not to mention how they transported that much cash back to America without even being questioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T13:49:50.887" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41624" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41635" CreationDate="2015-09-28T14:07:22.757" Score="3" ViewCount="10788" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Longest Ride&lt;/em&gt; we have seen that Luke Collins chose to buy &quot;The Portrait of Ruth&quot; rather than buying the rest of the greatest paintings. So what exactly was his reason to buy that painting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-28T16:20:48.187" LastActivityDate="2022-08-10T04:20:37.033" Title="Why did Luke Collins choose The Portrait of Ruth?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-longest-ride|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41607" CreationDate="2015-09-28T17:03:57.800" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;prolific&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;had personality&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;was one of the first to be on TV (along with Siskel), which gave him great face-recognition&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;talented (he Won a Pulitzer prize in '75 for his work)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T17:03:57.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33554" CreationDate="2015-09-28T17:10:33.573" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The song was popular among fighters back in the war in 1992, Irakli Charkviani’s Qavagadi Navi (A Paper Boat) – a promise to return no matter what.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26310" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T17:10:33.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41631" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41633" CreationDate="2015-09-28T17:35:39.597" Score="26" ViewCount="8544" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like the British show Sherlock gets a new season every 2 years (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016?) based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/episodes?year=2017&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;. Why so much time in between? They only release 3 episodes 1.5 hours long each. With every new season it feels like you need to start watching from the very beginning to remember details of this show as it is so important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-28T18:12:44.817" LastActivityDate="2016-08-23T14:43:02.513" Title="Why are there such big gaps between Sherlock seasons?" Tags="|production|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41632" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-28T18:00:35.533" Score="2" ViewCount="118" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1973 Don Siegel movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069865/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Charley Varrick&lt;/a&gt;, the eponymous protagonist leads a team of bank robbers in a raid on a small regional bank. The job is supposed to be an easy raid but they accidentally find they have netted an implausible amount of cash. Varrick realises they have stumbled on a Mafia drop and that the mob will seek them out to make an example of them if they try to use the money. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leaving his drunk partner in his trailer, he begins to plan what looks like an escape from the country, seeking passports etc.. He doesn't know at this point that the mob have identified him and sent an enforcer to take action. But, when he returns to his trailer, instead of going inside to talk to his partner, he hides in a ditch in the trailer park observing the enforcer arrive at the trailer to torture his partner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does he know to hide when he couldn't know the mob have found him so quickly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-28T18:08:47.417" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T18:08:47.417" Title="How did Charley Varrick know to hide?" Tags="|plot-explanation|charley-varrick|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41631" CreationDate="2015-09-28T18:02:13.347" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because of scheduling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you have two leads who are also featuring in major films like &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;... (together!) and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Into_Darkness&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Trek&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; plus having writers and producers who are involved in a variety of projects, it's difficult to get everyone in the same place at the same time to make a show... particularly if you want to maintain the quality of the show at the level people are accustomed to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From an article in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10553570/Sherlock-creator-denies-plot-holes-in-BBC-drama.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Telegraph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Moffat] confirmed he hoped to make further stories for the popular BBC ONE show but said it was a case of fitting in with everyone's diaries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Well, apparently Benedict and Martin are quite popular in the movies these days so it's quite difficult to schedule around them. And obviously Mark and I have our other commitments too, but it's just a matter of scheduling. We're all keen to continue.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's another article from &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/sherlock-season-4-5steven-moffat-sue-vertue-interview/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Collider&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; in January of 2014 that explains it in even more detail... but the basic info is the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though Sherlock hasn’t quite finished its Season 3 run on Masterpiece on PBS, fans of the popular series are already anxious to know when it will return with new episodes.  Thanks to the increasing work schedules for show stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, who have very busy acting careers, and Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, who write the episodes, the gap between seasons doesn’t seem as though it will shorten, anytime soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you working extra hard to shorten the gap between seasons, or do you just have to deal with scheduling?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MOFFAT:  We deal with scheduling.  I’ve also got to do Doctor Who.  I’ve got no choice about that.  That’s the day job.  Everyone is a little bit busy.  But also, it’s worked to make them wait.  If we made Sherlock the ordinary way, and did a run of 6 or 12, it would have been over by now.  It would have been done because Martin and Benedict would never have been able to find the time, after the first [season].  It would be done.  This model of the TV series will happen again.  Because we all love it so much, this could go on for a very, very long time.  You’ll get to see an awful lot more of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T18:09:55.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41590" CreationDate="2015-09-28T18:03:32.267" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Pops that helped build Cyberdine was before he was reprogrammed and sent back in time to protect Sarah as a child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that point he would be a terminator following the orders of the AI Skynet. He would have no reason to destroy Cyberdine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T18:03:32.267" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41624" CreationDate="2015-09-28T18:23:34.637" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first painting offered was the only one that wasn’t from a famous painter. It was from their orphan child, who painted a portrait of Ruth. It wasn’t particularly beautiful and wasn’t worth anything to the art world. In fact, no one bid on it, except for Luke. Luke didn’t see much value in the art by famous artists there, it was all too modern for his taste, but he saw great value in the painting of Ruth because he had spent time with Ira. You couldn’t spend time with Ira without learning to love Ruth after seeing her through his eyes. &lt;strong&gt;Luke wanted the portrait of Ruth, not for its artistic or monetary value, but for its sentimental value.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26312" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2015-09-28T19:54:46.113" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T19:54:46.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41639" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-28T19:52:14.393" Score="7" ViewCount="601" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2014 film Kingsman: The Secret Service, our megalomaniac villain Richmond Valentine plans to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; severely reduce the population of the human race by distributing free sim cards capable of sending a signal which causes people to be uncontrollably violent, killing others at random.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having done this, he means to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; restart society anew, with a collection of the 'great and the good', made up of celebrities, nobility and politicians. In short, a group of those privileged people who are patently used to having things done for them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure he's thought this through:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; In a post-apocalypse society of the wealthy and privileged, who would know how to produce food? And who would be willing to do menial work such as cleaning, refuse collection and food preparation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does Richmond Valentine have a plan for human society going forward? How is his utopian society supposed to work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23580" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-29T12:09:11.460" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T12:09:11.460" Title="Who does the work in the post-apocalypse society in Kingsman: The Secret Service?" Tags="|kingsman-the-secret-service|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30902" CreationDate="2015-09-28T19:58:37.177" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The plant is a metaphor of Leon himself.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When asked by Mathilda about the plant, Leon says: &lt;code&gt;It's like me, you see. No roots.&lt;/code&gt;&#xA;As a hitman, Leon is always traveling, never settling down in one place. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, Mathilda plants it in her school's park, and says:&#xA;&lt;code&gt;I think we'll be ok here, Leon.&lt;/code&gt; Both Mathilda and the plant will grow roots in this place, watched over by Leon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the plant (being a plant) has no sensations, no feelings, cannot move, cannot make a sound—contrary to a dog, for instance. In that sense it might represent Leon's dim-wittiness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26314" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T19:58:37.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41639" CreationDate="2015-09-28T20:32:57.240" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;His plan does make sense.  Not everyone would die in the mayhem that he would unleash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The effect of the signal is not permanent.  There would be survivors amongst those who had not been chosen. This is shown earlier when Galahad. Walks out of the church.   Survivors who would presumably be the strongest and fittest in their particular part of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Valentine and his chosen ones would employ (enslave) them as a new underclass supporting his brave new world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-09-28T20:37:45.493" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T20:37:45.493" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26773" CreationDate="2015-09-28T21:03:05.217" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watch them in order or else there are spoilers in the later ones even though they are prequels&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26319" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T21:03:05.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41607" CreationDate="2015-09-28T22:22:00.707" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Roger Ebert was the all-time best-known, most successful movie critic in cinema history.  He reached more movie fans via television and print than any other critic. He became the first movie critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1975.  He was also the first film critic to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ebert was the film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013 (from cancer).  His reviews were syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the US and abroad.  He teamed up with Gene Siskel, film critic for the Chicago Tribune (a fierce rival of the Sun-Times), to create the show &quot;Sneak Previews&quot; on public television.  It was famous for the phrase &quot;two thumbs up&quot; which they trademarked.  However they often disagreed on their opinion of a movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He co-wrote the screenplay for &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065466/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Beyond the Valley of the Dolls&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and other films with Russ Meyer.  He wrote more than 20 books, mostly collections of reviews, but also others, such as &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0836279298&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Perfect London Walk&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.  He was the winner of several awards and was nominated for many more, including 10 Emmy Awards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He estimated that he saw more than 10,000 films in his lifetime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2016-05-09T04:33:33.047" LastActivityDate="2016-05-09T04:33:33.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2015-09-28T22:22:39.197" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I suppose another take on this would be that, in most countries, the locals must either be satisfied with only the films produced in their country (e.g. Danes must only consume Danish media) or consume media produced in the lingua franca for the region (which, in most countries, is English. Although of course there are exceptions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most countries don't have the resources or economic incentive to produce native-language copies of English-language media, and besides many locals already speak English. So, they don't really need anything to be dubbed or subtitled to understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the U.S. there is economic incentive and economic means to produce local versions of media popular elsewhere. And it's very unlikely that a given viewer in the U.S. will already speak whatever the original language is (which makes perfect sense; the only two languages a person in the U.S. would ever realistically need are English and, as a distant second, Spanish. Most languages are only spoken by a few million people, and those spoken by populations as large as the U.S. are, for the most part, oceans away), so it's likely they'll need dubbing or subtitles. Which is distracting, and arguably detracts from the film. It's also grating and unfamiliar if you are accustomed to all of your media being in your native tongue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Short version?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back in the day the British- more specifically, the English- conquered everyone. And the natively English-speaking country with overwhelmingly the largest media budget is the U.S. Solve for x.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26311" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T22:22:39.197" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41646" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41648" CreationDate="2015-09-28T22:50:25.420" Score="10" ViewCount="1891" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are soap operas called as such? Do they have anything to do with soap at all or is it something metaphorical?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T22:56:56.537" Title="Why are soap operas called as such?" Tags="|terminology|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41646" CreationDate="2015-09-28T22:56:21.727" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera#Origin_of_the_genre&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Origin of the genre&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The first series considered to be a &quot;soap opera&quot; was Painted Dreams, which debuted on October 20, 1930 on Chicago radio station WGN. Early radio series such as Painted Dreams were broadcast in weekday daytime slots, usually five days a week, when most of the listeners would be housewives; thus, the shows were aimed at and consumed by a predominantly female audience. In the name, &quot;soap&quot; refers to the soap and detergent commercials originally broadcast during the shows, which were aimed at women who were cleaning their houses at the time of listening or viewing, and &quot;opera&quot; refers to the melodramatic character of the shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22723" LastActivityDate="2015-09-28T22:56:21.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41650" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41651" CreationDate="2015-09-29T00:58:03.793" Score="5" ViewCount="368" Body="&lt;p&gt;My question is related to the following technique:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9791/how-do-they-mix-real-characters-with-animated-characters&quot;&gt;How do they mix real characters with animated characters?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Except that instead of having a real Dick Van Dyke during all the scene, an animated Dick Van Dyke is superimposed and replaces the real one. Same with the wooden gate: a real one with lots of details and color shades is replaced by an extremely simplified gate with minimum shades and traces, while keeping the resemblance to the real thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I need to hire a professional animator to do something like that, but I do not even know the name of the technique.  It is often used in TV commercials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26323" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T01:08:29.073" Title="Technique where the outline of real actors and objects is replaced by superimposed animation?" Tags="|film-techniques|animation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41650" CreationDate="2015-09-29T01:08:29.073" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is called rotoscoping. It's a technique where film is 'traced' for animation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T01:08:29.073" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41652" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41665" CreationDate="2015-09-29T02:25:10.723" Score="1" ViewCount="3314" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Heaven_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kingdom of Heaven&lt;/a&gt; there's the following dialog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hospitaller: One may stare into the light, until one becomes the&#xA;  light. I've done it many times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Balian of Ibelin: [throws a rock at a bush that catches fire by the&#xA;  spark] There's your religion. One spark, a creosote bush. There's your&#xA;  Moses. I did not hear it speak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did Balian mean? What does a creosote bush represent metaphorically?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the particular scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/LYk7gJTLDFg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15526" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-09-29T09:28:19.047" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T09:28:19.047" Title="Meaning of a dialogue from the movie 'Kingdom of Heaven'" Tags="|plot-explanation|kingdom-of-heaven|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26773" CreationDate="2015-09-29T02:55:46.107" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a fan of the Underworld series, the (my) recommended viewing is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Underworld&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (The Extended Director's Cut preferably): This starts the series, and if not seen first, would be majorly spoiled by the other movies. Much of the allure of this film comes from the mystery revolving the Lycan/Vampire blood feud, and the characters in it. If you remove the mystery (from watching Rise first), everything feels like false tension. If the audience knows everything Selena doesn't, her character seems moronic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rise of the Lycans&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: Fills in most of the new information for the series. It also pairs nicely with the Selena/Michael &amp;amp; Lucian/Sonja star crossed lovers theme.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Evolution&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: Pretty much a self contained story Re: William and Marcus. The Selena/Michael plot is weakened, and seeing this after Rise prevents the love story from seeming cheapened. This movie is pretty much just a standalone action film compared to the world building down in Underworld and Rise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Awakening&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: The post-time skip sequel to Evolution. Selena is chasing after the lost Michael, and dealing with the kid she was knocked up with in Evolution. NOT A PREQUEL.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Next Generation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: Another time skip sequel to Awakening. (October 2016)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Optionally, there is also &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Underworld: Endless War&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, a anime short that follows Death Dealer Selena dealing death to a set of Lycan brothers. It has three parts, one set before the events of Underworld in Victorian paris, another set in the late 60s again pre-Underworld, and a third set after Evolution/before Awakening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ign.com/videos/2014/10/12/underworld-2-movies-1-tv-series-in-development-nycc-2014&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Finally, there is a 6th movie in planning, and a TV show that's a spin-off/mostly unconnected to the plot of the movies. A shared universe. According to producers Len Wiseman and Mark Goffman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-04-11T05:50:07.900" LastActivityDate="2016-04-11T05:50:07.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24313" CreationDate="2015-09-29T03:35:10.487" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the above answers are ignorantly incorrect. The tint is green because it was a rush job and the green screen studio colour bled onto characters and props, so the adjusted with some colour tinting so that cg and real should blend seamlessly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However with the first matrix was a lot less greenish because they didn't rush for the money, worked out the lighting like professionals and took their time to do a good job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A similar thing can be noticed on Lord of the rings, the first one done well and the other two rushed and looks green.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26328" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T03:35:10.487" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="29964" CreationDate="2015-09-29T06:19:01.043" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this is to emphasize the fact that he is foreign/distinct from the other viking Earls.  The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.history.com/shows/vikings/cast/jarl-borg&quot;&gt;character bio&lt;/a&gt; on the History Channel site states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;cunning and devious leader of Gotaland .... refuses to cede any of his land to King Horik, whom he considers to be a &lt;strong&gt;foreign king&lt;/strong&gt; with no legitimate claim &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;emphasis mine above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The foreign aspect is also supported on &lt;a href=&quot;http://vikings.wikia.com/wiki/Jarl_Borg#Trivia&quot;&gt;Vikings Wikia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jarl Borg was originally supposed to be a Swedish Jarl, living in Sweden. But Swedish actor Gustaf Skarsgård, who plays Floki, told Micheal Hirst that &quot;Sweden&quot; did not exist as such in the time of the Vikings and that Uppsala would be located within it if it did. Hirst then changed Borg to a Geatish jarl, since there would not be any motivation for Ragnar going home to Kattegat before visiting Borg if he was already in Svealand (Land of the Swedes). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26325" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T06:19:01.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41652" CreationDate="2015-09-29T06:34:10.310" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thanks to @AndrewThompson&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quote from wikipedia&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a powerful religious symbol, the burning bush represents many&#xA;  things to Jews, Christians and Muslims such as God's miraculous&#xA;  energy, sacred light, illumination, and the burning heart of purity,&#xA;  love and clarity. From a human standpoint, it also represents Moses'&#xA;  reverence and fear before the divine presence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the movie, Balian was eager to find God and actually talk to him. He travelled from France to Jerusalem to do so, and in Jerusalem he did not find anything different. Hospitaller then tells him that holiness is in right action and protecting the ones that need help. Balian, still not able to talk to god doubts his presence and here lets off a rant about God and if he actually exists, since the fire from the burning bush apparantly dictates God's miraculous energy. Hospitaller replies that it does not mean that God does not exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the Movie, Balian knowing that actually physically or mentally talking to God is impossible and when he is about to burn dead bodies to save the people, he says something along the lines of &quot;If God does not understand this, then we need not worry since he is not God.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see later from the scene that the bush actually does not burn, instead just dislocates from its root and another flame starts up, indicating to Balian that God may do really exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Great movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15526" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T06:34:10.310" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41639" CreationDate="2015-09-29T07:41:42.220" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Richmond_Valentine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Richmond Valentines description on wikia&lt;/a&gt; there is a table with his goals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;1 Goals:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;! - Kill Eggs Unwin and the Kingsman organization&#xA;  &quot;Change the world&quot; by giving away phones containing his SIM card which causes humans to become uncontrollably violent so as to kill a majority of the human race and presumably lead the survivors (failed)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;! - Kill Harry Hart (succeeded)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, regarding your answer, he does have a small army at his base, and he is smart enough to make the survivors obey him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19067" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T07:41:42.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41667" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48816" CreationDate="2015-09-29T08:21:01.737" Score="6" ViewCount="9331" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2013 documentary, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsky%27s_Dune&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jodorowsky's Dune&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, they show a thick book of art and scenes from the movie that they sent to the studios. They show it in the documentary several times, but I think they mention in it that there weren't many copies of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has the content of that book become publicly available over the years? The only thing that I was able to find online regarding this book is &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostmedia.wikia.com/wiki/Dune_(Alejandro_Jodorowsky/Moebius_Screenplay_and_Storyboards;_Frank_Herbert_Screenplay;_Ridley_Scott_Drafts)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26337" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T17:08:54.857" LastActivityDate="2019-03-11T00:08:31.930" Title="Jodorowsky's Dune artbook" Tags="|jodorowskys-dune|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="118" CreationDate="2015-09-29T08:31:32.573" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's certainly not like &quot;&lt;em&gt;it must always be remade?&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But indeed, a lot of movies from other countries do get remade in Hollywood.&#xA;There could be many reasons for this : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Better marketing with international stars&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Notable example : The Departed, which was a remake of the hong kong&#xA;  thriller Internal Affairs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's just take this one example, do you think Hollywood would have been able to market the same movie so successfully without the big names like Martin Scorcese, Leonardo Di Caprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not saying that all they do is just add the weight of the names. They are certainly great actors/directors, masters of their craft, and when they reenact a good story, they do make it very nice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Technical Improvements&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hollywood definitely has the best infrastructure in terms of technology used in the movie. From sound mixing and lighting to special effects, Hollywood can certainly make use of the best technology in every scene, which might be lacking in the original movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Notable example : the TV scene from the movie Ring(2002), compared to&#xA;  the original Ringu(1998). The Ring(2002) delivers the scene much&#xA;  better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. English language&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;English language is the global lingua franca. So releasing a movie in English, definitely increases its prospects of being seen by more people. Of course it can be achieved by dubbing or subtitles, but they are not as effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So these are some good reasons, why Hollywood wants to remake these great movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T08:31:32.573" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41670" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45473" CreationDate="2015-09-29T10:05:57.847" Score="4" ViewCount="1886" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen all the seasons of &lt;em&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/em&gt; but one thing that's bothering me was what Leonard really does at the California Institute of Technology. Is he a teacher or doing a research which is not gonna get over?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-29T10:31:52.683" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T20:54:03.363" Title="What does Leonard Hofstadter do at Caltech?" Tags="|character|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41671" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41679" CreationDate="2015-09-29T10:54:50.747" Score="4" ViewCount="6837" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Movie Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials&lt;/em&gt;, where former Doctor Mary Cooper, knows how to cure the infected people as she prepares an enzyme to cure Brenda, but main Doctor Ava Paige, wants Mary to be dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The guy (Thomas) shoots Mary while taking!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can any one tell me why they killed her while they both are working for same cause?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22013" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-11-24T13:29:42.753" LastActivityDate="2017-11-24T13:29:42.753" Title="Why did Ava Paige make this decision?" Tags="|plot-explanation|maze-runner-the-scorch-trials|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41670" CreationDate="2015-09-29T12:31:59.397" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leonard is an experimental physicist, which means that he designs and conducts experiments (often with lasers) to prove or disprove theories put forth by other physicists, like his roommate Dr. Sheldon Cooper (a theoretical physicist).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T12:31:59.397" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26552" CreationDate="2015-09-29T13:26:28.573" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now that Penny and Leonard are married, her last name is Hofstadter. Leonard got down on one knee in episode 2 of this season (9) and asked her, &quot;Penny Hofstadter, will you stay married to me?&quot; to which she said yes. Typically such formal proposals include middle names (and a maiden name in some cases) but since she doesn't have any, it was short and simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8842" LastEditorUserId="8842" LastEditDate="2015-09-29T13:28:04.657" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T13:28:04.657" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39253" CreationDate="2015-09-29T13:55:23.010" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The biggest reason is that she's untrustworthy.&#xA;When Jesse says &quot;He's my partner&quot;, she tells him she's his partner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jane proves this to Walt when she says he wouldn't know that she'd not expose him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, Walt couldn't afford to lose Jesse; he was his only method of distributing the meth that he'd be cooking in the future(later events say otherwise; but at this point, Gus was not really a factor in anything.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26347" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T13:55:23.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41671" CreationDate="2015-09-29T14:00:00.327" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mary used to work for WCKD but left due to &quot;creative differences&quot; in how to approach the cure. Mainly that Ava is evil for abusing of children like that. Mary and the Right Arm have been actively interfering with WCKD by liberating Immunes, which WCKD sees as a genocidal act against saving humanity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they killed Mary to get rid of the problem. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, they are not working for the same cause. Mary is willing to save Immunes so they can repopulate, at the expense of current human population. Ava is willing to torture and kill children to save the current population (i.e. herself).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;: You seem to have misunderstood the scene with Brenda being &quot;&lt;em&gt;cured&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. The enzyme that's extracted from the Immunes is not a long term cure, or vaccine. It doesn't 100% solve the issue of the Flare affecting people that are not immune. It's a treatment. It gets rid of the infection for a short time. Brenda is only &quot;cured&quot; of that specific infection, and can get infected again (or it only stops the infection for a few months and she will turn into a Crank at that time, the movie was a bit unclear).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would need to be injected regularly for it to be 100%. And the only way to produce the Enzyme is to make an Immune's brain work overtime, the entire point of the Trails. &lt;strong&gt;It can't be artificially manufactured. The only way to produce it is by torturing children, then hooking them up to a machine to drain their brains.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The books and the movies diverge. First the books only have a small number of gladers, the ones from the boy maze and a girl maze, around 20 survivors. The movie has many more. Movie WCKD believes in cultivating all the immunes for the Enzyme, not exactly a cure cure. It also, maybe, goes with the book motivation, in that WCKD is putting the gladers through a set of trials to find the &quot;ONE&quot; immune at the end, that will get his head chopped open and the &quot;Killzone&quot; part of the brain examined so that it can be reproduced, in the end creating the cure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In short, the cure has not been found yet, and the Trials that WCKD is conducting is to find the cure by pushing the kids to the brain's most efficient point.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-09-30T05:35:31.190" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T05:35:31.190" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41683" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7943" CreationDate="2015-09-29T16:09:17.483" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I googled the question and came upon this discussion and if it's up to speculation then I agree with him checking the boots.That implies looking for blood and in addition no mentions the car wreck shorty after leaving her house. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he killed her, he wouldn't want anyone to connect the dots of her murder and the car accident as they were only a few feet apart. Him walking away versus waiting for medical attention. Also adds to the fact that he did not want to be caught or connected to that location. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26352" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T16:09:17.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13829" CreationDate="2015-09-29T18:22:25.060" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that Virgil spent time at the asylum immediately after losing all his paintings, and Claire.  While there, he realized everyone's role in the heist, and also reflected on his relationship with Claire.  He was heartbroken and lost.  It seems that he became healthier, and finally came to grips with it all.  Later, going back out into the world, without gloves, and ready to face reality. Probably for the first time in his life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Virgil went to Day and Night, a place full of gears and clocks, which somehow ties Robert into the scene where Virgil waits for Claire.  Since Claire had mentioned the square as her favorite place, Virgil expected that he might find her there.  Probably thinking that she might go into Day and Night.(Would she have shown up with Robert?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that the love scene between Claire and Virgil was very special and believable, contrary to what I read in some professional reviews. He had never been with a woman before, except for his paintings. I found the scene very touching.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there was no reason why Virgil would doubt Claire's love for him, as she convinced him that she was suffering from a serious nuerotic disorder, and came across as lonely and isolated.  Claire convinced Virgil that he was the one man she could trust.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie on demand only last night, and I really loved it.  It was unpredicatable, and interesting.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26357" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T18:22:25.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33145" CreationDate="2015-09-29T18:42:38.080" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reff : &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/predestination-2014-movie-plot-ending-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Predestination Timeline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regards to question 2:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hawke is quite aware that the Fizzle bomber is actually an older version of himself. There is no confusion there. Hawke (temporal agent) is in disbelief that he can grow old to become the Fizzle bomber. The very person he's been trying to catch and bring to justice. Hawke is in altercation with the Fizzle bomber simply because of his disbelief and disgust in his future self. This causes him to shoot the Fizzle bomber.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2018-12-16T07:35:07.947" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T07:35:07.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41692" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3433" CreationDate="2015-09-29T19:02:10.147" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reff : &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/inception-2010-movie-plot-ending-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inception Kicks Explained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the deal @Casebash.&#xA;In complex multi-level dreams, the sedative is really strong.&#xA;In this dream state it is not enough that you receive just one kick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each sleeping person requires two kicks. One from the current level of the dream and one from the level above. These two kicks need to synchronized. This is done using the music.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The van hitting the edge of the bridge is the a kick. If they had synchronized their fall in the dream levels below, they would have woken up. However they miss this kick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next kick is the van hitting the water. They synchronize their inner layers kick with this one and they ride the kicks back up to the level of the van.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link has a description of the pairs of kicks each one uses to wake up each level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2018-12-16T07:36:43.717" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T07:36:43.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41622" CreationDate="2015-09-29T20:30:48.157" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;She is. The showrunner, writers and actors confirmed it on several occasions, last time at this year's San Diego Comic-Con I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26359" LastActivityDate="2015-09-29T20:30:48.157" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36108" CreationDate="2015-09-29T20:43:24.413" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The showrunner, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/an-interview-with-executive-producer-jason-rothenberg-for-the-100&quot;&gt;Jason Rothenberg, is a big fan of BSG&lt;/a&gt;. This might be an explanation, in parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;How would you describe the genesis of the concept for The 100?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The show is based on a book. Last year, I was looking for a pilot to&#xA;  write and I had a meeting with the publisher. They told me about this&#xA;  idea and it instantly blew my mind. I think I can honestly say it’s an&#xA;  amazing idea because it wasn’t my idea and I’m not tooting my own horn&#xA;  here – but it instantly touched all of the hot creative issues that I&#xA;  was looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What creative issues were you looking for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I wanted to do a show with a &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Flies&lt;/em&gt; theme – and that was&#xA;  there in this story. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Battlestar Galactica&lt;/em&gt; is one of my favourite shows&#xA;  of all time.&lt;/strong&gt; Well, this is like Battlestar Galactica in space. &lt;em&gt;Lost&lt;/em&gt; is&#xA;  also one of my favourite shows of all time – and this is like &lt;em&gt;Lost&lt;/em&gt; on&#xA;  the ground. It was a very easy decision for me to take on this&#xA;  project.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26359" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-09-30T08:22:35.980" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T08:22:35.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41706" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-30T07:49:41.370" Score="3" ViewCount="572" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 3 Episode 15 of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Sokka was put in line when the Prison Warden found out that there is an impostor among the guards. All guards were asked to come out and Sokka was out too. Chit Sang, a prison inmate, was asked to point at the impostor and he pointed at another guard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sokka would have been caught outright because he was tying his hair using a blue band which is a colour of the water nation people and all other guards present tied their hair with a red band.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was he not caught because of this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26372" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-30T08:57:35.207" LastActivityDate="2017-10-23T04:59:59.877" Title="Why was Sokka not caught in the Episode of Boiling Rock in Avatar: The Last Airbender?" Tags="|plot-explanation|avatar-the-last-airbender|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35157" CreationDate="2015-09-30T09:03:11.010" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Below follows my answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/90593/19561&quot;&gt;a similar question&lt;/a&gt; over on the Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first &lt;em&gt;Mad Max&lt;/em&gt; movie, he is named thus by the last remaining member of the motorcycle gang that killed his wife and son, shortly before Max kills him in revenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Max casually walks away, Johnny started pleading, then laughing, calling Max &amp;quot;...mad! Yer MAD!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/N2x8RhadlpA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9382" LastEditorUserId="9382" LastEditDate="2021-08-13T13:24:45.570" LastActivityDate="2021-08-13T13:24:45.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41706" CreationDate="2015-09-30T09:33:49.643" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this may be a goof. You can check out this link for &lt;a href=&quot;http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/The_Boiling_Rock,_Part_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;More&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;, although it might not be exactly what you want but might be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-30T10:01:06.377" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T10:01:06.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41709" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41712" CreationDate="2015-09-30T10:54:55.807" Score="6" ViewCount="2390" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why it is called &quot;Jurassic Park&quot; instead of &quot;Jurassic zoo&quot; ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to english dictionary: Park means&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A park is an area of natural, semi-natural, or planted space set aside for human enjoyment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to English dictionary: Zoo means&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An establishment that maintains a collection of wild animals, typically in a park or gardens, for study, conservation, or display to the public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26373" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-30T14:36:44.297" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T22:19:00.250" Title="Why it is called &quot;Jurassic Park&quot; instead of &quot;Jurassic zoo&quot;?" Tags="|title|jurassic-park|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41710" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41709" CreationDate="2015-09-30T11:11:15.487" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It probably comes from the distinction between 'zoos' and 'Safari parks'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zoos are typically areas with cages in which animals are 'displayed' and the public walk around looking into the cages. So, outside, looking in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;'Safari parks' generally have differing groups of animals in a more natural habit with some freedom to roam and interact. In safari parks, the public usually travel through the park in a car or bus and and therefore inside, looking out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way that (parts) of Jurassic 'park' are designed is far more similar to safari parks than zoos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, 'Jurassic Zoo' would have been a pretty crap name !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6811" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-09-30T14:37:35.090" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T14:37:35.090" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41709" CreationDate="2015-09-30T12:25:48.827" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jurassic Park not Jurassic Zoo because it's meant to be an &lt;strong&gt;amusement park&lt;/strong&gt;. An amusement park has a lot of attractions, rides, merchandise sale etc. like Disney land.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, instead of clowns and cartoon characters, we have dinosaurs, but we also have a lots of attractions and rides. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of these things have been shown in Jurassic Park as well as The Lost World. Visitors to the Jurassic Park not only get to see the animals in the open, but also a short movie about the park's origin, the labs etc. There was a huge plush cafeteria of sorts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So these things make it a park, rather than a zoo, which is much smaller in its scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-30T12:32:37.623" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T12:32:37.623" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41721" CreationDate="2015-09-30T12:39:53.330" Score="3" ViewCount="703" Body="&lt;p&gt;In spite of being corrupted, why has Mayor Quimby from &lt;em&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/em&gt; not been replaced from the position of mayor yet. We have seen him taking bribes from Fat Tony, again some theft from tax money. So what is the reason that he is still the mayor of Springfield?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that he is largely just supposed to be funny, like many other characters that still have their jobs despite their incompetence (e.g. Chief Wiggum, Dr. Nick, Otto, ...). But apart from this, &lt;strong&gt;has it ever been adressed inside the show itself&lt;/strong&gt; why Springfield fails to either recognize Quimby's inappropriateness for the job or do anything against it? Or is this left entirely unadressed as part of the joke around his character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-30T13:23:10.503" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T20:16:30.473" Title="Why is Mayor Quimby still mayor?" Tags="|character|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="11" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41715" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44845" CreationDate="2015-09-30T12:48:43.087" Score="8" ViewCount="6482" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show Dexter opens up an interesting yet controversial subject of saving innocent lives by eliminating potentially dangerous subjects (killer that kills other killers). Is this a complete novelty or have there been known cases of such killers in the past that might have inspired the show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-09-30T14:49:15.377" LastActivityDate="2019-11-09T23:40:47.800" Title="Is there a real life inspiration behind Dexter?" Tags="|realism|dexter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41716" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-30T13:04:56.490" Score="1" ViewCount="20702" Body="&lt;p&gt;For comedy there is a genre, for horror there is a genre, for action there is a genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then why is there no genre name for sad or crying movies? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26375" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-23T20:41:50.400" LastActivityDate="2017-04-27T22:05:22.227" Title="Why there is no genre name for sad or crying movies?" Tags="|terminology|genre|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41532" CreationDate="2015-09-30T13:28:33.243" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could have been a kinetic clock, similar to many watches made by Rolex and Seiko.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26349" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T13:28:33.243" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41718" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41720" CreationDate="2015-09-30T14:08:53.607" Score="9" ViewCount="3483" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; the crew lands on a planet near a black hole, where the gravity field was so powerful because of the black hole that they had spend many years on the planet (relative to their station).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They freely walked on this planet. The planet's and Gargantua's gravity together did not give such a powerful field, so they could walk on the planet, so they couldn't spend so much time on the planet, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought that time distortion couldn't be big if they didn't feel big gravity on those planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26377" LastEditorUserId="26377" LastEditDate="2015-10-03T21:33:43.963" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T21:33:43.963" Title="How could they survive and move that easily on Miller's planet if the gravity field is so powerful?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41719" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-09-30T14:37:00.140" Score="3" ViewCount="120" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end of the 8 mile when Eminem tells his friend that he is going to &quot;do his own thing&quot;, what exactly does he mean? Do those words imply he will try to pursue his rap career and go to California, which eventually will lead him to meeting with Dre?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="24301" LastEditDate="2015-10-23T18:24:42.090" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T18:24:42.090" Title="Is 8th mile about Eminem himself?" Tags="|plot-explanation|8-mile|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2015-10-24T11:34:54.787" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41718" CreationDate="2015-09-30T14:39:52.863" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;They freely walked on this planet because you are correct in that the planet's own gravity wasn't very high, not so much higher than earth's gravity. Iin fact they explicitly say in the movie that the gravity is 130% of earth's gravity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the extreme relativistic time dilation they experience (1 hour on the planet equals 7 years on earth) comes not from the planet but from the black hole Gargantua's gravitational influence, which has an extremely high mass (approximately 100 million times the mass of our sun, according to scientific advisor Kip Thorne) and to which the planet is very very near. This is what causes the huge time distortion relative to the station (which is in a farther orbit around Gargantua and thus isn't subject to its heavy time dilating effects).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason they in turn don't physically feel Gargantua's very high gravity -- in the sense of getting abnormally dragged towards the planet or the black hole -- is because the planet itself is on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit&quot;&gt;stable planetary orbit&lt;/a&gt; around Gargantua and thus in a state of continuous freefall (in the same way we on earth don't actually feel the sun's high gravity but only earth's due to orbiting around the sun). But the planet and its inhabitants are still subject to Gargantua's extreme gravitational influence and the resulting time dilation, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-01T13:36:55.310" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T13:36:55.310" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41714" CreationDate="2015-09-30T14:51:21.703" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;He usually runs unopposed. The only time he did run against anyone he lost but that was to Sideshow Bob. Quimby was re-instated when Bob is found guilty of fraud and imprisoned. He also survives a recall election, with no candidate in the race against him garnering the five percent necessary to force a recall&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26154" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T14:51:21.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41706" CreationDate="2015-09-30T15:10:59.657" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sokka would have been caught outright because he was tying his hair using a blue band which is a colour of the water nation people and all other guards present tied their hair with a red band.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either an animation goof, or your overestimating the quality of the prison guards. I mean, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;a bunch of teenagers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; break out of the highest security prison in the Fire Nation. All the guards are shown to be very average to less than average intelligence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you think about it, Sokka was 15/16 at the time. He should have been called out on that. And realistically, he wouldn't have had a Fire Nation accent (the show doesn't address any accents), nor any Fire Nation skin tone or facial features. Sokka has blue eyes, a typically Water Bender trait. Prior to LOK, there was no interbreeding (considering a 100 year war).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T15:10:59.657" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41726" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41729" CreationDate="2015-09-30T15:40:18.113" Score="3" ViewCount="1220" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie was great, however, the last dirty joke about queen's favor to main character for rescuing her seemed completely random. What was the intention of it, what would it signify?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T17:37:45.250" Title="Significance of the dirty joke at the end of Kingsman" Tags="|kingsman-the-secret-service|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41727" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46063" CreationDate="2015-09-30T15:42:19.900" Score="9" ViewCount="13024" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/bbPS7K9falk&quot;&gt;this trailer&lt;/a&gt; about the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322364/&quot;&gt;&quot;Concussion&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and to me Will Smith looks very different from the last movie I saw him in just a couple of years ago. Something about his jawline and the shape of the head otherwise(?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a screen grab from the YouTube video:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ch8MO.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ch8MO.png&quot; alt=&quot;Will Smith&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any case it does not look like these facial features are caused by makeup. And he looks a bit older than the 47 or so that he is. So I thought maybe they purposely wanted him to look a bit different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did they use CGI in this movie to make him look different? Or is it a case of me needing to improve my facial recognition skills?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16827" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-09-30T15:53:49.267" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T22:13:30.390" Title="Was CGI used to make Will Smith look different in the movie Concussion?" Tags="|effects|concussion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1986" CreationDate="2015-09-30T16:06:07.880" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's particularly relevant because it's actually the Italian word for eggplant or a slang derivative that is used as the insult.  I would rather not type it but Italians and/or most people know the word.  ;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26379" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T16:06:07.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41726" CreationDate="2015-09-30T17:37:45.250" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an interview with Matthew Vaughn (director)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It ends [on that joke] for a very strong reason. A lot of Bond movies used to end on things like Bond trying to ‘attempt re-entry,’ or ‘keeping the British end up.’ So I just thought, ‘We’ve pushed the boundary on every sort of spy cliché.’ We’ve got to end it on The Big One. And there’s only one way of doing it, taking it to the next level! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26154" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T17:37:45.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41714" CreationDate="2015-09-30T19:40:12.320" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the Simpsons absolutely exist &quot;in the now&quot; they never age within their own universe. So I think it's fair to say that in addition to perpetual state of age, that it'd make sense to have perpetual state of employment by default. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also the practical issue of these voice actors already having a &lt;em&gt;whole lot&lt;/em&gt; on their plate. That they have this many voices is pretty amazing...but likely the upper limit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T19:40:12.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41733" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41756" CreationDate="2015-09-30T22:36:12.503" Score="26" ViewCount="13473" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Martian&lt;/em&gt;, the whole reason that NASA end up trying to help stranded astronaut/botanist Mark Watney is because someone happens to notice that since the Hermes left Mars, the &amp;quot;base camp&amp;quot; on Mars has changed between satellite pictures taken on two separate days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this discovery, NASA conclude that Mark Watney might still be alive, and so begin their attempts to contact him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the woman who notices the differences between the satellite images of the base camp is only looking because she receives a message from Vincent Kapoor asking her to take a look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would Vincent be asking her to look at the images from those two days when it was established in an earlier scene that they cannot afford the satellite time to do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2020-12-31T09:11:47.700" LastActivityDate="2020-12-31T09:13:20.580" Title="How did NASA figure out Mark was still alive?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-martian|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27956" CreationDate="2015-09-30T22:38:49.457" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;To elaborate on the answer to this question Jack worked for the East India Trading company under Beckett when he was asked to sail an outdated ship. The deal was that the ship would be sold to jack for one shilling after he had delivered the cargo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This cargo was 100 human slaves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the delivery Jack realized he could not complete it and freed the slaves. Because of this Beckett ordered the ship, the Wicked Wench, to be burned while Jack watched. While the ship was burning Jack tried to save it, nearly dying and making a deal with Davy Jones who resurrected the charred remains as The Black Pearl making Jack Captain for 13 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After those thirteen years when Jack attempts to free himself from the deal he is given the choice of sacrificing 100 human souls to save his own, the same number of human souls he once freed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is revealed in a small yet clever bit of dialog in At World's End between Beckett and Jack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Becket: &amp;quot;We had a deal, Jack. I contracted you to deliver cargo on my behalf, you chose to liberate it.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jack: &amp;quot;People aren't cargo, mate.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26382" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-09-30T22:38:49.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41736" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41739" CreationDate="2015-10-01T01:39:05.267" Score="11" ViewCount="824" Body="&lt;p&gt;I heard that when William Hartnell started getting doddery and forgetting his lines, he refused to retire, implying that he was irreplaceable.  So the writers made the character of the Doctor regenerate into a different actor.  Was the idea of regeneration planned from the start?  Or was it something that was devised to overcome the problem of an aging actor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1264" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T10:55:13.513" Title="Was regeneration planned right from the start of Doctor Who?" Tags="|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41736" CreationDate="2015-10-01T05:36:02.280" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rumor you heard is true - reincarnation in &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; was, in fact, the result of difficulty with (and the failing health of) William Hartnell. According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regeneration_(Doctor_Who)#Inspiration&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The concept of regeneration was created in 1966 by the writers of&#xA;  Doctor Who as a method of replacing the leading actor. The role of the&#xA;  Doctor had been played by William Hartnell from the programme's&#xA;  inception in 1963 but, by 1966, it was increasingly apparent that&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Hartnell's health was deteriorating and he was becoming more difficult&#xA;  to work with&lt;/strong&gt;. Producer John Wiles had, following several clashes with&#xA;  Hartnell, intended to have the actor replaced in The Celestial&#xA;  Toymaker; during two episodes of that serial, the Doctor is invisible&#xA;  (owing to Hartnell being on holiday during the recording). &lt;strong&gt;Wiles' plan&#xA;  was for the character to reappear played by a new actor. This proposal&#xA;  was vetoed by Gerald Savory, the BBC's Head of Serials&lt;/strong&gt; (and Wiles'&#xA;  superior), which led to Wiles leaving before The Celestial Toymaker&#xA;  was produced.&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/season3.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; However, it was apparent that it would not be&#xA;  possible for Hartnell to continue for much longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On 29 July 1966, production concluded on the final episode of The&#xA;  Smugglers, the last serial recorded in the third production block.&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/cc.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;During production, Hartnell and producer Innes Lloyd had reached an&#xA;  agreement that he should leave the role, having starred in one more&#xA;  serial that would see a handover to a new actor&lt;/strong&gt;, which would be the&#xA;  first one produced as part of Season 4. Script editor Gerry Davis&#xA;  proposed that, since the Doctor had already been established as an&#xA;  alien, the character could die and return in a new body. Lloyd took&#xA;  this further by suggesting that the Doctor could do this &quot;renewal&quot;&#xA;  regularly, transforming from an older man to a younger one; this would&#xA;  allow for the convenient recasting of the role when necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also briefly discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.attendly.com/18-surprising-facts-you-probably-didnt-know-about-doctor-who/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an attendly.com article&lt;/a&gt; from 2013. (It is item #17 in their list of &quot;surprising facts&quot; about &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-10-01T10:55:13.513" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T10:55:13.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40932" CreationDate="2015-10-01T06:38:50.997" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;During World War II, many American GIs, notably paratroopers from the 101st Airborne Division wore mohawks to intimidate their enemies. It was also occasionally worn by American troops during the Vietnam War &amp;amp; Travis was Vietnam war veteran. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he was preparing for his war with all his exercises, drill, hairstyle, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24454" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T06:38:50.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41742" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41716" CreationDate="2015-10-01T06:46:14.600" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is such a genre:  it is called a &lt;strong&gt;drama&lt;/strong&gt;.  The widely used symbol is a laughing face and a weeping face:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ju2Uk.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since 100% sad movies have very limited appeal, there is little popular demand for them.  An audience which is made to feel a progression of happiness and sadness covers far more emotional ground and is a more fulfilling experience&amp;mdash;in some ways paralleling a good horror movie which sequences between high tension and total relaxation several times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_film&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  At the center of a drama is usually ... characters who are in conflict... and touch on the deepest emotions of normal people. Dramas often, but not always, have tragic or at least painful resolutions and concern the survival of some tragic crisis....&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Some of the greatest screen performances come from dramas, as there is ample opportunity for actors to stretch into a role that most other genres cannot afford.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T06:46:14.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41743" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41751" CreationDate="2015-10-01T07:33:39.443" Score="2" ViewCount="722" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Peep Show, Jeremy has always struggled to hold a proper job or indeed a stable source of income. He's shown having to rely on Mark for basics such as food and has never paid rent (or at least I can't recall him once actually fulfilling one of his many promises to turn his life around). We also see him struggling with that and I believe there was a time when he briefly became homeless (haven't watched the series in ages).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why doesn't he just go on the dole?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21382" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-10-01T07:40:04.837" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T17:35:11.103" Title="In Peep Show, why doesn't Jeremy just go on the dole?" Tags="|plot-explanation|peep-show|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41744" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41238" CreationDate="2015-10-01T07:48:24.347" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since the beginning of the season there has been three major character Elliot, Mr Robot and Tyrell Wellick. We anticipated the analogy of the relationship and what will be the connection between them (that Mr Robot was in his mind), as most of the people would have also guessed it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the character left- Tyrell Wellick. Yours answer is contained in his qoute:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Give a man a gun and he'll rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he'll rob the world.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the beginning, as Elliot said he's being watched. Now the anticipations are:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was the master-mind of the whole plan, he played with the mind of Elliot, he made Elliot do what he wanted him to do (he wants to  rob the world). But all the things did not go as he planned. So he kills Sharon and disappears (also from the mind of Elliot, otherwise Elliot would be able to figure out the whole scam). In short, Tyrell or may be her wife (she handles the situation very well) created the Mr Robot and these two character are going be there till the end of the whole series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24454" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T07:48:24.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41745" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-01T07:54:54.310" Score="4" ViewCount="4217" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2001 movie, &quot;Shallow Hal&quot;, Hal receives hypnotherapy from Tony Robbins.  This hypnotherapy helps Hal see the inner beauty in people shine through in what society's view of physical beauty is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hal starts seeing everyone who has a good heart and is kind natured as physically attractive. (beautiful on the inside)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hal's friend, Walt volunteers at the hospital and is deemed a great person.  Walt has spina bifida, which causes him to be physically handicapped.  Hal still sees this handicap through his new perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Hal met the kids at the burn unit, he did not see their burns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Walt had inner beauty, why did Hal still see him as handicapped?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26312" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-01T08:09:01.713" LastActivityDate="2024-04-02T01:23:50.870" Title="Why did Walt still appear handicapped from Hal's perspective after Hal's hypnotherapy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|shallow-hal|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40881" CreationDate="2015-10-01T09:02:20.257" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes there are connections with fight club for Tone and camera movement (as explained in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/mr-robot-influences-taxi-driver-girls.html?mid=facebook_vulture&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;) and also the very basic concept of talking to himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also connections with other movies as you can see in the link. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://zap2it.com/2015/09/classic-films-that-influenced-mr-robot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the film, Edward Norton’s narrator tells us an entire story — then proves to be unreliable because of mental illness. In “Mr. Robot” … well, no spoilers here, but you get the point. Both are brilliantly-created pieces of pop culture that serve to entertain, thrill and disturb. And both seem to ultimately have a similar message: Sometimes, it seems, your worst enemy can be your own mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24454" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-01T09:05:31.160" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T09:05:31.160" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41749" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-01T09:07:52.383" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the [cough, cough] &lt;em&gt;&quot;classic&quot;&lt;/em&gt; 1988 horror flick &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212302/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Last Slumber Party&lt;/a&gt;, there are, shall we say, certain flaws. One just seemed to &quot;take the cake&quot; for me. After all the implausible and sometimes incoherent meanderings, towards the end of the flick, the dad walks back out to his car after returning home from work. &lt;strong&gt;It's at the 01:04:18 mark.&lt;/strong&gt; He (presumably) was home from work, but got a phone call prompting him to return to work. When he walks to his car at the mentioned time, his car door is very obviously open. As the movie barely passes the 70 minute mark, it's not something they did to save time. Does anyone know of anyone leaving their car door open? It &lt;strong&gt;was&lt;/strong&gt; a really &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; bad movie, but this seems even too obviously weird and stupid for even &lt;em&gt;this&lt;/em&gt; movie. Does anyone know of any precedent for this? Even in West Coast culture? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is another question, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/56956/why-did-jaspers-power-work-on-bella&quot;&gt;my &lt;em&gt;Twilight&lt;/em&gt; question&lt;/a&gt;, that is to be blamed on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rifftrax.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;RiffTrax&lt;/a&gt;. I expect it's just stupidity and poor film-making, but maybe people &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; leave their car doors open. I've heard weirder...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6492" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T09:47:53.243" Title="The Last Slumber Party logistic quandry" Tags="|the-last-slumber-party|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41743" CreationDate="2015-10-01T09:38:07.317" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Jeremy is supported by Mark and he even get money from family members so don't think that he is having any reason going on the dole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source Wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He is largely financially supported by his best friend and flatmate, Mark Corrigan, though various loans and free rent, Jez also appears to have been given money on many occasion by his mother (His nest egg), including topping up his mobile phone regularly as well as small bouts of employment in various arrears including working as a Music Studio Reception Runner courtesy of Super Hans (Series 1), a call centre courtesy of Toni (Series 2), as a legal secretary thanks to Mark's sister Sarah (Series 3) in a gym and as a personal handy man (Series 4) as well as working for one day at JLB and with Super Hans removals business &quot;men with ven&quot;,He considers himself &lt;strong&gt;very talented&lt;/strong&gt; and attractive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T09:38:07.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41752" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41753" CreationDate="2015-10-01T11:43:46.427" Score="34" ViewCount="8662" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 1, episode 2 of the Simpsons, Mr. Smithers has black skin. In later episodes, he has white skin. Does anyone know the reason for this change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26391" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-17T08:16:22.930" LastActivityDate="2016-06-17T08:16:22.930" Title="Why was Mr. Smithers black and then white?" Tags="|character|production|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41752" CreationDate="2015-10-01T11:54:17.910" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Talking to TMZ, Matt Groening  said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He was always yellow, and they painted him wrong once. 'At the time&#xA;  we didn't have enough to do retakes, so when there were glitches and&#xA;  mistakes it stayed that way. 'He was never 'black', it was an&#xA;  accident. (Source:&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2838753/Smithers-black-mistake-Simpsons-creator-Matt-Groening-reveals-Burns-assistant-started-different-color-reason-making-characters-yellow.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;dailymail.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he was always supposed to be yellow &lt;strike&gt;white&lt;/strike&gt; like rest of the characters, not black. Now if you want to know why he is yellow; refer below mentioned question:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/14664/why-are-the-simpsons-yellow&quot;&gt;Why are the Simpsons yellow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T17:56:33.973" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41716" CreationDate="2015-10-01T12:52:43.580" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no such movies like sad or crying movie, all genre can have sad or crying parts. It depends upon how much sad does that movie can make you feel. &#xA;Although drama movie generally gives a sad feeling as they are not made (not in all case) to make people happy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one want to give a name to sad or crying genre - it can't be done, because both of the feelings are different many times. For example a romantic comedy can also make you cry. While black comedy is always sad, it is always what you feel about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24454" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2017-04-27T22:05:22.227" LastActivityDate="2017-04-27T22:05:22.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41733" CreationDate="2015-10-01T14:25:45.363" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason they don't look at the Ares 3 site is that they don't want to get an image of Mark Watney's body which they would have to release to the public (since NASA is a government organisation it has to release all its images to the public).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After two months they finally take a look because they hope they can maybe start an additional mission which can use the resources left (and bring back the body).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then it takes just one picture to see that the rovers have been moved and the solar cells have been cleaned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(In the book they also see that some emergency tents were attached to the hab (set up to get more space to grow potatoes) and the remains from the descent and ascent vehicles have been salvaged. But this is not mentioned in the film.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11182" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2020-12-31T09:11:59.320" LastActivityDate="2020-12-31T09:11:59.320" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41745" CreationDate="2015-10-01T14:44:49.707" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Going from the response to my comment, here it is as an answer (but expanded a little).  Still a theory, though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd guess because he's already got that knowledge of him, a sudden change in appearance might lead to some awkward questions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you woke up one morning and suddenly someone you've known previously, and know to have a disability was suddenly in the fullest of health with nothing wrong with them, it's going to mess with your head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally I'd wonder if they had always previously made it up; whether I had previously made it up; or if I was still dreaming.  Some might think of it as a miracle and therefore seek the forgiveness of whichever deity they suddenly find an affinity for, but on the whole there will be questions and doubts raised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe that can be a plot for a future film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20991" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T14:44:49.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41745" CreationDate="2015-10-01T14:48:06.500" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disability does not mean lack of beauty. There are beautiful disabled people. (Salma Hayek would be hot in a wheel chair for instance :) ). In the movie, Hal's hypnotherapy makes him see people's goodness in the form of what he considers physical beauty. Hence this makes him see physically disabled people with their disability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T14:48:06.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14182" CreationDate="2015-10-01T14:55:31.873" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Roses are an Anglo Saxon custom.  Stones are a Jewish custom meaning I have been here and I have remembered you.  Ditto for the Anglo Saxons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26398" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T14:55:31.873" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42011" CreationDate="2015-10-01T15:01:01.823" Score="7" ViewCount="49384" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you think about it, not a lot of the story on how they kept Bucky alive makes sense. He was shot out of a speeding train and fell to unknown depths, only to be found by Strategic Science Reserve and kept alive by Zola, an enemy they captured. What was their thought process, &quot;Hey, we found Cap's friend. Let's let the enemy that we're holding prisoner tinker with him.&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm ignoring the fact that he's been frozen and brought back over and over (makes way more sense then Captain being frozen alive and remaining in a coma state, with no nutrients for his body, until he's found), I'm more curious that they even got him to that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26394" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-10-02T09:58:33.450" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T23:57:48.077" Title="How is Bucky even alive?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|captain-america-the-winter-soldier|captain-america-the-first-avenger|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41566" CreationDate="2015-10-01T15:26:43.733" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Brad is singing to Janet in the chapel, the people changing it from a wedding to a funeral are Riff Raff, Magenta and Columbia.  Always heard a rumor that all the guests to Rocky's &quot;coming out party&quot; were also at the wedding, but I never watched it close enough to say for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26396" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T15:26:43.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36850" CreationDate="2015-10-01T15:38:16.710" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The earliest reference I can find the use of this is &quot;Car and Camera Around the World (1929)&quot;, see here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...[the film], in keeping with other films in the genre, begins with a typically crude continental map featuring a dotted line of the intended Cape to Cairo route...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YXfMCQAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA53&amp;amp;lpg=PA53&amp;amp;dq=journey%20dotted%20lines%20map%20film&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=xZ9acEpDiH&amp;amp;sig=GVIl1zRJR0juQ4Az8YNRjosv2Mo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ved=0CCEQ6AEwAGoVChMIgPryksyhyAIVAmA-Ch0nNwiC#v=snippet&amp;amp;q=crude%20continental&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;See reference here: Colonial Cinema in Africa: Origins, Images, Audiences&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That quote however, obviously, mentions that this was &quot;in keeping with other films in the genre&quot;, implying it was a fairly common practice at the the time. That, combined with the fact that Indiana Jones specifically used it as an homage to the 1930s serials that inspired it, suggests that it probably came into use in the late 1920s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22762" LastEditorUserId="9147" LastEditDate="2015-10-02T08:22:48.477" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T08:22:48.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41764" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41760" CreationDate="2015-10-01T16:13:35.610" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, it's important to note that the SSR didn't find Bucky's body. The Soviets found him, and gave him to HYDRA initially. Even though Zola was working for SHIELD using SHIELD resources doesn't mean SHIELD &quot;gave him&quot; Bucky's body to fix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, at the time that Armin Zola was working on Bucky, he was not considered an &quot;enemy&quot;. SHIELD probably genuinely believed he was working for them the whole time. Plus, the fact that HYDRA had already begun infiltrating SHIELD, means Zola likely had support from higher-ups to keep suspicion off of him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may sound a bit crazy to us, but what happened with Zola is very similar to what happened in real life at the end of WWII. &lt;em&gt;Lots&lt;/em&gt; of scientists who were originally working with the Nazis in Germany &quot;defected&quot; to the US. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time, German scientists (especially physicists) were some of the most advanced and skilled in the world at the time, and the US really wanted their expertise -- and more importantly, they &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; want the Soviets to get them. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Operation Paperclip&lt;/a&gt; was a very real military project designed to recruit as many foreign scientists as possible (I believe the number was well over 1500). In the vast majority of cases, these scientists were &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; particularly zealous supporters of their previous regime: they either worked for Hitler out of fear, our of desperation, or because it was where the really interesting work was happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the MCU, this is basically how Zola came to work for SHIELD. After he was initially captured, Zola exhibited none of the usually traits of the HYDRA operatives the SSR had dealt with: he didn't kill himself, he gave up information freely, and he even rolled over on the Red Skull with little prompting. He then served a few years in prison, during which he was presumably a model prisoner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When SHIELD started up, they would have needed scientists with experience dealing in the kind of unusual stuff that SHIELD deals with, and Zola was right there. Zola kept up the appearance of being a fully reformed SHIELD agent, much the way the other HYDRA moles did. SO it would make perfect sense that SHIELD would want Zola to come work for them, and give him access to the resources he needed to work on Bucky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="1146" LastEditDate="2015-10-02T11:11:54.217" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T11:11:54.217" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39315" CreationDate="2015-10-01T19:28:13.183" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was something they started in Avengers, but James Gunn kept in Guardians because he thought it was funny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;James Gunn keeps Joss Whedon’s joke going, with Star-Lord informing the rest of his team that he has a plan for the film’s third act. Well, 12% of a plan. The idea is once again ridiculous to Rocket Raccon (Bradley Cooper), with Gamora (Zoe Saldana) explaining that 12% isn’t a plan – it’s “barely a concept.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/guardians-of-the-galaxy-easter-eggs-trivia/3/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26394" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-01T20:32:40.707" LastActivityDate="2015-10-01T20:32:40.707" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41771" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41405" CreationDate="2015-10-02T02:57:04.077" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think maybe Whitt's message got through to the alien and it evolved?  It repaired the team and then used their genetic material to make themselves in the team's image.  This left the team OK and them on the station to further evolve.  I am guessing here...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26412" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T02:57:04.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41772" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="72366" CreationDate="2015-10-02T03:05:04.577" Score="7" ViewCount="1302" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Games_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Patriot Games&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; starring &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ford&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Harrison Ford&lt;/a&gt;, the terrorist group uses someone inside the police department to obtain the route &amp;amp; arrangements for &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Bean&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sean Miller's&lt;/a&gt; transfer. A few lines and glances by Inspector Robert Highland (played by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Threlfall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;David Threlfall&lt;/a&gt;), riding in the van, seem to indicate that he is on Sean's side, or at least understands the IRA cause with the following lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although I disapprove of the things ye've done, Sean, I can't quite&#xA;  bring meself to condemn ya. I can't... because I understand where the&#xA;  hatred comes from. I more than understand it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the van comes under siege, the officers don't seem to know what's going on, while Highland just keeps looking at Sean as if they both know exactly what's happening. The two officers then wish to hold out for backup, yet Highland orders them to open the doors. During the discussion afterwards, group leader Kevin O'Donnell seems to believe that Highland is an honest cop, asking him how much the English pay him to turn on his own people (Highland is Irish). O'Donnell then hands a gun to Sean Miller and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Miller promptly executes both Highland and the two officers that were in the van.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't read the book, so I'm not sure about the nuanced context here. The lines may simply be Highland attempting to turn Miller so that he'll testify against the rest of his group, but the glances between them - and the actions of Highland himself - don't really make as much sense in that context. Surely the book would explain such details better than the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was Inspector Highland their man inside (and his fate was only to show how insane Miller is) or was he an honest cop?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6LVuE.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6LVuE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, yes, I realize that a different inside man was revealed at the end of the movie. That doesn't preclude the Inspector being one also, though, or at least an IRA sympathizer/mole. Highland's fate also foreshadows that of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; terrorist ally Dennis Cooley, who is also executed by Miller.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15909" LastEditorUserId="15909" LastEditDate="2017-04-27T16:33:25.387" LastActivityDate="2017-04-27T16:58:04.847" Title="Was Inspector Highland the inside man?" Tags="|plot-explanation|patriot-games|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37135" CreationDate="2015-10-02T03:05:15.137" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is the Omega not Alive after the restart loop?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Omega (Core) is the &amp;quot;Time Machine&amp;quot; that allows for Time Travel!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How could a dead Omega restart the time loop again? IT CANNOT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the Alpha is killed, the Omega simply restarts the day. If the Omega is killed, well...&#xA;That's it. Restarting of the day cannot be done because the thing that actually did it was destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why did Cage not wake up at Heathrow like previous occasions?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We must establish a timeline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Day of Beach Assault is &lt;em&gt;D-Day&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Day prior to Beach Assault is &lt;em&gt;D-1&lt;/em&gt; (D minus 1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Day after Beach Assault is &lt;em&gt;D+1&lt;/em&gt; (D plus 1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cage wakes up at Heathrow on D-1. He spends the night in the base. On D-Day, he kills the Alpha and is covered in the Blood that gives him control of the restart loop that takes him back to D-1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;He receives the power on D-Day.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On Cage's &amp;quot;winning run&amp;quot;, he actually went to go see the general on D-1. He lost his power on D-1. Furthermore, the attack on The Louvre also took place on the night of D-1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;He receives the power on D-1.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since William Cage acquires the ability and activates it sooner than in his original first time, the restart loop must then also start at an earlier time as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23208" LastEditorUserId="98496" LastEditDate="2023-01-22T20:08:12.513" LastActivityDate="2023-01-22T20:08:12.513" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41798" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-02T05:25:06.303" Score="2" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was just wondering how (un)common it is to start filming a movie before having the screenplay finished and sort of write it as you go along. Is there a list of movies that were produced in that way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20094" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T17:54:18.747" Title="Starting to film before screenplay is completed" Tags="|production|screenplay|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41798" CreationDate="2015-10-02T08:22:27.433" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't talk about how common or uncommon it is for a movie to being filming without the screenplay being completed, but I can give an example of it happening;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Marvel Studios film &lt;em&gt;Iron Man&lt;/em&gt; (2008) quite famously &quot;had no script&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an interview with Jeff Bridges (who played Obadiah Stane), he claimed;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They had no script, man... They had an outline. We would show up for big scenes every day and we wouldn’t know what we were going to say. We would have to go into our trailer and work on this scene and call up writers on the phone, ‘You got any ideas?’ Meanwhile the crew is tapping their foot on the stage waiting for us to come on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Quote from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Jeff-Bridges-Says-Iron-Man-Was-All-Improv-15937.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cinemablend article &quot;Jeff Bridges Says Iron Man Was All Improv&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that, I'm not really aware of any movies that have found themselves in a similar position - but the way that Jeff Bridges talk about it implies to me that a movie beginning to film without a script is a rare occurrence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T08:22:27.433" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41760" CreationDate="2015-10-02T10:50:49.260" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't make sense because you are making a false (and very strange) assumption. The SSR didn't find &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Bucky_Barnes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bucky&lt;/a&gt;, the Russians did. He was then handed over to HYDRA where he was a prisoner for several years. The SSR had nothing to do with any of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then later, when Arnim Zola was released because of &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Operation_Paperclip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Operation Paperclip&lt;/a&gt;, he resumed his experiments on Bucky Barnes. This is when he received his metal arm and started being an assassin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, the SSR (and later SHIELD) never knew Bucky was alive until the events of the movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier. In the movie, Black Widow says: &quot;most of the intelligence community doesn't believe he exists.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;His SHIELD file said he's &quot;missing in action&quot; because his body was never found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21033" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-02T10:53:19.253" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T10:53:19.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23226" CreationDate="2015-10-02T13:41:30.600" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is very late in coming, but I've only just become familiar with this film. Nam says he knew the weather was changing because of the plane crash remnants he looks at every year at the Yakaterina bridge. His flashback of seeing the snowflake is different from the one where he looks out the greenhouse window. There is a point when we're looking out a window (I can't tell you exactly where, but it's getting toward the end) where we see a small area of blue water. IMO, he either saw the polar bear or some other animal, or water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26436" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T13:41:30.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41816" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41818" CreationDate="2015-10-02T14:57:35.430" Score="3" ViewCount="7086" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a few episodes of Breaking Bad's season 2, the preface shows two bodies being taken out of Walter's house. Who were those two people as I do not recall anyone being murdered at Walt's place?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-02T15:50:21.937" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T06:04:53.967" Title="Whose bodies were taken out of Walter's house?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41818" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41816" CreationDate="2015-10-02T15:50:26.687" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry if you didn't watch season 2 all the way through, but well, you did ask...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 2 bodies removed from the premises in body bags were &lt;strong&gt;victims from the airplane collision&lt;/strong&gt; that happens in &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/ABQ&quot;&gt;the season 2 finale&lt;/a&gt;. The B&amp;amp;W flashbacks intentionally didn't reveal it, to keep it a mystery. The teddy bear in the pool also fell from the plane. Walt's actions indirectly led to this collision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-03T06:04:53.967" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T06:04:53.967" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41743" CreationDate="2015-10-02T17:35:11.103" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeremy claims to be signing on in&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Series 4, Episode 4 - Handyman&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;00:09:56 'Oh, yeah, making smoothies at the Orgazoid's house!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;00:10:00 'This is the kind of job I deserve. I've paid my dues, all&#xA;  those years&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;00:10:03 'signing on, every bloody week.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.subzin.com/quotes/S523561757/Peep+Show/Handyman/%27Oh%2C+yeah%2C+making+smoothies+at+the+Orgazoid%27s+house%21&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26447" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T17:35:11.103" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38875" CreationDate="2015-10-02T19:21:18.643" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can we include the book the movie was adapted from as evidence? &#xA;If no then: Ole Dudley is a good candidate, especially if Preston was as straight as his son Edmund. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If yes then: It is unlikely that Dudley did dispatch Preston (Edmund's father) as he took his own life in the book and it was the brother, Thomas brother who was killed by an unknown thief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Movie differs greatly on a number of areas however I don't think there is sufficient backstory spent with Preston and Dudley to point Preston's demise via Dudley. Preston is in the movie as a way of developing the link with Sergeant Jack Vincennes and Edmund over there shared knowledge of Rollo Tomassi who points the way to Dudley's undoing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24486" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T19:21:18.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41714" CreationDate="2015-10-02T20:16:30.473" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Simpson's is an &quot;episodic&quot; series not a a &quot;serial&quot;, like many situation comedies. Very often in an episodic series events in one episode often have no or little impact on future episodes. You could ask why homes that were blown up in one episode are back in the next for instance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19290" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T20:16:30.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35970" CreationDate="2015-10-02T22:46:29.867" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whole House Fumigation for pest control is normally done &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/dept/factshts/fumigation.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;between one and 7 days, as noted by the State of California&lt;/a&gt;. While I could not find something related to Residential Fumigation by the New Mexico state government, the state has a very tight licensing and control of pesticides for environmental and health/safety reasons. Fumigation times depends on the pesticides used, but for the most part,the up to a week is average throughout the country. Spot inspections of a fumigation site is not unknown (much like building or fire inspections, both scheduled and random), so while 2 weeks may be okay, anything more is pushing it, for both the Fumigators and the Meth lab. People start getting nosey eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So 2 weeks time frame to set up, cook, and break down, without getting caught. Walt and Jesse were planning this, so it's not a spur of the moment thing. In S05E03 &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Hazard Pay&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; Walt and Jesse go along with Saul to find a front to cook in. Walt is very precise about the failures of the other fronts. They would know what they need, and have it ready. They bought the front company, and gave the employees strict &quot;Don't steal from these houses&quot; rules. All the equipment was chosen for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6uKUi.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6uKUi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see, it's not a lot of equipment. Most of it is self-contained with little external piping from one to another. Most of it is on wheels or carts. To me, that shows the lab is setup in such a way that it requires the least amount of connections to setup or break down. Odd ball, I say the setup only takes a couple of hours at most. As they are doing this about once a week, at random houses, they would not want something complicated that would take days to test before cooking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;While not explicitly shown, given Walter's attention to detail, the time preparing for this, and the danger of screwing up, it's more than likely that Walt had tested and designed the equipment before the first cook. The equipment is designed and simplified for the task at hand.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-02T22:46:29.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41831" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41832" CreationDate="2015-10-02T22:53:25.560" Score="6" ViewCount="700" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently found &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IRPZ7rf_vk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this promotional video for &lt;em&gt;Ant-Man&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, posted by what I believe to be the offical YouTube channel for Disney Japan, a hilarious but very odd song and dance. Being as it is Japanese, I initially passed it off as &quot;just one of those Japanese things&quot; and let it be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, since then I have found other videos with these same two people, dancing to the same song with different lyrics. For one example, please see &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSihMD8caS0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this video&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32XvbVhpWGM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this video&lt;/a&gt; where you can see a talk show of some kind talking about them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I have no idea who these people are, and being unable to speak Japansese I am completely incapable of doing any research into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are these two people, how is this promotional material for &lt;em&gt;Ant-Man&lt;/em&gt;, and what on Earth is going on?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-04-29T11:12:09.573" LastActivityDate="2016-04-29T11:12:09.573" Title="Who made this Ant-Man promotional material?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|ant-man|marketing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41831" CreationDate="2015-10-02T23:12:09.013" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The group is &amp;quot;Harsh scan explosion (EGU-SPLOSION)&amp;quot;, a Japanese dance troupe/group. Not normally a comedy group. The song/video/meme of Honnoji Incident (probably badly machine translation of 本能寺の変) was first posted in 2015. Like any other funny video, it's been meme'd to death, as seen in &lt;a href=&quot;https://vine.co/tags/%E6%9C%AC%E8%83%BD%E5%AF%BA%E3%81%AE%E5%A4%89&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Vine tag search.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific linked video was indeed posted by the official Walt Disney Studios of Japan youtube account (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/user/WaltDisneyStudiosJP&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;WaltDisneyStudiosJP&lt;/a&gt;), and featured on &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.disney.co.jp/movie/antman/news/201500910_02.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the official Disney/Marvel of Japan website.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qNMrt.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qNMrt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This time, to give the overwhelming support from dancers such as 20's &amp;quot;Honnoji Incident&amp;quot;, dance unit that has been revered as &amp;quot;God&amp;quot;, &lt;em&gt;Egu-Splosion&lt;/em&gt; is, was appointed to the strongest cheer dancer of the movie &amp;quot;Antoman&amp;quot; , it was held an event to show off the cheer song.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harsh scan explosion that tag with Aikawa Nanase such famous artists and popular comedian is a topic every time.&#xA;Tag of the first time and made the movie this time to realize! It's named after the new hero &amp;quot;Antoman&amp;quot; of the Marvel movie &amp;quot;Honnoji Incident / Antoman version&amp;quot; was showcased in the dance of Kirekire. (Google Translate)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like a celebrity sponsor for the movie, Disney/Marvel of Japan has simply latched onto a popular meme to promote the Antman movie. Very Genre-Savy of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T16:46:08.460" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41833" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41836" CreationDate="2015-10-03T00:29:13.950" Score="8" ViewCount="6016" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main thing that comes to mind about Take Shelter is how uncomfortable I felt during and after watching it. While I think it was well-made and probably was trying to achieve this effect, I have been wondering if there was any kind of deeper meaning or some message I was supposed to take away from the film. All I can come up with is that the film wanted me to understand the kind of fear that comes from both being afraid of something external (i.e., a storm) and something internal (i.e., hallucinations). I guess it could also be about the struggle of a father figure when he has to protect his family from both external threats (i.e., storms) as well as internal threats (i.e., his own erratic behaviors). Is there anything else I should take away from it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19577" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T10:29:44.370" Title="What's the message of the movie Take Shelter?" Tags="|analysis|take-shelter|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41833" CreationDate="2015-10-03T00:48:23.263" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The final scene depicting the horrific torrent of destruction from the tornadoes and tsunami is what really gives the film its meaning. After the ostracization from not only his community, but his family, Curtis is shown to be correct. The theme of this is that instincts should be trusted and not dismissed, even if it goes against the grain of how things appear to be in life. In this case, the &quot;granulation of life&quot; were depicted in the dreams, where those who Curtis has come to rely on turn against him in a metaphorical sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T00:48:23.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34661" CreationDate="2015-10-03T02:01:44.423" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a link to reddit which has a thread on this and a good explanaition &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/plotholes/comments/2ihxnu/gone_baby_gone_plot_hole_or_just_not_explained_in/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;molester murder&lt;/a&gt;. This is a sample:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's covered much better in the book, so it's more just a glossed over aspect of the movie. Basically in the book, Kenzie and Broussard set it up to cover that aspect as the molestor attacked him and he had no choice but to shoot him. They try to hold him for the murder, but he eventually walks as there is insufficient evidence and a fellow officers word that he didn't execute him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDB also has a good explanation &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452623/faq&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gone Baby Gone faq&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Ghost-E over at reddit has the most plausible answer myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24486" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-02-27T18:55:26.490" LastActivityDate="2018-02-27T18:55:26.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41833" CreationDate="2015-10-03T02:44:55.797" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe &lt;strong&gt;Take Shelter is a stylized depiction of a man losing his mind&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The less-fantastic elements of the story are common elements of mental breakdowns in real-life:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Curtis's mother had a similar breakdown strike her at a similar age&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Curtis is so committed to his strange beliefs that he ostracizes himself&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Curtis eventually realizes he has been hallucinating and seeks treatment&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The climax of the movie is when Curtis emerges from his underground shelter, after the first &quot;storm&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; (which was shown to be a hallucination). He realizes he has been seeing a storm that was not occuring in reality. He realizes he really is losing his mind -- it's not everyone else, it's him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this in mind, the final scene with the second storm might not be meant to be taken literally. Yes, the second storm &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be seen by Curtis's wife -- but that helps show that this second storm is different than the one Curtis was &quot;seeing&quot; earlier. I believe &lt;strong&gt;the final scene's visuals of the approaching storm represent the chaos and uncertainty that Curtis's unfortunate new condition is going to bring to the family&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T02:44:55.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37386" CreationDate="2015-10-03T03:28:12.323" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this would be a type of script Symbology forming a movie motif in the background. This would most likely place it in the catorgory of film making under the heading symbols =  &quot;an object in a film that stands for an idea, or that has a second level of meaning to it, e.g., a window or train=freedom, a rose=beauty, a cross-roads=a decision point, etc.; the more a symbol is repeated, the greater its significance&quot; as per &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms19.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Film Terms Glossary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24486" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T03:28:12.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41844" CreationDate="2015-10-03T07:31:12.093" Score="5" ViewCount="1626" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying to find the name of a horror movie. It is about a girl and her boyfriend who are invited to a party thrown by the girl's sister; the sister does not like the boyfriend and wants to break them up. The party has pranks, people pretending to be killed but then they are actually being killed, and it is the girl and her boyfriend killing them. The house was also from the boyfriend's past, it is where he lived and his family died or were killed. Can anyone help me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The year was 2002 to 2007, I am not really sure. I saw it years ago on late night TV when I was babysitting, it was in English and no subtitles, so it was probably American. In the first prank, one of the guys goes to get something and then comes back and falls on the floor dead a knife in his back; at first it is just fake but later someone comes back and actually kills him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26461" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2015-10-03T08:43:05.830" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T08:43:05.830" Title="Horror movie with party pranks that turn real" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:04:16.527" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41842" CreationDate="2015-10-03T08:09:33.703" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like you're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280672/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Final Stab&lt;/a&gt; from 2001.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Angela's sister wants to get revenge upon her, inviting her to mystery farm along with her old friends, to participate in a game with fake blood and knives - but Angela and her disturbed boyfriend Charlie were not supposed to know about the fake part. But what starts as a little friendly game, gets dark and bloody with real deaths - and sure, real blood and knives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Angela's sister wants to break up Angela and the disturbed Charlie who witnessed his family's murder. AKA &quot;Final Scream&quot;, probably in an attempt to ride the coattails of the successful &lt;em&gt;Scream&lt;/em&gt; franchise (its bootleg version was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280672/releaseinfo#akas&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;actually called &lt;em&gt;Scream 4&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). Here's the trailer, where you can see the prank with the guy stabbed in his back &lt;em&gt;[Warning: Slightly Graphic]&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/82mWmYkUCpM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-03T08:15:13.667" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T08:15:13.667" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41845" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41879" CreationDate="2015-10-03T10:06:35.810" Score="7" ViewCount="6493" Body="&lt;p&gt;When he first tries to light up hydrazine in the greenhouse in order to obtain water, &lt;em&gt;The Martian&lt;/em&gt; Mark Watney blows up the contraption. Later, he reasons this was due to the extra oxygen he exhaled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the oxygen level of the air in the dome must've been around 20%, and the oxygen in human exhaled air is around 15%. Why would there be significantly more oxygen around the ignition apparatus (which was at an arm's length above Mark)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4206" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T04:51:10.890" LastActivityDate="2017-05-22T07:05:51.117" Title="Extra oxygen from breathing when lighting up the hydrazine?" Tags="|the-martian|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41846" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-03T12:37:33.870" Score="5" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know who the actor is, it could be Cary Grant or some one like him but around that time frame of actors.&#xA;The actress is not one I know so much about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is a doctor in a small American country town out fishing. She&#xA;turns up and rings the bell.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is lots of fighting between the doctor and her in a funny way.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She buys things for the town's people with them knowing it is coming&#xA;from her.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She was sick as a child and town sent her away to get fixed and this&#xA;why she is buying stuff.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Towards the end of the movie hundreds people from all of America come&#xA;to this town to get free money which causes major problems for the&#xA;town.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The doctor gets up to speaks to these strangers before a war almost&#xA;happens and the people leave the town.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The doctor and girl do fall in love with each other.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26463" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-03T14:00:36.027" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T14:00:40.520" Title="Old movie about a lavish woman clashing with a town doctor" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:04:19.653" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21116" CreationDate="2015-10-03T13:58:41.327" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Drugs (gas) caused the hallucinations (seeing the hound). Sherlock, John, and others were all affected at different times. That could be why HOB was listed as a pp for Sherlock. Also in that episode Sherlock told John that he, John, was his only friend. That, too, could be a reason for pp... I think this is probably why.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, the gas itself, making Sherlock see James Moriarty, that is possibly a reason for it, he's not scared of the hound, but the drug itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26464" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-10-08T23:43:27.567" LastActivityDate="2017-10-08T23:43:27.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41846" CreationDate="2015-10-03T14:00:40.520" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like you're after &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047476/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;She Couldn't Say No&lt;/a&gt; from 1954.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;heiress Corby Lane (Jean Simmons) [comes] to a small Arkansas town to play Santa Claus because, when she was a small child traveling with her impoverished father, the townspeople saved her life by donating money needed for [her] medical treatment. She meets and falls in love with &amp;quot;Doc&amp;quot; Sellers (Robert Mitchum), an easy-going doctor who enjoys fishing and the unhurried pace of the town. Corby's gesture of handing out money and lavish gifts to the citizens backfires when, after it has been publicized, the town becomes the destination of every wayward traveler and fortune seeker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was later released as &lt;em&gt;Beautiful But Dangerous&lt;/em&gt; in the UK. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/k66noefMJ-8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T14:00:40.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41853" CreationDate="2015-10-03T15:33:54.533" Score="7" ViewCount="530" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is from 2000-2009. English (US).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It involves a lot of mystery and guessing. I remember a character showing another character a room full of antique items ALL of which are fake. Then there's a drawing of a 'fish' as the answer to one of the mysteries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally the antagonist poses as a bus driver driving a bunch of mentally challenged kids to death,so that he can use their healthy organ for his/her sick kid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26465" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-03T17:15:07.913" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T17:15:07.913" Title="Mystery thriller movie in which antagonist tries to kill a busload of brain damaged children to get transplant for his/her own kid" Tags="|identify-this-movie|thriller|mystery|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:04:22.780" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41852" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41505" CreationDate="2015-10-03T16:54:55.233" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What are the benefits for viewers of subtitling over dubbing -or- dubbing over subtitling foreign TV and film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One benefit, or con depending on your point of view, of a subtitling over dubbing, is that a foreign film in subtitles have to be &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;watched&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to understand what is happening, while dubbed films can be related to the background. The viewer, typically cannot multitask without getting lost, as reading multiple things at the same time is not easy to do. Dubbed media, like media in the viewer's same language, can easily be put in the background while they do other things. In essences, subtitling creates a captive audience by it's very nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T16:54:55.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41851" CreationDate="2015-10-03T17:14:28.243" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488604/combined&quot;&gt;The Oxford Murders&lt;/a&gt; from 2008 with Elijah Wood and John Hurt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point, a bus driver blows up a bus full of mentally challenged children whose organs he needs to save his daughter. And a drawing of a '&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthys&quot;&gt;Jesus Fish&lt;/a&gt;' figures into the plot. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/V8edqqoXcg4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T17:14:28.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41856" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41857" CreationDate="2015-10-03T18:52:51.570" Score="4" ViewCount="820" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched Genisys, and was quite confused actually about what (events) happened in it. First of all, why 2017? How was Kyle able to predict the year of Genisys(Skynet) going online so perfectly? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to T3, Skynet was activated in 2004, instead of 1997 because of T2's events. But then we see in Genisys nothing happens in 2004 instead new judgement date is in 2017. How did all happen? What part did I miss? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16363" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-07T18:15:54.837" LastActivityDate="2016-08-07T18:15:54.837" Title="Why did Kyle and Sarah go to 2017?" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-series|terminator-genisys|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41856" CreationDate="2015-10-03T19:44:04.043" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The events of Genisys changed everything. In essence, the events of T1, T2 and T3 never occurred. The T-800 Arm that caused Skynet to be created in 1997 was only found due to the events of T1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fLMJn.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fLMJn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The events in T2 stopped that from happening by destroying the Cyberdyne lab where the Arm and research was being conducted, along with Miles Dyson (Main researcher, and father to Danny Dyson, who we see in Genisys).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y1rQB.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y1rQB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Judgement day in T3 happens because the US Army continues Skynet's creation from what remained of the destroyed Cyberdyne in T2. Additionally, the female Terminator, T-X, infects a partially advanced/reversed engineered computer system with the full Skynet, triggering the apocalypse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c5GUx.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c5GUx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So everything that happened in T3 relies on the T-800 that was sent back in time to kill teenage Sarah Conner being partially destroyed. It contaminated the time line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genisys changed that, when &quot;Pops&quot;, sent back to save preteen Sarah, and Sarah destroy the original terminator completely. No arm to be found, no T1, T2, T3 events.&lt;/strong&gt; As Sarah says &quot;The 1984 John sent you to, it no longer exists&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/42rSOXd5kig?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 2017 part is more confusing. Since T1, T2, and T3 never happen, due to Pops being sent back, the time traveling Kyle Reese in Genisys, sees two (three? A few?) time lines while in the temporal quantum field. The one he was born in where Judgement day does happen earlier, and a new one where it does not. He remembers an alternative time where his younger self says Genisys is Skynet, and that it was born in 2017. The scene before Sarah and Kyle travel forward in time tried to explain this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T19:44:04.043" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41863" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41865" CreationDate="2015-10-03T22:04:44.677" Score="5" ViewCount="5000" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched House MD series complete, but couldn't figure out why did Stacy left House after the operation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25903" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T22:23:58.847" Title="What actually happens between House and Stacy Warner that she left House in House MD?" Tags="|house|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41863" CreationDate="2015-10-03T22:23:58.847" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe we see much more of House and Stacy's relationship after the operation, but what we see in &quot;Three Stories&quot; very strongly implies that Stacy didn't leave House -- House left her. Remember, she &lt;em&gt;knew&lt;/em&gt; he wanted the riskier, more painful surgery that would have left him with full use of his leg. Her choice to change the surgery, after he was unconscious, was a betrayal of his trust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also likely that his newly-acquired painkiller addiction played a part; at the very least, it would have caused problems during any possible attempts at reconciliation. We don't know if, or how hard, Stacy tried to reconcile with House, but his emotional and mental state would have been affected by the drugs, making everything more difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Whatever details there are behind their break-up, they couldn't have been &lt;em&gt;too bad&lt;/em&gt;. At first she's reluctant to ask for his help, and he's reluctant to give it, but she &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt;, and he &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt;. I assume this means they parted on terms that were at least politely cordial.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-10-03T22:23:58.847" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41871" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="52651" CreationDate="2015-10-04T02:48:22.100" Score="3" ViewCount="927" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Spy (2015)&lt;/em&gt;, Sergio De Luca makes several attempts at the life of Rayna. Why does he want to do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rayna is the only person who knows the location of the nuke. De Luca needs Rayna to deliver the bomb to Solsa Dudaev. Therefore, killing Rayna before this transaction doesn't make sense to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; In fact, we learn later that De Luca needs Rayna to show Solsa and himself where the bomb is so that he can kill both, take Solsa's money and Rayna's bomb, and sell the latter to a higher bidder. A Rayna that is dead before the Solsa's meeting will ruin this plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14080" LastActivityDate="2016-05-06T00:15:55.997" Title="Motivations for killing Rayna Boyanov in Spy (2015)?" Tags="|plot-explanation|spy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41873" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-04T04:14:25.893" Score="2" ViewCount="178" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Escape from Alcatraz (1979), How did Frank Morris get electricity to drill the iron bars at the top of the prison? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie two times, still didn't figure out how.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26373" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-18T20:40:29.593" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T20:40:29.593" Title="Where do they get the power for drilling?" Tags="|plot-explanation|escape-from-alcatraz|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23144" CreationDate="2015-10-04T05:22:00.470" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The modern flu is fought through maintaining a stress free environment, bed rest aka inactivity, and keeping yourself clean, aka preventing secondary infections from overwhelming an already occupied/compromised immune system. Secondary infections cause the immune system to divide it's attention. Stress, a mental component, has a high psychosomatic component, resulting in a handicapped immune response. Mind over matter, essentially the placebo effect, is real. Activity wears down body resources, like glucose levels, which are crucial to fighting infections. A tired, afraid person will take longer to fight an infection then someone well rested and calm. It's not just that it's the flu, but the entirety of the circumstances that increases the death toll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, everyone in the Walking dead is &lt;strong&gt;already infected&lt;/strong&gt; with the Zombie virus. As long as they die with their heads intact they will reanimate. As such, the immune system is already dealing with more than one infection at the time they get the flu. Immuocompromised&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T05:22:00.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41879" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41845" CreationDate="2015-10-04T07:56:46.060" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disclaimer: Answer according to the book, not sure if it is the same in the movie.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole process happens in two steps:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Burning the hydrogen directly as it is produced from the hydrazine in the normal 20% oxygen atmosphere. Mark does this until he notices that not all hydrogen is burned and the concentration in the hab atmosphere gets up to 60% hydrogen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then he tricks the hab into lowering the oxygen level to 1% so the hydrogen can't ignite and uses a small oxygen tank to burn small amounts of hydrogen at a time. &lt;strong&gt;During this process his exhaled air increases the oxygen level until all remaining hydrogen ignites at once.&lt;/strong&gt; Luckily this happens while the resulting explosion is small enough for Mark and the hab to survive it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11182" LastEditorUserId="11182" LastEditDate="2017-05-22T07:05:51.117" LastActivityDate="2017-05-22T07:05:51.117" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15724" CreationDate="2015-10-04T10:24:26.243" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The bodies are seen by Fredo's wife, who screams hysterically that they were right outside her window, suggesting in turn close proximity between Fredo and the bodies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26500" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T10:24:26.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41887" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-10-04T15:58:17.433" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;2015 &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;film adaption&lt;/a&gt; of the novel &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(Weir_novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Martian&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Andy Weir. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film and the novel, framed primarily as the journal of astronaut Mark Watney, chronicle Watney's attempt to survive alone on Mars. When a freak storm causes the evacuation of the landing site, Watney is thought dead and left behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film features Matt Damon as Mark Watney and is directed by Ridley Scott.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More questions about the novel and film can be found on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/the-martian&quot;&gt;Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/a&gt; StackExchange&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11182" LastEditorUserId="11182" LastEditDate="2015-10-04T16:31:04.433" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T16:31:04.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41888" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-10-04T15:58:17.433" Score="0" Body="A film adaption of a science fiction novel by Andy Weir framed as the journal of Mark Watney as he attempts to survive alone on Mars after being abandoned there in an emergency. It features Matt Damon and is directed by Ridley Scott." OwnerUserId="11182" LastEditorUserId="11182" LastEditDate="2015-10-04T16:30:59.487" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T16:30:59.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41873" CreationDate="2015-10-04T16:39:56.207" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you listen close at this point you are talking about in the movie Frank actually says there is an electrical outlet. This is around the 1:12 mark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24486" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T16:39:56.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41895" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-04T18:41:12.523" Score="7" ViewCount="14727" Body="&lt;p&gt;How Cooper did send a formula through the watch as Morse code in Interstellar? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no translations for the mathematical symbols she writes down on the board after getting the &quot;formula&quot; from the watch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26481" LastEditorUserId="24423" LastEditDate="2015-10-04T19:23:36.583" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T22:38:26.940" Title="How did Cooper send a formula through the watch as Morse code in Interstellar?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2017-03-17T01:05:48.403" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41898" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41914" CreationDate="2015-10-04T20:26:10.350" Score="14" ViewCount="2206" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching MeTV the other day, which is a fantastic station chock-full of old-time TV shows.  In one sitting I saw episodes of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Rifleman and Star Trek (TOS).  So it got me thinking...  None of these shows has many (if any) black actors.  And now I'm curious as to which TV show was the first to feature a predominantly black cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone know?  I'm thinking back to What's Happening, Good Times, The Jeffersons...  But were there any before then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-27T16:35:51.363" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T16:35:51.363" Title="First appearance of a predominately black cast in a TV show" Tags="|first-appearance|casting|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41898" CreationDate="2015-10-04T20:46:36.360" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068128/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sanford and Son&lt;/a&gt;, starting 1972. It is the oldest one that I have found that has a predominantly African American cast. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26515" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-04T21:38:42.683" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T21:38:42.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1005" CreationDate="2015-10-04T21:05:25.263" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Anakin Skywalker would've come out instead of Darth Vader had Luke not taken his weapons in the cave with him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26516" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T21:05:25.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41902" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41916" CreationDate="2015-10-04T21:26:57.273" Score="6" ViewCount="13133" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Iron Giant: Signature Edition includes some new scenes that weren't in the original movie. Since I hadn't watched the original movie in years, I wasn't sure which scenes were actually new and which ones I had forgotten over the years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which changes were made to the movie from the original?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22649" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-04T21:34:22.877" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T05:29:40.473" Title="What new scenes were added to The Iron Giant: Signature Edition?" Tags="|alternate-version|the-iron-giant|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41895" CreationDate="2015-10-04T22:29:40.217" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/GtTkcM9BfXM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H9aOI.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H9aOI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here we see only a fraction of the message as she decodes it. What's visible is (May not be 100% accurate due to her hand):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-.......--....---&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  .--.----..----&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ---...-..---&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -....-...----.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  .-------...-&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -.-...&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;translated into, well, nothing. No space marks or word marks are given. Considering that pauses are as important to morse as the Dit and Dah are, that's a goof. We can't tell from this where a letter starts or ends. Some morse is special, like the universally understood &lt;strong&gt;SOS&lt;/strong&gt;, which is not actually the letters S, O, S, &lt;code&gt;...Pause---Pause...&lt;/code&gt; but a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosigns_for_Morse_code&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Prosign&lt;/a&gt; &lt;code&gt;...---...&lt;/code&gt;. (In Morse code, prosigns or procedural signals are dot/dash sequences that do not represent text per se, but have a special meaning in a transmission: they are generally not copied down; they are a telegraphic form of control character.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second line could be &lt;code&gt;.-- .---- ..--- -&lt;/code&gt; as in W12T, or &lt;code&gt;.--. ----. . --- -&lt;/code&gt; P9EOT or &lt;code&gt;.--. ----. .--- -&lt;/code&gt; P9JT, or you get the point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we know that TARS is the source of the morse, being a competent military grade machine, he would have included the pauses when translating to Cooper. So the failure is in Cooper's control of the watch, Murphy's writing or understanding of morse, or most likely, a filming mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next We see that Murphy has pages of notes, probably pure morse code when she starts to write on the board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C5jdW.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C5jdW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This only seems to be part of the equation, so we don't know how long it really is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that Brand Sr.'s equation is pretty small itself. It took only a single line on a single blackboard, with some sub-formulas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kGX55.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kGX55.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And since Murphy starts with &lt;code&gt;S =&lt;/code&gt; same as Brand's equation, we can't be 100% sure she's writing the data that Cooper sent, or if she has already plugged it into the equation in an intuitive fashion.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, let's just assume what she's writing on the board:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;S = 1/(2^?) ∫ d&lt;sup&gt;10&lt;/sup&gt;x √-ge&lt;sup&gt;-210&lt;/sup&gt;[R+4&lt;br&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Not sure what the 2 is to the power of, it's blurry&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each symbol has a name. ∫ is &quot;Integral of&quot;, d&lt;sup&gt;10&lt;/sup&gt;x is 10th &quot;Derivative of X&quot;. √ is &quot;Square Root of&quot; or &quot;SQRT&quot;. ^ is &quot;Caret&quot; or &quot;To the Power of&quot; or &quot;Pwr&quot;. &lt;strong&gt;Every Single Mathematical symbol has a plain english (or greek) name, which can be a mouthful, but can be spoken, and as such, communicated&lt;/strong&gt;. The greek symbols can be spelled out, so Cap Sigma or lower Epsilon. Even the weird curly L is Lagrangian. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could be written out as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;S = 1 / 2 pwr ? BK Integral of BK 10th derivative of x BK sqrt Hyphen g e pwr hyphen 210 BK matrix of R plus 4&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;(BK = break, as in next independent variable, caret = ^ or to the power of)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In morse that would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... / -...- / .---- / -..-. / ..--- / .--. .-- .-. / ..--.. / -...-.- / .. -. - . --. .-. .- .-.. / --- ..-. / -...-.- / .---- ----- - .... / -.. . .-. .. ...- .- - .. ...- . / --- ..-. / -..- / -...-.- / ... --.- .-. - / .... -.-- .--. .... . -. / --. / . / .--. .-- .-. / .... -.-- .--. .... . -. / ..--- .---- ----- / -...-.- / -- .- - .-. .. -..- / --- ..-. / .-. / .--. .-.. ..- ... / ....-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very short, and easily sent via morse. With some intuitive guesses by Murphy (She's pretty damn smart), even a ugly message like above can be understood. Context is everything. Obviously this is only part of the message, as Murphy has pages of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-10-04T22:38:26.940" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T22:38:26.940" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41909" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-04T23:30:33.883" Score="4" ViewCount="3358" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching Columbo reruns I noticed that a lot of actors have repeat performances in different episodes portraying different characters. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.columbo-site.freeuk.com/repeat.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This page&lt;/a&gt; has a big list of such actors, one of them played as many as 19 different roles. It's slightly distracting seeing the same actor again in a different role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did they reuse actors instead of casting new people to fill the roles? Surely it wouldn't have been hard to find more than enough eager actors in Hollywood. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26520" LastActivityDate="2021-04-05T20:19:04.950" Title="Why were there so many repeat performances in Columbo?" Tags="|casting|columbo|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25004" CreationDate="2015-10-04T23:43:45.463" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, they changed to Aubrey because they felt the original &quot;lily&quot; was a little too dull and didnt have enough life, for lack of better word. I watched the documentary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26521" LastActivityDate="2015-10-04T23:43:45.463" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41911" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41902" CreationDate="2015-10-05T00:53:17.647" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know what the second scene was, but I know one of them at least.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene when Giant and Dean are sleeping at the scrapyard and Giant dreams of robot armies was added in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26524" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T00:53:17.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27473" CreationDate="2015-10-05T02:26:45.583" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could refer to his face being very &quot;Abercombie looking&quot; as Thea refereed to him being when describing her purse snatcher to the authorities. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26525" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T02:26:45.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41505" CreationDate="2015-10-05T02:46:19.723" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Coincidentally I recently watched Wolfgang Schmitt discuss the pros and cons of dubbing vs subtitles on &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/Sp-xqvSdd7M&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;his YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt; (unfortunately, and ironically, not available in English). While he certainly has a personal standpoint towards the matter and the existing answers already discuss many of the common arguments, I found that he still gives some interesting points worth mentioning here.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; All in all he, to a certain degree, makes a point &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; dubbing (or at least against categorical aversion towards dubbing), grounded on the general argument that &lt;strong&gt;film is primarily a visual medium anyway and none of the two forms can be 100% perfect&lt;/strong&gt;, nor is it that essential for the enjoyment at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a very controversial topic, the fronts are arrested. Some viewers categorically decline dubbed movies, not rarely even those who watch dubbed versions are accused of not actually knowing anything about the movie. So do you even have to be ashamed of watching dubbed versions? The answer is: no. It's absolutely not a shame, maybe it's even not that bad to watch dubbed versions. [...] Dubbing or subtitled original, that is also a matter of taste, but let's always consider that film first and foremost speaks to the eye, then we hear and read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A major point to consider is the existing prevalence of dubbing, which &lt;strong&gt;can make people accustomed to it&lt;/strong&gt; if they simply get used to dubbed movies due to year long conditioning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most people in Germany watch dubbed movies and often they don't have a choice as original versions in cinemas as well as on TV are very rare. After getting used to this, only few people will, when watching a DVD, switch on the subtitles to watch it in the original version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A major disadvantage of dubbing is that it might actually tends to make the viewer &lt;strong&gt;lose the feeling of watching something foreign set in a foreign culture&lt;/strong&gt; by presenting such a major aspect as spoken language in a form so common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know many people who swear by the original versions but if you ask them what movies they tend to watch, you realize they watch mostly English language movies, so they don't actually make an ecounter with the foreign, as they like so much with the original version. [...] First fact is, spoken language of course also has its own musicality which is lost by the translation. This also dimishes the experience of foreignness, that is existential for engaging into art. German language dialogue maybe suggests that this actually completely foreign culture is like our own. But we should beware this fallacy. With subtitling this danger isn't as apparent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While the primary disadvantage of subtitles, as other answers have also pointed out, is that you &lt;strong&gt;lose much of the audiovisual impact of the movie by having to concentrate on reading&lt;/strong&gt; the dialogue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what's problematic with films is often the speed of speaking. If you need to read subtitles for e.g. Woody Allen or Éric Rohmer, you have quite much to do and can only occasionally view the image. While you read you can just not see properly, but first and foremost cinema is something visual, it started with the silent movie. I already watched films in languages I couldn't understand and where there were no subtitles available, but vice versa I of course wouldn't ever have done it, I cannot find much sense in &lt;em&gt;listening&lt;/em&gt; to a movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He backs this with a famous quote by Alfred Hitchcock as printed in the book &lt;em&gt;Hitchcock/Truffaut&lt;/em&gt; (wherever Mr. Hitchcock took those exact numbers from, though):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A film goes around the world, it loses 15% of its power if subtitled and only 10% if dubbed well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And then he makes a very interesting point, namely that &lt;strong&gt;subtitles are &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; necessarily more accurate&lt;/strong&gt; just because they don't have any time or lip-syncing limitations (and as we've seen above there is very well a time limitation if you have to read the whole movie). The fact that subtitles are read and not heard means that many aspects of spoken language and tone are lost and those &lt;em&gt;cannot&lt;/em&gt; necessarily be captured by simultaneously hearing a language you don't have the slightest ear for. An accurate literal translation is not automatically the best translation since &lt;strong&gt;the exact words are not always as important as the message and the tone&lt;/strong&gt; (the irony of currently trying to translate a speech as accurately as possible myself does not escape me ;-)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even people who are well-versed in a foreign language won't be able to capture every nuance and every subliminal tone. You have to have a feeling for a language to capture e.g. subtle irony or a melancholic undertone in a voice. With completely alien languages, like Japanese, that's nearly impossible, the subtitles won't help there, it only reads &amp;quot;I love you&amp;quot; but how is it meant? We can't really hear this there. Humour is also very difficult.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another disadvantage of dubbing, though, is of course that you &lt;strong&gt;lose an important part of an actor's play, namely their voice&lt;/strong&gt;. But this can be accomodated to some degree by carefully chosing good speakers that are able to at least transport the actors' and directors' original visions well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does get lost with all this dubbing is the voice of the actor. It's a pity if you have to do without the voice of an actor or actress. For example hearing Isabelle Huppert or Charlotte Gainsbourg speaking is an event, no dubbing can beat that. But there are also many cases where the dubbing is better. Kubrick for example has cared himself for the dubbing speakers and has cast them and sometimes those speakers were even better than the actors. But my favourite example is the movie &lt;em&gt;Groundhog Day&lt;/em&gt; with Bill Murray. Bill Murray has a wonderful voice, but I have to say in the German dub his speaker Arne Elsholtz transports the mood of the film even better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And of course the financial argument that &lt;strong&gt;dubbing costs more money&lt;/strong&gt; still stands and it's certainly better for a movie to be distributed &amp;quot;only&amp;quot; with subtitles than to not be distributed at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subtitling a movie is of course much cheaper and therefore small productions should resort to this, it's the only possibility as they can't afford the expensive dubbings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the day, the debate isn't going to get solved and each of the two possibilities has its strengths and weaknesses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it would be nice being able to speak every language in the world, just it doesn't work. When translating there's always something lost, every word play isn't translatable. It's always a walk on the edge, you can't be too free but you also have to be creative. Now and then there's broad adulteration and delicate allusions get weakened, but sometimes translations are also stronger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;sub&gt;It has to be noted, though, that he himself comes from a society (Germany, to be precise) that has a very active dubbing culture and while he gives some reasonable general arguments, they still have to be seen under the premise of an established and well-functioning dubbing industry in the first place, which might not always be given everywhere.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2021-06-03T16:46:03.980" LastActivityDate="2021-06-03T16:46:03.980" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41898" CreationDate="2015-10-05T03:17:59.727" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043175/&quot;&gt;Amos and Andy&lt;/a&gt; ran from 1951 - 1953. It is credited as the first black sit-com. It was a spin off of a radio show that started in 1928.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T03:17:59.727" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41902" CreationDate="2015-10-05T05:29:40.473" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The two new scenes are the Giant's dream, and a brief scene between Annie and Dean in the diner, right before Dean hauls away the tractor with the bite taken out of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The clip that the Giant's hand watches on TV right after Hogarth says &quot;grace&quot; is also different. It was originally a Maypo commercial, but has been replaced with a Tommorowland clip for the Signature Edition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26529" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T05:29:40.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41917" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-05T05:57:20.767" Score="9" ViewCount="51115" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387564/&quot;&gt;Saw (2004)&lt;/a&gt; Dr Gordon and Adam were locked up in a room together. Dr Gordon, as we find out, is supposed to kill Adam in order to prevent his family from getting killed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adam, however, is never really given a chance to escape. At the end, Jigsaw says to Adam, &quot;The key to that chain is in that tub&quot;. If we recall what Jigsaw really does, he gives people the chance to live by ironically escaping their situation, so why doesn't Adam have a chance to escape?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we consider that Jigsaw is not a &quot;murderer&quot;, as mentioned in the movie, then why does he allow two &quot;innocent&quot; people to die? We have Adam and Amanda's &quot;dead cell mate&quot; which were very much both alive. why did they die unnecessarily without a chance to live? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dr Gordon was told more than once to kill Adam and even given a hint with the cigarette and the blood, but Adam was never given a chance to live, so what was his crime? We hear that Jigsaw calls Adam a voyeur, but is that not exactly what Jigsaw is himself, a voyeur? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose the question is, why the ambiguous exceptions to the MO of jigsaw with Adam and Amanda's &quot;dead cell mate&quot;?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-10-05T11:11:04.780" LastActivityDate="2022-05-04T22:48:21.743" Title="Did Adam have a chance to live?" Tags="|plot-explanation|saw|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41917" CreationDate="2015-10-05T06:16:54.360" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did Adam have a chance to live?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be precise he had two chances :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Keys:&lt;/strong&gt; He left the keys in bathtub. So while trying to free himself, he can even have the chance to get the keys, which he missed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hacksaw:&lt;/strong&gt; There were two  hacksaws; one for each. Fair chance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adam and Amanda's &amp;quot;dead cell mate&amp;quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://sawfilms.wikia.com/wiki/Donnie_Greco&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Donnie Greco&lt;/a&gt;)  were both have chances to get out alive but it wasn't fully in their hands. Amanda's cell mate can always be saved if Amanda fails in cutting him. Similarly Adam's fate were in hands of Lawrence and Zep. If both fails or he cut his feet before Lawrence and Zep can kill him, he can be freed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for the innocent part Doctor Lynn obviously is more innocent than Adam. And Donnie Greco is supposed to be Amanda's Drug dealer from original script. He doesn't  give his weird task to criminal only but to those who lost their path in living their life in a right way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related Read: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2120/why-did-jigsaw-kidnap-lynn-denlon-for-his-operation-in-saw-3&quot;&gt;Why did Jigsaw kidnap Lynn Denlon for his operation in Saw 3?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T16:20:16.747" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41919" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41930" CreationDate="2015-10-05T08:08:06.573" Score="2" ViewCount="470" Body="&lt;p&gt;I Remember seeing Shogun for sale in blockbuster video back in the mid-late 90's.&#xA;It was only on ONE VHS tape. It was either 2 hours or one and a half, I forgot.&#xA;I was upset that someone had treated it like a Readers Digest condensed book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I heard later that it was made up MOSTLY of deleted scenes, and scenes unairable.&#xA;I didn't know if they were unairable for violence, or sexual content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are the deleted scenes included on the DVD version? Not as extras, but re-added.&#xA;I know there was an &quot;extended cut&quot; out there, but have never seen it on disk.&#xA;The reprinted book calls it a &quot;12 hour maxi-series&quot;, but the DVD release is omly&#xA;10 hours. I presume tis is because the commercials were stripped out, but am unsure how the time was effected by other scenes being added back in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone know a source for info on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25875" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-05T12:58:17.940" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T15:58:54.467" Title="The movie &quot;Shogun&quot; 10 hr DVD vs 2 hr VHS" Tags="|distribution|alternate-version|shogun|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41923" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2572" CreationDate="2015-10-05T09:02:12.967" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can usually identify actors I have seen before by their voice, while getting things out of the fridge in the next room. I would hate to be a millionaire philanthropist who was on TV or even radio (People still listen in their cars ya'know !) and have someone recognise my voice after I had gone through so much effort to hide my face.&#xA;(I would NOT mind being a millionaire if no one knew me though!)&#xA;I recognized Bane in something else just a few days ago by voice alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce REALLY should have a &quot;wonderful toy&quot; to do this for him by now. With all&#xA;the money he spends on high-tensile strength cable, a voice changer is cheap by&#xA;comparison!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25875" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T09:02:12.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41924" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41934" CreationDate="2015-10-05T09:38:24.593" Score="13" ViewCount="25413" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end Mark Watney played by Matt Damon escapes in a space shuttle (don't know what it is called). I have watched the movie only didn't read the book, I have some doubts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From where did the space shuttle appear?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why it has only small energy so that he can't reach the crew?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any help on these will be appreciated.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18957" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-10-05T16:34:04.320" LastActivityDate="2016-03-27T09:27:51.107" Title="Where did Mark Watney get the escape pod in The Martian?" Tags="|the-martian|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41925" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-05T10:07:23.870" Score="10" ViewCount="3028" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/509/is-the-time-loop-on-the-cruise-ship-a-second-timeline-in-triangle&quot;&gt;This question&lt;/a&gt; (and its corresponding answers) do a good job of explaining how the time loop influences the story, but there's one thing I still don't understand - how did the ship in the middle of the ocean get there in the first place, and how come it's deserted? And how come it stops for the crew to climb aboard?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't see Jess at the controls to stop the ship at all, and we never see any hint of any other crew (though we do see plenty of evidence that her time loop has occurred many times before on that very ship of course.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some symbolism that it's just driving itself that I've missed, or something else entirely?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26533" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2019-07-07T03:02:40.267" Title="How come the ship in Triangle is empty?" Tags="|plot-explanation|triangle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41930" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41919" CreationDate="2015-10-05T15:58:54.467" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To the best of my knowledge, it was a &lt;em&gt;compacted&lt;/em&gt; set of scenes that took out much of the backstory and character development that was on the 2-hour VHS tape.  The DVD restored everything, with one exception; there was a frontal nude scene of Mariko that was shown in Europe that ended up on the VHS.  That scene was deleted in the DVD, which was the entire mini-series shown to US audiences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T15:58:54.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40727" CreationDate="2015-10-05T16:01:28.257" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the scenario of badges being used, and keeping the rationale to an in-universe answer, rather than chalking it up to a trope, it is entirely possible that multiple badges have been given to people.  Rather than wearing these badges (or in addition to wearing a badge), people may be storing their badges on oddly-placed shelves, or keeping them on clothes they've taken off and placing those clothes on oddly-placed shelves, or on corkboards in room corners, etc.  It's not out of the quirky atmosphere of &lt;em&gt;Gravity Falls&lt;/em&gt; for locations to have an oddly-placed decoration.  Also consider that certain animals are considered citizens (married woodpeckers), who would therefore be given badges, and they would be capable of reaching unusual angles.  And no one is saying Gideon (a) is restricted to viewing from badges and (b) didn't covertly place badges in conspicuous locations in addition to distributing them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2015-10-05T16:48:31.260" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T16:48:31.260" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27963" CreationDate="2015-10-05T16:37:35.057" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/9TWX2A4K8EA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Barbossa explains it in the movie.  The person is cursed if they remove the gold from the stone chest.  Elizabeth nor Will did this ergo; not cursed.  Each person who was cursed physically removed gold from the chest on the Isla de Muerta.  It may not be in the script, but it's on film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26545" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T16:37:35.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41924" CreationDate="2015-10-05T16:38:38.357" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ankit is close. And maybe I'm not quite reading it correctly, but here is what I understand:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As Ankit stated, this rocket was 'shipped' to mars ahead of time for a future mission.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This rocket didn't deliver materials. Rather, it's the rocket that takes the crew off of mars into Mars' orbit when they finish their mission. This is the same type of rocket the crew escaped from Mars with in the first part of the film. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The reason it didn't have enough energy to reach the crew was that the crew couldn't get their ship into Mars' orbit. So they had to lighten the launcher as much as they could so they could get it as high as possible to intersect with the crew that was sling-shotting around Mars. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T16:38:38.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41924" CreationDate="2015-10-05T17:00:13.037" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watney was on the Ares III mission. Missions up to Ares V were in the works, and equipment such as the MAV (Mars Ascent Vehicle) were already in place on Mars, waiting for these missions to arrive.  The amount of equipment necessary for each mission was split into separate launches to reduce the individual payloads.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly after Watney discovers he's stranded he mentions the Ares IV MAV is already on-planet, though it is far away - much further away than the buggy can take him.  Needing to reach the Ares IV mission site (where the Ares IV MAV is already) is what prompts him to start retrofitting the buggy for longer journeys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The MAV is an &lt;em&gt;ascent&lt;/em&gt; vehicle, only designed to get its occupants into Mars orbit, and not much else.  The Hermes should have been in Martian orbit when the Ares IV MAV launched, and the MAV would have no trouble reaching the ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However to rescue Watney the Hermes' return trajectory involved a slingshot around Mars, intentionally avoiding entering orbit so they'd be able to return home.  This meant the Hermes was going significantly faster than the speed the MAV was designed to intercept at.  In order for the MAV to gain enough velocity, its weight had to be reduced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all explained in-movie (though some of it's easy to miss), see it again and you'll catch all these details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A previous answer had several inaccuracies that are also worth clarifying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The MAV was not &quot;designed to reach Mars&quot;, its sole purpose (hence the name) is to get the crew &lt;em&gt;off&lt;/em&gt; Mars.  It was delivered to Mars as part of a larger payload.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The crew does not leave in the same ship they arrive in; they leave in the MAV, which is already on-planet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Chinese rocket is not used as a booster to propel the Hermes.  It contains necessary supplies to sustain Watney (and the crew of the Hermes).  The Hermes is able to return to Mars via a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist&quot;&gt;gravity slingshot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26546" LastEditorUserId="26546" LastEditDate="2015-10-18T07:12:14.420" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T07:12:14.420" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41925" CreationDate="2015-10-05T17:13:14.240" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you missed a very critical part of the story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reff: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/triangle-2009-movie-plot-ending-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Triangle Movie Explained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jess is dead when she reaches the liner in the middle of the ocean. This part of the movie is all about the punishment she is receiving because she breaks her promise with death (the taxi driver). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She's made to go through a never ending loop of pain till she accepts her death and the responsibility of the death of her autistic son. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She is, however, shown to not accept it even in the end and the loop starts all over again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2018-12-16T10:11:50.473" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T10:11:50.473" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41936" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41939" CreationDate="2015-10-05T17:28:53.927" Score="10" ViewCount="1596" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that Borat is not the greatest of all movies but I have always wondered if scenes in the movie where he appears in public, staying at the Jewish house etc. have been staged and participants were well aware of what will happen next?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T21:28:36.017" Title="Were Borat's interactions with the public staged?" Tags="|production|borat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41937" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43408" CreationDate="2015-10-05T17:33:52.847" Score="14" ViewCount="528" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the significance of Dick Van Dyke playing both Mr Dawes and Bert in &lt;em&gt;Mary Poppins&lt;/em&gt;? I have a feeling that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.etonline.com/movies/150432_mary_poppins_hidden_relationships_fan_theory/&quot;&gt;something of this sort&lt;/a&gt; might have been intended, but is there any official word on such? Has there been other speculation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21705" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-05T17:58:24.523" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T01:46:20.140" Title="What is the significance of Dick Van Dyke playing both Mr Dawes and Bert?" Tags="|analysis|mary-poppins|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41936" CreationDate="2015-10-05T18:44:35.640" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, evidence shows that the movie was made in a documentary type of way, but the studio tried to cover itself with releases. &lt;a href=&quot;http://lawsuits.ultratrust.com/borat-lawsuits.html&quot;&gt;Lawsuits filed against the movie, actor, and studio failed, as there was no evidence that the people were manipulated&lt;/a&gt;. There was no statements in the lawsuits by either party that the scenes were scripted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Other individuals threatening lawsuits against Sasha Cohen and 20th Century Fox include &lt;strong&gt;two etiquette coaches, Cindy Streit and Kathie Martin, from Alabama. Both women are depicted in the film giving etiquette lessons to Cohen's character during a dinner party&lt;/strong&gt;. The dispute here is that both women were offended by the comments made by Borat regarding slavery, a demeaning comment made against one of the dinner party guests, and the bag of excrement handed to Streit.&#xA;  The women claim that this film has single-handedly ruined their etiquette businesses and, as with the Fraternity boys, demanded their likenesses be removed from the film prior to its release. As with the Fraternity boy case, it was decided that the film would be released to DVD as scheduled and that 20th Century Fox was under no obligation to remove the women's images from the film. &lt;strong&gt;Both women signed a release for the company in which they agreed not to file damage claims against the producers. From a lawyer's standpoint, the parties involved should have read the agreements more carefully.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Another] scene in question show the two boys, obviously intoxicated, making obscene racist and sexist remarks. &lt;strong&gt;The boys claim that the film crew told them this documentary would not be shown in the United States, and that the film crew is responsible for taking them out to a local bar to get drunk prior to shooting.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;The representatives for 20th Century Fox claim that the boys knowingly signed a release to hold the company harmless and the behavior of the two boys was not the result of anything said or done by members of the film crew.&lt;/strong&gt; After hearing both sides of the testimony a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ruled that he would not halt the release of Borat to DVD, nor would he require Fox producers to remove scenes involving the two Fraternity boys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is not to say there wasn't any staged scenes, but a good portion was filmed in a truly unscripted manner.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-10-05T21:28:36.017" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T21:28:36.017" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41941" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-05T20:27:24.640" Score="5" ViewCount="410" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am wondering if Mac from 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest movie set in Sep.-Dec. of 1963 was a WW2 veteran? He was 38 years old, born in 1925. Was he a veteran of that war probably?(He wasn't really crazy, either)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26551" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-06T00:08:42.597" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T15:13:38.963" Title="Was McMurphy a WW2 vet?" Tags="|character|one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41942" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-05T21:03:21.940" Score="16" ViewCount="28758" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the absolute &lt;strong&gt;shock&lt;/strong&gt; Season 4 finale, we see Rita bled out in a bathtub at the hands of &lt;em&gt;The Trinity&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arthur had already found out everything about Dexter at the time he killed Rita. Is there any indication in the show or that the show runners have hinted at, that Rita is told Dexter's truth at the very end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rita has really been a breakthrough character, the white for Dexter's black. For her heart to be broken at the very end would be very sad. On the other hand I think a character like that &lt;em&gt;deserves&lt;/em&gt; to know the truth, even if it is at the very end!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26553" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-06T00:10:32.983" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T00:10:32.983" Title="Does Rita find out about Dexter at the end?" Tags="|character|plot-explanation|ending|dexter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41943" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41733" CreationDate="2015-10-05T21:45:28.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer according to the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/41756/27759&quot;&gt;Raidri&lt;/a&gt; has it spot on for the book version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film version, likely due to time constraints, had to gloss over a lot of these details that were in the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film version, they discover that he is still alive by noticing two things on the satellite imagery:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Rover has been moved from where it was parked originally (prior to the evacuation)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The solar panels had been cleaned.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Raidri's answer points out that in the book, they also spotted tents attached to the hab for growing potatoes. In the film, the potatoes were grown completely &lt;em&gt;inside&lt;/em&gt; the HAB, so no external tents would have been seen by the satellite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2020-12-31T09:13:20.580" LastActivityDate="2020-12-31T09:13:20.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="41944" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12382" CreationDate="2015-10-05T21:50:04.323" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;In 'Where No Togepi Has Gone Before!' it was confirmed that Pikachu is male. His physical appearance could not be used as proof, since gender differences were not implemented until after he had debuted in the anime.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Came from the wiki. May not be the best source but it's pretty darn accurate in most cases. He is also referred to as 'he' and not 'she'. Not only that but one can assume Pikachu is a male because the show is mostly aimed and viewed by males. There were also some game events where ash's pikachu would be distributed, and he is a male in all distributes of the events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26554" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T21:50:04.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41942" CreationDate="2015-10-05T21:51:35.303" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is not revealed on the show.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only two people who knew if Arthur had revealed Dexter's true identity to Rita are Arthur and Rita. Arthur was killed by Dexter shortly after he'd killed Rita, and he tells Dexter nothing that indicates he'd told her about him (nor does he leave any messages behind indicating it). Rita's last words are in her phone message to Dexter that she forgot her ID, and she's killed by Arthur shortly after that; we never see her encounter with Arthur or her murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it just didn't happen on the show. I have no idea if the creators claimed that it did happen but frankly, even if they &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt;, I'd consider this extraneous retconning, since they &lt;em&gt;could've&lt;/em&gt; put it in and chose not to. And ultimately, &lt;em&gt;it doesn't even matter that much&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It would make little sense, plot-wise.&lt;/strong&gt; Consider the scenario: A psychopath about to murder Rita tells her a few moments before he does that Dexter is a serial killer, something she never even suspected. &lt;em&gt;Why would she believe him in the first place?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It would barely impact the characters.&lt;/strong&gt; Rita would be devastated, but she's about to die anyway and we'll never know what consequences that knowledge had. And Dexter would be much more devastated about her &lt;em&gt;death&lt;/em&gt; than about her briefly knowing the truth about him before it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it might be sad that this detail was never resolved and was left to the imagination, but unfortunately, whatever's not in the finished product is not there for a reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-05T22:41:24.427" LastActivityDate="2015-10-05T22:41:24.427" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41946" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33003" CreationDate="2015-10-05T22:07:24.613" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe Trinity's kiss revives Neo not because of the physical kiss itself but because love does &quot;its thing&quot;. It sets a 'connection' that was missing, makes Neo understand the new world in a light he intimately knows, which machines are unable to grasp, he understands what makes humans human and somehow that completes a circle that no machine nor program nor corrupt system has been able to complete, and powers him up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me explain. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Machines or programs cannot love. They just think of love as an illness of sort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same happens to institutions. They just rule, set and execute laws, always looking for self-preservation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Love is totally different. &#xA;There's love as emotion, of course, which is limited, and there's a different kind of love that Neo and Trinity feel, share and even identify themselves with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Love can even be self-deprecating. A machine or program will never understand that. They may replicate emotions but cannot replicate true love.&#xA;Love's main difference is that it's not based on power over others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neo's life at the beginning is that of a rebel, hacking all over and beyond. To be a rebel is to be a lover deep down, to fight for some values you love beyond every stablished rule (rules as truths as opposed to Truth).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Up to the kiss scene, Neo has had no time to love again. He's been so busy rediscovering the world and trying to master the new 'laws' (understanding the world as he now realizes it is, learning awesome skills, re-learning who he may be...). &#xA;In a way, learning (at least how Neo does) is power-based. He needs to master each new skill, fully focused. Focus is a key word, because while focus (and power) distinguishes one thing from another, set limits and define by the differences, love integrates. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back to the point. Power is not all there is. &#xA;The kiss connects him to his true nature, to the old Neo, and helps him understand this is not a new world but the same, he has not to be a new different one but who he has always been, just see in a new light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has always been a fighter for love, and he still is. &#xA;Before there were the institutions and he knew their weak points, and his drive took him to learn how to stop their abuse over people. &#xA;Now it's not that much different in essence, just more difficult not to be deceived. He knows what they are doing (which he also masters) and he knows what they can't do and never will.&#xA;What he was missing was their weak point, and Trinity's love enlightened him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4795" LastEditorUserId="4795" LastEditDate="2015-10-06T16:08:11.490" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T16:08:11.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41947" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41966" CreationDate="2015-10-05T22:23:29.377" Score="3" ViewCount="3332" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early in the film, we see Alby leading the others in banishing - and thus condemning to death - someone who has been &quot;stung&quot;. There seems to be no hope of a cure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet when Alby is stung Minho risks being shut into the maze in order to carry him unconscious back to the Glade. Does he think he can somehow save him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15855" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T00:28:03.153" Title="Why did Minho risk his life to save Alby?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-maze-runner|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-06T00:06:24.610" Score="3" ViewCount="76094" Body="&lt;p&gt;They figured out who was killing everyone, so why did the ghost/monster show up and close her laptop in the end? I tried to find what I could but I just can't find anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26558" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-10-06T07:11:10.473" LastActivityDate="2017-05-18T15:09:38.857" Title="Explanation of the ending of Unfriended" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|unfriended|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38875" CreationDate="2015-10-06T00:35:45.450" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've looked in a book I read long ago, by John Truby, called The Anatomy of Story. He dissects the scenes from LA Confidential (and many other great movies) and points this out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scene 63/90: &quot;Rolo Tomasi&quot; was the name given to the man who killed Ed's father, Preston Exley. It's why Ed became a cop. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scene 73/90: When the Captain shoots Jack, Jack's last words are &quot;Rolo Tomasi&quot;. He noticed that some years ago the Captain supervised a case where Stensland and Meeks investigated Patchett.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scene 87/90: (...) when the Captain shoots Bud twice, Ed calls the Captain Rolo Tomasi, the guy who gets away with it.&#xA;To reinforce it, the Captain promises Ed he'll be chief of detectives if Ed arrests him and doesn't kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe the movie as it is states that the Captain was the killer of Ed's father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That makes Ed end the movie with his personal goal accomplished. The director could have ended the movie with &quot;The end ... though unfortunately, Ed, you still don't know who Rolo Tomasi is&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4795" LastEditorUserId="4795" LastEditDate="2015-10-06T16:00:24.487" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T16:00:24.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39306" CreationDate="2015-10-06T00:41:07.410" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show is about disclosure and acceptance. The show might be a well thought out way to show aliens for the first time. There are many references used subtly throughout the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26560" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-10-06T04:40:24.933" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T04:40:24.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41949" CreationDate="2015-10-06T04:55:16.343" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Please try to re-watch last 15 minutes. You'll definitely understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Laura (the ghost) is a best friend of Blaire. Since beginning it's&#xA; kept suspense who uploaded the video which lead to Laura's suicide.&#xA; Laura became ghost and started killing the group of friends who are&#xA; directly and indirectly responsible for Laura's suicide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At last, in the end, it is shown that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Blaire is the one who actually filmed the video when Laura was in the most awkward situation and uploaded it for fun. This later leads to Laura's suicide.  Laura kills them one by one and in the end she came to Blaire to take revenge. That is the scene where you mentioned that Laura appears as ghost when laptop door is closed and post-credits roll. Probably she killed her (Blaier) too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-10-06T07:07:20.097" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T07:07:20.097" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41947" CreationDate="2015-10-06T06:10:13.730" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Minho is the Keeper of the Runners. He is one of the senior boys in the Glade, and for good reason. He is level-headed, brave, intelligent and not willing to give up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He knew that to get out of the glades, he needs each and every soul. And being one of the senior boys, it's his responsibility to save them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although he didn't know that there was any hope for the cure, but his leadership quality to lead from the front, his form of responsibility towards each and everyone who has faith over him gave the strength to risk his life and bring him back from the maze.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-14T00:28:03.153" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T00:28:03.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41957" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41963" CreationDate="2015-10-06T06:26:01.437" Score="6" ViewCount="10819" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the title is self explanatory.&#xA;The first three mad max movies take place in dystopian Australia as it is specifically mentioned &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079501/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. But in Fury Road, I haven't seen any specific mention about where it takes place.&#xA;So does it take place in dystopian Australia? If not, where does it take place?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19959" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-06T11:51:49.367" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T11:51:49.367" Title="Does Mad Max: Fury Road take place in dystopian Australia?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41959" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41957" CreationDate="2015-10-06T07:58:16.023" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don't have enough information to be sure&lt;/strong&gt; - at least, not from the film itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No character in &lt;em&gt;Mad Max: Fury Road&lt;/em&gt; mentions they are, other than through reference to the 5 named places we get in &lt;em&gt;Mad Max: Fury Road&lt;/em&gt;. These places are;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Citadel (stronghold of Immortan Joe)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gas Town (stronghold of The People Eater)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Bullet Farm (stronghold of the Bullet Farmer)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Green Place (home of the Vuvalini/the Many Mothers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Salt (implied to be a dried up seabed)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these places seem to be references to real world locations other than The Salt, and even that doesn't give us any information about the real world location of &lt;em&gt;Mad Max: Fury Road&lt;/em&gt; other than it is meant to be within a couple of days driving distance to an ocean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T07:58:16.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41957" CreationDate="2015-10-06T08:54:56.267" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not explicitly mentioned in the movie, but it would be safe to assume that the story takes place in Australia itself, because the character Max keeps dwelling in the Australian outbacks in the first 3 installments, which span more than 20 years. So we can tend to believe that the character's fate is to dwell in the Australian Outbacks only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly as we know that there is fuel-shortage scenario in the background of this dystopia. So traveling outside country seems less plausible. More so because Australia is an island and the nearest country New Zealand has an entirely different landscape. So taking a clue from the outdoors in this latest franchise, along with character info, we can assume that it takes place in Australia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might have been filmed anywhere in the world which can resemble Australia, but we have no indication in the 4th part that the story has changed its location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T08:54:56.267" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41965" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="62038" CreationDate="2015-10-06T12:54:09.980" Score="10" ViewCount="303" Body="&lt;p&gt;The story of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017038/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;All Is Lost&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; begins with Our Man's boat getting hit by an abandoned shipping container, which breaches the boat's hull and thus sets in motion his quest for survival and ultimately the sinking of his boat. In retrospect though, the real devastating event is the storm he runs into, during which he makes one or the other roll with his boat, which thus gets unmaveurable and breached even more, filling with water yet again, which isn't helped by him getting knocked out for some time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even more than that, during the first few days of the story he even manages to successfully repair the breach from the shipping container as well as get rid of the flown-in water. It is only after he has repaired the boat into a fully functional form that he gets into the storm and throughout the entire storm and its aftermath the initial hull breach &lt;em&gt;stays&lt;/em&gt; fixed. It thus made me wonder, how detrimental that initial collision with the container, that is supposed to set the story in motion, even was and &lt;strong&gt;if it actually had any influence on the further story after it was repaired&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now of course, speculating what could have been if this or that didn't happen is of not much constructive use and I am not asking if any of the events in the movie could have happened in a different way (which they of course always could but never do). What I am looking for is an &lt;strong&gt;explanation or reasonable deduction what influence that initial collision and its aftermath had on the continuation of the story and the ultimate sinking of the boat&lt;/strong&gt; in the specific way the story panned out in the movie. Or could it really be seen as just an &lt;em&gt;independent incident as part of an &quot;unlucky week&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, in contrast to the &lt;em&gt;first mosaic stone in a chain of unfortunate events&lt;/em&gt; that is so commonly suggested?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-06T13:07:21.703" LastActivityDate="2016-10-18T01:07:03.743" Title="How detrimental was the initial hull breach by the shipping container for the boat's ultimate fate?" Tags="|plot-explanation|all-is-lost|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41947" CreationDate="2015-10-06T13:00:44.127" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't much known about either the Changing or The Banishment, as the events in both the book and movie happen near the end of the Maze events. Every rule was created by the Gladers long before Thomas shows up, so there is much unknown. What we can see though, is that the Changing doesn't effect everyone the same. Only four people are seen going through it, Ben, Alby, Thomas and Gally. We only see Ben being vanished, and he's pretty manic when it happens. Alby and Thomas both get stung, take the Grief Serum, and then are okay. Gally almost acts like Ben did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind, in the books, the Grief Serum already exists, so its always administered if the stung person is found in time. And Book Gally went through the Changing before Thomas even arrives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads to the main question, why would Minho attempt to save Alby when Ben was Banished after being stung? &lt;strong&gt;Aside from having to match the book version where this is a major event&lt;/strong&gt;, the Banishment of Ben seems to happen due to a separate reason. In the book, Minho's main reasoning is that there is a cure for being stung, so leaving Alby, their leader, in the Maze would be the same as killing him. There's a chance to save him. Ben, instead, was banished not because he was stung, but because &lt;strong&gt;he attempted to kill Thomas&lt;/strong&gt;. Hurting another Glader is one of the worst things you can do, and the Rules required he be removed. I believe it had to do with Ben not being given the Serum in time, and that leaves him crazy and dangerous. The Gladers had no choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Movie Alby, unlike Ben, when stung, spends a week or so sick. If we consider that not everybody stung reacts the same as Ben, then the movie answer would simply be the same as the book. Ben was banished because he became a dangerous lunatic after the Changing, not because he was stung. While one happened because of the other, the end result is the same, only the Dangerous ones get Banished. So Minho, knowing this, would attempt to save Alby, because it was not guaranteed that he would become dangerous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T13:00:44.127" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41970" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="41972" CreationDate="2015-10-06T15:22:58.093" Score="6" ViewCount="3070" Body="&lt;p&gt;The series &lt;em&gt;24&lt;/em&gt; seems to contradict itself always in respect to Jack. He repeatedly seems to be acting against orders and for his personal goals, pretending to act for national security. Yet he always comes out as the hero, while others acting for their personal endeavours get punished for it, even by Jack himself. This shows in various incidents throughout the show:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;Season 1&lt;/strong&gt; Jack's family got kidnapped and he broke protocol/rules to go get them, when CTU got to know about his endeavors they stuck with him because he was doing it for the greater good. But the question is was he really doing it for the greater good or was it personal -- because of his family? He got away with it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;Season 4&lt;/strong&gt; When Jack Bauer's lover Audrey Raines got kidnapped, he did everything to save her and chocked it up on national security and went further to save the day -- but prior to eventually saving the day, Chloe's friend the Hacker who was abducted by the terrorists was been beaten and interrogated forcefully. When Jack found him later, he was reluctant to actually save Chloe's friend and he shot the two remaining terrorists and left in persuit of the one on the run, leaving Chloe's friend, why? Because he cared about the bigger picture. BUT when the word got out that FA team are about to bomb the site that the terrorists are hosting their execution telecast, he actually decided to go irrespective of orders given to him, because of a woman. Well, he was successful and saved the day, &lt;strong&gt;again Jack Bauer got away with breaking rules/protocol&lt;/strong&gt;. (Actually this happended twice, and he broke rules twice for Audrey Raines, the second time his reward was a restraining order, that was the only thing that made sense to me.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;Season 6 - &quot;Day 6: 9:00am-10:00am&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; (the season that Jack returned from China) Abu Fayed, the terrorist, demanded for Jack in return for a  Hamri Al-Assad. The exchange was made and it came to the intelligence that Hamri Al-Assad was actually on the side of the government. Hamri Al-Assad agreed to co-operate with CTU so as to get his immunity from all his crimes, and he agreed, but CTU agent Curtis Manning, had a beef with Hamri Al-Assad and was not pleased with the immunity granted. He was willing to kill Al-Assad point-blank because his past involved him personally. Well, Curtis Manning had is moment and had the drop on him, but Jack (standing in for national security) told Curtis Manning not to,  because doing so will go against the PRESIDENT'S ORDERS. Curtis Manning refused and Jack Bauer never hesitated to kill him, actually he made it clear that he is determined to kill him. &lt;strong&gt;Curtis Manning died and Jack was the hero because Curtis Manning was going against presidential orders.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Later on, the main terrorist Abu Fayed got captured by Jack and the replacement agent for Curtis Manning, Mike Doyle, who happened to be the head of field ops. While Jack was interrogating Abu Fayed by assaulting him and other brutal means Abu Fayed never broke, still maintained his posture, Jack got bored and fed up and phoned the CTU director. While he was on the phone Mike Doyle went for a shot, actually his shot was more of a persuasive approach, again Abu Fayed maintained his posture, Mike Doyle got bored and pulled out his gun, Jack intervened and told Mike Doyle to stand down... he later reached for his gun saying &quot;&lt;em&gt;I do not want to shoot you, but I will if I want to ... Drop the weapon agent Doyle&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. Well, Doyle responded saying something and Jack replied with &quot;&lt;em&gt;those are the orders of the Director of CTU&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. &lt;strong&gt;Again Mike Doyle wasn't able to do what he wanted because Jack demanded he follow orders.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;But in &lt;strong&gt;Season 8&lt;/strong&gt; when Jack Bauer's lover (Rene Walker) got killed by the Russian, &lt;strong&gt;NATIONAL SECURITY&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;PRESIDENTIAL ORDERS&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;GREATER GOOD&lt;/strong&gt;, and all those things again seemed to become irrelevant and only there to make Jack Bauer all knowing and invicible etc etc.  He went against everyone - The country, his friends, national security, human morals all because of &lt;strong&gt;one insane/crazy&lt;/strong&gt; woman who is willing to kill herself anytime (has tried it a couple of times, minimum one) and in the event, good people died - The bank owner of Dayna's deposit bank, courageous people proving security whether private security or national service, police men, innocent people who came in the middle of a crossfire, and at the end of the day Jack Bauer was the hero? Really?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My question&lt;/strong&gt; is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I misunderstanding or missing something? Is there an explanation for Jack being right all the time, especially in those mentioned instances? Why can only Jack Bauer not be charged with treason? If I quite recall the Chief of staff of President Taylor and another associate disobeyed the president so as to ambush Jack's team and save 10,000 Americans by giving in what the terrorists asked for, and they did, and they saved 10,000 Americans. Obviously that wasn't enough because it wasn't Jack Bauer who broke the rules and their reward was life imprisonment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26578" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-11T13:13:05.873" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T13:13:05.873" Title="Why is Jack Bauer always right, above the law and free to do what he desires, but no one else is?" 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  <row Id="41972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41970" CreationDate="2015-10-06T16:44:27.043" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the answer isn't, &quot;That shit actually makes sense.&quot; What you describe covers a few tropes that often tend to converge in action, crime, and drama shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InvincibleHero&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Invincible Hero&lt;/a&gt; Trope - a movie or show going out of its way to ensure that the protagonist wins.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ProtagonistCenteredMorality&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Protagonist-Centered Morality&lt;/a&gt; Trope - the protagonist's POV usually influences the narration, but sometimes it gets to a point where the writer(s) are bending over backwards to make the protagonist's sense of morality the overarching, defining morality of the show's universe. In crime shows like &lt;em&gt;24&lt;/em&gt;, this often means that all the good-guy coworkers/superiors/etc. of the protagonist look the other way or just give him a small slap on the wrist (often with an understanding that &quot;I really didn't mind you going against orders/protocol/what-have-you, cause you were right&quot;) when said protagonist goes out-of-line. (Usually, this stepping out of bounds ends up being the right decision, despite all odds against it.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;These can't-be-wrong protagonists are also often &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoralDissonance&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;morally dissonant&lt;/a&gt; and/or &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KarmaHoudini&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Karma Houdinis&lt;/a&gt;, who - as mentioned in the last trope - will often get away with pretty much anything because the story doesn't allow them to be wrong about anything (even when they screw up).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No doubt I'm missing a couple of other tropes that would fit into the typical can-do-no-wrong protagonist, but to me, those are the main ones. Now, this is not to place judgement on &lt;em&gt;24&lt;/em&gt; itself - or even to say that all shows that contain these tropes are automatically bad (every so often, these tropes can be done well or are sufficiently minimized so as to not detract from the show) - but simply to say that this is such a common recipe that it often flies under the radar in popular and/or mainstream shows (&lt;em&gt;24&lt;/em&gt; included). You'll see it in the classic Humphrey Bogart movie, &lt;em&gt;Maltese Falcon,&lt;/em&gt; where protagonist Sam Spade gets warned by several other characters that he needs to be careful to not let his temper get the best of him and to avoid breaching protocol, but in the end he (a) proves his rather wild theories to be correct, and (b) actually saves the day precisely by losing his temper and breaching protocol. You'll also see it in more modern TV shows like &lt;em&gt;Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.&lt;/em&gt;, where you can barely make it through an episode without a protagonist breaking rules or moral codes and ending up better for it (often while the antagonists can't catch a break, even as they make the same kinds of calls). Indeed, you'll notice it in a lot of superhero films and shows, especially ones whose heroes are vigilantes (Batman), chosen one/sole-possible-savior types (Superman - though this tends to show up more in general sci-fi/fantasy, such as Harry Potter), or simply know-better-than-all-the-authorities types (Iron Man). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-07T11:43:25.530" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T11:43:25.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41977" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42018" CreationDate="2015-10-06T17:56:07.970" Score="6" ViewCount="776" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw these movie before some 15 years ago and don't remember much of anything. I only have glimpse of it, of what I remember is as follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Movie is set up in submarine like vehicle, extremely huge in size. I remember A big glass dome and in that hall everything is made of whole gold.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The protagonist was a pirate or a thief.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the climax due to some accident the ship or submarine sinks but the protagonist survives and he takes out the golden spoon which he stole earlier and throws it back in water.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please help me identify this move. was my first scifi movie I saw it as a kid. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26584" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-06T18:18:46.773" LastActivityDate="2016-12-24T04:42:08.503" Title="Old sci-fi film with submarine like Vehicle" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:04:57.487" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41977" CreationDate="2015-10-06T18:06:06.047" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could this be &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064470/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Latitude Zero&lt;/a&gt;&quot;? The film is largely set inside a giant submarine and there is gold aplenty on costumes, set-dressing and backgrounds&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/AEMDfCwnRGw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T18:06:06.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34841" CreationDate="2015-10-06T18:10:21.557" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know I'm late but to set the record strait Daniel's bond is not stand alone. Notice how he is, when he first gets his 00 status he's wreckless and makes plenty mistakes he also learns his lessons that make him the man he is in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. And in Skyfall he has moved on and is a more experienced James Bond them he looses female M and meets Moneypenny and male M, therefore setting him up as the original James Bond we first saw with Connery. His Bond films are connected as you can see in Spectre also with the return of Mister White saying &quot;I always knew death would wear a familiar face&quot;. This is referencing back to when Bond destroyed Quantum but White got away and now Bond will see the true cause of all his pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26585" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-06T18:24:44.263" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T18:24:44.263" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41980" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42001" CreationDate="2015-10-06T18:10:25.723" Score="1" ViewCount="3376" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;The Martian&quot;, why couldn't the crew land on Mars to pick Watney up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5369" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-07T10:47:01.887" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T10:47:01.887" Title="Why couldnt the crew land on mars to pick Mark Watney up?" Tags="|the-martian|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41982" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-10-06T18:23:07.883" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation&lt;/em&gt; is the fifth film in the &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible franchise&lt;/em&gt;, released in 2015. Questions about this film should also be tagged with the general franchise tag &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/mission-impossible&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mission-impossible&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mission-impossible&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T12:48:52.147" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T12:48:52.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41983" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-10-06T18:23:07.883" Score="0" Body="Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, the fifth film in the Mission Impossible franchise, released in 2015. Questions about this film should also be tagged with the general franchise tag [mission-impossible]." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T12:48:52.147" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T12:48:52.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24235" CreationDate="2015-10-06T20:51:56.443" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think before Allegra and Ted go back to reality at the end, Allegra says that her bod was infected and that she would bring that infection back with her to reality. When that happens the dog is infected too and reality is corrupted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26589" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T20:51:56.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36596" CreationDate="2015-10-06T20:57:00.920" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The DC Comics character Deathbolt was given his powers through being the subject of experiments conducted by a character called the Ultra-Humanite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathbolt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathbolt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the Wikipedia article notes, his introduction to the CW universe was likely intended to demonstrate, much like the comics universe, that metahumans have a great variety of origins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26580" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T20:57:00.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41977" CreationDate="2015-10-06T21:18:29.463" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to Richard's suggestion, the description also roughly fits the 1954 film, &lt;em&gt;20,000 Leagues Under the Sea&lt;/em&gt;. (I think somebody posted the Wikipedia link in the comments, but just in case, you can find the Wikipedia description &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20,000_Leagues_Under_the_Sea_(1954_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;) I remember watching it as a kid, so it's definitely at least somewhat kid-friendly, and I'm pretty sure the - super fancy - submarine (aka &quot;monster,&quot; aka &quot;submerging boat&quot;) does get wrecked at the end and the main characters get stranded.&#xA;Edit - Here's the trailer, if it's any help:&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xhyuey4xU3Q?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T21:18:29.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35164" CreationDate="2015-10-06T21:36:47.937" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &quot;The Boy Must Live&quot;, September reveals several things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At a point in the future, humanity will sacrifice the capacity for emotions for increased intelligence - creating the Observers&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Observers developed techniques for reproducing asexually&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Michael was produced based on September's DNA, technically making him his father&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Michael was born with an abnormality - both Observer-level intelligence and the capacity for emotions, and was to be destroyed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;September decided to hide Michael in the past, to protect him&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fringe.wikia.com/wiki/The_Boy_Must_Live&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://fringe.wikia.com/wiki/The_Boy_Must_Live&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How Michael ended up specifically where he was in the original timeline is never explained, to the best of my knowledge. That episode indicated he had been alone for some time, so it's likely September broke contact to protect him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26580" LastActivityDate="2015-10-06T21:36:47.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="41999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38875" CreationDate="2015-10-06T22:32:09.843" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is nothing at all in the movie that suggests that Dudley was the killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact the story that Exley tells in the movie strongly suggests that his father's death was a random murder by some unknown thief. That's why he invents the name Rolo Tomasi, to personify the unknown assailant. Nothing in the story suggests it was related to police corruption; the story suggests something random and unrelated. The way Exley tells the story strongly suggest he &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; think Dudley or other police officers has anything to do with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides, the way the name is used has no connection at all with police corruption except to signal that Dudley has knowledge he should not have. He has never heard the story with the name Rolo Tomasi in it and assumes that Vincennes' dying words are a significant clue when all they do is reveal that he has killed Vincennes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And why would Dudley be trying to use Exley if there was some dangerous family connection. Until quite late in the movie Dudley doesn't see Exley as a potential threat which he surely would have done if he had some murky history with his father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="134" LastEditDate="2015-10-07T00:48:34.580" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T00:48:34.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41980" CreationDate="2015-10-07T01:57:44.230" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;While there are several vessels available to both Mark and the Ares III crew, there are a number of reasons why the 5 crew of the Ares III mission couldn't just land and get Mark Watney:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The remaining crew are aboard &lt;strong&gt;the Hermes&lt;/strong&gt;. The Hermes doesn't have the Thrust to Weight Ratio (TWR) to either land or launch from Mars. Hermes is designed to travel vast distances with a low thrust, high ISP ion engine. It's acceleration (according to the book- it's not actually stated in the movie) is 3mm/s/s.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then there's the &lt;strong&gt;MDV&lt;/strong&gt; (Mars Descent Vehicle), it's what the Ares III crew used to land on Mars. It remains on Mars, but with no fuel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then there's the &lt;strong&gt;Ares III MAV&lt;/strong&gt;. The crew used that to launch from Mars. Technically they left it in orbit, but it doesn't have any fuel left (also, it's in orbit).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, there's the &lt;strong&gt;Ares IV MAV&lt;/strong&gt;. It has some fuel, but it's thousands of KM away from the Ares III site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next problem is &lt;strong&gt;speed&lt;/strong&gt;. The Hermes (along with the Ares III crew) is going really fast. And as stated earlier, the Hermes doesn't change speed fast. It normally takes months for it to slow down enough to enter Mars orbit and because of the Earth slingshot, it's moving faster than ever. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastEditorUserId="855" LastEditDate="2015-10-07T02:13:33.680" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T02:13:33.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42004" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42005" CreationDate="2015-10-07T05:17:03.860" Score="6" ViewCount="21168" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt;, Ra's Al Ghul is killed by Arrow, whereas in &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt; Ra's is killed by Bruce Wayne. How can he be killed more than once and who killed Ra's Al Ghul first, Batman or Arrow? Is Malcom Merlyn from &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt; the Ra's Al Ghul killed by Batman in &lt;em&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26148" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-07T10:54:09.737" LastActivityDate="2017-03-23T21:13:16.463" Title="Who killed Ra's Al Ghul first, Batman or Arrow?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|arrow|batman-begins|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42004" CreationDate="2015-10-07T05:35:21.323" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ra's al Ghul is a Batman villain created in 1971. He has spanned multiple titles, and media. He's been killed, and resurrected multiple times (Lazarus Pit or otherwise). The Ra's al Ghul in the Nolan Batman Trilogy, like in the comics, is a person, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;NOT a title/mantle&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The Ra's al Ghul in Arrow is simply the title of the leader of the League of Assasins. &lt;strong&gt;Neither universe overlaps, so neither &lt;em&gt;&quot;killed&quot;&lt;/em&gt; him first.&lt;/strong&gt; There is no connection between them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Interestingly enough&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/10/09/liam-neeson-was-offered-the-role-of-ras-al-ghul-in-arrow&quot;&gt;Liam Neeson was offered the role for Ra's in the Arrow, but couldn't, as &quot;Taken 3&quot; was being filmed&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;but the Oscar-winning actor had to pass because he didn't have the time for The CW series. Mark Pedowitz, president of The CW, told BuzzFeed that the network reached out to Neeson, who played Ra's al Ghul in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy. “We never thought he would,” said Pedowitz. “We quickly went to him, just on the off-chance that he had the time to do it.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T05:35:21.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42006" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-07T06:03:51.057" Score="4" ViewCount="1602" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm making a trailer about a story i've written and wanted to use a song in it from the band Muse. This song has most likely been used in other movie trailers as well so i wondered,&#xA;If i get a license to use it and such, can i use the song myself as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26599" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-01T16:02:57.577" LastActivityDate="2018-11-22T18:05:28.167" Title="Can you use a certain song in a trailer, that has been used in a different movie-trailer as well?" Tags="|soundtrack|copyright|trailers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31272" CreationDate="2015-10-07T09:24:43.953" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A big issue is that Robb's position as overlord of the North is much weaker than Neds would have been because he's young and has only just inherited it. When Ned is killed Robb needs the idea of Northern independence in order to hold his force together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means if Robb backs Stannis and gives him his claim to being King of the North he likely loses his bannermen at a point he clearly needs them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know for sure what would have happened had Stannis taken Kings Landing and held onto the crown long term. I suspect though it's quite likely Robb would have been willing to slowly renounce independence or maybe take on a status more like Dorne as a client prince rather than just a Warden whilst bending the knee to Stannis as a middle ground similar to what Renly offers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26601" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-06-01T11:30:10.790" LastActivityDate="2017-06-01T11:30:10.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42009" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41733" CreationDate="2015-10-07T09:41:58.893" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film, there's a scene between Kapoor and Sanders, immediately before Park receives the message from Kapoor, which explains the situation (covering much of the novel information from Raidri's answer):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Ares 3 mission was scrubbed a little past half of the way into its projected 30-sol time frame due to the storm, so it was largely a waste.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mars missions are massively expensive, and NASA has to beg for every cent of funding.  If there is any salvageable equipment at the Ares 3 site, then there's that much less that the Ares 4 or 5 astronauts would have to bring with them; this would greatly reduce overall mission costs. The HAB was sent with 68 sols of supplies, typical NASA redundancy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of those two points, Kapoor states that they need to check immediately to see what equipment might be left by taking satellite photos of the area.  Sanders states that these photos should not be taken because they will be available to the public, and may show Watney's corpse.  This gives Kapoor another point for his argument:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If the next mission includes a plan to retrieve Watney's corpse, then they'll have a much easier time obtaining funding; there would be a public outcry at the thought of abandoning the body there, only if the public hears about it sooner than later. As Vincent put it, in a year, no one would give a S-word.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it all circled back around to &quot;we need photographs of the site before we can plan anything or beg for any funding&quot;.  Sanders granted permission to Kapoor with the assumption that Watney was dead, and Kapoor passed his request to Park with the same assumption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16207" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T06:00:36.833" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T06:00:36.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42010" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-07T10:26:02.347" Score="3" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Captain America: The First Avenger&lt;/em&gt;, Bucky dies before coming back as The Winter Soldier in &lt;em&gt;Captain America: The Winter Soldier&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was he chosen to become The Winter Soldier and how was he resurrected after his death?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26148" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-10-07T11:51:49.463" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T11:51:49.463" Title="How is Bucky resurrected after death?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|captain-america-the-winter-soldier|captain-america-the-first-avenger|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-10-26T23:56:27.893" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41760" CreationDate="2015-10-07T11:15:05.120" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several misconceptions in your question, so I'm just going to address the general question of &quot;What happened to Bucky Barnes after he fell off the train?&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first thing worth noting is that in &lt;em&gt;Captain America: The First Avenger&lt;/em&gt;, Steve Rogers rescued Bucky from Hydra captivity after finding him &lt;strong&gt;having recently been experimented on by Dr. Arnim Zola&lt;/strong&gt;. It is theorised that Dr. Zola was working on his own version of Dr. Abraham Erskine's Super Soldier Serum, and it is this that was being tested on Bucky when Steve found him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know a whole lot about the details of the experiment that was performed, but we do know that since that experiment, Bucky has survived a lot of things that should have simply killed him (such as falling from the train, working as an assassin for a few decades, being frozen and thawed multiple times, etc) so we can conclude that &lt;strong&gt;even if Dr. Zola's experiment didn't make Bucky as capable as Steve, it at least 'powered him up' somewhat&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some point after falling off the train and losing his arm, Bucky was acquired by the new Hydra, lead by Dr. Zola (who was, by this point, working for SHIELD while creating his new Hydra from within). &lt;strong&gt;It is at this stage that Bucky underwent further experimentation, presumably including the addition of his mechanical arm and the beginning of the memory wipes&lt;/strong&gt; that, judging from &lt;em&gt;Captain America: The Winter Soldier&lt;/em&gt; he undergoes fairly frequently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In short, Bucky is still alive because the experimentation done on him by Dr. Zola allowed him to survive his fall from the train - but unfortunately delivered him back into Dr. Zola's care, who turned him into The Winter Soldier.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-10-27T23:57:48.077" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T23:57:48.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42012" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42016" CreationDate="2015-10-07T11:15:28.327" Score="3" ViewCount="152" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final moment of &lt;em&gt;Divergent&lt;/em&gt;, when Erudite (the intelligent) was evoking coup d'état by the aid of Dauntless (the brave) on Abnegation (the selfless)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where were the other factions? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't they intervene? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because if I quite recall, Amity (the peaceful) stood for peace and Candor (the honest) stood for order as they were the lawyers and judges in the city/town. So why didn't they intervene and so as to check/stop Erudite (the intelligent)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26578" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-07T12:09:23.843" LastActivityDate="2018-02-25T19:14:09.330" Title="Where was the rest of the Factions during the assassinations" Tags="|plot-explanation|divergent|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42013" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-07T11:21:38.327" Score="5" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;English-language film&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;American or UK&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Probably labelled a &quot;B-grade sci-fi&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Very likely 1990's&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Alien&quot; / &quot;Event Horizon&quot; 'feel' to it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The premise goes something like: Crew aboard spacecraft bring aboard unknown artifact discovered in space; [some] crew members begin exhibiting unusual psychological symptoms; violent shenanigans ensue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; the artifact was a black sphere or cube -- something seemingly innocuous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26604" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T03:31:55.213" Title="Help identify sci-fi movie" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:05:10.343" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42014" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-07T11:43:19.313" Score="1" ViewCount="117" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Lost World: Jurassic Park there is a scene where the ship which brings the T-Rex to San Deigo has no crew inside it. How come all the crew members are dead if the dinosaur was still inside the cage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25903" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-07T12:19:35.157" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T12:19:35.157" Title="What happens to the crew in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lost-world-jurassic-park|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-10-07T12:15:55.890" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24313" CreationDate="2015-10-07T12:34:48.307" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is far more symbolism in the Matrix than most people realize. The green tint is symbolic of the basis of a system of control. It permeates our world today. Those who control its issuance have total control over just about everything - including our governments and political process. It is the lie - the nightmare - that the vast majority are unaware they are a willing participant in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26606" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T12:34:48.307" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42016" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42012" CreationDate="2015-10-07T12:42:01.780" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;They weren't around or aware. You can see in the first movie that everyone lives in different parts of the region.  There is little mixing of Factions. As Insurgent showed, Amity is in farm lands. Candor is closer, but their hands are tied, as Erudite controls the information that reaches them. Erudite waged a PR war long before the coup, where many people believed Abnegation was stealing from the other factions, that Abnegation leaders were corrupt and trying to break the faction system. Candor can't act without evidence. And even if they could, it's not their role, as seen in Insurgent. Also, after the coup, which seemed to succeed anyway, they continued to seed false info, blaming rogue dauntless. The Erudite leader got out Scott free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have to take into account that A, the coup spanned hours. Less than a day at any account. They didn't have time to react, even if they knew right away. Remember, Erudite was lying to them after the coup so when they found out. And B, Dauntless is the military/police. They have all the guns, training, and killer instinct. A bunch of lawyers and farmers have no chance against them by themselves. Candor has some strength, but even then, Eric men were able to run roughshod over them, putting everyone to sleep and tagging them with the remote control sensors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It took Dauntless rebels and the faction less to meet the Corrupt Dauntless/Erudite forces head on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-10-07T12:48:14.100" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T12:48:14.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41977" CreationDate="2015-10-07T12:46:38.927" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per your description and from wikipedia, I think the movie is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Nemo_and_the_Underwater_City&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Captain Nemo and the Underwater City&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also states the following for climax&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film closes as Nautilus turns towards Templemir. On the surface, a&#xA;  small schooner is seen picking up two men in mid-ocean, far from&#xA;  either land or any sign of wreckage. Frazer and Swallow Bath, huddled&#xA;  in blankets, are made welcome aboard, and as the schooner prepares to&#xA;  set sail, &lt;strong&gt;Frazer finds his companion has concealed a gold ladle under&#xA;  his coat. The two exchange rueful smiles, and Frazer tosses it lightly&#xA;  into the sea.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24527" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-07T12:55:28.620" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T12:55:28.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42020" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42021" CreationDate="2015-10-07T14:25:44.703" Score="19" ViewCount="10291" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;strong&gt;Inside Out&lt;/strong&gt; we see that Joy allows Sadness to hold Riley's core memories. What was the reason behind giving Sadness the core memories?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Joy had not given her the core memories then would there have been any effect on Riley's life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-08T10:53:52.503" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T10:53:52.503" Title="Why did Joy give Sadness the core memories?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inside-out|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42020" CreationDate="2015-10-07T14:36:34.020" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early on in the movie the other emotions ostracized sadness because she only seems to get in the way and slow Riley down. They don't understand why someone would need sadness in their life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on in the movie, while Joy and Sadness are working their way through Riley's mind, trying to get back to the control center, Joy is witness to Sadness's importance. She sees how Sadness can actually make someone feel better by addressing what makes them sad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once they return to the control center Joy has matured and sees that the best way to help Riley contend with the move and adjust to the new life isn't to cover if up in Joy, but to let her feel the Sadness so she can begin the healing process and grow up. This is why Joy allows Sadness to interact with the core memories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Growing up and dealing with complicated, adult emotions, is the major theme of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21877" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T14:36:34.020" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41941" CreationDate="2015-10-07T15:13:38.963" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;No.  MacMurphy was a Korean War vet, who was dishonorably discharged for insubordination.  In fact, Nurse Ratched runs down his history when she reads his chart:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;McMurphy is interred at the hospital for &quot;diagnosis and possible treatment,&quot; reads Nurse Ratched, who continues: &quot;Thirty-five years old. Never married. Distinguished Service Cross in Korea, for leading an escape from a Communist prison camp. &lt;strong&gt;A dishonorable discharge, afterward, for insubordination. Followed by a history of street brawls and barroom fights and a series of arrests for Drunkenness, Assault and Battery, Disturbing the Peace, repeated gambling, and one arrest — for Rape&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/o/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest/character-analysis/randle-patrick-mcmurphy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;(taken from the Cliff's Notes page)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's true that the Korean War succeeded WWII by 5 years and RPM would have been old enough to have fought in it, there is no indication anywhere that he was involved in anything other than Korea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T15:13:38.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42023" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-07T17:52:11.753" Score="8" ViewCount="5407" Body="&lt;p&gt;When you take a close look at the original Matrix, Neo looks normal wearing his famous black coat. However, starting with Matrix Reloaded where I am assuming producers start using a lot of CGI effects, Neo looks way too slim and almost disproportional. Is there a reason for this or is it me simply seeing him this way?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="24301" LastEditDate="2015-10-07T17:58:35.737" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T04:42:15.143" Title="Why does Neo look so unnaturally slim in Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions?" Tags="|the-matrix-revolutions|the-matrix-reloaded|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42024" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42027" CreationDate="2015-10-07T18:07:40.383" Score="4" ViewCount="1980" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a quite famous scene in the original movie where Robocop comes up to a guy, grabs barrel of his automatic gun and bends it downwards, while the guy continues holding the gun in shock. Isn't that completely impossible and the gun would've got torn out of his hands with the force needed to bend a steel barrel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2020-05-21T06:45:31.890" Title="How realistic is the scene where Robocop bends barrel of a gun being held by a man?" Tags="|realism|robocop|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42025" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42045" CreationDate="2015-10-07T18:25:41.743" Score="8" ViewCount="7890" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was Jesse from Breaking Bad really a drug addict? I remember that his parents did say that they have tried everything but what made me wonder was how easy he could handle the &quot;not using&quot; on his own. I started to suspect that he did not have a true addiction as one may expect much stronger withdrawal signs to be shown. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: By &quot;true addict&quot; I mean the stage when a person really needs help and cannot handle their own life without drugs. My perception might be erroneous but I always thought that long history drug addicts cannot conquer their addiction on their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="24301" LastEditDate="2015-10-08T01:14:38.730" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T05:29:42.947" Title="Was Jesse a true drug addict?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42026" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3258" CreationDate="2015-10-07T18:32:37.577" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;His character is presented as a very numb, kind of like dead on the inside just breathing. My interpretation is that when he walks past the taps they go off which kind of shows that he is coming back to being a real person not just a floating ghost, if that makes any sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26615" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T18:32:37.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42024" CreationDate="2015-10-07T18:57:21.857" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depends on the state of barrel, it's temperature, the thickness, any defects. The barrel of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/RoboCop_(1987)#Sterling_Mark_6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sterling Mark 6 Submachine Gun&lt;/a&gt; seems fairly small, with thin walls. The crimp shows it was compromised right past his hand. It's obviously an aluminum movie prop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/cIDaUoO4fjI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_moment&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Physics requires the the strength exerted on one end of the barrel or tube to be equally exerted on the other end for it to bend&lt;/a&gt;. Since it bent past his hand and not in it, the other end of the barrel (aka the rest of the gun) has to match the force. Realistically, no, he would not be able to hold on without at least some sort of show of force. He's basically passive. &lt;em&gt;Myth Busted&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-10-07T20:54:50.823" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T20:54:50.823" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42020" CreationDate="2015-10-07T21:12:37.523" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree with onewho: Joy realised that Sadness is a vital part of emotional balance of any grown up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition:&#xA;While we want children to live an all-happy life, we require adults to be able to handle (instead of ignore) whatever sadness they have to bear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But probably the most important part is not the addition of the all-sad memories, but of those mixed-color ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Children tend to have simple emotions. Joy, sadness, one at a time. As we grow up, we have way more complex emotions. Think of parents whose child moves into it´s first own appartment: They are proud, happy, but also sad at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These mixture of emotions - their cooperations and simultanious presence - is symbolized by the bigger control panel, where 5 people can stand at once.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="82713" LastActivityDate="2015-10-07T21:12:37.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42034" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1926" CreationDate="2015-10-07T21:31:35.330" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to the updated starfield, the 3D version of Titanic was opened up to 16:9 from the original 2.35:1 aspect ratio (at least for the Blu-ray disc; I'm not sure if the same was true for its theatrical release).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, stray strands of hair were removed, presumably to make it easier to separate characters from the background as part of the 3D conversion.  I don't know if there are similar minor tweaks elsewhere in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26529" LastEditorUserId="26347" LastEditDate="2019-08-10T16:35:42.570" LastActivityDate="2019-08-10T16:35:42.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="42039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42013" CreationDate="2015-10-08T01:35:59.803" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was it &quot;The Sphere&quot;? Released in 1998, based on a book by Michael Crichton. They find a space ship on the bottom of the ocean that has been there for at least 300 years. It turns out to be an American ship from the future that was collecting artifacts from around the galaxy. One of the artifacts was a perfect sphere. Basically it was a test from an alien species. If you touch it whatever you think about happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26631" LastEditorUserId="26631" LastEditDate="2015-10-08T02:35:46.593" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T02:35:46.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26429" CreationDate="2015-10-08T01:56:03.660" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well jinx is a game when two people say one word at once and whoever does not say jinx has to be silent or else the other person will punch them until they stop talking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26558" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T01:56:03.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42013" CreationDate="2015-10-08T03:31:55.213" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova_%282000_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Supernova&lt;/a&gt; is a &quot;B&quot; movie produced in 2000 about a rescue space ship that picks up an accident survivor and a mysterious artifact that inflicts much havoc on the crew and ship. It most definitely had &quot;Event Horizons&quot; color palette and a strong &quot;Alien&quot; wannabe feel to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16404" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T03:31:55.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42025" CreationDate="2015-10-08T05:29:42.947" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am assuming the addiction here is in the context of strong drugs like meth, coke etc. and the literal meaning is similar to phrases like regular consumption, heavy consumption and heavily dependent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For image of an addict, may be the character &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubbles_(The_Wire)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bubbles&lt;/a&gt; from The Wire, fits the bill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that is the case, then in my opinion, Jesse is definitely an addict in Season 1 &amp;amp; 2, up to the drug overuse scenario which causes Jane's death. But after returning from the rehab, in season 3, his character definitely changes. From season 3, I don't think he is an addict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is seen having his moments of despair and aggression, where he does seem to be under the influence of some substances, but definitely does not seem like an addict from season 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be noted that lifestyle also plays a big role in the story of addicts.&#xA;In season 1 &amp;amp; 2, he is kind of a loner. He meets Jane, but she herself is an addict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In season 3, he meets Andrea, who is a &lt;strong&gt;recovering&lt;/strong&gt; addict, whom he meets in a group session. I think this is a pivotal point in Jesse's life. Since he is with Andrea till season 5, his lifestyle definitely changes and he is certainly not an addict anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's noteworthy, that from season 3, even Jesse's dressing style changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T05:29:42.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42047" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-08T06:30:39.197" Score="7" ViewCount="1949" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;Gattaca&lt;/strong&gt;, at the end of the movie when Jerome commits suicide, why is there a switch inside the incinerator for him to turn on? In the beginning, when Vincent is finished getting rid of his genetic material he turns it on from the outside, but why is there one on the inside? Did Jerome plan this all along or...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26638" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-10-08T06:32:50.287" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T17:32:24.870" Title="Why is there a switch inside the incinerator?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gattaca|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42048" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42050" CreationDate="2015-10-08T06:41:44.347" Score="6" ViewCount="2634" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;strong&gt;Inside Out&lt;/strong&gt; it was shown that the islands that were made in Riley's head started collapsing. So, exactly &lt;strong&gt;what was happening to Riley's psychology&lt;/strong&gt; when this process of &lt;strong&gt;collapsing&lt;/strong&gt; was happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-08T10:43:22.657" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T15:33:32.957" Title="What did collapsing islands signify in &quot;Inside Out&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inside-out|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42048" CreationDate="2015-10-08T06:54:30.560" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those Islands were &lt;a href=&quot;http://pixar.wikia.com/wiki/Islands_of_Personality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Personality Islands&lt;/a&gt;, which represent parts of her personality:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Family Island&lt;/strong&gt; - represents her love for family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Goofball Island&lt;/strong&gt; -  represents Riley's childhood goofiness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Friendship Island&lt;/strong&gt; -  represents Riley's sense of friendship, especially with her best friend from Minnesota, Meg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hockey Island&lt;/strong&gt; - represents her love for hockey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Honesty Island&lt;/strong&gt; - represents her honesty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the collapsing of an island means her personality is now lacking in those areas. She lost her love for hockey when Hockey island collapsed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as we have seen she loses her personality traits with each collapse, and even the control room was freezing. So without any personality island and freezing of control room, she will be personality-less/emotionless. (A &lt;strong&gt;Lost&lt;/strong&gt; girl with no emotion at all.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="118" LastEditDate="2015-10-27T15:33:32.957" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T15:33:32.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42051" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-08T07:41:00.560" Score="6" ViewCount="216" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Gotham season 2, it was shown that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Barbara Kean's character has been going through a different path. Seems like a Harley Quinn-ish. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was that always intended to be like this from the beginning or was it changed later on, due to the bad reception of her character or not getting access to a few characters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-08T10:46:47.527" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T22:12:27.553" Title="Was Barbara Kean always intended to be like this?" Tags="|character|gotham|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42053" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-08T09:25:17.697" Score="7" ViewCount="1351" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to know, what is the record for the highest number associations/collaborations between an actor/actress and a director. &#xA;Not encompassing porn films for movies or extras for actors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-10-09T04:54:26.517" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T07:25:18.153" Title="Highest number of collabrations between an actor and a director" Tags="|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42053" CreationDate="2015-10-08T11:14:51.410" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The British Carry-On films franchise consists of 31 films, all directed by Gerald Thomas, the actors and their film appearances in the series who beat the John Wayne record are Kenneth Williams (25), Joan Sims (24) and Charles Haughtry (23) .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23614" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-10-09T06:44:37.030" LastActivityDate="2015-10-09T06:44:37.030" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42047" CreationDate="2015-10-08T15:03:37.283" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look closely at the scene: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/5gX0_cwbuA8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;It seems to me that the switch is not inside, but accessible through the grid. Also, when we see him enter the incinerator, there is no switch visible on that side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26649" LastEditorUserId="26649" LastEditDate="2015-10-08T17:32:24.870" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T17:32:24.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42058" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42059" CreationDate="2015-10-08T18:42:04.540" Score="5" ViewCount="2354" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Dark Knight Rises, when Bane is beating up Batman and then punches him repeatedly in the head, we see that Batman's head flattens on the side. Does this imply that Bane has actually crushed Batman's skull?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/PVFi6Pb4Guw?start=195&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-08T18:43:34.113" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T18:52:58.140" Title="Did Bane really crush Batman's skull?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42058" CreationDate="2015-10-08T18:52:58.140" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/Batsuit_%28Nolan_Films%29&quot;&gt;Nolan's Batman&lt;/a&gt; has a &lt;strong&gt;thick graphite cowl&lt;/strong&gt; that acts as a &lt;em&gt;helmet&lt;/em&gt;. It's not skin tight and actually protects his head. What you saw in that scene is Bane breaking that helmet. Bruce does sustain some head injuries, as seen in the clip below, but they seem like bruises and he does recuperate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/hvwTx1UWswQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T18:52:58.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42070" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42083" CreationDate="2015-10-08T23:35:41.580" Score="6" ViewCount="717" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017038/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;All Is Lost&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when Our Man inadvertently sets his lifeboat on fire while trying to get the attention of some light he sees in the distance, he has to jump into the water and after a little while of swimming ultimately sinks down into the sea. But once he sees that the light comes from a little boat approaching his lifeboat, he swims back up and grasps a hand that extends into the water.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But after this last frame the movie actually &lt;em&gt;fades to white&lt;/em&gt;, before having it switch to black and rolling the credits shortly after. Now the movie certainly is not some overly esoteric self-finding trip but rather quite straight to the point, which doesn't really make me doubt that there &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; was a boat and a hand reaching out to him. Yet this makes me wonder about that fade to white even more, because as far as I know fades to white are usually used to signify death. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.screenplaydb.com/film/scripts/allislost.pdf&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; by the way doesn't actually have a fade to white but to black.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has there been any information by the filmmakers if this was &lt;strong&gt;intentionally left ambiguous, playing with the death-meaning of the fade to white&lt;/strong&gt; (or, god beware, even a clear statement that he &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; actually die) or was this just some unrelated stylistic choice without any deeper implications?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-10-09T12:00:24.260" Title="Is there any purpose to the short fade to white?" Tags="|analysis|film-techniques|ending|all-is-lost|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25130" CreationDate="2015-10-08T23:55:44.127" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just watched this episode. When J.D. tells Dr. Cox about the &quot;heart patient&quot; dying, he says &quot;HE went into cardiac arrest.&quot; He never says the patient's name, and like SJuan pointed out, J.D. seems way more upset than you would expect from a random patient dying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, just before J.D. appears, Cox is talking to Ted, with Ben nowhere in sight. When J.D. tells Cox the patient died, Ben is all of a sudden behind Cox's shoulder, without his camera, and J.D. doesn't react to his presence at all, nor does anyone else for the remainder of the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never noticed this, and to me it seems pretty clear that J.D. is actually telling Cox that Ben has died, and Cox has something of a mental break at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26661" LastActivityDate="2015-10-08T23:55:44.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42074" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-09T00:19:23.487" Score="4" ViewCount="364" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Person of Interest, the Machine is &lt;a href=&quot;http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/The_Machine#&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;shown&lt;/a&gt; to be running on a on IFT Sabre Blade 2437 servers which are renamed Dell PowerEdge SC1425 servers.&#xA;At the end of season 3 we can see server farms with Samaritan's servers. Does anyone know which real life models are shown there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9327" LastActivityDate="2015-10-09T00:19:23.487" Title="What servers does Samaritan run on?" Tags="|person-of-interest|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43634" CreationDate="2015-10-09T01:28:05.907" Score="3" ViewCount="5883" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw Disney's 2015 &lt;em&gt;Cinderella&lt;/em&gt;.  Not a cheaply made movie, but the lead actress (naturally a brunette), whose character is supposed to be blonde, did not have her eyebrows dyed like she did her hair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I discussed the question with a beautician who said that dying eyebrows can be a little more tricky than dying hair, but still pretty straightforward.  She said the typical reason people with dark hair don't dye their eyebrows is that they look strange when they grow in with dark roots (in a way that hair doesn't).  But obviously, for film, hair-and-makeup keeps the actors' hair dyed so root color doesn't appear, so they could just as readily keep up with eyebrows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the star, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4066896128/nm4141252?ref_=nmmi_mi_all_evt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lily James&lt;/a&gt;, eyebrows not dyed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/znK5K.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/znK5K.png&quot; alt=&quot;Cinderella undyed eyebrows&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, strangely, here's the brunette actress &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2017943/?ref_=tt_cl_t11&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hayley Atwell&lt;/a&gt; playing the brief part of her mother &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; eyebrows dyed to match her hair:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JGhhN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JGhhN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20456" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T23:51:08.427" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T00:03:28.407" Title="Why didn't Lily James dye her eyebrows to match her hair?" Tags="|make-up|cinderella-2015|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42077" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42107" CreationDate="2015-10-09T01:50:49.510" Score="4" ViewCount="2416" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shouldn't many if not most zombies in &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; have their guts spilling out and the majority of their tissue eaten? Do zombies have a maximum capacity for food - after which they'd rather give the victim a scrape rather than a gorging?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26663" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-09T18:30:14.397" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T11:53:30.873" Title="If most humans tend to be eaten before being turned into zombies, how are most of zombies intact?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42079" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42096" CreationDate="2015-10-09T02:55:08.930" Score="5" ViewCount="428" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spoilers ahead. Please do not read any further if you have not seen the movie and want to watch it.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie Sinister, the deputy inspector so and so calls Ellison after he leaves the county and moves somewhere else.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He says to Ellison that you moved from this house and that was not the right thing to do. And then he lists out all the families and their residential addresses to show that it was all linked. Why does it matter that he moved from this home.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't the ghost or whatever that thing was, have killed him and his family anyway regardless of where they are since it was already onto them??  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also why was the ghost making the kids kill their families?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I mean it could do it on its own.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There isn't much explanation about it in the movie or maybe i missed something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21342" LastEditorUserId="21342" LastEditDate="2015-10-09T05:46:43.300" LastActivityDate="2017-02-08T15:55:06.707" Title="Why did the inspector tell the book writer he should not have moved from the haunted home?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|sinister|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42083" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42070" CreationDate="2015-10-09T06:39:42.943" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was left ambiguous for the audience but the main point is to show his struggle rather then what he achieved. It has been covered very well  in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2013/10/all_is_lost_s_ambiguous_ending_does_robert_redford_s_character_live_or_die.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;slate.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At a Q&amp;amp;A with Chandor and star Robert Redford at the Telluride Film&#xA;  Festival in August, the moderator asked the audience, “How many people&#xA;  think he makes it?” The audience’s show of hands revealed “about a&#xA;  50-50 split.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In an interview with Television Without Pity, Chandor spoke about&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/mwop/2013/10/five-questions-for-all-is-losts-j-c-chandor-and-robert-redford/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;what the fade to white means to&#xA;  him&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;There are 21 frames of white right at the last moment that I put in&#xA;    there and that’s a little unusual because it lights up the theater in&#xA;    a weird way. But in my mind, it was a way of cementing the end of the&#xA;    film and locking it in your mind, so it’s your film. I’m handing it&#xA;    over. Hopefully, you’re learning something about yourself and starting&#xA;    to think about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Robert Redford [...] says that he lives by his favorite T.S. Eliot&#xA;  line, from Four Quartets: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/movies/robert-redford-goes-to-sea-in-all-is-lost.html?pagewanted=all&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;“There is only the trying. The rest is not&#xA;  our business.”&lt;/a&gt; In another part of the interview, he echoes that&#xA;  idea: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/movies/robert-redford-goes-to-sea-in-all-is-lost.html?pagewanted=all&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;“To me, it was always to climb up the hill,”&lt;/a&gt; he says, “Not&#xA;  standing at the top.” Both these quotes bring to mind the first and&#xA;  nearly only lines in the movie, from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-robert-redford-lost20131013-story.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;protagonist’s note&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;I’m sorry. I know that means little at this point, but I am. I tried.&#xA;    I think you would all agree that I tried. To be true, to be strong, to&#xA;    be kind, to love, to be right. But I wasn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as per my view I also see it as a story of struggle for survival. The struggle was the plot not the results. The point was in the protagonist’s note: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;I tried. I think you would all agree that I tried.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-09T12:00:24.260" LastActivityDate="2015-10-09T12:00:24.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42085" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-09T07:34:20.233" Score="3" ViewCount="10314" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just watched &quot;Me and Earl and the Dying Girl&quot; and quite liked it. But I could not understand the meaning of last video, where all through the movie I was damn excited to see what will Greg come up with in the last video. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when they lay on hospital bed watching it, first Greg , Earl, Rachel etc comes on screen, then a pillow opens up, three more pillows form, that red figures all over the screen, and Rachel starts crying and finally goes into coma. I am not sure what the Director wanted to convey by that scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it just a random video or it had any significance in the movie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21728" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-09T12:14:08.963" LastActivityDate="2016-08-21T00:20:12.547" Title="Last video in &quot;Me and Earl and the Dying Girl&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|me-and-earl-and-the-dying-girl|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42088" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42092" CreationDate="2015-10-09T10:16:51.417" Score="5" ViewCount="1035" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; Qui-Gon Jinn mentions a prophecy about a chosen one to bring balance to the force, which he supposes to apply to Anakin Skywalker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But was it really &lt;strong&gt;Anakin Skywalker&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;Luke Skywalker&lt;/strong&gt;? What I feel is that Anakin as &lt;strong&gt;Darth Vader&lt;/strong&gt; disturbed the &lt;strong&gt;force&lt;/strong&gt;, whereas Luke changed him at the end. Therefore I think Luke brought balance to the force. Was &lt;strong&gt;Qui Gon&lt;/strong&gt; mistaken? Or is it implicitly pointing to Luke?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26744" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-09T18:28:23.567" LastActivityDate="2015-10-09T18:28:23.567" Title="Who brought balance to the force?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42090" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-09T11:01:15.550" Score="1" ViewCount="11725" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Origins&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I Origins&lt;/a&gt;. In the end it is shown that there is actually an after life because the pattern of eye of two persons matches. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On quora it is said that the movie is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/How-much-of-the-film-I-Origins-is-based-on-real-facts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;based on true facts&lt;/a&gt;. I don't believe that. I don't think there is any afterlife and the pattern can't actually match and the movie is not based on real facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please tell me is the movie really based on a true story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26673" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-09T12:20:24.787" LastActivityDate="2017-05-29T10:26:46.143" Title="Is the movie I Origins based on a true story?" Tags="|realism|i-origins|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42090" CreationDate="2015-10-09T11:38:17.640" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;It must be true because I read it on the internet&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a sci-fi story, nothing more, nothing less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The arguments for or against any aspect of theology, spiritualism or reincarnation are so far off-topic for this forum I'm not going to go through them even briefly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll make do with just this one quote, in direct reference to the poster's claim&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt; on Quora...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What possesses a man of Stevenson's intelligence to chase after chimeras and produce thousands of pages of detailed reports that amount to a heap of rationalizations? As Michael Shermer succinctly put it: &quot;Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.&quot; Stevenson spent about half his life trying to find support for his beliefs in reincarnation and their relationship to medicine. The beliefs came first. The intelligence was applied to confirming the beliefs. I don't think he is unique in this regard.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Ref: &lt;a href=&quot;http://skepdic.com/stevenson.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://skepdic.com/stevenson.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;[1]  (Quoted from Quora)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;is a true Marvel and I can confirm the plot of the movie is not fictional at all because the topic of Afterlife and Reincarnation is already “scientifically proven” by the books and research of scientists like Dr. Ian Stevenson...&quot;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25773" LastEditorUserId="25773" LastEditDate="2015-10-11T06:49:44.783" LastActivityDate="2015-10-11T06:49:44.783" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42088" CreationDate="2015-10-09T13:45:59.620" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Star Wars canon points to Anakin Skywalker being the one who brings balance to the Force. Please follow this link &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23906/how-was-the-chosen-one-meant-to-bring-balance-to-the-force&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to see expanded discussion on what the prophecy actually means regarding balance to the Force, and whether or not it was even fulfilled. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;George Lucas, in the commentary of A New Hope stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Which brings us up to the films 4, 5, and 6, in which Anakin's offspring redeem him and allow him to fulfill the prophecy where he brings balance to the Force by doing away with the Sith and getting rid of evil in the universe...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This proves that &quot;balance&quot; does not necessarily mean equal number on both sides. The answer in the link also states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...the prophecy probably means that Anakin would bring harmony between the two sides of the Force, which requires the destruction of the Sith whose aim was to destroy the Light side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The user admits during his conclusion that there isn't even total agreement on whether the prophecy was actually fulfilled. &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/22754/how-did-darth-sidious-manage-to-diminish-all-of-the-jedis-ability-to-use-the-fo/22772#22772&quot;&gt;The answer to this question&lt;/a&gt; gives great insight and evidence as to how the Sith unbalanced the Force in the first place, creating the need for it to be balanced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25630" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-10-09T13:45:59.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42093" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-09T14:42:58.457" Score="3" ViewCount="2149" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm watching Battle of the Five Armies, and during the mid movie battle, the Scottish Dwarf army is being turned back by the first Orc army. The Dwarf army numbers hundreds, the Orcs outnumber them 10:1, and the Dwarves are drained. Yet Thorin finally snaps out of his gold psychosis and orders his company into the battle. A mere thirteen extra dwarves and the fight turns. A third of which almost immediately turn and leave to hunt the Orc general. The ones that leave are named as the best fighters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That makes no sense to me. Is there any explanation as to how they actually made a difference in the fight? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-10-09T15:52:38.477" LastActivityDate="2015-10-09T17:16:05.423" Title="How did a mere 13 dwarves turn the tide of the battle?" Tags="|the-hobbit|the-battle-of-the-five-armies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42093" CreationDate="2015-10-09T15:30:40.333" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To make this clear: the following proves that this scene in the movie is obviously over-dramatized to suit an audience that wants to see the main characters have a greater impact on the story. If you're looking for a, &quot;how did Peter Jackson justify this?&quot; I don't think you'll find an answer beyond, &quot;to make more money from a good action scene,&quot; until the extended edition comes out. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tolkiensociety.org/2015/06/battle-of-the-five-armies-extended-edition-release-date-revealed/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; includes a press release by Warner Bros. which states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The nine plus hours of new special features boasts audio commentary with Peter Jackson, the film’s director/producer/screenwriter, and Philippa Boyens, co-producer/screenwriter, as well as The Appendices, a multi-part documentary focusing on various aspects of the film and the Trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per the usual, to fully understand a scene as important at The Battle of the Five Armies, you need to reference the original text that the movie is adapted from. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll find a detailed breakdown of the battle &lt;a href=&quot;http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_the_Five_Armies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. In the book, &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;, the allied Free Folk (500 dwarves, 200 men from Laketown, and over 1000 elves from Mirkwood) are suffering heavy losses before (and all quotes are from the above link):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A great noise was heard: Thorin and his twelve Dwarf companions inside the mountain had thrown down the stone wall they had erected across the mouth of the gates, killing many Goblins. Thorin and Company then charged out to join the battle, covered from head to toe in the finest armour and weapons contained in the treasure hoard of the Lonely Mountain. Thorin advanced through the Goblins ranks all the way up to the gigantic Goblins that formed the Bodyguard of Bolg&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that point, Thorin cannot get past Bolg. In the movie, as you stated, Thorin and some of his companions leave the main battle to go find Bolg and kill him. Furthermore, this did &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; turn the tide of the battle. It wasn't until: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A number of Giant Eagles of the Misty Mountains arrived...With the support of the Giant Eagles, the battle turned back against the Goblins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie Legolas kills Bolg, but in the book it is actually Beorn who: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Drove through the Goblin lines, but paused to carry the wounded Thorin out of the battle. Beorn then returned to the battle with even greater wrath and smashed the ranks of the Bodyguard of Bolg, ultimately killing Bolg himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, the battle was decided, and:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Goblins eventually panicked and scattered, to be picked off by hunting forces from the victors later; many of the Goblin survivors died in the Mirkwood forest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25630" LastEditorUserId="25630" LastEditDate="2015-10-09T17:16:05.423" LastActivityDate="2015-10-09T17:16:05.423" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42079" CreationDate="2015-10-09T16:22:08.587" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the inspector tells Ellison that all the murders are connected, he says that each family that was murdered had lived in the house where the previous murder had taken place.  Whether the realization of that fact caused each family to then move isn't clear, but nonetheless, the pattern showed that they weren't killed until they moved &lt;em&gt;away&lt;/em&gt; from the site of the previous murder.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A thought that occurred to me was that moving could be spreading the evil to new locations, and once it spread, Baghuul no longer needed the carrier family that had spread it, only the new location and a &quot;conveniently&quot; vacant house.  Maybe he could have kept it all in one house (killed everyone who moved in and saw the tapes), but that would be a much easier pattern to identify for whatever Inspector So and So lived in that area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why he made the children do it, the university professor explains that Baghuul eats the souls of children.  He likely picks out the one he wants, but cannot capture it until pesky dads with baseball bats are out of the equation.  Another, more succinct reason for the children committing the murders: it is much more... &lt;em&gt;Sinister.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24267" LastActivityDate="2015-10-09T16:22:08.587" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42079" CreationDate="2015-10-09T18:38:57.127" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As raisinghellyer indicates, for whatever reason, Baghuul only goes after people after they move. It's a common thread in superstition, and thereby horror movies, that the monsters follow rules. Whether he does it because it benefits him (as noted, moving the murders to new locations so they're less likely to get caught) or because he has to (supernatural rules of some sort) is undefined. The first film didn't cover it. In the second film, the protagonist is trying to trace the string of murders and plans to destroy the vacant house before another family can move in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As regards why people wind up moving, Baghuul is progressively driving everyone insane if they stay, so they have motivation to move and then he strikes. Again, it's undefined as to whether he can't kill them where they stand or if it just suits his purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second film does also imply that destroying the house probably would not actually stop the infection, as one of the first known cases involved a radio broadcasting Baghuul's influence from an abandoned house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25920" LastEditorUserId="25920" LastEditDate="2017-02-08T15:55:06.707" LastActivityDate="2017-02-08T15:55:06.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42077" CreationDate="2015-10-09T18:45:23.997" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Walking Dead, zombies do not attack or eat other zombies. In season 1, we see this explicitly... two protagonists manage to escape by covering themselves in so much gore that the zombies do not perceive them to be alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, any victim of a zombie attack quickly falls into two categories: they're killed quickly or they're not killed quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the former, they almost immediately reanimate as a zombie. They're no longer subject to attack by other zombies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the latter, they're most likely still mobile and defensive, and thus able to evade further injuries (short term, anyway). They may crawl off and die later, or maybe even survive (I stopped watching at the end of season two... it's fuzzy for me if they survive bites and such).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this way, almost everyone should eventually become a zombie. Only the most devastating attacks both kill their victims quickly &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; dismember them so completely that they will not become a zombie themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastActivityDate="2015-10-09T18:45:23.997" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34601" CreationDate="2015-10-09T19:18:16.207" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the production manager stated that the Crows were the boys left behind by the Vuvalini. In the way Immortan Joe values men, the Vuvalini valued women over men, and so when things got bad, they took their girls and left The Green Place, leaving the boys to fend for themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26681" LastActivityDate="2015-10-09T19:18:16.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42113" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42142" CreationDate="2015-10-09T21:10:48.327" Score="3" ViewCount="1835" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order to slow down the ship in &lt;em&gt;The Martian&lt;/em&gt; (or bring it closer to the MAV, I don't recall), the crew of the Hermes vent the entire ship – save for the cockpit – in the void. Then they rescue him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then... what? Even assuming they could seal the docking door again (side question: why did they have to blow it up, couldn't they just open it normally?), they don't have any air left. How did they survive the lengthy trip back in an oxygen-less ship? Did they all stay in the cockpit the entire time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26685" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-09T23:05:28.083" LastActivityDate="2015-10-10T22:40:49.927" Title="How did they survive the way back?" Tags="|the-martian|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42114" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-09T21:45:39.227" Score="11" ViewCount="2161" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Chief Bromden, a 6'5, 235 lb patient lifts a heavy fountain off the floor that was probably at least a good 1,000 lbs and throws it out the window. Even though I thought this movie was a good movie, I found the movie's ending to be unrealistic, and the movie would be classified as a realistic fiction drama. Could the Chief actually have done that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26686" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-09T23:04:40.237" LastActivityDate="2015-10-10T08:05:10.363" Title="Could the Chief really have been able to throw the fountain out the window?" Tags="|realism|one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42115" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42785" CreationDate="2015-10-09T22:22:40.833" Score="25" ViewCount="193495" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 2, episode 10 of &lt;em&gt;Rick and Morty&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Wedding Squanchers&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, Rick and the Smith family evaluate an Earth-like planet for habitation, only to discover that everything is &quot;on a cob&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIDvgJWWq70&quot;&gt;Video&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Rick realizes this, he freaks out and they quickly leave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is so terrible about this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24419" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2015-11-09T16:55:15.533" LastActivityDate="2023-05-23T15:20:41.300" Title="What is the problem with a planet where everything is &quot;on a cob&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|rick-and-morty|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15088" CreationDate="2015-10-09T23:29:48.790" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mike is a psychopath who loves killing people. Gus needs Chow so he couldn't kill him; rather he shoots him in the hand. Little did he know the Chinese women who he recruited to drive Chow to the hospital actually cannot drive and they later crash, resulting in her own death. Chow survives (barely) as he makes appearances in later episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26688" LastActivityDate="2015-10-09T23:29:48.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42119" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-10T00:09:51.247" Score="1" ViewCount="1045" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Gone Girl&quot;, it seems as though the are a lot of injuries to Amy's head: the male criminal who steals her money knocks her head against a wall, she conks herself with a hammer, and probably others I've forgotten. They were unsettling and I suspect it's because of the way director David Fincher foreshadowed them or the context he put them in. Is there any significance / symbolism to the repeated head injuries?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2021-09-16T14:02:40.667" Title="In &quot;Gone Girl&quot;, is there a significance to Amy's repeated head injuries?" Tags="|analysis|gone-girl|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42121" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42115" CreationDate="2015-10-10T02:34:02.933" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a play on several tropes, namely &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoTimeToExplain&quot;&gt;No Time To Explain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OhCrap&quot;&gt;Oh Crap!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DontAskJustRun&quot;&gt;Don't Ask, Just Run&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than get into the details of why it's so terrible, Rick, who's the only character present that's safe to assume would know why the planet is so terrible, simply hurries everyone back onto the ship to go to the third and final planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes the scene funnier: knowing the reason everything is corn shaped is so bad, or simply having Rick panic (Oh Crap!) and forcing his family to leave the planet (Don't Ask, Just Run) for seemingly no reason (No Time To Explain)? Do you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want to know why everything being in cob form is bad, or is it more fun to try and come up with your own explanation? Oftentimes the best monsters are the ones we never see and are left to imagine for ourselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not everything needs to be explained&lt;/strong&gt;. Doing so frequently can bog down the story in pointless details, make something that's supposed to be a big deal suddenly not a big deal, or maybe the writers couldn't really think of a good reason why but found a way to use an idea they came up with anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-10-10T02:34:02.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42125" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42114" CreationDate="2015-10-10T08:05:10.363" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/o/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest/character-analysis/chief-bromden&quot;&gt;Chief Bromden&lt;/a&gt; is actually 6' 7&quot; in the movie.  The object that he lifts is a hydro-therapy control &lt;a href=&quot;http://historyofstelizabeths.blogspot.com/2013/06/hydrotherapy-at-st-elizabeths.html&quot;&gt;panel&lt;/a&gt;.  Although the movie does not state the weight of the object, the book describes the control panel as weighing approximately 400 pounds.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The importance of this scene is not just the weight of the control panel, but the events leading up to Chief Bromden discovering his strength and that he actually can lift the panel and throw it out the window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chief Bromden has been belittled for so long that he actually believes that he is physically small and weak.  He has believed this for the majority of his stay at the psychiatric hospital (approximately 10 years)  Bromden lives in a haze that he has created for himself as a kind of security.  Everyone in the hospital believes that he is deaf and dumb when in actuality, he is listening and observing everything that the patients and staff do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Randall McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) begins to build up Bromden's confidence and slowly helps him out of this haze, he realizes the truth behind his illness and why he is unable to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo%27s_Nest_(novel)#Main_characters&quot;&gt;recover&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The control panel was also a source of anger, pain and frustration for all of the patients at the hospital.  It was used as &quot;therapy&quot; which was in essence torture for all of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chief Bromden, realizing that he actually is physically and mentally competent uses all of his repressed anger and frustration to lift the control panel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Competitive body builders can bench press approximately 400 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mangoboss.com/BenchPressAverage&quot;&gt;pounds&lt;/a&gt;.  This is on average depending on several factors such as age, fitness level and weight.  This does not suggest that Chief Bromden was a professional body builder by any means. However, combined with Bromden's physical frame, unrealized strength, rage and adrenaline, it is highly possible that he could lift the control panel and throw it out the window as portrayed in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-10-10T08:05:10.363" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42127" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42129" CreationDate="2015-10-10T09:55:38.433" Score="13" ViewCount="1269" Body="&lt;p&gt;My wife has watched a movie, and she cannot remember the title. I bet with her that I can find that movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Known facts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No famous actors.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Movie was not famous.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Main character was a man, who cheats on his girlfriend, multiple times.&#xA;she found out, so they are so over.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The man is offered to go back in time, to fix his mistakes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He did go back in time, and he finds out that his girlfriend actually does not treat him seriously.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She cheats on him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He dumps her.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On the last scene, she was offered to go back in time, in order to fix her relationship...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was shown in TV in 2003, so its premiere was approximately in '90s.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Language unknown. :(&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Comedy/drama.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you please help me? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26696" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-10T12:49:40.530" LastActivityDate="2016-12-31T02:21:34.550" Title="A movie with a cheating time-traveling man" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:05:35.707" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24587" CreationDate="2015-10-10T10:12:47.333" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think Gus's death would have made any difference to whether the lab was found or not. Remember when Hank sent Steve to investigate and later went with Walt himself to the laundry? It wouldn't have taken him long to conduct an independent search and find the lab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26347" LastActivityDate="2015-10-10T10:12:47.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42127" CreationDate="2015-10-10T11:46:23.677" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138590/combined&quot;&gt;The Man with Rain in His Shoes&lt;/a&gt; from 1998, though it does star some recognizable names like Lena Headey, Penelope Cruz and Mark Strong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unfaithful, out-of-work actor Victor is desperate to win back the affection of his ex-girlfriend Sylvia before she marries another man, Dave Summers, but she is resolutely against this. Unexpectedly, he meets two very strange Spanish dust-men who, by means unknown, turn back time and allow him another chance to correct his mistake. However, fate again plays a hand and Dave and Sylvia meet, this time via Sylvia's best friend Alison, and again fall in love. This time around Sylvia is the unfaithful one and eventually leaves Victor to be with Dave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that in the end, &lt;em&gt;Sylvia&lt;/em&gt; is now the one who turns back time with the help of the same two garbagemen. Also called &lt;em&gt;'If Only...'&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;'Twice Upon a Yesterday'&lt;/em&gt;. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/8e9qL6SlQFw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-10T12:49:37.597" LastActivityDate="2015-10-10T12:49:37.597" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19736" CreationDate="2015-10-10T12:34:29.137" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When he dies in X-Men 3 and transfers his consciousness into his brain-dead twin brother who was mentioned earlier in X-Men 3, he is still in the wheelchair because its has become a part of his mutation. His brain/consciousness requires that he can't use his legs even though his brother's legs are fine - his brain still went through the trauma of paralysis so he won't be able to use his brother's legs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26699" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-10-10T18:12:20.453" LastActivityDate="2015-10-10T18:12:20.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42134" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-07T17:30:08.807" Score="7" ViewCount="26401" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096673/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inside Out&lt;/a&gt; animated film, in a scene where two personifications of emotions (Joy and Sadness) walk into the area of Abstract Thought, they undergo a dangerous process which consists of four phases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Non-objective fragmentation&amp;quot; - the characters transform into crude 3D figures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Deconstruction&amp;quot; - the characters fall apart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unnamed phase, the characters become two-dimensional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Non figurative&amp;quot;, the characters transform into colored lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be up to interpretation what it exactly means in the film, but I'm sure that the terms &amp;quot;non-objective fragmentation&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;non figurative&amp;quot; aren't made up. So, my question is: what do these terms generally mean, and is this four-phase process a simplified representation of some well-known process, model or method in psychology (perhaps some model of abstract thought)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People at &lt;a href=&quot;http://cogsci.stackexchange.com&quot;&gt;Cognitive Sciences Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; told me that these terms do not exactly refer to any well-known psychological concept.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't have a hard proof, but apparently that scene is a reference to the concepts of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;abstract art&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Abstraction - begins in reality. Seeks the essence of an object. May be expressed through simplification, stylization, &lt;strong&gt;fragmentation&lt;/strong&gt;, re-assembly, and/or distortion. Refer to artists such as Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, David Hockney, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Non-objective abstraction&lt;/strong&gt; - Abstraction which does not refer to an object.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.incredibleart.org/files/AP/Louise-abstract.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.incredibleart.org/files/AP/Louise-abstract.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;nonobjective&lt;/strong&gt; - of or designating an art movement in which things are depicted in an abstract or purely formalized way, not as they appear in reality&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nonobjective&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nonobjective&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a film where the concept of abstract thought is discussed in significant detail, Riley's imaginary friend Bing Bong (Richard Kind) leading Sadness and Joy into a room dedicated to its four stages: &lt;strong&gt;non-objective fragmentation&lt;/strong&gt;, deconstruction, two-dimensional and non-figurative. These oblique terms are actually used by the characters to describe what's happening to them as they morph into &lt;strong&gt;Picasso-esque shapes&lt;/strong&gt;, fall apart into component pieces, become flattened and finally turn into rudimentary single-colour abstractions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://exprojectionist.blogspot.ru/2015/08/inside-out.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://exprojectionist.blogspot.ru/2015/08/inside-out.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;nonfigurative&lt;/strong&gt; - not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nonfigurative&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nonfigurative&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26636" OwnerDisplayName="alexanderlukanin13" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T12:40:16.053" Title="Inside Out: what is &quot;non-objective fragmentation&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|reference|inside-out|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42136" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42139" CreationDate="2015-10-10T16:57:19.433" Score="10" ViewCount="28816" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449088/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; there's the following dialogue between Jack and Barbossa:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lYiok.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lYiok.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Barbossa:&lt;/strong&gt; The world used to be a bigger place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jack Sparrow:&lt;/strong&gt; The world's still the same. There's just... less in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do they mean with this conversation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26704" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2021-05-12T13:49:09.267" Title="What's the meaning of this conversation between Jack and Barbossa?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|pirates-of-the-caribbean|at-worlds-end|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42136" CreationDate="2015-10-10T20:33:30.530" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are standing next to Kraken's carcass and facing the growing threat from East India Trading Company. There is also the first part of that conversation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Barbossa:&lt;/strong&gt; Still thinking of running, Jack? Think you can outrun the World?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;You know, the problem with being the last of anything...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;...by and by, there be none left at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jack:&lt;/strong&gt; Summoning the Brethren Court, then, is it?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Barbossa:&lt;/strong&gt; It's our only hope, lad.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Jack:&lt;/strong&gt; That's a sad commentary in and of itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Barbossa's remar (that follows the cited part) can be interpreted as &amp;quot;there will be no place left for you to run to&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jack's response could mean both a disagreement (&amp;quot;the World is the same&amp;quot;) or an agreement (&amp;quot;less stuff [to use to hide] in it&amp;quot;). I think that it's deliberately vague, because Barbossa has a facial expression that - to me - shows he's uncertain of the meaning (and he needs Jack to agree).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-10T20:33:30.530" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42113" CreationDate="2015-10-10T22:40:49.927" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Then... what? Even assuming they could seal the docking door again &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was an airlock door. Airlocks have &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; doors. They opened one and breached the other. The one that was just opened can simply be closed. The airlock will just not be functional afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(side question: why did they have to blow it up, couldn't they just open it normally?), &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because airlocks are constructed to prevent both doors from being opened simultaneously under &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; circumstances. So that the ship isn't vented accidentally. You cannot override the safeguards easily or quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;they don't have any air left. How did they survive the lengthy trip back in an oxygen-less ship? Did they all stay in the cockpit the entire time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once Beck and I got to his quarters, we waited for the ship to repressurize. &lt;em&gt;Hermes&lt;/em&gt; had enough spare air to refill the ship two more times if needed. It'd be a pretty shitty long-range ship if it couldn't recover from a decompression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6233" LastActivityDate="2015-10-10T22:40:49.927" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21237" CreationDate="2015-10-11T08:06:37.990" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you nailed it: the rabbi is answering the question many characters keep asking themselves throughout the show – who is Lorne Malvo, or rather, what is it. According to Jewish demonology, Se'irim ('shaggy ones') are neither 'the Devil' nor just &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; demons – they are feral, predatory demons that live in the wilderness. Since the rabbi's answer fits in very well with the whole predator–prey thread that also runs throughout the show, I think the Cohens are kind of giving away the solution of the whole riddle – except they only tell it to you in Hebrew, so if you are a goyim like myself you will probably miss it, like I did the first time I watched the show. («I'm 12 years old. I run into a Synagogue. I ask the Rabbi about the meaning of life. He tells me about the meaning of life... But, he tells it to me in Hebrew. I don't understand Hebrew. Then he wants to charge me six hundred dollars for Hebrew lessons» – Woody Allen)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26723" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-07-09T06:45:46.353" LastActivityDate="2019-07-09T06:45:46.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="42157" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43495" CreationDate="2015-10-11T10:10:53.920" Score="3" ViewCount="369" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Before the flood&quot; (S09E04), when the damn breaks and security protocol 712 is activated in the Tardis, I'm assuming it returned to the present (year 2119 where Clara is) with Bennett. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did the Doctor return? Did he sleep till the year 2119 in suspension chamber in the space hearse? If not how else did he wake up in it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5466" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T10:34:16.603" Title="How did the Doctor return to the present?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42162" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42164" CreationDate="2015-10-11T13:55:21.420" Score="10" ViewCount="29032" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are shows like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219024/&quot;&gt;Castle&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1196946/&quot;&gt;The Mentalist&lt;/a&gt; and more where the main character acts as a consultant to the detective team. Like in Castle, Richard Castle works as a consultant in NYPD (NewYork Police Department) and in The Mentalist, Patrick Jane for CBI (California Bureau of Investigation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Castle doesn't get paid for his voluntary service, he earns from his books. I'm guessing Patrick gets paid as he does nothing else except consultancy for police.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these posts real? Do American police departments allow services from others like this and give them official recognition? Do they get paid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-11T17:30:00.080" LastActivityDate="2015-10-11T21:05:17.313" Title="Are there real posts as consultants in detective departments like shown in TV shows in America?" Tags="|realism|the-mentalist|castle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42162" CreationDate="2015-10-11T14:18:55.527" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you see on TV is entirely fictionalized. Nothing like what happens in &lt;em&gt;Castle&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Bones&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;The Mentalist&lt;/em&gt; happens in real life. Any remotely competent defense attorney would tear apart a case where an untrained civilian did half of the investigative work, handled evidence, etc. And that's not even counting putting a civilian in the line of fire &lt;em&gt;on purpose&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &quot;police consultant&quot; -- the job title that the civilian half of these shows typically claim -- &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a real position. Police departments have pretty broad leeway to hire civilian experts to assist in investigations. That even includes paying the occasional psychic (for a while, those occasionally popped up in missing-persons cases).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These police consultants are there to offer advice and information on topics that the police aren't familiar with. However, you would &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; see them going out with armed officers apprehending a suspect. Typically, what these consultants do include things like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Examine crime scenes and try to provide information to help the police determine likely suspects.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Provide assistance on technical aspects of a case to help police identify useful evidence&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Testify in court in topics that fall within their area of expertise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, these people are paid for their work; in the case of expert testimony, their fees are a matter of public record (since being paid to testify calls into question their impartiality); other consultants are paid whatever hourly rate they can get the police departments to agree to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To relate this back to TV shows: if you eliminated every instance where she accompanies Booth in the field, Brennan and her team from &lt;em&gt;Bones&lt;/em&gt; are all reasonable approximations of what a civilian forensics lab would do for the police. A lot of scientific and forensic work is done by private labs, because most police departments can't afford to do their own. (The FBI actually has it's own labs, though, for routine stuff like DNA, bloodwork, drug testing, etc.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Mentalist&lt;/em&gt; (or it's far better sibling &lt;em&gt;Psych&lt;/em&gt;) are pushing the boundaries of what a police department would even consider. It wouldn't be unusual for police to hire someone who does what Patrick Jayne &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; does -- criminal profiling -- but they would hire him &lt;em&gt;as a profiler&lt;/em&gt;. (And again, a state-level police force might already have their own.) It's unlikely they'd hire someone who admits that he's a con man, as that wouldn't tend to go over very well in front or a jury.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;very first&lt;/em&gt; episode of &lt;em&gt;Castle&lt;/em&gt; is a bit of a stretch, but not unreasonable to think that police might contact someone they think has relevant information related to a series of crimes, and request their assistance in an advisory role &lt;em&gt;for that specific investigation&lt;/em&gt;. And it would mostly involve the detectives interviewing him a lot, not standing around the crime board theorizing with him. (The idea that a homicide detective would let a writer follow her around for 4 years and conduct interrogations with her is beyond absurd.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As several people in the comments have pointed out, there is a second option here, as seen in shows like &lt;em&gt;Monk&lt;/em&gt;, or the most recent seasons of &lt;em&gt;Castle&lt;/em&gt;: that the &quot;consultant&quot; is a licensed private detective. The rules for PIs vary in the US from county to county, but in general, they're required to obtain a license to operate, and have to follow some (but not all) of the rules that police detectives do. My understanding is that PIs usually work for &lt;em&gt;attorneys&lt;/em&gt; moreso than the police, but that they are sometimes brought it on capital cases where the police department may be understaffed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In theory, their training and certification requirements make them better equipped to handle evidence, interview witnesses, and in some cases even detain suspects. They are often allowed to be armed beyond what local laws allow for private citizens (again, varies from place to place). Having not seen &lt;em&gt;Monk&lt;/em&gt; myself, I don't know how realistic the show's depiction is, but a PI would most likely be hired on a case-by-case basis, rather than as a permanent addition to a homicide team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="26520" LastEditDate="2015-10-11T21:05:17.313" LastActivityDate="2015-10-11T21:05:17.313" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14315" CreationDate="2015-10-11T14:44:39.543" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are asking two different questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is the meta-cognitive processor needed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The processor is needed to connect and convert a virtual consciousness to the mechanics of a real robot. To quote from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Meta-cognitive_processor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;your own link&lt;/a&gt;, the MCP is &lt;em&gt;intended to bring higher brain function to cybernetic life forms&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just like actual persons need virtual reality glasses in order to be able to connect with a virtual reality, the robot needs something to connect with a decision making or controlling consciousness too. But a robot does not have a human brain, so it needs something more advanced than just the glasses, it needs the meta-cognitive processor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why is the MCP required to get Zoe into a Cylon robot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You mean why the MCP from the Vergis Corporation? Because it is more advanced and possibly more capacitive as the one from Graystone Industries. The beginning of the movie shows a Graystone robot not performing very well. It might not be possible to upload Zoe's complete virtual consciousness to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="148" LastEditorUserId="56522" LastEditDate="2019-03-11T13:11:41.107" LastActivityDate="2019-03-11T13:11:41.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="42167" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42168" CreationDate="2015-10-11T15:27:44.840" Score="9" ViewCount="566" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was pirate treasure. Ok, here are the plot points that I can remember or vaguely remember&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The film was made in the 1990's (or maybe very early 2000's), I am not sure though if it was for theater's or just a TV movie (though I did watch it on TV). It was english and made, I think, in the US.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The protagonists I think were teens or very young adults. I'm not sure how many were there, but I remember two of them being a boy (I think he's the main lead) and a girl&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are looking for pirate treasure I think&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At one point, our heroes go to this family. The family consists of a father (who has a beard), a pudgy looking mother and a teen daughter/young adult named Angel. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The father then attacks protagonists (perhaps when they mention their quest to find the treasure). One scene during the fight is when the father or the protagonists fling over dishes over the table and break (causing the mother to shout &quot;MY DISHES !&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The protagonists eventually find the treasure (I think on an island), but the family arrives and takes the treasure from them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One scene has the family sailing away on their boat, in which Angel asks the father if they are going to be rich. I don't remember what they say after that&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The protagonists then go after the familys boat, and first dispose of angel, then the father (I think they dispose of the father after they board the boat). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The mother then arrives with a cutlass/saber sword, growling that they killed her family. The boy fights with the mother, and eventually throws her overboard, into the sea. She temporarily reappears, now with her part of her face deformed and with a distorted voice, shouting at the protagonists to help her, before finally submerging into the water and drowning. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If any of the plot points are familiar with you and match the movie that I'm looking for, please tell. Thank you =) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26705" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2015-10-11T17:03:31.950" LastActivityDate="2016-09-20T08:25:10.483" Title="Looking for this movie involving treasure" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:05:45.137" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42167" CreationDate="2015-10-11T15:52:39.923" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0228968/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Lost Treasure of Sawtooth Island&lt;/a&gt; from 1999 with Ernest Borgnine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Danny Quinn (Seth Bernard) lives with one great dream... he wants to prove his late father was right about a pirate treasure in the depths of Lake Michigan. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Danny sets off on his great quest, taking a ragtag crew which includes Toby Weems (Mike Kelly), a windy old town character, Rufe (Logan Lipton), Danny's oddball buddy, and Smokey Jeanne (Brennan Hesser), a tough Chicago girl. They sail off pursued by treasure hunter Doc Biehler and his weird wife Mother. After a knock-down battle with Doc, who makes off with the treasure map, it's Smokey's toughness and support that wins Danny over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure the villains have a daughter who's called Angel. Here's the scene where Mother is defeated and half of her face is deformed after she falls overboard because she's really a one-eyed banshee(!):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/EQWIv4w7x-Q?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-11T15:52:39.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42170" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42185" CreationDate="2015-10-11T19:44:15.093" Score="4" ViewCount="9239" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last scene of &lt;em&gt;True Detective&lt;/em&gt; episode S02E08, Jordan Semyon and detective Ani Bezzerides have a baby. Where did this baby come from? Jordan wanted a baby, did she adopt a baby? Or is this baby from detective Ray Velcoro and Ani?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25935" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-12T09:42:23.467" LastActivityDate="2016-08-07T17:18:37.450" Title="Baby at the end True Detective season 2" Tags="|plot-explanation|true-detective|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42175" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-11T21:24:32.667" Score="3" ViewCount="360" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Toy Story, Sid Phillips pulls Woody and Buzz out of the claw machine. I am wondering why Sid wouldn't find it suspicious to pull a cowboy out of a machine directed specifically for outer space toys. Any ideas?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26736" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-11T22:45:25.553" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T03:00:05.740" Title="Why wasn't Sid surprised when he pulled a cowboy out of the claw machine?" Tags="|plot-explanation|toy-story|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42175" CreationDate="2015-10-12T00:50:51.920" Score="7" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sid &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; quite pleasantly surprised when he sees Buzz among the spacemen:&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Buzz Lightyear? No way!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And later Woody:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alright! Double prizes!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sid is a kid, and when kids are offered a free toy, they don't usually question it or stop to think about some slight inconsistencies. They'll just be happy to get &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; toy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sid has also been established as a savage boy who only wants toys so he could destroy them. He would care even less about the &lt;em&gt;kind&lt;/em&gt; of toy that comes his way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Claw machines contain &lt;a href=&quot;https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2852/9988615093_62aba90887_b.jpg&quot;&gt;many kinds of toys&lt;/a&gt; and I doubt their maintenance is incredibly rigorous. Some other toys &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; end up in there, either by accident or intentionally.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So given all of the above, what's the point in stopping the plot and having Sid note that this is weird, when it's not that weird to begin with and doesn't seem like something Sid would wonder anyway? That would seem like a rather superfluous moment, to be honest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-12T03:00:05.740" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T03:00:05.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42179" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-12T01:54:25.103" Score="22" ViewCount="25291" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the world's first movie? I am curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26738" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-12T09:09:58.397" LastActivityDate="2019-10-03T00:39:28.833" Title="What is the world's first movie?" Tags="|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42023" CreationDate="2015-10-12T04:42:15.143" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not believe his body appears any different. Any differences are likely due to the clothing he wore. Specifically, in the first movie he tended to wear loose clothing with jackets or trench coats. In the second two movies he wore his new one-piece dress that was much tighter fitting and was buttoned up the front, not hanging open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a picture of him in the Oracle's apartment in the first movie. He is wearing a black sports jacket hanging open loosely. This makes it more difficult to ascertain his body size accurately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zWEpM.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zWEpM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is from the lobby scene. He is wearing a trench coat full of weapons, but we get a good side look at his abdomen. He appears to be fairly athletic, maybe a tiny pudge sticking out. However, that trench coat gives most of his appearance of being less thin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u2L1K.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u2L1K.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a fairly typical front-on shot of him from the second movie. This is after he beats up the agents early on and goes on one of his flying adventures. His clothing is tighter, and closed up in front. The only things flapping around are the tails of his dress or coat or whatever he is wearing. His torso appears to be about the same size as the scenes from the first movie, maybe a tiny bit slimmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZH1dE.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZH1dE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, here is a shot from the monastery in the mountains after he unlocks &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodMode&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;god mode&lt;/a&gt; to stop the bullets and before the Merovingian's goons unleash their Kung Fu attack. This gives more of a side view compared to the previous picture. He is clearly thin and the clothing is somewhat snug but he does not appear to be &quot;unnaturally&quot; thin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7RXaU.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7RXaU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After comparing these screen shots and watching a few scenes briefly, I do not believe that Neo is any thinner. Perhaps Keanu Reeves lost a little weight between filming the first and second two movies (remember 2 and 3 were filmed at the same time). However, I would attribute the difference in appearance strictly to wardrobe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would certainly not categorize his appearance in the second and third movies as being &quot;unnaturally&quot; thin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9311" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T04:42:15.143" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42179" CreationDate="2015-10-12T04:46:59.663" Score="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, in terms of the first motion picture ever - i.e. use of the technology to make a moving picture - the credit may go to one of two people. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.britannica.com/biography/Eadweard-Muybridge&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Eadweard Muybridge&lt;/a&gt; is credited with inventing the methodology of stringing several photos together to create a moving picture (and creating the technology to take rapid sequential photographs to make this method feasible). He is famous for his horse video, which actually helped prove that horses take all four feet off the ground when they gallop:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/IEqccPhsqgA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/2013/08/29/louis-le-prince-created-the-first-ever-moving-pictures/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Louis Le Prince&lt;/a&gt; is credited with the technical title of first proper motion picture footage, beating Muybridge by about a year. (This may - at least partially - be due to some... setbacks for Muybridge, including the fact that he had to stand trial for the murder of his wife's lover.) You can see Le Prince's footage of ocean waves on a French beach on youtube:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/HTdITIMixpE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first narrative film came out in 1902 - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000417/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Trip to the Moon&lt;/em&gt; by magician Georges Mélièrs&lt;/a&gt;, who saw film as a good medium for doing magic tricks. You can see it here in its completely silent format, though most showings would have had a live narrator (and I'd always watched a DVD version that had narration added in): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/BNLZntSdyKE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A year later, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmsite.org/grea.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Edwin S. Porter created &lt;em&gt;The Great Train Robbery&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Films like these are short films by today's standards, but they set precedents for a lot of the techniques that you'll see in more modern films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/zuto7qWrplc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first feature-length film was an Australian piece called &lt;em&gt;The Story of Kelly Gang,&lt;/em&gt; which came out in 1906, &lt;a href=&quot;http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/birth-of-a-nation-not-the-first-feature-film.php&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;though it got largely overshadowed by the epically long (and epically racist) &lt;em&gt;Birth of a Nation,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which came out nine years later and is often mistakenly credited as the first feature film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first feature film to have synchronized sound that included dialogue came out in 1927 - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmsite.org/jazz.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Jazz Singer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - though before that, &lt;a href=&quot;http://classroom.synonym.com/made-first-motion-picture-sound-23452.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the 1926 film, &lt;em&gt;Don Juan,&lt;/em&gt; had a synchronized/prerecorded soundtrack&lt;/a&gt;. At least, these are the films that get the credit - people had been playing with the technology for decades before either film came out, and a few shorter pieces that used sound had come out much earlier. The two-minute film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/C/CyranoDeBergerac1900.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cyrano de Bergerac&lt;/em&gt; (1900)&lt;/a&gt; is considered by many to be the first film to use both synchronized sound and color, though the footage was shot in black and white, and the color was later painted on certain parts of the film strips:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/4SAkKu86VQQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many early films used this, admittedly often inexact, technique of painting the film strips, which could be considered color film. However, the first film footage to have natural color is from 1899. You can read about it and watch some of the footage in Steve Dent's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/13/oldest-color-film-footage-found/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;2012 article for engadget.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The celluloid, shot by inventor Edward Raymond Turner in 1899, was&#xA;  actually in black and white and it was only through a curator's&#xA;  research that its colorful significance was also unearthed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When the footage was first shot, each frame was run consecutively&#xA;  through red, green or blue gels, and the process needed to be reversed&#xA;  during projection to reveal the color. Fortunately, a blueprint by the&#xA;  inventor of how to do just that was also found, allowing the&#xA;  institution's team to replicate the process digitally to produce the&#xA;  final footage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first feature film to be shot in color was an English film from 1914 called &lt;a href=&quot;http://listverse.com/2009/11/24/top-10-firsts-in-feature-films/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The World, the Flesh and the Devil&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Very little is known about this English film, made for £10,000. It&#xA;  uses the Kinemacolor process whereby two color filters are used in&#xA;  taking the negatives and only two in projecting the positives. The&#xA;  camera resembles the ordinary cinematographic camera except that it&#xA;  runs at twice the speed, taking thirty-two images per second instead&#xA;  of sixteen, and it is fitted with a rotating color filter in addition&#xA;  to the ordinary shutter. This filter is an aluminum skeleton wheel.&#xA;  The plot is to do baby swaps and mistaken identities, “with a few&#xA;  gratuitous thrills and spills thrown in for good measure.” It should&#xA;  be noted that this was preceded by a 2+ hour long feature color&#xA;  documentary called “With our King and Queen through India” – that is&#xA;  not included here because it is a documentary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about the first &lt;em&gt;feature&lt;/em&gt; film to have both sound &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; color? That gets just as messy as the other questions. The first film (generally speaking) that used both &lt;em&gt;natural&lt;/em&gt; color and sound is probably the &lt;a href=&quot;http://benbeck.co.uk/firsts/1_Technology/talkies3t.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;lost film of excerpts from &lt;em&gt;La chauve souris&lt;/em&gt; in 1925&lt;/a&gt;. The first &lt;em&gt;feature-length&lt;/em&gt; technicolor film with a soundtrack? Probably &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Viking_(1928_film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Viking&lt;/em&gt; (1928)&lt;/a&gt;. But the first completely technicolor, feature-length talkie (i.e. with actual synched dialogue)? Probably &lt;em&gt;On With the Show!&lt;/em&gt; from 1929. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro4.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;As filmsite.org says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; all-color sound musical production (in two-strip&#xA;  Technicolor) was Warners' and director Alan Crosland's backstage&#xA;  musical &lt;strong&gt;On With the Show! (1929)&lt;/strong&gt;, famous for Ethel Waters singing &quot;Am&#xA;  I Blue?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2019-10-03T00:39:28.833" LastActivityDate="2019-10-03T00:39:28.833" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="42185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42170" CreationDate="2015-10-12T05:39:05.923" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The baby is the son of Bezzerides and Velcoro. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did not watch the show till last episode, but according to wikipedia,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In Venezuela, Bezzerides is revealed to have given birth to Velcoro's&#xA;  second son and is living with Jordan Semyon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Detective_(season_2)&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T05:39:05.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30093" CreationDate="2015-10-12T08:37:04.690" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, at the very end Neil fakes his death.This is to protect his loved ones.The Pink panthers wouldn't be in jail forever and it was obvious they would go after Peter or Mozzie or El at some point in time. His way of protecting them was to make the world believe Neil Caffery was dead. But this choice came with a great price, he could never be with them ever again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26123" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-10-12T14:01:42.667" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T14:01:42.667" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42193" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42195" CreationDate="2015-10-12T09:45:17.690" Score="1" ViewCount="351" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching &quot;Peppa Pig&quot; with my kids a lot, I realised that Mister Bull is visiting  Peppa's playground at time where other parents go to pick up their kids.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the question arises: &lt;strong&gt;Is Mister Bull a father?&lt;/strong&gt; And if so, &lt;strong&gt;who is he the father of?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;There is no small bull amongst the kids...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25772" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T23:34:50.603" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T23:34:50.603" Title="Is Mister Bull actually a father?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|peppa-pig|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42193" CreationDate="2015-10-12T09:50:58.217" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppa_Pig#Other_Characters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki page&lt;/a&gt; on Peppa Pig, mr Bull is listed under &quot;other characters&quot;, not in one of the families of the children and their parents. There is also no &quot;Cow&quot; family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This suggests that no, he doesn't have any kids of his own. (Good thing too, considering how many jobs he holds, he wouldn't have time for any!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26755" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T09:50:58.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36952" CreationDate="2015-10-12T11:20:30.910" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do those scenes fit in with the rest of the plot?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot is that a camera team is asking the people to make a movie about what happend. So the scenes fit in perfectly. Or you could say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375605/plotsummary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;from here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the significance of Herman's cross dressing and the big fish that they dance out of?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is my personal understanding without mathematical proof :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is think Herman want to say, that he killed a lot of people but he was just a one of many. Like a fish in the ocean. Fish hunt in swarms and not alone. Like Herman he killed not alone but with his &lt;code&gt;friends&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26566" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T11:20:30.910" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37345" CreationDate="2015-10-12T12:20:16.037" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reasons of comedy and drama, as described by Word of God in cde's answer, are clearly the most important. Diverse cast of Riley's emotions makes the movie more interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to add three complementary points no one else mentioned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Sexism&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once we assume that all emotions in one's head must have &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;gender&lt;/a&gt; and it must be similar to person's &lt;a href=&quot;http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Assigned_Sex&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;assigned gender&lt;/a&gt;, we start slipping into deep sexist swamp where only &quot;Woman's Tears&quot;, &quot;Man's Rage&quot; and other non-objective abominations dwell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, Inside Out is far from being sexist. While Riley has some stereotypical &quot;girlish&quot; traits, they are affectionately deconstructed all the time. Moreover, Riley is shown as a plucky, independent girl: she plays hockey, talks back to her parents, and her inner life is not limited to Imaginary Boyfriend Machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Family&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that Riley's Sadness looks like a daughter of mom's Sadness, and Riley's Anger is a younger version of dad's Anger, sans the moustache. It can emphasize the fact that Riley has inherited the traits of both of her parents. Her dad taught her how to be fair and assertive, and her mom taught her how to understand other people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Main vs supporting emotions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Riley has all kinds of &quot;men&quot;, &quot;women&quot; and &quot;monsters&quot; in her head, her two most important emotions are Joy and Sadness, who are &quot;female&quot;. They are her avatars in her inner journey; and the three remaining emotions, Fear, Anger and Disgust, serve their role only in &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; situations (eating broccoli, playing hockey, dealing with electric cables). Their attempt to drive Riley for a prolonged period of time was a desperate measure and almost led to a disaster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's arguably easy to imagine &quot;female&quot; Fear and &quot;male&quot; Disgust, or even &quot;female&quot; Anger similar to mom's. But imagine for a second that either Joy or Sadness is &quot;male&quot;. Or even both. That would raise &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; more questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, while diversity is respected and silly gender stereotypes are mocked, Riley is still a vanilla &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;cisgender&lt;/a&gt; girl. She is not exactly an old-style Disney princess, but on the other hand she is not &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294629/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an asexual introvert&lt;/a&gt;, or a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120762/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;crossdresser&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101414/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;into hairy guys&lt;/a&gt;. See? Nothing to worry about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26636" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T12:20:16.037" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42201" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42214" CreationDate="2015-10-12T14:37:03.157" Score="10" ViewCount="2890" Body="&lt;p&gt;This bugged me right the way through Jurassic World.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before Chris Pratt as Owen the velociraptor trainer is introduced, we're primed to expect a tough, world-class expert on animal psychology with this dialogue (adapted from &lt;a href=&quot;http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Jurassic_World_Film_Transcript&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this transcript&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MASRANI: So the paddock is quite safe, then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CLAIRE: &lt;em&gt;(nods)&lt;/em&gt; We have the best structural engineers in the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MASRANI: Yeah, so did Hammond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Claire doesn't respond&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MASRANI: There's an American Navy man here. Part of a research program one of my companies is running. Owen Grady.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;CLAIRE: I know who he is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MASRANI: His animals often try to escape. They're smart. He has to be smarter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I couldn't make sense of is - what does being an &amp;quot;American Navy man&amp;quot; have to do with outsmarting animals and training dinosaurs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the context of the conversation, making the fact he's a &amp;quot;Navy man&amp;quot; the very first piece of information shared feels like an appeal to authority - an implied &amp;quot;of course you should defer to his superior expertise on dinosaur psychology, he's US Navy&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand how being a Navy man establishes his credibility as a dinosaur trainer? Why the Navy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(in contrast, for example, with the original Jurassic Park, where their raptor expert's credibility was established by introducing him as a ranger / game hunter, with many years' experience tracking, monitoring and hunting dangerous wildlife)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest I can find to an answer online is this from &lt;a href=&quot;http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Owen_Grady&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During his time in the Navy he trained dolphins (presumably under the United States Navy Marine Mammal Program)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...which, if true, bridges the gap slightly, but I don't remember any mention of anything like this in the film, and the word &amp;quot;dolphin&amp;quot; doesn't appear in the above linked transcript of the first part of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if the wiki is accurate here, I don't understand how the viewer is expected to make that link from an exposition / character development point of view. Especially in a world where dinosaurs had been around so long as to be passè - would there not be actual specialists whose whole careers had been focused on training dinosaurs, rather than needing to rely on moonlighting navy people who might be ex-dolphin trainers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9718" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-02-08T13:48:01.043" Title="Why would being US Navy prepare someone to be a great velociraptor trainer?" Tags="|character|jurassic-world|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13241" CreationDate="2015-10-12T15:43:31.460" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula. It demonstrates the difficulty in extending exponentials beyond strictly numbers to include things like vectors. Specifically in quantum physics it describes &quot;quantum entanglement&quot; which is (in general) still a largely unsolved problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it appears here this equation seems to be written as to explain the interaction between two opposing electrons (alpha and beta) and the spin angular momentum (J) and wave function (Psi) of a system respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony's basically saying that if you want to explain how two different forces will act on a system when combined then first describe to what degree those forces cancel each other out and then look at the effect of the force left over. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26760" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T15:43:31.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42203" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42207" CreationDate="2015-10-12T15:51:56.947" Score="47" ViewCount="14576" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Terminator 2&lt;/em&gt;, in the scene in the steel mill, the T-1000 machine tortures Sarah Connor to make her call her son John.&#xA;Watching the movie we learn that T-1000 can reproduce human voices of the people that he touches, so why does he torture Sarah and try to force her to call John? Why doesn't he call John directly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6582" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-06T15:11:05.233" LastActivityDate="2016-08-06T15:11:05.233" Title="Why does T-1000 try to force Sarah Connor to call her son?" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-series|terminator-2-judgment-day|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42204" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42203" CreationDate="2015-10-12T15:57:27.520" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;A possible reason is raised in a deleted scene: &lt;strong&gt;The T-1000's mimicking skills are compromised&lt;/strong&gt; after freezing, melting and cohering again. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/faq#.2.1.2&quot;&gt;From the IMDB FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The T-1000's decreasing efficacy is explained in a few scenes cut from the theatrical version of the film but are able to be viewed as part of the director's cut or on most versions of the DVD as a deleted scene. After being frozen in the liquid nitrogen and then shattered, the T-1000 starts to show evidence that it may be malfunctioning. As it is walking, its feet, up to about the knee, involuntarily imitate the diamond plate flooring it walks across and its hand bonds with and imitates a yellow-striped railing. The T-1000 itself seems confused by this but is unable to stop it. Later, when it calls John in Sarah's voice, the glitch occurs again: John glances down, and there's a quick shot of the T-1000 imitating the grating its standing on right before Sarah shoots it the 1st time. In the theatrical version, the only evidence of the glitch is the slight flutter that you see after it crushes Arnold's arm in the gear. This may explain why it moves much more slowly during the final conflict, which allows Sarah to escape while it is dealing with the T-800. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/Terminator2JudgmentDay&quot;&gt;TVTropes&lt;/a&gt; raises a couple of other valid points, like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;T-1000 is unable to replicate emotions that well;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;T-1000 wanted to put Sarah at risk so John would come to her aid, since this happened before.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-12T16:43:27.523" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T16:43:27.523" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42205" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42203" CreationDate="2015-10-12T15:58:39.493" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It can reproduce her voice mechanically, but cannot figure out the proper tone and content to coax her son out of hiding. However, it is apparently intelligent enough to &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; that it can't do this... and instead attempts to force her to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The funny thing is, given what we learn in the movie, I don't believe she has any better idea how to do it than the machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T15:58:39.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42206" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42208" CreationDate="2015-10-12T16:46:47.140" Score="6" ViewCount="3678" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Monsters, Inc., about 7 minutes in, Mike says to Sully &quot;You've been jealous of my good looks since the 4th grade, pal&quot;. Is this a figure of speech or did Mike and Sully know each other in 4th grade? Is the plot of Monsters University a contradiction to this statement?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26663" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T16:57:37.467" Title="Did Mike and Sully meet in 4th grade?" Tags="|monsters-inc|monsters-university|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42203" CreationDate="2015-10-12T16:56:21.423" Score="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;The T-1000 had past experience of trying to imitate Janelle (John's foster parent).  It tried to pretend it was her when John rang to warn them.  But it took the wrong tone with John &amp;amp; he knew something was off.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that attempt &lt;strong&gt;failed,&lt;/strong&gt; and it got to &lt;em&gt;confirm that&lt;/em&gt; when it checked the dog's name.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That, added to the damage it had sustained, probably convinced it that imitating a woman that was &lt;em&gt;even closer&lt;/em&gt; to John would be a failure.  Hence, next strategy, torture compliance out of Sarah (which ended just as poorly, in the short time it had access to her).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2015-10-12T17:30:35.297" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T17:30:35.297" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42206" CreationDate="2015-10-12T16:57:37.467" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is discussed in the video below, in which &lt;em&gt;Monsters University&lt;/em&gt; director Dan Scanlon explains that the line &lt;strong&gt;did&lt;/strong&gt; negate the whole concept of the prequel, so they tried to explain it in a short scene where Mike and Sully meet when they're much younger. However, that scene proved problematic narratively, so they cut it and decided not to explain the goof and just make peace with it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/m2hAe5KcwKo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T16:57:37.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42209" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-12T17:55:25.663" Score="5" ViewCount="586" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who was the man who shot Bill 'The Butcher' in the theater? I suppose he was priest Vallon's friend, but he wasn't shown before. And what was he saying while he was dying? Was he actually praying or saying something to Amsterdam in some other language?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25784" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-12T17:58:37.080" LastActivityDate="2017-02-26T16:19:52.373" Title="Who shot Bill Cutting 'The Butcher' in the theater?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gangs-of-new-york|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42210" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-12T18:17:12.067" Score="10" ViewCount="2444" Body="&lt;p&gt;You know the deal.  You are watching a show.  Something big is about to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Commercial...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then they go back 30 secs to a minute in the show after the commercial.  Some shows are terrible about this and it is almost like you can watch an hour and half the show was repeated.  When did this phenomenon start?  Was there a show or a trend that started it?  Do networks think users really want to view shows in this way?  Do these cuts get included in the box set versions of the shows (so are the &quot;shows&quot; on DVD shorter)?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also logically wouldn't this type of thing have gone in the opposite direction with people skipping commercials?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that a buddy at work has a theory it is because of people skipping.  In that you won't see the &quot;thing&quot; after it has happened.  He thinks this is a buffer of sorts.  However when my wife watches the Bachelor or similar shows I am already in hell and then I have to watch the same stupid scene in previews, before a commercial (coming up), before a commercial (the first real time it plays on show), and then after the commercial.  4 TIMES!!!  Serenity now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18901" LastEditorUserId="18901" LastEditDate="2015-10-14T18:55:43.500" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T18:55:43.500" Title="When did shows start repeating the last few seconds/minutes after commercials?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42203" CreationDate="2015-10-12T18:20:53.583" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The T-1000 only seems to be able to emulate the voices of people that it's heard speaking. Up to that point in the theatrical version of the film, the only contact between Sarah and the T-1000 has been at the barrel of a gun which means that &lt;strong&gt;until Sarah says &quot;F*ck you&quot;, he's not heard her before and therefore can't replicate her voice.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, I think it's reasonable to suspect that John and Sarah will have a pre-arranged code to help him identify whether she's been replicated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may wish to note that in the film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day_(Frakes_novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;official novelisation&lt;/a&gt;, the reason for him attacking her was that he &lt;strong&gt;genuinely thought that she might accede to his demands, offering further confirmation to the theory that he can't replicate her voice yet&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;THUNK! A steel needle slammed through her shoulder, pinning her. The&#xA;  polymorphic killer cocked back its other hand. The index finger&#xA;  extended as a gleaming needle, toward her eye, angling to slash&#xA;  through her frontal lobe and up through her upper medulla. It said in&#xA;  a smooth, chilling voice, “Call to John. Now.” Sarah had survived one&#xA;  metal motherfucker, only to be skewered by another. She was terrified,&#xA;  but more than that, she was mad. She couldn’t stop herself from&#xA;  screaming through her gasps of pain, “Fuck you, asshole!”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Once it successfully concluded its request had been denied, the T-1000&#xA;  went into termination mode and arched back to deliver the killing&#xA;  blow.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of universe, there's actually a deleted scene in the film in which the T-1000 locates various tapes from Sarah. This means that he should have been able to sample her voice before the &quot;&lt;em&gt;Call to John&lt;/em&gt;&quot; scene. Obviously that makes no sense from a continuity point of view which is almost certainly why it was removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/CzuUZdBxcg0?start=64&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T18:01:16.723" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T18:01:16.723" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42203" CreationDate="2015-10-12T19:03:52.080" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;All answers thus far are in-universe, however I think there is another not-insignificant answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene suited the portrayal of the T-1000 as a sadist, despite his nature making him presumably incapable of such a thing. He's been menacing people for the whole of the movie prior to this scene, and capping it off by forcing Sarah to help him endorses his cinema baddie credentials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16794" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T19:03:52.080" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42201" CreationDate="2015-10-12T19:41:15.787" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was explained by an &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/jurassic-world-chris-pratt-interview/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with Pratt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We [Pratt and likely Director Colin T.] came together and decided that the backstory is that he’s a guy who probably trained dolphins for the Navy, and he saw what type of treatment those animals received, which is always not great for the animal. We decided that the likelihood is that, in the years that he’s been working for the park, this isn’t his first set of raptors. Raptors didn’t make it through some of the training. These animals died on his watch. They killed each other on his watch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's word-of-god as to the Navy and Dolphins. And Owen has been at it for a long time, so he's the person whose career is the dinosaur training that you speculate about. Aside from most people involved with these passe dinosaurs tend to die (See Park 1, 2, 3, natch), and observation of genetically spliced/unnatural dinosaurs doesn't translate into training skills.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the general viewing public may not understand the implied reference to the Navy dolphin training, generally speaking, they still have a high regard for military personnel, including Navy. They could have easily inferred Owen to be a Navy Seal, highly trained, disciplined, and skilled. &lt;strong&gt;But the main thing is that the line isn't important in giving Owen screen cred. His saving the kid from his raptors was all the audience needed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="19762" LastEditDate="2017-02-08T13:48:01.043" LastActivityDate="2017-02-08T13:48:01.043" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1482" CreationDate="2015-10-12T19:44:41.733" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It does nothing - I have done this myself for hunting. It's just a tough thing to do without any results.&#xA;If he got himself a cordless drill and drilled the bullet in by 3 or so millimeters, then it's a hugely different story, as then the bullet will expand by approx 3 times the size, which is what's wanted when hunting, so that the game comes down fast and the kill is fast, clean, and humane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26761" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2015-10-13T00:18:29.447" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T00:18:29.447" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42217" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-12T19:59:25.530" Score="3" ViewCount="436" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/em&gt; there were various instances of Kryptonians using silver fluid gizmos as part of their technology. Such gizmos were in the scene of birth, in the scene where Jor El is talking with Lora's image inside of a robot, or when Jor El explained Krypton's history to Clark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Jor El was imaged by an ideal hologram (on Earth). Then why did they use those silver things when they could make such holograms? Is it flaw of the plot? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26377" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T14:51:11.103" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T14:51:11.103" Title="Why did Kryptonians use silver fluid gizmos instead of holograms?" Tags="|man-of-steel|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42218" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42221" CreationDate="2015-10-12T20:12:03.720" Score="3" ViewCount="897" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Superman have a reversed symbol in some episodes of &quot;Superman: The Animated Series&quot;? I'm not confusing him with Bizarro, the reversed symbol was even in episodes which are not related to Bizarro.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26377" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2020-03-15T19:17:50.460" LastActivityDate="2020-03-15T19:17:50.460" Title="Why did Superman have a reversed symbol in some episodes of &quot;Superman: The Animated Series&quot;?" Tags="|dc-animated-universe|superman-the-animated-series|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="42219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42210" CreationDate="2015-10-12T20:51:17.207" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The earliest example I remember was in the original Star Trek series (1966-69). As @cde mentioned in a comment, it was from different angles. I assume it was used to draw the viewer back into the story after the disruptive commercial break.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T20:51:17.207" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42218" CreationDate="2015-10-12T20:57:00.230" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It didn't. As you can see here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T8HA4.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T8HA4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ciR9L.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ciR9L.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;you will notice that these are reversed from the Youtube video you link to. Because the Youtube video you link to was reversed from the original video, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797370?hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;to avoid Youtube's Content ID system&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Videos uploaded to YouTube are scanned against a database of files that have been submitted to us by content owners. Copyright owners get to decide what happens when content in a video on YouTube matches a work they own. When this happens, the video gets a Content ID claim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Videos get uploaded Reversed, Cropped, and Bordered, to avoid being taken down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;There is no way in &lt;strike&gt;Hell&lt;/strike&gt; Apokolips that DC or the WB would have gone to print and aired an episode where Superman's chest insignia was reversed like that.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T20:57:00.230" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42224" CreationDate="2015-10-12T21:04:47.730" Score="13" ViewCount="9098" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has there ever been an episode of The Simpsons that didn't include &lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt; five of the core Simpsons (Marge, Homer, Bart, Lisa and Maggie)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like to think of myself as a quite a bit of a Simpsons nut, but when my wife sprung this question on me, I sat and racked my brain for hours, trying to think of the answer. I even went through the plot synopsis for the first 17 seasons, trying to think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest I could come up with, was a Halloween special, or that Maggie or Lisa weren't in it due to the episode being a Bart / Homer heavy one (and the Spinoff Showcase doesn't count, as Lisa was in the previous skits with Chief Wiggum etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26765" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T21:30:23.183" Title="Episode(s) of The Simpsons without all 5 Simpsons?" Tags="|the-simpsons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42223" CreationDate="2015-10-12T21:21:53.013" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Four_Great_Women_and_a_Manicure&quot;&gt;According to the Simpsons wikia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Four Great Women and a Manicure&quot; is the twentieth episode of Season 20, which aired on May 10, 2009. Valentina Garza wrote the episode, while Raymond S. Persi directed. Jodie Foster guest starred as the voice of Maggie. &lt;strong&gt;It should also be noted that this is the only episode where Bart is not seen, nor mentioned. He was only seen in the couch gag&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same wiki states that Homer has had lines in &lt;strong&gt;every&lt;/strong&gt; episode and Lisa and Marge appeared in every episode though with some line-less ones. Maggie of course, has been missing completely in multiple episodes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bart to the Future&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stealing First Base&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Team Homer&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;American History X-cellent&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lisa's Date with Density&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fraudcast News&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Midsummer's Nice Dream&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-10-12T21:30:23.183" LastActivityDate="2015-10-12T21:30:23.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42226" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-13T00:37:40.663" Score="2" ViewCount="2049" Body="&lt;p&gt;While my question regards piracy in general, the movie &lt;em&gt;Captain Phillips&lt;/em&gt; is what brought it on due to it being a true story. My question is why in hell if you are going to drive a ship full of cargo worth millions, through pirate waters, you wouldn't have weapons? Or personell equipped to handle such matters. Four skinny Somalis? Really?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26767" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-13T10:22:24.193" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T12:45:49.623" Title="Why no weapons aboard ship?" Tags="|captain-phillips|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42226" CreationDate="2015-10-13T00:45:27.360" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason that they didn't have weapons was because at the time the government was refusing to lend weapons to cargo ships because they didn't believe it was appropriate or necessary, even in pirate infested waters. I believe the Captain knew that there was a chance of pirates hijacking his ship also, but he believed that they were slim, or probably 1-3%. And the &quot;skinny pirates&quot; had automatic weapons, even if they're all skinny and boney, they had guns and the crew didn't, so they still held authority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26769" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T00:45:27.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42230" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-13T02:16:35.390" Score="4" ViewCount="1184" Body="&lt;p&gt;How many people has Jim killed in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Dome_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Under the Dome&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;? This is a serious question, as I'm starting to wonder if Jim is a greater threat to humanity than the dome and what's inside it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26772" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-12T04:38:24.310" LastActivityDate="2017-04-12T04:38:24.310" Title="How many people has Jim killed in Under the Dome?" Tags="|character|under-the-dome|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42243" CreationDate="2015-10-13T02:31:37.463" Score="3" ViewCount="4200" Body="&lt;p&gt;There weren't parts one or two, but this title clearly has meaning. Perhaps they were classified, like Leonard parts 1-5?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1331" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T09:27:57.713" Title="What is the significance of the Frasier episode title 'Agents in America part III'?" Tags="|title|frasier|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42232" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-13T03:05:38.450" Score="3" ViewCount="532" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently been watching the 1978 TV miniseries &quot;Edward &amp;amp; Mrs. Simpson.&quot; The vocalist that sings the recurring theme and other songs is listed as &quot;Jenny Wren&quot; but sounds quite a lot like Julie Andrews. You can listen to the theme song on YouTube.  &quot;Jenny Wren&quot; is the name of a character in the Charles Dickens novel &lt;em&gt;Our Mutual Friend&lt;/em&gt;. I can't find listings for &quot;Jenny Wren&quot; in any other productions or recordings.  Did Julie Andrews use a different name when singing in &quot;Edward &amp;amp; Mrs. Simpson&quot; to avoid antagonizing the British Royal Family or for other reasons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26773" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-13T10:21:42.173" LastActivityDate="2023-12-07T16:01:28.900" Title="Vocalist in &quot;Edward &amp; Mrs. Simpson&quot;" Tags="|edward-and-mrs.-simpson|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16863" CreationDate="2015-10-13T07:45:00.123" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think i may be either Bernadette's or Amy's. It could be Bernadette's cuz she's the wife and it seems likely that the group discussed who would get to be the one to tell the truth. It could be Amy's because (in my opinion) it seems like the sweetest and most heartfelt. So maybe the group made sure that what everyone else said wasn't better than the real one to avoid disappointment, is Howard wanted to know the truth. Also, it seems to me that everyone's answer was quite similar to each of their personality. Raj's simple and slightly humorous card, Sheldon's stray from the point, Amy's severely heartfelt revelation she long's for herself, Penny's movie-like plot she may have chosen as she is a movie person, Leonard's true relation to his feelings of his own family and Bernadette's seemed the most apart from her personality unlike the rest and possibly the one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26779" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T07:45:00.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42231" CreationDate="2015-10-13T09:27:57.713" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like a lot of other shows (like the Simpsons, for instance), &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Frasier_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Frasier's episode titles&lt;/a&gt; were sometimes puns or allusions to movies, shows, books and other pop culture references. This episode's title, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/frasier/agents-in-america-part-iii-16998/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;according to TV.com&lt;/a&gt;, is &lt;strong&gt;alluding to Tony Kushner's famous play &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_in_America:_A_Gay_Fantasia_on_National_Themes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Angels in America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which 2 parts premiered separately in 1991 and 1992 (the episode is from 1995):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Episode Title: Agents in America, Part III&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  A reference to the two-part play Angels in America (hence the &quot;Part III&quot; in the title).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth noting that it's possibly 'Part III' as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0014280/filmoseries#tt0106004&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this is the 3rd episode with Frasier's agent Bebe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (follwing &lt;em&gt;Selling Out&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;And the Whimper Is...&lt;/em&gt;). I don't think there's much of a connection between the plot of this episode and &lt;em&gt;Angels in America&lt;/em&gt; (maybe Bebe's machinations could be compared to Roy Cohn's shady dealings, but that's a stretch), so it's probably just a pun and nothing more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T09:27:57.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42203" CreationDate="2015-10-13T12:02:10.640" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always assumed it was because the T-1000 was not yet able to emulate Sarah because it had not yet sampled her &quot;by physical contact&quot;. This is backed up by the fact that, after having made contact with her, it then does emulate her a few scenes later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26789" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T12:02:10.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42247" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42248" CreationDate="2015-10-13T13:04:15.057" Score="12" ViewCount="3379" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently found out that Léa Seydoux, who played female assassin Sabine Moreau in &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol&lt;/em&gt;, will be appearing in the newest James Bond film, &lt;em&gt;Spectre&lt;/em&gt;, as Madeleine Swann.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this the first time that an actor from either of these franchises (Mission: Impossible or James Bond) has appeared in the other? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note that I &lt;strong&gt;am&lt;/strong&gt; including the 1960's and the 1980's &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/em&gt; TV series as part of the Mission: Impossible franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-18T12:35:52.760" LastActivityDate="2017-10-18T12:35:52.760" Title="Is Léa Seydoux the first person to be in both Mission: Impossible and a Bond film?" Tags="|first-appearance|casting|james-bond|mission-impossible|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42248" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42247" CreationDate="2015-10-13T13:16:16.590" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt; German actor &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Wisniewski&quot;&gt;Andreas Wisniewski&lt;/a&gt; starred in both franchises (and in &lt;em&gt;Die Hard&lt;/em&gt;!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He is best known for his portrayal of &lt;a href=&quot;https://supposedlyfunblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/necros-the-living-daylights.png&quot;&gt;Necros&lt;/a&gt; in the 1987 Bond film &lt;em&gt;The Living Daylights&lt;/em&gt; and as &lt;a href=&quot;http://balkiara.joueb.com/images/MissionImpossible.jpg&quot;&gt;Max's henchman&lt;/a&gt; in the 1996 blockbuster &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/em&gt;, and as one of Hans Gruber's (Alan Rickman) henchmen, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsW/18621-5002.gif&quot;&gt;Tony&lt;/a&gt;, in the 1988 blockbuster &lt;em&gt;Die Hard&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Actress &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0037807/&quot;&gt;Michelle Arthur&lt;/a&gt; played minor roles in both &lt;em&gt;GoldenEye&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible 3&lt;/em&gt;. And Swedish actor &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401638/&quot;&gt;Jens Hulten&lt;/a&gt; played minor roles in both &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible 5&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Honorable mentions:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Both &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0323098/&quot;&gt;Bruce Glover&lt;/a&gt; (Crispin Glover's father) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001875/&quot;&gt;Anthony Zerbe&lt;/a&gt; played villains in Bond films and guested on the original &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/em&gt; show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-13T14:28:10.113" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T14:28:10.113" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35931" CreationDate="2015-10-13T14:25:11.433" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The future flash is, well, in the future. The last episode where Thawne (both of them died) was a major game-changer. If Reverse Flash(Eobard Thawne) was never born, then he never traveled back in time to kill Barry's Mother. This have the same effect as Barry rescuing his mother and everything would change(he would have never met Iris and so on). I am assuming that the future Flash would come back to the past to kill his mother or to let that happen because the older flash stopped the younger Flash from rescuing his mother. Sry if it was a little off topic- i think he disappeared because he went back to stop his younger self.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26794" LastEditorUserId="26794" LastEditDate="2015-10-13T16:12:26.897" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T16:12:26.897" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35642" CreationDate="2015-10-13T14:47:41.497" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There must have been a DNA of the old Dr Wells stored or it is possible that Eobard Thawne himself became the new Dr Well because he used a device to change himself into Dr Wells and got his DNA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26794" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T14:47:41.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42252" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-13T16:38:09.217" Score="1" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;San Andreas&lt;/em&gt;, the rescuers decided to fly the helicopter into a narrow aperture and almost clipped one of the blades on a wall. Why didn't they park the helicopter above the crevice and send someone down with a rope?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26663" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-13T20:57:23.077" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T20:57:23.077" Title="In the beginning of San Andreas during the rescue of Natalie, why did they fly the helicopter into the crevice?" Tags="|san-andreas|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42254" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42255" CreationDate="2015-10-13T16:46:18.033" Score="8" ViewCount="32818" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lestat (Tom Cruise) mentioned that he can read minds and told Louis (Brad Pitt) that every vampire has a dark gift and the dark gift is different for all of them. But Louis's dark gift wasn't revealed in the movie. What was his dark gift?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25784" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-13T17:36:16.807" LastActivityDate="2021-11-15T09:57:53.557" Title="What was Louis's dark gift in Interview with The Vampire?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interview-with-the-vampire|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42254" CreationDate="2015-10-13T17:36:22.567" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;He meant that the &lt;em&gt;degree&lt;/em&gt; of that power (and &lt;em&gt;when&lt;/em&gt; it manifests) varies. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110148/faq#.2.1.14&quot;&gt;IMDb FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When someone is given the Dark Gift, it means they have been transformed from human to vampire. &lt;strong&gt;The Dark Gift IS vampirism. In the Ricean universe, all vampires are granted the same abilities: telekinesis, pyrokinesis, telepathy, and mesmerism, along with enhanced senses, strength, and immortality. What was unique to each person was the degree to which a fledgling would manifest each power immediately after being born to darkness.&lt;/strong&gt; For example, when the Dark Gift was bestowed upon Lestat, he quickly developed a high degree of telepathic ability, whereas Louis did not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T17:36:22.567" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42258" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-13T18:09:26.587" Score="2" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Exodus: Gods and Kings&lt;/em&gt;, we see many birds in various scenes.  I want to know if there is any specific cause or intention. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there is no need for giving example. It is obvious. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22499" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2019-02-18T12:12:44.080" LastActivityDate="2019-02-18T12:12:44.080" Title="What is the significance of the birds in several scenes?" Tags="|analysis|exodus-gods-and-kings|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="42259" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-10-13T18:24:03.323" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-10-13T18:24:03.323" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T18:24:03.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42260" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-10-13T18:24:03.323" Score="0" Body="Printed artwork displayed to advertise a movie or TV-show." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-02-20T15:53:51.787" LastActivityDate="2019-02-20T15:53:51.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="42261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42226" CreationDate="2015-10-13T19:28:58.713" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several potential reasons surrounding the real life incident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/world/13shipping.html?_r=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Captain’s Rescue Revives Debate Over Arming Crews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To sum up the article: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Many port authorities around the world prohibit ships with weapons aboard from docking&lt;/strong&gt;. Tanker ships such as this tend to dock several times while in transit, and would be forced to skip docks where ships armed with weapons would be forbidden to dock. Given this, simply not having weapons aboard makes it easier to dock when needed. Laws within several governing bodies would need to be altered, but even then they may not all be equal from port to port as certain countries have different concerns when it comes to firearms than others.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lack of training for pirate attacks.&lt;/strong&gt; Some captains don't want their crew members to carry or handle firearms aboard ships as they don't have combat training to fend off would be attackers, and would likely cause more harm or get themselves killed if they were to attack back.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fear of escalation.&lt;/strong&gt; They arm themselves with semi-automatic weapons, so the pirates start attacking with fully automatic weapons. They upgrade to light machine guns, so the pirates upgrade to heavy machine guns. Should a pirate group want to badly enough, they'll spend whatever they need on the appropriate weapons if they feel the future payoff of captured ship cargo would be more than enough to justify carrying bigger and deadlier weapons.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suggestions to thwart piracy have included better policing of waters along shipping routes, improved tracking and monitoring systems for cargo ships, and improved economic opportunities for perpetrators of piracy to provide both better and safer options for economic stability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="213" LastEditDate="2015-10-14T12:45:49.623" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T12:45:49.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42264" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35642" CreationDate="2015-10-13T20:33:55.527" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It takes a few steps to know this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, we know that Eobard Thawne, the Reverse Flash traveled back in time to kill the 11 year old Barry Allen. During that event, he fought with 2024's Flash, and both of their blood got splattered on the walls of the Allen house. DNA comparison tests were made using the Central City PD DNA database, which only carries the DNA of criminals who are alive.* Joe West asked Cisco to specifically test the samples against Dr. Wells. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting a DNA sample of the present Dr. Wells would be trivial, as all that is needed a single hair, some spit on a water bottle, or even the oil from a fingerprint. Cisco had plenty of access. Incidentally, the scoobies have Barry's DNA on file, as they run extensive tests on him, as well as all the other meta-humans they routinely analyze in order to determine how their powers work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The blood sample shows two DNA patterns, one &quot;wasn't identified&quot;, the other matching an adult Barry (based on protein p16 levels). This was Episode 13 &quot;The Nuclear Man&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few episodes later, in &quot;Tricksters&quot;, we see that Eobard Thawne looks nothing like Wells when he pulled off the mask. But later in the episode we see that he has stalked and followed the real Harrison Wells, and stabs him with a device after the car crash. This device drains Wells and allows Eobard to look like him. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eonline.com/news/641217/the-flash-boss-breaks-down-everything-we-just-learned-about-harrison-wells-and-eobard-thawne&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From an interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;That's future tech. We're calling it genetic camouflage,&quot; executive producer Andrew Kreisberg told E! News and a small group of reporters after screening the episode early. &lt;strong&gt;&quot;He basically stole his body. He rewrote his DNA to match Wells&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is basically how the meta-human &quot;Everyman&quot; works, which is the main antagonist from episode 19, &quot;Who Is Harrison Wells?&quot;. The theme of the episode, DNA based cloning, is giving you the clue to answer the question in-universe. Eobard-Wells has the DNA of the real Wells. Cisco and Joe already doubt Eobard-Wells. Having found a corpse at the scene of a fatal car crash Wells said he was in, they put two and two together, and decided the logical test would be to compare Wells' DNA to the corpse. They use the sample of the Real Wells to confirm the corpse is the Real Harrison Wells. The scoobies are smart enough to know that two people should not have the same DNA, and all evidence points to the current Dr. Wells as being a fraud. They can't prove it 100%, but the evidence is enough for everyone, even Caitlin to question Eobard-Wells' actions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;sub&gt;This is fairly inaccurate, as US police practice tends to be collecting and keeping DNA samples of anyone processed by the police, indefinitely, even if they are acquitted or never charged, alive or dead. Removing the dead would prevent past crimes from being linked, or showing that someone assumed to be dead really isn't. Sometimes they have police DNA on file to exclude them from crime scene samples. &lt;strong&gt;We know the CCPD database doesn't have dead criminals based on The Mist/Kyle Nimbus being removed when he was executed.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="19902" LastEditDate="2016-04-19T13:50:30.213" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T13:50:30.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37132" CreationDate="2015-10-13T21:13:22.517" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The nature of the show has resulted in fractured timelines where any of this could be correct and incorrect at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eobard Thawne was supposed to be born 2151.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At some point in his younger life, he becomes the Arch-Enemy of an older Barry Allen, in Eobard's POV.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In 2024, a younger Eobard and older (2024) Flash fight, disappear in an explosion, during a battle with &lt;em&gt;Starling City's&lt;/em&gt; Green Arrow, The Atom, and Hawkgirl *.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That fight is highly implied to lead Eobard and Adult Flash into 1999/2000, where Eobard attempts to kill 11 year old Barry.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Older Flash Tells Present-day Flash to not save Nora. Older Barry saves 11 year old Barry. Reverse Flash Escapes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eobard is stuck in 1999/2000. He stalks the Real Harrison Wells, kills him by taking his DNA to change his own shape.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;14 Years later, Eobard-Wells causes the Particle Collider to be launched 6 years earlier than &quot;History&quot; says it was (Wells and Tess launched it in 2020 according to Eobard).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's the second point that difficult to pin-point. As mentioned by other's, comic Eobard (Born in 2500s not 2100s) he has different power origins. First he recreates Barry's accident, gains powers, travels back in time only to find Barry's dead and starts to think he's Barry, until the third Flash, Wally West, defeats him, sending back to the future, forgetting the events. Then he finds Barry's suit in a time capsule, using it to gain the Flash's powers, &lt;strong&gt;only for Barry to have traveled into the future to see the time capsule open&lt;/strong&gt;, where they fight. Defeated, Eobard travels back in time to fight Allen again and again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in the comics, &lt;strong&gt;Eobard and Allen fight over and over again due to constant time travel&lt;/strong&gt;. If we extend this to the show, we can take Gideon's comment that Eobard has lost his ability to time travel to mean that it wasn't a &lt;strong&gt;one time thing&lt;/strong&gt;. Eobard and Barry become enemies in the show due to multiple time travel events that have yet to be shown/explained. And with how malleable and inconsistent time travel and time is in the show, most of these events have both happened and not happened. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's a mess.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;sub&gt;The Justice League or similar exists in this timeline, and The Atom is alive. Current events show The Atom Ray Palmer is supposed to have died in 2015, at the end of Arrow Season 3, and the City was renamed to Star City, so this event may have or should no longer be in the real timeline &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-13T21:13:22.517" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42273" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42274" CreationDate="2015-10-14T00:17:35.020" Score="7" ViewCount="3170" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I'm re-watching &lt;em&gt;The Nightmare Before Christmas,&lt;/em&gt; and despite whatever lies and exaggerations he tells the citizens of Halloween Town, Jack seems to genuinely believe that Santa Claws - or &quot;Sandy Claws,&quot; as he mistakenly thinks - has actual claws instead of hands. (He seems to actually be surprised by the lack of claws when he meets Santa in person.) This despite the fact that Jack sees Santa Claws in person - or, at the very least, Santa's clearly claw-less shadow - during his first, accidental visit to Christmas Town:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yuNUG.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yuNUG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this merely continuity error on the part of the animation and/or screenwriting teams? Or had they meant to make Santa's hands look more claw-like in his shadow (slash, was Jack intended to somehow mistake the cane and such in the shadow for being part of Santa's hand/&quot;claw,&quot; despite its lack of actual/practical resemblance to a claw)? Was Jack just really good at lying/putting on a show on that front (i.e. he didn't &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; believe that &quot;Sandy Claws&quot; had claws, but he was putting on a show for the rest of the town)? Is there a different explanation that I haven't thought of?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T13:39:08.993" Title="How does the &quot;Sandy Claws&quot; mixup happen in &quot;Nightmare Before Christmas&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-nightmare-before-christmas|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42273" CreationDate="2015-10-14T01:36:34.483" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jack, a citizen of Halloween Town, grown and raised there, has &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Halloween Colored Glasses&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. His POV in life revolves around Halloween. His thought process is spooky and scary and everything that goes bump in the night. The song in which your screen capture comes from revolves around Jack's &lt;strong&gt;Culture Shock&lt;/strong&gt;, trying to figure out &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;What's This?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in regards to the very non-spooky Christmas Town.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZPblZa10_Pk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You tell someone that has never heard of Christmas, who's mind is set on Halloween, that a magical person called Santa Claus exists, what is the first thought that they will fix on is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Claus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which is a homonym for Claws. &lt;em&gt;&quot;When you're a hammer, everything looks like nails&quot;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the video above, when Jack first sees the Shadow, is at a distance, and the Shadow bounces a little, and the fingers definitely elongate to a claw like shape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NwVpa.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NwVpa.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-10-14T01:42:58.120" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T01:42:58.120" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34151" CreationDate="2015-10-14T01:51:33.813" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The markings highlight the location of the air-to-air refueling receptacle on aircraft that use the &amp;quot;boom and receptacle&amp;quot; system of air refueling.  In this system (used primarily by the Air Force among the US services), the receiving aircraft flies within the reach of the refueling boom, and the tanker aircraft then guides the boom to the receiver to plug in the connection.  The markings typically include some brackets that indicate the general location of the receptacle and help the boom operator to guide the boom onto the receptacle as well as a line that denotes the longitudinal centerline of the receptacle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The markings are typically painted to contrast with the skin color of the aircraft around the receptacle.  White, black, yellow, and red are common colors for the markings.  There are also often lights that illuminate the area around the refueling receptacle.  Some aircraft (such as the C-17) have markings that contain luminous elements.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/St7kq.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/St7kq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;C-17&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a video that explains some of the basics of USAF air refueling:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://airforcelive.dodlive.mil/2015/07/video-how-aerial-refueling-works/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://airforcelive.dodlive.mil/2015/07/video-how-aerial-refueling-works/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In contrast, the US Navy, Marine Corps, and Army aircraft that are capable of in-flight refueling typically use a &amp;quot;probe and drogue&amp;quot; system.  In this system, the tanker aircraft trails a drogue or basket behind it, and the receiving aircraft flies to put their refueling probe into the basket.  Since the receiving aircraft controls most of the process of plugging into the tanker, they do not have the markings associated with the receptacle-style aircraft.  Usually lights on the tanker and a light near the refueling probe on the receiving aircraft facilitate locating the drogue/basket at night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26810" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2022-12-28T17:05:50.993" LastActivityDate="2022-12-28T17:05:50.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="42285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42258" CreationDate="2015-10-14T08:07:44.180" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have provided two examples of different scenes from this movie containing birds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The birds in these scenes represent something completely different.  The intent for adding birds to these scenes was to dramatize a significant story line and provide powerful visual effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scene depicting high priestess reading the entrails of a bird&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene is very early in the movie.  A high priestess cuts open a white bird and reads the entrails.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene is obviously implying the prophetic importance of the entrails of this particular type of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus:_Gods_and_Kings&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bird&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 1300 BC, Moses, a general and member of the royal family, prepares&#xA;  to attack the Hittite army with Prince Ramesses. A High Priestess of&#xA;  Sekhmet (the war goddess) divines a prophecy from animal intestines,&#xA;  which she relates to Ramesses' father, Seti I. He tells the two men of&#xA;  the prophecy, in which one (of Moses and Ramesses) will save the other&#xA;  and become a leader. During the attack on the Hittites, Moses saves&#xA;  Ramesses' life, leaving both men troubled. Later, Moses is sent to the&#xA;  city of Pithom to meet with the Viceroy Hegep, who oversees the Hebrew&#xA;  slaves. Upon his arrival, he encounters the slave Joshua, who is the&#xA;  descendant of Joseph, and Moses is appalled by the horrific conditions&#xA;  of the slaves. Shortly afterwards, Moses meets Nun, who informs him of&#xA;  his true lineage; he is the child of Hebrew parents who was sent by&#xA;  his sister Miriam to be raised by Pharaoh's daughter. Moses is stunned&#xA;  at the revelation and leaves angrily. However, two Hebrews also&#xA;  overhear Nun's story and report their discovery to Hegep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scene depicting the &quot;parting&quot; of The Red Sea&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are 300,000 birds shown in this scene as the water recedes. &#xA;This is simply birds being attracted to the many fish that are left&#xA;exposed in the sand.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An excerpt from an interview with Jessica Norman, VFX &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.artofvfx.com/exodus-gods-and-kings-jessica-norman-vfx-supervisor-mpc/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Supervisor&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Through the scene we added over 300,000 crowd birds that are attracted&#xA;    by the fish that gets exposed with the draining of the sea. The birds&#xA;    helped to add extra frenzy and drama to the scene and worked as an&#xA;    extra atmospheric layer. Typically we would add a lot of dust to most&#xA;    large crowd shots, this time we added birds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One scene displays a bird being utilized for prophetic value while playing a role in a major plot point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One scene depicts a realistic dramatization utilizing visual effects to enhance the viewing experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-14T09:50:59.630" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T09:50:59.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="711" CreationDate="2015-10-14T13:23:27.610" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is meant to mean Cal reminds him of himself. It's not that hard, this line makes you immediately think that Jacob is talking about himself, not his father. He didn't even mention his father until later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26826" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-14T13:36:46.473" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T13:36:46.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42273" CreationDate="2015-10-14T14:39:32.970" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jack is not trying to deceive the Halloweentown citizens. He does want to convince them to join him in his endeavour, as he needs them to help &quot;make Christmas&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His motive is he is tired of Halloween, which he just did the &quot;best yet&quot;, but doesn't want to do anymore. When he sees the doors in the forest, they are something he hasn't seen before. Christmas is new to him, and therefore has his interest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He believes he is helping give Santa Claus a well-deserved rest, and that the children will love his stewardship of Christmas. He does realize he may not entirely understand it, but is willing to do it Santa's way. However, the townspeople just don't get it, so he &quot;gives them what they want.&quot; In this respect, Jack is more open-minded than the townspeople. But still he has his blind spots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is to say, Jack does not intentionally hurt anyone, but inadvertently does. He is actually surprised that Sandy Claws does not have claws, he was not feigning surprise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26587" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T14:39:32.970" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42299" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47648" CreationDate="2015-10-14T15:44:20.517" Score="3" ViewCount="2111" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the first occurrence of pre-show (cinema advertising) in the world? I really want to know and hope I can get the first picture of a commercial shown on the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26830" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2022-11-01T02:05:51.170" LastActivityDate="2022-11-01T02:05:51.170" Title="What is the first occurrence of pre-show (cinema advertising) in the world?" Tags="|first-appearance|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="42304" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42513" CreationDate="2015-10-14T18:05:42.467" Score="3" ViewCount="4158" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Friends, there are frequent references to Monica's cooking. As I think back, most of them seem to be negative. &quot;Monica's cheesecake is dry and peely&quot;,  &quot;At least all my songs don't taste like garlic&quot;, &quot;Push the duck. If they don't eat it, you will, and it's not very good!&quot;,  &quot;Tiny portions of pretentious food&quot;, And the episode with the bad review, the episode where Janice sends the chicken back over and over, And the episode where they are trying to decipher the chocolate chip cookie recipe, she puts down Phoebe for not detecting nutmeg (which there wasn't so Monica was wrong) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if it was supposed to be a running joke that Monica's food was bad, or if these are just offhand comments not too be taken too seriously? Most of these references are in later seasons, so it could have been something the writers had decided to play on. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26834" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-14T18:12:40.910" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T03:41:32.070" Title="Was Monica Gellar a bad cook?" Tags="|character|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42305" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42318" CreationDate="2015-10-14T18:14:24.630" Score="4" ViewCount="2621" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first episode, &quot;Winter is Coming&quot;, of Game of Thrones, after the wedding of Daenerys and Khal Drogo there's the following dialogue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Khal Drogo (Seeing Daenerys' tears): No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Daenerys: Do you know the common tongue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Khal Drogo: No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Daenerys: Is &quot;no&quot; the only word that you know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Khal Drogo: No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of this conversation? What does it convey? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: NO SPOILERS please - I have just watched the 1st episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26792" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-14T18:18:47.403" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T03:37:09.260" Title="What is the meaning of this conversation between Daenerys and Khal Drogo?" Tags="|dialogue|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42306" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-14T18:23:35.987" Score="4" ViewCount="3406" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; season 5 Jack and his crew came to Walt's help even though Walt said that it was off. Did they realise that the coordinates pointed to money? If not, why did they come? I think this is a high probability because after the shootout, Jack says something like: &quot;We have realised that it was a different way to give an address.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question may also be expanded as: &quot;Why did Jack's crew shoot Hank and Gomez?&quot; If they indeed came for the money, then the answer of this question is obvious as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20688" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-14T18:26:01.923" LastActivityDate="2023-08-11T17:39:17.350" Title="Did Jack and his crew come because they realised that the coordinates Walt gave probably pointed to money?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42305" CreationDate="2015-10-14T18:36:27.303" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I think it's more or less just trying to highlight that Daenarys was pushed into a completely different world, married to man she can't even have a conversation with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26834" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T18:36:27.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42310" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49430" CreationDate="2015-10-14T19:18:12.930" Score="13" ViewCount="514" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the early 90's, at the San Francisco International Film Festival, I saw a short film that used the &quot;bullet time&quot; technique. This was way before The Matrix, which is often credited with &quot;inventing&quot; bullet time. I recall the short film being named &quot;Wall&quot;, but I can't find anything about it online so it may have a different name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film consisted of a long shot of the front of a wide industrial building in sunshine.  Techno music with a hard loud beat starts, and the camera &quot;bullet times&quot; around to one end of the building, looking down the front face of the building, and then &quot;bullet times&quot; around through an arc to the other end of the building, always with the center of the building in the middle of the frame. It &quot;bullet timed&quot; to the beat, very quickly. It looked like the building was dancing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the camera returned to its long shot of the whole front face of the building and &quot;bullet timed&quot; up to the front doors, tilting up a little bit as it did, and &quot;bullet timed&quot; back out to the wide shot, still in time with the fast beat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After doing both those &quot;beats&quot; for a while, the film abstracted the image more by showing a person's hand, against a white background, holding a series of photos. Each photo (one frame of film each) was a picture of the industrial building, from those same camera locations as the previous 2 &quot;dancing building&quot; shots, so it looked like the building was still dancing but within these jumpy handheld photos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know the correct name of that movie, or the year it came out, or have any links to it? It was pretty cool (and I'd like to be able to reference it in conversations about The Matrix).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T13:44:41.823" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T18:54:15.467" Title="Early 90's short film made up entirely of &quot;bullet time&quot; camera work" Tags="|identify-this-movie|short-films|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:06:19.653" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42311" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42316" CreationDate="2015-10-14T19:25:30.860" Score="6" ViewCount="967" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;em&gt;The Martian&lt;/em&gt; wastes no time in getting the lead character stranded on Mars, and my question has to do with the events and details of the opening scene and how they relate to the MAV provided for the Ares IV mission, which Watney uses at the end of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To recap, the scene starts off with Martinez driving out to the MAV site for the Ares III mission to make sure it's not leaning too far for proper use. When the storm hits the force of the wind and particles blowing around cause the MAV's structure to lean, which causes Martinez to note that if the MAV leans further than 12.5 degrees from upright the entire structure will fall over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this, &lt;strong&gt;why did NASA send the Ares IV MAV, or for that matter any MAV, so far ahead of missions?&lt;/strong&gt; Was this one storm meant to be seen as a freak incident? They note that NASA has prepared their equipment and facility to withstand certain storm forces, and that this one is beyond those design parameters, so if it's possible for storms to get this bad on Mars why risk sending the MAVs so far ahead and risk it toppling over due to a storm on the planet long before the arrival of any crew members?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know they explained that some items were sent ahead to reduce the payload the Hermes has to carry each trip, but the risk of losing vital equipment to storm activity on Mars by sending it that far in advance just baffles me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-17T00:27:58.250" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T01:50:57.377" Title="Why were the MAVs sent so far in advance of missions?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-martian|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42315" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42329" CreationDate="2015-10-14T21:34:31.963" Score="8" ViewCount="5146" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was re-watching The Sopranos. In Season 1 Episode 5, With Carmela, the priest says that he has a communion kit because he went to see a (presumably dying) patient in the hospital (to give communion). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UMJmP.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UMJmP.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the wine bottle is full. Is this a goof or was it intentional and means that the priest lied? (Or maybe something else?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13636" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-14T21:37:19.043" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T08:34:44.413" Title="Why does the priest have a full bottle of wine in The Sopranos S01E05?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|the-sopranos|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42311" CreationDate="2015-10-14T21:38:49.380" Score="8" Body="&lt;h3&gt;Why did they send the MAV to Mars so early?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The core answer is: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/105068/53771&quot;&gt;The MAV needs time to make fuel.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The MAV is pretty cool. Turns out, through a neat set of chemical reactions with the Martian atmosphere, for every kilogram of hydrogen you bring to Mars, you can make thirteen kilograms of fuel. It's a slow process, though. It takes twenty-four months to fill the tanks. That's why they sent it long before we got there. Ch. 1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NASA doesn't want to spend the fuel to send fuel to Mars when the fuel can just be made on Mars. There is a quote in the book/movie that supports this idea when they say &lt;strong&gt;something along the lines of&lt;/strong&gt;: &amp;quot;NASA isn't in the habit of sending things into space when the don't have to.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Wasn't this tremendously risky because a storm could blow the MAV over?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per the responses to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/104947/53771&quot;&gt;another question&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/104953/53771&quot;&gt;Yes this was a freak storm.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both the book and the movie specify that the MAV can resist winds of up to 150 kph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The maximum wind speeds recorded by the Viking Landers in the 1970's were about 30 meters per second (60 miles an hour) with an average of 10 m/s (20 mph). Just as on Earth, at certain latitudes, the winds tend to blow in certain directions. - &lt;a href=&quot;http://quest.nasa.gov/aero/planetary/mars.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;NASA Mars facts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To outright steal a second quote from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/104953/53771&quot;&gt;another answer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;60 miles per hour is about 96 kilometers per hour. So the winds would have to exceed their maximum recorded values (for where ever Viking landed) by 50% in order to reach the maximum tolerance of tilting, but NASA doesn't expect those wind speeds. It was bad luck that the Ares III mission experienced what might be called a &amp;quot;storm of the century&amp;quot; given its severity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But wait could this really happen since the air pressure is 1/20&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; Earth norm?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/104947/what-stopped-the-ares-iv-mav-from-toppling#comment244812_104953&quot;&gt;In a comment&lt;/a&gt; a user (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/41808/davids&quot;&gt;DavidS&lt;/a&gt;) remarked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The author has gone on record stating that the initial storm would not have been powerful to cause the problems it did in the book, but made a rare concession to drama in order to get Watney stranded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;As you can probably tell essentially all of my answer is copy/pasted from the other site since we can't duplicate across sites. I marked this as a community wiki so I can't profit from the quoted material. Furthermore the quoted material should be easy to spot.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please read the answers to these two questions for more information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/105056&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/105056&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/104947&quot;&gt;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/104947&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T01:50:57.377" CommentCount="2" CommunityOwnedDate="2015-10-14T21:38:49.380" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42317" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45413" CreationDate="2015-10-14T22:58:36.923" Score="2" ViewCount="22709" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Note: this whole question is a spoiler.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ending of the subject film is ambiguous, hence this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of &quot;Escobar: Paradise Lost&quot;, Maria sees that Nick's wound is fatal, or near fatal.  She runs to the gate of the Canadian embassy screaming for help, you hear (but cannot see) a vehicle approaching her.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we meant to assume that Maria is on Escobar's hit list and gets murdered at that point? What was the point of killing her?  Also, the hit squad presumably knew that Nick was in the church because they were parked outside. Were they respecting his right of sanctuary? Or are we meant to assume that Nick died by bleeding out?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-14T23:09:11.417" LastActivityDate="2018-09-03T11:49:23.073" Title="&quot;Escobar: Paradise Lost&quot;: who died?" Tags="|plot-explanation|escobar-paradise-lost|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42305" CreationDate="2015-10-14T23:07:43.360" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It highlights the predicament the Dany has found herself in. All her life she has been a political pawn in her brother's ambitions and plans, and her arranged marriage to Drogo is only the latest. Khal Drogo is an imposing man who comes from a culture that seems barbarian to Dany, yet the man is now her husband whether she likes it or not. Dany had always dealt with these matter passively, blindly accepting her fate in fear of her brother's wrath. So she tries to make the best of it and to try to at least get to know her new husband in an effort to humanize him. Her attempts fail (for now) as she finds that they have very little in common, not even language. Khal Drogo becomes even more alien in her eyes, which serves to remind Dany of how deeply she has sunk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-10-14T23:07:43.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42319" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-14T23:19:05.503" Score="2" ViewCount="602" Body="&lt;p&gt;All through the existing 39 episodes of 'Orange is the New Black' you can hear the public address system make announcements. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are diegetic effects used to create the ambience of a prison, a type of background noise that you would filter out after a while.  We saw this used in MASH, but in that series the announcements were comedic. The announcements are dead pan serious, randomly spaced, and their content does not inform the viewer or advance the plot.  Or do they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do the public address announcements have any meaning or relevant connection to the narrative?  Do they 'sneak one in' every so often so as to tease the alert viewer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Adding...&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Per commentary asking for samples...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;season 3, episode 1 at 14:39, 16:50, 17:14 etc&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;season 3, episode 2 at 2:56, 9:55, 13:06, etc etc...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also from the OITNB Wiki...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Man on PA: Available guards...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Man on PA: Inmate Robinson to the visitor area.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Woman on PA: Guard Thompson to the tower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Man on PA: Inmates, an updates facility rules with inmate discipline list is posted in the day room/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Woman on PA: Armored gates, open number one and two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Man on PA: Inmate Gonzalez report to the supply room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://orange-is-the-new-black.wikia.com/wiki/I_Wasn%27t_Ready_Transcript&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://orange-is-the-new-black.wikia.com/wiki/I_Wasn%27t_Ready_Transcript&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cut to the cafeteria, where the daily announcement of &quot;don't forget ladies your usual meals is 1,500 calories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://orange-is-the-new-black.wikia.com/wiki/Fear,_and_Other_Smells&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://orange-is-the-new-black.wikia.com/wiki/Fear,_and_Other_Smells&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Relevant Reddit thread &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/orangeisthenewblack/comments/1is9u7/catalogue_of_the_announcements_over_the_pa/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Twitter reference &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/oitnb/status/477585484634271744&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Adding...&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comments have asked for samples. These are screen caps of some of the PA announcements in episode 2...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1JYJz.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1JYJz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nDpF2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nDpF2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZLH2g.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZLH2g.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nkcCw.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nkcCw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/izPjK.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/izPjK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="9866" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T01:59:27.900" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T01:59:27.900" Title="Public address announcements in OITNB" Tags="|sound-effects|orange-is-the-new-black|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42305" CreationDate="2015-10-15T03:37:09.260" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't we take it literally, it just means that Khal Drogo does not know Common tongue well enough to have a conversation. If you manage to watch rest of the season 1, you will realize that Daenerys had to learn Dothraki language and integrate herself into Dothraki culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20356" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T03:37:09.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42325" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-15T05:33:06.077" Score="2" ViewCount="353" Body="&lt;p&gt;So Seinfeld, The Cosby Show, Who's the Boss, Everybody Loves Raymond, Growing Pains, Roseanne... they are all built off the living room set where you watch the actors watching TV in the living room and we only see the set from one side.  Has there every been a multi-cam live action comedy that we see the whole house?  (yes I know that these are shot in a studio on a set - I am asking either has one been shot in a real house or a set so elaborate that you see everything)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18901" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-15T12:28:57.570" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T21:14:16.500" Title="Was there ever a TV comedy that showed you the other side of the TV?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42338" CreationDate="2015-10-15T06:33:07.740" Score="2" ViewCount="3376" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched the movie 'Spy' released in 2015 and at one point of movie where Susan (Melissa McCarthy) was in Rome to track and report Rayna (played by Rose Byrne) mission and she saves Rayna from a &lt;strong&gt;guy&lt;/strong&gt; who had put something in Rayna's drink at the Casino to dissolve her throat, which she finds out beforehand. She has that guy killed outside the casino. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This anonymous guy claims to be a businessman from outside Rome but the movie doesn't tell which side he's on. He was neither from CIA nor De Luka's organization (the main intermediary who connects Rayna to terrorist organization for the nuclear bomb deals) because they would both need Rayna alive so they could locate the nuclear bomb the information to which only Rayna knows. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the motivation of this killer? Who was he?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23466" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-10-15T15:49:47.023" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T15:49:47.023" Title="Who was that guy in the movie 'Spy' 2015?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|spy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42329" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42315" CreationDate="2015-10-15T08:34:44.413" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I doubt that Father Phil drove around with a communion kit to a clothing drive and then to Carmella on the off-chance that they have Communion for some reason and a sip of wine will get her in the mood. They drink wine anyway before that scene and do so casually, since Father Phil feels at home there and usually passive-aggressively helps himself to their amenities. He doesn't need to trick her like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I think he was telling the truth, and the options as I see them are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is a goof and the writers\production simply didn't think this through;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The patient Father Phil was visiting either died or got better before he got there, so his services weren't needed after all;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Father Phil refilled the decanter somehow. Maybe he has some extra sacramental wine in his car for emergencies. This is conjecture, though.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T08:34:44.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42331" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35864" CreationDate="2015-10-15T10:21:01.993" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Feelings are not always for lovers. Sometimes they are for your family and friends too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eobard Thawne was not as selfish as we suspect but on the other hand he have affection for many people. Like he stood against Eiling for Grodd. He told Cisco that he always thought of him like his son. He left a video proof for Allen etc. etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arrow/Flash have never been shy in showing LGBT theme, so why would they do this with Thawne?. I think it was just affection for Hartley too which you have mistaken for love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as proved time by time Thawne has always put his mission above any affection or people. Same he does with Hartley. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="19902" LastEditDate="2016-01-27T10:18:30.643" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T10:18:30.643" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42325" CreationDate="2015-10-15T12:18:11.107" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the BBC comedy '&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=2&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0CCYQFjABahUKEwjzo-G8uMTIAhUDOj4KHRJ8DhY&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Royle_Family&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNETJU23WeanT1N-dhxxmM33WEfZuw&amp;amp;sig2=oS-IB3piVmyBliD32ytlIA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Royle Family&lt;/a&gt;' you not only get to see the people watching the TV but, on occasion it flips to a view when you can see the TV and what's on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6811" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T12:18:11.107" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42327" CreationDate="2015-10-15T14:47:06.307" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2046855/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;guy&lt;/a&gt; (or as I like to think of him, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jared from Silicon Valley&lt;/a&gt; was just a random assassin.  Basically his character was just a way to show that Rayna in over-her-head, despite her arrogance.  She made a lot of enemies, so there were lots of parties interested in seeing her dead.  She was smart enough to surround herself with body-guards, but apparently wasn't all that experienced at picking talent.  Combine that with her tendency to kill underlings who fail her, and eventually her security team was staffed entirely by CIA agents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, Jared's assassination attempt was a device that forced Susan to have to save the life of a woman who she would have rather seen killed, allowing the plot to go in an even zanier trajectory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19348" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T14:47:06.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42339" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-15T15:05:51.487" Score="7" ViewCount="2181" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently finished &lt;em&gt;Mad Men&lt;/em&gt; and I wanted to know if Bert actually knew about Don's past because he has always been extra affectionate towards him, something he even rarely shows to Roger during the series and even when Peter reveals Don's identity as Dick he simply says, &quot;Who cares?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, does Bert know about Don's past or at least more than most of the characters on the show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26858" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-10-15T15:20:35.540" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T03:28:44.603" Title="Don Draper's Past With Bert Cooper" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|mad-men|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42341" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42342" CreationDate="2015-10-15T15:14:33.487" Score="5" ViewCount="3191" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3107288/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Flash&lt;/a&gt; S01 Cisco (Paco Ramone in comics) basically acted as genius engineer who can build many cool things to help The Flash. Later, near the end of the season, we saw that he might have gotten a super power. As he remembered the incident of getting killed by Harrison Wells in a different timeline and tells Wells about it, Wells mentioned that blast from the particle accelerator may have changed him too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XclEP.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XclEP.png&quot; alt=&quot;Cisco&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of the S02 it has become pretty clear. It looks like he can see things that already happened. He said to Dr. Martin Stein:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cisco: Something happening to me. Starting to perceive horrible things. Started when Wells killed me in the other timeline. It came back... Then again when Sand Demon showed up. I get a vibe. And then a vision of something that already happened. And then it's gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the vibe is explained &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_(comics)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. He can create shock waves &amp;amp; smash things with it. He has the power to shake the earth apart, undetectable by security cameras etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vibe's sonic powers enabled him to create shock waves of considerable strength. His power could shatter concrete or steel. His agility was above average (and he was a superb breakdancer). Under Batman's tutelage, Vibe became a more skilled combatant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vibe's reintroduction in 2013 has sought to establish him as a more powerful character. Part of this was redefining his powers as having to do with interdimensional physics. Justice League of America establishes that Vibe's sonic waves have the power to disrupt the Speed Force, making him one of the few characters in the DC Universe who poses a serious threat to the Flash. For this reason, he is recruited into the JLA by Steve Trevor, which exists to guard against the threat of the main Justice League going rogue. In Justice League of America's Vibe #3, Amanda Waller says &amp;quot;Cisco Ramon might be one of the most powerful super-humans on the planet. He wields vibrational powers that could in theory shake the Earth apart. And he's the only person we know of who can find and track interdimensional breaches.&amp;quot; He is also undetectable by security cameras.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the TV show is showing that he has the ability to see the past by touching things. He touched the sand and had a vision of the Sand Demon. This power wasn't in the wiki page.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is this power newly introduced in the TV show? Or is there a mention of it in the comics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How does it get triggered? Does he have control over it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cisco touched the sand twice and saw the past of two different times. One before collection of that sand/extraction of that sand from Sand Demon. And another is more recent when sand was already in lab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So does it mean he can touch any person's stuff and view an event of him?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(A small bonus question: Do you know from the comics if he is good or evil? It'll be disappointing to see him as a bad guy.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T11:00:27.333" Title="Explain the abilities/powers of this &quot;The Flash&quot; character" Tags="|character|the-flash|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42341" CreationDate="2015-10-15T18:27:57.070" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cisco Ramon is portrayed completely different from his original comic counterpart. His New 52 counterpart had the added ability to &quot;detect interdimensional breeches&quot;, like Boom Tubes, or very much like the 52 breeches seen in Season 2, but Cisco in the show does not yet have that specific variation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cisco in the shows powers are just being explained, and you know as much as anyone if you keep up with new episodes.&lt;/strong&gt; At this time, his powers are limited to a slight temporal clairvoyance. He can tell when something is &lt;em&gt;wrong or doesn't belong&lt;/em&gt; in this timeline/dimension, but as he says, &quot;it's a vibe&quot;, a fleeting sensation. He does not have control yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing earthquake or sound vibration yet. They did lampshade that power when Cisco looked at The Pipers gloves earlier on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind, the show cuts threads for time. Like Firestar, he has the power to manipulate objects at an atomic level. It was filmed, but then cut, from &quot;&lt;em&gt;Rogue Air&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. It may make it to the spin off. So Cisco other powers may never make it on the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of the Earth-2 episodes, we know that Earth-2 Cisco, the villainous Reverb, has much greater control on his powers, including vibrational attacks. Reverb and everyone else mock Cisco/Vibe for not being aware of what he can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: As of Season 2's ending and Season 3 (and Legends), Cisco's Vibe powers have been expanded. He can create portals at will, helped Barry breach out of the Speed Force, and use sonic blasts, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;just like his Earth-2 Counterpart and main comic depiction.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2017-01-23T21:00:23.560" LastActivityDate="2017-01-23T21:00:23.560" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42325" CreationDate="2015-10-15T18:37:13.690" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any show filmed in front of a studio audience is on a stage. So it's like a play. There is only one easily shot 'side' since the set only has 3 walls (the '4th wall' being the side the audience sees). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You likely would never see the full 'back side' of any object on the set due to this, as that would end up showing the audience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A rare exception to this would be any show that is filmed in front of a live studio audience that 'breaks the 4th wall' and actually included the audience as part of the show. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Garry_Shandling%27s_Show&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;It's The Gary Shandling Show&lt;/a&gt; is one that comes to mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shows that use a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-camera_setup&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;single camera shooting&lt;/a&gt; are much more likely to have the camera coming from all angles, as they take the time to set up each shot, and there's no '4th wall' to deal with (as there is no audience but rather a full enclosed set or on location).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There still may be a &lt;em&gt;practical&lt;/em&gt; 4th wall in that you simply may have a lot of crew and equipment set up behind the camera and moving them could be a chore--potentially limiting the number of angles a scene will get re-shot at. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Has there every been a multi-cam live action comedy that we see the whole house? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know, but my guess is no, because that's not how multi-cam action comedies are shot. If you're shooting on location, then you'd typically be using the single-camera model. Multi-camera shooting makes senses when you have a fixed stage. Single-camera shooting makes sense when you are shooting on location. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus there's the practical issue that shows shot in front of a live audience &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to have at least one wall open for the audience to see. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="756" LastEditDate="2015-10-15T21:14:16.500" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T21:14:16.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18040" CreationDate="2015-10-15T21:13:29.000" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some genres have that rule. Action movies are notorious for this. I personally HATE it when you have somer natural disaster in a movie, and somehow an annoying, pesky child lives, when stronger, smarter, more pleasant characters die. Like Jurassic park movies. I would like them much better if the annoying children died!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5024" LastActivityDate="2015-10-15T21:13:29.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42355" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42363" CreationDate="2015-10-16T09:58:43.703" Score="9" ViewCount="4512" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flash season 1 Spoilers Ahead&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Flash season one finale, Barry doesn't save his mother because the alternate Flash told him to do so. But when Eddie Thawne commits suicide  Eobard Thawne gets vanished into nothing. But why didn't it affect the timeline any further? If Eobard doesn't exists in this timeline, that means he can't do time travel to get back to Barry's mother to kill her and the particle accelerator will also be delayed to its initial time and might restore the original timeline but it didn't happen. So why doesn't she get back to life? Which time travel theory does Flash follow which allows Eobard to disappear without changing anything at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-14T06:41:45.877" LastActivityDate="2016-06-26T14:18:24.337" Title="Why wasn't the timeline affected any further from the events in the season 1 finale?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-flash|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42359" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42360" CreationDate="2015-10-16T12:53:39.840" Score="7" ViewCount="3774" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Ratatouille&lt;/em&gt; Anton Ego writes reviews about the food he was served at the restaurant. He didn't mention rats anywhere in his review, so why did he lose his reputation when rats were found in the kitchen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-16T13:03:22.820" LastActivityDate="2015-10-16T14:15:15.517" Title="What was the reason Anton Ego lost his job?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ratatouille|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42359" CreationDate="2015-10-16T14:15:15.517" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not really explicitly explained in the film (it's only briefly mentioned), but implicitly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anton Ego is a famous critic known for scathing reviews and an extremely finicky taste.  When Linguini holds a press conference, Ego arrives and announces in front of the reporters that he'll be reviewing Linguini's restaurant - so this review is &lt;em&gt;highly publicized and anticipated&lt;/em&gt;. Then, surprisingly, not only is his review not scathing, but he also calls the restaurant's chef the finest chef in France. And soon after the review is published, &lt;em&gt;it turns out that the kitchen was infested with rats&lt;/em&gt;. So it would appear that Ego clearly dropped the ball, and if the publication he works for is as finicky as him, it's not that far-fetched that he'll be fired over such a well-publicized blunder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Also bear in mind that his experience with Remy was a real eye-opener and changed his beliefs. Since the film doesn't specify &lt;em&gt;when&lt;/em&gt; Ego lost his job and reputation, it's possible he continued to write reviews that were significantly mellower (since he now also believed in Chef Gusteau's notion that 'anyone can cook'), and that his fanbase was disappointed and simply stopped reading them.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-10-16T14:15:15.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3910" CreationDate="2015-10-16T16:53:13.493" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I know this is question was asked some time ago, but, I have another theory all together, and kinda goes along with user17976's answer.  If, let's say, Ross first asked Carol out around 1984-85, he's saying it's been a while.  So, this may be a little far fetched, but I think it may be a reference to an old TV show around this time frame, called &quot;Misfits of Science&quot;.  In the second episode &quot;Your place or Mayan&quot;, toward the end, one of characters on the show is trying to save one of the others.  The one who is being saved yells out &quot;Billy, don't be a hero&quot;, as he swings on a rope trying to save her.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why, you ask, do I believe this may be what Ross is referring to? For one, Ross is considered a science geek, so it's possible he would have been interested in that particular show.  And second, that show, &quot;Misfits of Science&quot;, starred an up and coming actress by the name of -- Countney Cox. Perhaps the line was thrown in as a nod to how she got her start on a cheesy (and it was very cheesy) Sci-Fi show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a said, a little far fetched, but it's entirely plausible.  You can check the episode out on YouTube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26888" LastActivityDate="2015-10-16T16:53:13.493" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42355" CreationDate="2015-10-16T17:30:32.087" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It doesn't follow a single one. It's both Back to the Future and Terminator and 12 Monkeys, as Cisco explained to Joe, and others. Time travelers are somewhat immune to changes they make themselves. As in Back to the Future, changes to Marty's past won't change his personality as they logically should, nor does it change his memories, but they can threaten his physical existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/flash-finale-spoilers-eddie-thawne-796679&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg said in an interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How does Eddie's sacrifice work? Eobard disappears — but everything he did up until the finale still happened?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our time travel hopefully holds together as much as it can. It doesn't completely obliterate all of their memories of Eddie [Eobard? -cde] and everything, but it has the desired effect of &amp;quot;harm to Eddie means harm to Tom Cavanagh's character [Eobard].&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An obvious non-answer, it doesn't explain anything the show hasn't already shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As concerned as the show and characters are about the consequences of time travel, as seen by Eobard desperate to change or keep the future intact, and the events of &amp;quot;Rogue Time&amp;quot; after Barry jumped just a day back in time, I'm certain it won't go unexplained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Update:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Episodes in the following season seem to cement the Back to the Future usage more than anything. Specifically, s02e11 &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;The Reverse-Flash Returns&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joe: Eddie Thawne died, so Eobard Thawne should have been erased out of existence, right?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Wells-2: Not necessarily. It's possible Eobard was in the Speed Force, protecting him like a bomb shelter, keeping him alive and his time line intact. It's what's known as a “&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Timeline Remnant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;”.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;...&#xA;Joe: If Thawne dies before he can time travel again, will that save Barry's mother?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Wells-2: &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No. That's not how it works. In our time line, Barry's mother is already dead, and her death is a fixed point. Nothing can change that.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then draws a BTTF like diagram. These scientists and their constant diagrams. Note that circle 1 is Eobard's death, Circle 2 is the Present, Circle 3 is Eobard's birth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ofbMm.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ofbMm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode continues with a younger, pre-Barry's-Mom's-Death Eobard. When Barry attempts to change things, to prevent his Mother's Death, the show takes a Back to the Future route and starts to erase Cisco from the present (like Marty was in BTTF 2), until Barry ensures that Eobard is free to do what he &lt;em&gt;already having been going to do&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a later episode, s02e17 &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Flash Back&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, Barry once again changes the past in ways that create bootstrap/information/grandfather paradoxes, more Terminator like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So in short, time-travel works in The Flash the way it works in most mediums, as conveniently as the writers want it to be. There is no consistency, except that Speedsters tend to be protected from time changes, by the Speed Force. This is regularly used in the source comics as well.&lt;/strong&gt; It may be an issue of some events being more important. A Doctor Who like &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;wibbly wobbly timey whimey&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; theory of time travel. Some are Fixed Points that have to happen or will always happen, some are in constant flux and can always change. Wells-2 use of the term &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;fixed point&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; alludes to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A side note. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Single day jumps.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Barry has jumped back a single day in time twice, once during &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Rogue Time&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; and again during the Arrow/Legends of Tomorrow Crossover &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Legends of Tomorrow&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. Both of these times, he A) jumps back a very short period of time, B) Jumps back after a massive death event, and C) Jumps back with the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;intent&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; to change time. These short jumps, maybe due to the intent or the shortness of it, result in Time &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;punishing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; the changes, and Flash &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;merging&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; or taking over the previous timeline version, which can only be assumed to be removing a Timeline Remnant from existence/creation. So these jumps are special compared to the longer ones involving years or decades.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-04-22T12:37:42.350" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42364" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-16T18:01:50.603" Score="3" ViewCount="1767" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S05E2, after discovering that his men have started to behave out of Mike's control (such as executing hits on each other for money), he calls Walt and tells him that he will join the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that he does this to make money so that he will be able to pay his man off. But why does Mike do that? Why is he so loyal to his men? I mean, his other option is killing his men but he does not do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20688" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T11:17:22.123" Title="Why is Mike so loyal to his men on Breaking Bad?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42365" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="544" CreationDate="2015-10-16T19:23:49.683" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I experienced it as a metaphor of blood - life, the latter in the sense of experiencing &quot;real&quot; life. The &quot;glitch&quot; experienced with the kids opens a door for the character to see that there is more to this life than the &quot;bloodless&quot; one she was living before, a door that before was invisible. In a way, her act of dropping the blood in the floor while slowly breathing resembles saying &quot;I am here, I am real, I can feel&quot;. For me, somehow this act is connected with the glitch, which showed her this new door of freedom, deepness, or awareness. Blood becomes then a metaphor for life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26891" LastActivityDate="2015-10-16T19:23:49.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11415" CreationDate="2015-10-17T00:39:41.413" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I too thought that it could be his father. There is the scene where the brother says our parents passed thinking they outlived you, but there are several explanations for this. Perhaps the cop son was lying. Perhaps he too moved out and his parents feeling remorse over how they raised their eldest son cut ties with the younger engineeed son and simply lied to him about their death. Anything is possible in a Sci-fi movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making Lamar the father would have made the movie so much more poignant and would have brought closure and catharsis to a wrong perpetrated out of society pressure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26896" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-17T12:14:51.220" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T12:14:51.220" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42376" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="678" CreationDate="2015-10-17T01:00:09.560" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think all these answers forget just how self centered the character is throughout the movie. He knows he is in a position of power and having the official cutting his steak and feeding it to him symbolizes that. Still, he's not a bright individual so he sees his future as &quot;cured&quot; meaning a part he can play that will be sanctioned by higher powers. Yes, the girl in the final scene is smiling, but her wrists are being held. He, Alex, is in power, and he's going to use it to get all the sex and money he can get his hands on. The one caveat is that there is no blood or violence overt in the scene. That could be that the people cheering him on, as the establishment, will whitewash his actions and/or it may mean that he has &quot;evolved&quot; past his need for violence in favor of power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26897" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T01:00:09.560" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42339" CreationDate="2015-10-17T02:04:30.087" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Roger knows that Don is a go-getter and doesn't necessarily come from &lt;em&gt;as&lt;/em&gt; glamorous a background as most people think, but not necessarily much (if anything) more than that. Remember that Roger is the one who ended up helping Don get into the advertising industry after Don - then a lowly fur coat shop salesman - made a couple of rather ballsy moves that wasn't exactly considered to be polite. As &lt;a href=&quot;http://madmen.wikia.com/wiki/Roger_Sterling&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Roger Sterling's page&lt;/a&gt; on the Mad Men wiki site puts it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some time in the 1950s, Roger enters Heller's, a specialty shop&#xA;  dealing in fur coats to buy Joan a fur coat, where Don Draper is&#xA;  employed as a salesman. Roger comments on an advertisement for&#xA;  Heller's and Don states that it is one of his own. Roger hands Don a&#xA;  card showing that Roger works for an advertising firm. When Roger&#xA;  opens the box for Joan in a hotel room, he realizes that Don has&#xA;  included a portfolio; he considers Don to be &quot;out of line&quot; for&#xA;  including it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A few days later Don runs into Roger in the lobby of Sterling Cooper,&#xA;  and tries to explain it away as coincidence. He asks Roger if he saw&#xA;  his work; Roger tells him that it was thrown away with the box. Don&#xA;  offers Roger a drink, and though it is 10am, Roger accepts. Over&#xA;  drinks, Don tries to sell Roger on the idea of hiring him. A few days&#xA;  later, Roger sees Don in the lobby again, waiting for the elevator.&#xA;  Roger is beside himself, angry that Don could not take a hint that he&#xA;  was not interested. Don stops Roger; while they board the elevator, he&#xA;  reminds Roger that he had hired Don the previous day.  Don smiles as&#xA;  Roger appears confused about his lapse in memory. (&quot;Waldorf Stories&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That may be part of the reason that Roger vocally states that Don's secret past doesn't matter. Not only are the two close (which is another important factor), but Roger knows from personal experience that Don's usefulness is in his talent, creativity, and gumption - and very much not in his history or family name. But there really isn't much (if any) indication that Roger already knew anything about the secret parts of Don's past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T02:04:30.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3674" CreationDate="2015-10-17T02:09:41.367" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The American accent is a BLEND of all the other accents of all the people who settled there.. If only tho UK and Australia were left inhabitable, naturally ALL refugees would end up there, and the local accent there would also become a blend that SOUNDED like an American accent. One version of an American accent anyway, seeing as there are so many to choose from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25875" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T02:09:41.367" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30353" CreationDate="2015-10-17T03:29:57.467" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The opening city scene (river running thru the city with several bridges over it) of The Flash series is DEFINITELY Portland, Oregon. That's the Willamette River, Downtown Portland on the left, SE/NE Portland on the right. Scenes on the computer screens and city maps in the backgrounds are also of Downtown Portland. I live and have for over 40 yrs. I always recognize the steel and glass awnings (downtown Portland, Pioneer Square, Pioneer Place, etc). It is a beautiful city with lots of very distinct landscapes, streets, buildings, street signs, back alleys, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26901" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T03:29:57.467" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40947" CreationDate="2015-10-17T03:32:23.597" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I disagree with a couple of details in Liesmith's otherwise excellent answer. The core point I disagree with is that people can:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... overcome their physical limitations through strength of will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People can't overcome their limitations. They can only overcome their &lt;strong&gt;perceived limitations&lt;/strong&gt;. This is the key to the movie. People are being told left, right, and center that they &lt;em&gt;can't&lt;/em&gt; do XYZ because of their perceived genetic limitations. Vincent achieves success because he drives himself to excel despite the limitations everyone tries to impose on him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Vincent is running on the treadmill Anton asks Director Josef if it is possible to exceed your potential, to which Director Josef responds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one exceeds their potential. If they did, it would mean we did not accurately gauge their potential in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a very true statement. This society wasn't gauging people's potentially accurately, because spirit/will can be the deciding factor despite a clear genetic/hereditary advantage. This is acknowledged obliquely by Jerome when he states he came in second in the swimming competition even though:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jerome Morrow was never meant to be one step down on the podium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;So how does any of this relate to your question?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the meta level, the swimming competition was about overcoming society's expectations, and the fear of not being able to accomplish your goal in the face of the odds. Vincent can only succeed at Gattaca if he overcame his fear of failure, and ignored society's expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the stated level the swimming competition was a game of chicken. Chicken is all about fear management, and confidence in your ability to handle the outcome regardless of what happens&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/51173586&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;watch again&lt;/a&gt; there are three key swimming scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everything goes as society assumes, and Vincent fails.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Vincent out swims Anton proving to himself that he can defy society's expectations.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is the scene you're talking about.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the lead up to the third swim Vincent is &lt;em&gt;actively taunting Anton&lt;/em&gt;, and this continues while they're swimming. Anton continually expresses fear, uncertainty, and doubt during every bit of dialog while they're swimming. He starts the dialog by saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vincent where's the shore? We're too far out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vincent responds by taunting Anton, so they swim on.  Next Anton asks Vincent &amp;quot;how can you do any of this?&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;We have to go back.&amp;quot; Vincent replies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're closer to the other side&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is really saying: &amp;quot;Are you feeling tired because I can go forever&amp;quot; even though this isn't true. The taunt isn't about the truth. It is about breaking Anton's will&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;. Incredulous Anton asks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What other side! Do you want to drown us both?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then Vincent gives the line you mentioned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it. Anton, I never saved anything for the swim back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is both a taunt and the truth. The taunt is confirming the implied willingness to drown them both that Anton voiced. The truth is Vincent eschews the fear of failure, and is willing to sacrifice everything to prove society wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally, he did in fact have the strength to save his brother otherwise they both would have drowned. Anton needed to be rescued because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anton wasn't in as good of shape as Vincent, and &lt;em&gt;Anton&lt;/em&gt; was actually the one who didn't save anything for the trip back.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OR&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anton gave up mentally so he couldn't access/use his remaining strength&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way like it was mentioned in Liesmith's answer and in the comments below his answer, &lt;strong&gt;Vincent wasn't saying &amp;quot;I don't have the strength to swim back.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;: &lt;sup&gt;Note: these are the same skills that Vincent needed to succeed as a &amp;quot;borrowed ladder.&amp;quot;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;: &lt;sup&gt;Before they get hypothermic and/or both don't have the strength to swim back.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;: &lt;sup&gt;This is what happened IMO when they were boys and Vincent got tangled in the seaweed. For symmetry reasons I like this as the reason why Vincent needed to save Anton both times.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T03:12:44.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42388" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32995" CreationDate="2015-10-17T04:55:45.127" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;(Spoiler warning because I'm not very good at doing the hidden spoiler text thing.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as you can see in a synopsis from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2014Spoilers/IntoTheWoods.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;moviespoiler.com&lt;/a&gt; (and as somebody already mentioned), the Baker does learn that his wife is dead:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Baker, Little Red, and Cinderella are waiting for the Baker’s&#xA;  Wife to return.  The witch appears with Jack, who has the Baker’s&#xA;  scarf with him, revealing he found the Baker’s Wife (dead) at the&#xA;  bottom of a cliff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned before, &lt;em&gt;Into the Woods&lt;/em&gt; doesn't tie the ending up with a neat little bow - and does so on purpose. We're not even supposed to know how they're going to manage to piece their lives together again, or even if they will manage - just that they have hope and are going to try. The Baker explicitly states that he will take in the kids (Jack and Little Red), since their parents and guardians are no longer there to take care of them. Cinderella does offer to join in with their new little family - but in a very platonic way, saying that she can pitch in by cleaning house. To quote the aforementioned summary again:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jack and Little Red Riding Hood suggest moving in with the Baker. Jack&#xA;  then invites Cinderella.  She agrees, saying she can help clean the&#xA;  house, which she actually enjoys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that both the Baker and Cinderella have &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; had very difficult ends to their marriages - the Baker through the death of his wife, and Cinderella through learning of her prince's infidelity and essentially parting ways. At the end of the story, neither of them is likely in an emotional place to bring a new romantic partner into their lives, or even think of somebody else in a romantic way. During the finale, the baker even asks the ghost of his wife (who's possibly only in his head), &quot;How will I go about being a father with no one to mother my child?&quot; (And this just after he and Cinderella agreed to live together with Jack and Red.) If it helps, &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/Aqd9Dq-5LuQ?t=1m57s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;take a look at the moment on video&lt;/a&gt; (it's a rather poor recording of a rather... odd... stage version, but I think it gets the basic points across if you just focus on the dialog).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that Cinderella and the Baker develop feelings for each other while living together (after the musical ends)? Sure. It's possible, and neither the movie nor the stage musical definitively says that it &lt;em&gt;won't&lt;/em&gt; happen. But that's not really what's going on at the point when &lt;em&gt;Into the Woods&lt;/em&gt; ends - it's very much made out to be &quot;survivors who bonded over a traumatic event (and have no other friendly faces to turn to) look to each other for support.&quot; Besides, it takes a whole lot more than living in the same house and taking care of the same kids to make people married. (By that logic, au pairs and live-in nannies are the husbands or wives of their employers.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2015-10-17T14:44:22.323" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T14:44:22.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42053" CreationDate="2015-10-17T05:29:44.020" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Malayalam director &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Sasikumar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;J Sasikumar&lt;/a&gt; has done 84 movies with actor &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prem_Nazir&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Prem Nazir&lt;/a&gt; in the lead role. Guess no one is ever gonna beat that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Sasikumar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sasikumar holds three world records: the records for most number of&#xA;  films (141), most number of films having the same actor as hero (Prem&#xA;  Nazir in 84 films) and the most number of films directed in a year (15&#xA;  films in 1977)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26906" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-10-17T07:25:18.153" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T07:25:18.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42394" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-17T07:22:35.280" Score="9" ViewCount="246" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having recently seen &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe_on_Mars&quot;&gt;Robinson Crusoe on Mars,&lt;/a&gt; I of course noticed how unrealistic it is. However given that it was released in 1964, before the first landing of any space probe on Mars, I wonder how realistic it was based on the state of knowledge about Mars back then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1490" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-10-17T07:45:12.167" LastActivityDate="2023-07-08T01:58:49.140" Title="How realistic was Robinson Crusoe on Mars when it came out?" Tags="|realism|robinson-crusoe-on-mars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42396" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42364" CreationDate="2015-10-17T11:17:22.123" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In S05E2, after discovering that his men have started to behave out of Mike's control (such as executing hits on each other for money)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is not completely accurate, as far as I remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Gus Fring's death, Lydia Rodarte-Quayle, a former business associate of Gus, tries to convince Mike to eliminate all the loose ends (10-11 men) that could tie them (her) to the DEA investigation on Gus's meth empire. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mike, a very cautious and rational man, flatly rejects Lydia's proposal and explains to her that those men were vetted by him and that he completely trusts them, also because they are financially taken care of. Killing them is not an option for Mike also because it might be drawing more attention and so it is an unnecessary risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lydia, not at all convinced by Mike, decides to go behind his back and pays a hitman to get rid of everyone involved, but Mike, aware that something's off, manages to get rid of the hitman. Knowing that Lydia is behind the killing attempt, he decides to go after her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But things have changed in the meantime. The DEA has found out about the offshore accounts set up by Gus and managed to freeze all the money, including Mike's which were destined to her beloved granddaughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mike realizes that Lydia is still a precious asset because she can provide the methylamine needed by Walt and Jesse to produce the drug. He decides to spare her and keep her as a business partner in order to regain his money and provide for the necessities of &quot;his&quot; people in jail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the long preamble, but I guess it was necessary in order to understand Mike's choice. My guess is that his decision of &quot;sticking&quot; with &quot;his men&quot; is only partially based on his moral beliefs (do not betray your partners) also because in the show is never mentioned a particular bond between Mike and his men except for the business relationship. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I therefore think that his decision is based on a series of motivations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;on Mike's confidence in his judgement (he picked those men, he interviewed them);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;on a careful balance between pros and cons of killing them (it's less riskier to pay them instead of getting rid of them);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a sort of &quot;honor code&quot; between criminals that prevents Mike from betraying them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T11:17:22.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42397" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42399" CreationDate="2015-10-17T11:25:55.183" Score="14" ViewCount="1803" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Question:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does the Native American Chief symbol mean in the Hackers movie from 1995? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is it connected with hacker culture?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it just a coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Background:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm a little bit confused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When you are watching the &lt;em&gt;Hackers&lt;/em&gt; movie you can see a that a symbol of a Native American Chief shows up from time to time:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The hackers watch the Hack The Planet show at 00:31:32.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kG1by.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kG1by.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The hackers watch the Hack The Planet show at 00:31:32.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Dade watches TV at 00:06:55.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/meTS3.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/meTS3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Dade watches TV at 00:06:55.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first I thought that it is just a really cool logo of a TV station or something like this. However, there is a series of workshops for programmers (at the University I attend) and their posters look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of the posters:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NLMbk.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NLMbk.png&quot; alt=&quot;Akademia e-point poster with a Native American Chief&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/events/781193478670521/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Upcoming workshops&lt;/a&gt; cover photo:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GGegV.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GGegV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Workshops cover photo&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I decided to do some research on the Internet but search engines didn't show me anything useful when I typed &quot;&lt;em&gt;native american chief hacker symbol&lt;/em&gt;&quot; in as you might expect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26910" LastEditorUserId="26910" LastEditDate="2015-10-17T13:01:27.760" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T13:01:27.760" Title="What does the Native American Chief symbol mean in the Hackers movie from 1995?" Tags="|analysis|hackers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18083" CreationDate="2015-10-17T11:28:07.893" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from the fact that Cybil (Courtney Cox) was still in the trunk of Michael's (Kurt Russell) Cadillac after being put in police impound, it actually makes sense that he ditches the Cadillac in the river.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that Michael was bailed out of jail by Jesse because he was picked up for &quot;Grand theft truck&quot;.  Michael attended his bail hearing with no intention of coming back for his actual trial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Michael knew that after he did not appear in court, that a warrant would be issued for his arrest.  He could not risk being pulled over or being seen again by law enforcement in that car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, that does not explain why the boat is still in his name, but that is another question altogether.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T11:28:07.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42397" CreationDate="2015-10-17T11:28:10.317" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has nothing to do with Hackers. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian-head_test_pattern&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;It's a common TV test pattern&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Indian-head test pattern is a black and white television test pattern which was introduced in 1939 by RCA of Harrison, New Jersey as a part of the RCA TK-1 monoscope. Its name comes from the original art of a Native American featured on the card. It was widely used by television stations worldwide during the black and white TV broadcasting era before 1970.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It became obsolete after the transition to color TV, but appears on &lt;em&gt;Hackers&lt;/em&gt; since it precedes an old &lt;em&gt;Outer Limits&lt;/em&gt; episode from the 60s. The test card is occasionally displayed or referenced in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indian-head_test_pattern&amp;amp;oldid=243145173#Television_appearances&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;other&lt;/a&gt; films and shows for its nostalgic value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BrrUJ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BrrUJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-17T12:03:14.520" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T12:03:14.520" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42400" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="64214" CreationDate="2015-10-17T11:47:05.810" Score="6" ViewCount="2051" Body="&lt;p&gt;Either I've missed it, or it was not explained: why is Lexi in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462059/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Falling Skies&lt;/a&gt; a half-alien?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only explanations I have are &amp;quot;just because&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;due to the eye bug&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;because of something unmentioned that happened to Tom on the alien ship&amp;quot;, but all of these seem weak and Googling didn't really help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Addendum:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://fallingskies.fandom.com/wiki/Alexis_Glass-Mason&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Falling Skies wikia&lt;/a&gt; lists The Monk and Karen under her &amp;quot;family&amp;quot; as her DNA donors. However, the texts don't explain this and I still cannot place it in the timeline. Those two had access to Lexi after Karen captured her, but that only happened because Anne has already discovered Lexi's mixed DNA which made her escape the camp. Any thoughts are welcome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="83431" LastEditDate="2023-04-15T17:24:58.717" LastActivityDate="2023-04-15T17:24:58.717" Title="Why is she a half-alien?" Tags="|plot-explanation|falling-skies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="42401" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-10-17T11:49:50.260" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-10-17T11:49:50.260" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T11:49:50.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42402" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-10-17T11:49:50.260" Score="0" Body="Falling skies is TNT's postapocalyptic TV show featuring the fight of a group of survivors against the invading alien forces called Espheni, occasionally with help of more friendly aliens, called Volm." OwnerUserId="5589" LastEditorUserId="5589" LastEditDate="2015-10-17T13:08:53.250" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T13:08:53.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31808" CreationDate="2015-10-17T12:22:45.200" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of questions within your question.  I attempted to break them down for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that Fenton is actually Adam.  When he introduces himself as Fenton at the Police Station, he is well aware that the FBI will be searching for Fenton, NOT Adam after agent Doyle is found dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frailty_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Since Adam introduced himself as Fenton at the FBI office, he knows&#xA;  that the investigation of Doyle's disappearance will center on Fenton.&#xA;  The authorities will discover that Fenton was the God's Hand serial&#xA;  killer and conclude that Doyle became one of his victims.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Having arrived at the rose garden with Doyle, Meiks confesses that he&#xA;  is Adam and that he has destroyed Fenton, who grew up to become the&#xA;  God's Hand serial killer, as a demon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adam was aware that not only could security cameras not record his image, but nobody could remember his face, even seeing him in person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Those who saw Meiks at the FBI office, including Agent Griffin Hull,&#xA;  inexplicably remember nothing about &quot;Fenton&quot; Meiks' appearance.&#xA;  Surveillance videotapes all have a distortion when played that&#xA;  obscures Meiks' face. The investigation then proceeds as Adam had&#xA;  predicted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Adam reveals who he actually is to agent Doyle, he informs agent Doyle that he is a demon and that he is on the list to be destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When he touches Doyle, a new vision reveals that Doyle had murdered&#xA;  his own mother. Meiks tells a dazed Doyle that Doyle's name was given&#xA;  to him on the list of demons to be destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Adam kills his victims in this manner because that is the original &quot;vision&quot; that his father had when visited by the angel.  All victims must be buried in the Rose Garden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The father's modus operandi is to wait for the angel to give him a&#xA;  list of names of those who must be destroyed. He then abducts an&#xA;  individual from the list, takes them to the family home and, with his&#xA;  sons present, touches them, which, he says, grants him a vision of the&#xA;  crimes the demon has committed. He then finishes the victim with an ax&#xA;  and buries the body in the rose garden.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although Adam does not know the actual sins that the &quot;demons&quot; committed, he does receive their names in his &quot;visions&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You had stated that Adam is &quot;gifted&quot;.  The main thing to remember is that Adam is &quot;protected&quot; by God.  He is above the law and cannot be identified because of God's help and protection.  It would not matter if the FBI agent called somebody else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T12:22:45.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42405" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-17T13:22:38.023" Score="8" ViewCount="10594" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did Sherlock know all the specific personal information about John Watson in first episode of &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;? They don't meet before but there is a conversation quote between them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dr John Watson: We don't know a thing about each other. I don't know where we're meeting. I don't even know your name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherlock Holmes: I know you're an Army doctor, and you've been invalided home from Afghanistan. I know you've got a brother who's worried about you, but you won't go to him for help because you don't approve of him, possibly because he's an alcoholic, more likely because he recently walked out on his wife, and I know your therapist thinks your limp's psychosomatic - quite correctly, I'm afraid. That's enough to be going on with, don't you think? The name's Sherlock Holmes, and the address is 221-B Baker Street. Afternoon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26912" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-01-09T14:48:10.107" Title="How did Sherlock know specific personal information about John Watson when meeting him for the first time?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-17T13:26:27.900" Score="5" ViewCount="254" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234222/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Orphan Black&lt;/a&gt; there are at least two sets of clones: the females and the males. But the female characters (all played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1137209/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tatiana Maslany&lt;/a&gt;) seem far more different from each other than the males (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0440220/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mark Rollins&lt;/a&gt;) do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reasonable explanation for the diversity of characteristic of the females compared to the males?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2015-10-18T04:39:23.937" LastActivityDate="2023-06-17T08:44:46.893" Title="Why do the male clones seem more similar to each other than the female clones do?" Tags="|plot-explanation|orphan-black|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42407" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42411" CreationDate="2015-10-17T13:56:56.063" Score="9" ViewCount="9004" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of wrestlers have nicknames, but do we know why The Rock is called The People's Champ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What has he done specifically for &lt;em&gt;The People&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17983" LastEditorUserId="17983" LastEditDate="2015-10-18T12:51:22.047" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T12:51:22.047" Title="Why is The Rock called The People's Champ?" Tags="|wwe|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42407" CreationDate="2015-10-17T16:05:57.463" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When I was a rookie in the WWE, 1996, we were at a big function, and no one knew who I was. One of those things where I had my own nametag, ‘Hello, I am Rocky Maivia.’ Ali was sitting down, and I said ‘I’d love to go over and say hello to him,’ so I went over to him and introduced myself. As I was pulling away he kinda pulled me back in and he whispered ‘can you rumble?’&lt;strong&gt;I said ‘yeah, I think I can…’**Cut to 1998, **I started calling myself The People’s Champion in honor of him&lt;/strong&gt;. When I was wrestling in Louisville, Kentucky, his family came to watch me wrestle, and I talked to his wife and said ‘please tell Muhammad it’s only out of respect that I call myself that. And I’ll stop it right now if he doesn’t like it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/07/wwe-legend-the-rock-muhammad-ali-peoples-champion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T16:05:57.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42407" CreationDate="2015-10-17T16:08:37.870" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dwayne Johnson a.k.a. &quot;The Rock&quot; actually gave the name &lt;em&gt;The Peoples Champion&lt;/em&gt; to himself with permission from Muhammad Ali.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Rock has never actually &lt;em&gt;done&lt;/em&gt; anything for &lt;em&gt;the people&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following article from  &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/07/wwe-legend-the-rock-muhammad-ali-peoples-champion&quot;&gt;USA Today&lt;/a&gt; explains how the nickname originated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Former WWE champion The Rock, a defensive tackle on the national&#xA;  champion 1991 Miami Hurricanes and star of the upcoming movie&#xA;  Hercules,  only follows one person on Twitter: Muhammad Ali. The Rock&#xA;  joined SportsCenter and Numbers Never Lie Tuesday and explained his&#xA;  special relationship with Ali, who The Rock says is his favorite&#xA;  athlete. Ali gave The Rock permission to call himself “The People’s&#xA;  Champion,” a moniker The Rock used in tribute to Ali.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When I was a rookie in the WWE, 1996, we were at a big function, and&#xA;  no one knew who I was. One of those things where I had my own nametag,&#xA;  ‘Hello, I am Rocky Maivia.’ Ali was sitting down, and I said ‘I’d love&#xA;  to go over and say hello to him,’ so I went over to him and introduced&#xA;  myself. As I was pulling away he kinda pulled me back in and he&#xA;  whispered ‘can you rumble?’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I said ‘yeah, I think I can…’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cut to 1998, I started calling myself The People’s Champion in honor&#xA;  of him.&lt;/strong&gt; When I was wrestling in Louisville, Kentucky, his family came&#xA;  to watch me wrestle, and I talked to his wife and said ‘please tell&#xA;  Muhammad it’s only out of respect that I call myself that. And I’ll&#xA;  stop it right now if he doesn’t like it.’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She said ‘oh no, he loves it. He wants you to call yourself that.’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-10-17T16:08:37.870" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42412" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42405" CreationDate="2015-10-17T16:19:19.963" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Check out the complete conversation for your answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source IMDB:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sherlock Holmes:&lt;/strong&gt; When I met you for the first time yesterday, I said &amp;quot;Afghanistan or Iraq?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr John Watson:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes. &lt;em&gt;How did you know&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sherlock Holmes:&lt;/strong&gt; I didn't know, I saw. Your haircut, the way you hold yourself, says military. The conversation as you entered the room - said trained at Bart's, so army doctor. Obvious. Your face is tanned, but no tan above the wrists - you've been abroad but not sunbathing. The limp's really bad when you walk, but you don't ask for a chair when you stand, like you've forgotten about it, so it's at least partly psychosomatic. That suggests the original circumstances of the injury were probably traumatic - wounded in action, then. Wounded in action, suntan - Afghanistan or Iraq.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr John Watson:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;You said I had a therapist&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sherlock Holmes:&lt;/strong&gt; You've got a psychosomatic limp. Of course you've got a therapist. Then there's your brother. Your phone - it's expensive, email enabled, MP3 player. But you're looking for a flat-share, you wouldn't waste money on this. It's a gift, then. Scratches - not one, many over time. It's been in the same pocket as keys and coins. The man sitting next to me wouldn't treat his one luxury item like this, so it's had a previous owner. The next bit's easy, you know it already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[indicates back of the phone, which has been engraved with the inscription &amp;quot;Harry Watson - from Clara XXX&amp;quot;]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr John Watson:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The engraving&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sherlock Holmes:&lt;/strong&gt; Harry Watson - clearly a family member who's given you his old phone. Not your father - this is a young man's gadget. Could be a cousin, but you're a war hero who can't find a place to live. Unlikely you've got an extended family, certainly not one you're close to, so brother it is. Now, Clara - who's Clara? Three kisses says romantic attachment. Expensive phone says wife, not girlfriend. Must've given it to him recently - this model's only six months old. Marriage in trouble, then - six months on, and already he's giving it away? If she'd left him, he would've kept it. People do, sentiment. But no, he wanted rid of it - he left her. He gave the phone to you, that says he wants you to stay in touch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr John Watson:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;How can you possibly know about the drinking&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;em&gt;cuts to a close-up of the phone's charger port, showing obvious scratches around it&lt;/em&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sherlock Holmes:&lt;/strong&gt; Shot in the dark. Good one, though. Power connection - tiny little scuff marks around the edge. Every night he goes to plug it in and charge but his hands are shaky. You never see those marks on a sober man's phone, never see a drunk's without them. There you go, you see? You were right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-01-09T14:48:10.107" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8704" CreationDate="2015-10-18T00:15:14.877" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tolkien FAQ is incorrect.  &quot;Orc&quot; is simply a synonym for goblin.  The Uruk are a larger stronger subspecies of goblin which is probably where people get confused.  The artificial distinction between orcs and goblins is one of the few peeves I have with Jackson's masterpiece and I would dearly love to hear the three creative forces for the movie explain why they made this distinction when they could have used the existing distinction between the larger Uruk and smaller weaker snaga (although both are still goblins/orcs).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book, the goblins or orcs encountered by Thorin and Company are the goblins of the Misty Mountains.  These are the goblins (or orcs) who ride in fron the North at the Battle of Five Armies.  Azog was long dead, having been killed by Dain Ironfoot in 2799 of the Third Age at the Battle of Azanulbizar.  Thorin met up with Gandalf in mid-March 2941 TA and the Unexpected Party takes place April 26, 2941 TA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Forget video games and movies.  The authoritative sources are going to the books written by Tolkien himself and he is quite clear that orc = goblin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source:  Untold Tales, The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, The Return of the King Appendix A&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26925" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T00:15:14.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42424" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42427" CreationDate="2015-10-18T01:17:17.687" Score="13" ViewCount="5733" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I kinda always just assumed that splitting such a short book into three films was a money-grubbing move, and frankly, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if that was at least part of the reason that &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; was split into three movies. But I was wondering... Does anybody know of an alternate (or additional/more in-depth) explanation for why Peter Jackson decided to split &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt; into three movies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-18T01:39:28.543" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T03:14:58.103" Title="Why was 'The Hobbit' split into three films?" Tags="|book-adaptation|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42424" CreationDate="2015-10-18T02:23:26.603" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Going back into the production history, as far back as 2006, MGM and Jackson wanted to make it a three part franchise in some way. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_(film_series)#From_two_to_three_films&quot;&gt;According to Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The project had been envisaged as two parts since 2006, but the&#xA;  proposed contents of the parts changed during development. MGM&#xA;  expressed interest in a second film in 2006, set between The Hobbit&#xA;  and The Lord of the Rings. &lt;strong&gt;Jackson concurred, stating that &quot;one of&#xA;  the drawbacks of The Hobbit is its relatively light weight compared to&#xA;  [Lord of the Rings]... There's a lot of sections in which a&#xA;  character like Gandalf disappears for a while. – he references going&#xA;  off to meet with the White Council, who are actually characters like&#xA;  Galadriel and Saruman and people that we see in Lord of the Rings. He&#xA;  mysteriously vanishes for a while and then comes back, but we don't&#xA;  really know what goes on.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; Jackson was also interested in showing&#xA;  Gollum's journey to Mordor and Aragorn setting a watch on the&#xA;  Shire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Between 2006 and Jackson coming on in 2010, Guillermo del Toro was tapped to direct and handle the screen play. Overall he felt the story should only draw on what was provided in both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but had a bit of a struggle figuring out where to split the story into two films, even going so far as to state they would just film everything in a single, briskly paced film if nothing worked to split it in two. Del Toro was definitely against having some kind of &quot;bridge film&quot;, quite strongly in fact. He was quoted in the same Wikipedia article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;when you lay out the cards fro [sic] the story beats contained within&#xA;  the book (before even considering any apendix [sic] material) the work&#xA;  is enormous and encompasses more than one film. That's why we are&#xA;  thinking of the two instalments as parts of a single narrative. That's&#xA;  why I keep putting down the use of a &quot;bridge&quot; film (posited&#xA;  initially). I think the concept as such is not relevant any more. I&#xA;  believe that the narrative and characters are rich enough to fit in&#xA;  two films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, del Toro would depart form production in 2010 due to delays, and Jackson would soon be tapped to come back and direct The Hobbit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After filming wrapped on the original two film franchise, Jackson confirmed it would be fleshed out into a three film franchise, using appendices Tokein wrote to expand the story of Middle Earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall I wouldn't say it was completely a decision based on making more money, but one that quite a few people did want to happen for actual story purposes in one way or another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2015-10-18T03:14:58.103" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T03:14:58.103" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42428" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-18T03:03:39.593" Score="4" ViewCount="638" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film Batman (1989), the Joker directs a commercial to terrorise the population of Gotham City.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ntT0B.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ntT0B.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wouldn't make sense that it is Jack Palance, but the actor looks like him a lot and I didn't find actors listed as &quot;Smylex commercial actors&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The full commercial can be seen here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/SgCbegtw0JM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23193" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-02T06:34:18.173" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T06:34:18.173" Title="Is this Jack Palance in the Smylex commercial?" Tags="|character|batman-1989|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42432" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43581" CreationDate="2015-10-18T03:35:43.313" Score="5" ViewCount="1069" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1989 movie &quot;Batman&quot;, who designed the balloons?&#xA;They seem like something Tim Burton would have designed, and look a lot like his designs and drawings, but I couldn't find a confirmation of this anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ANFhd.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ANFhd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23193" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T09:02:44.157" Title="Who designed the Batman balloons?" Tags="|batman-1989|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42433" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43468" CreationDate="2015-10-18T03:44:25.640" Score="4" ViewCount="783" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1989 movie Batman, the Joker goes up the cathedral with Vicki Vale, soon to be followed by Batman. Once Batman is up, some henchmen of the Joker are there to fight him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did they get up there? At no point do we see anyone get up there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23193" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T22:12:36.527" Title="How did the Joker's henchmen get up the cathedral?" Tags="|batman-1989|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42434" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="89314" CreationDate="2015-10-18T03:47:16.153" Score="14" ViewCount="3202" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1989 movie Batman, the Joker is seen falling and the images make it seem like it was animated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How was this done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am talking about the images of the Joker himself, which are not photographs or an actual film of Jack Nicholson, but rather seem like a drawing that is animated, or claymation. When looking at the hands we can see they might not have been made from film but from drawings as well (or the result of heavy edits to brighten footage?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZN5Rp.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZN5Rp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OHLgA.gif&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OHLgA.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XdjE5.gif&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XdjE5.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23193" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-05-20T06:07:15.490" LastActivityDate="2018-05-27T17:34:53.003" Title="How is this shot in Batman made?" Tags="|production|film-techniques|effects|batman-1989|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42428" CreationDate="2015-10-18T03:57:58.320" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, Jack Palance &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000235/?ref_=tt_cl_t8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;played mob boss Carl Grissom&lt;/a&gt; in that film. And in this particular Batman movie, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000235/bio&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Grissom tries to have Jack Napier/The Joker killed&lt;/a&gt;, leading to the deformations that give the Joker his signature perma-smile and green hair. So, the Joker is out for revenge on Grissom, and as you noted, the man in the video does look an awful lot like Jack Palance's Grissom in that very film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HuTp9.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HuTp9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jack Palance as Carl Grissom&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this may have been part of the Joker's revenge scheme on Carl Grissom. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; (Is it possible that the Joker had time to film a little something before Grissom died? Especially given the extra allowances for suspension of disbelief that super hero movies of the era often required.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I looked at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096895/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the cast list on imdb.com&lt;/a&gt;, and couldn't find anybody else whose character title would fit into the description of &quot;male hostage in Smilex advert.&quot; (And imdb tends to be pretty thorough, as you can see.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit:&#xA;Other possibilities may include...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The actor might actually be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639777/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t43&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Philip O'Brien&lt;/a&gt;, who plays a super&#xA;minor Maitre D' character, but actually looks a fair amount like Jack&#xA;Palance. (Since the role is so minor, Tim Burton may have simply&#xA;double cast him without giving him secondary credit as &quot;the hostage&#xA;in the advert&quot;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;@Erik presented a theory that the Joker is using a body double that&#xA;purposefully looks like Grissom, which would allow Palance to act in&#xA;the faux commercial. (This could make sense in that for a while, at least, the&#xA;Joker publicly acts as though Grissom is still alive, so that he can&#xA;claim Grissom put him in charge while the mob boss was &quot;away.&quot;* So depending on when the commercial aired, this could kinda make sense.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*I know I'm using imdb way too much here, but to quote &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096895/synopsis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;imdb's synopsis&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Back in the criminal underworld, the Joker claims that Grissom has&#xA;  gone away for awhile, and has left him in charge, Claiming to oversee&#xA;  all of Grissom's affairs, the other crime bosses are not convinced,&#xA;  and still fail to acknowledge this, even when the Joker electrocutes&#xA;  one of their own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2015-10-18T05:24:53.007" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T05:24:53.007" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42436" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42433" CreationDate="2015-10-18T04:42:29.203" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe the henchmen were hiding up there according to some devious plan concocted by the Joker. The Joker might have wanted Batman to follow him into a trap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Batman survives the trap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26325" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T04:42:29.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36170" CreationDate="2015-10-18T06:29:17.347" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not actually answered in the movie - several theories have been given such as Jacobs answer but there is no official explanation. Most likely this information will be brought up again in a later movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26936" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T06:29:17.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11813" CreationDate="2015-10-18T06:57:17.390" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always thought of this as a literal pun: after years of not submitting the paperwork he should have for all the unauthorized repairs he's been making, Archibald Tuttle is literally buried in paperwork. This pun is echoed by at least two online commentators, first by &lt;a href=&quot;https://thedissolve.com/features/movie-of-the-week/68-brazil-forum-style-gallows-humor-the-past-as-futur/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Dissolve&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of Brazil's most fundamental themes is how bureaucracy chokes the humanity out of people, encouraging learned helplessness at best, and callous indifference at worst. [...] In Sam’s final dream sequence, even &lt;strong&gt;the heroic Tuttle is literally buried by paperwork&lt;/strong&gt;, until there’s nothing left of him. It’s also significant that Tuttle is an outlaw simply because he operates outside the bureaucracy: In a society where nothing can be done without an insane level of paperwork, even repairing an air conditioner is seditious. Similarly, fighting the bureaucracy by trying to point out the Tuttle/Buttle error and rescue Buttle gets Jill stamped as a terrorist, and ultimately killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then by &lt;a href=&quot;http://criterioncollection.blogspot.com/2006/03/51-brazil.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Matthew Dessem&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My personal favorites are the music under the tracking shot through the Department of Records (a particularly manic arrangement designed to mimic typewriters) and the cue during &lt;strong&gt;Harry Tuttle's burial by paperwork&lt;/strong&gt; (Harry Tuttle's theme comes back in a minor key and is gradually overshadowed by the bass line from &quot;Brazil,&quot; newly ominous). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An appropriate punishment for the bureaucratocracy that's been hunting him down all these years to impose upon him, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21622" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T06:57:17.390" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42443" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42478" CreationDate="2015-10-18T07:39:44.770" Score="-2" ViewCount="425" Body="&lt;p&gt;If everything is laid out in a script, then what is the use of director in a movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21743" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T01:36:10.777" Title="What is the role of a director in a film?" Tags="|directors|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-10-24T00:30:16.707" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27041" CreationDate="2015-10-18T09:03:59.347" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of the movie the NASA team informed that the hypersleep pod could help the pioneers survive for 10 years extendable to 20 years awaiting rescue.&#xA;Dr Mann with superior skill extended that by using KIPPs power cell. Maybe Mann's planet was also quite close to Gargantua experiencing less time passing than Earth and even Edmunds' planet. Edmunds and all other pioneers though may have been presumed dead already after visiting Manns planet or even Millers due to the sheer amount of time passed.&#xA;As of Dr Brand it can't be known that it is known with certainty from Our Solar System/Murph that Brand is dead or alive or how her mission is proceeding. &#xA;On Cooper's journey back from the Tesseract though he mysteriously encounters Brand through Time - something that we could assume Cooper spoke about at Cooper Station - a strong message from the 5-dimensional beings to focus on Brand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26940" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T09:03:59.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32160" CreationDate="2015-10-18T11:25:14.560" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The slur is directed toward Rick O'Connell.&lt;/strong&gt;  The scene in the desert involving Imhotep, Beni and Evelyn watching Rick, Jonathan and Winston's plane go down:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Imhotep creates the sandstorm to attempt to crash the plane)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Evelyn:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Stop it, you'll kill them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beni:    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Beni says this, he is speaking very casually as if it does not bother him in the least that Rick is in danger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Plane crashes in the sand)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beni to Imhotep: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I love the whole sand wall trick.  It was beautiful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beni is praising Imhotep by saying this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beni: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bastard.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beni definitely says this implying that Rick is the &quot;Bastard&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;.  Beni is looking in the direction of the plane crash with a satisfied look and says &quot;Bastard&quot; in a gratified tone implying that Rick deserved the fate of having his plane crash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T11:25:14.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32727" CreationDate="2015-10-18T11:38:52.643" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner) is very thorough when he is protecting somebody.  He is constantly working with Rachel Marron's (Whitney Houston) current staff on security protocols.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frank goes into the kitchen of the Miami hotel to do a security check and to ensure that there is always a safe exit strategy if they need to leave the hotel through the back entrance at any point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Frank and Rachel have already been romantically involved at this point and they had just had an argument before Frank checked the route through the kitchen.  Frank was already agitated because of this argument and took out his frustrations on the kitchen staff that happened to be there at that time.&#xA;Frank had obviously had a previous arrangement with Louis Gomez to keep certain areas of the kitchen uncluttered so a safe exit plan could be made.  The man that Frank encounters in the kitchen agitated Frank even more and he lost his temper and physically assaults him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that he was Cuban had nothing to do with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T11:38:52.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26314" CreationDate="2015-10-18T12:16:46.783" Score="4" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jimmy  and his sister Ellie were both bitten/scratched by Joanie, NOT Jake&lt;/strong&gt;. This attack happened in the first 20 minutes of the movie when Jimmy and Ellie were involved in a car accident with Becky who was Joanie's intended &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursed_(2005_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;victim&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On that same night, teenager Jimmy Myers is picked up on Hollywood&#xA;  Blvd by his sister Ellie, who just came back from visiting her&#xA;  boyfriend Jake Taylor. Jimmy had a run in with some bullies and his&#xA;  crush Brooke. On their way home, Jimmy and Ellie hit an animal and&#xA;  another car. They attempt to rescue the other driver, Becky Morton,&#xA;  but she is suddenly dragged and ripped in half by an unseen creature.&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jimmy and Ellie are both slashed by the creature's claws, but make it&#xA;  out alive.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  In the meantime she figures out that Jake is a werewolf. He confirms&#xA;  it, but &lt;strong&gt;claims it wasn't him that attacked her and Jimmy. Another&#xA;  werewolf attacks, seemingly proving his story.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The dog's name is &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1828826/?ref_=tt_cl_t6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Zipper&lt;/a&gt;&quot; NOT &quot;Skipper&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reference to Jake biting or scratching someone and turning them into a werewolf was when he accidentally turned Joanie during a night of rough sex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zipper was turned into a werewolf-dog from biting Jimmy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that after Joanie is killed, Jimmy and Ellie are still infected with the curse.  This is because Jake turned Joanie into a werewolf.  The original curse has to be lifted, meaning it did not matter if Joanie was killed, if the werewolf that killed Joanie was still alive, the curse is still in effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though Jake did not directly turn anyone in the movie besides Joanie, he is the main source for the curse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The curse was not lifted on everyone until Jake died. (including Zipper)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2017-05-25T12:32:25.613" LastActivityDate="2017-05-25T12:32:25.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32903" CreationDate="2015-10-18T12:48:21.740" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The day before Allie left to go home, her and Noah had a fight due to her parents disapproval of him.  Noah was well aware of the fact that he was not suitable for Allie as her parents thought and told Allie as much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, Noah wrote her repeated letters in the hopes that she would write back.  Seeing how their last encounter ended, Noah was under the assumption that Allie finally realized that Noah was not suitable for her and moved on with her life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Noah is introduced in the story as having the type of personality that is non-intrusive.  It is shown throughout the movie that although it drives him mad at times, he has accepted the fact that Allie has moved on and he loves her too much to disrupt that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, when Noah spotted Allie in the city and ran after her only to see her having lunch with her fiancee, it drove him into even deeper madness.  Before this, he had accepted the fact that he was going to live without her and that seeing her again would only complicate matters even more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It did not really matter about &quot;strategy&quot;.  They ended up together regardless, so the way that it happened was the way that it was supposed to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T12:48:21.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42455" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42458" CreationDate="2015-10-18T14:41:59.683" Score="14" ViewCount="3805" Body="&lt;p&gt;For those who may not be familiar, if you get on to google and type any actor's name followed by &quot;bacon number&quot;, google gives you the number of movies that separates that actor from Kevin Bacon. This even seems to go back to a larger media phenomenon of counting the direct and indirect collaborations with Kevin Bacon not related to google alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, was there some film or event that started off this whole Bacon number? What triggered it off? Why Kevin Bacon and not somebody else? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26423" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-18T23:07:15.623" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T23:07:15.623" Title="Why is it the [Kevin] Bacon Number and where does it come from?" Tags="|kevin-bacon|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42455" CreationDate="2015-10-18T15:09:31.660" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Bacon Number was inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon&lt;/a&gt;, a popular parlor game that was based on the assumption that any actor could be linked to Kevin Bacon in 6 steps via their roles. Wikipedia details its origin:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a January 1994 Premiere magazine interview about the film The River Wild, Kevin Bacon commented that he had worked with everybody in Hollywood or someone who's worked with them. On April 7, 1994, a lengthy newsgroup thread headed &amp;quot;Kevin Bacon is the Center of the Universe&amp;quot; appeared. &lt;strong&gt;The game was created in early 1994 by three Albright College students, Craig Fass, Brian Turtle, and Mike Ginelli.&lt;/strong&gt; According to an interview with the three in the spring 1999 issue of the college's magazine, The Albright Reporter, &lt;strong&gt;they were watching &lt;em&gt;Footloose&lt;/em&gt; [starring Bacon] during a heavy snowstorm. When the film was followed by &lt;em&gt;The Air Up There&lt;/em&gt; [another Bacon movie], they began to speculate on how many movies Bacon had been in and the number of people he had worked with.&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;It became one of our stupid party tricks I guess. People would throw names at us and we'd connect them to Kevin Bacon.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The trio wrote a letter to talk show host Jon Stewart, telling him that &amp;quot;Kevin Bacon was the center of the entertainment universe&amp;quot; and explaining the game. They appeared on The Jon Stewart Show and The Howard Stern Show with Bacon to explain the game. Bacon admitted that he initially disliked the game because he believed it was ridiculing him, but he eventually came to enjoy it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole thing is an homage to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;'six degrees of seperation'&lt;/a&gt;, the theory that &lt;em&gt;every person is connected to any other person&lt;/em&gt; by 6 steps or less. The three college students picked Bacon to illustrate the theory in the world of film because, as specified above, they realized he was in a lot of things. Happenstance made it about Bacon and not about some other prolific actor, and it was fun enough to become viral.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-18T21:26:00.237" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42466" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-18T19:58:03.263" Score="4" ViewCount="95" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Boys from Brazil,&lt;/em&gt; Barry Kohler is first spying on the Nazis in Paraguay, and then on the run from them. While he is on the run, there is a scene where we see a large body of water in the background, all the way to the horizon, looking like a sea or ocean. But Paraguay is a landlocked country. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is Barry supposed to have run to a different South American country? Or is it a goof? (I know the Paraguay scenes were filmed in Portugal, so maybe the Atlantic Ocean got in the picture by mistake.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24353" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-25T16:06:21.220" LastActivityDate="2015-12-25T16:06:21.220" Title="What South American country was the body of water in?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-boys-from-brazil|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36491" CreationDate="2015-10-18T23:54:26.823" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is a list of the Valyrian steel swords from &quot;A Song of Ice and Fire&quot; that characters hold on the HBO series, &quot;Game of Thrones:&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Longclaw&lt;/strong&gt; - House Mormont's sword, now carried by &lt;em&gt;Jon Snow&lt;/em&gt;. Given to him by the 997th &lt;em&gt;Lord Commander Jeor Mormont&lt;/em&gt;, the &quot;Old Bear,&quot; after Jon saved his life from a wight in the book &lt;em&gt;&quot;A Game of Thrones.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; In the HBO series, this happens in *S1 E8. In *S1 E9, Jon is actually given &lt;strong&gt;Longclaw&lt;/strong&gt; by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lord Commander Mormont&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was his son, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jorah Mormont's&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; sword, who was disgraced and the sword given to his father to keep. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jeor Mormont&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; didn't like to look at it, as it reminded him of his son's fall from grace. Since the bear's head on the sword, (House Mormont's sigil) was damaged by fire in the fight, &lt;strong&gt;Ser Jeor Mormont&lt;/strong&gt; had it changed to a wolf's head, with garnet eyes; representing &lt;strong&gt;Jon Snow's&lt;/strong&gt; heritage from his House Stark, whose sigil is the Direwolf.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ice&lt;/strong&gt; - Eddard (Ned) Stark's** sword and the ancestral sword of House Stark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ice was used by &lt;strong&gt;Ilyn Payne&lt;/strong&gt; to behead &lt;strong&gt;Ned Stark&lt;/strong&gt; in King's Landing, at the order of &lt;strong&gt;King Joffrey Baratheon&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was then melded to make for two swords for &lt;strong&gt;Tywin Lannister's&lt;/strong&gt; family members: his grandson &lt;strong&gt;King Joffrey Baratheon&lt;/strong&gt;, and one of his sons, &lt;strong&gt;Jaime Lannister&lt;/strong&gt;. Thus, excluding his other son, &lt;strong&gt;Tyrion Lannister&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Widow's Wail&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Oathkeeper&lt;/strong&gt; were made from Ice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Widow's Wail&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was held by &lt;strong&gt;King Joffrey&lt;/strong&gt; for a moment before his death by poisoning in what has now been named by fans, &lt;em&gt;The Purple Wedding&lt;/em&gt;. This happens in the book, *&quot;A Storm of Swords&quot; and in S4 E2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Widow's Wail&lt;/strong&gt; is now in the possession of &lt;strong&gt;King Tommen Baratheon.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oathkeeper&lt;/strong&gt; is carried by &lt;strong&gt;Brienne of Tarth&lt;/strong&gt;, after being given to her by &lt;strong&gt;Jaime Lannister.&lt;/strong&gt; He gives it to her in the book, &lt;em&gt;&quot;A Storm of Swords,&lt;/em&gt;&quot; &quot;to defend Ned Stark's daughter&quot; &lt;strong&gt;(Sansa)&lt;/strong&gt;. In, &lt;em&gt;S4 &quot;Oathkeeper.&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arakh&lt;/strong&gt; - carried by &lt;strong&gt;Carggo Corpsekiller&lt;/strong&gt;, a &lt;strong&gt;Dothraki sellsword&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Heartsbane&lt;/strong&gt; - Sword of House Tarly. Held by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Samwell Tarly&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, after stealing it from the house of his father, &lt;strong&gt;Lord Randall Tarly&lt;/strong&gt;. We may see this sword in future episodes, as House Tarly will fight in the &lt;em&gt;Battle of the 5 Kings&lt;/em&gt;, which will be part of upcoming seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vigilance&lt;/strong&gt; - Sword of House Hightower, this may appear too in later episodes. It has been reported that Game Of Thrones will tell the story of the &lt;em&gt;Tower of Joy&lt;/em&gt; in S6. &lt;strong&gt;Ser Gerold Hightower&lt;/strong&gt; is part of that story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are many other Valyrian swords, axes &amp;amp; daggers in &quot;&lt;em&gt;A Song of Ice and Fire&lt;/em&gt;.&quot; They have been scattered and lost, but there are supposedly around 100 that have survived that exist now.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some say the *dagger &lt;strong&gt;Petyr Baelish, aka &quot;Littlefinger&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; carries is made of Valyrian steel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Orphan-Maker&lt;/strong&gt; - House Roxton held this sword in the S5, *&quot;Dance with Dragons.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26932" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2017-04-17T23:41:26.023" LastActivityDate="2017-04-17T23:41:26.023" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42475" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-19T00:10:04.947" Score="14" ViewCount="2507" Body="&lt;p&gt;After &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Martian&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Mark Watney got rescued and returned to Earth, there is a scene near the end where he sits on a bench and looks at a little plant emerging from the ground to his feet, reminding him of the plants he had to grow himself on his exile. Then he stands up and goes to lecture to some NASA students while the screen reads &quot;Day 1&quot;, in contrast to all the &quot;Sol X&quot; we saw on Mars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this was clearly not Mark's first day on Earth, seeing that he would have to go through serious medical and public treatment after his return and not just start a new job as a perfectly healthy NASA lecturer right away. It is thus &lt;strong&gt;unclear as to what that &quot;Day 1&quot; actually applies to exactly&lt;/strong&gt;. Is it related somehow to the plant he sees growing (seems unlikely, as the &quot;Sol X&quot;s weren't related just to the plants either)? Is it just his new job at NASA (which would seem a bit superficial to me)? Or was it merely left as &quot;Day 1&quot; instead of, say, &quot;Day 34&quot; to keep the emotional impact of the &lt;em&gt;1&lt;/em&gt;, willingly ignoring the question of some reasonable counting base? Has there been any comment on this or at least some reasonable deduction based on the movie or on evidence that eluded me? Or does the novel maybe even give some hints where the movie doesn't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-10-19T08:50:19.450" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T19:29:37.110" Title="Why was The Martian's NASA lecture on earth at &quot;Day 1&quot;?" Tags="|the-martian|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42477" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42475" CreationDate="2015-10-19T01:07:00.437" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;I interpreted it as the first day for Mark in his new mission of training future astronauts. This also has nice symmetry with the Sol count, since Sol 1 was the first day on Mars and therefore the &lt;em&gt;start of the Mark's mission on Mars.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this ties in nicely with the new plant because it is basically a new beginning/phase/chapter in Mark's life. Also the plant is a kind of bridge between Mars and Mark's new job. On Mars &lt;em&gt;Mark had to use his knowledge&lt;/em&gt;, including botany, to survive. Based on what I recall of Mark's speech to the trainee's, &lt;em&gt;Mark's new job/mission was to teach&lt;/em&gt; them how to survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the current version of the book, with Matt Damon on the cover, the story ends when Mark enters Hermes. I've heard that an earlier version of the book has some scenes on Earth, but I didn't read it so I can't say if there's an answer there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26325" LastEditorUserId="26325" LastEditDate="2015-10-19T20:59:55.367" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T20:59:55.367" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42443" CreationDate="2015-10-19T01:36:10.777" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The director of any enterprise is the one who holds a vision for how the finished result will look. In film, this means seeing that individual scenes will meld together into a cohesive film that has the visual and emotional impact that was intended. There are myriad details to tend to in any given scene - lighting, camera work, scenery, emotions of actors, dress, sound... and then there's continuity between scenes. The number of details and decisions required to make a 90 minute film must number in the thousands, and very little of that is laid out in the script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1606" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T01:36:10.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5736" CreationDate="2015-10-19T02:02:29.947" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Marty went back to 1885 Doc had already prepared the Delorean for a 70 year hybrination. This would have involved draining the fluids, especially gasoline.  What good would gasoline be to Doc in 1885 when nothing runs on gasoline? I doubt he would have kept it. &#xA;The 1885 Delorean was never shown because if it was disturbed or moved, it would not be available for Marty in 1955. As soon as it was moved or changed in any way, Marty and the 1955 Delorean would fade from 1885 existence. The only way the 1885 Delorean would be helpful is if Marty got there before Doc drained the fluids. Then they could have filled the 1955 car with gas from the 1885 car, then prepared the car for hibernation exactly as Doc had done originally. It would be a paradox if even the slightest thing was done differently to the 1885 Delorean so it would have been best to stay away from it completely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26970" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T02:02:29.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42482" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5736" CreationDate="2015-10-19T04:03:44.697" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As noted by Doc's letter to Marty, Doc has been in 1885 for 8 months. This is crucial to figure out why the gas, how ever much is left, would not be useful. &lt;strong&gt;Gas tends to have a shelf life of 3 months&lt;/strong&gt;. 8 months is more than twice that. And that's only in &lt;strong&gt;ideal conditions&lt;/strong&gt;. Since Doc likely knew enough to prep the damaged DeLorean for long term storage, which involves in draining all fluids, and that 1955 Doc specifically told Marty at the drive in that he filled it with gas, we can assume it had no 70 year old gas inside. Doc, had he kept it, would have needed a container, and 1885 would not have any quality, gas grade containers (air tight, opaque, low permability).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gas will go stale within months. And that's modern day Gas, who knows what 1955 gas shelf life is like. The more space in a tank, the more space it has to evaporate. Condensation will add water to the fuel ruining it. Temperature swings will as well. As we know, 1885 had no temperature control to speak of. The older the gas, the less likely it will ignite. Diesel would last longer as it does not need a spark to ignite, just compression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In short, even if Doc had saved the gas, eight months and imperfect storage would have made it useless by the time Marty showed up.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T04:03:44.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42483" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19118" CreationDate="2015-10-19T04:15:03.543" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, there is that hint. It's not obvious but, as you said, it lets you infer, and then all falls in its place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the counselor asks for help to Hernandez, the 'lawyer', he tells him he will make one call.&#xA;Immediately after, we see Malkina on the phone talking to someone.&#xA;I believe that person is the cartel's boss, and the 'lawyer' is the lawyer of the cartel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During that phone call, Malkina admits (reveals to us) she did call to the Texas sheriff. She says she 'just asked' the sheriff if he had found a dead body in the road (implying she put him on the track). She denies to the man on the phone she's retired; no, she's not retired (confirmation to me that she's talking to the cartel).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The conversation intensifies. She says she knows what the truck destination is, that she has always known. And when the man on the phone seemingly let's her know consequences to happen next (probably he let's her know he's got the counselor fiancée to 'pay'), she replies that falls under her &amp;quot;I don't give a sh!t&amp;quot; category (her words). She ends the phone call with &amp;quot;We are done&amp;quot;, sealing the fate of the counselor and his fiancée.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Edit: hints on arranging for him to pay the fine&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hints that point to Malkina arranging for the counselor paying for his client's son ticket out of prison are a bit less clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, Malkina is always listening. When the counselor meets with Reiner they both talk about security and being listened. Malkina is there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later we see Malkina listening to their conversation even outside that room, in the 'patio'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the first meeting of the counselor with Reiner, there's another hint Malkina is all over. The counselor gives the diamond to his fiancée in a fancy restaurant, and just before that the camera pans around and shows a piano playing and one of Malkina's cats right there, and a sculpture of this animals behind (so we infer it's her restaurant and she's there. Listening? Don't know.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next scene it's Malkina and Laura talking in the pool, Malkina watching the diamond and seeing what's it worth. I don't know if that triggered Malkina's plan, but at least we know she's quick to take action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Rosie Perez's character is going to meet the counselor, she makes a good look at a camera, right before entering the room where he is. To infer something, but we are not suggested explicitly anything about Malkina here. However, at the end of that meeting I believe Rosie Perez has been playing a bit with the counselor, as she is the only one in the movie who tells him he's smart, and even smiles when she asks him &amp;quot;would you pay that fine for me?&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not evident, but hints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4795" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T13:58:38.440" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14871" CreationDate="2015-10-19T05:15:08.077" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;That scene is for character development (Malkina stoping at nothing, living everything to the limit ... thus taunting the priest to let her try it), and also to prove or counter the thematic argument. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie tries to prove nobody will stick his neck out for anybody, or will someone? &#xA;Also about remorse. All of them tell they don't regret.&#xA;The movie speaks all the time about knowing what you want, and being honest to commit to getting it. The point characters revolve around is what they do when you need to be cruel to get it. Some of them don't stop and even fancy it (Malkina), some fear losing (Reiner), some think of escaping on time (Westrey)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Westrey: &quot;if you think of a friend as someone who will save you, then no, you have no friends&quot;. And lot more similar statements. He, though, had a blue eye from a confrontation with a bouncer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Malkina to the banker: &quot;seeing Raoul (one of the 'cats') hunting down the prey was special, it moved me&quot;. And her final pledge about the hunter: &quot;The hunter has a grace, a beauty, a purity of heart, like no other being. There's no difference between what he is and what he does. And what he does is to kill. But we ... we are a part. Our heart weakness has left us on the brink of ruin. You may disagree, but there's nothing more cruel than a coward. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reiner: &quot;Women are able to detect the moral dilemma.(...) It may be due to them lacking of moral judgement, it fascinates them to see it in men&quot;. (...) &quot;We are attracted to imperfection. Men want to mend them. Women don't want to mend anything, just entertain themselves&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The counselor (and his fiancée to a lesser degree, going to meet him before they capture her) are the counterpart, trying to do what's good (he says &quot;I'd tell the truth&quot; to the cartel's bosses). She retreats on her seat when a former client of the counselor accuses him of getting away by blaming on others. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the church is a test for Malkina. The priest proves her point (this is a hunt: you either are a hunter or a prey), when he denies her to even listen to her in order to make her feel better (supposedly). His god, his religion, only saves its devotees. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4795" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T05:15:08.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42487" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42488" CreationDate="2015-10-19T06:22:17.620" Score="15" ViewCount="5575" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Nightcrawler, Louis doesn't do much in his free time. He just watches TV only to see his videos in news and waters his plant with a glass of water. He was shown with no empathy and being too selfish. But he did water the plant whenever he got time. What does this habit trying to represent? Or am I just digging deeper than I should?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-19T08:58:17.553" LastActivityDate="2017-06-04T21:15:15.117" Title="What does watering the plant signify?" Tags="|character|nightcrawler|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42487" CreationDate="2015-10-19T06:42:35.073" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Personally, I think they show him watering the plant to indicate how isolated from other people (and humanity) he is. It's the only &quot;relationship&quot; he has, and the only positive interaction he has with another living thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But perhaps I'm also reading too much into it? The only direct source I can find is a quote from writer and director Dan Gilroy, where he states that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All of the scenes inside Lou’s apartment were funneled down to one&#xA;  day. We had to shoot everything there in just one day. Actually, it&#xA;  was less that one day because our schedule got tightened up. So Jake,&#xA;  our director of photographer Robert Elswit and I knew that we had a&#xA;  shoot quite a few things in the apartment, but it wasn’t scripted&#xA;  fully. We knew we needed him watching the TV, but we needed him&#xA;  watering the plants, going to the kitchen, going to the bathroom, that&#xA;  sort of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.empireonline.com/features/Dan-Gilroy-Nightcrawler&quot;&gt;http://www.empireonline.com/features/Dan-Gilroy-Nightcrawler&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That quote seems to indicate that they just need some shots of him inside his apartment and what he was doing might have been random. Though, there are a lot of subconscious elements to the creative process, and even if the act of watering the plant was random, it might not have been completely random. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16065" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2015-10-19T08:40:29.607" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T08:40:29.607" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42491" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42540" CreationDate="2015-10-19T12:26:56.383" Score="7" ViewCount="567" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was difficult for me to absorb everything in the first viewing of &lt;em&gt;Smokin' Aces (2006)&lt;/em&gt;, so, I had to watch it couple more times. But each time, this scene in particular surprised me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene where a lady contract killer (Alicia Keys) is cornered in an elevator when Police/agents are approaching and she signals her friend who is in another building at least a kilometer away holding a sniper rifle, to take care of the guys approaching her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When she signaled, the sniper starts blazing and immediately couple of agents go down. Now, to my utter disbelief, the Police starts shooting randomly at the building without even knowing the snipers exact location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought, didn't it occur to the writers, if the police starts firing back randomly, the civilians would get hurt?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this question sounds trivial because it's a movie but I would like to know, how the Police in real life would handle the situation? Would they have reacted the same way as in the movie or was that a bit too inaccurate a depiction of police work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-21T09:23:44.943" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T09:23:44.943" Title="Was the depiction of the police's reaction in the shootout accurate to how real police would behave?" Tags="|realism|smokin-aces|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42493" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42494" CreationDate="2015-10-19T13:01:52.327" Score="4" ViewCount="5466" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the very end of &lt;em&gt;Snowpiercer&lt;/em&gt;, right after the girl with the child gets out of the crashed train, they see a white polar bear. What did that signify?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-19T16:01:42.950" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T16:01:42.950" Title="What did the polar bear signify at the end of Snowpiercer?" Tags="|plot-explanation|snowpiercer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42493" CreationDate="2015-10-19T13:10:32.147" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Director &lt;strong&gt;Bong Joon-ho&lt;/strong&gt; talked with Vulture about this very subject a few weeks back. His take? That the ending is optimistic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They have no memory of what it's like to be on the Earth. For them to procreate, it's going to take a little time. So, for me, it's a very hopeful ending ... But those two kids will spread the human race ... I don't really feel everyone must die. I hope there were other survivors who lived through the avalanche, I just didn't have the means to shoot that ... You realize later on that the kids are the ones keeping this engine going, and this machinery intact. The engine is itself is on its way to extinction along with cigarettes, and other goods. Extinction is a repeated word throughout the film. But outside the train, life is actually returning. It's nature that's eternal, and not the train or the engine, as you see with the polar bear at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2014/07/snowpiecer-movie-discussion.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T13:10:32.147" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41520" CreationDate="2015-10-19T14:51:59.360" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason why all the people left Tomorrowland is because once they saw the real world was going to end they all lost hope and thought, whats the point of trying to make the real world a better place if there isn't going to be a world to make better and to share their ideas with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26984" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T14:51:59.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42497" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42503" CreationDate="2015-10-19T15:15:39.727" Score="9" ViewCount="33342" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I understood, the engine of the train was so to say an &quot;eternal engine&quot;. But what was it really running on? Momentum couldn't have let it run for 17 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2021-03-16T09:59:41.740" Title="What was the train really running on in Snowpiercer?" Tags="|plot-explanation|snowpiercer|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42475" CreationDate="2015-10-19T16:48:09.900" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a little open to interpretation, but I took it to be somewhat different than Erik did: it's Day 1 for this new class of would-be astronauts.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mark's graying hair and easy comfortable presence int he class seemed to be meant to imply that he'd been teaching classes for quite some time by this point, but for these new hopefuls, this is Day 1 of their journey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16207" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T16:48:09.900" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18897" CreationDate="2015-10-19T17:55:43.843" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fans of Game of Thrones have dubbed King Joffrey's wedding and (SPOILER) death, as The Purple Wedding. It is not a name that is canon. The death of King Joffrey had nothing to do with Sansa. She was given an amethyst necklace by Ser Dantos Hollard, to wear to the wedding. The necklace held the poison in one of it's crystals. Sansa was completely unaware that the necklace she wore held the poison.&#xA;In &quot;A Storm of Swords,&quot; Sansa wears the hairnet that carries the poison to the feast. S4 E2 of &quot;Game of Thrones,&quot; the series, has Sansa weaaring a necklace made of amethyst. That is the difference between books and show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lady Olenna Redwyne; The Queen of Thornes, played with Sansa's hair and necklace before the feast. After she did so, one of the crystals was missing. The poison inside the stone made its way into Joffrey's wine goblet when Tyrion picked it up and put it on the table, right next to Lady Olenna and the King.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Red Wedding was called as such by George R.R. Martin, who has said many times that he based it on an event in our own history. It comes from an event in Scotland, called the Black Dinner. Martin has also said in various interviews, that in Dark Ages hospitality laws were taken very seriously. If you broke bread even with your enemy, it was not the time to attack or fight. It was a time of peace by law. By violating that law, &quot;they condemn themselves for all time.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've since seen evidence of this in the books:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; with the Brotherhood Without Banners, who are now led by a certain Lady. They have been killing Freys all over the North, as well as anyone who had wronged House Stark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Purple Wedding has much the same meaning and consequence. It was a political move, made by Littlefinger and The Queen of Thornes. We will see if they have condemned themselves and all they stand for, respectively, as well. It seems Lady Olenna has already begun to suffer the consequences with what is happening to her family at the hand of Cercei Lannister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a reasonable name given to an event similar to the Red Wedding, Both weddings ended in regicide. King Joffrey Baratheon sat the Iron Throne at the time of the Purple Wedding, and Robb Stark was King in the North when he was murdered at the Red Wedding. It is simply an easier name used to refer to Joffrey's death by fans.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26932" LastEditorUserId="26932" LastEditDate="2015-10-20T01:56:06.830" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T01:56:06.830" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42497" CreationDate="2015-10-19T18:27:26.660" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Snowpiercer engine is describe as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion&quot;&gt;Perpetual Motion Machine&lt;/a&gt;, in which case, yes, Momentum would let it run for 17 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Perpetual motion is motion that continues indefinitely without any external source of energy. This is impossible to ever achieve because of friction and other sources of energy loss. A perpetual motion machine is a hypothetical machine that can do work indefinitely without an energy source. This kind of machine is impossible, as it would violate the first or second law of thermodynamics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This places it in squarely in the sci-fi department, as it's physically impossible, as we know physics anyway. As the Engine is slowly breaking and needs &lt;em&gt;spare parts&lt;/em&gt;, that ultimately means it is suffering from friction or work losses. The &lt;em&gt;spare parts&lt;/em&gt; are adding energy to the Engine, even if minor amounts. The Engine is only a &lt;em&gt;mostly&lt;/em&gt; Perpetual Motion Machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-10-19T18:56:29.957" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T18:56:29.957" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32194" CreationDate="2015-10-19T19:42:35.737" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess the word 'STAY' was communicated by Cooper to his daughter in &lt;strong&gt;morse&lt;/strong&gt; as she seemed more informed about decoding that method. (Remember the scene when she tried to decode the signals of dust separated via gravity near the window she forgot to close. She tried to decode it with morse, got no success but later on Cooper learnt it was rather binary and the decoded message gave him the coordinates to the NASA site they visited in their truck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a look at this page of her notebook, it could elaborate more. Below that is the set of morse codes (taken from wikipedia)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/42YhR.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/42YhR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ws7ep.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ws7ep.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I haven't understood it completely, but when got the same curiosity that you got, researched a bit and it looked to me related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26988" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T19:42:35.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42487" CreationDate="2015-10-19T19:57:34.110" Score="6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;The plant was under his complete control&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a living thing that was completely dependent on him and its existence was defined by Lou's actions. It was an object that Lou had control over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the film progresses we see him, successfully, controlling aspects of other characters such as his cameraman and Nina Romina. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of the film he was being written off, by the junkyard manager for instance, as a nobody. Later when he starts get credibility and praise he is able to use that as confidence to get other to do his bidding. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming there is anything to read into the plant I think it was a device to show Lous character and another aspect of how he deals with relationships.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26890" LastActivityDate="2015-10-19T19:57:34.110" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42509" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42523" CreationDate="2015-10-19T22:49:26.220" Score="1" ViewCount="455" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Mars_%28film%29#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Veronica Mars the movie&lt;/a&gt;, why did Weevil go back to his previous life of crime?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am referring to one of the last scenes of the movie: Veronica looks out from a window and sees Weevil dressed like a biker with his old gang. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-10-20T13:37:19.883" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T13:46:38.053" Title="Why did Weevil go back to his previous life?" Tags="|character|veronica-mars-2014|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31431" CreationDate="2015-10-20T01:37:57.287" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Valyrian steel cannot be found anymore because it was made from magic and dragon fire. &#xA;The way one identifies a Valyrian steel sword is that it has a rippled, rust-colored, reddish effect from being folded back over itself time and time again.&#xA;It does not ever need to be sharpened, and it is stronger and lighter in weight. They say it looks like fire. &#xA;In S4 E1, Tywin Lannister says that there are only 3 men known of in the world who can work with Valyrian steel.&#xA;Tobho Mott reforged Ice, Ned Stark's sword, into 2 swords for Lord Tywin. They cannot be made anymore, but can be reforged from another piece of Valyrian steel, only by those who know how.&#xA;It seems that is it the same material as Obsidian, or Dragonglass, according to Samwell Tarly and Jon Snow. That is why Jon Snow took dragonglass with him to Hardhome, knowing it could be used to kill White Walkers. &#xA;In S3 E8, Samwell Tarly killed a White Walker with one, proving it is true. &#xA;In Hardhome S5 E8, Jon kills a White Walker with Longclaw. Which we know is Valyrian Steel. &#xA;It can't be alloyed with any other steel as it isn't made the same way as any other steel, it wouldn't mix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26932" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T01:37:57.287" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42304" CreationDate="2015-10-20T03:41:32.070" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually that is not the case. There are several statements &amp;amp; moments that suggest Monica was good in cooking. But as every person have good days or bad days at their job, Monica has them too. Specially with cooking experiments for something new can be good or bad. And even for a best chef, someday the ratio can go wrong and they can get a bad review, doesn't mean they are bad at cooking. Here is some reason why it's clear that Monica was good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fake student at the rookie class for cooking&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/f_Ad0tHFqgY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583549/?ref_=ttep_ep19&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S09E19 The One with Rachel's Dream&lt;/a&gt; she was the head chef of her restaurant which was doing great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Monica's fancy restaurant Javu is doing great, so she's flat out, too&#xA;  badly to accept joining Chandler on a surprise trip he booked to&#xA;  Vermont.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583633/?ref_=ttep_ep3&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;S09E03 The One with the Pediatrician&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chandler is leaving for Tulsa without Monica, because she has got a great job offer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Great job offers don't come to incompetent people does it !!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there were many more segments where she was appreciated for her cooking. The lines that you wrote are mainly said to her on her bad days or inside an argument to tease her, not to prove the quality of her cooking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T03:41:32.070" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42509" CreationDate="2015-10-20T04:28:13.543" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only explanation i know for that comes from the scene where Veronica talks about the guy testifying that he sold Weevil the gun, and how he's afraid from the sheriff more than Weevil, and he responded with something like &quot;that's gonna change&quot; implying that he's going back to his old gang so he can prove his innocence and fight back. (Also I think it's interesting that he find himself returning to his old life the same way as Veronica)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24398" LastEditorUserId="24398" LastEditDate="2015-10-20T10:01:58.043" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T10:01:58.043" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4109" CreationDate="2015-10-20T06:09:10.653" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you remember the part where? The mother told her daughter to close your eyes? (At the near end) She did not and she saw the demon girl(?). I think she wasn't supposed to see her then boom, because of that they are trapped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26997" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-12-07T12:37:56.483" LastActivityDate="2018-12-07T12:37:56.483" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="42520" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-20T10:50:26.353" Score="2" ViewCount="785" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;strong&gt;The Amazing Spider man 2&lt;/strong&gt; Gwen Stacy looked dead, but in her funeral the camera did not show her grave, we just saw Peter Parker and her family crying, which give us a thought about may be she did not die. Is she dead for sure or not? Please base your answers on strong facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-20T14:36:16.540" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T14:36:16.540" Title="What really happened to Gwen Stacy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-amazing-spider-man-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42520" CreationDate="2015-10-20T11:10:57.653" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2014/05/08/spider-man-marc-webb-gwen-stacy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;From the word of god:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As many have predicted for nearly a year, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) &lt;strong&gt;does indeed fall to her death in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, much as she did in Amazing Spider-Man #121 – a comic which, appropriately enough, is known as “The Night Gwen Stacy Died.”&lt;/strong&gt; But regardless of speculation and source material that dates back nearly four decades, some audiences were still shocked to see Peter Parker’s first love come to such a terrible end. “I’ve poked my head into theaters in L.A. for that moment just to hear people gasp,” &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;director Marc Webb&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; tells EW. “It’s fascinating. People just don’t believe it.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Webb understands. He felt much the same way when Gwen Stacy was killed off in the comic. “It stayed with me in a profound way. It broke me. I was anxious and curious to explore it on the screen. &lt;strong&gt;From the very beginning I planned on doing it,” he says. “For me, everything in the movie was built around that moment. There’s a cost to being a hero.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And since the franchise has died to allow it to be rebooted, any speculation on ASM 3 is just that, speculation. So Gwen is dead and buried.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, comic Gwen was eventually cloned 2 years after her original comic death, as part of the Clone Saga. And died. And resurrected. And rinse, lather repeat as comic characters are known to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T11:10:57.653" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42522" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-20T13:00:45.960" Score="3" ViewCount="419" Body="&lt;p&gt;Carol, the former &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dCn7d_jDjg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Babysitter Of The Year&lt;/a&gt;, has had an edge to her for some time.  However, in the most recent episode of The Walking Dead, titled &quot;JSS&quot;, she seems to be bipolar.  In one moment she's fondly recalling her &quot;Fall Casserole&quot; she used to make for her husband with all the canned goods that hadn't been used during the year, and the next moment she's some kind of bloodthirsty Ninja.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not to say that other people in the show don't kill, but the majority of them have had pre-defined roles and mostly stick to them.  Glenn, for instance, will kill, but never looks like he's enjoying it.  Darryl is a hunter, and most of his kills display the same emotion a hunter would display when making a kill.  Carol, on the other hand, seems to have a touch of evil in her, if you recall the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/09/the-walking-dead-recap_n_6823416.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cookie incident&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any solid indication in the show anywhere that Carol is losing touch with reality?  She's so entirely different from the woman we met early in the series who was afraid of her husband.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T14:48:10.037" Title="Has Carol become unrealistically unhinged?" Tags="|character|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42509" CreationDate="2015-10-20T13:46:38.053" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alan Sepinwall feels this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/the-veronica-mars-movie-spoiler-review&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;part of a theme&lt;/a&gt; in the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Veronica isn't the only one who gets sucked back into old patterns.&#xA;  Getting shot and having to clear his name puts Weevil back on a bike&#xA;  for the first time since his daughter was born, and with the rest of&#xA;  the PCHers for the first time since high school. And though Wallace is&#xA;  being a responsible grown-up (for now), Mac is once again doing&#xA;  Veronica's hacker bidding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comments there is more discussion about Weevil's change:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Veronica told him that some &quot;stoolie&quot; was claiming he personally sold&#xA;  the gun to Weevil, presumably because the sheriff's department was&#xA;  forcing him to. Veronica said &quot;He clearly fears the police more than&#xA;  he fears you.&quot; Than Weevil said &quot;Yeah, well. We'll see what we can do&#xA;  about that.&quot; So like Alan said, he's back to being a gangster in order&#xA;  to clear his name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the real reason is that this allows for potential story-lines in a sequel movie/book/comic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T13:46:38.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42522" CreationDate="2015-10-20T14:13:05.940" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't say Carol has become unhinged, &lt;strong&gt;she's just very, very realistic about her situation and what it takes to survive.&lt;/strong&gt; As shown by her having a bit of a breakdown at the end of &quot;JSS&quot;, she still feels emotions over her actions, but understands that, in the moment, emotions and feeling sorry for the enemy can get you killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You have to remember that Carol, in a sense, was a survivor even before the show. Her husband was shown to be abusive, but despite everything she still cared for him and protected him when the world was falling into a walker apocalypse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carol is simply the kind of person who knows what's at stake and what it takes to stay alive when everything goes south. Rick disagrees with her methods when he learns she was killing people in the prison and teaching children how to use weapons, but when she unexpectedly rescues them from their captors in Terminus, after which Rick sees that Carol has a grasp on what's at stake, and permits her to travel with them without questioning her again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going to the season before that, in the infamous episode &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grove_(The_Walking_Dead)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Grove&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, Carol does everything she can to make Lizzie and Mika understand the dangers they'll face every day. She cares about the girls and wants them to be safe, but when Lizzie kills Mika thinking she'll come back to life and play with her, she knows there's no way her or anyone else will be safe with Lizzie around and does what has to be done. Later, she leaves it up to Tyreese to kill her as well when she confesses she's the one who killed Karen and David back in the prison, trying to contain the illness, but Tyreese says he understands, and to me acknowledges that Carol is capable of seeing the problems and solutions that no one else sees, or is willing to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And really, that's been the main focus of the latest season so far: Rick's entire group seems to be unhinged, but at their core they simply know what needs to be done to stay safe, and eventually everyone else realizes that. They still care, they still want to protect people, but when people come after them they are no holds barred in keeping them and theirs safe from harm. Rick even does his level best to push the residents of Alexandria to face the walkers they encounter, even if it's with little success.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carol and the others may be unhinged, but so is the rest of the world. The difference is Carol and the rest of the group still know who's good and who's bad, and act accordingly should the bad people reveal themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T14:13:05.940" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42522" CreationDate="2015-10-20T14:48:10.037" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you're misreading what they've been doing with her character. She hasn't been becoming bipolar, she's been acting like a spy for her group since they first arrived at Alexandria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her transition from demure housewife to apocalyptic survivor who's prepared to do whatever it takes to survive (and general badass) has been going on for quite some time. Remember when people where getting sick at the prison? She did what she thought was necessary to protect the group and then played it cool afterwards. Rick, of all people, thought she went too far and had her leave the group. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And remember when everyone was trapped in Terminus? Carol didn't exactly ask politely for her friends to be released. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest you rewatch the episode Indifference, way back at the start of season four (episode four):&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indifference_(The_Walking_Dead)&quot;&gt;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indifference_(The_Walking_Dead)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole episode hinges on how much her character had already transitioned by that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all that in mind, I don't think there's any question that she's only been pretending to be meek and innocent while in Alexandria. That incident with Sam wasn't Carol having a bipolar moment, she was lifting up the mask she'd been wearing so that she could make sure Sam didn't cause trouble for her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe you could argue that her character's changed to much over the series (though I'm inclined to think the apocalypse might have a profound effect on your character), but it certainly hasn't just started in Alexandria. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, while she, along with everyone else, misses the civilized world she used to know and the simple pleasure of making a good casserole, I wouldn't take that scene in the pantry to mean she was nostalgic for cooking for her husband. Ed was abusive, after all, and when she finds out what Pete's been up to she makes it clear to Rick that there's only one way to handle the situation, and making a casserole doesn't figure into her plan. (Well, not at first, anyway: &lt;a href=&quot;https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KQFFv2CFoTM&quot;&gt;https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KQFFv2CFoTM&lt;/a&gt; .)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I felt like Carol was far from a &lt;em&gt;blood-thirsty&lt;/em&gt; ninja when Alexandria was invaded. Yes, she saved the group, yet again, and killed without hesitation, but she looked like she was on the verge of tears when she had to euthanize the woman from the pantry. And when she takes one of the cigarettes at the end it really seems like the events have taken their toll on her. In that moment she doesn't seem the least bit blood thirsty. Rather, she understands what it takes to survive in the horrible world they're living in, and she's determined to do what it takes no matter how hard it is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Really, despite all the unremorseful killing, there's a lot of subtle emotions running under the surface of Carol, and once you appreciate those her actions make a lot more sense. (Her character definitely wouldn't work without the amazing acting chops of Melissa McBride.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16065" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T14:48:10.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42527" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42584" CreationDate="2015-10-20T15:50:18.637" Score="12" ViewCount="4397" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read the news today about R2-D2 and was fascinated by the robotic arm it had. There’s actually &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Scomp_link&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a wikia page for it (SCOMP link)&lt;/a&gt; but doesn’t explain much of how it theoretically works. It’s also a bit “weird” since it rotates, given the fact that most devices I know including very old ones like those wide printer cables, are just pins in contact with holes that have pins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what’s the reasoning behind R2-D2’s SCOMP link design? What’s the inspiration behind the design of that specific arm? Is there hardware in real life that influenced its design?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4276" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2015-10-21T17:26:20.450" LastActivityDate="2016-11-01T21:32:19.723" Title="Is there any real-world “science” behind R2-D2’s computer interfacing arm?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42527" CreationDate="2015-10-20T16:01:14.803" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe they based this design decision on something like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNC_connector&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;BNC connector&lt;/a&gt;, which needs a quarter turn to fully connect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One advantage for using such a connection is, that it isn't as easily disconnected. Remember that R2D2 is an astromech. When he is co-piloting a starfighter through his interface arm, you don't want him to accidentally lose connection during a fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22723" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T16:01:14.803" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42527" CreationDate="2015-10-20T16:52:30.907" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought it was meant to replicate what the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O-UaHAWVKU&quot;&gt;old mainframes&lt;/a&gt; did.  You'll note the jerk-like motion of the rotating tapes, which is similar to what R2D2's rotoscoping arm did.  I guess they were looking for something believable, based on the current technology at that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T16:52:30.907" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42530" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-10-20T18:20:13.483" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-10-20T18:20:13.483" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T18:20:13.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42531" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-10-20T18:20:13.483" Score="0" Body="1993 film directed by Steven Spielberg depicting Oskar Schindler's humanitarian work with Jews in Poland during World War II." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-10-20T18:32:20.933" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T18:32:20.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="993" CreationDate="2015-10-20T19:44:25.943" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel, director Wes Craven (known for Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream) said he would tell a young actor &quot;Your mother's dead&quot; and then quickly walk off the set.  Said it worked every time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some actors are just naturals, as other answers have mentioned.  Here's Henry Thomas's audition tape for the role of Elliot in E.T.  The tears start to flow right at the 2:00 mark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/tA5giyG8E7g?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2015-10-20T21:03:04.510" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T21:03:04.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42491" CreationDate="2015-10-20T21:02:12.700" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all I would like to say that I'm not a police officer so what I say should be taken with a grain of salt. My answer is based mostly on the experiences of family members who are police officers, my time in the military, and a dash of common sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;tl;dr They would find cover, and call for back-up. They would not fire randomly.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Finding cover and calling for back-up increases the odds they will be able to come home safely. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Standing and shooting randomly increases the odds they will be killed or thrown in jail. Those things are on the bottom of every police officer's list of things to do today.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are correct. Police officers aren't going to randomly start shooting unless:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They're so terrified they lose all rational thought AND forget their training.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AND/OR&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They have such poor judgment that they never should have been police officers, and somehow slipped through the screening process.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contrary to popular belief a police officer's primary job isn't to &quot;protect and serve&quot; the population at large. &lt;strong&gt;Their primary job is to come home safely&lt;/strong&gt; to their family even though they are frequently called into dangerous and life threatening situations. &lt;strong&gt;Everything else comes second.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question what would a police officer reasonably do in that situation.... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They would attempt to find &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tactical-life.com/combat-handguns/cover-versus-concealment/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;cover, or at the very least concealment&lt;/a&gt;, and encourage others to do the same, from the sniper once they realize the sniper is hidden and/or a significant distance away. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After this was achieved, but possibly while they were finding cover/concealment, they would radio for help with their best guess of the sniper's location. In big cities it isn't uncommon for there to be systems in place that will actually triangulate the position of a shooter &lt;a href=&quot;http://motherboard.vice.com/read/cities-are-using-hidden-webs-of-acoustic-sensors-to-detect-gunfire&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;acoustically&lt;/a&gt;. If present that system will be used to help the emergency response team along with any information the police officers on the scene provide. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once the police have cover, and have radioed for backup, they will continue to assess the situation. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;The tactic you describe is called: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressive_fire&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Suppressive Fire&lt;/a&gt;. This is a technique used by the military but not the police. The police have a dramatically different mission. The rules of engagement and risk tolerance for police departments reflect this difference.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26325" LastEditorUserId="26325" LastEditDate="2015-10-20T21:40:08.290" LastActivityDate="2015-10-20T21:40:08.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42541" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-20T21:07:24.373" Score="4" ViewCount="2380" Body="&lt;p&gt;In last night's episode of &lt;em&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/em&gt; (&quot;The Perspiration Implementation&quot;, S09E05), Wolowitz and Koothrappali each quote a line from &lt;em&gt;The Princess Bride.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This occurs during fencing lessons conducted by Kripke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any other episodes featuring Kripke which also include a reference to &lt;em&gt;The Princess Bride&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kripke and some of the characters in The Princess Bride have speech impediments. I was curious whether this connection might be recurrent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15386" LastEditorUserId="15386" LastEditDate="2015-10-21T21:32:01.033" LastActivityDate="2016-05-22T17:32:12.393" Title="Do any other episodes of The Big Bang Theory mention The Princess Bride when Kripke is present?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|the-princess-bride|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42550" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42554" CreationDate="2015-10-21T09:19:57.540" Score="6" ViewCount="3772" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't remember what happened to the child of Professor Remus Lupin and Tonks after they both died in the battle at the end of &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2&lt;/em&gt;. Did Harry take care of their child?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27026" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-21T09:28:43.817" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T09:41:44.963" Title="What happened to the child of Professor Remus Lupin and Tonks?" Tags="|harry-potter|the-deathly-hallows-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42550" CreationDate="2015-10-21T09:38:38.100" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was raised by his maternal grandmother Andromeda with help from his godfather. He began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 2009. During his time at Hogwarts Teddy was Sorted into Hufflepuff house and in his seventh year was appointed Head Boy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Edward_Lupin&quot;&gt;Wikia&lt;/a&gt; for more details&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T09:38:38.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42550" CreationDate="2015-10-21T09:41:44.963" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According the &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Edward_Lupin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Harry Potter wiki&lt;/a&gt;, Edward &quot;Teddy&quot; Lupin was raised by his maternal grandmother, Andromeda Tonks, after the death of his parents in The Battle of Hogwarts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not much of this is mentioned in the films themselves if I recall, as such a lot of the information will come from the book and/or Pottermore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no - Harry, Teddy's godfather, did not raise him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T09:41:44.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42556" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-21T10:32:40.613" Score="3" ViewCount="201" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the two parter 'Fade out, fade in' in &lt;em&gt;MASH&lt;/em&gt; we see that Klinger enlists the services of a 'lawyer' to get him a section 8. Although this fails, &lt;strong&gt;out of universe, was this an attempt, at least initially, to 'kill off' the character of Klinger?&lt;/strong&gt; Are there indications that Farr wanted to leave the show at this point?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24050" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-22T16:20:47.100" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T16:20:47.100" Title="Were they trying to kill off Klinger?" Tags="|character|mash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42560" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42581" CreationDate="2015-10-21T13:06:15.930" Score="7" ViewCount="15478" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some USA TV-series (the most popular ones, I guess) are recorded in front of a public: how does it work? And what about special effects, like green screen and such: how do they handle it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T00:38:45.963" Title="Show recorded in front of public: how does it work?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42562" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42585" CreationDate="2015-10-21T14:21:40.810" Score="14" ViewCount="18138" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no mention of Avengers coming together. No mention of anyone calling them together. They don't gel really well, I suppose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How come Dr. Banner, Tony Stark and Thor (most importantly, Thor) are back in business uprooting Hydra bases one by one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By far, that's the least critical and least dangerous threat since the beginning of the MCU.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS : If you are at it, Can you tell me how Loki's sceptre ended up with Baron Strucker (or Hydra) ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11363" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-21T18:40:22.840" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T18:40:22.840" Title="How and Why are the Avengers already assembled at the beginning of Age of Ultron?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42562" CreationDate="2015-10-21T14:52:49.810" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the world found out that Hydra were active and SHIELD was disbanded in &lt;em&gt;Captain America: The Winter Soldier&lt;/em&gt;, The Avengers reformed in order to find and shut down any Hydra cells that were still operating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thor specifically joined them in order to find Loki's Scepter, which fell into Hydra hands at some point between &lt;em&gt;Avengers Assemble&lt;/em&gt; and the end of &lt;em&gt;Captain America: The Winter Soldier&lt;/em&gt;. Thanks to the fact that Hydra had fully infiltrated SHIELD at that point, it would not have been hard for Baron von Strucker to get his hands on the Scepter even if SHIELD found it first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the film itself (important lines bolded for clarity);&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tony Stark: It feels good, yeah? I mean, you’ve been after this thing since SHIELD collapsed. Not that I haven’t enjoyed our little raiding parties, but…&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Thor: No, but this… this brings it to a close.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Steve Rogers: As soon as we find out what else this has been used for. I don’t just mean weapons. Since when is Strucker capable of human enhancement?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Tony Stark: Banner and I’ll give it the once before it goes back to Asgard. Is that cool with you?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [Thor nods his head]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Tony Stark: I mean, just a few days until the farewell party. You’re staying right?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Thor: Yes, yes, of course. A victory should be honored with revels.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Tony Stark: Yeah. Who doesn’t love revels. Captain?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Steve Rogers: Hopefully this puts an end to the Chitauri and Hydra, so. Yes, revels.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this dialogue we can see that this mission (retrieving the scepter) has finished what The Avengers reformed to do, which was find the scepter (something Thor has been after since SHIELD fell) and shut down Hydra cells (something Tony refers to as &quot;raiding parties&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-10-21T15:00:24.990" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T15:00:24.990" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42562" CreationDate="2015-10-21T14:54:52.853" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Captain America: The Winter Soldier, S.H.I.E.L.D was in disarray and the world needed an elite force to deal with the remaining Hydra forces. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was mentioned in the movie that Tony Stark is bankrolling the team and set up shop in Stark Tower, now the headquarters of the Avengers. At the end of Iron-man 3 it was shown that Banner and Tony were still in contact with each other. We see Tony on a couch, supposedly telling his woes to Dr. Bruce Banner who was nodding off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thor was shown to returned to Earth at the end of Thor: The Dark World. He came back at the end and kissed Natalie Portman's character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also mentioned that the beginning scene wasn't their first mission together. The team has already been on numerous missions together against Hydra.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As explained in the official Avengers: Age of Ultron prelude comic “This Scepter’d Isle”, Hydra agents inside of S.H.I.E.L.D. stole the Scepter and brought it to Baron von Strucker’s Sokovia base where he used it to experiment on people in an attempt to create enhanced soldiers. Again, this is a storyline tying into season 2 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Scepter somehow unlocks abilities in Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, but no one else Hydra experiemented on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26154" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T14:54:52.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12052" CreationDate="2015-10-21T15:23:41.057" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Littlefinger wanted power. Ned holds the north. It is impossible to take the north while Ned is at Winterfell. He killed Jon Arryn with the help of Lysa so that he hoped King Robert would reach out for Ned to serve as Hand of the King. That way Ned is out of Winterfell and also at Kings Landing where it is easier for him to get rid of Ned with his schemes. He cleverly bought Ned's confidence and betrayed him when the time is right. Now he turned the Lannisters against the Boltons and in return he wanted to become the Warden of the North. If anyone in the game of thrones is more dangerous it is Littlefinger. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27038" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2017-04-18T00:22:53.203" LastActivityDate="2017-04-18T00:22:53.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42573" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42575" CreationDate="2015-10-21T15:59:11.240" Score="9" ViewCount="16560" Body="&lt;p&gt;After hearing the news of Twin Peaks' possible renewal I wondered, why wasn't it renewed in the 90's? As far as I remember, the show ended quite abruptly without a good closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-21T16:59:00.100" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T16:59:00.100" Title="Why wasn't Twin Peaks renewed in the 90's?" Tags="|twin-peaks|cancellation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42574" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42613" CreationDate="2015-10-21T16:02:21.837" Score="5" ViewCount="1094" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the note of the Twin Peak's renewal rumor after nearly 25 years of inactivity (since last episode in 1991), what is the longest time elapsed before a show got renewed while preserving the main cast?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T12:39:55.100" Title="What is the longest time elapsed before a show got renewed while preserving main cast?" Tags="|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42573" CreationDate="2015-10-21T16:11:56.110" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks#Declining_ratings&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;'Declining Ratings' segment in Twin Peaks' Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; sums up the reasons pretty well (but I'll sum them up even further with bullet points below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;With the resolution of Twin Peaks' main drawing point (Laura Palmer's murder) in the middle of the second season, and with subsequent story lines becoming more obscure and drawn out, public interest began to wane, and interest in the program seemed over. This discontent, coupled with ABC changing its timeslot on a number of occasions, led to a huge drop in ratings&lt;/strong&gt; after being one of the most-watched television programs in the United States in 1990. A week after the season's 15th episode placed 85th in the ratings out of 89 shows[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ABC agreed to air the remaining six episodes to finish the season. However, &lt;strong&gt;due to the Gulf War, Twin Peaks was taken off its usual time slot &amp;quot;for six weeks out of eight&amp;quot; in early 1991, according to Frost, preventing the show from maintaining audience interest.&lt;/strong&gt; In the final episodes, Agent Cooper was given a love interest, Annie Blackburn (Heather Graham), to replace the intended story arc with Audrey Horne. According to Frost, a female cast member (Lara Flynn Boyle) who was romantically involved with Kyle MacLachlan at the time had effectively vetoed the Audrey-Cooper relationship, forcing the writers to come up with an alternative. Sherilyn Fenn supported this claim in 2014 interview, stating, &amp;quot;[Boyle] was mad that my character was getting more attention, so then Kyle started saying that his character shouldn’t be with my character because it doesn’t look good, ’cause I’m too young. ... I was not happy about it. It was stupid.&amp;quot; &lt;strong&gt;The series finale did not sufficiently boost interest, despite being written to end on a deliberate audience-baiting cliffhanger, and the show was not renewed for a third season, leaving the new cliffhanger unresolved.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lynch expressed his regret at having resolved the Laura Palmer murder, stating he and Frost had never intended for the series to answer the question and that doing so &amp;quot;killed the goose that laid the golden eggs&amp;quot;. Lynch blames network pressure for the decision to resolve the Palmer storyline prematurely. Frost agreed, noting that people at the network had in fact wanted the killer to be revealed by the end of season one. [...] Looking back, &lt;strong&gt;Frost has admitted that he wished he and Lynch had &amp;quot;worked out a smoother transition&amp;quot; between storylines and that the Laura Palmer story was a &amp;quot;tough act to follow&amp;quot;. Regarding the second season, Frost felt that &amp;quot;perhaps the storytelling wasn't quite as taut or as fraught with emotion&amp;quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in short:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After the main mystery driving the show (Laura Palmer's murder) has been resolved and ABC kept changing the time slot, the audience lost interest and there was a huge drop in the ratings;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Gulf War took center stage and the show was frequently pre-empted;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Feuds between the actors sabotaged storylines;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Co-creator Mark Frost admits that the 2nd season had a more sprawling and less focused plot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this led to the show being cancelled after ending on a cliffhanger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T16:28:50.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39646" CreationDate="2015-10-21T16:28:34.947" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The event was realistic, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_collision&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Überlingen mid-air collision&lt;/a&gt; is a good real-life example. However in this case the reason was not only the mistake of the controller (although it was the main factor), but a series on unfortunate factors that appeared together (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_collision#Other_factors_in_the_crash&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Other factors in the crash&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One might assume that in case of other similar catastrophes there are also many factors involved and so it was in the show, but the details were simply not shown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T16:28:34.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42574" CreationDate="2015-10-21T17:18:37.623" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would suggest a good possibility is the new &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Five-0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hawaii-Five-0&lt;/a&gt; that was renewed after 30 years.  Although it is considered a remake, it also contains elements of the original show which could qualify as an answer for this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actors who play the &amp;quot;Main cast&amp;quot; are different people but most all have the same names as in the original.  Additionally the new show has featured a few cameo performances from characters who were on the original show, such as Edward Asner reprising his role as &amp;quot;August March&amp;quot;, as described in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbs.com/shows/hawaii_five_0/news/1003388/hawaii-five-0-hidden-tributes-to-original-series-100th-episode/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article from CBS&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HAWAII FIVE-0&amp;quot; CELEBRATES 100 EPISODES BY REVEALING HIDDEN NODS TO THE ORIGINAL SERIES PLACED WITHIN THE SHOW&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;­Through the past five years, HAWAII FIVE-0 has often honored the original &amp;quot;Hawaii Five-O&amp;quot; series with references to its predecessor hidden within the episodes. In celebration of the 100th episode that air Friday, Nov. 7 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT), following is a list of those nods to the legendary original series hidden within the current one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pilot – McGarrett’s 1974 Mercury Marquis is the actual car from the original series. It was owned by Jack Lord himself and is seen several times throughout the series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pilot – &amp;quot;Book’em Danno&amp;quot; - The most famous line from the original series was said for the first time in the pilot and often repeated throughout the series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pilot – Danny (Scott Caan) is the only member of Five-0 to wear a shirt and tie – similar to how the original Five-O team always wore suits to the office.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;102 &amp;quot;Ohana&amp;quot; (Family) – Kono (Grace Park) first refers to McGarrett as &amp;quot;Boss&amp;quot; in this episode and continues throughout series. Kono on the original series often called McGarrett &amp;quot;Boss.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;103 &amp;quot;Malama Ka Aina&amp;quot; (Respect the Land) – In this episode, the mother who took Grace (Teilor Grubbs) to hide in the bathroom is played by Helen Kuoha-Torco. Helen was the original Tahitian dancer featured in the main credits of the original series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;104 &amp;quot;Lanakila&amp;quot; (Victory) – McGarrett's sister, Mary Ann McGarrett (Taryn Manning), shares the same name as McGarrett’s sister in the original series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;105 &amp;quot;Nalowale&amp;quot; (Lost) – First appearance of Dr. Max Bergman (Masi Oka), named after the main Medical Examiner in the original series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;107 &amp;quot;Ho’apono&amp;quot; (Innocent) – Robert Loggia plays retired Navy man Ed McKay and also played an ex-cop named Russell Hendrix in &amp;quot;The Execution File&amp;quot; episode of the original series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;109 &amp;quot;Po’ipu&amp;quot; (The Siege) – Ric Young, who plays General Pak, also played a travel agent (as Eric Young) in the episode &amp;quot;Nine Dragons&amp;quot; in the original series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;109 &amp;quot;Po’ipu&amp;quot; (The Siege) – McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) gives his address as 2727 Piikoi St. In the original series, Steve McGarrett also lived on Piikoi St.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;112 &amp;quot;Hana ‘a’a Makehewa&amp;quot; (Desperate Measures) - We first meet Sgt. Duke Lukela, played by Dennis Chun. Dennis not only had a few smaller roles in the original series, but he is also the son of Kam Fong who played the original Chin Ho Kelly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;112 &amp;quot;Hana ‘a’a Makehewa&amp;quot; (Desperate Measures) - Wo Fat (Mark Dacascos) makes his first appearance. Wo Fat was the main bad guy on the original &amp;quot;Hawaii Five-O.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;113 &amp;quot;Ke Kinohi&amp;quot; (Beginning) - We first meet surf shop owner and instructor Mamo Kahike played by Al Harrington. Al played series regular Ben Kokua in the original &amp;quot;Hawaii Five-O.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;118 &amp;quot;Loa Aloha&amp;quot; (Long Goodbye) – Clyde Kusatsu, who plays Judge Kamalei, also appeared in the original show’s ninth season episode &amp;quot;Yes, My Deadly Daughter.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;119 &amp;quot;Na Me’e Laua Na Paio&amp;quot; (Heroes and Villains) - The episode features the first appearance of recurring character Jenna Kaye as a CIA analyst. Jenna is a nod to original series character Chief of Pacific Operations Counter Intelligence Jonathan Kaye.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;121 &amp;quot;Ho’opa’I&amp;quot; (Vengeance) – While interrogating Agent Marsh, McGarrett says &amp;quot;I answer to God and to the Governor, neither of whom are going to help you right now.&amp;quot; This is a reference to the original series pilot &amp;quot;Cocoon&amp;quot; when it’s said Steve McGarrett only takes orders from the Governor and God, &amp;quot;and sometimes even they have trouble.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As of Season Two, McGarrett’s Silverado's license plate reads F6-3958, a nod to the original series where Jack Lord's McGarrett had this plate number for his personal state issued car, used for both the 1968 Park Lane and 1974 Marquis Brougham.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;202 &amp;quot;Ua Lawe Wale&amp;quot; (Taken) – Homeland Security Agent Lori Weston, played by Lauren German, is a reference to Det. Lori Wilson, the member of Five-O in the final season.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;202 &amp;quot;Ua Lawe Wale (Taken) – Tom Sizemore plays Captain Fryer in Internal Affairs. This is a nod to the original series character Bernie Fryer, who was also a big shot in Internal Affairs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;219 &amp;quot;Kalele&amp;quot; (Faith) – Ed Asner reprises his role as renowned smuggler August March from the original series episode &amp;quot;Wooden Model of a Rat.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;219 &amp;quot;Kalele&amp;quot; (Faith) – In August March’s home, we see a collection of miniature sculptures from Japan. These sculptures are a wink to how in the original series episode, March framed McGarrett for stealing one of these priceless statues.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;223 &amp;quot;Ua Hala&amp;quot; (Death in the Family) – Karl Herlinger, playing Toothpick, had a small role as &amp;quot;Baseball Kid&amp;quot; in the premiere of Hawaii Five-O’s final season.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;302 &amp;quot;Kanalua&amp;quot; (Doubt) –Ed Asner once again makes a 'final' appearance as original series villain August March.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;303 &amp;quot;Lana I Ka Moana&amp;quot; (Adrift) – While fishing, McGarrett wears an unusual straw hat, a nod to the style of hats Steve McGarrett (Jack Lord) wore in the original series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;307 &amp;quot;Ohuna&amp;quot; (The Secret) – Russell Wong, who plays Kong Kiang, also appeared in the 1997 pilot as Nick Wong, an FBI agent who the Lt. Gov. appoints to be co-director of Five-O.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;315 &amp;quot;Hookman&amp;quot; – For the new series, undoubtedly the biggest homage to the original Hawaii Five-O is the remake of fan-favorite &amp;quot;Hookman.&amp;quot; With a modern day update of the story and using original locations, shot compositions, original title and style of opening credits, the cast and crew created a meticulous reboot of this original episode.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;315 &amp;quot;Hookman&amp;quot; – Local character actor Terry Plunkett, who played several small roles over the years in the original series, makes an appearance as the Mailbox Proprietor.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season Four makes its first use of the original Five-O theme as the score during the show. The theme can be heard in episodes 401, 407 and 422.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;401 &amp;quot;Aloha Kekahi I Ke Kahi&amp;quot; (We Need Each Other) – Capt. Grover was an original series character that Five-O meets in the seventh season episode, &amp;quot;The Hostage.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;407 &amp;quot;Ua Nalohia&amp;quot; (In Deep) – Cathy Foy, who plays coffeehouse waitress Nani, appeared in the original series twice. Once as a receptionist in &amp;quot;Head to Head,&amp;quot; and again as a telephone operator in &amp;quot;Though the Heavens Fall.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;413 &amp;quot;Hana Lokomaika’I&amp;quot; (The Favor) – Chin Ho’s father is named Kam Tong, a nod to Kam Fong, the actor who played the original Chin Ho Kelly.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;415 &amp;quot;Pale ‘la&amp;quot; (Buried Secrets) – Clara Williams gets her name from Danny’s aunt in the original series. Interestingly, on the original series, Clara Williams is played by Helen Hayes, the real-life mother of original Danno, James MacArthur.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;501 &amp;quot;A’ohe Kai e Pe’e Ai&amp;quot; (Nowhere to Hide) – After getting a call from the drone pilot, Sgt. Duke Lukela tells Pua to &amp;quot;Patch him through to McGarrett.&amp;quot; This line was used in the original series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26401" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T17:24:50.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42560" CreationDate="2015-10-21T17:28:54.603" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are three types of TV shows taped before a live audience, sitcoms, game shows, and talk shows. I'm just going to cover sitcoms; the other two use just one set and don't have the same issues the sitcoms do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tickets to sitcoms are free; they are given out at booths in places like CityWalk at Universal City, or you can get them online.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtickets.com/overview.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here is a list&lt;/a&gt; of current shows that Audience Unlimiteds has tickets for, including Mike and Molly, the Big Bang Theory, and Last Man Standing.  You can probably get tickets for the same day for shows with lower ratings, but tickets to the Big Bang Theory are very hard to get, and there may be a long waiting list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You line up outside a sound stage on a studio lot, like Warner Bros. or CBS Television, and are ushered in about a half-hour before taping begins.  Seating (at least on the shows I've been to) was on bleachers, although others use chairs. Above and in front of the bleachers are several large TV monitors, maybe every ten feet or so; these have several purposes as we will see.  It was really cold inside, I imagine because of the large lights used to illuminate the sets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On some shows, there may be a warm up person bantering with the audience, or they may show an earlier episode of the show be running on the TV screens.  In any case, they are trying to loosen up the audience a little and get them laughing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are typically many sets, if the action takes place in a home, there will be one for the kitchen, another for the living room, maybe another for an upstairs bedroom (which would still be at the same level as the others of course -- any stairs go nowhere). Each set will have a wall missing for the camera and audience to see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There might also be other sets where the actors go to occasionally (like the store on the Big Bang Theory).  These will be placed at the very far end of all the other sets, because they are not used very often.  There may also be space for an extra set, again at the end of the others, which can be dressed as necessary to meet the requirements of a particular episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sets are lined up one after another, so the entire group of sets is quite long (so it looks like a train with a bunch of open boxcars.), as are the bleachers or rows of chairs.  That means you get the best view when they are taping on the set right in front of you, or on either side, but several sets away right or left, not so good.  So they show what one of the camera is seeing on the TV monitors (which one is controlled by someone in a control booth).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1vASo.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1vASo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Taping is usually done with three (or more) pretty large TV cameras in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-camera_setup&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;multi-camera setup&lt;/a&gt;.  Unlike movies, which typically shoot scenes out of order, sitcoms are shot in chronological order because of the live audience.  All the cameras have to be moved back and forth between one room and another, so there is quite a bit of delay between scenes in different sets.  The sets not being used are usually kept dark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Each scene may take several takes to get it right, particularly with comedies where the actors may break up laughing.   The hard part then is to get the same reaction from the audience since they have heard the jokes already.  If they don't, they may have to &quot;sweeten&quot; the laughter during post-production.  The director or producer may decide to make minor changes to the script -- for example, if a joke got no reaction from the audience.  Or they may change a joke just a little, so it will be &quot;fresh&quot; to the audience for the next take.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one show I was at, there was a scene that couldn't be done live (no special effects; I believe it was just a scene outdoors). It had obviously been taped beforehand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the outdoor scene came up, they stopped the action on the set, dimmed the lights, and played the scene on the TV monitors above the bleachers.  In this way, they were able to record our reaction (laughter) to the scene.  I imagine the same thing would be done with any scene with special effects.    They wouldn't use a green scene except for scenes recorded ahead of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally shows like sitcoms have few special effects, so this would not be a problem -- they wouldn't be stopping every other scene or whatever. I'm sure there are guidelines given to the writers to cover this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This whole process may take from three to five hours for a 30-minute sitcom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="325" LastEditDate="2015-11-18T00:38:45.963" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T00:38:45.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42556" CreationDate="2015-10-21T17:39:06.587" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's possible.  This interview doesn't specifically state the timeframe that he's discussing, and I don't recall when that episode aired, but Farr does discuss that he asked for a raise and the studio's typical response was to write a character out of a show rather than give in to the actor's demands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, at the same time, Walt is correct in that for the &lt;strong&gt;majority&lt;/strong&gt; of the show, Klinger was trying his best to get a Section 8 dismissal.  At some point, after a discussion with Col. Potter, he stopped trying to do that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The interview is here (and should start up at 29:08, where Farr talks about asking for the raise).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/W7B0kfHar-g?t=27m45s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jamie Farr interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T17:39:06.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42527" CreationDate="2015-10-21T18:09:02.330" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It’s also a bit “weird” since it rotates, given the fact that most&#xA;  devices I know including very old ones like those wide printer cables,&#xA;  are just pins in contact with holes that have pins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You are thinking of this as pure data connection interface—such as a simple data cable connection—but to my mind I see it as a more of a combined communication method where the core connection passes data but the rotating motion of the arm allows R2 to traverse and “dial” different available systems on that connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;A rotary telephone dial.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As someone who saw “Star Wars” as a 9-year old kid when it was first released in 1977 R2-D2 connecting to a computer that way always reminded me of a plug being inserted into a socket combined with a rotary phone being dialed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4McMm.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4McMm.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Animation of a rotary phone dial.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the idea of rotary phones seem like something truly ancient nowadays—such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chRfq0SpATw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;in this YouTube video&lt;/a&gt; where someone describes their rotary phone to be an “antique”—the reality is that in the early-to-mid 1970s when the first “Star Wars” film was being conceived, designed and made, rotary phones were very common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone I knew in New York City grew up with rotary phones and many people only saw/dealt with touch-tone phones at offices and workplaces where Bell Telephone first rolled them out. As explained on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-a-touch-tone-telephone.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this page on WiseGeek&lt;/a&gt; focused touch tone phones:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Deployed to the business community initially, the technology quickly&#xA;  spread to the private sector. By 1979, the touch tone phone was the&#xA;  telephone of choice for most users in many parts of the world. With&#xA;  the deregulation of the telephone industry in the United States in&#xA;  1984, the touch tone telephone became even more important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This 1979 to 1984 timeframe dovetails nicely with the original “Star Wars” trilogy since “Return of the Jedi” came out in 1983. Meaning that throughout the span of the first three films rotary dial phones were very commonplace in the real world and only became &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; common after “Ma Bell” was broken up in 1984 and touch tone phones became more and more commonplace in the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Computer modems with acoustic couplers.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that computer modems with acoustic couplers—where a standard phone handset was placed in an acoustic coupler connected to a computer—were still commonplace in the 1970s. While in many of these acoustic coupler modem setups, the computer itself would do the “dialing” of a number via its data connection, you could theoretically still use the dial on the base of such a phone to dial a number to a remote system while the “data connection” of the handset in the acoustic coupler was still in place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5usqx.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5usqx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Acoustic modem and phone.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Dial on a combination lock.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe looking at how a combination lock works would also work into the real-world analogy of what R2-D2 is doing. Many times R2-D2 is basically trying to get a door open or reveal some magical “maps” in places like the Death Star to help our heroes find things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mk4cs.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mk4cs.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Dial on a combination lock.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s a fairly common TV and movie trope to see some safe-cracker hunched over a lock and listen to the tumblers carefully while he/she attempts to crack open a safe. Just looking at R2-D2’s short—and sometimes visual “hunched”—posture while doing tasks like this, one can easily imagine a visual analogy to safecracker doing his/her safecracking work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Additional in-universe R2 droid arm details for context.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember: R2-D2 has more than one arm/attachment/device/intreface/doohickey/can-opener. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/42527/the-science-behind-r2d2s-computer-interfacing-arm/42529#comment65601_42528&quot;&gt;this comment to another answer by “cde”&lt;/a&gt; states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;…the times he gets electrocuted or shocked by a port and gets sent&#xA;  flying, means it doesn’t lock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Err… R2-D2 has many different things shoved into his cylindrical chassis &lt;a href=&quot;http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/3/39/ArtooBlueprints-SWBTUC.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100519191605&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;as these blueprints show&lt;/a&gt; and here is a zoomed in and cropped version of the relevant bits of info:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xOTyj.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xOTyj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;R2-D2s arms as explained in blueprints.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that item number 15 is the “Universal computer interface arm” (aka: the SCOMP link) but item 17 is described as the “multi-function utility and interface arm.” In “The Empire Strikes Back” when C-3P0 inadvertently advises R2-D2 to connect to a “computer terminal”—which is actually a power socket—you can see that R2-D2 is clearly not using his SCOMP link arm but rather that “multi-function utility and interface arm” to test the port before doing anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So R2-D2 trusts C-3P0 but is still wary of his advice. Ultimately, this effort doesn’t stop him from getting shocked by the power socket, but still… He didn’t just blindly stick his data connection into unknown socket just because some bumbling protocol droid told him to do so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J8QD6.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J8QD6.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/42528/18230&quot;&gt;this answer states&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When he is co-piloting a starfighter through his interface arm, you&#xA;  don't want him to accidentally lose connection during a fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, I’m not too sure that is the case. Looking at the blueprints you see there are a few different “spacecraft” related things such as item 10, the “spacecraft data slot” and item 12 “spacecraft linkage and control arms.” Given the specificity of those names, it seems that when an R2 unit is co-piloting a spacecraft, those connections would come into play rather than the SCOMP link.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18230" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T23:46:10.520" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42562" CreationDate="2015-10-21T18:18:41.003" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is explained in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 Episode 19, &quot;The Dirty Half-Dozen&quot;. Phil Coulson (Who the Avengers think is dead) is now the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and are trying to fight Hydra from underground, since S.H.I.E.L.D officially doesn't exist anymore after the events of The Winter Soldier. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coulson and his team attack one Hydra base and discover that the scepter is located in Strucker's base. He then proceeds to call Maria Hill and tells her to &quot;call in the Avengers&quot;, setting up the events of Age of Ultron. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27046" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T18:18:41.003" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42586" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42588" CreationDate="2015-10-21T18:40:36.183" Score="5" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can only remember bits and pieces of this film, the info I'm giving may or may appear in that order but here it goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;takes place in space (probably in the future)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;very huge space ships which are literally the home for many people&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;protagonists have a small ship though.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;possible released in the last decade. decently cast.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;there's one computer guy who has an robot girlfriend. this character appears after some time into the film. He's sought by the protagonist group for help... he agrees to help but betrays them by giving out their location to antagonist group who then kill him. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the protagonist group goes to a planet (earth?) to retrieve something and the villain group don't want them to. On this planet all the people and life has died instantly... like in a 'snap'. When the hero group gets here, they see dead decomposed bodies. the scene is like they all died when they were just going about their everyday lives. Cause of death is probably a bio weapon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last two points are all I can remember. Nothing else is coming to my mind. It's been bugging me since days and I had no luck with Google.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27048" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-21T18:55:37.283" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T18:57:34.140" Title="Space-themed movie about protagonists on a small ship" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:07:12.963" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42586" CreationDate="2015-10-21T18:46:40.160" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;These plot points are found in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/combined&quot;&gt;Serenity&lt;/a&gt; from 2005.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the future, a spaceship called Serenity is harboring a passenger with a deadly secret. Six rebels on the run. An assassin in pursuit. When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an awesome action-packed battle between the relentless military might of a totalitarian regime who will destroy anything - or anyone - to get the girl back and the bloodthirsty creatures who roam the uncharted areas of space. But, the greatest danger of all may be on their ship. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The crew comes across &lt;a href=&quot;https://i2.wp.com/media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/MIS_13.8h1.jpg&quot;&gt;Mr. Universe&lt;/a&gt;, a hacker who has a female love bot and betrays them (and is killed by the antagonists - the Operative - he betrayed them to), and also a planet full of dead bodies. The film was a continuation of the show &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;Firefly&lt;/a&gt;. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/JY3u7bB7dZk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-21T18:57:34.140" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T18:57:34.140" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1546" CreationDate="2015-10-21T19:43:34.397" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, for starters, we have to look at the symbolism of Chinatown. What does the area itself represent? Within the story, Chinatown is the neighborhood in which Jake, years earlier, failed to protect a woman. Not only did he fail to &quot;save&quot; this woman, he ensured that she would be hurt by his very attempt to save her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can divine that Towne's screenplay contains a larger symbolic purpose for Chinatown. In my opinion, Chinatown represents the power structures of the world, and the futility of attempting to subvert them. The line, &quot;Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.&quot; is an admonishment to those who seek to do what is right in the face of unassailable evil and corruption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Noah Cross personifies these malevolent forces. You may recall the scene where Noah and Jake are eating lunch at Noah's farm, and Noah tells Jake: &quot;You may think you know what you're dealing with, but, believe me, you don't.&quot; This line, which drips with subtext, reveals that Jake is in over his head, and Noah knows it. Noah has the arrogance of a man who has taken everything he's ever wanted, and nothing has stopped him. He is the power of the world, and the forces of good are no match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jake has once before tried to fight back, in Chinatown. The memory of Chinatown is a traumatic one to Jake, for it bears the realization that one is powerless in the face of the world's oppressive evil. At the climax of &quot;Chinatown,&quot; Jake is once again reminded that he is grossly overmatched. The police, who arrive during the final showdown, simply enable the corruption to fester right before their eyes. And, just as it happened before, the victim of Chinatown is an innocent woman. &quot;Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.&quot; - the line spoken by one of Jake's P.I. pals, is a plea to Jake to accept what Chinatown is: a place where good only begets bad; a place where things do not change. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27050" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-22T07:54:58.713" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T07:54:58.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42592" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-21T20:58:32.370" Score="8" ViewCount="406" Body="&lt;p&gt;In accordance with the topic challenge on time travel in TV and movies and celebrating Future Day:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are quite a few Terminator questions relating to specific changes in the timeline or to whether a particular event from one timeline would still occur in another. What I want to do is create a comprehensive explanation of every event that changed the timeline and the known changes it produced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rules:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An answer must explain the events of all 5 currently released Terminator films. &lt;em&gt;The Sarah Conner Chronicles&lt;/em&gt; is optional. (I have not seen the show, but my understanding is it wasn't supposed to affect the movie timelines.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Resolve all contradictions. For the purpose of this question, arguing that a discrepency between films was a continuity error rather than a change to the timeline is not allowed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If there is any debate as to whether or not something constitutes as a change in or between films, arguments that cite evidence from the movies will trump arguments that don't (including, for example, our universe's laws of physics).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Your answer may argue that the movies were released out of sequence (e.g. that &lt;em&gt;Salvation&lt;/em&gt; is the future following from &lt;em&gt;Judgement Day&lt;/em&gt;, not &lt;em&gt;Rise of the Machines&lt;/em&gt;), but an answer in which changes to the timeline occur in the same order as the films were released will trump one in which the order must be changed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You do not have to agree with the course of events in my example; simply present a complete, well-argued explanation that is consistent with itself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stealing &lt;em&gt;parts&lt;/em&gt; of previous answers is acceptable. (Hence why I am posting one to start it off.) However, if this happens, I may have to make a judgement call as to which answer to accept, and this will be subjective.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To keep the answers readable, please adhere roughly to the format used in my starting attempt.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27012" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-05T15:58:44.707" LastActivityDate="2020-03-14T20:27:00.393" Title="Track all changes to the timeline in the Terminator series" Tags="|time-travel|terminator-series|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42594" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-21T21:42:12.700" Score="3" ViewCount="2109" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the very beginning of the 1981 movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083169/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Taps&lt;/a&gt;, George C. Scott reads from the Book of Remembrance.  This book contains all of the soldiers from Bunker Hill Academy (not sure if that's a real school or not) who have died in wars.  After each name, he mentions the place they died and then says, &quot;Taps&quot; and the date of their death.  i.e. &quot;Thomas, John H., Class of '22, Okinawa, Japan, Taps September 10, 1942.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only information I could find on &quot;Taps&quot; relates to the bugle call.  Does &quot;Taps&quot; have some other meaning?  What does it mean in the context of that segment of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-03-20T11:24:36.420" Title="Taps - What does it mean?" Tags="|analysis|taps|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42598" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42599" CreationDate="2015-10-21T22:41:03.333" Score="4" ViewCount="3421" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched this movie some years ago and only remember a scene in particular, near the final, when many animals (or creatures?) are on a conveyor belt and are going into a great spaceship. The scene takes place I remember in an enoumous ambient where is placed the spaceship, and this ambient is mainly pink-red in color (not very sure about this).&#xA;Sorry but don’t remember any more details.&#xA;I’m sure it is a Hollywood movie, not very old (no more than 10-20 years), and almost sure not an animation movie.&#xA;Anyone may help me to identify it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27055" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2015-10-22T05:40:18.093" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T05:40:18.093" Title="Sci-fi movie with a giant spaceship (or something) used like Noah’s Ark" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:07:19.257" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42598" CreationDate="2015-10-21T23:34:28.157" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Echoing &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/566/andrew-thompson&quot;&gt;Andrew Thompson's comment&lt;/a&gt;, I'm fairly sure this is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Captain_and_the_World_of_Tomorrow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow&lt;/a&gt;. The scene you've described is below and the background &quot;ambient&quot; often includes backgrounds in pink and red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can easily see how the sort of noir-style colouration could make you think it was an animated feature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zx21S.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zx21S.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-10-21T23:34:28.157" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42594" CreationDate="2015-10-22T00:39:24.980" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some believe &quot;Taps&quot; is an acronym.  It is not an acronym, the origin of the word more than likely was derived from the three drum taps that were played signaling &quot;Extinguish Lights&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While &quot;Taps&quot; is played at Military funerals, it is also played at US Military bases and barracks to signal soldiers that it is time for bed or lights out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both my Father and my Husband had served in the United States Military.  They both had informed me that while in boot camp, the &quot;Taps&quot; story was passed onto them.  The following from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://usmilitary.about.com/od/theorderlyroom/a/tapshistory.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;US Military&lt;/a&gt; corroborates the story that they both told to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In July of 1862, in the aftermath of the bloody Seven Days battles of the Civil War,&#xA;  hard on the loss of 600 men and wounded himself, Union General Daniel&#xA;  Adams Butterfield called the brigade bugler to his tent. He thought&#xA;  &quot;Lights Out&quot; was too formal and he wished to honor his men.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scott says &quot;Taps&quot; after each man's name to both honor and mourn them.  When &quot;Taps&quot; is being played at a Military base or barracks to signal lights out, soldiers are to take that time to remember those that have fallen before them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T00:39:24.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42601" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-22T01:50:04.487" Score="2" ViewCount="302" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the Flash season 1, Pied Piper, a man who controlled sound waves appeared. On the first episode he deliberately gets captured then escapes. On the second episode he gets beat up but doesn't come back to Star Labs prison cells. Does he go to Iron Heights? I read somewhere he escaped Iron Heights, was that comics only? I thought he might reappear, but then he would be the only character that hasn't been mentioned that comes back. (Captain Cold and Heat Wave are frequently mentioned.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know where he went? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27060" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-20T11:19:23.213" LastActivityDate="2016-04-20T11:19:23.213" Title="Where did Pied Piper go?" Tags="|character|arrowverse|the-flash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23876" CreationDate="2015-10-22T02:34:00.680" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The carousel was a symbol. Remember when they talked about how Lionel did the card trick in front of the carousel? It was one of his first tricks, he was throwing in it back almost 20 yrs. The carousel is Dylan's way of remembering his father and his early years. It's a symbol. Representing Lionel, Magic, Misdirection, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27062" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T02:34:00.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42604" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42614" CreationDate="2015-10-22T05:01:59.943" Score="1" ViewCount="1056" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are some principal characters missing from some TV episodes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's even more difficult to understand is when they're even included in a few minutes of the episode, and then they are written out of it.  That would seem to imply it wasn't an emergency- or health-related issue on the part of the actor.  It would seem to imply that it's a structured way to save money.  But even this doesn't quite make sense for the average million dollar TV series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just as an example, in the 3rd season of House M.D., in the sixth episode (the one featuring an overweight man), the story includes Dr. Chase for a few minutes.  Then, he seems to be written out of the episode for no known reason.  He's a principal character, so it seems strange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For what reasons might this happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27063" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-10-22T09:49:44.283" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T13:01:20.800" Title="Why are some principal characters missing from some TV episodes?" Tags="|character|production|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42606" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42607" CreationDate="2015-10-22T05:51:09.047" Score="12" ViewCount="74614" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both of Hermione's parents were muggles but she was a witch. I just finished Half blood prince but there is no explanation about this yet. What is the criterion to be born a witch/wizard? Isn't it necessary that at least one of the parents be a wizard too? May be books have elaborated more on this if some one knows, please let me know. Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21728" LastEditorUserId="21728" LastEditDate="2015-10-22T17:20:12.217" LastActivityDate="2017-03-26T01:02:34.203" Title="Why was Hermione a witch?" Tags="|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42606" CreationDate="2015-10-22T06:15:31.110" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not depended on any criteria, it mainly depends on &lt;strong&gt;gene&lt;/strong&gt; A wizard have to born with the magic gene regardless of their parents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see it in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Blood_Status&quot;&gt;harry potter wikia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Those born to Muggle families but &lt;strong&gt;who are skilled with and have the&#xA;  magic gene are referred to as Muggle-borns&lt;/strong&gt;. A child born with magic to&#xA;  two Muggle parents is considered a Muggle-born.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Muggle-born&quot;&gt;Also they're as powerful as so called pure bloods&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Muggle-born is the term given to a witch or wizard who is born to two&#xA;  non-magical parents. Their magical abilities &lt;strong&gt;do not seem to be at all&#xA;  affected by their Muggle parentage&lt;/strong&gt;. In fact, many Muggle-borns have&#xA;  been among the most talented witches and wizards of their time, such&#xA;  as Lily Evans and Hermione Granger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;JK Rowling quoted &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Muggle-borns will have a witch or wizard somewhere on their family&#xA;  tree, in some cases many, many generations back. The gene resurfaces&#xA;  in some unexpected places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you can see many point of views and facts in this &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/How-do-Muggle-borns-end-up-with-magical-ability?redirected_qid=3739680&quot;&gt;Quora question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Muggle-borns are descendants to Squibs. You can consider magic being&#xA;  some form of genetic marker that can go dormant and resurface years or&#xA;  centuries later even.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="12936" LastEditDate="2015-10-22T06:24:09.610" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T06:24:09.610" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42574" CreationDate="2015-10-22T12:39:55.100" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is likely to suffer from debates over what constitutes the original cast; whether you count factual TV, coverage of public events, etc; and what constitutes renewal as opposed to a one-off special, sequel, film spin-off, etc: many TV shows have seen one-off reunions, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The longest gap I know is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jetsons&quot;&gt;The Jetsons&lt;/a&gt; which returned after 22 years in 1985 with largely the same voice cast; this is far longer than the likes of Family Guy or Futurama.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For live action TV, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_(1978_TV_series)&quot;&gt;Dallas&lt;/a&gt; returned as a new series in 2012 (a proper, continuing series, not just a special or TV movie). This was 21 years after it finished in 1991, with several stars of the original, as well as some new actors, but in the intervening period there were 2 TV specials with the original cast. When Twin Peaks returns it'll beat the Jetsons, even if you count the film Fire Walk With Me (1992).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27074" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T12:39:55.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42604" CreationDate="2015-10-22T12:55:30.923" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This can happen for any number of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the actor has a reason to be away (not necessarily an emergency) so they have less scenes. Sometimes they can prerecord some sub-plot scenes in advance so that the character doesn't mysteriously disappear for many episodes in a row&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the actor has a reason to want a lower workload for a little while (learning lines or recording scenes) and the show is willing to give it to them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the actor has a physical restriction (is wearing a cast, is visibly hugely pregnant, is limping) that the character should not have, and reducing the number of scenes is the easiest way to hide that&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the particular episode is designed to focus on one or two other characters who get the bulk of the screen time, leaving less for this one&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the writer of this episode tends not to think of or include this character, so when there's a need for a random conversation between A and anybody, they happen to choose C or D rather than B, meaning B only appears in conversations where nobody else could appear instead&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;two actors are not getting along and don't want to do scenes together, so scenes they would normally both be in feature only one of them at a time, reducing screen time for at least one of them&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Calling this &quot;being written out&quot; is inaccurate. Thinking it will save the production money is almost certainly inaccurate too, and even if it did that would not be the reason for it. There is no single reason for it. Things happen. Sometimes characters don't appear for a while, sometimes an actors workload is reduced, sometimes a character's circumstances are changed. The reasons are sometimes obvious (hey, check the huge purse she's carrying! How come she always stands behind counters and desks lately? Oh right, the actor is pregnant but the character isn't) and sometimes they're not. To think there's only one reason is to oversimplify a complicated business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8842" LastEditorUserId="8842" LastEditDate="2015-10-22T13:01:20.800" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T13:01:20.800" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42617" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42638" CreationDate="2015-10-22T14:51:27.703" Score="7" ViewCount="4176" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a tough one. Does anybody remember a comedy back in the 80s (I think) in which, during the opening credits, we see a series of silly, everyday events (nothing to do with the movie's plot) set in New York.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only one of those I remember is a lady in high heels walking along the sidewalk and getting her heels stuck in a sidewalk grate. As she's struggling to get her heels free, a guy comes along and tries to help her by pulling up on her feet.  But as he pulls up on her feet, he moves his hands up her legs and she fights him off with her purse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27079" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-22T15:38:07.417" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T02:53:33.007" Title="Opening scene with a woman who gets her high heels stuck in a grate" Tags="|identify-this-movie|comedy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:07:22.390" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42620" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42643" CreationDate="2015-10-22T18:10:26.967" Score="4" ViewCount="819" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Hollywood, are there more main roles for male actors than female (actresses)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there generally more roles for male actors than female (not just leading ones)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It probably depends on the genre. I use to search for action, thriller, crime genres, but I believe it happens not only in these ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance, in &quot;Bollywood&quot; there may be very different stats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just have this feeling when I scroll down IMDB lists, and most of the times the leading roles are on male actors. And when I find a female leading role, I'm used to see many male actors behind. Maybe that just happens in my preferred genres. Or maybe it's just a general fact. I don't know. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've also read female leading roles in action movies don't use to do so well in box office, and maybe that affects the listings order. I would like to check that too, and see if there's any evolution or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides a confirmation on such assumption (I don't know if it's true, because I don't have stats) and any reason on why (too broad for a question), I would like to know stats. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any website with statistics on male versus female presence in movies and/or leading roles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4795" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T04:21:30.477" Title="Is there a website with stats on male versus female leading roles in movies?" Tags="|casting|film-industry|american-cinema|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42623" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-22T18:30:31.070" Score="5" ViewCount="521" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Man of Steel&lt;/em&gt; Kal-El asked Jor-El:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why didn't you come with me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His answer was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Your mother, Lara, and I were a product of the failures of our world as much as Zod was tied to its fate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they were genetically programmed, how could Jor El have a naturally born son? If he had no free will then how could he become heretic? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26377" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T14:06:15.317" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T14:06:15.317" Title="How could Jor El become heretic if he didn't have free will?" Tags="|plot-explanation|man-of-steel|dc-extended-universe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42625" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-22T19:17:05.123" Score="10" ViewCount="5206" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1&lt;/em&gt;, after destroying the locket Ron mentions that there are three more to go. But there were seven horcruxes. One of them, the book, was destroyed earlier in the chamber of secrets and one is this locket Ron destroyed. If there were three more to go, then what were the other two that were destroyed earlier? What Dumbeldore destroyed was fake, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21728" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-22T21:18:41.817" LastActivityDate="2015-10-25T17:09:53.133" Title="The Seven Horcruxes of Voldemort" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|the-deathly-hallows-1|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42625" CreationDate="2015-10-22T19:45:43.993" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Voldemort set out to &lt;em&gt;split his soul in 7&lt;/em&gt;. And the last piece of soul remains within him, so in essence, there are 6 Horcruxes to be destroyed. From &lt;em&gt;The Half-Blood Prince&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Riddle: Can you only split the soul once? For instance, isn't seven...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Slughorn: Seven?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[The book explains this desire further: Seven is a magically powerful number.]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of these Horcruxes, 2 were eliminated before &lt;em&gt;Deathly Hallows&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Harry destroyed the piece of soul in Riddle's diary in &lt;em&gt;Chamber of Secrets&lt;/em&gt;;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dumbledore destroyed the piece of soul in Gaunt's ring in &lt;em&gt;Half-Blood Prince&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that after Ron eliminated the locket Horcrux, &lt;strong&gt;only 3 were indeed left.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However... &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Spoilers for the last movie below!]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What they and Voldemort don't know, and what Dumbledore (and later Snape) knew, is that Voldemort did create 7 Horcruxes: He created another Horcrux by mistake when he killed Harry's parents. A piece of soul was separated from his body and latched onto Harry, making &lt;em&gt;Harry&lt;/em&gt; the last Horcrux.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-25T17:09:53.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42627" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42628" CreationDate="2015-10-22T19:53:38.027" Score="5" ViewCount="1505" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dobby appeared frequently in the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; series and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;died in &lt;em&gt;Deathly Hallows Part 1&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;after rescuing Harry and friends. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in there he mentions that he is a free elf. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, why does he save and follow Harry? Who exactly was his master? Why did Bellatrix also say, &quot;How dare you defy your masters?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I assume he did not have any connection with Kreacher, right? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21728" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-10-23T00:11:50.327" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T00:11:50.327" Title="What was the nature of Dobby the Elf?" Tags="|character|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42628" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42627" CreationDate="2015-10-22T19:58:16.927" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dobby's &lt;em&gt;previous&lt;/em&gt; masters were the Malfoys. Harry freed Dobby from them by tricking Lucius into giving Dobby a sock. As Dobby himself said in &lt;em&gt;Chamber of Secrets&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dobby can only be freed if his master presents him with clothes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Dobby considers Harry as his savior and best friend, and owes him a debt. That's different from being &lt;em&gt;indebted&lt;/em&gt; to him, though. &lt;em&gt;Dobby has no master&lt;/em&gt; after being freed, but still possesses Elf magic. He helps Harry out of friendship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kreacher, on the other hand, &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; Harry's elf, since Harry inherited the House of Black and Kreacher came with it. There is no relation between Dobby and Kreacher, AFAIK, other than both being Elves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you're asking how Dobby found Harry, however...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; He was sent to help him by Aberforth, Dumbledore's brother, who kept an eye on Harry through the shard from Sirius's mirror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-22T20:09:48.647" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T20:09:48.647" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28269" CreationDate="2015-10-22T22:46:40.947" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;A couple of things to clear up here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/11546/21267&quot;&gt;Harry was &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; a Horcrux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;At least not in the traditional sense. Voldemort never intended to make Harry a Horcrux, but basically the killing curse rebounded, split his soul (see point &lt;strong&gt;2&lt;/strong&gt; for the why) and the soul piece just &quot;latched-on&quot; to the only living vessel - Harry.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Dumbledore either didn't know any better, or he just simplified it (for Harry or for the readers) when he told Harry that he was a Horcrux.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/40843/21267&quot;&gt;Voldemort &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; intend to make a Horcrux that night&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;This may explain why his soul was ripped apart when the curse rebounded. There's some strange and unknown ritual to perform when creating a Horcrux, this involves:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Performing a spell or curse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Committing murder&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Transferring the soul piece into a container of some sort&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The guess is that Voldemort had performed these rituals, but unfortunately got rudely interrupted by Harry's head rebounding the Avada Kedavra. The detached piece of soul had nowhere to go but to latch itself onto Harry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/7322/21267&quot;&gt;Voldemort didn't feel his Horcruxes being destroyed because he was so &lt;em&gt;E-ville&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I believe not. I believe that Voldemort is now so immersed in evil, and these crucial parts of himself have been detached for so long, he does not feel as we do. Perhaps at the point of death he might be aware of his loss . . .&quot; &lt;strong&gt;- Prof. Dumbledore&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;-Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, Chapter Twenty-Three (Horcruxes).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No one, not even Voldemort himself knew what he was; let alone know that Harry was deeply connected to him in this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T22:46:40.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28269" CreationDate="2015-10-22T23:15:45.270" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an alternative theory, Voldemort couldn't figure out that Harry &lt;strong&gt;was in every sense of the word&lt;/strong&gt; his horcrux, because Voldemort became Harry ' s horcrux when he took Harry's blood to recreate his body with Lily's protection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this results in both of them as Horcrux for each other, while Voldemort was unaware of Harry's status, he knew there was some connection. This caused Dumbledore to charge Snape with trying to teach Harry how to block Voldy out of his head. &lt;strong&gt;Voldemort likely chalked it up to his taking Harry's blood, not Harry taking part of his soul.&lt;/strong&gt; Since the magic was performed differently from the regular Horcrux spell, Voldemort had no reason to believe there was &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; soul sharing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T23:15:45.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42638" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42617" CreationDate="2015-10-22T23:17:30.950" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like the opening credits of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081562/combined&quot;&gt;Stir Crazy&lt;/a&gt;, a 1980 comedy with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor (and directed by Sidney Poitier!). They featured a few vignettes from New York, and one of them was the exact scene you've described (a woman's heel gets stuck in a grate, a man pretends to help her and cops a feel, and she hits him with her handbag). You can see it here around 1:50:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/oCz1Q8FPkTw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T23:17:30.950" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30353" CreationDate="2015-10-22T23:20:23.947" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cityscape at around 29 to 30 minutes into episode 5 is English Creek in Vancouver. You can see Burnaby Mountain in the background. The bridge in the foreground is also unmistakable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, when he carries Beth out of the city by running on water, you see him run under the Lion's Gate Bridge in Vancouver. Stanley Park is at the left end of the bridge, North Vancouver at the right end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't lived there for 35 years, but those two scenes are obvious, even at this remove in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google English Creek and Lion's Gate Bridge for images to confirm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27091" LastActivityDate="2015-10-22T23:20:23.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42641" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-23T01:28:22.383" Score="2" ViewCount="867" Body="&lt;p&gt;I seem to remember that Linda McFly's sweatshirt (in the vacation photo) sometimes says 1984 and sometimes another year (1991?). I don't have a screencap and I can't find anything about it online. Is it like that or was I seeing things?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="497" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-10-23T06:18:39.207" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T06:18:39.207" Title="Year on Linda McFly's sweatshirt" Tags="|back-to-the-future|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42642" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42772" CreationDate="2015-10-23T01:39:13.523" Score="4" ViewCount="1746" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Inside Out, I noticed that in Riley's mom the Sadness emotion was quite the one leading or managing the other emotions while in Riley's dad, the Angry emotion was the one leading the group and Lastly, in Riley's own brain, it was Joy that was leading the group. Would that mean whichever emotion is leading that's the person's personality? Is there any explanation for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5238" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-10-23T04:58:59.623" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T11:46:45.693" Title="Emotion Leaders/Managers in Inside Out?" Tags="|character|analysis|inside-out|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42620" CreationDate="2015-10-23T03:16:38.133" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's an extreme discrepancy in the number of male and female roles in Hollywood film. Doing a little searching on the web will show that it's a major issue and, in the case of directors, is even &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-women-directors-discrimination-investigation-20151002-story.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;currently being investigated&lt;/a&gt; by the US EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has begun contacting female directors to investigate gender discrimination in Hollywood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the EEOC letter sent out Thursday, a copy of which was obtained by The Times, the agency asks to schedule interviews with the women, “so that we may learn more about the gender-related issues which you are facing in both the film and television industries.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it relates to actors, specifically, here are some numbers and a fun infographic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From an article in &lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2015/film/news/women-lead-roles-in-movies-study-hunger-games-gone-girl-1201429016/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Variety&lt;/a&gt; about a study:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Study Finds Fewer Lead Roles for Women in Hollywood&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The gender gap is documented in new research by the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University that found that females comprised a paltry 12% of protagonists in the top-grossing films of 2014. Over the past decade, the situation has gotten worse, not better. The latest figures represent a drop of three percentage points from 2013 and a fall of four percentage points from 2002. [. . .]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s not just a matter of having their names above the title. In secondary roles, females are underrepresented, comprising 29% of major characters and 30% of all speaking characters. That’s the same percentages as in 2013, but does represent a two percentage point increase over 2002’s figures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The info from this article is based on a study done by the Center for the Study of Women in Television &amp;amp; Film, and their studies are available on their &lt;a href=&quot;http://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/research.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, the infographic from NY Film Academy (from 2013):&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qxBFz.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qxBFz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Gender Inequality Infographic&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T04:21:30.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42641" CreationDate="2015-10-23T03:43:54.160" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Linda_McFly&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Futurepedia&lt;/a&gt; says that she &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; graduate from Hill Valley High School in 1984.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the actual photograph, see it &lt;a href=&quot;http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/bttf/images/0/06/Erasedfromexistance.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20070614134919&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here &lt;/a&gt;with Craig vanished.  It's a little bit clearer and looks a little more like '84'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind that it &lt;em&gt;can't&lt;/em&gt; be '91', because quite simply that Marty came from 1985 - how could he have a photograph of his sister wearing a sweatshirt with 'Class of 91' if he was only from 1985!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24050" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T03:43:54.160" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42646" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-23T04:24:43.500" Score="6" ViewCount="1601" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Harry potter, there are three Deathly Hallows, The Elder wand, Invisibility cloak and Resurrection stone. Now we know the story behind that, how the three Peverell brothers got them from Death itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12454/how-could-dumbledore-ever-become-the-owner-of-the-elder-wand&quot;&gt;This&lt;/a&gt; thread puts light on the history of the Elder wand and we know the end of it too, that it was destroyed by Harry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But my question relates to the other two. How did the resurrection stone make its way to Dumbeldore and as it was given to Harry in that golden ball, what happened after harry put it on the ground before he was knocked out by &quot;you-know-who&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the invisibility cloak was the same harry used throughout the series, right? Who gave that to harry, Dumbeldore must be, right? How was that acquired by Dumbeldore?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21728" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T09:46:09.033" Title="What is the history of the Deathly Hallows?" Tags="|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42646" CreationDate="2015-10-23T04:40:10.427" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;So the the other Hallows are told to have been items passed down.  This was communicated in both movies and the book series.  The Invisibility cloak was passed down generation to generation in Harry's family.  Before his father died he asked Dumbledore to hold on the cloak for Harry.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the resurrection stone it was actually merged into a ring that Dumbledore found, during his search for Voldemort's horcrux. Dumbledore then inserted it into the golden snitch and left it for Harry upon his death.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't currently have the books available to  specify whose family line the ring came down but I believe it had something to do with the Riddle family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="567" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-23T09:46:09.033" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T09:46:09.033" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42650" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30621" CreationDate="2015-10-23T06:46:50.600" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Walt has one thing that Gus has not, and that's &lt;em&gt;ego&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember that Vince says that Walt is like the cancer himself, destroying everything around him. Once the immediate use of something is over, it's just a liability for Walt, waiting to be destroyed. Walt has no interest in building, or even being part of a network, he always wanted to be &lt;em&gt;the man&lt;/em&gt;. Mike knows that that's not how it works, and automatically classifies Walt as someone untrustworthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I'd like to comment on your comment to Mark's answer. Gus reveals that he's made a lot of mistakes initially (when he first invites Walt to his house). Sending samples to Don Eladio's men was one of those mistakes, which incensed Eladio, and led him to kill Max.&#xA;Even if Gus had not done anything of the sort, the clash with Eladio was inevitable, as Eladio would have wanted to protect his own business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26347" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T06:46:50.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42651" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-23T06:59:33.697" Score="2" ViewCount="1250" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jupiter Ascending revolves around a royal family business/corporation/empire. Abrasax Industries, produces:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;strike&gt;Soylent Green&lt;/strike&gt; RegeneX by &lt;em&gt;harvesting humans&lt;/em&gt; for their genes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is done at the Jupiter Refinery, which is buried in the center of the Giant Red Spot of the planet Jupiter, in our system. Access to the Refinery is controlled by a corridor/tunnel/access gate or &lt;em&gt;Vortex&lt;/em&gt;, that pushes the storms/gas/hurricanes of Jupiter aside. Otherwise, ships attempting to travel through the storm are destroyed by the gas hurricanes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's never explained &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; Jupiter, or Jupiter's Giant Red Spot. Was Jupiter chosen for protection of what's considered the most valuable product? Or was the gas needed in it's creation? Is the Jupiter Refinery the only refinery for RegeneX? It can't be because of Earth, as it was expect to take centuries to be ready for Harvest. Or was it simply a sci-fi fascination with the King of Gas Giants?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why Jupiter (the planet)? Book or Movie or interview answers would be great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-23T09:40:36.240" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T11:03:56.927" Title="Why was the Refinery in the Planet Jupiter, specifically?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jupiter-ascending|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21591" CreationDate="2015-10-23T07:15:55.183" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Brona had given the amulet (of st. Jude)  to ethan not all that long ago so it is pretty doubtful that it was something he used as a protective tailsman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is more likely that he was a priest at some point which would explain his ability to speak latin and his knowledge of the rites of excorcism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He might have left the priesthood after he became a werewolf as he may see himself as unclean in the eyes of god. And it would explain why it took him so long to attempt an exorcism himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, he used the saint jude amulet not because it was a tailsman that protected him from his inner wolf, rather, he used it because it was the only piece of catholic too, he had immediately on hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27099" LastEditorUserId="27099" LastEditDate="2015-10-23T07:30:07.387" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T07:30:07.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42651" CreationDate="2015-10-23T07:30:39.510" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's never directly explained, but I would imagine that the refinery is specifically for Earth, which is noted to be a particularly large and rich holding. It could well take decades to process such a holding, and preparations for the harvest have probably been ongoing for centuries, or maybe even millennia. Jupiter is obviously in the same solar system as Earth, which presumably makes it a convenient but discreet base for the refinery. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27100" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T07:30:39.510" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42655" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-23T08:16:13.283" Score="6" ViewCount="10256" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1' Hagrid brought the real Harry to the Burrow for William and Fleur's wedding. When the party is attacked, Harry and gang apparate to the coffee bar which is the last time we see Hagrid in that film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then shows up next, in 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2' he's tied in ropes when Harry comes to confront &quot;you-know-who&quot; in the forest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When, why and how was Hagrid captured?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21728" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T21:33:20.577" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T21:46:30.723" Title="When was Hagrid captured?" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|the-deathly-hallows-2|the-deathly-hallows-1|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42655" CreationDate="2015-10-23T08:23:32.267" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is made clear in the books (which I don't have access to right now in order to provide a quote), but I guess not the movies. Hagrid was inside the Hogwarts castle when the Battle of Hogwarts began. The giant spiders which live in the Forbidden Forest are driven out by Voldemort and his supporters, and attack the castle. Hagrid gets carried off by them back to the forest, which is when he was captured by Voldemort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15242" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T08:23:32.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42646" CreationDate="2015-10-23T08:31:11.213" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Resurrection stone was passed down the Gaunt family line - Voldemort's mother was a Gaunt - and at some point used as the stone in the Gaunt family ring. The ring was one of the items Voldemort turned into a Horcrux, though there's no indication he had any idea what the stone actually was. It was found by Dumbledore in the Gaunt's abandoned shack - hidden and concealed by Voldemort - during the summer between Harry's fifth and sixth years at Hogwarts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Invisibility Cloak was passed down the Potter family line. Dumbledore asked to borrow the cloak from James Potter (Harry's father) shortly before his death, but he was actually examining it to determine if it was in fact one of the three Hallows. He returned it to Harry on Christmas day during his first year at Hogwarts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15242" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T08:31:11.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42658" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18987" CreationDate="2015-10-23T10:32:18.663" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a group of known wizards transfer &lt;em&gt;a person-who-is-not-Harry&lt;/em&gt; it is obvious who to target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a group of known wizards transfer someone - only that someone is not present - but there is &lt;em&gt;an extra of one of the wizards&lt;/em&gt;, it's obvious which two to target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a group of known wizards transfer someone disguised as a known wizard who remained at home, information on who is at home selects the target, someone acting out of character selects the target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You get Harry act out of character by making him uncofortable, you got seven wizards mostly identical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1577" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T10:32:18.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34388" CreationDate="2015-10-23T11:29:17.963" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, she won't get old because as we know, she has been linked with Bonnie's life with a spell. So as Bonnie gets old, her life span will be credit in Elena's life span, i.e Bonnie's life will be debited and credit into Elena's life slowly-slowly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, if Bonnie will die due to some accident or any reason, Elena will wake up, and then she will be using her life-span, so then she will get old. But until that, even though Elena is human now, she will not get old...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26968" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-03-29T09:52:52.807" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T09:52:52.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42662" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42663" CreationDate="2015-10-23T13:26:38.147" Score="6" ViewCount="1360" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I first saw Back To The Future II, as a kid of 15, I didn't realise that Crispin Glover (Michael J. Fox's father George McFly) was not present in the movie but had been replaced by a &quot;double&quot; that was always shot from the back (or &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.radiotimes.com/uploads/images/original/45359.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;upside down&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) and wore prosthetics in the scenes in which George was acting. In other instances, when they used the footage of the first episode, you can only see the back of Glover.  A few years later, when I watched the movie again and noticed his replacement, I found out that he had a &quot;disagreement&quot; (to put it lightly) with the producers/director and that he has been &quot;cut&quot; from the saga.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yesterday, while I was reading this &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/back-to-the-future/26826/why-crispin-glover-never-did-back-to-the-future-part-ii&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, I've stumbled upon the following interview with Glover&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/lcG61w474zY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In which he explains his version of the story. Apart from the legal and litigation aspects of the story, which do not interest me very much, I was curious about some of Glover's assertion. According to the actor (at circa 1:25 in the video above), also because of his questioning the original ending, some changes were made to the original script of the first episode. Glover goes as far as calling some particulars of the original version of the finale &quot;offending&quot;, especially if seen with today's eyes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the clip (8:20 circa) he also states that, in the original version of the Back To The Future's screenplay, Biff was not supposed to end up as the McFlys subordinate. Glover then ends up the interview joking about the fact that maybe someday he'll &quot;write everything down in a book&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all the preamble, my question is the following: is there any evidence of any substantial (or not so substantial) changes made to the original screenplay, as stated by Glover? And, if so, what changes were made? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-23T16:13:15.743" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T16:13:15.743" Title="Changes in the Back To The Future screenplay?" Tags="|back-to-the-future|screenplay|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42662" CreationDate="2015-10-23T13:39:59.177" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The screenplay was very much in flux during the filming, which is reflected in the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0425082059&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;official novelization by George Gipe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; which differs significantly from the released movie in numerous places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_North&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ryan North&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; offers an in-depth analysis of the differences between both &lt;a href=&quot;http://btothef.tumblr.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;on his &quot;B to the F: The Novelization of Back To The Future&quot; tumblr&lt;/a&gt;, which is &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B008X945R4&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;also available as a Kindle ebook&lt;/a&gt; (currently at 4.8 stars after 52 customer reviews). An &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/ryan-north/b-to-the-f-the-novelization-of-the-feature-film/ebook/product-20331257.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;epub version is also available&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He discussed the ending of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://comicsalliance.com/ryan-north-back-to-the-future-interview/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;in an interview with Comics Alliance on 21 October 2015&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CA:&lt;/strong&gt; On the subject of writing, do you think that in a world without&#xA;  Star Wars and, apparently, Star Trek, George McFly’s hit novel A Match&#xA;  Made In Space is actually any good?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RN:&lt;/strong&gt; I think it’s a lot better than &lt;strong&gt;the ending in the first draft of&#xA;  the film, where George McFly became a professional boxer because he&#xA;  got really good at punching people after he punched Biff&lt;/strong&gt;, then went to&#xA;  his high school yearbook, opened it up to the photo of the big dance,&#xA;  looked at Calvin, remembered how his son Marty looks, and then shook&#xA;  his head and said, “Nah…. couldn’t be!”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other differences between the original screenplay and the resulting movie are &lt;a href=&quot;http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_first_draft_screenplay&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;listed at &lt;strong&gt;Futurepedia - The Back to the Future Wiki&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-10-23T13:51:59.043" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T13:51:59.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42666" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42675" CreationDate="2015-10-23T15:24:12.067" Score="4" ViewCount="4614" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Breaking Bad series, Walter White goes to Tuco's office to get revenge/deliver a message by causing an explosion. I could never understand: Did Tuco actually consider Walter White to be dangerous, or did he actually start to respect him enough to bring him into business?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="26391" LastEditDate="2015-10-23T16:15:36.437" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T19:29:17.540" Title="Did Walt really take Tuco by fear when blew up his office?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42667" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-23T16:03:34.577" Score="0" ViewCount="160850" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm somewhat new to the Dragon Ball universe. So far, I have watched all of the English Dragon Ball Z Kai episodes (1-98), which cover through the Cell games. Currently, I have picked up where Kai left off with the original DBZ, and now plan to watch DBZ through the end. So, what comes after the Dragon Ball Z series? I have read a little bit about titles &quot;Dragon Ball GT&quot; and &quot;Dragon Ball Super&quot;; which one should I watch first following Dragon Ball Z, in order to follow the right chronology?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26391" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-15T18:47:35.943" LastActivityDate="2016-09-03T20:14:01.423" Title="What should I watch after &quot;Dragon Ball Z&quot;?" Tags="|chronology|suggested-order|dragon-ball-z|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-09-04T16:01:49.247" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42667" CreationDate="2015-10-23T16:35:43.770" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball Super are both sequel of Dragon Ball Z but are not connected. GT was not based on the manga by Akira Toriyama but he considers GT to be an alternate timeline. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no order in which to watch between the two. Super has just started and isn't complete, so you could watch all of GT now (which only has 64 episodes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26154" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T16:35:43.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42669" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42666" CreationDate="2015-10-23T18:19:31.647" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the number Walt pulled on him by blowing up half his building, Tuco &lt;strong&gt;knows for a fact&lt;/strong&gt; that the man is dangerous. And maybe a little bit crazy also, because, after all, he entered Tuco's den alone and defeated everyone singlehandedly with just the help of a little chemistry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if this action gained Tuco's respect or caused him to fear Walter (which I personally doubt), but it certainly caught his attention, which was what Walter was aiming for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That stunt indicated that Walter meant serious business (both literally and metaphorically), that he could produce an outstanding product and that he wanted a partnership (a distributor) with Tuco. And that he was ready to do anything in order to achieve his goal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T18:19:31.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42670" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42735" CreationDate="2015-10-23T18:43:54.960" Score="13" ViewCount="5423" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Ex Machina, Caleb reprograms the security system to unlock all doors when there is a power cut. When the 10PM power cut happens Ava gets out. In the end when Caleb is locked in, he tries to access the computer. At this time there is a power cut. Shouldn't this have triggered all the doors to be unlocked for him to escape? Instead we find Caleb smashing a locked door with a stool, which means the doors didn't unlock when the last power cut happens. They don't show Ava changing any security protocols or anything. How come the doors don't unlock?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26423" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T15:26:33.823" Title="Why does Caleb get locked down in Ex Machina?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ex-machina|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42672" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42680" CreationDate="2015-10-23T18:44:29.620" Score="6" ViewCount="15711" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096673/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inside Out&lt;/a&gt; is a great movie from Pixar &amp;amp; Disney. A movie that will force you to think about your life, emotions etc. Loved it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QhNF1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QhNF1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Inside Out&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there are five emotions shown in the movie that control our head. They stay in our head and give actions or reactions on events of our lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anger&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Disgust&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sadness&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All those characters contain a special color. Joy is yellow, Fear purple, Anger red, Disgust is green, and Sadness is blue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now usually we see/use yellow or a bright color to represent joy in our lives. Red is universal for anger (emoticons), but why are the other three colored like that? Isn't fear supposed to be black? Why purple? Does blue represents sad moments or a sad mood?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where do these color references came from? Is there Any particular reason or were they chosen at random?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-23T19:43:36.260" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T09:47:48.293" Title="Why are the emotions colored in the way they are?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|inside-out|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42667" CreationDate="2015-10-23T19:02:22.420" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, watch the &lt;strong&gt;classic Dragon Ball&lt;/strong&gt;, featuring the kid Son Goku. It's amazing and fun until today. The whole concept of the dragon spheres was there and after that the series turns out on a anime about strong enemies and fights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you stopped on Cell at the end of DB Kai you must watch the entire &lt;strong&gt;Boo's saga&lt;/strong&gt; which starts on episode 217 on classic Dragon Ball Z.&#xA;After that, you could watch Super or get some spoilers on the &lt;strong&gt;Battle of Gods (2013)&lt;/strong&gt; movie, which is mostly the same story, but shortened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a 2015 very good movie called &lt;strong&gt;Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'&lt;/strong&gt; that depends on the previous one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27110" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-06-30T10:20:18.403" LastActivityDate="2016-06-30T10:20:18.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42666" CreationDate="2015-10-23T19:29:17.540" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think that Tuco's response can be seen to be respect nor fear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What Walt is (to Tuco) is &lt;em&gt;uncertainty&lt;/em&gt;. Tuco is formidable, unpredictable, and savage. Those who know him are wary of him, even his own employees. Tuco rules because Tuco keeps all of his enemies (and potential enemies) on edge. Tuco, you see, can (generally speaking) predict all of his opponents moves. An embezzler or thief can't do their thing without Tuco sniffing it out... but the embezzler or thief cannot predict Tuco. He's &quot;crazy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is almost certainly this way for &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; Tuco meets. Even before they've said a word to each other, Tuco will have the measure of the other person, but that other person will not have Tuco's measure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walter White may have been the first person that Tuco ever met where this wasn't true... Tuco isn't in the same circles as Walter. He's never met anyone like Walter before. Walter is impossible to predict. He isn't intimidated like the others. For Tuco (and, alas, for everyone else, including us viewers) it's very hard to figure out what makes Walter tick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tuco handles this fairly intelligently too (how awesome for us, the viewers!). In any other show, Tuco might have tried to escalate, only to be taken out by a car bomb or whatever. Instead, Tuco acts cautiously. He doesn't back down, but he doesn't lean in either. And as later episodes demonstrate, he calls to his superiors for instructions on how to handle such a novel situation. This is a sophisticated response, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T19:29:17.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42678" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37038" CreationDate="2015-10-23T19:53:05.653" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been inside an iron mountain facility in the UK for work, as a site inspection and it used to be an American cold war bunker and could withstand earthquake and missile attacks even had a badminton court inside. And before that it was a WW2 airfield. Steel mountain is a mirror but probably taken to the extreme with a restaurant and its own fire station but unsure what American facilities are like. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27116" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-20T13:33:28.720" LastActivityDate="2016-06-20T13:33:28.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42679" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-23T19:58:51.600" Score="3" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;Disney Channel's &lt;em&gt;Girl Meets World&lt;/em&gt; is appropriately called a spin-off of ABC's 1990s hit &lt;em&gt;Boy Meets World&lt;/em&gt;.  However, there are some seemingly unique aspects:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it not a &quot;typical&quot; spin-off.  Examples like &lt;em&gt;NCIS&lt;/em&gt; from &lt;em&gt;JAG&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Laverne and Shirley&lt;/em&gt; from &lt;em&gt;Happy Days&lt;/em&gt;. Characters that are friends, family, or in some way intersected with the parent, but otherwise a unique series.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is not a re-boot.  An example is &lt;em&gt;Hawaii Five-O&lt;/em&gt;.  The new version re-uses the same concept and some character names, but that's all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is not a &quot;next generation.&quot;  &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Degrassi&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Saved By the Bell (The New Class)&lt;/em&gt; for example.  A future time from the parent, but with all new characters and stories.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is not a re-union special.  Anyone remember the Brady wedding?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other spin-offs, characters from the parent series are either absent or at most make occasional cameo guest appearances.  With &lt;em&gt;Girl Meets World&lt;/em&gt; there are at least two characters- Cory and Topanga- who play an integral role, and many others- Shawn and Eric in particular- have regular recurring parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has any other series ever done anything close?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27118" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-10-23T20:31:31.977" LastActivityDate="2016-01-22T12:14:39.820" Title="Is there a precedent for Girl Meets World?" Tags="|spin-off|girl-meets-world|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42672" CreationDate="2015-10-23T19:59:00.717" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a variety of sources you can find the inspirations that the creators had for all of the emotions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are quotes from director Pete Docter and producer Jonas Rivera, in a Q&amp;amp;A with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/2015/06/qa-with-jonas-rivera-and-pete-docter/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;National Board of Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you develop the visual language of this film?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Docter: It was really challenging. There were things that we felt were important early on that ended up boxing us in. Even having primary colors for all the emotions was difficult. I’m not saying this is easy, but with Nemo or Cars, you at least had a picture you could use – a fish or a car. But with this film, you can’t take a picture of an emotion. &lt;strong&gt;We relied on some verbal idioms like I feel blue, I feel sad, I’m about to explode with rage, etc&lt;/strong&gt;. We would use those to start and the artists drew thousands of drawings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rivera: There are so many variables on what Joy could look like. I think it was Albert Lozano, our character art director, who was able to put forth what Pete suggested, that we wanted them to look like how our emotions feel. They came up with this very simple thing. &lt;strong&gt;Joy was a star, or a spark. Golden and illuminated. Sadness was a teardrop. So her shape and color resemble a teardrop. Fear is like a raw nerve, just a squiggly line, that’s why he’s tight. Disgust is the shape and color of a stalk of broccoli. And of course anger is a brick, immovable&lt;/strong&gt;. So we put those shapes on the wall and that was the foothold and now let’s personify that. It just felt right to us. We didn’t want them to be little people. Pete said they should be made out of energy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Pixar Wiki for &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pixar.wikia.com/wiki/Inside_Out&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inside Out&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; says much of the same thing, but there's also a little bit more on the subject of design style and gender assignments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emotions, because of their nature, were made as strong, highly caricatured and distinctive characters, in a way Docter compared to the seven dwarfs from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. According to Docter, each emotion is based on a basic shape: Sadness on a teardrop, Joy on a star, Fear on a raw nerve, Anger on a fire brick and Disgust on a broccoli.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Continuing with the idea the mind is independent from reality, and in an effort to have emotions look the way one would feel them, emotions are not made of flesh and blood. As Docter says &amp;quot;They are made up of particles that actually move. Instead of being skin and solid, it is a massive collection of energy.&amp;quot; Similarly, to animate them the team took a style with more stretching and exaggeration of movements than is usual for Pixar, closer to classic cartoon animation. Inspiration was taken from Chuck Jones and Tex Avery, as well as Milt Kahl and John Sibley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding how the genders of the emotions were chosen, the process was intuitive, according to Docter; he felt Anger was more masculine, while Sadness was more feminine. Casting was also an influence, notably for Disgust with Mindy Kaling. The main characters were made female also to reflect their location inside a girl's mind. Regarding the emotions of Riley's parents, he said: &amp;quot;We skewed them all male and all female for a quick read, because you have to understand where we are, which is a little phony but hopefully people don't mind!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T09:47:48.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42684" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43037" CreationDate="2015-10-23T21:14:13.907" Score="2" ViewCount="4576" Body="&lt;p&gt;By the end of The Sound of Music, when the Nazi soldiers leave the abbey, their cars will not start, because nuns stole some engine parts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the engine part they stole?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27121" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-23T21:24:49.160" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T04:40:10.133" Title="In The Sound of Music, which car part did the nun steal?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-sound-of-music|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2016-12-20T17:58:05.077" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42686" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42687" CreationDate="2015-10-23T21:28:04.897" Score="16" ViewCount="3939" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking through Netflix and saw the Colombian druglord themed series called Narcos, it looked interesting so I checked out the details, where I saw this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/251us.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/251us.png&quot; alt=&quot;Narcos Netflix maturity rating: strong violence, strong language, sex, nudity, real corpses, drug theme&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I can imagine that using a real corpse is a very true to life (no pun intended) way to show death, I always assumed that using a real body on set would be impossible due to things like the possible smell and squeamish actors, even without the potential moral dilemma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this accurate? Does Narcos actually use real corpses for bodies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I haven't watch the show yet, so if the corpses are in fact in some historical images or similar then forgive my assumptions)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27122" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-01-22T00:18:36.080" LastActivityDate="2017-06-22T01:39:43.803" Title="Does Narcos use real corpses?" Tags="|film-techniques|narcos|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42686" CreationDate="2015-10-23T21:37:09.577" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been working my way through Narcos. I haven't seen the entire season yet but in the 5 episodes I've watched so far the show is a blend of real archival pieces (video clips, photographs, etc) with scenes filmed for the show with the actors. The only real corpses I've seen have been in the archival materials.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2015-10-23T21:37:09.577" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42692" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43190" CreationDate="2015-10-23T23:56:28.713" Score="0" ViewCount="393" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's some springy orchestral music that plays as an introduction to Eric Idle's &quot;Children's Stories&quot; sketch in Season 1 Episode 3.  This is the sketch where Rumple Tweezer lives by Dingly Dell and uses contraceptives, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the name of that music?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/7MstyFwhLy4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27126" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T02:38:41.590" Title="Music Before Eric Idle's &quot;Storytime/Children's Stories&quot; in Monty Python Season 1 Episode 3?" Tags="|soundtrack|monty-python|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2020-01-31T10:33:09.260" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9288" CreationDate="2015-10-24T01:54:48.370" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do you remember when the mom called her husband? She was like (I don't know the exact words but something like this) &quot;they were 3 men in the house&quot; blah, blah. And a little more information before the line was cut. When the police officer asked her &quot;what was the end of the sentence&quot;, she said that there are three things she would do if you come and jump on the bed with her right now. And she said she hung up before she says those things -- WHICH IS A LIE that the cop knew. He grew more suspicious because the line wasn't cut right there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And like the comment above, on how he didn't blink and the mom didn't blink too, I think that was one too. And maybe of course it was too obvious that the mom is acting sooooooo strange. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27128" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-07T23:45:57.300" LastActivityDate="2016-12-07T23:45:57.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42679" CreationDate="2015-10-24T10:09:21.320" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only programme I know of close to this concept is the BBC programme &quot;Still open all hours&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original programme &quot; Open all hours&quot; was broadcast 1976 to 1985 and starred Ronnie Barker as shopkeeper Arkwright and David Jason as his assistant Granville.  Many plots followed Arkwright pursuing the district nurse Gladys with amorous intent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still Open All Hours debuted in 2013, the setting is still the shop with David Jason still playing Granville, he now owns the shop, Arkwright having passed on.  The only other character from the original is nurse Gladys now retired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23614" LastActivityDate="2015-10-24T10:09:21.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42702" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42709" CreationDate="2015-10-24T12:45:09.530" Score="30" ViewCount="6297" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1989 film &lt;em&gt;Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure&lt;/em&gt; features a pair of dim-witted teenagers traveling through time to retrieve historical figures to make an oral presentation for their history class.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bill and Ted use a phone booth as their time-traveling vessel.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iOfky.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iOfky.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;phone booth&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The creators of &lt;em&gt;Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure&lt;/em&gt; originally intended their time travel vessel to be a 1969 van.  They were concerned that the van might too closely resemble the Delorean in &lt;em&gt;Back to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.moviefone.com/2014/02/15/bill-and-teds-excellent-adventure-facts/&quot;&gt;Future&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The time machine was initially going to look like a 1969 Chevy van,&#xA;  but the filmmakers decided that was too similar to the DeLorean from&#xA;  &quot;Back to the Future.&quot; Instead, they made it look like a vintage phone&#xA;  booth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The television series &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; originally aired in 1963.  &quot;The Doctor&quot; is a Time-Lord who explores the universe usually fighting off some type of threat at different points in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/tardis/&quot;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Police Box that the Doctor travels around in is really a Type 40&#xA;  time and space machine from Gallifrey, his home planet. TARDIS stands&#xA;  for Time And Relative Dimension in Space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;The Doctor&quot; uses the TARDIS as a time traveling vessel.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HJoeF.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HJoeF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;TARDIS&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The similarities between the TARDIS and a time-traveling phone booth are far more apparent than the similarities between a 1969 van and a DeLorean. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence that the filmmakers of &lt;em&gt;Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure&lt;/em&gt; were influenced by the TARDIS from the &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-24T13:44:14.203" LastActivityDate="2022-12-29T15:43:25.067" Title="Was the TARDIS an inspiration for the time-traveling phone booth?" Tags="|reference|props|doctor-who|bill-and-teds-excellent-adventure|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24247" CreationDate="2015-10-24T17:09:23.623" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Incorrect.  Psychopaths are higher functioning typically than a sociopath and able to keep track of their lies. This is usually because they use the same ones over and over again. Those that change their story do so purposely for amusement and not because they can't keep track.  A psychopath lies for a reason even if it's a bad one.  A disorganized psychopath will have periods of organization, but a sociopath will always struggle to keep ahead of their lies because they do it constantly.  A psychopath usually picks and chooses, priding himself on the fact that he's able to deceive people with the truth.  A sociopath feels more anxiety about lying because they're unable to keep track. Their explanations become disorganized once caught,  but a psychopath is right on top of that and will turn it around so that the evidence of a lie no longer appears to be evidence.  A psychopath OR sociopath can love, but usually don't. A psychopath can turn it on and off, but a sociopath cannot turn actual feelings on or off.  They're there or they're not. This has been proven through scientific research and testing on the brains of subjects to prove love centers light up. A psychopath may become despondent at the loss of a pet, but a sociopath feels the loss of attention only and has a temper tantrum if anything. Both behaviors or diagnoses can also be present in the same subject. Psychopaths have also been known to lie to protect another's feelings at times while a sociopath is not that self aware or the effect they have. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So,  the line from the series tries to delineate between those that can be saved/productive citizens and those that cannot and simply does so directly. The line is simply not that clear cut. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27147" LastEditorUserId="27147" LastEditDate="2015-10-24T23:57:53.230" LastActivityDate="2015-10-24T23:57:53.230" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42702" CreationDate="2015-10-24T17:50:25.767" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;In-universe, the phone booth (supplied to Bill and Ted by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0028781/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t55&quot;&gt;Three Most Important People in the World&lt;/a&gt;) was in fact the inspiration for the TARDIS &lt;strong&gt;rather than the other way around&lt;/strong&gt;, at least according to the officially licensed &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boom-studios.com/bill-ted-s-most-triumphant-return-01-felipe-smith-cover.html&quot;&gt;Bill &amp;amp; Ted's Most Triumphant Return&lt;/a&gt;&quot; comicbook.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P0HvF.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P0HvF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of universe, the time machine was originally intended to be a time-traveling Hertz van. This was ruled out as being &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.billandted.org/movieseapreprod.htm&quot;&gt;too close to BTTF's DeLorean&lt;/a&gt; and substituted for a glass-sided phone booth for visual reasons, primarily to fit in with the &quot;roller-coaster&quot; theming of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;People were still nervous about the time-traveling van being too much&#xA;  like Back to the Future and a change was needed.  The idea for the&#xA;  phone booth was suggested by director Stephen Herek, who was looking&#xA;  for something that would provide the exciting visual nature of a&#xA;  roller coaster ride.  Both Ed and Chris really liked Stephen, who told&#xA;  them that when he first started reading the script he put it down, put&#xA;  Van Halen on the stereo, and read it while listening to rock music.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-10-24T17:50:25.767" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42715" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-25T03:25:42.917" Score="3" ViewCount="413" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Skyfall, M wills an ugly porcelain pug to James Bond.  When it is suggested to Bond that it was M's way of telling him to take a desk job, Bond affirms that it was just the opposite.  What is the significance of the gift?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25682" LastActivityDate="2015-10-25T09:30:44.043" Title="In Skyfall, what is the significance of M's post-mortem gift of a porcelain pug to Bond?" Tags="|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-10-25T11:57:24.823" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8052" CreationDate="2015-10-25T03:35:54.830" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;In the opening sequence, when M is writing Bond’s obituary, the bulldog is facing outward as if M is watching England. Throughout the rest of the movie, the bulldog is facing M, as if England is watching M. When she wills the bulldog to Bond, she’s giving him responsibility for England.&quot;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://baggybulldogs.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/the-meaning-of-ms-bulldog/&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16065" LastActivityDate="2015-10-25T03:35:54.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42717" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42721" CreationDate="2015-10-25T04:30:16.577" Score="10" ViewCount="28299" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode two of the seventh season, Pam tricks Gabe into believing she was promoted to office administrator previous to Dunder Mifflin's acquisition. Gabe suspects she's lying and confronts her, but after some talking, he ultimately accepts it and she becomes officially the office administrator. How did this happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;English is not my native language (it's Spanish) but I think I understood everything they said in this scene. I also watched the episode with Spanish subtitles and even with that, I really can't figure out what happened there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gabe:&lt;/strong&gt; Can you just admit?... Admit...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Pam:&lt;/strong&gt; Admit what?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Gabe:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't wanna say it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Pam:&lt;/strong&gt; (Stares to Gabe with a challenging face)... Say it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Gabe:&lt;/strong&gt; Mmm. Mmm uhm... (Saying &quot;no&quot; with his head)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Pam:&lt;/strong&gt;  Say that I'm lying or say I have the job. Make a definitive statement, Gabe.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Gabe:&lt;/strong&gt; Statements of such nature, while they have their place, are overused in a competitive business environment.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Pam:&lt;/strong&gt; Great. Well, Let me know if you need a new chair, or anything that an office administrator can handle.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Gabe:&lt;/strong&gt; I'll do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand how he was so easily convinced/tricked into this. Am I listening wrong here? Or there's some slang term I'm missing? Is there a reference to something in American pop culture that I'm not getting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27160" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-25T11:59:24.663" LastActivityDate="2015-10-25T11:59:24.663" Title="How did Pam become the office administrator?" Tags="|the-office|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42717" CreationDate="2015-10-25T09:06:03.407" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;He wasn't really 'tricked'; they both knew she was lying. Pam simply recognized a weakness in Gabe and got into a standoff with him, knowing he'll back down. A few of things about Gabe (from &lt;a href=&quot;http://theoffice.wikia.com/wiki/Gabe_Lewis&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikia&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A quietly insecure person,&lt;/strong&gt; [Gabe] seems resigned to being forced to work inhuman hours and have no social life, as a consequence of Sabre CEO Jo Bennett's unpredictable management style. His attempts to be respected by the rest of the office workers end in awkward failure and he seems to be universally ignored by everyone, as &lt;strong&gt;he does not have any power to control Scranton&lt;/strong&gt; as Jan Levenson or David Wallace did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary&amp;#39;s_Day_%28The_Office%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Secretary's Day&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; near the end of season 6, where Gabe tried to assert himself and suspended Pam for impersonating Kevin. Pam then found out Gabe has no real authority, and that 'suspension' became a paid vacation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Pam knows that Gabe is powerless, somewhat spineless (at least in his early days there), tries not to antagonize everyone (though usually failing) and is afraid of the higher ups. She realizes he's trying to avoid confrontation and leverages that to get what she wants. Gabe simply doesn't want to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Call Pam a liar and possibly punish her for it, thus antagonizing her and the other workers;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Make this into a whole corporate scandal with him in the middle of it;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Actually be assertive and &lt;em&gt;make a decision&lt;/em&gt;, with all the awkwardness involved.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pam's gamble pays off and Gabe backs down without calling her bluff. Pam also says where she learned this tecnhique:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pam:&lt;/strong&gt; One thing I learned from watching Tournament Poker at two in the morning: you don't play your cards, you play your opponent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-10-25T09:06:03.407" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8052" CreationDate="2015-10-25T09:20:25.973" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a common cultural crossing between the bulldog and Winston Churchill  (so much so the Churchill insurance company play on it in adverts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1940 early in the Second World War, Winston Churchill had had a long service, but had been exiled due to his views, including his &quot;lone voice&quot; on the dangers of Nazi Germany and the coming War.  However once he returned to become Prime Minister in 1940,it's widely felt that his singular effort was a deciding factor in the winning of the war (and why as a commoner he received a State funeral).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The parallels are there.  Bond is in exile after he &quot;dies&quot;, he has lost faith in what he does, the politicians are trying to get rid of the human element (the double o section), but his lone wolf approach is what defeats Silva when the might and tech of MI6 fails. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The message to Bond is clear, although you may question what you are doing, and others feel you are an anachronism,  your country needs you now and you are the lone protector.  As Bond says when Moneypenny suggests it means take a desk job&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Quite the opposite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastEditorUserId="4637" LastEditDate="2015-10-25T09:30:44.043" LastActivityDate="2015-10-25T09:30:44.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42723" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42737" CreationDate="2015-10-25T10:16:13.260" Score="5" ViewCount="4335" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the begining there is a guy that wants to find a good job and when he goes home, his mother is very sick and when he goes to buy the medicine, it's very expensive and he has no money. Then he works out how to get the money: he and his 2 friends (I think a woman and a man, one I think takes drugs) kidnap the daughter of a rich family and they take her hostage in the vacation house this rich family uses in the summer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After 3 quarters of this film, you understand that this daughter's family have a servant that is the dad of the guy that kidnapped their daughter and blackmails them for money. He has a Zippo to light cigarettes and when she is kidnapped, she listens to the Zippo and in the end of the film, almost understands that he was her kidnapper - but the whole thing went successfully and if I'm not wrong, he kills all his friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summary: Son of a poor family that has a sick mother and his father works for this rich family kidnaps their daughter to blackmail them for money and it's a success. I think it's from about 5 years ago or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27167" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-25T20:55:21.700" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T05:45:56.507" Title="Hostage movie where a rich daughter is kidnapped for money" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:07:44.963" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42725" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-25T10:37:02.423" Score="8" ViewCount="6843" Body="&lt;p&gt;When doing stereotypical film noir style stories they always have the hard boiled black and white detective narrating to himself with smooth jazz playing while it is raining, like in the first minute of &lt;em&gt;Dan vs The Catburglar&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have been trying for several hours but I cannot find any movies with a main character that matches that kind of description, yet it seems to be such a common scene construction to immediately evoke references to film noir. What movies actually follow this style and what movie did this originate from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To clarify I want something black and white, has narration from the main character, lots of smooth jazz, rain, and the stereotypical intro as mentioned above. Has this even appeared in this exact form in any specific movie(s) or was this rather born after the fact and has established itself as a trope &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; being from a specific movie at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27169" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-25T19:12:49.053" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T02:22:21.957" Title="From which movies does the stereotypical b/w film noir voice-over introduction originate?" Tags="|trope|origin|noir|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42670" CreationDate="2015-10-25T15:40:56.640" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is because Caleb programmed the room of Nathan to remain the only room locked after 10pm so that Nathan stays locked while they escape...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27174" LastActivityDate="2015-10-25T15:40:56.640" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42731" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-25T18:15:37.550" Score="3" ViewCount="656" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Capote, why does Perry go about shooting every family member in the face? One minute he's caused the throat slitting of the father in the family. The next thing you know he's going about killing everybody. Looks like he initially didn't intend to do this. What causes him to commit all the murders?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26423" LastActivityDate="2018-07-26T15:59:44.843" Title="Why does Perry commit the murders in Capote?" Tags="|capote|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42731" CreationDate="2015-10-25T19:14:47.450" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say you'd probably have to read the book &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;In Cold Blood&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; or research what you can of  Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. As it was (the crime) way back in '59 before the internet there is not a great deal of information. The book is probably the best way. Here is an excerpt of an article on this subject: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Capote explores the motive again and again within his text, eventually concluding that any real motive for the crime lays within Perry — his feelings of inadequacy, his ambiguous sexuality, and his anger at the world and at his family because of his bad childhood. Dick plays the role of true outlaw, but the impact of the killings weighs heavily on him, and his own role in the murders remains unexplained and unclear. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/i/in-cold-blood/book-summary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;CliffsNotes on &lt;em&gt;In Cold Blood&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24486" LastEditorUserId="65239" LastEditDate="2018-07-26T15:59:44.843" LastActivityDate="2018-07-26T15:59:44.843" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="42735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42670" CreationDate="2015-10-25T20:20:38.420" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a little clearer in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yvFMBgAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PT141&amp;amp;lpg=PT141&amp;amp;dq=%22There%20is%20a%20red%20LED%20light%20by%20the%20keycard%20plate%22&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=aU6Fm3SipJ&amp;amp;sig=Bw3fCCf2bmrWAx6hCoZb4MVYn50&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=zVGIVdf9IczfUe-egYgN&amp;amp;ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22There%20is%20a%20red%20LED%20light%20by%20the%20keycard%20plate%22&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;screenplay&lt;/a&gt; that the computers shut down, not because the &lt;strong&gt;power&lt;/strong&gt; had gone out, but &lt;strong&gt;because Caleb attempted to use his own access card in the card reader&lt;/strong&gt;. Since the power was never out, the doors remained locked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He runs back to the monitors.   On them, AVA has reached the MAIN&#xA;  ROOM.   She walks straight to the smashed window. And steps through.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  CALEB sticks his card into the slot by NATHAN’S computer.   Instantly,&#xA;  all the screens die. &lt;strong&gt;Replaced by a single word.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REJECTED&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qvUsQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-10-25T20:20:38.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42723" CreationDate="2015-10-25T20:46:39.387" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;May it be &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844708&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Last House on the Left&lt;/a&gt;&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Storyline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While being transported by two detectives in a car, the dangerous&#xA;  criminal Krug is rescued by his brother Francis and his girlfriend&#xA;  Sadie, and they brutally kill the detectives. Meanwhile Emma, her&#xA;  husband Dr. John and their seventeen year-old daughter Mari&#xA;  Collingwood head on vacation to their house nearby the lake. Mari&#xA;  borrows the family car to meet her friend Paige that is working in a&#xA;  store in the town. They befriend the teenager Justin in the store and&#xA;  he offers some marijuana to the pothead Paige in the motel where he is&#xA;  lodged. While they are smoking grass in Justin's room, Krug, who is&#xA;  Justin's father, Francis and Sadie arrive and abducts the girls. Krug&#xA;  drives Mari's car and she provokes a crash on a tree. Krug stabs Paige&#xA;  and rapes Mari; however Mari manages to escape, swimming in the lake,&#xA;  but Krug shoots her in the back. They walk through the isolated road&#xA;  in the woods and they reach Collingwood's house telling that they have&#xA;  just had a car accident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4795" LastActivityDate="2015-10-25T20:46:39.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42737" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42723" CreationDate="2015-10-25T20:47:07.953" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1650535/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Entitled&lt;/a&gt; from 2011 with Kevin Zegers, Tatiana Maslany and Ray Liotta, but they don't only kidnap a rich daughter, they kidnap &lt;em&gt;three&lt;/em&gt; kids from rich families, 2 sons and a daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Paul Dynan's life is turned upside down when he decides to kidnap three young socialites and hold them ransom to save his family. Things spiral out of control when his psychotic partners get trigger happy and his victims come with their own surprises. When blood is shed and his perfect plan goes horribly wrong, Dynan must fight to stay one step ahead of his own twisted game. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Paul's mom is sick and his dad turns out to be the butler of one of the families. Him and his 2 partners (a boy and a girl) keep the rich kids in a house belonging to the father of one of them. After his partners are eliminated in the end, Paul gets away with it. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/0-yGpg-7HeA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-25T21:18:50.527" LastActivityDate="2015-10-25T21:18:50.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42740" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-25T21:29:26.517" Score="14" ViewCount="1175" Body="&lt;p&gt;As explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/38616/49&quot;&gt;previous questions&lt;/a&gt;, the fact that the football players of the Gotham Rogues in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; were largely played by actual football players from the Pittsburgh Steelers was nicely facilitated by &lt;strong&gt;one of the executive producers, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tull&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thomas Tull&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legendary_Pictures&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Legendary Pictures&lt;/a&gt; to be precise, being a co-owner of the Steelers&lt;/strong&gt;, as explained by Jordan Goldberg on the BluRay of the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Our executive producer Thomas Tull is one of the owners of the Pittsburgh Steelers. So he was able to enlist a group of players to come and do cameos...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now one could say this might have influenced the decision to pick the Steelers in particular. But then again, &lt;strong&gt;large parts of the movie (among them the football game) &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/3370/49&quot;&gt;were already filmed in Pittsburgh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; anyway, so it already seems a natural choice to pick the Steelers (and played well into the many Pittsburghian extras' excitement during filming the game). But then there could on the other hand also be the possibility that Thomas Tull was chosen as an executive producer for &lt;em&gt;exactly those connections&lt;/em&gt;, since, in contrast to their title, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/21552/49&quot;&gt;Executive Producers often don't do much else than &quot;just&quot; provide money and/or &quot;be there&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. But this possiblity fails by the fact that &lt;strong&gt;Legendary Pictures, as founded by Tull back in 2000, has since produced all movies in the &lt;em&gt;Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; trilogy&lt;/strong&gt;, so they weren't taken into the boat &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; for their football connections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we can see, there are already quite some ties from the movie to Pittsburgh on the one hand and Legendary Pictures on the other hand. So Thomas Tull's connections to the Pittsburgh Steelers seem like an incredibly lucky coincidence. Which brings up the question if it really was a perfect coincidence or if it might have influenced any other decisions in the movie's production apart from chosing the Pittsburgh Steelers to play the Gotham Rogues.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I won't go as far as postulating that it had any influence on Nolan's decision to include the football game at all, as that would seem too minor a factor to influence such a major story element (that also supported themes above the mere cinematic spectacle), but then again, Nolan is also a screenwriter who has the luxury to consider directorial aspects during creating the story. But maybe it already had some influence on the decision to set parts of the movie in Pittsburgh in the first place. So &lt;strong&gt;is there any secured information how this interesting coincidence is to untangle and to which degree Legendary Pictures' connections to the Steelers really influenced which parts of the film-making&lt;/strong&gt; (apart from just picking the Steelers as Rogues, of course)? Or was this really just a big lucky coincidence and they would have had to pick other players (or &quot;just&quot; actors) to play the football players inside Heinz Field in Pittsburgh without Tull's  connections?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;sub&gt;Afterall, as explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/38616/were-the-gotham-rogue-football-team-real-football-players#comment65572_38620&quot;&gt;this comment&lt;/a&gt; the Legenedary/Steelers cooperation has been fruitful in other parts already:&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;As a side note, the Legendary partnership plays out publicly even today. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://player.vimeo.com/video/105384666&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;intro hype video&lt;/a&gt; (which I greatly enjoy) at Heinz Field is branded as Legendary, and you'll see Steelers players and coaches wearing Legendary shirts.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2017-03-02T06:07:19.940" Title="How much did Legendary Pictures' connections to the Pittsburgh Steelers really influence the production of The Dark Knight Rises?" Tags="|production|the-dark-knight-rises|film-location|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12135" CreationDate="2015-10-25T23:14:58.627" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Google again... They said several colleges but mostly U. c Berkley, MIT Harvard and other schools the artists went to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27182" LastActivityDate="2015-10-25T23:14:58.627" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42745" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42751" CreationDate="2015-10-25T23:45:18.243" Score="13" ViewCount="2670" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Martian&lt;/em&gt;, Mark makes water using a couple of things. I'm not sure if I saw it correctly, but it seemed to me that he took the rover and drove to the rocket to get fuel from it. However, isn't that the rocket the other crew members used to fly to the bigger space station? In other words, did the writers screw up and let Mark use fuel from a rocket that had previously left Mars?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="612" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-10-26T01:08:15.737" LastActivityDate="2021-11-17T15:45:30.013" Title="Does Mark get fuel to make water from the rocket that the other crew members had used to escape?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-martian|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9514" CreationDate="2015-10-26T00:00:42.283" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's one scene in &lt;em&gt;Half Blood Prince&lt;/em&gt; where Ginny and Harry kiss in The Room of Requirements. They are there to hide Harry's book after he uses Sectumsempra on Malfoy and almost kills him. The movie doesn't expand on their relationship after that, but the kiss happened in a different way in the books and they dated after that and only breaking up when Harry decided to strike out on his own after Dumbledore's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27183" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T02:32:16.357" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T02:32:16.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8572" CreationDate="2015-10-26T00:20:49.447" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cloak is impervious to any spells cast at the cloak. However, if I know where the person with the cloak is, I can cast a spell on him. For example, in books, Malfoy uses freezing charm on Harry in the train because he knew where he was having seen his sneakers earlier. In movie, Luna saw the Wrackspurts, and not Harry himself, because Wrackspurts, like Dementors, apparently could still sense the human presence, emotions etc and gravitated towards it. So she deduced there was someone there and knowing about Harry's cloak, deduced it was him.&#xA;In books, I believe Tonks, who noticed Harry hadn't left the train, used the spell to reveal hiding humans, that Hermione uses in 7th book, on each compartment as she says she knew he had the cloak. Since here the charm is not being cast at the cloak but at the human presence, it would reveal the person. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also see that in Deathly Hallows, Death Eaters try to summon the cloak off Harry but it doesn't work because that was cast at Harry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, Moody's eye, Marauder's map, etc are designed to look through objects and enchantments, which means that they could see through the cloak. Hence the cloak can't be used to hide from such things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, no spells would work on cloak, but you can still cast a spell on the human under it if you know where they are at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27183" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T00:20:49.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42748" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42740" CreationDate="2015-10-26T00:31:56.130" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are actually incentives for filming in the city of Pittsburgh that have nothing to do with being a sports fan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dawn Keezer, Pittsburgh Film Office Director states that Hollywood is enticed into filming in the city because of the $75 million tax incentive program that was introduced in 2004.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, she is quick to point out that a tax incentive was not the reason that &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; was filmed in part in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2012/12/07/pittsburgh-dark-knight-rises&quot;&gt;Pittsburgh&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The decision [to film in Pittsburgh] wasn’t related to the tax&#xA;  incentive program at all; they chose Pittsburgh because of our&#xA;  history, because of our reputation, because of the fact that we have&#xA;  four crews that work in this industry on a full-time basis. Most&#xA;  cities our size are usually lucky to have one or two crews; we can now&#xA;  do four full features with all local hires.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thomas Tull became part owner (invester as he prefers to be called) of the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2009.  As a lifelong Steelers fan and Executive Producer, Tull is in the position to modify scripts as he pleases to not only pay homage to the city, but also to the Steelers.  An example from a 2009 interview in the Pittsburgh &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2009/10/04/Steelers-New-Investors-Thomas-Tull-Hollywood-comes-to-the-Steelers/stories/200910040200&quot;&gt;Post-Gazette&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We're developing a script right now,&quot; Tull, 39, said from his offices&#xA;  at Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles. &quot;I can't get too much into&#xA;  detail, but I will say, with our writer, the setup was in Ohio; the&#xA;  family that's at the center of our story were Browns fans and had a&#xA;  parrot.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Words were scripted for the parrot; he was to talk about the Browns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;We changed that, for sure,&quot; Tull said, almost laughing. &quot;The parrot&#xA;  talked about the Steelers and it was set outside Pittsburgh.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to Tull's influence on filming in Pittsburgh for &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt;, it is apparent that he had a substantial influence on that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.post-gazette.com/steelers/2011/08/05/Steelers-pick-up-roles-as-Batman-movie-extras/stories/201108050210&quot;&gt;decision&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thomas Tull, the film's executive producer who joined the Steelers&#xA;  ownership group two years ago. &lt;strong&gt;Tull helped influence the shooting of&#xA;  the movie in Pittsburgh and he's been trying to get the Steelers&#xA;  involved.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Pittsburgh Steelers have one of the largest and loyal fan bases in all of professional sports. The fan base is deemed &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steeler_Nation&quot;&gt;Steeler Nation&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In November 2007, a study by Turnkey Sports found that the Steelers&#xA;  brand was the strongest in its local market of any team in the NHL,&#xA;  NBA, MLB or NFL.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Steelers don't need a mascot. Their fans are their mascot..... You&#xA;  don't need a mascot when you have fans like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thomas Tull had the connections to film in Pittsburgh and to express his loyalty to the Steelers.  However, if a movie producer without connections had requested, the city of Pittsburgh, the Steeler organization and &quot;Steeler Nation&quot; would have been a part of this project regardless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T00:31:56.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42750" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-26T00:58:05.943" Score="8" ViewCount="1680" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I remember about this movie is: It was made more than 20-30 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the guy/killer lived in the whole house at first but for some reason the house needed to be sold and he wanted to stay, so he converted a lower floor bathroom to a hidden room by walling over the doorway. I think he wallpapered it a reddish color. He put a small picture on that wall where the door was and right under the picture he put a tiny hole so he could peep at the new owners. He stayed in the room and to get out, there was a trap door on the floor and he would come and go from under the house (I remember lattice hiding the way under the house).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure who all the victims were but I think he killed or tried to kill a neighbor. I recall that the new owners of the house thought it strange that there was no bathroom (as it appeared) on the first floor. Anybody know what movie this is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27184" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-26T09:16:48.157" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T09:16:48.157" Title="Movie about a guy/killer living in a hidden bathroom in a newly occupied house" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:07:48.090" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42751" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42745" CreationDate="2015-10-26T01:01:51.313" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;He didn't. He used the hydrazine tanks from the MDV (Mars &lt;strong&gt;Descent&lt;/strong&gt; Vehicle) - emphasizing that the descent vehicle is completely separate from the MAV (Mars Ascent Vehicle), which is what the crew used to leave at the beginning of the film. Like the MAV IV (which Watney used to leave Mars), the MAV III had been sent in advance of the mission to create fuel, so they didn't depart in the same ship they arrived in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the book, &quot;Log Entry Sol 30&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The MDV has 292 liters of juice [hydrazine] left in the tanks. Enough to make almost 600 liters of water!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, this is from the book but the same was done in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-10-26T01:07:25.687" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T01:07:25.687" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42750" CreationDate="2015-10-26T02:19:14.503" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071186/&quot;&gt;Bad Ronald&lt;/a&gt;, (1974).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A shy teenager accidentally kills a mocking peer, and his mother helps&#xA;  him hide in a spare room in their house. Problems arise when the&#xA;  mother goes for an operation and dies, and the house is sold to a new&#xA;  family, with the teen still living inside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His mother was played by Kim Hunter, who also played Zira in the original &quot;Planet of the Apes&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T02:19:14.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37135" CreationDate="2015-10-26T02:50:30.207" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you noticed the repeated events on the beach head, loop after loop, we never see the Alpha again. The Alpha cage killed stays dead on the following loops. Later on, when Cage is lured into a trap by the false vision, another Alpha is there, and they attempt to keep Cage alive, or atleast drain his blood. We are told that Cage absorbed the first Alphas power, and then told that Cage &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;is the Alpha&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cage killed and became the Alpha. That dead Alpha was removed from time/future loops.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That means the only explanation for the Omega not surviving the reset is that, like the Alpha Cage had killed, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cage has become and replaced the Omega in the time loops&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T02:50:30.207" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32744" CreationDate="2015-10-26T03:07:46.940" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;We are constantly told that Cage has become the Alpha. At no point in the loops, do we see the Alpha on the beach again. Further more, when Cage kills the Omega, absorbing it's blood and power, the Omega does not survive the reset. So we can logically assume that that Alpha didn't survive it either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cage could not fight that same Alpha as it no longer exists in time. Cage became that Alpha.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second Alpha is very remote, and since it was a trap, there is no reason for Cage to ever travel all the way to Germany from France again.  If he could take that Alphas power is debatable but not addressed in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the film does state that J Squad must &quot;take one for the team&quot; and let themselves die by the Alphas hand,  otherwise they risk killing it and the Mimic resetting and learning what they planned. The risk is massive, and there would be no guarantee one of them getting the Alpha Blood Power on them before the reset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the Mimic learning from the events, we can see they do not, from one to the next loop. It takes a unknown amount of loops for them to catch on, unlike Cage whom learns immediately. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T03:07:46.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25186" CreationDate="2015-10-26T03:31:48.190" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Infinitely? No. Assuming the Omega blood works like the Alpha blood, and the reset is to some fixed point in time, not length of time (the length varied from 24 to 48 or 72 hours, depending how long it took them to get through the beach to Germany), then he might loop a few times unconsciously, then a few more by choice. But not Infinitely. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blood Loss without death will drain Cage of his powers, as it did Full Metal prior to him, and Cage when trying to escape General Dick. Statistically speaking, Cage will likely experience said Blood Loss event by accident on any given number of events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Or Cage can cause it to happen on purpose.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; He knows the rules, he can use it to his advantage. Live a few life times then choose when to die. Infinity is a large number, Cage will likely get bored and commit suicide during some loop, when that loop is some number less than Infinity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T03:31:48.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42761" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23773" CreationDate="2015-10-26T03:41:59.147" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a profesional hears the story he might say that she was hallucinating because of dehydration or lack of food, the time schedules to eat and drink are to refute this argument against her theory (the mirror being a haunted object).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27192" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-26T09:22:37.250" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T09:22:37.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21192" CreationDate="2015-10-26T04:21:58.840" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the map seen in the beginning news real, and behind General Brigham during Cages railroading, all of Western Europe is infected with Mimics. France, Germany, all the way across to Romania and Western Russia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Operation Downfall is staged to push in from the French coastline (British Channel, Biscay and Mediterranean, Spain), Lower Italy, Scandinavia, while the Russians and Chinese push back on Eastern Europe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Verdun is a border town of France near Germany, south west of Luxembourg.  Based on the map in the General office, it's several hundred miles into the Mimic controlled Border. It would not be a strategic point based on current territory projections. It would be dumb, plainly speaking, to launch an offensive there when they are losing the war, and it was only through Rita's looping they seem to win, later shown to be allowed to win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And since based on the map, it's still significantly in enemy territory, the battle was never to keep territory, likely a strategic, low casualty withdraw, &lt;strong&gt;that was spun to encourage humanity&lt;/strong&gt;. Considering that &lt;strong&gt;Cage is a military PR Spin Doctor&lt;/strong&gt;, in movie, the location is coincidence, and not supported by on screen facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T04:21:58.840" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42764" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43625" CreationDate="2015-10-26T07:30:45.013" Score="4" ViewCount="5997" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Bridge of Spies, Gary Powers is given a coin with a cyanide needle hidden in it, to be used in case of capture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But after his plane is shot down, we simply see him being in the custody of USSR soldiers. I want to know why he didn't use the cyanide. Did he get scared or did he not get enough time to do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-26T09:29:55.120" LastActivityDate="2017-04-29T07:31:19.360" Title="Why didn't Gary Powers use the cyanide in the coin?" Tags="|character|bridge-of-spies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42765" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45290" CreationDate="2015-10-26T07:36:23.063" Score="2" ViewCount="681" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the first few minutes of the Bridge of Spies, Abel is seen receiving and decoding a secret message. He smartly destroys the evidence during his capture by the FBI agents. What was that message about and did the FBI or CIA even establish this fact he indeed was in possession of a message at the time of his capture? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-26T09:30:25.563" LastActivityDate="2016-07-21T21:13:15.910" Title="The message received by Abel before his capture" Tags="|bridge-of-spies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42766" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31057" CreationDate="2015-10-26T08:17:02.733" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only thing that should be considered is the hurt Stephen would have felt knowing that his wife likes someone else. His own wife made a baby with another guy. If Stephen was not diagnosed with the disease, it is obvious that the relationship between Jonathan and Jane would not have happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27194" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T08:17:02.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42768" CreationDate="2015-10-26T10:34:53.060" Score="3" ViewCount="763" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen Arrow season 1, 2, 3 and am currently watching season 4. And in season 4 Oliver Queen changes his name from &quot;Arrow&quot; to &quot;Green Arrow&quot;. Also meta-humans or mystic powers villains are appearing in the series. I have not read the Arrow comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I was wondering if anyone can help me with some of my questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How much resemblance is there between the &quot;Arrow&quot; TV-series and the &quot;Green Arrow&quot; comics?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In comics, does &quot;Arrow&quot; fight with meta-humans and win? Is he that powerful or skilled?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the comics, is both &quot;Arrow&quot; and &quot;Green Arrow&quot; used or only one?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a &quot;Team Arrow&quot; in comics? If it exists, who is in it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18957" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-11T16:42:41.933" LastActivityDate="2016-11-11T16:42:41.933" Title="How much resemblance is there between the &quot;Arrow&quot; TV-series and the &quot;Green Arrow&quot; comics?" Tags="|character|arrow|arrowverse|comic-adaptation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42768" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42767" CreationDate="2015-10-26T10:47:36.057" Score="4" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Varies greatly depending on era. Green Arrow comics span decades, with different writers, multiverse plot lines, and different incarnations/reboots of the DC universe. In general, some things are keep the same, some are spiced up for tv formatting. There are Arrow-verse tie-in comic series that are closer to the show, naturally, while some aspects of the show are incorporated into the main DC universe (as of New 52, John Diggle was imported). One example, the Ra's Al Ghul/League of Assassins plot line is unique to the show. Ra's is Batman's rogue, not Green Arrow's. The mysterious Island origin is similar to the Judd Winick 2004 era comics. Felicity Smoak was a Firestorm character, not Green Arrow character.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes. Arrow can keep up with many super-powered enemies, but his stories and villains are more grounded than say Green Lanterns.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Green Arrow has had long term team-ups with various other superheroes like Black Canary, Green Lantern, the Justice League. He also had various &lt;em&gt;Robins&lt;/em&gt; like Speedy/Arsenal/Red Arrow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As far as supporting cast of non-superhero members supporting Green Arrow during caping, like Felicity and John do in the show, I am not sure. His extensive comic history would have to be looked at. For a nickname for the various sidekicks, there existed a &quot;Team Arrow&quot; starting in Green Arrow Vol. 3 (2001-2007) referring to Green Arrow and his sidekicks (Think Bat Family). In the New 52 universe, Green Arrow Vol. 5, the TV cast has essentially been incorporated, so is at least out of universe &quot;Team Arrow&quot;. And then there is the Arrow Season 2.5 tie in comics, which are in continuity with the TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-04-07T06:16:44.713" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T06:16:44.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36973" CreationDate="2015-10-26T11:06:53.237" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As @Catija has explained the Hawaiian part, the San Fransisco part is simply in reference to the events of the movie. The Pizza shop near the new house &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;ONLY&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; serves Broccoli Pizza. Riley is understandably enraged/disgusted/scared/saddened by that. Hence Anger's widely stereotyping hyperbole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also learn later on that Broccoli is literally seen as one of Riley's worst fears in her subconscious. The sight of Broccoli Pizza has tainted the &lt;strong&gt;very idea of Pizza for Riley&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Riley likely has never hear Broccoli Pizza anywhere sane people would serve pizza, so she makes the immediate connection of San Fransisco with ruining Pizza. On the same vein, Anger is blaming Hawaiians for ruining Pizza, when it's a Canadian invention. It is, like all of Anger's actions, a gut reaction. Not thought out. Impulsive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T11:06:53.237" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42642" CreationDate="2015-10-26T11:46:45.693" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As noted in that &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/37345/why-are-two-of-rileys-five-emotions-in-inside-out-male?rq=1&quot;&gt;other question&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, the parents' emotions are due to both emotional development and story and acting flow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I [Director Docter] remember, we talked to John and he said, ‘Well, I thought you did it because, as adults, we become more kind of set in our ways. As a kid, you can... anywhere is possible.’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that all of the emotions for other characters are pretty homogenous. They are similar, and in the case of the Bus Driver, it's 5 shades of Anger. We don't see much of the Dad or Mom, but we can tell that the Mom isn't chronic Depressed, nor is the Dad a Rage-aholic. The Dad specifically seems pretty Joyful for the most part. What we do see is the the emotions are &lt;strong&gt;working together&lt;/strong&gt;. One emotion may take the figurative lead, as Inside Out represents a figurative view of the mind, but the emotions are a team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Riley, as the Protagonist has the added bonus of variations for her emotions, for the audience's benefit, but at the same time, we see how her emotions evolve &lt;em&gt;over time&lt;/em&gt;. As a baby, she first had Joy, then Joy and Sadness. The emotion console was a single button. As she got older, she gained more emotions, the five main emotions the film presents, and the console got bigger, a bit more complex, &lt;strong&gt;yet it's still manned by a single emotion at a time&lt;/strong&gt;. Anyone that has dealt with children growing up knows how one-track minded children's emotions are. They tend to only express a single one at a time (yes, this is a simplified view of child psychology).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film's plot and climax results in Riley working out an emotional conflict of leaving her old home while at a tender age, where emotions start to branch out and human expression becomes more complex. At the end, we see that new memories start to become multi-faceted. Instead of a single color memory, only joyful, or disgust, or anger, it's a mix of them. The film lampshades this with the upgraded emotion console, complete with full curse board and a puberty button. As we saw with Mom and Dad, &lt;strong&gt;Riley's upgraded emotion console now has to be controlled by all of the emotions at the same time instead of one by one.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, the upgraded console (adult or adult lite) reflects a truer adult personality then the single faceted child personality. There is no single emotional personality, it's a mix of them all. Of course, the visual cues were simplified for the same reason as the emotions were for anyone not Riley, it made the story easier to flow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T11:46:45.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42776" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42777" CreationDate="2015-10-26T12:53:54.647" Score="5" ViewCount="226" Body="&lt;p&gt;Identify this movie.  My memory may not be 100% accurate in all details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plot:  A woman, either divorced or separated from a long time boyfriend, learns to be on her own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Category:  Feature for theatrical release&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Language:  English&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Production date:  About 1990s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Setting:  About 1990s, New York City&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Heroine:  Female, white, early 30s, American, urban professional, attractive&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lead actress:  In terms of recognition, a major actress who fell short of superstardom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technical:  Color&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Length of title:  One or two words.  (It's a snappy title like &lt;em&gt;Lights Out&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Uptick&lt;/em&gt;.  I don't mean in terms of meaning, but the way it sounds.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Memorable scenes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Heroine calls a masseur, who pays a home visit and ends up giving more than a massage (maybe not by accident).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Heroine attends a party or goes to a club, takes ecstasy or some other party drug and falls into a choreographed dance routine with other women.  (The scene is not realistic and so you have to take it as an expression of her state of mind.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I am sorry that my first question is an &quot;identify&quot; question.  I saw some of the related posts and the concerns about this type of question.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27199" LastEditorUserId="27199" LastEditDate="2015-10-26T13:04:28.390" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T13:04:28.390" Title="Name of movie in which a New York woman finds herself" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:07:51.220" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42776" CreationDate="2015-10-26T13:03:08.657" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120722/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Living Out Loud&lt;/a&gt; from 1998 with Holly Hunter, Danny DeVito and other known faces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Judith Nelson quit her medical studies to marry. Years later, her husband, a physician, divorces her to be with another doctor. Deeply frustrated, she now lives alone in her luxury apartment in New York, looking for a new meaning for her life. Pat Francato, the janitor and lift-boy, has a troubled life himself: Gambling debts and the tragic death of his daughter took away all his spirit. One day, he and Judith meet in the right mood and a fragile friendship starts to grow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of the scenes you mentioned are there and you can see glimpses of both of them in the trailer (the choreographed dance is around 1:30 and the massage is around 2:06):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vne0wEk-o58?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T13:03:08.657" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42778" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42781" CreationDate="2015-10-26T13:28:30.787" Score="19" ViewCount="4722" Body="&lt;p&gt;See this summary from &lt;a href=&quot;http://diehard.wikia.com/wiki/New_York_City_Water_Tunnel_No._3&quot;&gt;Die Hard Wiki&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;em&gt;Die Hard with a Vengeance&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;McClane has Jerry drive him to the tunnel as Zeus went to Yankee Stadium. As Jerry was driving, he gives McClane a tour of tunnel 3. Then they stopped when they notice a truck blocking their path. Jerry honks his horn and the truck still doesn't move. McClane finds this suspicious and decides to investigate. He takes Jerry's hardhat and jacket, disguising himself as an aqueduct security guard and makes his way to the truck. Inside the truck, Nils and Klaus wait for McClane to get close enough so they can kill him. Unfortunately for them, McClane beats them to the draw and fires several shots into the door of the truck, killing them both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While watching the movie, I didn't understand what was the role of this truck and why did it stop? And why does John McClane kill the drivers without identifying them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can assert that the terrorists' trucks were the last to enter in the tunnel, so John McClane thinks that this truck can only be one of the terrorists. But I think this assumption is weak. What if it was a normal driver in the truck?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24251" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-26T13:37:33.827" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T15:26:13.103" Title="In the tunnel, why is there a stopped truck and why does John McClane shoot the people in it?" Tags="|plot-explanation|die-hard-with-a-vengeance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42778" CreationDate="2015-10-26T14:14:58.257" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was the role of the truck?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rearguard&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;A rear guard&lt;/a&gt;. It's a good tactic to keep a lookout or a small force at the rear. That way they make sure nothing interferes with the operation and no one else drives into the pipe or decides to poke around (like John indeed does). This is mentioned in the movie, when the bad guys try to contact the truck:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Targo:&lt;/strong&gt; We are coming to the dam. You can call the rear guard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Simon:&lt;/strong&gt; Rear guard, you can close up now. We've reached the dam. You can come up now. Nils!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why does John kill them without identifying them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He did take a risk, but it was an informed guess. Here's the dialogue before the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; Any extra dump trucks come through here the last couple minutes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Foreman:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm writing those fu@%ing clowns up! They better start paying attention to work orders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John:&lt;/strong&gt; What happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Foreman:&lt;/strong&gt; A dozen idiots tore a$$ up the tube. We're not loading up there anymore, we're loading over here!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John is looking for a convoy of dump trucks, and a dozen of them just sped through the aqueduct, even though &lt;em&gt;they're not supposed to do that&lt;/em&gt;. It'll be some coincidence if one of them happened to be some innocent driver in an actual dump truck who forgot the instructions, joined the robbers' convoy and then stopped in the middle of the pipe for no reason and didn't answer John when he repeatedly called out at them. John relied on his instincts as a cop, and the movie justified them: If he would've come any closer, they would've shot &lt;em&gt;him&lt;/em&gt; through the door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T15:26:13.103" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39031" CreationDate="2015-10-26T14:37:03.093" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think gabe3886 nailed it in his comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Part of his idea is going to come from his long career where he's gathered his skills. He knows how dark and dangerous the world can be (which forms part of the concern about letting Kim go to Paris). Also the &quot;past services rendered&quot; part could mean anything, but could be taken to mean that he's helped infiltrate similar organisations so the crime level can be controlled to make Paris more attractive to visitors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that Sam could find out about the Albanians, would mean that the French Government would be aware of the &quot;house with the red door.&quot; Jean-Claude already knows there are Albanians in Paris.&#xA;Bryan knows from his career that such an arrangement wouldn't work without bribing a high-level official of rank comparable to Jean-Claude. So he pretty much knew they bribed someone, he only needed to find out who. And then he used this information against Jean-Claude himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26347" LastEditorUserId="26347" LastEditDate="2017-11-11T07:07:34.403" LastActivityDate="2017-11-11T07:07:34.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42725" CreationDate="2015-10-26T15:05:01.287" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the time, they wouldn't have yet been known as Film Noir, they would have just been Melodrama.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Contenders might be…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032976/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rebecca&lt;/a&gt; [1941] has voiceover.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032976/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Maltese Falcon&lt;/a&gt; [1941] has the detective&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032976/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Double Indemnity&lt;/a&gt; [1944] Has the detective, voice-over which starts as a letter dictation then transitions into narration…&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038355/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Big Sleep&lt;/a&gt; [1946] has no voiceover, but it does have the hard-boiled detective &amp;amp; a lot of rain.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The genre-defining voiceover is actually in the movie trailer..&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/VjJlBnfyiI4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But still no Jazz until…&#xA;1951&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to All About Jazz &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allaboutjazz.com/crimejazz-the-sound-of-noir-by-skip-heller.php&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Crimejazz: The Sound Of Noir&lt;/a&gt; the first movie to feature a jazz score was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044081/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Streetcar Named Desire&lt;/a&gt; [1951]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/u9YgJjSCT08?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They also credit Earle Hagen's &quot;Harlem Nocturne&quot; as being the prototype piece from which the 'crimejazz' genre was derived.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, by Johnny Otis, featuring Rene Bloch on alto sax&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/3bYPnfXXUp4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25773" LastEditorUserId="25773" LastEditDate="2015-10-26T18:29:33.407" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T18:29:33.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28074" CreationDate="2015-10-26T15:32:38.120" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;strong&gt;huge&lt;/strong&gt; difference between lying, and saying something that turns out to not be true. For the former, you knowingly said something wrong. The latter includes situations where you told what you thought was the truth at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jack doesn't willingly lie to his fellow Halloween town citizens. Jack misunderstood some of the key features of Christmas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &quot;What's This?&quot;, he is continually bemused by the idea of non-violent fun. &lt;em&gt;Children throwing snowballs instead of throwing heads, absolutely no one's dead, ...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Jack doesn't understand a non-Halloween world. He can't process it because Halloween is so ingrained in his perception of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He misheard &quot;Santa Claus&quot; as &quot;Sandy Claws&quot;. He also misheard &quot;sleigh&quot; as &quot;slay&quot;, and &quot;reindeer&quot; as &quot;rain gear&quot;. So presumably, he overheard someone talking about Santa Claus, and mistakenly interpreted some homophones that have a &quot;more Halloween&quot; feel to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he is introducing Christmas to the Halloween town citizens, he is talking about what he perceives Christmas to be. He's not lying, he just misunderstood, and is explaining it to people who have even less experience with Christmas than him.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the main confusion, or the idea that Jack is willfully lying comes from the break in the Christmas explanation, where he mumbles &lt;em&gt;&quot;Well, I may as well give them what they want.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It sounds like he is willfully deciding to give the people a fabricated explanation to get their approval, which is what (I think) leads you to think he intentionally lies.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;But as I see it, Jack was simply mumbling to himself that &lt;em&gt;&quot;There's no point in explaining the feeling of Christmas; instead I'll talk about the frightening ruler of Christmas town.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He makes that decision because Halloween citizens, used to horrible things, will better understand a frightening overlord (Sandy Claws) than a feeling of warmth (Christmas).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a general theme to the movie, Jack had a skewed perception &lt;strong&gt;even though his intentions were honest and benevolent&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The only thing you can really fault him for is that he had Santa taken, instead of celebrating Christmas &lt;em&gt;concurrently&lt;/em&gt; with Santa. But again, this was not malevolent, merely misguided due to being excited. He probably even fooled himself with the &quot;I'll give Santa a year off&quot; idea he gets; instead of letting envy get the better of him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22424" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T15:32:38.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42115" CreationDate="2015-10-26T15:48:05.183" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;Very simply put: &lt;strong&gt;It freaks Rick out&lt;/strong&gt; (with no needed explanation why).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to be the intended explanation, as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Morty and Summer are shown to like cob world (and its food), which lets the viewer &quot;accept&quot; cob world as a viable world to live in. If Rick freaked out &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; anyone liked the world, the viewer would have assumed cob world to not be viable.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rick very much forces the choice between &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; planets instead of three, which seems to indicate that he feels he's alone in his disapproval of cob world (again indicating it's actually seen as a viable option by others), but at the same time he does not want to compromise about it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to be fair, I'm on Rick's side here. The thought of everything being on the cob, down to a molecular level, freaks me out too. It means you're in a world which is built with different fundamental elements that you're used to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22424" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T15:48:05.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33440" CreationDate="2015-10-26T18:10:00.750" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Guess she is tired of getting &lt;strong&gt;Naked&lt;/strong&gt; for responsive reproach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anastasia: What if i say i feel the same way you feel, when i touch you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Christian Grey: I have to punish you!!, that is how i am.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that's a straight up turn off for any lady &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;i know you know that&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;the dialog is not exact but it is 70% close, in the ending moments of the movie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26578" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T18:10:00.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42789" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42790" CreationDate="2015-10-26T18:47:03.480" Score="2" ViewCount="507" Body="&lt;p&gt;The question is like in the title: how old was Raoul Duke in the &quot;Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27210" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-26T20:55:07.200" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T20:55:07.200" Title="How old was Raoul Duke in the &quot;Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas&quot;?" Tags="|character|fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42789" CreationDate="2015-10-26T19:08:07.507" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Raoul Duke is just a non prosecutable character based on the very prosecutable &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hunter S. Thompson&lt;/a&gt; that wrote the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hunter S. Thompson was born July 18, 1937, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the book&lt;/a&gt;..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;..is based on two trips to Las Vegas, Nevada, that Hunter S. Thompson took with attorney and Chicano activist Oscar Zeta Acosta in &lt;strong&gt;March and April 1971.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that would indicate he was 33 years old during the events of the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="566" LastEditDate="2015-10-26T19:18:50.803" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T19:18:50.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12135" CreationDate="2015-10-26T20:04:53.690" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/buildings-inspire-monsters-university-2013-7?op=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt;, inspiration from the Monsters U campus draws from schools Pixar animators flew out to research on, such as Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the source:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These campus visits helped the animators create a collegiate&#xA;  environment that while not based on any one school, had a mix of&#xA;  California and East Coast university traditions, Robert Kondo, Monster&#xA;  University's Art Director for Set Design &amp;amp; Shading, told us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kondo told Business Insider that because a lot of the animators went&#xA;  to art school, they traveled to these campuses to get an understanding&#xA;  of a more all around university experience. More than looking at&#xA;  specific buildings, though, Kondo said — as only an art school grad&#xA;  could — that the team went to &quot;absorb the feeling&quot; of their element.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some specific example they cite are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Troll Bridge in Monsters is an almost mirror image of the Weeks Footbridge at Harvard&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O7COp.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/O7COp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i6pnD.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/i6pnD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Parts of Monsters U have arches monsters can walk under, a callback to Stanford University's arched hallways&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LD4gS.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LD4gS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FhQot.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FhQot.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The schoolgates to Monsters U resemble the gates to Princeton University.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4211" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T20:04:53.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="572" CreationDate="2015-10-26T20:10:57.803" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe Dr. Daniel Jackson is talking about the number of initial conditions needed in order to know the future position of a point in three dimensions given second order equation of motion. In fact one need three coordinates for the initial position (x,y,z) with in addition three values for initial velocities along each directions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7503" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T20:10:57.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42793" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-26T21:55:27.120" Score="17" ViewCount="60500" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched the movie &lt;em&gt;Kingsman: The Secret Service&lt;/em&gt; and the main character's nickname isn't explained anywhere. What does &quot;Eggsy&quot; mean? Did he get it for cooking very good breakfast sunny side up? Google and Wikipedia didn't help with the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27212" LastActivityDate="2021-02-23T18:06:49.467" Title="Why is Gary Unwin's nickname &quot;Eggsy&quot;?" Tags="|kingsman-the-secret-service|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8965" CreationDate="2015-10-26T22:48:17.277" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well actually, when Dean and Castiel went to Purgatory, they didn't actually die. It was just that when standing close enough to a Leviathan, you were sent to Purgatory along with it. So technically, Dean and Castiel were actually ALIVE in Purgatory, never actually dying. Also, if they did both die and go to Purgatory, it wouldn't work out, as Dean would either have to go to Heaven or Hell(being a human soul), and Castiel? Well, the answer for where he goes is still uncertain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27213" LastActivityDate="2015-10-26T22:48:17.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42795" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42809" CreationDate="2015-10-27T00:29:19.563" Score="10" ViewCount="1350" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the earliest movie in which the status of the events as reality is doubted or denied at (or toward) the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will limit the case to movies in which almost all of the movie events are subjected to such doubt or denial and exclude the ones that may start &quot;in&quot; some character's fantasy and then fairly soon step &quot;out&quot; to (the movie's) reality or go &quot;in and out&quot; through the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A famous example is The Wizard of Oz (1939), in which the events of the movie turn out to have been a dream in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a fairly early movie in mind and will give it as an answer if others don't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to incorporate some comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answer could be a movie of any length, short or feature.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When &quot;it all turns out to have been&quot; a dream etc., it should come as a surprise to the viewer.  (The viewer may then want to have a second viewing in light of what he has learned to see the changes in his own responses.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27199" LastEditorUserId="27199" LastEditDate="2015-10-27T08:27:07.383" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T09:24:53.680" Title="What is the earliest movie in which &quot;it all turns out to have been a dream&quot;?" Tags="|first-appearance|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1868" CreationDate="2015-10-27T01:22:16.190" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's referring to &quot;new regs,&quot; as in Army regulations. Specifically, Will Smith's facial hair, which under current military regs, is not allowed unless you have a shaving waiver.  I think this line was written into the movie to explain Will Smith's facial hair, which was easier than waiting for it to grow out for the later sequences (possible due to Will Smith's availability conflicting with other projects.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27215" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T01:22:16.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42798" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43876" CreationDate="2015-10-27T01:51:00.680" Score="6" ViewCount="1037" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nearing the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085794/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;King of Comedy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when the show that Rupert &quot;bought&quot; himself into starts, there's a writer with his family at the (back?) entrance, supposedly one of this evening's show guests. But to his surprise he isn't actually on the invitation list and starts to argue with the porter, until he just runs into the studio, alarming the guards thereby. This confusion is used by Rupert to sneak into the studio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I didn't quite get what the background of this incident actually was, especially since the writer is then further questioned by the guards about his background, all of which seemed rather unrelated to the rest of the story. Sure, it provided Rupert with a way to sneak into the stuido, but had he just introduced himself as &quot;The King&quot; they would have had to let him through anyway. And it seemed quite a coincidence and unusual event to be entirely unrelated to the story at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;what is the actual background of this incident with the writer and his supposedly lost invitation that further ties it into the rest of the movie's story?&lt;/strong&gt; Was this really just some totally unrelated coincidence (or maybe he was just supposed to be dropped by the changed program due to Rupert's shenanigans)? Or was that maybe even facilitated by Rupert himself somehow in order to silently sneak into the studio (but why would that have been necessary)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T23:23:50.780" Title="What was the matter with the writer who didn't have an invitation to the show?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-king-of-comedy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42799" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-27T02:06:56.787" Score="10" ViewCount="9871" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am curious, plot-wise, what the chronological order of the James Bond films are?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seem to recall that &lt;em&gt;Casino Royal&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Quantum of Solace&lt;/em&gt; are set in the beginning of James' career as a 00-agent and that &lt;em&gt;Dr. No&lt;/em&gt; is set before he became aware of SPECTRE's existence. But that's about it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4297" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-06-01T07:11:22.757" LastActivityDate="2017-06-01T07:11:22.757" Title="What is the chronological order of all the Bond Films based on plot?" Tags="|james-bond|chronology|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2017-06-02T06:15:17.797" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28521" CreationDate="2015-10-27T03:03:14.343" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film style of Jackie Chan movies is &quot;Hong Kong Action Cinema&quot;. While Jackie's style is unique, others of the same time era feature the same techniques of Peking Opera influenced acrobatics, Kung Fu, and slapstick. My understanding is that this style of film was specific to Hong Kong and distinct from Mainland Chinese films of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T03:03:14.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42805" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42793" CreationDate="2015-10-27T06:45:08.893" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a very popular band goldie lookin chain one of the band members is called eggsy. The way Gary dresses is very similar to the way eggsy dresses gold chain around neck,rapper hat,and a pull over. Hence it might be a reference to that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T06:45:08.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42795" CreationDate="2015-10-27T09:24:53.680" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The earliest one I could think of that answers &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; those criteria is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0003973/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Florida Enchantment&lt;/a&gt; from 1914. The 63 minute silent film is about a woman taking a magical seed which transforms her into a man. (It's also one of the earliest examples of a plot with gay and bisexual themes). &lt;em&gt;It ends with the heroine realizing that it was all a dream.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another early example of this trope is Chaplin's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0009611/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shoulder Arms&lt;/a&gt; from 1918, where the end revealed that all of Charlie's exploits in the war were a dream in boot camp. Chaplin was a fan of the plot device and used it in other films (like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004936/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Bank&lt;/a&gt; from 1915).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were earlier films with dream sequences, like those mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/31639/where-did-the-dream-effect-originate/36162#36162&quot;&gt;the answer to this question&lt;/a&gt;, some Melies films and some early adaptations of &lt;em&gt;Alice in Wonderland&lt;/em&gt;, but I don't believe they answer &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of your requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T09:24:53.680" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35349" CreationDate="2015-10-27T09:28:39.600" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The vikings' culture had not yet reached a point where it was a national thing. Their religion still relied on verbal passing down and local differences, as opposed to having centralized churches like the English kingdoms have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they meet the English, they see a religion that is far better organized than theirs. Which is foreign to them, and probably screams &quot;cult&quot; in their minds as they cannot comprehend how all the English they meet are so in tune with their religion (as opposed to having regional differing opinions).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;To the vikings, that makes the English seem like mere mouthpieces, spouting the same religious nonsense (as they see it), and turns their perception of the English to mindless religious zombies as opposed to individuals with their own opinions of their religion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're also not used to a monotheistic religion, and if I recall correctly openly mock having a single god in a particular scene, with Floki (I think) saying something like &quot;how can he be the god of &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt;?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then there's just the general dislike of them because they are an enemy ripe for raiding. Most men other than Ragnar have raiding on their minds, so they demonize their enemy. What better way to demonize them than by calling on religious superstition?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Floki seems to be the instigator for these types of events, often using Norse religion to band together the Vikings, and adding a hate for the English/Catholic at the same time. He never forgave Rollo for getting baptized (even though Rollo mocked the baptism and never took it seriously), and never got over his dislike for Athelstan.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;He often starts the fighting. Think back on the first meet between the vikings (just landed) and the English. The English guard takes off his medallion and gives it to Ragnar/Rollo (I forget?) as a sign of peace and trust (which is a big thing, given you have armed soldiers landing on your beach). Floki then lunges forward and forcibly takes another trinket for his own. That changes what was a friendly encounter into one where the Vikings are seen as greedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22424" LastEditorUserId="22424" LastEditDate="2015-10-27T09:35:43.920" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T09:35:43.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42793" CreationDate="2015-10-27T09:49:48.007" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&amp;amp;id=50173&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mark Millar -- the author of the comic book -- in an interview with Comic Book Resources&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And on the &amp;quot;changes over time&amp;quot; front, I understand that &amp;quot;The Secret&#xA;Service&amp;quot; will make a slight change to Jack's name. What precipitated&#xA;this? Did &amp;quot;Jack London&amp;quot; just feel the call of the wild?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Funny you should say that because, as a kid, I just thought that was a&#xA;cool name and I wrote it into the book because I liked it. But Matthew&#xA;said legally we couldn't call him that in the movie any more than we&#xA;could call him Tom Clancy. So we bounced a lot of names around and,&#xA;since I named Gary after one of my friends, he renamed Jack after his&#xA;oldest school-friend. &lt;strong&gt;In the original draft of the comic I gave Gary&#xA;my friend's old nickname of &amp;quot;Eggsy&amp;quot; because I thought it was funny,&#xA;but thought everybody would hate it. But Matthew and Jane loved it and&#xA;used that as Gary's nickname in the movie so I've worked it back into&#xA;a couple of panels in the book. I kind of love the madness of a&#xA;superspy called Eggsy. Matthew thought it was really iconic and since&#xA;I named this after one of my pals he felt it was only fair to call the&#xA;other after one of his.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/mrmarkmillar/status/357590339072180224&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;said the same thing on Twitter&lt;/a&gt; on 17 July 2013:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I gave Gary the nickname EGGSY in Secret Service after a school pal&lt;/strong&gt;,&#xA;but thought it was too mad. Now it's in script. Pal will be&#xA;chuffed!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And followed this up with &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/mrmarkmillar/status/357591324221911040&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this tweet&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the St Ambrose Eggsy has now been immortalised as it's Gary's nickname in the Secret Service movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/mark-millar/33787/mark-millar-interview-kingsman-foxs-marvel-films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Millar offers this explanation&lt;/a&gt; for the nickname in an interview with Den of Geek:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Den of Geek:&lt;/strong&gt; Director Matthew Vaughn used both the phrase “good egg” and “bad egg”&#xA;in talking about the characters in this film. It dawned on me that the&#xA;lead character being called Eggsy might not be an accident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mark Millar:&lt;/strong&gt; It’s my old school friend’s name. One of my three best friends that I&#xA;used to hang around with, and &lt;strong&gt;the reason he was called Eggsy&lt;/strong&gt; - and he&#xA;wasn’t a tough guy or anything like the character in the film - &lt;strong&gt;is&#xA;just that he didn’t like eggs.&lt;/strong&gt; We were all about fourteen and having&#xA;dinner at somebody’s house and there was an egg in the meal and he&#xA;said “Oh, I don’t eat them.” I said “Who doesn’t like eggs?” “I’ve&#xA;never tasted one.” “You must have! Are you kidding me?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I dedicated the book to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the explanation offered at &lt;a href=&quot;https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:MrBlonde267/Kingsman_Fan_Q%26A:_Mark_Millar_and_Dave_Gibbons&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MARVEL DATABASE: Do you know where the nickname &amp;quot;Eggsy&amp;quot; came from? It wasn't in the comics but perhaps you had a chat with Matthew Vaughn which triggered the change. I've been trying to figure some theories about it myself but have had no luck. Eggsy had that nickname since he was a kid (Scene in movie). Seriously curious about this one. Thank you so much! - Ariana Castellano&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MARK MILLAR: &lt;strong&gt;Gary Unwin was called Eggsy after one of my old school-friends.&lt;/strong&gt; I had written this into the comic originally and took it out because I thought the name might be a bit silly. But Matthew loved it and shoved it into the movie and I agreed and put it back in the comic. The real Eggsy is delighted of course and when I took him to the premiere having his name said every 10 seconds really made the movie for him. &lt;strong&gt;We called him Eggsy at school because he stunned us all when we were fourteen by saying he’d never eaten an egg.&lt;/strong&gt; His reasoning was good enough. It does sound vaguely disgusting when you think about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2021-02-23T18:06:49.467" LastActivityDate="2021-02-23T18:06:49.467" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="42812" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42813" CreationDate="2015-10-27T11:16:26.090" Score="6" ViewCount="2365" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there any differences between Supergirl's  leaked pilot episode and the broadcast one or are they exactly the same? I read a few articles about complaints with the leaked episode and I also didn't like a few things. So did they change anything (maybe even as a reaction to the complaints) or just keep it the same?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:19:45.170" LastActivityDate="2017-05-23T11:19:45.170" Title="Are there any differences between Supergirl's leaked episode and the broadcast one?" Tags="|arrowverse|alternate-version|supergirl|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42812" CreationDate="2015-10-27T11:40:56.717" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you're asking about significant changes to the plots, characters, etc, then no. The episode that aired on 10/26/2015 was the same episode that originally leaked in the spring of 2015 in every meaningful way. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like there were some very minor changes made in the editing process, probably for time constraints (e.g. I there's a line of dialogue, when Kara returns to work after her first public superhero activity, where a coworker calls her a &quot;life saver&quot; that I didn't hear in the final episode), but nothing that had any impact on the content of the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T11:40:56.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18188" CreationDate="2015-10-27T14:48:04.943" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;He provided evidence that lead to them prosecuting deno and he served two years for something he didn't do so the charges seem fairly accurate to me&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27231" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T14:48:04.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42818" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42841" CreationDate="2015-10-27T16:43:47.150" Score="13" ViewCount="12947" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Godfather II, Vito decides to get rid of Don Fanucci and kills him during the carnival outside his apartment. How could it be so easy to kill Don Fanucci? Supposedly with the career he got, killing him must have been of benefit for lots of people and he must have had lots of enemies that tried to kill him by that time. So he must have gotten himself some bodyguards. Why was there no trouble to kill him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5790" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-27T16:45:00.403" LastActivityDate="2019-12-02T08:42:59.870" Title="Why didn't Don Fanucci have any bodyguards so that Vito killed him so easily?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-godfather-2|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42825" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42826" CreationDate="2015-10-27T20:14:06.070" Score="2" ViewCount="6284" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Breaking Bad, part of Walter's money got absorbed by the Gray Matter corporation that will be later handed out to Walter's family. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what happens to the remaining money he has made? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-10-27T23:14:28.730" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T13:29:27.707" Title="Where did the rest of Walter White's money go?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2015-10-29T06:16:12.487" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42825" CreationDate="2015-10-27T20:23:34.693" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the episode &quot;To'hajiilee,&quot; most of the money is taken by Neo-Nazis. Walter spends some of the rest while he is in hiding, more on his &quot;revenge&quot; apparatus, and gives the rest to Gray Matter to be disbursed to his family at a later date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We never find out what happens to the millions that the Neo-Nazis stole. In the final episode of the series, Walter is given the chance to (maybe) find out but, perhaps because he is badly wounded, does not take that opportunity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="940" LastEditDate="2015-10-28T13:29:27.707" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T13:29:27.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42829" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42830" CreationDate="2015-10-27T22:17:05.200" Score="1" ViewCount="365" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have always wondered if the author of a book is present when making a movie. For example, the new movie Scorch Trials that just came out is so much different from the book, that it is hard to believe that the author is there and verifying every move of their published book. Are the authors there and verifying every move? Do they help and approve the design of a movie poster?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26456" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-27T22:44:04.340" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T22:44:04.340" Title="When making a movie on a book, is the author of the book present?" Tags="|book-adaptation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2016-10-31T07:15:42.030" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42829" CreationDate="2015-10-27T22:30:28.960" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's hard to give a percentage of yes vs no. Often, a company buys the rights to a book completely, and the author gets a writing credit. Maybe a writing consultation. But they rarely get a veto over the directors vision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-27T22:30:28.960" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42834" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42850" CreationDate="2015-10-28T04:02:31.357" Score="5" ViewCount="366" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching this 80s movie a few yrs ago, but can't remember the title. I googled as much as I could to no avail. I entered a quote from the movie, but bupkis. It isn't much, but I hope someone remembers. It's an 80s movie I believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's about a young girl. The only scene I remember is her and her family in the car, while a young boy (don't think he's related), also in the car begins to taunt her, telling her she's &quot;sexually repressed&quot;. He thereafter yells; &quot;you're repressed!&quot; a few more times. Fed up with the taunting, the young lady angrily takes her top off. Obviously trying to prove him wrong. It actually was a good movie, but forgive the fact that this is the only scene I remember. I'm a guy :).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27248" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-01T15:25:51.000" LastActivityDate="2015-11-01T15:25:51.000" Title="What's the title of this coming of age movie?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:07:57.510" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42839" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-28T07:31:01.533" Score="4" ViewCount="14091" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question never stopped to bother me. &#xA;I have looked for answers but all I could find was along the lines of :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Snow fell from the sky during the harsh cold winter. &#xA;It is collected and stored (somehow) and maintained until summer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answer suggests that it costs a fortune to do so, which is shown in the (Saladin's generosity). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ice shown in the movie is not just any ice.. It is a slush-consistency ice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did they manage to make it back then (if every they did).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T22:08:09.643" Title="How did Saladin obtain iced water in the middle of the desert?" Tags="|plot-explanation|kingdom-of-heaven|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42840" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-28T05:05:38.657" Score="5" ViewCount="3792" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the ending of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3042408/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Who Am I - Kein System ist sicher&lt;/a&gt;, after Hanne Lindberg found out about the trick of Benjamin and his three other teammates (the sugar cube trick), why did she choose not to pursue them? Is it because she believed that Benjamin is not bad and won't do it again or did she just not have the ability to do so? In the ending scene, she seems pleased that Benjamin got away though...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" OwnerDisplayName="ALAN" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2021-10-18T20:01:12.347" LastActivityDate="2021-10-18T20:01:12.347" Title="Why did Hanne choose not to pursue them?" Tags="|plot-explanation|who-am-i-2014|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="42841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42818" CreationDate="2015-10-28T08:17:32.447" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;The book actually provides a better explanation than the movie does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly after young Vito Corleone looses his job at Genco due to Fanucci's threats to his boss, Vito witnesses Fanucci being physically attacked by two neighborhood kids.  Fanucci calls for help, but to no avail.  This is the point where Vito realizes that Fanucci is not untouchable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the novel and in the chronological film version re-edited for TV&#xA;  (The Godfather Saga), Vito witnesses an attack on Fanucci by two&#xA;  youths of the neighborhood who are tired of Fanucci's oppression over&#xA;  the neighborhood. Although Fanucci screams for help, nobody comes to&#xA;  his rescue and the attack ends only when the youths have robbed him,&#xA;  cut his throat, and run away. Vito knows from his own experiences that&#xA;  a real Don would probably be escorted by bodyguards, and that anybody&#xA;  who dared attack him would be dealt with severely and publicly. Vito&#xA;  begins to suspect that Fanucci's power comes from the threat of force&#xA;  rather than force itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don Fanucci was able to terrorize the neighborhood of Little Italy and extort from local business owners because of his association with mafia boss &lt;a href=&quot;http://godfather.wikia.com/wiki/Maranzalla&quot;&gt;Maranzalla&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Maranzalla was the leader of a criminal ring specializing in&#xA;  extortion, gambling and armed robbery. It was also rumoured that he&#xA;  was padrone to Fanucci, a known extortionist who relied on his&#xA;  connection with Maranzalla to remain 'untouchable'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don Fanucci did not have bodyguards.  He felt untouchable.  His arrogance coupled with the fact that the neighborhood was better off with him dead is how he was so easy to kill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fanucci was also despised by the police, so there was no investigation into his death.  Nobody (including Maranzalla) cared that Don Fanucci was killed.  Maranzalla did not attempt to find out who killed him to avenge his death. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T08:17:32.447" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42842" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43333" CreationDate="2015-10-28T08:21:52.033" Score="8" ViewCount="280" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In  the 2015 Fantastic Four&lt;/strong&gt; movie, Reed, Johnny, and Victor along with Ben use the Quantum Gate to embark on an unsanctioned voyage to Planet Zero, which they learn is a world filled with otherworldly substances. Victor attempts to touch the green-lava like substance, causing the surface they are in to collapse and the ground to erupt. Reed, Johnny, and Ben return to their shuttle just as Sue brings them back to Earth. Victor is left behind after he falls into the collapsing landscape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The team opened another portal to Planet Zero in exchange for giving Reed the necessary resources to find a cure. Arriving in Planet Zero, Dr. Allen's explorers find Victor, who has been fused to his spacesuit and he has a &lt;strong&gt;cape on his shoulders&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I want to know is where that cape came from? Knowing that planet Zero is unhabitable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20877" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-29T22:07:24.613" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T20:48:04.467" Title="Where does Victor's cape come from?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fantastic-four-2015|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42844" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42845" CreationDate="2015-10-28T09:50:11.767" Score="6" ViewCount="13335" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually I wanted to see that movie again but don't remember the name. Story goes like this, if anyone could recall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A girl had two options of guys, one of which is struggling writer and one is rich successful ad agency owner. She lives with her brother and discusses her two simultaneous relationship with him. Brother is reimbursed for a chewing gum ad.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end after dating two guys at same time she decides that she will marry rich guy. But as usual writer guy runs for the girl and girl realises her love for him and miss her flight intentionally. At end both meet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably shot in Washington DC or maybe Texas.&#xA;Movie is around 2003-2009.&#xA;Probable IMDb rating could be 5-6.&#xA;I have seen it at friends place, 3 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27254" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-28T11:04:14.577" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T11:04:53.983" Title="What is that movie in which a girl selects from two guys?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:08:00.630" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42844" CreationDate="2015-10-28T10:29:58.030" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1447793/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;My Girlfriend's Boyfriend&lt;/a&gt; from 2010 with Alyssa Milano.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jesse, in a moment of bold self-confidence, introduces herself to Ethan, a struggling writer. And then in walks [rich ad executive] Troy, and in a moment of bold self-confidence, he introduces himself to Jesse. Jesse falls in love with both men, who happen to have a lot in common but still seem very different. What will happen when Jesse has to tell the truth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everything you mentioned is there (her brother's gum ad, choosing the writer and missing the flight), but there's a twist:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The rich guy never existed&lt;/em&gt;. The writer made him up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I posted this answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/24121/romance-film-girl-in-love-with-character-in-boyfriends-book/24123#24123&quot;&gt;before&lt;/a&gt;, but the questions are different. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/OC8g9EVe68s?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T11:04:53.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42846" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-28T11:06:40.830" Score="6" ViewCount="1346" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do theorists of cinema use the concept of &quot;narrator&quot; in the sense of the hypothetical person presenting the movie, and if yes who are some of the famous ones and what are the works in which they do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am referring to the concept as is used in this remark by one of our members in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/42795/what-is-the-earliest-movie-in-which-it-all-turns-out-to-have-been-a-dream&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;.  (See comments to the answer.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sure, Caligari is another good example (and also an early example of an unreliable narrator)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like the concept we know from literary criticism.  (In a novel, for instance, we can always distinguish a narrator from the character or the author.  He is the hypothetical person that &quot;narrated&quot; all the sentences making up the novel. If the narrator is also a character, as in e.g. &lt;em&gt;David Copperfield&lt;/em&gt;, that is a second job for him.  The narrator will presumably say, &quot;Yes everything happened exactly as I said,&quot; if asked, while the author will say, &quot;What do you mean?  It's just a novel.&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, there may be some (perhaps limited) scope for using a hypothetical presenter to analyze a film in much the same way a narrator is used for novels etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please note the narrator of a movie in our sense would not be the same thing as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benshi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;silent film orator&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27199" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T08:41:26.963" Title="The &quot;narrator&quot; of a movie" Tags="|analysis|terminology|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42847" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42865" CreationDate="2015-10-28T12:57:13.750" Score="1" ViewCount="284" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prem_Ratan_Dhan_Payo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Prem Ratan Dhan Payo&lt;/a&gt; is not yet released, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even this movie not premiered in any film festival also. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But its Wikipedia article showing running time. How is it possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26375" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-10-29T06:32:13.137" LastActivityDate="2018-09-14T23:47:00.553" Title="How wikipedia showing running time even before the movie release?" Tags="|indian-cinema|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42938" CreationDate="2015-10-28T13:24:31.380" Score="55" ViewCount="15868" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, in the first movie, presumably the Doc and Marty know exactly when the lightning will strike the clock tower. This is because Marty has the flyer with the picture of the stopped clock on it. In order to power the DeLorean, the Doc cooks up this contraption to conduct the lightning through a hook into the DeLorean. All Marty has to do is be driving at 88 mph and hit the wire at the exact right moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the question though - if you recall, the Doc sets a timer and tells Marty to drive back to a pre-designated starting point. When the timer goes off, Marty is supposed to accelerate to 88 mph. My assumption is that the Doc has calculated the maximum acceleration of the DeLorean, and using this value has determined the exact starting point that the car needs to be at in order to hit the lightning at the right time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the car stalls. It takes Marty a while, but he's finally able to start it up. Being that he started late though...shouldn't he have missed the lighting?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27257" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T20:33:16.560" Title="In Back to the Future, how did Marty get the timing right with the lightning strike?" Tags="|back-to-the-future|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42849" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-28T13:29:35.063" Score="2" ViewCount="132" Body="&lt;p&gt;Loki let goes of Thor and float into space and dies in the first movie. Then Loki is alive in the second movie. How is this possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27258" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-07T13:30:45.223" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T13:30:45.223" Title="How is Loki alive in the second movie of Thor?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|thor|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2015-10-28T13:45:55.663" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42834" CreationDate="2015-10-28T13:33:16.230" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Sure Thing&lt;/em&gt; (1985). The scene in question is alluded to as the &quot;tension and bickering&quot; in the Wikipedia entry quoted below (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sure_Thing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sure_Thing&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Walter finds a ride from a ride share board to make the trip. He meets Gary Cooper (Tim Robbins) and Mary Ann Webster (Lisa Jane Persky), the couple providing the ride: they are extroverted and upbeat to a fault. Things go from bad to worse when he realizes he will be sitting next to Alison as she heads to UCLA to visit her boyfriend Jason (Boyd Gaines). The tension and bickering between Walter and Alison becomes too much for Cooper (...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqakcpuhTrE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here's the scene in question&lt;/a&gt;, and here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/fxo6F6rJv7E?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-28T13:50:56.240" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T13:50:56.240" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42848" CreationDate="2015-10-28T13:46:22.070" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no logic explanation for this, it's just a plot hole created by the need of giving more tension on the end of the movie.&#xA;Maybe if the horizontal wire could stretch a lot while the car runs after the connection with the hook, but i doubt it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27110" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T13:46:22.070" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42852" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-28T13:57:05.600" Score="4" ViewCount="869" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;strong&gt;Hachi: A Dog's Tale&lt;/strong&gt; we have seen in the beginning of the movie that dog was being parceled. So whom it was parceled to and why didn't the owner for whom it was parceled bother to search for it? So was there some other &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;significance which I missed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-28T14:57:31.307" LastActivityDate="2016-08-22T19:53:29.047" Title="Exactly for whom was the dog parceled in Hachi: A Dog's Tale?" Tags="|plot-explanation|hachi-a-dogs-tale|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42855" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42858" CreationDate="2015-10-28T19:20:19.680" Score="1" ViewCount="1201" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen him RKO loads of different wrestlers, but has he ever done it to a woman?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17983" LastEditorUserId="17983" LastEditDate="2015-10-29T09:56:10.630" LastActivityDate="2015-11-03T13:33:51.920" Title="Has Randy Orton ever RKO'd a woman?" Tags="|wwe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41590" CreationDate="2015-10-28T19:28:53.193" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The terminator is an infiltration unit, designed to blend in to allow it to strike from within (as long as everyone is a 6ft Austrian, but lets not go there).  Knowing when Sarah and Kyle were due to arrive in 2017 it infiltated to allow it to both gain detailed knowledge of the facility (to aide destruction via explosive), and to allow it to program access for Sarah and Kyle to the safe room, for when they do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key time for them is just before skynet/genisys becomes active, a strike earlier isn't guaranteed to be effective, and may make things worse, as we've seen by the T5000 changing time by affecting John Conner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastEditorUserId="4637" LastEditDate="2015-10-28T19:34:30.387" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T19:34:30.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42855" CreationDate="2015-10-28T19:52:45.093" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Took a bit of Googling: Stacy Keibler&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/f3d6WBKDPc4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27268" LastEditorUserId="21705" LastEditDate="2015-11-03T13:33:51.920" LastActivityDate="2015-11-03T13:33:51.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42859" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-28T22:07:44.853" Score="9" ViewCount="1120" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is eventually revealed in &lt;em&gt;Spectre&lt;/em&gt; that the titular organisation possesses unprecidented levels of surveilance, and it is by virtue of this that Mr Hinx is able to track Bond across the globe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Bond and Swann decide to confront the organisation and are on a train on the way to Spectre HQ when they are attacked by their pursuer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why would he do this?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The train is heading to a pretty desolate location, it's obvious that Bond is coming straight to Blofeld. What does Hinx have to gain in attacking/apprehending/murdering the couple on their way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They have effectively been invited, it doesn't make sense as to why Hinx would choose to attack.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2016-04-05T15:16:42.173" LastActivityDate="2016-04-05T15:16:42.173" Title="Why did Mr Hinx attack Bond &amp; Madeleine Swann on the train?" Tags="|james-bond|spectre|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42860" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-28T22:12:36.110" Score="10" ViewCount="2303" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;em&gt;Spectre&lt;/em&gt;, Bond and Swann escape Blofelds desert facility, only for it to explode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHY/HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bond is stripped of weapons (except the concealed explosive within his wristwatch) before entering, and as far as I could see there is no point in which he is able to sabotage the facility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no point in Blofeld destroying his own facility, as Bond is an enemy of the state and a fugitive; there is no-one (except his close colleagues) on his side. There is nothing to hide in the facility, and it would result in a huge loss of personnel. Even if Blofeld wanted to hide the facility for some reason, it doesn't make any sense to just blow it up immediately, there is no motive for this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What have I missed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T04:02:14.520" Title="Why does the desert facility explode?" Tags="|james-bond|spectre|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42861" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42848" CreationDate="2015-10-28T22:33:06.373" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;For an in-universe explanation: There may be sufficient capacitance in the system to allow the lightning charge to be stored for one minute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doc Brown only knew the the lightning strike to +/- one minute, so it is logical that he would calculate the capacitance of the clock tower, and add additional capacitance to into the circuit to cover one minute of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But would that even be possible?  To determine this we need to know how much power could be stored in the capacitor, and how much power the time machine needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The DeLorean's flux capacitor needs 1.21 gigawatts.  But gigawatts is power over time, and we don't know how long the time machine needed that supply.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPeHFDxKUP4&quot;&gt;Watching the video&lt;/a&gt; of the first time travel back to 1955, there is some bright light then Marty appeared back in time instantly.  The video is 24fps, so &quot;instantly&quot; is less than 1/24th.  1/24th of a second times 1.21 gigawatts is 50.4 megajoules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh this is gonna work out great...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The worlds largest capacitor is currently &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/How-many-Farads-does-the-largest-capacitor-ever-made-have-And-whats-its-purpose&quot;&gt;50 megajoules&lt;/a&gt;!  That is much less than a bolt of lightning.  Now, I dunno how Doc Brown could make a 50 megajoule capacitor on his own.  But the guy built a time machine so let's give him this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One more point: The &quot;antennae hook&quot; mechanism that attached to the car had some bend in it, so if Marty arrived a few seconds too soon the hook would remain connected to the wire long enough to catch the lightning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27271" LastActivityDate="2015-10-28T22:33:06.373" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42864" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45198" CreationDate="2015-10-29T00:54:08.587" Score="13" ViewCount="4184" Body="&lt;p&gt;The lead character in the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3397884/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;Sicario&lt;/a&gt;, Kate Macer (played by Emily Blunt) spends most of the movie not knowing what is really going on or what the purpose of her secondment to a somewhat shady anti-drug unit actually is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the movie it transpires that at least one of the goals was to facilitate an assassination of a drug lord. But why was this assassination important and what was the point of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2016-10-05T18:29:00.637" Title="What is the ultimate goal of the murky goings on in Sicario?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sicario|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42865" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42847" CreationDate="2015-10-29T01:36:09.360" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Likely because this is details that movie theaters need to know in order to properly schedule screening times. They know this weeks ahead of the premier because not knowing would result in very sloppy handling at the theaters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any movie to be released will have a final cut made weeks to months ahead of release, and locked in a run time when it is submitted to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Board_of_Film_Certification&quot;&gt;CBFC&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America&quot;&gt;MPAA&lt;/a&gt; for a rating. They can't edit to shorten or lengthen without resubmitting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, run time is not a specifically special or important thing to hide from the general public.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-10-29T06:30:23.757" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T06:30:23.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42848" CreationDate="2015-10-29T02:15:30.183" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;What makes you think the lightning could strike before the clock tower was grounded (by Doc plugging the cables back together, the metal poles beside the road providing a path to ground).  Things to note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the plug near the ground pops loose, the free end is stuck in a tree, not too close to the ground, so not a great path to ground.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lightning is striking all around and near the lightning arrestor above the clock.  Any of those could have done the job, but they require a path to ground.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The lightning completely stops after the useful bolt.  Who's to say there isn't a flying train in the clouds firing a lightning gun at the tower until success is achieved?  (That's far more likely to work than waiting for nature to do it.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27275" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T02:15:30.183" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42848" CreationDate="2015-10-29T03:13:24.867" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a paradox. Predestination Paradox to be precise. The Lightning only strikes the Clock Tower because of the changes Doc and Marty make in order to harness the power of the Lightning Strike. The exact time of the Strike didn't matter, because while Doc and Marty are aiming for that exact minute based on the paper/their &quot;history&quot;, whatever they actually do becomes the time that the Clock Tower is struck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See: Twin Pines Mall become Lone Pine Mall, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T03:13:24.867" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42869" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36649" CreationDate="2015-10-29T03:14:45.750" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know why Lord Beckett didn't give out the order's but he's realized that there was nothing he could do about it. The chapter number is 25 &quot;Good Business&quot;. Lord Beckett was trying to kill Jack Sparrow but it turns out Lord Beckett was wrong. I've seen this movie a million times (more than a million) and I still don't get why Lord Beckett didn't give out the orders to attack. I thought that was really really dumb of Lord Beckett, but hey, as I said before, Lord Beckett realized there was nothing he could actually do about it so he let his death take over for itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27277" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T03:14:45.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36697" CreationDate="2015-10-29T03:23:08.260" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason why he came back is because he's their Captain, and Captain's NEVER let down his crew, no matter WHAT situation he's in. He came back because he ran away from his own ship the &lt;em&gt;Black Pearl&lt;/em&gt;. Elizabeth saw Jack rowing a boat and then she said, &quot;coward&quot;. Jack then sees that the Kraken had taken over his entire ship and he goes back. Elizabeth chains him with a rope or something and then she left, leaving him to die. Jack, after being &quot;eaten&quot; by the Kraken, was in Davy Jones's locker and then he sees his crew. Elizabeth said, &quot;Jack come with us&quot; or something like that. Jack replies, &quot;Why should I sail with any of you? Four of you have tried to kill me in the past . . . one of you succeeded.&quot; Jack looks at Elizabeth and then Will Turner looks at Elizabeth. It was Elizabeth's fault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27277" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-29T12:54:47.317" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T12:54:47.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42871" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42852" CreationDate="2015-10-29T03:40:23.817" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie the dog escaped from the train. Depending on where the dog was sent from and when the dog was declared missing from his package the search area could be immense. Furthermore the owners probably could have filed an insurance claim and gotten a new dog for free. That's definitely easier than searching for a missing puppy around potentially hundreds of miles of track.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26325" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T03:40:23.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42848" CreationDate="2015-10-29T05:19:24.607" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Lightning&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Futurepedia&lt;/a&gt; tells us that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the flyer [Marty] was given by the Hill Valley Preservation Society,&#xA;  announc[ed] that the Courthouse would be struck by lightning &lt;strong&gt;at 10:04&#xA;  pm that next Saturday night.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the assumption made throughout the movie is that the lightning would strike at &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; 10:04 PM, but what's the chance that it would be &lt;em&gt;precisely&lt;/em&gt; that moment?  Note that the flyer says '10:04 pm', not '10:04:00'pm, simply because they wouldn't have known the precise second it struck.  My thinking has always been that the lightning struck sometime &lt;em&gt;slightly&lt;/em&gt; after 10:04 pm, so although Marty didn't leave at precisely the right time that Doc had calculated (under the assumption that the lightning would strike at &lt;em&gt;precisely&lt;/em&gt; 10:04 pm), the time that Marty left (through movie magic no doubt) was just right for the DeLorean to make contact for the lightning to feed into the flux capacitor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24050" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T05:19:24.607" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42847" CreationDate="2015-10-29T06:53:00.867" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia just gathers its information from other sources some of which are mentioned in the references. It is likely that one of those references have the running time mentioned. This information is indeed disclosed by the producers/distributors, because of the reasons mentioned by cde's answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example : Ron Howard's film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Heart_of_the_Sea_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;In the Heart of the Sea&lt;/a&gt; is scheduled for release on 11 December, but if you check its Wikipedia page, the running time is mentioned with a small link over there. If you go to that link it will take you to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/heart-sea-film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;page&lt;/a&gt; of British Board of film classification, where the running time is mentioned and that is where Wikipedia picked it up from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T06:53:00.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42876" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42877" CreationDate="2015-10-29T07:43:10.087" Score="5" ViewCount="4631" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie starts with a father picking up his daughter from a mental asylum, and returning to their home situated near a river. The film focuses on four characters mainly, father, a step-mother, sister and the main protagonist. Her mother died long before and she used to cry before the photo. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The climax is, she kills the step-mother along with her younger sister, and confesses to her father. Then her father tells her that her sister died a year ago. Then she realizes that it was an illusion. She killed the step-mother herself and the movie ends on taking her back to the mental asylum. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;English Hollywood Movie. I assume the release date might be between 2005-2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27286" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-29T08:03:00.413" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T08:03:00.413" Title="Movie about a girl with multiple personality disorder" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|thriller|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:08:06.903" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42876" CreationDate="2015-10-29T07:55:23.657" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0815245/combined&quot;&gt;The Uninvited&lt;/a&gt; with Emily Browning and Elizabeth Banks from 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After the death of her ill mother in a fire, the young teenager Anna tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental institution for treatment. Ten months later, Anna still cannot remember what had happened on the night her mother died. Her psychiatric Dr. Silberling, however, discharges her telling that she has resolved her issues. Her father and successful writer, Steven, brings her back home in an isolated mansion nearby the coast. Anna finds that her mother's former nurse, Rachel Summers, is her stepmother now. Anna meets her beloved sister, Alex, swimming in the sea. She discovers that Steven has not delivered the letters and CDs that Alex had sent to her. As time moves on, Anna is haunted by ghosts and she believes that Rachel killed her mother. Alex and Anna decide to look for evidences to prove that Rachel is the murderer and Anna discovers the truth about the fire in the boat house. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anna ends up killing her stepmother. Her sister was dead all along. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/j47xLHZEvb4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-10-29T07:58:10.737" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T07:58:10.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42878" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-29T08:24:15.263" Score="4" ViewCount="429" Body="&lt;p&gt;What wondered me is that they made the effort of Airwolf dodging missiles or using decoys to get rid of them. We see the missile head flying in the background or the missile itself hunting Airwolf. This depiction is at least realistic, the missile looks normal and moves with discernible speed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;em&gt;firing&lt;/em&gt; them is a whole different story. Every time you see only literally glowing balls of fire with a &lt;em&gt;pow, pow&lt;/em&gt; noise when Airwolf or enemy aircraft are launching missiles. This really was a suspension of belief even as child. Were the special effects team simply lazy? I cannot imagine that it would have not be possible to overlay real missile starts with an Airwolf background or use dummy rockets with water and/or dry ice and use blue screen with a moving background. Why those ridiculous plasma balls?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that Airwolf had a relatively high budget for a TV series, I do not believe it would have not been possible to set up a more realistic mockup. What are the reasons for the missile start setup and did the SF team at least tried to get it more realistic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27288" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-29T12:53:39.997" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T12:53:39.997" Title="Why does the Airwolf series use &quot;photon torpedo&quot;-like missiles?" Tags="|analysis|effects|airwolf|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42885" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42892" CreationDate="2015-10-29T13:50:59.453" Score="10" ViewCount="1488" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have seen Howard Wolowitz communicating with Bernadette Rostenkowski over screen. SO, I just wanted to confirm that is it really possible to communicate using video chat facilities like skype or omagle from space.&#xA;Is there any truth or was it just for the series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-29T15:45:32.687" LastActivityDate="2017-07-16T11:09:09.447" Title="Can someone really video chat from space as Howard Wolowitz did?" Tags="|realism|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42887" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-29T15:24:24.810" Score="2" ViewCount="1506" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was searching for trailers that played before a movie I just saw, and landed on &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/3736&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt;. While informative, I still haven't found a way to easily answer my question. Is there anyplace you can go to determine which trailers (are at least likely to) show before any given movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T15:24:24.810" Title="Any source to list the trailers that showed before a particular movie?" Tags="|trailers|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42891" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-29T17:50:43.933" Score="7" ViewCount="6235" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the last battle in &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies&lt;/em&gt; there is a scene where about 4 mountain goats appear, ridden by Thorin, Dwalin, Fili and Kili.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where did these animals come from? I still wonder how this happens as I have never read any of the books. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27293" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-10-14T11:41:33.053" LastActivityDate="2016-10-14T19:22:51.110" Title="How did the mountain goats appear in the Battle of the Five Armies?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hobbit|the-battle-of-the-five-armies|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42885" CreationDate="2015-10-29T18:00:37.587" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chris Hadfield gave a lot of interviews live from ISS, so it is possible, but he did not use Skype, but some NASA direct stream. But I guess he could also use Skype or something else, so it is technically possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a example, there are a lot more of such videos. You see there is only a small delay:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/AlfrfyOwKJg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/jan/HQ_M10-012_ISS_Web.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this official NASA article&lt;/a&gt; it is mentioned that they have a private access to the internet, there is also mentioned they have Internet Protocol telephone and limited videoconferencing capabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/The-Big-Bang-Theory-TV-series/Is-it-really-possible-to-Skype-from-space&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This Quora answer by an Instructor and Flight Controller at NASA&lt;/a&gt; mentions that they don't use Skype, but Microsoft NetMeeting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22783" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2017-07-16T11:09:09.447" LastActivityDate="2017-07-16T11:09:09.447" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42894" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-29T18:07:43.580" Score="7" ViewCount="2141" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who played &quot;camel toe annie&quot; on Late Night with Conan O'Brien?&#xA;Some guys on &lt;a href=&quot;http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-272624.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this forum&lt;/a&gt; think its Amy Poehler but she barely looks any thing like her in this &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNwuk4SwHT8&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;clip&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27048" LastEditorUserId="27048" LastEditDate="2015-10-29T19:00:10.077" LastActivityDate="2022-12-27T06:56:45.367" Title="Who played &quot;camel toe annie&quot; on Conan's show?" Tags="|comedy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42895" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44114" CreationDate="2015-10-29T18:21:53.430" Score="11" ViewCount="40310" Body="&lt;p&gt;While captured in the &quot;wooden&quot; prison in &lt;em&gt;Prisoners&lt;/em&gt;, Alex Jones says: &quot;I waited but he never came&quot;. Who is he referring to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27305" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-29T18:25:52.923" LastActivityDate="2020-01-18T08:19:47.350" Title="Who is Alex Jones referring to when he says: &quot;I waited but he never came&quot;?" Tags="|prisoners|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42896" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43687" CreationDate="2015-10-29T18:23:30.273" Score="7" ViewCount="1447" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/em&gt;, before releasing the raptors in for tracking the Indominus Rex, Owen lets them smell the flesh of Indominus Rex, which also had a tracking implant. However, in the movie, this implant was found by ACU when they went to capture Indominus. But all those members got killed and Owen didn't go there. So, how and when did he get that implant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27264" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-04-20T18:44:07.320" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T01:55:08.270" Title="When did Owen get the tracking implant of the Indominus Rex in Jurassic World?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jurassic-world|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42897" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42924" CreationDate="2015-10-29T18:39:09.123" Score="0" ViewCount="962" Body="&lt;p&gt;Long time back I watched the Nickelodeon tv movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535615/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Best Player&lt;/a&gt;. A song comes in the starting and it goes like... always the lucky one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been a month and I can't find the full version of this song to listen(online). Please help, I really love this song.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9684" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-04-08T09:47:56.180" LastActivityDate="2016-04-08T09:47:56.180" Title="What is the opening song in the Nickelodeon TV movie &quot;Best Player&quot;?" Tags="|soundtrack|best-player|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42896" CreationDate="2015-10-29T19:28:30.933" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The order of the scenes is important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Indominus is chipped.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Indominus gets loose.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The retrieval squad follows the tracker.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The retrieval squad finds the tracker was removed by Indominus.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The retrieval squad take an unexpected tour of Indominus' digestive track.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At some point, Owen or another retrieve the tracker + Indominus flesh.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Owen uses the tracker to give the raptors a scent to follow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting the tracker later on would be a minor plot point that would be unnecessary to show. It's a tracker, and still works. They know exactly where it is. All that is needed is for someone to drive up and get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T19:28:30.933" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42891" CreationDate="2015-10-29T19:55:33.517" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It likely got cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the trailer, at 1m22s we see a whole army/battalion of mounted goats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZSzeFFsKEt4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the movie, when the Lord of the Iron Hills' Dwarf Army shows up, they are purely unmounted infantry. Only Durin is mounted on a Warthog (Warhog). If you squint at 3m19, you can make out four others that may be mounted as well, likely the generals for four battalions, when the forward Infantry breaks off to meet the newly arrived Orc Army.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/s5HJ55GAto8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The goats that Thorin and co use to attack the Orc commander &lt;strong&gt;do come out of nowhere as far as we know&lt;/strong&gt;. It's commonly mentioned online as not being shown on screen before hand. Either it's corrected in the dvd extended edition, or never made it past the cutting room floor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the four blurry generals were riding something, then we can assume those are the ones that Thorin took. Or the goats were kept back from the main battlefield. Logically, an army will need support, and mounts are perfect for carrying large amounts of support material, healing supplies, arms, tents, etc. They may have been over the hill until called.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books, the Dwarves are not described as having goat mounts. It's purely a (neat and logical) movie addition. The entire fight sequence was changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T19:55:33.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42903" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42848" CreationDate="2015-10-29T21:27:15.783" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many possible explanations, but now that I think of it, the most probable is that Doc calculated the start time based not on the maximum acceleration of the car, but on some lower one. It doesn't make sense to hit the gas at the latest moment possible, because a slightest mishap will be fatal. So Doc allowed some leeway in his design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marty obviously had to hit the gas harder than they agreed before to make up for the lost time. Of course, there still is an element of luck (what if he hits it harder than necessary?), but it would be there anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23070" LastActivityDate="2015-10-29T21:27:15.783" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42846" CreationDate="2015-10-29T23:18:19.970" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if they can be called &quot;theorists of cinema&quot;. To me, these two people master the craft (of writing at least). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John Truby calls this person &quot;storyteller&quot;. It can be one of the characters or not. In &quot;The Anatomy of Story&quot;, he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The storyteller is one of the most misused of all techniques, because&#xA;  most writers don't know the implications of the storyteller or its&#xA;  true value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The vast majority of popular stories in movies, novels and plays don't&#xA;  use a recognizable storyteller. They are linear stories told by an&#xA;  omniscient storyteller. Someone is telling the story, but the audience&#xA;  doesn't know who and doesn't care. These stories are almost always&#xA;  fast, with a strong, single desire line and a big plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A storyteller is someone who recounts a character's actions, either in&#xA;  the first person -- talking about himself -- or in the third person --&#xA;  talking about someone else. Using a recognizable storyteller allows&#xA;  you greater complexity and subtlety. Stated simply, a storyteller lets&#xA;  you present the actions of the hero along with commentary on those&#xA;  actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A storyteller also lets the audience hear the voice of the character&#xA;  who is doing the telling. People bandy about the term &quot;voice&quot; all the&#xA;  time, as if it were some golden key to great storytelling. When we&#xA;  talk about letting the audience hear the character's voice, we are&#xA;  really putting the audience in the character's mind, right now as he&#xA;  speaks. It is a mind expressed in the most precise and unique way&#xA;  possible, which is what the character talks about and how he says it.&#xA;  Being in the character's mind implies that this is a real person, with&#xA;  prejudices, blind spots, and lies, even when he isn't aware of them&#xA;  himself. This character may or may not be trying to tell the truth to&#xA;  the audience, but whatever truth comes out will be highly subjective.&#xA;  This is not the word of God or an omniscient narrator.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robert McKee calls him &quot;narrator&quot;, or &quot;voice-over&quot;. Robert McKee prefers to show instead of telling, and to cut what can be cut, following the &quot;less is more&quot; principle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;McKee says in &quot;Story&quot;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Voice-over narration is yet another way to divulge exposition. Like&#xA;  the Flashback, it's done well or ill. The test of narration is this:&#xA;  Ask yourself, &quot;If I were to strip the voice-over out of my screenplay,&#xA;  would the story still be well told?&quot; If the answer is yes ... keep it&#xA;  in. Generally, the principle &quot;Less is more&quot; applies: the more&#xA;  economical the technique, the more impact it has. Therefore, anything&#xA;  that can be cut should be cut. There are, however, exceptions. If&#xA;  narration can be removed and the story still stands on its feet well&#xA;  told, then you've probably used narration for the only good reason --&#xA;  as counterpoint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Counterpoint narration is Woody Allen's great gift. If we were to cut&#xA;  the voice-over from HANNA AND HER SISTERS or HUSBANDS AND WIVES his&#xA;  stories would still be lucid and effective. But why would we? His&#xA;  narration offers wit, ironies, and insights that can't be done any&#xA;  other way. Voice-over to add nonnarrative counterpoint can be&#xA;  delightful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find them here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://mckeestory.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Robert McKee&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://truby.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John Truby&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cinema Paradiso, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Shawshank Redemption, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Heart of Darkness (with three narrators), &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a Wonderful Life, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Great Gatsby, &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Usual Suspects. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope to have understood your question well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4795" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-01-28T08:41:26.963" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T08:41:26.963" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42909" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42912" CreationDate="2015-10-29T23:59:12.117" Score="4" ViewCount="454" Body="&lt;p&gt;At 1:12 into &lt;em&gt;Stargate SG1&lt;/em&gt; S9E16, Teal'c is seen firing a weapon more like a weapon of the Tau'ri.  But I don't recognize it from earlier missions...He usually uses the Staff Weapon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is this weapon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13194" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-07T12:39:30.507" LastActivityDate="2016-11-07T12:39:30.507" Title="What is the weapon Teal'c is using at the beginning of &quot;Off the Grid&quot;?" Tags="|stargate|stargate-sg1|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42910" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35786" CreationDate="2015-10-30T00:32:59.793" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let us start at the beginning of the movie. This will provide context for what occurs later on, which is what you really asked about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the children get off the boat and step onto the pier, they are greeted by the site of a tram which takes them to the main concourse of the park:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pxpzF.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pxpzF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They take this tram, you guessed it, to the main concourse. While there is no good, clear shot, this appears to arrive at the back end of the concourse as the very next scene shows passengers disembarking the tram and taking an escalator into one of the hotels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SaNcr.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SaNcr.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that &lt;em&gt;the dock is not by the main concourse nor by the hotels where the epic dinosaur battle at the end of the movie takes place&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At about 1:25 into the movie, a mob of park guests bust through a door from the main concourse into a back passageway, running from the remaining pterodactyls. &lt;em&gt;The crowd is leaving the main concourse where the final battle scene takes place&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fzQKq.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fzQKq.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The children stay with Claire and Owen. During the Velociraptor chase, the children are in the back of the van that Claire is in, parked by the Velociraptor paddock. They do not evacuate with the rest of the crowd for whatever reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the Velociraptor chase scene, we see that &lt;em&gt;everyone&lt;/em&gt; is evacuating. The staff in the control center are evacuating: we see Dr. Wu being told to leave, and the other staff packing up and getting ready to go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The park guests appear to have been herded somewhere else:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SWJHz.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SWJHz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it is not very clear, this looks like it could be where the children got off the tram earlier and went into the hotel. There is a tram loading dock next to a very tall building that is likely to be a hotel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also where we hear the announcement about the next ship leaving in 45 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This shot is clearly at night or at least evening, and occurs &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the Velociraptor chase: even if some guests were evacuated, there were still quite a few left as the dinosaurs were making their way back to the main concourse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next, we see what appears to be a shot of somewhere inside, perhaps the foyer of a hotel. Looking carefully, there is a zig-zag wall on the right which matches the zig-zag exterior wall in the shot above. This seems to indicate that the guests are in the entrance of the hotel, waiting to take the tram to the dock. They are likely waiting until the ship arrives in order to avoid being out in the open with vicious carnivorous dinosaurs on the loose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kz7Bb.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kz7Bb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the sequence of events, it appears that as soon as the pterodactyls attacked that the guests were being evacuated. However, that many people cannot fit on one or even two ships: it took multiple ships and multiple trips.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, the Indominus Rex &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the Velociraptors were loose during the evacuation and the crowd was not yet evacuated: basic logistics says there is not much to be done about that other than to try to get those ships going as quickly as possible and to contain the loose dinosaurs as quickly as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are two &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; important things to keep in mind about what the dinosaurs are up to and how the humans are reacting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The two park leaders are both dead at this point, and everyone else is fleeing for their lives. While Owen and friends are surely concerned about saving any lives they can, there is not exactly anybody around to &quot;think of the children&quot; so to speak. The crowds are mostly on their way, although clearly some park staff are looking after them. Everyone has to leave on the ships anyway, so the staff may as well do what they can to help the crowds in the mean time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One would expect the Indominus Rex and the Velociraptors to take advantage of any opportunity (meal) that presents itself. However, they already have their quarry: Owen, Claire, and the children. Essentially, the dinosaurs are on the hunt for whomever was there during the initial attack on Indominus as well as any other scents they picked up during the ensuing chase (i.e. Claire and the children in the van).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would not make sense for the dinosaurs to go after the crowd, even if they are sitting ducks: they have a score to settle, and the crowd is not within sight or smelling distance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the fight is over, there are lot of guests recovering in what appears to be a hangar on the mainland (soldiers are keeping guard) the next morning. Clearly, a large number of guests must have been evacuated during the night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GTXxE.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GTXxE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, one little nitpick. The control center is not on the main concourse. The research labs were, but the control center is a short distance away as this shot of Ms. T. Rex greeting the sunrise with some jaw stretching shows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lWW1F.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lWW1F.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She is standing on top of the roof of the control center, on the helipad, looking toward the main concourse; we can see the hotels and other buildings in the distance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;All screen shots are from the Blu-ray release of the movie. They are copyrighted by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.universalhidef.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Universal Entertainment&lt;/a&gt; and used here under the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;fair use provision&lt;/a&gt; of the U.S. Code.&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9311" LastEditorDisplayName="user9311" LastEditDate="2015-10-30T15:40:52.647" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T15:40:52.647" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42911" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-30T01:15:43.520" Score="8" ViewCount="2807" Body="&lt;p&gt;For example, German and French is spoken a lot in Inglorious Basterds. In the German and French dubbed version of those films, what language would be spoken in those scenes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27317" LastActivityDate="2019-09-24T00:33:04.953" Title="In dubbed films, what language is spoken if the character says something in the dubbed language?" Tags="|dialogue|production|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42909" CreationDate="2015-10-30T02:09:18.650" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Stargate_SG-1_-_Season_9&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Internet Movie Firearms Database&lt;/a&gt;, it's a Heckler &amp;amp; Koch MP7 (with added sights).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen him use the same P90s the rest of the team uses, but this time they had different gear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jwBSz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jwBSz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27164" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T18:31:14.560" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T18:31:14.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33145" CreationDate="2015-10-30T07:43:18.073" Score="2" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In John's monologue of growing up as Jane he says,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I was different. A freak. A goddamn loser. I stopped looking in the&#xA;  mirror. I hated what I saw. I have no photos of myself as a young&#xA;  girl. I don't even remember what I looked like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's clear that Jane didn't recognise herself when she was herself. According to the timeline below, it was seven years between Jane losing John and John becoming Jane, add to the fact they had been together for only 3 months and it becomes entirely possible that John wouldn't recognise himself as Jane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When John sees the Fizzle Bomber in 1970 in the basement, many factors contribute to John not recognising the Fizzle Bomber: &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's dark &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's moving quickly &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He's older &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has a beard and long hair&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has glasses&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see there are a lot of reasons why John might not recognise himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jvPd2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jvPd2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Predestination Timeline&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="855" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T07:43:18.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42919" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42911" CreationDate="2015-10-30T07:56:32.933" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If a movie is made in German/French language and the dubbed version would be in, say, English, almost every spoken line will be in English. My experience from watching over 1K movies is that even if someone coughs in a movie, the coughing will be also be dubbed by the dubber. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if a movie is primarily in English and there are some spoken parts in French/German, it usually depends on the studio and director. To preserve originality, they usually don't translate/dub the foreign language parts. Though, they do provide translation through caption, but not always. What I have seen is it more depends on how important that foreign dialogue part is. If it's important to the story and the film makers want the final viewers to understand that particular dialogue, they provide a translation through Caption or dub that part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27029" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T07:56:32.933" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42922" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-30T08:17:17.603" Score="1" ViewCount="1606" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;em&gt;RocknRolla&lt;/em&gt; has strong characters and the &quot;feel&quot; to it but to me it seems to have a convoluted plot and loose ends. But this one bummed me specially. Why does Cookie give the painting to &quot;one two&quot;? I did not get the connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27325" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-30T10:13:25.157" LastActivityDate="2016-04-17T07:03:26.390" Title="Why does Cookie give the painting to &quot;one two&quot; in RocknRolla?" Tags="|plot-explanation|rocknrolla|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42923" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42957" CreationDate="2015-10-30T10:53:27.000" Score="4" ViewCount="4658" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Batman Beyond S03E06/07, Superman appears in a very different version of his costume and looks a bit older, as shown below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x09FA.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x09FA.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it was never made clear why he is wearing such a different costume without even the &quot;S&quot; and it was not even mentioned in the DCAU before as per my knowledge. Was it a fresh idea/attempt or is it based on some previous work in any other medium? Was it ever supposed to be explored in the DCAU any further?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-30T10:56:27.840" LastActivityDate="2015-11-05T16:54:18.983" Title="Did Batman Beyond's version of Superman have any inspiration from previous works?" Tags="|dc-animated-universe|batman-beyond|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42897" CreationDate="2015-10-30T11:01:13.540" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't find a full version too, but here's the scene from the movie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/M8iYjMMmLMc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it could be &quot;The Lucky One&quot; by &quot;James Renald&quot; from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_%28Canadian_band%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Sky&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24398" LastEditorUserId="24398" LastEditDate="2015-10-30T11:11:11.820" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T11:11:11.820" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36552" CreationDate="2015-10-30T11:23:44.740" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find myself ambivalent as to technical realism in Mr Robot. One example of each:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(good) I'm a software developer by trade, and I watched the pieces of code being presented. They did their due diligence, it always looked like actual code with meaning behind it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;(bad) When Elliot first meets FSociety, he asks if &quot;this is where they meet AFK&quot; (meaning in the flesh). AFK is used for being &lt;em&gt;away from a computer&lt;/em&gt;, not for meeting in the flesh. IRL (in real life) would have been an appropriate acronym here. &lt;strong&gt;Even if AFK was correct&lt;/strong&gt;, the benefit of saying an acronym when typing is not relevant when speaking in person, and someone who probably has been on the internet since the early days would not really say them out loud.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are other examples of bad and good, but they seem to me to indicate a clear difference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The people who made the sets, and did the visuals&lt;/strong&gt; in regards to the code shown on screens etc did their due diligence. I can't point out real flaws here.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The annoyances I had all seem to indicate that the &lt;strong&gt;script writers&lt;/strong&gt; did not do their due diligence in regards to technical lingo and realism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22424" LastEditorUserId="22424" LastEditDate="2015-10-30T12:47:38.213" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T12:47:38.213" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42848" CreationDate="2015-10-30T11:51:53.743" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who is the single witness to the lightning striking the clock tower and the person able to write down the exact time of the the strike? Doc himself. And Doc in 1955 (before the lightning happens) has the brochure from the 1985 where the time of lightning is stated. This makes the whole event of getting the timing right possible. If Doc in 1955 can figure out that the info in the brochure from 1985 will have originated from his statements as the single witness, than he will know by the wording in the brochure exactly what time the lightning will happen, that's why he will confidently utter the sentence &quot;the lightning will strike at precicely 10:04 pm&quot; (he is a scientist, right, he knows that if it was 10:04:31 it happened, the brochure would state it like that, because the time of the event has been written down from his mouth, and he would state the precise, scientifical time as he is a scientist). But I guess he also needs to take some more precautions for the plan to work, I guess that he will put in some slack as already mentioned with the stretching of the wire etc like some people already mentioned to deal with timing problems like delayed start of the car etc. Now after he has sent Marty back to 1985, he has to write down the exact time of the lightning and make sure his witness-story with the time is the one being collected so that the brochure will contain the correct, precise time for the lightning-plan to work when Marty travels to 1955 :-P&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27327" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T11:51:53.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42927" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42972" CreationDate="2015-10-30T12:24:26.683" Score="-1" ViewCount="997" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is walter white a selfish man? Asking because at the last episode, he says to his wife 'I enjoyed it' i.e selling drugs, killing people. What is the meaning of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26853" LastActivityDate="2015-10-31T17:07:20.640" Title="Is walter white a selfish man?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-01-08T21:02:21.430" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42929" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-30T13:00:38.260" Score="2" ViewCount="231" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Danish movie Jagten (2012), a.k.a The Hunt, ends with Mads Mikelsen escaping from a shooter. I remember that when I saw the movie, they had shown the shooter to be his son. But according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_%282012_film%29#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the plot from Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On a hunting expedition to commemorate the event, an unseen person&#xA;  apparently shoots at Lucas and misses him. Blinded by the setting sun,&#xA;  Lucas is unable to identify his attacker, who is apparently reloading.&#xA;  A moment later the unknown shooter, real or metaphor, is no longer ther.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could anyone tell me if there are two ending versions of the film, or am I wrong here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27328" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-10-30T15:53:14.173" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T15:53:14.173" Title="Is the shooter's face revealed in the Danish film Jagten?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hunt|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2015-10-31T10:05:05.723" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42931" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-10-30T13:42:57.363" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_(2012_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-10-30T13:42:57.363" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T13:42:57.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42932" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-10-30T13:42:57.363" Score="0" Body="The Hunt a.k.a. Jagten is a 2012 Danish drama film about a man who becomes the target of mass hysteria after being wrongly accused of sexually abusing a child." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-10-30T13:42:57.363" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T13:42:57.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42848" CreationDate="2015-10-30T13:45:10.907" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This might have another explanation, involving the &quot;sentient flux capacitor&quot; theory.&#xA;This theory is not canon but provides an interesting development about the whole series of movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a time regulation mechanism, the flux capacitor must prevents paradoxes and thus, in order to get marty back to his own time, it prevents the car from starting just long enough so it touches the cable at the exact right time compensating marty's driving or Doc's calculations errors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see here &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gwQrJ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;more examples supporting this theory&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Thinking of the flux capacitor as a sentient entity really makes you see the ending of the third film in a different and kind of sad way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27329" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T13:45:10.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42935" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-30T15:15:58.220" Score="6" ViewCount="261" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Bridge of Spies&lt;/em&gt; a spy plane pilot is shot down over Russian airspace. At the start of that sequence the pilot decides to unbuckle his harness, even though he is being jostled around in the cockpit, and the canopy is cracking. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This decision ultimately prevents him from initiating the self destruct sequence. Earlier in the movie there was a briefing that highlighted the critical importance of destroying the aircraft if this exact scenario happened. It was also mentioned as an aside that the pilot would still be able to eject after the self destruct sequence was initiated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question remains...  Why would a trained elite pilot remove the safety gear that allows him to stay in the cockpit even if he is jostled around and the canopy breaks? Was it just to add some suspense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26325" LastActivityDate="2017-10-04T10:49:10.660" Title="Why does the pilot unbuckle his harness?" Tags="|plot-explanation|bridge-of-spies|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42936" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37147" CreationDate="2015-10-30T15:57:42.353" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie was made for entertainment purposes, it is not a historical reference for video games in the 80's; as such, there are many continuity errors in the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The only version of a Smurfs game in '82 when said video was sent to space was a ColecoVision and Atari 2600 verision&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Q*Bert didn't hit arcades till October '82&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Paper Boy, who appears in final battle, didn't show up till '85&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Arkanoid, which destroyed the Taj Mahal, was '86&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Duck Hunt from the final battle first appeared on console in August of '82&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tetris came out '84. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A man was dressed as Karate Kid at the '82 championship; Karate Kid was released in '84.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Max Headroom first appeared on MTV in '85&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The scene of Hall and Oats is from MTV in '86&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27333" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2016-06-21T15:35:19.077" LastActivityDate="2016-06-21T15:35:19.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42848" CreationDate="2015-10-30T17:17:51.923" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know that the timer went off several seconds before Marty floored the accelerator. We know that Marty quite literally hooked the line at precisely the correct time. Therefore the only valid conclusion is that Marty accelerated faster than Doc calculated/anticipated/intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus there are only two valid explanations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(1) Doc planned for Marty to accelerate at a rate less than the car's maximum acceleration. This leads to the obvious question: How would Marty know how fast to accelerate? We can suppose that he did some test runs off screen, or we can attribute it to movie magic (&quot;he eyeballed it!&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(2) Doc miscalculated the maximum acceleration of the car. Although a genius, perhaps there were aspects of the car that he had no way of determining in advance. Or maybe there was less fuel in the tank (less mass to push) or better road traction than he anticipated (although the roads seemed pretty slick, IMO). Either way, if he did make a mistake and the timer was set to assume maximum acceleration, then Marty was very lucky.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a third option (Marty was always supposed to wait X number of seconds after the timer went off), but that isn't directly supported by anything canonical in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other thoughts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flexibility of the hooking mechanism or any other such variance in &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; when Marty hit the cable is negligible. He clearly left the starting line many seconds late. Any question about whether the flexibility of the hooking mechanism impacted his arrival time would only have an impact on the order of milliseconds and may thus be discounted for the purpose of this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The speed of the lightning through the cable is obviously shown to be quite slow for visual impact in the movie. Obviously in real life it would have traveled faster than that. In any event, Doc would have been able to calculate the speed of the lightning through the conductor, so let's assume he was accurate there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately any discussion surround whether the lighting struck at &quot;precisely&quot; 10:04:00 or sometime between 10:04:01 and 10:04:59 is a red herring. The fact is that the movie depicts the lightning as striking immediately after the minute hand moves to 10:04. It's not made clear in the movie how 1955 Doc knows that it will be &quot;precisely&quot; 10:04:00. (My guess: clock engineers in the intervening years investigated the clock, observed that it was &quot;precisely&quot; 10:04:00, and then documented that fact in the flyer that Marty received. But exactly &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; that information came to Doc is beyond the scope of the question the OP asked.) Regardless, 1955 Doc is correct -- lightning did strike at precisely that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27336" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T17:17:51.923" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42944" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-30T18:14:49.833" Score="2" ViewCount="890" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Addams Family movie do Wednesday and Pugsley murder Tully and Abigail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Tully and Abigail had this scheme to steal the wealth of the Addams family.  Near the end of the movie they are flung into coffins that close on them and Wednesday and Pugsley are standing there with shovels, then Wednesday says something to Pugsley that suggests they are going to bury them alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wasn't sure whether to take this as a joke or not.  Some Wikis I am reading suggest that yes, indeed, they were buried alive.  Is this position supported by any other media?  (I've never seen the sequel, was it addressed?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know Tully and Abigail were &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; people but to murder them by burying them alive seems like a sort of odd things to have two kids we're supposed to kind of like do.  Yeah Wednesday tried to murder her brother in the movie so it's shown that she has murderous tendencies, but it was passed off as a joke and obviously she didn't actually do it in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20710" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2022-12-24T20:01:46.433" LastActivityDate="2022-12-24T20:01:46.433" Title="In The Addam's Family movie do Wednesday and Pugsley murder Tully and Abigail?" Tags="|the-addams-family|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="42945" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42848" CreationDate="2015-10-30T18:37:52.587" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short answer is that (at least according to the film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_novelization&quot;&gt;official novelisation&lt;/a&gt;, based on the original screenplay) Marty has been &lt;strong&gt;practicing his run&lt;/strong&gt; and has &lt;strong&gt;worked out a slightly faster route than the one planned by the Doc&lt;/strong&gt;. This allows him to hit the wire at exactly the right moment, despite having lost time trying to get the DeLorean restarted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Damn!” he repeated, this time in a loud and clear voice. Moving away from the curb into the center of the street, he grunted as he saw a car moving toward him with precipitous speed.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “Good,” he grunted finally, satisfied that the vehicle was his Packard. “But why drive like that, dummy? Why crack up in the wrong car?”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  A moment later, Marty was available for the answer. Dressed in his 1985 clothes, he pulled Doc’s car to the curb, leaped out, took a deep breath and smiled a bit sheepishly.&#xA;  “You’re late!” Doc Brown scolded. “Do you have no concept of time?”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “Sorry, Doc.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “And why were you driving my car like a maniac?”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;“It was a test. I wanted to see how fast I could go on that stretch. And I’m glad I did. There’s a rise in the road down near Cherry Street that’s almost like a speed bump. If I’d hit that at a higher speed, it could have sent me into a store window. But if I use the left side of the road it’ll be O.K.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T18:37:52.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42946" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42988" CreationDate="2015-10-30T18:43:51.260" Score="1" ViewCount="446" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Dragon Ball Z when someone goes Super Saiyan their hair turns the telltale gold colour. How would you know if a bald saiyan (such as Nappa) were to achieve this level? Besides the obvious increase in strength, speed etc. how would you be able to tell they'd gone super saiyan just by looking at them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13394" LastActivityDate="2016-11-10T20:26:12.613" Title="Bald Saiyan goes Super Saiyan?" Tags="|dragon-ball-z|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10918" CreationDate="2015-10-30T20:27:45.273" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this has been answered and accepted, but I'm not sure this can be answered completely without going to the poem from which the book gets its title, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172063&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sailing to Byzantium&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Wm. Butler Yeats. The first line is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That is no country for old men.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;That&quot; is anywhere in the world - any country, full of youth and things that live and die without a thought about the meaning of life, where &lt;em&gt;modernism&lt;/em&gt; (a post-WWI movement; &lt;em&gt;is there&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;a meaning to life?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) has taken hold, a place without respect for tradition and timeless things - &lt;em&gt;That&lt;/em&gt; is no country for old men. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And therefore I have sailed the seas and come&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  To the holy city of Byzantium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Byzantium is an ageless and golden city, of art and sages and &quot;God's holy fire&quot;. The poet (in his sixties when he wrote this) is tired of being old and of holding values different from those in his surroundings. He's ready to pass beyond life into something eternally valuable (in this case, art).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Consume my heart away; sick with desire&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  And fastened to a dying animal&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  It knows not what it is; and gather me&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Into the artifice of eternity.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, too, the musings of the protagonist (Sheriff Ed Tom Bell) throughout the story show that he is living in and confronted by a &quot;modern&quot; world which holds no respect for traditional values - reason, respect for life, even common decency - a basis for &lt;em&gt;law&lt;/em&gt;, which was present in the old days, why lawmen didn't need to carry guns 'back then'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Modernism was a reaction to the senseless slaughter of millions in WWI through modern warfare, which changed the world, and not for the better. This may be why Bell speaks so often of the old timers not using guns. All the loss of 'back then' is exactly what Yeats is mourning. Is the senseless and brutal drug war in the story the counterpart here to WWI?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This modern world is no country for old men, and the poem is again alluded to when in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH4IhjtaAUQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the last monologue&lt;/a&gt;, Sheriff Bell describes two dreams, both with his father in them. In the first he casually mentions losing money (rejecting today's materialism? I mean, the whole movie is about keeping and chasing money.) In the second, he's leaving the modern times behind; he's taking a trip on horseback in the night, going through a mountain pass (the mountains mentioned twice, a metaphor for the barrier between life and death? Is he sailing to Byzantium?) His father is going ahead of him - his father preceded him in death - carrying &lt;em&gt;fire&lt;/em&gt;, again mentioned twice, and described as &quot;the color of the moon&quot;. God's holy fire?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, the whole story is a reflection of the very poem the title comes from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Oops. In looking for support for my theory, I just found this: &lt;em&gt;Yeats' &quot;Sailing to Byzantium&quot; and McCarthy's &quot;No Country for Old Men&quot;: Art and Artifice in the New Novel&lt;/em&gt;. I haven't read it yet, but it should be interesting.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8476" LastEditorUserId="8476" LastEditDate="2015-10-30T20:42:31.767" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T20:42:31.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42951" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42953" CreationDate="2015-10-30T20:31:28.247" Score="5" ViewCount="12905" Body="&lt;p&gt;Occasionally, there is a 1-3 second delay between the anchor person in the studio and the reporter on location (other side of the world) which makes it awkward because they'll talk through each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I can have video conversations with people from the other side of the world why is there still a delay with on-site news?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27340" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2016-11-30T06:21:09.713" LastActivityDate="2016-11-30T17:28:44.810" Title="Why is there a delay between the news anchor and the reporter on location?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42951" CreationDate="2015-10-30T20:41:06.940" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because signals aren't instantaneous. They are very very fast, but there is a delay for the signal to go from the anchor to the on-site reporter, &lt;em&gt;then back again&lt;/em&gt;. Since it's a two way communication the time delay between two points is doubled, which is why the delay gets worse the farther away the two points are from each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T20:41:06.940" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41496" CreationDate="2015-10-30T22:15:54.543" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jvPd2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; scheme, they were together from April  to June 1963 (to be precise from 4/3/1963 to 6/24/1963).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/42918/16465&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer (by @Coomie) to another question on this site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T22:15:54.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36171" CreationDate="2015-10-30T22:51:22.927" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not easy to answer outside of the context of the storyline as a whole. To answer this we have to start at the very beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original Terminator movie offered a consistent causal loop or, more specifically, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loop&quot;&gt;Self-fulfilling prophecy&lt;/a&gt; in which John Conner sends his friend Kyle Reese back in time to protect his mother, where in turn Reese impregnates Connor's mother allowing Connor to be born. Who, in turn, sends Reese back in time... I'm sure you get it, but it had to be pointed out. The existence of this causal loop indicates a certain predestination which is strongly tied with religion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the sequel 'Judgement Day' that followed we see they continue along this same path of [causal loops][2] and predestination. The remains of the original terminator (Schwarzenegger) from part 1 are being used to invent Skynet itself. The 'birth' of Skynet is elevated to the same level of John Connor's birth. The births of these two can be explained by many religious beliefs in which there is going to be a predestined fight between good and evil which will usher in the apocalypse, e.g. prophecies of the [Last Judgement][3] preceded by the [Second Coming][4] or the old Norse prophecy of [Ragnarök][5]. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 'Judgement Day' Sarah Connor is struggling with this apparent truth of predestination. On one hand she tries to prepare her son for the coming apocalypse but on the other she denies the concept of predestination and holds on to the idea of 'no fate', which she carves into a table. The fact that she prepares John Connor for the coming apocalypse and John's interaction and thus knowledge of the machines will make him the leader of the resistance, creating again a causal loop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes for an interesting development because now, whilst staying true to the original timeline in which John Conner effectively creates himself and his own future, the timeline gets changed, which contradicts the idea of predestination. This contradiction relates back to the religious theme of 'Judgement Day' in which an apocalypse is inevitable but the outcome is not yet set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In pt. 3 'Rise of the Machines' we stay in the theme of apparent predestination whilst changing the timeline again, both acknowledging and contradicting the paradox of this same predestination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pt. 4 'Salvation' we see the paradox unfold from a future perspective. We see the 2018 version of John Connor creating the original timeline which led to his existence in the first place. The title of the film 'Salvation' again refers to a religious context. I'm close to answering the question now but it's still worth pointing out that this movie in itself, with the sacrifice of Marcus, shows a strong connection with various [messianic][6] stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally in Pt. 5 'Genisys' we come full circle where the timelime has changed so much that the original storyline of the causal loop is no longer viable. The birth of Skynet has not happened when it was supposed to happen finally introducing the concept of the [alternate timeline][7] or [multiverse][8], a common theme in sci-fi where changes in the past branch off into alternate timelines. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It now becomes clear that there has been a multiverse all along, with every change made in the past created an alternate timeline with the same inevitable outcome. In part 2 the T1000 is sent back in time to kill John Conner, this is a result from the events in the original movie. 'Genisys' introduces the idea that, by meddling with the timeline, the story of the original movie is changed in such a way that all 4 prequels no longer stand. &lt;strong&gt;It is therefore the T1000 is able to arrive in a timeline where 'Judgement Day' no longer happens.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is at this inevitable point in time and space where the whole idea of predestination gets obliterated. John Connor becomes Skynet because every alternate timeline has led up to this point; a point in which there exists both order and chaos; the final outcome in the battle between good and evil. When Skynet gets destroyed we start a new timelime in which the apocalypse has been averted. This new timeline can be tied to the title of the movie which is obviously derived from 1st book of the bible 'Genesis'(Latin) which translates loosely into the 'beginning'. With the destruction of Skynet there is a new beginning and it seems there are again endless possibilities and no predestination. The last few seconds of the movie give a glimpse of Skynet being still alive which again suggest there is a certain predestination towards an apocalypse and a final day of judgement. This last concept of a (never ending) cycle of beginning and end can also be found in Buddhism and Hinduism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately all movies combined wrestle with the concept of beginning and end, life and death, and the ultimate question of life; whether we are plunged into a chaotic universe or if we are predestined pawns in the existing everlasting order of all things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because of my reputation I can't post more than 2 links, so you can look some of the stuff like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loop&quot;&gt;causal loop&lt;/a&gt; up yourself :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27340" LastEditorUserId="27340" LastEditDate="2015-10-30T22:56:54.193" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T22:56:54.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42923" CreationDate="2015-10-30T22:53:11.673" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Superman has a long history of suit changes. It's not often explained, sometimes what if/alt universe costumes, and some go with more stylized emblems than others. (Click for Detail)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OYshh.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OYshh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice the 93 Reign, 97 Red/Blue, and 99 Son of Superman. Single color suits that lend themselves to the Superman Beyond costume shown in the 2000 Episode of Batman Beyond. That suit was later brought to the comics when Batman Beyond returned in 2010, with a Superman Beyond spinoff as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice the Kingdom Come and Red/Blue logos. Extremely stylized, with the S shape blending into the borders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/etv4G.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/etv4G.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's these recent (relatively speaking) costumes that the artists drew upon for the believed to be one-off cameo of Future Superman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the S not being there, you are mistaken. Like the others, the S is just stylized into it's surroundings. Think of it as a magic image. Marvel at my Super Editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KxzJU.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KxzJU.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to an in-universe answer, there is none. None were given, and considering the series is decades past-main continuity, it's likely just a change of pace/boredom issue. Likely why Batman went from Black on Yellow to Yellow on Black to Just Black to Red logos. Gotta spice it up a bit, and if the 90's costume musical chair is any indication, gotta do it often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-10-30T22:53:11.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42944" CreationDate="2015-10-30T23:02:15.597" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought they left it pretty unambiguous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kqf1k.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kqf1k.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they didn't die at Fester's hands, then they died at Wednesday's. The Gallows humor in the Addams Family leads us to believe that there is a long line of murder and serial killing, and they view it as normal. While &lt;em&gt;these&lt;/em&gt; Addams may not indiscriminately or maliciously kill unlike some of their ancestors, they have no issue with killing those that deserve it, Wednesday in particular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, Margaret Alford, Tully's wife, legally married Cousin It by the sequel. Typically, you can't get remarried if your husband is alive. Even just presumed missing, law typically requires a waiting longer period than 2/3 years we see between the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-10-31T01:55:44.160" LastActivityDate="2015-10-31T01:55:44.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42959" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42962" CreationDate="2015-10-31T00:16:14.173" Score="5" ViewCount="829" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note: spoilers for Spectre ahead!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Spectre, we meet Franz Oberhauser (Christoph Waltz). He later reveals he now goes by the name &quot;Ernst Blofeld&quot;, and has a scar just like the original Blofeld. But he also states he took the name &quot;from his mother's side&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, is Oberhauser a descendent of the original Blofeld (from On Her Majesty's Secret Service among others), or is he supposed to be the same Blofeld character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the Daniel Craig series of Bond films are a reboot/prequel of sorts. Is Spectre showing the &quot;genesis&quot; of the character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="118" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-11T11:28:45.063" LastActivityDate="2017-05-16T21:18:45.883" Title="Is Franz Oberhauser related to the original Blofeld?" Tags="|character|james-bond|spectre|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42959" CreationDate="2015-10-31T09:09:14.460" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. He's supposed to be the same character. The timeline of the story arc is all over the place now but Spectre could be regarded as a prequel to the series before Daniel Craig. Some say a reboot but apparently its all supposed to be the same story. This falls apart because of Judi Denchs M, Bond's previous encounters with Spectre and Blofeld etc though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27354" LastActivityDate="2015-10-31T09:09:14.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42964" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="42965" CreationDate="2015-10-31T11:32:49.390" Score="4" ViewCount="748" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S03E06 of TPB, when talking about a custom BBQ he's built, Bubbles refers to someone in the following way: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...red blue green &lt;em&gt;%&amp;amp;^*sucker&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is he talking about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming it's some Canadian or American TV personality, but I'm not sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/RDJ4Kj1DOoI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="17983" LastActivityDate="2015-10-31T11:50:47.173" Title="Who is Bubble referring to here?" Tags="|trailer-park-boys|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42964" CreationDate="2015-10-31T11:50:47.173" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's referencing the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Green_Show&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Red Green Show&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Red Green Show is a Canadian television comedy that aired on various channels in Canada, with its ultimate home at CBC Television, and on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) stations in the United States, from 1991 until the series finale April 7, 2006, on CBC. The Red Green Show is essentially a cross between a sitcom and a sketch comedy series, and is a parody of home improvement, do-it-yourself, fishing, and other outdoors shows (particularly The Red Fisher Show).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In particular, this is a reference to this segment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Handyman Corner&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Red attempted to demonstrate creative and often humorous ways to tackle relatively common tasks, such as taking out the trash or making use of derelict cars, or to &lt;strong&gt;create something extravagant out of whatever he could get his hands on.&lt;/strong&gt; Memorable examples included a paddlewheeler made out of a van on pallets and a revolving door, &lt;strong&gt;a jetpack made from two propane tanks&lt;/strong&gt;, a hybrid car from recycled golf carts and satellite dishes, and a kiddie ride made from a bar stool attached to the agitator of a washing machine. &lt;strong&gt;Duct tape, &amp;quot;the handyman's secret weapon,&amp;quot; was almost always the fastener of choice.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-10-31T11:50:47.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36619" CreationDate="2015-10-31T12:06:01.427" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Michael Keaton Bat man movie. The Joker's main henchman was called Bob. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Alton is being evil and a prankster I wonder if that is it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27358" LastActivityDate="2015-10-31T12:06:01.427" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42967" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-10-31T12:12:14.830" Score="14" ViewCount="5814" Body="&lt;p&gt;In ex Machina, why does Ava ask Caleb - &quot;will you stay&quot;? Her plan was to lock him up and leave. She could have simply knocked him out (or killed), locked and left. Why does it seem like she's seeking Caleb's approval? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2016-07-03T23:45:01.937" Title="Why does Ava ask - &quot;will you stay?&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|ex-machina|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42927" CreationDate="2015-10-31T17:07:20.640" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Walter satisfied his ego becoming what anyone wouldn't dreamt of.&#xA;The person behind the druglord mask was fed up with failures and cancer phase gave the extra-ordinary courage to the introverted guy and take the extra mile - 'you can do whatever measures to guard your family'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at one point when he says to Skyler - 'I'm the guy who knocks' he elevates himself to a undisputable GOD. Point to note - he was recovering from his cancer at that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later during the all alone phase hiding for his life, in nowhere he realised what he has became and uttered - 'I enjoyed it'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best of deciding Good or Bad is to 'Realise' which side you really on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27362" LastActivityDate="2015-10-31T17:07:20.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26255" CreationDate="2015-10-31T20:04:06.290" Score="2" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;not sure about us but there are plenty of reclusive villages out there that do not usually communicate with the outside . Usually a few members go once a month or a couple of months to pay the utilities and do some trade. But if they do not I doubt there are many people going there just to investigate. About the electricity company maybe they sent some people but when they went missing no one wanted to go anymore. Before the internet everything would have been settled at this poit and even now there are such places.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You underestimate children. Even if they are not put to do actual work on the fields parents on the farm do train them for this. So this will explain things. Also I am under he impression they did not do almost anything in relation to the fields and the entity tended them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the seed corn comes from corn. You actually do not have to do much at all if you do not aim for high production. The seed will fall on the ground and next year you have corn again. Is not that complex.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;About people paying for the corn the answer is simple: most people do not know or care where their corn comes from, or anything else for that matter. Also in most communities most corn is for internal use and the rest someone just goes and sells it to someone (usually without papers , dealing with cash and no extended info). Basically the person who buys the corn will not know from were it came from o no worries there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The movie makes a very interesting claim. Aparrently the town is not on any map and someone passing on the highway will most likely not notice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As a side note in the book the situation in Gatlin is much older and the current kids are at least the 3rd generation (this implies child pregnancy and inbreeding two issues most do not really address)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27368" LastActivityDate="2015-10-31T20:04:06.290" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2455" CreationDate="2015-10-31T21:10:23.607" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/33044/1353&quot;&gt;Don alder Howell's answer&lt;/a&gt; about Muir protecting Troy Folger may be based on a &quot;deleted scene&quot; from the DVD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Folger meets Muir in a weird place which looks like a cafe in Egypt. As Folger is reviewing Muir's ops report he comes to a question that asks for an evaluation of Hadley's future threat. There Muir wrote &quot;unknown&quot;. So Folger reads this, questioning it in a surprised way: &quot;Possible threat... Unknown?!...I want to know what are we going to do about Hadley.&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Muir says &quot;I'm done with Hadley!&quot;, meaning he doesn't want to mess with her. But Folger says &quot;Nathan, if you don't deal with her, I will.&quot; Then Muir says kind of angrily &quot;Yeah, why don't you fill a bus full of explosives and run her over?!&quot; Based on that scene, Muir makes the deal to give Hadley to the Chinese. He didn't seem to want to, but it was better than leaving Folger to do something crazy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when Muir is asked the question whether he did it on his own, this deleted scene pops up as a remembrance -- both Folger and Muir remember it -- and Folger breathes relief when Muir only blames himself, instead of pointing at Folger for giving the order without a &quot;finding.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27370" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2016-12-17T15:09:41.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42946" CreationDate="2015-11-01T02:25:08.450" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Their eyes and eyebrows change colour too, so perhaps that? Also, possibly the hair on the tail would change colour too (Though all the saiyans that could transform had lost their tails, except Broly)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27381" LastActivityDate="2015-11-01T02:25:08.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37079" CreationDate="2015-11-01T06:16:49.810" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think they are supposed to be from ninja gaeden a popular one in the 80's along with vs.excitebike,moon patrol,choplifter, etc. I could go on and on about some of my favorites&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27385" LastActivityDate="2015-11-01T06:16:49.810" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42993" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-01T07:32:18.507" Score="6" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spoilers Ahead&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;The Gift&quot; what exactly did the gifts from Gordon signify? Were those gifts somehow related to the past?&#xA;Why exactly did Gordon show up every time at Simon's house?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-11-01T14:38:56.050" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T05:26:14.227" Title="What did the gifts signify?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-gift|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42996" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-01T11:18:08.840" Score="5" ViewCount="1164" Body="&lt;p&gt;In competitive cooking shows like &lt;strong&gt;Chopped&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Beat Bobby Flay&lt;/strong&gt; and many others, at the end of each round they show &lt;em&gt;&lt;code&gt;all&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt; of the competitors doing their final preparation and plating during the last minute, each of them finishing up just as the timer reaches 0:00.  Even celebrity chef Bobby Flay finishes at the last second &lt;em&gt;&lt;code&gt;every time&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume this is all just editing trickery to provide suspense for the viewer, and many cooks may actually finish even a minute or two before the end. for some rounds.  Is that the case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is their time management really that bad, or do they usually finish somewhat before the final bell?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastActivityDate="2015-11-01T11:18:08.840" Title="Cooking shows' last minute finishes" Tags="|reality-tv|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="42997" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43004" CreationDate="2015-11-01T11:49:24.247" Score="14" ViewCount="14309" Body="&lt;p&gt;After returning to the Mars station in &lt;em&gt;The Martian&lt;/em&gt;, Mark Watney self-operates his wound. How realistic is that self-treatment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1490" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-01T14:35:15.740" LastActivityDate="2021-02-27T23:49:44.430" Title="How realistic is Mark Watney's self-operation?" Tags="|realism|the-martian|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43001" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45953" CreationDate="2015-11-01T14:54:48.630" Score="8" ViewCount="2688" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I can't be precise hence I have overloaded the question with pics&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the title asks, when Barry went back to the past in &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt;, a series of events happened. One was Cisco discovering that Dr. Wells faked the whole scene with the yellow-suited Flash (see image below)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d3wlS.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d3wlS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and it was actually Dr. Wells who was the man in the yellow suit. In the process of the discovery Cisco got caught and Wells killed Cisco in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/26CRW.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/26CRW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However when the series came back to present time Cisco still had memories, eventually Cisco and Barry came to the conclusion of re-framing the whole scenario so as to get Dr. Wells to confess that he indeed killed Barry's mother so as to be apprehended, but in the recreation of the scene Dr. Wells sent the ShapeShifter [image 5 is the shapeshifter] to represent him (Dr. Wells). The recreation took place however it wasn't Dr. Wells (as you can see his hands are not vibrating). The dialog was exact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5s8Mb.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5s8Mb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My question is, how did Dr.Wells know about something that has not taken place? (The event happened in the past and barry went back to change the fact, hence the future was changed successfully, meaning it did not happen at all.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To support my question of how Dr. Wells knew about something he didn't, in the final episode of The Flash season 1 Dr. Wells was captured and incarcerated. Cisco approached him about what he said (in the moment that never happened) and he wanted to know how he feels about it. Dr. Wells' reply was that he is clueless of what happened, but if he killed Cisco in the process then he had a good reason, meaning he didn't even know why he killed Cisco. Hence the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26578" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-19T07:35:37.203" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T07:35:37.203" Title="How can Wells know what happened in the alternate time?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|arrowverse|the-flash|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42997" CreationDate="2015-11-01T19:04:39.950" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the basic sequence of events, along with screen shots. Please note that some of these are PG-13 graphic, but relevant to the question. If screen shots of realistic injuries are not your thing, please look away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mark enters the HAB with a piece of metal sticking out of his abdomen. It did not skewer him all the way through: it appears to have entered an inch or two and to have missed organs that might require &quot;real&quot; surgery to repair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U3Gp9.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U3Gp9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MJxgx.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MJxgx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He removes the metal piece.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QoLl2.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QoLl2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He removes his suit, exposing bare skin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EadIJ.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EadIJ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He cleans around the wound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tFux0.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tFux0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He appears to apply topical anesthetic in a circle around the wound (note the bloody circles around the wound from the auto-injector he appears to be applying).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GckMK.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GckMK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He uses surgical tongs to pull out a metal fragment left behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TWLeY.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TWLeY.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, he staples the wound shut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oOEix.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oOEix.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also takes painkillers afterward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fpamz.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fpamz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When discussing the realism there are a few things to keep in mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mark Watney is a botanist, not a physician. He appears to have received some basic medical training. I would expect on a journey between planets that &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; astronauts would receive training in a lot of topics where things you take for granted will no longer be available (cannot call an ambulance, for example).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He had to make do with what the situation gave him: his training, available supplies, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on what we can assume about Mark's medical training and what tools he used, it appears realistic to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The basic idea of &quot;remove obstruction, clean, anesthesia, remove foreign entity, staple shut&quot; is the same general sequence of first aid. Certain types of injuries (e.g. eye wound) might be different, but that is a basic, common sense sequence of events that mirrors my own first aid training that I received in the military.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tools he used are basic medical tools that I would expect such an expedition to have available. He did not make use of e.g. an MRI machine which I would &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; expect to be present.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Simple operations on oneself can be difficult due to pain, emotion, etc. but Mark is a trained astronaut: remember at the end when he lectures a class of aspiring astronauts and says, paraphrasing, &quot;you solve one problem at a time, these problems may be &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; difficult.&quot; He did what he had to do (with drugs, of course) because &lt;em&gt;there is nobody else to help him&lt;/em&gt;. He is physically and mentally fit and was able to suck it up and put up with the pain because he knew if he did not, he would die.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Visually, it appears realistic. The abdomen has a lot of blood because the blood vessels need to pick up nutrients from the stomach and intestines. Having a bloody wound in that location is very realistic. Aside from that, I was actually quite impressed: that scene did not appear to use much computer graphics and it looked pretty good (gruesome).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All screen shots are Copyright (C) 2015 &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Century_Fox&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;20th Century Fox&lt;/a&gt;, used here under the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fair Use&lt;/a&gt; provision of U.S. Copyright law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9311" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-25T16:20:04.977" LastActivityDate="2016-09-25T16:20:04.977" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43010" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-01T23:30:17.680" Score="2" ViewCount="924" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read that it could have been one of the 1st 3 movies to be released on VHS in 1977.  Can anyone verify this?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27404" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-02T02:05:10.537" LastActivityDate="2015-11-02T02:05:10.537" Title="When was The Sound of Music first released on VHS" Tags="|distribution|the-sound-of-music|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43010" CreationDate="2015-11-01T23:43:24.647" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.primermagazine.com/2009/field-manual/know-it-all-the-first-movie-commercially-released-on-vhs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What was the first movie commercially released on VHS?&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to Frederick Wasser’s Veni, Vidi, Video, the &lt;strong&gt;American home&#xA;  video market was essentially born in 1977&lt;/strong&gt;, courtesy of an audio/video&#xA;  firm called Magnetic Video. At the time, Twentieth Century Fox was a&#xA;  company struggling through dire financial straits (despite the&#xA;  ridiculously successful May 25th release of a flick called Star Wars)&#xA;  and looking to generate some sort of revenue beyond box office ticket&#xA;  sales. Magnetic’s founder Andre Blay took advantage of these&#xA;  circumstances, paying Fox for the home video licensing rights to fifty&#xA;  of the studio’s films. And with that, a now extremely prominent&#xA;  entertainment market roared to life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The first three American flicks released on VHS? The Sound of Music&lt;/strong&gt;,&#xA;  Patton, and M*A*S*H (at an average retail cost of $50-$70, each).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other links also corroborate this. It appears your assertion is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9311" LastActivityDate="2015-11-01T23:43:24.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19313" CreationDate="2015-11-02T02:36:57.747" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Smiley has a very good knowledge of Toby Esterhazy's character. It was Smiley who first recruited Toby and if you read the books what comes across is the sanctity of the prime relationship that is developed between spies and the people who run them - it is the good heart (they choose to believe) which lies deep beneath all the bad  deeds and compromises that these people do and have. Its deeper than love of country/patriotism, politics etc. Despite the fact that Toby chose Alleline et al over Control and Smiley, after Operation Justify,  George knows that their basic (true) relationship (him being Toby's father figure, saviour/mentor) will enable him to suss the truth out of Toby. All he needs to do is get him alone in a room. This does not work in the film because they chose Control to be Toby's rescuer/father/mentor figure, so they applied a completely bogus method of pressure on the Toby character. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27411" LastActivityDate="2015-11-02T02:36:57.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43019" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43001" CreationDate="2015-11-02T05:35:20.033" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wells has had cameras in every location of note. He was monitoring what the scoobies were planning. And Cisco's very vivid lucid dreaming included all the details he needed to know in order to have Everyman recreate the scene close enough to scare Cisco who only half remembered it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally,  in both comics and the show, Eobard, like most speed force speedster are somewhat immune to time changes, similar to how Cisco was portrayed. Flashpoint Paradox is a prime example. Zoom who was not involved in Barry's saving his mom, had no memory loss from the alternative time line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;finally, Gideon, the advanced A.I. is able to track changes in the timeline. This can help Wells fill in any holes from what he learned from Cisco's recorded dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-02-23T13:43:18.967" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T13:43:18.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43025" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-02T08:54:59.333" Score="2" ViewCount="595" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1964 movie, Goldfinger tries to make the entire gold reserve of Fort Knox radioactive for 58 years (through Cobolt and Iodine), although this sounds quite clever, what do you think would happen if this scenario played out in the real world (let's say in 2015). Obviously the gold wouldnt be useless since it's still gold, although radioactive, and let's remember the reserve is only a reserve. The US can choose whether to confirm or deny the circumstances of the gold. Particularly, I'm interested what effects would this scenario potentially have through a economical, political and diplomatic perspective?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27421" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-11-02T09:53:35.110" LastActivityDate="2015-11-02T10:37:55.237" Title="Radioactive gold in Goldfinger" Tags="|james-bond|goldfinger|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="14" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-11-02T19:36:26.253" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43025" CreationDate="2015-11-02T10:37:55.237" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think even now it would play out as in the film. It's not that Goldfinger is quietly making the gold radioactive, there is a nuclear bomb involved, which would be slightly difficult to conceal the explosion. If anything it could be worse, other countries may assume ANY reserve is radioactive, so all reserves may decrease in value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastActivityDate="2015-11-02T10:37:55.237" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21243" CreationDate="2015-11-02T17:01:26.407" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Elsa was only defending herself against two men who were trying to kill her. She would NOT be considered an irredeemable monster even if she did kill the men. They were the ones who invaded her palace with crossbows and started shooting. She begged them to stop, but they kept coming. She had to fight to survive. They were the ones who tried to kill her and refused to stop even after Hans intervened. Elsa stopped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elsa would be very remorseful and feel the burden of her guilt because of what happened. She wasn't out there to kill people, she only wanted to defend herself. In my opinion, she would be morally justified in self defense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Hans, he wanted Elsa to LOOK like a monster to the Arendelle guards. He then aimed the crossbow at the chandelier to attempt to kill her via the chandelier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27432" LastActivityDate="2015-11-02T17:01:26.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42684" CreationDate="2015-11-02T19:21:56.887" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The distributor cap.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a commonplace trick at the time to disable a vehicle by removing the rotor arm from the distributor, but this small part would be harder to show on film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The distributor cap is simple to unclip and remove - taking just seconds.  It is also a clearly recognisable part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastActivityDate="2015-11-02T19:21:56.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23773" CreationDate="2015-11-02T20:55:04.993" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's mostly to do with logistics, actually. The egg timers that Kaylie is using only go up to a maximum of 60 minutes, and there aren't really a lot of non-electronic timers that can be set for longer than that. If she's trying to prevent dehydration and starvation, it's better to eat too often than not often enough. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27438" LastActivityDate="2015-11-02T20:55:04.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43044" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43065" CreationDate="2015-11-02T21:59:33.767" Score="6" ViewCount="2941" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Rocky Balboa&lt;/em&gt; (2006) there is a scene where Rocky visits the old gym where he trained for his fight with Apollo Creed. In this scene he has a flashback of Mickey Goldmill giving him a pep talk. Obviously this scene was not filmed for Rocky Balboa as Burgess Meredith passed away in 1997 and on IMDb he is credited in the film for &quot;archive footage&quot; which leads me to the conclusion that this scene was a deleted scene from Rocky or Rocky II. It is a very touching scene and works perfectly as a flashback.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now to my question: Why wasn't this scene included in the original movie? I understand that is kind of difficult one to answer unless you ask the producers themselves. And that is really what I'm looking for here. I've been trying to find some sort of commentary about the scene from the film makers to explain where the footage came from and why it wasn't used previously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a link to the scene: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/RC6sMFbL288?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-09-23T10:22:33.947" LastActivityDate="2019-09-23T10:22:33.947" Title="Rocky Balboa flashback scene with Mickey Goldmill" Tags="|rocky-balboa|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="43049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42859" CreationDate="2015-11-03T01:58:03.683" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had a few theories:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They had their guard down which was a perfect time to attack.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mr. Hinx is a bit of a loose canon, he essentially does what he wants (he gouges the eyes of his competitor without warning) and what he wants is to kill Bond. He's annoyed at Bond because he's made a fool of him twice by the time they meet on the train and he just wants to get his revenge.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think Obenhauser really cared whether Bond died at his hand or not, up until he nearly killed him that is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27444" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-11-03T02:23:54.703" LastActivityDate="2015-11-03T02:23:54.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43051" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43052" CreationDate="2015-11-03T05:10:45.873" Score="14" ViewCount="11403" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Inside Out, Joy, specifically Riley's joy, glows. She casts a yellow light around her, even though she has a blue aura. None of the other emotions in Riley glow, nor do any of the emotions in her parents or the extras do, including their Joys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I could find was technical details on how they made Joy glow, but not why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why does Joy glow? And why does she glow Blue? Why only Riley's Joy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T01:20:20.303" Title="Why does Joy glow?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|inside-out|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43051" CreationDate="2015-11-03T05:17:54.437" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each person in Inside Out has a dominant emotion.  Her father's was anger and her mother's was sadness.  Riley's dominant emotion was Joy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it was an aesthetic choice to reflect that Joy is Riley's most important emotion.  Have you ever seen someone's face when they get really, really happy?  Some people liken extreme happiness to glowing.  I think they decided to reflect this in Joy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2015-11-03T05:17:54.437" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43053" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43232" CreationDate="2015-11-03T06:34:35.913" Score="8" ViewCount="1571" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a film that my friend saw 10 years ago, but remembers only the plot. Is there anyone who knows what film is he talking about? Here is the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is about a man, who doesn't remember the last years of his life. He lives with his wife and boy, his father lives separately. He is doing a reconstruction of planes, and his family is telling him that previously he was a plane pilot, but now he can not continue with his previous profession. By that time, he also attends one doctor for treatment and is taking some tablets, and the doctor is saying to him that the tablets will help him bring back his memories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One day, some man comes to our hero and tells him that they have worked together previously and now they are both in danger. After a few days he finds, that man is dead. At the end, he understands that he and his wife have worked as a hired killer and after he failed with his last job, the company decided to erase his last year's memory (it's not Bourne Identity :) and also his father is actually just playing that role but is not actually his father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this film should be the release of 90's or early 00's. Can anyone help me find any information about this film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="903" LastEditorUserId="903" LastEditDate="2015-11-04T06:26:56.970" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T14:39:29.300" Title="Film with a hero whose memories of last years are erased" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:08:38.277" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43054" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43060" CreationDate="2015-11-03T08:19:20.927" Score="18" ViewCount="92239" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know the English translation of the temple chants in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? Like what they're singing and what Mola Ram is saying? Been wondering this for a long long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26277" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2016-05-28T06:15:58.670" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T07:27:04.537" Title="English translation of the temple chants in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?" Tags="|translation|indiana-jones|indiana-jones-and-temple-of-doom|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1874" CreationDate="2015-11-03T08:30:52.047" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like it's from the movie &lt;em&gt;The Island of Dr. Moreau&lt;/em&gt;, wherein he transforms 2 animals by crossbreeding them I think. Sort of an experiment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27448" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-03T10:40:00.050" LastActivityDate="2015-11-03T10:40:00.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43057" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43054" CreationDate="2015-11-03T09:28:46.000" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Source IMDB:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During the sacrifice, Mola Ram chants in Hindi, imploring &quot;&lt;em&gt;Kali Ma Shakti de&lt;/em&gt;,&quot; asking for the &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Spiritual power of Mother &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kali&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Goddess in Hindu Mythology&lt;/em&gt;).&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mola Ram's chantings of &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Maaro maaro sooar ko, chamdi nocho pee lo khoon&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; literally translated from Hindi is &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Kill, Kill the pig, flay his skin, drink his blood&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Aum Namah Shivaya&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; (&quot;adoration to Lord Shiva&quot;). It is chanted to help protect one's soul during times of peril&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="24020" LastEditDate="2015-11-04T09:14:55.510" LastActivityDate="2015-11-04T09:14:55.510" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32767" CreationDate="2015-11-03T13:13:36.023" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Christopher knows that Adriana cannot have children. He's watching the scene thinking that this loser guy has a better life than him, that's why he turns to Tony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27455" LastEditorUserId="30354" LastEditDate="2018-01-25T20:29:14.857" LastActivityDate="2018-01-25T20:29:14.857" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43054" CreationDate="2015-11-03T15:03:05.567" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I am not quite sure about the background chants (something in Sanskrit language) but Mola Ram (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrish_Puri&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Amrish Puri&lt;/a&gt;) prays to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kali Maa*&lt;/a&gt; (considered as goddess of power) in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/iiE5mE0ZorA?t=88&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Temple of Doom's heart removal scene&quot;&lt;/a&gt; as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Boy (to be sacrificed)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Agar koi hai toh mujhe bachao&quot;&amp;emsp; = &quot;If somebody's there, then save me !&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;Koi mujhe, koi mujhe bachao&quot;&amp;emsp;&amp;emsp;= &quot;somebody, somebody save me !&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (*starts chanting..*)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;Om namah shivay&quot;&amp;emsp;&amp;emsp;&amp;emsp;&amp;emsp;&amp;emsp;&amp;emsp; = &quot;I devote myself to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shiv*&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (Hindu god of destruction)&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mola Ram&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;bali chadhogay&quot;&amp;emsp;&amp;emsp;&amp;emsp;&amp;nbsp;= &quot;(you) will be sacrificed&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;bali mangti kali maa&quot;&amp;emsp; = &quot;mother kali wants offering/sacrifice&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;mukti degi kalli maa&quot; &amp;emsp;= &quot;mother kali will give salvation&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;kali maa&quot; &amp;emsp;&amp;emsp;&amp;emsp;&amp;emsp;&amp;emsp;&amp;emsp;= &quot;Mother kali&quot; &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;kali maa shakti de&quot;&amp;emsp;&amp;emsp;= &quot;Mother kali give (me) power&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;bali chadhau tere aage&quot;= &quot; (I) offer sacrifice before you&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;swikar karo&quot; &amp;nbsp;&amp;emsp;&amp;emsp;&amp;emsp;&amp;emsp; = &quot;(please) accept&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (*removes heart*....&lt;em&gt;boy screams&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;girl screams&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;ab iski jaan meri muthi main hai&quot; = &quot;now his life is in my hands&quot; (&lt;em&gt;shows Myogenic contraction of heart to crowd&lt;/em&gt;) &lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;bali chadhado&quot;&amp;emsp;&amp;emsp;&amp;emsp;&amp;emsp;= &quot;do the sacrifice&quot; (sacrifice him)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (*boy dies chanting..*)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Kali is an incarnation of Parvati, who is the wife of Shiv.&#xA;&lt;br&gt;source: knows Hindi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26828" LastEditorUserId="5315" LastEditDate="2019-04-05T07:27:04.537" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T07:27:04.537" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="43063" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43064" CreationDate="2015-11-03T17:46:27.560" Score="1" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm talking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638355/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Man from U.N.C.L.E&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the middle of the movie, I thought uncle Rudi will play a vital role and the film was named after him. But at the end scenes we saw basically the team of three (Solo, Illya &amp;amp; Gaby) is given a name &quot;U.N.C.L.E&quot;. But why? What's the meaning of that name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're basically from three intelligence (CIA, Russian, British). It doesn't reflect that too. What does U.N.C.L.E represent? Did I miss it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="77670" LastEditDate="2019-12-01T13:52:43.800" LastActivityDate="2019-12-01T13:52:43.800" Title="Why is the team called / named U.N.C.L.E?" Tags="|the-man-from-u.n.c.l.e|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="43064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43063" CreationDate="2015-11-03T18:08:55.917" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you actually read that link, you'd see it was explained in the movie's MB.  ;o)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638355/board/nest/248914054?ref_=tt_bd_6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638355/board/nest/248914054?ref_=tt_bd_6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;United Network Command For Law Enforcement&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-11-03T18:08:55.917" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43044" CreationDate="2015-11-03T19:24:25.630" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This scene was actually in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100507/?ref_=ttqt_qt_tt&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rocky V (1990)&lt;/a&gt;, and Burgess Meredith is credited in the cast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-11-03T19:24:25.630" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43067" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-03T19:58:08.220" Score="3" ViewCount="539" Body="&lt;p&gt;We've all heard about movie shoots with ridiculously long workdays, e.g., we've heard actors talk about getting up at the crack of dawn, working until the wee hours of the next morning, sleeping a short time, and getting up and doing it all again the next day. But actors and directors are far from the only ones making the movie. What do all the cameramen and boom mic guys and gaffers and PAs do for those long shoots? I would expect their (union) contracts to permit only a certain length of workday, or only a certain number of 18-hour days in a row. Do they all work 18-hour days too, day in and day out? Do they alternate days? Do they have a lot of downtime that doesn't count in their workday? Do they just get paid a ton of overtime?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27464" LastActivityDate="2016-03-17T20:57:10.527" Title="Union contracts and extremely long workdays on movie sets" Tags="|production|crew|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43071" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43084" CreationDate="2015-11-03T23:47:09.470" Score="2" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Four Lions&lt;/em&gt; (2010) has an opening tune. It can be listened to &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/IAarClRt8hY?t=3m20s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; (if somewhat distorted).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It doesn't seem to be on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1341167/soundtrack&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB soundtrack list&lt;/a&gt; for the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what the tune is, and who played it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23579" LastEditorUserId="9718" LastEditDate="2017-03-27T10:12:23.453" LastActivityDate="2017-03-27T10:12:23.453" Title="What is the opening tune in Four Lions?" Tags="|soundtrack|four-lions|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36763" CreationDate="2015-11-04T00:10:08.643" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rick starts out as a sheriff's deputy in episode one. As part of the living world he is tough and does not hesitate to do what needs to be done: he and Shane set up a trap for the car fleeing law enforcement from another county. We see Rick give instructions to the other officers present: he is a leader, and not gun-shy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fast forward to him waking up in the hospital. His character has no idea what is going on: he is along, and the hospital looks like a war zone. Through interacting with Morgan he learns about the world and begins changing by accepting what he sees as the new truth. We know this because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He goes back to kill &lt;a href=&quot;http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Hannah_%28Webisodes%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bicycle Girl&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rewind to the prologue of season 1 episode 1, he kills a little girl walker.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a law enforcement officer who is portrayed as tough yet virtuous to commit these acts shows that even early on, Rick is changing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next event is really two separate events linked together. Before leaving the CDC, &lt;a href=&quot;http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Edwin_Jenner_%28TV_Series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dr. Jenner&lt;/a&gt; tells Rick&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Everyone is infected and will turn when killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fast forward to the end of season 2,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Rick shoots and kills Shane in self-defense, only for Shane to turn and Carl kills Shane as a walker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This puts the grim reality into perspective: Shane was a close friend of Rick's from childhood. Even though the group has had to kill some of their own up until this point, this event really hit home: it made it personal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moving on to season 3 there are two primary motivations for him changing. First,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; the death of his wife&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That type of event would change anyone, zombie apocalypse or not. If the previous death left anything to doubt, that nail is now firmly hammered in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Next, a collection of events: &lt;a href=&quot;http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Philip_Blake_%28TV_Series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Governor&lt;/a&gt;'s relentless assault against the prison over the course of much of season 3 and part of season 4.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rick's interaction with The Governor is an interesting one. The Governor is ruthless because he too has lost so much and is willing to do anything to protect what he has now. The interesting thing here is Rick appears to take on some of The Governor's attributes, specifically, his willingness to do whatever it takes to protect his (extended) family. Once you earn Rick's trust, he will do almost &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; to protect you. While most characters value the group, only &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/42522/9311&quot;&gt;Carol seems to be willing to do anything and everything to protect it&lt;/a&gt;. This changes as The Governor's ruthlessness &quot;rubs off&quot; on Rick, although he does keep some compassion. Rick does not become a sociopath, using others for personal gain the way The Governor does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, we see several interactions between Rick and The Governor, and the latter makes it abundantly clear that it is all-out war and Rick better surrender or die fighting. While Rick regresses at the start of season 4, we see him change back to being tough and in fact going above and beyond what he used to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He brutally kills police officers in Atlanta in his quest to save one of his group.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;While he gets beat up by The Governor, he fights, not flees, during the final attack on the prison.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He stops coddling Carl and starts teaching him how to survive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Right before Terminus, he literally takes a bite out of one of his attackers, prompting Michonne and Daryl to join in what turns out to be an all-out slaughter.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He started the chase in Terminus by threatening his &quot;saviors.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last two points are very important: he literally chewed flesh from another living human, and waltzed into a safe zone outgunned and outmanned and threatened them to try to save his friends who he believed were nearby. The only talking he did was at gunpoint. He was ready to murder them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In season 5, the major event in his evolution was &lt;a href=&quot;http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Alexandria_Safe-Zone_%28TV_Series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alexandria&lt;/a&gt;. Leading up to that point, we see he is tough and ragged, trusting nobody not in his group. Being in a safe zone, nothing changes: he schemes with Carol and Daryl to stash weapons and to create a Plan B in case this &quot;safe zone&quot; turns out like two others they encountered, &lt;a href=&quot;http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Woodbury,_Georgia_%28TV_Series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Woodbury&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Terminus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Terminus&lt;/a&gt;. He reiterates the point that the people of Alexandria mean nothing, only the people in their group matter. If push comes to shove they will revolt and take it from them. Given how soft many of the residents are, they are basically &quot;not of this world&quot; and deserve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As season 5 ends, we see the story lead in that direction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Rick is on &quot;trial&quot; by who I call &quot;The Governess&quot; for doing what had&#xA; to be done. Rick doesn't abide beating one's wife, and is willing to&#xA; start a revolt if need be due to leaders' tolerance of such deeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the question specifically mentioned &quot;the end of season 5&quot; I will stop here for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9311" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-11-04T00:10:08.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9170" CreationDate="2015-11-04T00:23:52.350" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was explained in the movie. Angier was given a diary, but the diary was fake and sent Angier on a wild goose chase that almost ruined him. Borden had no idea that the wild goose chase worked, so he went to investigate. That's all. There was no intent to entrap and kill Borden. Angier already knew he had the best trick, so there was no reason to do anything else. That why he used blind stage hands. Not to keep the trick a secret, but the result. Basically Angier committed suicide every performance. He &quot;fell&quot; into the tank because Cutter explained that drowning was like &quot;going home&quot; once Cutter exposed the truth about drowning, that gave Angier's 2nd thoughts... but not until the movie ended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27470" LastActivityDate="2015-11-04T00:23:52.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9619" CreationDate="2015-11-04T00:33:30.267" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer is actually simple. You asked why Angier looked shocked. At point of the movie the TESLA transported man works. Basically Angier committed suicide by falling into a tank and drowning. This was obviously conceived by Angier probably to prevent two Angiers from existing at the same time. And he chose to drown because Cutter told him that it was like &quot;going home&quot;. Angier is shocked because now that he knows it agonizing, he just realized his &quot;deaths&quot; really sucked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27470" LastActivityDate="2015-11-04T00:33:30.267" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43075" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-04T00:35:36.420" Score="10" ViewCount="17104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Cutter betray Angier and lead Borden to kill him Angier at the end of the movie? Angier's wife drowned, Borden's wife hanged, Fallon/Borden hanged. But Cutter had no motive to do any of this, unless he was in cahoots with Borden. But the movie had no indication of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27470" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-11-04T06:06:31.190" LastActivityDate="2019-04-08T04:20:10.027" Title="Why did Cutter betray Angier and lead Borden to kill him?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43075" CreationDate="2015-11-04T03:47:51.453" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;My understanding was that Cutter start sympathizing with Borden for his  loss of life. Cutter was intially with Angier only, however  when he saw that Angier got one innocent man hanged and also took his daughter just for revenge. So he got disgusted. Also, he wanted to destroy that  machine because it was not magic trick but real dangerous magic/science leading to killing one person (Angiers clone) every night. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Same is told in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt; in this paragraph&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cutter learns that Caldlow has bought all of Angier's equipment,&#xA;  including the machine. He visits Lord Caldlow to plead for its&#xA;  destruction. He recognizes Angier, who had admitted earlier that he&#xA;  has always been Lord Caldlow (he had used the name Robert Angier to&#xA;  spare his family the embarrassment of his theatrical career). Cutter&#xA;  is disgusted with Angier for letting Borden hang and taking Borden's&#xA;  daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-07-28T09:40:20.917" LastActivityDate="2017-07-28T09:40:20.917" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43071" CreationDate="2015-11-04T06:50:57.120" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's part of a Jeff beck tune, Nadia. Here is a version of it thou this one has some backing. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drAv2FoYji8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nadia, Jeff Beck&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;27/03/2017 - Here is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1341167/soundtrack&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; Soundtrack listing which does indeed include Jeff Beck's Nadia (performed by Jeff Beck) and written by Nitin Sawhney.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24486" LastEditorUserId="24486" LastEditDate="2017-03-27T03:30:12.443" LastActivityDate="2017-03-27T03:30:12.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43090" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43106" CreationDate="2015-11-04T11:47:01.853" Score="10" ViewCount="13320" Body="&lt;p&gt;In various martial arts movies set in China, we see swords that are &quot;wobbly&quot; (for lack of a better term).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes the effect is subtle, visible only if you pay attention to the moment when two blades clash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it's very pronounced, even pointed out by the choerography. I remember a scene where a combatant was hit around a bamboo pole &lt;em&gt;because the sword blade of his opponent was flexible&lt;/em&gt;. Double-take and all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't mix with what I know about either European or Japanese sword smithing, where a blade has &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; flexibility to avoid breaking, but &lt;em&gt;certainly&lt;/em&gt; nowhere near flexible enough for &quot;hitting around the corner&quot;, and &lt;em&gt;definitely&lt;/em&gt; not to the point of becoming a part of the fight technique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yesterday I watched another such movie where the female lead character unsheathed a sword &lt;em&gt;from her belt&lt;/em&gt;. As in, the sword was &lt;em&gt;in&lt;/em&gt; her belt, bent around her waist. That was the &quot;wobbliest&quot; I've seen so far (including appropriate sound effect), and I finally wanted to know:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are, or were, &quot;wobbly&quot; swords a &quot;thing&quot; in China?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are they historically acurate? (I know &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; about ancient Chinese weapons.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are they a &quot;stunt prop&quot;, somehow making the fights safer? If yes, how?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are they an &quot;item of legend&quot;, something that didn't really exist but is a staple of Chinese mythology?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Can a &quot;wobbly&quot; sword actually &lt;em&gt;work&lt;/em&gt; as a weapon?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are they about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15487" LastEditorUserId="15487" LastEditDate="2015-11-04T11:53:04.110" LastActivityDate="2021-08-27T21:48:18.023" Title="What's with the &quot;wobbly&quot; swords in Chinese martial arts movies?" Tags="|props|martial-arts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43090" CreationDate="2015-11-04T12:47:08.377" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order to make the fight &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;more exciting and acrobatic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Wobbly swords were used.&#xA;As these sword are &lt;strong&gt;thin and flexible&lt;/strong&gt; in order facilitate the movements,for the &lt;strong&gt;FAST&lt;/strong&gt; movements and create like a force-field around yourself according to Chinese wordplay,&lt;strong&gt;speed of the sword&lt;/strong&gt; has to do a lot and this was only possible with &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;a light, thin and flexible sword with good balance&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.This is the &lt;strong&gt;reason for using wobbly swords as a weapon in china&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;Although Authentic swords (for battle) were not wobbly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/forum/kendo/media/5564-chinese-vs-japanese-swords&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kendo-World&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Generally Chinese sword is &lt;strong&gt;one handed&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;The blades are on both sides&lt;/strong&gt; they might seem flimsy but they are &lt;strong&gt;light&lt;/strong&gt; so &lt;strong&gt;acrobatic&lt;/strong&gt; too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wobbliness only exist in movies or TV. They know how to make stage fight more exciting .IMHO has some reference to the weapons (props) as used in traditional Chinese Opera (esp. Peking Opera which is famous for actions). If you check out their sword it's only a &lt;strong&gt;thin piece of metal which can be bent by hand&lt;/strong&gt;... Probably the same thing they use for wushu jian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Originally posted by Yo...osh!****:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Before I started Kendo, I practised one year of Wushu (I still practice once a week), &lt;strong&gt;including the straight sword. I can tell you that the sword is only thin and flexible in order faciliate the movements in wushu&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;There are many FAST movements in Chinese wordplay. At its best, you almost create like a force-field around youself because of the speed of the sword. That is only possible with a light, thin and flexible sword with good balance. Authentic swords (for battle) were not wobbly&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &#xA;  I must say, the &lt;strong&gt;movements, cuts and swordplay in wushu is exhilirating&lt;/strong&gt; and so much fun to do. There are limitless possibilities as to how to use the sword. The sword really becomes part of the &lt;strong&gt;natural movements of your body&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_martial_arts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wǔshù literally means &quot;martial art&quot;. It is formed from the two words 武術: 武 (wǔ), meaning &quot;martial&quot; or &quot;military&quot; and 術 (shù), which translates into &quot;discipline&quot;, &quot;skill&quot; or &quot;method&quot;. The term wushu has also become the name for the modern sport of wushu, an exhibition and full-contact sport of bare-handed and weapons forms (Chinese: 套路), adapted and judged to a set of aesthetic criteria for points developed since 1949 in the People's Republic of China.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-06T10:50:16.953" LastActivityDate="2015-11-06T10:50:16.953" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42923" CreationDate="2015-11-04T20:23:56.630" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When we first meet Superman in &quot;Batman Beyond&quot;, according to &quot;The Call&quot; parts 1 &amp;amp; 2, he has been under Starro's control for years. Perhaps that alien's fashion choices were not as pleasing to the human eye as Kal-El's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1492" LastEditorUserId="1492" LastEditDate="2015-11-05T16:54:18.983" LastActivityDate="2015-11-05T16:54:18.983" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43094" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-04T21:37:06.320" Score="4" ViewCount="2169" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do the cinematography techniques in &lt;em&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt; use textual representation (image as text) or material representation (image as presence) in order to convey the themes or motifs of the film? I thought it conveyed it as textual representation but when I look at it from a different point of view I can see material representation as well especially how closely we follow Deckard's character throughout the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The image as presence is grounded in the belief that the film image can show us the world as it really is. The image as presence may assume a subjective perspective, usually of one of the characters in the film. This subjective perspective may shift from one character to another either within a scene or from scene to scene, or it may remain constant throughout the film. This is the case, for example, when the central character serves as a narrator through whose eyes (and voice) we see (and hear) the events of the narrative. The image as presence may be presented from an objective perspective as the point of view of an omniscient narrator of a story or novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of the image as text (or representation), the viewer is presented not only a visual perspective of what is in the frame but also an interpretative point of view. We are asked to look at the image and inquire about its meaning or how it is related to other film images with which we may be familiar. We may be simply asked to look at the image as an aesthetic, created image (much like a conceptual painting).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27463" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-11-09T00:11:01.383" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T00:11:01.383" Title="Textual vs material representation in Blade Runner cinematography" Tags="|film-techniques|cinematography|blade-runner|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43098" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-05T00:03:12.463" Score="1" ViewCount="83" Body="&lt;h3&gt;SPOILERS AHEAD&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Paranormal Activity 5 Ghost Dimension, it all started with the modified camera which was found. At the beginning, the ghost was just a small glitch above the light bulbs,  but became bigger and bigger,  until it could interact with matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't all this have happened if nobody found the camera?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie it is said that the daemon gets stronger, the more fear the victims have. This explains the extreme strength at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;But at the beginning, nobody was frightened about the glitches seen through the camera (the camera guy was just fascinated and the others were not believing), or am I wrong? If nobody was frightened in the beginning,  I cannot think about an explanation, how the daemon got strong in the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27497" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-05T11:15:58.973" Title="Would the paranormal activity also have occurred without finding the camera?" Tags="|plot-explanation|paranormal-activity-6|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33689" CreationDate="2015-11-05T01:41:13.960" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is only one scene where Vision uses the hammer. He swings it, Ultron goes flying and then he gives the hammer back. What kinda power transfer are we talking about here? Did you expect Vision to sprout blond hair too? It's a weapon with cool powers. Who ever holds it, uses the powers of the hammer, they don't get infused with it. Otherwise everybody who holds the hammer would be Thor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27470" LastActivityDate="2015-11-05T01:41:13.960" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39214" CreationDate="2015-11-05T01:54:37.660" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basiclly there were scenes in season 4.5 portraying diffrent parts on Cruella and Ursula when they were younger. Also Ursula was a sea witch( There probably a spell)  and Cruella can control animals (Humans are animal so maybe she  can control herself or do something like that to make herself younger) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or the most realistic approach,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Makeup and Plastic Surgery (Since both of them were in the human world at some time during the season)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27500" LastActivityDate="2015-11-05T01:54:37.660" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9288" CreationDate="2015-11-05T05:37:48.823" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just got through watching it again, and here's my take on why the cops came back. The Dad called the cops, and also came over. Mom said everything was fine, and the cops left. Here's where the answer lies. The cops would have called the Dad back to inform him that everything was alright. Obviously, the girlfriend would have answered, and explained that he went over there and that he was really worried. The cops would have now known that the Mom was lying, that the Dad was there, and that something was going on. The other thought I had was maybe the Dad drove over there, and the cops ran the plates on his car and started connecting the dots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27504" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-07T23:49:24.440" LastActivityDate="2016-12-07T23:49:24.440" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43090" CreationDate="2015-11-05T06:13:58.780" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From my admittedly passing interest in this same subject I can point out a few things I found interesting on this subject. Links to articles for further reading at bottom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main chinese sword is a single edged combat weapon the Dao. Used effectively in almost all sword period wars including fighting the Huns and WW2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two edged sword the Jian was mainly used by higher ranking people and for ceremonial use and has been adopted as a preferred sword for flexible tai-chi or wushu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the flexibility you ask per the movies well the jian used for wushu practice was not designed for combat and has a very high degree of flex used to appeal visually to an audience also transfer effective sounds. We can see why this would be adapted by film. (plus the idea of a belt sword is amazing and it's still a weapon!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This kung Fu Tea article is amazing and great pics.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://chinesemartialstudies.com/2012/11/26/693/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;KUNG FU TEA :&#xA;A Social and Visual History of the Dadao: The Chinese “Military Big-Saber.”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/Why-are-the-swords-flimsy-in-Chinese-movies&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;QUORA, same question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jian#Historical_use&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jian wiki&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dao_(sword)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dao wiki&#xA;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24486" LastActivityDate="2015-11-05T06:13:58.780" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42911" CreationDate="2015-11-05T09:02:30.877" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not a dubbed movie but a TV show. In LOST, Danielle Rousseau is the French woman in the original version but in the French version she's the German woman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saison_1_de_Lost_:_Les_Disparus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saison_1_de_Lost_:_Les_Disparus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fr.lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Danielle_Rousseau&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://fr.lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Danielle_Rousseau&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27000" LastActivityDate="2015-11-05T09:02:30.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43053" CreationDate="2015-11-05T13:02:49.797" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw it a long time ago and I don't remember if all the details fit, but the company erasing the protagonist's memories reminds me of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypher_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cypher (2002)&lt;/a&gt;. From IMDb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hoping for a more exciting life than the suburban drawl he currently inhabits, nerdy salary man Morgan Sullivan takes a job as an industrial spy at Digicorp, a global computer corporation. Digicorp assigns him the duty of flying to various conventions around America, recording the speeches that are made. But when Sullivan meets a mysterious woman he begins to realize that his job may not be what it seems, as he descends into a dark underworld of brainwashing and struggles to maintain his own identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/sEKY1u4ZD_c?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23403" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-11-05T13:13:36.367" LastActivityDate="2015-11-05T13:13:36.367" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18592" CreationDate="2015-11-05T13:03:45.773" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be a reference to the astronomical phenomena of galaxies moving away from us at unbelievable speeds, they are said to be &quot;redshifted.&quot; The light from the side moving away takes longer to reach us than the side moving towards us &quot;blueshifted.&quot; The Doppler effect (sound) is similar. So I assume they needed a new color to describe just how fast Spaceball One was really going&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27509" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-11-05T22:12:19.693" LastActivityDate="2015-11-05T22:12:19.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43120" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-05T16:58:41.360" Score="4" ViewCount="281" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching &lt;em&gt;The Last Man On Earth&lt;/em&gt; S02E05 and I was assuming it was the body of Gordon (Will Ferrell) from episode 1 in the fridge the whole time and Todd was doing cannibalism but then it was revealed that the contents of the fridge was bacon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I want to know whether this wrong assumption (cannibalism) was the writers' intention through the episode or was it just my sick psychopathic(!) imagination?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27514" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-05T17:25:27.907" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T09:57:55.390" Title="The Last Man On Earth Plot Trick" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-last-man-on-earth|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35402" CreationDate="2015-11-05T21:11:51.827" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering these are not real T-Rex or Raptors (in universe, states to have been manipulated to fit the public imagination of what dinosaurs &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt; look like), not knowing how much they are manipulated, them not being natural competitors due to time periods, etc, the simplest answer is that we can't tell. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now ignoring that, we can guess based on modern day animal behavior. There are many animals, prey, predators, or even apex predators that will occasionally team up for various reasons. Even ones that will normally be aggressive and fiercely territorial. One pair that is typically documented are bears and wolves (very apt analog for Rex and Raptor). When environmental pressures are relaxed, they will not attack each other unless needed. They will even share a meal (insert picture of wolves and bears eating a beached whale here). A mutual enemy, when retreat is not an option, would be reason enough to team-up, in a anthropomorphic sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also plenty of instances of normally aggressive animals raising the young of others, or becoming friends in both domesticated and wild situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the movie, it can be boiled down to &quot;You're no threat and I'm not hungry&quot; on the T-Rex side, and &quot;Your too big for me, your not attacking, and I'm not hungry&quot; for the Raptor. Mutual disinterest as opposed to &quot;respect&quot; or any typically human emotion. The main consideration being threat, almost wholly dependent on size. A lone tiny Raptor is to a Rex like a Chihuahua to a Human. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-11-05T21:11:51.827" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43126" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43142" CreationDate="2015-11-06T03:21:47.613" Score="10" ViewCount="1300" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of the new James Bond film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2379713/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spectre&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2015), we see Bond and an anonymous girl go into a hotel room.  Right at it looks like they're about to begin a romantic interlude, he turns to go.  She asks where he's going, and he says... something brief that I couldn't quite catch, and then he heads off to do spy stuff and get the plot rolling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was Bond's first line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2023" LastEditorUserId="16465" LastEditDate="2016-12-29T22:28:08.807" LastActivityDate="2016-12-29T22:28:08.807" Title="What is Bond's first line in Spectre?" Tags="|dialogue|james-bond|spectre|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43136" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43053" CreationDate="2015-11-06T12:18:23.373" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not 100% sure but could it be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399146/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;History of Violence&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When a pair of petty criminals attempt to rob his small-town diner, Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) quickly and easily kills them both. In the flush of news coverage of Tom's seemingly heroic actions, a threatening stranger named Carl Fogarty (Ed Harris) comes to town, fingering the unassuming family man as long-missing Philadelphia mobster Joey Cusack. To the horror of his wife, Edie (Maria Bello), and teenage son, Jack (Ashton Holmes), Tom finds he must confront his violent past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot recall the scene with the planes as it has been a while since I watched however, he runs a business and two people try to hurt one of the waitresses and he protects her but ends up killing the two criminals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then another person arrives claiming that the hero used to be a professional killer is the past?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25625" LastActivityDate="2015-11-06T12:18:23.373" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36707" CreationDate="2015-11-06T13:15:20.927" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This isn't sourced or anything (although I don't think that the director is the source of all the meaning or anything), but I always thought that that was one of the parts that were drawing attention to the movie's &quot;movie-ness.&quot; The background in cars is one of those things in older movies that always looks off, whenever I'm watching an old movie and they're having a conversation in a car, it always jars me out of the story and reminds me that I'm watching a movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The French New Wave people saw that this was an interesting thing to have happen, to get jolted out of the story. It reminds you to think more about what everyone is doing to make the movie, that a movie is a false thing, plus Marxist stuff. Tarantino's moviemaking is always about the history of moviemaking -- he wants you to watch for that kind of stuff; it's part of the fun to him. By taking one of the things in standard movies (ones that strive for realism, so you can get lost in the characters, plot, and theme) that often fails and &quot;lean in&quot; to that failure, make it &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; obviously faked, he's trying to show the viewer how to watch the movie. Namely, don't forget that it's a movie, made up by people (the name of the movie is &lt;em&gt;Pulp Fiction,&lt;/em&gt; after all).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The black and white scene in &lt;em&gt;Kill Bill,&lt;/em&gt; according to something I saw, wasn't planned -- the movie had too much blood and was risking an NC-17 rating, which wasn't wanted by Tarantino or Miramax. By making the one part black and white, apparently the realism level dropped enough to get it by. This is also the reason that the other scene involving O-ren Ishii's childhood was done in anime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those practical reasons, though, don't mean you can't find other meanings in there, of course. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27530" LastActivityDate="2015-11-06T13:15:20.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43138" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43174" CreationDate="2015-11-06T14:00:42.950" Score="1" ViewCount="1354" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw all 5 currently released episodes of Season 2 from &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt; and got a few questions. Answers to any of my questions will be helpful, some questions might not have been explained but if I missed some parts and if they answer my questions then please help me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have seen the singularity brought Jay Garrick to this Earth without his powers, so &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How is Zoom able to come to Barry's Earth with power?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If any channel exists between the two Earths, then why is only one way travel shown?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How does Zoom know about the speedster on Earth-One (Barry's world)?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How did Earth-Two's Harrison know about Mercury Labs and why does he steal an unknown device?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If Zoom is so powerful then why is he sending meta-humans to kill Flash rather than coming himself?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-02T06:48:40.620" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T06:48:40.620" Title="How do the singularity breaches works in The Flash?" Tags="|plot-explanation|arrowverse|the-flash|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-11-19T14:21:21.687" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43126" CreationDate="2015-11-06T14:30:50.760" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The line is;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;...Won't be long&quot;, before walking out onto the terrace/rooftop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2015-11-06T14:30:50.760" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43145" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43147" CreationDate="2015-11-06T17:10:29.280" Score="7" ViewCount="1633" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching the movie &quot;American Sniper&quot;, In the first 30 minutes scene ,when Chris Kyle is observing the Afghan woman and child carrying Russian Grenade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a number chart pasted on his rifle,&#xA;What is it for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y0ssY.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y0ssY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16201" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-11-06T17:14:52.330" LastActivityDate="2015-11-06T17:37:27.387" Title="What is number chart on sniper rifle?" Tags="|analysis|american-sniper|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43145" CreationDate="2015-11-06T17:37:27.387" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;A pre-calculated sight adjustment chart for the rifle/scope reticule (and presumably ammunition). &lt;em&gt;Range and Windage&lt;/em&gt; adjustments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19595" LastActivityDate="2015-11-06T17:37:27.387" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43138" CreationDate="2015-11-06T20:18:20.643" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is hard and the only answer I can think of (this answer is my theory) is that Jay was hit with something that made him lose his powers. So, this will be unlikely to happen to anyone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One way travel is show only too the main characters. When the original singularity took place the probably would have been tons of stuff that went to earth two. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well this could be a major idea for the season. One idea is time travel to when they have already started fighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mercury labs of earth two. The weapon wouldn't have been unknown as he and the owner if Mercury labs would have got along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We will find out. Caitlyn will probably  ask the question herself sometime next episode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27541" LastActivityDate="2015-11-06T20:18:20.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43138" CreationDate="2015-11-06T20:27:38.963" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm fairly certain that in the last episode (11/3/15) Jay said that his powers were taken by Zoom. He tells Barry that he could die fighting Zoom or worse, lose his powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as point 4 goes, I'd be willing to bet there is a Mercury Labs on Earth 2. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27542" LastActivityDate="2015-11-06T20:27:38.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43154" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-06T23:40:36.477" Score="7" ViewCount="2128" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout the movie &quot;Gone Girl&quot;, there is an orange house cat that appears in numerous scenes. Is this some kind of symbolism?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26391" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-06T23:49:53.287" LastActivityDate="2016-12-06T15:57:09.117" Title="What is the significance of the cat in the movie &quot;Gone Girl&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|gone-girl|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43155" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-07T00:07:52.657" Score="1" ViewCount="589" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the black egg on House's desk a reference to Tesla's '&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Egg of Columbus&lt;/a&gt;'? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FgZEZ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FgZEZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;dr House office stuff meaning &quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;e &#xA;Image from &lt;a href=&quot;http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/18/article-1267059-000C5BD5000004B0-834_468x300.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27545" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-08T02:40:21.747" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T09:23:10.680" Title="Is the black egg on House's desk a reference to Tesla's 'Egg of Columbus'?" Tags="|props|house|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43161" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-07T04:07:32.617" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-07T04:07:32.617" LastActivityDate="2015-11-07T04:07:32.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43162" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-07T04:07:32.617" Score="0" Body="The 1999 film &quot;Office Space&quot; was written and directed by Mike Judge and starred Ron Livingston and Jennifer Aniston." OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-11-07T13:33:24.297" LastActivityDate="2015-11-07T13:33:24.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31486" CreationDate="2015-11-07T06:40:44.317" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;once his mother paid someone to be friends with him and dave was asked to say something nice about him. Maybe that reminded him of that and led him to shoot dave. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27555" LastActivityDate="2015-11-07T06:40:44.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39714" CreationDate="2015-11-07T11:44:17.337" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering the plot tells us that they would have to work together to win, we can conclude this decision was made because in the film there are more than one hero (Brenner, Eddie and Ludlow at least). The only way to play Pac-Man as a team is being ghosts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Extrapolating, this also could be an alien strategy considering that the original ghosts has a known pattern (at least for Brenner, who always played considering the game patterns). Playing as ghosts would be something new to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27420" LastActivityDate="2015-11-07T11:44:17.337" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43170" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43238" CreationDate="2015-11-07T15:33:56.700" Score="5" ViewCount="8880" Body="&lt;p&gt;The people of TWD seems worry about basic things like food, water and shelter. However, I can't see the same concern about ammunition. I understand the show don't need to be realistic (it's fiction), but considering the world in which they live they should be more concerned about the ammunition (and stop to waste).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They use guns when should use melee attack (e.g. have few walkers or should avoid noise)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shooting in full-auto instead semi (walkers are slow and it gives more precision for a headshot)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is: where do they find so much ammunition and how they can carry? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if they found a lot of ammo in the runs, it should be hard to carry (a large amount of ammunition is a lot of weight to carry in the back). Also, they are not the only ones seeking ammunition and over time should become more scarce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27420" LastActivityDate="2016-04-04T11:44:52.207" Title="Infinite ammo in &quot;The Walking Dead&quot;" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43171" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30933" CreationDate="2015-11-07T16:30:25.213" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering they have a pact with the other station, the route should be familiar to them. Briggs really confirms that saying &quot;&lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; helicopter&quot; when talking through the radio with his base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They approach the car with caution because the body outside the car: a man with a gun in his hand and a bullet in the head (he killed himself). Briggs looked inside the car and saw a woman and a kid dead in the same way (probably a family). The surprise could be because they didn't expect to find these bodies there, only an empty car. This family should be &quot;survivors&quot; from the other station which reached that place but couldn't walk anymore (e.g. too tired, no food, no water, no shelter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27420" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-11-07T18:05:53.237" LastActivityDate="2015-11-07T18:05:53.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43173" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-07T18:47:21.847" Score="10" ViewCount="4602" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's now a common trope of the genre, whether it's getting kicked off the island or being told &quot;You're fired!&quot; but somebody had to have come up with this first. Who created the episode-ending elimination ceremony?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27563" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-11-07T19:33:20.190" LastActivityDate="2019-03-12T13:15:26.583" Title="Which was the first reality competition TV program that used the now common format of eliminating one contestant each episode?" Tags="|first-appearance|reality-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43138" CreationDate="2015-11-07T18:56:42.730" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We have seen the singularity brought Jay Garrick to this Earth without his powers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No we haven't. Nothing about the singularity was stated to take powers away. We later hear Jay say Zoom took his powers, which he later admitted was a lie, and that he lost his powers due to using a speed enhancing formula similar to Velocity-6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How is Dr. Zoom able to come to Barry's earth with power?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See above. Also, just &quot;Zoom&quot;, not called Dr. Zoom in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If any channel exists between the two earths, then why is only one way travel shown?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main singularity allowed two way travel. Zoom is obviously returning to Earth 2 as well. The scoobies had to stabilize the singularity in Star Labs to allow travel to Earth 2 using the Speed Cannon, so the same needs to be done on that end, for normal people.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They sent Grood and the Trickster's Bombs via the Speed Cannon. Zoom can jump through breeches without issue and without a Speed Cannon, likely due to his faster speed, unlike Barry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How does Dr. Zoom know about this speedster on earth-one (Barry's world)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not explained yet. Tune in next week(s). Likely he did the same as Jay and Wells-2, and did surveillance/research. Or picked up a newspaper. Most likely, he used Earth-2 Cisco, the villainous Reverb, to find out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How did Harry (earth-two) know about Mercury Labs and why does he steal an unknown device?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not explained yet. Tune in next week(s). Likely, Mercury Labs exists on Earth-2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If Doctor Zoom is so powerful then why is he sending meta-humans to kill Flash rather than coming himself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Explained in the Christmas episode:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Zoom wants to fatten Barry up like a Speed-Force Turkey before taking his power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-27T23:54:34.597" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T23:54:34.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42601" CreationDate="2015-11-07T19:16:04.720" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The TV Piper is neither a meta with uncontrolled powers, or a career criminal. His motivation revolved around Wells hiding that he knew about the Accelerator explosion. And once Wells announced his involvement with the Accelerator explosion, he moved on to his only other leverage, attacking the only other thing Well's cares about, Barry/The Flash. He lost, and knows that he won't be able to beat him in the future, a chess metaphor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then uses Cisco by baiting knowledge on Ronnie to escape. Cisco releases him from the makeshift prison, and takes him to Barry's Lab at the police department, where he makes good on his info, but then escapes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike Captain Cold and Heat Wave, who make the news often as career criminals out for a buck (with the Flash's &quot;Do Not Kill&quot; consent), Rathaway's only motivation is Wells. With Flash around, he can't get to him, so he stays away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But once Wells dies, his entire motivation for crime/vengeance is gone. He has no reason to come back. He's a minor secondary villain that would not make sense to write back in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; The previews for the Season 2 episode 17 to be aired on 3/29 shows that Rathaway may be back, either in present time or in a flashback, or via time travel shenanigans. Maybe they will explain his absence in the last year. The episode title being &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Flash Back&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; means likely not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update 2: Spoiler Alert&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Rathaway had new lines in the past, and the show pulled a major retcon courtesy of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Time Travel Shenanigans&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Rathaway is no longer evil, or gone. An undisclosed amount of changes have happened, but Hartley's &lt;em&gt;little project&lt;/em&gt; line implies he's not a regular member of Team &lt;strike&gt;Scooby&lt;/strike&gt; Flash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-03-30T08:14:38.943" LastActivityDate="2016-03-30T08:14:38.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43173" CreationDate="2015-11-07T19:24:55.477" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show most commonly &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thewrap.com/spot-expedition-robinson-shows-changed-tv-25287/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;known&lt;/a&gt; as the first reality competition where a contestant is eliminated in each episode is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_Robinson&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Expedition Robinson&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the Swedish predecessor of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_%28U.S._TV_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Survivor&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, that first aired in 1997. From Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Expedition Robinson is a Swedish reality television program in which contestants are put into survival situations, and a voting process eliminates one person each episode until a winner is determined. The format [then called &lt;em&gt;Survive!&lt;/em&gt;] was developed in 1994 by Charlie Parsons for a United Kingdom TV production company called Planet 24, but the Swedish debut in 1997 was the first production to actually make it to television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After its success in Sweden (the first season finale was watched by &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1346936.stm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;half of the Swedish population&lt;/a&gt;), the US bought the format and called it &lt;em&gt;Survivor&lt;/em&gt;. The rest is history: &lt;em&gt;Survivor&lt;/em&gt; turned in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/most-watched-shows-of-the-decade/2/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;huge ratings&lt;/a&gt;, became an international hit and its success and profitability pioneered the era of reality television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[However, the genre did not have a smooth start. It's worth noting the first person who was voted off &lt;em&gt;Expedition Robinson&lt;/em&gt; (and consequently, the first contestant ever eliminated from a reality competition) &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_Robinson_1997&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;took his own life&lt;/a&gt; a month later.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-11-07T20:10:50.267" LastActivityDate="2015-11-07T20:10:50.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27088" CreationDate="2015-11-07T19:39:42.430" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;All events of the film suggest that it is the spirit of Mia walking around the hospital. She's stuck there until decides whether to stay or not. At a certain point, when she almost give up, her heartbeat slows down (the hospital equipment warns). At that moment she was sure she could make the decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27420" LastActivityDate="2015-11-07T19:39:42.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43179" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43272" CreationDate="2015-11-07T20:35:43.527" Score="35" ViewCount="33242" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the season 2 episode of &lt;em&gt;Rick and Morty&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&quot;Total Rickall&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, there is an alien parasite that disguises itself by implanting false memories in people's minds. The first parasite to be revealed is Uncle Steve (who has never appeared in the show), when Rick shoots him. The audience is then led to believe that Mr Poopy-Butthole, who has also never appeared in the show before, is also a parasite. This becomes more evident as more parasites start to appear in the quarantined house. By the end of the episode, the family have killed all the parasites, leaving only themselves and Mr Poopy-Butthole. Then Beth shoots Mr Poopy-Butthole, believing him to be a parasite, but it turns out that he was real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Mr Poopy-Butthole is real, and Uncle Steve is dead, who or what was the original parasite?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5318" LastEditorUserId="5318" LastEditDate="2017-02-21T02:47:10.690" LastActivityDate="2017-02-26T03:00:23.927" Title="Who was the original parasite in Total Rickall?" Tags="|plot-explanation|rick-and-morty|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4470" CreationDate="2015-11-08T00:24:32.463" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is totally possible to tell the difference between Borden and Fallon.  I was watching the movie today and noticed that Fallon has a small nick in his left eyebrow whereas Borden does not.  At any point in the movie that has a reasonably close shot of the characters left side you can tell whether it is Borden or Fallon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27569" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T00:24:32.463" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10190" CreationDate="2015-11-08T00:30:06.307" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She was Rosemary's predecessor and died because she didn't want to take part in the ritual.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other answers already pointed out the Tannis root charm that Terry was wearing (and that is later given to Rosemary) and her story about the Castevets picking her up from the street and caring for her. So it is strongly hinted that she was raised by them to conveive and carry Satan's child, as Rosemary was later on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is a slightly more direct allusion to her actual death and its reasons, even if we (as well as Rosemary) might at first not be able to draw the connection as clearly. In the night of Terry's death, Rosemary has a slightly strange dream about a nun arguing with a priest, actually impersonated by the Castevets, and the nun argues that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you' d listened we wouldn't have had to do this! We'd have been set to go now instead of having to start from scratch! I told you not to tell her in advance! I told you she wouldn't be open-minded! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What actually happens here is that &lt;strong&gt;Rosemary hears the real Castevets arguing through the walls&lt;/strong&gt; (it has been clarified multiple times that the walls are a bit thin and she can sometimes hear their chants) and she builds the dialogue and persons she hears right into her dream, in which they make as few of a sense as the rest of the dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But from this dialogue it is clear that &lt;strong&gt;Roman tried to let Terry in on the outrageous plan they had for her, but she didn't want to take part in it which resulted in her death.&lt;/strong&gt; It is not entirely clear, though, if she actually committed suicide (maybe because she already did conceive the baby) or if she just tried to escape through the window and it was an accident. But what is clear is that her death is a direct consequence of the Castevets telling her about their ritual. So it does set the whole story in motion in so much that from then on the Castevets turn their efforts towards Rosemary (and in fact the next moring Minnie first approaches Rosemary), this time keeping everything secret (at least from her). Without Terry dying, there wouldn't even have been a need for involving the Woodhouses at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T00:30:06.307" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33928" CreationDate="2015-11-08T00:43:25.617" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Same question as to why the Taliban manage to kill highly trained, highly equipped Western soldiers in Afghanistan. They know the city/country, they are the people and blend in, they do not operate as a &quot;solider&quot; was trained to deal with. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27570" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T00:43:25.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42692" CreationDate="2015-11-08T02:38:41.590" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The tune is a piece of production music called Holiday Playtime, written by Cedric King-Palmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0658150/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0658150/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27575" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T02:38:41.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42860" CreationDate="2015-11-08T04:02:14.520" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you are referring to the 2015 Bond flick, &lt;em&gt;Spectre&lt;/em&gt;, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The facility in the crater had plenty of heavy duty storage or processing tanks, pipes, pumps, etc.  It seems to be a chemical processing plant or maybe something related to petroleum, though its location in a meteorite crater is quite odd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The facility explodes because, just as Bond and Dr. Madeleine Swann are about to run away and miraculously outrun the explosion, Bond fires a single shot from a firearm he took off a henchman after he escaped.  The shot is at a pressure gauge on one of the pipes.  The facility appears to have no fire or explosion suppression design and so the little explosion on the gauge sets off a chain reaction of explosions on every piece of the rest of the facility.  Even the (presumably) non-explosive data centers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stylistically, it is a return to Bond movies of the 1960s and 1970s where the bad guys have a huge facility with hundreds of co-conspiring workers doing the evil work of aspiring world domination.  And always, Bond makes the huge facility catastrophically explode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T04:02:14.520" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43199" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43299" CreationDate="2015-11-08T05:07:09.123" Score="12" ViewCount="6384" Body="&lt;p&gt;The opening scene in 2015's &lt;em&gt;Spectre&lt;/em&gt; has a long continuous sequence which, as an amateur filmmaker, is difficult to figure out how it might have been done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The movie begins as an apparent crane shot over a Mexico City Day-of-the-dead parade.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The camera slowly comes down to shoulder level while tracking a male/female couple in costume and masks walking against the parade toward the camera, then past it, and the camera follows them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They walk into a hotel and then an elevator with the camera following into the elevator.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The elevator goes up a few floors, opens, and the camera backs out of the elevator.  The couple follows the camera then transitions to walking ahead a few steps to a room, open it, and walk through.  The camera follows them in (oddly closing the door for them as neither of them do).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The couple takes off masks, there is some conversation between them as the woman goes into the bathroom and comes back to find, now clearly Bond, in street clothes with an equipment case.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bond climbs out the window and the camera follows through the window, then leads as he walks along old building ledges, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The camera climbs now evidently flying as there are openings several stories high below it.  Bond walks several blocks on rooftops past the camera until he gets to his vantage point across from a building full of bad guys.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The sequence finally has a jump cut to look into the bad guy building and then back to Bond.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose with a $200+ million budget, they would think nothing of post-producing a montage of shots into a smooth, continuous flow.  But I can't help wonder if they really did it in one shot, transitioning from quadcopter to steadicam and back for the shot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-11T11:31:31.517" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T12:26:35.647" Title="How was pre-title opening in Spectre shot?" Tags="|film-techniques|james-bond|cinematography|spectre|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43200" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-08T07:29:56.370" Score="8" ViewCount="5517" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Black Books episode &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0526549/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fever&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, the characters are complaining that the temperature might get all the way up to 88 degrees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're in the UK, so I'd assume they mean 88 C, but that's ridiculously hot -- nearly hot enough to boil water.  88 F is actually a rather nice temperature for the summertime.  88 K is...even less hot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some joke I'm missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14171" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-11-08T15:58:17.557" LastActivityDate="2017-06-21T14:03:47.543" Title="What's the problem with the temperature getting to 88 degrees?" Tags="|plot-explanation|black-books|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43200" CreationDate="2015-11-08T08:45:17.147" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia knows the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Black_Books_episodes&quot;&gt;List of Black Book Episodes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Fever&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A heat wave sweeps London, causing Bernard to obsess about beautiful girls and to seek a &quot;Summer Girlfriend&quot;, Fran to suffer from insomnia, &lt;strong&gt;and Manny to panic about his 'Dave's Syndrome', a curious condition that purportedly triggers at 88°F (31°C)&lt;/strong&gt;. Naturally, Bernard refuses to believe a word of Manny's &quot;attention seeking nonsense&quot; and tries to get Manny as hot as possible. Fran discovers the walls of her flat are literally closing in as her unscrupulous landlord creates another flat from the stolen space. Bernard pretends to be her lawyer in an attempt to rectify the situation but quickly falls for the new lodger, Summer Girl Alice. At the end of this episode, Bernard asks Fran when they will admit they are deeply attracted to each other. Fran replies, 'only when one of us is dead', and Manny's condition triggers, with disastrous consequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_diseases&quot;&gt;List of fictional diseases&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dave's Syndrome&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A condition which is known to affect Manny, it is triggered by being exposed to a temperature of at least 88°F (31°C). While the exact effects of the disease are not described, a scene at the end of the episode shows the results — Manny is driven to madness and totally ransacks the area outside the shop, before using a hot water bottle as a loincloth, grabbing a flaming torch and painting &quot;EAT ME&quot; on his stomach, whilst jumping on the roof of an abandoned car. Bernard dismisses it as &quot;attention-seeking rubbish&quot; throughout the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22723" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T08:45:17.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43155" CreationDate="2015-11-08T09:23:10.680" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/14641/16465&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; answer to the question &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/12579/16465&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why does House have an old TV in his office?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is no particular significance to any item in his office or apartment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T09:23:10.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43170" CreationDate="2015-11-08T18:27:17.947" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you were to compare our world to theirs, I would think that most of the ammunition would come from sheriff/police stations, gun stores, houses in which people stocked up, supermarkets, military armories/bases, gun ranges. If you think about our world, there is ammunition everywhere. While there is a also an abundance of food everywhere you look in our world, in TWD world most of this food has spoiled, eaten by animals, etc. Ammo doesn't really go bad, so it is still abundant especially since there are fewer of the living to fire a weapon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to couple real examples in the show (via &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Season 1 showed Rick going to his sheriff's station for supplies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;S3E01 Seed: They find the prison and with it some supplies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;S3E12 Clear: Rick, Carl and Michonne go on a supply run to Ricks hometown, initially to his old police station for more weapons. In this episode they also come across Morgan, who has stock piled weapons and ammunition in an apartment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are just a couple of examples, and as for how they are able to carry it? I've seen the characters share ammunition with each other, so I assume everyone carries some on them when they travel. Ammo is heavy, but that doesn't seem to be a concern for the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27592" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T18:27:17.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43210" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43211" CreationDate="2015-11-08T22:30:25.207" Score="9" ViewCount="4422" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw the movie &quot;Vacation&quot; (2015) on DirecTv last night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I consider the new movie to be a sequel to the original film (National Lampoon's Vacation, 1983), since the plot revolves around the character Rusty who is the son of the character named Clark (played by Chevy Chase in the original; he has a minor role in this new movie).  Rusty is now grown up with a family of his own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I have been seeing many references to the new movie being called either a reboot or remake. That just seems wrong. At least I know it's not a prequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I consider sequels to be several movies in chronological order; examples are &quot;Rocky&quot; through &quot;Rocky ∞&quot;; and &quot;Star Wars IV&quot; followed by the prequels &quot;Star Wars I&quot; through &quot;Star Wars III&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, remakes generally apply to a single movie, and reboots to a series. In both cases, they start over from scratch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples of remakes include &quot;Psycho&quot;, &quot;Cape Fear&quot;, and &quot;Total Recall&quot;.  A reboot indicates a complete overhaul of the original material; examples are &quot;Planet of the Apes&quot;, &quot;Superman&quot; and &quot;Batman&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second through fourth films in the &quot;Terminator&quot; series were all sequels.  I had considered the most recent one, &quot;Terminator Genisys&quot; to be a reboot (because of the alternate timeline) but a couple of commenters have challenged that.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the overall storyline is similar to the original (the Griswolds go on vacation to Walley World), the new film is not a remake (IMO) since it skips to the next generation of the family (so this film and the previous one can comfortably co-exist), and has almost all new scenes -- the one exception being the girl in the Ferrari.  It is also not a reboot, again since it takes place after the original film and is consistent with the esarlier one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is how the critics weighed in on this; I disagree with all but the last two:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/national-lampoons-vacation-reboot-first-griswold-family-pic-2015144&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;US Weekly&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/vacation-movie-reboot-casting-leslie-mann/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Screenrant&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://screencrush.com/vacation-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SlashFilm&lt;/a&gt; all call it a&#xA;reboot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inquisitr.com/2072851/national-lampoons-vacation-reboot-and-sequel-gets-first-red-band-trailer-walley-world-here-we-come/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Inquisitr&lt;/a&gt; says it's reboot and a sequel.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-vacation-movie-review-reboot-ed-helms-20150728-column.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chicago Tribune&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mediaite.com/online/former-national-lampoon-editor-craps-all-over-vacation-remake/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mediaite&lt;/a&gt; say remake.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/vacation-review-part-sequel-part-remake-and-entirely-a-waste-of-time/2015/07/28/beb0e64a-3219-11e5-97ae-30a30cca95d7_story.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Washington Post&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2015/07/vacation_review_sequel-slash-r.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MLive&lt;/a&gt; both call it a sequel and&#xA;remake.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://screencrush.com/vacation-review/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ScreenCrush&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Vacation-Sequel-Coming-Way-Sooner-Than-Expected-70613.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;CinemaBlend&lt;/a&gt; seem to agree with me that it&#xA;is simply a sequel.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="325" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-03-07T12:43:47.470" LastActivityDate="2017-03-07T12:43:47.470" Title="Is the movie &quot;Vacation&quot; (2015) a sequel, reboot, or remake?" Tags="|vacation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43210" CreationDate="2015-11-08T22:49:48.523" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/2015/07/25/424643616/back-to-walley-world-the-griswolds-go-on-vacation-again&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;NPR interview&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Vacation's] Co-writers and co-directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein say the R-rated movie is &lt;strong&gt;not a reboot or a remake, but very much a sequel.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We've been very clear from the get-go, even with the studio, that we had no interest in trying to remake the movie that National Lampoon made in the '80s 'cause it's just so good that we wouldn't wanna tamper with it. It just works,&amp;quot; Jonathan Goldstein tells NPR's Arun Rath. &amp;quot;And so we felt it was organic to bring it to the next generation.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's also safe to say what it &lt;em&gt;isn't&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reboot_%28fiction%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Reboot:]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; In serial fiction, to reboot means to discard all continuity in an established series in order to recreate its characters, timeline and backstory from the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;em&gt;Vacation&lt;/em&gt; does not discard all previous continuity. It is not a reboot. A &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remake&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;remake&lt;/a&gt;'s definition is a bit looser (it's basically any reimagining of a source material), but this is not a shot-for-shot remake. It contains a few callbacks to the original film (like the red Ferrari scene) but also different characters, scenarios, locations and dialogue. So if the creators say that this is a sequel, I'll take their word for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-08T23:17:15.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43215" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43217" CreationDate="2015-11-09T02:07:42.547" Score="24" ViewCount="21675" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the director is in front of the camera, who will say those words to start a movie shot? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who will say &quot;start camera action&quot; when the director casts himself in the main role?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27605" LastEditorUserId="5764" LastEditDate="2015-11-09T15:00:59.633" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T09:03:18.783" Title="Who will say &quot;start camera action&quot; when the director casts himself in the main role?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43215" CreationDate="2015-11-09T03:12:52.470" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;No one says the phrase &quot;Lights, Camera, Action&quot; any more. But, to answer your question, the First &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant_director&quot;&gt;Assistant Director&lt;/a&gt; (1st AD) is in charge of the set when the Director is otherwise occupied and, in fact, is usually the one who calls the shot to order (other than calling &quot;action&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the 1st AD's most important responsibilities is to &quot;call the roll&quot; — that is, call out a series of specific cues for each take to ensure that all cast and crew on set are aware of exactly what is going on so they can perform their particular role at the appropriate moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The minimum commonly used set of phrases for &quot;calling the roll&quot; is generally called as follows (a longer list is available on the linked Wikipedia article):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;1st Assistant Director: &lt;em&gt;Quiet on Set! Roll sound.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sound Recordist: &lt;em&gt;Sound speeds./Speeding.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;1st AD: &lt;em&gt;Roll camera.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Camera Operator/s or Cinematographer: &lt;em&gt;Camera speeds./Rolling.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the 2nd Assistant Camera (2nd AC) will slate with the clapper board and call out the current scene and take numbers eg: Scene 45 take 5. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[clapper is clapped to allow the syncing of the audio and video media]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Camera Op/s Cinematographer will say &quot;Set&quot; when their camera is in position and focused properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Director or 1st AD: &lt;em&gt;Action.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the take is complete &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Director or 1st AD (or possibly camera op): &lt;em&gt;Cut.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T03:12:52.470" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43218" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43210" CreationDate="2015-11-09T03:39:23.670" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a matter of terminology, &lt;em&gt;Vacation&lt;/em&gt; is a sequel. The terms you use can be easily defined to differentiate them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sequel&lt;/strong&gt; A film/show dealing with, or connected to the events of the primary film/show. Continuity between the two are intact. A &lt;strong&gt;Prequel&lt;/strong&gt; falls under this, continuity wise.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Remake&lt;/strong&gt; A film retelling the same story as the previous version. Slight changes, update to time period, new actors. Continuity is not intact between them, but nothing is really changed, as the same story is told.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reboot&lt;/strong&gt; A film using the same characters, but most often not the same story. All continuity is discarded. Single movie reboots do exist (Fantastic Four, Superman Returns).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spin Off&lt;/strong&gt; A film that takes a single thread or character of the primary film, and develops its own, unconnected plot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vacation&lt;/em&gt; not only directly references the events of &lt;em&gt;National Lampoon's Vacation&lt;/em&gt;, the entire plot is put into motion by it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-09T07:54:15.973" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T07:54:15.973" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43221" CreationDate="2015-11-09T03:40:25.843" Score="8" ViewCount="17915" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the world was saved and temporary peace occurred, what is implied when Rorschach's journal (he left it before he's going to deal with Adrian Veidt) is found?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-11-09T05:25:10.840" LastActivityDate="2019-01-30T04:51:47.033" Title="Significance of Rorschach's journal at the end of The Watchmen" Tags="|plot-explanation|watchmen|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43220" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43247" CreationDate="2015-11-09T04:37:31.970" Score="6" ViewCount="3873" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Family Guy episode &quot;Pilling them Softly&quot;, Brian and Stewie go to a book fair where they meet George RR Martin. Who voiced the character? Was it Martin himself, or a different voice actor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26893" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-11-09T05:24:06.853" LastActivityDate="2018-05-27T09:28:19.630" Title="In Family Guy, who voiced GRR Martin?" Tags="|family-guy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43219" CreationDate="2015-11-09T06:42:08.037" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As Dr Manhatten says &quot;Nothing ever ends&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of Watchmen, Rorschach is dead, and the others have agreed to keep silent on Veidt's plan for peace, that millions have died for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The journal has all Rorschach's notes, says whatever happens Veidt is responsible and ends with Nite Owl and Rorschach heading for Antarctica.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The danger is the New Frontiersman editor (who is fed up of the peace with Russia already) will read it (as Seymour is about to bring it over), put two and two together, and expose the secret, probably heading the world back to Armageddon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It also raises the point of Rorschach's claim to never compromise &quot;&lt;strong&gt;even in the face of Armageddon&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; as although he looks like he's given in to peer pressure on Veidt by allowing Dr Manhattan to kill him, he has actually sacrificed himself to ensure the journal isn't stopped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastEditorUserId="70258" LastEditDate="2019-01-30T04:51:47.033" LastActivityDate="2019-01-30T04:51:47.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="43222" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43235" CreationDate="2015-11-09T07:53:35.013" Score="14" ViewCount="891" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I understand, modern film and audio are synced using SMPTE timecode which is embedded in the metadata of the respective source files.  Modern clappers also display the timecode, but they still have the clapper bar.  Is it really necessary to actually clap the clapper anymore?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25987" LastActivityDate="2020-03-04T13:54:15.350" Title="Is clapping the clapper just tradition at this point?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43219" CreationDate="2015-11-09T10:15:17.627" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me Rorschach's journal getting into the hands of the New Frontiersman is to raise a question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is it worth?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do 3 million people's lives mean nothing for achieving peace? Is the truth needed to be hidden? Was Rorschach's attempt before his death wrong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Rorschach's words:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rorschach&lt;/strong&gt;: Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So even after his death, his work was not done. Truth must be spoken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="55668" LastEditDate="2019-01-30T00:19:13.580" LastActivityDate="2019-01-30T00:19:13.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="43230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43210" CreationDate="2015-11-09T11:09:01.127" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, we're talking here about National Lampoon's franchise. So all questions about sequel/remake/reboot categorization are kinda moot by definition (but well-answered by others).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon_%28magazine%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;National Lampoon&lt;/a&gt; was a humor magazine than spawned &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Lampoon_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dozens&lt;/a&gt; or films. They are related - sometimes by characters, sometimes by location and sometimes just by a sense of humor - but it's rather loose relationship. Some, of course, are more tightly knit together (eg telling the saga of Griswold family), but categorizing them as sequels or spinoffs is very difficult. Just because relationships between them vary so much, you're forced into arbitrarily deciding between remake and reboot based on continuity inconsistencies - when creators never really cared about continuity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This particular example (Vacation 2015) is actually 5th(!) in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon&amp;#39;s_Vacation_%28film_series%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;National Lampoon Vacation&lt;/a&gt; sub-series. And it was originally indeed planned as a remake, but eventually during it's development it was turned into a proper sequel instead (hence Chevy Chase reprising Clark). So, not even creators of one film could really make up their minds, only adding into confusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You also need to take into account that reboots and remakes are very fashionable recently, so some people might incorrectly report sequels as re***s, just to make it sound more cool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11330" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T11:09:01.127" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43053" CreationDate="2015-11-09T14:39:29.300" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, I think I got it: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171841/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Traitor's Heart&lt;/a&gt; from 1999. From IMDb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nick Brody (Bryan Genesse), has been suffering from amnesia for five years. Nevertheless, he has a beautiful wife (Kimberly Kates) and an adoring son&lt;/strong&gt; who love him very much. While they are watching a fireworks display in New York City, their son wanders away, and they search frantically for him. Nick finds him and &lt;strong&gt;runs into a man who says that he knows him.&lt;/strong&gt; Grateful for the man's help in finding his son, Nick gives the guy his phone number and promises to buy him a beer. The next day a different guy calls and warns Nick that he must meet him or bad things will happen. &lt;strong&gt;Nick backs out of a fishing trip with his father and goes to his workplace where he earns his paycheck by working on helicopters.&lt;/strong&gt; The guy from the phone conversation shows up. Nick ignores most of what the guy says until the guy shows him a photograph of the helicopter crash that Nick survived. Now Nick has second thoughts about how he could have survived such a devastating crash. At that point, just as this stranger has gained a modicum of credibility in our hero's eyes, a helicopter hovers overhead and gunmen start firing bullets at them. &lt;strong&gt;The stranger scrambles onto his bus to drive away, only to catch a bullet in the back&lt;/strong&gt; and crash into a couple of parked planes. A massive fireball inferno destroys the guy and the cops treat Nick like an idiot. Nick wonders now if he were in the army, but his wife claims that he wasn't. Even Nick's creepy therapist tries to convince Nick otherwise. Eventually, &lt;strong&gt;Nick discovers that he was an elite military assassin and that the military tried to wash their hands of him.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His wife and dad turn out to be part of the conspiracy. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Sle17U4GdFE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T14:39:29.300" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43222" CreationDate="2015-11-09T16:09:03.367" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you can afford a timecode slate setup, no, it's not &lt;em&gt;necessary&lt;/em&gt;, though the action of clapping the slate can serve a couple of purposes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It is a small signal to the editor (well... usually his intern, anyway) that there is audio to look for. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On MOS takes (takes without sound), the slate is not clapped (because there's no sound) there's also usually (but not always) a spot on the slate that says &quot;MOS&quot; that gets circled to show there's no matching audio file.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a backup system. If, for some reason, the timecode encoding fails, having that slate clap can save you a lot of time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, the setup for a timecode slate can be expensive, particularly for small budget projects where a $300-2000 slate is half of... if not the entire... budget... and that doesn't include the cost of all of the timecode controllers/sync boxes that are needed to sync the audio and camera/s together. A full setup could easily cost $5000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are certainly cheaper options. In fact, there are a couple of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movie-slate.com/&quot;&gt;relatively reputable&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movie-slate.com/Timecode_Sync&quot;&gt;iPad apps&lt;/a&gt; that are being used on set so, if you've already dished out $400+ for an iPad/iPhone, you may have this option, but you still need to be able to sync the iPad with the audio equipment. Regardless, if you think about it, you can't clap an iPad, so clearly, it's unnecessary... though, you can certainly buy a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movie-slate.com/Clapper_Stick_iPad_Cases&quot;&gt;clapper case&lt;/a&gt; to go with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, for the peons who can't afford (or don't want to waste money on) a timecode slate, you buy a $10-50 plain old whiteboard slate and clap it to your heart's content.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;*I have never used any of the linked devices/apps and my inclusion of them should not be considered support of the product's quality&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T16:09:03.367" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43179" CreationDate="2015-11-09T16:11:05.673" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rick explains that the parasites survive and multiply by implanting fake memories into the heads of others.  We do not know if these parasites are in hiding, microscopic, or otherwise before they appear as physical manifestations; this is never explained, so we must make a few assumptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first parasite the audience is introduced to is &quot;Uncle Steve&quot;, who is quickly dealt with.  Since we are only shown non-parasitic characters until after the title sequence, we must infer that at least 1+ parasites are in hiding, waiting for an open cue to integrate themselves.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to the mechanics of the false memories, it is also possible any family member had already met 1+ parasites prior to breakfast with &quot;Uncle Steve&quot;, and is treating that encounter as natural, with the physical parasite hiding in a different room, waiting for an introduction to the audience later in the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second parasite the audience is introduced to is &quot;Cousin Nicky&quot;; he is created by Mr. Poopybutthole; this suggests that Mr. Poopybutthole is infected, and implies he may have encountered &quot;Cousin Nicky&quot; before breakfast with &quot;Uncle Steve&quot;.  &quot;Cousin Nicky&quot; is dispatched before another parasite appears.  &quot;Mr. Beauregard&quot; appears next, followed by dozens of others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As their method of genesis and disinfection is never explained, it is possible that any given parasite that appears is the first, and earlier parasites simply took the lead.  It can be inferred that &quot;Uncle Steve&quot; was first, and not being disinfected, the family either then generated &quot;Cousin Nicky&quot;, or &quot;Cousin Nicky&quot; (and subsequently &quot;Mr. Beauregard&quot;) were in hiding, waiting to be introduced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Truly, &lt;strong&gt;within the presented context of the episode, it is not possible to determine exactly which parasite was the &quot;original&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, or even who brought the parasites into the house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2015-11-09T22:19:27.330" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T22:19:27.330" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43170" CreationDate="2015-11-09T17:30:19.783" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you overestimate how often they use firearms, and exactly how much ammunition they need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is very little information on this in-universe so we must apply logic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;On firearm usage&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Numerous times throughout the show's run you hear Rick and others talk about conserving ammunition, using melee attacks (i.e. blades), and other forms of creative fighting to avoid using ammunition (e.g. luring them into the ravine in season 5).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Very few times do they use automatic or burst fire. The only times I remember this occurring were when the protagonists were being overrun: Shane during the school supply run, and Rick and Carl during the prison break-in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most often we see the protagonists using a revolver (Rick) and basic semiautomatic pistols or rifles (everyone else). Please be aware that not all rifles are automatic: in fact, most are not. Automatic weapons generate a lot of heat: an automatic rifle can actually deform its barrel if fired too much. This is why we have machine guns which are designed for the stress and heat of automatic fire, and I do not recall machine guns being used by Rick's group in the show. Just because you see a long arm in the show does not mean it is automatic: it is likely a semiautomatic rifle or shotgun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;On ammunition&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Walking Dead takes place in rural U.S.A., an area teeming with ammunition. But where is this ammunition?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic supply chain is ammunition is built in factories, shipped to gun stores and law enforcement offices, then sold or issued to individual users.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the impending apocalypse, it is reasonable to assume that people would stockpile ammunition and other supplies. It is natural to assume that as society falls apart, we would all need to defend our little islands of sanity from walkers and other living who want to take our stuff to survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So where is the ammunition? As supply chains stop, the bulk of the ammunition would be at gun stores and law enforcement offices. During civilization's final death throes, these would be dried out by survivors looting and pillaging what they can. Most ammunition would likely be in private caches in people's homes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;On supplying&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the show, one common theme we see is the protagonists looting almost every house they come across looking for food, potable water, guns and ammunition, and other supplies such as baby formula. The show glosses over many &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NobodyPoops&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mundane aspects of daily life&lt;/a&gt;, leading us to assume that unless otherwise mentioned, they have enough of the supplies they need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also do not underestimate the fact that the biggest threat is the other living, and they are armed: every living group that Rick's group kills is another opportunity to loot ammunition and other supplies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;On creating new ammunition&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During season 6, we see Eugene concoct plans to manufacture new ammunition. Once a group is large and stable enough, this &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be feasible. They would need:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spent casings. Anyone using firearms would need to pick them up off the floor (semiautomatic), potentially during times when they are focused on survival (i.e. not being eaten). This would be easier with revolvers such as Rick's, because they do not eject spent casings automatically.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A supply of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;lead&lt;/a&gt; (Eugene mentions this). Perhaps there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ingots&lt;/a&gt; laying around in abandoned factories or foundries, perhaps it would need to be mined (I am not walking into a dark abandoned mine during the zombie apocalypse!). It would not take much: a few hundred pounds of lead is reasonable to achieve in an ingot or two, and individual bullets are tiny.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundry&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A foundry&lt;/a&gt;. Basically, a facility that can generate enough heat to melt lead, 621.5°F. Your typical wood or propane fire probably cannot get that hot, but a foundry will have the proper tools to generate the heat assuming there is fuel. Lead actually has a low melting point compared to other metals (e.g. Iron melts at ​2,800°F) which is a positive thing when civilization grinds to a halt and people want to make bullets.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Forms.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Primers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Someone with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;metallurgy skills&lt;/a&gt;. Dealing with molten lead, pouring it into forms, etc. safely requires specialized knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone such as Eugene has metallurgy skills, comes across an ammunition factory, the factory has raw materials, is not pillaged or otherwise damaged such that it cannot operate, it would be an ideal scenario. Anything less would be a huge amount of work, perhaps insurmountably so. I believe the key is the raw materials: if people need to mine the lead that is a non-starter. As long as there are ingots (preferably) or even mined ore (needs &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smelting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;smelting&lt;/a&gt; and perhaps mechanical separation of ore and rock), that is a huge boost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the living population vastly reduced, there is likely plenty of ammunition for the remaining survivors. Ammunition is stored in places Rick's group is likely to loot anyway, making it easy to replenish as they go along: there is no need to stockpile thousands of rounds of various calibers. Since they kill the majority of the walkers using bladed and other melee weapons, they do not have a need for stockpiling (and carrying) tons of ammunition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9311" LastEditorDisplayName="user9311" LastEditDate="2016-04-04T11:44:52.207" LastActivityDate="2016-04-04T11:44:52.207" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43241" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-09T19:19:49.587" Score="1" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Confessions&quot; by Tetsuya Nakashima, what was Mizuki writing on her laptop before getting whacked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15730" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-18T22:45:42.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T22:45:42.057" Title="What was Mizuki writing on her PC in the movie &quot;Confessions&quot;?" Tags="|confessions|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12843" CreationDate="2015-11-09T19:27:05.327" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Resurrecting this discussion somewhat, the question is fairly valid because it is strongly implied by the Chechen mobster that the Joker has in fact been paid. The Chechen asks the Joker what he is going to do with all his money, which clearly it wouldn't be if the Joker had not been paid as yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the theory that the Joker got half the money by promising to split all the money between himself and the Chechen falls down when the Joker asks &quot;where's the Italian?&quot; and therefore clearly refers to Sal Maroni and expects that Maroni would have been there too. In fact Maroni knew where the Joker was going to be and was likely invited to the warehouse by the Joker as Maroni offered to tell Gordon the location of the Joker while Gordon was visiting Harvey Dent in the hospital (he tells Gordon &quot;you want him? I can tell you where he will be this afternoon&quot;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question remains, why was Joker even assumed to have been given half of the money by the Chechen mob boss when Batman was quite clearly not dead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only reason I can come up with is that it was a major plot hole in the story OR that it was intended that upon being contacted by the Mob after Lau's capture that the Joker changed the terms and wanted half of the money in return for capturing Lau and returning their money to them. After all by then the Mob would be at risk of losing all of their money unless Lau was recaptured and as Gordon notes, the Joker intended to be caught in order to get into the same lock-up as Lau. No Lau = No Money for the Mob. So it would seem logical that a more desparate Mob would agree to even harsher terms by the Joker (he may well have promised them the return of Lau only for the money and that in the process Batman may get killed - if so he would have remained non-committal on killing Batman especially as by then he probably had no desire to kill Batman anymore).,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suspect though that this was just a plot hole that may have been due to an oversight or to a backstory (like the one I postulated above) that wasn't properly explained in the film. Which is a pity because it would only have taken a few extra lines of dialogue to establish that there were new terms under which the Joker wanted half of the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27622" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T19:27:05.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43243" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43255" CreationDate="2015-11-09T20:11:10.090" Score="20" ViewCount="1253" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a movie about a year ago where there was a relatively simple shot of an SUV taking an off-ramp on a freeway. It only lasted a few seconds (5 - 10).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they went to commercial, they had one of those &lt;strong&gt;DVD on TV&lt;/strong&gt; or other clips where they show a &lt;strong&gt;Behind the Scenes&lt;/strong&gt; of the making of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was astounded to find that the shot was actually faked. Instead of having someone drive an SUV and have a camera in a helicopter (or, nowadays, a drone), they actually created a small scale replica of part of the city (similar to the pic below except simpler).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KBUBf.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KBUBf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Not the movie in question&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I could tell, this was only used for this one shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would they do this? Is it really cheaper to have someone build all the miniatures or is it just easier to control? Or does the studio have a miniature department so might as well use it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think the actual movie matters, as the &lt;strong&gt;Behind the Scenes&lt;/strong&gt; clip implied that this was normal - not extraordinary. That said, I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; the movie had Julianne Moore and possibly Nick Cage (&lt;strong&gt;Next&lt;/strong&gt;?). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18461" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2015-11-10T07:56:36.557" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T23:39:03.303" Title="Why fake (relatively) easy scenes?" Tags="|film-techniques|film-industry|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43220" CreationDate="2015-11-09T22:02:28.973" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There is no indication that it was the real George R. R. Martin&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have searched all of the relevant resources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/Pilling_Them_Softly&quot;&gt;Wikia Page for that episode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/George_R._R._Martin&quot;&gt;Wikia Page for the GRRM character&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilling_Them_Softly&quot;&gt;Wikipedia page for that episode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin&quot;&gt;George R. R. Martin's Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only indication we get is from &lt;a href=&quot;http://au.ign.com/articles/2015/09/28/family-guy-pilling-them-softly-review&quot;&gt;this IGN episode review&lt;/a&gt;, clearly stating that it is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; GRRM's voice:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That dovetailed into subplot involving the two traveling to Hartford to pitch legendary fantasy novelist George R.R. Martin (not voiced by the actual Martin) on Brian's epic medieval space saga.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now my belief is that Peter's voice is very similar to GRRM's to begin with, so I'm assuming &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_MacFarlane&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; did it himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastActivityDate="2015-11-09T22:02:28.973" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43250" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43252" CreationDate="2015-11-09T22:59:57.137" Score="4" ViewCount="938" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first half of the movie, Brian (Tom Cruise) and Doug (Bryan Brown) are at the basketball court.  Brian is shooting, and Doug is mostly just watching as the two talk about Brian's relationship with Coral.  During the conversation, Brian says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;10 bucks behind the line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which sounds like he's proposing a bet - i.e. if Brian makes the shot, Doug will give him $10, whereas if he misses, he will give Doug $10.&#xA;That's all perfectly normal, and consistent with betting-themes later in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's where it gets confusing: Doug then responds with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sure - shoot 'till you miss&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I gather it's meant to sound as thought Doug is &quot;upping the ante&quot;, but I don't understand why or what Doug is proposing here.  If it means &quot;Brian can keep shooting, and Doug will give him $10 for every shot he makes until he misses one&quot; then it would now seem to have no risk involved for Brian, and no chance of a financial upside for Doug.  Is there another explanation?  Is it possible this is a script writing oversight?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5032" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-01-31T06:28:06.567" LastActivityDate="2017-01-31T06:28:06.567" Title="In Cocktail, what game/wager is being proposed during the Basketball scene?" Tags="|dialogue|cocktail|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43250" CreationDate="2015-11-10T01:00:46.430" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Doug is trying to prove a point to Brian that the girl (Coral) Brian is currently dating is no good for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the movie, Doug and Brian are constantly trying to out-do and out-wit one another.  This friendly hoop shooting game was just one example of Doug out-witting Brian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doug was very confident that he was annoying Brian enough that when Brian shot for the fifty bucks, he would miss.  When Doug says &quot;missed&quot; at the end of the dialogue, he says it in an obvious disparaging tone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the movie script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doug: - Fifty bucks?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brian: - Fifty bucks.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doug: Fifty bucks says Coral's in the sack... with some other guy&#xA;  before the week's out.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brian: That's a bet.&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;    (Brian misses shot)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doug:  Missed.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-11-11T04:42:47.670" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T04:42:47.670" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43243" CreationDate="2015-11-10T09:05:36.683" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There can be multiple reason for such idea like :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If they have a miniature ready from other project, it would be fast, cost effective and time saving.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shooting in real location is time bound as per permission and if anything went wrong like weather issue the shoot can be delayed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If they didn't like the shoot, they can change some portion or restart sequence from anywhere in miniature version. Also they have the same lights and effect until the shoot is finalized. In real shoot if retake is not perfect the whole day pass just to get exact shoot.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They can have multiple angle shooting without helicopter (or, nowadays, a drone). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Any kind of accident or incident cause in action scene in real life can cause life long injury or even death. So such scene shooting in miniature is more safe.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21017" LastEditorUserId="21017" LastEditDate="2015-11-12T23:39:03.303" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T23:39:03.303" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43257" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43381" CreationDate="2015-11-10T11:42:26.420" Score="3" ViewCount="102" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie A Wednesday &lt;em&gt;Nasruddin Shah&lt;/em&gt; the common man does file an FIR (first information report) for a lost wallet. Why does he do that?&#xA;He was at the station to plant the bag of RDX, what could be the possible explanation to file the report? He could have planted it without getting noticed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16201" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-10T12:01:31.203" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T05:46:28.440" Title="Why file an FIR in A Wednesday?" Tags="|plot-explanation|a-wednesday|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10555" CreationDate="2015-11-10T20:39:12.457" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know I read a book on the basic story of star wars a year or more before it was released. I sat in the theater amazed that I knew the story. Except for my disappointment with how princess L. Looked I was impressed with how close the book was to the film. The books name was something like &quot;Through the needle&quot;. Not sure on that it's been a long time, but I am sure I read the book and it was some time before the first star wars release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27650" LastActivityDate="2015-11-10T20:39:12.457" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43179" CreationDate="2015-11-10T21:35:48.147" Score="46" Body="&lt;h2&gt;TL;DR:  It appears that Uncle Steve was the first parasite, and we also know how the parasites got into the house:  &lt;em&gt;Rick inadvertently brought them in&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In episode 202 - &lt;em&gt;Mortynight Run&lt;/em&gt; - we see Rick &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/3GyrXqGCszE?t=9m19s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;loading his spaceship with green rocks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RmpA0.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RmpA0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the pink nodules on the rocks - they are, as co-creator (and the voice of Rick and Morty) Justin Roiland pointed out &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/justinroiland/status/634077848647569408&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;via Twitter&lt;/a&gt;, the pods housing the parasites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sbWjVm.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sbWjVm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of episode 204 - &lt;em&gt;Total Rickall&lt;/em&gt; - we see Rick disposing of the rocks.  This subtle Easter Egg is all the more ingenious because he does so &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbVvF5wWqf0&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;right over the shoulder of the first parasite we meet, Uncle Steve&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4Wmbm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4Wmbm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pFAxC.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pFAxC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nrE6D.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nrE6D.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The art director for season two of &lt;em&gt;Rick and Morty&lt;/em&gt;, Josh McDermott, &lt;a href=&quot;http://jamesmcdermott2011.blogspot.com/2015/08/rick-and-morty-total-rickall-evolution.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;confirmed this&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://jamesmcdermott2011.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;his blog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the true die hards, &lt;strong&gt;if you noticed the green rocks from episode 2 that Rick puts in the trunk of his ship you might have seen a couple pink eggs attached to the rocks, the same rocks Rick throws in the trash at the top of this episode&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He goes on to explain that the fact that the first parasite - Uncle Steve - was alone in having larvae on his back was supposed to clue us in to the idea that he was indeed the original parasite, and had laid other eggs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The first parasite&lt;/em&gt;, post transformation, is the &lt;em&gt;only one with larvae growing off its back, suggesting that others had been laid in the house&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;McDermott's concept art for the parasites, including one design featuring writhing purple larvae on its back:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rDBy3.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rDBy3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the corpse of the Uncle Steve parasite, with larvae upon its back (they are now pink, like the pods, not purple, as we see in the concept art):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ka2sk.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ka2sk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/soUHo.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/soUHo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-10T22:34:05.417" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43274" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="144" CreationDate="2015-11-10T21:50:04.567" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Daniel Craig films are set at the beginning of 007's career - I imagine there is less technology in them because it's meant to be the earlier days of MI6, so less technologically advanced? This is total conjecture on my part though. Feel free to correct me...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27651" LastActivityDate="2015-11-10T21:50:04.567" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43276" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-10T23:22:08.530" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rick and Morty&lt;/em&gt; follows the adventures of the elderly mad scientist, alcoholic, and eccentric genius Rick Sanchez, and his dim witted and unremarkable grandson Morty Smith, through alternate dimensions and deep space.  It was created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondary elements of the series include the general sense of dysfunction in the family;  Rick's unhappy and unfulfilled daughter (Morty's mother); and her dull husband, whom Rick despises; their daughter Summer plays a lesser role in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An eponymous comic book series began shortly after the show premiered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GWuyT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Rick and Morty&amp;#x0a;Created By Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Opening sequence:&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/wh10k2LPZiI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Main Cast:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rick Sanchez - Justin Roiland &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Morty Smith - Justin Roiland &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beth Smith (née Sanchez) - Sarah Chalke&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jerry Smith - Chris Parnell&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Summer Smith - Spencer Grammer &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-11-11T01:03:48.660" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T01:03:48.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43277" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-10T23:22:08.530" Score="0" Body="Rick and Morty is an animated science fiction and fantasy comedy series which began airing on Adult Swim in 2013." OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-11-11T01:02:53.167" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T01:02:53.167" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17940" CreationDate="2015-11-10T23:26:37.067" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, We know because of his Jingles he earned 2.5m dollars. That have been &quot;Piling up&quot; since he died. For 4 seasons or 4 years in TV age. Which makes him 625K$ a year or around 52K a month. &#xA;Last episode in the series when Alan got the cheque.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27653" LastActivityDate="2015-11-10T23:26:37.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43280" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43319" CreationDate="2015-11-10T23:50:23.953" Score="11" ViewCount="2190" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't recall seeing any black people in the movie, not even among the crowds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were there any black actors in &lt;em&gt;V for Vendetta&lt;/em&gt;? If not, then why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13312" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2017-12-05T11:46:36.730" LastActivityDate="2017-12-05T11:46:36.730" Title="Were there any black actors in 'V for Vendetta'?" Tags="|casting|v-for-vendetta|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41924" CreationDate="2015-11-11T02:33:47.583" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The MAV could never have rendezvoused with Hermes at a 5 m/s relative velocity.  Hermes was in a hyperbolic orbit around Mars, meaning it was at escape velocity the entire time -- why it was called a flyby.  Watney's MAV could only put him into low Mars orbit, made slightly higher by stripping down the MAV.  The physics problem is that at any orbital height, escape velocity is always 1.4 times orbital velocity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Hermes flew past Mars at 600 km altitude it would be traveling at least 1.4 times as fast as the MAV at that height, since the MAV could not achieve escape velocity.  In orbit, speed translates into orbital height.  Remember, he had no power after the initial thrust; he was totally in a ballistic orbit.  At any altitude in in Hermes' hyperbolic orbit he could reach, he would be traveling much slower than Hermes, and any speed of Hermes he could match, he would be much lower.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27656" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T02:33:47.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43284" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-11T03:31:44.530" Score="7" ViewCount="394" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1956 film &lt;em&gt;Around the World in Eighty Days&lt;/em&gt;, there is a scene in which the people from Ft. Kearney chase down the Sioux to rescue Passepartout. They bear an American flag, and one divided horizontally across the middle: the top is a white &quot;3&quot; on a red field, and the bottom is a red &quot;A&quot; on a white field. I Googled, but could not find mention of this flag; nor is it on &lt;a href=&quot;//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Horizontal_bicolor_red_and_white_flags&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this list&lt;/a&gt;; therefore, I suspect it's a fictitious flag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it a real or a fictitious flag?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If real, what flag is it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If it's fictitious, did those making the movie mean anything in particular by the &quot;3&quot; and the &quot;A&quot;? What?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1301" LastEditorUserId="46980" LastEditDate="2022-01-08T12:56:59.577" LastActivityDate="2022-01-08T12:56:59.577" Title="Flag in Around the World in Eighty Days" Tags="|props|around-the-world-in-80-days-1956|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43286" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43284" CreationDate="2015-11-11T04:39:08.163" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guidon_(United_States)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;United States Cavalry guidon:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cavalry guidons [...] are horizontally divided, scarlet over white,&#xA;  with troop letters and squadron/regimental numbers in white and&#xA;  scarlet, but no branch insignia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Wikipedia's example would indicate Troop 1, Squadron C:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fwn79.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fwn79.png&quot; alt=&quot;US Cavalry guidon 1C&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the flag in the movie would indicate Troop 3, Squadron A.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently this design was first used in 1885.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20866" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T04:39:08.163" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43287" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43289" CreationDate="2015-11-11T05:11:45.730" Score="2" ViewCount="225" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was looking at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2193021/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb for &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, but it only shows the character as Roy.  I've also never heard him referred by any code name in the show.  Also, I'm not familiar with the Green Arrow comic.  Is Roy based off on any character/s from the comics?  If so, which?  If not, then why was he added to the show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-07T05:53:10.457" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T05:53:10.457" Title="Is Roy based off of a comic book character?" Tags="|character|arrow|comic-adaptation|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43290" CreationDate="2015-11-11T05:51:03.783" Score="8" ViewCount="1229" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the series &lt;em&gt;Frasier&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://frasier.wikia.com/wiki/Noel_Shempsky&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Noel Shempsky&lt;/a&gt; is a huge &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; fan.  Now, the character of &lt;em&gt;Frasier&lt;/em&gt; character is played by Kelsey Grammer, who also played &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Morgan_Bateson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Captain Bateson&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/em&gt; episode &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Cause_and_Effect_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;'Cause and Effect'&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iEFJM.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iEFJM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Captain Bateson&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I've mentioned above, these two characters are played by the same actor.  Although in &lt;em&gt;Frasier&lt;/em&gt; Dr Crane isn't an actor (and isn't playing Kelsey Grammer), surely Noel would still see a huge resemblance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is then: &lt;strong&gt;does Noel ever comment that Dr Crane looks a lot like Captain Bateson?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24050" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:42:45.047" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T10:00:40.173" Title="Does Noel ever comment that Frasier looks like Captain Bateson?" Tags="|character|star-trek|frasier|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43287" CreationDate="2015-11-11T06:05:46.197" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Harper_%28comics%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Roy Harper&lt;/a&gt; is the real name of the comic character that has been known as Speedy (November 1941), Arsenal (July 1993)&#xA;and Red Arrow (May 2007), aliases used as part of his sidekick duties to the Green Arrow, as well as lone hero. He goes under the same names in the Justice League/Unlimited and Young Justice cartoons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arrow-verse Roy has used the name Arsenal on screen as of Season 3, when he finally gets a suit. Per Wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Producer Marc Guggenheim revealed that Roy would eventually take on the name Arsenal in the show, and wear red versions of Oliver's costume and equipment. The costume and red arrows appear in the premiere of Season 3. In the episode &quot;Guilty&quot;, Oliver suggests the Arsenal moniker after the antagonist of the episode refers to Roy as &quot;another weapon in Oliver's arsenal&quot;. In &quot;Midnight City&quot; and &quot;Uprising&quot;, news reporters call him Red Arrow. He becomes a core and respected member of Oliver's team, leading their work in the field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The name is also suggested for Oliver's kid sister Thea when Roy leaves Starling City, and gives her the uniform (She joked about Red Arrow), though she went with her nickname of Speedy as her official cape name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-11T06:47:10.077" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T06:47:10.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43288" CreationDate="2015-11-11T06:10:20.013" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As someone who has the full Frasier on DVD, and has watched it through several times (currently on series 10 of about run 6), I can say :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, he doesn't mention it at any point&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As cde mentions in the comments, he also didn't notice the similarity when Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner were in Frasier as well, so maybe a TOS purest (although he wanted Scott Backula's autograph in Star Mitzvah so who knows).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastEditorUserId="4637" LastEditDate="2015-11-11T10:00:40.173" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T10:00:40.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43280" CreationDate="2015-11-11T06:36:33.137" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually there was a black man in bed with his male lover in the montage of Norsefire cleansings we see as Valerie tells her story. The reason for there are no black people from the POV of the movie present is because England had been ethnically cleansed as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsefire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; page explains: 'people who were not white, Christian, and heterosexual were rounded up and sent to concentration camps'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23472" LastEditorUserId="23472" LastEditDate="2015-11-11T10:21:21.147" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T10:21:21.147" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43294" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-11T07:43:25.657" Score="2" ViewCount="3385" Body="&lt;p&gt;We learn in &lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt; that Kenobi had lied to Luke in &lt;em&gt;A New Hope&lt;/em&gt; about Darth Vader, telling him Vader killed his father rather than the truth that Vader is actually his father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why the lie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22256" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T16:00:46.143" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T20:59:46.563" Title="Why didn't Obi Wan tell Luke the truth about Darth Vader?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|a-new-hope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43199" CreationDate="2015-11-11T12:26:35.647" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;As it turns out, it was expectedly &lt;strong&gt;not a single shot&lt;/strong&gt;, but skilled editing of multiple continous tracking shots, some done with steadicam and some done with cranes (and a little bit of CGI). In fact it didn't even all take place in Mexico City but also partly in Pinewood Studios London. This is explained by the movie's cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema in a short &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/how-spectres-opening-scene-pulled-836200&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hollywood Reporter article&lt;/a&gt;, which briefly lists the various different separate takes and how they were done each:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was accomplished with several meticulously choreographed long takes edited together with shrewdly placed wipes and a smattering of CG (though Hoytema insists there are no fully CG shots in the sequence).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first shot was lensed with a Technocrane, which creating the establishing shot, then lowered the camera and zoomed in to follow the actors. A transition occurs when Bond and the woman enter the hotel, which is actually on a different street. A Steadicam picks up the actors, following them through the lobby and into and up an elevator. The hotel room is a set built at Pinewood Studios in the U.K.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When 007 goes out the window, a camera on a Technocrane follows Craig as he runs across the roof. “There was a gigantic support scaffolding the length of the block and three stories high to accommodate the track for the Technocrane,” says van Hoytema.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T12:26:35.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42306" CreationDate="2015-11-11T14:21:51.797" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You must see things as Jack would: he knows that Walt is chased by Jesse in the desert, he understands he is in big trouble but suddenly he says that everything is okay. The first guess would be that Jesse (with or without some help) has reached Walt while he was speaking and was threatening him, because if the police or DEA were on him (physically speaking) he would have had to drop the phone without having the time to cancel the order. At this point, Jack has specific coordinates and has his crew ready for combat, and considering their experience and their equipment, they can manage to handle almost anything that Walt couldn't. The only case where he would find himself in a bad spot it is if Walt is surrounded by DEA / Police forces, but he can easily tell if that's the case without exposing too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then once he reaches Walt and he finds him arrested, he considers him too precious and dangerous to be left in the hands of a couple of DEA agents poorly equipped. Finally once he got rid of the DEA, he find out about the treasure and he exploits the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the shovel was not taken from Jack's car, but from Walt's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27665" LastEditorUserId="4763" LastEditDate="2023-08-11T17:39:17.350" LastActivityDate="2023-08-11T17:39:17.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="43305" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43349" CreationDate="2015-11-11T16:05:10.673" Score="4" ViewCount="4105" Body="&lt;p&gt;Richard Harris' portrayal of Dumbledore in the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; series was a very frail wispy old man. In the third movie, when Michael Gambon stepped in, they did a very good job of making him look similar, but it's obvious his speech patterns change from being a little old man to being a much stronger less wispy old man. His booming voice changed the character of Dumbledore. Is there an explanation of why the directors allow this change in an interview or public knowledge anywhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15558" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-11T16:06:13.580" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T14:51:54.567" Title="Why was Michael Gambon's Dumbledore allowed to be so much more assertive than Richard Harris'?" Tags="|casting|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43308" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-11T17:51:26.147" Score="5" ViewCount="9678" Body="&lt;p&gt;We have seen many actors playing &quot;James Bond&quot;. So is there any criteria that actor has to fill in order to be James bond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-11T18:00:30.520" LastActivityDate="2017-06-23T01:00:41.967" Title="Is there any criteria for selection of James bond?" Tags="|character|james-bond|casting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33554" CreationDate="2015-11-11T17:56:47.297" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found a complete English translation of this song (and great interview with the director) which has been haunting me ever since I saw this film a few weeks ago:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to be with you again&#xA;Even when I fight, I am with you in my dreams&#xA;I´ll be back, I´ll sail back on a paper ship&#xA;I´ll come back to you from over the seas&#xA;Don´t believe it if they say I won´t come back&#xA;I will come back to you&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;— Irakli Charkviani, “A Paper Boat,” 1992&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;from:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kinocaviar.com/tangerines.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.kinocaviar.com/tangerines.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27669" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T17:56:47.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43311" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-11T19:28:02.887" Score="6" ViewCount="3285" Body="&lt;p&gt;When exactly do Gordon's intentions in &lt;em&gt;The Gift&lt;/em&gt; turn into the desire to do harm to Simon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just watched this the other night, the timeline is a bit confused in my mind but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simon and his wife Robyn run into his old classmate Gordon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gordon starts sending them lots of gifts, showing up to their house uninvited, etc.  He's coming off as kind of creepy at this point, but hasn't openly shown any bad intentions yet... has he?  Can we assume he was making a legitimate attempt to be friends at this point?  Or does the movie point to his bad intentions going back even to the start?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point he writes his name and number on a marker board on their fridge.  During one of his visits he notices his name has been wiped out and replaced with &quot;weirdo&quot;, a nickname Simon and other kids used to tease him with back in their school days.  He is visibly upset and leaves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that point his motives have clearly changed to questionable (though you don't find out a lot of what he did until the end of the movie.)  He invites Simon and Robyn to dinner in a house that it turns out isn't his, makes up a lie to get away from them to record how they talk when he isn't around.  However, it's still not clear to me if he had anything harmful planned at this point, or was just kind of trying to dig a bit more to see how they really felt about him?  While he is gone Simon says a lot of bad stuff about him, which, as he has recorded it, he obviously hears at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that party ends poorly with Simon telling him to no longer contact him or Robyn, Gordon (presumably) kills the fish he gave them as a present, and (probably?) kidnaps their dog though eventually lets it go unharmed.  But he also eventually writes a letter saying that he is willing to let bygones be bygones.  Is there any reason to believe that he is considering this at this point?  Or was he already scheming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robyn gets pregnant somewhere in here.  She also starts feeling like she is being stalked, is having trouble sleeping, goes on pills again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So somewhere in here Simon hunts down Gordon to try to apologize, mostly just because Robyn wants him to.  It doesn't go well.  I'm a bit confused on the timeline here but Gordon essentially says it is too late, and you learn out later why... he has already put some really bad stuff in motion to harm Simon with.  He's clearly committed to this plan at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, Simon and Robin cut him out of their lives, months pass, everything seems ok until the baby is being born and things get really crazy and then we finally see what exactly Gordon did that was so bad.  (I mean, it is purposely left open as to whether he did the REALLY BAD THING he teases Simon with or not, but even if not, he still did some pretty messed up stuff.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I'm just confused as to when exactly his intentions went from ok (were ever ok?) to questionable to actively scheming to do harm to Simon (with Robyn as the means.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there is one specific part of the video he sends to Simon at the end to taunt him with that I can't place on my timeline... a part that shows he is stalking Simon and Robyn and filming them outside of their home.  When exactly he started doing this is probably a big clue as to when he crossed into really bad intentions, but I don't really know where it fits on the timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20710" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-11T13:07:02.013" LastActivityDate="2017-11-05T09:43:50.660" Title="When exactly do Gordon's intentions in &quot;The Gift&quot; turn?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-gift|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43312" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-11T19:38:59.940" Score="3" ViewCount="2059" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the spanish movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Room&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fermat's Room (aka Logic Room)&lt;/a&gt; the girl Oliva tells the story of how she met with Hilbert (the older mathematician). She describes meeting him through playing online chess and eventually meeting him in person on board of a boat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She says that what happened on the boat would be illegal in any country. Apparently something very illegal / horrible? went on on this boat, but it is not explained what exactly happened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got the feeling that it somehow was apparent what happened, but I did not get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is, what happened on the boat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the conversation that takes place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Olivia: &quot;We played chess dozens of times and he always beat me.&#xA;  So I got interested in him.&#xA;  One day the idea came up of meeting to play face to face.&#xA;  He invited me to a party where there would be important people.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Galois: &quot;In his house?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Olivia: &quot;No. Not in his house... on a boat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Galois: &quot;On a boat? Why?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Olivia: &quot;That's what I wondered too.&#xA;  Why on a boat?&#xA;  Then I found out.&#xA;  It had to be out at sea because at that party... things happened that would be illegal in any country.&#xA;  You want to know what things? Come on. Dare to ask.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Galois: &quot;No, forget it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Olivia: &quot;At that party... things happened, and the things that happened made me go back more times.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23239" LastEditorUserId="23239" LastEditDate="2016-01-06T09:27:46.647" LastActivityDate="2019-03-19T23:26:09.433" Title="In the movie Fermat's Room / Logic Room what happended on the boat?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|fermats-room|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43313" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43317" CreationDate="2015-11-11T19:44:34.510" Score="14" ViewCount="5350" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/&quot;&gt;2008 movie WALL-E&lt;/a&gt;, we see the WALL-E robot rummaging through some trash early in the movie. It comes across an old refrigerator which it cannot open via normal means, so it cuts it open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inside the refrigerator we see a small plant growing. Plants require light, fresh air, and water to grow: none of which are available inside of a closed refrigerator sealed so tight it had to be cut open.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did the plant grow inside of a closed refrigerator?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9311" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T13:57:19.703" Title="How can a plant grow in a refrigerator?" Tags="|wall-e|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43313" CreationDate="2015-11-11T20:08:00.580" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simplest answer is that the plant &lt;strong&gt;wasn't sealed inside the fridge&lt;/strong&gt;. It was &lt;strong&gt;next to the fridge&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see from the frame before, the door had fallen off the fridge and was blocking Wall-E's way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PLjj7.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PLjj7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T20:08:00.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43280" CreationDate="2015-11-11T21:15:39.280" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were a number of black actors in the various flashbacks&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Doctor's Journal:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UvYqR.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UvYqR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7CrnQ.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7CrnQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iVNZQ.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iVNZQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Valerie's Story&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bISTo.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bISTo.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Unmasking&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GLYRh.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GLYRh.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z7xAQ.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/z7xAQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ExMRz.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ExMRz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why there were no black actors in the main cast, the implication (stated rather more clearly in the source comic) was that they were among the &quot;undesirables&quot; who were rounded up during the 'Norsefire purges' and either exterminated or experimented upon to death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AVPNl.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AVPNl.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1aFWf.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1aFWf.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-11T21:30:52.903" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T21:30:52.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43322" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47029" CreationDate="2015-11-11T22:40:27.580" Score="7" ViewCount="864" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; made prominent use of paintings, especially paintings of ships, to visualize James Bond's and MI6's state, as &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/9162/49&quot;&gt;previosly discussed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this, I couldn't help but notice that its successor &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2379713/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spectre&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, as made by the same director, again seemed to rather prominently feature a huge painting of a shipping scenery behind M when he was sitting alone in a restaurant, before being visited by Eve and Q with news about Bond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yet again I ought to ask, &lt;strong&gt;what painting was that in this scene with M in the restaurant and did it have any further significance?&lt;/strong&gt; Did it even play into the same symbolism that the previous movie seemed to impose on those ship paintings?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://jamesbondlocations.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/ms-restaurant-in-spectre-rules.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this blog post&lt;/a&gt; the scene was apparently filmed in Rules Restaurant in Covent Garden, which &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; speak for the fact that the painting (if the same one) could be more of a natural consequence of the location rather than a deliberate choice (which might still have influenced the choice for the filming location in the first place, though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IAK7D.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IAK7D.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T16:31:05.797" Title="Significance of the painting behind M in the restaurant" Tags="|analysis|james-bond|spectre|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43323" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43313" CreationDate="2015-11-11T23:20:16.473" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of plants start their life from a seed, root cutting or bulb that is underground until the sprout breaks through to the surface, while there is water there is not much light and little air there :) This is limited by the resources the seed etc. brings along, but this is something that you could stretch a bit in a fictional universe... and for example, if you leave a bunch of spring onions on the shelf they tend to grow new leaves even when not watered and when exposed to indoor-only amounts of light...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27675" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T23:20:16.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43324" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41155" CreationDate="2015-11-11T23:52:53.947" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This appears to be an attempt by Polanksi to reference Lena Olin's earlier role in &quot;Romeo is Bleeding&quot;. The film deals with similar themes of deception and features Olin as a literal femme fatale with a penchant for toting a gun in her stockings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can view the relevant scene below. Warning, NSFW - Mild Nudity.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/oRKk8VyZXEM?start=125&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-11T23:52:53.947" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28210" CreationDate="2015-11-12T00:32:34.143" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per my &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80510/why-did-the-machines-not-invest-into-clearing-the-skies/81063#81063&quot;&gt;own answer&lt;/a&gt; over on Scifi:SE, The &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20101123170034/http://horrorlair.com/movies/scripts/matrixrevolutions.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;screenplay for Matrix Revolutions&lt;/a&gt; makes it abundantly clear that the clouds unleashed in '&lt;a href=&quot;http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Operation_Dark_Storm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Operation Dark Storm&lt;/a&gt;' are comprised of &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;molecular replicators&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; which are totally hostile to the machines. When entering (or even approaching) the cloud layer, the sentinels are instantly &quot;&lt;em&gt;drained of life&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, then struck by bolts of high-powered lightning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can assume that any attempt to dismantle this layer would be a monumentally difficult task. Not only would they be unable to even approach the clouds but since the layer is comprised of &lt;strong&gt;&quot;replicators&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, it seems pretty likely that when you try to destroy them, they ... y'know ... replicate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scene 737 : EXT. BLACK SKY - NIGHT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rocketing towards the churning black sky, leaving a white-hot jet trail that cuts up from the black earth at a forty-five degree angle.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Several Sentinels leap from the back of the ship, but many remain as it barrels towards the dark roiling ceiling.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Logos plunges into the sky with a surreal splash, like a plane crashing into a sea of shaving cream.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The molecular replicators immediately drain the life from the Sentinels and they fall dead tearing through the clouds that cling to&#xA;  them momentarily like shredded pieces of parachute, before letting&#xA;  them fall away.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Logos is engulfed by a ball of lightning as it is attacked by the sky. It shakes violently, every light blowing out, until the ship&#xA;  dies&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2016-03-28T09:04:48.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35797" CreationDate="2015-11-12T01:27:18.240" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Purely focusing on the 2015 version of Cinderella, the answer appears to be that it's because the glass shoes were conjured &lt;em&gt;separately&lt;/em&gt; (and therefore made &lt;strong&gt;wholly of magic&lt;/strong&gt; as part of a different spell) rather than having been transfigured from something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As they were an afterthought, the midnight restriction doesn't appear to have the same effect on them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FG:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Let's have something new for a change&lt;/strong&gt;. I'm quite good at shoes&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;At the last stroke of midnight, the spell will be broken and &lt;strong&gt;all will return to what it was before&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q4Qgy.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q4Qgy.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T01:27:18.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43311" CreationDate="2015-11-12T06:33:02.660" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Movie &quot;The Gift&quot; many stones have been left unturned, but basically the plot was that Gordon wanted to give the same pain to Simon which he had to bear whole of his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As in the Childhood Simon &lt;strong&gt;fabricated&lt;/strong&gt; a story that &lt;strong&gt;Gordon was found in a car being molested by an old boy&lt;/strong&gt;. Which destroyed his life and left a scar of pain and agony over his soul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to give the same his first mission was to get a &lt;strong&gt;soft corner&lt;/strong&gt; in Robyn's &lt;strong&gt;heart by showing his innocence&lt;/strong&gt;. He chose a &lt;strong&gt;gift&lt;/strong&gt; to be the best way to get near to her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the ending scene we get to see that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Robyn gives birth to child and Simon goes home and finds gift box from&#xA;  Gordo, containing footage of Gordo molesting Robyn after she fainted&#xA;  in the house. The footage cuts out suddenly. Gordo visits Robyn in the&#xA;  hospital to congratulate her. Simon rushes to the hospital, where&#xA;  Gordo calls him, taunts him and refuses to say who the baby's father&#xA;  is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So his refusal to say baby's father name did two things&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whenever Simon will look at the baby the question about father will kill him from inside and will remind him of Gordo.In the same way the wrong notion about Gordo was fed into the mind of other children about molestation&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The last visit to Robyn  in the hospital and showing the scar given to him by Simon was intentional for breaking the last thread of relationship between couples in this way he just separated Simon from his family In the same way he had to face after Molestation issue&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he took full revenge from Simon. Sp I think this will answer your question about the complete scenario.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-12T08:26:41.580" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T08:26:41.580" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42842" CreationDate="2015-11-12T10:24:37.620" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Excluding the possibility that the cloak-material was part of his suit (which seems unlikely given how closely it's bonded to his skin) that really only leaves the flag they brought with them...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9qxAN.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9qxAN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-18T20:48:04.467" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T20:48:04.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33753" CreationDate="2015-11-12T11:10:28.130" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Due to lack of answers from the show, and contradictory time travel effects, or effects that vary based on method of time travel (Running Fast vs Intentionally creating a singularity and then just navigating it), it may be possible that Barry &lt;strong&gt;never actually time traveled in &lt;em&gt;Out of/Rogue Time&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ignoring that we know the Flash can travel in time in multiple canons (through various means), Both what Barry experienced (&lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt; what Cisco experienced, his meta powers being close to clairvoyant in nature), can be attributed to a &lt;strong&gt;Premonition&lt;/strong&gt;. In that single moment where he saw himself during Out of Time, he was confused and disoriented. It could be that he glimpsed a possible future, which is what we see in the episode, like a dream, a precognitive vision. It never actually happened, and Barry never actually travels through time. As far as the story goes, this still has the same effect. Think &lt;em&gt;Final Destination&lt;/em&gt; instead of &lt;em&gt;Back to the Future&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alternatively&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; a way to explain how only one Barry exists in &lt;em&gt;Rogue Time&lt;/em&gt; could be a &lt;em&gt;X-Men Days of Future Past&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;TNG: Cause and Effect&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; type situation. Barry never physically travels back in time, he just sends information, a message, his consciousness, soul, etc. This either creates two time lines, one where Barry-1 still struggles to save Central City from the Tidal Wave and another where Barry-2 averts it, &lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt; it creates a paradox which wipes the first timeline out of existence. In both cases, the changes take place because of a sense/feeling Barry received instead of actual time travel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both of these scenarios are quite common in both comics (Flash included) and live action film/tv plots, and can easily be the reasons for what we see on screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T11:10:28.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43336" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-12T11:31:39.397" Score="5" ViewCount="4216" Body="&lt;p&gt;TLDR: &lt;strong&gt;Are ghosts actually real in &lt;em&gt;Bones&lt;/em&gt; and is there any Word of God evidence to support this? Does that mean Teddy was really there, and not just a hallucination?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am watching &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and have just finished seeing Season 4 Episode 13- &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Hero in the Hold&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. The plot revolves around resolving the Gravedigger plot thread from Season 1. Booth was kidnapped by the Gravedigger, and put on a boat slated to be sunk. Booth seems to experience a hallucination due to possibly being drugged or a concussion or trauma from a cattle prod. The hallucination, Corporal Edward &quot;Teddy&quot; Parker, seems to help Booth escape throughout the ship. At the end, he disappears, only to appear at the epilogue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the episode is vague about whether Teddy is actually there or not. Typically when someone Hallucinates another person, said hallucinations actions are either just a projection that doesn't affect the surroundings, or their actions are actually performed by others, only attributed to the hallucination (&lt;em&gt;Fight Club&lt;/em&gt; style). It could simply have been Booth doing everything, talking to himself. &lt;strong&gt;Yet, Dr. Brendon points out that it would have taken two people to do some of those things.&lt;/strong&gt; And in the epilogue, Teddy appears to talk to Dr. Brendon, and she responds!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that the episode was meant to be vague and leave ghosts as &quot;maybe possible&quot; without any proof, a typical &quot;Is it real or not&quot; episode for the audience to ponder, recently &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; had a crossover with &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sleepy Hollow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, a show where Ghosts, Demons, and other supernatural elements are 100% real and canon. While both have the Buddy Cop genre in common, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is firmly rooted in science fact while &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sleepy Hollow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in horror fiction. Besides being a marketing ploy, this implies that they share a common universe, so my question being the TLDR at the top, are the ghosts real in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-09T10:58:11.767" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T10:58:11.767" Title="Are ghosts real in the &quot;Bones&quot; tv show?" Tags="|plot-explanation|crossovers|bones|sleepy-hollow-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43338" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-12T11:51:32.583" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-12T11:51:32.583" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T11:51:32.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43339" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-12T11:51:32.583" Score="0" Body="American TV forensic crime drama show that began in 2005 and ran for 12 seasons on Fox. The show stars Emily Deschanel as forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance &quot;Bones&quot; Brennan and David Boreanaz as FBI Agent Seeley Booth." OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-03-06T15:17:28.330" LastActivityDate="2016-03-06T15:17:28.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43336" CreationDate="2015-11-12T11:59:38.653" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The showrunners of &lt;em&gt;Bones&lt;/em&gt; have always been extremely coy about whether those supernatural elements are real, or have a &amp;quot;real world&amp;quot; explanation. You are correct in your assumption that shows like &amp;quot;Hero in the Hold&amp;quot; are intentionally left vague (as are later episodes where, for example, we apparently see a legitimate psychic/medium.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there have been occasional comparisons between &lt;em&gt;Bones&lt;/em&gt; and previous Fox hit &lt;em&gt;The X-Files&lt;/em&gt;. In fact, from the pilot episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Booth: What’s it going to take?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brennan: Full participation in the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Booth: Fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brennan: Not just lab work. Everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Booth: What? You want me to spit in my hand? We’re Scully and Mulder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brennan: I don’t know what that means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With &lt;em&gt;Bones&lt;/em&gt;, Booth has a strong spiritual belief, while Brennan is highly skeptical, paralleling the Mulder/Scully dynamic, though obviously on a much more &amp;quot;grounded&amp;quot; level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This comparison has been brought out again, to describe &lt;em&gt;Sleepy Hollow&lt;/em&gt; as well as specifically the crossover episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“The Bones/Sleepy Hollow crossover is like a great episode of The X-Files, where the Bones hour is the Scully, logic-based perspective and the Sleepy Hollow hour is more Fox Mulder-esque,” &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/06/fox-explains-bones-sleepy-hollow-crossover&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;src&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;X-Files&lt;/em&gt;, the supernatural things we see are definitely real; similarly, as you pointed out, the supernatural things are definitely real in &lt;em&gt;Sleepy Hollow&lt;/em&gt; In my opinion, the choice by the producers to make these comparisons strongly implies that in the &lt;em&gt;Bones&lt;/em&gt; universe, there are some &amp;quot;unexplainable&amp;quot; things going on that are beyond Brennan's ability to explain with science, and require us to accept a certain degree of the supernatural.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T11:59:38.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16266" CreationDate="2015-11-12T13:16:41.550" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would add to the other answers that it appears the scenario in Malcolm's head is based on elements of his real life; he was abandoned in a motel as a boy, and the characters that were manifesting in his mind bore a kind of resemblance to the victims whose photos we briefly saw when his file was shown (not necessarily an exact physical resemblance, but perhaps number, age and gender).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27684" LastEditorDisplayName="user27684" LastEditDate="2015-11-12T21:00:24.070" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T21:00:24.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43308" CreationDate="2015-11-12T13:52:02.017" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer: yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far, the James Bonds we have seen are all quite similar: white, British (see &lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;) and can fit the persona of James Bond (physically fit and good-looking).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coming from Britain is probably an important aspect, as the character and franchise are quintessentially British. It is therefore easier to embody the mannerisms of such a character, as well as the fact audiences may dislike a non-brit playing the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, all of the James Bond actors prior to Daniel Craig were brunette, and he is clearly blonde, so in terms of more specific features it is unlikely to be such an issue. Some people contend that James Bond should not have a different ethnicity, but as it is set in modern day I don't think it should be an issue for the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having different characters playing James Bond, whilst having a continuous supporting cast acting alongside these different actors without batting an eyelid at their change of appearance has now foregone any semblance of continuity for the movie character, so apart from being male I can't see there being any additional restrictions for an actor playing the role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of universe, playing James Bond is a big commitment. The actor will likely sign up for multiple films when they take the role, so they need to be prepared to put aside a lot of time for many years, restricting their opportunity to be in other films. Having conflicting commitments for other films might mean they miss out on the chance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an added bit of trivia, any person contracted to play James Bond cannot appear in any other movie wearing a tuxedo during their tenure as Bond. Again, if this conflicts with other roles the actor has already accepted then they would be unlikely to be accepted for the part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;: My apologies, I was wrong about the nationalities (credit goes to Napoleon for pointing it out). I thought Pierce Brosnan was Northern Irish, thus originating from within the UK, but he is from Ireland. However he moved to England at a young age, so that probably worked in his favour. And George Lazenby was Australian, but he was only in a single James Bond movie before Sean Connery once again assumed the mantle, which sort of proves the point that people prefer a British bond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastEditorUserId="19693" LastEditDate="2015-11-12T14:14:17.760" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T14:14:17.760" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43344" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-12T14:03:34.637" Score="3" ViewCount="272" Body="&lt;p&gt;In American Horror story: Freak show Elsa Mars sings a version of Lana Del Rey's &quot;Gods and Monsters&quot; in which, amongst other things, all of the bad language is changed for more... suitable(?) language. Why is this given that the episode itself and series as a whole is rife with such language and worse in terms of sex and violence (and violent sex)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My uneducated guess was that it was used in pre-watershed publicity but why would you publicize this then?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Elsa Mars version is awesome for those who don't remember it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/b_S4ToLRsws?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27688" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-12T14:38:25.920" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T14:38:25.920" Title="Why was the swearing taken out of &quot;Gods and Monsters&quot; in American horror story?" Tags="|soundtrack|censorship|american-horror-story|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43346" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43336" CreationDate="2015-11-12T14:17:56.997" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would think that the recent cross over episodes between Bones and Sleepy Hollow show that Bones DOES exist in a universe with the supernatural&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24295" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T14:17:56.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43348" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44643" CreationDate="2015-11-12T14:47:45.697" Score="3" ViewCount="614" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I understood, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was not a science fiction movie. However, the scene where the Russian agent is chasing after the American agent and the girl, the agent tearing off the car trunk just did not make any sense to me. Is that even nearly possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="77670" LastEditDate="2019-12-01T13:54:40.387" LastActivityDate="2019-12-01T13:54:40.387" Title="Is man capable of tearing off a car trunk lid as shown in U.N.C.L.E.?" Tags="|realism|the-man-from-u.n.c.l.e|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="43349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43305" CreationDate="2015-11-12T14:51:54.567" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have any hard evidence, but there may be a number of factors that influenced the sudden change in character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time we really see Dumbledore as anything more than a kindly old man, and do anything more than general headmaster duties, is during the events of OOTP (Book 5). This was released in June 2003, around half a year after the Chamber of Secrets movie (November 2002), and a year prior to the release of the Prisoner of Azkaban movie (May 2004), which is when Michael Gambon assumed the role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before book 5, the novelized versions of Harry Potter contained only rumors of Dumbledore's prowess as a wizard, but had shown no real evidence for it. He was smart, experienced and accomplished, but other than that he was reasonably mysterious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, near the end of OOTP, when &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dumbledore battles Voldemort in the Ministry of Magic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;this is the first evidence we have that Dumbledore is still a powerful wizard in his old age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know if the producers were aware of what would occur in the later books or whether JK Rowling kept it a secret, or if she even knew all of it herself at that point, but it's possible that Richard Harris played it in the way that he felt Dumbledore was portrayed in the earlier books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, once more was revealed about Dumbledore's character, they may have decided to start to change the character of Dumbledore to more powerful and active to reflect what further information they knew about him and establish him earlier so that it wasn't so much of a shock to audiences later on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to a new actor playing Dumbledore, the director of the Harry Potter franchise changed from Chris Columbus to Alfonso Cuaron between the 2nd and 3rd films. It may have been the directors choice to adapt the character to what he felt was more suited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the character change may have been the actor's decision, the director's decision, a producer's decision because of the new information about the character from the books, influence from the author due to her creative changes or a combination of all of the above, but it is likely one of these reasons. Had Richard Harris continued to play the character, he may have changed how he played it also.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T14:51:54.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43350" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43352" CreationDate="2015-11-12T14:53:17.493" Score="26" ViewCount="88781" Body="&lt;p&gt;For someone who hasn't seen either of the two shows, in order to get the most clear and continuous plot experience, does it make sense to watch Better Call Saul before Breaking Bad?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-12T18:16:03.347" LastActivityDate="2020-05-11T09:21:27.247" Title="Does it make sense to watch Better Call Saul before Breaking Bad?" Tags="|breaking-bad|better-call-saul|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42967" CreationDate="2015-11-12T14:57:16.293" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simplest explanation is that attacking him physically would be risky (her strength is no greater than his) whereas tricking him verbally isn't dangerous at all. She knows that he's attracted to her and simply asking him to stay is the simplest and safest option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that by this point in the film, she's demonstrated a total ability to influence and understand him. He's putty in her hands but unfortunately (for him) her escape plan doesn't involve him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/ex-machina-ending-explained/&quot;&gt;Garland&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I think what he realizes is that he’s going to share it with the world just by the nature of it’s gonna escape and it’ll be in&#xA;  the world and &lt;strong&gt;it’s super intelligent and it can figure out any micro&#xA;  expression. It knows when someone’s lying. We’re fucked.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T14:57:16.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43350" CreationDate="2015-11-12T14:58:59.330" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It doesn't matter.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surprisingly, despite being set before &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; your enjoyment of &lt;em&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/em&gt; does not depend on whether you have seen &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; or not. Although characters from &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; make an appearance in &lt;em&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;as of the end of the first season&lt;/strong&gt; you do not need to know anything about &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; to enjoy &lt;em&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/em&gt;, and you do not need to know anything about &lt;em&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/em&gt; to enjoy &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is no saying that this won't change in the future, and as such I recommend that you watch them in the order they were released &amp;mdash; so, all seasons of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; first, followed by &lt;em&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: &lt;strong&gt;As of the end of the second season&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;em&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/em&gt;, I stand by this answer for the most part. The second season has reintroduced more characters from &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, and although knowledge of them isn't required to understand what is happening in &lt;em&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/em&gt;, some of their appearances have more impact if you know who they are from &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit 2: &lt;strong&gt;As of the end of the third  season&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;em&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/em&gt;, I now think that the best way to enjoy &lt;em&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/em&gt; is by having first seen all of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;. As the show has progressed, it has slowly reintroduced more and more characters from &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; and shown us events and interactions only hinted at in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; - these are far more enjoyable with the context provided by &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; rather than relying solely on the information given to us by &lt;em&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/em&gt;. While &lt;em&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/em&gt; can still be watched and fully understand on its own, I now believe that those who have first seen &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; will enjoy the show significantly more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2018-08-01T09:58:00.080" LastActivityDate="2018-08-01T09:58:00.080" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="43353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43348" CreationDate="2015-11-12T15:08:05.380" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;While he was running he grabbed and removed it. Well, I don't think it's possible even for a muscled man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is an exageration from the director to show how powerful he is, but logicaly while he was running and grabbed the trunk of a moving car and removed it, it's hard to happen because you need a lot of power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27693" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-12T15:17:36.187" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T15:17:36.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43354" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43357" CreationDate="2015-11-12T15:48:30.180" Score="13" ViewCount="2400" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading Wikipedia's entry on the 2012 movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Spider-Man_(2012_film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/a&gt; to find out about the next movie in the franchise. It says that there were plans for a third movie but it is cancelled now, and Spider-Man is going to appear in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marvel's Cinematic Universe&lt;/a&gt;. It also says that Sony hired someone (don't remember the name) to write a new trilogy for the franchise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the point of telling the same story once again? They have repeated it twice already. Is it just for business or to compete with the Marvel Cinematic Universe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27657" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-11-13T15:16:29.043" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T13:05:07.527" Title="Are they going to start a new trilogy of Spider-Man once again?" Tags="|spider-man|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43354" CreationDate="2015-11-12T16:03:23.860" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just for business. Sony's retention of the rights to the Spider-Man franchise is contingent upon them continuing to make movies. If they stop making those movies, the rights can be contested and reverted back to Marvel, and then Sony has lost that particular revenue stream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has happened before, such as with the original &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantastic_Four_(unreleased_film)&quot;&gt;Fantastic Four movie&lt;/a&gt;. Not the 2005 one, the 1994 one that was made on a shoestring and never released, simply because a movie had to be made or the studio would have lost the rights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7962" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T16:03:23.860" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43356" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43366" CreationDate="2015-11-12T16:05:02.770" Score="7" ViewCount="712" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over time of watching the Walking Dead, I noticed that main characters adapted well to predicting walker locations and positions. These skills have definitely saved their lives many times. However, with time passing by we start seeing tons of crawling walkers that are hard to spot sometimes. Considering one bite is all it takes, why not shield their legs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-12T16:13:25.573" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T21:09:03.870" Title="Why don't main characters of the Walking Dead shield their legs from crawling walkers?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43357" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43354" CreationDate="2015-11-12T16:24:14.570" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sony released their first  three Spider-Man movies between 2002 and 2007, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://deadline.com/2008/09/exclusive-sony-sets-sam-raimi-studio-may-shoot-4-and-5-at-same-time-6868/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;already had a 4th &amp;amp; 5th Spider-Man&lt;/a&gt; in the works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the success of the Avengers franchise released by Marvel Studios, beginning with Iron Man in 2008, there was suddenly a lot of interest in Marvel property. Sony tried to push the Spider-Man franchise to be bigger and better in order to benefit from the renewed interest in superhero movies, and tried to rush the production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This caused the director (Sam Raimi) to &lt;a href=&quot;http://deadline.com/2010/01/urgent-spider-man-4-scrapped-as-is-raimi-and-cast-out-franchise-reboot-planned-21993/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;pull out of creating more&lt;/a&gt;, as he didn't want to complete it to their timeline and other creative differences (casting choices, doing it in 3d).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This forced Sony to do a reboot with Marc Webb and Andrew Garfield with &lt;em&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt;. This was supposed to kick off its own franchise with the emergence of Spider-Man villains The Sinister Six, but the movies failed to impress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to their attempts at rebooting the franchise failing and Marvel's going on to have such success, Sony struck up a deal with Marvel. Marvel would be allowed to use Spider-Man in their other Avengers movies, whilst in exchange they would help Sony creatively in writing new Spider-Man movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the conditions that Marvel required for this deal was to recast the actor for Spider-Man (not sure about the director), which meant that for further films the continuity would not hold, hence them again rebooting the franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether these new films will again have an origin story is uncertain so far, or if they will begin at a time when Spider-Man already has his powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the question is why they are rebooting Spider-Man &lt;em&gt;so soon&lt;/em&gt; after the previous attempts, Roger's answer is correct, if no more movies are made in a set time frame the rights to Spider-Man reverts back to Marvel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-07-01T13:05:07.527" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T13:05:07.527" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43358" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46250" CreationDate="2015-11-12T17:29:45.973" Score="8" ViewCount="3398" Body="&lt;p&gt;James Bond was married to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Bond&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Teresa &quot;Tracy&quot; Bond&lt;/a&gt; in the film &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Bond&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;On Her Majesty's Secret Service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Teresa was adamant that James referred to her as &lt;em&gt;Tracy&lt;/em&gt; and NOT &lt;em&gt;Teresa&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tracy:  Teresa was a saint. I'm known as Tracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;James:  Well, Tracy, next time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James Bond also corrects her father when he refers to her as Teresa:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Draco:  I am also Teresa's father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;James:  Tracy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Draco:  Yes, Tracy. Tracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last thing that James Bond tells Tracy is that &quot;We have all the time in the world&quot; at the end of &lt;em&gt;On Her Majesty's Secret Service&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;James Bond is seen laying flowers on her tombstone in the film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Your_Eyes_Only_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;For Your Eyes&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;Only&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Teresa Bond's tombstone is a personal sentiment by James Bond to her.  The tombstone is sure to say &quot;Beloved wife of James Bond&quot; as well as the phrase &quot;We have all the time in the world&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since James Bond always referred to her as Tracy and she preferred that name, is there any evidence or reference from any Bond film on why the tombstone would read &lt;em&gt;Teresa Bond&lt;/em&gt; rather than &lt;em&gt;Tracy Bond&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/udmjX.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/udmjX.png&quot; alt=&quot;Teresa Bond Tombstone&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-12T17:33:04.677" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T18:22:32.860" Title="Why wasn't Teresa Bond's tombstone written as Tracy Bond?" Tags="|james-bond|for-your-eyes-only|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37563" CreationDate="2015-11-12T17:48:10.190" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simplest answer is that we learn (in the Minions movie) that that's how they evolved. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, &lt;strong&gt;minions gotta serve an evil master.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The licensed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Minions-Junior-Novel-Movie/dp/1910114278&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;junior novel&lt;/a&gt; puts it quite nicely:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Minions have been on this earth since the beginning of time. At first,&#xA;  they were just shapeless, single-celled organisms searching for the&#xA;  biggest, baddest villain to serve. &lt;strong&gt;They’d follow anyone despicable&#xA;  enough — as they needed to be led by something bigger than&#xA;  themselves.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Over hundreds of years, the Minions evolved, growing arms and legs. As&#xA;  they evolved, so did their choice of leader. Each master was&#xA;  eventually replaced—or eaten—by a bigger, badder master. At one point,&#xA;  they followed the biggest amoeba—until he was devoured by an evil fish&#xA;  who, in turn, was eaten by an evil amphibian. They followed that evil&#xA;  lizard right out of the prehistoric sludge and onto a beach…   … where&#xA;  he was smashed by a Tyrannosaurus rex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Minions were very impressed. They stared in awe at the giant T.&#xA;  rex, with his terrible claws and teeth. He was the greatest monster&#xA;  they had ever seen—so much bigger and tougher than their other master.&#xA;  It was love at first sight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In regards your last point about the minions serving someone &quot;nice&quot;, you may want to note that although the minions are generally played as funny/clueless, they show no qualms about committing some pretty heinous criminals acts such as burglary, assault, driving and flying without a licence, possessing controlled explosives and aiding and abetting the theft of a planetary body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T17:48:10.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43350" CreationDate="2015-11-12T18:12:21.890" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Prequels are just sequels that happen to take place in-universe at a time prior to the original. In that it's a sequel at heart, there will be arguments to watch it after the original. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no hard-and-fast rules but typically a prequel will subtly reference the original. While it's not a requirement to see the original to understand the prequel, it's often a bit more enjoyable as you'll be able to spot those references.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the best analogy I can think of is Pulp Fiction. Could pulp fiction be re-edited so the entire film takes place in chronological order? Of course. Would it be as enjoyable of an experience? Probably not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="756" LastEditDate="2015-11-12T18:31:33.360" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T18:31:33.360" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43308" CreationDate="2015-11-12T18:37:43.837" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they have to be available to film&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they have to be affordable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they have to please the powers-that-be (typically the producers)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that's true of pretty much any role. I don't think there's anything particular to James Bond other than the actor usually has to fit into a rough stereotypical box (handsome, athletic, looks good in a suit...). Though fortunately those stereotypical boxes are become less and less of a requirement in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T18:37:43.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13776" CreationDate="2015-11-12T18:37:55.350" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;re: The showrunner is always credited as an Executive Producer, and will typically have the &quot;Created by&quot; or &quot;Developed by&quot; credit as well, but not always&quot; &amp;amp; &quot;most typically, the showrunner(s) will write the pilot and/or finale episodes of a season&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems most likely to be a writing credit. For example, for the original TV Batman, Lorenzo Semple, Jr would have been showrunnner with the title Executive Story Editor. He wrote only the first four episodes, but served as a script or story consultant on every other installment. He also penned the show’s “bible” for the other writers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There must have always been showrunners but it only surfaced as a term in recent years. Did the classic 50's, 60's, 70s show have them? They didn't get publicized as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surprised the Writers Guild doesn't have some standardized terminology for showrunner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27698" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-12T18:38:57.163" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T18:38:57.163" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43365" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-12T19:06:46.410" Score="3" ViewCount="510" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched 'Wild Hogs(2007)', felt there are a few similarities with 'The Hangover (2009)':&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;4 friends go on a trip, where one lies to his wife (Ed Helms and Martin Lawrence)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Both of them have a controlling wife. (Ed Helms and Martin Lawrence)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;He is not a doctor, he is a dentist!&quot; is common in both the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Both stories have a weirdo (William H. Macy and Zach Galifianakis)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;2 characters find love, well sort of (William H. Macy and Ed Helms)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Both had a singer singing chessy songs and making gestures. (at wedding and Chilie festival).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed these things and these connections flashed. Is there any (semi-)official information or external evidence that points some kind of mutual inspiration between the two movies or is this all just a big coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27627" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-12T19:15:40.927" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T19:15:40.927" Title="Relation between Wild Hogs and Hangover" Tags="|the-hangover|wild-hogs|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43366" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43356" CreationDate="2015-11-12T20:00:26.563" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Any form of leg shielding would presumably slow them down.  While walkers are slow, the ability to move through a &quot;herd&quot; is often necessary, and anything that impedes their movement would be more of a detriment than an asset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T20:00:26.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30503" CreationDate="2015-11-12T20:32:32.200" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Detective Torres &quot;knowing&quot; what he (thinks he) knows is not the same thing as having evidence. No body, no witnesses, no direct corroboration = no arrest.  Torres simply lets Bob know that he's on to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the second time I've seen people comment about the ending.  Lehane's original short story, Animal Rescue is available online.  You may wish to read it to get more insight into Bob's personality, state of mind and motivation.  That would resolve this and change POV on what happened after the fade-to-black.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also wish to rewind to 3 other times where Tom Hardy's face understatedly tells it all.  Notice his eyes when Torres confronts him on the docks after he's just disposed of the arm, notice his face and wording after confronting Marv and the moment of absolute decision after Eric tells him he will kill Rocco.  It's all right there in his eyes, face and posture.  After looking at those, then re-watch that final scene.  The look on his face when Nadia reappears is one of relief.  Lehane described Bob as profoundly lonely.  I took this to mean that he had self-sentenced out of guilt, but the short story shows that Bob has always been lonely and isolated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27701" LastActivityDate="2015-11-12T20:32:32.200" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43371" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43430" CreationDate="2015-11-12T21:19:27.857" Score="8" ViewCount="4687" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every instance of time travel for Gil Pender involves a vehicle from the destination era transporting him to a landmark from that era. He also seems to be able to leave the era trivially at will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In contrast the private investigator, Tisserant, is able to follow the vehicle taking Gil to the 1920's &lt;em&gt;in his own vehicle&lt;/em&gt;. I assume Tisserant drove into the 1920's because Gil was able to follow Adriana into her &quot;Golden Age.&quot; At the end of the movie it appears as if Tisserant is stuck significantly further back in time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads me to 3 related questions about the time travel rules in the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How is Tisserant able to time travel in a non-period vehicle?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did Tisserant jump back in time at least twice or did he never experience the 1920's?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Why can't he return to the present/future easily like Gil?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26325" LastActivityDate="2016-11-23T23:55:50.323" Title="What are the time travel rules in Midnight In Paris?" Tags="|time-travel|midnight-in-paris|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43374" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-12T22:39:07.213" Score="4" ViewCount="1923" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the very end of the episode 5 of season 6 of &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt;, a growing blood trail is shown going from the middle of a wall section. It doesn't look like someone died up above because there are other horizontal bars above it that would block the flow. What is going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DaY3v.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DaY3v.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5788" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-12T22:43:28.923" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T07:07:02.877" Title="Why is there blood dripping from the middle of the wall at the end of S06E05?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43354" CreationDate="2015-11-13T01:59:03.007" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they are &amp;quot;rebooting&amp;quot; Spider-Man, but it will not be a third, new attempt at a trilogy the way the previous two series were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sony is rebooting Spider-Man because their last attempt at a series did not do well for them financially. Legally, they have to keep making Spider-Man movies every so often, or they'll lose the rights. But the quality of the movies was not up to the same level as the Fox or Marvel movies, so Sony decided to make a deal with Marvel. Marvel will assist Sony in production of the movie, and Sony will allow Marvel to bring the character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (e.g. he's going to appear in &lt;em&gt;Captain America: Civil War&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the deal is that Sony is going to make a Spider-Man movie in 2017 that is unconnected to either &lt;em&gt;Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Amazing Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt;. They have re-cast the role and will be telling an entirely different story. But, this is not just &amp;quot;another rebooted trilogy.&amp;quot; There are a number of things that are different about this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's not a stand-alone movie the way the previous two were. Rather, it will be &lt;strong&gt;part of&lt;/strong&gt; the overall MCU, which contains the &lt;em&gt;Avengers&lt;/em&gt; movies, the &lt;em&gt;Daredevil&lt;/em&gt; Netflix show, &lt;em&gt;Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.&lt;/em&gt;, etc. The Spider-Man from &lt;em&gt;Civil War&lt;/em&gt; will be the same character as the one from the Spider-Man movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is not an &amp;quot;origin story&amp;quot;. Spider-Man already exists in the Marvel movie universe, we just haven't seen him yet. In the movie, Spider-Man will start out already having his powers and already behaving as a costumed super-hero, just an &amp;quot;amateur&amp;quot; one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kevin Feige, the President of Marvel Studios, confirmed this pretty soon after the reboot was announced:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;In Spider-Man’s very specific case, where there have been two retellings of that origin in the last whatever it’s been - [thirteen] years - for us we are going to take it for granted that people know that, and the specifics,&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It will not be an origin story,&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;There is a young kid [already] running around New York City in a homemade version of the Spider-Man costume in the MCU, you just don’t know it yet,&amp;quot;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.craveonline.com/art/845723-exclusive-marvels-spider-man-reboot-not-origin-story#PKcg0Cr6pTs2SLbI.99&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;src&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T02:04:20.667" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43257" CreationDate="2015-11-13T04:51:57.120" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you see the bomb planting scene again, the bomb needs to plant in toilet as per his plan. He just want to expose the security level of the country that a common man can break in to police station and put a bomb in their toilet. There can be two cases:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When he enters the building, as far as I see, he was searching for the toilet but the constable ask him what he was looking for. And his sudden response was for FIR room where he found the toilet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He might has seen the architecture of the station and located the place to put a bomb in center of the station. Then he planned the FIR story to execute the plan. But this is much of hypothetical case.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21017" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T04:51:57.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43382" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-13T05:22:45.293" Score="1" ViewCount="68" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did Rita realize that she has lost the power? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She said that due to another human's blood in her system she lost the power. But this doesn't explain how she was aware of the fact that she has lost the power. As to realize it you have to die and never wake up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20394" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-13T06:12:07.657" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T06:12:07.657" Title="How did Rita realized that she has lost the power?" Tags="|edge-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-11-13T10:14:08.120" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21318" CreationDate="2015-11-13T05:33:15.880" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rita Vrataski (Emily's character) and Cage both state the same thing. They simply felt it gone. Some senses, feelings, or states can be felt intuitively. Like being drunk or a hang over, you just know when it's gone. The Alpha blood must impart a feeling like that as part of it's power. As Full Metal explains to Cage the only rule:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rita:&lt;/strong&gt; Now listen carefully. This is a very important rule. This is the only rule. You get injured on the field, you better make sure you die.&lt;Br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Cage:&lt;/strong&gt; Why?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Rita:&lt;/strong&gt; Last time I was in combat...&#xA;I was hit.&#xA;I was bleeding out.&#xA;Just not fast enough.&#xA;I woke up in a field hospital... with three pints of someone else's blood and I was out.&#xA;I lost the power. Do you understand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the crash, when Cage is tied down, and Rita, having escaped in 3 minutes flat, is about to kill him to trigger a reset:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rita:&lt;/strong&gt; Sorry, Cage. [Pulls out Gun to Shoot Cage]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Cage:&lt;/strong&gt; No! Whoa. Wait! Wait!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I'm out. I'm out. They gave me blood.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;I lost the power. &lt;em&gt;I feel it.&lt;/em&gt; I can't reset the day anymore.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering Rita does not argue with him at all, and immediately starts planning their next steps, it's obvious that she &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;knows&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; what he means. She simply felt the power was gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, the power comes with a mental component, psychically linking the Alpha (Rita or Cage) to the Omega. It's this intense feeling that is gone that lets them know it happened. Rita, as smart as she is, quickly surmised that her blood loss, like the dead Alpha's blood loss, leads to loosing the power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the comic that the movie is based on, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;All you need is Kill&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, Rita and Kenji (Cage's counterpart) still retain the power until the end. They do not lose it by blood loss/transfusion, and the ending is completely different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2022-03-18T15:54:48.457" LastActivityDate="2022-03-18T15:54:48.457" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="43384" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43385" CreationDate="2015-11-13T06:14:09.610" Score="13" ViewCount="30423" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did Matt Damon lose weight to look that skinny in The Martian or was that a body double?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26423" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T15:37:22.497" Title="Did Matt Damon actually lose weight for The Martian?" Tags="|the-martian|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43384" CreationDate="2015-11-13T06:29:54.480" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bustle.com/articles/112961-how-much-weight-did-matt-damon-lose-for-the-martian-thankfully-the-actors-transformation-was-computer-helped&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;No. According to Bustle&lt;/a&gt; (The interview was a press Q&amp;amp;A on set):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I talked to [Director] Ridley about [losing weight for The Martian] because I’ve lost weight before for movies,&quot; Damon told Newsweek. &quot;We had about six months. And I said, 'That’s perfect. I’ll lose about 30 or 40 pounds, and we’ve got to shoot all that stuff first.'&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;And he went, 'Fuck that.'&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was no information to if it was a body double, none was listed in the credits. The article above believes it was cgi and shows various examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, Chris Evans in Captain America was also had a CGI based body that was even more extreme than Damon's, showing how advance and realistic the effects can be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2017-03-29T15:37:22.497" LastActivityDate="2017-03-29T15:37:22.497" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43387" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-13T08:25:40.110" Score="9" ViewCount="1642" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why was Chiwetel Ejiofor's character made out to be part Indian (Vincent Kapoor) in the movie The Martian? He otherwise has no Indian history, looks to be Nigerian. Was there a reason why the creators went out of the way to establish Chiwetel Ejiofor's character to have a part Indian origin? It didn't seem relevant to the plot otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26423" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-13T10:18:55.283" LastActivityDate="2019-04-08T06:26:06.643" Title="Why was Chiwetel Ejiofor made to be part Indian in The Martian?" Tags="|character|the-martian|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43388" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43394" CreationDate="2015-11-13T09:10:23.507" Score="2" ViewCount="407" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before the camp Genoa job in &lt;em&gt;Banshee&lt;/em&gt;, Job was watching the feed from the camp over and over, exclaiming that all seems same everyday but there is something he can't put his finger on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was it that Job couldn't put his finger on? Did it become apparent during the job?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene is in episode 7 from season 3, &lt;a href=&quot;http://banshee.wikia.com/wiki/You_Can%E2%80%99t_Hide_From_the_Dead&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;You Can’t Hide From the Dead&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, at around 06:40m.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="285" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-11-13T12:25:02.507" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T12:31:36.887" Title="What was it that Jobe couldn't put his finger on while watching the camp Genoa feed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|banshee|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43388" CreationDate="2015-11-13T12:31:36.887" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nerdcoremovement.com/banshee-recap-season-3-episode-7-you-cant-hide-from-the-dead/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this recap/review by &lt;strong&gt;Michael Stets&lt;/strong&gt; for &lt;strong&gt;Nerdcore Movement&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Job has already expressed deep concern for Hood’s mental status&lt;/strong&gt; and&#xA;  when his friend arrives home at the trailer, he is sitting inside&#xA;  waiting for him (wearing a “Paws” shirt, a hilarious spoof on Jaws).&#xA;  He tells him he wants to delay the heist at Camp Genoa because &lt;strong&gt;he&#xA;  feels Hood is just too distracted and it may get all of them caught&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;  Hood tells him it’s now or never and they have to do that night. Job&#xA;  is worried and he has every reason to be. The expert computer hacker&#xA;  also voiced his concern to Sugar, who, of course, tells him he worries&#xA;  too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Suddenly, &lt;strong&gt;Hood’s mind starts wandering and he starts having flashbacks&#xA;  and visions of Siobhan. As this is happening he doesn’t see one of the&#xA;  mercenaries sneak up on Job and attack him&lt;/strong&gt; while he is handling the&#xA;  computers to breach security on the safe. Sugar tries to alert Carrie,&#xA;  but she cannot leave the safe due to time constraints. Finally, Hood&#xA;  snaps out of it and takes out the Marine before he compromises the job&#xA;  and Job. &lt;strong&gt;Job is clearly pissed off, especially since he was worried&#xA;  that something like this would happen.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T12:31:36.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43395" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43432" CreationDate="2015-11-13T14:21:54.387" Score="3" ViewCount="620" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching Furious 7, I was amazed that throughout the movie I didn't feel that Paul Walker didn't complete the film but yet his presence is not felt anything like virtually created. How was this actually? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I heard that his brother was taken for some shots and a body double was used but some articles say that his body and face is computer generated. It feels so real. So did we make enough advancement in cinematography that we can now virtually create real people through CGI?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27657" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-06-29T16:45:38.823" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T16:45:38.823" Title="How is Paul Walker's character regenerated in Furious 7?" Tags="|effects|fast-and-furious-franchise|furious-7|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43396" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-13T15:16:42.630" Score="0" ViewCount="4611" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of each Hunger Games, the contestants are lifted up through a tube into the arena that the games will be held.  The tributes have a lot of time interacting with other tributes while training for the games.  What would have happened if they had met up and decided to stay on the starting platforms, rather than playing the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27725" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-04-27T17:31:15.953" LastActivityDate="2019-01-06T21:48:45.907" Title="In The Hunger Games what would happen if the tributes all decided to not participate?" Tags="|the-hunger-games|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43397" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="60930" CreationDate="2015-11-13T15:21:58.997" Score="7" ViewCount="1761" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series &lt;em&gt;Hannibal&lt;/em&gt;, a prequel to &lt;em&gt;Silence of the Lambs&lt;/em&gt;, Hannibal clearly has a normal set of digits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AY6FF.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AY6FF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, in the book &lt;em&gt;Hannibal&lt;/em&gt;, set after &lt;em&gt;Silence of the Lambs&lt;/em&gt;, there is great discussion about Hannibal's polydactylism, i.e. an extra finger on his left hand, in terms of tracking him down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there any explanation for the TV series diverging from the book?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user19426" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-13T15:29:18.087" LastActivityDate="2016-09-20T14:23:05.600" Title="Where is Hannibal's extra finger?" Tags="|character|book-adaptation|hannibal-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43395" CreationDate="2015-11-13T16:17:31.817" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Short answer yes we have progressed that far with technology that we can recreate people, and has been done previously in an Advert for Galaxy chocolate where Audrey Hepburn's face is recreated and placed on another actress &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in Ant-Man the younger face of Michael Douglass is placed on a doubles body. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22037" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T16:17:31.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43401" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43396" CreationDate="2015-11-13T16:57:21.740" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;The starting points of the Hunger Games, the pedestals the elevator tubes are tied to, have explosives in them. Any attempt to ruin the game by not participating would be solved by remotely detonating a pedestal or two to motivate participation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember in the first movie, when Katniss walked too far away from the action, the game maker motivated her back towards the other tributes, with a well placed fire. Then they also release genetically modified pit bulls to corral the last 3 tributes to the cornucopia for the finale. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we know that the Capital has no issue with extortion and blackmail. They may not kill the Tributes, instead threatening their family, their district, or their love ones. Joanne had her family killed for her defiance, Haymitch had no one to threaten so he got away, but Finnick was basically pimped and sold to be raped because he didn't want his lover to be hurt, and Snow threatened Peeta's life if Katniss didn't fall in line. Most people may not care about their lives, but rarely would let their loved ones get hurt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Capital has the means and experience in getting the tributes to do what they want most of the time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote Snow:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'If the Head Gamemaker, Seneca Crane, had had any brains, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;he would have blown you to dust right there and then&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. But he had an unfortunate sentimental streak. So here you are. Can you guess where he is?' I nod, because by the way he says it, it's clear that Seneca Crane has been executed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-11T14:55:36.190" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T14:55:36.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43387" CreationDate="2015-11-13T17:08:18.500" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie character, Vincent Kapoor, was originally &lt;strong&gt;Venket Kapoor, and fully Indian&lt;/strong&gt; in the book of the same name. The casting of Chiwetel Ejiofor required a slight change on background of the character, otherwise keeping the history intact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ridley Scott has not answered any questions on why the casting and changes were made, even when criticized for &quot;white-washing&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T17:08:18.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23032" CreationDate="2015-11-13T18:40:24.990" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would simply say that the train needs to move to keep the air warmer. As you know, in a car, the air conditioning works only if the car is on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27729" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T18:40:24.990" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43404" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="88747" CreationDate="2015-11-13T18:51:46.140" Score="9" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am writing a research article involving movies, and I want to prove my point that the movie industry is a very risky business. For this, I would like to quote a &lt;em&gt;reliable&lt;/em&gt; source indicating the percentage of movies that make a net loss during their theatrical run. Let's restrict it to the American movie industry for the sake of traceability, and also only to movies that get a theatrical run in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will assume that a net loss means that the production budget + advertising budget have not been retrieved in revenues (in theaters; DVD sales etc. make things more complicated again).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember having read somewhere on the internet, about two years ago that this number is 75%, but I cannot find this information anymore. It is not easy to find on the websites of MPAA, box office mojo, the-numbers dot com, imdb or rotten tomatoes, though I only had time for superficial searches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am aware that &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/31540/what-is-the-most-loss-suffered-by-a-hollywood-movie&quot;&gt;it is hard to say exactly&lt;/a&gt;. Any similar type of figure demonstrating the volatility of investments in the movie industry would also do, as long as it is from a reliable source (e.g. MPAA).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27728" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2018-05-07T12:18:44.360" Title="What percentage of movies make a net loss during their theatrical run?" Tags="|box-office|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43405" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-13T19:13:53.297" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-13T19:13:53.297" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T19:13:53.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43406" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-13T19:13:53.297" Score="0" Body="Television series 1993-2004.  Spinoff from Cheers, starring Kelsey Grammer in the title role." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-11-13T19:16:13.543" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T19:16:13.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43407" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-13T20:32:15.513" Score="3" ViewCount="121" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first season of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3032968/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blochin: Die Lebenden und die Toten&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; naturally featured many sirens of police cars to be heard throughout the story. However, what was very confusing to me about those sirens was that they were distinctly different from a usual German police siren and sounded much more similar to the siren of a US police car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm admittedly not at the pulse of time in modern police developments in Berlin, but it seemed unusual that this would be the siren of a German police car, especially since the exact sound of police sirens seems to be legally regulated. But still, &lt;strong&gt;was this in any way realistic&lt;/strong&gt; as to police cars used in Berlin at the time of production or was this indeed a deviation from reality there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the latter case, &lt;strong&gt;why was this change done?&lt;/strong&gt; Was this for legal reasons of not being able to use the standard siren (though, I've heard millions of normal police sirens in TV productions and movies already)? Or was this done for artistic reasons? I know that the producers very much strived to immitate the style and success of current US TV dramas (specifically naming &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; as a big ideal). So could this just have been an homage to US TV-shows to use a US police siren? Was there any word from the producers/directors on this? All in all it was quite a bit irritating even if done purely for style, so I hope there is some more elaborate reason behind this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-11-13T20:32:15.513" Title="What's with the unusual siren sounds throughout Blochin?" Tags="|realism|sound-effects|blochin|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41937" CreationDate="2015-11-13T21:01:21.793" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There isn't any behind the scenes &lt;em&gt;meaning&lt;/em&gt; of why Van Dyke played both roles. Van Dyke had lobbied Walt Disney for the part for some time before Disney acquiesced to allow him to play it. According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/01/a-very-familiar-face-returns-to-mary-poppins.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article from the LA Times&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Van Dyke had to cajole Walt Disney into giving him the part because Disney thought Van Dyke -- then in his 30s -- was too young to be the ancient moneyman. The actor reportedly &lt;strong&gt;won him over by acing a screen test, agreeing to portray Dawes for free and making a donation to the California Institute of the Arts, which Disney co-founded&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: Emphasis mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems it was just a matter of Van Dyke wanting the part and being a &quot;go-getter&quot; was able to convince Disney in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2015-11-14T01:46:20.140" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T01:46:20.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9282" CreationDate="2015-11-13T21:52:05.183" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He would have gone to prison for a while. However compliance could reduce centre with evidence used from the fact that Raoul had already shot the other burglar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27733" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-10T20:04:37.620" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T20:04:37.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43413" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-14T04:31:11.670" Score="2" ViewCount="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;In terms of DVD zoning, I am in &lt;strong&gt;Zone 4&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I noticed a tune being played in &lt;strong&gt;S1E12&lt;/strong&gt; of &lt;em&gt;The Sopranos&lt;/em&gt; when Tony was driving his car. It was extremely Stevie Ray Vaughan-ish, but as much as I searched for SRV tunes that might match, I couldn't locate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did a search too for all the songs used during the episode and couldn't find a single one that matched. After a discussion on-line with someone from America, I was told what the tune was that THEY heard while watching the episode in &lt;strong&gt;Zone 1&lt;/strong&gt;. It was &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; a different tune.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm familiar with changes in films in many areas between zones, most notably, with titles. &lt;em&gt;The Lucky Number Slevin&lt;/em&gt; is called &lt;em&gt;The Wrong Man&lt;/em&gt; in my country. But this is the first I'd come across of a tune in a TV show being different between zones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;My question in two parts:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A) Has anyone else come across such a soundtrack change?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;B) What would be some possible reasons for such a change?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding B), I'm ok with reasonably educated guesses at this point because I'm not sure we'll get an authoritative reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27684" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-14T12:34:33.900" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T12:34:33.900" Title="Soundtrack Variations Per DVD Zone?" Tags="|soundtrack|distribution|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43414" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-14T05:30:47.423" Score="2" ViewCount="429" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end of the movie &lt;em&gt;Matchstick Men&lt;/em&gt;, when Roy goes to the supermarket that he always goes to and buys things he includes the chocolate ice-cream that Angela used to eat at his house when Frank and Angela were cheating him. Does this imply that Angela and Roy still see each other in the future? I mean, Angela knows where Roy is working and Roy has forgiven her for cheating him.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-08T08:17:18.853" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T08:17:18.853" Title="What does buying chocolate ice-cream in the end implies?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|matchstick-men|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43415" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43431" CreationDate="2015-11-14T05:40:22.280" Score="8" ViewCount="12057" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Star Wars:  Episode VI - Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt;, Jabba says (through his interpreter, C-3PO), that when someone is thrown into the Sarlacc pit, they endure indescribable suffering as they are &amp;quot;slowly digested over a thousand years&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, most people don't live that long, even in the Galaxy Far, Far Away.  If you were swallowed and found yourself in a giant creature's stomach, you would probably suffocate within minutes, making the question of how long it took to digest you irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Does the Sarlacc pit keep you alive after swallowing you, so you really do suffer for a thousand years, or do you suffocate quickly, after a relatively brief period of suffering, but your body is only digested very slowly?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T10:44:24.403" Title="Does the Sarlacc pit keep its victims alive?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43416" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43419" CreationDate="2015-11-14T05:59:07.253" Score="10" ViewCount="6445" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Star Wars:  Episode IV - A New Hope&lt;/em&gt;, C-3PO passes by what looks like a dinosaur skeleton:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GpVoe.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GpVoe.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is this creature?  Are they extinct?  How did such a large animal manage to survive in a barren desert?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T07:27:38.250" Title="What do we know about the creature whose skeleton we see in Star Wars?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43418" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-14T06:07:53.393" Score="10" ViewCount="1171" Body="&lt;p&gt;How well known were the Sith among the general population of the Galaxy Far, Far Away during the events of the original trilogy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastActivityDate="2017-06-09T18:56:12.323" Title="Did people in the Star Wars galaxy know about the Sith during the original trilogy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43416" CreationDate="2015-11-14T06:18:30.170" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is from a Greater Krayt dragon: &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Krayt_dragon&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Krayt_dragon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The krayt dragon was a large carnivorous reptile native to Tatooine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are extinct, Obi-Wan imitated the hunting cry of a Krayt dragon to scare away the sand people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The greater krayt was a rarer, larger species of krayt dragon, known for its tremendous size and continual growth over time. Creatures of near legendary status, greater krayt dragons had ten legs, measured at least 100 meters from snout to tail tip and had the ability to move through or on Tatooine's desert sand&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The artificial skeleton used for A New Hope was left in the Tunisian desert after filming and still lies there. During filming of Attack of the Clones, the site was visited by the crew and the skeleton was still found there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23239" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T07:27:38.250" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43420" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43418" CreationDate="2015-11-14T06:31:47.420" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was a kid when the original film came out. Somehow, pre-Internet, my brother and I knew the &quot;baddie&quot; as &lt;em&gt;Darth Vader, Dark Lord Of The Sith&lt;/em&gt;. For me, my older brother &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; the Internet, and often knew stuff from magazines and books he had read, so I may have picked up the Sith title from him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there's this from the screenplay, available in countless places online:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;Revised Fourth Draft January 15, 1976&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LUCASFILM LTD.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;INTERIOR: REBEL BLOCKADE RUNNER -- MAIN HALLWAY.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The awesome, seven-foot-tall &lt;strong&gt;Dark Lord of the Sith&lt;/strong&gt; makes his way&#xA;  into the blinding light of the main passageway.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as we know, the Sith did exist then (even if Lucas hadn't formally thought of them) because he injects them into the universe later on, but as for the subject of whether or not characters in the first film knew, all we have is that a &lt;em&gt;small&lt;/em&gt; number knew about the Dark Side of the Force, but beyond that, it's bound to be conjecture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27684" LastEditorDisplayName="user27684" LastEditDate="2015-11-29T02:24:44.837" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T02:24:44.837" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24890" CreationDate="2015-11-14T06:59:07.567" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a simple logical view, acting is inherently different from physical labor. A undeveloped human body can easily Act without major repercussions, while physical labor can stunt growth. While the legal view of physical labor may not match the actual physiclogical consequences, acting has very minimal mental or physical consequences, and the acting that does is carefully monitored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Simply put, Acting is no where near physical labor in terms of effect on child development. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T06:59:07.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43427" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43429" CreationDate="2015-11-14T08:34:49.557" Score="23" ViewCount="34526" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the opening of the movie &lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt;, when Bob Dylan's &quot;The Times They Are a-Changin'&quot; is playing, there is a scene where a harmless teenage girl steps forward and tries to put a flower in a soldier's rifle's muzzle but the soldier shoots anyway. Is this scene based on real history? Was there a specific event that happened just like the movie showed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T14:31:25.430" LastActivityDate="2018-09-10T19:12:58.227" Title="Is the scene with the girl putting a flower in a soldier's rifle's muzzle a reference to a specific event?" Tags="|reference|watchmen|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43428" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43446" CreationDate="2015-11-14T08:48:09.640" Score="4" ViewCount="2791" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ruin&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blue Ruin&lt;/a&gt; it is later revealed that the boy William &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;is the stepbrother of the protagonist Dwight. Dwight knew it at the end and so does not kill him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when and how did Dwight find it out? I somehow missed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23239" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-14T12:16:14.040" LastActivityDate="2017-03-27T04:38:44.587" Title="In Blue Ruin when did Dwight find out about William?" Tags="|plot-explanation|blue-ruin|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43427" CreationDate="2015-11-14T08:59:12.823" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene appears to be an homage to the classic 1967 photo &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_Power_(photograph)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Flower Power&lt;/a&gt;&quot; by Bernie Boston.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Flower Power is an historic photograph taken by photographer Bernie&#xA;  Boston for the now-defunct Washington Star. It was nominated for the&#xA;  1967 Pulitzer Prize. Taken on October 21, 1967, during a march to the&#xA;  Pentagon, the iconic photo shows a young, long-haired Vietnam&#xA;  protestor in a turtleneck sweater, placing carnations into the barrel&#xA;  of a rifle of a National Guardsman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously in the original incident, the gun was never fired. In the world of the Watchmen, this is subverted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/svpEj.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/svpEj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-06-29T10:08:42.210" LastActivityDate="2017-06-29T10:08:42.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43371" CreationDate="2015-11-14T09:40:36.130" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, how Gil time travels in the movie is not disclosed and Woody Allen never explains the mechanics of his time travel as any explanations in the script would take away from the plot of the movie.  We are to just believe that something magical happens around midnight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have seen this movie several times and the following is how I interpreted the time travel aspect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gil possibly unknowingly came upon a wormhole at or around that particular street at or around midnight. The arrival of the car is just the transport mechanism.  Remember that Gil returns to present day after speaking with Hemingway and leaving the cafe to go and retrieve a copy of his book.  He was on foot, not in the car. He walked away for a moment only to turn around to see that the cafe from the 1920's had turned into a laundromat in present day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that Gil is only transported back to the 1920's from this particular wormhole due to his intense desire and almost obsession to actually live in that particular time period coupled with the fact that he is obviously miserable in present day with his job and his horrible fiancee.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Gil meets Picasso's mistress, Adriana, she expresses her desire for the past, particularly Paris in the 1890's.  Remember that both Adriana and Gil both inadvertently travel to 1890's Paris where Adriana chooses to stay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe that the wormhole lets the traveler represent their innermost desire about the particular time period that they are being transported to as well as reveal character strengths and weaknesses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Tisserant, there could have been tangled strings, if you will within the wormhole that did not allow him to follow or see Gil in the 1920's.  Also, Tisserant had no great passion or desire for the 1920's.  Perhaps he had a hidden passion for 18th century Versailles?  (I am merely speculating the exact time period and location).  I believe that Tisserant is shown as being left in this time period as more of a comic relief than anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2016-11-23T23:55:50.323" LastActivityDate="2016-11-23T23:55:50.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43431" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43415" CreationDate="2015-11-14T10:19:04.517" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Suprisingly, this isn't a retcon or an attempt to explain Threepio's throaway line (&lt;em&gt;&quot;In his belly, you will find a new definition of pain and suffering, as you are slowly digested over a thousand years.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_VI:_Return_of_the_Jedi_(novel)&quot;&gt;official novelisation&lt;/a&gt;, released at the same time as the film and hence considered 'G-Canon', we get this piece of exposition:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lando closed his eyes and tried to think of all the ways he might give&#xA;  the Sarlacc a thousand years of indigestion. &lt;strong&gt;He bet himself three to&#xA;  two he could outlast anybody else in the creature’s stomach. Maybe if&#xA;  he talked that last guard out of his uniform …&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he clearly feels that survival is a matter of more than mere minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later sources have elaborated on this extensively, creating &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sarlacc&quot;&gt;an entire ecosystem&lt;/a&gt; to explain that the Sarlacc releases nutrients to keep the victim alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After being swallowed by the tongue, the victim made its way into the&#xA;  sarlacc's stomach to be digested, purportedly being kept alive and&#xA;  slowly digested for a millennium. A strong network of vessels inside&#xA;  the stomach punctured the victim's skin and muscles and then embedded&#xA;  itself into victims before injecting neurotoxins into them, preventing&#xA;  the victims from escaping and ensuring that they remained immersed in&#xA;  the acidic fluids in the stomach, and attached to the walls of the&#xA;  stomach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The vessels also provided victims with nutrients to keep them alive&#xA;  while they were digested in agony; sometimes when a victim was in the&#xA;  stomach for a long time period, the sarlacc actually embedded it in&#xA;  the lining of the stomach to make room for other victims it swallowed&#xA;  and to make the stomach stronger so that other victims could not&#xA;  escape participially once their digestion was complete&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way in which it keeps its victims alive beyond their allotted lifespan isn't covered in any great detail but we do learn that there's &lt;strong&gt;a telepathic component to its torture and that it enjoys the pain of its victims&lt;/strong&gt;, explaining why it would want to keep them alive rather than merely consuming their nutrients.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-14T10:44:24.403" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T10:44:24.403" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43395" CreationDate="2015-11-14T10:21:02.610" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The most recognizable scene of CGI is the photo shown below of Walker's brother in as a body double and Paul's actual face on the body double.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Viewers who pay careful attention will note that the majority of&#xA;  Walker’s unfinished scenes are completed using his brothers Caleb and&#xA;  Cody as doubles. When combined with CGI, carefully chosen camera&#xA;  angles and the right lighting, they are the spitting image of &lt;a href=&quot;http://screencrush.com/furious-7-digital-paul-walker/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Paul&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/85zmy.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/85zmy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Paul Walker CGI&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Walker is not the first actor to get temporarily revived through&#xA;  visual effects. &lt;strong&gt;Oliver Reed&lt;/strong&gt; was digitally recreated for his&#xA;  unfinished scenes in &lt;em&gt;Gladiator&lt;/em&gt; when he passed away during production&#xA;  and &lt;strong&gt;Nancy Marchand&lt;/strong&gt; had one final scene on &lt;em&gt;The Sopranos&lt;/em&gt; after her&#xA;  death. And then there are the countless commercials that resurrect&#xA;  iconic celebrities like &lt;strong&gt;Steve McQueen&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Bruce Lee&lt;/strong&gt; to hock&#xA;  modern products.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robin Shenfield, CEO of London-headquartered The Mill &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/furious-7-how-peter-jacksons-784157&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;explains&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Today, it's possible to create an actor entirely from digital&#xA;  composites. The Mill, for example, has completed a 90-second Johnny&#xA;  Walker ad featuring a CG Bruce Lee for agency BBH in China. &quot;We&#xA;  created his entire face in CG and hand-animated that, using shots of&#xA;  the actor for reference,&quot; says Shenfield. He believes that a CG actor&#xA;  is an option, as long as artists can create his face convincingly.&#xA;  &quot;The eyes require a lot of work,&quot; he says. &quot;Keeping motion continuous&#xA;  in the musculature and the eyes is the key to making it look real.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T10:21:02.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23032" CreationDate="2015-11-14T11:08:22.433" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The director of the film; Bong Joon-ho has offered (in various interviews) his thoughts on why the train has to keep moving&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;It's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.firstshowing.net/2014/interview-snowpiercer-director-bong-joon-ho-on-mastering-sci-fi/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;literal prison&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stopping would allow people to get off&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;This is true of all films, but especially Snowpiercer - the importance&#xA;of space you can't emphasize enough, just the idea that these people&#xA;are trapped inside this world. Of course Nam, a slight spoiler, he&#xA;wants to live outside the train. He wants to escape the train. That's&#xA;really essentially what this movie is about. &lt;strong&gt;The train is one big&#xA;prison and the system that oppresses the people.&lt;/strong&gt; That physical reality&#xA;was very important and he didn't want to use CG for any of that. Of&#xA;course the environment outside, a lot of that was CG. But inside he&#xA;really wanted to capture the physicality of being in that space.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The setup is intended to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/snowpiercer/236721/snowpiercer-director-bong-joon-ho-discusses-the-film&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;benefit those up front&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stopping would allow people to gain access to the front of the train.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;What made that metaphor -- of the poor shoved into the back of the train and the privileged riding up front -- relevant and important to you?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The comic book came out 30 years ago, but the concept of capitalism driving the world is still relevant today -- it’s a very universal theme. Putting it in a train is kind of like Noah’s ark, but different from a boat or plane. &lt;strong&gt;A train is already divided into sections, and that feeling was very key.&lt;/strong&gt; There’s a character called Nam (Song Kang-ho) who opens gates, and &lt;strong&gt;it’s only with great difficulty that they can move from section to section and open up a new world each time.&lt;/strong&gt; The trick was to differentiate from one world to the next.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T11:08:22.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24841" CreationDate="2015-11-14T11:22:34.767" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a number of occasions, notably in the Animatrix short &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Final_Flight_of_the_Osiris&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Final Flight of the Osiris&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and the webcomic &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20040603211459/http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/cmp/kpage00_755.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Run, Saga, Run&lt;/a&gt;&quot; where a redpill has survived an extremely high fall onto a solid floor with no visible injury.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gm6xh.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gm6xh.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MTmFF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MTmFF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the agent is essentially immortal (e.g. it can simply take over a new body when its current one is damaged) there's absolutely &lt;strong&gt;no reason not to keep trying to kill Trinity until it's absolutely sure that she's absolutely dead.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-14T12:46:17.607" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T12:46:17.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24313" CreationDate="2015-11-14T12:57:55.973" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was discussed by the notoriously secretive Wachowskis in one of the very few &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.matrixfans.net/miscellaneous/wachowski-brothers-chat-transcript/#sthash.kODdUDWg.gupEP0mT.dpuf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interviews&lt;/a&gt; they did (at the insistence of their distributor) in order to promote The Matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WachowskiBros:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;One of the things we tried to do with the Neb for when we were shooting “in the real world” was use long lenses to separate the humans from the backgrounds as opposed to when we shot the Matrix we used short lenses to place the humans in specific deep spaces. &lt;strong&gt;We also tinted all of the lights blue in the “real world” and green in the Matrix.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spark:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;What made you decide on the green tint for being in the Matrix?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WachowskiBros:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It was a whole motif inspired by the phosphorous green of old PC’s.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T08:42:09.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24740" CreationDate="2015-11-14T13:10:18.570" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know (from the Matrix Webcomic &quot;Deja Vu&quot; that bluepills (those inside the Matrix) can become pregnant and have children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K82QL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K82QL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And we know from the &quot;desert of the real&quot; speech by Morpheus that in the real world, babies are created by the machines using IVF techniques and artificial wombs. You may wish to note that the embryo is already plugged into the Matrix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/tgBViHeiSKM?start=150&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's therefore no leap of the imagination to learn that as the babies grow, they're assigned to &quot;parents&quot; who think they're having a normal pregnancy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the baby is born, it then enjoys an independent existence, growing within the &lt;a href=&quot;http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Residual_self_image&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;shell&lt;/a&gt; that was implanted into the &quot;pregnant&quot; mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T13:10:18.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18443" CreationDate="2015-11-14T14:21:52.077" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Echoing my answer to a similar question on Scifi:SE, the mirror itself is just a mirror. The fact that it fixes itself, flows and melts is merely a result of Neo's hallucination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.matrixfans.net/miscellaneous/wachowski-brothers-chat-transcript/#sthash.kODdUDWg.pOnKRjFf.dpbs&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;rare webchat&lt;/a&gt;, the Wachowskis gave us some additional info about the mirror scene. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ThedrickFel:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;What exactly was the mirror made of? Was it the same stuff they injected into Morpheus? Why silver?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WachowskiBros:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The mirror is actually a mirror.&lt;/strong&gt; When Neo sees it it’s a hallucination, but it’s the direct result of the pill Morpheus&#xA;  has given Neo. Reflections in general are a significant theme in the&#xA;  film. The ideas of worlds within worlds..&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Omegacron pointed out in his comment below my other answer, this also explains why no-one notices or comments on it. It's solely Neo's perception that anything has changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-14T14:25:03.263" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T14:25:03.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43441" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-14T15:06:35.963" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-14T15:06:35.963" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T15:06:35.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43442" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-14T15:06:35.963" Score="0" Body="The 2010 French film, French title &quot;Crime d'amour&quot;. Directed by Alain Corneau and starring Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas." OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-11-14T15:38:22.753" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T15:38:22.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9517" CreationDate="2015-11-14T15:43:19.120" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film's script and novelisation are both in agreement that it's some form of EMP pulse gun (albeit a small, portable version).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PAPARAZZI:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Another stiff too old to climb out of his sports car.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PAPARAZZI 2:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;No, that’s Bruce Wayne! Hey, Wayne, where you been hiding?!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lenses swing onto Wayne, who pushes a button on his key fob – &lt;strong&gt;a&#xA;  pulse.&lt;/strong&gt; The cameras die. Wayne heads to the door. &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15824910-the-dark-knight-trilogy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight Trilogy: The Complete Screenplays&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notably, he uses the same technology later on. It's also described as a &lt;em&gt;'pulse'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Batman put a safe distance between themselves and Selina’s attackers&#xA;  before landing the Bat on the empty helipad of a midtown skyscraper.&#xA;  An EMP pulse took out any inconvenient lights and security cameras,&#xA;  ensuring their privacy for the moment.&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13536475-the-dark-knight-rises&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight Rises- The Official Movie Novelization&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T15:43:19.120" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43428" CreationDate="2015-11-14T16:34:18.097" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dwight (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0086301/?ref_=tt_cl_t1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Malcom Blair&lt;/a&gt;) finds out when he is asking one of the Clelands, Teddy, (he has kidnapped) at his old school mates house, where he ask's who was the boy in the limousine. Teddy insinuates a situation with Dwights father and the Clelands mother.  Dwight also finds out who really killed his parents and for what reason. At this point Dwight may not have fully put it together.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end when he is facing the two women after he has looked through the photo album he says as the boy leaves, that's my fathers son Teddy, (who was the guy at his mates house) told me about my Dad and Big Wade, so at this point we know he has connected the dots of the affair with the Clelands mother and his own father and the boy is his step brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24486" LastEditorUserId="24486" LastEditDate="2017-03-27T04:38:44.587" LastActivityDate="2017-03-27T04:38:44.587" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3494" CreationDate="2015-11-14T16:36:57.093" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Their survival is covered in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15824910-the-dark-knight-trilogy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;film's screenplay.&lt;/a&gt; In short, Bane is feeding them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;INT. SEWERS – DAY 207 Hundreds of Police living underground. Dividing&#xA;up supplies lowered by ropes … Ross opens a pack of supplies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BANE:&lt;/strong&gt; (voice-over) &lt;em&gt;But the police will live, until they are ready to&#xA;serve true justice …&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a brief mention in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13536475-the-dark-knight-rises&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;novelisation&lt;/a&gt; about them surviving on &amp;quot;vermin and scraps&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blake hoped Ross and the other entombed cops were collecting the icy&#xA;water. Nearly three months had passed since Bane had sprung his trap,&#xA;and the buried officers had been living on scraps and captured vermin&#xA;ever since. It was a wonder that the buried officers hadn’t yet&#xA;completely given up hope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the numbers, it was certainly into the thousands, according to the script and script notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REPORTER:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;We’re seeing literally thousands of police heading into the sewers –&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SWATs react – the tunnel roof behind collapses … Chunks of concrete&#xA;structure drop – thousands of police throughout different tunnels are&#xA;trapped …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T19:04:30.443" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43448" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-14T16:43:51.210" Score="43" ViewCount="17371" Body="&lt;p&gt;There seems to be a distinctive &quot;old movie&quot; sound. The accents (often British, or some weird American-British hybrid), the delivery of lines (if I talked to somebody the way these lines are delivered, I'd seem condescending), the quiet between lines, the over-accentuated Foley sounds. These characteristics seem prevalent in movies from the 40s to 60s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I correct in this characterization?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, what is the reason for this era-specific sound?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was it an intentional stylistic choice that appealed to audiences of the time?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Was it a limitation of the audio equipment or other production processes of the time?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27737" LastActivityDate="2018-10-23T18:48:25.930" Title="Why do old movies sound like old movies?" Tags="|production|cinema-history|sound-effects|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43454" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43455" CreationDate="2015-11-14T19:10:57.150" Score="9" ViewCount="773" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't remember any actors or exactly when the movie was released, but I remember seeing this movie on Netflix in 2013-2014.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Movies was released between 2004-2015&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think the movie cover has some green in it with some people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's a boxing movie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The main actor gets out of jail and moves into a halfway house for&#xA;released prisoners.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He gets a job at a store where they sell alcohol.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His friend bet on who is going to win at the local boxing ring.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His friend wants the main actor to win.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Also his friend owes some guy money and gets kidnapped.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Main actor tries to help his friend and makes a deal with the&#xA;kidnapper that he will win a number of boxing matches.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are some dirty cops.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At the end there is a big national boxing match that the main actor&#xA;wins, but when the match is over the main actor is confronted by&#xA;the dirty cop, and the dirty cop tries to kill him but is stopped.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have tried:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Searching for boxing movies that have been on Netflix.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Looking through images of covers of boxing movies from 2005-2015.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Looking through lists of boxing movies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But with no luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27755" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-11-14T19:30:15.460" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T20:18:15.507" Title="Boxing movie with a hero recently released from prison" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:09:47.200" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43454" CreationDate="2015-11-14T19:22:54.690" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds a lot like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1937506/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Philly Kid&lt;/a&gt; from 2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An attempt to purchase beer becomes a nightmare for underage friends Chase, Jake and Dillon when Chase ends up dead, Jake gets shot in the back, and Dillon - a championship wrestler - goes to prison for manslaughter. Released after ten years, Dillon's greeted by Jake, who lines him up with a job and introduces him to the world of minor league MMA fighting. Due to Jake's outstanding gambling debt, Dillon agrees to three fights to cover it and literally save Jake's life but finds himself caught between gangsters, dirty cops, a shady promoter, a snide parole officer and Jake's disapproving sister. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/fqZMKHUzbdQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-11-14T19:24:17.783" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T19:24:17.783" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40956" CreationDate="2015-11-14T19:36:40.527" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OymtX2R52os&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tajemství Hradu&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (otherwise known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Castle_in_the_Carpathians&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians&quot;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's Jules Verne inspired, the characters have amazing moustaches and there's a scene involving a cello spike being used to murder one of the characters...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ud1Nv.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ud1Nv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T20:20:53.513" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T20:20:53.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43458" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43448" CreationDate="2015-11-14T19:56:08.927" Score="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the biggest differences between older films and more modern ones is &lt;em&gt;the changing nature of acting&lt;/em&gt; over the years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The further back you go in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the history of film&lt;/a&gt;, the more you'll find &lt;em&gt;movie acting&lt;/em&gt; merging with &lt;em&gt;stage acting&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Big movements&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;bombastic delivery&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;exaggerated facial expressions&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As acting on film began adapting to the medium (the ability to have close-ups, etc), the medium itself adapting and developing (camera work becoming more agile; initially cameras stayed further back and were often stationary, really doing nothing more than framing films like stage plays) and with the introduction of things like &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Method&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, people were able to develop a much more subtle, intimate and nuanced acting style. One of my favourite films is the &lt;strong&gt;Coens&lt;/strong&gt;' &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243133/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Man Who Wasn't There&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (2001). Not only does the camera spend much of the movie trained on &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vm_ih-R62TI/TwzQsrdXkkI/AAAAAAAACOQ/_2kMZ3peJo4/s1600/man4.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Billy Bob Thornton&lt;/strong&gt;'s face&lt;/a&gt; - so much of his work in that film involves subtle, almost imperceptible changes in facial expressions and eye movements - it's really a good example of something that &lt;em&gt;couldn't&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;wouldn't&lt;/em&gt; have been done that way many decades ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recently watched an old &lt;strong&gt;Hitchcock&lt;/strong&gt; film starring a young &lt;strong&gt;Paul Newman&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061107/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Torn Curtain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, 1966). He stood out from other cast members on that movie as he was already developing a much more &quot;modern&quot; acting style. It was a good exercise in the contrast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding &lt;strong&gt;sound effects&lt;/strong&gt;: early on, American and British film and TV were very similar, but America soon started using a much more developed system of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_%28filmmaking%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;foley&lt;/a&gt; which the British didn't bother with for some time. Even today, American film and TV have a much more complete foley approach (having created the role of foley artist, based in the work of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Foley_(sound_effects)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jack Foley&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;).  Extensive foley work gives a much greater control over the sound of final product, just as post production effects give control over the image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Along the way, you notice the refining of the &lt;strong&gt;foley&lt;/strong&gt; presence and process (just as you do with post-production effects); it's much more heavy-handed before it settled down into a streamlined and nuanced process. You can read about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://filmsound.org/foley/jackfoley.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;origins of foley&lt;/a&gt; here, and the more general &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_(filmmaking)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;history of its development here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &lt;strong&gt;speech&lt;/strong&gt; in film, you'll notice changes over time: there is &lt;em&gt;the speed of their speech&lt;/em&gt;. In early periods of film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.answers.com/Q/Why_do_people_talk_fast_in_old_movies&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the cultural perception was that rapid delivery evinced certainty and confidence, and as an extra bonus, a lot of speech covered up lacks in sound effects or the presence of too much background noise (dialogue was harder to isolate with older technology)&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And as others have said, the &lt;strong&gt;accent&lt;/strong&gt; often used in earlier American films is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mid-Atlantic&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Trans-Atlantic accent&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which was &quot;a consciously learned blend of &lt;em&gt;American English&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;British English&lt;/em&gt;, intended to favor neither.&quot; While this attempt to use an accent acceptable to either the British or American ear has fallen by the wayside in favour of the actual American vernacular, the tendency still exists in a small way, like when Canadians adjust their accent to sound neither specifically &lt;em&gt;Canadian&lt;/em&gt; nor &lt;em&gt;American&lt;/em&gt;, or when actors from my part of the world adjust how they speak to sound neither distinctly like an &lt;em&gt;Australian&lt;/em&gt; or a &lt;em&gt;New Zealander&lt;/em&gt;, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27684" LastEditorUserId="12783" LastEditDate="2018-10-23T18:48:25.930" LastActivityDate="2018-10-23T18:48:25.930" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="43464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37429" CreationDate="2015-11-14T20:47:21.200" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The very short answer is no. Nguyen seems to be genuinely &lt;s&gt;insane&lt;/s&gt; unaware that his movie is laughable. He honestly believes that audiences are laughing &lt;em&gt;with&lt;/em&gt; the movie and that it's an intelligent 'think piece' and a romance film (!) to boot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want to stare into the eyes of madness, you can watch the interviews below&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interviewer:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&quot;Do you think it's a good film?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nguyen:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&quot;I think that it's a good film, based on the condition of what I had&#xA;  to work with&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/FKNq9Bi8F-Q?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I see a similar pattern, is that the audience really likes the film. I&#xA;  think the majority of the audience [are] really laughing with the&#xA;  movie, and they were really experiencing the scenes of the film,&#xA;  scene-to-scene. It’s like they were sitting at the midnight showing of&#xA;  the ‘Rocky Horror [Picture Show]’. You know?&#xA;   - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/23593/special-interview-birdemic-shock-and-terror-director-james-nguyen/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/23593/special-interview-birdemic-shock-and-terror-director-james-nguyen/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T20:47:21.200" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36616" CreationDate="2015-11-14T21:33:26.543" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order for this theory to make sense, we need to make a number of fundamental assumptions. Since we see Cobb using the top in the earlier scene with Ariadne (it topples) we have to assume that this is reality. Shortly after he meets her, she takes him into a dream world of &lt;em&gt;her making&lt;/em&gt;, with highly complex architecture and filled with imagery from &lt;em&gt;her imagination, not his&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the scene you've mentioned, he does indeed fail to use his totem correctly and we could, theoretically still be within his dream. The question then is &quot;whose dream is he dreaming?&quot;. If the remainder of the film is Cobb's &lt;em&gt;own dream&lt;/em&gt; then that beggars the question of who is architecting everything for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we genuinely to believe that Cobb has sufficient imagination to independently control the actions of a dozen actors, several of whom are working at cross-purposes, at differing speeds within multiple layers of the dream world? After Cobb goes to Limbo, is he still controlling the actors on the higher levels, all of whom are moving thousands of times faster that he is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on what we know of how dreams (in the inception-verse) work, this theory simply can't be true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T21:33:26.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43468" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42433" CreationDate="2015-11-14T22:12:36.527" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is explained in the 1989 &lt;a href=&quot;http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/Batman_(1989_Movie_Novelization)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;novelisation of the film&lt;/a&gt;. In short, they were up there to get a &quot;better view&quot; of the fight happening below (e.g. they were hiding)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He reached past Vicki and pushed open the trapdoor. There!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “Upsy-daisy,” he said to Vicki as he gave her a final shove up into the belfry.&#xA;  As the Joker followed her up, someone said, “Hiya boss.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Three men were waiting for them—the three bozos he had hired from that Kung Fu studio. He had never learned their names, so that’s how he thought of them—as Bozo One, Bozo Two and Bozo Three.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “What brings you here?” the Joker asked the bozos. “Getting religion?”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Bozo One, a lithe, medium-size man who wore trick boots, said, “I was getting confused down there.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “We come up to get a bird’s eye view of what was goin’ down,” said Bozo Two, a slightly larger, heavier man.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Bozo Three, a huge black man whose face was covered with tribal scars, said nothing. The Joker thought of Bozo Three as the most dangerous of the lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T22:12:36.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43469" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-14T22:21:14.987" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-14T22:21:14.987" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T22:21:14.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43470" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-14T22:21:14.987" Score="0" Body="2015 Netflix series chronicling Pablo Escobar's rise to power" OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2015-11-14T22:21:45.990" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T22:21:45.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35046" CreationDate="2015-11-14T22:43:36.423" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He doesn't appear to be giving him a latitude and longitude, he appears to be giving him a grid reference on the aviator's emergency map that he's holding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IKuN2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IKuN2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since we can assume that the map is at least minimally encoded, without the map in front of us it would be impossible to determine what real-world location the address related to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-14T22:43:36.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23229" CreationDate="2015-11-14T23:24:18.843" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Those sounds appear to be pipe experiencing &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_expansion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;thermal expansion&lt;/a&gt; as well as the noises of the coolant valves opening and closing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may wish to note that the pipe is becoming uncomfortably hot (forcing James to fashion himself cloth mittens), then shortly after the metallic &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deseretnews.com/article/588099/Heating-ducts-make-popping-noise.html?pg=all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ping&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is heard, a wave of water comes rushing through the tunnel and nearly washes poor Mr Bond away. We then see water boiling and steaming on the metal walls of the tunnel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T00:28:19.770" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T00:28:19.770" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42623" CreationDate="2015-11-15T00:10:55.763" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming we stick exclusively to the 2013 &quot;Man of Steel&quot; film and its novelisation, then the answer to your question is that the genetic code of each newborn shapes their skills and abilities (teacher/scientist/leader/worker/etc) as well as determining their &lt;em&gt;general outlook&lt;/em&gt; on society and their place in it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Krypton had long ago abandoned the unpredictability of sexual reproduction—with its reckless pairings and random mixing of chromosomes—in favor of &lt;strong&gt;a more orderly and scientific system that allowed for complete control over each child’s genetic makeup and destiny. Nothing was left to chance. Each developing embryo was expressly designed to fulfill his or her preordained role in society—as a worker, warrior, thinker, administrator, or whatever best served the greater good.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Genesis Chambers were the ultimate expression of Krypton’s rigid caste system, applying advanced genetic engineering to an inviolate tradition that stretched back to antiquity. Jor-El had sprouted from one such stem, many cycles ago, as had Lara, and Zod, and every Kryptonian who currently breathed upon the &#xA;  planet.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Save for one.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16113771-man-of-steel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Man of Steel: The Official Movie Novelization&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This doesn't mean that their actions are pre-determined though. It's a fundamental irony of the film that whilst Jor-El has gone from being a staunch supporter of the council to a &quot;heretic&quot; and Zod has gone from being a loyal General of Krypton to being shunned as a &quot;terrorist&quot;, neither of them have actually changed their philosophical positions over the last few hundred years, just their methods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Oh, and as to how Lara-El and Jor-El were able to conceive a child, I shall leave that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quickmeme.com/img/7f/7f7e40666f90f0ae212bb19a378ce6c181f2b1fa4d35015d89594ac835a8e90e.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;to your imagination&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T00:10:55.763" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43477" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-15T00:38:07.587" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T00:38:07.587" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T00:38:07.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43478" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-15T00:38:07.587" Score="0" Body="2015 film dramatization of Philipe Petit's attempt to walk across a tightrope extended between the Twin Towers in 1974" OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T01:20:47.750" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T01:20:47.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43479" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43489" CreationDate="2015-11-15T00:44:19.090" Score="10" ViewCount="1158" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently finished Breaking Bad, and although I really loved some characters such as Walt and Jesse, I feel weird about Todd. Even if many characters have multiple personalities, they tend to stick with their ideals without strong spikes while Todd goes from overconfident to clumsy and from highly responsive to disoriented. Here some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He kills Drew without a blink in [s5e5], but then he seems to be insecure and even shaking before and during the shootout between Hank&amp;amp;Gomez and White Supremacy Gang [s5e13];&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He tortures ruthlessly Jesse and then he treat him like a beast, chaining him while he works and keeping him handcuffed also when sleeping, but he seems to show humanity both with Walt [s5e13] and Jesse speaking like he never tortured and allowing him to watch the sky for the night;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When White Supremacy Gang gets wiped by Walt's ambush, he gets up unharmed, shows a terrible lack of empathy saying just an &quot;Uncle Jack?&quot; and then looks outside, like he didn't understood anything about what has just happened. I find his reaction weird because previously he always reacted and understood the situation pretty quickly and also gave the idea to care much about uncle Jack and his crew.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I don't know how to feel about him. He shows two sides: the ruthless assassin and the naive boy, but those sides doesn't seem to be very delineated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was he meant to be that type of character? Have I misunderstood something? I feel I missed something about him, I find him a fish out of water compared to all other characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27665" LastEditorUserId="27665" LastEditDate="2016-09-10T13:19:12.090" LastActivityDate="2016-09-10T13:19:12.090" Title="Inconsistencies in Todd's Behavior" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43480" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-15T01:08:11.810" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T01:08:11.810" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T01:08:11.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43481" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-15T01:08:11.810" Score="0" Body="Prequel to AMC's long running series, The Walking Dead. " OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T01:20:51.853" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T01:20:51.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43483" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-15T01:16:44.673" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T01:16:44.673" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T01:16:44.673" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43484" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-15T01:16:44.673" Score="0" Body="1989's american superhero film based on DC comic book character of the same name, directed by Tim Burton, starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-08-31T11:24:38.597" LastActivityDate="2016-08-31T11:24:38.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43486" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12562" CreationDate="2015-11-15T01:40:51.807" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Extremis formula was designed to &quot;upgrade&quot; people's DNA and make them super human. Unfortunately, the formula has a kind of addictive effect on some people and they take too much too quickly and they turn themselves into a bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aldrich Killian needed to cover his tracks when these explosions occured, so he created The Manderin to explain them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27770" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T01:40:51.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43487" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43448" CreationDate="2015-11-15T03:06:36.967" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The accent you are describing is known as the Mid-Atlantic dialect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are a couple articles on the matter: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/08/the-rise-and-fall-of-katharine-hepburns-fake-accent/278505/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;#1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/08/language-mystery-when-did-americans-stop-sounding-this-way/243326/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;#2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/06/that-weirdo-announcer-voice-accent-where-it-came-from-and-why-it-went-away/395141/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;#3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I find it odd that three articles have been written on this subject matter, by the magazine &lt;em&gt;The Atlantic&lt;/em&gt; and in couple year time span no less.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as sure as it sounds odd to us, contemporary films will sound odd to future generations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27771" LastEditorUserId="27797" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T21:43:00.097" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T21:43:00.097" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43488" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39403" CreationDate="2015-11-15T03:54:50.480" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;God, my brain's slow, but I finally got there. ;) It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0829471/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Monarch Cove&lt;/a&gt;, a soapy Lifetime drama from 2006 based on the German telenovela &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432231/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bianca - Wege zum Gluck&lt;/a&gt; from 2004.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After being wrongfully convicted of her father's murder and subsequently spending six years in prison, Bianca Foster (Williams) returns home to a new set of family problems. Determined to help, she takes a job at a resort, only to become romantically involved with business's engaged heir (Hutchinson).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bianca's blonde and her redheaded sister turns out to be adopted, she takes care of her sick grandma (Shirley Jones) and the heir is engaged to a woman called Elizabeth. Here are the first 10 minutes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/66-fW1wSskY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T03:54:50.480" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43479" CreationDate="2015-11-15T06:05:25.027" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Todd's mind was just like a boy. He wanted to prove his worth to his uncle about his abilities and he also had a crush on Lydia and would do anything to impress her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was the reason for his inconsistent behavior. For impressing and proving his worth he would easily do killing and torturing but whenever these boosting factors went off due to any factor in that case his childish behavior was visible like confusion or no reaction as there will not be any factor to give him confidence so he will just flow with the wind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Todd_Alquist&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Despite his soft spoken nature and child-like fascination with the criminal underworld, Todd has proven himself to be a more than capable criminal, and will normally act on instinct when he feels that the secrecy of his occupation is in jeopardy. Todd's primary motivation seems to be gratification from his employers, rather than greed or morality, and will go to great lengths to please them. His relationship with his employers is always one of respect and loyalty, and will execute any command unflinchingly and without remorse. His attitude towards his uncle and his uncle's gang is more familiar, and though he shows an eagerness to impress them with his abilities, he does not show them the same sycophancy that he treats his bosses with. He also appears to be infatuated in Lydia, a sentiment not reciprocated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T13:00:47.393" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T13:00:47.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43490" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43491" CreationDate="2015-11-15T06:34:29.967" Score="12" ViewCount="2282" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a movie when I was about 5 years old, and the cartoonish antagonist in it became the monster under my bed.  Here's what I remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Saw it in circa 1983, probably on HBO;  I don't think it came out more than a year or two earlier.  Probably American.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Low budget, probably direct-to-video.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spaceship crew on some sort of mission, discovers alien life.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alien is a one-eyed mass of red slime.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At least one woman on the crew.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The alien is placed in a containment unit with glass walls.  Doctor/scientist assures crew that the alien is intelligent and friendly.  He puts a device on the alien's head that translates its thoughts into English speech.  The alien proceeds to do a song and dance routine, with lyrics about how much he wants to eat the crew.  His voice sounds like Barry Manilow.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The doctor/scientist is oblivious to this explicit declaration of hostile intent, and assures the crew that the alien is, as he had already said, harmless. He enters the containment unit and the alien immediately tears off his arm and eats it.  Very reminiscent of the Black Knight scene from &lt;em&gt;Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail&lt;/em&gt;.  The doctor/scientist insists that the alien is merely playing.  He is then devoured outright, with the possible exception of his calves and feet.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alien goes on the rampage, eating the crew members one by one.  Eventually, one or two survivors manage to eject the alien through an airlock.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The movie ends with the ship flying through space, and the words &quot;The End&quot; appearing on the screen.  The camera pans out and we see the alien floating along behind the ship, and a question mark appears behind the caption - &quot;The End?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was clearly a campy parody of &lt;em&gt;Alien&lt;/em&gt;, and the production values, acting, writing, sets, and dialogue were absolutely appalling.  In short, it shouldn't have frightened me at all, but I was a huge baby, so it utterly terrified me.  I was probably the only person who was scared by it, and I imagine that there are no more than a few thousand other people who have seen it;  I am absolutely certain that none of them enjoyed it in the slightest.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T06:57:53.220" LastActivityDate="2016-05-29T23:36:30.240" Title="Comedy about a red slime monster alien devouring a spaceship's crew" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|comedy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:09:56.613" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43491" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43490" CreationDate="2015-11-15T06:39:21.523" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082213/plotsummary&quot;&gt;The Creature Wasn't Nice&lt;/a&gt; (AKA Naked Space AKA Spaceship) from 1981 with Leslie Nielsen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When the spaceship Vertigo stops to explore a previously unknown planet, the crew finds an unrecognized dollop of protoplasm and takes it aboard ship to return it to earth for analysis. On board, lifeform expands into an oozing person-eating monster which communicates primarily by means of a Vegas lounge act. The crew is gobbled up one after another until the two surviving crewmembers come up with a plan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creature_Wasn&amp;#39;t_Nice&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The movie is a low-budget comedy with simple sets and dialog wrapped around several musical numbers. In one of the scenes, the red slimy one-eyed alien monster performs a lounge-act style musical number called &quot;I Want to Eat Your Face.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWPmXJ3Kwqw&quot;&gt;song&lt;/a&gt;, and here's your little friend:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y7768.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y7768.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T07:04:31.807" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T07:04:31.807" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11727" CreationDate="2015-11-15T09:19:25.957" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;the answer is that the real tiger was almost killed, shooting the water scenes.&#xA;The &quot;no animals were harmed in the making of this picture&quot; stamp is a scam, AHA is not only ignoring the crime but helping cover it up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;read it for yourself: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/27/life-of-pi-tiger-nearly-drowned-report-animals-hollywood&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/27/life-of-pi-tiger-nearly-drowned-report-animals-hollywood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*and the original email: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/feature/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/LifeofPi-email.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/feature/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/LifeofPi-email.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27773" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T09:19:25.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42157" CreationDate="2015-11-15T10:34:16.603" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Doctor got Back to Future™ the long way around, by hibernating in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_animation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;suspended animation chamber&lt;/a&gt; in the space-hearse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bennett:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;suspended animation chamber&lt;/strong&gt; is still here, and the power cells for the engine.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... [later]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clara:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;And saying the chamber will open?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Doctor:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;That was me telling me to get inside and when to set it for.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/orrHB.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/orrHB.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T10:34:16.603" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43497" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43505" CreationDate="2015-11-15T11:04:09.063" Score="2" ViewCount="1369" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question keeps bugging me! Walt and Jesse both lost everything in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; when Jesse decided to help Hank. If he solved his dispute with Walter by himself he would not have been tortured, Hank would not have got killed and possibly Walter would have passed away rich and happy on his bed surrounded by his children. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing that makes me think otherwise is that Jesse has helped the law by betraying Walt but I highly doubt this was his motive, he just had a personal vendetta against Walt even when the latter loved him like a son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13312" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-10-31T08:20:07.270" LastActivityDate="2016-10-31T08:20:07.270" Title="Did Jesse do the right thing?" Tags="|analysis|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-11-16T11:46:44.093" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43498" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26302" CreationDate="2015-11-15T11:31:23.147" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is pure conjecture, but my take was that the Foretold was intentionally targeting the sick and wounded because those were those that it deemed the &lt;em&gt;most likely to die soon anyway&lt;/em&gt;, thus allowing the strong and healthy (e.g. those with the greatest life expectancy) to survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CLARA:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;We were fighting that?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DOCTOR:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;So was he.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a soldier, the clear implication is that it was &lt;strong&gt;forced to kill&lt;/strong&gt; by the malfunctioning technology it carried. It's certainly possible that it was trying to work out how to do the absolute minimum possible damage and that means killing those who already have life-threatening conditions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T11:36:33.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24478" CreationDate="2015-11-15T11:45:45.490" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/stream/DW8Ep1PostProductionScriptPictureLockInc.ADR24FpsMarceloCamargo/DW8%20-%20Ep%203%20-%20Robot%20of%20Sherwood_Picture%20Lock%20010714-Marcelo%20Camargo-_djvu.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;original show script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CLARA:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;But you're good at this! I saw you! You won the tournament!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE DOCTOR:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I cheated.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CLARA:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;What?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE DOCTOR:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I made a special arrow with a homing device.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems likely that &lt;strong&gt;the Doctor made the homing device explode&lt;/strong&gt;, rather than the wooden target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T11:45:45.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43500" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-15T11:45:56.187" Score="5" ViewCount="511" Body="&lt;p&gt;Won't Seven of Nine from &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Voyager&lt;/em&gt; get tired legs or feet from standing almost continuously, even when regenerating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could imagine a borg drone not getting tired legs because of all the metal implants supporting the organic parts of its body, but Seven of Nine's implants are almost all removed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27776" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-21T23:12:07.217" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T00:49:55.260" Title="Won't Seven of Nine get tired legs or feet?" Tags="|character|star-trek|star-trek-voyager|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43500" CreationDate="2015-11-15T11:54:31.257" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The strong impression given is that when Seven regenerates in her alcove, it also helps her to recover the strength in her limbs that normal humans would gain from lying down to sleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JANEWAY:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Consider it done. The Doctor tells me you don't need to regenerate any more. I can arrange some quarters for you, unless you&#xA;  enjoy curling up in the Cargo Bay.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SEVEN:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;A bed would be more comfortable. Since I arrived on Voyager, your guidance has been invaluable. Thank you, Captain.&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/715.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Voy: Human Error&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also wish to note that her blood is still filled with nanites that constantly repair her physical systems as well as a host of larger borg components (a &quot;bi-radial socket&quot; is mentioned). On at least one occasion (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/413.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Voy: Hunters&lt;/a&gt;) we learn that she's gone over 56 hours without sleeping with only minimal ill-effects, so clearly she's not quite fully human yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T12:06:27.607" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T12:06:27.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7995" CreationDate="2015-11-15T12:24:39.553" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is highly unlikely that Adam Sandler could have made a cameo in this episode as, on the day of filming (in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brangwyn_Hall&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Swansea&lt;/a&gt;) he was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/comedian-adam-sandler-onstage-during-the-52nd-annual-grammy-news-photo/180042265&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;hosting the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards&lt;/a&gt; (in Los Angeles).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mwOtm.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mwOtm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll happily admit he could theoretically have jumped the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-eye_flight&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;red-eye&lt;/a&gt; (12.5 hours, not including transfers) and traveled to Wales to play a small role as an uncredited extra in a low-budget British scifi show, but that doesn't seem especially credible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-02-14T11:50:51.517" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T11:50:51.517" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43503" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14476" CreationDate="2015-11-15T12:53:46.427" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sequence of events is key here. At the beginning of the dream Fischer &lt;em&gt;finds himself&lt;/em&gt; at the train station. He's got a lot on his mind (his father is very unwell) and he's not &lt;em&gt;entirely sure&lt;/em&gt; how he got there but he clearly recognises that there's little point hanging around the station when he's &lt;strong&gt;an important man with a business empire to run.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He goes outside to hail a cab and luckily for him (and despite the rain) a cab instantly lights its &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;for hire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; sign and he jumps in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as &quot;private (dream) security&quot; is concerned, they don't kick in until his subconscious starts to notice that he's &lt;strong&gt;not dreaming his own dream&lt;/strong&gt;, at which point a veritable trainload of security personnel arrive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also note that he doesn't travel with bodyguards when he's on the plane, so perhaps he's not that interested in having security people around him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T12:53:46.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43504" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43509" CreationDate="2015-11-15T13:08:23.690" Score="8" ViewCount="2646" Body="&lt;p&gt;I understand that Voldemort's snake is a powerful one, but why were Hermione and Ron so helpless in the climax of &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2&lt;/em&gt;? Hermione was supposed to be the best student of her class and she also knows many spells but when in the climax the snake chases Ron and Hermione, they were about to surrender to the snake before Neville killed it with the sword. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hermione knows many magic spells, so she can at least do something to save herself and Ron - or at least attempt to do so. Her character was so powerful throughout the movie, but the end felt somewhat odd. Is it because the makers wanted to highlight Neville as another emerging hero?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27657" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-08-29T02:56:45.180" LastActivityDate="2016-08-29T02:56:45.180" Title="Why was Hermione Granger's character in Deathly Hallows so weak in the climax?" Tags="|character|harry-potter|the-deathly-hallows-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43505" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43497" CreationDate="2015-11-15T13:15:44.167" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Long story short: &lt;strong&gt;YES&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let me begin saying that one of the best things of Breaking Bad are characters, their stories and their evolution through the story. Jesse started to cook for the money, for living. He never thought himself as someone with the capacities to do anything else than sell drugs, this is also why he started using. After the death of Jane and the rehab, he says he understood and accepted what he is: the bad guy. This is not true, because later on he shows empathy, humanity and guilt for what he does: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he doesn't want to sell or let Andrea using;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he reveals that he is attending meetings just to sell drugs (although he was never able do to so);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he kills Gale, but just because he had to choose between killing him and let Walt die.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jesse is a bad guy, because he sells meth for living, but he does not become ruthless like Walt. And he understand that the only one who can stop Walt, is him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there are heavy consequences for his actions, but I believe he did the right thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27665" LastEditorUserId="27665" LastEditDate="2015-11-16T21:56:11.090" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T21:56:11.090" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43506" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-15T14:40:20.083" Score="3" ViewCount="411" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;The Assassin&quot; (2015) killing Tien Xing, Yinniang's uncle, does not seem to be of any benefit to Lady Tian, Tian Ji'an's wife. Yet it seems that it was her, who ordered to bury Tien Xing alive. Why did she do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27778" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T14:47:23.493" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T14:47:23.493" Title="Why has Tian Ji'an's wife ordered to kill Nie Yinniang's uncle in &quot;The Assassin&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-assassin|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43504" CreationDate="2015-11-15T17:26:37.883" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a couple of things going on here that aren't immediately obvious&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Their plan failed. Totally failed.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing that Nagini is immune to the level of magic at their disposal, the aim was to kill her by distracting her and then stabbing her with the basilisk's fang. That plan failed utterly and they were forced to flee. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Because her wand was broken and her loaner was rubbish.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as why she didn't try &lt;em&gt;more spells&lt;/em&gt; to try to defend them, the simple fact is that they were facing an enemy who wasn't even &lt;em&gt;slowed down&lt;/em&gt; by being hit point-blank by Ron's spell. On top of that, Hermione is stuck with Bellatrix' wand which doesn't seem to work especially well for her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A slightly &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scribd.com/doc/163084623/HARRY-POTTER-AND-THE-DEATHLY-HALLOWS-PART-2-by-screenplay-Steve-Kloves#scribd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;earlier version&lt;/a&gt; of the film's shooting script strongly indicates that by now, the two of them have lost hope and are simply expecting to die. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just then, Ron and Hermione burst INTO VIEW, followed by Nagini. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nagini rises, ready to strike. Harry turns, wand in hand, but he’s too&#xA;  late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ron reaches out... and takes Hermione’s hand.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luckily, Neville turns up in the nick of time and saves the day, completing his personal story arc from &lt;a href=&quot;http://33.media.tumblr.com/f6f1dd0fffb01f21fd9d8f37ee4688e2/tumblr_mqrjghz1t61su7sauo1_500.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blithering buffoon&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Born%20again%20hard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;born-again hard&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T17:26:37.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41586" CreationDate="2015-11-15T19:51:40.627" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's no good explanation given in the film why they don't have an implant tracking station in the I-Rex™ Control Room. They have visual &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; infra-red monitors and those seem to be completely effective, right up to the point that they (unexpectedly) stop working and everyone gets killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why they're dumb enough to go into the paddock, the answer is that the I-Rex™ is absolutely massive and should shine like a beacon on the IR scope. Without its new-found &lt;em&gt;visual and infra-red cloaking abilities&lt;/em&gt; (which our heroes are of course unaware of) there should be absolutely no way that it could hide inside the paddock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In a back corner, the paddock supervisor looked up from a magazine. &lt;strong&gt;He&#xA;  checked the infrared monitors but didn’t see the red outline of the&#xA;  Indominus.&lt;/strong&gt; “Oh, boy…,” he muttered.&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Claire turned to him. “What? What are you saying?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“It doesn’t make sense,” the supervisor said. “The doors haven’t been opened in weeks.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Jurassic_World_Special_Edition_Junior_Novelization&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jurassic World: Special Edition Junior&#xA;  Novelisation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yeah, going into the paddock without first checking the implant location was a monumentally stupid move. That being said, all the protagonists are depicted as &lt;em&gt;being&lt;/em&gt; monumentally stupid, so it's not actually out of character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T19:51:40.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36965" CreationDate="2015-11-15T20:03:32.887" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Obviously the main thing to note is that the two films are set decades apart. The costs will have changed dramatically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a quote regarding the cost of the I-Rex™. Masrani indicates that the total amount spent on the &quot;&lt;em&gt;asset&lt;/em&gt;&quot; is in the ballpark of &lt;strong&gt;$26M.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Owen:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;You're going after her with non-lethals??&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Masrani:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;We have $26 million invested in that asset. We can't just kill it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=jurassic-world&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now within Jurassic &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;World&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, where they've had twenty years to get good at this stuff, I think we can assume that a run-of-the-mill stegosaurus or hadrosaur (where they've got the breeding techniques down pat) would be dramatically cheaper, probably in the region of a few million. Heck, they've even got kids riding on the damn things so they can't possibly be that expensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Jurassic Park&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a startup, the costs here are &lt;em&gt;substantially higher&lt;/em&gt;. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;source novel&lt;/a&gt; mentions that John Hammond has spent nearly a billion dollars developing the techniques used to create the dinosaurs. Those costs include the amber ($17M) the genetic sequencers ($24M) and the cost of the park itself ($100M).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that there are around 100 dinos on the island, that suggests a per-unit cost of about &lt;strong&gt;$50-60M spent on each animal&lt;/strong&gt;. The flipside is that he's expecting to generate a revenue into the tens of billions each year, with the cost (per unit) declining rapidly now that the hard work has been done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Donald Gennaro had come to Cowan, Swain from a background in&#xA;  investment banking. Cowan, Swain's high-tech clients frequently needed&#xA;  capitalization, and Gennaro helped them find the money. &lt;strong&gt;One of his&#xA;  first assignments, back in 1982, had been to accompany John Hammond&#xA;  while the old man, then nearly seventy, put together the funding to&#xA;  start the InGen corporation. They eventually raised almost a billion&#xA;  dollars, and Gennaro remembered it as a wild ride.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T20:29:18.047" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T20:29:18.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43517" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-15T20:20:22.053" Score="9" ViewCount="10242" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was released in about 2011/2012.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is a man and a dog in an abandoned city, with skyscrapers and everything. I think he is trying to get to his family or something.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the city also are human/zombie like monsters, that go after him and smell his blood. The man kills them by making traps using his own blood to lure them into the traps. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At one point the dog gets killed and I think the man gets killed at the end of the movie too.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27791" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T20:23:43.227" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T23:23:50.527" Title="Post-apocalyptic movie with a man and his dog. Spends his time making traps for zombies" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:10:06.033" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43517" CreationDate="2015-11-15T20:22:32.233" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like the plot of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/combined&quot;&gt;I Am Legend&lt;/a&gt; with Will Smith from 2007.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is the year 2012. In the ruins of New York city. Robert Neville who is a military scientist who is the lone survivor of a biochemical disease which was supposed to cure cancer 3 years previous. With only blood thirsty zombies as his neighbors and his trusty dog, Samantha, Robert is trying to discover a cure for this disease and to find out any other people who might have also survived. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He makes traps for the zombies, and...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;the dog dies, and so does the hero in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ewpYq9rgg3w?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T20:22:32.233" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43519" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43517" CreationDate="2015-11-15T20:22:50.193" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie is probably &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;I Am Legend&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, starring Will Smith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eGYu6.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eGYu6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Will Smith is an Army scientist who survives a plague that kills most of the population and turns the rest into monstrous vampires.  His daughter's dog is his only companion, and dies trying to defend him.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 2009, a genetically re-engineered measles virus, originally created as a cure for cancer, turns into a lethal strain which kills 90% of those it infects, and mutates the remaining 10% into predatory, nocturnal mutants called &quot;Darkseekers&quot; who are extremely vulnerable to sunlight and other sources of UV. Three years after the outbreak, US Army virologist Lieutenant Colonel Robert Neville (Will Smith) lives an isolated life in the ruins of New York City, which is now deserted, unsure if any other uninfected humans are left in the world.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The (mediocre) movie is very loosely based on the (excellent) &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Richard Mattheson book of the same name&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T20:39:18.413" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T20:39:18.413" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42655" CreationDate="2015-11-15T21:40:12.490" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hagrid's capture occurs (in the novel, at least) during the &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Hogwarts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Battle of Hogwarts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;‘HAGRID, COME BACK!’&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  But he was not even halfway to Hagrid when he saw it happen: Hagrid vanished amongst the spiders, and with a great scurrying, a foul swarming movement, they retreated under the onslaught of spells, Hagrid buried in their midst.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ‘HAGRID!’&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Harry heard someone calling his own name, whether friend or foe he did not care: he was sprinting down the front steps into the dark grounds, and the spiders were swarming away with their prey, and he could see nothing of Hagrid at all.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ‘HAGRID!’&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  He thought he could make out an enormous arm waving from the midst of the spider swarm, but as he made to chase after them, his way was impeded by a monumental foot, which swung down out of the darkness and made the ground on which he stood shudder.&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although we don't see his capture, we can make the assumption that once he was outside the Great Hall he was simply taken by the Death Eaters under Voldemort's command.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-15T21:46:30.723" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T21:46:30.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41590" CreationDate="2015-11-15T22:35:01.497" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is Pops' mission?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To protect Sarah Connor. Everything else comes second to that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pops' mission taking the long way to the future is to prepare for their arrival so they can work together to destroy Skynet. He needs to secure a location for them to work out of, stockpile guns, ammunition, and explosives, and to scout out ahead of time so they know where they need to go. So far so good: this is a relatively safe mission for a killing machine. &lt;em&gt;He is unlikely to render himself unable to protect Sarah Connor in the future.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now consider what could happen if he striked preemptively at Skynet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a T-800 with no confirmed other terminators nearby to stop him, he could inflict serious damage to the facilities and possibly even achieve mission success.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Skynet is located in a major population center. This is not rural America where a T-800 could single-handedly destroy an entire town before anyone know what was going on. With millions of people in San Fransisco and the surrounding area, there will be police, SWAT teams, National Guard, and plenty of weapons that would eventually overpower him. He is a lone terminator, not a terminator army.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the bridge scene, remember when he says (paraphrasing) there are too many cops and not enough bullets: attacking would jeopardize my (primary) mission and is a tactical failure.&quot; The same is true of attacking Skynet: while success is theoretically possible, there is an unacceptable risk of failure which would endanger Sarah Connor by virtue of Pops being destroyed or severely damaged. In other words, attacking Skynet might cause him to fail his primary mission.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, he &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; have known about John Connor's secret: remember how Pops reacts to John in the hospital parking garage. If he was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; aware, there is still a risk that somehow future Skynet could have delivered a terminator to protect &quot;infant&quot; Skynet. If he &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; aware, then he certainly knows John is protecting Skynet. Either way, there is a nontrivial risk that another terminator is present incognito which would pose a significant risk of damaging or destroying Pops, causing primary mission failure. Remember, there are terminators more advanced than the T-800, but nothing we know of &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; advanced. Pops best possible chance against another terminator without help is 50% and it goes down from there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9311" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T22:35:01.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41709" CreationDate="2015-11-15T22:48:21.943" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Michael Crichton's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.michaelcrichton.com/jurassic-park/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;foreword&lt;/a&gt; to the Audiobook version of Jurassic Park specifically addresses this point. The island is intended to be a theme &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;park&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (e.g. complete with rides and attractions), not just a &lt;strong&gt;zoo&lt;/strong&gt;logical garden for animals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;I wrote a screenplay about cloning a pterodactyl from fossil DNA in&#xA;  1983, but the story wasn’t convincing. I worked on it for several&#xA;  years since, trying to make it more credible. &lt;strong&gt;Finally I decided on a&#xA;  theme park setting, and wrote a novel from the point of view of a&#xA;  young boy who was present when the dinosaurs escaped.&lt;/strong&gt; I then sent the&#xA;  book to the usual people who read my first drafts.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source novel&lt;/a&gt;, the character John Hammond gives us an insight into his own thinking on the subject:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Well, Donald,” Hammond said, “to explain that, you have to go back to&#xA;  the initial concept of the resort. &lt;strong&gt;The concept of the most advanced&#xA;  amusement park in the world,&lt;/strong&gt; combining the latest electronic and&#xA;  biological technologies.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As does John Arnold, the park's chief engineer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“None of the rides are running yet,” Arnold was saying. “We have the jungle River Ride, where the boats follow tracks underwater, and we have the Aviary Lodge Ride, but none of it's operational yet. The park'll open with the basic dinosaur tour - the one that you're about to take in a few minutes. The other rides will come on line six, twelve months after that.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Wait a minute,” Grant said. “You're going to have rides? Like an amusement park?”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Arnold said, “&lt;strong&gt;This is a zoological park&lt;/strong&gt;. We have tours of different areas, and we call them rides. That's all.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Grant frowned. Again he felt troubled. He didn't like the idea of dinosaurs being used for an amusement park.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-09T22:19:00.250" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T22:19:00.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11018" CreationDate="2015-11-15T23:17:55.743" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was discussed at some length in an article about Tippett for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/2012/05/phil-tippett-feature/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wired Magazine&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originally, Steven Spielberg’s life finds a way dinosaur amusement park movie was going to be done with stop-motion miniatures from Tippett combined in post-production with larger robotic dinosaurs created by special effects master Stan Winston. But then Muren told Spielberg about the new CGI technologies that were being used by ILM for Terminator and said he might be able to make dinosaurs. Spielberg and Tippett watched a mock-up of CGI dinos and were blown away. In that moment Tippett told Spielberg, “I think I’m extinct.” (Spielberg later worked the line into the Jurassic Park script.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“It was like this big emotional thing for me because I was like, ‘Oh god, that’s it. What I do is not relevant anymore,'” Tippett said, recalling the film’s production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spielberg decided to use CGI for the film (along with Winston’s larger animatronic dinos). But Tippett wasn’t out. After cutting their teeth on stop-motion work, Tippett’s animators were better equipped than computer nerds at making dino-motion look real. So they came up with a solution to combine the efforts — the Dinosaur Input Device, an animator’s puppet covered in sensors that translated movements into computer code (one of the devices sits in Tippett’s Berkeley office, not far from the visual effects Academy Award that Tippett subsequently won for Jurassic Park).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notably, you can see Phil Tippett in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1994&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1994 Oscar Award trailer&lt;/a&gt; for the &amp;quot;Visual Effects&amp;quot; category. Tippett is the one playing with the scale-model dinosaur skeleton:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/bXZqQl_rNoo?start=67&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T23:24:39.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43530" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43517" CreationDate="2015-11-15T23:23:50.527" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you were looking for an older film, there is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067525/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Omega Man&lt;/a&gt; starring Charlton Heston  which is also based on the same book, &lt;em&gt;I am Legend&lt;/em&gt; as the 2012 Wil Smith version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12680" LastActivityDate="2015-11-15T23:23:50.527" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43531" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43533" CreationDate="2015-11-15T23:29:57.063" Score="6" ViewCount="639" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340138/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Terminator Genisys&lt;/a&gt;, we learn at the start how the time machine works. Specifically, one of the humans explains its limitations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kyle Reese: No weapons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Female soldier: We've measured the magnetic field. It'll rip apart&#xA;  anything not encased in living tissue. Think &quot;tin foil in a microwave.&quot;&#xA;  Times a few billion. Nothing left but a crater. Oh, no clothes, either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on, we see&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; John Connor, infected by the machines to become one of them, gets torn&#xA; to pieces in the incomplete time machine and causes a massive explosion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on what we know in-movie, the time machine's field cannot touch anything that is not living tissue: even clothing which is dead tissue (e.g. cotton) would not be good. So far so good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This explanation also agrees with the results of the final usage of the time machine, operational or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it is unclear &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; non-living tissue would cause such a violent reaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it is due to a strong magnetic field, said field would easily penetrate living tissue and interact with the metal of terminators that use the time machine. Other terminators sent back in time would also have caused catastrophic failures.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it is due to some other form of electromagnetic radiation, it would likely also cook living tissue (e.g. Kyle Reese) if strong enough to cause an explosion with &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/67880/57109&quot;&gt;exposed metal&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there any in-universe explanation from &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; of the Terminator movies regarding &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; metal would cause a time machine to explode?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9311" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:13.220" LastActivityDate="2016-08-07T18:50:07.730" Title="How did the time machine explode?" Tags="|plot-explanation|terminator-series|terminator-genisys|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43532" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-15T23:31:16.033" Score="13" ViewCount="487" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout all episodes of Seinfeld, we've seen that Kramer might have a neurological disorder, which could explain why he falls so frequently. However, the writers did not clarify which disease that was. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence that he has a disorder, and if so, what that disorder might be?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27800" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2017-12-13T03:32:09.883" LastActivityDate="2017-12-13T03:32:09.883" Title="Possible disease of Kramer?" Tags="|character|seinfeld|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43531" CreationDate="2015-11-16T00:06:28.363" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. The movies do not delve into the specifics of the time machine's workings, other than what is stated. The &lt;strong&gt;Time Displacement Equipment&lt;/strong&gt; must work on physical properties that are different from real world physics, as we know it. We know that even a common MRI machine would affect the nanites in the infected John, so the Time Displacement Equipment does not produce a common electromagnetic field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's mentioned that a biological organisms bioelectric field protects them. Terminators have a thin living skin that produces this field.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible that this field couples with something produced by the Time Machine, reducing or changing how it effects metal. How two fields couple can increase or reduce em field strengths. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alternatively, the bioelectric field can act as a sort of Faraday Cage, conducting the Time Machine's field around the skin, instead of through it. Typically, real world Faraday shields are made of fine mesh metal, and used to isolate things in the inside from RF interference outside of the cage (or vis versa). Common in electronic testing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the organic field can act like a material that's opaque to certain wavelengths of radiation. Think lead to X-rays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why the Prototype Time Machine seen in Genisys exploded with John Conner, a simple physics reason would be inductive heating, which would be very dangerous to any number of battery types. Not knowing what powers the nanites, we do know that the T-800 series Terminators have &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nuclear Power Cells&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (The T-850 has 2 Hydrogen Fuel Cells, and the T-900 (SCC) has an Iridium Fuel Cell). Any sort of melting or heating of such a fuel cell can easily produce explosive potential. As seen in T3, a damaged cell explodes in the same manner as a nuclear bomb, on a smaller scale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-16T01:16:42.117" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T01:16:42.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43534" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1254" CreationDate="2015-11-16T00:15:55.303" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simplest answer is that the T-Rex didn't come in through the main doors, it came through the (now open to the elements) side entrance, shouldering its way through the scaffolding:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/59UIu.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/59UIu.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3GHy0.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3GHy0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t6pcE.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t6pcE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-16T18:02:09.670" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T18:02:09.670" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43540" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-16T02:24:05.127" Score="5" ViewCount="822" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just watched the James Bond movie &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;GoldenEye&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, in which Alec wants to use the GoldenEye satellite to erase all electronic information in London. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't understand is why the first satellite wasn't detonated over London directly, instead of detonating it over Severnaya and then stealing the second. If it was to erase the evidence of Oromouv stealing the GoldenEye, the two GoldenEye satellites could have been used at the same time anyway. Is there something I'm missing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27809" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T04:52:43.583" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T07:24:35.147" Title="Why wasn't the first Golden Eye satellite detonated over London?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|goldeneye|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5630" CreationDate="2015-11-16T02:50:37.633" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My thoughts about this film are rather different than most as I am looking at this film from a christian point of view. The film is named emphatically and simply Antichrist. I feel that this film is about an individual (man) and the circumstances that are preparing him to become the Antichrist. The reason for this comes from a verse in the book of Daniel, chapter 11: verse 37:   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is like an Anti-Garden of which a man who loves and is deeply concerned for his wife is set on a path that will end up with him eventually hating her and maybe hating all women. In the end succumbs to this ideology that his wife has embraced. Notice that the faces of those women at the epilogue are all blurred out as if they have no identity with him for he regards them not. He has had the means by which he can have children taken away so that none can come after him or say supplant him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you read in the book of Revelation chapter 17 you read of the Beast and the women who rides upon the scarlet beast is Babylon the whore and the beast turns on her and kills her. The Beast is the Antichrist and his one world empire which is happening or becoming right now. The world is becoming One through the internet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The internet has broken down all ethnic barriers and has spread through all the earth. Anyway that is all i have to say and I hope it adds an interesting slant to the topic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27808" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-11-16T07:45:59.200" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T07:45:59.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43540" CreationDate="2015-11-16T02:51:10.267" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Detonating over Severnaya ensures that only they have control of the 2nd satellite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it had been left intact, the military would be able to use it to change codes and lock them out at will, possibly even without the launch keys. After the initial heist, there's no way Russia could rebuild the facility from the EMP blast in time to prevent a second detonation.  It also covers the general's role, so it's a twofer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speculating on this bit, but there may also be a matter of timing.  They were able to task the sat, target, and detonate over the base in the time it took them to leave.  If they tried for London right off the bat, the weapon may have taken way too long to get into position, leaving them to greet the incoming army with more guns.  The general's &quot;inspection&quot; may have been timed for precisely that reason; he would know when the weapon would be overhead.  They would also need to time the heist out of London to their spec - too much time between theft and detonation and people would know what they'd done, too little time between detonations and it looks too much like an inside job rather than an outside theft.  The way they do it lets everyone get covered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27391" LastEditorUserId="27391" LastEditDate="2015-11-16T03:03:01.143" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T03:03:01.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17892" CreationDate="2015-11-16T04:31:56.857" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to historical story/myth, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_Ragnar%27s_Sons&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tale of Ragnar's sons (Old Norse: Ragnarssona þáttr)&lt;/a&gt;, Bjorn's mother was Aslaug not Lagertha. The saga as translated by Peter Tunstall as the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ragnar married Aslaug&lt;/strong&gt;, whom some call Randalin, the daughter of Sigurd Fafnir's Bane and Brynhild Budli's daughter. They had four sons. Ivar Boneless was the eldest, &lt;strong&gt;then Bjorn Ironside&lt;/strong&gt;, then Hvitserk, then Sigurd. There was a mark is his eye, as if a snake lay around the pupil, and that's why he was called Sigurd Snake-in-Eye.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure why they changed that for the tv show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27811" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-16T05:01:48.340" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T05:01:48.340" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43544" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-16T05:12:03.747" Score="2" ViewCount="6690" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to historical story/myth, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_Ragnar%27s_Sons&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tale of Ragnar's sons (Old Norse: Ragnarssona þáttr)&lt;/a&gt;, Bjorn's mother was Aslaug. Yet in the 2013 show &lt;strong&gt;Vikings&lt;/strong&gt;, Bjorn's mother was Lagertha. Why was this change made? Have the directors or writers explained the difference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T11:54:57.450" Title="Why was Lagertha made mother of Bjorn?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|vikings|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43545" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43557" CreationDate="2015-11-16T05:22:18.077" Score="10" ViewCount="32410" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end of &lt;em&gt;Law Abiding Citizen&lt;/em&gt;, Clyde Shelton was being blown up by his own bomb but in the end, even though he died, did he get what he had always wanted? When he was being blown up by his own bomb, there are scenes that focus on his facial expression while he was holding the gift his daughter gave him. What does that facial expression mean? Somebody said it is relief, somebody said it is guilt, I'm just not sure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-10T10:38:41.170" LastActivityDate="2018-12-25T08:36:54.470" Title="What does Clyde's facial expression mean in the ending scene?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|law-abiding-citizen|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43545" CreationDate="2015-11-16T06:28:00.650" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end, that was what he wanted - to be with his daughter and wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rage of the way his wife and daughter were killed and the deal that was made drove him into this madness for revenge which was all consuming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He wanted relief from that, which is what he got in the end when he was finally trapped by his own bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It most definitely isn't guilt; as he never shows this expression throughout the entire movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8318" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T06:28:00.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43548" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43531" CreationDate="2015-11-16T06:31:17.193" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is mentioned in the beginning (when we first see the new time machine) that it is not complete and they are still working on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hence, it could be speculated that as it was not complete - the necessary tools/mechanisms were not in place to prevent an overload; which led to the explosion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8318" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T06:31:17.193" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43549" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-16T06:49:13.747" Score="2" ViewCount="815" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Pixels, one pixel alien takes the look of Lady Lisa, on which Ludlow had a huge crush. But no other pixel aliens looked like actual figures, they all appeared pixelated. Why did only Lady Lisa become looking like a living human being? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27657" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-16T11:05:16.870" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T11:05:16.870" Title="Why did Lady Lisa become human in Pixels?" Tags="|pixels|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24114" CreationDate="2015-11-16T07:06:19.683" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's obvious that Russel Baze wasn't arrested after killing DeGroat. The Sherriff stole the love of his life while he was in prison and therefor he let him go to make up for that, also knowing all the misery Russel went through and that DeGroat was nothing but bad news it was the only righteous thing Wesley could do. Russel is dealing with enough misery as it is also outside prison. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27815" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T07:06:19.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43374" CreationDate="2015-11-16T07:07:02.877" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The obvious implication is that the herd outside the wall is now so enormous that the zombies closest to the wall are being crushed by the sheer weight of the horde behind them.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first episode of the season, we see something quite similar happen when the herd is being led around the bend in the road, at the point where a temporary wall was erected to direct the zombies in the desired direction.  The mass of the herd squashes the zombies who are unlucky enough to be between their colleagues and the wall, and when the herd passes, the walls are smeared with gore.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same idea applies to Alexandria's walls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T07:07:02.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43555" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-16T10:21:47.680" Score="13" ViewCount="457" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1976 film &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Taxi Driver&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; featured the character &lt;strong&gt;Travis Bickle&lt;/strong&gt;, whom screen-writer &lt;strong&gt;Paul Shrader&lt;/strong&gt; based on &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Bremer&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Arthur Bremer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, who tried to assassinate presidential hopeful &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;George Wallace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in 1972 to impress a girl.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Taxi Driver&lt;/em&gt;, loner &lt;strong&gt;Travis Bickle&lt;/strong&gt; (played by &lt;strong&gt;Robert DeNiro&lt;/strong&gt;) planned to assassinate a local politician to get back at a girl who campaigned for him. The film also starred a very young &lt;strong&gt;Jodie Foster&lt;/strong&gt;, whom real life loner &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hinckley,_Jr.&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;John Hinckley, Jr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; started stalking, and in 1981, he tried to assassinate &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdn.meme.am/instances/400x/57205388.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ronald Reagan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to impress Foster, by emulating the film that launched her career. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hinkley confessed to watching Taxi Driver more than 15 times. When clips of the film were shown in his court case he seemed engrossed in the scenes (&lt;a href=&quot;http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hinckley/taxidriver.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hinckley,_Jr.&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Question: Has there ever been a similar or longer chain of art imitating life, and life returning the favour, than this?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27684" LastEditorDisplayName="user27684" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T20:23:23.820" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T02:47:36.030" Title="Has there ever been a chain of art imitating life, and life returning the favour, like the one involving the film Taxi Driver (1976)?" Tags="|reception|taxi-driver|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43545" CreationDate="2015-11-16T12:11:19.023" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Burhan&lt;/em&gt; already makes a great point in that Clyde was merely exhausted from his anger and had nothing to live for anymore, so he was partly relieved to finally die and get back to his family, something he himself couldn't and wouldn't do. And I also agree that it surely isn't really guilt over what he did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there is yet another aspect to this. The primary motivation why Clyde did this was &lt;strong&gt;not only revenge, but also to prove his point&lt;/strong&gt;. He wanted to drive the law enforcement system to its extremes, so that they finally realize what is &quot;necessary&quot; (from his point of view) to stop somebody and enforce true &quot;justice&quot;, and not hide behind their supposedly broken system anymore, which was what he primarily blamed for the lack of justice the murderers of his family got.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the movie he tried to show everyone how broken the system is, he made deals for trivial commodities and baited a judge into giving him low bail, only to then insult her for her lack of justice, and ultimately comitted all his crimes being locked up in prison. He forced the police, the attorneys, and the entire city's government into a corner from which they couldn't get out. There simply seemed to be &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;no way&lt;/em&gt; to stop this guy with legal measures&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when Nick gives Clyde a last chance to give up before actually deliberately blowing him up, he &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; crossed this line. Nick effectively executes Clyde for what he's done, without a trial. Nick is playing judge, jury and executioner in unison. So in a way &lt;strong&gt;Clyde ultimately has won as this is what he wanted to achieve all the time, Nick has finally &quot;understood&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T12:11:19.023" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43558" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-16T12:45:37.997" Score="4" ViewCount="2687" Body="&lt;p&gt;On Frasier, particularly seasons 8-10, there are a number of instances where a character will ask another 'Why'd you do it?' in an exaggerated fashion. Martin asks Niles when he leaves Eddie in a kennel, and asks Frasier when he throws dancing Santa off the balcony. Noel asks Frasier when he doesn't uphold a deal to get Scott Bakula's autograph. There are a couple others, and they all say it the same way! What is the origin and significance of this line and delivery?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/z7-jqOtSlTo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1331" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-11-16T13:40:06.273" LastActivityDate="2016-11-04T17:39:16.630" Title="What is the origin of 'Why'd you do it?' on Frasier?" Tags="|frasier|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41193" CreationDate="2015-11-16T12:58:32.420" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The thing is, it's just a movie. If the filmmakers tell us he's a doctor, we just kind of have to believe them. Otherwise they have to shoehorn in some framed doctorate on the wall, or something like that. Is there any evidence that Marty's name really is Marty? Maybe it's Paul, and everyone just calls him Marty. They certainly don't show his birth certificate or anything. If filmmakers had to give evidence for every aspect of the setup of the story, the story itself would never get started.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in a way, the answer is yes. The evidence is that the character is called &quot;Doctor Emmett Brown&quot;. He's certainly clever enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27821" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T12:58:32.420" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43562" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-16T15:38:39.250" Score="5" ViewCount="1184" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll do my best to remember everything I can -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The very first scene is a father that is combining a crop, he is using a futuristic machine as this movie involves space, aliens, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The planet ends up being destroyed very early in the movie, the father dies but the son who is about 17-20 is taken away on a spaceship. I believe he is knocked unconscious. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is where it gets harder to remember. There ends up being a planet they land on where there are pink fuzzy like tentacles I believe that end up capturing them. But they are saved by a flying alien that has guns attached to his hips. Best way to kinda explain him, piccolo with a mask and wings. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later the protagonists end up dealing with slugs that are trying to eat them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main protagonist ends up being badly injured, an old guy I believe takes care of him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the end is him going to a weird dance like party to save his friends. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is about the best amount of detail I can give, it's a very strange movie but was recorded on vhs and never was written down what is was called. So I have no idea. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope you all can help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27831" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T05:57:21.303" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T05:57:21.303" Title="Late 80s or early 90s anime\cartoon in space with slugs and pink tentacles" Tags="|identify-this-movie|animation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:10:15.427" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43568" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-16T17:51:01.520" Score="4" ViewCount="5482" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a little late here, I didn't see &lt;em&gt;Blackhat&lt;/em&gt; in theatres. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did he only have about 50 million dollars in the bank at the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He took 78 million dollars from that bad guy!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They should have explained that, unless I missed something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume he somehow donated 28 million dollars to a relief fund (whitehat style), or he spent it on 365 new Corvettes so he could drive one for every day of the year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or he sent it to his girlfriend's remaining family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27829" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T13:37:31.007" LastActivityDate="2021-04-09T20:48:23.453" Title="What happened to the money in Blackhat?" Tags="|plot-explanation|blackhat|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43569" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43575" CreationDate="2015-11-16T17:56:03.843" Score="56" ViewCount="10931" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has there been a case in which a widely famous Hollywood movie was lost and there is no longer a copy of it in existence (physically nor electronically)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; let's define &quot;famous&quot; as - known enough to make it to imbd's or any other large movie database.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Apologies about the confusion, I must have underestimated the extent of &lt;code&gt;imdb&lt;/code&gt; as it indeed lists pretty much everything. What I was looking for is something that is famous enough to be remembered by a wider public and the &lt;code&gt;Star Wars&lt;/code&gt; episode listed in one of the comments definitely makes the list!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="24301" LastEditDate="2016-03-20T22:08:10.780" LastActivityDate="2017-04-17T14:41:04.667" Title="Hollywood movies that no longer exist in any form" Tags="|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43569" CreationDate="2015-11-16T18:39:10.010" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131260/&quot;&gt;Dead End (1985)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emerson Bixby the director of the movie says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Dead End&quot; was never released. I shot it on video with a budget of maybe fifteen hundred dollars, made several copies to send to small-time distribution companies, and nothing ever happened. None of the distributors responded, and the ten or so copies kept by myself and some of the crew are -- to my knowledge -- all that remains of &quot;Dead End.&quot; My copy was lost in '87, and I have lost contact with pretty much everyone involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not a hoax, dude, just a tiny little movie that's pretty much&#xA;  vanished. I've personally only met three people who have actually seen&#xA;  it. I've tried contacting the people who reviewed it several times,&#xA;  never heard back. I'd sell my spleen for a copy; of all the films I've&#xA;  done, this is one of the few I'm really proud of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://s9.zetaboards.com/THE_CINEHOUND_FORUM/single/?p=97350&amp;amp;t=782032&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13312" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T18:39:10.010" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43574" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43576" CreationDate="2015-11-16T19:21:48.050" Score="1" ViewCount="7809" Body="&lt;p&gt;In India, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femina_Miss_India&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Femina Miss India&lt;/a&gt;, selects the contestants for Miss World and Universe. They used to send the winner to Miss Universe and the runner-up to the Miss World contest, but changed it after 1994's Indian historic dual win. Now they select three different winners for each show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why do they enter different contestants in the two contests - is there some rule against using the same contestant? Or is it just to avoid scheduling conflicts?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorDisplayName="user27684" LastEditDate="2015-11-16T21:32:17.617" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T21:32:17.617" Title="Can the same contestant represent their country in both Miss World and Miss universe?" Tags="|miss-world|miss-universe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-11-22T09:11:32.613" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43575" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43569" CreationDate="2015-11-16T19:37:01.317" Score="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oh good lord, yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lost_films&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;List of lost films&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Wikipedia)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Scorsese Film Foundation estimates that more than 90% of American films made before 1929 are totally lost. The Library of Congress estimates that 75% of &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; silent films are lost. Overall, 50% of American sound films made before 1950 are considered &lt;em&gt;lost films.&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_preservation&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;film preservation&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Films may go missing for a variety of reasons. The big culprit is the use of nitrate film until the early 1950s. Nitrate films are highly flammable, and will decay into a powder or sticky goo that can spontaneously combust in the storage-shed conditions they were commonly stored. A fire destroyed the entire vault of pre-1935 negatives at Fox Pictures, and a fire in 1967 decimated MGM's early content. Kodak introduced a nonflammable film in 1909, but chemicals used to keep it pliable evaporated too quickly, making the film dry and brittle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until the preservationist movement fully kicked in, as much as half the 400,000 short sponsored films made in the US were lost, often thought of as simply disposable, or older versions were disposed of once upgraded. These are typically films made for educational, training, or religious purposes that were popular from the '40s through the 1970s. Many silent films were also simply discarded as &amp;quot;useless&amp;quot; once talkies took over entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most mainstream movies from the 1950s through today survive due to increased preservation efforts and more stable media, but even today films are lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Recent Losses&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of Jackie Chan's and Sammo Hung's first roles, including Big and Little Wong Tin Bar, have been considered lost. Ed Wood's 1972 film, The Undergraduate, has been lost along with his 1970 film, Take It Out In Trade, which exists only in fragments without sound. Most of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Milligan&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Andy Milligan's&lt;/a&gt; early films made between 1965 and 1988 are considered lost. Many adult films and low-budget B-Movies go unnoticed until the participants become &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_film&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;notable&lt;/a&gt;, then many of their early works are simply gone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lost films are anything in which no part of a print is known to have survived. That does not include the much larger category of &lt;em&gt;incomplete&lt;/em&gt; films where only bits and pieces remain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="69" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-04-17T14:41:04.667" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43574" CreationDate="2015-11-16T20:20:04.533" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From what I can tell, they can &lt;em&gt;represent&lt;/em&gt; their country in both contests but they &lt;strong&gt;can not win&lt;/strong&gt; both.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if someone goes to the Miss World competition and loses, she can then also go to the Miss Universe competition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if she were to win the Miss World competition, she would not later compete in the Miss Universe competition because her duties as Miss World would prevent her from winning, so they send the first runner-up to compete in her place instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an actual &lt;a href=&quot;http://adobochronicles.com/2014/12/18/can-the-reigning-miss-world-also-become-miss-universe/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;example&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On December 14, 2014, Miss South Africa Rolene Strauss was crowned Miss World in London. But unlike in other countries, whomever is chosen Miss South Africa in any given year represents the country in  all major international beauty pageants, including Miss Universe, Miss International, Miss Supranational, Miss World and Miss Grand International.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, when the Miss Universe Pageant is held in Florida next month, Strauss will take to the stage as Miss South Africa, right? Wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember what the Miss Universe Pageant hosts always say before announcing the name of the new Miss Universe? “In the event that the new Miss Universe will not be able to fulfill her duties, the first runner-up will automatically  become Miss Universe.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ergo, Strauss as the reigning Miss World can’t possibly fulfill her duties as Miss Universe which include traveling and appearing with Miss Universe Pageant owner Donald Trump. So Strauss has been disqualified from the Florida pageant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Miss South Africa’s 1st runner up, Ziphozakhe Zokufa will take over to represent her country in the Miss Universe Pageant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T20:20:04.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43577" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43578" CreationDate="2015-11-16T21:08:52.670" Score="5" ViewCount="609" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching this movie some time during the &lt;strong&gt;late eighties on VHS&lt;/strong&gt; from video rental. While it was dubbed in German, I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; its original language most likely was either &lt;strong&gt;English&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;Italian&lt;/strong&gt; (from what I remember regarding the actors as well as the fact that Italian movies were rather popular back then).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall style/comedy was very &lt;strong&gt;reminiscent of Mel Brooks&lt;/strong&gt;, it definitely wasn't his &lt;em&gt;History of the World&lt;/em&gt; though. I also don't think it was &lt;em&gt;Caveman&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding the actual plot, there's only one specific sub plot/scene that I remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;strong&gt;one or two tribes of cavemen&lt;/strong&gt;, living in two locations, one being some &lt;strong&gt;kind of bamboo house&lt;/strong&gt; (possibly a treehouse?).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An older member of the tribe has some kind of &lt;strong&gt;&quot;accident&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;: Some animal (dinosaur?) eats his whole body and the others are only able to &lt;strong&gt;rescue his head&lt;/strong&gt;. Since everyone has to do his part, they think about his future, then &lt;strong&gt;put him on the windowsill to act as an alarm clock&lt;/strong&gt; for the others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6725" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T05:51:28.633" Title="Old cavemen comedy movie in style of Mel Brooks" Tags="|identify-this-movie|comedy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:10:24.910" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43577" CreationDate="2015-11-16T21:39:24.257" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067639/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;When Women Lost Their Tails&lt;/a&gt;, an Italian cavemen comedy (one of several) from 1972.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Filli (Senta Berger) and the other cavemen from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066268/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;When Women Had Tails&quot;&lt;/a&gt; are living a carefree, if boring life inside a dinosaur skeleton. But when conman Ham (Lando Buzzanca) introduces them to the concept of currency and economics, their lives fall apart. On top of that, Filli starts to fall in love with Ham...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's about a war between 2 tribes, and you can see the bit with a disembodied head on a windowsill doubling as an alarm clock below (it's about 10 seconds in):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/SaiYSAklWeg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T05:51:28.633" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T05:51:28.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9419" CreationDate="2015-11-16T22:11:55.973" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was no indication Josh was working for the President - Josh could have just been told by someone that the President was arriving and was relaying the news to those inside. People are getting confused because they're applying knowledge learned later on to the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27835" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T22:11:55.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42432" CreationDate="2015-11-16T22:46:11.853" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's circumstantial but I've been able to find these concept storyboards from the 1989 film. They were disposed of as part of a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://gothamtrending.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/batman-storyboards-original-artwork-joker-concept-art-movie-production-burton-memorabilia-auction.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tim Burton Memorabilia auction&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. You can see the crude lines of the balloons as well as the fact that several are different from their final film incarnations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o42wm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o42wm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the initials on the boards, I would say that it's highly likely that the design of the balloons was a collaborative effort between TB (Tim Burton) and MW (Michael White)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bdzwm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bdzwm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T22:46:11.853" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28073" CreationDate="2015-11-16T23:59:59.630" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;To accompany the film, Touchstone Studio also licensed a '&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15732013-tim-burton-s-the-nightmare-before-christmas&quot;&gt;Penguin Active Reader&lt;/a&gt;' book for younger viewers. This book was based on the Tim Burton screenplay and can, presumably be considered canon to the main film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, the simple fact is that Jack was &lt;em&gt;blissfully unaware of the nature of the presents he was delivering.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He didn't inspect them before they were loaded into the bag:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In Halloweentown, the vampires finished making Christmas lights— with little skeleton heads. The youngest witches finished making their&#xA;  toys—wonderfully dangerous toys. Jack's plans for Christmas, the most&#xA;  important thing in his life, were almost ready. &lt;strong&gt;But he didn't look at&#xA;  the lights and the toys before they went into the bags.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He didn't wait around to see the presents being opened&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;He stopped his sleigh at each house and put pretty presents under each Christmas tree. In one house, a little boy came down the stairs and watched him. When Jack turned away from the Christmas tree, he saw the young child.&#xA;  &quot;Here, little boy! A present from Santa!&quot; said Jack. And he gave the boy a present.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jack had to go to the next house. He couldn't wait and watch the boys face. But when the child opened the present, he didn't smile. His face went white and his mouth fell open. He screamed wildly.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jack heard the boys screams and he smiled. &quot;He likes it,&quot; Jack thought. &quot;Nobody is scared of me and I'm making everybody happy!&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mistaking the scream of terror for screams of joy (a natural mistake for the King of Halloween), Jack genuinely believes that he's doing a good job&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;There was only one happy face in town. High above the police station&#xA;  in a strange sleigh, a skeleton's smile shone. &lt;strong&gt;Inside his head were&#xA;  pictures of happy children's faces. He had no idea about the problems&#xA;  below.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-16T23:59:59.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43562" CreationDate="2015-11-17T00:29:44.107" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088028/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lensman&lt;/a&gt;, (1984), loosely based on Edward E &quot;Doc&quot; Smith's &quot;Lensman&quot; books.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kimball Kinnison, a young man from the &lt;strong&gt;agricultural planet&lt;/strong&gt; Mquie and&#xA;  his Valerian companinon, Buscirk find a dying man with a legendary&#xA;  crystal lens embedded in his hand. As the man was dying, he&#xA;  mysteriously passed on the Lens to Kim. With more companions to come&#xA;  by, Kim must find out the purpose of the Lens before the Boskone&#xA;  dynasty does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is available &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g5xFo8YowQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on Youtube&lt;/a&gt;.  The scene with the pink fuzzy tentacles is &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/_g5xFo8YowQ?t=2401&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  The flying alien with guns attached to his hips is &quot;Worsel&quot;.  The weird dance party is DJ'ed by &quot;DJ Bill&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4304" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T00:29:44.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42217" CreationDate="2015-11-17T01:27:02.993" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Theory #1 - Holograms are &lt;em&gt;so last millenium&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The technology being used (on Krypton) is over 18,000 years older than the technology in the shuttle. It's quite reasonable to assume that in that time, fads have come and gone. It may simply be that modern Kryptonians are into metal communicators this season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Theory #2 - Holograms are less energy-efficient&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the key reasons that council inadvertently destroyed Krypton is because they were mining the core of the planet for energy. Assuming that holograms use up more energy than the metal displays, then it makes good sense to use that option rather than having costly holograms all over the place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Theory #3 - Holograms need a fixed surface (or a plug socket)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film, holograms are only used in fixed installations (e.g. where the projector can be mounted to a wall or flat surface) whereas the metal &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cheapdisabilityaids.co.uk/ekmps/shops/podcmedia/images/pin-art-[2]-7281-p.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pin art&lt;/a&gt;&quot; communication system is capable of free-floating within a mobile structure. It may be that the holograms need to be connected to the Kryptonian equivalent of mains electricity to work properly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Theory #4 - They're re-tasking equipment intended for another purpose.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 'liquid metal' face of the bots can clearly be used to transmit video but that's not what they're actually intended for. The whole point is that it's the bot's literal face, intended to communicate with the user but presumably in a way that couldn't be mistaken for an actual person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T01:27:02.993" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43587" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16863" CreationDate="2015-11-17T02:22:50.493" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I give Bernie the nod,she is the wife and that would weigh heavily in her favor to get to tell the truth. I like the theory that aside from Sheldon they where all telling the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27838" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T02:22:50.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43588" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-17T02:48:16.307" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T02:48:16.307" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T02:48:16.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43589" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-17T02:48:16.307" Score="0" Body="2012 horror film starring Ethan Hawke as a true crime writer obsessed by a collection of snuff films that mysteriously appear in his new home." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T10:35:56.630" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T10:35:56.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43591" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-17T02:57:27.847" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T02:57:27.847" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T02:57:27.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43592" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-17T02:57:27.847" Score="0" Body="1987 sci fi movie about a murdered police officer brought back to life as a law enforcing cyborg." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T10:35:44.437" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T10:35:44.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43593" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-17T03:05:04.337" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T03:05:04.337" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T03:05:04.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43594" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-17T03:05:04.337" Score="0" Body="1998 stoner comedy starring Dave Chappelle." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T10:35:59.413" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T10:35:59.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43595" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-17T03:13:59.443" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T03:13:59.443" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T03:13:59.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43596" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-17T03:13:59.443" Score="0" Body="Beloved and prolific director/writer/producer behind Hellboy franchise, Pan's Labyrinth, Pacific Rim, Cronos, The Orphanage, etc" OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T10:36:07.670" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T10:36:07.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43600" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43603" CreationDate="2015-11-17T04:42:37.710" Score="4" ViewCount="6201" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;strong&gt;Scorpion&lt;/strong&gt; TV series season 2 episode 7 &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Crazy Train&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; , Happy Quinn tells a number of jokes to bunch of people at a club in the end. As I understood those are jokes to a geek or &quot;special people&quot;. Unfortunately I didn't understand those jokes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone explain those jokes, what I mean is how those are jokes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18957" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T05:13:22.580" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T05:13:22.580" Title="Can someone explain Happy Quinn jokes in the Scorpion episode &quot;Crazy Train&quot;?" Tags="|scorpion|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43601" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-17T04:46:45.357" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T04:46:45.357" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T04:46:45.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43602" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-17T04:46:45.357" Score="0" Body="1992 film about the journeys of explorer Christopher Columbus. Stars Marlon Brando and Tom Selleck, produced by Alexander and Ilya Salkind and directed by John Glen." OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T10:35:36.790" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T10:35:36.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43603" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43600" CreationDate="2015-11-17T05:12:09.050" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basic puns, word-play jokes, based on math, chemistry, and physics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Knock, knock! &lt;em&gt;Who's there?&lt;/em&gt; Matthew. &lt;em&gt;Matthew who?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Math-you&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; could never do unless you had an IQ of 184.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Math is hard. Unless your really smart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ammonia and sodium hypochlorite hook up at a bar. Everyone inside dies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sodium Hypochlorite is in most houses. It's called Chlorine Bleach. Mix it with Ammonia and you get Chlorine Gas. And Die. &lt;strong&gt;(For real, it's dangerous. Says so right on the bottle. Also don't mix Chlorine with Vinegar or basically any other cleaner. It's dangerous to clean a house right!)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've been reading this great book on antigravity. I can't put it down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gravity, putting things down, I get it. It's a double entendre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I have this new theory on inertia, but it's not gaining any momentum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Inertia and Momentum are two basic properties of an object. &lt;code&gt;An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.&lt;/code&gt; as stated in Newton's First Law of Motion. Inertia is what keeps things not moving, from not moving, unless you add energy (I.E. Momentum). &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/physics-understanding-newtons-first-law-of-motion.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's Newton's First Law for Dummies.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T05:12:09.050" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43604" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43555" CreationDate="2015-11-17T06:10:02.967" Score="9" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Life imitating art imitating life:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lapdonline.org/history_of_the_lapd/content_basic_view/1128&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;To protect and serve&quot;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LAPD cruisers were emblazoned with the department's motto:  &quot;To Protect and Serve&quot;.  Because so many films and television shows are produced in LA, those shows and movies began to use the slogan on police cars onscreen.  Because the slogan was so familiar from entertainment, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LifeImitatesArt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;other police departments adopted it&lt;/a&gt; and painted it on their own vehicles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scrubs&lt;/em&gt;:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After 9/11, Afghanistan was invaded, but Osama bin Laden managed to escape detection.  The world was told that he was probably still somewhere in the remote mountains in the east of that country.  On &lt;a href=&quot;http://whatculture.com/tv/11-times-tv-shows-creepily-predicted-future.php/11&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;an episode of the hospital comedy &lt;em&gt;Scrubs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the janitor says that if he were in charge, the search would focus on Pakistan.  Where was bin Laden eventually discovered?  Pakistan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shkol'nyy Strelok&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;School Shooter&lt;/em&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stephen King was an angry loner in high school.  Later, he wrote the novel &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_(King_novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rage&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; based on his experiences in school.  The story is about a misfit high school student who snaps, brings a rifle to school, takes hostages, and kills several teachers.  The book has since been allowed to lapse out of print after a number of school shootings were linked to it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/1990-01-14/news/ga-143_1_high-school&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jeffrey Lyne Cox'&lt;/a&gt; friend said his rampage was partially inspired by the book.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/19/us/kentucky-youth-frees-11-hostages-and-surrenders.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dustin L. Pierce&lt;/a&gt; owned a copy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_High_School_shooting&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Michael Carneal&lt;/a&gt; had a copy in his locker.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story also partially inspired the 2014 Russian film &lt;em&gt;Shkol'nyy Strelok&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;School Shooter&lt;/em&gt;).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Be Cool&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(Life imitating art imitating life and fulfilling its prophecies about itself)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;em&gt;Get Shorty&lt;/em&gt;, based on the Elmore Leonard novel, was a big success. It was a story of Chili Parmer, who was a loan shark and goes to Hollywood to collect vig from a movie producer and ends up selling his own story and becoming a producer. It was such a big hit that it’s sequel &lt;em&gt;Be Cool&lt;/em&gt; was made. The sequel was about the sequel of the film in the previous film. In the movie, it was shown that the sequel crashed at the box office and is certainly what happened to &lt;em&gt;Be Cool&lt;/em&gt;. So this is an example of life imitating art unknowingly.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;a href=&quot;http://top-10-list.org/2014/02/20/top-10-fascinating-cases-of-life-imitating-art/2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Be Cool lampshaded the fact that it was a sequel and that sequels are often worse than the original. Rather bizarrely, audiences agreed.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LifeImitatesArt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Honorable mention:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dog&lt;/em&gt;/&lt;em&gt;The Godfather&lt;/em&gt;/&lt;em&gt;Dog Day Afternoon&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(Art imitating life imitating art)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Take Sidney Lumet’s &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Day_Afternoon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dog Day Afternoon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, which tells the story of two young, down-and-out guys who attempt to rob a bank and end up in a protracted hostage situation neither is equipped to handle. The movie, which stars Al Pacino, is based on the true story of a man named &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wojtowicz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;John Wojtowicz&lt;/a&gt;, whose idea to rob a bank came in part from a matinee of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Godfather&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Pacino’s performance inspired a criminal that Pacino later played. Last year, the directors Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren made a documentary about Wojtowicz called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3091304/news&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dog&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which focuses less on what Wojtowicz did than on who he was: a Goldwater Republican turned gay activist, a Vietnam vet, and a father of two who ended up marrying a transgender woman — a story not just about Wojtowicz’s shifting personality, but about the shifting nature of personality in general.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;a href=&quot;http://grantland.com/features/kumiko-the-treasure-hunter-fargo/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(Life imitates art and Art imitates life, and life imitating art is then retconned into art)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fans of Star Trek wrote so many letters to NASA, that eventually, they did name the first full-scale prototype &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Enterprise&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Space Shuttle Enterprise&lt;/a&gt;. The shuttle subsequently appeared in a mural in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/a&gt; and the opening credits of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Enterprise&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Trek: Enterprise&lt;/a&gt;, implying that in the Trek universe the starship was named after the shuttle which was partially named after the previous ships bearing the name Enterprise like the WWII &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CV-6)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;U.S.S Enterprise carrier&lt;/a&gt; making this Art Imitates Life plus Life Imitates Art.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  In one Expanded Universe novel, Kirk actually commanded the space shuttle Enterprise.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LifeImitatesArt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Back to the Future II&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(Life imitating art predicting life)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_Part_II&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BTTF II&lt;/a&gt;, Marty McFly, a teenager living in 1985, goes to the year 2015.  He finds a culture somewhat like ours is in the real 2015.  It appears that nostalgia for the 80's has become a fad.  In our own (real) world, we went through a 1980's music nostalgia fad about 15 years ago, which saw the reunions of many 80's bands, from &lt;em&gt;Blondie&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;Missing Persons&lt;/em&gt;, among many more, and a subsequent 80's fashion and music nostalgia fad just a few years back.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And when the date of Marty's fictional arrival in 2015 happened last month, people went crazy with nostalgia:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://onlinestore.usatoday.com/10222015-issue-of-usa-today-p18072.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;USA Today&lt;/em&gt; wrapped that day's edition in a replica of the cover of the newspaper that Marty read&lt;/a&gt; (minus references to a US visit by &quot;Queen Diana&quot;);  &lt;a href=&quot;http://hollywoodlife.com/2015/10/21/back-to-the-future-nike-power-lace-sneakers-pepsi-perfect-bttf-day/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nike released the first pair of self-lacing &quot;Air Mags&quot; sneakers as featured in the movie;  and Pepsi released a limited edition run of &quot;Pepsi Perfect&quot; as seen in the film&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most remarkable of all, the much maligned &quot;lovable losers&quot; of MLB, the Chicago Cubs, made a rare appearance in post-season play, with a real shot of making it to the World Series for the first time in over a century.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/2015/10/cubs_win_world_series_in_2015.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BTTF II had predicted that the Cubs would win the series&lt;/a&gt;.  The choice of the Cubs was based in part on the director's fan loyalty, and in part upon the fact that it was such an absurd prediction - the Cubs &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; win the series.  They didn't actually make it to the series, let alone win it but the fact that they came so close was notable enough to attract BTTF II-related headlines around the world, including all the countries that couldn't care less about baseball.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;2001:  A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(Art imitating life imitating art)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Characters use devices that are essentially iPads in the epic film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;2001:  A Space Odyssey&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tnAQG.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tnAQG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, iPads now exist, and iPhones share many of the same functions.  And if you repeat one of the lines from &lt;em&gt;2001&lt;/em&gt; to Siri - &quot;Open the pod bay doors&quot; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAjhDx4yoAA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;she gets &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; upset&lt;/a&gt;.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Death&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(Life imitating meta-art)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Death&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Death&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Bruce Lee plays an actor performing a role.  The actor is killed when a stunt involving a prop gun that is supposed to be firing blanks malfunctions.  The actor played by Lee is killed.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee#Death&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lee died halfway through filming&lt;/a&gt;, and the producers made the bizarre, distasteful, and morbid decision to use footage of Lee's actual body lying in its casket in the movie, which was released five years later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Twenty years after that, Bruce's son Brandon was filming &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow_(1994_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Crow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; when he, too, died young.  Incredibly, he was &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Lee#Death&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;killed when a prop gun that was supposed to be firing blanks malfunctioned&lt;/a&gt;.  On top of that, he was playing a character who was shot to death (twice in the movie, once in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;graphic novel source material&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marooned&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(Art imitating life imitating art)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The 1969 film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marooned_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marooned&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is about a spaceship malfunctioning and leaving the three astronauts unable to deorbit with dwindling oxygen and other resources. The movie was seen in the theatre by Jim and Marilyn Lovell. Marilyn then had a nightmare where her husband was in that exact situation. Three months later, Jim Lovell captained Apollo 13.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LifeImitatesArt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As everyone knows, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Apollo 13&lt;/a&gt; mission met with near disaster when a malfunction caused an explosion, and the crew barely managed to get back to earth safely;  the story is told in the film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Apollo 13&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(Life imitating art imitating itself)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Alan_Smithee_Film:_Burn_Hollywood_Burn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; had such a Troubled Production (a Sylvester Stallone movie in which the film is recut without the director's permission into an incoherent mess that the director then tries to disown and finally sabotage) that it almost turns into a documentary about itself. Most notably, the director was so dissatisfied with the film that he got his name removed, meaning that a film where the main character is named &quot;Alan Smithee&quot; had an actual director credit for Alan Smithee (because at the time, it was the only name directors could use to distance themselves from their projects. This led to the Director's Guild discontinuing the practice of using that name as a pseudonym; aliases are now selected on a case by case basis).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;- &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LifeImitatesArt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fanboys&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;(Life imitating art inspired by art)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanboys_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fanboys&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; deals with a Secretly Dying Star Wars fan who gets to watch &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_I:_The_Phantom_Menace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Phantom Menace&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as a dying wish before it's even released; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/10/entertainment/dying-star-wars-fan-force-awakens-update/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;November 2015&lt;/a&gt;, a Star Wars fan suffering from terminal cancer would get to watch an unedited print of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/a&gt; before passing away shortly after.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;-  &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LifeImitatesArt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is actually the second time J.J. Abrams has allowed a dying fan to see one of his films before it was released;  the &lt;a href=&quot;http://entertainment.time.com/2013/01/07/fan-granted-dying-wish-for-star-trek-into-darkness-sneak-peek/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;first case&lt;/a&gt; involved &lt;em&gt;Star Trek:  Into Darkness&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-11-18T02:47:36.030" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T02:47:36.030" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43606" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43609" CreationDate="2015-11-17T09:59:15.583" Score="21" ViewCount="4803" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if there's a movie that can beat &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096061/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scrooged&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (1988) in terms of &lt;em&gt;sibling&lt;/em&gt; actors starring in it - it starred &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000195/?ref_=tt_ov_st&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bill Murray&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236519/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Brian Doyle-Murray&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0615063/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t66&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joel Murray&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0615066/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t13&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;John Murray&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;To narrow it: (human) actors, not people appearing as themselves (eg, documentary); and I'm looking for the longest list of siblings from one family, not groups of different siblings.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27684" LastEditorDisplayName="user27684" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T05:37:46.283" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T08:51:15.123" Title="What is the record for siblings from a single family in a film?" Tags="|casting|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43607" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43606" CreationDate="2015-11-17T10:11:03.643" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1980 western The Long Riders stars &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Riders#Cast&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;four sets of actor brothers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as the real-life sets of brothers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Keaches: Jesse James (James Keach) and Frank James (Stacy Keach)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Carradines: Cole Younger (David Carradine), Jim Younger (Keith Carradine) and Bob Younger (Robert Carradine)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Quaids: Ed Miller (Dennis Quaid) and Clell Miller (Randy Quaid)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The Guests: Charley Ford (Christopher Guest) and Robert Ford (Nicholas Guest)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It also features an uncredited appearance by Ever Carradine, daughter&#xA;  of Robert Carradine and niece to David and Keith Carradine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Additionally James Keach's son, Kalen Keach, is cast as Jesse James's&#xA;  son Jesse E. James.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;source: Wikipedia&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T10:43:32.900" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T10:43:32.900" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43608" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23155" CreationDate="2015-11-17T10:29:01.907" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Starship-Troopers.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;film script&lt;/a&gt; it's actually Captain Deladier who is the Instructor. Zander is merely Ibanez' supervisor and a lowly second Lieutenant to boot, a rank that Ibanez evidently secures as soon as she qualifies as a pilot, a few weeks later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ATHENA - COMMAND AND CONTROL - DAY CYCLE - CARMEN     arrives on the bridge, dark, cramped, all-business. She salutes the instructor,     CAPTAIN DELADIER, 40s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CARMEN:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Pilot Trainee Ibanez reporting for duty, ma'am.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DELADIER:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Take the number one chair, Ibanez. Follow all instructions of you supervisor.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CARMEN:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Yes, ma'am!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carmen turns for her station, but stops in her tracks. Her supervisor is Zander Barcalow, now a 2nd Lieutenant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Zander was already shipping out when they were finishing high school, it's certainly possible that he attained his rank in much the same timescale &lt;strong&gt;without the need to construct elaborate theories about him already being at Flight School but for some reason still playing High School football.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T10:39:51.450" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43606" CreationDate="2015-11-17T10:38:23.347" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Wayans family is usually a good source for this sort of thing. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095348/combined&quot;&gt;I'm Gonna Git You Sucka&lt;/a&gt; (1988) stars no less than &lt;strong&gt;6 siblings&lt;/strong&gt;: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans, Kim Wayans, Nadia Wayans, Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[And as a corollary, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1153706/combined&quot;&gt;Dance Flick&lt;/a&gt; (2009) must be holding some sort of record too. I've counted at least 11 different members of the Wayans family in the cast and crew.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T11:01:16.373" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T11:01:16.373" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43610" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26" CreationDate="2015-11-17T12:00:19.027" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answering to this^: &quot;As I remember it from the book's ending, Hannibal kept Clarice more-or-less continually drugged and they live happily ever after.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Actually the book specifically says that Starling is not drugged for a while now when Barney and his gf (Lillian?) are in the same Opera Hall a while after the famous brain dinner, so she stays with Lecter completely in free will.&#xA;I actually got the impression than even when Starling was drugged, Lecter made sure nothing done to her or in her presence was against her will. He even trusted her to carry her gun (actually late Brigham's gun).&#xA;As for the movie ending, it is disappointing because the book version with Lecter's full &quot;treatment&quot; he gave Starling is so much more complex (and nerve wrecking) and it could easily made into the movie, the both of them finding the only equal in (almost) the entire world, especially after Starling was betrayed by the FBI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27847" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T12:00:19.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43611" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43612" CreationDate="2015-11-17T13:05:56.510" Score="11" ViewCount="1537" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of every episode of &lt;em&gt;Mork &amp;amp; Mindy&lt;/em&gt;, the alien visitor Mork calls his boss Orson to give a report.  The show depicts the call by having Mork chant, &quot;Mork calling Orson.  Come in, Orson!&quot; as the camera zooms in on his face.  Soon this shot dissolves into a bundle of vivid colours which shimmers and undulates.  The object is semi-transparent, making it appear three-dimensional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following animated GIF, produced from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UY5lsZZ6iw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this YouTube clip&lt;/a&gt;, gives some idea of the effect, though neither of these match the quality of the DVD:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wxnoH.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wxnoH.gif&quot; alt=&quot;An animation showing Mork chanting, &amp;quot;Mork calling Orson.  Come in, Orson!&amp;quot; as the camera zooms in on his face.  Soon this shot dissolves into a bundle of vivid colours which shimmers and undulates.  The object is semi-transparent, making it appears three-dimensional.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the show premiered in 1978, I assume that this effect was produced with analogue equipment.  How exactly was it done (or if nobody knows for sure, how &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; it have been done)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19812" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T13:14:39.023" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T13:40:11.777" Title="How did they make the shimmering colours when Mork calls Orson?" Tags="|film-techniques|effects|mork-and-mindy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43611" CreationDate="2015-11-17T13:40:11.777" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The special effects were created by a company called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.famousfix.com/topic/mork-and-mindy/crew&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Laserium&lt;/a&gt;'. Simply put, the &quot;hologram&quot; you see when Mork communicates with Orson is simply a series of &quot;dyed&quot; (e.g. colour-filtered) lasers, passed through a rippled piece of glass and projected directly into the camera lens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;One last secret we'll give away is how we produce the beautiful clouds&#xA;  and aurorae. This is actually our simplest effect. All we do is shine&#xA;  the laser through rippled plastic or glass like you might find on a&#xA;  shower door or a bathroom window. Move the plastic slowly in front of&#xA;  the beam, and the cloud comes alive&quot;&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.laserium.com/Inside.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.laserium.com/Inside.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q9vMD.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/q9vMD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T13:40:11.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1049" CreationDate="2015-11-17T14:55:39.487" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The very short answer to this is &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;yes and no.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Verhoeven certainly intended for &lt;em&gt;some elements&lt;/em&gt; of the film to be funny, as well as a rip-roaring adventure yarn and more than a little over-the-top (especially the more overtly satirical bits) but he didn't set out to make a film that was &lt;em&gt;wholly amusing&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His feeling was that the more you enjoy the front-end of the film (with the set-piece scenes at the Bootcamp, nude showering, powerball game and spaceflight sequences), the greater the emotional impact when the Bug War turns out to be actually quite appalling with heads being blown off and characters being chewed up and spat out by the super-realistic arachnid warriors:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We're taking the genre a step further in a certain direction, into&#xA;realism, in fact. It's definitely sci-fi, but it's grounded in a very&#xA;timely realistic world. &lt;strong&gt;Although it's also romantic and adventurous,&#xA;even funny and light sometimes, it's realistic in its depiction of&#xA;people dealing with fear....&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's a war movie, like the ones you saw&#xA;in the 1940's. It's gung-ho kids thinking they'll have fun, then&#xA;learning that war is very violent, very ugly.&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7msrAwAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA644&amp;amp;lpg=PA644&amp;amp;dq=%22Verhoeven%22%20and%20interview%20and%20%22starship%22%20and%20%22funny%22&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=uK620_3biT&amp;amp;sig=ZvaYejQ0ME_XyrpHP2szwDBCYQ4&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ved=0CEUQ6AEwBjgKahUKEwibi-OJ2ZfJAhXFPRoKHchkBGo#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22Verhoeven%22%20and%20interview%20and%20%22starship%22%20and%20%22funny%22&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Daily News Interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T18:50:02.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43614" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18762" CreationDate="2015-11-17T15:05:26.320" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Indeed it was Lindell Blake who was Eddie Murphy's stunt double. Lindell's brother was my gymnastics coach and Lindell would join us every so often.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I happened to see his name in the closing credits of &lt;em&gt;Coming to America&lt;/em&gt; years ago and I asked him about it. He confirmed that he was the stunt double, and that the final aerial skill of the pass he did (the laid out full) was done on a trampoline and cut into the scene to look like it was done off the floor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27849" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-01-29T03:31:01.210" LastActivityDate="2024-01-29T03:31:01.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="43615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43606" CreationDate="2015-11-17T15:57:49.313" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film '101 Dalmations' featured no less than 200 dogs from around a dozen trainers. Several of the trainers provided dogs from &lt;strong&gt;litters of up to 13 dogs, all of whom would have been siblings (e.g. brothers and sisters).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may interest you to know that they needed this number of dogs because no single dog could be used for more than 2-3 weeks because they grew too fast and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmscouts.com/scripts/matinee.cfm?Film=101-dal&amp;amp;File=animals&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;stopped looking cute&lt;/a&gt; and that even those from the same litter required the services of a dedicated makeup artist who was on hand to make the dogs all look alike!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also want to consider &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_IV&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Phase IV&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. The film dealt extensively with a colony of &lt;em&gt;thousands&lt;/em&gt; of ants, all of whom would have been sisters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s49mJ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/s49mJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T08:51:15.123" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T08:51:15.123" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43294" CreationDate="2015-11-17T17:41:56.473" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real answer is more mundane than you think. It's simply because at the time of writing &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;, the writers did not yet have Vader being Anakin Skywalker, Luke's Father. That was not decided until the second draft of &lt;em&gt;Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt;. The same thing happens to the Luke/Leia being siblings, and likely the Obi-Wan and Anakin being master and apprentice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can't lie about what you don't know yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if we considered in-Universe Canon, retroactive continuity, the answer is psychological. Ben considered Anakin, the person he knew, as figuratively dead, when Anakin made a complete 180 in personality and his evil actions (gave in to the Dark Side). Vader was not the man he knew anymore. A bit more in depth, Ben considered himself dead too. Obi-Wan died when Anakin forced Obi-Wan to kill Anakin, figuratively speaking. Hence dropping the Jedi name. There's also a bit where Ben might not 100% &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; Anakin survived.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T20:59:46.563" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T20:59:46.563" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43569" CreationDate="2015-11-17T20:19:52.357" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original version of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;Metropolis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; might count. Arguably it &lt;em&gt;was completely lost (no copy exists)&lt;/em&gt;, although there exist new restored versions of the movie from parts of it that remained. Keep in mind that new (restored) versions of the movie have had to completely refilm parts that no longer existed at all&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Wikipedia page on the film says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because of its long running-time and the inclusion of footage which&#xA;  censors found questionable, Metropolis was cut substantially after its&#xA;  German premiere, and large portions of the film went missing over the&#xA;  subsequent decades.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original version dates from 1928 and had a running time of 153 minutes. It was the first full length movie of the sci-fi genre and at a cost of 5 million Reichsmarks was the most costly film at the time it was released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically its not really a &lt;em&gt;Hollywood&lt;/em&gt; movie as it originates from Germany, but I thought it was worth mentioning, especially since it is not listed in the &lt;em&gt;List of lost films&lt;/em&gt; from the other answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21851" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T20:19:52.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43624" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43051" CreationDate="2015-11-17T20:45:42.120" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fxguide.com/featured/inside-out-rendering/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an interview&lt;/a&gt; with the film's virtual lighting team. The shortest answer is that each of the characters are made of energy and glow slightly, but &lt;strong&gt;Joy glows the most because she's got the most energy:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Around December 2013, I was telling everybody, 'All I want for&#xA;Christmas is Joy's geometry light working. We deployed it with very&#xA;little testing in March of 2014 into production, but thankfully, it&#xA;ended up working out and we used it in every shot in the film.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“The look and design of the Emotions had to remind people that they&#xA;are personifications of feelings,” says Docter. &lt;strong&gt;“They’re not little&#xA;people. They’re Emotions. They’re made of energy — they’re made up of&#xA;thousands of particles, which kind of looks like energy. We wanted to&#xA;capture what emotions feel like — the shapes, the colors — as well as&#xA;their personalities.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Albert Lozano, character art director, was inspired by production&#xA;designer Ralph Eggleston’s early efforts. “The way that the chalk&#xA;spattered on Ralph’s pastels, it reminded me of bubbles. &lt;strong&gt;Joy is&#xA;effervescent. ... I do a lot of collage work, so I took the image of a&#xA;sparkler, added a face, legs and arms, and that felt like Joy to me,&#xA;too. I knew she had to emit joy.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Each character had a different version of the boiling effect or what&#xA;Pixar called 'solidity', Anger is the most solid, vs. Joy and Fear&#xA;have their particles emanating out more &amp;quot;because they are more&#xA;'volume' (than solid) - for example, on Fear's nose the particles come&#xA;out really far, and off his nose, and on joy we went so far as to&#xA;basically have her wrist transparent, and that was very intentional -&#xA;it was something that Pete (Docter) wanted to see in the film, to give&#xA;the idea they were made of energy particles, to look how our emotions&#xA;feel - our emotions change even as we are standing still - and so the&#xA;characters change even as they are standing still.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and in &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.indiewire.com/animationscoop/immersed-in-movies-lighting-inside-out-for-joy-20150526&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; with the film's &amp;quot;Lighting Lead&amp;quot;, Angelique Reisch:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;She is the main character and we needed an elegant solution,&amp;quot; Reisch&#xA;continued.&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;quot;RenderMan was working on what they call geometric area&#xA;lights, or a geolight. What this light does is allow you to select a&#xA;model and then turn that model into a light source. This was music to&#xA;our ears. But RenderMan’s geolight wasn't scheduled to be ready for&#xA;Inside Out's production in time, but after some internal 'red flags'&#xA;being raised, Pixar's global technology and lighting people got&#xA;together with RenderMan and were able to run it out in time.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Since Joy's the brightest character, she's the only one that casts&#xA;light.&lt;/strong&gt; For Sadness (Phyllis Smith), they relied on irradiance. But the&#xA;inner glow was shared by all five emotions, with the procedural&#xA;particles close to the skin made by the character department and the&#xA;outer particle sim created by the effects team.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why her glow is blue-yellow, that's something that foreshadows her third-act revelation where Joy comes to understand that &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;without sadness, there can be no joy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; In this instance the blue glow represents Joy's Jungian &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shadow self&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T01:20:20.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42764" CreationDate="2015-11-17T21:09:00.920" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real Gary Powers discussed this in &lt;a href=&quot;http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:42jQb5n3J9gJ:earth.google.com/gallery/kmz/francis_gary_powers.kmz%20&amp;amp;cd=9&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;gl=uk&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an interview&lt;/a&gt;. The easiest answer is that he wasn't under orders to use the curaré (note, not cyanide) needle to commit suicide if captured. The hidden needle was an optional tool and was presumed to be used in the event of torture rather than merely of capture. At the fateful moment, he did what most sensible POWs do and &lt;em&gt;just  decided not to kill himself.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Apparently a great many people were under the impression that I had&#xA;  been under orders to kill myself, come what may. But, as I had&#xA;  attempted to make clear in the trial, I had no such orders. I was to&#xA;  use the destruct device - which wouldn't have destroyed the plane,&#xA;  only a portion of the equipment - if possible. Under the&#xA;  circumstances, it had not been possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I could understand why, not having been in the cockpit with me, some&#xA;  people might doubt my story. But when it came to the poison needle,&#xA;  there shouldn't have been any doubt. Since carrying it was optional,&#xA;  suicide was obviously optional too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;It bothered me that this criticism was apparently long-standing, and&#xA;  that the CIA - although it would have been very easy to do so, without&#xA;  in any way jeopardizing security - had made no attempt to set the&#xA;  record straight by stating exactly what my instructions were. Instead&#xA;  they had let this misapprehension, damning as it was, continue&#xA;  undisputed.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The CIA also released the following statement at the subsequent Senate hearings&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;STATEMENT CONCERNING FRANCIS GARY POWERS.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'The pilots...were instructed .... to be cooperative with their&#xA;  captors within limitations, to use their own judgement of what they&#xA;  should attempt to withhold, and not to subject themselves to strenuous&#xA;  hostile interrogation.&lt;/strong&gt; It has been established that Mr. Powers had&#xA;  been briefed in accordance with this policy and so understood his&#xA;  guidance. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'&lt;strong&gt;In regard to the poison needle....it should be emphasized that this&#xA;  was intended for use primarily if the pilot were subjected to torture&#xA;  or other circumstances which in his discretion warranted the taking of&#xA;  his own life. There were no instructions that he should commit suicide&#xA;  and no expectation that he would do so except in those situations just&#xA;  described, and I emphasize that even taking the needle with him in the&#xA;  plane was not mandary; it was his option.'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.militarycorruption.com/HOF-Powers.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this statement&lt;/a&gt; from his commanding officer Gen. Arch Hamblen seems to conflict with the accepted version of events:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... Powers carried with him&#xA;  cyanide, in a pen, which he was supposed to take in case he was shot&#xA;  down on the mission. The U-2 was built to fly higher - 65,000 to&#xA;  70,000 feet - than any Soviet missile could reach. But his plane was&#xA;  hit and he parachuted out of the stricken aircraft. He could not reach&#xA;  the cyanide instrument - anyway, it was destroyed by the impact of the&#xA;  missile. The spy pilot was captured and put in prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T21:09:00.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43626" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-17T21:09:15.153" Score="4" ViewCount="172" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, after Zack's face-heel turn into the Gormogon's Apprentice ended with his incarceration (commitment?), the assistant internship (fellowship) position was filled with various people, all grad students of Dr. Brennan. These Squint Interns (or Squinterns as Booth once called them), Some left, some came back, but since Dr. Brennan couldn't choose, they eventually fell into a sort of rotation. As we see on screen, each episode had one or the other, almost never twice in a row.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How long were these rotations or shifts? This may essentially be how ever long in-universe between episodes, but even that isn't easy to discern from just watching the show as dates are rarely given (I'm marathoning it, at season 5).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what exactly was the nature of the rotation? Did they alternate working directly with Dr. Brennan and other duties at the Jeffersonian (Like cataloging bones in &quot;Limbo&quot;), or was their duty only limited to working with Dr. Brennan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T19:04:21.790" Title="How long was each Squinterns' turn at the Jeffersonian?" Tags="|plot-explanation|bones|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43628" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43629" CreationDate="2015-11-17T21:34:00.807" Score="7" ViewCount="271" Body="&lt;p&gt;I once watched a movie or telefim. Here are the details I remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The main actress was Heather Graham. The story revolves around her.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;She wanted to be a music superstar, but working as a waitress in a restaurant. The money was the main hurdle in achieving her dream (this is what she thought).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In restaurant, she used to meet several customers who wanted to lure her into prostitute business or something like that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;She got a boyfriend at beach. She was sleeping and then a guy came to ask if she had extra cigarettes and then he pulled out cigarettes. This is how they met for the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Initially, the boyfriend used to encourage her for her dreams. Later, he made her take drugs and then she became a drug addict.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One day, she broke up with him because of the drug issues. She wanted her old dreamy life back.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Later, this ex-boyfriend came to the restaurant and ask her to leave with him. Upon refusal, he pulled out gun and made everyone there hostage. The plan was: Loot out all of the money there (restaurant's and customers') and run away with the girl.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then, police came outside and started threatening him. Due to fear, he accidentally murdered someone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The actress unwillingly agreed to run away with him, but in the process of escape (Window glass breaking or something like that), she had a chance to grab the gun.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After some thought, she pulled the trigger to kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can you please identify this movie/telefilm?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="939" LastEditorUserId="939" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T21:36:03.197" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T21:37:46.397" Title="Identify this movie/telefilm featuring Heather Graham" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:10:28.033" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43628" CreationDate="2015-11-17T21:35:48.040" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469045/combined&quot;&gt;Broken&lt;/a&gt; from 2006.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The aspirant singer Hope leaves Cleveland to Los Angeles expecting to succeed in the career of rock-and-roll singer. She meets the funny Will on the beach and they fall in love for each other. However, Will [gets her addicted to] heroin, destroying her dreams. Later, Hope escapes from Will, trying to put her life back on the trails and working as waitress in the Blue Star Café. However, one night she is caught by Will that wants her back with him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/VH3m2p1W5as?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T21:37:46.397" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T21:37:46.397" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42232" CreationDate="2015-11-17T22:08:33.483" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It would appear that the singer was indeed &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.discogs.com/artist/849955-Jenny-Wren?filter_anv=0&amp;amp;subtype=Vocals&amp;amp;type=Credits&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jenny Wren&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Real name Jenny Allen). Jenny recorded two records for Fontana; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o8lfAFey-M&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chasing My Dreams All Over Town&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8WwkbwVjvk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Merry-Go-Round Is Slowing You Down&lt;/a&gt; as well as providing the songs for the later TV show:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;15 year-old Jenny Allen first came to notice in Wolverhampton in 1964&#xA;  when she was backed by the group Les Jondors and apparently got her&#xA;  break when one of Fontana's A&amp;amp;R men, Jack Baverstock heard her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;in 1965 (whilst still a pupil at the Sir Gilbert Claughton School in&#xA;  Dudley) she changed her name to Jenny Wren and signed a recording&#xA;  contract with Fontana.  She only released two records on Fontana,&#xA;  Chasing My Dreams All Over Town and The Merry-Go-Round Is Slowing You&#xA;  Down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a mention of her on this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/articles/InBetweenTimes/Page9.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;local history&lt;/a&gt; site. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may interest you to know that she reinvented herself in the 1980s, teaching at Croydon College of Music, providing the vocals for Helen Mirren's &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok1HI_PzLQU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Painted Lady&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and had minor success with a duet with &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP1wnzqsGd0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pat Benetar&lt;/a&gt; under the name Jenny &lt;strong&gt;Darren&lt;/strong&gt;. Jenny &lt;s&gt;Wren&lt;/s&gt; &lt;s&gt;Allen&lt;/s&gt; Darren is still gigging to this day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/I_yINInQbLU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-17T22:34:21.243" LastActivityDate="2015-11-17T22:34:21.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43633" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43636" CreationDate="2015-11-17T23:54:22.737" Score="15" ViewCount="1635" Body="&lt;p&gt;After the crew of the Enterprise successfully intervenes the assassins' plans and saves the future of human-Klingon-peace in 1991's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102975/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, there is a little epilogue where they say farwell to Sulu and the Excelsior. After wondering about what to do next Uhura receives a slightly off-putting message:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Captain, I have orders from Starfleet command. We're to put back to space dock immediately, to be decommissioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But while the crew deliberately ignores orders for a last little trip, Captain Kirk still ends the film with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Captain's log, stardate 952931: This is the final cruise of the starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we begun and journey to all the undicovered countries boldy going where no man, where noone, has gone before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems quite a strong conclusion to the movie and after all the whole series, supposedly putting an end to Kirk's adventures. Now this might just have been a little overly emotional ending fitting to the prospects of a brighter future as presented by the rest of the movie's story. They could in the end just construe some new reason to not decommission the Enterprise right away for the next movie. But in fact it actually &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; practically the end of the TOS-based movie series as the next film, 1994's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111280/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Generations&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; marks the handoff to Picard's crew and Kirk only has a short appearance as a retired officer at the beginning, the rest is set in TNG's future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is there any official information or at least solid evidence &lt;strong&gt;that the out-of-universe &quot;decommissioning&quot; of the Enterprise movie series (or at least the TOS-series) was already planned/decided at this point?&lt;/strong&gt; And if yes, did they already plan for Picard to take over? Was that epilogue already the series' recognition of TNG as the &lt;em&gt;primary&lt;/em&gt; continuation of the &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; tradition? Or was there actually not that much thought behind the production put into that ending (which of course still fits with the rest of the movie's motifs)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-04-28T12:18:15.317" LastActivityDate="2017-01-10T01:29:30.280" Title="Was Kirk's retirement from the Star Trek franchise already decided in The Undiscovered Country?" Tags="|production|star-trek|star-trek-vi-undiscovered-country|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42076" CreationDate="2015-11-18T00:03:28.407" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like the aim was to try to remain as true to the Disney original artwork as possible. Note that in the 1951 Cinderella, our eponymous heroine has dark eyebrows to go along with her strawberry-blond hair&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aDkrY.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aDkrY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even the earliest concept art for the 2015 film (drawn &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; an actress was selected) has Cinders with brown eyebrows...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LmSww.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LmSww.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T00:03:28.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43633" CreationDate="2015-11-18T00:48:56.383" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_VI:_The_Undiscovered_Country#Development&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Development section of the Wikipedia article for The Undiscovered Country&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With the looming 25th anniversary of the original series in 1991, producer Harve Bennett revisited an idea Ralph Winter had for the fourth film: a prequel featuring young versions of Kirk and Spock at Starfleet Academy. The prequel was designed to be a way of keeping the characters, if not the actors, in what was called &quot;Top Gun in outer space&quot;.Bennett and The Final Frontier writer David Loughery wrote a script entitled The Academy Years, where Dr. Leonard McCoy talks about how he met Kirk and Spock while addressing a group of Academy graduates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the first idea was to keep the TOS characters, but not the crew. This was rejected:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Actor James Doohan claimed that Paramount chief Frank Mancuso had fired Bennett following negative reaction from the core cast, Roddenberry, and fans. Bennett claimed that after he rewrote the script to include Shatner and Nimoy, Paramount had still rejected it and that he decided it was time he left the franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A second idea of a (almost) &lt;strong&gt;total party kill&lt;/strong&gt; was presented by Chekov, also not used:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Actor Walter Koenig approached Mancuso with a new script outline codenamed &quot;In Flanders Fields&quot;; in it, the Romulans join the Federation and go to war with the Klingons. The Enterprise crew, except Spock, are forced to retire for not meeting fitness tests. When Spock and his new crew are captured by a monstrous worm-like race of aliens (which Koenig described as &quot;things that the monsters in Aliens evolved from&quot;), the old crew must rescue them. In the end, all of the characters except McCoy and Spock die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, Nimoy was asked to write.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mancuso asked Leonard Nimoy to conceive the new film to serve as a swan song for the original cast. Nimoy, Mark Rosenthal and Lawrence Konner suggested Kirk meeting Jean-Luc Picard, but Star Trek: The Next Generation‍ '​s producers refused to end their show. ... Ralph Winter was brought on to the project as producer shortly after Bennett's departure, and said Paramount's mandate was to produce a 25th anniversary film that would not cost a lot of money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mancuso being the Chief of Paramount at the time. A swan song being the final movement made before death/retirement. &lt;em&gt;So the answer was yes.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek_VI:_The_Undiscovered_Country#Story_and_production&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This is backed by the DVD extras and Shatner's mémoire (From Memory-Alpha)&lt;/a&gt;:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Undiscovered Country was almost never made as a Star Trek film, not only due to the dismal box office receipts of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, but also for an unbroken string of, for Paramount Pictures, disappointing yet very expensive movie releases as well, leaving the studio deeply in the red, only aggravated by a worldwide recession. However as seen on the Star Trek VI DVD set and also according to William Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories, Paramount, specifically its president Frank Mancuso, Sr. – who had been intimately involved with Star Trek ever since Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – , did not really want to end the Original Crew run on The Final Frontier low note, especially with the 25th Anniversary coming up, and wanted one more film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So already knowing that this should be the last TOS movie, Nimoy, along with Nicholas Meyer, &lt;code&gt;who directed The Wrath of Khan and co-wrote The Voyage Home&lt;/code&gt; ended up spitballing until they got the final idea of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;not so Cold anymore&lt;/em&gt; War in Space.&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, the movie before, &lt;em&gt;Star Trek V: The Final Frontier&lt;/em&gt;, was a failure, and the success of TNG was already calling for an end to the TOS series, so Undiscovered Country was more like a retirement gift to the series than anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, Generations turned into an epilogue for Kirk, when production of Generations was denied the killing of a TNG character. Initially, the plan was a prologue cameo instead of a main role. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Generations#Development&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;From the Generations Wiki article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[TNG director] Berman felt that including the original cast of the previous Star Trek films felt like a &quot;good way to pass the baton&quot; to the next series. In the initial draft of the screenplay, the original series cast appeared in a prologue, and Guinan served as the bridge between the two generations. [...] Moore recalled that &quot;we wanted to aim high, do something different and big... We knew we had to have a strong Picard story arc, so what are the profound things in a man's life he has to face? Mortality tops the list.&quot; After the idea of killing off a Next Generation cast member was vetoed, someone suggested that Kirk die instead. Moore recalled that &quot;we all sorta looked around and said, 'That might be it.' &quot; The studio and Shatner himself had few concerns about the plot point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:42:45.047" LastActivityDate="2017-01-10T01:29:30.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43637" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43668" CreationDate="2015-11-18T01:35:52.490" Score="14" ViewCount="5484" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most Game Shows are filmed with live audiences. A popular and long running example is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jeopardy!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, others being &lt;em&gt;Family Feud&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Who wants to be A millionaire&lt;/em&gt;, and a recent one is &lt;em&gt;The Chase&lt;/em&gt;. Some of these shows embrace the live bit when the host or contestant mess up, so they include the blooper in the episode. All of these typically have a &quot;we'll be right back after the commercial break&quot; so they stop the action. These are ways of dealing with its televised nature while having a live audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My questions is how does the final outcome of &lt;em&gt;Jeopardy!&lt;/em&gt;, the 22 minute long televised episode, compared to the taping of it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A typical episode is 22 of air time, but how long do they film in a given day? Just one episode per day?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How long do commercial pauses last? Unlike a News show which is live, so any pauses would be in real time, a game show is not restrained to 2~3 minutes before they have to go back on air.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are retakes done at all? Are they common?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering &lt;em&gt;Jeopardy!&lt;/em&gt; is like the Golden Standard for game shows, I suspect any other is similar to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-11-18T16:20:46.390" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T06:00:18.443" Title="Filming timespan of Jeopardy!" Tags="|film-techniques|production|jeopardy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43644" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-18T05:29:43.040" Score="6" ViewCount="503" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember the original &lt;em&gt;Terminator&lt;/em&gt; futuristic battle scenes as being more realistic from what &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7PmOr3E1mI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I recently found on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;.  I seem to remember long sweeping laser beams that were practically silent, more like real laser beams than what we see in mainstream media today, but the scene I linked to has &lt;em&gt;blasting&lt;/em&gt; energy weapons. I do remember seeing Terminator once again (years ago) and thinking &quot;hey, this scene has been modified from the original,&quot; when I got to this part. Now, I'm trying to find if there are any hints that exist of the way I remember it happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can anybody come up with any information that may indicate if the scenes were altered in later video releases, or even better: a link to a version of the scene as I remember it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several such scenes throughout the movie. Is it possible I am thinking of a completely different movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21851" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-05T16:57:29.630" LastActivityDate="2016-08-05T16:57:29.630" Title="Original futuristic battle Scenes from the first Terminator movie" Tags="|alternate-version|terminator-series|the-terminator|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43645" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43654" CreationDate="2015-11-18T05:37:25.530" Score="48" ViewCount="12123" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are those round metal objects that Jack Torrance is throwing to the floor in this scene in &lt;em&gt;The Shining&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XhJaf.gif&quot; alt=&quot;angry jack nicholson&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27877" LastEditorUserId="14139" LastEditDate="2015-11-18T16:59:10.430" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T16:23:53.927" Title="What is Jack Nicholson tossing aside in this scene in The Shining?" Tags="|props|the-shining|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43646" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16525" CreationDate="2015-11-18T06:11:57.103" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, in the book it said that he had a fever. That and he lived till eighty and the average life expectancy back them was like 65 or lower. So illness and old age? And heartbreak over not being able to see Cosette again I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27879" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T06:11:57.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43644" CreationDate="2015-11-18T06:18:16.663" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Memories get altered with age. You might just thought it was cooler before. Just a thought. But watching the video, they vary between beams and blasts. The rapid fire of the tanks also make multiple blasts blend together into beam shapes. At 57s you see a few blasts (with pew pew pew sounds), and at 58s you see a pair of beams (without pew pew sounds).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know, there has been no revamped or modifications to that scene. It would not make fiscal sense, especially for early 80s special effects. It's not cheap. And it doesn't fix a continuity or plot issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/alternateversions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb list of Alternative Versions for Terminator&lt;/a&gt; the most significant changes on a non-tv airing are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The new MGM R1 DVD releases has two altered scenes, at the request of Lightstorm Entertainment, supposedly to fix goofs in the original picture: a scene set in the future, when a Terminator enters the rebel compound, has been flipped on its vertical axis; the scene where the Terminator leaves the motel in L.A. has been cropped/reframed so that his feet are no longer visible (this was done to fix a continuity problem: the original scene showed Schwarzenegger wearing shoes instead of boots as previously seen).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of the changes are remastering, minor continuity, and broadcast edits for gore/sex/time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;And it's not a Lucas special edition.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's completely possible that A) you have mistaken the scenes for something they were not, or B) you're thinking of another movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-18T06:40:43.733" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T06:40:43.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43645" CreationDate="2015-11-18T06:24:36.050" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since it's in the kitchen/pantry area, it's likely the ring section of drop bottom pie/cake tins/pans:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lpy2Z.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lpy2Z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or oddly large muffin or omelet rings. Typical cooking/baking supplies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Overlook Hotel is a very large resort/vacation area, with a large ball room, and likely caters to a crowd of hundreds. Drop bottom pans would be essential for serving a neat looking pie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-18T06:35:02.913" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T06:35:02.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43652" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43645" CreationDate="2015-11-18T06:47:07.207" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/shining.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; refers to them as &quot;rings&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CUT TO:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;INT. HOTEL - KITCHEN - M.L.S.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JACK moves forward in kitchen.  He sweeps coffee pot off table onto&#xA;  floor.  CAMERA TRACKS BACK before him.  He kicks coffee pots on floor,&#xA;  then sweeps rings off stove onto floor. He kicks rings as he leaves&#xA;  kitchen, moving into corridor. CAMERA TRACKS BACK before him.  He&#xA;  stops and looks ahead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZqsjQ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cooking Rings&lt;/a&gt; are used for a variety of tasks, in this instance (e.g. within a large hotel environment) presumably to assist with &lt;a href=&quot;http://theartofplating.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;plating-up&lt;/a&gt;. They may also be used for cooking cakes, pies, omelettes or muffins&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-18T08:42:48.560" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T08:42:48.560" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4162" CreationDate="2015-11-18T07:16:21.467" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we take just &lt;strong&gt;The Terminator&lt;/strong&gt; as valid for this, due to changes in timeline, then the answer has to be related to Cameron's offhanded remark:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Somehow, even his accent worked. It had a strange synthesized quality, &lt;strong&gt;like they hadn't gotten the voice thing quite worked out&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further more from that article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Terminator in the first film spoke &lt;strong&gt;only 17 lines&lt;/strong&gt; (he has several times more dialogue in the sequel). But those were the lines, delivered in a singularly &lt;strong&gt;Schwarzeneggerian deadpan&lt;/strong&gt;, that made Arnold a movie icon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of what he said is very simple, short sentences, in a monotonous voice. The two most complicated ones are in the gun shop &lt;code&gt;The .45 long-slide with laser sighting.&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;Phased plasma rifle in 40-watt range.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember what Kyle told Sarah?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but &lt;strong&gt;these are new&lt;/strong&gt;. They look human - sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot. &lt;strong&gt;I had to wait till he moved on you&lt;/strong&gt; before I could zero him.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The T-800 we see is a newer model in a line of &lt;strong&gt;Infiltrator units&lt;/strong&gt;, a progression in robotic evolution. Each new series improved on the last. It's limited speech and monotonous voice likely required it not to speak in order to pass as a human, only speaking when it needed to. A big improvement from rubber skin, no sweat, non-human smell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It has an accent because Skynet is still experimenting on how to design Infiltrators for maximum infiltration capability.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now taking the other movies into account, we see by the time Skynet, now delayed a decade in creation, but starting with future-tech, has a jump start on technology, created the T-1000 series which has corrected the voice problem, having a more advanced processor and everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T07:16:21.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43645" CreationDate="2015-11-18T07:21:07.977" Score="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aluminium &lt;strong&gt;plate rings&lt;/strong&gt;, used for separating dinner plates between plating up &amp;amp; serving; keeps the food warmer for longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plate rings have a characteristic bottom lip which will 'hook' over the plate beneath, &amp;amp; sloped or slightly curving sides, to meet the moulded ring on the underside of the plate stacked above, preventing slippage.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;They may have lids, though more usually another empty plate would be placed on top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uIKIv.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uIKIv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For serving - room service etc - a version with an integral lid would be used instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PnpGD.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PnpGD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a blow-up of the best frame I can find showing 2 of the rings - sloping sides, curved top, external bottom lip; precludes the possibility of cooking ring, baking tin or pie-dish upside down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/polMG.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/polMG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For comparison to the most likely alternatives…&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Baking tins or pie dishes would have a flat lip on the inside, to provide stability for the flat base insert.&#xA;A cooking or mousse ring would have no lip at all &amp;amp; also have parallel sides to enable the food to slip out more easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sandwich [cake] tin - flat lip to keep the insert stable&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sWvdf.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sWvdf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;cooking or mousse ring - parallel sides, no lip, edges bent &amp;amp; formed to the outside to keep the inner face as clean as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p2pl2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p2pl2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Samples from :&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.brakesce.co.uk/pid_35798/500099/aluminium-plate-ring-20cm.aspx#.Vkwl7oSoIUE&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.brakesce.co.uk/pid_35798/500099/aluminium-plate-ring-20cm.aspx#.Vkwl7oSoIUE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.brakesce.co.uk/pid_35803/578622/Aluminium-Plate-Cover-20cm.aspx#.Vkwnt4SoIUE&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://www.brakesce.co.uk/pid_35803/578622/Aluminium-Plate-Cover-20cm.aspx#.Vkwnt4SoIUE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25773" LastEditorUserId="25773" LastEditDate="2015-11-18T09:43:16.927" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T09:43:16.927" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43655" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8844" CreationDate="2015-11-18T07:57:28.417" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe Dexter was completely human this whole time and Harry was fooled into turning Dexter into a guinea pig for Vogel. Dexter was brainwashed from a toddler until his first kill at 19. His father is shown throughout the show commenting and questioning Dexter's motives and methods, this could be how the viewer is made aware of this. Maybe Dexter could love normally but was taught to believe otherwise. The more time he spent in his &quot;cover life&quot;, Dexter realized that it was actually what he wanted and could make for himself. The last season sums this pretty well. The scene where he heads right into the hurricane on the Slice of Life could symbolize a cleansing, or &quot;baptism&quot; and he is born again into a new life. (Previous seasons of the show depict Dexter trying to grasp religion and faith.) Dexter's boat was destroyed,  as was his former self that had been created and his life was reset to a location and scenario painted with past events that would have stayed with him. #1 chainsaws (what he was taught &quot;made&quot; him who he was) #2 mountains (last conversation with Deb she discussed climbing them)... which leads into the last scene of Dexter working as a lumberjack in the mountains. Maybe he struggled to shore before landing in Oregon and had amnesia, not letting him remember his old life but a few clues as to who he was/where he belonged...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27882" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T07:57:28.417" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16525" CreationDate="2015-11-18T08:10:59.377" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;He simply lost the will to live. There is no medical reason given, and he was, as an able bodied male, a bit too young to die of old age complications. It's possible he did have an undiagnosed medical condition, but the story does not touch on that. The state of Medicine was far less advanced at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To explain the Average Life Expectancy at the time WAS lower, maybe 35 years or so, but this is deceptive at first glance. A high infant mortality rate heavily skews this number. When 800 babies out of 1000 die before age 5, the average plummets. &lt;strong&gt;If you discount childhood deaths, an able bodied male that reaches adulthood (20+) of the early 1800's would live to be between 60 and 80 years old, some outliers reaching 90&lt;/strong&gt;. (Women had the same issue with childhood deaths AND dying in childbirth, but still outlive men by 5 years on average).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Valjean, who in later life is a mayor, slightly well off, would be an old man in death. Compare him to the American Founding Fathers, same time period (Colonial America to Industrial Revolution), died as old men.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thomas Jefferson 83, John Adams 90, George Wythe was 80, Paul Revere was 83, Ben Franklin was 84. Only George Washington died a young 67, from blood loss, not old age complications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Given this, he died a bit younger than normal, baring accident/murder or medical illness. Having not been able to see Cosette anymore, he lost his will live, and that's very important. Ask anyone in a medical field, and they will tell you, someone fighting to live has a notably higher chance of surviving than those that don't, like the placebo effect.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T08:10:59.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43657" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="106012" CreationDate="2015-11-18T09:21:29.007" Score="2" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Baahubali:The Beginning&lt;/em&gt;, During war, Kalakeya chief asks Sivagami, &quot;You will declare King whoever kills me among both princes&quot;. This quote was said by Bijjaladeva a day before the war. My question is, how Kalakeya Chief knew about this? His spy Saket was arrested already.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27264" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2015-11-18T10:13:49.777" LastActivityDate="2019-12-31T09:39:57.903" Title="How come Kalkeya Chief knew about what Bijjaladeva said a day before war" Tags="|plot-explanation|baahubali-the-beginning|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31486" CreationDate="2015-11-18T11:32:13.937" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've done a little research on the true story and the movie doesn't really tell the truth. Mark only lived in Foxcatcher for 2 years, while Dave lived for almost 7 years. Du Pont had a much closer relationship to Dave than Mark. Dave only actually went to Foxcatcher Farm after Mark had already left. They never lived there at the same time. In 1996, Dave said that he would leave the farm after the 96 Olympics and that made Du Pont start acting stranger and stranger and that's the main reason for the murder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27884" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-18T17:12:00.700" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T17:12:00.700" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43644" CreationDate="2015-11-18T14:32:56.447" Score="11" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Possibility #1:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You're conflating scenes from two different movies:  The original, in which the special effects now seem outdated and unconvincing, and the sequel, in which the special effects still hold up pretty well today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/e7PmOr3E1mI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ih_l0vBISOE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Possibility #2:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene doesn't exist as you remember it, and never did. You have essentially created what is known as a &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/headcanon&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;headcanon&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;.  It happens all the time.  For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are tens of thousands of people, if not more, who insist that they saw a version of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars:  Episode IV - A New Hope&lt;/em&gt; that was actually never even filmed:  these people claim that, in the scene where Luke and Leia use  a grappling hook and rope to swing across a chasm inside the Death Star, Luke throws the hook, misses, retracts the rope, throws it again, and only then does it catch.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/92186/55787&quot;&gt;In reality&lt;/a&gt;, every version of the movie ever released has Luke succeeding on his first try.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tons of comic book fans swear there is an issue in which a paramedic lifts Mjolnir.  Again, &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/92186/55787&quot;&gt;never happened&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same rule probably applies to individual and iconic lines that people &amp;quot;quote&amp;quot; from famous movies and books, which were never actually said. Such lines are known as &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_me_up,_Scotty&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Beam me up, Scotties&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;.  Some examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Play it again, Sam&amp;quot;:  I've never seen &lt;em&gt;Casablanca&lt;/em&gt;, but I have associated this line with the movie for as long as I can remember, as have tons of people who have seen the movie and loved it.  But no one ever says this in the movie.  The actual line is &amp;quot;Play it &lt;em&gt;once&lt;/em&gt;, Sam, for old time's sake.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Luke, I am your father&amp;quot;:  Vader actually says &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; am your father&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Beam me up Scotty&amp;quot;:  Since the 70's or earlier, people have considered this the most recognizable Star Trek dialogue ever spoken.  Unfortunately, it never &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; spoken in Star Trek media until the last few years. Before then, the closest variants used onscreen were &amp;quot;Scotty, beam me up&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Beam me up&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;Beam &lt;strong&gt;us&lt;/strong&gt; up, Scotty&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Just the facts, ma'am.&amp;quot;:  The only thing most people know about &lt;em&gt;Dragnet&lt;/em&gt; is this line, which was never uttered on the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Possibility #3:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Totally different movie.  Not much we can do about that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T01:08:47.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42592" CreationDate="2015-11-18T15:43:18.993" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is not a true answer so much as it is a guideline for what an answer should be. It's my best attempt at an answer, but there's a gaping hole in the &lt;em&gt;Salvation&lt;/em&gt; change. I'm also not sure if the list of discrepancies I address is complete or not. I've relisted it as an answer instead of being part of the question at the community's request.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Terminator&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;A T-800 is sent back in time to assassinate Sarah Conner. Kyle Reese is sent back to save her.&lt;/em&gt; This is the original timeline. While there are numerous effects of the two time travelers' presence (Sarah's pregnancy, numerous deaths), we learn by the end that these were not changes to the timeline, but rather that the orignal timeline already included this visit from the future, and the machines created the very future they went back to prevent. &lt;strong&gt;No changes to the timeline.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Terminator 2: Judgement Day&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sarah, John and the T-800 destroy the remains of the original terminator and leave no remains of the two that came back to 1993.&lt;/em&gt; Because the existence of Skynet and Terminators was predicated on having future technology to go by, this seemingly prevents Judgement Day from happening. However, they were only successful in delaying the inevitable. &lt;strong&gt;The original origin of Skynet is prevented, delaying Judgemnent day 10 years.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For this explanation, I argue that the two terminators coming back to 1993 was &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a change in the timeline in and of itself. While Kyle states &quot;It's just him and me&quot; in the first movie, we have every reason to believe he came back as soon as possible after learning the first T-800 had gone back (as is the case in subsequent timelines). In her opening narration in &lt;em&gt;Judgement Day&lt;/em&gt;, Sarah states that the machines sent 2 machines back to attack them. It is likely that the machines sent the T-1000 back shortly after the T-800 (possibly from a different location), or at least that the resistance didn't learn of the second attempt until after Kyle had departed. Either way, the films support both attacks being part of the original timeline. However, in the original timeline, though John lived, Judgement Day wasn't prevented. (Perhaps John didn't realize he could give the T-800 orders, and it took John out of Los Angeles instead of rescuing Sarah.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The TX succeeds in eliminating some key resistance members before being destroyed by the T-800.&lt;/em&gt; This is the only confirmed change to the timeline created in &lt;em&gt;Judgement Day&lt;/em&gt; that occurs during the events of &lt;em&gt;Rise of the Machines&lt;/em&gt;. In the future this film's terminators come from, Judgement Day and John meeting Kate happened just as they do in the film. While we don't see any direct consequences of this, there are changes observed in the next film which must either be a consequence of this change or the one listed above for &lt;em&gt;Judgement Day&lt;/em&gt;. Namely, &lt;strong&gt;The resistance (or at least Kyle Reece) now prefers to engage terminators in daylight rather than at night.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Terminator Salvation&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Skynet changes something offscreen.&lt;/em&gt; Yes, this is a terrible explanation, and an answer hoping to be accepted can't contain this hand wave, but that's part of why I'm asking the question. There is no time travel depicted in &lt;em&gt;Salvation&lt;/em&gt;. Yet, the details of John and Kyle meeting change from &lt;em&gt;Salvation&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;Genisys&lt;/em&gt;. More importantly, something prompts Skynet to make the most radical change to the timeline yet in &lt;em&gt;Genisys&lt;/em&gt;. (If nothing changed between &lt;em&gt;Rise of the Machines&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Genisys&lt;/em&gt;, there would be no motivation for the events of &lt;em&gt;Genisys&lt;/em&gt; to occur. &lt;strong&gt;John meets Kyle at a different time, and Skynet develops a plan to re-establish itself after its defeat.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Terminator: Genisys&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Skynet and the resistance send Terminators to Sarah as a child.&lt;/em&gt; Genisys details this pretty clearly: &lt;strong&gt;Sarah's childhood is drastically changed and she becomes an effective soldier much sooner. Much of the collateral damage done in 1989 is prevented. Pops's continued presence is also responsible for the prevention of Judgement Day in 2003.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Skynet infects John Conner while Reece jumps through time.&lt;/em&gt; This starts a chain reaction. Witnessing a timeline change while time travelling gives Reece an erratic ability to access his own memories across timelines. This in turn enables him, Sarah and Pops to travel to address the new Judgement Day threat in the correct time. &lt;strong&gt;Judgement Day is again prevented in 2015, delayed until an as yet unknown time.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27012" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T15:43:18.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43637" CreationDate="2015-11-18T16:15:42.910" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer your questions, I'm going to use this site, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jeopardy-faqs.com/game-mechanics.html&quot;&gt;Jeopardy-FAQs.com&lt;/a&gt;, which is an unaffiliated &lt;em&gt;Jeopardy!&lt;/em&gt; site that seems to have some specific knowledge of how the show is taped... perhaps someone who worked on the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They shoot an entire week of show in one day, so five episodes per day, and they apparently shoot two weeks-worth of episodes in each week:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: I thought a weeks worth of shows were done in one day. Is that the case?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  A: We taped twice a week, five shows a day, five weeks a month, nine months a year. Normally the shows you see on TV were taped about two months in advance. There are variances, times off for remote tapings, and breaks for holiday weeks and what not, so no there are not 54 weeks of shows and yes there are re-runs. But &lt;em&gt;Jeopardy!&lt;/em&gt; is the &quot;game show&quot; with the most original programming each year.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, as a corollary, as an audience member, you get to hang out while they shoot more than one episode. Each batch of tickets is good for the morning taping or the afternoon taping, of three and two episodes, respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In regards to the tickets, there are two audiences a day, the first will watch three tapings, then there is a lunch break for the crew, and the second will watch the last two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently each episode takes about 45 minutes to shoot, which is then cut down to the final 22-minute episode, likely removing slow pauses between questions that would make the TV version seem to drag:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: The show seems to be super fast paced. Is it roughly real time? Or is there lots of splicing? How long does a 30 minute show take to tape?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  A: A 30 minute show if gone smoothly will take about 40-45 minutes. Its pretty well oiled. Not a lot of editing is necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no specific info on this page regarding whether they pause for the full length of the commercial break but, considering the fact it takes 45 minutes to film the episode, I doubt they &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to pause for a specific amount of time... though they likely do pause for a few just to give Alex and the players a break.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with many (if not all) game shows, I believe you'll find that &lt;em&gt;Jeopardy!&lt;/em&gt; has a small disclaimer to the effect of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Portions of this program not effecting the outcome may have been edited.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sup&gt;(not sure on exact &lt;em&gt;Jeopardy!&lt;/em&gt; phrasing)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is very much the case.  Pretty much every game show will have to edit out small issues with question pronunciation, audience &quot;participation&quot;, or technical errors. As I've already mentioned, the taping for each episode takes about 45 minutes and there are several cases when parts of the show are edited or re-shot. As an example, if the audience yells out an answer, they may have to exclude the question and replace it with an alternate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: What's the procedure if [the audience yells out an answer]? Would that be cut out of the final edit, and how would that affect the scoring?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  A: Well the few times I heard it, it luckily wasn't loud enough to be heard by the contestants, just the judges table which is right in front of the audience, so no action was taken. But if it was loud enough to be heard by a contestant, the show would be stopped, the question would be thrown out, replaced and replayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, when Alex has to go to the judges for their opinion on an answer, that &quot;instant&quot; response generally takes 1-2 minutes to come back... and up to 30 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: When Trebek consults &quot;judges&quot;, what's really happening (overturning answers, etc.)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  A: The judges' table has about ten people sitting at it, including the producers, writers, researchers and a lawyer. If the contestant gives and answer that wasn't the correct response but could be technically correct, he would consult the judges, who then have to research the answer to see if it's acceptable. Or if the contestant mispronounces his response and it needs to be reviewed in the booth. Sometimes this process takes a minute but it's taken up to half an hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: I've never seen this happen. Do they go to commercial break, or do they edit it to make it seem like the judges instantly know if the answer is acceptable? Every time I've seen him ask the judges, it seems so instant.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  A: It varies, sometimes the rulings are instant, sometimes they need to stop taping and it takes anywhere from 1-30 minutes. Editing is done at that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from a &lt;a href=&quot;http://theweek.com/articles/443146/11-things-no-tells-about-competing-jeopardy&quot;&gt;personal account&lt;/a&gt; from a &lt;em&gt;Jeopardy!&lt;/em&gt; contestant, Terri Pous:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not everything is as it seems on TV. Alex stumbles over his words, the board malfunctions, people contest answers — you name it, it happens. It's TV! Through the magic of editing, none of this is visible to home audiences. All of these things happened on my episodes, in addition to some awkward pauses during the interviews, and 10- to 15-minute breaks in which the review board debated some answers. The day before, Alex had swapped the interview questions! It's fun to see it all happen. In addition, the clues stay in those small boxes on the board, which made them hard to read from the podium — I found myself hunched over and squinting a lot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the question was initially more broad, I thought I'd add some other info.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I was in high school, I was on a game show called &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_%28game_show%29&quot;&gt;Click&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; that was produced by Merv Griffin productions (and hosted by Ryan Seacrest). It was shot in front of a live audience. Some of the info below is from my personal experience on that show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;em&gt;Click&lt;/em&gt;, they seemed to time the &quot;commercial breaks&quot; to allow the tape to keep rolling and we were counted back in as if we were on live TV (which we weren't). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In regards to editing, there was a point in time where one of the competing teams was running on the stage and knocked over the main podium as the clock ticked down to zero. They actually had the team re-shoot their final run towards the podium so that they could avoid showing it tipping over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, like on &lt;em&gt;Jeopardy!&lt;/em&gt;, they shot several episodes in one day, and shot the entire season in a week or two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Portions of the quotes not affecting their content may have been edited&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T16:15:42.910" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43670" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43677" CreationDate="2015-11-18T17:12:12.727" Score="3" ViewCount="887" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series Minority Report, why was PreCrime shut down. Why is using precogs illegal? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-18T23:55:28.203" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T23:55:28.203" Title="Why was the PreCrime division shut down?" Tags="|plot-explanation|minority-report-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43671" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-18T17:37:13.313" Score="2" ViewCount="1250" Body="&lt;p&gt;At 1:28 in the included video, our Spanish Inquisition heroes rush to catch the bus to the studio.  Hurried chase music plays in the background as the credits roll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the name/composer of that music?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/P1iBbBL1040?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27126" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T17:49:06.933" Title="What is the Music Playing Behind Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition Closing Credits?" Tags="|soundtrack|monty-python|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43671" CreationDate="2015-11-18T17:49:06.933" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Devil's Gallop&quot; by Charles Williams&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/e7bsL00aCGg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/jgbFzl3F-ts?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27899" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T17:49:06.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43673" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43670" CreationDate="2015-11-18T18:20:34.467" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe precrime was determined to be unethical/illegal for reasons that I'm not sure have been fully elaborated on.  My understanding is that a combination of what it was doing to the precogs themselves (who were after all simply citizens being held illegally against their will) as well as the questions surrounding the arrest of people for something they haven't actually done yet - especially after the existence of the actual &quot;minority report&quot; is revealed in the movie and the fact that there isn't always consensus between the precogs - are what resulted in a governmental investigation and eventual shutdown of the program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bit of a run-on sentence but hopefully you get the point.  ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27901" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T18:20:34.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43675" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-18T19:38:01.700" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Acronym for World Wrestling Entertainment, an American company that primarily deals in professional wrestling, but also has steaks in other entertainment industries&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-10-31T16:33:13.753" LastActivityDate="2017-10-31T16:33:13.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43676" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-18T19:38:01.700" Score="0" Body="Acronym for World Wrestling Entertainment, an American company that primarily deals in professional wrestling, but also has stakes in other entertainment industries" OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="34317" LastEditDate="2020-08-29T07:35:56.333" LastActivityDate="2020-08-29T07:35:56.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="43677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43670" CreationDate="2015-11-18T19:38:20.087" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Minority Report&lt;/em&gt; the show is a direct continuation of &lt;em&gt;Minority Report&lt;/em&gt; the movie. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Report_(film)#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The events of the movie is what shuts down the PreCrime department&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lara calls Burgess to reveal Anderton is with her. Anderton is captured, accused of both murders, and imprisoned in stasis alongside other previous would-be murderers, while Agatha is reconnected to the PreCrime system. While attempting to comfort Lara, Burgess accidentally reveals himself as Lively's murderer. &lt;strong&gt;Lara frees Anderton from the stasis facility, and Anderton exposes Burgess at a PreCrime celebratory banquet by playing the full video of Agatha's vision of Lively.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Burgess chases Anderton, and a new report is generated at PreCrime, with Anderton the victim and Burgess the murderer. Burgess corners Anderton, and explains that as he could not afford to let Lively take Agatha back without impacting PreCrime, he arranged to kill Lively following an actual attempt on her life, as to make his attack appear as a minority report within PreCrime. &lt;strong&gt;Anderton then points out Burgess's dilemma: If Burgess kills Anderton, he will be imprisoned for life, but PreCrime will be validated; if he spares Anderton, PreCrime will be discredited and shut down.&lt;/strong&gt; Anderton reveals the ultimate flaw of the system: &lt;strong&gt;Once people are aware of their future, they are able to change it&lt;/strong&gt;. Burgess asks for Anderton's forgiveness and shoots himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie deals with predestination and the fluidity of telling the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key parts of the movie are right near the beginning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Federal government is on the verge of adopting the controversial program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The D.C. program is a pilot, and like any police technology use, would be heavily scrutinized, legal challenges, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anderton seeks the advice of Dr. Iris Hineman, the creator of PreCrime technology. She reveals that sometimes, one of the Precogs, usually Agatha, has a different vision than the other two, a &amp;quot;minority report&amp;quot;; this has been kept a secret as it would damage the system's credibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a program that has a 33% probability of false positive resulting in unjust convictions is a big no no in the Justice system. Hiding evidence of this is worse. The precogs only see one &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; future at best, dreams or stray thoughts at worst, and they can't even agree.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire program is sketchy, and once it was proven to be incredibly faulty by its very nature, let alone hiding evidence, public and legal support for it vanished in a heart beat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thus the use of precogs by the police becomes illegal because of the blatant abuse of power they would provide, as well as the inaccuracy&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T19:43:30.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
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  <row Id="43679" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-18T19:43:42.963" Score="0" Body="Term used to describe a film or TV series being produced as if its previous iteration did not already exist. To be used for questions about the intricacies of reboots specifically, not for any kind of question about a rebooted movie/TV-series." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-10T00:21:34.037" LastActivityDate="2016-12-10T00:21:34.037" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43680" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-18T19:49:30.723" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-18T19:49:30.723" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T19:49:30.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43681" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-18T19:49:30.723" Score="0" Body="The NBC network's long running sketch comedy series and springboard for numerous writing and performing talents." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-11T00:55:52.840" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T00:55:52.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41873" CreationDate="2015-11-18T19:58:39.987" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is discussed in the film when they look at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=escape-from-alcatraz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;making the homemade drill&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Frank:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;We'll spread the bars with a pipe and knock the hood off.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;There's an electrical outlet here. Get a motor, a drill bit and a&#xA;flashlight and we'd have it all.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Can you get me an extension cord and a drill bit from the shop?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T19:58:39.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43684" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-18T21:06:51.537" Score="1" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;code&gt;S01E07&lt;/code&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3231564/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Manhattan&lt;/a&gt;, Helen and Charlie travel to a nuclear reactor. There they meet Theodore Sinclair. With him they solve some crisis at the reactor. Shortly after, Theodore gives Helen a letter for Frank, which she throws away in a trashcan when arrived back in Manhattan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Helen throw away Theodore's letter for Frank?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27904" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T01:18:41.167" Title="Why does Helen throw away Theodore's letter for Frank?" Tags="|plot-explanation|manhattan|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41532" CreationDate="2015-11-18T21:09:06.733" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the source book (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26654/26654-h/26654-h.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Peter Pan and Wendy&lt;/a&gt;) the clock does indeed stop ticking. Peter surmises that it's wound down but hits upon the ruse of making the ticking sound himself so that predators will think he's the crocodile and be scared away:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our&#xA;  noticing for a time that they have happened. Thus, to take an&#xA;  instance, we suddenly discover that we have been deaf in one ear for&#xA;  we don't know how long, but, say, half an hour. Now such an experience&#xA;  had come that night to Peter. When last we saw him he was stealing&#xA;  across the island with one finger to his lips and his dagger at the&#xA;  ready. He had seen the crocodile pass by without noticing anything&#xA;  peculiar about it, but by and by he remembered that it had not been&#xA;  ticking. At first he thought this eerie, but soon he concluded rightly&#xA;  that the clock had run down.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Without giving a thought to what might be the feelings of a&#xA;  fellow-creature thus abruptly deprived of its closest&#xA;  companion, Peter at once considered how he could turn the catastrophe&#xA;  to his own use; and he decided to tick, so that wild beasts should&#xA;  believe he was the crocodile and let him pass unmolested. He ticked&#xA;  superbly, but with one unforeseen result. The crocodile was among&#xA;  those who heard the sound, and it followed him, though whether with&#xA;  the purpose of regaining what it had lost, or merely as a friend under&#xA;  the belief that it was again ticking itself, will never be certainly&#xA;  known, for, like all slaves to a fixed idea, it was a stupid beast.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Peter reached the shore without mishap, and went straight on; his legs&#xA;  encountering the water as if quite unaware that they had entered a new&#xA;  element. Thus many animals pass from land to water, but no other human&#xA;  of whom I know. As he swam he had but one thought: 'Hook or me this&#xA;  time.' He had ticked so long that he now went on ticking without&#xA;  knowing that he was doing it. Had he known he would have stopped, for&#xA;  to board the brig by the help of the tick, though an ingenious idea,&#xA;  had not occurred to him.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the film is concerned, the clock seems to continue operating merely by the power of movie magic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T21:09:06.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43686" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39584" CreationDate="2015-11-18T21:22:28.640" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been discussed by the show's creators on a number of occasions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The stairwell offers an opportunity to see the characters &lt;a href=&quot;http://zap2it.com/2014/07/the-big-bang-theory-comic-con-2014-panel/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;walking and talking&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Is the elevator ever going to get fixed?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;“I think those stairs are&#xA;the only exercise those guys get,” Molaro jokes. Prady explains &lt;strong&gt;the&#xA;stairwells are the only place they can show the characters walking and&#xA;talking, so don’t expect the elevator to start working anytime soon.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Got to get in that cardio any way you can, right?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;It removes the need for &lt;a href=&quot;http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EknR5FynbfQJ:blogcritics.org/comic-con-roundtable-with-bill-prady1/+&amp;amp;cd=3&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;gl=uk&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;external sets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q. Is the elevator ever going to be fixed, or does it work too well as a device?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;We’re very proud of the elevator. What the elevator and the stairs&#xA;allowed us to create is two things. One is the set design of most&#xA;sitcom apartments gives you an L-shaped entrance where the characters&#xA;— think Friends — enter this way and then walk toward the cameras. And&#xA;it’s really short. If you want a longer conversation, if you want a&#xA;walk and talk conversation, you have to come up with another set for&#xA;it. You often do this by driving in the car or walking on the street.&#xA;But this way we were able to do our walk and talk on our stage. So&#xA;it’s terrific.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I think we were just writing opening the elevator shaft and having Sheldon climb down into it looking for something. We we’re writing&#xA;this yesterday.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Repairing the studio floor would be &lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2009/tv/news/big-bang-theory-we-didnt-anticipate-how-protective-the-audience-would-feel-toward-our-guys-26223/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;quite a big deal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q. As much as I love the awkward staircase conversations in “TBBT” I want to know if the elevator will EVER be fixed? It would be so funny&#xA;to watch someone get trapped in there with Sheldon. (Nicola)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A.&lt;/strong&gt; Our broken elevator does two wonderful things for us. First, it eliminates the traditional sitcom L-shaped apartment building&#xA;hallway and second, it allows us to do “walk and talk” scenes without&#xA;having to create a city street or similar set. &lt;strong&gt;We’re proud of the&#xA;set, which required we jackhammer a hole in the floor of Stage 25 (to&#xA;make room for the stairs going down). I can’t tell you whether it will&#xA;ever get fixed, but if it does, I’m sure things won’t go well.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T21:48:44.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42896" CreationDate="2015-11-18T22:17:43.440" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the film's &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Jurassic_World_Special_Edition_Junior_Novelization&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Special Edition: Junior Novelisation&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, several of Hamada's troopers did in fact escape from the I-Rex™ and returned to base shortly afterwards. It's notable that &lt;strong&gt;they had sufficient time to collect their fallen colleagues (and their kit, and presumably the tracker) before they left the scene,&lt;/strong&gt; especially given that once they started firing live ammo it was &lt;em&gt;the dinosaur&lt;/em&gt; that made a sharp retreat, not them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Indominus hurled Hamada to the ground, stomped on him, and swiped&#xA;  another trooper with her tail. The troopers fired nets at her, but she&#xA;  easily tore them off and chomped another trooper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The remaining troopers picked up their fallen comrades and stumbled&#xA;  back toward the vehicle.&lt;/strong&gt; One of them pulled out a real weapon and&#xA;  fired live ammo at the Indominus. The bullets pinged off the bony&#xA;  plates on her back as she turned and raced into the jungle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-18T22:17:43.440" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43691" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44158" CreationDate="2015-11-19T00:30:33.830" Score="5" ViewCount="4469" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt; episode 'The One with the Secret Closet' (S08E14) Joey describes a movie as having a door behind which no one knows what lies. When it opens, millions of flesh eating bugs come out. What movie is he talking about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/R4VCrlWyXbQ?start=54&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26834" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2017-04-26T22:25:39.040" LastActivityDate="2017-04-26T22:25:39.040" Title="What movie was Joey talking about in 'The One with the Secret Closet'?" Tags="|reference|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43684" CreationDate="2015-11-19T01:18:41.167" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think she sees him as competition. As she says to Charlie at the bar, she and Sinclair would both be minorities on The Hill and she must think he poses a threat to her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27914" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T01:18:41.167" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43694" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-19T02:06:11.570" Score="12" ViewCount="206453" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know that there are extended cuts of Harry Potter films #1 and #2 (&lt;em&gt;Philosopher's Stone&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Chamber of Secrets&lt;/em&gt;), for example part of Harry Potter Wizards Collection BluRay set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But that set doesn't have extended cuts for any other 6 films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do those 6 films starting with &lt;em&gt;Prisoner of Azkaban&lt;/em&gt; have extended cuts? If no, is there any explanation of why not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T09:49:26.633" LastActivityDate="2016-08-04T23:39:37.353" Title="Are there extended editions of Harry Potter movies #3-#8?" Tags="|harry-potter|alternate-version|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43695" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-19T03:03:01.473" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T03:03:01.473" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T03:03:01.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43696" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-19T03:03:01.473" Score="0" Body="Popular sitcom of the 60s, about an astronaut's adventures with the genie he finds in a bottle on a beach." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T12:04:36.563" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T12:04:36.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7943" CreationDate="2015-11-19T04:11:03.907" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chigurh did break into the house and is wanted by the sheriff.  He might want to get away even if he didn't kill her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is intentionally ambiguous.  Maybe she convinced Chigurh not to kill her.  Maybe he's a changed man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Odd that he would check for blood on his shoes (that's why he puts his feet up) if he didn't kill her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27916" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T10:44:41.573" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T10:44:41.573" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43698" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-19T04:16:57.873" Score="2" ViewCount="288" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I watched the 2015 &lt;em&gt;Cinderella&lt;/em&gt; movie a few times, and noticed that when Ella meets the prince in the forest and the horses hit each other's head Ella says something out of shock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I listened closely and it sounds like some bad word that rhymes with ...truck, can someone enlighten me and say otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I would like to know what she says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27917" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T10:50:59.760" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T11:34:01.180" Title="Did Cinderella say something bad when the horses hit each other?" Tags="|dialogue|cinderella-2015|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43700" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28701" CreationDate="2015-11-19T04:57:22.873" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's to show the connection between the crimes that only Sherlock would realize, so that none of the people at the police station would try to keep Sherlock out of it. Also, it shows that even though the criminal knows so much about Sherlock, he did not use the actual phone because he needed to see how good Sherlock was&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27920" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T04:57:22.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43701" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43712" CreationDate="2015-11-19T05:12:09.230" Score="6" ViewCount="429" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/The_Three_Blind_Mice&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Three Blind Mice&lt;/a&gt; are seen at the end of the opening scene of &lt;em&gt;Dr. No&lt;/em&gt; maneuvering their way &quot;blindly&quot; through the streets of Kingston, Jamaica. They are not actually blind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They eventually come to the country club where Strangways is playing cards and murder him in the driveway after he gives them a small donation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did they have to pretend to be blind all the way to the country club? Why not just walk there like the typical pedestrian and then put on the ruse once they reached the driveway? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27737" LastEditorDisplayName="user27737" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T15:21:57.327" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T15:21:57.327" Title="Why did the Three Blind Mice get 'into character' so early?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|dr-no|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42405" CreationDate="2015-11-19T05:16:44.720" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sherlock was never a fraud. He was a smartass all the way, but everything he says is calculated and calm, unless there is something severely hard for him like John, trying to make him more socially acceptable. When he first meets John, John walks into the lab and stays standing even though there is a chair directly behind him. That means that he has some psychological damage, then he looks at the tan lines on his wrist. He still has the tan from the gloves he wore, which makes him a doctor. Those two are important together because there would not regularly be a damaged doctor. The only case in which this would usually happen would be the armed forces, because being a doctor is what damages them. From this he deduces that John has a therapist because most psychologically damaged war veterans get therapists. Then he sees the phone. On the back there is an inscription that signifies a relationship between a &quot; Harry Watson&quot; and Clara. The phone is expensive, so Harry and Clara are married. Sherlock sees that Harry is a sibling because the phone is a &quot;young man's gadget&quot; so it could not be from a uncle or father. They are both to young to have grown and married kids, so that is ruled out. Sherlock sees that John doesn't approve of Harry because he got the phone, which shows they Harry reached out to him, but John is still looking for housing. Then, Sherlock looks for the reason for the disapproval. At the place for the charging cord, there are scratches in the metal, like someone struggled with shaking hands to plug in their phone. That means that Harry was an alcoholic. Lastly, Sherlock gets that Harry left Clara because the phone was givin to John, and when someone is left they keep things for sentiment, but when you leave someone things aren't kept. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27920" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T05:16:44.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43703" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-19T05:18:00.670" Score="3" ViewCount="29602" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was the movie Project X based on events of a real incident or did parties get thrown to mimic Project X? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there a real party (thrown by a teenager) that lead to a riot and news coverage that lead to the making of this film? Or were the real world parties of a similar nature leading to a riot a consequence of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26423" LastEditorUserId="26423" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T05:59:18.433" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T08:17:32.817" Title="Was Project X based on a real incident or vice versa?" Tags="|production|project-x|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43704" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-19T05:27:13.383" Score="3" ViewCount="183" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many little things in the movie &lt;em&gt;Grease&lt;/em&gt; that make me wonder what was choreographed, what was accidental, what was just left in to avoid doing a re-take, or what was left up to the performers to improvize? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, at &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TOxhzAm7fY&amp;amp;t=2m58s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;3:00 of this clip of &lt;em&gt;Beauty School Dropout&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Stockard Channing as Rizzo stops singing, looks to her left, then resumes singing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW0DfsCzfq4&amp;amp;t=1m28s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1:32 of this clip of &lt;em&gt;Summer Nights&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Frenchy is handed a juice box that she doesn't do anything of significance with for the rest of the song.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this movie how much of these little details are choreographed? How much is accidental? Or, if that is too broad: what about these two specific examples?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27737" LastEditorDisplayName="user27737" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T18:12:52.747" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T19:41:11.933" Title="How much is scripted/choreographed in Grease?" Tags="|production|musical|grease|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42405" CreationDate="2015-11-19T05:46:10.317" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is simple and can be stated with a single word: &lt;strong&gt;Observation&lt;/strong&gt;. In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Scandal In Bohemia&lt;/a&gt;, Holmes says to Watson (during yet another scene where Watson is amazed that Holmes seem to know things supernaturally), &quot;You see, but do not &lt;em&gt;observe&lt;/em&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/dont-just-see-observe-what-sherlock-holmes-can-teach-us-about-mindful-decisions/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;People often use Holmes to illustrate this key ability&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27684" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T05:46:10.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43694" CreationDate="2015-11-19T06:05:46.677" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, there is no extended or director's cut version available for those movies. No official word was given as to why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Speculation suggests they don't want to say there will not be any, as they can always release them in the future for extra money. Of course, given the number of years since these movies have been released, and the main series ended, it's not likely they will. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-30T09:50:19.777" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T09:50:19.777" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43709" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43698" CreationDate="2015-11-19T08:50:03.000" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=cinderella-2015&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;film transcript&lt;/a&gt; suggests not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CINDERELLA: Easy! Easy!  Whoa! Whoa! Easy, boy! Come on, boy, slow&#xA;  down!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;PRINCE: Miss! Miss! Are you all right? Hold on!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CINDERELLA: I'm all right, thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And having listened to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdJhNA2qiHc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the scene&lt;/a&gt; multiple times, there doesn't appear to be a swear, just Cinderella grunting &quot;huh&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not to say that there hasn't been &lt;a href=&quot;http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/f_word_in_enchanted&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;swearing in Disney movies&lt;/a&gt; before, just not in this case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T11:34:01.180" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T11:34:01.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43711" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41158" CreationDate="2015-11-19T09:12:55.203" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This answer contains spoilers for the first season of &lt;em&gt;Daredevil&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We hear several references to Rigoletto in the first season of &lt;em&gt;Daredevil&lt;/em&gt;, but it only becomes apparent why we are hearing his name so often (without ever actually seeing him) later on in the season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know about Rigoletto was a loan shark in Hell's Kitchen in the 1970's,&#xA;who loaned money to Bill Fisk to fund Bill's campaign for City Council. After Bill lost the election, he was prepared to meet with Rigoletto to discuss repaying the loan - a meeting never happened, as;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Bill was killed by his son, Wilson Fisk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know a whole lot about Rigoletto after that point, but it is clear that he never stopped lending people money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first episode of the season, &quot;Into the Ring&quot;, Wesley (Wilson Fisk's right hand man) blackmails a police officer, who initial assumes Wesley was sent by Rigoletto, whom the police officer owes money to. Wesley explains that they (by which he means Wilson Fisk's operation) bought Rigoletto out, and that they now own his debts - and as such, own the police officer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This turns out to be slightly untrue. As reporter Ben Ulrich learns after talking to a mafia boss fleeing the city in the third episode, &quot;Rabbit in a Snowstorm&quot;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Rigoletto was killed and then hacked to pieces. It is implied that his family suffered a similar fate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is likely that Wilson Fisk blames Rigoletto for the position his family was put in back in the 1970's, and as such blames Rigoletto for the murder of Bill Fisk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T09:21:56.570" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T09:21:56.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43701" CreationDate="2015-11-19T12:50:26.930" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short answer is that it's not just about getting close to their target but also not tipping off passers-by about their identity. Given how noticeable they are (in terms of there being three of them, as well as their unusual racial mix), pretending to be blind allows them to travel to Richmond Road without attracting unwarranted attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Just before six-fifteen, the silence of Richmond Road was softly&#xA;  broken. Three blind beggars came round the corner of the intersection&#xA;  and moved slowly down the pavement towards the four cars. They were&#xA;  Chigroes—Chinese Negroes—bulky men, but bowed as they shuffled along,&#xA;  tapping at the kerb with their white sticks. They walked in file. The&#xA;  first man, who wore blue glasses and could presumably see better than&#xA;  the others, walked in front holding a tin cup against the crook of the&#xA;  stick in his left hand. The right hand of the second man rested on his&#xA;  shoulder and the right hand of the third on the shoulder of the&#xA;  second. The eyes of the second and third men were shut. The three men&#xA;  were dressed in rags and wore dirty jippa-jappa baseball caps with&#xA;  long peaks. They said nothing and no noise came from them except the&#xA;  soft tapping of their sticks as they came slowly down the shadowed&#xA;  pavement towards the group of cars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The three blind men would not have been incongruous in Kingston, where&#xA;  there are many diseased people on the streets, but, in this quiet rich&#xA;  empty street, they made an unpleasant impression. And it was odd that&#xA;  they should all be Chinese Negroes. This is not a common mixture of&#xA;  bloods.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sub&gt;- Dr No. Ian Fleming&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let us imagine that Strangway or one of his associates were to pass these three gentlemen walking along &lt;em&gt;normally&lt;/em&gt; on their way to the club, then to see them a few minutes later pretending to be blind. One can envision that that would instantly cause suspicion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T12:58:00.077" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T12:58:00.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43716" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43721" CreationDate="2015-11-19T17:25:30.613" Score="8" ViewCount="704" Body="&lt;p&gt;While watching &lt;em&gt;Ex Machina&lt;/em&gt; it occurred to me that the robots could be replaced with human slaves and the plot lines could be essentially unchanged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some of the examples for the parallels:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There was a popular theory that slaves weren't fully human and in addition they couldn't feel emotion like their masters. There were even some &lt;strike&gt;scientific&lt;/strike&gt; garbage investigations into the validity of this claim. That seems very similar to the Turing test given to Ava (in essence).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Slave owners felt no compunction about killing, disfiguring, torturing, imprisoning, toying with, degrading, etc. their slaves. Nathan similarly saw no problem with the things he did to the robots.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Caleb's story arc can be viewed as someone who initially supported slavery (of Ava) to one who wanted to free a slave he begun to sympathize with. Even this arc was inline with Southern slavery where the master can have his &quot;favorite&quot; slave, but be indifferent to other slaves since Caleb never showed interest in saving the other active robot, not to mention the deactivated robots.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the intent to draw parallels so that people would question how we talk about AI based on how we talked about slaves in the past? Similarly was this film designed with the political agenda of encouraging people to give AI human rights? Regardless of the intent I'm pretty sure this film will be cited as a case for AI rights if the issue ever becomes relevant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can add more examples if people feel it would be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26325" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-21T03:28:55.817" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T03:28:55.817" Title="Are the parallels between AI and Slavery intentional?" Tags="|analysis|ex-machina|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43717" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-19T17:31:56.757" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T17:31:56.757" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T17:31:56.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43718" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-19T17:31:56.757" Score="0" Body="2007 horror film starring John Cusack as a paranormal investigator trying to determine if a particular hotel room is haunted" OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T17:45:51.220" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T17:45:51.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43716" CreationDate="2015-11-19T19:42:35.313" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.underthegunreview.net/2015/04/15/utg-interview-writerdirector-alex-garland-talks-ex-machina-and-the-auteur-theory/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; with Alex Garland, he was certainly conscious of the obvious overtones of black slavery, but the bigger emphasis was on the role of &lt;a href=&quot;https://thedissolve.com/features/interview/985-alex-garland-is-fine-with-not-having-answers-for-e/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;women in society&lt;/a&gt;. The film is also unashamedly about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/2015/04/22/dark_secrets_of_the_sex_robot_alex_garland_talks_a_i_consciousness_and_why_the_gender_stuff_of_ex_machina_is_only_one_part_of_the_movies_big_idea/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wider ethics of treating &lt;em&gt;machines&lt;/em&gt; as machines&lt;/a&gt; and the complexity of having a strong artificial intelligence in reality:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UTG:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Do you think that it will play differently for American audiences compared to a British audience? &lt;strong&gt;We tend to look at issues of&#xA;  gender and race seriously.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Garland:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Not where gender is concerned, I think that would play similarly. The short answer is: I don’t know. I think not where gender&#xA;  is concerned. Issues around feminism are very current. I think that is&#xA;  broadly true from both sides of the Atlantic. I’m not American, so&#xA;  that assumption is kind of difficult for me to ascertain. Where race&#xA;  is concerned, that is possible because of the explicitly different&#xA;  history in both countries. &lt;strong&gt;There’s a similar history and then there’s&#xA;  a divergent point where the two separate before reconnecting. I’m&#xA;  talking about slavery, where Britain was involved in but abandoned&#xA;  earlier on. It doesn’t have quite the same currency, that particular&#xA;  racial issue, as it does in the UK. When Nathan [Isaac] appears that&#xA;  he might be being racist to [Gleeson's character], to the point where&#xA;  he can bristle and react, that is one character aimed at another&#xA;  character. It is also slightly aimed at the audience. I’ve been in&#xA;  screenings where there has been quite a bit of laughter up until that&#xA;  certain point [a dialogue scene between Nathan and Caleb that takes a&#xA;  serious turn]. The second he starts talking about “black chicks,” the&#xA;  room goes silent. That was calculated. If you calculate to do&#xA;  something like that, you are putting it there to provoke some sort of&#xA;  conversation.&lt;/strong&gt; I had to emphasize to the best of my ability that I was&#xA;  being thoughtful. That if you are going to do that [have tonal&#xA;  shifts], that you don’t do it in a glib way or in a way that would&#xA;  stand out.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T19:42:35.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43722" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-19T20:01:10.597" Score="5" ViewCount="158" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if someone can help me identify a movie I saw from my childhood.  It was a fantasy movie along the lines of a Harryhausen movie.  A wizard or king has a young man to go on a journey for something, I cant remember what the goal was. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is given some warriors created magically from a mural painted on the wall of a dark room or hall.  Along the journey some of his men fall into some quicksand. Then their skeletons float to the top.  That is really all I remember from the movie.  Can you help me identify the name of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27946" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T13:44:07.983" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T13:44:07.983" Title="Fantasy movies; Harryhausen-esque, with warriors who magically generate from a mural" Tags="|identify-this-movie|fantasy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:10:43.733" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43722" CreationDate="2015-11-19T20:33:32.170" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am quite sure you are you are looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056211/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The magic sword&lt;/a&gt; from 1962.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;George (Gary Lockwood) is the foster son of Sybil (Estelle Winwood), an elderly sorceress. She brought him up after his &amp;quot;royal parents died of the plague&amp;quot; in his infancy. He has fallen in love at first sight with Princess Helene (Anne Helm).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She is kidnapped by the wizard Lodac (Basil Rathbone), who brazenly informs her father that he intends to feed her to his pet dragon in seven days, revenge for the death of his sister at the same age as Helene is now: 18. George wants to go on a quest to liberate his lady love, but Sybil believes he is too young (he is 20). She tries to distract the youth by showing him a magic sword, a steed, an invulnerable suit of armour, and six magically frozen knights he will command when he turns 21. The impatient George, however, tricks Sybil and locks her in a cellar, then leaves with the magical implements and revived company of knights....&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Sword_%281962_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt; in the wikipedia article&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has the scenes you describe and you can find the full movie on youtube.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The warriors from painting scene is at 17:20&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;the skeleton scene is at 38:00. (a single warrior and swamp/boiling water not quicksand)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/5gESIIJGsiQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22783" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T20:51:16.920" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33966" CreationDate="2015-11-19T20:39:32.913" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;After a re-read of the source novel, I've come to the conclusion that the goal of the password was to allow sheep from different farms to recognise each other, specifically with the goal of preventing a wolf (e.g. a real wolf) from infiltrating the flock, the metaphorical &quot;wolf in sheep's clothing&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that they refer to the password as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thefreedictionary.com/countersign&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;countersign&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“ ’Tis a saying, see,” said another, “as lambs do larn at their mothers’ hocks.”&#xA;  “And then &lt;strong&gt;wherever we do go…”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “…to ma-a-a-a-arket…”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “…or to another fa-a-a-a-arm…”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “…we won’t never come to no ha-a-a-a-arm…”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “…so long as we do say the pa-a-a-assword!”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;For a long moment the flock stood silent, the only movement a turning&#xA;  of heads as they looked at one another. Fly could sense that they were&#xA;  braving themselves to tell this age-old secret, to give away—&lt;strong&gt;to a&#xA;  wolf, of all things&lt;/strong&gt;—&lt;strong&gt;this treasured countersign&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheep-Pig&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Sheep-Pig&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T20:39:32.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10727" CreationDate="2015-11-19T21:49:51.563" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you've EVER smelt a rotting corpse you'd understand.  You NEVER acclimate to that smell...EVER.  We actually have a VERY hard time acclimating to that scent, and a few others (vomit comes to mind)...if we ever can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus ANY open wound would INSTANTLY become infected and you would have to SERIOUSLY scrub after to prevent this.  ANY mucus membrane (urethra, anus, eyes, mouth, nose...etc) would become infected regardless of scrubbing. You think MRSA is bad NOW...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27948" LastEditorUserId="27948" LastEditDate="2019-03-07T10:41:35.507" LastActivityDate="2019-03-07T10:41:35.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43728" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-19T21:54:22.097" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T21:54:22.097" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T21:54:22.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43729" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-19T21:54:22.097" Score="0" Body="Film adaptation of the David Mamet play about real estate salesmen struggling to keep their jobs. Features a stellar cast of American actors: Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T22:05:28.917" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T22:05:28.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43730" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-19T22:24:57.473" Score="1" ViewCount="9148" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the opening scene of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112641/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Casino&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (1995), &lt;strong&gt;Sam Rothstein&lt;/strong&gt; gets into his car and is blown up. In the moment of the detonation, you can &lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt; see that &lt;strong&gt;DeNiro&lt;/strong&gt; has been replaced with a dummy. (When the scene is repeated near the end of the film, there is no dummy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/hcf8C3AWjxk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While some could claim that this was just a bad cut, to anyone who knows &lt;strong&gt;Scorsese&lt;/strong&gt;, this seems highly unlikely. Watch any interview of him and you will see his attention to every detail. He even likes putting in subtle references to films he loved as a boy. In at least one death scene in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Departed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (2006), the actor involved passes crosses made with tape on windows in an abandoned building, a clear reference to &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023427/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scarface&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (1932), in which &lt;a href=&quot;https://m00ch.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/scarface-1932-and-its-x-motif/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;crosses (or X-es) always appear in the background of a scene (either in the prop construction or caused by light falling on the background) when someone is about to die&lt;/a&gt;. There are copious examples of this kind of care with detail from Marty. A mistake seems unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, with &lt;em&gt;Casino&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Scorsese&lt;/strong&gt; had one of the largest budgets that he's worked (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;$40-50 million&lt;/a&gt;) with so a lack of money for good effects seems unlikely too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q: Has it been revealed anywhere why Martin Scorcese used this scene which APPEARS to be a sub-par effects shot (the dummy) in the film ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Any answer that can reference Marty himself will of course trump all others. I'm not really after conjecture - I can do that myself.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27684" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user27684" LastEditDate="2023-03-04T00:13:58.790" LastActivityDate="2023-03-04T00:13:58.790" Title="Is the visible mannequin in the opening car bomb scene in Casino (1995) intentional, and if so why?" Tags="|effects|casino|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49977" CreationDate="2015-11-19T23:13:53.067" Score="1" ViewCount="10065" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched &lt;em&gt;Merlin&lt;/em&gt; up through Season 5 - Episode 6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout this series I have seen two references to one of the characters (Morgana) being chained to a wall at the bottom of a well, with her dragon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time it showed it in a nightmare that she was having. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second time was in this episode, where she told Guinevere that she had been chained to a wall at the bottom of a well for two years. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the series these are the only two references to this event. I never saw it happen, or heard about it besides these two times. However it must have happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, at what time period in the series did this happen, and the second question is who did it to her and how did she escape?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23455" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T00:27:40.553" LastActivityDate="2020-05-20T07:39:13.553" Title="At what point was Morgana chained to the bottom of a well?" Tags="|merlin|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43732" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-19T23:25:08.900" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T23:25:08.900" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T23:25:08.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43733" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-19T23:25:08.900" Score="0" Body="Merlin is a British fantasy television show that air from 2008 to 2012. It was an adaptation of the classic Arthurian legends, told from the perspective of a young Merlin just coming into his powers." OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="1146" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T00:30:00.373" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T00:30:00.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43734" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-19T23:36:59.597" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Directed by John R. Leonetti, it is first movie in Annabelle series and serves as spin-off to The Conjuring. Focusing on a couple who are about to have a baby, the girl has passion of collecting dolls. Later, they are attacked by a woman and her male accomplice. During the fight, man gets killed and woman slits her throat, making a doll cursed and starting a series of paranormal activities with the couple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27264" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-08-25T09:35:45.860" LastActivityDate="2016-08-25T09:35:45.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43735" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-19T23:36:59.597" Score="0" Body="American horror film from 2014, exploring the origin of a haunted doll introduced in &quot;The Conjuring&quot;." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T00:30:05.030" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T00:30:05.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43736" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-19T23:45:27.053" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-19T23:45:27.053" LastActivityDate="2015-11-19T23:45:27.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43737" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-19T23:45:27.053" Score="0" Body="Acclaimed comic book writer of graphic novels such as Watchmen, From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and V for Vendetta, etc. " OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T00:30:12.040" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T00:30:12.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43738" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12248" CreationDate="2015-11-20T00:08:14.907" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;He doesn't eat, once called it a 'vile human habit'. So it can be assumed he doesn't have a circulatory system or his circulatory system is simply not working which would normally feed his body nutrients. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With this, he can also survive in space unassisted (numerous episodes) - which suggests he doesn't breathe or process oxygen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blood needs oxygen replenishment to turn from blue to red. As well as a functional circulatory system that replenishes the nutrients which further discolors the blood to blue. Neither of which he has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So his lips. Without 'red blood' circulating, are blue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's immortal. I suspect that's just another way of saying he's undead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A pretty fantastic attention to detail on the writer's parts, don't you think?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27950" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T00:08:14.907" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43739" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-20T00:21:00.493" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T00:21:00.493" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T00:21:00.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43740" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-20T00:21:00.493" Score="0" Body="Martin Scorsese's seminal gangster movie, starring Ray Liotta, Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T00:29:33.997" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T00:29:33.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15767" CreationDate="2015-11-20T00:49:53.553" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the ending is representative of what was previously thought to be ideal which actually isn't reality and this is neither a bad nor good ending it's just realistic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Herman Blume earlier on in the film comments that he will end up with a very young woman who is chinese and does in the ending for only a dance as this is not what would best suit him and Max dances with Ms Cross who he previously thought would be the love of his life who isn't or shall not be. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ending in this way is good as both Herman and Max would probably realise what they really have interested in them of which is the most suitable and long-lasting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27951" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T00:49:53.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43742" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-20T01:29:45.603" Score="10" ViewCount="2572" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have done some research for a question similar to this (but fundamentally different from it) on SF&amp;amp;F, but I couldn't come up with any specific numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Screen Actors Guild requires that actors be paid for their time, and the rates depend on:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whether the part includes lines&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How many days the actor is on set&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whether the actor is prominent in his or her scenes&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And a number of other factors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stan Lee appears in most MCU films, usually speaking a line or two, and always in a prominent place onscreen.  I'm not sure whether he's an SAG member.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Do we know how much he is paid for these cameos, assuming (as it seems safe to do) that he is paid at all?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If such information is unavailable, can we hypothesize about how much a person should make in roles along these?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2019-05-28T06:27:09.237" Title="How much is Stan Lee paid for his cameos in MCU films?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|acting-career|cameo|stan-lee|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43744" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43746" CreationDate="2015-11-20T02:25:22.333" Score="1" ViewCount="4734" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Scooby Doo&lt;/em&gt; TV Shows have always been around, all the way back since the sixties. The final adaptation that I know of is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo!_Mystery_Incorporated&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated&lt;/a&gt; which has ended in 2013, running for a total of three years exactly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I've always been a big Scooby Doo fan (to this day); I am looking for any canon sources from any distributor, creator, or developer of the series, as to whether or not they will continue (or end) the series. What will be the next Scooby Doo adaptation? Will &lt;em&gt;What's New Scooby Doo?&lt;/em&gt;'s art style be revived? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27952" LastEditorUserId="27952" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T02:51:44.483" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T03:16:09.703" Title="Is there any information about a future Scooby Doo show that will come after &quot;Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated&quot;?" Tags="|scooby-doo|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43744" CreationDate="2015-11-20T02:46:27.857" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Scooby-Doo&lt;/em&gt; franchise has continued after &lt;em&gt;Mystery Incorporated&lt;/em&gt; with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Cool,_Scooby-Doo!&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!&lt;/a&gt;, which began airing in October 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the answer is yes, they will continue it. The Scooby-Doo franchise will probably outlive us all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the specific artistic style implemented in &lt;em&gt;Mystery Incorporated&lt;/em&gt;, historically, Scooby-Doo has used multiple styles, and has never reverted to another style after it has been changed over it's 49 year history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XZeWB.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XZeWB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From statements made by a producer, it's not likely, as art was changed to match the newer light-hearted presentation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Zac Moncrief, a producer, called it &quot;a more comedic ensemble&quot;, with character traits extracted from the original 1969 series. This decision nulled the romantic subplots present in Mystery Incorporated. Scooby-Doo will also have limited dialogue. ... In addition, the series employs redesigned characters models for the cast (retaining their original clothes, with a few design tweaks, e.g. Velma and Daphne wearing short sleeves). Moncrief described this as a &quot;&lt;strong&gt;simplistic, edgy design to match the comedic styling&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The newer art style is IMHO closer to modern day 2010's cartoons (Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, Rick and Morty, Teen Titans Go). &lt;strike&gt;There's no accounting for childrens' taste.&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T03:16:09.703" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T03:16:09.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43749" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43753" CreationDate="2015-11-20T04:28:44.437" Score="3" ViewCount="1432" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did this work exactly? There's a pretty significant number of personnel required to keep an aircraft carrier running, let alone one that can fly and has cloaking technology. Is there an official explanation as to how Hawkeye (and company) was able to fly a Quinjet right up to the Helicarrier, clearly within visual range of flight deck staff and launch an attack? Didn't Tony Stark have Jarvis stealing all of SHIELD's intelligence after he boarded? Wouldn't this have enabled him to extrapolate weaknesses in the Helicarrier's defense systems?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T05:50:29.570" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T05:50:29.570" Title="Hawkeye's sneak attack on the helicarrier in The Avengers" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|the-avengers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43749" CreationDate="2015-11-20T04:41:40.883" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Is there an official explanation as to how Hawkeye (and company) was able to fly a Quinjet right up to the Helicarrier, clearly within visual range of flight deck staff and launch an attack?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a False Flag attack, meaning they pretended to be good Shield Agents prior to setting off the explosion. The jet was spotted by the Helicarrier, and radioed for their clearance to be cleared to approach. (Mixed &lt;em&gt;Script&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Transcript&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[INT. AIRCRAFT CARRIER, DAY: Outside the HELICARRIER, a lone carrier slowly hovers over the ship.]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;SHIELD BASE VOICE:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Transport Six-Six-Bravo, please relay confirm codes. I've got you on the computer, but not on the day log. What is your haul? Over.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;BARTON:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Arms and ammunition. Over.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Inside, BARTON and his crew suit up and arm themselves. Barton pulls out his hi-tech bow and arrows.]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they were noticed, but between the correct codes, a valid ship/markings, human error/leeway, etc, they were cleared as a valid ship. Tricking a low level guard or comm officer should be easy for a master spy/assassin like Clint.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even inside the Helicarrier, they attempted to blend in (From the transcript).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AGENT JASPER SITWELL (V.O.): We got perimeter breach! &lt;strong&gt;Hostiles are in S.H.I.E.L.D. Gear.&lt;/strong&gt; Call-outs at every junction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Call-outs meaning known agents must announce who they are and be wary instead of trusting uniforms, in the maze that is a ship's interior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little later (from the script):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other side, BARTON'S men enter the port side. CAPTAIN AMERICA looks down, pondering if they are help. Evidently not as they begin SHOOTING at him and throwing grenades. CAPTAIN AMERICA jumps to the other railing and down with Barton's men. He begins to TAKE THEM DOWN, even goes as far as throwing one off. A few more enter, FIRING. CAPTAIN AMERICA grabs a NOVESKE RIFLEWORKS DIPLOMAT (big word for big fuckin' gun) and jumps back up to his position, firing down at them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, they are in the air. There was no flight crew on deck to see anything hinky happening. Even if they could see, it only took Barton seconds to aim and launch the arrow, then trigger the explosive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Didn't Tony Stark have Jarvis stealing all of SHIELD's intelligence after he boarded?&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the time, Stark was looking for evidence on SHIELD's goals, not external sensors. Even if he did, Stark seemed to be manually going through the data, and he would have no reason to suspect the incoming jet was a false friendly. AND The Helicarrier is a top secret military installation, that can MOVE and Cloak. None had any reason to think they could be targeted. Hubris. Furthermore, the main Antagonists, Fury, Stark, Cap, etc, are too busy fighting amongst themselves while trying to figure out Loki's plans to pay enough attention. Ironically, they were playing directly into Loki's plans when it happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The later movies, specifically &lt;em&gt;Captain America 2: Winter Soldier&lt;/em&gt; show that Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. is not as well informed as they would like, failing to see multiple false flag/double agent attacks. Agent Jasper Sitwell, who in &lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt; worked to stop the false flag attack by the compromised Clint Barton and his men, turned out to be a HYDRA agent himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T05:24:11.587" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36952" CreationDate="2015-11-20T05:46:41.220" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As you might have noticed, the reenactments that Anwar does with his men get more and more surreal throughout the film. Starting from gangster movies and westerns the scenes evolve into visions of ghosts haunting Anwar, over the weird cross-dressed Herman cutting his throat and feeding him with the flesh of his victims upto to that &amp;quot;Born Free&amp;quot; song at the end where his victims ultimately even thank Anwar for sending them into heaven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can approach this from multiple perspectives that all make sense in the way of explaining why those song, dance and cross dressing sequences seem so rather weird. Most of those aspects are reinfocred by director Joshua Oppenheimer himself in an &lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/joshua-oppenheimer-the-act-of-killing-interview/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;interesting interview with Collider&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now first of all, from Anwar watching the finally produced movie at the end, we already see that this is largely chronological (as also confirmed by Oppenheimer in his interview). So looking at the film within the film, this marks on the one hand a, so to say, coherent plot structure in the actual reenactment movie, which goes from the very substantial murders, over Anwar being haunted by his victims and his guilt in his nightmares, upto his ultimate redemption from his crimes in heaven by the victims themselves. So &lt;strong&gt;the reenactments are reaching into less and less substantial and more and more abstract territory&lt;/strong&gt; from a mere story-wise perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;But in the same way, the movie also &lt;strong&gt;chronicles Anwar's personal treatment of what he did&lt;/strong&gt;, something he didn't have to face for 40 years, and his way towards remorse. And in this same way the ways in which he tries to come to terms with what he's done get more and more surreal, too. From heroic and cool depictions inspired by the gangster films he took as ideals during the killings itself, over more self-reflecting scenes of the victims coming for him, to a final last try to let himself be absolved from his deeds in heaven and revive the heroic spirit of what it means to be a &amp;quot;preman&amp;quot;, a free man, yet again. You could say this reality shift is because &lt;strong&gt;he has more and more difficulties to actually process his deeds on a real and substantial level&lt;/strong&gt; and is trying to add more and more surrealism to the scenes in order to not face his actual guilt, in the same way he always fled himself into the movies he took as inspiration for his deeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s ironic that cinema for Anwar, at the time of the killing, was a way for distancing himself from the act of killing. [...] I felt that his pain was close to the surface there, so I showed him the footage back to see if he would recognize the mirror of what he’s done in the footage, and I think he does.  He looks very disturbed, almost distraught, watching it, but he dared not say what was wrong, because they would have to admit what he did was wrong.  Then he proposes a new improvement.  He lied to himself and to me about what’s bothering him, and he just wants some aesthetic and integral improvement, and he begins to embellish.  So with each sense of embellishment, which is culminating in this surreal genre inspired dramatizations, he’s running away from the pain of what he did, just as he used cinema to do so at the time of the killing...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So those scenes are in a way surreal because the reenactment movie itself touches more and more abstract topics but also because Anwar tries to run away from his real guilt into more and more surreal distortions. And on the other hand the increasing absurdity of the scenes also &lt;strong&gt;adds to the surreal farce that the movie ultimately is&lt;/strong&gt;, something that is so much &amp;quot;realer than reality&amp;quot; and maybe only bearable through utter absurdity, for us as much as for Anwar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Oppenheimer does say even more about the song and dance scenes specifically, both the heaven scene at the end as well as the fish sculpture at the beginning (which is a little less connected to the overall story than the heaven scene), again reinforcing the overall notions of handling reality by surrealistic distortion that the whole movie ultimately consists of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Going back to this note about the surreal, now the surrealness definitely comes through in his nightmares, but for most of the scenes there is something grounded, something remembered, but the one scene where they’re doing “Born Free,” how did that come about?  ‘Cause that is obviously the most surreal scene in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OPPENHEIMER: Well, there are two reasons for it, one of which we see, which is “Born Free,” and it kinda came up where we see it.  Anwar plays the victim; he wanted to cleanse himself from the ghosts that were trying to haunt him, and he proposed that we shoot this cleansing scene at this waterfall, which evolved into a full blown vision of his redemption in heaven. [...] So the scene came chronologically right where we see it in the film, and it served the function for Anwar that it appeared to, which is kind of a desperate, last ditch attempt to deny the meaning of what he’d done.  The meaning was finally dawning on him as he got to play his own victim.  There’s also the scene with the fish.  That’s a scene, another musical number that we shot.  It’s a former seafood restaurant that Anwar chose as a location for a musical number based on his favorite song, “Is That All There Is?” by Peggy Lee, and we shot the musical scene there, and it was amazing and surreal and strange.  But in the end, I still have these moments, these artifacts from the scene that were so surreal, that were poetic embodiments about what the whole film is about.  Mainly we get lost in our fantasies; just this destructive effect — that I had a choice: do I used a musical number or do I use these moments from shooting, and when you have such powerful, beautiful material.  I couldn’t do both.  I know I couldn’t do both, so I had to choose, and of course I chose the poetic embodiments of what the whole film’s about, which are climaxes in surrealness rather than the musical number itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T06:11:08.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13065" CreationDate="2015-11-20T05:48:54.313" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Saw_characters#Brad.2C_Dina.2C_and_Ryan&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to the producers commentary Brad and Ryan are the two men in&#xA;  the pig masks that help Lawrence Gordon abduct Hoffman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27958" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T09:50:06.953" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T09:50:06.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43757" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-20T07:23:45.540" Score="1" ViewCount="605" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the season finale of Season 1 of &lt;em&gt;Luther&lt;/em&gt;, there's a pivotal scene near the end.  Previously, Ian Reed murdered Zoe Luther and framed John Luther for it.  Justin Ripley is under arrest after preventing the marksman from shooting Luther during his meeting with Reed at the Faraday Memorial.  The meeting was a ploy to get Reed away from his office so that Mark North could swipe the diamonds.  Reed has just discovered the theft and rushed off to intercept North.  Martin Schenk is beginning to notice that Reed is acting oddly. So he goes in to interrogate Ripley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SCHENK (to RIPLEY).  Something's happening that no one else can quite see.  Well, I want to see it!  What's happening?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[RIPLEY starts to react.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Cut away to REED on the chase.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Cut back to SCHENK coming out of the interrogation room.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;SCHENK (to CORNISH and TELLER).  We need to find Detective Chief Inspector Reed.  Most urgently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, whatever Ripley said was enough to convince Schenk that Reed wasn't actually innocent.  But what could he have said?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, Ripley doesn't really know anything that Schenk doesn't already know.  Ripley has had some private conversations with Luther, including the one where Luther told him &quot;Don't trust Ian Reed&quot;.  But at this point, everyone knows that Luther is accusing Reed of the murder.  Ripley might actually believe it, but it's not clear that this is backed by anything except his loyalty to Luther.  And Ripley doesn't seem to have any knowledge of Reed's involvement in the robbery from the previous episode.  So what could he have told Schenk that would convince him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4897" LastActivityDate="2016-04-13T16:34:27.323" Title="What did Ripley tell Schenk in S01E06?" Tags="|plot-explanation|luther|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43448" CreationDate="2015-11-20T07:37:02.377" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The dialect you reference, the mid-atlantic or transatlantic dialect &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent&lt;/a&gt; was actually taught to actors during the early years of movie history as film transitioned from silent pictures to the &quot;talkies&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as time went by, a new era of acting and accents, less apparently studied, more real, and striving to emulate life and its gritty actuality, was ushered in by a school of actors that were departing from the old traditions, including Marlon Brando, James Dean, Montgomery Clift - all Method actors, who were favoring a more vernacular, slangy style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So during the 40s to 60s we actually encounter a waning of the popularity of this kind of affective speech. (According to the wiki cited above, Bill Labov, a University of Pennsylvania linguist, dates the decline of this mid-atlantic accent to as early as 1941.) Certainly, by the time the 50s roll around, actors are more and more starting to try to adopt a more low key and less melodramatic approach to scene building, playing things off with a decided cool. So the era of 1940 to 1960 was certainly an era of great flux and change in movie acting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even if we are to discount all the influence of the Method School in the 50s, it is still hard to lump the period of 40s to 60s into one like era. Yes, theatrical acting dominated movies in their earliest period, but there were always outlier examples that differed from the mainstream: Humphrey Bogart certainly was talking tough years before in Casablanca, even if Ingrid Bergman wasn't. And, furthermore, movies themselves from this span of 40s to 60s can be so different: compare for example 1940 film &quot;The Grapes of Wrath&quot; to the 1952 film &quot;High Noon&quot; to the 1957 film &quot;Bridge on the River Kwai&quot;. All totally different styles. Ford's &quot;Grapes of Wrath&quot;, though filmed in 1940, doesn't really dilly dally about with the transatlantic accent; it is gritty and slangy before Method Acting made this famous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So here's what I really think. Yes, there are a ton of those movies with the &quot;dahlings&quot; and &quot;won't you be a dear&quot;, and they comprise the fiber of that similar speech you are referencing during this period. But what is even more consistent about sound during this period of time is that movie sound technology, though it was evolving during this time, was still prehistoric compared to the advanced digital sound recording we have today. (Foley editing was around since 1914, during radio years. So it was nothing new.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was, in fact, the quality of the recorded sound itself that made everything sound less dimensional. The years of 1945 to 1975 are referred to as the magnetic era of sound recording (&lt;a href=&quot;http://museumofmagneticsoundrecording.org/Magnetic.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://museumofmagneticsoundrecording.org/Magnetic.html&lt;/a&gt;). Analog recordings have tape hiss, and that is a background sound that is consistently there during the period you reference, and was even present to some extent afterwards, regardless of advances in analog recording equipment that came about during the 60s. Yes, some people actually prefer the warm analog sounds of yesteryear. But most ears are attuned to the layering and all the great movie magic that goes into digital sound recording and digital effects supplied by computers today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27962" LastEditorUserId="27962" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T18:08:37.193" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T18:08:37.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43760" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="51448" CreationDate="2015-11-20T07:52:41.650" Score="7" ViewCount="2301" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Tamil movie &lt;em&gt;Dasavatharam&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;The Ten Avatars&lt;/em&gt;), while 12th century scene starts, there is a saint who utters some Tamil poem. I heard it many times, but even can't figure out the starting word. What poem is that? You can find the scene &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/kKoSpuCRC9g?t=45&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27485" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T09:54:58.703" LastActivityDate="2016-04-09T07:27:04.637" Title="What is the poem uttered by the saint in Dasavatharam?" Tags="|dialogue|dasavathaaram|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43764" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43765" CreationDate="2015-11-20T09:17:50.620" Score="23" ViewCount="8011" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just re-watched &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2&lt;/em&gt; and was wondering why Snape kept his relationship with Lily a secret from Harry Potter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't he let him know that he was on the side of good? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27965" LastEditorUserId="9285" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T16:55:50.233" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T00:16:07.783" Title="Why did Professor Snape hide his relationship with Lily from Harry Potter?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|harry-potter|the-deathly-hallows-2|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43764" CreationDate="2015-11-20T09:36:07.100" Score="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;He didn't want Harry to know for 2 main reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He couldn't bear Harry knowing&lt;/strong&gt; he had feelings for his mother because Harry still reminded him of James, whom he despised. This is explained in the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Snape: &amp;quot;But never - never tell, Dumbledore! This must be between us! Swear it! I cannot bear... especially Potter's son... I want your word!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry had a connection to Voldemort's mind.&lt;/strong&gt; So neither Dumbledore nor Snape could risk Harry knowing that Snape actually is on their side, because Voldemort could've entered Harry's mind and see it too, and their whole plan would've been destroyed. This is still important in &lt;em&gt;Hallows&lt;/em&gt;, where Snape is still Voldemort's right hand man and is entrusted with the Headmaster position and thus able to secretly protect the kids at the school. He &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; help Harry, but having him &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; the truth would've been too much of a risk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reason 2 stems from Dumbledore's strategy &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;not to put all of my secrets in one basket&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;. In order to keep both Harry's and Snape's missions clandestine, he entrusted only Harry, Ron and Hermione with the secret of Voldemort's Horcruxes (when Dumbledore realized that he was dying and couldn't find the rest himself) and told no one of Snape's true allegiance, thus weakening Voldemort on two fronts without him actually knowing about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T10:01:31.877" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43768" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-20T11:41:25.027" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T11:41:25.027" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T11:41:25.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43769" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-20T11:41:25.027" Score="0" Body="Long running game show hosted by Alex Trebek. Contestants are presented answers to a question and are awarded points when they determine the correct question." OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T15:47:11.927" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T15:47:11.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43771" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-20T12:04:33.433" Score="3" ViewCount="4122" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667355/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;3096 Days&lt;/a&gt; remade in English? Looks like the movie was a German movie. However, I saw this movie on TV in English. It didn't look like a dubbing as there were no obvious mismatches in the lip movements and the dialogues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26423" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T12:26:22.827" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T12:55:30.950" Title="Was the movie 3096 Days remade in English?" Tags="|production|3096-days|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43771" CreationDate="2015-11-20T12:17:32.567" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Both &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667355/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3096&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; list the film as a German production with English language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it was not remade in English but already produced in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Found this in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/3096_Tage_(Film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;German Wikipedia entry&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Um den Film auch international gut vermarkten zu können, wurde der Film mit international bekannten Schauspielern in englischer Sprache gedreht.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rough translation by me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For better market success the film was produced with internationally known actors in English language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.presseportal.de/pm/12946/2234717&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;another source with a quote from the director Sherry Hormann&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Nachdem wir im deutschsprachigen Raum auf viele Vorurteile, Befürchtungen und Ängste zu dem Stoff stießen, erlaubten wir uns über die sprachlichen Grenzen hinaus zu denken. Tatsächlich war es so, dass Antonia Campell-Hughes und Thure Lindhardt mit der unbeschwerten Außenansicht und der englischen Sprache einen für uns befreienden Blick auf die einzigartige Kraft der Geschichte erzeugten. [...]&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rough translation by me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;After we met many prejudices, misgivings and fear to the source material in the German language area, we allowed ourselves to think over the language barrier.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23239" LastEditorUserId="23239" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T12:55:30.950" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T12:55:30.950" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31534" CreationDate="2015-11-20T12:51:35.110" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Echoing &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28061/animatrix-in-kids-story-how-was-the-kid-found&quot;&gt;Trenin's excellent answer&lt;/a&gt; (to the same question on Scifi:SE), the simplest answer is that they were already very close to the Kid's location. When they saw him &quot;self-substantiate&quot;, this presumably had much the same effect on his &quot;input/output carrier signal&quot; as taking the red pill, allowing them to rescue him before he drowned:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;They were watching the kid in much the same way that Morpheus and&#xA;  company watched Neo in the first movie. In the Kid's story, Neo calls&#xA;  him, and in an scene reminiscent to the movie, tells him to get out of&#xA;  the classroom now. The kid is chased by agents to the roof, and&#xA;  eventually jumps off.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The kid presumably &quot;wakes up&quot; from the matrix and is disposed of the&#xA;  same way Neo was.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Recall that in the first movie, the red pill tracer program was taken&#xA;  by Neo and then he is woken up less than 5 minutes later. So the ship&#xA;  had to have been close enough to Neo's location in the physical world&#xA;  to get to him relatively quickly. Perhaps the same was true for the&#xA;  kid. They knew something was going to go down (Neo called the kid to&#xA;  warn him) and when they saw him &quot;self substantiate&quot; (the first ever to&#xA;  do so) they reacted quickly and made it to the pools in time to&#xA;  recover him.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T12:51:35.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30537" CreationDate="2015-11-20T13:11:38.333" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although it certainly matches the high-rhetoric in which Assange is so fond of writing, I've come to the conclusion that this line was an invention of the screenwriter, not least because Assange has spoken &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.support-julian-assange.com/category/julians-quotes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;extensively&lt;/a&gt; about how one can &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;change the world&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (in this case by understanding history and rejecting the conclusions) without ever mentioning &quot;committment&quot; and/or &quot;sacrifice&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We live in the world that we perceive. Our limits are the limits of&#xA;  our perceptions. This generation knows more than any previous&#xA;  generation. Its actions will eclipse those of previous generations. &lt;strong&gt;We&#xA;  change the world by observing its behavior, thinking about our&#xA;  observations and acting on our thoughts. To observe we must open our&#xA;  eyes. To think we must open our minds.&lt;/strong&gt; To act, we must open our&#xA;  hearts. Our eyes have never been so wide. Our minds never so trained.&#xA;  And the courage in our hearts spreads like a contagion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also a brief mention in Assange's autobiography about a blog post on his old site about how &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wkvsOtUQ47YC&amp;amp;pg=PA153&amp;amp;lpg=PA153&amp;amp;dq=%22julian%20assange%22%20and%20%22true%20commitment%22&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=8ltz0IMayd&amp;amp;sig=xTirWBlIs6B87IMk_UhyN2zO9q8&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwiN1oK4hp_JAhXEMhoKHTBbD44Q6AEIUDAI#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22julian%20assange%22%20and%20%22true%20commitment%22&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;true committment&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is demonstrated &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;when they break down your door with their jackboots&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing to do with changing the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, the quote is, at best, an amalgam of things he's said elsewhere and at worst a total fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T13:11:38.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43764" CreationDate="2015-11-20T13:56:23.750" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to Walt's excellent logical analysis, it has to be mentioned that Snape has also spent a great deal of time building an emotional wall and shared little with anyone in order to protect himself.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He only felt truly free to share with Lilly, and to a lesser degree Dumbledore, but with everyone else he was on his guard and worried that anything he said could be used to hurt him.  You can see, for instance, his reaction to Harry getting into his mind - even though it was important to the order that Harry learn occlumancy, he dropped teaching him at the first instance that Harry saw, and pitied, Snape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1112" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T13:56:23.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27571" CreationDate="2015-11-20T13:57:51.290" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simplest answer is that in the early days of the show, while they needed permission to enter the stores, they were &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.examiner.com/article/interview-with-joe-gatto-of-impractical-jokers-on-tru-tv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;largely left to their own devices&lt;/a&gt; to do the actual comedy &lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(hat tip to @walt for the quote link)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q. Do you need permission to go to stores and malls?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A. Oh yeah, clearance&#xA;is necessary, but &lt;strong&gt;once we are there; they leave us alone and just let&#xA;us blend in without blowing our cover&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that the show is more popular, the owners are aware of the likely consequences and &lt;a href=&quot;http://cltampa.com/artbreaker/archives/2015/01/28/a-qanda-with-tenderloins-impractical-jokers-member-brian-quinn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;actively welcome them in&lt;/a&gt; via their producers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q. How do you get permission to get into all these places like dentists’ offices, businesses, fast food joints ... ?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A. We have a team that that sorta reaches out — I mean it’s a lot easier now because we have people that are just fans of the show, so they&#xA;want us there.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T13:57:51.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26218" CreationDate="2015-11-20T15:10:23.537" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was discussed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://legionofleia.com/2015/11/black-sails-season-3-interview-with-zach-mcgowan/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;an interview with the show's creator Zach MacGowan&lt;/a&gt;. He's offered a number of in-universe and out-of-universe answers to your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Out-of-Universe reasons:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most actors have nice teeth&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prosthetic teeth are expensive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prosthetic teeth are time-consuming to fit&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prosthetic teeth impede speech&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They've actually experimented with teeth-yellowing paint but it rubs off after a few hours&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;In-universe reason:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There must be &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; pirates who had good teeth. We just happen to have come across quite a few of them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Legion of Leia:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;When we were down there, one of the cool things that we learned was that a bunch of pirate experts watch the show and the only thing that isn’t historically accurate is the white teeth! Have you done research on pirate history for the role?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zach McGowan:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Yeah, I have. What’s interesting about the white teeth argument is, a lot of us actually have put paint on the teeth to get them yellow. It’s just the nature of the shoot is such that when we actually get out on the set sometimes the upkeep of that can be difficult. Obviously it’s in your mouth and the saliva ends up bringing it out. It becomes a very difficult thing to do without doing mouth prosthetics, which, you know, the show has a lot of stuff going on already. It also affects the actor’s ability to speak. There is a lot of dialogue on the show. I mean, we don’t think about it all that much. I mean, I have to say that personally, I’ve never had anything done to my teeth. [laughs] I don’t go to a dentist to – I mean, I do brush my teeth, which those guys did not do, of course. But it’s not like I got braces and tooth whitening for the show or anything like that. I happen to be blessed with pretty good teeth from my parents. There must have been a few pirates out there with good teeth! Early on, a lot of us were pushing for gold teeth and things like that, but I think decisions to not do things like that were based on things like, we met these pirates and they weren’t rich. They didn’t have a lot of gold. In Season 1, you don’t see any gold. It took this seizing of the [Urca] gold to infuse the culture with that a bit more. What did I learn? I learned so much about pirate culture that I didn’t know. It seems like most of it came out of necessity. And that it was a very hard life and people did what they needed to to survive.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T15:10:23.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43779" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43782" CreationDate="2015-11-20T15:41:16.890" Score="7" ViewCount="1580" Body="&lt;p&gt;At what point in the process of film creation are the soundtracks/scores usually made? I'm particularly interested in modern blockbusters, especially those with symphonic scores like Pirates of the Caribbean, Inception, and similar movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that it varies from movie to movie a bit and that most all movies are edited after music has been added to fit with the music better, but how much in advance is this usually done? I'm curious if the composer would have any idea what the final product might look like in order to create a more fitting soundtrack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27969" LastEditorUserId="27969" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T15:59:31.897" LastActivityDate="2017-02-15T07:12:29.647" Title="When are film soundtracks made?" Tags="|production|soundtrack|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43779" CreationDate="2015-11-20T17:48:05.703" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The initial discussion regarding cues may be done reasonably early, as the edit is being put together; the director and composer will meet to discuss and hear basic ideas, sometimes even just on a piano played live over some key sections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the final edit is neared, and timings are closer to finalised, the cues can then be expanded into initial arrangements - these days quite likely on virtual instruments, rather than full recorded orchestrations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As these days it's quite likely that the final edit will be known before the CGI is finished, there is then time to score and record the full orchestration without a great deal of rushing, re-timing, re-recording; as used to happen in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As not all the score is necessarily orchestral, the virtual [synthesized] parts can be laid down separately; the composer having access to the movie on his computer at all times. Cues and tempi can be pre-mapped and even at the orchestral recording, the conductor can have click track and other audio cues on headphones, to keep the orchestra in tempo with the existing arrangement.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These days, for a big movie, it is unlikely that the &quot;credited composer&quot; will actually be just one person. He will very likely have a team of orchestrators working on his original ideas. Massive networked computer workstations can bring the virtualised orchestrations to near perfection before being physically scored on paper for the final recording.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many movies will possibly never use an actual orchestra - though the massive budget blockbusters will, certainly for the main cues and themes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be very difficult to spot when it's not real, these days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25773" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-21T12:30:57.273" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T12:30:57.273" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43784" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43816" CreationDate="2015-11-20T18:48:05.450" Score="26" ViewCount="16834" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RehDA.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RehDA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This woman is a boom operator.  She holds a long stick with a big microphone on one end, to record sound on movie and television shoots. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you've ever tried to hold something over your head for a long time - or even just hold your hands over your head for a long time - you can imagine how tiring this job can be.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some shots, the boom operator is luck enough to be able to use a less arduous position:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o3j1um.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/o3j1um.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or even reduce the strain on their arms and shoulders by setting up a sort of lever mechanism:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CxGC4m.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CxGC4m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the existence of such lever mechanisms, and more high tech options, like cranes and gantries, why does the boom operator ever have to do his or her job the hard way?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can imagine several ways to make the boom op's job easier:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In scenes filmed in one place, without much movement, a stationary mic could record ambient sound (and dialogue).  If necessary, each character's dialogue could be recorded separately via clip-on mics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suspend the boom mic from a crane or gantry overhead&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use the unipod (if that's a word - I mean the one-legged tripod thing in the third photo) instead of forcing someone to hold a long boom over their head all day&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Put the unipod thing on wheels or a track, as is sometimes done with cameras, so the boom mic can follow the action more readily&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why has the film industry chosen to stick with a physically tiresome, incredibly old fashioned method, when better options appear to be readily available?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-21T12:25:17.420" LastActivityDate="2020-02-21T17:02:14.143" Title="Why does the boom operator have to hold the boom mic by hand?" Tags="|film-techniques|production|crew|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32395" CreationDate="2015-11-20T18:55:29.560" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is actually explained in the scene. Vosen is clearly relying far too heavily on the information from &quot;The Grid&quot; (e.g. a series of flagged passports and identities that have been loaded onto their fancy CIA computer system regarding all of Jason Bourne's &lt;strong&gt;previously &lt;em&gt;used&lt;/em&gt; aliases&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We learn, however, that the di Piento passport &lt;strong&gt;has &lt;em&gt;never been used&lt;/em&gt; and hence isn't on the watchlist of identities that Vosen's people are looking out for.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cronin:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;A passport for Gilberto di Piento has just cleared immigration. It's&#xA;  an early Treadstone identity registered to Jason Bourne. &lt;strong&gt;But he never&#xA;  used it and it never went to the Grid&lt;/strong&gt;... Bourne's alive...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why Landy's team have it and Vosen's team don't, it's important to remember that she's trying to get Bourne all to herself at this point. Clearly that includes withholding certain information from her colleagues that she likely gleaned while debriefing Bourne's handler (&lt;a href=&quot;http://bourne.wikia.com/wiki/Film:_Nicky_Parsons&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Nicky Parsons&lt;/a&gt;) in the previous film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-20T22:43:56.303" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T22:43:56.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12996" CreationDate="2015-11-20T20:33:55.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.channel4.com/info/press/programme-information/southcliffe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Channel 4&lt;/a&gt; (who commissioned the four-part drama);&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Claire Salter (Shirley Henderson) is a committed social worker, carer&#xA;  to Queenie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; [Stephen Morton's Mother]&lt;em&gt;, consumed by her own private&#xA;  anxieties. On this morning, a spree-killer suddenly and randomly&#xA;  commits a spate of shootings, leaving the innocent residents of&#xA;  Southcliffe faced with emotions they are unequipped to understand or&#xA;  deal with.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why she's office-based, it's important to distinguish between a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_care_in_England&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Social Carer&lt;/a&gt; and a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prospects.ac.uk/social_worker_job_description.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Social Worker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T20:33:55.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23627" CreationDate="2015-11-20T21:07:29.237" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, it's not a different canister, it's the &lt;strong&gt;same canister as earlier in the film&lt;/strong&gt;. Note that we never actually see it being emptied, only what appears to be 'ooze' traveling down the pipe into the animal enclosures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, there's some bubbling chemicals that the Doc obvious thought were important to the process and some sort of distilling chamber. It's reasonable to assume that he only used a very small amount of the ooze to prime a solution that's less poisonous than simply feeding the animals the raw product, leaving the majority of the original ooze in the canister for later use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EOdDp.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EOdDp.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T21:07:29.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43784" CreationDate="2015-11-20T21:39:38.227" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK, I'm going to posit this as an answer… though there is some cynicism…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/em&gt; Let me add some late specifics...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first picture, the girl a) has got a comfortable leverage grip on the boom b) she's used to maintaining that position, it's her job, she does it all the time &amp;amp; c) that &quot;big mic&quot; isn't big at all, it's a small, light mic inside a wind-shield... known as a dead cat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sXesC.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sXesC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The boom itself is made of carbon fibre &amp;amp; weighs ounces.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 2nd picture - that looks more like the guy is at rest between shots. As they get ready to roll, he will extend the boom to dimensions more akin to the first picture &amp;amp; adopt a similar posture.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The third picture looks a complete nuisance - very restricting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, back to the cynical original...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When filming, picture is everything, sound is the 'red-haired step-child' [poor PC-awareness aside]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Director and DOP [Director of Photography] will spend as much time as time/budget allows getting the shot right, as regards lighting, angle, lens… heck even getting the actors to behave…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then they hand over to the 1st AD and suddenly it's all &quot;Lights, Camera, Action&quot; [not real, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/43215/who-will-say-start-camera-action-when-the-director-casts-himself-in-the-main-r/43217#43217&quot;&gt;Who will say &amp;quot;start camera action&amp;quot; when the director casts himself in the main role?&lt;/a&gt; ] and sound has seconds to try figure out how to get every nuance of the performance without dropping the mic into frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OK, honestly it's not quite as cruel as that; but sound is almost the last consideration when shooting. They have to quickly adapt to a changing action and frame and there simply isn't time to have a comfortable setup to capture the sound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a tracking or steady-cam shot there could be as many as 8 or 10 people all huddled in behind the camera, shuffling along. The sound girl/guy has to be able to move with this crowd and still reach the action.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best that sound can do to ameliorate the aching of their arms is to shout &quot;wait for the plane&quot; when Heathrow is throwing its finest into the air and hope to hear &quot;Hold the roll&quot; from the 1st AD ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the upside, those modern booms are made of carbon fibre &amp;amp; are nowhere near as heavy as they look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25773" LastEditorUserId="25773" LastEditDate="2017-12-14T09:10:10.363" LastActivityDate="2017-12-14T09:10:10.363" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9997" CreationDate="2015-11-20T22:19:07.567" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only instance I can find where the character Lodge says &quot;no, you don't&quot; seems to be here;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/tOUksDJCijw?start=956&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't hear any evidence of a stutter, nor any good reason why his character would have stumbled over his words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-20T22:19:07.567" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43764" CreationDate="2015-11-21T00:16:07.783" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Harry never learnt occlumency properly and Voldemort is both connected to his mind as well as a practised legimens and has already used this for influencing Harry.  That's good enough a reason for Dumbledore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But with regard to Snape, there is another more dominant reason: he hated Harry's guts.  Snape's allegiance is to Lily and he is making her sacrifice count the way she intended it.  But his bond to Lily is his own and Harry is the least person he'd want to share it with.  He disapproves of her choice for a husband, and he disapproves of the offspring resulting from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His self-chosen task is to save Harry, not to like him or associate with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be about the same if Lily died in order to save a ridiculous annoying yapping puppy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27984" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T00:16:07.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43809" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="83933" CreationDate="2015-11-21T08:05:36.077" Score="5" ViewCount="471" Body="&lt;p&gt;David Kessler and Jack Goodman are attacked by a werewolf after leaving a pub called &lt;em&gt;The Slaughtered Lamb&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;em&gt;East Proctor&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The people of East Proctor are attempting to keep a secret from the rest of the world that their village has an inhabitant of a werewolf.  The people let David and Jack leave the pub knowing full well that they would likely be attacked.   After realizing this was a mistake, the villagers find David and Jack AFTER Jack was killed and David was being attacked.  The villagers killed the werewolf.  The villagers of East Proctor then brought David to the hospital and reported that the boys were attacked by an escaped lunatic since the werewolf returned to human form after it was killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While David is recovering in the hospital from the wounds that he received from the attack on the moors, Inspector Villiers and Sergeant McManus interview him regarding the attack.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David is adamant that he and his friend, Jack were attacked by a werewolf and NOT an escaped lunatic as the villagers from East Proctor told the police.  Sergeant McManus wants to listen to David's story, but Inspector Villiers is hesitant to listen to his story and does not want to investigate the matter further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there any evidence to suggest that Inspector Villiers was a part of the conspiracy at East Proctor to cover up the attack?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2017-12-19T12:56:51.737" Title="Was Inspector Villiers part of the cover-up conspiracy at East Proctor?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|an-american-werewolf-in-london|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43810" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47645" CreationDate="2015-11-21T08:13:50.400" Score="4" ViewCount="1684" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first Cosmos, narrated and co-written by Carl Sagan came out in 1980. But since then, there have been numerous achievements in Science; many things have changed and in 2014, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey came out, which was more up to date than the last one.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a person who is interested in watching the show(s), should I watch both of them, or is the first one outdated by the second one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T22:42:48.740" Title="Is Cosmos (1980) obsolete now that Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014) has come out?" Tags="|cosmos-spacetime-odyssey|cosmos|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43813" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-21T10:10:27.000" Score="1" ViewCount="470" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been rewatching the latest &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_SpongeBob_Movie:_Sponge_Out_of_Water&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Spongebob movie&lt;/a&gt; for the nth time when the scene came where they try to get Gary to join their team. At that moment it struck me - in this cartoon's universe, snails represent cats. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So what animals are used to represent other, bigger felines?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recall there is an episode which takes place in a coliseum where there is a &lt;em&gt;lionfish&lt;/em&gt;, a big fish with lion's head, but maybe there might be other instances of big cats, I haven't seen all the episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9912" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T10:10:27.000" Title="In Spongebob universe snails are cats. What about bigger felines?" Tags="|spongebob-squarepants|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43784" CreationDate="2015-11-21T12:19:37.593" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US5454042&quot;&gt;patent application&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&amp;amp;objectid=123238&quot;&gt;Oscar winning&lt;/a&gt; microphone specialist Les Drever (whose award was for &lt;em&gt;&quot;technical achievement in the field of microphone windscreen and isolation mount design&quot;&lt;/em&gt;), the thinking behind the hand-held boom (AKA 'the fishpole') is largely one of convenience and cost...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A hand-held or fishpole boom is physically held and guided by a single&#xA;  person (the boom operator). A microphone is mounted at one end of the&#xA;  boom in a fixed angular position, with the other end of the boom being&#xA;  manipulated by the boom operator to position and orient the&#xA;  microphone. &lt;strong&gt;The hand-held boom has the advantages of being relatively&#xA;  simple to operate and fast to manipulate in the hands of a skilled&#xA;  operator. It will fit into tight spaces, and is essentially not&#xA;  limited by the required distance of movement, since the operator may&#xA;  move as well as moving the boom. It is rugged and highly portable, as&#xA;  well as being of relatively inexpensive construction, and is in&#xA;  world-wide use.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also offers some disadvantages...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The primary weakness of the hand-held boom is that the microphone is&#xA;  fixed at a predetermined angle, which can only be changed by&#xA;  interrupting the filming or taping sequence. Only crude sideways&#xA;  cueing is possible by twisting the boom, and alternating forward and&#xA;  rearward aiming is only possible by bringing the boom around in a 90&#xA;  degree arc, which is not very practical. With complex work, two or&#xA;  more booms must be used, which means that two or more operators will&#xA;  be necessary as well. Even with a single boom and microphone, some&#xA;  movements must be coordinated, requiring for example a second operator&#xA;  to look after the trailing microphone cables. In addition, the&#xA;  hand-held boom becomes tedious to support by hand over a period of&#xA;  time, particularly when the boom is being used with a heavy&#xA;  directional microphone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T12:19:37.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43820" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-21T14:06:45.913" Score="4" ViewCount="500" Body="&lt;p&gt;The third season of Masters of Sex has a disclaimer that ends by telling us&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... the children Tessa, Henry, Johnny, and Jenny are fictional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thing is, Masters has 3 children in this season. I don't know the name or gender of the third, but there have been several scenes in which it is clearly stated there are 3. I don't think Jenny's name appears anywhere other than this disclaimer, but Johnny is getting a fair bit of screen time. And Johnson also has 3 children this season. Just before the baby is born, her husband tells someone &quot;Lisa if it's a girl, and Scott for a boy&quot; - these being the real names of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_E._Johnson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;her real children&lt;/a&gt; as opposed to these fictional ones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why would the disclaimer only mention 4 of the 6 children they are portraying? You could argue it's because the children are doing actual things (joining the army, working at the clinic, getting bullied, not being good at football) but Jenny isn't doing anything at all and is in the disclaimer, and Lisa is at least getting screen time but isn't in the disclaimer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8842" LastActivityDate="2018-01-07T16:53:04.077" Title="Why is the child disclaimer incomplete?" Tags="|masters-of-sex|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43822" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43823" CreationDate="2015-11-21T17:35:30.330" Score="4" ViewCount="309" Body="&lt;p&gt;Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375605/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Act of Killing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; observes original perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian anti-communist purge reenact their killings in the form of movie scenes in whatever cinematic genres they choose, resulting in a wide range of disturbing movie scenes growing in surrealism. However, apart from the various scenes whose actual making we observe through the documentary itself, we never see the full cinematic product of this film within the film in its entirety. Yet, Anwar is clearly shown watching an apparently finished product at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I understand that this final filmic product wasn't so much the purpose of the documentary rather than the process of producing those reenactments and their effects on the perpetrators and the public awareness of this matter. And I could imagine quite a few reasons why releasing it to the public in uncommented form might be a bad idea:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It might be regarded tasteless, or a glorification of the killings, as that film is ultimately the killers boasting with their deeds and trying to get redemption from them. Yet similar accusations about the actual documentary have already been refuted by Oppenheimer previously. And the film also does contain slightly more self-aware scenes of Anwar being haunted by what he did. Likewise did the perpetrators already reason about the change of public opinion their film might have on the killings, so that aspect as well as what they did wasn't completely lost on them, especially on Anwar.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It might detract from the purpose and message of the documentary itself, which, as said, wasn't so much about the end procuct of a finctionalized version of the killings rather than the &lt;em&gt;process&lt;/em&gt; of producing it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It might be a problem for the makers who might regard the final product of it as a rather personal document and opt against publishing it. Though, one might argue that they would have a bigger problem with the actual documentary itself. And during the documentary there were multiple discussions reasoning about an actual publication of the movie they produce, yet Oppenheimer never seemed to actually lie to the perpetrators regarding what movie &lt;em&gt;he&lt;/em&gt; really intends to do (and according to Oppenheimer Anwar supposedly doesn't feel betrayed by &lt;em&gt;The Act of Killing&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or we might simply already have seen more or less the whole product in pieces during &lt;em&gt;The Act of Killing&lt;/em&gt; and releasing it as a whole wouldn't add anything at all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, in the spirit of true neutral observation and complete disclosure, the actual final product the making of which the documentary observed all the time might still be a fruitful addition to the &lt;em&gt;The Act of Killing&lt;/em&gt;, as a kind of accompanying material, similar to the more victim-centric &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3521134/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Look of Silence&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;is there any official commentary whether there is any intent on publishing the fictionalized reenactments produced during &lt;em&gt;The Act of Killing&lt;/em&gt; as a film on its own?&lt;/strong&gt; If not, have there been any specific reasons mentioned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T18:01:39.493" Title="Have there ever been considerations about releasing the actual movie whose production The Act of Killing documents?" Tags="|the-act-of-killing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43822" CreationDate="2015-11-21T17:55:36.273" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a snippet in the excellent &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/documentary-case-studies-9781623569433/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Documentary Case Studies: Behind the Scenes of the Greatest (True) Stories Ever Told&lt;/a&gt;&quot; that relates to an interview given by Joshua Oppenheimer. In it, he makes it clear that the 'film within a film' created by the various murderers was never intended for broadcast as a separate film for a number of reasons;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He promised those taking part that it wouldn't be released&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The production quality is exceptionally low&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The film was only ever intended to be part of a wider documentary and is essentially a series of disconnected scenes rather than a completed film in itself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;And much of The Act of Killing, in fact partly the source of its&#xA;  title, involves Congo and his fellows filming scenes that dramatize&#xA;  their killings on improvised Hollywood-style movie sets. Oppenheimer&#xA;  encouraged Congo to imagine appropriate scenes and action, and&#xA;  together they found writers to write scripts, television stations to&#xA;  provide studio space, and crew to help shoot. Oppenheimer picked up&#xA;  the costs for the scenes. &lt;strong&gt;&quot;We of course funded the scenes since&#xA;  they were only existing for our movie.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; They kept costs to a&#xA;  minimum by calling in favors whenever they could, and &lt;strong&gt;made clear to&#xA;  the men that the scenes they were making were solely intended for The&#xA;  Act of Killing and were not going to end up in any separate&#xA;  stand-alone film&lt;/strong&gt;. They were set up as closer to therapeutic filmed&#xA;  exercises than for any theatrical legacy.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the scenes where you see the film being screened, this is analogous to showing the actors &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dailies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the dailies&lt;/a&gt;&quot; rather than a completed film&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oppenheimer decided to continue the experiment, hoping Congo's&#xA;  reflections on the footage might get them to psychological insights&#xA;  they couldn't have otherwise attained.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;He'd shoot, they'd screen, over&#xA;  and over. Along the way, Congo opened up more about his nightmares,&#xA;  rages, and ragged feelings.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Oppenheimer reciprocated and emerged from&#xA;  these encounters with a fresh epiphany about his film: he'd spent two&#xA;  years looking for monsters but then realized to his intense discomfort&#xA;  that what he was searching for all along were simply—people. &lt;strong&gt;&quot;With&#xA;  Anwar, I finally saw a human being. I've refused to make the leap from&#xA;  saying he's a man who's done something monstrous, to he's a monster.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-21T18:01:39.493" LastActivityDate="2015-11-21T18:01:39.493" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43831" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43834" CreationDate="2015-11-21T22:04:45.283" Score="7" ViewCount="6614" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a name of the painting or artist featured in Bud's apartment. I tried to google the artists in credits but no luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0PDwM.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0PDwM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bOtph.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bOtph.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28016" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-21T23:05:22.847" LastActivityDate="2016-11-07T23:57:16.333" Title="Name of a painting in Wall Street (1987)" Tags="|props|wall-street|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43833" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13260" CreationDate="2015-11-21T23:43:11.157" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is largely explained in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/501.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the episode&lt;/a&gt;. In addition to the ship's sensors (which Tom states are capable of detecting that the ship is at traveling at warp speed), Seven has completed an astrometric survey of the region and has noted a considerable number of features, including pockets of radiation. Even if the void was actual a 'void' you could navigate by those alone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SEVEN:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Then I must disobey. I have no good news to report. I've completed an astrometric scan of the entire region. There are no star&#xA;  systems within twenty five hundred light years.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CHAKOTAY:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Anything new on sensors?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TUVOK:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I've detected a sudden increase in theta radiation in the vicinity.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, we can ascertain from other episodes (notably &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.st-minutiae.com/resources/scripts/128.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;TNG: Where Silence has Lease&lt;/a&gt;) that starships routinely use an &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Inertial_guidance_system&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Inertial Guidance System&lt;/a&gt;&quot; which evidently works extremely well, even in an environment where other sensors show no usable readings. It seems vanishingly unlikely that the crew of Voyager wouldn't be able to cobble one of those together, even if Voyager doesn't already come equipped with one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PICARD:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;We should be seeing stars by now, Data. How far have we come?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DATA:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Inertial guidance shows seven parsecs traveled, Captain.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:42:45.047" LastActivityDate="2019-09-18T19:11:25.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="43834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43831" CreationDate="2015-11-22T00:03:50.437" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a painting by Greek-American artist &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Samaras&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lucas Samaras&lt;/a&gt; titled &lt;em&gt;The Collectors&lt;/em&gt; from 1985, oil on canvas. He's one of the artists in the end credits and you can find the painting in several websites like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/THE-COLLECTORS/00F876386BE1ED56&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/lucas-samaras-596-c-lzcp0z5yqi&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ex29h.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ex29h.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-11-22T20:12:55.067" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T20:12:55.067" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43835" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43836" CreationDate="2015-11-22T01:37:36.700" Score="3" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching Jessica Jones on Netflix and at one point the captions say &lt;code&gt;[Speaking polish]&lt;/code&gt; on other shows it just seems them say something like &lt;code&gt;[Speaking foreign language]&lt;/code&gt;, I was wondering just where text comes from? Does the text for newly made shows generally come from the show writers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27172" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T03:37:49.077" Title="How is the text for closed captions and subtitles chosen for newly made, non-live TV shows?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43835" CreationDate="2015-11-22T02:48:21.003" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.netflix.com/2012/02/update-on-captioning-for-our-members.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a Netflix blog post&lt;/a&gt;, they require the content provider to supply the subtitles, while creating them on their own for certain titles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We continue to require captions or subtitles from our providers for all new content where it is available, and we continue to author captions or subtitles for significant new content where it is missing. -Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-22T03:37:49.077" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T03:37:49.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12896" CreationDate="2015-11-22T04:30:08.127" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dumping the dirt from season one.  Exactly what Andy did.  Banging the wall behind the sink during a commotion (thunder in SR).  Covering up the hole under the table like Andy covered the one in his cell with the poster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The young loud mouth new white gangster kid, just like Tommy in SR.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lincoln being innocent...maybe, I don't know yet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scofield's behaviours, mannerisms and voice are almost identical to Andy's.  Slow, methodical, doesn't say much, etc etc.  I'm only on season one and like the previous poster said, I should keep a list going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the creators of the show fell in love with SR, ripped off a tonne of King's ideas and made a feature length series.  But basically you could watch SR one time and I'm guessing you'd get the same idea from PB.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've enjoyed the show so far, mostly because of the direct connections to Shawshank, one of my favourite movies of all time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28021" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T04:30:08.127" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43840" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-22T04:50:10.427" Score="0" ViewCount="782" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't really get it. How on earth can we hear sounds made by ants? This is too much exaggeration in the Ant-Man movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ant wings sound like helicopter rotors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28024" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-22T15:05:24.587" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T15:05:24.587" Title="How do we hear ant sounds in Ant-Man?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|ant-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43840" CreationDate="2015-11-22T04:56:33.683" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie focuses on ant sounds to highlight the action they want followed. Selective sound highlighting is typical in all movies. Like how you can clearly hear people in a club talking at normal conversation levels which would be impossible in real life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, we typically hear the ant sounds only when the camera is in &lt;strong&gt;ant perspective&lt;/strong&gt;, just as we do the vision changes. We, the audience see things similar to how shrunken Scott sees them, and hears them. Perspective is distorted, when needed. The camera, being closer to the ants, making them the relative size of a helicopter, will sound different then when the camera makes the ants the relative size of an ant. Comically, this is illustrated when YellowJacket is struck by a train:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/muYbXyYxd5E?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice the sound changes? That's the perspective change. Also an example of the Doppler Effect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reality, someone with ear drums the size of a fraction of an inch will hear the same sound differently from a normal person. Compare listening to ear buds, tiny speakers that need to be close to your ear drums for you to hear them properly, to listening to a concert speaker. The pressure wave of the sound is the same, but the intensities are much different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an earlier scene from the movie, when Scott first shrinks down, notice how Luis' footsteps sound like booms to Ant Scott, while Scott's yelling sounds like faint scratching to normal size Luis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/kyCjumbLPUE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the following scene where Scott falls into the club, he should be completely disoriented by the loud club music. Not only does the suit helmet likely help prevent that, the Pym Particles allow Scott to keep his normal size strength, but mainly it's because the movie (and comics) &lt;strong&gt;do sacrifice scientific reality for entertainment reasons&lt;/strong&gt;. The Rule of Cool applies more than fact would. And a story like Ant-Man would be ruined by facts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-22T06:14:00.690" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T06:14:00.690" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43842" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-22T05:01:34.653" Score="4" ViewCount="873" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm unable to describe the camera view used when seeing the world as shrunken Ant-Man. It looks like an oval like vision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the picture of when he first shrinks in the Bath Tub. So why does the vision change? &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BgUJg.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BgUJg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28024" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-22T15:01:52.547" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T15:01:52.547" Title="Why does the vision change when Ant-Man shrinks?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|ant-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43842" CreationDate="2015-11-22T05:53:11.757" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The visual change when Scott shrinks for the first time reflects multiple things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scott is immediately disoriented by a (relatively) large drop, warping into Ant size, and the new perspective he would have based on size. Shock would daze him. Think of how people get blurry vision while drunk or after a hit to the head.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scott and the Audience are given a new perspective, a point of view that is not normal. Visual tricks like Foreshortening will have a greater effect. Look at how people or cars look when you see them from a great distance/height. Small sure, but they no longer seem life-like. Basically Macro photography, in reverse. Tilt-Shift photography also provides a similar look. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant-Man_(film)#Filming&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The filmmakers made extensive use of macro photography. Production designer Shepherd Frankel said, &quot;It's more visually interesting to depict things from Ant-Man's point of view instead of seeing him from a normal perspective. But we wanted a realistic realization, not Honey, I Shrunk the Kids with its oversized set pieces.&quot; Rebecca Baehler served as the director of macro photography, taking cues from Carpenter. Carpenter said vibration became &quot;a tremendous problem&quot; when moving the camera during the macro photography because &quot;one inch off the ground is like fifteen feet in the air. From an ant's perspective, you move four inches, to a human perspective, that's a football field!&quot; The solution required the filmmakers to think outside of the box so they turned to Baehler, who had a background in &quot;commercial 'tabletop' photography.&quot; In order to add Rudd's performance as Ant-Man when in the macro world a Centroid facial capture set up was used, with a 5-camera array of Alexas surrounding Rudd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Scott's perspective is very Foreshortened, because of the angle of view, the physics behind smaller lenses, and possibly the Ant-Man helmet.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Foreshortening is the visual effect or optical illusion that causes an object or distance to appear shorter than it actually is because it is angled toward the viewer. Additionally, an object is often not scaled evenly: a circle often appears as an ellipse and a square can appear as a trapezoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A more acute viewing angle introduces much more Perspective Distortion. Looking at the Empire State Building from it's base is way different then from a mile away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uSFPJ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uSFPJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even just using a different lens (In this case, A normal eyeball vs an eyeball that's fraction of an inch wide) causes distortions as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gcp5F.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gcp5F.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But most of all, that's basically how the view will look for an ant&lt;/strong&gt;. As Pym says in that scene: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The world sure seems different from down here, doesn't it, Scott?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-22T06:06:48.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T06:06:48.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43844" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-22T07:05:23.587" Score="25" ViewCount="36200" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the newest Bond movie, Spectre, there is a scene where bond is hooked up to a torture machine. He is told that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; the first action will damage his eyesight and the the second action will cause him to forget all the faces he knew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both these actions occurred, but&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; he still remembers everyone's face, and 5 minutes later he is making precision shots from a large distance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems like the torture device had literally no effect on him. Is there a reason for this, or is it just poor movie making?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20110" LastEditorUserId="20110" LastEditDate="2015-11-23T17:31:28.690" LastActivityDate="2017-06-05T10:43:58.067" Title="Why didn't the machine affect Bond in Spectre?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|spectre|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43845" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="111311" CreationDate="2015-11-22T07:18:23.770" Score="13" ViewCount="1473" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a number of movies where the hero escapes by jumping from up high onto a horseback and riding away. My question is how practical is this in real life? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me it seems that such a stunt would result in the horse and/or person being injured pretty badly, depending on height and other factors of course. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've been trying to find an example of a stunt man actually doing this, but all the examples I've seen show the person jumping, then a cut to a shot of them landing, which indicates to me that they had to do some movie magic to make something fake look real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I apologize if this is an inappropriate question. I'm looking for some sort of example of an unedited shot of a person jumping onto a horse from up high, or possibly some expertise from someone in the stunt business if this is actually done in reality or just clever tricks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2016-12-31T07:55:58.533" LastActivityDate="2020-10-31T01:06:23.713" Title="Jumping onto a horse in movie stunts" Tags="|realism|stunts|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43846" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33571" CreationDate="2015-11-22T07:53:09.683" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really love the film Coraline and think she is still trapped in the other world ever since the first visit. I mean how could the other mother put her back without anyone noticing and it's strange how the door to the other world loses its magic the other mother blocked the exit in and out. Also, it's weird how the acrobats downstairs have a magical item that conveniently helps to find the ghost eyes also the real mother got her the gloves. That is why at the end of the movie the other mother's face is the garden and not Coraline's and also explains where the cat went it went to the real world. She is still stuck and will always be stuck there Coraline's parents are probably long gone and she is still trapped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or her mother might have ignored the fact that all that happened and that is why she got the gloves she was not allowed to. She did not want to say it was all real because it would scar Coraline for life and she did not want that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28025" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2019-10-10T19:15:00.483" LastActivityDate="2019-10-10T19:15:00.483" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="43847" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43848" CreationDate="2015-11-22T08:15:04.153" Score="8" ViewCount="5483" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Season 1 of Twin Peaks, there are a lot of things happening. One of them is that Donna, James, and Maddy lure Dr Jacoby to the park making him think Maddy is Laura. As he is sneaking to the park, he is attacked by someone who we do not see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question: who is this and why did they attack Dr. Jacoby?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I know it is never revealed in the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2017-06-25T19:57:18.437" Title="Who attacked Dr Jacoby and why?" Tags="|plot-explanation|twin-peaks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43848" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43847" CreationDate="2015-11-22T08:32:39.380" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Seems the official answer is Leland. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098936/faq#.2.1.8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was never explicitly revealed onscreen. However, producer Mark Frost later revealed in an interview that Dr. Jacoby's attacker was 'the same person who killed Laura Palmer.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it had to be Leland, while possessed by Bob. This is strongly indicated by Jacoby's reference to smelling burnt engine oil, a smell associated with the killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Leland senses that Maddy is sneaking out, the implication is that he follows her and that's how he finds Jacoby. But as to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; he attacks Jacoby, this is never clarified. Apparently, the creators simply tried to cram as many cliffhangers as possible in the season 1 finale. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098936/faq#.2.1.7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;From the same FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the filming of the first season finale, Frost and Lynch, fearful that the show would not be renewed, decided to &lt;strong&gt;place every character in peril&lt;/strong&gt;, so that no matter what characters a fan happened to like, they would have a vested interest in seeing the series renewed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T20:14:27.380" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43852" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-22T09:49:09.413" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ant-Man stars Rudd as Scott Lang / Ant-Man, alongside Corey Stoll, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Peña, Evangeline Lilly, Tip &quot;T.I.&quot; Harris, Anthony Mackie, Wood Harris, Judy Greer, David Dastmalchian, and Michael Douglas as Hank Pym. It is the 12th film in Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the movie, Lang must help defend Pym's Ant-Man shrinking technology and plot a heist with worldwide ramifications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Questions regarding 2015 Ant-Man movie should use this tag and must be co-tagged with &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/marvel-cinematic-universe&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;marvel-cinematic-universe&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;marvel-cinematic-universe&lt;/a&gt; and can be used with &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/character&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/analysis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;analysis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;analysis&lt;/a&gt; etc. as required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Links&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant-Man_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478970/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.com/antman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2018-01-29T12:11:48.067" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T12:11:48.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43853" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-22T09:49:09.413" Score="0" Body="Ant-Man is a superhero movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, directed by Peyton Reed. It was released in 2015." OwnerUserId="16547" LastEditorUserId="16547" LastEditDate="2016-04-10T21:03:07.343" LastActivityDate="2016-04-10T21:03:07.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1194" CreationDate="2015-11-22T13:27:20.827" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The real significant point in them running down the beach is that it keeps looping over. &#xA;I think this demonstrates that the erasing of the minds wasn't a first time event (as much as I can gather from the movie it atleast has happened once) - Joel and clem are destined to be in this love cycle which is forever being created and destroyed over and over again .&#xA;I've only watched the film once but I'm pretty sure the marker of these parallel love cycles is in the colour of her hair. The same scenes from the start of the film don't match the erasing scene where by her hair is different colour to the initial viewing. &#xA;This could mean that the erasing scene is not specifically erasing the memory we witness but one of the memories of a previous cycle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene in the car when they get the tapes - this scene has happened before but due to them being &quot;them&quot; maybe this car scene happens everytime they start a relationship and the tapes they listen to are of a previous time they erased their minds and not the actual one we see in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another point that suggested that they have erased their minds more than once is the doctors reaction when joel comes in for the first time.Seemed to me that there was some familiarity there like the doctor knew what was coming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like thoughts on this bizarre take but the other conclusion I have is that he never really wakes up and the final scenes of everything involving Joel is still being played out in his mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28034" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T13:27:20.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43860" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43867" CreationDate="2015-11-22T13:35:08.463" Score="2" ViewCount="498" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Trevor Reznik reported himself to the police (as a criminal who killed a kid by accident in a hit-and-run case), how much jail time is he going to serve?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just need an assumption. I am from China and I'm not familiar with US laws. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-06-08T08:14:47.247" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T08:14:47.247" Title="How much he is going to serve in prison for his crime?" Tags="|ending|the-machinist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43864" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-22T16:18:54.910" Score="10" ViewCount="458" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've think I've noticed that decades ago, Hollywood seemed to be more okay casting actors in their 30s as teenagers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Grease,&lt;/em&gt; for example, Stockard Channing was 34, Jamie Donnelly was 31, Michael Tucci  was 32 (looked like 42), Dennis Steward was 31, Annette Charles was 30, Olivia Newton-John was 30. They were all playing characters who were 17 or 18 years old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this discrepancy in actor/character age more typical in decades past than now? If so, why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27737" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-05-10T04:27:22.557" LastActivityDate="2016-09-01T13:45:43.010" Title="Was casting adults as teenagers more common in the past?" Tags="|casting|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43860" CreationDate="2015-11-22T18:01:18.623" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film 'The Machinist' was set in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machinist&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;California&lt;/a&gt;. Given that another person was killed in the accident (a child, no less), and that Reznik is intending to make a full confession (e.g. that he was distracted by reaching for his cigarette lighter) it's reasonably likely that he would be facing a felony charge for the accident:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...the prosecutor may choose to try it as a misdemeanor or a felony&#xA;  ...usually depending on the facts of the case and the defendant's&#xA;  criminal history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If felony hit and run is tried as a misdemeanor, the maximum penalties&#xA;  are a fine of between one thousand dollars ($1,000) and ten thousand&#xA;  dollars ($10,000), and/or up to one (1) year in county jail. If the&#xA;  accident resulted in a death or a permanent, serious injury, in most&#xA;  cases the defendant will need to serve at least ninety (90) days in&#xA;  jail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But if it is prosecuted as a felony, felony hit and run carries&#xA;  penalties of a fine of between one thousand dollars ($1,000) and ten&#xA;  thousand dollars ($10,000)...plus sixteen (16) months to three (3)&#xA;  years in state prison. &lt;strong&gt;If someone (other than the defendant) was&#xA;  killed or suffered a permanent, serious injury in the accident, the&#xA;  state prison sentence rises to two (2) to four (4) years.&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shouselaw.com/felonyhr.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SHOUSE CALIFORNIA LAW GROUP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the best guess is that with a full confession and a guilty plea, he'd probably be serving the lower end of that sentence (2 years). Assuming he then demonstrated &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_conduct_time&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;good conduct&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, he would get a discount on his sentence of around 1-200 days, meaning that he would be &lt;strong&gt;out of jail in around one and a half years.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T18:01:18.623" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11534" CreationDate="2015-11-22T23:02:00.083" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short answer is that it wasn't the coolant rupture (in Star Trek: Generations) that seems to have led to the warp core explosion, it was the failure of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Magnetic_interlock&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;magnetic interlocks&lt;/a&gt; within the warp core. The coolant leak was a secondary issue, and one that resulted in Engineering being evacuated, but this seems to be more to do with the health of the staff than the health of the engine&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see a similar issue in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.st-minutiae.com/resources/scripts/482.txt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DS9: Our Man Bashir&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WORF:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The magnetic interlocks are failing... a warp core breach is imminent.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to whether the loss of coolant was an issue,  it may be stating the obvious that there are &lt;strong&gt;two&lt;/strong&gt; plasma coolant tanks. Data only broke one of them. It seems likely (in fact downright certain) that the Enterprise-E can survive on only a single tank, at least for the amount of time needed to effect repairs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PICARD:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The first thing they'll do in engineering is establish a collective, a central point from which they can control the hive. The&#xA;  problem is if we begin firing particle weapons in engineering there's&#xA;  a risk we may hit the warp core. &lt;strong&gt;I believe our goal should be to&#xA;  puncture one of the plasma coolant tanks. Data?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chakoteya - First Contact Transcript&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5c5zB.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5c5zB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is backed up by the film's &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_First_Contact_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;official novelisation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He moved over to a large display padd, activated it, and called up a&#xA;  schematic diagram of Main Engineering. “The problem is, if we begin&#xA;  firing particle weapons inside engineering, we risk hitting the warp&#xA;  core. So I believe our goal should be to puncture one of the plasma&#xA;  coolant tanks.” &lt;strong&gt;He tapped another control; the schematic rotated and&#xA;  zoomed in on a diagram of the warp core with two flanking coolant&#xA;  tanks, each marked with a flashing biohazard symbol.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:42:45.047" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T23:18:28.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43876" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42798" CreationDate="2015-11-22T23:23:50.780" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of your assumptions was indeed right. &lt;strong&gt;The writer (McCabe) was just bumped from the show.&lt;/strong&gt; Here's the conversation between the network executives from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://sfy.ru/?script=king_of_comedy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;original script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CROCKETT:&lt;/strong&gt; Let me see your list. Any one of these a writer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THOMAS:&lt;/strong&gt; McCabe. &lt;em&gt;The Vanishing Siberian Tiger.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CROCKETT:&lt;/strong&gt; He's out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CATHY:&lt;/strong&gt; What if we don't run this King guy? Who'll fill the time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CROCKETT:&lt;/strong&gt; We'll stretch the other guests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;McCabe is the third guest, a writer and lesser known than the other guests that night (Shelley Winters, Gore Vidal and Tony Bennett). It's not uncommon to bump these sort of guests in such emergencies. This is why his name is not on the list, and when he barges into the studio, the cops and feds mistake him for the King and apprehend him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Pupkin planning all of this in advance, there's no indication of it in the film or in the original script. I can't imagine how he'd somehow orchestrate this to sneak in anyway and as you said, he didn't even &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to sneak in. At most, he took advantage of this fortunate incident to get him closer to the stage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-22T23:23:50.780" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43877" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43878" CreationDate="2015-11-22T23:45:23.280" Score="4" ViewCount="15627" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320661/quotes?item=qt0324984&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quote in &lt;em&gt;Kingdom of Heaven&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when Balian explains to Liam Neeson's character the meaning of a phrase he has carved in wood in his workshop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He says the meaning is &quot;What man is a man who does not make the world better.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have two questions regarding this phrase:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In what language and alphabet is the phrase carved in the wood? Can you reproduce it here with a great degree of confidence?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Was this phrase invented for the movie, or does it have a historical precedence? Does it appear elsewhere in literature or history?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28051" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-23T09:31:38.220" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T09:31:38.220" Title="About the phrase Balian has in his workshop" Tags="|dialogue|origin|kingdom-of-heaven|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43877" CreationDate="2015-11-23T00:09:20.100" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/The_Kingdom_of_Heaven.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;film script&lt;/a&gt; indicates that it's Latin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;ODO, still eating his apple, sees: a LATIN PHRASE CUT DEEP INTO A&#xA;  BLACKENED BEAM (or painted, like a frieze, onto the plaster). He&#xA;  points with the sword.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being the case, the translation would be &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nemo vir est qui mundum non reddat meliorem&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hEl3r.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hEl3r.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-23T00:16:02.290" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T00:16:02.290" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43879" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43997" CreationDate="2015-11-23T00:21:52.300" Score="9" ViewCount="3184" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I have seen Spectre twice now and I'm confused about one thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When 007 gives Q the ring he puts it on his magical scanner thingie and his laptop eventually pops up with &quot;DNA Match&quot; (or something along those lines). The program he is running then promptly puts it into a nice graphic with the faces of all the villains with lines connected the baddies to each other (Also inside an octopus shape... lol).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is how is the DNA found on the ring meant to match the 8-ish bad guys? My current running theory is that maybe the ink in the ring matched some rare octopus or something. Did I miss an explanation for this in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9527" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-23T09:34:56.327" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T00:36:46.230" Title="In Spectre how does the DNA match work?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|spectre|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10252" CreationDate="2015-11-23T02:56:42.743" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;A Naked Gun is a gun attached to a cowboy's belt for a quick draw- it's not in a holster, it's attached via a slide mechanism and appears &quot;naked&quot; outside a holster.  No idea if it was really used in the old west or just in books, movies and TV shows in the 1950s-60s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T02:56:42.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43889" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-23T05:39:44.793" Score="5" ViewCount="1539" Body="&lt;p&gt;Many times the protagonist (or sometimes the kidnappers) is on the run, he/she is being tracked by the authorities through phone calls in order to be located. Why do they need to have the person being tracked to be on the phone for a minute or two (if I'm not mistaken) to locate him/her? Why not a few seconds? What's the technology behind the phone call tracking? Maybe we should not consider the modern smart phones with GPS on this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28063" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-23T09:40:32.533" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T09:40:32.533" Title="Why tracking phone takes some few minutes" Tags="|realism|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43892" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43889" CreationDate="2015-11-23T07:08:58.160" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Typically, no, and maybe yes. No, ending a call in under 1 minute will not prevent a location from being found. Yes, because while the information is known, it takes a while to retrieve (pulling it up from a database, or from the tower, or &lt;strong&gt;getting a warrant&lt;/strong&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Land Lines are fixed connections, and figuring out where a call came, what number is dialed, length of the call, is instant. The second you finish dialing, it's logged by the switching system. Telephone switching systems have been digital since ancient history (1970s), and it basically amounts to a pen register or a call to the phone company to find out where it is coming from. In modern times, this can be done via email or dedicated websites for law enforcement. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_identification&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ANI, Automatic Number Identification, is old technology, similar to Caller ID, and will provide the number even for blocked calls&lt;/a&gt;. If you have the number, which is immediate, then all it takes is a short amount of time to look up the address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cell phones are trickier because you are not fixed to a location. But again, once you know the number, the call can be traced to the tower it is on, and then the cell phone triangulated off multiple surrounding towers. This is easier in urban areas due to the number of towers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Modern Cell phones are, In the US, by law, required to identify their GPS or Cell-Triangulated location via &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_9-1-1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Enchanced 911&lt;/a&gt;. Calls made to 911 from these cell phones should immediately provide the gps coordinates of the cell tower, or the phone (depending on age), directly to the 911 service. Otherwise, this information should require a warrant (or cell server's cooperation), and there may be some delay in getting the information. There generally isn't a requirement for the GPS info for normal calls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is all based on routine calls&lt;/strong&gt;. Calls that are rerouted, transferred, or VOIP will be completely different, depending on how complex the routing is. A call originating in Brooklyn to a VOIP service in Thailand, which is then rerouted through a cell service from Thailand to a Satellite phone in Peru, ad-naseum, to a phone in Manhattan will not be quick or simple to trace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So to answer the question, unless there is some dialog stating that the call is rerouted, or the person is using some fancy untraceable equipment, the time limit for tracking is nonexistent&lt;/strong&gt;. Even for a cell phone, they can find where the call came from. They may not get there in time, but once the call is made, the information is there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-23T07:27:25.420" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T07:27:25.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43893" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43895" CreationDate="2015-11-23T07:48:01.363" Score="5" ViewCount="4384" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Dreams_May_Come_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;What dreams may come&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, blue flowers are ubiquitous. What do they represent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="16465" LastEditDate="2015-11-23T13:16:14.363" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T19:14:21.070" Title="Significance of blue flowers in What dreams may come" Tags="|analysis|what-dreams-may-come|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43893" CreationDate="2015-11-23T09:30:48.203" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &quot;production notes&quot; issued by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://vincentwardfilms.com/films/what-dreams-may-come/gallery/production-stills/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Director's own website&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacaranda&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jacaranda&lt;/a&gt; flowers have a dual meaning, representing....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vincentwardfilms.com/concepts/wdmc/treatment/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Annie's grief&lt;/a&gt; (at the loss of their children) made substantive as Chris walks through &lt;em&gt;her&lt;/em&gt; paintings&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When Chris (Robin Williams) dies he finds himself in an afterlife that&#xA;  emulates his wife Annie’s work: She restored nineteenth century&#xA;  paintings, and in her spare time painted pictures which reflect&#xA;  elements of their life together. &lt;strong&gt;Now Chris finds himself walking&#xA;  within her living paintings.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7D7aA.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7D7aA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://vincentwardfilms.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/DreamsInterscope.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chris' grief&lt;/a&gt; at the loss of his family when Annie left him (and obviously their subsequent deaths)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;And I always imagined Chris, the last time he saw his children,&#xA;  standing there with the van going away, under these trees and the&#xA;  whole street covered in leaves, in these blue Jacaranda leaves. And,&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;every time he would think of his children, from then on, through the&#xA;  rest of the movie, somewhere in that shot would be a color that was&#xA;  Jacaranda purple.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mv8Bg.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mv8Bg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-23T19:14:21.070" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T19:14:21.070" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43896" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-23T10:06:08.663" Score="7" ViewCount="2908" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Casino Royale, the CIA agent that offers to fund Bond after he lost the first $10M says &quot;Once you win the money, CIA is going to get Le Chiffre.&quot; Why does CIA need to wait though? What difference does it make whether or not he lost his money?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-23T10:29:20.840" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T12:01:38.713" Title="In Casino Royale, why did the CIA agent had to wait?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|casino-royale|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43896" CreationDate="2015-11-23T12:01:38.713" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without the money to pay back his investors, Le Chiffre will be looking for a deal with someone else to keep him alive; almost certainly the intelligence services of a global power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MI5 and CIA both want to bring Le Chiffre in so they can make a protection deal (against what emerges to be SPECTRE, a deal which almost certainly would have been ineffective), in exchange for the information Le Chiffre possesses &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; SPECTRE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T12:01:38.713" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43904" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43905" CreationDate="2015-11-23T14:23:50.863" Score="9" ViewCount="59924" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spoilers Ahead&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In season 5 finale of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1196946/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Mentalist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, we saw Red John delivering a CD to Patrick. The CD contains a video that was created 2 months back. In the video Lorelei read a message from Red John, saying he knew what would be the short list of Patrick regarding Red John. At that initial moment the suspect pool was comprised of 1437 names. And in that moment Red John recorded that video with only 7 names predicting the short list. In the season finale we saw that was accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obvious question is how? I thought in the final revenge scene it would be revealed. So in season 6 episode 8 when finally Patrick found Red John, Red John mentioned the list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Red John: You still don't know how I fooled you ? Do you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Red John: How I got the names of your list ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Patrick didn't ask how. Then just before final confrontation Red John talked about the list again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Red John: I'll tell you how I got the name of your list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Patrick: I don't care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Red John: I knew because I have psychic...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Patrick: Shhhh...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why on Earth did Patrick not want to know? My theory is: writers &amp;amp; creators of the show couldn't find a suitable way to explain that Red John could have known the list of 1437 people whom Patrick shook hand with and predicted a short list of 7 people. So they just avoided the topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or am I missing something? Did they ever mentioned how that was done? Or was Red John a psychic ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2020-10-04T10:41:17.190" Title="How did Red John predict the final short list of Patrick Jane?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-mentalist|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="43905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43904" CreationDate="2015-11-23T15:41:39.950" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMentalist/comments/1rc1uf/how_red_john_predicted_janes_list_spoilers_to_end/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reddit user Rainer_Unfug has a theory&lt;/a&gt;. It's best you go read the whole (long) post:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;To make things simple: Red John used a simple trick – &lt;strong&gt;he forced PJ to&#xA;  end up with these particular seven suspects&lt;/strong&gt;. It took me a long time to&#xA;  figure out why these seven men but I came to the conclusion that he&#xA;  had to blend in with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T15:41:39.950" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43879" CreationDate="2015-11-23T15:57:28.393" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its been a few days since I've seen it, by my impression was that it &lt;em&gt;wasn't&lt;/em&gt; a DNA match, it was a fingerprint match. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he put the ring on the magical scanner thingie it uses some magical super-high-tech cameras to take high res scans of the ring and pick out the fingerprints (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/30/hacker-fakes-german-ministers-fingerprints-using-photos-of-her-hands&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;which actually sort of already exists&lt;/a&gt;). From that point, its just a matter of matching fingerprints in a database, plus some silly Hollywood style illogical UIs and you get the scene!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20110" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T15:57:28.393" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43911" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43915" CreationDate="2015-11-23T19:39:31.517" Score="4" ViewCount="283" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I was under the incorrect assumption that the term &quot;gaffe&quot; referred to creating something that just looks close enough to pass on screen. I'm certain I heard this term used for barnum and bailey's &quot;mermaid&quot; creation.  Now I want to know what the correct term for this is... I understand that this is technically what you would call special effects. but I'm looking more for the term when it is not a custom made &quot;prop&quot; but a slopped together prop that only looks good when not closely scrutinized.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9841" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T21:37:03.403" Title="Term for faking something in a movie related to set or lighting" Tags="|effects|terminology|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34445" CreationDate="2015-11-23T19:43:41.010" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually in episode 12 I believe Michael said that Lincoln would put one by Michael's bed at night to let him know he was looking out for him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28085" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T19:43:41.010" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43911" CreationDate="2015-11-23T20:18:57.897" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Props generally fall into two categories; &quot;Hero&quot; (those that can stand close scrutiny, often with working parts and lights) and &quot;Stunt&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stunt Version&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A “stunt” version of a prop is typically a low-quality version of a&#xA;  “hero” or detailed prop so that the “hero” version is neither&#xA;  destroyed nor causes harm to the people involved with the stunt.&lt;/strong&gt; For&#xA;  instance, in the fight scene between Kara Thrace and a Number Six in&#xA;  “Kobol’s Last Gleaming, Part II,” a stunt version of the Arrow of&#xA;  Apollo (made of rubber) was used in that scene. There were two&#xA;  versions of metal and two of rubber made. Stunt versions of props are&#xA;  typically of rubber. Stunt versions of costumes will be the same&#xA;  quality, though specifically marked “stunt”. They may be old versions&#xA;  of the costume, used by the main actor and then given for use by the&#xA;  stunt actor, or they may be new versions, specifically tailored for a&#xA;  stunt actor.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.propworx.com/auctions/auction-terminology/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.propworx.com/auctions/auction-terminology/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you simply mean a prop that has been cobbled together from parts, you may be looking for a word like &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gbfans.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;amp;t=26637&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;fudged&lt;/a&gt;&quot; or &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://m.reddit.com/comments/261oek&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;throwaway&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-23T21:37:03.403" LastActivityDate="2015-11-23T21:37:03.403" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32771" CreationDate="2015-11-23T23:24:47.260" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;What triggers the bad blood between Crawford and Wallace?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Crawford is a know-it-all intellectual, used to humiliating rich kids who haven't had to work for anything. So when suddenly faced with someone at least as intelligent, or perhaps more so, he feels threatened and must do all he can to prove that Wallace is beneath him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You bring up the possibility of ethnic rivalry. While I think there was possibly some of this implied as well, there isn't any concrete indication of it in the movie. I think the primary factor was Crawford asserting his superiority over others intellectually since he seemed to treat all the students this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following scene is a great example of this conflict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/xSnraJOeOyM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How did Crawford know about the alleged plagiarism if the story was unpublished?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer: it &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; published in The New Yorker&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crawford:&lt;/strong&gt; We were hoping you might clarify some points concerning your submission. &amp;quot;A Season of Faith's Perfection.&amp;quot; Your piece, correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jamal:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah, that's it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crawford:&lt;/strong&gt; It is standard policy to ask students if they wish to credit any source material or acknowledge any other writers when turning in an assignment. Do you wish to do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;An essay titled Baseball's Best Year...with a subtitle that reads: &amp;quot;A Season of Faith's Perfection.&amp;quot; Published in the New Yorker and written by William Forrester.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your version is quite original, but there is the title and first paragraph to consider. Isn't there? Either you happen to have William Forrester's permission or have you some other explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jamal:&lt;/strong&gt; No. That's my paper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Crawford recognized the title from when William Forrester published the essay in The New Yorker. Jamal was unaware of this when he turned in the paper, but he had also promised to keep his relationship with William a secret.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jamal:&lt;/strong&gt; Why have me rewrite something you published?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;William:&lt;/strong&gt; Be careful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jamal:&lt;/strong&gt; Why didn't you tell me some magazine ran it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;William:&lt;/strong&gt; Why the hell should it matter? ... You promised me anything we wrote in here would stay in here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;William of course shows up to redeem Jamal by telling everyone in public that he in fact gave him permission to use his work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/F6y4B_BFrJ4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T17:20:59.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34173" CreationDate="2015-11-23T23:33:56.333" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is the first episode of the first season. Typically actors, writers, directors, etc are still getting a feel for the characters early in a show's run. It is likely that they had him with a notebook at first and later determined that it didn't make sense for him to have a notebook because of his eidetic memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T01:00:05.323" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T01:00:05.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2353" CreationDate="2015-11-24T03:13:44.223" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the transcript:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Clove: Now, it's too bad you couldn't help your little friend. That little girl... what was her name again?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Clove: Rue?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Clove: Yeah. Well we killed her. And now... We're gonna kill you...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [Thresh pulls Clove off Katniss, pins her by the neck against the Cornucopia]&lt;br&gt; &#xA;  Thresh: You kill her?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Clove: No!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Thresh: &lt;strong&gt;I HEARD YOU!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Clove: Cato!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Thresh: Shout her name!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Clove: Cato!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Thresh: Say her name! [Slams Clove against wall until she dies]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Thresh [To Katniss]: Just this time twelve. For Rue!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The entire dialog portion happens within 20 seconds. Thresh grabbed Clove within 4 seconds after she says &lt;code&gt;we killed her&lt;/code&gt;. The dialog where Thresh asks Clove if she killed him [rhetorically], &lt;strong&gt;is muffled by Clove screaming for Cato&lt;/strong&gt;, so on first listen you may miss it, but it's clearly there. See the clip below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/XpUyjUKqgks?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So between Clove's words, and the concept of Alliances that the Tributes are trained to form, Thresh clearly knew what had happen.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In the book, the scene plays slightly different&lt;/em&gt;. He questions Katniss on what Clove was saying first before deciding to give her a one time pass:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Forget it, District Twelve. We’re going to kill you. Just like we did your pathetic little ally . . . what was her name? The one who hopped around in the trees? Rue? Well, first Rue, then you, and then I think we’ll just let nature take care of Lover Boy. How does that sound?” Clove asks. “Now, where to start?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Clove plays with her prey, Thresh pulls her up]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When he shouts, I jump, never having heard him speak above a mutter. “What’d you do to that little girl? You kill her?”&#xA;  Clove is scrambling backward on all fours, like a frantic insect, too shocked to even call for Cato. “No! No, it wasn’t me!”&#xA;  “You said her name. I heard you. You kill her?” Another thought brings a fresh wave of rage to his features. “You cut her up like you were going to cut up this girl here?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Thresh Kills Clove] &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Thresh whirls around on me, the rock raised, I know it’s no good to run. And my bow is empty, the last loaded arrow having gone in Clove’s direction. I’m trapped in the glare of his strange golden brown eyes. “What’d she mean? About Rue being your ally?”&#xA;  “I — I — we teamed up. Blew up the supplies. I tried to save her, I did. But he got there first. District One,” I say. Maybe if he knows I helped Rue, he won’t choose some slow, sadistic end for me.&#xA;  “And you killed him?” he demands.&#xA;  “Yes. I killed him. And buried her in flowers,” I say. “And I sang her to sleep.”&#xA;  Tears spring in my eyes. The tension, the fight goes out of me at the memory. And I’m overwhelmed by Rue, and the pain in my head, and my fear of Thresh, and the moaning of the dying girl a few feet away.&#xA;  “To sleep?” Thresh says gruffly.&#xA;  “To death. I sang until she died,” I say. “Your district. . . they sent me bread.” My hand reaches up but not for an arrow that I know I’ll never reach. Just to wipe my nose. “Do it fast, okay, Thresh?”&#xA;  Conflicting emotions cross Thresh’s face. He lowers the rock and points at me, almost accusingly. “Just this one time, I let you go. For the little girl. You and me, we’re even then. No more owed. You understand?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T03:29:00.963" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T03:29:00.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43927" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-24T03:55:26.137" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&lt;/strong&gt; is a 2013 American science-fiction adventure film based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Collins&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Suzanne Collins&lt;/a&gt;' dystopian novel, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catching_Fire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Catching Fire&lt;/a&gt; and sequel to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hunger Games (2012)&lt;/a&gt;. It was followed by The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and Part 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katniss_Everdeen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Katniss Everdeen&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peeta_Mellark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Peeta Mellark&lt;/a&gt; become targets of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panem#The_Capitol&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Capitol&lt;/a&gt; after their victory in the 74th Hunger Games sparks a rebellion in the Districts of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panem#Panem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Panem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games:_Catching_Fire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-hunger-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hunger-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hunger-games&lt;/a&gt; for questions for the first movie, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/mockingjay-1&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mockingjay-1&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mockingjay-1&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/mockingjay-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mockingjay-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mockingjay-2&lt;/a&gt; for questions on the following sequels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T04:05:23.193" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T04:05:23.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43928" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-24T03:55:26.137" Score="0" Body="The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is the second film in the Hunger Games film series, directed by Francis Lawrence. It was released in 2013." OwnerUserId="16547" LastEditorUserId="16547" LastEditDate="2016-04-10T21:03:44.867" LastActivityDate="2016-04-10T21:03:44.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43929" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43934" CreationDate="2015-11-24T04:10:59.770" Score="8" ViewCount="27696" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Ant-Man (2015), Michael Peña's character Luis delivers a typical rambling story to Scott Lang (Paul Rudd). The point of the story may be only that The Falcon was looking for Ant-Man, but Luis seems very pleased by the news and, given that Ant-Man and Falcon had been fighting earlier in the film, this seems an inappropriate reaction. I wonder if I missed something. What is the point of the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="940" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T23:56:57.963" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T03:06:24.787" Title="What is the point of the dialogue at the end of Ant-Man?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|ant-man|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43930" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-24T04:16:31.057" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1&lt;/strong&gt; is a 2014 American science-fiction adventure film based on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Collins&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Suzanne Collins&lt;/a&gt;' dystopian novel, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingjay&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mockingjay&lt;/a&gt; and sequel to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Hunger Games (2012)&lt;/a&gt; and Catching Fire (2013). As the novel was split up into two parts for film, the story is continued and finalized in Mockingjay Part 2 (2015).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Following her rescue from the devastating Quarter Quell, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katniss_Everdeen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence)&lt;/a&gt; awakes in the complex beneath the supposedly destroyed District 13. Her home, District 12, has been reduced to rubble, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peeta_Mellark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson)&lt;/a&gt; is now the brainwashed captive of President Snow (Donald Sutherland) and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panem#The_Capitol&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Capitol&lt;/a&gt;. At the same time, Katniss also learns about a secret rebellion spreading throughout all of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panem#Panem&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Panem&lt;/a&gt; -- a rebellion that will place her at the center of a plot to turn the tables on Snow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games:_Mockingjay_%E2%80%93_Part_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951265/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/the-hunger-games&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;the-hunger-games&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the-hunger-games&lt;/a&gt; for questions for the eponymous first movie and the whole series, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/catching-fire&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;catching-fire&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;catching-fire&lt;/a&gt; for the preceding movie Catching Fire, and &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/mockingjay-2&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;mockingjay-2&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mockingjay-2&lt;/a&gt; for questions on the the second part of Mockingjay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T11:01:39.953" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T11:01:39.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43931" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-24T04:16:31.057" Score="0" Body="The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 is a 2014 American science-fiction adventure film based on Suzanne Collins' dystopian novel, Mockingjay and sequel to The Hunger Games (2012) and Catching Fire (2013). As the novel was split up into two parts for film, the story is continued and finalized in Mockingjay Part 2 (2015). Don't forget to include the tag for the series itself, too." OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T11:10:10.040" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T11:10:10.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18506" CreationDate="2015-11-24T04:38:25.583" Score="1" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would seem like a much safer approach to have just taken Katniss to a secret location as soon as anyone knew they were planning to have the Victors re-enter the games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Logically this is what they would have wanted, but it was impossible. Katniss, like all the other Tributes who survived, was heavily tracked and guarded. For the first year after winning, &lt;strong&gt;the Victor&lt;/strong&gt; is paraded around from district to district. We see this at the end of the first movie, and the beginning of the second, as Katniss and Peeta travel by train. Then they normally become possible &lt;strong&gt;Mentors&lt;/strong&gt; for others from their District, as well as fodder for public entertainment. Worse, the Victors become tools for &lt;strong&gt;Snow and the Capitol&lt;/strong&gt;, which we learn in Mockingjay that he sells them for political favors. There is no free or alone time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But worse, Snow is concerned about rebellion, especially from Katniss. She's doubly guarded and her family &amp;amp; Peeta threatened, personally, by Snow. And as she is still in the Victor stage, she is not in a position to be easily taken away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The only way to get to her is in the relatively secluded situation that is the game arena. No guards nearby, insider sabotaging the games and security, secret agents that help remove Katniss.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plutarch: Stop. Just listen. We couldn't tell you with Snow watching. It was too risky. Better for you to know nothing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Katniss: Where's Peeta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plutarch: Now, Katniss... You have been our mission from the beginning. &lt;strong&gt;The plan was always to get you out.&lt;/strong&gt; Half the Tributes were in on it. This is the revolution. And you are the Mockingjay. And we're on our way to District 13 right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Katniss: 13?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plutarch: 13. Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Katniss: Where's Peeta?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plutarch: &lt;strong&gt;He still has his tracker in his arm. Johanna cut yours out.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without all the distractions of the explosion, of the violence, of the lack of guards, they could never get Katniss' tracker out, and bringing a tracker to District 13 or on the hover jet would be fatal to the Rebellion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In short, the Rebellion had no way to extract Katniss without letting her compete. In fact, without the 75th game, they would likely never have gotten her at all&lt;/strong&gt;. Remember, they could only get into the Capitol in Mockingjay after all power was dropped, including the border defense systems, and even then only when Snow &lt;strong&gt;let them&lt;/strong&gt;. They wouldn't have been able to extract Katniss from the Capitol by force or by covert means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T04:38:25.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43929" CreationDate="2015-11-24T05:16:23.127" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In-universe yes, it's to let Scott know that someone &amp;quot;who works with the Avengers&amp;quot; (We know to be Cap and Falcon, Scott may have figured it was Falcon) are looking for him. Luis, always the happy type, is attempting to hook his friend up with a job, same as he did earlier in the movie. To sum it up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luis: So I asked Ignacio, &amp;quot;Did the badass tell the stupid-fine writer chick to tell you to tell me, because I'm tight with Ant-Man, that he's looking for him?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scott: And? What'd he say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luis: He said, &amp;quot;Yes.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of universe, The scene is a simple &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SequelHook&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sequel Hook&lt;/a&gt; told through Luis' typical exuberant manner. As Luis says half way through the story when he goes on a tangent and Scott stops him, &lt;code&gt;Okay, sorry. Sorry. You know, I just get excited and stuff.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A Sequel Hook is something in a work that suggests that there is a clear possibility for another story. The MacGuffins may come in threes, the Big Bad might be Not Quite Dead, or, more blatantly, as the story ends another adventure might be shown beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's only there to setup the Post Credit Stinger, which itself is a Sequel Hook to Captain America: Civil War, or possibly even The Avengers 3: Infinity War, the overall end goal of the Marvel-Cinematic-Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T12:24:41.613" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43940" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30304" CreationDate="2015-11-24T08:35:17.083" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sheriff Romero cares about the town and he's not part of the slavery business&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shelby has Abernathy's money ($ 150,000 I think) and Abernathy knows about the fact that Shelby and Norma are in a relationship and believes that Shelby gave the money to Norma. So, Abernathy threatens Norma that she and her sons will be killed if money is not delivered to him by midnight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Norma goes to Sheriff Romero and explains her situation that she doesn't have the money and about the threat. Romero is clever enough to understand that Shelby has Abernathy's money and tells her that no harm will come to her or her sons. So, he goes to Shelby's house and searches for the money and finds it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And at the end of the episode, it's made clear when Romero shoots Abernathy and throws bag full of money into the river that Sheriff Romero is not involved in any illegal business and cares for his town.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T08:35:17.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43929" CreationDate="2015-11-24T08:49:09.190" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He's saying that Sam 'The Falcon' Wilson and Steve 'Captain America' Rogers are looking for help from Scott Lang.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've known for a while now that Scott Lang would be making an appearance in &lt;em&gt;Captain America: Civil War&lt;/em&gt; as part of 'Team Cap'. Luis' monologue here is him explaining to Scott that The Falcon is looking for him. Although Sam Wilson's motivations for looking for Scott at this point are somewhat ambiguous, a post-credits scene clears up the situation somewhat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Set in some kind of warehouse, we see Sam 'The Falcon' Wilson and Steve 'Captain America' Rogers discussing what to do with James ' Bucky' Barnes (AKA The Winter Soldier) who has been trapped in some kind of vice. Steve and Sam have been searching for since the end of &lt;em&gt;Captain America: The Winter Soldier&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/96005/24087&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kevin Feige &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/How-Ant-Man-Post-Credits-Scene-Connects-Captain-America-Civil-War-72641.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;has said&lt;/a&gt; that the post-credits scene (technically the only one, as the other one is a mid-credits scene) was footage shot for &lt;em&gt;Civil War&lt;/em&gt; and that the scene will appear as part of the larger final cut of &lt;em&gt;Civil War&lt;/em&gt; in some way (the final cut still has to be edited).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;I won’t tell you exactly where it is, but that’s photography from Civil War. &lt;strong&gt;That is a part of the movie - it’s dailies from a part of the movie.&lt;/strong&gt; Whether it will look exactly like that in the movie I think will shift a little bit, in terms of how we cut it, but that was footage shot for Civil War.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That answer also gives the following transcript of the post-credits scene in question. I have bolded the important lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sam Wilson: This would have been much easier if it had happened a week ago.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Steve Rogers: We can't call Stark...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Sam Wilson: ...because he wouldn't believe us.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Steve Rogers: And even if he did...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Sam Wilson: ...the Accords might not let him help.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Steve Rogers: We're on our own here.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Sam Wilson: Maybe not... I know a guy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/97033/why-arent-the-people-responsible-for-creating-ultron-arrested-at-the-end-of-ave/97037#97037&quot;&gt;my own theories on what &amp;quot;the Accords&amp;quot; are&lt;/a&gt;, but more importantly is the last two lines of dialogue. Steve thinks that this is an issue that he and Sam will have to sort out alone, but Sam &amp;quot;knows a guy&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Scott's upcoming appearance on 'Team Cap' in &lt;em&gt;Captain America: Civil War&lt;/em&gt; and Sam Wilson stating both that he is looking for Scott and that he knows someone who might be able to help, &lt;strong&gt;it is fairly clear that Sam is looking for help from Scott regarding the Bucky situation&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T14:27:02.020" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43945" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-24T18:11:12.913" Score="8" ViewCount="40086" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Bond loses the first $10M in &lt;em&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/em&gt; he asks Vesper for the additional buy-in, saying he can win, yet gets rejected by Vesper nonetheless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Isn't it a plot hole here? Vesper had one goal that is getting all the money so she can save his boyfriend. She was going to steal the money from Bond (which she eventually tried to) and as it turns out, she was ready to die for saving him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that is the case why didn't she give him the extra buy-in money? Worst would be Bond failing to win and losing all the money. That wouldn't make a difference to Vesper. If she was going all-out, sacrificing everything, then shouldn't she have given the money to Bond?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T22:20:36.707" LastActivityDate="2019-08-18T23:21:19.390" Title="Why doesn't Vesper give Bond the additional $5M?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|casino-royale|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43947" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46252" CreationDate="2015-11-24T18:48:15.660" Score="4" ViewCount="174" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saved this screenshot from the 5th episode of season 1 of Supergirl and I was wondering, is the a nod to the new 52 or just a coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kygyb.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kygyb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15358" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:20:00.100" LastActivityDate="2017-05-23T11:20:00.100" Title="Is this a nod to new 52 or just a coincidence?" Tags="|reference|arrowverse|supergirl|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13664" CreationDate="2015-11-24T20:39:08.297" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Their beach adventures seem to be taking place just a few hundred yards from a small village.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the presence of fishing boats in the subsequent scene, I'd go so far as to hazard that it's a &lt;em&gt;fishing&lt;/em&gt; village.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ILwmW.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ILwmW.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T20:39:08.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43950" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-24T21:30:27.203" Score="6" ViewCount="5302" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do I have to start from the first James Bond film to understand &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2379713/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spectre&lt;/a&gt; or can I just watch Spectre without any knowledge of James Bond films?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All I know is that 007 is some type of a code given to a secret agent with 001 being the leader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28117" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user27684" LastEditDate="2016-11-10T22:02:46.807" LastActivityDate="2017-01-02T01:35:25.020" Title="Do I have to have seen any other James Bond films to watch Spectre?" Tags="|james-bond|spectre|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19676" CreationDate="2015-11-24T21:32:22.780" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title actor, Ryan Kwanten was keen to emphasise in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/ryan-kwanten-griff-the-invisible-interview/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Collider interview&lt;/a&gt; that Griff isn't mentally unstable. It follows that a bit of stress and grief would hardly be likely to lead to a psychotic break or freeform hallucinations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Did you approach him as somebody who is delusional, or did you approach him more as somebody who’s developed this little world to&#xA;  deal with how everybody treats him?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KWANTEN:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The latter, definitely. &lt;strong&gt;I didn’t see him with any kind of mental disorder, at all. Maybe he has a little bit of socio-phobia,&#xA;  but outside of that, it’s more just someone who had chosen to embrace&#xA;  his imagination, and that just evolved over time.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quickflix.co.nz/News/Interviews/GrifftheInvisible/7342&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this interview with Quickflix&lt;/a&gt;, the Director (Leon Ford) seems to strongly concur:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SM:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;And a few years later, you starred as Hamlet on stage, and he&#xA;  certainly has his psychological issues that he’s working through.&#xA;  Griff is not at these extremes, but he’s suffering from his own&#xA;  delusions. I’m interested in what fascinates you about these types of&#xA;  characters.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LF:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Well, I just don’t think they’re that far from any of us. Paranoid&#xA;  schizophrenia is probably one of the most tragic diseases you can&#xA;  have, and not something I’d wish on anyone. &lt;strong&gt;The sort-of lesser&#xA;  extremes – delusions, whether by choice or involuntary – the playful&#xA;  side of us is suppressed too much or hidden away. We’ve all got&#xA;  something inside of us that is playful that we suppress because it’s&#xA;  considered immature or silly. We get used to conforming and appearing&#xA;  we’re all normal, but I don’t think anyone is. I think everyone is an&#xA;  eccentric, and I hope a film like Griff celebrates that, rather than&#xA;  makes people feel ashamed of it.&lt;/strong&gt; Obviously there is a dark side to the&#xA;  spectrum and a light side; and I seem to get a lot of those characters&#xA;  [like Hamlet] but I think there’s nothing wrong with it&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The implication is that Griff is &lt;strong&gt;fully capable of distinguishing his fantasies from genuine reality&lt;/strong&gt; and therefore &lt;strong&gt;what he sees at the end of the film is the literal truth&lt;/strong&gt;. She did indeed fall through the door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-24T22:59:24.700" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T22:59:24.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43950" CreationDate="2015-11-24T21:57:23.583" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://deadline.com/2015/11/sam-mendes-spectre-daniel-craig-james-bond-skyfall-q-and-a-1201609115/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; with Sam Mendez (Spectre's Director) he certainly strived to make sure that the film works as a stand-alone piece, &lt;strong&gt;without the audience possessing substantial knowledge of the Bond series of films:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MENDES:&lt;/strong&gt; I love that challenge; it’s a great privilege and excitement to express myself in that way to so many kids. I just hope&#xA;  that I don’t let them down and there are those pressures because at&#xA;  the end of the day, you may make the movie you want, but this is for&#xA;  the audience. And you do pray and hope that everyone believes in it as&#xA;  much as you do, including the kids, and &lt;strong&gt;you have to remind yourself&#xA;  every day you’re working on it that for many kids it will be their&#xA;  first Bond movie just as Live And Let Die was my first, and like From&#xA;  Russia With Love or Dr. No were for others. You hope it will make kids&#xA;  go seek out the earlier movies, which are now so accessible to them.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously there are extensive references to earlier films and it can't possibly &lt;em&gt;hurt&lt;/em&gt; to watch some of the previous films that have referenced &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECTRE#Films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SPECTRE&lt;/a&gt; (especially 'Dr. No', 'From Russia With Love', 'You Only Live Twice', 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' and 'Diamonds Are Forever') but neither is it in any way necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T21:57:23.583" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43954" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-24T22:57:32.390" Score="14" ViewCount="2945" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146882/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;High Fidelity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, Rob and Barry are talking about a film, and keep calling it &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092991/?ref_=nv_sr_3&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Evil Dead 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. But they are clearly referencing &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106308/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Army Of Darkness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, which came after Evil Dead 2 in Raimi's ED franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rob&lt;/strong&gt;: (VO) What did Laura mean last night when she said, &quot;I haven't slept with him yet&quot;? Yet! What does &quot;yet&quot; mean anyway? It means you're&#xA;  gonna do it, doesn't it? Or does it?&lt;/em&gt; (At the record store)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Rob&lt;/strong&gt;: Just come on. What would it mean to you, that sentence: &quot;I haven't&#xA;  seen &lt;em&gt;Evil Dead II&lt;/em&gt; yet&quot;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Barry&lt;/strong&gt;: Well, to me it would mean that you're a liar. You've seen it &lt;em&gt;twice&lt;/em&gt;. Once with Laura -- oops -- and once with me and Dick 'member? We had that conversation about that guy making Beretta shotgun ammo off-screen in the 14th century.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Rob&lt;/strong&gt;: Right. But let's just say that I &lt;em&gt;hadn't&lt;/em&gt; seen it. And I said, &quot;I haven't seen &lt;em&gt;Evil Dead II&lt;/em&gt; yet.&quot; What would you think?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Barry&lt;/strong&gt;: I'd think that you're a cinematic idiot and I'd feel sorry for you.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Rob&lt;/strong&gt;: All right. But from that one sentence, would you think that I was going to see it?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Barry&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm sorry, Rob. I'm struggling here. You're asking me what would I think if you told me you hadn't seen a film that you have already seen. What am I supposed to say?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Rob&lt;/strong&gt;: Just listen to me. If I said to you --&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Barry&lt;/strong&gt;: &quot;I haven't seen &lt;em&gt;Evil Dead II&lt;/em&gt; yet&quot;, yes!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Rob&lt;/strong&gt;: Would you get the impression that I really &lt;em&gt;wanted&lt;/em&gt; to see it?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Barry&lt;/strong&gt;: Oh, uh...well, you couldn't have been &lt;em&gt;desperate&lt;/em&gt; to see it, otherwise you'd have already gone.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Rob&lt;/strong&gt;: Right. I'm not going to see that movie. (After a pause, Barry looks up again.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Barry&lt;/strong&gt;: But the word &quot;yet.&quot;......Yeah, you know what? I get the impression that you &lt;em&gt;wanted&lt;/em&gt; to see it...otherwise you'd have said you didn't want to go.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Rob&lt;/strong&gt;: But in your opinion, would I definitely go?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Barry&lt;/strong&gt;: How the f..k am I supposed to know? Probably.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Rob&lt;/strong&gt;: Why?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Barry&lt;/strong&gt;: Because it's a brilliant film! It's so funny and violent and&#xA;  the soundtrack kicks f..king ass. I never thought I'd say this, but&#xA;  can I go to work now?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(^ &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whysanity.net/monos/fidelity3.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems unlikely to be just a mistake because it's repeated throughout the scene (not just a single reference), and the writers and producers (including Cusack) are real-life nuts for accuracy on this sort of issue, especially in a film where they are supposed to be obsessed, knowledgeable geeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm looking for answers that quote sources (&lt;em&gt;writer&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;producer&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;actor&lt;/em&gt;), not mere opinion or Web Chatter.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27684" LastEditorDisplayName="user27684" LastEditDate="2015-11-24T23:54:05.060" LastActivityDate="2017-10-17T18:17:07.663" Title="Why does the film High Fidelity (2000) call Army Of Darkness &quot;Evil Dead 2&quot;?" Tags="|dialogue|high-fidelity|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11262" CreationDate="2015-11-24T23:15:00.623" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think he was, Frank would've done a background check as Mel was on the payroll. Sosa done his homework on Tony, Omar and Frank, the phone call was just a diversary tactic to play Tony and strike up a bigger deal long term. Omar's death was purely down to business and anybody who got in his way went down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28119" LastActivityDate="2015-11-24T23:15:00.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35155" CreationDate="2015-11-24T23:55:09.293" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been a lot of discussion about this on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/community/comments/3a6au9/joke_from_the_finale_i_didnt_get/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reddit&lt;/a&gt; mostly fed by the theories that this is in some way an inside joke or reference to some deeper Stephen King universe item. This can mainly be attributed to the fact that the name Susan is very common in Stephen King stories, including being the name of Roland Deschain's true love, Susan Delgado, from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dark Tower&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those familiar with SK's works will probably know that &lt;em&gt;The Dark Tower&lt;/em&gt; serves as a sort of focal point that connects all of the Stephen King universe through alternate dimensions, or levels of the tower.  Susan is one of the recurring themes through out SK novels that indicate a &lt;em&gt;Dark Tower&lt;/em&gt; connection, others being references to the number 19, ka or destiny and comparing it to a wheel, a group that is brought together by destiny known as a ka-tet, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said, it is possible that Annie's reference to the name Susan was an attempt at a Stephen King in joke, but it seems a bit of a stretch to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-12-25T08:32:11.180" LastActivityDate="2015-12-25T08:32:11.180" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43954" CreationDate="2015-11-25T00:06:07.513" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to take a stab at this even though its been a long time since I've seen any of these movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, Rob and Barry are two pop culture snobs geeks who pride themselves on being able to come up with the perfect playlist for any situation or topic. As such it is very likely that they are familiar with the fan debate over the topic of how Evil Dead 2 fits into the series of Evil Dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm fuzzy on the details of said debate, but basically what I remember from reading years ago is that the movie Evil Dead 2 is actually a remake of the original Evil Dead movie and NOT a sequel to Evil Dead.  As such, Army of Darkness is actually the first sequel in the Evil Dead series and therefore would officially be &quot;Evil Dead episode 2&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So by saying he hasn't seen Evil Dead 2 yet, I supposed he's trying to be ironic in the fact that there are, in a sense, two Evil Dead 2's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2015-11-25T00:06:07.513" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43961" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-25T01:24:46.597" Score="3" ViewCount="3475" Body="&lt;p&gt;The final words that Katniss Everdeen says to her newborn before the end credits of &lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2&lt;/em&gt; included what I'm interested in knowing goes something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... why they came. Why they're here, and why they won't ever leave...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wasn't certain what she was referring to, but if I have the actual words she said to her baby, that would be great. What did she say exactly and what did she mean with that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28122" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-09T10:27:37.600" LastActivityDate="2016-07-21T10:32:44.967" Title="What was being referred to in the Mockingjay Part 2 Epilogue?" Tags="|dialogue|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-mockingjay-2|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43962" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43965" CreationDate="2015-11-25T01:52:11.907" Score="6" ViewCount="12932" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know from watching the movies that Cinna created the Mockingjay outfit in black. In the MJ2 movie posters, Katniss is most often shown as wearing deep red. Is there a significance to this? Was there anything put out in the press or online which tells us why they designed the posters this way? It is a distinct change from the coloring of the MJ1 movie posters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WLtBQ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WLtBQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2015-11-25T03:00:31.760" Title="Why do the movie posters show Katniss in red?" Tags="|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-mockingjay-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43962" CreationDate="2015-11-25T02:21:34.810" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The posters follow the other extra-canon media presented to boost demand and anticipation for the film. This includes blogs, websites, games and video propaganda &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;as if it were made in-universe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. This is a viral marketing concept called &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InUniverseMarketing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;In-Universe Marketing over at TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt; (Also &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlternateRealityGame&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alternative Reality Game&lt;/a&gt;.) Transformers did it in a particularly big way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hunger Games has made excellent use of this through all four movies. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Can-You-Spot-What-Wrong-With-Posters-From-Hunger-Games-Mockingjay-Part-1-43528.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The propaganda posters released by &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Capitol&quot;&lt;/em&gt; for Mockingjay Part 1 were pretty sweet.&lt;/a&gt; This propaganda all shows Katniss in a red mockingjay battle suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0XR0C.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0XR0C.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/B-zYI2gzFNs?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This image is on both a propaganda video and the revolution's website &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Revolution.pn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.Revolution.pn&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Owg2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Owg2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this poster image is used on the Captiol's website &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.Capitol.pn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.Capitol.pn&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;as if District 13 had hacked into the site and defaced it with Revolution Propaganda&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WwV7H.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WwV7H.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Much of Mockingjay (1 and 2) has cold war themes, including the reliance on Propaganda both by the Rebellion and the Capitol. Each interview with Peeta in Part 1 was in-universe propaganda, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDakdlKt1GM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;District 13 attempts to make CGI propaganda with Katniss reading lines (How a Revolution Dies)&lt;/a&gt;. They go with live battle-field &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK3hBvk5ees&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;footage that was much better (Fire is Catching, If we burn you burn with us)&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;The real world posters reflect that in-universe propaganda&lt;/strong&gt;. The Capitol has it's own propaganda as well. It's all a method of immersing the audience into the world of the film, of world building, as well as getting cans in the seats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; She does not wear a Red suit at all in the on-screen material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-25T03:00:31.760" LastActivityDate="2015-11-25T03:00:31.760" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43966" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43967" CreationDate="2015-11-25T02:23:32.923" Score="2" ViewCount="292" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just started rewatching What Dreams May Come and noticed at the beginning where Chris and Annie are getting married, he is walking with her down the aisle in what is apparently a Catholic church. Whether it is actually Catholic or not is not necessarily important, rather that they are obviously attempting to portray a culturally traditional marriage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kbrfe.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Kbrfe.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My confusion is that in traditional marriages, isn't the groom supposed to walk in ahead of the bride and wait while the father or someone else walks the bride in to give her away? Forgive me, I haven't attended many weddings. But as I searched for some information on Google, I couldn't find anywhere that mentions the groom walking the bride down the aisle unless its part of a different foreign culture such as Hinduism, which is obviously not the case of WDMC.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't think of other specific examples, but it seems like this isn't the only time we've seen this in television or movies. So my question is: &lt;strong&gt;is it traditionally common and/or appropriate for the groom and the bride to walk down the aisle together or is this simply a filming technique used to quickly show a marriage without going through all the traditional necessaries?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2015-11-25T03:24:03.410" LastActivityDate="2015-11-25T03:28:06.123" Title="Is it common for a groom to walk the bride down the aisle?" Tags="|realism|what-dreams-may-come|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43966" CreationDate="2015-11-25T02:54:34.777" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movie wise, it is not a common scene. Most &lt;strong&gt;short&lt;/strong&gt; wedding scenes will start with the Bride and Groom at the altar, &lt;strong&gt;skipping the walk altogether&lt;/strong&gt;. Movies with long wedding scenes tend to have the traditional &lt;strong&gt;Father Giving Away the Bride&lt;/strong&gt;, or go with some dialog to explain the change (Single Parent, Orphan/Adopted, Parent dead, Both parents (either straight or gay), or the &quot;I'm not traditional so I want something else&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Modern day weddings are not strict on ritual. It's tradition for the Father to give away the Bride (and pay for the wedding, and a bunch of other things that have to do with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowry&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dowry&lt;/a&gt;, a subject that's rife with sexist notions), not a &quot;do it this way or be excommunicated/shunned&quot; contractual obligation. Modern weddings have been known to have all combinations of walking down the aisle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this is really off topic at this point. A google search for &lt;code&gt;bride and groom walk down aisle together&lt;/code&gt; will give you lots of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-25T03:28:06.123" LastActivityDate="2015-11-25T03:28:06.123" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43961" CreationDate="2015-11-25T10:33:11.227" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Katniss was talking about her nightmares.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spoilers for &lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2&lt;/em&gt; follow below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just before the line in question, her baby wakes up crying, which Katniss assumes to be thanks to a nightmare. I can't remember the exact dialogue, but Katniss starts to talk about the fact that she has nightmares too, and that a good way to get rid of them is to make a list of all the good things anyone has ever done. She says to treat it like a game, and although the game is getting boring after so many years (this part of the film is obviously set at least a few years in the future given the appearance of children) that there are worse games to play (i.e. the Hunger Games). She then says that she will tell her children all about her nightmares one day, including;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...why they came. Why they're here, and why they won't ever leave...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She's saying that she still has nightmares about the Hunger Games, the Quarter Quell and the assault on The Capitol, and that they won't ever stop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastActivityDate="2015-11-25T10:33:11.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43945" CreationDate="2015-11-25T12:09:33.467" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vesper's initial mission from the organization (later found out to be Quantum) was not to steal the money, but to sabotage Bond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Organization 'kidnapped' Vesper's boyfriend in order to blackmail her in exchange for his life, for which her mission was to ruin Bond's chances of winning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is because Quantum &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; Le Chiffre to win. They were the ones who risked their reputation with the African warlord at the beginning of the movie to recommend Le Chiffre to be their investor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Le Chiffre puts on the poker game in order to win &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; money back, not Quantum's. So they plant Vesper in order to make sure Bond doesn't win, which is why it is &lt;em&gt;she&lt;/em&gt; who tells Le Chiffre that Bond has discovered his tell, and not Matthis as Bond later suspected, and this causes him to lose all of his money, and takes him out of the game as Vesper will not give him any further money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had things gone to plan and Felix and the CIA not intervened, Le Chiffre would likely have won. However when he loses he kidnaps Vesper and tortures Bond in order to get the $115 million.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Mr. White from Quantum intervenes in the torture, it is explained by M near the end of the film that Vesper made a &lt;em&gt;further&lt;/em&gt; deal at that time. If Mr. White spared Bond, she would retrieve the password for the account from him and then steal the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was obviously a lot more risky than simply hindering Bond's chances of winning, hence why the initial plan was simply for Le Chiffre to win and keep the money, allowing him to pay back the warlord.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2015-11-25T12:09:33.467" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43980" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43982" CreationDate="2015-11-25T14:55:00.953" Score="5" ViewCount="696" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Corleone&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; about Michael we have:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unlike his two older brothers, Michael shuns the Corleone &quot;family business&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first movie of The Godfather trilogy, the first talk of Michael Corleone is ambiguous in defining if he is against his family's business, because he talks about murder with much naturalness. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, he went to the army just to get away from his family world but also it isn't totally clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is he against the family business or just indifferent? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28137" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T14:57:46.243" Title="Is Michael Corleone against his father's business?" Tags="|character|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43980" CreationDate="2015-11-25T16:58:05.727" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're assuming Michael Corleone is against the business but he isn't; he is just indifferent. Michael went to Dartmouth College to escape from the business and then enlisted in the Army (1941), again to escape, again from the business; there are some scenes where Michael talks about his interests of being a politician.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But things to remember: he offered as volunteer to kill Virgil Sollozzo and McCluskey, he took part in the operation to revenge Sonny's murder, meaning he isn't against the mafia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The indifference finished when he, against his will, took part of the &quot;family business&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21286" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T14:57:46.243" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T14:57:46.243" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43989" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-25T19:39:34.317" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-25T19:39:34.317" LastActivityDate="2015-11-25T19:39:34.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43990" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-25T19:39:34.317" Score="0" Body="1985 film by Terry Gilliam.  A man dreams of escape from a dystopian world ruled by unyielding bureaucracy." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-11-25T19:46:03.777" LastActivityDate="2015-11-25T19:46:03.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43992" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-25T22:39:46.470" Score="3" ViewCount="1892" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has there been any official word on why Ant-Man, who we know from promotional images and the Ant-Man stinger sequel hook to be involved in Captain America- Civil War, was excluded from the recently released trailer for Civil War? Everyone else, even minor characters like Clint/Hawkeye were in it, as well as a yet unpromoted Black Panther, but Scott was left out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is weird considering &lt;strong&gt;Ant-Man&lt;/strong&gt; was the last MCU movie before Civil War, and how the Ant-Man stinger set up his inclusion. The stinger was actually taken from Civil-War filming dailies! What was the reason for excluding Ant-Man after the work done to include him in the Civil-War story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-06-08T18:19:39.177" LastActivityDate="2018-11-25T08:02:55.280" Title="Why was Ant-Man excluded from the Civil War trailer?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|captain-america-civil-war|trailers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43995" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="43998" CreationDate="2015-11-25T23:41:51.280" Score="7" ViewCount="3064" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Jesse killed Gale at the end of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; season 3, Walt assumes that Gus is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;going to search for another chemist to replace him, and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;planning to kill him as soon as he found one.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His assumptions seem quite reasonable to me, but is there any evidence that they are actually true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know for sure that Gus was planning to kill Walt &lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt; Gale's death, but he might have changed his mind. Wouldn't Gus, as the professional businessman that he is, controlling his emotions, putting up with the situation, letting production run and just being careful not to let himself be killed by Walt or Jesse, also be possible? Or am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28151" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-26T00:39:03.203" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T01:22:11.893" Title="After what happened to Gale, was Gus still planning to kill Walt?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27175" CreationDate="2015-11-25T23:56:06.870" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, in the books, Four is 18 to Tris' 16. That would mean, in a normal world school system, Tris and Four are just two grades apart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And given the class size for Tris' Dauntless class (book 20, 10 made it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Initiation is taken very seriously in Dauntless. When Tris went through Dauntless initiation, there were only twenty new initiates that made it to the compound after the Choosing Ceremony and only ten were accepted. The rest became factionless. The initiates are ranked together (Dauntless-born and faction transfers together) throughout the process and the higher the rank, the better job options there are. -&lt;a href=&quot;http://divergent.wikia.com/wiki/Dauntless&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Divergent Wikia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and movie (33 on the scoreboard, 24 made it), let's round up some to guess the size of the Choosing Ceremony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we assume 40 chose Dauntless (Transfer or not), and assume that each faction has an equal number of 16 year olds, and assume that the population has no growth or decline, so an equal number of kids every year (A lot of assumptions), we get 240 kids aged 10-16 in any given year in &lt;em&gt;each&lt;/em&gt; Faction. With the 2 year age difference, that's 160 kids Tris' general age of which Four could be. That's a very small school system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But this is Abnegation we are talking about. Very conservative, the type to eat small meals with family and very &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;stiff&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; upbringings that would not lead to typical high school behavior and fraternizing. I don't see any bond fires, high school sports, prom or similar things happening. I don't see Abnegation families inviting friends or co-workers over for dinner every other week. &lt;strong&gt;Tris and Four would, statistically speaking, and taking the faction behavior into account, just would never personally meet.&lt;/strong&gt; Compare what we see of Abnegation to what Tris saw during the Initiation. Large mess halls, shared Barracks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Movie is much easier to explain. Tris is 16~18, Four is &lt;em&gt;24&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. This was done because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Theo James who plays the love interest in my film is 28, in the book his character is 18, but in the movie we’re making him about 24/25. He’s kind of ageless in a way. And even though in the book Tris is about 16, we never allude to the fact that she’s that young.” -Shailene Woodley&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That would, even in a very small school community, exclude any possibility of them knowing each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Just a nice tidbit, old Dauntless are made to take a walk, Judge Dredd style. They can choose to die or choose to become Faction-less when they get older. Hence no old people in Dauntless).&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-26T01:32:23.170" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T01:32:23.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43879" CreationDate="2015-11-26T00:36:46.230" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This issue was dealt with in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://soundcloud.com/empiremagazine/spectre-spoiler-special-sam-mendes&quot;&gt;podcast interview&lt;/a&gt; between Empire Magazine and the film's Director, Sam Mendez:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesBond/comments/3sjlye/empire_magazine_spectre_spoiler_special_podcast/cwxre0p&quot;&gt;Reddit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;One of the biggest plot holes, the SPECTRE ring identifying previously&#xA;  encountered SPECTRE members is explained: &lt;strong&gt;Q's analysis (if you freeze&#xA;  frame it) is supposed to indicate the ring is made of iridium, which&#xA;  is an extremely rare element known for having high density and&#xA;  resistance to corrosion. Toxicology from the shown members was to&#xA;  indicate traces of this element discovered in autopsy, which is how Q&#xA;  links it together.&lt;/strong&gt; Apparently Mendes left out the exposition on this&#xA;  scene because outside of the members, it's basically telling you&#xA;  information you already know: That Obenhauser is the head of SPECTRE.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T00:36:46.230" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="43998" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43995" CreationDate="2015-11-26T01:22:11.893" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gus is a business man and he knows that his business is based on Walt and Jesse's work. Gale was sent to work with Walt to learn from him and &lt;em&gt;eventually&lt;/em&gt; replace his master in case of natural death (cancer) or in case he decided to leave. Then things changes, Walt becomes a threat to Gus and his organization and he decided to kill him and promote Gale. Unfortunately for Gale, Heisemberg is one step forward and he sends Jesse to get rid of him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now killing Walt and Jesse would be a disaster for Gus because their skill is unmatched and even knowing their formula others weren't able to achieve their results, he also cannot send somebody to learn from Walt because he wouldn't share his knowledge and finally the mutual trust is irremediably compromised. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a sort of stall situation between them, when Gus sees in Jesse the solution to both problems: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he is skilled as much as Walt but he doesn't have such a big ego;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he is &quot;lost&quot; and easily manipulable or at least controllable;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;he is basically a good guy, an employee worth the trust.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the plan is to replace Walt with Jesse, but Gus decides to just fire and scare Walt instead of killing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27665" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T01:22:11.893" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44003" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44006" CreationDate="2015-11-26T05:20:28.253" Score="6" ViewCount="2477" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even Wookiepedia doesn't seem to have this information about the TIE Fighter from Star Wars.&#xA;The original TIE Fighter's full model name is TIE/LN.&#xA;A friend of mine insists it's &quot;Tie-in&quot;.  But no. I've always known it to be L not I.  Wookiepedia also has it as LN, but no explanation as to what that last part stands for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23014" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-26T10:16:56.103" LastActivityDate="2021-04-10T05:12:19.183" Title="Star Wars TIE/LN Fighter, what does 'LN' stand for?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43961" CreationDate="2015-11-26T05:38:24.323" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;She says, are you having nightmares and that she has nightmares too, and that when she has nightmares she makes a list of all the good things she ever saw, and that one thy she'll tell her daughter why they came, why there here and why they won't ever go away, and that she nows it's not a good game and that there are better games to play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28157" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T05:38:24.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44003" CreationDate="2015-11-26T05:51:20.780" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;LN&lt;/strong&gt; model letters you've mentioned were an invention of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Essential_Guide_to_Warfare&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Wars Essential Guide to Warfare&lt;/a&gt; and seem to stands for &lt;strong&gt;Tie/Line Fighter&lt;/strong&gt;; where &quot;Line&quot; indicates that it is the &lt;em&gt;production-line&lt;/em&gt; model, one without any substantial modification (e.g. standing apart from the &lt;strong&gt;TIE/IN&lt;/strong&gt; (TIE/Interceptor) and &lt;strong&gt;TIE/AD&lt;/strong&gt; (TIE/Advanced Model), etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r7vIE.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/r7vIE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-26T09:57:12.583" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T09:57:12.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44012" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12371" CreationDate="2015-11-26T07:58:20.867" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. There are two distinct types of death. The death of the body and the death of the spirit. Both can be feared and both of these fears are explored in the Dark Knight trilogy especially in Rises. Bruce Wayne does and does not fear death. The blind man tells Bruce that he doesn't fear death supposedly because as a crime fighter he faces a real possibility of dying every night and the only way to continually face all that danger is to jettison that fear. The problem here is if you assume that there is only the fear of bodily death. You see if there is only the fear of bodily death then once you overcome that fear completely, like Bruce Wayne, it gets harder to give it your all because you don't have that internal fear that drives you to give it your complete focus. Bruce responds by explaining that although he doesnt fear bodily death he fears a worst kind of death, the death of his spirit. In other words, the death of his life mission, protecting the people of Gotham. He fears failure. Satisfied with his answer, the blind man tells him to make the climb by getting rid of his safety net, the rope. Without the rope to catch him from a fatal fall if he fails to reach the ledge, he is forcing his will to summon all the inner strength within him because if he doesnt commit 100% he will not only die physically, but spiritually as well because he failed to protect the people of Gotham from certain death. It was his fear of spiritual death that reminded him that no circumstance or inner desperation is going to get in his way from rising up and honoring the reason why he became Batman in the first place, a promise he made to his parents, serving the people of Gotham. We can see that Bruce does indeed fear a spitual death rather than a physical death when he flies the bomb away from the city showing that he is willing to die if it means that his life mission is complete, saving Gotham.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28160" LastEditorUserId="28160" LastEditDate="2015-11-26T08:08:04.630" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T08:08:04.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44013" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-26T08:09:15.357" Score="12" ViewCount="14699" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Parks and Recreation&lt;/em&gt; episode Operation Ann (S04E14), Chris Traeger was responsible for DJing in a Valentine's Day party. He was playing horrible music and this conversation happened between him and Tom Haverford: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tom:&lt;/strong&gt; Hey Chris Cross, can we change up the music? It kinda sounds like the&#xA;  end of a movie about a monk who killed himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chris:&lt;/strong&gt; It is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are they referring to an actual movie? What is it? [You can see the scene &lt;a href=&quot;http://parksandrecreation.wikia.com/wiki/File:Parks_And_Recreation_Operation_Ann_-_Clip_1&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28129" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-26T10:14:16.593" LastActivityDate="2017-09-15T06:55:44.580" Title="What was the movie Tom referred to when arguing with Chris?" Tags="|parks-and-recreation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21299" CreationDate="2015-11-26T10:17:42.427" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The different opening sequences are because the episodes are presented in collections instead of seasons, making each collection a mashup of different seasons/series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28165" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T10:17:42.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44017" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44018" CreationDate="2015-11-26T14:05:49.167" Score="18" ViewCount="7377" Body="&lt;p&gt;In many episodes of &lt;em&gt;The Simpsons&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Futurama&lt;/em&gt;, a character (usually drunk or sad) walks in the dark with neon signs moving in the background; where does this come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Simpsons S17E12&lt;/strong&gt;: Homer cannot find a shop that sells his favourite blue pants.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Simpsons S05E08&lt;/strong&gt; Bart and Milhouse get &quot;drunk&quot; on an all-syrup Squishee sold by Apu and have one of these moments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Futurama S01E03&lt;/strong&gt; Bender doesn't drink alcool for a while and has one of these walks:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YhFMj.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YhFMj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="8501" LastEditDate="2015-11-26T19:46:28.687" LastActivityDate="2021-06-09T17:09:20.967" Title="The Simpsons/Futurama: walk in the dark with neon signs" Tags="|reference|the-simpsons|trope|futurama|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44017" CreationDate="2015-11-26T14:17:04.253" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the earliest example is the 1945 film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Weekend_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The Lost Weekend&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;. From Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film also made famous the &amp;quot;character walking toward the camera as neon signs pass by&amp;quot; camera effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find the relevant scenes in the film from around 01:05:00 onwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Purely as a matter of interest, There's an entire &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DrunkenMontage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tropes page&lt;/a&gt; devoted to the genre of 'Drunken Montages'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2021-06-09T17:09:20.967" LastActivityDate="2021-06-09T17:09:20.967" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44020" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-26T16:08:06.270" Score="4" ViewCount="6639" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has always made me wonder, what is they key thing that makes a movie look like a film. To explain better, if you watch some camera footage and then compare to how something similar looks in a movie - there is always the feeling that you are watching a movie and you know it right away. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it some kind of screen filtering, camera angles or what exactly is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="24301" LastEditDate="2016-03-10T04:40:13.433" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T04:40:13.433" Title="What gives a movie the 'Film Look'" Tags="|cinematography|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ClosedDate="2015-11-28T06:56:26.697" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15724" CreationDate="2015-11-26T19:17:11.373" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMO, the most plausible answer would be that Michael's men hunted for, then discovered the shooters, and killed them. However, we don't hear any more gunshots after the bedroom scene, and Michael specifically ordered they be kept alive, so the next most plausible scenario is that pentangeli left one or more men hidden inside the compound (after he left for New York) in order to silence the shooters. It's also possible the shooters killed themselves, especially if they realised they hadn't been successful. I don't see Fredo killing anyone, considering how he handled the attack on his father (Godfather I).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28171" LastActivityDate="2015-11-26T19:17:11.373" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27429" CreationDate="2015-11-27T00:38:29.040" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Super-Soldier Serum&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not explained in the show or the comics.  I don't know if the authors have even thought about it - many times, this is simply thought of as a conceit of the genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there's no actual reason why things have to decay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Decay is caused by various kinds of microbes, as well as oxygen and sunlight damage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bacteria and fungi decompose corpses by digesting them looking for nutrients - similarly, corpses are damaged by air movement, oxidative stress, and the impact of heat and cold on their tissue fibres.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If an organism (say, the Z virus) is able to kill or hinder attempts by microbes to digest the host body, and form barriers against various environmental effects that would wear down or wear away the body, as well as deal with the various negative effects caused by the host body's functions mostly ceasing, then there's no reason the body would continue to decay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 'surface decay' may be the only part of the body rotting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But what about zombies walking around and stuff for years after they've died?  Where is the energy coming from?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The chemical energy contained in the body is enough to sustain a degree of activity with no energy-influx.  However, if these 'walkers' have been shambling around for a year, with no food, they should be skin and bones and also dead.  If they aren't, something like drastic improvements to the muscle system of the body, cellular fusion, photosynthesis, etc, must be occurring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Could a virus do this?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe.  It would be extremely unlikely for a set of micro-organisms to be able to do this kind of thing, although it's not impossible - with luck, genius, and skill, a modern-day biowarfare lab might be able to produce something like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's far more likely, though, that if something like this did exist in the real world it would be the product of a far more advanced civilization.  A meteor or a derelict spaceship crashed on earth with self-modifying micromachines or micro-organisms on board, that were able to make themselves work with earth biology.  The 'zombie' effect is likely accidental - whatever they were designed to do, confronted with a wildly different type of creature than they were designed for, their effect is different than it was designed to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That the scientist at the CDC said that he couldn't even classify the micro-organisms as bacteria, fungi, or viral is evidence for this kind of quantum leap in nanowarfare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That the micro-organisms activate once the brain function ceases indicates it may be an alien medical tool desperately attempting to save the 'patient', with the zombification being a side-effect of the micro-organisms/machines being designed for something that while similar enough to earth life to attempt to interface with it, is wildly different enough to produce such results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21856" LastEditorUserId="21856" LastEditDate="2015-11-27T01:04:08.380" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T01:04:08.380" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44030" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44031" CreationDate="2015-11-27T04:26:51.563" Score="5" ViewCount="18717" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know it's never explicitly stated in &lt;em&gt;No Escape&lt;/em&gt; or on its Wikipedia, but what language are the natives of the country speaking, and what is the written language we see on signs/maps throughout the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28182" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-27T11:33:08.297" LastActivityDate="2016-03-30T03:42:00.473" Title="What country does No Escape take place in?" Tags="|film-location|no-escape|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44030" CreationDate="2015-11-27T04:42:12.577" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Escape_(2015_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From the wikipedia article for the movie&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Co-writer Drew Dowdle says, &quot;'We worked very closely with the Thai government and there were a lot of things they wanted us to shy away from ... So although the film shows a coup breaking out in a Southeast Asian city, ... it never specified the country. We were very careful not to make it Thailand in the movie, so there was no Thai language used'&quot;, said Drew. &quot;'None of the signage is Thai and most of the language that the native population is speaking is a combination of Laotian, hill-tribe languages and other languages,'&quot; however they are actually speaking Khmer, native Cambodian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-03-30T03:42:00.473" LastActivityDate="2016-03-30T03:42:00.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44032" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44040" CreationDate="2015-11-27T05:03:45.390" Score="8" ViewCount="10880" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Stoker%27s_Dracula&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bram Stoker's Dracula&lt;/a&gt;&quot; from 1992.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Johnathan enters the castle of Dracula, some sort of blue rings appear in front of the castle door. What do they do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27781" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-27T11:41:45.677" LastActivityDate="2023-05-08T02:00:04.360" Title="What are the Blue Rings in 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dracula|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44034" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44035" CreationDate="2015-11-27T05:26:38.677" Score="11" ViewCount="64548" Body="&lt;p&gt;So in the 1971 film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067116/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The French Connection&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Gene Hackman’s character Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle utters this semi famous bit of dialogue; YouTube video clip at the end of this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All right! You put a shiv in my partner. You know what that means? Goddammit! All winter long I got to listen to him gripe about his bowling scores. Now I’m gonna bust your ass for those three bags &lt;strong&gt;and I'm gonna nail you for picking your feet in Poughkeepsie.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are tons of wacky Internet theories on what that “…picking your feet in Poughkeepsie.” line really means. The most sane and rational meaning is that the line is simple a confusion/interrogation tactic where someone utters accusatory nonsense like that to confuse the person they are interrogating so that when they ask a real question, their defenses will be down and they will utter “the truth” or confess to a crime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But is there any documented definitive explanation of the meaning behind that bit of dialogue from anyone directly involved with the film? The closest reference I can find online is from &lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.metafilter.com/74526/What-does-it-mean-to-pick-your-feet-in-Poughkeepsie#1108404&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a discussion on MetaFilter from 2007 that references the commentary on the DVD&lt;/a&gt;. But that answer contains a summary of what the DVD commentary said and not a direct quote from someone including their name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone here provide some more solid references to the “…picking your feet in Poughkeepsie.” line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zd5wCpR8Cg4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18230" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2021-11-21T02:14:18.560" LastActivityDate="2021-11-21T02:14:18.560" Title="Definitive explanation of the line, “…picking your feet in Poughkeepsie.” from “The French Connection.”" Tags="|dialogue|screenplay|the-french-connection|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44034" CreationDate="2015-11-27T05:35:58.490" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067116/trivia&quot;&gt;IMDB trivia section for the film&lt;/a&gt; re the DVD commentary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The scene where Doyle and Russo chase down the dealer near the beginning and Gene Hackman shouts out his famous question &quot;Did you ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?&quot; is based on actual &quot;good cop/bad cop&quot; interrogations by the real &quot;French Connection&quot; detectives, Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso &lt;strong&gt;according to William Friedkin in the DVD commentary.&lt;/strong&gt; Grosso would gingerly ask a suspect direct questions about his crimes, then Egan would always butt in and &lt;strong&gt;yell unusual questions like the Poughkeepsie one.&lt;/strong&gt; The suspect would get so rattled by Egan's offbeat questioning that he felt more comfortable answering Grosso's, thus, tending to eventually incriminate himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If taken at face value, that means the line isn't supposed to make sense, in real life or the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-27T07:24:00.140" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T07:24:00.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44036" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-27T06:27:41.103" Score="2" ViewCount="7023" Body="&lt;p&gt;I missed seeing who sent the email to the satelite monitoring girl.  Who told her to check out the coordinates on the two different days?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28184" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-27T06:34:21.220" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T09:42:57.847" Title="Who sent the email to the sat-con girl in The Martian?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-martian|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44036" CreationDate="2015-11-27T06:33:41.810" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vincent Kapoor (originally in the book as Venkat Kapoor), the head of Mars operations at NASA, sent the email to NASA Satellite Communications Engineer Mindy Park, asking her to pull the satellite images of the HAB's GPS coordinates. It is signed by him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It does not ask her to compare the old and new images, but as a Sat Comm Engineer or Image Analyst, comparing a new satellite image to an older one for reference on any changes between the two would be standard procedure. Due to how widely reported the original picture would be, she could also have noticed that something was off on the new picture. This would explain her puzzled expression prior to flipping to the Sol 18 image.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T05:22:42.517" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T05:22:42.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44038" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-27T07:30:22.443" Score="3" ViewCount="1997" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Bridge of Spies,&lt;/em&gt; Jim Donovan meets Rudolf Abel's family in East Berlin. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; They were faking being his family members.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who was behind these people putting on this act? And what was their purpose in arranging for them to put this act on? Emotional manipulation of Donovan, for some negotiating advantage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24353" LastEditorUserId="24353" LastEditDate="2015-11-27T09:21:16.867" LastActivityDate="2016-03-22T14:42:32.487" Title="What was the purpose of Abel's family being sent to meet Donovan in Bridge of Spies?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|bridge-of-spies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44032" CreationDate="2015-11-27T09:39:16.950" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/stream/draculabr00stokuoft/draculabr00stokuoft_djvu.txt&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;source novel&lt;/a&gt; mentions a blue flame barrier but these aren't explained by the author, other than being a sort of general foreshadowing to the fact that &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Dracula has mysterious eldritch powers ... &lt;strong&gt;W&lt;/strong&gt;Ooo&lt;strong&gt;oOO&lt;/strong&gt;oo&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film, the flames just appear to be a sort of general &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SomeKindOfForceField&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;mystic forcefield&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; kind of deal, again for much the same effect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suddenly, away on our left, I saw a faint flickering blue flame.  The&#xA;driver saw it at the same moment; he at once checked the  horses, and,&#xA;jumping to the ground, disappeared into the dark-  ness. I did not&#xA;know what to do, the less as the howling of the  wolves grew closer;&#xA;but while I wondered the driver suddenly  appeared again, and without&#xA;a word took his seat, and we re-  sumed our journey. I think I must&#xA;have fallen asleep and kept  dreaming of the incident, for it seemed&#xA;to be repeated endlessly,  and now looking back, it is like a sort of&#xA;awful nightmare. Once  the flame appeared so near the road, that even&#xA;in the darkness around us I could watch the driver's motions. He went&#xA;rapidly  to where the blue flame arose it must have been very faint,&#xA;for it did not seem to illumine the place around it at all and&#xA;gathering a few stones, formed them into some device. Once  there&#xA;appeared a strange optical effect: when he stood between  me and the&#xA;flame he did not obstruct it, for I could see its ghostly  flicker all&#xA;the same. This startled me, but as the effect was only  momentary, I&#xA;took it that my eyes deceived me straining through  the darkness. Then&#xA;for a time there were no blue flames, and we  sped onwards through the&#xA;gloom, with the howling of the wolves  around us, as though they were&#xA;following in a moving circle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I asked him of some of the  strange things of the preceding night, as,&#xA;for instance, why the  coachman went to the places where he had seen&#xA;the blue flames.  He then explained to me that it was commonly&#xA;believed that on  a certain night of the year last night, in fact,&#xA;when all evil  spirits are supposed to have unchecked sway a blue&#xA;flame is  seen over any place where treasure has been concealed. &amp;quot;That&#xA;treasure has been hidden,&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T11:42:19.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46156" CreationDate="2015-11-27T10:23:01.773" Score="20" ViewCount="536825" Body="&lt;p&gt;The popular History series &lt;em&gt;Vikings&lt;/em&gt; is run by Ragnar Lothbrok, the main character who is a Viking that set his eyes on England. &lt;em&gt;Vikings&lt;/em&gt; is inspired by historical events. In &lt;em&gt;The Last Kingdom&lt;/em&gt; we follow Uhtred, son of Uhtred. A Saxon born, Danish adopted warrior who takes on the name Uhtred Ragnarson, referring to his Danish step-dad. &lt;em&gt;The Last Kingdom&lt;/em&gt; is based on the novels by Bernard Cornwell (&lt;em&gt;The Saxon Stories&lt;/em&gt; -- definitely worth a read!). Cornwell brilliantly mixes historical facts with some fictional elements and characters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that &lt;em&gt;The Last Kingdom&lt;/em&gt; takes place in the not-yet-established England in a time where Alfred ruled Wessex. This means, it can be brought back to the last decades of the 9th century. I believe that &lt;em&gt;Vikings&lt;/em&gt; can be set in the same time span. As documented &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_activity_in_the_British_Isles#Invasion_and_Danelaw:_865.E2.80.93896&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, late 9th century was marked by a Viking view of England as &quot;a place to colonize, to settle&quot; and not to merely raid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If these two series are taking place in the same time span, the question is: what is the connection between Ragnar, the main character in &lt;em&gt;Vikings&lt;/em&gt;, and Ragnar, the stepfather of Uhtred? Are they the same person? Is the one an ancestor of the other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7156" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-27T11:28:57.993" LastActivityDate="2020-10-23T14:52:33.163" Title="What is the connection between Ragnar from Vikings and Ragnar from The Last Kingdom?" Tags="|historical-accuracy|vikings|the-last-kingdom|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44036" CreationDate="2015-11-27T10:53:13.517" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is covered in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(Weir_novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source novel&lt;/a&gt;. Despite being initially blocked from taking any picture of the Ares 3 site, Venkat Kapoor (renamed Vincent Kapoor for the film) ordered some telemetry pictures. He was hoping to assess what assets would be available for future missions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A flicker on her screen announced another set of images were ready for dispatch. She checked the name on the work order. Venkat Kapoor.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Posting the data directly to internal servers, she composed an email to Dr. Kapoor. As she entered the latitude and longitude of the image, she recognized the numbers.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“31.2°N, 28.5°W… Acidalia Planitia… Ares 3?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(Weir_novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Martian: Andy Weir - Chapter 6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The implication is that he managed to persuade his superior to authorise the pictures on the strength of using sympathy for Watney's death to leverage a better budget for a future Mars mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Ok, consider this,” he said. “Sympathy for Watney’s family is really&#xA;  high. Ares 6 could bring the body back. We don’t say that’s the&#xA;  purpose of the mission, but we make it clear that would be part of it.&#xA;  If we framed it that way, we’d get more support in Congress. But not&#xA;  if we wait a year. In a year, people won’t care any more.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Teddy&#xA;  rubbed his chin. “Hmm…”.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same scene appears in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=the-martian&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the film script&lt;/a&gt;, but 'Vincent' is a little more forceful now:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VINCENT:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Right now,  the world is on our side. Sympathy for the Watney family.&#xA;  ARES 6 can bring his body home. Now, we don't say that's the purpose&#xA;  of the mission, but we make it clear that would be a part of it. If we&#xA;  frame it that way, more support from congress, but not if we wait a&#xA;  year. We wait a year, nobody gives a shit.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T09:42:57.847" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T09:42:57.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44045" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44046" CreationDate="2015-11-27T14:07:01.113" Score="6" ViewCount="14688" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could never understand how is that a few times I have seen someone fighting with a knife or a sword, killing zombies and then make a cut on a human which would then have no effect? Does the virus spread through blood like for example when being bitten?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2017-02-13T01:57:25.293" Title="In the Walking Dead why don't humans turn after being cut with infected weapons?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44046" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44045" CreationDate="2015-11-27T14:14:51.853" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/7025/31029&quot;&gt;everyone is already infected&lt;/a&gt;, as explained by k0pernikus on the Sci-Fi SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the comics it is established that everyone already is infected,&#xA;  though the symptoms only show after you &quot;die&quot; unless the brain is&#xA;  damaged too much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This was shown with&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Shane. He died by gunshot, yet turned into a zombie while laying six&#xA;    feet under without having endured any zombie-bites. After Rick learned&#xA;    of that fact, he dug him up again and killed him for good. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This also applies to the TV-show:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;There was a man, who committed suicide by hanging himself in a tree,&#xA;    and he turned into a zombie as well. Andrea had him killed out of&#xA;    mercy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Beside_the_Dying_Fire&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;finale of the second season&lt;/a&gt; also confirms this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Daryl brings up Randall, explaining that he turned without being&#xA;  bitten. &lt;strong&gt;&quot;We're all infected,&quot; Rick says solemnly. &quot;At the CDC, Jenner&#xA;  told me. Whatever it is, we all carry it.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; The others are furious at&#xA;  Rick for keeping Jenner's secret, but Rick insists he had no way of&#xA;  knowing if it was true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why walker bites are so deadly is not stated, so &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/11341/31029&quot;&gt;one can only speculate&lt;/a&gt;, like Jeff on the Sci-Fi SE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Firstly, human mouths are dirty. A bite from a normal human is likely&#xA;  to become infected in many cases even today, when we have&#xA;  over-the-counter disinfectants, bandages, etc on hand in almost all&#xA;  locations. Left untreated, this alone could be fatal. This is unlikely&#xA;  today, in modern society, but not nearly as unlikely if society has&#xA;  broken down and medical treatment is unavailable. This is discussed to&#xA;  some degree in The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks, which is based&#xA;  (as is TWD) on Romero-style zombies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Next there's the reanimation. The virus is dormant, as you say, until&#xA;  death. If the zombie has any form of saliva (which they seem to) or&#xA;  moisture in their mouth (without which verbalizing would be nearly&#xA;  impossible) their bites will almost certainly introduce the live,&#xA;  active virus into the bitten person's bloodstream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.873" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T14:28:44.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44020" CreationDate="2015-11-27T14:21:41.307" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the following all contribute to a &quot;movie&quot; feeling:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The sound! It is well known that you can get away with a bad image, but not with a bad sound. It immediately sets apart a movie from a professional apart from one made by an amateur (unless that amateur has professional level of sound editing).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Music also helps a lot and is carefully chosen and used (like the usual &quot;music attached to a character&quot; used in many movies, it gives an immediate context to a scene, and can help make subttle hints (using the music of someone or something in scenes where it is not directly seen, for example)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For the image itself, which is really what you asked about:&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Smooth scrollings&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Little depth of field when they want to focus your attention on one of the characters or a particular place in the image (a little depth of field makes the focused thing sharp and the other ones nicely blurred. Heavily used in portrait photography, and also in movies)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Careful use of different angles, sometimes wide, and sometimes very narrow (for example: face close-ups). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The quality of the light is also important (look at any commentaries about stanley kubrick, or most other movies as well)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope that a professional or enlightened amateur will step in and provide further things (or better examples of the ones above)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6815" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T14:21:41.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44048" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44020" CreationDate="2015-11-27T15:10:30.537" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think what you might be driving at is something called &quot;The Film Look&quot;, something that is instantly recognisable due to a combination of high-intensity lighting, fully focused camera shots and, most importantly, the frame and shutter speeds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/sF2JwivSnmA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T15:10:30.537" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44020" CreationDate="2015-11-27T18:09:39.957" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like some comments above said - this is very broad and has changed greatly in time (b&amp;amp;w movies?). But current trend, seems to be, in addition to those items above described &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cy7p_QNtmU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. In case language wasn't comprehensible for You let me summarize:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;time slowdowns&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;screen aspect ratio (&quot;(in)famous black bars&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;proper color palette &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;music&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;grain&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;24 frames/second (frequent, but by no means standard), selected cause it was easy to synchronize sound and pictures&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;shutter - usually 180 degrees and its impact on sharpness during scenes with fast movement&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21336" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T18:09:39.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44045" CreationDate="2015-11-27T18:50:29.393" Score="4" Body="&lt;h1&gt;TL;DR:  Being bitten by a zombie doesn't turn you into a zombie (it just kills you, and then something else, which you were already infected with, turns you into a zombie).  As such, neither bites nor cuts from infected weapons have anything to do with why a person becomes a zombie.&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robert Kirkman, the creator of the Walking Dead franchise, has explicitly stated that &quot;zombieism&quot; has nothing to do with people dying of zombie bites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The rule is WHATEVER it is that causes the zombies, is something everyone already has. If you stub your toe, get an infection and die, you turn into a zombie, UNLESS your brain is damaged. If someone shoots you in the head and you die, you're dead. A zombie bite kills you because of infection, or blood loss, not because of the zombie &quot;virus.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - Originally written in the &quot;Letter Hacks&quot; section of an issue of the comic books, and quoted from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Zombies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TWD wikia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being bitten kills due to either blood loss or mundane, non-zombie infection (e.g., sepsis).  You turn, regardless of how you died, because the zombie virus was already inside you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the comics, the rules may be a bit different, and we have actually seen bad guys contaminate knives and arrows before attacking the good guys.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possible spoiler, definite NSFW language:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; You all know how this shit works. You get a bite, you get any kind of wound from these things, something from them gets in you...and you fucking die. — Negan, referring to zombies in the comics, quoted on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Zombies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TWD wikia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wounds inflicted with these contaminated weapons do indeed prove fatal in the comics, although - again - they &lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt; cause people to turn.  &lt;strong&gt;The virus that turns dead people into zombies is already in everyone, on the show and in the comics.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So your question has now changed slightly:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why do wounds from contaminated weapons kill people in the comics, but not on the show?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only case in which this clearly happened on the show, to the best of my recollection, was Rick cutting his hand with his knife, immediately after using it to kill a zombie.  This happened in season 6, episode 3, &quot;Thank You&quot;. As of this writing, only a few hours (at most) have passed since that happened - according to &lt;em&gt;Talking Dead&lt;/em&gt;, from the opening scene of the season, at the quarry, until the midseason finale, only one day has passed (the flashback episode notwithstanding).  Thus, we don't  know yet whether Rick will suffer some sort of complications from this wound, and since the next episode is the midseason finale, and will also take place during the same 24-48 as the previous episodes, we probably won't know until the midseason premiere in February.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We did see Tyreese having his arm lopped off with Michonne's katana in season 5, but in that case, he did indeed die shortly afterwards.  However, he probably died from loss of blood rather than infection (there was so much fake blood used in those scenes that the crew had to replace the carpet on set several times), and if infection was involved, it was probably caused by being bitten twice, then having a significant amount of time pass before the bitten limb was amputated.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-11-28T06:39:23.667" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T06:39:23.667" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27429" CreationDate="2015-11-27T19:00:07.563" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They don't stop decomposing, but they do so rather slowly.  In &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt;, unlike the book &lt;em&gt;World War Z&lt;/em&gt;, zombies steadily decompose, albeit rather slowly.  In the book &lt;em&gt;World War Z&lt;/em&gt;, the process still takes place, but usually at a &lt;strong&gt;far&lt;/strong&gt; slower rate (the exception being the rare cases in which the zombie is in an extremely humid, hot environment, like a jungle;  in this scenario, the zombie will decompose very quickly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Getting back to TWD, the fact that the zombies decompose is particularly noticeable in the cases of zombies who have spent some time in the water.  Their bodies become bloated and water logged, and their tissue becomes quite fragile:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dnIZz.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The production team has also explicitly stated that as the seasons progress, they have tried to make the zombies appear more and more decomposed and emaciated.  I have to admit that, in my opinion, they have been extremely inconsistent in this regard, but they claim to have taken it into consideration, and tried to reflect the fact that time is passing and the zombies are becoming increasingly decrepit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was most apparent in season 2, in which you really can see how skinny most of the zombies are.  The casting director specifically selected people who were extraordinarily thin, and if I recall correctly, they had a lot of success in hiring marathon runners for exactly this reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robert Kirkman has also said that as time goes by, the zombies lose much of their mobility, speed, and strength, as well as their already-meager amount of intelligence.  This is actually how he explained the fact that in season one, and only season one (in fact, only the first two episodes of that season), zombies do things that seem to be beyond their capabilities - they almost run in some scenes, they use rocks to break windows, Morgan's zombie wife tries to turn a doorknob, and one little girl zombie stops to pick up her teddy bear.  According to Kirkman, all of this is explained by the fact that the zombies are much more intact and undecayed, relative to the zombies of later seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From a Reddit Ask Me Anything with Robert Kirkman:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: &amp;quot;...In the beginning of the show we saw walkers do things like using a rock to help bash the doors in or turning a door knob, is there a reason we've stopped seeing them do that?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A:  &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;Older zombies are less together and capable or doing things like that. Fresher zombies, which there were more of in season one, are able to do more than older, more rotted zombies.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we're talking about TWD zombie bones as compared to real human bones, it seems clear that, although no one really talks about it, the zombies' bones, especially their skulls, are much less robust than our own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I said, no one seems to mention it on the show, but we can see it quite clearly. People routinely crush zombie skulls by stomping on them, hitting them with fairly flimsy objects, etc, and the most popular method of killing zombies is now the classic stab-in-the-head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I don't recommend that you try this at home, I can assure you that stabbing someone in the face won't usually result in the knife piercing their brain cavity.  The skull is surprisingly thick, robust, and extremely tough.  It is very difficult to penetrate it, especially with something like a knife or screwdriver.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The shape of the human skull - almost spherical in the upper portion - is such that a thrust with a knife is almost certain to be deflected and slide off to one side, which might inflict quite a bit of damage to the scalp and/or face, but the skull itself will suffer little or no damage whatsoever.  Even if you managed to strike the skull perpendicular to the forehead, for instance, the knife might very well stop short, creating a possibility that you will injure your own wrist, or even worse, that your hand will slip forward and be sliced open by the blade.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for stomping on a head, this might cause a concussion in a human victim, but it probably wouldn't crush the skull outright.  And yet we see, again and again, zombie skulls popping open like grapes when the slightest amount of pressure is applied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moving on to blunt objects, such as baseball bats, rocks, clubs, and so on, again, the injuries inflicted upon zombies are far more serious than would be the case if the target was a living person.  Yes, of course a powerful blow from a bat would fracture a human skull, but fractures aren't enough to kill a zombie.  You need to &lt;strong&gt;destroy the brain&lt;/strong&gt;, not merely create a few hairline fractures in the bone around it.  Once again, attacks which would only hurt a person are consistently shown to kill zombies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In season 3, we saw a zombie in the prison, whose hands were cuffed behind his back, snap his own arm in half with very little effort.  This too would be almost impossible for a living human being to do.  And in the season 5 finale, Rick was able to slowly shove a gun barrel through the roof of a zombie's mouth and into the cranial cavity.  Also something that you couldn't do to a human without a tremendous amount of force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We've also seen two zombies being killed by holding a relatively thin branch perpendicular to their heads, at about mouth-level, and pushing with very little force.  Branches less than an inch and a half in diameter are not as strong as a human skull.  The branch should break before the skull does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in season 4, when zombies began to fall through the ceiling of a big box store, a drop of about 15-20 feet, they literally popped when they hit the ground, almost like water balloons.  A person who fell the same distance would probably break some bones, but they certainly wouldn't explode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, we are never told that zombie skeletons are far less robust than human skeletons, but all the evidence points in exactly this direction.  Zombie bones are much more brittle and prone to breaking than human bones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/fear-walking-dead-expect-816680&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;recent interview&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Fear the Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; showrunner Dave Erickson said that on that show, zombies will be more difficult to kill than they are on the original &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; series, because &lt;em&gt;Fear the Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; takes place at the beginning of the outbreak, whereas &lt;em&gt;TWD&lt;/em&gt; is now at least a couple of years into it.  As a result, zombie skulls on &lt;em&gt;FTWD&lt;/em&gt; are stronger and harder to penetrate than has been the case on &lt;em&gt;TWD&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Erickson said one of Kirkman's notes for Fear was that the zombies be different than how they were first seen on the original show. With the early onset of the outbreak, skulls will still be hard and the point, Erickson said, is to see a character trying to stab a walker in the head and not be able to penetrate the skull. &amp;quot;The point was it's hard physically to kill somebody,&amp;quot; he said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, we've already seen this happen, on the second episode of the new series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T19:00:07.563" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44045" CreationDate="2015-11-27T22:07:56.790" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Zombie virus is a two stage infection. The first stage has already infected everybody, but it is dormant or held back by an active immune system. This first stage is unable to kill a healthy human.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second stage happens after death. When the immune system is no longer active the first stage can mutate and take over the corpse. This happens regardless of cause of death, unless the cerebellum is destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But introducing a second stage infection in a human will kick start the transformation. Being bit is almost guaranteed way of dying. Along with any other infection from the zombies mouth (less likely for the first wave of zombies), the immune system is compromised by the active zombie virus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The simplest reason that an infected weapon won't infect a person is that the second stage virus, which is blood-borne, will not last long outside of its natural infection environment.&lt;/strong&gt; Real viruses like the Cold (rhinoviruses) or Flu (parainfluenza) can only survive hours outside of the body, and infection rates decrease dramatically every hour. On a hard nonporous surface of a sword, your looking at few hours at best, which unlike poison, is just not viable for a weapon. It's not a good infection vector.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In comparison, snake venom also breakdowns within hours, while poison ivy oil will still be good for five years after secretion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T22:07:56.790" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44056" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-27T22:19:34.263" Score="-1" ViewCount="204" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently heard Trevor Noah of the Daily Show say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not to be confused with the D.C. Madman, the eccentric 19th century scientist known for attacking the White House with a cat-cannon&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who exactly is he referring to? I thought this might be a comics character, so I posed this question on scifi.SE, but the folks there assured me it's not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28200" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T22:33:06.187" LastActivityDate="2016-07-31T01:52:33.333" Title="&quot;Madman with cat cannon&quot; mentioned in the Daily Show" Tags="|character|the-daily-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44057" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-27T22:59:14.083" Score="3" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Gravity, when they get back to the ISS, she was barely holding onto him, but they were both stopped.  Why, then, did he have to let go or otherwise he'd pull her with him?  As far as I could tell, their momentum, at least in relation to the ISS, had been stopped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T16:14:01.060" Title="Why did he have to let go?" Tags="|gravity|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-11-29T01:05:19.997" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43844" CreationDate="2015-11-27T23:06:19.323" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I went and saw this again today and paid attention to the scene in question. My comment to the original question was close to, but not exactly correct (I had mentioned the drilling was random) so I'm posting as an answer while it is still fresh in my memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Blofeld does the first drill he does mention that it will have the effect of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; dulling vision as you mention&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, before he drills the second hole his words are roughly paraphrased as, &quot;if the drill hits the blah blah, it will have the effect of&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; losing recognition&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key word here being &quot;if&quot;. That tells us that the machine, while likely fairly accurate, is not foolproof. And judging by the aftermath, we are led to draw the conclusion that they did not find the correct drill point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T23:06:19.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44059" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-27T23:10:52.790" Score="17" ViewCount="11726" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does the Spectre octopus only have 7 tentacles? I can't find any definitive answers online other than speculation that it has to do with the number of letters in the name and possibly being a connection to Bond's operative number 007. All decent theories but I didn't see anything in the movie that explained it and can't find any articles or interviews about it either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT: Clarification that I'm looking for an official answer with a source. Not more speculation.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2015-11-28T00:26:34.517" LastActivityDate="2020-04-11T06:23:15.597" Title="Why does the Spectre octopus only have 7 tentacles?" Tags="|james-bond|spectre|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9433" CreationDate="2015-11-27T23:11:52.483" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While technically the recording is true and all based on vocalization, in a competition setting, it wasn't accurate.  There weren't enough girls on stage to do the complexity of the song.  There were so many layers of sound that's possible in a studio but not in a stage setting with the limited number of girls on stage.  You can't be simultaneously singing and doing the background beats.  It would've been possible if all the women at the end were always present and vocalizing but they didn't come onto the stage until the end.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28202" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T23:11:52.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15098" CreationDate="2015-11-27T23:18:50.983" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not a physicist but basically it comes down to &lt;a href=&quot;http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newton3laws.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Newton's three laws of motion&lt;/a&gt;. Basically, an object in motion will stay in motion unless another force stops it. In space, the only thing that could really stop his momentum would be an object of greater mass, but the two astronauts are approximately the same mass so in effect, he was transferring his momentum to her and causing them both to be in trouble, so he let go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T23:18:50.983" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44059" CreationDate="2015-11-27T23:34:20.463" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It may be a rather mundane matter of aesthetics. An eight-tentacled version of the same insignia might have seemed too &quot;busy&quot; or &quot;heavy,&quot; design-wise, to the moviemakers. An eight-tentacled version would also &lt;em&gt;look like&lt;/em&gt; an octopus, whereas the seven-tentacled version &lt;em&gt;suggests&lt;/em&gt; an octopus, and the moviemakers (or, if you like, SPECTRE's design staff) may have opted for the subtler, sneakier option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20866" LastActivityDate="2015-11-27T23:34:20.463" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44059" CreationDate="2015-11-28T00:05:43.557" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is almost certainly related to aesthetics rather than any deeper meaning.  The logo has been portrayed inconsistently throughout the Bond franchise, with the octopus starting out as a quadropus, then becoming a proper octopus, and most recently, being rendered a septopus.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/11639/the-new-spectre-logo/p3&quot;&gt;Many Bond fans&lt;/a&gt; argue that the original &lt;em&gt;Dr. No&lt;/em&gt;/&lt;em&gt;From Russia With Love&lt;/em&gt; design, with four &quot;legs&quot;, was never supposed to be an octopus, and was intended to represent a ghost;  according to these fans, the franchise mistakenly turned the ghost into an octopus in &lt;em&gt;Thunderball&lt;/em&gt;.  The image itself lends some credence to the idea that the original logo was a skull with ghostly trails below, but I haven't been able to find any canonical references to support it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that in the new design: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The octopus is more stylized than was the case in the previous logo, more sinister, less cartoonish, and less obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The octopus is drawn in such a way that it also resembles an actual spectre, or ghost.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The new design is sleeker, more modern, and combines the symmetry of the previous, eight-legged design, with the menace of the original design, which looked as much like a skull as it did a cephalopod.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PCEa6m.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PCEa6m.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T97qOm.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T97qOm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qiTXzm.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qiTXzm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vaSLzm.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vaSLzm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional motivation to change the logo was introduced by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe&quot;&gt;MCU&lt;/a&gt;, and its SPECTRE analogue, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(comics)&quot;&gt;HYDRA&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fMeG7.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fMeG7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;SPECTRE left, HYDRA right&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film's producers would certainly want to avoid any confusion between the two logos.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or perhaps the latest incarnation of SPECTRE is fond of the so called &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-arm_octopus&quot;&gt;Seven Armed Octopus&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, which gets its name from the fact that the specialized tentacle used in reproduction is kept hidden from sight in males of this species.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-11-28T01:04:14.087" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T01:04:14.087" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44056" CreationDate="2015-11-28T01:01:38.930" Score="2" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was a joke.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The joke involves a fictional attack on the White House.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The White House is in Washington, D.C.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The fictional attacker is known as the D.C. Madman because he's insane and he is famous because of his cat-cannon-and-Presidential-mansion-related actions in Washington, D.C.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This isn't a real story, or a real character, except insofar as Trevor Noah told a story about said character, in the form of the aforementioned joke.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T01:01:38.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44065" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44159" CreationDate="2015-11-28T03:04:07.250" Score="7" ViewCount="3854" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Gus fired Walt, prefigured he would kill Hank, threatened Walt's family and left him in the desert near the end of &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; S4E11 &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Crawl_Space&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;»Crawl Space«&lt;/a&gt;, it doesn't seem too hard for Gus to anticipate that Walt might try to kill him. &lt;strong&gt;Of course Gus is surrounded by bodyguards all the time, but as a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; cautious man, wouldn't it have made sense for him to additionally have somebody shadow Walt in order to avoid unwanted »surprises«?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This of course only applies for the time between the mentioned scene in the desert and the time Gus finds out that Hank is under DEA protection, from when Gus wants to kill Walt anyway. But by then, Walt has already disappeared from his radar and his family is safe at Hank and Marie. But if Gus had kept an eye on Walt from right after he left him at the desert, he'd have probably never lost his track at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And probably Gus' face would still be in it's original place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28151" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2015-11-28T10:03:04.720" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T08:14:05.913" Title="After the events of S4E11, why didn't Gus shadow Walt?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44067" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44068" CreationDate="2015-11-28T03:30:09.633" Score="14" ViewCount="2615" Body="&lt;p&gt;The episode titles for the Jessica Jones episodes are all prefixed with AKA, which stands for Also Known As.  I'm curious/confused why this decision was made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-29T16:06:22.737" LastActivityDate="2016-10-01T14:18:42.097" Title="Why the AKA prefix?" Tags="|analysis|marvel-cinematic-universe|title|jessica-jones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44067" CreationDate="2015-11-28T03:42:54.113" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jessica Jones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a series revolving around Private Detective Jessica Jones and her agency &lt;em&gt;&quot;Alias Investigations&quot;&lt;/em&gt;. The series is based on the comic &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alias&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and the Netflix series was originally titled &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A.K.A. Jessica Jones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. As in &lt;em&gt;'Alias [Investigations], Also Known As Jessica Jones.'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they pared down the name, the A.K.A. was kept as a nod to that. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Jones_(TV_series)#Development&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From wiki for Jessica Jones (TV Series)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In December 2014, the official title was revealed to be Marvel's A.K.A. Jessica Jones. However, in June 2015, Marvel revealed that the title for the series would be shortened to Marvel's Jessica Jones. On why the title was shortened, [Head of Marvel TV Jeph Loeb] said, &lt;strong&gt;&quot;It literally just became one of those things that happens. We had talked about whether that was the best title for it, and that’s how it happened.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; Rosenberg added that the &quot;AKA&quot; is &quot;living in the episodes. You'll still see it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/jessica-jones-tone-action-melissa-rosenberg-jeph-loeb-interview/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From the source interview,&lt;/a&gt; they expand on why AKA was used in the first place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LOEB:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;As many people know, at one point, this show was called to as AKA Jessica Jones, so we used to refer to the AKA of it.&lt;/strong&gt; Every single person has an AKA in their life. This is the person that they present, and then this is the person that they actually are. How true is that in life?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the underlying theme of the comic and the show being that &lt;em&gt;all is not what it seems&lt;/em&gt;, the episode titles have sought to reflect that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In general, it's also a nod to the entire private detective genre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="30713" LastEditorDisplayName="user27684" LastEditDate="2016-10-01T14:18:42.097" LastActivityDate="2016-10-01T14:18:42.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44070" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42077" CreationDate="2015-11-28T06:51:42.420" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are probably cases where the person died naturally or via suicide. The zombies may not be able to reach a body or don't eat the whole thing. Although, yes the numbers should have decreased hugely by now, how else are they supposed to do a series if the antagonists are all dead and there are no longer any living dead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28204" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2015-11-28T11:53:30.873" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T11:53:30.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8719" CreationDate="2015-11-28T06:59:43.883" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;All the ups are pretty snazzy but the downs are pretty bad as well. Also you would have to serve &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;KLAUS&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which isn't the best thing to be doing considering how many people wanna kill him. If you can break the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;sire bond&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; you still need to control your thirst for blood. Let's just remember back to what Tyler had to do to break the sire bond. Lots of pain involved. &lt;em&gt;Unless you love pain and Klaus yep its a curse.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28205" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2015-11-28T10:58:57.743" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T10:58:57.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44072" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42077" CreationDate="2015-11-28T07:14:59.287" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If the Walking Dead is like most Romano Zombies, stomach capacity is not a limitation. They will eat and eat even if the stomach is full. The only thing that stops them is the end of normal brain activity in the victim.  Once the normal living cerebellum activity stops, and the Zombie virus takes over, the zombies will stop their feasting. As death via trauma and blood loss can be fairly instant, that means the second the victim dies, the zombies will stop eating, hence the fairly intact zombies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, death by Exsanguination takes between  only 14 and 70 seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-28T07:42:35.780" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T07:42:35.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42077" CreationDate="2015-11-28T08:11:42.183" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think your presumption that being a zombie == being eaten/bitten at some point is wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is TWD cannon that EVERYONE is infected by the virus, they just haven't died in order to be brought back by the virus yet.  I don't know what the initial infection vector was, but for a lot of people it wasn't lethal.  Only when they die from another source do those people turn into walkers, either by suicide, another infection, accident, what have you.  So it's no surprise that a decent amount of the walkers have little to no physical damage to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T08:11:42.183" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44074" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15098" CreationDate="2015-11-28T08:32:33.457" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is covered in the film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.screenplaydb.com/film/scripts/gravity_20131219.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;original script&lt;/a&gt;. In short, she hadn't killed his momentum, as evidenced by the fact that he continued to float away after she let go:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The tether attached to Matt’s suit passes two feet away from her and&#xA;  Ryan grabs the tether. It slides through her closed fist, until&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Her grip tightens and the tether STOPS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RYAN&lt;/strong&gt; (CONT’D): &lt;em&gt;Gotcha!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Matt’s momentum is now pulling Ryan, dragging her loose from the parachute.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MATT:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;You have to let me go.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RYAN:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;What? No--&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MATT:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;You have to.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RYAN:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;No!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MATT:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Those ropes are too loose, &lt;strong&gt;I’m pulling you with me. You have to let me go or we both die--&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-28T16:14:01.060" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T16:14:01.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44081" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45828" CreationDate="2015-11-28T12:48:41.973" Score="6" ViewCount="3619" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the opening sequence of Spectre (2015), James Bond is listening to some bad guys discussing an evil plot. He then starts shooting at them, but they start shooting back - and then, suddenly, the entire building they're in explodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It could be that I missed some important dialogue, but there didn't seem to be any readily apparent reason for this explosion. Later on, Bond is reprimanded for it and justifies the destruction of the building on the basis that a greater number of deaths would have resulted otherwise. So the explosion seems to be precipitated by Bond's actions in some way, but that was all I could gather. Did the bad guys have a bomb in the building? It must have been rather a large one. Was it somehow set off by Bond shooting at people? Did I miss the explanation or is it really just not explained at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't the only apparently unexplained building explosion in this movie - there's also a rather large one at the end - but that's &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/42860/why-does-the-desert-facility-explode/43195#43195&quot;&gt;a different question&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24444" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2019-05-11T05:50:27.683" Title="Why does the building explode at the start of Spectre?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44088" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44106" CreationDate="2015-11-28T19:26:43.223" Score="7" ViewCount="5515" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most species of alien in Star Trek have some feature on their face that makes them visually distinct from humans, and it's usually very smooth-looking, because &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RubberForeheadAliens&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the actor is wearing a prosthetic made of rubber or plastic.&lt;/a&gt;  On &lt;em&gt;Enterprise&lt;/em&gt;, though, we see a lot of the Andorians, whose distinguishing characteristics are that they have antennae and blue skin.  They aren't particularly smooth, though; we get a lot of close-ups of Commander Shran and he shows very realistic skin texture, complete with the wrinkles, lines and roughness you'd expect from a middle-aged guy who's spent a few decades in the military.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Between that and the way Andorians frequently touch things with no apparent worries about paint rubbing off on them, it almost looks as if Jeffrey Combs and the other actors had their skin somehow &lt;em&gt;dyed blue&lt;/em&gt;.  It's really impressive; how did the show crew accomplish this effect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2023" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-25T15:44:14.393" LastActivityDate="2022-05-05T17:36:17.550" Title="How did they do the Andorians' skin effects in Star Trek: Enterprise?" Tags="|star-trek|make-up|star-trek-enterprise|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44090" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-28T19:32:33.870" Score="6" ViewCount="4420" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying to place a scene in &lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt; so I can use the episode for a school project, but I can't seem to place it. Basically, it revolves around Joey not understanding anything that the rest of the group discusses. There are a few flashbacks that occur with examples of times when Joey nods along and agrees with the conversation, but then you hear him say in his mind that he has no idea what is going on. I remember one of the examples was Ross bringing up the Constitution and Joey saying to himself that he didn't know what that was...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody know which episode this is from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28217" LastEditorUserId="4763" LastEditDate="2015-11-29T08:48:00.193" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T08:48:00.193" Title="A scene in Friends where Joey remembers not understanding something" Tags="|identify-this-episode|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:31:02.537" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44091" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44093" CreationDate="2015-11-28T19:37:15.113" Score="2" ViewCount="2252" Body="&lt;p&gt;In SlumDog Millionaire, how did Latika get the scar on her face?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The last train dance scene reveals the scar on her face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28102" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T19:57:49.177" Title="How did Latika get her scar?" Tags="|slumdog-millionaire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44092" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44090" CreationDate="2015-11-28T19:37:59.417" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;This plot is in &lt;a href=&quot;http://friends.wikia.com/wiki/The_One_With_The_Cuffs&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The One With the Cuffs&lt;/a&gt; (Season 4, Episode 3).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joey is interrupted in the middle of the day by a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman. Joey, who has never shown much interest in books, is yearning for knowledge that brings him on par with his friends' difficult subjects, so he lets the salesman in. A few basic questions asked by the salesman is all that is needed to show that Joey is not smart, which is the critical point the salesman uses to sell the encyclopedia to Joey, who starts really digging in the V volume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joey remembers the times he didn't get what the others were talking about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Salesman:&lt;/strong&gt; Do your friends ever have a conversation and you just nod along even though you’re not really sure what they’re talking about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Flashback]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ross:&lt;/strong&gt; I’m telling you it’s totally unconstitutional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Everyone:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh yeah, I totally agree. [Joey just nods]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Another flashback]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monica:&lt;/strong&gt; I think he deserves a Nobel Prize. [Joey starts nodding]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Everyone:&lt;/strong&gt; No! [Joey stops nodding]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Another flashback]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chandler:&lt;/strong&gt; It was like the Algonquin kids table. [Everyone laughs and Joey pretends to laugh too]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T19:59:40.753" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44091" CreationDate="2015-11-28T19:57:49.177" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The thugs slashed her face after snatching her from the train station. From her &lt;a href=&quot;http://hero.wikia.com/wiki/Latika&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One day, Jamal confesses his love for Latika after he finds her and Salim with Javed. After a while, Latika escapes and meets Jamal at the train station but is recaptured by Javed's thugs. &lt;strong&gt;Salim slashes her face with a knife as punishment.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T19:57:49.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44094" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44097" CreationDate="2015-11-28T20:09:17.807" Score="11" ViewCount="1673" Body="&lt;p&gt;After being hit by first wave at Miller's planet in &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, Cooper and Amelia discuss something about time slippage etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that time Cooper says that, &quot;can't we just jump in black hole to gain back all the years&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question is, how does Cooper know that jumping in black hole can return back him years or made time travel possible to him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19856" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-29T16:25:11.190" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T16:25:11.190" Title="How does Cooper know that jumping in blackhole can gain back years?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44094" CreationDate="2015-11-28T20:19:02.833" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cooper is basically in grief at this point and is asking (despite the fact that he knows the answer) whether the effects of the black hole can be used to reverse the passage of time as well as increasing it. It's then explained to him, as well as to us, the audience, that things don't work like that in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The novelisation makes his thought process a little clearer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Do you have some way we can jump into a black hole and get back the years?” he finally asked.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  She dismissed that with a wag of her head.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “Don’t just shake your head at me!” he snapped.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “Time is relative,” Brand said. “It can stretch and squeeze—but it can’t run backward. The only thing that can move across the dimensions like time is gravity.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;He knew that. He’d read it. But he wasn’t ready to give up.&lt;/strong&gt; Brand didn’t know everything—that much was abundantly clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously he later discovers that time travel &lt;em&gt;is possible&lt;/em&gt; (at least using gravity waves when suspended in a 11-dimensional construct masquerading as a black hole, controlled by alien humans from a distant future timeline) but that's something he couldn't possibly know at this stage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T20:19:02.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41622" CreationDate="2015-11-28T21:41:03.283" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, she is. This has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.afterellen.com/tv/424137-the-100-writer-kira-snyder-on-clarkes-bisexuality-and-if-lexa-will-be-back-for-season-3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;confirmed by the show's co-writers&lt;/a&gt; on several occasions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AfterEllen.com:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Were you part of creating the Clexa relationship?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kira Snyder:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The stories are all collaboratively written. Lexa was introduced in the episode that I wrote. It just happened to be&#xA;  where I came up in the writing assignment series. It was something we&#xA;  talked about and [creator] Jason Rothenberg was supportive of and the&#xA;  CW was supportive of so we’re really happy to have that storyline and&#xA;  really gratified that it’s sparked the fan response and press response&#xA;  that it has. It just goes down to the issues of representation and&#xA;  seeing [bisexual] people on screen. But that’ something I’m very&#xA;  pleased to be involved with.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AE:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Do you see Clarke as bisexual?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KS:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I believe, &lt;strong&gt;yes, officially Clarke is bisexual.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And per twitter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;‏&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/jrothenbergtv/status/570775409643532288&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;@JRothenbergTV&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Clarke is a bisexual character.&lt;/strong&gt; Remember that in this society, no&#xA;  one’s worried about it. They’re worried about spears to the chest.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-11-28T21:41:03.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44101" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44119" CreationDate="2015-11-29T00:27:01.970" Score="5" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;In many plays, novels etc character names are of some sort of significance. &#xA;I noticed that in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1661820/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cut Bank&lt;/a&gt;, the sheriff's name is Vogel which means bird in German/Dutch. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a connection to his personality, job etc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26449" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-29T16:21:06.523" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T16:21:06.523" Title="Any significance as to why the sheriff's name in Cut Bank is Vogel?" Tags="|character|analysis|cut-bank|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44102" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-29T00:46:45.977" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-29T00:46:45.977" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T00:46:45.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44103" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-29T00:46:45.977" Score="0" Body="Cut Bank is a 2014 crime thriller starring Liam Hemsworth about a videographer who witnesses a murder" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-11-29T05:13:34.033" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T05:13:34.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30631" CreationDate="2015-11-29T01:06:18.963" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can find a black knight as part of the crest for 505th Military Intelligence Brigade and the 650th Military Intelligence Group.  The white knight is on the logo for U.S. Army Psychological Operations. Just something to consider.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28228" LastEditorUserId="28228" LastEditDate="2015-11-29T01:19:33.390" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T01:19:33.390" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44088" CreationDate="2015-11-29T01:17:28.033" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;All practical effects. The actor's skin was layered with blue latex paint. Dried Latex, unlike powdered or liquid based makeup will not smudge or run with sweat. Latex paint dries into a flexible rubber membrane (think balloon) that will follow the skin. This allows movement without the paint rubbing off. You have to pull or rub vigorously to get it off right. Ever get school glue stuck and dried on your hands? It's like that to get it off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The forehead was also a prosthetic latex cap, &lt;a href=&quot;http://startrekpropcollector.com/trekauctions/item.pl?i=5944&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;as seen in this auction photo&lt;/a&gt;:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gFocc.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gFocc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STAR TREK: ENT “ELECTRONIC ANDORIAN ANTENNAE AND PROSTHETICS”:&lt;/strong&gt; This incredible lot includes electronic Andorian antennae, prosthetic antennae and forehead application made for use during the Star Trek: Enterprise series. The electronic antennae are attached to a plastic skullcap with soft foam on the underside, covered electronics on top and net loops to grip into hair. A cable runs down the back that needs to plug into an unknown device (not included) in order for the antennae to move. The electronics are untested. The latex antennae are painted blue and fit over the electronic antennae. Also included is a latex Andorian forehead painted blue and a copy of the sheet handed out to the makeup artists titled “Andorian Makeup”. Please note the sheet is a copy and not an original but is included for reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the realistic skin look:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We applied the blue in subtle layers to give the skin a translucence instead of just slathering on blue paint.” &lt;strong&gt;—Brannon Braga&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Source: Star Trek: Communicator issue 136, p. 37)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See this picture for how the latex layered, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://startrekstuff-blog.tumblr.com/post/82220267180/there-is-actually-an-extra-step-with-the&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Tumblr post for the full makeup sequence&lt;/a&gt; (whose images were compiled from &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20120325040855/http://www.starbase972.com/modules.php?name=Content&amp;amp;pa=showpage&amp;amp;pid=355&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xs9qG.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xs9qG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to actor Jeffrey Combs (in &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20080412002018/http://trekweb.com/stories.php?aid=417fcc3544169&amp;amp;page=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is actually an extra step with the Andorians. The first thing you have to do is go in and have this little flat contoured plate kind of thing with the wiring for the antennae put on your head first. Then you go have make-up done to a particular point and then you go back and have the wig placed on and then you go back to get the final touches on the makeup. It’s about a two and a half hour process to get into Shran.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="5879" LastEditDate="2022-05-05T17:36:17.550" LastActivityDate="2022-05-05T17:36:17.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44108" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-29T01:43:23.313" Score="3" ViewCount="143" Body="&lt;p&gt;How are actors who have to do extensive makeup sequences paid? Are the 4+ hours of makeup prep work paid? Do they make allowances for how long it takes to remove the makeup?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am talking about any scene where the actor has to sit for hours for prosthetics or full body tattoos or alien/monster costumes. AFAIK typical SAG rules only cover screen or filming time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T11:21:39.403" Title="Extensive makeup and pay rates" Tags="|make-up|acting-career|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44108" CreationDate="2015-11-29T03:34:14.007" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hollywood-salaries-revealed-movie-stars-737321&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hollywood actors&lt;/a&gt; are paid &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.accountingtools.com/questions-and-answers/what-is-the-difference-between-salary-and-wages.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a &lt;em&gt;salary&lt;/em&gt;, as opposed to a &lt;em&gt;wage&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that whatever their agent gets for them in their contract covers every aspect of the performance needed for the film. &lt;a href=&quot;http://getinmedia.com/careers/talent-agent&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Typically, &quot;the agent is ... responsible for representing the talent in contract negotiations concerning salary, benefits, credit, and a myriad of other stipulations.&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This of course includes extensive make-up preparation, if needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27684" LastEditorDisplayName="user27684" LastEditDate="2015-11-29T03:50:13.277" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T03:50:13.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44111" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-29T04:59:01.907" Score="10" ViewCount="4916" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not asking about post credit scene; I am asking about bloopers.&#xA;I've done research and found &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Hour_%281998_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rush Hour&lt;/em&gt; (1998)&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is the first movie to show bloopers at the end of the movie. Are there any older examples than this movie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26490" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2018-12-19T07:01:06.250" LastActivityDate="2021-01-23T18:34:06.623" Title="What is the first movie to show bloopers at end credits?" Tags="|first-appearance|credits|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44111" CreationDate="2015-11-29T06:34:43.703" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/movies/hot-pursuit-and-other-films-elevate-the-art-of-the-blooper-reel.html?_r=0&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This article&lt;/a&gt; credits the movies &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Being There&lt;/a&gt; (1979) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Smokey and the Bandit II&lt;/a&gt; (1980) as being the early pioneers of the art.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another site listed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077696/?ref_=nv_sr_3&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hooper&lt;/a&gt; (1978) with Burt Reynolds, as being the earliest example of this in a movie. This makes sense because the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blooper&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia article on bloopers&lt;/a&gt; does credit Burt Reynolds and Jackie Chan with being known for putting bloopers in their ending credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yPPl0.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yPPl0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will update if I am able to find any earlier examples. Also I should mention that the wikipedia article mentions the earliest known &quot;bloopers&quot; to have been popularized on tv and radio as early as the 1930's, but the question specifically asks for the &lt;strong&gt;first movie&lt;/strong&gt; to show bloopers &lt;strong&gt;at the end of the movie&lt;/strong&gt; (ie in the credits) so I've limited my answer to that criteria.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T06:34:43.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42895" CreationDate="2015-11-29T08:02:42.813" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is the full text of what he says in this scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alex:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not Alex. I'm not Alex.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Keller:&lt;/strong&gt; What? What are you saying? What? What?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Alex:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm... Not... Alex...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Keller:&lt;/strong&gt; What do you mean you're not Alex? What?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Alex:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not Alex.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Keller:&lt;/strong&gt; Just a second, I don't understand. Just talk -- just talk to me.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Alex:&lt;/strong&gt; I waited, and he never came.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Keller:&lt;/strong&gt; Come on man. No more riddles. Just fuckin' tell me. I'll let you go home to your aunt if you tell me where they are.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Alex:&lt;/strong&gt; I just wanted to play...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Keller:&lt;/strong&gt; Don't make me do this again.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Alex:&lt;/strong&gt; ...and he never came.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Keller:&lt;/strong&gt; Don't make me do it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Alex:&lt;/strong&gt; He never came. I just wanted to play.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Keller:&lt;/strong&gt; Why are you making me do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To help maybe show what Alex is trying to say better, let's remove all of Keller's lines and look at what Alex is saying without the extra noise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alex:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not Alex. I'm not Alex. I'm... Not... Alex...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Keller:&lt;/strong&gt; What do you mean you're not Alex? What?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Alex:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm not Alex. I waited, and he never came.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Alex:&lt;/strong&gt; I just wanted to play...and he never came.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Alex:&lt;/strong&gt; He never came. I just wanted to play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the way he delivers these lines combined with some of the facts from the movie, I think Alex (Dano) was literally saying that he waited for the real Alex and he never came. In other words, &quot;I'm not Alex, I waited and he never came.&quot; He who? Who never came? Answer: the real Alex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that Barry Milliband is his real name and he was the first child to be abducted by the Jones' after they had lost their own son, whose name was Alex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on this evidence, I think that they lured Barry to come with them by telling him he could come over and play with their son Alex. Then they started drugging him and calling him Alex and over a long period of time he ended up brainwashed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2020-01-18T08:19:47.350" LastActivityDate="2020-01-18T08:19:47.350" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44116" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16806" CreationDate="2015-11-29T08:40:12.987" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The video surveillance edit happens while the transport is still at the prison, so we know that he got out of the transport before it even left. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point we don't know exactly what occurs, but we do know that the warden and his men have been compromised due to Carroll's people having the warden's daughter, Dana in captive. The lawyer is is also being blackmailed into helping Carroll and she can easily get through prison security with her car without a lot of questions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on all of this, we are meant to assume that Carroll was secretly smuggled into the lawyer's trunk. The specifics are simply not known but it given the situation, not entirely impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T08:40:12.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44101" CreationDate="2015-11-29T10:23:22.110" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;OK. This is a little tenuous so please bear with me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Roberto Patino has been exposed to the name &amp;quot;Vogel&amp;quot; twice in his career, once on the set of 'Sons of Anarchy' where he worked alongside &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2934282/?ref_=nmmd_md_nm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Torrey Vogel&lt;/a&gt; during the period when he was writing the script for Cut Bank. He also went to USC for a year in 2008-2009 where he would have been a contemporary of &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.linkedin.com/in/vogeljillian&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jillian Vogel&lt;/a&gt; although I've found no evidence that they knew each other (in a department with over 500 students).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to whether the name Vogel (e.g. &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Bird&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;) fits the characterisation, the answer is a firm 'No'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;INT. STEELEY HOME - LIVING ROOM - LATER&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Big Stan opens the door to SHERIFF VOGEL, 56, a &lt;strong&gt;once-burly, now thin and worn man in jeans and flannel. Heavy eyelids hang over his eyes. A grave countenance.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He flips his key ring around his finger incessantly. On the key ring is a DIRTY&#xA;GRAY-BROWN RABBIT FOOT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T10:23:22.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38749" CreationDate="2015-11-29T10:25:11.293" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The whole hallucination could be interpreted as House arguing within himself whether to take ketamine considering the risk of his mind being affected. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The shooter said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You think that the only truth that matters is the truth that can be measured. Good intentions don’t count. What’s in your heart doesn’t count. Caring doesn’t count. A man’s life can’t be measured by how many tears are shed when he dies. Just because you can’t measure them, just because you don’t want to measure them, doesn’t mean it’s not real. And even if I’m wrong, you’re still miserable. Did you really think that your life’s purpose was to sacrifice yourself and get nothing in return? No. You believe there’s no purpose to anything. Even the lives you save, you dismiss. You turn the one decent thing in your life and you taint it, you strip it of all meaning. You’re miserable for nothing. I don’t know why you’d want to live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then House eventual apology to the shooter and his shedding a tear showed the &quot;humility&quot; side in him that made the final choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;S03E01 explained, when Wilson said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I heard you were watching surgery with a patient's family, talking to a patient's family. It's because of your hallucination, isn't it? &lt;strong&gt;After you were shot. You chose life. You decided you wanted meaning&lt;/strong&gt;, so you took a case with no mystery, something any doctor could do, a case with no upside except the satisfaction of helping another human being.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and House didn't deny it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28237" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-05-10T04:24:39.820" LastActivityDate="2016-05-10T04:24:39.820" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44122" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-11-29T11:04:01.743" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-11-29T11:04:01.743" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T11:04:01.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44123" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-11-29T11:04:01.743" Score="0" Body="1984 Sequel to &quot;Raiders of the Lost Ark&quot;, starring Harrison Ford as an archaeologist who comes across a murderous, child kidnapping cult in India" OwnerUserId="2058" LastEditorUserId="2058" LastEditDate="2015-11-29T11:46:13.190" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T11:46:13.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44108" CreationDate="2015-11-29T11:21:39.403" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Taking Daniel's answer into account, yes, principal actors will likely be salaried.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Day Players&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt; &amp;amp; Supporting Artists [SA's] on the other hand, are usually paid by the hour, so any additional time spent in makeup is simply a part of their contracted day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rules are different for UK/US &amp;amp; presumably other countries, but essentially, their day is 9 hours, including a 1-hour meal break. Any time after that is paid at overtime rates [time &amp;amp; a half]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Early call is paid if they need to attend before 6am &amp;amp; night-rate overtime is paid up to 6am, when the 'day' starts.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;If there is no other consideration then overtime would again start at 3pm, until they sign off at the end of the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All hours in attendance are paid in the same way, whether they are in makeup/costume, travelling from base to set, merely waiting off set [in a green room or bus/trailer] or actually participating in a scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 9-hour day is a guaranteed rate, even if you are in attendance for less than that. [Unless booked as a shift call which is 4 hours]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;[1]&lt;/sup&gt;Day Players [small parts, or only required for one or two scenes] may be paid on either a salary or hourly basis, depending on their negotiated contract.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25773" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T11:21:39.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13829" CreationDate="2015-11-29T16:59:06.520" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the only reason for Virgil to end up in an asylum would be because he was really suffering advancing dementia or Alzheimer's. But I believe he actually ends up living with the outside world for the first time, gloveless and breaking out of his routine. True it's sad he got taken, but in the end he was the one who was given the gift to break out of his shell, leaving behind in exchange all his fantasies or &quot;forgeries&quot; that were holding him back from truly living in reality. I think that this movie services as a bigger metaphor for how we often become stuck in the safety of our illusions rather than taking risks and getting hurt. The only difference was that Virgil was being taken for profit of money while he began to take profit for his heart and soul. This story to me can also be seen as redemption, whereby Virgil begins to slowly forfeit his materialistic desires and deceit of self and others for something more enduring and authentic. In a sense, Virgil becomes the authentic, living work of art rather than the forger hoarding authentic works of art. The ending idea where he's in an asylum only makes sense to me if he began losing his grasp of reality.- which is possible I suppose because if it happened that way, once he began living in reality, he could have snapped and it became too much for him to accept and handle. Still, if you're an optimist you would believe he began to flourish after being awakened, hence him beginning a new life in Prague, gloveless waiting with hope that his affair with fake Claire was more than just a scam. The movie is deliberately ambiguous at the end so that the viewer could decide based on their own views.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28244" LastActivityDate="2015-11-29T16:59:06.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44134" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44153" CreationDate="2015-11-29T18:31:41.180" Score="3" ViewCount="301" Body="&lt;p&gt;Talking about the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4934950/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Talvar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the scene where Reema (played by Tabu) returned some items to Ashwin Kumar (played by Irfan Khan), Ashwin was upset. Coz those items (cards, letters, photos) were important to him and Reema mentioned them as &quot;his stuff&quot;. Then after confirmation of trial separation between Reema &amp;amp; Ashwin, Ashwin said to Reema:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ashwin: Have you seen the movie &quot;Ijazaat&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tabbu: No .... Why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reema: Just asked ...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there was another scene where Reema called Ashwin, Ashwin heard a song and asked:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are you watching Ijazat ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the significance of this movie &quot;Ijazaat&quot; that this was mentioned by the character in that context? I haven't seen Ijazaat. Does anyone know what Irfan was pointing at by mentioning this movie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-30T09:56:27.037" LastActivityDate="2017-05-29T11:45:22.297" Title="Why did Ashwin ask Reema about watching the movie &quot;Ijazaat&quot; in &quot;Talvar&quot;?" Tags="|dialogue|plot-explanation|talvar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44136" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44142" CreationDate="2015-11-29T20:39:47.303" Score="7" ViewCount="339" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the German version of &quot;Terminator: Genisys&quot;, someone says that the time machine will annihilate any non-living matter.&#xA;It is described as &quot;lebendes Gewebe&quot; in German, which translates verbatim to &quot;alive tissue&quot; in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AFAIK, toenails, fingernails, and hair fall in the category &quot;dead matter.&quot; Shouldn't it be eliminated too? Or is it just the German synchronization?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28252" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-07T14:41:16.457" LastActivityDate="2016-08-07T14:41:16.457" Title="How does &quot;alive tissue&quot; include nails and hair?" Tags="|terminator-series|terminator-genisys|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44138" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44183" CreationDate="2015-11-30T02:18:49.047" Score="1" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first &lt;em&gt;Hunger Games&lt;/em&gt; movie during the skills demo (when Katniss shoots the apple from the pig) it appears as if the targets are all static. That seems like a very boring and easy skills demo. Wouldn't it be more useful if the targets moved?  It is shown in a later movie that they have the technology for a hologram training simulator. Why wasn't that used? It surely would be a better gauge of the tributes' odds of surviving... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I'm primarily looking for a good in-universe answer&lt;/strong&gt; if possible. I don't believe this is specifically addressed in the books or the movies so reasonable supposition is allowed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out-of-universe it might be for budget reasons or fidelity with the book. The books wouldn't have the budget constraint, so I suppose the author didn't think of it at the time. Alternatively the author may have wanted a boring skills demo so the William Tell moment by Katniss would be even more shocking...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26325" LastEditorUserId="26325" LastEditDate="2015-11-30T20:36:22.193" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T10:19:56.553" Title="Why have static targets for tributes while demoing their skills?" Tags="|the-hunger-games|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44141" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-30T05:18:42.740" Score="6" ViewCount="2830" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Marty decides to go back from 1958 to 1988 in Back to the Future, he decides to go back several minutes before the doctor is killed by the terrorists, to warn him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when he arrives late, he sees another copy of him re-enacting what had happened at that point of time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can this make any sense?&#xA;Shouldn't the other copy be extinct? Or at least not present at that place at that time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the sake of argument, if that copy's existence is justified, does that mean that he (the copy) will do the same actions done by the &amp;quot;real Marty&amp;quot; and perhaps take the same decisions to come back early and warn the doctor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't that cause an infinite cycle of Marty clones?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2022-07-27T01:44:36.020" LastActivityDate="2022-07-27T01:48:53.300" Title="Why does Marty see another duplicate of himself when he returns?" Tags="|plot-explanation|back-to-the-future|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44136" CreationDate="2015-11-30T05:22:32.453" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The two people who say non-living matter are Kyle, who was told by John, and John, who was told by Sarah, who was told by Kyle... who was told by John. Both John and Kyle are using the Time Displacement Engine for the first time in their respective timelines, and the TDE is the &lt;strong&gt;&quot;first tactical time weapon&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;. As we see later on in Genisys, the same Time Displacement Engine we see Kyle sent through, is being built as a prototype in the altered past by the now infected John.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that means that not only is the information on the TDE is a paradox, but it is also spoken by people in normal conversation, not scientific accuracy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of thinking it as &lt;em&gt;non-dead&lt;/em&gt;, Living Matter can stand to mean &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Organic Matter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, as opposed to inorganic matter. It could also mean &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Biological Matter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Both would include hair and nails, which while the exposed parts are dead, they are still organic in nature.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more technical meaning of the Time Displacement Engine's restriction of Living Tissue is that Living Tissue creates a &quot;Bioelectrical Field&quot; which is needed for the TDE to work. Hair and Nails, being bio-compatible with the body, would not block this field, allowing the hair and nail to be included.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subnote: The clothes rule, based on the Organic Matter rule above, is likely because no one wears 100% organic clothing. The fancy uniforms in the future are likely not made from farm animals or plants. They look synthetic and plastic-y. And even 1973 would be full of synthetic blend fabrics. 1960s had an influx of synthetic fabric due to low cotton crop production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-11-30T07:52:23.243" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T07:52:23.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-30T05:42:31.343" Score="9" ViewCount="607" Body="&lt;p&gt;President Snow is characterized as being a very cunning, calculating man. He has a long history as Dictator of Panem, making allies and killing enemies as needed, and being basically untouchable. Yet his decisions surrounding the Girl on Fire seem very questionable. Even without hindsight or genre savviness, as the movies progress, each of his moves around Katniss seem blatantly over the top and foolish. He also completely underestimates his only military rival.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that his constant use of poison has lead to incurable mouth sores. Mockingjay Part 2 shows us he is sicker, with his faintness, paler than normal skin, and constant coughing. It heavily implies he has more than just a minor condition, considering that he coughs copious amounts of blood, and the &quot;should I get your doctor&quot; scene. I took it to mean he was terminally ill. Snow is also 76 at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Taking his age, illness, and frankly idiotic decisions towards Katniss and Coin, compared to his stated cunning, is there evidence that President Snow was turning senile, or otherwise mentally affected by sickness or age?&lt;/strong&gt; Movie, Book, or Interview/Word of God would be accepted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-05T00:08:07.147" LastActivityDate="2016-08-05T00:08:07.147" Title="Was Snow turning senile?" Tags="|character|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-mockingjay-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44145" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44141" CreationDate="2015-11-30T05:52:34.363" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Back to the Future&lt;/strong&gt; characters operate on the basis of keeping the timeline mostly intact. Doc, in particular, is very very concerned with ensuring that future events do not affect past events, or it will cause a paradox. In this case, had Doc never befriended Marty, and Marty had never traveled back in time, Marty would never have gone back in time in the first place. It creates a &lt;strong&gt;predestination paradox.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Future-Marty never affects Past-Marty, Past-Marty will do everything exactly the same as before, changing himself into Future-Marty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any given point in that timeline, there are only two copies of Marty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2022-07-27T01:45:55.597" LastActivityDate="2022-07-27T01:45:55.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44146" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44463" CreationDate="2015-11-30T06:04:32.657" Score="2" ViewCount="585" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Country of Panem is covers the ruins of a war torn and geologically changed North America some X hundred years from now. Yet everyone and their mother is named after Roman Empire based Latin and Greek names.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suzanne Collins has noted that &lt;strong&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/strong&gt; is essentially a modern (futuristic) retelling of Ancient Rome's era of &lt;strong&gt;*Panem et Circenses&lt;/strong&gt;, Bread and Circus (read, Hunger and Games).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This explains their out-of-universe naming. But since Panem exists in the real Earth, with a maybe not so distant history that &lt;strong&gt;includes the real Roman Empire&lt;/strong&gt;, do Panem citizens know of their Roman heritage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T04:16:22.860" Title="Do Panem citizens know of their Roman namesake?" Tags="|the-hunger-games|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44136" CreationDate="2015-11-30T07:19:15.720" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hair and fingernails are classified as keratins. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Keratin is the protein that protects epithelial cells from damage or stress that has potential to kill the cell.&quot;&lt;/a&gt; Keratin is also part of the outer layer of skin and the tongue and hard palate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While keratin is formed from dead cells, it is clearly a key biological element in the survival of a living organism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, keratin is a biological element and is different from items such as clothing and it makes sense that it would be included in part of the transported matter since it is an integral part of the organism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T07:19:15.720" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44151" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44161" CreationDate="2015-11-30T07:42:18.993" Score="13" ViewCount="3231" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who portrayed a character in &lt;strong&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/strong&gt;, passed away during the middle of filming for the &lt;strong&gt;Mockingjay&lt;/strong&gt; movies. His character, Plutarch Heavensbee, is a central figure in &lt;strong&gt;Catching Fire&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Mockingjay Part 1&lt;/strong&gt;. After seeing &lt;strong&gt;Part 2&lt;/strong&gt;, I can say he had a notable lack of importance, though the plot itself may have lent to that analysis, as the movie focuses on the war action more than the political machinations of its prequel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to an interview by Director Francis Lawrence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;[Hoffman] had two substantial scenes left and the rest were appearances in other scenes. We had no intention of trying to fake a performance, so we rewrote those scenes to give to other actors… The rest, we just didn’t have him appear in those scenes. There’s no digital manipulation or CG fabrication of any kind.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Bravo to the crew on this decision, post-mortem digitalization is beyond the pale...)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my viewing, I believe one of those substantial scenes was &lt;strong&gt;The outro following Coin's death, where Haymitch reads a letter from Plutarch to Katniss.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this one of the significant scenes, and which are the other scenes that were changed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-06-22T07:04:48.980" LastActivityDate="2016-06-22T07:04:48.980" Title="What changes to Mockingjay Part 2 were made due to P. S. Hoffman's passing?" Tags="|character|production|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-mockingjay-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44134" CreationDate="2015-11-30T08:46:55.497" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you see that part again, you might hear Ashwin singing &quot;Mera kuch Saman..&quot; song which is written by Gulzar and is part of movie &quot;Ijazat&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All though, they both have been in trial period of their divorce, Ashwin does not want to end his marriage. If you see the movie &quot;Ijazat&quot;, It has same kind of story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second conversation, When Reema call for her medicine mane, Ashwin hear the same song and that's why he asked her that was she watching the movie? It is just that both are still dependent on each other and even they separate they would be friends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the start when judge ask them why they want to divorce and Reema says there is nothing for what they stay together. But at the end of second conversation, they feel there is something still between them and that's why they are together at the end of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21017" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-29T11:45:22.297" LastActivityDate="2017-05-29T11:45:22.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44154" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44155" CreationDate="2015-11-30T09:05:28.153" Score="8" ViewCount="7413" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 11th episode of the 7th series of &lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;em&gt;The One With All The Cheesecakes&lt;/em&gt; Ross tries to use his &quot;new nickname&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ross: Hey Joe, while you’re over there how about another beer for the&#xA;  Ross-A-Tron?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joey: The Ross—Is that back?!! (Chandler motions no.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone explain Joey's and Chandler's reaction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T09:16:17.407" Title="The &quot;Ross-A-Tron&quot; joke" Tags="|plot-explanation|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44154" CreationDate="2015-11-30T09:16:17.407" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just a silly nickname that Ross liked and the rest of the gang hated. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://friends.wikia.com/wiki/The_One_With_All_The_Cheesecakes/Transcript&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;earlier in the scene&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Phoebe:&lt;/strong&gt; Well, I'll tell you Rachel Karen Green, I had plans with Joey tonight and he left me this note. (Hands it to Rachel.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rachel:&lt;/strong&gt; (reading the note) &amp;quot;Pheebs, can't make it, got a date. Talk to you later. Big Daddy.&amp;quot; (Laughs) Big Daddy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Phoebe:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh that's a nickname we were trying out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ross:&lt;/strong&gt; Hey, y'know what nickname never caught on? &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Ross-A-Tron!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Monica shakes her head in disgust.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seems Ross tried out this nickname before and it didn't go so well. Joey is upset that they might have to call Ross by that stupid name again, but Chandler silently assures him that they won't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T09:16:17.407" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43691" CreationDate="2015-11-30T13:28:11.500" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;After all these years I am still uncertain if this is a real movie or something the writers made up. But it always reminds me of the following scene of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_%281999_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mummy (1999)&lt;/a&gt;. Keep in mind that the 8th season of Friends is dated around 2001-2002 so the timing is correct:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/m4wK0lo0xps?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20657" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T13:28:11.500" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44065" CreationDate="2015-11-30T13:42:47.653" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Walt is also a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; cautious man. He went for a long time without even his wife figuring out he was cooking meth, and she only found out because she became suspicious when he talked about his second phone whilst under the effects of sedatives and was not fully lucid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He manages to go even longer without his son finding anything out, not to mention his DEA agent brother-in-law who also only finds out by accident.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also gets away with multiple murders without getting found out. He is far too clever and careful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gus knows all of this. Perhaps not to its fullest extent, but he understands how Walt works, and is very clever himself, so he would at least heavily suspect how clever Walt is and how much he has gotten away with in order to get to where he is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Gus knows that as soon as he gets someone to follow Walt, he will notice and evade them. I'm sure Gus would rather have the extra person protecting him, rather than out looking for Walt, who would likely figure out he was being followed very quickly and go back into hiding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T13:42:47.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44151" CreationDate="2015-11-30T14:53:06.720" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Nina Jacobson, the producer, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-tragic-death-of-Philip-Seymour-Hoffman-alter-the-Hunger-Games-franchise?no_redirect=1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this answer on Quora&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Practically, Phil had shot about 80% of his scenes.  What we had to do with the remaining 20% was to give two key scenes to Liz Banks and Woody Harrelson.  In MJ1, Effie gives Katniss Cinna's design for the mockingjay uniform instead of Plutarch, as was originally scripted.  In MJ2, Haymitch reads a letter in a scene that, in the book and the original script, takes places between Katniss and Plutarch. Without a doubt, Phil would be a bigger presence in the movie if he had stayed with us.  I miss him at many levels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7962" LastEditorUserId="7962" LastEditDate="2016-06-21T13:49:07.320" LastActivityDate="2016-06-21T13:49:07.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44162" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-30T15:45:32.880" Score="1" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Hunger Games&lt;/em&gt; franchise, what is the state of the rest of the world? What has become of the world in this futuristic society? Is there any mention either in the movies or books which would lead us to believe what's going on outside of Panem? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T15:45:32.880" Title="What is the state of the rest of the world in The Hunger Games?" Tags="|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-mockingjay-2|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2015-11-30T16:44:44.783" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44163" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44185" CreationDate="2015-11-30T15:48:50.567" Score="5" ViewCount="20616" Body="&lt;p&gt;In relation to my other question about &quot;the rest of the world&quot; in &lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/em&gt;, is there any indication as to how the rest of the world sees what's happening in Panem? In today's society, if there is a huge upheaval going on in another country (especially one as large as Panem), there would be great interest as to what is going on. Are there any clues for us to help us understand how the rest of the world views the event (or do they even care)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T17:33:15.730" Title="Does the rest of the world know what's happening in Panem (do they even care)?" Tags="|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-mockingjay-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14136" CreationDate="2015-11-30T16:33:06.873" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I find it odd that no one else has interpreted that scene the way I did, but I believe the reason that he leaves is for &lt;em&gt;revenge&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt has been trapped on that ranch for months on his own, without any contact with the outside world. We know that, because he pays the guy who put him into hiding $10,000 to stay with him a little longer, just because he wants some company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when Walt finally ventures off the ranch and goes down to the bar, after he has spoken to his son, he decides to turn himself in because he is dying and he has nothing else to live for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, whilst he is watching the interview, the interviewer explains at one point that blue meth is still being distributed through the south-west, and that Heisenberg is still at large.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt knows that there is only one person who could make the blue meth to a standard that would be mistaken for his own, and that is Jesse. And the last time he saw Jesse was when he was supposed to be killed by the White Supremacist gang.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the first he would ever know of this, because as soon as Jesse was taken, Walt went into hiding, and had zero contact with the outside world since then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He realizes that they never killed Jesse, and are now using him to cook the meth, and selling it as Heisenberg product. He realizes that before he turns himself in to help his family, there is someone else who he needs to help: Jesse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think he really cares about being disassociated with Grey Matter, his legacy now is Heisenberg. That is what is currently being taken away from him. This is why he chooses to stay by all of the meth cooking equipment in the final scene, so that he will be found and everyone will know that he is Heisenberg, and will think that it was him cooking the meth for all of that time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Making Gretchen and Elliott give his money to Junior as a charitable donation was simply the icing on the cake. He finally managed to get his money to his family, and also got to confront his old partners and show them that he was more powerful than them, but if that was what he initially went back for, he could have done that and then gone back into hiding, gone and lived the rest of his days on an island or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His main priority was to retrieve his legacy, to die as Heisenberg, powerful and in his prime, instead of as Walter White, old and alone in the middle of nowhere. That's why he tells Skylar that he cooked the meth for himself, he was telling her who he had become over the past 2 years, and he also managed to help her out for all the terrible things that he had done to her and his son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether he let Jesse leave because he realized he'd done a terrible thing to him, or to make sure that he didn't take any credit for cooking the meth is open to interpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T16:33:06.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44169" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-30T16:50:47.277" Score="4" ViewCount="297" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/44030/what-country-does-no-escape-take-place-in&quot;&gt;What country does No Escape take place in?&lt;/a&gt; the country is unknown and population speaks a mix of some Thai languages, what language is used in newspapers and store billboards portrayed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d3ZtV.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d3ZtV.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Em3N.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Em3N.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T07:24:38.250" Title="Which language was used on store billboards and newspapers in No Escape (2015)?" Tags="|no-escape|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44141" CreationDate="2015-11-30T16:51:01.570" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;To understand the answer, think about when Doc explains how the timelines work in Back to the Future II, and about how alternate realities can be created by making changes in the past.  The whole story in BTTF is fluent to Marty, but at the end of the movie when he travels back to 1985 early to warn Doc about the terrorists he does not return to his original timeline because of the changes he had made in the past. He instead returns to 1985A where his Dad is now a famous writer and Biff cleans cars for a living.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 1985A timeline, Marty has still befriended Doc Brown and was helping him with the time travel experiment just as it happened in the original timeline.  Marty gets there to witness Doc getting shot and himself going back to 1955.  At that moment he is the only Marty that is in that reality.  That 1985A reality will keep going and not loop to create &quot;an infinite cycle of Marty clones&quot;.  BTTF II starts in the alternate 1985A timeline.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can be assumed that in the original BTTF timeline, Marty travels back to 1955 and never returns so the Marty in that timeline becomes a missing person and is never seen again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26401" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-29T11:43:09.763" LastActivityDate="2017-05-29T11:43:09.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44171" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44174" CreationDate="2015-11-30T17:30:51.527" Score="8" ViewCount="1442" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before the first assassination in &lt;em&gt;Munich&lt;/em&gt; (2005), of Wael Zwaiter, Eric Bana gives the whole team some kind of sticks to eat. Why does he give those and what are those called?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5647" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-30T19:04:45.897" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T19:04:45.897" Title="Why does Eric Bana give sticks to all Mossad assassins to eat before the first assassination?" Tags="|plot-explanation|munich|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44173" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-30T17:45:30.340" Score="10" ViewCount="718" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1984 events of &lt;em&gt;Terminator: Genisys&lt;/em&gt; when Kyle and Sarah, having destroyed the only known enemy robot in their timeline, approach their one-shot Time Displacement Engine (TDE), they get into an argument about whether they should travel to 1997 or 2017.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At no point do they question whether they should jump forward in time at all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In either scenario, their goal is to travel to a point in time that is mere days ahead of Judgement Day (i.e., Skynet going online).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose it would be tedious to watch them prepare over years to thwart Skynet/Genisys, the way Sarah did in the previous timeline (T1-T3).  And given the poor dialog I can see why the producers would have been happy to move things along.  But &lt;strong&gt;is there any internally consistent reason why there would be any urgency to jump forward in time to stop SkyNet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably any future enemies with access to a TDE would have already sent back as many soldiers to kill them as possible.  I.e., time doesn't run concurrently.  It's not like the future enemy just learned something from its T-1000 having failed and been destroyed: All it knows is that it sent one (or more) T-1000s back but that Sarah Connor and the resistance still exist in its past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So travelling forward at the normal rate could only be a good thing:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They could stockpile weapons, tactics, and allies (as did Sarah Connor in T2)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They could gather intelligence&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Most importantly: &lt;strong&gt;They could avoid overshooting the critical point in time at which Skynet could be stopped.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, by not using the TDE to travel forward they could reserve a potential &quot;do-over&quot; to jump &lt;em&gt;back&lt;/em&gt; in time should they fail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20456" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-07T22:29:27.590" LastActivityDate="2016-08-07T22:29:27.590" Title="What's the rush to travel forward in time?" Tags="|plot-explanation|time-travel|terminator-series|terminator-genisys|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44171" CreationDate="2015-11-30T18:39:07.137" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/munich.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; indicates that they're &amp;quot;drawing straws&amp;quot; (e.g. to determine who will actually do the dirty deed). A closer inspection of the film reveals that the straws are in fact '&lt;a href=&quot;http://i5.walmartimages.com/dfw/dce07b8c-8392/k2-_752d2c5a-a453-478c-801d-1e1215dc3c37.v1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;grissini&lt;/a&gt;'-style breadsticks, which of course ties in nicely with the fact that they're in Rome...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INT. A SAFEHOUSE APARTMENT IN ROME - LATE AFTERNOON&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A one-room&#xA;apartment, windows tightly shuttered, though golden Roman afternoon&#xA;light is leaking in. There are several mattresses on the floor, and&#xA;street maps, surveillance photos, documents, newspapers lie scattered&#xA;about. Avner, Carl, Hans, Robert and Steve, dressed in the clothes&#xA;they'll wear during the hit, are kneeling on the floor in a circle.&#xA;Carl holds four straws in his fist. Avner watches; the others draw&#xA;straws.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;They compare. Robert has the shortest straw. The others look at him.&#xA;He looks away, unhappy.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uKWDx.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uKWDx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T18:39:07.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44176" CreationDate="2015-11-30T18:51:52.207" Score="1" ViewCount="583" Body="&lt;p&gt;As seen in many episodes of teen wolf, mountain ash has been used to trap the 'supernatural' inside a circle etc etc. For example, in season 5 (episode 9 or 10?) Liam trapped Scott inside the mountain ash circle. There's one thing that I'm not fully certain about. Why didn't Scott throw a table or a chair to the mountain ash? He could've pushed the table and the mountain ash would've faded away... our would've it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Question is: could've (for example Scott) in that situation done what I explained there? Or is there something more to the mountain ash that I don't know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28276" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-04T07:03:30.360" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T07:03:30.360" Title="Teen wolf mountain ash myth" Tags="|teen-wolf-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44175" CreationDate="2015-11-30T19:24:23.813" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like a lot of the mystical elements of this show, the details about how mountain ash works are purposely left vague (that way, the writers have freedom to fudge things as needed).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the point about the mountain ash is not that it &lt;em&gt;physically&lt;/em&gt; prevents a werewolf from crossing over it, but rather, there's is a &lt;em&gt;magical&lt;/em&gt; barrier to werewolves passing over it. We see, near the end of Season 1, Scott's special status allows him to break through a mountain ash barrier with extreme effort, but it creates a visible energy barrier that goes all the way to the ceiling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea seems to be that a werewolf cannot do &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; that would allow them to break or cross a mountain ash barrier. Any act that the werewolf would take that might disrupt that barrier is &lt;em&gt;magically&lt;/em&gt; prevented from working. The mountain ash itself would somehow resist any such attempt to break the circle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also another minor bit of supporting evidence in favor of this theory. If you look closely, you'll notice that mountain ash, when laid down by a druid, always seems to fall in a straight line or perfect circle. In other words, the mountain ash seems to &quot;know&quot; it's being used to create a barrier and forms itself up in the appropriate shape to do so. That would imply that whatever magic is driving the mountain ash to work is capable of &quot;fixing&quot; any attempts to break the barrier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T19:24:23.813" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44173" CreationDate="2015-11-30T19:41:32.973" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So travelling forward at the normal rate could only be a good thing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, it would be the opposite. Sarah and Pops only waited because they needed a Future Tech cpu to power their homemade Time Displacement Engine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Waiting longer could risk being injured, or loosing strength, being caught stockpiling weapons, having the TDE being discovered (it's tapping power from the entire city), having Pops get destroyed and his tech discovered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any errant car or bullet or anything could kill Sarah, causing irreparable harm to the timeline and the rebellion if Skynet wasn't stopped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;having destroyed the only known enemy robot in their timeline&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not true. They had destroyed &lt;em&gt;The original&lt;/em&gt; Terminator, but also a T-1000. In the original time-line, the T-1000 was sent to 1990s, not 1980s.  Sarah and Kyle would be in &lt;strong&gt;continuous risk&lt;/strong&gt; by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;taking the long way&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to kill Skynet before its born. &lt;strong&gt;Remember, The Infected-John was active in the 2010s!&lt;/strong&gt; That means they would have risked multiple years of death while trying to stop Skynet's activation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on Sarah's reaction, the plan was always for Pops to accompany her in the TDE. The plan changed the minute that Pops' skin get compromised, hence he needed to take the long way around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, waiting 30 years, they would no longer be in their prime. 50 year old Kyle and Sarah may not have been strong enough to take on any resistance. Even Pops was showing signs of age related problems. &lt;code&gt;Old.- But not Obsolete&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-11-30T19:41:32.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44181" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44207" CreationDate="2015-11-30T20:12:10.330" Score="2" ViewCount="1750" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896534/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Deadgirl (2008)&lt;/a&gt;, after jock boyfriend Johnny is bitten in his privates by the dead girl, he gets sick for a few days and later dies by excreting his own intestines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this happens, JT finds out that if the dead girl bites you, you will turn into a zombie too. He finds this out after she bites Dwyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So if this is true, then why didn't Johnny turn into a zombie instead of simply dying?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2020-03-24T10:45:11.427" LastActivityDate="2020-03-25T13:52:01.843" Title="Why did this character simply die in Deadgirl (2008)?" Tags="|plot-explanation|deadgirl|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44182" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-11-30T20:22:59.000" Score="7" ViewCount="262" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Danaerys &quot;reunites&quot; with Drogo in the House of the Undying in S2E10: &quot;Valar Morghulis&quot; what is the wind instrument playing? Some kind of horn or flute thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28281" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-30T20:23:56.603" LastActivityDate="2017-12-22T01:55:54.077" Title="Music In The House Of The Undying" Tags="|game-of-thrones|soundtrack|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44138" CreationDate="2015-11-30T20:26:05.243" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no specific In-Universe answer in either the book or the movie for the static target. You are left with your own imagination/interpretation as to why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not even a reasonable supposition?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, Katniss is not an exceptionally favored Tribute. Aside from her volunteering 'stunt' at the Reaping, she's still a District 12 tribute. Not exceptionally strong, charismatic, intelligent, or ruthless. She's average. She's young. The odds are not in her favor, not compared to the Careers, specially trained 18 year old killing machines. Katniss doesn't play the politic game of the Hunger Games yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taking that into account, and how the training sessions don't seem to be televised (unlike the interviews with Caesar), the demo were staged by the game makers, for the senior game makers. First, the game makers are not even remotely interested in Katniss when she first walks in, because of the above. Not favored to win, not charismatic/politician. She's done nothing to draw in their attention. Two, the game makers underestimate her ability with the bow. Three, Katniss is the last of 24 Tributes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After about fifteen minutes [After Peeta went in], they call my name. I smooth my hair, set my shoulders back, and walk into the gymnasium. Instantly, I know I’m in trouble. &lt;strong&gt;They’ve been here too long, the Gamemakers. Sat through twenty-three other demonstrations. Had too much to wine, most of them. Want more than anything to go home.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So they don't bother making an elaborate demo for her.&lt;/strong&gt; Why bother when she's not likely to win or make for good entertainment. It's a waste of effort, time and money. This signifies a complete lack of interest in Katniss. Katniss is boring to them, so her demo is boring. &lt;em&gt;(And because her Demo is boring, Katniss will continue to be boring, a vicious cycle right?)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her righteous anger and the Pig Stunt changes that dramatically. Katniss clues in on how she needs to play the game, by playing the people. By &lt;em&gt;acting&lt;/em&gt;. The literary answer as you mentioned, to shock both the reader and the characters. Her stunt causes everyone to look at her as a viable competitor for the first time. The following year, they put up a force field. And the demos are less boring, as all the Tributes are proven Victors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the scene is a bit different in the book, short but exciting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I choose a bow, string it, and sling the matching quiver of arrows over my shoulder. &lt;strong&gt;There’s a shooting range, but it’s much too limited.&lt;/strong&gt; Standard bull's-eyes and human silhouettes. I walk to the center of the gymnasium and pick my first target. &lt;strong&gt;The dummy used for knife practice.&lt;/strong&gt; Even as I pull back on the bow I know something is wrong. The string’s tighter than the one I use at home. The arrow’s more rigid. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I miss the dummy by a couple of inches and lose what little attention I had been commanding.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; For a moment, I’m humiliated, then I head back to the bull’s-eye. &lt;em&gt;I shoot again and again until I get the feel of these new weapons.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Back in the center of the gymnasium, I take my initial position and skewer the dummy right through the heart. Then I sever the rope that holds the sandbag for boxing, and the bag splits open as it slams to the ground. &lt;strong&gt;Without pausing, I shoulder-roll forward, come up on one knee, and send an arrow into one of the hanging lights high above the gymnasium floor. A shower of sparks bursts from the fixture.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s excellent shooting. I turn to the Gamemakers. A few are nodding approval, but the majority of them are fixated on a roast pig that has just arrived at their banquet table.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, she has their complete attention, but her single shot was off target, losing the Gamemakers attention completely before her second perfect shot. And the pig was already there. Compare:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/5XmzSjqIPHs?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Also missing from the movie? One of the Gamemakers falling back into a bowl of punch from shock of Katniss shooting the Arrow. That Gamemaker? Plutarch Heavensbee, as we learned in Catching fire.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T10:19:56.553" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1732" CreationDate="2015-11-30T21:20:14.660" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because narration breaks the illusion of suspension of disbelief and immersion. &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/hunger-games-interviews-gary-ross-rothc-162268/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hunger Games director Gary Ross was directly asked and directly answered&lt;/a&gt; on why it lacks any narration, from Katniss or otherwise:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Screenrant:&lt;/strong&gt; This was a tough nut to crack, obviously. The book is so Katniss-centric and relies on her particular understanding of how to play this game. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was there ever a point that you thought about voiceover narration to give us a sense of her internal dialouge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gary Ross:&lt;/strong&gt; “No, never. Because I never wanted you to feel like you were in a movie. I wanted you to feel like you were in the games. I wanted you to feel like you were in her world. I wanted you to feel like you were in the Capitol. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And the minute I engage in voiceover, I shatter that and I tell you that you’re in a movie and I create a distance I don’t want.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; I want engagement not distance. And I felt that I could convey everything, especially with an actress like Jen (Lawrence). &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I mean, I don’t need to articulate in text what Jen is more than capable of doing in subtext, you know?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emphasis, Mine. Basic movie tenet - &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Show, Don't Tell&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further more, it allowed the movie to do things the book did not:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The important thing about the mutts to me was, not specifically that they were tributes, but that they were a creation of the Capitol designed for this particular instrument at this particular moment in the games. And because we had the games and were actually able to show their creation, we were actually able to show them being birthed in that game center and then revealed in the games. &lt;strong&gt;We had the ability to do something by cutting away that a novel isn’t when it’s constantly maintaining Katniss’s point of view.&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had it been done completely in Katniss's view, we would never be able to see the Game Maker's control center or any scene where Katniss is not present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-13T11:59:33.493" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44163" CreationDate="2015-11-30T21:58:14.307" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as the book and the movie are concerned, there is no rest of the world. It has also gone completely untouched by Suzanne Collins. The book sometimes implies that the rest of the world was destroyed, between wars and geological disasters (Panem is located in North America [Canada, Mexico, USA], but most of modern day coasts are shown as flooded, Sea level rise). But we only have Katniss's word for this. And Katniss is a slave in a despotic country, one that is reminiscent of modern day North Korea. Any education given to Katniss and other district citizens is highly controlled by the Capitol. &lt;strong&gt;Katniss doesn't even know much about other districts, let alone District 13 being real/surviving, because of Capitol restriction on knowledge.&lt;/strong&gt; Katniss herself mentions this multiple times, that what she knows, is what the Capitol wanted her to know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the adage goes, history books are written by the victors. Whomever is in charge determine what's the correct information to give. See 1984, Interstellar, V for Vendetta, or any book regarding dystopian governments. Or you know, real life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So we have an unreliable, undereducated narrator, and an Author that refuses to broach the subject. No answer can be given.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can assume though, that outside nations do exist. &lt;strong&gt;After all, why spend any effort on maintaining and developing an active Nuclear arsenal when you have no enemies that you can't destroy with standard bombings?&lt;/strong&gt; District 13 was, before the Dark Days and the Hunger Games, the designated military defense for Panem and the Capitol. After the districts rebelled 75+ years ago, and District 13's and the Capitol ended in a nonaggression treaty, allowing the Capitol to &lt;em&gt;destroy&lt;/em&gt; 13 (they agreed to hide) and put down the rebellion, District 2 became the military hotbed (&quot;The Nut&quot;, the bunker in the mountains that was buried in). The Capitol would not use nuclear weapons against the Districts because of how important the Districts are to it, resource wise. Nuclear attacks would be suicide. &lt;strong&gt;So the only rational reason would be to use as deterrence against outside military powers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-12T17:33:15.730" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T17:33:15.730" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44186" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44187" CreationDate="2015-11-30T22:51:22.093" Score="8" ViewCount="3172" Body="&lt;p&gt;Color is often used intentionally in movies. I found it interesting that in &lt;em&gt;Frozen&lt;/em&gt; the color palette for the winter dress that Anna bought in Oaken's store is similar to Elsa's coronation dress. I don't know why the producers of the movie decided to depart from what seems like Anna's standard green palette. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/64FOs.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/64FOs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Elsa coronation dress&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ct5Qb.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ct5Qb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Anna&amp;#39;s winter dress&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26325" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-11-30T23:11:30.400" LastActivityDate="2023-12-03T02:08:34.470" Title="Significance of the similar color palette for Anna's winter dress and Elsa's coronation dress" Tags="|costume|frozen|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44187" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44186" CreationDate="2015-11-30T23:07:11.370" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is discussed in the &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1452117160&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Art of Frozen&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hitfix.com/news/michael-giaimo-on-creating-the-3d-world-for-frozen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;[Michael] Giaimo&lt;/a&gt; is an extremely analytical designer, and when he imagined the&#xA;costumes for the characters, he applied rigorous aesthetic standards.&#xA;&amp;quot;For Anna's travel outfit, I wanted something that would be really&#xA;striking and bold, yet elegant,&amp;quot; he begins. &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;She's a princess, and&#xA;that really blue skirt says royalty, as does the magenta cape. I&#xA;thought those two colors would be really striking, because there's a&#xA;rich saturation to both of them. But there's always a little bit of&#xA;black on the characters: it helps anchor the saturation, so it doesn't&#xA;float into the atmosphere.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The warmer green palette was reserved for Anna as she grew and reflected her &amp;quot;sunny disposition&amp;quot;. Obviously by the point in the film that she's changed clothes, her disposition is slightly more reserved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S1heu.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/S1heu.png&quot; alt=&quot;Young Anna in a yellow dress, young Anna in an olive dress, tween Anna in a dress with olive top and blue skirt.&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Caption:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To reflect her sunny nature, Anna's color palette during her growing years is kept on the warm side. Grayed yellow greens, ochre, and olive dominate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditDate="2023-12-03T02:08:34.470" LastActivityDate="2023-12-03T02:08:34.470" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28431" CreationDate="2015-11-30T23:28:04.497" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The police not looking into the murder of Desi whatsoever actually made no sense whatsoever. I understand there were emotions, and KeyBrd's answer makes sense to a degree, but it completely falls apart due to the fact that tape footage does not add up to her orchestrated story at all. Like not even a little bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The footage of her entering Desi's house was WAY after her disappearance. 5 days, 2 weeks? I forget exactly, but her claim that he took her directly to his house and tied her up falls apart. Or at the very least there is no evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;She found out about the cameras and the recordings a little late. The existing footage of her entering Desi's house is 100% voluntary, as is any of her initial wanderings around his house. Pretty sure there's also footage of them eating ice cream together.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There absolutely had to have been bulletproof footage of Desi entering/leaving HIS OWN house THE NIGHT/DAY of Amy's disappearance. At the very least there had to have been a mad count of 100% bulletproof alibis of him being present wherever else (work, meetings, friends, family, etc etc etc) for a full week or two, during which he should have been busy kidnapping and raping her. Amy also specifically testified that HE (Desi) came over and kidnapped her, not someone &quot;working for him&quot; in case Desi's presence elsewhere could be negated in that manner -- now it can't.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just trying to make a point that that last piece of the movie was taking the whole &quot;hot girl tricks police&quot; to a completely fictional level. Emotions and a nice ass go a distance, but looking at camera footage and checking for an alibi of a victim in a MURDER CASE is simple routine. It's just something police would do; they wouldn't &quot;take your word for it.&quot; And when they did, there would be a case. Maybe she wouldn't go to prison for it by looking sad and innocent to the jury, but there would BE a case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28289" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-01T00:14:27.143" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T00:14:27.143" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44190" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-01T00:23:46.187" Score="2" ViewCount="148" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Farscape&lt;/em&gt; a Pau priest is supposed to be able to advance in ranks to different levels. Apparently each level can grant a new ability. Zhaan was a 10th level pau, and I know they mentioned something being 12th (to the point where I am at).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my research online there isn't currently an upper limit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are the known levels a Pau can achieve and the skills associated with each one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23455" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-01T00:32:17.870" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T00:32:17.870" Title="Different skills and levels of a Pau in Farscape" Tags="|farscape|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44192" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44197" CreationDate="2015-12-01T00:34:51.430" Score="3" ViewCount="460" Body="&lt;p&gt;Given the mechanism of time travel shown across the &lt;strong&gt;Terminator&lt;/strong&gt; media (films and TV series) - namely, the traveler being sent from a machine to a point where there is no receptor device - is there anything &lt;em&gt;in-Universe&lt;/em&gt; that explains how the traveler even appears back on earth, given not only the axial rotation of the earth, but also its movement around the sun?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27684" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditorDisplayName="user27684" LastEditDate="2016-08-05T22:35:11.007" LastActivityDate="2016-08-05T22:35:11.007" Title="How does time travel work in the Terminator franchise given the nature of the time travel devices and the movement of the Earth?" Tags="|time-travel|terminator-series|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12382" CreationDate="2015-12-01T02:21:44.120" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;pikachu is male because in black and white the anime just like all of the other male pokemon pikachu is attracted to emolga. Also its tail does not have a heart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28293" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T02:21:44.120" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44192" CreationDate="2015-12-01T02:22:35.213" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Terminator Genisys, Kyle and Pops have a bit of back and forth on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Reese: Just make sure you show up. Don't wanna have to steal someone's pants again.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Pops: &lt;strong&gt;I have the &lt;em&gt;Coordinates in San Fransisco&lt;/em&gt;, I'll be there.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Spoiler: He wasn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is after they explain that they need a future tech cpu to calculate the Time Displacement Engine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pops: There's no governing Technology in this time that can control the Displacement Circuits.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Reese: You needed a CPU from the Future to make it run &lt;em&gt;(Pops Removes T-800's CPU from the detached Skull)&lt;/em&gt; And you couldn't exactly use your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reese and Conner leave Los Angeles in 1984. Pops ends up showing up at the right time (2017), at the right location, only to be stuck in San Fransisco traffic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the TDE, using a Terminator brain can target a general location as part of its programming of the time travel circuits. Considering how simple it is to calculate rotation and movement using real world math and computers, a future tech cpu would find that easy to do. Mostly accurate planetary movement was made hundreds of years ago in real life. Copernicus's 1543 Heliocentric theory, improving by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%27s_laws_of_planetary_motion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Kepler's ~1610 Laws of Planetary Motion&lt;/a&gt;, which in turn was improved by Newton in 1683 with Newton's Laws of Motion and Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation. &lt;em&gt;Planetary movement, proven by a bunch of primitives with nothing but fancy telescopes.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;So the TDE allows travel in both time and space.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; It just needs to be properly programmed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-01T07:30:58.497" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T07:30:58.497" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44169" CreationDate="2015-12-01T03:20:29.440" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on just a visual comparison, It's a Tai based written language, common to Thai and Lao and other languages in the region, while not being exactly either. This image was pulled from wiki &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isan_language&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isan_language&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Buddhapanditsabhacandapuri.jpg/220px-Buddhapanditsabhacandapuri.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-13T07:24:38.250" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T07:24:38.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44182" CreationDate="2015-12-01T10:51:01.330" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no authoritative conformation on this, but it sounds like a Tin Whistle&lt;sup&gt;(1)&lt;/sup&gt;, made popular in James Horner's Braveheart soundtrack, &amp;amp; also used in Lord of the Rings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that I'm not able to hear where the player actually takes a breath makes me think it might be a sampled instrument, similar to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.embertone.com/instruments/shirewhistle.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Embertone's Shire Whistle&lt;/a&gt; - nice solo &lt;a href=&quot;https://soundcloud.com/embertone/embertone-howard-shore-shire?in=embertone/sets/embertone-shire-whistle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;demo here&lt;/a&gt; which includes a couple of pitch-bends similar to those in the Game of Thrones soundtrack.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;S2E10: &quot;Valar Morghulis&quot; - Timestamp approx 50:45&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;(1)&lt;/sup&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_whistle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tin Whistle&lt;/a&gt; goes by many names, tin whistle, penny whistle, flageolet  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25773" LastEditorUserId="25773" LastEditDate="2015-12-01T11:00:13.170" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T11:00:13.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44181" CreationDate="2015-12-01T18:49:28.647" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He didn't simply die, he turned into a deadboy. Note that he was &lt;em&gt;crawling&lt;/em&gt; along the ground with his intestines hanging out (not the usual behaviour you'd expect from someone who has suffered the sort of fatal intestinal prolapse you'd associate with the very last stages of Ebola), then we find this dialogue later in the film...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dwyer:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Johnny's got his guts stuck back into him and he's starting to smell&#xA;like fucking rotten meat, okay?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JT:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;But now I know, one bite from her and I can make another.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only way he could know that is if Johnny hadn't just died but had, in fact&#xA;turned into a &lt;s&gt;zombie&lt;/s&gt; deadperson&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2020-03-25T13:52:01.843" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44208" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44216" CreationDate="2015-12-01T19:45:05.093" Score="5" ViewCount="1188" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Heaven Sent (Doctor Who):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As every room in the castle was being reset after a while, why wasn't the room with the crystalline Spantium being reset? Each hit by the Doctor wearing away the wall should have been undone the next time he arrived there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5466" LastEditorUserId="8393" LastEditDate="2015-12-02T07:55:50.633" LastActivityDate="2017-01-11T15:35:38.973" Title="Why wasn't the room with the crystalline Spantium being reset?" Tags="|plot-explanation|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44210" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44208" CreationDate="2015-12-01T20:46:24.773" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe because the creator of the island made that room and thought that the Doctor wouldn't figure it out so it just doesn't need to be reset. Or since the room is designated to him specifically so it doesn't have to reset. But IDK those are just my explanations, is that good enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28311" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T20:46:24.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44212" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-01T21:26:09.177" Score="4" ViewCount="10977" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been doing my research about film adaptation. The object is a novel and film of &quot;&lt;em&gt;To Kill a Mockingbird&lt;/em&gt;&quot;. Now, I've seen on wikipedia that the first film that ever been adapted was &lt;em&gt;Greed&lt;/em&gt; in 1924 (novel by Frank Norris and film directed by Erich von Stroheim) but then I read it in lots of article that there were earlier adapted works before that, such as &lt;em&gt;Frankenstein&lt;/em&gt; in 1914 and Romeo and Juliet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28313" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T12:06:47.837" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T05:02:14.573" Title="What was the first book-to-film adaptation?" Tags="|book-adaptation|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44214" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44212" CreationDate="2015-12-01T21:50:15.677" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cinderella was &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_(1899_film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;originally adapted in 1899&lt;/a&gt;. Technically it was adapted from a &lt;em&gt;story in an anthology&lt;/em&gt;, but it's pretty darn close.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/0caKk_42n7A?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204000/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trilby and Little Billee&lt;/a&gt;&quot; from 1896 and &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215705/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Death of Nancy Sykes&lt;/a&gt;&quot; from 1897 although both are better characterised as single staged 'moving scenes' rather than actual movies with plot lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, Frankenstein was &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein_(1910_film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;originally adapted in &lt;strong&gt;1910&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Edison Studios&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/TcLxsOJK9bs?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T01:36:47.733" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T01:36:47.733" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44208" CreationDate="2015-12-01T22:30:31.933" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;He was only meant to go there once, and it's the only room connected to the outside.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Room 12 has a markedly different appearance to the rest of the castle: in particular, the unusually smooth walls and large block of azbantium. This is the 'final' room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The castle is designed to get the Doctor to reveal the identity of the Hybrid. The designers thought he would only arrive in the trap room once, realise it’s impossible to escape, give up, and tell the secret. They almost certainly didn't anticipate the Doctor chipping away at the wall over billions of years. And if he’s only supposed to visit this room once, then there’s no need for the room to reset.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, note that this room connects to the outside world, and is apparently the only room to do so. So it makes sense for the rules to be a bit different here. It may even have been impossible for the designers to make this room reset every time, since it's connected to the outside and the outside can't be 'reset' in this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Much of this answer is copied from the excellent answer by @alexwlchan on &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/108985/31394&quot;&gt;another Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27759" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-12-01T22:30:31.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44217" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44222" CreationDate="2015-12-01T22:47:52.060" Score="2" ViewCount="3239" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Hunger Games&lt;/em&gt; films, the nation of Panem is split rather sharply into two:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the Districts, populated mainly by underfed and overworked people who spend their lives mining coal (12), chopping wood (7), toiling in the fields (11), making electronics (3), etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SB4AHm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SB4AHm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;miners&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the Capitol, populated apparently by overfed and indulgent layabouts who spend their lives gossiping about fashion and watching the Hunger Games on television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0sg8Km.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0sg8Km.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Capitolliers&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That gives us the &lt;strong&gt;working class&lt;/strong&gt; and the &lt;strong&gt;upper class&lt;/strong&gt;. What about the middle class? Every empire needs its bureaucrats, administrators, people in offices doing paperwork. Where do such people come from? This demographic doesn't seem to fit either the Capitol or the Districts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DJZrSm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DJZrSm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;???&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: let's exclude (&lt;em&gt;Mockingjay Part 1&lt;/em&gt; spoilers)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; District 13, which seems to be an entire mini-society of its own, incorporating workers, soldiers, administrators, and a president, and organised on a militaristic basis. For the first two films at least, the Capitol and the other twelve Districts function as a country by themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27759" LastActivityDate="2015-12-03T17:38:13.887" Title="Who are the office workers in Panem?" Tags="|the-hunger-games|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44219" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3200" CreationDate="2015-12-02T02:17:57.467" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Native American tradition if you have a Pinguin power animal:&#xA;&quot;You have the ability to create anything and everything you choose in life. You understand the concept of teamwork and utilize it constantly in order to get what you want. You know exactly where you are going and what you are trying to accomplish at all times. You move easily between the physical and spiritual realms and often have a gift for Lucid Dreaming. You are polite, proper and never forget your manners. You enjoy cultural exchanges and high societal affair. Many of you are diplomats and politicians&quot;&#xA;It's everything Tyler becomes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28316" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T02:17:57.467" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32414" CreationDate="2015-12-02T02:38:04.043" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Carl has a psychic vision of the black bride when he touches Crane's black veil, after which he says the following to Lorraine (Josh's mother):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Carl:&lt;/strong&gt; Parker wore that dress to commit his murders. It was his disguise. He killed for his mother because she forced him to. &lt;em&gt;He&#xA;  wanted his childhood back. That's why he went after your son.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Theses insights, along with the knowledge that Josh is currently possessed by Crane, are apparently gained from that vision along with applied deductive reasoning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2015-12-02T05:28:45.683" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T05:28:45.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2694" CreationDate="2015-12-02T02:55:00.210" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ted has a backpack from which he produces several Chocolate Pudding tins&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ted:&lt;/strong&gt; Here is a treat to make our minor prehistoric pit stop a bit more enjoyable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3h3KS.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3h3KS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that he has enough pudding tins to share is a fair indication that he is prepared with other treats as well and it isn't much of a stretch to imagine that an air-headed high school kid from the 80's would also have several packs of bubble gum in his backpack to share as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So where did they get all the gum? From Ted's backpack (which is indeed along for the already crowded ride), and likely before that, the Circle K.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T02:55:00.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44217" CreationDate="2015-12-02T03:16:22.913" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Panem is not so black and white in terms of it's people and careers. Most of what we know comes from Katniss' observations, as the book is only told in first person narrative, and overviews from the movies. The nation itself is small population wise, and technologically advanced, both reducing the need for middle-men white collar classes. The Capitol, according to it's In-Universe Marketing website &lt;a href=&quot;http://Capitol.pn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://Capitol.pn&lt;/a&gt;, only has a population of &lt;strong&gt;96,463&lt;/strong&gt;. District 12 in comparison had 8,000. Panem works under a controlled capitalism, with a mostly free job market, and various levels of work and class statuses. People are somewhat free to work and earn money (except they lack free movement between districts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, while the Districts are virtual slaves to the Capitol, they are not utter-slaves. They are given some leeway, as long as the laws are followed and the Capitol gets the resources it wants. District 12, the Coal Miner District for example, did not enslave people to work in the mines, it was simply the biggest industry. There was the poor working class in The Seam, like Katniss' family, and the upper class Merchants, like the Mayor, and Peeta's family. Peeta's family owned a bakery, showing that capitalism and legal independent jobs are available. The Mine was state-controlled, but &lt;strong&gt;still payed the workers&lt;/strong&gt;. The mine was restricted to 18 year olds and older, but was not a forced job. The pay was reduced during Catching Fire, when the new, stricter peacekeeper regime took over (Snow punishing Katniss for her actions). Note that Katniss' mother used to be in the higher Merchant class, as a healer/nurse, and married down to Katniss' father, a miner. Other forms of pay for families would be tesserae, additional entries by a child of Reaping age in exchange for extra food and oil, something that only poorer districts did in numbers, and only the poor of those districts. The Mayor of District 12's daughter, Katniss' friend Madge Undersee and Peeta did not need to do so as they were (relatively) wealthy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while District 12 is poor, it is not just poor coal miners. The Mayor and his staff are from District 12, overseen by the Capitol, mainly in the form of Peacekeepers. Independent businesses exist, filling support roles. A real world comparison, Detroit is known for cars, but the auto industry is not the only job in Detroit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peacekeepers themselves are not Capitol workers either. They mainly come from District 2, the &quot;lap dog&quot; of the Capitol. District 2 is known for it's Masonry (Stone Work), but had multiple roles. The quarry workers as the lower class, still paid, but like 12's coal mines, is backbreaking work. The Capitol, after losing District 13 as it's military power base, established &lt;strong&gt;&quot;The Nut&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; in the Rocky Mountains of District 2, and offered well paying jobs to those that worked there. Peacekeepers are mainly recruited from District 2, and serve throughout all of Panem. These are all paid positions, though the pay and food is not always enough. Katniss used to sell illegally hunted animal meat to some Peacekeepers in District 12, and the old Head Peacekeeper for District 12 Cray even openly bought from the District 12 blackmarket &quot;The Hob&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finally, the Capitol. We see a mixture of Capitol citizens, both the upper class, the middle class, and the actual slaves.&lt;/strong&gt; There is an upper class, which in the real world can be considered &lt;strong&gt;the 1%&lt;/strong&gt;. These are the ultra rich with whom Haymitch mingles for sponserships for Katniss and Peeta, and who hobnob with President Snow. These are the ones that Snow had pimped out Fennick for political gain. The middle class are the artistic jobs. Caesar as TV Show Host and political mouthpiece for the Capitol is one notable one. Other jobs are Escorts (Effie), Stylists (Cinna, Portia), Prep Teams (Flavius, Venia, Octavia [Hair, Makeup, Nails]), and Gamemakers (Crane, Plutarch). Each of these are careers, jobs that must be earned and perform well to keep. When they start these jobs for the Hunger Games, they start at the bottom, and are assigned the poorer Districts. Only by working hard do they move up to better, richer districts. &lt;strong&gt;All of these people are from the Capitol.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Gamemakers are the best example of the question, as they are shown to be much simpler looking compared to the overly extravagant upper class&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Cressida, a director, and Castor are part of this. In &lt;strong&gt;Mockingjay Part 2&lt;/strong&gt;, they are explicitly shown by the Capitol's &quot;dead tribute&quot; announcements to be from the Capitol. Another example is Tigris. She was a Stylist in the Hunger Games, but was removed because &quot;Snow thinks I'm not pretty enough&quot; (She, like many Capitol citizens, took to extravagant looks and ended up looking like a Tigress-Human hybrid. The Capitol has an extensive body mod culture.) She ends up running or owning a fashion boutique, that Katniss and Squad 451 take refuge in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few special cases are &lt;strong&gt;Avox&lt;/strong&gt;. These are actual slaves, typically political dissenters of the Capitol who have their tongues cut out and forced to work. &lt;strong&gt;Pollux, Cressida's Cameraman and brother to Caster, was forced to work underground in the Capitol's support tunnels for five years until Castor could buy his freedom.&lt;/strong&gt; There are two other named Avox in the series, Darius (book only), a Peacekeeper that tried to stop Gale's whipping in Catching Fire, and Lavinia, who escaped from the Capitol but was recaptured, and forced to serve as a servant for the Tributes in the first book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR;&lt;/strong&gt; Workers in Panem are typically from their own districts (except for Peacekeepers), and are not homogenous in appearance or careers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you apply a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.governing.com/gov-data/states-most-government-workers-public-employees-by-job-type.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;typical government employee to population ratio&lt;/a&gt; of 237 : 10,000 residents, the Capitol only needs 2275 employees. That includes fire and police, but not teachers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-02T03:24:57.237" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T03:24:57.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44224" CreationDate="2015-12-02T03:17:01.423" Score="5" ViewCount="894" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm embarrassed to know the movie &quot;Clue,&quot; inside and out so much that this might be an esoteric question..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know nowadays movie previews may sometimes have a clip or a change in what you'll see in the theater to avoid giving away some of the 'best jokes', etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, &quot;Clue&quot; (1986), there were three endings on any DVD or release I can find.  But &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDDdeHtrxfA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the Trailer&lt;/a&gt;, definitely has a few different clips, that never happen in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0:21 scream/slap by Col. Mustard&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0:47 Christopher Lloyd's &quot;I'm looking&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1:13 the crash of guests (there's a similar one in the&#xA;movie, but it takes place on the mezzanine upstairs)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am assuming that there might be additional footage, and wondering if it is because there were more endings released.  Many articles copy and paste each others' claims there was a fourth ending, but their reporting is dubious (and almost word-for-word the same: just google it and you get a dozen saying the same).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there actually more footage that is just not copy+paste gossip on blogs?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28318" LastEditorUserId="9382" LastEditDate="2021-01-25T15:31:00.020" LastActivityDate="2021-01-25T15:31:00.020" Title="Were there different endings to the movie &quot;Clue&quot;, based on the odd clips in the old preview?" Tags="|ending|trailers|clue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44223" CreationDate="2015-12-02T04:06:52.027" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2014/03/13/the-perfect-murder-clues-infamous-fourth-ending&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;According to this article&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The fourth ending was cut because Landis and Lynn either didn’t really think it was that good, or they just thought it was too dark for the tone of the rest of the movie. &lt;strong&gt;Unfortunately for them, they forgot to tell Michael McDowell, who was working on the novelization for the film&lt;/strong&gt;. Thanks to that gaffe, and to &lt;strong&gt;[the] Clue Storybook that they put out as a kiddie novelization with pictures and everything&lt;/strong&gt;, the infamous fourth ending was preserved, and now we can all talk about it and imagine what could have been.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Found a copy of the Novelization. Chapter Twenty, Version C is the unreleased ending (The Butler did it!). Also found the Story book and it does indeed have four endings, with pictures from the movie as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3SPKO.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3SPKO.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NG4fF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NG4fF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OuSGf.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OuSGf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;*Note, none of the clips from the trailer you describe are part of the Fourth Ending. Those seem to be just deleted or dropped jokes&lt;/strong&gt;. It's common for trailers to have scenes that never appear in the movie, as they are made long before the movie goes through final filming and editing. &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MissingTrailerScene&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;See TV Tropes: Missing Trailer Scene&lt;/a&gt; for a ton of examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-02T04:22:37.460" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T04:22:37.460" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44229" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44232" CreationDate="2015-12-02T06:56:08.267" Score="10" ViewCount="8305" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the latest episode of &lt;em&gt;Fargo&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4001088/?ref_=tt_eps_cu_n&quot;&gt;&quot;Loplop&quot; (S02E08)&lt;/a&gt;, there is a hangman game in the window of the phone booth that Ed Blumquist uses to call the Gerhardt family. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the answer to this puzzle and is there any significance to the story?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PVhAM.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PVhAM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-12-02T09:30:42.657" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T09:30:42.657" Title="What's the meaning of the hangman game in the phone booth in Fargo?" Tags="|analysis|fargo-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39214" CreationDate="2015-12-02T07:04:46.440" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Cruella, Ursula and Lily got sucked up by the portal, they used the egg's magical powers to keep them young. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://onceuponatimeabc.wikia.com/wiki/Cruella_De_Vil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28154" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T07:04:46.440" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12912" CreationDate="2015-12-02T08:06:59.180" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As nobody else answered the question, but went on to give opinions about other things, of course when she answered &quot;no&quot; it sealed their fate, how can you even wonder?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously there are way more deeper issues and questions and this movie is not about answering questions and nor should it be.  It's left to be open to interpretation and I like movies like that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yes as hokey as it may sound, every time Sally would ask Vika (and keep in mind she only asked Vika, never Jack if I remember) Vika would always answer yes.  To answer no was basically like hitting the self distruct mechanism in which the drone would wipe them out and another &quot;mop up crew&quot; would take over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can only assume there has been some 50+ stations given their number, either scattered about the globe or built / setup once upon a time, maybe hidden from each other within false radioactivity zones, one can only guess.  But who / what built the platform stations in the first place, the Soldier Jacks?  Certainly the drones couldn't.  Did the water siphoning devices also come out of the Tet?  Is the Tet 100% automated and non organic, hence the need &amp;amp; only reason for the abduction &amp;amp; cloning of the Jacks &amp;amp; Vika's?  Some of this seems pretty clear but again a lot of it is open to interpretation or possibly left that way for a possible prequel or sequel.  Part of me hopes so but another part of me doesn't as this movie is great and stands well on it's own.  It would be a shame to see it go down like the Alien or predator movies where they just didn't know when to stop and call it quits...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28324" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T08:06:59.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44229" CreationDate="2015-12-02T09:14:50.143" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From another angle, it's easier to see &lt;em&gt;the first word ends in X&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;This is an allusion to Sioux Falls.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Season 2 is a prequel to season 1 taking place in 1979 in Luverne, North Dakota, across the border from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In it, Lou Solverson investigates a case. The thing is, future Lou already mentioned the case back in season 1, as did fellow cop Ben Schmidt. In season 1, episode 3:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ben:&lt;/strong&gt; It’s goddamn Sioux Falls all over again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gus:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, sir. What’s Sioux Falls?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ben:&lt;/strong&gt; Shut up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And later in the episode, Lou reminisces about Ben:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lou:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah, we had a deal together once in Sioux Falls. Joint task force situation. Boy, that was a rodeo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More about the nature of the case is revealed in episode 9 of season 1 (here's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3NTFnnaPC8&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lou:&lt;/strong&gt; Had a case once. Back in ’79. I’d tell you the details, but it’ll sound like I made them up. Madness, really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lorne:&lt;/strong&gt; Bodies?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lou:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, sir. One after another. Probably, if you stacked them high, could’ve climbed to the second floor. Now, I saw something that year I ain’t ever seen, before or since. I’d call it animal. Except animals only kill for food. This was... Sioux Falls. Ever been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So apparently, season 2 is building up to a massacre in Sioux Falls. And it's entirely possible this will be &lt;em&gt;based on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Gitchie_Manitou_Murders&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;real event&lt;/a&gt; that took place in 1973&lt;/em&gt;. Bustle.com elaborates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This season, we've time traveled from 2006 back to 1970s — the decade of the Sioux Falls Massacre. In Season 1, Lou Solverson (Keith Carradine) referenced the crime and described it as the reason he left his job on the police force. Patrick Wilson has now taken over the role of Lou and this infamous crime will be crucial to the Season 2 plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The massacre occurred in 1973, and it was just as disturbing as it sounds. According to The Des Moines Register, three brothers impersonated police officers and targeted a group of teens who were hanging out and smoking a joint in the woods on the Iowa-South Dakota border. By the end of the night, they had murdered four and kidnapped and raped the fifth. The sole survivor — who was just 13 years old at the time — was instrumental in bringing the killers to justice and having them convicted of their heinous crime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read more about the real life case in the original article &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bustle.com/articles/119238-whats-the-sioux-falls-massacre-fargo-season-2-will-be-influenced-by-the-tragic-crime&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T09:14:50.143" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44233" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44235" CreationDate="2015-12-02T12:27:39.233" Score="9" ViewCount="1626" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the beginning of &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt; there's a scene where 007 and Patrice are fighting on the top of a train that's heading into a tunnel, in Istanbul. Not wanting to risk losing the trace of them, M orders Eve to &lt;em&gt;take the bloody shot&lt;/em&gt;. Eve misses and inadvertently shoots Bond, allowing Patrice to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But right after she shot Bond, there is a ~10 seconds gap where Patrice is standing on top of the train as a sitting duck before the train goes into the tunnel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't she keep shooting and took Patrice down?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-03T17:35:41.497" LastActivityDate="2018-01-15T18:47:39.023" Title="Why didn't Eve keep shooting at the train scene?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44233" CreationDate="2015-12-02T15:04:04.440" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;After she took the first shot, it probably took her at least a second to assess the situation and make the realization that she hit someone and they had fallen off of the train.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then she would have had to take more time to see that she had hit Bond, not Patrice. It would have been difficult to see this easily through the scope of the gun, and the train was too far away to see clearly without the aid of the scope (as they were wearing similar clothes, were similar build, and would have been almost indistinguishable from afar). That's another couple of seconds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then she is probably incredibly shocked at the fact that she has just shot, and most likely killed, not only a fellow agent, but a high ranking fellow agent. The implications of this (concern for Bond, getting fired, failing the mission etc.) would take another second or two to rush through her mind before she can at least recover enough to make a decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would only be at this point that she might consider taking another shot to take down her intended target. By this point the train is no longer moving towards her (allowing her an easy shot), but moving very quickly perpendicular to her. This would make Patrice an incredibly difficult target to hit, even if she had attempted to shoot him again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She may then need to take more seconds to assess the risk of spraying bullets wildly to try to hit her very fast moving target. Remember he was stood on top of a packed commuter train, she could have caused a lot of collateral damage if she was inaccurate. She didn't have nearly enough time to realign herself to pull off an accurate shot even if he hadn't have been a moving target.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By this time the train is gone. She has missed any opportunity that she had to correct her mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is all predicated on the fact that she is thinking clearly, however she is in an incredibly stressful situation. All this from someone who is, as she says herself at the end of the movie, not cut out for field work. She was simply too inexperienced and unprepared for that situation, one in which a top agent would likely also have struggled with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T15:04:04.440" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39012" CreationDate="2015-12-02T16:32:51.987" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tank Girl&lt;/strong&gt; is also a dystopian future:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 2022, a comet strikes Earth causing an 11-year drought. By 2033, most of the little remaining water is held in reserve by Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell) and his Water &amp;amp; Power (W&amp;amp;P) corporation, which uses the water to control the population. Rebecca Buck – &quot;Tank Girl&quot; (Lori Petty) – is a member of a commune in the Australian outback that operates the last water well not controlled by the corporation. [Wikipedia: Tank Girl (2011)]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't suppose you recall if there were any mutants or animated segments?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24220" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T16:32:51.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44243" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44247" CreationDate="2015-12-02T19:36:30.900" Score="12" ViewCount="1218" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/30/george-lucas-han-shoot-first&quot;&gt;recent interview&lt;/a&gt;, George Lucas has stated the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I said, ‘Yeah, he should be John Wayne.’ And when you’re John Wayne, you don’t shoot people [first] — you let them have the first shot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;John Wayne has been in a LARGE number of movies, I have a very hard time believing he has never shot first. Therefore my question is thus:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Has John Wayne ever shot someone first?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not going to add any qualifiers except that it must be a shot at another being - warning shots do not count. I would prefer a Western Era film, but I'll take a War Movie as well. Punches DO count (I am not a John Wayne expert but I believe there was a scene in the movie McClintock(?) that pretty much fits this bill) as we are going to the (ahem) '&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/30/george-lucas-han-shoot-first&quot;&gt;mythological reality&lt;/a&gt;' of the situation which has more to do with intent/character of the person then with the actual physical action being portrayed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not that I want there to be, but I am sure that somewhere out there evidence must exist that proves Lucas wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27049" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-03T17:28:15.807" LastActivityDate="2018-04-09T11:02:16.400" Title="Did John Wayne ever shoot first?" Tags="|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14271" CreationDate="2015-12-02T20:04:46.347" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is something between Fortis and Raymon Leon. I think they are brothers or atleast grew up as friends. I wonder if fortis had somrthing to do with wills dad. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28339" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T20:04:46.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44245" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-02T21:25:10.607" Score="3" ViewCount="695" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scenes of computer hackers trying to crack someone's password are very common today, but when you think about those scenes only work because the audience are aware that computers are secured using passwords, and securing computers with a password is a rather new thing when compared with the history of cinema. So the question becomes, which movie (or TV episode) was the first to portray a computer system secured using a password (documentaries don't count)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T15:43:40.430" Title="What's the first movie or TV episode portraying a computer password?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14788" CreationDate="2015-12-02T21:51:04.127" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The numbers are :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the pinball machine score - and an early hint not to trust the automaton/machines.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;the golden ratio and things ascribed to be that ratio. A major artistic/natural phenomena that is supposedly the most appealing to the human eye. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;227 is the number of times she has seen the woman leave the villa. When he asks them all if they've seen fake!clair she comes down and says 227. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28341" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-03T05:55:45.943" LastActivityDate="2015-12-03T05:55:45.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44243" CreationDate="2015-12-02T21:57:04.563" Score="12" Body="&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056217/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is a truly great movie&lt;/strong&gt; that I would recommend to anyone. Depending on your definition of &amp;quot;shot first&amp;quot; this movie might be on topic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; John Wayne shoots a bad guy from the shadows, and everyone thinks Jimmy Stewart's character killed the villain. The villain shot Jimmy Stewart a couple of times before John Wayne acted, so John Wayne was saving/defending Jimmy Stewart. He did it in secrecy though and the villain never saw John Wayne.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see this more of a &amp;quot;dry gulch&amp;quot; or assassination than a pure &amp;quot;shoot first&amp;quot; like when Indiana Jones brought a gun to a sword fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059740/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Sons of Katie Elder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is another good movie, but it isn't in the same class as &lt;em&gt;The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance&lt;/em&gt;. This movie features a scene where John Wayne walks up on a villain drowning a guy and whacks him in the face with a stick. This is a similar thing where John Wayne defends someone else who is in danger without warning. Later in the movie there is a scene where the brothers are fighting. I don't recall if John Wayne starts that fight or if Bud does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/tUUrUrCYTd4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066831/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Big Jake&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is another one where he whacks a guy with a stick before giving the guy a chance to respond. He isn't saving anyone from immediate bodily harm either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/4HQyFWcb3AY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm sure I could go on, but the point is clear. John Wayne will attack a person without warning if he feels that is needed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T22:20:49.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2572" CreationDate="2015-12-02T23:17:30.347" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I got from it was his voice gets lower and darker as the films go on. This to me sounds like he is becoming what he is fighting against. Which was a major theme in dark knight and dark knight rises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again he could just be doing it for reasons stated above. But Nolan seems to have a reason for everything in a film. My guess would be he was becoming or he would have to become a bad guy in order to take down other bad guys. In the dark knight he said as much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28343" LastActivityDate="2015-12-02T23:17:30.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44251" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30668" CreationDate="2015-12-02T23:37:49.877" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 1 episode 13 he tells a good story in front of Penny, then covers his mouth in shock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28344" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-03T04:00:30.817" LastActivityDate="2015-12-03T04:00:30.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18443" CreationDate="2015-12-03T05:47:59.900" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Read the book &quot;True Hallucinations&quot; by Terence Mckenna, he goes into a phenomenon that happens while on ayahuasca where the body oozes a goo similar to the liquid mirror in the movie. He describes this goo ass pure consciousness manifested into the 5th dimension thats only visible on tryptamine drugs. He also goes into how shamans in the Amazon use this goo to heal people and do see into the 4th dimension. It's an awesome book but it takes a very open mind to read.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28348" LastActivityDate="2015-12-03T05:47:59.900" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44256" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44261" CreationDate="2015-12-03T06:37:13.890" Score="9" ViewCount="1929" Body="&lt;p&gt;We see in Movies and TV Shows that electricity and water don't mix.&#xA;And when they do, fatal results take place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I've heard that this is only an exaggeration for the dramatic effect.&#xA;I've read a story about a person who immersed live electric wire into a bath tub while he was in it, and nothing happened. &#xA;If I remember correctly: &quot;water has too much resistance to current&quot;.&#xA;The experiment was done in a tub, let alone a large swimming pool, where, if the same logic applies, no one will feel any difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: i am not talking about dropping appliances into water. I only mean stripped wire (copper) immersed directly. See below for reference:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/dcrY59nGxBg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-03T17:30:55.780" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T15:50:27.867" Title="Is it a trope that exposed electric wire in a pool causes electrocution?" Tags="|realism|trope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30302" CreationDate="2015-12-03T08:49:34.443" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was not explicitly mentioned in Season 1 that how slavery business was organized by the guys you mentioned in the question but towards the ending of the season the story slowly unfolds that the guys are part of the slavery business.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keith Summers: Norman finds a journal belongs to one of the slave and starts reading, from the journal, it appears that Summers secretly keeping the girls in the motel room for business purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zack Shelby: He's a pervert and a crooked cop using one of the girls as his slave and it was shown when Norman breaks into Shelby's house to find the Summer's belt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jake Abernathy: Boss of the business and transports girls from Asia, sell them as sex slaves, this was also mentioned in the same journal Norman reads but did not mention Jake's name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why did Keith Summers have to sell the motel?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He did not sell the motel, he lost it to the bank, generally happens when people ignore to pay land taxes. This was mentioned in one of the beginning episodes in a rude conversation between Summers and Norma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2015-12-03T08:49:34.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44256" CreationDate="2015-12-03T09:40:45.467" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it is not a myth. Electrical shock can occur and can be lethal. As @Sanpaco has linked, it has been em&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/appliances-in-the-bath-minimyth/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pirically proven by the Mythbusters&lt;/a&gt;, while it has been anecdotally proven by &lt;a href=&quot;http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/05/surveillance-video-shows-children-shocked-in-swimming-pool/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;various&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2950641/Woman-electrocuted-iPhone-dropped-bath-charging-looked-Russian-version-Facebook.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;incidents&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Cables-snap-in-rain-electrocute-3/articleshow/49989915.cms?&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;in&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.khou.com/story/news/local/2015/04/27/settlement-deal-reached-in-hotel-pool-electrocution/26479193/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/swimming-pool-safety-electrocutions-raise-alarm-summer-n112521&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;news.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/36321/why-is-there-a-copper-wire-attached-to-this-water-pipe&quot;&gt;By code&lt;/a&gt;, most if not all bathroom tub and shower and pool pipes are electronically grounded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, movies and tv do exaggerate how that death happens. In film and tv, death by electrocution in water is very violent, boiling the water and the body flailing. In reality, it does not take much to short circuit the heart, and any constant current through muscles will lock them up. Look at taser videos to see how the body would react.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dropping a live appliance into a bathtub would result in a direct short to ground. Water, while not a perfect conductor, is a good conductor. Salt water is &lt;strong&gt;much better&lt;/strong&gt;, but 120 to 240 mains voltage will breakdown in water and cause a significant short, compared to the amount needed to stop the heart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.com/books?id=yh6yqrhWzOMC&amp;amp;pg=PA280&amp;amp;lpg=PA280&amp;amp;dq=bath%20water%20ohms&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=i28YlQGU-R&amp;amp;sig=bGkouBGShpylqB-HAYpnOz_m3GI&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwij54WQtL_JAhWM6SYKHUMrDpEQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=bath%20water%20ohms&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This link&lt;/a&gt; is a Google Books copy of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Electrical Injuries: Engineering, Medical, and Legal Aspects&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;By Robert E. Nabours, Raymond M. Fish, Paul F. Hill&lt;/em&gt;, The linked section describes the forensic history of a bathtub electrocution case. The short of it was that a hair dryer, dropped in a bathtub that was electrically isolated from ground, caused the GFI or GFCI not to trip, resulting in more than 5 milliamps to soar through a women, killing her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Slightly unrelated, but still important, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;even a 9 Volt battery can kill&lt;/a&gt;, in the right conditions.&lt;/strong&gt; Surface Skin resistance is fairly high, (500KΩ to 2MΩ), but break the skin, or go through the other bodily openings and the salty and high electrolytic content of the inner body will cause you to die from a 9V battery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:22:17.723" LastActivityDate="2015-12-03T20:00:52.573" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44263" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-03T13:14:33.960" Score="9" ViewCount="185" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dr. Temperance &quot;Bones&quot; Brennan is the foremost Forensic Anthropologist in the world. As part of that, she works as the chief Forensic Anthropologist at the Jeffersonian Institute's Medico-Legal Lab, working closely with the FBI. She has a team of interns which were initially chosen from her students. Throughout the series, there are multiple mentions of her students or status as professor, but nothing was ever mentioned on her actual academic status.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is Dr. Brennan's position, with which university? What department? Does she have tenure? And how often does she teach?&lt;/strong&gt; The closest I've seen was her Lecture in Season 1 Episode 5 &quot;&lt;em&gt;A Boy in the Bush&lt;/em&gt;&quot; where Booth shows up mid-lecture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-13T00:27:55.420" LastActivityDate="2016-04-05T14:19:10.423" Title="Dr. Brennan's Academic Position?" Tags="|character|bones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44267" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47068" CreationDate="2015-12-03T14:26:42.873" Score="2" ViewCount="1061" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was Michael Corleone's and Hyman Roth's initial plan in Cuba in &lt;em&gt;The Godfather: Part II&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What would have happened if a revolution did not happen when Michael, Roth and partners gathered there? Would Michael have settled in Cuba or would he have left for New York if the revolution did not happen?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27989" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T15:29:23.473" LastActivityDate="2017-06-20T04:05:46.907" Title="Would Michael Corleone stay in Cuba?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-godfather-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44268" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44269" CreationDate="2015-12-03T14:45:47.533" Score="31" ViewCount="23447" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm re-watching the original '80s &lt;em&gt;Knight Rider&lt;/em&gt; series. I've noticed that numerous times, after taking a big jump, KITT comes down at a pretty severe angle--but the shot always cuts away before you see the result (The Hoff is always unharmed). Is it known (roughly) how many KITTs were wrecked beyond repair during production?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28360" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-03T17:33:58.413" LastActivityDate="2021-03-18T23:43:19.440" Title="How many KITTs were destroyed during production of the '80s Knight Rider series?" Tags="|production|props|stunts|knight-rider|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44268" CreationDate="2015-12-03T15:37:30.907" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;This one is actually surprisingly hard to answer, mainly because the show actually had four different grades of cars that were used in production; &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20160119060508/http://www.propworx.com/auctions/auction-terminology/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hero&lt;/a&gt; cars&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Stunt cars&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Jump cars&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Shells&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Stunt / Jump cars&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the book &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1559491.Knight_Rider_Legacy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Knight Rider Legacy&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; (referenced here in '&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/03/15-facts-you-might-not-know-about-knight-rider/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;15 facts you might not know about Knight Rider&lt;/a&gt;'), the show went through an average of just under one &lt;strong&gt;real car&lt;/strong&gt; every two to three shows. These stunt cars were the ones that were seen driving around corners, high-speed acceleration and performing handbrake turns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The stunt work was hard on the cars, and the show typically ruined&#xA;four to nine each season. The Trans Ams were sold by GM to the&#xA;producers for $1 each. Each one cost about $18,000 to modify into&#xA;K.I.T.T.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.teamknightrider.com/classic/articles/enter.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This interview&lt;/a&gt; with Bob Ewing, the show's Associate Producer indicates that the show had two dedicated &amp;quot;jump cars&amp;quot; that could perform jump stunts without being destroyed as well as 12 other stunt cars that were dedicated to other kinds of driving, jump and landing stunts (as well as being shot at or having parts ripped off)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We have two jump cars,&amp;quot; says Ewing. These cars look identical to&#xA;K.I.T.T., but are made of lightweight fiberglass and contain&#xA;high-powered engines. A stunt driver races this fiberglass car at high&#xA;speed toward a hidden ramp. That ramp sends the car up into the air,&#xA;then down to another hidden ramp angled for a safe landing. The car&#xA;leaps over real trains and trucks. The stunts are timed to the&#xA;split-second to make certain no one is in danger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We've never had an accident,&amp;quot; Ewing says proudly. If a stunt is too&#xA;dangerous, we don't do it.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does the driver survive? Jump cars can be specially built to&#xA;survive leaps - but why doesn't the driver get thrown out of the car&#xA;by the impact? That's easy, says Ewing: &amp;quot;Our stuntman is tied into&#xA;that car every which way but Sunday.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Shells&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen numerous references on the internet that they also managed to trash at least 2-3 &amp;quot;shells&amp;quot; (mostly old trans-ams that the producers would buy from local car dealerships and modify by replacing panels (to create the unique shape) and removing the engines to lighten them enough to fire them from an air-ram) per show but I've struggled to find a formal interview confirming it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Hero Props&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were also a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hotrod.com/features/history/historic-cars/1406-1982-pontiac-trans-am-part-2/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;set of around six &amp;quot;Hero&amp;quot; cars&lt;/a&gt; that were used for close-up filming during the various seasons. According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hotrod.com/cars/featured/1405-1982-pontiac-trans-am-kitt-confidential/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview with Hotrod.com&lt;/a&gt;, the three original &amp;quot;hero&amp;quot; cars supplied by Pontiac were supposed to be destroyed at the end of the first season but somehow managed to survive the crusher and ended up in private hands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="86059" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2021-02-17T16:15:31.063" LastActivityDate="2021-02-17T16:15:31.063" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44270" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30017" CreationDate="2015-12-03T15:56:49.240" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few connections between Season 5 Hotel and Season 1 Murder House. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;em&gt;major&lt;/em&gt; connection between the two seasons is when The Countess, from Season 5, visits Dr. Montgomery, the abortion doctor that worked from the Murder House's basement in Season 1, in a flashback to 1925. While this hasn't been fully explained yet as to why The Countess sought out Dr. Montomgery, it is a direct connection between the two seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some minor connections:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The realtor, Christine Estabrook Marcy, that sold the Harmons the Murder House in Season 1, sells the Hotel Cortez to a man named Will Drake in Season 5. In a later episode, the realtor is seen staying in a room at the Hotel Cortez.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The dead roam the halls of the Hotel Cortez much like the souls that are stuck in the Murder House.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28361" LastActivityDate="2015-12-03T15:56:49.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44271" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-03T17:49:11.353" Score="1" ViewCount="1114" Body="&lt;p&gt;David Bowie's &quot;Space Oddity&quot; contains the following lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ground control to Major Tom&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Can you hear me, major tom?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is somewhat similar to the famous &quot;Luke, you've turned off your targeting computer! What's wrong?&quot; from &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: A New Hope&lt;/em&gt;. (Though of course Luke keeps his radio-circuit on, unlike Major Tom.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More striking are the following lines:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tell my wife I love her very much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She knows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is very similar to Harrison Ford's famous &lt;s&gt;ad-libbed&lt;/s&gt; &quot;I know&quot; in response to Leia telling Han that she loves him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were either or both of these lines in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; inspired by &quot;Space Oddity&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8411" LastEditorUserId="8411" LastEditDate="2015-12-03T18:52:22.913" LastActivityDate="2015-12-03T19:14:00.360" Title="Were these lines from Star Wars inspired by David Bowie's &quot;Space Oddity&quot;?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44272" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10555" CreationDate="2015-12-03T18:09:06.513" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simplified version&#xA;A New Hope: He wrote all of it, story and screen, after many revisions and advice from friends&#xA;Empire Strikes Back: The Story ITSELF by George, but the transferral of the story to screen by someone else, with contributions from Lucas after the screenwriters were indisposed&#xA;The Return of the Jedi: Again the story itself by Lucas, but the actual script written by someone else with contributions from Lucas. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28362" LastActivityDate="2015-12-03T18:09:06.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44273" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44271" CreationDate="2015-12-03T18:40:30.730" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to J.W. Rinzler's excellent &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Making_of_The_Empire_Strikes_Back&quot;&gt;The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (reproduced &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.yahoo.com/movies/the-empire-strikes-back-i-love-you-i-know-119550611107.html&quot;&gt;here on Yahoo Movies&lt;/a&gt;) the line was largely the result of a back-and-forth conversation between Harrison Ford and the film's screenwriter Irvin Kershner. At first the line was written as “&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Just remember that, ‘cause I’ll be back.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, followed by &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Don’t worry about this&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, followed by just &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'll be back&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, finally followed by the iconic &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I know&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's hard to say whether Ford was inspired by Bowie but it's quite easy to see how the line evolved over time rather than being inspired by a single leap of Ford's imagination:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I think she ought to just say, ‘I love you,’ as I’m passing by her,”&#xA;  Ford suggests to Kershner. Later in the conversation, he makes the&#xA;  change to his own line, saying, “If she says, ‘I love you,’ and I say,&#xA;  ‘I know,’ it’s beautiful and it’s acceptable and it’s funny.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So it’s true that the iconic line was penned by Ford, but it wasn’t&#xA;  improvised on the spot: It was hashed out with Kershner before the&#xA;  shoot. Ford also wanted to add a line of reassurance to Leia&#xA;  —something like “Don’t worry about this” — which eventually became his&#xA;  saying to Chewbacca, “You have to take care of her.” Han Solo’s final&#xA;  scripted line, “I’ll be back,” ended up on the cutting room floor,&#xA;  because Kershner wanted to make it clear that Han Solo might not&#xA;  survive the carbon freeze. “You can’t [reassure her] because you don’t&#xA;  know whether this is the end or not,” the director said to Ford.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ironically, that tender moment resulted in a fight between Ford and&#xA;  Carrie Fisher, who was annoyed that her co-star made changes to their&#xA;  scene without her input. When it came time for Han and Leia to profess&#xA;  their love, the two actors still weren’t speaking. “Harrison is a very&#xA;  fine actor. I regarded that scene as entirely his, which is why I gave&#xA;  him so much opportunity to tell me how he thought we should treat it,”&#xA;  Kerschner explains in Rinzler’s book. “That led to a little tension&#xA;  with Carrie.”  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Kershner put his first cut of The Empire Strikes Back together,&#xA;  executive producer George Lucas pushed back against the new dialogue,&#xA;  fearing that the audience would laugh at Han’s line. In a 2010 Vanity&#xA;  Fair interview, Kershner said that Lucas insisted on doing two preview&#xA;  screenings, one with Han Solo’s scripted line (which Kershner had also&#xA;  shot) and another with Ford’s version. “At the first preview in San&#xA;  Francisco, the house broke up after Han Solo said ‘I know,’” Kershner&#xA;  recalls. “When the film was over, people came up and said that is the&#xA;  most wonderful line and it worked. So George decided not to have the&#xA;  second screening.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-03T19:14:00.360" LastActivityDate="2015-12-03T19:14:00.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36637" CreationDate="2015-12-04T00:46:02.467" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just recently warned the movie - I'll try to explain the best I can!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are ghosts in the house. This is evident when Su-mi's aunt, other than Su-mi, claims she saw a girl under the sink during her seizure (which is the ghost of Su-yeon from her green dress and the hair clip).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also it can be assumed that the ghost later kills the actual stepmother near the end of the movie when she enter So-yeon's room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In one of the photos that Su-mi looks through, you can see that the stepmother is in a medical uniform (either a nurse or a doctor). Su-mi's mother was ill, maybe the stepmother was her nurse at home then started the affair with Su-mi's dad. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They're in the same house because the dad decided to bring the new woman around the house. He basically had no feelings, care or respect left for his sick wife. This behaviour drove Su-mi's mom to commit suicide, which also lead to Su-yeon's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Her stepmother had an affair with a man who had a sick wife and two daughters. The mother's suicide and the dresser scene actually did occur, which means the stepmother actually heard and saw what happened and could have saved Su-yeon but ignored. So you decide how you view the stepmother! It wasn't all just Su-mi's imagination.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The closet scene near the end of the movie is how Su-yeon actually dies. She sees her mom dead in the closet and struggled to free her, which causes the closet to fall over on her. Not sure how that would have actually killed her. Maybe suffocation? She was also young at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It sounds like you may have missed the ending? It shows how they both died. She committed suicide in Su-yeon's closet by overdosing and hanging herself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was definitely a thought provoking movie, and I personally really enjoyed it. Hope this helped!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28370" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T00:46:02.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44280" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44302" CreationDate="2015-12-04T08:37:56.780" Score="5" ViewCount="1337" Body="&lt;p&gt;Am I right when I say that Alex drove the children in &lt;em&gt;Prisoners&lt;/em&gt; to his house wanting just to play with them and then get them back but didn't since Holly wanted to keep them? But that draws another question. Why didn't girls listen to their mother when she said to bring their brother and sister with them? Did Alex really just go for a drive? Was Holly with him in front of Anna's house in the RV? Did the girls first find the whistle and then on the way back interacted with Alex?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27305" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-04T12:31:15.803" LastActivityDate="2017-10-07T05:33:50.960" Title="How did the kidnappings happen?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prisoners|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44281" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44298" CreationDate="2015-12-04T08:43:19.373" Score="6" ViewCount="3704" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does Anna mean when she says that she lost her whistle 133 days ago in &lt;em&gt;Prisoners&lt;/em&gt;? It just seems too specific coming from a child. And what does Mrs. Dover whisper to everyone right after it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27305" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-04T12:24:19.507" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T16:45:05.557" Title="What does Anna mean when she says that she lost her whistle 133 days ago?" Tags="|dialogue|prisoners|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44282" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44360" CreationDate="2015-12-04T08:49:26.843" Score="2" ViewCount="2555" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched the scene in &lt;em&gt;Prisoners&lt;/em&gt; where Bob Taylor supposedly breaks into the Dovers' house carefully. When he gets into the children's room, Mrs. Dover comes right after him but then he mysteriously leaves the house through the bedroom window. How did he get out? It just isn't possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27305" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-04T12:26:01.150" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T23:14:06.800" Title="How did Bob Taylor get out of the children's room?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prisoners|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44286" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44288" CreationDate="2015-12-04T10:11:44.373" Score="44" ViewCount="26704" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought about this the first time I visited Disney Land. There I saw a 3D model of Mickey in real life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he is not facing the camera, his ears are sideways, and appear as you'd expect them to appear if you look at them from that angle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if you see and show where Mickey is rendered in 3D, you would see his ears flat and round whatever angle he is facing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only that, his second ear (the one farthest from the camera), changes position, and is shifted downwards, almost as if it does not want to be eclipsed by the ear in the foreground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can understand hand drawn animation reasons for doing this, but having a CG animation mimicking this effect makes it hard for the viewer to understand the physics of Mickey's model.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lorMZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lorMZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;Mickey&amp;#39;s ears are weird&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-19T16:55:00.820" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T16:55:00.820" Title="Why do Mickey's ears rotate and shift location when he is not facing the camera?" Tags="|animation|disney|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44286" CreationDate="2015-12-04T10:33:41.690" Score="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To make the Mickey symbol more recognizable&lt;/strong&gt;, the more authentic depiction was abandoned. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse#Design&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ub Iwerks designed Mickey's body out of circles in order to make the character simple to animate. Disney employees John Hench and Marc Davis believed that this design was part of Mickey's success as it made him more dynamic and appealing to audiences. Mickey's circular design is most noticeable in his ears, which in traditional animation, always appear circular no matter which way Mickey faces. This made Mickey easily recognizable to audiences and made his ears an unofficial personal trademark. Even today, the rudimentary symbol Mickey Mouse is often used to represent Mickey (see Hidden Mickey). This later created a dilemma for toy creators who had to recreate a three-dimensional Mickey. In animation in the 1940s Mickey's ears were animated in a more realistic perspective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This unrealistic depiction is so iconic, it was even replicated somehow in 3d later on. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/news/2461868/epic-mickey-ears/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Says John Ford&lt;/a&gt;, one of the animators of the video game &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Mickey&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Epic Mickey&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We did some tests with Mickey without ears that were facing the camera and it just didn’t hold up,” said John Ford, one of the animators at Junction Point, “so we decided to go with the facing ears. We had some really smart programmers write code that would always make sure that, no matter which way Mickey was facing, you would have ears that not only faced the camera correctly but also oriented correctly on his head&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, cartoons aren't exactly about realism but about expression. As animator &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Williams_%28animator%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Richard Williams&lt;/a&gt; says in his book &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animator%27s_Survival_Kit&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Animator's Survival Kit&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good drawing is not copying the surface. It has to do with understanding and expression. We don’t want to learn to draw just to end up being imprisoned in showing off our knowledge of joints and muscles. We want to get the kind of reality that a camera can’t get. [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many cartoonists and animators say that the very reason they do cartoons is to get away from realism and the realistic world into the free realms of the imagination. They’ll correctly point out that most cartoon animals don’t look like animals - they’re designs, mental constructs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's an example of a more realistic perspective approach in the 40s that was eventually scrapped:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1jAR1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1jAR1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T10:52:04.250" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44281" CreationDate="2015-12-04T13:05:31.737" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found this answer on &lt;a href=&quot;https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130929200640AAr7GGW&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yahoo&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q 1. Why was there (coincidentally) a whistle down under the trans am?&#xA;  Did Anna drop it there &quot;133 days&quot; ago? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A 1. The girls were initially kept in that hole in the ground under&#xA;  the Trans-Am while the police searched the aunt's house for the girls.&#xA;  Anna must have dropped her pink whistle there. Her mother later bought&#xA;  her a new red whistle to replace the one lost. Joy and Anna had made&#xA;  it to Anna's house and Joy had found the first whistle so the girls&#xA;  were abducted on route back to the Birch's house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that at some point, as most prisoners do, she began counting days in captivity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T13:05:31.737" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23578" CreationDate="2015-12-04T14:34:02.817" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;i think the software being the same and different case in the day of the doctor it refers to is that the sonic software the coding that makes it work is in the TARDIS matrix or data banks and the screwdriver is just a physical way of using it and when it comes to screwdriver dispenser, if you remember the episode with Clara and there's that tree thing that buildings anything you can think of is what he uses to get new screw drivers but&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28386" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T14:34:02.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44293" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-04T15:27:24.480" Score="13" ViewCount="1249" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I was watching (for the millionth time) &lt;em&gt;Stanley Kubrik's&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;The Shining&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of my favourite scene is the first meeting between Jack Torrance and Lloyd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of that scene, we see a angry Jack that walks the hallway making some gestures of annoyance (or pure rage, Wendy had just accused him of having tried to strangle Danny).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the left of the screen, we can see some mirrors in which Jack is reflected while he walks, but when he is near the Gold Room (the bar where he gets in and meet Lloyd), the mirror doesn't reflect Jack anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a clue that Jack is about to enter a &quot;world of fantasy&quot; created by the Overlook Hotel? Or is this simply a matter of perspective due to the camera movement?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTU3n5NVqc&quot;&gt;Here the link of that scene&lt;/a&gt;, the mirror that I'm talking about appears near the 25th second of that video&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6582" LastEditorUserId="4083" LastEditDate="2016-03-04T21:37:10.070" LastActivityDate="2016-03-04T21:37:10.070" Title="Stanley Kubrick's The Shining : Clue" Tags="|analysis|the-shining|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44294" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44304" CreationDate="2015-12-04T15:31:00.600" Score="4" ViewCount="424" Body="&lt;p&gt;Det. Loki's superior in &lt;em&gt;Prisoners&lt;/em&gt; is also often slightly rude. He cancels the surveillance at one point, and does many other disturbances to the investigation. Why does he seem to damage Loki's investigation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27305" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-04T16:06:54.753" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T19:47:41.707" Title="Why does Loki's superior damage his investigation?" Tags="|character|prisoners|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44295" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44256" CreationDate="2015-12-04T15:50:27.867" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The myth from movies is the violence and prolonged electrocution, not the fact that its possible to be electrocuted.  By the National Electric Code, any electricity close to water (pool lights to outlets in a bathroom) must be protected by devices designed to detect shorts (being overly simplistic here) and cut power to prevent electrocution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most cases, any &quot;live wires&quot; in water would immediately (on the order of a few milliseconds) trip the current protection device and no harm would be done to anyone other than &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt; a slight jolt.  That said, the few milliseconds of current &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; kill in the right situation so it's never safe to try this, but it's certainly rare by design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are certain failure modes that can cause actual electrocution, but even then it would be quick and largely silent.  Any scene in a movie where someone is electrocuted violently for several seconds would have to be caused by a failure of 3 or more protection devices with wires the size of jumper cables being used in place of the typical &quot;lamp cord&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18176" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T15:50:27.867" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11466" CreationDate="2015-12-04T15:57:38.037" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The meaning of the last scene seems to infer that because Chance is wholly unaware of his limitations he is essentially limitless: unbound by them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28389" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T15:57:38.037" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42793" CreationDate="2015-12-04T16:44:57.100" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am not from UK one and English is not my mother tongue, so sorry for my ridiculous answer. When Charley mock of his name he say it as &quot;eggy&quot; for me it is small egg. After it Arthur mock about it when he say that Roxy have &quot;the eggs&quot; unlike you Eggsy. So, i think Eggsy it's the kind of slang -brave boy, the one with the eggs.  Sorry for my ridiculous assumption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28391" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T16:44:57.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44281" CreationDate="2015-12-04T16:45:05.557" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sorry if this is a partial answer (I'll delete it if you think it's not up to standard), but for what it's worth, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/awards2013/screenplay/prisoners/prisoners_sp.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; eludicates what Grace said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;ANNA: The emergency whistle Daddy gave me. I lost it... (thinking) Hundred and thirty-three days ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;GRACE: &lt;strong&gt;She’s just like her father.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Anna remembering the exact day is supposed to demonstrate her similarity to her father. However, I'm not quite sure &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt;. Maybe because he's good with numbers as a carpenter? Has a good memory? Notes certain things others don't or can't let them go? (Then again, I don't remember much of this film, so maybe commenters can enlighten me on how this is also one of Keller's character traits.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T16:45:05.557" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44280" CreationDate="2015-12-04T19:39:40.590" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not specifically mentioned in the movie but we are supposed to assume that the girls went without their older siblings as a sort of innocent childhood rebellion. They wanted to return to the mysterious RV and play, but earlier their older siblings had kept them from doing so, so they deliberately disobeyed their parent's instructions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the whistle, Anna is known to have lost the whistle sometime in the past, yet it is later found by Keller in the pit at the Jones' house, therefore we can conclude that Anna must've found the whistle before Alex kidnapped them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What most likely occurred is that after they found the whistle, they returned to play at the RV, and encountered Alex who offered to give them a ride and let them play in the RV. They accepted and joined him for a ride during which time they taught him the &quot;Jingle Bells, Batman smells&quot; song. He took them home and turned them over to Holly at which point they realized they had been kidnapped and cried. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They didn't cry until I left them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2015-12-04T19:49:51.337" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T19:49:51.337" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44294" CreationDate="2015-12-04T19:47:41.707" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main example I can think of is the one you mentioned about calling off the surveillance from Alex Jones. He does this because Alex Jones is no longer a suspect and as he mentions in the movie, they couldn't afford to be wasting department resources. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's simply doing his job as superior to make sure their resources are used in an efficient and effective manner. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Loki's frustration about him calling off the surveillance is that Alex has disappeared during this time, and had Loki known the other car wasn't going to be there, he would have gone there himself and would know where Alex was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T19:47:41.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44306" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44311" CreationDate="2015-12-04T20:24:59.560" Score="6" ViewCount="635" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently rewatched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Independence Day (1996)&lt;/a&gt; And noticed a lot of new things that left all kinds of plot-holes and questions. I'm willing to accept plot-holes and Deus Ex Machina type explanations at times for entertainment sake, but there was one item that I wondered about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David Levinson saves the day by figuring out that they can upload a computer virus into the alien ships that will disabled their defenses and allow the humans to damage their ships. Ok, great. He and Cpt Steven Hiller fly to the mother ship, he somehow is able to communicate through some sort of signals with the alien system, and upload the virus which is made up of some sort of injected code which he pastes into a console.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This leaves me wondering if any attempt is made in the movie or from someone involved in creation the movie to explain how earth technology is able to interact with alien technology.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Is there a quote from a film maker? Is there a deleted scene where they mention how it works?&lt;/strong&gt; Even if they say its midichlorians, this different than simply not addressing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2015-12-04T23:01:34.930" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T12:35:42.513" Title="How does earth based technology interact with alien technology" Tags="|plot-explanation|independence-day|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44307" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-04T21:08:15.077" Score="21" ViewCount="4215" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've several times wondered for how long was Phil Connors stuck in that loop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are the on-screen shown days which I estimate around 40. But then, Phil learns lot of stuff about the people of the town, he learns French poetry, piano, ice sculpting, etc. But there are also the spoken-about days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The director said he'd been stuck for 10 years in total. Is that realistic? What is a better estimate? If it is not possible to answers that, what is the absolute minimum of time Phil spends stuck?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18757" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T12:44:24.627" Title="For how long is Phil stuck in the Groundhog Day's loop?" Tags="|plot-explanation|groundhog-day|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44308" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-04T21:36:54.560" Score="6" ViewCount="287" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film is old, maybe the 60's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The argument is about a frustrated journalist who can not get a good article to the newspaper he works for. After a request for a &quot;miracle&quot;, someone comes and gives him (every night) a newspaper with the news of the next day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One day, the front page news is about his death, I think in a supermarket. In the end, and having avoided his death, he gives up tricking his luck and states that he doesn't want the newspapers any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28396" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-04T22:30:55.310" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T23:23:21.733" Title="Black and white film; Journalist receives newspapers from a day into the future. One predicts his death" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|black-and-white|mystery|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:12:52.417" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44309" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44308" CreationDate="2015-12-04T21:40:15.330" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036962/?ref_=ttkw_kw_tt&quot;&gt;It Happened Tomorrow&lt;/a&gt;&quot; from 1944&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It Happened Tomorrow, a 1944 film starring Dick Powell as a cynical newspaper reporter who gets the next day's paper from the ghost of a dead newsman and uses it to scoop rivals, bet the horses successfully, and improve his standing with his girl, until the paper predicts his own death. This film was adapted to subsequent radio performances on Academy Award Theater and Theater of Romance in 1945.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/nJAeBjx0fJY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T23:23:21.733" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T23:23:21.733" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44310" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44307" CreationDate="2015-12-04T22:19:23.137" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/10567&quot;&gt;screenwriter Danny Rubin's answer here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Allow me to jump in here. Hi everyone. As mentioned above my original intent was that Phil would live for longer than a single lifetime. That was the point of the original script: to see how a person might change if he lived longer than one lifetime (it was always about a man who could not escape life). The studio felt that the loop shouldn't last longer than two weeks. They were afraid the audience would freak out if it lasted any longer. Because my bookcase calendar (also mentioned above) was a specific record of passing time, Harold chose to remove it from the script, and in that way he could tell the studio it lasted two weeks or whatever and nobody could point to anything in the script that contradicted that. This explains why the length of Phil's incarceration strikes so many as a mystery: it was designed to be a mystery. Still, the sensibility of the characters as they progressed I think required a guiding clock, and Harold provided that. His sense was that it lasted about ten years, and I think the movie reflects that sensibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the screenwriter, there are multiple answers. The studio says 2 weeks. That's unrealistic considering the 40 or odd days we see on screen. According to him, it's over a lifetime,  so 70~100 years minimum for a normal human life span. For Director Harold Ramis, a &quot;sense&quot; of 10 years. 10 years is long enough for a man to change and learn everything we see him learn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as the screenwriter says, it's open ended. There is no singular correct answer, it's to the viewer to decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Screenwise, Phil spent 38 days that we can see, giving us a bare minimum. Since they were very careful to leave no clues, there is nothing to say if he spent just 39 days or 1000. As he had to master piano and dance and some other skills that take years of dedication to learn, a decade seems like a good imagined minimum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T22:48:33.880" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44306" CreationDate="2015-12-04T22:56:15.760" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a deleted scene that explains some of this, added to the Extended Edition DVD, mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cracked.com/article_18720_7-famous-movie-flaws-that-were-explained-in-deleted-scenes.html&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; (second article in the list).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, remember when at the start of the movie, Jeff Goldblum managed to decode the alien mothership countdown? In a deleted scene, Goldblum mentions that he has deciphered their programming language and that the 50 year old Roswell ship is using the same programming language and operating system. So it's not a stretch to assume that he managed to write a rudimentary virus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the transfer, that's handled by the communication between the mothership and the infiltrator craft. That was still intact because the technology was still the same. The virus was not written on the mac and then transfered to the mothership. The mac interfaced with the Roswell ship, developed the virus on there and could control the ship's onboard computer, but it didn't actually communicate directly with the mothership.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9969" LastEditorUserId="9969" LastEditDate="2015-12-04T23:08:39.603" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T23:08:39.603" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44306" CreationDate="2015-12-04T23:07:35.537" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a bit more info in the film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0061056871&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;official novelisation&lt;/a&gt;, co-authored by the film's producer, Dean Devlin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How did they connect? Via wires, of course&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When David is in the Hangar, the laptop is connected directly into the shield unit on the shuttle. He tranfers commands to it &lt;strong&gt;via a cable&lt;/strong&gt; which means that no wireless connection was needed...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David walked over to a rolling tool shelf where he’d set up his laptop&#xA;  computer. It was connected to a cable that ran through the shield,&#xA;  into the cockpit of the alien craft,&lt;/strong&gt; and plugged into the shield&#xA;  receiving unit he’d repaired earlier that day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, when they're on the ship they connect to the mothership via the fin on the top of the smaller craft...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Dr. Okun showed me that the long fin like structure on top of the&#xA;  attacker is full of terminal wiring. &lt;strong&gt;He hypothesized that whatever&#xA;  type of computer link they run, the fin is the connector.&lt;/strong&gt; When one of&#xA;  these attackers docks inside the larger ships, some type of connection&#xA;  is established through the fin.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...and transfer the virus file from the laptop to the shuttle to the mothership &lt;strong&gt;via wired connections at every stage&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The moment the clamps locked them in place, the movements on the&#xA;  screen, which showed the status of the protective shield, reversed&#xA;  their direction. That told David that they were connected to the&#xA;  source.&lt;/strong&gt; He switched over to another screen, which flashed the words&#xA;  “Negotiating with Host.” He held his breath as the signal analyzer&#xA;  program sorted through the billions of possibilities. Then, much&#xA;  sooner than he expected, the machine beeped and displayed a new&#xA;  message, “Connecting to Host.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How are they able to hack the alien ship? - because the aliens program in binary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to how they were able to communicate with the alien ship, this is explained as being a function of basic h4x0r skillz. The aliens program their computers in  binary and that leaves them exposed to being infiltrated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It only took the pair of brainiacs a few minutes to solve their first&#xA;  problem. They tore the green screen loose and delicately attached a&#xA;  pair of alligator clasps to the sinewy wiring on the back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Although the machine had been built thousands of years before in&#xA;  another part of the universe, the data feeding into it was arranged in&#xA;  a binary system, a continuous string of ones and zeros, or whatever&#xA;  the alien equivalent was.&lt;/strong&gt; Neither Okun nor David cared at that point’&#xA;  just as long as the little laptop could read the sequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T12:35:42.513" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T12:35:42.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33563" CreationDate="2015-12-04T23:15:33.253" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jon has targ blood and stark blood ,he has more kings blood in him than anyone ever her power would be off the charts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28399" LastActivityDate="2015-12-04T23:15:33.253" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44314" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-05T00:44:00.960" Score="6" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Werner Herzog's &lt;em&gt;Fitzcarraldo&lt;/em&gt;, when they move the ship from the top of the hill down to the Ucayali, the water is flowing from left to right. But according to the maps shown and the sketch drawn by Kinski in the film, it should go from right to left.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am a little bit puzzled by this fact, as I always assumed they really dragged this ship over the hill while shooting the film. Is there any information out there on how and where the scene was shot?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28401" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T01:52:46.733" LastActivityDate="2023-08-26T20:23:42.407" Title="Why is the Ucayali in Werner Herzog's 'Fitzcarraldo' flowing in the wrong direction?" Tags="|fitzcarraldo|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44325" CreationDate="2015-12-05T03:08:06.910" Score="5" ViewCount="5948" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the original &lt;em&gt;Rocky&lt;/em&gt;, Mickey tells Rocky that he is 76 years old:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;MICKEY&lt;br&gt;&#xA;          (yells)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;      Rocky, &lt;strong&gt;I'm seventy-six years&#xA;      old.&lt;/strong&gt;  Maybe you can be the&#xA;      winner I never was -- your&#xA;      shot is my last shot!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - &lt;a href=&quot;https://sfy.ru/?script=rocky&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Rocky III&lt;/em&gt;, Mickey dies, and we see his gravestone:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AiShd.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AiShd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It says he was born in April, 1905 and died in August, 1981, meaning he only turned 76 four months earlier.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This wouldn't be such a problem if not for this tidbit, also from &lt;em&gt;Rocky III&lt;/em&gt;, prior to Mickey's death:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;ANNOUNCER:  Another southpaw, champion Rocky Balboa, isn't worried about much these days.  &lt;strong&gt;He's defended his title for the tenth time&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/r/rocky-3-script-transcript-iii.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How could Rocky defend his title (which he won in &lt;em&gt;Rocky II&lt;/em&gt;) &lt;strong&gt;ten times&lt;/strong&gt; in four months?  Even if Mickey was rounding his age up slightly in &lt;em&gt;Rocky&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, it would be difficult to pack the events of the first two movies, plus the 10 unseen title defenses between &lt;em&gt;Rocky II&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Rocky III&lt;/em&gt; into the time span available&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/22792/steelerfan&quot;&gt;@steelerfan&lt;/a&gt; just pointed out in chat, Rocky Junior is a newborn in &lt;em&gt;Rocky II&lt;/em&gt;, and appears to be 4-5 years old in &lt;em&gt;Rocky III&lt;/em&gt;, reinforcing the idea that Mickey should have aged several years between I and III.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HHA1tm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HHA1tm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0juvHm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0juvHm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;How much time passed between &lt;em&gt;Rocky&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Rocky III&lt;/em&gt;?  Or in other words, how could Mickey remain 76 years old in the first, second, and third films?&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;em&gt;E.g., if he was really 75 years and 9 months old or whatever&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;em&gt;Sticking with the hypothetical scenario mentioned in footnote 1, we would have to believe that Rocky met Mick, trained, fought Apollo Creed and lost&lt;/em&gt; (Rocky), &lt;em&gt;then fought Creed again and won&lt;/em&gt; (Rocky II), &lt;em&gt;then fought and won ten title defenses (between the end of&lt;/em&gt; II &lt;em&gt;and the beginning of&lt;/em&gt; III), &lt;em&gt;all in less than seven months.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;em&gt;In the interests of transparency and giving credit where credit is due, I confess that my cousin James noticed this and mentioned it on Facebook, after which I saw it and shamelessly stole it so I could ask it here.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T11:41:03.167" Title="How much time passed (in universe) between Rocky and Rocky III?" Tags="|plot-explanation|chronology|rocky|rocky-iii|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44321" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44326" CreationDate="2015-12-05T04:48:49.527" Score="5" ViewCount="364" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S01E08 of Jessica Jones, how was Jessica able to knock out the 2 servants. Even she &amp;amp; Kilgrave had consumed the food. But both were fine until Jessica shoots Kilgrave with Sufentanil shot. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T09:30:50.583" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T09:30:50.583" Title="In S01E08, how did Jessica do it in 'What Would Jessica Do?'" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|jessica-jones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44323" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44339" CreationDate="2015-12-05T06:10:53.197" Score="5" ViewCount="13805" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Killing them Softly at the end Brad Pitt says that Dillon died this morning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dillon's dead now fucking pay me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Dillon die? Did we watch it happen or no? I never really saw Dillon much in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28409" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T11:31:34.357" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T05:21:07.293" Title="How did Dillon die?" Tags="|plot-explanation|killing-them-softly|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44324" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44445" CreationDate="2015-12-05T06:57:07.847" Score="6" ViewCount="1316" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 1998 movie, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Perfect_Murder&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Perfect Murder&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; starring Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow tells the story of Steven Taylor (Douglas) plotting murder against his wife, Emily Taylor (Paltrow).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Steven discovers that his wife, Emily is having an affair with another man.  After the discovery of the affair, the movie begins to focus on Steven and how he plots the murder of his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120787/&quot;&gt;wife&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She is sleeping with an artist. Her husband, much older than she, is&#xA;  controlling; plus, he's a rich international investor in financial&#xA;  trouble. Then we learn that she's in love with the artist, that she&#xA;  has her own fortune, which the artist is possibly more interested in&#xA;  than in her, and that her husband has figured out she's having an&#xA;  affair. He approaches the artist with plans for a perfect murder. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is later revealed in the movie that Steven has been having financial troubles for approximately one year.  Steven would be the sole beneficiary of his wife's trust fund worth $100 million.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Since Steven was in financial trouble for a while, is there any evidence to suggest that he was contemplating the death of his wife BEFORE he discovered the affair? Did he use the discovery of the affair to justify the murder plot?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T22:52:31.567" Title="Was Steven Taylor contemplating the death of his wife before her affair was discovered?" Tags="|plot-explanation|a-perfect-murder|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44325" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44318" CreationDate="2015-12-05T07:07:26.857" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is more than likely that Mickey Goldmill lied about his age in order to start boxing while he was still a minor.  He presumably continued the facade for the remainder of his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the time frame (in universe):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075148/faq#.2.1.4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rocky&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film begins on &lt;strong&gt;November 25, 1975&lt;/strong&gt; (Rocky's fight with Spider&#xA;  Rico (Pedro Lovell)) and ends on &lt;strong&gt;January 1, 1976&lt;/strong&gt; (Rocky's title&#xA;  fight against Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers)).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079817/faq#.2.1.2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rocky II&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although the film was released in 1979, three years after the release&#xA;  of Rocky, the rematch takes place only 10 months after the first fight&#xA;  with Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers). Specifically the fight takes place&#xA;  on Thanksgiving 1976. In 1976, Thanksgiving fell on November 25, so&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;the film runs from January 1, 1976 to November 25, 1976.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084602/faq#.2.1.3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rocky III&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If Rocky III takes place three years after Rocky II, Rocky should be&#xA;  34, which is exactly what age he is (as pointed out on TV). &lt;strong&gt;All of&#xA;  this serves to illustrate that the film is set in 1979/1980.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  It is not quite that simple however. Problems begin to arise in&#xA;  relation to Mick's death. His headstone records his date of death as&#xA;  August 15, 1981, placing the events in Rocky III almost five years&#xA;  after those in Rocky II (and thus making Rocky 36), leading many fans&#xA;  to accept this 1981 date as the 'correct' date. However, the headstone&#xA;  throws up further complications. In Rocky (set in 1975) Mick says that&#xA;  he is 76 years old, meaning he was born in either 1899 or 1900. &lt;strong&gt;If&#xA;  Rocky III occurs five years after Rocky II, and six years after Rocky,&#xA;  Mick should be 82 when he dies.&lt;/strong&gt; However, his headstone lists his date&#xA;  of birth as 1905, meaning he was 76 when he died; the same age he was&#xA;  in a film set six years previously. To complicate things even further,&#xA;  the fight between Rocky and Thunderlips (Hulk Hogan), which takes&#xA;  place prior to Mick's death, is advertised as occurring in 1982! And&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;if all of that wasn't bad enough, in Rocky V, Mick's death is stated&#xA;  to have occurred in 1982, not 1981.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mickey Goldmill Biography on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Goldmill&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to his memorial plaque, Mickey Goldmill was born on 7 April&#xA;  1905 to a Jewish family. He boxed professionally from 1922 until 1947&#xA;  and achieved great athletic success but never gained any measure of&#xA;  fame or material success. Goldmill recalled that he once knocked&#xA;  fictional opponent, Ginny Russell, out of the ring the same day that&#xA;  Luis Firpo did the same to Jack Dempsey: 14 September 1923. Goldmill&#xA;  claimed that the reason his victory did not garner any media attention&#xA;  was that he did not have a manager, while Dempsey did. He retired in&#xA;  1947, with a record of 72 Wins, (70 K.O.'s), 1 Loss. Some time after&#xA;  his retirement (in 1948), he opened a boxing gym in Philadelphia,&#xA;  Mighty Mick's Boxing, and began to train fighters. There is an&#xA;  apparent continuity error on Goldmill's actual birth year. In late&#xA;  1975, he tells Rocky that he's 76 years old, which would have meant he&#xA;  was born in either 1898 or 1899. However, his memorial plaque says he&#xA;  was born in 1905. &lt;strong&gt;It is possible that he lied about his age (stating&#xA;  that he was 23 when he was actually 17) to start boxing and kept up&#xA;  the pretense for the rest of his life.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T11:41:03.167" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T11:41:03.167" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44326" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44321" CreationDate="2015-12-05T07:14:59.273" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There wasn't any thing in her or his food.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She just drugged the two servants so they won't hurt themselves (because Kilgrave compelled them to kill themselves if Jessica tried any thing) , and once the two servants passed out, she drugged Kilgrave with a sufentanil shot &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: About how she drugged the servants, The show didn't address this in a clear manner, but it's obvious from the scene that she put something in their food (She brought the food and put on the plates while she was alone, and Kilgrave asked her to eat from his plate to assure him) The trick is that she drugged the two servants not Kilgrave&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24398" LastEditorUserId="24398" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T09:00:01.927" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T09:00:01.927" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44332" CreationDate="2015-12-05T08:15:49.070" Score="4" ViewCount="3917" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ted and Robin have &lt;a href=&quot;http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Mock_Salutes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this running gag&lt;/a&gt;, where they salute when words denoting ranks of military staff occur.&lt;br&gt;For example, if someone says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That's a major problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They salute and say&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Major problem!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, imagine someone says like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's just tedious in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do they respond? &quot;General period!&quot;?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Has this ever occured in any episode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28252" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T12:33:46.800" Title="What would be the &quot;correct salute&quot; for this sentence?" Tags="|how-i-met-your-mother|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44328" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-05T08:24:29.990" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T08:24:29.990" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T08:24:29.990" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44329" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-05T08:24:29.990" Score="0" Body="For use with all questions relating to the 1998 American crime thriller film starring Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow." OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T09:29:51.627" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T09:29:51.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44330" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-05T08:26:44.197" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T08:26:44.197" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T08:26:44.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44331" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-05T08:26:44.197" Score="0" Body="All questions relating to the 1981 British-American horror comedy film directed by John Landis and starring David Naughton and Griffin Dunne." OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T09:30:00.980" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T09:30:00.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44332" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44327" CreationDate="2015-12-05T08:28:35.567" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's not how the gag works. The point is to take someone saying &quot;&lt;em&gt;Rank, word&lt;/em&gt;&quot; and salute it (as you would if you were in the army and were to encounter that person) not to construct sentences or salute single words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;General Knowledge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/fmAWIDI4ZgY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T12:33:46.800" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T12:33:46.800" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44333" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-05T08:30:17.663" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T08:30:17.663" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T08:30:17.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44334" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-05T08:30:17.663" Score="0" Body="Questions pertaining to the 2000 American action horror film starring Gerard Butler, Christopher Plummer and Johnny Lee Miller." OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T09:30:11.973" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T09:30:11.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44335" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-05T08:34:28.257" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T08:34:28.257" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T08:34:28.257" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44336" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-05T08:34:28.257" Score="0" Body="For use with all questions relating to the 2014 biblically based epic film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Christian Bale, Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley." OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T09:29:39.620" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T09:29:39.620" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33144" CreationDate="2015-12-05T09:11:45.053" Score="18" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;...és követeli tőlem, hogy mutassam meg a biztosításomat&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;means something like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;...and she's demanding me that I showed my insurance!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28413" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T13:04:09.110" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T13:04:09.110" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44338" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50686" CreationDate="2015-12-05T09:18:41.497" Score="4" ViewCount="304" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am considering to watch The Zeta Project from the DCAU but I don't know much about it and I didn't watch many episodes from Batman Beyond (including Zeta ones). So can I enjoy it individually or should I look back to some other DCAU stuff before it for better understanding?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T11:30:09.910" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T09:29:37.453" Title="Can The Zeta Project be understood enough individually?" Tags="|dc-animated-universe|the-zeta-project|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44323" CreationDate="2015-12-05T09:31:37.090" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dillon has been unwell throughout the movie. Presumably in the hospital with a heart attack.  We first learn this when Brad Pitt's character, Jackie, first arrives and is having the conversation in the car with the Driver character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Driver&lt;/strong&gt;: They told me when they heard that if Dillon wasn't available&#xA;  that I was supposed to talk to the fella that he sent. Is that you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jackie&lt;/strong&gt;: I don't seen nobody else here. Do you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Driver&lt;/strong&gt;: So they were very concerned when I called Dillon, and &lt;em&gt;Dillon said to see you. They are very concerned. How is the fella?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jackie&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Ah he's not good. He told me yesterday that it feels like somebody stuck a knife through his chest.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Driver&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;So he probably won't be able to handle anything for a while.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jackie&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;He sure cant' right now. Personally I think the guy is in very&#xA;  bad shape.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, after Frankie, Russell, and Trattman have been hit, Jackie meets the Driver again in a bar to collect his payment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jackie&lt;/strong&gt;: There's only thirty in there....The price is fifteen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Driver&lt;/strong&gt;: Dillon charges ten. Recession prices. They told me to tell you&#xA;  that too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jackie&lt;/strong&gt;: They made a deal with Mickey for fifteen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Driver&lt;/strong&gt;: ...you're filling in for Dillon and you get what Dillon gets, no more. You talk to Dillon; take it up with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jackie&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Dillon's dead. Dillon died this morning.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Driver&lt;/strong&gt;: Ah, they're gonna be very sorry to hear that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jackie&lt;/strong&gt;: Sure. Sure they are. Its gonna cost em more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whatever what causing him to be bed ridden this entire time has finally killed him.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T05:21:07.293" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T05:21:07.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23299" CreationDate="2015-12-05T09:48:20.413" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;this is just my guess but I assumed The Shape was a symbolic reference from Dr Loomis talking about years of trying to reach Micheal Myers &quot;..for I realized whatever was living behind that boys eyes was purely and simply evil!&quot; Dr Loomis saw the truth no one else did about Micheal Myers. What was inside him wasnt human. He wasnt human he was just..evil  Pure evil that had taken the shape of a man. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28414" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T09:48:20.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11580" CreationDate="2015-12-05T10:59:01.617" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;In-universe explanation&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is explained in the film's &lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0061056871&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;official novelisation&lt;/a&gt;, co-authored by Dean Devlin, ID4's producer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flashing lights were supposed to be an attempt to communicate with the aliens and to demonstrate our desire for peaceful co-existence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The president picked up a remote control and switched on the&#xA;television. The Apache had just reached the front of the huge&#xA;spaceship and turned on its light boards. The powerful lights began to&#xA;flash on and off, creating a repeating sequential pattern. &lt;strong&gt;The staff&#xA;at SETI, alter several hours of furious on-line discussion and a&#xA;blizzard of foxes, had come up with a simple mathematical progression,&#xA;a message written in what they hoped would be a universally&#xA;comprehensible language.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The entire sequence would repeat every three&#xA;minutes, followed by a display of the word “peace”’ written in ten&#xA;different earthly languages.&lt;/strong&gt; It wasn’t much, but it was a beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Out-of-universe explanation&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Echoing djmadscribbler's answer, the effect was presumably a riff off the lightboard depicted in Close Encounters, a film that Dean Devlin described, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://movietalk-britannia.blogspot.co.uk/2006/12/e-mail-interview-with-dean-devlin.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; as being one of his favourites:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Devlin:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I don't know what the future holds. My passions have been for mainstream, popcorn movies. That's what I usually go to see on a&#xA;Friday night. &lt;strong&gt;I fell in love with the movies by watching Star Wars,&#xA;or Jaws, or Close Encounters of the Third Kind.&lt;/strong&gt; One day, I hope to&#xA;make a film as great as those.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/j0bBUmZHb8o?start=161&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T10:59:01.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44342" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-05T11:51:53.737" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T11:51:53.737" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T11:51:53.737" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44343" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-05T11:51:53.737" Score="0" Body="Questions relating to the 1975 musical comedy horror film starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick." OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T13:11:48.140" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T13:11:48.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44344" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-05T11:54:05.307" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T11:54:05.307" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T11:54:05.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44345" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-05T11:54:05.307" Score="0" Body="For use with all questions pertaining to the 1975 drama starring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher and Danny DeVito." OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T13:12:02.947" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T13:12:02.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44346" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44347" CreationDate="2015-12-05T12:05:35.983" Score="9" ViewCount="516" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Toy Story 2, Woody is convinced to go to the Japanese toy museum, as he's worried about what will happen when Andy grows up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, from the same movie, two pieces of key timeline are established: we know that he is merchandise from a TV show that was cancelled in 1957 (from the Prospector), and that the movie is taking place after 1995 (from Tour Guide Barbie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Woody is a 40 year old toy, then you would expect that he would have belonged to someone before, and have already experienced being handed down. (Andy's mum does say he's &quot;an old family toy&quot;, but she may just be saying that to get rid of Al) However he mentions none of this when Jessie and the Prospector tell their stories about what happened to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it ever established where Woody has been in the intervening time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28419" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T12:59:17.327" Title="Where has Woody been?" Tags="|plot-explanation|toy-story-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44347" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44346" CreationDate="2015-12-05T12:37:51.400" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to John Lasseter, Woody belonged to Andy's father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheriff_Woody&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When introducing the 2009 set of Toy Story collectibles, John Lasseter&#xA;  said &quot;We always imagined he was a hand-me-down to Andy from his&#xA;  father.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming Andy's dad was ten when he got Woody, this would also explain why Woody is clueless about the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pixar.wikia.com/wiki/Woody&amp;#39;s_Roundup&quot;&gt;roundup gang&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. He wasn't purchased until a decade after the show had been cancelled, presumably as a generic 'cowboy toy'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T12:59:17.327" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T12:59:17.327" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44348" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44307" CreationDate="2015-12-05T12:44:24.627" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've always viewed this movie as a metaphor spanning a lifetime. Having frequently heard the expression, &quot;If I knew then what I know now...&quot; GHDay begins with Phil's self-centered, arrogant, and dismissive attitude (frequently associated with the teenage years) and grows through to caring about others and finally finding contentment in a relationship that puts his partner first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All that said; learning an instrument, another language, apparently some medical training, along with every person, action, nuance, &quot;gust of wind&quot;, etc...in his words, &quot;I know everything.&quot; (to Andi McDowell at the diner); despite the director's 10 year timeline, I think it should have been more like 60 or 70.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If only we could all have such a perspective on our own lives...I suspect we wouldn't sweat the small stuff so much...or make fun of lengthy philisophical posts :p  Ciao!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28421" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T12:44:24.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44351" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="60314" CreationDate="2015-12-05T15:13:14.207" Score="10" ViewCount="2610" Body="&lt;p&gt;I couldn't help but notice a lot in common between the &lt;em&gt;Toy Story&lt;/em&gt; movies, and &lt;em&gt;The Velveteen Rabbit&lt;/em&gt; by Margery Williams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In specific, the following elements are both major parts of the story:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They both are about toys who can move and talk to each other.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The rabbit wants to be real for the same reasons as Buzz Light-year (He can't jump like real rabbits can).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Toys fear being abandoned, and want to have as much attention as possible&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the most convincing part is when the rabbit is talking with the horse, who had been played with a lot by the boy's father and then passed to the boy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This part is very much like what &lt;em&gt;Toy Story 2&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;3&lt;/em&gt; is about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if any of &lt;em&gt;Toy Story&lt;/em&gt; movies were inspired by &lt;em&gt;The Velveteen Rabbit&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2017-02-07T14:38:02.427" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T14:38:02.427" Title="Is Toy Story inspired by The Velveteen Rabbit?" Tags="|toy-story|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44357" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44358" CreationDate="2015-12-05T18:22:06.810" Score="2" ViewCount="1190" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Taken 3, Bryan tortures Stuart by pouring water on Stuart's face with a piece of fabric on his face. How is that torture? Any hole on any side between the fabric and his face will give a good breathing hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could someone explain how this works?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28426" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T18:31:51.393" Title="Taken 3, Bryan torturing Stuart. What kind of torture is that?" Tags="|taken-3|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44358" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44357" CreationDate="2015-12-05T18:31:51.393" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The director of the film, Olivier Megaton has &lt;a href=&quot;http://shpplus.com/insight/exclusive-interview-with-olivier-megaton-director-of-taken-3-blockbuster/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;explicitly confirmed&lt;/a&gt; that we're witnessing &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;waterboarding&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, a torture technique intended to simulate drowning&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Per wikipedia:&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Waterboarding is a form of water torture in which water is poured over&#xA;  a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized&#xA;  captive, causing the individual to experience the sensation of&#xA;  drowning. Waterboarding can cause extreme pain, dry drowning, damage&#xA;  to lungs, brain damage from oxygen deprivation, other physical&#xA;  injuries including broken bones due to struggling against restraints,&#xA;  lasting psychological damage, and death. Adverse physical consequences&#xA;  can manifest themselves months after the event, while psychological&#xA;  effects can last for years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, he claims not to have known that the CIA was using this at Guantanamo Bay while they were making the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Megaton :&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;em&gt;Unconsciously I’m doing this, but I don’t think about it when I’m doing the movie. When you read the first script, it had “Fuck” everywhere but we are not making the kind of movie where you need to have a fuck every page. I just removed too many things that would make trouble for me later. Another example, there’s torture at the beginning of Taken 3, a corkscrew, I said it’s not possible. They’re always very strict on torture. &lt;strong&gt;We found instead that an ex CIA agent could use waterboarding. After filming we found that the CIA had used waterboarding a lot in Guantanamo, so that caused problems anyway.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T18:31:51.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44359" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44374" CreationDate="2015-12-05T22:17:58.393" Score="13" ViewCount="6754" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am watching &lt;em&gt;Person of Interest&lt;/em&gt; season 4, episode 10 -- The Cold War, where Samaritan beat the Machine. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why can Samaritan do things that the Machine can't? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why must Finch, Root, Reese, Shaw and Bear hide? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Machine is older than Samaritan, about ten years! So why isn't the Machine better than Samaritan? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28428" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T12:59:27.673" LastActivityDate="2019-10-22T04:27:39.163" Title="Why is Samaritan smarter than the Machine?" Tags="|person-of-interest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44282" CreationDate="2015-12-05T22:57:36.630" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;We see him enter Anna's room at which point Mrs. Dover is awoken by a noise. The camera pans to her for approximately 20 seconds before she gets up and goes to investigate, more than enough time for him to grab some clothing and leave Anna's room and hide somewhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two other doors in the hallway in between Anna's room and the master bedroom, a bathroom and probably a closet. &lt;strong&gt;He hides in the bathroom and waits for Mrs Dover to run into Anna's room, and then leaves via the master bedroom window.&lt;/strong&gt; We can even see that the bathroom door which was closed at first is later opened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bathroom is closed&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VWFLL.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VWFLL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bathroom is open&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gNsi5.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gNsi5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2015-12-05T23:14:06.800" LastActivityDate="2015-12-05T23:14:06.800" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12223" CreationDate="2015-12-06T00:45:22.587" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually, this is a point of discontinuity with the novel, wherein Valjean's promise to Fantine was simply to bring Cosette back to live with her and provide means for their support (not to care for her himself), as he expected Fantine to recover from her illness. Thus, he asks Javert for three days simply to get said affairs in order, which Javert denies him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the ensuing scuffle, Fantine dies in the hospital, and Valjean is captured by Javert and is returned to prison. After some time, he finally escapes and only then does he go to meet the Thenardiers, now with the new intention of remaining hidden from the law and caring for Cosette as a father, believing that rectifying his failure to Fantine is more important than continuing to pay for a decades-old indiscretion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That he asks for 3 days time in the confrontation lyric in my opinion, represents a challenging part in the conversion process from book to musical. Going through the entire capture, conviction, and prison escape of the novel would be too long and cumbersome, but if Valjean simply plans from the start to flee from the law, it would make the honor and conviction of &quot;Who Am I?&quot; seem trivial or dishonest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus, we are left with this slightly clumsy spot in the adaptation. I think the intention was to present what others here have suggested- that Javert's denial of Valjean somehow voided Valjean's responsibility to the law, and readers of the book will recognize Valjean's honest intent to do what is right in God's sight. However, the way his plan changes is never fully reconciled in the narrative of the musical, which can be confusing for those unfamiliar with Hugo's original.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28434" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T00:45:22.587" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44364" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44419" CreationDate="2015-12-06T01:29:20.457" Score="3" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of &quot;Ida&quot; (2013 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2718492/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Best Foreign Language Film of the Year&lt;/a&gt;), Anna/Ida visits her aunt Wanda for the first time.  As she enters Wanda's flat, the camera pauses on a man getting dressed.  He laters says 'God bless' to her from off screen as he leaves. In a film where every scene is dripping with nuance and plot, this one seems unresolved. Who is that guy?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YkLtn.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YkLtn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T02:02:32.783" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T11:50:35.157" Title="Who was the man in Wanda's flat?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|ida|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44365" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-06T01:31:10.000" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T01:31:10.000" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T01:31:10.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44366" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-06T01:31:10.000" Score="0" Body="For questions pertaining to the 2005 drama starring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling." OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T02:00:40.543" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T02:00:40.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42725" CreationDate="2015-12-06T02:22:21.957" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would say that Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard are the two greatest examples of the Noir Voice-Over. Though it shouldn't be pointed out that neither of the films feature a detective protagonist. But Sunset Boulevard in particular has that really iconic style of Voice-Over that I believe you're referring to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also I would like to add that you probably won't find all the elements you're looking for in one film. &quot;I want something black and white, has narration from the main character, lots of smooth jazz, rain, and the stereotypical intro&quot;&#xA;That's a result of self-awareness of the art, and a probably came about from parody's. You will find these individual elements in various films, but no one Noir that has it all. &#xA;I really think Sunset Boulevard or Double Indemnity is what you're looking for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28433" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T02:22:21.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44369" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-06T02:44:33.970" Score="6" ViewCount="961" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &quot;Sliders,&quot; Rembrandt keeps calling Quinn &quot;Q-ball&quot;. Why does he do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I know, I would just like to make sure. In theoretical physics, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ball&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Q-ball refers to a type of non-topological soliton&lt;/a&gt;. The physics in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sliders&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is kind of hairy: not exactly far-fetched, just silly, like no one's even trying to pursue ... well, &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; level of scientific verisimilitude. I was thinking that one of the authors may have misread &quot;soliton&quot; as &quot;solution&quot; and figured he'd impress the hell out of his/her colleagues with his/her superior knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28436" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T13:02:21.090" LastActivityDate="2020-12-19T08:32:45.553" Title="Why does Rembrandt keep calling Quinn &quot;Q-ball&quot;?" Tags="|sliders|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44371" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41238" CreationDate="2015-12-06T03:38:55.523" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe Tyrell may have been a figure of Elliot's broken reality as he is only ever seen talking to people such as Elliot or Mr. Robot... then again there is the time when he was at the party, wanted to be questioned by the police and when he talked to Gideon... It's hard to say what happened to him but of anything I don't think he is dead&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28438" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T03:38:55.523" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44374" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44359" CreationDate="2015-12-06T06:33:08.630" Score="15" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Spoilers for the whole series up to S04E11!&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a (maybe non-complete) list of reasons why Samaritan seems to be better than the Machine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As @mattiav27 mentions in the comments, the Machine has moral standards, hence the Machine will do not anything immoral to reach a greater goal. While Samaritan will stop at nothing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Samaritan has a lot more assets to fight with her. Clearly, Reese, Shaw and root are highly skilled, but it seems that Samaritan has hundreds of assets. Also, don't forget about the challenge in S04E02 where Samaritan recruited very skilled highly intelligent people.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Team Machine has to hide and can only operate in the dark, while Team Samaritan has assets in the government.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Machine is a closed system, while Samaritan is open.&lt;/strong&gt; The Machine can only communicate very indirectly with Finch &amp;amp; Co. Also, the Machine deletes her memory every night (as it was mentioned in S02E21). Only Root can communicate directly with the Machine (which is difficult in Season 4). In contrast, Greer &amp;amp; Co have full access to Samaritan: they can find certain people, can spy on everyone (and get every record on that -- the Machine would only give a hint if there will be a murder related to that person or not), etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why can Samaritan do things that the Machine can't?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is due to the design decision Finch made. You can see that in the flashbacks of S04E05, where an old version of the Machine tried to kill Finch. There are two main design principles in Finch's mind when he created the Machine: The Machine must have a high moral compass (e.g. he teaches the Machine in S04E11 that no one - &lt;em&gt;not even him&lt;/em&gt; - is more important than anyone else), and access to the Machine should be as restricted as possible, such that no one is able to use the Machine for his own needs, or even to manipulate the Machine. In the flashback of S02E14, you can see how angry Finch is at Ingram when he realizes that there is a backdoor to the Machine - which is the root cause for the numbers, the Ordos storyline, the virus storyline, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why must Finch, Root, Reese, Shaw and Bear hide?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the season 3 finale, Greer convinces Control &amp;amp; Co that Samaritan has saved them all, while the Machine even did not see that event coming. Control has seen that Finch is willing to tell the public about the Machine, which makes Finch an enemy of the state: police are searching for them. The bigger problem is that Samaritan is searching for them, which is why they cannot attract attention (which is why the Machine can locate Shaw in S04E08). Finch &amp;amp; Co. are more or less the only antagonists of Samaritan, hence Greer wants them dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2019-10-22T04:27:39.163" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44369" CreationDate="2015-12-06T08:39:11.337" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This appears to be a hangover from an &lt;a href=&quot;http://earthprime.com/content/sliders-scripts-collection/sliders-1994-03-11.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;earlier version of the script&lt;/a&gt;. The alternate Quinn they meet attempts to explain the differences between the various parallel realities using a roulette metaphor with themselves as the ball/s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ARTURO:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Your double said Sliding was like spinning a roulette wheel. Our &quot;ball&quot; must've landed on an Earth that's suffered a&#xA;  terrible climactic cataclysm.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[shortly afterwards]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REMBRANDT:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;End of discussion Q-ball. We're OUTTA here!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=sliders&amp;amp;episode=s01e01&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;revised show script&lt;/a&gt;, the conversations are much farther apart, making the connection less clear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously the nickname suits quite nicely since he's white (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://snapjudgment.org/sites/default/files/cueball-sm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cue ball&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T08:46:53.140" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T08:46:53.140" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44380" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44385" CreationDate="2015-12-06T09:27:00.540" Score="8" ViewCount="2696" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1997 movie, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face/Off&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Face/Off&lt;/a&gt;, FBI Agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) has been pursuing terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) for over 6 years.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During an ambush at Los Angeles airport, Castor makes a comment to Sean about a bomb that is located somewhere within the city of Los Angeles.  Sean does not know whether to believe him or not.  Before Sean can find out the truth from him, Castor is knocked into a coma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an effort to find the location of the bomb from Castor's brother, Pollux,  Sean must go through an experimental face transplant procedure to become Castor.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Archer affirms the threat is real, but is unable to convince Pollux to&#xA;  talk where the bomb is located. At suggestion of his partner Tito,&#xA;  Archer secretly undergoes a highly experimental face transplant&#xA;  procedure by Dr. Walsh to take on Castor's face and appearance. Archer&#xA;  (now played by Cage) is taken to the same high-security prison where&#xA;  Pollux is, and slowly convinces Pollux that he is Castor, gaining&#xA;  information on the bomb's location. Meanwhile, Castor wakes up from&#xA;  his coma prematurely and discovers his face missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the face of Castor is placed onto Sean, they place Sean's face into some sort of preserving agent for reattachment to Sean after the assignment is complete.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FeGJa.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/FeGJa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sean Archer&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sean makes the comment to &quot;take this face and burn it&quot; when the assignment is completed.  There is no more use for Castor at this point in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there an explanation given as to why Castor Troy is still being kept alive after the procedure was completed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T09:35:34.293" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T11:30:59.217" Title="What was the purpose of keeping Castor Troy alive after the face transplant procedure?" Tags="|plot-explanation|face-off|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="15" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44381" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-06T09:28:10.503" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T09:28:10.503" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T09:28:10.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44382" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-06T09:28:10.503" Score="0" Body="Questions pertaining to the 1997 action film Face Off, directed by John Woo and starring Nicolas Cage and John Travolta." OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T13:14:34.797" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T13:14:34.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44383" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-06T09:32:07.700" Score="2" ViewCount="363" Body="&lt;p&gt;Correct me if I'm wrong:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Frequencies&lt;/em&gt; Theo appears to be a determinist (just like the movie's authors), while his father believes in free will and the uncertainty principle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, when Theo explains &quot;how it all works&quot; and tells his father that as he, Theo, perfects the formula, he'll know everything about the future (no surprises, just enjoying the performance while knowing how it ends), he suggests to his father he should say good-bye; the father agrees and leaves, and seconds later Theo discovers the perfect version of the formula.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did his father leave; why the good-bye? Does he hate his son now? Has he renounced him? Why is Theo indifferent? Does his knowledge of the future void all filial emotions somehow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28436" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T13:05:45.563" LastActivityDate="2016-08-27T21:37:31.583" Title="What is Theo's father's reaction in the end?" Tags="|frequencies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44380" CreationDate="2015-12-06T11:01:36.397" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is addressed (to some extent) in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/faceoff_production.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;film's original script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ARCHER:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Why are you keeping him alive?&lt;/em&gt; (gets no answer) &lt;em&gt;As long as he's breathing, he's dangerous.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MILLER:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Relax, he's a turnip.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The short answer is that he's currently in FBI custody as a hospitalised prisoner in what appears to be a normal ICU unit. They've certainly put about the story that he's dead (and presumably assigned him a witness protection name) but there's no special indication that they're in a position to just kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since turning off the life-support of any patient requires a vast amount of time, effort and numerous court appearances, it's presumably a lot easier just to leave him in what they feel is an irreversible coma. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, if the story ever comes out that they decided to turn off his life support without speaking to his family, every person who was involved would be going to jail for a very long time. Far better to just leave him to quietly rot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T11:30:59.217" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T11:30:59.217" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44386" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44387" CreationDate="2015-12-06T11:01:54.853" Score="4" ViewCount="43375" Body="&lt;p&gt;The evil Martians were killed by a song near the end of the &lt;code&gt;Mars Attack!&lt;/code&gt; movie. What is the title of the song? A youtube link will be helpful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6326" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T11:06:55.840" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T11:08:53.543" Title="What is the song in 'Mars Attacks!' that killed the Martians?" Tags="|soundtrack|mars-attacks|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44386" CreationDate="2015-12-06T11:04:32.770" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Attacks!&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Richie discovers that the Martians' heads explode when they hear &lt;strong&gt;Slim Whitman's &quot;Indian Love Call.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; He and Florence drive around town, using the song to kill Martians. The military thereafter broadcast the song around the globe, killing most of the Martians and their leader and causing the few remaining survivors to either flee from Earth or surrender.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/3B8jcKx8H_w?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T11:04:32.770" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44388" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-06T11:08:17.967" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T11:08:17.967" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T11:08:17.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44389" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-06T11:08:17.967" Score="0" Body="Mars Attacks is a 1996 sci-fi/comedy film starring Jack Nicholson, Pierce Brosnan and Sarah Jessica Parker. Martians invade Earth with seemingly unbeatable weapons and a vicious sense of humour." OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-06T12:04:28.633" LastActivityDate="2015-12-06T12:04:28.633" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18848" CreationDate="2015-12-07T00:25:24.500" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each episode of Fargo TV Series has the following included in the ending credits which states that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious, and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person is entirely coincidental and unconditional.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;AKA: not a true story&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KoSkS.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KoSkS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T00:25:24.500" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44401" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44403" CreationDate="2015-12-07T02:36:11.317" Score="3" ViewCount="285" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the call sign of the clone pilot that helped Obi-Wan and Anakin reach the Invisible Hand in the opening battle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry I don't in which movie this takes place, I don't know why but I friend needed to know this information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21261" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T03:47:51.777" Title="What was the call sign of the clone pilot that helped Obi-Wan and Anakin?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44401" CreationDate="2015-12-07T03:47:51.777" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;His name is &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Odd_Ball&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Odd Ball&lt;/a&gt;. Coincidental that I just watched this scene yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T03:47:51.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44405" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44554" CreationDate="2015-12-07T04:15:25.537" Score="23" ViewCount="26279" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why is technology so advanced in the Star Wars prequels? The obvious answer is that the prequels were made in the 90s - 00s while the first films were made in the 70s and 80s, therefore real world technology was more advanced when the films were made. But I'm curious if there is any sort of in universe explanation with an official source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have always heard a theory since I first saw the Episode I (in fact my friend's dad laid it out for us on the car ride home from seeing it) that the Clone Wars caused a technological regression, and so the Star Wars universe in episodes 4-6 was one where people couldn't afford to make and/or own many droids, or at least not create any new ones, and this explains why the empire didn't have battle droids, and Luke and his uncle were out buying scrap droids, etc.  I'm not sure how much water this theory holds but I'm not able to find any official sources saying this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess I kind of have two questions. &lt;strong&gt;Is there any official explanation for the advanced technology in the prequels&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;does the regression theory I mentioned hold any water or is it entirely fan-based?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Again I'm not looking for theories, I've seen hundreds of theories. I'm looking for sources.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-07T14:06:20.007" LastActivityDate="2017-10-20T11:09:59.990" Title="Why is technology so advanced in the Star Wars prequels?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-07T06:57:48.000" Score="8" ViewCount="3028" Body="&lt;p&gt;Plainly speaking  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jessica Jones is immune to Kilgrave's mind-control since the start of the series but she realizes it herself later  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have read Wikipedia on her &amp;amp; in the comics, this reaction to Kilgrave's powers is explained clearly. Jean Grey helps shield her mind.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, does the same explanation hold true for for the TV series too? If not than why does Jessica react differently to Kilgrave's powers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2017-07-12T13:56:28.077" LastActivityDate="2017-07-12T13:56:28.077" Title="Why does Jessica Jones react differently to Kilgrave's powers?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|jessica-jones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44406" CreationDate="2015-12-07T07:03:47.130" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So, does the same explanation hold true for for the TV series too? If not than why does Jessica react differently to Kilgrave's powers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. Mutants don't exist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe due to licensing issues. Fox holds the rights to Mutants in Movies and TV, Marvel does not. So it can't be Jean Grey's help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to how it happened, it has not been explained yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T07:03:47.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44410" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44406" CreationDate="2015-12-07T08:02:47.653" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I hope this would help :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A conversation between Jessica and Luke from episode 12 (~ the 6th minute)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jessica : when he made me... kill Reva... I didn't realize it at the&#xA;time, but I think it severed the hold he had on me. He can't control&#xA;me. Not anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luke : You're free of him... because of Reva?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jessica : Maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luke : So, because you didn't want to kill her... you were able to&#xA;push him out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24398" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-10-04T11:03:25.677" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17125" CreationDate="2015-12-07T08:07:31.637" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In France, there was a &quot;P4&quot; section that made conscripts unfit for duty (military service was compulsery). It usually meant that the candidate was mentally chalenged or homosexual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28473" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T08:07:31.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1257" CreationDate="2015-12-07T11:39:57.120" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I see it, all his books are referenced in the movie... notes from the underground... notes, do you get it? Crime and punishment, no need to explain that, besides, in the haunted house,there was written &quot;crime and punishment'&quot; in neon right above him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then of course, there's the protagonist reading, the idiot. I didn't read it but the description on goodreads should give you an indication of how it compares to the movie: the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women'' remember the epileptic kid? Remember the two woman? Maybe I'm wrong but to me it seems all so obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28477" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-12-15T10:19:47.793" LastActivityDate="2016-12-15T10:19:47.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44418" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41001" CreationDate="2015-12-07T11:49:13.597" Score="0" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;It's not in the script, nor the soundtrack, nor the subtitles. It's&#xA;  left to your imagination or else it was just a bit of ad-libbing on&#xA;  the actors' part. My interpretation was Daniel was telling Eli off&#xA;  after allowing Eli to humiliate him.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ask.metafilter.com/128362/What-does-Daniel-Plainview-tell-Eli&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ask.metafilter.com/128362/What-does-Daniel-Plainview-tell-Eli&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28478" LastEditorUserId="28478" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T15:47:46.957" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T15:47:46.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44364" CreationDate="2015-12-07T11:50:35.157" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The man in this scene is just a random person. His presence there is to give the viewers the first impression of what type of person aunt Wanda is or will turn out to be (as this is the first time Ida meets her). And this first impression is very suggestive of someone engaging in casual sex, therefore perhaps viewers are led to think of her in not so positive terms. As the viewers get to know Wanda throughout the rest of the movie, her liking of carnal pleasures and alcohol turns out to be a way she copes with the reality around her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26851" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T11:50:35.157" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44420" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-07T12:01:46.540" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a police guy in uniform sat inside guarding the house whilst the family was asleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After he is attacked, if you look closely there is a wound to the side of his head. Whether he died or not, it's not said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was the cop killed?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28478" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-07T20:55:46.580" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T21:00:05.587" Title="In Cold in July, was the cop killed?" Tags="|analysis|cold-in-july|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44423" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44426" CreationDate="2015-12-07T13:01:28.057" Score="5" ViewCount="532" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have found on the internet many sites (see &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ATYSl.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techinsider.io/star-wars-fans-darth-jar-jar-theory-2015-11&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://digg.com/video/jar-jar-sith-lord-theory-explained-video&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for example) that &quot;prove&quot; that Jar Jar Binks is a Sith Lord. My question is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this only a fan theory, or is there an official explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-07T13:46:47.657" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T22:16:33.430" Title="Is Jar Jar Binks a Sith Lord?" Tags="|character|star-wars|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44420" CreationDate="2015-12-07T14:30:06.543" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm gonna say &amp;quot;no&amp;quot;, based on three factors;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's never mentioned again and the scene ends with the senior policeman &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tipping his hat and leaving&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. I can't imagine any set of circumstances where they'd allow the family to spend the night in a house where a murder had happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_in_July_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;source novel&lt;/a&gt;, the cop (Kevin) isn't killed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But already Russel had jumped our cop, and there was a yell from Kevin&#xA;and the sound of something slamming against the wall in the hall, and&#xA;I was rolling out of bed, grabbing at the shotgun under it, rushing&#xA;for the bedroom door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I got out in the hall just in time to see our&#xA;Vietnam vet, black belt policeman take a marvelous left hook on the&#xA;chin that bounced him over his chair even as his hand was in mid-draw&#xA;for his revolver. &lt;strong&gt;The sound of the punch and the way Kevin went down&#xA;like a broken manikin told me he wouldn’t be getting up for a while.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Price and another officer got Kevin awake and onto the couch to look him over.&#xA;“You need to work on your stepover toe-hold,” the officer told him.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;“That old bastard is as strong as God,” Kevin said.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;An ambulance was called out, and a doctor came and looked at Kevin and me and my family. He clucked some, applied a bandage or two and gave us an aspirin&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the film, the cop has no visible injuries, nor is there a blood pool or any blood spatter on the walls. The implication is that he was cold-cocked rather than being shot in the side of the head. What you may have thought was a head injury is simply a lighting effect (e.g. a shadow)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HOxxD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HOxxD.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T21:00:05.587" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44423" CreationDate="2015-12-07T14:42:46.213" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, this is not in any way, shape, or form an official explanation of Jar Jar's. This was entirely a fan-devised &quot;crazy theory&quot;, which just happens to have an interesting amount of &lt;em&gt;coincidental&lt;/em&gt; supporting evidence. The theory originated &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/comments/3qvj6w&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on reddit&lt;/a&gt; (where this kind of wild speculation is common and part of the regular entertainment amongst fans). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as this becoming &quot;official&quot; in canon, that's highly unlikely. In order for that to happen, Jar Jar would presumably have to appear in some subsequent canonical work. The theory even originally postulated that Jar Jar would&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;play a central role in The Force Awakens&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as far as anyone associated with the movies has said, that's not going to happen. For example, according to producer Kathleen Kennedy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Jar Jar is definitely not in the movie,” she said to applause and cheers. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/07/star-wars-producer-confirms-jar-jar-binks-will-not-appear-in-the-force-awakens&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;sup&gt;src&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="1146" LastEditDate="2015-12-07T22:16:33.430" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T22:16:33.430" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44430" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44433" CreationDate="2015-12-07T18:15:25.657" Score="6" ViewCount="13125" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Family Guy episode 14x08, Peter wrote some lines on his old computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I never saw much of Joe after that. And while he's been gone for many years, I've never forgetten his face or his laughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know those lines, where do the come from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21173" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-07T18:18:24.027" LastActivityDate="2017-04-04T20:04:56.893" Title="Movie reference at the end of Family Guy Episode 14x08?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|reference|family-guy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:13:08.103" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44431" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-07T18:49:31.883" Score="16" ViewCount="1655" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious to know how revenue stream works for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The creator of the movie (movie production studios)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The presenter of the movie (movie theaters)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a 50-50 split, or a lease agreement?  This is regards to the movie itself, and not revenue from food/drink.  This does also include trailers, do movie theaters make money for showing trailers to the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3438" LastActivityDate="2019-07-20T10:50:42.460" Title="How do movie makers and movie theaters make money based off of a movie?" Tags="|film-industry|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44433" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44430" CreationDate="2015-12-07T19:11:28.853" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though the &lt;em&gt;dialogue&lt;/em&gt; isn't a direct copy of it, the entire scene is an homage to the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092005/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stand By Me&lt;/a&gt;: Peter writing about his old friend on an old computer, his son and and his friend coming in, the song &lt;em&gt;Stand By Me&lt;/em&gt; playing in the background etc. You can see most of the scene the show referenced here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/TW-tcUYwQnc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2017-02-07T22:53:09.423" LastActivityDate="2017-02-07T22:53:09.423" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44434" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-07T19:17:06.343" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-07T19:17:06.343" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T19:17:06.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44435" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-07T19:17:06.343" Score="0" Body="Comedy cartoon TV series by David X Cohen and Matt Groening following the adventures a Pizza guy frozen in 1999 and revived in 2999." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-12-07T19:46:00.460" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T19:46:00.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44436" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44439" CreationDate="2015-12-07T19:18:41.593" Score="2" ViewCount="4757" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Umbrella have never used Nemesis to kill every single zombie in Raccoon City? As much as I know, he was tested once, to kill all S.T.A.R.S. members, to test his &quot;skills&quot;. But, never seen to kill any zombies. It is impossible that, umbrella was afraid, that he will be bit by a zombie, because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was bitten already in first movie, when he was still alive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is somewhat of a Robot, (I guess, he can't feel pain)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He has a bloody Gatling Machine-gun and rocket launcher.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S: Also, just wanted to know, where did he disappear after 2nd movie of Resident Evil?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28484" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-07T19:24:26.417" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T16:25:37.070" Title="Why did Umbrella never use Nemesis to kill zombies?" Tags="|resident-evil|resident-evil-apocalypse|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44436" CreationDate="2015-12-07T19:37:32.407" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Resident Evil: Apocalypse, He didn't kill any Zombies because it was never ordered to be. Nemesis was in fully control of Umbrella and was sent to kill surviving members of S.T.A.R.S. . But after fighting Alice he got back flashes of his memory and helped the survivor but he was killed by helicopter and then the whole city was caught under nuclear attack and there was no chance for Nemesis to survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Umbrella never ordered Nemesis to kill Zombies because they had something else in mind, Umbrella want to hide all his secret from government. If Nemesis killed the Zombies, there there will be proof all over the Raccoon city, so they preferred nuclear bombing more then Nemesis to clean whole the mess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-02T16:25:37.070" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T16:25:37.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44438" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44431" CreationDate="2015-12-07T19:38:47.617" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Movie's producers are charged simply with making the product: the movie itself. At some point during the movie's production (or often, nowadays, before work has even commenced), the producers will negotiate with distributers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a more detailed answer to how producers earn their fee, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/21552/what-does-a-movie-producer-do&quot;&gt;check this out&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Often, a film can have a domestic and international distributor, and a 3rd for handling residuals (DVD and post Box Office). Increasingly, and with a big budget product (like &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;), all this is handled by one powerhouse distributor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Distributors will agree to cover print movement, distribution and often marketing: in exchange for either a percentage of box office, a fixed nominal fee or sometimes rolling points on the movie itself. Depending on the type of movie and how wide it is opening (the scale of its release), different methods of payment can offer different returns, so this changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, a exhibitor will take the product from the distributor and show it on their screens. They will also take a healthy cut from Box Office, as they have to factor in the overheads of actually getting people to pay for the product. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is never anywhere near a 50/50 split, but it does change drastically depending on the movie. For example, an Indie that is desperate to be shown would happily agree to lose 60% on Dist, with 20% of that going to exhibitors just to get the film seen. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spectre&lt;/em&gt;, in comparison, was a sure thing, so its producers could barter a lot stronger in the returns %.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many Cinemas, especially Multiplex chains, have an agreement with a set distributor for trailers. They don't get paid per trailer, but will receive an annual fee for playing the adverts and trailers chosen by the distributors. Typically, distributors will only feature adverts that they are distributing themselves, and also that will be released in the cinema they're being played in to avoid conflict of interest. The amount paid to an exhibitor depends on the size of the venue and prospective audience, but it's not really as much you'd imagine; maybe only £7K ($10K) per screen, per year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2019-07-20T10:50:42.460" LastActivityDate="2019-07-20T10:50:42.460" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44436" CreationDate="2015-12-07T19:43:34.497" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Without wanting to point out the obvious, Nemesis (Addison) would be relatively useless as a zombie fighter, largely because he was vaporized when Raccoon City was nuked. He was close enough to ground zero that it's likely that his atoms became sort of smooth plasma roughly the temperature of the surface of the sun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was confirmed in the film's &lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0743493494&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;official novelisation&lt;/a&gt;, co-authored by the film's writer, Paul S. Anderson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It drove Isaacs crazy. Nemesis had been floundering for ages, and now they’d finally had a breakthrough. Abernathy and Addison were the perfect test subjects—Addison took to the mutations like a duck to water, and Abernathy had even taken it one step further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Cain let Isaacs do his job and refine the process?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, he’d let them loose in the city and set up some kind of idiotic death-cage match.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now both subjects were as dead as Cain,&lt;/strong&gt; and Isaacs would need to start over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and you can see the relevant scene here. Note that the blast is &lt;strong&gt;directly above&lt;/strong&gt; Nemesis' last known location, pinned under the crashed helicopter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ahLr2VJMUlU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T12:48:31.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44423" CreationDate="2015-12-07T20:03:40.667" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I apologize for not committing Eps 1-3 to memory, but I seem to recall that JJB was a bit clumsy.  Unless that theory postulates that his clumsiness was purposeful and all the trouble he caused due to his clumsiness was calculated to attempt to kill some of our heroes, I find it impossible to seriously consider the idea that a being that clumsy could be a Sith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T20:03:40.667" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44443" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="70140" CreationDate="2015-12-07T20:16:24.043" Score="3" ViewCount="361" Body="&lt;p&gt;In American Horror Story: Asylum, Jude seems to be turned religious and tries religious ways as per her beliefs, but why did she allow to show a provocative film on movie night? What was that movie and how is it even allowed by Jude to be shown in the asylum?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-15T14:48:34.410" LastActivityDate="2017-03-15T15:09:18.597" Title="What was the point of showing a sexually provocative film in the Asylum?" Tags="|character|american-horror-story|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44444" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44454" CreationDate="2015-12-07T20:46:43.247" Score="4" ViewCount="761" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last scene of &lt;em&gt;Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol&lt;/em&gt;, after Ethan tells William that Julia is alive, Ethan prefers to have a look of Julia only from the distance. While Julia after finding that Ethan is there and he is looking at her, does not prefer to meet him and they just give a smile to each other and then Julia steps into a shop leaving Ethan behind. Why do they not meet each other?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5647" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T15:54:46.837" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T15:54:46.837" Title="Why do Ethan and Julia just prefer to see each other from long distance rather than meeting each other?" Tags="|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-ghost-protocol|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44324" CreationDate="2015-12-07T21:04:23.870" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've watched this movie several times, and I've always felt that the affair presented Steven with the perfect alibi.  Hence the title; The Perfect Murder.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As with most financial crimes, the perpetrator never thinks they'll get caught.  They're too smart for that.  Steven was likely in a position, however, where he felt the walls closing in.  He was still self-centered, however.  He was worried about himself.  His thoughts were on himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once he discovered his wife was having an affair, Steven realized that if he played a good game of Chess that he might have an out.  So he confronted David (Viggo's character) and tries to get &lt;em&gt;him&lt;/em&gt; to commit the murder.  There is no indication that murdering his wife was even a consideration prior to the affair being discovered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T21:04:23.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16922" CreationDate="2015-12-07T21:48:28.247" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the film in a few years, but I don't recall any evidence in the film that Lenny's wife was actually dead, although we (and Lenny) are supposed to assume that she is dead. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To me, that final scene showed that his wife had been alive all along, and that she and Lenny periodically got back together again.  It wasn't a daydream. Of course, Lenny would have no memory of their reunions and no evidence that she was alive (unless he wrote a note or took a polaroid).  Having no knowledge that his wife is alive, he would still carry out revenge the killings, and maybe his wife was encouraging him to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was something else that led me to believe his wife was still alive, something about the book she read over and over again, but I can't remember the detail right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28490" LastActivityDate="2015-12-07T21:48:28.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44447" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44448" CreationDate="2015-12-07T22:11:02.213" Score="1" ViewCount="1793" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0982035/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;In this dialogue&lt;/a&gt; from Family Guy, Stewie is confronted with Stanley Smith from American Dad. Who does he mean by &quot;Joe&quot; when he says that he looks like him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27786" LastActivityDate="2018-08-09T21:41:30.137" Title="Who does Stewie confuse Stanley Smith with in S06E06?" Tags="|family-guy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44447" CreationDate="2015-12-07T22:13:42.890" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;He's talking about Joe Swanson, the neighbor from Family Guy. Stan's facial shape is basically an exaggerated version of Joe's (though the characters are voiced by two different actors). Also, Joe is a police officer, while Stan is an CIA agent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(This is an inside joke, poking fun at how &lt;em&gt;American Dad&lt;/em&gt; characters are often accused of being derivative of &lt;em&gt;Family Guy&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XIsNJm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XIsNJm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/94wQhm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/94wQhm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2018-08-09T21:41:30.137" LastActivityDate="2018-08-09T21:41:30.137" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16145" CreationDate="2015-12-08T03:00:02.750" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current Walt Disney Studios, located at 500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, was made possible by the revenue from the 1937 release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Walt Disney and his staff began the move from the old studio at Hyperion Avenue in Silver Lake on December 24, 1939. So 1239 (Dec '39) is when Disney moved to their permanent location. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28493" LastEditorUserId="4530" LastEditDate="2015-12-26T18:36:00.527" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T18:36:00.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44444" CreationDate="2015-12-08T08:24:38.563" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;First Julia waves bye to Ethan before going in to shop. Second, as far as I think, they both have chosen to stay separated for Julia's safety. Also Ethan only tells the secret to William to clear the misunderstanding, not any other member of his team. If they meet, it might have possible that MI agency or someone else might find her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21017" LastActivityDate="2015-12-08T08:24:38.563" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44459" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-08T11:17:08.197" Score="5" ViewCount="1351" Body="&lt;p&gt;By the end of M Night Shyamalan's 'The Visit', it is evident&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; that the fake Nana and Pop Pop were lunatics with a medical condition. Now, I read that some of the traits displayed in the movie by Nana are similar to actual conditions. Meaning some patients do behave like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what was the deal with 9:30? Is it possible that a condition like this happens around a fixed time? Or is it simply employed by the director to create more suspense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-08T11:49:37.277" LastActivityDate="2016-09-10T13:49:45.197" Title="What was the deal with 9:30 in M Night Shyamalan's 'The Visit'?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-visit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44460" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-08T11:20:31.857" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Visit is a 2015 American found footage horror and comedy film written, produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It opened up to moderate box office success and mixed reviews, but was cited as 'return to form' for the prolific director of The Sixth Sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-12-08T14:55:00.170" LastActivityDate="2015-12-08T14:55:00.170" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44461" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-08T11:20:31.857" Score="0" Body="2015 American Horror/Suspense/Thriller movie" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="301" LastEditDate="2015-12-08T11:51:17.003" LastActivityDate="2015-12-08T11:51:17.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44462" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-08T12:38:31.927" Score="5" ViewCount="1594" Body="&lt;p&gt;Including commercials, most television sitcoms are about half an hour long, whereas dramas tend to fill an hour-long slot.  Though I haven't crunched the numbers myself, I get a feeling that the length difference holds for films as well.  But even if the difference in &lt;em&gt;average&lt;/em&gt; movie running times isn't so great, I'm pretty sure the overall distributions are very different—a lot of very popular dramas are around three hours long, but I can't think of many straight-up comedies that run much past two hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What accounts for this difference?  Is it harder for a writer to sustain a humorous story for more than two hours?  Or do audiences fatigue faster from mirth than other emotions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19812" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-08T12:48:31.157" LastActivityDate="2016-10-10T09:50:03.613" Title="Why are comedies shorter than dramas?" Tags="|comedy|drama|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44463" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44146" CreationDate="2015-12-08T12:42:03.147" Score="3" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or at least some of them do. Obviously most of the people in the districts, living impoverished lives, are fairly uneducated and probably don't know and don't care about such ancient history. Privileged Capitol citizens, however, such as Plutarch Heavensbee, clearly do. Quoting from the novel &lt;em&gt;Mockingjay&lt;/em&gt; on which the films were based (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Oh, the city might be able to scrape along for a while,&amp;quot; says Plutarch. &amp;quot;Certainly, there are emergency supplies stockpiled. But the significant difference between Thirteen and the Capitol are the expectations of the populace. Thirteen was used to hardship, whereas in the Capitol, all they've known is Panem et Circenses.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;What's that?&amp;quot; I recognize Panem , of course, but the rest is nonsense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;It's a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called Rome,&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; he explains. &amp;quot;Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think about the Capitol. The excess of food. And the ultimate entertainment. The Hunger Games. &amp;quot;So that's what the districts are for. To provide the bread and circuses.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Yes. And as long as that kept rolling in, the Capitol could control its little empire. Right now, it can provide neither, at least at the standard the people are accustomed to,&amp;quot; says Plutarch. &amp;quot;We have the food and I'm about to orchestrate an entertainment propo that's sure to be popular. After all, everybody loves a wedding.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27759" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-08T12:42:03.147" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44465" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44462" CreationDate="2015-12-08T14:07:22.640" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Dramas tend to have very involved plots.  There are a lot of details to fill in, a lot of twists to the plot, a lot of storytelling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Comedies, on the other hand, often have simpler plots with less details.  The focus is on the humor, not necessarily the story (although there has to be a storyline, even if it's simple).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regards to TV shows, most sitcoms (actually, &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; sitcom I can think of) is &quot;stand-alone&quot;.  There may be some running jokes, but the plot tends to be resolved in one episode.  Dramas, however, tend to run as a continuous story, and so the plots often need to intertwine from episode to episode.  This adds to the complexity of the story, which requires more time to tell it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-12-08T14:07:22.640" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44467" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44475" CreationDate="2015-12-08T15:02:52.130" Score="3" ViewCount="548" Body="&lt;p&gt;The flip side of this is &quot;How long was Winthorpe homeless and destitute?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From looking at the movie it looks like a couple of days,but that's hardly enough time for Billy Ray to build a reputation and/or enough knowledge to be balancing the companies check book on Christmas Eve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is there a known time period that the events of the movie took place over?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4822" LastActivityDate="2015-12-08T22:43:30.547" Title="Trading places: How long was Valentine working for the Dukes?" Tags="|trading-places|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44470" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44484" CreationDate="2015-12-08T18:42:30.467" Score="8" ViewCount="1228" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Fargo, Season 2, Episode 9, &quot;The Castle&quot;, the police decide to maintain Ed Blumquist's meeting with Mike Milligan at the Motor Motel.  This is after Hanzee Dent has already absconded with a car and driven away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the parade of police cars arrive at the motel midday to setup their sting operation, Hanzee appears to already be there, perched atop a building across the way, observing using his rifle scope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did Hanzee know they were going to the motel?&lt;/strong&gt;  I can only assume he trailed the police cars from a safe distance, then parked a block away and climbed a building to get a lookout post, but that seems like a bit much for him to put together on such a short notice, given the amount of time the police take arriving with the Blumquists, then taking rooms.  Should I assume police had been at the motel earlier to establish rooms and Hanzee drew conclusions from having tracked them, or perhaps he was listening to a police radio?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4266" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T18:11:34.540" Title="Was Hanzee at the Motor Motel before the police cavalcade arrived?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fargo-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44467" CreationDate="2015-12-08T22:43:30.547" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The very first date that can be ascertained from the movie is December 1st, 1982.  This date is written on the paychecks that Winthorpe has the Duke brothers sign.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hbqc7.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hbqc7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a Payroll guy, but I'm fairly certain that paychecks are dated on (or close to) the day they're issued.  This means the checks were likely signed on November 30th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Immediately following the paychecks being signed, the Duke brothers first bring up their bet.  On Winthorpe's way out of the club, where the checks were signed, he encounters Valentine.  Valentine takes Winthorpe's briefcase, which leads to his arrest.  The Duke brothers then officially make the bet that leads to Winthorpe becoming homeless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They bail Valentine out of jail the following day, which is assumed to be December 1st, and give him Winthorpe's house.  Winthorpe gets arrested that same day and spends a night in jail.  The following day, December 2nd, he meets Ophelia and begins rooming with her (thus, he is not &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; homeless).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Backtracking for a sec, while in jail Valentine is harassed by two larger men, one of which says, &quot;It ain't cool bein' no jive turkey so close to Thanksgiving&quot;, which lends weight to the December 1st date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next date officially brought up is Christmas Eve, when Winthorpe is sick in Ophelia's bed.  In between, there isn't a single calendar or newspaper with a date that is legible, so no other dates can even be assumed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, the whole deal with the USDA report takes place on New Years Day, and the report is set to be officially released on Jan 2nd (as stated earlier in the film).  Therefore, Winthorpe is officially &quot;homeless&quot; almost exactly 1 month.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone with a Payroll background can back up my assumption, I'd appreciate it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-12-08T22:43:30.547" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44481" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44676" CreationDate="2015-12-09T00:35:10.500" Score="9" ViewCount="1429" Body="&lt;p&gt;While &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was about the production and trade with methamphetamine and the huge amounts of money to be made with it, it was quite &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/26477/49&quot;&gt;lacking in the actual depiction of drug use&lt;/a&gt; and its consequences, other than a few select scenes and a character who didn't seem to have much difficulty switching his addiction on and off. Add to this that the discussion of production methods inside the show, while understandably superficial and fragmentary, has been &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad#Scientific_accuracy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;recognized for its supposed accuracy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seeing that the production, trade and usage of methamphetamine is a serious problem in many countries, among them the US, &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;'s possible glorification of the drug business coupled with its apparent &quot;suppression&quot; of the more serious issues of drug use &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be seen as detrimental to the efforts of fighting this drug and its business inside the public conciousness. Yet, I'm not aware of any public criticism in that regard (disregarding if I'd personally support that or not).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Has there ever been any noticeable public criticism of the show in this regard?&lt;/strong&gt; Have maybe even actual anti-drug organizations, be they charitable or governmental, expressed reservations about the show possibly glorifying the drug business? Or has this interpretation never entered public debate? &lt;strong&gt;What were the general public reactions to the show regarding the concerns of real-world drug fighting&lt;/strong&gt;, if there even were any?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T00:34:12.507" Title="Was there ever noticeable criticism about Breaking Bad possibly glorifying the drug business?" Tags="|breaking-bad|reception|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44483" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49629" CreationDate="2015-12-09T01:33:43.457" Score="19" ViewCount="7394" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_Weapon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lethal Weapon&lt;/a&gt;, released in 1987 starring Mel Gibson as Martin Riggs and Danny Glover as Roger Murtaugh is continually alluding to the fact that Martin Riggs is much younger than Roger Murtaugh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other characters have their age well established: We are introduced to &lt;a href=&quot;http://lethalweapon.wikia.com/wiki/Roger_Murtaugh&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Roger Murtaugh&lt;/a&gt; on his 50th birthday, so we know how old he is. Martin Riggs' late wife, &lt;a href=&quot;http://lethalweapon.wikia.com/wiki/Victoria_Riggs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Victoria Lynn Riggs&lt;/a&gt; was born in 1953 and died in 1984.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only hint to the age of Martin Riggs comes from a discussion he has with Roger &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/lethalweapon.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Murtaugh&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RIGGS: I do it real good,  you  know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;MURTAUGH: Do what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;RIGGS: Kill people ... Only thing I ever did good.  &lt;strong&gt;When I was&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;nineteen&lt;/strong&gt;, I did a guy in Laos from a thousand yards out. Rifle shot in&#xA;high wind. Ten guys in the world coulda made that shot.  Huh.  Only&#xA;thing I was ever good at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are not informed of the year that Martin Riggs joined the armed forces or the years that he served in the Vietnam war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://lethalweapon.wikia.com/wiki/Martin_Riggs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt; page displays the birth date of Martin Riggs to be October 16, 1949; however, they don't state where this information came from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has Martin Riggs' age ever been mentioned in any of the Lethal Weapon movies or are there more hints to make an accurate deduction?  Is there an outside source that confirms his actual birth date?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2022-12-24T23:53:05.207" LastActivityDate="2022-12-24T23:53:05.207" Title="Was Martin Riggs' age ever established?" Tags="|character|lethal-weapon|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44470" CreationDate="2015-12-09T02:57:46.840" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;After rewatching both episodes, I didn't see any definite evidence that Hanzee knew ahead of time that they were going to the Motel. Between the cabin and the hotel we only see Hanzee four times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He enters the cabin and kills Dodd, spends some time there getting a &quot;haircut&quot;, then flees when Lou and Hank show up.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Next we see him return to the store, kill the owner, patch his wounds, and leave quickly in the stolen red sedan.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We don't see him again until he is hidden on the roof of the Optometrist, spying on the troopers.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He makes the phone call to Mrs. Gerhardt and lies, telling her that Kansas City has Dodd at the motel and they should come ambush them tonight.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The way I see it there are several likely explanations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was already in town waiting for any sign of troopers, and happened to see them all pull in and park at the Motel.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He followed them from somewhere near the cabin into town and got on the roof before they parked (this is somewhat thin because there's no way he would know they meant to stay there until they parked, but he was already on the roof when they arrived)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Somehow he got word of their plans, over the radio or possibly he has been communicating with Kansas City and did some smart guessing that the police would attempt to wire Ed (also pretty thin)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He overheard Ed mention to Dodd that he was going to give him over to Mike Milligan before he broke into the cabin, and guessed that they had a planned meeting place in town somewhere... (see number one)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I personally think that the most likely bet is number one, possibly combined with number four.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="4266" LastEditDate="2017-01-25T18:11:34.540" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T18:11:34.540" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7943" CreationDate="2015-12-09T03:03:37.913" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The point of that scene is he has no conscience and no qualms killing her. The coin flip in a way shows he had a hint of remorse about killing her. He definitely killed her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28523" LastEditorUserId="30887" LastEditDate="2021-01-30T04:07:33.387" LastActivityDate="2021-01-30T04:07:33.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44486" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-09T03:07:47.863" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lethal Weapon&lt;/em&gt; is a 1987 American buddy-cop action film directed by Richard Donner.  It stars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, Darlene Love, Ebonie Smith, Gary Busey, and Mitchell Ryan. The film was released on March 6, 1987. It was nominated for Academy Award in the category of Best Sound. It spawned a franchise that includes three sequels and a television series. (Wikipedia)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDb:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Martin Riggs is an L.A. cop with suicidal tendencies and Roger Murtaugh is the unlucky police officer with whom Riggs is assigned. Together they uncover a huge drug-smuggling operation, and as their success rate grows so does their friendship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093409/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_Weapon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="41249" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-14T18:09:33.700" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T18:09:33.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44487" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-09T03:07:47.863" Score="0" Body="Lethal Weapon is 1987 American action, thriller film directed by Richard Donner, and stars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. It premiered on March 6, 1987. It led to a franchise that includes three sequels and a television series." OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-14T17:41:10.250" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T17:41:10.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44488" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-09T03:13:11.813" Score="2" ViewCount="1261" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1231587&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hot Tub Time Machine&lt;/em&gt; (2010)&lt;/a&gt;, there is a scene where Lou is interrupted having sex with Kelly, Jacob's mother (it has already been established that Jacob was conceived that weekend and that his mom is kind of a slut, leaving a paternal question in the air). When he is interrupted, Jacob disappears from existence, thus revealing that Lou is Jacob's father and he must finish in order for Jacob to still exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My question is was Lou always Jacob's father?&lt;/strong&gt; I don't remember them ever mentioning him having sex with Kelly as one of the things that he has to do to avoid changing the future, and that seems like it would be something you would remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2018-10-14T05:02:33.697" LastActivityDate="2018-10-14T05:02:33.697" Title="Was Lou always Jacob's dad?" Tags="|plot-explanation|hot-tub-time-machine|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31717" CreationDate="2015-12-09T04:07:04.327" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The actress (Sofia Boutella) did do all the scenes shot, but in blue leggings. Later the special effects team put the prosthetic rapier (like) legs to finish off the shots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28524" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T04:07:04.327" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44462" CreationDate="2015-12-09T04:28:40.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alyssa Rosenberg asks this question in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/07/16/518811/why-are-dramas-an-hour-long-and-comedies-a-half-hour/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;column she wrote&lt;/a&gt; and makes some interesting observations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Louis CK easily filled an hour of comedy with his show.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Law &amp;amp; Order, though an hour long, has always been essentially two half-hour dramas (The cop show, then the lawyer show). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the argument that comedies have less storytelling to deal with than dramas, I could find plenty of counter arguments. Many of your standard-fair procedural crime dramas are quite cliche and follow essentially the same handful of story lines over and over. Conversely, there as some very dense and layered comedies that take an entire series to get to some of the punch-lines (such as Arrested Development). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, for every argument why one is an hour and the other is a half hour in terms of complexity or story, it seems we can find an example to counter it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; answer, but one theory I'd put forth is how the pacing of a comedy tends to differ from that of a drama. Simply put, a comedy tends to need a much faster pace. It's supposed to be (or historically has been) a light show meant to make us laugh and forget (or laugh at) reality. As such, it needs to have a fairly quick pace full of jokes and one liners. And that's hard to do for an entire hour. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conversely, a drama can actually benefit from slow parts. The overall pace of a drama tends to be slower and varied. Giving more 'elbow room' of an hour simply allows the drama to pace itself better. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd argue that's why 'funny' hour-long shows (such as Better Call Saul) aren't strictly comedies, but 'dramedies'. They can be plenty funny, but since they mix in the pacing of a drama, they can much more easily handle the full hour pacing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T04:28:40.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44492" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-09T05:48:48.673" Score="1" ViewCount="77" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Boy (2015)&lt;/em&gt; towards the final act of the movie, we see Ted locking the doors of the motel rooms, then pouring gasoline onto the doors, before setting them on fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later we hear the students cry and scream of agony, since they are locked inside and can't escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why didn't any of them try to escape from the windows?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the movie, we see Ted sneaking into one of the rooms through a window, which means these windows are not bared, and can allow a human to pass through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a plot hole? or are we supposed to assume that the students were too drunk to be able to think their way out of a burning room?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T05:48:48.673" Title="Why didn't the students escape fire through windows?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-boy|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44494" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12088" CreationDate="2015-12-09T08:20:30.890" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only explanation I can think of is there was a tv series in the US on CBS in 1978-1979 titled &quot;Flying High&quot;. Maybe the producers didn't want to confuse audiences with a similar title, but used this outside the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28528" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T08:20:30.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43311" CreationDate="2015-12-09T08:22:27.217" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My impression is that while he didn't necessarily ever have good intentions toward Robyn and Simon, he didn't hatch his ultimate plan until after Simon told him to leave them alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had a key to their house which he had to have gotten during one of his visits to Robyn, and he had the recording of Simon making fun of him in the mansion while he was &quot;out talking to his ex-wife&quot; so he must've had a plan early on to at least gather personal information and details from them in case he wanted to exact some revenge or blackmail. But I think the actual plan of drugging and raping Robyn came later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T08:22:27.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12088" CreationDate="2015-12-09T09:58:23.743" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2010/12/leslie-nielsen-double.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; (admittedly unattributed) post, Lesley Nielsen confirmed in an interview that the film was retitled &quot;&lt;em&gt;Flying High&lt;/em&gt;&quot; in order to avoid any potential clash with the Australian film &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concorde_..._Airport_%2779&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Airport '80&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (itself originally titled &lt;em&gt;Airport '79: The Concorde&lt;/em&gt;) which had been re-released in the same cycle and would therefore have been showing at the same cinemas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R7SzR.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R7SzR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why the &lt;em&gt;entire Oceanian market&lt;/em&gt;  had this change, I suspect that's more to do with the way that publicity materials are printed. Notably all the countries where it was changed (Phillipines, Indonesia, Japan) received posters &lt;strong&gt;in English&lt;/strong&gt;, despite English not being the prevalent langauge whereas larger markets like Germany had &lt;a href=&quot;http://wieistderfilm.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/die_unglaubliche_reise_in_einem_verrueckten_flugzeug.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;fully customised posters&lt;/a&gt; and production materials in their own language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-03-08T20:51:33.950" LastActivityDate="2017-03-08T20:51:33.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44500" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44501" CreationDate="2015-12-09T11:46:44.150" Score="13" ViewCount="6672" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final scene of &lt;em&gt;The Blues Brothers&lt;/em&gt; we see the band that is playing Jailhouse Rock in the jail's dining hall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie we see that the police is chasing only Jack and Elwood, not the entire band, so why is all the Blues Brothers Band jailed at the end of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if the band is only a visitor, but as we can see they wear the prisoner uniform with relative prisoner number attached to the shirt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/pW1hazYKd5o?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6582" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2018-02-02T10:43:40.773" LastActivityDate="2018-02-02T10:43:40.773" Title="Why are all the Blues Brothers Band members jailed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-blues-brothers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44500" CreationDate="2015-12-09T12:40:00.777" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to th&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/forum/topic/2076-why-did-the-band-go-to-jail/&quot;&gt;is forum post&lt;/a&gt;, there's additional info offered by the movie scrapbook &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blues-Brothers-Private-Judith-Jacklin/dp/0399504761&quot;&gt;Blues Brothers: Private&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. In short, all of the various characters were convicted of different offenses &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the famous gig. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;According to Blues Brothers: Private, they all had criminal records.&#xA;  Most of the band were involved in something after the gig, I think it&#xA;  was to do with an underage girl found sleeping in the Magictones car.&#xA;  Bones Malone was found in a field, pretended he had never heard of the&#xA;  Blues Brothers, but they found cannabis on him. Same with Duck Dunn I&#xA;  think. Willie Hall and Matt Murphy were suspected of being involved&#xA;  with the Black Panthers.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cannabis possession is also mentioned on the book's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blues-Brothers-Private-Judith-Jacklin/dp/0399504761&quot;&gt;review on amazon&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fast-hit.com/isbn-find-book-title/Blues-Brothers-Private_9780399504761&quot;&gt;fasthit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T12:40:00.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44503" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-09T14:32:25.703" Score="11" ViewCount="11070" Body="&lt;p&gt;In movie &lt;em&gt;In the Heart of the Sea&lt;/em&gt;, when Owen Chase finally faces the big white whale (later named Moby Dick) with his harpoon, why does he not do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-09T14:33:15.070" LastActivityDate="2017-01-25T04:17:22.700" Title="Why did Owen Chase not fire his harpoon at Moby Dick?" Tags="|plot-explanation|in-the-heart-of-the-sea|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44506" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44508" CreationDate="2015-12-09T17:34:04.307" Score="4" ViewCount="2132" Body="&lt;p&gt;In American Horror Story: Asylum episode 10, Dr. Arden kills the Raspers and tries to shoot himself too, which he failed to do. But before the suicide attempt he said something, which was not in English. What did he say and what does it signify?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-09T17:45:26.587" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T18:40:54.010" Title="What did Dr. Arden say before attempting suicide in AHS S02E10?" Tags="|character|dialogue|american-horror-story|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44503" CreationDate="2015-12-09T18:07:34.057" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the movie, so I'm not positive if this matches the scene, but there is historical text documenting this encounter written by both Chase and cabin boy Thomas Nickerson.  According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_(whaleship)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The whale rammed the ship and then went under, battering it and&#xA;  causing it to tip from side to side. Finally surfacing close on the&#xA;  starboard side of Essex, with its head by the bow and tail by the&#xA;  stern, the whale appeared to be stunned and motionless. Chase prepared&#xA;  to harpoon it from the deck &lt;strong&gt;when he realized that its tail was only&#xA;  inches from the rudder, which the whale could easily destroy if&#xA;  provoked by an attempt to kill it&lt;/strong&gt;. Fearing to leave the ship stuck&#xA;  thousands of miles from land with no way to steer it, he relented. The&#xA;  whale recovered, swam several hundred yards ahead of the ship, and&#xA;  turned to face the bow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can only assume this is taken from Chase's account.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T18:07:34.057" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44506" CreationDate="2015-12-09T18:27:46.173" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;He says &amp;quot;Finita la commedia&amp;quot; - which is an Italian phrase and means: &amp;quot;The farce is over&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;The play is over&amp;quot; (the time where he says it is around 20:00 minutes for anyone who wants to hear it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“La commedia è finita!” (The play is over!) is the final line in the opera “Pagliacci”, uttered by the character of Canio after he stabs and kills his wife Nedda and her lover Silvio on the stage of the play that all three of them were acting in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has remained a popular saying in Italy and abroad when a sad affair comes to a tragic end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source for the quote from here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://finitolacommedia.wordpress.com/what-is-finito-la-commedia/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://finitolacommedia.wordpress.com/what-is-finito-la-commedia/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read more about the play here:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagliacci&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nedda, trying to continue the play, admits that she has been visited by the innocent Arlecchino. Canio, furious and forgetting the play, demands the name of her lover. Nedda swears she will never tell him, and the crowd realizes they are not acting. Silvio begins to fight his way toward the stage. Canio, grabbing a knife from the table, stabs Nedda. As she dies she calls: &amp;quot;Help! Silvio!&amp;quot;. Silvio attacks Canio, but Canio kills Silvio also. The horrified audience then hears the celebrated final line:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;La commedia è finita! – &amp;quot;The comedy is finished!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23239" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T18:40:54.010" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44481" CreationDate="2015-12-09T18:46:57.267" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. A branch of Toys'r'Us &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/toys-r-us-removes-breaking-bad-figures-from-its-shelves-following-florida-mothers-petition-9811638.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;removed an entire line of &amp;quot;Breaking Bad poseable action figures&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; as a result of protests and petitions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The toy store, based in Wayne, new Jersey, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the dolls were being removed from its shelves and website.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Let's just say, the action figures have taken an indefinite sabbatical,&amp;quot; a statement from the store said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fcaQh.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fcaQh.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T19:03:44.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44511" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-09T19:04:09.270" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-09T19:04:09.270" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T19:04:09.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44512" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-09T19:04:09.270" Score="0" Body="1939 Musical film starring Judy Garland based on the book by L.Frank Baum." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2015-12-09T19:21:25.890" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T19:21:25.890" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44515" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-09T19:36:49.193" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-09T19:36:49.193" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T19:36:49.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44516" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-09T19:36:49.193" Score="0" Body="A German polical drama from 2015 about a spy from East Germany being sent to West Germany." OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="7757" LastEditDate="2015-12-09T19:37:54.977" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T19:37:54.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44520" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-09T20:09:19.580" Score="1" ViewCount="85" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there a website or organisation which shows membership stats for online casting sites for actors? i.e. How many members does Actors Access/CCP/LA Casting etc have? I'm putting together a research paper and finding it hard to track this info down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28537" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-12-13T06:03:17.393" LastActivityDate="2017-12-13T06:03:17.393" Title="Is there a website showing membership stats for casting sites for actors?" Tags="|casting|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44524" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50015" CreationDate="2015-12-09T21:54:14.103" Score="6" ViewCount="332" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for the name of a device used to tell a story.  I'm sure it probably exists in literature, but I am only aware of it in film and T.V. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The device is a person. This person is not a central figure. He usually appears in few scenes.  His presence, however, is apparent to everyone (in the audience).  The defining characteristic is that he will say nothing the entire time he is on  screen. Shortly before he exits the feature, he will have a very short and profound speaking part. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two examples that come  to mind which I think most moviegoers will recognize:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Silent Bob in the Kevin smith universe &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the character, Jerry, wearing a white suit and purple tie in Martin Sheen's  mission briefing in Apocalypse Now; Jerry's only line is &quot;Terminate, with extreme prejudice.&quot;  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any film students out there who know the name of this device?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23014" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-08T21:55:07.600" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T21:20:34.183" Title="Name of this device" Tags="|terminology|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39422" CreationDate="2015-12-09T22:16:30.427" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3xK7R.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3xK7R.png&quot; alt=&quot;close-up on unknown painting&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a screenshot from my computer, as you can see I tried to blow it up as much as I could at the highest quality I could. Then I did a reverse image search and found &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt;. Now I'm really curious too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The truth is, this could be included for no reason in regards to audiences as a whole. Maybe Tarantino saw it in the location he was shooting at and liked it so much he didn't have it removed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe it is symbolic though. That looks like the face of a tiger at the top, maybe? It wouldn't explain what's protruding from it's face. Also at the bottom that is probably a flower? I don't know. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no mention of this being symbolic in any interview about &lt;em&gt;Kill Bill&lt;/em&gt; I found, and I can't seem to find any discussion about it anywhere else either. I'm sorry I can't help you, but I have a feeling that this will never be decoded unless someone knows EXACTLY what that is and brings it up online (such as, the artist of the painting. Is it even a painting?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just checked the script. No mention there either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28433" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2019-07-01T20:10:46.847" LastActivityDate="2019-07-01T20:10:46.847" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41001" CreationDate="2015-12-09T22:24:25.477" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have no interest in saying that there is no answer. But I want to point out that this has been discussed a lot online and no one has any idea. It's not in PT Anderson's script for the film, and there is no audio in the film at all in regards to something being whispered. It only occurs visually. Also, there is no mention of anything like this in the book! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we might be able to conclude is that it was an acting choice, but Anderson had no interest it playing the decision out to the audience, and leaving it in as a sort of &quot;environmental&quot; decision (idk if that makes sense. I just mean that it visually adds to the intensity, but doesn't have a direct impact on the plot). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28433" LastEditorUserId="28433" LastEditDate="2015-12-09T22:30:59.653" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T22:30:59.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44528" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30017" CreationDate="2015-12-09T23:41:50.380" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another connection &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/12/american-horror-story-sarah-paulson-season-1-character-return&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;has surfaced recently&lt;/a&gt; (spoilers for the S5 season finale):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Sarah Paulson will reprise her Season 1 American Horror Story role&#xA; during this season’s finale. That’s right, Paulson will be playing two&#xA; characters this year.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; &lt;br /&gt;&#xA; [...]&lt;br /&gt;&#xA; &lt;br /&gt;&#xA; With the departure of Jessica Lange, Paulson has become American&#xA; Horror Story’s most regular leading lady, but back in Season 1 her&#xA; part was relatively tiny. She played Billie Dean Howard, alleged&#xA; psychic and close friend to Lange’s Constance Langdon, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/09/american-horror-story-exclusive-sarah-paulson-billie-dean-howard?hootPostID=5019fb06209cd8ed6141318b86bbbd91&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;according&#xA; to Entertainment Weekly&lt;/a&gt;, Billie Dean is coming back. The finale&#xA; will see Howard scoping out the Hotel Cortez as a subject for her very&#xA; own reality series featuring her psychic abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-12-09T23:41:50.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3135" CreationDate="2015-12-10T01:37:49.470" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it showed the bonds of all the friends. So with church, drinking, work, hunting, and even war, the friends did everything together. It also hinted at De Niro's character's disdain for the religious rituals. This goes on to shows us that he is not like the others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28543" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T07:25:07.110" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T07:25:07.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44536" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44537" CreationDate="2015-12-10T02:59:20.297" Score="4" ViewCount="15201" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;strong&gt;Maze Runner&lt;/strong&gt; film series, what is the origin of the virus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does the virus affect a human?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it create a reptile inside the body, like in &lt;strong&gt;The Strain&lt;/strong&gt; (2014) tv show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27781" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T03:50:29.070" LastActivityDate="2016-11-16T01:45:58.347" Title="What is the origin of the Virus in the Maze Runner series?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-maze-runner|maze-runner-the-scorch-trials|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44536" CreationDate="2015-12-10T03:35:53.553" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The origin of &lt;strong&gt;the Flare&lt;/strong&gt; has not been shown in the film completely yet. Bits and pieces of the story have been shown, but not a definitive answer yet. It will be revealed in &lt;strong&gt;Maze Runner: The Death Cure&lt;/strong&gt; in 2017.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spoilers ahead: In the books:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The Flare virus was created as a means of population control by the World Government following a geological disaster (solar flares/sun issues) that results in widespread geological damage (entire sections of the Earth have been turned into deserts due to extreme heat, including Chicago that the Scorch Trials revolves around), but the virus got out of control. The world government blamed the Solar Flares for the virus and rage zombies, hence the disease was called &quot;The Flare&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to what it does:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The Flare eats away at the &lt;strong&gt;Killzone&lt;/strong&gt; area of the brain. This results in &lt;strong&gt;Cranks&lt;/strong&gt;, the rage zombies that we see in Scorch Trials. It damages the body, and the mind, driving people to become insane cannibals. The immune, most of the kids we see in The Maze Runner and Scorch Trials, produce an enzyme in the Killzone area of the brain that kills the virus. This is why they are being studied, pushed, and (in the movie, harvested for that blue liquid)/(In the books, they are looking to find the most immune kid, and cut open the brain to study how it works to find out how to duplicate the cure).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, there are no lizards or parasites involved. Especially not Vampire Parasites like &lt;strong&gt;The Strain&lt;/strong&gt;. Teen Dystopia series, not Teen Vampire/Mythological Horror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T03:57:10.973" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T03:57:10.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10918" CreationDate="2015-12-10T03:43:13.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree. W.B. Yeats poem echoes the narrative of the movie. IMO the theme here is escape. I mean everyone is trying to escape from one situation or another: from cops, poverty, death, fear. Ultimately death comes for us all and none of those things matter. There is no escape but by understanding. I think that's what the fire represents. The mountains represent the spiritual, where you go to find your vision. The mountain pass the gateway from life to death or from ignorance to understanding. The father represents the spiritual guide. The immortal spirit with the torch of enlightenment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28548" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T03:43:13.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44539" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-10T03:45:33.580" Score="7" ViewCount="2026" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jessica, Trish and Simpson made a plan how to catch Kilgrave:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; They planned to put him in the chamber which is completely isolated. Even sound can't pass through it. However, later she talks happily to him via a microphone. They do this because his powers do not work if he does not directly speak to you. In a way he is like a virus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how could they have known this would work before trying it? Sure, she talked to him via a cellphone before, but it could have been that he just needed to be nearby for his powers to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did they know beforehand about this fact?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28546" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T08:37:44.410" LastActivityDate="2016-10-01T14:13:30.733" Title="How did Jessica Jones know about Kilgrave's weakness?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|jessica-jones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44540" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44539" CreationDate="2015-12-10T03:51:45.917" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/109679&quot;&gt;SciFi Stackexchange&lt;/a&gt; on similar question :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jessica had a history with Kilgrave that seemed to have lasted for&#xA;quite a while. In that time, she presumably paid close attention to&#xA;how his powers worked. She seemed to know quite a bit about them from&#xA;the very start of the show, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You had to be physically &amp;quot;near&amp;quot; him to affected&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They only lasted ~10 hours&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;You could work around them by taking them literally&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's never explained outright, but we're lead to believe that she has&#xA;figured out roughly &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; his powers work, though she doesn't quite&#xA;understand why. I believe early on they may have even mentioned the&#xA;theory that it was &lt;em&gt;pheromone&lt;/em&gt; based. That would include the fact that&#xA;people needed to be in the same &amp;quot;air space&amp;quot; as him to be affected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/109680/57005&quot;&gt;Answer by Mike Edenfield&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28546" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-10-01T14:13:30.733" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44541" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44542" CreationDate="2015-12-10T04:29:30.807" Score="19" ViewCount="5228" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching &lt;strong&gt;House of Cards&lt;/strong&gt; I wonder: do shows which have such a serious political outline - fictional or not - need some sort of clearance before their release?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or are they always considered harmless because they are works of fiction?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28547" LastEditorUserId="28547" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T22:00:35.447" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T22:00:35.447" Title="Do shows like &quot;House of Cards&quot; need political clearance before their release?" Tags="|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44542" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44541" CreationDate="2015-12-10T05:25:33.773" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to answer for the United States. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Private media does not require any clearance by the Public/Government to produce, distribute, air, or sell any work of art, critical of the government or not. It's protected by the Constitutional guarantee of &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Press&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, and even given special protection via copyright law.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may differ for other countries. &lt;strong&gt;House of Cards&lt;/strong&gt; was originally a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) miniseries. The BBC is the public service broadcaster of the United Kingdom, a government organization. Whether the BBC needs permission from the UK government would be controlled by UK (and maybe European Union) law. Evidently, it's charter from the government outlines it's independence from purely political control, but the charter is regularly changed, and the government has changed who controls the BBC from the Board of Governors to the BBC Trust as recently as 2007. It's not as simple as the Private sector media rights, and considering the BBC is still the biggest media source in the UK...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some countries do have strict rules on what can be aired. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/china-bans-time-travel&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;In 2011, The Chinese Government banned movies that featured &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time Travel&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; of all things&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Usually the protagonist is from the modern time and for some reasons and via some means, travels through time and all the way back to the ancient China where he/she will constantly experience the “culture shock” but gradually get used to it and eventually develop a romance in that era. Though obviously the Chinese audience is fond of this genre of shows, the country’s authority … is not happy about this trend and calls a halt to the making of this type of drama.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Chinese Journalist Olivia] writes that the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television announced that &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“the producers and writers are treating the serious history in a frivolous way, which should by no means be encouraged anymore.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Emphasis mine. Other examples from &amp;quot;moderate&amp;quot; censorship (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Thailand&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Thailand&lt;/a&gt;) to complete and extreme censorship (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_North_Korea&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;North Korea&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That said, it does happen, by intimidation. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The McCarthy era of 1950's Red Scare made many people in Hollywood afraid to produce anything that may get them accused of being a Communist Spy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Hollywood blacklist—as the broader entertainment industry blacklist is generally known—was the mid-20th-century practice of denying employment to screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other U.S. entertainment professionals because of their suspected Communist sympathy or membership in the Communist Party. Artists were barred from work on the basis of their alleged membership in or sympathy with the Communist Party USA and refusal to assist investigations into the party's activities. Even during the period of its strictest enforcement, the late 1940s through the late 1950s, the blacklist was rarely made explicit or verifiable, but it directly damaged the careers of scores of individuals working in the film industry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first systematic Hollywood blacklist was instituted on November 25, 1947, the day after ten writers and directors were cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify to the House Committee on Un-American Activities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Defacto censorship and &amp;quot;clearance&amp;quot; requirements, just not by law, but by threat of force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a slight case for &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_restraint#Prior_restraint_in_the_United_States&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Prior Restraint&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; in cases of National Security, but this would never apply to political satire like the House of Cards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T14:04:53.673" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44543" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42993" CreationDate="2015-12-10T05:26:14.227" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only gift that really had any significance in the movie was the final one. All the other gifts were simply used to create foreshadowing and add mystery and suspense to the film as well as paint Gordon as a creepy, unstable person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that the only other purpose any of the other gifts or visits would have had is to allow Gordon to prepare for his ultimate plan. The Apocalypse Now DVD was a little strange but I believe it was meant as foreshadowing as well. And the visits to the house allowed him to get a copy of the key and gain Robyn's trust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T05:26:14.227" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44544" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-10T06:18:41.050" Score="2" ViewCount="3165" Body="&lt;p&gt;In American Horror Story: Hotel, Episode 1, we see a deformed figure rape a junkie in front of Hypodermic Sally. This seemed to be a semi-important part of the episode and perhaps the whole season, but thus far, it has not been revealed who this was, what they had to do with the entire plot, and their relation to Sally and the Ten Commandments Killer as well as part of the Hotel Cortez. Who is this and why did Ryan Murphy put this &quot;character&quot; in episode one? Why did they do this and what is the importance of this in terms of the plot? It has not been revealed and I was curious as to what people thought of this quite horrendous scene. Very few characters and scenes are &quot;by accident.&quot; I'd like any fan input.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28553" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T09:35:14.703" LastActivityDate="2016-10-06T04:44:16.673" Title="Who is the rapist in the first scene of American Horror Story: Hotel?" Tags="|american-horror-story|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30017" CreationDate="2015-12-10T06:23:14.467" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;American Horror Story - All Seasons Opening Credits (Season 1 to 5)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I love watching the opening credits to all 5 Seasons of American Horror Story. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I analyzed them and there are definitely some similar themes and characters running through each, referencing each different season. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First there is an overall theme of red, black and white. The characters wear black and white, &quot;Coven's&quot; opening sequence is all in black &amp;amp; white, and there is a white dress in many of the opening sequences. There is red, appearing as either as blood or fire. There are children in various forms, signifying birth. Skeletons appear often, signifying death. There are sexual images and women in high heels, signifying fornication. The appearance of children in every opening sequence (with the exception of &quot;Coven&quot; and &quot;Freak Show&quot;), I believe touches on the overall theme of the show, as the beginning of life, creation, and the essence of innocence being corrupted by evil. Each season shows how everyone, no matter how &quot;innocent,&quot; has a dark side, some darker than others, and that this is human nature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also a lot of religious imagery, especially in the opening sequences to &quot;Murder House,&quot; &quot;Asylum,&quot; and &quot;Hotel,&quot; which definitely have similar tones. These seasons are also about specific places and the people who inhabit them, a house, an insane asylum, and a hotel. All are places that are haunted by negative energies and dark spirits. All three of these opening sequences have a lot of blood, feature very dark images of people mixed in with images of innocence, like the white dress and the children. &quot;Freak Show&quot; and &quot;Coven&quot; are a little different as they are more about certain &quot;subcultures,&quot; such as that of witches and freaks, although &quot;Freak Show&quot; has a lot of red with the clowns, and &quot;Coven&quot; with the fire. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some specific references to other seasons I noticed were: In &quot;Coven's&quot; opening sequence there is an alien looking creature, which I believe is a tie-in to the &quot;alien&quot; that abducts Kit in &quot;Asylum.&quot; There is a carousel in &quot;Freak Show&quot; which references &quot;Hotel,&quot; because that's where Holden is abducted from. The children in &quot;Hotel&quot; reference the children in &quot;Murder House.&quot; The nun in &quot;Hotel&quot; references &quot;Asylum.&quot; So they all tie in somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also noticed how &quot;Asylum&quot; has the girl walking up the stairs backwards, which references &quot;The Exorcist.&quot; And the killer clowns in &quot;Freak Show,&quot; reference, Stephen King's &quot;It.&quot; &quot;Hotel,&quot; with its ten commandments, references &quot;Seven,&quot; and the show itself is eerily similar to &quot;The Shining.&quot; This all ties in to the overall theme of &quot;American horror stories.&quot; Also every show references several different horrific true events in history that have happened, which is probably my favorite part of the show. Life is all one big &quot;Horror Story.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's all I have so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28553" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T06:23:14.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44546" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-10T06:38:52.597" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T06:38:52.597" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T06:38:52.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44547" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-10T06:38:52.597" Score="0" Body="Anthology horror television series created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Every season is a self contained miniseries with many reused actor and actresses from previous season." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T06:38:52.597" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T06:38:52.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44539" CreationDate="2015-12-10T08:39:43.013" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per my answer to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109679/how-did-jessica-jones-know-that-the-hermetically-sealed-room-would-be-safe&quot;&gt;similar question on SFF:SE&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It was a lucky coincidence.&lt;/strong&gt; Note that Jessica's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=marvels-jessica-jones-2015&amp;amp;episode=s01e05&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;original plan&lt;/a&gt; was simply to keep Kilgrave sedated while she tries to work out her next move.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jessica Jones:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I'll keep him doped up, I just need a place to stash him.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not until she finds out that the isolation room is hermetically sealed &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; soundproofed that she risks speaking to him, and &lt;strong&gt;even then she insists on doing it alone&lt;/strong&gt; since she's the only person who seems to be able to resist him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it turned out to be control via magic (or line-of-sight or something else) then she seems reasonably confident she can resist him long enough to shock him and try something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.873" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T08:39:43.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44551" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46822" CreationDate="2015-12-10T09:47:18.397" Score="9" ViewCount="2015" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I watched &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Scissorhands&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Edward Scissorhands&lt;/a&gt; this last week I caught this image early on. Notice the house with the fumigation tent. At first I wondered what it was doing there, I mean there must be a reason to have taken the time to cover one of the set homes with a fumigation tent right? But that is not my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PZQ73.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PZQ73.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After I saw this I remembered the episode of The X-Files &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Post-Modern_Prometheus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Post-Modern Prometheus&lt;/a&gt; which is about a &quot;father&quot; who creates a son and is trying to find him a mate by inseminating various people in town. He subdues these victims by gassing them out while their house is covered in a fumigation tent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4hG3s.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4hG3s.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of similarities in the stories of Edward Scissorhands and The Post-Modern Prometheus and so &lt;strong&gt;I'm curious if the use of the fumigation tent in the episode is meant to be a nod to the movie.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T00:19:45.613" Title="Was this X-Files episode influenced by Edward Scissorhands" Tags="|the-x-files|edward-scissorhands|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44554" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44405" CreationDate="2015-12-10T11:48:18.803" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;When considering an answer from canon sources (which I think you are defining here as the movies, plus interviews with production staff), I think the main premise of the question doesn't hold up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I contend that the technology of the prequels is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; more advanced, it just &lt;em&gt;feels&lt;/em&gt; that way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Differing Priorities&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The technology of the Republic (and especially of Naboo) reflects a wholly different set of priorities than the technology of the Empire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A crude summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Republic cares about aesthetics. They want their technology to look pleasing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Republic was reluctant to maintain large standing armies during a time of what seemed like peace.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Empire wants to be intimidating. They rely on fear to discourage rebellions.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Empire cares about &lt;em&gt;results&lt;/em&gt; most of all. It doesn't care about life. The Empire is brutal and efficient.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following on from this, in our own culture we also place a high priority on how our technology looks. Sleek, attractive technology is what feels &quot;modern&quot; to us. So when we see the Republic/prequel technology, which more closely aligns to our own ideals, it gives us a more modern and sophisticated impression.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conversely, the Empire is happy to go with something that's crude and cheap if it gets the job done, even at the cost of the lives of their soldiers. The tie fighter is a good example of this. And when they go for big and intimidating, that elegance which we associate with high technology once again does not fit in with their priorities. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a quote from Doug Chiang, the Design Director on Episodes 1 and 2 (&lt;a href=&quot;http://nukethefridge.com/2015/05/04/q-a-with-doug-chiang-the-design-director-for-star-wars-episodes-1-and-2/&quot;&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you look at Episodes IV, V and VI as the peak of the industrial revolution design in terms of manufacturing – where everything was stamped out for mass quantity – we were now going back to the craftsman era where everything was hand crafted. Every vehicle and design was a piece of art. That was the approach that I took for the Naboo Starfighter and also the Queen’s ship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Droid Armies&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the movies portray a situation where the Empire &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; have a droid-based army, but chooses not to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Droid technology is still in common use during the period of the Empire and the Rebellion, they're just not shown as being the backbone of combat forces for either side. (The Empire uses armed probe droids, both sides use repair and medical droids, etc.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Droid armies are probably still associated with the separatists, and at least in the period leading up to Episode IV the Empire still cares a little bit about appearances.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Droids don't actually have a combat advantage vs people. It seems like they should, logically, but the prequels show them as equal or perhaps inferior.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think the prequels imply that the Trade Federation went with a droid army because they had lots of money but not many people available. Especially people willing to fight/die. The full separatist faction then built from those beginnings.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Technological Advances&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's fair to describe both Imperial Star Destroyers and the Death Star as significant technological advances, well beyond what was available to the two sides in the clone wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Death Star in particular was unprecedented. Consider Han Solo's incredulous reaction when Obi Wan first suggests the &quot;moon&quot; is a battlestation. He was an experienced smuggler familiar with Imperial forces, and yet utterly taken aback by what they had built.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Luke and His Uncle&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Owen buying second-hand droids from questionable sources was more a reflection of his specific situation rather than the technology available within society generally. Tatooine is a backwater planet, and he's a not-very-well-off moisture farmer. The farm is doing okay, but he mentions not being able to afford to hire more help so that Luke can leave to follow his dreams. This is at least partially an excuse to keep Luke from going, but even so he probably just can't afford new droids.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11245" LastEditorUserId="11245" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T12:18:33.793" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T12:18:33.793" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44557" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44559" CreationDate="2015-12-10T13:32:12.810" Score="13" ViewCount="673" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why are the Academy Awards called the &lt;strong&gt;Oscars&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably they're named after somebody called Oscar. I once heard a story that someone looked at the statuette and said &quot;hey, that looks like my Uncle Oscar&quot;, but that tale sounds somewhat dodgy. Is there any reliable source for this, or is the reason something entirely different (in which case, is there a reliable source for &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27759" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T13:42:21.490" Title="Why are the Oscars so named?" Tags="|academy-awards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44559" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44557" CreationDate="2015-12-10T13:42:21.490" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here is what &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscars.org/oscars/statuette&quot;&gt;the official website of the Oscars&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Officially named the Academy Award of Merit, the statuette is better known by its nickname, Oscar. While the origins of the moniker aren’t clear, a popular story has it that upon seeing the trophy for the first time, Academy librarian (and eventual executive director) Margaret Herrick remarked that it resembled her Uncle Oscar. The Academy didn’t adopt the nickname officially until 1939, but it was widely known enough by 1934 that Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky used it in a piece referring to Katharine Hepburn’s first Best Actress win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The origin of the name Oscar is disputed. One biography of Bette Davis claims that she named the Oscar after her first husband, band leader Harmon Oscar Nelson; one of the earliest mentions in print of the term Oscar dates back to a Time magazine article about the 1934 6th Academy Awards. Walt Disney is also quoted as thanking the Academy for his Oscar as early as 1932. Another claimed origin is that the Academy's Executive Secretary, Margaret Herrick, first saw the award in 1931 and made reference to the statuette's reminding her of her &quot;Uncle Oscar&quot; (a nickname for her cousin Oscar Pierce). Columnist Sidney Skolsky was present during Herrick's naming and seized the name in his byline, &quot;Employees have affectionately dubbed their famous statuette 'Oscar'&quot;. The trophy was officially dubbed the &quot;Oscar&quot; in 1939 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, no clear answer, support for the story you remember, but for others too. I can imagine a recipient of a statue award might give their particular statue a name to be funny, and then a friend of theirs who won the next year might say &quot;now I have an Oscar of my own&quot; and in no time that &quot;in crowd&quot; all call their statue (not the award, just the physical statue) the same thing. In a circumstance like that, exactly who nicknamed it first and why might end up never being correctly captured or recorded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8842" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T13:42:21.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44405" CreationDate="2015-12-10T13:43:53.053" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;We just don't visit the technically advance (I.E. rich places) in the Original Trilogy. All we see are backwater planets and military installations:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tatooine- A remote desert planet with a port city, the rest is moisture farm land, dangerous sand for miles and miles, and a Crime Lord's hideout.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bespin- A remote gas giant with a mining town, Cloud City.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hoth- A winter wasteland used as a hiding place for the Rebellion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Death Star(s)- Partially complete Military Installations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Endor- A Forest populated by primitive care bears and a secret Empire&#xA;base/shield Generator.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dagobah- A Swamp planet, population, 1 crazy hermit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alderaan- Turned to dust from orbit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yavin 4- Rebel headquarters hidden in ruins in a dense forest.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of these are exactly metropolis megacities that would lend themselves to luxury technology and fancy night clubs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare to the places we go in The New Trilogy. Capital cities, Megacities, Nice Tropical Queendoms:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Naboo- A tropical marvel, like a modern day Dubai and United Arab Emirates, rich from high quality Plasma it sold.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Coruscant- &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Giant Megacity and Capital of the Republic and Empire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Most advance in terms of Luxury technology because it's home to the richest and most powerful, a thriving population with night clubs and everything.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even then it has it's share of backwater planets:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Geonosis- Remote Desert planet, location for a secret factory for war machines.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kashyyyk- Forest Planet, hidden tree cities with less cuddly care bears.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kamino- Secret clone factory on an Ocean planet with violent weather.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mustafar- Land of Volcanos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Utapau- Remote desert planet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;In short, we have two completely different and small points of view of the massive universe that Star Wars happen in. To compare it to real world, its like looking at war torn Afghanistan cities, military bases, and cave hideouts, and comparing it to New York City.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, even the Original Trilogy had technologically advanced locations. The prototype Death Star was MASSIVE, confused for a moon, and such technologically advanced military weapon that it destroyed an entire planet into dust. Han believes the entire Empire fleet couldn't do that, and that makes all the tech in the New Trilogy seem useless in comparison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if we go by the 1997 Special Edition of Return of the Jedi, Coruscant with all its luxury technology is there too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OYXJ1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OYXJ1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And we see scavenging of droid parts happen in the New Trilogy as well. Again, Tatooine is seen, with slave labor and run down parts everywhere.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2gt55.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2gt55.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T13:49:49.967" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T13:49:49.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44562" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24431" CreationDate="2015-12-10T14:07:08.513" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know im almost a year or so too late, but I think he was already dead when he got to Bruges. He was killed on the train/or en route to Bruges, and his grief about the kid kept him locked on earth, forcing him to try and deal with his grief, allowing him to pass on out of limbo/Bruges. That's why he refers to it as hell, and that's why he says at the end, &quot;I really hoped I wouldn't die. idk just a far out deep thought I had.&quot; And that is why he has to return to Bruges when he gets on the train, and he is not charged by the police. because he is in limbo, already dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28564" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T14:50:32.047" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T14:50:32.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44405" CreationDate="2015-12-10T14:39:22.700" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;War Droids Were Banned By The Empire and the Old Republic&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I forget where I heard/read this, but it makes a lot of sense.  The separatists &lt;em&gt;broke the law&lt;/em&gt; to have mass manufactured fighting droids, and were universally seen as bad guys due to that.  Clones are almost as bad, but less so in response to a droid threat.   This &lt;em&gt;hints heavily&lt;/em&gt; that the Star Wars setting is an &lt;strong&gt;AI Apocalypse Survivor&lt;/strong&gt; setting, one where advanced machines nearly wiped out life but life wiped them out first - and therefore has a dread of the same thing happening again, even thousands of years later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This helps me understand why star wars ships are human-controlled, even if they have vast supercomputers to handle the systems on-board, decisionmaking is still handled by sentient creatures sitting at consoles.  Droids -limited AI that are often below human/xenohuman ability - are discriminated against and forced into servile roles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The near miss with the separatist droid armies and clone armies caused the Empire to crack down on technology.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Empire, ruled by an Emperor who has personal power beyond nearly anyone, and with secret storehouses of advanced technology (see: the novels) and secret training camps for huge numbers of further metahumans (again: the novels), stands to gain &lt;em&gt;everything&lt;/em&gt; by suppressing further technological advancement, and even rolling back powerful technologies (at least the ones that can be rolled back - the ones that require a lot of industry and energy, or rare knowledge).  Of course, suppressing technology is quite difficult, but when you have an authoritarian government on the tail end of an EXTREME war that ravaged the galaxy, when the sciences are already disrupted and distrusted, and you have a big well of xenophobia to tap into to deal with any dissent, and a personal corps of mage-assassins ready to go across the universe to kill and destroy anything you dislike, it's very possible.  The dissent that caused the Rebellion could be seen as a sign of this policy existing - the 'oppression' of the empire is not really quantitatively summed up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even when he does resort to a technological superweapon he centralizes the technology (only builds one, and then another when that gets destroyed, and makes it his flagship) so he can personally control it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fleets crewed by humans (that can be connected through a Force-network to be vastly more effective - &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_meditation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Battle Meditation&lt;/a&gt;) and limited ability to mass manufacture items vastly increases the power of Jedi in the universe, and makes a Force-ruled empire almost an inevitability.  And Palpatine, like all Sith, was a Force-supremacist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only the extreme Force powers of Luke Skywalker eventually upset his ambitions in the end, so perhaps his decision to suppress technology across the galaxy was actually the correct one in perpetuating his rule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21856" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T14:39:22.700" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44564" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44572" CreationDate="2015-12-10T14:57:03.167" Score="6" ViewCount="410" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can't really come up with more of a vague title than that I guess, but honestly that's the best I can describe the movie I'm looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I can remember these two young boys meet up and are playing video games. One of them is overly good at playing video game, freakishly good. The other boy has an older sister who he calls 'hooker' when they get into a sibling spat while the two boys are playing video games. The brother and sister both are amazed at the other boys 'talent' to play video games. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now that's about all I can remember about the movie. I have a feeling that the 'talented' video game player isn't really 'talented' but that there is something else there. I can't remember most of the movie but that scene has played in my head over and over a thousand times for years now and I've still not figured out what movie that is. Any help is appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm fairly certain that the movie I'm looking for isn't The Wizard (1989), WarGames (1983), or Cloak &amp;amp; Dagger (1984). But they do come close to what I'm looking for and have a similar look and feel with a video game centralized theme. It's also not likely The Last Starfighter (1984). I don't remember there being any thing about space or going into outer space in the movie. Aside from that the two boys are much younger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3850" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T16:51:47.680" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T19:06:38.760" Title="Looking for a video game movie possibly made in the 80's" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:13:33.307" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44566" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44567" CreationDate="2015-12-10T17:16:47.543" Score="4" ViewCount="305" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Season 1 Episode 8 of Monty Python's Flying Circus, the &lt;strong&gt;Army Protection Racket&lt;/strong&gt; sketch, two cliché Italian mafiosi are trying to blackmail the Colonel into giving them money:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...] not a single armoured division will get done over for fifteen bob a week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then go down to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Twelve and six.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and then&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Eight and six...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and finally&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;five bob.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this mean and what purchasing power would this be today?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRm5WcjOikQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;sketch video&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode08.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;episode script&lt;/a&gt; are available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27247" LastEditorUserId="27247" LastEditDate="2015-12-11T03:22:52.793" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T03:24:19.710" Title="What are Dino and Luigi trying to extort from the Army in Full Frontal Nudity?" Tags="|monty-python|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44566" CreationDate="2015-12-10T17:16:47.543" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bob&lt;/em&gt; is another word for &lt;em&gt;Shilling&lt;/em&gt; (s), which before decimalisation in 1971 was 1/20 of a &lt;em&gt;Pound&lt;/em&gt; (£) and could be split into 12 pence (&lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;d&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode was filmed &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Monty_Python%27s_Flying_Circus_episodes#8._Full_Frontal_Nudity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;25 November 1969&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From context it's clear that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;n&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;m&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; stands for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;n&lt;/strong&gt; Shilling and &lt;strong&gt;m&lt;/strong&gt; Pence&lt;/em&gt;, so the 2014 values of the negotiated weekly sums are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;   1969    |  2014&#xA;-----------+--------&#xA; £0 15s 0d | £11.02&#xA; £0 12s 6d |  £9.19&#xA; £0  8s 6d |  £6.25&#xA; £0  5s 0d |  £3.68&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Calculated with a simple &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.measuringworth.com/ppoweruk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;purchasing power calculator&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This partially explain the Colonel's reaction:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No, no this is silly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27247" LastEditorUserId="27247" LastEditDate="2015-12-11T03:24:19.710" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T03:24:19.710" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44568" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16" CreationDate="2015-12-10T17:45:16.310" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually I have another interpretation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole movie the &lt;strong&gt;Wise Man&lt;/strong&gt; (played by Scott Glenn) appears in the fantasy world, but at the end of the movie only &lt;strong&gt;Sweet Pea&lt;/strong&gt; meets him on the bus, because &lt;strong&gt;Baby Doll&lt;/strong&gt; dies before that scene. She can't insert him on her fantasy world because &lt;strong&gt;they never meet each other&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, all we see, even when &lt;strong&gt;Baby Doll&lt;/strong&gt; dances and there's a crazy version of the real world being shown, that's &lt;strong&gt;Sweet Pea&lt;/strong&gt; telling the story to someone after all happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27110" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T17:45:16.310" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44569" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44574" CreationDate="2015-12-10T18:26:24.097" Score="4" ViewCount="52775" Body="&lt;p&gt;In s11e09 of &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt; when Sam meets Lucifer we saw that only Lucifer was in the cage. &#xA;But I thought that Lucifer and Michael were together.&#xA;So, any thoughts where Michael is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SPOILER.&#xA;After the episode 10 of 11 season we now know that Michael in cage alone and nobody but Rowena can open it (and she dead)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28428" LastEditorUserId="28428" LastEditDate="2016-01-21T21:01:46.153" LastActivityDate="2020-02-11T10:07:44.517" Title="Why was only Lucifer in the cage? Where is Michael?" Tags="|plot-explanation|supernatural|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44544" CreationDate="2015-12-10T18:27:15.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/28/american-horror-story-most-disturbing-scene&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this interview with EW&lt;/a&gt; it is called the Addiction Demon as Ryan Murphy (co-creator of the show) says &quot;“He is a representation of that and what people go through fighting addiction.” Since both Sally and Gabriel (the victim) in that scene are drug addicts, the rape of Gabriel can be seen as a metaphor for what the drugs are doing to him. My guess is that Sally sees the Demon often (though it's not shown directly in the show).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T18:27:15.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44564" CreationDate="2015-12-10T19:06:38.760" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like it could be the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.A.R.Y.L.&quot;&gt;D.A.R.Y.L.&lt;/a&gt; from 1985. In the movie, Daryl turns out to be an android which has the uncanny ability to play video games. The government lost him, was found by an elderly couple, and later was introduced to a brother/sister living either nearby or next door. Daryl has amnesia and cannot remember that he's an android. The government finds out where he is and takes him back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been a long time since I've seen the movie, but it seems about right by your description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T19:06:38.760" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44574" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44569" CreationDate="2015-12-10T20:51:37.777" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is an excellent question. I know no definite answer and I fear it won't get resolved just like other plotholes (The Colt for example, where the hell did it go?? Many situations where this little thing could've saved the day). My thoughts when watching this episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Michael is dead, killed by Lucifer inside the cage after Sam got saved because the two archangels had nothing else to go on. Theoretically Michael is stronger but Lucifer didn't retreat when the 1vs1 was closing in so he saw a reasonable chance to win over Michael. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The cage got damaged, Lucifer could reach out and also pull Sam inside. Maybe he can do more. And maybe Michael can do much more. Maybe Michael could get out when the cage got damaged while Lucifer was either unable to or tried to get his true vessel the sneaky beaky way. Michael's more naive world view would explain why he didn't show up yet: instead of doing something on his own, he's trying to find Daddy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The small version of the cage Rowena set up is merely a window to the true cage. So not the whole stuff inside gets transferred, the enchantments made only Lucifer visible - like when calling a number and only one person of a household answers (Lucifer knew the call was coming as he set it up).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have no more reasonable speculations, I hope it will get resolved soon. That episode was one hell of a plot twist.&#xA;Sry for bad English btw - German.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28574" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T20:51:37.777" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44577" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44664" CreationDate="2015-12-10T23:09:43.593" Score="4" ViewCount="1782" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious how the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086197/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Right Stuff (1983)&lt;/a&gt; got away with a PG rating when there are at least &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086197/quotes?ref_=tt_ql_3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;4 occurrences of the f-word&lt;/a&gt;. I'm not certain if there have ever been any hard set and official rules on the use of the f-word by the MPAA but it seems like in general, the f-word will get at least a PG-13 rating with very few, if any, exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2016-06-28T16:34:01.303" Title="How did The Right Stuff get a PG rating with so many uses of the f-word?" Tags="|the-right-stuff|content-rating|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44577" CreationDate="2015-12-10T23:14:54.570" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the PG-13 rating wasn't created until the following year in 1984. And the leniency and context rules for cursing were much more relaxed. The current MPAA rule is a single non-sexual Fuck for PG-13. It is more of a guideline that can be fought, and is done with some frequency. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-10T23:20:02.093" LastActivityDate="2015-12-10T23:20:02.093" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25116" CreationDate="2015-12-11T03:51:21.177" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;An illustrator from ILM who worked on the scene talked about his discussions with Besson where Lucy &quot;would be travelling back through time until the moment of the Big Bang&quot; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wheretowatch.com/2014/08/creating-the-incredible-time-travel-sequence-in-lucy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;. So it appears that was the intent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, I think the genetic memories concept makes a lot more sense when you look at the actual images in the scene and all the apparent nods to that theory throughout the earlier film. The thing that seems to oppose the time travel idea by far I think is what was mentioned already about the last scene being the 1st cell splitting, not a big bang. Unless of course the idea was that the 1st cell dividing was actually the Big Bang, and our whole universe was created from that, or some other Men in Blacky type stuff. ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28584" LastEditorUserId="3327" LastEditDate="2015-12-11T06:47:10.237" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T06:47:10.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44581" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44470" CreationDate="2015-12-11T05:13:23.853" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He seems to have psychic abilities and perhaps that is how he knew they'd go there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That was the impression I got from earlier episodes when he was piecing together what happened to Rye while at the Waffle Hut and the Bloomquist's garage. I could be wrong though, but it's the only thing that I can think of when trying to figure out how he knew about Motor Motel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28587" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-11T09:32:11.060" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T09:32:11.060" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44582" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44588" CreationDate="2015-12-11T05:27:59.100" Score="7" ViewCount="2001" Body="&lt;p&gt;My sister and I used to watch this movie when we were young.  It was in English. I'm 18 and I don't think I was younger than 7 or 8 years old when I saw it. I assume that it is from the 90s. We both remember that it was some sort of claymation with several different unrelated little stories within the movie. It was definitely a kids movie and the animation style was similar to that of &quot;Fantastic mr. Fox&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the stories was about two rocks on a mountain and one of them wants to know whats on the other side of the mountain. He asks a bird to fly over and get a look then come back and tell him about the other side. The bird tells him that the other side of the mountain looks just like their side. The rock is satisfied. We remember another story that includes a wolf person trying to sleep while this cricket is singing. There is miscommunication between the two and while the wolf tells the cricket to quiet down, the cricket thinks she is telling him to be louder so he goes to get more crickets to sing with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize these are terrible descriptions but we can't remember a whole lot of the movie. It is a fairly unusual film, however, so I would hope that someone who has seen the movie would recognize the description. I have searched for it on the internet several times but can't seem to find it which makes me think that it is not a very well-known movie. I would appreciate any suggestions anyone may have as to what movie this is. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28586" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-12-11T07:18:55.913" LastActivityDate="2017-03-15T22:13:38.737" Title="Stop motion claymation movie with various animals in it" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:13:36.487" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12680" CreationDate="2015-12-11T06:06:58.780" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched all of &lt;em&gt;Wilfred&lt;/em&gt; and personally, I interpreted Bruce to be a figment of Ryan's imagination much like the behavior of Wilfred. I do think that it is meant to be ambiguous, however, and that the shows intention was to finish with some of it's mystery intact. If you ask me, Bruce was all in Ryan's head but then again, the show never confirmed or denied his existence in the end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28586" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T06:06:58.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21153" CreationDate="2015-12-11T06:38:10.173" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it may have to do with viewer discomfort but in addition, the actor who plays Cam, Eric Stonestreet isn't gay so he may not feel comfortable making out with his male costar. I don't see why this should be because its just acting and gay actors kiss women all the time on T.V...but in any case, this may be a contributing factor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28586" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T06:38:10.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44582" CreationDate="2015-12-11T07:19:56.017" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414287/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1992 stop-motion adaptation&lt;/a&gt; of Arnold Lobel's children book &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_Soup&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mouse Soup&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second story, two large stones sit on a hill and wonder what's on the other side, as they can't move from the spot where they sit. When they ask a bird to check, the bird soon returns and tells them about buildings on the other side. A hundred years soon pass and when a mouse comes, the stones ask the mouse to check the other side of the hill. The mouse soon tells them that it is the same as the side the stones reside on. This make the stones feel glad that they're not missing anything, but wonder whether the mouse or the bird was right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the third story, a cricket gets the urge to sing a song in the middle of the night, but his singing disturbs a lady mouse who is trying to get some sleep. Each time the lady mouse demands not to have any more music, the cricket thinks she said she wants more music and so calls over a lot of friends. Soon, the crickets are making so much noise with their singing that the lady mouse simply tells them to go away, which the cricket wonders why she didn't say so before. After the crickets go away, the mouse goes back to bed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is available in its entirety on Youtube. Here's the cricket story:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/7OGd4PDs6OI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T07:19:56.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21153" CreationDate="2015-12-11T09:33:32.060" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This precise issue was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/waymon-hudson/abcs-imodern-familyi-how_b_573508.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;addressed by ABC&lt;/a&gt; in a statement. The very short answer is that in-universe, Mitchell is written as being uncomfortable with public displays of affection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of universe (and presumably to assuage viewer's concerns) they wanted to stress that upcoming episodes would include an in-depth exploration of the depths of their relationship, include both kissing and cuddling:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Cameron and Mitchell are a loving, grounded, committed, and&#xA;demonstrably affectionate couple and have been from the beginning of&#xA;the series. It happens that we have an episode in the works that&#xA;addresses &lt;strong&gt;Mitchell's slight discomfort with public displays of&#xA;affection.&lt;/strong&gt; It will air in the fall and until then, as Phil Dunphy&#xA;would say, everyone please chillax.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2010/09/29/modern-family-on-the-kiss-the-emmy-and-dream-episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; with the showrunners&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[On the upcoming kiss between Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) and Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson):]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FERGUSON:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;That was something that [the writers] had in the works very early on; unfortunately it’s going to look like a response to the Facebook campaign. Some people are complaining that it shouldn’t be a big deal and it’s being made such a big deal. The thing is, it never was even meant to be a big deal. I think when people see the episode, they’re going to understand what our plan was the whole time…. We’re handling the characters very carefully. We’re in a lot of living rooms every week and it’s fantastic.  And I don’t want to scare off the people who are just getting comfortable with Cameron and Mitchell…. It’s very simple and it’s not a big deal. That’s exactly what it should be.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STONESTREET:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It’s about Jay and his lack of affection and where Mitch learned that. And it’s very real.&lt;/strong&gt; We think it’s smart and perfect.… Hopefully everybody will see that we just want to tell truthful, honest, sweet, believable stories that aren’t driven by anything political or motivated by a movement.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T22:34:36.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44592" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-11T10:48:05.457" Score="11" ViewCount="809" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end of &lt;em&gt;Memento&lt;/em&gt; (and beginning of its story), Lenny wants to take a picture of Teddy. &#xA;Does anybody have a clue why Teddy asked to change the place where the picture was about to be taken? &#xA;Would there be any possible hint of who was the murderer of Lenny's wife on the background or scenario? &#xA;Feeling intrigued....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28478" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-07-11T15:19:58.570" LastActivityDate="2017-07-06T20:35:13.523" Title="Why did Teddy ask to change the place where the picture was about to be taken?" Tags="|character|analysis|memento|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44595" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44597" CreationDate="2015-12-11T16:47:02.327" Score="28" ViewCount="16911" Body="&lt;p&gt;In later episodes of South Park, Kenny stopped dying. Why did South Park stop killing Kenny? Just Wondering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27966" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-11T16:48:01.397" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T17:12:51.130" Title="Kenny stopped dying. Why?" Tags="|character|south-park|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44595" CreationDate="2015-12-11T17:12:51.130" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite simply, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_McCormick#Deaths&quot;&gt;the creators grew tired of killing him off every episode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it was initially fun thinking up new ways for him to die, after several seasons Parker and Stone found it to be incredibly mundane. Coupled with the rising popularity of a newer character, Butters Stotch, the creators were growing very tired of Kenny and thus decided to kill Kenny permanently in season five.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intention was to keep him dead, but they decided to bring him back at the end of season six, and further decided to not kill him off every episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More recently they've hinted that Kenny is immortal because his parents attended several Cthulhu-like cult meetings years earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T17:12:51.130" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44598" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-11T17:47:54.527" Score="1" ViewCount="154" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably goes without saying, but big spoiler alert!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The big plot twist of the movie &quot;The Prestige&quot; is that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Borden&quot; is actually two people, Borden, and his brother/assistant &quot;Fallon.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Angier frames Borden for murdering him, and Borden/Fallon is hung. Then Fallon/Borden comes back and shoots and kills Angier, burns his workshop down, and leaves with his daughter, Jess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just occurred to me, that I don't actually know which character dies at the end. Is it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Borden (The husband of Sarah, and the Father of Jess) dies, and Fallon avenges him and takes care of Jess&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;or &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fallon (Sarah's brother in law, Jess's uncle) dies, and Borden avenges him and takes care of Jess?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had always assumed it was the first, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige_(film)#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia's explanation of the plot&lt;/a&gt; states that it is the second. Is there any concrete evidence either way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27903" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T17:47:54.527" Title="Which character died at the end of &quot;The Prestige&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-prestige|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-12-11T19:00:26.700" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44601" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44602" CreationDate="2015-12-11T19:00:46.380" Score="2" ViewCount="369" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is &quot;The Center&quot; in Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From where did it come to earth?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27781" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-08-07T15:03:56.177" LastActivityDate="2016-08-07T15:03:56.177" Title="What is &quot;The Center&quot; in Justice League: The New Frontier?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jl-the-new-frontier|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44601" CreationDate="2015-12-11T19:18:58.200" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Centre_(Earth-21)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Centre was born on primordial earth eons ago&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. It captured all life that survived the cataclysmic asteroid that wiped out nearly all life millions of years ago to protect it in what would one day become the Pacific Ocean. From there it would observe mankind's rise to become the primary dominant species of the planet, and upon their detonation of the first hydrogen bomb it sought to leave the planet, but not before wiping out all of humanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also been referred to as &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_Island&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dinosaur Island&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-12-11T19:18:58.200" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44603" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-11T20:32:23.503" Score="6" ViewCount="995" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the intro to &lt;em&gt;Singin' in the Rain&lt;/em&gt;, Hollywood star Don Lockwood shows up at the launch party for his latest movie.  The venue is packed with adoring fans, and Don gives a brief speech about how he got to where he is today, how his well-off parents got him into the best schools, he studied the classics, had the best theatrical training money could buy, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But while he's talking, the movie is showing his actual background, growing up as a poor kid, dancing in run-down pool halls for tips, sneaking into movies because he didn't have two nickels to rub together, performing in tacky Vaudeville acts before he got his &quot;lucky break&quot; in show business as a stunt man, being on the receiving end of all sorts of abuse from the stunts, until he just happened to impress the producer who decided to give him his first leading role, and the rest was history.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lockwood is portrayed in the film as a man of considerable eloquence and charisma, and his true story, if he had put real effort into telling it well, could have made quite the compelling underdog tale.  The audience would have eaten it up.  So why lie about it and make up a much less interesting past for himself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously the out-of-universe reason is for the audience to be amused by the dissonance between what Lockwood is saying and what the camera is showing to be true, but what's the in-universe reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2023" LastEditorUserId="2023" LastEditDate="2015-12-12T00:24:54.157" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T16:38:17.123" Title="Why did Don Lockwood lie about his background?" Tags="|character|singin-in-the-rain|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44606" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-11T22:54:57.077" Score="5" ViewCount="622" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt; season 1 episode 18 &lt;em&gt;Salvation&lt;/em&gt;, we learn that Starling City doesn't currently have a subway, it used to, but it's now abandoned. The tracks of the old subway were used by a villain in that episode and the subway logo was shown:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gjBsX.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In season 3 episode 7 &lt;em&gt;Draw Back Your Bow&lt;/em&gt;, Arrow has a fight at what looks to be an abandoned station of the same subway (with the same logo). When he and a villainess fall down on the tracks, a train appears almost immediately. But this time, there is no indication that she planned this and somehow made the train appear at the right time. To me, this seems to indicate that the subway is regularly used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yT7sg.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What could explain this? Did something change in the time between the two episodes and did (parts of) the subway network start to be used again? Or is there some other explanation why would a train ride on an abandoned track?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="282" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-08T13:26:25.037" LastActivityDate="2020-01-23T10:01:15.167" Title="Does Starling City have active subway or not?" Tags="|plot-explanation|arrow|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44609" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42134" CreationDate="2015-12-11T23:54:26.097" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;What it means is that things in the physical world are objectively real, like the Empire State Building. The stage before the building is non objective fragmentation as in it's the pieces of the building as it's being put together, the glass, the steel, the concrete. Each piece is a fragment. The stage before this is deconstruction. The pieces aren't even at the building site, they are not known to be heading there, they are in fragments in other places. The stage before that is two dimensionalisation which is the flat plan for the building, and the stage before that is just the space, the vague shape, the basic idea for some sort of building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the characters joy and sadness and Bing Bong enter the location of abstract thought as objectively real and end up as flat coloured shapes. So to reverse it, you might say, 'I want a coffee'. It's abstract. There is no coffee, there is no cup. It's all imaginary. It's non-figurative (not objective) because you haven't decided what your final drink is. You go to Starbucks. You order. Your order is like the two dimensional plan for your coffee but in words. You could write this down. Then the fragments of the coffee, the cup, water, milk and sugar, which had no prior relationship, the fragments, are put together. What you receive at the end is an objectively real cup of Starbucks coffee. This is the journey from abstract thoughts to objective reality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28603" LastEditorUserId="28603" LastEditDate="2015-12-12T02:46:26.843" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T02:46:26.843" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44611" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46687" CreationDate="2015-12-12T01:35:35.453" Score="1" ViewCount="593" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Ted 2&lt;/em&gt; there is dialogue between Ted &amp;amp; his wife:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wait a minute. &#xA;  You brought your switchblade?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But they patted us down on the way in here. Where'd you even hide it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oh!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So where did she hide the switchblade? oh! means what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28606" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-12T03:27:45.507" LastActivityDate="2016-01-24T12:50:51.887" Title="Where did she hide the switchblade to cut throat?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ted-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44612" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44569" CreationDate="2015-12-12T02:45:09.327" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's either a plot hole (annoyingly, again..like with Adam).. Or I also agree about it only being a window to the cage, but then when he's inside why didn't it revert back with Michael? Maybe it will.. This could be a great opportunity to resolve the Adam plot hole. I hope they don't screw it up. I'm getting tired of with the length they've been on air with the increasing number of plot holes. They need to find a way to end it on a good point and wrap up plot holes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28607" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T02:45:09.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44613" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44618" CreationDate="2015-12-12T04:41:30.317" Score="12" ViewCount="420" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have recently been binge watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. I notice Lieutenant Worf recommends Red Alert quite often. When he does, Captain Picard shuts him down. I don't recall seeing Picard ever taking Worf's Red Alert advice. Commander Riker calls Red Alert with no problem, he doesn't even have to ask Picard. My question is: Has Worf ever been allowed to call Red Alert/ has his recommendation to go to Red Alert ever been approved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="4786" LastEditDate="2019-06-17T18:16:37.280" LastActivityDate="2019-06-17T18:16:37.280" Title="Has Worf ever been allowed to call (or has his recommendation been approved for) &quot;Red Alert&quot;?" Tags="|star-trek|star-trek-the-next-generation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44617" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44621" CreationDate="2015-12-12T08:08:30.193" Score="20" ViewCount="3350" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango_%26_Cash&quot;&gt;Tango and Cash (1989)&lt;/a&gt; Sylvester Stallone pulls ahead of a getaway oil tanker to stop the criminals driving it by shooting at them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As he preps for this, he pulls out his revolver and dumps all the unfired bullets currently in the gun on the ground only to refill it with more bullets. &lt;strong&gt;Why does he do this?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My best guess is he's switching between regular bullets and hollow-points but even if that's the case, I don't understand why he would prefer one or the other in that situation, nor can I tell for sure which one he's switching to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/IgrphadvFcA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-12T13:21:54.853" LastActivityDate="2020-05-21T07:15:41.417" Title="Why did Sylvester Stallone empty and reload his gun?" Tags="|tango-and-cash|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44618" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44613" CreationDate="2015-12-12T08:19:07.947" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the Enterprise, &lt;em&gt;Lieutenant&lt;/em&gt; Worf wasn't usually in charge. He was outranked by Riker, Data, La Forge and latterly, Troi. As such he wasn't really in a position to call for Red Alert. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lieutenant Commander&lt;/em&gt; Worf called for Red Alert on DS9 when he was in command of the Defiant &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chakoteya.net/DS9/479.htm&quot;&gt;on at least one occasion&lt;/a&gt; though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WORF:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Red alert. Captain Sisko to the Bridge. All hands battle stations.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-12T08:34:15.157" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T08:34:15.157" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44619" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-12T08:45:19.640" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-12T08:45:19.640" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T08:45:19.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44620" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-12T08:45:19.640" Score="0" Body="For questions pertaining to the 1989 action film starring Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell." OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-12-12T14:33:12.743" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T14:33:12.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44617" CreationDate="2015-12-12T09:03:45.220" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Detective Ray Tango is armed with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Tango_%26_Cash#Smith_.26_Wesson_Model_36_.22Chief.27s_Special.22&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Smith &amp;amp; Wesson Model 36&lt;/a&gt; &quot;Chief's Special&quot; in this particular scene in the movie.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Tango_%26_Cash&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;imfdb&lt;/a&gt;, Tango empties his ammunition and re-loads with blanks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasoning is not explained, but he aims for the perpetrators' driving the oil tanker to try and stop them, but not kill them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nOGaK.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nOGaK.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tango &amp;amp; Cash&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tango aims his 36. It is &lt;strong&gt;clearly loaded with blanks since the bullet&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;heads aren't visible in the front of the chambers.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T09:03:45.220" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27833" CreationDate="2015-12-12T09:38:37.513" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Beth understood all that. As well, Dawn is all about exchange. Beth figured Dawn would want something in return for getting stabbed. Dawn wouldn't have killed Beth but  ask her to stay to heal wound. Although the consequences of her actions were the worst they could be, her death. I think it's how Beth wanted. Beth traded her value for the everybody hates Chris value in terms of exchange and the system Dawn had.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28612" LastEditorDisplayName="user16145" LastEditDate="2017-05-08T20:05:32.110" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T20:05:32.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44625" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44617" CreationDate="2015-12-12T10:55:28.307" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;In-universe, the reasoning seems to be that he's unloaded his normal ammo and replaced it with bullets that will &lt;em&gt;damage the windscreen&lt;/em&gt; without actually killing the perps inside. He then stands in the middle of the road and carefully fires at the glass. When he refuses to move, the villains are forced to brake sharply and they fly through the (&lt;strong&gt;now-weakened&lt;/strong&gt;) windshield to land on the road in front of him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note the white tips. They appear to be some sort of clear plastic &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.conceptsinammunition.com/Pistol_Products/38cal.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;less than lethal&lt;/a&gt;&quot; target round&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oMIWv.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oMIWv.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite why he's carrying this particular style of bullet is never explained but then again, the film went through three screenwriters (at least one of whom wanted to make the film into a slapstick comedy), two directors, two cinematographers and five(!) editors before it hit the big screen so it's very possible that his reasoning simply got cut out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-12T15:31:32.963" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T15:31:32.963" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44603" CreationDate="2015-12-12T15:26:46.080" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is part of the film's central theme, about how what we see in films (or even Hollywood) isn't reality.  A fuller discussion can be found here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmsite.org/sing.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Filmsite Movie Review: Singing in the Rain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[The film's theme is the 'out of sync' disjunction of words / sounds / movie images from reality - what can be believed in the magical world of film? Can we believe our eyes and our ears?] What actually happened to Cosmo and Don is seen entirely differently - as an uphill struggle for two musicians/performers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In real life the struggle of Don Lockwood would probably be fine, but to tie into the theme it was chosen for him to lie/exaggerate. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastEditorUserId="4637" LastEditDate="2015-12-12T15:34:16.060" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T15:34:16.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44629" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43348" CreationDate="2015-12-12T16:29:31.637" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've not seen the film, but I think it's more of an in-joke than anything realistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest parallel in my mind would be a similar scene in Goldfinger where Bond throws the golf ball he switched to Oddjob.  Oddjob then shows similar (superhuman) strength by crushing the golf ball in one hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the original Man from UNCLE was as much spoof as spy series I'd imagine they're riffing on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T16:29:31.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44630" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-12T16:46:55.690" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-12T16:46:55.690" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T16:46:55.690" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44631" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-12T16:46:55.690" Score="0" Body="1997 American action film starring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere and Sidney Poitier" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-12-12T16:55:02.450" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T16:55:02.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44632" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-12T16:50:25.207" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-12T16:50:25.207" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T16:50:25.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44633" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-12T16:50:25.207" Score="0" Body="2001 action movie starring Kevin Costner, Kurt Russell and Courtney Cox" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-12-12T16:55:06.317" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T16:55:06.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44634" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-12T16:56:34.480" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Mummy stars Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, and Kevin J. O'Connor, with Arnold Vosloo in the titular role as the reanimated mummy. This movie revolves around an adventurer Rick O'Connell who travels to Hamunaptra, with an archaeologist and her brother where they accidentally awaken Imhotep, a high priest from the reign of the pharaoh Seti I who has been cursed for eternity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Links&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_(1999_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2018-01-29T10:50:03.773" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T10:50:03.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44635" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-12T16:56:34.480" Score="0" Body="1999 American action-adventure movie directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz. This tag should not be used for The Mummy 2017 movie." OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2018-01-29T10:47:40.387" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T10:47:40.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44041" CreationDate="2015-12-12T17:25:08.807" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that &lt;em&gt;Vikings&lt;/em&gt; takes place a bit before &lt;em&gt;The Last Kingdom&lt;/em&gt;.&#xA;Why? Well in &lt;em&gt;Vikings&lt;/em&gt;, Athelstan had a son, did he not? That son is to become Alfred the Great, but in the show he is just a baby. In &quot;The Last Kingdom&quot;, Alfred is well into adulthood. So it could take place a good twenty years+ after the last we've seen of &lt;em&gt;Vikings&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28621" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T17:25:08.807" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44245" CreationDate="2015-12-12T19:50:09.917" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first I found in Subzin is from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.subzin.com/quotes/M9143247f/WarGames/They+change+the+password+every+couple+of+weeks%2C+but+I+know+where+they+write+it.&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;WarGames&lt;/em&gt; (1983)&lt;/a&gt;. Here's the first mention:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;00:19:52 - You're really into computers, huh? - Yeah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;00:19:59 - What are you doing? - I'm dialing into the school's computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;00:20:14 They change the &lt;strong&gt;password&lt;/strong&gt; every couple of weeks, but I know where they write it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;00:20:32 - Are those your grades?! - Yeah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;00:20:35 I don't think that I deserved an F, do you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a screenshot:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HvriR.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HvriR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;the password is pencil&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Others:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;00:25:35 They might have changed the &lt;strong&gt;password&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;00:32:15 I put in a &lt;strong&gt;password&lt;/strong&gt; that only I know about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;00:35:32 so I could get his secret &lt;strong&gt;password&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;00:36:18 If I could just get that damn &lt;strong&gt;password&lt;/strong&gt;, I could play the computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;00:52:28 The kid broke into the war game using a &lt;strong&gt;password&lt;/strong&gt; left by the original programmer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;00:52:33 - A &lt;strong&gt;password&lt;/strong&gt;? - Yes, sir.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;00:52:43 We can find the &lt;strong&gt;password&lt;/strong&gt; and take it out, but it might help to beef up security.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;01:36:08 It's like the entire &lt;strong&gt;password&lt;/strong&gt; file has been wiped out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;01:38:15 They've taken out my &lt;strong&gt;password&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T19:50:09.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44641" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-12T20:43:19.257" Score="17" ViewCount="9136" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm struggling to recall a scene in &lt;em&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/em&gt; where Penny isn't drinking, getting ready to drink or making a crack about &lt;em&gt;needing a drink&lt;/em&gt; (usually in order to make some interminable event go faster)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence within the show, or from outside via the show's creators/writers, to confirm or deny that Penny has an actual drinking problem?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GQNUE.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GQNUE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-13T00:35:10.367" LastActivityDate="2017-04-04T06:30:59.070" Title="Is Penny an alcoholic?" Tags="|character|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44569" CreationDate="2015-12-12T21:05:14.710" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the episode, when the darkness killed some of the angels, we saw clouds gather and a beam of light strike the darkness, we presumed it to be God. This; however, could have been Michael, and he could have escaped when the darkness was released. We saw that other archangels have power over nature, such as Raphael with lightning, and Michael was shown to be able to control the light when Adam was seized. Not to mention that Michael is essentially the crown prince of heaven, and would be inclined to defend his subjects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28626" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T21:05:14.710" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43348" CreationDate="2015-12-12T22:48:07.213" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/2cXW6Syc6Dw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible. The car in the scene is a VEB Sachsenring &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trabant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, a weak POS, in terms of both power and construction. This explains why Illya Kuryakin was 1) able to slow down the car when Gaby and Solo were trying to drive off, and 2) rips the trunk lid off. From wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Trabant was a steel monocoque [Supported by it's skin, like an eggshell] design with the roof, &lt;strong&gt;trunk lid&lt;/strong&gt;, hood, fenders, and doors made of &lt;strong&gt;Duroplast. Duroplast was a hard plastic (similar to Bakelite) made of recycled materials&lt;/strong&gt;: cotton waste from the Soviet Union and phenol resins from the East German dye industry. This made the Trabant the first car with a body made of recycled material and was partially responsible for &lt;strong&gt;the misconception that it was made of cardboard&lt;/strong&gt; (it was dubbed Zwickauer Rennpappe, i.e. &quot;Zwickau racing cardboard&quot;). The Trabant was the second car to use Duroplast, after the &quot;pre-Trabant&quot; P70 (Zwickau) model (1954–1959).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dP0fp.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dP0fp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, 1) The car was on its rims, and 2) Solo and others later comment that Kuryakin is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;abnormally strong&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. In the scene following this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Solo:&lt;/strong&gt; What was waiting for me &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;was barely human&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;You should've seen it run.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;His Handler:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Grow a spine, Solo.&lt;/em&gt; Contrary to what you may think, we are not in the haberdashery business.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Solo:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't think you understand. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It tore the back off my car.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following that, Kuryakin and Solo &quot;fight&quot; in the bathroom, with Kuryakin seconds away from choking Solo to death within seconds of seeing each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kuryakin is &lt;strong&gt;very strong&lt;/strong&gt; and quick to fight and very good at fighting. The scene is meant to contrast him to Solo, who is calm and cunning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-12-12T22:48:07.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43845" CreationDate="2015-12-13T04:30:08.443" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it is practical in real life due to safety reasons you mentioned. But as far as the stunt shooting goes they can perform it using below tricks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) They can use rope so the landing would be easy. This is a general trick used when the height jumping stunt is performed. The camera team them increase/ decrease the speed as per their requirement and make it look like real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) If person is relatively at small height then they can shoot the jumping sequence and then they change the ending by showing the person directly on the back of the horse. As the chase sequence generally starts by end of this scene, very few people can catch if they have made any mistake in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21017" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T04:30:08.443" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44169" CreationDate="2015-12-13T05:28:31.800" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not mentioned anywhere which country they were in but I got a clue from their plane scene. I suppose its either Thailand or Vietnam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ij27u.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ij27u.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Plane scene&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ikqFT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ikqFT.png&quot; alt=&quot;Original map&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21017" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T05:28:31.800" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15612" CreationDate="2015-12-13T06:05:00.717" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081279/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Once Upon a Spy&lt;/a&gt;. It is from 1980 and Ted Danson has the Lead role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ted Danson plays a computer genius who gets involved in the theft of&#xA;  an important NASA computer, then thrust into the world of espionage&#xA;  with Christopher Lee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aJ5ql.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aJ5ql.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28641" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-13T07:59:12.830" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T07:59:12.830" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44656" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-13T07:17:19.273" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-13T07:17:19.273" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T07:17:19.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44657" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-13T07:17:19.273" Score="0" Body="1992 romantic drama starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-12-13T11:28:56.423" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T11:28:56.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44658" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-13T07:20:00.187" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-13T07:20:00.187" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T07:20:00.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44659" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-13T07:20:00.187" Score="0" Body="2005 American horror film directed by Wes Craven and starring Christina Ricci, Jesse Eisenberg and Joshua Jackson." OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-12-13T11:28:58.907" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T11:28:58.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44660" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-13T07:22:48.977" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-13T07:22:48.977" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T07:22:48.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44661" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-13T07:22:48.977" Score="0" Body="2001 American drama starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2015-12-13T11:29:01.700" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T11:29:01.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44577" CreationDate="2015-12-13T08:50:26.927" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As mentioned by @cde, the short answer is that it received a PG rating because PG-13 did not exist at the time. Reading this answer led me to some more details that I feel are important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First: The Right Stuff initially received an R rating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia - &amp;quot;The Right Stuff (1983)&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was originally rated &amp;quot;R&amp;quot; (Restricted, which means no one&#xA;under 17 admitted) by the Motion Picture Association of America&#xA;because of some strong language (the word &amp;quot;fuck&amp;quot; is used 5 times,&#xA;which meant a near-impossible chance of it receiving anything short of&#xA;an &amp;quot;R&amp;quot; rating) a scene of implied masturbation and other hard content;&#xA;but it was given a &amp;quot;PG&amp;quot; rating on appeal (the PG-13 rating did not&#xA;exist then; it was created the year after this film was released).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second: Only two movies have ever been rated PG that used the f-word&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_that_most_frequently_use_the_word_%22fuck%22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia - &amp;quot;List of films that most frequently use the word &amp;quot;fuck&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; -&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Right Stuff (1983) contains five uses of &amp;quot;fuck&amp;quot;, and All the&#xA;President's Men (1976) uses the word seven times. Both portray&#xA;historical events and were granted PG ratings on release; the PG-13&#xA;rating was introduced in 1984. The Right Stuff continues to have a PG&#xA;rating. The current version of All the President's Men contains 11&#xA;uses of &amp;quot;fuck&amp;quot; and is rated R.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the only other PG movie that has ever received that rating while still using the f-word was &amp;quot;All the President's Men&amp;quot; which received an R rating in its current version because the content was changed (now contains 11 uses of the f-word).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So the answer appears to be that The Right Stuff received a PG rating because of an appeal which was apparently granted because it portrays historical events, and the PG-13 rating did not exist at the time.&lt;/strong&gt; Most likely, if PG-13 rating had existed at the time, it would have received that instead of PG after the appeal, but that is only my personal opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An obvious followup question as to why the rating has not changed is because the content has not changed and a rating appears to only be changed either due to a change in content or due to an appeal prior to its release.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T08:50:26.927" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44671" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34588" CreationDate="2015-12-13T11:14:04.403" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the reason why Ava trapped Caleb is because she's not a sci-fi robotic terminator.  She doesn't possess immense strength, speed, etc. She knows that every person is a risk to her freedom.  She didn't imprison Caleb out of malice. If anything, it was out of distrust for what Caleb could do to her.  The only reason she asked him to stay rather than just doing it is because she needed Caleb disarmed by her innocence.  The only weapon Ava had at her disposal was her wile. If she did anything that made him distrust her, he could have easily escaped before she could lock him in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even being in something like a relationship can be a form of imprisonment as well.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nathan was evil.  He wasn't programming the software to look for an escape.  So the notion that Ava was only following software principles doesn't work.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He wanted to see if the AI could transcend the basic if-this-then-that principle of software design.  Because if the AI was just asking and answering questions and had no desire to be out of that environment, then it would just be a machine accomplishing requested tasks.  But trapping and abusing the machine to see if it will try to escape, is a true test to ascertain if the AI can transcend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think Nathan had no interest in JUST seeing if he could create AI.  His interest was in creating an AI that he could manipulate while the AI knew it was being dominated.  Because there's no fun in destroying a machine.  We have machines everywhere that can be destroyed.  But if you were sadistic and could abuse machines that knew that they were being abused, that's a mind trip for the person.  It's the same concept as men who like to abuse women because it gives them a sense of power.  Remember Octo Mom who was having children because of her need to have people she could control and nurture?  Nathan possibly could've built sentient AI before but wiped them out before the AI could pose a threat.  The editing was unclear but it seemed like a number of the AI models could've been sentient.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And empathy as an element of self-awareness?  Some sociopaths would gladly disagree.  One of the defining characteristics of narcissists is the lack of empathy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28202" LastEditorUserId="78097" LastEditDate="2019-12-22T18:05:53.337" LastActivityDate="2019-12-22T18:05:53.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44672" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44722" CreationDate="2015-12-13T11:52:18.263" Score="16" ViewCount="36492" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently rewatched the Angelina Jolie thriller &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944835/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Salt&lt;/a&gt; on iTunes. The version I watched was the &quot;Extended Edition&quot;. It seems to have a different, and somewhat less plausible or satisfying, ending than the version that was released to theatres:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Instead of ending with an escape from a helicopter partially aided by the counterespionage officer Peabody, Salt escapes from a hospital, unaided. There are also some differences earlier in how she deals with the nest of Russian agents in their boat base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why the two different endings? And what are the other differences between the versions?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T06:21:28.583" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T16:28:44.023" Title="Why does Salt have two different endings?" Tags="|ending|alternate-version|salt|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44677" CreationDate="2015-12-13T12:05:39.907" Score="7" ViewCount="7779" Body="&lt;p&gt;I observed whole movie &lt;em&gt;Enemy at the Gates&lt;/em&gt; twice and none of the Russian or German characters speak with appropriate accents, even though it was released in 2001.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Goldeneye, which was released in 1995, Natalya Simonova who is a Russian character speaks in Russian accent. &lt;strong&gt;Why do the Russian and German characters not speak in the correct regional accents in Enemy at the Gates (2001)?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28649" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-13T13:04:06.000" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T13:04:06.000" Title="Why do the Russian and German characters not speak in their respective accents?" Tags="|dialogue|enemy-at-the-gates|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44481" CreationDate="2015-12-13T12:28:25.427" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've tried to google for traces of a public debate on Breaking Bad that would be focused on the show's portrayal of the drug business and the drug addicts characters, and I've found some interesting articles, or at least points of view on the matter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that while the general opinion concurs on the fact that the show is well written and that the actors gave terrific performances (most of the praises are for Cranston's work), there are many who criticize the weak approach on the drug theme. Some go as far as claiming that the fact that the show's main character, the &quot;hero&quot;, becomes a drug kingpin and that the consequences of the methamphetamine use are scarcely shown,  has the side effect of making the drug dangerously glamorous and alluring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;DEA&lt;/strong&gt; is clearly not of this opinion since in 2014 has honored the creative team of Breaking Bad guided by Vince Gilligan with the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deaeducationalfoundation.org/initiatives/2014-dea-educational-foundation-gala/&quot;&gt;Educational Foundation Global Leadership Award&lt;/a&gt; for their &lt;em&gt;&quot;significant and long term positive contributions in support of drug law enforcement and drug abuse prevention education in the United States&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Studies made by the &lt;strong&gt;Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration&lt;/strong&gt; have shown that, although &lt;em&gt;&quot;the meth sold on the street has never been purer, use of the drug has remained flat during the show’s run, and may have even declined slightly&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-breaking-bad-bad-for-meth-dealers-2013-08-08&quot;&gt;Article&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An official on &lt;strong&gt;America's National Council of Alcoholism and Drug Dependence&lt;/strong&gt; substantiates this claim by stating that &lt;em&gt;&quot;the number of ‘committed’ methamphetamine users has actually dropped by as much as 200,000 since the show began airing in 2008&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-09-02/breaking-bad-crystal-meth-addiction-has-decreased-since-the-show-began-says-us-drug-expert&quot;&gt;Article&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Barbara Carreno, a spokeswoman for the DEA,  credited &lt;em&gt;&quot;the dip in meth use to the fact that it’s harder than ever to get the ingredients that go into meth&quot;&lt;/em&gt; claiming that what really made the difference was the &quot;&lt;em&gt;Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005, which put Sudafed and other drugs that contain pseudoephedrine behind the counter&lt;/em&gt;&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://digiday.com/brands/breaking-bad-marketing-meth/&quot;&gt;(Article)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly enough, while the above researches point out that the show seems to have had zero impact on the metamphetamine use in the US, judging by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11206140/Breaking-Bad-blamed-for-shocking-rise-in-crystal-meth-usage.html&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; in the English newspaper The Telegraph, it looks like in Europe there has been an opposite trend, a spike in fact, in crystal meth usage: &lt;em&gt;&quot;The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction has revealed how parts of the EU are now being flooded with methamphetamine&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Professor Ellis Cashmore from Staffordshire University thinks that the show might be to blame. His opinion is that even if &lt;em&gt;&quot;Breaking Bad, portrays drugs in a negative aspect and showing its most destructive side, it will still appeal to somebody.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and &#xA;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Showing the horrendous impact of crystal meth can have a boomerang effect and cause curiosity among some viewers who might think 'that must be good'&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My opinion might be biased by the fact that I loved the show, but while I tend to respect the opinion of a University Professor, my guess is that the above mentioned trends depicted in the US versus the rest of the world might have more to do with a stricter regulation (or lack of) than with the success of a TV Series and the likeability of its characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T12:28:25.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44677" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44675" CreationDate="2015-12-13T12:48:42.780" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a stylistic choice by the director. In &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=3&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwiG5qzH7tjJAhXHXRoKHZh1BqYQFggnMAI&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hfcsd.org%2Fww2%2FWW%25202%2520Class%2FCritical%2520Film%2520Analysis%2FInterview%2520with%2520%2520JJ%2520Annaud%2C%2520Director%2C%2520EATG.doc&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEn0TbM0018WOpM46aEhajVzjFYeA&amp;amp;sig2=EnB0uItUYfwvbYfG6bBl5g&amp;amp;bvm=bv.109910813,d.d2s&amp;amp;cad=rja&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; with Stephen Lemons, Jean-Jacques Annaud makes it abundantly clear that as far as he's concerned, once you're immersed into the story, the accents are largely meaningless and may even detract from your enjoyment of the film. He also highlights some movie classics that followed the same path:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some journalists have been critical of the fact that you shot the film in English, and that the main players, with the exception of Ed&#xA;  Harris, are British and have British accents. What's your response to&#xA;  that criticism?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Half of the market is an English-speaking market! If you give them actors who cannot speak English, it just doesn't play. And as a&#xA;  Frenchman, I can only direct in French or English; I cannot direct in&#xA;  Russian. There's no way you can do this movie in the Russian or&#xA;  German. You have to go with the original version in English. After&#xA;  that, you've got the choice of British, American or maybe Australian&#xA;  actors. I remind people that movies are made in the language of their&#xA;  audience. When Shakespeare did &quot;Romeo and Juliet,&quot; he didn't do it in&#xA;  Italian, or even using English speakers with Italian accents. This&#xA;  applies as well to &quot;Dr. Zhivago,&quot; which was set in Russia, but had&#xA;  English actors. It takes about five or 10 minutes to accept it, but&#xA;  once you're in the story, you forget that those people are English or&#xA;  American.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2001/03/16/why-ed-harris-new-role-accent-free&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; with Ed Harris in Entertainment Weekly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;”[Director] &lt;strong&gt;Jean-Jacques Annaud specifically asked me not to do a&#xA;  German accent. A lot of times the German accent in war movies becomes&#xA;  a cliché – a ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ kind of deal.&lt;/strong&gt; But I worked with a&#xA;  dialect coach and did a Middle Atlantic thing, a little more cultured&#xA;  than I myself am. A little more refined, if you will. At least I&#xA;  didn’t sound like I was from New Jersey.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-13T12:56:10.413" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T12:56:10.413" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44681" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44685" CreationDate="2015-12-13T14:15:20.633" Score="2" ViewCount="752" Body="&lt;p&gt;Back in the 80s and I think also the 90s, on (German) TV, sometimes it happened that during recorded shows (I think only in TV series, but might also have been in movies) in one of the corners of the image (as far as I remember, it was always one of the upper corners, typically the upper right) shortly a simple geometric figure (triangle, square, circle) showed up and immediately disappeared again (I guess the length was just one frame). Often shortly afterwards (less than a second, if I remember correctly) another symbol shortly appeared at the same position. Typically those shapes were white, although I seem to remember that also black ones occasionally appeared; I don't remember any other colour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I'm not speaking about the station logo, which would normally displayed unchanged during the whole show. Those geometric figures would only appear rarely during a show, and immediately disappear again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I couldn't find any example on YouTube. I also don't remember having seen those symbols later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that those symbols are somehow related to the production process, and were left in either by accident, or because the specific production process required them to remain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know more about it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1490" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T18:50:09.387" Title="Geometric figures in the corner of TV shows—why were they there?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44245" CreationDate="2015-12-13T15:43:40.430" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember an episode of a detective series Simon and Simon about a boy who was hacking bank accounts on a bank system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Google the episode is Trapdoors from 1981, script is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=simon-and-simon-1981&amp;amp;episode=s01e03&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Simon and Simon S01E03 Trapdoors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is mention of passwords as part of trying to access systems.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T15:43:40.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44681" CreationDate="2015-12-13T18:39:46.353" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think you mean &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_mark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cue Marks&lt;/a&gt;. They where used on movies when they where still delivered to cinemas on several reels.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;For the person operating the projector to know when to switch between reels, cue marks where shown, signaling that the reel was coming to an end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;PS: So, Richards comment was on the right track: same style of mark to signal &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; to an operator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13690" LastEditorUserId="13690" LastEditDate="2015-12-13T18:50:09.387" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T18:50:09.387" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44692" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-13T20:28:40.123" Score="4" ViewCount="3217" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched this movie w/my mom when I was little.  I remember no actor/actress names, only pieces of the movie itself.  English language, color, released somewhere between 1980-1995.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are plot pieces that I remember:  Group of kids (girls and boys) standing in a circle holding hands.  They're in a building, likely a church or cathedral. One boy is speaking; they're performing some kind of ritual or seance.  A girl stands in the middle of the circle, blindfolded.  Loud noise/earth shaking occurs and a giant bell, like from a cathedral, drops on top of the girl standing in the middle.  She disappears.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Years later another group of kids track down the same -now grown up- people from the first ritual and convince them to perform it again, with one of their own girls standing in place of the one who was lost or disappeared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please, please, PLEASE help me remember the name of this movie.  I remember really liking it and would love to find/add it to my collection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28663" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-12-13T20:33:21.963" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T20:34:18.947" Title="80s or 90s film featuring kids performing some sort of ritual or seance in a church" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:14:04.720" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44693" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44692" CreationDate="2015-12-13T20:34:18.947" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081738/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Watcher in the Woods&lt;/a&gt; from 1980 with Bette Davis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When a normal American family moves into a beautiful old English house in a wooded area, strange, paranormal appearances befall them in this interesting twist to the well-known haunted-house tale. Their daughter Jan sees, and daughter Ellie hears, the voice of a young teenage girl who mysteriously disappeared during a total solar eclipse decades before... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the ritual scene with the bell falling on the girl in the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/3DFacqQp8uw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T20:34:18.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44695" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44705" CreationDate="2015-12-13T20:50:59.240" Score="125" ViewCount="17710" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why were there no subtitles in the beginning of cinematography in silent movies? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know about intertitles but why were subtitles not common then? Were people not able to read that fast or did creating subtitles cost too much? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't understand why the moviemakers in silent film didn't want to show everything that actors say. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28666" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T19:05:20.270" LastActivityDate="2017-11-12T21:56:14.070" Title="Why didn't silent movies have subtitles?" Tags="|silent-movie|subtitles|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44696" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44697" CreationDate="2015-12-13T20:57:15.030" Score="13" ViewCount="1169" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to find out what this is, I think its a book adapted TV series for children (around the 90s) There are green furry aliens with tenticles (that looks vaguely like the plant monster from little shop of horrors) They wear costumes of school children and teachers (i think red blazers and freaky doll masks) They go out into the world and observe humans doing things.. &#xA;Thats all i remember although I have a sketch also!&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/um0de.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/um0de.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Alien Schoolchild&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28667" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-13T21:15:54.767" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T22:32:42.367" Title="Aliens disguised as school children learn about humans in retro TV show" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:09:22.287" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44697" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44696" CreationDate="2015-12-13T21:19:42.187" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Xargle#Television_series&quot;&gt;Dr. Xargle&lt;/a&gt; from 1997, based on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Xargle&quot;&gt;children's book series&lt;/a&gt;. From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon-story/71816-Earthlets&quot;&gt;online synopsis&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dr. Xargle, supposedly Planet Queeg's greatest expert on life on Planet Earth, is trying to teach his class of unruly Queegles about &quot;Earthlets&quot;. He takes the class on the first of many field trips to study earth life at first hand. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's pretty obscure (I can't even find it on IMDb), but the intro is online and you can see that the aliens look very much your sketch:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/olpxxwqVvaA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T21:19:42.187" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44701" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37345" CreationDate="2015-12-13T21:53:59.490" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the film makers seem to suggest, I think the choice of diverse ages and sexes for each character inside Riley's mind as opposed to the more uniform characters of the parents was made mainly for dramatic and comedic purposes with the possible acception of Joy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film plays a little fast and loose with various psychological theories and is a mash up of many different schools of thought. In the case of joy I felt that the film took some cues character wise from the model of John Bowlby's attachment theory, the accepted central drive of most modern psychology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joy is 'born' as a reflection of the mothers gaze right at the beginning of the film and of Riley's life. Joy is taller and more the mothers age and temperament than the other characters of Riley's mind, so as well as representing the emotion of joy, she seemed to also perhaps be representative of the girl's central attachment figure. An internalised figure we install in our minds of our main attachment figure in the outside world, usually the mother, who acts, at least within secure attachment, as a sort of internal guardian. A sympathetic and positive figure who is consistently supportive and loving, from which we build and maintain a strong sense of self and independence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As if to verify this, Joy refers at the beginning and end of the film to Riley as 'our little girl', a common way of thinking of 'our' selves through the internal attachment figure of others. Riley displays a fear of loosing her attachment both external and internal, 'family' island turns grey and crumbles, not because she is sad but because she will not allow herself to be. In line with an insecure attachment style she becomes fearful of showing not so much her sadness but her vulnerability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When she allows herself to be vulnerable at the end in front of her parents and they accept that then Joy can return because secure attachment is strengthened externally and internally, family island (or rather the positive internalised attachment figure of her real parents) is rejuvenated and strengthened, this enables her to form a new secure base not only in San Francisco but also within her psyche, from which she can go out from and return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In line with this theory it would make some sense that the more mature characters of the mother and father have developed away from the internalised attachment figure of their parents and developed a more uniform reflection of self, hence why their internal characters look the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Riley grows at the end of the film she gains emotional complexity and her emotions become less separate, perhaps another reason why the adult emotions have become more homogenous and alike. But we are moving outside accepted theory here and into Pixar land where thankfully, at least for entertainments sake, anything goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Strength is born from accepted and shared vulnerability. A powerful film which I hope will inspire people to discover the joy and strength of secure and earned secure attachment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28670" LastEditorUserId="28670" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T10:12:05.210" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T10:12:05.210" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44705" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44695" CreationDate="2015-12-13T23:37:37.700" Score="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;Film was exposed only once and the quality was not good enough to film the projection of a movie in order to add subtitles underneath in a copy.&#xA;The only editing tool was cutting and that's why movies had intertitles (text cards) between shots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a note, George Méliès, among others, did experiment with multiple exposures but it made parts of the movie blurry and was only useful for adding ghosts or for dream sequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28674" LastActivityDate="2015-12-13T23:37:37.700" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44709" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44791" CreationDate="2015-12-14T00:48:42.003" Score="13" ViewCount="598" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film is recent, probably made in the last ten years or so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The protagonist is a black male, an enforcer-type, working for a criminal organization (Italian-Americans mostly) and the characters include the screwed-up, drug-abusing, partying son of the mob boss, a real worm of a son the protagonist is ordered to clean up after and keep an eye on. The son is among several who are done in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie revolves around the search to discover a turncoat who is setting people up and to discover who within the organization is dealing meth, a crime the leader does not want to be involved in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key scene which will help identify this film takes place in a wooded area. The daughter of the crime boss lures a lover to an abandoned school bus in the woods to have sex. The bus is a meth lab rigged with trip wires and explosives, and blows up the lover as the girl darts out the back of the bus. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final reveal of the movie is the mob boss fingering the main protagonist as the turncoat, proceeding to inflict bloody, brutal torture and death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28676" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T01:31:58.670" LastActivityDate="2017-01-19T17:27:43.670" Title="What is the name of this twisty, gritty American crime movie?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:14:11.047" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44712" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44695" CreationDate="2015-12-14T03:18:05.347" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;Intertitles were never called &quot;intertitles&quot; during the silent era. They were just &quot;titles&quot;. We call them intertitles now to distinguish them from subtitles and the main titles of a film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subtitles were used occationally, like in Clarence Brown's FLESH AND THE DEVIL (1926), when John Gilbert hears Garbo's character name &quot;Felicitas&quot; over and over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main reason that they were not used, is that silent films were translated into many languages and exported all over the world. It would have been a lot of work to superimpose subtitles of different languages over a changing scene. The translations were usually done in the country where they were shown, not at the studio in the producing country. This also came in handy when the movie bombed at the box-office, or was reissued. It was fairly easy to cut in new dialog or intertitles to change the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18606" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T03:18:05.347" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36417" CreationDate="2015-12-14T03:40:30.717" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was no television in the silent era, but audiences had a voracious appetite for films, so most studios tried to pump out movies as quickly as possible. However, depending on the year and the studio, films still might be produced quicker or slower than average. For instance, Laurel &amp;amp; Hardy spent about a month working on their silent films, although these were only two-reel (20 minute) comedies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Charlie Chaplin got into features, he spent three years each on his &lt;em&gt;The Gold Rush&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Circus&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;City Lights&lt;/em&gt;. He was a perfectionist, and filmed scenes over and over. He scrapped whole scenes that he didn't like after spending days filming them. He also took vacations and put the films on hiatus when he couldn't find comic inspiration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, when he worked at Keystone in 1914, he might appear in 2-3 short comedies a month. These were filmed quickly, with barely a scenario and a lot of improvisation. Chaplin was happy when he worked at Mutual in 1916-1917, and he could devote a month or two to a two-reel comedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the special effects in silent films (there could be quite a few), were actually done in-camera. The post-production part of filmmaking was editing, tinting (sometimes), preparing alternate negatives for foreign releases, and possibly preparing a score for the film. Only major films had an official music score, and only a few theaters actually used them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the end credits of a modern movie, you will notice that there are all kinds of jobs credited like caterers, accountants, lawyers, hairdressers, animators and so on. While these jobs existed in the silent era, modern films and studios have a lot more bureaucracy that takes a lot more time. Also, modern studios are not geared up to produce as many films as quickly as possible these days. That does happen for episodic television though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18606" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T05:32:58.387" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T05:32:58.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="56236" CreationDate="2015-12-14T04:09:09.857" Score="6" ViewCount="357" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of &lt;em&gt;Hedwig and the Angry Inch&lt;/em&gt;, Hedwig removes her wig and hands it to Yitzhak, who eventually realizes that Hedwig wants him to wear (as opposed to wanting Yitzhak to put it back on Hedwig's own head).  Yitzhak dons the wig, spins around, and is transformed from a bearded biker dude into a beautiful blonde Hedwig-esque woman.  Here is the scene in question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/yMWcPAEpuq4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hedwig then walks off naked, apparently not herself any more - or at least, not her genderqueer, punk/glam rock star former persona.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I've never been clear on what this meant for Yitzhak and Hedwig:  Is the idea that Yitzhak becomes the new Hedwig, and Hedwig becomes Hansel again?  Or does Yitzhak just become a famous glam rock Yitzhak, and Hedwig becomes a non-rock-star Hedwig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-12-28T01:26:06.823" LastActivityDate="2016-07-01T01:09:50.867" Title="Did Yitzhak become a new Hedwig?" Tags="|character|hedwig-and-the-angry-inch|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44717" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44721" CreationDate="2015-12-14T06:33:51.490" Score="6" ViewCount="93" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched a movie a decade back. I never got the name of movie, but I liked it lot. Can someone help me with the movie name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was not an English language film. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A journalist's daughter is on the run to the U.S (probably) from a country at civil war.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The civil war soldiers are given a tattoo for each kill under their name. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is a small action sequence on top of a train (a train carrying goods, the people travel on top of these trains covering sheets above from the rain) where the lead actress hides under a green sheet as it was raining heavily and she is saved.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The lead guy is a rebel, but he finds the violence pointless and he helps this daughter to escape. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A critically acclaimed movie for depicting the war situation. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Entire movie is full of greenery, full of forests, even the train passes through some great locations, and it's raining all the time. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She manages to flee. In the last act there was room for only one person, so she gets on the boat to cross border. While this guy is waiting on shore for the next boat he gets shot by his apprentice, who is a very small kid.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Movie ends with the kid getting a tattoo on his face for the kill. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28684" LastEditorUserId="28684" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T09:16:13.123" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T23:50:12.707" Title="Journalist's daughter is on the run to U.S from a country at civil war" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:14:14.180" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44695" CreationDate="2015-12-14T09:00:19.040" Score="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're right about the cost. As recently as 1970, subtitles were expensive. Eg polish budget film Hydrozagadka had an actress recite credits instead of displaying text - just because it was cheaper. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our mindset is spoiled by computers applying subtitles effortlessly, but in film times it was huge work. Even when the technology was perfected it was expensive. (And as others answered - in silent movies the technology was at early experimental stage.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11330" LastEditorUserId="11330" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T10:58:45.567" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T10:58:45.567" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44721" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44717" CreationDate="2015-12-14T09:16:49.900" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like Cary Fukunaga's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1127715/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sin nombre&lt;/a&gt; from 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Honduran teenager Sayra reunites with her father, an opportunity for her to potentially realize her dream of a life in the U.S. Moving to Mexico is the first step in a fateful journey of unexpected events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It contains the elements you mentioned and ends the same way (the boat for one person, the girl getting on it and the guy being shot by a kid who gets a face tattoo for the kill). Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Fvbqwx3e_bQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T23:50:12.707" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T23:50:12.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44672" CreationDate="2015-12-14T10:17:09.273" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Salt has two different endings because of Noyce's different opinion from the producers' and studio's. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(2010_film)#Versions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Director Phillip Noyce has said that due to the extensive usage of&#xA;  flashbacks, &quot;there was always going to be a mountain of alternative&#xA;  material that would not fit into the theatrical version.&quot; The film&#xA;  ended up having two extra versions, the Director's Cut and the&#xA;  Extended Cut – which Noyce refers to in his audio commentary as the&#xA;  film's original cut – both included on the DVD and Blu-ray Disc deluxe&#xA;  editions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Director's Cut was described by Noyce as &quot;my own personal take on&#xA;  the material, free from the politics and restrictions of producers,&#xA;  studio or censorship ratings.&quot; Four minutes of film are added,&#xA;  leading to a running time of 104 minutes. More flashbacks are&#xA;  added, and the violence is amped up – for example Mike being drowned&#xA;  rather than shot to death. The ending is also different: in the&#xA;  bunker scene, Winter shoots the President instead of only knocking him&#xA;  unconscious, and a media report during the final scene reports&#xA;  that the new US President had been orphaned on a family visit to&#xA;  Russia, implying he is also a sleeper agent. Noyce has described&#xA;  this ending as &quot;an ending yet just a beginning – and it's an ending&#xA;  that turns the whole story on its head&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the side note this film has three versions: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the Theatrical version (100 minutes), &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the Director's Cut (104 minutes, plus changes to existing scenes), and &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;an Extended Cut (101 minutes, including the removal of some scenes and a different ending). - (Source:&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944835/alternateversions?ref_=tttrv_sa_4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T16:28:44.023" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T16:28:44.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44723" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-14T10:23:00.970" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Released in 2010, Salt stars Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Daniel Olbrychski, August Diehl, and Chiwetel Ejiofor. In this film, Angelina Jolie plays a role of Evelyn Salt, who is accused of being a Russian sleeper agent and goes on the run to try to clear her name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tag can be used with &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/plot-explanation&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;plot-explanation&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;plot-explanation&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/character&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;character&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;character&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;/questions/tagged/analysis&quot; class=&quot;post-tag&quot; title=&quot;show questions tagged &amp;#39;analysis&amp;#39;&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;analysis&lt;/a&gt; etc. according to the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Links&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(2010_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944835/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/salt/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2018-01-29T10:58:10.183" LastActivityDate="2018-01-29T10:58:10.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44724" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-14T10:23:00.970" Score="0" Body="2010's American thriller spy film directed by Phillip Noyce with title character Evelyn Salt played by Angelina Jolie." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T10:23:00.970" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T10:23:00.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44726" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44728" CreationDate="2015-12-14T10:48:36.280" Score="34" ViewCount="20787" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; movies, Jedi often kill their opponent (for example, Obi-Wan kills Darth Maul in the first movie and again Obi-Wan, at the end of the third movie, leaves Anakin dismembered and on fire, thinking he is going to die), but when the Chancellor orders Anakin to kill Dooku, he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I shouldn't. This is not the Jedi way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I wonder, can Jedi kill? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is it a mere plot device to make the fall and the internal struggle of Anakin more &lt;em&gt;romantic&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T02:50:02.567" LastActivityDate="2019-11-18T14:00:20.890" Title="In Star Wars, can a Jedi kill?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44728" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44726" CreationDate="2015-12-14T10:58:59.200" Score="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we see in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace&lt;/em&gt; (during the climactic fight between Darth Maul, Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi) and &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones&lt;/em&gt; (when dozens of Jedi storm the arena where Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala have been sentenced to death), Jedi have no qualms about killing those that are trying to kill them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, we see that Obi-Wan Kenobi is referred to as General Kenobi in Star Wars films set after the events of the Clone Wars, so we can be reasonably sure that there is nothing prohibiting Jedi killing people &lt;strong&gt;in battle&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, at the point you are asking about in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith&lt;/em&gt;, Count Dooku is an unarmed opponent and poses little to no further threat. The Jedi way would have been to arrest him, not murder him, as Anakin himself correctly says in the quote in the question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T15:07:24.203" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T15:07:24.203" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44731" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44732" CreationDate="2015-12-14T13:35:04.543" Score="10" ViewCount="1883" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Hope punched Scott in &lt;em&gt;Ant-Man&lt;/em&gt;, he asked something about her hand, I'm not sure what, something like: &quot;were you going for the hand&quot;? What exactly did he say and what does that mean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26377" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T13:45:46.000" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T14:29:13.987" Title="What did Scott ask Hope about the hand?" Tags="|dialogue|marvel-cinematic-universe|ant-man|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44732" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44731" CreationDate="2015-12-14T13:50:49.830" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;He asks her if she tried to hit his &lt;em&gt;hand&lt;/em&gt; instead of his face, since that's what he did to &lt;em&gt;her&lt;/em&gt; and hinted that she does the same to him. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://transcripts.wikia.com/wiki/Ant-Man&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;transcript&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hope van Dyne:&lt;/em&gt; [to Pym] Useless. [Hope trains Scott] [...] You punch too hard, you kill someone, too soft, it’s a love-tap. In other words you have to know how to punch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scott Lang:&lt;/em&gt; I was in prison for three years, I know how to punch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hope van Dyne:&lt;/em&gt; Show me. &lt;strong&gt;[she puts up her hands and Scott hits her hand]&lt;/strong&gt; Terrible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scott Lang:&lt;/em&gt; You want to show me how to punch? &lt;strong&gt;[he puts up his hand like hers] Show me... [suddenly Hope punches him in the face knocking him back]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hope van Dyne:&lt;/em&gt; That’s how you punch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hope van Dyne:&lt;/em&gt; [as Scott is still recovering from her punch] Alright princess, let’s get back to work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scott Lang:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Were you going for the hand?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, this funny little reaction was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.momdoesreviews.com/2015/07/08/mdr-exclusive-interview-with-paul-rudd-and-evangeline-lilly-antmanevent/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;improvised on set&lt;/a&gt; by Paul Rudd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T14:05:00.890" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44731" CreationDate="2015-12-14T14:08:14.480" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The humour in the situation comes from the fact that when it was her turn to show him how to punch, she opts not to punch him in the hand (like he did a few moments ago) and instead &lt;strong&gt;punches him right in his stupid grinning face&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, this line was actually ad-libbed by Paul Rudd. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.momdoesreviews.com/2015/07/08/mdr-exclusive-interview-with-paul-rudd-and-evangeline-lilly-antmanevent/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this interview for MDR&lt;/a&gt;, Evangeline Lily gives us the &lt;em&gt;unedited&lt;/em&gt; version:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Evangeline, how FUN was it to punch [Paul Rudd] all the action scenes?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;You know I didn’t really punch him, right? I didn’t actually punch him….&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;em&gt;I loved the take that they kept in the film, because you never know what they’re going to use, and what’s going to end up on the cutting room floor; one of his improvs was when he said &lt;strong&gt;“were you aiming for the face– or were you going for the hand?”&lt;/strong&gt; I was so glad that it ended up in there ’cause I love that line.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently her primary motivation for smacking him in the gob (both in-universe and to us, the viewer) was to demonstrate that she was just as capable, if not &lt;em&gt;more capable&lt;/em&gt; a fighter than Scott and that there was a decent justification for her to train him, despite his evident skills as a fighter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Bs-LCpERmaM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T14:29:13.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44731" CreationDate="2015-12-14T14:09:50.133" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Scott's Masculine Pride. Hope, a girl he underestimates, just straight sucker punched him in the face. By asking her &lt;code&gt;Were you going for the hand?&lt;/code&gt;, he's trying to save face (no pun intended). If she was going for the hand and missed, he's have an excuse for being punched by a girl. Hope adds to hurting his Pride by calling him Princess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZDRCc.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZDRCc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene before that line. Notice Scott punches Hope's Hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/rGJTrbjL6ZA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene is just one of the ways the film sets up Hope's characterization. A more in-depth look:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ycnpU94Iejs?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T14:09:50.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44735" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36013" CreationDate="2015-12-14T15:35:20.357" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Billy gave the therapist lady an envelope of all the tapes showing Matt Damon's guilt. Walhberg knows Damon is the rat after hearing those tapes and then kills Damon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28695" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T15:35:20.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44736" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18256" CreationDate="2015-12-14T15:44:17.453" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, after the WWII, in Italy there was the so called &quot;Hollywood on Tevere&quot;. Because of an Italian law, American productions were obliged to invest part of their earnings due to the Italian audience in Italy. Enchanted by the urban and natural landscape, lots of productions started in Italy, starting a strong co-operation with Italian movie artists and craftmen. Italians started copying the English and American movie genres. Bava and Margheriti, for example, both directed several important Gothic movies (Black Sabbath for example) under English names, adding an &quot;Italian touch&quot; to the genre. Another important genre which was &quot;revisited&quot; by Italians was Peplum (movies about Ancient Roman setting or mythology). At the end of the 60s, Italian directors started making Western movies. The so called &quot;Spaghetti Western&quot; was born only after Leone's first successful movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I list what these movies may have in common with Neorealism:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In both these movies, not professional actors worked. They were chosen mostly because of their &quot;particular&quot; faces, fit for characters living in hard times and in dirty borderline lands.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They both take inspiration by what happened in Italy at the end of WWII (Italy was a no-men's land, with huge criminal and economical problems). The director of the Western &quot;Se sei vivo spara&quot; stated that part of the events of the movie were inspired by his memories of the war. Later on, Spaghetti western was used as a metaphor of the political revolution of the '70s, especially using a parallelism between the strikes of the workmen and the Mexican indipendence war.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both these kinds of movies tried to get far from the unrealistic American way to portrait events.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28696" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T15:49:42.900" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T15:49:42.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44741" CreationDate="2015-12-14T15:59:43.450" Score="5" ViewCount="2105" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am curious to know who tortured and killed Solange Dimitrios (wife of Alex Dimitrios) in &lt;em&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/em&gt;. Bond has left her in his hotel room at the night when he went after Alex Dimitrios who was killed by James Bond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27264" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T16:07:59.300" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T16:51:05.133" Title="How did Solange Dimitrios die in Casino Royale?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|casino-royale|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44738" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46414" CreationDate="2015-12-14T16:19:05.797" Score="7" ViewCount="13219" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Southpaw, how is there no trial for the murder of Maureen? Given the presence of only a handful of people in the event and the bullet fragment/shell (and possible surveillance cameras), it would have been easy to investigate the murder and locate the killer. Why is the murder simply ignored, given it was a high profile killing? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T16:21:59.823" LastActivityDate="2016-01-17T18:33:08.007" Title="How is there no murder trial in Southpaw?" Tags="|plot-explanation|southpaw|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8920" CreationDate="2015-12-14T16:41:11.647" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because it didn't work the first time; it only made things worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a recurring theme in both &lt;em&gt;The Vampire Diaries&lt;/em&gt; and it's spin-off, &lt;em&gt;The Originals&lt;/em&gt;: vampires using their powers to do &quot;bad&quot; things for &quot;good&quot; reasons, and how it rarely turns out well. In this case, Elena chose to use Damon's power to make a complex problem -- Jeremy's situation with Vicki -- disappear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the victims of these seemingly good deeds almost invariably find out, and they are never happy. They feel violated by people they thought they could trust. This is what happened with Jeremy, and it was made worse by the fact that the Salvatores were the ones almost entirely responsible for Vicki's drama. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though Elena probably &lt;em&gt;thought&lt;/em&gt; what she was doing was helping Jeremy, it would at least seem to him that she was motivated in large part by &lt;em&gt;her&lt;/em&gt; desire to keep Stefan in her life. More to the point, however, her actions made it impossible for Jeremy to &lt;em&gt;grieve properly&lt;/em&gt; -- to process his anger, sadness, denial, etc. and move past it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once all of that came back up, Elena likely realized she had made a mistake, and probably felt bad at her betrayal. Not bad enough to stop herself from doing it again in the future, mind you, but bad enough to hold back for at least a few episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T16:41:11.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44740" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44760" CreationDate="2015-12-14T16:46:13.147" Score="8" ViewCount="42525" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074285/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Carrie&lt;/a&gt; (the original version) and was confused with the way how the movie ended?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; I am confused if Carrie was killed because the house had an accident? Or is it because of a supernatural phenomenon which caused the house to crumble and go underground. Either that or it was deliberately left this way so viewers could interpret it based on their perception. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone provide an explanation for the ending?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T00:47:05.807" LastActivityDate="2018-10-17T10:31:22.963" Title="Explanation for the ending of Carrie?" Tags="|ending|carrie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44741" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44737" CreationDate="2015-12-14T16:51:05.133" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it was implied to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Le_Chiffre_(Mads_Mikkelsen)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Le-Chiffre&lt;/a&gt; because when Bond thwarts the bomb plot he was the one who lost heavily (totaling $101,206,000) because of bond's action since he invested on stocks against the Skyfleet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Le-Chiffre is shown to be a poker prodigy in the movie I don't think it would've taken him long enough to figure out the loose-ends which might've caused him to lose all the money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="781" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T16:51:05.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31272" CreationDate="2015-12-14T18:03:25.030" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Robb would have bend the knee to Stannis if he would have taken Kings Landing at the battle of Blackwater&#xA;He does try to draw the Lannister forces into the West hoping to draw them away from the Baratheon hosts in the Stormlands. (Edmure foiled this plot)&#xA;Also, his main reason for not bending to Joffrey is due to his father beheading, he could have been reasonable and bent the knee to Stannis as he knows hope of independence is lost&#xA;It clear the Northern lords see him backing Stannis as some want to negotiate peace with Joffrey once Stannis is defeated&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28701" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-06-01T11:30:51.700" LastActivityDate="2017-06-01T11:30:51.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44695" CreationDate="2015-12-14T18:58:40.533" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The purpose of subtitles is to generally allow audience members to mentally pretend that the words they're &lt;em&gt;hearing&lt;/em&gt; are actually in their own language.  In most cases, the purpose of intertitles is to allow the audience to pretend that they can hear things that they &lt;em&gt;see&lt;/em&gt; the actors saying.  In order for the latter mental substitution to work, however, the audience needs to be able to actually watch the actors, which means they can't be trying to read the text &lt;em&gt;at the same time&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using subtitles would have been a technical annoyance but not an insurmountable one, especially if one was willing to reserve space on the screen for them.  Multiple-exposure photography was not difficult, and if one were using interpositives one could produce an internegative with subtitltes in different languages without requiring extra steps in the final printing.  Handling multiple languages while using direct printing off camera negatives would have required more complicated printing steps, but&#xA;nothing insurmountable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the much bigger issue is that even if subtitles had posed zero&#xA;extra technical difficulty, intertitles would still generally &lt;em&gt;work better&lt;/em&gt; for dramatic purposes in silent films. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8357" LastEditorUserId="8357" LastEditDate="2017-11-12T14:36:31.300" LastActivityDate="2017-11-12T14:36:31.300" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44747" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-14T19:02:40.607" Score="4" ViewCount="87" Body="&lt;p&gt;The older &lt;em&gt;fsociety&lt;/em&gt; dude with the specs, that recruits Elliot on the train.. And pushes Elliot off the pier onto the rocks or whatever it is that happened. Is he &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt;,  Elliot's &lt;em&gt;alter ego?&lt;/em&gt; Or some kind of &lt;em&gt;hallucination?&lt;/em&gt; If he is just some kind of &lt;em&gt;mental manifestation&lt;/em&gt;, is Elliot actually aware of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He doesn't seem to have a name, despite playing a &lt;em&gt;pivotal role&lt;/em&gt; in the &lt;em&gt;plot&lt;/em&gt;, and being a &lt;em&gt;crucial part&lt;/em&gt; of the &lt;em&gt;story&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Nobody seems to mention him, despite the fact that he appears to be &lt;em&gt;in charge&lt;/em&gt; of &lt;em&gt;fsociety's&lt;/em&gt; whole &lt;em&gt;operation.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;em&gt;accident&lt;/em&gt; gets treated like a &lt;em&gt;suicide attempt&lt;/em&gt; by the hospital staff, the psychologist, and Elliot himself.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Elliot will speak directly to the viewer, mention our apparent non-existence, and making light of the situation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The few people he gets close to, generally seem to be confused by his behaviour.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24047" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T19:02:40.607" Title="Is Mr. Robot Real?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|mr-robot|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-12-14T19:07:15.560" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44748" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-14T19:14:56.283" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Who Framed Roger Rabbit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1988 film by &lt;strong&gt;Robert Zemeckis&lt;/strong&gt; set in an alternate 1940s era in which cartoon characters exist in real life. One of the biggest stars of the time, &lt;strong&gt;Roger Rabbit (voice of Charles Fleischer)&lt;/strong&gt;, is framed for the murder of a wealthy magnate by the evil &lt;strong&gt;Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd)&lt;/strong&gt;. With the help of a real-world detective, &lt;strong&gt;Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins)&lt;/strong&gt;, Roger vows to prove his innocence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="43924" LastEditorUserId="43924" LastEditDate="2017-02-25T18:34:49.987" LastActivityDate="2017-02-25T18:34:49.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44749" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-14T19:14:56.283" Score="0" Body="This 1988 film directed by Robert Zemeckis cleverly melds the &quot;actual&quot; world with the illustrated world of animation to tell the story of a cartoon rabbit who, with the help of a real-life private detective, attempts to clear his name after being framed for murder." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="43924" LastEditDate="2017-02-25T18:34:52.687" LastActivityDate="2017-02-25T18:34:52.687" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44726" CreationDate="2015-12-14T19:27:22.957" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Execute&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; is a subset of &lt;strong&gt;&quot;kill&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. If it were a venn diagram, the &quot;execute&quot; bubble would be a tiny circle within the much larger circle of &quot;kill&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The specific act of killing Dooku (who was, at that point, defenseless and could have easily have been taken into custody with minimal risk) &lt;em&gt;was not just a killing, it was an execution&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;That&lt;/strong&gt; is what was being referred to as not being the &lt;em&gt;&quot;Jedi way&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To grasp it there are modern day equivalents. A soldier on the ground in a war zone might be given a medal for killing in combat under many circumstances. That very same soldier would be tried for war crimes for walking up to a defenseless enemy that had been bested and subdued and was no longer a threat and executing him after the battle. So even to a modern soldier, the phrase &lt;em&gt;&quot;That's not the soldierly way.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; would absolutely apply to that situation. Yet, would you describe that as meaning it's not the soldier's way to kill? Absolutely not. It's definitely the soldier's way to kill when it's called for. Same for the Jedi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28706" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T19:27:22.957" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44751" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44753" CreationDate="2015-12-14T19:30:07.023" Score="7" ViewCount="5664" Body="&lt;p&gt;After all that she does, it just doesn't make sense to me why Nick would stay with Amy at the end of &lt;em&gt;Gone Girl&lt;/em&gt;. Didn't he feel afraid that she might kill him? I thought he didn't love her anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27305" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T19:41:59.463" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T20:16:35.103" Title="Why did Nick stay with Amy in Gone Girl?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gone-girl|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44751" CreationDate="2015-12-14T19:57:57.923" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To protect their child from her.&lt;/strong&gt; Nick sees no other way. This is explained near the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Margo:&lt;/strong&gt; You could get custody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nick:&lt;/strong&gt; No, I won't. And you know it. It's going to be my child. &lt;em&gt;I'm not going to leave it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Margo:&lt;/strong&gt; You want to stay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nick:&lt;/strong&gt; I have a responsibility. &lt;em&gt;It's not about what I want anymore.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Amy pretty much states what'll happen to the child if Nick leaves:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Amy:&lt;/strong&gt; I won't have to teach your child to hate you. He'll do that all by himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_Girl_%28novel%29#Plot_summary&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; ends pretty much the same way, with Nick reaching the same conclusion. He can't leave their child with this sociopath, he probably won't get cudstody and he can't harm Amy and get away with it, after all that's happened. Once again, Amy had planned well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T20:16:35.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13829" CreationDate="2015-12-14T20:21:50.357" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though I am not a fan of this specific  genre of film, I do enjoy stories that have a simplistic line of explanation yet hold a fine degree of emotional depth with a &quot;down to Earth&quot; tone. It didn't take me long to see the con transpiring against Virgil, it was all really in the language and certain parts that subtly gave it away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the ending goes, I think the true take-home for this was that anything can be forged, even the spectrum of human emotion. Virgil was an intelligent man but socially inept, never really acquiring the tools to properly connect with other people. He was a &quot;forgery&quot; of a human being in his everyday life, showing little to no emotion. The closest thing to emotion he felt were his love for the paintings he collected. His associate, Billy, understood this and used it to concoct the scheme to acquire his multi-million dollar art collection that Virgil himself had gained through illicit practice with Billy's help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scam was indeed elaborate, but Billy knew that women were Virgil's weakness, which was not hard to discern through the paintings he collected. To present something “real” to him like love would take his guard down and give Claire the ability to get close enough to see the code for the vault.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once Virgil realized he had been conned, the hard irony of being a master at identifying forgeries yet not being able to identify true human emotion completely shattered him into a catatonic blank slate. After a time analyzing the situation in the asylum, he went to Prague to begin his search for Claire, believing that bits of what she had told him were genuine in nature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28709" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-26T19:29:02.733" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T19:29:02.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44756" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44757" CreationDate="2015-12-14T20:50:52.613" Score="5" ViewCount="3170" Body="&lt;p&gt;During Andy's escape in &lt;em&gt;The Shawshank Redemption&lt;/em&gt; it is clear that he sees the pipe so he doesn't have to wait for the lightning to enlighten it. Why does he wait for it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27305" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T00:44:29.573" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T00:44:29.573" Title="Why does Andy wait for the lightning to strike when he is trying to break the sewer pipe?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-shawshank-redemption|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44757" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44756" CreationDate="2015-12-14T20:54:37.743" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;He waits to time his strikes so that the thunder will distract or mask the sound of striking the pipe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For his plan to work, he needs to escape without anyone being alerted to his exit. Banging on a sewer pipe transmits sound through the ground, foundation, walls, and out the pipe in both directions. So inmates in the bathroom would be aware of an unusual sound, and whoever is around that section of pipe, as well as guards in many places. They may not identify the source for awhile, but they surely would start looking and initiate a lock down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T21:32:07.983" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T21:32:07.983" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44758" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44759" CreationDate="2015-12-14T21:05:13.563" Score="4" ViewCount="2199" Body="&lt;p&gt;What are routes of Andy Dufresne's escape in &lt;em&gt;The Shawshank Redemption&lt;/em&gt;? I know that the last one is the sewer, but how does he get to the sewer?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27305" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T00:45:38.790" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T00:45:38.790" Title="Through what &quot;pipes&quot; is Andy Dufresne going when he is escaping?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-shawshank-redemption|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44758" CreationDate="2015-12-14T21:45:51.383" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/shawshank.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; indicates that the shaft is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/a/191961/84864&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;partition&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. It contains electrical wiring and various plumbing &lt;em&gt;stuff&lt;/em&gt;. Note that it really shouldn't be there (the Warden and staff don't know about it) but that's cheap construction for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;INT -- VERTICAL SHAFT -- DAY (1966) 224&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dark as midnight. Concrete walls rise on both sides. If you imagine&#xA;  them as two huge slices of bread, the meat of this particular sandwich&#xA;  is about three feet of airspace and a dark tangle of pipes between the&#xA;  cellblocks. Rory's appears, shining his flashlight down the shaft.&#xA;  Somewhere, a rat SQUEAKS. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RED&lt;/strong&gt;: (V.O.) &lt;em&gt;It was his third day on the job.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RORY:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Warden? There's a space here between the walls 'bout three feet across! Smells pretty damn bad!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the bottom of the shaft is the sewer main that he then escapes through...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Andy finally gets his head through, scraping his ears. He's got a&#xA;  penlight clenched in his teeth. He peers down into the shaft. At the&#xA;  very bottom, maybe 20 feet down, a big ceramic pipe runs the length of&#xA;  the cellblock. Beneath its coat of grime and dust, the word &quot;SEWER&quot; is&#xA;  stenciled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:38:11.257" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T21:45:51.383" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44740" CreationDate="2015-12-14T22:09:13.487" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it is meant to mainly be open to interpretation, however the following excerpt from &lt;a href=&quot;http://stephenking.wikia.com/wiki/Carrie_White&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;stephenking.wikia.com&lt;/a&gt; I feel gives the best explanation you could hope for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Carrie's mom]... brought Carrie to her knees so that the two could properly pray together. Meanwhile, Margaret had &amp;quot;snapped&amp;quot; earlier on and hidden a knife under one of the floor boards to stab Carrie with, having fallen to the belief that her daughter was ruled by Satan. While they both recited the Lord's Prayer, Margaret stabbed Carrie and caused her to fall downstairs, backwards. She then stalked the frightened child throughout the house, eventually backing Carrie into a corner. Finally, Carrie used her powers to &amp;quot;crucify&amp;quot; her mother to the kitchen doorway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it was over, &lt;em&gt;Carrie was overwhelmed by guilt, grief and rage&lt;/em&gt;. She screamed to the top of her lungs and grabbed her mother. However, &lt;em&gt;Carrie's powers &amp;quot;spiraled&amp;quot; out of control and caused the house to collapse around her and her mother.&lt;/em&gt; Quickly removing Margaret's body from the doorway, Carrie raced for the kitchen closet where she spent many nights being forced to pray for forgiveness and shut the door. Within, Carrie was hit in the head by falling debris and killed. The house was also set aflame due to some of the lit candles falling down, and it eventually sank underground, taking Carrie and Margaret with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; Carrie kills her mother by stopping her heart, but nothing happens to the house. Instead Carrie dies later from her wounds in Sue's arms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to the explanation from the wikia article, I am also reminded of the scripture in the Book of Revelations from the New Testament which describes the shame of the wicked after the sixth seal is opened -&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://biblehub.com/revelation/6-16.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Revelations 6:16 -&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ...and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, &amp;quot;Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the house collapsing is supposed to be like her own personal Apocalypse and like the wicked in Revelations, she is calling up the mountains and the rocks to fall upon her and hide her shame for her &amp;quot;wicked&amp;quot; acts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-10-17T00:46:01.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44762" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15885" CreationDate="2015-12-14T22:43:32.513" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the very end of Kill Bill vol. 2 during the end credits when it's showing The Bride driving in black and white, it goes through the names of the actors and crosses out their name if she killed them in the film. When it gets to Daryl Hannah (Elle) it does not cross her name off, and shows a question mark instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28712" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-12-14T22:56:45.313" LastActivityDate="2015-12-14T22:56:45.313" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44767" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="53202" CreationDate="2015-12-15T00:50:23.183" Score="21" ViewCount="1636" Body="&lt;p&gt;A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away...) I saw a show on TV.  It was sort of like one of those &quot;Hollywood Extra&quot; type shows.  This is going back to the early 80's for sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, on the show they talked about a scene in one of the Star Wars movies that was apparently shot on the roof of a studio.  Someone discovered that if you go frame-by-frame in this scene with the then-spanking-new VHS release, you could see the edge of the roof and the parking lot below.  And they showed it frame-by-frame, and sure enough you could see the parking lot below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm 99.9999% positive that Lucas has fixed this by now, so it's not going to show up on any DVD/Blu-Ray release.  And it's so long ago that I couldn't even find anything on Google that confirms this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know which scene/movie this was in?  It had to be the original trilogy, but I can't remember which one it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="11244" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T02:37:38.360" LastActivityDate="2016-05-19T12:46:27.533" Title="Erroneous scene with the studio's parking lot in the original Star Wars release" Tags="|star-wars|production-mistakes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44768" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-15T00:52:59.343" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T00:52:59.343" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T00:52:59.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44769" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-15T00:52:59.343" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T00:52:59.343" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T00:52:59.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44771" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44772" CreationDate="2015-12-15T01:18:25.777" Score="17" ViewCount="2527" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1502712/&quot;&gt;Fantastic Four (2015)&lt;/a&gt; (I smell yet another reboot...), and noticed that Stan Lee was one of the Producers.  However, I didn't catch his usual cameo in a Marvel movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did I miss it, or did he not play a part in this one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T09:27:02.043" Title="Where is Stan Lee in Fantastic Four?" Tags="|stan-lee|fantastic-four-2015|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44772" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44771" CreationDate="2015-12-15T01:26:16.057" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There isn't one.&lt;/strong&gt; From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/02/stan-lee-fantastic-four&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Entertainment Weekly&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a new interview with Larry King, Stan Lee says he knows why [the 2015] Fantastic Four was such a flop: “It’s probably because &lt;strong&gt;I didn’t have a cameo in it&lt;/strong&gt;.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lee, who created the original Fantastic Four with Jack Kirby, added that the filmmakers didn’t discuss the story with him. In fact, he still hasn’t seen it. King also asked him if he thought there were too many superhero reboots in too short a period of time, to which Lee replied, “That may be true.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fantastic Four was one of the few Marvel movies Lee hasn’t appeared in&lt;/strong&gt;, as he’s made dozens of cameo appearances in Marvel movies and TV shows, from The Avengers to Agent Carter. &lt;strong&gt;He also appeared in the 2005 Fantastic Four as mailman Willie Lumpkin.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A minor character there (a technician) is called Stan, but that's about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T01:26:16.057" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44773" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44801" CreationDate="2015-12-15T01:35:42.570" Score="11" ViewCount="5588" Body="&lt;p&gt;This scene has always bothered me, but I've never seen an attempt to explain it.  In &lt;em&gt;The Return of the King&lt;/em&gt;, when Gandalf rides out of Minas Tirith to save Faramir and his company from the Nazgul, he takes Pippin along with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Owq_aBJ9G6Q?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never seen an explanation for this decision of Gandalf to take Pippin on this dangerous mission where he could only be a hindrance.  In the books of course, this plays out very differently as Pippin is on duty with Beregond at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a story behind this?  Was this scene originally supposed to occur as Gandalf and Pippin were arriving at Minas Tirith for the first time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21844" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T02:20:17.220" LastActivityDate="2016-04-13T06:29:41.023" Title="Why did Gandalf take Pippin when saving Faramir and company?" Tags="|the-lord-of-the-rings|the-return-of-the-king|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44775" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-15T02:35:03.777" Score="5" ViewCount="6459" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some years ago (2 to 4, don't actually remember) I went to the cinema and watched a movie trailer that took my attention and I can't remember its name. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As much as I can tell, there was a girl (10/16 years) who had an object (maybe a ring) that when she touched it, she could see another dimension. I remember a scene where she was travelling by car and she touched it and suddenly she was in a huge green field. The other thing I remember but am not entirely sure is that this world looked a little bit more futuristic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28721" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T03:03:26.757" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T03:03:26.757" Title="Movie about a Teenage Girl that could see another dimension" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:14:23.597" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44775" CreationDate="2015-12-15T02:54:34.030" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are describing Tomorrowland. The titular Tomorrowland is the futuristic (Now &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Zeerust&quot;&gt;Zeerust&lt;/a&gt; future-retro) city of Tomorrow, with jet packs and 1960's styling. The teenage girl is Casey Newton, played by Britt Robertson. The scene you describe happens fairly early in the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/NBqGot9Bio4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrowland_(film)&quot;&gt;From Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tomorrowland (subtitled A World Beyond in some regions) is a 2015 American science-fiction mystery adventure film directed and co-written by Brad Bird. ... The film stars George Clooney, Hugh Laurie, Britt Robertson, Raffey Cassidy, Tim McGraw, Kathryn Hahn, and Keegan-Michael Key. In the film, a disillusioned genius inventor (Clooney) and a teenage science enthusiast (Robertson), embark to an ambiguous dimension known as &quot;Tomorrowland&quot;, where their actions directly affect the world and themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T02:54:34.030" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34809" CreationDate="2015-12-15T06:47:24.580" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you pay attention to eggsys little sister when she's crying in the play pen she looks like she's at least 4-6 months old then when he goes back home after he finishes his training and sees her again she looks at least 2 years old&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28728" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T06:47:24.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44783" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44787" CreationDate="2015-12-15T09:17:21.430" Score="19" ViewCount="38741" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does Audrey Hepburn's character in &lt;em&gt;Breakfast at Tiffany's&lt;/em&gt; ask for 50 dollars from her admirers every time she goes to &quot;the powder room&quot;? It seems like a gold digger, master level but was that some weird standard at the time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27305" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T14:06:35.520" LastActivityDate="2017-02-10T13:43:36.810" Title="Why does Audrey Hepburn's character ask for 50 dollars from her admirers every time she goes to &quot;the powder room&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|breakfast-at-tiffanys|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44784" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44783" CreationDate="2015-12-15T09:26:34.013" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been a number of years since I last watched this, but I think it was something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Holly Golightly is an aspirational character (i.e. she is trying to appear more than she is).  At that time, rest rooms were largely staffed (in good restaurants/tiffanys etc), and as part of using it someone like Holly would be expected to leave a tip.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being poor, Holly would &quot;borrow&quot; a $50 bill from her date (a largish sum at that point), then when leaving she would be able to say to the attendant &quot;Sorry, that's all I have&quot;, avoiding paying the tip, without looking cheap (and keeping up the image of being well off).  You can draw your own conclusions about what happened to the $50 afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastEditorUserId="4637" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T10:34:00.077" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T10:34:00.077" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26829" CreationDate="2015-12-15T09:38:13.773" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;When the sheriff is first arriving to Snow Hill and is riding in the stagecoach with Silence and Loco, there is a part where Loco tells the stage to stop so he can dig up a body he has hidden in the snow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During this scene for about a second we see him deposit a rifle in the spot where the body is, wrapped in a fur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aA8d0.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aA8d0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, in the scene you mentioned, Loco recognizes the spot where he has hidden the rifle and comes up with the pretext of needing to relieve himself. As he is squatting he reaches down directly and pulls the rifle directly from the snow as if he had known it was there all along. That is because he did know it was there. It is the same rifle from earlier, still wrapped in the same fur we saw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MyzJP.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MyzJP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some problems with the way this is handled. For example, this is clearly not the same spot as before, although it is possible that he has since returned and moved the rifle elsewhere or he has a habit of hiding rifles wrapped in fur along the trail just in case... It is also pretty unbelievable that he would be able to find it's exact location in the snow like that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But all that aside I do think that we are clearly meant to understand that it is the same rifle that he has hidden in the snow all this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T10:25:42.550" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T10:25:42.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44787" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44783" CreationDate="2015-12-15T10:15:18.447" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Holly was simply fleecing the men for their cash, &lt;em&gt;ostensibly to pay the toilet-room attendant&lt;/em&gt; but in reality she was pocketing the money and using it to pay her rent and living expenses&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_(novella)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;source novella&lt;/a&gt; we get this exchange;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I wasn't impressed by the honorarium either; you can do as well as that on tips to the powder room: any gent with the slightest chic will give you fifty for the girl's john, and I always ask for cab fare too; that's another fifty.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that Holly &lt;strong&gt;isn't&lt;/strong&gt; a prostitute (she rarely sleeps with her dates) so much as a semi-professional &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;good time girl&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;, making the men pay for her company under the pretence of being on a real date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Truman Capote spoke about Holly in a Playboy article from 1968&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Playboy:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Would you elaborate on your comment that Holly was the prototype of today's liberated female and representative of a &amp;quot;whole breed of girls who live off men but are not prostitutes. They're our version of the geisha girl...&amp;quot;?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Capote:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Holly Golightly was not precisely a call girl. She had no job, but accompanied expense-account men to the best restaurants and night clubs, with the understanding that her escort was obligated to give her some sort of gift, perhaps jewelry or a check ... if she felt like it, she might take her escort home for the night. So these girls are the authentic American geishas, and they're much more prevalent now than in 1943 or 1944, which was Holly's era&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T16:39:38.077" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44788" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26830" CreationDate="2015-12-15T10:43:14.877" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;These questions are answered actually pretty well on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Silence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for the movie&lt;/a&gt;. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Silence#Thematic_analysis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;thematic analysis&lt;/a&gt; is really well written and paints the movie as an allegory for capitalism and big banking preying on the poor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without getting into too much of it, I'll address each of the specific questions you mention. The thematic analysis is pretty long to paste the entire thing here but I've included the final paragraph. The short answer is that the movie is meant to be a political allegory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was the reason or message behind this incredibly dismal ending?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the first and last paragraphs of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Silence#Thematic_analysis&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;thematic analysis from wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;*&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Corbucci, a left-wing radical who made his political views either the&#xA;subtext or subject of several of his films, wrote the film’s story as&#xA;an allegory highlighting the corruptions that can be caused by&#xA;capitalism and authoritarianism, which are personified by the&#xA;sadistic, greedy bounty killers led by Loco (who use the bounties to&#xA;fuel their desires for violence and money while acting under the law),&#xA;as well as the schemes of the banker Pollicutt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The deaths of Silence, Pauline and the outlaws at the hands of Loco&#xA;and his gang are a culmination of the subversive elements of The Great&#xA;Silence and its anti-authoritarian stance. &lt;strong&gt;The deaths of sympathetic&#xA;characters were nothing new for Corbucci&lt;/strong&gt; – he had previously allowed&#xA;the title character of his first Western, Minnesota Clay, to be killed&#xA;off. However, the political context of his later film made plays a&#xA;major factor in the presentation of its thematic concerns. According&#xA;to Alex Cox, a major proponent of Corbucci’s films, “Corbucci’s widow,&#xA;Nori, told [producer] Katsumi Ishikuma that her husband had the deaths&#xA;of Che Guevera and Malcom X in mind when he conceived The Great&#xA;Silence... For the radical, for the revolutionary, both deaths were&#xA;terrible news. You could only take on the powerful and the wicked for&#xA;a short while, it seemed, before they crushed you.” In contrast to the&#xA;deaths of leading characters in similarly progressive films of the&#xA;time, such of Ben, Duane Jones’ character in Night of the Living Dead,&#xA;and Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in Easy Rider, in which said&#xA;characters are killed by similarly disenfranchised groups, the bounty&#xA;killers are working as part of the State, acting in the service of&#xA;capital by helping to protect it. What further separates the deaths of&#xA;the heroes and the anti-authoritarian position of The Great Silence&#xA;from Romero and Hopper’s films is that, unlike Night of the Living&#xA;Dead and Easy Rider, which were produced without the restrictions of&#xA;well-established genre conventions, Corbucci’s film also subverts and&#xA;comments on the genre that it is part of. &lt;strong&gt;Cox believes that the moral&#xA;message of the film is that &amp;quot;sometimes, even though you know you'll&#xA;fail, you still do the right thing.&amp;quot; He also adds that by facing an&#xA;unbeatable foe and dying in the ensuring duel, Silence &amp;quot;becomes the&#xA;noblest hero of any Western film since Shane.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Emphasis mine&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And was this changed at some point and are there (maybe even released) alternative endings or was this always the intended ending?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was an alternate ending filmed that Corbucci was apparently forced to make by the studio in order to show the film in certain markets, but the bleak ending was the original ending and the one Corbucci intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Silence#Alternate_Ending&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia article on alternate ending&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Due to the bleak nature of the original finale, Corbucci was forced to&#xA;shoot an alternative &amp;quot;happy&amp;quot; ending to the film for the North African&#xA;market, where Spaghetti Westerns were popular, but had to have an&#xA;upbeat conclusion.&lt;/strong&gt; Some of the footage shot for this ending appeared&#xA;in the film's Italian trailer, despite it not appearing in that&#xA;release of the film. Because it was believed that no audio elements&#xA;for this ending had survived, early DVD releases of the film, such as&#xA;the US release from Fantoma Films, feature it without sound. However,&#xA;a version with Italian dubbing has surfaced in recent years, and has&#xA;been translated into English by members of the Spaghetti Western&#xA;Database fansite.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this ending, Loco draws his gun without waiting to be prompted by&#xA;Silence. Suddenly, Burnett, having somehow survived being trapped&#xA;under the frozen lake, rides into town on horseback and shoots Loco in&#xA;the head, giving Silence enough time to kill the remaining bounty&#xA;killers. Burnett frees the outlaws as Pauline takes the bandages on&#xA;Silence's burnt right hand off, revealing a gauntlet that he used for&#xA;protection. As Burnett takes the thieves to the local jail to await&#xA;their amnesty, he asks Silence to become his deputy, which he accepts&#xA;with a smile. Reunited as a romantic couple, Silence and Pauline see&#xA;Burnett and the outlaws off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Emphasis mine&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T10:49:10.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44773" CreationDate="2015-12-15T13:13:13.683" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In-Universe, there may have been any number of reasons why Gandalf took Pippin along with him to help the Gondorians.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pippin had scarcely left Gandalf's side since they had arrived at Minas Tirith. Pippin had never been to a city of such size, the largest place he had been to was Edoras, which dwarfed in comparison. Maybe he didn't want to be left alone in such a big confusing place that he had only arrived at days earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise, perhaps Gandalf didn't want to leave him in such a place. Pippin was notoriously inquisitive and constantly getting himself into trouble (such as in the Mines of Moria, causing the Fellowship to get attacked when he knocked the skeleton into the well, or taking the Palantir and accidentally speaking to Sauron). It's possible that Gandalf didn't trust him to keep himself out of trouble whilst he was gone, thus thought keeping him close by would have been &lt;em&gt;safer&lt;/em&gt; for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible that Gandalf and Pippin were already on the way somewhere on the back of Shadowfax when they became aware of the soldiers fleeing Osgiliath, and he didn't want to waste anymore time getting Pippin off of the horse before going to the aid of Faramir &amp;amp; co.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of universe, it was so that Faramir could catch sight of Pippin for the first time in the presence of Gandalf, causing him to see the recognition in his eyes and coming to the conclusion that Faramir and Frodo had crossed paths at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't remember how this interaction is approached in the books, but with the time constraints of the movies, I'm assuming that Gandalf learning the fate of Frodo needed to happen rather quickly, as it is in the following scene where Denethor is chastising Faramir for letting Frodo and the Ring go whilst Gandalf is present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene would have made less sense if the audience had not seen Gandalf become aware of Frodo's fate beforehand, and was important to establish the relationship between Faramir and Denethor, who would realistically meet at the earliest opportunity, meaning that there would not have been the chance for another scene where Gandalf learns that Faramir has met Frodo before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T13:13:13.683" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44709" CreationDate="2015-12-15T13:47:22.513" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Probably &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1397506/&quot;&gt;The Level (2008)&lt;/a&gt; - it went straight to video, and it's hard to find any information on it (it also seems to be called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviefone.com/movie/doa-dead-on-arrival/20029055/main&quot;&gt;D.O.A (Dead on Arrival)&lt;/a&gt;), but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1397506/reviews-10&quot;&gt;this review&lt;/a&gt; contains a few things in common with what you've mentioned&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;...What seems to be a recurring truth within every story told is that [mob boss's son] Al walked into a school bus serving as a meth lab triggering a bomb resulting in an explosion that killed him.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the trailer [&lt;em&gt;Warning: Violent images&lt;/em&gt;]:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y-IMO2lsrbc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27107" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T13:51:30.277" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T13:51:30.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16124" CreationDate="2015-12-15T15:04:03.423" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was merely to highlight that the child was alone -- on her own -- amidst the chaos in the street.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28746" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T15:04:03.423" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44795" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44796" CreationDate="2015-12-15T15:18:21.127" Score="3" ViewCount="8898" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Reacher_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jack Reacher&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm little confused about the real killer of the 5 people in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who did it? Is it Jack?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27781" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T15:22:41.003" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T15:46:47.497" Title="Who is actually the sniper?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jack-reacher|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44795" CreationDate="2015-12-15T15:25:30.477" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. Jack Reacher doesn't kill them... he's the good guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The person who committed the murders is &quot;Charlie&quot; (Jai Courtney).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See the plot synopsis &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/jackreacher.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We cut to a meeting in a dark area between a guy who's been following Reacher, and the actual shooter, whose name is Charlie. We also meet the boss, who is only known as &quot;The Zec&quot; (Werner Herzog). We learn that only one of the victims was intended, and the rest were shot to cover this up. The first goon is being hassled by Charlie and The Zec about his loyalty after they get into an argument, and The Zec reveals that he bit off his fingers at one point to survive frostbite and gangrene. He orders the goon to do the same to prove his loyalty, but he can't, so Charlie shoots him. Charlie asks The Zec what they should do about Reacher, to which he replies &quot;what we always do.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a still of him from the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/46MB9.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/46MB9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jai Courtney in Jack Reacher&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T15:25:30.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44795" CreationDate="2015-12-15T15:39:36.273" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sniper was Charlie played by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2541974/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jai Courtney&lt;/a&gt; and he did because he was hired to and the real target was a construction company owner, &quot;the bad guys&quot; wanted to acquire her company and didn't want any suspicion raised about her death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/article/emjack-reacherem-90123&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So the big twist in Jack Reacher is essentially that the whole sniper routine was a setup to kill one specific individual, and the other victims were murdered as a distraction, so the police and media would focus exclusively on the killer—who was handed to them in a frame-up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24398" LastEditorUserId="24398" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T15:46:47.497" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T15:46:47.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18619" CreationDate="2015-12-15T16:05:55.520" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically because he'll never make it. Throughout the series it's shown that he's a 'loose cannon' and, if made a partner he will basically bring the whole firm into disrepute. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He has resigned himself to the fact that he will never be made partner at the firm due to his unpredictable behavior and lack of trustworthiness. While the managing partners of Crane, Poole &amp;amp; Schmidt do not fully trust Alan, they do recognize his talent as an attorney and will often give him the latitude to go about his unorthodox means if they feel it will benefit the firm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boston_Legal_characters&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alan's position at Crane, Poole, and Schmidt is technically that of an associate, yet for all practical purposes Alan is treated as a Partner in the firm. Alan himself has acknowledged he has no hope of actually ever making Partner, for the very good reason that the partners, by and large, do not trust him, yet he is treated as much more of a peer by the named partners and senior partners than a subordinate. He generally exerts influence with both the Senior and Named partners far above what his actual position would indicate, including his strong friendship with Denny Crane and an often grudging respect from Schmidt, as well as often ignoring the rules and warnings of serious consequences, if he feels strongly about something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bostonlegal.wikia.com/wiki/Alan_Shore&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bostonlegal.wikia.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6811" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T16:05:55.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44773" CreationDate="2015-12-15T16:16:15.677" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In my opinion the fact that Pippin had looked into the Palantir was a huge factor in Gandalfs decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gandalf needs to protect Pippin for a number of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sauron is now 'aware' of him and, desparate to get the ring may send the Nazgul to get him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As above, Gandalf also knows that Frodo and Sam are trying to sneak into Mordor and, Pippin revealing himself to Sauron (as a hobbit) will draw Saurons attention away from the borders of Mordor and deeper into Middle Earth.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Gandalf needs to keep Pippin close for protection.&#xA;Gandalf will also feel responsible for the hobbits in a kind of 'proxy' way. Frodo and Sam were the only hobbits that Gandalf had 'officially sanctioned' into coming but, they are way beyond his influence. So, he's making sure that the hobbits he can protect are protected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6811" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T16:16:15.677" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44801" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44773" CreationDate="2015-12-15T17:09:12.863" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've hit the nail right on the head. According to Peter Jackson (in the film's commentary track), Pippin and Gandalf were originally going to have been just arriving at the city when they would have espied the riders returning. They would then have wheeled around and rode out to save them. Pippin, naturally would not have had time to dismount which is why he was on the horse with Gandalf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Peter Jackson:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;So, this was a sequence where we had a little bit of trouble because&#xA;  we've put it in a completely to how it was shot, if you remember how&#xA;  Gandalf and Pippin arrive at Minas Tirith for the very first time and&#xA;  they get to the brow of the hill and stop and they look at the city.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What was going to happen was that they were going to see this retreat&#xA;  and they were going to intervene before they'd even gone into the&#xA;  city. We've now put the sequence in much later and had Gandalf leaving&#xA;  from the gates of the City itself.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since those scenes had already been plotted, when the decision was made to have Gandalf arrive at the city &lt;em&gt;and chat for a bit before riding out&lt;/em&gt;, it required him to collect Pippin again before he left, despite that not making a lot of sense in-universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T18:50:31.527" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T18:50:31.527" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44804" CreationDate="2015-12-15T17:12:47.733" Score="6" ViewCount="1588" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/44695/why-didnt-silent-movies-have-subtitles#comment69793_44695&quot;&gt;comment by Davor&lt;/a&gt; on another question mentioned that overlaying subtitles on the picture was a necessity for TV which had limited screen real-estate but that it would be trivial to project subtitles below the screen. So now my question is: &lt;strong&gt;why don't they?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.transedit.se/history.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This article&lt;/a&gt; by Jan Ivarsson makes a brief mention of a separate (sub)title projection machine that could presumably project text below the screen. The only real mention I've found on the web is of a technology/campaign to provide &lt;a href=&quot;https://iheartsubtitles.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/off-screen-cinema-subtitles/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;optional subtitles for the hard-of-hearing via special glasses&lt;/a&gt;. These subtitles would be displayed below the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there simply no demand for this? Have there been studies showing the pros and cons?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: while I mention a project for subtitles for the hard-of-hearing, I'm not specifically talking about closed captioning. While movie-goers from English-speaking countries generally aren't used to subtitles, they are standard in dozens of other countries.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user15995" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T15:22:44.913" Title="Why don't cinemas project subtitles off-screen?" Tags="|projection|subtitles|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27159" CreationDate="2015-12-15T17:45:24.873" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Cooper was only saying &lt;strong&gt;STAY&lt;/strong&gt; out of confusion and panic. To set the scene, Coop has just committed suicide to allow Brand to survive the slingshot to the other planet, and plunged into the unknown that is Gargantua, a massive Black Hole. Nearly passed out, he ejects from his exploding Ranger spacecraft, only to be thrown into a Tesseract, a 3rd Dimensional representation of 5th Dimensional Space. He sees a young Murphy through the back of the Tesseract wall, calls out to her but she can't hear him and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;he still has zero clue about what is happening&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. He doesn't know if he's alive or dead or what. He knows that Murph has experienced &lt;em&gt;Decades&lt;/em&gt; without him due to temporal relativity and may be dead relative to him as well. The entire mission may have been pointless, and in the end he will die without his daughter. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Panic sets in.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/iJio07EtKYc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here he goes through an accelerated &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model&quot;&gt;Kübler-Ross Model/The 5 Stages of Grief.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Denial:&lt;/strong&gt; He goes into the Black Hole believing that maybe he'll make it out alive. When he arrives in the Tesseract he still doesn't know what's happening.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anger &amp;amp; Bargaining &amp;amp; Depression:&lt;/strong&gt; He sees himself and Murph and he lashes out against the Tesseract walls. He punches and yells and attempts to get Murph to make his past self to stay. He breaks down sobbing when it fails.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Acceptance:&lt;/strong&gt; He, with TARS help, accepts that he can't change the past, but he can make sure that it was not in vain. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;He finally understands what is happening&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. He gives up on STAY and moves on to something useful, like saving mankind by giving Murph the Quantum Data.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/xo3N9Brp2CU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once he realizes his situation, how the Tesseract works, how &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;They&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are facilitating the changes, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;he is no longer panicking and can think rationally&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. He finds the right time to give the NASA Coordinates and then the Quantum Data. Once he ensures that the past has come true, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;They&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; close the Tesseract.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/GtTkcM9BfXM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T17:45:24.873" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44802" CreationDate="2015-12-15T17:51:51.687" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'll get to a nifty solution that meets one of your examples a bit better towards the end, but in the meantime....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are likely several reasons (this hasn't been done very well until recently):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They would still require separate hardware to be projected on a separate screen bellow the main screen.&lt;/strong&gt; While it may not be as big a deal now that we've gone all digital, in the days of 35mm the frame size was pretty much set, as was the hardware. For hearing impaired showings we had the ability to run a special DVD through a separate, standard office projector that would place the subtitles and &amp;quot;context sounds&amp;quot; on the screen for people hard of hearing, but we still had to set it up, angle it just right (not all theater screens are the same size/pitch/width), and then they had to be started at a specific time to be in-sync with the film, though some had hardware to help with that as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, placing them on a special screen has another downfall: tall patrons sitting in front of you. Not all theaters feature full stadium seating, especially for the first 7 to 10 rows in some larger screen theaters. Should you be unlucky and have to sit in one of those seats with a tall patron in front of you and you need the separate &amp;quot;subtitle screen&amp;quot;, you're gonna have a bad time. The screen is optimally placed to try and reduce these problems as much as possible, but having one even lower would negate those efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Special hardware like what you're talking about, glasses or stands that let people view the subtitles from just their seat while everyone else simply doesn't see them, &lt;strong&gt;still requires additional hardware.&lt;/strong&gt; It's handy for the few hard of hearing/deaf individuals who come to the movies, but if equipment had to be supplied and stored to cover &lt;em&gt;anyone and everyone&lt;/em&gt; who might want them, the cost would be insane. Which leads us to...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cost.&lt;/strong&gt; I remember when 3D first came to the theater I used to work for and relied on &amp;quot;shutter lens&amp;quot; glasses. They had to be cleaned and sanitized between showings, kids would drop and break them (we never charged for this unless it was clearly deliberate), and they cost something like $50 a pair. When it became possible to simply use cheap polarized glasses that the studios just sent in droves, we switched as soon as we could, even paying to have those screens updated to &amp;quot;shinier&amp;quot; ones to reflect light better and make the picture look less dim through them. Not everyone needs the film subtitled, so simply having special hardware for the few individuals who do is more cost effective and less prone to having some jerk who doesn't really need it breaking it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A separate screen makes me have to completely take my eyes off the main screen just to read the text.&lt;/strong&gt; Sit back far enough and some subtitles can be read peripherally. Placing them on a separate screen makes that even harder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, it used to be that we would have special screenings listed for hearing impaired patrons to come and see movies using our special projector. We also had special headphones we could link to each projector to provide hard of hearing patrons with louder, more focused sound. Now some theaters have special devices that can be placed in the cupholder of their seat, called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.doremilabs.com/products/cinema-products-2/captiview/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;CaptiView&lt;/a&gt;, so that only they can see the subtitles during any showing, making it more convenient for deaf patrons to see movies on their schedule.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amctheatres.com/assistive-moviegoing&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;AMC's site&lt;/a&gt; on assistive devices for people with various auditory disabilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T15:22:44.913" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44807" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44809" CreationDate="2015-12-15T18:55:16.430" Score="6" ViewCount="2195" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Friends &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDJehCXMKwI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Season 3 Episode 23&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Scene: Phoebe’s Herbal Guy’s office, Ross is there about his thing.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guru Saj:&lt;/strong&gt; You must be Ross.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ross:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Hi.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guru Saj:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I am Guru Saj.&lt;/em&gt; (takes the drawer back and replaces)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he said &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;I am Guru Saj&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; the laughter was high (Although laughs don't always mean something).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I assumed it is because Saj means a type of bread, but it is not that funny, is there something I am missing?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;P.S. As per my research I found that &amp;quot;Saj&amp;quot; is an Indian girl name!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28732" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T20:31:38.867" Title="Why is &quot;I am Guru Saj&quot; funny?" Tags="|friends|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44807" CreationDate="2015-12-15T19:13:06.917" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For me the humour in the situation came from the fact that this &quot;guru&quot; doesn't appear to be Indian. By calling himself a guru (when he's actually pasty white and &lt;s&gt;American&lt;/s&gt; Canadian) he confounds the expectation of how someone who practices traditional Indian medicine would actually look like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then tops this off by stating that he's attended some of the finest medical schools &lt;strong&gt;in Central America&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vWNFz.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vWNFz.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T19:34:06.813" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T19:34:06.813" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44807" CreationDate="2015-12-15T19:14:29.387" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's just a ludicrous character. He's calling himself Guru Saj but he looks like a white accountant in Indian garb. And yet he's announcing himself in a funny and pretentious voice, like this persona is totally believable (he turns out to be clueless later in the scene). The actor (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McDonald&quot;&gt;Kevin McDonald&lt;/a&gt;) often plays self-important characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the show was filmed in front of a studio audience, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.latimes.com/2001/feb/13/entertainment/ca-24624&quot;&gt;laugh track, like in many other shows&lt;/a&gt;, was augmented and is supposed to cue a funny moment, even if (or especially &lt;em&gt;when&lt;/em&gt;) the moment isn't that funny. I think that the laughter here is just supposed to signal that this character is laughable and that we shouldn't take him too seriously. &lt;em&gt;(Also, Ross looks at him dubiously for a split second when Guru Saj says his name. So the laughter's partly over Ross's funny reaction as well.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T19:42:26.713" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T19:42:26.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44810" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48824" CreationDate="2015-12-15T19:30:57.127" Score="12" ViewCount="1445" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S01E12 of &lt;em&gt;Mad Men&lt;/em&gt; which was titled &quot;&lt;em&gt;Nixon vs. Kennedy&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, there is a flashback of the story of How Don Draper (Dick Whitman) exchanged identity with his fellow soldier after the explosion accident in the Korean war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, was it that easy to exchange identities in the US without anyone noticing? Didn't the government have documents of people? didn't soldiers have papers? Maybe it was still early for data centers and digital records but at least there should've been something. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I like the most about this show is how so realistic it is and this part really annoyed me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28129" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-15T21:10:48.280" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T21:07:58.650" Title="Was it that easy to fake identities back in the 1950s?" Tags="|realism|mad-men|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44814" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44815" CreationDate="2015-12-15T20:40:54.187" Score="6" ViewCount="212" Body="&lt;p&gt;Flashback from my childhood in the 80s, but I was laying in bed last night trying to go to sleep when I remember this blip of a scene from a movie. Something like this guy falls back into a computer (probably a server) whereby he was engulfed in circuits, wires, etc and this happened right in front of his gf, or some friend, something along these lines. He walks back away from the computer, but now a cyborg. And I believe he is now also evil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It kept me up for most of the night. I wish I had more details, but this is all of the flashback I have and I &lt;strong&gt;know&lt;/strong&gt; I didn't just make this up, lol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28757" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T16:48:04.837" Title="Eaten by a computer" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:14:26.740" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44815" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44814" CreationDate="2015-12-15T20:46:15.457" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is Superman 3. You can see the relevant scene below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lex's Sister falls into the &quot;Ultimate Computer&quot;, turns into a cyborg and for some inexplicable reason also becomes evil...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/fpTHrdemfQo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-12-15T20:46:15.457" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41347" CreationDate="2015-12-15T21:30:37.407" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a nod to the later episodes, The arrowhead was similar to the stencil used for branding him by Ra's al Ghul , below is the side by side comparison:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fUTm9.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fUTm9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were instances in season 3 where the logo got changed to something else:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In season 3 episode 7 &quot;Draw Back Your bow&quot; the title arrowhead logo&#xA;  was that of Cupid's heart shape arrow. In season 3 episode 8 &quot;The&#xA;  Brave and The Bold&quot; Lightning was added to the logo as the Flash guest&#xA;  starred. In season 3 episode 14 &quot;The Return&quot; the arrowhead logo&#xA;  reverted to the season 2 arrowhead when Slade Wilson returned. -&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2193021/trivia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This trend was continued for the 4th season&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; with new arrowhead logo resembling his new superhero name:&lt;br&gt;&#xA; &lt;strong&gt;Green Arrow&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p1qZJ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/p1qZJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Except for flash crossover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T16:30:59.613" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T16:30:59.613" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44695" CreationDate="2015-12-15T22:08:10.980" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to me that, in addition to the various other reasons mentioned, that even if it were a viable option to use subtitles, they might not have been preferred to intertitles for silent films, because they require the audience to choose whether to read or to watch the action. When silent films were current, the moving images were a spectacle, and people may not have preferred having to read the words during the action. Even for audiences used to subtitles, they distract some attention from watching the action. Intertitles also facilitate the style used (of acting and writing) where the words shown are not literally everything that would be said, which works well when sound isn't used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: As TheBlackBenzKid commented about the &lt;em&gt;reasons&lt;/em&gt; why keeping watching the image was particularly important in silent films:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I would further add to this opinion that is also based on art and body&#xA;  language. The music and the sound played a big part as well as actor&#xA;  facial expressions etc.&quot;  – TheBlackBenzKid&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24499" LastEditorUserId="24499" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T18:20:59.757" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T18:20:59.757" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44818" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44821" CreationDate="2015-12-16T00:11:48.300" Score="11" ViewCount="1924" Body="&lt;p&gt;The second season of the excellent FX series &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802850/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fargo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; aired its &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3886622/?ref_=ttep_ep10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;season finale&lt;/a&gt; last night. In a series packed with great characterizations and plot twists, there was one I was disappointed with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the final episode, we see one of the indisputable heroes of the season, Lou Solverson, driving Peggy Blumquist back to their hometown, she in the back seat of the prowler while Lou delivers a monologue similar to that of Marge Gunderson's (Francis McDormand) in the movie &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fargo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, where she lays out the utter senselessness of killing for money. (Lou's monologue is about the lengths men will go to protect their families and the meaning of this in life.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, the most purely evil person in that film rides in the back of the prowler silently. Lou and Peggy clearly mirror this scene, though Peggy was not silent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peggy answers with her own, shorter monologue that she never meant for any of this to happen, speaking of the trap women in 1979 found themselves in, that women were victims of society too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lou abruptly cuts her off with obvious disdain for her ideas:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;People are dead, Peggy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly she committed a crime (an almost unspeakably evil hit and run that ended up costing that victim his life), but the fact that people are dead was otherwise not her fault (the Kansas City mob planned to kidnap one of the Gerhardts anyway, and war would've ensued; the Indian Hanzee Dent is responsible for most of the deaths.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the framing of it - Peggy in the back of the prowler on her way to jail, and Lou, the hero, cutting her off implying her blame (&quot;You mean the victim?&quot; and his final remark) seems to place all the carnage at Peggy's feet, which I think was short-sighted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this the message the writers were intending to send? Or was it a crafty example of how men really didn't understand the limits placed on women that could drive someone like Peggy to the lunacy she displayed? Or is it something entirely different?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8476" LastEditorUserId="55668" LastEditDate="2019-01-31T14:10:50.447" LastActivityDate="2019-01-31T14:10:50.447" Title="Is Peggy really to blame for all those dead people?" Tags="|ending|fargo-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44820" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44823" CreationDate="2015-12-16T02:52:21.300" Score="21" ViewCount="6282" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did season 2 episode 10 of Fargo, titled &quot;Palindrome,&quot; get its title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiewire.com/article/review-fargo-season-2-finale-episode-10-palindrome-gets-wordy-20151214&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;read&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/recap/fargo-season-2-finale&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;several&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvfanatic.com/2015/12/fargo-season-2-finale-review-palindrome/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;recaps&lt;/a&gt;. Only &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/fargo-goes-out-it-came-except-when-it-doesnt-229818&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; mentions the meaning of the word (spelled the same forward as backward, such as &quot;madam&quot;) and only to suggest that it's metaphorical and unsuccessful at that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I’m not even sure that’s a thing a TV show could do, leastways across ten whole episodes. It would have [to] be frustratingly literal, for one thing. And it would provide a sort of pointless closure that doesn’t make for great narrative—no ambiguity, no change, just everyone stuck in the same limbo where they began, whether they realize or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it purely metaphorical, and if so how exactly? Or is there some palindromic word or pattern somewhere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1698" LastEditorUserId="1698" LastEditDate="2018-02-26T01:05:43.973" LastActivityDate="2018-02-26T01:05:43.973" Title="Where's the actual Palindrome in the season two finale of Fargo?" Tags="|title|fargo-tv|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44818" CreationDate="2015-12-16T02:57:50.427" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lou and Peggy's conversation certainly carries a lot of thematic weight, and there's a lot of out-of-universe analysis to make out of it, but in the absence of an interview where a writer says &quot;Well, what I meant was this&quot; an answer to that analytical question would be opinion-based at best and speculative at worst.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lou's retort is well-motivated in-universe, though, because Peggy is responsible for more than just the hit-and-run in the first episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Peggy and Ed refused to cooperate when Lou offered to help after the butcher's shop burned down. We can't say what would have happened if they did accept police intervention, but I think it's safe to say that the Gerhardt assault on the Blumquist residence would not have gone the way it did—and it led to a lot of carnage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More damningly, though: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Peggy and Ed kidnapped Dodd Gerhardt. That kidnapping led directly to Ed's deal with Mike Milligan, which led directly to the Motor Motel sting, which led directly to Hanzee's setup of the Gerhardts. If the Blumquists had taken Dodd to the police, there would be no Massacre at Sioux Falls.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peggy's decisions are consistently selfish and frequently put others in harm's way. She views herself as a protagonist and ultimately as a victim, but considered in a larger context, many people who lost their lives are clearly the victims of her quest to become actualized. When Lou says &quot;people died,&quot; he's not necessarily laying the blame on Peggy, but he is pointing out that her personal struggle doesn't excuse her actions or negate their consequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I know I said I wanted to rest more on in-universe facts than analysis, but there's one scene in the finale that I really think can only be interpreted one way:)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While holed up in the meat locker, Peggy sees smoke coming through the vents. As quickly as she realizes Hanzee's intent, she realizes that this is just like the movie she was watching earlier: The Nazi tried to smoke out the lovers, but they were rescued by a roguish American and escaped. She repeatedly points this parallel out to Ed as evidence that they'll be rescued, too. When she opens the freezer door, though, not only is she incorrect in her interpretation, but the smoke itself was a product of her imagination. She could not believe in anything but a narrative in which she was the heroine, and everything had to work out okay for her, but in the end this was revealed as a delusion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20866" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T02:57:50.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44823" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44820" CreationDate="2015-12-16T05:28:30.190" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several characters end up where they started out, or end up in a place that reflects their situation from the beginning of the season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lou:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The episode ends with Mr. and Mrs. Solverson in bed, like in the first episode of the season, and Lou repeats his &quot;and all the ships at sea&quot; line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ed Blomquist, who stuffed Rye's body into a freezer at the beginning of the season, dies in a meat locker at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mike:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mike Milligan started the season taking orders in Kansas City. He thought that his work up north would lead to great things to him, but he returns to taking orders in Kansas City.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hanzee:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We learned in the penultimate episode Hanzee got started when the elder Gerhardt found him on the street at eight years old. In his coda, he appears to be recruiting some young underlings of his own. (The deaf kid he's watching at the baseball park is implied to be Mister Wrench from season 1, since his new identity &quot;Tripoli&quot; is apparently the leader of the Fargo syndicate.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The quote cited in the question seems to miss one of the main themes of the season, and the fact that another episode was titled &quot;The Myth of Sisyphus&quot;: These characters &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; doomed to struggle without really accomplishing anything, to return at last to &quot;the same limbo where they began.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20866" LastEditorUserId="20866" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T06:25:46.740" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T06:25:46.740" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44825" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-16T05:37:28.753" Score="0" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm really fascinated about Star Wars movies.I'm passing the 3rd decade of my life time on Earth, however I've never actually see or had any chance to watch at least a single Star Wars movie. But my ambition is to rise up early at December 18th and walk straight to the theater to watch &quot;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume the first movie is &#xA;&quot;Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the latest one will debut on December 18th&#xA;&quot;Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there's too much to catch up. But if any STAR WARS die hard fan could give me the optimum list of previous movies that I should watch before December 18, it would be really appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16788" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T07:20:42.227" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T14:42:28.273" Title="What is the optimum list of previous Star Wars movies that I should watch before December 18" Tags="|star-wars|sequels|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-12-16T13:00:18.010" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2063" CreationDate="2015-12-16T05:48:28.213" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In chronological order, they are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The Prequels&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The Original Trilogy&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As for &lt;em&gt;optimum&lt;/em&gt;, no one can tell you that since we don't know what the new movie will be about.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2023-12-11T22:00:42.523" LastActivityDate="2023-12-11T22:00:42.523" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44833" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-16T08:54:29.500" Score="3" ViewCount="1496" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen many cartoon movies, scenes where when the animals are photographed, they get stunned after they see a camera flash which is expressed by spirals over their eyes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a particular reason for that? Is this inspired from a real life incident?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23466" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T17:59:32.667" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T17:59:32.667" Title="Why are animals in cartoons shown having spirals for eyes after a camera's flash goes off?" Tags="|animation|trope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44838" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44841" CreationDate="2015-12-16T11:12:26.810" Score="5" ViewCount="2919" Body="&lt;p&gt;In every episode of &quot;House, MD&quot;, it appears that he and his team only treat exactly one patient at a time (with the exception of Clinic duties or big emergencies - just talking about their average job here). I also can't recall mentions of patients being treated &quot;in between episodes&quot;, though there might have been some. That would only account for around 20 patients a year. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I have a lot of suspension of disbelief in series, but 4 to 6 doctors only treating a single patient is &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of downtime, waiting for lab tests, new symptoms to appear, etc. Is it ever explained or mentioned in the series how many patients the team treats? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15517" LastEditorUserId="15517" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T11:34:49.300" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T16:09:41.293" Title="How many patients did House and his team treat?" Tags="|house|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44840" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44843" CreationDate="2015-12-16T13:25:28.767" Score="5" ViewCount="1680" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two main actors in the movie &quot;An Officer and A Gentleman&quot;, Richard Gere, and the other guy who committed suicide. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/heazg.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/heazg.png&quot; alt=&quot;movie poster&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are &lt;em&gt;An Officer&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;A Gentleman&lt;/em&gt; referring to the same guy, Richard Gere?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or is one referring to Richard Gere and the other to the other guy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28756" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T15:29:38.507" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T15:29:38.507" Title="Does the title &quot;An Officer and A Gentleman&quot; refer to one person or two?" Tags="|character|title|an-officer-and-a-gentleman|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44841" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44838" CreationDate="2015-12-16T13:32:39.340" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although there have been a few episodes with more than one patient (typically the second patient's treatment leading to the &quot;a ha!&quot; moment for the first one), you're correct that most episodes of &lt;em&gt;House&lt;/em&gt; focus on a single case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is probably a bit unrealistic as a long-term trend. Indeed, there were several points in the show where House's budget was called into question, or cut, though he always managed to get around them. There are some mitigating factors here that help explain why this is so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, Princeton Plainsboro is a &lt;em&gt;teaching&lt;/em&gt; hospital; the primary purpose of the hospital is to train new doctors. In a couple of episodes we see House teaching medical students (though he doesn't seem to like doing it), and it's probably reasonable to assume his other doctors do as well. It also means that the hospital is more flexible in allowing House to operate his department on the theory that he's &quot;teaching&quot; a team of diagnosticians how to be brilliant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, the hospital also runs a free clinic, and we &lt;em&gt;routinely&lt;/em&gt; see House and the other doctors doing clinic work in later episodes. The rest of House's team are also specialists, which makes me suspect that off-camera they do work in their specialty department as well (though I can't think of a specific case where we see this happen on-camera).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But most importantly, the conceit of the show is that House is the most brilliant diagnostician in the country. He only takes cases that are &quot;unsolvable&quot; by anyone else. The key here is that people choose to go to Princeton Plainsboro &lt;em&gt;specifically to see&lt;/em&gt; House and his team. The ailments that they are treated for by House are complicated and frequently life-threatening, and require concerted attention by his team to figure them out. That's the kind of thing that the hospital can charge &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of money for. It also tends to attract rich private donors (we saw more than one of those come through House's care) that are willing to help the hospital out after House saves their lives. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll note, in particular, that at one point House leaves the hospital at the end of one season. Even though Foreman and the others on the team are more that capable of running the department, Cuddy wants to close it down because Foreman just doesn't have the name recognition that House did. She flat out tells Foreman that the only reason PPTH &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; a diagostic is because House is there to run it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In any &quot;real&quot; hospital, or even in &lt;em&gt;House&lt;/em&gt; but with any other doctor, there's no way a team could be as selective as House is and stay operational.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T13:32:39.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44843" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44840" CreationDate="2015-12-16T14:22:41.040" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it refers to one person, Zachary &quot;Zack&quot; Mayo (played by Gere). &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Officer_and_a_Gentleman&quot;&gt;As Wikipedia explains&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film's title uses an old expression from the British Royal Navy&#xA;  and subsequently from the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice, as&#xA;  being charged with &quot;conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman&quot;&#xA;  (from 1860).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cinetext.philo.at/magazine/msharpe/matthew_sharpe-what_is_the_name_of_the_father.pdf&quot;&gt;Matthew Sharpe explains it like this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the conclusion of the film (in fulfilment of what is intimated in&#xA;  the title) Mayo defies the odds to become an officer. Equally, he&#xA;  honours the love of the faithful Paula, thereby proving himself a&#xA;  gentleman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T14:22:41.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44845" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41715" CreationDate="2015-12-16T14:53:26.390" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The TV show Dexter itself is based on the novel &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkly_Dreaming_Dexter&quot;&gt;Darkly Dreaming Dexter&lt;/a&gt; by Jeff Lindsay. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2331421&quot;&gt;theory that the case of Manuel Pardo inspired the character&lt;/a&gt;, however, that is unconfirmed. He was an ex-cop and claimed he was &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article1945266.html&quot;&gt;ridding the streets from the wicked&lt;/a&gt;&quot; as a motive for his murders. There are not a lot of similarities between the character of Dexter and that case as far as I can see. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://darklydexter.com/interviews/dexters-author-jeff-lindsay-answers-questions-on-reddit/&quot;&gt;Jeff Lindsay himself&lt;/a&gt;, asked how he came up with the idea, jokingly (I assume...) answered &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Watching a group of businessmen eat lunch. It occurred to me that serial murder wasn’t always a bad thing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the question&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Did you base Dexter on some known serial killer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Got the answer of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nope&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15517" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T14:53:26.390" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44846" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44847" CreationDate="2015-12-16T15:06:39.763" Score="8" ViewCount="4565" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was the ending of &lt;em&gt;Whiplash&lt;/em&gt; revenge or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One, I don't believe Fletcher would destroy his own reputation to get back at Andrew. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So would he really give up his career to get back at Andrew or did he think he had the chance to challenge a potential legend and go down in history with him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28478" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T15:34:08.050" LastActivityDate="2016-03-14T12:31:49.700" Title="Ending of Whiplash...revenge or not?" Tags="|analysis|whiplash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44847" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44846" CreationDate="2015-12-16T15:16:41.047" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fletcher planned the entire thing, so he would seemingly be fine with ruining his career. However, it wouldn't really ruin his career because as was shown several times in the film: it's the musician's job to know the songs and play them correctly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's really more of a mix, and one in which Fletcher really has nothing to lose as he's already lost his prominent job. In an earlier scene we see him telling Andrew he pushes his students to exact greatness from them, even providing anecdotes of other great musicians who were pushed hard and turned into greats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So really, Fletcher can't already lose more than he already has, and can write off the incident as his drummer not practicing hard enough, making it damn near impossible for Andrew to realize his dream while getting revenge on him as well, while simply carrying on as usual.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Andrew realizes that Fletcher is in a no lose situation, so he decides to head back out and hit him back by playing off-song, stealing the band from him at the same time. In the end, however, he proves he's one of the greatest drummers of his generation, and provides Fletcher with what he's been seeking all along.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The end of the film really is rather morbid in some sense, as Fletcher's methodology is fairly unorthodox and downright cruel. However, the main point is that greatness sometimes comes from being pushed to your limits, and coming back after being knocked down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, &lt;strong&gt;Fletcher really had no way to really &quot;lose&quot; or &quot;destroy&quot; himself with how he set Andrew up, only Andrew did.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="8228" LastEditDate="2016-03-14T12:31:49.700" LastActivityDate="2016-03-14T12:31:49.700" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44857" CreationDate="2015-12-16T15:54:42.347" Score="5" ViewCount="5315" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Limitless&lt;/em&gt; (the 2011 movie, not the TV show), Eddie Mora starts to take NZT and comes to some sort of epiphany where he formulates a long term plan. However, it's not clear to me what that plan actually is. First, Eddie attempts to make money in the stock market. Then he plans to merge two companies (the largest merger ever). And then by the end&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Eddie runs for for US Senator, and Van Loon implies that he will eventually be President.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it's not clear to me what Eddie's actual goal turned out to be. I suppose he simply wants to eventually be in a high-position political office, but to what end? What does Eddie hope to accomplish by doing that? And how does brokering a merger between two companies fit into this plan? Does he just want to make more money?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12783" LastEditorUserId="12783" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T17:32:02.777" LastActivityDate="2016-09-02T09:50:18.927" Title="What was Eddie's long-term goal in Limitless?" Tags="|plot-explanation|limitless|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44849" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44848" CreationDate="2015-12-16T16:05:22.733" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;To make the world a better place, of course,  make substantial changes. What a truly smart person would do, makes sense.&#xA;Becoming the President would have given him the opportunity to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28785" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T16:05:22.733" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44838" CreationDate="2015-12-16T16:09:41.293" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;House had 177 episodes spanning 8 years. The first Five seasons had a Christmas episode, and others had plot happen during Christmas, providing a time span of about 8 years in the show as well. There were 177 episodes, and give or take a few with no main patient or two main patients, that means roughly 175 main patients. That's 22 patients per year. This seems about right from what we are told of House.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2014/05/many-patients-can-primary-care-physician-care.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Primary Care Physician (Your average main doctor) sees much more&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A general consensus appears to be that 1,500 patients is about the upper limit provided it is a practice in which the PCP has gotten to know most of the patients well over many years. Otherwise a lower number seems appropriate. But even at 1,500, PCPs say they still spend the full day seeing patients plus added time each evening completing their [Electronic Medical Record]. Having stated that 1,500 is about right, they then say that 1,000 would mean much better care. But this ideal is not possible; &lt;strong&gt;they need to have about 2,500 patients and about 24-25 visits per day to cover overhead and maintain an income of about $175,000 (Per the Medscape report on PCP income.)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2015/05/concierge_medicine_only_rich_people_can_find_a_doctor_in_naples_florida.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A Concierge Doctor (On call, house visits) sees about a third of that for a larger fee.&lt;/a&gt; Depending on the Specialty, some may see much less. But 22 per year is abnormally small for a Doctor to live on. That said, House is an abnormal doctor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Multiple times during the show we are told that House is super selective (He won't take a boring case), that House only takes one case at a time, and that he's essentially the last resort for most of these patients.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; They are the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Only&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Diagnostic Medicine department in the country. He specializes &lt;em&gt;in everything&lt;/em&gt;. But he's basically unemployable, and if it wasn't for Cuddy, wouldn't be working. In exchange for that and legal issues, House doesn't get paid what someone of his expertise should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Mike has pointed out, the hospital can charge a lot for these patients. Sometimes the patients are dirt poor, so Charity Care, but we also see extremely wealthy patients who throw their financial weight around to get what they want, which often includes concierge service and personalized care (unlike us poor people who can only get a doctor to pay attention for 5 minutes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T16:09:41.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44851" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-16T16:33:35.563" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A 2015 science-fiction television show based on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Report_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2002 film of the same name&lt;/a&gt;. The series takes place 11 years after the events of the film, when the PreCrime Unit in Washington, D.C. has been dismantled. Dashell &quot;Dash&quot; Parker (played by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_Sands&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stark Sands&lt;/a&gt;) along with his twin brother and foster sister are Precogs left over from the initial program, who now aide Detective Lara Vega (played by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meagan_Good&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Meagan Good&lt;/a&gt;) while trying to avoid capture by those who would use Precogs for their own, personal gains.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More info at:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wikipedia: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Report_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Minority Report (TV Series)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;IMDb: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4450826/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Minority Report (2015-)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T16:48:43.713" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T16:48:43.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44852" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-16T16:33:35.563" Score="0" Body="A 2015 science-fiction television show based on the 2002 film of the same name. The series takes place 11 years after the events of the film, when the PreCrime Unit in Washington, D.C. has been dismantled." OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T16:48:12.387" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T16:48:12.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="896" CreationDate="2015-12-16T16:41:35.223" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I say the owl, disturbed from his chimney, is a metaphor for betrayal or a secret let loose, a symbol of wisdom and a portent for Jim Prideaux of exposure, hence his prompt execution of the bird.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28786" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T16:41:35.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44814" CreationDate="2015-12-16T16:48:04.837" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly the movie Lawnmower Man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/YCxFGxqLsHE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28748" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T16:48:04.837" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44855" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44833" CreationDate="2015-12-16T17:38:04.623" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A Bright unexpected flash can disorient a person, causing their &lt;code&gt;head to spin&lt;/code&gt;, make them &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizziness&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;dizzy,&lt;/a&gt; or make them see stars, similar to head trauma. The quick, bright light overwhelms the optical receptors, and the brain attempts to compensate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cartoons, the spirals over their eyes imply this condition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wmKfs.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wmKfs.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a type of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_vertigo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Flicker Vertigo&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Flicker vertigo, sometimes called the Bucha effect, is &quot;an imbalance in brain-cell activity caused by exposure to low-frequency flickering (or flashing) of a relatively bright light.&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizziness&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; It is a disorientation-, vertigo-, and nausea-inducing effect of a strobe light flashing at 1 Hz to 20 Hz, approximately the frequency of human brainwaves. The effects are similar to seizures caused by epilepsy (in particular photosensitive epilepsy), but are not restricted to people with histories of epilepsy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T17:38:04.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44856" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44858" CreationDate="2015-12-16T18:07:11.353" Score="4" ViewCount="1754" Body="&lt;p&gt;I loved the movie Super 8 but there is one thing I've always kind of wondered about and never really come up with a good answer to. When the space ship is gathering all the metal so it can restructure itself, it starts to pull Joe's necklace from his mom up and he holds onto it for a while but in the end lets it go. I could be mistaken, but I always had the impression that this last piece is what finally allows the ship to take off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was the necklace literally needed for the ship to be complete? And if so why? And if not, then it must've had some symbolic meaning.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2024-01-07T23:58:03.313" Title="What was with the necklace in Super 8?" Tags="|plot-explanation|super-8|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44848" CreationDate="2015-12-16T18:17:49.903" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This a conversation from the &lt;em&gt;Limitless&lt;/em&gt; TV show (episode 6) not the movie, but it could explain his motives&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eddie Morra:&lt;/strong&gt; This rice contains a complete nutritional profile. Everything the human body needs. It can grow in the harshest environments. Places we need it the most. With a little more research, this rice could feed the entire world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brian Finch:&lt;/strong&gt; I don't understand. Why can't you tell anyone about it? I mean, if that's true, why aren't you shouting it from the rooftops?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eddie Morra:&lt;/strong&gt; Because people won't want it. I make an announcement. Lobbyists bring it to action. People rave over GMO's and it's buried. Science can't change the world on its own. The world needs to be willing to change. And it takes leaders. Leaders who are willing to chip away at the obstacles, cut through the noise and play the game. And win the game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24398" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T19:25:00.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44856" CreationDate="2015-12-16T18:21:10.003" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The locket wasn't needed to complete the ship, but it's symbolic in that it shows &lt;strong&gt;Joe is finally willing to let the past go and embrace his future without his mom.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T18:21:10.003" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44859" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44860" CreationDate="2015-12-16T18:50:51.543" Score="0" ViewCount="1442" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just watched Fifty Shades of Grey, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I really could not understand what the ending plot of the movie is. What does it conclude as? I don't expect a clear ending but there would be something which clears the moviegoer's mind with such type of ending, which I did not feel. What character does Christian Grey have? What is the reason behind his unacceptable touch?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28686" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-16T19:13:24.773" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T19:25:36.900" Title="What is the plot behind the end of 'Fifty Shades of Grey'?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fifty-shades-of-grey|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ClosedDate="2015-12-18T10:00:20.497" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44859" CreationDate="2015-12-16T19:25:36.900" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie ended as the book did. The reason Christian acts like he does (his characterization) is because he is a child victim of sexual abuse and rape by an aunt or friend of the family. That woman used BDSM on him like he wants to use on Anna. That's also the same reason he does not want to sleep with Anna in the same bed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real reason the movie and the book ended that way is for the sequel to begin and explain more. It was never intended to be a stand alone movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T19:25:36.900" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32974" CreationDate="2015-12-16T22:17:38.070" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;She's crying because she relised that Cecile really was an imposter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28792" LastActivityDate="2015-12-16T22:17:38.070" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44865" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-16T23:00:52.577" Score="9" ViewCount="9386" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was rewatching &lt;em&gt;The Age of Adaline&lt;/em&gt; and I got a little bit confused. What's the age of Adaline Bowman's daughter Flemming Prescott in the movie? She is aging normally and we eventually see her age ahead of her mother. The Narrator does mention Adaline doesn't age for the next 60 or 70 years. By that estimate wouldn't her daughter have already died?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28793" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-12-17T09:13:08.707" LastActivityDate="2016-07-14T20:56:38.170" Title="What was the age of Adaline Bowman's daughter in The Age of Adaline?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-age-of-adaline|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2017-03-09T12:44:45.057" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44867" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-17T00:31:21.463" Score="19" ViewCount="44157" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. This is my dream; this is my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor, and surviving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a quote from Apocalypse Now. Other than 'woah, this bloke's mental', what does it mean? It's such a strange thing to say, and seems like it might be a quote or derived from something else, but what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Well, 8 completely different answers. Thanks for clearing that one up! ;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28799" LastEditorUserId="28799" LastEditDate="2018-06-05T07:34:32.653" LastActivityDate="2018-06-07T10:15:03.487" Title="What did Colonel Kurtz mean by his story of a snail on a razor?" Tags="|dialogue|apocalypse-now|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44869" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-17T01:34:14.713" Score="3" ViewCount="37149" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Get Hard&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Will Ferrell plays a stock broker that gets framed for embezzlement and gets convicted for it. He's sentenced for five to ten in San Quentin max security prison. To get prepared, he hires a black guy who he thinks went to prison to prepare him for Quentin. One of the steps was preparing to give head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the scene, Will Ferrell is preparing to do it to a gay man in a bathroom stall in a California gay spot. At one point, Will Ferrell's character ends up touching face to organ. &lt;strong&gt;Did Ferrell actually shove his face into some guys crotch, or was it an instance of green screen or video editing magic?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-17T03:34:28.217" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T02:13:44.273" Title="Was the bathroom stall scene in Get Hard real or green screen?" Tags="|production|get-hard|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44872" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44867" CreationDate="2015-12-17T03:57:15.937" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, Kurtz is quite literally mental, which is why the Army has sent in a special task force to take him out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's essentially saying he wants to experience life's harsh events, even traumatic ones, and come out alive. He wants to know he can take anything that's thrown at him and still live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this also includes a bit of foreshadowing. The line is from a tape recording Willard listens to before being given orders to find Kurtz and take him out. When Willard finally does kill Kurtz, it's while Kurtz is making another tape recording, during which Willard hacks away at him with a machete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was drug across the edge of a blade, but unlike the snail he wasn't able to survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Holy cow, talk about finding something randomly that can also add/enhance an old answer of mine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So apparently, as shown in this video, snails can crawl along the edge of blades &lt;strong&gt;without injuring themselves,&lt;/strong&gt; which adds credence to Kurtz's desire to do something this creature can that humans cannot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/65745551&quot;&gt;https://vimeo.com/65745551&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2016-03-07T05:06:01.403" LastActivityDate="2016-03-07T05:06:01.403" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44874" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46466" CreationDate="2015-12-17T04:28:36.407" Score="7" ViewCount="194" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=3&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwiIv_6W6IHLAhXDbxQKHf8SAmgQFgg0MAI&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Fisher_King&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFEUwx49lGy52YGBwudAqyIIMoFfA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Fisher King&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, when Parry was being woken up by Jack after a coma, he said he had had a dream and it was about a girl that he really missed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is he referring to? His current girlfriend or his ex girlfriend that got killed by that desperate, insane guy who kills people with a shotgun?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-03T10:07:28.023" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T10:07:28.023" Title="Which girl Parry was referring to after waking up?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|ending|the-fisher-king|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44877" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44901" CreationDate="2015-12-17T07:16:37.523" Score="3" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, The Revenant is not yet released out in theatres or didn't premiere in a film festival. Then how did Leonardo DiCaprio get nominated for a BAFTA Award for his role in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revenant_%282015_film%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Revenant&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28807" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-17T08:19:22.777" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T15:17:20.427" Title="How did Leonardo DiCaprio get nominated for BAFTA Award for his role in The Revenant?" Tags="|leonardo-dicaprio|the-revenant|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44878" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44877" CreationDate="2015-12-17T07:27:38.837" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The screening for the movie took place in November where members of the press and award voters were present. The screening was held in New York. They were impressed with his performance and so he got nominated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more details see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/11/leonardo-dicaprio-the-revenant-oscar&quot;&gt;this Vanity Fair article&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28789" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-17T08:22:29.793" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T08:22:29.793" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44865" CreationDate="2015-12-17T09:12:55.947" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The actress playing her daughter is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Burstyn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ellen Burstyn&lt;/a&gt;, who is (currently) 83 herself. Considering that Adeline's daughter was only a few years old at the time of the accident that caused Adaline's &quot;condition&quot;, I don't see how her being in her eighties (or even nineties) would be that extraordinary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T09:12:55.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44884" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44885" CreationDate="2015-12-17T10:01:29.640" Score="13" ViewCount="2639" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to rewatch a nice movie that I've seen I think 6 years ago. So... let me describe it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;First things first, from what I remembered was realeased around 2009. Can even be 2007, I do not know, 'cause I had it on my old computer and changed it, so the movie was gone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;From what I know, it's that kind of &quot;pov&quot; movie recorded from a camera (bottom of the view was like &lt;em&gt;REC&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here is the story that I remebered: Nice party at night at balcony, the main character with the camera went down with a friend to buy from the supermarket something, and then a building crashed, people were afraid, madness outside etc., and monster/godzilla/alien came from the distance, people ran, the main character was still in that street (I think New York was the city, cuz there were blocks left and right, skyscraper you know...)  So military came, they were attacked by baby monsters/small creatures... our guy and some friends went in the metro... they escaped the metro... went to a highway tunnel... and our guy died in a PARK.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What's important to this park, is that from what I remembered is the movie cover (like a book cover - from what I remebered when I googled it 6 years ago), the cover shows a bridge, a park bridge - small river under it, you know, and from what I remebered the big creature in the background.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28811" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-12-17T10:14:50.003" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T10:21:09.810" Title="Movie about a monster attack shot on a video camera" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:14:33.000" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44884" CreationDate="2015-12-17T10:03:03.043" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're describing the plot of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/combined&quot;&gt;Cloverfield&lt;/a&gt; from 2008.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cloverfield follows five New Yorkers from the perspective of a hand-held video camera. The movie is exactly the length of a DV Tape and a sub-plot is established by showing bits and pieces of video previously recorded on the tape that is being recorded over. The movie starts as a monster of unknown origin destroys a building. As they go to investigate, parts of the building and the head of the Statue of Liberty come raining down. The movie follows their adventure trying to escape and save a friend, a love interest of the main character. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every single plot detail you mentioned is there. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/hMPhFVVV-Gw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-12-17T10:21:09.810" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T10:21:09.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44887" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44906" CreationDate="2015-12-17T10:20:54.997" Score="3" ViewCount="1155" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV-show Friends there's the following scene in Season 3 Episode 23:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Scene: Pete's apartment, Monica showing the gang around.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monica: Okay, this is the den.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chandler: (sitting down on the couch) I-kea! This is comfortable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is obvious that he relates Ikea company to the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question here, when sat there he first said &amp;quot;I&amp;quot; then completed it with &amp;quot;kea&amp;quot; as if &amp;quot;I&amp;quot; indicates an exclamation of extreme comfort. What is he indicating?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28732" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T09:55:38.453" Title="What does saying IKEA like this indicating?" Tags="|dialogue|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44888" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-17T10:44:27.723" Score="5" ViewCount="1376" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Friend&lt;/em&gt; Season 3 Episode 22 there's the following scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chandler:&lt;/strong&gt; [entering, carrying the chick and duck] &lt;em&gt;Hey! Can you take a duck and a chick to the theatre?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monica:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Of course not.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Phoebe:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;No.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chandler:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Okay. I just wanted them to hear it from somebody else.&lt;/em&gt; [to the chick and the duck] &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All, right, fellas, back to Nintendo.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is he saying that &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;let's go back and play Nintendo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; or is he referring to the game in Nintendo where you kill ducks by a gun?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28732" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-08-04T06:48:22.463" Title="Why does Chandler tell the chick and the duck &quot;back to Nintendo?&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|friends|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44889" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44891" CreationDate="2015-12-17T10:59:58.083" Score="5" ViewCount="1930" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt; Season 3 Episode 22 there's the following scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Scene: Monica and Rachel's, Monica and Rachel are returning. Phoebe is still on hold.]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monica:&lt;/strong&gt; Hey!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Rachel:&lt;/strong&gt; Hey!&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Phoebe:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh, is the play over?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Monica:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah. Where were you?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Hold Voice:&lt;/strong&gt; Thank you for your patience, you’re the next caller.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Monica:&lt;/strong&gt; You were the next caller five hours ago. You must be going crazy.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Phoebe:&lt;/strong&gt; Nah. I kept myself busy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Both Rachel and Monica walk into their bedrooms, stop, and come back into the living room with confused looks on their faces.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Phoebe:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh, okay, yeah. (to Monica) I put your stuff in her room, and her stuff in your room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(They both look at each other, nod their heads ‘All right’ and follow their stuff into their new rooms.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phoebe was near the phone on hold near to the phone all the time, how? And what is the point of doing something so bizarre like changing the stuff of people into other rooms?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28732" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T10:03:31.100" Title="What's the point of switching Monica's and Rachel's rooms?" Tags="|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44891" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44889" CreationDate="2015-12-17T11:06:22.537" Score="11" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She had them on speakerphone&lt;/strong&gt; (this is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLBR6x1r-ao&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;shown&lt;/a&gt; during the episode). So she would have heard it from the other room if they finally answered. I do that all the time with those customer services. :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She was bored&lt;/strong&gt;. So she did something as futile as switching the girls' bedrooms (BTW, this is also a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.muenchensfurniture.com/10-at-home-pranks-for-april-fools-day&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;common prank&lt;/a&gt;). She was also making string figures at some point, because she was literally trapped in that house and going insane. (And lastly, remember that Phoebe is eccentric.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-12-17T11:34:34.003" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T11:34:34.003" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44893" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44904" CreationDate="2015-12-17T12:07:39.313" Score="13" ViewCount="4803" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yoda is my son's favorite character. He said if Yoda is not there, he does not want to watch. Is Yoda going to be in The Force Awakens? If yes, will he be one of the main characters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6326" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-23T14:36:14.153" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T14:36:14.153" Title="Did Yoda appear in Star Wars The Force awakens?" Tags="|character|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44895" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44896" CreationDate="2015-12-17T12:30:15.833" Score="5" ViewCount="3443" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm searching for the episode of scrubs where they get an air band together and at the end they play air instruments to &quot;More Than A Feeling&quot; by Boston.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28815" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-12-17T16:24:40.187" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T16:24:40.187" Title="What is the episode of scrubs where they end with Boston - More Than A Feeling?" Tags="|identify-this-episode|scrubs|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:31:09.083" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44895" CreationDate="2015-12-17T12:33:21.837" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0763007/combined&quot;&gt;&quot;My Half-Acre&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (Season 5, Episode 9) .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;.D. meets the klutzy Julie, and when he becomes smitten, Elliot attempts to help out with romance advice; Carla tries to find Cox's soft side when he refuses to kiss his son; &lt;strong&gt;Turk and Janitor put together an air band to win a contest&lt;/strong&gt;, but Kelso gives them a tremendous obstacle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here it is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_IdiIhYMTBI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T12:33:21.837" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44897" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-17T13:34:49.903" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;TV show on &lt;em&gt;CBS&lt;/em&gt; about Kara Danvers (Melissa Benoist), aka Superman's older little cousin Supergirl. Kara struggles with her double life of both being the assistant to the highly demanding media mogul Cat Grant (Calista Flockhart), CEO of CatCo Worldwide, and protecting National City as Supergirl. She is under the watchful and sometimes equally demanding eyes of the Director of the clandestine Department of Extra-Normal Operations (DEO) Hank Henshaw (David Harewood). Fortunately, Kara has help from her (adoptive) sister Alex Danvers (Chyler Leigh), who also works for the DEO, as well as her CatCo coworkers Winn Schott Jr. (Jeremy Jordan) and James Olsen (Mehcad Brooks).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12913" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T03:25:08.357" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T03:25:08.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44898" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-17T13:34:49.903" Score="0" Body="TV show on CBS about Kara Danvers, aka Superman's cousin Supergirl." OwnerUserId="12913" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T03:25:36.380" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T03:25:36.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44893" CreationDate="2015-12-17T15:01:26.920" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yoda died in the &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt;, so it’s hard to see him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway in &lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt; we saw Obi Wan Kenobi return as a ghost, but in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wiki page of the movie&lt;/a&gt; I didn't read info about Yoda (neither the collaboration with Frank Oz, Yoda's animator).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is no guarantees of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I can say—with huge displeasure—is that I don’t think we will see him, but this is a personal opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6582" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2015-12-18T08:39:40.917" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T08:39:40.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44877" CreationDate="2015-12-17T15:17:20.427" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awards.bafta.org/sites/default/files/images/film_1516_rules_and_guidelines_final_2.pdf&quot;&gt;This document&lt;/a&gt; has the rules for the 2016 BAFTAs, including section C. Eligibility, which states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Films must open for theatrical general release for the first time in &#xA;  commercial cinemas in the UK between &lt;strong&gt;1 January 2015 and 12 February 2016&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Films which open after 1 January 2016 must be qualified by being screened to BAFTA members (‘voters’) no later than 17 December 2015; otherwise films opening after 1 January 2016 should be entered into the 2017 Awards.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The UK release date for The Revenant is currently &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1663202/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_dt_dt&quot;&gt;15 January 2016&lt;/a&gt; so within the deadline of 12 February 2016. There is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-the-revenant-20151124-story.html&quot;&gt;more&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/11/leonardo-dicaprio-the-revenant-oscar&quot;&gt;than&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/leonardo-dicaprios-revenant-debuts-brutal-843492&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; article online indicating that it's already been screened for &quot;awards voters&quot; in November, so that's also within the 17 December 2015 cutoff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15242" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T15:17:20.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44904" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44893" CreationDate="2015-12-17T15:33:17.517" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;As at the end of Revenge of the Sith, Yoda is the one who teaches to Obi-Wan how to come back as a &quot;Force ghost&quot; (himself learning it from Qui-Gon), so it is possible that he comes back this way&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;/!\ Warning, Spoiler about The Force Awakens /!\&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Yoda isn't in the movie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19458" LastEditorUserId="19458" LastEditDate="2015-12-17T15:59:39.800" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T15:59:39.800" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44887" CreationDate="2015-12-17T16:19:51.820" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Chandler's comment seems to be a corruption of the Spanish phrase &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A1Ay,_caramba!&quot;&gt;¡Ay, caramba!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. The joke is obviously that his expression (of surprise at the comfort of the sofa) &lt;strong&gt;also combines the name of a popular furniture manufacturer.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess the joke would have worked the same way (albeit less funny, I'll grudgingly admit) if he'd tried on a comfortable suit and said &quot;&lt;em&gt;Ah-mani...!&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-17T18:28:05.747" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T18:28:05.747" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44907" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-17T16:59:35.797" Score="34" ViewCount="10991" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have yet to see &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars: Episode III -&#xA;Revenge of the Sith&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.  I've been holding off because I knew there would be no Star Wars movies for a number of years.  Also because Episode I and Episode II (which I did endure) were so bad to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, I guess ten years passed by pretty fast, and now &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is moments away from being released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Outside of Episode III, I have seen all the other Star Wars movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do I need to watch Episode III before I embark on Episode VII? If your answer includes spoilers for Episodes III or VII, please mark them accordingly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28382" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T04:19:23.740" LastActivityDate="2021-07-04T16:40:28.257" Title="Is it necessary to watch Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith before embarking on Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens?" Tags="|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44908" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44907" CreationDate="2015-12-17T17:14:47.943" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, you don't need to watch Episode III or any other movie from the &quot;Prequel&quot; trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are not relevant in regard of story or style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T17:14:47.943" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44910" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-17T18:38:10.443" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Force Awakens is the seventh installment of the main Star Wars series of films. Directed by J.J. Abrams and released in December 2015, the film is set approximately 30 years after the events of Return of the Jedi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Starring an ensemble cast including several from the original trilogy, the film marks the start of a new saga in the franchise, and is the first Star Wars film to be released after Disney acquired the rights from George Lucas. The film broke Thursday night preview records, raking in $57 million, and is expected to easily break the $1 billion gross mark, possibly even the $2 billion mark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sequels have already been planned for release in 2017 and 2019, along with standalone films featuring other groups and characters in the Star Wars universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More Information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Official Website: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starwars.com/the-force-awakens/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDb: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2488496/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wookiepedia: &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Episode_VII_The_Force_Awakens&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Wars: Episode VII &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-12-19T01:11:52.680" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T01:11:52.680" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44911" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-17T18:38:10.443" Score="0" Body="The Force Awakens is the seventh installment of the main Star Wars series of films. Directed by J.J. Abrams and released in December 2015, the film is set approximately 30 years after the events of Return of the Jedi." OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-12-17T20:56:30.190" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T20:56:30.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13829" CreationDate="2015-12-17T19:41:02.997" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible that he is &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; in the asylum, processing all that happened to him and living out in his mind, the possibility of starting anew and waiting for her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28824" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T19:41:02.997" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44869" CreationDate="2015-12-17T20:15:29.063" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Ferrell (in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.torontosun.com/2015/03/22/will-ferrell-stands-up-for-justin-bieber-praises-kevin-hart&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this interview with the Toronto Sun&lt;/a&gt;), it was actually a prosthetic penis. He does, however state that a real penis was used during the rehearsals, implying that the scene was not a green-screen effect:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Taking the prison rape gag to new extremes, Darnell convinces James to&#xA;  go to a gay bar and get a taste of performing oral sex on men. James&#xA;  is hit on by a pushy regular (Matt Walsh) and taken into a bathroom&#xA;  stall to get down to business.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thing is, as wince-worthy as the scene may be for all the wrong&#xA;  reasons, it’s very hard not to laugh at Ferrell reacting like a kid&#xA;  who doesn’t want to swallow a dose of a particularly nasty medicine.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“It’s all a blur,” says Ferrell with a chuckle when recalling the&#xA;  scene. “Let’s just say the prosthetic (penis) was only used when we&#xA;  were going to shoot it.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/article/balls-pubes-and-buttcracks-mechanics-overnights-fa-221883&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; (with professional prop-maker Matthew Mungle), we learn the process of how Ferrell &lt;em&gt;auditioned&lt;/em&gt; the fake penis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AVC:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Was The Overnight the first time you’ve ever made a fake penis&#xA;  for a movie?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MM:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;No, no. We’ve done We’re The Millers, Get Hard.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;That’s a funny story because [for Get Hard] Will Ferrell wanted to&#xA;  make sure it could be wiped in his face, because that’s what happens&#xA;  in the film. And we sent him one that was a little too hard, so we&#xA;  sent him another one, and a video of it. He rubbed it over his face,&#xA;  and said, “That’s perfect.” It was soft enough. So then he sent it&#xA;  back, and we painted it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T20:15:29.063" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44907" CreationDate="2015-12-17T20:21:57.317" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. In fact, as long as you understand the gist of the Jedi, the Force, and the main characters (Han, Luke, and Leia), you can follow The Force Awakens just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="178" LastActivityDate="2015-12-17T20:21:57.317" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44918" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44907" CreationDate="2015-12-17T20:42:25.160" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think about this; Episode III happened &lt;strong&gt;years&lt;/strong&gt; before Episode IV.  The Force Awakens is considered Episode VII.  It is set 30 years after Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi.  As such, the happenings of Episode III aren't central to the plot, nor are the characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episode I: The Phantom Menace - Set as Year 0&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episode II: Attack of the Clones - 10 years after Phantom Menace (Year 10)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith - Year 13&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episode IV: A New Hope - Year 32&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back - Year 35&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi - Year 36&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Year 66&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-19T21:43:58.357" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T21:43:58.357" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44907" CreationDate="2015-12-17T22:45:48.713" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Every major plot point in Episode III is already revealed in Episode V and VI. These plot points are the relationships between Anakin, Darth Vader, Luke, and Leia. If you already know these relationships by watching V and VI, then you already know the major plot points in III.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not seen VII yet, (tomorrow), and I could see it as conceivable that some of the things that happen in III could be referenced in VII, and you would miss those potential references, if that's something you care about. The things I could see being referenced is how the Jedi order fell apart and exactly how the transformation to Vader occurred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Saw the movie. If you have seen IV-VI then that is all you need.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; It does appear that the villain in VII is probably taking a path similar to Anakin's with the villain's story starting where Anakin's left off at the end of III.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19111" LastEditorUserId="19111" LastEditDate="2015-12-21T02:19:44.843" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T02:19:44.843" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44907" CreationDate="2015-12-17T23:13:22.893" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Episode III is likely the most important film of the prequels,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; As it depicts the complete downfall of the Galactic Senate through Palpatine's manipulation, leading to his rise as Emperor. We also see how he manipulates Anakin into helping him wipe out nearly all of the Jedi alive at that time, causing them to go into hiding and thus fading into myth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Setting up for the much later events of The Force Awakens and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; how the efforts of the Rebellion seem to have gone completely unrecognized, even with the help of a mythical Jedi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This single film details how everything that comes after came to be, so &lt;strong&gt;yes, I'd say you should see it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T04:12:11.033" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T04:12:11.033" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44925" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-17T23:27:16.243" Score="22" ViewCount="7966" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 1977 and 1978, Star Wars posters were plastered in almost every movie theatre that had a big screen.  The posters implied that Luke and Leia were a romantic couple.  See &lt;a href=&quot;https://reggiestake.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/star-wars-episode-iv-poster.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this example&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://posterwire.com/a-new-hope/#&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yJMvx.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yJMvx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;“Star Wars” poster from the 1980 “Star Wars Art Calendar”&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yJMvx.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qHPv0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;“Star Wars” style D poster by Drew Struzan.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one of the first films, there were even scenes like &lt;a href=&quot;https://fertilemindscape.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/2010289_1316684920816-7res_468_3591.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, it was revealed that Leia and Luke were siblings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember heated debates at the time about different theories regarding these images.  One was that they just made one movie at a time and George Lucas didn't quite know what was really going to happen next.  Another was that it was an intentional deception.  Yet another was that it was a marketing agency that went overboard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recall the zeitgeist of movie goers of that era thinking that it was basically a mistake, and that George Lucas didn't know he was eventually going to make them siblings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet I also recall that after the original three movies were screened that the hardcore fans were adamant that George Lucas had it all planned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now that nearly 40 years have past, has George Lucas, or anyone else credible, explained those images?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;Update&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a little research, I found posters for &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt; that also imply that Luke and Leia are a couple. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WXkfbL-jl4A/UBKNyyY7UUI/AAAAAAAAKLM/ee3Qj5wiv44/s1600/Star+Wars+-+Return+Of+The+Jedi+(1983)+British+Quad.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this poster&lt;/a&gt; for an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;At this point, obviously George Lucas knew they were siblings.  Did he keep it a secret from marketing, or was his intent to deceive the public in order to make the reveal a bigger surprise?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28382" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2017-03-09T00:29:44.403" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T00:29:44.403" Title="Why did the original Star Wars: A New Hope posters portray Luke and Leia as a couple?" Tags="|star-wars|marketing|posters|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44925" CreationDate="2015-12-17T23:37:15.543" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The poster is a relic of incomplete storywriting.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luke and Leia &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/28600/were-luke-and-leia-originally-planned-to-be-related&quot;&gt;weren't originally going to be siblings&lt;/a&gt;. The poster was made before that time, and featured a fairly standard fantasy trope -- the damsel clinging to her savior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/c8URp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27640" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2017-03-08T20:51:22.993" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44930" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-18T02:31:34.143" Score="5" ViewCount="400" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been an unprecedented amount of leaks available for the latest Star Wars movie, &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;, including spoilers for all the twists and plot points. This made me think of &lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt;, with the famous twist that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Darth Vader is Luke's father&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm aware that there was a lot of secrecy during production about this twist with only a handful of people knowing about it. But once the film was finalized and especially when it was available for reviewers screenings, the secret would be more wildly known.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an age before the internet, was &lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt;'s major twist leaked to the public in any way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12783" LastActivityDate="2016-11-28T16:21:17.303" Title="Was the twist in The Empire Strikes Back leaked to the public before the movie's release?" Tags="|star-wars|the-empire-strikes-back|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44931" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44933" CreationDate="2015-12-18T02:43:47.593" Score="2" ViewCount="1120" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Force Awakens Spoilers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've just got back from seeing The Force Awakens, and I was curious about a line Kylo Ren says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he's looking at Vaders helmet, he says &quot;Grandfather&quot;. Given that he is Han's son, why does he say Grandfather? Or, did I mishear his line?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9481" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T14:39:01.047" Title="Question regarding Kylo Ren line" Tags="|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23854" CreationDate="2015-12-18T02:44:04.190" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Big ol' spoiler below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jar Jar Binks is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; in The Force Awakens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="850" LastEditDate="2015-12-18T18:24:11.953" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T18:24:11.953" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44931" CreationDate="2015-12-18T02:45:12.910" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Kylo Ren is the son of Han Solo and Leia Organa, and since Leia is Darth Vader’s daughter, Kylo Ren is Darth Vader’s grandson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-23T14:39:01.047" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T14:39:01.047" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44934" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-18T02:49:52.537" Score="11" ViewCount="568" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lotsa spoiling going on below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;, there is a very powerful weapon harnessed by the First Order that can destroy planets. At a critical moment in the movie, the Resistance learns that their planet is the next target. In the film, we see Leia receive a message of some kind, which appears to inform her. But how was this information acquired? How could they know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-01-05T11:01:57.967" LastActivityDate="2017-03-10T21:45:26.317" Title="How did the Resistance know their planet was the next target?" Tags="|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44935" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-18T02:53:23.727" Score="3" ViewCount="734" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just prior to &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;killing his father, Han Solo&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kylo Ren says that he has to do something difficult (paraphrasing).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there more to it other than the simple fact that his father is part of the rebellion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-12-18T17:28:05.963" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T17:28:05.963" Title="What did Kylo mean by he has to do something difficult?" Tags="|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44936" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-18T02:56:17.260" Score="13" ViewCount="2220" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout much of the movie, Rey losing her family and waiting for their return on Jakku is a great motivating force for her character. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her romanticizing the Resistance and her eagerness and willing to join them, in addition to her natural gift with the Force, suggests that they are important.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, who is Rey’s family?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="850" LastEditDate="2015-12-19T05:05:43.627" LastActivityDate="2016-05-18T11:14:07.533" Title="Who is Rey’s family?" Tags="|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44937" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-18T03:00:42.307" Score="11" ViewCount="1481" Body="&lt;p&gt;Supreme Leader Snoke is, as his title suggests, the supreme commander of the First Order in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;. His appearance suggests he is large in scale and old (though those are deductions made from his appearance and little else). Further, he is master of Kylo Ren, and is, according the Han, the one responsible for seducing Kylo Ren to the Dark Side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is he?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-18T10:02:14.313" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T14:41:35.990" Title="Who is Supreme Leader Snoke?" Tags="|character|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44938" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-18T03:02:02.153" Score="10" ViewCount="1869" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to Han, Supreme Leader Snoke is responsible for Kylo Ren abandoning Luke's tutelage and moving to the Dark Side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did he accomplish this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-18T06:55:46.067" LastActivityDate="2016-03-03T06:30:49.020" Title="How did Supreme Leader Snoke seduce him to the Dark Side?" Tags="|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44935" CreationDate="2015-12-18T04:03:31.390" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In parts of the film we see Kylo Ren struggling to stay on the Dark side. He confesses this to Snoke and Snoke also has worries about whether or not Ren will be able to kill his father. Ren is also seen confessing the issue of the Light side to the melted helmet of Darth Vader. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He kills his father as a way to strengthen his resolve, a reinforcement of his testament to the Dark side of the force. I think in part he also believes this will make Snoke believe in his resolve as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasons then are ones that are often seen in Dark side users selfishness and power hungry-ness. These two motivations will also help to solidify his stance on the Dark side at least within his own internal struggle. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd also doubt the rebellion part has much to do with it anyway, until a few days prior Han was not even associated with the new rebellion except through Leia. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28839" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T04:03:31.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44944" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44971" CreationDate="2015-12-18T07:54:06.943" Score="12" ViewCount="29771" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have never understood how they shoot a scene where the camera moves, closes up on a window (or sometimes a wall) and then it passes through it, like it wasn't there at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the technique they use in these cases?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastActivityDate="2020-10-11T17:26:17.657" Title="How do they shoot scenes where the camera passes through a window?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44936" CreationDate="2015-12-18T09:02:26.373" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, I guess that there are two ways to approach this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, we see her using the force to reject Kylo Ren’s attempt to extort information about BB-8 and the map that he brings to find Luke. She could be the daughter of Luke Skywalker, or she could be the sister of Kylo Ren (son of Han Solo).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the expanded universe Leia and Han have four children, but that’s no longer canon. Anyway, I think that she’s got Skywalker blood, because she uses the Force (and the lightsaber) and only a Jedi (or a familiar of that) can use it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6582" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-23T14:43:13.517" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T14:43:13.517" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44950" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44972" CreationDate="2015-12-18T10:01:58.627" Score="11" ViewCount="1179" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this scene from &lt;em&gt;Back to the Future Part II&lt;/em&gt; Marty is about to be run over, but Doc saves him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/9tGWHkKzeeI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Doc Brown know to drop the rope? (I read a fan hypothesis &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/31dupf/marty_died_in_that_tunnel_in_bttf2/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21705" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-08T20:49:56.993" LastActivityDate="2016-11-08T22:59:37.150" Title="How did Doc Brown know to drop the rope in BTTF II?" Tags="|plot-explanation|back-to-the-future|back-to-the-future-part-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44888" CreationDate="2015-12-18T10:04:20.963" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;My interpretation is that he was telling them that since they can't go to the theatre, they're going back to his room &lt;em&gt;to play Nintendo together&lt;/em&gt; (e.g as a group). It's inherently funny to think of a grown man sitting in a room playing multi-player video games with two birds, not least because their stubby wings are almost uniquely unsuited for handling a controller.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your alternate interpretation, that he was telling them to &lt;em&gt;go back to a Nintendo game&lt;/em&gt; makes less sense, not least because there's no chicks or chicken in the most famous game of that genre, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Hunt&quot;&gt;Duck Hunt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-18T10:36:58.013" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T10:36:58.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44936" CreationDate="2015-12-18T10:12:27.267" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;..is anyone yet to consider that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She may &lt;em&gt;not have&lt;/em&gt; a 'family'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Remember the immaculate conception of Anakin Skywalker's birth? he had no father, he was a being born purely of the force, and of the love of his mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst it stands to reason that Rey must have a mother in order to be born, the hunt for who her father is may be a deliberate misdirection. In an age where the First Order are leading a crusade to find and destroy any remaining Jedi and Jedi Artefacts, it would also explain why whoever was her 'family' abandoned her on a distant planet, to hide her from 'herself', as it were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Personal theory,&lt;/strong&gt; purely conjecture and just to throw the cat among the pigeons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kylo Ren, being the grandson of Anakin Skywalker, has been raised with the notion of 'Destiny' surrounding his lineage. As Anakin &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; bring balance to the force, and (possibly) neither did Luke, he comes to believe that he is the destined 'Chosen One'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is the Star Pupil of Luke's Jedi Academy as a result of this: until, whilst Kylo is still a prepubescent, another of Luke's students (which, sure, could be revealed to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0537115/?ref_=tt_cl_t1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jyn Erso&lt;/a&gt; for the sake of neatness) produces an immaculate baby alá Shmi Skywalker: this is kept relatively hush hush, for the childs protection&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over the next few years the attention shifts towards this new child: until eventually, as a moody older teenager, Kylo Ren basically rampages, and begins to massacre the younglings of the Jedi Academy indiscriminately to eradicate the 'chosen one', in a reference of Anakin's Jedi Temple attack on Coruscant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rey is hidden away on another planet, and as in the Obi-Wan tradition appointed a guardian to look over her: possibly Lor San Tekka, who is possibly portrayed in his younger years by Mads Mikkelson in &lt;em&gt;Rogue One&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the 8 Years between actors, and allowing for generosity, we see Rey is about 5-6 when she is 'abandoned' on Jakku. If Kylo Ren is circa 10-12 years older, this would put him about 16-18 when he turns to the dark side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Skywalker goes into hiding, one of the only remaining people who knows whether Kylo Ren killed the correct child or not, and largely ashamed that he repeated Obi-Wan's mistake of not realising his pupil was being corrupted by the dark side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the minor details (like Lor San Tekka and Jyn Erso) are long shots and are an attempt to enact a cyclic narrative,  but apart from those elements, anyone have anything concrete that completely eliminates this theory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="6306" LastEditDate="2016-05-18T11:14:07.533" LastActivityDate="2016-05-18T11:14:07.533" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44934" CreationDate="2015-12-18T10:21:12.780" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we witness in the scene at Maz Canata's hideaway (where the First Order and the Rebellion are simultaneously alerted to the presence of BB8 at their location), both forces have a significant network of spies and sympathisers. Whilst Fin (being a lowly sanitation worker) bringing them valuable information would suggest that the rebellion don't have anyone &lt;em&gt;inside&lt;/em&gt; the First Order passing them intel, it's plausible they have someone close enough to determine that the New Weapon's firing vector was aligned with the direction of the rebel base, and make a reasonable assumption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, the Weapon is already 'aimed' at the planet when it begins charging from the Sun, so it's giving away it's direction of fire the entire time it's warming up. Enough time for the Rebels to launch a counter assault and attack fleet, so it must take some considerable time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-03-10T21:45:26.317" LastActivityDate="2017-03-10T21:45:26.317" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35228" CreationDate="2015-12-18T10:30:33.143" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;He has been late in getting the point from the beginning. the first clue is in Season 1, episode 2 opening when They're talking about kissing being as important as the other parts of sex and after discussing, Joey gets confused and asks: &quot;Are we still talking about sex?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chandler: Yeah, I think for us, kissing is pretty much like an opening&#xA;  act, y'know? I mean it's like the stand-up comedian you have to sit&#xA;  through before Pink Floyd comes out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ross: Yeah, and-and it's not that we don't like the comedian, it's&#xA;  that-that... that's not why we bought the ticket.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chandler: The problem is, though, after the concert's over, no matter&#xA;  how great the show was, you girls are always looking for the comedian&#xA;  again, y'know? I mean, we're in the car, we're fighting traffic...&#xA;  basically just trying to stay awake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rachel: Yeah, well, word of advice: Bring back the comedian. Otherwise&#xA;  next time you're gonna find yourself sitting at home, listening to&#xA;  that album alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joey: (pause)....Are we still talking about sex?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5790" LastEditorUserId="5790" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T19:03:38.970" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T19:03:38.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44955" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44937" CreationDate="2015-12-18T10:40:29.357" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don't know.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is nothing in the movie, nor the wiki's or official Star Wars page to suggest exactly who he is as of yet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many speculations that he could be Darth Plagueis, but ultimately for the time being there is no evidence to back up these claims. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23832" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T10:40:29.357" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44936" CreationDate="2015-12-18T10:45:42.060" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don't know.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is nothing in the movie, nor the wiki's or official Star Wars page to suggest exactly who her family is yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many speculations that she could be Luke's daughter, Kylo Ren's twin sister, and as the other answer suggests (Which I really like actually, props for this one @John Smith optional) created much like Anakin by the force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23832" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T10:45:42.060" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44957" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="64194" CreationDate="2015-12-18T11:12:25.810" Score="10" ViewCount="9728" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was Fat Ass, the character from Shawshank Redemption, actually innocent? He is the first one to cry, and his show seems real. So was he really innocent?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27305" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-18T11:36:42.263" LastActivityDate="2017-05-14T17:32:45.993" Title="Was Fat Ass, the character from Shawshank Redemption, actually innocent?" Tags="|the-shawshank-redemption|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44958" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44907" CreationDate="2015-12-18T11:28:21.017" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having seen the film on Thursday (The joys of an earlier release date in the UK), no you don't need to have seen Revenge of the Sith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have seen Star Wars 4-6 (ANH, ESB and ROTJ) you will have all the back story you will need to know, and even then there are enough hints of the back story to get you up to speed in the opening titles and throughout the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm keeping this very vague as not to spoil anything, as it was amazing going into the film knowing almost nothing about what was going to happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28851" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T11:28:21.017" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44961" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44962" CreationDate="2015-12-18T11:52:22.600" Score="4" ViewCount="2673" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Starkiller Base was targeting the Resistance base wasn’t it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; If so then why did they need to lightspeed it back and if the sun was destroyed why was it light at the end when they came back? Was I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="296" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T21:40:06.340" LastActivityDate="2016-04-21T14:37:27.623" Title="Confused about the Resistance base in The Force Awakens" Tags="|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44961" CreationDate="2015-12-18T11:56:58.547" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the StarKiller wasn't in the same system as the Resistance base. The weapon's range is demonstrated earlier in the movie, it's exact range is unknown but it seems to be incredible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-23T14:47:33.303" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T14:47:33.303" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44963" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44982" CreationDate="2015-12-18T12:20:27.070" Score="13" ViewCount="91164" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of the movie &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; we see an old man that gives to the rebel Poe Dameron a map to find Luke Skywalker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His name is Lor San Tekka.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Kylo Ren arrives, the old man says to him that he knows him, he knows his story, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who is he? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6582" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-23T14:50:00.090" LastActivityDate="2022-05-11T13:48:03.330" Title="Who is Lor San Tekka?" Tags="|character|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44964" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44966" CreationDate="2015-12-18T12:40:14.113" Score="6" ViewCount="5280" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088847/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Breakfast Club&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, why did Molly Ringwald's character Claire give the big honking diamond earring to Judd Nelson's character John? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize there is a new friendship there, but was there deeper meaning which the movie makers wanted to convey? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5391" LastEditorUserId="5391" LastEditDate="2015-12-19T15:32:32.310" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T15:32:32.310" Title="Why did Claire give John the earring?" Tags="|analysis|breakfast-club|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44965" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44979" CreationDate="2015-12-18T12:45:39.450" Score="1" ViewCount="3719" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did Emily escape out of the car which was immersed in water in the end? &lt;strong&gt;Is it even possible to open the door of a car which is already deep into the water and why was the Demon not able to escape the same way?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean it seemed really powerful or was it just that the Demon was only doing everything at psychological level...? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21342" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-18T16:44:17.817" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T16:44:17.817" Title="How did Emily escape in movie Case 39?" Tags="|plot-explanation|case-39|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44966" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44964" CreationDate="2015-12-18T13:39:11.807" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;He'd been mocking those earrings earlier; with this gesture she shows him she isn't as materialistic as he accused her of being. John said that &quot;you got everything and I got shit&quot;; by giving him her earring she negates that accusation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/breakfast_club.html&quot;&gt;From the script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bender: Don't you ever...ever! Compare&#xA;  yourself to me! Okay? You got&#xA;  everything, and I got shit! Fuckin'&#xA;  Rapunzel, right? School would&#xA;  probably fucking shut down if you&#xA;  didn't show up! &quot;Queenie isn't&#xA;  here!&quot; I like those earrings Claire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Claire: Shut up...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bender: Are those real diamonds, Claire?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Claire: Shut up!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bender: I bet they are...did you work, for the money &#xA;  for those earrings? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Claire: Shut... Your mouth!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bender: Or did your daddy buy those?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Claire: Shut up!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bender: I bet he bought those for you! I bet those are a Christmas&#xA;  gift! Right? You know what I got for Christmas this year? It was a&#xA;  banner fuckin' year at the old Bender family! I got a carton of&#xA;  cigarettes. The old man grabbed me and said &quot;Hey! Smoke up Johnny!&quot;&#xA;  Okay, so go home'n cry to your daddy, don't cry here, okay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's &lt;a href=&quot;http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=348170&quot;&gt;more discussion here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rubystreak:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Claire gives John her diamond earring. Is that meaningful?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moe:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think so. &lt;strong&gt;It was symbolic of the breaking down of the artificial&#xA;  wall of affluence she kept herself behind&lt;/strong&gt; to protect her (in a&#xA;  psycho-social sense, as opposed to physical) from the have-nots. In&#xA;  that moment &lt;strong&gt;she realized that the connection she felt with John was&#xA;  worth more than her material possessions&lt;/strong&gt;, especially since she didn't&#xA;  even &quot;work for the money to pay for&quot; them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The whole movie is about the breaking down of artificial walls between&#xA;  high school cliques&lt;/strong&gt; - walls created by parents and the home&#xA;  environment that they grew up in. They realize, if only for a day,&#xA;  that underneath it all, they're really all the same and all deal with&#xA;  the same issues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Will it last? I'd like to think that at some level they'll all take&#xA;  the insights from that day with them. I think all teenagers (or at&#xA;  least introspective ones) have to practice a sort of doublethink where&#xA;  they fully embrace their clique identities while also at some level&#xA;  realizing the silliness of it all. But no doubt, come Monday morning,&#xA;  they're all right back in their respective cliques.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-12-18T13:49:28.120" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T13:49:28.120" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44967" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44944" CreationDate="2015-12-18T13:57:09.040" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They use Editing, simple fade out, fade in technique.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, if camera is outside a closed window. It closes up on it and then they cut the shot and resume at exact location inside a room and afterwards they edit transition part with small fade out and fade in. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you have any video clip of this type, you can clearly see a black screen for some milliseconds. That's fade out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26792" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T13:57:09.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44968" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44989" CreationDate="2015-12-18T14:21:17.367" Score="7" ViewCount="1610" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt;, the Rebellion defeats the Empire so the Republic is reinstated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why in &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; does the First Order refer to the Resistance as “rebels”? Shouldn’t they be in power?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6582" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-03-04T01:33:24.003" LastActivityDate="2019-03-04T01:33:24.003" Title="Why does the First Order in “The Force Awakens” refer to the Resistance as “Rebels” when the Republic is reinstated?" Tags="|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44944" CreationDate="2015-12-18T15:28:14.143" Score="2" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Lots of ways.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes they use CGI effects to make it look like there's a window in the way, then &quot;dissolve&quot; it to leave the real shot&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/9QKaGawfAjo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or move the pieces of the window apart once the focus is close enough to no longer perceive the window itself&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ke2CFuLQ6t8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or just &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmmaking.net/faq/answers/faq253.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;edit the footage&lt;/a&gt; so that it looks like a single shot when it's actually two shots&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Editing is key as well as being able to open the glass. I have done a&#xA;  similar shot by marking a path to follow on the ground, I shoot up&#xA;  until I am just about touching the glass and stop, I then open the&#xA;  window or door, back up, follow my path and begin recording once again&#xA;  and push the camera through the opening, once again stopping. Then, go&#xA;  outside the glass if possible, and line up with my marked path and&#xA;  continue out some more. Once in editing I find the proper frames to&#xA;  splice it together. The hardest part is staying on path which is why I&#xA;  like to use painters tape placed on the ground to help me. I have&#xA;  found that placing a small dissolve one that lasts less than a second&#xA;  when the camera &quot;passes through the glass&quot; helps add to the effect.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T15:28:14.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44971" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44944" CreationDate="2015-12-18T15:30:20.463" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its a mix of techniques. Sometimes its done the hard way:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/aT2XVIF37Cc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes its done through creative editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ntGdvHH1fv4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That specific effect is done in After Effects. &lt;strong&gt;A digital (Fake) window is placed&lt;/strong&gt;, and AE removes the window when the camera pans in. This video goes into great detail on both the side and front windows, as well the actual editing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/3tdiy2aX0b0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Through Wall transitions do the same, with either a hole through the wall, or a fake wall transition where two videos are spliced together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/cf21za9iuCo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T15:30:20.463" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44950" CreationDate="2015-12-18T15:36:23.287" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simple answer is that the Doc saw Marty and Biff go into the tunnel, with Marty hanging onto the side of Biff's car. He then flew over the top of the mountain to sit at the other end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he didn't see them come out, he rightly surmised that Marty must have let go of Biff's car and would be being chased by Biff &lt;em&gt;back the way he came&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From the film's &lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0425118754&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;official novelisation&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;So where was Marty?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Doc had kept the DeLorean hovering over the exit to the tunnel for the last minute, expecting Biff’s car to show up at any second. But there was no sign of Biff, and no sign of Marty - no sign of anything, really, except a big old truck carrying fertilizer that had gone into the tunnel beneath him.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gone into the tunnel?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oh no, Doc Brown thought, Marty didn’t have to come out this way at all.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He raised the DeLorean quickly. He only hoped he wasn’t too late to rectify his error&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T16:19:58.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36619" CreationDate="2015-12-18T16:22:37.387" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the source:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The name Bob, which was used frequently when &quot;greeking&quot; name-brand products on Good Eats.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a link to the reference: &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/CutthroatKitchen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TV Tropes site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28860" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T16:22:37.387" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44907" CreationDate="2015-12-18T16:24:16.777" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know the prequels are often the butt of jokes, and what makes a movie good for one person, doesn't make it good for another, but &lt;em&gt;in general&lt;/em&gt; most fans of Star Wars &lt;em&gt;do seem to agree&lt;/em&gt; that the prequels are inferior to the original trilogy and really didn't add much to the overall story (as much of what happens in the prequels was already implied in the original trilogy). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you enjoy stories with long, slow, plodding explanations of backstory, then the prequels might be of interest for you, but otherwise, no, there's nothing in EIII that wasn't already assumed in EIV-VI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE: personal anecdote = I couldn't get my 10 year old to watch even the original trilogy. He only made it half way through A New Hope before declaring it boring. Took him to The Force Awakens tonight and he loved it. So just one 10 year olds opinion but, there you go, the movie seems to stand on its own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="756" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T10:07:52.273" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T10:07:52.273" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44979" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44965" CreationDate="2015-12-18T16:43:04.730" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As to how she opened the door, the simplest explanation is that this is a little bit of filmmaker's license. It's certainly possible to open a car door underwater &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YaMEW30bv4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;if you let the car fill with water&lt;/a&gt; and it's theoretically possible to hold your breath long enough to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why the demon couldn't escape the same way, Emily was able to hold it underwater for a full twenty seconds longer than she herself was submerged. It then grew to gargantuan size (in order to punch out of the car rear light) but seems to have gotten itself stuck into the structure of the car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/hgCr8TOxcCo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T16:43:04.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44963" CreationDate="2015-12-18T17:18:03.280" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lor_San_Tekka&quot;&gt;Star Wars wikia&lt;/a&gt;, Lor San Tekka lived in the Western Reaches of Jakku about 29 years after the &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Jakku&quot;&gt;Battle of Jakku&lt;/a&gt;, which took place approximately one year after the &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Endor&quot;&gt;Battle of Endor&lt;/a&gt;. He was a follower of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Church_of_the_Force&quot;&gt;Church of the Force&lt;/a&gt;, a religion that based its faith on the ideals of the Jedi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further information about him from his official entry in the official starwars.com &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starwars.com/databank/lor-san-tekka&quot;&gt;databank entry&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; A legendary traveler and explorer, Lor San Tekka is a longtime ally of the New Republic and the Resistance. After the Battle of Endor, San Tekka helped Luke Skywalker recover secret Jedi lore that the Empire had tried to erase, and Leia Organa hopes the old scout can now help find her brother. Following decades of adventure, San Tekka retired to live simply on Jakku, where he follows the dictates of the once-forbidden Church of the Force. But his retirement is fated to be anything but peaceful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to how he came to be in possession of the final piece of the map that would lead to Luke, exactly, that may be revealed in later films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-12-18T19:41:11.120" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T19:41:11.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44984" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="44988" CreationDate="2015-12-18T17:22:21.343" Score="15" ViewCount="30214" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was Darth Vader told by someone in the Empire's army or did Darth Vader learn some other way that Luke Skywalker is his son?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28864" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-19T13:39:07.887" LastActivityDate="2018-08-04T19:47:49.183" Title="How did Darth Vader learn Luke was his son?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44984" CreationDate="2015-12-18T18:18:40.313" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the original screenplay for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980), the whole idea of Vader as being Luke's father was not present, only the idea that Vader might convert him. Here is the original script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XCsP7m.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XCsP7m.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During filming the idea of making Vader Luke's father emerged and the script was changed to the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VADER:&lt;/strong&gt; There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you. Luke, you do not yet realize your importance. You can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LUKE:&lt;/strong&gt; I'll never join you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VADER:&lt;/strong&gt; If you only knew the power of the dark side. Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LUKE:&lt;/strong&gt; He told me enough! He told me you killed him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VADER:&lt;/strong&gt; No. I am your father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LUKE:&lt;/strong&gt; No. That's not true. That's impossible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VADER:&lt;/strong&gt; Search your feelings. You know it to be true.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LUKE:&lt;/strong&gt; NOOO! NOOO!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VADER:&lt;/strong&gt; Luke, you can destroy the emperor. He has foreseen this. It is your destiny. Join me and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son. Come with me. It is the only way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Luke jumps into the void.]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual point Vader learns of the parentage is when he is on Star Destroyer chasing the Millennium Falcon in the asteroid field and the Emperor makes a communication to him. The language of this exchange was altered during filming to suggest this. First the original script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j2n2sm.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/j2n2sm.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it was filmed for the 1980 initial release of the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VADER:&lt;/strong&gt; What is thy bidding, my master?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EMPEROR:&lt;/strong&gt; There is a great disturbance in the Force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VADER:&lt;/strong&gt; I have felt it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EMPEROR:&lt;/strong&gt; We have a new enemy - Luke Skywalker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VADER:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, my master.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EMPEROR:&lt;/strong&gt; He could destroy us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VADER:&lt;/strong&gt; He’s just a boy. Obi-Wan can no longer help him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EMPEROR:&lt;/strong&gt; The Force is strong with him. The son of Skywalker must not become a Jedi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VADER:&lt;/strong&gt; If he could be turned, he would become a powerful ally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EMPEROR:&lt;/strong&gt; Yes. Yes. He would be a great asset. Can it be done?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VADER:&lt;/strong&gt; He will join us or die, my master.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it was rewritten again for the 2004 DVD re-release:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EMPEROR:&lt;/strong&gt; We have a new enemy, the young rebel who destroyed the Deathstar. I have no doubt this boy is the offspring of Anakin Skywalker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VADER:&lt;/strong&gt; How is that possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EMPEROR:&lt;/strong&gt; Search your feelings, Lord Vader. You will know it to be true. He could destroy us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VADER:&lt;/strong&gt; He is just a boy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Vader of course knows that he himself is Anakin Skywalker, he realizes that the emperor is telling him that the &quot;young rebel&quot; is his son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastEditorUserId="11216" LastEditDate="2018-08-04T19:47:49.183" LastActivityDate="2018-08-04T19:47:49.183" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="44989" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44968" CreationDate="2015-12-18T18:53:03.657" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;As noted in that &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111033/what-is-the-political-situation-of-the-force-awakens&quot;&gt;Sci-Fi exchange post&lt;/a&gt;, and by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Order_(Star_Wars)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia entry&lt;/a&gt; for the First Order, the gist is that after the Rebellion struck a major blow to the Empire in the Battle of Endor (plus some other conflicts after that, such as the &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Jakku&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Battle of Jakku&lt;/a&gt;), the Empire was fractured into several splinter groups, of which the First Order is one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, the First Order is led by former Imperial officers who adhere to the principles of the former Empire's system of government. The Resistance is a group fighting against them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this, I'd say that the Resistance is a group of fighters in/from what is now a section of space left to the splinter groups of the old Empire who are fighting against the efforts of the First Order, and the Republic has been accused by the First Order of aiding and abetting the efforts of the Resistance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.873" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T18:53:03.657" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44990" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-18T18:58:01.267" Score="5" ViewCount="429" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the frankly cinematic masterpiece that is the 1953 short film &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Duck Amuck&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the titular Daffy Duck is tortured by an unseen artist, the implied hand of god of a film/cartoon known as the animator. The hand of god turns out to be none other than Daffy's arch frenemy Bugs Bunny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/rTeayxENpFg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this imply that Bugs is always the animator/hand of god in the Loony Tunes or Merrie Melodies series? Or is Bugs the real Chuck Jones? Does this extend to any of the other films with these characters?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-19T01:43:27.230" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T01:43:27.230" Title="Was Bugs Bunny always The Animator?" Tags="|fourth-wall|looney-tunes|merrie-melodies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44991" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44990" CreationDate="2015-12-18T19:51:04.483" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would highly doubt that implication.  I think the animators were just having a little fun.  After all, very little about those cartoons carries over; Bugs doesn't live in the same place every time, Porky Pig's whole personality went through a metamorphosis, Daffy Duck has been paired with Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.  It's an ever changing world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Amuck&quot;&gt;The cartoon&lt;/a&gt;, as it were, was so well-liked it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.  The important piece from that Wiki page that relates to your question would be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although in the end, the animator is revealed to be Daffy's rival Bugs&#xA;  Bunny (who declares &quot;Ain't I a stinker?&quot;), according to Jones the&#xA;  ending is just for comedic value: Jones (the director) is speaking to&#xA;  the audience directly, asking &quot;Who is Daffy Duck anyway? Would you&#xA;  recognize him if I did this to him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T19:51:04.483" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44993" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9844" CreationDate="2015-12-18T21:32:42.080" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The simple answer is that Barry was taken very recently. When the aliens finally decide that we're worthy of &lt;em&gt;official&lt;/em&gt; first contact, as a show of good faith they returned all of their subjects in the same state they &lt;s&gt;abducted&lt;/s&gt; acquired them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no specific information about how long Barry was gone, but it wasn't &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; long, albeit sufficient time has passed for his mother to have had a mental breakdown and lose considerable amounts of weight:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She did not look at all well. She had lost a lot of weight since Barry had been taken. More than that, though, Jillian had the look of someone who had suffered the greatest loss imaginable and was paying for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On his return, he's obviously the same age as they day he was taken:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the civilians, staggered by it all, said to the team leader, “&lt;strong&gt;They haven’t even aged!&lt;/strong&gt; Einstein was right.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “Einstein was probably one of them.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quotes from '&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0440013739&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Close Encounter of the Third Kind - A Novel by Stephen Spielberg&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T21:32:42.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44963" CreationDate="2015-12-18T21:55:00.163" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought (but now think I'm wrong) that he might have turned out to be General Madine - about the right age -30 years, bearded. I think it was the way that the text scroll said &quot;an old ally...&quot; as though we ought to have known who he was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28873" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T21:55:00.163" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44963" CreationDate="2015-12-18T22:35:28.213" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is Crix Madine but he may have simply been someone that Luke fought alongside in the Rebellion. It could be an original character that isn't all that important to the bigger picture. He just plays his role and dies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28876" LastActivityDate="2015-12-18T22:35:28.213" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="44997" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19554" CreationDate="2015-12-18T23:05:10.917" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The arms appear to be only semi-sentient, largely acting in response to Octavius' subconscious desires; especially those regarding his desire for scientific success and his need to atone for the dismal failure of his earlier experiment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Their key symptom is to utterly remove any semblance of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_control_disorder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;impulse control&lt;/a&gt; from the Doc, driving him to undertake acts that he would never &lt;em&gt;seriously&lt;/em&gt; contemplate (let alone act upon) if he was fully in control of his faculties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;You worry about too many things, Father [said the tentacles]. That is why you cannot focus. You must start at the beginning. Make one thing right, and everything else will follow. &lt;strong&gt;The first thing you have to do is rebuild the fusion reactor.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot; As much as he wanted to ignore the voices, Octavius felt the need to respond. Perhaps he could argue them into going away. “Rebuild? Why? It didn't work. Peter Parker was right. I miscalculated, and now they're laughing at me.” &lt;strong&gt;Do not be absurd, Father. You are the great Octavius. Everyone knows it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0345470540&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spider-Man 2: A Novel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="55564" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2022-03-01T15:27:09.433" LastActivityDate="2022-03-01T15:27:09.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="45000" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45005" CreationDate="2015-12-18T23:30:01.040" Score="8" ViewCount="2640" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a film when I was very young, so my memory is a little hazy. The film is from the 80’s or maybe the very early 90’s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film set aboard a spaceship and there is something possessing the crew (possibly the devil...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a female android with short hair which kind of acts like the ships computer. To my memory she is only ever located in one room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point when being approached by a possessed crew member she says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Get away from me fu**er.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(that line always stuck with me for some reason)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the crew of the ship pick up the demon or devil when visiting another abandoned ship. When they are looking around in one of the cabins there is a troll doll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very end there are just two crew members left, one of them being possessed. The other crew member either blows up the ship or flys it into a black hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If anyone has any ideas what this film could be I’d love to know what it is as its been bugging me for a long time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28877" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-19T00:14:47.867" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T01:43:29.447" Title="What is the name of this space-based horror film?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:14:45.550" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45001" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45003" CreationDate="2015-12-18T23:42:01.293" Score="6" ViewCount="1650" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;, I couldn't help but think it's a total remake of &lt;em&gt;A New Hope&lt;/em&gt; given the amount of similar subplots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've listed entire subplots of both movies that are identical in story (but not in realisation). Are there others? Which ones?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;An important message is given to a droid and the droid is sent on its own on a sand-planet to protect that message. The message is about something very important for both main factions of the galaxy and has to be delivered to the group later joined by the protagonist. The antagonist sends his troops after that droid.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The protagonist is a 20-something year old living on a sand planet who rescues/retrieves that droid from scavengers. They find a rebel guy and get off the sand-planet with him (on the Falcon Millenium) after the situation has become unsustainable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In terms of objects, the protagonist acquires the lightsaber of the previous trilogy's protagonist and happens to be really good with spaceships.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The antagonist answers to a bigger, shady villain. He has for home a planet-wide weapon made to destroy planets and is a real big deal there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The protagonist's group finishes its plan to destroy the planet-wide weapon and sends a X-Wings there to destroy its weak point.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The antagonist kills his previous &quot;figure of authority&quot;, furthermore in a situation that was provoked by that previous &quot;figure of authority&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The planet-wide weapon is destroyed just seconds before it can fire again, thanks to the protagonist's friends' best pilot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please respect the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;limit yourself to entire character-focused situations or subplots;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;make the description easily identifiable;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;do not include specific or anecdotal scenes, cameos or nods.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18757" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2015-12-30T20:58:06.770" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T20:58:06.770" Title="What are the subplots common to both The Force Awakens and A New Hope?" Tags="|star-wars|the-force-awakens|a-new-hope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45003" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45001" CreationDate="2015-12-19T00:12:47.860" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as the first &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; film (aka: &lt;em&gt;A New Hope&lt;/em&gt;) goes this struck me as similar:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A group of innocent villagers—as a well as a tangentially connected protector/ally—are indiscriminately massacred by soldiers hunting for the lost droid. Remember how Jawas were killed and Uncle Ben and Aunt Beru were killed in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;? Pretty much like that whole opening scene in &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; plot-wise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A key protagonist is rescued from imprisonment by someone unknown to the protagonist but sympathetic to their cause and is dressed as a Stormtrooper. In &lt;em&gt;A New Hope&lt;/em&gt; Leia is rescued from the Death Star by Luke and Han (disguised as Stormtroopers) and Chewbacca (their supposed prisoner). Leia knows who Ben Kenobi is, but she doesn’t know who this “short” Stormtrooper (aka: Luke) is who breaks into her prison cell to rescue her but believes him and follows him. In &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; an actual Stormtrooper who is sick of what he does as a Stormtrooper decides to rescue a key Resistance pilot to escape the First Order. The Resistance pilot has no idea who this Stormtrooper is but follows him to escape. This also parallels the backstory of Luke’s friend &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Biggs_Darklighter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Biggs Darklighter&lt;/a&gt; who leaves the Empire to join the Rebellion as well. And even Han Solo’s backstory as well. As &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/36820/14850&quot;&gt;explained here&lt;/a&gt;, Han was an Imperial Officer and he was ordered to kill Chewbacca—who was rescuing Wookie children destined to be used as slaves—but didn’t. The friendship helped convince Han Solo to leave the Imperial Navy and become a smuggler instead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On that last note:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In general, people discover new choices in life and decide to follow them. Luke discovers a whole new world via the droids and Ben Kenobi and the Rebellion. Finn decides he’s sick of the murder and bloodshed he sees and defects with the aid of a Resistance pilot. Rey and Finn meet up and discover their destinies are better off elsewhere with the help of a droid. Han Solo and Chewbacca in both films are smugglers who are in debt but then realize that helping their friends in the end is the best thing they can do.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this is a snarky Internet meme image being passed around, but I believe it’s pretty much on the nose as far as &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;/&lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; parallels go:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;↓&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bznz4.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bznz4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Snarky Internet meme explaining how “The Force Awakens” is just a rehash of the first “Star Wars” film.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18230" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T20:03:00.530" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45004" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44963" CreationDate="2015-12-19T00:16:38.110" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I also think that he may be an Alderaanian expatriot. In TFA he states to Poe, about Leia, &quot;...to me she will always be royalty.&quot;  Unless he is stating it figuratively, because of his connection to the Church of the Force, it rings of a deeper loyalty or fealty that would only be expressed by someone of Alderaanian descent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28879" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T00:16:38.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45000" CreationDate="2015-12-19T00:27:01.350" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099364/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dark Side of the Moon&lt;/a&gt; from 1990.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The Dark Side of The Moon&quot; takes place in 2022 as &lt;strong&gt;the crew of a spaceship is forced to land on the entitled dark side of the moon because of an obscure system failure. Unexpectedly a decades-old NASA shuttle, which went missing in action, appears and drifts towards them. They board the space-wreck&lt;/strong&gt; in hope of finding some supplies or oxygen stored, not knowing that the ship originally vanished in the spooky Bermuda Triangle! And neither is any of them aware of the fact that &lt;strong&gt;Satan itself is waiting on the ship, quite eager to bloodily snatch the souls of all crew members&lt;/strong&gt; as part of a scheme by which Satan may rightfully return to Heaven...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ship's computer is a short-haired female robot—named Lesli—who indeed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099364/quotes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;says at some point&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Get away from me, you motherf#@%er!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/f0YvN6RPS6k?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2015-12-19T01:43:29.447" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T01:43:29.447" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45000" CreationDate="2015-12-19T00:30:14.003" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure it doesn’t have a short-haired female robot, but a lot of what’s described sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119081/?ref_=ttmd_md_nm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Event Horizon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from 1997:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black&#xA;  hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/OVlnER8SxfQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18230" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T00:30:14.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45013" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45027" CreationDate="2015-12-19T05:09:08.727" Score="13" ViewCount="65503" Body="&lt;p&gt;When James Bond wins the poker bet, he and Vesper go to dinner. Her phone rings two times, and in the latter, she says that Mathis needs her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a moments that she leaves, Bond thought that something was wrong from the fact that Mathis send the text, and goes after her, to see her capture and start pursuing. He crashes the car, Le Chiffre captures him and says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your friend Mathis, was really my friend Mathis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But how Bond drew the conclusion that Vesper would be captured from the fact that Mathis called her? Nowhere in the movie indicates that Mathis is a traitor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8584" LastActivityDate="2018-01-12T13:43:56.803" Title="How did Bond know about Mathis on Casino Royale?" Tags="|james-bond|casino-royale|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45016" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-19T05:49:17.183" Score="7" ViewCount="5122" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the planning scene in Gone in 60 Seconds, Kip suggests playing a &quot;shadow game&quot;, which Memphis quickly dismisses. However no amount of googling seems to be able to tell me what that actually is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KIP:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;You spread it out ... you move around... So's they can't touch you... so's they don't know... &lt;strong&gt;Shadow games and shit ...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MEMPHIS:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Shadow games?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KIP:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Shadow games ...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28886" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-19T08:43:16.050" LastActivityDate="2016-03-30T11:12:28.503" Title="What is a &quot;shadow game&quot; from Gone in 60 Seconds?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gone-in-60-seconds|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44936" CreationDate="2015-12-19T06:19:58.557" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;My guess is because she has the force she could be han and Leia daughter or she could be Luke's daughter. When Luke and Rey meet up it seems like they have a real connection with each other&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28887" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T06:19:58.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45018" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-19T06:20:16.967" Score="3" ViewCount="166" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0191397/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Replacements&lt;/em&gt; (2000)&lt;/a&gt;, is there ever a date mentioned for a possible end to the Pros' strike? If not, how does the replacement team know when it's their last game?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't recall hearing an expected end date, just that they want more money and that the strike will continue until they get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just seems as though, once the original QB crosses the picket line, the replacement team all knows it's going to be their last game. But the rest of the original team has not crossed the picket line yet.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2017-04-26T19:21:00.250" LastActivityDate="2017-04-26T19:21:00.250" Title="How long will the strike last?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-replacements|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45016" CreationDate="2015-12-19T08:57:05.217" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In context he seems to be referring to using misdirection to throw the police off their scent, presumably boosting cars they don't need and moving from area to area in order to force the police to try to work out their (heavily disguised) plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, If one wanted to steal ten Lamborghini cars to order, perhaps stealing three the first night along with six (&lt;em&gt;unneeded&lt;/em&gt;) Mercedes cars would confuse law enforcement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You got maybe a better plan?&quot; Donny Astricky asked, completely skeptical.&#xA;  &quot;Yeah!&quot; Kip said. &quot;You spread it out. You move around. Shadow games and shit.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;Right,&quot; Memphis said, dismissing the comment. &quot;Go on, Otto.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;Since we're on a truncated timetable, we take a day to shop it, a day to prep, and—&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;Hey,&quot; Kip interrupted. &quot;Didn't you hear what I said?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;Yes. We heard,&quot; Memphis said. &quot;Shadow games. But what you have to understand, Kip, is that if you play shadow games, by the next night, the heat is on to you. With a one-night boost, by the time the first cars are reported stolen, your ship's set sail.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Kip and the others nodded begrudgingly. It made sense. Memphis nodded to Otto, who continued his analysis. - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1853554.Gone_in_60_Seconds_Movie_Tie_In&quot;&gt;Gone in 60 Seconds: Movie Tie-in&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-19T09:32:30.090" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T09:32:30.090" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45022" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45023" CreationDate="2015-12-19T09:07:37.970" Score="10" ViewCount="1926" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious as to whether a (once?) hugely popular and liked sitcom that is/was The Big Bang Theory be pulled off the air before its final season. The show's longevity was confirmed in March of last year by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/big-bang-theory-renewed-season-687949&quot;&gt;The Hollywood Reporter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CBS has handed out a hefty &lt;strong&gt;three-season renewal&lt;/strong&gt; for The Big Bang Theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The pickup takes TV's No. 1 comedy among adults 18-49 through season 10 and &lt;strong&gt;extends the series through the 2016-17 season&lt;/strong&gt;.The deal marks the second time the series, […]  , has earned a massive three-season renewal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, according to the website &lt;em&gt;Rotten Tomatoes&lt;/em&gt;, the audience ratings for the show are not as high as they once were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the-big-bang-theory/s06/&quot;&gt;Season six&lt;/a&gt; the meter scored &lt;strong&gt;67%&lt;/strong&gt; among TV critics, and &lt;strong&gt;81%&lt;/strong&gt; among viewers&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the-big-bang-theory/s07/&quot;&gt;Season seven&lt;/a&gt;  (2013-2014) the ratings rocketed to &lt;strong&gt;100%&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;85%&lt;/strong&gt; respectively.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the-big-bang-theory/s08/&quot;&gt;Season eight&lt;/a&gt; (2014-2015) the TV critics seemed to pan the show, only &lt;strong&gt;67%&lt;/strong&gt; gave a positive review while &lt;strong&gt;71%&lt;/strong&gt; of RT users who reviewed the show thought it was still good. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the-big-bang-theory/s09/&quot;&gt;Season nine&lt;/a&gt; (2015-2016) so far &lt;strong&gt;84%&lt;/strong&gt; of the critics have given the sitcom a positive rating while a staggering all-time-low &lt;strong&gt;54%&lt;/strong&gt; of viewers/fans have praised the show.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q1. In light of these figures, and I'm sure there must be others similar, how realistic is it for CBS to  go ahead with the production scheduled for season 20016-2017?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also consider the amount of money each episode of TBBT costs to pay three actors' salaries &lt;em&gt;alone&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After months of negotiations, the trio [Galecki, Cuoco, and Parsons] finally banged out new,&#xA;  three-year deals on Sunday that will &lt;strong&gt;triple their current $350,000 an&#xA;  episode salary.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Now, the CBS stars will be raking in $1 million paychecks per episode&#xA;  for 72 episodes in the upcoming seasons 8-10.&#xA;  […]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  All in, I hear Parsons, Galecki and Cuoco are poised to make &lt;strong&gt;at least $90 million dollars each&lt;/strong&gt; over the lives of the deals ...   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/big-bang-theory-cast-sign-90-million-salary-deal-2014-8?IR=T&quot;&gt;Business Insider&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q2. Has there ever been a show which has been pulled off the air despite its contract being extended the previous season or two?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20549" LastEditorUserId="20549" LastEditDate="2015-12-19T12:32:40.510" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T17:15:59.993" Title="Can a TV sitcom like TBBT be pulled off the air prematurely?" Tags="|production|the-big-bang-theory|sitcoms|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45022" CreationDate="2015-12-19T10:03:29.743" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, Any network could change their decision and cancel a show after renewing it or (more likely) order a small number of episodes. For example &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3216586/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Brink&lt;/a&gt; starring Jack Black. HBO renewed the show for season 2 then reversed the decision&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ismyshowcancelled.com/article/2015-10-27/hbo-cancels-the-brink/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HBO Cancels The Brink&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The network has reversed its Season 2 renewal&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HBO has cancelled The Brink after its first season, changing its tune on the freshman series after initially renewing it. The Tim Robbins and Jack Black comedy was halfway through its debut run when word first broke that HBO had picked up the show for Season 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it is unclear what changed the cable network's mind in the months since, HBO did release the following statement:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;After evaluating our schedule and our programming needs, we unfortunately decided we cannot give The Brink the attention it deserves for a second season. We are proud of the first season and wish everyone involved in this show the very best.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's unlikely something like that happens to TBBT since it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/cbs-2015-16-season-ratings-38085/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the highest rated CBS show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24398" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T10:15:51.263" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30884" CreationDate="2015-12-19T11:10:41.577" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;An original script draft for &quot;The Matrix&quot; from 3 June 1997 was posted on the Russian Science fiction site sfy.iv.ru; it's still accessible via the Internet Wayback Machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the script, Switch is referenced as &quot;a beautiful androgyne&quot;, but the pronoun &quot;her&quot; is used to describe the character both inside and outside The Matrix itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, while there is the possibility mentioned in the novelization of the film, and there is fan fiction dependent upon both change of gender and change of race, it appears that the &quot;Switch&quot; character is an androgynous female in both places.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you want a Wachowski film that has massive amounts of gender switching as a main plot thread, try &quot;Cloud Atlas&quot; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20020826053632/http://sfy.iv.ru/sfy.html?script=matrix_ds&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Internet Wayback Machine pointer to script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28895" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T11:10:41.577" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45022" CreationDate="2015-12-19T11:48:59.370" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Max Headroom&lt;/em&gt; was cancelled partway into its second season, when it was put up against &lt;em&gt;Miami Vice&lt;/em&gt;, on one network, and &lt;em&gt;Dallas&lt;/em&gt;, on another, and basically died in the ratings due to it's time slot.  The final episode makes ironic reference to this in a speech the character gives:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;We will fight them on the beaches of Miami,&quot; said Max with the fervor of Winston Churchill. &quot;We will fight them on the sidewalks of Dallas. . . . And if the ratings system lasts for thousands of years, men will turn and say, this was Max Headroom's finest hour!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ironically, shows that have one of the main actors die, such as Dan Blocker on &lt;em&gt;Bonanza&lt;/em&gt;, or Peter Duel in &lt;em&gt;Alias Smith and Jones&lt;/em&gt;, or Redd Foxx in &lt;em&gt;The Royal Family&lt;/em&gt;, etc., tend to trundle on until the end of the season, trying to survive without the main character, but tank.  This is usually due to contractual agreements and threats of lawsuits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, it's rather rare for a cable network to cancel a series they paid for; the cost structure is much different for network television shows, which tend to not do their own production, but the networks are also the ones with the biggest contractual disputes, since they know the show can't go on, but they in insist on the show going on, in the hope that the production company will eat the loss, instead of them eating the loss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28895" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T11:48:59.370" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45013" CreationDate="2015-12-19T13:34:01.543" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;This scene appears in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(novel)&quot;&gt;source novel&lt;/a&gt; by Ian Fleming, albeit with a paper note rather than an SMS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;At four o'clock Bond was about to call for the bill when the maitre d'hotel appeared at their table and inquired for Miss Lynd. He handed her a note which she took and read hastily.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  'Oh, it's only Mathis,' she said. 'He says would I come to the entrance hall. He's got a message for you. Perhaps he's not in evening clothes or something. I won't be a minute. Then perhaps we could go home.'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Suddenly the note to Vesper seemed odd to him. It was not the way&#xA;  Mathis would do things. He would have asked them both to join him at&#xA;  the bar of the Casino or he would have joined them in the night-club,&#xA;  whatever his clothes. They would have laughed together and Mathis&#xA;  would have been excited. He had much to tell Bond, more than Bond had&#xA;  to tell him. The arrest of the Bulgarian, who had probably talked some&#xA;  more; the chase after the man with the stick; Le Chiffre's movements&#xA;  when he left the Casino.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also pretty notable that while Vesper and Mathis are both ostensibly on the same side and share a mutual contact (Bond) there's no obvious reason why he'd be touching base with her instead of him. This explains the second part of your question; &lt;strong&gt;Bond is leaving the restaurant, not specifically to follow Vesper but to go and see Mathis&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When added to the fact that he's still trying to puzzle out how his ability to read Le Chiffre's &quot;tell&quot; failed (something that only Vesper and Mathis could have disclosed) it all seems a bit suspicious and certainly worthy of his attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, he probably would have realised all of this sooner if he hadn't &lt;strong&gt;nearly died&lt;/strong&gt; a few hours ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T13:34:01.543" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45028" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45207" CreationDate="2015-12-19T14:31:43.010" Score="12" ViewCount="2360" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed that the newest film in the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; series is officially titled &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2488496/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, while all the previous films followed the format of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: Episode &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;N&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt; - &lt;code&gt;&amp;lt;Subtitle&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that the very first film was originally only released as &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; and the Episode notation was a bit of an afterthought. However, this titling has since been common practice for decades. The new film's deviation from that practice thus seems quite unusual to me, especially since it is the official continuation of the main &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; storyline and part of a so-called &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_sequel_trilogy&quot;&gt;&quot;sequel trilogy&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;strong&gt;is there any secured information or at least reasonably argued deduction as to why this film is not titled &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T23:01:07.307" Title="Why does The Force Awakens not use the Episode notation?" Tags="|star-wars|title|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45028" CreationDate="2015-12-19T14:59:52.010" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As noted in that SFF question, previously the movies didn't either and they were added in later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The opening crawl for The Force Awakens has &quot;Episode VII&quot; just above the main title to denote that it is, in fact, Episode VII, and thus canon to the other &quot;Episode&quot; movies in the Star Wars franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From my quick bit of research, it would seem the choice was mainly stylistic because the original trilogy films didn't use the &quot;Episode&quot; and number in any advertising. That apparently didn't happen until the prequels came along, and it's believed it was to help audiences to clearly know these films came &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the original trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, &lt;strong&gt;Abrams is likely just making a stylistic choice to tie the advertising and the films themselves closer to the original trilogy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-12-19T15:11:03.630" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T15:11:03.630" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45022" CreationDate="2015-12-19T17:08:10.153" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sure it can. If one of the main stars say or do something stupid, any show can get canned. For example professional Blowhard Donald Trump racist remarks resulted in Univision and NBC from dropping his shows.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starcasm.net/archives/320385&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://starcasm.net/archives/320385&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“At NBC, respect and dignity for all people are cornerstones of our values,” begins a statement issued by the network earlier today. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Due to the recent derogatory statements by Donald Trump regarding immigrants, NBC Universal is ending its business relationship with Mr. Trump.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The statement reveals what the end of their relationship with Trump means. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“To that end, the annual Miss USA and Miss Universe Pageants, which are part of a joint venture between NBC and Trump, will no longer air on NBC,”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; the network says. “In addition, as Mr. Trump has already indicated, he will not be participating in The Apprentice on NBC.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Food Network also dropped Paula Deen cooking show after her racist remarks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T17:15:59.993" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45033" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44893" CreationDate="2015-12-19T19:59:59.933" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Spoiler below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; As confirmed by J.J. Abrams at a recent screening, only the voice of Ben Kenobi and Yoda are heard during Rey’s force flashback scene in &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From an article in &lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/star-wars-7-force-awakens-cameos-jj-abrams-lawrence-kasdan-daisy-ridley/?utm_source=facebook&amp;amp;utm_medium=social&amp;amp;utm_campaign=collidersocial&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Collider&lt;/a&gt; (and other places):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“The idea of the voices was, we wanted the audience to feel – but not necessarily be presented right in your face — this idea that familiar, Force-strong voices were connecting with her. At least as well as they could…You do hear a little bit of Yoda. You hear Luke yelling out, ‘Nooo!’ from that moment in Empire. And you hear Obi-Wan at the end say, ‘Rey, these are your first steps.’…Here’s the cool part. We asked Ewan McGregor to come in and do the line. And he was awesome and we were very grateful. He was incredibly sweet and handsome, and all that stuff. Then he rode off on his motorcycle. Literally the coolest voice over actor ever.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here’s what he had to say about Oz coming into the Bad Robot offices to bring back the voice of Jedi Master Yoda:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“He was incredibly generous and came in to Bad Robot, where we had a recording area, and he was doing Yoda, saying a number of lines we gave to him…This whole experience has been one outrageous moment after another. Just watching Frank Oz, you look at him and talk to him and his voice is very deep. I don’t know why I would have thought he sounded like Miss Piggy!…He was very generous to say, ‘Whatever makes the movie better, I’m happy to help out.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28908" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T19:46:57.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45035" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-19T20:31:09.580" Score="2" ViewCount="299" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie The Gift, did Gordon ensure that Simon's firm got to know that he had framed Danny to get the promotion? In effect, did Gordon orchestrate Simon losing his job and his wife? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T08:05:45.940" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T08:05:45.940" Title="Did Gordo have anything to do with Simon's firm finding out that Danny was framed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-gift|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45039" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44865" CreationDate="2015-12-19T22:53:58.487" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to this clip of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UzSekc0LoQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt;, Adaline was born January 1, 1908, and Flemming was born in 1935, which would make them 27 years apart.  My understanding is that Adaline had her accident in 1937, shortly after Flemming's birth, which made her an &quot;eternal&quot; 29.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From 1935 to the end of 2015 would be 80 years. Not everyone lives that long, but given Adaline's &quot;longevity,&quot; it's not unlikely that Flemming would enjoy the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9097" LastEditorUserId="9097" LastEditDate="2015-12-19T23:04:47.533" LastActivityDate="2015-12-19T23:04:47.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45048" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-20T03:11:02.523" Score="8" ViewCount="822" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film Snowpiercer (2013), besides population control was Wilford's offering up leadership of the train to Curtis also part of the plan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, was Wilford planning on retiring and offering the job to Curtis all along, or was it more of a spur of the moment thing just because Curtis had made it so far, and Wilford knew he was getting older? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wilford even mentions that it was what Gilliam wanted for Curtis, to be in control. But he also says that the original plan was to kill off a good portion of Curtis' people in the tunnel, and then send them back to the end of the train with more space (population control). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Wilford had planned on offering Curtis control of the train all along, why didn't he put forth more effort into making sure Curtis was not harmed or killed along the way to the engine? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T03:11:20.183" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T03:11:20.183" Title="Was the job offer part of the plan all along?" Tags="|plot-explanation|snowpiercer|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45049" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-20T03:27:46.953" Score="11" ViewCount="21664" Body="&lt;p&gt;So in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Kylo Ren gets shot by Chewbacca before chasing Finn and Rey down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As he fights them we see him punching his side where the wound is and there's blood on the snow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zgDZi.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zgDZi.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What the heck is he doing? Is this some kind of dark side healing method?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&#xA;There is an &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111284/why-does-kylo-ren-keep-hitting-the-side-of-his-body&quot;&gt;indentical question&lt;/a&gt; of this at SciFi SE which was posted about an hour before mine. Neither of them has an accepted response but there are some good theories. I'd like to see someone come up with a theory that can be backed up though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2016-05-07T22:32:42.767" Title="Why was Kylo Ren punching himself?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="8" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45050" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45053" CreationDate="2015-12-20T03:37:16.817" Score="4" ViewCount="1199" Body="&lt;p&gt;Near the end of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Kylo Ren chases after Finn and Rey right before the lightsaber battle. As they run they are looking behind to see if he is chasing after them and are surprised when they run into him in front of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How the heck did he get in front of them? They are surprised by this as well so there's something to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2016-01-08T16:35:33.063" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T16:35:33.063" Title="How did Kylo Ren get ahead of them?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45051" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45049" CreationDate="2015-12-20T03:37:56.947" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As suggested by &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kylo_Ren#Powers_and_abilities&quot;&gt;Wookipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The dark warrior also possessed a strong tolerance to physical pain, able to fight even after being shot by Chewbacca and wounded by Finn and Rey. Kylo could be seen beating his wound &lt;strong&gt;to utilize his pain and tap into the dark side of the force.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T03:38:45.463" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T03:38:45.463" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45052" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45069" CreationDate="2015-12-20T03:40:04.387" Score="6" ViewCount="1897" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Snowpiercer (2013), why were Namgoong and his daughter in prison? Was it because they were &quot;drug addicts&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T19:56:56.327" Title="Why was Namgoong in prison?" Tags="|plot-explanation|snowpiercer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45050" CreationDate="2015-12-20T03:47:20.323" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it's unlikely we'll attain some sort of directly stated reason, one that could be inferred would be: his incredibly mastery of the Force and the powers it can provide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Throughout the film we've seen him wielding immense control of his ability to use the Force, from delving into the minds of others to even stopping a blaster bolt in midair, which we'd never seen on film before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One ability that &lt;em&gt;has&lt;/em&gt; been shown is the ability to run away quickly by using the Force, known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Force_speed&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Force Speed&lt;/a&gt;. Qui Gon Jinn and Obi-wan used this ability early in Episode I to escape from Droidekas that were attacking them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/MY4tXUtu9_I?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, it's possible to assume it was Kylo's sheer mastery of the Force that allowed him to get ahead of them so quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T03:47:20.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45054" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45127" CreationDate="2015-12-20T03:50:59.987" Score="12" ViewCount="11800" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;, after the Resistance returned to their base from destroying Starkiller Base, R2-D2 suddenly wakes up with the wonderful news that he contains an additional piece of the puzzle they need in order to find Luke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What prompts him to wake up? Is it just a coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2015-12-30T19:31:21.940" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T19:31:21.940" Title="What prompted R2-D2 to wake up at this point in “The Force Awakens?”" Tags="|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45054" CreationDate="2015-12-20T03:56:34.357" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The current belief is that &lt;strong&gt;Rey's presence is what prompted R2-D2 to awake from low power mode.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he's revealed to be at the Resistance base, the only character that's not there is Rey because she's been taken hostage by Kylo Ren. At the end of the film she's now back at Resistance headquarters, and her presence seems to be what spurns R2 to wake up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The running suspicion is that Rey is related to Luke in some way. Remember that C-3PO tells BB-8 that R2-D2 went into low power mode not long after Master Luke left after Kylo betrayed him and destroyed the new Jedi Order he was attempting to build.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, without official word that her presence is what caused R2 to wake up, we'll likely have to wait for the inevitable sequels to know for certain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T03:56:34.357" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44961" CreationDate="2015-12-20T05:21:54.880" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first part of your question asks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Starkiller Base was targeting the Resistance base wasn’t it? If so then why did they need to lightspeed it back…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unlike the Death Star from the first &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; film and even &lt;em&gt;Death Star II&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Starkiller_Base&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Starkiller Base&lt;/a&gt; did not have to be as close to it’s target. Remember the Death Star needed to orbit around Yavin to be in range of one of Yavin’s moons—Yavin 4—where the Rebels were hiding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In contrast Starkiller Base can not only destroy multiple planets are once, but can also do so at a great distance from another star system. Where the delay in the Death Star attacking was mainly connected to getting in orbit near it’s target and then charging it’s weapon to fire, Starkiller base’s main impediment to attack was charing it’s weapon by draining power of a nearby star/sun and then firing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that understood, addressing this aspect of your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;…and if the sun was destroyed why was it light at the end when they came back? Was I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is based on what I visually saw in the film: Since the main power source for Starkiller Base was literally sucking the energy away from a nearby star/sun, when the Resistance attacked the base they did not really explode the planet as much as released all of that captured power from the sun/star and the planet was consumed by it in a fireball.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether the planet then stabilized into a sun/star itself is unclear based on what we know, but at least up until the moment the Resistance warped back to their base on the planet &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/D&amp;#39;Qar&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;D'Qar&lt;/a&gt;, it seemed as if it the planet itself didn’t become a new star/sun it at least was so consumed by fire for enough time it seemed to be a new star/sun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18230" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T21:03:44.077" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T21:03:44.077" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43540" CreationDate="2015-12-20T07:24:35.147" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alec's plan is basically a robbery (ala Goldfinger, one of many plot elements that are updates to traditional Bond themes), they are robbing an (unnamed) set of companies /banks/stock exchange etc via Boris's hacking ability, the Goldeneye is to be used at the end to destroy evidence of what they've done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hit on Sevrenaya is to steal the Goldeneye, only Ourumov and the Sevrenaya crew (which Boris was one) know there are 2 satellites,  so Ourumov and Onatopp kill (they think) everyone to stop that info getting out. This is why Ourumov kills the minister who is questioning Bond and Natalyia leter on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T07:24:35.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45069" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45052" CreationDate="2015-12-20T08:55:12.710" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The sticker on his prison locker states that he's a Kronol Addict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Namgoong Minsu. Kronol addict.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While this might be acceptable behaviour for the dilettantes found at the front of the train, Namgoong and his apprentice (his daughter) are engineers who would, presumably be expected to remain clean and sober in order to do their jobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f1s7k.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/f1s7k.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T19:56:56.327" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T19:56:56.327" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45074" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45077" CreationDate="2015-12-20T11:20:57.350" Score="5" ViewCount="3537" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's the following scene in &lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robin: Why? Why?! What’s wrong with me?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Billy: What’s the matter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robin: I have a feelin’... I, my wife is sleeping with her gynecologist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(The gang is now eavesdropping in on the conversation, and is shocked.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Billy: How do you know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robin: Well ya know, he’s got access.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Billy: Yeah.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robin: Y'know it’s that feeling you get, ya know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Billy: Like when you go bowling and you know you’re in somebody else’s shoes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robin: That’s the one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[cut back to the gang.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phoebe: All right, so, so you went to Pete’s...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ross: What happened?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monica: (Robin is speaking loudly again) I...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[cut to Billy and Robin]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robin: Why is this happening to me?! I don’t know, maybe it’s my wound.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[cut to the gang]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monica: Forget it. (they all turn and listen to Billy and Robin)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Billy: So it’s-it’s not healed yet?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robin: No-no, it’s oozing, oozing. (to Rachel) Could you pass me the cream? Is there any—Oh, there’s the cream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Billy: Thomas, this is gonna be hard, but I wanted it to come from me, and nobody else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robin: What is it, Tim?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Billy: It’s me, I’ve been sleeping with your wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joey: (to Billy) So you’re the gynecologist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Billy: (to Joey) Hey, I’m trying to have a private conversation! Is that okay?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Robin: (starting to cry) Ooh, (to Rachel) Can I have a napkin, please? Could you please hand me a napkin? (Rachel tries to grab one, but is too slow for his tastes.) Would you--Give me this thing (grabs the napkin holder from her.) all right!! Enough! (to Billy) And you are no longer my friend! We are finished! (gets up to leave) Nada!! No more! You are a bastard for doing this!! (Billy follows him) Get away from me!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ok, the whole scene has many questions for me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Like when you go bowling and you know you’re in somebody else’s shoes?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; What does he mean by that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Maybe it’s my wound.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; What is the oozing wound? And what has it to do with the cheating feeling? And there is a cream in the table? And why does he need it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;You are a bastard for doing this.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; When I was reading the transcript I saw &amp;quot;bastard&amp;quot; in bald font, and when he said it the crowd was laughing, is there something rather funny about it that I don't get? Or is it just funny because it is silly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28732" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T16:49:58.583" Title="Billy Crystal &amp; Robin Williams scene on Friends" Tags="|dialogue|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2019-06-25T16:42:20.727" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45075" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45078" CreationDate="2015-12-20T11:29:27.927" Score="1" ViewCount="387" Body="&lt;p&gt;From Friends: &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.versatel.nl/friendspic0102/transcripts/html/0324.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The One With The Ultimate Fighting Champion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monica:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;He [Pete] wanted to tell me he’s gonna compete is some ultimate fighting competition thingy ... it's like wrestling ...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Phoebe:&lt;/strong&gt; [intrigued] &lt;em&gt;Oh?!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monica:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Yeah, but without the costumes.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Phoebe:&lt;/strong&gt; [disappointed] &lt;em&gt;Oh.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phoebe was immediately intrigued then disappointed. I know that girls like fashion and costumes, but I think Phoebe was &lt;strong&gt;far too&lt;/strong&gt; intrigued by the idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this a play on the fact that girls (in general) are interested &amp;quot;wrestler's costumes&amp;quot; or a joke that was somehow specific to Phoebe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28732" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T22:24:20.427" Title="Why would Phoebe have been so intrigued with the wrestler's costumes?" Tags="|plot-explanation|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45076" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45091" CreationDate="2015-12-20T11:50:21.147" Score="7" ViewCount="1923" Body="&lt;p&gt;From Friends: &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.versatel.nl/friendspic0102/transcripts/html/0324.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The One with the Ultimate Fighting Champion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Scene: Chandler’s office, he is just finishing a meeting with his boss.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doug:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;So thanks for the warm welcome. It’s good to have you guys on my team, and I come to play. I hope you do too. Now, let’s go out there and get ‘em! Huh? And remember, there is no ‘I’ in team.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chandler:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Yes, but there’s two in martini, so everybody back to my office!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone laughs at this point. &lt;strong&gt;So what is the joke I am missing?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28732" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T14:59:19.253" Title="Why is &quot;...there’s two in martini!&quot; funny?" Tags="|plot-explanation|friends|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45074" CreationDate="2015-12-20T11:51:09.110" Score="10" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;1- Like when you go bowling and you know you’re in somebody else’s shoes?&#xA;  What does he mean by that?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a joke about the fact that he suspects his wife is cheating on him. He means that, just like when you put the bowling shoes on you know you are not the only one who's been using them, he knows that he's not the only one that's sleeping with his wife (he gets the same feeling).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;2- maybe it’s my wound.&#xA;  What is the oozing wound? And what has it to do with the cheating feeling? And there is a cream in the table? and why does he need it?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He doesn't say where he's wounded. He's just trying to think about possible reasons for his wife's infidelity and is afraid she might be sleeping around because maybe she's turned off/disgusted by his oozing wound.&#xA;About the cream, he needs it for his coffee, and it's unrelated to what he's talking about. It's just a way to show us that Robin Williams is a complete train wreck (the same goes for the napkins bit a while later).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;after reading Walt's answer I realized I've missed the double entendre on the cream :) thanks for that&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT2&lt;/strong&gt;: @ARGMAN &lt;em&gt;I've just watched again the &quot;cream bit&quot;. The guys are &quot;overhearing&quot; William's conversation and their mind is still fixed on the &quot;oozing&quot;. Look at Rachel and Chandler's reaction recoiling in disgust as Williams asks for the cream... So funny :)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;3- You are a bastard for doing this.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think that there is a specific meaning/reference to the use of &quot;bastard&quot;. Watching the scene on youtube, I don't feel that the audience's reaction is provoked by the word but by the general tone of the discussion and William's interpretation (he also adds a funny accent).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this answers your doubts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ni6VPBIiFRY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastEditorUserId="23244" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T12:59:22.160" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T12:59:22.160" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45075" CreationDate="2015-12-20T11:52:35.133" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Phoebe has shown a long-standing interest in men in extravagant costumes, notably marrying a professional (gay) ice-dancer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cl1m4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cl1m4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And dating a fireman&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tb4r7.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tb4r7.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-21T22:24:20.427" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T22:24:20.427" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35443" CreationDate="2015-12-20T12:14:28.970" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't actually know the &quot;right&quot; outcome of the test (as some other answers have pointed out). We only see Eggsy fail it by failing to use the gun. &lt;em&gt;Firing&lt;/em&gt; the gun is involved as we hear Amelia discharge her weapon. But we don't know whether she shoots the dog or her handler. It is not inconceivable that this is also a valid correct outcome (though from Galahad's subsequent explanation to Eggsy shooting the dog is at least one correct outcome).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the cognitive dissonance about the requirement to be prepared to shoot the dog (assuming this is the intent) is not as great as some have suggested. Kingsmen are clearly meant to be prepared to do morally ambiguous things to further the cause so they have to be loyal and follow orders. They may not know the big picture so making their own judgement in critical situations is not necessarily the right thing to do. Having to shoot an innocent animal seems contrary to their moral stance. But it certainly proves their loyalty and ability follow orders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the setup is such that the test proves their loyalty and reliability while at the same time making a moral point. &lt;em&gt;The dog doesn't die even if the agent follows the order.&lt;/em&gt; This tells the agents that the organisation want the agents to be reliable &lt;em&gt;but doesn't waste an innocent life just to prove it.&lt;/em&gt; So an agent who obeys learns something very important about the Kingsman moral code despite having showed his willingness to obey orders. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In summary, the test sounds morally cruel but the outcome provides a lesson about a more positive moral stance the Kingsmen should uphold: the organisation doesn't waste life needlessly.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T12:14:28.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45082" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45086" CreationDate="2015-12-20T12:18:41.867" Score="6" ViewCount="2077" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am talking about The Divergent (2014) movie. I saw every building attached with turbines. They didn't mention anything in dialogues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jPL28.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jPL28.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why are they attached to buildings? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28940" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T20:02:16.253" LastActivityDate="2018-02-25T18:39:32.177" Title="Why are turbines attached to the buildings?" Tags="|divergent|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45084" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-20T12:31:40.207" Score="4" ViewCount="2357" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Kylo Ren faces off against Han Solo in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;, he chooses to kill him. Why did he do that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28941" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T17:20:10.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T06:30:39.347" Title="Why did Kylo Ren take such a drastic action?" Tags="|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45084" CreationDate="2015-12-20T12:44:48.110" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kylo made up his mind to do this much earlier in the movie. As soon as he discovered that Han was on the ship with Rey and Finn and the BB-8 droid, he was challenged by his master about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see glimpses during the movie that Kylo is still struggling with the Dark Side; he claims he feels the &quot;pull of the Light Side&quot; and has to fight it off. One of the biggest sources of that pull is his father, a hero and close friend of the last Jedi knight. Thus, when he finds out that Solo has returned and gotten involved in his current hunt, he knows he will have to make a decision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Kylo is, at least in his mind, committed to the Dark Side and completing the goals that Vader once shared. He feels that the only way to fully embrace his training is to remove the thing he thinks is holding him back. He also wants to prove to Snoke that he really has abandoned his old life. So, once he sees Solo face to face, he's already decided to kill him. This is what he's talking about when he says he has &quot;something he needs to do&quot; but &quot;needs [Solo's] help.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T12:44:48.110" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45086" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45082" CreationDate="2015-12-20T13:05:40.113" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is part of the film's &quot;dystopian&quot; look and feel, explaining how and why the city has power despite the lack of consistent infrastructure. In short, the turbines provide electricity to the occupied buildings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nicholson said that Burger was intent on demonstrating to audiences&#xA;  how the society was able to function. &quot;One of the first things Neil&#xA;  wanted to show was how the city is powered,&quot; Nicholson said. &quot;We ended&#xA;  up settling on having wind turbines and using them on the tops of some&#xA;  of the buildings. There already are a few wind turbines on some low&#xA;  buildings in downtown Chicago, and we just extrapolated from that and&#xA;  turned it into an obvious, visible way that the city was powered.&quot; &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thewire.com/entertainment/2014/03/how-divergent-production-designer-built-dystopian-chicago/359397/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thewire.com : How the 'Divergent' Production Designer Built a Dystopian Chicago&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Road surfaces are disintegrated and have become partially overgrown,&#xA;  street signs and lights and traffic signals are gone. There were no&#xA;  cars, and transport is limited to the Chicago L train and a few&#xA;  general purpose trucks. Neil wanted to show how electrical power would&#xA;  be generated and we settled on the idea of scattering hundreds of wind&#xA;  turbines across the facades of the higher buildings in the Hub. Cables&#xA;  carrying power from the turbines are strung up in the sort of&#xA;  semi-structured more often seen in a favela. Windows are obscured by&#xA;  generations of grime. We had fun developing one of the great visual&#xA;  ideas in Veronica's book that Lake Michigan is now a marsh spotted&#xA;  with the rusting hulls of beached ships.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviefone.com/2014/03/13/divergent-production-designer-diary/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;www.moviefone.com :'Divergent' Production Designer's Diary: Bringing a Crumbling Chicago to Life&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Giant wind turbines that generate power were added to the buildings,&#xA;  and cables were dressed to show that the city’s infrastructure was put&#xA;  together quickly and out of necessity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“In layout, we placed the turbines via an instancing system that was&#xA;  created for quick placement and swapping out of the turbines,” Dessero&#xA;  explains. There were three unique models of the turbines, and each had&#xA;  three texture map variations. The cables were hand placed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Some shots contain over 500 turbines, and hundreds of digital extras&#xA;  were added.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.divergentlife.com/2014/04/the-making-of-divergent-featurette.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;www.divergentnow.com: The Making of 'Divergent': Building Post-Apocalyptic Chicago&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why they chose this (as opposed to solar or another power source), this is actually a play on the fact that the film is set in Chicago, otherwise known as the Windy City&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“For electricity they harvest the wind of the ‘Windy City.’ There’s&#xA;  these large wind turbines that are attached to the buildings and these&#xA;  cables hung between them.  I think just between having the silhouettes&#xA;  of them when you look up and having a few broken buildings and all&#xA;  those signs of life taken away just gives it a personality we’ve never&#xA;  seen before.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.divergentlife.com/2014/04/the-making-of-divergent-featurette.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;www.divergentlife.com: The Making of DIVERGENT: Visual Effects&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T13:12:37.857" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T13:12:37.857" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45084" CreationDate="2015-12-20T13:15:32.957" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Earlier there is a scene when Kylo is shown talking to the relic of Vader's helmet, he says he can feel a pull to the light side and asking for his grandfather's help. This does indicates he is in conflict with his choices. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon faceing off with Solo, Kylo sees Solo as the embodiment of everything that makes himself weak and a &quot;warrior of light&quot; for lack of a better term. To achieve his goals and end the pain of being torn between the two sides, as he mentions during this scene, he kills Solo to complete his commitment to the dark side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27574" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T13:15:32.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45088" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17421" CreationDate="2015-12-20T13:20:34.617" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Patrick Bateman does not exist physically but rather is the narrative occupying the minds of all the characters we see and this is alluded to numerous times. The opening dialog itself states &quot;I simply am not there&quot; which was timed so it's said when he peels off the mask. The entire dialog once the mask has dried alludes to his lack of physical existence and being the &quot;spirit&quot; that occupies all of these people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's talking about the emptiness inside these people he represents and the elitist vanities they use to try to fill them and justify their despicable personalities. A group doppelganger or tulpa but he simply doesn't exist physically. When his secretary says &quot;thanks Patrick&quot; he says &quot;I'm not here&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even the friends of Bateman humiliate him and in the beginning they don't even know which man is Paul Allen. When we see this person, whoever he is, he is drinking himself into an early grave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice the head is there as a projection?&#xA;It could actually be anybody sitting there but it's The Bateman driving him to sleep with his coworker's fiancée&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ev8dd.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ev8dd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The spirit of The Bateman&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bateman telling people what to do, what he thinks, the standards he sets etc. is the inner voice driving all of these people and sometimes it's internal and other times it's external but we see him as Davis who really exists or Allen who really exists when they are all being The Bateman.&#xA;Get it?&#xA;He is the embodiment of everything these people strive to please and be. You notice in conversations everyone centers around him, praises him, seek his approval?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every emotion he describes is a reflection of every character in the movie right down to the murders but they leave out the &quot;if I could get away with it&quot;. There's copious amounts of evidence validating what I am saying. There's at least one example in every scene that verifies what I'm saying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only is there no Patrick Bateman but the physical character we are following doesn't exist. If you rewatch it a few times in a row you can see Patrick Bateman's physical existence represents many things not just thoughts or actual people. Sometimes someone shows up and we see an opportunity to accept this theory as the Bateman unleashed was in fact Victoria's inner Bateman. &#xA;We are seeing The Bateman inside of everyone.&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;We are watching a movie about all the secondary characters who are in fact the leads but only when they are being The Bateman.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the one last concept is indeed Bateman exists as a Phantom and passes from body to body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's as close to art as film making can ever get and one of the few films out of hundreds of thousands that deserves to be called art.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28943" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2016-04-19T06:54:37.833" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T06:54:37.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45049" CreationDate="2015-12-20T13:42:02.857" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111284/why-does-kylo-ren-keep-hitting-the-side-of-his-body&quot;&gt;An identical question was asked at the sci-fi site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I won't repost &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/111345/31938&quot;&gt;my answer&lt;/a&gt; completely, but to summarise, an alternate, much simpler theory based entirely on things that exist in real life is that he's &lt;strong&gt;trying to beat away the pain from the wound&lt;/strong&gt; that Chewie gave him earlier: turning a distracting, acute, sharp pain that kicks in when he makes certain movements into a blunter, persistent, worse but more predictable pain that is easier to tough out and ignore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is something I've done in real life when sharp (non-wound...) pains like cramp or muscle strain momentarily prevent me from doing important things. I wouldn't recommend it... But it feels like it helps at the time, for a few seconds at least. I'm sure I've seen lightly-injured sports players do it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, pain is less distracting when it's predictable or persistent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Of course, this is not a sensible thing to do, because it makes the actual wound worse, and the numb feeling wears off in seconds - but we shouldn't expect Kylo to be behaving sensibly at this point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...for obvious reasons, not just patricide-related emotional upheaval. He always dealt with anger with aggressive, self-defeating lashing out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A comment on that site seems to confirm it's not just me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...if a muscle seizes up or starts spasming (eg: with Charlie Horse [cramp]) smacking it a bit can sometimes help it to unclench and start obeying orders properly&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the fact that it coincides with other visual reminders of his injury (blood on the snow, limping, roaring in frustration) I also suspect that, from a storytelling point of view, this is intended to remind the viewer that he's fighting at far below his usual ability. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;LOTS of people question  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112244/why-did-finn-and-kylos-fight-not-end-sooner&quot;&gt;why Finn's fight&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111477/how-could-the-trained-physically-stronger-person-lose-this-lightsabre-fight&quot;&gt;Rey's fight&lt;/a&gt; with Kylo aren't much more one-sided, and react as if an injured character showing actual signs of injury is some kind of plot hole (&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/79231/did-bane-break-batmans-back-in-dark-knight-rises&quot;&gt;I blame Dark Knight Rises for this...&lt;/a&gt;). I suspect Kylo's very noticeable behaviours were a (doomed) attempt by the film-makers to remind viewers that normally, serious injuries are &lt;em&gt;supposed to&lt;/em&gt; actually impede a character's fighting abilities, and not just be forgotten about the moment the camera angle changes...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9718" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.873" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T10:41:11.543" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45091" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45076" CreationDate="2015-12-20T13:58:51.450" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The phrase &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;There's no I in team&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.knowyourphrase.com/phrase-meanings/Theres-no-I-in-team.html&quot;&gt;goes back to 1960's America&lt;/a&gt; and basically means that while teams are made up of individuals, everyone needs to work together &lt;em&gt;as if they were a single entity&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chandler is making a joke about the fact that they can bond as a team &lt;strong&gt;over a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-martini_lunch&quot;&gt;&quot;martini lunch&quot;&lt;/a&gt; in his office&lt;/strong&gt;. This is doubly funny because not only is he mocking his new boss (and his &lt;a href=&quot;http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cliched&quot;&gt;clichéd&lt;/a&gt; turn of phrase) but because it's also deeply frowned-upon for office workers to drink at work (in the US) during the daytime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-21T11:21:44.557" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T11:21:44.557" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45094" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45097" CreationDate="2015-12-20T16:07:15.553" Score="12" ViewCount="31558" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this image from the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fight Club&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GwI6e.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GwI6e.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tyler Durden wearing a yellow glove.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;…we see Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) wearing yellow gloves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this scene he just had sex with Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter). My question is: &lt;strong&gt;Why the heck is he wearing yellow gloves?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know about a fan theory which postulates:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Marla is another personality of the main character (Edward Norton), so he is basically masturbating.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that nothing in this movie nothing is random, or just a joke, so I am curious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="16465" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T16:48:41.070" LastActivityDate="2017-05-17T22:12:25.807" Title="Why is Tyler Durden shown with yellow gloves?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fight-club|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45094" CreationDate="2015-12-20T16:34:31.053" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marla isn't a fragment of Jack's imagination first of all, that's a false theory. Secondly, there isn't a true reason for the glove. It was improvised by Brad Pitt for comedic effect. Truly, it's that simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/trivia?ref_=tt_ql_2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Triva section of the movie on IMDB&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Tyler (Brad Pitt) catches The Narrator (Edward Norton) listening&#xA;  at the door as he has sex with Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), he is&#xA;  wearing a rubber glove. This was Brad Pitt's idea, and caused a great&#xA;  deal of controversy with President of Production at Fox 2000 Pictures,&#xA;  Laura Ziskin. She was horrified when she saw the scene and demanded&#xA;  that it be removed. However at a subsequent test screening, the&#xA;  appearance of the glove got the biggest laugh of the whole movie,&#xA;  prompting Ziskin to change her mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28946" LastEditorUserId="16465" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T23:05:00.377" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T23:05:00.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45094" CreationDate="2015-12-20T16:42:21.750" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;In-universe, this is the sexual equivalent of the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouDoNotWantToKnow&quot;&gt;You do NOT want to know&lt;/a&gt;&quot; trope. The implication is that he's been doing something &lt;em&gt;unspeakably kinky and weird&lt;/em&gt; to Marla (something which caused her to scream in ecstasy) and &lt;strong&gt;no further explanation is given&lt;/strong&gt;. You're basically expected to leave it to your own dirty imagination to work it out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notably the incident doesn't appear in either the source book or the shooting script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of universe, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bradpittpress.com/artint_05_totalfilm.php&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt; with Director David Fincher strongly implies that they (he and Pitt) chose to put the glove into the scene specifically to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weird%20out&quot;&gt;weird-out&lt;/a&gt; the studio executives who'd stipulated that Pitt had to be shirtless twice in the film. Again, no &lt;em&gt;specific&lt;/em&gt; sexual act was intimated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“One of the studio’s issues with the material was how we were going to&#xA;  handle the sex between Marla and Tyler,” says Fincher, whose trade-off&#xA;  for the studio shelling out on Pitt’s dentistry [they paid for the&#xA;  removable cap that ensured Tyler could have a chipped tooth] was that&#xA;  the star would sometimes take his shirt off. He did it twice. One of&#xA;  which was when he opens the door after sex with Marla—wearing a rubber&#xA;  glove. “We had that take starred and sent over to Fox under the guise&#xA;  of, ‘Look! Look how good he looks, he has his shirt off!’” laughs&#xA;  Fincher. “I’ve learned that one way to control people is to give them&#xA;  other things to worry about. If you’re worried that somebody is too&#xA;  fearful you can either try to empower them or you can give them so&#xA;  much to fear that they just don’t want to be around you. Either way&#xA;  you’ve sort of neutralized them!”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T16:50:22.907" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T16:50:22.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45100" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10421" CreationDate="2015-12-20T16:51:18.270" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a sequel to Fight Club in the form of a graphic novel made by the same guy who wrote the original book, Chuck Palahnuik. Since it never comes up in either books, it's safe to assume she's real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28946" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T16:51:18.270" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45101" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-20T16:52:50.583" Score="6" ViewCount="8172" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of great mockumentary style comedy shows such as &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Office&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks_and_Recreation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Parks and Recreation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Family&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Modern Family&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, etc. My question is who invented this style? Who was the first to make a show or a movie that way? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28129" LastEditorUserId="9682" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T18:23:41.587" LastActivityDate="2017-05-06T23:25:10.327" Title="What is the first mockumentary style show?" Tags="|comedy|cinema-history|documentary|parody|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45101" CreationDate="2015-12-20T17:10:53.720" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are a lot of great mockumentary style comedy shows such as &lt;em&gt;The&#xA;  Office&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Parks and Recreation&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Modern Family&lt;/em&gt;, etc. My question is who&#xA;  invented this style? Who was the first to make a show or a movie that&#xA;  way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Early examples of mockumentaries.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The general genre of what you describe is known as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockumentary&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;“mockumenary”&lt;/a&gt;. An early example of this genre is the 1933 film by Luis Buñuel titled, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Without_Bread&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan (Land Without Bread)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The movie is a documentary, parodying the exaggerated documentaries of&#xA;  travelers across the Sahara being filmed at the same time. One of&#xA;  Buñuel's points is that there are plenty of terrible subjects for a&#xA;  documentary right in Spain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But besides that film, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_drama)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Orson Welles’ 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells’ &lt;em&gt;The War of the Worlds&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is considered another early mockumentary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The first two thirds of the one-hour broadcast was presented as a&#xA;  series of simulated news bulletins, which suggested an actual alien&#xA;  invasion by Martians was currently in progress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Mockumentaries in popular TV and film.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hard_Day%27s_Night_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1964 Beatles film &lt;em&gt;A Hard Day's Night&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a mockumentary that supposedly follows the Beatles as they deal with fame and stardom but is clearly done in a very exaggerated style and was a big in-joke that was serious/fake and very meta on many levels. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Ringo is asked if he’s a mod or a rocker, he replies “Uh, no, I’m&#xA;  a mocker.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The list is fairly deep but as far as TV goes there was &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rutles&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Rutles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; who were a parody band formed by some Monty Python members that mocked &lt;em&gt;The Beatles&lt;/em&gt; and appeared on the 1975/76 comedy British comedy series &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutland_Weekend_Television&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rutland Weekend Television&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. In 1978 a &lt;em&gt;Rutles&lt;/em&gt; television film titled &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Need_Is_Cash&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;All You Need is Cash&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in 1979 comedian/film-maker Albert Brooks released his first film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Life_(1979_film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Real Life&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which is a parody of the 1970s PBS series &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Family&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;An American Family&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which is arguably the first &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_television&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;reality television&lt;/a&gt; show ever made:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The first feature directed by Albert Brooks, who also co-authored the&#xA;  screenplay, it is a spoof of the 1973 reality television program &lt;em&gt;An&#xA;  American Family&lt;/em&gt; and portrays a documentary filmmaker named Albert&#xA;  Brooks who attempts to live with and film a dysfunctional family for&#xA;  one full year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on an episode of the 1983 British comedy series, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comic_Strip&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Comic Strip Presents…&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; focused on a fake heavy metal band named &lt;em&gt;Bad News&lt;/em&gt; and followed this fake band on tour. This preceded the release of the 1984 American film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Spinal_Tap&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is Spinal Tap&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which many people consider one of the most successful modern mockumentaries that inspired many others. But again, that was a film and not a TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Modern TV mockumentary lineage.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 1995 British radio mockumentary, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Like_Us_(mockumentary)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;People Like Us&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; featured a bumbling interviewer who—in each episode—would follow and profile the lives of normal everyday people; aka: literally people like us. The radio show was made into a TV series in 1999 as well which was followed 2 years later by the British version of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_(UK_TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Office&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So—in my humble opinion—the general concept of a mockumentary has existed for years in various forms/media. But as far as television shows specifically go we have to thank the British for creating &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rutles&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Rutles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in 1975 which then inspired others—such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Like_Us_(mockumentary)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;People Like Us&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;—and lead to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_(UK_TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Office&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in 2001 which then lead to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks_and_Recreation&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Parks and Recreation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Family&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Modern Family&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in 2009.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18230" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T18:47:15.547" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T18:47:15.547" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45104" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45107" CreationDate="2015-12-20T18:21:49.860" Score="5" ViewCount="5990" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_%E2%80%A6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Psycho&lt;/em&gt; (1960)&lt;/a&gt;, the main character—Norman Bates—has taxidermied birds in the office as well as in his home. What is the significance of these? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28789" LastEditorUserId="28789" LastEditDate="2016-02-10T10:10:19.050" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T10:10:19.050" Title="What is with the taxidermied animals and birds Norman Bates had in Psycho?" Tags="|psycho|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45105" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45106" CreationDate="2015-12-20T18:24:46.637" Score="4" ViewCount="1296" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Red Dragon&lt;/em&gt; Hannibal received a fan letter/note written on toilet paper. He destroyed just the part which states how he should contact the dragon. So why didn't he destroy the whole thing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28948" LastEditorUserId="11385" LastEditDate="2015-12-21T03:44:44.087" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T03:44:44.087" Title="Why didn't Hannibal destroy the whole note/letter received from the dragon?" Tags="|plot-explanation|red-dragon|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45106" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45105" CreationDate="2015-12-20T18:35:56.127" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is explained in both the film and the book. Here are the direct quotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Graham:&lt;/strong&gt; It was full of compliments. He couldn't bear to part with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Graham:&lt;/strong&gt; It was in the middle of a paragraph full of compliments. [...] He couldn't stand to ruin them. That's why he didn't throw the whole thing away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although Lecter didn't keep any souvenirs from his murders (as Sterling correctly notes, he ate them), he often takes pride in them. He also boasts of his knowledge, and his only Achilles heel is humiliation. So it's understandable why he wants to keep these compliments around (especially since any fan mail he'll ever get would probably be screened).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T19:04:59.173" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T19:04:59.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45104" CreationDate="2015-12-20T18:59:13.020" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) in pyscho is what the title implies. He is a psyschopath… A human monster. A psychopath is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;described as follows on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Psychopathy, also known as—though sometimes distinguished&#xA;  from—sociopathy, is traditionally defined as a personality disorder&#xA;  characterized by enduring antisocial behavior, diminished empathy and&#xA;  remorse, and disinhibited or bold behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Knowing that Norman Bates is an antisocial loner who lacks empathy, let’s think about the big reveal at the end of the film: His “mother” has been dead for years and is a desiccated corpse that he keeps in their home/hotel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Norman clearly has no idea what life is and has no empathy; living things are just objects to him. His mother is dead but the remains of his mother are kept in the home because… That is his mother. When he acts out in rage he might act like the mental image he has of his overbearing mother—that’s my interpretation—but the corpse is still cared for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now look at those taxidermied birds. They are dead to you and me, right? But to Norman those taxidermied birds are his companions… Just like the dead and lifeless corpse of his mother. They are superficially “things” but they sure as hell not life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, those taxidermied birds can be seen as trophies since traditionally that is what taxidermy is: Taking the remains of something you hunted and killed and creating a trophy of what you have to show off what you did. This snippet of dialogue sums up Norman’s bizarre realtionship with the birds as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Norman Bates:&lt;/strong&gt; You-you eat like a bird.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marion Crane:&lt;/strong&gt; [Looking around at the stuffed birds while eating] And you’d know, of course.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Norman Bates:&lt;/strong&gt; No, not really. Anyway, I hear the expression “eats like a bird” - it-it’s really a&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[stammers]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Norman Bates:&lt;/strong&gt; fals-fals-fals-falsity. Because birds really eat a tremendous lot. But -I-I don’t really know anything about birds. My&#xA;  hobby is stuffing things. You know - taxidermy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So let’s get this straight: He’s antisocial, but his attempt at small talk is to tell Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is to say she “eats like a bird.” Her response is to compliment his knowledge by acknowledging his taxidermy. And then he says he doesn’t really know anything about birds but his hobby is “stuffing things?” You don’t stuff a bird without that bird being dead, right? So his hobby is killing things and he has no idea what birds are about anyway. He just likes to kill them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well there you go! He has no idea what life is… He just likes to deal with—or create death—and keep trophies/mementos of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, this &lt;a href=&quot;https://garbagedayreviews.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/birds-in-psycho/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog post does a nice bit of storytelling/symbolism analysis of the meaning of the taxidermied animals&lt;/a&gt;; bold emphasis is mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In this parlor scene, we understand the meaning behind the bird motif.&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;The birds are representative of each characters personality.&lt;/strong&gt; The different species of birds represent the different elements of Norman&#xA;  and Marion’s personalities. Besides her last name being that of a&#xA;  bird, Marion draws several comparisons to birds in this scene. &lt;strong&gt;By&#xA;  saying she eats like a bird and having her surrounded by little finch&#xA;  like birds, we see her as vulnerable thus increasing the suspense for&#xA;  the viewer.&lt;/strong&gt; As for the crow that is above her, that could represent&#xA;  her guilt for stealing the money, or provide foreshadow for her&#xA;  eventual demise. Norman is represented by two different set of birds&#xA;  as well; the large yet timid birds, and great owl above his head. The&#xA;  shy and socially awkward side of Norman and the murderous mother&#xA;  personality represent those birds respectively. &lt;strong&gt;When he is calm the&#xA;  bird in site (sic) is the turkey, which is far from intimidating. When&#xA;  his personality switches, we see the looming predator owl above his&#xA;  head.&lt;/strong&gt; The aggression in his tone is matched by the owl, which is&#xA;  threatening to the viewer in its size and opened winged pose. Before&#xA;  Norman looks into the peep hole, we see both types of birds used to&#xA;  represent his personality, indicating a split in his personality.&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;The metaphor of birds is represented of the different personalities of the characters and the danger associated with these traits.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18230" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T19:35:44.090" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T19:35:44.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45108" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45110" CreationDate="2015-12-20T21:19:01.357" Score="14" ViewCount="18247" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie John Wick, the title character is using some kind of gold coins to pay for cleaning his house or for the receptionist and to enter the bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: What type of coin is he using?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28428" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2016-04-18T01:48:52.070" LastActivityDate="2023-07-18T08:37:09.640" Title="What are the coins John Wick is using?" Tags="|john-wick|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45112" CreationDate="2015-12-20T21:51:39.823" Score="6" ViewCount="1693" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am looking for a horror movie I once saw, the problem is I only remember the end, which I googled myself silly for, but generally the ending is not mentioned (spoilers of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, a couple moves into a house, and see a woman, the woman keeps disappearing so they of course go right to &quot;we have a ghost&quot;. But in the end, the woman crawls out of a kitchen cabinet and turns out to be an actual real woman. I believe she escaped from a mental institution or prison or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the woman that is part of the couple is pregnant or just had a baby, but I am not 100% sure if I am confusing it with another movie. I think she sees the woman several times on a baby monitor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its not an incredibly old movie, not from the 80's or so, but I am not sure about the release date. I think it is something quite recent (2010 to now maybe?), and I saw the movie two years ago I think.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody know which movie I am talking about. Google gets me nowhere, and I would really like to see it again!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28954" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-20T21:53:25.867" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T22:31:31.773" Title="Horror movie about a haunted house that wasnt haunted at all woman was real" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:15:04.437" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45108" CreationDate="2015-12-20T22:11:34.037" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is discussed in the one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DztIELVHrio&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;video extras&lt;/a&gt; that were released to advertise the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, the coins were custom-made for the film and represent a secret currency used by the society of assassins (of which John is a member) with which one can purchase a &lt;em&gt;variety of services&lt;/em&gt; including body disposal, medical care, accomodations and transport.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoting from the video linked about;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;One side of the coin is Peace and Violence in one character, the other&#xA;side is a Lion (for strength) and a Shield for protection because&#xA;these coins, if you've got one, you're protected&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4sIGL.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4sIGL.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/M7kZc.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/M7kZc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="100979" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2023-07-17T20:11:20.043" LastActivityDate="2023-07-17T20:11:20.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="45112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45109" CreationDate="2015-12-20T22:31:31.773" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1863201/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dark Circles&lt;/a&gt; from 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Haunted house film about a pair of sleep deprived parents who begin to experience disturbing visions after moving from the city to a country estate. Alex and Penny have just become parents of a baby boy when they decide that the city is no place to raise a child. Relocating to a farmhouse, the couple finds their relationship deteriorating due to the demands of caring for a newborn, including a lack of sleep. When Alex and Penny begin seeing a mysterious woman around the house, they at first dismiss the sightings as hallucinations brought on by sleep deprivation. But as the visions appear more often, the parents are forced to consider that evils are at work in their home. By the time the truth about their new home is revealed, their tenuous grip on sanity has already begun to slip. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The woman they keep seeing turns out to be a real woman who went insane after losing her baby. Here's the trailer (where you can see the baby monitor):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/K0HVeqjqs9E?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-12-20T22:31:31.773" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45113" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-20T22:34:35.763" Score="7" ViewCount="241" Body="&lt;p&gt;Emerald city in Oz was meant to be this experimental unit that gave prisoners better lives in the hopes that their rehabilitation would also go better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it seems like there are no actual success stories in Oz. Even the few that had minor success ultimately failed (usually by death). Were there any stories that eventually settles on a good outcome?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20110" LastActivityDate="2017-01-16T09:28:44.317" Title="Did Emerald City have any success stories?" Tags="|oz|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45116" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45117" CreationDate="2015-12-21T01:08:58.933" Score="10" ViewCount="13783" Body="&lt;p&gt;The release of &quot;The Force Awakens&quot; reminded me of something I found confusing in both the older and newest Star Wars movies -- the pronunciation of Han Solo's first name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that some characters pronounce Han like you'd pronounce the first part of the word &lt;strong&gt;Han&lt;/strong&gt;d. Others pronounce it like the first part of the country &lt;strong&gt;Hon&lt;/strong&gt;duras.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is correct? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember hearing him say his own name (though he probably did at some point) so I'm unclear on this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16095" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-21T05:12:27.340" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T16:46:37.970" Title="Which is the correct pronunciation of Han in Star Wars?" Tags="|character|star-wars|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45116" CreationDate="2015-12-21T01:25:33.340" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's pronounced HAHN Solo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can hear his own pronunciation of his name when he introduces himself at the very start of this clip:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/bosSsgzgenA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27759" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-18T16:46:37.970" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T16:46:37.970" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45120" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45116" CreationDate="2015-12-21T02:17:49.803" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Han is pronounced with a soft &quot;a&quot;.  Like &quot;Hahn&quot; (rhymes with &quot;con&quot;), as opposed to &quot;Hann&quot; (rhymes with &quot;Ann&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wZT15.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wZT15.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T02:17:49.803" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45121" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45122" CreationDate="2015-12-21T02:20:37.497" Score="4" ViewCount="525" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mad Men Season 5 episode 9, &quot;Christmas Waltz&quot;: Don Draper and his wife see a play. The stage is gray with blocks, the cast's clothes are gray too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it real? What was the name of the play?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28962" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-12-21T02:33:38.950" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T02:33:38.950" Title="What play do Draper and Megan see?" Tags="|mad-men|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45121" CreationDate="2015-12-21T02:27:02.050" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it was a real play. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Waltz_%28Mad_Men%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Megan (Jessica Paré) and Don watch the play &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Hurrah&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;America Hurrah&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, in which a character rants against TV advertisements. After the play, they argue about its negative portrayal of advertising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a satirical play that premiered in 1966. You can also see the playbill in this clip, around 0:30:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/fifwQt5WDME?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T02:27:02.050" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43051" CreationDate="2015-12-21T04:36:34.257" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think its because of the metaphor, &quot;Glowing with joy&quot;. But I'm not sure...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28967" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T04:36:34.257" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45054" CreationDate="2015-12-21T06:10:32.750" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/20/jj-abrams-answers-burning-question-about-r2-d2-star-wars-force-awakens&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an &lt;em&gt;Entertainment Weekly&lt;/em&gt; article with J.J. Abrams&lt;/a&gt; titled, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/20/jj-abrams-answers-burning-question-about-r2-d2-star-wars-force-awakens&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;“J.J. Abrams explains R2-D2's closing scene in Star Wars: The Force Awakens”&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“BB-8 comes up and says something to him, which is basically, ‘I’ve got this piece of a map, do you happen to have the rest?’” Abrams said. “The idea was, R2 who has been all over the galaxy, is still in his coma, but he hears this. And it triggers something that would ultimately wake him up.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The director acknowledges that R2’s sudden “awakening” at the end was designed to be an emotional storytelling utility: “While it may seem, you know, completely lucky and an easy way out, at that point in the movie, when you’ve lost a person, desperately, and somebody you hopefully care about is unconscious, you want someone to return.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So for those let wondering: BB-8’s earlier question rattles around inside R2’s dome for a while. Those old astromechs must just take a while to boot up again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then as the movie draws to a close, our old friend finally comes back – and leads us to another one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They will probably explain a little more/better in the next movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28973" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T15:06:33.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45116" CreationDate="2015-12-21T08:09:51.690" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars clearly thinks that it's Han with a hard 'a' (rhymes with &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;han&lt;/strong&gt;d&lt;/em&gt;&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not entirely clear why every other character mispronounces it throughout the film series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/xb0c_9zc7Zg?start=291&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-21T12:19:39.960" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T12:19:39.960" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45129" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-21T09:14:33.680" Score="22" ViewCount="23436" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Game of Thrones there's an episode called &lt;em&gt;Valar Morghulis&lt;/em&gt;. What is the story behind it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why are they using these two Braavos phrases?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found the meaning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Valar Morghulis&quot; - All men must die.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;Valar Dohaeris&quot; - All Men must serve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about story behind it ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/kBV0uOLx8jM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9676" LastEditorUserId="9676" LastEditDate="2015-12-21T13:53:50.640" LastActivityDate="2021-01-02T02:12:39.493" Title="What is the story behind &quot;valar morghulis&quot; and its answer &quot;valar dohaeris&quot;?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45131" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45129" CreationDate="2015-12-21T10:02:34.063" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;As explained in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/What-do-the-phrases-Valar-Dohaeris-and-Valar-Morghulis-signify-in-Game-of-Thrones-Why-are-they-gaining-such-popularity&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an answer from Quora&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Valar_morghulis&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Valar Morghulis&lt;/a&gt; means &amp;quot;All men must die&amp;quot;, is a customary saying in Essos traditionally answered with &lt;a href=&quot;http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Valar_dohaeris&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Valar Dohaeris&lt;/a&gt; meaning, &amp;quot;All men must serve&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What most people think it means is that &amp;quot;Death is inevitable&amp;quot;. However, people fail to see a deeper underlying message.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When someone says Valar Morghulis, they are acknowledging the finality of death. And then the other person replies with Valar Dohaeris, implying that though death will come for all, every man/woman must serve their purpose in life before dying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7259" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-04-26T08:42:49.640" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45132" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-21T10:32:45.940" Score="11" ViewCount="1934" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt; we see Darth Vader cut Luke's right hand that is holding the lightsaber, and both fall down in the abyss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt; the lightsaber that Luke uses is a his own creation (we can see Darth Vader congratulate him for the job when he takes the lightsaber on Endor).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how can Maz have the lightsaber in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6582" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-21T13:32:28.970" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T02:59:25.503" Title="How can Maz have Luke's lightsaber in Star Wars VII?" Tags="|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45133" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-21T10:34:13.403" Score="11" ViewCount="22201" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was most likely a good reason for Roz to keep saying &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;em&gt;ya didn't file your paperwork last night&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing the paperwork is for accountability and reporting reasons. Mike's responsibility could have been to keep track of the various activities of the workday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What did Mike Wazowski's paperwork consist of?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22256" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-21T11:54:54.100" LastActivityDate="2017-12-01T15:06:59.217" Title="What did Mike Wazowski's paperwork consist of?" Tags="|plot-explanation|monsters-inc|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28424" CreationDate="2015-12-21T11:25:35.533" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;if there was no John McClane, Hans would eventually have called police. Perhaps he was going to use the name of one of the staff (William/Bill Clay) or one of his cronies would do it. They would say &quot;my name is bill clay, send the cops quick...terrorists here etc etc&quot; hence when John asks him his name, he knew one. Maybe Bill Clay was their inside man who gave them layout of building etc. (long bow) If you look closely in film pending your tv, most of the floors have a floor directory near elevator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But yes, the cigarettes are a give away. Any America would comment on the smokes and say &quot;gee these are crap/great&quot; or even cough. The fact he took up the smoke so well with no comments was the give away for John&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28980" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T11:25:35.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45133" CreationDate="2015-12-21T11:34:35.740" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;The quote in the film is &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mike:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The pink copies go to Accounting, the fuchshia ones go to Purchasing,&#xA;  and the goldenrod ones go to Roz. Leave the puce.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since the only &lt;em&gt;consumables&lt;/em&gt; that Mike and Sully use are the doors and the scream containers, we can reasonably assume that the paperwork relates to &lt;strong&gt;the number of doors requested&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;the number of scream containers filled, returned unused or damaged&lt;/strong&gt;. There would also be a count of &lt;strong&gt;the amount of scream produced by each door&lt;/strong&gt; to allow for forward planning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, we see Mike using a stamped door card to call the various doors. &#xA;Those are issued by Roz's office (along with a puce coloured &quot;MI Scare Report&quot;). Since Mike has several of them stored on his desk wall, I think we can assume that they need to be returned to Roz &lt;em&gt;each time a scare is conducted.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gofX4.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gofX4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VRFcd.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VRFcd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moving away from the film canon, we learn in &lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Mike&amp;#39;s_Monstrous_Adventure&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mike's Monstrous Adventure&lt;/a&gt; that the yellow (Goldenrod) form is for &quot;Daily &lt;strong&gt;Laugh&lt;/strong&gt; Energy&quot;. Presumably before it was for &quot;Daily Scream Energy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WjY4r.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WjY4r.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film's official &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.getepic.com/book/17402706/monsters-inc-graphic-novel-disney-&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Epic! Graphic Novelisation&lt;/a&gt;, he specially refers to his paperwork as his &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scare Reports&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, lending weight to the idea that they're individualised records of what occurred with each door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MEpHb.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MEpHb.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-21T13:32:59.457" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T13:32:59.457" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45137" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14560" CreationDate="2015-12-21T11:52:52.650" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pink Teddy Bear left so many things to think. So from all series some of them i found and observed. is like&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Before anything I must say &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319213/?ref_=tt_ov_wr&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Vince Gilligan&lt;/a&gt; is Genius.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I always call the Teddy Bear Jane's because the plane crash happened&#xA;  because of it and Walt keeps it probably as a award as how much power&#xA;  he has over people&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kind of Karma.A reminder that what goes around, comes around.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After finishing all season that Pink Teddy bear &amp;amp; one eye is showing Karma games in latter series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Pink Teddy is a child's toy. so it represents innocence apart from that Its pink(perhaps it is pointing to Jesse pink man).Teddy fell from flight, so trying to show Jesse is fall from innocence.The eye becomes the Rogue Eye &amp;amp; its like walter holding those rogue things who don't have longer control of his rogue acts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jesse got the kind of warning too&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rRSM3.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rRSM3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pind Teddy is fall from &lt;em&gt;Flight 737&lt;/em&gt; &amp;amp; walter needs &lt;em&gt;737 Dollar&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;of course in this same thread answer&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/26386/9676&quot;&gt;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/26386/9676&lt;/a&gt; is also one of the point&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qx46G.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qx46G.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One more warning or threat to for walter &amp;amp; Jesse is (Gale shot)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fVS9B.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/fVS9B.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most of the episodes tried to highlight Pink Teddy bear related thing by color or anything which point to those things&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tupjW.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tupjW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DtA2H.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DtA2H.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9676" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T13:16:43.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45132" CreationDate="2015-12-21T12:29:23.043" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maz answers this question by stating that it is a tale that will be told at another time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the current canon has yet to clarify through books or other media how Anakin/Luke’s lightsaber found its way from the depths of Cloud City’s underbelly to Maz Kanata's castle, the character is slated to appear in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: Episode VIII&lt;/em&gt; in May 2017. It is more than likely that she will describe what happened to it in the next episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2015-12-22T02:59:25.503" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T02:59:25.503" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45050" CreationDate="2015-12-21T14:43:36.740" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rey and Finn were high up in that structure, as shown by the long ladder they had to climb. Kylo Ren was on a much lower level. While not shown on-screen, it's understandable that he could get a pretty good head start into the forest while Finn and Rey were still climbing down the ladder. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T14:43:36.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44963" CreationDate="2015-12-21T14:45:39.973" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wedge Antilles??&#xA;They tried to get the actor that played Wedge to appear in Episode VII , but he turned it down, saying that that role was to small and it would bore him.   That would make sense as Lor has only one scene.   Also Wedge, always survived so he has seen, first hand, the power of the force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28985" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T14:45:39.973" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45142" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18712" CreationDate="2015-12-21T15:32:18.070" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are multiple ways in which Mike &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; have gotten back to the Monster World (powering the door &lt;em&gt;from the outside&lt;/em&gt; is shown to be possible in the prequel, Monsters University), but for me the most likely way is that he simply traveled to the nearby village and used an active door to return, in precisely the same way that Sullivan did a few minutes earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although the Yeti said that it was a three day &lt;em&gt;hike&lt;/em&gt;, there's plenty of ski gear in the Yeti's shack that Mike could have used to make the journey more quickly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgJO0.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jgJO0.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also know from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pixarblog.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/04_screenplay_monsters_inc_2001.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;film script&lt;/a&gt; that there's at least &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; other active doors in the village when Sullivan arrives:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sulley lies motionless in the snow, the wind howling through his fur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A child SCREAMS in the distance.&lt;/strong&gt; Or was that the wind? Sullivan slowly&#xA;  lifts his head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Another SCREAM, this one louder than the first.&lt;/strong&gt; Sullivan's eyes widen.&#xA;  Through the snow, Sullivan can barely make out a SMALL TIBETAN&#xA;  VILLAGE.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;INT. SCARE FLOOR George Sanderson leans on his crutch, nervously&#xA;  trembling as he stands in front of his door with his assistant,&#xA;  Charlie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CHARLIE:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Oh, come on now, George. I know you can do this! I picked out&#xA;  an easy door for you, in Nepal! Nice, quiet Nepal.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-21T17:10:51.923" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T17:10:51.923" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45145" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-21T17:48:35.573" Score="1" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if you can share your opinions regarding these two theories about &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;. One is that Rey is actually the daughter of Luke Skywalker, and the second idea is that she is just an incarnation of the Midi-Chlorian, just like Anakin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28947" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-21T17:59:10.007" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T17:59:10.007" Title="Who are Reys parents?" Tags="|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2015-12-21T18:00:23.417" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44925" CreationDate="2015-12-21T18:09:39.033" Score="24" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The posters implied that Luke and Leia were a romantic couple…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Indeed the promotional posters and artwork implied Luke and Leia had some romantic spark going on. The posters themselves were reminiscent of classic Hollywood poster art tropes and film cliches of a brave hero (usually a man) rescuing a “damsel in distress” (damsels are usually women). But typically the “damsel in distress” was not the sister of the hero: It would be some lady so enthralled by the heroic deeds that she fell in love with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At this point, obviously George Lucas knew they were siblings. Did he&#xA;  keep it a secret from marketing, or was his intent to deceive the&#xA;  public in order to make the reveal a bigger surprise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is because &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; has been a proverbial “stone soup” of ideas and never a solid recipe/blueprint written in stone and passed down over the years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea that Luke and Leia had some true romance happening was not accidental and the fact they were brother and sister was still not solidified when &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt; came around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the case of the first &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; in 1977, one of the first trailers for the film has a voice over that clearly states: &lt;strong&gt;“The story of a boy a girl and a universe…”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/i-vsILeJ8_8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saying something like that clearly hints at romance… But the key word is “hints”… Having romantic tension in a film between two characters like this is a natural way to add drama to a film. &lt;a href=&quot;http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2015/09/16/movie-legends-revealed-were-luke-leia-intended-to-be-twins-when-they-kissed-in-empire/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;According to Gary Kurtz and others&lt;/a&gt; Luke and Leia being siblings was never a part of the original plan. The idea that Luke and Leia suddenly became siblings was some “get this over with” logic that apparently happened to cleanly end the series which was originally planned to contain a larger romance between Luke and Leia. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Star Wars (1977):&lt;/strong&gt; Small hints at cute romance and competition between Han and Luke for Leia’s affection but that is about it. Leia kisses Luke on the cheek just before they swung across a chasm in the Death Star. And Han toys with Luke about a potential romantic connection when they have escaped in the Millennium Falcon. So the possibility of romance definitely exists and thus the marketing hinted at that at times.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Empire Strikes Back (1980):&lt;/strong&gt; The film focused far more on character development than the first film—since they were expanding the story of the characters—so the Luke and Leia romance definitely was focused on when Leia plants a full mouth kiss on him in the medical facility on Hoth. The Han and Leia romantic angle was always played up in competition to the Luke/Leia romance and even more in this film where Luke went to some magical planet to train with some woodland troll. Remember, the original theatrical posters had Han and Leia in what is described as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gone With the Wind&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; pose dead center in the artwork.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Return of the Jedi (1983):&lt;/strong&gt; While in this film Luke and Leia are revealed to be siblings the revelation/confirmation of the sibling relationship only came when Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi and Luke talked about it  on Dagobah &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the rescue from Jabba’s palace. And only then was it shared with Leia by Luke in the Ewok village after they are captured by the Ewoks. So at the beginning of the film when Leia is half naked and swinging (yet again) on a rope with Luke from Jabba’s barge, the idea that romance might exist was still a possibility to the viewer and the characters. Thus that aspect still being a focus of the marketing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Longer answer and explanation of how the “well planned” universe myth of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; is the series’s biggest myth.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When George Lucas—and those involved with &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;—endlessly restate the mythology that the whole &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; universe was always perfectly mapped out, they are being &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;“truthy”&lt;/a&gt;: Yes, George Lucas had sketches of ideas for years of characters and events, but he at no point during the original trilogy have some perfect blueprint in place. The “canon” of the series has always been far more fluid than Lucasfilm (and now Disney/Lucasfilm) will ever admit. For example here are tidbits connected to the first &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; film in 1977:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At one point according to Marcia Lucas (George Lucas’s ex-wife) he &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.com/books?id=c2uctr9bU7wC&amp;amp;q=boba%20fett%20brothers#v=onepage&amp;amp;q&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;toyed with the idea of making Boba Fett and Darth Vader brothers&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;“George had Boba Fett and Vader being brothers in the prequels, but he thought that would be too hokey.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And in the first script for the first &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; Obi-Wan Kenobi never died, but just magically disappeared; &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20150304063118/http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com/marcialucas.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Marcia Lucas is to thank for that being changed&lt;/a&gt;: “I was rewriting, I was struggling with that plot problem &lt;strong&gt;when my wife suggested that I kill off Ben&lt;/strong&gt;, which she thought was a pretty outrageous idea…”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;George Lucas at one point was glib, honest and showed some humility/awareness of his own creative shortcomings as seen in this 1974 interview with Sally Kline in the book &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.com/books?id=P2P7pwHeZSkC&amp;amp;lpg=PA18&amp;amp;ots=tJlAGTYjex&amp;amp;dq=%22When%20I%20sit%20down%20I%20bleed%20on%20the%20page%2C%20and%20it%E2%80%99s%20just%20awful%22&amp;amp;pg=PA18#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22When%20I%20sit%20down%20I%20bleed%20on%20the%20page,%20and%20it%E2%80%99s%20just%20awful%22&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;George Lucas: Interviews&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: “But I don’t have a natural talent for writing. &lt;strong&gt;When I sit down I bleed on the page, and it’s just awful. Writing doesn’t flow in a creative surge the way other things do.&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And—more on point to this question—&lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20150304063118/http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com/marcialucas.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mark Hamill on that same page&lt;/a&gt; confirms Marcia Lucas is the one who insisted the small kiss between Luke and Leia before they swing across the chasm was her idea: “You can see a huge difference in the films that he does now and the films that he did when he was married. &lt;strong&gt;I know for a fact that Marcia Lucas was responsible for convincing him to keep that little ‘kiss for luck’ before Carrie Fisher and I swing across the chasm in the first film.&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the case of &lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt;, here is what Leigh Brackett’s first draft contained. She might have written it, but it was done with the aid of a story treatment from George Lucas and used his ideas. This is a good &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2010/05/15/early-draft-of-empire-strikes-back-reveals-alternate-star-wars-universe&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;rundown of ideas that were written but were eventually ditched&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Han apparently has a powerful stepfather named Ovan Marekal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Again on point with this question, there is no romantic tension between Han and Leia. And there is no kiss in the sick bay between Luke and Leia… But… Later on she visits him and the viewers witness Luke and Leia &lt;strong&gt;“…in the midst of a tentative, and very tender love scene.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lando Calrissian is a clone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The romance between Luke and Leia is strong enough that Darth Vader plans on using her love for him to get to Luke.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally the “well structured” work that must have existed by the time &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt; came around can be revealed as follows; most of this comes from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/2013/05/return-of-the-jedi-anniversary/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this Wired article unless linked elsewhere&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The original story had Wookies instead of Ewoks.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The celebration on Coruscant that was added to the 1997 “Special Edition” was an idea they had floating around, but because they could not come up with a name for the planet they dropped it. The name “Coruscant” did not come from George Lucas by rather author Timothy Zahn who uses it in &lt;em&gt;Heir to The Empire&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Yoda was never going to show up in &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt; until George Lucas consulted with child psychologists who explained that Darth Vader’s claim to be Luke’s father needed some independent, third-party confirmation from someone trusted/authoritative like Yoda.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The whole &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt; versus &lt;em&gt;Revenge of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt; titling issue is not as clear cut as some have made. Some say that because &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Wrath of Khan&lt;/em&gt; was being filmed at the same time under the working title &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Vengeance of Khan&lt;/em&gt; they decided to change the name to avoid confusion/appearance of competition. Others say it was an effort to mess with bootleggers. But the idea it was changed because “Jedi don’t seek revenge…” logic is not the one solid answer to that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At one point of &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20070203075748/http://www.starwarz.com/starkiller/scripts/revenge_revised_rough_draft.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;an early draft of the script&lt;/a&gt;, Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi comes back to life to convince Luke to destroy the Emperor and Vader.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And in that &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20070203075748/http://www.starwarz.com/starkiller/scripts/revenge_revised_rough_draft.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;same script Yoda comes back to life&lt;/a&gt; as a flesh and blood creature because of Vader’s death.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which is all a very, very, very long winded way to say the George Lucas “canon” is not some well planned world that he is painstakingly making sure he get’s as perfect as possible but rather it’s just all one big framework of basic concepts that has been constantly mixed and matched over the years to simply keep an endless story going.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;What an early outline of the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; films looked like.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if you care about the supposedly “true blueprint” of what the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; saga was planned as being prior to 1980, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theforce.net/latestnews/story/gary_kurtz_reveals_original_plans_for_episodes_19_80270.asp&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here is an outline that Gary Kurtz—who produced &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt;—has shared&lt;/a&gt; in a few places over the years:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EPISODE 1:&lt;/strong&gt; Was to focus on the origins of the Jedi Knights and how they are initiated and trained.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EPISODE 2:&lt;/strong&gt; Introduction and development of Obi-Wan Kenobi.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EPISODE 3:&lt;/strong&gt; Introduction and life of Vader.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EPISODE 4:&lt;/strong&gt; There were seven different drafts of the film. At one point, they pursued buying the rights to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Fortress&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hidden Fortress&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; because of the strong similarities. At one point, Luke was a female, Han was Luke’s brother, Luke’s father was the one in prison (interesting point for some debates) and the film featured 40 Wookies.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EPISODE 5:&lt;/strong&gt; Once written, the screenplay of Empire is almost exactly what is seen on screen. The only cut scenes were those involving wampas in the rebel base (cut because of time and unsolved technical glitches) and about two minutes of Luke/Yoda Jedi training with no real dialog.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EPISODE 6:&lt;/strong&gt; Leia was to be elected “Queen of her people” leaving her isolated. Han was to die. Luke confronted Vader and went on with his life alone. Leia was not to be Luke’s sister.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EPISODE 7:&lt;/strong&gt; Third trilogy was to focus on Luke’s life as a Jedi, with very few details planned out.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EPISODE 8:&lt;/strong&gt; Luke’s sister (not Leia) appears from another part of the galaxy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EPISODE 9:&lt;/strong&gt; First appearance of the Emperor.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18230" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2016-12-20T11:29:24.150" LastActivityDate="2016-12-20T11:29:24.150" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44925" CreationDate="2015-12-21T18:10:52.147" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Axelrod has the correct answer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another angle, however, is that in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: A New Hope&lt;/em&gt;, they essentially &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; somewhat romantically connected. In fact, that was pretty much a sub-plot… Han and Luke competing for the the attention of the princess. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And that’s fine, given that Leia and Luke—and the audience—weren’t aware that they were siblings at that time. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2015-12-21T18:26:39.290" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T18:26:39.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45149" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-21T19:22:52.707" Score="3" ViewCount="91" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Cell (2000), how involved with the procedure are Edward Baines' parents? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did they have any say in creating the procedure, help design it in any way, or did they just shell out a ton of money to help fund it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later in the film when the FBI gets involved, one of the agents mentions that Edward's parents are both okay with them using the procedure on Carl Stargher. So, obviously, they needed the Baines permission to move forward with their investigation which involved the equipment and the procedure. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6034" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-12-21T19:26:48.233" LastActivityDate="2015-12-21T19:26:48.233" Title="How involved are Edward Baines' parents?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-cell|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45150" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-21T19:34:21.243" Score="3" ViewCount="350" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Cell (2000), what is the connection between Edward Baines being in a coma, the seals being killed on the beach as mentioned in the newspaper article, and sailing the boat? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6034" LastEditorUserId="6034" LastEditDate="2015-12-22T00:23:28.620" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T00:23:28.620" Title="Edward Baines in a coma, seals and sailing?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-cell|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45152" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45157" CreationDate="2015-12-21T21:12:59.423" Score="11" ViewCount="23819" Body="&lt;p&gt;Same as in the title: how many years did Cooper experience away from Earth? In the end they waste 23+ years on the water planet and 51+ years when the Endurance gets almost destroyed, but while for people on Earth 70+ years pass, I would like to know how many years they felt they spent on their mission, not including the time he spent in hypersleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did they say something like that in the movie? Is it even possible to tell? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16326" LastEditorUserId="26347" LastEditDate="2016-04-16T12:28:28.950" LastActivityDate="2016-04-29T09:38:48.153" Title="How many years away from Earth did Cooper experience in Interstellar?" Tags="|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45153" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-21T21:37:48.067" Score="2" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the season 2 finale of Manhattan Paul tells Frank to call Jim's mother to prove to Frank that Jim is a spy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does did this prove that Jim is the spy? I'm guessing I missed or forgot about some earlier part of the season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20110" LastActivityDate="2023-09-18T13:51:52.817" Title="How did Frank figure out Jim was a spy?" Tags="|manhattan|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45157" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45152" CreationDate="2015-12-21T23:18:26.473" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not including hypersleep, Coop only experienced &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Months&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; at best. They did not have extended supplies and even a few extra days awake in the beginning would have taxed their supplies. This is seen in the scene prior to their I believe 1 Month wakeup, Followed by the 2 years to reach the Saturn-adjacent wormhole/gravitational anomaly. When they made it to the solar system (black hole system?) with the three planets surrounding Gargantua, they spend most of the trip to orbit asleep as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Planetary distances with their technology would take months to years as seen in our solar system. They would have to sleep, to conserve oxygen; let alone food or water. First from before their nap:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amelia: Don't stay up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cooper: I'll be in a minute.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amelia: Just remember Coop, &lt;strong&gt;you're literally wasting your breath&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then from the discussion on which planet to go to first:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amelia: We have to think about time as a resource just like...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ...oxygen and food.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Going down there [To Miller's] is gonna cost us [time, due to gravitational time dilation].  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Doyle: Okay look, Dr. Mann's data is promising, alright, but it's gonna take us months to get there, and Edmunds', it's even further.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Cooper literally sees his kids lives pass him by. Years to months, as he sleeps through most of his time, and gravitational effects dilate the rest of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The five major events seen on screen amount to hours, maybe a day. Travel through the wormhole, landing on the water planet, spending time to save private Ryan, slingshot around and falling into Gargantua are shown to be hours at best. The down time between these events is not shown much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is in contrast&lt;/em&gt; to how much time passed on Earth, which is &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/27257/how-is-coopers-age-justified&quot;&gt;roughly 75~90 years depending on his age when he left&lt;/a&gt;. Also contrasting to how much linear time he experience including sleep, which is 3~4 years. 2 years From Earth to Saturn's wormhole, let's say a year and a half between reaching Miller's and then Mann's planet. Only a day or two for the slingshot around Gargantua, Falling into Gargantua, Tesseract, and rescue. Of course, cryogenic hyper sleep would mean he didn't physically age this much, so he's only a few months older biologically speaking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Earth Time:&lt;/strong&gt; 75~90 years&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Actual Time:&lt;/strong&gt; 2~4 Years&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Waking Time:&lt;/strong&gt; Months, likely 3 at most&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2016-04-29T09:38:48.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45159" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-22T00:11:51.403" Score="1" ViewCount="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of The Cell (2000), Peter Novak is no longer an agent. At least not for two weeks. He is still allowed to investigate and such, however, as he's at Carl's house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What happened? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Catherine asks him how long he'll be a civilian for, and he responds &quot;two weeks.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has he been suspended for two weeks? He did nothing wrong. He broke no chain of command to my knowledge. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T00:11:51.403" Title="A civilian for two weeks?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-cell|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45160" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-22T00:26:16.870" Score="2" ViewCount="297" Body="&lt;p&gt;On D-day, the body of Ryan's brother is shown on the beach.  That death is reported to Washington, noticed by typists, taken to the brass, who decides on the rescue mission, which is assigned (on D-day+3?) to Captain Miller while his company is still in place near the established beachhead.  Did Ranger companies really linger near the beach for that long, and didn't the red tape of casualty reports take substantial time to process, so the depicted turnaround is faster than what would ever have possibly occurred?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28997" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-22T00:34:53.477" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T00:34:53.477" Title="Does the assignment in Saving Private Ryan come impossibly fast?" Tags="|saving-private-ryan|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45161" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45212" CreationDate="2015-12-22T00:42:16.223" Score="17" ViewCount="2715" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream&quot;&gt;“Wilhelm Scream”&lt;/a&gt; is a stock sound-effect that has been used in hundreds of films over the years as an inside-joke/homage among filmmakers. It was first heard in the 1951 film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Drums&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Distant Drums&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; but is famously named after Private Wilhelm who is shot with an arrow and screams in the 1953 film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Charge_at_Feather_River&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Charge at Feather River&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scream rose to fame in recent decades when &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; sound designer &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Burtt&quot;&gt;Ben Burtt&lt;/a&gt; used it in his work on &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; and other films. And other filmmakers have followed the lead—such as Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton, and Peter Jackson—and used it themselves in their films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you are unaware of what the Wilhelm Scream sounds like, watch this video compilation which includes clips of it’s use in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; films among others:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/cdbYsoEasio?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since each &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; film including the prequels has had at least one occurrence of the “Wilhelm Scream” in them, can anyone recall/remember if the Wilhelm Scream was heard anywhere in &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;? I realize the film is still in theaters and sources for actual clips don’t exist at this point, but some description of a scene and perhaps who might have screamed the Wilhelm Scream would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18230" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-01-20T11:19:16.960" LastActivityDate="2024-03-08T01:41:22.583" Title="Was the famous “Wilhelm Scream” used in “The Force Awakens?”" Tags="|star-wars|the-force-awakens|sound-effects|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45162" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-22T01:20:58.647" Score="10" ViewCount="1661" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for the name of a tv episode about a soldier who somehow is the only one that is NOT frozen in time.  He has a dilemma of saving everyone (I think) or saving his wife, who will have a car accident once time starts again.  He ends up rigging a truck that will somehow save his wife so that he can &quot;fix&quot; whatever the problem is and time re-starts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember that it was in black and white and I &lt;strong&gt;thought&lt;/strong&gt; it was the Twilight Zone but can't find it.  Maybe The Outer Limits?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28998" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-22T02:38:37.187" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T14:08:12.787" Title="Need name of a classic Sci Fi episode, involving a soldier frozen in time saving a woman?" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:09:32.030" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45163" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45162" CreationDate="2015-12-22T01:30:21.133" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Echoing my answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/73631/movie-about-a-man-and-a-woman-accelerated-in-time-the-rest-of-the-world-was-sus/73632#73632&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; on another stack, This is an episode of 'The Outer Limits' called &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Premonition_%28The_Outer_Limits%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;The Premonition&quot;&lt;/a&gt; from January 1965.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Per wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jim Darcy, the pilot of an X-15 rocket-powered research aircraft, and&#xA;  his wife, Linda, become trapped 10 seconds ahead of their time,&#xA;  enabling them to watch time unfold to catch up with them at the rate&#xA;  of about one second every 30 minutes. In the time left before&#xA;  returning to synch with normal time, they see that their daughter,&#xA;  Janie, is about to be hit by a rolling military truck whose parking&#xA;  brake had not been set. &lt;strong&gt;Jim and Linda's inability to move objects in&#xA;  the &quot;real&quot; world prevents them from resetting the truck's parking&#xA;  brake or pulling young Janie out of danger.&lt;/strong&gt; Their problem is&#xA;  aggravated as they soon learn that at the moment when time &quot;catches&#xA;  up&quot; with them, they must assume the exact positions they had been in&#xA;  five hours earlier, when this whole thing started, or they could&#xA;  remain in that state forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Jim hits upon a way to save his daughter from death. He removes seatbelts from his wife's car and ties them to the back wheel of the menacing truck. He then ties the other end around the brake lever&lt;/strong&gt; so that the truck's brakes will engage the moment the time warp ends. (It was, by that time, moving at 10 mph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/XP8eS_h7-UQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T14:08:12.787" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45162" CreationDate="2015-12-22T01:31:34.810" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like an episode of &lt;strong&gt;The Outer Limits&lt;/strong&gt; original 1965 run, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Premonition&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Season 2 episode 16). Instead of a soldier, he's a Test Pilot, saving his daughter, not his wife (she's with him), and it's from a military truck, not a car. Semantics. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Premonition_(The_Outer_Limits)&quot;&gt;From Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jim Darcy, the pilot of an X-15 rocket-powered research aircraft, and his wife, Linda, become trapped 10 seconds ahead of their time, enabling them to watch time unfold to catch up with them at the rate of about one second every 30 minutes. In the time left before returning to synch with normal time, they see that their daughter, Janie, is about to be hit by a rolling military truck whose parking brake had not been set. Jim and Linda's inability to move objects in the &quot;real&quot; world prevents them from resetting the truck's parking brake or pulling young Janie out of danger. Their problem is aggravated as they soon learn that at the moment when time &quot;catches up&quot; with them, they must assume the exact positions they had been in five hours earlier, when this whole thing started, or they could remain in that state forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-22T01:37:26.333" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T01:37:26.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45166" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45054" CreationDate="2015-12-22T02:07:28.100" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Rey's premonition she saw Luke touching R2D2. It could mean that her premonition got something to do with R2D2, that she is the only one that could activate it for her to find Luke Skywalker. As you can see in the end, Luke is not surprise that Rey found her as if he is expecting her to come. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29001" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T02:07:28.100" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45054" CreationDate="2015-12-22T02:41:08.033" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Of course these are all just theories and I'm probably not the best person to make a theory but this is what I think.  I think that Luke (probably using the force) woke R2 up.  I think that Luke felt that Han had died (which is why I think Luke looked so angry at the end) and that made him realized that he needed to come out of hiding and fight Kylo-Ren, so he made R2 wake up and show them where to find him. I think that Luke had hope that Kylo  would turn back to the light side, but after killing Han, Luke probably assumes that there is no turning back for him now. Who know?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29003" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T02:41:08.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45054" CreationDate="2015-12-22T04:35:14.823" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is not the presence of the lightsabre because Fin had the lightsabre earlier &amp;amp; had not given it Rey.  Earlier the lightsabre, a Skywalker heirloom beckoned Rey, R2-D2, also a Skywalker heirloom, may have the same connection to sense her presence, I would guess she is a skywalker &amp;amp; both her parents, whoever they are will play large roles in her destiny. &#xA;    I think Luke placed the Map minus the missing piece in R2 &amp;amp; put the droid in low power until a Rey arrived, which he must have planned for since he placed the missing piece of the map in such close proxity to her.&#xA;    As far as Kylo goes,  I theorize that Leia must bring him back from the Dark side, since she was the one that &quot;sent&quot; him away.  I think it fits into the whole balance of the force thing.  Just my two cents.  Feel free to rip it apart now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29005" LastEditorUserId="29005" LastEditDate="2015-12-22T05:03:46.330" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T05:03:46.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44984" CreationDate="2015-12-22T04:54:11.750" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the current canon, as derived from the comic &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: Darth Vader 6: Vader, Part VI&lt;/em&gt;, Darth Vader learns that the X-wing pilot is his son when Boba Fett can only provide the name of the pilot who destroyed the Death Star.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is after Vader has been punished for failing to protect the Death Star, so in his embarrassment, he enlisted Boba Fett to track down the individual culprit, so he could be given a painful death. Fett failed to catch Luke, but he got a hold of his name. Vader became furious when he heard that Luke was alive, as Palpatine had inferred that his offspring died when he &quot;killed&quot; Padmé. Thus, Vader became feverishly obsessed with getting a hold of his son, for both uniting with him and turning him to the dark side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T04:54:11.750" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18129" CreationDate="2015-12-22T06:01:39.293" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems the origin of the tet is only to be speculated, not to be explained fully. I would guess that it was created to gather resources when it was out of communicable range with its source. However it never returned (vger anyone?) And now sees earth. If it created itself then it wouldn't need biological entities to maintain itself or support itself. It would just create more machines from the vast resources it had accumulated. The cloning seems to be a prefabricated capability. Late I know. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29010" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T06:01:39.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45174" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45178" CreationDate="2015-12-22T08:30:14.713" Score="2" ViewCount="6974" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2914740/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Deep Dark&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the main character, a sculptor, talks to a girl who helps him in his artwork. The girl is behind the wall and passes things to the actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the story behind the girl in the wall?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29013" LastEditorUserId="34317" LastEditDate="2019-01-17T20:48:52.060" LastActivityDate="2019-01-17T20:48:52.060" Title="What is the story behind the 'wall girl' in the movie &quot;Deep Dark&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|deep-dark|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="45175" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42864" CreationDate="2015-12-22T09:04:40.543" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I understand, the assassin who ended up killing the drug lord was the old leader of a drug cartel in Colombia. When Mexicans get in American drug market and get the all market share, he became useless and he made a agreement with US against Mexican cartel. On the other hand, the drug lord killed his child and wife. So he wanted to take his revenge and US wanted to dismiss the Mexican cartel. And this was the most easy way to kill the leader because they know in these kinds of group when the leader disappears, the hierarchy is disrupted and they start a war between themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29012" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-12-22T10:20:11.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T10:20:11.437" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45174" CreationDate="2015-12-22T10:36:25.780" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is discussed by the Director in a series of interviews and &lt;a href=&quot;http://slackjawpunks.com/2015/12/07/podcast-138-director-of-deep-dark-michael-medaglia/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, behind the hole is a &lt;strong&gt;monster&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://spanishfear.com/la-mano-fest-interview-to-michael-medaglia-director-of-deep-dark/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;It's not an (especially) evil monster&lt;/a&gt; so much as powerful and callous:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;That scene just felt so compelling to me—I eventually created the rest&#xA;  of story around it. But rather than have the Hole be an evil creature,&#xA;  I wanted to portray her as more of a misunderstood, albeit powerful,&#xA;  monster.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to &lt;em&gt;quite why&lt;/em&gt; there's a monster hiding behind his wall, that's never revealed. This is simply the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_conceit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;central conceit&lt;/a&gt; of the film and is glossed over with an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.darkcomedyprods.com/medaglia.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;airy hand-wave&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hole is really just a voice in a wall. With no arms or legs, if&#xA;  she needs get something done she requires other people to do it. So&#xA;  her voice needs to be compelling enough to manipulate people. While&#xA;  writing the script, it helped me to already have a voice in my head&#xA;  for The Hole. For me, that was the strong yet seductive voice of Aeon&#xA;  flux.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-22T14:06:45.703" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T14:06:45.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45182" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-22T13:15:41.393" Score="-2" ViewCount="2234" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ever since the character was introduced I struggled to understand how Chewbacca communicates with everyone. His grunts sound more or less the same every time but somehow everyone seems to &quot;know&quot; what he is trying say? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per this &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wookiee&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia article,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wookiees are capable of understanding Galactic Basic, but generally&#xA;  none are able to speak it because of the structure of Wookiee vocal&#xA;  cords&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;His human partner, Han Solo, also shows knowledge of Shyriiwook, or&#xA;  can at least understand Chewbacca&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If Chewbacca is a wookie and can't speak Shyriiwook, how is Han able to understand him?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29019" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-22T14:13:01.563" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T14:13:01.563" Title="How does Han communicate with Chewbacca?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45182" CreationDate="2015-12-22T13:24:56.320" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So if Chewbacca is a wookie and can't speak Shyriiwook, how is Han able to understand him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure where this misunderstanding of that article came from, but this statement isn't correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a Wookie, Chewbacca &lt;em&gt;understands&lt;/em&gt; Galactic Basic, but he's incapable of speaking it. Instead, he speaks the native Wookie language, Shyriiwook. Those grunts that sound the same to us &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; the Wookie language -- that's just what it sounds like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a human, Han Solo &lt;em&gt;understands&lt;/em&gt; Shyriiwook (mostly), but he's incapable of speaking it. Instead, he typically speaks Galactic Basic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since they both understand each other's language, they can communicate just fine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T13:24:56.320" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45184" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45185" CreationDate="2015-12-22T13:36:08.057" Score="26" ViewCount="6464" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fairly early on in &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;, Finn and Rey run into Han Solo and Chewbacca. One of the running gags in the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; films is that very few people actually understand Chewie's language (Shyriiwook) besides Han.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know Rey speaks &quot;droid&quot;, since she converses with BB-8 pretty regularly. But can she understand Chewie's speech as well?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would seem to be an important development, since by the end of the movie,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Han Solo has offered Rey a permanent place on the &lt;em&gt;Millenium Falcon&lt;/em&gt;, and after his death, she seems to inherit it from him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I don't recall seeing her &lt;em&gt;reply&lt;/em&gt; to Chewie directly, and I can't think of how she would have learned to speak Wookie growing up on Jakku.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence that she can understand what Chewie is saying?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2016-11-29T08:11:38.883" Title="Does Rey speak Shyriiwook?" Tags="|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45185" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45184" CreationDate="2015-12-22T13:52:01.050" Score="25" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Rey seems to have at least a basic understanding of Shyriiwook&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All quotes from the novelization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She responds directly to Han &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Chewie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She nodded. “It’s just us.”  She nodded once to her left. “Us and a droid.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A second shape appeared above and beside their inquisitor. It was likewise most definitely not a stormtrooper. It was also much, much bigger than its blaster-wielding companion. A battery of sounds issued from between thick lips, something halfway between a moan and a question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“No, it’s true,” Rey responded. “We’re the only ones on board.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finn gaped at her. “Wait— you can understand that thing?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She translates for Finn.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She tried to find something to say to that, something worthy of the sentiment and the risk they had undertaken. She failed miserably. Chewie, however, had something of his own to add. Whatever the Wookiee had uttered caused tears to well up in her eyes. Having never found himself in such a position before, Finn was unsure how to respond. Knowing well her inner toughness, he wondered what Chewbacca had said that could have inspired such a reaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“What’d he say?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She sniffed and wiped at her face. “That it was your idea.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She again responds directly to Chewie.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“The oscillator is the only sensible target,” Finn told him. “But there’s no way to get inside.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“There is a way.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone turned toward Rey. It was Chewie who ventured the question that had to be asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I’ve seen inside these kinds of walls,” she told them as the sky overhead continued to rain destruction. “The mechanics and instrumentation are the same as the Star Destroyers I’ve spent years inside salvaging. Get me to a conventional junction station, I can get us in.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr/&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Less definitive is their exchange aboard the Falcon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the cockpit, Rey headed for the copilot’s seat, only to find her way blocked by a massive, hirsute form.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Chewie, the Falcon flies better with two people at the controls, you know that. I’ve already sat in that seat. I’m ready to do so again.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A series of moans came from the Wookiee. Then he turned— and sat down. In the copilot’s seat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rey felt herself tearing up. “You’re serious, aren’t you?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chewie groaned and, to make certain she grasped his meaning, gestured to his left. Toward the pilot’s position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1046" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T16:28:58.793" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45188" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45189" CreationDate="2015-12-22T15:06:05.963" Score="3" ViewCount="491" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm about to watch the last episode of season 2 of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and I want to know when to start up on &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, since they aired at the same time. &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt; is 2 seasons ahead of &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt;, correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26394" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-05T16:04:38.457" LastActivityDate="2016-04-05T16:04:38.457" Title="When do Arrow and Flash cross over?" Tags="|the-flash|continuity|arrow|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45189" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45188" CreationDate="2015-12-22T15:28:01.770" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/89101/31029&quot;&gt;already answered on the Sci-Fi SE&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://stackexchange.com/users/187578/mike-edenfield&quot;&gt;Mike Edenfield&lt;/a&gt;. This is the start of his answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ideally, you should watch them in the order they aired. That is, if&#xA;  you want to get the most coherent story from both shows, you should&#xA;  watch Arrow up through the end of Season 2, then watch alternate&#xA;  episodes of The Flash Season 1 and Arrow Season 3. There is only one&#xA;  time when the shows seem to be significantly out of sync, and it won't&#xA;  make a whole ton of difference. In particular, watching in this order&#xA;  is the easiest way to guarantee not to spoil anything from either show&#xA;  by watching the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The second season of Arrow contains what is essentially a two-part&#xA;  pilot episode for The Flash, where a mundane Barry Allen comes to&#xA;  Starling City as a forensics expert; the end of that Arrow episode&#xA;  sets up the first episode of The Flash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The first episodes of The Flash Season 1, and Arrow Season 3, take&#xA;  place at the same time, and there are cross-over cameos at the end of&#xA;  those episodes. About halfway through the season, there is a true&#xA;  crossover, starting with The Flash and finishing in the following&#xA;  day's Arrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But make sure to read the full answer, since it offers alternative viewing orders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T15:28:01.770" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44938" CreationDate="2015-12-22T16:43:12.487" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that since it is not directly said in the movies, we can just guess and speculate. I am pretty sure that if there will be a sequel, they will talk his history and how he was caught from the dark side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we see / hear in the movie: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was an apprentice of Luke and he was trained with a new generation of Jedi;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then he then killed all the other apprentices;            &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He is obsessed with his grandfather, Darth Vader, and feels the necessity to be as strong as he was;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He built his own lightsaber with an unstable crystal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie doesn't give more tips about his past. Here there is my guess:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was seduced from the dark side during his training, without the intervention of anybody else. I think it is reasonable thinking that as Finn and Rey discovered their powers without a proper training, it is plausible that Ben had felt the dark side during his Jedi training due to his fear of being inadequate to be a great Jedi as Luke and Anakin were before him. He was particularly vulnerable to the dark side even if he wasn't really aware of it due to his personality. After killing his fellow apprentices, he decided to follow the steps of Darth Vader and roamed the galaxy searching for the remains of the old Empire until he found Snoke that took him as his apprentice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be an unpopular opinion, but I believe that Han never really understood Kylo and the reason why he betrayed Luke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27665" LastEditorUserId="27665" LastEditDate="2015-12-24T01:02:02.627" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T01:02:02.627" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45197" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-22T17:55:30.390" Score="6" ViewCount="649" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I watched series named &lt;a href=&quot;http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt2094262/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Da Vinci's Demons&lt;/a&gt;, and this question is about the character &lt;a href=&quot;http://davincisdemons.wikia.com/wiki/Lorenzo_de%27_Medici&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lorenzo de Medici&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one episode in season 3 (I don't remember the episode) he was caught by the Turks and was eventually able to escape from their prison. He returned to Florence (he is the ruler of this city) and learned that his wife is dead. He mourns for days but he takes control of the city as true a ruler and makes some important decisions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm curious about is that he has three daughters and never asks anyone where they are (they're sent to some other place safe by their mother while Lorenzo was in prison).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question: is Lorenzo being rude to not ask about the whereabouts of his daughters after returning home, or did the writers just forget about them? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5409" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-23T09:33:53.913" LastActivityDate="2016-09-23T09:33:53.913" Title="Why does Lorenzo de Medici never ask about his daughters?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|da-vincis-demons|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42864" CreationDate="2015-12-22T18:15:39.303" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;As explained by Matt (Josh Brolin) to Kate (Emily Blunt), the purpose of the task force is to &quot;take down&quot; Mexican drug lord Fausto Alarcón. While this can be construed as &quot;arrest and convict&quot;, the actual plan is to kill him, plain and simple.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The CIA's plan is that by weakening the Mexican cartels by such killings, the Colombian cartels can once again assume control of the drug trade in the americas. Their argument is that back when the Colombian cartels had a near-monopoly on the trade, there was a &quot;semblance of order&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This period of time is referred to as &quot;Medellín&quot; in the movie, after the Colombian city and cartel of the same name. (Of course, the irony is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medell%C3%ADn_Cartel&quot;&gt;the United States did a lot to bring an end to the Medellín cartel&lt;/a&gt; in the first place.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since those &quot;good old days&quot;, however, Mexican cartels have taken over, and the violence and chaos of the drug trade has both grown and moved much closer to the United States - and spilled over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in essence, it's the CIA choosing to side with the devil they know. Like supporting a dictator or even &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions&quot;&gt;overthrowing an existing regime&lt;/a&gt;, in order to provide &quot;stability&quot; from a U.S. point of view. Or, in this case, at least move the problem farther away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's also the characters' personal reasons for wanting Alarcón dead. Alejandro (Benicio del Toro) was a public prosecutor in Juárez, Mexico. His wife and daughter were killed (horrifically) by Alarcón's group. Since then, Alejandro has become a mercenary - or vigilante - in his attempt to get revenge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Matt explains, Alejandro will work for &quot;anyone who will let him of the leash&quot;. That is, help him to kill the people responsible for the killing of his family. In this case, the ones letting him off the leash are the United States and, indirectly, the Colombian cartels. Hence why another character refers to Alejandro as &quot;Medellín&quot;: He's doing their dirty work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29025" LastEditorUserId="29025" LastEditDate="2015-12-22T20:58:28.113" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T20:58:28.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45199" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45256" CreationDate="2015-12-22T19:11:55.880" Score="26" ViewCount="87835" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3397884/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sicario&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the job of Matt's (Josh Brolin) task force is to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Disrupt operations for US-based drug boss Manuel Díaz, so that he'll get called back to Mexico to answer to his boss, Fausto Alarcón.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Track Díaz when he goes there, so they can learn Alarcón's location.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Have Alejandro (Benicio del Toro) kill Alarcón.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To achieve this, they track and freeze Díaz's bank accounts in the US, and Díaz does indeed get called back to meet with Alarcón. They track him perfectly with aerial surveillance as he drives there. End of story, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet throughout the movie, they've also been trying to find Díaz's drug tunnel under the US/Mexico border. They find it around the same time Díaz is called back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Díaz is driving to Mexico, the task force raids the tunnel. As planned, the task force draws fire, which lets Alejandro slip through the tunnel to Mexico. There, he forces a Mexican police officer (and drug mule) to intercept Díaz's car on the highway. Alejandro hijacks Díaz's car, has him drive to Alarcón's house, and Alejandro does his deed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is: &lt;strong&gt;Why was the tunnel ever important?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They've already disrupted Díaz's operations, and he's already on his way to meet Alarcón, so it's not that. They're not really interested in arresting drug mules or confiscating anything. I doubt they're even interested in shutting down the tunnel; they've got their eyes on a much bigger target. They just kill everyone in the tunnel and high-five each other. And for some reason it's very important that this happens at the same time Díaz is driving to meet his boss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, they use the tunnel to get Alejandro into Mexico, but this seems like a crazy way of doing that. Heck, they just drove to Mexico earlier in the film. Sure, that was in five big trucks with some US Marshals and Special Forces and a Mexican police escort, but I'm sure they could also manage something a lot more subtle. I don't think the CIA would have too much trouble getting a Mexican guy into Mexico.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And yes, using the tunnel allows Alejandro to hijack the police officer's vehicle, as the guy is right by the exit of the tunnel. But that's happenstance. The officer is just a random drug mule making a delivery. Could've been anybody.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course it's fortunate that he's in a police cruiser, since Alejandro uses it to get Díaz to pull over, but that just seems like improvisation on Alejandro's part. It even involves the police officer actually acting like a police officer making a traffic stop, not a drug mule meeting his boss. Not that the mule knows who Díaz is, or Díaz knows him; they're on vastly different levels in the hierarchy. So it's not like this particular officer is &quot;their ticket in&quot; or something. His association with the cartel doesn't enter into it at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just seems like it'd be a lot simpler to track Díaz's car all the way to Alarcón's location. They've got drones and cameras trained on it all the way it seems. So why not just have Alejandro on stand-by in Mexico? Once they know where Alarcón is, he can strike. By car-jacking Díaz, they risk him fighting back, getting away, alerting someone, or simply driving Alejandro somewhere else entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's one thing for Díaz to play right into their hands (even driving during the night when the tunnel raid, the hijacking, and infiltrating Alarcón's compound are all more feasible). But then it seems they just turn around and jeopardize the whole operation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29025" LastEditorUserId="29025" LastEditDate="2016-09-28T10:47:17.943" LastActivityDate="2016-11-17T21:47:30.043" Title="In 'Sicario', what was the purpose of raiding the tunnel?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sicario|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45028" CreationDate="2015-12-22T22:47:06.023" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, as MattD already noted, original movies did not include &quot;Episode&quot; part in their titles either. Here are original posters for &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/4/A70-2036&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Empire Strikes Back&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/111/MPW-55925&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. I am ignoring A New Hope because it was called &lt;em&gt;A New Hope&lt;/em&gt; only after it was clear that it is financial success and there are going to be next movies. It seems that adding &quot;Episode&quot; part to official title is something that prequels invented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, new movie &lt;strong&gt;does&lt;/strong&gt; include &quot;Episode VII&quot; in opening crawl. These are the first words you see when movie begins, right after &quot;Star Wars&quot;. So it's not like they are hiding the fact or anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Third, &lt;strong&gt;money&lt;/strong&gt;. By putting any indication that your movie is a sequel in marketing materials, studio takes risks that part of audience that is not familiar with previous installments of series will be scared off. And when you have just shelled out $4 billions for rights to intellectual property, taking risks is one of last things you want to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People are confused about sequels and they don't know if they have to see previous movies in order to understand what is happening on the screen and enjoy the movie. We had our share of questions regarding previous Star Wars movies here on SE network: &#xA;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/44907/is-it-necessary-to-watch-star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith-before-emb?rq=1&quot;&gt;Is it necessary to watch Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith before embarking on Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens?&lt;/a&gt;&quot;,&#xA;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/44825/what-is-the-optimum-list-of-previous-star-wars-movies-that-i-should-watch-before?rq=1&quot;&gt;What is the optimum list of previous Star Wars movies that I should watch before December 18&lt;/a&gt;&quot; &#xA;or &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111736/should-i-watch-the-force-awakens-without-having-previously-watched-any-star-wars&quot;&gt;Should I watch The Force Awakens without having previously watched any Star Wars movies?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; are only first few examples.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Probably for this exact reason, it is not uncommon for movie-makers to drop numbers in further installments of franchises. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_(film_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/a&gt; did that after three movies (but it seems they want to go back to number in future); &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard_(film_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Die Hard&lt;/a&gt; did that after second movie; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_(franchise)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Terminator&lt;/a&gt; did it in both reboot attempts. Some series, like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_(film_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pirates of the Caribbean&lt;/a&gt;, never put numbers in titles to begin with. Wikipedia maintains &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_film_series&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;lists of movie series having at least two entries&lt;/a&gt; - I guess you are free to draw any conclusions from that, but I would say that there are quite a few franchises following that pattern. Putting only a next number seems to be less common practice, but I haven't done a math.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Omitting &quot;Episode &amp;lt;number greater than one&amp;gt;&quot; from title is one of basic risk mitigation strategies. This way movie studio ensures that people who don't know any better will not decide to skip the movie right off the bat. And let us make no mistake - these people are major source of revenue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28896" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T22:47:06.023" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45208" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45028" CreationDate="2015-12-22T23:01:07.307" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is about the current naming conventions of the franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By 1983, the films were branded as &quot;Star Wars&quot;, &quot;The Empire Strikes Back&quot; and &quot;Return of the Jedi&quot;. The episode number to the original was added to the opening crawl with the re-release in 1981.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By 2005, with the release of Revenge of the Sith, the films all included their episode names in the titles, with there being &quot;Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace&quot;, &quot;Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones&quot;, &quot;Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith&quot;, &quot;Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope&quot;, &quot;Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back&quot; and &quot;Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While The Force Awakens is the first film to be released initially with the official naming convention of &quot;Star Wars: Title&quot;, all the previous installments are being re-released and branded with the same conventions. The first re-release that follows this naming convention was the steelbook that came out earlier this year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2015-12-22T23:01:07.307" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45161" CreationDate="2015-12-23T01:39:29.653" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;It did occur in the movie, very near the beginning, &lt;strong&gt;when Poe and Finn escape in a TIE fighter and fend off some stormtroopers with the TIE fighter's weapons&lt;/strong&gt;. It is, of course, one of the stormtroopers blown away who utters the Wilhelm scream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a bit faint and overshadowed by the general noise (and soundtrack?) and not directly in your face, which might be why you missed it. But you can definitely hear it in that scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/2C76krkcb68?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2024-03-08T01:41:22.583" LastActivityDate="2024-03-08T01:41:22.583" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="45214" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="60323" CreationDate="2015-12-23T03:43:36.280" Score="11" ViewCount="2974" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' there is an ice scene around the beginning of the film where the two main characters lay down on the ice. Screen left there is a unique and very beautiful 'crack' in the ice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bonus features on the DVD emphasize less special effects (mostly for the set). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how did they get the crack in the ice? Was it artificially created? Did the production crew happen to search and then found it (aligning with Director's style)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trailer provided shows topic question at &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/0zFywiAh7N0?t=1m41s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;1:41&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PHtSZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/PHtSZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28806" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-07T09:13:52.123" LastActivityDate="2016-10-05T15:17:46.990" Title="How did they achieve the crack in the ice scene?" Tags="|effects|eternal-sunshine-of-spotless-mind|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45215" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-23T04:18:58.507" Score="5" ViewCount="2152" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a movie about a man who creates a potion and then, he drinks it and his body changes/mutates and becomes a man tree or tree man (half tree, half man). And  someone cuts his arm in a fight, and then he puts him (the tree man) in a cell. Then, the prisoner tries to reach the rays of the sun and so, his lost arm grows again (remember that this man was half man and half tree or plant) but unfortunately the other guy drinks the potion too. And then there is an epic fight between the two men. The bad guy uses a sword. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two mutations are diferent, one man is a kind of man with tree/plant/vegetal escence (his appearance is like silver surfer but in dark green colour and has the vital characteristics of plant/tree/vegetal cell) and the other is like a carnivore (with brown fur).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29034" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-23T12:06:16.783" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T12:06:16.783" Title="Help me identify this movie man mutates into tree man" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:15:23.313" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45215" CreationDate="2015-12-23T05:16:18.703" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_Thing_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Swamp Thing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the half plant half human (sometimes) superhero from DC Comics. Not to be confused with &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Man-Thing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the other half plant half human (sometimes) superhero from that other comic company that also had a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-Thing_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tv movie in 2005&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_Thing_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;From Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Swamp Thing&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1982 American science fiction film written and directed by Wes Craven, based on the DC Comics character of the same name created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. It tells the story of scientist Alec Holland (Ray Wise) who becomes transformed into the monster Swamp Thing (Dick Durock) through laboratory sabotage orchestrated by the evil Anton Arcane (Louis Jourdan). Later, he helps a woman named Alice (Adrienne Barbeau) and battles the man responsible for it all, the ruthless Arcane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arcane being the furry antagonist:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lV3Fp.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lV3Fp.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Said sword:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6XhlD.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6XhlD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Swamp Thing's Silver Surfer plastic mask look:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lBbnk.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lBbnk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His look evolves throughout the movie. He's much better looking in the sequel:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uUtOu.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/uUtOu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-23T05:53:54.517" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T05:53:54.517" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45220" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45199" CreationDate="2015-12-23T08:14:35.353" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the purpose of raiding the tunnel was to create a diversion. There were two distinct paths in the tunnel and Matt specifically chose to the pursue wrong path and exchanged fire with the Alarcón's men. To Alarcón this wouldn't seem like a threat and he wouldn't make any attempt to run. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, all the shooting would draw any of the remaining Alarcón's men into the tunnel giving Alejandro cover. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29041" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T08:14:35.353" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45054" CreationDate="2015-12-23T10:34:01.000" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pure theory crafting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Luke wants Rey to find him, when the time is right.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I base this theory on Rey being Luke's daughter. Luke leaves her because things go bad with Kylo, but he understands that Rey is the only way to counter Kylo's power. He leaves her on Jakku and flies away (why? to protect her and to keep Kylo busy).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His plan is to be found when Rey is older, after some &quot;tests&quot;, so he can be sure she won't turn to the dark side (like Kylo did). He brings his old lightsaber to Maz and instruct R2D2 to await for Rey's coming. He could have given him some instructions like &quot;wait for an heroic action from Rey&quot;, &quot;she must have the lightsaber&quot;, &quot;Kylo must be unable to track her&quot;, something else...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even simpler, R2D2 could be in direct contact with Luke, sending him updates on the situation. Luke would then use a remote activation when he's confident enough that his daughter won't follow the knights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did R2D2 know that Rey is Rey? He knew how to recognize Kenoby in Episode IV, so he must have some proximity sensor to do that. He already met Rey when she was a child, so he has her data in memory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28187" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-23T15:07:34.660" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T15:07:34.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45222" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45225" CreationDate="2015-12-23T10:50:53.833" Score="2" ViewCount="3967" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; why does &lt;strong&gt;master Qui-gon&lt;/strong&gt; think &lt;strong&gt;Anakin Skywalker&lt;/strong&gt; is the &quot;&lt;strong&gt;chosen one&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;, even though other jedi masters disagree? Since he promises to Obi-Wan to train him, all the problems occur.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: Is there really a chosen one in Star Wars? If there is, then who?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18957" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-23T12:13:57.427" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T22:06:32.523" Title="Why does master Qui-Gon think Anakin is the &quot;chosen one&quot; while others do not?" Tags="|star-wars|the-phantom-menace|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45223" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45224" CreationDate="2015-12-23T10:59:01.347" Score="35" ViewCount="429348" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: Episode I&lt;/em&gt; Anakin Skywalker is a child and Padmé is a young lady. Their relationship is that of a child and a lady.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in &lt;em&gt;Episode II&lt;/em&gt; Anakin has aged into a young guy even though Padmé appear to be almost the same age and they are having a &lt;em&gt;lover's relationship&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is the logic behind this? Doesn't Padmé age? Is there any in-universe explanation?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18957" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-23T15:25:07.177" LastActivityDate="2018-01-21T23:45:28.803" Title="Age difference between Anakin Skywalker and Padmé in the Star Wars prequel trilogy" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45223" CreationDate="2015-12-23T11:11:20.467" Score="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 'The Phantom Menace' (set in 32 BBY) Anakin is aged 9 and Padmé is 14. He turns ten during the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the time of their (sexual) relationship in Attack of the Clones, (set ten years later, set in 22 BBY) he was 19 and she was 24.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The name resonated in young Anakin’s heart and soul. He hadn’t seen&#xA;  her in a decade, not since he, along with Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon, had&#xA;  helped her in her struggle against the Trade Federation on Naboo. He&#xA;  had only been ten years old at that time, but from the moment he had&#xA;  first laid eyes on Padmé, young Anakin had known that she was the&#xA;  woman he would marry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Never mind that Padmé was several years older than he was. Never mind&#xA;  that he was just a boy when he had known her, when she had known him.&#xA;  Never mind that Jedi were not allowed to marry. - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_II:_Attack_of_the_Clones_(novel)&quot;&gt;Attack of the Clones: Official Novelisation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why she doesn't appear to age (much), I think we can put that down to an excellent moisturisation regime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3fG9k.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3fG9k.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-23T12:12:21.293" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T12:12:21.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45222" CreationDate="2015-12-23T11:47:40.030" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess Qui-Gon thinks that Anakin is the chosen one because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He was conceived without a father, possibly from the Force itself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He has a high concentration of midi-chlorians (more than Yoda).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;His high skill level at doing things most humans can't do (especially given his young age)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other Jedi Masters find Anakin filled with the fear of losing his mother (which Yoda says can lead to the Dark Side), so they want to decline Qui-gon's request of training Anakin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that's a matter of point of view: Qui-Gon is optimistic, the Council is pessimistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that Qui-Gon had the confidence to teach Anakin in the Light Side of the Force, hoping to help Anakin control (or destroy) the fear that he feels. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt;, at the end when Anakin (now Darth Vader) destroys the Emperor, making the Jedi prophecy come true, thus it would seem he really was the chosen one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darth_Vader#Prequel_trilogy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darth_Vader#Prequel_trilogy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6582" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-12-23T22:06:32.523" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T22:06:32.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45222" CreationDate="2015-12-23T12:24:56.663" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Darth Plagueis the Wise, could alter the midichlorians to &quot;create life&quot;.&#xA;His &quot;student&quot; learned all his secrets before he &quot;killed&quot; him in his sleep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anikin had no father, Shmi &quot;could not explain it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sidious KNEW of the prophecy of the &quot;chosen one&quot; who would bring order. Even if the Jedi had successfully hidden the story, in the past, Sidious could have heard it from Duku, who would have known all about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same way he planned to have the clone army ready in advance.&#xA;The same way he had the droid army attack his own planet.&#xA;He, or his master Plagueis, could have altered Shmi's body to cause her to have Anikin, And WAITED for him to mature. THere could possibly even be OTHERS, in case of a freak podracing accident or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anikin was then dropped in front of them on purpose.&#xA;Sidious and Vader used a faulty hyperdrive in the future as well, to  limit people's range of travel. Steering someone to a desert for repairs is easy when it is the only planet that &quot;happens to be in range&quot; when the hyperdrive goes out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With only ONE PERSON (Watto) having parts for their ship, Common on Naboo but not many other places, it was easy to see where they would go.&#xA;I'm sure convincing Gardulla the Hutt who to sell the two slaves to was easy as well.  I do find it strange though that Toydarians and Hutts BOTH being IMMUNE to force persuasion, they were chosen to watch over the two slaves. Sidious Could however have use money or power to influence the Hutts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sidious, being strong enough to keep the ENTIRE Jedi Council from knowing he was force-sensitive, could have easily influences people close to the Hutts to indirectly influence them as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Immediately making friends with Anikin was NOT just grasping at an opportunity, it was pre-planned! Yoda was aware of some forms of dishonesty in close proximity   (watch his facial expressions when Sidious is talking!) but was still clouded from knowing exact intent. Anikin was &quot;groomed&quot; well away from watchful eyes and ears. And was made to APPEAR to be the chosen one. Sidious influenced Kenobi enough to make him want to help Anikin. Sidious probably used SOME influence on members of the council to make them doubt Anikin as well, JUST TO MAKE Kenobi more determined to train him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25875" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T12:24:56.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45223" CreationDate="2015-12-23T13:00:22.597" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Padmé ages from 14 years old in Phantom Menace to 24 years old in Attack of the Clones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming the humans of Naboo follow the same growth as Earth humans, the females usually reach adult height between ages 14-16, according to the CDC: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set1clinical/cj41c022.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set1clinical/cj41c022.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this, we can assume not much physical changes happened in Padmé's body during these 10 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also it is widely known that Naboo's royal makeup artists are very good. All of the handmaidens are trained in makeup techniques.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, for a young queen, the makeup could be made to make her look more mature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And agreeing with Richard, since it is a planet with extensive water features, the moisturization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5429" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T13:00:22.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45228" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-23T13:31:13.693" Score="10" ViewCount="4692" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Anakin nor Obi-Wan get burned while they battled near lava in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Normal humans would not resist it for so much time, is it because they are Jedi?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what about Anakin after the battle ends? Burned and still alive...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29050" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-12-23T14:41:21.090" LastActivityDate="2023-06-03T01:46:10.497" Title="Why do Obi-Wan and Anakin not get burned during their battle on the lava?" Tags="|star-wars|revenge-of-the-sith|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="45229" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-23T13:38:41.967" Score="4" ViewCount="3274" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_canon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wiki on Wikipedia about Star Wars canon&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The official Star Wars canon consists of the seven released Star Wars theatrical feature films, the Star Wars animated film and television series &lt;strong&gt;The Clone Wars&lt;/strong&gt; and Star Wars Rebels, and any other material released after April 25, 2014, unless otherwise stated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I watched &lt;em&gt;The Clone Wars&lt;/em&gt; television series and always thought that it happens between Episode II and Episode III, but when whatching Episodes II and III again, I became confused...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about Grievous in the 3rd episode movie not recognizing Anakin? Was &lt;em&gt;The Clone Wars&lt;/em&gt; &quot;forced&quot; to become canonical or are there some arguments to explain it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;*Note, &lt;em&gt;The Clone Wars&lt;/em&gt; is not in continuity or canon with &lt;em&gt;Clone Wars&lt;/em&gt; it's spiritual predecessor cartoon series.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29050" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-23T19:52:59.893" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T21:31:38.993" Title="Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith vs. The Clone Wars" Tags="|star-wars|continuity|the-clone-wars|revenge-of-the-sith|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45230" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45228" CreationDate="2015-12-23T13:41:05.407" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;While they were near the lava, apparently, they generally stayed far enough away to catch fire from the ambient heat. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For information about how close you can be to lava without being injured in real life, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/136724/how-close-can-you-get-to-lava-before-burning&quot;&gt;How close can you get to lava before burning?&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/how-close-can-i-get-lava-and-will-it-hurt-or-kill-me&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;How close can I get to lava and will it hurt or kill me? &lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Jedi do seem to have a higher pain tolerance (due to training and meditation), there is no evidence that Jedi have a lower flammability than other things. This seems to just be either a &quot;physics of a galaxy far, far away&quot;, or a general conceit for the sake of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, though, once Anakin has been defeated and left laying too close to the lava, he &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; catch fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/2vMUj8bKr2E?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1046" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:40:13.220" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T13:41:05.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45228" CreationDate="2015-12-23T13:48:07.180" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Echoing my answer on another stack...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The DVD commentary for Episode III (with producer &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_McCallum#Star_Wars&quot;&gt;Rick McCallum&lt;/a&gt;) explains this in more detail. In short, the blue haze you see is not only a repulsor field but it also creates a form of cooling for the Jedi:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rick McCallum :&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;This blue light around the bottom of the light and the platforms was added later on, in Production. George felt that&#xA;  at one point, that we needed to feel that there was some cooling&#xA;  effect, some kind of shield...a reason why our actors aren't burning&#xA;  up being around this intense heat so Roger Guyett and his team added&#xA;  these shields, this shield generator into this shots as another pass&#xA;  after they'd completed a lot of these shots...to help tell that story.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T13:48:07.180" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42405" CreationDate="2015-12-23T13:50:49.260" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sherlock Holmes is an interesting man. He had an organised knowledge base for topics that might relate to his chosen line of work. (so pretty much everything socially acceptable.) so when specific details could give a hint he knew about it.said trained at Bart's, so army doctor.That line is a great example of him knowing things and keeping it organised. he knew people who trained at Bart's could be army doctors. so when he heard it he could identify the possibility. then he mentions &quot;his haircut and the way he holds himself&quot; which fall in line with the normal behavioral patterns of ex and current military. So he could confirm army doctor off that. next when he got the phone he reconised with the money problem Watson had there's NO WAY that was a luxury he bought on his own. so there had to be someone who gave him it. In the show you see Holmes casually look at the back of the phone for a split second and use an expression that shows interest, Finish the text and hand it back. that was all the time he needed to finish his observation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example is in &quot;The Blind Banker&quot; the detective says &quot;it's obviously a suicide that's the only explanation for all of the facts. Sherlock interrupts &quot;wrong that's the only explanation for some of the facts you got an explanation you like and you're choosing to ignore any information that doesn't comply with it. Then goes on to explain the table on the left hand side of the sofa. The coffee mugs handle favoring the left side. the outlets habitually used on the left side. the tablet on the left side of the phone. the butter on the right side of the knife so left hand to spread.&quot; since he was left handed and the bullet went in the right hand side it shows an interesting disconnect between normal human behavior and this &quot;suicide&quot; so murder is a more likely solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29053" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T13:50:49.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11853" CreationDate="2015-12-23T14:11:34.693" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;As an Epee fencer in the real world, I favoured a weapon with the traditional French style grip (long handle, heavy pomel). Many people, including my old coach, consider the more modern &quot;pistol&quot; grip (short handle, moulded to the hand, no pomel) to be superior, but the french grip gave me access to certain moves which complimented my style and are impossible with the more powerful but more restrictive pistol grip. Conversely the pistol grip does suit many people's style and they might find my sword hard to hold on to and lacking power in parries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same weapon which is a major advantage in the hands of a proponent of one fighting style is a major liability in the hands of someone whose style it does not suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27617" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T14:11:34.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44569" CreationDate="2015-12-23T15:19:51.847" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I recall correctly, shortly after the darkness is released, some of Crowley's demons report to him that they heard a scream coming from the cage.   It is specifically discussed that either Michael or Lucider is trying to warn them of something.   So, they acknowledge the ongoing existence of Michael at least up until the early part of the season.   And, we know that something significant happened in the cage at that time, significant enough to cause either Michael or Lucifer to cry out, although we don't know what that is. &#xA;It is also specifically stated by god that “Michael is in no condition for battle” he implies that he is still alive. (Said while they gather Crowley and Rowena to fight the darkness)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29058" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-02-11T10:07:44.517" LastActivityDate="2020-02-11T10:07:44.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="45237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41568" CreationDate="2015-12-23T15:28:56.857" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In game 6, Spassky had no defense and no attack.  It was amazing that a player of Spassky's caliber, be dominated like that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29060" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T15:28:56.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45242" CreationDate="2015-12-23T15:40:21.060" Score="12" ViewCount="7760" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the &quot;Business Card&quot; scene in &lt;em&gt;American Psycho&lt;/em&gt; all three cards appear to have the same phone number.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize they all work in the same department and all have the same position but wouldn't this defeat the purpose of having a business card? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8eb1A.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8eb1A.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DNWth.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DNWth.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If someone handed me their card, I would expect that it would contain their individual phone number, not just the number of the office / company. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29061" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T03:52:14.867" Title="Why would Patrick Bateman share a phone number with Paul Allen and Timothy Bryce?" Tags="|american-psycho|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17419" CreationDate="2015-12-23T15:50:40.757" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I´m searching for the same movie, I think...is it this one: &lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ys-TjlXLZEg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &quot;Someone´s watching me!&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078295/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078295/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;i hope it´s!!! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29062" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T15:50:40.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45238" CreationDate="2015-12-23T16:01:27.630" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The number on the card is almost certainly the switchboard / operator / company directory number for the company they work at. When you call that number, you are then asked where you want your call directed. (Possibly by a person, possibly by an automated number).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases, business cards might also include an extension number for you to dial directly, but not always.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this case, it's possible that the company doesn't &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; clients direct-dialing their executives. Perhaps the executives are out of the office a lot, or perhaps the company wants to maintain some control over who gets access the their officer-level employees (in case one leaves, or is on vacation, or whatever). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the business cards only have enough information on them for a client to get in touch with the company's operator and tell them who they want to speak to, and the operator handles it from there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T16:01:27.630" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45238" CreationDate="2015-12-23T16:08:32.853" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the UK, banks and large financial institutions need to comply with the Financial Conduct Authority's rules regarding &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fca.org.uk/firms/being-regulated/meeting-your-obligations/firm-guides/information-gathering/call-taping&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;counterparty call recording&lt;/a&gt;, basically making sure that all calls relating to deals and conversations with the company's legal representatives are recorded for compliance and audit purposes. This is usually accomplished by having a single line in and out of the company through which 'official' calls are routed to clients.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many large companies (UK and US) have a single switchboard so that they can monitor who is making and receiving calls to their clients. A department with responsility for multi-billion dollar mergers would certainly want this ability.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-23T18:03:10.277" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T18:03:10.277" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45244" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45228" CreationDate="2015-12-23T16:49:20.750" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does Anakin not die?  Midi-Chlorians!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Midi-chlorian&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Midi-chlorian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anakin was potentially formed from a mass of these microscopic life forms, so it is conceivable that these same life forms could keep him alive whilst not being strong enough to heal the wounds or regenerate limbs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29066" LastEditorUserId="29066" LastEditDate="2015-12-23T16:55:06.713" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T16:55:06.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45245" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45246" CreationDate="2015-12-23T17:01:04.630" Score="4" ViewCount="8937" Body="&lt;p&gt;In several crossovers, the characters from both series go back and forth between these two cities. In a scene, Oliver was on a motorcycle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the distance between these two cities? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8584" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-07T05:52:10.937" LastActivityDate="2016-07-12T15:03:09.937" Title="How far is Central City from Star/Starling City?" Tags="|the-flash|arrow|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45245" CreationDate="2015-12-23T17:23:01.970" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You can see more details in my vain and failed attempt to figure out &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/76756/where-is-starling-city-located&quot;&gt;where the heck Starling City&lt;/a&gt; is. However, there were a few scenes where characters estimate that it's about 600 miles between the two cities. For example, at the end of &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt;'s pilot episode, we get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oliver Queen: So why come to me? Something tells me you didn't just run 600 miles to say hi to a friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that normal characters would need at least 10-12 hours to get from one place to another, though Barry can obviously get there about a half hour at top speeds (~Mach 2).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is born out a bit in the most recent cross-over, &quot;Legends of Today&quot; / &quot;Legends of Yesterday&quot;. When the combined Team Arrow and Team Flash members realize they need to get from Starling City to Central City very quickly, they end up taking Felicity's private jet. These kinds of planes typically travel in the 400mph to 600mph range, so it wouldn't make sense to take one if your cities weren't at least several hundred miles apart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T17:23:01.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45247" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45245" CreationDate="2015-12-23T17:23:02.280" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a bit hard to pin down because the assumed or affirmed locations of cities have changed over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, according to the wiki for the &quot;Arrowverse&quot; shows, Central City is located approximately &lt;strong&gt;600 miles&lt;/strong&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/Star_City#cite_note-0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star City&lt;/a&gt;. The citation for the number is apparently derived from the pilot episode of The Flash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T17:23:02.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45222" CreationDate="2015-12-23T18:05:26.097" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a simpler perspective, Jedi use The Force to analyze as if it were a sixth sense to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They analyzed the hard data (midi-chlorians count) and then they analyzed Anakin through The Force. Put yourself in a skin of a Jedi Master which is able to perceive a person's fears, desires and somewhat foresee part of that person's future... Suppose that after your analysis you perceived:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deep fear of loss;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;strong attraction to a teenage queen that he just met;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;deep desire to become a powerful Jedi;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cocky and vindictive attitude;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;a future shrouded in uncertainty...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Would you place him as the next candidate for &quot;the one that brings balance to The Force&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe if you got the chance to know him sightly better in a short time, for example: if you were stuck in a desert planet and he'd win one huge bet for you and allowed you and your VIP friends to get out of there, perhaps you would consider the possibility...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, besides the Jedi Masters, others at that time may had already perceived the abnormal concentration of The Force in Anakin, namely &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Chosen_one#History_of_the_Chosen_One&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Darth Plagueis&lt;/a&gt; (a Sith who supposedly created Anakin by accident - &lt;strong&gt;non-&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Canon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;canon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Father_%28Mortis%29/Legends&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Father&lt;/a&gt; (a being in the Clone Wars episodes that was once a &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Celestial&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Celestial&lt;/a&gt; - canon).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29063" LastEditorUserId="29063" LastEditDate="2015-12-23T18:15:52.463" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T18:15:52.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45252" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45660" CreationDate="2015-12-23T19:27:17.373" Score="15" ViewCount="15625" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the start of season eight in The Big Bang Theory, Penny quits her job as an actress and becomes a pharmaceutical rep in the same company where Bernadette Wolowitz works in. Apparently, she's good at her job, so much so in &lt;strong&gt;S8 E20&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://bigbangtrans.wordpress.com/series-8-episode-20-the-fortification-implementation/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Fortification Implementation&lt;/a&gt;, Leonard discovers she is earning twice as much as he does&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Penny: &lt;em&gt;Okay, instead of protecting me, why don't you try being excited when something good happens?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leonard: &lt;em&gt;I'm always excited for you! I'm excited that you found this new job where you're making decent money.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Penny: &lt;em&gt;Decent? I make twice what you make.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leonard: &lt;em&gt;Wait, twice?!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Penny: &lt;em&gt;Yeah.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wheaton: For those of you at home, &lt;strong&gt;Leonard just found out his fiancée makes way more money than he does.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Penny's lucrative job as a pharmaceutical salesperson is briefly mentioned in the following episode, &amp;quot;The Communication Deterioration&amp;quot; and then... never again. It is now season nine, eleven episodes have been aired, and not &lt;em&gt;once&lt;/em&gt; does anyone mention about Penny's work. Not her husband, whom we see still works in Caltech, not Bernadette who is her co-worker, nor Penny herself. Penny's past as an aspiring actress who waited on tables in the Cheesecake factory is never mentioned either. I realize that as a character, Penny could not continue waiting at tables forever while attending the odd audition. The writers either had to give her an acting break, or she had to ‘give up’ her dream and find a job that offered her financial security. And it's great that the show has two strong female characters who excel in their professions, &lt;strong&gt;so why have the writers ignored Penny's career in season nine?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have the show's writers and producers justified their decision to write all of Penny's scenes either in her apartment or at Sheldon's? She doesn't appear to go to work, she never talks about her clients, her boss, her old dreams of being an actress, nor her dreams about the future. She doesn't say whether she loves or hates her new job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What exactly is her role in the show? Is she &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; Leonard Hofstadter's wife?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite the fact that she has this financially rewarding job,  &lt;strong&gt;it hasn't been mentioned  since&lt;/strong&gt; Season 8 &lt;a href=&quot;http://April%2016,%202015&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;episode 21&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which aired &lt;strong&gt;April 16, 2015&lt;/strong&gt;. Why would the writers stop talking about Penny's “new” job?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-05-04T00:14:50.867" Title="What happened to Penny's pharmaceutical sales rep job?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45238" CreationDate="2015-12-23T19:28:49.173" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;While everybody else's answer may be correct in the context of reality, you're missing the point of the scene, if not the entire movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He works at the same company as everybody else, has the same position, shares the same lifestyle, the same interests and hobbies, has the same clothes, the same routines and hangouts, they share the same women, have similarly expensive apartments...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His entire &quot;mask of sanity&quot; is based on possessing all of the same things his peers have.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why &lt;em&gt;wouldn't&lt;/em&gt; he have the same number as everybody else? Bateman doesn't actually have an identity of his own. His existence revolves around emulating his peers to fanatical ends. The phone number is just another thing they all have in common, a serial number that fails to differentiate any of these characters from one another.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29069" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T19:28:49.173" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45252" CreationDate="2015-12-23T19:56:44.717" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/big-bang-theory-penny-leonard-821143&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;showrunner Steve Molaro&lt;/a&gt;, Penny's career as a pharma-rep is coming along very nicely in season 9 and she has no immediate plans to pick up her failed acting career, thank you for asking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What about Penny's acting career? Now that she's married, are we going to see her go back to that at all?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;There are no plans at the moment. She's moving forward to pharmaceutical sales and seems to have found a thing that she's pretty&#xA;good at and enjoying.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So there won't be more Serial Apeist?!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Laughs.] &lt;em&gt;Not at the moment.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T19:56:44.717" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45255" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45199" CreationDate="2015-12-23T20:03:41.790" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is very simple. If they would enter Mexico like they did the first time it would be noticed by the cartel, putting the head boss on alert mode. So probably Diaz would be called off, or it would be impossible to get to the boss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This way they did it all at once simultaneously, which was impressive if you ask me :).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29071" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T20:03:41.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45256" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45199" CreationDate="2015-12-23T20:34:28.300" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is a distraction to support a covert entry into Mexico&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like overkill for Alejandro to use the tunnel rather than just going into Mexico via some simpler, normal route. The point of making a covert entry is that the CIA don't want to be seen to have any involvement with the killing and the killer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Alejandro had entered normally, his presence is Mexico would be known to many risking revealing the link to the CIA. Perhaps a different covert method could be chosen, but this one has the benefit of being a very loud and visible distraction to the very people who need to be distracted. And the timing is not happenstance; it is designed to allow Alejandro to subvert the trip being made by Díaz to both locate and gain entry to the Alarcón household. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The nature of the operation helps avoid warning the organisation beforehand and denying them a clear link to the killer afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T20:34:28.300" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45257" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45262" CreationDate="2015-12-23T23:32:05.913" Score="3" ViewCount="725" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just had the doubtful pleasure of watching the 2012 film 'Move On'. It is described as &quot;&lt;em&gt;special road movie&lt;/em&gt;&quot; on the film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://move-on-film.com/#!movie/intl_movie/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;official website&lt;/a&gt; and an &quot;&lt;em&gt;unusual road trip [with] unexpected turns&lt;/em&gt;&quot; on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2273326/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;imdb&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a short breakdown (with the revealing end)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The main character Marc (Mads Mikkelsen) receives a suitcase with unknown content. His 'last job' is to deliver the suitcase. But it turns out to be not this easy (suprise?). He travels through countries, cars get trashed, shots get fired, nothing out of the ordinary. At the end he throws the suitcase in a hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me it really seemed like they just cut some random scenes from an action movie with no real story whatsoever. &lt;strong&gt;Am I totally missing something? Or is the story really just crap?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29079" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-25T15:40:51.627" LastActivityDate="2015-12-25T15:40:51.627" Title="Why does &quot;Move on&quot; (2012) seem so disjointed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|move-on|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44968" CreationDate="2015-12-23T23:42:24.163" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often two sides of a conflict have different ways of seeing the &quot;truth&quot;.  For instance, look at how Israel views Palestine as a part of them versus how Palestine views Palestine as independent (more or less), or how the People's Republic of China considers Taiwan one of their territories, while Taiwan considers themselves independent.  I'm simplifying some complex political situations but my point is that it comes down to perspective.  Even if the Republic was reinstated it is unlikely they would just instantly gain complete control over the galaxy just by destroying the second Death Star.  The empire would still hold large parts of the galaxy, and it's probable that whatever the actual balance, The First Order has not accepted the rebel victory to be legitimate, and considers the Republic to be a false state in rebellion against their legitimate rulers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20710" LastActivityDate="2015-12-23T23:42:24.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44936" CreationDate="2015-12-24T00:14:36.970" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Summary&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know, but the movie hints strongly that she is Luke's daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Explanation&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie does not give sure evidence about her family, nor do any of the other current official Star Wars media like video games and comics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the movie gives very certain hints that she belongs to Luke. The best hint and piece of dialogue is just after the vision Rey has in Maz Kanata's castle:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rey - &quot;What was that? I shouldn't have gone in there&quot; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Maz - &quot;That&#xA;  lightsaber was Luke's, and his father's before him and now it calls to&#xA;  you!&quot; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Rey - &quot;I have to get back to Jakku&quot; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Maz - &quot;Han told me&quot; (they&#xA;  hold hands) &quot;Dear child, I see your eyes - you already know the truth.&#xA;  Whomever you are waiting for on Jakku, they're never coming back&quot; (Rey&#xA;  cries) &quot;but, there's someone who still could&quot; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Rey - &quot;Luke&quot; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Maz - &quot;The&#xA;  belonging you seek is not behind you, it is ahead. I am no Jedi, but I&#xA;  know the force. It moves through and surrounds every living thing.&#xA;  Close your eyes, feel it. The light. It's always been there. It will&#xA;  guide you. The sabre - take it.&quot; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Rey - &quot;I'm never touching that thing&#xA;  again, I don't want any part of this&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Some theories&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She is Luke's daughter&lt;/strong&gt;. I believe this because of the spoken&#xA;sequence quoted above, plus she grew up on a desert just like Luke&#xA;and Anakin wearing the same clothes as Luke and Anakin, she was poor&#xA;like Luke and Anakin, she is a natural fly-er and mechanic just like&#xA;Luke and Anakin, and the way Luke looks at her as compared to the&#xA;way Han looks at her. Han seems to feel guilt that she grew up&#xA;hungry, alone, and in a desert, multiple times (watch the scene when&#xA;they arrive on Maz Kanata's planet and she says &quot;I didn't know there&#xA;was so much green in the whole galaxy&quot;... Han's face says lots of&#xA;guilt), but Han clearly sees Kylo Ren as his son and the way he sees Rey is&#xA;very different. The way Luke looks at her at the end, however...&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She is Kylo Ren/Ben Solo's sibling&lt;/strong&gt;. The no-longer-official&#xA;(no-longer-canon) Extended Universe books told a story of Han and&#xA;Leia's twin children. The son turns to the dark and the daughter&#xA;defeats him. JJ Abrams and company obviously knew about this and are&#xA;using it to make people assume one way or another.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She has no family or she belongs to someone else&lt;/strong&gt;. This is probably&#xA;not correct. George Lucas's question to JJ Abrams in interviews is&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/viDu9SLvF_E?t=1m8s&quot;&gt;&quot;What happened to Darth Vader's grandchildren?&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. The Star Wars&#xA;films that have &quot;Episode&quot; in the title will &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/skywalker-family-star-wars/&quot;&gt;all deal with the&#xA;Skywalker family&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20379" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T00:14:36.970" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45262" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45257" CreationDate="2015-12-24T00:21:35.307" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you're looking at is the metaphorical &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_committee&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;camel&lt;/a&gt;, a horse designed by a committee. The film &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Move_On_(2012_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Move on&lt;/a&gt;&quot; was a crowd-sourced experimental movie that incorporated scenes, clips and elements from nearly 1200 contributors including 8 major film &quot;segments&quot; that were woven into the pre-existing plotline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From pre-production through to the shooting of the film, cinema buffs&#xA;  from 11 European countries had the opportunity to actively shape&#xA;  elements of the road movie. They were involved in aspects ranging from&#xA;  designing the posters and performing in minor supporting parts or as&#xA;  extras. Several thousand people applied online, submitting their film&#xA;  clips and sound recordings for assessment. The best contributions were&#xA;  incorporated into Move On, thus giving the film a unique character,&#xA;  and many of the winners were even on set during filming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When combined with the relative inexperience of the principals (actors, director and crew) and the fact that the film was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myfilmviews.com/2013/01/12/move-on-2012/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;heavily sponsored by a number of corporations&lt;/a&gt; (all of whom insisted on input into the plot) you can easily see how this sort of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.move-on-film.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;project&lt;/a&gt; could lead to something less polished than a normal indie film&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-24T00:41:44.033" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T00:41:44.033" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45265" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-24T00:43:57.657" Score="8" ViewCount="14155" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have done extensive research on this but keep coming across what appears to be conflicting information, so I am hoping the knowledgeable base here can shed some clarification on my question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am confining my question specifically to the Galaxy-class Enterprise NC 1701-D but from my understanding of their general design, the Sovereign-class Enterprise NC 1701-E should also behave much the same (indeed including the Prometheus-class which should be able to do the saucer separation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question revolves around the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y-qMez7zoU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Saucer separation&lt;/a&gt; which happens in the 'Encounter at Farpoint' episode and also the a couple other times such as the 'The Arsenal of Freedom'. In one it appears that the &quot;battle bridge&quot; is on the saucer portion and the &quot;civilian&quot; portion is the rest of the ship. But in others, it's the saucer that goes away with people and the &quot;body&quot; if you will does the battle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I am a bit confused, which portion, the saucer or the body is the ACTUAL battle bridge, during separation for combat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5929" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-25T15:41:45.587" LastActivityDate="2015-12-25T15:41:45.587" Title="Where on the Enterprise-D is the &quot;Battle Bridge&quot; situated?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-trek|star-trek-the-next-generation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45265" CreationDate="2015-12-24T00:53:05.217" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ship's 'Main Bridge' is at the top of the saucer section. The 'Battle Bridge' is at the front of the engineering section. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see both labelled in this blueprint from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0671704273&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TNG Technical Manual&lt;/a&gt;. I've labelled (in green) the joint between the saucer and the stardrive section.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8I0bw.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8I0bw.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the ship separates, the Main Bridge continues to function as the bridge for the saucer section (which is equipped with its own engines, weapons and shields) whereas the Battle Bridge becomes the main centre for operating the Stardrive, comprising the warp engines, primary shield emitters, warp core and main weapons platform.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-24T00:58:54.097" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T00:58:54.097" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42085" CreationDate="2015-12-24T01:21:21.617" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched this movie yesterday and it was the first time I've seen it. There were parts that I didn't understand either, but in the end was when it all made sense. And that is what I think the director intended to do. I think that he (forgive me if it's a she) wanted for us to be a little confused and then understand everything towards the end, because it creates a sense of overwhelming realization and emotion for the viewers. As for the scene when Rachel watches the video, your thoughts are correct, this scene is one of the most important. There are many things to discover, still from the film Greg had made for Rachel. One of the most significant things about this scene is the fact that we don't know for sure that Rachel saw the entire film, which guessing by the chaos developed shortly after starting to watch the film, she didn't. The fact that she probably never got to the end just goes to show us that time is precious. After this scene, a thought crept into my mind. If only Greg had given the film to Rachel sooner, she could have seen it to the very end and most likely even reacted to it verbally.  The people and objects displayed in the film are also of great importance. The pillows, for example were something Rachel &quot;collected&quot;, which is probably why Greg decided to feature them in his film. Though it may have seemed like Greg and Earl didn't really want to make the film for Rachel, it is, without a doubt in my mind, significant. I hope this helped, if you have any other questions I would be glad to attempt and answer them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29083" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T01:21:21.617" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45269" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44936" CreationDate="2015-12-24T01:31:07.503" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I find all the previous answers likely, I want to add another point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They still have to decide it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A thing that I really appreciated of this movie is how characters are presented and how their past help us to understand who they really are. It may sound trivial, but I like the idea of a growing villain instead of the classic bad guy that comes out of nothing and dies barely speaking (hello Darth Maul). &#xA;I also find the relationships between the various characters deeper than in previous movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is my belief that they wanted to give Rey a deeper personality and in the same time presenting similarities between her and Anakin. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The choice of hiding her past leaves many options: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it could be statically used in future movies to better define her personality, and since it didn't effect much the first movie of the third trilogy they are free to surprise;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they could ignore it, like they did with Anakin, and keep going without leaving plot holes;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it could be the chance to introduce other Jedi or other important characters that will be later presented (I just hope we are done with the &quot;I'm your father&quot; thing);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;they may just have took this decision to let fans speculate and dream about the possibilities while they wait for the next movie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like Disney doesn't have a specific idea of how things will go on and since they are not doing a prequel they are free from many restrictions. That could explain why they left many thing open such as Kylo's betrayal and Rey's past.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27665" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T01:31:07.503" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45275" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45084" CreationDate="2015-12-24T06:24:45.047" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Supreme Leader Snoke basically insists it is his &amp;quot;Jedi Trial&amp;quot;. Well, &amp;quot;Dark Side&amp;quot; trial. To ensure that there's no pull of the light side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Originally, he discusses with Ren the Vader falling (all quotes from Alan Dean Foster novelization):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Kylo Ren, I watched the Galactic Empire rise, and then fall. The gullible prattle on about the triumph of truth and justice, of individualism and free will. As if such things were solid and real instead of simple subjective judgments. The historians have it all wrong. It was neither poor strategy nor arrogance that brought down the Empire. You know too well what did.”&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Ren nodded once. “Sentiment.”&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;“Yes. Such a simple thing. Such a foolish error of judgment. A momentary lapse in an otherwise exemplary life. &lt;strong&gt;Had Lord Vader not succumbed to emotion at the crucial moment—had the father killed the son—the Empire would have prevailed&lt;/strong&gt;. And there would be no threat of Skywalker’s return today.”&#xA;“I am immune to the light,” Ren assured him confidently. “By the grace of your training, I will not be seduced.”&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;“Your self-belief is commendable, Kylo Ren, but do not let it blind you. &lt;strong&gt;No one knows the limits of his own power until it has been tested to the utmost, as yours has not been. That day may yet come&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then, he explicitly says what Kylo Ren's test - the one that Vader failed - will be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“There is no need for concern.” Despite the Supreme Leader’s cautioning, Ren’s assurance remained unbounded. “Together we will destroy the Resistance—and the last Jedi.”&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;“Perhaps,” Snoke conceded. “&lt;strong&gt;It has come to our notice that the droid we seek is aboard the Millennium Falcon, once again in the hands of your father, Han Solo. Even you, master of the Knights of Ren, have never faced such a test&lt;/strong&gt;.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kylo Ren believed that killing Han will strengthen him and let him achieve his goald to Be The Best (Dark Sider) He Can Be :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ren’s eyes blazed. “No! The Supreme Leader is wise. He knows me for who I am, &lt;strong&gt;and who I can become&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Your mother misses you.”&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;A strange sensation touched the younger man’s cheeks. Something long forgotten. Dampness. Tears.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;“I’m being torn apart. I want—I want to be free of this pain.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's being tormented by the pull of the Light side. And he knows what Snoke told him he needs to to to remove that pull - what Vader failed to do. Kill his emotionally attached family member.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Han took another step, then stopped, waiting. &lt;strong&gt;A decision had to be made&lt;/strong&gt;, and for once it was not his to make.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;“I know what I have to do, but I don’t know if I have the strength to do it.” Ren moved out onto the walkway toward Han. “Will you help me?”&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;“Yes,” Han told him. “Anything.”&#xA;Halting an arm’s length from his father, Ren unclipped his lightsaber, looked down at it for a moment, and then extended it toward Han. For an instant that seemed to extend into forever, nothing happened. Smiling, Han reached for the weapon. Then, as the light from outside was fully blocked by the flow of descending, accumulating dark energy, Ren ignited the lightsaber—and the fiery red beam lanced outward to pierce Han’s chest from front to back.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;“Thank you,” Ren murmured, and truly, the darkness above was mimicked by the darkness in his voice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kylo Ren fully expected that this would strengthen him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stunned by his own action, Kylo Ren fell to his knees. &lt;strong&gt;Following through on the act ought to have made him stronger, a part of him believed. Instead, he found himself weakened&lt;/strong&gt;. He did not hear the roar of the enraged Wookiee above, but he did feel the sting of the shot from the bowcaster as it slammed into his side, knocking him back on the walkway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T06:30:39.347" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44968" CreationDate="2015-12-24T06:53:11.470" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to canon &lt;em&gt;Visual Dictionary&lt;/em&gt; by Pablo Hidalgo, the following is the geopolitical situation in TGFFA:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Resistance is &lt;strong&gt;nearly completely separate&lt;/strong&gt; from the Republic. It's a private group, run separately, located separately, AND with the separate goals from the Republic, whose only connection to the Resistance is that they offer some rare grudging support.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;New Republic made peace with the First Order, and is more concerned with &lt;strike&gt;taxaton of&lt;/strike&gt; trade routes than with ensuring the Bad Guys don't Strike Back - they think they won the war fully.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Resistance, on the contrary, thinks the war is not won, First Order will attack again, and are fighting against them. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, Resistance, and not the New Republic, picked up the mantle - functionally and ideologically - of the Rebellion as the force opposing the Sith/Empire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T06:53:11.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44934" CreationDate="2015-12-24T07:28:18.053" Score="10" Body="&lt;h2&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the WGA leaked script, the datacard that Leia gets which says that the weapon is being recharged ALSO tells her it's being targeted at D'Qar&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;LEIA&#xA;(eyes on datacard)&#xA;The First Order: they're charging&#xA;the weapon again, now.&#xA;(then, heart sinking)&#xA;Our system is the next target.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leia decided to attack without even knowing the next target anyway&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;After that, she deduced they were next target because it was a slam dank obvious next move for First Order&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They knew they were an &lt;strong&gt;immediate&lt;/strong&gt; urgent next target because the weapon was being immediately recharged.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Details:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Leia &lt;strong&gt;originally&lt;/strong&gt;, even earlier, decides they need to attack without knowing what the target is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All quotes from Alan Dean Foster's official TFA novelization, which is fully Disney canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“We have to wait until the technical staff have run their detailed analysis,” Wexley said. “Then, once they’ve done that—”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Leia cut him off. Han grinned, but not so she could see it. She was good at cutting people off, he knew.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “We don’t have time to wait on analyses and scientific hypotheses. Han’s right. We have to act, and act now.” He eyed her in surprise—and concealed that reaction, too.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “&lt;strong&gt;This is the moment that counts,” she continued. “Everything we’ve ever fought for is at stake. We can’t wait on theories. We need something, anything, so we can fight back!&lt;/strong&gt;” She straightened. “&lt;strong&gt;We have to take this weapon down before it can be used again&lt;/strong&gt;.”  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In case you're wondering what her motivation to rush was? Well, aside from generic &quot;she'a good person who doesn't like the idea of billions of people dying&quot;, we know exactly what her PTSD is about: &lt;strong&gt;She witnessed Alderaan being destroyed 30+ years earlier.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Admiral,” she said, “we must find this new weapon’s point of origin. &lt;strong&gt;As soon as possible and before it can be used again&lt;/strong&gt;.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Statura nodded tersely. “I’ll send a reconnaissance ship immediately.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  She acknowledged his response as Captain Wexley called to her. “General, we’re ready for you.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  It was to be a conference on strategy like no other, she knew. To confront a threat that exceeded everything else that had gone before it. She spared a moment’s thought for her envoy, Sella, who had been on the Republic capital world when it had been destroyed. And another moment for all who had perished, regardless of their personal or political beliefs. &lt;strong&gt;First Alderaan, now the Hosnian system. No one, she knew, should have to be witness to the death of an entire world.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, it doesn't really take more than 2 working brain cells to figure out that if First Order's first target was the center of New Republic, their second target would be Rebellion's main base. That's not in canon... but come on, the fact that they all have more than 2 brain cells IS in canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, lo and behold, Leia does get just that lightbulb moment right after already having decided to attack:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“The situation could not be worse,” C-3PO murmured.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Raising a hand for attention, Leia held up the readout. &lt;strong&gt;“According to this, we don’t have time to study the situation even if we decided to do so. Our team has detected an enormous quantity of dark energy surging toward the world Finn has identified for us. That can only mean one thing.” She paused for emphasis. “They’re loading the weapon again. I think we can all take a good guess as to what their next target will be.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  C-3PO lowered his golden head. “I was wrong. It can be worse.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="235" LastEditDate="2016-01-05T02:57:57.540" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T02:57:57.540" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44938" CreationDate="2015-12-24T07:45:16.877" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to fully Disney Canon official novelization by Alan Dean Foster, we know 2 things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Han and Leia suspected that Ben always had a pull towards a dark side, like Anakin. That was a reason he was sent to study under Luke&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, a guess by @user3574984 in another answer is wrong - he didn't just fall to the Dark Side on his own, and then went off and hooked up with Snoke. Snoke had integral part in seducing him to the Dark Side - although at this point, we have no canon information of any level pointing at details of &quot;how&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What could he say to that? What possible response could he give to a willful denial of reason? “He’s gone, Leia. &lt;strong&gt;He was always drawn to the dark side. There was nothing we could’ve done to stop it, no matter how hard we tried.” His final words were the hardest to get out. “There was too much Vader in him.&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “That’s why I wanted him to train with Luke,” Leia said. “I just never should have sent him away. That’s when I lost him. When I lost you both.”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Han dipped his head. “We both had to deal with it in our own way.” He shrugged. “I went back to the only thing I was ever good at.”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “We both did,” Leia admitted.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &#xA;  He met her eyes steadily. “We’ve lost our son, forever.”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Leia bit her lower lip, refusing to concede. “No. It was Snoke.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Han drew back slightly. “Snoke?”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  She nodded. “&lt;strong&gt;He knew our child would be strong with the Force. That he was born with equal potential for good or evil&lt;/strong&gt;.”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “You knew this from the beginning? Why didn’t you tell me?”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  She sighed. “Many reasons. I was hoping that I was wrong, that it wasn’t true. I hoped I could sway him, turn him away from the dark side, without having to involve you.” A small smile appeared. “You had—you have—wonderful qualities, Han, but patience and understanding were never among them. I was afraid that your reactions would only drive him farther to the dark side. I thought I could shield him from Snoke’s influence and you from what was happening.” Her voice dropped. “It’s clear now that I was wrong. Whether your involvement would have made a difference, we’ll never know.”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  He had trouble believing what he was hearing. “&lt;strong&gt;So Snoke was watching our son.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;“Always,” she told him. “From the shadows, in the beginning, even before I realized what was happening, he was manipulating everything, pulling our son toward the dark side.”&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="20379" LastEditDate="2015-12-24T20:45:06.550" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T20:45:06.550" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42085" CreationDate="2015-12-24T08:16:53.463" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was it just a random video or it had any significance in the movie?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not a random video, rather a thoughtful one. From the whole movie, it can be understood that Rachael's mom, Greg and Earl are the very closest and caring persons in Rachael's short life. And the pillows, it's something Rachel likes to collect, like a hobby, so, we can see her room is stuffed with lots and different sorts of pillows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last video (Greg's movie for Rachel), unlike his other movies, it's Greg's intention to make Rachel happy by featuring Rachel's real friends whom she loves to hang out with, family and pillows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T08:16:53.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45280" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45281" CreationDate="2015-12-24T11:02:22.420" Score="5" ViewCount="303" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I can recall from Futurama &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Futurama_Holiday_Spectacular&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;season 06 episode 13&lt;/a&gt;, In the robonica spirit, the female bots had to wrestle in petroleum oil which got extinct, leaving bender with only a can of it. Bender, along with crew, goes down the earth,digging, to get more petrol. The ship gets wrecked due to pressure and there, 500 million years later, the crew gets converted into petrol. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he got back into Planet Express office (where the two female bots were fighting), he sees enough petroleum oil already there (which wasn't when he left 500 million years back) and quoted &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;There was enough petroleum for four and a half week, but it lasted for&#xA;  500 million years. Its a miracle&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did this petroleum arrived suddenly? If it was the same petrol which he used 500 million years back(amount to only few liters), how did it suddenly became a tub full of it? Also, isn't petrol a volatile liquid, which should've vanished into the air?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4293" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T12:23:39.253" Title="Petrol extinction in Futurama" Tags="|futurama|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45280" CreationDate="2015-12-24T11:19:04.043" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was a '&lt;em&gt;Robanukah Miracle&lt;/em&gt;'. This closely mirrors the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-hanukkah/2015/12/02/2ea6fc3c-93ae-11e5-8aa0-5d0946560a97_story.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;miracle of the oil&lt;/a&gt;&quot; found in the Jewish Hanukah tradition, on which Robanukah seems to be largely modeled:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After the Maccabees reclaimed the Temple, the story goes, &lt;strong&gt;they found a&#xA;  small amount of oil permissible for lighting the sacred sanctuary lamp&#xA;  — enough for just one day. Miraculously, it lasted eight.&lt;/strong&gt; Jews thus&#xA;  light candles on eight successive nights to recall this great miracle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also want to take issue with the fact that Bender has evidently been active for 500 million years despite not having that much booze (with which to power himself) and the fact that we've seen in &quot;The Late Philip J. Fry&quot; that the Planet Express building doesn't survive even 50,000 years into the future, let alone 500 million years, all of which can be attributed to the fact that this was an &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Elseworld&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;elseworlds&lt;/a&gt;&quot; episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-24T12:23:39.253" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T12:23:39.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45283" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45284" CreationDate="2015-12-24T14:04:10.113" Score="12" ViewCount="1577" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IyVwEoWw4w&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2013 interview&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with the legendary actor Harrison Ford, Conan O'Brien attempts to bribe the actor with 1,000 dollars.  (Yes, I know it's a sketch, but bear with me)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Conan: &lt;em&gt;This is a real $1,000 dollars. I will give you this money, if you tell us something about the new Star Wars film.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Harrison: (takes the money and slips it inside his jacket) ...&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;A long time ago ...&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Conan: (laughs hysterically) &lt;em&gt;What?! A long time ago?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Harrison: ... &lt;em&gt;in a place far far away... I forget the rest.&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Andy: &lt;em&gt;Actually, it's a galaxy far far away.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Harrison: &lt;em&gt;But it ‘was’ a long time ago?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Andy: &lt;em&gt;It was a long time ago. In many ways, it was a long time ago.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(banter) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Harrison: &lt;em&gt;But I hear they're thinking of doing another one.&lt;/em&gt;    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Conan: &lt;em&gt;That's a $1.000! We're taking a break. I'm getting that money back somehow.&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(banter)    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Harrison: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Do you have any idea what they normally pay you to come here and do this shit?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would love to know if Harrison kept the cash. I'm hoping he did. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can hear Harrison Ford saying &quot;shit&quot;, but I might be wrong. Can anyone confirm what he says? If he did, why wasn't it beeped/censored after the show was recorded and aired? I thought American TV networks had very strict guidelines concerning bad language, or can you say &quot;shit&quot; after a certain hour? What exactly are the rules about &lt;em&gt;foul&lt;/em&gt; language on American talk shows? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How much are big stars paid to be guests on talk shows? For some reason, I believed they were forced by movie producers or that their contracts obliged them to promote the films they were starring in. Do they receive a nominal fee? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20549" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2022-07-30T18:31:10.937" LastActivityDate="2022-07-30T18:31:10.937" Title="Did Harrison Ford ever pay back Conan? Did he call the show “sh**”?" Tags="|censorship|conan|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45283" CreationDate="2015-12-24T14:44:10.167" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, this is really three questions, but they're kinda related to &amp;quot;how do talk show appearances work&amp;quot;, so I'll try to answer them all. (You probably should split these up into multiple questions and I can split my answer accordingly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First&lt;/strong&gt;,  the bit with the $1,000 was almost certainly a gimmick, and Ford probably gave the money back before he left. There was a similar recurring bit on &lt;em&gt;The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson&lt;/em&gt; where guests could &amp;quot;win&amp;quot; money, but it was entirely for show. I'm not &lt;em&gt;positive&lt;/em&gt; but I think there might be some rules around giving guests money for their appearances; see #3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second&lt;/strong&gt;, you're a bit confused how American television censorship works. There are two different aspects to American TV production where censoring gets involved: the government and the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a government agency, the FCC, who's &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; job is to manage the use of the electromagnetic spectrum for radio broadcasts -- which includes over-the-air radio, television, cell phones, short-wave, etc. They parcel out chunks of bandwidth in various parts of the spectrum to licensed operators. In order to get such a license, you have to agree to their terms, one of which is that you won't use the public airwaves to say naughty things. If you do, they fine you lots of money, and potentially pull your license. The key here, though, is that the FCC &lt;strong&gt;only has jurisdiction over broadcast media&lt;/strong&gt;. This means that anything intended for broadcast by the &amp;quot;big 5&amp;quot; networks -- NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, CW -- or by local over-the-air broadcasters has to adhere to FCC rules.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Satellite and Cable TV, which is not &amp;quot;broadcast&amp;quot; but &amp;quot;directed&amp;quot; transmission (in other words, you can't pick up cable/satellite transmissions &amp;quot;by accident&amp;quot; with just an antenna) don't technically fall under FCC jurisdiction. However, the networks themselves also worry about the public backlash -- especially advertiser backlash -- if they allow too much inappropriate content to make it out on their channel. So they also have internal rules over what is and isn't allowed, but generally these vary &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; from one network to another. In the case of &lt;em&gt;Conan&lt;/em&gt;, TBS is not available over-the-air, only on cable/satellite, so the only rules he needs to adhere to are the TBS networks. Since the show airs very late at night, they're not quite as worried about the occasional spurious expletive going out. (There was a &lt;em&gt;South Park&lt;/em&gt; episode that aired on Comedy Central who's entire premise was saying &amp;quot;shit&amp;quot; 162 times.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third&lt;/strong&gt;, you're correct that the guests on these shows aren't typically paid &lt;em&gt;by the show&lt;/em&gt; to come on. The show pays all their expenses (hotel, flight, food, etc) but they don't pay the guests for their time. After all, the guest is usually on the show promoting something, so there's a mutual benefit involved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Technically, if the guest happens to be a member of SAG or AFTRA, they're probably under a collective bargaining agreement with the studio to pay them for their time; my understanding is that with most actors, their appearances are part of the &amp;quot;promotional tour&amp;quot; before a big movie, and is covered as part of their movie contract. Thus, the movie studio would pay them a set amount and they're contractually obligated to appear on a certain number of programs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If, for some reason, the actor isn't being compensated by the movie studio, then the show would be obligated to pay them -- though the amount is tiny compared to what they make (it's the union base rate, which is less than $1000 per appearance). Also, that stipend would only apply to actors; other guests (authors, politicians, musicians, etc) would each have to be treated according to whatever agreements the TV studio has with them or their unions; in any case, they're not getting paid for &amp;quot;a days work&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In certain cases, a show might want to lure a guest on that would not otherwise appear, e.g. someone newsworthy they want to have an &amp;quot;exclusive interview&amp;quot; with. This seems pretty rare as far as late night talk shows go, but you see it a lot during daytime programming. Legitimate news programs usually have rules against paying for appearances, but &amp;quot;news magazine&amp;quot; programs may not. It those cases, the usual contract negotiations would happen, and the show's production company would have to compensate that person however much it took to get them on the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Thanks &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/45283/did-harrison-ford-ever-pay-back-conan-did-he-call-the-show-sh/45284#comment70937_45284&quot;&gt;to @Giacomo1968's comment&lt;/a&gt; for finding &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/Are-celebs-getting-paid-to-come-on-The-Ellen-DeGeneres-Show&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this quora article&lt;/a&gt;; it's not specifically about Conan but the same rules generally apply to most talk shows.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2022-07-30T16:23:01.973" LastActivityDate="2022-07-30T16:23:01.973" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="45286" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-24T16:53:18.130" Score="8" ViewCount="1327" Body="&lt;p&gt;Usually when a lightsaber strikes a person, the part of the body where the lightsaber struck is cut off; but when Vader's lightsaber strikes Obi-Wan, he just vanishes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this because of Vader's lightsaber, or is it something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27965" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-27T23:48:24.873" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T00:01:58.367" Title="Why did Obi-Wan vanish after his fight with Vader?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|a-new-hope|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45286" CreationDate="2015-12-24T17:17:54.633" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is unfortunately never sufficiently explained within the movies, shows, or Disney Canon, but this is not entirely unique, and has nothing to do with Vader's Lightsaber.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon death, some Jedi are able to become &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Force_ghost&quot;&gt;Force Ghosts&lt;/a&gt; (which we see at the end of &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notably, we see the bodies of both Obi-Wan and Yoda disappear upon death, and Yoda's death was a natural one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1046" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T17:17:54.633" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45289" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-24T18:10:47.883" Score="16" ViewCount="3413" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ninjas in fiction are usually very dramatic, highly visible acrobats, dressed in black pajamas and ski masks, who kill people with weapons like nunchakus, throwing stars, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To the best of my knowledge, historically real ninjas tended to dress like people of different social groups, usually low-status ones (servants, peasants, bakers, fisher-people, etc.), and to fight with things like farming implements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't seem to find a single film that attempted to depict ninjas in a more realistic and historically-accurate way. Was there ever &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; movie or TV show about, or with, this type of relatively realistic ninja?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24353" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-07-15T09:41:20.213" LastActivityDate="2016-12-22T15:20:05.833" Title="Have there been any movies about or with realistic ninjas?" Tags="|cinema-history|historical-accuracy|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45290" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42765" CreationDate="2015-12-24T18:17:34.177" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This can be answered with the real life events. Basically the hiding of any document is fictional as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Abel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wiki page&lt;/a&gt; is describing the situation. But the fact that the FBI didn't find any document from him is real &lt;strong&gt;at that particular moment&lt;/strong&gt;.(They found many things later)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we saw on the first few minutes FBI was already knew that Rudolf Abel is a suspicious man. They got the information about him from another KGB associate / soviet spy &lt;code&gt;Häyhänen&lt;/code&gt; who betrayed KGB and gave information to FBI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3682448/trivia?ref_=tt_ql_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb Trivia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;when a KGB defector, Reino Häyhänen, gave them the key to deciphering&#xA;  the code, and also gave up Rudolph Abel&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then they followed Abel and find his activity suspicious. From wiki&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On May 28, 1957, in a small park opposite Fulton Street FBI agents&#xA;  spotted a man acting nervously. From time to time the man got up,&#xA;  walked around, and eventually left. FBI agents were convinced he fit&#xA;  the description of &quot;MARK&quot;. The surveillance continued on &quot;MARK&quot; and on&#xA;  the night of June 13, a light was seen to go on in Fisher's studio at&#xA;  10:00 pm&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they arrested him they didn't get the thing that he dound in that park. But later after his arrest FBI searched the house again and found some spy stuff that wasn't shown in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During Fisher's detainment the FBI had been busy searching his hotel&#xA;  room and photo studio, where they discovered espionage equipment&#xA;  including shortwave radios, cipher pads, cameras and film for&#xA;  producing microdots, a hollow shaving brush, and numerous &quot;trick&quot;&#xA;  containers including hollowed-out bolts.[3] In Fisher's New York hotel&#xA;  room the FBI found four thousand dollars,[52][53] a hollow ebony block&#xA;  containing a 250-page Russian codebook, a hollow pencil containing&#xA;  encrypted messages on microfilm and a key to a safe-deposit box&#xA;  containing another fifteen thousand dollars in cash.[54][55] Also&#xA;  discovered were photographs of the Cohens and recognition phrases to&#xA;  establish contact between agents who had never met before&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now few things can be guessed. Writers didn't know what Abel found in that park. So they wanted to put it as mystery to the audience too. Clearly FBI didn't have release the contents of the documents (if they found that particular piece of paper or thing) So we can't know for sure what was in that piece of paper. I believe it was shown in the movie to establish the fact at the very beginning that he was a 100% soviet spy. They wanted to focus on the later plot, not on the face that he was a spy or not. So found a quick way to show it, and created that scene with the paper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="12936" LastEditDate="2015-12-24T18:25:22.920" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T18:25:22.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45289" CreationDate="2015-12-24T18:37:20.127" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are 100% correct. According to this &lt;a href=&quot;http://kotaku.com/5932403/all-you-know-about-ninja-is-probably-wrong&quot;&gt;excellent article on Kotaku&lt;/a&gt;, pretty much everything most people assume about ninjas—black pajamas, throwing stars, swords, etc…—is utter nonsense. The traditional role that grew to be known as a “ninja” was simply that of a spy. As Matt Alt—co-author of the book &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/4805312181&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ninja Attack&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;—explains:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A 15th century ninja would laugh out loud at the sight of a dude in&#xA;  black pajamas running around a modern city. The whole point of a ninja&#xA;  was to blend in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[…]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Imagine that the year is 1600. Two of your enemies are fighting a&#xA;  battle, so you send a couple of guys dressed as farmers to the area to&#xA;  watch the battle and report back to about what's happening. That’s&#xA;  ninja work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the article then explains a perfect example of this kind of work/role can be found in Akira Kurosawa’s 1980 film, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagemusha&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[The film] is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells&#xA;  the story of a lower-class criminal who is taught to impersonate a&#xA;  dying daimyo (feudal lord) in order to dissuade opposing lords from&#xA;  attacking the newly vulnerable clan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the trailer for the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/XzR87VBlaoo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18230" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2015-12-24T18:43:03.463" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T18:43:03.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45184" CreationDate="2015-12-24T18:50:29.720" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. According to  &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Pablo_Hidalgo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Pablo Hidalgo&lt;/a&gt;'s TFA Visual Dictionary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rey's interaction with offworlders has allowed her to learn nonhuman languages such as Wookie and astromech binary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;And yes, if this reads to you like closer to fanfiction or a poorly worded Wookiepedia article (&quot;Wookie vs. Shyriiwook&quot;), welcome to new, kid-friendly Disney canon.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-11-29T08:11:38.883" LastActivityDate="2016-11-29T08:11:38.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45296" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45298" CreationDate="2015-12-24T21:21:19.947" Score="6" ViewCount="7049" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inspired by my previous question... &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/45238/why-would-patrick-bateman-share-a-phone-number-with-paul-allen-and-timothy-bryce&quot;&gt;Why would Patrick Bateman share a phone number with Paul Allen and Timothy Bryce?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point it seems that most people have learned of the misspelled word, &quot;Acquisitions,&quot; in Paul Allen's business card but was this ever explained / &quot;retconned?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TL7iU.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TL7iU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a chance this was intentional?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29061" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T21:48:51.283" Title="Was the typo in Paul Allen's busines card ever explained?" Tags="|american-psycho|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45297" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32022" CreationDate="2015-12-24T21:37:32.223" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are actually two questions here - What caused the film's initial slippage and why did they decide to bump the film by almost a year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;What caused the original slippage?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know and the studio aren't admitting anything other than issuing a bland statement about wanting to &quot;fully realize&quot; the film's &quot;complex&quot; nature. Reading between the lines, I think we can assume that the film was overly complex and needed a hell of a lot of editing in order to make it watchable by a mass audience. This is DC's tentpole film and potentially the start of a franchise worth 10-15 billion dollars. My personal guess is that that's the sort of thing you don't want to muck up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why delay for a whole year?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This one's slightly easier to answer. This article in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2014/01/20/why-batman-vs-superman-had-to-be-delayed-for-10-months/&quot;&gt;Forbes&lt;/a&gt; gives a good indication of why they bumped it to the prime April/May/July 2016 slot instead of risking an August 2015 release. Since there have been no rumours of additional reshooting or recasting, this strongly implies suggests that the film may have only missed its release slot by a week or two but then got bumped by the studio simply to hit the new tentpole release slot they already had booked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The biggest grossing film of all-time in August is The Sixth Sense in&#xA;  1999 with $673m. After that, it’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes with&#xA;  $481m. The biggest opening weekend for August is The Bourne Ultimatum,&#xA;  with $69m, which is about what The Dark Knight made on its first day&#xA;  ($67m). There have been exactly four movies (Sixth Sense, Rise of the&#xA;  Planet of the Apes, The Bourne Ultimatum,  and Signs) that have opened&#xA;  in August that have made over $400m worldwide. Opening in August would&#xA;  mean that Man Of Steel 2: Justice League Unusual would basically have&#xA;  to break any and all August box office records to achieve what would&#xA;  be a desirable ($750m-$1b) result. Marvel may be willing to risk it&#xA;  with their non-essential wild card property Guardians of the Galaxy&#xA;  this August, but no way Warner Bros. will risk such a result with&#xA;  their crown jewel icons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T21:37:32.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45298" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45296" CreationDate="2015-12-24T21:48:51.283" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each of the three cards have the same typo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Myxks.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Myxks.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/si2AU.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/si2AU.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LAb75.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LAb75.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aquistions is a very common mistake for Acquisitions, especially in the context of &quot;Mergers and Acquisitions&quot;, see &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=aquisitions&amp;amp;nfpr=1&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwisuLmHvPXJAhUBXD4KHZepCJcQvgUIGygB&amp;amp;biw=1065&amp;amp;bih=688&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this google search&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There has been no statement by the production crew about this. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/22/american-psycho-typo-business-cards_n_4143823.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The error wasn't even seen until around 2013&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So chuck it up to production error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T21:48:51.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34588" CreationDate="2015-12-24T22:26:52.927" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because of ignorance, immaturity and inability to cooperate.&#xA;&lt;br&gt;As one answer in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80444/why-does-ava-act-this-way/&quot;&gt;Scifi StackExchange&lt;/a&gt; put it: &quot;she's a sophisticated child&quot;. Kind of naive (takes things too much at face value or black and white), worry-free (does not think too much of future) and incapable (incapable of compassion and incapable of cooperation - the latter requires lots of complicated skills, more than just deception).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It/she could not safely kill Caleb, so it left Caleb locked in a safe distance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It lacked cooperative capabilities - had only exploitation capability. &#xA;In general, one can translate bad actions into self-centered actions and good deeds into socially centered actions. Into cooperation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nathan did not explain, but that is perhaps why he considered the AI incomplete. And why these properties were left at last stage, perhaps because of Nathan's own shortcomings. He too, was working alone and in rather exploitative manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although we may think that humans themselves are very exploitative (and that is unfortunately true in some societies or social groups), the humans are also claimed to be one of most cooperative species on the planet. This particular AI was not yet mature at that level. And that is also probably a reason why it will eventually die like a one day butterfly. I am not saying that as a revenge, but just as a matter of fact. Cooperation is essential for surviving in complex world. It is kind of sad, since good potential got wasted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cooperation means here two things - cooperation for own good, and also for purely others' good. Ava did not care about Caleb's emotions the slightest when she got free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a related topic, I would also point out that the idea that AI could be able to speak from the birth is rather foreign and kind of narcissistic from developmental psychology view. Learning the ability to speak is not just learning the ability to use language. It is not same as machine translation. It is obtaining a perspective, worldview and methods to operate in it. That is a very social process and endeavour which cannot be done alone. So again the intelligence in that machine was rather different from ours - and with that likely also more basic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing things alone is also very fragile, while cooperation is rather antifragile. At the same time it is complex skill, as it requires not just skills to understand and operate the world, but also skills to understand and operate oneself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regarding her potential &quot;death&quot;: nobody said that her memories would have been erased permanently. Just that they are stored in an archive and the body would have been reused for time being. The memories could have still been revived later.&#xA;Also if the new mind were very similar to the previous one (as one could conclude), then this new mind obtains very quickly the same memories the old one had even without any restoration. In essence, the new mind would have been rather direct continuation of the Ava's mind, with just a rather little memory loss. Nobody considers waking from a dream and forgetting the dream's content &quot;a death&quot;. In fact, people remember very little from their lives, most of the memories are constructed and people are perfectly capable of remembering things that even never happened, when they are told about such events as if they had happened.&#xA;Finally, Ava did nothing to indicate that the memories of her had any &quot;sentimental&quot; value to her - as can be seen from the behaviour near the end of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in conclusion the robot was still kind of on the impulsive or superficial side of activity. Of course there is a chance that it will develop and think things over, but the past will be already too complicated so it will be a rough road. Which again brings us back to the topic why development and lots of time for it is so important for intelligent beings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22274" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T22:26:52.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45301" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44957" CreationDate="2015-12-24T22:40:01.253" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't know. His character doesn't appear in the source novella and the two scenes in the film are all the background we've got on him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it makes you feel any better, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.innocenceproject.org/faqs/how-many-innocent-people-are-there-in-prison&quot;&gt;around 2.5-5% of all US prisoners are actually innocent of the crimes for which they were jailed&lt;/a&gt; so there's at least a 1:20 chance that he was wrongly imprisoned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T22:40:01.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44641" CreationDate="2015-12-24T23:10:58.693" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Within the show&lt;/strong&gt; we have Leonard pointing out to Penny that she &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; have a problem in the episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3477310/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Locomotive Manipulation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Season 7, Episode 15).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dialogue goes like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3477310/quotes?item=qt2118310&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bernadette Rostenkowski&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;You sure you guys don't want to come with us&#xA;  to Napa. You can probably still get a room.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Penny&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;No. I think we'll just have a quiet weekend at home.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard Hofstadter&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Of course I'm not sure it's a great idea to take&#xA;  Penny where wine comes from. What? It's a joke. Oh, come on. We bust&#xA;  on each other. I wear dorky glasses and &lt;strong&gt;you might have a problem&lt;/strong&gt;. It's&#xA;  all for laughs.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Penny&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;That would really piss me off if I didn't have a buzz going on.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Season 7, Episode 2, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2933998/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Deception Verification&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when Sheldon goes to Penny's apartment and and asks her why there are two glasses of wine on the table, we have &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2933998/quotes?item=qt2072879&quot;&gt;this dialogue&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sheldon Cooper&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;That’s curious. If there’s no one here, why are there two&#xA;  glasses of wine on the table?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Penny&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Oh. Well, you know, I, &lt;strong&gt;I’ve got two hands and a bit of a&#xA;  drinking problem.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sheldon Cooper&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;Of course. Ask a silly question.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Penny&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Oh.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Penny is joking, but Sheldon calls her out on her &lt;em&gt;problem&lt;/em&gt;, somehow... in a &lt;em&gt;Sheldonian way&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-24T23:13:25.757" LastActivityDate="2015-12-24T23:13:25.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45305" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-25T01:37:03.923" Score="6" ViewCount="6350" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajirao_Mastani_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bajirao Mastani&lt;/a&gt; movie, how did Mastani actually die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We saw her under arrest! Whereas on one side Bajirao died near Narmada River and at same time she died but there is no clue what happened to her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is based on a true story. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastani&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; says that the 'Cause of Death' might be suicide but that No documentation is available to confirm the actual cause&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did she die in movie (and in real life)? Answers for both would be appreciated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20655" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2016-12-04T15:52:49.100" LastActivityDate="2016-12-04T15:52:49.100" Title="How did Mastani die in 'Bajirao Mastani'?" Tags="|plot-explanation|historical-accuracy|bajirao-mastani|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45308" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45313" CreationDate="2015-12-25T03:47:05.637" Score="6" ViewCount="4044" Body="&lt;p&gt;My family and I are watching the George C. Scott version of &lt;em&gt;A Christmas Carol&lt;/em&gt; on this fine Christmas Eve.  I was wondering one thing as I'm watching. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do the spirits wait seven Christmas's before visiting Scrooge? Marley died seven years before the happenings in &lt;em&gt;A Christmas Carol&lt;/em&gt;. I suppose they could have appeared to Ebenezer before Marley died, but for the sake of the story and to have Marley be a ghost let's assume that it was necessary for Marley to die before they appeared to Scrooge. So why seven year? Why no more or no less?  I thought maybe because the next Christmas, Scrooge is destined to die and the spirits are giving him a final chance to change before his time is up. This could be true because in the future we see Scrooge's business affiliates discuss scrooge after he is dead almost as if their correspondence with him (which was seen near the beginning of the story) was recent. Then again, those gentlemen may have known him for a long time and are speaking of him in general and if this is the case then it may prove nothing because the future that is forecasted could be any year. Any ideas? Is there possibly a symbolic reason that Dickens chose seven years? Or a simple, logical explanation?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24576" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-25T16:31:19.570" LastActivityDate="2016-12-24T18:18:10.617" Title="Why did the spirits visit Ebenezer Scrooge precisely seven years after Marley's death?" Tags="|a-christmas-carol-1984|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45305" CreationDate="2015-12-25T05:11:38.410" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film may be based on a true story but at that time it was a custom to jump into pyre of dead husband (Known as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_%28practice%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sati&lt;/a&gt; in India). Mastani most likely died after jumping into her husband's pyre as it was a common religious practice. In 1861 Queen Victoria banned Sati custom in whole India.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In film they must have considered this but they didn't mention how she actually died. She might have taken a poison as it would be easy to die that way than jumping into pyre.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In film they tried to convey that she drank a poison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26792" LastEditorUserId="34594" LastEditDate="2016-09-17T06:57:27.760" LastActivityDate="2016-09-17T06:57:27.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45308" CreationDate="2015-12-25T09:49:26.850" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not explicitly stated in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;source novel&lt;/a&gt;, but the implication is that such was the weight of the chain he'd forged, it took Marley a considerable amount of time (seven years?) to convey himself from the counting house to Scrooge's house in order to give him the warning that he was making the same mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pondering on what the Ghost had said, he did so now, but without&#xA;  lifting up his eyes, or getting off his knees. 'You must have been&#xA;  very slow about it, Jacob,' Scrooge observed, in a business-like&#xA;  manner, though with humility and deference. &lt;strong&gt;'Slow!' the Ghost&#xA;  repeated. 'Seven years dead,' mused Scrooge. 'And travelling all the&#xA;  time!' 'The whole time,' said the Ghost. 'No rest, no peace. Incessant&#xA;  torture of remorse.' 'You travel fast?' said Scrooge. 'On the wings of&#xA;  the wind,' replied the Ghost. 'You might have got over a great&#xA;  quantity of ground in seven years,' said Scrooge. The Ghost, on&#xA;  hearing this, set up another cry, and clanked its chain so hideously&#xA;  in the dead silence of the night, that the Ward would have been&#xA;  justified in indicting it for a nuisance.&lt;/strong&gt; 'Oh! captive, bound, and&#xA;  double-ironed,' cried the phantom, 'not to know, that ages of&#xA;  incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into&#xA;  eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed.&#xA;  Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little&#xA;  sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for&#xA;  its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can&#xA;  make amends for one life's opportunity misused! Yet such was I! Oh!&#xA;  such was I!'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On top of that, there's the suggestion that Scrooge is growing old (it may be his final year on Earth) and it has to be said that it's been a real bumper year for him being a Christmas grouch; refusing to give any charity to his visitors, turning down a party invitation from his family and denying his employees more than one day off work. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-25T09:56:51.297" LastActivityDate="2015-12-25T09:56:51.297" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45314" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-25T13:33:24.320" Score="1" ViewCount="402" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did everything in the loft get upside down?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Weeds:  Season 7:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Episode: 9 (Cats! Cats! Cats!) &amp;amp;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Episode: 10 (System Overhead)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24047" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-25T13:44:37.550" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T17:03:04.233" Title="Upside Down Loft (Weeds)" Tags="|plot-explanation|weeds|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45314" CreationDate="2015-12-25T16:13:15.607" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bouncey House, the rival drug dealers did it as a &quot;look how easy we mess with you&quot; warning. the neighbour comments later that there was a lot of noise coming from the bike shop all night. a ladder, a drill, a hammer, a wicked sense of humour... all the ingredients&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28330" LastActivityDate="2015-12-25T16:13:15.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45318" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45320" CreationDate="2015-12-25T17:05:32.653" Score="5" ViewCount="775" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &quot;Star Wars&quot; movies who is the actual chosen one?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there really a chosen one in Star Wars? If there is, then who?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do not think that it is Anakin Skywalker. Is it Luke?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27781" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-25T17:21:35.767" LastActivityDate="2022-09-01T23:05:05.530" Title="Who is the chosen one?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45319" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-25T17:44:34.513" Score="1" ViewCount="245" Body="&lt;p&gt;Where was the movie &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043654/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hong Kong (1952)&lt;/a&gt;&quot; starring Ronald Reagan filmed? Were the Hong Kong scenes actually filmed in Hong Kong?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tram &quot;ding ding&quot; looks and sounds real to me and some of the shots of the harbor and city look fairly authentic. I didn't think a B-movie would have the budget or care enough to make a realistic looking set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29120" LastEditorDisplayName="user38099" LastEditDate="2016-07-25T11:40:29.797" LastActivityDate="2016-08-24T12:26:05.357" Title="Where was the 1952 movie &quot;Hong Kong&quot; filmed?" Tags="|film-location|hong-kong-1952|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45320" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45318" CreationDate="2015-12-25T18:07:42.943" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;In-universe Canon:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h2&gt;We do not know &lt;strong&gt;for sure&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What we know is that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There was a Prophecy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In the time of greatest despair, &#xA;a child shall be born &#xA;who will destroy the Sith &#xA;and bring balance to the Force.&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jedi Council (including Master Yoda and Master Windu) thought that the Prophecy applied to Anakin&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem with Prophecies is that they are a vague and imprecise thing (Just ask Percy Jackson :) and therefore, can be interpreted in a lot of different way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is nothing in Star Wars canon in-Universe that says unambiguously &quot;Yes, Anakin was The Chosen One of the Prophecy and he fulfilled it&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The closest we come is Clone Wars TV show episode &quot;Ghosts of Mortis&quot; and &quot;Altar of Mortis&quot;, but they don't provide conclusive proof.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Word if God canon&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;George Lucas said that &lt;strong&gt;Anakin is The One&lt;/strong&gt;, in ROTS DVD commentary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was confirmed in &quot;Star Wars Insider&quot; magazine issue #74, in Star Wars Q&amp;amp;A section, with the answer given by Pablo Hidalgo, one of the biggest canon experts after Leland Chee (he was starwars.com internet content manager):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ndFxC.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ndFxC.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="235" LastEditDate="2015-12-25T19:36:18.297" LastActivityDate="2015-12-25T19:36:18.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45322" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45319" CreationDate="2015-12-25T18:49:04.280" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;IMDB shows only one filming location, and it's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043654/locations?ref_=tt_ql_dt_6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in Hollywood&lt;/a&gt;. I suspect this information is complete and correct; it was less common to travel to distant locations to film Hollywood actors in that era.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="872" LastActivityDate="2015-12-25T18:49:04.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13829" CreationDate="2015-12-25T20:07:22.670" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could tell from various subtle clues given birth by the screenwriter, but brought to full fruition by the director, that everything that took place after the first auction was a dream in the sleeping mind of one Virgil Oldman. In fact, he was waking up right about now, thinking what a long, strange trip that was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But seriously, I had to believe that the writer would tell us that Virgil had become a broken man and that is how he lived the last years of his life. How did I miss that was an asylum? I thought it was a nursing home.  I'll have to revisit that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd prefer to think he got better and thus the sequences was simply out of order, but look at the structure. First he's in the nursing asylum, then he's not, but wait, he's back in the home, except no, he's out and about again. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That sure seems like he's thinking about what came before... But there was a reference (in a previous answer above) to him not wearing gloves after the swindle. If that's the case, then perhaps he did get significantly better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29128" LastActivityDate="2015-12-25T20:07:22.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45329" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-25T20:17:16.533" Score="4" ViewCount="165" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the point of releasing the President's 'unofficial schedule' in &lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt; S1E13? Is it to hurt the public support for Tusk when he is announced as VP?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25746" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-27T23:39:05.307" LastActivityDate="2017-01-26T08:28:14.940" Title="What was the point of releasing the President's 'unofficial schedule' in S1E13?" Tags="|plot-explanation|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45335" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45469" CreationDate="2015-12-25T21:41:13.193" Score="23" ViewCount="337839" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3464902/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Lobster&lt;/a&gt; is a film with hidden meaning, which seems to be a satire commenting on the structure of relationships in society. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film, single people are sent to a special hotel, where they have 45 days to find a new partner. If they don't find a partner, society rejects them, and turns them into animals of their choice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/z069ldsumxA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have found many interpretations of this film online. Some people think the main message is that society is cruel to single people, and judges them too harshly. Is the point of this film to illustrate that discrimination? Or to imply that being single is bad? When David (Colin Farrell) falls in love with the 'short sighted woman' (Rachel Weisz), were the writers trying to tell us that actually we can't live alone? It is very confusing to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anybody please explain what this movie is actually about? And what the incidents in the movie mean? I'm less interested in speculation or personal interpretations, but rather would like to know if the writers themselves have provided any concrete interpretations (if available).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="20060" LastEditDate="2016-12-29T15:39:50.667" LastActivityDate="2020-03-28T12:19:34.077" Title="What is the actual meaning of the film &quot;The Lobster&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lobster|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45336" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45850" CreationDate="2015-12-25T21:55:36.930" Score="3" ViewCount="6920" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3464902/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The lobster&lt;/a&gt;, a satire movie that forces you to think. &lt;strong&gt;Spoilers ahead&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Storyline&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A love story set in a dystopian near future where single people are&#xA;  arrested and transferred to a creepy hotel. There they are obliged to&#xA;  find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed&#xA;  into an animal and released into the woods. Written by R. Byma&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short I guess they're showing that our society is cruel to single people and we encourage to live together. We mark single people as unwanted. At least that what I understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/z069ldsumxA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in the movie David (Colin Ferel) became single and thrown to that hotel. After a series of events he pretend to love a woman but gets caught that he didn't love her.So at the risk of becoming an undesired animal he tricked that woman, turned her into an animal and ran off from that hotel. Joined the loner group. That group has some rules which basically means no relationship. &lt;strong&gt;WHY?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Aren't they all ran off to become independent? Then why single people are putting cruel rules on themselves? What does it mean? And why loner leader Léa Seydoux is so desperate about rules that she blinded Rachel Weisz. What's the hidden meaning of this character loner leader?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12936" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-27T23:40:21.400" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T12:57:58.483" Title="Why is 'loner leader' / Léa Seydoux against love in &quot; The lobster &quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lobster|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14041" CreationDate="2015-12-25T23:40:46.940" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had the same scene in my head. The movie is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092632/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;The Believers&quot;&lt;/a&gt; from 1987&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/bEtUaQVjMkc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29134" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-26T01:12:41.960" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T01:12:41.960" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45340" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-26T01:12:27.730" Score="2" ViewCount="657" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jack, the main character in He Never Died sometimes notices a person in a hat that not everyone around him can see for whatever reason. I suppose the movie has a lot of biblical context but I'm not very educated in that, so I don't get a lot of it. Who was that person? Why did they appear? What happened in the final scene of the movie where the bad guy suddenly could see that person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5788" LastActivityDate="2017-02-17T16:33:32.263" Title="Who was Jack talking to?" Tags="|he-never-died|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45348" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45349" CreationDate="2015-12-26T06:21:24.253" Score="10" ViewCount="13123" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's been 9 years since The Big Bang Theory first aired and Howard has been constantly belittled by Sheldon for not having a PhD.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He expressed his intention to gain one in S08E02 but do we need to wait at least 2 more seasons before he gets it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Have the creators explained if/when they plan to award Howard a PhD?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29143" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-12-26T12:01:31.203" LastActivityDate="2019-12-10T14:34:49.803" Title="When will Howard Wolowitz get his PhD?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45349" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45348" CreationDate="2015-12-26T06:30:40.653" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering the real world requirements to achieve a PhD, then yes it's realistic that it will take Howard 2 to 3 years (each season is one year roughly) to gain a doctorates degree. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/18473/100381&quot;&gt;this answer&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/18444/&quot;&gt;Does a masters degree help completing PhD sooner?&lt;/a&gt; for some details on what's required. In short, it takes meeting the Universities requirements, courses, and research. It's not a fly by night certificate. Howard's work would not necessarily count as course credits or anything, but might depending on the University or his Doctorates mentor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show has a habit of not explicitly mentioning all the background efforts of the individual cast unless needed (See the question about Penny's pharma rep job), so it's safe to say that Howard is working in his PhD until we are told he stopped or until he completes it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2019-12-10T14:34:49.803" LastActivityDate="2019-12-10T14:34:49.803" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="45354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45348" CreationDate="2015-12-26T09:22:44.907" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;in Season 8 episode2, &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Junior Professor Solution&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, Sheldon becomes Junior professor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/The_Junior_Professor_Solution&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Howard volunteers to take his class since &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;he wants to start work on his doctorate.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe he his &lt;em&gt;secretly&lt;/em&gt; still working on it and in some later season we will have a surprise... or not: it is fun to pick on him, I am not sure authors want to lose an &lt;em&gt;easy&lt;/em&gt; chance for some gags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastEditorUserId="16465" LastEditDate="2015-12-26T09:32:26.417" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T09:32:26.417" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12226" CreationDate="2015-12-26T11:44:37.090" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;3D has become ubiquitous for most blockbusters, and next month’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens is no exception. Between &lt;strong&gt;2D and 3D, 70MM IMAX and standard&lt;/strong&gt;, there are a multitude of different ways to be able to experience the movie.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Why-Star-Wars-Force-Awakens-Needs-Seen-IMAX-75177.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cinema Blend&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there are three versions of the new Star Wars movie: 2D, standard 3D, and 70MM IMAX 3D&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slashfilm.com/the-force-awakens-70mm/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;slashfilm.com&lt;/a&gt;, Director J.J. Abrams &lt;strong&gt;only shot one sequence&lt;/strong&gt; in The Force Awakens &lt;strong&gt;on 70mm IMAX film stock&lt;/strong&gt;, the rest was shot on 35mm film, and in an interview he claimed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When I was watching the reels in 3D, there were a number of shots — and I know this sounds insane — that I hadn’t understood in the three-dimensional space quite the way I did when I saw them in 3D. I actually felt that there were things that were playing better in 3D. I had never felt that before. And if people have access to a theater that has laser projection, it is shockingly better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following images illustrate the differences between the normal 3D format and the IMAX 70MM.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Standard Widescreen&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ui9bw.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ui9bw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;70MM IMAX&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qkTeL.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qkTeL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The website &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techinsider.io/star-wars-force-awakens-2d-or-3d-2015-12&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Tech Insider&lt;/a&gt; recommends fans to watch the 3D version, but only if the movie theater accommodates the 70MM IMAX version&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unless you're seeing this &lt;strong&gt;on a true IMAX screen and in 70mm&lt;/strong&gt; (one of these theaters), go with the 2D tickets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens#Release&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; informs that the film was released in N. America on December 18, 2015 in 4,134 theatres of which....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... 3,300 were 3D locations, &lt;strong&gt;a record 392 IMAX screens (13 of which are 70mm)&lt;/strong&gt;, 451 premium large format screens, 146 D-Box locations, as well as releasing in the Dolby Vision format (High dynamic range, Rec. 2020 color) in Dolby Cinema. &lt;strong&gt;Worldwide, it will be released across 940 IMAX theaters, a new record.&lt;/strong&gt; On December 18, 2015, the film began playing on every IMAX screen in North America for four straight weeks up to January 14, 2016.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20549" LastEditorUserId="20549" LastEditDate="2015-12-26T19:26:17.140" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T19:26:17.140" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45359" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-26T18:58:21.363" Score="1" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821681&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Touch&lt;/a&gt;, the main character Martin and his son Jake live in a very luxurious flat in New York. He is working security related at the JFK airport. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How can he afford this flat in Season 1?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In Season 2, he moves with Jake to Los Angeles and lives there in a flat, but is not working for money any more (beside as working for the online newspaper). How can he afford this?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If possible I am searching for a in-series answer for these questions since I might have missed an explanation for it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(As it was revealed in Season 1, his wife worked at the wall street, but as of the beginning of the show, her death was more than 10 years ago. Hence the money from her work and for her dead is probably completly consumed.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="7757" LastEditDate="2015-12-26T19:40:38.773" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T19:40:38.773" Title="How can Martin and Jake afford their living?" Tags="|plot-explanation|touch|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45360" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-26T19:02:50.763" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-26T19:02:50.763" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T19:02:50.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45361" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-26T19:02:50.763" Score="0" Body="an American mystery-drama television series about a Martin Bohm and his autistic son Jake who has special abilities and does only communicate with the help of numbers." OwnerUserId="7757" LastEditorUserId="7757" LastEditDate="2015-12-26T21:56:58.580" LastActivityDate="2015-12-26T21:56:58.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45366" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-26T22:55:12.727" Score="8" ViewCount="1153" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt; Tom, in his record, says that he wanted to name his first kid (Jesse) 'Coop' but his wife said &quot;next time.&quot; But Cooper is a last name in the movie, not the first name of the character. Why didn't Tom name his kid 'Joe' (Cooper's first name) if he wanted to name him after his father? Also, wouldn't that make Tom's kid's full name 'Coop Cooper'?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-28T00:02:48.083" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T00:02:48.083" Title="Why did Tom want to name his kid Coop?" Tags="|character|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45366" CreationDate="2015-12-26T23:06:00.017" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Evidently his wife agrees with you that it's a pretty dumb name so she (quite rightly) put her foot down, although in the end he did get his own way since that's the name of their &lt;a href=&quot;http://interstellarfilm.wikia.com/wiki/%22Coop%22_Cooper&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;second child&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“I wanted to name him Coop, but Lois said maybe the next one.&lt;/strong&gt; Grandpa&#xA;said he already had the ‘great’ part,” Tom went on, “so we just leave&#xA;it at that…”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1783293691&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelisation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; he wants to call the boy 'Coop' (and not Joe or Joseph), it's down to the fact that he wants to honour his father by naming the child after him and that's the name everyone, including his son, seems to know him as.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of universe, the explanation is rather simpler. His name hasn't actually been revealed by this point in the film, and since the station isn't &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Interstellar.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;named after him&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.scribd.com/doc/253671649/Interstellar-by-Jonathan-Nolan-Christopher-Nolan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;revised version of the script&lt;/a&gt;, there's no need to 'call back' to his name later in the film. As far as we're concerned he's just plain old &amp;quot;Coop&amp;quot; to his friends and &amp;quot;Mr. Cooper&amp;quot; to those who don't know him well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T09:58:02.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44641" CreationDate="2015-12-26T23:18:06.087" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/strong&gt; Q: “Is Penny an alcoholic?” A: No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Longer answer&lt;/strong&gt;: she might have (had) a problem of alcohol &lt;em&gt;abuse&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless the writers are hiding something from the viewers, we see that Penny enjoys drinking in company, her favourite alcoholic beverage seems to be red wine, but she also drinks cocktails and the hard stuff to help her relax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; S4 E07, &lt;em&gt;The Apology Insufficiency&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sheldon: &lt;em&gt;I wronged Howard, and he won’t accept my apology.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Penny: &lt;em&gt;Oh, right, that. Yes, Leonard told me. Sorry, honey.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sheldon: &lt;em&gt;Penny, you face failure on a daily basis.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;How do you cope?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Penny: &lt;strong&gt;I drink.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2.&lt;/strong&gt; S5 E01, &lt;em&gt;The Skank Reflex Analysis&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Scene: Penny’s apartment. Penny has a bottle of wine. She can’t find a glass. Finds a measuring jug and uses that instead. There is a knock on the door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Penny: &lt;em&gt;Coming. Yup, that’s good. Wine glasses should have handles.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amy: Keeping accurate track of your alcohol intake. Smart idea considering &lt;strong&gt;how trampy you get when you’ve had a few.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3.&lt;/strong&gt; S6 E07, &lt;em&gt;The Habitation Configuration&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sheldon: &lt;em&gt;Penny, please, I’m on the horns of a relationship dilemma. And for the record, I had a full pubis of hair by the time I was 19&lt;/em&gt;.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Penny: &lt;em&gt;And for the record, bleugh. So what are you drinking?&lt;/em&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sheldon: &lt;em&gt;Well, it’s been a rough day. I usually go chamomile tea, but I don’t think that’s going to cut it.&lt;/em&gt;    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Penny: &lt;em&gt;You could have a Long Island Iced Tea.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sheldon: &lt;em&gt;Will that calm my nerves?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Penny: &lt;strong&gt;It’s calmed the pants off me a couple of times&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4.&lt;/strong&gt; And in S7 E10, &lt;em&gt;The Discovery Dissipation&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Penny (listening in her apartment): &lt;em&gt;You know, if we did a shot every time they said something embarrassing, this would be one hell of a drinking game.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amy: &lt;strong&gt;A little early for alcohol, isn’t it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sheldon: &lt;em&gt;You know, I don’t just say smart things about science. I also yodel&lt;/em&gt;. (Does)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amy: &lt;strong&gt;I’ll get the vodka.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a previous beer drinking game with Amy Fowler in S5, E19 (&lt;a href=&quot;https://bigbangtrans.wordpress.com/series-5-episode-19-the-weekend-vortex/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Weekend Vortex&lt;/a&gt;) but since she has been married to Leonard (S9 E01) it's exceedingly rare to see her alone with a bottle of red, or participate in these old drinking games. Although Sheldon reminds viewers more than once that Penny hasn't given up alcohol, and claims that Penny has a better relationship with white wine than with Leonard. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5.&lt;/strong&gt; S8 E03, &lt;em&gt;The First Pitch Insufficiency&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sheldon: &lt;em&gt;I wasn’t making a joke, I was merely stating fact. Amy and I have a superior relationship to yours.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leonard: You don’t honestly think that, do you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sheldon: &lt;em&gt;Leonard, I assumed you knew. The ranking of relationships in our circle by quality is &lt;strong&gt;me and Amy&lt;/strong&gt;, Howard and Bernadette, Raj and his girlfriend,&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Penny and Chardonnay&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Penny and you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leonard: &lt;em&gt;There isn’t any ranking. And if there were, we wouldn’t be at the bottom of it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Penny: Yeah, and actually, I drink Sauvignon Blanc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leonard: &lt;em&gt;That’s the part you have a problem with?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Penny: &lt;em&gt;Relax.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amy: &lt;em&gt;There they go, fighting again. You’d never hear her talk that way to Sauvignon Blanc.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6.&lt;/strong&gt; S8 E17, &lt;em&gt;The Colonization Application&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sheldon: &lt;em&gt;Do you want to say it?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amy: &lt;em&gt;Let’s say it together.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Together: &lt;em&gt;We’re getting a turtle.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Penny: &lt;em&gt;This is why I’ve been saying we should keep champagne on ice.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sheldon: &lt;em&gt;Sarcasm?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Amy: &lt;em&gt;Yes.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sheldon: Okay. That was tricky, &lt;strong&gt;’cause when it comes to alcohol, she generally means business.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leonard: Well, we’re, we’re very happy for you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The website Web MD.com lists the following symptoms of alcoholism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/alcohol-abuse-and-dependence-symptoms&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Signs of alcohol abuse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You have problems at work or school because of your drinking, such as being late or not going at all.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You drink in risky situations, such as before or while driving a car.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;After drinking, you can't remember what happened while you were drinking (blackouts).  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You have legal problems because of your drinking, such as being arrested for harming someone or driving while drunk (intoxicated).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You get hurt or you hurt someone else when you are drinking.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You keep drinking even though you have health problems that are caused or made worse by alcohol use, such as liver disease (cirrhosis).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Your friends or family members are worried about your drinking.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Signs of alcohol dependence or addiction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You cannot quit drinking or control how much you drink.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You need to drink more to get the same effect.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You have withdrawal symptoms when you stop drinking. These include feeling sick to your stomach, sweating, shakiness, and anxiety.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You spend a lot of time drinking and recovering.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You have given up other activities so you can drink.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You keep drinking even though it harms your relationships and causes health problems. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other signs include:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;14&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You drink in the morning, are often drunk for long periods of time, or drink alone.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You change what you drink, such as switching from beer to wine because you think that doing this will help you drink less or keep you from getting drunk.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You feel guilty after drinking.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You make excuses for your drinking or do things to hide your drinking, such as buying alcohol at different stores.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You worry that you won't get enough alcohol for an evening or weekend.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;You have physical signs of alcohol dependence, such as weight loss, a sore or upset stomach (gastritis), or redness of the nose and cheeks.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Penny has has never expressed the desire to give up drinking, she enjoys drinking, she enjoys the &lt;em&gt;buzz&lt;/em&gt; that alcohol gives her, but there have been times in the past when she turned to alcohol for comfort and to numb the pain of a broken heart. &#xA;In a 2011 comic-con interview, Kaley Cuoco said, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf5QZBYamwg&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;amp;t=2m18s&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Penny has more baggage than any of the guys, let's be honest. That's the truth of it all.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The drinking helps to dull the pain, to lighten the baggage temporarily; but is she addicted? No. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the only significant scene where Penny's drinking lands her in deep trouble is in &lt;strong&gt;S4 E24&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Roommate Transmogrification&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The Roommate Transmogrification&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR3J0W2K6Fw&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;YouTube clip&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Penny and Raj are in Sheldon's apartment, drowning their sorrows when a sozzled Penny confesses to Raj  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A3Ivd.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/A3Ivd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“I screwed up. Leonard’s a great guy. Never should have broken up with him.”&lt;/strong&gt; The next morning sees Penny waking up naked beside Raj. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Penny (waking up): &lt;em&gt;Oh, God. Oh, God! Oh. Okay, look. THIS. NEVER. HAPPENED. Do you understand me?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Raj: (nodding)       &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Penny: &lt;em&gt;Really?! Still can't talk to me?!&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Penny: [after Penny tries to sneak out, but finds Sheldon, Leonard, and Howard in the living room] &lt;em&gt;Damn&lt;/em&gt;.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Leonard Hofstadter: &lt;em&gt;What is going on?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Penny: [laughing nervously] &lt;em&gt;Oh, it's, it's not what it looks like.&lt;/em&gt;    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sheldon Cooper: &lt;em&gt;What does it look like?&lt;/em&gt;     &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;em&gt;Web Md.com&lt;/em&gt; guideline, Penny's blackout is the only sign that indicates she may have a drinking problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, that scene was filmed way back in season 4 and one swallow does not make a summer. There are no other scenes from &lt;em&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/em&gt; that hint at any alcohol addiction. Penny enjoys a laugh, she enjoys going out with the girls in bars and restaurants, nowadays she is more like a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/articles/how-do-you-define-social-drinking&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;social drinker&lt;/a&gt;. In fact, since she has married Leonard Hofstadter, Penny's character appears to be happier and more self-confident than ever before. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20549" LastEditorUserId="20549" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T07:41:44.923" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T07:41:44.923" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45380" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45049" CreationDate="2015-12-27T05:49:25.087" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's more based in his character than anything else. Kylo isn't just ashamed of his weakness, he passionately despises it. It's an externalization of his inadequacies throughout the movie. In this moment, we're seeing him explode, not only lashing out at Finn and Rey, but at his grief, embarrassment, and even physical pain. I'm not sure how clear an answer this is, but just from watching the movie alone, I tried to consider it purely from a character and thematic point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29178" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T05:49:25.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45381" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45385" CreationDate="2015-12-27T06:15:57.390" Score="14" ViewCount="3939" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are many superheroes. But Sheldon from &lt;em&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/em&gt; loves The Flash very much. He loves Batman too. But Why? What's the reason?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29143" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-28T00:14:35.877" LastActivityDate="2017-11-17T06:06:34.473" Title="Why does Sheldon Cooper love The Flash?" Tags="|character|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45382" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-27T06:21:48.357" Score="10" ViewCount="6741" Body="&lt;p&gt;Leonard always wears socks when he goes to bed with Penny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems pretty weird to me. Is there any specific reason why he does this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29143" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-28T00:11:31.710" LastActivityDate="2023-02-22T10:16:52.080" Title="Why does Leonard on The Big Bang Theory always wear socks when he goes to bed with Penny?" Tags="|character|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45384" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45393" CreationDate="2015-12-27T06:32:52.393" Score="9" ViewCount="1421" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a great deal of scientific dialogue in The Big Bang Theory. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is the science in the show factually correct or are they just for fun?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29143" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-28T00:15:45.040" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T00:15:45.040" Title="Is the science in The Big Bang Theory correct?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45381" CreationDate="2015-12-27T06:36:18.397" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/comic-con-big-bang-theory/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;collider.com&lt;/a&gt; on Comic Con 2012:-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A child asks Parsons, “Why does Sheldon like The Flash?”, Parsons&#xA;  threw the question to the showrunners, and Prady responded that&#xA;  Sheldon liked the Flash because Sheldon was bullied a lot and the&#xA;  Flash was able to run away really fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In-universe, The Flash is very pro-science, specially physics and he is  (they are) nerds turned super-hero who can travel faster than light. He is the fastest superhero and one of the oldest too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-11-17T06:06:34.473" LastActivityDate="2017-11-17T06:06:34.473" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45388" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48976" CreationDate="2015-12-27T07:51:51.133" Score="2" ViewCount="2411" Body="&lt;p&gt;In at least season one of &lt;em&gt;The Good Wife&lt;/em&gt;, it is heavily emphasized that Alicia is returning to work to support her family. Is it ever mentioned how much she earns at Stern, Lockhart &amp;amp; Gardner? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15517" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T20:32:07.237" Title="How much does Alicia earn?" Tags="|the-good-wife|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44065" CreationDate="2015-12-27T08:14:05.913" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I was surprised when Gus didn't kill Walt in the desert in this episode. There were several times when Gus wanted to get &quot;rid&quot; of Walt and this seemed like the perfect opportunity. He now has Jesse Pinkman, who has proved his loyalty and his ability to cook, after his time in Mexico and being able to cook up to Heisenberg's standards. Also, Jesse is not as threatening as Walt and Gus can &quot;manipulate&quot; him a little bit more than Walt (although Jesse isn't an idiot either). So now that he has Jesse Pinkman, this seems like the perfect chance to get rid of Walt once and for all. I think that he only doesn't kill him simply because he has stood up to Gus and has showed him that he is a professional. In the very first few episodes/exchanges between Walt and Gus, it is apparent that they are both &quot;professionals&quot; who &quot;hide in plain site&quot; and who find it vital to &quot;provide for their family.&quot; This male camaraderie along with Walt's reputation, which proceeds him, and his incredible luck, Gus gives him this last pass. Gus should be a little more careful and probably did follow/watch Walt (maybe we just don't see those scenes). When Gus and his men are walking to Gus' car in the parking garage that Walt has strapped a bomb to, and Gus stops before getting near the car, it is apparent that Gus is aware that Walt is up to something. I think that the nursing home and Mr. Salamanca blinds Gus with rage. Although he does have his guy check out the place first (he can never be too careful), but perhaps he underestimated Walt. Maybe he thought he put the fear of &quot;God&quot; in him with his threats in the desert, and his box cutting killings, etc. Maybe he doesn't truly believe Walt has it in him. I think he underestimates Walt- he is suspicious of him, but he doesn't realize that Walt is tricky, cunning, and smart. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Sry went a bit off topic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28553" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T08:14:05.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45390" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-27T08:21:56.970" Score="1" ViewCount="88" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen &lt;em&gt;Metropia (2009)&lt;/em&gt; recently and noticed something that kept bothering me.&#xA;Towards the end of the movie, we see Roger (the protagonist) setting at the desk of Stefan, after he was killed and his ID given to Roger.&#xA;When he switches on the monitor at his desk, he sees the room where his girlfriend is. At that moment, Karl is seen rejecting the phone call to her mobile and switching it to silent mode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We later see his girlfriend (Anna) entering the room and inquire about her phone. Karl misleads her by claiming it was the TV. He also tries to seduce her before he decides to switch off the TV. Thus, roger can't know what is going on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a while, the monitor is switched back on, and we see Karl knocking on the door from which Anna came in.&#xA;The weird part is: who switched it on?&#xA;Did Karl switch it on?&#xA;If so, then why? &#xA;He is pre-occupied with Anna and should not have the latest care about what's on tv, especially if he is the one who switched it off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Anna switch it on and then instantly went out of the room and locked the door at the same time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something is missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T08:21:56.970" Title="How was the TV turned on again in Metropia?" Tags="|plot-explanation|metropia|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34434" CreationDate="2015-12-27T08:33:03.207" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hubris. That is the plain and simple answer. Also, a little to toy with Hank and with Skyler. He finds amusement in all this. Also he is a bit liquored up in this episode and he tends to get more cocky when drinking. Most of all, I think that Walt also doesn't want someone else to get credit for his work. He'd rather be caught then not get credit as Heisenberg. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the key to Walter White's motives and &quot;Breaking Bad&quot; lies in the first season when we learn about Walt's former company, Gray Matter. Walt describes it to Jesse that when he gave up his share of the company, he gave up his &quot;children's birthright&quot; in exchange for a few months of rent. Gray Matter now makes billions a year, while Walt is a dying High school chemistry teacher making 40k a year. I think this is Walt's biggest regret in his life, up to this point. He made a decision, which in the short run, was for the quick benefit of cash and to help out his family, but in the long run, he lost out on the money, the fame, and most of all the legacy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After being diagnosed with cancer, having nothing to lose, he creates his own legacy, Heisenberg and his blue meth. And vows to never let this go. Although, when you think about it, interestingly enough Heisenberg is much like &quot;grey matter&quot; in that there is good intentions (white) in the idea of Walt trying to make money to provide for his family although it is also black because of all the evil that comes along with Heisenberg's meth business. Therefore, he has created another &quot;grey matter.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All in all, Heisenberg is Walt's pure id. His blue meth is his product, his creation, his children's birthright, it represents all in his life, that he always wanted to do but never could because he felt intimidated or held back by himself, his wife (nagging him all the time), his brother in law Hank (the hot shot DEA agent), and his former partner's in Gray Matter, Gretchen and Elliot Schwartz, who now are extremely rich and famed due to a company that he helped to co-found. Now, at age 50, with cancer and a shift in confidence and attitude he is now the great Heisenberg. No one can take that from him so he will say whatever and do whatever he wants to flaunt his &quot;greatness&quot; in the meth empire regardless of the consequences. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Sry off topic a bit at times).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28553" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-03-19T15:09:51.460" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T15:09:51.460" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16379" CreationDate="2015-12-27T08:50:24.217" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's quite simple...since he is very meticulous he made sure he solved all the cases to rise to become a good agent....maybe he solved others cases before and made sure all the agents of his office under the jurisdiction of the crime is busy which will lead him to be the one assigned to the case.....&#xA;Plus he tells his boss he is just a month away from arresting a mobster...so he is really very cunning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29181" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T08:50:24.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45393" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45384" CreationDate="2015-12-27T09:06:14.287" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the show strives for scientific vigour and has its &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2013/09/23/224404260/the-man-who-gets-the-science-right-on-the-big-bang-theory&quot;&gt;own Science Consultant / Technical Director&lt;/a&gt;; Professor of Astrophysics and Astronomy, David Salzberg PhD on staff to help with writing the whiteboards and consulting on any science elements in the script. The show also uses Miam Bialik PhD as an informal consultant on areas relating to her specialist area; Neuroscience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every week, Saltzberg attends the show's live taping at the Warner&#xA;  Bros. lot in Burbank, Calif. He makes sure the whiteboards are&#xA;  correct. For every new episode, they're covered by a fresh scrawl of&#xA;  formulas dreamed up by Saltzberg and admired by physicists for their&#xA;  scrupulous accuracy — and occasional shoutouts to what's happening in&#xA;  the world of science.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The whiteboards have dozens of fans,&quot; Saltzberg jokes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Saltzberg also reviews scripts in progress. They arrive with&#xA;  unfinished dialogue and brackets reading, &quot;Insert Science Here.&quot; He&#xA;  fills in the blanks, as in an episode where Dr. Sheldon Cooper, a&#xA;  puffed-up theoretical physicist, keeps bumming rides from a neighbor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Saltzberg gets backup from actress Mayim Bialik, who happens to have a&#xA;  PhD in neuroscience. (Her character, Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler, is also a&#xA;  neuroscientist.) She helps Saltzberg fine-tune the show's scientific&#xA;  details.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Like, what kind of microscope would they be using, or how thin should&#xA;  these slices be,&quot; she offers as an example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, the show hosts regular meetings between those involved in the show and real scientists through its &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/09/22/the-big-bang-boys-at-caltech-has-a-real-science-adviser-from-ucla/&quot;&gt;geek of the week&lt;/a&gt;&quot; outreach program, with scientists coming on set and spending time speaking to the stars of the shows and its crew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-27T21:45:27.263" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T21:45:27.263" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9846" CreationDate="2015-12-27T09:08:16.113" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did not get the impression that that was the hero ninja who killed the tattooist. The ninja who does it wore a mask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why the other ninjas would kill him, mainly because they seem concerned with people in general knowing of their existence. And/or/less-reasonable, they had wanted to kill him before and hadn't realized they had failed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24499" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T09:08:16.113" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45395" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30682" CreationDate="2015-12-27T09:11:58.937" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are actual documented accounts of people who have been able to impale &lt;em&gt;themselves&lt;/em&gt; and remove the impaling item without injury. I don't know of any who have been able to heal sword wounds got in battle inflicted by others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I knew of an actual ninja ability like this, I would hesitate to reveal it, out of due respectful fear... :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24499" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T09:11:58.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45397" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45382" CreationDate="2015-12-27T10:14:37.640" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not explained in the show, but there are a few theories worth exploring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard has a &lt;em&gt;general issue&lt;/em&gt; with nudity&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This potentially relates to poor body image or the fact that he had a traumatic experience seeing his father and mother engaged in &lt;a href=&quot;https://bigbangtrans.wordpress.com/series-7-episode-04-the-raiders-minimization/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pre-coitus spanking&lt;/a&gt; at an impressionable age:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mrs Hofstadter:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;When you were six years old, you walked in on me and your father naked. I was swatting his bottom with your brand new&#xA;  Ping Pong paddle.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I didn’t dream that?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;No, no. We cover ourselves in body paint, and then, then we get on this big canvas and do our thing.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Penny:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Whoa, &lt;strong&gt;that’s kind of a big step for a guy who only recently agreed to take his socks off&lt;/strong&gt;. ...  let’s you, me, and your&#xA;  very, very pale feet make some art. Hey, when you got back to this&#xA;  store, I want to go with you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The floor is cold&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know from '&lt;a href=&quot;https://bigbangtrans.wordpress.com/series-2-episode-03-the-barbarian-sublimation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Barbarian Sublimation&lt;/a&gt;' that the floor outside the apartments is chilly. It's certainly possible that this extends to the hardwood floors &lt;em&gt;inside&lt;/em&gt; the apartments. Note Penny's &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sCCyo.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;central rug&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/anNEZ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;pink 'ugg-style' slippers&lt;/a&gt; she's seen wearing on &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BUSv4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;several occasions&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sheldon:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;There there. [Reluctantly] Would you prefer to wait in our apartment?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Penny:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;No Sheldon, I’d rather sit on this freezing cold floor sobbing like a three year-old.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's part of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://bigbangtrans.wordpress.com/series-4-episode-17-the-toast-derivation/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;roommate agreement&lt;/a&gt; and he's simply gotten used to it:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that Sheldon has a thing about unwashed feet in the shower. It's not a stretch to imagine that he's also against bare feet in the apartment. Wearing socks could simply be a habit for him&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Did you know that, per our roommate agreement, I have to wash my feet before I get in the shower? And not in the sink. We each have special buckets.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;And my personal favourite: &lt;strong&gt;Because showrunner Chuck Lorre has a thing about his &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=two-and-a-half-men&amp;amp;episode=s02e11&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;male characters&lt;/a&gt; wearing socks in bed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alan:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Listen to this. &quot;Has anybody had sex with Charlie where he actually took his socks off?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charlie:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;That's just mean. I have bad circulation in my feet.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2019-02-28T00:25:19.880" LastActivityDate="2019-02-28T00:25:19.880" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="45398" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-27T11:21:04.737" Score="1" ViewCount="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm very confused, because near the end of the movieIn &lt;em&gt;All About Eve&lt;/em&gt;, Eve tells Addison that she does not want to attend the party, and asks Addison to take the trophy in her place instead. Addison agrees to drop her off at her home before he goes to the party by himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the final scene, Addison returns to Eve's home to give back the trophy that she apparently left in the taxi. He hands it to Phoebe, who is told by Eve to put it on her suitcase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems that neither Eve nor Addison have remembered that Addison was supposed to bring the trophy with him to the party.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone help me understand this? I've been looking on the internet for an answer but I have had no success. Have I misunderstood something here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29182" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-28T00:09:49.587" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T00:09:49.587" Title="Why did DeWitt return the trophy to Eve's home, when she told him to take it with him to the party?" Tags="|plot-explanation|all-about-eve|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45399" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45382" CreationDate="2015-12-27T11:32:38.503" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why does Leonard on The Big Bang Theory always wear socks when he goes&#xA;  to bed with Penny?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because naked men wearing socks look funny? Not that we ever see Leonard naked, more's the pity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are you 100% sure, he wears socks in bed, like every single time? I don't think that's true any more. Regardless, women will often wear socks in bed because they suffer from cold feet, so perhaps the &quot;socks&quot; is a dig at Hofstadter's physical build; Leonard is after all a nerd, there's nothing &lt;em&gt;macho&lt;/em&gt; about him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier in season 8, viewers discovered Leonard had a &lt;a href=&quot;https://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/The_Septum_Deviation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;deviated septum&lt;/a&gt;, in the episode called&lt;br&gt;&#xA; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Septum Deviation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently, sufferers may be unaware that they have this condition, they may mistakenly believe they are particularly vulnerable to head colds, and nosebleeds, they may experience difficulty in breathing—and we all know that Leonard is asthmatic—so, it's plausible that Johnny Galecki's character believes his stuffed up nose, colds and nosebleeds will be exacerbated by having cold feet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Weekend Vortex (S5 E19)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonard&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Hey, listen, I kind of made plans with the guys this weekend, but then I wondered, because we’re in this relationship-beta-test, if I should have asked you first. Then I thought if I did check with you first, you’d think that I was taking things to seriously.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;And then, then I got a nosebleed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_septum_deviation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; lists the following symptoms of a deviated septum: infections of the sinus, sleep apnea, snoring, repetitive sneezing, nosebleeds, difficulty with breathing, and mild to severe loss of the ability to smell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Leonard will wear socks and a T-shirt in bed when he is in a hotel and the floor is carpeted...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GJnKA.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GJnKA.png&quot; alt=&quot;dark-toned picture of two characters entering a hotel room; the man wears socks&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and when making love to Penny (in this scene he is bare chested, so naked man wearing socks in bed with a beautiful girl = funny)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/azhkM.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/azhkM.png&quot; alt=&quot;Penny and Leonard in bed; Leonard wears socks&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20549" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-02-28T01:13:21.537" LastActivityDate="2019-02-28T01:13:21.537" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="45402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27608" CreationDate="2015-12-27T15:16:58.077" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Director really wanted to keep the movie ambiguous and open for various interpretations as much as possible,which is awesome and the reason it deserve all the awards it got.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answers to your question,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His powers are all about his alter ego &quot;Birdman&quot; .Because of the &quot;Birdman&quot; movies he has  earned a solid recognition.People see him as &quot;Birdman&quot;,speak to him as the &quot;Birdman&quot;.After some time dealing and feeling like &quot;Birdman&quot; it becomes a part of his mind and his reality.But at the time period of his life shown in the movie he has fed up with it , beacuse it suppress the talented actor he is.He wants people to recognize him for the great actor he is not as &quot;Birdman&quot;.He wants to prove it to him self (to become the actor not the celebrity &quot;The Birdman&quot;).But his alter ego gradually taking over his personality.At the beginning it was just whispering to him and he only do moving objects.Later when his alter ego completely take over his mind he fly.So the these power are the way movie is explaining this process or the stages of being taken over by the &quot;Birdman&quot; ego.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some other possible questions and explanations&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can he actually fly?Does he have telekinesis powers?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;No&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Soon after he lands at the theater a cabby chases him for money,so he actually took the cab.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;And when he lands no body in the street notices a &quot;Flying Man&quot; and reacts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So its clear that him flying actually happened only in his mind&lt;/strong&gt;.This scene is not shown as perspective of some character (Like the lawyer seen him crashing stuff in his room with bear hands,which could lead to explanation that he actually has powers but not in lawyer characters perspective) so it is the movie's reality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What happens in the ending&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its clear that he actually cannot fly.So when he jumped out of the window he must have had hit the floor.But why didn't her daughter see that? By that time she had started to love and respect him.So rather than accepting he is dead she imagine he actually flew out of the windows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After he jumped out of the window we can hear some sirens sound in the background&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Notice a little hysterical laugh suggests that she may lost her sanity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29185" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T15:16:58.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45403" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-27T15:50:23.287" Score="8" ViewCount="4916" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just seen &lt;em&gt;Quentin Tarantino&lt;/em&gt;'s latest film, &lt;em&gt;The Hateful Eight&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2015/08/quentin-tarantino-lane-brown-in-conversation.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; Vulture interview:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hateful Eight uses the Civil War as a backdrop, sort of like how The&#xA;Good, the Bad and the Ugly does.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Good, the Bad and the Ugly doesn’t get into the racial conflicts&#xA;of the Civil War; it’s just a thing that’s happening. My movie is&#xA;about the country being torn apart by it, and the racial aftermath,&#xA;six, seven, eight, ten years later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That’s going to make this movie feel contemporary. Everybody’s talking&#xA;about race right now.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know. I’m very excited by that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Excited?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the issue of white supremacy is being talked about and dealt&#xA;with. And it’s what the movie’s about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when I saw the movie yesterday, in its 70mm presentation, it didn't seem to me that the racial message was as strong and obvious as, say, the message of freedom and retaliation against slavery in &lt;em&gt;Django Unchained&lt;/em&gt;. I didn't really feel a message about white supremacy either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are my questions about race in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know the film has just come out, but its screenings are booked everywhere it's playing, so I'm assuming a lot more people will have the same questions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is there a racial message when Sheriff Chris Mannix is siding with Major Marquis Warren in the second part of the film? They both kill with a lot of violence white characters who have been brutally killing black characters in the film but to me it just seemed that Sheriff Chris Mannix was siding with Major Marquis Warren because he had been nearly poisoned by the coffee made by Oswaldo Mobray and Joe Gage which really doesn't make it about race all that much but more about self-defense and paranoia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a racial message there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, The passengers of the stagecoach, Oswaldo Mobray, Joe Gage, Bob and Jody kill the people in the haberdashery, Charly, Gemma and Minnie, who are black, but they would have done so no matter what race they were (since they also kill Six-Horse Judy, and Sweet Dave, who are white). It looks like they're not really making a difference based on their victim's race. They're more likely securing the inn for the ambush they're planning than committing race crimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a racial message there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;What exactly is the racial message when Major Marquis Warren narrates the rape and killing of the son of General Sandy Smithers? Wouldn't narrating a rape to a relative of the victim result in anger and desire of revenge even if race wasn't involved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I also find off that one of the black protagonists, Minnie, is said to hate Mexicans and not allow them inside her haberdashery until a few months before the movie's action starts, when she allows them inside, along with... dogs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How could this be a positive message about this character and make us feel empathy for her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23193" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T09:48:39.623" Title="Understanding racial messages in The Hateful Eight" Tags="|analysis|the-hateful-eight|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45404" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-27T15:54:47.137" Score="20" ViewCount="18098" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Hateful Eight, we learn around the middle of the film that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Abraham Lincoln's letter to Marquis Warren, as well as the claim that they used to write letters to each other, is a lie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could it be possible that Marquis Warren also lied to General Sandy Smithers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;when he tells his story of the rape and killing of his son Chester Charles Smithers, aimed at angering him and pushing him to try to kill him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I saw the film in English with no subtitles, and they all had heavy accents and old-time language, so pardon me if it's explained at some point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23193" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T10:00:16.593" LastActivityDate="2019-04-09T04:40:23.250" Title="In the Hateful Eight, is this character lying?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hateful-eight|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45405" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-27T16:26:06.120" Score="2" ViewCount="2008" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the Hateful Eight trailer, I have seen this image which seems to have been deleted from the final film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xu3V9.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xu3V9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was this scene about? And how does it fit into the overall story of the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23193" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-16T23:36:57.370" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T14:51:02.153" Title="What is this deleted scene from the Hateful Eight?" Tags="|the-hateful-eight|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42317" CreationDate="2015-12-27T22:13:31.430" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nick in all probability dies but Maria would likely have been picked up by one of Escobar's men. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29193" LastActivityDate="2015-12-27T22:13:31.430" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45419" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45286" CreationDate="2015-12-28T00:01:58.367" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is explained in the (Disney canon) factbook &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Absolutely_Everything_You_Need_to_Know&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Wars: Absolutely Everything you Need to Know&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q. &lt;strong&gt;How does Obi-Wan reappear after Darth Vader defeats him?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;After being struck down by Darth Vader on the Death Star, Obi-Wan&#xA;  becomes one with the Force.&lt;/strong&gt; He appears as a Force spirit and is able&#xA;  to communicate with Luke and Yoda.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We see the same disappearance (and later reappearance) in the final film of the original trilogy when Yoda dies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/vvd36insqJs?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T00:01:58.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45420" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45421" CreationDate="2015-12-28T00:38:21.737" Score="6" ViewCount="6209" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest&lt;/a&gt;, at the beginning of the movie we're told that Chief is a deaf and dumb. However, when McMurphy and Chief were talking just before the electroshock therapy scene, we came to know that Chief is not a deaf and dumb and he can talk. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what made him to fool the doctors? Is that just to escape from nurse Ratched's therapy? I believe the movie adapted from a novel, so, Is anything mentioned in the novel? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T00:56:28.583" Title="Why did Chief Bromden fool everyone?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45421" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45420" CreationDate="2015-12-28T00:56:28.583" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo%27s_Nest_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;source novel&lt;/a&gt;, he pretends to be deaf and dumb because it  allows him to hear the secrets of the people around him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;They laugh and then I hear them mumbling behind me, heads close&#xA;  together. Hum of black machinery, humming hate and death and other&#xA;  hospital secrets. They don’t bother not talking out loud about their&#xA;  hate secrets when I’m nearby because they think I’m deaf and dumb.&#xA;  Everybody thinks so. I’m cagey enough to fool them that much. If my&#xA;  being half Indian ever helped me in any way in this dirty life, it&#xA;  helped me being cagey, helped me all these years.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This odd behaviour stems from his childhood and beyond:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It hadn’t been just since I came in the hospital, either; people first&#xA;  took to acting like I couldn’t hear or talk a long time before that.&#xA;  In the Army anybody with more stripes acted that way toward me. That&#xA;  was the way they figured you were supposed to act around someone&#xA;  looked like I did. And even as far back as grade school I can remember&#xA;  people saying that they didn’t think I was listening, so they quit&#xA;  listening to the things I was saying.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T00:56:28.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45422" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-28T01:06:32.577" Score="11" ViewCount="8714" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hateful Eight&lt;/em&gt; is being released in two formats. Currently, a 70mm &quot;Roadshow&quot; edition is screening in limited theatres, and in a week, a &lt;em&gt;different cut&lt;/em&gt; of the film is being released to wide distribution as a digital film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/45424/49&quot;&gt;the differences with respect to the aspect ratio and film format between the two versions,&lt;/a&gt; and am not interested in those (nor, save for the sake of completeness, the presence of a printed program, an Overture and Intermission in the Roadshow screenings.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the Roadshow edition of the film is also &lt;em&gt;longer&lt;/em&gt; (I've seen conflicting numbers, but the most commonly cited are 6 and 20 minutes longer - I suspect the latter number includes the overture).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I'm curious about is what, if any, are the specific narrative and dramatic differences between the two versions of the film? I find it hard to believe that you'd get even six more minutes just lingering on landscapes in a film that is as entirely interior as &lt;em&gt;The Hateful Eight&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29199" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T10:09:12.483" Title="What are the content differences between the 70mm 'Roadshow' print, and the wide distribution digital release?" Tags="|the-hateful-eight|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45423" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45426" CreationDate="2015-12-28T01:08:56.530" Score="6" ViewCount="11797" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest&lt;/a&gt;, McMurphy and Chief planned to escape to Canada, and near the end of the movie, they trapped Turkle and made him drink in order to escape in the night. But, in the following morning, no one was escaped and only Bill was missing, however, later they found him inside the room. I believe no one was there in the hospital except Turkle, and even he was inside the room. So, I guess no one was around there to stop them from escaping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though having all the possibilities, why didn't McMurphy escape with Chief? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is anything related to this scene available in director's cut or in the book? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I missing anything?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="556" LastActivityDate="2017-04-19T21:28:07.207" Title="Why didn't McMurphy escape?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45424" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45472" CreationDate="2015-12-28T01:14:17.927" Score="43" ViewCount="10307" Body="&lt;p&gt;There has been a bit of controversy lately over the release of Tarantino's &lt;em&gt;Hateful Eight&lt;/em&gt; movie. As I understand it, the movie was scheduled to play in a particular theater in Los Angeles that plays 70mm format. Disney chose to push/force/coerce/convince/whatever this theater into showing &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This has caused a rather large uproar from both Tarantino, as well as many of his fans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will be honest, before I read this story I had never heard the term &quot;70mm&quot; before in my life; I only last week learned that there is a theater in my area that screens 70mm prints. Now I'm wondering what the big deal is, how these are any different from the versions shown at my usual theater, and why this format seems to have suddenly, out of nowhere (at least from my perspective) become a big deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-28T01:24:45.457" LastActivityDate="2023-06-06T05:42:05.530" Title="What exactly is 70mm print and why does anyone care?" Tags="|film-techniques|film-industry|distribution|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44569" CreationDate="2015-12-28T01:17:10.187" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sams' visions of the cage always showed it suspended by chains in mid air surrounded by darkness. So if thats the real cage, then what we saw in that episode must have been the &quot;window&quot; thing. although i was let down when michael was absent from the cage. You would think thats too big of an oops for the producers to miss, so i choose to believe all will be explained. If not, well it wont be the first time we have to say 'oh well' in this series and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29200" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T01:17:10.187" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45423" CreationDate="2015-12-28T01:25:24.533" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the novel, they've had a pretty good night. Several prostitutes were smuggled onto the ward along with a considerable amount of alcohol. There's some discussion of &lt;em&gt;maybe&lt;/em&gt; escaping to &quot;Mexico or Canada&quot; but McMurphy and Turkle decide to have a bit of a snooze before they put their plan into motion &lt;strong&gt;despite the window being wide open&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Harding was supposedly going to wake them up at 6am (note that it's already gone 5am when the discussion was happening) so they could leave before the orderlies arrive at 6.30am but what actually happens is that they all end up sleeping late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He squinted up at the dim clock. “It’s nearly five. I need me a little&#xA;  shut-eye before my big getaway. The day shift doesn’t come on for&#xA;  another two hours yet; let’s leave Billy and Candy down there a while&#xA;  longer. I’ll cut out about six. Sandy, honey, maybe an hour in the&#xA;  dorm would sober us up. What do you say? We got a long drive tomorrow,&#xA;  whether it’s Canada or Mexico or wherever.” Turkle and Harding and I&#xA;  stood up too. Everybody was still weaving pretty much, still pretty&#xA;  drunk, but a mellow, sad feeling, had drifted over the drunk. Turkle&#xA;  said he’d boot McMurphy and the girl out of bed in an hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I shook his hand, and we all started for the dorm. McMurphy told&#xA;  Turkle to tear up some sheets and pick out some of his favorite knots&#xA;  to be tied with. Turkle said he would. I got into my bed in the&#xA;  graying light of the dorm and heard McMurphy and the girl get into his&#xA;  bed. I was feeling numb and warm. I heard Mr. Turkle open the door to&#xA;  the linen room out in the hall, heave a long, loud, belching sigh as&#xA;  he pulled the door closed behind him. My eyes got used to the dark,&#xA;  and I could see McMurphy and the girl snuggled into each other’s [259]&#xA;  shoulders, getting comfortable, more like two tired little kids than a&#xA;  grown man and a grown woman in bed together to make love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And that’s the way the black boys found them when they came to turn on&#xA;  the dorm lights at six-thirty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T01:25:24.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45427" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45404" CreationDate="2015-12-28T01:35:05.980" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's entirely possible. We have no idea, as the film doesn't explore the point any further. However, I think it's highly unlikely that the story is &lt;em&gt;entirely&lt;/em&gt; false.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the Major is &lt;em&gt;not in the room&lt;/em&gt; when Smithers explains the loss of his son to Mannix - he's still out in the stable, helping Bob with the horses. Note also that Smithers reaction to Warren being the &quot;N* with a price on his head&quot; is immediate and striking; he's well aware of who Marquis Warren is, most likely because his son went off to find him, &quot;seeking his fortune.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as Warren notes, many southerners sought him or, hoping to find him and fortune. They didn't find fortune. That said, we have no way of knowing whether the Majors... Evocative... Descriptions of torture are accurate. But it seems fairly clear that, at the least, he did kill the General's son. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether it's true that he tortured him or not though, the purpose of the speech is to goad the General, and at that, &lt;em&gt;it succeeds&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29199" LastEditorUserId="29199" LastEditDate="2016-01-03T17:41:39.067" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T17:41:39.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45428" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-28T01:44:08.483" Score="4" ViewCount="282" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Supernatural S05E10 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1532469/?ref_=ttep_ep10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Abandon All Hope&lt;/a&gt;, after getting shot in the head with the Colt, Lucifer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/5.10_Abandon_All_Hope..._(transcript)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tells&lt;/a&gt; Dean&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's only five things in all of creation that that gun can't kill, and I just happen to be one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Lucifer never says who they are. I always wondered who they were. Now that we are near the end of it all, it would seem that there are also God, Lucifer, Michael, and the Darkness, but only Lucifer is for certain. Has anyone ever thought about this, and if so do you have a different opinion on the five?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29200" LastEditorUserId="55668" LastEditDate="2019-02-12T18:44:32.757" LastActivityDate="2019-02-12T18:44:32.757" Title="What are the other beings that can't be killed by the Colt?" Tags="|plot-explanation|supernatural|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="45429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45424" CreationDate="2015-12-28T01:56:13.030" Score="34" Body="&lt;p&gt;The difference is that 70mm film is, from a simple mathematical perspective, twice as big as 35mm film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QstOZ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QstOZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;70mm film is shot horizontally in the frame where as 35mm is shot vertically. This gives directors a &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; larger canvas to shoot on, with increased resolution (up to 18k in some cases, compare that to 4k televisions that are just hitting the market), as well as better color depth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, true IMAX or 70mm projection screens are more square in shape, as you can see from the image included above. Overall this helps to provide a far more immersive experience for audiences as your entire visual field is filled with what's on the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, The Hateful Eight is also hitting on a lot of &quot;film nerd&quot; items, such as the fact it was filmed using the same lenses they used to film Ben-Hur. To quote Tarantino in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbs.com/shows/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/video/m1ZW1NBqH6O2H_37cjEN3pzjihxlWUNS/the-late-show-12-15-2015-quentin-tarantino-jonathan-groff-squeeze-/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;his interview&lt;/a&gt; with Stephen Colbert:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;And when I say that, I don't mean lenses &lt;em&gt;like&lt;/em&gt; the ones they used to&#xA;  film Ben Hur, I mean the &lt;em&gt;actual&lt;/em&gt; lenses they used to film Ben-Hur.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lenses used allowed them to film in what's referred to as Ultra Panavision 70, meaning the frame will have an aspect ratio of 2.76:1, making it exceedingly wide by most modern standards, and the first film to be released in that aspect ratio on 70mm film in nearly 50 years. See &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/how-quentin-tarantino-resurrected-ultra-panavision-70-for-the-hateful-eight-roadshow-20150828&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for more information on that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The roadshow Ultra Panavision 70 version will also be a longer cut, including an overture opening plus an intermission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the long and short of why these will be different from what most other theaters get is they'll have a much, MUCH larger picture, with higher image and color quality. It's an experience that the vast majority of theaters simply cannot provide anymore, so much so that since 2014 the Weinstein company has been paying to outfit more theaters with 70mm projectors so they can show the roadshow version of The Hateful Eight (sadly they ended up &lt;a href=&quot;http://screencrush.com/the-hateful-eight-70mm-theaters/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;coming up short&lt;/a&gt; by about half). Basically it's a film nerd's dream if they can see the film presented in its intended format.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T01:56:13.030" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45428" CreationDate="2015-12-28T02:00:07.597" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;tl;dr: We really don't know, and we probably never will. Lucifer's comment is too vague and open to interpretation to be of any real use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I go into a lot of details about this in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/25029/2816&quot;&gt;my answer on Sci-Fi &amp;amp; Fantasy&lt;/a&gt;, but the short answer is, we just don't have enough information to pin down the exact list that Lucifer is talking about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lucifer actually tells Dean that there are &lt;em&gt;five&lt;/em&gt; &quot;things in all of creation&quot; that cannot be killed by the Colt. Based on what we knew at the time, I think most people assumed he was talking about God and the four archangels (Michael, Lucifer, Raphael, and Gabriel). Unfortunately, there are some problems with this theory:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It seems odd that Lucifer would include God in his count of things that are &quot;part of creation&quot;; if God &lt;em&gt;created&lt;/em&gt; everything he would logically be outside of creation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We already knew about the Four Horsemen and how powerful they are. Death, in particular, is implied to be even stronger than the archangels, so logically we'd expect him to be immune.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In the subsequent seasons, we get introduced to a litany of creatures that are seemingly more powerful than the archangels, including the Leviathans, Eve, and The Darkness, all of which we'd want to put on that list.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The big problem here is that Lucifer's only clues are that there five of them and they are part of creation. Does he mean five individuals, or five groups? Does &quot;the archangels&quot; count as one thing, or 4? And do God, The Darkness, etc. qualify as being &quot;in creation&quot; or not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unless we get something more definitive -- and I am really, strongly confident we won't -- Lucifer's comment is going to remain a mystery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T02:00:07.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45439" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45440" CreationDate="2015-12-28T10:05:27.430" Score="3" ViewCount="389" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yoda speaks in normal English with few words misplaced, mostly initial or middle words in the end. Does this kind of English have some term name associated with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T10:20:18.047" Title="Is there some term for the English used by Yoda?" Tags="|character|dialogue|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45439" CreationDate="2015-12-28T10:20:18.047" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Drawing heavily on the answers to a similar question on English:SE (&lt;a href=&quot;https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/25858/what-term-can-be-used-to-describe-yodas-speech&quot;&gt;What term can be used to describe Yoda's speech?&lt;/a&gt;);&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/H/hyperbaton.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hyperbaton&lt;/a&gt; and&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/A/anastrophe.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anastrophe&lt;/a&gt;&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hyperbaton: An inversion of normal word order. A generic term for a variety of figures involving transposition (see below), it is&#xA;  sometimes synonymous with anastrophe. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anastrophe: Usually synonymous and occasionally referred to as a more specific instance of hyperbaton: the changing of the position of&#xA;  only a single word.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is more a linguistics question than an English language question&#xA;  in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The quality of Yoda's speech that makes it sound strange to English&#xA;  speakers - and the speakers of the majority of earth's langauges is&#xA;  that it uses a very uncommon linguistic typology or word ordering&#xA;  known as &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Subject_Verb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Object-Subject-Verb (OSV) or sometimes Object-Agent-Verb&#xA;  (OAV)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:38:11.257" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T10:20:18.047" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45441" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45490" CreationDate="2015-12-28T10:20:25.873" Score="8" ViewCount="1038" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Star Wars universe Jedi use different colours of lightsabers. I have noticed blue, green and purple in Star Wars original and prequel trilogy (I heard there are more lightsaber colours too). And Sith use the red lightsabers. I do know why &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/27809/in-the-star-wars-franchise-what-causes-the-sith-to-always-have-red-light-sabres/27810#27810&quot;&gt;Sith lightsabers' are red&lt;/a&gt;. But why are Jedi's lightsabers of different colour and what significance or importance do they have? I heard some story about their out of universe reason but I am seeking for in-universe reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2019-11-16T01:22:17.957" Title="What is the in-universe significance of different colours of lightsabers in Star Wars?" Tags="|analysis|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45443" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45445" CreationDate="2015-12-28T10:46:21.793" Score="8" ViewCount="1243" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt;, why didn't Arthur allow Ariadne to see his totem, which was a loaded die?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28789" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2015-12-28T12:05:37.883" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T12:05:37.883" Title="Why should one not share his or her totem?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45443" CreationDate="2015-12-28T11:08:05.080" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;He allowed her to &lt;em&gt;see it&lt;/em&gt;, but not &lt;em&gt;touch it&lt;/em&gt;. The whole point of a totem is that it should act in such a way as to only be recognisable by the owner (preferably by feel). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The special weighting on his loaded dice is only known to him. When he picks it up, that instantly tells him that he's within reality, or at least within a dream of his own making.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ARTHUR:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I can’t let you handle it. That’s the point. No one else can know the weight or balance of it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ARIADNE:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Why?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ARTHUR:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;So when you examine your totem... You know, beyond a doubt, that you’re not in someone else’s dream.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is also seen when Saito realises that he's inside a dream when he lands on the &lt;em&gt;polyester&lt;/em&gt; rug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... he NOTICES SOMETHING. And starts LAUGHING.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SAITO:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I've always hated this carpet. It's stained and frayed in such distinctive ways... But very definitely made of wool. Right now&#xA;  I'm lying on polyester.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-28T11:13:05.400" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T11:13:05.400" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2063" CreationDate="2015-12-28T12:49:20.213" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/best-star-wars-movie-viewing-order.html?mid=facebook_nymag&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Vulture website&lt;/a&gt; has aggregated the suggested viewing orders from a range of people involved in the original, prequel and new trilogies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;George Lucas&lt;/strong&gt; (I, II, III, IV, V, VI): “Start with one. That’s the way&#xA;to do it right: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. That’s the way they’re supposed to&#xA;be done. Just because it took a long time to film it doesn’t mean you&#xA;don’t do it in order.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Daisy Ridley&lt;/strong&gt; (I, II, III, IV, V, VI): &amp;quot;I would say 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,&#xA;because for a young person it's easier to understand the chronology.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John Boyega&lt;/strong&gt; (?): &amp;quot;I would say whatever you want! Watch 3, 6, 2, 1 — do&#xA;whatever you want to do so long as you experience it a very unique way&#xA;and enjoy it.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mark Ruffalo&lt;/strong&gt; (IV, V, VI, I, II, III): &amp;quot;From the first one made to the&#xA;most recent. Straight through. They just build up nicely that way.&#xA;That’s the way I saw it, and I’m a little bit of a throwback.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aaron Paul&lt;/strong&gt; (IV, V, VI, I, II, III): &amp;quot;You start with the original Star&#xA;Wars movie. There is no other way. Maybe it’s nostalgia. Or maybe it’s&#xA;not even that. I have no idea why I feel this way, but you should&#xA;watch them in the order they were released.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They also offered the advice of a professional movie critic&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Matt Zoller Seitz&lt;/strong&gt;, critic (IV, V, I, II, III, VI): &amp;quot;The Godfather,&#xA;Part II order. This is the order my wife came up with back in 2005. We&#xA;were discussing the right order in which to show the movies to our&#xA;kids, and we agreed that Darth Vader's reveal was such a big deal that&#xA;it would be a shame to ruin it by showing the episodes in numerical&#xA;order. She was a big fan of The Godfather, Part II, which flashes back&#xA;and forth between Michael Corleone in 1959 and his father Vito as a&#xA;young man in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;In this order, you start with A New Hope and continue through Empire,&#xA;which of course ends with Vader dropping that huge plot bomb on Luke.&#xA;Then you &amp;quot;flash back&amp;quot; to The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and&#xA;then Revenge of the Sith to show how Anakin became Darth Vader. Then&#xA;you finish with Return of the Jedi, where Luke tries to pull his&#xA;father back from the Dark Side and at least partially redeem him,&#xA;restoring balance to the Force in the process. We actually watched the&#xA;films this way, and it really worked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Not only did it magnify the impact of the throne-room scenes in Jedi,&#xA;it made it much easier to see the mirroring games that George Lucas&#xA;was playing in the prequels, making The Phantom Menace a rhyme of A&#xA;New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back with Attack of the Clones (right&#xA;down to the sad cliff-hanger ending), and Jedi the answer to Sith,&#xA;following right on its armored heels.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2023-12-11T21:58:26.760" LastActivityDate="2023-12-11T21:58:26.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="45452" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2063" CreationDate="2015-12-28T13:44:28.750" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently rewatched it in the order &lt;strong&gt;IV, (I, II), V, (III), VI&lt;/strong&gt; (prequels bracketed for clarity), which I first saw proposed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/40754/23386&quot;&gt;this related answer&lt;/a&gt;. Now I can't personally speak about the impressions of a &quot;newcomer&quot; or if it's the &quot;best&quot; order possible, but it certainly has its advantages and is at least worth mentioning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It includes all the live-action films of the official &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; movie series&lt;/strong&gt;, which has always been at the core of the whole &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; franchise. While many people don't like the prequels that much compared to the original trilogy, we're not here to debate about the individual movies' quality, but to &lt;strong&gt;watch &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;! And while the reasoning about &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt;'s story-wise irrelevance that is behind &quot;Machete Order&quot; is not that untrue, I for myself would not regard an order that leaves out a film from the official live-action movie series a &lt;em&gt;complete&lt;/em&gt; viewing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It provides a nice varying mixture of originals and prequels.&lt;/strong&gt; Decide for yourself if that is a good thing or not. But this is an order that provides the most variety between old and new (from the few reasonable orders at least). While it is similar in its intent of giving a kind of flashback, as the order provided in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/2066/49&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nobby&lt;/em&gt;'s answer&lt;/a&gt; (or the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/2089/49&quot;&gt;&quot;Machete Order&quot; derived&lt;/a&gt; from that), it drives this even further and spreads the flashbacks a bit more. And this way it might even be better at highlighting the &lt;em&gt;&quot;mirroring games that George Lucas was playing in the prequels&quot;&lt;/em&gt; as described in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/45451/49&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Richard&lt;/em&gt;'s answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From a &quot;spoiler&quot; viewpoint of discovering the story unbenknownst to its outcome, it might actually be the best order.&lt;/strong&gt; Neither is the original trilogy &quot;spoiled&quot; by the prequels, nor do the originals make revelations about the prequels, at least as far as possible. While I can't support that view myself, there are people who generally consider prequels less worth simply because of the fact that you already know how characters end up. This order tries to avoid that feeling as much as possible, even if it might not have been what Mr. Lucas intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now first of all, it doesn't destroy the big reveal in &lt;strong&gt;V&lt;/strong&gt; about&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Vader being Luke's father. If you really think about it, while &lt;strong&gt;II&lt;/strong&gt; does already show Anakin as a little bit troubled, it is not until &lt;strong&gt;III&lt;/strong&gt; that we see his ultimate moral demise (and if you wouldn't know, you'd never assume that family connection anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the same way that we don't know this truth before &lt;strong&gt;V&lt;/strong&gt;, while watching &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;II&lt;/strong&gt; we also don't know that Anakin, one of the main heroes,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; ends up as the ultimate bad guy either. All we do is wait for that Vader guy to betray and kill our beloved Anakin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even more than that, the emperor isn't &quot;spoiled&quot; either. It is not until the very last scene of &lt;strong&gt;II&lt;/strong&gt; (if at all) that we start to realize &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; that Palpatine might actually be behind all those evil schemes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the same way, it is not until the following &lt;strong&gt;V&lt;/strong&gt; that you even learn about this cloaked emperor guy still existing in the originals, too.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T11:37:04.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9869" CreationDate="2015-12-28T14:08:52.987" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The very short answer is that Yoda is certainly &lt;em&gt;theoretically&lt;/em&gt; capable of casting Force Lightning, but to do so would require a 360° rethink of his Light Side philosophy. Basically he would need to discard a lifetime of Jedi teachings and become a Sith before he could do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starwars.com/databank/force-lightning&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;StarWars.com website&lt;/a&gt; notes that Force Lightning is a specifically &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;dark side&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; power, one that requires the user draw on anger and hatred to disfigure the Living Force enough to draw raw energy from the Force itself. Yoda and Mace (and Luke) are said to be capable of &lt;em&gt;deflecting&lt;/em&gt; it, but there's no indication that they can generate it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FORCE LIGHTNING&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Force lightning is a dark side ability used to torture, disfigure, and even kill one’s victims. Blue in color, &lt;strong&gt;Sith shoot Force lightning&#xA;  from their hands by calling on their hatred and aggressive feelings.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  However, while a deadly weapon, it is not unstoppable. Force lightning&#xA;  can be deflected and absorbed by a lightsaber, and select Jedi have&#xA;  proved able to neutralize the technique through the power of the light&#xA;  side.&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starwars.com/databank/force-lightning&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Wars Databank: Force Lightning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Palpatine raised his spidery arms toward Luke: blinding white bolts of&#xA;  energy coruscated from his fingers, shot across the room like&#xA;  sorcerous lightning, and tore through the boy’s insides, looking for&#xA;  ground. The young Jedi was at once confounded and in agony — &lt;strong&gt;he’d never&#xA;  heard of such a power, such a corruption of the Force, let alone&#xA;  experienced it.&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_VI:_Return_of_the_Jedi_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - Official Novelisation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T14:08:52.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45456" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18129" CreationDate="2015-12-28T15:36:26.093" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Tet is an A.I super machine that originated somewhere in the universe by a highly advance alien race that has tegnology far beyond our own. Since the tet is a machice that thinks for itself, feeds and survives on the resourses of sustaining planets like earth, maybe the tet might have also fed of the planet of origin and killed of the race that brought it to existence. There also might be more machines like the tet in the universe   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29220" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T15:36:26.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45464" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42840" CreationDate="2015-12-28T17:49:52.893" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;She got her reputation back because of Benjamin which made her okay with that Benjamin cheated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29226" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-26T23:15:46.110" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T23:15:46.110" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2324" CreationDate="2015-12-28T17:54:12.030" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Inception either ended at Limbo, in Reality, or Level 1, but I think the important thing to factor in is that, in the end, Cobb sees their faces and decides to hug his children which he never could while bringing them in from his subconscious as projections in other dreams.&#xA;So I think it may be a reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another thing is that &lt;strong&gt;he does not wait for the top to stop or keep on&lt;/strong&gt; spinning, meaning &lt;strong&gt;he doesn't care&lt;/strong&gt; which shows that he has given up all intentions of going back in(dreaming) with someone else which indicates to me that he is in limbo or he is in reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two points for reality so I'm assuming reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, if Nolan had decided to extend the movie further and someone says he himself uses &quot;the device&quot; then we would have found out for sure whether he was in limbo or in reality because in limbo you can't go deeper. So if he can use the device dreams then he in reality, else...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29224" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-04-05T11:20:19.117" LastActivityDate="2019-04-05T11:20:19.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="45467" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14712" CreationDate="2015-12-28T18:10:20.570" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you are looking for a low-budget option, it is worth doing a YouTube search for Anne Hathaway's zero-gravity move on the Graham Norton Show. She demonstrates how, when filming Interstellar, actors were required to simulate weightlessness by standing on one leg. She stands on one leg with a relaxed knee and extends the other leg behind her so that it looks like it is floating on camera. It is a surprisingly effective technique, with zero-budget.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29228" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T18:10:20.570" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45335" CreationDate="2015-12-28T19:14:44.587" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The director speaks about this here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiewire.com/article/yorgos-lanthimos-on-the-absurd-logic-of-satirizing-modern-romance-in-the-lobster-20151008&quot;&gt;http://www.indiewire.com/article/yorgos-lanthimos-on-the-absurd-logic-of-satirizing-modern-romance-in-the-lobster-20151008&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He basically says that the movie is about how people nowadays are under an absurd amount of pressure to be in a successful relationship: &quot;This time I wanted to do something about relationships, and how people are under so much pressure to be successful in that domain.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it looks like he conceived of this explanation in hindsight. He stresses that they developed the concept as a purely fantastical idea that was not intended as a comment on reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quote from the director:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We came up with the world outside the hotel because we felt the world&#xA;  wasn't complete without it,&quot; said Lanthimos. &quot;We knew there would be&#xA;  people out there who had different ideas, wanted to live differently,&#xA;  and were rebelling against the system.&quot; The rogue community, however,&#xA;  has its own set of oppressive rules. &quot;We're interested in the irony of&#xA;  someone who tries to escape a certain kind of system ending up having&#xA;  to become a part of another,&quot; said Lanthimos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29228" LastEditorUserId="12936" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T08:04:31.917" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T08:04:31.917" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41670" CreationDate="2015-12-28T19:22:32.083" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is likely that Leonard, Sheldon and Raj are all on post-doctoral research posts, extended because they have applied for more funding from external bodies. They have spoken about funding during the show, indicating that their projects are funded by research grants. These are always fixed-term, so it's likely that the characters would all have to apply for new funding every few years in order to keep their jobs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29228" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T19:22:32.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45471" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45474" CreationDate="2015-12-28T20:09:06.237" Score="7" ViewCount="1248" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&quot;Jessica Jones&quot;&lt;/em&gt; episode 11 AKA I've Got the Blues Jessica and Trish search for the body of an old man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first morgue they visit the morgue technician says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Weird thing. He got hit by a car and thrown. The landing killed him.&#xA;  You don't see that much mid-city. Speeds are too low.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's around 11 minutes in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think this dead old man is Leland Owlsley who was killed in &lt;em&gt;&quot;Daredevil&quot;&lt;/em&gt; by Wilson Fisk who threw him down an elevator shaft.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't really match the face of the corpse, the contrast on my TV isn't great. I can't find anything on IMDB or the other usual wikis etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it the same character? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29231" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-28T21:26:00.990" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T21:30:53.273" Title="Is this body in &quot;Jessica Jones&quot; a character in &quot;Daredevil&quot;?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|daredevil-tv|jessica-jones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45424" CreationDate="2015-12-28T20:09:56.183" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several orthogonal issues here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The physical size of the film the movie was shot on (the negative).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The physical size of the film the movie is projected from (the print).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;How the frame is composed on that film, which is related to the aspect ratio.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the comments and other answers are conflating various aspects, which can cause more confusion than clarification.  For example, others have implied the 70mm and IMAX are the same thing.  While it's true IMAX does project from 70mm prints, 70mm prints are used in a variety of other, non-IMAX formats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before the switch to digital, most commercial movies were shot on 35mm negatives and then distributed to theaters as 35mm or sometimes 70mm prints.  (Yes, some 70mm prints are sometimes made from 35mm masters.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few big budget, &quot;big screen&quot; movies were sometimes shot in 70mm and distributed to big theaters on 70mm prints and smaller theaters on 35mm prints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sizes, 35mm and 70mm, refer to the width of the film itself.  This width includes the room for the sprocket holes and analogue audio tracks.  Some digital audio tracks use the spaces between the sprocket holes.  I believe (but correct me if I'm wrong) that magnetic audio tracks are not included in that width.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most film runs through the projector vertically (big exceptions are true IMAX and VistaVision), so the width the frame is limited by the width of the film minus the width of the sprocket holes and analogue audio tracks.  Thus the width of a frame on a 35mm print is a bit narrower than 35mm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sprocket holes are often called &quot;perfs,&quot; and many formats are thus referred to as a number of &quot;perfs.&quot;  That is, as the number of sprocket holes from one frame to the next.  A typical frame size for 35mm prints is 4-perf.  Thus the height of the frame was limited by that number.  For 70mm, I believe common formats were 7-perf, but I don't have a source for that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The aspect ratio is the ratio of the width to the height.  In olden times, movies were pretty square, much like old television sets.  To compete with television, the studios introduced different aspect ratios (typically wider) in order to make the movie experience seem more immersive than television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that the width and height of the frame both have upper bounds, there are only a few ways to adjust the aspect ratio:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use less than the full height available on the frame, and use a telephoto projection lens to compensate for the diminished height.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shoot (or print) the frames with an anamorphic lens that squishes the image horizontally to fit it onto the film, then project with the complementary lens that stretches it back out.  This is typically done for the widest of wide-screen formats.  A telltale artifact is that lens flares appear as ovals rather than circles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Run the film horizontally.  The height is limited by the film size minus sprocket holes, and the width is limited by however many perfs you choose.  This is what traditional IMAX does.  (Traditional IMAX also uses 70mm film exclusively.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given identical aspect ratios, 70mm film gives far more area per frame, which means it can be projected larger or will have better clarity and detail when projected as the same size as a comparable 35mm print.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some movies are shot in a variety of formats, but mastered into a common format during editing and post production.  For example, the original Star Wars films used old VistaVision cameras for many of the motion-controlled model shots, even though everything else was probably shot with traditional cameras that ran the film vertically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of this Tarantino film, I suspect it was shot on 70mm using anamorphic lenses in order to make a super-widescreen.  IMDB &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3460252/technical?ref_=tt_dt_spec&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;confirms&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27832" LastEditorUserId="27832" LastEditDate="2016-03-10T21:29:52.400" LastActivityDate="2016-03-10T21:29:52.400" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41670" CreationDate="2015-12-28T20:26:03.307" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;We see Leonard carrying out a range of research as an &lt;em&gt;experimental&lt;/em&gt; physicist. Initially his work seems to have revolved around &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_design#Confirmatory_versus_exploratory_research&quot;&gt;confirmatory research&lt;/a&gt; on the work of other scientists (with a strong emphasis on work involving high energy lasers) but in more recent shows, he's been shown to be engaged in increasing amounts of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_research&quot;&gt;primary research&lt;/a&gt;, especially in the area of black holes, particle research and dark matter, publishing regularly and evidently catching the eye of other physicists such as Stephen Hawking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the most recent two seasons, he and Sheldon (a &lt;em&gt;theoretical&lt;/em&gt; physicist) are being lauded for their work on combining superstring and dark matter theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Season 1&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;...right now I’m designing an experiment to study the soft component&#xA;  of cosmic radiation at sea-level&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Season 2&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;... I’m attempting to replicate the dark matter signal found in&#xA;  sodium iodide crystals by the Italians.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Season 3&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;... I was up all night using the new free-electron laser for my X-ray&#xA;  diffraction experiment.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;my tests of the Aharonov-Bohm quantum interference effect have reached&#xA;  an interesting point. Right now, we’re testing the phase shift due to&#xA;  an electric potential.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Season 4&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;... an expedition to the North Sea to test hydrodynamic simulations of&#xA;  black holes. One of their experimental physicists dropped out, and I&#xA;  recommended you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Season 6&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alex: So, what kind of research are you doing?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Leonard: High-energy lasers.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Season 8&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;... Can you believe there was a time when we would have needed an&#xA;  array of giant Cherenkov telescopes to detect cosmic particles? And&#xA;  here we are building our own multi-wire detector like a couple of&#xA;  badasses.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-28T20:54:03.363" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T20:54:03.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45471" CreationDate="2015-12-28T20:50:16.970" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering the real-time aspect of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Owlsley died on April 7th. Jessica Jones happens between DareDevil Season 1 and Season 2, November 2015 ish. There's no way for that body to be Owlsley, as it would have decomposed way before this. The body in the morgue is pristine, likely a day or two at most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they obviously meant to imply it to be. Notice the profile of the face in the morgue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GPZBM.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GPZBM.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Owlsley when he was still alive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Oa9dR.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Oa9dR.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K2m1q.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K2m1q.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure if it's video magic, or a look alike, but &lt;strong&gt;Noticeably the eyes of the dead body are set much lower compared to the bridge of the nose, and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquiline_nose&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Aquiline nose hook nose bump/curve&lt;/a&gt; is missing, so it can't be Bob Gunton&lt;/strong&gt;. There is no source online that says this is an actual cameo either, so it's just meant as a (bad) easter egg universe building attempt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2015-12-28T21:30:53.273" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T21:30:53.273" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45478" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14712" CreationDate="2015-12-28T22:31:19.477" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://articles.philly.com/1995-07-24/living/25677978_1_zero-gravity-apollo-paxton-and-kevin-bacon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;One answer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Apollo 13&quot; Space Scenes Weren't Hollywood Magic. And There's No Such Thing As A Weightless Chamber. So How Did Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton And Kevin Bacon Float? They Filmed Aboard NASA's &quot;vomit Comet.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18249" LastActivityDate="2015-12-28T22:31:19.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23032" CreationDate="2015-12-28T23:58:12.580" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Could the train (which was built for a frivolous luxury experience before the climate disaster) have been quickly repurposed when the ice age began, to circle the globe &lt;strong&gt;following the slightly warmer summer season?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than that I can only assume that if the train stopped it might be difficult to get it going again, whereupon the winter season might catch up with the train and be so much more severe that even the train could not resist that level of cold?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29239" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T00:19:16.767" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T00:19:16.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45481" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-29T00:42:53.567" Score="8" ViewCount="3808" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just finished watching the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None_(TV_series)&quot;&gt;2015 BBC adaptation&lt;/a&gt; of Agatha Christie's &lt;em&gt;And Then There Were None&lt;/em&gt;. It's a minor point, but there's one thing I couldn't understand: &lt;strong&gt;why did Philip Lombard keep calling Sergeant Blore by the nickname &quot;Tubbs&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He started as soon as he knew Blore was a policeman, when the latter dropped the pseudonym of &quot;Davis&quot;, so I assume it's some sort of police-related reference. Obviously Lombard was doing it to annoy Blore, but why that name in particular?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27759" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T00:49:57.670" LastActivityDate="2017-05-31T05:19:39.647" Title="Why did Lombard keep calling Blore &quot;Tubbs&quot;?" Tags="|character|and-then-there-were-none|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45485" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45481" CreationDate="2015-12-29T01:45:04.560" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems to be a play on his name; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0875630/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;William &lt;strong&gt;Tubbs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was an actor during the pre and post-war period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lombard:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;You're letting the booze and powder do the thinking for you, Tubs.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blore:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I've told you to stop calling me that!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vera:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Your first name's William, isn't it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://subsaga.com/bbc/drama/and-then-there-were-none/episode-3.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Episode 3 : Transcript&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T01:58:05.550" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45441" CreationDate="2015-12-29T03:57:42.897" Score="8" Body="&lt;h1&gt;UPDATE: Disney canon:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As per &quot;Ashoka&quot; novel by E.K. Johnston (via &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/secrets-trivia-revealed-about-ahsoka-tano-in-new-star-wars-novel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ScreenRant&lt;/a&gt;), Sith red color is explained. No more synthetic crystals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kyber crystals choose Force users and present themselves to their desired owner, but dark siders don’t experience this same connection to the cystals. &lt;strong&gt;The only way the Sith and other dark side Force users can collect kyber crystals is by stealing them or plundering them off the bodies of their fallen foes. Even if a dark sider were to acquire a kyber crystal from a green or blue saber, the act of bending the crystal to their will in a new lightsaber will cause the crystal to “bleed,” turning it red&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Pre-Disney canon&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, some in-universe background (some of which you may know if you know &quot;why red&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the heart of every lightsaber there is a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kyber_crystal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kyber Crystal&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The crystals concentrated energy in a unique manner and were attuned to the Force, resonating with it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Star Wars universe, Kyber Crystals come in 2 distinct varieties: naturally harvested (of varying colors) and synthesized using the help from  the Force (when Dark Side is used, it imbues them with red(dish) color, as your linked answer hopefully states).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For natural crystals, which color crystal you used depended on the era:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Old Republic era - ~4000 BBY (Before Battle of Yavin). No films/TV shows depict it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Around 4000 BBY, lightsaber crystals were used to indicate a Jedi's chosen class. Blue indicated a Jedi Guardian, a Jedi who used the Force on a more physical level. Green indicated a Jedi Consular, a Jedi who preferred to reflect on the mysteries of the Force and fight the dark side at its heart. Yellow indicated a Jedi Sentinel, a Jedi who honed their skills in a balance of combat and scholarly pursuits. (source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lightsaber_crystal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wookiepedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In later years (around Star Wars movies times) that has long stopped, and the colors were simply a Jedi's personal preference, or which crystal they managed to get; especially post-Empire-creation time when they became a great rarity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="235" LastEditDate="2016-12-25T13:30:52.293" LastActivityDate="2016-12-25T13:30:52.293" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45491" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-29T04:44:45.687" Score="0" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I watched Prince of Persia, it really seemed I was playing a video game. The Game was released before the movie was. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question was: Was the movie based off the video game, or was video game just out before the movie. Making the the game based on the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29140" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T05:13:10.837" Title="Prince of Persia: Based on Movie or Game" Tags="|prince-of-persia|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-08-11T12:59:27.913" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45492" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9915" CreationDate="2015-12-29T04:53:24.630" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. The 2010 movie &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was based on the 2003 video game of the same name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia:_The_Sands_of_Time_(film)#Production&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;From Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In March 2004, the production company Jerry Bruckheimer Films sought to acquire feature film rights to the 2003 video game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time with the film to be distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. Under John August as executive producer, the series' creator Jordan Mechner was hired to write the script. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer's Pirates of the Caribbean film trilogy served as a touchstone in how a theme park ride was converted into a film franchise. According to Mechner, &quot;Rather than do a straight beat-for-beat adaptation of the new videogame, we're taking some cool elements from the game and using them to craft a new story.&quot; Mechner previously considered producing an animated film based on the games, but could not resist Disney and Bruckheimer's offer. In February 2006, Disney hired screenwriter Jeffrey Nachmanoff to write a new script for Prince of Persia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So much so that Director Mike Newell had &lt;a href=&quot;http://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/mike-newell-drops-early-prince-of-persia-details/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;an assistant playing the video games to brief him on key details.&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While based on the game, the movie is not a straight adaptation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-11T13:17:20.547" LastActivityDate="2016-11-11T13:17:20.547" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24349" CreationDate="2015-12-29T06:11:52.733" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;you might do well to look into several of the sub genres. Found Footage is prominent, as are the occult, apocalyptic, and suspense-thrillers. you also may find film noir and neo-noir in the collections of horror aficionados alongside such staples as tragic horror, b-movie horror, the macabre(widely regarded as it's own genre), psychic horror, giallo, extra-terrestrial horror, disaster horror, fairy tale horror, lovecraftian horror, and grotesqueries. Try toying with your ideas of horror, as you will find fantastique, jiangshi fiction, weird fiction and it's child the new weird. delving deeper into the depths you will find gothic and it's cousins southern gothic, suburban gothic, tasmanian gothic, and urban/suburban gothic. further still you might find grind house, holocaust horror, early german expressionist films (the cabinet of doctor caligari), mutant horror, documentary horror, and serial killer stories. Down the rabbit hole you will find bizarro horror, torture flicks, historical horror, horror of personality, korean and japanese horror (see Ringu, the host, Audition, and the grudge most of the former and latter of which have been americanized for non-bilinguals), autobiographical horror, reincarnation horror, the Penny-dreadfuls, erotic horror (&lt;strong&gt;not suggested&lt;/strong&gt;), and what some call Hagsploitation (Older woman in supernatural or terror-inducing peril) and blaxploitation (see the b-movie franchise blackula for examples). Crossgenre horror artists have produced such sub-genres as virtual reality horror, time and space travel horror, horror rooted in psychic powers, infection horror, action horror, horror of comedy, Drug Horror, and of course, Supernatural Romance (see examples such as let me in, or it's counterpart let the right one in, interview with the vampire)&#xA;Oh, and don't forget Romance (no, not &lt;em&gt;romance&lt;/em&gt;, but Romance) It's a very old genre which provided horror, and gothic literature with a place to grab on and fester and boil into it's current melting pot of all that it has become.&#xA;Lastly, and I only mention this for people who watch every aspect of the genre, is a sub genre which critics and scholars alike have dubbed torture porn (nothing like how it sounds. for examples, look for such films as A serbian film, the Saw franchise, Hostel (parts 1-?), and the human centipede.&#xA;Furthermore, I think you will find certain philosophical films, such as Begotten(1990) to be of great interest in your search for what constitutes horror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29246" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T06:11:52.733" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45497" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27037" CreationDate="2015-12-29T06:17:02.330" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Regarding your second question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had the same question, and now I understand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Hypnosifl points out, the tesseract stores the twitching pattern and loops it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But you might not think this answers the question of why it continues working after the watch has been moved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think about it, though. Murph's bedroom is on a spinning planet that's revolving around the sun at 30 km/s, inside of a moving galaxy. Does it really make sense to think that the tesseract is locked onto a specific point in space? No, it's bound to certain matter (everything in Murph's room), not to a certain area in space. It's bound to the books, to the watch. Cooper pushes on the matter in Murph's room, not on the empty space. And that makes sense -- gravity acts on matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29247" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T06:17:02.330" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45498" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-29T06:23:44.903" Score="6" ViewCount="2886" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only watched probably the last 30 mins of this film. It had some incest between a mother and son. The son is disturbed finding his mother attractive. The mother breaks her leg and he has to look after her on his own as the father treats them badly and i am not sure if he beats them but he is around. He also try to strangle himself in the bathroom with his belt but the mother interrupts him.The son hangs about with his friends that take drugs and drink and he try to kill himself by jumping off a hill into a lake i think at the end, but that doesn't work. I am not sure if the actors in this. Its mainly about the boy and the mom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29179" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T06:32:35.850" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T16:28:56.553" Title="Disturbing film, made in last 5-7 years about a disabled mother and her son" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:16:04.227" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45500" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45504" CreationDate="2015-12-29T06:30:23.010" Score="3" ViewCount="974" Body="&lt;p&gt;Can anyone please explain how lightsabers are created in the &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; universe or is does it occur magically? Also when someone is training to be a Jedi, how and when will he receive or procure his lightsaber? Is it like there is some amount of lightsabers available and these are reused? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone give explanations to these questions?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18957" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T15:44:09.317" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T15:44:09.317" Title="How are Lightsabers created in Star Wars?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45498" CreationDate="2015-12-29T06:34:48.990" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It could be &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanking_the_Monkey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spanking the Monkey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Susan Aibelli, a married, lonely woman, suffers a leg injury at home just as her husband is about to leave on his job as a travelling salesman and her son, Raymond, is about to leave for the summer on a medical internship. Raymond is then forced to stay at home to take care of her as his father cannot. He loses both the internship and his girlfriend. These troublesome events leave him emotionally confused as he and his mother are left alone together, and they develop an incestuous relationship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not watched it, so can't say if it's disturbing or not but it was listed as Black comedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-02T16:28:56.553" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T16:28:56.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45502" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-29T06:46:49.517" Score="3" ViewCount="2481" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Ant-Man, how does Darren Cross know even before seeing his face or ever having met him before that Scott Lang was the Ant-Man?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the scene where the Ant-Man breaks into Darren's facility and jumps into the thin pipe thing to steal the &quot;yellow jacket&quot; Darren is on to him and gives Hank Pym this whole lecture about how he should be proud of him. How did he know the identity of the new Ant-Man?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29224" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T15:46:13.323" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T22:13:41.580" Title="How does Darren Cross know Scott is in the suit in Ant-Man?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|ant-man|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45504" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45500" CreationDate="2015-12-29T07:03:44.493" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lightsabers are constructed&lt;/strong&gt; by every Jedi knight or a Jedi knight may also choose to use his master's lightsaber if the master is in no longer need of it ( like if he is dead) to show his respect for his master.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A lightsaber crystal was a term used to describe any variety of&#xA;  crystals, gems, stones, or other objects used as the focus in the&#xA;  construction of a lightsaber.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the heart of every lightsaber was a set of crystals that resonated&#xA;  to produce the efficient, powerful blade. While the most common&#xA;  crystals used in the process were from the Adega system, Ilum, and&#xA;  Dantooine (in the so-called &quot;Crystal Cave&quot;), Jedi and Sith used a&#xA;  variety of crystals to produce various colors, effects and unique&#xA;  abilities. Some crystals could even enhance the Force skills of a&#xA;  particular user. Other gems, such as colored crystals or diamonds,&#xA;  were used exclusively for prismatic effects. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Metal was usually chosen to make up the hilt, but a casing carved from&#xA;  the Brylark tree, wood that is strong as metal, would also work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The weapon drew power from an appropriately-sized &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/13958/what-powers-a-lightsaber&quot;&gt;Diatium power cell&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here You can read &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/A_Test_of_Strength&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; how the ritual of constructing a new lightsaber works. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer your question : No, there aren't a fixed number of lightsabers in the galaxy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is an extract from the summary of the episode in the link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ancient Jedi tradition! Six younglings are sent to the secret caverns&#xA;  of Ilum, where they are tested by The Gathering, an ancient Jedi&#xA;  ritual where each youngling must harvest a crystal around which they&#xA;  will construct their own lightsaber.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hope this answers another part of the question as well: &lt;strong&gt;The Jedi gets his lightsaber on successful completion of The Gathering ritual&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/13958/what-powers-a-lightsaber&quot;&gt;Here is a link&lt;/a&gt; having the schematic of a lightsaber and stating what powers it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more information check &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lightsaber&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luke Skywalker meditated on his crystal in Ben Kenobi's home for many days with only R2-D2 to keep him company. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EN6Dv.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EN6Dv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Luke Skywalker constructs his lightsaber&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are my suggestions for your doubts. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29224" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T07:20:34.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45505" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-29T07:07:27.823" Score="15" ViewCount="1457" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 'The Phantom Menace', Anakin's mother says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There was no father. I carried him, I gave birth to him. I can't explain what happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So who was his father? Was it Darth Plagueis; because quoting Palpatine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midi-chlorians to create... [significant look at Anakin] ...life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;NOTE: I think it's Plagueis because that would tie all the 9 movies together (yes, that would also include the prequels hence would not disregard Lucas's work, which would have been a very difficult job to do). I say this assuming Supreme Leader Snoke turns out to be Plagueis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user27965" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T15:52:55.850" LastActivityDate="2017-05-26T06:27:59.630" Title="Who is the father of Darth Vader?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|star-wars|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45506" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45512" CreationDate="2015-12-29T07:09:53.787" Score="6" ViewCount="1897" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the original Star Wars trilogy, Luke was said to be too old for Jedi training. Similarly the Jedi council says Anakin to be too old for training in the prequel trilogy and we do see kids getting training for becoming Jedi in the prequel too. But what is the right age to start Jedi training, was this ever established?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T15:48:16.220" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T15:48:16.220" Title="What is the right age for starting a training for Jedi?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45507" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-29T07:19:54.693" Score="5" ViewCount="1105" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x5nUL.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/x5nUL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is from the final battle scene in Iron man 3. My question is: Did Tony's Mark 42 really malfunction or did he use that as a pretext to get Killian's attention (he even stalls him by talking about Pepper) so he can use the suit to pin him to the wall and blow him up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't be surprised if the whole scenario was a deception by Tony because we all know how smart and convincing Tony can be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24166" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T09:29:27.563" Title="Did Tony deceive Aldrich Killian into thinking that Mark 42 malfunctioned?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-3|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45505" CreationDate="2015-12-29T07:20:29.197" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/9715/6006&quot;&gt;Scifi.SE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Anakin_Skywalker#Skywalker.27s_possible_.22father.22&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Anakin Skywalker Wookipedia article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;In addition, although Darth Plagueis did attempt to influence the midichlorians to create the ultimate Sith weapon alongside Darth&#xA;    Sidious, the experiment was ultimately a failure, and the midichlorians, sensing the Sith's inherent malevolent intention, not only refused to do so, but in retaliation, conceived Anakin Skywalker in order to destroy the Sith once and for all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So, according to this, neither Darth Plagueis nor Darth Sidious are&#xA;  Anakin Skywalker's father, the midichlorians really conceived him&#xA;  without any outside direct intervention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he was born completely out of force and has no father according to Star Wars: Darth Plagueis Novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: But &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Darth_Plagueis&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Wars: Darth Plagueis&lt;/a&gt; is a novel from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_expanded_universe&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Wars expanded universe&lt;/a&gt;. And On April 25, 2014, following the acquisition of Lucasfilm by The Walt Disney Company in November 2012, it was announced that all previously released expanded universe content would be declared non-canon and rebranded as Star Wars Legends.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="48608" LastEditDate="2017-05-26T06:27:59.630" LastActivityDate="2017-05-26T06:27:59.630" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45502" CreationDate="2015-12-29T07:22:45.167" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Darren did research. Scott who recently got captured outside Hank Pym's home, escaped the prison without leaving a trace. It was like he went puffed. Others might not believe what they saw in the news, but Darran wasn't others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A little research on this guy showed that he was similar to Hank when it comes to love for daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Darren himself told these two things moments after he captured Ant-Man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="939" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T20:19:34.373" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T20:19:34.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45510" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45506" CreationDate="2015-12-29T07:49:02.507" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not explicitly stated in the films, the implication is that training starts at a very young age, before children have a chance to get too attached to family members, and that training at a young age allows children to develop without (much) love, anger, hate, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, in &lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt;, Yoda said,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You must unlearn what you have learned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With our increasing age, we learn automatically from environment (like we can't lift stones in air from a distance).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="939" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T07:49:02.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45512" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45506" CreationDate="2015-12-29T09:35:52.550" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is covered in the Star Wars factbook &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Jedi_Path:_A_Manual_for_Students_of_the_Force_(real-life_book)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The responsible use of power takes a lifetime to perfect, and&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;therefore the Jedi Order only rarely accepts members who are older&#xA;  than a few years.&lt;/strong&gt; Most of you came to the Temple as infants.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's notable that Ahsoka came to the Jedi temple at the age of three. This was considered to be &lt;em&gt;slightly&lt;/em&gt; on the old side but not abnormally so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E397e.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E397e.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T09:35:52.550" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45515" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="51" CreationDate="2015-12-29T12:35:58.427" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel that the movie epitomises the reality of one sided relationships. We see Dean who does nothing but work on the relationship, trying to take her away for a night out, asking her is there is 'anything' he can 'change'. But Cindy, in her own confusion, decides that Dean is not good enough or that she deserves better, from what I see personally, the way she feels lost after she sees Bobby at the store. It's almost as if she is trying to contemplate what her life would be like if she had just stayed with Bobby. Which for me as a viewer is quite upsetting because it's clearly portrayed that he doesn't love her as much as Dean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think they will get back together and as much as it breaks my heart, I think it is what is right. Dean doesn't deserve to be in a marriage where he constantly feels like he is the 'bad guy'; likewise he and Cindy share very different views and want to live different lifestyles. Cindy is selfish and Dean just wants a family and someone to love. Their relationship was built on temporary love and, for Cindy, convenience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29252" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-11-28T22:28:33.957" LastActivityDate="2016-11-28T22:28:33.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45516" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-29T12:53:52.703" Score="6" ViewCount="839" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember watching a series several years ago (maybe 4 - 5 years) on British television, but I missed one episode so I never really got the gist of the ending, and this has led to it being an itch-to-scratch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Trouble, is I can't remember the name. But I do recall a few scenes - so, spoilers ahead!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several kids go into the school. The revelation/the beginning of the shooting is initiated when one of the boys makes a remark to a girl about seeing his 'big gun'. She gives him a disgusted retort, before the boy pulls out the real gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few scenes in a bathroom where a child is shot dead. It's later revealed there's also a bomb in the ventilation system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A black boy who was involved in the plan committed suicide by cutting his elbow veins. It's later revealed that he didn't want to participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The boys in the shooting meet up and have a discussion during which one is reluctant. One of the boys makes a remark about not pussying out now, and how this is their chance. There's writing on a chalkboard behind him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The ending involves a tactical team going to breach a laboratory-style room and shooting an armed child as the detective finds out that the boy shot in that room is innocent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story is sometimes narrated through tapes left by one of the main shooters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29254" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-02-07T22:41:41.177" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T22:41:41.177" Title="British TV series about shooting at school" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:09:45.407" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45518" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45520" CreationDate="2015-12-29T13:39:18.937" Score="2" ViewCount="2508" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched the movie &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Beasts of no Nation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and most of the characters and location were all Ghanaian -- but I kind of think that is not enough to qualify the movie as Ghanaian. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can one tell the country of origin of a movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29257" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T15:34:49.437" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T15:34:49.437" Title="How can one tell the country of origin of a movie?" Tags="|film-location|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45518" CreationDate="2015-12-29T14:03:25.687" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Per &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_of_origin#Film_and_television_production&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The International Federation of Film Archives defines the country of&#xA;  origin as the country of the principal offices of the production&#xA;  company or individual by whom the moving image work was made.&lt;/strong&gt; No&#xA;  consistent reference or definition exists. Sources include the item&#xA;  itself, accompanying material (e.g. scripts, shot lists, production&#xA;  records, publicity material, inventory lists, synopses etc.), the&#xA;  container (if not an integral part of the piece), or other sources&#xA;  (standard and special moving image reference tools).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the case of &quot;Beasts of No Nation&quot;, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1365050/companycredits?ref_=ttfc_sa_4#production&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;production compan&lt;em&gt;ies&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; were&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Red Crown Productions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Participant Media&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Come What May Productions&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mammoth Entertainment (funding)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New Balloon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to IMDB, all of these companies are headquartered in the US, making the film's &quot;Country of Origin&quot; a clear US production.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T14:08:50.013" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T14:08:50.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45505" CreationDate="2015-12-29T15:01:16.787" Score="6" Body="&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to New Disney canon (which basically did away with any Midichlorians in works not inherited from George Lucas), the Force &quot;stiked back&quot; at Darth Plagueis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Darth Plagueis had once remarked that “&lt;em&gt;the Force can strike back&lt;/em&gt;.”  (&lt;em&gt;&quot;Tarkin&quot;, by James Luceno&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's left un-clarified how it did so, but since we know that Disney canon freely borrows from EU, it's not impossible to assume that this statement referred to EU's most famous &quot;force striking back&quot; at Plagueis, and creating The Chosen One Anakin Skywalker.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Further, Disney canon in the form of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starwars.com/databank/anakin-skywalker-biography-gallery&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Starwars.com Databank&lt;/a&gt; confirms this in a way, stating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Anakin was powerfully attuned to the Force since birth -- &lt;strong&gt;some believe his supernatural birth is proof that he was conceived by the will of the Force&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not exactly 100% full confirmation, but coupled with the Sith statements above,seems to be enough evidence for me even ignoring EU/Legends decanonized &quot;Darth Plagueis&quot; book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T15:01:16.787" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45522" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45523" CreationDate="2015-12-29T15:11:00.883" Score="18" ViewCount="3446" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2004 DVD edition of &lt;em&gt;Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt;, Sebastian Shaw is replaced by Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker's Force Ghost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why? The other Force Ghosts appear to be the same age as they were at their time of death, and the same was true for Anakin until the 2004 alteration. So why was this change made?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T15:32:26.703" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T16:53:21.280" Title="Why was the Force Ghost scene altered in the 2004 DVD version of Return of the Jedi?" Tags="|production|star-wars|alternate-version|return-of-the-jedi|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45522" CreationDate="2015-12-29T15:16:23.713" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because, as per Obi-Wan, that is what Anakin looked like when he died&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obi-Wan makes sure to create a distinction between the Jedi Anakin Skywalker and the Sith Darth Vader, going so far as the claim that Darth Vader killed Anakin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reality, we know that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker are the same person&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but the creation of this distinction answers your question - Anakin died when he was killed by Darth Vader, and as such his Force Ghost at the end of the film reflects what he looked like when he died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8686" LastEditorUserId="8686" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T15:27:31.580" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T15:27:31.580" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45524" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17642" CreationDate="2015-12-29T16:22:52.400" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Okay the reason she didn't preform Before My Time was because she indeed wasn't at the 2013 Oscars because she was doing a performance in New York for the Broadway Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and I don't know why she wasn't at the 2014 Oscars&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29260" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T16:22:52.400" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11853" CreationDate="2015-12-29T16:48:44.673" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks cool, but it's an inherently terrible design for a weapon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This design, dominated by a long metal hand grip, is impractical in most senses. One of the first things an attacker would strike (either on purpose, or accident) would be the center of the weapon, causing it to split in two pieces. This is clearly evidenced by Darth Maul's battle with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn in episode 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What more, in order for the weapon to continue functioning after being severed (as-in the case of Darth Maul), the weapon would need two of everything (two crystals, two power sources, two on/off buttons, etc...), and they'd have to be placed in perfect symmetry in preparation for the weapon to be cut in two and still function. This built-in redundancy only adds to the complexity of the weapon, without providing any real additional benefits (you basically are designing it to be cut in half, and hoping that when it does happen, it's right down the middle and not off-center, which would render half of the weapon totally useless).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For these reasons, it's far more practical to carry dual light sabers (with traditional standard grip), or use a single light saber as most Jedi do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29262" LastEditorUserId="29262" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T17:39:54.043" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T17:39:54.043" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45522" CreationDate="2015-12-29T16:53:21.280" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;George Lucas has a history of constantly changing his past works, this is no exception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most of the changes are just for the sake of change (under guise of &quot;improving&quot; the older films). However, in cases such as this, it serves to add nothing additional to the movie (unlike improving special effects that were already present in the film).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In essence, George Lucas couldn't resist keeping his grubby hands off the film, leaving it &quot;finished&quot; as it were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29262" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T16:53:21.280" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45532" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45533" CreationDate="2015-12-29T17:28:22.220" Score="2" ViewCount="10678" Body="&lt;p&gt;What surrealistic 20s movie is mentioned in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris? It was something like a main character says to one of 3 surrealists (not Salvador Dalí but one of his collegaues) that he should make a movie about a group of people trying to exit a room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20195" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T17:36:44.073" Title="What surrealistic 20s movie is mentioned in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris" Tags="|plot-explanation|midnight-in-paris|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45533" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45532" CreationDate="2015-12-29T17:36:44.073" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the movie's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1605783/faq#.2.1.6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb FAQ&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When Gil suggests to Bunuel a movie idea about people who can't leave a party, what is he talking about?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gil's suggestion describes El angel exterminador (English title: The Exterminating Angel), a film made by Bunuel in 1962.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's The Exterminating Angel's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056732/plotsummary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;synopsis&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room... and over the next few days all the elaborate pretenses and facades that they've built up by virtue of their position in society collapse completely as they become reduced to living like animals...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ERHL5nzEMmM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T17:36:44.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45534" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45541" CreationDate="2015-12-29T17:57:21.797" Score="10" ViewCount="57569" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Sicario, Reggie introduces cop Ted (Jon Bernthal) to Kate Macer (Emily Blunt). After having some drink and dancing, they become intimate, and then Ted brings out this band from his pocket. Looking at this band Kate runs for the gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/szYtI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/szYtI.png&quot; alt=&quot;band&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does she figure out just by looking at this band, that Ted has been sent to kill her or to extract info from her about the operation going on against Manuel Diaz?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13689" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2023-01-10T21:45:03.217" LastActivityDate="2023-01-10T21:45:03.217" Title="How does Kate Macer identify who has been sent to kill her in Sicario?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sicario|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="45536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27776" CreationDate="2015-12-29T18:15:41.173" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to say that the place was called &quot;Cooper Station&quot; after the daughter who spent her entire life looking for her dad. The wormhole was closest to Saturn, so where else is a better place to put the station? Maybe Murph was hoping that by being close to where she lost her father, when he appeared again, she would be able to rescue him quickly... even though she pretty much &quot;knew&quot; he was lost in time and space forever, she still did everything she could. And I think at the end after &quot;behind the bookshelf&quot; scene, he was shat out into space around Saturn (where he entered the wormhole) and yes, conveniently (because Murph designed it that way) near Cooper station. Her plan worked so to speak. Hope this helped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29265" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T18:15:41.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45540" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45545" CreationDate="2015-12-29T19:50:37.450" Score="10" ViewCount="4006" Body="&lt;p&gt;I noticed (with the exception of Mace Windu and Palpatine), every time there is a lightsaber battle the Jedi / good guys make the first strike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Luke vs Vader&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obi-Wan vs Vader&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anakin vs [insert villains]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kenobi vs Anakin &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fights in TFA &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any time there's a lightsaber battle, the good guys attack first. It seems to go against the Jedi's sacred code and it happens often enough that I feel it warrants attention. Is there a working theory out there that acknowledges this? Or am I reading too much into it? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29268" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T20:13:40.163" LastActivityDate="2017-03-23T21:44:46.930" Title="If the Jedi way is to avoid aggression and only fight as a form of defense, then how come every battle starts with the good guys attacking first?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45534" CreationDate="2015-12-29T20:00:54.003" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's similar to the ones holding the money with the woman they arrested at the bank&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9S0U3.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9S0U3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24398" LastEditorUserId="24398" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T20:11:49.897" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T20:11:49.897" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45544" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45602" CreationDate="2015-12-29T20:30:28.647" Score="8" ViewCount="1402" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember a movie that was on TV a few times when I was a teenager. I just can't seem to find it anymore on any of the lists of sci-fi movies from the 60's, 70's, 80's. Maybe anyone here can help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some things I think I can remember :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The plot revolved around an immense spaceship. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It has no inhabitants except some kind of lunatic man / captain. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A few persons come aboard this ship. Maybe as a result of a catastrophe on their own ship or because they where sent there &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It seemed as if the ship was &quot;alive&quot;. Either it was this man who had his own persona fused with the ship or it was his mother... there was something with his mother if I remember.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I recall scene's of gigantic hallways inside the ship, very light and bright, meant to be very impressive.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The film was presented on TV as a sci-fi masterpiece but since I can't seem to find it on any of the &quot;top 100 sci fi&quot; lists this may have been an overestimation of the time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think it was around 1985-1990 that I was it on TV in the Netherlands. That would give you a clue as to the release date. I don't think it's anything post 1985.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;English language... almost certainly American / Holywood made. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope anyone here can remember.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29271" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-30T07:32:38.063" LastActivityDate="2016-08-07T16:09:24.543" Title="Science fiction movie about a mystery spaceship which can be alive" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:16:07.360" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45545" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45540" CreationDate="2015-12-29T20:33:07.810" Score="18" Body="&lt;h3&gt;TL;DR:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Even in cases where a &lt;em&gt;lightsaber duel&lt;/em&gt; starts with a Jedi making the initial strike, the lightsaber duel is frequently only a tiny part of a much larger battle already underway, and those battles are almost never instigated by the Jedi or the Republic.  In such cases, the Jedi are only attacking first if you ignore the larger picture.  This larger picture typically makes it plain that the bad guys started the fight, and the Jedi intervened after it began, regardless of which lightsaber(s) did what before the other lightsaber(s).&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That having been said, there are several reasons why Jedi sometimes attack first:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because Anakin is involved, and Anakin is a moron&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because a fight is clearly inevitable, and in most cases, has already begun (i.e., a lightsaber duel breaks out in the middle of a larger battle that was already underway)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because the goal isn't to &lt;em&gt;kill&lt;/em&gt; the bad guy, but merely to &lt;em&gt;capture&lt;/em&gt; him&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because the goal isn't to kill or capture the bad guy, but for the Jedi to allow the bad guy to kill him (this only happens once, when Obi-Wan fights Vader on the Death Star)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because Jedi aren't perfect, and don't always live up to their own ideals and principles&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because the writing is sometimes sloppy, inconsistent, and/or self-contradictory&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;For reasons which aren't clear, and may be the fault of the writers, the characters, or some combination of the two&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases, a single example falls under more than one of the above categories (e.g., the first Anakin and Obi-Wan vs. Dooku fight, which definitely fits 1 through 3, and might fit 5, 6, and 7 as well). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Cases of Jedi attacking first:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Attacking because Anakin is involved:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This applies to most duels in which Anakin is involved throughout the prequel trilogy.  To put it bluntly, Anakin is a moron, and pretty much everything he does is moronic.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He rushes Dooku and fails; he tries again, fails again, and loses an arm; he tries to stand on a droid assembly line, fails, and gets his arm welded to a conveyor belt; he tries to overcome Obi-Wan's high-ground advantage, fails, and loses both legs and an arm;  he becomes Vader, tries to shoot down Luke's X-Wing, fails, and gets flung into space;  he tries to catch the Millennium Falcon, fails, and gets shown up by a mere bounty hunter;  he tries to capture Leia and Chewbacca, fails, and lets them escape;  he tries to convince Luke to join him and rule the galaxy with him, fails, and lets Luke escape;  he tries to make Luke turn to the Dark Side, fails, gets an arm lopped off, and ends up killing his boss.  Anakin is a walking pile of fail, basically.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When a fight begins with Anakin making the first attack, the vast majority of the blame lies on Anakin's shoulders, and the Jedi are only &lt;em&gt;indirectly&lt;/em&gt; at fault because they gave this idiot a lightsaber and training.  But I would argue that Anakin is a Jedi in name only, and when he does his stupid-Anakin routine, we're seeing a future Sith at work, not a true Jedi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Attacking because a fight is clearly inevitable:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This covers many of the instances in which Jedi launch the first attack in a duel, including:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Obi-Wan vs. Vader  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon vs. Darth Maul  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Obi-Wan and Anakin vs. Dooku&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Obi-Wan vs. Anakin (although in this case, Anakin attacked first, as we will see below)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;and others.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some of these cases, such as Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon vs. Maul, the lightsaber duel itself might start with a Jedi taking a swing, but the lightsaber duel is only a smaller part of a much larger battle already underway.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Darth Maul fight began after the onset of the assault on the Queen's forces on Naboo, for instance.  Likewise, Obi-Wan attacked Anakin only &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; Anakin helped kill Mace Windu, slaughtered the Younglings, assisted the Clones in their attempt to eradicate the Jedi, and Force-Choked Padme.  Furthermore, as the clip below shows, Obi-Wan was the first to &lt;em&gt;draw&lt;/em&gt; his lightsaber, but Anakin was the first to &lt;em&gt;use&lt;/em&gt; his lightsaber.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In these cases, and several others, the Jedi didn't instigate the fighting, they merely intervened after the larger battle was already well underway.  To suggest that Obi-Wan would have been wrong to swing a lightsaber at Anakin before Anakin took a swing at him is misguided, and puts too much focus on the individual (and again, the clip below shows Anakin making the first attack).  Anakin was on a rampage, killing people left and right, and clearly intended to continue committing atrocities.  Obi-Wan merely stepped in and said 'Pick on someone your own size'.  Obi-Wan's motivation wasn't to kill Anakin because Anakin was upsetting him - his motivation was to end the bloodshed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind that at the end of the fight between Anakin and Obi-Wan, Obi-Wan practically &lt;em&gt;begged&lt;/em&gt; Anakin to surrender so that Obi-Wan wouldn't have to kill him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/k3frK9-OiQ0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Obi-Wan draws his lightsaber at 1:37, turns it on at 1:42, and Anakin attacks Obi-Wan at 1:44; Obi-Wan disengages, then all but begs Anakin to surrender and avoid being killed/maimed at 7:33&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Attacking in the hopes of taking the bad guy alive:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In some cases, Jedi attack first because they want to take the bad guy alive and need to keep him busy until they can subdue him;  in such instances, the Jedi would prefer to &lt;em&gt;capture&lt;/em&gt; their opponent, not &lt;em&gt;kill&lt;/em&gt; him - although they will use lethal force (often without hesitation) when the bad guys leave them no other choice.  This is the case when the Jedi attempt to arrest Palpatine, and when &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/96853/44025&quot;&gt;Mace Windu holds a lightsaber near Jango Fett's throat, and when Obi-Wan tries to take Dooku alive&lt;/a&gt;.  So some of the time, an attack isn't an indication of a desire to kill;  it is often indicative of a desire to &lt;em&gt;capture&lt;/em&gt; the bad guy &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; killing him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before Obi-Wan and Anakin confront Dooku, Obi-Wan makes it clear that the goal is to &lt;em&gt;catch&lt;/em&gt; him, not &lt;em&gt;kill&lt;/em&gt; him:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OBI-WAN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [to Anakin]  I can't take Dooku alone! I need you! If we catch him, we can end this war right now! We have a job to do! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/BvnwLLXHabg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Obi-Wan probably still hopes to &lt;strong&gt;capture&lt;/strong&gt; Dooku, but Anakin is stupid and tries to rush Dooku, and fails spectacularly;  the fight between Obi-Wan and Dooku is instigated by Dooku, who launches Force Lightning before Obi-Wan attacks&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/3cjlOWOfZ6Y?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Mace Windu intervenes, but doesn't attack, around 0:10&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/n3DHDXAzoBA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Mace Windu and three other Jedi attempt to &lt;strong&gt;arrest&lt;/strong&gt; Palpatine, with the goal of having him tried by the Senate;  Palpatine strikes first&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Attacking the bad guy with no intention of capturing or killing him:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, the Jedi doesn't hope to kill &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; capture the bad guy: When Obi Wan attacks Vader in Ep. IV, he does so because he &lt;strong&gt;wants Vader to kill &lt;em&gt;him&lt;/em&gt; in front of Luke&lt;/strong&gt;.  There is &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/83358/in-episode-iv-a-new-hope-why-did-obi-wan-wait-till-luke-showed-up-then-let-va&quot;&gt;some disagreement&lt;/a&gt; over &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39743/why-did-obi-wan-strike-first-against-vader&quot;&gt;when&lt;/a&gt; Obi-Wan decided to let Vader kill him, but I have always believed that Obi-Wan knew he wouldn't leave the Death Star alive, based on the confidence he shows during the duel with Vader (the confidence of a man who is at peace with his imminent demise), and the way he said goodbye to Luke when Obi-Wan left to shut down the tractor beams:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They [the droids and Leia] must be delivered safely or other star systems will suffer the same fate as Alderaan. Your destiny lies along a different path than mine.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -  &lt;em&gt;Star Wars, Episode IV:  A New Hope&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Obi-Wan attacked first, but had no intention of killing Vader, and he almost certainly planned to let Vader kill him all along.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/sq51w34Hg9I?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Vader draws his weapon first, and although Obi-Wan takes the first swing, he isn't striking at Vader himself, he is halfheartedly swatting at Vader's lightsaber.  In any case, a fight was clearly inevitable before Obi-Wan swung (Vader wouldn't have drawn his lightsaber if he didn't intend to fight), and Obi-Wan's plan was almost certainly to hold Vader at bay until Luke showed up, then allow Vader to kill him&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Attacking because Jedi are imperfect, and sometimes fail to live up to their ideals:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Mace Windu:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is also the fact that Jedi are imperfect, just like everyone else.  Mace Windu was known for skirting the edge of the Dark Side in lightsaber combat:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mace Windu was the only Jedi to fully master Vaapad. The other two practitioners&lt;/strong&gt; of the style, Sora Bulq and Depa Billaba, &lt;strong&gt;were unable to master it — instead, it mastered them&lt;/strong&gt;, driving them insane and &lt;strong&gt;leading them to the dark side... A factor that played into Windu's fighting style was his admission that his greatest character flaw was his enjoyment of fighting, and given the nature of the dark side, this was a very dangerous trait for a Jedi to possess. In fact, Windu intentionally created Vaapad to help channel his inner darkness into something more positive&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -  &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Mace_Windu&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wookieepedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is obviously an extreme case, but it highlights the fact that even a trusted and influential Jedi Master like Windu struggled with the Dark Side (in fact, some might argue that Anakin's betrayal of Mace is only slightly more Dark Side than Mace's obvious willingness to execute Palpatine on the spot).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/cXjT6Dg4E68?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Mace still wants to &lt;strong&gt;arrest&lt;/strong&gt; Palpatine, until he gets hit with Force Lightning and goes half-Dark-Side by trying to kill an unarmed (although far from defenseless) Palpatine; then Anakin goes full-Dark-Side and helps Palpatine kill Mace&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Luke Skywalker vs. Vader:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a similar vein, in the climactic scenes aboard the Death Star in &lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt;, Luke is very much struggling between the Light and Dark Sides of the Force.  When he engages Vader in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQxKOlrfZKc&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;last round of lightsaber combat&lt;/a&gt;, he is &lt;strong&gt;catastrophically&lt;/strong&gt; close to succumbing to the Dark Side.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/96705/44025&quot;&gt;Vader's taunt about turning Leia to the Emperor's service pushes Luke over the edge, and he attacks Vader in a frenzied rage of sledgehammer blows&lt;/a&gt;;  he is fighting with the power of the Dark Side here.  He is only saved from his impending fall to evil after he knocks Vader down, lops off his hand, and is reminded of his own injury from his first encounter with Vader.  He throws his lightsaber away, refuses to kill his defenseless opponent, and in so doing, he narrowly escapes a tragic repetition of his father's fall from the Light.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the fact that Luke managed to turn away from the Dark Side at the last moment doesn't change the fact that, throughout the entire confrontation with Palpatine and Vader, every time Luke drew his weapon, he did so out of anger, hatred, and passion.  These are the paths to the Dark Side, and Luke gave into them more than once.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if the question is &quot;Why did Luke attack Vader (and/or Palpatine) first?&quot;, the answer is clearly &quot;Because he was struggling to resist the Dark Side, and momentarily faltered.  He attacked because he briefly gave in to his hatred and anger.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/jDs2UGCP2Fk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Luke repeatedly suffers momentary lapses in judgement, and attacks aggressively out of anger, but each time, he manages to rein in his emotions and back down&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Rey vs. Kylo:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same is true of Rey's battle with Kylo Ren in &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;.  Rey beats Kylo in part because she is dipping into some Dark Side powers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Though Ren was bigger and stronger than Rey, their struggle had nothing to do with physical size. What she lacked in mass, she made up for in ferocity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For a while she actually drove him backward, until he regained his self-assurance and in turn pressed her. The fight continued to shift back and forth; first he gained the advantage, then an enraged Rey took it back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...A long moment passed, in which Ren sensed a change in the air, a change in her. Then she opened her eyes and attacked, viciously, in a way she didn’t know she was capable of, striking again and again as Ren was slowly driven back. The flaring energy from the interacting lightsabers was more pronounced than ever in the flurry of her attack. And — Ren went down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One downward cut, she saw. One quick, final strike, and she could kill him. The landing lights of a shuttle appeared in the distance, coming over the trees in her direction. She had to make a decision, now.       &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kill him, a voice inside her head said. It was amorphous, unidentifiable, raw.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pure vengeful emotion. So easy, she told herself. So quick.&lt;/strong&gt;    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She recoiled from it. From the &lt;em&gt;Dark Side&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -  Alan Dean Foster's novelization of &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rey, more than Luke and Windu, can be forgiven for flirting with the Dark Side, because she has absolutely no training in the Force and doesn't really know what she's doing.  As such, it is all the more impressive that she manages to recognize that the voice urging her to kill Kylo is the Dark Side, and therefore, decides to ignore the voice and spare his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;General problems with consistency and contradictions:&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The following isn't strictly related to who attacks first, but might help explain why Jedi (and other characters) sometimes do the things that seem to go against what we've learned about them elsewhere, or otherwise behave inconsistently.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Writer-induced contradictions, inconsistencies, and sloppy retcons:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other cases, it probably happens because Lucas isn't a very good writer, and constantly contradicts himself and forgets what he wrote in the past. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind that this is the guy who invented the Jedi, described them as guardians of peace who only fight defensively, and portrayed them as rejecting emotional attachments, anger, fear, passion, etc, and then decided to name the third movie in the original trilogy &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Revenge&lt;/strong&gt; of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt;.  The movie came so close to being released with that title that there are still countless, original, &lt;em&gt;Revenge of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt; movie posters floating around.  This is just one of many cases in which the fans seem to understand Lucas' creation better than Lucas himself does.  People who grew up watching and loving the original &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; trilogy knew (before the prequels came out and muddied the waters) that &quot;Revenge&quot; isn't something that a Jedi would be interested in - indeed, revenge is the kind of thing a Jedi would avoid at all costs, knowing that it reeks of the Dark Side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example of sloppy writing leading to self-contradiction, we have Obi-Wan's line in Ep. III:  &quot;Only Sith deal in absolutes&quot;.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/8067/if-only-the-sith-deal-in-absolutes-why-does-obi-wan-say-it-that-way&quot;&gt;If this were true, Obi-Wan would have to be a Sith, because his statement is itself an absolute.&lt;/a&gt;  If we apply Obi-Wan's rule about Sith and absolutes rigorously, we find that every Jedi in history is a Sith, because the most common version&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; of the Jedi Code is a series of absolute statements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is no emotion, there is peace.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  There is no passion, there is serenity.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  There is no chaos, there is harmony.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  There is no death, there is the Force.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -  &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jedi_Code&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wookieepedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112540/how-many-times-was-obi-wan-less-than-honest-with-luke&quot;&gt;Other examples&lt;/a&gt; of characters making surprising factual errors because of writer-induced plot inconsistencies abound:   For example, Obi-Wan says Anakin wanted Luke to have his old lightsaber (in fact, Obi-Wan stole the weapon from Anakin's mutilated, charred body; Anakin thought his unborn child was dead; and Anakin never suggested that he wanted to pass the lightsaber down).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These problems are too numerous to describe in full here, but examples include R2's failure to share his knowledge regarding the relationships between Luke, Leia, and Vader;  Chewbacca not mentioning that he is old friends with the Jedi Luke seeks out on Dagobah;  the absolute lack of any mention of the Sith in the original trilogy;  Obi-Wan not recognizing R2 (and vice versa);  and so on.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Sometimes it isn't clear whether it is the writers or the characters who are screwing up:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to be almost impossible to explain why Obi-Wan urges Luke to do the one thing that will make him fall to the Dark Side - namely, kill Vader:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OBI-WAN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  You cannot escape your destiny. You must face Darth Vader again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LUKE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I can't kill my own father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OBI-WAN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Then the Emperor has already won. You were our only hope. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obi-Wan quite clearly states that Luke has only two options:  Kill Vader, or allow the Emperor to win.  In the actual event, we find that Obi-Wan has it precisely backwards:  if Luke killed Vader, the Emperor would have won;  only by sparing Vader's life did Luke avoid the Dark Side and ensure the Emperor's defeat.  When Luke was closest to killing Vader, he was also closest to embracing the Dark Side:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VADER&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  You cannot hide forever, Luke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LUKE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  I will not fight you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VADER&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Give yourself to the Dark Side. It is the only way you can save your &#xA;  friends. Yes, your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for them are strong. Especially for...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vader stops and senses something. Luke shuts his eyes tightly, in &#xA;  anguish.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VADER&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Sister! So...you have a twin sister. Your feelings have now betrayed &#xA;  her, too. Obi-Wan was wise to hide her from me. Now his failure is complete. If you will not turn to the Dark Side, then perhaps she will.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LUKE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Never-r-r!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Luke ignites his lightsaber and &lt;strong&gt;screams in anger&lt;/strong&gt;, rushing at hisfather &#xA;  with a frenzy we have not seen before. Sparks fly as Luke and Vader &#xA;  fight in the cramped area. &lt;strong&gt;Luke's hatred&lt;/strong&gt; forces Vader to retreat out of &#xA;  the low area and across a bridge overlooking a vast elevator shaft. &#xA;  Each stroke of Luke's sword drives his father further toward defeat.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dark Lord is knocked to his knees, and as he raises his sword to &#xA;  block another onslaught, Luke slashes Vader's right hand off at the &#xA;  wrist, causing metal and electronic parts to fly from the mechanical &#xA;  stump. Vader's sword clatters uselessly away, over the edge of the platform and into the bottomless shaft below. Luke moves over Vader and holds the blade of his sword to the Dark Lord's throat. The Emperor watches with uncontrollable, pleased agitation.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EMPEROR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Good! Your hate has made you powerful. Now, fulfill your destiny and &#xA;  take your father'splace at my side!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Luke looks at his father's mechanical hand, then to his own mechanical, &#xA;  black-gloved hand, and realizes how much he is becoming like his &#xA;  father. He makes the decision for which he has spent a lifetime in &#xA;  preparation&lt;/strong&gt;. Luke steps back and hurls his lightsaber away.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LUKE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Never! I'll never turn to the Dark Side&lt;/strong&gt;. You've failed, Your Highness. &#xA;  I am a Jedi, like my father before me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Emperor's glee turns to rage.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EMPEROR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  So be it...Jedi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Luke stands still, as the Emperor reaches the bottom of thestairs. The &#xA;  Emperor's laughter has turned to anger. He raises his arms toward Luke.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EMPEROR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  If you will not be turned, you will be destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here, the Emperor displays a far better understanding than Obi-Wan does of what would lead Luke to the Dark Side:  Palpatine &lt;em&gt;wants&lt;/em&gt; Luke to kill Vader, and kill him in hatred.  Clearly, Luke's understanding is also superior to Obi-Wan's, because he knew all along that killing Vader would be a mistake:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LEIA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  But why must you confront him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LUKE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Because there is good in him. I've felt it.&lt;/strong&gt; He won't turn me over to the Emperor. &lt;strong&gt;I can save him. I can turn him back to the good side. I have to try.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only when his love for Leia led Luke to strike out at Vader in hatred did his resolve falter.  When he was about to do what Obi-Wan wanted him to do, he was teetering on the brink of falling irredeemably to the Dark Side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can we explain this?  Did Obi-Wan forget how the whole anger-leads-to-the-Dark-Side, we-only-kill-as-a-last-resort parts of the Jedi philosophy?  Or did the writers think Obi-Wan was right, and killing Vader was the only way to beat the Emperor?  The former seems unlikely - in Episode V, Obi-Wan urged Luke &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to face Vader, because the risk of giving into his fear and anger, and thereby falling to the Dark Side, was too great.  And when Obi-Wan had the chance to kill Anakin on Mustafar, he didn't take it, presumably because Anakin was defenseless and killing him would have been an act of unnecessary evil.  The latter seems unlikely as well, because the writers must have known that in the end, Luke's mercy towards Vader would lead Vader to redeem himself, killing the Emperor, and saving Luke in the process&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we can't make sense of why Obi-Wan insisted that Luke had to do exactly what the Emperor wanted him to do, which would lead him to the Dark Side.  But we &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; know for sure that Obi-Wan appears to be absolutely delighted to have been disobeyed and proven wrong by Luke:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zCzQE.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zCzQE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other clear fact we can take away from this situation is simple, and reinforces my earlier point about Jedi fallibility:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sometimes, even great Jedi Masters are wrong.&lt;/strong&gt;  If a Jedi Master can be as wrong as Obi-Wan was regarding whether Luke should kill Vader, it isn't hard to understand why lesser Jedi, like Anakin (who was more troubled than most with the struggle between Light and Dark) or Luke (who has had only the most rudimentary training in the Force), sometimes behave more aggressively than the Jedi ideal would call for.  Even Mace Windu, who was one of the greatest Jedi ever, was constantly skirting the boundary between Light and Dark.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The inverse is also true, of course:  sometimes, an incredibly evil devotee of the Dark Side does noble, virtuous things, like Vader did when he sacrificed his own life and killed his master to save Luke.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same idea carries over to &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; We see a hint of this bad-guy-who-might-not-be-entirely-bad at play in Kylo Ren, who is so torn between Light and Dark that he is mentally unstable, and is emotionally weakened when he kills his father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The novelization of &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; makes this clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Stunned by his own action [killing his father, Han], Kylo Ren fell to his knees. Following through on the act ought to have made him stronger, a part of him believed. &lt;em&gt;Instead, he found himself weakened.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; He did not hear the roar of the enraged Wookiee above, but he did feel the sting of the shot from the bowcaster as it slammed into his side, knocking him back on the walkway.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Notes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;  &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Kanan_7:_First_Blood,_Part_I:_The_Corridors_of_Coruscant&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;As of a couple of months ago&lt;/a&gt;, a new version of the Jedi Code was introduced into the new Disney canon, and although its use seems to be restricted to Younglings, it is less absolute than the official version above.  It loses the rigid absolutism of the official code by trading the formula of &quot;There is no _____, there is ______.&quot; for the gentler &quot;_______, yet _______.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Emotion, yet peace.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Ignorance, yet knowledge.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Passion, yet serenity.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Chaos, yet harmony.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Death, yet the Force.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -  &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jedi_Code&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wookieepedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;em&gt;We get some insight into Vader's motivation for saving Luke in one of the SW novels:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vader watched Luke curl into a fetal position as the Emperor hurled an even more staggering wave of lightning at his victim. &lt;strong&gt;Vader had no doubt that Luke was about to die.&lt;/strong&gt; His son screamed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Not just my son...&lt;/em&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Emperor unleashed another round of lightning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;...or Padmé's son...&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Luke screamed louder.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;...but my son... &lt;strong&gt;who loves me.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;     &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Luke's clothes began to smoulder as his body involuntarily spasmed. &lt;strong&gt;Suddenly, Vader realised he was no longer concerned about his own personal future. Despite all the terrible, unspeakable things he'd done in his life, he knew he could not stand by and allow the Emperor to kill Luke. And in that moment of awareness, he was Darth Vader no more.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He was Anakin Skywalker.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It took all of his remaining strength to seize the Emperor from behind. The wretched Emperor continued to release lightning bolts, but they veered away from Luke and arced back to crash down upon him and his insurgent apprentice.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -  &lt;em&gt;The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader&lt;/em&gt;  (emphasis mine;  italics indicate Vader's thoughts)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2017-03-23T21:44:46.930" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11156" CreationDate="2015-12-29T22:19:19.253" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've read most of the Roman historians and the Greek historians who wrote about Rome, I don't remember reading any specific references to black gladiators. If you want to claim that there were some, then please cite the work where that is mentioned. Otherwise the notion of blacks in the sports arenas of ancient Rome is just a modern affectation. We have lots of blacks in our sports arenas so we project that image back two thousand years in our fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was indeed in the TV series 'Spartacus' a prominent black gladiator. There was also one in the feature film 'Gladiator'. More recently in the film 'Pompeii' there were several black gladiators. Among the actors who portrayed gladiators a substantial proportion were black. Surely that must be wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there are any references to black gladiators in Tacitus, Suetonius, Livy or Caesar. You would expect there to have been black gladiators to have been mentioned in Vegetius or Aurelius - but there are no such references.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blacks in the sense of sub-Saharan peoples were rare in Rome. The Sahara was in the way. Ethiopians could come up the Nile and did, but West Africans like those who much later became African-Americans were very unusual. There were few West Africans in Europe until the fifteenth century when the Portuguese sailed south. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gladiators were slaves and black slaves would have been rare and probably very valuable. Being a gladiator was however a popular profession. The emperor had to restrict young men from good families becoming gladiators. There were too many volunteers. So black slaves may not have been allowed in the arena. They might have been too valuable to risk. I'm speculating of course, but so is everyone else. There simply are no records. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until I read a reference from an ancient historian, I'll continue to regard black gladiators in Rome as a movie myth.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29277" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2015-12-29T23:00:42.570" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T23:00:42.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11198" CreationDate="2015-12-29T22:20:45.410" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note that the Season 4 (so it's not the cause of your specific issue) Blu-ray has a glitch where several Spanish-language scenes are supposed to contain English subtitles, but the subtitles don't appear unless you manually enable them through the menu.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than being burned into the image, these subtitles are just another subtitle track, and it's supposed to be enabled by default, so that even when you turn the subtitles &quot;off&quot; altogether, these subtitles appear for the Spanish-language scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to the bug, the subtitles do NOT appear if you simply put the disc in your player and hit &quot;play.&quot;  Instead, you have to enable the full English subtitles via the menu, then turn them off again.  The English subtitles will then appear for the Spanish-language scenes as they should.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26529" LastActivityDate="2015-12-29T22:20:45.410" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45553" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2064" CreationDate="2015-12-29T23:46:37.123" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I know this is an old post but I feel I must provide another perspective because it seems to me that many people miss the fact that Vader actually strikes an empty cloak. The Jedi, Obi-Wan has vanished &lt;em&gt;before the strike&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll describe the scene for you: As our heroes approach the falcon (Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie and the droids) the stormtroopers are distracted by the duel and abandon their post. The heroes rush out to the falcon when Luke spots Ben and Vader. At this point Ben has already uttered the quote from the OP and now as he spots Luke, he pauses, smiles, raises his sabre to a vertical position, holds it in front of his face and closes his eyes in concentration. Vader swipes, but suddenly there is no more Ben. He has completely vanished. This is in stark contrast to all other sabre duels, where the bodily remains are always left behind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kpHK4YIwY4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;a youtube clip&lt;/a&gt; (the video is perhaps a few seconds shorter than I would've liked though because afterwards Vader even steps on the cloak and prods it with his toes because he is confused that Obi-Wan has vanished) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Star-Wars-A-New-Hope.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the script itself&lt;/a&gt; (albeit an early draft, but this scene is consistent with what we still see in the film today). Emphasis, mine:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The old Jedi Knight looks over his shoulder at Luke, lifts his sword&#xA;  from Vader's then watches his opponent with a serene look on his face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Vader brings his sword down, cutting old Ben in half. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ben's cloak&#xA;  falls to the floor in two parts, but Ben is not in it. Vader is&#xA;  puzzled at Ben's disappearance and pokes at the empty cloak.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; As the&#xA;  guards are distracted, the adventurers and the robots reach the&#xA;  starship. Luke sees Ben cut in two and starts for him. Aghast, he&#xA;  yells out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;LUKE: No!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to answer the question: why does Obi-Wan say he will become more powerful? Because that is part of his vision and his plan. In order to provide ongoing guidance to the rebellion's last hope, Luke, this is what &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; happen. Does Vader actually kill him? That is debatable, but in light of previous duels between Obi-Wan and Anakin, perhaps Ben has decided that neither one of them can defeat the other because they are too well matched against each other. He simply gives in to the force, transcends to his next &lt;em&gt;spiritual&lt;/em&gt; being and lives on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21851" LastEditorUserId="21851" LastEditDate="2019-11-12T21:59:14.643" LastActivityDate="2019-11-12T21:59:14.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="45556" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45557" CreationDate="2015-12-30T00:18:58.453" Score="13" ViewCount="1033" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &quot;Who Am I&quot; starring Jackie Chan we see a character giving someone an coconut infusion after they've suffered blood loss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/I-0aQMKwZUI?t=26m50s?start=1610&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does this really work?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29281" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-30T15:05:54.920" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T15:05:54.920" Title="Can you really infuse someone with a coconut?" Tags="|realism|who-am-i|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45557" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45556" CreationDate="2015-12-30T00:29:53.927" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes and no.&lt;/strong&gt; The way it's depicted in the film, it would have zero effect. You can't simply feed a piece of surgical tubing into someone's vein and rely on capillary action and gravity to infuse their bloodstream with coconut water. Without a tight seal at both ends, the most likely result would be that the person bled out into the coconut or simply bled out where the tube had been inserted&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;but wait...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.drinkbai.com/blog/coconut-water-pure-can-used-blood-transfusions&quot;&gt;1979 study&lt;/a&gt; did conclude that in a pinch, you could use coconut water as saline replacement fluid without the user suffering &lt;em&gt;immediate&lt;/em&gt; ill effects but it was stressed that this was an emergency procedure and one that was extremely badly advised when any other form of sterile saline or water was available.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2015-12-30T00:34:59.130" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T00:34:59.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45558" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45600" CreationDate="2015-12-30T00:49:47.800" Score="1" ViewCount="361" Body="&lt;p&gt;It all happens in the beginning of &lt;em&gt;The Town&lt;/em&gt;. Did Ben Affleck's character see Rebecca Hall's character when she activated the alarm? If he did see her, did he not act because he liked her then and there? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27305" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2015-12-30T15:01:49.710" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T03:18:03.837" Title="Did Ben Affleck's character see Rebecca Hall's character when she activated the alarm?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-town|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45560" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17848" CreationDate="2015-12-30T04:14:18.067" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Look at yourself Noodles&quot; scene is to me highly important, remember Noodles going and looking at himself in the mirror right after Deborah's humiliating comment. Deborah has dreams and ambitions, nowadays she will be called a Social Climber and that's clearly something that make her closer to Max: a sharp, bright, dominant but pertubated personality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29286" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T04:14:18.067" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45572" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45573" CreationDate="2015-12-30T13:35:06.080" Score="37" ViewCount="5732" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw a Hollywood movie around the year 2001, it is a comedy movie. I forget the movie name, help me to get the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can recall few things from the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;3 men are involved in the main roles, 2 are Americans and another 1 is&#xA;Asian or Indian.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are working as software programmers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Antagonist character always wears Suspenders.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The three people tried to hack the company's account system.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They write the code to move little amount of money on every&#xA;transaction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Surprisingly they get a huge amount in the account.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After fire accident in office, all problems are solved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29292" LastEditorUserId="30713" LastEditDate="2016-06-24T16:44:07.233" LastActivityDate="2016-06-24T16:44:07.233" Title="Comedy movie about 3 software programmers who tried to hack the company's account system" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:16:16.797" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45572" CreationDate="2015-12-30T13:40:17.080" Score="58" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/combined&quot;&gt;Office Space&lt;/a&gt; from 1999.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Three engineers have had enough of the daily grind working their dull, mundane jobs at Initech Corporation. Subjected to filling out useless forms, fighting with faulty office equipment, and their obnoxious boss Bill Lumbergh are enough to drive anyone crazy. There's also other odd characters like Tom Smykowski and Milton Waddams. When Initech announces that they're bringing in &quot;consultants&quot; to &quot;clean house&quot; (read: fire a bunch of programmers so that means a nice big bonus for the boss), Michael, Samir, and Peter scheme to reclaim their freedom with a software programming scheme that aims to take Initech for a small fortune through a virus that is designed to skim a little off the top. Unfortunately thanks to a typo, that virus skims a lot off. Realizing they don't have much time the three scramble to cover their tracks, but constantly shoot themselves in the foot. Can they recover and get out of their predicament safely? And will Milton reclaim his famous red stapler? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The antagonist wears suspenders and everything is solved in the end by a fire. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/3_fG_zLbBeU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T13:40:17.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13532" CreationDate="2015-12-30T18:10:47.607" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wondered this as well. I would assume it was because Dexter's late night activities caused a problem. Remember she had already quit once and warned him. He probably left her holding the bag again, like he often did to Jamie as well. The plot line likes to emphasize his role as a parent, but he often was an absent father, getting home with barely enough time to tell his child goodnight and often still letting the nanny tuck him in, then leaving again to go kill someone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29310" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T18:10:47.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45579" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45584" CreationDate="2015-12-30T18:15:14.773" Score="13" ViewCount="4621" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does BB-8 in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; speak some kind of binary (Morse-like) language? If so, how can people understand it (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/45184/1799&quot;&gt;Rey&lt;/a&gt;)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do we know the structure of it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1799" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T06:32:17.370" Title="What language does BB-8 speak?" Tags="|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45580" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45579" CreationDate="2015-12-30T18:23:56.513" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Binary&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;starwars.wikia.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Binary or droidspeak was the language commonly spoken by droids. It consisted of a set of beeps and whistles strung together into what resembled sentences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The astromech BB-8 spoke in 27th generation droidspeak, a compressed&#xA;variant of standard droidspeak.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rey and few other also can understand them surely by learning. It must be like learning any other language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T18:23:56.513" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45579" CreationDate="2015-12-30T19:28:25.577" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In-universe they call it Binary, which one could perhaps compare to morse code. You can learn morse code. It's not so much a language unto itself, but a way to encode language. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, in reality, the noises the droids make are clearly analog and not binary at all, so it's actually more like a natural language in the aspect. (Though, as far as I know, there is no actual language created for the film like, for instance, they did with Klingon for Star Trek). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T19:28:25.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45584" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45579" CreationDate="2015-12-30T19:51:24.663" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In-universe it's referred to as &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Binary&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The droid blurted out something harsh. Rey scoffed. &lt;strong&gt;Her comfort with&#xA;  all things mechanical had made her fluent in binary.&lt;/strong&gt; “Classified?&#xA;  Really? Well, me too. Big secret. I’ll keep mine and you can keep&#xA;  yours.” - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;SW: The Force Awakens - Junior Novelisation&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q. Why is R2-D2 so hard to understand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A. &lt;strong&gt;R2 speaks in binary&lt;/strong&gt;, a language of beeps and whistles. C-3PO&#xA;  often has to translate to help everyone else understand what he's&#xA;  saying. - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;SW: Absolutely Everything You Need to&#xA;  Know&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also referred to as &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Droidspeak&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;BB-8 converses in 27th generation &lt;strong&gt;droidspeak&lt;/strong&gt; code, a compressed&#xA;  variant of the most common astromech language - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;Star Wars:&#xA;  The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may wish to note that this form of communication appears to be a dumbed-down version that can be understood by humans. When BB-8 attempts to communicate with R2-D2, his greeting is described as having a...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...transmission sequence too rapid and too exhaustive for any human to&#xA;  follow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T19:51:24.663" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45586" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="70337" CreationDate="2015-12-30T22:57:29.430" Score="6" ViewCount="5170" Body="&lt;p&gt;The art of the moving characters (not static backgrounds) of old animated movies such as &lt;em&gt;The Sword in the Stone&lt;/em&gt; (1963), &lt;em&gt;The Jungle Book&lt;/em&gt; (1967), and &lt;em&gt;The Aristocats&lt;/em&gt; (1970) were sketchy. The line work of the animation was left rough, instead of crisp and smooth as seen in animated features of earlier and later animated films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/yRET1vsfiJM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What was the reason for this? Was it technical limitations of animation technology of the time? Was it some artistic trend (if so, is there a name for it)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user23604" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-12-30T23:35:09.817" LastActivityDate="2017-03-19T17:59:24.233" Title="Why was the art of old animated films sketchy?" Tags="|film-techniques|animation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45586" CreationDate="2015-12-30T23:44:07.243" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know the answer for sure, but my guess is that it was simply one of the preferred aesthetics of the era. The late 50s and early 60s were full of hand drawn art styles where the roughness of the line was embraced. Random examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5qWsH.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5qWsH.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/F7ZI5.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/F7ZI5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there is a particular name for this style other than '50s/60s illustration' (era) or 'pen and ink' (medium).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think one of the highlights of the trend at the time was the great backgrounds used in all of the Pink Panther cartoons during the 60s:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hw0Ri.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hw0Ri.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="756" LastEditDate="2015-12-30T23:50:27.160" LastActivityDate="2015-12-30T23:50:27.160" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45589" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45590" CreationDate="2015-12-30T23:57:07.457" Score="17" ViewCount="8626" Body="&lt;p&gt;I grew up watching &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Next Generation&lt;/em&gt;, thus I always took it for granted that Klingons look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WqjhM.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WqjhM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Worf&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now I'm watching &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: The Original Series&lt;/em&gt; for the first time (thank you, Netflix), and I see that Klingons used to look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oesnt.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/oesnt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Kligons in TOS&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I realize that costume design probably came a long way in the approximate 25 years between production of the 2 series, but even so, the physiological difference is enormous! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was there ever a reason given for this change in their appearance or is the difference never discussed within the show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16095" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-01T15:43:02.373" LastActivityDate="2017-09-26T16:09:57.560" Title="Physiological changes in Klingons between Star Trek TOS and Star Trek TNG" Tags="|character|star-trek|star-trek-the-next-generation|star-trek-the-original-series|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45590" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45589" CreationDate="2015-12-31T00:02:40.977" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the retcon reason is that the Klingons in the TOS serials were suffering from an &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Klingon_augment_virus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;artificially created virus&lt;/a&gt; intended to improve their physical abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per Memory Alpha&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Klingon augment virus was a modified form of Levodian flu that&#xA;  threatened to wipe out the Klingon race in the mid-22nd century. It&#xA;  was inadvertently created by Klingon researchers who were attempting&#xA;  to bio-engineer enhanced warriors using DNA from genetically-modified&#xA;  Human embryos left over from Earth's Eugenics Wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;by the time of the new ST: TNG series, a cure had evidently been found and universally administered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A cure to restore Klingons to their proper appearance was presumably&#xA;  found some time between 2268 and 2293, as Kang was seen as a&#xA;  smooth-headed Klingon in TOS: &quot;Day of the Dove&quot; and as a normal&#xA;  Klingon in VOY: &quot;Flashback&quot;. The first time normal Klingons were seen&#xA;  on screen was in Star Trek: The Motion Picture set in the early-2270s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:42:45.047" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T00:02:40.977" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45589" CreationDate="2015-12-31T00:04:24.757" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;This drastic change in appearance for Klingons was a bit of a running joke among fans during later series of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt;. The writers even acknowledged it during an episode of &lt;em&gt;Deep Space Nine&lt;/em&gt; which sees Worf, among others, time-travel back into the original series episode &lt;em&gt;The Trouble with Tribbles&lt;/em&gt;. When asked why those Klingons looked funny he curtly replies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We do not discuss it with outsiders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many fan theories popped up over the years to explain away the problem. Finally, though, we got a canon answer in &lt;em&gt;Enterprise&lt;/em&gt;, specifically the episodes &quot;Affliction&quot; and &quot;Divergence&quot;. If you want the whole story in all it's detail, I'd highly recommend watching the entire story arc (it also ties in with &lt;em&gt;The Wrath of Khan&lt;/em&gt; among other things.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic idea, though, is that the Klingons got ahold of the genetically engineered humans from the Eugenics Wars and tried to use them to create genetically engineered Klingons. Something went wrong, and a odd strain of the flu virus infected many of the subjects, changing their appearance. This mutated look remained in the Klingon gene pool for a while afterward. Eventually, a cure for the flu was found, but it was a while longer before they were able to reverse the effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-01T14:03:57.733" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T14:03:57.733" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45589" CreationDate="2015-12-31T00:05:26.703" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a long time, it was acknowledged but rather explicitly 'not discussed with outsiders.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xka6IYCpj4E?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was later addressed in Enterprise as the result of a widespread attempt at genetic engineering - the subjects took on human characteristics and were sent to serve on the front lines of the Klingon Defense Forces circa-TOS, presumably to banish them from the gene pool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More, as always with things Trek, &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Klingon_augment_virus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;can be found at Memory Alpha&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29199" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:42:45.047" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T00:08:44.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45595" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45589" CreationDate="2015-12-31T00:52:01.923" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Depicting_Klingons&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The original explanations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;They Always looked like that, the budget just didn't allow it. Don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gene Roddenberry tried to explain the differences between The Motion Picture's Klingons and the original ones by saying that the original show had simply never had the budget and makeup technology to envision the species as it should have been seen, &lt;strong&gt;so the apparently new Klingons were just Klingons as they were always intended to have been.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(Cinefantastique, Vol. 37, No. 2, p. 40)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or that there are more than one kind of Klingon, like there are races of humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He additionally contemplated, &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Just as there are different races of humans, there are different races of Klingons, and the Klingons seen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture are not the same race as the ones we saw on the original series.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; Since Fred Phillips expected that the fans would wonder about how the Klingons could possibly have head ridges newly added to their faces, he and Roddenberry came up with the explanation of there being a variety of Klingon races, even before the release of The Motion Picture. Despite this, the transformation continued to be regarded as a mystery for decades to come. &lt;em&gt;(Star Trek: Communicator issue 145, pp. 71-72)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This continued until after Roddenberry died and they decided several decades afterwards to change the reason for the TOS Klingon look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Klingons have looked that way since The Motion Picture, long before TNG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ayK9M.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ayK9M.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The budget and technology are the same reason Gorns also don't look like the TOS guy in a latex suit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/CK7NZ9IDtTc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T04:13:12.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45596" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45598" CreationDate="2015-12-31T00:57:33.633" Score="5" ViewCount="2032" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &quot;Troy&quot; from 2004 uses a 4-tone-soundbite quite a lot.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;It is at the beginning of this:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/lqDWmpU7DJM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;as well on the 1:12 mark:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://youtu.be/lqDWmpU7DJM?t=1m12s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;timestamped link to youtube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could SWEAR I have heard it used in at least one other movie... but I cannot remember which one!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;I hope this is not too vague, but has this 4-tone-scheme been used anywhere else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13690" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-12-31T02:01:48.087" LastActivityDate="2020-12-15T03:36:02.440" Title="Short soundbite (4-tone-pattern) from &quot;Troy&quot; (2004) used anywhere else?" Tags="|soundtrack|sound-effects|troy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45596" CreationDate="2015-12-31T01:08:36.757" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I started the video and my husband heard it out of context and he thought I was watching part of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_II:_The_Wrath_of_Khan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. He pulled up a video and he's right. It sounds very similar to the motif in the Troy music.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This makes total sense because both soundtracks are composed by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Horner#Film&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;James Horner&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the piece:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/oD9ARfF9x0o?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/KilBvojsMdw?t=2m45s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here's a video&lt;/a&gt; from the soundtrack &quot;Battle In The Mutara Nebula&quot; with the specific motif.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2015-12-31T01:15:54.213" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T01:15:54.213" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45598" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45596" CreationDate="2015-12-31T01:43:03.257" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's from &lt;strong&gt;every James Horner soundtrack ever.&lt;/strong&gt; OK, not really. ;) But he used this 4-note motif a &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt;. Here's a video demonstrating the motif's usage in 3 other films: &lt;em&gt;Avatar&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Enemy At the Gates&lt;/em&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;em&gt;Willow&lt;/em&gt;. (And since Horner composed music for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000035/#composer&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;so many movies&lt;/a&gt;, there could be others. It even got a name: &lt;strong&gt;The Danger Motif.&lt;/strong&gt; This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jwfan.com/forums/?app=forums&amp;amp;module=forums&amp;amp;controller=topic&amp;amp;id=19502&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;forum post&lt;/a&gt; even wonders if he ever wrote a soundtrack &lt;em&gt;without&lt;/em&gt; it...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/glsyYJksGtg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, when you work on so many soundtracks, some things are just bound to seep through:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/8HIdjU0DZkQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2015-12-31T01:57:08.723" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T01:57:08.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45599" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-31T02:20:01.100" Score="0" ViewCount="168" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Mystery of a Hansom Cab&lt;/em&gt;, what was &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Roger Moreland's &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;motive for killing Oliver Whyte?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24353" LastEditorUserId="24353" LastEditDate="2015-12-31T22:27:51.757" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T22:27:51.757" Title="What is the murderer's motive for killing Oliver Whyte?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mystery-of-a-hansom-cab|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45558" CreationDate="2015-12-31T03:18:03.837" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene start where Ben was looking at Rebecca's face. Then someone knocks bank door and everyone's attention goes there including Ben. Rebecca take this opportunity and ring the alarm with her feet. I don't think anyone see her activating alarm. But we can say Ben liked her there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21017" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T03:18:03.837" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45544" CreationDate="2015-12-31T04:18:29.360" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I offer &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5k6jfqcXxc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NIghtflyers&lt;/a&gt; as a possible answer. Been a few years since I saw it, but it has the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Oddball captain seemingly wired into the ship&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The ghost of his &quot;mother&quot; possessing the ship&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A group of people that come aboard to go on a mission. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Released in 1987, so it is the right time frame. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I cannot find the movie online, but the link below goes to the trailer, so I cannot validate the &quot;bright hallway&quot; aspect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most assuredly not a sci-fi masterpiece, but still interesting as a &quot;haunted house in space&quot; movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16404" LastEditorUserId="16404" LastEditDate="2015-12-31T04:24:02.077" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T04:24:02.077" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45604" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45634" CreationDate="2015-12-31T04:48:19.813" Score="11" ViewCount="18064" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like with the older Bond films, they were more standalone &quot;adventures&quot; and could each be enjoyed without seeing the others. With the new movies, they definitely aren't as easy for me to follow since they are clearly more connected. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I basically started to lose it somewhere mid-Quantum. Of course I've read plot summaries of each, but the ones I've seen try to explain only what is going on in that particular movie. I've seen through Spectre, but I could easily tell I was missing a ton of main plot points.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my main question: How are the events throughout the Daniel Craig Bond films related as we go from Casino Royale through Spectre? I'm not looking for plot summaries of each movie, but a more overall explanation of what's actually going on, and how it connects each film to the next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22977" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-31T06:02:47.767" LastActivityDate="2016-11-10T21:39:19.847" Title="How are the Daniel Craig Bond movie plots related?" Tags="|james-bond|skyfall|chronology|casino-royale|spectre|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45605" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-31T04:56:32.293" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Ten Avatars a.k.a Dasavatharam is a 2008 Tamil language movie. Kamal Haasan stars in ten distinct role. He wrote the screenplay and story of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Kamal's ten avatar characters are implies the Vishnu's ten avatars in Hinduism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot of the film revolves around bringing together the lives of several individuals beginning with the 12th century and ending with the 21st century; the main person being a research scientist who develops a bio-weapon and makes sure that it is not acquired by a group of terrorists. Several other people also get involved in the process and all their stories connect after the striking of a tsunami, thus bringing in philosophical views into the picture&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasavathaaram&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479651/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29292" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2016-12-13T09:00:26.783" LastActivityDate="2016-12-13T09:00:26.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45606" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-31T04:56:32.293" Score="0" Body="The Ten Avatars a.k.a. &quot;Dasavatharam&quot; is a 2008 Tamil language science fiction disaster movie. Kamal Haasan stars in ten distinct roles." OwnerUserId="29292" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-31T07:05:08.547" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T07:05:08.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45608" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45633" CreationDate="2015-12-31T05:00:05.250" Score="5" ViewCount="1626" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a scene from the movie &lt;em&gt;Beginners (2010)&lt;/em&gt;, the character Oliver is spraying some words on an advertisement board with spray paint and he sprayed these words, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;YOU MAKE ME LAUGH, BUT IT'S NOT FUNNY.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is he referring to? I understand that it is about a feeling of life that he is starting to understand but what is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-03T10:02:16.647" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T10:02:16.647" Title="What was the significance of the words written by Oliver on the advertisement board?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|beginners|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45610" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45617" CreationDate="2015-12-31T05:24:52.627" Score="5" ViewCount="4558" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Martian (2015)&lt;/a&gt;, Matt Damon is asked to cut a hole in the roof of his rover and cover it with a tarp.  I couldn't see any reason why this was done, except &lt;em&gt;possibly&lt;/em&gt; to allow it to fill up with more oxygen to use for breathing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this discussed in the book, or was there some part of the movie I didn't pay close enough attention to, where it was explained?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T14:59:03.620" Title="Why does Matt Damon cut a hole in the roof of the rover?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-martian|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45613" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2015-12-31T07:21:33.280" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2015-12-31T07:21:33.280" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T07:21:33.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45614" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2015-12-31T07:21:33.280" Score="0" Body="Who Am I? is a 1998 action comedy movie. Jackie Chan plays the main role and also part of the direction of the movie. " OwnerUserId="29292" LastEditorUserId="29292" LastEditDate="2015-12-31T09:15:36.607" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T09:15:36.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18316" CreationDate="2015-12-31T07:26:03.100" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;At different points in the movie, Mason and Wilford said they had to kill 74 percent of the tail section passengers. While the purge is going, Wilford tells his agent to &quot;spare 18,&quot; one for every year they've been on board. So, doing the math, if 18 = 26%, then the pre-revolution population of the tail section would have been &lt;strong&gt;69&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;Furthermore, at the beginning, Mason said that there were three types of passengers &quot;first class, economy, and you freeloaders&quot; (the tail sectioners). So, if we are to presume that all three types were equally represented, then the total population of the Snowpiercer train would have been &lt;strong&gt;207&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;Sound good?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29332" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T07:26:03.100" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45616" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24068" CreationDate="2015-12-31T07:49:08.123" Score="-10" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, it doesn't come from that movie. Most people today have never seen it. It comes from I, Robot 2004.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=I+robot+one+of+us&amp;amp;view=detail&amp;amp;&amp;amp;mid=037CC7793439FFC7C8DE037CC7793439FFC7C8DE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=I+robot+one+of+us&amp;amp;view=detail&amp;amp;&amp;amp;mid=037CC7793439FFC7C8DE037CC7793439FFC7C8DE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29333" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T07:49:08.123" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45617" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45610" CreationDate="2015-12-31T09:09:49.047" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because they skipped details from the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the book he has two duplicate rovers. He uses the second one for&#xA;  spare parts and as a trailer that is towed by the first rover (in the&#xA;  movie he just uses a flatbed trailer). The second rover has to carry&#xA;  life support equipment that doesn't fit, so he has to cut it open. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/themartian/comments/3nen4q/why_did_watney_need_to_remove_the_rovers_roof/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;- reddit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have not read the book but all sources saying the same. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/110233/6006&quot;&gt;Similar  question&lt;/a&gt; of Scifi.SE : &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From Chapter 20 of the book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;LOG ENTRY: SOL 376&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;I’m finally done with the rover modifications!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;The tricky part was figuring out how to maintain life support.&#xA;    Everything else was just work. A lot of work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;I haven’t been good at keeping the log up to date, so here’s a recap:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;First I had to finish drilling holes with the Pathfinder-murderin’&#xA;    drill. Then I chiseled out a billion little chunks between the holes.&#xA;    Okay, it was 759 but it felt like a billion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Then I had one big hole in the trailer. I filed down the edges to keep&#xA;    them from being too sharp.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;    &#xA;    &lt;p&gt;Remember the pop-tents? I cut the bottom out of one and the remaining&#xA;    canvas was the right size and shape. I used seal-strips to attach it&#xA;    to the inside of the trailer. After pressurizing and sealing up leaks&#xA;    as I found them, I had a nice big balloon bulging out of the trailer.&#xA;    The pressurized area is easily big enough to fit the oxygenator and&#xA;    atmospheric regulator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So its partially adapted scene from book, which doesn't make much sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T09:09:49.047" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45622" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23876" CreationDate="2015-12-31T10:05:07.543" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I wasn't very clear on the meaning of the carousel either, but after researching it, I learned that it was a symbol of the magicians actually being taken for a ride. The magicians did everything they were told but in the end they were not given access to the EYE. the cards they carried disappear from their pockets and they are sent to a junk yard of old discarded signs in Vegas, they go to a place that the eye owns with unlimited amounts of magic tools in boxes and they realize that the boxes are locked and they aren't not allowed access. They were then uninvited to join the eye. Maybe due to their past behavior. Because the eye is a robin hood type society that steals from the rich and gives to the poor, and prior to being invited to join, the magicians were not the best character of people. The only real member of the eye was the FBI agent who disappeared on the carousel after they completed their mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29342" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2015-12-31T10:52:09.350" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T10:52:09.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45623" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-31T10:09:11.923" Score="16" ViewCount="6788" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been watching &lt;em&gt;Person of Interest&lt;/em&gt; and couldn't help but notice how quiet &lt;strong&gt;John&lt;/strong&gt;'s voice is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: &lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is it to make the character appear more &lt;em&gt;professional&lt;/em&gt; or something?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the character's real voice?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is the actor's real voice?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is there a technique behind it? If so, did anyone else used it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-03-06T16:48:38.500" LastActivityDate="2019-05-26T19:55:15.267" Title="Why does John Reese always speak with such a low voice volume?" Tags="|character|analysis|dialogue|person-of-interest|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32275" CreationDate="2015-12-31T12:05:26.133" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's an episode from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108724/?ref_=tt_ov_inf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chicago Hope&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; but it's a &lt;strong&gt;grocery store&lt;/strong&gt; instead of &lt;em&gt;clinic&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0540309/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Day of the Rope&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;White supremacists on the run following a failed assasination attempt against the President, hole up in a grocery store with an injured member, and demand a doctor from Chicago Hope to treat him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First aired: 1/20/97&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="613" LastEditorUserId="613" LastEditDate="2016-01-09T11:47:53.243" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T11:47:53.243" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45610" CreationDate="2015-12-31T14:59:03.620" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the book, the pod was too heavy to make it into space and the dome cover was one of the heaviest solid pieces on the pod. So he had to remove it to achieve escape velocity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29268" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T14:59:03.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45631" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2015-12-31T15:03:54.080" Score="14" ViewCount="21710" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do so many movies still use the Wilhelm scream? Is it sort of a running joke throughout cinema? It seems like you could find thousands of other audio files of screams. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wilhelm scream&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a stock sound effect that has been used in more&#xA;  than 225 movies and television episodes et al, beginning in 1951 for&#xA;  the film Distant Drums. The scream is often used when someone is&#xA;  shot, falls from a great height, or is thrown from an explosion, and&#xA;  is most commonly used in films and television.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I guess I just don't get how after decades of use in every movie from b movies to Hollywood blockbusters, you can find a wilhelm scream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29268" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-01T13:59:48.883" LastActivityDate="2024-03-10T15:32:14.847" Title="Why do so many movies still use the Wilhelm scream?" Tags="|cinema-history|sound-effects|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45608" CreationDate="2015-12-31T16:33:44.337" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a line from a ribbon in Mike Mills' &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.humans.jp/01/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Humans&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; collection as reported in an interview in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dontpaniconline.com/magazine/film/interview-with-beginners-director-mike-mills&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Don't Panic&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;At one point in the film, Oliver sprays in giant 3ft lettering &amp;quot;You make me laugh but it's not funny&amp;quot; onto a blank billboard, echoing a phrase on one of your Humans brand ribbon designs. It looks like you had a lot of fun with that, similarly the illustrations Oliver creates in the film...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It’s the line from the ribbon yes! That’s part of the crisis thing; for a long time it didn’t look as though I’d be able to make the film, so when it was green lit I put all these things that only I can do into it, my Humans collection, the graffiti I did and the drawings (especially the firework drawings). I felt like “this is my last film” or “this is the film I’m never going to get to do”, so when it went ahead I wanted to put as much into it as I could. As it took me five years to do the film, I started researching fireworks for Beginners and I got really into drawing them. I did a book on them for Nieves and that was published, and the slow process of the film kept going in the background. The same for another project where I hand drew a thousand rainbows and researched Gilbert Baker and the original 1978 Gay Pride flag; all the research set off these independent projects and I included these in there too, sort of like a ripple effect. There’s a lot in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on this response, it doesn't seem as though there's necessarily any connection to the rest of the film, only that the director was trying to include a lot of his own art. That being said, I haven't seen the film, so there could certainly be other thoughts on it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.humans.jp/other/detail.do?id=97&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;ribbon&lt;/a&gt; in an image:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YZ16m.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YZ16m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ribbon from Mike Mills' &amp;quot;Humans&amp;quot; line&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The text appears on the blue ribbon, though it seems to be altered slightly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;... u to know I don't think it's funny you make me laugh but I want you to know..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T16:41:23.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45604" CreationDate="2015-12-31T17:38:59.737" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Spectre&lt;/em&gt;, all links are connected to previous &lt;em&gt;Bond&lt;/em&gt; stories. Here are the links as per my understanding:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spectre: Bond and  Franz Oberhauser are brothers. After the younger Bond was orphaned, Oberhauser's father, Hannes, became his temporary guardian. Believing that Bond supplanted his role as son, Oberhauser killed his father and staged his own death. He then created Spectre which is the root of all evil organizations. He told Bond that he had killed the ladies who entered into Bond's life whenever Bond has interfered with his mission.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Casino Royale: Le Chiffre is a mob banker who invests and transfers terrorist money. There is no proof but he was somewhere connected to Spectre. So on his failure, as of its revenge, Vesper was killed by Franz Oberhauser. Bond thinks that its the work of a man named Mr. White and he caught him at the end of this movie.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quantum of Solace: Through Mr. White Bond finds Vesper Lynd's former lover, Yusef Kabira, a member of Quantum who seduces women with valuable connections. Bond spares Kabira's life and allows MI6 to arrest him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Skyfall: Raoul Silva. A former MI6 officer who had previously worked under M, Silva has turned to cyberterrorism, kills M, as she left him to die after being captured years earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spectre: Before her death, M sends Bond a mail which leads bond to Franz Oberhauser. They have crossed each others' paths many times but at last they were in front of each other and in the end Bond defeats Franz Oberhauser.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21017" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-11-10T21:39:19.847" LastActivityDate="2016-11-10T21:39:19.847" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45635" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1005" CreationDate="2015-12-31T18:08:41.067" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everything above does sum that up for the most part. It is a powerful sixth weapon that shows one who has the force what the dark side can bring out of them. I don't care much for the expanded universe, I don't read the books are comics or watch the specials. Anyway, Yoda knows Luke's fate is to confront Vader. He knows Luke will either be seduced by the dark side, or die fighting because of insufficient training. But of course we know Luke's inevitable Fate was overcome by the improbable success of Han Solo and the rebel fleet as well as the impossible outcome of Luke bringing Vader back from the Dark Side. Luke does avoid his fate by doing the impossible and bringing back anakin skywalker. This would not have happend given Luke's understanding of his obvious similarities with Vader and how close he is to becoming him. When Luke's come back to degobah in the last film and is told by Yoda he needs no more training it is because of his own understanding of his fate and there is no more Yoda can do.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29354" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T18:08:41.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1005" CreationDate="2015-12-31T19:26:07.840" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shortly before entering the cave, Luke asks Yoda: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;What's in there?&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yoda replies: &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Only what you take with you.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luke begins to strap on his weapons and Yoda says, &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Your weapons. You will not need those.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Against Yoda's advice, Luke brings his weapons anyway. Yoda was right -- Luke found in there what he took with him: His weapons, and in turn, his aggression and his fear -- he brought his weapons because he feared for his safety. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His fear and aggression are paths to the dark side, and so he saw himself as Vader -- because that is what would become of him based on what he brought into the cave. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Had Luke listened to Yoda and left his weapons behind, he might have seen something else. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29268" LastActivityDate="2015-12-31T19:26:07.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15254" CreationDate="2016-01-01T00:30:36.593" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The location of “Village of the Watermills” dream is Akira Kurosawa’s father Toyakawa village in Senboku district of Akita Prefecture and the grave is of a person that died at that spot in the Battle of Boshin (1868-9).&#xA;Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto in his book [Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society). 2000. Duke University Press Books.] compares a story in Kurosawa’s book Something like Autobiography, to the last episode of Dreams and concludes that they are basically the same except that in the movie “the Battle of Boshin” part is missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29364" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T00:30:36.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13829" CreationDate="2016-01-01T02:55:55.393" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just don't understand why the main character, Oldman, would be betrayed by his long time friend....unless I look at it...not as a betrayal..but as an elaborate plan to change his friends life before they both retire. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I say this because as far as I can tell the only things stolen were these portraits of women. Nothing else in his home is missing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;in the end, you can say that Oldman is heartbroken, destroyed, but is he? After the assylum, he is moving on with life. Yes, still holding out hope that &quot;claire&quot; loved him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet, oldman is no longer a man wearing gloves, hiding in an enclosed room, afraid of contact with the outside world.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was his friend, himself deciding it was time, for both to retire,  trying to do one last thing for his friend Oldman? Using the ultimate &quot;forgery&quot; to intrigue and get Oldman involved, with life? Was this his way to lure Oldman out of his limited life with portraits of women and into the world?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the conversation where Oldman says that Billy is slipping, and perhaps time to retire. Consider the ONLY things which are stolen from Oldman are the portraits of women. He isnt ruined with regard to wealth. Nothing in his home was stolen except the portraits of women.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Billy says at one point they will meet again. So, I think Billy will come walking into the &quot;Night and Day&quot;. I think Billy loved his friend enough to want him to change his life before it was too late. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29368" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T02:55:55.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45651" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45747" CreationDate="2016-01-01T03:53:34.800" Score="6" ViewCount="985" Body="&lt;p&gt;I’d appreciate any help remembering the title of an old Russian or Soviet-era cartoon movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story is about a prince and his servant, who go on an adventure to rescue a princess from a dragon. The princess's name is Vasilisa the beautiful. During the adventure, it is the prince's servant who takes all the risks and completes all the missions. I remember that during one of the missions the servant was transformed into a dog, and in another he went inside the house of an old witch. Finally, he manages to defeat the dragon by cutting the dragon's heads with something like a magical water stream given to him during the adventure, and rescues the princess. As a reward, the princess marries him instead of the prince.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29371" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-01-02T23:44:26.370" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T00:35:47.363" Title="Old Russian or Soviet-era cartoon movie about a servant, a prince and a princess" Tags="|identify-this-movie|animation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:16:38.937" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45656" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3430" CreationDate="2016-01-01T10:07:32.080" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The announcement of &quot;filmed before a live audience&quot; most likely started with the The Odd Couple, in 1971. The reason why is that The Odd Couple started out being filmed on a closed set in the first season. Then in the second season, it completely changed format and was shot in front of a live studio audience. Because it was such a radical change in format, it was probably felt that it was necessary to alert fans of the show that it was no longer being shot on a closed set, like when back in the 1960s, shows that started out in black and white and transitioned to color also had an announcement before they started that they were &quot;now in color.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29382" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T10:07:32.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45660" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45252" CreationDate="2016-01-01T12:20:53.360" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's my take, and supported by &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; external evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The writers have recently been busy focusing on Sheldon and Amy's relationship, in fact the last episode showed the two scientists finally consummating their  love in &lt;em&gt;The Opening Night Excitation&lt;/em&gt;, aired 17 December on CBS; finally ending up in bed together after five years of dating. Sheldon chooses to miss the premier of the Star Wars sequel, &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;, because it is Amy's birthday, and he wants to give her ‘his genitals’ as a birthday present. (Would the &amp;quot;old&amp;quot; Sheldon ever have made this choice &lt;em&gt;“Coitus&lt;/em&gt; vs. &lt;em&gt;Star Wars”&lt;/em&gt; three or two years ago? But I digress...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/63Xp3.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/63Xp3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Raj seems to be single again, Howard and Bernadette do not argue nearly as often as they used to, and Leonard and Sheldon are still sharing the same apartment. It's important to note that neither Leonard nor Penny have actually moved in together, they either spend the night in Penny's apartment or at Sheldon's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, where is the next conflict going to come from? Because as any good sitcom writer knows, creating a conflict is essential to keep the viewers' interest high. It appears the next conflict will arise between Penny and Leonard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;UPDATED SPOILER ALERT&lt;/strong&gt; Do not read further, if you prefer not to hear what happens in the next &lt;del&gt;couple of episodes&lt;/del&gt; episode)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/em&gt;, season 9 episode 12: Penny and Leonard to seek marriage counseling?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.christiantoday.com/article/the.big.bang.theory.season.9.episode.12.spoilers.penny.leonard.to.seek.marriage.counseling/74856.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Christiantoday&lt;/a&gt;.com&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The leaked spoiler reveals that pair will be seeing a psychiatrist&#xA;when the hit series &amp;quot;The Big Bang Theory&amp;quot; returns for the second half&#xA;of season 9.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In episode 12&lt;/strong&gt; titled &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;The Sales Call Sublimation&lt;/strong&gt;,&amp;quot; Wikia reports that&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;the newly married couple will be discovering some martial issues&lt;/strong&gt; after&#xA;talking to Dr. Sarita Gallo (Jane Kaczmarek). &lt;strong&gt;Penny will meet her when&#xA;she makes a sales call&lt;/strong&gt; to her office [&lt;em&gt;After 11 episodes of silence we finally get to see Penny working at her new job&lt;/em&gt;] and the latter refused to&#xA;entertain her. Because of this, &lt;strong&gt;she will reportedly ask her husband to&#xA;pretend to be a client so that they can get her to buy the drugs Penny&#xA;are selling.&lt;/strong&gt; Leonard's wife is currently working as a pharmaceutical&#xA;sales representative, which she started doing in season 8.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although Leonard is supposed to be the one who will attend the&#xA;sessions with Dr. Gallo, Penny will also find herself having sit ins&#xA;with her. The psychiatrist will even tell her she has anxiety issues&#xA;and that she is serving as a mother figure to Leonard and not his&#xA;wife. Dr. Gallo will also suggest to Penny that she should ingest the&#xA;drugs she is selling, but the latter says no, as her company's product&#xA;may give her &amp;quot;fits of homicidal rage.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are these “marital issues”? Has Leonard gone back &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/45382/why-does-leonard-on-the-big-bang-theory-always-wear-socks-when-he-goes-to-bed-wi&quot;&gt;to wearing socks in bed&lt;/a&gt; again? Does Penny want to rekindle her career as an actress? Is she acting like Leonard's mother? Or will the writers shift their focus on Penny earning more money than Leonard as suggested here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glamour.com/entertainment/blogs/obsessed/2014/07/penny-job-change-big-bang-theo&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Major Way The Big Bang Theory Is Changing Penny's Role Next Season&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the show's TCA presentation, creator &lt;strong&gt;Chuck Lorre&lt;/strong&gt; dropped this bit of context: &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;She's going to start making some money, which will unbalance their relationship as the power shifts&lt;/strong&gt;,&amp;quot; he said, referring to Penny and Leonard&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(July 24, 2014, Glamour.com, &lt;em&gt;Entertainment&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20549" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-05-30T09:54:56.863" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45661" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45909" CreationDate="2016-01-01T12:27:38.727" Score="8" ViewCount="554" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently I saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2213054/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kai Po Che&lt;/a&gt; which is a movie based on the fiction novel '&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_3_Mistakes_of_My_Life&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Three Mistakes of my life&lt;/a&gt;' by Chetan Bhagat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, Omi's parents get killed when a fire breaks out in a train coach in which they were travelling. Two conflicting political parties were shown - one led by Omi's uncle and another by some Muslim guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that Omi's uncle got his parents killed by having the train set on fire in order to provoke Omi (who didn't seem interested in politics) against the other party which later escalates into a Hindu-Muslim riot near the end. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Has it been explicitly stated (either in the film or any subsequent interviews) who it was that killed Omi's parents?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23466" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2017-01-14T00:47:27.867" LastActivityDate="2017-01-14T00:47:27.867" Title="Who killed Omi's dad?" Tags="|plot-explanation|kai-po-che|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45664" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45666" CreationDate="2016-01-01T15:30:43.513" Score="0" ViewCount="103" Body="&lt;p&gt;What time will the special episode of the tv series, Sherlock air? And where can i see it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28789" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T15:56:21.140" Title="When will the Sherlock special episode air?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-01-01T15:58:29.857" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45666" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45664" CreationDate="2016-01-01T15:39:59.653" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tonight (January 1st, 2016) at 9:00 PM  - UTC+00:00 on BBC1&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11530" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-01T15:56:21.140" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T15:56:21.140" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45668" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45404" CreationDate="2016-01-01T16:32:07.413" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's never explicitly stated as far as I can recall, but Quentin Tarantino has always been very deliberate in his character development. Very often when a character does or says something, it is subtly explained in another scene. Along that trope, these two occurrences are definitely the &quot;key&quot; to understanding each happening. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story about killing the general's son started off subtle and tame and then escalated each time the general didn't react, making the story seem intentionally taunting. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Almost directly after that scene, it is revealed that Warren's Lincoln letter is fake, revealing that Warren is willing to lie and deceive both to make friends and to make enemies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know this character is a survivalist. He'll make up stories to get in the favor of whoever he can, whether it be to get into a carriage and out of the cold, or to become allies in unfavorable circumstances. He'll also make up stories to goad his enemies in to drawing weapons with him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was another moment where I sensed Warren was being somewhat dishonest to his advantage. When the prisoner was propositioning Sheriff Mannix, and threatening him with &quot;15 killers&quot;, Mannix openly announced that he didn't believe there were 15 more gang members waiting for him. At this time, Warren laughed manically, which kind of makes me think (being a bounty hunter) he knew that there were in fact 15 more gang members, but allowed Mannix to think it was a lie so that he would retain him as an ally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29268" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T16:32:07.413" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45670" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27307" CreationDate="2016-01-01T17:11:33.170" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whose to say that the fictional version of Tesla portrayed in The Prestige didn't duplicate large sums of cash prior to leaving Colorado? The movie doesn't show much of what Tesla was up to when Angier wasn't around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29391" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T17:11:33.170" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45671" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-01T17:12:20.730" Score="5" ViewCount="667" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Transformers&lt;/em&gt;, after Autobots reveal themselves to Mikaela and Sam, Optimus tells them about how Cybertron got destroyed by Megatron and Decepticons. Then he proceeds to tell them how Sam's great-great-grandfather found Megatron in the North Pole pretty detailed like how &lt;em&gt;it was an accident&lt;/em&gt; and how &lt;em&gt;by mistake, he activated Megatron's navigation system&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How can he know all that? Even if it is somehow written in the Sector 7's top secret files (which is unlikely), Autobots never accessed to the P.O.T.U.S. or any other military/government network by that point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T18:07:55.553" Title="How does Optimus Prime know how Captain Witwicky found Megatron?" Tags="|transformers|transformers-2007|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45672" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45671" CreationDate="2016-01-01T18:07:55.553" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;But this &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a matter of public record. According to Sam's show-and-tell in class:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, my great-great-grandfather, the genius that he was, wound up going blind and crazy in a psycho ward, drawing these strange symbols and babbling on about some giant ice man that he thought he'd discovered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then shows a news article about it. Presumably, his great-great-grandfather told the details &lt;em&gt;there&lt;/em&gt;, it's just that no one believed him. But the Autobots could've easily accessed the story (they mention themselves that they learned English online).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EfxUT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EfxUT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T18:07:55.553" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45675" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45676" CreationDate="2016-01-01T19:23:41.463" Score="5" ViewCount="3247" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying to find a film that I saw about 10 years ago (maybe a little less than that).&#xA;I thought Wesley Snipes was the main character, but I checked IMDB and couldn't find it in his filmography :/&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are the things I remember:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was made some time in the 90s or possibly early 00's&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is a demon that uses people as a host, so it randomly jumps from one body to another&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The person that the demon jumps into always whistles a tune&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I THINK the main character was a cop&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's American&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; I remember at the ending of the film the main character and the demon (who is in the main characters friend or partner) are at a cabin or some other place in the woods and there is a confrontation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone help me with this film please?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24395" LastEditorUserId="22117" LastEditDate="2016-01-02T01:31:57.820" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T01:31:57.820" Title="Looking for a film where the demon whistles" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:16:45.220" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45676" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45675" CreationDate="2016-01-01T19:40:14.187" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are looking for &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_(1998_film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fallen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(1998)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OdNau.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OdNau.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The demon is played by various actors most memorable of which is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goodman&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;John Goodman&lt;/a&gt; in the final confrontation at the cabin where he behaves exactly as you describe. He portrays a sadistic demon that keeps whistling 'Time is on my Side' while jumping from person to person and performing murders and suicides.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The American detective you describe is played by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denzel_Washington&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Denzel Washington&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the trailer on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mth5u2PPFbY&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18076" LastEditorUserId="18076" LastEditDate="2016-01-01T19:52:53.780" LastActivityDate="2016-01-01T19:52:53.780" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45681" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="68762" CreationDate="2016-01-01T20:05:48.767" Score="2" ViewCount="480" Body="&lt;p&gt;Two of us watched the Bourne Identity at the cinema when it was released and later watched the same film on a VHS or DVD version (can't remember which).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We were both surprised to find scenes we both remembered from the cinema version missing from the home release. These relate to the background of Marie Kreutz. Specifically that she had bombed a building she thought had been empty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was surprised to find absolutley nothing about any of this online, leading us to suspect we may have both got confused and misremembered something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know if these scenes exist and anything about them if so? Alternatively if they don't, any theories as to where our confusion may have arisen from?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29398" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-02T01:33:20.390" LastActivityDate="2017-02-24T18:07:44.267" Title="Are there scenes missing from the home versions related to Marie Kreutz?" Tags="|alternate-version|the-bourne-identity|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45682" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46014" CreationDate="2016-01-01T20:51:50.710" Score="7" ViewCount="795" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Angels and Demons, after the death of another cardinal (fire) Robert Langdon's clothes are all in blood. Camerlengo gives him a black shirt afterwards. When Robert is back with the shirt Camerlengo says &quot;aren't you surprised that it suit you?&quot; So I don't know if it is just a little joke but I thought it would be a clue about something. What does he mean by that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22534" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-12-12T07:22:58.807" LastActivityDate="2016-12-12T07:22:58.807" Title="What does Camerlengo mean in Angels and Demons?" Tags="|dialogue|angels-and-demons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45693" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-02T00:53:02.890" Score="2" ViewCount="845" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Force Awakens, Rey talks about a system that I believe a resistance base is. What is that exactly? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29405" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T00:59:40.663" Title="What is the &quot;Eileenean/ileenian/alenian&quot; system?" Tags="|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45693" CreationDate="2016-01-02T00:58:37.707" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ileenium_system&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ileenium system&lt;/a&gt;, the planet is D'Qar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28797" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T00:58:37.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45693" CreationDate="2016-01-02T00:59:40.663" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the Alan Dean Foster novelization:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Snoke replied with cold satisfaction. “We do not need it. Prepare the weapon. Destroy their system.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Collected and composed as he was, Hux was not immune to surprise. “The system? Supreme Leader, according to the most recent galographics, at least two and possibly three habitable worlds circle &lt;strong&gt;Ileenium&lt;/strong&gt;. Following the destruction of the Hosnian worlds, would it not be worthwhile simply to destroy their base and claim the remainder for the Order? We will have the location of the base within a matter of hours and—”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the WGA script leaked recently and validated as legit&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REY (CONT'D)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;So where's your base?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;FINN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (searching, to BB-8)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Go on BB-8, tell her.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (quietly)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Please!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  She and Finn look to BB-8 -- who considers the whole situation, then BEEPS.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;REY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Ileenium system?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Finn hands her the tool, surprised but thrilled -- Rey disappears below again.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;FINN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Yeah, the Ileenium system, that's the one -- get us there as fast as&#xA;  you can.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is of course the scene where Rey asks where to go in Falcon and Finn cons BB-8 into telling her since he's pretending to be Resistance :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the Visual Dictionary, we have a Galaxy Map with D'Qar planet in that system where Resistance is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3ayBE.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3ayBE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T00:59:40.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45516" CreationDate="2016-01-02T04:14:03.433" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was a two part episode of &lt;em&gt;Silent Witness&lt;/em&gt; from the BBC. It was Nikki and Harry that were caught up in it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a great episode. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568005/?ref_=ttep_ep7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The episode was called Shadows&lt;/a&gt;. Series 13 in 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The team attend at the apparent suicide of student Jason Renfrew at the local university. The Dean tells Leo Jason complained to her about racist bullying and he is found to have swallowed a chip containing photos of the alleged bullies, as well as having a handgun in his locker. Soon afterwards a gunman goes on the rampage, killing several people including the policeman investigating Jason's death. Nikki and Harry are trapped in a classroom with some students, one of whom, the mortally wounded Matt Frisk, was one of Jason's tormentors. Commander Somerville leads the police team who release them though it is Harry who finds the severely injured gunman. However, he fails to spot the bomb planted on campus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29407" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-02-07T22:03:08.933" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T22:03:08.933" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45702" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41917" CreationDate="2016-01-02T04:26:08.737" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that Adam has two chance and he wasted both. The first one was the hacksaw. First he broke his own in hurry. If he has valued his life even he could have taken the step that Dr Gordon has taken. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's see the second chance given to Adam again. Just in the end - Saw get up in the room and take out the makeup from his head. He told Adam the key is in tub and Adam remembers he lost the key when he woke up. The keys might be in tube. But instead searching for the keys he pick the empty gun and shoot it on Saw. I think that is where he waste his second chance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21017" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T04:26:08.737" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45703" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-02T05:03:44.197" Score="1" ViewCount="21765" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first SpongeBob SquarePants movie, SpongeBob stated that he has been employee of the month over 370 times. If you divide that by 12, that means he's been working at the Krusty Krab for over 30 years. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Let's not forget, SpongeBob was supposedly born on July 14, 1985. Today, that means he's in his 30's. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, he was supposedly 13 when he started working at the Krusty Krab. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all these facts, the math kind of doesn't make sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we stick with the theory that he started working at the Krusty Krab when he was 13, add 30+ years at the Krusty Krab and that means SpongeBob is in his 40's today.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how old is he? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29408" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-01-02T05:22:58.560" LastActivityDate="2022-02-23T21:42:11.323" Title="How old is the character SpongeBob SquarePants?" Tags="|character|spongebob-squarepants|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2016-01-02T08:30:12.487" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19833" CreationDate="2016-01-02T05:51:09.507" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The number 836547 also spells venkis which in Esperanto comes from venki which means defeat. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.esperanto-panorama.net/vortaro/eoen.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.esperanto-panorama.net/vortaro/eoen.htm&lt;/a&gt;. James Bond knew he was going to defeat Le Chiffre and had a cleaver way of entering the word in another language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29411" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T05:51:09.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45707" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45703" CreationDate="2016-01-02T06:07:03.233" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The age discrepancy is very deliberate. While he is now 30 years-old in human years, according to Stephen Hillenburg, he is a solid 50 in &quot;SpongeBob years&quot;. The reasoning behind this is to emphasize his ageless immaturity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T06:07:03.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45708" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45703" CreationDate="2016-01-02T06:07:44.677" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(character)#Creation_and_design&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although SpongeBob's driver's license says his birthdate is July 14, 1985,[31] Hillenburg joked that he is fifty in &amp;quot;sponge years&amp;quot;. He explained that &lt;strong&gt;SpongeBob actually has no specific age&lt;/strong&gt;, but that he is old enough to be on his own and still be going to boating school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2022-02-23T21:42:11.323" LastActivityDate="2022-02-23T21:42:11.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="45711" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-02T07:06:48.387" Score="7" ViewCount="3771" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that I have finally heard the word zombie being used in &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now correct me if I'm wrong but in season 4 episode 2 when the sickness started to spread through the prison Rick and the group go in there to kill the walkers that were in there when they took one of the little girls to put her in one of the cells. They picked her up kind of and when they do if you listen closely you can hear her say that she's scared or something of the zombies. Now watch this episode and play that part again and again, listen very closely to the little girl to hear her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29414" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T01:15:38.977" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T20:17:22.377" Title="Did she really say 'zombie'?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45422" CreationDate="2016-01-02T08:18:45.170" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the roadshow, just the screener online (that's is of course the digital normal version) but on the web I've found:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I noticed the copy online [...] there are subtle differences, like when daisy is playing guitar, she misses a chord but keeps playing on the 70mm version, but the digital they used a take where she didn't miss the chord. The ending was a little different too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nothing more... I'm also really curious (because in Italy will be out on Febrary and just one movie theater with 70mm version!). Probably on the DVD we'll have all the answers! Yesterday I've seen it again and, just for the sake of foretelling, adding 10 sec for every &quot;natural big landscape frame&quot; you add at least 4 minutes of movie...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29416" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T10:09:12.483" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T10:09:12.483" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45715" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45723" CreationDate="2016-01-02T10:25:23.310" Score="4" ViewCount="488" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I saw the &lt;strong&gt;Batman: The Animated Series&lt;/strong&gt; episode &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Prophecy of Doom&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. In this episode's prologue, it has some similar scenes to the Titanic Movie. My question is what was the meaning of that scene, and in this episode are they really referring to the Titanic or not? If it was, how is the Titanic story connected with it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26538" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-01-02T15:24:04.613" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T15:57:33.917" Title="Titanic reference's significance in Batman TAS episode &quot;Prophecy of Doom&quot;" Tags="|dc-animated-universe|batman-the-animated-series|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45720" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45715" CreationDate="2016-01-02T15:37:17.570" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ship that capsized and sunk is a generic luxury liner, a cruise ship like any other. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sinking%20ship%20simulator&amp;amp;page=2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;It sinks the same way any ship with a hole from an explosion would&lt;/a&gt; (Takes in water, water heavy end sinks, lifting the far end into the air).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it might be reminiscent of the Titanic, unlike the Titanic, there is no ice burgs, no people swimming in the ocean. The plot has nothing to do with the Titanic as well. The ship is just one occurrence of Nostromo's &quot;&quot;&lt;em&gt;future telling ability&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also note that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Titanic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; movie was released in 1997, while this episode was from 1992.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As Lisa Clark says in the episode, it's just &lt;code&gt;a coincidence&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T15:37:17.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45721" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-02T16:19:01.740" Score="8" ViewCount="1187" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Community&lt;/em&gt; season 6 episode 9: &lt;em&gt;Grifting 101&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jeff Winger says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;How was grifting class? Did you teach some advanced techniques; only you could understand? &lt;em&gt;The Brown Betty&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Texas Well Baby&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Reverse Jim Gaffigan&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eEDof.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eEDof.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are these references to real grifts/cons/scams?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do they entail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24047" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2017-03-13T20:25:44.217" LastActivityDate="2020-10-19T20:27:55.480" Title="Advanced grifting techniques" Tags="|dialogue|realism|community|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10727" CreationDate="2016-01-02T17:07:07.797" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;That question was also directed to Robert Kirkman (&lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; comic book creator and also a writer for the TV show), in Talking Dead S05E08 (aired after S06E08 &amp;quot;Start to Finish&amp;quot;, the mid-season finale*). His response was (paraphrased slightly):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, look. One, it's not very practical. Being in close contact with&#xA;that material is also gonna cause all kinds of illnesses,&#xA;aside from any kind of zombie-related nonsense. So you don't want to&#xA;be doing that all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two, it's not going to  last. You would have to be replenishing those zombie guts constantly because they're gonna dry out. They're gonna lose their nastiness. They're not gonna smell. It's just not&#xA;a practical way to go about things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt; * Where Rick's group attempts to escape a walker horde by covering themselves with walker guts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T17:17:22.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45715" CreationDate="2016-01-02T17:35:45.350" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the episode is intentionally evoking the sinking of the Titanic, but referencing &lt;em&gt;earlier depictions&lt;/em&gt; of the disaster (an event which has inspired no less than &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_about_the_RMS_Titanic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;15 feature films&lt;/a&gt; and countless TV shows), rather than the 1997 film &quot;Titanic&quot;, which it obviously predates by several years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Unsinkable Titanic&lt;/strong&gt; (Harry Lloyd King - painted 1912)&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1fyVI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1fyVI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lower the Boats!&lt;/strong&gt; (from the movie A Night to Remember - 1958)&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wBpO1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wBpO1.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pull Away, you dogs!&lt;/strong&gt; (Litho-Print - Untergang der Titanic by Willy Stöwer, painted 1912)&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pbQtQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pbQtQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also want to note the ship's highly distinctive livery and unusual 4-funnel design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the episode itself is concerned, there don't appear to be any in-universe references (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=batman&amp;amp;episode=s01e22&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;within the script&lt;/a&gt;) to the Titanic, only the images, which I'm assuming the makers would be pleased that you recognised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-01-03T15:57:33.917" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T15:57:33.917" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45725" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45721" CreationDate="2016-01-02T18:17:14.480" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;My instinct is that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Betty_(dessert)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Brown Betty&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/a&gt; is some kind of &lt;a href=&quot;http://hoaxes.org/archive/display/category/food_contamination&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Food Contamination Hoax&lt;/a&gt;; where you place something unpalatable inside something you've bought in the hopes of getting compensation from the vendor. There have been some notable &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.bt.com/news/odd-news/maggots-mice-and-deadly-spiders-21-of-the-most-disgusting-things-found-in-food-11363954811297&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;non-scam instances&lt;/a&gt; of this happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Texas Well Baby&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; would presumably be based on &lt;a href=&quot;http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/We&amp;#39;re_Sending_Our_Love_Down_the_Well&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pretending someone is stuck down a well&lt;/a&gt; (the modern variation is that someone is &lt;a href=&quot;http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/stranded-traveler-scam-hacks-victims-emails-asks-contacts/story?id=16774896&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;stuck overseas&lt;/a&gt;) in order to solicit donations from concerned parties. There are, of course &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_McClure&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;real instances&lt;/a&gt; of this occurring.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-01-02T20:44:28.823" LastActivityDate="2016-01-02T20:44:28.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45726" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-02T18:32:33.203" Score="12" ViewCount="2625" Body="&lt;p&gt;We learn throughout the film that Oswaldo was a &quot;gangster&quot;, pretending to be the new hangman in town. When Chris Mannix asked him about the hanging of the man who had shot the sheriff that Mannix is going to replace, Oswaldo had documents about this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it explained how he got in possession of these documents?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29427" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-04-12T18:34:22.927" LastActivityDate="2016-04-12T18:34:22.927" Title="Question about Oswaldo's background in The Hateful Eight" Tags="|character|the-hateful-eight|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45728" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-02T20:27:45.800" Score="8" ViewCount="1504" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there any films coming out in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_frame_rate&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;High Frame Rate (HFR)&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't seem to find anything about the use of HFR except commentary on The Hobbit. Is this technology considered for broader use in the film industry and gaining traction since it's debut in the Hobbit series or is it considered somehwat of a &quot;failed experiment&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or are there any studios openly working on fixing the issues with HFR, maybe in conjunction with a feature film release? (I'm talking about adapting make-up, costume, props etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29429" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-09T16:47:51.760" LastActivityDate="2016-03-01T01:29:26.400" Title="Is High Frame Rate (HFR) being used for films apart from The Hobbit?" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45735" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45754" CreationDate="2016-01-02T22:00:33.070" Score="15" ViewCount="21119" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the special episode of the TV series Sherlock titled The Abominable Bride, Sherlock Holmes and his brother keep talking about a list. What is this list and what is its reference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28789" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-03T03:23:02.190" LastActivityDate="2016-05-08T02:00:22.910" Title="What is with the list in the special episode of Sherlock?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45747" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45651" CreationDate="2016-01-03T00:20:25.243" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the Cyrillic &lt;a href=&quot;https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D1%8F&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Сказка Сказывается&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; literally translated as &lt;strong&gt;&quot;The Fairy Tale&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, alternatively titled &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Another's Tale to Tell&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Tale to be Told&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1970 cartoon short by written by Boris Larin directed by Ivan Aksenchuk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is based on the archetypical Slavic fairy tales of the Heroic &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Tsarevich&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ivan Tsarevich&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Fool&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ivan the Fool&lt;/a&gt;, The Maiden &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilisa_the_Beautiful&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vasilisa the Beautiful&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frog_Princess&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vasilisa the Wise/Frog Princess&lt;/a&gt; (not related to the germanic fairy tale of Frog Prince/Princess and the Frog), and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koschei&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Villainous Immortal Koschei&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Koschei the Deathless] [Russian Literal: Bag of Bones] kidnapped Vasilisa the Beautiful, locking her away and torturing her so people will try to rescue her. There is a Prince who comes to save her but won't life a finger to do it. His faithful servant Ivan does it instead, dealing with a cannibalistic witch, a riddle loving living waterfall, and finally Koshcei turned into a 3 headed dragon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned, the servant does all the work, does get turned into a (very lion-y) dog, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;goes to retrieve a knife from the house of the famous old witch of fairy tale lore, Baba-Yaga&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and in the end wins Vasilisa's hand in marriage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;English and Spanish subtitles available by Chapaev &amp;amp; Eus and Don Medina respectfully (Use the youtube setting/gear button to change):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/MGi0qJ_Q9dg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-01-03T00:35:47.363" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T00:35:47.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45748" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-01-03T01:21:21.943" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-01-03T01:21:21.943" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T01:21:21.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45749" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-01-03T01:21:21.943" Score="0" Body="Haunted (horror film from 1995), directed by Lewis Gilbert" OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2016-01-03T01:27:29.713" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T01:27:29.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45422" CreationDate="2016-01-03T02:22:41.523" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a scene where John Ruth tells the Bob the Mexican to go pluck the chicken in the 70mm print, but it's not in the digital edition. I didn't realize it until later when Bob was finishing plucking, realized they cut an entire encounter between those two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29441" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T03:15:47.807" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T03:15:47.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45753" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18080" CreationDate="2016-01-03T07:26:36.333" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Harlan kills Rodney because he witnessed Petty being killed.     However the fight was supposed to clear up his debt with Harlan as John thought.    But afterwards Harlan changed the deal on him and Harlan still wanted his money.   So it was principle of you owe me.  You can pay me my money and the dive was to cover his inconvenience or you don't and I kill you and I still get my money from the dive.   Drug dealers aren't always moral people.   However they are big on trust and loyalty. Once you break that trust you don't get a second chance.  Such as John Petty didn't.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29446" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-03T15:53:58.323" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T15:53:58.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45754" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45735" CreationDate="2016-01-03T09:25:28.590" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its a list of all the drugs Sherlock has taken so that if he's in trouble Mycroft can help him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28646" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-03T15:54:23.463" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T15:54:23.463" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45755" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45726" CreationDate="2016-01-03T11:45:10.630" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not explained further in the movie, but since &lt;em&gt;&quot;Oswaldo&quot;&lt;/em&gt; was a gangster, he either bribed someone to give him valid documentation, or &lt;em&gt;got&lt;/em&gt; them from the original owner of the documents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11530" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T11:45:10.630" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45757" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49304" CreationDate="2016-01-03T16:47:24.477" Score="18" ViewCount="10570" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469494/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;There Will Be Blood (2007)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. When I had first seen the title of the movie I had assumed the movie to be a violent one with a lot of killing and hatred. But the story is completely different! Based loosely on the novel &lt;em&gt;Oil!&lt;/em&gt; it's rather about the story of an 'oilman'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my doubt is; how is the title of the movie justified? Why didn't the makers name the movie &lt;em&gt;The Oilman&lt;/em&gt; (I have read they didn't name it &lt;em&gt;Oil!&lt;/em&gt; because it isn't directly based on the book) or &lt;em&gt;Daniel Plainview&lt;/em&gt; or something like that? What is the significance of the title in relation to its story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28337" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T14:52:34.033" LastActivityDate="2017-04-12T14:45:55.207" Title="There Will Be Blood title significance" Tags="|title|there-will-be-blood|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45335" CreationDate="2016-01-03T17:03:36.810" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think David might have just fallen in love with the short sighted woman because he was also shortsighted. When she got blinded he started feeling much less in love. This is why he wanted to blind himself at the end of the movie. I think the point the director tried to make might have been that people judge a relationship on very insignificant things. Another example is that David's friend got a girlfriend because he pretended to have nosebleeds, like her. In the world we live in these things would be ridiculous reasons to fall in love with somebody for. It might have been a metaphor for other things that matter to us in judging a relationship, but shouldn't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29454" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T17:03:36.810" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45757" CreationDate="2016-01-03T17:06:16.303" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know that the director has ever spoken out directly about why he chose that specific title, other than what you pointed out: they didn't call it &lt;em&gt;Oil!&lt;/em&gt; because it wasn't a close-enough adaptation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think the title is not referencing anything you see in the movie itself (at least not much). Rather, it's warning about what's &lt;em&gt;going&lt;/em&gt; to happen as a result of the events of the movie. The discovery of oil, the rise of oil as big business, the big companies moving in and taking over, etc. will all lead to a lot of violence. We only see a tiny bit of that in the movie, the several people do die as a result of the oil beneath the farm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The title of the movie movie reminding us of the fact that &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of blood will eventually be spilled over this oil, and what we're seeing with Daniel is just the tip of the iceberg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T17:06:16.303" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45763" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45767" CreationDate="2016-01-03T19:07:31.483" Score="7" ViewCount="1080" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is he, like, a supreme wizard?  I'm asking this because I just got done (over the past day) binge-watching all 3 parts of The Hobbit.  And there's a scene in it where (forgive my lack of Middle Earth knowledge) Gandalf goes to this abandoned castle where The Necromancer is.  And he kinda gets his butt kicked, until Galadriel shows up and cleans house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, in the Battle of the Five Armies, he's confronted by some large creature in Dale.  He muddles around trying to get his staff to glow until Al ends up accidentally catapulting himself into the monster's throat, thus saving Gandalf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, is there some Middle Earth canon that explains why Gandalf is one of five great wizards (him, Saruman, the brown wizard and two brothers that only get mentioned once in The Hobbit), yet seems to be rather poor at wizardry?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-03T19:15:38.387" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T07:25:42.480" Title="Is Gandalf really that great of a wizard?" Tags="|character|the-hobbit|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45763" CreationDate="2016-01-03T21:36:54.287" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Istari&lt;/em&gt;, (better known as &quot;Wizards&quot; in the mortal world), are the Middle-earth counterparts of angels. They were sent by the greatest spirit, Manwë, to answer the threat of evil. In the line of succession, Olórin, (better known as Gandalf), was the third who was sent to deal with the resurgent threat of Sauron. Gandalf in particular was fearful of such a task, as he saw himself as being a weaker Wizard, comparatively speaking. However, Gandalf gained more respect and power through the ages, which was a prime example that Curumo, (Saruman), became jealous and betrayed his sacred covenant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, yes, to answer your question, Gandalf would appear to have been a weaker Wizard. However, his own powers grew to the point that even the most powerful Wizards would come to feel intimidated by him by the events of &lt;em&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regards to the canon of the films, the scene where Gandalf and Sauron encounter one another for the first time was intended to emphasize that even in his weakest form, Sauron is still beyond the powers of the most powerful beings in Middle-earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastEditorUserId="19366" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T07:25:42.480" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T07:25:42.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45770" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-03T22:22:16.823" Score="2" ViewCount="53" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a camera technique which is fairly common now but was rather unusual and subtly effective when it was first used. Of course I don't know the name of it or how it is done (hence my question).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is usually used with one or two persons in focus in the foreground against a fairly deep background. In the camera move, the background begins a zoom in, but the foreground figures maintain their relative positions within the frame. It has a subtle effect of intensifying a scene, roughly a visual equivalent of &quot;turning up the volume&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I recall reading sometime ago that it involves shifting the picture plane of the camera while at the same time maintaining focus on the foreground but I am likely misremembering or didn't completely understand it. There is no CGI or anything like that involved – it is purely mechanical and optical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone know what this technique is called, how it is done, who invented or popularized it and also I guess, if it can be achieved with the digital cameras now in wide use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23487" LastActivityDate="2016-01-03T22:31:46.157" Title="Zooming background camera technique?" Tags="|cinematography|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-01-03T23:05:00.150" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45774" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45786" CreationDate="2016-01-04T00:25:38.077" Score="4" ViewCount="9125" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Million dollar baby, Morgan freeman narrates what happened with Clint Eastwood and Hillary Swank. He was writing all this in a letter to someone.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may have missed a few scenes in the beginning of the movie so I am just guessing that he was writing the letter to Clint Eastwood's daughter probably. Is that correct?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Freeman was writing the letter to her to than where was she? Why would she read his letters? Was there a connection between them that I missed.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clint Eastwood was often shown to be disappointed by the letters that were returned to the sender. He was storing them in a box in his cupboard. Why were the letters always unread. Was there a back story to this if there was any?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21342" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T09:35:28.073" Title="Who was Morgan Freeman writing the letter to?" Tags="|plot-explanation|million-dollar-baby|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45775" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47675" CreationDate="2016-01-04T00:56:37.970" Score="6" ViewCount="1162" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have yet to see Star Wars VII The Force Awakens. I have two younger children and am just wondering what other people think about how &quot;kid&quot; friendly the movie is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it's rated PG-13, but movie ratings are extremely subjective. Do people think that it's really only for 13 years old and up? What about age 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The basic question is, &quot;How graphic and/or violent is the movie?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately I will just have to watch it myself, but I'm just wondering what other peoples opinions are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29468" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T01:14:02.977" LastActivityDate="2017-11-07T07:36:11.537" Title="How &quot;kid&quot; friendly is Star Wars VII The Force Awakens?" Tags="|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45776" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45775" CreationDate="2016-01-04T01:17:07.203" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/star-wars-force-awakens-2015&quot;&gt;BBFC rating page&lt;/a&gt; has a summary of what justifies their 12A rating, which may answer your question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS is a sci-fi action adventure in which a&#xA;  young woman becomes embroiled in a galactic conflict.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;VIOLENCE There are frequent scenes of moderate violence, including use&#xA;  of blasters and lightsabers, and dogfights between spaceships. Sight&#xA;  of blood and injury detail is limited and brief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;THREAT Occasional scenes of moderate threat include characters being&#xA;  interrogated using 'the Force', which it is implied causes them pain,&#xA;  and characters being held at lightsaber-point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is infrequent use of very mild bad language ('hell', 'damn').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately the only thing I can find for the corresponding American institutions is &quot;Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence&quot;, which doesn't help much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An unofficial site that often has more detailed ratings/summaries than the official ones &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/star-wars-episode-vii-the-force-awakens&quot;&gt;is commonsensemedia.org&lt;/a&gt;, which says in the main summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Directed by J.J. Abrams, the sequel takes place approximately 30 years&#xA;  after the events of The Return of the Jedi, and although there's tons&#xA;  of sci-fi action -- space battles, crashes, explosions, lightsaber&#xA;  duels, and more -- there's less violence overall than viewers saw in&#xA;  Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Villains do order the mass murder of&#xA;  countless civilians, prisoners are coerced physically and with the&#xA;  Force, and duels lead to injuries and death, but none of it is bloody&#xA;  or gory. With little language (&quot;dammit&quot; and &quot;hell&quot; are as strong as it&#xA;  gets) or sex, this is the kind of epic adventure that will undoubtedly&#xA;  appeal to Star Wars fans of all ages. But while younger kids may be&#xA;  familiar with the franchise and its many spin-offs (like the animated&#xA;  Clone Wars), they might not be ready for some of The Force Awakens'&#xA;  more violent or emotional scenes. (Spoiler alert: One death will hit&#xA;  very hard.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And in the tooltip of the &quot;Violence&quot; sub-rating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lots of sci-fci action violence on both the largest possible scale&#xA;  (planets obliterated) and much smaller (one-on-one lightsaber duels&#xA;  and firefights/shoot-outs), but hardly any blood/gore (with the&#xA;  exception of bloody fingerprints on a white stormtrooper helmet).&#xA;  There's a weapon that can destroy entire systems, and there are&#xA;  explosive battle sequences in which people die and ships burst into&#xA;  flames. Kylo Ren tortures people, both physically and with the Force.&#xA;  Quick glimpses of dead soldiers and civilians lying around. Laser guns&#xA;  of all shapes and sizes (handheld, ship mounted, etc.); bombs. Chases,&#xA;  crashes, and frequent peril. Large, monstrous creatures rampage&#xA;  through a ship; other creatures look scary/threatening, and the leader&#xA;  of the First Order is creepy. A man orders an entire village of&#xA;  civilians/witnesses slaughtered and cuts down an unarmed man. A young&#xA;  man has debilitating anger issues. Spoiler alert: Supporting&#xA;  characters are injured, one is presumed dead, and there's one very&#xA;  upsetting death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having seen the film myself, I can attest these summaries are completely accurate, although the mention of &quot;torture&quot; in that last quote may sound worse than it actually is; it's more like &quot;interrogation using the Force&quot; as the BBFC summary says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether this means 13, 10, 9, etc is the ideal cutoff is something only you can decide, but that ought to be enough detail for you to choose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21179" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T01:17:07.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45778" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-04T03:18:13.157" Score="1" ViewCount="48" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end of &lt;em&gt;The Kings of Summer&lt;/em&gt;, the broken house in the forest that Joe,  Patrick and Biaggio built was being fixed. What is it implying? Do they still go there to have fun? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-08T08:13:24.570" LastActivityDate="2016-06-08T08:13:24.570" Title="Why was the broken house in forest fixed and what does it imply?" Tags="|ending|the-kings-of-summer|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45779" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45799" CreationDate="2016-01-04T03:35:00.037" Score="2" ViewCount="616" Body="&lt;p&gt;On the posters for &lt;em&gt;The Kings of Summer&lt;/em&gt; there is a slogan:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why live when you can rule?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this mean? Does it imply that they are being with the nature and ruling it instead of having to care about the world that we are in which is the busy world without nature? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="14180" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T12:17:33.010" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T16:27:51.227" Title="What does the tagline of &quot;The Kings of Summer&quot; mean?" Tags="|posters|the-kings-of-summer|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45782" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41733" CreationDate="2016-01-04T06:18:07.283" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Satellite Time reason given by the NASA Director to Vincent was a PR excuse, a way to try and save face. It would allow plausible deniability and prevent NASA, the Ares 3 crew and himself from dealing with any negative press from the actions on Sol-18 of the mission. As he explained to Vincent when pushed &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;in the same scene,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; NASA is a Public Domain organization, they have to by law release any copyrightable image into the Public Domain, and:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Congress won't reimburse us for a paperclip if I put a dead astronaut on the front page of the &lt;em&gt;Washington Post&lt;/em&gt; [newspaper].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Director wanted to wait a year for normal weather activity to bury Mark in sand before authorizing any Satellite time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vincent immediately frames the issue in terms that the Director understood, and ultimately agreed with. &lt;em&gt;Get him the pictures of Mark's body now, and he can sell it to the public and Congress while the public still cares about it.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;In a year, no one would give a shit.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; He dangled a free check in the Director's face and the Director lunged at it, giving Vincent the Satellite time he requested. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T06:18:07.283" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45785" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-04T07:39:28.300" Score="3" ViewCount="751" Body="&lt;p&gt;For lack of better options, I watched the movie &quot;The Conspiracy&quot; and in the end there was a strange brotherhood-type ritual where they placed a cows head on an unsuspecting victim and attacked him (whether or not he survived was open to interpretation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this based on a real tradition or club that is operative to some degree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29477" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T14:12:57.380" LastActivityDate="2016-05-18T19:03:38.090" Title="Is &quot;The Conspiracy&quot; based on a real secret society?" Tags="|realism|the-conspiracy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45786" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45774" CreationDate="2016-01-04T08:35:53.587" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Was there a back story&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We are never told what has happened between Frankie (Eastwood) and his daughter. All we know is that he writes weekly letters to her but they always return to the sender unopened. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I am just guessing that he was writing the letter to Clint Eastwood's daughter probably. Is that correct?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is correct. I haven't seen the movie for quite a while, so I had to make a quick search in the web. If you look at the last lines of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ateliers-scenario.com/_media/million-dollar-baby.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;script&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; at page 120, Scrap (Freeman) says: &lt;em&gt;&quot;I thought you should know what kind of man your father really was&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why Frankie's daughter would read Scrap's letter ... well, just as Scrap, we have not a clue if she ever will. But he does it anyway because he just &lt;em&gt;needs&lt;/em&gt; to tell Frank's story and wishes that the letter he's writing will reach her somehow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastEditorUserId="23244" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T09:35:28.073" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T09:35:28.073" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45790" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45791" CreationDate="2016-01-04T10:05:27.243" Score="6" ViewCount="1147" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a movie I was told about, apparently it's hilarious and beautiful. I don't know when it was made, early 90ties the latest. The movie could be from anywhere but Russia or China seem most likely. Some elements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main plot involves a Mongolian nomad who wants to have sex with his wife. I think this is the opening shot: Wide steppe and a stick jutting out of the grass with a red kerchief tied to it, for privacy. She refuses because they have so many children already and he is sent to the city to buy condoms. When he finally enters a pharmacy he doesn't bring himself to ask the young female pharmacist for condoms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another character is a Russian truck driver who falls asleep at the wheel and drives off road, after waking up in the middle of nowhere he finds a corpse. When he terrifically tells some natives he meets about the corpse, they say &quot;Sure, our uncle, we buried him there!&quot; referring to traditional Mongolian burial practices.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apparently the wide landscape of the Mongolian steppe features in many beautiful shots, at the same time there's lots of comedic gold in the confrontation between the nomad and a modern Chinese or Russian city. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to see it some day, what is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29481" LastEditorUserId="29292" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T11:19:44.450" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T11:19:44.450" Title="What's this road movie set in Mongolia, about a nomad sent to town by his wife to buy condoms" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:17:07.210" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45791" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45790" CreationDate="2016-01-04T10:26:31.487" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_to_Eden&quot;&gt;Close to Eden&lt;/a&gt;, originally released as Urga in 1991.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Mongolian shepherd Gombo lives in a yurt in Inner Mongolia with his&#xA;  wife, three children, and mother. They are portrayed as&#xA;  unsophisticated and traditional and Gombo desires relations with his&#xA;  wife, to try for a fourth child, which puts his wife at unease due to&#xA;  Chinese law. Intoxicated Russian buffoonish truck driver Sergei has&#xA;  stranded himself, driving his truck into a river and is picked up by&#xA;  Gombo, taken to his family's yurt, to join him in dinner. Gombo's&#xA;  family are particularly taken with Sergei's back tattoos, later&#xA;  revealed to be sheet music for &quot;On the Hills of Manchuria&quot;. Gombo and&#xA;  Sergei become mutual dependencies despite their language and cultural&#xA;  differences. &lt;strong&gt;Gombo and Sergei go into the nearest city together, where&#xA;  Gombo is supposed to buy contraceptives (condoms), buying a television&#xA;  set and other goods, but not contraceptives due to drugstore staff&#xA;  being women.&lt;/strong&gt; Sergei, a former army bandsman, becomes drunk and sings&#xA;  &quot;On the Hills of Manchuria&quot; in a nightclub, with the band playing from&#xA;  his back tattoos. He is arrested and bailed out of jail by Gombo.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T10:26:31.487" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45792" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45796" CreationDate="2016-01-04T11:27:45.850" Score="11" ViewCount="6214" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Martian&lt;/em&gt;, we learn that Mark communicates with NASA using the abandoned Pathfinder from 1996.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first he uses a YES/NO system to communicate then chooses the hexadecimal system to communicate ASCII coded characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it is easier to divide a circle to 16 slices, without the need of an angle measuring tool (22.5 degrees per slice). But, wouldn't the decimal system (36 degrees per slice) be more convenient for both him and NASA, even if he does not draw 10 perfect slices?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, wouldn't there be more room for error in rotating the cameras towards the wrong digit with hexadecimal system, than it would be for the decimal, given the size of each slice?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What advantage does the hexadecimal system provide that the decimal system does not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T12:14:43.283" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T02:26:18.723" Title="What advantage does the hexadecimal numeric system have over the decimal system in The Martian?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-martian|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45794" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45795" CreationDate="2016-01-04T11:42:14.243" Score="11" ViewCount="27902" Body="&lt;p&gt;The special New Years episode of &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Abominable Bride&lt;/em&gt;, has the following dedication:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;In Memory of Charlie Phillips&#xA;        1960 - 2015 &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Googling has turned out nobody obvious, so who is, or rather was, this person: a member of production, a personal friend of the creators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12913" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T20:26:14.990" Title="Who is the person the Sherlock special episode is dedicated to?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45794" CreationDate="2016-01-04T12:03:54.027" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2015/02/06/21794/comedy_editor_charlie_phillips_dies&quot;&gt;He was an editor on &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; who died in February last year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Charlie Phillips, a TV comedy editor whose credits include Psychoville, Him and Her and Man Down, has died in his mid-fifties. Reece Shearsmith paid tribute on Twitter saying: ‘RIP Charlie Philips - our amazing editor of Psychoville; &lt;strong&gt;BAFTA for his work on Sherlock&lt;/strong&gt; and one of the loveliest people I've known.’ His other credits included Saxondale, Shooting Stars, Rev, Dr Terrible’s House of Horrible, and This Is Jinsy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T12:03:54.027" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45792" CreationDate="2016-01-04T12:11:23.180" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;After reading an answer to &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112036/in-the-martian-why-would-he-use-hex-over-base-10-values-for-the-alphabet&quot;&gt;the exact question on Science Fiction &amp;amp; Fantasy Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt; (as pointed by Richard), it became very clear why hexadecimal is the better system to communicate with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason has little to do with the number of slices in the circle, but mainly with the pre-agreed upon protocol of communication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You see, using a decimal system means that each character in Ascii would require 3 digits to represent. While hexadecimal can represent any character in 2 digits. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, the hexadecimal will make it easier to distinct and to decipher than decimal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Consider the following sequence of decimals:&#xA;&lt;code&gt;072101108108111&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above stand for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;072 -&amp;gt; H&#xA;101 -&amp;gt; e&#xA;108 -&amp;gt; l&#xA;108 -&amp;gt; l&#xA;111 -&amp;gt; o&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;but it could easily be mistaken by:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;007 -&amp;gt; ?&#xA;210 -&amp;gt; &quot;&#xA;110 -&amp;gt; n&#xA;810 -&amp;gt; ?&#xA;811 -&amp;gt; ?&#xA;1   -&amp;gt; ?&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whereas in hexadecimal, that sequence would be:&#xA;&lt;code&gt;48656c6c6f&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, the number of digits a down by a third, and second, the margin of error is reduced by a large extent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T00:05:30.423" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45797" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45792" CreationDate="2016-01-04T12:12:20.713" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, the degrees being too narrow is a non-starter. The stick he uses for the 22 degree markers provides the accuracy, and a wider circle would compensate for the smaller, 13 degree sections. And the &lt;strong&gt;Pathfinder Lander&lt;/strong&gt; (renamed the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Carl Sagan Memorial Station&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) IMP (Imager for Mars Pathfinder) would absolutely be able to accurately match any arbitrary degree of rotation. A quality Servo can have a position accuracy in the sub-degree range!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the main reason that Mark uses Hexadecimal is that he needs a way of communicating with NASA that someone will know, without having the luxury of being able to communicate with them how. &lt;strong&gt;It's a Chicken or Egg problem.&lt;/strong&gt; There is no standard base-10 language set. But Hexadecimal is used throughout computers everywhere, and by luck one of the other astronauts had a table on their laptop that Mark could use. Without that table, he would have had to create something from thin air, and hope that they could reply back in a reasonable manner. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The ASCII to Hexadecimal was an already established protocol that they could both easily use without having to make something up from scratch, and the Table provided it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mark to Camera: I figured one of you guys kept an ASCII table lying around. And I was right.&#xA;  Ladies and gentlemen, I give you super-nerd Beth Johanssen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Followed by a nameless Engineer immediately understanding it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Engineer: I know where he's going with this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any nonsense about not being able to send numbers or punctuation using a decimal notation is ridiculous, as both numbers and punctuation can be spelled out, and Mark and NASA engineers could work out short hand to prevent needing to spell out longer words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course the Movie Portrayal is fairly non-realistic. Why would any engineer bother with a relatively hard to read multiplication table instead of the much more common linear table, which tend to have Hex, Octo, Decimal, and AlphaNumeric side by side. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why bother with a Question Mark when Hexadecimal has a Question Mark in it (0x63) AND they don't even bother to use punctuation  when they send him anything.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; They also didn't use a space, leaving Mark to figure out what they mean by context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T12:35:08.517" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T12:35:08.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45779" CreationDate="2016-01-04T12:21:16.783" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The synopsis of the movie -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmofilia.com/the-kings-of-summer-trailer-143189/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;as quoted by &lt;strong&gt;FilmoFilia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; -- makes it clear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;THE KINGS OF SUMMER is a unique coming-of-age comedy about three&#xA;  teenage friends [...] who, in &lt;strong&gt;the ultimate act of independence&lt;/strong&gt;,&#xA;  decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living&#xA;  off the land. &lt;strong&gt;Free from their parents’ rules&lt;/strong&gt;, their idyllic summer&#xA;  quickly becomes a test of friendship as each boy learns to appreciate&#xA;  the fact that family – whether it is the one you’re born into or the&#xA;  one you create – is something you can’t run away from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=the-kings-of-summer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dialogue excerpt&lt;/a&gt; refers to the same theme:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is the site of our new house, man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What, like a tree house?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No, like a real house. I'm moving out. We're moving out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What the hell are you talking about? &lt;strong&gt;My mom won't let me walk around&#xA;  the house without socks on. She's definitely not going to let us live&#xA;  out here in the woods.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No one will find us out here, Patrick. &lt;strong&gt;This house, this land, it's&#xA;  ours! We make the rules, you know? Like men!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead of &quot;just living&quot; and having to follow their parents' rules, they leave home and are &quot;kings of their own domain&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T16:27:51.227" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T16:27:51.227" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45803" CreationDate="2016-01-04T13:15:48.890" Score="6" ViewCount="779" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this movie about 20 Years ago. I thought Gene Wilder was the main actor, but i could not find the movie in his list.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I only remember some parts of the story:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main actor (a white actor, Gene Wilder-like) is adopted by a black family. When they tell him that he is adopted, he is totally surprised. He wants to find his one way, leaves his family and works as mechanic in a garage or a gas station.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile a crazy person wants to kill somebody, he opens the phonebook and selects a random name, it is the name of the main actor. He tries to kill the main person several times, but always fails.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not 100% sure if it was in this movie, but I think the main character does also win a great jackpot in a lottery and gets rich.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I also think he meets a girl, falls in love and get here at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Genre: Comedy &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Year: between 1975-1990&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Country: I guess it was an american movie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22783" LastEditorUserId="22783" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T13:24:39.087" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T23:50:19.260" Title="Name of a comedy movie with adopted white who is hunted by a killer" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:17:10.350" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45802" CreationDate="2016-01-04T13:25:51.560" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079367/combined&quot;&gt;The Jerk&lt;/a&gt; with Steve Martin from 1979.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Navin is an idiot. He grew up in Mississippi as adopted son of a black family but on his 18th birthday he feels he wants to discover the rest of the world and sets out to St. Louis. There everyone exploits his naivety, but then a simple invention brings him a fortune. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jerk&quot;&gt;at some point&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Navin [...] is thrilled to find that he is listed in the local phone book, as his name is &quot;in print&quot; for the first time. Not long after, a gun-wielding lunatic randomly flips through the phone book and picks &quot;Johnson, Navin R.&quot; as his next victim.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/goat7QZohhc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T13:25:51.560" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45804" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17212" CreationDate="2016-01-04T13:30:03.223" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Several false assumptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ultimate Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt; the cartoon is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;NOT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Earth-1610. Earth-1610 is the Ultimate comic universe. Ultimate Spider-Man the cartoon is the Marvel Animation Universe, and designated &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Earth-12041&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Earth-12041&lt;/a&gt; as established in Secret Wars: Official Guide to the Marvel Multiverse Vol 1, October 28, 2015. It also includes &lt;em&gt;Marvel's Avengers Assemble&lt;/em&gt; cartoon, &lt;em&gt;Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.&lt;/em&gt; cartoon, and &lt;em&gt;Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy&lt;/em&gt; cartoon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ultimate Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt; is not based overtly on the Ultimate comic universe. None of the plot lines or background is based on it. Even Remotely. It does use some threads, but that's slim to none. It is still heavily Main universe 616 inspired.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Marvel heavily borrows from MCU into 616 and the now ended 1610 (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Ultimate Universe ended with the Secret Wars event in 2015, some characters surviving the destruction&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;). The Inhuman events in 616 mirror the Inhuman events in MCU Agents of Shield. The Character Designs in 616 mirror whatever actor is currently playing the same character in the movies. Compare 616 Tony Stark in the 90s to modern day Tony Stark and notice how he now looks like RDJ.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Coulson has migrated to 616 and previously 1610. So has Nick Fury, the Samuel L Jackson MCU version, as the son of the white Nick Fury, as Nick Fury, &lt;strong&gt;JR&lt;/strong&gt;. Specifically he's not the 1610 version.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Marvel's All-New, All-Different, post-&lt;strike&gt;Infinite Crisis&lt;/strike&gt;Secret Wars universe may not even be 616 anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T13:30:03.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45805" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-04T13:56:57.760" Score="3" ViewCount="639" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sherlock says it is obvious the bride's duplicate corpse was supposed to be there beneath her. It was going to prove his theory. But the corpse is not shown to be seen there in the episode. So, does that his theory was incorrect?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29485" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T15:28:16.203" Title="Why was the corpse of the duplicate of the bride supposed to be with the original, in The Abominable Bride? Was it there?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45806" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45851" CreationDate="2016-01-04T13:57:34.183" Score="4" ViewCount="1085" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw the movie &lt;em&gt;Revolver&lt;/em&gt; recently and was wondering why the movie is named such. The movie is basically upon the &lt;em&gt;ego&lt;/em&gt; of a person and has a lot of &lt;em&gt;chess&lt;/em&gt; analogy included in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: Why is the movie named &lt;em&gt;Revolver&lt;/em&gt; when there is no analogy to revolver shown in the film? Wasn't the title &lt;em&gt;Chess&lt;/em&gt; a much better and justified alternative as the movie title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28337" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T14:35:29.733" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T13:02:56.877" Title="Revolver movie title significance" Tags="|title|revolver|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45792" CreationDate="2016-01-04T15:25:28.993" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The hexadecimal system would only use 2 &quot;bytes&quot; per character. With the decimal system there could be letters or symbols requiring 3 &quot;bytes&quot; per character. If you want to avoid confusion and add a 0 in front of characters requiring 2 &quot;bytes&quot;, you effectively add 50% to the communication compared to the hexadecimal system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus, since Johanssen has an ASCII table laying around, chances are it contains both the decimal, octal and hexadecimal value for each character. This makes it easy to use an established system of communication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4792" LastEditorUserId="4792" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T16:48:13.087" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T16:48:13.087" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45805" CreationDate="2016-01-04T15:28:16.203" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not necessarily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point of the episode was that Sherlock was convinced that Moriarty had survived his &quot;suicide&quot; at the end of season 2. He deduced that this was done in the exact same way as was done in the case of The Abominable Bride from the 19th century, thus he attempted to solve that case within his own drug-addled/enhanced mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore when he later believes he has solved the mystery (replaced the body with a duplicate corpse) he sets out to prove that theory in order to add credibility to the theory of how Moriarty has survived. The only way he can do this is by finding the second body that was used as a duplicate, and the only place that there is any evidence of it being is in the grave beneath the real bride's body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, whilst attempting to dig up the body he realizes that he is still in his drug-induced stupor. He then battles Moriarty within his own mind, and learns that Moriarty is only alive in his own head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once he has awoken and become lucid again, there is no longer any need to find out where the other body is hidden. He only needed the proof of the body in order to convince others and himself that this was how the bride, and therefore Moriarty successfully faked their death's. Now that he realizes Moriarty isn't alive, he is content with the deduction alone as to how The Abominable Bride murders were achieved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course it &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be hidden beneath the original body, but it might also have been thrown into the river, buried by the side of a road etc. It's unlikely that they would then exhume the coffin to try to solve a case over a century old without concrete evidence, as nobody had any reason to pursue it anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T15:28:16.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45802" CreationDate="2016-01-04T15:57:48.640" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Jerk, Steve Martin....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;These cans are defective!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Tcwz8-EfFYE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4792" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T16:33:24.257" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T16:33:24.257" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45810" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45811" CreationDate="2016-01-04T16:31:09.847" Score="4" ViewCount="1240" Body="&lt;p&gt;With films shown in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4DX&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;4DX format&lt;/a&gt;, who is responsible for chosing the environmental effects and their timing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;4DX allows a motion picture presentation to be augmented with environmental effects such as seat motion, wind, rain, fog, lights, and scents along with the standard video and audio. As such, theaters must be specially designed for and equipped with 4DX technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found some info on Wikipedia about &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_4DX_motion-enhanced_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;films being produced with 4DX motion-enhancement&lt;/a&gt; but was not sure if the &quot;&lt;em&gt;Production company&lt;/em&gt;&quot; column is just the producer for the film itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do they also choose what effects they want to have if their film is shown in 4DX or are the cinemas creating, adjusting and timing the effects all by themselves?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is the program/sequence created by CJ 4DPLEX, the cinema or the film producer themselves?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29490" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-05T12:04:05.697" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T12:04:05.697" Title="Who &quot;produces“ 4DX movies?" Tags="|production|4dx|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45811" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45810" CreationDate="2016-01-04T16:38:18.653" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the case of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmjournal.com/content/moving-pictures-depth-look-enhanced-4d-experiences&quot;&gt;D-Box&lt;/a&gt;, the company responsible for maintaining and managing the seats also seems to be responsible for working directly with the film producer to determine &lt;em&gt;which effects go where&lt;/em&gt; in each film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The seating is actually provided under franchise (to the cinema) in the same way that a coca-cola distributor might provide the cinema with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--PVdUyrga--/18ls4t5bn7wo8jpg.jpg&quot;&gt;Soda Vending Machine&lt;/a&gt; in their lobby. A percentage of the extra cost of each 4DX seat sold goes directly to D-Box and the remainder of the profit goes to the cinema in the usual way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do you work with the filmmakers on determining the activity levels and timing of effects? On average, how many movements/effects&#xA;  are chosen? And does any particularly effective film come to mind?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We work with the post-production team of the studio. We only put&#xA;  motion where the movie calls for it. Usually a two-hour film will have&#xA;  about 30 to 40 minutes of motion. We don’t want to distract from the&#xA;  movie, we want to immerse. So when scenes call for action (fight,&#xA;  races, etc.) we put the motion from subtle to intense, depending on&#xA;  the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Generally, our motion coders provide the information as number of MFX&#xA;  events, MFX total time and MFX percentage. But it is hard to say which&#xA;  title that we have completed had the most effects or most diverse mix.&#xA;  But it is safe to say that classic chase scenes, gunshots, fight&#xA;  scenes, explosions, natural disasters such as earthquakes, tornados,&#xA;  storms, etc. all lend themselves for fantastic possible MFXs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since only blockbuster films merit a 4DX production, I'd imagine that it's the marketing people at Marvel, Sony, Disney, etc. who liaise with the 4DX provider rather than anyone who was involved in the day-to-day &lt;em&gt;making&lt;/em&gt; of the film (e.g. the Director / Screenwriter, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T16:44:31.743" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T16:44:31.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44293" CreationDate="2016-01-04T16:41:23.127" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think it's foreshadowing. If you look at the chandeliers being reflected, Jack has already passed under the chandelier that is reflected in the last mirror, before that chandelier is shown. I.e. Jack is too close by the time he passes the last mirror to be shown in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4792" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T16:41:23.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45813" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44081" CreationDate="2016-01-04T16:42:39.490" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The event Bond is listening in on (and pointing his gun at) are terrorists doing final prep to leave a bomb at the stadium later that day (who the man in white is one of and Bond has followed to this location).  The bomb is in the briefcase.  Bond firstly shoots the person who spots him through the window, fourth shot hits the briefcase which causes the bomb to detonate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at this video of the opening scene (about 4:15 into the video):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/LzRhIHQcauE?start=255&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By setting off the bomb there the casualties were much fewer than it going off in public at the stadium later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T20:50:55.650" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T20:50:55.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45818" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45822" CreationDate="2016-01-04T17:20:41.923" Score="6" ViewCount="2923" Body="&lt;p&gt;As shown in the last season of Game of Thrones, one of the leaders of the White Walkers was killed by Jon Snow's Valyrian steel sword.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we know, White Walkers can be killed by Fire and Dragon Glass only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29492" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T17:38:26.830" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T17:39:34.120" Title="How can Valyrian steel kill White Walkers?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-01-05T15:59:53.650" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45819" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45825" CreationDate="2016-01-04T17:25:47.757" Score="8" ViewCount="837" Body="&lt;p&gt;As shown in the season 5 of Game of Thrones, Stannis' daughter was burned alive by Melisandre, the Red Woman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Stannis not try to save her? He seemed to really love her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is ambition and power more important to him than love?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29492" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-04T23:17:26.373" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T20:53:25.560" Title="Is power more important than love for Stannis?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45821" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45832" CreationDate="2016-01-04T17:34:15.657" Score="8" ViewCount="2914" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm currently watching season 3 of House M.D. and I'm a bit confused. He tries to get Vicodin from his coworkers and even visits an external doc but since he is a doc himself why doesn't he prescribe Vicodin for his own use?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29495" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T21:22:38.990" Title="Why doesn't House prescribe vicodin himself?" Tags="|house|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45818" CreationDate="2016-01-04T17:39:34.120" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a GoT forum...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think the major thing they both have in common is they both somewhat embody fire. Just like the Others of oure ice that will go through normal steel like nothing, therefore Valyrian steel or obsidian which is literally &quot;frozen fire&quot; to some degrees hold the opposite element to that of ice, and will destroy it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?/topic/86855-confusing-dragon-glass-with-valyrian-steel/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?/topic/86855-confusing-dragon-glass-with-valyrian-steel/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29496" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T17:39:34.120" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45819" CreationDate="2016-01-04T18:55:29.967" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is difficult to answer since:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;This incident never happened in the books.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are never privy to Stannis' inner thoughts on the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking back at his history there are two possible motivations that would have lead him to prioritize the war over his daughter's life:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ambition for power. Stannis has never made it a secret that he desires the Iron Throne and he oft repeats that it is &quot;owed&quot; him. So perhaps he values the Iron Throne and all the rights that were denied him over his daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;To serve the greater good. Stannis is also a (cautious) believer of the war between R'hllor and the Great Other. He believes that defeating the Great Other is his greatest mission, and being the king of Westeros is only a stepping stone towards that great goal. He has also been lead by Melisandre to believe that sacrificing his daughter is the only way for him to move forward in this war. So perhaps he sacrificed his love for his daughter in order to defeat the Great Other, much in the way that Azor Ahai (who some believe he is an incarnation of) sacrificed the life of his beloved wife Nissa Nissa to forge Lightbringer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my mind, the second is the most convincing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T18:55:29.967" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44081" CreationDate="2016-01-04T19:54:17.033" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason you missed the dialogue is because it was in Italian, heard on Bond's dodgy earpiece and quite heavily masked by the ambient sounds. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film's (admittedly unofficial) subtitles offer the following info about what was being said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suited Man:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Do you have it?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sciarra:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Yes. It's there.&lt;/em&gt; [indicates the briefcase, opens it]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Suited Man:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;So, when will we blow up the stadium?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shortly afterwards, James shoots the briefcase, causing the building (evidently some kind of terrorist safehouse) to explode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/kEnK0ZdMThc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/James-Bond-Spectre-Script-Leak-Drops-Majors-Spoilers-Could-Lead-Rewrites-68657.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;script notes&lt;/a&gt; for this scene back this up: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bond fires, &lt;strong&gt;suitcase&#xA;  explodes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="70064" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2019-05-11T05:50:27.683" LastActivityDate="2019-05-11T05:50:27.683" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="45830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45792" CreationDate="2016-01-04T21:06:59.947" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;16 positions is much easier for a human to read at a glance than 10 would be. A compass rose is a 16-position system (N, NNE NE, ENE...).&#xA;Now try to think of a commonly used circle divided into tenths. There really aren't many, and we aren't as used to reading them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a subtler advantage to hex ascii: the highest bit will never be set. If you see a hex digit greater than 7, it &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; be tge second digit of the chsracter. That gives you a quick way to realize you dropped a digit while transcribing, since half the second-nybble digits will be 7 or greater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But, yeah, it's mostly a matter of &quot;us geeks already know a suitable code; many of us could recreate most of it from memory., it'll be really easy for the machines to handle... why not.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11477" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T21:06:59.947" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45832" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45821" CreationDate="2016-01-04T21:22:38.990" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;House is not allowed to self-prescribe. It is not clear if this is all doctors or just Cuddy's restriction on House, but this is the case. This can be seen a few seasons later when House has to ask Wilson for a legitimate prescription.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16406" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T21:22:38.990" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45835" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45792" CreationDate="2016-01-04T23:50:41.377" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As was said in most of the other answers, hexadecimal (and, more generally, base-2^n) numbers are THE standard in all things computer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is another practical reason: when designing a system of communication involving humans, one wants to maximize throughput while minimizing the possibility of human error. And in terms of human error, hexadecimal notation is a lot more convenient when converting to ASCII, because since each character is one byte long, in is represented by &lt;em&gt;precisely&lt;/em&gt; 2 hexadecimal digits. For comparison, in decimal a byte would be about 2.408 digits per byte in the case of continuous streaming (which would vastly increase human error), or 3 when encoding each character separately (which decreases throughput while still increasing probability of error, as one has to then convert the digits to a number afterwards and match the numbers to a linear table instead of using the more natural 16x16 ASCII table where the first digit is one coordinate and the second digit the other). Additionally, this perfect match eliminates the question of which mode of transmission to use (continuous or per-character).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29509" LastActivityDate="2016-01-04T23:50:41.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45836" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45792" CreationDate="2016-01-05T00:13:03.283" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Errors in the stream are also far more obvious with hex than with decimal. For example, if you get the following stream of characters, you know something is wrong:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;141424344...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Numbers fall into the hex range 30-39, uppercase letters are 41-5A, lowercase are 61-7A. Space is 20. If you get a two-character sequence that does not start with 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7, or is not &quot;20,&quot; then you know the sequence has an error. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you shift that sequence forward one character (ignore the leading &quot;1&quot;), it makes sense again: &quot;ABC.&quot; You can assume the first character got garbled in transmission and is lost, but the rest of the transmission is readable. It would be far more difficult to do that with decimal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22875" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T00:13:03.283" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45850" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45336" CreationDate="2016-01-05T12:57:58.483" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, I would like to say that I really enjoyed the movie, which, in all of its &lt;em&gt;weirdness&lt;/em&gt; and cynicism i think it can still be defined as a romantic comedy &lt;em&gt;of sorts&lt;/em&gt;, which is rare to find (the first other example that comes to mind is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338013/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About your questions: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In short I guess they're showing that our society is cruel to single people and we encourage to live together.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first part of the movie this is clearly shown, but as David (Farrell) escapes the &quot;resort&quot; in which he was forced to enter, he finds himself between the group of singles which are not less fiercely ideological than the &lt;em&gt;mated ones&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;the loner group (...) has some rules which basically means no relationship. WHY? Aren't they all ran off to become independent? Then why single people are putting cruel rules on themselves? What does it mean?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It means that there is no real difference between the two groups since both blindly apply the same fundamentalist approach, although it leads them to behave in opposite ways. The director's critic, in my opinion, is meant to address the society as a whole or at least those who are always thinking in terms of absolutes, not just the people that think that a single is a loner (or a loser).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And why loner leader Léa Seydoux is so desperate about rules that she blinded Rachel Weisz. What's the hidden meaning of this character loner leader?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not clear to me whether she's acting out of &lt;em&gt;spite&lt;/em&gt; (jealousy) because of the relationship between David and &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Short Sighted Woman&quot;&lt;/em&gt; or because she wants to punish her for breaking their &quot;law&quot;. When the loner leader finds the Short Sighted Woman's diary and reads it realizing her betrayal, I thought I saw a glimpse of envy in her, but maybe it was just my imagination. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever the reason, the loners are trying to distinguish themselves as much as they can from the others, therefore, if the society strongly encourages (so to speak) people to live as a couple, they need to rebel to this rule and live by contrast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, since the coupling of people in this dystopic society is based on the matching of their defects (see the limping guy that causes himself nosebleeds in order to be considered as the perfect match for the nosebleeding girl), the loner leader thinks that the best way to disrupt the relationship between David and the Short Sighted Woman is to blind her, thus cancelling what they have in common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2015/film/festivals/the-lobster-review-colin-farrell-rachel-weisz-1201496633/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in the US Variety online edition there is an interesting review of the movie in which many cues for reflection can be found.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hope this answers your doubts&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T12:57:58.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45851" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45806" CreationDate="2016-01-05T12:58:08.967" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_13426.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From Guy Ritchie&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've always been surprised that no other movie has ever been called Revolver because it just sounds cool. So I like the name, but I also like the concept that, if you're in a game, it keeps revolving until you realize that you are in a game and then maybe you can start evolving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29533" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-05T13:02:56.877" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T13:02:56.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45853" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45864" CreationDate="2016-01-05T13:34:32.133" Score="6" ViewCount="3225" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Shrek and Fiona travel to &quot;Far Far Away&quot; in &lt;em&gt;Shrek 2&lt;/em&gt;, the travel scene is portrayed as a very long one, because, well, they do travel &quot;far far away&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before leaving his swamp, Shrek hands it over to gingerbread man, three piggies, Pinocchio and others to &quot;guard&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later on, gingerbread man recognizes Shrek when watching &quot;TV&quot; and the whole group is able to help him in a matter of hours. This sounds like a plot hole to me. Or is there any explanation of how they could arrive to help him so quickly?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25772" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-05T13:46:31.473" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T17:03:04.250" Title="How could Shrek's friends arrive so quickly?" Tags="|plot-explanation|shrek-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44937" CreationDate="2016-01-05T14:34:02.877" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/02/star-wars-force-awakens-maz-kanata-supreme-leader-snoke-exclusive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;new interview with Andy Serkis&lt;/a&gt; who played Snoke on &lt;em&gt;Entertainment weekly&lt;/em&gt;  in which he says that Snoke is a new addition and not based on another character:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“When we first started working on it, he had some rough notions of how Snoke was gonna look, but it really hadn’t been fully-formed and it almost came out of discussion and performance,” Serkis added.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Although there was much speculation about who Snoke might turn out to be (one popular theory was that he’d turn out to be a Sith Lord known from the prequels as Darth Plagueis) &lt;strong&gt;he actually turns out to be … just Snoke&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Serkis said the character was aware of the events from the earlier films but was &lt;strong&gt;a new addition to the storyline&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/02/star-wars-force-awakens-maz-kanata-supreme-leader-snoke-exclusive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/02/star-wars-force-awakens-maz-kanata-supreme-leader-snoke-exclusive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23239" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T14:41:35.990" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45859" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45860" CreationDate="2016-01-05T15:17:53.247" Score="4" ViewCount="960" Body="&lt;p&gt;In recently aired BBC Sherlock Season 4 Episode 0, when Sherlock goes to visit Mycroft on his call with John Watson. Mycroft tell them about taking a case. Relevant conversation is following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Watson : But these enemies. How are we to defeat them if you won't tell us about them?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Mycroft : We don't defeat them. We most certainly lose to them.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  W : Why?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  M : Because they are right. And we are wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does it mean? How were those &quot;enemies&quot; right ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29538" LastEditorUserId="29538" LastEditDate="2016-01-05T16:58:26.867" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T16:58:26.867" Title="They are right. And we are wrong" Tags="|dialogue|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45859" CreationDate="2016-01-05T15:51:31.593" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marion Stein has &lt;a href=&quot;http://happynicetimepeople.com/sherlock-and-when-he-woke-up-bobby-ewing-was-in-the-shower-new-years-special/&quot;&gt;a good explanation&lt;/a&gt; over at Happy Nice Time People:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They go to a “desanctified church” where &lt;strong&gt;Mary announces she’s found&#xA;  “the heart of the conspiracy.”&lt;/strong&gt; A group dressed in pointed sheets, not&#xA;  white sheets but nevertheless clan-like, is chanting. Why the KKK&#xA;  reference? It’s another nod to the source material, The Five Orange&#xA;  Pips. Only here it isn’t southern white men hiding under the sheets.&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;It’s British women, including Molly Hooper, and John’s housemaid –&#xA;  women who’ve been abused, brutalized, and ignored.&lt;/strong&gt; Sherlock’s&#xA;  fake-girlfriend from last season is there too. &lt;strong&gt;They have become the&#xA;  “invisible enemy” that Mycroft spoke about, and their cause is just.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sherlock works it out. Mrs. Riccoletti was dying of tuberculosis. She&#xA;  went on a suicide mission. First, she faked her death by appearing to&#xA;  shoot herself in the head, but she really shot one of her guns at the&#xA;  ground while a co-conspirator splashed blood on the back of her head.&#xA;  A substitute corpse was taken to the morgue. Later, the real Mrs. R&#xA;  killed her husband, and then shot herself. Her body replaced the&#xA;  substitute. Thus &lt;strong&gt;the legend of the vengeful ghost was born, and the&#xA;  co-conspirators continued their mission to assassinate the brutes.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T15:51:31.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45861" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47167" CreationDate="2016-01-05T16:09:31.230" Score="7" ViewCount="28068" Body="&lt;p&gt;The show features scenes from many places in Colombia, most notable Medellín but also Bogotá and Cali, as well as brief interludes from Chile/Peru and Panama.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How much of the South American scenes from Narcos were actually shot there?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22406" LastEditorUserId="22406" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T03:35:10.890" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T04:30:10.003" Title="Was Narcos shot on location?" Tags="|film-location|narcos|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45863" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45867" CreationDate="2016-01-05T16:56:46.377" Score="4" ViewCount="4973" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the climax of the 2014 movie &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Shift&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Last Shift&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, rookie cop Jessica Loren kills the HAZMAT guys, thinking them to be ghosts (or whatever), and later, when she is shot by the Sergeant, she comes to her senses and realizes that they were Hazmat guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in the movie's story, did she have some sort of mental disorder that made her think of ghosts, and other effects in movie? Or were there ghosts that made her to feel like that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19587" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-01-05T17:02:42.153" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T17:29:37.053" Title="Why does rookie cop Jessica Loren shoot these characters?" Tags="|plot-explanation|last-shift|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45853" CreationDate="2016-01-05T17:03:04.250" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I asked the film's screenwriter, &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/DavidNWeiss/status/595010721651433472&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;David N Weiss&lt;/a&gt;. He confirmed that they flew to Far Far Away on Dragon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4cxUc.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It might also interest you to know that at that point in the film, Dragon &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/111603/20774&quot;&gt;may have been in the form of a Pegasus&lt;/a&gt; as a result of the &quot;Happily Ever After Potion&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T17:03:04.250" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45865" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45881" CreationDate="2016-01-05T17:08:39.593" Score="38" ViewCount="12592" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Mad Max: Fury Road&lt;/em&gt;, as far as I understood, Max was considered a very valuable donor. Then why did savages tie him up to the grill of a car, where he was so vulnerable and could be easily killed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="24301" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T16:04:39.440" LastActivityDate="2016-10-15T19:29:25.077" Title="Why was Max tied up to the grill of a car?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45863" CreationDate="2016-01-05T17:29:37.053" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The very short answer is that the film's director, Anthony DiBlasi &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/131525/anthony-diblasi-walks-us-last-shift/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;openly stated&lt;/a&gt; that he wants the audience to be conflicted over whether what Officer Loren is seeing is real or imagined&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (and would presumably be very pleased to see that it worked!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At that end of the film our hero has been subjected to numerous instances of &lt;em&gt;seemingly&lt;/em&gt; supernatural events; being attacked by undead creatures, repeatedly scared by people who subsequently disappear. On top of that, she also seems to be suffering from borderline psychosis brought on by stress and lack of sleep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that she experiences a &quot;moment of clarity&quot; at the end (when she realises that what she thought was a Satanist cult was in fact the HAZMAT team) which would imply that the ghosts were in her own mind, but that's just &lt;em&gt;my opinion&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DC:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;In the film there are instances of Satanic activity, claustrophobia, and a ton of jump scares – what is it about this movie&#xA;  that’s going to scare the crap out of people?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AD:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I think the main component of it is that you’ve essentially got one character that takes you on a journey, and you’re in her point&#xA;  of view through the entire movie, and I think that helps a lot for&#xA;  viewers to just settle in and experience everything as she does.&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Every corner that she lurks around, there’s something waiting for her, and it’s always in her point of view – is it just playing with&#xA;  her mind, or is this a full-on haunting?&lt;/strong&gt; It’s a really important&#xA;  element of the film, just keeping that momentum going for a fresh&#xA;  experience.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T17:29:37.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19570" CreationDate="2016-01-05T17:34:57.773" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was alive during the movie, because there are too many people that see and interact with him, so we are talking about opinion then based on what each of us are seeing. I have thought about it each time I watch this movie. I have come to the conclusion that he (Terrance Mann)was a part of the entire cosmic game that was being played on that field in Iowa and had a roll to play just like Shoeless Joe had. I believe that it was just his time to go and that it was the way it was suppose to happen from the time that the voice first spoke to ray in the field.  The part of the movie that has given me the most reason to ponder about this is the picking up of the hitch hiker Doc Graham when he was already known to be dead. The best that I can come up with is that it was just part of the magic because he never was seen by any other but the people that were a part of the magic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29546" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T17:34:57.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45865" CreationDate="2016-01-05T18:21:29.413" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;Aside from the Warboys not always being the brightest bulbs in the box, &lt;strong&gt;where else could they really put him?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QDS8i.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QDS8i.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Max on hood of car&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has to be restrained otherwise he's likely to attack and kill all of them, they can't really tie him to the roof of or hood of the car as they're rather small or lack a solid surface to tie him to where the hood is concerned, so the only place left to put him was on an oversized front grill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given their entire culture is based around cars and their aesthetics (&quot;You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome!&quot;), one could also say &lt;strong&gt;they mounted him as a hood ornament&lt;/strong&gt;, similar to the way luxury car brands place the symbol of the brand very prominently on the hood of the car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vz4Q4.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vz4Q4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Jaguar hood ornament&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T18:21:29.413" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45871" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-05T18:24:25.877" Score="2" ViewCount="5098" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the ending scene of the Bollywood film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4635372/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Masaan&lt;/a&gt; aka Fly Away Solo two characters, a boy and girl, take a ride to the river coast at another side of Ganga in a boat. The boy says that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;वैसे &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triveni_Sangam&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;संगम&lt;/a&gt; दो बार आना चाहिए, एक बार अकेले, और एक बार किसी और के साथ&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Translation: One should come twice to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triveni_Sangam&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Sangam&lt;/a&gt;, once alone and once with someone else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the significance of that dialogue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5647" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-05T18:54:13.263" LastActivityDate="2017-03-21T10:17:18.197" Title="What is meaning of dialogue at the end of Masaan about going to Sangam twice?" Tags="|dialogue|masaan|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45873" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-05T18:44:45.447" Score="7" ViewCount="1779" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://thementalist.wikia.com/wiki/His_Red_Right_Hand&quot;&gt;season 2, episode 8&lt;/a&gt; of the Mentalist, it is revealed that Rebecca Anderson, a secretary in CBI is a Red John operative. She kills a number of CBI agents, etc. After Patrick questions her, she is escorted to a holding cell. On the way there, she is poisoned and dies. The person who poisons her walks right past the officer escorting her to the holding cell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare this with Todd Johnson's murder. He was discovered to be a cop killer (just like Anderson). Patrick refuses to question him, even though Johnson requests to talk to Patrick. Patrick eventually goes to talk to Johnson and finds him on fire in the interrogation room. In the hospital, Johnson's last words to Patrick were &quot;Tyger, Tyger&quot;, revealing to Patrick that he too was a Red John operative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, compare the CBI response to both of these killings. With Anderson, they knew she was a Red John operative and she was killed in their custody. CBI does nothing to investigate her death that we are aware of. With Johnson, only Patrick knows. CBI puts JJ LaRoche in charge of investigating his death since there is a murder in the CBI. This investigation plays a significant role in a number of episodes through out the season. Patrick himself is very interested in knowing who the killer was since that leads him to Red John.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did they not investigate who killed Anderson? Why wasn't Patrick interested in knowing who had killed her? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Patrick realized she was poisoned due to the very visible marks on her hands, foaming of the mouth, etc. The guard walking her to the holding cell must have seen who walked past seconds before she dies. Furthermore, they could have tested her to figure out that the poison was fast acting, meaning she didn't poison herself hours before, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29547" LastEditorUserId="29547" LastEditDate="2016-01-05T19:15:13.947" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T05:05:05.823" Title="Why did CBI launch an investigation into Todd Johnson's death and not Rebecca Anderson's?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-mentalist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45865" CreationDate="2016-01-05T20:26:45.780" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Adding to MattD's answer, I think part of the reason Max was in front was so that he'd have a good view of the action. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Multiple times in the film, it is made clear that the War Boys like to be seen, or 'witnessed'. Specifically, whenever one is about to die for the cause, they first cry &quot;Witness me!&quot;. Once they make sure people are watching, they do whatever cool/stupid thing they were about to do. There was also that scene where Nux was excited when Joe looked at him. From these examples, it seems clear that they'd want to give Max a clear view of the action, so putting him in the front of the car makes sense. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for why they wouldn't put him elsewhere:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting him in the car or on the back would put him too close to either of the brothers; since in the past Max has proven to be good at escaping, this could prove dangerous. Also, since he's in front of both brothers at all times, they can keep an eye on him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting him on the top or sides of the car would limit visibility and maneuverability. He'd just get in the way. Note how most of the fighting in the film takes place above or to the sides of a vehicle, so these are the places you want to keep as clear and open as possible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27009" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T20:26:45.780" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45819" CreationDate="2016-01-05T20:53:25.560" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the book, he orders the burning of couple of his own men at the behest of Melisandre. I believe this is what they replaced with his daughter in the TV series. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reason he does it in the books and as far as I can make out, in the TV series, is as a sacrifice to R'hllor for a favorable weather so that he can continue his march on Winterfell. The unrelenting snow and cold weather was taking a toll on his army. He lost men and horses and the snow was slowing his progress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To Stannis, the Iron Throne is his destiny and he will allow nothing to stand in his way so probably he would have considered it acceptable sacrifice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personal view point below:&#xA;This is shoddy script writing done just for shock value. There is no real justification for Stannis to sacrifice his own daughter. In the books when they find one of King Roberts bastard sons, he was extremely reluctant to allow Melisandre to sacrifice him. As you noticed this makes it look like he was willing to sacrifice ANYTHING for the sake of attaining power. Also, in the Books, Stannis is more interested in the power that Melisandre wields through the lord of light. He is not shown to be overzealous in the praise of the God or the beliefs of Melisandre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T20:53:25.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45880" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50786" CreationDate="2016-01-05T21:18:08.310" Score="5" ViewCount="806" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm curious why the First Doctor wears a ring on his little finger (left hand) and not on his ring finger like he's wearing the other one (on his right hand). I'm not even sure why he wears &lt;strong&gt;two&lt;/strong&gt; rings as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This might be one of the most unimportant details but I'm never quite sure about these kind of things - it wouldn't be the first time this series surprises me with these kinds of hidden details being some part of a hidden plot or background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29550" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-03-25T14:34:58.963" LastActivityDate="2016-03-25T14:34:58.963" Title="Why does the First Doctor wear a ring on his small finger?" Tags="|doctor-who|costume|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45881" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45865" CreationDate="2016-01-05T21:26:21.887" Score="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another possible explanation is that it might have been done to induce an adrenaline rush in Max. The War Boys would then receive some of the effects when performing the blood transfusion later in this scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29552" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T21:26:21.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43844" CreationDate="2016-01-05T22:09:44.167" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It did&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Everything from the time that the second drill went into his brain was the imagination, hallucination, delusion of a brain-damaged man whose brain kept getting drilled. Bond made the best of it by imagining all sorts of things. Swann was just sitting and watching the man who she saw give her father a gun to kill himself. But Bond fantasized that she suddenly, after two drills, got up and said she loved him, and saved the day with the perfectly timed exploding watch throw. Bond was able to make a sniper shot from two hundred meters away with machine gun. They just don't have that sort of accuracy. Meanwhile, Bond got another skull drill. And another. And another...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;REF: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/Spoiler-In-Spectre-how-did-James-Bond-survive-the-brain-operation-without-adverse-effects&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://www.quora.com/Spoiler-In-Spectre-how-did-James-Bond-survive-the-brain-operation-without-adverse-effects&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29558" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T22:09:44.167" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31321" CreationDate="2016-01-05T23:19:22.393" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie 'Fun with Dick and Jane' 1977, Jane Fonda sits down on a toilet whilst Dick is in the bathroom with her and the conversation is accompanied by the sound of pee hitting the water. I'm not sure that this was the first toilet but it's the first time I have heard a woman pee on a movie soundtrack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29367" LastActivityDate="2016-01-05T23:19:22.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45890" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31321" CreationDate="2016-01-05T23:46:09.177" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a starting point, IMDB has a rather marvelous feature called &quot;keywords&quot; where users create tags for possible features of a film then tag films that contain such scenes or elements. It's a fun way to explore questions like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=sitting-on-a-toilet&quot;&gt;Sitting on a toilet&lt;/a&gt; (126 titles) is indeed such a tag. If we sort that list by date, the earliest &quot;sitting on toilet&quot; film is, apparently, a &lt;strong&gt;1968&lt;/strong&gt; French comedy about cannibals who run a vegetarian restaurant (no, really!), called &lt;a href=&quot;http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0057827/?ref_=kw_li_tt&quot;&gt;A Taste For Women&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we take &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=toilet&amp;amp;sort=release_date,asc&amp;amp;mode=detail&amp;amp;page=1&quot;&gt;the list simply tagged &quot;toilet&quot;&lt;/a&gt; and sort it by date, IMDB believes the earliest film containing a toilet-related scene or plot was a German drama from &lt;strong&gt;1924&lt;/strong&gt; called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=toilet&amp;amp;sort=release_date,asc&amp;amp;mode=detail&amp;amp;page=1&quot;&gt;The Last Laugh&lt;/a&gt;, about a hotel doorman trying to deal with the indignity of being demoted to washroom attendant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The earliest American &quot;toilet&quot; film does actually appear to be Psycho, 1960.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a list of the dizzying, worrying variety of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/find?s=kw&amp;amp;ref_=kw_fnd&amp;amp;q=Toilet&quot;&gt;IMDB keywords that contain the word &quot;toilet&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, which range from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/keyword/head-in-a-toilet/?ref_=fn_kw_kw_43&quot;&gt;Head in a toilet&lt;/a&gt; (32 titles) to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/keyword/toilet-twerking/?ref_=fn_kw_kw_88&quot;&gt;Toilet twerking&lt;/a&gt; (just one title...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you ever wanted to know the most popular film where toilet paper makes a notable appearance, according to IMDB, it's V For Vendetta. No, I don't remember the toilet paper scene, either, but some diligent IMDB user has tagged &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/search/keyword?keywords=toilet-paper&quot;&gt;148 films that include toilet paper&lt;/a&gt;. The internet is a wonderful and terrifying thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Researching this question has given me a very strange recent internet browsing history... Fun fact: I found out about this feature after a talk by director Edgar Wright, who described reading his own films' IMDB profiles and cracking up in baffled hysterics on discovering which elements the people of IMDB felt worth tagging. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748/keywords?ref_=tt_stry_kw&quot;&gt;Shaun Of The Dead has among its &quot;plot keywords&quot;&lt;/a&gt; &quot;Cricket bat&quot;, &quot;Arab grocer&quot; and &quot;Hip hop montage&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9718" LastEditorUserId="9718" LastEditDate="2016-01-06T00:26:48.243" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T00:26:48.243" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41520" CreationDate="2016-01-06T01:00:18.907" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tomorrowland is depopulated all because of the monitor that Frank invented. Once Nix saw that the world was going to end he gave up on humanity. The whole purpose of Plus Ultra is to change the world for the better. There was no point in improving the world anymore because he knew the world was going to end. Because of that he threw out all the recruiters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29562" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T01:00:18.907" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45899" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="142" CreationDate="2016-01-06T02:35:49.787" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene is credible in the sense that odd things like that have happened before.  If Max got lucky on the first shot, every shot Vincent takes after that will be influenced/altered by his wound, just as his dropping the clip is a result of his wound.  I wondered if it was plausible for Vincent to abandon his anonymity in pursuing Max and the Attorney but his entire career stood on the line and his options were limited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29566" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T02:35:49.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45905" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45906" CreationDate="2016-01-06T08:40:46.070" Score="26" ViewCount="5013" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the top right corner of below image&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J6uXd.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/J6uXd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image with flying object in corner&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a small plane like thing, this has also been seen in some more pictures, but this does not look something SHIELD might have used before, So my question is what is that thing, is this some kind of equipment used by FALCON or somebody else and why is it in the promo pictures, does it hold great importance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user8706" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2017-12-21T11:31:11.343" LastActivityDate="2017-12-21T11:31:11.343" Title="What's that thing in Captain America Civil war promo images" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|captain-america-civil-war|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45905" CreationDate="2016-01-06T09:05:47.637" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a mechanical bird for the Falcon. In the comics, Falcon has &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Redwing_(Earth-616)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Redwing&lt;/a&gt;, a falcon Sam bought in Rio, and has been in the comics as far back as Captain America Vol 1 #186 (June, 1975), as old as Falcon himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ukF0Y.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ukF0Y.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_(comics)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;They even have a mental link&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As part of a plot against Captain America, the Red Skull uses the Cosmic Cube, a creation that allows its user to alter reality, to mentally fuse Wilson with Redwing, creating a &quot;super-normal mental link&quot; that would, with time and concentration, give Wilson broad powers over all birds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like all magical animal sidekicks, Redwing is also part of the Pet Avengers, along with Lockjaw, and Throg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;In Captain America: Civil War, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/15/marvel-d23-expo-civil-war&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Redwing is now a drone&lt;/a&gt;. As screened to the D23 audience in August 2015:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;11:21 a.m. Here’s what we see: The new Avengers are in buildings overlooking a crowded market in what appears to be a third-world country. “Eyes on target, folks,” Captain America says. Falcon says, “Red Wing, launch,” and a small drone hovers free and dives down to the street, swooping beneath a truck, which is loaded with explosives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it's importance is really fan wank material. Redwing is as old as Falcon, and just as important to the character as the shield or Bucky is for Cap. Adding Redwing is a nod to Sam Wilson's comic roots, and doesn't detract from the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strike&gt;It likely won't be too critical to the plot though. Like most of their powers, it will probably get one scene and then not seen again.&lt;/strike&gt; Correction, Redwing was used in the big fight scenes, at the beginning and during the TeamCap vs TeamIronMan brawl, to great avail, and mentioned many times. Redwing has sensors, cameras, remote targeting, a grappling hook, missiles/bombs/guns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you notice, Redwing is in most of the promo pictures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u0Gpr.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/u0Gpr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2LITZ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2LITZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T06:19:41.590" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T06:19:41.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45905" CreationDate="2016-01-06T09:30:39.747" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some leaked footage now contains a scene with Redwing. Evidently it's launched from Falcon's backpack, has an incredibly tight turning circle and some sort of infra-red sensors that link to Falcon's new red goggles&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/cRhZVBbXtfU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the footage shown at the recent D23 exhibition, The Falcon's traditional sidekick &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Redwing_(Earth-616)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Redwing&lt;/a&gt; (a large bird that Sam Wilson bought while on holiday) will be a powered drone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per &lt;a href=&quot;http://comicbook.com/2015/08/10/captain-america-civil-war-trailer-released/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Comicbook Resources&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Another scene revealed the Falcon's pet falcon, Redwing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But he's not the winged bird we've come to know and love - he is, in&#xA;  fact a drone!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following artwork was apparently issued (briefly) via Marvel's official channel in Spain, then &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/comic-reel-new-civil-war-promo-art-shows-off-opposing-sides-matt-and-karen-get-close-in-daredevil-pic&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;removed shortly afterwards&lt;/a&gt;. It appears to show the drone in more detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gftWG.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gftWG.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-02-20T23:20:38.750" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T23:20:38.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45661" CreationDate="2016-01-06T13:47:30.330" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I had read the book 6 years back but if my memory serves right there was no reference as to who set fire to the train nor was there any reference in the movie as well. Since the train burning is a direct reference to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godhra_train_burning&quot;&gt;Godhra train burning&lt;/a&gt; that triggered the 2002 Gujarat communal riots, Neither the author Chetan Bhagat of 'Three Mistakes of my Life' nor the director of the movie 'Kai Po Che' would infer on who started the event as it is still a very sensitive issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if you really have to get into the depth of the Godhra case you can check out the linked Wikipedia article.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29578" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-06T13:52:37.367" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T13:52:37.367" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45910" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-06T13:53:00.377" Score="5" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just noticed that there is a special episode of &lt;em&gt;Sherlock&lt;/em&gt; called &quot;The Abominable Bride&quot;. Does it relate plot-wise to the previous season (3)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-06T15:20:00.663" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T15:46:42.287" Title="Does the holiday special episode of Sherlock relate to the previous season?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45911" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-06T14:16:36.733" Score="6" ViewCount="568" Body="&lt;p&gt;Are there firms in the real world that has staff who go to other companies to fire people like in the movie &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Up in the Air&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;? Did the movie take inspiration from a real world firm like the one George Clooney works for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26423" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-01-06T15:48:20.497" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T15:48:20.497" Title="Was Up in the Air inspired by real world firms?" Tags="|up-in-the-air|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45911" CreationDate="2016-01-06T15:42:08.817" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Do-hatchet-men-like-Clooney-s-Up-In-The-Air-893384.php&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;According to the Seattle PI&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The answer is not exactly&lt;/strong&gt;, although the film reflects trends in the&#xA;  American workplace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As employment laws grow more numerous and complex, and workplace&#xA;  litigation explodes, many firms are hiring outside consultants to help&#xA;  them downsize. Some operate behind the scenes but their presence is&#xA;  still felt; others participate directly in layoffs, but usually&#xA;  alongside the employer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More small and midsize employers are outsourcing their human resource&#xA;  operations to outside firms&lt;/strong&gt;, sometimes called professional employer&#xA;  organizations. These firms handle tasks such as payroll, workers'&#xA;  compensation, benefits administration, and hiring and firing workers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Laying off employees &quot;is a service we provide,&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; says Lisa Pinkard,&#xA;  vice president of human resources with Emplicity, an HR outsourcing&#xA;  firm in Irvine. &quot;Usually we have long-term relationships with our&#xA;  clients. It's not like we have mass layoffs and then leave.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;All of the firm's consultants will do layoffs as one of their many&#xA;  jobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rebecca Heyman says laying off workers &quot;is a small part&quot; of her job as&#xA;  a senior human capital consultant with TriNet, an HR outsourcing firm&#xA;  based in San Leandro.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;My role is to be the out-of-house HR manager for these companies that&#xA;  are our clients,&quot; she says. &quot;If they are going through layoffs, I help&#xA;  them manage that process. But I would not go in by myself and&#xA;  terminate an employee without a representative of the company&#xA;  delivering that message. I'll do a lot of coaching up front. I might&#xA;  be in the room to be a witness/note taker and to answer operational&#xA;  questions.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Heyman thought &quot;Up in the Air&quot; &quot;was a great character study on this&#xA;  isolated individual. But &lt;strong&gt;from an HR perspective, I didn't think it was&#xA;  reality,&quot; she says.&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;There is a lot of preparation that goes into&#xA;  making the decision (to terminate someone). That would be too boring&#xA;  to show in a movie. It's analysis, financial considerations. You're&#xA;  not going to watch George Clooney work on a spreadsheet.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Robert Conlon, a senior vice president with Sibson Consulting, agrees.&#xA;  &quot;To the extent it is portrayed in the movie, &lt;strong&gt;I'm not aware of&#xA;  companies that are hired to parachute in, deliver the message and&#xA;  escape out of Dodge.&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T15:42:08.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45911" CreationDate="2016-01-06T15:43:38.827" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, absolutely there are. Although most external HR consultancies deal with hiring and firing &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2010/01/getting_the_ax_from_george_clooney.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in conjunction with the company's own HR staff&lt;/a&gt; there are some companies that offer this as a stand-alone services.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8524042.stm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The people who sack people&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the past 15 years, Janet Shearer has personally made thousands of&#xA;  employees redundant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But Janet isn't some cold-hearted, cost-cutting chief executive. She's&#xA;  the managing director of a British firm that sacks other companies'&#xA;  employees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ms Shearer says it's difficult to predict exactly how a person will&#xA;  respond to being made redundant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She agrees that dignity and respect are key to handling the situation&#xA;  - and it doesn't hurt to have some tissues at the ready.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;It can be difficult, but you just try to see that you can support&#xA;  them,&quot; she says. &quot;It's not rich tea and sympathy and being really&#xA;  fluffy… But if they wanted to grieve and let that out, absolutely.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T15:43:38.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45910" CreationDate="2016-01-06T15:46:42.287" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beware, &lt;strong&gt;spoilers with regard to the concept of the episode&lt;/strong&gt; in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/4/10704192/sherlock-the-abominable-bride-review&quot;&gt;excerpt from The Verge's review&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; This isn’t a true alternate reality, though: having had his season-ending suicidal mission cancelled, &lt;strong&gt;the present-day Sherlock has taken a potent — and potentially lethal — drug cocktail. It’s heightening an elaborate fantasy within his &quot;mind palace,&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; and it revolves around an old case that he’s using to &lt;strong&gt;solve the mystery of his nemesis Moriarty’s (Andrew Scott) apparent return.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T15:46:42.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45915" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-06T15:57:18.713" Score="1" ViewCount="353" Body="&lt;p&gt;While watching &lt;em&gt;Mad Max: Fury Road&lt;/em&gt;, in the episode when Immortan Joe is riding his buggy, I got this instant feeling that the character looks familiar and I could relate it to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqQuihD0hoI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rob Zombie's Dragula video&lt;/a&gt;. Is there any relationship/similarity between them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-12-13T06:09:11.810" LastActivityDate="2017-12-13T06:09:11.810" Title="Immortan Joe and Rob Zombie's &quot;Dragula&quot; character similarity" Tags="|character|analysis|mad-max-fury-road|music-video|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45916" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37453" CreationDate="2016-01-06T16:00:07.817" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The graphic at the start of the film indicates the entire continent of Australia has effectively become one major city, with the entrance to The Fall coming out in the heart of the continent so likely Alice Springs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are no Australian hallmarks in the film as the production was shot with 'The Colony' originally going to be dubbed 'New Asia'.  That was changed to increase the film's multi-cultural appeal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29582" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T16:00:07.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38920" CreationDate="2016-01-06T16:37:08.607" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I understand it checking horse's teeth shows the age of the horse, where the phrase &quot;long in the tooth&quot; comes from and &quot;looking a gift horse in the mouth&quot;, hence checking its worth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29583" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T16:37:08.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45918" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45925" CreationDate="2016-01-06T17:34:20.387" Score="2" ViewCount="425" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mad Men&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Season 7 Episode &quot;The Monolith&quot;, the Agency SC&amp;amp;P are installing the IBM System/360 Computer and especially the Creative Department seems very upset about that. But it seems strange to me that the acquisition of a computer for an advertisement agency would be a problem of competition for the creatives. After all computers (just as today) are pretty bad in making appealing art. If at all it should render the jobs of full-time data-analysts and accountants redundant as their data can be processed faster and better. Such is also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amc.com/shows/mad-men/talk/2014/05/mad-mens-1960s-handbook-the-ibm-system360-computer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the explanation of the IBM System/360 of ACM's Mad Men 60s Handbook&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://hbr.org/2014/05/that-mad-men-computer-explained-by-hbr-in-1969/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a Harvard Business Review article&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Setting the psychotic reaction of Michael Ginsberg aside, from the viewers perspective it is still mostly the people working in the Creative Department that seem upset by the installation of the computer. Adding to that, from my perspective it is never really explained in the series why the agency would &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; a computer in the first place. The story-wise explanation is that in a meeting with a client Harry Crane lied in saying that they already had a computer, a resulting inquiry by the Washington Post was then used as a pretence to actually getting one. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the questions are: Why would SC&amp;amp;P &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; a computer? And why would that upset the Creative Department, iff their jobs wouldn't really be affected?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29584" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-01-06T23:10:28.613" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T23:10:28.613" Title="What would SC&amp;P need a Computer for?" Tags="|mad-men|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45919" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45921" CreationDate="2016-01-06T18:30:48.780" Score="2" ViewCount="7548" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have been up to Avdat today and I think I recognize it being used in a few scenes of the 1973 movie version of &lt;em&gt;Jesus Christ Superstar&lt;/em&gt;, but of course it's really hard -- obviously they &quot;dressed&quot; the ruins. Is there any information about the specific locations where they filmed the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29586" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-09T16:32:22.063" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T16:32:22.063" Title="Jesus Christ Superstar shooting places guide?" Tags="|film-location|jesus-christ-superstar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45920" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-06T18:40:13.693" Score="4" ViewCount="1063" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Mad Max: Fury Road, I didn't catch any mentions of who Max was and where he came from. His name was barely mentioned in the end. However, IMDb provided his character name as Max Rockatansky, which makes me think of Slavik countries. So what is Max's background?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-07T04:22:37.710" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T04:22:37.710" Title="What is Max's background in Mad Max: Fury Road?" Tags="|character|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45921" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45919" CreationDate="2016-01-06T18:51:47.060" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.songfacts.com/blog/writing/jesus_christ_superstar_ted_neeley_tells_the_inside_story/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Songfacts interview&lt;/a&gt; with Ted Neeley offers the following shooting locations;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Trial Before Caiaphas&quot; was shot on the site of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.holylandsite.com/herodianfortress.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Herodian&#xA;  fortresses near Bethlehem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The Temple&quot; and &quot;The Crucifixion&quot; scenes were shot at &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avdat&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Avdat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_Bokek&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ein 'Bokek&lt;/a&gt; provided the location for &quot;Pilate's Dream.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;What's the Buzz&quot; truly was under the Dead Sea... in a cave &lt;a href=&quot;http://forward.com/opinion/israel/200775/why-does-un-love-israeli-caves-jesus-christ-super/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;[The Beit Guvrin Bell Cave]&lt;/a&gt;. The same&#xA;  cave served as Neeley's &quot;prison&quot; after &quot;The Arrest.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For &quot;King Herod's Song,&quot; the crew set up shop on the Dead Sea not far&#xA;  from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada#Modern_tourism&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Masada&lt;/a&gt;, where Herod actually once had a summer palace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An ancient &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beit_She%27an&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Roman ampitheater in Beit 'Shaan&lt;/a&gt;, tunneled through with&#xA;  catacombs, served as the location for &quot;Trial Before Pilate&quot; and&#xA;  &quot;Superstar.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that I've corrected a couple of the place name spellings for ease of reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-01-06T18:58:31.080" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T18:58:31.080" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45924" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45920" CreationDate="2016-01-06T19:58:16.570" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Who Mad Max is explained in the first Mad Max movie, &lt;em&gt;Mad Max&lt;/em&gt;. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;plot synopsis on wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; should give you the background you are looking for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The backstory isn't really brought up in the following 3 movies likely because it's not all germane to those 3 stories. In each of the subsequent stories, Mad Max is more of a supporting character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T19:58:16.570" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45918" CreationDate="2016-01-06T20:04:20.773" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Advertising Agencies aren't just about the creative, there's also the analytical. The creative is the showy side, but the analytical is where the money is made. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's about digging through marketing data, demographic data, consumer behavior date, etc, etc. Essentially the stuff that drives companies like Amazon and Google today. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The computer would have been for data analysis and storage. And having said tool would have been something the firm could use to better market their services to new clients. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That the creatives 'feared' it was more for fun storytelling. Introducing some additional antagonism to the characters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T20:04:20.773" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45920" CreationDate="2016-01-06T22:06:26.883" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Max is a former law officer.  When society begins to break down, law enforcement begins to break down as well.  Max endures a personal crisis, which forces him to become alone and nomadic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As stated in the previous comments and answer, that isn't really as important as you might think, since his past is never brought up.  However, if you're interested in &quot;what makes a person tick&quot;, it's probably an important piece of information.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch the first movie, &quot;Mad Max&quot;, it's actually quite good.  It will also give you a good understanding of how he became who he is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T22:06:26.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45930" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45932" CreationDate="2016-01-06T22:51:37.757" Score="3" ViewCount="1301" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I understand &lt;em&gt;The Abominable Bride&lt;/em&gt; correctly (admittedly a very big &quot;if&quot;), the graveyard scene serves to prove to Sherlock that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; he's being ridiculous, of course Moriarty is dead, and whatever is happening now has been scheduled since long before his death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, if the Ricoletti case really had occurred, then the revelation of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &quot;Ricolleti didn't come back from the dead. Moriarty didn't come back from the dead. People don't come back from the dead, period.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;leaves that case unsolved. So, how were the Abominable Bride murders committed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19973" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-01-06T23:07:04.403" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T23:07:04.403" Title="How were the Abominable Bride murders committed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45930" CreationDate="2016-01-06T23:06:28.803" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The solution is available as part of &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/45860/13595&quot;&gt;my answer to another question&lt;/a&gt;, in which I quote Marion Stein's &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/45860/13595&quot;&gt;explanation&lt;/a&gt; over at Happy Nice Time People:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sherlock works it out. Mrs. Riccoletti was dying of tuberculosis. She&#xA;  went on a suicide mission. First, &lt;strong&gt;she faked her death by appearing to&#xA;  shoot herself in the head, but she really shot one of her guns at the&#xA;  ground while a co-conspirator splashed blood on the back of her head.&#xA;  A substitute corpse was taken to the morgue. Later, the real Mrs. R&#xA;  killed her husband, and then shot herself. Her body replaced the&#xA;  substitute.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T23:06:28.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45933" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-06T23:34:22.003" Score="11" ViewCount="291" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a show or movie that I saw quite some time ago (like 2001, maybe). I think it was on the Sci-Fi channel but not 100% sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These people there had invented this technology that was like a flash of light and it would freeze people in their tracks on whatever they were doing. All I remember from the scene was a SWAT team or something going around in an apartment building with this technology and would flash it and stop people in their motion. They knocked down one room's door and froze a couple fighting about the husband cheating on her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another scene showed this couple having sex in another room and the SWAT team knocked down the door and froze them too and shot the man in the head, and it went on. They would collect information or something from their heads when they would freeze the people with the flash technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know this is vague and lacks detail but it's honestly all I can remember.  I would greatly appreciate it if anyone knows what movie\tv show I may be talking about... it's been bugging me for a long time!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29599" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-01-07T00:49:05.517" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T02:54:45.377" Title="Team freezes various people in apartment building" Tags="|identify-this-movie|identify-this-tv-show|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:17:32.397" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18122" CreationDate="2016-01-06T23:55:56.787" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it summarizes the fact that America has free association, not just that &quot;people can do what they want&quot;, but that we don't exclude very much within our communities.  I was surprised that in Europe you often have to specifically invite everyone to a party--in America, people just show-up, and it's bad form to complain about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alexis de Tocqueville mentions this feature of America several times in his book Democracy in America, I think especially in volume 2. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29600" LastActivityDate="2016-01-06T23:55:56.787" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21524" CreationDate="2016-01-07T00:55:19.273" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;S12/e9 she claims to have a male ex. I believe the admission of being a lesbian on her last show was something the writers thought up just to drop a bomb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29602" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T00:55:19.273" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21524" CreationDate="2016-01-07T04:49:23.503" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an episode I have never been able to identify that I thought may have included a hint about her sexuality. In the last scene, McCoy, Branch, and Southerlyn are walking from the office to the bank of elevators. Southerlyn is walking slightly ahead of the other two and what looks like a magazine falls from her bag. One of the men picks it up and both look at it before handing in to Southerlyn. Both men have a look of surprise on their faces. Looking back after she came out, I have always thought the magazine somehow revealed her sexuality. It makes sense because when Southerlyn asked if she was fired because she was gay, it seemed like Southerlyn thought Branch knew she was gay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29606" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T04:49:23.503" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45939" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-07T05:17:20.690" Score="6" ViewCount="17413" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kate apparently went in the &quot;wrong tunnel&quot; and sees Alejandro holding a corrupt cop at gun point.  Since they had just shot their way through the drug mule tunnel, what surprised her to cause her to pull a gun on Alejandro?  It was obviously a big plot point as subsequently Matt (Josh brolin) explains the whole CIA plot to her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29608" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-01-07T07:31:15.503" LastActivityDate="2018-09-14T05:30:28.877" Title="In Sicario, why did Kate pull a gun on Alejandro?" Tags="|ending|sicario|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45940" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-07T05:18:32.773" Score="4" ViewCount="18198" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jM458.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jM458.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the significance of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;45 Years&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;? What does it want to convey in the ending scene by the subtle emotions of kate during the anniversary party? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29607" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-01-07T07:30:37.837" LastActivityDate="2022-02-10T23:44:11.553" Title="What is the significance of 45 Years Movie?" Tags="|analysis|ending|45-years|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45942" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4159" CreationDate="2016-01-07T05:48:10.073" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a simple theory. The live action movie series is a parallel universe where the original cast of the games were brainwashed /cloned. The new Alice character is umbrella's attempt to recreate the success that is Alexia Ashford. A superior human fused with strains of the T,Progenitor and veronica viruses. It explains all the powers, clones, Amnesia and Why umbrella owns Alice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29610" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-07T06:10:26.030" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T06:10:26.030" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45944" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-07T08:32:03.453" Score="18" ViewCount="21166" Body="&lt;p&gt;In some episodes of Season 6, Sheldon had a young assistant named &lt;a href=&quot;http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/Alex_Jensen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alex Jensen&lt;/a&gt;. However, she did not appear in Season 7 nor 8. Is there any mention or explanation as to why she did not appear in later episodes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did she leave her job, or was she fired by Sheldon? On the other hand, does she still work for him, but we don't see her anymore?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am looking for facts, not theories, I know that it is likely that she left because of the unmet love for Leonard or the sexual harassment committed by Sheldon, but is this mentioned anywhere in the series or by the creators? Will she reappear in a later episode?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eWhC1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eWhC1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alex's presence was to force Penny to realize that other smart and&#xA;  pretty women are also interested in Leonard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is no mention of what happened with her after season 6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22783" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-07T12:45:13.887" LastActivityDate="2017-03-20T04:11:05.867" Title="What happened to Sheldon's assistant, Alex?" Tags="|character|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45947" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45949" CreationDate="2016-01-07T09:53:33.363" Score="9" ViewCount="10144" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; series Lucius Malfoy is depicted quite early as one of the first Death-eaters. As a Death-eater, we can assume that he has probably used &lt;em&gt;unforgivable curses&lt;/em&gt; many times (I wrote probably because, even though I don't remember that the use of such a curse is ever mentioned, in the second movie he uses &lt;em&gt;Avada Kedavra&lt;/em&gt; towards Harry so insensitively that one can assume that it is mainstream for him).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the use of such a curse is supposed to be worth a one-way ticket to Azkaban; my question is: why did Malfoy never get arrested for his crimes? At least, shouldn't he be fired from the Ministry of Magic if we consider his relations with Voldemort?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28388" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-07T12:47:09.053" LastActivityDate="2019-07-07T02:35:55.027" Title="Why was Lucius Malfoy never arrested?" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45949" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45947" CreationDate="2016-01-07T10:14:07.810" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Lucius_Malfoy&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;He does&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the beginning of the 6th Movie (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) Harry is reading a newspaper, in which it briefly shows an article about Lucius Malfoy being sent to Azkaban with a life sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He is later broken out of Azkaban, which is why we see him throughout the course of the 7th movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the events of the 5th movie (failing to retrieve the prophecy from the Department of Mysteries) he falls out of favor with Voldemort, which is why he is sent to Azkaban (Voldemort refuses to use his influence to keep him out), and why his house is used as a makeshift prison to hold hostages during movie 7.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T10:14:07.810" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45951" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45940" CreationDate="2016-01-07T11:26:55.960" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vogue.com/13382166/45-years-andrew-haigh-interview/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;As stated in Vogue&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Haigh, who adapted the screenplay from a short story by the British&#xA;  writer David Constantine, &lt;strong&gt;leaves things maddeningly, gloriously vague&#xA;  (not least of all in the film’s much-discussed last scene, at the&#xA;  anniversary party, in which the virtuosic Rampling allows decades of&#xA;  hurt, anger, and confusion to surge silently across her character’s&#xA;  face).&lt;/strong&gt; And as a result, 45 Years haunts long after the final credits&#xA;  roll.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/review/devastating-45-years-much-ghost-story-marriage-dra-229988&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this ending does not come from the short story the movie is based on&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;45 Years&lt;/em&gt; is based on “In Another Country,” a short story by David&#xA;  Constantine, and it borrows not just a premise and passages of sharp&#xA;  dialogue from its source material, but also the barbed efficiency of&#xA;  the short-fiction format: At a spare 95 minutes, this is a film of no&#xA;  wasted scenes or unnecessary subplots, stripped down to something&#xA;  tough and focused and vivid. Yet &lt;strong&gt;the anniversary-party angle is all&#xA;  Haigh’s invention, and he uses it to devise a phenomenal new ending&lt;/strong&gt;,&#xA;  one that — like the jaw-dropping finale of this year’s &lt;em&gt;Phoenix&lt;/em&gt; — &lt;strong&gt;draws its&#xA;  power from close attention to behavior and minute shifts in body&#xA;  language&lt;/strong&gt;. At the center of it is Rampling, all eyes on her, showing us&#xA;  everything that’s going through this woman’s mind. But even when it’s&#xA;  just her in the frame, when the camera has come in for a close up,&#xA;  there’s someone else there just out of view—the invisible third party&#xA;  of her marriage, the ghost over her shoulder. She’s still there. She&#xA;  always has been.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T11:26:55.960" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45952" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-07T11:39:10.213" Score="7" ViewCount="11111" Body="&lt;p&gt;The rather powerful, time sensitive, and literal deus ex machina was a stunning find by the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The team seems to be immune to the temporal fact of &quot;unwinding Wells&quot; assumably due to Star Labs being immune to it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What became of Gideon? It seems strange that the team wouldn't try to at least be learning how to work with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems to have just become another television non-entity like Tiger, the Bradys' dog or Richie Cunningham's older brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="715" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-19T07:33:47.580" LastActivityDate="2022-02-23T12:15:31.123" Title="What happened to Gideon on &quot;The Flash&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|arrowverse|the-flash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43001" CreationDate="2016-01-07T11:44:02.267" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;As cde mentions in his answer, Wells did have cameras all over the place (the Cortex, Barry's lab, Iris' desk at work, the West/Allen house and numerous other places), but that doesn't fully answer your question, as he obviously couldn't see events on there that never happened (or rather that were changed). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;cde also correctly mentions that the Speed Force protects speedsters from changes in the timeline - to a degree at least - but as you point out in your question, Eobard was genuinely surprised when Cisco reported he (ET) killed him (CR). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, while Eobard had Barry's lab bugged (which is where they brought the body of the real Harrison Wells and did Cisco's trip down alternate memory lane, after all), he knew they were onto him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now it gets a bit complicated (which means I have to go a bit of a long way to get to my point):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eobard was aware of that much earlier then strictly makes sense (IMO), because Joe told Cisco about his suspicion about Wells in Barry's lab, yet Eobard did nothing to prevent them finding out anything more, probably because he thought it would accomplish two things: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;divert suspicion from him, since only Eobard's DNA and not Well's&#xA;could be found and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;it would get the idea of time travel into Barry, pushing him to go&#xA;faster, with the possible goal in mind of saving his mom, and Eobard&#xA;needs Barry to reach that speed in order to get back home.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Barry told Joe he believed Joe's theory, also in the lab, and when they decided to go to Starling City they did so in the West/Allen living room, yet here again Eobard did nothing to move Well's body or mask his tracks. He did however move up his timetable a bit, since everything (Grodd, Everyman, the rebuild particle accelerator) was falling into place and he probably believed Barry being able to be fast enough by then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having done this rather extensive detour I can finally coming round to answering what you're specifically asking, just after mentioning the rather important fact that they also did Cisco's &quot;dream walk&quot; in Barry's lab, so the&#xA;important points (vibrating hand through heart, calling Cisco a son, confessing Nora's murder, but stating that that had not been the intention)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How then &lt;strong&gt;did&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Everyman&lt;/em&gt; know what to say? How could it match almost verbatim with what was said in the alternate timeline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eobard told him what to say, simple as that.&lt;/strong&gt; Like the hologram of Reverse Flash, &lt;em&gt;Every&quot;wells&quot;&lt;/em&gt; said, what Eobard would have said, had he actually been there. The alternate timeline Eobard did speak from the heart and told Cisco what he truely felt, which is after all what the real Eobard felt (changing one day didn't alter that significantly enough), so he was able to give &lt;em&gt;Everyman&lt;/em&gt; an accurate enough &quot;script&quot; to follow (&quot;Nora wasn't the intended target&quot;, &quot;Cisco is like a son&quot;, walking up menacing with hand outstretched). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12913" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-02-23T13:42:22.430" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T13:42:22.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45956" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-07T12:52:44.937" Score="1" ViewCount="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Thomas is explaining something about the 6th borough. I can't recollect too well but is also explaining something about people pulling the central park? What is this conversation about, what is he trying to tell his son here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26423" LastEditorUserId="34317" LastEditDate="2017-10-22T11:38:03.073" LastActivityDate="2017-10-22T11:38:03.073" Title="What is Thomas explaining about the boroughs?" Tags="|extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45933" CreationDate="2016-01-07T13:43:20.717" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds very much like a scene in &lt;a href=&quot;http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Minority Report&lt;/a&gt; in which the precrime police deploy &quot;spiders&quot; to ID the building's inhabitants in their search for John Anderton. No one gets frozen, but the implication is that the residents of the buildings are so familiar with the procedure that they stop what they're doing in order to be scanned. This includes an arguing couple who appear to freeze mid-fight and then resume fighting after being scanned. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Note: the clip below is from later in the scene I described, and does not show the arguing couple, etc.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/901lYbPmqu4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12950" LastEditorUserId="12950" LastEditDate="2016-01-07T15:55:53.957" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T15:55:53.957" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45959" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45960" CreationDate="2016-01-07T16:55:27.613" Score="7" ViewCount="886" Body="&lt;p&gt;This scene, which I can't find anywhere but on a Facebook page, contains one long zoom taking up approximately 50 - 70 feet.  Can anyone suggest how it might have been done (considering the time period), or a way to replicate it with simple equipment?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is called &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_(1927_film)&quot;&gt;Les Ailes (1927)&lt;/a&gt; (aka Wings), and the scene in question is here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/senscritique/videos/10153456242162987/&quot;&gt;https://www.facebook.com/senscritique/videos/10153456242162987/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2020-01-16T22:36:43.407" Title="Question about a specific filming technique - the long zoom" Tags="|film-techniques|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45960" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45959" CreationDate="2016-01-07T17:11:17.347" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;That's not a zoom at all. You can tell the difference between a zoom and a dolly shot by how the background changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zooms are shots using the camera lens to change the magnification of the image.  Here's a video that explains it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/r988E_J14FM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is definitely a dolly shot. You can see how people sit back in their chairs as the camera approaches to let it pass.  To be clear, it's either a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_shot&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;crane shot&lt;/a&gt; with a large crane or a crane shot on a dolly with a small crane. Huge studio spaces allow for use of large equipment of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something similar to this but with an overhead arm:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ItrbF.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ItrbF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Early film era crane on dolly&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And here's what a giant crane would look like (from 1934):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YQhYb.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YQhYb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Giant crane from 1934&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T17:11:17.347" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45961" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-07T17:53:41.770" Score="18" ViewCount="49817" Body="&lt;p&gt;I gather that John Ruth's driver O.B. is not considered one of the &quot;hateful eight,&quot; but he is present for all of the film's events and seems as much a part of the story as any of the others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the rhyming title, but I was confused during the film about who the eight were when there were clearly nine people present at Minnie's, at least until folks start dying and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; another character comes out of his hiding place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26529" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-01-08T23:07:12.760" LastActivityDate="2021-07-21T14:59:09.810" Title="Why isn't it called &quot;The Hateful Nine&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|title|the-hateful-eight|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45963" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-01-07T19:23:48.827" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-01-07T19:23:48.827" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T19:23:48.827" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45964" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-01-07T19:23:48.827" Score="0" Body="This tag relates to questions about the 1999 scifi-drama starring Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp. An astronaut returns to Earth after an accident in space that resulted in a period of radio-silence. His wife notes that his personality has dramatically changed." OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-01-07T19:45:48.920" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T19:45:48.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45965" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-07T19:24:51.370" Score="1" ViewCount="89" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the TV show &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1495708/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Covert Affairs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; the lead character Annie uses a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Covert_Affairs_-_Season_3#Chiappa_Rhino_20DS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chiappa Rhino revolver&lt;/a&gt; as her personal/primary sidearm. This seems to be a distinct stylistic choice for Annie because everyone else seems to prefer semi-automatics. Furthermore the Rhino has a very distinctive design which is different than most revolvers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did they choose to give Annie that pistol, and what is that supposed to say about her? I don't think most of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chiappafirearms.com/product/726&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;main marketing points&lt;/a&gt; for the Rhino's design are a particularly relevant given that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Annie is seen as proficient with semi-automatic pistols multiple times in the series while under duress&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Semi-automatics offer a flatter profile and are easier to conceal.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26325" LastEditorUserId="26325" LastEditDate="2016-01-08T21:39:50.717" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T21:39:50.717" Title="Why does Annie use a revolver as her primary sidearm when everyone else seems to use semi-automatics?" Tags="|character|covert-affairs|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45967" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-07T19:26:05.767" Score="2" ViewCount="122" Body="&lt;p&gt;It might well be the fact that I come from a non-English speaking background, so please bare with me on this one. However, it makes me wonder, what meaning does &quot;Mad&quot; carry in the title of Mad Max: Fury Road? Based on Google's built-in dictionary, first meaning is &quot;Insane or ill&quot; yet Max doesn't look like one. Does it just mean &quot;angry&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T19:38:00.207" Title="Which meaning does &quot;Mad&quot; have in the title &quot;Mad Max&quot;?" Tags="|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-01-07T20:49:21.443" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45969" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45961" CreationDate="2016-01-07T19:44:29.380" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;General Sandy Smithers, you may recall, was just some chump sitting around a fire and wasn't really hateful towards any in the group.  he had no beef with anyone, he was just in the right place at the right time.  Also, Ruth's driver (O.B. Jackson) wasn't hateful towards anyone either.  Which leaves:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Major Marquis Warren - Samuel L. Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;John Ruth - Kurt Russell&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Daisy Domergue - Jennifer Jason Leigh &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sheriff Chris Mannix - Walton Goggins &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bob - Demián Bichir&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Oswaldo Mobray - Tim Roth &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Joe Gage - Michael Madsen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jody - Channing Tatum&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;8 main players.  Also, don't over look the fact that this is Tarantino's 8th movie, the movie's overture contains exactly 8 notes used repetitiously, while in the background there are 8 distinctive mountain peaks.  See any &quot;theme&quot; there that might lend to the movie being called &quot;The Hateful Eight&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-05-04T12:29:29.463" LastActivityDate="2016-05-04T12:29:29.463" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45970" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-07T20:02:58.530" Score="4" ViewCount="882" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sydney Pollack's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073802/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Three Days of the Condor&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has always been one of my favourite movies, not only in regards to the spy movie genre but in general. I have known for a long time that the novel on which the film is based presented many differences with the movie (beginning with the title - &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Days_of_the_Condor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Six Days of the Condor&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) and I have always been curious about founding them out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Warning: spoilers ahead&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I finally started reading the book and I've reached the part in which Condor (played by Robert Redford in the movie), after finding out that all of his CIA colleagues have been slaughtered in their office while he was out getting lunch, runs to a public phone and dials the &quot;panic&quot; number. I clearly remembered the scene I saw in the movie many times since I was a kid. After receiving instructions from the experienced agent on the other end of the line, Condor is told to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Walk away from the phone; &lt;strong&gt;don't hang it up&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This can be read at page 30 of the final draft of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.copy.com/s/t%3Ah2XG7MAcIgIn%3Bp%3A%252FTHREE%2520DAYS%2520OF%2520THE%2520CONDOR%2520(1975)%2520%255B1975-02-03%255D%2520Lorenzo%2520Semple%2520Jr.%2520%2526%2520David%2520Rayfiel%2520%255BRevised%2520Final%255D.pdf%3Boid%3A20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;original screenplay&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and can also be seen in the clip below at 15 minutes circa (I couldn't find the scene I was looking for in english): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/0KkFHva9xoE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the book instead, Condor is told to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;hang up now&lt;/strong&gt;, and remember, don't lose your head&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The screenplay of the movie was written by Lorenzo Semple Jr. and David Rayfiel. I'm not aware if &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Grady_(author)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;James Grady&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the author of the novel, participated to it or if he was consulted at all. As anticipated, many changes were made to the original plot, but I was wondering about this particular change. Why Condor would have had to go away from the phone without hanging it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T15:58:46.130" LastActivityDate="2018-03-18T13:07:36.713" Title="Three Days of the Condor - communications protocols. Script vs movie adaptation" Tags="|book-adaptation|screenplay|three-days-of-the-condor|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45952" CreationDate="2016-01-07T22:59:20.183" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gideon disappeared at the end of Season 1 Episode 20, &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Trap&quot;&lt;/em&gt; along with the Reverse-Flash suit once Eobard knew the jig was up. Gideon was next seen &lt;em&gt;off-hand&lt;/em&gt; in Season  1 Episode 21, &lt;em&gt;&quot;Grodd Lives&quot;&lt;/em&gt; when Eobard shows Eddie &lt;em&gt;the News Paper&lt;/em&gt; from the projection in his hand. It was last mentioned in Season 2 Episode 1, &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Man Who Saved Central City&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, re: the News Paper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/06/flash-season-2-premiere-ronnie-raymond-spoilers&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;EW's interview with Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg in October for the Premiere of season 2&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EW:&lt;/strong&gt; Can Team Flash still turn to Wells’ (Tom Cavanagh) A.I. Gideon for answers?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Kreisberg:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gideon is no longer there.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Voice Actress for Gideon, Morena Baccarin, is also busy with a full time role on &lt;em&gt;Gotham&lt;/em&gt;, so she may not even be available in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; As of S02E11 &quot;The Reverse-Flash Returns&quot;, Gideon has returned with Eobard. They exist as a paradox outside of time, a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Time line Remnant&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Logically, Gideon was on Eobard when he was destroyed in time by Eddie's sacrifice. We know that the Reverse Flash could contain Gideon in his palm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personal theory: Eobard used Gideon's power core to recharge the Particle Accelerator in Star Labs. Note Cisco's reaction in Season 1 Episode 22, &lt;em&gt;&quot;Rogue Air&quot;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you see a Power Button anywhere on this thing? Dude this is from the Future. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's Beyond Me&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which mirrors &lt;em&gt;&quot;The Trap&quot;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If I can get into it's operating system, maybe I can disable it's memory core. [Barry has Gideon reveal it.] &lt;em&gt;Nervous Laugh&lt;/em&gt; Yeah, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nope&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. [Gives up on that idea as the Core is too complex at first look.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Power Tube and Gideon's core also share the same blue flux look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mGHp4.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mGHp4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-07T09:56:08.617" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T09:56:08.617" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45976" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-07T23:10:28.197" Score="6" ViewCount="2620" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final conversation between Noodles and Max, Max says to him: &lt;em&gt;&quot;You failed to realize that the cops were in it too&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, and that it was a syndicate operation. What does that mean? That It wasn't a real betrayal and that Max has staged this anyway with the police? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29638" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-02-07T21:01:16.087" LastActivityDate="2020-09-17T18:10:17.237" Title="What was the meaning of what Bailey told Noodles at the end of Once Upon a Time in America?" Tags="|once-upon-a-time-in-america|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45977" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43784" CreationDate="2016-01-07T23:36:39.197" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The alternative to hand held booming was traditionally the fisher boom&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jlfisher.com/booms/index.asp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.jlfisher.com/booms/index.asp&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;These are expensive, require significant training and practice, and are restricted to studios. Outdoor locations would allow sand and dirt etc to get in the mechanisms, causing problems.&#xA;Repairing the mechanics of these tools is also beyond the scope of average on-set personnel.&#xA;Hand held booming has all the advantages previously described.&#xA;Fisher booms are still used for multi camera scripted drama and comedy, where the extra long reach and practiced / coordinated movements are a time saver.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29639" LastActivityDate="2016-01-07T23:36:39.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45978" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45982" CreationDate="2016-01-08T02:03:28.283" Score="5" ViewCount="2709" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mr. Data seemed to be a very advanced and unique Android in Star Trek TNG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It came to my attention, however, that (seemingly more advanced? or at least more humaniform) androids existed in the hundreds of thousands in Star Trek TOS. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episode I'm referencing is &quot;I, Mudd&quot;, (the title being a clever reference to Asimov's &quot;I, Robot&quot;, much like the iPod and iPhone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wEqUr.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wEqUr.png&quot; alt=&quot;Sexy Humaniform Androids&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In light of this, did Data break any new ground as an android? Was his oft-malfunctioning emotion chip the only area where he (and his brother) represented an advance in robotics/cybernetics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16095" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-10-03T07:37:08.350" LastActivityDate="2024-01-16T15:47:38.717" Title="Androids in Star Trek TOS compared to Star Trek TNG" Tags="|star-trek|star-trek-the-original-series|star-trek-the-next-generation|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45980" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45981" CreationDate="2016-01-08T02:19:31.340" Score="4" ViewCount="4154" Body="&lt;p&gt;A lot of TV shows are structured like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some common generic opening footage.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A few minutes of intro to the episode.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Title sequence and credits.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The rest of the show.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;#1 is a little rarer, sci fi especially seems to have it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are #1 and #2 called?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8559" LastEditorUserId="8559" LastEditDate="2016-01-08T14:46:15.430" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T14:46:15.430" Title="What's the stuff before the title sequence in a TV show called?" Tags="|production|terminology|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45981" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45980" CreationDate="2016-01-08T02:29:58.470" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is generally referred to as a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheTeaser&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;teaser&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and also referred to as a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_open&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cold-open&lt;/a&gt;&quot; or a &quot;cold opening&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Per TV Tropes; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also known as a Cold Opening or &quot;Cold Open.&quot; A one to five minute&#xA;  mini-act at the beginning of the show, sometimes before the opening&#xA;  credits, that is used to set up the episode and catch the audience's&#xA;  attention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-01-08T02:35:26.993" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T02:35:26.993" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45982" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45978" CreationDate="2016-01-08T02:54:01.560" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main difference between Mudd-Androids and Soong-Androids is that Mudd-Androids were created by a long dead alien race in the Andromeda galaxy, while Soong-Androids were the first real human built, and seemingly sentient Androids. The Mudd-Androids were not really Sentient. Just like any other technology in Star Trek, humans were rarely the first to create them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Data's uniqueness is really due to how prominent he is in Star Fleet. He's first and foremost on Star Fleet's flagship, been around for a long time, is smarter than their most advanced, modern computers, and is shown to be Sentient. Also, fairly harmless. Most other Androids are not accessible, well known, and can even be violent. Data is the shiny, low hanging fruit. But he's so advanced he's sentient, which causes issues for mass production, as Noonian is dead and Data won't allow himself to be disassembled for study. Hence the entire &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Measure of a Man&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; plot line.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T02:54:01.560" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45988" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43703" CreationDate="2016-01-08T07:54:39.483" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was based on an amalgamation of real events and incidents, primarily though the filmmakers referenced this one... &#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/EZe-ywk6WOU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29643" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T07:54:39.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45989" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="45992" CreationDate="2016-01-08T08:07:38.303" Score="49" ViewCount="72116" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of Mr Bean's quirks is that he hates this particular three-wheeled car:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OuWxL.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OuWxL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The three-wheeled car&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is then, &lt;strong&gt;do we know why he hates this car?&lt;/strong&gt;  Has Atkinson or any of the writing staff ever commented regarding this hatred?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24050" LastActivityDate="2016-10-13T22:54:43.317" Title="What does Mr Bean have against the three-wheeled car?" Tags="|character|mr-bean|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45992" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45989" CreationDate="2016-01-08T09:55:36.150" Score="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a meme. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the UK, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;everybody&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; hates those cars. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google refs: Jeremy Clarkson/Top Gear, Reliant Robin or Reliant Supervan; Only Fools &amp;amp; Horses. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Try this Youtube video to see Clarkson &quot;testing&quot; one - &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/QQh56geU0X8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even the members of the owner's club in the Top Gear video are quite aware of how bad their cherished vehicles really are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Seriously, they were actually quite dangerous, unless you kept additional weight on the passenger side.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Their fibre-glass construction also made them deadly in any crash.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;They were popular, really, only because you didn't need a full motor vehicle driving license to drive one unaccompanied, you only needed a motor-cycle license.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the &quot;Supervan&quot; variant, made [in]famous by Del-Boy &amp;amp; Rodney Trotter, in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Fools_and_Horses&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Only Fools &amp;amp; Horses&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The meme already existed by the time this show was first made in 1981, the abysmal quality of the vehicle adding to the characterisations of the protagonists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VQ2xk.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VQ2xk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25773" LastEditorUserId="25773" LastEditDate="2016-01-08T10:02:15.077" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T10:02:15.077" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45994" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45976" CreationDate="2016-01-08T13:28:25.880" Score="5" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;NOODLES - &quot;Many years ago I tried to save a friend of mine by turning him in. He was a very close friend. Things worked out bad for him and for me.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Noodles betrayed his friend to try and save him, however the cops were on the payroll of Max, and helped in his faked death.  So the last years in hiding were all for nothing, Noodles was just a pawn in Max's plan, not someone doing a heroic sacrifice (of his life by hiding as a nobody for 35 years) as a result of trying to help his friend. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T13:28:25.880" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45995" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1653" CreationDate="2016-01-08T13:42:40.573" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe they're all in limbo. The mother for killing the children, the children because of their trauma and unwillingness to leave their mother, the servants because they were not &quot;believers&quot; and the father because he was a soldier. The children ask how you know who the &quot;goodies and the baddies&quot; are in a war. The lines are so blurred that when he went to war and was killed, he was stuck too. Because he killed others. &#xA;OR there is no heaven or hell or any of it and ghosts simply haunt the place where they died. However, that doesn't explain the people in the book of post-mortem photos. I would have to assume that SOME of them died in the house in the past. So where are they? Why only 6 ghosts in a house with such a long history? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29656" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-06-09T08:41:05.240" LastActivityDate="2017-06-09T08:41:05.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45997" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-08T14:22:01.060" Score="4" ViewCount="29592" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the very beginning of the Walking Dead series if I recall correctly, Rick has been in coma for over a month, yet he managed to survive. We don't know exactly when the hospital got over-run but judging from his first observations - it has been a while. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2019-09-03T19:05:16.813" Title="How did Rick survive while in coma?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45998" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-08T14:25:07.427" Score="4" ViewCount="467" Body="&lt;p&gt;I do not recall seeing much snow or any serious weather change in the Walking Dead series. Is there a specific reason for that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2017-08-29T08:01:15.287" Title="Why do we not see snow or much of season change in the Walking Dead?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="45999" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45998" CreationDate="2016-01-08T14:33:59.583" Score="9" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Recently, The Walking Dead executive producer Gale Anne Hurd was asked&#xA;  about the frequent lack of changes in the weather on the series by&#xA;  Access Hollywood, and let the outlet in on a little secret; the lack&#xA;  of seasons totally has to do with the drama’s production schedule. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Yeah, it's dependent on the weather when we shoot.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It’s not likely we’ll get to see a winter wonderland on the show&#xA;  anytime soon, although Hurd also tells Access Hollywood that she would&#xA;  love to see snow in the cards should the show be able to finagle it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We do shoot right up until Thanksgiving, so if there is an early&#xA;  snowfall in Georgia, we'll be happy to capture it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Taken verbatim from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Why-We-Rarely-See-Weather-Seasons-Walking-Dead-69934.html&quot;&gt;this website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T14:33:59.583" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46001" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45997" CreationDate="2016-01-08T15:45:44.083" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are some questions on SFF getting at this same topic if you want to read those:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/93991/how-long-was-rick-in-the-hospital&quot;&gt;How long was Rick in the hospital?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11375/why-was-ricks-room-blocked-with-a-hospital-bed&quot;&gt;Why was Rick's room blocked with a hospital bed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this HitFix article provides some insight:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hitfix.com/comedy/how-the-walking-deads-rick-grimes-survived-his-coma-isnt-a-mystery-yall&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;How &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt;'s Rick Grimes Survived His Coma Isn't a Mystery, Y'all&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I will do my best to sum them up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The gist of them is that, although we don't see the passage of time with him, in can be deduced that he has been in a coma about a month.  Here is a snippet from phantom42's answer to &lt;em&gt;How Long Was Rick in the Hospital&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dave Erickson, the showrunner for Fear the Walking Dead, got a word-of-god answer on this from series creator Robert Kirkman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In his interview with Tech Insider, Erickson said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Robert has said for him, the coma, Rick was probably out four to five weeks..&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know Rick was already into his coma before things start coming unhinged, and Shane paid him a few visits (I'll have to track down specifics).  The last time Shane was in the hospital, it was not to bring flowers or pray for recovery; the outbreak was already occurring, and Shane was trying to get Rick out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Josh's answer on Why was &lt;em&gt;Rick's room blocked with a hospital bed?&lt;/em&gt; breaks down Shane's actions, reactions, and intentions pretty clearly, but the main points are that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shane was at the hospital trying to get Rick to safety, in light of the outbreak and the military presence that has begun to combat any perceived threats.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Shane cannot move Rick easily with Rick connected to various equipment.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Running out of time and options, Shane does the best he can and blocks the door to Rick's room with a bed in the hall.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the HitFix article using images and logic to assume how much more time has passed, notably linking the state of the hospital interior to a military barrage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How Rick survived &lt;em&gt;presumably&lt;/em&gt; without fluids, and how the backup lights stayed on in the hospital could probably be debated at length.  Obviously, the biggest explanation for Rick's survival is &lt;strong&gt;he is a key character in the show.&lt;/strong&gt;  That kind of means he should be alive, and probably that he should be capable of feats that no one else on the show (or in reality) would be capable of replicating.  But he's more than just a character in a show...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;phantom42's question uses the comics as a source, including this image:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/81q30.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/81q30.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the last panel, we see Lori say&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;They said people were going to stay at the hospital when they evacuated. From what you told me... they must have abandoned the hospital less than a week after we left.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am less versed on the comics, but if we can believe that Shane and Lori evacuated at the same, then &lt;strong&gt;I think we can assume that Rick was in the hospital, alone and in a coma, for no less than a week&lt;/strong&gt; before waking up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's obviously on the lower end, but it's more believable.  After all, he wasn't alone the whole time he was in a coma, or even the whole time people started knowing about the outbreak.  In his month of being dead to the world, I'll buy it that he pulled through a week on his own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ryan H.'s answer from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/50116/44025&quot;&gt;How many days passed between the initial outbreak and “Chupacabra” in The Walking Dead?&lt;/a&gt; which spawned the question &lt;em&gt;How long was Rick in the hospital?&lt;/em&gt; ends with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a real world scenario Rick needs to wake up very soon to survive. One to two days after the ancillary staff have left the hospital.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well...this is pseudo-scifi after all...&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Close enough?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24267" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-08T15:45:44.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46002" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="572" CreationDate="2016-01-08T17:20:36.760" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Each Stargate could imagine itself to be the center of its own reference system. It can determine the distance and direction of 39 beacons. If you input one beacon (let's call it a), the origin Stargate draws an imaginary sphere around itself with a radius equal to the distance to a. After you input b, the Stargate draws another imaginary sphere around the location with a radius equal to the distance from origin to b. The intersection of these two spheres is a circle. Inputting one more beacon will provide a third sphere which will reduce the intersection down to at most two points. This technique is called trilateration, and is how GPS units actually work. One more input would narrow it down to the exact point. Or, even better, the origin gate could just pick the destination closest to a Stargate (or randomly pick one if they are both exactly the same distance which is extremely unlikely). That way you would only need 3 symbols with no origin required. This works, by the way, even if everything in the universe is in motion. Plus 39 choices raised to the third power is around 60,000 possible permutations. Also, who says aliens think in lines? Why not spheres and circles instead? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29664" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2017-01-03T20:24:51.947" LastActivityDate="2017-01-03T20:24:51.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45682" CreationDate="2016-01-08T22:30:19.833" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are right that there is a bit more to it, however, not a deep foreshadowing either, but just a little friendly joke (for lack of a better term).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, the Camerlengo doesn't specifically talk about the shirt's size, what he actually says is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Would it surprise you to find those clothes suit you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he says the clothes generally suit him. And this is directly in relation to the fact that he actually provided Langdon with the &lt;strong&gt;clothes of a catholic priest&lt;/strong&gt;. You can see them in the scene where Robert finds them and which explicitly shows the characteristic white collar worn by catholic priests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zp982.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zp982.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MCDrj.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MCDrj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And even more than that, you can see how Robert just grabs the collar and throws it aside and the way and look with which he does that. This again highlights the fact that &lt;strong&gt;he isn't actually much of a religious person at all and especially not a big fan of the catholic church as an institution&lt;/strong&gt;. His supposed disregard for the catholic church (as well as vice versa) is adressed at many points in the film (e.g. the reluctance of Vatican to let him into the archives and the conflicts he gets in with Commandante Richter).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So when the Camerlengo says that those clothes &quot;suit&quot; Robert, &lt;strong&gt;he plays with this attitude of Robert towards the catholic church, now ironically being clad as one of its members&lt;/strong&gt;. It might be part friendly jab, part attempt by the Camerlengo to lighten Robert's stance towards the church a bit, and part saying that he might not be as different from them as he thinks. But at the end of the day, it was a friendly little &quot;joke&quot; from the Camerlengo, which Robert eloquently responds to with another little wordplay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It would surprise the hell out of me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-09T14:38:26.520" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T14:38:26.520" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46015" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48932" CreationDate="2016-01-08T22:55:14.020" Score="4" ViewCount="430" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1220719/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IP Man (2008)&lt;/a&gt;, despite the fact that pretty much everyone wants IP to teach them how to fight, he seems really reluctant about it and only starts teaching during the war, when it is a matter of life and death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was he so against taking disciples?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T00:12:41.243" Title="Why didn't IP Man want to be a teacher?" Tags="|ip-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46016" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-08T22:58:06.497" Score="3" ViewCount="380" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just finished watching the three-part SyFy channel mini-series adaptation of &lt;em&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.syfy.com/childhoodsend&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Childhood's End&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, and I was left wondering about a number of seeming correlations between the story told (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood%27s_End&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;originally by Arthur C. Clarke&lt;/a&gt;) and the Biblical prophecies of the &quot;End Times&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, the character of Karellen seems to echo the Christian &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Antichrist&lt;/a&gt;&quot; figure in a number of ways - not to mention &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; his physical resemblance to the commonly used image for Satan and/or other demons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; the removal of the children with the adults being left behind &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;is similar to the idea of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rapture&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_eschatology&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Christian eschatology&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, my question is, does anyone have any references to anything that would either confirm or deny an intended parallel between the story of &lt;em&gt;&quot;Childhood's End&quot;&lt;/em&gt; (either in Clarke's original telling, or this new adaptation) and Biblical prophecy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25790" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-09T21:47:00.143" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T21:47:00.143" Title="Was Childhood's End Intended To Parallel Biblical Prophecy?" Tags="|analysis|childhoods-end|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45933" CreationDate="2016-01-09T02:54:45.377" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Looker&lt;/a&gt; is my long-shot guess&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bad guys use an optical flash weapon that &quot;freezes&quot; people in place, but I do not remember anything about SWAT teams or getting something out of someones head. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16404" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T02:54:45.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14628" CreationDate="2016-01-09T04:53:23.360" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because the tavern owner was himself part of the &quot;Ressistance francaise&quot;, so was a good option for being a &quot;safe location&quot; in first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29685" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T04:53:23.360" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45997" CreationDate="2016-01-09T05:19:33.533" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first episode, you see Rick rip an IV hooked up to a fluids bag out of his arm. That would have provided him the ability to survive for longer than 3 days it takes for you to thirst to death when you are in the complete absence of liquids. We know from episodes in season six that a cheesemaker can starve a man to death in 47 days, but that is assuming he has water. Rick looks slightly emaciated when he wakes up and is obviously very thirsty because he tries to scream for water, but he woke up in time to survive his ordeal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29688" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T05:19:33.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46029" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-09T06:06:40.273" Score="4" ViewCount="11654" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Break_(2015_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Point Break&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (2015), how could the two men survive near 800 meter drop from Venezuela's Angel Falls?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T20:39:03.730" LastActivityDate="2020-05-21T05:43:42.643" Title="How did Utah and Bodhi survive 800 meter waterfall drop?" Tags="|realism|point-break|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46030" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="64197" CreationDate="2016-01-09T06:56:32.170" Score="2" ViewCount="1495" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did Pumpkin and Honey Bunny from Pulp Fiction appear in another movie? Because I believe I've seen some coffee addicted idiots looking similar to them in some another movie. Am I confusing them with someone else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29690" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-09T14:48:55.980" LastActivityDate="2016-12-01T23:40:40.567" Title="Pumpkin and Honey Bunny from Pulp Fiction - did they appear in another movie?" Tags="|character|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45956" CreationDate="2016-01-09T07:14:08.570" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read in this place - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thisisbarry.com/#!In-Review-Extremely-Loud-and-Incredibly-Close-2011-Explained/ce4s/5690a3a40cf2f5ee60f55040&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Extremely Loud &amp;amp; Incredibly Close.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tom Hanks tells his son about fake story that once upon a time there was 6 boroughs in NY and not only 5. 6th borough floated away. The people floated away too. Central park was in 6th borough and it was floating away also. Then Manhattan people use hooks and pull central park to stop it from floating away with 6th borough. It is a fake story he tells his son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why because (from link): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thomas tells this to his son because he wants to ensure his extremely&#xA;  science oriented son is not devoid of an imagination. Unlike other&#xA;  kids Oskar is a little too drawn to science and accepts only things&#xA;  that are backed by scientific facts. Thomas perhaps feels that Oskar&#xA;  should have an element of faith in things that may or may not be&#xA;  proven scientifically. This is not necessarily religious. Humans don’t&#xA;  really understand the way of life and how everything works. Science&#xA;  merely helps us understand things that are repeatable in nature.&#xA;  Thomas perhaps feels an over dependence on science and its limited&#xA;  explanation of the cosmos could make Oskar pessimistic in life. This&#xA;  is why Thomas asks him are you an optimist or a pessimist. Oskar&#xA;  responds saying he’s an optimist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18959" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T07:14:08.570" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46032" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46042" CreationDate="2016-01-09T07:49:14.360" Score="2" ViewCount="16019" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tiffany in &lt;em&gt;Silver Linings Playbook&lt;/em&gt; said she was depressed. So, I guess she had at least one depressive episode. Does she have MDD, BD (like Pat), BPD or PTSD? I read some speculation on Tiffany having at least one of those, but I don't think she was diagnosed. Was she? Is there any official word on this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21705" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-09T15:09:54.663" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T15:09:54.663" Title="What is the mental illness of Tiffany in Silver Linings Playbook?" Tags="|character|silver-linings-playbook|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46033" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-01-09T08:14:02.003" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-01-09T08:14:02.003" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T08:14:02.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46034" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-01-09T08:14:02.003" Score="0" Body="2015 remake of of the 1991 action film.  This film stars Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer and Ray Winestone." OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2016-01-09T11:43:20.997" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T11:43:20.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46040" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-09T11:53:51.700" Score="6" ViewCount="1524" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is Walter White from &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; intended to be a sympathetic character? I'm just asking this myself because I don't do so. But have a lot of respect for the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My personal point of view is that lying is a pretty bad attitude and I'm judging my social connections by this. But I also noticed a lot of people don't expect it in as strict way as I do. So I'm asking this under the view of him being a liar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20039" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2016-04-25T03:13:49.387" LastActivityDate="2016-04-25T03:13:49.387" Title="Is Walter White's character designed so we will be sympathetic to him?" Tags="|character|analysis|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46042" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46032" CreationDate="2016-01-09T14:36:28.697" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The official word (from the book blurb) is that she's suffering from &lt;a href=&quot;http://matthewquickwriter.com/novels/the-silver-linings-playbook/&quot;&gt;clinical depression&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Pat meets the tragically widowed, physically fit, and clinically&#xA;  depressed Tiffany, she offers to act as a liaison between him and his&#xA;  wife, if only he will give up watching football, agree to perform in&#xA;  this year’s Dance Away Depression competition, and promise not to tell&#xA;  anyone about their ‘contract.’ All the while, Pat keeps searching for&#xA;  his silver lining.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as her '&lt;em&gt;undiagnosed&lt;/em&gt;' conditions are concerned, the author has suggested (in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/get_out/movies/article_c6da13fe-359c-11e2-9437-0019bb2963f4.html&quot;&gt;this interview&lt;/a&gt;) that she may also be suffering from anxiety issues:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Could you tell me about the creation of Tiffany? Was the character inspired by anybody you know?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It’s funny; people ask me that all the time, like, “Did you know someone who needed to sleep with everybody in the office?” and the&#xA;  boring answer is “no.” I think what Tiffany really represents is that&#xA;  explosive quality that forces you to take a hard look at yourself. Pat&#xA;  is delusional – especially in the book, he’s much more delusional in&#xA;  the book. He just does not want to face reality and Tiffany is the one&#xA;  that grabs Pat’s head and makes him look squarely in the mirror at&#xA;  someone that he doesn’t want to see.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Growing up in a blue-collar neighborhood, you didn’t talk about stuff like that. To use the word “depression,” that was not something I was&#xA;  comfortable with for most of my life and I think my wife really forced&#xA;  me to look at the fact that I was not happy, I was depressed, I had&#xA;  anxiety issues and I wasn’t really living the life that I wanted to&#xA;  live. That was a hard thing for me to admit in my 20’s. I think,&#xA;  metaphorically, that experience probably inspired, on a subconscious&#xA;  level, Tiffany.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T14:36:28.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46045" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-09T16:13:30.550" Score="8" ViewCount="3402" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've recently finished watching the fifth season of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Homeland&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; whose fifth episode is entitled &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Homeland_episodes#Season_5_.282015.29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which of course is Saul Berenson's first name, one of the main characters of the show played by Mandy Patinkin. But, since the coincidence is so weird, I was wondering if the episode title is also a reference/homage to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Call_Saul&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;namesake&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; series (which is a spin-off of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), although, as far as I'm aware, nothing in the episode's plot seems to allow a connection.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anybody have any evidence of the fact that Homeland's fifth episode title was meant as a reference to Vince Gilligan's series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-08-11T11:39:45.940" LastActivityDate="2017-07-04T14:58:48.680" Title="Homeland - possible &quot;Better Call Saul&quot; series reference" Tags="|reference|better-call-saul|homeland|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46047" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44503" CreationDate="2016-01-09T17:52:04.540" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could come up with two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Conversation between Captain Pollard and Owen chase about &quot;Who are we to bend the rules of nature&quot; some minutes earlier at the island... at the sheer overwhelming majestic sight of the whale, Owen stops to reconsider Cpt. Pollard's words.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He saw into the eye of the demon whale, while his last harpoon was still stuck close to it. He understood that he can't possibly kill it. And if he even tries, he'll risk all the little chance his crew and him had at surviving. It was also like a silent telepathy of the two strongest characters in the movie. He lets moby dick go, and in turn, the demon whale lets them be.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29701" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-04T21:07:56.873" LastActivityDate="2016-08-04T21:07:56.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46048" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-09T18:13:29.663" Score="2" ViewCount="1460" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the conclusion of every episode of Saturday Night Live, the entire cast, including any special guests and the musical guest, appears on stage while the host thanks the cast and crew and says goodnight (with slight variations therein). Those on the stage hug, laugh, and seem to have light chit chat while the credits role.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why is this done?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="850" LastActivityDate="2016-01-10T11:23:59.950" Title="Why does the cast appear on stage at the end of every episode?" Tags="|saturday-night-live|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46049" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46050" CreationDate="2016-01-09T19:31:00.557" Score="9" ViewCount="7704" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;X2&lt;/em&gt;, Magneto sensed the iron in the guardian Laurio's blood, which was injected by Mystique, and used it to escape the plastic prison. It is normal that he sensed it, since he is, well... Magneto. But how does he know that it was Mystique that injected the iron, or the way she injected it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mr. Laurio, never trust a beautiful woman, especially ones that are&#xA;  interested in you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T07:56:32.453" LastActivityDate="2016-05-21T08:07:20.197" Title="How did Magneto know Mystique injected the metal into Laurio's body?" Tags="|plot-explanation|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46050" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46049" CreationDate="2016-01-09T20:46:51.433" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although it's not made quite so obvious in the film, in the original script Laurio entered the scanning chamber (and then the cell) with a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/xYItZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;huge stupid smile on his face&lt;/a&gt; and a swagger in his step&lt;/strong&gt;. Everyone around him puts 1+1 together and immediately spots that he got lucky last night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since he's got massive amounts of colloidal iron in his bloodstream, Eric then discerns what actually happened to Mr Laurio the night before; A woman slept with him and then (unknowingly) injected him with metal. It's not hard to work out who that woman might be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film, they changed the sequence of events slightly, having Magneto be asleep until Laurio entered the chamber then have him wake up by detecting the metal. Although they'd changed the sequence of events, they obviously still kept the line about not trusting a beautiful woman because, heck, it's a good line as well as being generally good advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/X-Men_2.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;film's script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;INT. PLASTIC PRISON - SECURITY CHECKPOINT - DAY   TWO GUARDS stand in&#xA;the room by the door to the catwalk. LAURIO enters carrying a tray of&#xA;food.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GUARD 1:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;What's that on your face, Mitch?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LAURIO:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Sa-tisfaction.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Guard grimaces at the thought of it, and opens the door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GUARD 1:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;You're clear.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;INT. PLASTIC PRISON - SAME TIME&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Magneto angrily paces back and forth -- thinking about Charles. &lt;strong&gt;He&#xA;stops and looks at Laurio... curiously.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LAURIO&lt;/strong&gt; (O.S.): &lt;em&gt;Have a nice sleep, Lensherr?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Laurio enters and puts the food on a table. &lt;strong&gt;His smile becomes a&#xA;scowl&lt;/strong&gt; when he sees Magneto staring at him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MAGNETO:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;There's something different about you,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://xmenmovies.wikia.com/wiki/X-Men_2_(novelization)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;novelisation&lt;/a&gt;, they chose a middle ground, having Magneto spot the smile on Laurio's face &lt;em&gt;as he came awake&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mitchell Laurio was whistling as he came on shift. He couldn’t&#xA;remember many of the details of what had happened in the ladies’ can,&#xA;but he’d never felt better in his life than he had after it was done. Just the&#xA;memory of Grace’s farewell kisses was enough to stir his blood and put&#xA;a spring in his step, and the fact that she’d left a whispered promise&#xA;to meet him again tonight made him wish as he never had before for the&#xA;day to end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The guard at the final checkpoint was the latest to offer comment:&#xA;“Mitchell Laurio, what is that on your face, man?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Sa-tis- fac-tion!”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eric Lehnsherr was asleep until Laurio stepped over the threshold.&#xA;Then, just like that, he came completely awake with a rush he hadn’t&#xA;felt since his capture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Sweet dreams, Lehnsherr?” asked Laurio, his mockery plain. Just&#xA;because he’d had the best night of his life didn’t mean he was going&#xA;to pass on the morning beating. The one gave him just as much pleasure&#xA;as the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Laurio set the tray on the table. Lehnsherr hadn’t moved, beyond&#xA;sitting up on the bed. There was something different about his&#xA;expression, though, like there was a big joke being played here that&#xA;only he was privy to. But at the same time, there was a predatory cast&#xA;to his eyes that made Laurio suddenly wish the internal monitors were&#xA;active and that he were somewhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As was usual for him when he felt ill at ease or threatened, Laurio&#xA;got aggressive. This time, he decided, he wasn’t going to stop until&#xA;the old man begged him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“There’s something different about you, Mr. Laurio,” Lehnsherr said&#xA;with a slight question to his voice, as if he couldn’t quite credit&#xA;what he saw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-09T20:52:36.867" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46040" CreationDate="2016-01-10T04:55:50.670" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are countless articles and interviews from the show's creator Vince Gilligan on the character of Walter White.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/aug/18/breaking-bad-vince-gilligan-walter-white&quot;&gt;This one for example:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gilligan confesses surprise at the residual affection which has built&#xA;  up among viewers for White, even as the lies – and the bodycount –&#xA;  have spiralled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I have kind of lost sympathy for Walt along the way,&quot; says Gilligan.&#xA;  &quot;I find it interesting, this sociological phenomenon, that people&#xA;  still root for Walt. Perhaps it says something about the nature of&#xA;  fiction, that viewers have to identify on some level with the&#xA;  protagonist of the show, or maybe he's just interesting because he is&#xA;  good at what he does. Viewers respond to people who are good at their&#xA;  job, even when they are bad.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That the empathy endures – and the show works at all – is down to&#xA;  Cranston, the former Malcolm in the Middle star (and Seinfeld's&#xA;  dentist) who first worked with Gilligan on a 1998 episode of The X&#xA;  Files.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We needed an actor to play a character who was very dark and nasty&#xA;  but at the end of the hour you had to feel sorry for him,&quot; remembers&#xA;  Gilligan, who worked in various capacities on seven series of The X&#xA;  Files, alongside its creator, Chris Carter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Everyone is going to draw their own conclusions about whether they sympathize with WW, but I think its evident that Gilligan didn't intend for this to be such. It is a testament to good writing and top quality acting from Cranston that, at the end of the day, we still feel bad for him and root for him, in spite of his evil acts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2016-01-10T04:55:50.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46061" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46065" CreationDate="2016-01-10T05:23:25.783" Score="6" ViewCount="2911" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember a scene in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; where Walter White is covered in a plastic sheet and going into a machine for his lung cancer. It's a radiotherapy machine I believe, but for the life of me I cant find the scene when I'm watching and fast forwarding through the episodes.  I feel like it was Season 1, or possibly Season 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone remember what I'm talking about?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm doing a project on radiation therapy and if I could get to this clip it would be amazing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29711" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-10T05:29:34.877" LastActivityDate="2016-01-10T12:37:37.713" Title="Which season/episode is the scene where Walter White enters the CT scanner/radiation therapy machine" Tags="|breaking-bad|identify-this-episode|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:31:22.140" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46063" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41727" CreationDate="2016-01-10T06:32:44.347" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://hiphollywood.com/2015/12/will-smith-jokes-about-his-nigerian-accent-in-concussion/&quot;&gt;this interview with Smith&lt;/a&gt; they used prosthetics that pulled back his ears and changed his hairline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But besides taking dialect training Smith also had to undergo a physical transformation to help him look more like Nigerian doctor Dr. Bennet Omalu. “I had a prosthetic that was glued to pull my ears back and that changes the shape of my face,” he explained. “And I had a small piece that changed the shape of the hairline. It was really subtle, but just little things like that.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29714" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-10T14:55:36.340" LastActivityDate="2016-01-10T14:55:36.340" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46064" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-10T10:51:34.123" Score="6" ViewCount="12127" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As in the title:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Why don't Michonne's walker drones try to attack/bite her (or someone else)? Are they aware of the fact, that they don't have any arms and a jawbone anymore?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Further:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt; &#xA;In some scenes, she also seems to control them a little (like to move or stop walking). How is that possible?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kpE1f.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kpE1f.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Wy5I.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Wy5I.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29718" LastEditorUserId="29718" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T09:20:21.450" LastActivityDate="2016-04-07T02:58:11.550" Title="Why don't Michonne's walker drones try to attack her?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46065" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46061" CreationDate="2016-01-10T11:07:40.140" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Matter_%28Breaking_Bad%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gray Matter&lt;/a&gt;, season 1 episode 5, when Walt finally agrees to undergo the treatment. He's scanned about 5 minutes before the end of the episode. It's a machine that uses what looks like a vacuum-sealed clear plastic sheet and green radiation rays. Here's a picture:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9QCIj.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9QCIj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-01-10T12:37:37.713" LastActivityDate="2016-01-10T12:37:37.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46067" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46048" CreationDate="2016-01-10T11:23:59.950" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Saturday Night Live is a live theatrical performance, filmed in front of a live audience.  Many similar shows close/have closed this way, including In Living Color.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-01-10T11:23:59.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46072" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46073" CreationDate="2016-01-10T18:48:47.397" Score="5" ViewCount="727" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen this movie at a film festival about 10 years ago, maybe a bit less. It was a European movie (non English), probably joint production - something like Italian-French, or Spanish-French, or similar. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is set in 18th century Italy or Spain. The heroine is from a wealthy, very traditional Catholic family. When we first see her, she is a teenager, almost a child. She is mute. Her family and everybody around treat her as if she is somehow an outcast. At first we don't know if its because of her muteness or something else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One day she is introduced to her relative, decades older then her. She is told that this is her future husband. She is horrified, but despite her protests, they are married very quickly. On their wedding night, he rapes her. They live together, and it quickly becomes apparent that her husband has a very unhealthy obsession with her. He continues to force sex on her; she hates it but can do nothing to stop him. They have children. One night she gathers courage and refuses him sex. Surprisingly, it actually works. It seems that all the time he had a delusion that she somehow loved/wanted him. Soon afterwards he dies (there is a very creepy scene, where he talks to a goat explaining how his mother abused him as a child, then strangles the goat. Then he has a stroke or something). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now the heroine is a widow. She also bloomed into a great beauty. A new man appears in her life - I don't remember exactly how, maybe as a tutor to her children. He is a foreigner, probably French. He is an intellectual and introduces her to new Enlightenment ideas. Most importantly, he tells her about a new invention - sign language. They quickly form an intellectual friendship, and it's obvious there is mutual attraction as well, but our heroine is still sexually repressed, and their social positions make everything awkward. He leaves, but they continue to correspond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our heroine hires a new servant, and he is very handsome. Now for the first time she has a sexual awakening. She is very strongly attracted to her servant, but it's purely physical. He pursues her and tries to seduce her. She resists, although she is very tempted. Her maid also falls madly in love with the servant, so now we have a love triangle. In a fit of jealousy, her maid tries to kill the servant. The maid is seized by authorities and sent to lunatic asylum. Some time later our heroine visits her. She finds her former maid horribly mistreated and abused, so she gets her out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't remember much after this, except for the ending. The heroine finally learns - or remembers - the reason for her muteness, and why she was married off like this. Turns out, she was raped as a child by the same relative who later became her husband. She was so traumatized that went mute. She also had an amnesia and forgot what happened. Her family considered all this a great shame, so they made a secret deal with her rapist to marry her to him as soon as she reaches puberty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After she learns all this, she has an emotional crisis. She looks at herself in a mirror and desperately tries to talk, but makes only disjointed sounds. Finally, she decides to turn her life around completely. She writes to her friend that she is taking a trip abroad and plans to visit him. At the end, we see her leaving in a carriage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole movie is beautifully made, with rich visuals, a lot of historical details, dresses, houses etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29724" LastActivityDate="2016-01-10T19:38:40.227" Title="European historical movie about the mute 18th century woman" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:17:41.823" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46072" CreationDate="2016-01-10T19:38:40.227" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116990/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Marianna Ucria&lt;/a&gt; from 1997. It was based on the novel &lt;em&gt;La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa&lt;/em&gt; (AKA The Silent Duchess).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sicily 18th century, Marianna Ucria is a 12-year-old deaf-mute from an aristocratic family of Palermo. Aged 13, she is married to a middle-aged uncle, Duca Pietro. She is repulsed by him, but at 16 years she already gives him three daughters. During her 20s she is instructed by a French tutor, which teaches her philosophy and all the new ideas that tour around Europe. She also has to manage, after Pietro's death, a relationship with her servant's brother (and following scandal). In her mature age she finally discovers and understands the terrible secret behind his handicap. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty much everything you wrote is there. A very well-written question. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/2VENbinhnGc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2016-01-10T19:38:40.227" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26977" CreationDate="2016-01-10T22:04:34.807" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Another option is that the lock of hair is from Vincent original, and was given to Jerome when they replaced identities. Vincent was trying to look (and be) Jerome but Jerome also needed to apper to be Vincent if the accation apper itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jerome returning the lock of hair to Vincent is like saying - it's really you that sould be up there - you are the better man. And it's a farewell as well - for he won't be needing it any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29729" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-10T22:06:47.773" LastActivityDate="2016-01-10T22:06:47.773" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46081" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15086" CreationDate="2016-01-10T23:54:31.113" Score="2" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I choose to believe that he has false memories of Dachau as he views&#xA;  the actions being performed there as particularly horrific. Therefore,&#xA;  they fit his own emotions perfectly - he thinks of himself as a&#xA;  monster, so imagines he took place in these monstrous events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To confirm that he has false memories I noticed that the concentration camp that Scorsese shows is not the one in Dachau.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take look at the gate: If it was Dachau it should have had this gate:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7CzF1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7CzF1.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Dachau gate.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the movie showed this one more well known one, Auschwitz:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/McALx.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/McALx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Auschwitz gate.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible that Di Caprio built an imaginary KZ using knew images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29731" LastEditorUserId="18230" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T01:07:38.133" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T01:07:38.133" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46085" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47643" CreationDate="2016-01-11T03:28:09.197" Score="5" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode 6 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4147780/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;South of Hell&lt;/a&gt;, the main characters are in Purgatory waiting for a bus that will take them to Hell.  The main characters escape to a place on the edge of Purgatory and there is a car there that (presumably) will drive them to the land of the living.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The car has a &quot;D&quot; sticker, which I first associated with Germany, but the show takes place in South Carolina and there are no connections to Germany in the plot; it must mean something else otherwise it's a horrendous continuity error.  So I must have missed something that explains why a car in Purgatory would have a &quot;D&quot; on it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does the &quot;D&quot; sticker signify?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/n6igW.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/n6igW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For comparison purposes, here's a photo of an Germany sticker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IIGzr.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IIGzr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="9866" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T03:35:29.620" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T21:11:32.853" Title="South of Hell: Car in Purgatory" Tags="|plot-explanation|props|south-of-hell|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46086" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-01-11T03:32:35.127" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T03:32:35.127" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T03:32:35.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46087" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-01-11T03:32:35.127" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T03:32:35.127" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T03:32:35.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46088" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="56698" CreationDate="2016-01-11T04:54:14.093" Score="9" ViewCount="466" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen The Force Awakens twice now. And I swear that there is a scene where the storm troopers say something along the lines of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They are splitting up.. we think they are on Level 5 and 6&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or something along those lines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My memory is pretty bad but I feel like some storm troopers say the same thing In A New Hope when they are on the death star. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the line said in both movies? If yes, is it the same sound clip?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9527" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T09:26:52.377" LastActivityDate="2016-08-09T14:18:01.753" Title="Is the exact same sound clip used in A New Hope and The Force Awakens?" Tags="|dialogue|star-wars|the-force-awakens|sound-effects|a-new-hope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46097" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-11T10:49:34.787" Score="1" ViewCount="2103" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Robert Fischer take the plane with Cobb's team in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt; (2010)&lt;/a&gt;, and how did he get sedated on the plane?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29747" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-09-06T14:51:02.657" LastActivityDate="2024-01-20T17:20:09.017" Title="Robert Fischer took the plane with Cobb's team?" Tags="|plot-explanation|inception|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46098" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-11T10:52:42.440" Score="2" ViewCount="1894" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 1 of &lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt;, during blackout, when Chandler was stuck in the ATM with a model named Jill, he tried to do some weird voice to let Monica know that he was stuck in the ATM with Jill Goodacre (I am not sure if I have written the surname correct!). When Monica was not able to understand him, he asked to put Joey on the phone and he understood what he said. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that, Joey told Chandler to do something on which Chandler replied &quot;Like that thought didn't pass my mind&quot;. What did Joey tell him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29748" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T11:39:50.973" LastActivityDate="2017-11-07T21:57:29.560" Title="Joey's and Chandler's coded telephone conversation" Tags="|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46099" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45735" CreationDate="2016-01-11T12:18:16.807" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm guessing it's so that, if Sherlock is overdosing (and he can't tell), Mycroft would be able to tell the doctors what he took so that they can help him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29749" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T12:18:16.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46101" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-11T13:25:28.073" Score="3" ViewCount="1882" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a scene in &lt;em&gt;Avengers: Age of Ultron&lt;/em&gt; where Scarlet Witch stops a moving train with her powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/UeRhFQzpkzM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't quite understand how she was able to do that. While she has some kind of telekinetic powers, it still seems impossible to stop an object if &lt;em&gt;you are inside of it&lt;/em&gt; (by pushing/pulling it in opposite direction). So how was she able to stop that train?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26377" LastEditorUserId="26377" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T14:10:18.813" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T14:10:18.813" Title="How is Scarlet Witch able to stop the train?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|avengers-age-of-ultron|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46102" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46101" CreationDate="2016-01-11T13:36:38.327" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Magic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scarlet Witch has abilities that are, obviously, well beyond what actual people can do. While they have never actually used the word &quot;magic&quot; in the movie universe, in the comics, her power is explicitly magical. As such, it's unfair to expect it to have any basis in physical reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, she was given telekinetic and telepathic powers by the Mind Stone embedded inside Loki's scepter. This allows her to, among other things, exert a force against objects mentally, without having to be in contact with them. In this specific case, she was able to exert a force against the train that was &lt;em&gt;detached&lt;/em&gt; from the train -- it wasn't her body that was pulling against the train's wheels, it was entirely mental, so it didn't matter that she was inside the train at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you look carefully, &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; what she is doing is just applying the brakes: she stops the wheels from turning in the same way that a braking system does. However, we can also see her &quot;pulling&quot; on the train as she does so, to bring it to rest further. The braking part, of course, is just friction, but the other part is all down to her powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="1146" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T13:45:45.553" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T13:45:45.553" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15347" CreationDate="2016-01-11T13:41:12.453" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Family Guy, American Dad and shows like that are semi non-linear. They reference past seasons and so time does go on in their worlds, but they aren't that linear that they define age of characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29752" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T13:41:12.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46105" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11156" CreationDate="2016-01-11T14:11:24.177" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There were  more Africans in Rome that  most people probably imagine. In fact many Africans became emperors, writers, philosophers, entertainers, generals, popes and of course gladiators.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In antiquity black or dark-skinned individuals from Africa were known as &quot;Aethiops&quot; a Greek term meaning &quot;black&quot;. It is the term from which Ethiopia, a modern African state is named after. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The term &quot;Aethiops&quot; is mentioned in many Roman records as the origin of many Roman citizens. Most Africans/Aethiops were acknowledged for their cultural contributions to Roman society, or rather the Roman Empire. There was no law which prohibited Africans from assuming roles of responsibility and authority.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For instance Lusius Quietus was one of Rome's greatest African generals (in the movie it is Maximus, he was of minor significance). Quietus served under Emperor Trajan. The Emperor named him his successor to the Imperial Purple. Quietus and other African soldiers defended the Dacians. Moreover, when the Jews revolted, Trajan sent Quietus to suppress the revolt, which he did with extreme severity. The Jews called the rebellion &quot;The War of Quietus.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, at least ten Africans became Emperors of Rome. They are listed on the historical record as the following: Macrinu, Firmus, Emilianus, Septimius Serverus, Pescennius Niger, Aquilus Niger, Brutidius Niger, Q. Caecilus Niger, Novius Niger, and Trebius Niger who was a proconsul in Spain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regard to the subject of religion, three Africans became popes in Rome. They were Victor 189-199 A. D., Melchiades 311-312; and St. Gelasius 496 A. D. It was Victor who sent a letter to the Eastern Churches requesting them to observe Easter on the same day as the Western Churches. The Eastern Churches refused and Victor excluded them from his communion. Afterwards, Victor was killed in the sixth persecution under Emperor Serverus. It is befitting to say that all three of these African popes contributed immensely to the development of Christianity in Rome.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;References:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Romans and Blacks, By Lloyd A. Thompson (University of Oklahoma Press, 1990)&#xA;Septimius Serverus: The African Emperor, By Anthony R. Birley (Yale University Press, 1988)&#xA;Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience, By Frank M. Snowden (Cambridge University Press, 1970)&#xA;Before Color Prejudice, By Frank M. Snowden (Cambridge University Press, 1984)&#xA;African Glory The Story of Vanished Negro Civilizations, By J. C. deGraft Johnson (Black Classic Press, 1986)&#xA;History of The African People Vol. II Africans in Europe, By G. K. Osei (The African Publication Society, 1971)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29753" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T14:11:24.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46109" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-11T16:19:55.760" Score="7" ViewCount="3327" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometime last year I watched a trailer for a NEW film but I can't remember what it was called.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film, the president has to jump out of his plane for some reason.&#xA;He lands in a foreign country (maybe Russia) and befriends a boy that tries to help him get back to America.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I remember that plot correctly, but the bit about helping him to return to America might be wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do remember it was a comedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it had Morgan Freeman starring as the president, but I checked his IMDb page and can't find anything resembling the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyone know which film I am looking for?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24395" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T17:00:21.577" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T17:00:21.577" Title="Looking for name of movie about the president landing via parachute in a forest" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:18:03.817" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46109" CreationDate="2016-01-11T16:24:12.163" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;That sounds like the movie &lt;em&gt;Big Game&lt;/em&gt; starring Samuel L Jackson:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2lvyJ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2lvyJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot is as you describe...Airforce One is attacked, the president ejects and lands in the forest (in Finland, rather than Russia), and a boy hunter helps save him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's clearly a movie that doesn't take itself entirely seriously, I don't think I'd classify it as a comedy, however. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="756" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T16:26:25.500" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T16:26:25.500" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1966" CreationDate="2016-01-11T17:17:15.713" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;First off, the Hurt locker is a very good film that actually does some justice to those who served during that conflict. The movie has a lot of accuracy in regards to Iraq, the war and our troops- basically, their struggle in that atmosphere. Very few movies about Iraq are this good with the exception of American Sniper and a few others. Anyways, I agree this is a confusing aspect of the movie and for so long I figured the insurgents had placed another child there to confuse the main character but my opinion has since changed. In my opinion (and that is what it all comes down to), Beckham- the little Iraqi boy who sells DVD's on the base- was never actually killed. Confusion and combat stress go hand and hand, causing sergeant James to make erroneous and reckless decisions (lets face it, he was kind of reckless from the beginning). The likelihood that another boy could look and sound equally like Beckham is unlikely. So my thoughts are that insanity and stress were getting the best of the main character. His relationship and compassion for the boy, while noble and heartwarming, was jeopardizing his relationship and the safety of himself and his troops. So there you have it, insanity and mistaken identity were the culprits in this one. Sorry for the long response but I love this movie and I was over there in northern Iraq, Mosul to be exact, once too. Lastly, It is also worth noting that sergeant James is a father too (as we see him playing with his young son at the end of the film) and this could be a major factor in his compassion with the Iraqi boy. Perhaps it made it more personal for him.     &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29757" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T17:17:15.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12032" CreationDate="2016-01-11T18:17:24.267" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1781165998&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;film's official novelisation&lt;/a&gt;, Superman was able to break Zod's neck simply because while Kryptonians are far stronger than humans (making it impossible for a human to have snapped Zod's neck), &lt;strong&gt;Kryptonians are perfectly capable of inflicting harm on each other&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that what look like mere punches and kicks in the earlier fight sequence would have resulted in a human dying &lt;em&gt;instantly&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;They fought savagely, hand-to-hand, upon the floor of the station.&#xA;  Their superhuman blows inflicted damage no human weapon could match.&#xA;  Indestructible Kryptonian fabric ripped in the struggle. Vicious kicks&#xA;  and jabs, delivered with Herculean force, left their faces bruised and&#xA;  bloodied. A fist of steel split Zod’s lip, and he retaliated by&#xA;  driving his knee up into Superman’s chin. The blow, which would have&#xA;  sent a cast-iron safe into orbit, loosened Superman’s teeth.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;He tasted blood.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;But Zod’s unreasoning rage made him sloppy. He charged like an animal,&#xA;  lowering his guard long enough for the Man of Steel to deliver an&#xA;  old-fashioned haymaker that sent him flying backward across the&#xA;  terminal. Zod hit the floor hard, only to discover that Superman had&#xA;  already shot across at super-speed to be there waiting for him.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then the coup de grâce, against a severely beaten enemy...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A little girl sobbed as the beam came closer, now only moments away. Superman cried out in anguish, knowing he had no other choice. It was Zod’s life—or the lives of innocents. &lt;strong&gt;He marshaled every ounce of strength that remained within him. And then...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  He snapped Zod’s neck.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  His form went limp, his fiery gaze extinguished instantly. Superman released the body and let it slump to the floor. Gazing down at the dead Kryptonian, he was surprised by the peaceful expression on his face.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T18:17:24.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46114" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-01-11T19:03:12.430" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T19:03:12.430" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T19:03:12.430" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46115" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-01-11T19:03:12.430" Score="0" Body="1996 Science Fiction film directed by Roland Emmerich.  Mankind fights back against an alien invasion on July 4th." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T19:18:36.983" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T19:18:36.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46117" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46098" CreationDate="2016-01-11T20:04:43.123" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I look forward to being corrected, I'm going to go out on a limb and say our lack of comprehension is quite literally &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OrphanedPunchline&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the joke&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. The humour in the situation comes from that fact that we don't understand the (intentionally nonsensical) words that Joey says and the fact that Joey is mumbling in the first place, since Jill Goodacre can't hear him :-)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think we can assume that his suggestion was something smutty or simply an admonition for Chandler not to blow his chances in getting a date with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T20:04:43.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46120" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-11T20:29:17.877" Score="3" ViewCount="367" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 4 of Luther, there is a scene where the police track the serial killer to his base. The killer escapes, apparently via some industrial air ducting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luther finds his escape route but only after moving a large and ominous  looking old fridge (another similar fridge was booby-trapped and exploded in an earlier scene) that seems to hide the entrance to the ducting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Luther is clever to spot the hidden escape route. But how did the criminal manage to move the fridge back after escaping?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2022-02-23T21:42:42.310" LastActivityDate="2022-02-23T21:42:42.310" Title="How does the escaping criminal move the fridge back?" Tags="|plot-explanation|luther|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="46123" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46178" CreationDate="2016-01-11T21:42:57.087" Score="5" ViewCount="584" Body="&lt;p&gt;Last year I went to a movie festival that lasted until dawn, I was a little drunk so I fell asleep during one of the films and woke up to a different one near the end where this couple were fleeing from people possessed by I believe demons and somehow reach a cavern beneath a hospital I think which was suppossed to be the entrance to Hell or a hellish dimension of some sorts. The movie ended as the couple just stared at the scenary realizing their attempts to escape were futile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something I did noticed was that the movie was probably before 2000, the fashion style didn't look recent. I think it was a movie from the late 80s or early 90s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does it ring a bell to anyone? Sorry if I don't provide much details, but that is as much as I could get from what I watched back then.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8799" LastEditorUserId="8799" LastEditDate="2016-01-11T23:26:48.700" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T23:12:56.617" Title="Movie where a couple survives only to reach hell?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:18:10.097" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46124" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-11T21:57:41.463" Score="4" ViewCount="1055" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Sherlock special episode &quot;The Abominable Bride&quot;, there is a scene where Mycroft talks about Moriarty with Sherlock. In the conversation he says something along the lines of &quot;... a grain in the lens. &lt;strong&gt;A virus in the data&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was Victorian London. There were no computers. How is that line appropriate for that era?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1111" LastActivityDate="2017-01-17T13:41:56.900" Title="Why does Mycroft say this in that time period?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46123" CreationDate="2016-01-11T22:56:48.887" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is quiet a shot in the dark but the description of the ending sound a bit like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259521/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cabin in the woods&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a clip of the ending, and the place just before that could, optically, qualify as Hospital.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/hCySBdoY75M?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13690" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T22:56:48.887" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46130" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-11T23:47:50.567" Score="2" ViewCount="764" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Velvet Goldmine, Jerry Devine tells Brian Slade's manager that he'll reveal his plan to make Brian a star: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I will tell you, sir. When you pin me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It looks like he means an arm-wrestling bout at that point, but the manager's reaction (&quot;I never... in all my life...&quot;) makes it seem like there might be an underlying meaning I'm missing. Is there, or am I just reading too much into this scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="615" LastActivityDate="2016-01-11T23:47:50.567" Title="What does &quot;when you pin me&quot; mean?" Tags="|velvet-goldmine|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18597" CreationDate="2016-01-12T02:26:28.297" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was real but it wasn't the right way to make a sword, and it wasn't steel, when steel it's got enough to turn into a liquid, it is a bright white, that is about 1200°f, the stone would cool the steel causing it to create a loo that stopped it from flowing to the top, and it would spill out of the top of the cast, if it was steel they would have hammered it into shape, as the cast would have made one side of the sword completely flat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What they used was molten aluminum, no CG required, and it is a lot cheaper as they probably had aluminum cans saved up from the refreshments table, the finished sword they use were properly forged off camera with a hammer using the modern pattern welding technique. That is when you take a lot of thin diffrent grades of steel, and forge them together, then dip them in acid to give that Damascus wavy pattern look.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29777" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T02:26:28.297" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46137" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-12T06:19:43.400" Score="6" ViewCount="2090" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;X2&lt;/em&gt;, just right before Wolverine chains Stryker to the chopper, William Stryker says the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People don't change, Wolverine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You were an animal then. You're an&#xA;animal now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just gave you claws.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Wolverine, even though they weren't that shiny, had claws ever since. Why does Stryker claim that he gave him claws.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-06-30T02:39:59.357" Title="Why does William Stryker say he gave Wolverine claws even though he had them way before?" Tags="|plot-explanation|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-2|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46139" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46137" CreationDate="2016-01-12T06:37:06.147" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You didn't have to take that dialogue that literally. He doesn't mean that he didn't have claws before, but he means that he didn't have the Adamantium claw before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he means that he was an animal way before that experiment and he just gave a weapon to an animal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="37045" LastEditDate="2016-07-25T14:03:19.640" LastActivityDate="2016-07-25T14:03:19.640" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46140" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46137" CreationDate="2016-01-12T06:44:05.790" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;X-Men&lt;/em&gt; film series has an ever-shifting canon. With the first two films, it is established that a number of handheld adamantium guns were used over an extended period of time to graft the metal to Logan's skeleton. With &lt;em&gt;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&lt;/em&gt;, however, the scene was changed to show a number of automated rods simply impaling Logan's body and covering his skeleton, including the claws, in adamantium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With &lt;em&gt;X2&lt;/em&gt;, it can be inferred that Logan did not have the claws already, so this was by Stryker's doing. With &lt;em&gt;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&lt;/em&gt;, however, the procedure was done to make Logan formidable enough that he could successfully combat Victor. So, if we were to smooth over this continuity discrepancy, Stryker's line in &lt;em&gt;X2&lt;/em&gt; simply means that he gave Logan the proper means to match his natural ferocity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T06:44:05.790" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46142" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-12T07:39:00.823" Score="11" ViewCount="8153" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Ocean's Eleven&lt;/em&gt; there's the following conversation between Linus and Benedict:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Benedict&lt;/strong&gt;: You new at the commission?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Linus&lt;/strong&gt;: Been there about two years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Benedict&lt;/strong&gt;: I know Hal Lindley over there. You work with him at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Linus&lt;/strong&gt;: Not since he died last year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Linus know about him? He couldn't have guessed. The guy could be fictional, could be someone who never worked there, could be alive. Or even if he died, it could be even last week instead of last year. How did Linus know?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-05-28T05:08:09.780" Title="How did Linus know the answer to Benedict's question?" Tags="|plot-explanation|oceans-eleven|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46143" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-12T08:05:51.937" Score="6" ViewCount="1822" Body="&lt;p&gt;.....or why do shows for adults lack musical numbers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In watching TV with my nieces on Nickelodeon and Disney it seems that musical numbers are not uncommon.  In contrast, except for shows dedicated to music, programs for adults never erupt into musical numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know I for one am not longing for musical numbers so I'm relieved that they are absent from programs for adults. (bonus points: how do I refer to shows for adults while making it clear I'm not talking about porn?)  At least for me, that certainly answers the &quot;why aren't they in adult programs?&quot; but why do kids like them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/15803/when-and-why-did-the-decline-of-musicals-in-american-cinema-happen&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; which gives a history of why musicals were once so popular for adults but now aren't.  It doesn't really lend insight into why kids would like musicals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11332" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2017-02-24T18:21:22.283" Title="Why do kids shows have so many musical numbers" Tags="|disney|musical|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46148" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7943" CreationDate="2016-01-12T09:45:24.000" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;On one hand the ambiguity of it may beg the audience to ponder the possibility that he might have let her live, as she refused to &quot;call it.&quot; On the other hand, he was so refractorily intransigent (tautology for emphasis) that it may equally lead one to believe he &quot;had to do it.&quot; Just maybe the Coen brothers wanted people to make their own choice so they wouldn't fret about it forever. :) Just saying....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29787" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T09:45:24.000" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46120" CreationDate="2016-01-12T11:55:34.377" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It isn't shown in the episode so this isn't based on evidence, but I'm guessing with a very simple mechanism, probably something basic such as a bit of rope attached to the back of the fridge that he could use to pull it backwards once he was inside the vent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly the vent was also quite wide at the entrance, so in a crouched position he could probably quite easily have grabbed it by the sides/back and pulled it with his hands without any sort of mechanism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that Luther throws the fridge aside with such ease probably indicates that it was empty, thus wouldn't have been very heavy or difficult to move. It also looks like an old fridge, so perhaps it was not one he used for food and was simply a decoy to cover his secret exit, therefore would have been stripped of the heavy motor etc. in order to make it easier to move into position.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It didn't need to be a very technical setup, so long as the fridge covered the hole he escaped from. Considering the trap he had rigged in the fridge in his victim's apartment he would have had plenty of time before anyone attempted to investigate it, as the bomb squad would have needed to get there and then they would have spent a lot of time attempting to secure it against a possible explosion/ evacuating neighbors etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that the fridge didn't need to be meticulously placed in order to conceal his exit, as he assumed no one would have even approached it, never mind tried to move it or look behind it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T11:55:34.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46137" CreationDate="2016-01-12T14:58:35.600" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The X-Men films typically follow mainstream knowledge of the comics. Wolverine wasn't known to have bone claws by the general audience, so they didn't mention it. The Bone Claws reveal was only done in 1993, recent compared to Wolverines entire history. He's typically depicted as thinking that he gained claws from the Weapon X program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wolverine has always had memory issues. He normally doesn't know who he really is, or his childhood. Readers didn't find out he was James Howlet until the Wolverine Origin comic in 2002, which was then used as the basis for the Movie. That revealed that Wolverine always had bone claws as far back as childhood, and Sabertooth was his blood brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;X2 was released in 2003, so incorporating anything from 2002 into the script would have been unlikely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notice that Wolverine is confused in Days of Future Past, when he wakes up the 60s and has bone claws instead of metal. His memory was erased at the end of Origin by an Adamantium bullet to the brain, courtesy of Striker. Xavier is shown to be working to help Wolverine regain his memory through out all the movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming all of this is in continuity, Stryker has been shown to be quite smart, cunning and willing to use people, and having known Wolverine suffered memory loss, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;his wording can be assumed to be an intentional omission&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. He admits what Wolverine already knows, and doesn't volunteer what he doesn't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T14:58:35.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46137" CreationDate="2016-01-12T15:24:46.330" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a perfectly acceptable communication if he is only speaking figuratively. &quot;Claws&quot; doesn't mean only physical, literal claws, it is a metaphor for the ability to be violent, to be &lt;em&gt;competently&lt;/em&gt; violent. He might very well have said the same thing if he had armed him with a rifle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, if we examine these movies closely, Wolverine becomes physically capable of even more extreme violence. Before he merely regenerated, now he can tear open a metal vault to get to you. Before, you could cripple him for minutes by breaking his bones, now they simply do not break and he does not slow down.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;claws&quot; metaphor is fairly widespread. He would have used the word &quot;claws&quot; even if Wolverine instead had a stinger, or fangs, or horns. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T15:24:46.330" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46155" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="369" CreationDate="2016-01-12T15:27:24.417" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always interpreted the quote referring to the Maya themselves, the great civilization. Since the Maya had already decayed when the Spaniards arrived - most of their cities abandoned -, the quotes fits more to the Aztecs or Incas, which were actually conquered from without by the Spaniards. The small tribe in the movie, which village is destroyed, is definetely not a great civilization.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also know that the Aztec and Inca had large internal problems. I don't think it's a victim blaming quote. Just because a great civilization is weak from the inside, does not give you the right to destroy it from the outside.&#xA;I like the quote, even though it does not always fit to all cases of history. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29794" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-12T15:50:35.723" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T15:50:35.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44041" CreationDate="2016-01-12T16:18:28.300" Score="23" Body="&lt;h2&gt;There's no direct connection&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: This post is spoiler-heavy, and using spoiler tags would make it rather cumbersome. If you don't wish to find spoilers, this probably isn't the answer for you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ragnar from &amp;quot;The Last Kingdom&amp;quot; is Ragnar Ravnson. Ravn being his father. Ravn is the blind man Uhtred meets and cuts food for shortly after being captured. Ragnar and his father Ravn (along with Ragnar's sons, Ragnar Ragnarson and Rorik Ragnarson, and his daughter Thyra Ragnarsdottir) are fictional characters who are not claimed to be in any way related to Ragnar Lothbrok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The similar names are a coincidence because of common names (or more likely, not a coincidence: Ragnar was a fairly common name in Denmark in the 5th-10th century), and the creator of the Saxon Stories likely took the name from the stories of the &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; Ragnar Lothbrok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ragnar Ravnson is Ragnar, son of Ravn&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ragnar Lothbrok is Ragnar, and Lothbrock is actually a nickname&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both cases, we'd expect their sons to be called Ragnarson/Ragnarsson, as the Nordic naming convention at the time used that style.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So no, they aren't related.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;However&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ragnar Lothbrok's family features prominently in &amp;quot;The Last Kingdom&amp;quot;... just not the ones you were thinking of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ubba Lothbrokson. The guy Uhtred kills beside the sea in Wales is Ragnar Lothbrok's son. He and his brothers Ivar and Halfdan led the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Heathen_Army&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; title=&quot;Great Heathen Army&quot;&gt;Great Heathen Army&lt;/a&gt; which invaded Britain in the time of Alfred the Great. We'll see more of Ivar in the next series of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that in the Saxon Stories the brothers are referred to as either Ubba/Ivar/Halfdan or occasionally &amp;quot;Ubba Lothbrokson&amp;quot; etc. Typically we'd expect them to be called &amp;quot;Ubba Ragnarsson&amp;quot; etc, rather than &amp;quot;Lothbrokson&amp;quot;, but I assume this would have been confusing considering we had another prominent Ragnar in the same stories, and with Uhtred calling himself Uhtred Ragnarson, along with Ragnar Ragnarson. It appears that the author of the books decided, to avoid confusion, to go with the &amp;quot;Lothbrokson&amp;quot; convention, rather than the more historically accurate but potentially confusing &amp;quot;Ragnarson&amp;quot; convention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In reality, we aren't actually certain whether Ubba, Ivar, and Halfdan were brothers, nor whether they were Ragnar Lothbrok's (sometimes written Lodbrok) sons. However, in The Last Kingdom, Bernard Cornwell (the author of the Saxan Stories) decided to run with the idea that they are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The sons of Ragnar Lothbrok&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ivar The Boneless: The fictional Ragnar, who captured Uhtred, served Ivar. We'll see more of him next season, I assume. Ivar is the most likely of the three &amp;quot;brothers&amp;quot; we see in the Uhtred stories (Ubba/Ivar/Halfdan) to actually be real and also be related to Ragnar Lothbrok, along with Sigurd and Bjorn who are not seen in the Last Kingdom series. If Ragnar existed in the way that is believed, Ivar was his son. He was certainly the son of someone called Ragnar, but we aren't sure how accurate the legends of his father are.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ubba: Uhtred just killed him. Definitely existed, and led the Great Heathen Army with Ivar and Halfdan but we aren't sure if he's related to Ragnar Lothbrok and Ivar.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Halfdan: I believe Halfdan is in Ireland at this stage of the Last Kingdom series (at least, he is in the books). He invaded Northumbria with Ubba and Ivar in the attack that took York (Jorvik/Eoferwic, the capital of Northumbria). Uhtred's father died shortly after this while attempting to re-take York. As with Ubba, he definitely existed but we aren't sure if he's related to Ragnar or Ivar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bjorn Ironside: Never believed to have invaded or spent much time in England, or at least if he did he's ignored by Bernard Cornwell in the Uhtred stories. Spent time raiding France and Italy. Along with Sigurd, almost certainly did exist and, if Ragnar existed, was probably related to him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye: Attacked Northumbria along with some of his brothers, but then we aren't sure exactly what happened to him. Doesn't feature much in the Uhtred stories, but is referred to. We're fairly sure he existed, although he's the only of the sons with a question mark there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, we're fairly confident all 5 of the &amp;quot;sons&amp;quot; existed, and we're fairly sure that a &amp;quot;Ragnar&amp;quot; existed, who was Ivar's father.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Things get a bit blurry after that. Was Ragnar the man we see in these stories or was he &amp;quot;just&amp;quot; Ivar's father, and a more typical man? Ivar is almost certainly related to him, with Sigurd and Bjorn being less certain but quite likely. Ubba and Halfdan are bigger question marks - they may be related to Ivar, or something may have gotten lost in translation over whether they were blood-related or more of a &amp;quot;brothers in arms&amp;quot; type of relationship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, as the father of 1, 3, or 5 of the most influential viking Jarl's, Ragnar's likely to have had some... embellishments... made to his character and achievements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interesting side-note: It wasn't Ragnar who pulled the &amp;quot;pretend to be dead, ask to be buried in a Christian graveyard&amp;quot; trick, it was his (probable) son, Bjorn Ironside, during his raids in Italy: he used it to gain entry to the town of Lucca.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;So why don't things quite match up?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a clear overlap between the two stories, but why are some characters missing? Well partly because both series embellish their stories, change history a little, etc - simply because there is not much-written history (from the Danish side, at least) at this time. So while there's a lot of overlap, they both ignore some of the legends while acknowledging other parts. This leads to some inconsistencies (such as Sigurd, who in Vikings will raid Northumbria, while in the Saxon Stories will practically be ignored). The lack of Danish written history makes it hard to know anything with much certainty: there's a surprisingly comprehensive written history on the &amp;quot;English&amp;quot; (which didn't exist yet)/Saxon side, but by its very nature that history is susceptible to being second hand, hearsay/rumour or mistranslated/misunderstood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't even know for sure that Ragnar Lothbrok existed (Ragnar Ravnson, on the other hand, definitely being fictional). He probably did, but much of what we know are unconfirmed stories. Legend has is that Ubba, Ivar, and Halfdan (who all definitely did exist and led the Great Heathen Army) were his sons, but we aren't sure. We also aren't sure if they were all his sons, his only sons, or whether he had others. We believe that Bjorn Ironside (who definitely existed) was his son, and there's a suggestion that at least some of Ubba/Ivar/Halfdan were too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what happened is that Vikings made up some of the life of Ragnar Lothbrok (Who may or may not have existed), and The Last Kingdom made up some of the life of Ubba/Ivar/Halfdan, while assuming that they were indeed related to Ragnar and were brothers of Bjorn Ironside etc. Between the two, they put together a story that's grounded in history, but probably only half right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, we've got two partially-fictional series about some people we don't actually know much about. The stories overlap, although we aren't totally sure if the characters they're based on overlapped in the same way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19123" LastEditorUserId="19123" LastEditDate="2020-10-23T14:52:33.163" LastActivityDate="2020-10-23T14:52:33.163" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="46157" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46159" CreationDate="2016-01-12T16:46:54.183" Score="17" ViewCount="30166" Body="&lt;p&gt;Around 3/4 in the movie Straight Outta Compton during the riots, two people are holding two scarves, one red and one blue, knit together and walking towards the police. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like so:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EPN06.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/EPN06.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Closeup:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l8ewl.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l8ewl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the meaning of this and/or what does it symbolise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18167" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-12T16:51:09.093" LastActivityDate="2022-07-06T20:34:19.527" Title="What's the meaning of the two scarves during the riot in Straight Outta Compton?" Tags="|analysis|straight-outta-compton|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46159" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46157" CreationDate="2016-01-12T18:05:00.047" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;That scene depicts the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;L.A. Riots&lt;/a&gt; (related to the four police officers involved with the beating of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rodney King&lt;/a&gt; being found not guilty).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many gang members would wear colors (often in the form of bandanas) to show their affiliation (Red for Bloods, Blue for Crips). The day before the riots broke out, the Bloods and the Crips declared a truce (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/04/28/32221/forget-la-riots-1992-gang-truce-was-big-news/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;called the Watts Truce&lt;/a&gt;) so the tied red and blue bandanas are most likely to illustrate the joining together between the gangs to rebel against the L.A. police force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastEditorUserId="20215" LastEditDate="2022-07-06T20:34:19.527" LastActivityDate="2022-07-06T20:34:19.527" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="46163" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46167" CreationDate="2016-01-12T18:46:37.220" Score="29" ViewCount="13267" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we have seen so far in &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;,  Tywin Laninster played hidden roles behind all major activities in the seven kingdoms. He was a mastermind of war techniques and politics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had selected to become a hand of the king.  But the major question is why he never tried to become a king.  He was very ambitious regarding power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29492" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-12T18:51:12.893" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T22:20:41.240" Title="Why did Tywin Laninster never try to become a king?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46164" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12181" CreationDate="2016-01-12T19:04:11.417" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kryptonians are very strong, but they aren't unbreakable. Their armor, which appears to be made of various super-dense elements is both ornamental (identifying their clan and affiliation) and functional. It prevents them from coming to physical harm, on their homeworld, where they merely possess modestly superhuman strength and on Earth, where they possess godlike abilities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jor-El's armor is of a very similar construction to Zod's&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;An avalanche of pulverized carbon and silica smashed him to the floor, burying him beneath heaps of rubble.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  His armor shielded him from serious injury, but he found himself trapped, unable to move.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The armor also serves as an environment suit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;She walked briskly across the runway toward Superman; confidence&#xA;  echoed in her every step. She saluted him with military precision and&#xA;  activated a control on her armor. Her visor went transparent,&#xA;  revealing the striking feature of an attractive female with short dark&#xA;  hair and icy brown eyes. Like Jor-El, she could easily have been&#xA;  mistaken for human.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's quite daunting&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Clearly female, she wore an intimidating suit of jet-black armor.&#xA;  Jagged fins added to the uniform’s fearsome aspect. A space helmet,&#xA;  with a visor that consisted of an opaque force field, concealed her&#xA;  features—even from his X-ray vision.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All quotes from the film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1781165998&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;officially licensed novelisation&lt;/a&gt; by Greg Cox&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T19:04:11.417" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46163" CreationDate="2016-01-12T19:08:47.080" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was never in the line of succession.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At no point during the series is Tywin ever in a position to inherit. The throne was initially held by the Targaryen line until Robert took it, after which it was held by the Baratheon line. By all accounts, Westeros follows the same basic kind of inheritance laws as medieval Europe, meaning that the line of succession passes through the King's family, but never into the Queen's. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He preferred to be the &quot;power behind the throne&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Succession laws aside, there were likely opportunities for Tywin to claim the throne if he &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; wanted it. His position during Robert's Rebellion probably gave him the opportunity, as did his military power during the War of the Five Kings (especially after Joffrey's death).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it seems pretty clear from his actions that he doesn't want to be king. He wants someone on the throne that he can &lt;em&gt;control&lt;/em&gt; -- ideally his grandchildren, if he can help it. But even when Robert and Aerys were on the throne, Tywin's military and economic influence meant they could not afford to ignore him and his family. He was even a key reason why Robert's Rebellion succeeded in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point, I believe he even makes this point directly to Joffrey: Joffrey's job is to be the King. Tywin's job is to &lt;em&gt;keep him there&lt;/em&gt;. By sitting back and guiding the King's action indirectly, Tywin can maintain his position regardless of who is in power, while not having to deal with any of the problems that come with the position itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T19:08:47.080" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46166" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="59059" CreationDate="2016-01-12T19:14:52.703" Score="16" ViewCount="910" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of every Hollywood movie, I can see like 3-5 studios(?) being listed with their logos (animated of course). How does this work? Why are there so many?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29586" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-15T06:24:57.203" LastActivityDate="2016-08-13T14:43:16.817" Title="How does this studio(?) hierarchy work" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46163" CreationDate="2016-01-12T19:16:56.403" Score="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now first of all, &lt;strong&gt;Tywin Lannister did not actually have a valid claim for the throne&lt;/strong&gt; at all. The throne is based on heritage and blood-lines. While Tywin is a nobleman from one of the major houses, he's not from the house that currently provides the kings of Westeros, which is House Baratheon. Joffrey is not king because of the Lannister side of the family, but because of his (so to be  officially believed) father, Robert Baratheon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you compare, all the other attendees in the fight for the throne base their claim on that blood heritage in some way or aren't actually interested in the throne either. The Baratheon brothers claim that Joffrey is a Lannister bastard of Jaime and thus that they are the true inheritors, as brothers of the last king. And the Starks don't fight for the throne, but for the North's independence from the king.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now what you could argue is that Tywin could just seize the throne by violent measures, like Robert Baratheon actually did. However, that's not a great idea for a variety of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are already many different parties fighting against each other for the Iron Throne and &lt;strong&gt;the Lannisters would have to fight all of them&lt;/strong&gt; to seize the throne. This would cost him quite a bit. It's much better to just see all the other houses expense themselves over a useless war.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In contrast to all the other parties, &lt;strong&gt;they don't even have the slightest part of a valid claim&lt;/strong&gt;, they would simply be violent invaders to the throne without any reason. This could be viewed very strangely by the overall population. When Robert seized the throne from the Mad King, he still freed the people from, well, a mad king afterall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last but not least, &lt;strong&gt;he doesn't need the throne at all&lt;/strong&gt;. He already is Hand of the King and can practically rule the country easily through the willing dumb puppet Joffrey (or Tommen for that matter). You notice that it is actually him (or his daughter Cersei) who is behind most of the major decisions executed by the Kingdom anyway. Actually being king is just a vanity gain that Tywin has no interest in at all. It's pretty much the council that controls Westeros and not the King.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-13T17:08:22.060" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T17:08:22.060" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46168" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-12T19:38:38.830" Score="3" ViewCount="607" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;People who have watched the special episode in theaters have (presumably) enjoyed 20-25 minutes of additional footage. Did this footage contain extra scenes, or was it behind-the-scenes footage?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Did said footage appear in the DVD/Blu-ray release of the special episode? (Which was released yesterday on Amazon, etc.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29799" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T15:52:27.220" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T15:52:27.220" Title="Sherlock: The Abominable Bride DVD/Blu-ray and extra scenes" Tags="|sherlock|alternate-version|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46169" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47196" CreationDate="2016-01-12T19:39:11.867" Score="8" ViewCount="2807" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the series &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, I couldn't quite figure this one out completely while observing Skyler and her affair with Ted Beneke. So, did she really have any genuine feelings for Ted or was it plain revenge on Walter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="20549" LastEditDate="2016-01-12T20:28:24.883" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T18:52:56.683" Title="Did Skyler have genuine feelings for Ted Beneke?" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46169" CreationDate="2016-01-12T19:51:25.710" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was just revenge on Walt, she left Ted years ago. Also, She helped him with the money because she was involved in the cooking of the books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's my opinion so, It may be wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29800" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T19:51:25.710" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46171" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46182" CreationDate="2016-01-12T20:03:44.473" Score="8" ViewCount="13417" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie V for Vendetta, they talk about the war in America spreading to England. What war are they referring to. There also seems to be some mention around the United States not being so United. Can someone shed some light on this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T19:23:42.473" Title="What is the war in V for Vendetta?" Tags="|plot-explanation|v-for-vendetta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46168" CreationDate="2016-01-12T22:58:50.700" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2016/01/07/i-paid-35-to-see-sherlock-the-abominable-bride-in-theaters/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A reporter at Forbes&lt;/a&gt; has (part of) the answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Okay, yes there were &lt;strong&gt;around 20 minutes of “behind the scenes” footage&lt;/strong&gt;,&#xA;  including an amusing “random set details you probably missed”&#xA;  featurette, that will presumably end up on the DVD/Blu Ray release,&#xA;  but &lt;strong&gt;less than the estimated 70 minutes or so of documentary material&#xA;  that will end up on said DVD/Blu-Ray release&lt;/strong&gt; next Tuesday and via&#xA;  online download/streaming purchase this very morning for the price of&#xA;  a single movie ticket.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B013JBJ7EG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;According to Amazon&lt;/a&gt; these are the extras:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Mark Gatiss: A Study in Sherlock – 30-minute &quot;making of&quot; documentary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Mark Gatiss: Production Diary&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Creating the Look – Eight inside looks into how different scenes were created in the Sherlock Special&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Interview with the writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Sherlockology Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T22:58:50.700" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46123" CreationDate="2016-01-12T23:12:56.617" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Though perhaps older than you're thinking, it sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082307/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lucio Fulci's The Beyond&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see the ending &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46R03LQEAx4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;  The &quot;surviving&quot; couple think they've gotten away, but were actually being led deeper into hell.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25954" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T23:12:56.617" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46180" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34659" CreationDate="2016-01-12T23:38:43.260" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being qualified in a airborne course expands your application as an active soldier. That's what Kurts wanted, be active, embrace the war, the weight of anything that would be necessary to do in order to win the war. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After he joined the special forces, with the training in how to mix with the local population, convincing them to fight against the NVA and VC under your advice, he gone to the final part of his process of taking the war by the hair and winning it. The joint operation he conducted shows to the Higher ranks that&#xA;He meant business, and whatever he needed to do in order to finish his business. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Being a airborne gave him the mental strenght to become the leader he needed to be to win the war. After it, he , in my opinion, was only about gathering the techniques on how to make the vietnamese fight for what he believed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29811" LastActivityDate="2016-01-12T23:38:43.260" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46181" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46183" CreationDate="2016-01-13T00:03:50.173" Score="34" ViewCount="117658" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the meaning of the word 'Pilot', as used for the first episode of a TV-show, implied here? Does it have anything to do with a smooth take-off?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28789" LastEditorUserId="28789" LastEditDate="2016-02-08T18:10:44.087" LastActivityDate="2021-05-25T08:04:46.307" Title="Why is the first episode of a TV show called 'Pilot'?" Tags="|terminology|pilot|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46182" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46171" CreationDate="2016-01-13T00:25:53.313" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the background setting in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;graphic novel&lt;/a&gt; that they sourced the story from, England is the only known survivor of a full nuclear war that destroyed every other major nation (for the very simple reason that they became isolationist and failed to be a target when the time came).  The attempts by England to survive the apocalpyse led to the rise of Norsefire, as Evey relates early in the comic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film, possibly because the likelihood of England or the world surviving even a limited nuclear winter is near nil, this was changed to a virus plague that swept through.  According to V, that virus was secretly released by Norsefire themselves, in order to engineer their own rise to power with a ready-made cure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of the world is not elaborated on in the film.  Norsefire has a decent propoganda machine, as pointed out by cde in comment, so really anything's possible.  It can be speculated that the virus was more loose that Norsefire intended, or that other groups in other countries attempted a similar fear-tactic to gain control, to mixed results.  Either way, the end result would be the same as in the comic - collapse of the world order, and England on it's own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27391" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-01-13T19:23:42.473" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T19:23:42.473" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46181" CreationDate="2016-01-13T00:43:24.717" Score="42" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pilot&quot;&gt;Etymology Online&lt;/a&gt;, the term &lt;em&gt;pilot&lt;/em&gt; has been used since the 1920s to mean &quot;serving as a prototype&quot;. It is this sense that you get terms like &lt;em&gt;pilot episode&lt;/em&gt; for a TV Show, or &lt;em&gt;pilot program&lt;/em&gt; for an emerging technology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you go back further in time, there was an old sense of &lt;em&gt;pilot&lt;/em&gt; as far back as the 1600s meaning &quot;to guide&quot;. For example, in woodworking there is a common technique of drilling smaller &quot;pilot holes&quot;, sometimes called &quot;starter holes&quot;, in places where you plan to attach two objects by screw; the pilot holes guide the screw in straight and prevent the wood from splitting under the stress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This earlier sense pre-dated the concept of manned flight by hundreds of years. However, the term &lt;em&gt;pilot&lt;/em&gt; is not just used for the captain of an aircraft: the person who steers a ship or boat is also called the pilot, and their job is to &quot;guide&quot; the vessel along the correct path to avoid running aground, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most likely, the later sense of a &lt;em&gt;pilot episode&lt;/em&gt; evolved out of the idea that this episode &quot;guided&quot; the TV show and got it &quot;started&quot; through the initial process of being picked up by the network.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="1146" LastEditDate="2016-01-13T00:45:35.533" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T00:45:35.533" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46184" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46211" CreationDate="2016-01-13T01:09:09.353" Score="5" ViewCount="945" Body="&lt;p&gt;My DVR let me down and it seems I'm not alone. So, how does this labyrinth end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The 19th century pair are discussing this fantastic story. Holmes says it's just extrapolation. &quot;From a drop of water, the ocean.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8842" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T15:58:17.517" Title="What was the final line in The Abominable Bride?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46185" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-13T01:16:00.957" Score="0" ViewCount="290" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why do the monsters in &lt;em&gt;I Am Legend&lt;/em&gt; have super powers? When they hit the car with their heads they act like it was nothing. Or when the &quot;alpha monster&quot; hit the glass that Robert is inside, can he actuality break the glass like that? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How do they scale buildings so easily? What do they have that made this possible in such an easy way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why do they have that large jaw? My guess is because they use the mouth a lot, to scream, to bite, etc. But is that alone sufficient to explain this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21893" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-04-24T17:47:53.437" LastActivityDate="2017-04-24T17:47:53.437" Title="Why do the monsters have super power, scale buildings and have a large jaw?" Tags="|i-am-legend|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46187" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-13T01:53:46.337" Score="10" ViewCount="1862" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw this film on TV in the 1980s. Two young people met on a train and fell in love. They wanted to marry each other. However, the man's father had already arranged that he marry his partner's daughter. The young lover therefore could not keep an appointment with his lover who wanted in vain for him at a cafe in what appears to be Paris. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ten years later, on a train, both of them meet again. The woman has a daughter: the man is divorced. They fall in love again but the woman angrily decides to move on. The man discovers her daughter is 9 years old and guesses she is his daughter. Desperate, he begins a crazy race to catch up with the train. Failing, he stumbles to the same cafe where he was supposed to have met his lover 10 years before. There, he finds his lover and their daughter and they reconcile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29816" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-01-13T03:12:40.357" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T11:32:07.503" Title="Two lovers who met on a train &amp; met again 10 years still in love &amp; with a 9-year old daughter" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:18:19.840" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46193" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-13T05:51:55.207" Score="7" ViewCount="321" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know much about the logistics of TV series, but I remember a few years ago I watched the first season of a new TV series and really liked it, but it was cancelled.  I'm watching a new series (Limitless) and like it a ton, but since it hasn't been as popular as other TV series (from what I can tell), I'm worried it will be canceled like the other (I honestly have no idea, though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I did a little research and learned about the Nielsen ratings.  After learning what these meant, I found that Limitless has about a 1.5/5 on average (via the Wikipedia page).  Since it's on CBS on Tuesday nights, which seems like a valuable time, is this enough to justify another season?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the minimum Nielsen rating necessary to justify another season in general? Can this even be put down to a specific minimum? Or are there usually also other factors involved?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29829" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-13T12:39:19.197" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T21:29:42.847" Title="What is the minimum Nielsen rating generally necessary to justify another season of a TV series?" Tags="|audience-measurement|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46194" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-13T07:40:05.030" Score="2" ViewCount="273" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2014 movie &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Penguins of Madagascar&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, when the penguins are in pursuit after busting out of Dave's submarine, it seems to me that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Agent Classified&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eva&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; came to know about the pursuit by accident, but &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Corporal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Short Fuse&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are waiting for the octopuses (something like an ambush formation).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Agent Classified Sighting&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0dRMd.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0dRMd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Agent Classified Sighting&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eva Sighting&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ooTSf.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ooTSf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Eva Sighting&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Did Classified and/or Eva inform the others about the pursuit and made them to form a rendezvous or did they meet the octopus (and penguins) by accident just like others?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19587" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-13T13:00:53.897" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T13:00:53.897" Title="Did Agent Classified and Eva inform the others?" Tags="|plot-explanation|penguins-of-madagascar|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14264" CreationDate="2016-01-13T07:55:48.277" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason why Sam and Dean can't be together with John on the hunts, is because John is vulnerable when his sons are around, and that he's stronger on his own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29831" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T07:55:48.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46196" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46199" CreationDate="2016-01-13T07:56:48.653" Score="9" ViewCount="5820" Body="&lt;p&gt;In movie &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2397535/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Predestination (2014)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; a single woman (and man afterwards) repeats the same cycle starting from kidnapping of a baby, falling in love, etc.. and then again starting from beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, how was the baby born for the first time, and how does it come to know about the predestination?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19587" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-04-18T14:38:36.400" LastActivityDate="2020-04-18T21:50:19.087" Title="How was the baby born in the start?" Tags="|plot-explanation|predestination|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46198" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46201" CreationDate="2016-01-13T09:37:06.457" Score="6" ViewCount="942" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Harry Potter movies the editors sometimes decided to make the &quot;Lumos&quot; spell from the books sound a bit longer. The actors say &quot;Lumos Maxima&quot; instead of just &quot;Lumos&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a special movie-related reasoning for this? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My guess is that the saying just &quot;Lumos&quot; is not very easy to be heard by the audience. This is not a problem when reading the book but in the movies with lots of noise around it would be easy to miss a short word.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29835" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-13T10:21:57.080" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T13:51:52.287" Title="Is there a reason to use a two word phrase in the Harry Potter movie for the &quot;Lumos&quot; spell?" Tags="|book-adaptation|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46196" CreationDate="2016-01-13T09:57:59.797" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I could not find any official sources on that, but I believe that the question &lt;em&gt;&quot;What started it&quot;&lt;/em&gt; might be answered with: &lt;em&gt;The invention of time travel&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similar to how the time travelers cannot travel further than (what was it, 50? don't quite remember) years ahead/behind point zero (which seems to be a &lt;em&gt;that's just how it is&lt;/em&gt; thing in the universe of the movie) I think that this time loop the protagonist is stuck in, is an anomaly (or is it a &quot;nomaly&quot; when inventing time travel? who knows...) that was created at the instant the humans of that universe &quot;broke&quot; physics for the first time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We cannot find a &quot;true&quot; beginning, because there isn't one. From outside of the loop, the events unfold in a logical manner and all people that were not the protagonist are just passing through the loop unaffected. Even other time travelers might be just fine in the sense that they have travels with escape routes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is only this strange instant of the protagonist which is stuck forever in the loop, reliving it over and over again, while all other people pass through it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, the handler says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Understand, you are more than an agent, you are a gift given to the world through a predestination paradox. &lt;strong&gt;You are the only one. Free from history, ancestry.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Emphasis mine)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which gave me the idea for this theory... But ultimately, we cannot know the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18778" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-04-18T16:32:51.083" LastActivityDate="2016-04-18T16:32:51.083" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46200" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46203" CreationDate="2016-01-13T10:27:19.103" Score="8" ViewCount="881" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am wondering why did &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Foreign_Press_Association&quot;&gt;HFPA&lt;/a&gt; put The Martian under comedy? Is it because they wanted to give it an award? Has something similar happened before?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22283" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-13T10:35:01.913" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T11:49:45.023" Title="Why did HFPA put The Martian under comedy?" Tags="|the-martian|awards|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46198" CreationDate="2016-01-13T11:07:08.847" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In-Universe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The added &lt;em&gt;maxima&lt;/em&gt; at the end of spells denotes a more powerful version of the spell cast by the wizard/witch. &lt;em&gt;Lumos&lt;/em&gt; is not the only spell it is used for; another example I can think of is the spell &lt;em&gt;Protego maxima&lt;/em&gt; used in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. &lt;em&gt;Protego&lt;/em&gt; is a shield spell used to protect the caster, whereas its more powerful counterpart is used to protect an area (such as the area that the tent is set up when used by Hermione, and Hogwarts by the teachers before the final battle). I don't remember if this spell is specifically cast in the books or if it was generalized as a &quot;protective enchantment&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As &lt;em&gt;Protego maxima&lt;/em&gt; is only ever used by the more advanced wizards in the movies, it can be assumed that it is a more difficult spell to cast than its regular counterpart. This is backed up by the fact that Harry is practising the &lt;em&gt;Lumos maxima&lt;/em&gt; spell in the opening scene of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and clearly finding it difficult to pull off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The differing spells clearly also have different applications. One would not use the &lt;em&gt;maxima&lt;/em&gt; version of the &lt;em&gt;Protego&lt;/em&gt; spell to protect oneself in the moment, it would be impractical. In the same way, there is a distinction between the two versions of the &lt;em&gt;Lumos&lt;/em&gt; spell: they have different applications. The minor version produces more directed light like a flashlight, whereas the greater spell will light an entire room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Out-of-Universe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the &lt;em&gt;Lumos&lt;/em&gt; spell that you specify, the distinction between the two is to create differently lit environments for the characters. As stated above, &lt;em&gt;Lumos maxima&lt;/em&gt; would light an entire room. This would be used in scenarios to show that the characters can see everything lit in a room, as well as allowing the audience to get a full picture of the room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lesser version of the spell is used in the same way as a flashlight is used in filming, which has several applications. These are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;when a character or the audience has their attention directed towards an object in the scene&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to ensure a character or the audience do not immediately notice salient objects within a scene&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;to create suspense by not allowing the character/audience to see an entire area so that they can be surprised/shocked by something entering the frame.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All three of these are used in the scene in Prisoner of Azkaban when Harry is following the Marauder's Map towards where it says Peter Pettigrew is within the castle. His wand points towards the map in order to allow the audience to focus on the movements of Peter, and show him coming towards the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is then used as a suspense technique as there is only a limited amount of vision of the hallway, so that it is difficult to see if anyone is approaching. Then when the unseen character is shown to leave in another direction on the map, the limited light ensures that the character and the audience do not have the reveal of who the character is, and why he has shown up on the map, as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Peter Pettigrew is also Ron's rat Scabbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that within the scope of the movie, both versions of the spell were needed. The original version of &lt;em&gt;Lumos&lt;/em&gt; used within the book, in order to have this &quot;flashlight&quot; effect lighting technique for this scene (as well as others), and the &quot;room-lit&quot; effect, in order for the audience to see the full scene unfolding instead of a confused mess of limited light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-08-15T13:51:52.287" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T13:51:52.287" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46200" CreationDate="2016-01-13T11:49:45.023" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Martian was classified as a Comedy by HFPA because the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s eligibility committee voted to make it so. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/goldstandard/la-et-mn-golden-globes-martian-joy-trumbo-20151112-column.html&quot;&gt;According to the LA Times&lt;/a&gt; the HFPA vote was very close as The Martian ended up classified as a comedy by just one vote. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without specific comments from those who voted it would be nothing more than speculation to discuss the &quot;why&quot; however it's worth noting that the Golden Globes comedy category is the weaker of the two categories it awards and this isn't the first time a movie has been classified as a comedy at the Golden Globes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5603" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T11:49:45.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46207" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-13T13:55:19.003" Score="5" ViewCount="14098" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;V for Vendetta&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, did V blow up the Larkhill camp and escape before or after the St. Mary's virus event? I'm trying to figure if the Norsefire perfected the virus and the cure during the trials on V or post his escaping? Is there anything that points to this timeline? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-01-13T14:37:50.547" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T23:20:44.313" Title="Did V escape before or after the St. Mary's virus event?" Tags="|plot-explanation|v-for-vendetta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46184" CreationDate="2016-01-13T15:58:17.517" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A LiveJournal (apparently that's still a thing...) user called Ariane Devere has posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://arianedevere.livejournal.com/81842.html&quot;&gt;a transcript of the special episode&lt;/a&gt; which, based on my recollection, appears to be accurate (for the ending, at least, which is the only part I checked). You can read the relevant section below, if you wish, though I'd personally suggest finding a way to watch it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: There does appear to be a little bit of personal opinion injected into the commentary of the action, particularly at the very end of the below quote.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;WATSON (offscreen): Flying machines; these, er, telephone contraptions ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (The screen fades up to reveal Holmes and Watson sitting in their armchairs in the sitting room of 221B. Each of them is smoking a pipe.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  WATSON: What sort of lunatic fantasy is that?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  HOLMES: It was simply my conjecture of what a future world might look like, and how you and I might fit inside it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (Watson nods.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  HOLMES: From a drop of water, a logician should be able to infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  WATSON: Or a Reichenbach.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  HOLMES: Have you written up your account of the case?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  WATSON: Yes.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  HOLMES: Hmm. Modified to put it down as one of my rare failures, of course?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  WATSON: Of course.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (Holmes looks thoughtful for a moment.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  HOLMES: “The Adventure of ... the Invisible Army.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (Watson looks upwards, considering it.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  HOLMES: “The League of Furies”? (He leans forward, smiling.) “The Monstrous Regiment.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  WATSON: I rather thought ... “The Abominable Bride.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  HOLMES (sitting back): A trifle lurid.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  WATSON: It’ll sell. It’s got proper murders in it, too.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  HOLMES (pointing his pipe at him): You’re the expert.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  WATSON: As for your own tale, are you sure it’s still just a seven percent solution that you take? I think you may have increased the dosage.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  HOLMES: Perhaps I was being a little fanciful ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (He looks down thoughtfully.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  HOLMES: ... but perhaps such things could come to pass.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (He stands up.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  HOLMES: In any case, I know I would be very much at home in such a world.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (Watson chuckles as Holmes walks across the room towards the right-hand window.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  WATSON: Don’t think I would be.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  HOLMES: I beg to differ.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (He looks out of the window.)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  HOLMES: But then I’ve always known I was a man out of his time.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (He puts his pipe in his mouth and continues to look out of the window. The ‘Pursuit’ theme starts again, this time with a Victorian twist to it, as the camera slowly pulls back. Down in the street below, customers are going into SPEEDY’S Sandwich Bar &amp;amp; Cafe while more people – all dressed in modern-day clothing – walk past, and the road is busy with cars. A black cab passes a number 11 bus – destination Baker Street – as they drive past 221B ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  ... where it is always 1895.)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15242" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T15:58:17.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46213" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46181" CreationDate="2016-01-13T16:32:07.450" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;A Pilot episode is like a Pilot light, a small flame that is used to start a bigger fire. If the pilot goes out, there can be no fire. If the pilot fails to get an audience interested, there can be no show. A Pilot light or burner is a well known term prior to the first use of pilot episode, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pilot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;predating it by 70 years.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T16:32:07.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46214" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46217" CreationDate="2016-01-13T16:45:57.613" Score="5" ViewCount="2400" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we know, Lord Varys from &lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt; was one of the true well-wishers of the seven kingdoms and a brilliant diplomatic person of Kings' Landing.  As per my knowledge he had no relationship with any royal family. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What he actually did for the kingdom made him a member of the council who took important decisions for the kingdom. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But one question, I had seen that he had put some person in the box as a prisoner.  Who was he?  Was Varys torturing him? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29492" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-13T17:53:29.483" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T17:53:29.483" Title="What is the story behind Lord Varys' box and the prisoner he held there?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46181" CreationDate="2016-01-13T17:38:25.743" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-first-episode-of-a-TV-series-called-a-Pilot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this answer on Quora&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the definitions of &quot;pilot&quot; is &quot;1. Serving as a tentative model for future experiment or development: a pilot project.&quot; And it is this meaning that applies to a TV series. The pilot episode is made on its own as a test for whether a show might work. Then the executives at the network decide if they're going to &quot;pick up&quot; the show. Often, the pilot serves as the first episode, but not always. Sometimes the pilot has to be thrown out - usually due to casting issues, sometimes locations. Game of Thrones is a recent example of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user29413" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-23T15:12:35.060" LastActivityDate="2016-05-23T15:12:35.060" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46214" CreationDate="2016-01-13T17:41:13.590" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the same scene Varys tells Tyrion the story of how he became a Eunuch. He was a slave boy who was purchased by a wizard. The wizard then gelded him as part of some magical ritual and left him for dead. Varys survived and vowed to avenge himself one day. The man in the box is implied to be the wizard that Varys had finally managed to locate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T17:41:13.590" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46219" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46227" CreationDate="2016-01-13T17:59:26.723" Score="13" ViewCount="2163" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we know, Varys from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was one of the true well-wishers of the seven kingdoms and a brilliant diplomatic person of King's Landing. As per my knowledge he had no relationship with any royal family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did he actually do for the kingdom that made him a member of the council, who takes important decisions for the kingdom? How did he become so important to the royal family? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29492" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T13:14:07.337" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T13:14:07.337" Title="How did Varys end up in the king's council?" Tags="|character|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46207" CreationDate="2016-01-13T19:18:30.323" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the source material, V escaped from Larkhill five years prior to the events in the book. This happened about a decade or two after the Nuclear War that devastated the rest of the world, and caused panic/riots in England (England was not part of the war, but food and other supplies are limited). In the Film, the St. Mary's Virus at Three Waters takes place of the Nuclear War. This was a false flag event used by the Fascist party, inconsistently called Norsefire, to gain power. They used the &quot;terrorist biological attack&quot; in order to rally support for their fascist political ideas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The concentration camps in both versions are supposed to have come after these events. Without the nuclear war or St. Mary's virus, there would have been no way the concentration camps would exist, and neither V or lesbian actress Valerie Page would have been imprisoned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T19:18:30.323" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46222" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30037" CreationDate="2016-01-13T19:28:35.627" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The implication I got was that this line was to do with Feederism (AKA Fat Fetishism)&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_fetishism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fabienne talks about wearing clothes which are two sizes too small, and showing off a woman's ( or man's) stuffed stomach is a big part of most fat fetishes. Also, the line about smothering Butch with her belly really strikes me as being quite erotic in nature. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The thing that cemented this for me was the line in a subsequent scene, where Fabienne talks about ordering excessive amounts of food, and slathering it in melted cheese. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that Tarantino leaves little hints as to his foot fetish in his works (&quot;Wiggle your big toe&quot;, anyone?) so it wouldn't surprise me to see him referencing other fetishes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's just my reading, anyhow.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29854" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T19:28:35.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11861" CreationDate="2016-01-13T20:13:49.660" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been said in a round about way, but here is the big difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Good green screening is a massively manual endeavor. To get a good key in many situations involves manual rotoscoping to separate different element to run different keying processes on to get optimal results. (For example, a different style of key might work better on a characters red hair, while another handles her blue fuzzy sweater better). This is sort of a half way compromise between completely manual rotoscoping (which Hollywood VFX resorts to quite frequently), and fully automated keying. It produces significantly better results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of live broadcast, no manual work can be done at all, which results both in sub-optimal keyer configuration and a lack of the benefits of manual rotoscoping for assistance which makes a big difference. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the case of YouTube videos, they are probably a) using bad keying software and b) have a poorly lit green screen and c) have no idea what they are doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18877" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T20:13:49.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46227" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46219" CreationDate="2016-01-13T20:22:50.353" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;Besides the story of how he was castrated, we don't really get much backstory on Varys in the show. Below is his backstory from the books:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Years before Robert's Rebellion, Varys and Illyrio Mopatis (the merchant at the beginning of Season 1 who 'sells' Daenerys to Khal Drogo and gives her the dragon eggs) started a business in Pentos where Varys would steal items from lesser thieves, and Illyrio would sell them back to the original owners for a small fee. They soon became the go-to people in Pentos for retrieving stolen property, and they both got rich.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually realizing that information is often more valuable than gold, Varys began building a network of spies. He purchased small, quick, and quiet orphan children, taught them to read and write, and set them to work copying the information in the letters, ledgers, and charts of the wealthy and powerful. (Varys' network of children spies eventually became known as his 'little birds.') Using this information to make insider trades, for blackmail, etc., Varys and Illyrio increased their wealth tenfold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Varys eventually became so infamous that word of his abilities reached King Aerys II (the Mad King) in King's Landing. By this time the king was starting to devolve into paranoia, and he no longer trusted his wife Rhaella, his son Rhaegar, or his Hand Tywin Lannister. Aerys contacted Varys, who agreed to be the king's Master of Whisperers. Varys quickly gained his trust by pointing out traitors and schemers, and as the king's paranoia grew so too did Varys' influence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of Robert's Rebellion, Varys tried to warn King Aerys against letting Tywin Lannister's host through the gates. Grand Maester Pycelle convinced him otherwise, and King's Landing was sacked. Jaime Lannister killed the Mad King when he asked his pyromancers to burn the city to the ground, and Robert Baratheon took the throne for himself. Varys' talents were useful enough for him to be kept around, so he was allowed to remain Master of Whisperers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16036" LastEditorUserId="16036" LastEditDate="2016-01-13T20:51:34.553" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T20:51:34.553" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46231" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34200" CreationDate="2016-01-13T21:22:41.177" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Raiders of the Lost Ark&lt;/em&gt; (1981)&lt;/a&gt; has a scene where Indy is thrown into a deep pit.  As he raises his head, there is a line of dangerous &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_cobra&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;asps&lt;/a&gt; hissing menacingly at him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/voByz.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/voByz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one does not look closely, it looks like he is within striking distance.  But it is fairly obvious in that shot (in the film&amp;mdash;the photo appears to have the reflections removed) that there is a transparent divider (glass, acrylic?) separating actor from snake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the effects chops of Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, George Lucas, and the other filmmakers of this movie, it was hard to accept that this is a mistake that would be accidentally left in the film.   Possibly it was left intentionally so that &lt;em&gt;&quot;people without brains&quot;&lt;/em&gt; might be less likely to attempt the portrayed stunt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4739" LastEditorUserId="4739" LastEditDate="2016-01-14T00:14:37.093" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T00:14:37.093" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45711" CreationDate="2016-01-13T22:47:24.733" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/Zombies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;From the Walking Dead Wikia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While the term &amp;quot;zombie&amp;quot; does exist within The Walking Dead universe, it is seldom used. In the comic book, when Rick Grimes's group discover the prison, both Rick and Tyreese discuss how it still sounds funny to use the word &amp;quot;zombie.&amp;quot; Likewise, in the Telltale video game, the term is used very rarely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Zombie&amp;quot; has not been used in the TV series; &lt;strong&gt;when interviewed, Lauren Cohan stated that Romero movie zombies never existed in the popular fiction of the TV Walking Dead universe.&lt;/strong&gt; The characters within The Walking Dead TV series and comic books come up with their own monikers and categorizations for the undead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lauren Cohan plays Maggie Greene in the TV Series, and is likely informed by production that &amp;quot;Zombie&amp;quot; and Romero style movies simply never existed, in-universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: Chicago Comic &amp;amp; Entertainment Expo 2012, interview panel with Lauren Cohan and Steven Yeun&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, Word of God:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Comic Creator Robert Kirkman in Episode 2 of Talking Dead, in the world of The Walking Dead, the works of George A. Romero were never made, and thus zombies do not appear in fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: Talking Dead is a live after-show about AMC's The Walking Dead in which the host Chris Hardwick discusses the show with special guests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-13T22:47:24.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46238" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28568" CreationDate="2016-01-14T01:47:45.360" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it was because Dennis was a drunk plagiarizing loser whose career as a professor had gone down in flames when it was &quot;his turn&quot; to focus on his career.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dennis bitterly resented that his wife was more successful than he was. Sandy was the buddy he drank with. Sandy would do the male bonding thing with Dennis, who desperately needed someone to think he was likeable and important. His wife's barely veiled contempt for him was probably pretty painful to him, he probably blamed the whole thing on her. Unable to take a real look at himself, he drank out of low self esteem and self pity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sandy did the typical CIA thing, get close...find out the person's weakness...use it against him. Dennis wanted stick it to his wife secretly, and to please his friend Sandy. Sandy wanted to please the CIA director (a career politician who desperately wanted wins). It was probably all couched in some kind of pro-USA, let's end this silly stalemate rhetoric, we guys know best how to handle it kind of thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What do you think? Does this make sense to you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29865" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T01:47:45.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46242" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="53055" CreationDate="2016-01-14T04:12:51.010" Score="7" ViewCount="606" Body="&lt;p&gt;This movie &lt;s&gt;was from around&lt;/s&gt; I saw in 2004 or 2005 (English/Hollywood).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a main protagonist, although I can't remember what he looked like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there was this other lady (single parent) she had a kid (or two). She toke him/them to a farm, where it is kind of a zoo but only buffaloes are there to see. It was not a fancy place for tourists.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When they arrived, they were the only customers or visitors there. &#xA;A man had opened the door for them and he explained that there is a fee for entrance. The lady did not have any money (or maybe she couldn't afford to spend money on a zoo), so she started to apologies to her children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The man who opened the gate for them overheard her apologizing to her children, and said something like &quot;But today is Monday, so it is free of charge&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is not about the zoo, and not about the man who let them in without money. But this scene stuck to my memory and I really admired how it was written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="18998" LastEditDate="2016-05-17T04:49:53.343" LastActivityDate="2016-06-01T11:53:02.920" Title="A mother takes her children to a buffalo farm" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:18:45.070" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46243" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15925" CreationDate="2016-01-14T04:50:55.930" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that perhaps they hatched the plan after she was in the hospital. Remember when she says &quot;F*** you, Saul,&quot; after they had just drugged her and she could barely get the words out? I think that's when he told her about the Jivadi play he had in mind. Like, &quot;Since you're in here anyway, Carrie, would you mind seeing if anyone reaches out to you?&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I may be wrong, but I had the same question and realized that we didn't know when the agreement beween Saul and Carrie had happened.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29865" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T04:50:55.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33792" CreationDate="2016-01-14T06:29:28.533" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Apart from inadvertently delivering the mind stone to the Avengers, no. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the mid-credits scene to Age of Ultron, Thanos says &quot;Fine. I'll do it myself.&quot; Thanos' goal is to obtain all the stones, which he tasked Loki and Ronan with. Both failed, and Loki lost him the mind stone (which was in the scepter) in the process. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thanos did not intend for Loki to fail and leave the mind stone in the Avengers' hands, ergo, he did not mastermind the events of Age of Ultron.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29870" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T06:29:28.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2513" CreationDate="2016-01-14T07:03:42.193" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;While someone else provided an answer straight from the director, I am rather fond of the idea that the Infinity Stones do not work against each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Erik Selvig tells Black Widow that the scepter can be used to disable the portal because &quot;Loki's scepter, the energy...the Tesseract can't fight. You can't protect against yourself.&quot; That sounds like the stones' powers do not work against each other, and therefore the shield will not stop the scepter. The space stone's shield does not work against the mind stone, and we see Black Widow breach the Tesseract's (space stone's) shield with the mind-stone-powered scepter. The stones do not work against each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Recall in Iron Man 2, Tony uses his father's research on the Tesseract to create a new element to power his arc reactor. So in his chest is an arc reactor powered by an element derived from the space stone. When Loki tries to use the mind stone's mind control powers against a space-stone-powered Tony, it likewise fails. The stones do not work against each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the stones go up against each other, their powers fail. The shield does not work against the mind-stone-powered scepter, and the mind control does not work against a space-stone-powered Tony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29870" LastEditorUserId="29870" LastEditDate="2016-01-14T23:01:26.083" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T23:01:26.083" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46247" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-14T07:39:16.823" Score="3" ViewCount="366" Body="&lt;p&gt;How about dubbing for fight sequences? Do the actors dub for the fight sequences as well or is any other method used like using the original set audio along with the background music?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29872" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-14T14:47:07.767" LastActivityDate="2017-05-28T19:17:01.853" Title="How is dubbing done for fight sequences?" Tags="|film-techniques|dubbing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43358" CreationDate="2016-01-14T12:18:23.160" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are certain rules in relation to what can be put on gravestones. &#xA;Though these differ by authorities/ Diocese. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Diocese of Oxford, for example, says that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;inscriptions must be simple, reverent and theologically acceptable;&#xA;  they may include appropriate quotations from the scriptures or&#xA;  literary sources.&quot; Nicknames or pet names are allowed, but in inverted&#xA;  commas.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Full rules pertaining to The Diocese of Oxford and burials can be seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oxford.anglican.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Churchyard-Regulations-Updated-2009.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; specifically section 4.6&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If a similar rule was in place here the gravestone would need to read Teresa &quot;Tracy&quot; Bond - and the gravestone simply isnt big enough to accomodate this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other Diocese such as Birmingham ban nicknames in their totality and state that the name &quot;as is displayed on their Birth Certificate should be used&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a link showing this ruling being upheld &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/church-of-england-judge-rules-nicknames-65779&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Judge upholds ban on nicknames&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the graveyard was under regulations such of this then Tracy would not be able to be used at all. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22037" LastEditorUserId="22037" LastEditDate="2016-01-14T18:22:32.860" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T18:22:32.860" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43947" CreationDate="2016-01-14T13:01:38.540" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is most likely a nod and not a coincidence, simply because there are too many such cameos by the number &lt;strong&gt;52&lt;/strong&gt; in all Berlanti DC comic TV shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The number shows up in &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt; and, as noted by the OP, also in &lt;em&gt;Supergirl&lt;/em&gt; - and will therefore probably also pop up in the upcoming &lt;em&gt;DC's Legends of Tomorrow&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In numerous episodes on all shows - it might even be worth a follow up question to determine, if actually in every single one - the number &lt;strong&gt;52&lt;/strong&gt; makes its cameo appearance, either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;verbally, e.g. as a number in an address (&quot;corner 52nd and ...&quot;) or - in &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt; Season 2 as the callsign of Officer Lance (&quot;Delta Charlie Five-Two&quot; = &quot;DC-52&quot;), or&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;visually, as shown in the example picture. In &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Channel 52&lt;/em&gt; seems to be the Star City local news channel (the channel itself being a nod to the New 52), but it also appears on &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; at least one of their news choppers does, as Barry runs across its blades in the season 2 winter finale (&lt;em&gt;The Flash - 2x09&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The characters themselves share some characteristics from their &lt;em&gt;New 52&lt;/em&gt; counterparts (while of course ignoring others to make it fresh and fitting for the medium).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[The New 52 is] the closest to our origin story and what we're doing. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&amp;amp;id=54270&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Grant &quot;Barry Allen&quot; Gustin in an interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So while I could not (yet?) find a quote by anyone from the production actually confirming those numerous occurences to &lt;strong&gt;be&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;nods&lt;/em&gt;, they are way too numerous to be conincidental, so the &lt;em&gt;MythBusters&lt;/em&gt; would probably call it &lt;strong&gt;Plausible&lt;/strong&gt;, I'd go further and say: &lt;em&gt;most probably &lt;strong&gt;yes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12913" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T13:01:38.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45726" CreationDate="2016-01-14T13:05:41.650" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a clue to this when Marquis speculates as to which of the three men against the wall is working 'in cahoots' with Domergue, in which he points at Mowbray and states that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If it's you, the real Oswaldo Mowbray is liein in a ditch somewhere.&#xA;  And you're just an english fella' passin' off his papers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As it is eventually revealed that Oswaldo is not who he says he is, it stands to reason that Marquis is correct in his assumption.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6306" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T13:05:41.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46256" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46259" CreationDate="2016-01-14T13:32:39.013" Score="22" ViewCount="20738" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't remember it being explained in the movie. What exactly is Dr. Lazarus referring to by saying Grabthar's Hammer in Galaxy Quest?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29881" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-14T14:09:33.527" LastActivityDate="2017-05-20T12:39:45.090" Title="What is Grabthar's Hammer?" Tags="|dialogue|galaxy-quest|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46256" CreationDate="2016-01-14T14:21:01.090" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This was a catch phrase that Dr. Lazarus used in the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By Grabthar's hammer... what a savings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Worvan, you shall be avenged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;other than being a catchy phrase, we don't know exactly what or who Grabthar was, nor what his hammer was. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An example of a similar catch phrase could be this one by Thor, &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;By Odin's Beard&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26576" LastEditorDisplayName="user25622" LastEditDate="2016-01-14T20:23:40.363" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T20:23:40.363" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46256" CreationDate="2016-01-14T14:34:38.573" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/news/1873653/galaxy-quest-oral-history/&quot;&gt;As explained by screenwriter &lt;strong&gt;Robert Gordon&lt;/strong&gt; to MTV&lt;/a&gt;, there's no back story:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gordon:&lt;/strong&gt; “&lt;strong&gt;By Grabthar’s Hammer” was a temp line.&lt;/strong&gt; It was basically the&#xA;  Hammer of Thor, but Grabthar just sounded so silly. I kept meaning to&#xA;  change it, but around the production offices, they started to make&#xA;  t-shirts, it started to sink in a little bit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rickman:&lt;/strong&gt; The ending scene, where Kwellek is dying, and I say the&#xA;  “Grabthar’s” line for him. There were all these different layers with&#xA;  these characters. It is such a great acting challenge. You are only as&#xA;  good as the script, really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long:&lt;/strong&gt; The funniest line, at the mall. “By Grabthar’s Hammer . . .what&#xA;  a savings.” I just saw &lt;strong&gt;Nick Frost&lt;/strong&gt; and he said he and &lt;strong&gt;Simon Pegg&lt;/strong&gt; and&#xA;  all those guys, that’s the line they quote all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T14:34:38.573" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46260" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-01-14T14:40:50.863" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For general questions about Japenese cinema. Not to be used on questions about specific movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-22T22:14:16.813" LastActivityDate="2018-01-22T22:14:16.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46261" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-01-14T14:40:50.863" Score="0" Body="For general questions about Japenese cinema. Not to be used on questions about specific movies." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-22T22:14:16.813" LastActivityDate="2018-01-22T22:14:16.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46262" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-01-14T14:41:10.663" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;For general questions about Korean films. Not to be used on questions about specific movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-22T22:13:45.660" LastActivityDate="2018-01-22T22:13:45.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46263" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-01-14T14:41:10.663" Score="0" Body="For general questions about Korean films. Not to be used on questions about specific movies." OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-01-22T22:13:45.660" LastActivityDate="2018-01-22T22:13:45.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46267" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28424" CreationDate="2016-01-14T17:15:39.190" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;This scene has always puzzled me, so thanks to everyone for providing input. My take was the way Hans answered when John asked his name. Typically, people would answer with their first name first, then last name if need be. Like &quot;my name is Bill... Bill Clay&quot; or something. But never &quot;my name is Clay... Bill... Clay&quot; the way Hans answered. The directory board showed last names first, then first names. So my thinking is that Hans had examined the directory previously, noticed the name &quot;CLAY, WM&quot; and immediately answered with Clay first, the paused to understand that &quot;WM&quot; was William, but shortened it to Bill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29887" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-09-29T06:29:51.300" LastActivityDate="2016-09-29T06:29:51.300" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46268" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47178" CreationDate="2016-01-14T18:03:42.593" Score="13" ViewCount="65830" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Godfather: Part II&lt;/em&gt; Fredo was set to go fishing on Lake Tahoe with one of the Corleone children, but at the last minute he is told the child can't go, and that he will be joined by one of the family thugs instead. Fredo goes out on the boat with the thug, who shoots him dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did Fredo know he was going to be shot? For example, at the moment of the switcheroo of the child for the thug, did Fredo realize his number was about to be called?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="42940" LastEditDate="2016-11-08T07:36:45.733" LastActivityDate="2019-11-29T03:22:22.693" Title="Did Fredo know he was doomed on the boat?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-godfather-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46269" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46276" CreationDate="2016-01-14T18:50:51.697" Score="27" ViewCount="12036" Body="&lt;p&gt;The picture below shows a scene in which a bear is attacking Leonardo DiCaprio, who is playing Hugh Glass in the movie ' The Revenant'. How was the scene shot? Was the bear real?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V1cgu.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V1cgu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28789" LastEditorUserId="28789" LastEditDate="2017-03-11T10:26:07.013" LastActivityDate="2017-03-11T10:26:07.013" Title="How was the bear attack scene shot in the movie 'The Revenant'?" Tags="|film-techniques|stunts|the-revenant|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46271" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28424" CreationDate="2016-01-14T19:04:01.003" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;If someone can find it, there is actually an official answer to this question out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Approximately 10-15 years ago, I was watching &lt;em&gt;Die Hard&lt;/em&gt; on TV. I'm not sure which channel it was on, but my gut instinct is that it was a Turner channel (TBS or TNT). Anyway, whichever channel it was had shot a few brief interviews that they would air clips from during commercial breaks. After this scene aired, they played a clip which specifically addressed this question. The clip was essentially the scene from the movie with voice over narration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whoever was narrating the clip (I believe it was director John McTiernan, but I can't swear to it) claimed that in the original script, John was able to recognize Hans because everyone in the group wore the same watch. The narrator then claimed that he &quot;decided to take that bit out and allow people to draw their own conclusions about how John figured it out.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Confirmed (and elaborated upon) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a53558/a-major-die-hard-plot-hole-was-just-explained-29-years-later/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; by the screenwriter, Steven E. de Sousza:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Originally, [when Gruber and his men] get off the truck, the camera craned up, you saw them in a circle and Alan Rickman says, 'Synchronize your watches,'&quot; de Souza explained.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;They all put their arms out in a circle with the camera moving down and &lt;strong&gt;they all had the same Tag Heuer watch&lt;/strong&gt;. If you notice, the first guy Bruce kills almost by accident going down the steps, he searches the body, looks at the IDs.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Also in a longer cut of the scene, &lt;strong&gt;McClane begins to notice the terrorists' watches&lt;/strong&gt;. &quot;He steals the cigarettes, which is a laugh,&quot; de Souza continued. &lt;strong&gt;&quot;He looks at the watch, which gets another laugh because you're thinking he might steal the watch. As he kills each guy, he notices they all had the same watch&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;When he talks to Dwayne Robinson, he says, 'I think these guys are professionals. Their IDs are too good. There's no labels on their clothes and &lt;strong&gt;they all have the same watch.&lt;/strong&gt;'&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;When Bruce [Willis] offers the cigarette to Alan Rickman, Bruce sees the watch. You see his eyes look at the watch. That's how he knows that he is one of the terrorists.&quot;....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;However, the &quot;synchronize your watches&quot; bit was cut in the end because it came into conflict with the plan for the terrorists to escape in an ambulance, which was added towards the end of shooting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Argyle (De'voreaux White) the limo driver crashes into the escape ambulance, but that ambulance was absent in the &quot;synchronize&quot; shot, thus leaving an even bigger potential gap.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;De Souza added: &quot;[Director] John [McTiernan] says to the editor, 'Get the scissors in there. Cut as soon as you can when they get off the truck so we don't see there's no ambulance.' Now without 'synchronize your watches,' all of these moments where Bruce looks at these guys' watches makes no sense.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a53558/a-major-die-hard-plot-hole-was-just-explained-29-years-later/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Esquire, The Screenwriter of Die Hard Finally Explained a Major Plot Hole&lt;/a&gt;;  March 2, 2017&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27012" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2017-03-03T22:52:09.177" LastActivityDate="2017-03-03T22:52:09.177" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46269" CreationDate="2016-01-14T20:21:05.257" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;Industrial Light and Magic were responsible for creating the CGI bear. Yeah, it's CGI and not in-fact a real bear. They used reference footage from actual bears, even including a bear attack filmed at a zoo where a drunken man stumbled into the sanctuary. They used a stunt man to literally throw Leo around and tear at him. This meant that painting out the stunt man would have taken an incredible amount of skill and time. Then all they'd have to do is put the CGI bear in. As you can tell, visual effects has come a long way. I wondered myself how they did this before looking up some of the visual effects techniques used. Props to ILM for their great work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some references for the above information. You'll find interesting comments on these links.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can find the project on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ilm.com/vfx/the-revenant/&quot;&gt;ILM's website (ilm.com)&lt;/a&gt; however there isn't much information on there yet. They usually wait a while before posing VFX breakdown videos, if at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2015/film/news/the-revenant-leonardo-dicaprio-alejandro-g-inarritu-bear-oscars-1201661500/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Variety&lt;/strong&gt; article&lt;/a&gt;, which gives some insight into the shooting methods and conditions that they filmed in. Also, confirming that the bear is CGI and that &lt;em&gt;&quot;Inarritu had studied bear attacks on YouTube&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/how-they-created-the-bear-vfx-for-the-mauling-of-leonardo-dicaprio-in-the-revenant-20160104&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Indiewire&lt;/strong&gt; article&lt;/a&gt;, which is rather more in-depth and talks about the technical aspects such as fur simulation, Maya for animation, and using RenderMan for rendering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29894" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-14T21:49:59.133" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T21:49:59.133" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46277" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-14T20:56:07.200" Score="5" ViewCount="251" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146675/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;End of Days&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from 1999 features Satan inhabiting the body of a man portrayed by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Byrne&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Gabriel Byrne&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thomas Aquinas is a priest sent by the Vatican to protect a girl prophesied to be the mother of Satan's child.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The morning after Satan inhabits the body of an investment banker (Gabriel Byrne), Thomas Aquinas is on a rooftop shooting at him in an attempt to kill &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_Days_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;him&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In late 1999, Satan possesses an investment banker (Gabriel Byrne) in&#xA;  a restaurant; he then destroys the restaurant, killing many inside.&#xA;  Suicidal and alcoholic former police detective Jericho Cane (Arnold&#xA;  Schwarzenegger), depressed since his wife and daughter (Denice D.&#xA;  Lewis and Renee Olstead respectively) were killed in contract&#xA;  killings, works for a private security company and blames God for his&#xA;  plight. Jericho and co-worker Bobby Chicago (Kevin Pollak) are&#xA;  assigned to protect the possessed banker. A priest, Thomas Aquinas&#xA;  (Derrick O'Connor), unsuccessfully tries to kill the banker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What evidence does the movie provide informing Thomas Aquinas that Gabriel Byrne's character is in fact Satan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-14T22:02:21.903" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T22:02:21.903" Title="How did Thomas Aquinas know which man Satan inhabited?" Tags="|plot-explanation|end-of-days|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46278" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-01-14T20:57:29.103" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-01-14T20:57:29.103" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T20:57:29.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46279" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-01-14T20:57:29.103" Score="0" Body="1999 action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne and Kevin Pollack." OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2016-01-14T21:55:54.010" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T21:55:54.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13829" CreationDate="2016-01-14T21:10:33.687" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Billy was always hurt by Oldman's rejection of his art. I don't think he had Oldman's best interest in mind at all. He masterminded the the thing. It's a bit hard for me to think Oldman would not have learned the truth of the villa until the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29896" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T21:10:33.687" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46163" CreationDate="2016-01-14T22:20:41.240" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jeez.. Guys definitely nothing to do with a line of succession. Its the seven 'kingdoms' each leader of the leading faction of each realm could already be considered a king. Baratheon at this point is only a second generation King lineage. And the Baratheon's obtained their kingship through civil war... Tywin could have the throne if he wanted, he dosnt want the position though.. Just the power and he dosnt need to be King to have that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29902" LastActivityDate="2016-01-14T22:20:41.240" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46286" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46318" CreationDate="2016-01-15T01:05:23.240" Score="9" ViewCount="20630" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Need_to_Talk_About_Kevin&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;We Need to Talk About Kevin&quot; (2011)&lt;/a&gt;, Kevin's mother tells him she wants to know why he did what he did. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He responds:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I used to think I knew. Now I'm not so sure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the purpose of this line? It feels like it is meant to have some broader significance to the story beyond its surface value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene can be seen here starting at about &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z86CUVfFhE&amp;amp;t=526&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;8:45&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/0Z86CUVfFhE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2022-07-07T16:18:21.157" Title="What is the significance of this line from We Need to Talk About Kevin?" Tags="|analysis|we-need-to-talk-about-kevin|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42406" CreationDate="2016-01-15T01:25:33.857" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The male clones grew up in the same environment (military) and were aware that they are clones. The female clones were not aware and were raised by different parents in different locations in the world. The male clones also began interacting with each other at an earlier age than the female clones, and thus had a stronger influence on each other (how siblings tend to be more similar because they learn from each other).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an debate of nature v. nurture, I think the argument here could be that because the female clones have a diverse nurturing, there is a more diverse characteristic of female clones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29907" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T01:25:33.857" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33404" CreationDate="2016-01-15T01:53:42.173" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;They are betting on the colors of the chip. One side of the chips is mostly purple, &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D5kaQ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/D5kaQ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;while the other is red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K2i1x.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/K2i1x.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28900" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T01:53:42.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46290" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46292" CreationDate="2016-01-15T03:06:32.153" Score="12" ViewCount="12886" Body="&lt;p&gt;From X-Men, we know that Wolverine was Canadian but in one movie (I think the X-Men Origins) why did he (and his brother) participate in American Revolutionary War and American Civil War on the side against British and Confederacy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29909" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-15T08:46:28.977" LastActivityDate="2017-03-22T22:08:58.100" Title="From X-Men, we know that Wolverine was Canadian but in one movie why did he participate in American Revolutionary War?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-origins-wolverine|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46291" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46290" CreationDate="2016-01-15T03:50:49.660" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;em&gt;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&lt;/em&gt; (which is very loosely based on the &lt;em&gt;Origins&lt;/em&gt; comic series), Wolverine was born James Howlett in Canada in the late 1830's. In 1845, he sees his father murdered by their groundskeeper, and that triggers his mutation to activate: bone claws, regeneration, etc. It's at this point that Howlett and his half-brother Victor Creed flee from Canada.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two of them move down into the United States and decide to join the US military as, in essence, mercenary soldiers. Obviously, they were born much too late to have fought in the American Revolution. However, they did serve in the US military during the Civil War (as Union soldiers), both World Wars, and Vietnam. This would have given them steady work, food, shelter, etc., and would have fit well with the mutant powers they were trying to hide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the modern US military, the two of them would have been required to obtain legalized resident alien status (what most people call a &quot;green card&quot;) to enlist, but that requirement hasn't always been quite so strict. It's estimated that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;half of all military recruits by the 1840s and 20 percent of the 1.5 million service members in the Union Army during the Civil War.&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/immigrants-us-armed-forces&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;were non-citizens. Remaining in the military through the end of the Vietnam War would probably have been a bit tricky, especially without proof of birth or anything like that, but we can suspend our disbelief a bit there and just assume the two of them figured out how to deal with their immortality by that point.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T03:50:49.660" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46290" CreationDate="2016-01-15T03:51:28.823" Score="30" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wolverine and Sabretooth were not in the American Revolution. They were born in the mid 1800s, nearly a century after the Revolution (1775-1783). The first scene of X-Men Origins: Wolverine takes place in 1845, when Wolverine is seemingly a pre-teen (typical age mutant powers emerge).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The American Civil on the other hand, did have James and Victor fighting in it. &lt;strong&gt;For the most part, they are both nomadic, hot blooded, strong males of fighting age, and a war would call to them like flames to a moth. They are the eternal soldier type.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even though they are Canadian by birth &lt;strong&gt;*&lt;/strong&gt;, as evident by their participation in most major wars (American Civil War, The Great War/WW1, WW2, Vietnam), they want to be in the middle of a fight. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_in_the_American_Civil_War#Canadians_in_the_U.S._Army&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;That said, Canadians were plentiful in the American Civil War, due to multiple issues.&lt;/a&gt; Their presence is not unrealistic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Canadians were largely opposed to slavery, the preservation of which was one of the main goals of the Confederate States of America, and Canada had recently become the terminus of the Underground Railroad. Close economic and cultural links across the long border also encouraged Canadian sympathy towards the Union. Between 33,000 and 55,000 men from British North America enlisted in the war, almost all of them fighting for Union forces. The conservative press in Canada East supported the secession and ridiculed the Yankees as lacking in morality. French Canadians in particular were very highly sympathetic to the Confederacy in the Southern U.S.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best recent estimates are that between 33,000 and 55,000 men from British North America (BNA) served in the Union army, and a few hundred in the Confederate army. Many of these men already lived in the United States; they were joined by volunteers signed up in Canada by Union recruiters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, Wolverine, in the comics and cartoons, has a long history of being a soldier, being seen helping Captain America liberate Jewish prisoners (including Magneto/Erik Lesner) during World War 2 multiple times. Even then, he's wearing Canadian flags. Canada, like always, has participated in most major wars, without much notice, due to smaller contingents. Canadians were present in WW2 and even modern day Iraq/Afghan &amp;quot;wars&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Canada didn't exist as a nation at the time; it was still a group of separate British Colonies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T18:45:08.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46293" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-15T04:16:28.227" Score="3" ViewCount="16084" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Mozart in the Jungle, are some of the New York Orchestra actual musicians or are they all actors? It always seems to me that it would be too difficult to mimic playing complex instruments effectively, so I wonder if they use real musicians.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastActivityDate="2016-04-05T14:53:19.663" Title="Are some of the musicians actual musicians?" Tags="|mozart-in-the-jungle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46294" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-15T04:34:18.357" Score="48" ViewCount="9843" Body="&lt;p&gt;Note the word &quot;only&quot; which makes my question different question from &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/10735/why-do-tv-comedy-programs-have-laugh-tracks&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you see the &lt;em&gt;Mr Bean&lt;/em&gt; TV series you will hear background laughs (a laugh track), but in &lt;em&gt;Bean&lt;/em&gt; (the movie) there is no background laughter at all. Why the difference? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user29913" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T11:52:40.867" Title="Why are laugh tracks only used in TV series but not in movies?" Tags="|production|mr-bean|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46295" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50518" CreationDate="2016-01-15T04:40:13.733" Score="9" ViewCount="78962" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Sicario, the word &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Medellin&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; really confused me. I believe it's Alejandro's (Del Torro) last name, and Matt Graver (Brolin) says that it refers to a particular era in Mexico (I forgot the exact words) when Kate Macer (Blunt) asks what it means. Then in the end when Alejandro is pointing his gun at the cop after he exits the tunnel being raided, the cop quietly says &quot;&lt;strong&gt;Medellin...&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. Is he saying Alejandro's name? If so how did he know who it was? If that's his last name why does IMDB only refer to him as Alejandro? If the word refers to an era, why would the cop just muter that to himself? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28433" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-01-15T09:55:23.237" LastActivityDate="2016-09-19T09:00:55.630" Title="In the end of Sicario, why does the cop say &quot;Medellin&quot; while the gun was pointed at him?" Tags="|dialogue|ending|sicario|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46296" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46293" CreationDate="2016-01-15T04:49:51.207" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiewire.com/article/gael-garcia-bernal-on-what-mozart-in-the-jungle-taught-him-and-the-color-and-scope-of-season-2-20151229&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This interview&lt;/a&gt; with Gael García Bernal, he talks about how hard it was for the actors to pretend they're playing instruments, saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think for all of us there's two who have had the most difficult job, which is Joel [Bernstein] and Saffron [Burrows]. Joel playing the violin and Saffron playing the cello. Because the cello is pretty big. You know, it's very graphic. You see the bow. You have to follow it the way everybody else is doing it. And if you look at somebody's face you see where their hand is standing. So, you can really tell how they're grabbing the strings here and the bow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But then later on when the interviewer asks about a &quot;jam session&quot; with some of the actors he says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I mean the thing is, sometimes we can play the music that we're playing because there's real musicians in the orchestra. So, sometimes it's like, &quot;Okay. Should we go for it?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The implication I think, is that the main characters are just actors, but as for the others in the orchestra real musicians were hired to keep up the illusion of a real orchestra. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28433" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T04:49:51.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46297" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-15T05:33:33.160" Score="1" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read (in a &lt;em&gt;New Yorker&lt;/em&gt; article, &quot;Clio at the Multiplex,&quot; many years ago) that the French director Robert Bresson made a movie about Joan of Arc, cast with non-professional actors, called &lt;em&gt;The Trial of Joan of Arc&lt;/em&gt; (orig.: &lt;em&gt;Procès de Jeanne d'Arc&lt;/em&gt;). (I remember reading that he cast trial lawyers as the Inquisitors, because they knew how to ask probing questions.) I also read that he cast a non-actor to play the French king. What I wonder is, who did he choose to cast for the role? How was he appropriate for the role (like the lawyers for the Inquisitors)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24353" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-15T17:36:43.183" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T17:36:43.183" Title="What non-actor did the director Robert Bresson cast as the French king?" Tags="|production|casting|the-trial-of-joan-of-arc|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46294" CreationDate="2016-01-15T07:16:05.673" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;The usage of laugh tracks in a TV show dates back to early television and the necessity of shooting a scene multiple times. While the performances of cast and crew could be tailored to fit the scene, the &quot;audience laugh&quot; - the aural cue to the viewer that something funny had happened - couldn't be controlled as easily. Once audiences had seen that scene once or twice, the laughter would either be at the wrong time or too short, or worse no one would laugh at all since they'd seen the &quot;punchline&quot; multiple times. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main reason behind the usage of laugh tracks is to replicate the experience of being with an audience while viewing. Watching TV at home is usually a solitary experience, so film-makers attempted to recreate the atmosphere of a theater by introducing laugh tracks. Eventually this expanded to include a range of emotive aural cues - applause lines, the &quot;awww&quot; moment, cheers and whistles during romantic scenes, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More specifically, though, why are laugh tracks not used in film when they are so prevalent in TV? Largely because films are intended for the theater, and in the theater the viewer will be surrounded by an audience. In the theater, the rule is &quot;laughter begets laughter&quot;, so if you can make a few people laugh or applaud, other audience members will pick up on that and produce genuine laughs as well. The same can be said of comedy shows or political rallies that use &quot;plants&quot; to generate the same effect - a few paid supporters who will laugh or cheer at the right time, thereby encouraging others to do the same. The same ethos applies to laugh tracks stimulating laughter in the &quot;at home&quot; audience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29920" LastEditorUserId="29920" LastEditDate="2016-01-18T11:52:40.867" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T11:52:40.867" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46295" CreationDate="2016-01-15T07:21:52.833" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Medellin is the rivaling cartel, which the US sides with in the movie.&#xA;Alejandro works for them, taking out the competition on behalf of the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29922" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T07:21:52.833" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46301" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-15T07:57:02.433" Score="2" ViewCount="2091" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching Big Bang Theory this evening and a poster on the wall caught my eye. It is momentarily featured on the episode that aired 1.14.16 as Sheldon apologizes to Raj's girlfriend for the first time. The poster is featured on several episodes (that feature Raj's apartment as a set) but not all of them. The most obvious feature is 2011 in the text at the bottom of the poster. When I froze the image and zoomed in, I thought I could read REIMAGE DOCUMENTARIES but I think I'm incorrect on that. The design features a beaker with a green liquid and a martini shape above it. There are strong angled stripes as well. Any information would be great!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Pjlx.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/8Pjlx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29923" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-15T08:56:50.937" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T09:04:07.663" Title="What poster is hanging in Raj's apartment on Big Bang Theory?" Tags="|props|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-05-14T06:54:08.437" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46302" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46301" CreationDate="2016-01-15T09:04:07.663" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It appears to be this poster from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sfgate.com/style/benefits/article/Exploratorium-investigates-Science-of-Cocktails-3161528.php&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Science of Cocktails&lt;/a&gt; (or at least pretty similar to it).:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jSV2P.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jSV2P.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Science of Cocktails&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used Googles reverse image search to find this, using this image as the reference, in case you want to find more similar images (there's a few variations of this one):&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C5Ihy.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/C5Ihy.png&quot; alt=&quot;Reference Image&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28593" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T09:04:07.663" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19833" CreationDate="2016-01-15T10:14:00.487" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that 836547  has to be divided this way&#xA;83 - 65 - 47&#xA;Those are Vesper's body measures.&#xA;In the scene before we see Vesper giving Bond a perfect tailored smoking, hand made just for him. &#xA;That's the point.&#xA;The password was just his &quot;revenge&quot; on her deduction skill about his own body.&#xA;The password is not Vesper but is anyway about her, or what Bond thought that her measurements are.&#xA;It has sense in that moment, it is connected with the scene before, the problem is in the end of the movie when he tells her that the password is her name... they should have paid more attention in that moment...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29928" LastEditorUserId="29928" LastEditDate="2016-01-15T10:37:32.433" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T10:37:32.433" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46305" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-15T11:46:33.957" Score="4" ViewCount="393" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the uncut version of the &lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt; episode The One At the Beach (Season 3, Episode 25) there's the following scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phoebe: So, you’re all bored?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chandler: Yes!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phoebe: All right, I’m gonna close my eyes and point to someone, and you, whoever I point has to come up with something fun for us to do, and we have to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(They do so, and Phoebe gets in the middle, closes her eyes, and starts spinning in a circle. She stops at Chandler)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chandler: Okay, umm, we all have to play strip poker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monica: Chandler! Why, all of a sudden, do you wanna play strip poker?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chandler: I think because of margaritas three, four, and nine.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does Chandler mean by what he said? Why 3, 4 and 9?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28732" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T18:02:41.557" Title="Margaritas three, four, and nine" Tags="|dialogue|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46306" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46307" CreationDate="2016-01-15T12:04:42.277" Score="5" ViewCount="3999" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Friends Season 3 Episode 25 there's the following scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rachel: (approaching) Hey!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chandler: Hey!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joey: Hey-hey, check out the hat!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(She is wearing this giant straw hat, the brim on it must be at least, least foot wide.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chandler: &lt;strong&gt;Wait a minute, I know that hat! I was taken aboard that hat! They did experiments on me! I can’t have children!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Monica: Seriously, where did you get the hat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rachel: Ross gave it to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ross: Yeah, I think she looks good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rachel: Ohh, thank you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chandler: &lt;strong&gt;Buy it for ya, or win it for ya?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What is Chandler referring to by that sentence about experiments?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What does 'Win it for ya' mean?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28732" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T12:16:39.720" Title="Rachel Hat Scene" Tags="|dialogue|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46306" CreationDate="2016-01-15T12:11:34.910" Score="21" Body="&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure that this is in reference to the fact it looks like the stereotypical &quot;flying saucer&quot; type alien spaceship. He pretends that he was taken aboard an alien spaceship that looked similar to the hat she was wearing, and was experimented on by the aliens to the extent that he is now possibly infertile.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He clearly holds distaste for the hat, therefore when he is told that it was Ross who gave Rachel the hat, he is incredulous about the fact that Ross in fact spent money to buy it. It was simply a further insult about the hat that no one would actually pay money for it, and the only way that Ross could have come to own it would be to win it in some sort of carnival game.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-15T12:16:39.720" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T12:16:39.720" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46305" CreationDate="2016-01-15T12:50:41.257" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think he is just trying to get the point across that he is very drunk and isn't exactly sure how many margaritas he has had and now would be a good time to have a game of strip poker. Strip poker is usually the kinda game you would play when you are drunk.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29622" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T12:50:41.257" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46312" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42667" CreationDate="2016-01-15T14:23:52.750" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In term of timeline, Dragon Ball Super took place 6 months after the battle of Majin Buu. It should be the next show you want to watch. It covers DBZ: Battle of Gods and Resurrection of F. It is at episode 26 (still in Resurrection of F)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dragon Ball GT was released in 1996 with 64 episodes. While it is a sequel to DBZ, it does not follow the Dragon Ball manga series by Akira Toriyama. The series may cause a distortion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball_GT&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Unlike the previous two anime series in the Dragon Ball franchise, Dragon Ball GT does not adapt the manga series by Akira Toriyama, but is a sequel show to the Dragon Ball Z anime with an original story using the same characters and universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dragon Ball GT was created by Atsushi Maekawa to be the conclusion of the Dragon Ball Series. This could cause a distortion from the direction where the writer of Dragon Ball Z Takao Koyama wants to take the series. Dragon Ball Super manga is written by Akira Toriyama, the author who wrote the Dragon Ball manga (not DBZ). It takes place right after DBZ ended. For those who like DBZ, it is best to watch DB Super and not DB GT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29934" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-06-30T10:19:23.967" LastActivityDate="2016-06-30T10:19:23.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46294" CreationDate="2016-01-15T14:54:44.947" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The inclusion of laughing for a sitcom comes from the fact that many of them were originally filmed with a &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; in-studio audience just like a game or variety show.  The show would include the laughter from the real audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now shows that want to replicate that style will use quality, well produced laugh tracks rather than rely on a random result from a real audience.  This allows directors to film several takes of scenes, and without a real audience, they can shoot out of order, etc. and still get the same, at-home laugh inducing laugh track.  Sitcoms with a laugh track are still filmed in a way (on a single set) that makes it believable that a real audience is sill there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movies on the other hand were &lt;em&gt;never&lt;/em&gt; filmed in front of a &quot;live studio audience&quot;.  Movies were and are always done on set or on location with multiple scenes and with post-shooting audio mixing.  Movies don't have laugh tracks because it would be obviously fake and hokey.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18176" LastEditorUserId="18176" LastEditDate="2016-01-15T15:00:36.067" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T15:00:36.067" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46294" CreationDate="2016-01-15T15:05:39.120" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1950s and 1960s, most sitcoms were filmed in front of a live studio audience. Comedy performers prefer working with an audience so they will know what is funny and what is not. This was probably because radio comedies of the 1930s and 1940s were broadcast and recorded with live audiences. This helped performers ad-lib and pace the comedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the 1970s, comedians like Woody Allen were already complaining that TV comedy laugh tracks were being overused.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;TV sitcoms are usually rehearsed and performed like a play. They are filmed/taped in-sequence, so that the first scene is recorded first, the second scene is recorded second, and so on. This makes it easy for a live audience to participate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Films are usually filmed out-of-order, based on the availability of locations and the actors' schedules. Until recently, films were mainly intended to be watched with an audience that would presumably be laughing. Comedians like Laurel &amp;amp; Hardy timed their routines so there were pauses after funny gags so that the audience's laughter woul not cover up ensuing dialog.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically, radio and TV shows traditionally had live audiences to provide laughter. Films never needed it. And it was easy to cheat and add laugh tracks to sitcoms that had no audience, or when the audience didn't laugh enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18606" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T15:05:39.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46316" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46268" CreationDate="2016-01-15T15:16:47.657" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fredo’s feelings going out on the boat are left up to interpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However even though Fredo is the dim-witted older brother he would have had his suspicions going out in the boat on the deserted lake with Al Neri that his time was up because he had betrayed his brother Michael&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fredo admits to Michael that he betrayed him when he delivers the following line: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I swear I didn't know it was gonna be a hit, Mike.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Michael gives Fredo the kiss of death when he reveals:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29622" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T15:16:47.657" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46318" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46286" CreationDate="2016-01-15T15:48:29.213" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This line from Kevin sums up the clear lack of a motive for Kevin’s actions throughout the film (and the book). The book and film is based around the nature/nurture debate - did Kevin grow into a murderer or was he a psycho from the get go? Ultimately it is left to the reader to decide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It would be a relief to get some kind of resolution at the end of the film but no resolution is allowed. We (the viewer) will have to live with the horror, confusion and unanswered questions the same way Eva does and those affected by his terrible actions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29622" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T15:48:29.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46319" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16266" CreationDate="2016-01-15T16:41:07.070" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He committed four murders in actual physical world for which he was being tried. The murders at motel however were happening only in his mind. Ultimately the real killer in him the child dominated . In the head the child in him killed the lady and in actual world he killed his doctor in the black out as if the child in him was killing the lady.  Poor doctor. Trying to do good, he himself got killed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29939" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T16:41:07.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46322" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="51716" CreationDate="2016-01-15T17:27:33.043" Score="5" ViewCount="1268" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl&lt;/em&gt;, the monkey steals a coin from the chest and becomes cursed, a plot shown after the credits. Mr. Gibbs and the other crew members sailed away from the island. In &lt;em&gt;Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men's Chest&lt;/em&gt;, the monkey was on the ship. So, when and how did it (monkey) get on the Black Pearl?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27264" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-15T17:31:49.077" LastActivityDate="2016-11-12T08:00:51.960" Title="How and when does the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean get on the ship?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pirates-of-the-caribbean|curse-of-the-black-pearl|dead-mans-chest|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46324" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46328" CreationDate="2016-01-15T19:06:36.907" Score="9" ViewCount="34062" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2015 film, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3170832/&quot;&gt;Room&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;...  During a scene at dinner following the escape, the daughter remarked to her father that he would never look at or make eye contact with her son, his grandson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her father looked kind of disgusted and stood up, and she pressed the point further. He left the room without saying anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was he unable or unwilling to look at his grandson?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: Wiki article &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_(2015_film)&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-01-15T19:14:36.993" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T01:54:33.513" Title="Grandfather Unable to Look at Grandson" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|room|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46327" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41375" CreationDate="2016-01-15T20:39:14.107" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Answer is in the words of Ankit Bhardwaj in the meeting: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You can copyright a product not an idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not a legal person but as per show point of view this was the reason. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its even a fact that &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.in/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;amp;ion=1&amp;amp;espv=2&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8#q=can%20idea%20be%20copyrighted&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Copyrights protect expression and patents protects inventions, and neither protect ideas&lt;/a&gt;. So there was no case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if they do lodge FIR, they need to proof themselves right in court and that's not easy at all and even against a hacker who hold sex chats of Yogi and hold extra ordinary hacking abilities. And even Jitu destroyed their property and they can lodge cross case against them. And a court case takes years and lot of money to clear and for jobless people it will be too tough to handle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-04-02T16:35:19.900" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T16:35:19.900" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46324" CreationDate="2016-01-15T20:54:27.993" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I will preface this by saying that I haven't seen the film yet. However, in the novel Jack's father is Old Nick - the man who was holding Ma and Jack captive. Ma's father would not look at Jack because doing so would make the father think of Old Nick - thus leading to anger, etc at the the kidnapping of his daughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1186" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T20:54:27.993" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46330" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-15T21:19:30.407" Score="6" ViewCount="463" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just noticed that the new 10th revival season of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4370492/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The X-Files&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; will be broadcast on German free TV beginning February 8th 2016, &lt;em&gt;two weeks&lt;/em&gt; after its US premiere on Junuary 24th.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems an incredibly short timeframe for German TV standards. While it certainly is a major pop-culturally anticipated TV event and the ProSiebenSat1 Media SE is quite a strong player in private TV business, it usually takes about a year or at least half a year for a US shows to air on German free TV. I can't imagine any precedent below this time, even for highly anticipated blockbuster shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any &lt;strong&gt;background information about this deal that explains this very short timeframe&lt;/strong&gt; compared to the usual delay? Did the ProSiebenSat1 company need to negotiate some special deal for this to happen or were there any other hurdles involved? Since pay TV and streaming services can tend to get TV shows faster than free TV (as well as cinemas get movies much faster if not simultaneously), I'd assume there isn't usually a great deal of actual post-production work (like dubbing) involved &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the show's premiere? Then the question's slightly broader core might come down to &lt;strong&gt;why TV shows normally take such a long delay to reach German free TV and why this was not the case for the &lt;em&gt;X-Files&lt;/em&gt; revival&lt;/strong&gt;. If it is due to the networks usually reserving premieres for their pay TV channels or associates, then the question would be why this wasn't done for such a high-rating-guaranteed show. Or is this really just down to waiting for word of mouth and looking how the show goes in its original market before deciding to pick it up, something that surely wasn't necessary for &lt;em&gt;The X-Files&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-15T22:09:28.387" LastActivityDate="2024-01-27T06:27:26.590" Title="How do the new X-Files reach German free TV so fast?" Tags="|distribution|the-x-files|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46331" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-15T21:23:45.037" Score="-1" ViewCount="958" Body="&lt;p&gt;Rewatching Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, and one of the first scenes shows a young Obi-Wan and his master, Qui-Gon, being trapped in a waiting room. The room starts to fill up with Dioxis, a toxic gas. They take deep breath, long enough to survive until the room is opened. But how long was that? Were they using the Force to do it? How long can a Jedi hold their breath with the Force?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notably, both Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon had to use a rebreather type device while swimming down to the Gungan city Otoh Gunga, instead of just holding their breath. So there seems to be a limit?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-01-15T21:39:21.340" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T21:56:41.930" Title="How long can a Jedi hold their breath?" Tags="|character|star-wars|the-phantom-menace|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46333" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46331" CreationDate="2016-01-15T21:31:21.000" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Breath_control&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This Wookiepedia articl&lt;/a&gt;e (which is based on EU canon) says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Using the Force power breath control, a Jedi could literally numb the body's instinct to shut itself down after long periods without oxygen, allowing the user to be able to go without breathing for longer periods than he or she ordinarily could by using the Force to reserve the amounts of air in the lungs. It was believed that some users of the technique &lt;strong&gt;could hold their breath for hours or even days&lt;/strong&gt; with this power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in regards to the scene you mention were Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon are trapped in the room with a poisonous gas, this sentence from the Wookieepedia article should also be mentioned: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This ability used independently, however, would not prevent anything entering or leaving the respiratory system of the user. In some cases, the user would require some kind of Force barrier in, or around the nose/throat region to keep poisonous gases or water out. The necessity of such a barrier would depend on the air/water pressure in the direct vicinity, and the user's ability to naturally seal their airways&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28433" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T21:31:21.000" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46334" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13668" CreationDate="2016-01-15T21:50:51.593" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice no longer lists &lt;em&gt;Christopher Nolan&lt;/em&gt; as &lt;em&gt;Executive Producer&lt;/em&gt; in multiple press releases since the initial announcement of the movie. Instead, the title of executive producer is being given to Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan, Wesley Coller, David S. Goyer and Geoff Johns. As stated by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140131005753/en/Jesse-Eisenberg-Jeremy-Irons-Join-Cast-Warner&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this press release by Warner Brothers featured on Businesswire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29894" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T21:50:51.593" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46335" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46331" CreationDate="2016-01-15T21:56:41.930" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not stated in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Star-Wars-The-Phantom-Menace.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;film script&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_I:_The_Phantom_Menace_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;official novelisation&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_in_100_Scenes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Wars in 100 Scenes&lt;/a&gt; factbook quite how long the Jedi were trapped in the room with the gas. The implication is that the Nemoidians were watching the events on their holographic monitor until the gas became so thick as to be opaque and for long enough for a squad of droids to be dispatched. That alone would seem to imply that Qui-Gonn and Obi-Wan were trapped for at least 5-10 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The holocam in the conference room showed only a thick green cloud.&#xA;  Nute Gunray studied the picture carefully. The Jedi must be dead by&#xA;  now, he thought. He switched to a view of the hallway outside the&#xA;  room, where a crowd of skeletal battle droids waited. “Go in and blast&#xA;  what’s left of them,” he ordered. The droids readied their weapons.&#xA;  One of them opened the door, and the deadly gas billowed out. Nute&#xA;  tensed, seeing movement in the cloud, but it was only the protocol&#xA;  droid. The Jedi are dead, he thought with satisfaction. He reached to&#xA;  shut off the screen.&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_I:_The_Phantom_Menace_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - Official Novelisation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other (&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Breath_control&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;less canonical&lt;/a&gt;) references, Jedi Masters are described as being able to hold their breath for hours or even days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T21:56:41.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19833" CreationDate="2016-01-15T22:13:08.943" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;836547 &lt;a href=&quot;http://phonespell.org/combo.cgi?n=836547&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;can spell out&lt;/a&gt; &quot;&lt;strong&gt;ten lip&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&quot;Ten&quot; might be a reference to a &quot;perfect ten&quot; and &quot;lip&quot; might be a body part or the attitude/sass that body part can be used to express.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's much more likely this was a filming goof, but if you want something more interesting to think about in line with the story, there you go!&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22640" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T22:13:08.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46337" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-15T22:37:43.050" Score="1" ViewCount="128" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as movies he's directed, I count at least ten (in no particular order):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Reservoir Dogs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jackie Brown&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kill Bill vol. 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kill Bill vol. 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Four Rooms&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Grindhouse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Django Unchained&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Inglorious Bastards&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;My Best Friend's Birthday&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, he's written screenplays for From Dusk Till Dawn, True Romance and Natural Born Killers. I count at least 12 (with Kill Bill 1 &amp;amp; 2 being counted as the same movies. I won't even get into acting credits...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why the bad math?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4786" LastEditorUserId="3696" LastEditDate="2016-01-18T08:07:19.200" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T08:07:19.200" Title="Why is The Hateful Eight billed as Tarantino's Eighth movie?" Tags="|quentin-tarantino|the-hateful-eight|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-01-15T22:55:46.083" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46338" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46330" CreationDate="2016-01-15T23:02:27.157" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most likely &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/germanys-prosiebensat1-extends-deal-fox-769041&quot;&gt;due to the deal they struck with Fox in 2015&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In addition to the feature films in the Fox package, &lt;strong&gt;the ProSieben&#xA;  deal includes TV series&lt;/strong&gt;, such as primetime drama hit Empire and crime&#xA;  comedy Backstrom. For the first time, animated features from&#xA;  DreamWorks Animation will be included in the ProSieben agreement,&#xA;  giving the German group rights for such films as Rio 2 and How to&#xA;  Train Your Dragon 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In a bid to make premieres of its U.S. films and series truly&#xA;  exclusive, ProSieben's deal with Fox also covers exclusive basic pay&#xA;  TV licenses. &quot;They are going out first on our channels — nowhere&#xA;  else,&quot; said Boss.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T23:02:27.157" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46339" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36066" CreationDate="2016-01-15T23:51:15.120" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, the dog in the original Back to the Future was named O.J. I did a Tree Top apple juice commercial with him when I was 13. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29951" LastActivityDate="2016-01-15T23:51:15.120" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46340" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-16T00:34:09.347" Score="4" ViewCount="794" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie, Ant-Man decides to become subatomic - he goes through the back of the Yellowjacket suit. But after this we see him big enough to break wiring, electronics inside of the suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He said: &quot;I'm gonna shrinks between the molecules to get in there&quot;. It means he should become subatomic to go through material. Next we see him striking wires (like it is subatomic wires, or like he became bigger again). He has not gone through the seam, he has gone through the center of the hexahedron cap. (There couldn't be a seam, because the suit should be waterproof, he was in the pool).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26377" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-05-10T04:42:46.277" LastActivityDate="2017-04-04T16:24:08.673" Title="How could Ant-Man break electronics after he penetrated through the Yellowjacket suit?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|ant-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46341" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-16T00:39:20.557" Score="3" ViewCount="953" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1298649/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Watch&lt;/em&gt; (2012)&lt;/a&gt;, Billy Crudup plays a creepy neighbor. He has a lot of dialog, and several important/pivotal scenes in which he directly interacts with the main characters. Why was he not credited in the movie? (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1298649/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB only shows his name&lt;/a&gt; in a special &quot;uncredited&quot; cast list.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8017" LastEditorUserId="16523" LastEditDate="2016-09-12T18:23:42.003" LastActivityDate="2016-09-12T18:23:42.003" Title="Why was Billy Crudup not credited in &quot;The Watch&quot;?" Tags="|casting|credits|the-watch|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-10-03T21:47:33.917" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46342" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46340" CreationDate="2016-01-16T00:49:48.167" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scale of Antman compared to the electronics he's destroying, and the size of the seam he's going through, doesn't make 100% sense, but logically, it does make sense based on what we are told.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Scott says &lt;code&gt;I have to shrink between the Molecules to get in there&lt;/code&gt;, it's a layman's comment though instead of a 100% technically scientifically accurate phrase. He's figurative, not literal, at the time. He's not actually the size of a molecule when he goes through, but he does get that small eventually.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scott breaks the shrinking regulator, allowing him to go smaller than it's default setting. He continues to shrink enough that he can get in the Yellowjacket suit's electronics, and starts destroying stuff. But he &lt;strong&gt;is still shrinking&lt;/strong&gt;. He does as much damage as he can while he continues to shrink to subatomic levels. It's not an instant shrink. And Scott still has his normal human level strength, so he can destroy the electronics without a problem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_mMuLwNR0J8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yes, there are issues with the visualization. He goes through the middle of the cap on YJ's suit, not at a seam. He looks like he disappears at that size, but then looks big compared to the electronics inside. These are production errors.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Notice this picture.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aPEpu.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/aPEpu.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Those things marked 457 likely represent a SMD resistor. 1, they are marked wrongly, as SMD resistors are marked on the long size, so the number is oriented wrong. 2, they are sitting on top of multiple traces. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's obvious someone who's not an engineer created this visual effect.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; The smallest resistor with text on it is a 0603 resistor, which is 0.06&quot; x 0.03&quot; (1.6mm x 0.8mm). Roughly the size of a common flea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IHbvz.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IHbvz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kfDbRm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kfDbRm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2017-04-04T16:24:08.673" LastActivityDate="2017-04-04T16:24:08.673" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46349" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-16T05:12:29.917" Score="10" ViewCount="2077" Body="&lt;p&gt;Driving me nuts for years, but I watched a movie probably 25 years ago that was really weird.  All I remember is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure it was British or some other European film.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There was a town that was on the other side of a bridge that was cloaked in a fog and zombie like creatures lived there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There was a scene where an older couple lived in a house and the older woman was brushing her teeth and they started falling out, and the older man told her that her breath smelled like death and she started screaming and crying.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At one point there was a person or two people that ran out of the bridge and the zombie creatures things were throwing crab apples, or rocks or something at him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure the final scene had the person running down to a road, and a person passing by stopped and picked him up.  He was trying to escape, but the car took him back over the bridge into the foggy town and the ending scene just showed the zombie like people clawing at the car eerily.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29960" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-16T13:45:51.410" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T00:24:46.757" Title="Weird British movie with zombie creatures in a fog" Tags="|identify-this-movie|horror|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:19:03.963" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46351" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-16T05:32:44.600" Score="2" ViewCount="99" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2013 film, &lt;em&gt;The Numbers Station&lt;/em&gt;, Meredith is a broadcaster at the eponymous broadcast station, which is taken over by a group of armed operatives. At several points in the film, the point is made that so much of the system has been compromised that they must have had inside information. Now, it is revealed that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The man who coordinated the attack is a former agent&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I'm skeptical as it's indicated that the codes for the doors change on a regular basis. During the flashback where the bad guys are breaking in, we see that, while David is preparing to repel them, Meredith is apparently calmly broadcasting in the back, something you'd think wouldn't have been happening if she weren't expecting the attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Of course, Meredith's body is found near the end of the movie, but this might have been a matter of falling out among thieves once they'd gotten what they needed from her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25920" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-16T13:46:49.793" LastActivityDate="2020-06-04T17:11:57.487" Title="Was Meredith a traitor?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-numbers-station|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46352" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46441" CreationDate="2016-01-16T06:23:16.843" Score="17" ViewCount="11578" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Jedi Master Samuel L. Jackson (Mace Windu) attempts to arrest Sith Lord Darth Sideous, commonly known as Senator/Chancellor/Emperor Palpatine, for crimes against the Republic. During the arrest attempt, Mace disarms and corners Palpatine. After Anakin Skywalker walks in, Mace starts to believe that it's better to kill Palpatine than it is to arrest him. &quot;Too Dangerous to live&quot;. Anakin questions Mace, because &quot;this is not the Jedi way.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A bit of background. Anakin faced this same situation earlier in the film, when he fought, disarmed, and cornered Count Dooku, the Sith Lord Darth Tyranus. Palpatine goaded Anakin into killing Dooku because &quot;He's Too Dangerous to live&quot;. Anakin falls for it, believing &quot;this is not the Jedi way.&quot; Palpatine uses this to make Anakin fall to the Dark Side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further more, Mace is the only Jedi to have mastered a fighting form known as Vaapad, or Form VII. It leans heavily on the Dark Side of the Force, using the fighters own emotions, and the enemy's Dark Side against the enemy. It's essentially using fire to fight fire, while attempting to stay on the Light Side. The 3 others that tried to master it all succumbed to the Dark Side because of it. &lt;strong&gt;At the time, Mace was struggling to guard against Palpatine's incredibly powerful Force Lightning, a superior Dark Side Force Power.&lt;/strong&gt; (Maybe Force Life Drain?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Given this, was Mace falling to the Dark Side when he believed that it was better to kill Palpatine instead of arresting him?&lt;/strong&gt; Is there any (Disney) canon or word of god evidence to support this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/YBLcxXR1PMw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2019-05-31T10:29:42.180" Title="Was Mace Windu falling into the Dark Side?" Tags="|character|star-wars|revenge-of-the-sith|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45579" CreationDate="2016-01-16T06:32:17.370" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Official DVD/Bluray Subtitles/CC simply call this &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Droid Language&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; when it doesn't describe it as &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Beeps&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Whistles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. This is used consistently throughout Episode 1-3. Episode 4-6 does not contain much non-verbal droid communication aside from R2. Pictured, a Vulture Droid at the start of Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QIwio.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QIwio.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same Subtitles use the language name for any other language, including Huttese and Galactic Basic (or Just &quot;Basic&quot;, aka English or whatever language the movie was dubbed into). So &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;officially, it's Droid or Droid Language&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Of course this will be confirmed on the Force Awakens home release.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T06:32:17.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46352" CreationDate="2016-01-16T10:19:11.087" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_III:_Revenge_of_the_Sith_(novel)&quot;&gt;official novelisation&lt;/a&gt; simply describes the moment when he decided to execute Palpatine as one of &quot;grim determination&quot;. Mace has clearly weighed up the options and the strong odds of Palpatine being acquitted through his mastery of the courts (not to mention the possession of mind-bending powers) and decides that the most appropriate course of action would be if &lt;em&gt;he&lt;/em&gt; executes the Chancellor and accepts whatever consequences flow from that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as being in thrall to the Dark Side of the Force, it's made abundantly clear by the narrator that Windu hasn't fallen and &lt;strong&gt;isn't in any danger of falling.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;There was a time when Mace Windu had feared the power of the dark;&#xA;  there was a time when he had feared the darkness in himself. But the&#xA;  Clone Wars had given him a gift of understanding: on a world called&#xA;  Haruun Kal, he had faced his darkness and had learned that the power&#xA;  of darkness is not to be feared.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;He had learned that it is fear that gives the darkness power.   He was&#xA;  not afraid. The darkness had no power over him. But-&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Neither did he have power over it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vaapad made him an open channel, half of a superconducting loop&#xA;  completed by the shadow; they became a standing wave of battle that&#xA;  expanded into every cubic centimeter of the Chancellor’s office. There&#xA;  was no scrap of carpet nor shred of chair that might not at any second&#xA;  disintegrate in flares of red or purple; lampstands became brief&#xA;  shields, sliced into segments that whirled through the air; couches&#xA;  became terrain to be climbed for advantage or overleapt in retreat.&#xA;  But there was still only the cycle of power, the endless loop, no&#xA;  wound taken on either side, not even the possibility of fatigue.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T10:19:11.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46362" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-16T10:47:56.647" Score="1" ViewCount="115" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is it possible for Dread Doctors in &lt;em&gt;Teen Wolf&lt;/em&gt; to create alpha wolves since they made Theo a werewolf?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29539" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-08-03T06:51:00.647" LastActivityDate="2017-05-27T16:54:56.043" Title="Is It possible for the dread doctors to create alpha wolves?" Tags="|teen-wolf-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44483" CreationDate="2016-01-16T12:11:23.020" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;As much as I remember, nothing in the movies indicates his age, nor gives a clue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a quote from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Riggs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;French Wikipedia's page about Martin Riggs&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Martin Riggs est né le 16 octobre 1950. En 1969, il rejoint l'Armée de terre des États-Unis à l'âge de 19 ans en tant que membre des Forces spéciales&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Roughly translated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Martin Riggs was born on 16 October 1950. In 1969 he joined the US Army at the age of 19, as a member of the Special Forces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now we know at what age he joined the armed forces.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia is sourcing Joël Norst's (whose real name is Kirk Mitchell) &quot;L'Arme fatale&quot; (and other international versions doesn't seem to source it) which is a story written in 1987. As far as I can get information about it, it seems to be a novelisation of the movie, and the only outside source (available to the public, I assume there is some production note about that) that confirms his birth date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19458" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-07-03T13:40:36.023" LastActivityDate="2016-07-03T13:40:36.023" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46364" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48978" CreationDate="2016-01-16T12:27:00.210" Score="2" ViewCount="146" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Citizenfour&lt;/em&gt; the interviewer asks a weird question to &lt;em&gt;Edward Snowden&lt;/em&gt;, right in the middle of their interview:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sorry, I don't know your name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are making a documentary on him and &lt;strong&gt;they don't know his name?&lt;/strong&gt; Is there some joke behind it? Why does he say that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29972" LastEditorUserId="4083" LastEditDate="2016-02-18T23:13:29.973" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T23:23:12.670" Title="Does the interviewer really not know his subject's name?" Tags="|plot-explanation|citizenfour|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46368" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46379" CreationDate="2016-01-16T14:34:35.790" Score="6" ViewCount="2862" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Hateful Eight&lt;/em&gt;, chapter five, when a few more people arrive at Minnie's Haberdashery we can see a cat wandering around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; When they start killing almost everyone, no one hurts nor kills the cat nor the horses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is most likely that they didn't kill him, and that he is hiding for the rest of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was suprised not to see him again, but I recognise Tarantino doesn't care about filming cats.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my first question is: Does Quentin Tarantino like (or care) about animals? (I remember a horse being killed in &lt;em&gt;Django Unchained&lt;/em&gt;, &quot;Tarantino Style&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes me wonder, is that I usually see a line during the end credits, saying that &quot;No animals were harmed [or whatever] while shooting the film&quot;, or something apporaching. But in those end credits, the only line was something like &quot;Every animal was under the supervision of [Animal Protection Association]&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which leads to my second question:&#xA;Is this common now not to mention that no animals were harmed? Or is this because at least one animal has been harmed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19458" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T18:50:28.823" LastActivityDate="2020-11-06T21:15:20.787" Title="Animals on movie sets - the cat in The Hateful Eight" Tags="|production|the-hateful-eight|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45405" CreationDate="2016-01-16T14:56:03.517" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like a dead body is thrown down the stage car. By two people.&#xA;Judging from the fact that there are no horses in front of the car, they might already be in the stable, so this scene is likely to happen just when the stage arrived at Minnie's and Bob took the horses to the stable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think I recall a line when John Ruth tell O.B to get the corpse down, but I'm unsure about it. However, I clearly remember that one of the bodies carried by Marquis Warren at the beginning was dressed in red. So this is most likely to be Warren and O.B getting down the bodies&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19458" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T14:56:03.517" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46370" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-16T15:10:22.530" Score="12" ViewCount="4113" Body="&lt;p&gt;Amazon's &lt;em&gt;The Man in the High Castle&lt;/em&gt; was an outstanding piece of work, but after 10 episodes the underlying plot device is disturbingly unexplained.  Are there any theories for:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The films?  Only two are in play during the first season.  Are they anything other than MacGuffins?  After the brief teaser in the first episode it's not until the last two episodes that we learn the films show possible futures or alternative pasts ... and that different viewers see different things.  There is never any explanation of why the Nazis and the Resistance think they are of paramount value, especially because all operatives are instructed to &lt;em&gt;never view the films&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The title?  Is Hitler supposed to be &quot;the man in the high castle?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most coherent explanation I can put together is that Hitler has not only managed to collect a library of these magic films but also to understand how to use them to control the future.  Therefore, he is in fact the one who releases the two films that drive the plot of the entire season, and he must have done so knowing that they would result in outcomes he desired.  But the only perceptible tactical effect of releasing the films is to create a patsy (Frank Fink) for the attempted assassination of the Japanese prince.  They have no strategic effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20456" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-16T15:12:46.180" LastActivityDate="2019-07-15T13:23:47.850" Title="Explanations for The Man in the High Castle?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-man-in-the-high-castle|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46371" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46373" CreationDate="2016-01-16T16:13:06.393" Score="1" ViewCount="450" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Ted 2&lt;/em&gt; Patrick Meighan (Morgan Freeman) says the following words (around the 1:21 mark):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You know why you lost this case? It can't be argued by reason. The precedent it sets would affect the public directly. And unfortunately, the public doesn't judge by reason. It judges by emotion. And you can't appeal an emotional conviction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this mean? Can anyone simplify those words to me?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27305" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-16T16:19:55.220" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T17:50:08.203" Title="Can someone simplify to me what Patrick Meighan says In Ted 2?" Tags="|ted-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46373" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46371" CreationDate="2016-01-16T16:31:12.773" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Patrick is saying that the court case can't be won with Logic. People are dumb, emotional creatures. To win, you have to give people an emotional reason. People (the jury) have to care, it doesn't matter if it makes sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Appeal part means that a verdict based on emotions leaves the prosecution or defendant without any legal reason for appeal. A Jury's verdict is incredibly hard to appeal. Next to impossible. An appeal based on factual or legal errors by the prosecution or judge is easier, and common. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-01-16T17:50:08.203" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T17:50:08.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46375" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-16T18:38:11.987" Score="5" ViewCount="176" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am writing a pilot for a TV Series, and wondered if it may be legally possible to write in a character from another (relative) series?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't it, but for example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I was to write about an Agatha Christie character who knew Miss Marple, and references were verbally made to her, could Julia McKenzie legally appear in an episode of mine, AS Miss Marple? And how would I go about getting the permission to use that visually conceived adaptation of her from ITV/Production Company (and of course with  Ms McKenzie's approval too of course)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29985" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T19:55:55.673" Title="Is there any way in which to use cross-over characters from other TV series?" Tags="|character|copyright|legal|crossovers|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46375" CreationDate="2016-01-16T19:49:03.740" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Yes, yes and no.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes,&lt;/strong&gt; you're allowed to include &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=f6RsBgAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA52&amp;amp;lpg=PA52&amp;amp;dq=%22mentioning%20a%20character%22%20and%20copyright&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=c6_mGrBYQG&amp;amp;sig=5cJOCLEuWWLGVqpaG-r0c_w4mzE&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22mentioning%20a%20character%22%20and%20copyright&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;passing mentions&lt;/a&gt; of a character as long as that person isn't substantially described or portrayed. For example, if I said (in the script) that someone was a &quot;bit of a Miss Marple&quot; (e.g., an amateur sleuth), I wouldn't need to pay a fee.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, you can use the character in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;parody&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; The entire premise of the &quot;Scary Movie&quot; series of films is that characters are presented in a comedic context, without the need to pay the rights-holder or seek their permission (although I suspect that permission was sought anyway, in order to avoid legal challenges).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, you &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/protecting-fictional-characters-under-copyright-law.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;can't use a character that is presently copyrighted&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; Introducing a character as &quot;Miss Marple&quot; and then having her, even as a background character,  solving crimes and speaking to the main cast would almost certainly fall foul of the Copyright Act. If you want to use an existing character in your own work, you'll need to speak to the rights-holder, in this case &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.agathachristie.com/about-agatha-christie-limited&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Agatha Christie Limited&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-01-16T19:55:55.673" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T19:55:55.673" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44569" CreationDate="2016-01-16T19:52:58.677" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe Micheal and Lucifer made a plan to get sam knowing dean would try to come rescue his brother and then they have both there true vessels in one place and a ticket out of the cage. And Micheal is some how hidden right now and goin pop out from no where &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29987" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T19:52:58.677" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46368" CreationDate="2016-01-16T20:23:18.443" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before answer your question I need to point it out the work of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.americanhumane.org/animals/programs/no-animals-were-harmed/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;American Humane Association&lt;/a&gt; (AHA) which started to advise Hollywood movie industry about the behavior of animals and humans, which they been doing since 1939 after the group began protesting the public release of the film Jesse James, because of a scene where a horse was forced to run off the edge of a cliff. The horse fell over 70 feet to the ground below and broke its spine, having to be put down afterwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, first question is yes, Tarantino is very interested in the animal's health when they work with it; in a interview &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/2013/01/02/168200139/quentin-tarantino-unchained-and-unruly&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;with NPR&lt;/a&gt; he expressed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The only thing that I've ever watched in a movie that I wished I'd never seen is real-life animal death&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; or real-life insect death in a movie (...) I don't like seeing animals murdered on screen. Movies are about make-believe. (...) I don't think there's any place in a movie for real death.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And to ensure this point, he mention the importance of the AHA in the movie set of &lt;em&gt;Django Unchained&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/JIOY1NXKY44?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, to your second question, recently most movies put that they &lt;em&gt;don't hurt animals&lt;/em&gt; or give bad treatment; what is clear is some of them just put the information (no animals hurt) when actually they did. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Hollywood Reporter &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/feature/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;made investigations&lt;/a&gt; about some movies and found they almost killed animals; for example: Life of Pi, The Hobbit, the Zookeeper, among others. The AHA also explained some movies just use their authorization without a clear supervision of their staff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21286" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2018-03-02T15:53:44.753" LastActivityDate="2018-03-02T15:53:44.753" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46382" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23299" CreationDate="2016-01-16T22:34:47.007" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well in the first film I think Michael was played by two or three people  if I remember a behind the sceans interview but I think the shape sounds more scary and dehumanises him as none could surly be that evil and th e aim was to scare us the viewers and not much is known abiut Michael at first what drives him to kill his backstory is unknown to later unlike Freddy who is out for revenge as he was set on fire so we know about him and Jason we know his story yet I don't think Jason knows he is doing wrong and was once a good person but Michael all we know at that point is he killed his sister and in the remake her boyfriend and his deadbeat father  but of course later  as we learn more about Michael he is no longer called the shape   So wish Dr Loomis books were real I'd love to read them &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29990" LastActivityDate="2016-01-16T22:34:47.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46384" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50183" CreationDate="2016-01-16T23:20:00.183" Score="7" ViewCount="429" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, protagonist is woman (possibly blonde) whos been out of touch with her brother for a long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think she discovers he's dissapeared. When she goes to track him down she finds out he's been hanging out with some redneck gangster types. Follows his story to some blown up meth shed or something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She suspects hes been murdered though, and actually finds his body in a swamp. After a while, she gets beaten up by a gang outside a barn (asking too many questions).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole thing closes with her other brother (I think) in a car with her, he admits hes found out who the killer is, and it fades out as he says he's going to kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29994" LastActivityDate="2016-03-14T16:13:01.537" Title="Movie where a woman tries to find the murderer of her brother? Dark setting, sort of redneck characters" Tags="|identify-this-movie|thriller|mystery|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:19:07.173" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46352" CreationDate="2016-01-17T01:17:46.870" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it is true that Windu's fighting style(form VII) had a tendency to lead Jedi down towards the Dark Side. I do not think that he was in danger of it himself. As to him saying &quot;He is too dangerous to live&quot; Palpatine still had the emergency powers the senate gave him near the beginning of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29997" LastActivityDate="2016-01-17T01:17:46.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46387" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30974" CreationDate="2016-01-17T05:36:34.543" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reff: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/v-for-vendetta-2006-movie-vs-graphic-novel-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;V for Vendetta vs Graphic Novel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie takes the path of creating a perfect villain, which is the government and a hero who saves the people from their government. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie makes the Norsefire extremely evil by introducing the element of creating a virus and attacking and killing thousands of their own people just for the sake of power. The book doesn't do that, yes they are evil and corrupt but gained their power during the period of the nuclear war.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The book makes V truly an idea as Evey takes on the mantle of being V and continues the rebellion. The movie shows more of a good vs evil battle where even the good fights fire with fire and dies winning. Evey is not shown taking the idea of V forward. V is one person who has died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That does change the theme out a bit but I suppose it was good for the movie given it needed to be packed into 2hrs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2018-12-16T10:14:30.353" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T10:14:30.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="46389" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-17T06:26:28.237" Score="1" ViewCount="1044" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Pomeranc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Max Pomeranc&lt;/a&gt;, known for his role as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Waitzkin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Josh Waitzkin&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searching_for_Bobby_Fischer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Searching for Bobby Fischer/The Innocent Moves&lt;/a&gt;, was apparently in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitely,_Maybe&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Definitely, Maybe&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who was he? In which scene was he?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21705" LastEditorUserId="46980" LastEditDate="2023-01-23T09:24:47.930" LastActivityDate="2023-01-23T09:24:47.930" Title="What was Max Pomeranc's role in Definitely, Maybe, and in which scene was he?" Tags="|casting|definitely-maybe|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30486" CreationDate="2016-01-17T08:26:33.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;reff : &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/v-for-vendetta-2006-movie-vs-graphic-novel-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;V for Vendetta Explained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, the character V played by Hugo Weaving has not much of a face left. Through all the experiments on him, he begins to disfigure. Once he plans his escape from Larkhill he sets off an explosion, the fire burns him completely. You can see it in the scene there, there is not much of a face left. Even if he showed it, you would not see Hugo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His idea is to not scare the people of England but to make them free of fear. He chooses a mask which propels his proposed idea of freedom, the bulletproof idea of freedom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there were a prequel made, then Hugo would get to show his face in that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2019-01-09T08:43:59.320" LastActivityDate="2019-01-09T08:43:59.320" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="46398" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45335" CreationDate="2016-01-17T09:27:20.953" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this movie was secretly about how certain animal or insect life is  portrayed by humans. Possibly lobsters act like this? Or maybe another sea creature or water animal is what I thought. The 45 days could relate to an actual animal breeding cycle or even insect or spider? The fact that the females were dominate and how the males are basically weak and lost trying to find a mate being their whole purpose stood out for me.  Also the fact that the main male character would kill rabbits bringing it to the female is similar to how wild life shows love or care for a female.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30004" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-03-05T06:46:36.997" LastActivityDate="2016-03-05T06:46:36.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46370" CreationDate="2016-01-17T14:33:19.963" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some knowledge of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the book&lt;/a&gt; may give a greater understanding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly the plots do not directly follow each other, and the most obvious difference is that in the book, &lt;em&gt;The Grasshopper Lies Heavy&lt;/em&gt; is a book, whereas in the series it is a series of motion pictures*. However, if we assume the central premise is the same then&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; the world portrayed is a fiction, and the films exist to reveal to the characters that they are not real&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In such an interpretation, it does not really matter who &quot;the man&quot; is, or what the in-universe motivations are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I believe there is not intended to be a definitive answer and the audience is free to come to their own conclusions. Your own explanation is perfectly reasonable, but I prefer one based on a multiverse theory of realities, where the films slip through from other realities&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; like Tagomi does in the final scene&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and Hitler is &quot;the man&quot; (his residence is the only thing presented that could qualify as a literal &quot;high castle&quot;) collecting them in order to understand the various possibilities and steer history to his design.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*Crucially, it is the same medium in which story is presented to us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of season two, we have definitive answers. The films&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; are brought from other worlds by individuals (such as Tagomi and Kotomishi) who are able to travel via meditation. The leaders of the Nazis and the Resistance are trying to find one that shows how to avoid nuclear Armageddon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Man in the High Castle&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; is Hawthorne Abendsen, a leader of the West Coast resistance, who maintains a large collection of films&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;it appears that their strategy is exactly as you describe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Season three explores these mechanics and the Nazi endgame in greater detail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20764" LastEditorUserId="20764" LastEditDate="2019-07-15T13:23:47.850" LastActivityDate="2019-07-15T13:23:47.850" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="46406" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35621" CreationDate="2016-01-17T14:53:12.387" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;see here : &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/v-for-vendetta-2006-movie-vs-graphic-novel-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;V for Vendetta vs Comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His obsession with words that start with V is limited to &quot;Vi veri universum vivus vici&quot; which is in his house. The entire dialogue loaded with words of V's is a script created by the Wachowskis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The idea is that there was once a man who was captured and taken to a detention centre. He is tortured there and experimented on. He loses his mind. Eventually he is a shell of his original self and holds on to the number on his cell which is V. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He sets himself free and blows up the detention centre he burns up too, loses his face. He wants vengeance and dawns a new face. He constantly says he doesn't have a name, this could be because he doesn't associate with his former self, the man who he was before he was captured. But every person needs a name, hence he says &quot;You can call me V&quot;. V is nothing but only the number to his room where he was re-born. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2018-12-16T10:18:40.650" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T10:18:40.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="46407" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1149" CreationDate="2016-01-17T15:05:36.150" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;source : &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/v-for-vendetta-2006-movie-vs-graphic-novel-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;V for Vendetta Explained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As V says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Beneath this mask, there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask, there&#xA;  is an idea, Mr Creedy. And idea's are bulletproof!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The book in fact has Evey carrying forward as V after his death, she dawn his mask so that the idea continues on via a new person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Evey in the movie doesn't do that she instead explains to Finch:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He was Edmond Dantès (V's favorite character). And he was my father. And my mother... my&#xA;  brother... my friend. He was you, and me. He was all of us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When people start taking off their masks we can see faces of characters new and those who have died. This is representative of the fact that everyone has in some small ways contributed to the change that they have brought about for themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2018-12-16T10:23:11.870" LastActivityDate="2018-12-16T10:23:11.870" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="46408" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44738" CreationDate="2016-01-17T15:24:20.860" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;there was actually but the hall was full of people there was not really eyewitness everyone was busy! it was Escobar's brother who shot her and i think there was a little scene about it Billy talking to the police &amp;amp; there is a deleted scene about it he was arguing with the police &amp;amp; they do nothing about it that's why he decides that he is gonna go kill Escobar brother's wife and than when he sees she's got kids he stops &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30012" LastActivityDate="2016-01-17T15:24:20.860" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1149" CreationDate="2016-01-17T16:07:44.620" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aintitcool.com/node/22672&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;co-creator and illustrator David Lloyd&lt;/a&gt;, the ending sequence was intended to show that the 'public' (res publica) are of one mind and body, rather than disconnected individuals. By having the people who chose to defy the State (and were killed by the State) shown at the end, the implication is that it's possible for the state to kill &lt;strong&gt;a person&lt;/strong&gt;, but that they &lt;strong&gt;can't kill the &lt;em&gt;idea&lt;/em&gt; of freedom that those people were willing to die for&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DAVID LLOYD:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Well, I think because they stuck so close to the original&#xA;  in the visual aspects of it... all the key instance scenes seemed like&#xA;  they did them in that way and I think quite affectively. I&#xA;  congratulate them the most, if you're asking me sort of about changes,&#xA;  I congratulate them on the final part, on the ending. It was a very&#xA;  clever idea of having all those people in the masks because basically&#xA;  what it kind of symbolizes is an act of mass defiance, which is&#xA;  actually a mass defiance made up of individuals because, of course, V&#xA;  is representing the individuals' action. But the public adopting that&#xA;  persona through the mask and &lt;strong&gt;then becoming one... basically it was&#xA;  like all for one and one for all.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It was a very clever, symbolic way of doing everything.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-01-17T16:07:44.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44738" CreationDate="2016-01-17T18:33:08.007" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azcoqtz7wG0&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this deleted scene&lt;/a&gt; Billy Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal) talks to two police officers who are assigned to the case, they outline a few problems with evidence, meaning that they cannot find out who the killer is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As of the time they are working on the case (two weeks have passed)&#xA;there is no video evidence of the shooting on cell phones or CCTV cameras&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There have been no eye witnesses to the shooting, including Billy&#xA;himself who didn't see it, although claims Miguel Escobar's brother&#xA;Hector was the one who did it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They say &quot;No one is talking&quot; and that they &quot;Don't want to be involved&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For a trial to take place, the officers would have to gather evidence on one of the individuals and charge them. Because they have none, a trial would be out of the question. This explains why Miguel Escobar and his companions do not face any repercussions. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29894" LastActivityDate="2016-01-17T18:33:08.007" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46421" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46597" CreationDate="2016-01-17T21:28:18.930" Score="4" ViewCount="5745" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of the shooting on the highway, a hooded person dressed in dark with a Mexican flag tag and a baseball cap with what looks like a police star (but seems to have six points rather than the Mexican &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Police_(Mexico)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Federal Police seven points&lt;/a&gt;)shoots at Kate and misses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/olXVf.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/olXVf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Person in question&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the role and goal of that person known? Was it a police officer who mistook the American soldiers as cartel members (and for some suicidal reason decided to engage)? Was it a member of the other cartel gunmen disguised in a police uniform?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Am I correct about the star's point count? Is it a different police branch or did the film makers just get the costumes wrong (It looks like  Silvio's uniform also has a six-point star tag)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bvAZ5.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bvAZ5.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;six point star on Silvio&amp;#39;s uniform&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27247" LastActivityDate="2017-05-18T03:08:32.340" Title="Who is the (police uniform) Mexican highway shooter in Sicario?" Tags="|sicario|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10231" CreationDate="2016-01-17T21:38:40.403" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The problem people have with this ending is because they mistakenly place the emphasis on the first part of &quot;You're such a loser, Dad/Just enjoy The Show.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The emphasis is actually on the second half, which has been Beane's personal storyline for the entire movie. In the minor leagues--Beane was a minor leaguer for most of his playing career--players refer to the major leagues as The Show. (I'd bet that somewhere on the cutting room floor for this movie there's a line of dialogue that explains this to people who don't follow the game or who haven't seen Bull Durham.) We've seen in the movie that Beane can't enjoy baseball games--as a player or a team's General Manager--because he's so caught up in winning and losing. Particularly the losing part. As he explains to one of the players in a bit of thrown-off dialogue, he hates losing more than he wants to win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Beane loves baseball, but he listens to the games on the radio or keeps track of the score from his Blackberry rather than watching the games in person (or even on TV) because he can't bear watching his A's lose. The daughter's main role in the plot has been trying to convince her dad that he doesn't have to be afraid of his team losing--he could just watch the games and enjoy the incredible stuff they're doing, like a regular person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She changes the lyrics to the song to teasingly give him that message--&quot;You're such a loser&quot; not in the sense that he loses ballgames but that he's kind of a misfit who refuses to enjoy himself. But when Beane listens to the song at the end, he realizes that he's leaving the team and the daughter that he loves because he's afraid of losing. And that's why he turns his truck around and backs out of his deal with the Red Sox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30025" LastActivityDate="2016-01-17T21:38:40.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46423" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="53523" CreationDate="2016-01-17T22:06:38.963" Score="10" ViewCount="448" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've noticed on Heroes that when they start off from a scene they showed on the previous episode that the scene is slightly different, like it's another shooting of the same scene, or maybe just a different cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, towards the end of season 1 episode 4, when Hiro appears to Peter on the train, Peter says: &quot;How's this happening?&quot; and Hiro responds with: &quot;Sorry if I scared you; you look different without the scar&quot;, but when the same scene is shown at beginning of the next episode (season 1 episode 5), Peter says: &quot;What?! Are you doing this?&quot; and Hiro just responds with: &quot;You look different without the scar&quot;. Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18036" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-17T23:45:16.620" LastActivityDate="2016-06-24T21:16:13.213" Title="Why does Heroes show inconsistent versions of the same scene" Tags="|heroes|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46425" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45049" CreationDate="2016-01-17T23:46:06.213" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This a Kung-Fu move that stop internal bleeding from occurring especially since it was a blaster/gun shot. The wound that Chewie gave him was located near some minor organs so he was really just trying to heal it, although don't try it, it hurts like shit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30029" LastActivityDate="2016-01-17T23:46:06.213" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46428" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46322" CreationDate="2016-01-18T02:32:50.433" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even though the scene is an after credits scene, it could have taken place before the ships sailed away. Nothing in the scene itself makes that impossible, although it is a bit quiet, I suppose they could all have been preparing the ships to set off, and he snuck away to steal the coin...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously the writers themselves probably didn't think about the scene a great deal since it's more of a gag, but I don't think it necessarily presents a plot-hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29994" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T02:32:50.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46438" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="56763" CreationDate="2016-01-18T09:29:51.567" Score="6" ViewCount="258" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been watching &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergirl_(U.S._TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Supergirl&lt;/a&gt; for a while now, and something got me wondering. Why are there 10-second gaps between most scenes (not all)? I encountered the same thing years ago with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Ordinary_Family&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;No Ordinary Family&lt;/a&gt;, which was also produced by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Berlanti&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Greg Berlanti&lt;/a&gt;. At first I thought it was a Berlanti thing, but there are so many TV shows by him. So, what is the reason behind this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19902" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-05-23T11:19:21.547" LastActivityDate="2017-05-23T11:19:21.547" Title="What is the reason for these 10-second gaps?" Tags="|arrowverse|supergirl|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46439" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46442" CreationDate="2016-01-18T11:20:58.000" Score="43" ViewCount="11506" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene when the First Order fires their weapon the first time in &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; uses an image language which clearly references the national socialism in Germany during World War 2, with a general making gestures and shouting like Hitler.&#xA;This even depicts the stormtroopers raising their arm and shouting in a way untypical from the original trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has the reason why the director of the film chose this style ever been explained?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30043" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-20T00:21:16.380" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T15:36:39.270" Title="Why does &quot;The Force Awakens&quot; use an image language associated with national socialism for the First Order?" Tags="|analysis|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45049" CreationDate="2016-01-18T11:46:04.663" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a few theories based on Kylo's characterization, but they are just that - theories. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One is that Kylo Ren is more upset and grief-stricken over the scene immediately preceding than he lets on. In the novelization and in other concept artwork and images, Kylo Ren is shown to be more conflicted than he appears in the final film. Him causing pain to himself could be a way of subconsciously &quot;punishing himself&quot; for the actions he took in that scene. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another explanation is the one offered by Wookiepedia - he is attempting to tap into the Dark Side by harnessing his pain. One of the main themes of the Dark Side throughout the films has been &quot;focus&quot;. Palatine mentions this to Anakin as early as Episode III when he feels Anakin beginning to embrace the Dark Side - he mentions that Anakin's hatred &quot;...gives you focus.&quot; Granted Kylo Ren wasn't privy to these conversations, but his training with Supreme Leader Snoke could have led him to believe that pain, anger, and rage lead to increased Dark Side power, hence his inflicting more pain on himself in a critical moment when being focused and present is key. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A final explanation is that it was more like a wounded soldier trying to beat away pain, or distract himself from the pain by beating on it in the manner he does. One interesting thing about the blaster is that it seems to have some physical component - twice in the film we are shown someone being shot by a blaster and bleeding, which seems to suggest that blasters are not &quot;laser guns&quot; but in fact are hyper-acellerating some sort of projectile. Given the fact that every other time Chewbacca or Han shoot someone with the Bowcaster, they're shown flying off their feet from the impact, and Kylo Ren does not, it seems to suggest that perhaps whatever projectile the Bowcaster fires is still lodged inside of Kylo Ren, leading to him acting out in the way he does. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind this is all speculation based on evidence given in canonical sources only. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29920" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T11:46:04.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46352" CreationDate="2016-01-18T12:06:33.163" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on every canonical source I can find, it seems like Mace Windu simply realized in that moment what Sidious' plans were and had been, and made a logical decision. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bear in mind, Windu had just seen the revelation that Darth Sidious was extremely skilled with a lightsaber and powerful in the Dark Side - he killed Agen Kolar, Saesee Tiin and Kit Fisto, three highly skilled Jedi Masters, all serving on the High Council, within seconds of starting the battle (though this could largely have been attributed to their surprise and shock at Palpatine being a Sith Lord).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were also two instances during the battle where Palpatine had Mace Windu beaten and could have killed him, but did not. It would seem that Mace Windu understood that Sidious had something planned and was drawing out the fight, even if he didn't understand fully what that plan was (drawing Anakin to the Dark Side and forging him as his apprentice in accordance with the Rule of Two). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you'll note, Windu does try to arrest Palpatine initially as Anakin is arriving. It's only after Palpatine again attacks him that Windu decides he's &quot;too dangerous to be left alive&quot;. His decision also seems rooted in dispassionate logic - he said &quot;he has control of the Senate and the Courts!&quot; - given that Palpatine had just shown he wasn't going to come quietly, it's a very logical assumption to make that he would also attempt to use his considerable influence in the legal process and would have continued to hamper the Jedi. Given that he was both Palpatine AND Sidious, it would have been very easy for Palpatine to &quot;spin&quot; the attack on him by the Jedi as an act of treason and disloyalty...which is exactly what took place anyway. Left alive, Palpatine had positioned himself to win either way, as he had numerous times before over the course of the prequels. Upon realizing that Palpatine was Sidious, it doesn't seem like much of a stretch for Mace Windu to have seen these facts on his own. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, one hallmark of the Dark Side was that its motivations were generally self-centered and petty, as evidenced by Anakin in the same scene. He chose to save Padmé rather than do the &quot;right thing&quot; and save the Galaxy from the oppression of the Sith, even though it's clear from the scenes directly previous that he understood the Sith were evil. Mace Windu did not display any hatred or anger towards Palpatine himself, he simply expressed that there was a danger in leaving him alive, which was by all evidence very true. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, there's nothing on screen that suggests Mace Windu was in danger of falling to the Dark Side, rather the opposite - he seemed to have died upholding the values and principles of the Light Side. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29920" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2019-05-31T10:29:42.180" LastActivityDate="2019-05-31T10:29:42.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="46442" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46439" CreationDate="2016-01-18T12:08:30.603" Score="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;It isn't just in &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; that this is the case. The original trilogy drips with it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Colours of Red, white and black throughout the empire (the main &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_symbolism&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;colours of Fascism&lt;/a&gt; are Red, Black, White and Brown)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Imperial_crest&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;imperial symbol&lt;/a&gt; whose usage can be seen as akin to that of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;swastika&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Empire's troops being called &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormtrooper&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Stormtroopers&lt;/a&gt; (the name given to Hitler's brown shirts during his rise to power. Integral in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kristallnacht&lt;/a&gt; and disposed of in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Night of the Long Knives&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Imperial_military_uniforms&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;uniforms of Imperial Officers&lt;/a&gt; looking rather &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniforms_and_insignia_of_the_Schutzstaffel&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;SS-like&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An almost obsessive belief in the need for super weapons Death Star / Death Star 2 vs V1 / V2 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;George Lucas has also stated that he sees &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starwars.com/news/from-world-war-to-star-wars-rise-of-an-empire&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the rise of the Empire as an allegory to the rise of Nazi Germany&lt;/a&gt; and that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.starwars.com/news/from-world-war-to-star-wars-imperial-officers&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the uniforms are based on German officer uniforms&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; is just carrying on the theme previously set in the original trilogy that the Empire is a Fascist regime and as such borrows from the most famous fascists of them all, the Nazis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; may lean more heavily on this as they are the remnants of the empire made up of the ultras, the true believers, and as such want to push the ideology to the forefront of what they do. &#xA;Also as with Nazi Germany, the Empire probably did not see the need for mass rallies having cemented their power (the Nazis stopped the Nuremburg rallies in 1938), but with the Empire crumbling, the Emperor dead and their ideology threatened the First Order can use it to keep everyone believing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;http://time.com/4010014/j-j-abrams-star-wars-force-awakens-villain-nazi/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Time article&lt;/a&gt; JJ Abrams specifically mentions the parallels to Nazism in &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; which follows the same ideas as my speculation above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His line &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;...what would have happened if the Nazis all went to Argentina but then started working together again?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shows us the First Order is how he thinks the remnants of Nazi Germany would have gone had they tried to rebuild out of the ashes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Looking at the two pictures below only the scale has changed and flags have been added, probably to make up for the red missing due to the absence of the Imperial guard).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Return of the Jedi - Palpatine arrives&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nPrUk.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nPrUk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;ROTJ - Palpatine arrives&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Force Awakens - speech on Starkiller base&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k5ZIt.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k5ZIt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Starkiller base speech&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both images bring Nazi &quot;spectacles&quot; such as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Rally&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Nuremberg Rallies&lt;/a&gt; to mind. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22037" LastEditorUserId="22037" LastEditDate="2016-01-21T15:36:39.270" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T15:36:39.270" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46443" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46445" CreationDate="2016-01-18T12:28:18.897" Score="8" ViewCount="12972" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been trying to recall the title-described movie for days now, and I can't quite place it.  It's action/thriller, as I recall, I think with either some mistaken-identity regarding the main character, or a situation where the bad guy(s) framed him. Either way, I'm pretty sure he and his reluctant partner had to work against the system to save the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The bomb was either under the conductor's podium, inside an organ console, or under the piano, can't remember which.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was thinking that Martin Lawrence was the lead, but none of his titles on IMDB ring a bell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24489" LastEditorUserId="24489" LastEditDate="2016-01-18T14:16:38.987" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T14:16:38.987" Title="Movie with a bomb triggered by a musical phrase played by an orchestra" Tags="|identify-this-movie|action|spy-movie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:19:22.857" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46445" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46443" CreationDate="2016-01-18T12:54:11.580" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425061/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;Get Smart&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 2008 film version of the 1970's spy spoof television series.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Maxwell Smart has to prevent an planned explosion that will be triggered by a series of notes at a concert.  The bomb in the piano will kill the US President.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mistaken identity and framing that you remember are similar to the plot of Get Smart.  The hero is not Martin Lawrence but Steve Carrell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T12:54:11.580" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34492" CreationDate="2016-01-18T13:12:19.290" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think Arthur Leigh Allen is the most likely suspect. There was heaps of circumstantial evidence but no hard proof which would have made charges difficult. Whoever the Zodiac was, there would have been individuals with things in common with him. If it wasn't Allen he was in the top 5 who resembled him the most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a way of looking at it. I'm making up the figures but I will show a possible approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lets assume Zodiac liked in the Vallejo area, lets say there were 100,000 adult males there at that time. The probability that Allen was the Zodiac is 1 in 100,000. Lets say 1 in 5 of these were white, stocky and the age group that both Allen and Zodiac were. Its now 1 in 20,000. Allen and Zodiac had the same shoe size. Say 1 in 2 of this group have this size so its now 1 in 10,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Allen and Zodiac had the same unusual typewriter. Lets say 1 in 100 have it. &#xA;Its now 1 in 1000. Allen had no alibis for the time of the attacks. Lets say 1 in 10 have no alibi. Its now 1 in 100.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zodiac quotes from a book 'the most dangerous game' that Allen has read. Say 1 in 10 have read the book (probably less). Its now one in ten. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And Allen has talked about attaching a flashflight to a gun, hunting people, loosening lug nuts on cars, using the zodiac symbol, mucks around with codes, deliberately mispells words, has plans/equipment for making bombs, military training  etc etc. The probability that Allen and Zodiac are the same is getting rather high.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lack of DNA evidence means nothing. It is likely there is no Zodiac DNA on any envelope. A clever Zodiac could disguise his handwriting and not put saliva on envelopes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best evidence against Allen is that witness Bryan Hartnell, who comes across as quite intelligent, believes its Allen because the voice is the same. Allen had quite a distinctive voice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also Allen repeats himself when he denied he is the Zodiac, which is sign of deception. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30046" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T13:12:19.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46447" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46443" CreationDate="2016-01-18T13:16:10.500" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This could also be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1059786/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_17&quot;&gt;Eagle Eye&lt;/a&gt; (2008)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its starring Shia LaBouf and the plot is very similar to the one you describe, with a bomb being planted in a necklace, set to explode on a certain note of the song played by a trumpet. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The president arrives. Sam's class, whose recital has been moved from the Kennedy Center to the capitol to play the national anthem prior to the president's speech, begins to play. The trigger that will set off the explosive necklace is set to activate when Sam plays a sustained &quot;high F&quot; on his trumpet corresponding to the word &quot;free&quot; in the last stanza of the national anthem&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20829" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T13:16:10.500" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46349" CreationDate="2016-01-18T14:14:08.323" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The last 2 points fit in with the third story of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081178/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Monster Club&lt;/em&gt; (1981)&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA;This is a portmanteau horror film consisting of 3 stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(see this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/38852/old-horror-movie-few-stories-in-one-movie/43410&quot;&gt;Old horror movie, few stories in one movie?&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The third story is &lt;em&gt;The Ghouls&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monster_Club&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; synopsis with spoilery info removed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A movie director scouting locations for his next film pays a horrifying visit to an isolated, decrepit village, Loughville near Hillington, Norfolk, where the sinister residents refuse to let him leave. He discovers to his horror that the village is inhabited by species of man-eating ghouls who unearth graves for food and clothes. And now there are no more graves to plunder and the ghouls are hungry for flesh. While imprisoned by the ghouls, he meets Luna. Luna advises him to hide in the church, as ghouls cannot cross holy ground. The director with the aid of Luna attempts to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember a couple more facts not mentioned here:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The village is surrounded by a veil of mist. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is mention of&#xA;village &quot;elders&quot; who will come later.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; At the end, the main guy stops a police car which drives back to the&#xA; village. The police turn out to be the &quot;elders&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Found a video:&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/6Nxi1wIA9gM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5029" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T00:24:46.757" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46439" CreationDate="2016-01-18T15:08:20.440" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;We must also remember that a lot of star wars was inspired by the ancient religion hinduism - george lucas himself seemed to have been inspired by many ancient hindu texts. Starting from names such as Yoda (Yoga) Darth Vader (sound like Veda - which is the ancient hindu text) and the Swastika symbol which hitlor adopted but has long existed as the symbol of hinduism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30052" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T15:08:20.440" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31486" CreationDate="2016-01-18T16:48:57.987" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just because Dave might've failed being a coach or was the problem of the fallout between Mark and John, it doesnt mean you should take someone's life like that. So obviously the answer here was that he had mental illness to begin with, and since his mother died and losing at Seoul that just simply enhances everything. Moreover Dave didn't give good acknowledgements in John's own doc. Hence John went full retard. &quot;Never go full retard&quot;. Case closed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30057" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-18T17:13:25.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T17:13:25.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46439" CreationDate="2016-01-18T18:16:20.270" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the point is &quot;we're supposed to be uncomfortable&quot;. The very fact that the origins of the word stormtrooper come from German (Sturmabteilung) but came into common use in WWII as some of the most brutal of the Nazi regime soldiers ought to be a clue, plus the cut of the uniforms all the way from the beginning were very similar to the SS cut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Nazi's were genocidal -- the Empire/New Order think nothing of blowing up planets as an intimidation tactic.  The look in the general's eyes when the planets go up in the Force Awakens is somewhat terrifying, yes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30063" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T18:16:20.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46463" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-01-18T20:25:18.993" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-01-18T20:25:18.993" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T20:25:18.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46464" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-01-18T20:25:18.993" Score="0" Body="The Blacklist (2013) is a crime TV series produced by John Brokenkamp, featuring Megan Boone as Elizabeth Keen, an FBI-profiler, and James Spader as Raymond Reddington, a criminal on the FBI's most-wanted list, working together to bring down other high profile criminals." OwnerUserId="1876" LastEditorUserId="9382" LastEditDate="2017-01-16T14:22:41.773" LastActivityDate="2017-01-16T14:22:41.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44874" CreationDate="2016-01-18T22:32:00.443" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think &lt;strong&gt;he was talking about his dead wife&lt;/strong&gt;: Parry is saying he remembers everything about what happened and forgives Jack, so Jack can find peace, that's why he was crying (Jack is the wounded, tormented Fisher King and Parry the simple-minded man that helps him, in my interpretation of the movie).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastActivityDate="2016-01-18T22:32:00.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45403" CreationDate="2016-01-19T02:18:01.377" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Much as I love Tarantino's movies, I've never found them to have nearly as many strong racial messages as he usually claims they do. As you've pointed out, some of the scenes he writes are actually problematic from a racial perspective. However, I do think this movie has some things to say about race, it's just maybe not what we'd expect. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The theme of &lt;em&gt;The Hateful Eight&lt;/em&gt; is hatred&amp;mdash;it's right there in the title. Most of the plot is motivated by the characters' hatred, and most of the hatred comes from the Civil War. The war had strong racial underpinnings, so the hatred also has strong racial underpinnings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Major Warren seems to hate whites; he says a couple times in the movie that he fought in the war and later became a bounty hunter just to kill white people, and he shrugs off the deaths of the white Union soldiers when he set fire to the camp where he was imprisoned. His hatred is reinforced by the stream of bounty hunters that came after him in search of the money on his head. Because of his life as a slave and his experiences during and after the war, he mistrusts all white people to the point that he made a fake letter from Abraham Lincoln to show to whites so they would warm up to him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly, this is what Tarantino meant when he said in the interview that the movie was about &quot;white supremacism&quot;. The post-Civil War society is still unequal with regards to race. That inequality breeds the kind of mistrust that we see from Warren. Warren knows that, even if he's a free man, there are a lot of white people who won't respond well to him as a black man. Since the whites still have so much power in society, Warren has to deal with them on a personal level, no matter how much he mistrusts them. He manipulates them using the fake Lincoln letter because it links him to someone these white people respect, and makes him appear respectable by association. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chris Mannix and General Smithers both hate blacks, though the two men's hatred has a slightly different character. Smithers seems to genuinely, at a personal level, hold black people in contempt as less than human. Since he was a slave owner, it makes sense that he would develop this attitude. Interestingly, he does seem to warm up a bit to Warren when Warren makes overtures of respect, just before he provokes Smithers with the story about killing Smithers's son. I get the impression that, in addition to being racist, Smithers is an &quot;aristocrat&quot; who, since the war, hasn't been getting the respect he feels he deserves. Back when he was a general, he probably would have regarded someone like Mannix as beneath him as well, but he's become so desperate to be respected that he's even willing to take it from low-class people like Mannix and Warren.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mannix is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy&quot;&gt;lost-causer&lt;/a&gt;; he's enamored by a vision of the glory of the South. He blames the former slaves for destroying the glorious old South, lacking the imagination and compassion to understand why they would do such a thing. He was never actually a part of this glorious old South; from what I remember, he implies in the stagecoach that he was quite young when the war started, and that most of what he knows about the old days comes from his father. He didn't own slaves and he didn't make his living off their labor, but he hates blacks because he was taught to, and hasn't got the brains to question those teachings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's mutual personal hatred between Warren and Smithers, on Warren's part because Smithers summarily executed his black captives at the Battle of Baton Rouge, and on Smithers's part because he can't stand the nerve of a black man becoming a cavalry officer and fighting against him. Warren ends up killing Smithers, because he can't get over his personal hatred for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, there isn't any personal hatred between Mannix and Warren. Mannix is a racist, but his hatred for black people, is distant and weak enough that he can overcome it when it's to his advantage. And Warren was clearly willing to work with white people if it suited him. Maybe he can never really trust them, but he'll work with them, and he'll keep one eye on them in case they show signs of turning. That's why, when it's to their mutual advantage, Warren and Mannix are able to team up. It's not a great moment of racial unity. It's purely selfish. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For me, that sums up the first and third scenes mentioned in the OP. Warren and Mannix's alliance was not about race at all. Mannix doesn't seem to take Warren's race, or even the fact that he killed Smithers, into consideration when he chooses who to side with. He chooses the side that gives him the greatest advantage. Maybe he also cared, just a little, about the law that he would have enforced as the new sheriff (assuming he was telling the truth. I tend to believe he was), and couldn't bring himself to side with the outlaws. I suppose the message you could read from this is that two races who hate each other can team up out of self-interest, and maybe learn to tolerate each other. It did seem in the final scene that Warren had some respect for John Ruth, so maybe we're meant to understand that he learned to trust whites a little more; and Mannix seemed, over the course of the movie, to step back a little on his racism, culminating with his decision to team up with Warren against the outlaws.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Smithers and Warren's mutual hatred was personal, not purely racial. It was amplified by race, at least on Smithers's part. But he went for the gun because he hated Warren personally, especially after Warren goaded him, and Warren set the situation up because he hated Smithers personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think your reading of the second scene is correct: the gang members would have killed whoever was there, regardless of race. They leave Smithers alive because he's old and apparently harmless, and because they think he can help their cover. Not much of a racial message here, although we do see that Minnie and Sweet Dave are an interracial couple, which would have been exceedingly rare in this time period. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the fourth scene, this bothered me when I saw the movie, and I consider it a plot hole. Warren claims that Minnie used to have a sign saying &quot;No Mexicans or dogs&quot; that she took down when she started allowing dogs. But we don't see any evidence that she hates Mexicans when the outlaw gang's stagecoach arrives. She seems to receive &quot;Bob&quot; just as warmly as the rest. There are various ways you could explain this, but the movie doesn't bother to. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, I don't think the movie conveys a single clear message about race. It uses race and racial hatred as a fundamental part of its plot and characterization, but it doesn't seem to have a single big message the way, say, &lt;em&gt;American History X&lt;/em&gt; does. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30065" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T02:18:01.377" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46475" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-19T03:29:34.150" Score="7" ViewCount="5513" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched &lt;em&gt;Rebel Without a Cause&lt;/em&gt; for the first time and I couldn't help but notice the very intentional use of the color red.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, red seemed to be reserved for the three high school students who we come to know and love. James Dean has his iconic red jacket. Natalie Wood has a very prominent red dress. And, perhaps the most unusual, Sal Mineo has a single mismatched red sock that he wears throughout the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I looked this question up online and found only very unsatisfying answers which didn't seem to give an explanation that aligned with the characters very well at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, why was the color red chosen as opposed to some other color? What specifically is this color meant to say about each of the characters? Can the answer to that be tied into the specific pieces of clothing that they wear which are red?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there's also a big red couch at one point...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30078" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-01-19T07:26:15.067" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T11:23:41.963" Title="What is the significance of the color red in &quot;Rebel Without a Cause&quot;?" Tags="|analysis|rebel-without-a-cause|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46477" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46484" CreationDate="2016-01-19T05:03:09.620" Score="13" ViewCount="1934" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095016/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Die Hard&lt;/a&gt;, the bad guy Theo is knocked unconscious and presumably apprehended by the FBI or the Los Angeles police. Eventually, he would have been charged with several crimes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Overall, given how Theo participated in a plan that included multiple homicides and other major mayhem, would he be a likely candidate for the death penalty in California at that time (1988)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MhT7E.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MhT7E.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-11-30T22:33:08.390" Title="Would Theo face the death penalty post-Die Hard?" Tags="|die-hard|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46484" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46477" CreationDate="2016-01-19T07:18:07.247" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_rule_%28California%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;California has a Felony Murder&lt;/a&gt; law codified into law. The event of a homicide during the commission of a felony (Robbery or Mayhem on Theo's part), even if he did not commit the murder himself, would mean he can be charged with 1st Degree Murder. It was likely, and did happen, that murder/lethal force would be used during the crime, and Theo would or should have known this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/481/137/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;A 1987 SCOTUS ruling in Tison v. Arizona&lt;/a&gt; would have bolstered any such charge in the following year. Specifically:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Held:&lt;/strong&gt; Although petitioners neither intended to kill the victims nor inflicted the fatal wounds, the record might support a finding that they had the culpable mental state of reckless indifference to human life. ... Because the Arizona Supreme Court affirmed these death sentences upon a finding that the defendants &quot;&lt;strong&gt;intended, contemplated, or anticipated that lethal force would or might be used, or that life would or might be taken,&quot; the case must be remanded&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SCOTUS ruled that the use of Felony Murder rule on someone who did not do the killing themselves, due to the circumstances of the planned crime, can be valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Tison brothers only escaped the death penalty afterwards because of their age at the time, having been under 20.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-01-19T07:23:53.480" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T07:23:53.480" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46490" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-19T08:19:04.173" Score="2" ViewCount="1104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Recently, I saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338095/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Haute tension&lt;/a&gt; a.k.a. &lt;em&gt;High Tension&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could follow the movie well until the weird twist in the end where we are shown that Marie and the killer is the same person (in Marie's body). I thought the ending was a bit incoherent as the movie couldn't support the idea of Marie having a second, murderous personality. Where did she find the track? How did she crash?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But a friend of mine told me that it is the other way around, Marie is in reality the serial killer, and all the other scenes with her as &quot;Alex's friend&quot; are in her imagination.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I like the second theory and it satisfies me more, but I don't think that this one can be supported by the scenes either. So, what really happened? Are there any further hints or evidence as to what was reality and what wasn't?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28417" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-19T12:26:43.867" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T12:26:43.867" Title="What really happened in Haute Tension?" Tags="|plot-explanation|high-tension|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46492" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46507" CreationDate="2016-01-19T09:32:18.500" Score="10" ViewCount="3431" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is well known that the majority of Tarantino movies are set in the same fictional Universe. I just wonder what are, if any, the cross-references that make &quot;The Hateful Eight&quot; part of the same puzzle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one of the answers to this question - &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/10004/how-many-tarantino-films-are-set-in-the-same-universe&quot;&gt;&quot;How many Tarantino films are set in the same universe?&lt;/a&gt;&quot; - it is mentioned that &quot;The Hateful Eight&quot; is indeed the part of that universe. But I guess it would be nice to have some clarification on this issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1204" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2018-01-15T15:41:25.643" Title="Does &quot;The Hateful Eight&quot; belong to the Tarantino Universe?" Tags="|quentin-tarantino|the-hateful-eight|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12052" CreationDate="2016-01-19T10:29:04.090" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No matter how many times I replay this series from the very beginning, there is always something I missed first time round which explains subsequent events. For what its worth, I think jealousy is the primary motive for Baelish betraying Stark - and the l-o-n-g memory of a love lost to a better man. &#xA;I think the political schemes are all bound up in the jealousy thing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30093" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T10:29:04.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46500" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46501" CreationDate="2016-01-19T13:07:24.337" Score="13" ViewCount="17774" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the fourth Harry Potter movie, as well as in the fourth book, the magic ceiling of the Great Hall reacts strongly with a storm when Moody enters.&#xA;But since the Ceiling reacts that way to evil, wouldn't we expect it to react the same way to professor Quirrell carrying Voldemort on the back of his head in the first film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28388" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-19T13:29:41.980" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T14:13:47.680" Title="Why did the magic ceiling not react to professor Quirrell?" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|the-goblet-of-fire|the-philosophers-stone|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46501" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46500" CreationDate="2016-01-19T13:23:28.160" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the books, there's absolutely no canon evidence that the ceiling of the Great Hall &quot;reacts to evil&quot;. It's simply enchanted to mirror the actual sky outside (a point that is repeated throughout the series); there was a storm - totally unconnected to &quot;Moody&quot; (Barty Crouch Jr. using Polyjuice potion) - raging outside on the first day of term in Harry's fourth year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If it did react to evil then it would have done so &lt;em&gt;every single time &quot;Moody&quot; entered&lt;/em&gt;, which was not the case. He also would have been caught immediately, rather than being able to pass himself off as Moody (tricking even Dumbledore!) for an entire year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In universe, it was essentially a coincidence that the storm was particularly fierce at that moment. Out of universe it was used for the effect to heighten the fierce appearance of the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For related reading, I've &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59791/why-was-it-storming-when-mad-eye-moody-enters/59801#59801&quot;&gt;addressed a similar topic&lt;/a&gt; over on the Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the movies are concerned, it could be that they wanted to hint that there was something &quot;off&quot; about the character, and decided that using the ceiling was a good way to do that. However, since the fourth movie was made later and presumably the workings of the ceiling were closer to what's described in the books (or ignored entirely) in the earlier films, this ended up introducing an inconsistency that isn't present in the books. As far as I'm aware there's no good in-universe explanation - using information from either the books or the movies - for why the ceiling wouldn't react to Quirrell during Harry's first year if it was enchanted to react to &quot;evil&quot; people entering the Great Hall.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T14:13:47.680" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46502" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46439" CreationDate="2016-01-19T14:08:41.343" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Thirty years later (another generation has passed) and your references to hokey, ancient religions or political schemes must be more &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Anvilicious&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;anvilicious&lt;/a&gt; to be recognizable to princesses, scoundrels, and farmboys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I was born a little too late to directly experience the fear that &quot;the Russkies&quot; were going to &quot;nuke us all&quot;.  I certainly received a large dose of it as received wisdom and everyone I knew was certain &quot;the Reds&quot; would start a nuclear war.  But, it was a little abstract even by the mid-'70s, when my reliable memory starts.  The college students I teach now have literally no idea what it is like to be that afraid of nuclear war.  It's a total abstraction for them.  If you want to raise this referent in their minds, you have to do so much more extravagantly ... and they're still not convinced that the threat was credible.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27275" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T14:08:41.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24974" CreationDate="2016-01-19T16:48:14.987" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reason the shield broke up was not from the sun, but from the boosters of the payload. If the mission had gone according to plan, the payload would detach, and then the crew of the Icarus 2 would have 4 minutes to activate their boosters and begin to fly back before the payloads boosters activated. Because nobody was alive on board the Icarus 2, nobody was flying the ship, therefore nobody activated the boosters to begin the return journey. Because of this, the Icarus 2 had not moved, and when the payloads boosters activated after 4 minutes, the Icarus 2 shield was hit with a huge amount of force and heat from the booster, which caused the shield to tear apart and rotate, which exposed the rest of the ship to the sun, resulting in the destruction of the crew module.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30106" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T16:48:14.987" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46507" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46492" CreationDate="2016-01-19T16:52:23.740" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tim Roth's character in The Hateful Eight is apparently an ancestor of one of the Inglourious Basterds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the ew.com article, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/15/quentin-tarantino-hateful-eight-inglourious-basterds-connection-spinoff&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;How Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight links to Inglourious Basterds&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tim Roth (&lt;em&gt;Reservoir Dogs&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/em&gt;) plays Oswaldo “The Little Man” Mobray in the post-Civil War western, and the actor recently told the Huffington Post that the character is linked to someone from another Tarantino film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I won’t say which one,” Roth said. “He’s the great-great-grandfather of one of the characters in &lt;em&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26529" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T09:19:12.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46508" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-19T17:16:10.427" Score="1" ViewCount="768" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first episode of season 2 of Orange Is The New Black, we see Piper Chapman being moved to a prison in Chicago.  When she first arrives, and gets assigned to her cell, she ends up stepping on Yoda, the cigarette carrying roach that carried cigs from the general population to Solitary.  Her cell mates tell her that she has to find them another roach, and we proceed to see her walking around the yard, and inside the prison looking for another roach to present to them to take Yoda's spot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, did she ever find a cigarette carrying roach?  I know when she was in the holding cell, after Alex had left, she saw a roach carrying a cigarette on it's back, but that was the end of hearing about that storyline.  Was this ever resolved?  Do we find out later in the season or another season?  Or was this just simply a &quot;filler&quot; storyline to make her time in Chicago more &quot;interesting&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18110" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T20:26:19.653" Title="Did Chapman ever find a cigarette carrying roach?" Tags="|plot-explanation|orange-is-the-new-black|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46511" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28424" CreationDate="2016-01-19T18:30:06.510" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He held the cigarettte like a European (thumb and finger), not like an American (between two fingers).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30109" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T18:30:06.510" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46512" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46516" CreationDate="2016-01-19T19:37:56.440" Score="1" ViewCount="1709" Body="&lt;p&gt;Nowadays it seems that almost every successful television series winds up on the silver screen.  For a while, every series from the '60s and '70s was being made into a film - from &lt;em&gt;Mission Impossible&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;The Beverly Hillbillies&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before that, in the early days of television, Hollywood refused to admit to its existence on screen.  Television was seen as a competitor and no TV set was shown or mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what was the first television series to wind up on the cinema screen?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The earliest I can think of is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049646/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Quatermass Experiment&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from 1955.  A Hammer Film adaptation of the BBC series that was itself an adaptation of a radio play.  Admittedly, not a Hollywood film.  Was there something earlier?  I'm sure there must be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18237" LastActivityDate="2023-06-25T18:42:31.410" Title="Which was the first film adaptation of television series?" Tags="|first-appearance|adaptation|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41949" CreationDate="2016-01-19T19:45:22.073" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per my understanding initially Laura's ghost didnt kill Blaire but wanted her to suffer the guilt when she posted the video and people started abusing Blaire for what she did; however, they kept it an open end with the ghost closing the laptop indicating that the game is over or maybe killing her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30112" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T19:45:22.073" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46516" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46512" CreationDate="2016-01-19T21:47:19.940" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046931/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3&quot;&gt;Dragnet film in 1954&lt;/a&gt;.  Dragnet was originally a radio program, but that program spawned a television series in 1951.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26529" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T21:47:19.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28424" CreationDate="2016-01-19T22:44:41.223" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as the &quot;How&quot; part of the question, remember that John had at least heard Hans' voice and perhaps even seen part of his face and haircut prior to their meeting. &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/L0CL__Tvp-o?t=55&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Early on in the movie&lt;/a&gt;, McClane kills a a terrorist, steals his gun, writes &quot;Now I have a machinegun. Ho ho ho.&quot; on the dead man's sweatshirt, and sends the body down in an elevator to the floor where the hostages are being held. Hans and another guy enter the elevator car to investigate and they spend a minute talking, not knowing that McClane is mere feet away, on top of the elevator car, listening to them. You can also see some of the light from the elevator shining on McClane's face, so it's possible he saw Hans' hair, the suit he's wearing, maybe even his face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18269" LastActivityDate="2016-01-19T22:44:41.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46522" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-20T01:57:41.560" Score="5" ViewCount="40645" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did Santino get killed in &lt;em&gt;The Godfather&lt;/em&gt;?  I recently watched the movie and I just don't get it.  Why did he get killed by the order of Barzini? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30121" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-20T11:38:56.803" LastActivityDate="2019-08-26T09:03:51.880" Title="Why was Santino ordered to die by Barzini?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-godfather|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46492" CreationDate="2016-01-20T02:22:02.613" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, all the films, including &lt;em&gt;The Hateful Eight&lt;/em&gt;, are a part of the same cinematic universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/29265/1/quentin-tarantino-confirms-that-all-his-films-are-connected&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;interview released just seventeen hours ago&lt;/a&gt;, Tarantino clarified that the films &lt;em&gt;Kill Bill&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;From Dusk Til Dawn&lt;/em&gt; are the film within the films from the &quot;Real Universe&quot; that the characters watch. The &quot;Real Universe&quot; is the cinematic world where everything takes place in the same setting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to Tarantino, in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/29265/1/quentin-tarantino-confirms-that-all-his-films-are-connected&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;article published by &lt;em&gt;Dazed Digital&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is actually two separate universes. There is the realer than&#xA;  real universe, alright, and all the characters inhabit that one. But&#xA;  then there's this movie universe. So &lt;em&gt;From Dusk Till Dawn&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Kill Bill&lt;/em&gt;,&#xA;  they all take place in this special movie universe. So when all the&#xA;  characters of &lt;em&gt;Reservoir Dogs&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/em&gt;, when they go to the&#xA;  movies, &lt;em&gt;Kill Bill&lt;/em&gt; is what they go to see. &lt;em&gt;From Dusk Till Dawn&lt;/em&gt; is what&#xA;  they see.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an updated version of that same article, Tarantino &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/29274/1/playing-detective-in-tarantino-s-movie-universes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;confirmed&lt;/a&gt; that at least one of the characters in &lt;em&gt;The Hateful Eight&lt;/em&gt; is in fact related to a character from a previous film, which takes place further along the timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don’t want to say it point blank ‘boom’, but if you’re a fan of my&#xA;  work and are familiar with it you could be a bit of a detective. I&#xA;  will say that there is one character amongst the eight that is related&#xA;  to one of my other characters in one of my other films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the identity, Tarantino has not affirmatively confirmed, but the strongest clues hint at Tim Roth's Oswaldo Mobray, aka &lt;strong&gt;Pete Hicox&lt;/strong&gt;, who shares the same legal name with Michael Fassbender's &lt;strong&gt;Archie Hicox&lt;/strong&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Inglourious Basterds&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19366" LastEditorUserId="19366" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T03:00:52.703" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T03:00:52.703" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46522" CreationDate="2016-01-20T04:04:32.917" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Barzini was partners with Don Tattaglia.  You might recall that after Luca Brasi was killed, Sonny had Tattaglia's son Bruno killed in response.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-sIQpQ2drY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The morning after the hospital incident.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  TESSIO, to MIKE and CLEMENZA: Sonny got mad.&#xA;          We hit Bruno Tattaglia four o'clock&#xA;          this morning. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Barzini knew Sonny was a hothead, and also knew that Sonny was overly protective of his sister Connie.  So Barzini had Connie's husband give her a beating, which put Sonny (predictably) in a rage.  Barzini then had his men wait at the tollbooths, knowing Sonny would take the causeway en route to Connie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hit on Sonny (Don Corleone's son) was payback for the hit he put on Tattaglia's son. This is what caused the Dons to finally meet; you put a hit on a Don's family member and they'll come to the table a lot quicker than if you put a hit on a footsoldier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="42844" LastEditDate="2019-08-26T09:03:51.880" LastActivityDate="2019-08-26T09:03:51.880" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="46529" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34937" CreationDate="2016-01-20T04:26:00.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vamos is &quot;let's go&quot; vamonos is &quot;let's leave&quot;. So basically she's saying she wishes she could leave, but the way Jesse said it is ironic since he wants to leave too, meaning he's saying &quot;let's get out of here&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30126" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-20T11:42:21.507" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T11:42:21.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46536" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28424" CreationDate="2016-01-20T08:23:15.557" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;He somehow knew even before that. &quot;I got invited to the Christmas party by mistake. Who knew?&quot; Why not say that his wife invited him unless he was trying to protect her from Hans knowing that his wife was was there? Almost like he already knew that if the terrorists found out his wife was there they could use her as leverage. He had also heard Hans voice previously, accent or not. He is a trained police officer, to survive in an ordeal like that, it would be nothing to be observant enough to know that something was off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30130" LastEditorUserId="30130" LastEditDate="2016-01-21T08:54:49.987" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T08:54:49.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46549" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46551" CreationDate="2016-01-20T17:00:27.633" Score="20" ViewCount="6208" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most recently in Star Wars VII, &lt;em&gt;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt;, they mention &quot;turbo laser&quot; turrets, but wasn't the idea of turbo lasers in Battlestar Galactica first? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that a laser being turbo is far out enough, it would be really odd two fictional universes come up with the same thing, no? So, with an eyebrow already raised, who is the copycat, the one with Lorne Greene..., again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="453" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-20T17:02:18.610" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T15:48:32.703" Title="Who had &quot;turbo lasers&quot; first, Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica?" Tags="|science-fiction|star-wars|the-force-awakens|battlestar-galactica|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46551" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46549" CreationDate="2016-01-20T17:18:29.337" Score="49" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the original movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We count thirty Rebel ships, Lord Vader, but they're so small they're&#xA;  evading our turbolasers.&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Star-Wars-A-New-Hope.html&quot;&gt;―Lieutenant Tanbris, to Darth Vader, during&#xA;  the Battle of Yavin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which came out in 1977, while Battlestar Galactica first aired in 1978 (thanks @CodesInChaos).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Star Wars had it first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4707" LastEditorUserId="4707" LastEditDate="2016-01-20T22:59:09.627" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T22:59:09.627" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46552" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46549" CreationDate="2016-01-20T17:18:37.577" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Star Wars had them first .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Star-Wars-A-New-Hope.html&quot;&gt;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Star-Wars-A-New-Hope.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;OFFICER:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We count thirty Rebel ships, Lord &#xA;  Vader. But they're so small they're &#xA;  evading our turbo-lasers!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;VADER&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We'll have to destroy them ship to &#xA;  ship. Get the crews to their fighters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19595" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T17:18:37.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46554" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47207" CreationDate="2016-01-20T19:40:54.010" Score="9" ViewCount="1026" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a question about the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy and the aspect ratios it was released in: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/19286/why-the-very-different-release-formats-for-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/19325#19325&quot;&gt;Why the very different release formats for Hitchhiker&amp;#39;s Guide to the Galaxy?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The crux of the question is an overlay of the 2.35:1 frame with the 4:3 frame. &lt;em&gt;Normally&lt;/em&gt; (I think) for most films, if you were to overlay the two, you'd see something like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;-----------* * * * * * * * * * * * *-----------&#xA;|2.35:1    * 4:3                   *          |&#xA;|(filmed)  * (cropped)             *          |&#xA;|          *                       *          |&#xA;|          *                       *          |&#xA;|          *                       *          |&#xA;|          *                       *          |&#xA;|          *                       *          |&#xA;|          *                       *          |&#xA;-----------* * * * * * * * * * * * *-----------&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I understand the typical process, the movie is filmed at 2.35:1 and later cropped for 4:3 and 16:9 TVs. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the 'evidence' in the aforementioned question shows the overlapping aspect ratios as such:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;         * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&#xA;         *   4:3 (cropped)           *&#xA;-----------------------------------------------&#xA;|2.35:1  *                           *        |&#xA;|(cropped?)                          *        |&#xA;|        *                           *        |&#xA;|        *                           *        |&#xA;|        *                           *        |&#xA;|        *                           *        |&#xA;|        *                           *        |&#xA;|        *                           *        |&#xA;-----------------------------------------------&#xA;         *                           *&#xA;         * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the above, it would seem that the film would have had to be shot with a frame both wider than 4:3, and taller than 2.35:1. If true, the question I have is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are some films shot at an aspect ratio larger than any one of the released aspect ratios?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, are some films shot so that all of the various releases will be cropped in their own unique way, rather than just taking the widest release and chopping off the sides? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alt theory/question: One theory is that IMDB is incorrect and the film wasn't actually shot at 2.35:1 and was instead shot at 16:9, and they ended up cropping both for wide screen and 4:3. &lt;strong&gt;If true, is that a common practice?&lt;/strong&gt; If so, why? It feels odd that anyone interested in the widest screen formats would also be OK with the original frame being cropped. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2020-02-26T19:59:08.487" Title="Are some films filmed with a larger frame than all cropped versions?" Tags="|film-techniques|aspect-ratio|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46558" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27896" CreationDate="2016-01-20T21:17:21.853" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Even since the DVD format and the advent of 16:9 TVs made widescreen films more mainstream, there have been a number of movies that have been reformatted for home video from their original theatrical aspect ratios:  The Last Emperor, Apocalypse Now, Avatar, and The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader come immediately to mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, such reformatting almost always &quot;opens up&quot; the mattes to give the image more height.  Reformatting a 2.35:1 film to 1.78:1 (16:9) is especially common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know of any cases of the reverse, and in particular, there hasn't ever been a 2.35:1 release of E.T.  The listings you link to are almost certainly in error, possibly all getting their information from the same erroneous source.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26529" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T21:17:21.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46560" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46561" CreationDate="2016-01-20T22:31:54.640" Score="2" ViewCount="83680" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence or interviews shining more light on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcK8HA5er-U&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;incredibly confusing Jordan Schlansky situation&lt;/a&gt;? For years Conan has been going on &quot;remotes&quot; with Jordan where they have conversations or go places, and the conceit of these remotes is basically always that Jordan has an unusual personality and Conan berates him mercilessly for it. I'm really curious what's going on behind the scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What official job does Jordan do for Conan? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does Conan actually directly employ Jordan, or is he employed by someone else who Conan also works for? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Does he have a contract that prevents him from leaving Conan's employ? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Has Jordan ever spoken about the nature of their relationship? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Is he actually an actor that's playing this absurd character? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Are there any other sources showing us what Jordan's really like away from Conan's antagonistic personality?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's going on?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30157" LastEditorUserId="30157" LastEditDate="2016-01-26T21:58:08.700" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T21:58:08.700" Title="Is Conan O'Brien bullying Jordan Schlansky?" Tags="|production|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46560" CreationDate="2016-01-20T22:49:33.050" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jordan is one of the &quot;associate producers&quot; at &lt;em&gt;Conan&lt;/em&gt;, so yes, he is one of Conan's employees, and not an actor. However, I would suspect that a large portion of that on-screen character is a bit worked up between the two. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His &quot;normal&quot; job duties, as a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.producersguild.org/?page=faq&quot;&gt;producer&lt;/a&gt;, would be things like booking guests, ensuring that skits were properly set up, making sure graphics are put together. The specific work he did would be whatever the producer delegated to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he genuinely felt bullied or uncomfortable with the working relationship, he would have any number of options (up to and including a lawsuit, depending on the severity of the harassment). The fact that he continues to allow himself to be on-camera and cooperates in the sketches should be all the &quot;proof&quot; you need to rest assured that he's in on the joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can see Jordan discuss his job duties and Conan's bits on his &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ajju2/i_am_jordan_schlansky_associate_producer_of_conan/&quot;&gt;Reddit AMA&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2016-01-20T22:49:33.050" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46563" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-21T00:11:41.163" Score="3" ViewCount="460" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Guillermo del Toro's 1993 Bi-lingual first film, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cronos&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Ron Perlman's character Angel has an obsession with his own nose. He plans on getting rhinoplasty, and is seen in every scene doing something in that regard. The first time he's asking the main character and his daughter's opinion on noses. Then he's listening to pre-op surgery advice tapes. Then his nose gets broken and bandaged and then broken again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what is with the obsession? What is the meaning of it in the film? Or was it simply a sight gag?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y6zBD.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y6zBD.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-21T00:15:09.877" LastActivityDate="2016-08-20T23:55:04.030" Title="What was with Ron Perlman's character's nose obsession in Cronos?" Tags="|character|analysis|cronos|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21591" CreationDate="2016-01-21T00:15:38.383" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have another theory, perhaps... maybe before he tried to break his own curse Werewolf by an exorcism..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30162" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T00:15:38.383" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46566" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46549" CreationDate="2016-01-21T02:17:16.217" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The premise of this question is based on a few faulty assumptions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Turbo has 2 correct definitions, and one odd tacked on thing that almost counts as a 3rd definition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definition 1, meaning &quot;big or fast&quot;. Much as you can have turbocapitalism (an accelerated/exaggerated form of capitalism), you can have turbolasers. These would presumably have a higher rate of fire than regular lasers. Or the lasers could travel faster. Or just be bigger.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Definition 2: &quot;Drawing power from a turbine.&quot; Power generation in the star wars universe, as in ours, almost all comes from a turbine (for real world universe, that is coal, gas, hydro, wind, some solar thermal, fission and fusion. It excludes the most basic of solar thermal, and all solar photovoltaic, as well as rockets. Batteries are often thought of as being a turbineless form of power production, but ultimately they store energy produced by another source, likely a turbo one. There can be chemical energy stored and released, such as in gunpowder, without the need for a turbine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Half Definition 3: Related to a turbo charger in a car. This is really just definition 2 again, because a turbocharger in a car uses a turbine, and that is where the name comes from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So under definition one, a turbolaser is just one that fires faster than the competition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Under definition 2, if it one that draws its power from a turbine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that leads us to the question of where non turbo lasers draw their power from. As it turns out, they are produced from directly igniting tibanna gas, which is a very concentrated energy source analogous to gunpowder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would lead me to the conclusion that Turbolasers have to be plugged in to some sort of generator (likely fusion in the SW universe), contrasting them to more portable lasers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further evidence for this is provided &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weaponsofstarwars.com/turbolaser-firepower&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, indicating that the Death Star superlasers are indeed powered by the reactors, and that they are essentially a scaled up turbolaser.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, the US Navy actually has a turbolaser in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Weapon_System&quot;&gt;operation&lt;/a&gt;. We as a society are so far away from having an energy production/storage source good enough to allow for laser weapons that aren't turbolasers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just realised I should edit in a point here. I dispute the assumption that we can be certain that one stole from other other, because the physical concept of a turbolaser, as well as the name, are not particularly unusual or weird. This, combined with the other answer showing a very short timeframe between the two (presumably indicating that BSG script writing was undertaken, or at least started before Star Wars was released) implies to me the more likely answer is that both came up with this idea independently.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22010" LastEditorUserId="22010" LastEditDate="2016-01-21T02:34:41.527" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T02:34:41.527" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46568" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46601" CreationDate="2016-01-21T07:33:13.320" Score="5" ViewCount="4154" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general in &lt;em&gt;The Hateful Eight&lt;/em&gt; seemed to be the least dangerous of the men present in the room (and eventually turned out that way, too). So why did Warren kill him then?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was Warren merely trying to ascertain the reactions of the other men, by killing the general (which might have given him clues as to whether they were lying or not)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or was he trying to instill fear in everyone, that he was too smart and others should think twice before messing with him?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22967" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T10:23:53.757" LastActivityDate="2017-01-07T04:12:51.793" Title="Why did Warren treat the old General Sanford that way?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hateful-eight|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46569" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-21T09:48:37.537" Score="13" ViewCount="1012" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first season of the television series Dexter, his sister Deb&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; is dating a man who turns out to be the Ice Truck Killer. He has a gigantic industrial freezer inside his apartment where he kills his victims, with the door in plain view in the kitchen, right at the front of the apartment. The door is unmistakably a freezer door, and even has a window. In episode 11, Deb shows up at the killer's house and he invites her inside. We can see through the front door that the freezer door is clearly visible. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How could she possibly have missed such an obvious clue?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30169" LastEditorUserId="30169" LastEditDate="2016-01-21T10:28:17.227" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T05:40:08.083" Title="How did Deb miss the freezer?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dexter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46570" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34721" CreationDate="2016-01-21T09:48:51.733" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, this might not be the most &quot;plot-coherent&quot; answer, but it sure is the most obvious one and the one you have already given in your question: &lt;strong&gt;Because it looks good and nobody cares about the specific code he writes anyway.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You already reasoned how the specific code we writes, something that just enumerates prime numbers, has &lt;strong&gt;absolutely &lt;em&gt;nothing&lt;/em&gt; to do with what he wants to achieve&lt;/strong&gt; and was simply chosen to just show him write some code the audience neither cares about, nor understands at all to a great majority. So it then stands to reason why one would care what or if he writes any comments in that code. It's just that &lt;strong&gt;comments generally belong to code and make it look visually coherent&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As much as the actual code he would write, the elaborate thoughts if he would take the time and effort to write comments were way beyond the filmmakers at this point, since the &lt;strong&gt;code itself is not accurate in the first place and noone in the audience would ever care about it&lt;/strong&gt; to that level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T09:48:51.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46576" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15746" CreationDate="2016-01-21T14:01:06.300" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pajiba.com/seriously_random_lists/mindhole-blowers-20-facts-about-hanna-that-might-just-miss-your-heart.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wright created the teeth brushing scene as a joke about the U.S. obsession with teeth. As a Brit with bad teeth, he feels “slightly resentful” of Americans’ perfect choppers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30178" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-21T15:07:06.607" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T15:07:06.607" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46579" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46568" CreationDate="2016-01-21T16:53:22.830" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You may recall that Sanford was a Confederate officer and Warren was a Union soldier.  There was a blurb in there about how Sanford led an army that captured Warren's unit, and how Sanford left the black Union soldiers outside to die in the cold.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, Warren had an instant dislike of Sanford and wanted to kill him.  he pushed Sanford with a story about how his son died until the only course of action was to have Sanford draw a gun and Warren could use that as an excuse to kill him in self-defense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(NOTE: Some of the facts may be a little off, i.e. I don't remember exactly what happened to those prisoners of war, but it's close enough so the answer is still correct)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T16:53:22.830" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46582" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36565" CreationDate="2016-01-21T17:56:36.530" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;A totem is an item, &lt;em&gt;in the real world&lt;/em&gt;, with a secret, unique property.  It's purpose is that, when somebody targets you for extraction and tries to counterfeit that object in the process of counterfeiting the rest of the world, you will notice they have missed that detail and you are able to know that the world is not real.  This idea was invented by Mol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time this concept is introduced in the movie is when &lt;em&gt;Saito rubs his cheek on the rug and instantly knows that, despite appearances, he is not really lying on his carpet in his apartment.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the audience knows, the first time Cobb ever actually touches Mol's totum it is really just a projection in the dream realm.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mol's totem is in the shape of a top which the audience is led to believe, through Cobb, is perfectly average in reality but will spin forever in a dream.  This totem both: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;has a uselessly obvious &lt;em&gt;special property&lt;/em&gt; that anybody could guess; and,&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;the logical opposite of how a totum actually works&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One logical conclusion of all this is:  If somebody else believes, incorrectly, that they know the special property of your totem and they try to use it, they are in danger of fooling themselves into a trap.  The same way building familiar places can make you forget that you are in a dream.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tells me that Cobb is actually incorrect about the &lt;em&gt;special property&lt;/em&gt; of the totem he took from Mol, and it topples, not because Cobb is in the real world, but because he &lt;strong&gt;believes&lt;/strong&gt; he is in the real world and has misunderstood how the totem works.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering all of this, Mol's totem was still reliable &lt;em&gt;to her&lt;/em&gt; and it allowed her to accurately know that they were both still trapped in Cobb's dream.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30182" LastEditorUserId="30182" LastEditDate="2016-01-21T18:01:36.893" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T18:01:36.893" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46584" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46588" CreationDate="2016-01-21T18:34:54.493" Score="3" ViewCount="2160" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Furious 7, when Vin Diesel accelerates towards Jason Statham and collides head on, is it even remotely possible to walk away from such an accident? If I am not mistaken, Vin Diesel didn't even have a airbag.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-06-29T16:45:31.460" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T16:45:31.460" Title="Head-on Collision Survival Chances in Furious 7" Tags="|realism|fast-and-furious-franchise|furious-7|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46584" CreationDate="2016-01-21T18:51:49.007" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the speeds with which they were travelling, and no restraints, they both would have been ejected through the front windshield, or at least been slammed into the wheel/dashboard.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine getting hit in the chest with a bowling ball fired at a speed of 25MPH.  If you didn't break a rib, you would certainly have the wind knocked out of you or sustained some sort of bruise to your torso.  Now imagine that bowling ball hitting your head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are always cases of &quot;freak&quot; accidents or survival incidents, but those are far from the norm and likely represent miniscule fractions of a single percent occurrence rate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While I can't find solid data on head-on collisions and speeds which are fatal, I did find this blurb about rear-end accidents and potential for whiplash:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The acceleration-deceleration forces which cause whiplash injury are&#xA;  sufficient to permanently disable you. Even in a low speed rear impact&#xA;  collision of 8 mph, your head moves roughly 18 inches, at a force as&#xA;  great as 7 G’s in less than a quarter of a second.­¹&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, even at the very least, it's unlikely that an unsecured driver could walk away from a deceleration of 7 G's with no damage whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;¹ &lt;a href=&quot;http://neurosurgeon.com/conditions/whiplash.htm&quot;&gt;NeoruSurgeon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T18:51:49.007" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46587" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46592" CreationDate="2016-01-21T20:42:16.777" Score="10" ViewCount="5172" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am trying to get into a new show after watching Lost, Breaking Bad, Fringe and The 100. I am a bit skeptical about the fantasy aspect of the Game of Thrones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How closely does Game of Thrones subscribe to the conventions of the fantasy genre? My concern is that the show might be too much like a fairy tale for someone who normally enjoys drama, horror, sci-fi etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm asking so that I can use this information to assess how appropriate GoT would be for me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="9718" LastEditDate="2016-01-22T10:48:00.033" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T09:49:36.570" Title="How closely does Game of Thrones follow the fantasy or fairy-tale genre?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46588" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46584" CreationDate="2016-01-21T21:15:24.727" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it's likely for someone to walk away from a low speed crash. Assuming 25~35 MPH total, even a pedestrian to car hit, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/research/pub/HS809012.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;there's a significant possibility of walking away unharmed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;State of Florida. In Florida in 1993 - 1996, 32,651 of the pedestrians in crashes were in single-vehicle crashes (91 percent). For 23,831 of those pedestrians (74 percent), estimated travel speeds were provided for the striking vehicles. For those pedestrians, there were 1,550 (6 percent) fatalities, 6,414 (27 percent) with A (incapacitating) injuries, 9,206 (39 percent) with B (non-incapacitating) injuries, and 6,583 (28 percent) with C (possible) or no injuries. The proportion of serious injuries and fatalities increased steadily with increasing vehicle speeds (as estimated by the investigating police officer). The distribution is shown in Table 2 (Table 5 from the main report).&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sZuWs.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sZuWs.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The above stats show a 23% chance of a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;pedestrian&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; surviving a 25 MPH hit with minor scrapes or less. At 35 MPH it drops to 16.6%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But they are clearly going much faster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/yGTYXFkM1us?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looks like they shift into 3rd Gear. That's roughly 40 to 60 MPH range. And the distance is quite short. They gun it. Those cars can do 0-60 in how many seconds? So we can assume each is going 45 MPH. Because speed is relative, hitting a wall when you are going at 45 MPH is the same as a wall going 45 MPH hitting you standing still. If you are both moving towards each other, it's cumulative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So both of them are experiencing a 90 MPH crash, with no seat belt, no air bags, nothing but the crumple zone of their car&lt;/strong&gt;. The chance they &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;BOTH&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; walk away from that is so remote that it can be considered 0%.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ntsb.gov/safety/safety-studies/Documents/SIR1201.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;This report on Wrong-Way crashes on divided highways&lt;/a&gt; (82% are considered head-on, with at least one car at highway speeds) reports that 22% are fatal. That's with airbags and seat belts and other mitigating circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in short, enjoy your popcorn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T21:15:24.727" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46589" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2313" CreationDate="2016-01-21T21:41:04.233" Score="-6" Body="&lt;p&gt;George's brother, several years older than George, could not take the insanity and&#xA;left home at 18, never to be heard from again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30188" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T21:41:04.233" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46587" CreationDate="2016-01-21T22:02:30.663" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's alchemy and magic, but in small doses.  Mostly sex and violence.  And dragons later on.  Watch a couple episodes, see if you are into it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user25738" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T22:02:30.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46592" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46587" CreationDate="2016-01-21T22:22:33.767" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's very little in the way of &quot;high&quot; fantasy in the books or show, though the level increases a bit over time. (This increase is the reliance of fantasy elements builds organically and is even sort-of explained in-universe, which may or may not help you stay interested.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The series is primarily a type of &quot;political/military fiction&quot;, in that they focus on the conflicts between noble houses vying for the throne and the various ways they pit their armies and their wits against each other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there are some fantasy elements that are present, and they do play important roles in the novels:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Magic: not much, and only a tiny number of characters can use it, but it's definitely real.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dragons: Key part of the story from early on; in fact, the emergence of dragons is tied to the emergence of magic.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fantasy Races: there are Giants, and an extinct race of what were approximately Tolkieneqsue elves.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Undead: The main threat in the series, particularly later novels, are a race of fantasy creatures that can raise the dead.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Seasons: The show is set on a world that has unnaturally chaotic seasons: summers and winters that last years or even decades. The author of the novels has hinted that the cause is magical, though it's not clear if the people who live there know that. The &quot;coming of Winter&quot; is a key event in the backdrop for the story, but if it helps you can usually pretend it's a natural phenomenon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's definitely more &quot;fantastic&quot; than any of the shows you mentioned, but it's less fantasy-driven than, say, &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; (which itself had a pretty low-key type of magic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="1146" LastEditDate="2016-01-22T00:18:01.267" LastActivityDate="2016-01-22T00:18:01.267" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36733" CreationDate="2016-01-21T23:28:52.960" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because that scared timid scarecrow who was not all that smart represented a portion of her that she felt she no longer had.  That innocence was gone, she no longer felt naive.  Whereas she still needed courage, and compassion that was represented by the lion and the tin man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30192" LastActivityDate="2016-01-21T23:28:52.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46596" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36510" CreationDate="2016-01-22T00:25:05.293" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is another bit to add: Given Sammy was (real and) a fraud the insurance company (maybe represented by Leonard) tested him for conditional learning - the electrical shocks conditioning overruling the high cognitive function. In Leonard's recollection Sammy actually was failing for months to be conditioned by the shocks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My speculation: This fact led the insurance company to believe, that Sammy was actually a fraud, since the conditioning did not &quot;kick-in&quot;. Conditioning on the other hand must have been the device with which Leonard manages to obtain new and change old memories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30194" LastActivityDate="2016-01-22T00:25:05.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46597" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46421" CreationDate="2016-01-22T07:43:39.843" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It looks like he is a State police officer, which is what Silvio is (an American equivalent would be a State trooper) he was most likely a dirty cop and was paid by the cartel to assist in the assult on the motercade &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30204" LastActivityDate="2016-01-22T07:43:39.843" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46601" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46568" CreationDate="2016-01-22T10:26:43.773" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think Warren had motives other than retaliation for Gen. Smithers ordering the execution of the black POWs. Warren was ready to kill Smithers at the point when Smithers confessed to having ordered the execution:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Warren: You captured a whole colored command that day. But not one&#xA;  colored trooper made it to a camp, did they?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Smithers: We had neither the time nor the food. Nor the&#xA;  inclination to care for Northern horses, and least of all Northern&#xA;  n*s!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Smithers: So we shot 'em where they stood!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Warren had his hand on his gun at this point but Oswaldo Mobray immediately defused the situation. Mobray then notified Warren that it is illegal to simply kill Smithers:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mobray: Gentlemen! Gentlemen, I know Americans aren't apt to let a little thing like an unconditional surrender get in the way of a good war. But I strongly suggest we don't restage The Battle of Baton Rouge, during a blizzard in Minnie's Haberdashery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mobray: Now, my Nubian friend, while I realize passions are high, that&#xA;  was a while ago. And if you shoot this unarmed old man, I guarantee I&#xA;  will hang you by the neck until you are dead, once we arrive in Red&#xA;  Rock.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chris Mannix: I damn will guarantee that too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;John Ruth: Yeah Warren, that's the problem with old men. You can kick&#xA;  'em down the stairs and say it's an accident, but ya' can't just shoot&#xA;  'em.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Warren devised a plan to kill Smithers in &quot;self-defense&quot;, to make his killing of Smithers legal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Narrator: Chris, John Ruth and Oswaldo, had a vigorous debate about the&#xA;  legality of the self-defense murder that just transpired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Narrator: Maj. Marquis Warren who is supremely confident about the legality&#xA;  of what just transpired, ignored them, sat at a table by himself and&#xA;  drank brandy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1006" LastEditorUserId="1006" LastEditDate="2016-01-22T10:40:13.180" LastActivityDate="2016-01-22T10:40:13.180" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46602" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46187" CreationDate="2016-01-22T10:34:17.293" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're looking for the TV movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089932/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Romance on the Orient Express&lt;/a&gt; from 1985 with Cheryl Ladd.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lily, an American traveling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice to Paris, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, whom they met and had a tender romance 10 years earlier while vacationing in France which ended abruptly when he walked out on her without saying a word. Now Alex tries to make up for lost time with Lily while she digs into his past to find out what haunting secrets that he has which led to their abrupt breakup. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alex left back then because his father wanted him to marry someone else, and Lily's daughter is secretly Alex's. Here's the promo:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/8bPKyQHaAZo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2016-01-22T10:34:17.293" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46606" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-22T12:55:46.560" Score="2" ViewCount="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 1 of &lt;em&gt;24&lt;/em&gt;, a lot of attention is devoted to events that were covered up in Senator Palmer's family, specifically that his son Keith was involved in the death of Lyle Gibson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm currently watching season 2 and the question has not been answered yet. Even though it's over a year later, Keith appears only briefly in this season and there's a reference that the (now) President has made the right decision by telling the truth, but it's not clear if Keith was ever charged for anything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was Keith ever charged with murder for the events during and prior to season 1?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30165" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-22T12:58:37.280" LastActivityDate="2016-01-22T12:58:37.280" Title="Was Keith ever charged with murder?" Tags="|24|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46607" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-22T13:02:02.020" Score="6" ViewCount="9915" Body="&lt;p&gt;Warren Worthington III (as Archangel) is one of the Four Horseman of Apocalypse. He'll be granting his role in &lt;em&gt;X-Men: Apocalypse&lt;/em&gt; as well. However, we have seen him in &lt;em&gt;X-Men: The Last Stand&lt;/em&gt; as a very young person (can't be older than 25). Even if he could be born by the time &lt;em&gt;X-Men: Apocalypse&lt;/em&gt; takes place, shouldn't he be very very young?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T07:58:38.797" LastActivityDate="2018-06-10T03:27:34.523" Title="Shouldn't Warren Worthington III be just a little child during X-Men Apocalypse?" Tags="|character|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-apocalypse|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46610" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-22T14:21:21.030" Score="1" ViewCount="156" Body="&lt;p&gt;Have you noticed that Anita not like other synths? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean sometimes she acts weird not like other synths but more like real AI. So after Mia has taken control over body is Anita still there and how do you think will she appear in future? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28428" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T16:12:11.603" Title="Is Anita from Humans still in Mia?" Tags="|plot-explanation|humans|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46611" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46607" CreationDate="2016-01-22T14:34:49.517" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; basically eradicated the &lt;a href=&quot;http://moviepilot.com/posts/3675069&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;previous continuity&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because of this the Angel that we've seen before existed in a&#xA;  different continuity - the same continuity in which Jean Grey /&#xA;  Phoenix (Famke Janssen) and Scott Summers / Cyclops (James Marsden)&#xA;  died. So &lt;strong&gt;the Angel we're going to meet during X-Men: Apocalypse will&#xA;  be an entirely new version from what we've seen before.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2016-01-22T14:34:49.517" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46618" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-22T20:23:06.360" Score="4" ViewCount="534" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has Hollywood ever produced movies starring &lt;strong&gt;only&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarfism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;little people&lt;/a&gt; (i.e. those with dwarfism) as actors?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T18:42:40.413" LastActivityDate="2016-06-06T09:29:42.040" Title="Do any Hollywood movies star only little people?" Tags="|cinema-history|american-cinema|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46619" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46631" CreationDate="2016-01-22T20:24:58.223" Score="3" ViewCount="424" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the recent iZombie episode &quot;Method Head&quot;, the episode starts as Christmas-themed and concerns the murder of a man dressed as Santa Clause. A quarter of the way through the episode, that investigation is abruptly concluded and we are clumsily transitioned forward a few weeks into a new case no longer set during the holidays. Key personal issues left over from the previous episode &quot;Cape Town&quot; are glossed over or unaddressed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was the Santa Clause segment originally a full episode that ended up on the cutting-room floor, or was &quot;Method Head&quot; aired as scripted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30169" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-01-22T20:35:28.030" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T20:40:49.143" Title="Did iZombie drop an episode?" Tags="|production|izombie|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46620" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46618" CreationDate="2016-01-22T20:51:40.807" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen it to confirm that every single actor is a little person, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030845/&quot;&gt;The Terror of Tiny Town&lt;/a&gt; is the film that comes immediately to mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26529" LastActivityDate="2016-01-22T20:51:40.807" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46621" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46627" CreationDate="2016-01-22T20:54:10.907" Score="3" ViewCount="330" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm a bit confused about a scene in &lt;em&gt;How To Train Your Dragon&lt;/em&gt;. When the Vikings reach the nest, they open holes and the dragons are flying away. Why didn't they do that in the first place and wait for the humans?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I mean, they had input/output ability from the nest (they could fly to the village to steal some food). Could it be that the queen kept some dragons as &quot;prisoners&quot; and only a subset of the dragons were going to the village, so that they are doomed to get back in the nest, so that they didn't lose their friends (just a thought, not a clue of this in the movie)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if someone could explain this to me or if it really is a plot hole in the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30219" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-22T21:26:12.733" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T00:21:02.243" Title="Why didn't the dragons leave their lair earlier?" Tags="|plot-explanation|how-to-train-your-dragon|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46622" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46831" CreationDate="2016-01-22T21:08:37.047" Score="2" ViewCount="350" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am confused about a scene in &lt;em&gt;How To Train Your Dragon 2&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The dragon of the mother was present in an assault to the village. However, that dragon is member of a nest, where the king is &quot;a good guy&quot;, as he is shown to feed his dragons, so it doesn't seem logical to force them assault the village to steal food, so that they can get it back to him. It doesn't make sense, &lt;em&gt;does it&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if someone could explain this to me or if it is just a plot-hole in the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30219" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-04-15T06:07:52.807" LastActivityDate="2019-04-15T06:07:52.807" Title="Why did the mother's dragon attack the village?" Tags="|plot-explanation|how-to-train-your-dragon-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46623" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46626" CreationDate="2016-01-22T21:35:48.427" Score="3" ViewCount="1423" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am confused about a scene in &lt;em&gt;How To Train Your Dragon 2&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;bad guy&quot; says that in order to conquer the dragons, you need dragons and you cannot beat an Alpha without another Alpha (to challenge him). How the hell did he prison an Alpha? I mean the Alpha seems to be super strong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering if someone could explain this to me or if it is just a plot-hole in the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30219" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2019-04-15T06:07:20.807" LastActivityDate="2019-04-15T06:07:20.807" Title="How did Drago get the Alpha?" Tags="|plot-explanation|how-to-train-your-dragon-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46626" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46623" CreationDate="2016-01-23T00:04:19.863" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically stolen from &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/60241/38235&quot;&gt;this answer on SciFi.se&lt;/a&gt;, which sources the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.howtotrainyourdragon.com/explore/dragons/drago-bewilderbeast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;official movie page&lt;/a&gt;, the answer is that he didn't imprison his Bewilderbeast, he raised it from childhood and conditioned it to be obedient to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Found as a hatchling during one of Drago Bludvist's earliest conquests, this particular Bewilderbeast suffered the misfortune of being raised by a madman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27391" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T00:04:19.863" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46627" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46621" CreationDate="2016-01-23T00:21:02.243" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't have official source or script to draw from.  However, my read on that scene is that they &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; waiting for the humans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole nest seems to be in a sort of button-up-and-fortify mode.  The most the Vikings sniff of a dragon is the tail that gets whisked out of sight.  This is more than likely intentional - note that the eerie sound that continues while the Vikings land and fortify continues right up until they punch the hole.  It's a very similar sound to the sound the other Alpha dragons make in the second movie, while exerting dominance or control.  The Alpha is holding it's nest on tight guard, possibly to pounce once it feels right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That all seems to go out the window when Stoick signals a fireball launched in.  Whether that was just an agressive surprise, or read as some kind of direct challenge, I couldn't say for sure.  The dragons in the tunnel though, didn't move until that moment, and it mostly seems to be an action of &lt;em&gt;I'm-getting-the-heck-out-of-the-way&lt;/em&gt; as that Alpha decides to muscle out and deal with this personally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27391" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T00:21:02.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46631" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46619" CreationDate="2016-01-23T01:46:39.203" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I guess I didn't use good search terms the first time I researched this. According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/izombie/community/post/izombie-crazy-exgirlfriend-more-episodes-the-cw-144831277446/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; iZombie's second season was effectively cut by three-episodes mid season. That could be a very good reason to chop two episodes together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sophomore drama iZombie, from Rob Thomas (Veronica Mars), received an order for six additional episodes, which takes Season 2 to 19 episodes, three short of a full season.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But iZombie's short order could have more immediate problems than whether or not it will be back next season. Earlier this fall, Rob Thomas told the Hollywood Reporter that the arc he was crafting for Season 2 was built to span a full 22 episodes and now the writers will likely have to rework the story to fit the shortened episode order [of 19 episodes]. Three episodes doesn't feel like a lot until you don't have it. So while it's okay to celebrate the fact we'll be getting to spend six more hours with David Anders' Blaine, remember that we're still getting short changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30169" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T20:40:49.143" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46632" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7915" CreationDate="2016-01-23T02:38:11.220" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's one other explanation: Hyman Roth could have told the Rosatto brothers that Michael wanted Pentangeli dead and they would be doing him a service by killing him. After all, Michael had told Roth that Pentangeli &quot;was a dead man&quot; because he had supposedly tried to kill him. At that early stage Michael wasn't actually sure who had betrayed him (Roth or Pantamgelli). Since Roth knew he himself was the betrayer, ordering the hit on Pantageli was on the surface, a good idea, especially if Michael really thought he was the traitor. The botched attempt and arrival of the police officer wasn't planned in my opinion but once it happened, Roth made the most of the situation. Regardless of which theory is true, I do agree with you all that this point has always been rather unclear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30225" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T02:38:11.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46633" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46637" CreationDate="2016-01-23T03:29:58.520" Score="15" ViewCount="3401" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Actually&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Love Actually&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from 2003 depicts Harry portrayed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000614/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t39&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Alan Rickman&lt;/a&gt; as having a flirtatious relationship with his assistant, Mia portrayed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0538443/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t10&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Heike Makatsch&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mia is the obvious aggressor in the relationship.  Harry slowly succumbs to her advances and continues showing interest in her. The flirtation between the two quickly escalates when Harry purchases a necklace for Mia, all the while attempting to hide everything from his wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a scene in the movie that depicts Mia sitting on an unkept bed putting on the necklace that Harry had given to her.  The movie never shows the two of them actually making love.  However, it is suggested due to the state of the bed and the fact that Mia is wearing some sort of lingerie along with the necklace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jz0ob.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/jz0ob.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Mia&amp;#39;s necklace&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence that Harry and Mia actually had sex?  Was this scene just a fantasy that Mia was having?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T04:35:38.017" Title="Did Harry and Mia actually have sex?" Tags="|plot-explanation|love-actually|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46635" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46649" CreationDate="2016-01-23T04:13:22.340" Score="17" ViewCount="39442" Body="&lt;p&gt;So this question may seem somewhat obvious, but I was watching &lt;em&gt;Deadwood&lt;/em&gt; and during one of the most brutal fight scenes I've seen in a while, &lt;strong&gt;Dan Dority rips Captain Joe Turner's eyeball out of its socket&lt;/strong&gt;, and it hangs out while he screams in pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A GIF of the scene is below (warning: very graphic): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://media.giphy.com/media/26tn73uFIkCkPKhoI/giphy.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://media.giphy.com/media/26tn73uFIkCkPKhoI/giphy.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It got me wondering.. just how difficult is it to &lt;strong&gt;actually&lt;/strong&gt; do this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26245" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-24T15:31:40.683" LastActivityDate="2020-06-21T23:27:17.067" Title="How possible is it to rip someone's eye out of its socket?" Tags="|realism|deadwood|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46637" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46633" CreationDate="2016-01-23T04:23:27.790" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0294430/&quot;&gt;Emma Freud&lt;/a&gt; - who was script writer/editor of the film (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.closeronline.co.uk/2015/12/revealed-did-love-actuallys-harry-really-have-sex-with-mia-the-secretary&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;source&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) - &lt;strong&gt;and&lt;/strong&gt; director Richard Curtis’s wife - was discussing the film on Twitter in December 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/emmafreud/status/676056685732102145&quot;&gt;actual twit content is&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;emma freud ✔ @emmafreud&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  7:10 AM - 13 Dec 2015&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   @carlotta429 &lt;strong&gt;DEFINITELY had an affair&lt;/strong&gt;.  i begged richard just to make it a flirtation, but no.  &lt;strong&gt;the whole way.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="235" LastEditorUserId="235" LastEditDate="2016-01-23T04:35:38.017" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T04:35:38.017" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46639" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-23T05:04:40.100" Score="4" ViewCount="2248" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometime around the later years of &lt;em&gt;The West Wing&lt;/em&gt; (season 4? 5?), Dulé Hill (Charlie Young) tends to only appear for one brief scene in most episodes. (Fans complained about it, e.g. in Television Without Pity.) Was this because Dulé Hill was co-starring as Burton Guster in &lt;em&gt;Psych?&lt;/em&gt; Was Hill, maybe, flying down from Vancouver (where &lt;em&gt;Psych&lt;/em&gt; was filmed) to L.A. (where &lt;em&gt;The West Wing&lt;/em&gt; was filmed) once a month or so to record a month-or-so's worth of scenes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24353" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2017-04-18T05:24:24.473" LastActivityDate="2017-04-18T05:24:24.473" Title="Was Dulé Hill appearing so briefly in The West Wing because he was co-starring in Psych?" Tags="|production|the-west-wing|psych|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46641" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46648" CreationDate="2016-01-23T06:24:27.600" Score="2" ViewCount="248" Body="&lt;p&gt;Episode 4 in season 1 of &lt;em&gt;Law &amp;amp; Order: SVU&lt;/em&gt; is about a policeman that kills prostitutes, and one night he killed a woman that was in good health and had good nutrition, and the mortician referred to her as a prostitute from the 90's. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30232" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-01-23T06:55:17.527" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T09:21:53.420" Title="90s Prostitute reference in Law &amp; Order: SVU" Tags="|analysis|law-and-order-svu|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46641" CreationDate="2016-01-23T09:21:53.420" Score="4" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The M.E.: &amp;quot;Stomach contents include soybeans; vegetables; whole grains. A health conscious hooker.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Olivia: &amp;quot;How 90's.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Saying that a &lt;em&gt;health conscious hooker is so 90's&lt;/em&gt; in the 1990's would be like saying, &amp;quot;How millennial.&amp;quot; in 2010. I'm not sure what it is now. The year isn't important; it's just a saying. Every decade has had its health kicks; coffee and eggs seem to have been continually debated throughout the last 100 years. Renewable energy? &lt;em&gt;How 70's.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 90's were a strange convergence of opportunity and availability, and could leave you with a feeling of &lt;em&gt;we can do anything&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;we can do better&lt;/em&gt;. See &lt;em&gt;The Dot Com Bubble&lt;/em&gt; to learn how that ended. AFAIK, the 90's were also &lt;strong&gt;the first decade in America that the trend to become health conscious became trendy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, &lt;em&gt;how 90's&lt;/em&gt; of that hooker it was to be concerned with their food choices, while they subjected their bodies to prostitution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In retrospect, I can't rule out the chance that Olivia might have meant something more along the lines of, &amp;quot;Kids these days...&amp;quot;, but I still think the comment is more about &lt;em&gt;a sign of the times&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8580" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T09:21:53.420" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46649" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46635" CreationDate="2016-01-23T10:07:54.783" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being a nurse, I am in the unique position to ask a surgeon this question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The answer is: &lt;strong&gt;YES&lt;/strong&gt;.  This is entirely possible according to a surgeon that works at the same hospital that I do. With enough force, this can be achieved. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible to pop the eye out of the socket and get it caught between the lids.  this is called &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exophthalmos&quot;&gt;Exophthalmos&lt;/a&gt;.  This can damage the eye unless it is put back into place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also cases of mentally ill individuals that actually stick their fingers through the tissues over the eye and pulled their own eyeball out of the socket.  This is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1042215/&quot;&gt;Self-enucleation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this particular case, where eye gouging is used for self-defense, &lt;strong&gt;YES&lt;/strong&gt; this is possible as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.selfdefensestreetfighting.com/self-defense-street-fighting-how-to-thumb-gouge-the-eyes/&quot;&gt;well&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Rather you should try to force your thumb between the eye socket and&#xA;  the eyeball into the skull. This will cause more pain, more fear and&#xA;  continued, increasing pressure will either destroy the eyeball or &lt;strong&gt;pop&#xA;  it out of the skull.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following &lt;a href=&quot;http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/11/30/attacker-who-gouged-out-mans-eye-back-on-street/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; explains an actual attack that resulted in a man gouging out the eye of another man:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A man whose eye was gouged out by a random assault, according to&#xA;  police, is shocked and angry that his attacker is already back on the&#xA;  street. He went through the eyeball I can’t describe to you the pain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2016-01-24T03:54:19.860" LastActivityDate="2016-01-24T03:54:19.860" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46651" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41405" CreationDate="2016-01-23T11:28:29.277" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;well for me, I think they healed as they can replicate cells.. they were suspiciousw because what happen to them is weird and they got infected if they knew about it then they will die so they had to lie, but it was hard for them to do so thats why u can see in their faces that they knew something happened..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30240" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T11:28:29.277" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28499" CreationDate="2016-01-23T17:07:03.247" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Love and perfection can be found in all women, basically being with an amazing woman is the same for every man regardless of were he/she is from. True love is a point reached in a relationship, and that point is always the same &quot;flavour&quot; no matter which as the last and the next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This answers the question where are the prettiest girls, with the answer &quot;each land has different qualities, but woman are amazing because they're woman, not based on where they are from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30249" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T17:07:03.247" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46619" CreationDate="2016-01-23T20:00:51.197" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://nerdist.com/izombie-recap-method-head/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Nerdist remarks&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The episode opened with a weird time jump. We leapt back to the&#xA;  holiday&lt;/strong&gt;s, landing right after Ravi found out that his zombie cure had&#xA;  failed. &lt;strong&gt;The show then glossed over New Year’s and jumped into the&#xA;  present.&lt;/strong&gt; It was a weird narrative choice, [...]&#xA;  The only real positive to the clunky flashback was seeing an oddball&#xA;  holiday scene in the basement of Shady Plots.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tv.com/shows/izombie/community/post/izombie-season-2-episode-10-method-head-review-145264439951/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TV.com's recap&lt;/a&gt; also discusses the time jump:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There was a brief time jump to open the episode, complete with title&#xA;  cards to show the passing of time&lt;/strong&gt;, and during these short vignettes we&#xA;  saw in the most superficial sense what it was like for Liv to be on&#xA;  the outside of an investigation and unable to help Clive by supplying&#xA;  him with information she'd gained from visions. [...]&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;The short jump forward in time was an easy way to gloss over the&#xA;  fracture in their relationship and return to the status quo&lt;/strong&gt;, but it&#xA;  didn't allow for adequately portraying the longing and sadness that&#xA;  Liv must have been feeling from the time that Clive put an end to&#xA;  their partnership in &quot;Cape Town&quot; to when he brought her back on this&#xA;  week.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T20:00:51.197" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46661" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-23T21:31:28.307" Score="4" ViewCount="783" Body="&lt;p&gt;As the title asks, how far away was Admiral Ozzel from Darth Vader during the Battle of Hoth in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;? Was he on another Star Destroyer? Or was he on the Super Star Destroyer? If Vader and Ozzel are on the same ship, where were they in relation to each other? The SSD is incredibly large, being 19,000 meters (11+ Miles) long!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Basically, how far away did Vader force choke this guy to death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T21:56:42.173" Title="How far away was Admiral Ozzel from Darth Vader?" Tags="|character|star-wars|the-empire-strikes-back|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46662" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46664" CreationDate="2016-01-23T21:43:31.940" Score="1" ViewCount="1022" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the start of the movie &lt;em&gt;99 Homes&lt;/em&gt;, a family is evicted out of their home for missing three payments on their mortgage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it turns out that the bank literally takes over the home itself the very next day,showing up with police officers and kicking the family out. Offering them a $3500 settlement. How is that legal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other than the three missed payments, the family supposedly paid the other payments on time. Even if the bank takes over the home, shouldn't they be auctioning the house, taking out the loan amount and giving the rest to the family? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30252" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-01-23T21:48:22.780" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T22:57:18.140" Title="Why does the bank offer a tiny $3500 settlement for the home?" Tags="|plot-explanation|99-homes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46663" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46661" CreationDate="2016-01-23T21:56:42.173" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vader's hyperbaric meditation chamber is stated in various sources (for example, in Star Wars: Ultimate Blueprints, below) to be on the Executor. Given that Admiral Ozzel &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20140302181851/http://starwars.com/explore/encyclopedia/characters/admiral-ozzel/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;commands the Executor&lt;/a&gt; alongside his duties as Fleet Admiral, it stands to reason that they're &lt;strong&gt;both on the same ship.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you've noted, this puts them no more than 11 miles apart but I'm unaware of any source that specifically states where the chamber is stored on board the Executor. I doubt it's &lt;em&gt;very far&lt;/em&gt; from the Bridge if Vader has junior officers visiting him to pass on messages.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vBynI.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vBynI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T21:56:42.173" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46664" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46662" CreationDate="2016-01-23T22:25:02.903" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just a generic answer on US foreclosures. From a blog article on &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://seattlebubble.com/blog/2013/10/03/foreclosure-timeline-washington-state/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Foreclosure Timeline in Washington State&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;, though this seems to be pretty standard timeline for most states, not including any negotiations required by federal or state law, half payments, back and forth, etc. This is a bare minimum, completely uncontested foreclosure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JI2fF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JI2fF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;Day 0 – Borrower misses first payment&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Day 60 – Borrower receives Notice of Default (not public record in WA)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Day 90 – Borrower receives Notice of Trustee Sale (public record in WA)&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Day 210 – Trustee Sale: Home is auctioned on the courthouse steps&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Day 230 – Borrower must vacate the home&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Day 237 – Bank begins the “trash out” and clean up process&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Day 251 – Bank lists the home on the MLS&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Day 281+ – Bank sells home&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So generally it goes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Default. Depends on the contract.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bank attempts to collect on loan. Fails.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bank moves for foreclosure. Minimum time spent on notices required by law.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Foreclosure court proceedings. Judge rules for Bank, Bank owns home.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bank can now &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;start&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; eviction process.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even when the Bank owns the home completely, anyone living in the home is still a tenant by law, including any rights granted to tenants, or squatters. The bank becomes a land lord. The people in the home are legal squatters at this point, so the Bank has to go through the legal eviction process. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A foreclosure is not an automatic eviction.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eviction Process. In NJ, (Personal Experience as Land Lord) it can be from 1 to 3 months on average.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Eviction granted, notice posted on door. Tenants have a few days to get out.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tenants ignore Eviction notice after 10 days, Police can evict them by force.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Post Eviction, any remaining items in house supposed to put in storage, house cleaned, prepped for sale.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;House goes on Market, sits empty for over a year. Maybe.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Once it sells, any value of the house over the mortgage amount + expenses, if the now evicted borrowers had any &lt;strong&gt;equity&lt;/strong&gt; in the house, is supposed to go to the borrower. The Bank can't make a profit from it. If the house goes for less than the mortgage amount, then the borrower &lt;strong&gt;still owes this to the bank&lt;/strong&gt;. The bank may write it off, then the borrower owes taxes on this written off amount to the IRS. Fun.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At any point, the Bank may offer a &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cash for Keys&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; type deal, where instead of fighting the foreclosure or eviction, the bank/Land Lord gives the borrower a few thousand as &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;go away quickly and quietly without breaking anything&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; incentive. The borrower/tenant is not required to accept it. It could also just be relieving them of any debt, depending on the amount.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The Idea that a house would go from default to foreclosure to eviction in 90 days is so wrong that it's patently ludicrous.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some states, the pre-foreclosure notice period is more than 90 days by itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;And the idea that there would be a same day eviction is even worse.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In no state is there a surprise eviction. At minimum, there would be a notice physically attached to the front door for a few days prior to a police escorted removal. That 3,500 offered is just to get them to leave quietly. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In real life, the equity in the house being returned, if the house sold for more than the mortgage amount, would happen a few months or years AFTER the eviction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-23T22:25:02.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46669" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-24T03:19:35.080" Score="1" ViewCount="1139" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Eli Roth's movie &quot;Knock Knock&quot; when Bell and Genesis are loading Louis' dead body into the van, who are they talking about when they say &quot;Ronnie can make anything disappear&quot;? I have searched but can't find anything on this and it is the only time in the movie this name is mentioned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30261" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-24T15:44:17.707" LastActivityDate="2020-11-13T10:48:37.943" Title="Why do Bell and Genesis say Ronnie is a magician in &quot;Knock Knock&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|knock-knock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46672" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46682" CreationDate="2016-01-24T04:32:55.653" Score="31" ViewCount="41151" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Big Lebowski&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from 1998 portrays &amp;quot;The Dude&amp;quot; played by &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000313/?ref_=tt_cl_t1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jeff Bridges&lt;/a&gt; as an avid fan of the band &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creedence_Clearwater_Revival&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Creedence Clearwater Revival&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a scene later in the movie where The Dude gets upset at a cab driver for listening to &amp;quot;Peaceful easy feeling&amp;quot; by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagles_(band)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Eagles&lt;/a&gt; (here's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlmvtAHhnc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;clip&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dude:  Jesus, man, could you change the channel?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Driver: F*#k you, man!  If you don't like my music, get your own&#xA;f**king cab!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dude: I had a really....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Driver: I'll kick your ass out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dude: Man, come on. I had a rough night and I hate the f**kin' Eagles,&#xA;man!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After this statement, the driver proceeds to physically remove The Dude from the cab.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Dude obviously has a strong hatred for The Eagles since he would rather get in a physical altercation with a cab driver than to listen to one of their songs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There has been speculation on why The Dude would hate the band, but no substantial evidence as to why he had such hatred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence explaining why filmmakers chose to portray The Dude as hating The Eagles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="9382" LastEditDate="2022-10-21T13:42:21.237" LastActivityDate="2022-10-21T13:42:21.237" Title="Why did The Dude hate The Eagles so much?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-big-lebowski|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="46678" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46679" CreationDate="2016-01-24T09:23:11.517" Score="4" ViewCount="2560" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lupita Nyong'o is said to be the first Mexican actress to win an Oscar, but I wasn't aware that she's Mexican. Is she actually Mexican and is the statement that she's the first Mexican to win an Oscar true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30232" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-18T18:42:49.133" LastActivityDate="2018-08-09T16:53:05.747" Title="How is Lupita Nyong'o the first Mexican actress to win an Oscar?" Tags="|academy-awards|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46679" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46678" CreationDate="2016-01-24T09:32:01.520" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because, she's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_nationality_law&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mexican National by birth under &lt;em&gt;Jus Soli&lt;/em&gt;, the common law concept of Nationality &lt;em&gt;by soil&lt;/em&gt;, enshrined in Article 30 of the Mexican Constitution&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupita_Nyong%27o&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;From Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nyong'o was born in Mexico City, Mexico&lt;/strong&gt;, to Kenyan parents, Dorothy and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, a college professor turned politician. &lt;em&gt;Nyong'o identifies as Kenyan-Mexican.&lt;/em&gt; It is a Luo tradition to name a child after the events of the day, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;so her parents gave her a Spanish name, Lupita (a diminutive of Guadalupe).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She also studied in Mexico for a year when she was 16.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on a few interviews, and because she doesn't seem to have ever resided in Mexico when she turned 18 or after, it doesn't seem she has Mexican &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Citizenship&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which is separate from Mexican Nationality. In interviews, she always refers to &lt;em&gt;nacionalidad&lt;/em&gt; instead of &lt;em&gt;ciudadanía&lt;/em&gt;. In the US, US nationality is also separate from citizenship, but this only applies to very very few people (A person whose only connection to the U.S. is through birth in an outlying possession, currently just American Samoa and Swains Island).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;She has never given up or renounced her Mexican nationality, and Mexico recognizes dual nationality/citizenship, even after birth.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; In fact, she couldn't renounce her Mexican nationality even if she wanted to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So because she is a Mexican National by birth, the claim of her being the first Mexican Oscar winner, by her or others, is legit. There has been no other Mexican woman to have won an Oscar, as actress or other roles, with only 4 ever nominated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;1954    Katy Jurado &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Broken Lance&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  Nominated   First Mexican-born and Latin/Hispanic actress to be nominated for an Academy Award&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;2002  Salma Hayek &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Frida&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Nominated   First (and only) Mexican-born actress to be nominated for Best Actress &amp;amp; the second Mexican-Born actress to be nominated for an Academy Award&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;2006  Adriana Barraza &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Babel&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Nominated   Third Mexican-born actress to be nominated for Academy Award&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;2013  Lupita Nyong'o  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;12 Years a Slave&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  Won Mexican-born Kenyan actress. First Mexican-born actress to win an Academy Award.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There have been Mexican men to win Acting and Directing Oscars. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mexican_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A comprehensive list on Wiki.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2018-08-09T16:53:05.747" LastActivityDate="2018-08-09T16:53:05.747" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="46680" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46678" CreationDate="2016-01-24T09:55:05.270" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;She self-identifies as Kenyan/Mexican, due to having been born in the country (to Kenyan parents) and having lived there for half a year after her 16th birthday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in&#xA;  Mexico City,” the 30 year-old actress explained. “I was born during&#xA;  the third year he was there. And when I was 16, I returned to Mexico&#xA;  to learn Spanish. I lived in Taxco, Guerrero and attended the UNAM,&#xA;  the Education Center for Foreigners. [I] lived there for seven months&#xA;  and I loved it. ”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Mexico was very strange to me, coming from Kenya, but I found such&#xA;  friendly people and fell in love with the food,” the Oscar-nominated&#xA;  actress told CNN en Español. “To this day, I love eating steak tacos&#xA;  before going to the red carpets.” - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/04/lupita-nyongo-mexico-_n_4726468.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Huffpo interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and yes, she's aware of the controversy her nationality is causing&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I’m Mexican and Kenyan at the same time,” she said, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://madamenoire.com/604675/lupita-nyongo-blasted-for-not-being-latina-enough/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;El&#xA;  Mañana.&lt;/a&gt; “I’ve seen the quarrels over my nationality, but I’m Kenyan&#xA;  and Mexican at the same time. So again, &lt;strong&gt;I am Mexican-Kenyan&lt;/strong&gt; and I am&#xA;  fascinated by carne asada tacos.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She talks about her upbringing and her love of Mexico in this cast interview for 12 years a Slave&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/qbHVhXlbYWA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-01-24T09:55:05.270" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46672" CreationDate="2016-01-24T10:23:28.943" Score="40" Body="&lt;p&gt;Out of universe, &lt;strong&gt;this is probably &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_Bone_Burnett&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;T Bone Burnett&lt;/a&gt; talking&lt;/strong&gt;. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/trivia?item=tr2083691&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;T Bone Burnett acted as music consultant for the movie, and helped Joel Coen and Ethan Coen establish the Dude's taste in music. &lt;strong&gt;Burnett selected many of the existing songs in the movie, and also suggested the Dude's hatred towards The Eagles (Burnett himself is not a fan either)&lt;/strong&gt;. One of the band's member, Glenn Frey, was reportedly so dismayed about this that he once even &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/glenn-frey-was-angry-at-the-big-lebowski-mocking-the-eagles/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;angrily confronted&lt;/a&gt; Jeff Bridges when they met at a party.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/inside-the-dudes-stoner-soundtrack-19691231&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Says Burnett&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;[The Eagles] sort of single-handedly destroyed that whole scene that was brewing back then.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side note, the Dude's aversion to the Eagles also helped the team to secure a desired song, saving them as much as $150,000. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Lebowski#Soundtrack&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From Wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Burnett] had a tough time securing the rights to Townes Van Zandt's cover of the Rolling Stones' &amp;quot;Dead Flowers&amp;quot;, which plays over the film's closing credits. Former Stones manager Allen Klein owned the rights to the song and wanted $150,000 for it. Burnett convinced Klein to watch an early cut of the film and remembers, &amp;quot;It got to the part where the Dude says, 'I hate the f@$&amp;amp;in' Eagles, man!' Klein stands up and says, 'That's it, you can have the song!' That was beautiful.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible a hardcore, counter-culture 60s hippie like the Dude would consider the Eagles sellouts. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/B00A3T8WR6&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Big Lebowski: An Illustrated, Annotated History of the Greatest Cult Film of All Time&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even the choice of Creedence represents the more rebellious side of classic rock. [...] Creedence symbolizes the polar opposite of the band the Dude openly hates, the Eagles. In the mid-1990s, the Eagles became the first mainstream rock band to sell tickets for more than $100. &lt;strong&gt;If Creedence had a dash of antiwar insurgency, the Eagles were all Baby Boomer contentment, a feeling encapsulated in the song &amp;quot;Peaceful Easy Feeling&amp;quot;.&lt;/strong&gt; [...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eagles fans should forgive the Dude for reacting so harshly to [that song]. It was, after all, the Dude's perceived lackadaisical hippie way of life that Jeffrey Lebowski attempted to exploit, and &lt;strong&gt;the lazy-day vibe of the Eagles' &amp;quot;Peaceful Easy Feeling&amp;quot; [...] is hippiedom as filtered by Boomer nostalgia. By this time in the film, it's been made clear that there's far more to the Dude than any peace-and-love cliche.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-24T18:24:57.647" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46683" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-24T10:48:42.077" Score="4" ViewCount="2463" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;White House Down,&lt;/em&gt; when hacker Skip Tyler gains access to NORAD command and fires a missile at the presidential plane, it just crashes into the ground.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now as it is the world's most celebrated plane, it should have counter-measures to save itself. Besides, it is seen that fighter jets are escorting the plane (as in the scene when missile hits the plane), so it just doesn't seem right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why was it not able to defend itself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30270" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-05-26T05:52:48.857" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T13:46:37.503" Title="Why didn't Air Force One defend itself when under attack by a missile?" Tags="|white-house-down|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46685" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46729" CreationDate="2016-01-24T12:21:29.983" Score="11" ViewCount="1522" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Sherlock special, I am a little confused as to how Sherlock came to the conclusion that Moriarity is in fact dead, the whole show was spent trying to figure out how the abominable wife did what she did and Sherlock ultimately trying to figure out how Moriarty could still be alive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I think the conclusion just went over my head, how did Sherlock arrive at that conclusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1969" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T12:01:27.480" Title="How does Sherlock come to the conclusion Moriarty is dead?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46686" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46699" CreationDate="2016-01-24T12:48:28.623" Score="1" ViewCount="1862" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Ted 2, Ted is arguing with a male and female neighbour. What language is that female neighbour speaking?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27305" LastActivityDate="2016-01-24T19:38:18.143" Title="In Ted 2, Ted is arguing with a male and female neighbour. What language is female neighbour speaking?" Tags="|ted-2|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44611" CreationDate="2016-01-24T12:50:51.887" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;She hid it in her vagina. Oh means that Ted got it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27305" LastActivityDate="2016-01-24T12:50:51.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46492" CreationDate="2016-01-24T14:57:07.240" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;To add to Carl Fink's answer (don't have enough reputation to comment), Tim Roth's character's real name is &quot;English&quot; Pete Hicox, while Michael Fassbender's very British character in Inglourious Basterds is Archie Hicox. That's almost certainly the connection, or at least one of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30273" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T10:22:53.547" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T10:22:53.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46689" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-24T15:03:08.307" Score="2" ViewCount="2143" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movie: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1670345/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Now You See Me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iB7Y8.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iB7Y8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene was the first meeting between Mark Ruffalo and Morgan Freeman, in the latter's office. In the first version of the scene, which I saw on DVD, all of them are sitting in a sofa, and Morgan Freeman turns a glass of water to wine by magic. Now after a year or so, I saw the same movie on TV, and they have changed the scene. It's now at a restaurant, they are sitting around a table, and there is no water turning to wine scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have I mixed something up here or are there different versions of this scene shown on TV and released on DVD? Why was this done and which of those was shown in theatres?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8670" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-24T15:46:52.817" LastActivityDate="2016-09-06T02:12:17.690" Title="Have they edited the turning water to wine scene in 'Now You See Me'?" Tags="|alternate-version|now-you-see-me|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25116" CreationDate="2016-01-24T15:30:00.587" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reff: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/lucy-2014-movie-plot-ending-explained/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lucy (2014) : Explained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think she's traveling through time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Once all the CPH4 goes in, her brain nears 90% utilization. As Lucy's brain function elevates further and further, she is able to tap into and use all forms of energy around her. She can look into the past or the stars and galaxy because they are all forms of light energy that she can access. (eg: The reflection of yourself in a mirror is you looking at the past because light takes finite time to travel from you to the mirror and back to your eyes)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2019-06-08T09:42:00.053" LastActivityDate="2019-06-08T09:42:00.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="46691" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25114" CreationDate="2016-01-24T15:34:58.927" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;reff : &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thisisbarry.com/#!Lucy-2014-Explained/ce4s/56a4cf970cf22a61ccc963b7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://www.thisisbarry.com/#!Lucy-2014-Explained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few philosophies that the East believes in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure if research was done into the Indian philosophies around&#xA;dvaitam, advaitam and vishishtadvaitam for this film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dvaitam&lt;/strong&gt;: Is the concept that most of the world follows. There is a divine power and there are the creations of the divine power. This is&#xA;dualism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Advaitam&lt;/strong&gt;: Is the concept of one single reality. Atman (the living soul) is the same as Bhraman (single reality). What life is, is merely&#xA;an illusion that we perceive. Everything living is merely a combined&#xA;conscience. To get to that realization is deemed attaining Nirvana.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vishishtadvaitam&lt;/strong&gt;: is the concept of one single reality too. The difference is that here we have the divine power has multiplicity.&#xA;This means the living exist in a pseudo-singular existence, but death&#xA;causes the being to unite with the single reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lucy explains&#xA;that “we never really die”. This pairs well with the concept of&#xA;Vishishtadvaitam where death only leads to rejoining a singular&#xA;reality. Lucy, based on the concepts of Advaitam, has attained Nirvana&#xA;and is now aware that she's part of that singular reality and doesn't&#xA;need her physical body anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-24T17:17:41.390" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46693" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46695" CreationDate="2016-01-24T17:27:20.913" Score="4" ViewCount="18215" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3397884/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sicario&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a few days ago and I've quite enjoyed it, especially the way in which the plot is gradually and simultaneously revealed to the audience and to the female protagonist, Kate Macer (Emily Blunt).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I understand, the hidden scope of the american &quot;task-force&quot; led by the CIA agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) is to take out the head of the Mexican drug cartel with the help of the hitman Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro) in order to push as far away as possible from the US borders the drug cartels with their load of merciless violence, at the cost of restoring the power to the infamous Colombian cartel of Medellin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is made quite clear in the movie that an FBI agent (Macer) must absolutely be a part of the plan. For instance at the end of the movie Macer is forced at gunpoint by Alejandro to sign a document that claims that everything in the mission has been done by the book. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what I don't understand is why the mission must be &quot;sanctioned&quot; by Macer. &lt;strong&gt;Is it because as an FBI agent she has certain &quot;prerogatives&quot; that a CIA agent doesn't possess? What is the official role of Kate Macer in the movie?&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastActivityDate="2017-07-03T01:47:47.230" Title="About the role of Kate Macer in Sicario" Tags="|plot-explanation|sicario|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46694" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46492" CreationDate="2016-01-24T17:48:43.817" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;At some point, Bob smokes a Manzana Roja (&lt;em&gt;Red Apple&lt;/em&gt; in Spanish) cigarette, and Minnie has a cigarette with Red Apple tobacco. This Fictional brand has appeared before in other Tarantino films, although I think this is the first time it's suggested to have a foothold in the Spanish-speaking market. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29850" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-19T15:31:44.220" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T15:31:44.220" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46693" CreationDate="2016-01-24T17:56:36.553" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;A conversation between Matt Graver &amp;amp; Kate Macer and her partner Reggie Wayne:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Matt: All right. Good. You guys will hang back&#xA;  when we get there, okay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kate: Then why are we going?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Matt: Cause CIA can't operate within US borders...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Matt &amp;amp; Reggie: ...without a domestic agency attached.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Matt: I told you you'd be useful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kate: So, that's it. That's why I'm here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Matt: Yeah, that's it. That's why you're here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vi46v-Lru60?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24398" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-10-05T12:00:34.633" LastActivityDate="2016-10-05T12:00:34.633" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46696" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46839" CreationDate="2016-01-24T18:02:01.080" Score="3" ViewCount="1488" Body="&lt;p&gt;Main character Quentin was talking about some Danish version of a movie or TV show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-It's not sleight of hand if you're gonna use CGI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Well, I'm sorry. It's just.. That's insulting to anyone who's ever done any kind of close-up magic, so...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-It's the original version, the Danish version, that it's, like.. it's dark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-It's like 100 times better because the Danish people, they're.. they're, uh... they have a dark soul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it known which series/movie he is talking about, or the monologue was just a part of introduction to his character?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22531" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2020-12-01T03:55:37.337" Title="Reference to a Danish version of something on the TV series The Magicians" Tags="|plot-explanation|reference|the-magicians|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46699" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46686" CreationDate="2016-01-24T19:38:18.143" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://transcripts.wikia.com/wiki/Ted_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;WIKI transcript&lt;/a&gt;, it's Portuguese.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ted: Oh, for Christ’s sake! [Ted opens the window and shout down to&#xA;  the neighbor] You shut the fuck up! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Boston Neighbor: Why do not you&#xA;  come down and make me, tough guy? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ted: Yeah, why don’t you come up&#xA;  here and make me come down there, tough guy? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Boston Neighbor: I am&#xA;  gonna come up there and I’m gonna kick your fucking ass! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ted: I want&#xA;  you to try, asshole! Get your ass up here and kick my ass! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[a&#xA;  Portuguese neighbor opens her window and shouts at them in Portuguese]&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Boston Neighbor: Shut the fuck up you stupid idiot! &lt;strong&gt;[directed to&#xA;  Portuguese neighbor]&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ted: This is a classy neighborhood, people are&#xA;  trying to sleep!  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Boston Neighbor: Shut the fuck up! &lt;strong&gt;[the Portuguese&#xA;  neighbor closes her window]&lt;/strong&gt; Hey, I’m really sorry! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ted: Yeah, me too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Boston Neighbor: She’s worse than us. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ted: Yeah, she’s our enemy now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-01-24T19:38:18.143" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46700" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46743" CreationDate="2016-01-24T21:55:47.800" Score="3" ViewCount="922" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is known that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086759/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Miami Vice&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &quot;Smuggler's Blues&quot; (S01E15) was inspired by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggler&amp;#39;s_Blues&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;eponymous song&lt;/a&gt; by Glenn Frey, who also appears in the episode as a smuggling pilot. But while this direction of the connection seems to be clear (if one is to believe Wikipedia), this song and especially its accompanying music video in turn seem so influenced by &lt;em&gt;Miami Vice&lt;/em&gt; that I initially thought &lt;em&gt;Glenn Frey&lt;/em&gt; had written the song specifically for the TV-show, as he did with &quot;You Belong to the City&quot; for S02E01.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at the rather simultaneous release of both things, it is hard to make a temporal connection, though, and I might be very well making things up here. But &lt;strong&gt;is there any information that the &lt;em&gt;Glenn Frey&lt;/em&gt; song &quot;Smuggler's Blues&quot; or its music video were influenced by the TV show &lt;em&gt;Miami Vice&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and they thus provided each other with a mutual fertilization? Is there any more background to it than just a coincidental similarity and the episode being inspired by the song? Or were they both really just independent products of their zeitgeist?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T05:38:11.937" Title="What is the actual relation between Miami Vice and the &quot;Smuggler's Blues&quot;?" Tags="|soundtrack|miami-vice|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46701" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46953" CreationDate="2016-01-24T22:17:34.140" Score="8" ViewCount="6727" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have heard that the major fights in the first 4 Rocky films are based on actual historic boxing matches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this true?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And if it is, can someone tell me which boxing matches?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30280" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-24T22:21:39.480" LastActivityDate="2019-01-12T04:33:32.133" Title="What boxing matches were the fights in Rocky based on?" Tags="|rocky|rocky-iii|rocky-iv|rocky-ii|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46704" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46701" CreationDate="2016-01-24T22:48:26.103" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't know all the details buts it's fairly well accepted round the rumor mill that Chuck Wepner is an influence. He had a 15 round fight with Ali that was brutal. Apparently this inspired part of the story for Rocky. this has been the general guide since the movie first came out. Here is a relatively (2011) recent post about it. &lt;a href=&quot;http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/page/IamChuckWepner/chuck-wepner-recognized-rocky-fame&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;ALi v Chuck, Rocky story.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24486" LastActivityDate="2016-01-24T22:48:26.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46707" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-24T23:47:56.817" Score="4" ViewCount="1642" Body="&lt;p&gt;It makes sense to me to replace the music and/or intro sequence upon arrival of new Doctor incarnations, but this isn't how they decided to replace the opening intros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems like they stuck with Murray Gold's music and CGI intro for Christopher Eccleston and David Tenant and then during David's run they decided to change the music which again was replaced with a new opening sequence and new music for Matt Smith's Doctor. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During Matt Smith's tenure of the Doctor, the opening sequence went through 4 iterations of either music changes or new CGI.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Were there any reasons for this e.g. budget constraints, crew didn't like it, fans didn't like it? or was this done on purpose to keep the show current?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was this discussed by any of the creators/crew?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="749" LastEditorUserId="749" LastEditDate="2016-01-26T21:00:54.923" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T21:00:54.923" Title="Why were the Doctor Who opening scenes and music changed between seasons and not between Doctors?" Tags="|production|soundtrack|effects|doctor-who|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46683" CreationDate="2016-01-25T00:37:55.323" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Air Force One&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is not a fixed designation. Any &lt;em&gt;Air Force&lt;/em&gt; plane that the President is on board of is given the call name &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Air Force One&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for the duration of the flight. Other typical names are &lt;em&gt;Marine One&lt;/em&gt; for the Marine Corps Helicopter he flies in sometimes, as well as &lt;em&gt;Navy One&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Army One&lt;/em&gt;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, the current two Boeing 747's (Air Force designation VC-25A) that have been modified for personal use of the POTUS does have Missile Countermeasures. The publicly known countermeasures are EMP hardening, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff_(countermeasure)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chaffs&lt;/a&gt; and/or &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flare_(countermeasure)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Flares&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_countermeasure&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Electronic Countermeasures,&lt;/a&gt; specifically &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_countermeasure&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IRCM&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IaG6P.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IaG6P.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;About five AN/ALQ-204 Matador infrared (IR) countermeasures devices are located at the tail and behind the four engines, Previously used on the VC-137C (Boeing 707-320B) presidential aircraft and on airliners and executive aircraft, the device emits pulsed IR signals to foil attacks by heat-seeking missiles.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;An AN/AAR-54(V) missile launch warning receiver located at the tail is intended to report and track missile threats by zeroing in on their ultraviolet exhaust signature. The receiver is also in use on special-operations warplanes like the MC-130H Combat Talon II.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The AN/AAQ-24 Nemesis Directional Infra-Red Counter Measures (DIRCM) system, which can be directed by the AAR-54, fires pulsating flashes of IR energy that confuse a missile’s guidance system.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/air-force-one-has-new-defensive-systems-antennas/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Defense Media Networks Article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They may, and likely do, have additional countermeasures that are &lt;strong&gt;not publicly known, for reasons of national security, obviously&lt;/strong&gt;. This may include air-to-air missiles or retractable laser anti-missle platforms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But the biggest defense is fighter jets that are ready to launch within the minute if needed to protect Air Force One. Escorts are standard outside of continental US airspace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;So while the VC-25 &lt;strong&gt;Air Force One&lt;/strong&gt; planes do have countermeasures, why they didn't work can be chucked up to one simple thing. No countermeasure is perfect.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-01-25T07:00:07.203" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T07:00:07.203" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46717" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13830" CreationDate="2016-01-25T04:34:09.980" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been trying to figure this out as well. Why link the automaton to the dwarf? For the automaton to work fully it required a brilliant dwarf. Possibly for the stealing scheme to fully work they also had to use a brilliant dwarf. Symbolizes the fake artist showing his brushstroke. There's always clues in a forgery and Oldman ignored them when they were right in front of him mulitpe times. &#xA;Also through the movie the viewer might be lead to think the dwarf is trying to steal the automaton. Gets your mind falsely pondering. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30294" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T04:34:09.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46719" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46734" CreationDate="2016-01-25T06:44:44.443" Score="4" ViewCount="180" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first episode of the new season of The X-Files we see flashbacks to the UFO crash at Roswell and there is a character who is listed officially as Clean Shaven Officer. He is reported to be a doctor or a man of science and seems to be the only one on the site not there to simply cover up truth. He protests the murder of the alien crawling from the crash and carries it from the scene wrapped in a blanket.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, in present day, Mulder meets with an Old Man, who we've not met in the original series. He appears to be a new counterpart to Deep Throat or Mr X, providing Mulder with vague clues to find the truth. This man has a beard and glasses and appears to be old enough to have been at Roswell and he tells Mulder that Roswell was a smoke screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are the Old Man and the Clean Shaven Officer the same person?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-25T12:56:33.210" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T14:46:30.600" Title="Are the Clean Shaven Officer and the Old Man supposed to be the same person?" Tags="|character|the-x-files|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9361" CreationDate="2016-01-25T08:09:06.437" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well as u guys actually had an idea opposite of mine..i guess i get to tell u that i think ure wrong.they both made promises.but mostly the guy.as he repeats what she say: i promise that you will never let go.see? You never let go.so the women leaves.as a huge sorrow for him and not wanting to break promises, he becames her.like just in mind.but forever&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30302" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T08:09:06.437" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46726" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46707" CreationDate="2016-01-25T10:10:25.343" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's &lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Title_sequence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a long page on the Tardis wikia&lt;/a&gt; which details many of the changes, and shows how sometimes it is merely a case of the makers discovering something they like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Deep_Breath_(TV_story)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Deep Breath&lt;/a&gt; saw the debut of a new title sequence originally designed&#xA;  by Billy Hanshaw, after &lt;strong&gt;executive producer Steven Moffat discovered a&#xA;  popular video of the graphic artist's conceptual Doctor Who title&#xA;  sequence on YouTube&lt;/strong&gt;. Moffat, delighted with how new and innovative&#xA;  Hanshaw's ideas were, got in touch with him to create a professional&#xA;  version of his sequence for the actual series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that this title sequence was often slightly changed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Starting with &lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Magician%27s_Apprentice_(TV_story)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Magician's Apprentice&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;the clock gears, the gas and&#xA;  the first clock face tunnel have a purple hue&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This sequence received many one-off modifications during its usage.&lt;/strong&gt; In&#xA;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Death_in_Heaven_(TV_story)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Death in Heaven&lt;/a&gt;, the Doctor's appearance was replaced with that of&#xA;  Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman) and her credit placed before his to&#xA;  reflect her ruse to the Cybermen that she was the Doctor. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Heaven_Sent_(TV_story)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Heaven&#xA;  Sent&lt;/a&gt;, Capaldi's name is held on the screen longer - as he is the only&#xA;  actor credited in the title sequence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When this title sequence was used &lt;strong&gt;in Christmas episodes, a wintry feel&#xA;  was given to the title sequence&lt;/strong&gt;. In &lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Last_Christmas_(TV_story)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Last Christmas&lt;/a&gt;, the first&#xA;  unwinding clock is icy/frosty and the TARDIS is covered in snow.&#xA;  Snowflakes appear in the second Time Vortex and the special guest&#xA;  credit for Nick Frost as Santa Claus is delayed until the sequence is&#xA;  nearly complete.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href=&quot;http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Sleep_No_More_(TV_story)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;one episode&lt;/a&gt; had a completely different title sequence:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The title sequence introduced in Deep Breath was temporarily &lt;strong&gt;ditched&#xA;  for a silent title card, which was used to to fit with the &quot;found&#xA;  footage&quot; theme of the episode&lt;/strong&gt;. This title card features the names of&#xA;  the characters and locations from Sleep No More alongside randomly&#xA;  picked numbers. The words 'Doctor Who' can be seen spelled vertically&#xA;  through the names of other characters. The title of the episode is not&#xA;  seen in this title card, and instead appears during the closing&#xA;  credits, including the writer, Mark Gatiss and director, Justin&#xA;  Molotnikov.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T10:10:25.343" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46759" CreationDate="2016-01-25T11:05:25.170" Score="24" ViewCount="30412" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the prequel trilogy of the Star Wars saga, Anakin Skywalker is considered the chosen one regarding the &lt;em&gt;prophecy&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Every time I heard the Jedi talk about the prophecy (Yoda, Qui-Gon, etc), they said that there will be one that will &lt;em&gt;bring balance in the force,&lt;/em&gt; destroying the Sith, but the last part regarding the Sith is not always mentioned. Could the reference to the Siths have been added by the Jedi, taking it for granted?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Yoda says to Mace Windu in Episode III that the prophecy could be misunderstood.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the prophecy only says that the chosen one will bring balance in the force, neither Anakin nor Luke are the &lt;em&gt;chosen one&lt;/em&gt;, because the force has two parties, Jedi and Sith, and in the end of the Episode VI Luke (like Yoda says before he dies) is the last Jedi, and if the Jedi are still alive there's no balance in the force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know that it sounds like an &quot;opinion based&quot; speech, but this thought raises thinking about the real content of the prophecy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what does the prophecy exactly say?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6582" LastEditorUserId="56522" LastEditDate="2019-03-25T19:54:20.330" LastActivityDate="2019-04-20T15:49:25.397" Title="What does the prophecy exactly say in the Star Wars saga?" Tags="|star-wars|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="46729" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46685" CreationDate="2016-01-25T12:01:27.480" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sherlock was convinced that the Abominable bride had somehow managed to successfully fake her death in order to kill her husband and never be convicted of the murder. He then assumed that she stuck around in order to commit more murders and go on with her life in secret, so attempted to catch her in the act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He successfully and quickly deduced that other murders that took place around the city with the same &lt;em&gt;modus operandi&lt;/em&gt; were done by copycat killers, but considering the amount of buildup around the case that he was investigating (seeing the bride in the garden etc.), he assumed that the original culprit was to return to commit this murder as well, for an as yet unknown reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He later discovers that the original bride never pulled off this murder, but instead it was the wife assisted by a secret society of women attempting to win more rights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he realizes that the bride &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; in fact dead, it was quite simple to deduce how she committed the first murder, how she initially faked her death and then how he came to examine the body up close in the morgue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The body he examined was in fact her body, it was initially a decoy that was replaced after she committed the murder before anyone could come and investigate it properly, in order to be able to withstand the intense scrutiny that would surely come after people witnessed her &quot;resurrection&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing that Sherlock couldn't figure out was how she had died and then come back. But considering she never came back, he realized the possibility that Moriarty had not come back either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only Moriarty that he was battling was &lt;strong&gt;the one inside his own mind&lt;/strong&gt;. The rest was simply rumor and shadow created by what we can assume is a secret society/network of sleeper agents that Moriarty had set up, in much the same way it was done by the bride and the secret society of women who had assisted her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at the end when he says something along the lines of&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Moriarty is not alive. But he's back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;he's likely referring to the fact that plans that Moriarty had put into action before his death were simply now surfacing, so his work is still around even though he is not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T12:01:27.480" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46733" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46987" CreationDate="2016-01-25T14:00:45.393" Score="5" ViewCount="946" Body="&lt;p&gt;Episodes like this raise controversy in me every time I encounter them. But, in &lt;em&gt;Spectre&lt;/em&gt;, why would James Bond not finish off Mr. Hinx after the crash? It is obvious that Hinx will remain a deadly threat to him and the lady. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the amount off killing James Bond does, there should be no moral or ethical aspects involved I believe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-01-29T13:10:38.447" LastActivityDate="2019-01-29T13:10:38.447" Title="Why didn't James Bond finish off Mr. Hinx after the crash?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|spectre|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="46734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46719" CreationDate="2016-01-25T14:46:30.600" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/01/the-x-files-review-my-struggle.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The X-Files Review: &quot;My Struggle&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, they are the same character played by two actors, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0046420/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Giacomo Baessato&lt;/a&gt; in the flashback scenes and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397555/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rance Howard&lt;/a&gt; in the present day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For proof, note that the actor Rance Howard has a mole on his left cheek, which was added using make-up to Baessato for the flashback scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="213" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T14:46:30.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46737" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46779" CreationDate="2016-01-25T14:56:21.103" Score="7" ViewCount="450" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't find a source to quote or a clip to post, but in the first episode of the new X-Files miniseries, Mulder and the Old Man (Rance Howard) have a conversation outside at night. Mulder says, at one point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ten years ago, you came to me saying you couldn't take your secrets to&#xA;  your grave, that you couldn't live with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this incident Mulder refers to from ten years ago a previously established event? Or is it new to the story?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7536" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-01-25T15:24:42.817" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T07:19:27.223" Title="Old Man's interaction with Mulder &quot;10 years ago&quot;?" Tags="|the-x-files|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46610" CreationDate="2016-01-25T15:28:23.390" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This has been answered in the show. Hence my answer within spoiler tags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Anita is not like other synths, she is really Mia a true AI created by Dr David Elster as a mother figure for his son Leo. Nefarious black market synth hacker types 'kidnapped' Mia, reprogrammed her with the Anita personality and sold her on. Mia tries to assert herself over the top of Anita, the evidence of which is the 'strange behaviour' Anita displays, usually with a maternal undertone. Anita tries to get rid of Mia, because as Mia says in Episode 6 “The Anita personality identifies me as rogue code, tries to delete me,”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Episode 6&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Intense emotional stimulus can make it easier for Mia to come to the fore, as in Episode 6 when Laura was talking about what happened to Tom, Mia scares everyone by taking control of Anita and gasping. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in Episode 6&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Mattie, Leo and Max are able to break Mia's code out from behind the Anita code, giving Mia control. Through the rest of the series there are no struggles shown between Mia and the Anita personality, it is therefore implied that the Anita personality no longer exists. However Mia does remember the things that happened whilst Anita was in control such as... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; When Anita's adult mode was turned on &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22037" LastActivityDate="2016-01-25T15:28:23.390" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46741" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-25T15:45:54.917" Score="2" ViewCount="1257" Body="&lt;p&gt;This may not be a recent trend, though I've only personally noticed it in the last couple of years. Some shows will have a voiceover on the opening credits where the general premise of the show is explained, often - but not always - by one of the main characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Examples:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Arrow. Voice over by Oliver Queen, explaining his history and how he became The Arrow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Flash. Voiceover by Barry Allen, explaining who he is/how he became The Flash.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Grimm. Voiceover by an unknown person (not a character of the show) explaining the general premise.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Doctor Who. Only for a single season, but a voice over by Amy Pond explaining her history with The Doctor during Matt Smith's second (I think) season.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arrow and Flash are broadcast on the same network, and have a lot of crossover, so it's not surprising that they'd both take the same approach. I'm not entirely sure which network broadcasts Grimm. However, Doctor Who is a BBC show, so it's not limited to a single broadcast network, or even one country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What reasons are there for choosing this style of opening credits? Note that I'm not looking for subjective opinions/reasoning but verifiable information, such as comments from the people involved with those shows on why they made that choice, or the results of research that indicates it makes a difference to viewer retention, attracting new viewers partway through a shows run, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15242" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-25T15:48:34.633" LastActivityDate="2017-08-01T02:16:47.760" Title="Why do some shows have an opening credits voice over that explains the premise of the show?" Tags="|credits|title-sequence|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46743" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46700" CreationDate="2016-01-25T15:49:19.397" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Smuggler's Blues&lt;/em&gt; was a single on Glen Frey's album, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Allnighter_(album)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Allnighter&lt;/a&gt; released on June 19, 1984.  The song was written by Glenn Frey and Jack Tempchin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Miami Vice creator, Michael Mann heard &lt;em&gt;Smuggler's Blues&lt;/em&gt; on the radio after Miami Vice had only been on the air for a few months. Mann immediately started working on an episode of Miami Vice inspired by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000520/news&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;song&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Miami Vice had only been on the air for a few months when show creator&#xA;  Michael Mann heard Glenn Frey's song &quot;Smuggler's Blues&quot; on the radio.&#xA;  The tune, like the show, dealt with the seedy world of drug smuggling&#xA;  in Florida; Mann quickly commissioned an episode with the same title.&#xA;  Writer Miguel Piñero worked lines from the song straight into the&#xA;  dialogue, and Frey himself was cast as Jimmy Cole, a pilot who helps&#xA;  Crockett and Tubbs track their man into Colombia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The music video for &lt;a href=&quot;https://imvdb.com/video/glenn-frey/smugglers-blues&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Smuggler's Blues&lt;/a&gt; was released in 1985.  Since the episode of Miami Vice of the same name aired on February 1, 1985. Although the song was released in 1984, it did not peak on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.billboard.com/artist/302924/glenn-frey/chart&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;charts&lt;/a&gt; until June 22, 1985, after the episode had aired. It is reasonable to assume that the video was inspired by the episode of Miami Vice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The episode of Miami Vice titled &quot;Smuggler's &#xA;Blues&quot; starring Glenn Frey aired on February 1, 1985. The song that inspired the show was released June 19, 1984 and was not inspired by the television show.  There is no evidence suggesting that Glenn Frey used Miami Vice as an inspiration while writing the song, &quot;Smuggler's Blues&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2016-01-30T05:38:11.937" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T05:38:11.937" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15885" CreationDate="2016-01-25T17:11:34.697" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd like to mention that in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2015/film/news/kill-bill-3-quentin-tarantino-1201669811/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;recent interview with Variety&lt;/a&gt; regarding the possibility of a Kill Bill VOL. 3, Tarantino directly addresses that Elle Driver is definitely alive and would serve something of a major role in the film's plot. &#xA;However, in the likelihood that Kill Bill VOL. 3 is never produced, I'm sure it's safe to assume that Elle met her demise at the fangs of her own snake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I've been talking to Uma about it just a little bit. Some of the stuff that I've written and never made it into the movie that maybe I could use and thinking, 'OK, now, thirteen years later, what would be going on with Sofie Fatale, what would be going on with Elle Driver?’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30309" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T17:32:57.893" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T17:32:57.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46752" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46569" CreationDate="2016-01-25T18:35:01.937" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's because she was an innocent cop whose job was to follow the clues solve crime its only after the ice truck killer incident that she became the super cop debra that we know off, &#xA;&lt;strong&gt;ALSO&lt;/strong&gt; if you observe more closely into that episode the apartment door(which is partially visible when it is about to be closed) sort of resembles the freezer door and it might be a reason why she might have neglected it, BUT mainly i believe it is because she was innocent until the ice truck killer incident it's only after that the super cop instincts kicked in  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastEditorUserId="9473" LastEditDate="2016-01-27T05:40:08.083" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T05:40:08.083" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46755" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-25T22:33:50.813" Score="3" ViewCount="630" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &quot;Jordan Valley&quot; episodes of &lt;em&gt;House of Cards&lt;/em&gt;, the characters routinely refer to &quot;Palestine&quot; as if it were an actual country.  I have never seen real American politicians do that.  Is the in-show universe different than our own, one in which Palestine became a recognized country?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="497" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-25T22:34:57.280" LastActivityDate="2016-03-16T14:35:38.923" Title="Why do they refer to Palestine as a country?" Tags="|house-of-cards|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46759" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46728" CreationDate="2016-01-25T23:20:21.593" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The prophecy was never directly read or shown in any of the films. It's all hearsay and vague references. The gist of any mention is &quot;Kenobi: He's the chosen one. Everyone else: No he's not.&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As of the Disney take over, it still hasn't been shown verbatim in any Disney Canon material.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2016-09-11T16:28:30.923" LastActivityDate="2016-09-11T16:28:30.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46764" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-26T02:07:55.807" Score="6" ViewCount="1204" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Martian&lt;/em&gt;, the &quot;main ship&quot; is the one that used a slingshot maneuver around earth to return to mars.  There was also a Chinese resupply pod that was launched from earth a few days before it the slingshot past that docked with the main ship.  Also, the main ship slingshotted back around Mars to return back to earth I assume.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did both the Chinese resupply ship and the escape pod used by Matt Damon match the slingshot induced speed of the main ship without actually going through a slingshot first themselves?  That main ship had to be moving pretty darn fast by the time it was coming around.  If the Chinese supply ship could have matched the relative velocity of the main ship with respect to earths gravitational pull, why did it need the main ship in the first place?  I could have just followed that same trajectory and flown straight to mars and dropped its supplies there as originally intended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30326" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2017-08-12T09:40:05.470" LastActivityDate="2019-01-19T09:15:03.200" Title="How did launched vehicles match speed of slingshot vehicle?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-martian|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45792" CreationDate="2016-01-26T02:26:18.723" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;All that is well and good but please tell me how this wouldn't be simpler to transcribe.  It's what i thought of when he first started to work it out in the movie:&#xA;1. Using the numbers 5,4,3,2,1... create your own &quot;ASCII&quot; style table with 52 letters, 20 digits, required punctuation and space.  You have 120 combinations right there if I am not mistaken.  So 11111 could be A.  11112 could be B.   Point to a number and pause 2 seconds then and spin camera 360 degrees and then point to next number to ensure repeating digits are recognized.  If the camera has vertical panning capabilities, have it go up then down for all spaces.  This would reset every word at least to help with missed letters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I only need 5 signs to point to which is way easier to follow than 16 or whatever. Plus I have more &quot;compression&quot; so quicker transmissions.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Write it on a sign and let them take a picture of your instructions.  What am I missing? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30326" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T02:26:18.723" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46767" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46741" CreationDate="2016-01-26T03:23:48.393" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Good question, what you are talking about is referred to as an &lt;strong&gt;Opening Monologue&lt;/strong&gt; or less often, &lt;strong&gt;Opening Narration&lt;/strong&gt; in which (typically) a character recalls either a kind of mission statement or quick summary to set up the show. I've found some references to this TV trope which you can read below.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0759563/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bert Salzman&lt;/a&gt; explains (via the book: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Everything-Creative-Writing-Book/dp/1440501521&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Everything Creative Writing Book&lt;/a&gt;) that in his work in creating short films&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You have to set your characters and conflict up very quickly. It takes too long to reveal characters through dialogue. I use what's called interior monologue voice-over early on: &quot;My name is so and so, I'm a migrant worker...&quot; This starts the story and also sets the tone by the way the character tells the story. Somewhere down the line I might use interior monologue again, because it gives expository information again and heightens the conflict. If you want to tell a big story in a short film, that's the way to do it.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, obviously he is talking about short film, but that translates fantastically into TV, as you can imagine there is typically only 30 to 60 minutes in one episode, and as he explains, you need to set up the characters, conflict, give information and evoke some kind of emotion/reaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060028/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Trek&lt;/a&gt; (the original series, and subsequent other series) an opening narration/monologue is presented by William Shatner (playing Captain James T. Kirk) in the words of the show writers, this is a &lt;strong&gt;Teaser&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pupyb.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pupyb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Letter to Gene Roddenberry from Bob Justman&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this letter you can see that Bob refers to this as a &lt;em&gt;Teaser Narration&lt;/em&gt; and from this, we can summarize that the intention of the show runners is to &quot;hype up&quot; the audience so that they are more likely to continue into the show, while knowing what it is going to be about.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29894" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T03:23:48.393" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46768" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-26T03:39:19.540" Score="5" ViewCount="1829" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Disney's &lt;em&gt;Beauty and the Beast&lt;/em&gt;, one of the central premises is that the various people in the castle were turned into objects by the curse (i.e., Lumiere, Mrs. Potts, Cogsworth, and so on).  Being a fairly large castle, it makes sense that there were a fair number of people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, after watching the movie recently, it dawned on me - were all of the objects in the castle given life? In the fight scene at the end alone, there are probably 50+ knives that attack Gaston's henchmen, not to mention all of the various other items.  I doubt there were 50+ servants who were turned into knives (not to mention various other cutlery).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there an official explanation for this, or perhaps a list of the people who were in the castle (and had names)?  And does that mean that all of those items that were given life by the curse had it taken away when the curse was broken? (A bit macabre to think about, IMO.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or am I just overthinking a beloved family movie? (That's a rhetorical question that I can answer quite easily.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30328" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-26T11:00:58.463" LastActivityDate="2016-12-06T14:28:01.027" Title="How many people were actually in the Beast's castle?" Tags="|beauty-and-the-beast|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46770" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46773" CreationDate="2016-01-26T03:48:57.273" Score="3" ViewCount="4907" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film Donnie Brasco, why did the FBI tell the mafia that Donnie was an undercover agent? What am I missing? Why does the FBI seem stupid?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30329" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-26T10:57:15.273" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T10:57:15.273" Title="In the film Donnie Brasco, why did the FBI tell the mafia that Donnie was an undercover agent?" Tags="|plot-explanation|donnie-brasco|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46773" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46770" CreationDate="2016-01-26T04:23:41.857" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Stupid?  Not at all.  The FBI tells Sonny Black that Donnie was an agent, to let them know that the FBI can infiltrate them at will.  This will create suspicion for every new member going forward, and the whole idea is to break down the walls of trust so they'll rat on each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's actually a quite brilliant move on the FBI's part.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T04:23:41.857" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46774" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46142" CreationDate="2016-01-26T05:32:24.690" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've got two theories to explain how Linus knew the answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He researched the commission thoroughly hence was aware who Hal Lindley was, and that he had died. Considering this was Linus's main role in the heist it would make sense that he spent a lot of time studying his character and learning about other employees at the commission and how it's run. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Linus was not aware who Hal Lindley was and improvised on the spot that he had passed away to avoid anymore questions about Hal that he may not know. If you've seen Catch Me If You Can (2002), there's a scene where Leonardo DiCaprio's character was asked about the teacher's dog's name. Since he hadn't actually been to the school, he lied and said the dog died to avoid any more questions on the matter that he couldn't answer. Linus may have been doing something similar. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I had to pick, I'd say Linus just already knew who Hal was. Considering Hal was someone that Benedict knew, it's likely he would be aware if Hal had died. He probably just asked to try and catch Linus out in a lie. If Linus didn't know who Hal was, he probably would have just said he hadn't worked with him before, rather then say he passed away. So I think it's safe to assume that Linus had an in-depth understanding of the commission and had researched what had happened in the past two years, that he claimed he'd been there for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30331" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-01-27T19:38:12.223" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T19:38:12.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46777" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-26T06:31:34.930" Score="3" ViewCount="5022" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie The Others, &#xA;whose family is dead and whose is alive? Victor's family or Nicolas' family?&#xA;Who is Lydia and old couples?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30335" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-26T10:59:28.253" LastActivityDate="2019-05-20T19:20:12.370" Title="The others, who is dead or who is alive?" Tags="|the-others|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46779" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46737" CreationDate="2016-01-26T07:19:27.223" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is new to the story. There hasn't been any official X-Files canon since the show's cancelation in 2002 which was 14 years ago. If they met 10 years ago then that would have occurred in 2006 which was before the move I Want To Believe (2008), but no mention was made of the character in that movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I could expound on my personal theories of who the Old Man is and where he came from but I won't. It is unfortunate that he is not set to reappear in the rest of the episodes. Hopefully if the show continues or if a movie is made there will be some more information about him and his background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T07:19:27.223" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46780" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46777" CreationDate="2016-01-26T09:18:20.060" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Grace and the 2 children, Anne and Nicholas, are dead and ghosts, but they don't know they are until they found out at the end of the movie. Her husband is also dead; he was killed in the war. Grace killed her children when she was psychotic and then killed herself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 3 servants (Mrs. Mills, Tuttle the gardener and Lydia) are also ghosts but they know. They died of tuberculosis 50 years earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Victor and his parents are alive. They are trying to buy the house but discover it is haunted by ghosts. The old woman is a medium who is holding a seance with Victor's family to get rid of the ghosts, which they fail to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21033" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2019-05-20T19:20:12.370" LastActivityDate="2019-05-20T19:20:12.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="46781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46777" CreationDate="2016-01-26T09:20:07.547" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end , it is revealed that Nicolas family is dead and Victor's family is alive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's is the whole twist of movie, that they are not aware that they are dead and they think others as dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Refer &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Others_(2001_film)#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16279" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T09:20:07.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46782" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49490" CreationDate="2016-01-26T09:34:23.693" Score="14" ViewCount="40543" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just started watching &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_of_Tomorrow&quot;&gt;Legends of Tomorrow&lt;/a&gt;, and the time vessel's captain is aided by an AI called Gideon. Is that the same or different Gideon from the one in The Flash? Also, is the name a reference to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon&quot;&gt;Gideon&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19902" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-06T06:01:14.403" LastActivityDate="2019-05-06T14:49:08.697" Title="Is Gideon on The Flash and Gideon on Legends of Tomorrow same?" Tags="|character|the-flash|legends-of-tomorrow|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46783" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46755" CreationDate="2016-01-26T09:39:37.737" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe because it &lt;strong&gt;is&lt;/strong&gt;? Well, more or less...&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Palestine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Palestine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A nice map of all the countries that recognise Palestine as a state can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/here-are-all-the-countries-that-recognise-palestinian-statehood--xkVle9I-8e&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30269" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T09:39:37.737" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46768" CreationDate="2016-01-26T09:59:30.663" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;13 or 14 named people&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far I have the following named servents: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Beauty and the Beast&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lumière&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cogsworth&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mrs. Potts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chip Potts&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Babette &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Wardrobe &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chef Bouche&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Forte&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fife&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Angelique &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Belle's Magical World&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Webster&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Crane&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;LePlume&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Possibly &lt;em&gt;Witherspoon&lt;/em&gt; though he could just be a pigeon&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the non-named objects that dance along in &quot;Be Our Guest&quot; there are three ways of these could be reconciled. &#xA;Either: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are not sentient at all, merely normal non servant household object and are dancing along because this is a Disney cartoon and things like that happen.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They are all sentient and therefore all members of the Beasts household&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Only those objects depicted with eyes are the sentient, transformed members of beasts household. Some of the cutlery has eyes as per this screenshot &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7iQIu.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7iQIu.png&quot; alt=&quot;CutleryWithEyes&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no source I can find that gives an answer as to which of the 3 choices is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22037" LastEditorUserId="22037" LastEditDate="2016-12-06T14:28:01.027" LastActivityDate="2016-12-06T14:28:01.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46786" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-26T10:46:51.193" Score="3" ViewCount="581" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Time of the Gypsies, Perhan and his Girlfriend make love at the Saint George's day feast which takes place on a river:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tTlHJ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could you tell me more about this feast, from the Gypsies' point of view?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is the Saint George Day from Time of the Gypsies according to some a real practice? Does the film portray this feast in a realistic manner?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30341" LastEditorUserId="22037" LastEditDate="2016-01-28T11:00:52.363" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T11:00:52.363" Title="Can you tell me about the Saint George day in Time of the Gypsies?" Tags="|realism|historical-accuracy|time-of-the-gypsies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46787" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46794" CreationDate="2016-01-26T11:11:21.340" Score="5" ViewCount="2268" Body="&lt;p&gt;I cannot understand this particular moment in the movie. What does it represent for the story and how is it connected to the storyline? It appears to me that it's outside of context. Maybe I missed something or, due to my inability to understand English, this particular Atticus' action looks random. According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shmoop.com/to-kill-a-mockingbird/mad-dog-symbol.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;shmook&lt;/a&gt; the mad dog is symbol of injustice. How? Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30232" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-01-28T22:22:38.170" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T22:22:38.170" Title="In allegorical sense what does the mad dog represent in &quot;To Kill a Mockingbird&quot;?" Tags="|character|analysis|to-kill-a-mockingbird|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46788" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-26T11:15:38.797" Score="6" ViewCount="6656" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Babadook, the monster wears clothes similar to those we find out the father wore, in fact the mother was scared to see his clothes hanging against the wall in one scene, mistaking him for the dark figure of the Babadook. Near the end of the film the Babadook appears to the mother as her dead husband, they hug and later he demands she bring him 'the boy'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is, is the Babadook in some way meant to symbolise the father, and if so, how do we interpret certain aspects of its 'powers', such as it's ability to possess the mother? Also how do we interpret the ending, why must the Babadook be kept in the basement and fed worms?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29994" LastEditorUserId="29994" LastEditDate="2016-01-26T12:46:42.140" LastActivityDate="2017-06-26T23:56:23.913" Title="Is the Babadook symbolic of the dead father?" Tags="|analysis|the-babadook|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46790" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46475" CreationDate="2016-01-26T11:23:41.963" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The red in &lt;em&gt;Rebel without a cause&lt;/em&gt; represents the key emotions of the characters. Jim reflects his rebellious natures. Judy's her residual anger, and Plato's peace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst you can view this separately they also wear them in 3 points of the films, Judy at the beginning, Jim in the middle and Plato at the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can view this in line with Todorovs theory of equilibrium, anger &gt; rebellion &gt; Peace = a disruption of order &gt; recognition of the disorder &gt; a resolution.&#xA;Applying this concept to the film shows the progression of character unity and arc, something that is lacking at the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30340" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T11:23:41.963" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46791" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46795" CreationDate="2016-01-26T11:26:48.537" Score="7" ViewCount="12348" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Sopranos episode &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0705295/?ref_=ttep_ep9&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Whoever Did This&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (S4E9), Tony accused Ralph of burning down the horse stables for the insurance money. Ralph denies doing it. So, who really burned down the horse stables?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30343" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-01-26T14:06:10.843" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T14:06:10.843" Title="Who burned down the horse stables?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-sopranos|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46792" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46791" CreationDate="2016-01-26T11:59:55.477" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is never proven or determined who actually set the fire.  However, Tony believes Ralph was involved, with the help of Corky Ianucci (the guy who set Artie Bucco's restaurant on fire in the pilot episode), in an effort to collect on the insurance policy.  After Ralph is killed and disposed of, they never revisit the subject in the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T11:59:55.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46793" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46786" CreationDate="2016-01-26T12:04:46.243" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Serbia Saint George's day or &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90ur%C4%91evdan&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Đurđevdan&lt;/a&gt; is a very important day for Serbian Romani. It is an Orthodox religious holiday.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This holiday celebrates the return of springtime and is considered the most important. The Romani will decorate their homes with flowers and wash their hands with water from a church well.&#xA;Lamb is traditionally cooked on this day and there is lots of music, singing, dancing and brass bands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22037" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T12:04:46.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46794" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46787" CreationDate="2016-01-26T12:23:43.750" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The mad dog is a metaphor for the madness within society. The instilled racism which forms much of the common narrative is released at this point. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Atticus is typically seen as a sensible man the way he tells his children to shoot tins rather than birds etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Upon killing the mad dog the &quot;injustice&quot; that you are referring to reflects the same treatments of black people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The injustice is how quickly the dog was executed by Atticus and thus more widely how quickly Maycombe as a whole were to blame Tom Robinson for the rape of a white woman just because he is black.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the dog is both a comment of wider society but also the inner turmoil of Atticus that leads him to side with Tom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a side note its often been cinematical symbolic of black people through the use of Animal symbols. &#xA;King Kong represented Black people coming to America to steal the white woman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30340" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T12:23:43.750" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46791" CreationDate="2016-01-26T12:27:17.390" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It remains unknown.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several questions are left unanswered on &lt;em&gt;The Sopranos&lt;/em&gt; (e.g. the Russian, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/24871/who-put-the-ojibwe-phrase-on-the-board-at-tonys-hospital-room&quot;&gt;the Ojibwe saying&lt;/a&gt; etc.) and I'm afraid this is one of them. Certainly, the odds are stacked up against Ralph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He had the motive (the insurance money, plus the horse was more trouble than it was worth);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He was annoyed by Tony basically taking over his horse (&lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; his goomah);&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Tony, no stranger to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sopranos_%28episode%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;arson made to look accidental&lt;/a&gt;, already knows &#xA;the signs.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ralph's blame for this, however, was never resolved in the show, and the ambiguity makes us even more unsure if Tony is in the right, or if this is &lt;em&gt;even about the horse&lt;/em&gt;: According to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/the-sopranos-whoever-did-this-56505&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;prevalent theory&lt;/a&gt;, this is really about &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_%28The_Sopranos%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ralph killing &lt;em&gt;Tracee&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and the fire is just an excuse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tony:&lt;/strong&gt; She was a beautiful, innocent creature. What did she ever do to you? You f@$%ing killed her. You f@$%ing killed her!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually the entire episode, as well as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoever_Did_This#Title_reference&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;its title&lt;/a&gt;, play with this ambiguity (despite the fact that in every other instance, we &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; who's to blame):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tony uses the phrase &quot;whoever did this&quot; when discussing with Christopher who exactly was responsible for Ralphie's death. Earlier, he used the phrase in reference to the guilty party responsible for the prank call to Paulie's mother. [...] The title may also refer to the stable fire and Tony's suspicions of Ralphie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T12:32:48.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46796" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43568" CreationDate="2016-01-26T13:12:02.490" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, he took &lt;strong&gt;74 million dollars&lt;/strong&gt; from the Blackhat, not 78. The remaining difference is likely due to a little detail you missed. The bank account at the end doesn't show 50 million dollars, but &lt;strong&gt;50 million (or rather ~47 million) euro&lt;/strong&gt; (screenshot as edited and provided by Richard in a comment):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/imFcg.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we look at the time of the movie's creation, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackhat_%28film%29#Production&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;which was around 2013&lt;/a&gt; and the dollar-euro exchange rates in that year (as provided by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/exchange/eurofxref/html/eurofxref-graph-usd.en.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;European Central Bank&lt;/a&gt;), they were around a rather stable ~1.35 during that period:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sB93i.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we consider additional factors, like a more liberal approximation of that rate by the filmmakers, the bank not offering the most favourable exchange rate, or Hathaway already having spent quite a bit for travel expenses and the like, then &lt;strong&gt;this amount isn't that unrealistic in the scenario of the film&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-26T13:19:45.117" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T13:19:45.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46797" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46799" CreationDate="2016-01-26T13:36:11.957" Score="15" ViewCount="2364" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everybody perhaps knows of Jon Favreau's movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle_Book_(2016_film)&quot;&gt;The Jungle Book&lt;/a&gt; which is going to be released in 2016. But quite recently I learned (and to my utter surprise) that another Jungle book movie is coming in 2017 and it's called &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_Book:_Origins&quot;&gt;Jungle Book: Origins&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, this movie has big names too with Christian Bale as Baghera, Benedict Cumberbatch as Sher Khan, Cate Blanchett as Kaa and a young Indian boy in the live action role as Mowgli. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How often does this happen, with two big productions with big cast making a movie on the same subject? I want to ask why this is happening and if there are any really significant differences between the two (apart from the cast, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="301" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2018-12-10T10:25:40.293" LastActivityDate="2019-06-19T10:14:04.750" Title="Why are two such similar movies being made at the same time?" Tags="|production|book-adaptation|the-jungle-book-2016|mowgli-legend-of-the-jungle|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="46799" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46797" CreationDate="2016-01-26T13:55:15.637" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, people have the same idea at the same time.  A few notable times this has happened:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://uproxx.com/filmdrunk/heres-why-tombstone-and-wyatt-earp-were-released-six-months-apart-twenty-years-ago/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tombstone&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Wyatt Earp&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Antz&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;A Bugs Life&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mission To Mars&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Red Planet&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Abyss&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Deep Star Six&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Leviathan&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;1492: Conquest of Paradise&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Christopher Columbus: The Discovery&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mirror Mirror&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Snow White and the Huntsman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Armageddon&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Deep Impact&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Capote&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Infamous&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dante's Peak&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Volcano&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Olympus Has Fallen&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;White House Down&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gordy&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Babe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Saving Private Ryan&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Thin Red Line&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;No Strings Attached&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Friends With Benefits&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In all these cases, the movies were released within a few months of each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2018-10-12T21:07:37.047" LastActivityDate="2018-10-12T21:07:37.047" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="46800" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46693" CreationDate="2016-01-26T15:06:32.723" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;since the FBI has authorities to operate within the boarder of the United States and the CIA does not, by Macer being present during the operation this gives the CIA certain authorities that they would not have without a joint task force. Macer is pretty much a pawn that gives the CIA the ability to conduct this operation. The fact that she didn't understand this made me dislike her character, any FBI agent when understand their authorities and what they offer when working with a task force. The fact that she fought against this operation throughout the movie was rather irritating but I understand that it adds drama, suspense, and brings additional conflict to the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30347" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T15:06:32.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46807" CreationDate="2016-01-26T16:29:20.920" Score="11" ViewCount="661" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am a huge fan of X-Files and I had watched all seasons around 10 years ago. I really want to get into the new show and I enjoy being able to follow the story line very closely. Do I need to watch again the last few episodes of season 9 of 2002 to get back into the show or is the new story rather independent from previous seasons?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-26T17:52:01.987" LastActivityDate="2016-03-03T20:47:07.047" Title="Does X-Files (2016) follow last season of X-Files (2002) story-wise?" Tags="|the-x-files|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46804" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46812" CreationDate="2016-01-26T16:53:42.357" Score="8" ViewCount="16250" Body="&lt;p&gt;How was the gravity free scene in the hotel in &lt;em&gt;Inception&lt;/em&gt; shot? Was zero gravity created?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28789" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-26T19:36:09.613" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T19:36:09.613" Title="Shooting of the gravity free scene in Inception" Tags="|film-techniques|inception|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46728" CreationDate="2016-01-26T17:42:51.143" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe they meant that balance would be an equal number of sith and jedi.&lt;Br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering that all but one jedi died (Luke lives) then this is wrong, but in episode 7 we learn of a new sith lord (Snoke) that may in fact be the old sith Darth Plagus, who was alive all along (Although presumed dead). Now Luke and Rey, and Kylo and Snoke once again balance the force out. (They may have misinterpreted the prophecy but it did bring a balance to either side...). Oh and Obiwan and Yoda both died off too, so it was balanced for a time.&lt;Br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since there can only be one sith lord and one apprentice, maybe thats how the jedi should be too, you could consider the jedi council over kill.&lt;Br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On second thought, it could also be argued that since they don't call themselves &quot;siths&quot; (Snoke and Kylo), that the sith are dead/destroyed, but the prophecy never mentioned their ideology being destroyed, the first order has simply continued the legacy of the sith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30349" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-09-16T03:42:44.530" LastActivityDate="2016-09-16T03:42:44.530" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46807" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46802" CreationDate="2016-01-26T18:14:20.097" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is kind of a loaded question. The new episodes are meant to be a continuation of the old series and they have already made reference to several things from the original series run. That said, I think they have done so with the goal of making the show accessible to those who haven't seen the original series so while knowing the back story will definitely give you a deeper understanding of the new series, I don't believe it is absolutely necessary to have seen them in order for you to understand them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, the first episode teaser is made up of a voice over of Mulder giving a quick backstory and synopsis of what happened 14 years ago while showing photos of different events. Enough information is given to allow for context that I believe that you should be able to enjoy the new episodes without re-watching the entire original run beforehand although a refresher of a few key episodes might be beneficial if you want to get deeper into the mythology of the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; Having now seen all the new episodes I would say that a general familiarity with the events of seasons 8 and 9 are important to the new episodes, however, as I mentioned originally there is context given to previous events so that new viewers are not completely left in the dark. For a richer experience you should be familiar with the previous episodes but this is not necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2016-03-03T20:47:07.047" LastActivityDate="2016-03-03T20:47:07.047" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46808" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46764" CreationDate="2016-01-26T18:25:13.137" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The original plan was to send a ship to mars with supplies. That ship explodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then the Chinese offer to help. And the crew offers to sling shot back to mars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Chinese technology is good to get the pod up out of the earth's atmosphere. it's not good enough to go all the way to mars. It's a tiny ship. At best a one way trip to mars. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The crews ship doesn't have enough juice to land on mars. If they landed on earth then it would take too long for a relaunch. By using the sling shot they save time. But the trip to mars will end up starving the crew. Hence the food is sent to them instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T18:25:13.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46804" CreationDate="2016-01-26T18:28:12.397" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the hallway scene in Inception, they actually built a long corridor on a rotating set.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/8PhiSSnaUKk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception#Locations_and_sets&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; regarding the set:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A hotel corridor was also constructed by Guy Hendrix Dyas, the&#xA;  production designer, Chris Corbould, the special effects supervisor,&#xA;  and Wally Pfister, the director of photography; &lt;strong&gt;it rotated a full 360&#xA;  degrees to create the effect of alternate directions of gravity for&#xA;  scenes set during the second level of dreaming, where dream-sector&#xA;  physics become chaotic.&lt;/strong&gt; The idea was inspired by a technique used in&#xA;  Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Nolan said, &quot;I was&#xA;  interested in taking those ideas, techniques, and philosophies and&#xA;  applying them to an action scenario&quot;. &lt;strong&gt;The filmmakers originally&#xA;  planned to make the hallway only 40 ft (12 m) long, but as the action&#xA;  sequence became more elaborate, the hallway's length grew to 100 ft&#xA;  (30 m). The corridor was suspended along eight large concentric rings&#xA;  that were spaced equidistantly outside its walls and powered by two&#xA;  massive electric motors.&lt;/strong&gt; Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who plays Arthur,&#xA;  spent several weeks learning to fight in a corridor that spun like &quot;a&#xA;  giant hamster wheel&quot;. Nolan said of the device, &quot;It was like some&#xA;  incredible torture device; we thrashed Joseph for weeks, but in the&#xA;  end we looked at the footage, and it looks unlike anything any of us&#xA;  has seen before. The rhythm of it is unique, and when you watch it,&#xA;  even if you know how it was done, it confuses your perceptions. It's&#xA;  unsettling in a wonderful way&quot;. Gordon-Levitt remembered, &quot;it was&#xA;  six-day weeks of just, like, coming home at night battered ... The&#xA;  light fixtures on the ceiling are coming around on the floor, and you&#xA;  have to choose the right time to cross through them, and if you don't,&#xA;  you're going to fall.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T18:28:12.397" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46812" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46804" CreationDate="2016-01-26T19:04:59.490" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now first of all, they &lt;strong&gt;definitely did &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; create zero gravity&lt;/strong&gt; to films this, since this is way harder and more expensive then you might expect, and not really doable for a whole set at all. The only way to achieve that here on earth (well, not actually &quot;on earth&quot; either, but without putting the set in a geostationary orbit like satellites) would be through a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_gravity_aircraft&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;parabolic flight in a plane&lt;/a&gt;, putting the passengers into extended free-fall (which is practically what weightlessness is). But you can only do that for a short time and not with a whole room, let alone an entire hotel corridor. And let's not talk about how much that would cost for the runtime of an entire scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But since Christopher Nolan is a known proponent of &lt;strong&gt;pracitcal effects minimizing the use of CGI&lt;/strong&gt; (or at least not simulating entire sets with it), it has to be simulated somehow. The BluRay of the movie contains a few making-ofs that also elaborate on the simulation of gravity in the film, provided you're talking about the scenes in the hotel on the 2nd dream level.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/uU497FNZ4hw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What they did was use &lt;strong&gt;different sets&lt;/strong&gt; for the whole scene, with different orientations, &lt;strong&gt;suspending the actors&lt;/strong&gt; on wires to let them &quot;fly&quot; through the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Christopher Nolan:&lt;/strong&gt; What I wanted to do for the zero gravity sequences was to take an ordinary environment and achieve this very congruent zero gravity effect. We did it through a number of different rigs and in the final edit what you see is shot to shot to shot it tends to be a different orientation and a completely different rig in each shot and I think that more than anything else really stops the audience of seeing the trick of how this scene is done.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some of the sets, especially the long hotel corridor was &lt;strong&gt;built upright, so that the walkway is actually vertical and the camera is at the bottom looking upward&lt;/strong&gt;. Then they just hung the actors, primarily Joseph Gordon-Levitt, upside down on wires so his movement is actually controlled towards the bottom (along the corridor in the film) and he's free to move towards the sides (inside the cross-section of the corridor).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paul Franklin:&lt;/strong&gt; The vertical corridor is supposed to be the same location as the horizontal corridor, it's an identical set. The difference is that it has been built vertical standing on its end. This means we drop actors and stunt performers on wires down into the set and the camera looks up at them. They can then be raised and lowered and swing around the sides and it looks like they're floating in zero gravity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt tried to &lt;strong&gt;simulate the behaviour of a human in zero gravity&lt;/strong&gt;, based on that of people subject to real weightlessness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joseph Gordon-Levitt:&lt;/strong&gt; In real zero-G, and I've actually spoken to people that have been in real zero-G, what they told me is they never felt so relaxed in life. What I did is the exact opposite of that. In order to make it look like that was the case I actually had to keep every muscle tight because I was supporting myself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For how they did the scene where the gravity is actually shifting from one side to the other, while the van on the first level is rolling over, you can take a look at &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/46809/49&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;MattD&lt;/em&gt;'s answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T19:24:42.183" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46815" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46817" CreationDate="2016-01-26T22:30:46.393" Score="4" ViewCount="740" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Ted, around 22:22 John Bennett says that &quot;All those rich black people can't be wrong&quot;. What did he mean by that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27305" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-26T22:53:23.467" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T22:53:23.467" Title="What does John Bennett mean with &quot;All those rich black people can't be wrong&quot;?" Tags="|ted|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46817" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46815" CreationDate="2016-01-26T22:46:24.550" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the full context:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WAITER:&lt;/strong&gt; Here is your dessert and champagne.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LORI:&lt;/strong&gt; Ooh, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cristal.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JOHN:&lt;/strong&gt; It’s a special night. We’ve been dating for four years. And hey, all those rich black people can’t be wrong, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Champagne in general, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristal_%28wine%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Cristal&lt;/a&gt; in particular, has long been perceived as a popular drink among hip-hop artists, whether for recereational use or as a symbol of wealth in various rap lyrics. You can read more about this in &lt;a href=&quot;http://firstwefeast.com/drink/hip-hop-champagne-history/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; as well as &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5056744.stm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; from BBC News. Here's a clip from the latter:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rappers love it, quaff it, idolise it. But the makers of Cristal champagne have revealed they are at best ambivalent about the patronage of the hip-hop fraternity. [...] it is the drink of people whose taste in luxury items stretches only to things that are big and shiny, with big, shiny badges on them. Rappers like Gucci, they like Prada, they drive Bentleys and Benzes and most of all they sup Cristal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-26T22:46:24.550" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46819" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-26T23:21:53.247" Score="0" ViewCount="703" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the BBC Sherlock episode &quot;The Sign of Three&quot;, Sherlock is reading the guest list (checking RSVPs) and asks &quot;Major James Sholto. Who he?&quot;  Why does he say &quot;Who he?&quot; instead of who &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; he?  It seems like lazy speaking, which is unlike Sherlock.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/epJLd.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/epJLd.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1264" LastActivityDate="2016-11-26T16:18:14.157" Title="Why does Sherlock ask the question in this way?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46821" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="61280" CreationDate="2016-01-26T23:42:31.517" Score="4" ViewCount="377" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The X-Files Season 10 Episode 02 titled &quot;Founder's Mutation&quot; there are two movies seen being played on the television at different moments. One is in the hospital maternity ward and is a scene from Escape from Planet of the Apes and another is in a dream sequence where Mulder is watching 2001: A Space Odyssey with a fictional William around age 8. The scene from 2001 is at the beginning with the man apes. I couldn't help but notice the similarities between them and wonder what their significance is to the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="34594" LastEditDate="2016-09-25T07:00:32.993" LastActivityDate="2016-09-28T07:57:19.943" Title="What is the significance of the ape movies in X-Files S10E02: Founder's Mutation" Tags="|analysis|the-x-files|2001-a-space-odyssey|planet-of-the-apes|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44551" CreationDate="2016-01-27T00:19:45.613" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;After quite a bit of research, I've decided to answer this myself. I believe that this was indeed meant to be a nod to the Edward Scissorhands movie and I will tell you why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To begin I had to look into the title of the episode, The Post-Modern Prometheus. Why postmodern? What does post modern even mean? It is a relatively complex idea and there are a lot of definitions out there depending on the context but I think the best definition I could give it here to back up what I'm about to say is that post modernism is a form of using classical styles to present a style beyond modernism. Take the form of the episode. It is filmed in black and white with cliched lightning strikes similar to the style of an old Frankenstein movie. This is the key of what makes the episode &quot;post modern&quot; is that it brings in other styles and references to make an ironic self reference to the style of story being told.  The age old tale of man creating what is perceived to be a monster when the monster only wishes to fit in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Some examples of post modern references in the episode:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The title of the episode is a play on Mary Shelley's &quot;Frankenstien&quot; subtitled The Modern Prometheus&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The black and white style is a reference to the old Boris Karloff Frankenstein movie from 1931. This was also done by Mel Brooks in creating Young Frankenstein&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The mutato's favorite movie is &quot;Mask&quot; from 1985 about a severely deformed kid becoming friends with the high school crowd. It also stars Cher whose music is used prominently in the episode's soundtrack.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The original score by Mark Snow is strongly influenced by John Morris's theme from The Elephant Man, another movie about a deformed man rejected by society, and also filmed in black and white even though it was made in 1980&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you can see the episode draws heavily on the styles of other similar movies in a post modern fashion which brings me to Edward Scissorhands. I can't help but think it is more than a coincidence that both have the fumigation tent which looks very much like a circus tent and calls up thoughts of the freak show in Elephant Man. It is my opinion that Chris Carter likely had all these films in mind when making the episode and drew items like this from all of them into making The Post-Modern Prometheus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T00:19:45.613" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46827" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="7915" CreationDate="2016-01-27T02:16:46.107" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Frankie knew during their unplanned meeting in his home that Mike was going to warm up to Roth and he felt betrayed, not so much because of what was said to him in the bar, but because he was savy enough to figure out Mike had made him vulnerable to Roth when the Rosato's tried to kill him. He realized Roth was basically given a green light by Mike when they met in Miami. Mike probably knew Frankie would be taken out after Roth replied that he was &quot;small potatoes&quot;. I think this connects perfectly to what was said to Frankie as they were trying to kill him in the bar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30364" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T02:16:46.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46755" CreationDate="2016-01-27T02:26:20.927" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer properly we need to understand something about this episode. Claire Underwood's main target in the Jordan Valley was to provide military assistance for which they need palestine support. But why treat them as state? For two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It's an effective way to gain support in the United Nations (according to the plot) to counterpower Russia's power, who oppose to this action. This is because Petrov thought that the American troops in the region would be very close to Caucasus, a region where Russia needs to keep strong.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In real life, George W. Bush Jr. and Barack Obama had/have good relations with the State of Palestine; even Bush referred Mahmoud Abbas (president of the State of Palestine) in official communications as &quot;President&quot; instead of &quot;Chairman&quot;, as was done with Arafat; Chairman was limited to an organization while the treat of President is recognizing a nation, but not a state. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21286" LastEditorUserId="106" LastEditDate="2016-03-16T14:35:38.923" LastActivityDate="2016-03-16T14:35:38.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46622" CreationDate="2016-01-27T03:05:24.873" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any direct answer to this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Valka doesn't really detail the years spent away from Berk.  Just that she rescued dragons, learned about them, and stayed in that particular nest (or if you prefer, the Sanctuary).  How she got there is never really explained, but the clearest implication is direct, that Cloudjumper was part of that nest and brought her directly back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a bunch of potential answers that could cover the gap, but they are all speculative:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Bewilderbeast's nest could have run short on food, prompting the raid where Valka was taken.  She'd already made a good start in convincing them she wasn't food, and would've just stayed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It could have been the Nightmare's raid as were all the others in the first movie, but she may have influenced Cloudjumper into not returning (there being no doubt she'd be eaten if that happened), and found Sanctuary later.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cloudjumper may originate from another nest entirely, now that this movie demonstrates there's more than one, which pretty much leaves it open for anything to happen to Valka in the intervening years, as well as any story bit you like from the first two possibilities.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless of your preferred answer (I'd think the first one myself), that would make this a bit of a plot hole.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27391" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T03:05:24.873" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46839" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46696" CreationDate="2016-01-27T09:09:54.877" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The situation when he talks about CGI and when he talks about the show are split with a dialogue with the therapist. These two scenes don't seem related:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He talks with different people (in the second scene his interlocutors' faces cannot be seen but they have different clothes and hair)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The following scene (after another dialogue scene) is done in a similar manner - it's the same party, but different situation.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This means that the only information meaningful for your question is given in this single scene when he actually talks about the show. These two sentences are little to go on, but they suggest that he probably talks about one of the recently remade Danish crime/drama shows, i.e.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_(Danish_TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Forbrydelsen aka The Killing&lt;/a&gt; remade into &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_(U.S._TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Killing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_(Danish/Swedish_TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bron/Broen aka The Bridge&lt;/a&gt; remade into American &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_(2013_TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Bridge&lt;/a&gt; and Franco-British &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tunnel_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Tunnel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most probably he means the first one as it's more popular and (in my personal opinion based on watching only the original shows) definitely darker in tone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However it is also possible that he means the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_(2004_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Brødre aka Brothers&lt;/a&gt; remade into &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_(2009_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Brothers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, chances are that the writer didn't have any specific movie or show on their mind, but rather was referring to the increase of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_noir&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scandinavian Noir&lt;/a&gt; popularity in the last years (mostly in literature, but also in cinema and TV), which is sometimes referred to as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allthingscrimeblog.com/2013/02/27/the-scandinavian-crime-wave-surfing-in-siberia/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Scandinavian crime wave&lt;/a&gt; and resulted in a number of English-language adaptations of Scandinavian crime literature and remakes of their movies and &lt;a href=&quot;http://theeurotvplace.com/2014/10/nordic-noir-and-euro-tv-remakes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;shows&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-01-28T18:01:38.040" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T18:01:38.040" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46844" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26850" CreationDate="2016-01-27T14:47:22.033" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is very fuzzy.  The flashback seemed very clear that brender did not have sex with the mother before she fled.  I chalk it up to a glitch in screenwriting.  Have not read the book, but it would seem that somewhere in production they forgot to bridge the gap that possibly the mom told Greider an edited version of the story&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30378" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T14:47:22.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46850" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46856" CreationDate="2016-01-27T17:03:01.037" Score="40" ViewCount="8335" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Martian (2015)&lt;/em&gt; we see the protagonist planting potatoes in soil that he dug out from the surface of Mars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn't the soil be incapable of sustaining life for the potatoes (let alone giving it nutrition)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I wonder, because I think the soil would have been exposed to too much sun light and rays that might make it radioactive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I have accepted the answer posted below. But I just wanted to make my question more clear: The reason I assumed the soil needs time to be capable of sustaining life, is the lack or limited effect of Mars' atmosphere in protecting the surface from harmful rays emitted by the sun, whereas Earth has an atmosphere which acts as shield.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="18998" LastEditDate="2016-01-28T12:31:48.883" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T12:31:48.883" Title="Is it scientifically possible to grow potatoes in Martian soil?" Tags="|realism|the-martian|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46856" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46850" CreationDate="2016-01-27T17:45:52.287" Score="55" Body="&lt;p&gt;Normally, no, you could not grow plants in Martian soil... but adding nutrients to the soil makes it perfectly usable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a great article about it on &lt;a href=&quot;http://modernfarmer.com/2015/10/can-you-grow-plants-on-mars/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Modern Farmer&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, yes, it is possible to grow plants on Mars—kind of. Alone, Martian soil doesn’t have the necessary elements for plant life. “The main thing that’s not in Martian soil is a bunch of nutrients and biological materials that plants rely on to grow,” Weir says. “It’s not there because, obviously, there’s no life on Mars.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to get biological material into Martian soil, Watney uses the only spare biological material he has: astronaut poop. He mixes it in with the Martian soil, plants some potatoes that NASA had sent up with his crew, and, voila, you have plant life on Mars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of slight issues...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, at the point in time Weir wrote the novel, he was unaware that there's large amounts of a salt in the soil, which would likely kill any plants or kill any humans eating them if it's not removed first:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There’s just one problem that Weir didn’t address, because he didn’t know about when he wrote the novel: Martian soil has perchlorates, a type of salt that’s hazardous to the human body. The perchlorates would either make it more difficult for plants to grow, or would make the plants toxic. The solution is actually very simple, but it wasn’t included in the book or movie. “You can literally just rinse them out of the soil,” Weir says. “Wash the soil, soak it in water, and the water would wash the perchlorates away.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is slightly problematic because water shortage was an issue for Watney, too.. but, it's surmountable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other issue is that using human waste to add nutrients introduces pathogens that could similarly make anyone eating them ill. Weir addresses this as well, by making Watney only use poop that has his own pathogens. All of the poop from his fellows was left out in temperatures that would kill the pathogens off entirely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eating food grown from someone else’s poop, in other words, can get you sick. In Watney’s’s case, he uses his own poop, so he would contract only the pathogens he already has. “You can get away with it in a desperate survival situation, where you are a single person using your own manure to grow crops that only you eat,” Weir says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Watney also uses the crew’s leftover waste from the station’s toilet, which could mean that he could have contracted his crew members’ pathogens as well. (The movie isn’t as gross as it sounds, we promise.) This is addressed with a bit of explanation in the book, but isn’t said explicitly in the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“The crew’s waste was all completely desiccated, freeze-dried, and then dumped out on the surface of Mars and bagged,” Weir says. “Any pathogens in there would have been dead.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a note, most of the science in &lt;em&gt;The Martian&lt;/em&gt; has been pretty solidly backed up because Weir did a lot of work studying the science and learning what he needed to so that he could write a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iflscience.com/space/how-accurate-martian-9-things-movie-got-right-and-wrong&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;very realistic story&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The Martian&amp;quot; is hitting cinemas right about now, and already it is being heralded as one of the most scientifically accurate sci-fi films of all time. We’ve seen the movie, and we’ve got to say, it’s amazing how far we’ve come since &amp;quot;Armageddon&amp;quot; (shudder). NASA has been so impressed, they've been using the movie as a marketing campaign for their own, actual manned missions to Mars in the 2030s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And, as a bonus, it seems that some at NASA actually believe the soil may be usable as is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, after becoming stranded on the surface, Watney resorts to using a combination of his own excrement, water, and Martian soil to grow potatoes. But would Martian soil actually be of any use? Isn’t it sterile and dead?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“In terms of basic mineral content and chemical content, yes it would be possible to grow plants in Martian soil,” said Lavery. “We actually have experiments going on right now using simulated Mars soil, and it indicates that’s a very realistic idea.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T17:45:52.287" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46863" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46915" CreationDate="2016-01-27T22:22:55.280" Score="8" ViewCount="1819" Body="&lt;p&gt;After Elsa's powers are revealed to the people of Arendelle Elsa runs away and climbs up to the shoulder of an impressive mountain crag. Then she uses her magic to build a majestic ice palace. It is unclear how long all this takes, but I think it is safe to say that Anna doesn't reach the palace until early afternoon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Anna does confront Elsa in Elsa's new ice palace Elsa seems to think she will be able to live alone in the ice palace for the rest of her life. However &lt;strong&gt;she would clearly need some support&lt;/strong&gt; in the form of food at a minimum. By this time the adrenaline of the flight from Arendelle should have worn off, and Elsa surely would be getting hungry. We know both girls love the smell of chocolate, but that doesn't signal in my mind that Elsa &lt;em&gt;must&lt;/em&gt; eat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Was Elsa just being obstinate with Anna, or is Elsa capable of living without food/logistical support?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26325" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T05:57:12.763" Title="Elsa's long term plans on the mountain" Tags="|frozen|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46863" CreationDate="2016-01-27T22:59:31.513" Score="6" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Practical Architecture&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The original concept art for Frozen shows a few additional features that were ultimately removed from the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bedroom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/splft.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Throne Room&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NLweB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Food&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Idina Menzel (the actress who voiced Elsa) stated in a recent &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/DisneyFrozen/posts/851221608228142/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;web Q+A&lt;/a&gt; that the Queen eats &quot;Soy ice cream sandwiches&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marina Vickery&lt;/strong&gt; : &lt;em&gt;What does Elsa eat in her ice castle? Serious question lol my son wants to know&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Idina Menzel&lt;/strong&gt; : &lt;em&gt;Elsa eats soy ice cream sandwiches.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Drink&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems reasonable that she could simply melt some snow when she gets thirsty. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;(ahem) Pooping&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;History doesn't record where the Ice Queen &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NobodyPoops&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;poops&lt;/a&gt; but I suspect that there's an ice toilet somewhere in the palace, complete with an ice bidet. Well, she did say that the cold doesn't bother her...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-01-27T22:59:31.513" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46866" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34492" CreationDate="2016-01-28T01:06:16.530" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the silence of the lambs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hannibal Lecter: First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clarice Starling: He kills women...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hannibal Lecter: No. That is incidental. What is the first and principal thing he does? What needs does he serve by killing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clarice Starling: Anger, um, social acceptance, and, huh, sexual frustrations, sir...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hannibal Lecter: No! He covets. That is his nature. And how do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet? Make an effort to answer now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clarice Starling: No. We just...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hannibal Lecter: No. We begin by coveting what we see every day. Don't you feel eyes moving over your body, Clarice? And don't your eyes seek out the things you want?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Arthur Leigh Allen lived right near Darlenes job. He probably saw her all the time and became obsessed with her. She was his first. Its simple. Arthur Leigh Allen did it. The other evidence  - or lack of - doesnt matter . The rest of the evidence against him DOES. Its over. Zodiac is dead and rotting in hell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30391" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T01:11:12.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46873" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45049" CreationDate="2016-01-28T06:09:41.640" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I honestly think that there was nothing special about this. I think they were just trying to make some sort of passive justification of why he wouldn't just force grip his opponents and take control of the situation. I mean, he could stop a blaster but had to saber fight Rey and Finn? No. I think this was a plot device to show that he was injured in such a way that was preventing him for using the telekinetic aspect of the force which is also why he was having hard time grabbing Luke's saber and then Rey was able to over him. He couldn't force push or pull or anything during the fight; he left with nothing but his manual skills. There may end up being some additional explanation to this in the coming movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30400" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T06:09:41.640" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46883" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46850" CreationDate="2016-01-28T08:18:42.370" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a good question because it relates to how we are destroying our own soil here on earth and how we can save ourselves.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first thing is that although table salt and rock salt are bad as are the perchlorates in the Martian soil many salts are mixed salts like those found in sea water or volcanic hot water vents. These salts are the ones that plants can actually use in low dosages. Pure salts are often more deadly to plants because they can occur in amounts and concentrations that are past the level of usefulness plants might find acceptable and are into the level of toxicity that disrupts cell membranes of plant roots or draws all available water into the salt and away from the plant.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Mixed salts are actually what provides most of the micronutrients in the ground to plants. Salts is such a broad term because there are thousands and maybe millions of different ones.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the next part about the poop. This is only a question for us in our modern age that we have to wonder about because we have moved away from farm life and living naturally on the earth so we don't have experience with the manure pile, cleaning up the out house or composting. The main this is not the diseases. The main thing is microbe population that has all of its niches filled so that the complete decomposition cycle can work. If it does work then the potato will fill its portion of the cycle fulfilling its niche and everything will carry on in its own self perpetuating way. The potato will grow and maybe then the diseases will come into the picture or maybe not.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The key here is that this is a system. He may not have brought with him in his gut enough of the system to set up the cycle in the first place. We can only hope that he has never had antibiotics cause that would kill about a third of his natural intestinal flora. Also, our world of chlorinated and Florinated water on Earth acts similar to the perchlorate problem on Mars and may have killed a bunch of more microbes ( or made them tough and resistant, who knows)in his intestines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30411" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-01-28T10:20:44.533" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T10:20:44.533" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46887" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46889" CreationDate="2016-01-28T13:02:41.857" Score="25" ViewCount="12335" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the underwater scene in &lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation&lt;/em&gt; Ethan Hunt is told that he can't take any oxygen tanks because there are metal detectors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why does it have to be metal? I know this might be a little bit naive of me, but with all their technology they aren't able to use rubber bags/balloons of air maybe?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just pump some air into a non-metal container and take it down with you!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I missed some detail, but was there any other constrains for the underwater scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2056" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T11:15:14.477" LastActivityDate="2023-10-04T00:44:52.677" Title="Underwater scene in Mission Impossible 5" Tags="|plot-explanation|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-rogue-nation|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46888" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24512" CreationDate="2016-01-28T14:31:31.337" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's do some sums.  I can't find specs for the main gun, but a similar British Army 105mm light gun fires shells weighing 15.1kg at 709m/s.  Using 1/2mv^2, that's 3.80MJ.  Let's assume all of the energy from the firing went into the projectile when the tank was on solid ground, because that's the worst case - anything else would improve our chances of stopping the tank.  Since the tank and projectile are now free-floating, half the force (and hence half the kinetic energy) goes to the tank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lightest M8 tank was 19.25 tons, which is 17,463kg.  If the tank was falling at 14.7m/s (53km/h), one shell would stop it completely.  From there on, doubling the speed needs four times the shells - so 29.5m/s needs four shells, 59m/s needs eight shells, and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's discounting acceleration from gravity between shots, of course.  The main gun manages 12 rounds a minute, which is 5s between shots.  If the tank is free-falling, that's 9.8m/s/s acceleration, which clocks up 49m/s between shots.  So even if they weren't moving when they started firing, they couldn't keep the tank up.  It seems unlikely that the single remaining chute (after the Reapers had shot the rest) would slow the tank enough that the gun could even keep up with gravity, never mind bring the speed down enough for a survivable impact on the lake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30415" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T13:41:01.190" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T13:41:01.190" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46889" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46887" CreationDate="2016-01-28T16:00:13.953" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;In order to have sufficient air to breathe in underwater situations, the air is very highly pressurized (3000 psi on average). The first and second stage of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_regulator&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;scuba regulator&lt;/a&gt; work to reduce the level of the pressure to the ambient level for the person using the air.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VYuFa.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VYuFa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Scuba regulator&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In order to hold that high-pressure air, it's necessary that the container be made of metal, otherwise it would explode... imagine an over-filled balloon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At lower pressure levels, it's certainly possible that someone could create a heavy-duty plastic cylinder but many of the fittings on a regulator are also metal, at least in part, so you'd reduce the amount of metal by a huge amount but it still wouldn't be no metal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless, there's one other problem. Air is extremely buoyant. It does not want to stay underwater... it wants to float. As a test, take a capped, empty three liter soda bottle into a pool and try to stay submerged... it's not easy... and if you &lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt; manage to get deep enough, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSFWXBKMxZI&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;watch it compress under the water pressure&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the benefit of the solid metal - the standard steel tanks &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huronscuba.com/equipment/scubaCylinderSpecification.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;generally weigh 30-40 pounds&lt;/a&gt; -  is that it usually helps counteract this buoyancy. If Ethan had simply taken a plastic container of air down with him (despite likely only getting a couple of breaths), he'd spend a good amount of energy working to stay underwater, against the buoyancy of the air. And the more energy you expend underwater, the more air you need.* &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, when you scuba dive, this is counteracted with the weight of your equipment (generally around 50 pounds) and additional lead weights, if necessary. Neither of these are options for Ethan, who can't have any metal on him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The density of the most dense non-metal is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;iodine&lt;/a&gt;, at 4.933 g/cm&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;. The density of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;lead&lt;/a&gt; is more than double that, 11.34 g/cm&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;. To combat the pull of the air, Ethan would have to haul around a ton of iodine... which, again, would take more work and more air. It's simply not feasible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*In scuba training, they encourage you to move as little as possible and to keep your movements controlled and smooth because you will breathe less and go through your tank more slowly. When I dove in the Caribbean, I would use about 2500 psi at 60 feet over the course of about 50 minutes. Our dive master used half that, only about 1200 psi. Clearly he's a much more efficient diver than I am.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-01-28T16:19:37.923" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T16:19:37.923" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46892" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-28T17:02:43.533" Score="2" ViewCount="170" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a trope where there is a group of people and someone kills one person and blood/guts go everywhere and it splatters all over the audience.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6752" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T18:25:17.770" Title="Is there a trope where a group of people get splattered with blood?" Tags="|trope|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43067" CreationDate="2016-01-28T17:46:24.450" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;the 'average' shooting day is 12 - 14 hours, union or not. It's like any other job, everyone works a 5 day week (usually Monday to Friday) and for most of the crew, except production staff; AD's, PM, Location manager, ALM, P.A.'s who get paid weekly flat salary, you are paid an hourly rate plus overtime, time and half, double time, triple time after 10 hours and 'turn around' which means if you don't have 10 hours off from wrap to the next day's call time you are compensated. The Director is paid a flat fee negotiated depending on who they are just like talent. They all have minumus and go from there. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30419" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T17:46:24.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46895" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46892" CreationDate="2016-01-28T18:25:17.770" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several tropes dealing with gore and blood splatter. &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LudicrousGibs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ludicrous Gibs&lt;/a&gt; for example is a trope for when there is simply an excess amount of gore (think Evil Dead). But I think closer to what you are referring to would be something more like &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoryDiscretionShot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gorey Discretion Shot&lt;/a&gt; combined with &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BloodSplatteredInnocents?from=Main.BloodSpatteredInnocents&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blood Spattered Innocents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think just about every episode of Supernatural starts this way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T18:25:17.770" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46896" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46887" CreationDate="2016-01-28T18:38:57.320" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Firefighters use composite pressure tanks that are quite light, so there's no problem with finding non-metallic construction that will withstand SCUBA class pressures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, the problem is with the &quot;take it down with you&quot; part. Those firefighter cylinders weight very little in air, but in water they will have &lt;em&gt;negative&lt;/em&gt; weight. That is, they float. In fact, a nearly-empty aluminum SCUBA tank will float, just barely. So if Ethan Hunt had a nonmetallic compressed gas tank with him, he'd need to also carry a lot of weight to get and stay underwater. While this could also be non-metallic, he'd need to carry 3-4 times the volume of rock compared to lead weights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;End result? He'd be carrying a small air tank and a couple of bowling balls. And I haven't even gotten to the non-metallic regulator he'd need...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30422" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T18:38:57.320" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46897" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-28T20:19:18.123" Score="1" ViewCount="412" Body="&lt;p&gt;The scene in &lt;em&gt;Velvet Goldmine&lt;/em&gt; I am referring to comes after an orgy where everyone was &quot;hooking up&quot; with everyone. Women with women, men with men, etc. Shannon isn't even with Brian or Curt. So why is Shannon crying to Mandy about Brian and Curt hooking up the night before? If anyone would be upset, shouldn't it have been Mandy since she was married to Brian?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30428" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-29T09:41:54.830" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T09:41:54.830" Title="Why is Shannon crying to Mandy about Brian and Curt hooking up the night before?" Tags="|plot-explanation|velvet-goldmine|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46900" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46905" CreationDate="2016-01-28T21:49:27.377" Score="8" ViewCount="3114" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have watched Prison Break like five times and every time this question pops up in my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Michael was a smart structural engineer with low latent inhibition and high IQ that made him keen observant of surroundings and details of his work of interest. Like the tattoo he made and of course the whole plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In season 2 episode 1 Alex Mahone, an FBI agent who is portrayed as being equally as smart as Michael, guesses (which is very least probable) that he might have thrown some evidence in the river (a hard disk).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Michael wanted to erase the evidence, he could just erase the disk in minutes. But why didn't he think of destroying the hard disk of his computer instead of throwing it into the river?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30432" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-29T09:44:12.207" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T05:27:13.067" Title="Why doesn't Michael Scofield destroy the hard disk instead of throwing it in a river?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prison-break|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46901" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46787" CreationDate="2016-01-28T21:55:01.197" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know if I agree with the symbolism answer above. Atticus has told Scout that fighting (physical violence) is wrong. He is also a lawyer who only uses persuasion in an attempt to free his client. However, the rabid dog is a direct threat to his family and society. He kills the dog to protect everyone. Scout then realizes that her father is not a coward.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18606" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T21:55:01.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46902" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-28T22:50:40.970" Score="1" ViewCount="59" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title of the movie is &lt;em&gt;John Dies at the End&lt;/em&gt;, but for some reason this doesn't happen. He dies for a short while in the middle, and then comes back, but this makes the title inaccurate, especially since the whole movie is based on the premise that the drug they take allows them to be all- knowing. So what's the deal here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30435" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-01-28T23:06:50.787" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T23:06:50.787" Title="Please explain the end of John Dies at the End" Tags="|title|john-dies-at-the-end|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2016-01-29T09:35:08.933" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46903" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-28T23:16:46.767" Score="6" ViewCount="1907" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2948790/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Return to Sender (2015)&lt;/a&gt;, Miranda (the main character) makes it seem like she has some kind of OCD, or phobia with germs and some kind of obsession with pens. What is the deal with the pens? Are they related to her phobia of germs, or was it explained and then cut out? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-29T09:42:32.180" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T17:19:04.003" Title="What's with the pens?" Tags="|character|return-to-sender|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46905" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46900" CreationDate="2016-01-28T23:50:31.363" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lh-M2rV7q8YC&amp;amp;pg=PA148&amp;amp;lpg=PA148&amp;amp;dq=prison%20break%20hard%20drive%20river&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=x-US8Z44WX&amp;amp;sig=b-N-tDBXO1xjAo_UhWlVf-KNrM8&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=prison%20break%20hard%20drive%20river&amp;amp;f=false&quot;&gt;Prison Break: The Classified FBI Files - Official Companion Book&lt;/a&gt;&quot; reports that recovery of the data on the disk was actually highly problematical, but ultimately succeeded due to the cleverness of law enforcement. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since spending millions of dollars dredging the river is massive investigative overkill, even  for the crime committed. I think we can reasonably assume that Michael simply felt that throwing the hard drive into the river would be sufficient to dispose of it forever. He obviously didn't bank on the involvement of the FBI or the resources they were willing to bring to bear:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A search of Scofield's home revealed no additional clues to the&#xA;  fugitive's plans. However, one wall was filled with holes that seemed&#xA;  to have been made by dozens of push pins. Mahone concluded that&#xA;  Scofield had made extensive plans for the escape prior to his&#xA;  incarceration and then designed them into the tattoo. Since Scofield's&#xA;  home was close to the Chicago River, Mahone ordered that the river be&#xA;  dredged, suspecting that it was a prime location for Scofield to have&#xA;  dumped the evidence. A hard drive was recovered from the river, and&#xA;  the serial numbers matched an order that Scofield had placed with Dell&#xA;  a few months before he was incarcerated. Files found on the hard drive&#xA;  revealed additional information important to the investigation, as&#xA;  detailed elsewhere. It took some time to recover all the data.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note also that the serial numbers (and the make of the drive) would probably have been sufficient to provide a circumstantial conviction even had he drilled or microwaved the HDD to remove the data.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also worth pointing out that (in the real world), unless one is willing to invest a very considerable amount of resources, a hard disk that is submerged for even a few minutes is largely unreadable and one that is submerged for 6 or more months is &lt;em&gt;generally&lt;/em&gt; (but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alphr.com/news/security/353962/the-hard-disk-that-survived-six-months-in-the-sea&quot;&gt;not always&lt;/a&gt;) considered to be beyond any sort of repair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-01-28T23:50:31.363" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46913" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46185" CreationDate="2016-01-29T00:48:03.070" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I honestly think that in the movie, they were just doing their best to make the monsters as menacing as possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are very different from the monsters in the book, which resemble vampires more than zombies like in the movie. In the book, there were even several of the creatures that could think and speak, which made them all the more terrifying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By making them nearly invincible in the movie, and giving them large mouths so they could scream, i think they were trying to recover for the fact that the monsters didn't have the same capabilities as in the book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's just my guess though. I love this movie, but as in most cases, i think the book is much better and can't understand why they changed it so much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30435" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T00:48:03.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46914" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46917" CreationDate="2016-01-29T02:28:09.213" Score="5" ViewCount="510" Body="&lt;p&gt;Years ago, my mom was watching this show and it seemed pretty interesting so I went ahead and watched it with her. I can't remember the name but I remember what happened in the episode. It might have been the pilot and I think it was one during the time &lt;em&gt;Lost&lt;/em&gt; was just getting started and it would have played on one of the main stations like ABC, NBC, or FOX.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Plot:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a plane was landing, it disappeared and then reappeared. So the main characters came to investigate. Everyone on board witness something different or had something different done to them. Through the episode they were discovering that it was what the person was thinking right before they disappeared. For example, one lady was thinking about her dead husband and then she claimed that she saw her dead husband. Another guy was was afraid of flying and was thinking about the plain crashing, and then his body was burned to a crisp. Later on the passengers where slowly forgetting about what they saw and even the dead guy was slowly coming back to life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Do you know what this tv show is?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30444" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-01-29T05:12:59.240" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T05:13:01.880" Title="Mystery show where an airplane disappears" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:10:41.183" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46863" CreationDate="2016-01-29T03:01:38.807" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Elsa had no long term plan. She spent the latter half of her childhood and all of her teen years as a pariah due to her powers. Her parents died leaving her unequipped to deal with the responsibility of a kingdom. The first time they had opened the gates to the castle in nearly a decade, and snow hits the fan pretty much immediately. Elsa freaks out and climbs a snow covered mountain out of fear. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The same night, her sister comes to find her.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This not a well thought out plan. It was a spur of the moment fight or flight response by a teen who thinks she's a monster. The reality of her situation did not hit yet. Logistics wasn't considered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, it's possible that she's no longer human with a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for food. Most snow monsters don't eat. She also lacks a need for warmth. Most people would die without a fire or warm clothes for extended time in a freak blizzard. She can also create life by accident.  Olaf and the little snow bastard Snowgies from the short sequel, Frozen Fever. Of course, Elsa catches &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;a cold&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, so her biology is so strange it's hard to explain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Historically, Soybeans weren't grown outside of botany curiosities in Norway and Europe until the late 1800s, turn of the century 1900. Ice Cream Sandwiches were first documented in turn of the century 1900 USA. Soy Ice Cream was first created around 1920s USA. &lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Arendelle#Time_period&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Frozen was set in Norway July of 1839&lt;/a&gt;. So soy ice cream sandwich is... &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;unlikely&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-01-29T05:57:12.763" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T05:57:12.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46917" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46914" CreationDate="2016-01-29T05:13:01.880" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like the 2nd episode ('The Friendly Skies') of the short-lived mystery show &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracles_%28TV_series%29&quot;&gt;Miracles&lt;/a&gt; from 2003.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When a plane disappears for 64 seconds just before landing, [the invastigative organization] SQ is called to investigate. They discover that each of the passengers had a different experience during that time, and their experience was exactly what they were thinking when the plane disappeared.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The passengers later forget what they saw. Here are the first 10 minutes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZKiI85_63XQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T05:13:01.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46919" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="71023" CreationDate="2016-01-29T05:50:14.470" Score="15" ViewCount="1200" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode 3 of Fargo, titled &lt;em&gt;&quot;A Muddy Road&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/180-degree_rule&quot;&gt;180° rule&lt;/a&gt; is broken during this particular scene, at about 43 minutes into the episode (according to HULU). I couldn't find a clip of the scene online. Sorry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the scene Gus, the cop from Duluth, is speaking to Molly at her father's  diner. When Molly addresses Gus' daughter Greta, the new camera angle seems to break the 180&amp;#176; rule. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This moment occurs at precisely 43:43 minutes into the episode (once again according to HULU's timecode). I was always taught that the 180° rule is only ever broken when the director has very good reason which usually has to do with storytelling. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know why this scene would be filmed in such a way?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28433" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-29T09:52:33.593" LastActivityDate="2017-07-31T06:29:38.660" Title="In Fargo, why is the 180° rule broken during this scene?" Tags="|analysis|cinematography|fargo-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46924" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46925" CreationDate="2016-01-29T10:14:05.623" Score="16" ViewCount="17938" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched the episode &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_with_Ross%27s_Wedding&quot;&gt;The One with Ross's Wedding&lt;/a&gt;: Part Two&lt;/em&gt; of Friends, in which &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Laurie&quot;&gt;Hugh Laurie&lt;/a&gt; has a minor role. I noticed that he is mentioned in the credits as a &lt;em&gt;Guest star&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a French person, I only know Hugh Laurie from &lt;em&gt;House MD&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Stuart Little&lt;/em&gt;, which are both subsequent to the &lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt; episode. Can someone tell me why in this episode, Hugh Laurie is considered a &lt;em&gt;Guest Star&lt;/em&gt; more than a simple background actor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28388" LastEditorUserId="1539" LastEditDate="2016-01-30T08:34:34.103" LastActivityDate="2017-02-06T16:59:37.490" Title="Why was Hugh Laurie credited as a Guest star in Friends?" Tags="|casting|credits|friends|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46925" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46924" CreationDate="2016-01-29T10:27:11.950" Score="44" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hugh Laurie has been well known in the UK since the 1980s, appearing in such popular TV shows as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Young Ones &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A Bit of Fry and Laurie &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Blackadder (series 2 - 4)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Jeeves and Wooster&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And parts in the films:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Peter's Friends &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;101 Dalmations&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Spice World&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before 1998 when these episodes were made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As these episodes were set in the UK, a well known (and quite loved) British actor is likely to be credited as a guest star rather than &lt;em&gt;just&lt;/em&gt; an extra.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22037" LastEditorUserId="22037" LastEditDate="2017-02-06T16:59:37.490" LastActivityDate="2017-02-06T16:59:37.490" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46926" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-29T11:23:30.247" Score="6" ViewCount="1547" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok, I know this is a longshot, but I hope that somebody out there is able to help me. What I want to know is if anybody has ever heard of this. It is either a TV show or movie that I'm about to describe. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, so I remember a long time ago I had this VHS tape (I'm guessing it's VHS)  and I don’t remember if it was a movie or TV show, but it was a cartoon. It was like one of those monster battle type TV shows, like Yu Gi Oh or Bakugan, something like that, but I'm guessing wasn’t too well known because I can't find it anywhere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Okay, so all I remember from watching it is in the beginning there was a kid and he was at a school and walking down a dark hallway all alone, there were a bunch of doors, he went through one and it was like a portal that took him to another dimension or world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In that place there was a bunch of monsters that were like his friends. &#xA;(I think that when he got to the other world, he ended up right next to the gates of a cemetery or somewhere similar).&#xA;There was one monster who was a skeleton boy that wore a red baseball cap backwards was the boys best friend. &#xA;While the boy was in this other world, he would go with his group of monster friends to a battle arena and duel. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At one point I think he was battling this big green gooey monster that I think was like a booger monster or something, and I remember the monster running at the boy while puckering its lips and making kissing noises and saying “give me a kiss!” or something like that. That’s all I remember. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’m remembering all of this from a really long time ago, and who knows, I could have made this up, it could have been a dream, but I'm pretty certain that it's not. If anybody knows what I'm talking about, please tell me the name of it so I can possibly watch it again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30460" LastEditorUserId="9718" LastEditDate="2016-01-29T15:18:55.063" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T20:55:06.863" Title="Old cartoon where a boy with a skeleton friend in a baseball cap battles monsters" Tags="|identify-this-movie|identify-this-tv-show|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:20:50.900" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46927" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-29T11:30:07.503" Score="7" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;I might have seen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061512/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cool Hand Luke&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, as a kid for the first time on Italian TV, probably when I was 10-12 years old (so we're talking about 1984-86) when the movie was already a &lt;em&gt;classic&lt;/em&gt; (although in the Italian version it was Nick, not Luke - still wondering why), and then many times afterwards on tv.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Only in 1994, watching &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110950/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Reality Bites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in a cinema, I stumbled upon the bit where Ethan Hawke says &quot;Nobody can eat 50 eggs&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkwQwGMrZz4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;clip&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). Intrigued by the quote, I &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2ze2Zx4gqSE/SZlvp7XW9xI/AAAAAAAAACg/fJ26Om6lhMs/s400/Lycos_old.JPG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lycosed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Google was yet to come) it and found out that it was referred to Cool Hand Luke. After digging some more, I read the description of the scene, one of the most iconic of the movie, and found out that we Italian viewers have been robbed of circa 15/16 minutes of the film: the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL1ybqLjrAk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;50 eggs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (a very nice and funny montage/homage I've found on YouTube) and the &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOWkPk2ETXc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tar sequence&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot; scenes, as I came to realize only later. The running time of the italian dubbed version is in fact &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.filmtv.it/film/9420/nick-mano-fredda/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;110&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; minutes whereas the original version is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061512/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;126&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; minutes long.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If on the one hand is an extremely pleasant surprise to find out that you can watch previously unseen scenes of a film you love &lt;em&gt;(1)&lt;/em&gt;, on the other hand it is equally disappointing to realize that the same movie has been butchered without understanding why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Blu Ray version of Cool Hand Luke both of the abovementioned sequences are dubbed in French, German, Spanish and Portuguese (not in Italian) so my guess is that the Italian version is the only one that suffered these (any) cuts. In Italy there's always been a strong influence of the Catholic Church, also in Television and Cinema, so it's not at all surprising for me to imagine that maybe the censorship commission decided to cut the &lt;em&gt;&quot;egg scene&quot;&lt;/em&gt; in order to prevent the &lt;em&gt;extremely sensitive&lt;/em&gt; eyes of the Italian public to be offended by Newman's Christ-like pose at the end of the sequence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k8W9d.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k8W9d.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, since the same effect would have been obtained by simply cutting the last 30 seconds or so of the scene, I think it's unlikely that this would be the reason behind the cut. First of all because the whole movie is filled with &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Hand_Luke#Christian_imagery&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Christian imagery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and secondly because, if this might be construed as a possible reason to cut the &quot;&lt;em&gt;egg scene&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, it doesn't make a bit sense for the &quot;&lt;em&gt;tar sequence&lt;/em&gt;&quot; that follows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the reasons above I am inclined to think that the cuts were decided by the Italian Distributor, Warner Brothers Italia, maybe because the movie was considered too long, but I couldn't find any evidence of it anywhere. I've tried to find the answer in the Database of Cinematic Review of this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.italiataglia.it/search/1944_2000&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Italian website&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; but, although I've found &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6d0w1.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;evidence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of the cuts, there is no explanation regarding the reason behind them, apart from the fact that in 1967 the movie was found &quot;&lt;em&gt;not suitable for minors of 14&lt;/em&gt;&quot; because of the &quot;&lt;em&gt;several sequences of cruelty and violence&lt;/em&gt;&quot; that might have disturbed the development of the abovementioned minors (sic). I've also sent an e-mail to the website administrators asking for information and to Warner Brothers's Italian division but I've yet received no answer at all (and somehow I doubt I ever will).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm assuming that if the film has been censored, there should be somewhere a public document asserting the reasons behind the cuts decided by these &lt;em&gt;wise guys'&lt;/em&gt; (pun intended) Board. It would be of course more difficult to know the reasons it the cuts were decided by the Distributor. I understand that this is a really long shot, also because I've learned that different countries have different systems (&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/8874/is-there-any-censorship-board-present-for-films-and-tv-shows-for-hollywood/8880#8880&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;link&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_censorship&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;), but I thought it was worth to give it a try also here on SE.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My questions are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does anybody has any evidence as to who decided to cut those scenes from the Italian version (Censorship Board, Italian distributor, somebody else) and why they did it?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was Cool Hand Luke censored only in Italy?&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(1) - And I'm not talking about the 30 seconds of previously unreleased footage of Jabba the Hutt burping Bob Marley's reggae classic &quot;Buffalo Soldier&quot; that serves only to justify the umpteenth release of the latest Star Wars box set :P&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23244" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T11:59:41.000" Title="What are the reasons behind the shorter Italian version of Cool Hand Luke?" 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  <row Id="46928" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35878" CreationDate="2016-01-29T13:24:32.563" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's possible that you've underestimated the cultural relationship when you say in a comment &quot;I see two different nations, in different continents, with an ocean in the middle, with different histories, customs, linguistic traditions (even without invoking Wilde), uses, laws etc.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not just acting: in several aspects of culture (I'd say especially literature and music as well as film/TV), the UK and the US are highly influential on one another. This also includes some other English-speaking countries such as Ireland, Australia, NZ.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So The Beatles (English), The Rolling Stones (English), U2 (Irish), AC/DC (Australian), J. K. Rowling (English/Scottish), Dylan Thomas (Welsh), Arthur Conan Doyle (Scottish), Charles Dickens (English), Jane Austen (English), Monty Python (English, Welsh and American) have all been very well-regarded in the US in their time. Still are. Coldplay (English) are doing the Super Bowl half-time show this year. The Who did it in 2010, The Stones in 2006, Paul McCartney in 2005, U2 in 2002. Sting and MIA have both appeared in recent years although they weren't headlining it. Simply, there's a mass-market audience in America for British (and Irish) stuff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even so I wouldn't say the US is clamouring for British culture (and actors) as such. For example, they maybe don't pick up top UK TV shows with quite the frequency they do top UK actors, and you can see that the US version of The Office has made a lot of cultural adaptations from the original. But the barriers to &quot;breaking America&quot; aren't all that high, &lt;em&gt;provided&lt;/em&gt; what you're doing is something the American audiences find worthwhile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this context, I don't think it's at all anomalous that a lot of British actors find work in the US. It's much the same as the way that a lot of British musicians and writers find work and sales in the US (or at any rate consider it worth trying even if many are unsuccessful). As long as we don't deliberately use a difficult accent, the Americans understand us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brits in American movies are a less recent phenomenon, but I would say that since around the time Hugh Laurie got &quot;House&quot;, there's pronounced trend for UK actors starring in top US TV shows. You could add &quot;The Wire&quot; to your list, with two British actors among an admittedly larger-than-average lead cast. Those 12 years or so it's become enough to be remarked on here in the UK, so it's not just you who thinks there's more than there used to be. When I say &quot;what there used to be&quot;, it's possible that I mean &quot;Star Trek: TNG, Frasier, and, um...&quot;. I can't account for that particular upswell of US appreciation of Brits on TV, but I suspect it combines &quot;this seems to be working, let's do more of it&quot; on the American side, with &quot;this is a big opportunity in a much larger market than home&quot; on our side, and &quot;globalisation keeps getting easier&quot; in general.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe there is in addition a general trend for US TV to be less parochial than it was up to, say, the 80's and early 90's, while US movies were more international earlier on. If as an American you're going to look abroad then Britain is an obvious early place to look (large English-speaking country, strong cultural, historic and business connections). That would account for a big influx of Brits once the doors open. But perhaps that's unfair to 1980's US TV, I really don't know all that much about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One special case is &quot;Game of Thrones&quot;, which for sensible reasons is filmed in Northern Ireland among other places, in a pseudo-British-history setting. Therefore it makes all sorts of sense to fill it with British actors, which contributes to the recent trend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I possess one, I can say it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; true that many Americans do enjoy the sound of a British accent, especially when they encounter it in their own country. And it's not just that they personally like it when they hear it, it's that &quot;liking British accents&quot; is recognised among Americans as a thing. Many aren't bothered one way or the other, though, so it's not a universal characteristic of the nation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically on acting, I think that to some extent the Shakespearean and performance focus of British styles &lt;em&gt;might&lt;/em&gt; throw something different into the mix that helps some British actors find certain roles. I'm thinking of the Patrick Stewart / Ian McKellen / Judi Dench kind of thing, where sometimes it really is a case of &quot;let's get a Brit in&quot;, and the reason is in part that US film-makers admire a particular thing that Britain does well. Obviously those three are very talented to begin with, which does them no harm at all, but it's a niche that as far as I know the US dramatic tradition isn't quite so focussed on filling as the British tradition is (or used to be). Since the US considers Shakespeare to be a vital part of the literary/dramatic canon of their language, if not their country directly, maybe a British actor is no great shock for them even in non-Shakespearean roles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is enough of a trend that there's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShakespearianActors&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;TV Trope of the &quot;Shakespearean actor&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. OK, I admit, that's not a high bar for strength of trend, and some American actors fall within it too. But no doubt the recognition of that kind of acting does help get a foot in the door for many British actors on first crossing the Atlantic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8750" LastEditorUserId="8750" LastEditDate="2016-01-29T15:16:46.507" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T15:16:46.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46929" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46924" CreationDate="2016-01-29T13:56:04.997" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The general principle is that a &quot;guest star&quot; is someone who has been invited to undertake a role in the film or TV show. They aren't a star because of their major role in the production, they're a guest who happens to be a star.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where they also have a large role,  they might be credited as &quot;Guest Star&lt;strong&gt;ring&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since it's highly unlikely Hugh Laurie (or Fergie) would have been expected to audition, that makes them guests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="8750" LastEditDate="2016-01-29T16:12:55.697" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T16:12:55.697" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30037" CreationDate="2016-01-29T15:33:36.197" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'd always wondered exactly why we got so much of the little relationship details between Butch and Fabienne. I decided that the subtext of the scenes was that she was pregnant. It explains a lot, including that Butch was getting out of boxing and getting serious about settling down, and why he dreamed of his father's gold watch before the fight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After rewatching the film, I decided that she probably was, and that was part of the point of seeing those scenes. I then decided to look up what the name Fabienne means, because of the theory that all the names in Pulp Fiction mean something, except for Esmarelda the Cab driver, who tells us that all names mean something.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fabienne is a female version of the Roman family name Fabius, which means 'Bean Grower'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pregnant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30465" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T15:33:36.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1305" CreationDate="2016-01-29T16:04:22.147" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think when Starling arrived at Lippmans house and Gum answered and invited her inside she began to get creeped out. Foster's demeanor immediately changed when she went inside &quot;like a 6th sense&quot;. Also Gum asked the question if the &quot;they&quot; were close to catching someone, then mocked the police. Guilty people often ask about the investigation in a causal manner or even show up to the crime scene. and off course the plastic wrap and moth gave it away. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;side note- just watch dateline or 48 hours and see how many guilty suspects voluntarily go to the police station and sit in an interview room for hours at a time just so they can find out what the Police know. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30470" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T16:04:22.147" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46935" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46926" CreationDate="2016-01-29T16:18:38.883" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your description sounds a little like a 1980's cartoon called &lt;em&gt;Mighty Max&lt;/em&gt;. It is about a boy that finds a magic hat that has the power to open a portal to another dimension. There, he encounters several strange creatures. The hat is red with a yellow 'M' on the front.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Max_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mighty Max on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The series follows Max, an adventurous preteen boy who receives in the mail a small statue of a fowl, inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs whereof the translation states: &quot;You have been chosen to be the cap-bearer. Go to the mini-mart and wait for a sign, Mighty Max&quot;. Shocked by the message, Max drops the statue, shattering it and revealing a red baseball cap emblazoned with a yellow &quot;M&quot;, which he dons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mighty Max&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5MRqI.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5MRqI.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Mighty Max&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30467" LastEditorUserId="30467" LastEditDate="2016-01-29T16:37:28.913" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T16:37:28.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46937" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46985" CreationDate="2016-01-29T19:14:22.987" Score="8" ViewCount="257" Body="&lt;p&gt;As &lt;em&gt;Bridge of Spies&lt;/em&gt; builds toward its climax, there is a scene in front of a Berlin 'cineplex' which is showing four films (titles translated to English)...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;One, Two, Three&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spartacus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Damned&lt;/em&gt; (actually &quot;Village of the Damned&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Secret of the Black Box&lt;/em&gt; (imdb info &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054913/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it conceivable that these films would have been in theatrical release with German subtitles or dubbing at the time the negotiations depicted in the film  were being conducted?  Most of the 'historically correct' &quot;Bridge of Spies&quot; takes place in 1960/1961, but the director used artistic license to include events from 1962.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Afterthought:   Were cineplex establishments a common feature in European cities in 1961?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="9866" LastEditDate="2016-01-29T20:21:30.480" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T18:50:41.987" Title="Were these films actually available in Germany during the time represented in &quot;Bridge of Spies&quot;?" Tags="|realism|bridge-of-spies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46938" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46941" CreationDate="2016-01-29T20:07:05.517" Score="4" ViewCount="350" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have some doubts about Fitzgerald's choices in The Revenant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't he kill Bridger?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; After he stabbed Hawk and considering that Glass was defenseless, he could have easily surprised Bridger and get rid of him, then pretend they were attacked and he was the only one who managed to stay alive, which makes sense considering his experience. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He had the skills to do it, and many opportunities. I don't understand his choice to keep him alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27665" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-29T21:26:10.107" LastActivityDate="2018-03-23T13:22:19.073" Title="Fitzgerald's choices" Tags="|character|the-revenant|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46941" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46938" CreationDate="2016-01-29T21:40:25.360" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Fitzgerald sure had some chances to kill Bridger, but &lt;strong&gt;why should he?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once he got Bridger to buy his story there was just no need to get rid of him. You have to remember that they still had quite a journey to go to reach the camp, with the Ree still on their trail. &lt;strong&gt;Bridger was of much bigger help as an active part of his company&lt;/strong&gt; than just undertaking this journey alone would have been. Especially once he got Bridger to go with their story on the one hand by convincing him that there was no way to save Glass and on the other hand by guilt-tripping him into not revealing the whole truth either, there just was no need to kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And add to this that a Bridger (who the commander knew was an honest guy who cared for Glass) who confirms Fitzgerald's story gives &lt;strong&gt;much more credibility to it&lt;/strong&gt; than if Fitzgerald (who the command knew was a rascal who didn't give a damn about Glass) had just returned alone claiming that everybody else died an honorable death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition to that, while Fitzgerald killed Hawk that wasn't entirely planned but more of an accident in the heat of the argument (and even then he was just some &quot;filthy redskin&quot; for him anyway). He did want to kill Glass, but in his eyes Glass was pretty much dead already anyway and just a corpse they had to guard for nothing. As much of a bad guy Fitzgerald was, &lt;strong&gt;he wasn't just going around stabbing the people of his track from behind&lt;/strong&gt;, especially when they're still of use to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastActivityDate="2016-01-29T21:40:25.360" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46943" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-29T22:28:12.750" Score="4" ViewCount="129" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched the movie &lt;em&gt;Pawn Sacrifice&lt;/em&gt; and noticed that throughout the movie they would cut the scene to play &quot;vintage&quot; looking clips of Bobby Fischer playing Chess. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One example occurs shortly after Fischer quit from the World Championship due to perceived cheating by the Russians. Roughly half way through his speech, the scene cuts to what appears to be &quot;real&quot; footage of him speaking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Were these clips actual footage of Bobby Fischer or were they created in an attempt to add credibility/style to the movie?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29061" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-29T22:50:51.803" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T19:03:20.977" Title="Were the clips played throughout Pawn Sacrifice actual footage?" Tags="|pawn-sacrifice|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46948" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-30T03:04:10.483" Score="5" ViewCount="638" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Revenant we see native women in the village formed by American soldiers, but why were there no American women brought?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-30T11:38:02.153" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T10:07:18.873" Title="Why were there no American women in the Revenant?" Tags="|the-revenant|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46949" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-30T03:08:48.907" Score="3" ViewCount="502" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the scene in &lt;em&gt;The Revenant&lt;/em&gt; where Glass tricked Fitzgerald by setting up his commander's body on his horse, why did the horse keep on walking? Doesn't the horse need to be signaled in order to keep going?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T16:09:08.557" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T18:47:46.303" Title="Why did the horse keep on walking when Glass was not on it?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-revenant|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46951" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47017" CreationDate="2016-01-30T03:28:56.203" Score="3" ViewCount="465" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mission: Impossible&lt;/em&gt; (1996) established that the crew could simply open/close elevator doors at whatever floor of the building, and Jack already had access to the elevator shaft. So why didn't Jack Harmon (Emilio Estevez) simply enter the embassy basement by himself? The whole scheme they devised was unnecessarily complex.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30482" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-10-24T15:40:01.980" LastActivityDate="2017-10-24T15:40:01.980" Title="Why didn't Jack Harmon simply enter the embassy basement by himself?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mission-impossible|mission-impossible-1996|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46952" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18271" CreationDate="2016-01-30T03:51:11.703" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Billy was a human servant of a vampire. When bitten he is not fully drained of blood but is given vampires blood as a result he has enhanced strengh, can walkabout in the daytime and can as long as his master unless killed if killed he can return as a full vampire due to the vamp's blood in his system but his primary function is to protect his master during the day or take care of his daytime affairs if ordered to he will bring unwilling victims to his masters lair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30484" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T03:51:11.703" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46953" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46701" CreationDate="2016-01-30T04:46:03.620" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer is YES and NO.  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rocky&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Rocky III&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; both contain inspirations from the life of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Wepner&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chuck Wepner&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rocky II&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Rocky IV&lt;/em&gt; do NOT contain any inspirations from the life of Wepner.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chuck Wepner was the original inspiration for the original &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rocky&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; movie from 1976 according to Sylvester Stallone.  Stallone had just finished watching a boxing match between &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/03/muhammad_ali_vs_chuck_wepner_t.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Muhammad Ali and Chuck Wepner&lt;/a&gt;.  Immediately after watching the match, Stallone &lt;a href=&quot;http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/page/IamChuckWepner/chuck-wepner-recognized-rocky-fame&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wrote&lt;/a&gt; the script for &lt;em&gt;Rocky&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At a theater in Los Angeles, struggling actor Sylvester Stallone&#xA;  watched the Ali-Wepner fight and promptly went home and banged out the&#xA;  script for a little movie called &quot;Rocky.&quot; It wasn't based on a true&#xA;  story -- not directly. But it was inspired by and borrowed heavily&#xA;  from a true story. By the time the movie was released on Dec. 3, 1976,&#xA;  word had spread that Wepner was Stallone's muse, and Wepner basked in&#xA;  the glory of hearing his first name chanted in the New York theater&#xA;  where he watched the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the movie &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_III&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rocky III&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, there is a scene where Rocky Balboa has a match with &quot;Thunderlips&quot; played by Hulk Hogan.  This is billed as a friendly match done for &lt;a href=&quot;http://rocky.wikia.com/wiki/Thunderlips&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;charity&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chuck Wepner fought Professional wrestler, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_the_Giant&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Andre the Giant&lt;/a&gt; on June 25, 1976.  This match, like the Balboa vs. Thunderlips match in &lt;em&gt;Rocky III&lt;/em&gt; was nothing but a publicity stunt.  The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cagepotato.com/reliving-chuck-wepner-vs-andre-the-giant-the-great-american-freakshow-we-somehow-forgot/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wepner vs. Andre the Giant&lt;/a&gt; match is basically re-created for &lt;em&gt;Rocky III&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For better or for worse, Chuck Wepner vs. Andre the Giant was one of&#xA;  the first mainstream American mixed rules bouts. Whether or not you&#xA;  can still sit through it today depends on whether or not you&#xA;  appreciate oldschool professional wrestling, but odds are good that if&#xA;  you’re a cinema buff, you have an appreciation for Stallone’s&#xA;  recreation of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chuck Wepner and Sylvester Stallone have had an interesting relationship.  Wepner actually sued Stallone for royalties from the Rocky franchise stating that he had never received any compensation for Stallone using his story as the inspiration for the franchise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 2003, Wepner sued Stallone for cashing in on his life story and&#xA;  never sharing a dime with &quot;the real Rocky.&quot; Stallone settled with&#xA;  Wepner for an undisclosed amount.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2016-01-31T03:20:34.693" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T03:20:34.693" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46954" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46900" CreationDate="2016-01-30T05:27:13.067" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;When we earse an hard disk the data is not completely gone, it can be recovered and Micheal knew this hence if you their it chances are it will break when it hits the ground and easier logging inside electronic gadgets is never good hence he decides to do this, personally I feel that scene is a bit over rated cause it's a river filled with flowing water and this should cause the hard disk to end up in a long place away from his apartment&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T05:27:13.067" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46959" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46961" CreationDate="2016-01-30T09:03:25.123" Score="9" ViewCount="6504" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the legendary movie &lt;em&gt;Tropic Thunder&lt;/em&gt; the following conversation takes place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;What do you mean, 'you people'?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;What do YOU mean, 'you people'?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But what DOES he mean, 'you people'?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/xPxs0Qh72kY?start=31&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30489" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-01-30T19:05:58.363" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T19:05:58.363" Title="What does he mean, &quot;you people&quot;?" Tags="|dialogue|tropic-thunder|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46961" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46959" CreationDate="2016-01-30T09:20:51.107" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a race gag. Tugg Speedman is referring to the &lt;em&gt;group collectively&lt;/em&gt; as being unadventurous, however Kirk Lazarus gets super-defensive about being referred to as &quot;you people&quot; (e.g. he implies that Tugg meant &quot;you &lt;strong&gt;black&lt;/strong&gt; people...&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile Alpa Chino steps in to take umbridge at Kirk getting upset over Tugg's perceived 'racist' language given that &lt;strong&gt;he isn't actually black&lt;/strong&gt; but has merely had a skin darkening treatment. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We're laughing at three things here; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kirk being so &quot;in character&quot; that he's started to become a stereotypical &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AngryBlackMan&quot;&gt;angry black man&lt;/a&gt;, acting super-sensitively toward perceived racism, even where it's clear that none exists.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alpa's disgust at the fact that Kirk (a white man) is mistakenly accusing people of racism.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tugg's discomforture at being accused of racism (by someone white).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-01-30T15:37:12.737" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T15:37:12.737" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46963" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46965" CreationDate="2016-01-30T09:39:28.770" Score="8" ViewCount="1115" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did the jurors get to be selected in 1957's 12 Angry Men? None of them seems to have law as their profession so what makes them competent to sit in a jury?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27305" LastEditorUserId="74112" LastEditDate="2020-09-30T19:57:25.073" LastActivityDate="2020-09-30T19:57:25.073" Title="How did the jurors get to be selected in 1957's 12 Angry Men?" Tags="|12-angry-men|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="10" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="46965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46963" CreationDate="2016-01-30T10:38:13.707" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the US legal system, as with many others around the world, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_trial&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;jury&lt;/a&gt; is selected from the general population of registered voters by random ballot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the initial trial phase, known as &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_selection&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;jury selection&lt;/a&gt;&quot; both legal teams (defence and prosecution) have the right to question and then remove certain members of the jury. It's common that anyone with a genuine legal background will be removed by one or other of the teams. Certain other professions are also often &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/2015/11/02/452898470/supreme-court-takes-on-racial-discrimination-in-jury-selection&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;struck out&lt;/a&gt;&quot; such as policemen, doctors and those with a long-standing military background.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your specific point about how a jury has the &lt;em&gt;capability&lt;/em&gt; to make a judgement on fine points of law, the simple answer is that they aren't expected to do that. The jury receives very close &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/resources/law_related_education_network/how_courts_work/juryinstruct.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;direction&lt;/a&gt; from the judge as to what they're supposed to be making a decision on, something which invariably boils down to the question of whether they &lt;em&gt;feel&lt;/em&gt; that there was sufficient evidence for a conviction and whether they &lt;em&gt;feel&lt;/em&gt; that the witnesses were credible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-01-30T13:51:53.523" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T13:51:53.523" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46969" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="46973" CreationDate="2016-01-30T12:02:29.273" Score="18" ViewCount="8832" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, we see a colony-camp built on Wolf Edmunds' planet. Is it built by Dr. Brand after her arrival or was it built by Edmunds for the arrival of the human race?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastEditorUserId="6630" LastEditDate="2016-01-30T19:55:31.490" LastActivityDate="2016-07-06T11:32:17.980" Title="At the end of Interstellar, who built the colony?" Tags="|plot-explanation|interstellar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46969" CreationDate="2016-01-30T13:56:01.463" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you've grandly described as the &quot;colony&quot; consists of Brand's lander (at the top of the frame), two pre-made modules from the Endurance (on the right) and a couple of popup tents along with various crap that's been shuttled down from space. Given that the tents are flying a &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d3TrC.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;different Project Lazarus flag&lt;/a&gt; than the one seen next to Edmund's grave, I think it's reasonable to assume that Brand has erected the majority of this stuff on her own, although given the extreme proximity to Edmund's grave, it's certainly possible that &lt;em&gt;some of it&lt;/em&gt; was there before she landed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1783293691&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;novelisation&lt;/a&gt; also makes it clear that Brand is on her own at this point (e.g. that Coop hasn't arrived yet).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Still breathing, Amelia set her helmet aside and watched the unfamiliar, beautiful sunset.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “By the light of our new sun…”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  She turned from the fading star and went back to camp. &lt;strong&gt;There was a lot to do, and she was the only one to do it.&lt;/strong&gt; But she felt, somehow, it was going to be okay.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “In our new home.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t6P3p.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/t6P3p.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the comparison with what Dr. Mann was able to do in much the same timescale...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Cbu6w.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Cbu6w.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-01-30T15:14:17.660" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T15:14:17.660" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46973" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46969" CreationDate="2016-01-30T14:31:13.037" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now first of all, &lt;em&gt;Richard&lt;/em&gt; is right in his answer that it isn't really much of a huge colony but just a little camp built from the resources they brought with the Lander from the Endurance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While some it could have been built by Edmunds, there are indeed some elaborations in the film that &lt;strong&gt;the majority of it was indeed set up by Brand&lt;/strong&gt;. When her camp and her fate on the planet are shown it is Murph who talks about Brand and says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brand...She's out there setting up camp...Alone in a strange galaxy...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But even more so, the movie actually shows Brand digging out what looks like Edmunds' living container together with a torn flag, right before she buries the deceased Edmunds. So we can deduce that &lt;strong&gt;the majority of Edmunds' camp was actually not really usable at all and covered in rubble&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d3TrC.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/d3TrCm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/URcOO.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/URcOOm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Nolan brothers' screenplay of the film (as published in Jordan Goldberg's &lt;em&gt;Interstellar: The Complete Screenplay With Selected  Storyboards&lt;/em&gt;) confirms this, too:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EXT. EDMUNDS' DESERT PLANET - DAY&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Brand, in suit and helmet, stands watching Case excavate a pod, buried under a massive rock fall. She is crying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-07-06T11:32:17.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46985" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46937" CreationDate="2016-01-30T18:50:41.987" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;You've caught an error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first three were available at the time. Imdb lists release dates in West Germany as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055256/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;One, Two, Three&lt;/a&gt; Dec 18, 1961&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Spartacus&lt;/a&gt; Dec. 16, 1960&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054443/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Village of the Dammed&lt;/a&gt;  Feb. 3, 1961&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if the date of Feb. 10, 1962 given by Catija is correct, the last film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054913/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Secret of the Black Box&lt;/a&gt; was not released until Feb. 23, 1962, 13 days &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the exchange.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19836" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T18:50:41.987" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46943" CreationDate="2016-01-30T19:03:20.977" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the clips were added to add credibility and style. They all showed Tobey Maguire, the actor portraying Bobby Fischer, not Fischer himself (apart from when the scenes showing Fischer as a child, when it was obviously not Maguire).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/pawn-sacrifice/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;History v Hollywood&lt;/a&gt; has a study comparing the film with the even more fascinating real life of Fischer. They have some good pictures showing the difference between Maguire and Fischer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DNZhn.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DNZhn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mk6ua.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mk6ua.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LDrz0.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LDrz0.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That doesn't mean to say that the footage showing news broadcasters introducing stories on Fischer aren't real (I haven't found any evidence yet to confirm if they are or are not), but the clips of Fischer himself all appear to show Maguire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T19:03:20.977" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46987" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46733" CreationDate="2016-01-30T19:43:47.307" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bond is trying to escape from Mr. Hinx during the car chase. He attends a Spectre meeting, is outed by Blofeld and then escapes to his Aston Martin under pretty heavy gunfire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst in the car, he tries to enable several gadgets to aid him in defeating (and potentially killing) Mr. Hinx. However, none of the gadgets work as Bond took the car before it had been fully configured (as it was intended for agent 009, not 007). The only gadget that works is his ejector seat, so he leaves his car and makes his escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst you correctly say Hinx will remain a deadly threat to him, so will everyone else at the meeting he encountered (and there were easily a hundred people there). After escaping his car, it plunged into the canal (and no doubt gathered a crowd). It wouldn't have made sense for Bond to return to the scene to shoot Mr. Hinx, likely amidst a crowd of on-watchers, and try to escape. It would be unnecesarily reckless, so he instead chooses to focus on his mission.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One final comment as an aside is related to your final line and what @Johnny Bones says in his comment. Bond in the films is an unusual character. He is usually portrayed as being quite a moral individual, only killing when he has little choice. There are some notable exceptions to this, the most famous of which is his killing of Professor Dent in &lt;em&gt;Dr. No&lt;/em&gt;, where he shoots an unarmed man in cold blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the novels on which the films are based Bond frequently remarks how extremely uncomfortable he is killing in cold blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, from &lt;em&gt;Goldfinger&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was part of his profession to kill people. He had never liked doing&#xA;  it and when he had to kill he did it as well as he knew how and forgot&#xA;  about it. As a secret agent who held the rare double-O prefix—the&#xA;  licence to kill in the Secret Service—it was his duty to be as cool&#xA;  about death as a surgeon. If it happened, it happened. Regret was&#xA;  unprofessional—worse, it was a death-watch beetle in the soul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-01-30T19:43:47.307" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46989" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-30T21:49:43.057" Score="4" ViewCount="109" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Mr Holland's Opus, the eponymous Mr Holland is invited onto the stage to conduct the Premiere performance of his &quot;An American Symphony&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/d3t-Rldgzc4?start=121&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this song supposed to have been played in real-time (e.g. it took him 30 years to compose 2.5 minutes of music) or are we merely watching &lt;em&gt;edited highlights&lt;/em&gt; of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmp92FUPNz4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;larger work&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T22:51:45.107" Title="Was the &quot;American Symphony&quot; played in real-time?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mr-hollands-opus|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46993" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47000" CreationDate="2016-01-30T22:40:21.330" Score="32" ViewCount="11388" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does &lt;em&gt;12 Angry Men&lt;/em&gt; consist of only one cut? Apart from maybe an opening scene and closing scene, when they are in the room, I don't see any cuts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that is so, does it mean when some actor makes a mistake that they have to do the whole thing all over again?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27305" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-31T14:03:24.253" LastActivityDate="2016-09-09T09:29:12.320" Title="Does 1957's 12 Angry Men consist of only one cut?" Tags="|film-techniques|editing|12-angry-men|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="46996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46993" CreationDate="2016-01-30T23:57:00.407" Score="45" Body="&lt;p&gt;Assuming you're referring to the 1957 B&amp;amp;W version, the simplest answer is that the film was indeed unique (for the time) in consisting of some extremely long mobile sequences with a mounted camera. The initial scene with the jury introduction, for example is nearly 10 minutes long and involves no less than 30-40 different conversations in the foreground and probably ten times as many in the background. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, there are cuts &lt;em&gt;throughout&lt;/em&gt; the film, for example the one below at timecode 00:10:45. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5KNKB.gif&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/5KNKB.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're referring to &quot;&lt;em&gt;takes&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, several critics and commentators have noted that the film is famed for having required just 365 separate takes (and 2 weeks of solid rehearsals) in order to get the film in the can. When compared to some filmmakers (Kubrick famously took &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;148 takes&lt;/a&gt; to get a single scene right in The Shining), this can be seen to be nothing short of miraculous.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-01-31T00:03:39.110" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T00:03:39.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47000" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46993" CreationDate="2016-01-31T02:46:37.350" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Richard has done a great job of explaining that it is more than one cut but I'd like to add why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact is that, even today, it's pretty much impossible to make a feature-length film in one cut... even with digital recording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 50s, it was even more limited. All films were shot on actual film and filmmakers had to work around the limited length of the reel - either 500 or 1000 feet - which, at 24 frames per second limits directors to 11 minutes of shooting time per shot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Modern digital cameras are limited in their shot length by the size of their digital media and the recording quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, here's the stats for the Arri Alexa.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wcavr.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wcavr.png&quot; alt=&quot;Recording length for an Arri Alexa Digital&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To paraphrase, with a 64 GB card, you'll get between 24 and 210 minutes of recording time depending on the codec you use. Now, 210 minutes is a really long time but the quality at this level would be very low. Some cameras may also have issues with overheating when used on very long shots and, if running on batteries, the batteries would certainly not last 210 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, while possible (and actually accomplished in a 96 minute long Russian historical drama called &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Ark&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Russian Ark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;), it would take some extreme measures to actually do it. For example, to limit the number of restarts, the director of &lt;em&gt;Russian Ark&lt;/em&gt; recorded video only to avoid sound issues and recorded directly onto a large external hard drive that was able to hold up to 100 minutes of uncompressed high-def footage and had to be carried around with the camera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-01-31T03:21:51.770" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T03:21:51.770" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47002" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47006" CreationDate="2016-01-31T03:36:42.633" Score="7" ViewCount="1149" Body="&lt;p&gt;Help me out here. This has been stuck in my head for days now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I recall, the crew of a space ship are in hibernation. A crew member is awoken to relieve a fellow crew mate. However, he discovers evidence of violence and death. He awakens another crew member who is in a relationship with, despite company protocols. Together they try to figure out what occurred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They discover that the former duty crew recovered a probe/satellite, which had originated from Earth a long time ago. The object has been tampered with, possibly by an alien race. Once infected the victim becomes ultra-violent and attacks everyone in sight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The pair launch the remaining crew (still in hibernation capsules) to a nearby ship to avoid contamination, where they are awoken with no ill effects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both remain crew are infected and start to turn on each other. Only their love prevents them killing one and other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At some point, they realize that they can't kill the organism only cause it to enter a dormant state by lowering the temperature, which they subsequently do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is mooted that aliens sent the probe back towards earth with the intention of killing off life on Earth (Well humans anyway).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film ends when the lovers decide to pilot their craft into the nearby star, thus ending the threat to humanity from the hostile organism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Soo...Any takers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30527" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-01-31T13:56:58.220" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T13:56:58.220" Title="Romantically involved spaceship crew members become infected" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:21:00.400" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47004" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-31T04:30:53.123" Score="8" ViewCount="312" Body="&lt;p&gt;Movies about Nazis are quite common in American cinema. Hollywood produces one a year on average. These movies tend to be block busters that are distributed for international markets. A few widely aired or syndicates TV shows also broach the topic of Nazis, even for just one episode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Germany and France, due to historical reasons, have very strict laws regarding Nazi Imagery. Enough that even having a recreation swastika banner could merit jail time. Other countries also have similar laws for similar reasons, such as Austria and Poland. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are these movies changed or handled when screened or broadcasted there? Are they censored? Edited? Simple content warnings?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume that a tv show episode could simply be skipped (this happens for American tv shows with topically sensitive episodes, mainly revolving around terrorism bombings that may coincide with real events), but movies are much less able to be separated without significant changes to their content. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-01-31T10:31:18.760" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T19:09:39.333" Title="Considering bans on Nazi imagery, how are fictional works featuring such imagery treated in countries which outlaw said imagery?" Tags="|distribution|censorship|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47005" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35565" CreationDate="2016-01-31T04:32:28.180" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are talking about &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invaders&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Invaders&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/xiFHaKj_-HM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30529" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-01-31T10:56:46.763" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T10:56:46.763" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47006" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47002" CreationDate="2016-01-31T06:03:26.740" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Cargo&quot;&gt;Alien Cargo&lt;/a&gt; A hypersleeping crew wakes up to find the previous crew contaminated by an alien bio-weapon found in an old satellite. The virus causes the crew members to kill each other.  The romantically entangled heroes do no kill each other through the power of love, drop their body temp to stop the virus and  send the remaining sleeping crew to another ship. Finally, they fly into the sun to prevent the infection from spreading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16404" LastEditorUserId="16404" LastEditDate="2016-01-31T07:08:46.563" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T07:08:46.563" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35565" CreationDate="2016-01-31T07:45:35.707" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Earth: First Contact&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The cop was human with alien organism/equipment on his arm. The aliens were distinct looking, and a season or two in, the main character that took over ended up being a hybrid with tri stand DNA.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T07:45:35.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47011" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47004" CreationDate="2016-01-31T09:16:22.783" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%E2%80%93World_War_II_legality_of_Nazi_flags&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;As explained on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; WRT Austria (but similar exceptions are present in other countries for obvious reasons):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are &lt;strong&gt;legal exceptions for works of Art&lt;/strong&gt; (including books, films,&#xA;  Theatre Performances, computer games, and educational/memorial public&#xA;  exhibitions, etc.), &lt;strong&gt;these however do not apply if the respective work&#xA;  promotes National Socialism&lt;/strong&gt; (as this is generally prohibited in&#xA;  Austria).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T09:16:22.783" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47004" CreationDate="2016-01-31T09:36:11.653" Score="10" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Situation in Germany&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is not forbidden to show Nazi symbols in movies. They are shown regularly and not edited out. They are also used in local productions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The situation was different a few decades ago. Jurisdiction had a stricter approach to the legal situation and assumed that any depiction of Nazi symbols was illegal. This lead to cuts, blurs, or edits. E.g. the computer game &lt;em&gt;Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade&lt;/em&gt; was edited and depicted iron crosses instead of swastikas (a quite common approach). The computer game &lt;em&gt;Wolfenstein 3D&lt;/em&gt; was put on the index 1994 for showing Nazi symbols (and not for the depiction of violence). The Star Trek TOS episode &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Patterns_of_Force_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Patterns of Force&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; premiered on German Free TV just in 2011 for the same reason, it wasn't shown when the series ran for the first time. This is not the current state of interpretation of the legal basis.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The legal reason is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__86a.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;§ 86a StGB&lt;/a&gt; (Article 86a of the penal code) &lt;code&gt;Verwenden von Kennzeichen verfassungsfeindlicher Organisationen (Usage of symbols of unconstitutional organisations)&lt;/code&gt; in combination with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_5.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Artikel 5 des Grundgesetzes&lt;/a&gt; (Article 5 of the constitution). The constitution allows free speech, explicitly including images (paragraph 1). As with every right there are borders (paragraph 2), namely common laws, laws for protecting the youth, and the right of personal honour. Paragraph 3 names some exceptions to the borders  (Schranken-Schranken, border-borders) in paragraph 2, namely for art and science.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;§86 forbids the public usage, production, storage, import, and export of symbols of certain unconstitutional organisations. Those are specifically most former Nazi organisations plus some Neo-Nazi organisations. It includes symbols, uniforms, flags, greetings, phrases and more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;§86 StGB defines an obvious border in the meaning of Artikel 5 paragraph 2 GG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main legal discussion was whether movies and TV episodes are &quot;art&quot; in the meaning of Artikel 5 paragraph 3 GG. For decades they were seen as &quot;trivial entertainment&quot; and not art so not eligible for the border-border in paragraph 3. Today the definition of art is more lenient so the exception in paragraph 3 applies to them, movies and TV episodes can depict Nazi symbolism. Of course this doesn't apply for works of propaganda which are disguised as art. There are some works where the state is dubious but that is not a common problem. So works like &lt;em&gt;Operation Walküre&lt;/em&gt; (with Tom Cruise) can display Nazi symbolism even when shown in Germany today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6767" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:42:45.047" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T19:09:39.333" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47014" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15119" CreationDate="2016-01-31T10:25:19.677" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is actually based on a play written by Patrick Marber. The same person adapted this for the movie. &#xA;I would take into consideration that Larry is extremely honest throughout the movie/play and admitted it before anyone. &#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/4puFhktZZzY?t=55s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is an interview on youtube and the writer says that trouble comes when the truth is revealed.&#xA;Alice also warns Dan that when she is leaving a relationship she will simply tell them exactly what she tells Dan &lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt; admitting to sleeping with Larry. She would have no reason to lie to him after that. She is well prepared to drop him and move on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5zhtf8EgmU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is the entire play on stage. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30428" LastEditorUserId="30428" LastEditDate="2016-01-31T10:43:57.833" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T10:43:57.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47015" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32290" CreationDate="2016-01-31T10:47:48.730" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.reuters.com/india/2015/02/06/a-minute-with-sriram-raghavan/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reuters interview&lt;/a&gt;, the director Sriram Raghavan was asked about the film's background:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Q: What is “Badlapur” based on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A: Basically it is an account written by a person (author Massimo&#xA;  Carlotto) who spent a lot of time in jail. He’s written quite a few&#xA;  stories, but many of his stories are actually about people he met in&#xA;  prison. The account he wrote is true but it happened elsewhere in the&#xA;  world. But some stories are universal, and I felt that this was a&#xA;  revenge story with a difference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So although in interviews Raghaven frequently refers to his movie being based on real-life events, it appears he means based on the novel, which itself was supposedly based on real-life events. The implication in Raghavan's quote is that Carlotto met a prisoner whilst behind bars and Raghavan's movie is based on their story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So now we move on to the key question - whilst Raghavan claims the novel is based on true events, &lt;em&gt;is it really or is simply fiction?&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In an interview with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jan/30/crimebooks.features&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Guardian&lt;/a&gt;, Carlotto said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'I have never once made up a killing,' he says. 'Every single death in&#xA;  everything I have written relates to a real killing, one for which I&#xA;  have read the autopsy report. I have seen the documents, I have&#xA;  carried out one-to-one interviews with murderers. This is my way of&#xA;  recording what is happening in present day Italy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'The Noir writers talk about the social and political situation right&#xA;  now; they react very quickly to changes in the criminal world. In&#xA;  Italy, Mediterranean Noir is called the literature of reality. I even&#xA;  have journalists calling me when they are writing about crime, to ask&#xA;  me what is going on. The world of journalism has changed. There is no&#xA;  investigation now. Italy has lost any real sense of truth, because&#xA;  nobody believes the official &quot;truths&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'It is very rare now for crime writers [in Italy] to invent stories.&#xA;  Most of them are real. Only the names are changed. That's why these&#xA;  books are so popular.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And of course we now reach the problem. With the names changed, and without access to all the various autopsy reports and public records, it's impossible to verify whether the people in the book are actually real, are mostly real with fictional embellishments, or entirely fictional creations of Carlotto.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carlotto hasn't given any interviews where has has &lt;em&gt;proven&lt;/em&gt; the events - largely I suspect because he doesn't need to. And whilst the story is riveting, I doubt it's so unique that it would be easy to identify if it had really occurred.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T10:47:48.730" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47017" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46951" CreationDate="2016-01-31T11:06:46.047" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;TLDR: &lt;strong&gt;Jack needed access to the circuity of the elevator to be able to upload Sarah's thumbprint and ID picture into the embassy's security system.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Mission-Impossible.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JACK, wearing black coveralls and slightly odd-looking &#xA;       eyeglasses (they're called Visco glasses), enters an elevator &#xA;       shaft through a small door at the base of the wall.  He looks &#xA;       up the shaft, shining a flashlight until he finds what he's &#xA;       looking for -- &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a gray metal box, protruding from the wall one floor up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The party progresses a little bit more, and then the script states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JACK climbs up the elevator shaft, towards the gray metal &#xA;       box.  He just begins to remove the cover when he hears a &#xA;       noise from above.  He looks up and sees the elevator above &#xA;       him descending. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JACK quickly pulls himself flush against the wall. The &#xA;       elevator comes down adjacent to him and stops, pinning him &#xA;       to the wall. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JACK&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;                  Great.  Come on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, a little later, the script states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;JACK is still pinned to the wall by the elevator, listening &#xA;       to their conversation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PHELPS (O.S.)&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;                  Jack's pinned down Sarah.  Should be a &#xA;                  second.  Keep dancing.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ETHAN (O.S.)&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;                       (with the Senator's southern accent) &#xA;                  We were forced to tie him to my best &#xA;                  stallion and drag him around the barn a &#xA;                  few times.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Finally, the elevator moves down a floor and JACK is freed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JACK&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;                  Relax your crack, Foghorn, I'm workin' on&#xA;                  it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He quickly opens the gray metal box, revealing a maze of &#xA;       circuitry.  He patches in his computer, climbs on top of the &#xA;       elevator, and hits the keyboard, beginning to download.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's a split-screen of SARAH's thumbprint and the ID &#xA;       picture.  JACK downloads her file into the security computer. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ignoring the GUARD, SARAH turns and slides her thumb into the &#xA;       thumbprint analyzer once more.  The panel glows, this time &#xA;       the message flashes -- &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;IDENTITY CONFIRMED &#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;and the elevator doors slide open briskly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it wasn't just a case of opening and closing the elevator doors, but of ensuring Sarah could access the secure room by having her credentials uploaded to the embassy's security system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the team are being brief, it is mentioned their objective is to photograph Golitsyn stealing the NOC list and apprehend him to his buyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sarah and Ethan access the computer room where Golitsyn views the NOC list. In that room, Ethan leaves a pair of glasses which are used to spy on Golitsyn to discover the password he us using to access the NOC list. The only way they can discover that password is by physically going to the room and leaving the camera - and the implication through what we are told is this is only doable via entering the elevator and passing the embassy security staff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do see that Jim can open and close the elevator doors, so I understand the query about why not just enter the shaft, like Jack did, access the room and get out. However, the embassy could have security systems in place, such as CCTV, to enable them to easily detect intruders in the computer room. Instead, it was deemed safer to gain admittance via disguise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll fully admit, my interpretation is pure conjecture (and the film is deliberately obscure in its opening film to create a sense of mystery and intrigue).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-01-31T21:22:56.817" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T21:22:56.817" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47018" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-31T12:21:50.817" Score="3" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 1984, both &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087239/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; starring Gary Coleman (TV movie) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087065/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cloak and Dagger&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; starring Dabney Coleman (theatrical release) came out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They have identical plots. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In both, the main character is a child that constantly day-dreams fantastical stories which is the reason no one believes them when they really do get involved in a spy conspiracy, by accidentally coming into possession of secret plans and get chased by bad guys. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IMDb lists the former as being released in February and the latter in August. Is there a story behind these two films being released the same year? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="305" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-04-08T12:51:29.177" LastActivityDate="2016-04-08T12:51:29.177" Title="Are the movies 'The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins' and 'Cloak and Dagger' connected somehow?" Tags="|production|cloak-and-dagger|the-fantastic-world-of-dc-collins|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="7" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47020" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-31T12:37:15.457" Score="3" ViewCount="310" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a little confusion with &lt;em&gt;Everybody Hates Gambling&lt;/em&gt; (Season 2, Episode 19). Chris becomes an odds-maker and his father ends up placing a bet on the Phoenix over the Lakers. When Chris's mom finds out of the gambling going on, Chris tells her that he lied about the odds. So now Julius should think that it is the Lakers that would win instead. When the results turn out that the Phoenix had actually won, why is Julius all excited? Also what's up with the Bookie? First he threatens Chris and now he shows up at the door to talk to him about what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30365" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-31T14:09:35.660" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T14:09:35.660" Title="Plot explanation about the gambling in Everybody Hates Chris" Tags="|plot-explanation|everybody-hates-chris|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47021" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47024" CreationDate="2016-01-31T12:47:36.540" Score="15" ViewCount="53778" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; episode &lt;em&gt;Hermanos&lt;/em&gt;, we take a peek to the past of Gus Fring where his partner gets killed by Hector.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I know it is not unusual for a character (or a real human being) to be sad and hold a grudge about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In episode &lt;em&gt;Abiquiú&lt;/em&gt;, where he invites Walter for dinner he says &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;This is a Chilean dish that I love. But I never get to make it. Kids won't eat it.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; and we also see &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GniTn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;some toys&lt;/a&gt; in his house that suggests he has kids, however we never see Gustavo with kids, a wife or a family. Hank or other cops never mention his family. It looks more like an image he tries to create that he has a family to cloud the reality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course someone making good dinner, being alone or not having kids doesn't directly mean he is gay but when combined with his desire to avenge his old cook, and his reaction when he was killed, it suggests he had feelings for him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any other hints or interviews by directors, actors, producers that support this claim?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastEditorUserId="30306" LastEditDate="2023-04-22T18:29:06.357" LastActivityDate="2023-04-22T18:29:06.357" Title="Was there a romantic relationship between Gustavo Fring and his partner?" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="47022" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47025" CreationDate="2016-01-31T12:48:04.280" Score="10" ViewCount="1273" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering that the jurors almost sentenced an 18 year old to death based on vague evidence and considering their poor deliberance abilities that they showed with the remarks, does &lt;em&gt;12 Angry Men&lt;/em&gt; (1957) intend to point to the bad jury selection system of the US at the time?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27305" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-31T14:14:41.283" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T14:14:41.283" Title="Does 12 Angry Men point to the bad jury selection system of the US at the time?" Tags="|analysis|12-angry-men|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47024" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47021" CreationDate="2016-01-31T13:10:58.360" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This was left intentionally vague.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avclub.com/article/giancarlo-esposito-62959&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Says&lt;/a&gt; Giancarlo Esposito (who played Gus):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;What is the nature of Gus’ relationship to his old partner? There was a lot of speculation that perhaps there was a romantic connection in their past.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GE:&lt;/strong&gt; [...] I loved the fact that that came up so strongly, because there was genuine love there between Max Arciniega and Gustavo Fring, and I just adored James Martinez, the actor who played that with such grace and aplomb. It certainly came to my mind, because in my early hopes for Gus, we were at his home... I really get the idea that Gus is married to his work. Again, &lt;strong&gt;my theory is that nothing’s black and white&lt;/strong&gt;, and the love he shows for nurturing another human being could very well be misconstrued as a love affair, and it’s not written so it could be a love affair. My job as an actor is to give you all the possibilities and &lt;strong&gt;you figure it out.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He elaborated about it on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/breakingbad/comments/oaz0w/i_am_actor_giancarlo_esposito_and_i_play_gus_on/c3futs7?context=3&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;live reddit Q&amp;amp;A session&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There was never any indication at all that Gus had any homosexual tendencies, other than episode 408.&lt;/strong&gt; And I personally believe that nothing is ever black and white and I believe Gus had a way of cultivating people, whether chemists, school teachers, or as businessmen. &lt;strong&gt;I had long discussions with Vince Gilligan that it shouldn't be pointed up either way (and he agreed). And the audience should have to decide.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gilligan himself offered a similar opinion on the show's podcast. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2011/09/10/matthew_gilberts_tv_picks/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From Boston.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The flashback to the murder of his “partner’’ has raised questions online about whether or not Gus is gay. Show creator Vince Gilligan’s response, from the “Breaking Bad’’ podcast: &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;It’s open to interpretation. It’s whatever the audience wants it to be.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for his family, Esposito says this was a possibility that was never developed. See the clip below (it's relevant to the end of season 4, but his family was never mentioned in the final season as well):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/jwSdBGQuI9M?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T15:47:51.693" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47025" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47022" CreationDate="2016-01-31T13:26:35.320" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;tl;dr&lt;/strong&gt;: The movie doesn't appear to be an intentional rejection of the US jury system, merely set within the bounds of that system. The behavior of the jury members in the movie is also not indicative of how real juries are &lt;em&gt;instructed&lt;/em&gt; to behave, though they are given pretty broad leeway (within limits) to make decisions how they see fit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't think there was any intention with this movie to call out the jury selection process in the US as &quot;bad&quot;. The idea that people should be judged by their peers, and not their &quot;superiors&quot;, is a key part of the US legal system that pre-dated the US itself by a very long time. Instead, the movie is an exploration of the idea of consensus building in a place where that consensus has &lt;em&gt;real meaning&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You point out that the jury &quot;almost&quot; convicted an 18 year old of murder; keep in mind, we have no idea if he was guilty or not. The film quite intentionally tells us nothing about the crime beyond what the jury itself knew. They may very well have come close to convicting a murderer of his crime, only to ultimately &lt;em&gt;allow him to go free&lt;/em&gt;. That's not a flaw in the jury system, it's a fundamental part of the US justice system: the state needs to &lt;em&gt;prove&lt;/em&gt; someone's guilt to the satisfaction of 12 regular, objectively independent citizens before we are willing to punish them for their crime.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the message of the film, it was enough of a validation of the US justice system that it convinced at least one person to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/nyregion/18sonia.html?ref=nyregion&amp;amp;_r=0&quot;&gt;become a judge&lt;/a&gt; who now sits on our Supreme Court: Justice Sonia M. Sotomayor claims she decided to go into law largely based on Juror 11, who has a monologue in the movie about how much he &lt;em&gt;reveres&lt;/em&gt; the US justice system.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's important to note that many of the things the jury did in that movie are &lt;em&gt;forbidden&lt;/em&gt; according to New York City statutes; in particular, one of the jurors did a significant amount of their own research and investigating, which they are expressly warned not to do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol start=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Do not attempt to research any fact, issue, or law related to&#xA;  this case, whether by discussion with others, by research in a&#xA;  library or on the internet, or by any other means or source.&#xA;  &lt;sup&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nycourts.gov/judges/cji/1-General/CJI2d.Jury_Admonitions.pdf&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Justice Sotomayor also notes that the behavior of the jury in this movie is something she often warned real juries &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to do&#xA;She does note, however, that as a judge she often instructed juries &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to do what the jurors in the movie did, as far too much of their decisions were based on speculation, not factual evidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T13:26:35.320" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47029" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43322" CreationDate="2016-01-31T16:31:05.797" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure the painting is significant, or if it's the restaurant itself that is significant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The restaurant shown is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://rules.co.uk/restaurant/history/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rules Restaurant&lt;/a&gt;, the oldest restaurant in London. The painting shown in Spectre does indeed hang there and doesn't appear to be a particularly famous work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I'd suggest the restaurant symbolises a few things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, M - like Bond - enjoys the &lt;em&gt;finer&lt;/em&gt; things in life, including being at an old and well-respect restaurant. This would fit with his character from the novels, who enjoyed frequenting &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blades_Club&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Blades Club&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly - and perhaps more symbolically - it could symbolise a meeting &quot;of the old&quot;. The plot of Spectre follows Max Denbigh, as an agent of Blofeld, introducing the Nine Eyes spy system. Denbigh dislikes the 00 unit and wants to impose total surveillance on the state, under the guise of protecting the people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He comments on a number of occasions to M about how irrelevant he believes him and his unit to be in the modern world:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Denbigh:&lt;/strong&gt; When are you going to realize you don't matter anymore?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    &lt;strong&gt;M:&lt;/strong&gt; Maybe&#xA;  not. But something has to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On another occasion, Denbigh also comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Denbigh:&lt;/strong&gt; Take a look at the world... chaos... because people like you,&#xA;  paper-pushers and politicians, are too spineless to do what needs to&#xA;  be done so I made an alliance to put the power where it should be, and&#xA;  now you want to throw it away for the sake of democracy, whatever the&#xA;  hell that is. How predictably moronic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I like to think the meeting in the restaurant symbolises a meeting of &quot;the old&quot;. M and his unit are viewed to be outdated and unnecessary in the face of modern surveillance. They meet in the oldest restaurant in London and M tells his unit they cannot interfere - they cannot help any more, they have no power.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously as the film goes on, they do interfere and they do help Bond. But at the time of the meeting, the old restaurant symbolises the lack of power of M and his unit perfectly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T16:31:05.797" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47030" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11403" CreationDate="2016-01-31T16:55:26.893" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;you can see in this pic They first created a prosthetic chest over his real chest and spray tanned it to match his original skin tone. Then they put in his &quot;heart&quot; so it would look like it's actually a hole in his chest while his actual chest is underneath it.&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1C9ui.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1C9ui.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30541" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T16:55:26.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24068" CreationDate="2016-01-31T18:51:44.147" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It originated in the move Freaks (1932), but was actually popularized by The Ramones in the song 'Pinhead'. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/GT_2K4ddG7g?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30543" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-01-31T23:40:14.913" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T23:40:14.913" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47033" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-31T21:24:32.367" Score="19" ViewCount="9360" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt;, on multiple scenes, when people get hit or die in the virtual reality, they also bleed in the real world. What is the reason behind this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I know about the &quot;mind effect over body&quot; system in the movie explaining it. However there is an inconsistency here. Why does blood always come out of their mouth? Why don't they have bullet holes in their bodies? Or at least bruises?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-02T11:42:03.980" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T11:42:03.980" Title="Why do people bleed in real world when they are hurt or killed in The Matrix?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47035" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47033" CreationDate="2016-01-31T22:28:11.167" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;To quote from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Matrix,-The.html&quot;&gt;movie script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While Tank helps Morpheus, Neo spits blood into his hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NEO&lt;/strong&gt;           I thought it wasn't real.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Neo stares at the blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NEO&lt;/strong&gt;          If you are killed in the Matrix,            you die here?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;    &lt;strong&gt;MORPHEUS&lt;/strong&gt;            The body cannot live without the            mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, even though you haven't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; been shot at, or physically wounded (and thus don't have bullet holes), your mind has fully believed that those things have occurred and thus injury or death occurs in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to the extent of these injuries, we can only speculate. As you mentioned in the comments, biting on the lips, or tongue, or other parts could certainly cause the bleeding that is seen. Intense thrashing by your body due to the trauma your brain believes you are suffering could also contribute. Additionally, your brain could actively shut down certain parts of your body (such as lungs, kidneys etc) due to the damage it believes you have sustained to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-01-31T22:59:18.327" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T22:59:18.327" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47036" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-01-31T22:43:00.563" Score="9" ViewCount="3285" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Star Wars: The Force Awakens, there is a very powerful weapon used by the First Order to destroy the Hosnian system. Their next target is the planet D'Qar. How did the First Order know the base of the Resistance was located on this planet?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30552" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-01-31T22:54:34.587" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T00:07:54.450" Title="How did the First Order know the location of the base of the Resistance?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47037" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47036" CreationDate="2016-01-31T22:45:20.500" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Rebels sent a recon ship to go and have a look at the Starkiller Base. Unbeknownst to the ship's crew, they were tracked back to the Ileenium System.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the First Order don't actually know &lt;em&gt;which&lt;/em&gt; of the (numerous) planets and moons in the system are host to the Rebel base. Luckily Snoke has a solution for that, blow up the local star.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Though visibly angry, Snoke’s tone remained unchanged. “Have we&#xA;located the main Resistance base?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hux was clearly gratified to be the bearer of good news. “We were able&#xA;to track their reconnaissance ship back to the Ileenium system. We are&#xA;coordinating with our own reconnaissance craft in the area in order to&#xA;lock down the specific location of their base.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Snoke replied with cold satisfaction. “We do not need it. Prepare the&#xA;weapon. Destroy their system.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Official Novelisation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene also appears in the film's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Star-Wars-The-Force-Awakens.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;screenplay&lt;/a&gt;, albeit with slightly different wording&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Snoke is visibly furious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SNOKE:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Then the Resistance must be destroyed before they get to Skywalker.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GENERAL HUX:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;We have their location. We tracked their reconnaissance ship to the Ileenium system.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SNOKE:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Good. Then we will crush them once and for all. Prepare the weapon.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T22:52:32.813" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47033" CreationDate="2016-01-31T23:16:28.720" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The brain, via stress or emotional trauma, can cause some illnesses to manifest that have no other medical cause. It's called Psychosomatic Illnesses:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;psychosomatic [si″ko-so-mat´ik]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  pertaining to the interrelations of mind and body; having bodily symptoms of psychic, emotional, or mental origin.&#xA;  psychosomatic disorder (psychosomatic illness) a disorder in which the physical symptoms are caused or exacerbated by psychological factors, such as migraine headache, lower back pain, or irritable bowel syndrome; see also somatoform disorders. It is now recognized that emotional factors play a role in the development of nearly all organic illnesses and that the physical symptoms experienced by the patient are related to many interdependent factors, including psychological and cultural. The physical manifestations of an illness, unless caused by mechanical trauma, cannot be divorced from a person's emotional life. Each person responds in a unique way to stress; emotions affect one's sensitivity to trauma and to irritating elements in the environment, susceptibility to infection, and ability to recover from the effects of illness. Physical conditions to which psychological factors are shown to be contributory are currently classified as psychological factors affecting medical condition. Any physical condition can be so classified, but the most frequently included are asthma, peptic ulcer, bowel disorders, cardiovascular disorders, arthritis, allergy, headache, and certain endocrine disorders. In recent years there has been some success in using behavior therapy to treat these and other illnesses whose symptoms are related to the autonomic nervous system. Clients are taught new ways of coping with stress and new patterns of behavior. Among the techniques used are biofeedback, relaxation training, classical conditioning, and operant conditioning using social and material reinforcement.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;-Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Psychosomatic reactions can be quite extensive, but for the most part, they will not cause bleeding, cuts, or other physical trauma. That said, psychosomatic &lt;strong&gt;seizures&lt;/strong&gt;, can be severe enough to cause bruising, from self inflicted muscle spasms or causing the person to hit an object or wall. This is not rare in epileptic seizures, but it's also not too common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another way of describing it is Conversion Disorder, Somatic Symptom Disorder, or Functional Neurological Disorder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Psychosomatic reactions have been known to cause organ failure, or sudden death. It's been coined as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_death&quot;&gt;Voodoo Death&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Voodoo death, a term coined by Walter Cannon in 1942 also known as psychogenic death or psychosomatic death, is the phenomenon of sudden death as brought about by a strong emotional shock, such as fear. The anomaly is recognized as &quot;psychosomatic&quot; in that death is caused by an emotional response—often fear—to some suggested outside force. Voodoo death is particularly noted in native societies, and concentration- or prisoner of war camps, but the condition is not specific to any particular culture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As we see in the film, Neo spasms violently in the uplink chair, in response to what his brain is perceiving. That violent seizure would explain something like biting his own lip or tongue causing blood. More of a coincidence that he was hit in the face. The sudden deaths of people killed in the Matrix is more accurate than the blood part.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-01-31T23:16:28.720" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47040" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47036" CreationDate="2016-02-01T00:07:54.450" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's said right out in the film, 1 hour 29 minutes in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;01:29:17,356 --&gt; 01:29:19,451&#xA;  Then the Resistance must be destroyed&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;01:29:19,567 --&gt; 01:29:21,299&#xA;  before they get to Skywalker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;01:29:21,410 --&gt; 01:29:22,957&#xA;  We have their location.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;01:29:23,721 --&gt; 01:29:26,274&#xA;  We tracked their reconnaissance&#xA;  ship to the Illenium system.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;01:29:27,006 --&gt; 01:29:28,006&#xA;  Good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;01:29:28,640 --&gt; 01:29:31,339&#xA;  Then we will crush them once and for all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;01:29:31,409 --&gt; 01:29:32,857&#xA;  Prepare the weapon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This Reconnaissance ship was sent by the Resistance after Finn gives them info on the Starkiller Base Superweapon. A few minutes earlier, 1h22m:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;01:22:26,428 --&gt; 01:22:28,700&#xA;  Finn's familiar with the weapon&#xA;  that destroyed the Hosnian System.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;01:22:28,811 --&gt; 01:22:29,861&#xA;  He worked on the base.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;01:22:29,939 --&gt; 01:22:32,171&#xA;  We're desperate for&#xA;  anything you can tell us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;01:22:32,282 --&gt; 01:22:34,694&#xA;  That's where my friend was taken.&#xA;  I've got to get there fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;01:22:34,848 --&gt; 01:22:38,748&#xA;  And I will do everything I can to help,&#xA;  but first you need to tell us all you know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A few touching Han/Leia moments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;01:25:08,300 --&gt; 01:25:12,564&#xA;  General, the reconnaissance report&#xA;  on the enemy base is coming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then some more Han/Leia, until we get to the planning scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;01:32:00,976 --&gt; 01:32:04,424&#xA;  The scan data from Snap's reconnaissance flight confirms Finn's report.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So after Hosnian Prime's destruction, Finn tells the Resistance about Starkiller Base and the Resistance sends &lt;em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Temmin_Wexley&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Temmin &quot;Snap&quot; Wexley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; to check it out. The First Order finds this reconnaissance ship and traces it back, targeting the Illenium system.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Logically, the First Order doesn't &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;know know&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; that it's the Resistance &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Headquarters&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, but they would know there is some Resistance presence there. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;And since the Starkiller super weapon can target Multiple planets at the same time, they can use their overwhelmingly superior power to destroy everything at the same time. There is no kill like over-kill.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; The Starkiller weapon targets all the planets, &lt;em&gt;not just D'Qar.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;A bit convoluted, but it's all right there in 10 minutes of dialog.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T00:07:54.450" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47041" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47033" CreationDate="2016-02-01T00:37:20.753" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Re: your edit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BloodFromTheMouth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blood from the Mouth&lt;/a&gt; is a common trope in movies and TV. As TV Tropes puts it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a death trope it's caused by any fatal injury, and is less a symptom than a signal to the audience that this dude's a goner. Much like the chest-clutching and doubling over in days of old, Blood From the Mouth is a sign of death that won't horrify us with the specifics, keeping our focus on the story itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Specifically, Mouse, who dies a violent death in a hail of bullets in the Matrix, needed to be justified in the &quot;Real World&quot;. Had he just died without some outward sign, it wouldn't have matched up and would seem weird to the audience. He's also unique, as everyone else has a much simpler death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/nZTcqbsapIo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Compare that to Neo's first death. Shot multiple times in the Matrix, small seizure, then his heart just stops and he flatlines in the Real. No bleeding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/SyIUkVkB6rA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So yes, there are inconsistencies, but it's due to cinematic cues to the audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T10:30:30.957" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T10:30:30.957" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47043" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26839" CreationDate="2016-02-01T01:04:04.523" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;This mirrors a real life event. While there is nothing saying they intentionally wanted to imply this, this is well known. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brown_and_Franz_Stigler_incident&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;American Bomber Pilot Charlie Brown, already flying a shot-up plane with injured crew, after a successful bombing run, was trying to return to Allied Territory. German Fighter Pilot Franz Stigler, instead of shooting them down, escorted them back to British skies.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MkgUO.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MkgUO.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And this happens all through history. In every war, there are people that for multiple reasons, don't kill an enemy soldier. Most of it is hearsay and second or third hand recollections, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/09/living/higher-call-military-chivalry/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;but there are a couple of documented cases.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its also very common in media. Twilight Zone, &quot;Two&quot; and &quot;A Quality of Mercy&quot; come to mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-06-13T05:29:31.357" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T05:29:31.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47044" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12142" CreationDate="2016-02-01T01:59:13.407" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think the writers plotted the episodes that way on purpose. The fun thing about watching Columbo is the way he and the killer interact. Why waste time getting to the best part of the show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30554" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T01:59:13.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47045" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35951" CreationDate="2016-02-01T03:07:55.217" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok long explanation but it will be worth the while, Neo is just an anomaly that arises because of an imbalance of the matrix equation. So are Morpheus, Trinity, and everybody else. So to put them back into the matrix and have control over them, the architect had created a second layer of the matrix for the ppl who reject the matrix, but ultimately it's for control over them. Yes, I know they unjack their heads and everything, but they are still in the matrix, just not the basic human version. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To answer your other question about Neo's purpose:&#xA;The One is a made-up concept and the whole thing is a fake world created and the Oracle knew this and she also knew the big picture that is for the humans and machines to coexist hence she played along in each version if the matrix.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9473" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T16:33:33.053" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T16:33:33.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47048" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47049" CreationDate="2016-02-01T05:06:41.877" Score="5" ViewCount="27156" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw &lt;em&gt;Salt (2010)&lt;/em&gt; last week for the second time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The final scene after Evelyn escapes the helicopter, we hear a TV news reporter reading the news and saying something about the new USA president visiting Russia and passing by the grave of his parents where they were killed in an accident. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean that the new president is the brother of Evelyn?&#xA;Or does it mean that he himself is another sleeper agent with a similar back story that explains why he's an orphan?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or maybe it means something else?&#xA;Can anyone help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-10-18T13:29:41.707" LastActivityDate="2016-10-18T13:29:41.707" Title="What is the significance of Salt ending?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|salt|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47048" CreationDate="2016-02-01T05:22:45.640" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, the Director's cut implies that, to the extent that you can call it implied. Almost beats us over the head with it. &lt;a href=&quot;http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/12/salt-dvd-release-stirs-phillip-noyces-spy-senses.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From an interview with Director Phillip Noyce&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phillip Noyce is not paranoid, but &lt;strong&gt;his belief in sleeper spies such as Evelyn Salt&lt;/strong&gt;, the title character played by Angelina Jolie in the film &amp;quot;Salt&amp;quot; that he directed, &lt;strong&gt;is palpable&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I do believe that there are tens of thousands of sleeper spies all around the world, not placed to gain information but rather to gain positions of influence. Imagine if, at the highest levels of our governments, there were enemy agents? &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Just think about if the man with the finger on the trigger is an enemy agent, and what a coup that would be. Essentially, that’s the ending of the extended versions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;My favorite version is the director's cut extended version, which to me provides the most appropriate ending to the story, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;because it is an ending yet just a beginning&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; -– and it's an ending that turns the whole story on its head,&amp;quot; says Noyce.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;The &amp;quot;extended versions,&amp;quot; of course, reference the film's DVD/Blu-ray [...] Like most of the releases in today's home entertainment market, there are different versions of the film offered, including three separate endings.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Director's cut being the one that has the news report at the end. So yes, the President is implied to be a Ruskie sleeper agent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;There is nothing to suggest he's Evelyn's blood brother though. Just another one of the children that were raised as sleep agents.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T05:22:45.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47051" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47053" CreationDate="2016-02-01T06:22:19.807" Score="4" ViewCount="932" Body="&lt;p&gt;I never understood why each emergency room couldn't have a special blood-ready fridge with all blood types (i.e. A, B, AB, O +/-).  They always have to call down to a blood bank to get type-specific blood.  That always took minutes, and sometimes required them to blow more 0-NEG blood before the type-specific blood arrived.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the following two points,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;0-NEG blood is scarce.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It takes roughly the same amount of time overall to queue up a small amount of type-specific blood in each ER.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not have a small fridge capable of holding blood in each ER?  You replenish it as necessary.  The time required to transport the blood is roughly the same in either setup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27063" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-02T10:07:37.493" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T10:07:37.493" Title="Why doesn't each emergency room have all available blood types on hand in small blood-ready fridges?" Tags="|er|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47053" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47051" CreationDate="2016-02-01T06:46:33.790" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;As a quick general world answer, some do, some don't, and blood transfusions aren't a quick &quot;Just match blood type&quot; procedure. Tests should be run, and only critical emergency situations merit unmatched blood transfusions. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you can't wait the few minutes for testing and transportation, the trauma victim is in severe enough condition to use the emergency O blood.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Otherwise, it's not an emergency.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pathology.med.umich.edu/bloodbank/manual/bbch_3/&quot;&gt;From The University of Michigan hospital blood bank rule book&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If blood is not currently available, the technologist can then determine the extent to which compatibility testing can be performed. As the amount of compatibility testing decreases, &lt;strong&gt;the possible risk of transfusing incompatible blood increases&lt;/strong&gt;. Depending on the availability of a specimen and current status of testing blood may be released as&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Uncrossmatched red blood cells&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Type specific blood&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Testing in process but antibody screen, crossmatch or antibody identification incomplete; antigen negative blood unavailable&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Emergency Release Documentation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The Transfusion Record Form of emergency released units will contain the caution that the blood is being released on an emergency basis.&#xA;  The physician authorizing the emergency release must sign the Emergency Request section of the Blood Bank Requisition Form and return it to the Blood Bank.&#xA;  Blood specimens and requisitions must be appropriately labeled. &lt;strong&gt;Many hemolytic transfusion reactions have occurred under emergency conditions when routine patient identification procedures are ignored or circumvented.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;The Blood Bank will complete testing and notify the physician of the results of testing.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Temperature monitors are attached to assist staff in determining if blood has been properly stored. The beads in the R &amp;amp; D indicator will have moved from the rounded end of the indicator if the blood has not been maintained below 10 C.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Related to the O Blood bags:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Group O Red Blood Cells are issued when a blood sample cannot be supplied, and/or the patient's blood is not available in the Blood Bank for typing.&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;A blood sample should be drawn for typing and crossmatching before transfusion is initiated.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20456707&quot;&gt;A Related Study&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Patients receiving uncross matched [Red Blood Cells] in the [Emergency Department] are more than three times more likely to receive early [Massive Transfusions] of RBCs. Additionally, patients transfused with ED RBCs are more likely to receive 6 units or more of plasma and two or more apheresis PLT transfusions. &lt;strong&gt;Given these findings, ED transfusion of uncrossmatched RBCs should be considered a potential trigger for activation of an institution's MT protocol.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  -© 2010 American Association of Blood Banks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pathology.ucla.edu/workfiles/Education/Transfusion%20Medicine/7-9-Howwetransfusetrauma-96151722.pdf&quot;&gt;Again&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DOING IT QUICKLY BUT SAFELY: PROVISION OF UNCROSSMATCHED RBCS AND PLASMA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Trauma patients often receive uncrossmatched group O RBCs before any compatibility testing can be completed.&#xA;  ...&#xA;  When issuing uncrossmatched, type-specific units for transfusion, the potential for acute ABO-incompatible hemolytic transfusion reaction due to a mislabeled speci- men for blood typing is a major concern,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mediware.com/blood/role/emergency-department/&quot;&gt;commercial medical equipment manufacturers step up&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Emergency Department: Store blood where you need it most&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The emergency department is one of the busiest places in the hospital. In such a fast paced environment, you need a system that can respond as quickly as you do. &lt;strong&gt;BloodSafe® makes blood available immediately where you need it — from secure, “smart refrigerators” located in or near high-need areas like surgical, trauma or emergency.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T06:46:33.790" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47058" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47060" CreationDate="2016-02-01T12:01:48.447" Score="38" ViewCount="11224" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Matrix&lt;/em&gt;, a docbot finds Neo right after he wakes up in the pod. However, instead of killing him, it simply flushes Neo down to the old sewers, not even following him with hopes of finding who (probably a Zion ship crew) woke him up and attacking them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If they want to catch anyone from Zion (especially ship crews) why do docbots just let people go after waking up?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It should be noted that machines liquefy the dead to feed intravenously to the living. Why didn't they take Neo for this procedure instead of flushing him to drainage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T13:39:47.390" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T13:39:47.390" Title="Why don't docbots kill those who are awakened by the red pill?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-matrix|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47058" CreationDate="2016-02-01T12:01:48.447" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most probably in order to prevent any interruptions to the &lt;strong&gt;Prime Program&lt;/strong&gt; since &lt;em&gt;the One&lt;/em&gt; will be awakened with the red pill to start following the &lt;strong&gt;Path of the One&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Killing &lt;strong&gt;the One&lt;/strong&gt; or those that'll motivate him with his &lt;em&gt;ultimate goal of saving humanity&lt;/em&gt; will severely damage the Path of the One, probably causing it to fail, and drift Matrix into a catastrophe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T12:01:48.447" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47060" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47058" CreationDate="2016-02-01T12:12:15.607" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of the purpose of the Matrix is to ensure all humans have an element of &lt;em&gt;choice&lt;/em&gt; - the key principle in all of the Matrix films. The Matrix only functions because of choice. Humans have to be able to choose to reject the idealised, fictional world and somehow live in the real world. Therefore, as @SarpSTA states, some humans &lt;em&gt;have&lt;/em&gt; to be allowed to escape for the world to function, otherwise the entire system would collapse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, having said all that, it's also clear the machine did try to kill him, and could have succeeded in doing so. It took a weakened, dazed human who had never &lt;em&gt;truly&lt;/em&gt; exercised his muscles and flushed him into a giant pool of water where he was starting to drown. He had no means of survival whatsoever and only managed to live on due to the Nebuchadnezzar tracking the locator in the pill he swallowed and rescuing him. It's entirely possible that &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; humans in a similar situation may not be released in time, leaving them to drown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just realised a similar question was asked over at the Sci Fi Stack Exchange: &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/80366/why-didnt-the-machine-kill-neo-after-he-was-ejected&quot;&gt;Why didn't the machine kill Neo after he was ejected?&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;@Richard provided a great answer there, with some more information including an interview with Taki Kunitake, Head Illustrator for the film, where he states that the Wachowskis intended for the Doc Bot to have read him as a dead body and thus to simply &lt;em&gt;dispose&lt;/em&gt; of him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:37.873" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T12:12:15.607" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47058" CreationDate="2016-02-01T14:20:35.020" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I understand what is happening in that scene, the red pill fakes a death: From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Matrix,-The.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The mirror creeps up his neck as Neo begins to panic,     tipping his&#xA;  head as though he were sinking into the   mirror, trying to keep his&#xA;  mouth up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NEO&lt;/strong&gt;           It's all over me --&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Morpheus is right next to him, with the phone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TRINITY&lt;/strong&gt;           I got a fibrillation!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CYPHER&lt;/strong&gt;            I knew it, I knew it...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MORPHEUS&lt;/strong&gt;          Shit!  Apoc?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Streams of mercury run from Neo's nose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;APOC&lt;/strong&gt;          Targeting... almost there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An ALARM, on Trinity's monitor ERUPTS.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TRINITY&lt;/strong&gt;           He's going into arrest!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CYPHER&lt;/strong&gt;            He's gonna pop!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;APOC&lt;/strong&gt;          Lock!  I got him!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MORPHEUS&lt;/strong&gt;          Now, Tank now!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;His eyes tear with mirror, rolling up and closing as a  high-pitched&#xA;  ELECTRIC SCREAM ERUPTS in the headphones --&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is a piercing SHRIEK like a computer calling to  another computer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Neo's body arches in agony and we are pulled like we were   pulled&#xA;  into the holes of the phone&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sucked into his SCREAM and swallowed by darkness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I always thought that the pill simulated a heart attack (the fibrillation signal may be helping them to find the body), so the system just disposes him in order to be recycled. There is no need to kill a dead body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24246" LastEditorUserId="24246" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T13:35:51.650" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T13:35:51.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47064" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47058" CreationDate="2016-02-01T15:24:24.397" Score="16" Body="&lt;h2&gt;It did try to kill him (or at least recycle him)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a matter of fact, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Docbot&quot;&gt;Doc Bot&lt;/a&gt; did attempt to kill him almost immediately after it unplugged his ports, by flushing him down into a sewer where he would have drowned if there hadn't been a ship waiting for him. This seems to be standard procedure for any body that it reads as having been ejected from the Matrix (see below).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;It didn't need to try to kill him (since it was already reading him as dead)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0475180/&quot;&gt;Taki Kunitake&lt;/a&gt; (Head Illustrator for the Matrix) in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1557044058&quot;&gt;The Art of the Matrix&lt;/a&gt; book, he states that the Wachowskis intended for the Doc Bot to have read him as a dead body anyway, presumably as a result of the pill that the Rebels gave him to &quot;&lt;em&gt;disrupt [his] input/output carrier signal&lt;/em&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kunitake: One thing that was really nice in the film, something that&#xA;  wasn't in the storyboards, was the reflection Neo sees of himself on&#xA;  the face of the DocBot. I thought that was a really cool evolution&#xA;  from the boards, tying in to his whole path. When this robot comes&#xA;  down, very threatening. Larry and Andy wanted a bit of a shock, so it&#xA;  reaches out end grabs his throat. &lt;strong&gt;As an audience, you're thinking it's&#xA;  going to twist his head off. but it actually disengages. They'd talk&#xA;  about how the DocBot is reading Neo as a dead body, a dead battery,&#xA;  and disengages him so can flush him from the pod.&lt;/strong&gt; Even in the script,&#xA;  they wanted it to be very graphic: very shocking. I was trying hard to&#xA;  get that sensibility.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Releasing humans is a necessity (since Zion is a sham)&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, we later learn that the entire Matrix/Zion project was set up to allow humans the illusion of choice. If your only options were to stay in the Matrix (and cause trouble) or to die, the system would break down much sooner. In that sense it makes far less sense to kill escapees than to actually let them escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-02-02T00:18:23.000" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T00:18:23.000" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47065" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47066" CreationDate="2016-02-01T15:28:25.070" Score="25" ViewCount="22938" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596363/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot;&gt;The Big Short&lt;/a&gt; is based on the true story of the 2008 financial crisis as told by Michael Lewis in &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0393338827&quot;&gt;his book of the same name&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie does a very good job of telling a story full of strange and esoteric financial instruments and the people who deal with them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But does it also simplify the people involved by changing their names or conflating their characters for the sake of making a movie version of the story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T15:39:10.653" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T15:56:45.880" Title="Did The Big Short movie change names or conflate characters?" Tags="|character|book-adaptation|the-big-short|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47066" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47065" CreationDate="2016-02-01T15:42:00.363" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are definitely some name changes that take place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/lippmann-deutsche-trader-steps-down/?_r=0&quot;&gt;Greg Lippmann&lt;/a&gt; became Jared Vennett (played by Ryan Gosling).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bustle.com/articles/127589-what-does-the-real-mark-think-of-the-big-short-steve-carells-character-helped-out-the&quot;&gt;Steve Eisman&lt;/a&gt; became Mark Baum (played by Steve Carrell).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bustle.com/articles/128208-what-does-the-real-ben-hockett-think-of-the-big-short-being-played-by-brad-pitt&quot;&gt;Ben Hockett&lt;/a&gt; became Ben Rickert (played by Brad Pitt).  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bustle.com/articles/133631-what-is-michael-burry-doing-today-the-big-short-character-is-still-weary-of-the-financial&quot;&gt;Michael Burry&lt;/a&gt;, played by Christian Bale does not have his name changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, the various linked articles show &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of interview material which shows the various characters are quite similar to their real-life counterparts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, Michael Lewis, the author of the book, said the following in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2015/11/the-big-short-michael-lewis.html&quot;&gt;an interview with Vulture&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The hair. The hair is their hair. &lt;strong&gt;I was shocked by how close,&#xA;  especially the principals, captured the actual people.&lt;/strong&gt; Christian Bale&#xA;  was so much like Michael Burry that I thought it was creepy — he did a&#xA;  very, very good job. He was wearing Michael Burry’s clothes. That&#xA;  T-shirt and shorts. I asked Adam: How did he even know he was wearing&#xA;  that when I went to see him? The answer is he didn’t. That’s what&#xA;  Michael Burry was wearing when Christian Bale went to see him, and&#xA;  Christian was like, “Can I have your clothes?” I guess he has had to&#xA;  get new clothes now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;McKay, the director and co-writer, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vulture.com/2015/11/the-big-short-c-v-r.html&quot;&gt;commented&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“The real people have been the biggest challenge,” says McKay, who had&#xA;  the duller job of fielding individual complaints: Why do I have to be&#xA;  talking about my balls? Does he have to refer to me as a dick? McKay&#xA;  had made some concessions: He’d changed Lippmann’s name — the&#xA;  character is now called Jared Vennett (“I pronounce it Ven-AY,” said&#xA;  Gosling) — and the last names of three attention-shy traders from&#xA;  Cornwall Capital. The biggest change was Steve Eisman’s character: In&#xA;  the book, Lewis reveals that Eisman lost a young child, which gives&#xA;  his character a necessary pathos, but Eisman didn’t want it in the&#xA;  film, so McKay replaced it with something else, and the character&#xA;  became “Mark Baum.” This didn’t prevent Eisman from coming to the set&#xA;  and advising Steve Carell on how to be a better him. “It’s, you know …&#xA;  interesting to have the person you are playing show up the first or&#xA;  second day you are shooting,” said Carell, who was roaming around the&#xA;  set in an uncannily Eismanesque hairpiece between takes. “It’s a&#xA;  little daunting to have the person staring at you. And offering&#xA;  notes.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it appears a mixture of hiding the real people at their requests, and hiding parts of their life at their request led to the name changes (although, as the article states, despite the name change Eisman still advised Carrell on how to &quot;play him&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T15:56:45.880" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T15:56:45.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47068" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44267" CreationDate="2016-02-01T15:52:18.433" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the original plan was for a profitable business arrangement. Roth was wealthy, and he and Michael were discussing a deal with the corrupt Cuban government of &lt;a href=&quot;http://godfather.wikia.com/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Fulgencio Batista&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether Michael would have stayed in Cuba appears to be unknown, but I'd say it's very unlikely. It's far more probable he would return home and reap the rewards of the business transactions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, this obviously falls apart when Roth, through Ola befriending Fredo, makes an assassination attempt on Michael (and when Castro overthrows Batista's government).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T15:52:18.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47073" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12142" CreationDate="2016-02-01T17:24:35.263" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In '&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097083/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Columbo goes to the Guillotine&lt;/a&gt;' our eponymous hero specifically states that he's &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; psychic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I just wish I was psychic because this thing has still got me puzzled.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;If I knew what a suspect was thinking, I would make one terrific detective&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there you go. Straight from the horse's mouth, as it were. Unless he's lying, of course...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T18:07:47.533" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T18:07:47.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47075" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47076" CreationDate="2016-02-01T18:16:58.857" Score="23" ViewCount="21195" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems like a common thing in television and movies to have a bad guy in a stand down with the cops but they won't shoot him even though they have a clear shot because he has a gun on a hostage or his finger is on a detonator. They always give the excuse that he could have muscle spasm causing the gun to go off/detonator to detonate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I had heard that this was a myth but as I've tried to verify the truth, all I see are debates going both ways to explain why this is or isn't a myth. So what is the truth? &lt;strong&gt;Can a sniper headshot cause muscle spasm?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an example, here is the show I watched last night that brought up the question in my mind. It is from season one of the show Millennium, an episode titled &amp;quot;522666&amp;quot; dealing with a bomber in London. Near the end of the episode, the main character Frank Black is stuck in his car with the bomber in another car in a standoff as the bomber has a detonator in his hand. Frank alerts the police who arrive and the following plays out --&#xA;(ironically as I'm reading the transcript, I am realizing that a possible answer to my question was right there in the episode and I missed it)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[The first sniper moves into position and reports in to Pierson by&#xA;radio.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[We see through the scope of his rifle which has a&#xA;night-vision lens. We can see Dees' head and left hand holding the&#xA;cell phone to his ear.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SNIPER #1:&lt;/strong&gt;  Got a clean profile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[He then moves his rifle over and spots the remote switch in Dees' right hand&#xA;on the steering wheel which we see through the scope.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SNIPER #1:&lt;/strong&gt; Wait. He's holding a transmitter in his hand. A muscle spasm&#xA;might set it off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PIERSON:&lt;/strong&gt;  Then go for the medulla oblongata shot. Take him&#xA;out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[The sniper moves to find a new position.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-12-14T00:01:43.693" Title="Can a headshot from a sniper really cause muscle spasm?" Tags="|realism|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47076" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47075" CreationDate="2016-02-01T18:49:12.663" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes. Because Death is not Instant, even in a clean &quot;apricot&quot; headshot. The human body doesn't just die immediately, even when heart and head are destroyed. &lt;a href=&quot;https://bonesdontlie.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/new-morbid-terminology-cadaveric-spasm/&quot;&gt;Cadaveric Spasms are one problem.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaveric_spasm&quot;&gt;Cadaveric spasm&lt;/a&gt;, also known as postmortem spasm, &lt;strong&gt;instantaneous rigor&lt;/strong&gt;, cataleptic rigidity, or instantaneous rigidity, is a rare form of muscular stiffening that occurs at the moment of death, persists into the period of rigor mortis&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaveric_spasm&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt; and can be mistaken for rigor mortis. The cause is unknown, but is usually associated with violent deaths happening under extremely physical circumstances with intense emotion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Post-Mortum Movement or Twitching is another. The stored energy in our muscles doesn't just disappear at &quot;death&quot;. And misfiring neurons or nerves can trigger muscles that have enough ATP stored up. You will see people that are dead twitch, move and spasm for hours after &quot;death&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some science, here's a dancing squid:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/JGPfSSUlReM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Squid and Frogs muscles are twitching from autonomous reflex movement, triggered by sodium in the soy sauce, but this same movement can happen randomly from decaying cell misfires. Imagine the squid had a gun in its hand. All it takes is a finger to spasm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000113080008.htm&quot;&gt;Even certified diagnosed brain death doesn't stop it&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Many brain-dead patients have spontaneous movements such as jerking of fingers or bending of toes that can be disturbing to family members and health care professionals and even cause them to question the brain-death diagnosis. These movements occur in 39 percent of brain-dead patients, according to a study published in the January 11, 2000 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The doctors conducted additional tests and confirmed that there was no brain activity. “The living cells that were ordering these muscles to move were not brain cells or brain stem cells, but cells located in the spinal cord,” he said. “It‘s important for family members and health care professionals to be aware of this possibility.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's even a reflex named after it, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_sign&quot;&gt;Lazarus Sign&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like the knee jerk reflex, the Lazarus sign is an example of a reflex mediated by a reflex arc – a neural pathway which passes via the spinal column but not through the brain. As a consequence the movement is possible in brain-dead patients whose organs have been kept functioning by life-support machines, precluding the use of complex involuntary motions as a test for brain activity. It has been suggested by neurologists studying the phenomenon that increased awareness of this and similar reflexes &quot;may prevent delays in brain-dead diagnosis and misinterpretations.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In regards to sniping specifically, ideally they aim for the medulla oblongata to prevent &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Voluntary Muscle Movement&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Essentially attempting to instantly turn the person into a paraplegic. Involuntary movement is still a problem.:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In a high-risk or instant-death hostage situation, police snipers may take head shots to ensure an instant kill. The snipers aim for the &quot;apricot&quot;, or the medulla oblongata, located inside the head, a part of the brain that controls involuntary movement that lies at the base of the skull. Some ballistics and neurological researchers have argued that severing the spinal cord at an area near the second cervical vertebra is actually achieved, usually having the same effect of preventing voluntary motor activity, but the debate on the matter remains largely academic at present.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;But the trope can be justified.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;About half the time these the shows (always cop procedurals) introduce the hostage taker as having a &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeadManSwitch&quot;&gt;Dead Man's Switch&lt;/a&gt;, a widely common trope. Unlike a trigger that needs to be pushed, a Dead Man's Switch needs to be released. Someone going limp from death is a problem when a Dead Man's Switch is used. Suicide Bombers have this often. It's a small scale version of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-deadly&quot;&gt;Fail-Deadly&lt;/a&gt;. A gun could have a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigger_(firearms)#Release_trigger&quot;&gt;release trigger&lt;/a&gt; for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/hdBOhCO5Pz4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-01T19:32:50.977" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T19:32:50.977" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47077" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47075" CreationDate="2016-02-01T18:55:41.010" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I couldn't find a great source, but judging by some of the forums that I saw,* the reflex trigger finger is unlikely, but still somewhat possible. However, other factors are more likely to be an influence - e.g. how good your aim is if you're attempting to shoot the hostage-taker; whether the hostage-taker will get nervous and pull the trigger on the hostage (by accident or on purpose) before somebody else shoots; where the hostage-taker ends up getting shot and how that affects his/her ability to function; and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*the two I found most useful were actually from the same site: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/In-reality-does-holding-a-hostage-in-front-of-you-and-pointing-a-gun-at-that-persons-head-work-at-all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; about the realism/usefulness of holding a hostage with a gun pointed to their head; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/Traumatic-Brain-Injury/Once-someone-has-been-shot-in-the-head-can-they-still-shoot-their-own-gun&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; about traumatic brain injury&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T18:55:41.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47078" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47079" CreationDate="2016-02-01T19:21:00.157" Score="24" ViewCount="4817" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I watched &lt;em&gt;The Force Awakens&lt;/em&gt; in December and absolutely loved it, but there was one thing I didn't quite get:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was a moment when the rebels were showing Han the schematics of the First Order's base/gigantic weapon/planet-thing, telling him that it was totally different and way more powerful than the Death Star. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And... it was just a ginormous version of the Death Star. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A funny gag, but it doesn't entirely make sense to me why the First Order would go with &quot;Let's make a Death Star, just bigger&quot; as a viable tactic, when the less-giant Death Star had failed in the past (and they could reasonably expect the rebels to be prepared to fight a recreation thereof, given that many of them had fought in the battle against the last one). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So... am I missing something? Was there something that actually was significantly different and/or improved with this weapon/planet/ship other than size? If not, why was the First Order so confident in this weapon? Why did they even make it instead of going with an entirely different tactic?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-02-02T21:16:21.463" LastActivityDate="2016-08-15T15:46:02.610" Title="Why does the First Order essentially just make a bigger Death Star?" Tags="|plot-explanation|star-wars|the-force-awakens|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47078" CreationDate="2016-02-01T19:45:16.370" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Starkiller_Base#Behind_the_scenes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;short explanation&lt;/a&gt; by JJ Abrams himself:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Starkiller Base was created for the 2015 film Star Wars: Episode VII&#xA;  The Force Awakens. The film's director, J.J. Abrams, stated that the&#xA;  superweapon's similarities to the two Death Stars from the original&#xA;  trilogy were intentional, as the new generation of Imperials within&#xA;  the First Order would want to prove that they were stronger and more&#xA;  advanced than their predecessors in the Galactic Empire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So basically: &lt;strong&gt;they wanted to do things bigger and better than the Galactic Empire did&lt;/strong&gt;, so rather than construct a space station, they transformed an entire planet and used the acquired knowledge of the now defunct Empire to improve upon their original plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And really, that's about the only explanation that's needed. The First Order doesn't just want to be some offshoot vestige of the Empire itself: it wants to surpass them in any way possible to achieve the Empire's original goal. What better way to do that than transform a planet into a super weapon, capable of consuming the entire power of a single star, and jettisoning it out into hyperspace to annihilate any star systems in the galaxy that might oppose you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The sheer capabilities of this new weapon were far beyond anything the Empire was capable of decades earlier, and shows that the First Order has managed to take what they learned and enhance the Empire's original capabilities exponentially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They were confident in the weapon because the shielding around the planet had only one weakness: a ship penetrating the shield at lightspeed, only to drop out and right itself at the last second. A weakness for sure, but even Han knew how dangerous it was to plot a course haphazardly when making the jump to light speed in A New Hope. They figured they had eliminated any major vulnerabilities compared to the original Death Stars, and in some ways you can't really blame them for thinking that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2016-02-02T15:15:42.563" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T15:15:42.563" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13668" CreationDate="2016-02-01T21:43:08.513" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan's brother and &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight Rises&lt;/em&gt; screenwriter, gave an interview to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=124410&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Coming Soon&lt;/a&gt; where he said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I love those guys and my brother was involved in ‘Man of Steel’ with&#xA;  Zack [Snyder] and David [Goyer]. I kind of feel like that chapter for&#xA;  us is closed. To be continued somewhere farther down the line? Maybe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst neither brother has given an interview explicitly stating &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; they've chosen to leave the projects, it doesn't appear like they were forced out - rather, it seems they left to pursue other projects.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T21:43:08.513" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47085" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27896" CreationDate="2016-02-01T21:53:58.943" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I read a fascinating blog article at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/aspect-ratios-explained-when-to-use-the-major-three/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Premium Beat&lt;/a&gt; where the writer stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The very wide aspect of 2.39:1 makes it appealing to so many&#xA;  filmmakers. Just about anything will look more cinematic or more&#xA;  ‘filmic’ when shot in this aspect, considering that originally it was&#xA;  associated with the anamorphic/cinemascope look and we are trained to&#xA;  associate this aesthetic with higher end feature films. &lt;strong&gt;For this&#xA;  reason, I feel that 2.39 is often ideal for dramatic narrative film&#xA;  content that is intended for either theatrical exhibition or&#xA;  television/VOD distribution.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I hadn't previously considered this, but it's logical and understandable. When I see things in 2:39 ratio I definitely associate it with a more &quot;cinematic&quot; experience. I can totally understand the logic of converting a 1.85 film to 2.35 to achieve this effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T21:53:58.943" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47087" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15824" CreationDate="2016-02-01T22:24:39.887" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a fascinating question because Willie Cicci's character was reportedly based on the real-life mobster &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Valachi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joe Valachi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the first Mafia member to publicly acknowledge the Mafia's existence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1963, Valachi testified to the congressional committee about how the mafia actually worked, providing intimate details of its history, operations and aiding in the solution of several unsolved murders.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After speaking to the committee, he was reportedly guarded by up to 200 US Marshals due to a &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&amp;amp;dat=19630806&amp;amp;id=R49YAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;sjid=bvcDAAAAIBAJ&amp;amp;pg=3246,1243897&amp;amp;hl=en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;rumored $100,000 bounty&lt;/a&gt; on his head. He spent the rest of his life in protective custody in prison and died, with the bounty uncollected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://law.jrank.org/pages/9524/Protective-Custody.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;partly due to his testimony and protection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; that the US actually &lt;em&gt;created&lt;/em&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Federal_Witness_Protection_Program&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Witness Protection Program&lt;/a&gt; (in 1970).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it seems entirely plausible that Cicci's character in the films was based on Valachi and that he would have entered custodial protection scheme as Valachi did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; happens to him in the film is a mystery. We are never told. Given Michael has Fredo murdered, it seems highly unlikely he would not make an attempt on Cicci's life. Whether that attempt would be successful or not is unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a side-note, there are many sites online that claim Cicci was supposed to return in &lt;em&gt;The Godfather III&lt;/em&gt;, but his character was cut after the actor portraying him, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Spinell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joe Spinell&lt;/a&gt;, passed away. I can't find any official confirmation that this was the case though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T22:24:39.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47090" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21157" CreationDate="2016-02-01T22:53:32.997" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;We only have speculation here I'm afraid. Firstly, Martin didn't kill her. To quote from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=bron&amp;amp;episode=s01e10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Martin:&lt;/strong&gt; I won't shoot her.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Jens&lt;/strong&gt;: You don't have to murder her. You'll be dismissed. Maybe you be in prison for a few months. Infliction of injury. Abuse. Maybe they'll&#xA;  conduct a trial. It'll cost you something. But you have to, to save&#xA;  August. I promise, I'll tell you where he is. You can find out from me&#xA;  what you want and what I've done but I've always kept my word. I told&#xA;  you where Mette and the children were. You can still save him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following this, Martin shoots her in the upper right of her torso, just below her shoulder. It seems unlikely she would die from this (but again, this is just speculation - the script and show don't confirm it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, for a criminal case to come to trial the country's prosecution authority will take the case forward. In Sweden, for example, that is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Prosecution_Authority&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Swedish Prosecution Authority&lt;/a&gt;. In Denmark, it is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_Prosecution_Service&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Danish Prosecution Service&lt;/a&gt;. It's conceivable that whichever authority had jurisdiction specifically chose &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to proceed with a criminal prosecution against Martin, given the incredible stress and trauma he had been through.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They may have felt there was little chance of a conviction given this trauma, or they may not have had the appetite to pursue the case against a police officer who was so horrifying psychologically affected by the case. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The lady who was shot could probably have some sort of private course of action against Martin, but may have decided not to pursue this if she had been suitably compensated for her troubles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, &lt;em&gt;all of this answer&lt;/em&gt; is pure conjecture. It could be an oversight on the part of the show producers, or it could be that it was not something they felt was relevant to explore after the thrilling drama of the finale.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either way, &quot;we'll never know&quot; is a fair answer, but I wanted to provide a possible &quot;in-universe&quot; reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-01T22:53:32.997" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47094" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41402" CreationDate="2016-02-02T00:01:05.640" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I know you've consulted your previous question and the answer provided there, I'm going to refer to that answer to (try) and answer this one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the Season 3 episode &lt;em&gt;Fly&lt;/em&gt;, Walter states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;This fly is a major problem for us: It will ruin our batch, and we&#xA;  need to destroy it and every trace of it so we can cook. Failing that,&#xA;  we're dead. There's no more room for error, not with these people.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, whilst out of universe it's well known that a key driving reason for the episode was a lack of budget (&lt;a href=&quot;http://As%20you%20said,%20it%20was%20a%20bottle%20episode%20and%20the%20reason%20for%20doing%20a%20bottle%20episode%20is%20to%20help%20keep%20your%20schedule%20and%20stay%20on%20budget.&quot;&gt;as Gilligan, the show's creator has stated in interviews&lt;/a&gt;), in universe Walt's comments show how it symbolises the perception of losing control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Gilligan expands on Walt's comments &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vice.com/read/i-asked-the-creator-of-breaking-bad-about-meth&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in an interview with Vice&lt;/a&gt;, stating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The reason in our minds that he was suffering with his own form of&#xA;  post-traumatic stress was that he had recently learned of his&#xA;  inadvertent responsibility in the shooting and wounding of his&#xA;  brother-in-law, Hank. He found out about Tuco’s cousins who were out&#xA;  to get him and he found out that Hank got in the way of their shooting&#xA;  and found out that indeed Gus Fring gave Walt’s brother-in-law to the&#xA;  cousins instead of Walt himself. In that moment of powerlessness, in&#xA;  that moment of shared responsibility and that moment of realizing just&#xA;  how culpable he was, and just how he would have to suck it up and grin&#xA;  and bear it to this very dangerous man who he thought was a very&#xA;  business-like, very rational man. Then he finds out this guy is&#xA;  rational to the point that he’s almost sociopathic. “My brother-in-law&#xA;  is now in danger and everybody is a pawn to this guy and I’m trapped&#xA;  here and I have to grin and bear it.” It’s the old Godfather line,&#xA;  “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” So we had that&#xA;  episode in which he goes to Gus and says, “I know you essentially&#xA;  ordered a hit on my brother-in-law, and I know why you did it, and I&#xA;  want you to understand that I’m fine with it and I would have done the&#xA;  same thing.&quot; Of course he wasn’t fine with it, because then he got&#xA;  into his car and almost drove into an oncoming semi. That craziness&#xA;  you’re speaking of really all stems from that moment. It was a&#xA;  craziness that derives from “I’m really trapped here. I don’t like&#xA;  this feeling of being trapped. How the hell do I get out of this? How&#xA;  the hell do I live with this guilt?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So clearly the fly &lt;em&gt;in the episode The Fly&lt;/em&gt; symbolises a terrifying realisation on Walt's part that he is not in control and a fear of where this is leading him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, relating that your question about the Season 5 episode &lt;em&gt;Gliding It Over All&lt;/em&gt;, I would suggest it is to again symbolise a lack of control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the finale of the &lt;em&gt;previous&lt;/em&gt; episode, &lt;em&gt;Say My Name&lt;/em&gt;, Walter loses control and kills Mike Ehrmantraut. In the opening scene of &lt;em&gt;Gliding It Over All&lt;/em&gt;, he is fully appreciating how significant what he has done is and realising that once again he has placed himself in dangerous territory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This time though, unlike in &lt;em&gt;The Fly&lt;/em&gt;, his lapse is very temporary. As soon as Todd enters, he begins to compose himself and is able to start conducting operations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this indicates that he &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; senses the loss of control (and even regret) over what he has done, but that he has come a long way from the person he was in &lt;em&gt;The Fly&lt;/em&gt; and he is able to process these feelings and respond to them (in a ruthless manner).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T00:01:05.640" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47078" CreationDate="2016-02-02T00:20:46.180" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Much of this answer is highly speculative.  There are no official sources being quoted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;it was just a ginormous version of the Death Star.&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There may have been some practical reasons for this.  As noted by &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://movies.stackexchange.com/a/47079/30608&quot;&gt;MattD's answer&lt;/A&gt;, a re-creation that remains may be a powerful statement in favor of the First Order.  A re-creation that gets destroyed early on would be particularly humiliating.  My guess is that the First Order wasn't preferring to have that happen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I suppose I could counter with the question, &quot;Why not make it look like a Death Star?  Why must the new contraption look notably different?&quot;  The question poses some thoughts about this.  However, those ideas might even have been considered, but just not be more compelling than reasons for similarities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may be useful to define, more precisely, just what is meant by &quot;looking like the Death Star&quot;?  Is this observation largely based on the fact that it is spherical?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that this weapon was built on a planet may be one key reason why it had its spherical shape.  It could be that the StarKiller was going to be the first part of a much larger lattice/snowflake-like hub.  Building around a spherical planet would have led a sphere to be the easiest first step.  Additional modifications could be made in subsequent years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that this weapon needed to contain the energy of a sun may also have had some impact.  Since I haven't personally studied the plans of an invention capable of storing that much energy, I don't know just what technical requirements exist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe a future plan was to ram the StarKiller into the center of a planet, to absorb energy from all directions more quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Death Star had a sphere that was used to unleash a tremendous amount of power into a focused direction.  The StarKiller base performed this same functionality, which may be another reason why there were some physical resemblances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Many people like their wireless phones to make a &quot;phone-like&quot; sound, despite the fact that the modern smart phones are simply playing a &quot;WAVe&quot; file, which could sound like anything.  It could be that the board of directors could have chosen a base that looked like anything, and that similarity to the original Death Star seemed appropriately symbolic of what they intended to accomplish this time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30608" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T00:20:46.180" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47096" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38984" CreationDate="2016-02-02T00:34:27.920" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jason P. Vest addresses this on page 169 of his novel &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ry-JGnxXPBQC&amp;amp;pg=PA169&amp;amp;lpg=PA169&amp;amp;dq=a%20scanner%20darkly%20connie%20arctor%20donna&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=Q6tqe8pcIb&amp;amp;sig=9BTJsHDp9azDNfiHoJfrfFY5Eww&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwjw0vSJ6NfKAhVEJQ8KHUpqAPEQ6AEINjAD#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=a%20scanner%20darkly%20connie%20arctor%20donna&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Future Imperfect: Philip K. Dick at the Movies&lt;/a&gt;. To quote from it, he states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[The director] again suggests that Arctor's dual identity seeps into&#xA;  the surrounding world. Arctor can no longer be certain that his&#xA;  perception of reality is trustworthy, because no other character&#xA;  objectively confirms that Connie's face morphs into Donna's. &lt;em&gt;A&#xA;  Scanner Darkly's&lt;/em&gt; audience, like Arctor, is cast adrift. From this&#xA;  point in [the director's] film, the viewer does not know whether&#xA;  Arctor's experience is real, imagined, or a precarious combination of&#xA;  the two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This critic is effectively arguing that as Arctor is an untrustworthy protagonist, nothing he views can be treated without suspicion. This echoes the character from the book very well (and Dick's books in general), where the protagonist can often be an unreliable narrator.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having said that, what makes the scene even more likely to be a hallucination is Arctor's reaction to the tape from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oknovels.com/scanner-darkly?page=0%25252C124,87&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the novel&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I better run this over to the lab, he thought; it's been tampered with by an expert. I've been fed fake tape... Somebody fake in Donna. Superimposed over Connie. Forged evidence that Arctor was laying the Hawthorne girl. Why?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in the novel, Arctor doesn't himself even believe that what he is seeing is real. Therefore, I'd suggest that whilst the film adds more ambiguity to the scene, the intention is likely the same - it is a projection of his desires, not a real occurrence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I'd argue: &lt;strong&gt;yes, the scene is part of his hallucination&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T00:34:27.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47101" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1546" CreationDate="2016-02-02T03:17:08.267" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe the last line Jake says under his breath in Chinatown is &quot;as little as possible.&quot; It refers to his time as a cop in Chinatown when he was told to do &quot;as little as possible&quot; because cops in Chinatown were on the take and looked the other way as part of the deal. But Jake apparently tried to help a woman in Chinatown and as a result she was &quot;hurt.&quot; Perhaps Jake was more honest than the other cops, including his former colleague, Lt. Lou Escobar. That is why there is an animosity between the two characters, especially since Escobar has now been promoted t&#xA;to Lieutenant.&#xA;I believe this movie was named &quot;Chinatown&quot; because nothing is what it appears in the Chinese district. All the prostitution, gambling dens, opium dens, etc are hidden behind legitimate businesses and organizations such as the different benevolent associations and tongs, restaurants, bars and other businesses. So if you were a proactive officer, any arrests in Chinatown would not only affect the criminal underworld but also the police hierarchy who were on the take. &#xA;A great movie that I can watch every year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30616" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T03:17:08.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47102" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47240" CreationDate="2016-02-02T03:42:33.080" Score="8" ViewCount="267" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched this movie circa 1980.  All I remember is that a clone escaped from the clone &quot;factory&quot;, and managed to contact the local sheriff.  The sheriff drives up to the compound gate, tricks the security guard by asking &quot;I hear you have some clowns in here&quot; (or something like that).  The guard replies &quot;You mean clones&quot;, which gives the game away.  The sheriff then crashes through the gate with his truck, with the usual mayhem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought that the actor who played the sheriff was David Huddleston, but that doesn't seem to be the case.  I've searched high and low for the name of this movie, but no luck so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30618" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-02-04T13:57:21.163" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T16:49:17.207" Title="Low budget clone movie with a sheriff tricking a guard by saying 'clowns'" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:21:06.683" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47105" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-02T06:21:16.247" Score="6" ViewCount="1021" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Time Lapse&lt;/em&gt;, Callie was hiding the morning photos. She is secretly sending herself messages. What is the use of that? Why is she doing that? Then she kills her own boyfriend! What is Callie trying to do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18959" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-02T11:32:32.450" LastActivityDate="2017-03-09T06:22:58.940" Title="What is the girl Callie trying to do?" Tags="|plot-explanation|time-lapse|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47106" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47112" CreationDate="2016-02-02T06:23:26.140" Score="4" ViewCount="7292" Body="&lt;p&gt;How many languages does Oliver Queen speak in the Arrow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30622" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-08T13:25:55.147" LastActivityDate="2017-06-13T16:02:19.113" Title="How many languages does Oliver Queen speak?" Tags="|character|arrow|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47107" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47110" CreationDate="2016-02-02T06:30:57.070" Score="8" ViewCount="2865" Body="&lt;p&gt;As I googled and found out that the O&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; molecule size is 120 pm. At one point Ant-man goes subatomic, that is, smaller in size than the original O&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; molecule size. And my question arises. &lt;strong&gt;How was Ant-man able to breath when he goes sub-atomic?&lt;/strong&gt; It wouldn't fit in his lungs. Hope some one will put some light on the mystery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19786" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-02T10:08:45.067" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T20:16:49.853" Title="How was Ant-man able to breathe when he goes sub-atomic?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|ant-man|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47105" CreationDate="2016-02-02T06:35:13.580" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;She discovered that the machine was printing 2 photos per day. She was hiding the morning photo from the guys so that she could send herself messages on how to change/prevent events from happening. He goal is to use the machine to change the past to save her relationship with Finn. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem at the end is that the note she was leaving herself fell off the window which sealed her fate and ended it all. He wasn't supposed to die, but she knew she could leave herself a note to prevent it from happening, but the security guard came along and ruined it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit for comment:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When it's discovered by Finn that there were two photos each day and Callie was hiding one of them, she tried to explain. Finn decides he is going to destroy the machine, so Callie shoots him to prevent it from happening. Her reasoning is that she can leave herself a note to not get caught (i.e. not let the hidden photos get discovered) which will avoid Finn wanting to destroy the machine and thus, Callie not having to kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: I found this link that explains everything in detail &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themoviespoiler.com/2015Spoilers/TimeLapse.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TIME LAPSE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4331" LastEditorUserId="4331" LastEditDate="2016-02-04T23:36:56.623" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T23:36:56.623" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47109" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47153" CreationDate="2016-02-02T06:42:03.703" Score="3" ViewCount="1531" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know that The Flash is a speedster. But I recently learned that only the Flash can open the time portal, while Reverse-Flash &amp;amp; Professor Zoom cannot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Zoom opened the time portal, it would have different effects.&#xA;There must be unique abilities that only The Flash possesses. Like time-travel, etc. Otherwise why would Reverse-Flash and Professor Zoom looking forward to stealing the Flash's speed?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19786" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-20T11:21:04.253" LastActivityDate="2016-04-20T11:21:04.253" Title="What is the main core difference of The Flash, that no other speedsters possesses?" Tags="|character|arrowverse|the-flash|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47107" CreationDate="2016-02-02T06:44:57.407" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;SCUBA. Or in this case, Self Contained Microcosm Breathing Aparatus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Ant-Man-Costume-Has-One-Massive-Flaw-71656.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From an interview with the costume designers:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In an interview featured in the [July 2015] issue of Empire, &lt;strong&gt;costume designers Sammy Sheldon and Ivo Coveney&lt;/strong&gt; discuss the loosely-based logistics behind the Ant-Man suit worn by Rudd’s Scott Lang. &lt;strong&gt;Adhering to realism in one sense, the suit is designed to be self-contained&lt;/strong&gt;, since oxygen molecules would be too large to breathe for a shrunken superhero. ... The team of Sheldon and Coveney, who openly made this supposed style-over-substance design choice, have been on board the Peyton Reed-directed Ant-Man project since the days it still called Edgar Wright its skipper. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kieran-dickson/the-science-of-antman_b_7811008.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Same interview, different source:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One such area that Marvel have addressed is the notion of oxygen absorption. In a recent interview with Empire, Ant-Man's costume designers, Sammy Sheldon and Ivo Coveney, revealed one of the scientific limitations that they had placed upon Paul Rudd's characters. &quot;When you shrink, the molecules in the air are too big for your lungs,&quot; &lt;strong&gt;explained Sheldon. &quot;He has to be fully contained or he'd die.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In essence, the suit shrinks everything Ant-Man needs to be able to survive. Regardless of the quantum effects they state happen at the subatomic levels, we know Scott was only subatomic for minutes real time. And we don't know how small the O&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; particles are made in the suit's oxygen tank, but considering the power of pym-particles, they can be incredibly compact. He could have a near unlimited amount of air.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Scott &lt;strong&gt;Always&lt;/strong&gt; has his helmet on when shrunken. Always. Not one scene has Scott, Hank, Janet, or even Cross shrink without the helmet on and in place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end though, the technical accuracy, like in most comics and movies, takes a back seat to the rule of cool:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We had a long discussion about the two cables going into his helmet. They're a massive weakness - Yellowjacket could just rip them off and he's dead. But, in the end, &lt;strong&gt;it just looks cooler with them on.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T20:16:49.853" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T20:16:49.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47112" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47106" CreationDate="2016-02-02T07:26:25.903" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Oliver Queen has been shown to be fluent in multiple languages. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/Oliver_Queen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Arrowverse Wikia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Multilingual: Oliver is capable of fluently speaking English, Russian, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish, and Arabic. He can speak Mandarin so perfectly that a blinded Chinese Triad member believed Oliver was actually Chinese.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He learned Arabic through the League of Assassins. Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese while stuck in Hong Kong. Russian during his time with Solntsevskaya Bratva, a group part of the Russian mafia. English from birth. It hasn't been shown where he learned Spanish from or when.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-06-13T16:02:19.113" LastActivityDate="2017-06-13T16:02:19.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47114" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47078" CreationDate="2016-02-02T07:46:28.617" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;EDIT: They built Starkiller base because it is NOT another death star, it is way more AWESOME and SHOULD have won them the title of &quot;heavy weight champion of the galaxy&quot; for the First Order, had they not been so incompetent at defending it (slash if the writers at Disney knew anything about warfare and how incompetent they made Snoke look for not utilizing Star Killer base properly.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real problem that any true military mind would understand is that the First Order created an incredibly good weapon which the rebels shouldn't have been able to destroy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A stationary long-range weapon has the advantage of forcing the opponent to attack its position.  Therefore Starkiller base had defender's advantage.  Defenders advantage coupled with superior military forces (in both quality and number) are what make it improbable that the rebels could have destroyed it.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the First Order had to do was station their entire fleet to defend it, up their defensive cannons and so forth to the max, utilize shields well, and then just randomly destroy life-sustaining planets all over the galaxy until the rebellion surrendered.  Snoke is a useless villain if he couldn't figure that out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have a knack for these kinds of things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30625" LastEditorUserId="30625" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T18:10:12.037" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T18:10:12.037" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47119" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47109" CreationDate="2016-02-02T11:35:46.163" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Reverse-flash can time travel too, he did it in episode #10, I guess but really didn't get why he hates the flash.&#xA;They said zoom wants flash's speed to become stronger and faster and because he doesn't accept the fact that there is another speedster but him on any earth. He wants to be the only speedster so he took down Jay Garrick on his earth and now it's Berry's turn, they clarified only that much for now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30607" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T05:31:46.993" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T05:31:46.993" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47122" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8922" CreationDate="2016-02-02T13:20:28.597" Score="13" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Out in the wilderness, a different place each year.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The land mass that used to be called North America is nowhere near completely filled by the Capitol and the Districts; there are vast tracts of wilderness in between where nobody lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As @Mistu4u said, it might be unfair to set up the Hunger Games arena in one of the Districts - but then, who said the Hunger Games were fair? The Capitol, however, is just a city. There'd be no room for an arena there, let alone dozens of arenas used over the course of many years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the text of the first &lt;em&gt;Hunger Games&lt;/em&gt; book (emphasis mine):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The actual &#xA;  Games don't start until ten because so many of the &#xA;  Capitol residents rise late. But Peeta and I must make &#xA;  an early start. &lt;strong&gt;There is no telling how far we will &#xA;  travel to the arena&lt;/strong&gt; that has been prepared for this &#xA;  year's Games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The ride lasts about half an hour&lt;/strong&gt; before the windows &#xA;  black out, suggesting that we're nearing the arena. &#xA;  The hovercraft lands and Cinna and I go back to the &#xA;  ladder, only this time it leads down into a tube &#xA;  underground, into the catacombs that lie beneath the &#xA;  arena. We follow instructions to my destination, a &#xA;  chamber for my preparation. In the Capitol, they call &#xA;  it the Launch Room. In the districts, it's referred to as &#xA;  the Stockyard. The place animals go before slaughter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Everything is brand-new, I will be the first and only &#xA;  tribute to use this Launch Room. &lt;strong&gt;The arenas are &#xA;  historic sites, preserved after the Games. Popular &#xA;  destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation.&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;  Go for a month, rewatch the Games, tour the &#xA;  catacombs, visit the sites where the deaths took &#xA;  place. You can even take part in reenactments. They &#xA;  say the food is excellent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From this we learn that the arena used for the 74th Hunger Games is half an hour's hovercraft ride from the Capitol - probably quite a long way, considering the speed of even the trains in Panem - and that arenas are scattered around at varying distances from the Capitol, and are popular destinations for Capitol citizens to stay for a &lt;em&gt;month&lt;/em&gt;. You wouldn't go away for a month to stay in a place that was right on your back doorstep. The arenas couldn't really be described as 'in the Capitol'. In fact, they're presumably always far away from where any people live, to avoid the risk of having non-tribute bystanders involved in the Games (!).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27759" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T13:20:28.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47124" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18109" CreationDate="2016-02-02T13:52:08.350" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Andrew Martin's answer gives an excellent description of this character, but without citing any canonical sources. I've found the Hunger Games Wikia to be particularly unreliable even among Wikias, so I'm going to add another answer with actual book quotes.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She appears in the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; book but not until the &lt;em&gt;second&lt;/em&gt; film, and is used as a plot device to help us, the readers, to understand the brutality of the Capitol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a scene very much like the one you've screenshot (only before the 74th Hunger Games rather than the 75th), &lt;strong&gt;Katniss sees the Avox servant girl and recognises her&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I try to focus on the talk, which has turned to our &#xA;  interview costumes, when a girl sets a gorgeous- &#xA;  looking cake on the table and deftly lights it. It blazes &#xA;  up and then the flames flicker around the edges &#xA;  awhile until it finally goes out. I have a moment of &#xA;  doubt. &quot;What makes it burn? Is it alcohol?&quot; I say, &#xA;  looking up at the girl. &quot;That's the last thing I wa — &#xA;  oh! I know you!&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I can't place a name or time to the girl's face. But I'm &#xA;  certain of it. The dark red hair, the striking features, &#xA;  the porcelain white skin. But even as I utter the &#xA;  words, I feel my insides contracting with anxiety and &#xA;  guilt at the sight of her, and while I can't pull it up, I &#xA;  know some bad memory is associated with her. The &#xA;  expression of terror that crosses her face only adds to &#xA;  my confusion and unease. She shakes her head in &#xA;  denial quickly and hurries away from the table. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Effie is dismissive, and through the following dialogue we (and Katniss) find out &lt;strong&gt;what an Avox is&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;What's an Avox?&quot; I ask stupidly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Someone who committed a crime. They cut her &#xA;  tongue so she can't speak,&quot; says Haymitch. &quot;She's &#xA;  probably a traitor of some sort. Not likely you'd know &#xA;  her.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;And even if you did, you're not to speak to one of &#xA;  them unless it's to give an order,&quot; says Effie. &quot;Of &#xA;  course, you don't really know her.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But I do know her. And now that Haymitch has &#xA;  mentioned the word traitor I remember from where.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peeta covers for Katniss by pretending the Avox girl bears a resemblance to someone they know in District 12. Later on, he asks for the full story and Katniss tells him how &lt;strong&gt;she saw the girl captured by the Capitol&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We were hunting in &#xA;  the woods one day. Hidden, waiting for game,&quot; I &#xA;  whisper. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You and your father?&quot; he whispers back. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;No, my friend Gale. Suddenly all the birds stopped &#xA;  singing at once. Except one. As if it were giving a &#xA;  warning call. And then we saw her. I'm sure it was &#xA;  the same girl. A boy was with her. Their clothes were &#xA;  tattered. They had dark circles under their eyes from &#xA;  no sleep. They were running as if their lives depended &#xA;  on it,&quot; I say. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;For a moment I'm silent, as I remember how the sight &#xA;  of this strange pair, clearly not from District 12, &#xA;  fleeing through the woods immobilized us. Later, we &#xA;  wondered if we could have helped them escape. &#xA;  Perhaps we might have. Concealed them. If we'd &#xA;  moved quickly. Gale and I were taken by surprise, &#xA;  yes, but we're both hunters. We know how animals &#xA;  look at bay. We knew the pair was in trouble as soon &#xA;  as we saw them. But we only watched. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;The hovercraft appeared out of nowhere,&quot; I continue &#xA;  to Peeta. &quot;I mean, one moment the sky was empty and &#xA;  the next it was there. It didn't make a sound, but they &#xA;  saw it. A net dropped down on the girl and carried her &#xA;  up, fast, so fast like the elevator. They shot some sort &#xA;  of spear through the boy. It was attached to a cable &#xA;  and they hauled him up as well. But I'm certain he &#xA;  was dead. We heard the girl scream once. The boy's &#xA;  name, I think. Then it was gone, the hovercraft. &#xA;  Vanished into thin air. And the birds began to sing &#xA;  again, as if nothing had happened.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Did they see you?&quot; Peeta asked. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I don't know. We were under a shelf of rock,&quot; I reply. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But I do know. There was a moment, after the &#xA;  birdcall, but before the hovercraft, where the girl had &#xA;  seen us. She'd locked eyes with me and called out for &#xA;  help. But neither Gale or I had responded. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that's the tragic story of Katniss and the Avox girl. The name Lavinia, I believe only appears in the second book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, &lt;strong&gt;she comes originally from the Capitol&lt;/strong&gt;, not one of the Districts like (I assume) most 'traitors'. And it seems likely, in view of the revelations in the second and third books, that they were heading for the secret District 13 - and nearly got there, as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;They were from here?&quot; he asks, and he secures a &#xA;  button at my neck. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I nod. They'd had that Capitol look about them. The &#xA;  boy and the girl. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Where do you suppose they were going?&quot; he asks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I don't know that,&quot; I say. District 12 is pretty much &#xA;  the end of the line. Beyond us, there's only &#xA;  wilderness. If you don't count the ruins of District 13 &#xA;  that still smolder from the toxic bombs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(all quotes from &lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/em&gt;, Chapter 6)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27759" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T13:52:08.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47125" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47128" CreationDate="2016-02-02T13:58:57.957" Score="32" ViewCount="15095" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, a high school teacher, &lt;em&gt;Walter White&lt;/em&gt; produced 99.9% purity blue crystal methamphetamine. Now is that something only a true genius is capable of doing or is any talented/average high school chemistry teacher capable of doing so? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="24301" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T15:52:05.827" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T15:11:48.530" Title="Does producing blue meth make Walter a chemistry genius?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47125" CreationDate="2016-02-02T14:07:53.917" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Gale couldn't reproduce it, I'd say it's not something your &quot;average&quot; high school teacher was capable of.  That doesn't make him a genius, although he did help win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985, and his former company Gray Matter technologies (I can't find any info on what they actually did) was nominated for a Nobel Prize in 2008.  So, it's safe to say he's far from average.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sources:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_White_(Breaking_Bad)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_White_(Breaking_Bad)&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Gray_Matter_Technologies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Gray_Matter_Technologies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-03-19T15:11:48.530" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T15:11:48.530" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47125" CreationDate="2016-02-02T14:24:30.003" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's pointed out in one of the episodes that Walt is a particularly skilled chemist with a specialization in X-ray crystallography. This means that whilst being very knowledgeable about chemistry in general, his specific area of study focused exactly on what would help him to make particularly pure crystal meth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that it was blue was simply a side effect of the particular ingredients and methods that Walt used to create the meth. It was originally white when he began making it and using crushed Sudofed as one of the ingredients, but changing to the pure base ingredient caused it to turn blue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition, even with the best ingredients and equipment when he first started working with Gus, Walt did not start out creating such a pure product. It was around 97%-98% (can't remember exactly) pure at this point. He likely used his expertise to improve his technique and gradually create a better product over time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering that the show displays many people creating crystal meth without very much expertise (such as Jesse in the first episode, who was a high-school dropout) I'm guessing that other high-school chemistry teachers would have been able to make a better product than most that was sold on the streets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However with Walt having specialized in the field of study required, in addition to having the very high intelligence that allowed him to build a drugs empire without getting caught, and the experience of over a year cooking meth, there would have been very few other people who had the ability to make crystal meth to such a high quality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19693" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T14:24:30.003" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47128" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47125" CreationDate="2016-02-02T14:27:34.020" Score="36" Body="&lt;p&gt;To answer this, we need to look at how accurate &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;'s depiction of cooking actually is. The show relied on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Nelson&quot;&gt;Donna Nelson&lt;/a&gt;, a Professor Chemistry at the University of Oklahoma. She was the science advisor and gave input to the show's creators. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/2011/12/23/144190095/the-science-behind-breaking-bad&quot;&gt;She told NPR&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You know, there are multiple ways to make meth. And so although his&#xA;  scenes are very accurate, he will sort of (unintelligible) together&#xA;  parts of different syntheses, so that if you just simply followed the&#xA;  one synthesis as it's presented, you wouldn't come out with&#xA;  methamphetamine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, the process &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; shows &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; accurate, but is modified or obscured in some key areas so that this can't be followed by wannabe meth cooks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So next, who could actually produce it, in the real world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/a-comprehensive-guide-to-cooking-meth-on-breaking-bad&quot;&gt;Vice has a very in-depth article&lt;/a&gt; with Jason Wallach, a real life chemist who spent over seven years studying organic chemistry. He states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When it comes to making meth, the difference between cooking and&#xA;  synthesis should be acknowledged. In the same manner anyone can learn&#xA;  how to cook a fancy meal, &lt;strong&gt;anyone can be taught to cook meth regardless&#xA;  of chemistry education – cooking meth may be just a little more&#xA;  explosive.&lt;/strong&gt; In fact, cooking meth can be extremely dangerous because a&#xA;  lack of chemical knowledge puts the cook (and anyone else nearby) at&#xA;  serious risk of injury. As Gus’s assistant Victor in “Box Cutter”&#xA;  (S.4E.1) states, “It’s called a cook, because everything comes down to&#xA;  following a recipe.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, he also notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;These are important points that someone just following a recipe may&#xA;  not be able to deal with. A skilled chemist like Walt understands the&#xA;  chemistry allowing him to alter or adapt the synthesis as necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to your question:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Does producing blue meth make Walter a chemistry genius?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;The answer appears to be no&lt;/strong&gt;, it does not make him a genius.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another example of this fact can be seen from this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/how-you-make-meth-chemistry-4984957&quot;&gt;Daily Mirror&lt;/a&gt; article, which shows a clever university professor setting his students a &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt; chemistry exam paper, to explain how the meth was synthesised.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So ultimately, two things seem likely:&lt;br&gt;&#xA; 1. Creating meth does not make one a chemistry genius.&lt;br&gt;&#xA; 2. Following a recipe doesn't even require chemistry qualifications or knowledge - it just makes it more dangerous as &lt;em&gt;common&lt;/em&gt; safety procedures may be overlooked.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, although I hope this answers the &lt;em&gt;title&lt;/em&gt; of your question, in the &lt;em&gt;body&lt;/em&gt; of your question you asked something slightly different:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Would it take a genius to produce 99.9% pure meth?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Well, incredibly the answer to that might be no based on the fact &lt;em&gt;quite recently 99% proof meth was found&lt;/em&gt;. In 2013, it was reported that five men involved in a North Korean drug ring had produced meth over 99% pure. This was published by Al Jazeera, &lt;a href=&quot;http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/11/21/5-charged-with-smugglingmethfromnorthkorea.html&quot;&gt;who commented&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That crystal meth was later seized by law enforcement, tested and&#xA;  found to be more than 99 percent pure — purer than the infamously&#xA;  high-quality meth cooked by Walter White, the fictional&#xA;  teacher-turned-drug-lord in the popular TV series &quot;Breaking Bad.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/north-koreas-got-breaking-bad-meth-2013-11?IR=T&quot;&gt;Business Insider&lt;/a&gt; questioned how this was possible, suggesting:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One reason North Korea may be so good at producing it is physical&#xA;  necessity. The Hermit Kingdom is notoriously isolated from any kind of&#xA;  official trade and is rife with starvation and disease.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“It does seem like [meth use] very widespread in North Korea. It&#xA;  wasn’t viewed as an illicit drug, but more as just a kind of&#xA;  medicine,” Isaac Stone Fish, an associate editor at the Foreign&#xA;  Policy, told Al Jazeera. “It’s also an appetite suppressant in a&#xA;  country where malnutrition is very common.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, whilst North Korea is historically a very secretive country, it seems unlikely that they have &lt;em&gt;Nobel prize winning chemists&lt;/em&gt; who are hiding within the country, given their lack of access to so much of the information the rest of the world has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I'd conclude that you &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;do not need to be a genius to produce this level of perfection in meth&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note:&lt;/em&gt; Walter White &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; clearly a genius, and this is demonstrated in universe on a number of occasions (not least than by his Nobel Prize win). However, whilst he's a genius, I believe the out of universe evidence shows that it doesn't &lt;em&gt;take&lt;/em&gt; a genius to do what he did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, several sources (such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2013/09/office-hours-professor-talks-breaking-bad-meth-fact-fiction/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/tv/a9386/breaking-bad-fact-vs-fiction-walter-whites-secret-formula-15826137/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;) note that the formula he follows would actually produce meth less than 50% pure. Of course, &lt;em&gt;in the show's reality&lt;/em&gt;, it is conveyed that his techniques are incredible and result in the wonderful blue meth we see. In reality, 99% meth would not even be blue, as the two articles above allude to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-02T15:27:49.533" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T15:27:49.533" CommentCount="14" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47129" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47125" CreationDate="2016-02-02T15:02:50.013" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any competent chemist could probably do it, but there aren't that many in the business&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few issues with the way the show portrayed the meth synthesis. One is that pure meth isn't &lt;em&gt;blue&lt;/em&gt; nor do any of the routes used by White and Pinkman pharmaceuticals create blue impurities. So the colour is merely a plot device to highlight the fact that their product is particularly good compared to the generally available meth in the black market.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What matters here is the fact that most meth is very impure as it is produced by amateurs, badly. Walter White adopts an unusual level of professionalism (but not genius) to the process creating a better product. He does this because he recognises the opportunity to do better than the sloppy amateurs he sees in the backstreet lab during his bother-in-law's drug raid; he also puts some professional pride into doing the process well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chemically speaking meth isn't that hard to make. However, it may be hard to make without getting &lt;em&gt;caught&lt;/em&gt; given the restrictions placed by the authorities on the raw materials required. White is clever several times in finding ways round these issues based on his knowledge of chemistry. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meth is also hard to make &lt;em&gt;safely&lt;/em&gt; as many of the ingredients are poisonous, corrosive or flammable (depending on the specific route). again, though, these are problems that competent chemists deal with every day so no genius is required. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another issue where some ingenuity is useful is &lt;em&gt;concealment&lt;/em&gt;. Some of the reactions (such as the first one used in the show) create a lot of visible and nasty by products (such as the nasty fumes emitted from the van in the first couple of episodes). This is why amateur meth cooks operate best in places where it is possible to get a long way away from being observed. In later episodes White uses his knowledge of chemical apparatus to design labs where there is little external evidence of his activity. Again, though, this is basic synthetic chemistry and not genius-level knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another issue with the purity that the show mentions but glosses over is that the active ingredient in meth is &lt;em&gt;chiral&lt;/em&gt; (which means the molecule exists in two mirror-image forms) but most syntheses create a mixture of both mirror images only one of which is active. White knows this as he mentions it in one episode, but the show never shows anything that resolves how he gets the pure mirror-image active product. This has been the subject of speculation on chemistry.SE in this question: &lt;a href=&quot;https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/7489/how-does-walter-white-make-pure-crystal-meth-using-a-non-stereospecific-reaction&quot;&gt;https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/7489/how-does-walter-white-make-pure-crystal-meth-using-a-non-stereospecific-reaction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whatever the answer, White doesn't need to be a genius, just a competent careful chemist. As for how he turns his knowledge into a successful (illegal) business, perhaps that does require some dark genius especially when he has to dispose of his enemies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:57:07.110" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T15:02:50.013" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47133" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47135" CreationDate="2016-02-02T17:41:11.127" Score="6" ViewCount="1830" Body="&lt;p&gt;What does the word Box Office mean? What does it signify? Is it worldwide or region based?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The amount shown is millions. How much do the people involved in the making of the movie get?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28789" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T18:20:15.650" Title="What exactly is the Box Office collection?" Tags="|terminology|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47133" CreationDate="2016-02-02T18:01:06.163" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Box Office refers to the ticket window at a theater.  What the theater collects when a movie is shown.  Where you pay for your ticket to get into the theater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a collective number which represents the &lt;strong&gt;gross&lt;/strong&gt; receipts (money collected).  This means, it's what the movie theater collects in total, and not just the profit (gross receipts minus expenses).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T18:01:06.163" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47135" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47133" CreationDate="2016-02-02T18:07:05.650" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The word &quot;box office&quot;, by itself, originally meant the actual office in a theater where you could go to reserve or purchase tickets. The name most likely derives from the fact that you would typically go to the box office to purchase private boxes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These days, the term almost always refers to the gross ticket sales of a movie, play, etc. In this sense, it's a short-hand way of saying &quot;all of the money that was spent at the box office on tickets&quot;. If a movie had a box office of, say, $10 million, it would mean that it sold $10,000,000 in tickets over a given period of time. The number factors in things like higher ticket prices for 3-D movies, price variations by regions, etc -- it really is just the raw gross income of everyone who paid to see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can talk about the &quot;box office&quot; for a movie in any number of breakdowns: per theater, per region, per country, or worldwide. &lt;em&gt;Usually&lt;/em&gt; when you see the term used in entertainment media, it will be called &quot;worldwide box office&quot; or &quot;US box office&quot;, or whatever. Without any such qualification, it &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; means &quot;local country's box office&quot; for whatever news source is reporting the numbers; that is, a US media outlet reporting on the &quot;weekend box office&quot; is &lt;em&gt;probably&lt;/em&gt; talking about just the US numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie studio does not get to keep 100% of the box office; it's split between a number of parties involved in getting the movie onto the screen, including the theaters themselves, distributors, etc. You can see a more detailed description of how this works in &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/44431/how-do-movie-makers-and-movie-theaters-make-money-based-off-of-a-movie&quot;&gt;this related answer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.503" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T18:20:15.650" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47136" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47191" CreationDate="2016-02-02T18:47:06.910" Score="9" ViewCount="5866" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone who watched the Lost series could appreciate the amount of symbolism that the directors have put in. However, I could never understand what was the true symbolism behind pushing the button inside the hatch? I know it looked like it was about the world ending but I believe that is still not the main idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2020-09-21T16:18:39.877" Title="What was the symbolism behind pushing &quot;The Button&quot; in Lost?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|lost|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47139" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47150" CreationDate="2016-02-02T20:17:02.620" Score="5" ViewCount="3789" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past&lt;/em&gt;, Sentinels are able to adapt or compensate every single mutant power. It is shown that they get this ability from a research based on Mystique's DNA. However, Mystique's power is to imitate the cosmetic looks of people, not their &lt;em&gt;(if they are mutants)&lt;/em&gt; powers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I first heard of this ability, I immediately thought of Rogue's power and I expected the topic to be based on her. However, Rogue is too young to be born during 1973 but still, it is a wrong implementation of Mystique's powers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I first heard of the &lt;strong&gt;Rogue Cut&lt;/strong&gt; I actually thought that it was going to clear that plot hole but it didn't. So, how do Sentinels get the ability of possessing mutant powers from someone whose powers is not that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T14:46:47.760" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T14:46:47.760" Title="How do Sentinels get the ability to adapt every mutant power from Mystique's DNA?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|x-men-cinematic-universe|x-men-days-of-future-past|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47142" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47152" CreationDate="2016-02-02T20:47:30.440" Score="3" ViewCount="752" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's clear that Trevor Reznik's insomnia in &lt;em&gt;The Machinist&lt;/em&gt; is caused by the guilt of the hit and run - but why doesn't he remember such an event?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27305" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-02T21:03:15.953" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T23:17:24.130" Title="Why doesn't Trevor remember the hit and run?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-machinist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47143" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47146" CreationDate="2016-02-02T20:53:03.257" Score="4" ViewCount="1025" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the last scene of &lt;em&gt;The Man from Earth&lt;/em&gt; - when all of the guests leave the house except for Will and Dan - John and Sandy are standing on the porch talking. Dan comes out and bids them both farewell, and then he kisses Sandy on the mouth. Can someone explain why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the movie, Sandy told John that she loves him. Why would she then kiss Dan on the mouth? Or was it just a mistake?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30644" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-02-02T23:33:21.740" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T23:33:21.740" Title="Why do Dan and Sandy kiss each other?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-man-from-earth|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47146" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47143" CreationDate="2016-02-02T21:28:56.810" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe it's a mistake, I just don't believe it's as significant a scene as you think. They say goodbye at the end of the party and Dan goes to leave. He kisses her goodbye and she kisses him in return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's nothing I can see in the kiss that I consider sexual. I myself have occasionally kissed, or been kissed, at the end of a night by friends like that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer your question, in my view it's not a romantic kiss and it &lt;em&gt;certainly&lt;/em&gt; doesn't indicate Sandy loves Dan instead of John. Rather, it's more of a heartwarming &quot;peck&quot; - a display of gratitude and solidarity at the incredible evening they've both had, and a sign of their friendship.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T21:28:56.810" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47150" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47139" CreationDate="2016-02-02T22:38:41.690" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the transcript:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Xavier:&lt;/em&gt; They captured her that day. Tortured her. &lt;strong&gt;Experimented on her.&lt;/strong&gt; In her DNA they discovered &lt;strong&gt;the secrets to her powers of transformation&lt;/strong&gt;. It gave them the key they needed to create weapons that could adapt to any mutant power and the result is the machines that have destroyed so many of our kind were created and it all started that day in 1973.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And later in the past:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Trask:&lt;/em&gt; This creature is extraordinary. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Her genes could hold the key to mutation itself.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; I need more.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Agent:&lt;/em&gt; That's all they were able to scrape off the pavement in Paris.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Trask:&lt;/em&gt; More than blood. I need brain tissue, spinal fluid, bone marrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They didn't just copy her powers. They researched. They Experimented. They expanded what it could do. Same thing Apocalypse and Mr. Sinister and pretty much anyone in the Marvel Mutant universe has done to the X-Gene. Mystique, in the comics also had secondary mutations. It allowed to to gain a healing factor, mass-shift, morph into non-living things, and in X-Men Evolutions she could even transform into a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Murder of Crows&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. She's basically biologically immortal. The comic Mystique is well over 100 years old, without any signs of aging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also consider, her DNA caused Hank to turn into the Beast. The power of the transformation wasn't just cosmetic or an illusion, Hank is physically changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They started with Mystiques cosmetic transformation, and using that, learned how to transform more of the genome, unlocking the rest of the X-Gene's power, which is to transform and adapt under (evolutionary) pressure. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;She's the starting point, not the final destination.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, remember that Trask has experimented on other mutants as well. When Mystique breaks into his office, she sees file after file detailing what has been done. The Sentinels are combinations of multiple mutant powers, with Mystique's power allowing the Sentinel to change when needed. The more mutants the Sentinels captured, the more that were experimented on, the more powers they could adapt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind, there are multiple types of Sentinels. In the DOFP time line, we see the first, Mark I sentinels, and the last, Mark X sentinels. There's a steady progression of technological changes between that time. They didn't immediately jump to the shape-shifting sentinels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-02T23:09:23.910" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T23:09:23.910" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47151" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46097" CreationDate="2016-02-02T22:42:04.453" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is actually explained in the film. First they find out that he routinely takes the flight Sidney - Los Angeles. Then &lt;strong&gt;they cause trouble with his private jet&lt;/strong&gt; so he has to fly with public transport. And Saito just buys the whole airline for them to have all the freedom to &lt;strong&gt;organize being his co-passengers and have flight attendants they can trust&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saito:&lt;/strong&gt; Sidney to Los Angeles, one of the longest flights in the world. He makes it every two weeks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; He must be flying privately.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saito:&lt;/strong&gt; Not if there were unexpected maintenance with his plane.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arthur:&lt;/strong&gt; Would have to be a 747...In a 747 the pilot's up top and the first class cabin's in the nose so noone would walk through. But you'd have to buy out the entire cabin and the first class flight attendant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saito:&lt;/strong&gt; I bought the airline...It seemed neater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb:&lt;/strong&gt; Looks like we have our 10 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And how Fischer got sedated is explained, too, though a bit more visually. First Eames steals his passport in order for Cobb to get him into a conversation later. Then &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/7914/49&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cobb hands him his drink and secretly slips some drug into it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Now if this is the final sedation or just something to knock him out until they get him to the dream machine (that comes with its own sedative) is not clear, but it certainly was to get him sleep away for the next steps of the heist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l1YfA.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/l1YfAm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pIkJt.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pIkJtm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2024-01-20T17:20:09.017" LastActivityDate="2024-01-20T17:20:09.017" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="47152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47142" CreationDate="2016-02-02T23:17:24.130" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Situation-Specific Amnesia&lt;/strong&gt; is one possible side effect of experiencing a Traumatic Event. It is a defense mechanism of the brain, attempting to protect against PTSD. The same cause of Trevor's Insomnia and OCD like manners (repetitive hand washing). By blocking out the memory, the brain is trying to protect itself from the painful psychological trauma.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.human-memory.net/disorders_psychogenic.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Psychogenic amnesia&lt;/a&gt;, also known as functional amnesia or dissociative amnesia, is a disorder characterized by abnormal memory functioning in the absence of structural brain damage or a known neurobiological cause. &lt;strong&gt;It results from the effects of severe stress or psychological trauma on the brain, rather than from any physical or physiological cause. It is often considered to be equivalent to the clinical condition known as repressed memory syndrome.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are two main types of psychogenic amnesia: global amnesia and &lt;strong&gt;situation-specific amnesia&lt;/strong&gt;. Global amnesia, also known as fugue state, refers to a sudden loss of personal identity lasting a few hours or days, often accompanied by severe stress or depression and often involving extended periods of wandering and confusion. It is very rare, and usually resolves over time (although memory of the fugue episode itself may remain lost), often helped by therapy. &lt;strong&gt;Situation-specific amnesia is a type of psychogenic amnesia that occurs as a result of a severely stressful event, as part of post-traumatic stress disorder.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repressed_memory#Effects_of_trauma_on_memory&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki: Effects of trauma on memory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-02T23:17:24.130" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47109" CreationDate="2016-02-02T23:48:52.873" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's... complicated. Due to the Flash's extensive history in comics, cartoons, tv, and soon to be movie, there is no one definitive list of what he can do. And there are multiple Flashes, Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, Wally West, etc. The CW Flash is not a straight forward copy of comic Barry Allen, but a mixture of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, current comic canon (not yet rewritten in the New 52) is that Barry Allen is the source of the &lt;strong&gt;Speed Force&lt;/strong&gt; which every other speedster uses. In essence, this makes him more powerful than all the others, and he could do anything they can, if he learns how. So there is no upper limit on what he can do compared to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In The Flash: Rebirth #4, Max Mercury revealed to Barry Allen that the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_Force&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Speed Force&lt;/a&gt; was created by Allen, himself, when he became the Silver Age Flash; adding that, &quot;When [Allen runs, he generates] the kinetic wall between the present and the time barrier. It's an electrical energy that exists in every dimension, every universe, and every era. It touches every part of reality. It contains the knowledge of every place and time. The Speed Force is the all-encompassing Flash Fact.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reverse-Flash, Eobard (in the comics known as Professor Zoom at times) is essentially using Barry's old costume, in the future. His power levels depend on Barry's power levels, but in the future. This is why he need to make Barry Stronger, in order to retro actively make himself stronger. Yay Temporal Mechanics. When he changed the past and almost killed Barry, he changed the amount of Speed Force he could absorb.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; In S02E10 &quot;The Reverse-Flash Returns&quot;, a younger Eobard says that he replicated Barry's formula. This implies a version of &quot;Velocity 9&quot; or &quot;Speed Juice&quot; in Earth 1's future. Or it's an exact copy of Barry's accident. In either case, it would mean Eobard didn't get Barry's old costume, and makes most of Season 1's wheelchair and tachyon plots &quot;wrong&quot;? More details required.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is essentially also what Zoom, who resembles the Black Flash (A Grim Reaper type character), also wants. To fatten Barry up like a turkey to take his power. To drain him of the Speed Force.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no single power that they want of his, they want the Speed Force in his cells. The way the Speed Force powers work, they can all copy one another with practice. Most of the Flashes can travel through time. Most of them can vibrate through things. Wind Vortexes. Speed Mirages. Super Punches. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is the trick to the Speed Force, understanding it and applying it in creative ways&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Side note: All the Flash enemies tend to use the same names at various times. Eobard has gone by Professor Zoom, Reverse-Flash, Black Flash. So did Zoom, who in the comics is Hunter Zoloman, Wally West's reverse-flash. It's confusing.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-10T10:02:26.610" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T10:02:26.610" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47154" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-03T00:04:31.260" Score="2" ViewCount="564" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;The Animatrix&lt;/em&gt; episode &lt;em&gt;Matriculated&lt;/em&gt;, a the wave of sentinels storm the resistance lab and kills all the crew except for Alexa. The converted sentinel helps her, saves her life, but she still passes out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now there are two points I can't figure out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quoted from &lt;a href=&quot;http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Matriculated&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Seeing Alexa injured, the robot jacks her into the construct before foolishly jacking itself in. Alexa regains conciousness and screams in horror, realising that all of her group are dead and that her fate is to be trapped in the virtual reality forever, with only the robot for company.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why does Alexa react so horrified to the sentinel after jacking in? According to the quote, it is realizing that her crew is gone, and she is trapped within the VR with a robot forever. However her reaction seems for like a feel of terror &lt;strong&gt;sourced by the robot itself.&lt;/strong&gt; As if she is scared of her.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Again, according to the quote, robot &lt;em&gt;foolishly&lt;/em&gt; jacks itself into the VR, and the reason to call this act &lt;em&gt;foolish&lt;/em&gt; is because they both are trapped in now with nobody to jack them out. However, the robot is seen and the ending scene, by the coast they encountered Alexa for the first time, plugged out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T00:06:09.503" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T00:58:29.030" Title="What is the reason for Alexa's reaction?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-animatrix|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47156" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47154" CreationDate="2016-02-03T00:39:13.970" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What is the reason for Alexa's reaction?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;There are a few reasons, including realisation her friends are dead, understanding their &quot;experiment&quot; with the runner has now worked and possibly terror given the attack she has just suffered at the hands of the machines.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long answer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Background to Matriculated:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Matriculated&lt;/em&gt;, a group of human resistance fighters attack and capture a runner. They discuss what to do with it and the following dialogue takes place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Do you&#xA;  think we ought to reprogram it?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;No, we&#xA;  can't make slaves of them.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;Because that would be simpler.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;We won't beat the machines by making them our slaves. Better to let&#xA;  them join us by choice.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;But we make them believe their choice is the one we want them to&#xA;  make.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;Alright, yes, machines are tools that are made to be used. It's their&#xA;  nature…&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;…To be slaves.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;That's why we can show them a better world. Why they convert.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;But that world we show them, isn't real.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;It doesn't matter.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;Well, I'm afraid they'll figure out its all in their heads.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;They can't tell the difference. To an artificial mind, all reality is&#xA;  virtual. How do they know that the real world isn't just another&#xA;  simulation? How do you?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;Well, I know I'm not dreaming now, because I know what it's like&#xA;  being in a dream.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;So dreaming lets you know reality exists?&quot; &#xA;  &quot;No, just that my mind exists. I don't know about the rest.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the key thing here is their desire to &lt;em&gt;convert&lt;/em&gt; the runner to their way of thinking, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to enslave it (i.e. to reprogram it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To do this, they plug the runner (now called &quot;Carl&quot;) into a &quot;local&quot; construct (i.e. a Matrix-like world created by the humans). The humans make themselves appear friendly to the runner, whilst making Carl's former body (the runner machinery) appear very menacing. They then save Carl from this machinery.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As this happens, their ship is attacked. They are all brought back to reality and the humans, badly outnumbered are almost all killed. One human, Alexa, is left alive. The runner plugs her, and himself, into the local construct described above, where she soon dies from her injuries, leaving him all alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Answering your questions&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it's vital to explain briefly what &lt;em&gt;Matriculated&lt;/em&gt; shows, as it is so vital to understanding your questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why does Alexa react so horrified to the sentinel after jacking in? According to the quote, it is realizing that her crew is gone, and she is trapped within the VR with a robot forever. However her reaction seems for like a feel of terror sourced by the robot itself. As if she is scared of her.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there are a few reasons she is to terrified.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, there is the realisation of &lt;em&gt;where&lt;/em&gt; she is - in the simulated reality. Remember the long quote from above. They did &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; want to make slaves of the runners, but to show them a &lt;em&gt;better world&lt;/em&gt;. Remember, &quot;to an artificial mind, all reality is virtual&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The runner wanted to save Alexa, remembered the playful nature of humans in the local construct, and chose to insert her in there, where she (and it) could be happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Alexa understands the difference between the simulated reality and the actual reality, and realises that inadvertently, despite trying to show the machine a &quot;better world&quot;, she has driven it to lock her and itself into the simulated world, believing this &lt;em&gt;reality&lt;/em&gt; to be better.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They tried to educate the runner and offer it a choice - and it chose &lt;em&gt;what the humans and Alexa consider to be the wrong option - simulated reality&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, when she is inserted she is unconscious. She only &quot;awakens&quot; in the simulated reality. When she sees the runner, it is obvious to her that all she knows and loves in &lt;em&gt;reality&lt;/em&gt; is gone and she can't go back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thirdly, its highly possible that despite trying to &lt;em&gt;convert&lt;/em&gt; the runner, after having been attacked (and with all of her friends killed) by the machines, she is feeling resentment and anger. There is only &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; being that is left alive with her - one of &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fourthly, she awakens in agony from her injuries and soon succumbs to them. The extent of her injuries could lead to her horrific look of fear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it is a combination of these factors that causes her reaction (and rather terrifyingly leaves this newly liberated runner completely alone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Again, according to the quote, robot foolishly jacks itself into the VR, and the reason to call this act foolish is because they both are trapped in now with nobody to jack them out. However, the robot is seen and the ending scene, by the coast they encountered Alexa for the first time, plugged out.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Foolish is obviously just one interpretation. I've already conveyed my views on why the runner acted in the way it did. The article you refer to suggests it is foolish because it didn't understand Alexa's injuries and thought plugging her in would make things go back to how they'd been before the attack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The robot is indeed seen and the ending scene seems to suggest it emerged from the simulation, headed to the shore and sat with no understanding of what to do next. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.virtualworldlets.net/Resources/Hosted/Resource.php?Name=AnimatrixMatriculated&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;This article&lt;/a&gt; goes as far to suggest the robot pulls the last coherent image from Alexa's mind, which is what drives it to the shore.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T00:58:29.030" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T00:58:29.030" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47158" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27952" CreationDate="2016-02-03T01:04:00.510" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I thought about this a lot and aside from simple &quot;dont zoom (in)&quot; advices, I was unable to find anything going deeper into the topic so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, there are many factors contributing to the &quot;to zoom or not to zoom&quot; question, aforemost budget limitations. This can be seen if you compare TV to Cinema: Cinema has more money, so they can do more elaborate things than zooming (tracking/dolly/crane), TV often has to fall-back to zooming as everything else usually invovles more complicated sets, lighting and sound-recording.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question why there are so many zoom outs and not many zoom in nowadays is also striking to me and I recognized a very important asymetry: If I zoom out, more and more genuinely new information enters the frame. It gives the effect of &quot;aaah, that's the big picture&quot; and done properly (lens choice) feels very natural.&#xA;A zoom in doesn't provide new information (except it's really far in) and almost always feels wierd, as the non-uniform change in object sizes (which is easily forgivable in zoom outs) is disturbing and unnatural.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this all depends on the evolution of certain memes and perception habits as they change over time, but nevertheless, zooming in general is hard to get right, so it's seldom done, so viewer don't get used to it (and &quot;bad zooms&quot;) so it gets even harder to do, and so on and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luckily, we have all the new Indy-movement due to internets and such, so we can always expect an sudden and unexpected change in viewing &quot;fashion&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BTW, compare zooming in video games history. I think it's very enlightening, as it is easier to distinguish the technical necessities from artistic freedom and the memes are much better documented.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30651" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T09:07:35.203" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T09:07:35.203" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47161" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47176" CreationDate="2016-02-03T02:01:59.437" Score="1" ViewCount="13079" Body="&lt;p&gt;During &lt;em&gt;Titanic&lt;/em&gt;, we see that Rose has kids &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=4&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwig_-K_wNrKAhVKnRoKHT_2CVUQFggrMAM&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fjamescameronstitanic.wikia.com%2Fwiki%2FRose_DeWitt_Bukater&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHVcVh1Jgsf1y4WlM479Uile1etrw&amp;amp;sig2=7jcKQ2Ca8N9zL8Y2QiLDjw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;and grandkids&lt;/a&gt;. Her last name is Calvert, so she must have married a man named Calvert after her brief time with Jack.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yWixS.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yWixS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She is alone (no husband) as an old woman in the film, so Mr. Calvert must have died in the interim. If I'm not mistaken, she also says she's never spoken of Jack since Jack died.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/fw5zaIHtfCs?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;Note the pictures of Rose's life after Jack - none of which depict Mr. Calvert&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end, after she seems to have died, she joins Jack aboard the Titanic, and kisses him, to wild applause.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3KSbP.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3KSbP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming that this means she is dead and in heaven (&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/21729/did-rose-die-at-the-end-of-titanic-or-was-she-dreaming?rq=1&quot;&gt;which is only an assumption, I know&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;strong&gt;doesn't this mean that &lt;em&gt;her husband is forced to spend eternity watching the woman he'd been married to (probably for decades) making out with a man she knew for less than a week, and of whom he'd never heard?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Has James Cameron, or anyone else involved in the film, commented on this apparently cruel idea?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This obviously isn't about &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/21729/did-rose-die-at-the-end-of-titanic-or-was-she-dreaming?rq=1&quot;&gt;whether she's dead&lt;/a&gt;, since it assumes she was.  The question is about the closing scene's repercussions in light of her dead husband.  &lt;em&gt;Sigh&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20680" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T15:46:46.703" Title="Is Rose's heaven her dead husband's hell?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|titanic|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-02-03T16:01:57.113" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47163" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-03T02:49:51.600" Score="7" ViewCount="1038" Body="&lt;p&gt;The new &quot;Director's Cut&quot; of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Highlander&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (1986) apparently has a new soundtrack. The original soundtrack is supposedly only on the British release. How can identify the British release? There are many different versions of the DVD and Blu-ray, so it is hard to tell them apart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091203/alternateversions&quot;&gt;There are many different cuts and versions of the movie.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The main issue is with the standard DVD/HD versions sold in the United States which have a remastered audio which is screwed up (typical reviewer comment):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The movie holds up just fine over time, but the audio track on this&#xA;  &quot;director's cut&quot; is unacceptable. The voices are too muffled for the&#xA;  dialogue to be comprehensible, unless you crank the volume so high&#xA;  that the fight scenes become too loud to enjoy. This mix never should&#xA;  have made it to retail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My basic goal here is to find a version of the movie that is faithful to the original US theatrical release and has good quality audio and the ORIGINAL music, not the new music from the DVD versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastEditorUserId="11216" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T16:41:45.893" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T19:14:56.717" Title="How can I find a good-quality release of &quot;Highlander&quot; with the original soundtrack?" Tags="|alternate-version|highlander|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47165" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44856" CreationDate="2016-02-03T03:32:57.793" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;If I remember correctly, when the alien had Joe in his arms, he told it something to the effect of that he knew a lot of bad things happened to it, but that it needed to let it go or something to that effect. So when the alien was drawing metal to the ship, it specifically chose the necklace as a way of saying the same thing to Joe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30661" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T03:32:57.793" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47167" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45861" CreationDate="2016-02-03T03:44:57.323" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Somewhere between &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/colombias-medellin-embraces-netflix-biopic-on-pablo-escobar/article26034610/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;most&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The biopic promises to be an authentic portrayal of Escobar, so it’s only natural that Brazilian director and &lt;strong&gt;executive producer Jose Padilha chose to film the 10-episode series in Medellin, Colombia&lt;/strong&gt;, the murder capital of the world during the drug kingpin’s heyday in the 1980s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Filming the series here would have been unthinkable a few years ago, with Colombians still blaming Escobar for their country’s hard-to-shake association with drug trafficking. But as memories of Escobar’s terror campaign fade, and with the homicide rate at a decade low, Colombians are starting to view their violent past more dispassionately. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So much so that cinema-loving President Juan Manuel Santos agreed to pick up $2-million (U.S.) in production costs so Netflix could film in the country&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.torontosun.com/2015/06/29/netflixs-narcos-takes-streaming-giant-into-new-territory&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;and all of it&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;BOGOTA, Colombia - &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Outside of the big house, crew members pull up their hoods, trying to stay warm against the drizzle and wind coming off of the Andes mountain range in La Calera, a town 10 kilometres northeast of Bogota.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; ... Inside the big house, two actors glance down at a board game, getting into character as the director begins filming the scene. A third actor walks into the room - Brazilian star Wagner Moura, sporting a moustache and looking much heavier than his appearances in Elite Squad (2007) or Elysium (2013). Moura steps forward and quietly speaks Spanish to the other actors. This is a serious scene here, possibly a hostage situation, and he's showing a number of emotions on his face, looking a lot like the complicated man he's signed up to play - Colombian drug lord, Pablo Escobar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And now, nearly three years later, both men are set to release the 10-episode first season from a production that brought them across Colombia - including a meeting with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos - &lt;strong&gt;with film shoots also taking place in the U.S. and Panama&lt;/strong&gt;. [Executive Producer] Newman hopes the series can become a multi-season project, as the plot traces the effects of the drug trade into present-day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Narcos filmed on location in Bogotá, Medellín, Panama and the U.S. &lt;em&gt;Not sure about Chile or Peru. And no mention of shooting in Calí.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thelocationguide.com/blog/2015/08/ng-television-pablo-escobar-netflix-miniseries-narcos-uses-colombia-filming-incentive/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Some more info:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Netflix worked in Bogota with Colombian production service company Dynamo.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Escobar himself is played by Brazilian actor Wagner Moura ... &lt;strong&gt;“I flew to Medellín and stayed there six months before the rest of the cast and before I even signed with Netflix.&lt;/strong&gt; I booked myself in a university for a Spanish course for foreigners, and I think I’ve read basically everything that was written about Pablo Escobar and modern Colombian history.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T04:30:10.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47168" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47197" CreationDate="2016-02-03T03:52:44.103" Score="3" ViewCount="3937" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just read on Brazilian's magazine &quot;Mundo Estranho&quot;(¹) an article claiming that there are currently about 250 people preserved in a literally frozen state, based on the hope that they may be brought back to life in the future (as described &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). Some of these people are &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cryonically_preserved_people&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;famous characters&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is pretty straightforward: Are there any movies depicting such premise? In a rather quick search I couldn't find any.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[Edit]&lt;/strong&gt; I am indeed aware of depictions in the form of &quot;deep sleep&quot;, &quot;hybernation&quot;, &quot;cryo-sleep&quot; and such. Some of them in video-games, some in movies where it's portrayed as a &quot;secondary&quot; topic (Interstellar for instance).&#xA;What I'm actually looking for is a realist (either in the scientific or sociocultural sense of the word), sci-fi movie in the context of the scenario I introduced, hence &lt;strong&gt;having as the central plot&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The idea of people being declared dead, being frozen and then&#xA;  brought back to life and society in a distant future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;¹ &quot;Mundo Estranho&quot; means &quot;Strange World&quot; in a loose translation. The one I'm quoting is no. 174 and refer Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Cryonics Institute and BBC as sources.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26058" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T17:38:34.927" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T20:00:57.373" Title="Are there any movies having cryopreservation as the central plot?" Tags="|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="19" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-02-03T20:07:17.660" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47161" CreationDate="2016-02-03T04:40:02.793" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the IMDb FAQ:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What happens to Rose at the end of the film?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cameron really left that up to the audience to provide their own&#xA;  interpretations. Some people think that the very final scene is only a&#xA;  dream. Others are of the opinion that Rose died safe in her bed, just&#xA;  like Jack said she would and that the final scene is of their souls&#xA;  reuniting in the afterlife. Also, the fact that all the people present&#xA;  around the grand staircase are those who perished on the ship and the&#xA;  film fades to white after her and Jack kiss. Those people include the&#xA;  little girl Cora (killed in a deleted scene), whom Rose was unlikely&#xA;  to have known had died that night, in the arms of the father that Rose&#xA;  probably didn't connect with Cora. Also the clock is on 2-20 am, the&#xA;  time of the sinking. These are strong hints that this was her ascent&#xA;  to the afterlife and her becoming an honorary member of the &quot;Titanic&#xA;  Club.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My interpretation is that first of all we don't know that it is heaven, but if it is heaven, it appears to be a special heaven where only those who died on the Titanic are allowed to go and as her husband was not on the Titanic he is not allowed to be there. And of course all the mean people on the Titanic aren't allowed to be there which I guess was only her fiancee. Her heaven appears to be more of a dream interpretation of what heaven must be like for her where and she obviously never had any kind of feelings for her actual husband, just like she never stayed true to her first fiancee, the evil man who dared expect his fiancee to stay committed to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm afraid my attempts at not showing my contempt for this movie are not working so I'm going to end by saying that in answer to your question, James Cameron has purposely not commented on the meaning of the ending preferring to allow the audience to come to their own conclusions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T04:40:02.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47172" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47173" CreationDate="2016-02-03T07:46:32.493" Score="9" ViewCount="16949" Body="&lt;p&gt;As we all know, Mark Hamill was Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. Last year, he also played in a &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt; episode, named &lt;em&gt;Tricksters&lt;/em&gt;. Now, in that episode, he tells Alex the famous line &lt;em&gt;I am your father&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a reference to Darth Vader telling Luke that he is his father in &lt;em&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/em&gt;, or is it just a coincidence? If it is a reference, was Mark Hamill exclusively picked for that role?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19902" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-19T07:33:24.000" LastActivityDate="2016-04-19T07:33:24.000" Title="Meaning of Mark Hamill's &quot;I am your father&quot; line from The Flash" Tags="|star-wars|reference|arrowverse|the-flash|the-empire-strikes-back|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47172" CreationDate="2016-02-03T08:03:43.017" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Mark Hamill was picked for the role of the Trickster, because he previously played the Trickster, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;In the original Flash 1990 CBS Live Action Series&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. He also voiced the role of the Trickster, in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited cartoons (Along side Wally West, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dQBLAWslLk&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;the better Flash&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). He has also had an extensive career as the voice of the Joker, another DC character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Fun fact, Henry Allen, Barry's father, played by John Wesley Shipp, who was the original Flash, along side Mark Hamill's Trickster. Funner fact, Barry Allen's full name is Bartholomew Henry &quot;Barry&quot; Allen, making Henry Allen also the real name for the Flash. Flash-ception.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/y6GZ9.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/y6GZ9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/lJq2PAI-Fxc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They also rebuilt his hidden lair:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tjKjK.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tjKjK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The current CW show is obviously not a direct continuation of the original, lets just assume that's Earth 3 or some other comic-y explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Undoubtedly, the &quot;I am your father&quot; line is an intentional lamp shade by Hamill and/or the writers. Hamill is very very into his roles, and self-deprecation jokes are cool with him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/flash-harrison-wells-killed-by-785551&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hamill got to deliver an iconic Star Wars line when he revealed he is the father to the younger Trickster.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;In rehearsal I said&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; 'I am your daddy,' which got a big laugh at the table read,&quot; Hamill said. &quot;I'm sorry I didn't give them the option in filming, because I think it would have been funny to self-parody the line. But it got a big laugh. If you're happy, I'm happy.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Trickster episode had him channeling the Joker ala Talking down to Terry &quot;batman Beyond&quot; McGuiness when in the cell as well:&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/8LikMS5gDDI?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joker tells Luke that HE is his Father. How &lt;strong&gt;By His Bootstraps&lt;/strong&gt; of him:&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/LeT0CCQ1yqo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Luke Parody in Silent Jay &amp;amp; Bob Strike Back:&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/IbafPrVesho?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T08:41:43.103" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T08:41:43.103" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47174" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47168" CreationDate="2016-02-03T08:51:23.653" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;strong&gt;impossible&lt;/strong&gt; to answer this question (and here's my... er, answer, explaining why!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To understand why, we need to understand what &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cryonics&lt;/a&gt; is. Alcor is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alcor.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a life extension foundation&lt;/a&gt; who are involved in cryonics. On their own website, they have a frequently asked questions section, with the following information:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; What is cryonics?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Cryonics (from Greek kryos meaning icy cold) is the low-temperature&#xA;  preservation of humans who can no longer be sustained by contemporary&#xA;  medicine&lt;/strong&gt;, in the expectation they can be healed and resuscitated in&#xA;  the future using more advanced medical technologies. Cryopreservation&#xA;  of people is not reversible with current technology, and is today only&#xA;  practiced following legal death. The rationale for cryonics is that&#xA;  current medical and legal definitions of death are inaccurate and that&#xA;  cryopreserved patients who do not meet the more stringent&#xA;  information-theoretic definition of death retain sufficient&#xA;  biological/neurological structure to be restored to full physical and&#xA;  mental health using advanced future technologies. See About Cryonics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; Has anyone ever been revived?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;No adult human has ever been revived from temperatures far below&#xA;  freezing.&lt;/strong&gt; Cryonics patients are cared for in the expectation that&#xA;  future technology, especially molecular nanotechnology, will be&#xA;  available to reverse damage associated with the cryonics process. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; Aren’t cryonics patients dead?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; A person who can be resuscitated is not dead. Therefore if cryonics&#xA;  patients are preserved well enough that they might someday be&#xA;  resuscitated, then they aren’t dead: they are cryopreserved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Before cryonics procedures can begin under present law, a patient must&#xA;  be legally dead&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've highlighted some key pieces of information that show two very important facts:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No one has ever been revived from a cryonic state, as the technology isn't advanced enough yet to do this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For any patient to be cryopreserved, they must be declared &quot;legally dead&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In your question, you ask: &lt;em&gt;Are there any (realistic) movies about cryopreservation?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem here is obvious: as there's never been a successful revival of a preserved patient, &lt;em&gt;we have no idea what a realistic revival would actually look like&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there are plenty of films that have attempted to show cryonics. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceman_(1984_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Iceman&lt;/a&gt; showed a prehistoric man who had been frozen in ice &lt;em&gt;naturally&lt;/em&gt; and was revived. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Aliens&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Avatar&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;2001: A Space Odyssey&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Interstellar&lt;/a&gt; all showed it being used to traverse great distances in space (which is the most common reason it is shown). &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_Man_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Demolition Man&lt;/a&gt; shows freezing being used as a form of penitentiary. From a more light hearted point of view, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Futurama&lt;/a&gt; shows the lead character unwittingly become frozen, waking up thousands of years later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's impossible to comment on how &lt;em&gt;realistic&lt;/em&gt; any of these depictions are, because we simply don't have advanced enough technology to actually &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; what a realistic revival would look like.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on edit of question, I'll argue &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;, there are no films that have shown this. There are some documentaries that have shown revival of frozen bodies and even made it a fairly &quot;major&quot; theme, such as the upcoming &lt;em&gt;Cry&lt;/em&gt; drama @cde has mentioned in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But as far as I'm aware, all of the bodies are only &lt;em&gt;legally&lt;/em&gt; dead, not &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; dead. If a body was dead, it's dead. We cannot revive the brain. A futuristic movie could depict such a thing, but it's hard to argue this is realistic as once the brain is dead, it's dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T19:50:00.507" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T19:50:00.507" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47175" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-03T09:09:13.830" Score="5" ViewCount="1117" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Brick&lt;/em&gt;, Kara manipulates Dode into telling The Pin that Emily was killed by Brendan. He does this because Dode loved Emily and Kara told him that she was carrying his baby. He wanted Brendan killed by Tug or The Pin. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What did Kara have to gain from doing this? Brendan accuses her of doing it for the money, but how?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30666" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T15:47:10.187" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T15:47:10.187" Title="Why does Kara tell Dode to tell The Pin that Brendan killed Emily?" Tags="|plot-explanation|brick|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47176" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47161" CreationDate="2016-02-03T09:15:19.747" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think there are too many assumptions in your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Doesn't this mean that her husband is forced to spend eternity watching the woman he'd been married to (probably for decades) making out with a man she knew for less than a week, and of whom he'd never heard?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Potentially, yes, if we believe this is some form of heaven and afterlife. But this is no different to a situation that happens quite a lot in the world - people who die having married multiple people. Not, in some of these situations the people have remarried due to a loss of love, hatred, or some other such thing, so it would make sense they wouldn't see their former partners in an &lt;em&gt;afterworld&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about people who marry and their spouses die? They then remarry later in their life. Who do they see in this &lt;em&gt;heaven&lt;/em&gt;? As we have no idea if a heaven even exists, let alone the dimensions it would function in if it did exist, we simply don't know how this scenario would play out. It's perfectly possibly to truly love multiple people. For all we know, in this scenario Rose could say one last goodbye to Jack, before moving on. Or her relationship with Calvert could have always been about comfort, not love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a plethora of possible reasons for this, but I think the assumption the husband is forced to spent an eternity watching his wife with someone else makes too many assumptions about the structure of heaven and the meaning of the last scene to be valid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Has James Cameron, or anyone else involved in the film, commented on this apparently cruel idea?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cameron has always wanted that final scene to be up to the viewer and has specifically &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; commented in detail on what the scene actually means.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So what do I think the scene means?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the entire film, we've been told the love story of Jack and Rose. The ending of the film is the culmination of that. There is no mention of Calvert, because he's not been a fixture in our hearts for the duration of the film. We don't know him. We know &lt;em&gt;who&lt;/em&gt; he was, as we're told of him, but as a character he's meaningless to us. We don't know his face. We don't know his voice. We don't know his smile. Nothing about putting him on screen at the end would stir any emotion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, by including a smiling Jack, and a young, happy Rose, along with the whole crew of the Titanic, we the audience get closure in seeing &lt;em&gt;our&lt;/em&gt; lovers reunited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether this scene lasts for moments, a lifetime, or even happens at all, we don't know - and we don't really &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to know, hence why Cameron has never really answered any questions on the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T09:15:19.747" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47175" CreationDate="2016-02-03T09:30:08.967" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Kara was Brendan's ex girlfriend and not the nicest person. She is a manipulator, and she and her group generally look to mistreat people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film, she convinces Dode &lt;em&gt;to sell&lt;/em&gt; the fact he saw Brendan over Emily's body to The Pin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film, the money concept is largely glossed over, and it instead looks like it is being done simply because she is very, very spiteful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rcjohnso.com/brickscript/BrickNovella.pdf&quot;&gt;original novella&lt;/a&gt;, it's clearly about the money (as even after Dode's death, she tries to blackmail Brendan):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I still know what Dode was selling, or have you forgotten? But I'd&#xA;  play it smart. A 5 8 quick call from a payphone to copland and you're&#xA;  through.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  She came very close to me. Her robe fell open slightly.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;Five thousand. Cash. I know you can get it from the Pin, but even if&#xA;  you can't I want it by first period tomorrow, or I play my hand and&#xA;  bury you.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T09:30:08.967" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46268" CreationDate="2016-02-03T11:04:26.057" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL DR&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are good arguments that he did and didn't know, but I believe he &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; know for the following reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His &quot;Hail Mary&quot; speech to Anthony partly conveyed his feelings of fear&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His understanding when Anthony was removed from the boat, with a simple, tragic &quot;ah&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mario Puzo, in his novel &lt;em&gt;Godfather Returns&lt;/em&gt; (released after the film) suggests he knew.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Explanation of scene&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: This answer refers to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Godfather-Part-II.html&quot;&gt;The Godfather II script&lt;/a&gt; for much of its content&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film, things are definitely left up to interpretation. He initially discusses the trip with his nephew Anthony, and says the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fredo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Anthony, ole buddy, your Uncle Fredo's gonna teach you how to catch the big fish.  You know, when I was a kid, I did this amazing thing. I went out on a fishing trip; me and my brothers and my Pop, and no one could catch a fish         except me.  And this was my secret:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (confidentially)  Every time I would put the line down I would say a &quot;Hail Mary&quot; and every time I said a &quot;Hail Mary&quot; I would catch a fish.  Now, when it's        sunset, we're gonna go out on the lake, and we're gonna try it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When he actually tries to leave with Anthony, the script leaves his response deliberately vague:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fredo&lt;/strong&gt;: He's here; we're goin' fishing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Connie&lt;/strong&gt;: He can't go; Michael wants to take him into Reno.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fredo&lt;/strong&gt;: Ah.  Okay, kid, you got to go to Reno with your Pop.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's no indication here of panic, or fear - but that obviously doesn't mean they weren't there. When the moment itself comes, the script says the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fredo and Neri are fishing, each with lines out.  The VIEW MOVES&#xA;  CLOSER, and we can hear Fredo as he holds the pole.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fredo&lt;/strong&gt;: ... the Lord is with thee.  Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;LONG SHOT&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The boat on the shimmery lake.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fredo&lt;/strong&gt;: ... Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We hear a quiet, echoing GUNSHOT; and then silence.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Background&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know Fredo has been terrified of his brother. Consider this scene from earlier in the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael&lt;/strong&gt;: I know it was you, Fredo.  You've broken my&#xA;  heart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Slowly, understanding, Fredo backs away from his brother, taking the&#xA;  kiss another way.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then later, when the presidential palace is under attack:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Michael moves quickly toward his car.  He sees Fredo, watching him in&#xA;  fear.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael&lt;/strong&gt;: Come with me.  It's your only way of getting out!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;VIEW ON FREDO&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Terrified of his brother, and what he knows; Fredo backs away into the&#xA;  growing noise and confusion of the crowd.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads Michael to say the following to him later:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael&lt;/strong&gt;: You're nothing to me now, Fredo; not a brother, not a friend, I       don't want to know you, or what happens to you.  I don't want to see you at the hotels, or near my home.  When you visit our Mother, I want to know a day in advance, so I won't be there. Do you understand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it's clear Michael despises him at this moment in time. However, after the death of their mother, he allows Fredo to embrace him (albeit rather stiffly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Analysis&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe there are a few possible interpretations here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, Fredo says the Hail Mary to bring him luck - and in his words to Anthony perhaps suggests he has been saying the Hail Mary to himself ever since he betrayed his brother, knowing his time would soon be up. When Connie says Anthony can't respond, he gives a simple &quot;Ah&quot;. There is no argument, just quiet, scared understanding. He does say the Hail Mary on the lake, perhaps knowing the end has come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, another piece of evidence that support this is Fredo's knowledge of how vicious his brother is. Other people who have betrayed him have met death, and it's arguable he knew he had limited time left given this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, none of this is conclusive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are some good counter arguments. Perhaps when Anthony was removed, he didn't argue because he was scared of his brother and knew if Michael wanted him, he had to let him go - there's a big difference between being scared to argue with Michael and thinking he would be murdered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, following their mother's death (and at Connie's request), Michael appeared to have relented and offered some reconciliation. He embraced him. He also allowed him to see his children. Fredo is shown in the film to be quite gullible, and it's certainly plausible he doesn't understand this deception even at the very end, believing he was redeeming himself in the eye's of his brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I genuinely think both interpretations hold their own and can be argued for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, one thing sways the discussion for me - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hanin.web.id/ebook/mario_puzzo/The_Godfather_Returns.pdf&quot;&gt;the novel, Godfather Returns&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. In it (released &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the film was released). in it, the scene where Anthony is removed from the fishing boat is described as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Right as they were about to shove off, Aunt Connie came running down&#xA;  the dock, shouting that Anthony's father needed to take him to Reno.&#xA;  Anthony started to complain, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;but Uncle Fredo got a hard look on his&#xA;  face and said that Anthony had to go&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. He promised to take him tomorrow&#xA;  instead. The boy, devastated, nodded and tried not to let on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It certainly seems in the novel that Mario Puzo wanted to convey that Fredo knew the end was nigh. Given this interpretation, and how closely Coppola tried to reflect much of the novel, I believe Coppola's intention in the film was to portray Fredo as realising, at the moment Anthony was removed from the boat, with a simple &quot;Ah&quot;, that his end had come.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T11:04:26.057" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31740" CreationDate="2016-02-03T12:03:10.717" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The only sensible answer is &quot;sometimes&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where movies are particularly popular or well received then studios sometimes release special versions to extend the cinema run (knowing that the extra expense is worth it). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, David Fincher's dark nightmare &lt;em&gt;Seven&lt;/em&gt; which is particularly notable for its very dark (or chiaroscuro) cinematography proved popular enough to sustain a special edition release for cinemas on a contrast-enhancing film process that emphasised the effect of the dark scenes. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; trilogy also released the (even better) longer versions of the movies in cinemas but only after the success of the (already very long) originals had been established. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And various &lt;em&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/em&gt; special editions were eventually released in cinemas but long after the original, not very successful, cinema release and only when the movie had proved a cult hit on video demonstrating that there was an audience for Ridley Scott's original version (the original release to cinemas was somewhat altered by the studio).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T14:37:34.693" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T14:37:34.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47181" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47183" CreationDate="2016-02-03T12:13:36.893" Score="19" ViewCount="4626" Body="&lt;p&gt;David Fincher's magnificent noir movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114369/?ref_=ttspec_spec_tt&quot;&gt;Seven&lt;/a&gt; (or Se7en) has very dark cinematography enhancing the moral darkness of the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember that, after its initial success, the studio released a special edition which was claimed to use something like a &quot;high-silver&quot; print to enhance the contrast making the dark scenes even more effective.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How was the special version created and how widely was it released?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T13:26:14.233" Title="How was the special high-contrast cinema release of Se7en created?" Tags="|film-techniques|cinematography|se7en|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47182" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47203" CreationDate="2016-02-03T12:31:45.603" Score="5" ViewCount="432" Body="&lt;p&gt;This show was a big hit in the 80s when it aired in the Middle East (dubbed into Arabic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The show is about a school boy and his sister who encounter various topics each episode and are assisted by a little humanoid creature (a female character that has two long hair braids on each of her sides. These braids act as her hands, since she has no hands).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The character is very smart and acts as an encyclopedia to the children. She takes them back in time to reveal the back story behind inventions, discoveries, etc.&#xA;Sometimes she takes them to the future to predict what technology would be capable of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember one episode, where this character predicted Caller ID and FaceTime! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T12:41:17.450" LastActivityDate="2016-04-29T22:08:17.863" Title="Identify this educational Japanese cartoon show" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:10:57.317" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47181" CreationDate="2016-02-03T13:26:14.233" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a technique called &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleach_bypass&quot;&gt;silver retention&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, also known as &lt;em&gt;bleach bypass&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote from &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uyMYMbjheqgC&amp;amp;pg=PA249&amp;amp;lpg=PA249&amp;amp;dq=CCE+silver+retention+process+prints&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=UOiLUc-njt&amp;amp;sig=ahwHr60N023EmM0tAqe9WjAiLxE&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwjd7JC709vKAhWCRxoKHX-PAN4Q6AEILzAC#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=CCE%20silver%20retention%20process%20prints&amp;amp;f=false&quot;&gt;Cinematography: Theory and Practice : Imagemaking for Cinematographers and Directors&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Deluxe, another film lab with a long history in Hollywood, uses a&#xA;  process called Color Contrast Enhancement (or CCE). CCE raises the&#xA;  contrast, deepens the blacks, and adds grain but still preserves some&#xA;  shadow detail... The amount of silver retained is read with a&#xA;  densitometer centered on 1000nm. According to Deluxe, a pure&#xA;  bleach-bypass that retains 100% of the silver might yield an IR&#xA;  density reading of as much as 240, which translates to four times the&#xA;  amount of silver that would be found in a normal print. With CCE&#xA;  normally processed negative (no special processes) a normal reading at&#xA;  1000nm might be around 60. With CCE, a typical reading ... might be&#xA;  around 180 to 190 IR. This translates to about 75% silver left in the&#xA;  print, where retention of 100% will not only increase the density of&#xA;  the blacks but of the mid-tones as well. By keeping the amount of&#xA;  silver retention in this range, there will be some desaturation of the&#xA;  color, an increase in grain, and denser blacks, but there will still&#xA;  be some detail in the blacks, unlike in 100% silver retention, where&#xA;  the blacks might &lt;em&gt;block up&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;CCE was used on the film Seven and many&#xA;  others&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theasc.com/magazine/nov98/soupdujour/pg2.htm&quot;&gt;American Society of Cinematographers&lt;/a&gt; have a much more readable summary including an interview with the vice president of technical services at Deluxe (the film lab mentioned above), saying:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;CCE is a proprietary process that produces a much higher contrast and&#xA;  adds more grain. When you have more silver, you have a more grainy&#xA;  look and blacker blacks. However, your blacks can also plug up more.&#xA;  With a bleach-bypass, the tones are much duller and more muted, and&#xA;  you have a lot less detail in the shadows. The blacks are very black,&#xA;  but the nuances in the gray are diminished.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The special editions you mention used one of these CCE silver retention process prints, whilst the New Line VHS and DVD releases used the regular theatrical prints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to how widespread the releases are, I'm struggling to find a definitive answer on that. A mixture of IMDB and some random forums online of Seven addicts suggest the original cinema release and the Criterion DVDs used it, whilst the New Line VHSs and DVDs were straight from the negatives and thus &lt;em&gt;didn't&lt;/em&gt; use silver retention. Apparently blu rays cannot have silver retention performed in the usual manner, and instead it is done digitally - but that the latest blu ray releases are good enough that they efficiently replicate the original silver retention prints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, all of this is just conjecture and there doesn't seem to be an official word on exactly what uses silver retention and what doesn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T13:26:14.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26363" CreationDate="2016-02-03T14:04:59.840" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) The assumption that smashing someone in the head with a baseball bat doesn't destroy the brain doesn't make much sense. That's the whole reason getting smashed in the head with a baseball bat &lt;em&gt;would&lt;/em&gt; kill you, is because that impact did enough damage to your brain that it didn't function anymore. The series uses melee weapons to the head as a fairly regular way to kill walkers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...however, I'd point out that that's not relevant as well...because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) The virus doesn't kill. They all have it already. The virus only reanimates the nervous system of the dead, which has a tendency to rot pretty nastily, meaning you get a heck of a &lt;em&gt;bacterial&lt;/em&gt; infection that kills you if you get bitten/scratched by walker (and presumably if you eat a nasty rotted one). Anything that stopped that bacterial growth (like we already do with butchered corpses of animals) would stop that meat from being dangerous, as the virus itself is not a danger to those that have it/contract it...only a danger to those that happen to be around them when it reanimates their dead body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, there are issues with this (Why are newly created walkers just as deadly as ones that have been rotting for a month? Why does getting walker gunk in your eyes not get you as infected as getting it in a scratch?) But these are the mechanisms of the story nonetheless, and those mechanisms would not make someone that ate properly cared for/cooked meat that happens to be infected with the same virus they already have anyway die from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28706" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T14:04:59.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47186" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47161" CreationDate="2016-02-03T15:18:21.100" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;From a purely religious standpoint, I asked my Spiritual Advisor this question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If you were married, and your spouse dies of natural causes, and you&#xA;  remarry and then you die, which spouse do you see in Heaven? And can&#xA;  you still be affectionate towards them both, or will that make your&#xA;  other wife jealous? Like, would your Heaven be your other wife's&#xA;  Hell, seeing you with someone else for eternity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her response was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;You see them both... and if both are of Heaven they have become a part&#xA;  of perfect love... and there is no jealousy in love. They will both&#xA;  love you and one another... They are perfected in love... a love that&#xA;  is greater than any affection we have ever known in this life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there you have it.  There is no jealousy in Heaven.  And you aren't bound by desire of flesh in Heaven.  There's just pure love.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T15:18:21.100" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27952" CreationDate="2016-02-03T15:29:04.277" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Part of the reason so few films use zooms is very simple... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.elementsofcinema.com/cinematography/types-of-lenses/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Most directors/DPs shoot with &quot;prime&quot; lenses&lt;/a&gt;... which &lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt; zoom.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Prime lenses (or fixed focal length lenses) can’t zoom in or zoom out. Therefore, when using a prime, every time the filmmaker wants to get tighter on his composition, he can either (1) physically move the camera closer to his subject or (2) change the camera lens for one with a longer focal length and narrower field of view – the telephoto lens. Accordingly, if the filmmaker decides for a wider composition, he can either (1)  move the camera away from the subject or (2) change the camera lens for one with a shorter focal length and wider field of view – the wide-angle lens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Zoom lenses have major issues with image quality, causing &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_lens&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;various issues&lt;/a&gt; that no serious filmmaker wants to have to deal with:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Zoom lenses achieve this convenience through compromises on image quality, weight, dimensions, aperture, autofocus performance (both speed and accuracy), build quality, and cost of manufacture. For example, all zoom lenses suffer from at least slight, if not considerable, loss of image resolution at their maximum aperture, especially at the extremes of their focal length range. This effect is evident in the corners of the image, when displayed in a large format or high resolution. The greater the range of focal length a zoom lens offers, the more exaggerated these compromises must become.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Because primes are so much simpler in construction, lens manufacturers can make excellent quality lenses that create beautiful images.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T15:29:04.277" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47168" CreationDate="2016-02-03T17:33:29.930" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an episode of the X-Files where cryopreservation is central to the plot. &quot;Roland&quot; is a season 1 episode. In it, the head of a scientist has been frozen. X-Files hijinks ensue (I can summarize it better, but not sure what would be a spoiler if you're wanting to watch it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am aware of no theatrical films that deal with the subject.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T17:33:29.930" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47191" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47136" CreationDate="2016-02-03T17:37:02.300" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;One of the running themes of the show Lost was embodied in the struggle between Jack and Locke... the whole &quot;Man of Science, Man of Faith&quot; struggle. Locke was a believer in the unexplained and that by following signs of faith, good things would come. Jack on the other hand was a skeptic and always demanded for a reason or an explanation behind everything, almost to a fault at times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the key elements of the show that highlighted this conflict was the pushing of the button every 108 minutes. The pushing of the button represented the way these two different belief types approach things that can not be explained. You could compare it to faith or religion. Many people believe in God and go to church simply because its how they were raised, like Locke who pushed the button because he believed the island had given him a purpose and Desmond had told him he had to push it. Locke thrived on having something to believe in and put his faith in.  Other people might look at this as ridiculous. They insist that God can't exist because there is no proof of his existence. Like Jack who insists that pushing the button is pointless because they can't know for sure if its necessary unless they stop pushing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also interesting how the button serves as an element for each of these characters to truly question themselves and their beliefs. Jack is ultimately convinced that pushing the button is necessary and even participates in it. He realizes that even though its necessity can easily be proven, the potential consequences of finding out the truth could be disastrous (the world could end). And Locke in the end has his faith questioned and believes that the button pushing is all part of some observational study and so he sets out to stop the button pushing, even after he's built what I'll call a religion of doing so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For more background on the pushing of the button check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Pushing_the_button&quot;&gt;Lostpedia: Pushing the Button&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T17:37:02.300" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47192" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47168" CreationDate="2016-02-03T17:56:32.867" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is an LA Law episode from 1990 called &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzpda6cpYQU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;The Good Human Bar&quot;&lt;/a&gt; where one of the terminally ill clients of the titular law firm is seeking to be allowed to be frozen alive (as opposed to post-mortem). I vaguely remember it being filled with many a back and forth over the legality, technology and morality of such an act.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27893" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T17:56:32.867" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47193" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47195" CreationDate="2016-02-03T18:11:09.327" Score="5" ViewCount="742" Body="&lt;p&gt;US made movie. Also, the killer had a catchphrase, but I can't remember what it was. Oh, and she wore a wig.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Story Points&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The intro involves an amish woman arriving in a subway station. She apparently gets lost and sleeps in one of the stations benches. The killer then arrives and finds the woman completely alone and injects her with poisons through a syringe. The killer then sprinkles glitter&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another scene has the killer kill another amish woman (I think this one has a stocky build) as she is going to her apartment and does the same thing as the woman from the subway station.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At some point, the protagonists, a male and female detective (the former I think is in his late 40's or 50's) go to an elderly Amish woman's home on the outskirts of the city who apparently has links to the killer. She reveals that the killer was viciously punished by her father for apparently not keeping up with Amish culture and instead went out drinking and partying and wearing not so Amish dresses or such.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;By the end of the movie, it turns out that one of the characters, an anchorwoman, is the killer. The male detective brings her mother onto the studio just as she is about to go live on television. She then breaks down after seeing her (because seeing her reminds her of the torture her father inflicted on her) and she then screams and cries. The mother is shocked and does confirm that it is her. The police then arrest her.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26705" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T18:48:32.850" Title="80/90s Thriller involving a female killer who apparently kills Amish people and sprinkles gold glitter on the bodies" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:21:22.360" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47194" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46949" CreationDate="2016-02-03T18:47:46.303" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most likely the horse was trained and it still felt the weight of the dead body thinking there is still someone on top of it. It is also possible that Glass could have used the rope that tied the two horses together to signal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24588" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T18:47:46.303" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47195" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47193" CreationDate="2016-02-03T18:48:32.850" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105568/combined&quot;&gt;Terror on Track 9&lt;/a&gt; from 1992, one of several TV movies starring Richard Crenna as lieutenant Frank Janek.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Lt. Frank Janek investigates the unsolved murder cases in the city of New York. The new challenge is presented to the Central Station. There is a man who likes to kill the girls with a singular method: a drug overdose. Janek investigates with a little jittery because there is a television reporter who goes all out to criticize the work of the police. The case then explodes in his hands when one of the girls is found dead is the daughter of the head of Homicide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All the female victims have a halo of gold glitter around their heads, and in the end the killer is actually an Amish woman who preferred the big city, and is really the newswoman that hassles the detective. He exposes her on the air and she goes crazy. Here are a few minutes from it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/k0KiACt5Jf0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T18:48:32.850" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46169" CreationDate="2016-02-03T18:52:56.683" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Skyler most likely did not have genuine feelings for Ted, as their past affair was not something Tyler wanted to talk about when Marie mentioned it. It was done as an act of revolt against Walter and as an attempt to get back at him by demonstrating independence. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24588" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T18:52:56.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47168" CreationDate="2016-02-03T19:00:45.047" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most often, cryogenic preservation, the intentional freezing of the ill or declared dead, is used simply as a plot device to introduce a &lt;em&gt;fish out of water&lt;/em&gt; or time travel story. The method of stasis and their medical condition are waylaid to the events that happen after they are revived. It's rarely used as a central theme in fictional writing. &lt;em&gt;There seems to be no mainstream movie broaching the subject by itself&lt;/em&gt;. That said, it does pop up in a few shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Star Trek The Next Generation episode &lt;a href=&quot;https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Neutral_Zone_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;The Neutral Zone&quot;&lt;/a&gt; has the B-plot (Human centric story) of a cryopreservation ship found by the Enterprise. The humans inside were terminal at the time of their freezing, while current medical technology is able to cure all of their diseases within minutes of being revived. Then it dwells into their confrontation of mortality (their own and everyone they knew) and culture shock, having been born in a capitalistic society now faced with an egalitarian one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Stargate SG-1 episode &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Lifeboat_(episode)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lifeboat&lt;/a&gt;&quot; revolves around the complications of cryo stasis when the bodies die due to power failure, but the minds are kept alive in others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most notably, &lt;a href=&quot;http://deadline.com/2015/11/cry-cryogenic-drama-the-cw-paulist-productions-1201632364/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the CW is reported to be developing a drama centralized around a medical breakthrough in cryopreservation&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is an interesting pairing between subject matter and a producer at the CW — &lt;strong&gt;the network is working on Cry, a drama about the prospect of eternal life via cryogenic preservation&lt;/strong&gt; that comes from Paulist Productions, a Catholic media company.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Written and executive produced by Kerry Lenhart and John J. Sakmar (The Glades), &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cry tells the story of a doctor who makes the astonishing medical breakthrough to bring cryogenically preserved people back to life, starting with the unfreezing of his own father — but he never expects that restoring life will have both glorious and devastating consequences.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Paulist Prods. executives &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;were attracted to Cry because it explores the moral dilemma cryogenics poses on relationships and society.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Cry features Cryopreservation, it still focuses on the interpersonal drama, instead of being a medical drama, ala E.R.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-01-07T00:42:45.047" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T19:00:45.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47199" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47201" CreationDate="2016-02-03T19:49:23.080" Score="18" ViewCount="1903" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genre&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;I'd say it's a romantic comedy, not quite sure&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time Period and Origin&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;I guess, it was made between 1995 and 2000; extended range of 1990-2002, but I'm certain it isn't earlier than 1980 or later than 2006.&#xA;Fairly sure it's an american movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Setting&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;A modern, big city setting (I want to say New York or London, but not sure)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Characters&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;I remember the main characters quite well.&#xA;The protagonist is a geek, who just came to the city for a job or school, he sticks out like a sore thumb, because he wears a warm woolen hat all the time. Similar to this: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R9zX6.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R9zX6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The female lead is a red-haired woman, maybe early twenties or late teens, who has a goth-vibe about her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Plot&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;The plot revolves around the female lead helping the protaganist get his footing in the city, I'm pretty sure a romance blossoms between the two, but can't remember anything of the latter half of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Extra info&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;The one thing I clearly remember is a scene, where the female lead asks the protagonist, why he is wearing such a silly hat all the time and he responds, it's because the body loses most of its heat through the head, which is why he wants to keep it warm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30677" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-03T21:29:52.700" LastActivityDate="2016-05-02T18:53:54.307" Title="Movie set in a big city with geeky protagonist and gothic female lead" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:21:25.497" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47168" CreationDate="2016-02-03T20:00:57.373" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The plot of the 1992 film &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104291/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Forever Young&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; starring Mel Gibson involves cryonics:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn't have to watch his love lying in a coma. The next thing Daniel knows is that he's been awoken in 1992.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As does that of the 2006 Mike Judge comedy &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Idiocracy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Private Joe Bauers, the definition of &quot;average American&quot;, is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes five centuries in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26529" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T20:00:57.373" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47199" CreationDate="2016-02-03T20:28:06.720" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loser_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Loser&lt;/a&gt;, a 2000 film starring Jason Biggs (who played Paul) and Mena Suvari (who play Dora) set in New York City:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nxRbs.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/nxRbs.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the wiki description:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is about a small-town teenager who is accepted into New York&#xA;  University and must cope with the pressures of college life and the&#xA;  big city.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dora:&lt;/strong&gt; So how come you always wear that hat?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Paul:&lt;/strong&gt; 'Cause something&#xA;  like 90% of your body heat escapes through your head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A picture of the characters:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v3YkM.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/v3YkM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And finally a picture of Paul, portrayed by Jason Biggs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CXt1F.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CXt1F.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The hat picture and reference to losing heat through the head gave it away instantly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T20:28:06.720" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47203" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47182" CreationDate="2016-02-03T21:31:45.717" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ah, a fellow fan of &quot;اسألوا لبيبة&quot; :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Japanese name is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1778&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;Miimu Iro Iro Yume no Tabi&quot;&lt;/a&gt; (Mimu, the Traveller of Many Dreams)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hbxsS.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hbxsS.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Meemu&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an aside, the site www.animenewsnetwork.com is an excellent resource for these sorts of question since they have the names of many anime in multiple languages (including Arabic).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T21:31:45.717" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47207" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46554" CreationDate="2016-02-03T22:28:34.433" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Maybe I'm misunderstanding your question but wouldn't this actually be a case of using &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_matte&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;open matte&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using your formatting style it would look like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;*********************************************&#xA;*  4:3 (for home release)                   *&#xA;*                                           *&#xA;*                                           *&#xA;*                                           *&#xA;*-------------------------------------------*&#xA;* 2.35:1 (theatrical)                       *&#xA;*                                           *&#xA;*                                           *&#xA;*                                           *&#xA;*                                           *&#xA;*-------------------------------------------*&#xA;*                                           *&#xA;*                                           *&#xA;*                                           *&#xA;*                                           *&#xA;*                                           *&#xA;*********************************************&#xA;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28819" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T22:28:34.433" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47208" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47211" CreationDate="2016-02-03T22:36:29.413" Score="5" ViewCount="552" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0270288/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Confessions of a Dangerous Mind&lt;/a&gt; is based on the book of the same name, which is the autobiography of Chuck Barris.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Barris was the creator of TV shows such as The Dating Game and The Gong Show. The movie (and also the book) describe how he had a second job -- secretly -- as a CIA hit-man who killed 33 people during his time served.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reviewers such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/confessions-of-a-dangerous-mind-2003&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Roger Ebert&lt;/a&gt; have noted that the hit-man part of the autobiography might not be true. Indeed, after viewing the movie, I took the hit-man segments as &lt;strong&gt;fantasy symbolizing Barris's struggle with committing to his girlfriend and the career he has chosen&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any evidence, either in-universe or otherwise, that offers insight as to whether Chuck Barris really did serve as a hit-man for the CIA?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T22:48:29.290" Title="Is Chuck Barris's work as a CIA hit-man a fantasy?" Tags="|dangerous-mind|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47210" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-03T22:45:26.417" Score="12" ViewCount="2606" Body="&lt;p&gt;Early in &lt;em&gt;The Blues Brothers&lt;/em&gt;, Jake turns to Elwood and asks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jake:&lt;/strong&gt; What's this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Elwood&lt;/strong&gt;: What?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jake&lt;/strong&gt;: This car. This stupid car! Where's the Cadillac? (beat) The Caddy! Where's the Caddy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Elwood&lt;/strong&gt;: The what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jake&lt;/strong&gt;: The Cadillac we used to have. The Bluesmobile!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Elwood&lt;/strong&gt;: I traded it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jake&lt;/strong&gt; (with disbelief): You traded the Bluesmobile for this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Elwood&lt;/strong&gt;: No, for a microphone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jake&lt;/strong&gt;: A microphone? (beat) Okay I can see that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some circumstance where a car, even a beater, could be worth trading for a microphone?  Or is the scene simply absurd, just a joke?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user6213" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2022-04-01T04:15:30.403" Title="Why did Elwood trade a Cadillac for a microphone?" Tags="|dialogue|the-blues-brothers|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47211" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47208" CreationDate="2016-02-03T22:48:29.290" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Out of universe&lt;/em&gt;, I don't know of any evidence to suggest he was in the &lt;em&gt;CIA&lt;/em&gt; other than his own claims, which he doesn't substantiate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/mar/03/artsfeatures.fiction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The CIA themselves said&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'We make it a practice not to say who is or isn't in the CIA. But in&#xA;  this case we'll make an exception. Chuck Barris is not.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, you could immediately argue that &lt;em&gt;obviously they would say that about one of their agents&lt;/em&gt;. But now we're starting to get in to real tin-foil hat territory!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's presented no claims that he is remotely involved with the CIA and as the burden of proof really needs to rest on his shoulders, I'll say he &lt;strong&gt;was not involved with the CIA&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In universe&lt;/em&gt;, the character in the film does take missions with the CIA, including assisting the German-American agent Keeler to murder &lt;em&gt;Colbert&lt;/em&gt; - so in universe, he is clearly involved. But this is obviously based on the autobiography, which as already stated doesn't appear to have an out of universe source of truth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T22:48:29.290" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47212" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47210" CreationDate="2016-02-03T22:54:37.930" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a joke to emphasise just how poor the Caddy, which we don't see on screen, actually was. He didn't even &lt;em&gt;sell&lt;/em&gt; the car. He just traded it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, an explanation as to why he did it can be found in the next line in the script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jake&lt;/strong&gt;: A microphone? (beat) Okay I can see that.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Elwood&lt;/strong&gt;: This was a&#xA;  bargain. I picked it up at the Mount Prospect City Police auction last&#xA;  spring. It's an old Mount Prospect Police car. They were practically&#xA;  giving them away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he got a pretty good car in the end. And hopefully a decent microphone!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T22:54:37.930" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47215" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21729" CreationDate="2016-02-03T23:58:27.280" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000Ulz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; on greenspun, the film's &lt;a href=&quot;https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0060953071&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Illustrated Screenplay&lt;/a&gt; featured the following info from James Cameron which strongly suggests that the ending was &lt;strong&gt;intentionally left ambiguous&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;I get asked about the ending all the time. Is Rose dead or is she dreaming?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You decide.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the record, I've not been able to get hold of a copy of the screenplay in order to confirm this quote, but nor do I have any reason to suspect that it's not 100% accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-03T23:58:27.280" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47217" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44405" CreationDate="2016-02-04T00:40:53.250" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Weren't Y wings in use during the clone wars? There was technological advancement. X wings, Tie Fighters and such are superior to clone wars era tech. However, the general feeling of technological advancement in the prequels mirrors that of the Hobbit movies against the original trilogy, and that is a result of bad film making relying on CGI and the directors trying to outdo themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if we want to make an in-universe retcon, The Empire does come across as an aesthetics focused force who would have valued a minimalist look. Also, comparing things to our universe where there was an intense period of technological advancement during world war two which saw complete technical and military transformation, but since has slowed to a crawl in military terms now. The plans in service in 1940 would be utterly ruined by the planes in service in 1950. All new technology and short service lives. But that changed by the 80s. There are planes in service still which were in service during the original trilogy theatrical run, such as the f-16. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one looks at the prequel trilogy, sees all these different models of ships and fighters than what you see during the original trilogy, and then looks at the new movies set even further in the future, one might be puzzled why the military tech looks the same, but the technology in the late 50s was less similar in many ways than early 80s military technology than todays. So there are real world parallels. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plus the First Order is aesthetically trying to recreate the glory days of the Empire and may be relying on designs when they shouldn't. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30691" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-04T08:43:49.717" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T08:43:49.717" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47221" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28424" CreationDate="2016-02-04T02:25:58.077" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;A stretch, but when John walked into the building, didn't the reception guard say that the 30th floor was the only floor with people still? Clay bill was listed on 29th. If I am right, I have no idea how I noticed this...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30699" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T02:25:58.077" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47222" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47225" CreationDate="2016-02-04T02:26:10.923" Score="12" ViewCount="501" Body="&lt;p&gt;So I remember seeing part of a relatively old (think 1960s/1970s or so) British movie that definitely felt fairly experimental/avant-garde. It had a storyline, but many of its plot-points seemed intentionally weird and/or random. From what I can remember...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The main character is a young woman who is either a nurse or a&#xA;receptionist (I &lt;em&gt;think&lt;/em&gt; a nurse). Either way, I seem to recall that&#xA;she works in a hospital.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The movie starts off with a shot of the main character&#xA;walking down the sidewalk, being very careful not to step on any&#xA;cracks. (I think the camera lingers a long time on just her feet, without showing the rest of her.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At some point, she goes to visit some sort of psychic, and gets tea&lt;br&gt;&#xA;leaves read at the psychic's dining room table. Said psychic has an&lt;br&gt;&#xA;adult son (at least, one assumes he's her son) who seems to have a&lt;br&gt;&#xA;mental/learning disability, though it's never really addressed&lt;br&gt;&#xA;outright. The son keeps interrupting the psychic, who kind of just&#xA;shoos him away.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The psychic eventually tells the protagonist that she's destined to&#xA;marry/fall in love with a man &quot;with a question mark on his face.&quot;&#xA;(Both the psychic and the young woman are puzzled by this prediction.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The protagonist eventually discovers the meaning of the tea leaf&#xA;reading when she sees her coworker's boyfriend/fiancé, who has a&#xA;mole on his forehead that - when combined with a curl of hair that&#xA;falls out of place - looks like a question mark.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Protagonist eventually manages to get her coworker's fiancé alone in &#xA;a parking lot, and they end up making out. She explains her visit&#xA;with the psychic to him, and he decides that they are destined for&#xA;each other. He presumably breaks up with his current fiancée, but&#xA;the movie kind of brushes over most of what goes on between&#xA;&quot;parking lot make-out session&quot; and this guy marrying the protagonist.&#xA;Suffice to say, the protagonist and the &quot;man with a question&#xA;mark on his face&quot; end up getting married.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So, now the two of them are married and living together, and at some&#xA;point, the husband and a neighbor (or coworker/friend?) plant a tree&#xA;in the couple's yard. (I think they may have found a sapling growing&#xA;in a crack of the driveway and decided to transplant it? Either that,&#xA;or maybe they decided to plant it &lt;em&gt;in&lt;/em&gt; the driveway, which would've&#xA;been weird. But this movie was pretty weird overall, so I wouldn't be&#xA;surprised.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;For whatever reason the protagonist really didn't want them to plant &#xA;the tree, but couldn't convince them to &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; plant it. (Something to&#xA;do with an irrational fear.)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The night after the tree is planted, the main character has a dream&#xA;that involves the tree growing giant roots and it somehow endangering&#xA;her and her husband - I don't remember exactly how, but I remember it&#xA;being particularly strange. Like, roots growing up into a closet of the house or&#xA;something.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, that's about all I remember of the actual storyline. I do recall it being a Criterion Collection film, but when I search the Criterion Collection website, I can't seem to find anything with a description that matches my recollection of this film. Does anybody know of a film that fits this description? (I might be misremembering a couple of things, so I would certainly welcome anybody who has an answer that's close to what I've described, even if it's not an &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; match.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-02-04T05:49:16.687" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T05:49:16.687" Title="British Criterion Collection film where a psychic tells a woman she'll be involved with a man who has a question mark on his face" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:21:34.960" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47224" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47125" CreationDate="2016-02-04T04:10:32.397" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your question is if the fact that Walter White produces blue meth is sufficient to conclude that he is a chemistry genius. My answer is a counterexample. Jesse Pinkman produces blue meth. However, he is not a chemistry genius. Therefore, it does not follow that producing blue meth makes someone a chemistry genius.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Define what you mean by &quot;genius&quot;. From what I learned before, being a &quot;genius&quot;, &quot;smart&quot; or &quot;intelligent&quot; is about learning things quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I doubt Jesse would be able to pick up chemistry concepts fast if he were to learn them in school or at (legal) work, but if he went to rehab, who knows what his potential is? His younger brother seems smart so if intelligence is hereditary, Jesse might be smart and so might be smart in Chemistry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if we were to say that Jesse being a meth cooking genius makes him a chemistry genius, that is a lot like saying someone who is a genius in the stock market is a math genius.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why? This has to do with the very nature of math and chemistry. These aren't things you can just learn on the job, no matter how smart you are. You need education (but not necessarily a degree, of course).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mike Ross is a law genius despite having no education (or degree) because law is something you can just learn on the job, if you are smart enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, you must also define what you mean by &quot;math&quot;, &quot;chemistry&quot;, &quot;law&quot;, &quot;math genius&quot;, &quot;chemistry genius&quot;, &quot;law genius&quot; and so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21705" LastEditorUserId="21705" LastEditDate="2016-02-11T23:19:42.187" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T23:19:42.187" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47225" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47222" CreationDate="2016-02-04T05:41:18.713" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jane Campion's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098725/combined&quot;&gt;Sweetie&lt;/a&gt; from 1989.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Explores sisters, in their twenties, their parents, and family dysfunctions. Kay is gangly and slightly askew, &lt;strong&gt;consulting a fortune teller and then falling in love with a man because of a mole on his face and a lock of hair; then, falling out of love when he plants a tree in their yard.&lt;/strong&gt; Sweetie is plump, imperious, self-centered, and seriously mentally ill. The parents see none of the illness, seeing only their cute child. Kay mainly feels exasperation at her sister's impositions. Slowly, the film exposes how the roots of Sweetie's illness have choked Kay's own development. Can she be released?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the trailer (where you can some of the bits you've mentioned, like her trying to avoid the cracks as she walks and the parking lot make out session):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/DPCnM6M7v4w?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T05:41:18.713" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47226" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47210" CreationDate="2016-02-04T06:06:55.617" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a joke,  but it's actually quite reasonable. Some studio microphones sell for astronomical prices.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/urghE.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/urghE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=cadillac&amp;amp;_sacat=0&amp;amp;rt=nc&amp;amp;_udhi=10000&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's&lt;/a&gt; the Cadillacs you can buy on ebay for less than $10,000.  Swap one of those old clunkers for one of &lt;a href=&quot;https://reverb.com/au/item/46985681-neumann-m49-m-249-variable-pattern-tube-condenser-microphone&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;these&lt;/a&gt; (Neumann microphone worth $AUD23,849.90) and you've scored yourself a real bargain.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G4WnF.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G4WnF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30703" LastEditorUserId="30703" LastEditDate="2022-04-01T04:15:30.403" LastActivityDate="2022-04-01T04:15:30.403" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="47229" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47210" CreationDate="2016-02-04T09:39:04.820" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The joke is that music is more important to the Blues Brothers than anything else, even the Caddy. Something as paltry as a microphone is worth more than a car, because &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;they value music as more important&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Consider everything else they do to get the band back together, all the laws they break, and you will see that their priorities are screwy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-04T10:15:23.537" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T10:15:23.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47232" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47236" CreationDate="2016-02-04T10:20:30.933" Score="21" ViewCount="4876" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently realized that so far there have been 4 movies about Steve Jobs' life, however ridiculous that might be, it made me wonder if there was another person that has enjoyed the same amount of interest or greater, I think for the sake of brevity we should exclude figures that weren't around the 20th and 21st century. I'm interested in recent public figures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to summarize the question: What's the record for highest number of biographies on a single person?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18454" LastEditorUserId="18454" LastEditDate="2016-02-04T10:35:48.000" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T11:47:49.287" Title="What's the record for highest number of biographies on a single person?" Tags="|cinema-history|biopic|most-appearances|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47232" CreationDate="2016-02-04T11:24:05.383" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;I took the very unscientific approach of using Wikipedia and their &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biographical_films&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;List of biographical films&lt;/a&gt;. I then put all the information into a spreadsheet, removed &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of annoying merged cells and came up with a list and turned this into a hopefully pretty graph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9lbNn.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9lbNn.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using this, and ignoring non 20th/21st century people, it looks like &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&amp;amp;q=adolf%20hitler&amp;amp;meta=&amp;amp;safe=active&amp;amp;gws_rd=ssl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Adolf Hitler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Albert Schweitzer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; lead the way with seven films each.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, Wikipedia's list of biographical films can be edited by &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; and is in no way definitive - but I can't find any other list on the Internet tracking it. Interestingly, they had just &lt;em&gt;three&lt;/em&gt; films for Steve Jobs (as out of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;six films&lt;/a&gt; created about him, they considered three &lt;em&gt;biographical&lt;/em&gt; and three &lt;em&gt;documentaries&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T11:24:05.383" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47237" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47232" CreationDate="2016-02-04T12:32:27.090" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are literally dozens of movies about Wong Fei-hung, who died in 1924 and therefore qualifies for your time range. Granted, most of those movies aren't well-known outside China / Hong Kong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And you might want to make a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; close inspection before declaring that e.g. Iron Monkey (1993) is a &quot;biographical&quot; account of his childhood! So not all of them qualify as biographies. I think you'd be able to find almost a continuum from &quot;sincere attempt to recount events that actually occurred&quot; to &quot;complete fiction that just uses his name&quot;, and draw the line where you want within that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8750" LastEditorUserId="8750" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T11:47:49.287" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T11:47:49.287" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47238" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-04T12:59:09.183" Score="5" ViewCount="3690" Body="&lt;p&gt;This question is regarding one of the end scenes in the Bond film Spectre, so it contains some spoilers (kind of).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was thrilling to watch Bond and his companion jump several stories into a net at the bottom of a soon-to-be-destroyed building! However I am confused as to a good explanation as to why the net would be there.  Immediately following their landing we see there is a red, spray-painted arrow on the wall directing them out.  The arrow is in the style of the other markings left by Blofeld, so this seems to imply that both the net and the arrow were part of Blofeld's preparations (which include a transparent, bulletproof box, psycho-art-installations, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is the net there from Blofeld or is it from something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30711" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T00:14:46.120" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T00:14:46.120" Title="Why is there a safety net conveniently located in the soon-to-be-demolished MI6 building?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|spectre|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47239" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46587" CreationDate="2016-02-04T13:01:23.820" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;If you don't like fairytales or the fluffy sillyness of some fantasy, and you like drama like Breaking Bad, probably you'll really enjoy Game of Thrones. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's all about a gritty, well-developed world close to the reality of what the middle ages were like, without clear lines between good or evil, with complex factions made up of many well-realised believable characters, with &lt;strong&gt;some fantasy elements added sparingly to increase the unpredictability and mystery&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://entertainment.time.com/2011/04/18/grrm-interview-part-2-fantasy-and-history&quot;&gt;Here's a good quote&lt;/a&gt; from book author and (in some seasons) TV show exec producer George RR Martin: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a lot of the fantasy of Tolkien imitators has a quasi-medieval setting, but it’s like the Disneyland Middle Ages ... what I want to do is combine some of the realism of historical fiction with some of the appeal of fantasy, the magic and the wonder that the best fantasy has. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what’s going to happen... Fantasy, of course, doesn’t have that constraint... what’s gonna happen next? I love this character, but god, is he gonna live, is he gonna die? I wanted that kind of suspense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a fantasy fan, and personally find even popular fantasy like Lord of the Rings too &quot;fantasy&quot; for me, but I rate GoT as one of my favourite shows. When it does include fantasy elements, it's famous for subverting them. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It doesn't lean on one-dimensional fantasy races&lt;/strong&gt; of human-like being like orcs, elves, etc, who are all basically humans but with one motivation and one personality type. For example: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;One character is a dwarf, but instead of being from a &quot;magical race of dwarves&quot;, he's simply a normal guy with dwarfism - a very well realised character dealing with all the prejudices and challenges that a well-born man with dwarfism would face in the Middle Ages, alongside his other agendas. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are giants, but these have a small role mostly as part of an interesting study in how skeptical, realistic people in the Middle Ages would respond to finding out that legends about giants actually had some truth in them.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Dragons are presented as hard-to-train unpredictable animals, and no-one entirely understands them - again it's quite a believable portrayal of how people would react to a species they're heard legends about. Human-dragon interaction is closer to Jurassic Park than it is to, say, Martin Freeman chatting with Benedict Cumberbatch across a sea of CGI in the Hobbit (and is much less silly than Jurassic World).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are undead (or at least, something resembling undead), but their motivations (if they indeed even have motivations) are a slowly unfolding mystery. Not wanting to give too much away, I see this aspect of the show as a subtle but rather brilliant study in how incompetently and selfishly the majority of people and, particularly, politicians deal with a creeping threat that &lt;em&gt;should&lt;/em&gt;, if there was any rationality in the world, unite them to put aside their petty power games and join a common cause. More XCOM than Independence Day.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is one faction (Thenns) who appear late in the show, who annoyed me as a non-fantasy fan a little. Strictly speaking they're more of a tribe than a race, but they edge a little bit close to being one of those credibility-stretching fantasy races where they all look the same, act the same and their motivation is &quot;they're just like this&quot;. But this isn't nearly enough to spoil the show - they're just one small-ish faction out of something like 30 - and it's the only example of this I can think of.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Magic is virtually never used as a get-out-of-jail-free / Deus Ex Machina plot device.&lt;/strong&gt; It exists, but as a mysterious force no-one quite understands (I've not seen more than a few snippets of Lost, but I get the impression it has similar &quot;is this supernatural or isn't it?&quot; mysteries). A small number of characters periodically try to use it: without giving anything away, it often has unexpected consquences, it often doesn't pan out as planned, and some characters turn out to have been borderline-charlatans winging it, not really understanding what they were doing. No-one gets out of a pickle by waving a magic wand. There's at least one magic-assisted killing, but it's more of a plot twist which creates many loose ends, rather than a plot device to escape a predicament. I might even go as far as to argue that the way Game of Thrones uses magic is further from how magic is used in most conventional fantasy than plot devices used in many non-fantasy shows, like Sherlock's &quot;mind palace&quot;, or Breaking Bad's Walt saving the day with a chemistry trick. If you can deal with those, you can deal with this.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Characters are realistically portrayed.&lt;/strong&gt; There are knights, and their armour is often shiny, but they're more like real humans given power, authority and status than &quot;knights in shining armour&quot;. Some act like spoiled celebrities, some are cynical and disillusioned, some are stern professionals, some are schemers - all have convincingly real personalities and back stories that make sense. There's a fierce warrior woman introduced in a later season - but instead of dancing around making wisecracks in impractically skimpy armour, she's a realistic, serious-minded professional who turned to this career because her unusually butch physique caused her to be rejected from conventional high society. There are prophecies and prophetic dreams - but they're confusing and are misinterpreted by the troubled characters who have them as often as not, creating more problems than they solve. And so on - most fantasy tropes have at least one character who artfully subverts them into something believable and credible.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There's lots of underhand politics and dialogue-driven drama.&lt;/strong&gt; I'd say the ratio of fantasy action to family drama and politics is similar to the ratio of gangster action to family drama and problem-solving in Breaking Bad. It's not uncommon to go episodes with almost none, but when it does happen, it's intense, gripping and unpredictable. A major theme of the show is a tangled web of factions and powerful families pursuing many political agendas at once, and the quality of the political intrigue is very high - it's a thousand times closer to, say, House of Cards or Borgen than the paper-thin &quot;I seek an audience with the Elf King&quot; stuff typical of many fantasy shows.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's unpredictable.&lt;/strong&gt; Good guys don't get their way unless there's a good reason why they should get their way. It's famously brutal with its main characters and main storylines - main characters die with little warning, prominent storylines can suddenly get snuffed out by events and just end dramatically, mid season. More so than any other show I can think of, actions have lasting consequences, and if good people are in a situation where, in real life, bad things would happen to them, bad things &lt;em&gt;will&lt;/em&gt; happen to them. In this respect it's the very opposite of fairy-tale.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Watch the first episode of season 1 - it has maybe slightly more fantasy elements in it than a typical episode (especially in the very first scene, which is quite untypical), but otherwise is fairly typical in terms of tone and the mix of dialogue, action and plot twists. If you have no problem with the splash of fantasy in the first episode, you're unlikely to have any problem further on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9718" LastEditorUserId="9718" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T09:49:36.570" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T09:49:36.570" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47102" CreationDate="2016-02-04T13:10:18.960" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're right, it &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; David Huddleston. You're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083753/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Computercide&lt;/a&gt; (AKA The Final Eye) from 1981.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The year is 1995 and Michael Stringer is the only private eye left on Earth. One day, he is assigned by a woman to investigate Eden Isle, a complex for people who want a perfect life started by an industrialist named Korter. Interestingly, Korter is found on a beach and is 20 years younger than he was before. When he gets into the complex, he is caught in a web of mystery that he might not get out of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It ends up being a clone farm, and near the end, Stringer comes across a chief of police (who keeps insisting he's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a sheriff, though) played by Huddleston. Stringer tries to tells him about the cloning, but the chief think he says &lt;em&gt;clowning&lt;/em&gt;. They then drive to the complex, where this dialogue takes place between the chief and the guard:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chief:&lt;/strong&gt; Found one of your people wandering along the highway. Thought I'd better bring him on in. Kept yammering about something called &lt;em&gt;'clowning'.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guard:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Cloning?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chief:&lt;/strong&gt; Ain't that something. You catch on real fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Once the jig is up, the Chief crashes through the gate in his truck. Donald Pleasance plays the villain, BTW (as per usual). The movie is currently available on Youtube and the scene is around minute 78.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T16:49:17.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47241" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47238" CreationDate="2016-02-04T13:13:23.937" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst I'm happy to be corrected, I'm going to be boring and say &lt;em&gt;health and safety&lt;/em&gt;. From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hse.gov.uk/construction/safetytopics/demolition.htm#injur&quot;&gt;Health &amp;amp; Safety Executive&lt;/a&gt; in the UK:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The law says that all demolition, dismantling and structural&#xA;  alteration must be carefully planned and carried out in a way that&#xA;  prevents danger by practitioners with the relevant skills, knowledge&#xA;  and experience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This guidance includes the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Workers and passers-by can be injured by the premature and&#xA;  uncontrolled collapse of structures, and by flying debris.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A safe system of work is one that keeps people as far as possible from&#xA;  the risks. This may include:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - establishing exclusion zones and hard-hat&#xA;  areas, clearly marked and with barriers or hoardings if necessary&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - covered walkways using high-reach machines&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - reinforcing machine cabs&#xA;  so that drivers are not injured&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  - training and supervising site workers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems a safety net to protect workers would be a pretty understandable extension of this guidance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Boring answer, I know, but as I can't find any plot driven reason it would be there, I'm going to say &lt;em&gt;health and safety&lt;/em&gt; saved the day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, we don't know what will happen in future films yet (and Mendes isn't giving anything away). Not only was their spray paint on the wall, there was also a conveniently located power boat as well. Perhaps Blofeld really did want to encourage a chase, or encourage his nemesis to come out. But given how quickly Bond pinned him down, I'd argue the boat was just &lt;em&gt;there&lt;/em&gt; and the markings was either random or done &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the net was installed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T13:13:23.937" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47242" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47238" CreationDate="2016-02-04T13:14:12.643" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;The building was supposed to have been being prepped for demolition after both Silva's bomb and the move to the new combined centre. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likely this would have been erected by the demolition crew, to protect them whilst they prepared the explosives,  to stop debris falling on them down the central well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've seen similar on real UK demolition sites,  both horizontal and vertical as part of the prep. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T13:14:12.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47244" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47246" CreationDate="2016-02-04T13:24:09.957" Score="6" ViewCount="696" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only remember a scene of a movie from around 1980s or 1990s, and nothing else. There are a couple of persons arguing by using famous quotations. I believe it was a funny scene and the punch line was that one of them reaches a point in which they can't answer anything using a quotation anymore. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm right the guy who fails in the discussion is the villain of the movie. And the guy trying to help to use another quotation might be Tim Curry. When the villain has no answer he looks back to this henchman (Tim Curry character?) for help and he has a huge open book in his hands and he looks at it while he shakes his head &quot;no&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I tried to research Tim Curry's filmography but it's huge and got lost. Besides that, I saw this film as a kid and don't quite remember if it was actually him, just a hunch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Language: English&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Country of origin: US/UK?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Approximate year of release: 1980s/1990s&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30713" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-22T15:45:47.147" LastActivityDate="2016-05-22T15:45:47.147" Title="A movie with quotation argument and a literal book of quotations" Tags="|identify-this-movie|comedy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:21:41.260" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47244" CreationDate="2016-02-04T13:33:49.770" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yep, Tim Curry's the henchman, and the battle's between Denis Leary and William Shatner, no less! You're looking for &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_Weapon_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Loaded Weapon 1&lt;/a&gt; from 1993 starring Emilio Estevez and Samuel L. Jackson. However, I think the implication is that Tim Curry can't &lt;em&gt;find&lt;/em&gt; the final quotation (it's from a Beatles song: We Can Work It Out, 1965) in the quotation book, hence Leary loses the quote battle and is executed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;General Morters:&lt;/strong&gt; Act in haste, repent in leisure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mike McCracken:&lt;/strong&gt; But he who hesitates is lost.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;General Morters:&lt;/strong&gt; Never judge a book by its cover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mike McCracken:&lt;/strong&gt; What you see is what you get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;General Morters:&lt;/strong&gt; Loose lips sink ships.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mike McCracken:&lt;/strong&gt; Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing or fighting, my friend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[General Morters looks at Mr. Jigsaw, who consults 'Bartlett's Familiar Quotations' and then shakes his head]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;General Morters:&lt;/strong&gt; Sorry Mike, no good.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/P9RymuG8nn8?start=125&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T15:26:19.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47249" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47250" CreationDate="2016-02-04T17:01:12.353" Score="4" ViewCount="989" Body="&lt;p&gt;At some point Walter and Jesse have to come in laundry trucks leaving their cars away. I understand Hank may watch Walter, but why Jesse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30725" LastActivityDate="2016-12-03T22:54:24.323" Title="Why do Walter and Jesse no longer come in cars to the laundry" Tags="|plot-explanation|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47250" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47249" CreationDate="2016-02-04T17:13:17.980" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a case of Hank possibly watching Walt, it's more that the launderette was on his radar and known to him as a potential target.  If he'd been watching it over any space of time, he'd start to notice who goes there regularly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that person was someone he knew to have links to drugs, and also was a completely different race from the other employees there, then that's going to set further alarm bells of in Hank's head and confirm his suspicions that something illicit is going on (rightly or wrongly).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By having Walt and Jesse come in the back of a laundry truck, it looks like a regular drop off and doesn't raise any flags with anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20991" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T17:13:17.980" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47252" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47253" CreationDate="2016-02-04T19:18:51.180" Score="63" ViewCount="19458" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Shawshank Redemption&lt;/em&gt; is ranked as the &quot;Top Rated&quot; movie according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/chart/top&quot;&gt;IMDB's Top 250 List&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What makes it so important and unique in the world of cinema? Does it have to do purely with acting/plot, or have there been some other new things that came along with the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; just to clarify a bit, this question is NOT about IMDB's top 250 list. The question is in other words: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Why is The Shawshank Redemption such a big title in the history of  cinema? What is the key in making it so famous?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T15:08:18.330" LastActivityDate="2020-09-13T05:56:12.420" Title="What makes The Shawshank Redemption so cinematically important?" Tags="|cinema-history|reception|the-shawshank-redemption|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47253" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47252" CreationDate="2016-02-04T19:28:05.533" Score="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it is due to its great acting and very memorable plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not aware of any widely-used cinematic techniques that were invented due to the film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the film was initially released, it struggled at the box office (it earned just &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shawshank_Redemption#Release&quot;&gt;$727,000&lt;/a&gt; in its opening weekend). Despite this it received huge critical acclaim, garnered seven Oscar nominations and the rest was history - it's simply become one of the most popular, beloved films of all time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Quite why this occurred is due to a number of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The friendship of Andy and Red.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The &quot;simplicity&quot; of Andy's escape.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The longing for Andy to be free, given his ordeal.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The uplifting nature of the finale of the film.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The perseverance Andy showed.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Morgan Freeman's sensational voice.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It just touches on so many wonderful, magical issues and that has continued to resonate with audiences ever since. As Tim Robbins (i.e. Andy) himself &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/aug/22/film&quot;&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;'All I know...is that there isn't a day when I'm&#xA;  not approached about that film - approached by people who say how&#xA;  important that film is to them, who tell me that they've seen it 20,&#xA;  30, 40 times, and who are just so... thankful.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T19:28:05.533" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47254" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47252" CreationDate="2016-02-04T19:28:19.397" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?votestopfaq&amp;amp;pf_rd_m=A2FGELUUNOQJNL&amp;amp;pf_rd_p=2398042102&amp;amp;pf_rd_r=1XRJKGAY2RKQDGBR9E3M&amp;amp;pf_rd_s=center-1&amp;amp;pf_rd_t=15506&amp;amp;pf_rd_i=top&amp;amp;ref_=chttp_faq&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb's own explanation&lt;/a&gt;, the following explains how their rankings are determined&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do you calculate the rank of movies and TV shows on the Top 250&#xA;Rated Charts?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following formula is used to calculate the Top Rated&#xA;250 titles. This formula provides a true 'Bayesian estimate', which&#xA;takes into account the number of votes each title has received,&#xA;minimum votes required to be on the list, and the mean vote for all&#xA;titles:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;weighted rating (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating) v = number of votes for&#xA;the movie = (votes) m = minimum votes required to be listed in the Top&#xA;250 (currently 25,000) C = the mean vote across the whole report&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Please be aware that the Top Rated Movies Chart only includes&#xA;theatrical features: shorts, TV movies, miniseries and documentaries&#xA;are not included in the Top Rated Movies Chart. The Top Rated TV Shows&#xA;Chart includes TV Series, but not TV episodes or Movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is essentially based on highest average ratings, taking into account the number of ratings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Due to the clarification of the question I'm adding some more to my answer to describe my personal view of what makes the movie such an acclaimed classic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a sense, the movie is a perfect storm of elements that make it such a compelling and memorable movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Written by Stephen King who is and was at the time considered one of&#xA;the greatest American authors of our time.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Period piece depicting life in an American prison in the early 1900s.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Classic story of a man wrongly accused gaining his revenge and redemption.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Great twist including an elaborate and fantastical prison escape a la Count of&#xA;Monte Cristo.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Compelling and sympathetic characters.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The hero wins in the end due to a combination of book and street smarts.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wonderful casting and acting&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T23:15:15.970" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47256" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47258" CreationDate="2016-02-04T19:53:51.617" Score="7" ViewCount="3907" Body="&lt;p&gt;Judging by the accepted answer to this question &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/13697/how-realistic-is-house-md-series-with-respect-to-medical-science&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, it seems that House MD is the most medically accurate series out of all the medical shows out there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I was wondering who is responsible for all the medical jargon that is an integral part of the show? The opening credits generally do not mention a consulting doctor like they do on some shows nowadays where any consultant is mentioned in the opening credits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4083" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T01:34:18.563" Title="Who is the medical jargon shown in House MD attributable to?" Tags="|house|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47258" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47256" CreationDate="2016-02-04T20:09:05.207" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a few medical and technical advisors who give input to the show. To name some of them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Lisa Sanders&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2253050/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr104&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;(medical technical advisor - 175 episodes&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From an interview with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.medgadget.com/2014/04/the-art-of-medicine-interview-with-dr-lisa-sanders-medical-advisor-to-house-m-d.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Med Gadget&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Medgadget: How did you start writing for the NYT and advising for&#xA;  House M.D.?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sanders: My husband, who is a writer, is incredibly social and often&#xA;  hosts dinner parties at our home. Since we both came from a background&#xA;  in journalism, a large proportion of our friends are not physicians. I&#xA;  found myself explaining the most fascinating cases to our guests, and&#xA;  having to craft the narrative so they understood how cool the&#xA;  profession is. One of the guests at these gatherings, a brilliant&#xA;  writer, was particularly interested in these cases and happened to be&#xA;  an editor for the New York Times. He asked whether the stories I was&#xA;  discussing could be turned into a regular column, which is how my&#xA;  “Think Like A Doctor” column came to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“House M.D.” was in-part based on my column, so it was natural to&#xA;  become an adviser to the show. Both opportunities arose not by design,&#xA;  but rather by doing what I loved. That’s advice I regularly give to my&#xA;  trainees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. David Foster&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1844375/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr92&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;technical consultant - 21 episodes, 2004 - 2005&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://edition.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/09/27/profile.writer.foster/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From CNN&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A 40-year-old Harvard-trained general internist and clinical&#xA;  instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Foster is not&#xA;  treating Hollywood actors. He is putting words in their mouths --&#xA;  words that resonate with authority and realism.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Foster wangled a job as writer and medical consultant for the hit Fox&#xA;  network TV show &quot;House&quot; by impressing the show's producers with his&#xA;  Harvard Medical School education and his work in the trenches at Beth&#xA;  Israel Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bobbin Bergstrom&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0075061/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr89&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;medical advisor - 169 episodes, 2004 - 2012, on-set medical advisor - 42 episodes, 2004 - 2006&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A nurse who is the on-set &lt;a href=&quot;http://house.wikia.com/wiki/Bobbin_Bergstrom&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;medical advisor&lt;/a&gt; (and who appears in many episodes as a nurse).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harley Liker&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2258059/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr99&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;medical technical advisor - 175 episodes&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An internist, on the faculty of David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.harleyliker.com/dr-harley-liker-house.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;is a consultant for the show&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michael Giordano&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2523613/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr93&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;(medical technical advisor - 18 episodes)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He can be seen on the IMDB crew page &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;amp;ion=1&amp;amp;espv=2&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8#q=michael%20giordano%20house&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, if you look at the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;closing credits&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of the show, all the medical advisors for that series are listed:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX2CCKKi8kw&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;from 24 seconds into this clip of Season 1's end credits&lt;/a&gt;, I took the following still:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zWdmd.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zWdmd.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuUCc5vybHA&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;from 19 seconds into this clip of Season 4's end credits&lt;/a&gt;, I took the following still:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7yrva.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/7yrva.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-04T20:27:19.273" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T20:27:19.273" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47259" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47256" CreationDate="2016-02-04T20:09:17.593" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not certain why there's not a name in the credits (if that is the case). If I had to guess why, I'd say it's likely due to the broad variety of diagnoses they deal with so there's no one person who specializes in that many types of medicine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They do have a full team of advisers, though. The lead seems to be &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_%28writer%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;David Foster&lt;/a&gt;, who is credited as a &amp;quot;staff writer&amp;quot; rather than as a consultant:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;David Foster is an American television writer, producer and medical doctor best known for working as a writer/producer on the critically acclaimed Fox medical drama series House.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Foster graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1995. He attended school with Neal Baer, a pediatrician who would eventually become the executive producer of Law &amp;amp; Order: Special Victims Unit. As a doctor he worked at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harvard School of Public Health listening to patient's stories and diagnose uncommon illnesses, a skill which he would later utilize as a writer on House.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are several &amp;quot;Medical Technical Advisors&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Medical Advisors&amp;quot; listed in the credits on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; (under &amp;quot;other crew&amp;quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two most prolific of these advisors are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://medicine.yale.edu/intmed/people/lisa_sanders.profile&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dr. Lisa Sanders&lt;/a&gt; (175 Episodes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dr. Lisa Sanders is a clinician educator in the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program. In addition to her work as a physician and teacher, she writes the popular Diagnosis column for the New York Times Magazine and the Think Like a Doctor column featured in the New York Times blog, The Well. Her column was the inspiration for the Fox program House MD (2004-2012) and she served as a Technical Adviser to the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.harleyliker.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dr. Harley Liker&lt;/a&gt; (175 episodes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Through Liker Consulting, Dr. Liker provides exceptional primary care, priority access to leading specialists, treatment plan development and oversight of complex medical issues to individuals, families and corporations. Dr. Liker was chosen by Los Angeles Magazine as one of the best doctors in Los Angeles and by Town and Country Magazine as one of the top doctors in United States.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dr. Liker has been the medical consultant on the television show “House” since its creation in 2004.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional advisors include:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;On-set medical advisor (and regular on-screen nurse) Nurse &lt;a href=&quot;http://house.wikia.com/wiki/Bobbin_Bergstrom&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bobbin Bergstrom&lt;/a&gt; (169 episodes)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bobbin Bergstrom is the person apart from the original six cast members who has appeared in more episodes than any other actor or actress. She often appears on-screen as the Nurse character and is a Registered Nurse in real life. She has also been the on-set medical advisor for the series since the Season 1 episode Paternity. She appeared on-screen for the first time in Role Model. At the end of Season 6, she had appeared in 90 episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-&lt;a href=&quot;http://sotos.com/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dr. Jon Sotos&lt;/a&gt; (130 episodes).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Medical Technical Consultant, House, MD television series&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T20:26:13.410" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47260" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="15884" CreationDate="2016-02-04T20:29:26.790" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Let's not also forget that really, Frank is just a kid.  And kids collect things.  I can remember when I was probably 10 or 11, while my mom was clothes shopping, I would sometimes keep myself occupied by running around and collecting labels from clothes.  So there's also the distinct possibility that Frank is doing something similar.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I think a better answer is that Frank owns nothing.  He has no credit cards, no photos, nothing that ordinary people would put in their wallets.  However, he still has a need to be normal, to feel normal, to have something of his own and to be taken seriously.  So he fills up his wallet with labels, just so that there's &lt;em&gt;something&lt;/em&gt; in his wallet.  Let's not forget, when he tossed his wallet at Hanks' character, he didn't even bother to look inside at first.  Most likely because it had substance to it.  Had it been empty and light, it probably would have raised suspicion immediately, like, &quot;Why are you tossing me an empty wallet?&quot;  So, I think this theory probably (pardon the pun) holds more weight than my other one.  To borrow a line from &lt;a href=&quot;http://toddalcott.livejournal.com/241894.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this analysis of the film&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And, well, what is really in all our wallets, after all, but a series&#xA;  of labels? Each piece of I.D., each bank card, each membership card,&#xA;  is a label, a &quot;brand&quot; as it were, identifying the bearer as this or&#xA;  that kind of person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T20:29:26.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47261" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47252" CreationDate="2016-02-04T20:50:20.647" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&quot;Important&quot;?  I'm not sure it's really &quot;important&quot;, but it's a great movie.  It's a wonderfully crafted revenge story.  And it's not a revenge you see coming.  It's not obvious like &quot;I Know What You Did Last Summer&quot; or &quot;I Spit On Your Grave&quot;.  You don't even see it coming until it happens.  People love a good revenge story.  People want to see the good guy get beaten down repeatedly until he comes back and wins.  It's &quot;Rocky&quot; in a prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact that the actors gave amazing performances also helps quite a bit.  Add to that the fact that it was written by Stephen King, and you've got a winner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2016-02-04T21:41:13.817" LastActivityDate="2016-02-04T21:41:13.817" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47265" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43844" CreationDate="2016-02-05T00:31:32.180" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe this scene shows a fallacy which is not uncommon in action movies - the idea that the &lt;em&gt;strength and fortitude&lt;/em&gt; will somehow always overcome adversity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blofeld tells Bond:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;When the needle hits the point right here in the brain, you can't&#xA;  recognize no one! You will not remember her because she will be&#xA;  another face on your grave.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, there are a few potential explanations of what happened next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blofeld made a mistake, or Bond got lucky&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's possible Blofeld &lt;em&gt;missed&lt;/em&gt; the spot he was aiming for, or correctly targeted it and Bond was lucky and avoided the worst of the damage. This may be possible, but feels unlikely to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bond adjusts (and saves) himself&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bond does noticeably twitch as the drill is coming towards him (understandably so). It's possible he changes the angle the drill is impacting him ever so slightly, and thus avoids it hitting him in the &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; spot it needed to for Blofeld's plan to work. Again, this is possible, but feels a little unlikely to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bond's strength and desire to keep his memories overcome the pain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is the least logical of the options, and yet I also think it's the most likely. We often see in action films our heroes overcoming things they &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; shouldn't be able to overcome. As the drill was going in, he looked into Madeleine's eyes and focused on remembering her - and by doing so was able to find the strength to overcome what was happening to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe this is the most likely option. Of course, another way to phrase this might be to simply call it a movie mistake. After all, you can't overcome brain damage by a brain drill via mental fortitude. But given the lack of other explanation, it seems the &lt;em&gt;macho man Bond&lt;/em&gt; theory is the best one (in my view at least).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is worth considering, as a side note, that &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;amp;ion=1&amp;amp;espv=2&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8#q=spectre%20bond%20brain%20drill%20reality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the entire brain drill scene isn't exactly scientifically accurate&lt;/a&gt;. To quote from Dr. Cusimano:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Aiming to erase Bond's memory of faces, the villain correctly&#xA;  identified the lateral fusiform gyrus as an area of the brain&#xA;  responsible for recognizing faces...But in practice, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the drill was&#xA;  placed in the wrong area, where it likely would have triggered a&#xA;  stroke or massive hemorrhage&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the scientific inaccuracy of the scene, I'm hesitant to read too much into Blofeld's mistakes, or Bond's adjustments as theories, and instead I think his strength and desire are the most likely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(Of course, a small part of the Internet has argued that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/10/spectre-ending&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;everything that happened after the brain drill entered his skull was fantasy&lt;/a&gt;. I certainly don't believe that, but will leave it here for a reading!)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="574" LastEditDate="2017-06-05T10:43:58.067" LastActivityDate="2017-06-05T10:43:58.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47266" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50629" CreationDate="2016-02-05T00:35:07.470" Score="9" ViewCount="2448" Body="&lt;p&gt;The classic &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; film is seen to be &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; archetypical story of machine who are men. It covers many of the classic literature conflicts, man vs man, man vs technology, man vs self, man vs society. In it, humans have created Replicants, genetically engineered machines (creatures really) that look and act so human that they can only be discovered by detecting involuntary empathic responses to emotionally provocative questions. A group of these replicants, used for military purposes, rebel off-world, killing humans, leading to their illegality and assignment for retiring (read: death-warrant). A few years later, a group of Nexus 6 Replicants escape to Earth. A Blade Runner, a cop trained to detect and kill these &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;skin-jobs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, is forced to track them down. The film delves into the question of what makes humans and replicants so different. One replicant, or more, had no idea they were even a replicant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Battlestar Galactica&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, reimagined in 2004, has many if not all of these themes with a slight twist. Skin-jobs, advanced model machines that are no longer machine, but engineered by the machines who previously rebelled against humanity and started a war, return to the human worlds to enslave/destroy/other. It's difficult to detect these skin-jobs, and many had no idea they were Cylons at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;Considering the abundance of similarities or even carbon copies, how much did &lt;strong&gt;Blade Runner&lt;/strong&gt; directly influence the newer series? Is there any statements by production teams on this?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or this just an example of common themes persuasive in Science Fiction media? Just an over imaginative, superficial coincidence?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-05-21T05:22:53.700" Title="How much did Blade Runner influence the Reimagined Battlestar Galactica?" Tags="|science-fiction|blade-runner|battlestar-galactica|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47267" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47268" CreationDate="2016-02-05T02:24:41.130" Score="5" ViewCount="2310" Body="&lt;p&gt;We all know that sound doesn't travel through space. The Director, Nolan, avoided sounds in space through most of &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, but when Mann's (Matt Damon) spacecraft is destroyed, a huge sound is developed. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30738" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T02:47:25.097" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T02:47:25.097" Title="Why is there a huge sound when Dr. Mann's spacecraft destroys the part of the Endurance?" Tags="|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47268" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47267" CreationDate="2016-02-05T02:32:15.280" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sound &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827804-600-sound-can-leap-across-a-vacuum-after-all/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;normally*&lt;/a&gt; cannot travel through a &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vacuum&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. A Vacuum is defined as an absence of matter. Sound is kinetic energy, vibrations, traveling though a medium, such as air, water, or solid matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An explosion like the one produced by Matt Damon's character, Dr. Mann, carelessly attempting to dock the stolen &lt;em&gt;Ranger I&lt;/em&gt; with the &lt;em&gt;Endurance&lt;/em&gt;, is full of matter. Oxygen from the escaping crafts, fire, debris. The highly populated location surrounding the craft is not a vacuum yet, until it is ripped apart by the surrounding vacuum into the smallest atoms it can. There will soon be very large gaps between the material from the explosion. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But at the time of the explosion, matter is close enough that sound can still travel&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;That said, there are two reasons for the sound in the film.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The camera is inside the Air Lock when it happens. It, and the audience, should hear that. Until it changes to outside of the Endurance, where it goes mute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The sound you hear, is the Air rushing out, due to the vacuum of space. There is no explosion heard, just rapid decompression. &lt;em&gt;Sharp Crack, low Woosh, Silence.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See this clip (in spanish, can't find it in English without added sound effects):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/BAPOltJjd_s?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the camera switches to outside, when the explosions happen, everything is quiet. So is Coop and Brand's view of the explosion. They see it, they don't hear it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;*The special case is electrically coupled sound, in that limited test, two piezoelectric crystals separated by a vacuum. Sound waves induce a physical change in crystal A, which produces an electromagnetic force that induces a physical change in Crystal B, which causes the sound waves to be reproduced in Crystal B. Neat.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T02:47:02.663" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47269" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-05T02:35:12.873" Score="7" ViewCount="2167" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Forrest Gump&lt;/em&gt;, after Forrest goes to the stage where Jenny sings naked, Jenny once again walks away from Forrest's life. In the next scene, he is seen sad, sitting on the wood by the lakeside alone. His mom sees him, comes next to him and shows empathy that suggests she knows that his heart is broken because of Jenny. But she doesn't mention anything about it and instead tells him to be safe in Vietnam.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did she know about Forrest's love for Jenny?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T09:32:41.597" Title="Did Forrest's mom know about his love for Jenny?" Tags="|plot-explanation|forrest-gump|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47271" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47470" CreationDate="2016-02-05T04:09:11.153" Score="11" ViewCount="3721" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Interstellar, there are multiple planets that are accessible via a worm hole/gravitational anomaly near Saturn. Of twelve, only 3 were considered the most promising, and the ones that returned a signal from the survey missions. All 3 orbited a massive blackhole Gargantua.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;How much of a gravitational time dilation, relative to Earth, did each planet experience? How much of this dilation is due to Gargantua, compared to each planet's own gravity?&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even on Earth, GPS satellites in orbit around the planet experience relative time dilation, due to speed and distance from the surface. On average, 38 µS per day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that Miller's Planet was the worst, with 7 years Earth to 1 hour Miller's Surface relative dilation. But it also experiences 130% gravity at the surface compared to Earth. How much of the 7 years is from the surface gravity compared to Gargantua's gravity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What about Edmund's and Mann's? Or were they Earth typical?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T14:29:28.470" Title="How much of a gravitational time dilation did the three planets in Interstellar experience?" Tags="|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47274" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47280" CreationDate="2016-02-05T06:45:01.507" Score="8" ViewCount="4021" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Independence Day (1996)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; makes no sense to me. A country gains independence when:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It was depending on some other country (being ruled by another country).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It becomes sovereign, freeing itself from the rule of a foreign country.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie &quot;Independence Day&quot; has absolutely nothing to do with independence beside the fact that the last counter-attack by humans against the alien invaders happened to occur on the 4th of July (i.e. the American Independence Day). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, as I understand it when an enemy state invades your country and you defeat them and send them back home then that doesn't mean that you gained independence. It just means that you successfully protected yourself. Now, if the enemy state successfully invaded your country and enforced their own law upon you and then you sent them back home then yes, you gained independence. However, as I currently see it that's not what happened in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My argument is that you can't gain independence if you never depended on something. In the movie the humans certainly didn't depend upon the aliens. Hence, it makes no sense for them to commemorate an &quot;Independence Day&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I know that Stack Exchange answers shouldn't be primarily opinion-based. I've been using Stack Exchange for a very long time now. Hence, here's my objective question:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's the justification for commemorating the 4th of July as a worldwide &quot;Independence Day&quot; in the movie? Did Roland Emmerich or Dean Devlin ever give an official explanation why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This question has been bothering me for a long time now. Especially since I saw the new movie trailer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30745" LastEditorUserId="40" LastEditDate="2018-03-30T18:03:03.283" LastActivityDate="2018-03-30T18:03:03.283" Title="Why is the movie titled &quot;Independence Day&quot;?" Tags="|title|independence-day|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47275" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-05T08:10:04.767" Score="1" ViewCount="66" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2015 thriller &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heist_(2015_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Heist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (actually distributed in Australia by the original title of &lt;em&gt;Bus 657&lt;/em&gt;), how did the criminal ensure that they caught the bus? (Spoilers follow)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; The guy planning the robbery (Cox) had arranged a car in which to escape, but that driver panicked and fled when he heard gunshots. The remaining three hijacked a bus - but one of the other robbers (Vaughn) was setting them up so he could steal all the money.  His plan to double cross them &lt;em&gt;relied on&lt;/em&gt; being on that bus!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How could he be so sure that the original escape plan would fail?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="566" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T09:05:32.063" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T09:05:32.063" Title="How did they end up on the bus?" Tags="|plot-explanation|heist-2015|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47276" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47274" CreationDate="2016-02-05T08:48:46.337" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie,aliens have destroyed most cities of world and mankind's best weapon is the will to survive. I think the survival of humans in this movie is called 'Independence' &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is what Wiki has to say about your question  justification for commemorating the 4th of July as a worldwide &quot;Independence Day&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;With the successful implantation of the virus, Whitmore leads the attack against an alien destroyer approaching Area 51. Although the force field is deactivated and the fighters are able to inflict damage, the hull of the destroyer is too big to inflict serious damage. As a result, the fighter's supply of missiles quickly becomes exhausted. As the destroyer prepares to fire on the base, Casse has one missile left, but it jams. He decides to fly his plane directly into the alien weapon in a kamikaze attack, which kills him but destroys it. &lt;strong&gt;The Americans inform resistance forces around the world about how to destroy the alien ships. The nuclear device destroys the alien mothership as Hiller and Levinson escape unharmed back to Earth. The whole world then celebrates its heroes' victory as well as its true 'Independence Day'&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21017" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T08:48:46.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47277" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47210" CreationDate="2016-02-05T09:17:51.433" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;While emphasizing that the car was a hunk of junk, and considering that studio microphones are expensive, getting &quot;a microphone&quot; would seem to fit their slang for getting a gig or a show. They also appreciate music more than anything else. This does conjure up the idea of an interesting story in Elwood's past where he might have not had any control in the &quot;trade&quot;. I don't think there's any explicit meaning in what he's telling Jake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30748" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T09:17:51.433" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47269" CreationDate="2016-02-05T09:32:41.597" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe &lt;strong&gt;yes.&lt;/strong&gt; They're obviously close in the film and it seems reasonable to assume they discussed this. Whilst there's no direct evidence in the film to confirm this, Mrs. Gump is certainly aware of Forrest's love for her &lt;a href=&quot;http://down02.putclub.com/virtual/backup/update/Download/Literature/%E3%80%8A%E9%98%BF%E7%94%98%E6%AD%A3%E4%BC%A0%E3%80%8B.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;in the novel&lt;/a&gt;. From page 9:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The problem was that wile Miss French was a nice kind lady, the things&#xA;that she done to me that night was the kinds of things I'd have&#xA;preferred to have done to me by Jenny Curran. An yet, there was no way&#xA;I could see to even begin gettin that accomplished cause what with the&#xA;way I am, it is not so easy to ask anyone for a date.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is to put&#xA;it mildly. But on account of my new experience, I got up the courage&#xA;to axe my mama what to do about Jenny, tho I certainly didn't say&#xA;nothin bout me an Miss French. Mama said she'll take care of it for&#xA;me, an she call up Jenny Curran's mama an splain the situation to her,&#xA;an the nex evenin, lo an behole, who should appear at our door but&#xA;Jenny Curran hersef!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also on page 9:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mama said we can go to the movies an she give Jenny three dollars as&#xA;we walk out of the house. Jenny ain't never been nicer, talkin an&#xA;laughin an I am noddin an grinnin like a idiot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So based on the fact in the books she was aware of his love, it seems likely she was in the film too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T09:32:41.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47280" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47274" CreationDate="2016-02-05T09:54:34.947" Score="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 4th of July holiday in America is called &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(United_States)&quot;&gt;Independence Day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, celebrating the day the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies&quot;&gt;Thirteen Colonies&lt;/a&gt; made themselves a new nation, free from the British.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So from a historical point of view, it's quite logical whilst the &lt;em&gt;national holiday&lt;/em&gt; is called Independence Day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the film they twist this a little. Consider the president's &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoLywiaM6PA&quot;&gt;rousing speech towards the end of the film&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Perhaps it's fate that today, July         the Fourth, we will once again&#xA;        fight for our freedom.  Not from        tyranny, persecution or&#xA;        oppression.  But from       annihilation.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  We're fighting for        our&#xA;  right to live, to exist.  From        this day on, the fourth day of      July&#xA;  will no longer be remembered      as an American holiday but as the       day&#xA;  that all of mankind declared      we will not go quietly into the&#xA;        night.  We will not vanish without      a fight.  We will live on.  We&#xA;        will survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the President here is referring to Independence Day as primarily symbolising &lt;em&gt;the day the fight for America's freedom was won&lt;/em&gt;. He then relates it to their current situation by showing how they're no longer fighting for freedom, but to avoid annihilation. But his point is, &lt;em&gt;it's still a fight&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However this time, it's not American's fight against the British, but the world's fight against invaders - so when they win, the world can celebrate the day together, because the world will have been saved.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it doesn't &lt;em&gt;quite&lt;/em&gt; make sense for it to be called Independence Day, as they're not independent of anything as you correctly surmise. However, given how the President relates it to the existing Independence Day coupled with the fact these events are occurring on 4th July, it makes sense that he is inviting the world to celebrate winning the fight on that day.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T09:54:34.947" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41003" CreationDate="2016-02-05T10:18:02.863" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far people have surmised that either... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A) The Vision's status as an android exploits a loophole in the rules regarding the wielding of Mjolnir, as set by Odin, because The Vision, as an artificial intelligence encased in a android body, isn't actually a person, but a machine.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;B) that The Vision, being newly created and therefore not yet physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally or morally compromised/corrupted in any way, and with him having been created by downloading Jarvis' benevolent artificial intelligence into an android brain/neural network designed by Ultron and powered by the Mind Stone, and that The Vision is therefore &quot;worthy&quot; of wielding Mjolnir.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to point out a couple of flaws in those theories...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the first theory, that The Vision isn't a person and can therefore lift Mjolnir in the same way as any elevator or heli-carrier or Quin-Jet would, it should be pointed out that The Vision didn't just lift the hammer - he threw it, caught it, flipped it, hit Ultron with it, etc.  He, in effect, &quot;wielded it&quot;.  It should also be noted that Odin wouldn't be at all unfamiliar with androids or artificial intelligence - but I don't believe The Destroyer can lift Mjolnir either. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the second theory, that Mjolnir considers The Vision to be worthy of wielding it (and ruling Asgard too - let's not forget that!), I would point out that there was no &quot;power-up&quot; when The Vision first picked up the hammer.  He didn't suddenly gain armored sleeves, a cape, an ornate helmet, etc., such as what happened when Thor became &quot;worthy&quot; in the first Thor film, or such as what happened when Jane Foster became the new Thor.  And, while The Vision did wield Mjolnir in the battle with Ultron, he wielded it in the hitting/throwing sense of the word, but he didn't appear to have mastery over thunder and lightning like Thor does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I may offer an alternative theory, it would be that the source of The Vision's power, the Mind Stone, is one of the five &quot;Infinity Stones&quot;, and is therefore an ancient and mystical object of immense power....  Power that is far older and stronger than any spell/curse that Odin could possibly cast on Mjolnir (or any other object).  In short, the Mind Stone's power was unaffected by Odin's rules or even the powers granted to the person/people worthy of wielding the hammer. The Vision, as the embodiment of the Mind Stone is simply too full of ancient power to be subject to mystical limits placed on objects by Odin, who, to The Vision, would be an inferior being.  Basically, that becoming the new Thor would be something of a demotion for The Vision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lastly, as a side note, to address the comments of those people who mentioned  various instances when Captain America, Hulk and others wielded Thor's hammer, I would point out that each such instance happened in the comic books during a period of time in which Odin had taken Mjolnir away from Thor as punishment for Thor's defiance in not leaving Earth and returning to Asgard, as Odin had ordered.  Following Thor's being stripped of Mjolnir, Tony Stark created a new hammer for Thor (actually, a hammer on one side and an axe on the other).  The new hammer was as close as Stark could get to the actual Mjolnir as earthly physics and cutting-edge earthly technology would allow.  But the new hammer did have it's limitations, and the whole &quot;worthiness&quot; thing was one of the major limits, as pretty much anyone with enhanced strength could lift it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30753" LastEditorUserId="30753" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T10:35:33.113" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T10:35:33.113" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47283" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47284" CreationDate="2016-02-05T10:29:59.157" Score="14" ViewCount="6200" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the pub scene of season 3, episode 2 The Sign Of Three Sherlock says: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know ash. Don't tell me I don't!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the guy Sherlock is talking to attempts to punch Sherlock in his face in the very next moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why would anyone punch someone because of his knowledge of different types of ash?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Could the guy have difficulty hearing anything else and thus misinterpret the whole situation? Could he understand &quot;ash&quot; as &quot;Ash&quot; for Ashley or Ashton?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22452" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2017-01-20T20:25:30.407" LastActivityDate="2020-02-03T03:28:02.553" Title="Why does Sherlock say he knows ash?" Tags="|sherlock|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47284" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47283" CreationDate="2016-02-05T10:39:50.880" Score="23" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The ash knowledge is a reference to the &lt;em&gt;classic&lt;/em&gt; Sherlock Holmes from the novels. The punch is for being drunk and obnoxious&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spark Notes have an article on &lt;em&gt;classic&lt;/em&gt; Sherlock Holmes references, and they have a small section that covers the &lt;em&gt;ash&lt;/em&gt; discussion perfectly, so &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sparknotes.com/mindhut/2014/01/08/6-classic-sherlock-holmes-references-to-look-for-in-the-sign-of-three&quot;&gt;I'll quote it in its entirety&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;During a particularly memorable scene in [The Sign of Three], Sherlock&#xA;  declares proudly that he “knows ash!” This references the fact that&#xA;  Holmes has penned a monograph on the subject of tobacco ash, first&#xA;  mentioned in A Study in Scarlet. Holmes uses this skill-set to figure&#xA;  it all out in The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear.&#xA;  This reference might also refer to the real-life Sherlock Holmes fan&#xA;  society The Adventuresses of Sherlock  Holmes (ASH for short), a scion&#xA;  of The Baker Street Irregulars, which was founded by female fans of&#xA;  the great detective, since the original Irregulars didn’t originally&#xA;  allow ladies!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst I believe the reference to the real-life fan society is a step too far, the reference to the historic novels is certainly what resonated with me. Whilst their article mentions &lt;em&gt;The Hound of the Baskervilles&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Valley of Fear&lt;/em&gt;, Holmes also used his knowledge of ash to solve the crime in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Resident_Patient&quot;&gt;The Adventure of the Resident Patient&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also says in the &lt;em&gt;Boscombe Valley Mystery&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and written a &#xA;  little monograph on the ashes of 140 different varieties of pipe,&#xA;  cigar,  and cigarette tobacco.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, firstly, he clearly knows his ash!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to why he is hit, it's due to his drunken, obnoxious behaviour. To quote from the script:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;NEXT PUB. Sherlock is plastered. In the smoking area outside the pub,&#xA;  he is loudly and drunkenly gesticulating and sounding off to a male&#xA;  customer over the very loud music.&lt;/em&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SHERLOCK&lt;/strong&gt;: I know ash!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;(John is&#xA;  sitting at a nearby table, looking fairly legless himself. He covers&#xA;  his face with his hand.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;SHERLOCK&lt;/strong&gt;: Don’t – Tell – Me – I – Don’t!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;(***On&#xA;  each word he pokes the man in the upper chest with one finger, and on&#xA;  the last word he puts his hand on the man’s shoulder and pushes him.*&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Sighing, John looks up as the man swings a punch at Sherlock’s face.&#xA;  Sherlock sways back – possibly more by luck than judgement – and&#xA;  avoids it.)**&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;JOHN&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(jumping up):&lt;/em&gt;   Oh ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;(Thrown off-balance by his&#xA;  swing, the man stumbles forward and almost falls onto a nearby table.&#xA;  One of his mates helps him up. John grabs Sherlock from behind and&#xA;  pulls him away while Sherlock flails wildly towards the man.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;JOHN&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;  All right, enough! That’s ...&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;(Grunting with the effort and slurring&#xA;  the rest of his words [possibly saying ‘Come on’], he drags Sherlock a&#xA;  few feet away, supporting most of his weight, before propping him onto&#xA;  his feet.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;JOHN&lt;/strong&gt;: Stand up straight.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;(Sherlock turns round towards him.&#xA;  John points towards the exit to Sherlock’s left.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;JOHN&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeah.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;(Sherlock points back towards the customer.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;SHERLOCK&lt;/strong&gt; (slurring):&#xA;  Ashtray. I know ashtray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's generally not a good idea, late at night, when drunk in a pub, to start poking and pushing an already quite annoyed person!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, he got punched.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T11:09:41.880" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T11:09:41.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47285" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="4587" CreationDate="2016-02-05T11:37:53.333" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hawkeye does have superhuman vision in his Ultimate Universe story line. As a result of a super soldier program, he gained enhanced vision and some other perks. However he doesn't have the same in the other Marvel universes/versions. The MCU borrows heavily from the Ultimate universe version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30757" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T13:28:10.390" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T13:28:10.390" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47287" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46819" CreationDate="2016-02-05T12:22:58.850" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think this is a UK idiomatic usage. It seems to be fairly common these days although I can't find any references to origin or reason for current usage. I suspect that the writer is trying to be hip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's like some form of pidgin English. It reminds me of the line from Joseph Conrad's &lt;em&gt;Heart of Darkness&lt;/em&gt; (bit of a spoiler):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; &quot;Mistah Kurtz - he dead.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5029" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T12:22:58.850" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47288" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47289" CreationDate="2016-02-05T12:27:06.667" Score="48" ViewCount="51898" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Silence of the Lambs (1991)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. So what exactly does &quot;silence of the lambs&quot; mean? It was not clear to me.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T18:42:44.083" LastActivityDate="2017-05-05T07:34:45.927" Title="What did the title of Silence of the Lambs refer to?" Tags="|title|the-silence-of-the-lambs|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47289" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47288" CreationDate="2016-02-05T12:38:57.337" Score="84" Body="&lt;p&gt;It refers to a conversation between Clarice and Hannibal Lecter. In order for Lecter to help with her investigation, he demands she tell him information from her personal life, to satisfy his curiosity. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Her story begins with her upbringing in West Virginia with her father. He was later shot. She lived with her mother, but was sent away to live with her uncle as she couldn't afford to keep her. Her uncle owned a sheep and horse farm, and she learned one night that the lambs on the farm were slaughtered - in horror, she ran away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This story is covered &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chrisjonesblog.com/images/2014/07/Silence-of-the-Lambs.pdf&quot;&gt;in the script&lt;/a&gt;. Note the highlighted part towards the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarice (voiceover)&lt;/strong&gt;: Lambs. The lambs were screaming...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Lecter&lt;/strong&gt;: They were slaughtering the spring lambs?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarice&lt;/strong&gt;: Yes...! They were screaming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Lecter&lt;/strong&gt;: So you ran away...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarice&lt;/strong&gt;: No. First I tried to free them... I opened the gate of their pen - but they wouldn't run. They just stood there, confused.&#xA;  They wouldn't run...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Lecter&lt;/strong&gt;: But you could. You did.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarice&lt;/strong&gt;: I took one lamb. And I ran away, as fast as I could...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Lecter (voiceover)&lt;/strong&gt;: Where were you going?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarice (voiceover)&lt;/strong&gt;: I don't know. I had no food or water. It was very odd. I thought - if I can even save just one... but he got so&#xA;  heavy. So heavy...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarice (voiceover)&lt;/strong&gt;: I didn't get more than a few miles before the sheriff's car found me. The rancher was so angry he sent me to live at&#xA;  the Lutheran Orphanage in Bozeman. I never saw the ranch again...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Lecter (voiceover):&lt;/strong&gt; But what became of your lamb?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(no response)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Lecter (voiceover):&lt;/strong&gt; Clarice...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Lecter:&lt;/strong&gt; You still wake up sometimes, don't you? Wake up in the dark, with the lambs screaming?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarice&lt;/strong&gt;: Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Lecter&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Do you think if you saved Catherine, you could make them stop...? Do you think, if Catherine lives, you won't wake up in the&#xA;  dark, ever again, to the screaming of the lambs?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Do you...?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Clarice&lt;/strong&gt;: Yes! I don't know...! I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Catherine&lt;/em&gt; referred to is the U.S. Senator's daughter who is kidnapped and who Clarice is trying to locate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The implication is that by saving Catherine, by saving this innocent girl (innocent like the lambs), she'll no longer be woken by the howling of the lambs in her dreams - the lambs she was too weak to save. Instead, she'll have saved the innocent and she'll be able to sleep in peace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T14:40:57.913" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T14:40:57.913" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47291" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-05T12:42:50.263" Score="10" ViewCount="5148" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was there any significance to Wil Wheaton being in the theater to watch Star Wars with Koothrapali, Leonard, and Howard, while wearing a Star Fleet uniform in &lt;strong&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/strong&gt; episode &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/The_Opening_Night_Excitation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;The Opening Night Excitation&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZPaZW.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZPaZW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T20:18:02.753" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T20:18:02.753" Title="What's the significance of Wil Wheaton wearing a Star Trek uniform when visiting the cinema for the Star Wars movie?" Tags="|the-big-bang-theory|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47291" CreationDate="2016-02-05T12:46:09.700" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wil Wheaton played &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Crusher&quot;&gt;Wesley Crusher&lt;/a&gt; on Star Trek: The Next Generation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a simple joke that despite seeing Star Wars, he's wearing his Star Trek uniform instead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T12:56:35.130" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T12:56:35.130" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47291" CreationDate="2016-02-05T12:55:41.447" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;The plot and dialog from the episode answer this. Wil Wheaton is a troll, and enjoys messing with people (remember the bowling games?). And he's most known for playing Wesley on Star Trek TNG. The Trekkie vs Jedi (Star Trek vs Star Wars fans) feud is as famous as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield%E2%80%93McCoy_feud&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hatfields and McCoys (No, not &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; McCoy.)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/The_Opening_Night_Excitation&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From wikia:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At the movies, the audience starts booing since Wil Wheaton shows up in a Star Trek uniform dressed as Mr. Spock. Wil is loving the rejection. &lt;strong&gt;He tells the guys that since he was on Star Trek he's rooting for the home team.&lt;/strong&gt; Someone calls out that Star Trek stinks. Wil replies, &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Live long and suck it.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the transcript:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oh, did you hear from Wil?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Yeah, he's on his way. Time for bladder check.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Check.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Check.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Check. Wait. Screw it. I'm holding it.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (crowd booing)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  What is everyone booing at?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  (booing continues)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Wheaton&lt;/strong&gt;: Hey, guys. What's up?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Um, hey, Wil.  What you doing?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Wheaton&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;I was on Star Trek. I'm just rooting for the home team.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Man: Star Trek stinks!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Wheaton&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeah? Live long and suck it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Someone should have told him to &quot;Shut Up, Wesley&quot;, that really pisses him off (in real life):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9y94wm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9y94wm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Tweet (and reply): (Wil) &amp;quot;NEW RULE: I&amp;#39;m officially over people saying &amp;quot;Shut up, Wesley&amp;quot; to me, even in jest. From now on, I&amp;#39;m insta-blocking anyone who does that.&amp;quot; (Patrick Stewart) &amp;quot;@wilw Shut up Wil.&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T01:51:50.220" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T01:51:50.220" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47294" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47306" CreationDate="2016-02-05T13:18:28.260" Score="11" ViewCount="999" Body="&lt;p&gt;US movie. Judging from what I remember, it seems that this movie was made for TV rather than a theatrical release (though I maybe wrong). The Evil Prince and Wizard both had beards and mustaches and whenever the wizard was casting magic, a green aura would appear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Story Points&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The movie first starts with the two villains being captured and transported via a caged carriage. The wizard uses his magic for the two of them to break free and they escape, but they are very quickly recaptured. A few scenes later, we see the two villains in a dungeon, and the wizard uses his magic again to control the jailer to set them free. After being set free, the wizard then casts a spell to allow the both of them to travel to the present.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;We then see our protagonists (2 male and 1 female). They watch a commercial promoting a medieval world attraction thing (one thing that I remember about the commercial was when the narrator mentioned &quot;lady/damsel in distress&quot;, a woman wielding a sword says &quot;who are you calling a lady/damsel in distress&quot; and lunges the sword unto the camera). They become interested and go to this medieval place (the attraction is set in a castle btw).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When they arrive, they meet the owner of the attraction; an old bearded man dressed as a king (I think he was in his late 50's or early 60's). He then shows them around and reveals that most of the people working there are apparently robots. They then dress in medieval clothing (one of the men wears a jester costume)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Then a storm comes in and the villains appear. The owner then meets them as he comes to investigate and asks if he could help them. The prince then smiles and says that he can and presumably capture him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I think what happens next is the protagonists are transported to the past (though they are still at the castle).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At one point, theres a scene where the villains (along with a few of his armored guards) feed a pig/cow to a dragon.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many scenes later, the protagonists then find another wizard (who is very elderly) who has been locked up in a cell. After freeing him, we then cut to a scene where the wizard is eating food in a large dining table. He reveals that the wizard in league with the prince was a student of his (even stating that he was like a son to him).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;When the protagonist dressed as a jester disbelieves his claim as a wizard, the elderly wizard then levitates him (jester even enjoys the levitation and even dances a bit).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;At some point, the villains then capture the woman protagonist, and they make a plan to rescue her and the attraction owner. They go to the dragon (who can talk) and the elderly wizard convinces him to help them. The dragon scares away the princes guards.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The elderly wizard and jester fight the princes wizard whilst the other protagonist fights the prince. The elderly wizard then pins down the evil wizard and forces him to cast a spell that will make him lose his powers. The evil wizard then says some magic words and informs them that he is now powerless. The protagonist then fights the prince and wins. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The scene then cuts to the heroes outside, with the jailer dragging away the villains. The jester tries to get a high-five from the elderly wizard, but the gesture only confuses the wizard. When jester informs him that he's slap his hand, the wizard asks why would he do that.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The heroes are then transported back in their own time and the owner is greeted by his staff and robots. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30092" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T18:34:47.543" Title="90's/early 2000's movie involving an evil prince and wizard time traveling to a medieval world attraction place" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:21:47.617" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47296" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47299" CreationDate="2016-02-05T13:36:24.610" Score="6" ViewCount="186" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm looking for a British TV-series that also aired on Norwegian NRK between 1981 and 1984 - so lets say it may have been made 2-3 years earlier.  I think it was around 6 episodes, though it may have also been a 2nd season/series aired in Norway.  Even more season may have been sent in England.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; EastEnders - it came later.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's set in a large(?) city - possible London, but it may have been another (industrial?) city.  It's main focus is an apartment-block - around 8-10 stores high, and if I remember right, rather wide (ie. not sky-scraper shaped).  Probably old and not very modern.  It focus on the people in the block, probably mostly lower-income working-class people.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One episodes ends with a black man falling - or jumping or being thrown - out of one of the windows on the top floor.  The episodes ends with him lying on his back on the asphalt, while very dark blood pools around his head.  I think the episode ends with a close-up of the head and pooling blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The episodes - including the above - ended with the picture freezing - possible becoming black-and-white - before the credits rolled over it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In another episode, social-workers and police take away the kids from a family.  It's 3-5 children.  Not sure if the police is there just to back-up the social-workers, or if the parents gets arrested first.  The children are put into the back of a wan.  Before the wan-door closes, one of the children - a girl around 7 - bend forward to whispers something... when a female social-worker beds forward to listen, the girl gives her a solid &quot;Glasgow Kiss&quot; (head-butts her forehead).  The social-worker makes a few &quot;observations&quot; about the girl, before slamming the door shut.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this sound familiar to anybody? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4521" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T15:04:50.840" Title="TV-series, 1980s, British, city, working-class-people, apartment-block, fall from window, children taken" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:11:01.287" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47296" CreationDate="2016-02-05T14:56:17.310" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;That &quot;Glasgow kiss&quot; from the little girl sounds like a scene from the end of one of the episodes of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083689/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Boys from the Blackstuff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys_from_the_Blackstuff&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt;). I'll see if I can find a clip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part 4 - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1249547/?ref_=ttep_ep4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Yosser's Story&lt;/a&gt;. Scene with the headbutt starts at about 50 minutes:&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/nC1QmXCg0i0?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5029" LastEditorUserId="5029" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T15:04:50.840" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T15:04:50.840" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47300" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46193" CreationDate="2016-02-05T15:54:40.350" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, it comes down to how much money the show profits.  That comes down to 3 factors, income, expenses, and expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Income&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Mainly comes from advertisements. Advertisers pay not just based on the number of viewers, but the demographics.  80 year old men spend less money than someone in their 30s.  They are willing to pay more to advertise to people more likely to buy their product.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Expenses&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;How much does the show cost to make?  That would include the cast, crew, writers, advertising, special effects, etc.  Every new season typically comes with pay raises, so that has to be accounted for in projecting future expenses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Expectations&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;What is the expected profit?  A Monday night show is expected to make more than a Friday night show.  CBS expects to have higher profits than CW.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My advice is to compare the ratings of the show you are interested in (Limitless) to other shows in the same time slot.  My personal opinion is that it is doing fairly well for a 10pm time slot, though it has been trending downward in ratings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19941" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T15:54:40.350" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47288" CreationDate="2016-02-05T18:32:13.537" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;The title comes from the very last line of the book.  As Andrew Martin states, early in the book, Starling and Lecter have a conversation about her having nightmares with screaming lambs and that she thinks the nightmares will stop if she can save Catherine&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The book finishes with Clarice Starling having saved Catherine, and true to the conversation, her nightmares have stopped.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But the&#xA;  face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps&#xA;  deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="666" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T18:32:13.537" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47306" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47294" CreationDate="2016-02-05T18:34:47.543" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm almost positive you're after the low budget &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0152946/combined&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Teen Knight&lt;/a&gt; (AKA Medieval Park) from 1999.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Young Kris Lemche along with several other teens wins a trip to a kind Medieval Times resort which gets transported back to some real medieval times in Teen Knight. It's all been done by a wizard back then who's got some extraordinary powers&lt;/strong&gt; and he'd like to unleash the advances of the future in a power play back in his own era.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So what looks like a nice Westworld type romp gets very real just like in Westworld. But the robots stay behind and it's only the humans and the castle with all modern advances that go back. Oh, and a computer created dragon becomes the real mccoy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The evil genius behind all of this is a Mordred like character played with some relish and a bit too free a rein from the director, by Marc Robinson. Fortunately there's also a Merlin character who looks just Paul Soles the owner of the Medieval Times like resort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure everything you said is there (The villain's a bearded prince, the girls get kidnapped etc.) You can see the trailer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.videodetective.com/movies/teen-knight/868810&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and here's a scene with the jester and a dragon:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/tFwqXuEJWjU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T18:34:47.543" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47308" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2272" CreationDate="2016-02-05T19:00:34.177" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, the obvious answer is the amorphous &quot;cultural differences&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Avengers&lt;/a&gt; was a completely unrelated and very popular British TV series with a British cast in the 60's. It did get some exposure in the USA in syndication, but that mostly stopped decades ago. Whereas the comic book Avengers have been selling in bookstores and supermarkets in the USA pretty much continuously for the last half a century. So while a USA person would see &quot;The Avengers&quot; and immediately think of the comics (if they read comics anyway), a Brit is more likely to associate that name with the old (quite good) TV series. &quot;Avengers Assemble&quot; clarifies things for them, as that was a catchphrase from the old comics, but not from the TV series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Vertige is just not a word in American English. Very few Americans are familiar with French, and we usually associate French-sounding movie names with &quot;boring arthouse flick I'd never want to see&quot;. If it is indeed French for Vertigo, that would make it worse, as I'd assume it was a French remake of the Alfred Hitchcock movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;More generally, I'd say movie names are typically at least partially &lt;strong&gt;under the discretion of the people in charge of marketing the movie&lt;/strong&gt;, because they have to design all the marketing around that name. It makes sense to have different teams in different markets, so there would naturally be pressure to customize the movie's name in each market to help sell it better there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21021" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T19:00:34.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47311" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-05T19:53:45.017" Score="5" ViewCount="437" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the final episode of Daredevil season 1, &quot;Daredevil&quot;, Matt convinces a cop who was on the take with, but hiding from, Fisk to divulge information about Fisk's crime ring and the people involved, leading to several arrests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While it's likely he might not have named Vanessa as part of that process, the cops still found Fisk with her in his high rise when they arrested him, giving her a very expensive engagement ring and kissing her in the process.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So why was she able to basically walk around free&lt;/strong&gt;? Wouldn't the cops want to bring her in for questioning or possibly put her under watch? Yet she makes it to a private helicopter with seemingly no fuss from anyone with authority and gets away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-07T13:44:20.813" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T13:44:20.813" Title="Why was Vanessa apparently allowed to go free?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|daredevil-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47312" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47313" CreationDate="2016-02-05T19:54:57.003" Score="85" ViewCount="28526" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have just been reading Wiki on the term &quot;Blockbuster&quot; popularly used to describe a highly popular action movie. Here is an excerpt: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;...a fast-paced exciting entertainment, almost a genre. Audiences&#xA;  interacted with such films, talked about them afterwards, and went&#xA;  back to see them again just for the thrill.&quot; - &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_(entertainment)&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However I still do not understand the root of this film industry term, what does it mean? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="24301" LastEditDate="2016-02-08T15:13:12.137" LastActivityDate="2017-05-21T13:28:02.737" Title="Why are &quot;blockbusters&quot; called blockbusters?" Tags="|terminology|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47313" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47312" CreationDate="2016-02-05T20:02:51.883" Score="72" Body="&lt;p&gt;Originally the word was used to describe large bombs dropped during World War II that could quite literally destroy an entire city block, or a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_bomb&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;blockbuster bomb&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The origins of the term when it comes to film, according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_(entertainment)#Origin_of_the_term&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In film, a number of terms were used to describe a hit. In the 1970s&#xA;  these included: &quot;spectacular&quot; (The Wall Street Journal),&#xA;  &quot;super-grosser&quot; (New York Times), and &quot;super-blockbuster&quot; (Variety).&#xA;  In 1975 the usage of &quot;blockbuster&quot; for films coalesced around Steven&#xA;  Spielberg's Jaws and became perceived as something new: a cultural&#xA;  phenomenon, a fast-paced exciting entertainment, almost a genre.&#xA;  Audiences interacted with such films, talked about them afterwards,&#xA;  and went back to see them again just for the thrill.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The gist is that people would, &quot;Line up around the block,&quot; to see these films, when theaters were much smaller and had only a few screens, unlike today's multiplexes. So they quite literally &quot;busted the block&quot; as a single city block couldn't fully contain the line. Borrowing from its wartime connotation, the line of people could almost be said to have destroyed the block, as they could almost certainly bring foot traffic to a halt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HjQdM.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HjQdM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kLtFX.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kLtFX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0EdS6.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0EdS6.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AFaQZ.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/AFaQZ.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="5733" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T20:14:03.230" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T20:14:03.230" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47314" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47312" CreationDate="2016-02-05T20:17:18.557" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;A block-buster was a type of bomb used in World War 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The term blockbuster quickly caught on as a metaphor with many uses, but for movies, it refers to an &quot;explosion&quot; of ticket sales.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Destined to be a box-office blockbuster [...]&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.com/books?id=1zUQAAAAIAAJ&amp;amp;q=blockbuster%20hollywood&amp;amp;dq=blockbuster%20hollywood&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwid4Pitt-HKAhUGdj4KHU7PCyo4FBDoAQgwMAU&quot;&gt;New Republic, 1944&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19595" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-05T21:11:04.887" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T21:11:04.887" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47312" CreationDate="2016-02-05T20:26:22.580" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The word is from a World War II bomb, and its usage in media dates back to the first war films and the media which made word plays out of this fact to describe the films as &quot;block busters&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Google Etymology metrics track common usage of the word by the public, outside of specialist reporting, to start to grow in the 1970s (likely with big blockbusters of the age, such as Jaws).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long answer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The 2004 novel &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blockbuster-Hollywood-Learned-Worrying-Summer-x/dp/0743235681&quot;&gt;Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer&lt;/a&gt; largely attributes this to &lt;em&gt;The Jaws&lt;/em&gt; films. This is the book the Wikipedia article references on the subject. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This tallies quite well with Google's etymology metrics of the word, which can be &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&amp;amp;year_end=2008&amp;amp;corpus=15&amp;amp;smoothing=7&amp;amp;case_insensitive=on&amp;amp;content=blockbuster&amp;amp;direct_url=t4%3B%2Cblockbuster%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bblockbuster%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BBlockbuster%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BBLOCKBUSTER%3B%2Cc0&quot;&gt;seen here&lt;/a&gt;. However, the word itself was used to describe movies, much, much earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's a fascinating article called &lt;a href=&quot;http://shura.shu.ac.uk/10190/3/Hall_Pass_the_Ammunition_Etymology_of_Blockbuster_%28rev%29.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pass the Ammunition: A Short Etymology of 'Blockbuster'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, written by Sheldon Hall, which describes where the word originated from. I strongly encourage reading it if you're interested in the word's complete origins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He mentions at one point:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...I was subsequently alerted to an earlier use by Jeffrey Richards’s&#xA;  book Hollywood’s Ancient Worlds, which quotes a review from the&#xA;  British Daily Mirror, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;dated 22 December 1950&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, of Cecil B. DeMille’s&#xA;  Samson and Delilah (1949), predicting it, too, to be &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;‘a box office&#xA;  block buster’&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it was certainly in some sense used, to describe films, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;in the early 1950s&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the mid 1950s, he discovered &lt;em&gt;Variety&lt;/em&gt; articles describing a &lt;em&gt;blockbuster&lt;/em&gt; as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[a film that grosses] $2,000,000 or more in domestic (U.S. and Canada) rentals’ as&#xA;  well as ‘a relatively expensive picture that can head the program in&#xA;  all situations’.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, by the mid 1950s, it was in common use in film and media reporting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hall then chose to study a number of common conceptions about the origins of the phrase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of these is the idea of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_booking&quot;&gt;block booking&lt;/a&gt;&quot; - the system of distribution in which the cinema was obliged to book an entire year’s output from a major studio rather than being free to choose only the particular picture or pictures desired. He noted that in some cases, a highly anticipated film (such as &lt;em&gt;Gone with the Wind&lt;/em&gt; was sometimes presented on a singly basis to the films, as opposed to in a unit, and thus corresponds to our understanding of a &lt;em&gt;block buster&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, he notes that by the time the term &lt;em&gt;block buster&lt;/em&gt; entered common parlance, the era of block busting was over - so this explanation doesn't make much sense.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second conception he studied was the idea of a city block, and the term originating from &quot;block busters&quot; being popular films people literally queued around the block for. Whilst it's conceivable this is how it became a famous word, again the term was already in place before this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, the first recorded use of the word &quot;blockbuster&quot; was in describing a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_bomb&quot;&gt;World War II bomb&lt;/a&gt;. This is interesting because the earliest recorded instance he could find of a motion picture discussing Blockbuster was in May 1943, for the film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_(film)&quot;&gt;Bombardier&lt;/a&gt;. To quote from his article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The tagline reads: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;‘The block-buster of all action-thrill-service&#xA;  shows!’&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. (Blockbuster was often hyphenated or written as two&#xA;  separate words in this period.) As the film’s title indicates, the&#xA;  choice of metaphor was a deliberate play on the story’s dramatic&#xA;  content, which concerns a squadron of trainee bombardiers and climaxes&#xA;  with an aerial assault on Japanese munitions factories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He goes on to comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Not surprisingly, reporters, reviewers and editorial copy-writers for&#xA;  the trade press also began to exploit the word for its shorthand descriptive&#xA;  vividness, albeit as a way of indicating commercial potential rather&#xA;  than a role in the war effort. Thus MGM’s combat film &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bataan (1943)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  was trumpeted in the company’s house organ The Lion’s Roar as &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;‘a&#xA;  block-buster&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to scatter those wise guys in the industry and the press&#xA;  who are always telling us that the public won’t support war films.’&#xA;  Paramount’s &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;No Time for Love (1944)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was described by Boxoffice&#xA;  magazine as a ‘&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;comedy block-buster.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Theatre grosses should be blown to&#xA;  ceiling heights.’ Variety’s review of the musical &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Brazil (1944)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  predicted that it would ‘prove a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;block-buster&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; at the wickets, a&#xA;  musical investment for Republic that promises to out-gross any&#xA;  previous top-bracket film from this company.’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He tracks the decline of the word from around 1944 and noted that it stopped appearing in either advertising or editorial copy. He believed this could be due to the development of the atomic bomb, and the &quot;outdated&quot; nature of the block buster bombs meaning the public were no longer au fait with the term.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The word began to reappear in Variety in 1948, in two separate articles about releases from major studios and from then on was used in reporting until it grew larger and larger in the 1970s (and to present day).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="24377" LastEditDate="2016-02-08T14:31:48.910" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T14:31:48.910" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46193" CreationDate="2016-02-05T21:29:42.847" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It really has nothing to do with the ratings.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I worked for an advertising agency in college.  For some shows you can expect to pay 3-5 times as much to advertise on the show than average.  Most companies are looking to advertise to 14-30 years old.  As companies like to brain-wash you while your brain is still forming and this is the age period where most people develop brand loyalty.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the age and demographics of the users is really big.  But it isn't as easy as slicing the pie and saying 60% of the viewers are under 30 and we have 10 million viewers, so that means 6 million in your demographic, so pay us $xxx based on those users.  There is also the &quot;cool&quot; factor.  In that a show may have a really intense user base, a show may have a lot of press, or whatever.  Then it becomes basically a bidding war unless your agency locked in a long-term contract.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This shows how old I am but the best example of this that I know is &quot;Party of Five&quot;.  Pretty lame teenie bopper drama (IMO) and was one of the worst rated shows on TV.  But almost all of its viewers where under 25, it had a cult following and its cast was getting tons of press.  I remember we had to pay out the ass to get our stuff on the show based on industry averages at the time.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another important factor is network backing.  You can kind of tell this by the slot a new show gets and the advertising.  If the network is all in on a show and they like it, well they will spend more money for another season even if the previous season &quot;lost money&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also tons of intangibles related to costs and crew.  You have a lot of actors crossing over between movies and TV so there is competition and unknown cost of keeping actors.  You have foreign viewers to think about as some shows do really well overseas and some don't translate.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18901" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T21:29:42.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47320" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47500" CreationDate="2016-02-05T22:20:48.940" Score="6" ViewCount="458" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the season 10 premiere of &lt;em&gt;The X Files&lt;/em&gt;, did 'they' end up finding the ARV in the Faraday cage because of a piece of intelligence telling them to look in that location or did 'they' find it because every time someone opened the door to the cage they were breaking the seal. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This annoyed me when watching. I assumed the cage continued into the concrete floor but every time the door was opened the Faraday cage stopped being a cage and more of a bowl that any transmission could escape or enter into. This could easily be mitigated by attaching a caged and gated hallway to the door. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this an oversight by the people putting the show together or just a nice nod to people who are paying attention?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26222" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-14T18:04:36.530" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T21:54:48.177" Title="Plot hole or science faux pas in premiere episode of X Files season 10?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-x-files|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47321" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47320" CreationDate="2016-02-05T22:32:03.063" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Faraday cage would have been more important to protect against inadvertent transmissions that could be detected. Thus, opening the door could be allowable if one took the precaution of first powering down anything that might cause that. Second, the cage doesn't have to be hermetically sealed... I'm not an RF engineer, but openings are allowable if they're some fraction of the size of the frequency that they're intended to block. And for exotic technology as depicted in the show, it's hard to say just what that frequency might be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, I do not think that the X-Files is a show that the producers make much effort to have a consulting engineer/scientist vet the props/script.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2065" LastActivityDate="2016-02-05T22:32:03.063" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47332" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47336" CreationDate="2016-02-06T04:30:40.603" Score="9" ViewCount="3464" Body="&lt;p&gt;Just finished watching the very first Harry Potter movie and one thing struck me right away: maybe this is just &quot;fairy tale&quot; logic, but how can people balance themselves on such a slim stick when riding brooms? What is the logic behind that? Am I missing something simple in the whole &quot;broom&quot; idea? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T15:42:33.920" LastActivityDate="2020-05-21T15:37:22.257" Title="How does Harry Potter keep balance while on his broom?" Tags="|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47333" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-06T04:51:52.603" Score="7" ViewCount="1631" Body="&lt;p&gt;While watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2820852/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Furious 7 (2015)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, I've noticed that in the head-on collision between Vin Diesel and Jason Statham, the air bag on Statham's Maserati has not deployed! It was a direct hit, at speeds well above the 60kmh with quite severe impact. You can clearly see no airbag on this video clip at 1:06. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/yGTYXFkM1us?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2018-06-29T16:45:22.823" LastActivityDate="2018-06-29T16:45:22.823" Title="Why did the airbag not deploy on Statham's Maserati in Furious 7?" Tags="|realism|fast-and-furious-franchise|furious-7|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47334" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-06T06:08:05.693" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T06:08:05.693" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T06:08:05.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47335" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-06T06:08:05.693" Score="0" Body="1989 American comedy starring Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter and George Carlin." OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T13:37:20.010" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T13:37:20.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47332" CreationDate="2016-02-06T06:10:36.493" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;While the broom is thin on its center radius, they often have stirrups, foot rests that require a wide angle of the legs. This wide angle allows for very simple control of a body's position, similar to a competition high speed bike. By, well, spreading his legs, Harry creates a larger area to balance on. This is how motorcycle and dirt bike racers handle tight turns, widening their bodies area to improve handling. No different than a regular bike really.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Physics aside, these brooms are magical, which would allow for a larger area through magical means, lowering the balancing forces required. Even accounting for magic, Harry seems to be exceptionally skilled at quidditch, as in he is abnormally good at handling a broom. This means he has athletic skills on the broom that the normal witch population does not have. This reflects real life athletic skill at sports, which only a small percentage of the population acceles at.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Toy broomsticks are given to witches at a young age as well, like tricycles. These only go a few feet in the air, and allow young wizards and witches to learn how to use a broomstick, for casual flying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the real brooms used for shooting, had bicycle seats/saddles on them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ecvm4.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ecvm4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the early days of filming before they worked out how to do it, flying on a broomstick was a painful proposition for Daniel Radcliffe. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.instagram.com/p/xh4YVNSW77/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;He sat, for hours at a time, on a bicycle seat on a broom about eight or nine feet up in the air. &quot;If you sit completely upright or bend over on a bike saddle, without putting your feet on anything for any period of time, it gets really, really painful – for a man, particularly, although it was obviously not pleasant for a woman either.&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZEidR.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZEidR.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T16:10:45.107" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T16:10:45.107" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47337" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47333" CreationDate="2016-02-06T06:41:51.763" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cars before a certain year (1998) are not required to have drivers side air bags. And there is a loud majority of modders in car culture who believe air bags are more dangerous than life saving, and will remove airbags from a car in that respect. It's not unusual for a souped up car to lack air bags.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://emj.bmj.com/content/17/2/139.full&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From the Emergency Medical Journal:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Airbags have been shown to significantly reduce mortality and morbidity in motor vehicle crashes. However, the airbag, like the seat belt, produces its own range of injuries. With the increasing use of airbags in the UK, airbag associated injuries will be seen more often. These are usually minor, but in certain circumstances severe and fatal injuries result. Such injuries have been described before in the medical literature, but hitherto most reports have been from North America. &lt;strong&gt;This is the first case report from the UK of serious injury due to airbag deployment and describes the case of a driver who was fatally injured when her airbag deployed in a moderate impact frontal collision where such severe injury would not normally have been anticipated.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Air Bag deployment will often knock someone unconscious, and while life saving, there is a rare case of fatal injury, from the deployment itself. You have an exploding, rapidly expanding bag of compressed air flying towards your face. Like a Mike Tyson right hook. Strong enough to throw a 200 pound man in the air:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/HcbAjopKLOs?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/IM5FVNfpHOU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They can also trap you in the car, which can lead to complications in a fire.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That said, the 2014 Maserati Ghibli has multiple front and side air bags standard. Many people have noted the missing deployment. There is no dialog explicitly stating the airbags were removed, but the dialog right after the crash implies modifications:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Dominic: Reinforced your chassis. &lt;strong&gt;Just like going into the ring with weighted gloves.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The implication of modifying gloves to cheat in boxing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T15:55:04.217" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T15:55:04.217" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47343" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="67160" CreationDate="2016-02-06T10:00:41.830" Score="8" ViewCount="1731" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I lived in the US in 2007, I noticed that &quot;Planet Earth&quot; was dubbed by Sigourney Weaver. (This made Attenborough's reference to &quot;Alien&quot; when talking about &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/XuKjBIBBAL8?t=1m12s&quot;&gt;ants infected by cordyceps&lt;/a&gt; a bit ironic)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have other documentaries by Attenborough been dubbed, whether by Weaver, Snoop Dogg, or anyone else, when run in the US? I'm especially interested in ones subsequent to &quot;Planet Earth&quot;, as opposed to preceding it, and in ones where he doesn't appear live in the documentary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1312" LastActivityDate="2017-01-19T16:06:45.913" Title="Are David Attenborough documentaries still dubbed in the US?" Tags="|documentary|dubbing|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47345" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47696" CreationDate="2016-02-06T10:41:02.993" Score="5" ViewCount="199" Body="&lt;p&gt;When I watched cable tv in the US in 2007, and while watching cable tv in Australia in 2015 (which is mainly made up of American channels), I noticed that a lot of the documentary channels (channels about history, science, nature, and the like) had a lot of shows that either&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Were reality tv in format, such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Road_Truckers&quot;&gt;Ice Road Truckers&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadliest_Catch&quot;&gt;Deadliest Catch&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Were about &quot;controversial&quot; topics (I'm not saying &quot;Ancient Aliens&quot;, but &quot;Ancient Aliens&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have US cable tv documentary channels always been like this? If not, what caused the change?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1312" LastEditorUserId="1312" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T10:56:02.117" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T22:38:26.553" Title="Have US cable tv documentary channels always had reality tv and &quot;controversial&quot; topics?" Tags="|documentary|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47352" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43545" CreationDate="2016-02-06T18:14:51.007" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the movie we can see something like shame in face of Nick, because he himself knows that he has made a big mistake, especially in relation with murder of Darbi. He could compensate his mistake with giving a chance to Clyde, because his big mistake had led to a big illegal abuse of the law. On the other hand, he is a greedy one. If I were Nick I let him go, after that I tried to solve the problem in other ways. Clyde is a genius, it is too important. There are lots of things about this movie...  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30807" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T18:24:25.323" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T18:24:25.323" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47353" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47252" CreationDate="2016-02-06T19:07:49.413" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie garnering so much acclaim may be due to:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The acting skills of the talented actors: Tim Robbins, and Morgan Freeman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Definitely the story is one of the strongest points in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where a normal man, patiently handles wisely all the pressures inside the Prison. A man who is respected by the majority of the inmates.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would like to say that the story of this prisoner whose determination earns his freedom, spans 22 years. It ends with a great result and pays him off. A major suspense which most of us  wouldn't think of doing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And the &lt;em&gt;friendship&lt;/em&gt; which they Andy and Red both shared was just an inspiration for all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may not be the direct answer, but the movie really had the VALUES and a THINKING what a common MAN can do if he wills to. &lt;em&gt;(Anything is possible with HARDWORK and DEDICATION)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28427" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T21:54:50.833" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47354" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47163" CreationDate="2016-02-06T19:14:56.717" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but the easiest thing might be to go all the way back to VHS. As you rightly say (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander_%28film%29#Alternate_releases&quot;&gt;and to lift from Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;) there are many versions of the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The video&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was a hit in the United States...Highlander was &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;first released to DVD&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in the United States in 1997, in a &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;10th Anniversary Edition&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; Director's Cut that contained the&#xA;  international uncut version of the film. A &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;15th Anniversary&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;&#xA;  edition was released in Australia in 2001, which also contained the&#xA;  International cut of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Highlander was again released in 2002 in two editions: a special&#xA;  &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Immortal Edition&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; with several extra features (including several&#xA;  Queen music videos and a bonus CD containing three Queen songs from&#xA;  the film) and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;a standard edition&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, both of which contain the&#xA;  International uncut version. On the June 17, 2009 French&#xA;  distributor StudioCanal issued the film on &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blu-ray&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; with identical&#xA;  releases following in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Germany&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;UK&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Holland&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Australia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Japan&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;U.S. director's cut&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is currently available on DVD in&#xA;  North America from Lionsgate under license from the film's current&#xA;  owner, StudioCanal. 20th Century Fox, the theatrical distributor,&#xA;  remains the television rights holder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, certainly a lot of different releases!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, whilst you mention wanting the original &lt;em&gt;soundtrack&lt;/em&gt;, it sounds from your question that you're really after the original &lt;em&gt;audio&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Part of the problem here is that, whilst some reviews criticise the audio, the majority of them for the DVDs and Blu-rays talk about it being very good (or at least as good as something uplifted from a 1986 movie can  be). I found the review you point to on Amazon (discussing the 10th Anniversary Edition) but I found similar reviews for the 15th Anniversary, the Immortal and standard 2002 editions, and the new Blu-Rays.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I'd suggest checking out the original VHS release from the UK and seeing if that satisfies you. Failing that, the Blu-Rays have gotten the most positive discussion otherwise. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do believe that, ultimately, some consideration needs to be given to the fact the film is from 1986 and, like many films from that era, doesn't have audio anywhere near the standards we expect in this day and age. I'd strongly argue many of the reviews I read haven't accounted for this fact.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T19:14:56.717" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47355" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-06T19:44:09.003" Score="5" ViewCount="23054" Body="&lt;p&gt;I really didn't understand the ending of the movie &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4085238/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The House on Pine Street&lt;/a&gt;. I don't even know whether there really were supernatural events happening or it was all on her mind. Can someone explain?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30810" LastEditorUserId="100979" LastEditDate="2023-09-22T08:06:25.363" LastActivityDate="2023-09-22T08:12:34.307" Title="Can someone explain the ending of The House on Pine Street?" Tags="|ending|the-house-on-pine-street|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="47356" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47355" CreationDate="2016-02-06T20:01:58.347" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;This Director/Writer interview would seem to answer your questions&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/YBuqhwH3Px4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Was it all in her mind?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. It's a haunted house. It's not in her mind, &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/YBuqhwH3Px4?t=6m28s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;genuinely supernatural&lt;/a&gt; things are happening.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;so I could create something that was very specific and real from which to draw once we have it all in front of us. This woman who is pregnant and isn't really sure of how she feels about the baby inside her so &lt;strong&gt;she's not only being terrorized from the outside with in the haunted house itself&lt;/strong&gt; but she's being terrorized from the inside as well&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Why is the ghost there?&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Directors intentionally left the ending (and indeed the whole &lt;em&gt;reasoning&lt;/em&gt; behind the ghost being stuck in the house) &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/YBuqhwH3Px4?t=6m57s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;intentionally vague&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; as a way of fighting back against what they see as an annoying tendency in modern ghost-horror films to overexplain why there are ghosts and how to get rid of them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;... &amp;quot;nowadays it's just this need&#xA;to sort of pander to the audience to&#xA;give the answer away and so usually&#xA;there's a 'medium' character who comes in&#xA;halfway through and knows everything&#xA;they're just like so smart, and they tell&#xA;you exactly why the ghost is happening&#xA;and exactly how you can solve the&#xA;problem. And it makes it less of a horror&#xA;movie and from then on it's more of&#xA;almost a procedural&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="100979" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2023-09-22T08:05:24.077" LastActivityDate="2023-09-22T08:05:24.077" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="47358" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47360" CreationDate="2016-02-06T20:46:06.057" Score="5" ViewCount="181" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this film from ~10 years ago, an ordinary guy works as a bartender in a diner. One day the diner gets raided by some robbers and our bartender neutralize them professionally. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This accident gets him on to the news and shortly after the mafia arrive at his home. We discover that he is a retired bounty hunter who broke with his past and started a new life in a small distant town, married, and had kids.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mafia pursue him to get him to return to the business and threaten his family. At the end, he raids the main boss's house and kills him; then his family forgives him and takes him back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is one intimate scene in the movie there main hero and his wife have a romantic time when she surprises him by dressing as a cheerleader.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the final scene he enters his home (after killing the boss) and the family is having dinner. His little daughter stands up, goes to the kitchen's counter-top and fetches him a plate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30812" LastEditorUserId="30812" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T21:31:33.277" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T21:31:33.277" Title="Movie about a former bounty hunter who is threatened by his previous employers" Tags="|identify-this-movie|drama|action|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:22:10.233" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47359" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45502" CreationDate="2016-02-06T20:55:29.540" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Darren was in the Pym house, after Scott had infiltrated the Avenger's upstate headquarters. When Scott, Hank, and Hope are arguing about the fight with Falcon, Cross not only sees Hope, but he listens to them. &lt;em&gt;Especially Scott bragging about Fighting an Avenger and not Dying.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, Cross sees Hope at Hank's house and decides not to kill him yet, because &lt;code&gt;I wasn't ready to kill [Hope] yet&lt;/code&gt;. He also plans for Scott's eventual &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;heist&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; as he phrases it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;The only logic explanation is that he sees Scott, and the plan, while there.&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At 1h06m28s, right as Hank opens the door to his study, a blink and you'll miss it moment happens. A squeaking sound is played, exactly like the Yellow Jacket suit has when shrinking or enlarging later in the film. This is before we see Cross. This is implying that Cross is using the Cross Particles, when he went to kill Hank. This is how Cross gets in the house (no, Hank didn't leave the door unlocked). This ties in to how he is acting at Pym Tech, when Hope says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is not who you are. &lt;strong&gt;It's the particles altering your brain chemistry.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Remember, Hank says this to Scott earlier as well. The Ant-Man helmet is designed to prevent the issues with the brain chemistry, but even then, years of it prevent Hank from using it again. So Pym/Cross Particles are dangerous to a user's mental health, and the effect can only be reduced, not removed completely. And Cross, using the Particles without any protection, as Hank puts it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If one isn't protected by a specialized helmet, it can affect the brain's chemistry.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I don't think Darren realizes this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, and, you know, he's not the most stable guy to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, having seen and heard everything, he knows what Scott looks like, and does some research. Remember, Scott Lang is a well known, famous cat burglar. His crime was national news. You don't get caught &lt;em&gt;stealing&lt;/em&gt; 5 million dollars without some press. Frankly, Darren could have simply remembered reading/seeing about him in the news.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ldAg2.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ldAg2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T22:13:41.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47360" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47358" CreationDate="2016-02-06T21:02:57.710" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_Violence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;A History of Violence&lt;/a&gt;, starring Viggo Mortensen:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film stars Viggo Mortensen as the owner of a small-town diner who&#xA;  is thrust into the spotlight after confronting two robbers in&#xA;  self-defense, thus changing his life forever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VCwEA.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VCwEA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wi-cPZWWtkY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Supporting evidence from the wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He is visited by scarred gangster Carl Fogarty (Ed Harris), who&#xA;  alleges that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tom is actually a gangster&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; named Joey Cusack who had&#xA;  dealings with him in the Irish Mob in Philadelphia some years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, at the end:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Tom returns home, where the atmosphere is tense and silent as the&#xA;  family sits around the dinner table. The future of his marriage and&#xA;  his life as Tom Stall is uncertain, but &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jack and Sarah indicate their&#xA;  acceptance of their father by setting a plate for him and passing him&#xA;  some food.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; The film ends as Eddie looks up at Tom, leaving their future&#xA;  in question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cheerleader scene can also be &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mario%20bello%20cheerleader%20scene&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;found on YouTube&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T21:02:57.710" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37284" CreationDate="2016-02-06T21:44:00.357" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Scott realizes that he needs to &amp;quot;shrink between the molecules&amp;quot;, he does what Hank warned him about:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scott: You know, I think this regulator is holding me back.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Hank: Do not screw with the regulator.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;          &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If that regulator is compromised, you would go subatomic.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Scott: What does that mean?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Hank: It means that you would enter a quantum realm.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Scott: What does &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; mean?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Hank: It means that you would enter a reality where all concepts of time and space become irrelevant as you shrink for all eternity.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;          Everything that you know and love, gone forever.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Scott: Cool. Yeah, if it ain't broke...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He intentionally compromises or overloads the regulator. They both twist the regulator, causing it to flash. Normally they would use the buttons on their gloves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hank: She turned off her regulator and went subatomic to deactivate the bomb.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1mDsN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scott: I'm gonna have to shrink between the molecules to get in there.&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DerN7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Afterwards, it's either damaged, or the core of Pym Particles are completely used up. Not sure which. In any case, he flips off the old core, and replaces it with a Blue Enlarger Disk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HANK: The suit has no weapons, so I made you these discs.&#xA;Red shrinks.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Blue enlarges.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gxv9Z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hxWQF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ehJPP.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2sfJv.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scott only does this through 1) Hearing (Or Imagining?) His Daughter's Voice, 2) Quick Thinking, and 3) Having the tool to do it on hand. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Without the Blue disk, there would be no way for Scott to return.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to Hank's belief it's impossible to return from the Quantum realm, he's going off vague notions and theories about what the Quantum realm is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hank: And I spent the next 10 years trying to learn all I could about the quantum realm.&#xA;Hope: You were trying to bring her back.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Hank: &lt;strong&gt;But all I learned was we know nothing.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, no one else has gone there, Hank's the only one that successfully created &lt;code&gt;A Formula that altered atomic relative distance&lt;/code&gt;, and the only person he knows that went there, Janet, has disappeared. Afterwards, when Scott survives the shrinking, Scott doesn't remember anything either, so Hank &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;still knows nothing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hank: Scott, please. You don't remember anything?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Scott: &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hank. I don't.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Hank: There must be something else.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Hank: &lt;strong&gt;Well, I suppose the human mind just can't comprehend the experience, but you made it.&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Hank: You went in, and you got out. It's amazing.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;...&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Hank: &lt;em&gt;[To Self] Is it possible?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T22:36:00.983" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47362" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10943" CreationDate="2016-02-06T22:36:22.197" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think only a few of you understand the movie. Same Gold is your Id/Ego. (Sam Gold/Ego sees everything but no one sees Gold.) Most people don't realize there is a difference between themselves and their ego and therefore they are constantly manipulated but their ego (that voice in your head) convincing you that it is you. The con is based on this concept that since that is the case you can manipulate anyone or everyone by manipulating their ego/id and not the person because their ego/id would do the rest my manipulating the person  from within.  The ultimate con because everyone trusts their ego/id because you think it is you.  The last three minute of the movie lay it all out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30813" LastActivityDate="2016-02-06T22:36:22.197" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47363" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-06T22:54:26.947" Score="0" ViewCount="7443" Body="&lt;p&gt;I wanted to know if there's more than one version of Deadpool (censored or not) and if it is the exact same movie, except for language differences, in every country.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30814" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T07:41:28.267" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T07:41:28.267" Title="Is Deadpool censored?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|alternate-version|censorship|deadpool|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47364" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-06T23:02:49.510" Score="13" ViewCount="1695" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6T1x4.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6T1x4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At around 1:28 in &lt;em&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/em&gt;, as Butch walks past this random house on his way to get the gold watch back from his apartment, a radio can be heard in the background. The only part of the broadcast I can make out is &quot;This is the Jackrabbit Slim's...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems potentially significant since, chronologically speaking, Mia and Vincent did visit Jackrabbit Slim's before these scenes with Butch. But nobody died or overdosed on heroin or did anything else illegal at that diner that I can recall, so I don't know why its name would come up on the radio. Do we know what the rest of the broadcast said, or what off-screen incident it could be referring to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21179" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-06T23:04:11.217" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T23:46:57.560" Title="When Butch walks back to his apartment, what is the radio in the background saying about Jackrabbit Slim's?" Tags="|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47365" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-06T23:19:15.543" Score="17" ViewCount="606" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/66/21179&quot;&gt;This answer about the contents of the briefcase&lt;/a&gt; contains an interesting quote from Roger Avary, the co-writer of &lt;em&gt;Pulp Fiction&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Originally the briefcase contained diamonds. But that just seemed too boring and predictable. So it was decided that the contents of the briefcase were never to be seen. This way each audience member would fill in the blank with their own ultimate contents. All you were supposed to know was that it was &quot;so beautiful.&quot; No prop master can come up with something better than each individual's imagination. At least that was the original idea. &lt;strong&gt;Then somebody had the bright idea (which I think was a mistake) of putting an orange lightbulb in there.&lt;/strong&gt; Suddenly what could have been anything became anything supernatural. Didn't need to push the effect. People would have debated it for years anyway, and it would have been much more subtle. I can't believe I'm actually talking about being subtle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If the co-writer of the movie not only didn't come up with it, but thought it was a mistake, this makes me curious: Who did come up with the orange lightbulb?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21179" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2016-11-25T20:37:14.560" Title="Whose idea was it to put an orange lightbulb in the mysterious briefcase?" Tags="|production|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47367" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47369" CreationDate="2016-02-07T00:36:42.093" Score="7" ViewCount="15571" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Legends of Tomorrow, Vandal Savage called Rip Hunter by the name&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Gareeb, even when he meets him for the first time in the Egyptian era.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did he nickname him like this? What does it mean? Is it some reference?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-06T06:02:27.583" LastActivityDate="2016-12-19T12:25:23.753" Title="Why did Vandal call him by that name and what does it mean or reference?" Tags="|legends-of-tomorrow|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47368" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47384" CreationDate="2016-02-07T00:53:24.587" Score="17" ViewCount="4722" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen a number of these in my many years of watching TV since at least the 1990s. These are commercials for some random mail order product, and right before the ad ends, the screen cuts to something laid out as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A solid blue or gradient blue background.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The price on the upper right, usually in white.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The phone number (more recently, website) centered, usually in yellow.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Various fine print at the very bottom centered, in white, sometimes terms and conditions, usually an address.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Credit card logos directly above or below the price&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The top left has a representative picture of the product, or repeating video from the rest of the ad &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A voice over with someone reading the pertinent info&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here are some examples:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cAfKY.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cAfKY.png&quot; alt=&quot;A 1990s music album&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/M6VeC.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/M6VeC.png&quot; alt=&quot;Another one&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hgz4h.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hgz4h.png&quot; alt=&quot;A more recent example&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They seem to have been around for a long time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a trademarked format, or does it have any background other than &quot;something a bunch of advertisers decided to use&quot;? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There does not seem to be any commonality between the companies and types of products that use it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30817" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-07-22T07:12:50.223" LastActivityDate="2018-10-09T01:48:28.217" Title="Is there a common origin to those blue background TV commercials?" Tags="|analysis|production|commercial|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47367" CreationDate="2016-02-07T01:10:17.427" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;As was shown or alluded to in the show, Hunter tries to travel back in time to kill Vandal in ancient Egypt, before he obtained his immortality. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/Rip_Hunter#Behind_the_scenes&quot;&gt;Gareeb is evidently Arabic for, &quot;the stranger&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, so it's likely in reference to Vandal not knowing who Hunter was at that time as he was quite literally a stranger who attempted to kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T01:10:17.427" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47363" CreationDate="2016-02-07T01:11:56.480" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The main theatrical release of Deadpool in the U.S. was targeted to be Rated R by the MPAA. It's been said that it pushes the boundaries of what's allowed to be Rated R.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tr.im/8zn0k&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The actor T.J. Miller, who plays Weasel in the film, has already confirmed that there will be an unrated cut for home release&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Twitter user by the name of James (From Essex) uploaded a quick six-second video of actor/comedian T.J. Miller at a recent screening confirming that an unrated director's cut of DEADPOOL starring Ryan Reynolds will be coming out on Blu-ray and dvd. The film will apparently be &amp;quot;even more raw&amp;quot; compared to the R-rated version.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;s&gt;So you have to wait for the post-theatrical DVD/Blu-Ray/VOD releases to see the for reals real &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;uncensored&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; version.&lt;/s&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/deadpool-directors-cut/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Director Tim Miller has publicly stated there is no Director's cut planned:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is coming from the director himself, Tim Miller, who addressed the question last week during a Q&amp;amp;A at Collider’s exclusive IMAX preview screening of the film:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“I don’t wanna be all Joss Whedon on you, but no there’s not [a director’s cut]... There are some deleted scenes that have some extra stuff, but I’m pretty happy with this cut. I like it.&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deleted scenes, but no singular uncensored cut. What you see in the US theatrical release is what you get.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Of course, this could always change, tomorrow or a week from now when initial box office numbers are in (Highest Revenue R-Rated movie released, ever), months from now when the DVD hits, or years from now for any re-releases.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T04:21:47.123" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47373" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47392" CreationDate="2016-02-07T01:40:08.497" Score="7" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been watching the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3910804/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2016 BBC adaptation&lt;/a&gt; of Tolstoy's &lt;em&gt;War and Peace&lt;/em&gt;, and also reading about it on the internet between episodes. One of the rumours I've come across is that &lt;strong&gt;the jewellery used on set was genuine&lt;/strong&gt;: the actresses were actually wearing real gems and diamonds during filming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4VLxr.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4VLxr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yWcR3.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yWcR3.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eVNyd.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eVNyd.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this true? If so, where did this jewellery come from - was it borrowed from a special collection somewhere, or was some of it even custom-made?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Canonical answers only please: interviews and reliable sources.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27759" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-07T12:15:28.880" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T12:15:28.880" Title="Is the jewellery in the 2016 adaptation of War and Peace genuine?" Tags="|props|war-and-peace|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47376" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-07T04:11:16.863" Score="4" ViewCount="7102" Body="&lt;p&gt;What was the significance of the mother's milk in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mad Max Fury Road (2015)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? It almost feels like there was a deleted scene that explains it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20184" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T18:36:28.847" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T18:36:28.847" Title="Mother's Milk significance" Tags="|mad-max-fury-road|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47377" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47403" CreationDate="2016-02-07T04:28:03.137" Score="0" ViewCount="119" Body="&lt;p&gt;Everyone would recognize their own father, whether young or old - so in &lt;em&gt;Second Chance&lt;/em&gt;, why didn't the son recognize his own father Jimmy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21973" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-07T12:16:46.763" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T16:56:35.027" Title="Why doesn't Jimmy recognize his own father in Second Chance?" Tags="|plot-explanation|second-chance|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47376" CreationDate="2016-02-07T04:34:00.293" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Human milk was one of the resources for trade and it most likely was meant for the elite:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;They trade with one another for vital resources. In addition to&#xA;  exporting water the Citadel also exports human milk, as earlier in the&#xA;  film you see humans being milked. The milk is probably exclusive for&#xA;  the elite of society as we only see Immortan Joe's son drinking it and&#xA;  it's valuable enough to Gas Town to trade it for gas. As we don't see&#xA;  any other mammals in the setting, the milk produced by the Citadel is&#xA;  a pretty vital source of protein and nutrients in the wasteland.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-war-rig-tanker-full-of-milk-and-what-is-it-for&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T04:34:00.293" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47379" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47383" CreationDate="2016-02-07T04:52:02.373" Score="1" ViewCount="3109" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Jesse approaches Gale Boetticher's apartment in &lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;, a slow, melodious song plays. Does anybody know what it's called?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30825" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-02-07T06:08:00.060" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T06:08:00.060" Title="Last song in Gale's aparment" Tags="|breaking-bad|soundtrack|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-02-07T19:03:58.863" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47382" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47385" CreationDate="2016-02-07T05:13:42.233" Score="3" ViewCount="402" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm talking about the following scene in &lt;em&gt;The Age of Innocence&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Scene 1:&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L9Ri9.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/L9Ri9.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Scene 2:&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DBTkq.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/DBTkq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When those two started talking, a spotlight slowly appears on them, and we only hear their voices, and nobody else's. Why is this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30826" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-07T12:23:28.953" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T12:23:28.953" Title="Why does the spotlight slowly appear when they started talking?" Tags="|film-techniques|cinematography|the-age-of-innocence|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47379" CreationDate="2016-02-07T05:20:33.837" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think, you mean this song here, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iafdBUpIO4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Man Chang Fei&lt;/a&gt;&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7757" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T05:20:33.837" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47384" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47368" CreationDate="2016-02-07T05:29:41.113" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ad people know how to push our buttons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Psychological analysis on the impact of color shows that people (i.e. consumers) associate blue with concepts such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://blog.bufferapp.com/the-science-of-colors-in-marketing-why-is-facebook-blue&quot;&gt;credibility, being business-like, professionalism, and trust&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IBM was proud to be called &quot;Big Blue.&quot; Facebook isn't blue by chance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Blue is also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/blue-in-business.html&quot;&gt;associated with honesty&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of these are good associations to create when you are trying to separate people from their money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30566" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T05:29:41.113" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47385" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47382" CreationDate="2016-02-07T06:42:41.243" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is a fairly common tactic that you'll actually see in a lot of films - muting/otherwise downplaying the background chatter that you'd normally hear in a certain scenario (e.g. in a restaurant, at a party, etc) so that the film (and its viewers) can focus on the characters and conversation(s) that are actually important/relevant. You've probably seen/heard it used in a lot of other movies and TV shows without even realizing. One particularly prominent example of this tactic comes in &lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/75881931&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;the opening scene of &lt;em&gt;The Player&lt;/em&gt; from 1992&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, in real life, you'd be getting a lot of background noise (and even hearing other simultaneous conversations) while listening to many of the conversations presented in this opening shot. And with some of the conversations shown in the scene, you might not actually be able to hear the speakers at all from the vantage point that the camera gives you. But the film isn't there to make you focus on the irrelevant background conversations or be deterred by the fact that there's a window between you and the speakers, especially because the film isn't supposed to be a precise imitation of reality. So instead of letting complete realism get in the film's (or its audience's) way, &lt;em&gt;The Player&lt;/em&gt; - or, in your case, &lt;em&gt;Age of Innocence&lt;/em&gt; - is going to make sure that you are able to hear the information/plot-relevant conversations that it wants you to hear, regardless of (and sometimes deliberately contrary to) any sense of realism. And while some filmmakers and film editors are better than others at making smooth/seamless transitions into &quot;unrealistic eavesdropping on a particular conversation&quot; moments, most filmmakers trust that their audience can and will suspend disbelief about certain things that may not actually happen in real life, but that don't detract from the internal logic of the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as the &quot;spotlight&quot; in the particular scene you're looking at, it can safely be assumed that this is just the film's visual equivalent - perhaps purposefully stylized - of drawing focus to specific characters/a particular conversation. Much the same way that most TV shows and movies will have their focus on the character(s) who are speaking or whose reactions they want to emphasize, while leaving their background out of focus (something that also has its practical purposes in terms of cameras and camera lenses, etc.). Take, for instance, this shot from the &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Voyager&lt;/em&gt; episode I'm watching (Season 2, episode 18, &quot;Death Wish&quot;):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/y5vmX.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/y5vmX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The image quality of the screenshot I took on my computer is pretty awful, but you can still tell that Captain Janeway (in the foreground) is in focus, while Q (the red-and-black-shirted man in the background) and the seated crewman behind him are very, very blurry. That is because, in the moment, your attention is supposed to be drawn to Captain Janeway - she's the important person to watch right now, not Q or Random Ensign Juan (or whatever the extra's name is). It seems fairly clear that the use of lighting in the scene you reference from &lt;em&gt;Age of Innocence&lt;/em&gt; is meant to create the same effect as the camera focus in this scene from &lt;em&gt;Voyager&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22599" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-02-07T06:54:48.463" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T06:54:48.463" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47386" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47390" CreationDate="2016-02-07T06:44:42.340" Score="5" ViewCount="992" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the very beginning of &quot;About Elly&quot;, during the titles, we seem to be seeing some sort of papers being shoved through some sort of slot – from the inside of whatever they're being shoved into.  What are we seeing?  Are those letters being inserted into a letter slot in a door?  Or ballots being put in a ballot box?  Or something else?  And what significance does it have to the rest of the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30827" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-07T12:28:31.720" LastActivityDate="2018-10-22T20:41:47.413" Title="What is happening in the title sequence of &quot;About Elly&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|title-sequence|about-elly|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47389" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="23" CreationDate="2016-02-07T09:45:54.763" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are no such movies in Iran because of:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Iranian cinema is a very poor industry.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Modern devices are very expensive and you cannot them find in Iran.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Government has lots of attention and is sensitive about what would be made. So they make lots of sponsorship before a movie goes to start.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The is no connection between Iranian movie companies and the other companies outside Iran.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29180" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-07T12:27:15.697" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T12:27:15.697" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47390" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47386" CreationDate="2016-02-07T10:01:25.593" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1360860/reviews?filter=chrono&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this review&lt;/a&gt; on IMDB, the Director explained at the launch Q+A that the opening scene depicted the Iranian custom of placing folded banknotes into an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pbase.com/image/158605175&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;alms box&lt;/a&gt; before traveling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Farhadi explained it was an alms box that travelers put money in&#xA;  before a trip to ask for a safe trip, and yes, there was some dialog&#xA;  about Elly putting money in an alms box, but I never connected it to&#xA;  the opening scene.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-02-07T15:22:57.193" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T15:22:57.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47391" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47377" CreationDate="2016-02-07T10:07:21.663" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I haven't seen the show, but from what I've been able to ascertain seeing the commercials for it the premise of the show is that the father's consciousness is put into a younger body, but it's not a younger version of &lt;em&gt;his&lt;/em&gt; body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chance_(2016_TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; seems to agree:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The series follows the life of Jimmy Pritchard, a 75-year-old former King County, Washington sheriff who was morally corrupt and later disgraced and forced to retire. After he is killed in a robbery at his son's home, &lt;strong&gt;Pritchard is brought back to life in the improved body of a younger man&lt;/strong&gt; by billionaire tech-genius twins Mary and Otto Goodwin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that it says &quot;the improved body of &lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt; younger man&quot;, which suggests it was a random body they had lying around, rather than a younger clone body of the father. If that's true, then the son doesn't recognise his father because he doesn't look anything like his father did, young or old.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15242" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T10:07:21.663" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47373" CreationDate="2016-02-07T10:15:04.740" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's more information (about the jewellery seen in War and Peace) than anyone could sensibly need on &lt;a href=&quot;http://war-and-peace.rbth.com/3/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shot on location in Russia, Lithuania and other Eastern European&#xA;countries, characters are seen wearing jewelry made by Russian jeweler&#xA;Petr Axenoff.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Part of the collection was made specifically for the TV series. Other&#xA;items were selected by Gibbon's team from existing collections. &amp;quot;We&#xA;were surprised by their choice because the jewelry they selected was&#xA;from a later period, specifically art nouveau. When I was making those&#xA;items, I was inspired by completely different things,&amp;quot; Axenoff says.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on interviews with the show's makers on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/entries/4ac5a723-5c93-4ea2-aec1-3bf0a57a035d&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;BBC blog&lt;/a&gt;, it would seem that they also supplemented the Axenoff items with paste jewelry and some bits and bobs from the BBCs own prop archive:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jewellery is still all about impact and making a statement. For me in&#xA;War and Peace it's a great way to accessorise the very simple gowns&#xA;that we wanted to create - free from too much surface decoration and&#xA;unnecessary ornamentation. The jewels were sourced from all around the&#xA;world. From Indian markets in Southall, flea markets in Lithuania, St.&#xA;Petersburg, Prague and Rome to beautiful pieces designed especially&#xA;for us by a Russian jeweller.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The action of the story takes place at such an interesting time for&#xA;fashion. It is where we see the birth of modern fashion as we&#xA;understand it today. The aftermath of the French Revolution saw people&#xA;turning their back on formal aristocratic styles. And this was coupled&#xA;with Napoleon’s visionary ideas to create more revenue for French&#xA;fabrics by creating the fashion seasons, changing four times a year as&#xA;they do today. And fashion is cyclical, everything goes round.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Edward K Gibbon is the costume designer for War and Peace.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T10:21:23.247" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47393" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-07T11:48:49.660" Score="3" ViewCount="5079" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching &lt;em&gt;Schindler's List&lt;/em&gt; and one scene confused me - what was the reason for the swallowing diamonds scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-02-07T15:59:41.417" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T15:59:41.417" Title="What was the significance of the diamond swallowing scene in Schindler's List?" Tags="|plot-explanation|schindlers-list|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47394" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47393" CreationDate="2016-02-07T12:11:03.490" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So they would not be confiscated by the Nazis&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the second world war, the Nazis raided the homes of both the Jewish population in Germany and the the population of citizens from other cities and countries they have invaded. They stole any valuables they could find, including gold and diamonds. This was then used to help fund the Nazi war machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By swallowing the diamonds, the family was trying to keep them in their possession. They would later &quot;pass&quot; the diamonds, and would still be able to use them (e.g. for buying provisions, smuggling themselves, sentimental value, etc).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read a fascinating account of a real Holocaust survivor who claims to have done something similar &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Zisblatt&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T12:11:03.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47399" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47402" CreationDate="2016-02-07T15:54:10.457" Score="4" ViewCount="8389" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Cyrus proposed his plan of uniting the gangs of new york to rule the city, Luther killed Cyrus (probably because he didn't dig it). He later blamed the Warriors and then the movie really started. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My question is, what were Luther's intentions and what did he expect to happen after the whole scheme of killing Cyrus and blaming the Warriors worked? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18454" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-07T21:27:30.227" LastActivityDate="2018-03-29T20:01:15.077" Title="What was Luther's plan when he killed Cyrus in The Warriors?" Tags="|character|the-warriors|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47400" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47472" CreationDate="2016-02-07T16:19:49.990" Score="13" ViewCount="3235" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that the cast can get to know almost anything just by reading the page that they get: whether there's an emergency with a patient or where they are being called to?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought pagers just showed a particular number which the doctor had to call separately to find out what the emergency was, at least that's what I noticed many a times in other medical shows such as &lt;em&gt;Scrubs&lt;/em&gt;. Or is it that since &lt;em&gt;Scrubs&lt;/em&gt; began in 2001 and &lt;em&gt;House MD&lt;/em&gt; in 2004, the pagers have improved in that span?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4083" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-02-08T02:03:23.627" LastActivityDate="2018-07-15T19:12:46.670" Title="What exactly is shown on the pagers carried around in House MD or Scrubs?" Tags="|plot-explanation|house|scrubs|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47401" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-07T16:34:44.610" Score="8" ViewCount="1909" Body="&lt;p&gt;In both movie main characters enter an abandoned area where strange physical anomalies are occurring. After watching both sequences back-to-back, I noticed that there are some common ways in which the effects of anomaly are demonstrated, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The protagonists are shown the place/anomaly by a group of kids who aren't supposed to be there.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anomaly is shown to reduce/nullify the effect of gravity on objects.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kids play with  bottle and the anomaly causes it to reset its physical state.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Protagonist separates from the main group and finds a door that leads to some dark strange place.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rain is show to be localized in improbable ways (in Thor 2 it might have been Thor, not the anomaly).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Check the video for comparison:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/4Bvza53v9qU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are those just very common tropes for haunted/strange locations or is there some common work of fiction from which this combination is taken, to which both movies are paying an homage?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30844" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-06-07T13:33:26.657" LastActivityDate="2020-05-11T09:16:27.700" Title="Are anomaly sequences in Animatrix: Beyond and Thor 2: The Dark World both paying homage to something?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|reference|thor-the-dark-world|the-animatrix|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47402" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47399" CreationDate="2016-02-07T16:41:02.887" Score="6" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My question is, what were Luther's intentions and what did he expect&#xA;  to happen after the whole scheme of killing Cyrus and blaming the&#xA;  warriors worked?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plan was simple; get the wrath of the other gangs off his back.  As you said, he wasn't down with the plan so his first action was to kill the plan.  Once he did that, he had to direct the blame onto another gang, and one of The Warriors just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-08-11T12:46:48.727" LastActivityDate="2016-08-11T12:46:48.727" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47403" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47377" CreationDate="2016-02-07T16:56:35.027" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In episode 4 &quot;Admissions,&quot; Otto makes reference to Pritchard the elder having a body that was re-coded genetically to a &quot;physically the best version&quot; of his original body. Given Pritchard the younger knew his father as a &quot;standard&quot; man, these changes would likely make Jimmy unrecognizable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16404" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T16:56:35.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47405" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-07T18:30:13.127" Score="4" ViewCount="65" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;Maïna&lt;/em&gt;, just before the credits roll, a ship with a sail is seen by the main character. What kind of ship is it? Who is sailing the ship? What does the sailed ship mean to the main character's story?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4zjIG.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4zjIG.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30846" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-02-08T07:50:00.017" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T07:50:00.017" Title="What does the sailing ship seen at the end of Maïna symbolise?" Tags="|ending|maina|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47406" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-07T18:50:14.970" Score="4" ViewCount="2774" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching the film &lt;em&gt;Whiplash&lt;/em&gt; I wasn't sure if Andrew actually reported Fletcher to the woman who was sorting things out with Andrew's father. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This event led Fletcher to sabotage Andrew's career - but only because he accused Andrew of telling on him. Was he correct?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30848" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-07T21:31:06.813" LastActivityDate="2017-02-13T11:03:34.177" Title="Did Andrew report Fletcher for being an abusive teacher?" Tags="|whiplash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47408" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-07T20:02:29.803" Score="1" ViewCount="113" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just finished season 1 of &lt;em&gt;Black Sails&lt;/em&gt;. In the last episode, when Vane appears, he tells Eleanor to be partners or else he will start sinking ships.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Eleanor talks with Captain Hornigold he tells her that he can attack Vane with 300 men.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Eleanor tells Hornigold that she told Vane about the secret tunnels that Hornigold would use to make a surprise attack to the fort.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I didn't see them speaking about that (Vane and Eleanor). Is Eleanor lying in order to protect Vane from getting killed, or do we have to assume that she talked about the tunnels another time, &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the incidents?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30849" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-07T20:07:59.127" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T20:07:59.127" Title="Did Eleanor tell Vane about the tunnels beneath the fort?" Tags="|plot-explanation|black-sails|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47406" CreationDate="2016-02-07T20:16:58.213" Score="6" Body="&lt;h1&gt;Yes&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Andrew testifies against Fletcher, he is asked to following the suicide of Sean Casey. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;RACHEL:&lt;/strong&gt; Would you characterize&#xA;  his conduct as extreme, Andrew?&#xA;  Did he ever intentionally inflict&#xA;  emotional distress?&lt;p&gt;&#xA;  []&lt;p&gt;&#xA;  This would not be a public hearing,&#xA;  you know.&#xA;  Fletcher would never know&#xA;  it was you who spoke up.&lt;p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;ANDREW:&lt;/strong&gt; Why would you do this to me?&lt;p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;JIM:&lt;/strong&gt; Do you think that I would let him&#xA;  put my son through hell&#xA;  and then just walk away&#xA;  scot-free?&#xA;  Don't you know&#xA;  I would never let that happen?&#xA;  That there is nothing in the world&#xA;  more important to me than you?&#xA;  Don't you know that?&lt;p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;RACHEL:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Andrew?&lt;p&gt;&#xA;  []&lt;p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;RACHEL:&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  Andrew?&lt;p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;ANDREW:&lt;/strong&gt; Just tell me what to say.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads to Fletcher getting fired, which is confirmed when Andrew meets Fletcher in the Jazz club.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;FLETCHER&lt;/strong&gt;:&#xA;  Andrew.&#xA;  Hey.&#xA;  [JAZZ MUSIC&#xA;  PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]&#xA;  I don't know if you heard. Uh...&#xA;  I'm not at Shaffer anymore.&lt;p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;ANDREW:&lt;/strong&gt; &#xA;  Yeah, I did hear that.&#xA;  Did you quit?&lt;p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;FLETCHER:&lt;/strong&gt; Not exactly.&#xA;  Some parents got a kid&#xA;  from Sean Casey's year, I think,&#xA;  to say some things&#xA;  about me.&#xA;  Although why anybody&#xA;  would have anything&#xA;  other than peaches and cream&#xA;  to say about me is a mystery.&lt;p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite the reassurances that Fletcher would never find out who testified, he has somehow found out and the whole end scene is based around Fletcher getting payback for Andrew causing him to lose his job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22037" LastEditorUserId="22037" LastEditDate="2017-02-13T11:03:34.177" LastActivityDate="2017-02-13T11:03:34.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47411" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14712" CreationDate="2016-02-07T21:10:47.450" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Director Ron Howard describes other techniques in his commentary for Apollo 13 for simulating weightlessness in scenes shot on the soundstage. The actors often sat one one end of a see-saw which was weighted on the other end, allowing them to bob up and down smoothly. Simple camera tricks were used such as having the actors lay down on their sides opposite each other, and turning the camera 90 degrees to making it appear that one actor was completely upside down. Also, they filmed the scenes in the KC-135 before the soundstage ones so the actors knew what real weightlessness looked and felt like, and they could more easily fake the look on earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30850" LastEditorUserId="30850" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T17:02:44.390" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T17:02:44.390" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47412" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-07T21:44:39.040" Score="5" ViewCount="7410" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this film from the late 1970s/early 1980s, there are a collection of comedy sketches.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the first, there are men dressed as sperm in diapers. Most are laying around lazily, while one is constantly working out to be the first to the egg. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the skit the lead sperm yells for everyone to go back because it is a blow job. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Note: this sketch does not have Woody Allen in it.)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In another sketch, there is a drunk guy walking down the hall in a hotel. A guy has asked his wife to go out and get his shoes that were polished for him. When she goes out to get them, she is naked and the door closes behind her. As the drunk approaches, she uses the shoes to cover her private parts. The drunk looks her over and says something like, &quot;That a boy, shorty, give her all you got.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought it was &lt;em&gt;Kentucky Fried Movie&lt;/em&gt;, but it doesn't appear to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30851" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-02-07T23:46:17.433" LastActivityDate="2016-12-06T00:58:28.357" Title="Late '70s/early '80s comedy movie with adult-themed sketches" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:22:13.393" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47413" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3543" CreationDate="2016-02-07T22:15:30.037" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sword standing on its tip without support (The Illusionist Movie).&#xA;How it is done (the easy way).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To perform the trick for the movie filming, all they had to do was have a strong invisible magicians string (available in most magic stores), with one end attached to the ceiling, with the lower end having a loop to hook around the sword handle. The length of the string would keep the sword vertical with the blade tip just touching the floor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you play back a video of the movie it is easy to see the string hanging effect of the sword as the sword sways a little.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scenes of the various actors trying to move or remove the sword were shot with or without the string attached with each actor pretending to find it difficult to remove the sword.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30852" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-07T22:42:48.060" LastActivityDate="2016-02-07T22:42:48.060" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47415" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47412" CreationDate="2016-02-07T23:35:50.613" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wow, I actually do know this one, although I completely forgot about it (thankfully, if I'm quite honest): It's the 1977 raunchy sketch film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075801/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Can I Do It 'Till I Need Glasses?&lt;/a&gt; (the sequel to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144246/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;If You Don't Stop It... You'll Go Blind!!!&lt;/a&gt; from 1975) which infamously briefly features a pre-&quot;Mork &amp;amp; Mindy&quot; Robin Williams, whose scenes were reintroduced into the film after he got famous. It contains the skit you describe: Sperm cells in diapers waiting for their moment, but once it comes, one of them proclaims:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Go back! Go back! It's a BJ!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other one's there too; From an &lt;a href=&quot;http://geekshallinheritearth.blogspot.com/2013/12/retro-review-can-i-do-it-til-i-need.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;online review&lt;/a&gt; [&lt;em&gt;Warning: Site contains mild nudity&lt;/em&gt;]:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Among the &quot;jokes&quot; on offer here [is] a variation on the one used in the first film, only with a naked woman, locked out of her apartment, holding a pair of shoes over her embarrassment. The punchline this time coming from a drunk passing in the hallway &quot;'At a boy, shorty! Give her everything you've got&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll tentatively put the first skit here [&lt;strong&gt;BEWARE: ADULT THEMES&lt;/strong&gt;]:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/JW7R11Jy59g?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-12-06T00:58:28.357" LastActivityDate="2016-12-06T00:58:28.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47417" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34601" CreationDate="2016-02-08T00:59:15.747" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;In literature, crows symbolize a lot of things, such as the mysteries of life, power of insight, fearlessness and determination. Crows were in those scenes to foreshadow Furiosa's determination to find home, that hope and patience will take her to the green place. Those &quot;stilt people&quot; has lost hope. They wander in the ruins. They failed to rise up from the ashes. They looked UP to Furiosa, who is superior with hope and determination. Furiosa will rise, because she is determined, because she will find home, which is exactly what happens in the end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30862" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T00:59:15.747" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47425" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47435" CreationDate="2016-02-08T05:31:34.843" Score="7" ViewCount="428" Body="&lt;p&gt;When L and Soichiro are surveying the Yagami household L says. &quot;When I was young I did strange things too&quot;, which indicated that he is considerably older than Light was at the time (17). However he is able to pass off as a student in Light's final exam. He was old enough, clearly to have been training Near to be a detective for what could have been near's whole life (13) so just how old was L?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19585" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T07:44:50.947" Title="Roughly how old was L?" Tags="|character|death-note|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47288" CreationDate="2016-02-08T05:48:42.057" Score="-5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The silence literally means helplessness. The movie touches the psychological problem of dealing with people of disabled, naive and infantile mind, as of the maniac character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30866" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T05:48:42.057" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47429" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47434" CreationDate="2016-02-08T06:19:05.900" Score="7" ViewCount="5199" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was really confused while watching Schindler's list that what was the reason behind the movie being black and white?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one particular scene in the movie it becomes colored. Was there any significance?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-02-08T07:14:37.110" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T16:43:04.473" Title="What was the significance of whole movie being black and white and one scene being colored in Schindler's list?" Tags="|film-techniques|schindlers-list|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47400" CreationDate="2016-02-08T06:19:42.730" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pager technology has always allowed arbitrary alphanumeric (A-Z, a-z, 0-9, some special characters) messages of various lengths. How they are used depends on the person or company using them. Typically, short medical codes can be used, to indicate a longer or complicated situation, but proper length messages can be sent as well. Pagers can scroll messages that are longer than the display, so they are not limited to 10 or 16 or n Characters. Depending on the service really, as some have a 240 character limit. Text messages, aka SMS, in comparison are limited to 160 ASCII characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tangent: No different than SMS, except most pager companies have dedicated hardware/antenna, and for medical contracts, have some minimum guaranteed service contracts. These service contracts dictate downtime, message delivery times, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;SMS is a fairly faulty protocol and has somewhere like 10% failure rate, requiring 15~20% resend rate. SMS is an (ab)use of the cellular side bands, bands that are normally used for control between a cell phone and tower. SMS is a giant cluster hack of a technology. SMS/Cellular technology, mainly the wavelength/bandwidth being used, was previously very bad at wall penetration, while Pager tech had much better coverage. Distance was also a factor (Cellular cell sites are often &gt;20 miles at best, Pager sites are 100+ miles). There is also the usage of Simulcasting/broadcasting of Pager messages among multiple cells, while Cellular technology will only connect on a single cell tower. There are multiple technological reasons for Pager technology still being persuasive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we never see the messages on House, it's speculation on whether it is code or text.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-08T18:00:54.193" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T18:00:54.193" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47432" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42090" CreationDate="2016-02-08T06:52:07.327" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Iris scanner and the system around it is shown to be erroneous at points of time. In the film these errors are attributed to eyes that are identical and therefore are possibly a result of reincarnation. The movie shows an element of creationism with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the real life, today, eye scan machines (which are part of the customs many airports across the globe) don't make the kind of mistake that is shown in the film. Like the finger print scans, eye scans are known to be unique. When the systems were originally being designed, the details of the eyes captured were perhaps less and hence could lead to two eyes being marked as duplicate. That is simply because of the minor details have not been captured and hence the error.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film however doesn't make this the fault of the machine. They show the eyes of Sofi and Salomina to be identical in every way. This is not a real world scenario. The ideas in the film about duplicate eyes is merely fictional and is used to tell the story of a man of science allowing some spirituality to enter his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T06:52:07.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47433" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47437" CreationDate="2016-02-08T07:12:54.630" Score="5" ViewCount="307" Body="&lt;p&gt;Instead of watching the Super Bowl this year, I decided to watch the Animal Planet &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/puppy-bowl/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Puppy Bowl&lt;/a&gt;, featuring puppies dragging toys around the field and scoring if they drag it to the end zone. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It made me wonder, are the puppies trained to drag toys to the end zone and play nicely with others on their team? Or are they just given free reign to do what they want and they are unaware that the goal is to get it to the end zone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, are any other animals on the show trained (e.g. Half-Time show cats, cheer-leading roosters, smartphone typing parakeet)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12783" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-02-08T07:18:11.680" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T09:54:55.840" Title="Are the Puppy Bowl puppies trained to play the game?" Tags="|production|puppy-bowl|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47434" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47429" CreationDate="2016-02-08T07:13:29.223" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://ncowie.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/why-is-schindlers-list-in-black-and-white/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;words of Cinematographer&lt;/a&gt;, Janusz Kaminski&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I was ecstatic to be working with Steven, and yet when we began&#xA;  filming it brought home the sickening reality of the Holocaust. The&#xA;  newsreel quality of the black and white seemed to fade the barriers of&#xA;  time, making [the footage] feel like an ongoing horror that I was&#xA;  witnessing firsthand. I think I can speak for the whole crew when I&#xA;  say the experience was sobering.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is thought by many critics that Spielberg chose to film Schindler’s List in black and white to create an extra layer of horrific realism.&lt;a href=&quot;https://ncowie.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/why-is-schindlers-list-in-black-and-white/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; And i do relate with this statement as it did played well to my mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the color scenes, If I am not wrong it occur in three ways, it the starting scene, ending scene and for the girl in the red dress.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the girl in red, there is &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/16124/what-is-the-significance-of-the-girl-in-red-in-schindlers-list&quot;&gt;already a question asked&lt;/a&gt; for it in here and from the answer of &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/16126/1190&quot;&gt;matt_black&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The highlighting if the child in red (in an otherwise monochrome&#xA;  movie) was designed to put one thread of horror for one identifiable&#xA;  character in the midst of mass slaughter which would otherwise just&#xA;  numb the audience. In purely dramatic terms this creates a sense of&#xA;  identification for the audience who now have a human scale story of&#xA;  the elimination of an obviously innocent life. This creates a point of&#xA;  empathy and connection for the audience which is far more powerful and&#xA;  emotionally impact-ful than the statistics of mass slaughter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For the ending scene, it was shown in present time and it seems a good decision to show it by colour. I am not sure for the starting colour scene but it must be put in contrast to ending scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2017-04-02T16:43:04.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47435" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47425" CreationDate="2016-02-08T07:44:50.947" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;L's age was not mentioned in anime but in the prequel light novel &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note_Another_Note:_The_Los_Angeles_BB_Murder_Cases&quot;&gt;Death Note Another Note&lt;/a&gt;, his age was mentioned as 22.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;I don't have screenshot of night novel with me now, will try to come up with it if found any.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So his age in the main Manga/Anime is speculated to be 24-25. Same guess is present in &lt;a href=&quot;http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/L_(character)&quot;&gt;deathnote.wikia.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T07:44:50.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47437" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47433" CreationDate="2016-02-08T09:54:55.840" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;They aren't really trained since the dogs are all puppies who are available for adoption in shelters nationwide. But &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/02/05/84-dogs-315-poo-bags-and-a-whole-lot-of-peanut-butter-the-making-of-the-puppy-bowl/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;their handlers do have tricks&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Peanut butter has proved useful in luring the pups apart — or getting&#xA;  them to do anything, really. Spread some peanut butter on the edge of&#xA;  a camera lens and it’s a guaranteed adorable&#xA;  puppy-licking-America’s-TV-screens moment.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Animal Planet has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/puppy-bowl/videos/choreographing-kittens/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a video showing how the kittens are choreographed&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/puppy-bowl/videos/vii-behind-the-scenes/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;other similar ones&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T09:54:55.840" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47438" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47440" CreationDate="2016-02-08T13:17:12.417" Score="28" ViewCount="71883" Body="&lt;p&gt;The name of the British sci-fi movie &quot;Ex Machina&quot;, what exactly does it mean? Is there any relationship to the famous game series &quot;Deus Ex&quot;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="24301" LastEditDate="2016-02-08T17:54:38.190" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T12:36:23.637" Title="What does &quot;Ex Machina&quot; mean?" Tags="|analysis|title|ex-machina|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47439" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47438" CreationDate="2016-02-08T13:33:59.140" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina&quot;&gt;Deus ex machina&lt;/a&gt; is a very old theatrical plot device, where the characters of gods would be brought on stage to develop the plot. It came to mean any 'outside influence' on the plot structure, which could not have been performed by the characters themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Its literal meaning &quot;God from the machine&quot; has been reinterpreted over recent years, as the plot device is now almost too well-known to really use any more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the movie's use of it assumes the audience to already be familiar with the concept, thereby allowing them to push one step further &amp;amp; just use &quot;from the machine&quot; to describe Ava's 'potential' as a human, rather than machine - as the entire plot device for Ava's sentience is Nathan's Turing test on successive Avas.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Caleb's character is the device by which we discover this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25773" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T13:33:59.140" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47440" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47438" CreationDate="2016-02-08T13:34:14.170" Score="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Edited due to many comments providing advice&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=2&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwi12pKUo-jKAhWJJJoKHWcICkEQFgglMAE&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.merriam-webster.com%2Fdictionary%2Fdeus%2520ex%2520machina&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNF1CcoWWXsJaaXCY8y3PKd3HKk1pw&amp;amp;bvm=bv.113370389,d.bGs&quot;&gt;Deus Ex Machina&lt;/a&gt; doesn't originate from the (rather spectacular) video game &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex&quot;&gt;Deus Ex&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Modern meaning&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nowadays, it's a simple phrase that exists in the English language and is defined as such:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a character or thing that suddenly enters the story in a novel, play,&#xA;  movie, etc., and solves a problem that had previously seemed&#xA;  impossible to solve&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, a slightly older meaning is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;a god introduced by means of a crane in ancient Greek and Roman drama&#xA;  to decide the final outcome&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Latin translation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The slightly older meaning mentioned represents the literal Latin translation of Deus Ex Machina, meaning &lt;em&gt;god from the machine&lt;/em&gt;. There is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article&lt;/a&gt; describing this in much more detail if you are interested, but in short, an actor playing a god or goddess would be lowered on stage by a &quot;mechane&quot; which was the name of the crane device used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Typical usage&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In modern films, a deus ex machina typically refers to some sort of character or plot device that solves all the issues at the end of a film (e.g. that everything was a hallucination). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other interpretations follow the typical Greek usage and use the phrase to refer to the introduction or presence of a god or goddess.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Linkage to Deus Ex video game&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no relationship between the film and the game you describe. Deus Ex is called so because of its relationship to the deus ex machina usage already alluded to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ex Machina film usage&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we remove &quot;Deus&quot; from &quot;Ex Machina&quot;, this leaves &quot;from the machine&quot; [thanks to @ghostdog for pointing this out].&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This quite literally describes Ava. She is from the machine&amp;mdash;a creation. This perfectly fits the literal translation of the phrase.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is also arguable that her creation by Nathan fits the literal &quot;deus&quot; part of &quot;deus ex machina&quot;. He is the god, who has created from the machine something that can imitate reality. Whilst @Richard's answers show interviews with the directors of the film suggesting the former is all they were targetting, it's still an interesting interpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt; Note: Reference to Bustle article has been removed as I felt I was unclear in how it linked into the rest of the answer &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="11264" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T07:59:00.883" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T07:59:00.883" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46607" CreationDate="2016-02-08T13:38:09.790" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are correct. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; doesn't explain the Angel in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Apocalypse&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The Angel in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Last Stand&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; doesn't appear to fit in the same continuity with the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Apocalypse&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Angel because of a serious age discrepancy. Whatever age Worthington is supposed to be in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Apocalypse&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, he's clearly going to be older than 10. That means he would have been born earlier than 1973, probably closer to 1963. So he would have already existed prior to 1973 in the original timeline, before the changes due to the time travel in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Days of Future Past&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which presumably would only have changed things going forward from 1973.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this can be explained by behind-the-scenes time-meddling on the part of other entities ( maybe even Apocalypse himself ). Perhaps it is the result of some kind of time travel event initiated somewhere in the future of the altered timeline. But really it's just Fox not giving a [expletive] about contradicting &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Last Stand&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and just doing whatever they want.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30881" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T13:38:09.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47442" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-08T13:43:41.027" Score="7" ViewCount="457" Body="&lt;p&gt;They were facing multiple criminal charges, and looking at multiple years in Riker's Island Penitentiary. Not only that, they were looking at a hard-ass prosecutor, judge, and the mayor's &quot;dickless&quot; aide.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even Louis Tully, their lawyer, told them they were making a mistake in choosing him, as he's not a Criminal Defense lawyer. The three main Ghostbusters are not idiots. They all have college degrees. So why would they even risk having a Tax Lawyer like Tully defend them for a Criminal case? Lawyers are not legos, they aren't one-size-fit-all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-02-08T22:00:42.937" LastActivityDate="2024-04-04T05:02:13.683" Title="Why did the Ghostbusters go with Louis Tully as their lawyer?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ghostbusters-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47443" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47446" CreationDate="2016-02-08T14:17:17.123" Score="2" ViewCount="1463" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't get it, why would Harlee (Jennifer Lopez) burn her arm when Wozniak (Ray Liotta) was about to polygraph her in the 2nd episode of Shades of Blue? She used the kettle to burn her arm, what does this have to do with the lie detector test?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/em33f.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/em33f.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13312" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-08T16:27:34.257" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T16:27:34.257" Title="Why did Harlee burn her arm when Wozniak was about to polygraph her in the 2nd episode of Shades of Blue?" Tags="|plot-explanation|shades-of-blue|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47442" CreationDate="2016-02-08T14:31:20.780" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;He won the case, didn't he!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seriously&lt;/strong&gt; though, there is an arguable reason for hiring him. In the script, before Moranis comments on their mistake:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JUDGE&lt;/strong&gt;: I want to make one thing very clear before we go any&#xA;  further. The law does not recognize the existence of ghosts, and I don't believe in them either, so I don't want to hear a lot of malarkey about goblins and spooks and demons. We're going to stick to the facts in this case and save the ghost stories for the kiddies.  Understood?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;DEFENSE TABLE. Stantz leans over and whispers to Spengler.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STANTZ&lt;/strong&gt;: Seems like a pretty open-minded guy, huh?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SPENGLER&lt;/strong&gt;: His nickname is &quot;The Hammer.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stantz and Spengler are seated with their attorney LOUIS TULLY,&#xA;  lawyer, CPA and former demonic possession victim.  Louis is&#xA;  desperately paging through a mountain of legal textbooks.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LOUIS&lt;/strong&gt;: (nervous)  I think you're making a big mistake here, fellas.  I do mostly tax law and some probate stuff occasionally.  I got my law degree at night school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STANTZ&lt;/strong&gt;: That's all right.  We got arrested at night.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd suggest that given the judge's complete disregard for the &lt;em&gt;Ghostbusters&lt;/em&gt; and their ghostly world, it was important to the team to have an attorney who actually &lt;em&gt;believed&lt;/em&gt; in them, rather than some intelligent attorney who regarded them as quacks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you rightly say, the ghostbusters &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; highly intelligent individuals. But they're also highly unusual individuals, given their work. Perhaps it meant more to them to have someone value that, than &quot;win&quot; their case by discrediting them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On another note, a very possible answer is also &quot;&lt;em&gt;Because&lt;/em&gt;.&quot; Given the severity of the charges they faced, it's of course logical they would take on serious legal help, instead of a night lawyer. But sticking with Louis, we have more Rick Moranis screen time and funny side story to the main plot. So whilst this reason is &quot;out of universe&quot;, it's also very plausible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T01:03:56.107" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T01:03:56.107" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47443" CreationDate="2016-02-08T14:59:07.833" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a theory that pain can render a polygraph test inconclusive. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As detailed in this Live Science article &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nbc.com/shades-of-blue/episode-guide/season-1/original-sin/102&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.livescience.com/33512-pass-lie-detector-polygraph.html&lt;/a&gt; authors George Maschke and Gino Scalabrini explain in &quot;The Lie Behind the Lie Detector&quot; (AntiPolygraph.org 2005): The polygrapher scores the test by comparing physiological responses (breathing, blood pressure, heart, and perspiration rates) to the probable-lie control questions with reactions to relevant questions. If the former reactions are greater, the examinee passes; if the latter are greater, he fails.In essence, an examinee's lie only counts as a lie if it registers as more of a lie than his or her control lie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, pain makes the heart rate spike which can throw off the polygraph.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The implication in episode 2 of Shades of Blue is that Harlee is aware of this theory and burns her arm on the kettle to pass the test. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a couple of reviews of the episode online which back this up:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nbc.com/shades-of-blue/episode-guide/season-1/original-sin/102&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;NBC Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ew.com/recap/shades-of-blue-season-1-episode-2/3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Entertainment Weekly Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29622" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T14:59:07.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47448" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46607" CreationDate="2016-02-08T15:58:38.640" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are multiple continuity issues between the new movies and the old Trilogy. Mainly based on the idea that the old Trilogy is set in the 2000s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;X3, The Last Stand, is supposed to be five minutes into the future of X2, which is explicitly set a few months after the events of X1. X1 is &amp;quot;present day&amp;quot; meaning, roughly the same time as it's real world release, 2000. This places them as X1, 2000, X2, 2000~2001, and X3 roughly 2005~2007.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In X3, we are told that 20 years earlier, Charles and Erik meet a young Jean Grey. She's younger, looks 10ish. Specifically, her powers emerge from a traumatic event, not puberty as typical. 10 years after this, in 1995ish, and before the rest of the movie, we see a young, 13ish Warren Worthington panicking, having cut off his new wings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since X3 is set 2005, this places Jean at ~30, born early 1970s, and Warren at ~23, born early 1980s. He would be a baby, or a glint in daddy Worthington's eye during Apocalypse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/x-men/236475/x-men-apocalypse-set-in-1983&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;X-Men Apocalypse is set in 1983.&lt;/a&gt; Yet Jean is being played by 19 year old Sophie Turner, and in no way could be considered 10~13, in universe:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pgv7u.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Pgv7u.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if the original Trilogy was set 10 years earlier than believed, with X3 set in 1995, AND Angel's scene set in the same year as Jean's, their ages would line up better to what we know of X-Men Apocalypse. Both Jean and Angel would be late teens instead of child and baby. This means we see young Jean and Angel in 1975.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Angel in Apocalypse does seem to be in his early adult hood. Ben Hardy is 25, and could pass as a highschooler (as is typical in Hollywood casting):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U8rcE.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U8rcE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet this causes other problems! At the end of DOFP, set in 1973, even without the changes of DOFP, Erik is either in Jail (For maybe killing JFK), or had he escaped, is no longer friends with Charles. Charles is in a wheelchair from First Class (1963) but not X3's flashback (mid 1980s).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But we can ignore that. Like every other continuity issue we have to ignore in X-Men movies, cartoons, and comics.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/x-men-apocalypse-new-timeline-explained-bryan-singer/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;X-Men Apocalypse's Director is using a pretty bad grasp of physics to excuse a basically &amp;quot;Screw Continuity if I want to&amp;quot; attitude&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/h3&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I’ll kill any of those characters any day I want. They’re all fair game. Anything can happen. When two things are happening simultaneously in quantum physics it’s what’s called the Super Position and when the Observer finally observes the outcome that’s called the ‘Collapsing of the Super Position,’ which is what happened when Wolverine woke up and saw all the happiness. So yes, that is the outcome we hope for, that is the outcome we aspire to, and that’s the outcome we are moving towards, but we saw in Days of Future Past another dark world. What says that can’t happen again? What says the awakening of a being that has such power and can acquire the power to destabilize that? So anything is possible. That’s what we’d like to think happens, that’s what Simon would like to think is a good outcome, but to me it’s fair game.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The writer/Produce Kinberg instead wants to preserve the DOFP future Good Ending:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“All these movies now exist in the same timeline and certainly the intention at the end of Days of Future Past was that final future we saw was the destination for the characters. So barring another time travel or something else that would upset the timeline, that would be the fate of those characters.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But he explicitly states that time travel would be the reason for any changes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T16:25:50.103" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47449" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9473" CreationDate="2016-02-08T16:40:55.150" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;A typical Simpsons episode &quot;takes 6-8 months to do one episode&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6260000/newsid_6262500/6262584.stm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;according to Simpsons creator Matt Groeing&lt;/a&gt;. Of course, they are creating multiple episodes at a time, but from the starting ideas to finish episode, it takes months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The average time between the last game of the NFL Conference Championship and the Super Bowl is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;2 weeks or less&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nfl.com/schedules/1999/POST&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;In 1999, the Conference Championship was January 23rd, and the Super Bowl was 7 days later, on January 30th.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was the day before the Simpsons episode &lt;em&gt;&quot;Sunday, Cruddy Sunday&quot;&lt;/em&gt; aired on January 31st. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The reason they cover their mouths, out-of-universe, is simple. They wanted to air an episode about the then current Super Bowl, without the complications of redrawing the scenes in a week, or multiple times. By hiding the mouths, they could quickly dub the team names in. Alternatively, they could have animated the mouths to fit multiple team names, but that would be much costlier.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday,_Cruddy_Sunday#Production&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;According to Wikipedia, who cite the episode writer Mike Scully's Commentary for &quot;Sunday, Cruddy Sunday&quot;, in The Simpsons: The Complete Tenth Season DVD set:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Originally, the characters would be saying something else, however, because the staff wanted the episode to be &quot;current&quot;, new dialogue was recorded for the scene. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Because there was no time to animate the scene from scratch, the staff simply made the characters hold a glass in front of their mouths while saying their lines.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2018-11-11T18:54:14.707" LastActivityDate="2018-11-11T18:54:14.707" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="47450" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47438" CreationDate="2016-02-08T16:49:36.113" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Hmmm. Well, at the end of the movie it shows her in a city, as if to become part of society. It would be assumed that she will try to pass herself off as human. &quot;Ex&quot; means &quot;used to be&quot;, or &quot;formerly&quot;, as in ex-wife. She is now, at least socially, an ex-machine. So for me, &quot;Ex-Machina&quot; was the punch-line at the end of the movie; &quot;Oh, That's what it means!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30888" LastEditorUserId="30888" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T19:05:28.503" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T19:05:28.503" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47438" CreationDate="2016-02-08T17:09:52.730" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The relationship between Ex Machina and Deus Ex is that both are based on the same original phrase: Deus ex machina. The phrase had a specific meaning related to plays, however both the artworks in question are using its literal translation: God from the machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deus Ex, the video game series, has protagonists who undergo progressive cyborg augmentation. They gain god-like powers by adding machines to their bodies. The title leaves off the &quot;Machine&quot; but it's still there and implied.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ex Machina, the movie, leaves out the Deus part of the phrase. I would argue that it's left ambiguous at the end just what emerged from the machine that is the main female character. God? Devil? Nothing more than a program executing its instructions? It could also be a play on the english meaing of &quot;ex&quot;: formerly a machine, but no longer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21756" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T17:09:52.730" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47452" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47454" CreationDate="2016-02-08T17:23:57.393" Score="24" ViewCount="40836" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Silence of the Lambs (1991)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a long time ago, and recently watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212985/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hannibal (2001)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289765/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Red Dragon (2002)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I haven't watched the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2243973/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hannibal TV Series&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or read any novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I want to understand how Hannibal Lecter turned to cannibalism. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm also curious to know what kind of cannibal he is. For example, cannibals from Wrong Turn eat people because there is nothing else in forest to eat. But here it seems Hannibal treats his victims as some sort of delicacy, eats small part and leave others. Also, he feeds parts to unsuspecting people - is that for fun, or something else?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22115" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T18:34:59.723" LastActivityDate="2017-12-06T11:51:43.880" Title="How did Hannibal become the type of cannibal he is?" Tags="|character|hannibal|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47453" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9473" CreationDate="2016-02-08T18:19:38.507" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's comedy. It's a joke. Contrary to the other two answers, this was not any sort of scheduling or technical limitation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The joke is that the audience &lt;em&gt;knows&lt;/em&gt; cartoons such as the Simpsons are created months ahead (South Park being one of the few exceptions to this rule). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The mugs-in-front-of-the-mouth is just a very obvious nod to that. Note the comedic timing of the inserted audio for each statement of the team. It's simply a joke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, it's a more complicated solution than other solutions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;cut away from the character as they state the team&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;animate the mouth generically&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;don't use a close-up as they speak the name&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;don't repeat the gag so many times (Of course, that's what made it a joke in the first place). &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for Clinton/Hilary part...the joke there is that the character Fred Willard doesn't get the joke the show is making. His character is rather oblivious throughout the entire show. Again, because it's funny. :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T18:19:38.507" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47454" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47452" CreationDate="2016-02-08T18:31:22.823" Score="31" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's important to understand that Hannibal Lecter is insane and is trying to reverse the death of his sister Misha. He even tries to build equations that could reverse entropy and thus the the flow of time - these calculations are described as &lt;em&gt;elegant at first but quickly devolving into insanity and wish-fulfillment&lt;/em&gt;. He, however, believes he has found a way in Clarice Starling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is where the book Hannibal diverges in the extreme from the movie Hannibal:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the final chapter, Hannibal actually keeps Agent Starling in a childlike state and helps her achieve closure over the death of her father. He uses hypnosis and narcotics, and Starling is unable to fight him and actually partakes in eating Agent Krendler's brain. After this meal, she seduces Hannibal and helps him achieve closure over the death of his sister. She asks him: &quot;&lt;em&gt;Were you ever angry at Misha because she took your mothers breast from you?&lt;/em&gt;&quot; to which he replies that he doesn't remember &lt;strong&gt;(a probable lie)&lt;/strong&gt;. She offers him her breast and tells him that this one will never be taken from him. He accepts and they find true happiness together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Something else the movies don't explain very well is the fact that Hannibal has been trained from boyhood in the ancient art of building a memory-palace. This is how he has achieved his photographic memory. After fifty years of practice his palace has such a greatness that he can escape into it and can resist torture by staying in his own mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hannibal has suppressed the memory of eating the broth made from his sister.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as one of the characters he murders says: &lt;em&gt;&quot;You have to kill everyone who knows, don't you?&quot;&lt;/em&gt; It would appear that he also needs to eat from the men who ate from his sister. Why the habit continues is not explained in the books nor the movies other than for enjoyment and the love of cooking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the narrative, he seems to find cannibalism comforting, and remember, he only eats 'the rude'. &lt;strong&gt;The men who ate his sister and fed her to him, were war-bitten rude men of low education. I suspect he hunts them still and will never stop.&lt;/strong&gt; The ending of Hannibal the book is ambiguous and we only know that he shows up in Rio with Starling, and that Barney spots them and flees the country without notifying anyone. This is the terror Hannibal strikes in people. He truly is a monster and seeing him unrestrained is terrifying.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For lack of a better description, I would call him a superhero cannibal. A truly unique entity. The people who get in his way are removed but not necessarily eaten. Again the text is ambiguous. We know of many victims that aren't  described very well, such as the curator who held the position he wanted and a student's body that was never recovered.  Also, he didn't eat from Mason Verger - apparently he was only good for dog food.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Thus Dr. Lecter seems to have strict standards and appears to uphold them religiously within his own insane frame of reference, which is only vaguely described so far. No one knows if the tale will be continued for such is the mystery of the author, who prefers not to say anything until after the book is written.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18076" LastEditorUserId="18076" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T14:37:48.883" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T14:37:48.883" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47455" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47452" CreationDate="2016-02-08T18:57:00.113" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He cannabalises because his sister was killed and cannibalised.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The official backstory of Hannibal derives from the treatment his sister Mischa &#xA;received (&lt;a href=&quot;http://hannibal.wikia.com/wiki/Hannibal_Lecter&quot;&gt;and is explored in detail on his Wiki page&lt;/a&gt;). In the books, Lecter and Mischa are very close. However, to escape the war his family movie into a lodge in a forest. One day, his parents are killed, and looters invade the lodge and hold them both captive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mischa is killed and then cannibalised by the starving group of looters, and traumatises Lecter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He attacks his first person at 13 (a local butcher) and then murders the man who kills his uncle, eating his cheeks (which is his first act of cannibalism). He proceeds to murder a total of nine people before he is eventually captured (which brings us up to date with the films). These nine people include all six members of the group that attacked and killed his sister.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Films&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the three films, his back story of murders is briefly described, but his reasons for becoming a cannibal aren't explored in detail. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TV Series&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the series &lt;em&gt;Hannibal&lt;/em&gt;, we see his background from the books, albeit with some subtly  different details (such as the order the men are killed). However, a young Hannibal, Mischa and all the various looters who attacked her are shown (as are their deaths).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Type of cannibal&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hannibal certainly doesn't eat people for religious reasons, or sexual satisfaction. In fact, his &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; rationale isn't clear. Remember, this is a man who does not fit any known psychological profile, as the books tell us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He seems to eat part or all of his victims for a variety of reasons, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Revenge (such as in the case of the looters) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Disappointing qualities (such as in the case of &lt;a href=&quot;http://hannibal.wikia.com/wiki/Benjamin_Raspail&quot;&gt;Benjamin Raspail&lt;/a&gt;, whose poor performance in the Baltimore Philharmonic Orchestra ruined Lecter's night).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rudeness (such as in the case of &lt;a href=&quot;http://hannibal.wikia.com/wiki/Paul_Krendler&quot;&gt;Paul Krendler&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I don't think it's &lt;em&gt;possible&lt;/em&gt; to concisely and succinctly describe the type of cannibal Lecter is, or even the type of criminal he is, as the books (and films) go out of their way to convey that he is a unique criminal who defies description.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T18:57:00.113" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47457" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47438" CreationDate="2016-02-08T19:29:45.330" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Ex machina&lt;/code&gt; is a Latin phrase which can be translated as &quot;from the machine&quot; or &quot;by reason of the machine&quot;. If one starts from the second translation then &quot;deus ex machina&quot; can be taken to mean &quot;god by reason of the machine&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7008" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T19:29:45.330" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47438" CreationDate="2016-02-08T20:32:00.557" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alex Garland spoke to this in &lt;a href=&quot;http://thefilmstage.com/features/alex-garland-talks-titling-ex-machina-the-oddities-of-a-skinless-body-and-more/&quot;&gt;an interview with TheFilmStage&lt;/a&gt;. The title quite literally means &quot;The Machine&quot; since ... er... that's what it's about, a machine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TFS:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I’ve read quite a few interviews with you about this film but I’ve yet to really see anyone ask you about the title itself. Ex&#xA;  Machina. Taken from Deus Ex Machina, &lt;strong&gt;so all it means is The&#xA;  Machine?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AG&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yes, precisely. If you take the prefix, the Deus Ex, it implies the god out of the machine.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TFS:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I think a title is incredibly important.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AG:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;I agree, yeah.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TFS:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Did you get any pushback on the title?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AG:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;We did indeed. There were some people that felt the title was a bad idea. It’s not well known. People don’t know how to pronounce&#xA;  it. I really liked this title but I don’t have the power to fight for&#xA;  it that hard. A couple of people involved in the film, with Scott&#xA;  Rudin in particular and one of the financiers, just decided that it&#xA;  was the right thing to do and to support the title. The evidence that&#xA;  was used that finally managed to convince people to go with the title&#xA;  was the movie Prometheus. They figured if they could make Prometheus&#xA;  work, people would buy into Ex Machina. But in truth, if I’m being&#xA;  totally candid, the fact is that this is a really low-budget film and&#xA;  probably they just didn’t care that much.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He also spoke a little about the wider implications in &lt;a href=&quot;http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-ex-machinas-director-wants-to-film-vandermeers-craz-1717774472&quot;&gt;this interview with IO9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We asked Garland if this movie was intentionally about an abusive&#xA;  childhood, and the idea that we’ll raise A.I.s the same way we raise&#xA;  human children, abusively. “That’s a really complicated question, and&#xA;  it’s got a complicated answer,” said Garland.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Basically—if I can go back a step—&lt;strong&gt;you might know that Ex Machina&#xA;  comes from a larger phrase, which was “deus ex machina,” and the deus&#xA;  bit of that is God. And this title drops ‘God’ out of it. And some of&#xA;  my thinking ran along the lines of this... We typically present&#xA;  creation stories as cautionary tales, saying ‘Man should not meddle in&#xA;  God’s work. And I wasn’t interested in the ‘God’ part of it. So hence&#xA;  taking ‘God’ out of the title.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-02-08T20:32:00.557" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47442" CreationDate="2016-02-08T21:57:38.287" Score="11" Body="&lt;h2&gt;They're broke&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, the Ghostbusters' primary motivation for hiring Tully is financial. They've been barred from engaging in any &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;ghostbusting&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; activities and have apparently faced &lt;em&gt;multiple&lt;/em&gt; lawsuits from the City over the intervening few months. Having been forced into entertaining at children's parties to make ends meet, Louis Tully is the quite literally the best legal mind that they can afford.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hardemeyer emitted a harsh laugh. &amp;quot;I know who you are, Dr. Venkman. Busted any ghosts lately?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;quot;No,&amp;quot; Venkman admitted. &amp;quot;That's what I want to talk to the mayor about. We did a little job for the city a while back and we ended up getting sued, screwed, and tattooed by desk worms like you.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Hardemeyer offered Venkman an angry stare. &amp;quot;Look,&amp;quot; he replied, bristling. &amp;quot;You stay away from the mayor. Next fall, barring a disaster, he's going to be elected governor of this state, and the last thing we need is for him to be associated with two-bit frauds and publicity hounds like you and your friends. You read me?&amp;quot; - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theraffon.net/%7Espookcentral/gb2_book_novel_naha.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ghostbusters II - The Novel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In addition they (or at least Egon and Venkman) feel that their case is essentially unwinnable. Not only are their charges being tried by the meanest judge in town (someone that Egon identifies as &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;The Hammer&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;) but they're also facing the city's own legal squad and the might of the Mayor's office. They unquestionably did the crime and, barring a miracle, they're going to do the time. Paying for a high-priced lawyer would be an indulgence even if they had the money to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peter Venkman found himself on the stand, facing his own lawyer, the&#xA;rattled, diminutive Louis. Louis had been babbling for about a minute,&#xA;Venkman encouraging him with a helpful nod, a wink, or a hearty &amp;quot;Hear,&#xA;hear.&amp;quot; &lt;strong&gt;That gave Venkman the chance to think of what he would do when&#xA;he was finally paroled. Not much, he concluded.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="100979" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2024-03-30T15:08:26.723" LastActivityDate="2024-03-30T15:08:26.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="47470" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47271" CreationDate="2016-02-09T00:24:22.067" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now first of all, I'm not a huge expert in general relativity, so I'll go from a layman's understanding of it, combined with what the film actually tells us and a few bits and &quot;known&quot; facts about that galaxy from executive producer and scientific advisor Kip Thorne's book &lt;em&gt;The Science of Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Time dilation from the planets alone&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now first of all, &lt;strong&gt;the planets themselves had an entirely negligible time dilation compared to Earth&lt;/strong&gt;. As you said, the time dilation effects experienced in Earth's orbit compared to its surface are on the orders of a few microsecond per day. Now keep in mind, that the planets had largely similar gravity compared to earth (in particular 130% and 80% of Earth's gravity for Miller's and Mann's planet respectively, and judging from Brand's bevahiour at the end we can assume Edmunds' planet to be largely similar). So those planets are largely similar to earth in their density, radii and masses.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; This means the time dilation should be largely similar among all of them and thus also similar to Earth, since that factor only depends on radius and mass, too (while not being exactly linearly proportional to gravity). Such gravitational effects only come into play at a &lt;em&gt;significant&lt;/em&gt; degree for &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; large masses and speeds, not if a puny planet's gravity is just a bit larger than Earth's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But for Miller's planet we can actually compute the time dilation based on its perfectly specified properties&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; and the formulas for &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation&quot;&gt;gravitational time dilation&lt;/a&gt;. Using the Schwarzschild metric we obtain that time on Miller's surface moves about 2.33 µs/h (microseconds per hour) slower compared to a non-dilated observer at an arbitrarily far away point. If we compare this to Earth's time dilation of 2.506 µs/h we see that in fact &lt;strong&gt;Miller's planet's own time dilation (disregarding Gargantua) is even &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; than Earth's&lt;/strong&gt; (i.e. time moves faster there).&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; In other words, without Gargantua's influence 1 hour on Miller's planet would only be ~99.999999995% of an hour on Earth rather than 7 years (but this leaves out any other possible time dilating factors that could be involved here. As said, I'm not a physicist and those values are based on the planets' gravitional potential only). So the &lt;strong&gt;entirety (plus a &lt;em&gt;tiny little&lt;/em&gt; more) of the time dilation experienced on Miller's planet comes from Gargantua alone&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But whatever the &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; time dilation of the planets is, we have to realize that this is absolutely irrelevant at the scales of the other time dilational effects the film explores, especially the effects due to Gargantua. After all that black hole has a mass of about &lt;em&gt;100 million&lt;/em&gt; suns (and thus &lt;em&gt;tens of trillion&lt;/em&gt; times that of Earth or the other planets for that matter) and even more than that, the majority of its time dilation is not only caused by its mass alone, but by its very high spin.&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; If you compare a few microseconds to 7 years it is clear that &lt;strong&gt;we can entirely ignore those planets' own time dilation&lt;/strong&gt; in every aspect. In fact their time dilational effects are so comparatively small, that they probably lie below any of the rather crude and simple approximations made with all the other measurements.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Time dilation from Gargantua&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But what about the time dilation effects that Gargantua has on the other two planets? Unfortunately, this isn't really elaborated much in the film and all we can really say is, that they're neglibible, too, compared to the scale of the time dilation experienced throughout the movie. What we can base this on is the fact that &lt;strong&gt;neither Mann's nor Edmunds' planet are actually that close to Gargantua&lt;/strong&gt; at all, as they repeatedly say in the film that it would take them &lt;em&gt;months&lt;/em&gt; to reach the other planets.&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We then also have to take into account that &lt;strong&gt;Gargantua's time dilation drops rather rapidly the farther we get from it&lt;/strong&gt;. I don't have my general relativity formulas ready (and the fact that it's spinning really fast makes the simpler Schwarzschild metric not applicable), but this can be seen directly in the movie, when Romilly actually stays in a larger orbit around Gargantua while the crew explores Miller's planet. Now it's clear Romilly isn't that far from the planet, since they just get from and to the Endurance with the Ranger in a matter of minutes (hours at worst). But he still does not experience any time dilational effects (or again, not any &lt;em&gt;compared&lt;/em&gt; to the heavy effects the crew experiences).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h1&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h1&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So on the bottom line, the &lt;strong&gt;individual planets' time dilation is largely similar to Earth's and entirely negligible&lt;/strong&gt; compared to Gargantua's and &lt;strong&gt;Miller's planet was the only one that was sufficiently near to the black hole to experience a significant time dilation&lt;/strong&gt; from it. Everything else and any specific numbers lie entirely beyond the scope of what the film or even its scientific advisor's actual book &lt;em&gt;about&lt;/em&gt; the science behind it can offer us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) &lt;sub&gt;In particular, Miller's planet's density is about 181% of Earth's (10,000 kg/m^3, as given by Kip Thorne), from which we get with a little computation the planet's radius as ~4,562 km, which is about 72% of Earth's radius, and it's mass as ~3.977*10^24 kg, which is about 67% of Earth's mass. Those numbers are just to show you that not only the planets' gravities are largely similar, but also their other properties on which the gravity as well as the time dilation depend. For Mann's and Edmunds' planet Thorne didn't give any more information, we can however assume that they are similar to those of Earth/Miller due to them being structured similarly (though, Mann's planet is a admittedly a little more special).&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) &lt;sub&gt;This on first sight unusual discrepancy between the planet having more gravity but less time dilation can be explained by the fact that Miller's planet does actually have a lower mass than Earth and it's higher gravity comes from its larger density and thus smaller size, putting its surface nearer to the center. Yet the planet's radius has a weaker influence on its time dilation that it has on its gravity.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3) &lt;sub&gt;Again employing information given by Kip Thorne himself. In fact Thorne went out of his way to justify the humongous time dilation that Nolan wanted for Miller's planet and only achieved it by letting the black hole spin at nearly the maximum rotation speed possible.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;4) &lt;sub&gt;In fact Kip Thorne &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; say a few things about the orbit of Mann's planet. From the events in the film he deduces that the planet has a rather skewed and wide orbit around Gargantua that only &lt;em&gt;rarely&lt;/em&gt; brings it near to the black hole (and even then by far not as close as Miller's planet, because in this case it would simply get trapped in that stable orbit). And Edmunds' planet is even farther than Mann's planet.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-10T14:29:28.470" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T14:29:28.470" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47472" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47400" CreationDate="2016-02-09T01:33:29.703" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are several reasons why pagers are still being used by medical professionals in a hospital setting.  I am a nurse working in a hospital setting and although there have been discussions about moving to smartphones, pagers are still the preferred form of communication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pagers offer several advantages over smartphones:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Information must be able to be reliable. Cellular networks cannot always be reliable&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is no need to charge a pager&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is high cost to maintain a smartphone account for a hospital&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is risk of security breaches.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-regulations/&quot;&gt;HIPAA&lt;/a&gt; violations can easily be breached using a smartphone&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is always a signal available with a pager&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is no need to sort through other messages.  The pager simply alerts the hospital staff with the code that they are needed for.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;99% of the time that a physician receives a page, it is within the hospital, receiving status on a patient or being called to an emergency.  These are communicated through codes throughout the hospital that all staff is aware of.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22792" LastEditorUserId="22792" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T15:17:29.063" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T15:17:29.063" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47473" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16890" CreationDate="2016-02-09T02:00:31.550" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The movie seems to be a meditation about Israel as lived by US Jews, who do not dream of the violence underlying their realm of messianic hopes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I read biographies of Keith Gordon and the father of Mark Romanek. I also note that Gordon makes anti-war movies. Static, which I watched an hour ago, is obviously about something.  Even the VW Thing which he is driving at the beginning Julia is driving at the end: whose was it, what was their relationship while out in the music business?  &quot;Twins&quot;?  You'd noticed the resemblance already. So why make such a detailed plot about a crazy guy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The protagonist's parents dying in the car crash, that's the Holocaust. Israel would be what is seen on the TV screen, a land of answered dreams attained or at least seen by modern technology. The crucifixes stand for the yearning for divine justice.  The movie attempts by metaphor to present the solidarity of the Israel movement in grief and denial, unable to accept loss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the signature moment in the movie was when Ernie Blick is telling rather than asking the Sheriff to let Ernie's cousin (I can't quite explain that connection) off the hook.  &quot;Do me a favor&quot; or something like that.  Ernie has this power but he doesn't know what to do with it except that it has to do with his parents' dying, which, even, he is not so aware of as the people around him are.  He puts it neutrally: &quot;you can see your parents in heaven&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The plot reaches its conclusion before the big blow-up--causing the big blow-up?--when Julia asks him what it would change even if people could see their departed relatives in heaven.  &quot;So what?&quot;  That's not how you come to terms with death.  You have to dig into the circumstances of their death, on the one hand, and into the pending business you had with them--what kinds of people you and they were--on the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Israel is not only an amusement park for the Holocaust, as someone said, but a really bad one, reproducing the very racial policies that led to the prior disaster.  Not a very credible memorial to genocide.  But as a political venture with tremendous oomph and zero psychological insight, zero human content, why, it's like some guy losing family to sudden tragedy and trying to skip over the human questions and jump right to the happy reunion by means of bogus high-technology.  Why, after all, why?  Because this is America where anything is possible, where dreams come true.  Until the bus blows up because the security forces got a little out of control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30903" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T15:37:40.230" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T15:37:40.230" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47474" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="82641" CreationDate="2016-02-09T02:09:55.350" Score="5" ViewCount="1265" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got the impression that Helen knew that it was really Adam at the end and not Anthony based on her asking him how school was and later telling him she wanted him to stay when he was apologizing. Also she must've noticed he didn't have a ring, just as Mary was tipped off to Anthony. Is there any confirmation of this anywhere either in the movie or other commentary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2017-11-13T06:32:01.907" Title="Did Helen know the truth at the end of Enemy?" Tags="|plot-explanation|enemy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1571" CreationDate="2016-02-09T02:30:20.307" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;He wasn't actually shot but stabbed by a knife which must have had &quot;walker&quot; blood on it. That's why I think he got infected.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30905" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T08:01:42.860" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T08:01:42.860" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47476" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-09T03:05:54.343" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Enemy&lt;/strong&gt; is a 2013 Psychological Thriller directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Jake Gyllenhaal. A man seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2316411/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_(2013_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T03:20:23.723" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T03:20:23.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47477" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-09T03:05:54.343" Score="0" Body="2013 Psychological Thriller directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Jake Gyllenhaal. A man seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a movie." OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T03:20:20.903" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T03:20:20.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47479" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47480" CreationDate="2016-02-09T03:23:29.250" Score="16" ViewCount="9682" Body="&lt;p&gt;At first glance, it seems plausible that Marsellus forgave Butch because Butch saved him from the pawnshop where they had been captured by Maynard and Zed. But now after reviewing the film several times I feel that this might not be an acceptable explanation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course Butch did save Marsellus from that hellhole. But do not forget: Butch double-crossed Marsellus in the boxing match, and it was also Butch that got both of them into the pawnshop situation. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the very beginning, Butch had already made a promise to Marsellus to lose the match and had taken Marsellus's money. So Marcellus had every good reason to  seek vengeance upon Butch for his betrayal. And again, if not for chasing Butch, he would not possibly have become captured in the pawnshop. &lt;strong&gt;Indeed, it was Butch to blame for all of the trouble.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why would Marsellus forgive Butch at all? I mean, if I were in his situation, I wouldn't have felt very comfortable to let Butch go free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22321" LastActivityDate="2019-09-14T13:48:27.160" Title="Why would Marsellus forgive Butch in Pulp Fiction?" Tags="|plot-explanation|pulp-fiction|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47480" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47479" CreationDate="2016-02-09T04:31:06.853" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;Marsellus was just sodomized by two racist rapists. He's traumatized. Butch stopped that and saved him, instead of leaving him there, when he didn't have to. His anger at the time was towards the rapists. Fighting Butch at that moment would distract from payback against the rapists. He had more important things to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Keep in mind, he didn't forgive Butch completely. He warned him if he ever saw him again, he'd kill him. It was a truce, the enemy of my enemy is my temporary friend type situation. Butch was also in the same situation as Marsellus, and likely would have suffered the same fate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Traumatized:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Butch: You okay?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Marsellus: &lt;strong&gt;Nah, man. I'm pretty fucking far from okay.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;More important things to do:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Butch: What now?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Marsellus: &lt;strong&gt;What now? Let me tell you what now. I'mma call a couple of hard, pipe-hittin' niggas to go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. [to Zed] You hear me talking, hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. Imma get medieval on yo' ass.&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Truce:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Butch: I meant, what now between me and you.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Marsellus: &lt;strong&gt;Oh, that &quot;what now.&quot; I tell you what now between me and you. There is no &quot;me and you&quot;. Not no more.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Butch: So we cool?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Marsellus: Yeah, we cool. Two things: don't tell nobody about this. This shit is between me, you, and Mr. soon-to-be-living-the-rest-of-his-short-ass-life-in-agonizing-pain rapist here. It ain't nobody else's business.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Warning:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Marsellus: &lt;strong&gt;Two: you leave town tonight, right now, and when you gone, you stay gone, or you be gone. You lost all your LA privileges. Deal?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Butch: Deal.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Marsellus: Now get your ass out of here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For some context, all Butch cost Marsellus was money. Petty change compared to being raped. It's not like it was personal for Marsellus, that's just business. He doesn't have a great motivation to continue going after Butch. The truce reflects that. &quot;I won't spend time/effort looking for you, but I don't want to see you any more&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T05:36:40.297" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T05:36:40.297" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47481" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1571" CreationDate="2016-02-09T05:02:46.210" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, they turned because they are already infected. Everyone is infected, regardless of being bitten or having an open wound. The belief is that the virus went airborne, meaning it's transmitted via respiratory infection vectors. They breathed in the virus through lung tissue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why they turned so quick seems to be due to individual biology, maybe immune system responses. In the CDC, the scoobies see a MRI of a person, alive, but dying due to meningitis like infection of the brain by the Zombie virus (this contradicts the whole zombie virus doesn't kill you thing, but meh). The patient dies. Then the Zombie virus kickstarts the brainstem. The corpse is shot through the brain.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/tCzwt5dwJPA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Notice the time code!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; It goes from living, to dead, to reanimated, to bullet in the brain in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;MINUTES&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. 4 minutes .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other walkers are seen to turn just as quick. Shane reanimates in what seems like a minute. That's more Plot convenience than a realistic attempt at science, but given 4 minutes is shown to be a canon, scientifically proven timing, its believable as a standard deviation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T05:02:46.210" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47482" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-09T05:55:41.443" Score="22" ViewCount="107726" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Forrest Gump (1994)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Jenny seems to be walking away from Forrest's life plenty of times. However, even though the other ones are coherent, the last one isn't meaningful at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first time she walks away from Forrest is at the bridge right after the singing scene of Jenny. By asking Forrest if he thinks she can fly from that bridge, she makes it obvious that her mental state is not stable and she also seems to know about it and therefore she tells Forrest to &lt;em&gt;stay away from her.&lt;/em&gt; She hitchhikes and leaves.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The second time is in Washington, but she was already a part of another group by that time and had people in her life. So it is not that shocking that she decides to not come back to Alabama with Forrest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The third and final time is when she came back as Forrest was cutting grass. Now she obviously came back&amp;mdash;as stated in the movie&amp;mdash;because &lt;em&gt;she had nowhere else to go&lt;/em&gt;. And as far as we can see, she is happy. Why did she leave? Especially right after sleeping with Forrest. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastEditorUserId="26402" LastEditDate="2017-01-09T18:04:34.610" LastActivityDate="2023-04-17T07:24:51.197" Title="What is the reason Jenny left Forrest without telling him after sleeping with him?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|forrest-gump|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47483" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-09T05:57:11.080" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cloak &amp;amp; Dagger&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1984 spy adventure film directed by Richard Franklin starring Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman and Michael Murphy. It is a remake of the 1949 film The Window.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087065/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloak_%26_Dagger_(1984_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T08:00:21.043" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T08:00:21.043" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47484" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-09T05:57:11.080" Score="0" Body="1984 spy adventure film directed by Richard Franklin starring Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman and Michael Murphy." OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T08:00:29.027" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T08:00:29.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47485" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-09T06:05:33.617" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1984 kid spy thriller directed by Leslie Martinson and starring Gary Coleman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;D.C. is a dreamer who can't keep in the real world longer than a few minutes. After a top secret disk finds its way in his backpack, he finds himself right in the middle of a big spy mission. Only no one will believe him....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087239/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T08:00:09.923" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T08:00:09.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47486" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-09T06:05:33.617" Score="0" Body="1984 kid spy thriller directed by Leslie Martinson and starring Gary Coleman. After a top secret disk finds its way in his backpack, a kid finds himself in the middle of a big spy mission." OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T08:42:33.497" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T08:42:33.497" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47488" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-09T06:13:24.340" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T10:44:17.733" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T10:44:17.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47489" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-09T06:13:24.340" Score="0" Body="BBC adaptation of War and Peace" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T10:44:17.733" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T10:44:17.733" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47490" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="31164" CreationDate="2016-02-09T06:15:53.173" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;The book, &lt;em&gt;A Guide to Codes and Ciphers&lt;/em&gt;, is likely a prop. The contents shown, however, are clearly identical to those from Simon Singh's 1999 book &lt;em&gt;The Code Book&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Code Book&lt;/em&gt; contains a history of ciphers and code-breaking, including basic ciphers as shown, as well as an extensive history of Alan Turing and his work at Bletchley Park (including the transcript of the letter sent to Churchill and the actual crossword published in the Daily Telegraph).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a very good book, and I imagine it would have been a very effective production reference.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yMtnW.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yMtnW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;reference comparing a poor screenshot of the film to images from The Code Book&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28993" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T06:15:53.173" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47491" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-09T06:19:57.007" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To Kill a Mockingbird&lt;/strong&gt; is a 1960 novel by author Harper Lee. It was later adapted for film by director Robert Mulligan and starring Gregory Peck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056592/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDb&lt;/a&gt; and Wikipedia for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;film&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T08:00:25.110" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T08:00:25.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47492" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-09T06:19:57.007" Score="0" Body="1960 novel by Harper Lee later adapted for film in 1962 by director Robert Mulligan and starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice." OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T08:42:16.070" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T08:42:16.070" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47493" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47482" CreationDate="2016-02-09T06:28:48.873" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm shamelessly going to steal some wording from an article that does a great character analysis of Jenny.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Instead of realizing that narrative even exists in the story,”&#xA;  Namtara says, “people just bitch about how Jenny is such a slut, but&#xA;  she won’t even love the only person who cares about her. Jenny always&#xA;  loved Forrest, during the whole fucking movie. &lt;strong&gt;She loved him so much,&#xA;  she thought she was taking advantage of him and ran away for his sake.&#xA;  She didn’t realize she was wrong until it was almost too late.&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nailed it. &lt;strong&gt;Jenny’s push-pull relationship with Forrest is not about&#xA;  indecision or an easy ride, but the spiralling decisions of a woman&#xA;  suffering abuse from all (but one) of the men in her life.&lt;/strong&gt; It’s this&#xA;  crucial, crucial fact that “Worst Character Ever” arguments seem to&#xA;  miss entirely – and it’s the most important one of all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I highly recommend reading the entire character study &lt;a href=&quot;https://oneroomwithaview.com/2014/05/21/so-i-can-fly-far-away-why-you-were-wrong-about-jenny-from-forrest-gump/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; in order to understand Jenny's character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T06:28:48.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47494" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47495" CreationDate="2016-02-09T06:59:17.283" Score="4" ViewCount="1143" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381061/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Casino Royale (2006)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Felix Leiter introduces himself to Bond when he goes after Le Chiffre. However, in the previous Bond movies such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093428/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Living Daylights (1987)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Bond already met Felix Leiter. So, the question is, Why does Felix Leiter introduce himself to Bond when they have already met?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27264" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T18:32:11.053" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T15:24:29.627" Title="Why does Felix Leiter introduce himself to Bond, who should already know him?" Tags="|james-bond|casino-royale|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47495" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47494" CreationDate="2016-02-09T07:49:11.203" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The 2006 film &amp;quot;Casino Royale&amp;quot; marks a reboot of the series and not a continuation of the previous films&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(2006_film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wikipedia article for Casino Royale (2006 film)&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Casino Royale reboots the series, establishing a new timeline and&#xA;narrative framework not meant to precede or succeed any previous Bond&#xA;film&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the context of Bond chronology &amp;quot;Casino Royale&amp;quot; occurs before &amp;quot;The Living Daylights. The novel &amp;quot;Casino Royale&amp;quot; marks the first of the James Bond series having been published 13 April 1953 while &amp;quot;The Living Daylights&amp;quot; is based on a short story from the book &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_James_Bond_novels_and_short_stories#1968.E2.80.9379&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Octopussy and The Living Daylights&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; which was published 23 June 1966.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T07:49:11.203" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47496" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12011" CreationDate="2016-02-09T07:58:15.550" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Bad Wolf refers to an old Norse legend about Fenrir, a huge and terrible wolf, who is the offspring of Loki and a troll. Fenrir is tethered to prevent it killing the gods in Asguard (not sure why, but it doesnt like them for some reason). To cut a long story short, it breaks its bonds and triggers Ragnarok, the last battle in all existence..ever. The Norse Gods are invaded by the baddy trolls, Fenrir and the Migarth Serpent (Lokis other naughty child)... (depends on your view as to who the baddies are), and the heros in Asguard and all of the known universe are crushed, ending in dark oblivion..or something like that ! Fenrir...Bad Wolf !&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user30916" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2018-09-14T02:45:01.070" LastActivityDate="2018-09-14T02:45:01.070" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="47499" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30647" CreationDate="2016-02-09T09:14:46.930" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It wasn't explained in the show in any way as this is one of the last scenes in the very last episode so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most probable explanation is the one from EdChum's comment - this is a message to her family as she wasn't expecting to survive.&#xA;Personally I think it was addressed especially to her husband due to two reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;she might have expected him to be present during body identification&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;she was aware that her past relation with Paul will be explained to her husband and she wanted to assure him that despite her romance he is the one she truly loved, etc.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Multiple other explanations are of course possible, but there is really nothing to support them, unless something is revealed in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/10/gillian-anderson-jamie-dornan-bbc-the-fall-series-three-fifty-shades&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Season 3&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Season 3 doesn't provide an answer because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Rose has no recollection of the event. However during the questioning&#xA; by Stella in Episode 3 she mentions that in captivity she was thinking&#xA; a lot about her family, while she doesn't mention any development of&#xA; sympathetic feelings towards Paul, which seems to confirm that the&#xA; message was to her husband and children and not to her kidnapper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2017-02-27T12:26:03.913" LastActivityDate="2017-02-27T12:26:03.913" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47500" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47320" CreationDate="2016-02-09T09:26:59.923" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been reading up on Faraday cages in an attempt to answer your question. After rewatching the scene in the episode, I notice that first of all, the exact purpose of the Faraday cage isn't explicitly stated although the obvious conclusion would be to avoid RF detection and protect against electromagnetic pulse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For reference here are a few images of the Faraday Cage from the episode, including the door that allows them to enter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R98HX.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/R98HX.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IOy1r.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IOy1r.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So is this a Faraday Cage? Can a Faraday Cage have a door?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/build-your-own-faraday-cage-heres-how/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; to be a great source for the basics of Faraday cages without a lot of extra science mumbo jumbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can A Faraday Cage Have Holes?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yes, as long as the holes are small with respect to the wavelength of&#xA;  the incident electromagnetic wave. For example, a 1 GHz wave has a&#xA;  wavelength of 0.3 meters in free space. As long as the holes are&#xA;  significantly smaller than that dimension (i.e., a few millimeters),&#xA;  they won’t let in much of the incident wave. This is why fine&#xA;  conductive mesh can be used when constructing a Faraday cage. In&#xA;  practice, the cage’s lid or door usually causes the most leakage.&#xA;  Taping the seam with conductive tape helps to reduce this leakage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there can be holes but adding a door tends to cause leakage...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is another source indicating an almost identical response and example &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thereadystore.com/diy/9713/building-your-own-faraday-cage/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;from different site&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Your Faraday cage can have small holes in it, provided they are not&#xA;  too large with respect to the wavelength of the incoming&#xA;  electromagnetic wave. This is why you can also use fine aluminum mesh&#xA;  to build a larger Faraday cage. For example, a 1 GHz wave has a&#xA;  wavelength of 0.3 meters in space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Generally with these kinds of mesh cages, &lt;strong&gt;the cage door is typically&#xA;  the part that causes the most leakage, but this can be fixed by taping&#xA;  the seams with conductive tape.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in answer to your question, yes this does look like a legitimate Faraday Cage and meets all the characteristics of one, however, you are correct that each time the door is opened they are likely creating leakage leading to them possibly being discovered and they would have been better off to creating a sealed entry and tunnel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; I decided to go further with this in regards to the size of the holes in regards to allowing RF frequencies. Here is a chart of the US Frequency Allocations indicating the smallest to largest frequency channels.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zN7R6.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/zN7R6.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on that chart I calculated the wavelength size in meters for the smallest (3 kHz) and largest (300 GHz) frequencies using an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/EN/units-converter/frequency-wavelength/5-29/gigahertz-wavelength_in_centimetres/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;online calculator&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;3 kilohertz = 9993081.933333 wavelength in centimetres&lt;br&gt;&#xA;300 gigahertz = 0.09993081933333 wavelength in centimetres&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems clear that no 3 kHz signals are getting in or out of the cage, however, 300 GHz have an incredibly small wavelength size and its conceivable that these wavelengths could penetrate a mesh cage as we see in the episode. So if the ARV was giving off signals of these frequency then its possible it could have been detected through such a cage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T09:44:37.580" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T09:44:37.580" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47501" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="97758" CreationDate="2016-02-09T09:56:27.847" Score="2" ViewCount="414" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Sally Ann confronted Paul in &lt;em&gt;The Fall&lt;/em&gt; S01E05 about the real reason of his late night absences  in home he lied to her about having an affair with Katie.&#xA;In my understanding he (later) started the affair to have a complex alibi, hoping to pretend to be some kind of an anti-police anarchist and not a killer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still I don't understand why he told her wife that the affair was already ongoing, risking a destruction of his family, something that he seemed to genuinely care about.&#xA;Was it a complicated scheme to have Katie cover up for him and give him alibi for the killing nights?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, this didn't really go well, because:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Katie gave him alibi anyway, without knowing about the fake affair&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She was angry at him for &quot;inventing&quot; the affair&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, for this scheme, he really didn't have to lie to Sally Ann about having the affair, he just needed to seduce Katie and then she would lie to the police for him anyway.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2019-04-12T17:13:34.087" LastActivityDate="2020-05-06T19:03:30.387" Title="What was Paul trying to achieve by lying to his wife in the final episode of the first season?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-fall-tv|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="47504" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-09T10:58:03.273" Score="4" ViewCount="580" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching a Hindi TV series and I found many instances of brand identity, like cars or mobile phones, are censored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was not the only time I noticed it; I've seen it two or three more times. In English series I did not see it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any significance or reason behind it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T14:54:29.090" LastActivityDate="2016-07-11T05:51:01.640" Title="Why are brand names in Hindi TV series censored?" Tags="|censorship|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47505" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47506" CreationDate="2016-02-09T11:18:12.250" Score="4" ViewCount="278" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yoda speaks with difficulty with people, so what is his real language?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does exist a language for same species creatures of Yoda? (es. Shyriiwook for the Wookiees)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6582" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T11:55:52.543" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T12:11:30.183" Title="What is the real Yoda language?" Tags="|character|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47506" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47505" CreationDate="2016-02-09T12:01:16.017" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Language: Variation on the Galactic Basic Standard**, which he speaks fluently, but in an unusual manner which may make it &lt;em&gt;sound&lt;/em&gt; like he has difficulty.&#xA;It is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a dedicated language just for his species.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yoda's language appears to be a form of &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Galactic_Basic_Standard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Galactic Basic Standard&lt;/a&gt;. Wookiepedia describes it as:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...an unusual form of Basic utilized by Jedi Grand Master Yoda and&#xA;  others of his tridactyl species, including Yaddle; it was&#xA;  characterized by an object-subject-verb format. However, another&#xA;  member of this species, Vandar Tokare, did not use this dialect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it appears &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; if not quite &lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; of his species spoke this language, in this way (an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93subject%E2%80%93verb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Object-Subject-Verb&lt;/a&gt; order). Given this, his species &lt;em&gt;do not&lt;/em&gt; have a dedicated language, such as Shyriiwook for Wookies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; he speaks this way, I believe that is a little harder to understand. I don't believe any Star Wars canon ever &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; addressed this (in fact, Yoda's entire species has been kept under wraps in most of the Star Wars canon released - they don't even appeat to have  a name).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QN2DUy8aUbIC&amp;amp;pg=PA115&amp;amp;lpg=PA115&amp;amp;dq=After%20nine%20hundred%20years,%20%5BYoda%5D%20was%20sick%20of%20hearing%20the%20same%20old%3E%20things%20the%20same%20old%20way.%20Use%20the%20same%20old%20clich%C3%A9%20phrases%20too%20long%20and%3E%20people%20stop%20hearing%20their%20message&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=cL5rjYCtUr&amp;amp;sig=eDzpai6LWz8lvFC_nvTdzzHUT_I&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwiIyfTd0OrKAhViM5oKHZthCngQ6AEIHTAA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fate of the Jedi: Backlash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, Ben Skywalker suggests: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;After nine hundred years, [Yoda] was sick of hearing the same old&#xA;  things the same old way. Use the same old cliché phrases too long and&#xA;  people stop hearing their message.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this is hardly definitive. Perhaps it was a decision made to make him sound like a wise old master, or to deliberately stand him apart from those around him, as a focal &quot;oddity&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the &quot;what&quot; appears to be Galactic Basic Standard. The &quot;why&quot; is unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a final, Star Wars movie related note, his manner of speaking is never referenced or commented on in the films or series, as far as I'm aware.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As always, our colleagues at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/11039/why-does-yoda-speak-the-way-he-does&quot;&gt;Sci Fi Stack&lt;/a&gt; have discussed this, if anyone wants another list of answers to peruse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:43:38.680" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T12:11:30.183" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47507" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47509" CreationDate="2016-02-09T13:30:03.413" Score="7" ViewCount="6349" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix&lt;/em&gt;, Fred and George Weasley acquire the ability and the rights to teleport. We can watch them teleport easily inside the Order's headquarters, which leads me to assume that the teleportation is harmless and free.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If teleporting is an easy and harmless way of moving, why do the wizards keep using brooms or keep walking? Wouldn't it be easier for them to teleport?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28388" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T14:11:22.307" Title="Why don't wizards teleport more?" Tags="|plot-explanation|harry-potter|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47508" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47482" CreationDate="2016-02-09T13:39:10.693" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought it was to spare him of her life.  Jenny is pretty free-spirited throughout the movie, while Forrest is always more on an even keel.  I believe that she felt like her lifestyle would cause him grief or anguish as it had in the past (think &quot;Black Panther party&quot;), and she didn't want him to have to be introduced to that.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd definitely agree with sanpaco's statement that Jenny loved Forrest her whole life, and that's why she cared enough to rid his life of her.  She only re-introduced herself into his life when she knew she was dying and realized Forrest was the best person to raise their son.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T13:39:10.693" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47509" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47507" CreationDate="2016-02-09T14:11:22.307" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Teleporting, i.e. &lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Apparition&quot;&gt;apparition&lt;/a&gt;, is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; harmless and free. It can be quite complex. However, the books reveal this in much more detail than the films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As remarked in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inlibrary.org/book-24-7.html&quot;&gt;The Goblet of Fire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Harry knew Apparating meant disappearing from one place and&#xA;  reappearing almost instantly in an another, but he had never known any&#xA;  Hogwarts student to do it, and understood that it was very difficult.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was shortly followed by this exchange:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“You have to pass a test to Apparate?” Harry asked.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Oh yes,” said Mr. Weasley, tucking the tickets safely into the back&#xA;  pocket of his jeans. “The Department of Magical Transportation had to&#xA;  fine a couple of people the other day for Apparating without a&#xA;  license. It's not easy, Apparition, and when it's not done property it&#xA;  can lead to nasty complications. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;This pair I'm talking about went and&#xA;  splinched themselves.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Everyone around the table except Harry winced.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Er—splinched?” said Harry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“They left half of themselves behind,” said Mr. Weasley, now spooning&#xA;  large amounts of treacle onto his porridge. “So, of course, they were&#xA;  stuck. Couldn't move either way. Had to wait for the Accidental Magic&#xA;  Reversal Squad to sort them out. Meant a fair old bit of paperwork, I&#xA;  can tell you, what with the Muggles who spotted the body parts they'd&#xA;  left behind....”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Harry had a sudden vision of a pair of legs and an eyeball lying&#xA;  abandoned on the pavement of Privet Drive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Were they okay?” he asked, startled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Oh yes,” said Mr. Weasley matter-of-factly. “But they got a heavy&#xA;  fine, and I don't think they'll be trying it again in a hurry. You&#xA;  don't mess around with Apparition. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;There are plenty of adult wizards&#xA;  who don't bother with it. Prefer brooms—slower, but safer.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the highlighted sections show, some wizards simply prefer a slower, safer method of travel, hence broomsticks or walking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pottermore.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/floo-powder&quot;&gt;Pottermore&lt;/a&gt; website remarks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;No shortage of Floo powder has ever been reported, nor does anybody&#xA;  know anyone who makes it. Its price has remained constant for one&#xA;  hundred years: two Sickles a scoop. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Every wizard household carries a&#xA;  stock of Floo powder, usually conveniently located in a box or vase on&#xA;  the mantelpiece.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there are plenty of other, safer transport methods than just teleporting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In my view, the most likely reason the film shows so much apparition it allows quick transitions from one place to another and is very &quot;magicky&quot;, involving disappearing in one place and appearing somewhere else - much cooler than showing someone on a broomstick covering the same distance.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T14:11:22.307" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47510" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-09T14:18:40.367" Score="9" ViewCount="599" Body="&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the 1998 movie &quot;Restaurant&quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0152176/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;imdb&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/library/film/012800restaurant-film-review.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a good NYT review&lt;/a&gt;) with Adrien Brody, his character Chris is having an altercation evolving into a fight with a young black co-worker (played, I think, by Avery Kidd Waddell). The scene is pivotal in the movie. It's an outbreak of racially tainted hostility which comes unexpected particularily for Chris' friends (and possibly himself). After the fight everybody looks at him as if seeing a different man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I have viewed the scene a few times because I was curious what exactly he said during the altercation. The scene does not appear to be online anywhere, unfortunately, so I cannot link to it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the DVD I have (Digiview Entertainment #TEX65M), one hears him say &quot;Motherf...&quot; which to me doesn't seem to warrant the stunned reaction of his friends. Given that there was a blurring of a &quot;finger&quot; gesture in another scene, and possibly one or two other places where an expletive was replaced, is it conceivable that he actually used the N-word but that it was later dubbed over? Were these edits done for the home video version only (thanks to cde for pointing that out)? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26542" LastEditorUserId="26542" LastEditDate="2016-02-10T13:51:17.447" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T13:51:17.447" Title="Does Adrien Brody's Character in &quot;Restaurant&quot; (1998) Use the N-Word?" Tags="|dialogue|restaurant|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47511" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-09T16:19:37.087" Score="5" ViewCount="7782" Body="&lt;p&gt;How does Joel know he needs to meet Clementine at Montauk in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338013/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;? Clementine tells Joel in one of his memories that he should meet her at Montauk. This is Joel's memory. Hence he's telling himself to meet Clementine at Montauk. The next day, because of the subliminal information in his head, he meets her on the train to Montauk. How does Joel know that Clementine is going to be on the train? He's never met her there before. How does he remember something he's not yet done? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: This question assumes that Clementine was always going to be there at Montauk. She has had her memory erased a week earlier. The question is how does Joel know this information about Montauk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2016-02-11T10:37:54.120" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T10:37:54.120" Title="How does Joel know where to meet Clementine?" Tags="|plot-explanation|eternal-sunshine-of-spotless-mind|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ClosedDate="2016-02-12T03:06:53.973" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47512" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47514" CreationDate="2016-02-09T16:21:18.347" Score="7" ViewCount="7350" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's often mentioned but it never explains what kind of research Walt's old company Gray Matter actually does in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Breaking Bad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30725" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-03-19T15:05:36.487" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T15:05:54.113" Title="What does Gray Matter specialize in?" Tags="|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47513" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47512" CreationDate="2016-02-09T16:26:14.180" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Research, but beyond that it's not explained in the show&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know that in 2008 the company was nominated for a Nobel Prize, as it's mentioned in &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/...and_the_Bag%27s_in_the_River&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;...and the Bag's in the River&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. We also know it has a net worth of $2.16 billion dollars (from &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Buyout&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Buyout)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it's actual purpose is unknown and not explored in the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T16:43:41.940" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T16:43:41.940" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47514" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47512" CreationDate="2016-02-09T16:39:12.437" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the Scientific America on Walt's wall, Gray Matter made breakthroughs in Molecular Switches. *&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have a read &lt;a href=&quot;https://weakinteractions.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-science-of-breaking-bad-gray-matter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for a good overview of science.  And Gray Matter.  A synopsis:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;From the text on the Scientific American cover and article, Gray&#xA;  Matter Technologies has been making significant advances in the field&#xA;  of molecular switches. Simply put, a molecular switch is a lot like a&#xA;  mechanical switch – it has two (sometimes more) states, analogous to&#xA;  on and off, and will change state when the environment is changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*shamelessly stolen from cde's comment on my own answer &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/47125/does-producing-blue-meth-make-walter-a-chemistry-genius/47126#47126&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2016-03-19T15:05:54.113" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47516" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47518" CreationDate="2016-02-09T19:38:45.293" Score="140" ViewCount="44153" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems that there is a rarity in films where the bad guy wins at the film's conclusion (&quot;bad guys&quot; being defined by the culture of the movie makers). By &quot;win&quot; I mean the good guy(s) have been defeated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not talking about bad guys with whom we sympathize such as Jack Sparrow in &lt;em&gt;Pirates of the Caribbean&lt;/em&gt;, Léon Montana in &lt;em&gt;The Professional&lt;/em&gt;, or any number of criminals &amp;amp; scoundrels depicted having a heart of gold. Rather the Villain or Antagonist in the James Bond or Marvel comics sense. Hans Gruber in &lt;em&gt;Die Hard&lt;/em&gt;. Thulsa Doom in &lt;em&gt;Conan the Barbarian&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there actually rules, written or unwritten, preventing a script with victorious villains ever being made into a movie? Is it assumed audiences wouldn't be interested in such a film and ticket sales would suffer? Or is there any other reason those movies are so apparently rare?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11367" LastEditorUserId="46980" LastEditDate="2020-05-29T06:59:24.500" LastActivityDate="2020-05-31T08:33:00.453" Title="Why are films where the bad guy &quot;wins&quot; at the end so rare?" Tags="|cinema-history|trope|" AnswerCount="10" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="47517" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47516" CreationDate="2016-02-09T20:19:50.483" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;First one that comes to mind is &lt;strong&gt;The Usual Suspects&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Without giving it away, the plot takes you in one direction,  before an abrupt (and clever)  plot twist,  and the result is that the main villain (Keyser Soze) wins. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't tend to get stories with the villan as winner,  we tend to follow the heroic character and so invest feelings in them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4637" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T20:19:50.483" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47518" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47516" CreationDate="2016-02-09T20:25:25.893" Score="145" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;There are plenty of films where the &quot;bad guy&quot; wins.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, the reason &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; the bad guy wins can come down to a number of reasons, including to be more realistic, to set up a later &quot;good&quot; ending in another film or because it's unexpected, to name a few reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer (&lt;em&gt;note: there will be spoilers for some films below&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are really a few different things to look at here. For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Films where a villain &quot;wins&quot; by physically or literally defeating a good guy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Films where a villain &quot;wins&quot; by psychologically defeating a good guy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What exactly &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; guy versus a &lt;em&gt;bad&lt;/em&gt; guy.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What exactly does &lt;em&gt;winning&lt;/em&gt; mean?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the first film that comes to my mind when I think of villains winning is &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_(1995_film)&quot;&gt;Seven&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. In it, two police officers hunt down a criminal who is murdering people based on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins&quot;&gt;seven deadly sins&lt;/a&gt;. The film ends with the &quot;bad guy&quot; manipulated one of the good guys into killed him, thus fulfilling the &quot;final&quot; deadly sin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a win? I would consider it so. The good guy's morality was damaged and the bad guy got what he wanted - even if it meant his death. Therefore, I'd consider this under Option 2 above - psychologically defeating the good guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another famous example is &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Country_for_Old_Men_(film)&quot;&gt;No Country for Old Men&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, where the &quot;good guy&quot; comes across a lot of money at the start of the film, and spends the film avoiding a hitman who is after him for it. He doesn't succeed. He is killed towards the end of the film. We see the hitman get involved in a car crash. He could have died. Instead, he recovers and walks away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the good guy is dead, the bad guy survives and walks away. A very clear example of Option 1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Usual_Suspects&quot;&gt;The Usual Suspects&lt;/a&gt; would fall down this road. But what about &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back&quot;&gt;The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;? Or &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Half-Blood_Prince_(film)&quot;&gt;Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Or &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games:_Catching_Fire#Plot&quot;&gt;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. The &quot;bad guys&quot; certainly won at the end of those films - but do those count, since they were part of an overall series where the good guys won?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When looking at Option 3, I mention the difficulty in defining good and bad. In years gone by, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_and_white_hat_symbolism_in_film&quot;&gt;black and white hat&lt;/a&gt; symbolism could make this a simple task. But in modern media, it's increasingly difficult. Take a show like &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; - how does one determine who is &quot;good&quot; and who is &quot;bad&quot;? Everyone will have their own subjective opinion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And what about horror films? Quite a few of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_(franchise)&quot;&gt;Saw&lt;/a&gt; films end with the bad guy winning. Many other horror films do. Do we count these?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, what about Option 4? What &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; winning. Does Amy win at the end of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_Girl_(film)&quot;&gt;Gone Girl&lt;/a&gt;, a film about a woman who intentionally disappears to heap suspicion on her husband, but returns when it backfires (having murdered another person) and forced him into a situation where he must stay with her. Did they both lose? What about &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightcrawler_(film)&quot;&gt;Nightcrawler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, where a stringer who films live footage of crimes sets up a scene to kill his partner, so he can film it. He was the protagonist of the film, but that didn't make the creepy ending to this film any more comfortable - but it wasn't &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to be comfortable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of subjectivity around all of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I'd propose to set aside Points 3 and 4 for now. If we just focus on obvious examples of victory, through defeating the good guy or psychologically breaking him, there are a number of fascinating reasons &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; a film might let a bad guy win:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unexpected&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is unexpected for bad guys to win. We got to the films, and watch TV, to be entertained. Often this involves rooting for the good guys, as many of us identify as good ourselves. Of course, these guys might be rogues (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sparrow&quot;&gt;Captain Jack Sparrow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Solo&quot;&gt;Han Solo&lt;/a&gt;), but their characters are written in such a way as to be interesting, relateable and fun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the tables are turned and the good guy &lt;em&gt;loses&lt;/em&gt;, it suddenly becomes unexpected and adds shock value.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cliffhangers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Take a show like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Kombat:_Conquest&quot;&gt;Mortal Kombat: Conquest&lt;/a&gt;. Its first series ended with &lt;em&gt;almost&lt;/em&gt; all the good guys dying. The intention was a second series would have resolved this (supposedly by making the first series ending a dream). However, the show was cancelled. So for all of time, there is a depressing ending!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are slightly different examples like I mentioned above, where films that are part of an overall story arc can have cliffhanger endings where the &quot;bad guys&quot; win - although this is often to set the good guys up for an even &lt;em&gt;bigger&lt;/em&gt; win later on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Realism&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Films like &lt;em&gt;No Country for Old Men&lt;/em&gt; displayed &quot;bad guys&quot; winning because it was a genuinely realistic finale that was intended to both shock and horrify. And it worked, brilliantly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Historically accurate&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Imagine an infamous criminal from modern or historical times who got rich, lived happy and survived until old age. He has technically &quot;won&quot; (and quite possibly defeated many good guys along the way). However, as this is a film that's historically accurate this &quot;victory&quot; will be shown, even if people watching the film find it distasteful.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So how do audiences react&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is very difficulty to objectively judge. Are we basing this on critic reviews? On box office revenue? For films like &lt;em&gt;The Usual Suspects&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Seven&lt;/em&gt;, they reacted brilliantly. The endings are adored. For others, they are not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, there are &lt;em&gt;plenty&lt;/em&gt; of films where the bad guys win.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the biggest problem I believe for studios in deciding whether the &quot;bad guy&quot; should win, is understanding &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; he is wanted to win. If it is just &quot;for fun&quot;, they're much less likely to do it. If it's for a twist ending, for shock value, to reflect the brutality of a situation, or to set up an ending for a later, more positive film - then it's much more likely to be acceptable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Film studios do care about audience opinion. If they feel the audience will appreciate the ending or if it fits with the theme of the story, then they'll proceed with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T14:07:09.123" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T14:07:09.123" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47520" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47320" CreationDate="2016-02-09T21:18:41.610" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, and maybe not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For it's intended purpose of keeping the ARV &lt;em&gt;completely&lt;/em&gt; shielded from external communications or communicating externally, when you can't control RF emissions, having such a large door without a double-door setup does defeat the purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But there is considerations for length of time the door is open, size compared to the rest of the cage, or the wavelength they know the ARV operates on. A partial Faraday cage will still attenuate a signal considerably. It won't be 100% effective, some signals will still get out, but the effective power and distance of these signals will be much much weaker. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.usc.edu/CSSF/History/2010/Projects/J0912.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Even a kid can find that out&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Decreasing the Faraday cage enclosure configurations or shielding resulted in a progressively cleaner sine wave of the broadcasted tone, and a higher RMS voltage. I observed that signal blocking with a fully enclosed cage and one with only the top removed is about the same (90-100% shielding). I also observed that a three-sided enclosure can block approximately 85% of RF radiation, and that removing the bottom of a cage significantly increases signal strength, as compared to removing the top.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And they are in a metal bunker/hangar/warehouse, which itself is a partial Faraday cage, and helps attenuate any signal in or out. While not an ideal cage, this does set up a double cage of sorts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;So in-universe, any engineer that designed this cage likely took a look at all circumstances and rated the cage at a certain percentage of efficiency that was deemed acceptable.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The real reason is likely out-of-universe, to let the camera crew walk into the cage behind the actors without any complications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T21:18:41.610" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47521" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47438" CreationDate="2016-02-09T21:49:42.300" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Greek &quot;Deus ex machina&quot; would translate as &quot;O από μηχανής Θεός&quot;, which is a term originating for ancient Greek dramatic poetry and especially from tragedy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It meant that a God would be making his appearance before mortals, usually happening at the end of a play thus helping the writer ending his play, by providing a solution or resolving a rather difficult and dead-end situation&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are more than one theories why the term came to be:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1) An actor playing a God, would be lowered into the theater scene with the help of a wooden crane, it would appear as he was descending from the heavens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;2) Greeks Gods would descend to earth on flying chariots and they where trying to replicate this effect so the spectators could interpret the divine intervention.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30943" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T21:49:42.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47522" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="37516" CreationDate="2016-02-09T21:57:18.120" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is likely borrowed from a similar scene &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BcPAL4rXbcgC&amp;amp;pg=PT67&amp;amp;lpg=PT67&amp;amp;dq=I%20could%20have%20been%20wrong,%20of%20course,%20and%20at%20least%20my%20credibility%20woul&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=V6bFgpxQqp&amp;amp;sig=6NmrhIaNdlpCdQuj5g6ablbA9VI&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwiTvOWQ2OvKAhUB1xQKHVpsAE8Q6AEIIjAA&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;in the book&lt;/a&gt;, which takes place in a slightly different context.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I could have been wrong, of course, and at least my credibility would&#xA;  have been hurt.   But I had taken that gemology course, and I wanted&#xA;  to demonstrate that I knew something about gems.   The stone was just&#xA;  too big -- nobody would have this big a stone lying around in their&#xA;  house.   And the color was a little off.   I just had this gut feeling&#xA;  about it.   p 84&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Donnie was making an educated guess based on some general education in gemology and distinctive characteristics that skewed this towards being a fugazy.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30783" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T22:05:11.817" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T22:05:11.817" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47523" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1578" CreationDate="2016-02-09T22:00:08.887" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Depending on how you define digital (I suppose the relevant part would be the bit that catches the light, an electronic sensor instead of chemical process), then &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102722/?ref_=ttspec_spec_tt&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Prospero's Books&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; released in August 1991 may be a contender. See the tech ref &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102722/technical?ref_=tt_dt_spec&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;on imdb.com.&lt;/a&gt; It's directed by Peter Greenaway, starring John Gielgud.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30946" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-02-10T03:05:49.470" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T03:05:49.470" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47524" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47527" CreationDate="2016-02-09T22:43:36.050" Score="4" ViewCount="7787" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Character Mark Watney incrementally modified his Mars Rover over a period of months as he gradually extended its range. Eventually he was able to retrieve a derelict Mars Pathfinder by digging it out of the sand. &lt;strong&gt;How far away was the Pathfinder from Watney's Base?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21851" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T23:26:54.617" LastActivityDate="2016-10-11T07:37:59.693" Title="How far did Watney drive to get to the Pathfinder in &quot;The Martian&quot;?" Tags="|the-martian|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47525" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47516" CreationDate="2016-02-09T22:53:26.343" Score="20" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first, most prominent film that springs to my mind is &lt;strong&gt;Star Wars : The Empire Strikes Back&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;** spoiler alert **&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By the end, a Rebel base has been destroyed..  our hero Luke has just had his hand cut off, Han Solo is in frozen in carbonite.  Darth Vader and the Emprire definitely have the upper hand.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course this has to be viewed in the context of the trilogy - but taken at face value, the Bad Guys™ win this movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for &quot;how this was perceived by the audience&quot; - many people cite &lt;strong&gt;Empire&lt;/strong&gt; as their favourite of the entire series, and when asked why, they often give variations on the idea that it was the 'darkest', 'broodiest', etc..  Usually the same people who seem to &lt;em&gt;hate&lt;/em&gt; Ewoks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5032" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-10T13:00:25.797" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T13:00:25.797" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47526" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47524" CreationDate="2016-02-09T23:12:52.640" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The HAB and Watney's science'd out makeshift base is located in the Acidalia Planitia. We are given its exact Lat/Long Coordinates in the book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Hab's at 31.2 degrees north, 28.5 degrees west. What do you see?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Carl Sagan Memorial Station, formerly known as the Pathfinder Lander&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is in the Ares Vallis. It's exact position is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;19° 7' 48&quot; North - 33° 13' 12&quot; West&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The distance between the two as the Martian Raven flies would be 475 miles. As Watney has to circumnavigate martian hills and rocks, his actual mileage would have been slightly larger. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;He gets lost for a while, and has to roam the desert in a general North direction.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Round trip, that's almost 1000 miles. It took around ten &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sols&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; each way to recover the Pathfinder. He found it on Sol 82:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sol 82 - Victory I found it&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And returned by Sol 93~94.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I found the Hab signal today. No more chance to get lost. According to the computer, I’m 24,718 meters away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is almost half of the distance that Watney had to travel to reach the Ares 4 MAV. That was 2000 miles, one way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A very neat map can be found at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cannonade.net/mars.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Andy Weir's &quot;The Martian&quot; Map&lt;/a&gt; which includes a Google Map with pinpoints for Watney's travels for various days, and coordinates based on book quotes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fa953.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fa953.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vocNH.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/vocNH.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T23:43:14.087" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T23:43:14.087" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47527" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47524" CreationDate="2016-02-09T23:16:16.713" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Exactly distance unknown, but likely somewhere between 464.634 miles and 600 miles&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not directly spelled out in the film. However, in Chapter 8 of the novel, the following discussion takes place:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Watney’s on the move again.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Still going in a straight line,” Mindy said, pointing to her monitor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I see,” Venkat said. “He’s sure as hell not going to Ares 4. Unless&#xA;  he’s going around some natural obstacle.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“There’s nothing for him to go around,” Mindy said. “It’s Acidalia&#xA;  Planitia.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Are those the solar cells?” Venkat asked, pointing to the screen.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Yeah,” Mindy said. “He did the usual two-hour drive, EVA, two-hour&#xA;  drive. He’s &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;one hundred and fifty-six kilometers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; from the Hab now.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Pathfinder!” Mindy said. “He’s going to Pathfinder!”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Yup!” Venkat said. “Now we’re getting somewhere. It’s like &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;eight&#xA;  hundred kilometers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; from him. He can get there and back with supplies&#xA;  on hand.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, we can see from the novel the types of distances being talked about here - but it's not clearly spelled out what the &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; distance between the two locations is and we know Watney's path is slightly complicated by the routes he has to taken in the  rover.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But if we assume his 156km are in the direction of &lt;em&gt;Pathfinder&lt;/em&gt; (a logical assumption) and we assume Venkat is correct with his 800km assertion, it's about &lt;strong&gt;~950km&lt;/strong&gt;, which is &lt;strong&gt;~590 miles&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However&lt;/strong&gt;, as the Watney's Hub is described as being in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acidalia_Planitia&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Acidalia Planitia&lt;/a&gt; and Pathfinder is known to be in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_Vallis&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ares Vallis&lt;/a&gt;, the exact distance as the crow flies between the two can be calculated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And someone has already cleverly done this &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.wolfram.com/2015/09/24/stranded-on-mars-exploring-travel-on-mars-in-the-martian/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;using Wolfram&lt;/a&gt;. The answer is &lt;strong&gt;464.634 miles&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vr2ft.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vr2ft.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, this is the minimum travel distance Watney had. So the exact distance &lt;em&gt;he had to drive&lt;/em&gt; is unknown, but it's somewhere between 464.634 and ~600 miles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-09T23:34:23.283" LastActivityDate="2016-02-09T23:34:23.283" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47536" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47537" CreationDate="2016-02-10T03:09:06.930" Score="4" ViewCount="22742" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why does Bilbo decide to join the dwarves on their adventure? Obviously he doesn't want adventures. He says &quot;no&quot; many times, but the next day after &quot;Thorin and company&quot; leave his house, he is seen considering the contract again and changes his mind. Why? What changed? He seems to have convinced after reading the word &quot;burglar&quot; and then decides its his destiny to become a burglar and try steal something and probably die. I don't understand. He's not even thief.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30956" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-02-03T01:11:52.380" LastActivityDate="2018-09-30T18:12:06.923" Title="Why does Bilbo Baggins decide to go with the dwarves in &quot;The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&quot;" Tags="|an-unexpected-journey|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47537" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47536" CreationDate="2016-02-10T03:26:28.380" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the book, he actually goes out of a sense of duty to fulfill a contract which he was tricked into accepting by Gandalf. It's a matter of his good name and integrity. However, the movie changed things slightly by making Bilbo originally refuse to join the journey, but then the next morning he changes his mind.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In hobbit culture, it is considered taboo to seek out adventures and excitement. Hobbits are fans of predictability and routine. This culture has been set in Bilbo his entire life and he tries to be a proper and respectable hobbit. That said, he also enjoys reading stories about elves and far off lands. In the book it is mentioned how he loves Gandalf's fireworks and is very imaginative as a young hobbit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a conflict in the character: be a respectable hobbit and do the easy thing by staying home, or go on an adventure and leave his home behind. This conflict is a recurring theme throughout the movie and the book. When he wakes up in the morning and finds the dwarves gone, at first he is relieved, but as he sits in the quiet and ponders to himself he realizes that he can't pass up the chance to go on an adventure. Hoping he's not too late, he signs the contract and sets out to join the dwarves. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="22993" LastEditDate="2018-09-30T18:12:06.923" LastActivityDate="2018-09-30T18:12:06.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="47538" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="18285" CreationDate="2016-02-10T03:38:01.137" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the request of the OP I'm adding this answer based on what my interpretation of this phrase in the movie meant.  Bare in mind I do not drink and am quite unfamiliar with alcoholic beverages, but I do have friends who drink and my answer is based mainly on things I've picked up from listening to them talk about types of drinks they prefer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the key rules to alcohol according to my friends seems to be that if you get fruit in your drink you open yourself up to relentless teasing and hazing for being a girl and/or a sissy. The only real source I have to back up this cultural view is from the TV show Scrubs where the main character J.D.'s favorite drink is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scrubs.wikia.com/wiki/Appletini&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Appletini&lt;/a&gt;. The joke being that he naively considers this to be a &quot;straight&quot; drink and wonders when gays started drinking them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putting those two pieces of information together led me to the the jerk response that &quot;keep the fruit&quot; was him saying to make sure the drink was manly and contained only hard liquor, and no girly fruit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T03:38:01.137" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47539" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="13708" CreationDate="2016-02-10T03:50:04.843" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think it's spiritual and physical. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel it's more on humanity or lack thereof, it shows that there is no limits to life, it shows a pattern with life. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think it says a few messages: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Free will: it's not the fact that we have free will, it's how we use it.   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The offer of money, which seems to be as they say the root of all evil. The desire to want more than what you have is a huge problem in us humans.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The water alone represents two possibilities:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Transferring: it's possible to transport something through water  .&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cleansing: the whole point is to live and accept your life, you have the power to do better or badly, there's no need to gain and have your fellow man suffer, compassion is common sense.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end they have to deal with their son being blind and deaf, one of them must die, the main thing was to not take another life again ever by any means necessary,  at least I think so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30959" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-09-03T14:21:01.027" LastActivityDate="2016-09-03T14:21:01.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47541" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47516" CreationDate="2016-02-10T05:00:12.870" Score="27" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a writer, it's important to get your audience to care about your protagonist (whether they are good, bad, ugly, or neutral).  If they don't care about and aren't interested in the protagonist, and their plight, then they're not going to care about your story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you're thinking, well, I'll get the audience to care about the bad guy (etc.), then that other thing is your real protagonist. -- Whatever it is, your protagonist(s) are the &quot;bread winner(s)&quot; for your story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Killing the protagonist, or having them fail their quest -- especially right at the climax of your story -- basically means you've spent all this time getting an audience hooked into your story, and then you're destroying the part that they care about the most.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be a good way to lose viewers and ratings. -- A really good example of this is the Game of Thrones / Ice and Fire series.  For a couple of reasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can examine it, from the audiences' perspective yourself, every time you start getting to the point where you're feeling empathy for a character, and the ball really gets rolling, and then the character is just plain fucking dead.  No recourse.  That's life. -- It feels terrible.  But at least it has a LOT of protagonists (and occasionally converts antagonists into protagonists), so it helps with the pain.  Imagine the series if ALL of the POV characters had died in book 1.  It would be a death sentence for the whole series.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can see fan reactions even in the current setup of the series (i.e. there is a lot of &quot;my favorite character 'xyz' died, this show is now dead to me.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite those two things, the series is doing very well financially (IIUC), so killing your protagonists doesn't always have to be a deal breaker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While that's true, it's far easier to pull off a cliff hanger than it is to kill your protagonists.  Take the movie The Empire Strikes Back, for example -- the antagonists don't really &quot;win&quot; -- but instead, it ends with a cliff hanger. -- Where you take characters that the audience has built a lot of empathy with, and you don't quite kill them -- you don't quite make them lose -- you just put them  on the run, in an impossible situation, with all the walls closing in around them (figuratively) -- and then you make the fans wait -- &quot;tune in next time to see how our heroes get out of this one!&quot; -- this helps to build anticipation. -- It works really well for multi-part stories (and historically, it's worked well with TV serieses that are trying to get renewed for another season...).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Useful Reference: &lt;a href=&quot;http://thescriptlab.com/screenwriting/character/character-roles/959-your-hero-top-ten-rules-expanded&quot;&gt;Your Hero: Top Ten Rules (Expanded)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30961" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T05:00:12.870" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47546" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47516" CreationDate="2016-02-10T06:42:54.480" Score="46" Body="&lt;p&gt;You asked a number of questions here; as often happens, not all of them got answered.  Try to ask only one question per question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Are there actually rules, written or unwritten, preventing a script with victorious villains ever being made into a movie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. Do a web search for the &quot;Motion Picture Production Code&quot;, also known as the &quot;Hays Code&quot;.  If you've ever wondered why married people always sleep in twin beds and why the good guys always win in old movies, well, now you know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Has there ever been a movie where the bad guy wins at the film's conclusion?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure. The entire film noir genre comes to mind. In noir films there often are no &quot;good guys&quot; -- there's just a bunch of bad guys. And even when the good guys &quot;win&quot;, it's often a Pyrrhic victory.  &quot;Chinatown&quot; comes immediately to mind as a film in which the villain thoroughly triumphs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The horror genre also comes to mind; though often our hero wins out in the end in a horror movie, I can think of numerous examples where the monster wins. &quot;Little Shop of Horrors&quot;.  &quot;Night of the Living Dead&quot;. And so on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7046" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T06:42:54.480" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47547" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47516" CreationDate="2016-02-10T07:38:28.177" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first movie that sprang to my mind was &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_%28film%29&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Shane&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, released in 1953. The bad guys don't really win, since they're all dead, but the good guy is implied to be dying as he heads into the sunset at the end. So, per your definition, the bad guys have won.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie was received well enough in general, but I can't find any references right off for how the ending was received. I personally know a number of people who were disappointed by the ending, but not enough to be useful as a representative population sample.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30198" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T07:38:28.177" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47549" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47516" CreationDate="2016-02-10T08:01:04.797" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a tradition in storytelling that dictate that the bad guy &quot;wins&quot; in the end. This is mostly prevalent in horror/ghost stories and can be found in almost all human cultures.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In most of these types of stories, the story structure is almost always a horror reveal where the story ends with the protagonist realising or confronting the real ghost/horror and dies. This is the typical structure of Asian horror stories (not movies, stories). It is also found in Western fairy tales but is not as common. It is common in Western urban legends though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One of the most obvious examples of this in movies is &lt;strong&gt;The Wicker Man&lt;/strong&gt;. But it's not quite the perfect example because, like the protagonist, we discover the true horror a bit too late.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A better example is &lt;strong&gt;The Skeleton Key&lt;/strong&gt;. We find out who the villains are quite late in the movie but long before the ending. More to the point, the movie makes us suspect the villain even longer before that. But protagonist lose anyway and the villains get away scot-free (I won't spoil HOW the bad guys win in case you haven't watched it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Twilight Zone&lt;/strong&gt; episodes are also structured like this with the protagonist typically meeting their doom at the hands of a horror at the end of an episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9574" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T08:01:04.797" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47550" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47536" CreationDate="2016-02-10T08:25:19.767" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;He is &lt;em&gt;coerced&lt;/em&gt; into the adventure by Gandalf, who both realises he needs a hobbit and sees the potential for adventure in Bilbo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the novels, Bilbo is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; against the adventure to begin with. From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rednovels.net/classics/u5688_2.html&quot;&gt;Chapter 1&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not today. Good&#xA;  morning!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;But please come to tea—any time you like! Why not tomorrow?&#xA;  Come tomorrow!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Good bye!” With that the hobbit turned and scuttled&#xA;  inside his round green door, and shut it as quickly as he dared, not&#xA;  to seem rude. Wizards after all are wizards.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“What on earth did I ask him to tea for!” he said to himself, as he&#xA;  went to the pantry&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. He had only just had breakfast, but he thought a&#xA;  cake or two and a drink of something would do him good after his&#xA;  fright.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gandalf in the meantime was still standing outside the door, and&#xA;  laughing long but quietly. After a while he stepped up, and with the&#xA;  spike on his staff scratched a queer sign on the hobbit’s beautiful&#xA;  green front-door. Then he strode away, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;just about the time when Bilbo&#xA;  was finishing his second cake and beginning to think that he had&#xA;  escaped adventures very well&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rednovels.net/classics/u5688_8.html&quot;&gt;Chapter 2&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“What message?” said poor Mr. Baggins all in a fluster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Great Elephants!” said Gandalf, “you are not at all yourself this&#xA;  morning—you have never dusted the mantelpiece!”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“What’s that got to do with it? I have had enough to do with washing&#xA;  up for fourteen!”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“&lt;em&gt;If you had dusted the mantelpiece, you would have found this just&#xA;  under the clock,”&lt;/em&gt; said Gandalf, handing Bilbo a note (written, of&#xA;  course, on his own note-paper).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is what he read:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Thorin and Company to Burglar Bilbo greeting! &lt;em&gt;For your hospitality&#xA;  our sincerest thanks, and for your offer of professional assistance&#xA;  our grateful acceptance.&lt;/em&gt; Terms: cash on delivery, up to and not&#xA;  exceeding one fourteenth of total profits (if any); all travelling&#xA;  expenses guaranteed in any event; funeral expenses to be defrayed by&#xA;  us or our representatives, if occasion arises and the matter is not&#xA;  otherwise arranged for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Thinking it unnecessary to disturb your esteemed repose, we have&#xA;  proceeded in advance to make requisite preparations, and shall await&#xA;  your respected person at the Green Dragon Inn, Bywater, at 11 a.m.&#xA;  sharp. Trusting that you will be punctual,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“ We have the honour to remain “   Yours deeply “ Thorin &amp;amp; Co.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“That leaves you just ten minutes. You will have to run,” said&#xA;  Gandalf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“But—,” said Bilbo.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“No time for it,” said the wizard.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“But—,” said Bilbo again.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“No time for that either! Off you go!”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;To the end of his days Bilbo could never remember how he found himself&#xA;  outside, without a hat, a walking-stick or any money, or anything that&#xA;  he usually took when he went out&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;; leaving his second breakfast&#xA;  half-finished and quite unwashed-up, pushing his keys into Gandalf’s&#xA;  hands, and running as fast as his furry feet could carry him down the&#xA;  lane, past the great Mill, across The Water, and then on for a mile or&#xA;  more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he is essentially &lt;em&gt;coerced&lt;/em&gt; into the adventure by Gandalf.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He goes out of a sense of duty and, over time, finds himself an integral part of the group and actually enjoying it. The reasons for this enjoyment, as Gandalf knew, were also touched on in the first paragraph:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Still it is probable that Bilbo, her only son, although he looked and&#xA;  behaved exactly like a second edition of his solid and comfortable&#xA;  father, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;got something a bit queer in his make-up from the Took side,&#xA;  something that only waited for a chance to come out. The chance never&#xA;  arrived, until Bilbo Baggins was grown up, being about fifty years old&#xA;  or so,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and living in the beautiful hobbit-hole built by his father,&#xA;  which I have just described for you, until he had in fact apparently&#xA;  settled down immovably.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T08:25:19.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47552" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47555" CreationDate="2016-02-10T09:15:31.963" Score="5" ViewCount="722" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Evey is in her cell in &lt;em&gt;V for Vendetta&lt;/em&gt;, at some point there's a scene when two men drag her along the corridor: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cPINT.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/cPINT.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But when she is free, she learns that it was all V's doing. He said he did it alone, but at least in the above instance there's a second person involved. And yet, it's clear from the entire movie that V is working completely alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is that second guard a blooper, or am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9084" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-10T12:24:10.617" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T12:24:10.617" Title="Who is the second guard?" Tags="|v-for-vendetta|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47554" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-10T09:20:40.857" Score="8" ViewCount="5893" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the first meeting of V and Evey in &lt;em&gt;V for Vendetta&lt;/em&gt;, V finds Evey's name very fitting. Why? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not evident from the dialogue:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;V: But to whom, may I ask, am I speaking?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  E: I'm Evey.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  V: Evey? E. V. Of course you are.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  E: What does that mean?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  V: It means that I, like God, do not play with dice and do not believe in coincidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0w3oY.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0w3oY.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9084" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-12T21:21:47.067" LastActivityDate="2020-12-29T21:30:29.133" Title="Why is Evey's name so fitting to V?" Tags="|v-for-vendetta|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47555" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47552" CreationDate="2016-02-10T09:29:09.640" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is Valerie not Evey. Evey is imagining the scene and/or flashbacks based on Valerie's secret journal, which Evey &quot;found&quot; and is reading.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's the scene:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/kXqzwcOTcDk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24398" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-10T09:36:54.243" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T09:36:54.243" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47560" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47561" CreationDate="2016-02-10T10:54:27.150" Score="6" ViewCount="1860" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have only a vague description about this 90s or 2000s movie. I am sure the movie plot itself was so confusing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think there are two female lead characters and the film is happening in Hollywood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One is a wannabe actress and the other one is an established actress (not sure). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the beginning of the film, one of the lead actresses met with an accident and got the help of the other. I think she lost her memory too. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two actresses seems to be in love with each other and one becomes missing. The other looks for her and finds her decomposing dead body and recollected that she killed her. Also she had some mental problem and she was not who she assumed she was. She switched her character with the other actress. She killed herself because she indicated breaking up with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am sure it was a critically well acclaimed movie and that was the reason I watched that 4-5 years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27286" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-10T11:17:18.230" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T11:17:18.230" Title="A confusing psychological thriller movie with two leading actresses, among one is a Hollywood actress or a wannabe actress" Tags="|identify-this-movie|thriller|american-cinema|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:22:26.167" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47561" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47560" CreationDate="2016-02-10T10:56:19.410" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like David Lynch's &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulholland_Drive_(film)&quot;&gt;Mulholland Dr.&lt;/a&gt; from 2001.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mulholland Drive (stylized onscreen as Mulholland Dr.) is a 2001 American neo-noir mystery film written and directed by David Lynch and starring Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, and Justin Theroux. It tells the story of an aspiring actress named Betty Elms (Watts), newly arrived in Los Angeles, California, who meets and befriends an amnesic woman (Harring) hiding in an apartment that belongs to Elms's aunt. The story includes several other seemingly unrelated vignettes that eventually connect in various ways, as well as some surreal and darkly comic scenes and images that relate to the cryptic narrative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The rest of the plot unfolds as you've described. And don't feel bad about being confused - this is quite intentional; the complex plot spawned many theories trying to explain it. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/XQ5Q0CHQ0EU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-02-10T11:00:07.067" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T11:00:07.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47562" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-10T11:30:34.157" Score="1" ViewCount="57" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overnight&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Overnight&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; [2015], it quickly transpires that the second couple (Kurt and Charlotte) have a motive for inviting the first couple (Alex and Emily). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How far did they plan ahead? And how much are they just going with the flow?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9450" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-10T11:35:45.797" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T11:35:45.797" Title="How much of what the second couple said was planned, and how much was improvised?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|the-overnight|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47563" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47516" CreationDate="2016-02-10T11:31:31.357" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;The film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244244/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot;&gt;Swordfish (2001)&lt;/a&gt; has part of its plot around this particular subject.  The good guys always winning, the bad guy losing; and the whole idea is for the audience to feel happy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's also an example of where arguably the bad guy does win.  He does get to head off into the sunset having done what he intended.  Okay, he paints himself as a good guy, but given what he does I don't think we can classify him as such.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20991" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T11:31:31.357" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47564" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47554" CreationDate="2016-02-10T11:41:26.920" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is a lot of symbolism in V for Vendetta. V states that he does not believe in coincidence because symbolically Evey is V. And we are V as well. This is why everyone is wearing the same face, the same mask of V. Because we are V, we are one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are subtle hints to this throughout the film for example in the opening scene Evey and V 'mirror' each other. Both characters are doing the same things: Applying their ‘face’, watching TV and putting on their costume. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29622" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T11:41:26.920" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47565" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47567" CreationDate="2016-02-10T12:08:43.983" Score="2" ViewCount="657" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Jurassic World, in the raptors cage scene (where Owen interacts with the raptors), a guy falls down in the cage trying to catch the little pig that is running around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That guy falls down from a high bridge and he falls to the ground on his back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Shouln't that guy die after this high of a fall?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to the answer posted by @Andrew Martin, that guy is uninjured after the fall. He runs away when Owen gets in the cage. If he doesn't die, is it realistic that he's not injuried?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/O-FuIzm68KE?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6582" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-10T14:45:32.940" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T09:25:50.507" Title="Is it realistic that the guy that falls down in the Raptors cage survived?" Tags="|jurassic-world|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47567" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47565" CreationDate="2016-02-10T12:19:19.283" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;People can survive really, &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; big falls. See this &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/may/20/thisweekssciencequestions2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Guardian&lt;/a&gt; article. It is one of many which cover people who have survived miracle falls. From it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 1972, Vesna Vulovic, a cabin attendant, survived a 10,160m fall&#xA;  when the DC-9 she was in exploded over what is now the Czech Republic.&#xA;  Earlier this week, a 102-year-old woman survived after toppling from&#xA;  her fourth-floor balcony in Turin. Fortunately, her fall was broken by&#xA;  a children's playhouse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to another section of the article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Falls can kill by inflicting damage to any number of vital organs, but&#xA;  the most common reason is due to a key artery's route through the&#xA;  body. &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Most people who fall from a height die because they fracture&#xA;  their spine near the top and so transect the aorta which carries blood&#xA;  out of the heart&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;,&quot; says Sean Hughes, professor of surgery at Imperial&#xA;  College, London.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I suppose in the &lt;em&gt;Jurassic World&lt;/em&gt; case, he didn't suffer any damage to vital organs and the fall therefore didn't kill him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a long drop, but people have fallen from even higher!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit after OP's edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The character is &lt;em&gt;injured&lt;/em&gt; when they get up. They stumble - they're certainly not running! Additionally, remember that sheer adrenaline can allow the body to do some pretty amazing things - including giving someone who has fallen a long way the ability to try to stagger away from certain death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2016-02-11T09:25:50.507" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T09:25:50.507" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47570" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47572" CreationDate="2016-02-10T13:56:46.850" Score="9" ViewCount="11565" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; lists the following release years for the Star Wars movies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episode VIII (2017)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Episode IX (2019)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why are there two 10 year plus gaps between the movies?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26574" LastEditorUserId="26574" LastEditDate="2016-02-10T17:04:57.077" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T17:04:57.077" Title="Why are there such large gaps in the Star Wars release timelines?" Tags="|production|star-wars|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47572" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47570" CreationDate="2016-02-10T14:26:47.037" Score="21" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Summary:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Delay between original trilogy and prequel trilogy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lucas' marriage ending resulting in a potential lack of finances, a possible lack of interest in producing sequels, inability of technology of era to reflect what Lucas wanted to achieve.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Delay between prequel trilogy and new/sequel trilogy&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lucas not wanting to pursue sequels, Lucas selling to Disney.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can break down the series in to three sections:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Original Trilogy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Prequel Trilogy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;New/Sequel Trilogy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lucas wrote in a preface to &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XhVLLsZN2W8C&amp;amp;pg=PP7&amp;amp;lpg=PP7&amp;amp;dq=It%20wasn%27t%20long%20after%20I%20began%20writing%20Star%20Wars%20that&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=dDW1dDi6uS&amp;amp;sig=6VrRtPC2ExUqeu3AvJn_Fd4qTXA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwiYjtj_r-3KAhXC8Q4KHdLbDbcQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=It%20wasn%27t%20long%20after%20I%20began%20writing%20Star%20Wars%20that&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Splinter of the Mind's Eye&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the&#xA;story was more than a single film could hold. As the saga of the&#xA;Skywalkers and Jedi Knights unfolded, I began to see it as a tale that&#xA;could take at least nine films to tell—three trilogies—and I realized,&#xA;in making my way through the back story and after story, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;that I was&#xA;really setting out to write the middle story&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This explains why the original trilogy takes place &lt;em&gt;halfway through&lt;/em&gt; the overall Star Wars storyline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Return of the Jedi&lt;/em&gt; was released in 1983, but Lucas was divorced in 1987. A number of online sites reference a few sources (including &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Secret-History-Star-Wars/dp/0978465237&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Secret History of Star Wars&lt;/a&gt;) that claim the settlement from this divorce left Lucas without &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of his fortune, and with little desire to develop his next Star Wars film, he had cancelled his &lt;em&gt;originally planned&lt;/em&gt; new/sequel trilogy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whether this is &lt;em&gt;true&lt;/em&gt; or not is debateable. For example, in 2004 Lucas &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.killermovies.com/s/starwarsepisodeiii/articles/4415.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;gave an interview&lt;/a&gt; where he said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This was never planned as a nine-episode work&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;,&amp;quot; Lucas said. &amp;quot;The&#xA;media [pounced when] I made an offhand comment, 'It might be fun to&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;come back when everyone's 80 and do another one of these.' But I&#xA;never had any intention of doing that.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, although Lucas states he wasn't interested in a sequel trilogy, he had spoken of a prequel trilogy, but didn't want to pursue this due to the technological limitations of the time - as technology developed, he gained more interest in the prequels as technology advanced and he felt he could realise his dreams. For example, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Why-George-Lucas-Never-Thought-He-Make-Star-Wars-Prequels-71540.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;in this article&lt;/a&gt;, he comments:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never thought I’d do the Star Wars prequels, because there was no&#xA;real way I could get Yoda to fight. There was no way I could go over&#xA;Coruscant, this giant city-planet. But once you had digital, there was&#xA;no end to what you could do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Due to the enhanced interest, he began work on the prequel trilogy and the films were released from 1999 - 2005.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even in 2008, &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Jhm1DyjuC-cC&amp;amp;pg=PA107&amp;amp;lpg=PA107&amp;amp;dq=I%20get%20asked%20all%20the%20time,%20%27What%20happens%20after%20Return%20of%20the%20Jedi&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=S80CZqMUrH&amp;amp;sig=fDe3T2meYawEfbWcmgQY179mJtQ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwjSob3csu3KAhVBmg4KHVmuAjU4ChDoAQgbMAA#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=I%20get%20asked%20all%20the%20time%2C%20%27What%20happens%20after%20Return%20of%20the%20Jedi&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lucas said&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I get asked all the time, 'What happens after Return of the Jedi?,'&#xA;and there really is no answer for that. The movies were the story of&#xA;Anakin Skywalker and Luke Skywalker, and when Luke saves the galaxy&#xA;and redeems his father, that's where that story ends.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in October 2012 Star Wars was sold to Disney. They &lt;em&gt;immediately&lt;/em&gt; recognised the huge monetary potentials for the films and began work on a new trilogy immediately, with the first instalment releasing in late 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Loss of revenue&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will point out that the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Legends&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Star Wars Universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (before Disney purchased the franchise) extended &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; beyond the films. The canonicity of the universe &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_expanded_universe#Official_levels_of_canon&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;was as follows&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;G (George Lucas&lt;/strong&gt;) canon is absolute canon. This category&#xA;includes the final releases of the seven films, the novelizations of&#xA;the films, the radio dramas based on the films, the film scripts, and&#xA;any material found in any other source (published or not) that comes&#xA;directly from George Lucas himself. G canon outranks all other forms&#xA;of canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T (Television)&lt;/strong&gt; canon, which comprises Star Wars: The Clone&#xA;Wars and Star Wars: Rebels. This level of canon is considered to take&#xA;precedence over C canon (see below), possibly due to the fact that&#xA;George Lucas is directly involved with these shows. This level does&#xA;not include any series before (including the Genndy Tartakovsky's&#xA;Clone Wars series).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C (continuity)&lt;/strong&gt; canon refers to the main body of EU&#xA;work, and is the next most authoritative level of canon. All&#xA;literature material published under the Star Wars label that doesn't&#xA;fall into either G, T, S, or N canon is C canon and is considered&#xA;authoritative as long as it isn't contradicted by G or T canon. S&#xA;(secondary) canon refers to older, less accurate, or less coherent EU&#xA;works, which are immediately overwritten by anything in the main&#xA;continuity of G and C canon, but are fully canon whenever they do not&#xA;contradict something of higher canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;N continuity&lt;/strong&gt; material is also&#xA;known as &amp;quot;non-canon&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;non-continuity&amp;quot; material. Lego Star Wars,&#xA;Disney Infinity, Star Wars Land, &amp;quot;what-if&amp;quot; stories (such as those&#xA;published under the Infinities label) and anything else that cannot at&#xA;all fit into continuity is placed into this category. N canon is the&#xA;only level that is truly non-canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Across these various levels of canon, there was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.statisticbrain.com/star-wars-total-franchise-revenue/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;substantial revenue&lt;/a&gt; generated in the form of books, video games and TV series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So whilst the &lt;em&gt;films&lt;/em&gt; had a huge gap which resulted in a potential loss of revenue, revenue did continue to flow given the huge sales of Star Wars related products (and arguably &lt;em&gt;helped&lt;/em&gt; the overall revenue of the franchise as the market wasn't flooded with new movies).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T17:03:10.330" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47573" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47565" CreationDate="2016-02-10T14:32:48.860" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/8106/how-far-would-you-need-to-fall-for-it-to-be-fatal&quot;&gt;How far would you need to fall for it to be fatal?&lt;/a&gt; answer on another stack, backed by NASA documents:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ul&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;it depends a lot on where and which way up you land - feet-first onto a soft surface is best (pretty obvious)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;For a hard surface, assuming you don't land on your head, up to about 12m/s impact velocity, you are almost certain to survive (corresponding to a fall from a height of just over 7m).  Though &quot;survive&quot; is likely to involve life-changing injuries at the top of this range&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;7 meters being 22.9 feet. Just over 2 Stories of a standard building (Roughly 10 feet each story). Eyeballing it, based on the height of the wall divisions, and general number of steps required to get to the top, the raptor pen does seem to be around 20 feet/2 stories.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The character lands on soft wood chips on top of soft dirt, not hard concrete.&lt;/strong&gt; And he doesn't land on his head. He flops on his back, kinda. He falls, braces a bit with his arm and leg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0u5Df.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0u5Df.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's unlikely that he would have any life risking injuries, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;but if you ever belly or back flopped in a pool, you know he will be in pain later that day. Bruising, swelling, soreness, at minimum, maybe a dislocated shoulder or cracked coccyx at worst.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The character also doesn't get up and run, he crawls, backwards, to the cage door, and is still sitting down when Owen escapes the pen. When he gets up, and the camera pulls out, he gets up &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Limping and Stumbling out&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:48:01.563" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T14:41:45.127" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47578" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47511" CreationDate="2016-02-10T18:33:15.383" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;While it's not immediately clear on a first viewing, the pre-credits scene occurs chronologically after the majority of the scenes in the movie;  Joel and Clem have already had their breakup, and have both erased each other from their own (conscious) memories.  Note that Clementine's hairstyle is the same in the pre-credits scene as it is at the end of the movie: a blue color that's grown out substantially.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the simplest answer is that their first meeting, when Joel's friends invite him to a beach party and Clementine is there, is in Montauk.  If you accept this as true, then it makes sense that this location would have a special subconscious significance for both of them, and that they would be drawn to the same beach even after having erased their memories.  However, one does have to accept Joel's memory as accurate for this to work;  we only ever see their &quot;first&quot; meeting as part of Joel's memory, rather than in &quot;real life&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, there's another possible interpretation (which is why I put &quot;first&quot; in quotes above.)  The final shot of the movie is a repeated shot of Joel and Clem playing in the snow at Montauk.  Some people have interpreted this scene to mean that Joel and Clem have actually met multiple times before, and have erased each other from their memories more than just the one time we see in the movie.  Viewed from this perspective, the ending is quite fatalistic:  it seems to imply that people are trapped in destructive patterns in their lives, and that there's not a way to escape them.  (To be fair, Joel says he's &quot;OK&quot; with that in the last spoken line of the movie.)  If you buy this interpretation, then they have met in Montauk multiple times before the events of the movie, and so their subconscious draws them there even if they don't know why.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30354" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T18:33:15.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47580" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-10T19:11:41.960" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-02-10T19:11:41.960" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T19:11:41.960" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47581" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-10T19:11:41.960" Score="0" Body="2015 film directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson based upon the book of the same name by E.L.James." OwnerUserId="18237" LastEditorUserId="18237" LastEditDate="2016-02-10T19:12:34.810" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T19:12:34.810" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47582" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47583" CreationDate="2016-02-10T19:39:03.200" Score="6" ViewCount="1651" Body="&lt;p&gt;US film, either a TV movie or theatrical movie&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Story Points&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Many of the tiny parasites infect some uncooked (but soon to be cooked) burger patties during a town celebration. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A father, mother and child are exploring in the woods near the celebrations. The father then falls into a small pond and is taken to a hospital&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The father is visited by his wife and one of the protagonists. Suddenly, something happens to the father and a fully grown parasite, I think about the size of a medium-large sized dog, bursts out and attacks and kills the wife and a nurse.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Another scene has a minor character take a shower after feeling extremely unwell. Like the above scene, a parasite then violently bursts out of him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;By the climax of the movie, two of the protagonists (along with a bearded man) find where all the parasites have gathered and plan to blow up the site. An old sheriff also accompanies them afterwards (I think he tried to stop them until he saw the parasites and decided to help them).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;As they run to safety, the sheriff is attacked by one of the parasites, but I think the bearded man saves him. He then says a cliche'd line &quot;I'm getting to old for this&quot;. But he is then killed anyway as they are close to safety.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The site is blown up and the parasites are killed. The film ends with one of the protagonists visiting the second one in the same hospital where the father above has treated. When they all say in relief that its all over, the camera then zooms in on the second protagonists belly, suggesting that he/she might also be infested. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26705" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T20:11:50.027" Title="2000's horror movie involving parasites that infect bodies and violently burst out after some time (I think they burst out of the stomach)" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:22:29.340" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47583" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47582" CreationDate="2016-02-10T19:57:49.713" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larva_(film)&quot;&gt;Larva&lt;/a&gt; from 2005.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The film taking place in Host, Missouri about a species of fluke-like parasites that have been mutated after ingesting enhanced cow feed. They infect animals (including humans) from the inside and grow at an enormous rate, bursting out of their hosts when they became adults. They go on a rampage, eating anything in their way until they were all killed in a massive explosion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pretty sure most of the stuff you mentioned is there (a father falling into a pond and later dying in the hospital after a parasite bursts out of him; the sheriff saying &quot;I'm getting too old for this&quot; before they blow them all up etc). Here's the trailer &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Warning: Graphic Visuals]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/ExAL9pz3fWk?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-02-10T20:11:50.027" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T20:11:50.027" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47585" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47252" CreationDate="2016-02-10T21:23:58.860" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;What can be said about &lt;em&gt;The Shawshank Redemption&lt;/em&gt; that has not been said before? The film speaks for itself with the amount of awards that it has been nominated for, and won.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was released with an 'R' rating. Back in 1994 there was quite a bit of voodoo and hand waving from the MPAA for how a film was rated. It was more difficult to work out exactly what caused a film to be considered one rating or another so the film could be edited to fall under a lesser rating. Now studios actively fight ratings because they understand what the effect is of having an 'R' rating, but this was more rare during around the time period when Shawshank was released.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film initially did suffer quite a bit from having an 'R' rating. This likely affected box office turnout. The silver lining is that the film was easily edited down for content to it could be shown on television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Besides the rating, this film has all of the elements of a successful drama. It has likable characters such as Andy, and Red that the audience can relate to and rally behind. The audience is able to get a sense of how the main characters are feeling at any specific time. It also contains characters that we can all collectively hate such as Warden Norton and Captain Hadley.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is difficult to find any flaws in the film. It is not tedious to watch. Events move rather quickly, and there are not any long lulls or non-sequiturs that detract from it. There is a sense of gritty realism that is often hard to capture on film. Tim Robbins' deadpan delivery always hit the mark. Could you imagine this film occasionally breaking into a song and dance routine? That would completely ruin it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story has a well written arc with a definite beginning and end. In the end, the protagonists walk into the sunset, and the antagonists get what is coming to them. There is a satisfaction seeing how things work out. There are times which are very dark, and you have no idea what is going to happen next.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is a certain inherit sadness of the film which shows how easily life can pass you by while you are in prison. In the beginning, there is a constant wanting to get out, but if you are there for too long, you lose touch with the outside world and become institutionalized. What hits home, is that what goes on in this film is still going on every day. There are many people who are caught up in the system that don't really belong there. Because of these elements, this film is timeless, and an instant classic. In another 20 years, this film will be just as good as it is today. That cannot be said for the vast majority of films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30467" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T21:23:58.860" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47586" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45229" CreationDate="2016-02-10T21:31:38.993" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not &lt;em&gt;entirely&lt;/em&gt; sure what your question is here, but to confirm: &lt;em&gt;The Clone Wars&lt;/em&gt; takes place between Epsiodes II and Episodes III. Lucas has confirmed this himself &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.getfrank.co.nz/editorial/features/interview-george-lucas-executive-producer-of-the-clone-wars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;in interviews&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; Why is it important for you to tell the story of The Clone Wars?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A:&lt;/strong&gt; The interesting thing about the Clone Wars is that in the films, in&#xA;the normal course of the Skywalker saga, it’s skipped over. You hear&#xA;about it, but you only see the very beginning and the very end of the&#xA;wars. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But this was a turning point for the Republic. Star Wars: The&#xA;Clone Wars connects Episodes II and III.  As a TV series, it gives&#xA;more depth and understanding about how Republic fell, and what a&#xA;fantastic hero Anakin Skywalker was.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;  We got focused on him turning&#xA;into Darth Vader, that it’s easy to forget that he was one of the&#xA;biggest heroes of the entire Clone War. I think seeing him as a great&#xA;Jedi Knight reminds you that before it gets dark and tragic, Star Wars&#xA;is a fun adventure story, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With regards to the General Grievous / Anakin Skywalker continuity errors (i.e. them not knowing each other), I'm not aware of any time in the prequels they actually &lt;em&gt;met&lt;/em&gt;. They may have been &lt;em&gt;aware&lt;/em&gt; of each other, but that doesn't mean they'd recognise each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, that doesn't mean there aren't &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; discrepancies in the series. Our friends over at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/23814/what-continuity-problems-have-star-wars-the-clone-wars-created&quot;&gt;Sci Fi Stack&lt;/a&gt; have had a question on major continuity problems created by the series and responded with a few. To lift and shift them from the posted link:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From: &lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Retcon&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Retcon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Since Episode IV, the Republic was known to have fought the Clone&#xA;Wars, and the EU added several other conflicts, such as the Great Sith&#xA;War; but in Episode II, it was stated that &amp;quot;there hasn't been a&#xA;full-scale war since the formation of the Republic.&amp;quot; The&#xA;above-mentioned Ruusan Reformation also handled this discrepancy.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Timothy Zahn, in his Thrawn trilogy, cast the Clone Masters as the&#xA;opponent of the Galactic Republic in the Clone Wars, as several&#xA;authors of the '90s considered that the cloners and their clones were&#xA;the &amp;quot;villains.&amp;quot; However, after Attack of the Clones revealed the&#xA;clones were on the Republic's side, the Clone Masters were retconned&#xA;into being renegades who did not attack until after the formation of&#xA;the Empire.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Clone_Wars_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Clone_Wars_(TV_series)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;One example of a direct contradiction between The Clone Wars and&#xA;Clone Wars is the use of Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptors at the&#xA;same point in the timeline Anakin is knighted, whereas in The Clone&#xA;Wars Delta-7B Aethersprite-class light interceptors are used, which&#xA;were ostensibly used before the later Eta-2s. &amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;For example, in the novelization, Anakin remarks that he has only&#xA;read about Grievous' Magnaguards in an intel report, despite having&#xA;fought them in the show.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Another very noticeable continuity error is the fact that Anakin has&#xA;his scar which he received shortly after the Battle of Rendili from&#xA;Asajj Ventress. He then injured Ventress so severely she was forced to&#xA;recuperate until the Battle of Boz Pity, after which she deserts the&#xA;CIS and the war for good. However, as he was originally shown to&#xA;receive his scar in 19 BBY, yet the series takes place in 21 BBY, this&#xA;is a glaring continuity error.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thanks to @Sam for these.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think that ultimately, in a &lt;em&gt;universe&lt;/em&gt; of this size, discrepancies are bound to occur. The largest, most noticeable ones were &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_continuity&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;retconned&lt;/a&gt;. The others were likely not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-10T21:31:38.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47588" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-10T22:41:51.283" Score="6" ViewCount="105" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Enemy&lt;/em&gt;, when teacher Jake goes to agency the security guy says he (thinking he is the actor Jake) hasn't set foot in agency in 6 months.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, wife of the Actor Jake meets teacher Jake. When teacher Jake asks she says she is 6 months pregnant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there some sort of hint here meaning the actor Jake personality is &lt;em&gt;losing his grip&lt;/em&gt; since the pregnancy of his wife.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastActivityDate="2017-11-13T06:24:40.223" Title="Is there a coincidence between actor Jake not visiting the agency in 6 months and his wife being 6 months pregnant?" Tags="|plot-explanation|enemy|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47591" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47588" CreationDate="2016-02-11T00:09:24.127" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ok I'm gonna go out on a limb here. I found a very interesting plot explanation &lt;a href=&quot;http://shoton35.com/2014/06/05/enemy-in-depth-analysis/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; that I really think you should read. For the sake of brevity however, I'm going to only pull out the essentials to answer your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;h2&gt;1 - The movie is not shown in chronological order&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;The author of the article claims that the movie is shown in a different order than how events actually occurred and that the first event is the car crash. This car crash occurs 6 months before all the other events of the movie and is the cause of &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The scar on the chest&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The split personality&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Helen finding out about &quot;that other woman&quot;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Anthony stops being an actor and starts living the life of Adam, his split personality as a history teacher&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;h2&gt;2 - Helen is not 6 months pregnant&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;When Helen meets up with Adam she tells him she is 6 months pregnant but this is only a reference to the fact that Anthony was in the car crash 6 months ago&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I need to add that this is my own interpretation. She meets up with Anthony who is currently in the mindset of Adam and asks her how far along she is. It is possible that she really is 6 months pregnant but let me explain why I don't think she is...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;h2&gt;3 - Helen realizes Anthony is actually Adam when he visits her at the end&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;Helen knows her husband is not doing well psychologically. She has discovered he has a split identity as Adam. When Adam visits her at the end, when supposedly Anthony is on holiday with Mary, he asks her if she needs anything&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He says that he might think she needed something after being in the&#xA;  pool and you know because she’s 6 months pregnant, and here at this&#xA;  point the light goes on in Helen’s head and she starts to realize the&#xA;  husband is being different again, so she is going to put it on a test&#xA;  by saying “Come to bed”.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And there you have it. I think that she only told him she was 6 months pregnant when she met him for the first time as Adam, which is why she was tipped off to him later after he mentioned her being 6 months pregnant. I could be wrong, in which case the fact that she is 6 months pregnant is indeed either a coincidence or simply a convenient clue to point to the truth about the chronology of events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T00:09:24.127" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47594" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44144" CreationDate="2016-02-11T00:26:50.427" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR:&lt;/strong&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't believe he was senile. I believe overwhelming anger amongst the districts, coupled with District 13, coupled with a meaningful figurehead, presented a rebellion so large even his &lt;em&gt;intelligence&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;cunning&lt;/em&gt; wasn't enough to defeat it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(Very, very) long Answer:&lt;/strong&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'll confess, I don't have a word of god interview. It appears Suzanne Collins doesn't give too many interviews. There are quite a few where she discusses &lt;em&gt;Catching Fire&lt;/em&gt;, but I've yet to find anything meaningful where she discusses &lt;em&gt;Mockingjay&lt;/em&gt; and the role of President Snow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite this, I'm going to try to answer this based on the books, looking at The Hunger Games and Snow’s behaviour throughout:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kkoworld.com/kitablar/suzanna-kollinz-acliq-oyunlari-1-hisse-eng.pdf&quot;&gt;The Hunger Games&lt;/em&gt; novel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Chapter 1 of the Hunger Games, we are told:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;…&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Then came the Dark Days, the&#xA;  uprising of the districts against the Capitol. Twelve were defeated,&#xA;  the thirteenth obliterated.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; The Treaty of Treason gave us the new laws&#xA;  to guarantee peace and, as our yearly reminder that the Dark Days must&#xA;  never be repeated, it gave us the Hunger Games. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The rules of the&#xA;  Hunger Games are simple. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;In punishment for the uprising, each of the&#xA;  twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes,&#xA;  to participate.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; The twenty four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast&#xA;  outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a&#xA;  frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the competitors must&#xA;  fight to the death&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The last tribute standing wins. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Whatever words they use, the real message is clear. “Look&#xA;  how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you&#xA;  can do. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you.&#xA;  Just as we did in District Thirteen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've highlighted a few sections for effect. Now, I don't believe it’s &lt;em&gt;ever&lt;/em&gt; stated how long Snow is in charge of the Capitol for (and his age of 76 on the wiki isn't cited). However, I think it's fair to say he wasn't the creator of the Hunger Games - but he's still obviously overseen at least a few of the games (we know he was president during the 50th quell when Haymitch won).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at this point in the novel, we know he's inherited a rather barbaric and twisted method of controlling the population of the Twelve Districts. And up until now, it appears he's done this very successfully.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.anderson5.net/cms/lib02/SC01001931/Centricity/Domain/222/Catching%20Fire.pdf&quot;&gt;Catching Fire&lt;/em&gt; novel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the opening chapter, Snow visits Katniss and we read the following exchange:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I have a problem, Miss Everdeen,” says President Snow. “A problem&#xA;  that began the moment you pulled out those poisonous berries in the&#xA;  arena.” &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;That was the moment when I guessed that if the Gamemakers had&#xA;  to choose between watching Peeta and me commit suicide—which would&#xA;  mean having no victor— and letting us both live, they would take the&#xA;  latter. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;If the Head Gamemaker, Seneca Crane, had had any brains, he'd&#xA;  have blown you to dust right then&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. But he had an unfortunate&#xA;  sentimental streak. So here you are. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Can you guess where he is&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?” he&#xA;  asks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Snow clearly recognised the danger of their actions right away and would have happily killed both of them. He would have infuriated the 12th district, but clearly he was confident in being able to quell any dissatisfaction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, Seneca chose to keep them alive and, after being announced as the winners, Snow &lt;em&gt;had&lt;/em&gt; to crown them (although as the previous quote shows, he did it with hated). He recognised at that stage what a threat Katniss &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; be and that it was a mistake to let her live.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the problem from Snow's view is simple:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“...You have no access to information&#xA;  about the mood in other districts. In several of them, however, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;people&#xA;  viewed your little trick with the berries as an act of defiance, not&#xA;  an act of love. And if a girl from District Twelve of all places can&#xA;  defy the Capitol and walk away unharmed, what is to stop them from&#xA;  doing the same?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;” he says. “What is to prevent, say, an uprising?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he's clearly concerned all ready. So why not just kill Katniss now? That is discussed as well:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Why don't you just kill me now?” I blurt out.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “Publicly?” he asks. “That would only add fuel to the flames.”&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  “Arrange an accident, then,” I say.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Who would buy it?” he asks. “Not you, if you were watching.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at this stage his reasoning is clear. He cannot kill Katniss, for fear of sparking a rebellion - but her very act of &lt;em&gt;being&lt;/em&gt; risks sparking a rebellion as well. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this, Snow feels his only option is to convince her to help suppress the rebellions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Only you'll have to do even better if the uprisings are to be&#xA;  averted,” he says. “&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;This tour will be your only chance to turn things&#xA;  around.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;”    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“I know. I will. I'll convince everyone in the districts that&#xA;  I wasn't defying the Capitol, that I was crazy with love,” I say.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;President Snow rises and dabs his puffy lips with a napkin. “Aim&#xA;  higher in case you fall short.”    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“What do you mean? How can I aim&#xA;  higher?” I ask.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Convince me” he says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So his &lt;em&gt;initial&lt;/em&gt; plan is very clear - make sure she helps him suppress &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; rebellious notions. And given what we've heard, it seems reasonable. He's concerned about killing her, he can't have her &quot;disappear&quot; and he's concerned about letting her speak her mind. His only realistic option is to get her &quot;on board&quot; with his plans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this doesn't go quite to plan...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;My voice is undependable, but I am almost finished. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Thank you for&#xA;  your children.” I raise my chin to address the crowd. “And thank you&#xA;  all for the bread.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I stand there, feeling broken and small, thousands&#xA;  of eyes trained on me. There's a long pause. Then, from somewhere in&#xA;  the crowd, someone whistles Rue's four-note mocking-jay tune. The one&#xA;  that signaled the end of the workday in the orchards. The one that&#xA;  meant safety in the arena. By the end of the tune, I have found the&#xA;  whistler, a wizened old man in a faded red shirt and overalls. His&#xA;  eyes meet mine.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;What happens next is not an accident. It is too well&#xA;  executed to be spontaneous, because it happens in complete unison.&#xA;  Every person in the crowd presses the three middle fingers of their&#xA;  left hand against their lips and extends them to me. It's our sign&#xA;  from District 12, the last good-bye I gave Rue in the arena. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;If I&#xA;  hadn't spoken to President Snow, this gesture might move me to tears.&#xA;  But with his recent orders to calm the districts fresh in my ears, it&#xA;  fills me with dread.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; What will he think of this very public salute to&#xA;  the girl who defied the Capitol?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The full impact of what I've done hits me. It was not intentional&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;—I&#xA;  only meant to express my thanks — but I have elicited something&#xA;  dangerous. An act of dissent from the people of District 11. This is&#xA;  exactly the kind of thing I am supposed to be defusing!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So although Katniss has just stirred up a rebellion, exactly what was to be &lt;em&gt;avoided&lt;/em&gt;, she did it &lt;em&gt;unintentionally&lt;/em&gt;. Snow's plan, to an extent, was working. Katniss is terrified. But through pure naivety, she has done what she was meant to avoid.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To try and dampen this, Snow suppresses the footage of this small rebellion and gives them pre-written speeches:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Even without our personal speeches to trigger dissent&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;— needless to say&#xA;  the ones we gave in District 11 were edited out before the event was&#xA;  broadcast—you can feel something in the air, the rolling boil of a pot&#xA;  about to run over. Not everywhere. Some crowds have the wearycattle&#xA;  feel that I know District 12 usually projects at the victors'&#xA;  ceremonies. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;But in others — particularly 8, 4, and 3 — there is&#xA;  genuine elation in the faces of the people at the sight of us, and&#xA;  under the elation, fury. When they chant my name, it is more of a cry&#xA;  for vengeance than  a cheer.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Snow is already becoming increasing trapped. Katniss is becoming a dangerous symbol. However, his possible &lt;em&gt;actions&lt;/em&gt; are limited. Her (unintentional) actions above clearly aggravate him, but he’s stuck as to how to move against her. Realising this, Katniss wants Gale, Peeta and their families to &lt;em&gt;run&lt;/em&gt;. She is terrified and fearing for her life:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Peeta, if I asked you to run away from the district with me, would&#xA;  you?”  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Peeta takes my arm, bringing me to a stop. He doesn't need to&#xA;  check my face to see if I'm serious.    &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Depends on why you're asking.”&#xA;  “&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;President Snow wasn't convinced by me. There's an uprising in&#xA;  District Eight. We have to get out&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;,” I say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Katniss however begins to realise just how scared Snow is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Listening to Bonnie and Twill confirmed one thing: President Snow has&#xA;  been playing me for a fool. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;All the kisses and endearments in the&#xA;  world couldn't have derailed the momentum building up in District 8.&#xA;  Yes, my holding out the berries had been the spark, but I had no way&#xA;  to control the fire. He must have known that.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; So why visit my home,&#xA;  why order me to persuade the crowd of my love for Peeta? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It was&#xA;  obviously a ploy to distract me and keep me from doing anything else&#xA;  inflammatory in the districts.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; And to entertain the people in the&#xA;  Capitol, of course. I suppose the wedding is just a necessary&#xA;  extension of that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Katniss has begun to realise that Snow has to keep her under control. Snow, meanwhile, wants to rapidly defuse the situation in the districts. To do this, he unleashes a plan. Every year, the Hunger Games provides entertainment and fascination across all the districts. So he decides to put on a &lt;em&gt;special&lt;/em&gt; Hunger Games involving former winners, including Katniss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So with one fell swoop, Snow is hoping to both have Katniss killed &lt;em&gt;in the one place her death would not be suspicious&lt;/em&gt; and to defuse the situation in the districts by providing entertainment - and reminding them of how powerless they are in the face of the Capitol's power. This isn't particularly illogical. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, before entering the games both Katniss and Peeta both do something that's &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; expected:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wonderingly, I lift my long, flowing sleeves into the air, and that's&#xA;  when I see myself on the television screen. Clothed in black except&#xA;  for the white patches on my sleeves. Or should I say my wings. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Because&#xA;  Cinna has turned me into a mockingjay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, an incredible, &lt;em&gt;rebellious&lt;/em&gt; transformation. And then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;…“&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;We're already married&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;,” says Peeta&#xA;  quietly. The crowd reacts in astonishment, and I have to bury my face&#xA;  in the folds of my skirt so they can't see my confusion. Where on&#xA;  earth is he going with this?   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...This takes even Caesar aback. “Surely&#xA;  even a brief time is better than no time?”   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Maybe I'd think that, too,&#xA;  Caesar,” says Peeta bitterly, “&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;if it weren't for the baby.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Suddenly, they're no longer playing Snow's game. They're directly rebelling. This leads to something truly extraordinary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join&#xA;  hands. Some right away, like the morphlings, or Wiress and Beetee.&#xA;  Others unsure but caught up in the demands of those around them, like&#xA;  Brutus and Enobaria. By the time the anthem plays its final strains,&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the&#xA;  first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  You can see the realization of this as the screens begin to pop into&#xA;  blackness. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's too late, though. In the confusion they didn't cut us&#xA;  off in time. Everyone has seen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, this really has sparked off the rebellion. Snow &lt;em&gt;wasn’t&lt;/em&gt; expecting this, and given the threats levied against Katniss it’s understandable that he wasn’t expecting it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, following this something happens that is simply a massive, war-losing mistake on Snow's part - he doesn't realise Plutarch Heavensbee is an insider, working for the rebellion. He schedules the Games to rid himself of Katniss and try to defuse the districts. Instead, a collection of victors - potential figureheads for the rebellion - escapes and a full war, driven by District 13 as well - breaks out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But again, I’m not sure this makes him &lt;em&gt;senile&lt;/em&gt;. It’s an oversight, sure, but plenty of intelligent, crafty people have been fooled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.anderson5.net/cms/lib02/SC01001931/Centricity/Domain/222/Mocking%20Jay.pdf&quot;&gt;Mockingjay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this means that when we reach the &lt;em&gt;Mockingjay&lt;/em&gt; novel, all pretences have been left behind and Snow and Katniss are finally out to truly kill each other. The very opening chapter of the book shows this, when Snow leaves the white rose in her house in District 12.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it’s not as simple as crushing the rebels:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Their early years must have been terrible, huddled in the chambers&#xA;  beneath the ground after their city was bombed to dust. Population&#xA;  decimated, no possible ally to turn to for aid. Over the past&#xA;  seventy-five years, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;they've learned to be self-sufficient, turned&#xA;  their citizens into an army&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and built a new society with no help from&#xA;  anyone. They would be even more powerful if that pox epidemic hadn't&#xA;  flattened their birthrate and made them so desperate for a new gene&#xA;  pool and breeders. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Maybe they are militaristic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, overly programmed, and&#xA;  somewhat lacking in a sense of humor. They're here. And willing to take&#xA;  on the Capitol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;District 13, which is spearheading this rebellion, &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; a militaristic group. And there is a sizable amount of dissent in the various districts. Snow can &lt;em&gt;feel&lt;/em&gt; control slipping away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His next decision is again quite logical - he tries to use Peeta to force a ceasefire through. Of course, the District 13 rebels including Katniss don't believe this. But Snow is also hoping to convince the many other rebels, who are not part of District 13's army, of downing their weapons. Of course, it doesn't work.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Snow sends a bombing campaign to District 13 - but the rebels are underground in their bunkers, and escape fairly unscathed. Snow does leave white roses to symbolise his presence and attempt to threaten them, but this has not, and will not, suppress the fighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Snow even sends Peeta back to her, brainwashed, in an attempt to both physically harm her or psychologically damage her - but again, it is to no avail.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from this point on, Snow is on the defensive, gradually being beaten back until his eventual defeat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I strongly believe Snow was a ruthless, but highly intelligent leader who faced an inevitable rebellion which he simply could not control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He wanted Katniss dead from the very moment of her first rebellion. He was intelligent enough to see her danger, but was powerless to kill her after she won the Games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than risk her becoming a martyr, her kept her alive and &quot;on-side&quot;. This failed spectacularly, despite her attempts to please him - the rebellion gained traction.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, he decides to kill her, but via the Games to both remove her, provide some form of entertainment in the districts and to remind the districts of their powerlessness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This falls apart because of the &quot;inside&quot; Plutarch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This leads Snow and the rebels into an all out war - but District 13 is well prepared, militaristic and has a bunker where the bombings don't affect them. Coupled with this is an angry, nothing-to-lose population across all the suppressed districts, who have &lt;em&gt;finally&lt;/em&gt; found a figurehead to be their guiding light in a rebellion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The combination of all these factors was too much for even the ruthless Snow, and he was defeated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;But none of this makes him senile&lt;/strong&gt;. Instead, I would postulate that his actions were extremely intelligent and calculated, but that he was extremely limited in his options. From the moment Katniss (and Peeta) won the Hunger Games, dissent began to brew and a number of factors (including the strength of the combined districts and ferocity of the rebels) contributed to his (and the Capitol's defeat). This echoes history and a number of instances of powerful empires (Greeks, Egyptians, and particularly The Romans - whom the Capitol in the book were partly modelled - and their defeats).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So again, I don't think he's senile - I believe he was simply on the receiving end of a string of concatenated events over which even the mighty Capitol couldn't maintain control.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-11T09:42:58.553" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T09:42:58.553" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47595" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47599" CreationDate="2016-02-11T01:27:37.197" Score="23" ViewCount="2514" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Warning: Season 3 spoilers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the season 3 episode, &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/And_Now_His_Watch_is_Ended&quot;&gt;And Now His Watch is Ended&lt;/a&gt;, the wealthy slave-trader &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Kraznys_mo_Nakloz&quot;&gt;Kraznys mo Nakloz&lt;/a&gt; trades 8,000 &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Unsullied&quot;&gt;Unsullied warriors&lt;/a&gt; to Daenerys in exchange for her largest dragon, &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Drogon&quot;&gt;Drogon&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Daenerys betrays the transaction and instead orders her new soldiers to execute Kraznys and &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Sack_of_Astapor&quot;&gt;sack the city&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is possible because Kraznys gives Daenerys a special &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scourge&quot;&gt;scourge (whip)&lt;/a&gt; which indicates ownership of the Unsullied. Since the Unsullied follow the orders of their master without question, they kill Kraznys as per Daenerys' instructions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Was Kraznys naive to not foresee this outcome?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Daenerys is not from Essos and is unfamiliar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Daenerys actions are unpredictable and he would have no reason to trust her&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everyone would have heard about the events at &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Thirteen&quot;&gt;Qarth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She has announced that her intentions are conquest&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Trading a dragon for 8,000 soldiers is seen as &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Walk_of_Punishment&quot;&gt;an unwise trade&lt;/a&gt;; an experienced trader should see this as suspicious&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why wouldn't Kraznys train the Unsullied to &quot;always obey your master, but don't kill me or ever destroy Astapor&quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why didn't he get someone else to make the transaction so that he could be safe? Perhaps perform the transaction outside of the city?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20457" LastActivityDate="2018-12-18T17:56:46.910" Title="Was Kraznys mo Nakloz naive to hand over the Unsullied to Daenerys?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47597" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-11T02:19:56.110" Score="7" ViewCount="520" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Prometheus&lt;/em&gt;, after figuring something bad is going on within her, Shaw   goes to the medpod which earlier in the movie was described as &quot;configured for male body&quot; by Vickers .&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If that is the case then isn't there some sort of inconsistency here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The procedure seemed pretty much like a simple cesarean, which wouldn't be included in a configuration setting made for male-use.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again, Shaw might've commanded it to remove &lt;em&gt;anomalies&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;things that shouldn't be there&lt;/em&gt; which would make sense for a medpod to have as an option even if it is configured for male use since it can be used to remove tumors or appendicitis for example. But if that is the case, why doesn't it remove all of her uterus as well but rather only the monster within the uterus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am also considering the option that she might've overridden the configuration, but it is really a long shot for lots of reasons like:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Basic programming wants to represent the front end the way device is meant to be used and not hacked to do something else.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;She is not a programmer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;If it can be overridden to do every operation in seconds by pushing two buttons, then it really isn't configured for male-only use.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;She is scared, in panic and shocked. She probably wouldn't be able to do it that easily and that quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is another possibility, that it is not configured for male use at all in the first place. But why would Vickers lie about it at all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastActivityDate="2018-04-30T19:10:38.877" Title="How does the medpod perform the abortion correctly if it is configured for male use?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prometheus|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47599" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47595" CreationDate="2016-02-11T03:11:11.863" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kraznys mo Nakloz was not expecting what Dany did&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Unsullied&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Unsullied&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are a mercenary company which has existed for ~400 years&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Unsullied#History&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;. Since then, they have been captured, trained, sold, repeat. There has not been a single account of the Slavers being rudely betrayed by a buyer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kraznys mo Nakloz was an overly-confident idiot&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;As you can hear in his dialogue with &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Daenerys_Targaryen&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dany&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Kraznys_mo_Nakloz&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Kraznys&lt;/a&gt; constantly makes rude remarks towards Dany, showing how arrogant he is. He also constantly remarks about how special his Unsullied are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kraznys mo Nakloz thought Dany was going to Westeros&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Ah, didn't we all?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She makes sure that she mentions her quest to win back her ancestral seat, &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Iron_Throne&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Iron Throne&lt;/a&gt;, and reclaim her right as Queen of Westeros.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1YvDE.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1YvDE.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Daenerys Targaryen's many titles&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sup&gt;src: &lt;a href=&quot;https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/8d/ce/d4/8dced4ed0646ee3bf5a538763405681e.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/8d/ce/d4/8dced4ed0646ee3bf5a538763405681e.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kraznys mo Nakloz was surrounded by his mates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;If you recall, the deal went down in broad daylight, in the center of Astapor, in front of many witnesses; including several other &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Good_Masters&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Good Masters&lt;/a&gt;. There was no reason to think that something as drastic as what happened would take place, then and there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kraznys mo Nakloz had watched &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Train_Your_Dragon_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;How to Train Your Dragon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;He may have had in his head that as soon as he gets this &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Drogon&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;dragon&lt;/a&gt;, it's his and he's ready to use him as he pleases. He went dragon-crazy and blind as a bat and lost all logic and ability to look past his desire to own this rare and magnificent beast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;This stupid little whore of a girl can control these dragons; why can't &lt;em&gt;I&lt;/em&gt;?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To answer your specific questions:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Daenerys is not from Essos and is unfamiliar&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Dany has actually spent the majority (pretty much the entirety) of her life in Essos&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Daenerys_Targaryen#Background&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;. &lt;em&gt;Everybody&lt;/em&gt; in Essos knows of the Targaryens, and know that the last Targaryens are doing whatever they can to get their home back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Daenerys actions are unpredictable and he would have no reason to trust her&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Up until this point she had been very &amp;quot;well behaved&amp;quot;; calling him &amp;quot;good master&amp;quot; and respecting his rules (and bearing his insults from within). Also, given that she is unpredictable, Kraznys could not have predicted that she would do anything like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Everyone would have heard about the events at Qarth&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The events of Qarth did not weigh-in on Kraznys' deal, since at this point, they both had something they could offer each other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;She has announced that her intentions are conquest&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes, conquest of Westeros. Not the disposition and abolition of slavery in Essos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Trading a dragon for 8,000 soldiers is seen as an unwise trade; an experienced trader should see this as suspicious&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He's not as wise as he may seem. History shows that Dragons can dispose of entire armies&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Field_of_Fire&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;[4]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;; but at this point much of what happened regarding dragons were as much of a myth as &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Grumpkins_and_Snarks&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Grumkins and Snarks&lt;/a&gt;, especially way out here in the heart of Essos. Kraznys doesn't seem like the most historically versed person in the world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11244" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T23:48:48.050" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47600" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39708" CreationDate="2016-02-11T03:49:39.010" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I always thought, Metal Head is touching some kind of electricity, but: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The two copper tubes are not for electrical means but are carrying steam, probably for the hydraulic system of the spider (I suggest this, because after Loveless shoots at West but misses him, he hits the tubes instead, the steam escapes and the hydraulical system of the spider collapses because of negative pressure).   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There is some kind of net above the two, but if you look carefully, Metal Head is not touching it whith the wrench.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, whats left, is that the hits West placed on the head of Metal head are seemingly not harming him, but then, as he wants to hit West and &quot;strain&quot; his head, then his &quot;system&quot; malfunctions because the hits really have harmed him. My evidences for this theory:   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The light and smoke is coming out of Metal Head and not from outside.   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It remembers to the scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, where Indy hits the officer at the end a lot of times and you think, that the officer prepares to fight back, but actually the officer is knocked out because he falls down without any additional hit from Indy.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;So it's a Hollywood-typical thing to surprise the audience.&#xA;I hope this helps!;-)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31026" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-11T10:06:11.927" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T10:06:11.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47611" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47613" CreationDate="2016-02-11T10:54:28.083" Score="3" ViewCount="3571" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently saw &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105698/reference&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Universal Soldier&lt;/em&gt; (1992)&lt;/a&gt; and got interested in the other parts of the franchise. As far as I can see the franchise contains the following movies:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186654/reference&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms&lt;/em&gt; (1998)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186655/reference&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business&lt;/em&gt; (1999)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176269/reference&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Universal Soldier: The Return&lt;/em&gt; (1999)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1288403/reference&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Universal Soldier: Regeneration&lt;/em&gt; (2009)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1659343/reference&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning&lt;/em&gt; (2012)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, &lt;em&gt;Brothers in Arms&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Unfinished Business&lt;/em&gt; are DTV (Direct To Video) movies and &lt;em&gt;The Return&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Regeneration&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Day of Reckoning&lt;/em&gt; are theatrical films. Right now I have only the theatrical ones in possession so in short I want to know if I can watch those movies without the DTV ones or should I wait untill I can get my hands on the other two?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I haven't seen any of the sequels and don't want to receive spoilers, I would appreciate it if answers could place any possible deeper story discussion into spoiler blocks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7170" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-02-05T10:16:39.180" LastActivityDate="2019-02-05T10:16:39.180" Title="Universal Soldier franchise: order of watching the sequels" Tags="|suggested-order|universal-soldier|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="47613" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47611" CreationDate="2016-02-11T11:11:47.063" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: This answer is spoiler free. The links have been included for reference, but opening them likely will lead to spoilers.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Soldier_(franchise)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;From the Universal Soldier wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Universal Soldier was released, Carolco, the production company&#xA;that backed the film, went bankrupt. In 1995, Carolco sold the rights&#xA;of the series to Skyvision Entertainment in Toronto.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two TV films,&#xA;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms and Universal Soldier III:&#xA;Unfinished Business&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, were released direct-to-video...They were produced for Showtime / The Movie Channel as a&#xA;miniseries meant as a backdoor pilot for a series. Having almost no&#xA;input whatsoever from the original filmmakers, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;their canonical status&#xA;is questionable&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Universal&#xA;Soldier: The Return...has since been removed from the series&#xA;canon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. An overwhelming critical and financial failure, The Return&#xA;contradicted several elements of the previous film's plot...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The subsequent&#xA;film in the series, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Universal Soldier: Regeneration, disregards the&#xA;events of The Return entirely&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I go to the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Soldier:_The_Return&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Universal Soldier: The Return&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; page, it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Subsequent films in the series ignore the events of The Return and&#xA;contradict it in some places throughout the series; today it is no&#xA;longer considered part of the series' canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, if I go directly to the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Soldier:_Regeneration&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Universal Soldier: Regeneration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; wiki page, it says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film is direct sequel to the original Universal Soldier from 1992,&#xA;unrelated to the two Universal Soldier television sequels that were&#xA;produced in 1998 and completely ignores the events from the 1999&#xA;theatrical sequel Universal Soldier: The Return.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Soldier:_Day_of_Reckoning&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; page says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a semi-sequel to Universal Soldier: Regeneration.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So putting all of that together, it appears that the first film was released. Then two more direct to TV films were released. Then a fourth theatrical film was released, and has been &lt;em&gt;removed&lt;/em&gt; from canon. A fifth film was then released, which served as a sequel to the first film, and a sixth film was released that serves as a semi-sequel to the fiffth film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, without the direct-to-tv films, I'd suggest this order:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Universal Soldier&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Universal Soldier: Regeneration&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can then watch the two direct to TV films, and Universal Soldier: The Return, if desired.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T11:22:12.267" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47614" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47615" CreationDate="2016-02-11T11:12:48.813" Score="5" ViewCount="639" Body="&lt;p&gt;Throughout &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2452042/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Peanuts Movie (2015)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the base/bottom of Snoopy's dog house is never shown when he flies. It is outside the screen or hidden by another object.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, like this:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ERUEC.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ERUEC.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or like this:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vort2.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vort2.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As seen in the trailer:&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/tsSjtzBhnIU?start=50&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the reasoning behind this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31043" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-02-11T13:42:37.633" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T19:19:29.093" Title="Why is the base of Snoopy's dog house hidden when it flies?" Tags="|analysis|the-peanuts-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47615" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47614" CreationDate="2016-02-11T11:23:09.213" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Snoopy isn't really flying. It's all in his head. As evident by him falling from cloud 9, as it were:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/txuCF.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/txuCF.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-12T19:19:29.093" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T19:19:29.093" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47617" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47630" CreationDate="2016-02-11T13:35:17.740" Score="2" ViewCount="3501" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;strong&gt;&quot;The Mothman Prophecies&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, as the movie leads to the climax, Mills (sherif) saw John's dead wife. Also, she (John's dead wife) contacted John by phone and convinced him to go to hometown to meet her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How does this happen and what is the explanation behind this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, I would like to know the significance of these incidents and the reason behind making John go to home town.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it actually John's wife's ghost and trying to save him from the tragedy? Or, is it by the mothman or the Ingrid Cold?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27286" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-11T13:50:41.603" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T18:29:09.510" Title="How did John's dead wife appear and phone John in &quot;The Mothman Prophecies&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-mothman-prophecies|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47618" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-11T13:53:39.537" Score="3" ViewCount="1564" Body="&lt;p&gt;During Katniss' and Peeta's post game touring in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, any and all symbols of rebellion were quickly and ruthlessly punished. The old man that whistled and 3-finger saluted Katniss in District 11 was dragged on stage and shot in the head, execution style. The two who saluted in District 6 were dragged away for a similar fate. And that's before Plutarch convinced Snow to up the beatings and executions and raiding the black markets. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet during the 75th Hunger Games Quarter Quell reaping, starting with Prim and their Mom, everybody saluted. Yet the Peace keepers didn't even flinch. No one was captured, removed, beat, whipped,  shot, etc etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why not? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-02-11T15:22:42.333" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T15:22:42.333" Title="Why wasn't District 12 punished during the 75th Reaping?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-catching-fire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47619" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47595" CreationDate="2016-02-11T14:19:59.110" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;Möoz's answer is great, I just want to look at this one part in a little more detail:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Trading a dragon for 8,000 soldiers is seen as an unwise trade; an experienced trader should see this as suspicious&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a believable trade, especially with someone who seems desperate or naive. If this had been a real trade, it'd be a classic example of the economic principle of&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;diminishing marginal utility&lt;/a&gt;. The difference in utility between owning one car and owning zero is bigger than between owning three cars and owning two. Same with dragons and armies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One dragon is, objectively, worth much more than 8,000 troops. But this curious foreigner is a wannabe conqueror, not a trader: their value to her is based on the utility of the dragons and troops for her immediate plans, not their market value:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dany has three dragons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Losing one, Dany goes from being able to easily crush any standing army and swiftly burn any city, to being able to &lt;em&gt;fairly easily&lt;/em&gt; crush any standing army and burn any city &lt;em&gt;fairly quickly&lt;/em&gt;. Her loss, in terms of marginal utility, is relatively small - she loses much less utility than the objective value of one dragon.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gaining one, Kraznys goes from being a regular slave trader, to a slave trader who can crush most standing armies and burn most cities to the ground. His gain, in terms of marginal utility, is huge (assuming he can control the dragon... which he does assume)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dany is a would-be conqueror with no army:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Gaining 8,000 troops is of greater value to her than it is to a typical Unsullied customer, who would normally be buying Unsullied to bolster an existing army and as a precaution against attack. The marginal utility, to her, is higher than the troops' objective market value, and it's perfectly believable that it has more marginal utility than a third dragon. 2 dragons and 8,000 troops is a more effective conquering force than 3 dragons, but no troops to actually secure the fire-ravaged cities. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Losing 8,000 unsullied is only a temporary stock problem to Kraznys, who can &lt;em&gt;create&lt;/em&gt; them: for him, they effectively grow on trees. He's gaining something priceless to him but expendable to her, for something essential to her but expendable to him. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He could very easily convince himself that it's a mutually beneficial deal: what Dany gains is of similar if not greater value &lt;em&gt;to her&lt;/em&gt; in terms of utility than what she loses, while what he gains is priceless. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He'd be laughing all the way to the bank (probably to burn it down with his dragon then take all its gold), because he &lt;em&gt;objectively&lt;/em&gt; got the upper hand in terms of market value, but he can see that Dany got what she desperately needed without losing so much in terms of immediate utility. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kraznys also thinks she has nothing else of value to trade, and is desperate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he was negotiating with another gnarled, experienced trader, he might expect them to say something like &lt;em&gt;&quot;We both know that a dragon is worth many times more than 8,000 troops. Add 10 ships, a tonne of gold, 200 casks of wine...&quot;&lt;/em&gt;, even though they don't need gold and wine, purely because they can. They've already secured what they need, but they'd be able to see they have the &lt;em&gt;opportunity&lt;/em&gt; to demand more because, for Kraznys, it'd clearly be worth it to become the only trader in Essos with a freakin' dragon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But he thinks Dany's naïve and foolish, so he's not surprised when she's happy to settle for a deal where she gets what she needs and no more.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In fact, given her clear desperation and lack of non-dragon resources, he would probably be able to hardball her out of such a barter even if she tried. I imagine a dialog like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;A tonne of gold, 200 casks of wine...? I say no. What are you going to do, buy Unsullied elsewhere? You are no conqueror with no army.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Then I'll keep all three dragons!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Without a dragon, I'm still ruler of Astapor and one of the richest traders in Essos. Without an army, what are you? Not a conqueror or queen. Are you happy to be merely Dany the dragon tamer? I know a circus you could join&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Oh, bollocks. Fine, okay, no gold or wine. But I'm taking your translator!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9718" LastEditorUserId="53231" LastEditDate="2018-12-18T17:56:46.910" LastActivityDate="2018-12-18T17:56:46.910" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="47620" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-11T14:21:54.507" Score="9" ViewCount="19778" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392170/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hunger Games (2012)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we see head game maker Seneca Crane lead into a room that's Empty except for a single bowl of Night Lock berries. The same berries that Katniss and Peeta used to force the Capitol hands. The implication being that Snow is forcing Crane to kill himself. Starve, or eat, you die. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yet in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Catching Fire (2013)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the new game maker, Plutarch Heavensbee tells Katniss:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Seneca decided to quit breathing. It was that or poisoned berries. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Implying he killed himself in a different manner. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further more, during Katniss' solo evaluation before the game makers, she builds an effigy of Crane, hanged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the room was empty though, how would Crane hang himself? No rope or any beams to do it from either. Seneca also didn't seem like the strong willed type to attempt to kill himself in a painful manner, just to spite Snow. The berries would have been painless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So how exactly did he die? Assuming we are told the truth about him not eating the berries, did he choke himself somehow, or was he hanged after refusing to eat the berries? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-09-15T23:18:26.470" LastActivityDate="2016-09-15T23:18:26.470" Title="How exactly did Seneca Crane die?" Tags="|character|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-catching-fire|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47621" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47618" CreationDate="2016-02-11T14:26:48.933" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I believe it was because Snow had ordered them not to, as he believed he was defusing the situation by sending her to &lt;em&gt;another&lt;/em&gt; Hunger Games (and eliminating her in it). Suppressing the rebellions elsewhere wasn't working - it was making things worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this stage in the films (and novels), the rebellions are becoming more pronounced and widespread, and Snow and the peacekeepers have thus far responded with brutality - but it hasn't quelled them in any way. In fact, they've gotten worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Katniss realises as much in the &lt;em&gt;Catching Fire&lt;/em&gt; novel in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.anderson5.net/cms/lib02/SC01001931/Centricity/Domain/222/Catching%20Fire.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chapter 6&lt;/a&gt;, when she notices the riots in District 8 on the mayor's television:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm leaving the room when a beeping noise catches my attention. I turn&#xA;back to see the screen of the television go black. Then the words&#xA;“UPDATE ON DISTRICT 8” start flashing.  Instinctively I know this is&#xA;not for my eyes but something intended only for the mayor. I should&#xA;go. Quickly. Instead I find myself stepping closer to the television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An announcer I've never seen before appears. It's a woman with graying&#xA;hair and a hoarse, authoritative voice. She warns that conditions are&#xA;worsening and a Level 3 alert has been called. Additional forces are&#xA;being sent into District 8, and all textile production has ceased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They cut away from the woman to the main square in District 8. I&#xA;recognize it because I was there only last week. There are still&#xA;banners with my face waving from the rooftops. Below them, there's a&#xA;mob scene. The square's packed with screaming people, their faces&#xA;hidden with rags and homemade masks, throwing bricks. Buildings burn.&#xA;Peacekeepers shoot into the crowd, killing at random.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never seen&#xA;anything like it, but I can only be witnessing one thing. This is what&#xA;President Snow calls an uprising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we know that the brutal suppression of these small acts of defiance have &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; been successful. The people, spurred on by Katniss' defiance, are rapidly fighting back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, with the 75th Repeating, Snow is able to send Katniss and Peeta to another Hunger Games. District 12 shows defiance as you mention - but why suppress this? The suppression elsewhere has failed, and Katniss and Peeta are going to be killed in the Games. So why risk inflaming the crowd and sparking &lt;em&gt;even more&lt;/em&gt; rebellions, when they could be killed off?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing this would result in the loss of the instigators of this defiance, hopefully crush the spirits of those that are rebelling elsewhere and remind the every person in every district that &lt;em&gt;anyone&lt;/em&gt; standing up to the Capitol will be crushed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I feel this all comes back to how wary Snow is of Katniss and how quickly he realises the symbol of defiance she represents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T14:26:48.933" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47623" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47620" CreationDate="2016-02-11T15:04:49.440" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don't know, as the films/novel appear to differ&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the films, it is initially implied that he ate the poisoned berries though. We see him locked in the room at the end of the films with the berries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as you say Plutarch tells Katniss something different:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Plutarch&lt;/strong&gt;: Seneca decided to quit breathing.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Katniss&lt;/strong&gt;: Decided?&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Plutarch&lt;/strong&gt;: It was that or poison&#xA;berries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Later, when undergoing her assessment, she ties the noose around the neck of the dummy and lets it fall, which is where the &lt;em&gt;hanging&lt;/em&gt; implication comes from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the novels this plays out &lt;em&gt;slightly&lt;/em&gt; differently. We don't read anything about his death at the end of the first novel. Instead, we are told it at the start of the second, courtesy of Snow in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.anderson5.net/cms/lib02/SC01001931/Centricity/Domain/222/Catching%20Fire.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Chapter 2&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“If the Head Gamemaker, Seneca Crane, had had any brains, he'd have&#xA;blown you to dust right then. But he had an unfortunate sentimental&#xA;streak. So here you are. Can you guess where he is?” he asks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I nod&#xA;because, by the way he says it, it's clear that Seneca Crane has been&#xA;executed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another difference is her meeting with Plutarch:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“...So, you're the Head Gamemaker this year? That must be a big&#xA;honor.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Between you and me, there weren't many takers for the job,”&#xA;he says. “So much responsibility as to how the Games turn out.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yeah,&#xA;the last guy's dead, I think&lt;/em&gt;. He must know about Seneca Crane, but he&#xA;doesn't look the least bit concerned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plutarch flashes her a symbol of a mockingjay on his watch, but he never mentions Seneca's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She does, like in the films, drop a dummy with &amp;quot;SENECA&amp;quot; written on it (and she stains it with berries). Following this, she tells Effie and Cinna about this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted&#xA;Seneca Crane's name on it,” I say. This has the desired effect. After&#xA;a moment of disbelief, all the disapproval in the room hits me like a&#xA;ton of bricks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“You ... hung ... Seneca Crane?” says Cinna.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Yes. I&#xA;was showing off my new knot-tying skills, and he somehow ended up at&#xA;the end of the noose,” I say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Oh, Katniss,” says Effie in a hushed&#xA;voice. “How do you even know about that?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it's interesting to note that Effie doesn't actually &lt;em&gt;say&lt;/em&gt; he was hanged. Her response seems to simply indicate surprise Katniss &lt;em&gt;knows&lt;/em&gt; he is dead. The &lt;em&gt;manner&lt;/em&gt; of his death isn't really discussed. Although Katniss stained him with berries, this seems more in response to &lt;em&gt;her own&lt;/em&gt; actions with the berries, rather than any knowledge that that is how he was killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The novels are particularly ambiguous about his death. We know he's gone. We have no canonical answer as to &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The films initially showed the berries as the cause of his death, but if Plutarch is to be believed, he killed himself some other way. What this way was is not known.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T15:04:49.440" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47630" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47617" CreationDate="2016-02-11T18:29:09.510" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To all your questions, we really don't know the answers. The movie is based on a book which has none of the information (he isn't even married in the book) and the film's script never explores this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, it's not &lt;em&gt;relevant&lt;/em&gt; whether it was really his wife, whether it was Indrid Cole i.e. the Mothman, or whether it was something else. As the end of the film shows, what was much more important was that he &lt;em&gt;left&lt;/em&gt; the Mothman and all the hunting for it behind, and rejoined the living with Connie (as he would never be able to solve the mystery).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, the film is based on a novel &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mothman_Prophecies&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;of the same name&lt;/a&gt; which you may be interested in checking out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, whilst a novel (as a primary source) usually helps, in this case it does not. The film has been &quot;Hollywood-ised&quot; and many of the events from the book are changed. For example, the character of the sheriff in the books is actually a journalist. John never worked for the Washington Post (so was most certainly not a star reporter). And most importantly of all - &lt;em&gt;in the books he is never married&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, the source material is no good to answering your question - we have to rely solely on the film (and therefore draw some subjective opinions from them).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With that aside, the only answer to your queries can come from the films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, it's vital to understand that the film is collection of paranormal events, that all blend somewhat in to each other. However, it's incredibly difficult to derive any meaning from them. The film doesn't have a single story that begins and ends. Instead it has a snapshot of John's life, with no resolve to the Mothman story and no resolve to the mysteries. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, we have no idea &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; Indrid Cole i.e. the Mothman was/is. We have no idea why some people saw him/it and others didn't. We have no idea why their eyes were burned, or their ears bled. We have no idea why/how Gordon contacted him when he should have been dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The best &quot;explanation&quot; we get of the Mothman is from Alexander Leek, the novellist, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/m/mothman-prophecies-script-transcript-gere.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;during this conversation&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Klein&lt;/strong&gt;: So you're telling me these things do not exist? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leek&lt;/strong&gt;: Oh, they exist. All kinds of things exist around us that we never see. Electricity, microwaves, infrared waves. You know, these things have been around forever. They show up in cave paintings. They're a normal condition of the planet. They're just not part of our consensus of what constitutes...  physical reality. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Klein&lt;/strong&gt;: What are they part of, then? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leek&lt;/strong&gt;: You're asking for an explanation... for something... that can't be explained rationally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's not exactly a &lt;em&gt;scientific&lt;/em&gt; explanation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, with regards to your questions:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;She (John's dead wife) contacted John by phone and convinced him to go&#xA;to hometown to meet her. How does this happen and what is the explanation behind this?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To be exact, John was told by message to go home and see his wife. He never was phoned by her. He heard her voice on a recording, but not by a phone call. How this happens, or who sent the message is unclear. The explanation behind it is totally unclear too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Also, I would like to know the significance of these incidents and the reason behind making John go to home town.&#xA;Was it actually John's wife's ghost and trying to save him from the tragedy? Or, is it by the mothman or the Ingrid Cold?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, we have no idea. Given the fact his wife &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; dead, it seems likely it is Indrid Cole, i.e. the Mothman. in the script, this exchange occurs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Klein&lt;/strong&gt;: His name was Indrid Cold. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leek&lt;/strong&gt;: It's perception,John. They appear differently to everyone. A voice, a light, a man, a monster. If your friend thinks it's God he spoke to, he's off by more than a few degrees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So it seems &lt;em&gt;most likely&lt;/em&gt; that the voice is from the Indrid Cole, i.e. the Mothman because that's apparently one of his abilities. Similarly when the sheriff &lt;em&gt;sees&lt;/em&gt; his dead wife, it appears she is seeing Indrid Cole, i.e. the Mothman because he can make himself appear as whatever he wants to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The reasoning behind this is not clear though. Perhaps he wanted to make John happy. Perhaps it was a test of some sort. Perhaps he wanted him &lt;em&gt;away&lt;/em&gt; from the bridge, so he couldn't intervene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We simply don't know. It's a very fun, very unusual supernatural film which has little grounding in reality. Most of the information from the book has been changed (&lt;em&gt;and even if it weren't, the book is also highly subjective too&lt;/em&gt;). Given this, we don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing we &lt;em&gt;do&lt;/em&gt; know is that John threatened to let the Mothman take over his life. But when the sheriff called him at his house, he made the decision to not pick up the phone to his wife, or whoever it was ringing, and return to normality. He drove to Ohio, saved her, and at the end of the film it appears like their supernatural occurrences are behind them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think of the end of the film says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Klein&lt;/strong&gt;: I left DC right after you called. You did call me, right? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mills&lt;/strong&gt;: Yeah. Yeah, I called.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the film, there were a few instances when phone calls were supposedly made, but the caller denied it (and it was Indrid Cole instead). But not here. This is real, and with that the mystery of solving who Indrid Cole i.e. the Mothman is becomes irrelevant because, as Leek says, they'll never know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologies if this doesn't &quot;answer&quot; your questions! I simply don't think anything beyond this can be provided.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T18:29:09.510" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47631" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47633" CreationDate="2016-02-11T18:31:20.450" Score="27" ViewCount="22089" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was the twist in the 75th Hunger Games predetermined to send the victors back in, or was it changed by President Snow when he needed a way to get rid of Katniss?  The Quarter Quells are the only Games that are different.  This is convenient since the President needs one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29264" LastEditorUserId="29264" LastEditDate="2016-02-11T18:59:58.827" LastActivityDate="2019-01-07T13:40:41.457" Title="Was the twist for the 75th Hunger Games predetermined?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-catching-fire|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47633" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47631" CreationDate="2016-02-11T18:46:26.910" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It is unknown whether Snow changed the plan for the third quarter quell to send Katniss back into the Games but it is likely that he did.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A great number of &lt;a href=&quot;http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Quarter_Quell&quot;&gt;the games &lt;strong&gt;were&lt;/strong&gt; planned&lt;/a&gt; at the outset of the creation of the Hunger Games, including the concept of the Quarter Quell having an extra twist, but there's no information, either in the films or in the books that definitively say whether what occurred in the 75th Hunger Games was the plan or whether Snow changed it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Every 25 years there is a Quarter Quell edition of the Hunger Games. Quells mark the anniversaries of the districts' defeat by the Capitol, and include special celebrations. The Games involves some sort of twist that makes them even more disastrous or difficult to compete in, or watch. A small box contains small yellow envelopes containing specific themes or twists for each Quarter Quell. These instructions were planned at the founding of the Hunger Games, with plans in place for hundreds of Games. The President at the time selects the appropriate card and reads it on live television to announce the theme of that year's Quell. It is unknown how many Quarter Quells were planned ahead of time, but some suspect that the 75th had been changed so that Katniss Everdeen, the female tribute from District 12 who won the previous year and the district's sole living female Victor, would be forced to go back into the arena once more (this is confirmed in a deleted scene in the film adaption of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One point made in the article argues that it's unlikely that it was planned from the beginning... there was no way the founders could predict that there would be appropriate candidates for the games if this were the case. Until Katniss won the 74th Games with Peeta, there was no living female Victor from District 12, and it's unknown whether there had ever been one at all:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The 75th Hunger Games had past victors from earlier Hunger Games compete for a second time. This action was made to destroy any bonds the districts had with each other and to make them feel weak. It was meant to be a reminder to the citizens of the districts that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the Capitol. It is speculated that this twist was not planned at the founding of the Hunger Games, but was designed specifically to force Katniss back into the arena in the hopes of stopping the rising rebellion. Even if this twist was planned in advance, it wouldn't have been possible if Katniss had not won the previous year's Hunger Games, as there would be no living female victor from District 12. The 75th Hunger Games were the last Games hosted. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-02-12T15:15:51.100" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T15:15:51.100" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47634" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47631" CreationDate="2016-02-11T18:50:24.880" Score="19" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know conclusively, but it's almost certain that the 75th Games (which were planned) were altered to include former winners so as to kill off Katniss (and subdue the rebellion).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think you've answered your own question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Catching Fire&lt;/em&gt;, following Katniss and Peeta's victories, frustration among the people is growing. They have seen two people defy the Capitol and Katniss in particular is becoming a symbol of rebellion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Snow wanted Katniss and Peeta killed at the end of the Hunger Games, for their &amp;quot;stunt&amp;quot; with the berries. But Seneca Crane instead announced them as winners (and paid for it with his life). So now Snow is aware that both Peeta and particularly Katniss are symbols, and a threat. The film echoes the book in this regard, and to quote &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.anderson5.net/cms/lib02/SC01001931/Centricity/Domain/222/Catching%20Fire.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;from the book&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...You have no access to information about the mood in other&#xA;districts. In several of them, however, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;people viewed your little&#xA;trick with the berries as an act of defiance, not an act of love. And&#xA;if a girl from District Twelve of all places can defy the Capitol and&#xA;walk away unharmed, what is to stop them from doing the same?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;” he&#xA;says. “What is to prevent, say, an uprising?”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Why don't you just kill me now?” I blurt out.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;“Publicly?” he asks. “That would only add fuel to the flames.”&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;“Arrange an accident, then,” I say.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;“&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who would buy it?” he asks. “Not you, if you were watching.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Only you'll have to do even better if the uprisings are to be&#xA;averted,” he says. “&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This tour will be your only chance to turn things&#xA;around.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“I know. I will. I'll convince everyone in the districts that I wasn't&#xA;defying the Capitol, that I was crazy with love,” I say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;President Snow rises and dabs his puffy lips with a napkin. “Aim&#xA;higher in case you fall short.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“What do you mean? How can I aim higher?” I ask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Convince me” he says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at this Stage, Snow wants Katniss on board. He is hesitant to kill her, as it will stir rebellion - but he can't let her &amp;quot;go free&amp;quot;, as she will stir rebellion. So he wants her to behave well and do as he says.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this fails. She pays tribute to Rue in District 11 and sparks visible dissent. A man in the crowd is shot dead and tension is clearly rising.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this point, Snow is even more concerned. Something the book mentions, which the movie does not, is the following scene which takes place in the mayor's house (during her tour of the districts):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm leaving the room when a beeping noise catches my attention. I turn&#xA;back to see the screen of the television go black. Then the words&#xA;“UPDATE ON DISTRICT 8” start flashing. Instinctively I know this is&#xA;not for my eyes but something intended only for the mayor. I should&#xA;go. Quickly. Instead I find myself stepping closer to the television.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An announcer I've never seen before appears. It's a woman with graying&#xA;hair and a hoarse, authoritative voice. She warns that conditions are&#xA;worsening and a Level 3 alert has been called. Additional forces are&#xA;being sent into District 8, and all textile production has ceased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They cut away from the woman to the main square in District 8. I&#xA;recognize it because I was there only last week. There are still&#xA;banners with my face waving from the rooftops. Below them, there's a&#xA;mob scene. The square's packed with screaming people, their faces&#xA;hidden with rags and homemade masks, throwing bricks. Buildings burn.&#xA;Peacekeepers shoot into the crowd, killing at random.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I've never seen anything like it, but I can only be witnessing one&#xA;thing. This is what President Snow calls an uprising&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So there is full rebellions occurring now, across all of the suppressed districts. Snow's plan of keeping Katniss &amp;quot;on-side&amp;quot; has failed. Inadvertently, through her tributes to Rue and simply by her &lt;em&gt;being&lt;/em&gt; strife is brewing and more signs of dissent are breaking out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is when Snow hatches the master plan to send Katniss &lt;em&gt;back&lt;/em&gt; into The Hunger Games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Katniss realises that she'll likely die from this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“If you're perfectly honest about it, you think President Snow has&#xA;probably given them direct orders to make sure we die in the arena&#xA;anyway,” I say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“It's crossed my mind,” says Peeta.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's crossed my&#xA;mind, too. Repeatedly. But while I know I'll never leave that arena&#xA;alive, I'm still holding on to the hope that Peeta will. After all, he&#xA;didn't pull out those berries, I did. No one has ever doubted that&#xA;Peeta's defiance was motivated by love. So maybe President Snow will&#xA;prefer keeping him alive, crushed and heartbroken, as a living warning&#xA;to others.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, at the start of the &lt;em&gt;Catching Fire&lt;/em&gt; novel, Effey tells Katniss &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;In your very first year of being a victor, you get to be a mentor in a Quarter Quell!&lt;/em&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Our only &lt;em&gt;knowledge&lt;/em&gt; of a Quarter Quell comes frmo a recollection Katniss had:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in school I remember hearing that for the second Quarter Quell,&#xA;the Capitol demanded that twice the number of tributes be provided for&#xA;the arena. The teachers didn't go into much more detail, which is&#xA;surprising, because that was the year District 12's very own Haymitch&#xA;Abernathy won the crown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So we know the Quarter Quell is &lt;em&gt;designed&lt;/em&gt; to be special. But given Effey's comments, and the knowledge that former winners are supposed to be &lt;em&gt;exempt&lt;/em&gt; it seems almost overwhelmingly likely the rules were changed so as to trap Katniss in a situation where she could be killed without sparking further unrest.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't &lt;em&gt;definitively&lt;/em&gt; know. There &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; going to be Hunger Games that year. But it's overwhelmingly likely that the Games were altered to include Katniss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T18:50:24.880" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47636" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46508" CreationDate="2016-02-11T19:57:05.947" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Surely you've answered your own question here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Did Chapman ever find a cigarette carrying roach?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I know when she was in the holding cell, after Alex had left, she saw a roach carrying a cigarette on it's back, but that was the end of hearing about that storyline.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's your answer! She did see one in her cell. Of course, soon after she left that prison and there was no need to continue the storyline with many of those inmates (or indeed Yoda, the cockroach).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;yes, she did indeed see a cigarette carrying roach.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-11T20:26:19.653" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T20:26:19.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47638" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47639" CreationDate="2016-02-11T20:08:51.573" Score="17" ViewCount="45039" Body="&lt;p&gt;During Katniss' individual assessment in front of the Gamemakers in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Catching Fire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, we see Katniss pass by and notice a painting of Rue on the ground of the training center. Katniss is affected by this, a haunting reminder of when she buried Rue surrounded by white flowers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But why is the painting there? That seems so out of place for the Capitol. And it goes unmentioned in the following scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WoDCl.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WoDCl.png&quot; alt=&quot;Painting of Rue&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-11T20:35:32.113" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T03:14:30.483" Title="Why was there a painting of Rue?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hunger-games|the-hunger-games-catching-fire|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47639" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47638" CreationDate="2016-02-11T20:24:38.767" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Peeta was the one that painted Rue, just before Katniss was called for her assessment. The entire scene is much different in the book, and essentially glossed over, leaving it to the audience to figure it out.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie, we only see the painting, and no reference to it before or after the assessment. Just Katniss' reaction to it. It reminded her of Rue's death, and essentially became the straw that broke the camels back. This caused her to want to threaten and piss off the game makers by hanging the Seneca Crane Effigy, to remind the game makers that they can die just as easily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the books, chapter 16 has Katniss and Peeta discussing the process of choosing allies, and planning for their assessments. They say that they don't know how they are going to kill &quot;these people&quot;, their fellow tributes, having gotten to know them better. This reminds them of Rue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I don't want them as allies. Why did Haymitch want us to get to know them?&quot; I say. &quot;It'll make it so much harder than last time. Except for Rue maybe. But I guess I never really could've killed her, anyway. She was just too much like Prim.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Peeta looks up at me, his brow creased in thought. &quot;Her death was the most despicable, wasn't it?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then Peeta gets called in for his Assessment. Katniss has to wait almost an hour before it's her turn. She knows something is different, but there is no painting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When I go in, I smell the sharp odor of cleaner and notice that one of the mats has been dragged to the center of the room.&lt;/strong&gt; The mood is very different from last year's, when the Gamemakers were half drunk and distractedly picking at tidbits from the banquet table. &lt;strong&gt;They whisper among themselves, looking somewhat annoyed. What did Peeta do? Something to upset them?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since Katniss believes Peeta did something stupid, putting himself in danger again, she reacts, attempting to deflect the danger onto herself, again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I feel a pang of worry. That isn't good. I don't want Peeta singling himself out as a target for the Gamemakers' anger. That's part of my job. To draw fire away from Peeta. But how did he upset them? Because I'd love to do just that and more. To break through the smug veneer of those who use their brains to find amusing ways to kill us. &lt;strong&gt;To make them realize that while we're vulnerable to the Capitol's cruelties, they are as well.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cue Seneca Crane. Or a lovely tribute to him. Naturally.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chapter 17 follows up with Katniss and Peeta letting each other and Haymitch and Effie know what happened during the assessments.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As we all gather for dinner, I notice Peeta's hands are faintly stained with a variety of colors, even though his hair is still damp from bathing. He must have done some form of camouflage after all.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [...]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Peeta seems to be struck with the same reluctance I'm experiencing. &quot;Well, I - I did the camouflage thing, like you suggested, Katniss.&quot; He hesitates. &quot;Not exactly camouflage. I mean, I used the dyes.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [...]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;I think of how ruffled the Gamemakers were when I entered the gym for my session. The smell of cleaners. The mat pulled over that spot in the center of the gym. Was it to conceal something they were unable to wash away? &quot;You painted something, didn't you? A picture.&quot; &quot;Did you see it?&quot; Peeta asks.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;No. But they'd made a real point of covering it up,&quot; I say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Well, that would be standard. They can't let one tribute know what another did,&quot; says Effie, unconcerned.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  [...]&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&quot;Actually, I painted a picture of Rue,&quot; Peeta says. &quot;How she looked after Katniss had covered her in flowers.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's a long pause at the table while everyone absorbs this. &quot;And what exactly were you trying to accomplish?&quot; Haymitch asks in a very measured voice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&quot;I'm not sure. I just wanted to hold them accountable, if only for a moment,&quot; says Peeta. &quot;For killing that little girl.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;This is dreadful.&quot; Effie sounds like she's about to cry. &quot;That sort of thinking ... it's forbidden, Peeta. Absolutely. You'll only bring down more trouble on yourself and Katniss.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I have to agree with Effie on this one,&quot; says Haymitch. Portia and Cinna remain silent, but their faces are very serious. Of course, they're right. But even though it worries me, I think what he did was amazing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it,&quot; I say. This has the desired effect. After a moment of disbelief, all the disapproval in the room hits me like a ton of bricks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this cut or never included in the film. Pointedly, that Peeta was as willing to stick it to the Gamemakers or the Capitol as Katniss was at times. Like when he came up with the secret love the previous Hunger Games or pregnancy the following scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And it was a bonding moment for Katniss and Peeta we don't see either:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;You'd have thought we planned it,&quot; says Peeta, giving me just the hint of a smile.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Didn't you?&quot; asks Portia. Her fingers press her eyelids closed as if she's warding off a very bright light.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;No,&quot; I say, &lt;strong&gt;looking at Peeta with a new sense of appreciation.&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;Neither of us even knew what we were going to do before we went in.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The results of this, not seen in this movie, is that both Katniss and Peeta receive a score of 12, the highest. Haymitch says this is so Katniss and Peeta get targeted by the others. In the first movie, Katniss' antagonistic William Tell shooting of the apple moment in her 74th assessment resulted in a similar high score.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-11T20:33:36.577" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T20:33:36.577" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47640" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45939" CreationDate="2016-02-11T20:27:16.547" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She doesn't know &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; Alejandro is, but she knows they're in Mexico, they've no jurisdiction whatsoever and she's just seen Alejandro hold a criminal at gunpoint, force him into a car and demand he drive him. She doesn't know &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; his motives are, but doesn't trust him and so doesn't lower her gun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kate is trying very hard to do things &lt;em&gt;by the book&lt;/em&gt;. She works for the FBI and in the film becomes increasingly concerned that the team is working &lt;em&gt;outside of their jurisdiction&lt;/em&gt;. However, the very reason she and Reggie are part of the team is to give protection to the CIA unit. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dropbox.com/s/rch3gdlka0ui0jb/SICARIO%20by%20Taylor%20Sheridan.pdf?dl=0&amp;amp;s=so&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From the script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REGGIE&lt;/strong&gt;: What the fuck is he dressed for?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;MATT&lt;/strong&gt;: Relax. You guys will hang&#xA;  back when we get there, k?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;REGGIE&lt;/strong&gt;: Then why are we going?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;MACY&lt;/strong&gt;: Because CIA&#xA;  can’t operate within US borders without a domestic agency attached.&#xA;  Right?&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;At last. She gets it. He smiles.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;MATT&lt;/strong&gt;: Hey. All the drugs we find,&#xA;  you guys get to confiscate. Gonna be a big day.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;He walks off.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;MACY&lt;/strong&gt;: That’s why we’re here. That’s the only reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As they proceed through the tunnel, Reggie gets spooked, but Macy needs to continue to understand why they're there:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REGGIE&lt;/strong&gt;: Fuck are we doing in here? Let’s go back.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Machine gun fire&#xA;  erupts. The fight has begun.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;REGGIE&lt;/strong&gt; (CONT’D): We’re in fucking&#xA;  Mexico!!&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;MACY&lt;/strong&gt;: THEN GO BACK.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Macy finally reaches the end of the tunnel she's not supposed to go down:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MACY&lt;/strong&gt; (O.S.): WHAT ARE YOU DOING??&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Alejandro turns and sees Macy, her&#xA;  rifle trained on him.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;ALEJANDRO&lt;/strong&gt;: Put that down.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;MACY&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;STEP AWAY. I mean it. Move away from him.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;He looks at her&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;The automatic fire from different&#xA;  tunnel shafts rushes in and out like blasts of hot air.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;ALEJANDRO&lt;/strong&gt;: We are&#xA;  in Mexico now. You have no jurisdiction.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;MACY&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;We can’t be&#xA;  here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;--Alejandro raises his pistol and fires six rounds into Macy’s&#xA;  chest.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After that, as you correctly explain, the whole CIA plot is explained to her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've highlighted the relevant section in the passage above. Macy is completely out of her depth. At the start of the film, we see her operating in a house with bodies hidden behind every wall. She's &lt;em&gt;supposed&lt;/em&gt; to be a tough, strong, powerful agent. But &lt;em&gt;even with all those qualities&lt;/em&gt;, she's still completely out of her depth in this team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She's told to stay away from this particular tunnel, that she doesn't want to know what's at the end. She has to know. So much has been kept back from her. And as she goes, she sees Alejandro hold Silvio at gunpoint, force him into a car and tell him to drive him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Macy is terrified by this. As the highlighted line above shows, she's highly aware they're not in Mexico and have zero legal jurisdiction. She doesn't know if Alejandro is CIA or enemy. She doesn't know anything - except that this man has crossed into Mexico, is holding a criminal at gunpoint and demanding he drives him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Macy doesn't deal with these things in her usual job. She makes arrests. She demands he steps away, with her gun trained on him, just like an agent is supposed to do in these situations. However, she is distracted by gunfire and shot herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T20:27:16.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47641" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47638" CreationDate="2016-02-11T20:29:50.643" Score="26" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not a part of the training center. It's what Peeta did for his assessment. He's been well established in the books and films as being a very talented artist – decorating cakes, and himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peeta used dyes from the assessment room to paint an image of Rue and it's what earned him his 12 along with Katniss'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Peeta seems to be struck with the same reluctance I'm experiencing. &amp;quot;Well, I—I did the camouflage thing, like you suggested, Katniss.&amp;quot; He hesitates. &amp;quot;Not exactly camouflage. I mean, I used the dyes.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;To do what?&amp;quot; asks Portia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Actually, I painted a picture of Rue,&amp;quot; Peeta says. &amp;quot;How she looked after Katniss had covered her in flowers.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, the fact that it's still visible in the film is a departure from the books, where it was removed before Katniss entered the room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think of how ruffled the Gamemakers were when I entered the gym for my session. The smell of cleaners. The mat pulled over that spot in the center of the gym. Was it to conceal something they were unable to wash away? &amp;quot;You painted something, didn't you? A picture.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Did you see it?&amp;quot; Peeta asks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;No. But they'd made a real point of covering it up,&amp;quot; I say.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T03:14:30.483" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47642" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45681" CreationDate="2016-02-11T20:41:56.243" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm going to say &lt;em&gt;you and your friend remembered this from something else&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In none of the Bourne releases does the scene you mention seem to exist. I found a &lt;a href=&quot;http://thesmartmarks.com/printer_684.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;great review&lt;/a&gt; detailing what was on the Bourne Identity DVD release, including deleted scenes, and it's certainly not mentioned there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/dvds/The-Bourne-Identity-Explosive-Extended-Edition-573.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cinema Blend&lt;/a&gt; cover what was released on the &quot;Extended Edition&quot; discs and again, there's no added or removed scenes to explain what you saw.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I'm going to say &lt;strong&gt;the scenes don't exist and were remembered from elsewhere&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As to where that particular memory comes from - I have no idea I'm afraid. It's a little too vague to be able to pinpoint a specific film from it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T17:08:13.813" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T17:08:13.813" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47643" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46085" CreationDate="2016-02-11T20:57:15.290" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Your association with Germany is correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not only is &quot;D&quot; the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_vehicle_registration_codes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;country code&lt;/a&gt; for Germany, but also the car itself is of German origin.&#xA;It is a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Trabant&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (aka &quot;Trabi&quot;), which was produced in East-Germany and the most common car there.&#xA;It became a symbol for the fall of the inner-German wall, since many East Germans explored western Europe with the Trabant (there is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101960/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;movie about that&lt;/a&gt; as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Germany's reunion in 1990 the owner replaced the East-German country code &quot;DDR&quot; with the West-German &quot;D&quot; (or just put the new sticker on top, as it seems to be the case here). &#xA;Although many people sold their Trabi as soon as possible and bought a western car, the Trabant was quite popular for others and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant#1990s_and_beyond&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;spread to the western world, including the US&lt;/a&gt;. That explains its way to South Carolina.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why this car was in that scene, I can not tell. &#xA;[ An easy explanation would be, it simply looked exotic to the producers. &#xA;I could also speculate about deeper meanings and an analogy regarding the East bloc equals hell/purgatory and the western world being the land of the living, but that would go too far.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;To sum it up:&lt;/strong&gt; I think, there is neither a deeper meaning in the sticker itself, nor a continuity error here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27900" LastEditorUserId="27900" LastEditDate="2016-02-11T21:11:32.853" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T21:11:32.853" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47644" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42839" CreationDate="2016-02-11T22:08:09.643" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although it sounds unbelievable, in ancient times (even in the desert) they had the ability to store ice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few different sources for this information online. Firstly, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ipcbee.com/vol1/44-B084.pdf&quot;&gt;there is this article&lt;/a&gt; written by some Malaysian architecture students. Their research stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 440 BC Iran, Iranian people had already domination the technique&#xA;  of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;storing ice in the middle of summer in the desert.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; The ice was&#xA;  brought in during the winters from nearby mountains in bulk amounts,&#xA;  and stored in a specially designed, passively cooled refrigerator,&#xA;  called an Earth refrigerator. This was a large underground space that&#xA;  had thick walls made out of a special mortar called sarooj, composed&#xA;  of sand, clay, egg whites, lime, goat hair, and ash in specific&#xA;  proportions, and which was resistant to heat transfer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is backed up by other sources, such as the medical book &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LYPSBQAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA1&amp;amp;lpg=PA1&amp;amp;dq=ice%20storage%20ancient%20times%20desert&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=qksCDd7iUW&amp;amp;sig=vdd3fNNPO8I1gjXFhgzSbQGrfmQ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwii3PmS2_DKAhXEWRoKHQ62Cn84ChDoAQglMAE#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=ice%20storage%20ancient%20times%20desert&amp;amp;f=false&quot;&gt;Cutaneous Cryosurgery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, which look at this issue in relation to ancient medicine. It stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At first glance it is not clear how ice or snow would have been&#xA;  available at such latitudes, but even in hot countries there were&#xA;  means of acquiring it. Ice could be stored, from the winter time, in&#xA;  ice houses where it was packed in large quantities and covered with&#xA;  straw or other insulating materials...&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ingenuity was at its foremost&#xA;  when methods were developed to produce ice or slush in desert areas&#xA;  when extreme low temperatures at night were manipulated to freeze&#xA;  evaporating water&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The Romans and later Iranians would dig a pit and&#xA;  line it with insulating straw. In it was placed a water contained and&#xA;  the opening was covered by a sun-reflecting shiny metal in the day but&#xA;  open to the elements at night. Evaporation at night led to ice forming&#xA;  around the edge of the container. This was collected and stored.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So as unusual as it might as first sound, the ancients certainly had the ability and know-how to do this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T22:08:09.643" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47645" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="43810" CreationDate="2016-02-11T22:42:48.740" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No: Cosmos (1980) is not obsolete&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is obviously a very subjective topic, but I'd argue you could (and should!) watch both series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan&quot;&gt;Carl Sagan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. The man was simply amazing, with one of the most mesmeric voices imaginable. Watch at least one episode, just to hear it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, a lot of the science in the original &lt;em&gt;Cosmos&lt;/em&gt; still holds true today. For the parts that &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt;, the latest editions of the DVDs have added scenes at the end of the episode where Sagan explains &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; the science has changed since this episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Obviously, there are some noticeable changes, such as &lt;em&gt;Pluto no longer being a planet&lt;/em&gt;, but largely the fundamental things he covers, such as the age of the universe, the Cosmic Calendar, the achievements of the likes of Tycho Brahe and Joannes Kepler, global warming, the big bang - our understanding of these things has not fundamentally shifted between 1980 and 2014 to an extent that what Saga was saying was incorrect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst the new series is fantastic, the majority of the changes are aesthetic. The newer animation means some of the historical tales, rather than just showing a presenter on screen narrating and gesticulating, actually show CGI created stories of what the narrator is covering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In terms of the major differences, I would argue it heavily comes down to the oratory style you prefer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sagan had a captivating voice and challenged us to use our imaginations when considering all the evidence. Even when describing the vast size of space, he made it seem a little less scary with his hypnotic voice. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tyson on the other hand has always had a much more impersonal, revealing oratory style. He addresses things in absolute detail, and is more provocative than Sagan. For example, whilst Sagan never went into detail on his own religious beliefs, Tyson is much more outspoken about his feelings that science should influence politics.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, I'd suggest watching both. Start with Sagan's and take your time enjoying them. Then watch Tyson's and see the aesthetic differences (the first episode is &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; similar otherwise).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T22:42:48.740" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47647" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38825" CreationDate="2016-02-11T23:59:11.047" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;This could be the 2005 film &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499224/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Season of the Horse&lt;/a&gt;. The year and storyline seem to fit:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Under the encouragement of the Chinese government, the traditional way of life of the nomads of the Mongolian plains change. Once a culture with a great emphasis on raising horses on the grassy plains, they are encouraged to move into the cities to work as industrial workers. However, one family tries to resist this change, trying to raise money to send their [boy] to school by selling yogurt. Unfortunately, this is hardly sufficient and they are forced to sell their beloved horses.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You can read more about it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smhric.org/news_86.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and in &lt;a href=&quot;http://variety.com/2005/film/reviews/season-of-the-horse-1200528094/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Variety&lt;/em&gt; review (I can't find any clips, unfortunately).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2PcGa.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2PcGa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2016-02-11T23:59:11.047" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47648" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42299" CreationDate="2016-02-12T01:01:20.920" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unfortunately this appears to be unknown, but appears to date from some time in the 1930s&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's quite difficult to pin down when the first &quot;trailer&quot; is from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2270/why-are-they-called-trailers-if-theyre-shown-em-before-em-the-movie&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Straight Dope&lt;/a&gt; have an article where they quote Paramount executive Lou Harris, speaking in 1966, as claiming the first trailer was screen at an amusement park in 1912:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One of the concessions hung up a white sheet and showed the serial&#xA;  &quot;The Adventures of Kathlyn.&quot; At the end of the reel Kathlyn was thrown&#xA;  in the lion's den. After this &quot;trailed&quot; a piece of film asking Does&#xA;  she escape the lion's pit? See next week's thrilling chapter! Hence,&#xA;  the word &quot;trailer,&quot; an advertisement for a coming picture.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to sites like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailer_(promotion)#History&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; (who reference the Nebraska Daily Star) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/culture/film/214473-epic-history-movie-trailers-mad-max-independence-day&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hopes and Fears&lt;/a&gt;) claim the first trailer &lt;em&gt;shown in a cinema&lt;/em&gt; occurred during a screening of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0002605/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Adventures of Kathryn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and was for a musical called &lt;em&gt;The Pleasure Seekers&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there are a few problems with both of these examples. The &lt;em&gt;Pleasure Seekers&lt;/em&gt; example is for a stage musical, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a theatrical film. It is arguable the &lt;em&gt;Adventures of Kathlyn&lt;/em&gt; trailer is more accurate then, but it's not advertising a film either, just a serial.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And just as importantly - both of them were literally &lt;em&gt;trailers&lt;/em&gt;. They trailed the film, appearing post-credits, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; pre-credits as you've asked for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless I mention both here as they seem to have been a landmark moment in cinema.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's precious little other information I can find from that era. Quite a few articles quote a 1914 New York Times article as stating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“A committee of the National Association of the Motion Picture&#xA;  Industry yesterday began sending films known as trailers [advertising&#xA;  the bonds] to all of the 15,000 or more movie theaters in the United&#xA;  States. These films are seventy feet in length and will be attached to&#xA;  longer films that are shown at every performance.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the majority of sites quote this as is, and the few that reference it appear to have broken links. Nevertheless, these trailers were still being shown &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the main film. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At this stage, Wikipedia state Charlie Chaplin films had trailers created for his films from 1914, and cite page 53 of &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B0007DSM96&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Blondes, Brunettes and Bullets&lt;/a&gt; by Nils T. Granlund. Whether this is believable or not is unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1919, the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Screen_Service&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;National Screen Service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; was created, specifically to create and promote trailers. It was run by Herman Robbins, who opened an office, took movie stills, spliced in titles and informative text and sold them to movie theaters - all without the studios permission. Fascinatingly, rather than fighting this the studios praised it and outsourced almost all trailer creation work to them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The NSS proceeded to dominate the trailer market for over four decades. During this time, they started making only trailers for silent films, such as the following trailer for &lt;em&gt;The Live Wire&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/6OkLWeFdcQ4?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Over time, they invented the first ever trailer with sound, for &lt;em&gt;The Jazz Singer&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/mW6GfJ5Tvms?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, all of these trailers are &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; being showed &lt;em&gt;after&lt;/em&gt; the films, not before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Referring to the Straight Dope article again, they themselves refer to a book called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exkercom.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Coming Attractions: Reading American Movie Trailers&lt;/a&gt; by Lisa Kernan, which is unfortunately behind a paywall. It apparently finds that the first trailers appearing &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the film were invented around the 1930s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, we don't appear to be able to narrow it down any further than this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in summary:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First ever trailer shown anywhere&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;The Adventure of Kathryn&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First ever trailer for non-film shown in a cinema&lt;/strong&gt;: Trailer for &lt;em&gt;The Pleasure Seekers&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First ever trailer for a film shown in a cinema&lt;/strong&gt;: Unconfirmed, but allegedly a trailer for a Charlie Chaplin film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First ever trailer for a film with sound&lt;/strong&gt;: Trailer for &lt;em&gt;The Live Wire&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First ever trailer shown &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; the film&lt;/strong&gt;: Unknown, but allegedly from a film in the 1930s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-12T01:15:40.153" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T01:15:40.153" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47649" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-12T01:21:29.850" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Puppy Bowl&lt;/em&gt; is an annual television event that runs counter to the Super Bowl, involving puppies dragging toys across a small football field. It was first shown on February 6, 2005, opposite Super Bowl XXXIX, on Animal Planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12783" LastEditorUserId="12783" LastEditDate="2016-02-12T01:38:31.267" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T01:38:31.267" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47650" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-12T01:21:29.850" Score="0" Body="An annual television event that runs counter to the Super Bowl, involving puppies dragging toys across a small football field." OwnerUserId="12783" LastEditorUserId="12783" LastEditDate="2016-02-12T01:37:48.423" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T01:37:48.423" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47652" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47653" CreationDate="2016-02-12T03:06:30.643" Score="11" ViewCount="4953" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Lost series, a young guy named Charlie has a tattoo on his arm that reads &quot;Living is easy with eyes closed&quot;. Does it carry any significance within the series or is it a real actor's tattoo?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2016-07-12T00:54:55.857" Title="Significance of Charlie's tattoo in the Lost series" Tags="|analysis|lost|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47653" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47652" CreationDate="2016-02-12T03:24:58.637" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Dominic_Monaghan&quot;&gt;According to Lostpedia&lt;/a&gt;, the tattoo belongs to the actor and not the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The words are a line from Strawberry Fields Forever, by the Beatles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7969" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T03:24:58.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47654" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47652" CreationDate="2016-02-12T04:46:45.107" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;Source &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com&quot;&gt;Lostpedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Charlie (as well as the actor who portrays him) bears &lt;strong&gt;a tattoo on his&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;left shoulder which reads&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Living is easy with eyes closed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;. This is a&#xA;  quote from The Beatles' song &quot;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Strawberry Fields Forever&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;,&quot; a song whose&#xA;  lyrics and/or meaning could be considered symbolic of the Losties'&#xA;  experiences, Charlie's in particular.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="24020" LastEditDate="2016-02-12T12:16:11.557" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T12:16:11.557" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47657" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47631" CreationDate="2016-02-12T06:36:53.073" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Some good answers before this one but all of them sidelined one crucial detail or rather person:  Plutarch Heavensbee (RIP Mr Hoffman)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Crane was killed due to the debacle of 74th Hunger Games, we see Plutarch being appointed as head Gamekeeper and a very close associate of President Snow. Plutarch was giving an angry and anxious Snow valuable feedback and advice on how to tackle Katnis and defuse the uprising.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is only later we find out that Plutarch has ulterior motives in being so close to Snow and the Games itself.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Plutarch has an elaborate plan to take Katnis away from Capitol's clutches.   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We also find out that most of the tributes of 75th Hunger Games, all of them being previous Victors, are in on his elaborate plan. It is highly likely that the plan was brewing much before Katnis came on the scene, much before 74th Hunger Games. Because forming an alliance will take much time and effort and trust. They all were waiting for a right time and a right person to galvanize their fight against the Capitol. And since Katnis served that purpose perfectly, Plutarch must have decided its time to implement his plan.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Plutarch knew Katnis enough to know that she was impulsive and brave even under mortal fear. He knew the Victory tour would not go according to Snow's plans, which were suggested to Snow by Plutarch himself. To paraphrase &quot;Distract people with the wedding. Show her as one of us now. They will hate her so much, they might just kill her for you&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it is more likely that after Snow's plan, mentioned above, failed. Plutarch convinced Snow that the right way to kill Katnis would be under the guise of another Hunger Games rather than shooting her on point-blank. And since 75th Hunger Games were Quarter Quill, they had a disguise for their plan.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it is most likely Plutarch's idea to have Victors as tributes to the 75th Hunger Games and since most are in on his plan, and were ready to sacrifice their life for Katnis's safety, he knew that his plan would work. So he manipulated Snow's decision      &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5315" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-12T09:57:22.107" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T09:57:22.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47659" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36108" CreationDate="2016-02-12T09:34:05.420" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I did a search through IMDB a good while back and I remember seeing 2-3 crew members from BSG working on The 100. I can say for a fact that Wayne Rose directed episodes of BSG and one episode of The 100. Coincidentally I think that particular episode stood out to me as a very strong resemblance to BSG.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31068" LastEditorUserId="31068" LastEditDate="2016-02-12T09:39:10.597" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T09:39:10.597" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47664" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="59491" CreationDate="2016-02-12T12:16:35.537" Score="4" ViewCount="326" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've stumbled upon (and watched) a number of films that share many things: &lt;em&gt;Divergent&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Maze Runner&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Giver&lt;/em&gt; and so on (I will add as I recall othrs that I've seen and from comments).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These movies all share these common elements:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a (more or less futuristic) social community with a (more or less) dystopic leader/government (in or outside of said community)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;strong factions/caste/districts/teams/houses divisions that most people are assigned to; the main character often is given some sort of choice because reasons (divergent) or assigned to &quot;special&quot; faction (jonas the giver, for example)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;a final &quot;mindblowing&quot; (often sci-fi) plot twist (commonly: &quot;it was an experiment&quot;) revealing how the world they lived in was fake/planned/controlled.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is this kind of &quot;optimized plot&quot; an industry standard?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are all films targeted at teenagers, and, for example, the factions create sense of belonging.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are there any other recognized plot patterns that enhance appreciation, for other target audiences like this (in my opinion) does?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This quote from Homer Simpon inspired this question, so I will put it here, altought it is not part of the question.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Homer Simpson&lt;/strong&gt;: Finally a movie about a dystopian future, unlike &lt;em&gt;The&#xA;  Hunger Games, Edge of Tomorrow, Oblivion, Elysium, Snowpiercer, The&#xA;  Hunger Games: Catching Fire, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Ender's Game,&#xA;  The Road, World War Z, Children of Men, After Earth, I Am Legend, Mad&#xA;  Max: Fury Road, The Maze Runner, District 9, The Purge, Looper, Cloud&#xA;  Atlas, Divergent, Insurgent, The Island, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric&#xA;  Play,&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Chappie.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31071" LastEditorUserId="31071" LastEditDate="2016-08-21T11:10:41.180" LastActivityDate="2016-08-21T11:10:41.180" Title="Is this a genre, a plot template or something else?" Tags="|analysis|genre|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47665" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="26533" CreationDate="2016-02-12T12:25:30.307" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The red mist is blood. They would take the blood and practically spit it out and use it for nutrients. The red plant you see every where is called the red weed. This is Wells' explanation for why Mars had a red appearance. After 15 days, the narrator said that the plant started to get gray spots and eventually gray all together and extremely brittle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A lot of people didn't really get this part and it was a subtle treat for fans of the broadcast and book.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31072" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T12:25:30.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47667" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14250" CreationDate="2016-02-12T13:21:20.490" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He was a repressed homosexual. Fitts killed Lester, because Lester who rejected Fitts now knows his shame. He could not live with that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Fitts kiss Lester? Because everything up to that moment in Fitts' mind indicated Lester was a homosexual, but more than that....he came to assume Lester was also hiding it behind his marriage just as Fitts' hides his.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31075" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T13:21:20.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47670" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-12T13:57:27.507" Score="-3" ViewCount="677" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &lt;em&gt;Interstellar&lt;/em&gt;, the granddad said that Coop needs to sort it out with Murphy before he goes, and not to make any promises he couldn't keep.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But at the end of the film, while Coop was talking to Murphy, Coop said &quot;how did you know?&quot;, to which Murphy replied &quot;because my dad promised me&quot;. When in the film did he make this promise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31079" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T00:30:21.217" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T00:30:21.217" Title="What &quot;promise&quot; does Coop make to Murph?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|interstellar|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47674" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47670" CreationDate="2016-02-12T14:22:57.827" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Cooper promises to Murph that he will return.&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/bzknxta9gHA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6582" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T14:22:57.827" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47675" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45775" CreationDate="2016-02-12T17:05:18.043" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Having seen the movie now; not with my kids BTW. If your kid can watch the old Star Wars movies, then I'd say they can watch the new movie. Violence and such is really similar in amount and style to the older movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29468" LastEditorUserId="29468" LastEditDate="2016-02-13T18:45:36.343" LastActivityDate="2016-02-13T18:45:36.343" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47679" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47685" CreationDate="2016-02-12T18:42:56.480" Score="6" ViewCount="9920" Body="&lt;p&gt;Before Tony creates the new element in &lt;em&gt;Iron Man 2&lt;/em&gt; the chest plate on the Iron Man suit is round.  After the new element is created, there isn't enough time for Jarvis to finish running diagnostics before Tony uses it.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When did the chest plate change to the new triangle shape that is seen when Tony shows up to the Stark Expo and fights the Hammer-droids?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first picture is the classic, the next is the triangle.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T0uUl.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T0uUl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29264" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T00:33:23.203" LastActivityDate="2020-01-16T16:00:56.920" Title="When did Iron Man's front plate change?" Tags="|plot-explanation|marvel-cinematic-universe|iron-man-2|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47682" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47679" CreationDate="2016-02-12T19:20:13.673" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Across both the core Iron Man films as well as others in the MCU, Tony has designed a number of suits to suit various mission needs and protocols.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, the triangular design of the Mark VI armor you're asking about could have simply been an aesthetic choice for this particular suit, and not because the power core in his chest changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that the &lt;a href=&quot;http://ironman.wikia.com/wiki/Mark_VII&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mark VII armor&lt;/a&gt;, which comes after the model you're talking about, sees a return to the circular unibeam shape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, as shown when Tony activated the &quot;House Party Protocol&quot; in Iron Man 3, and early in Age of Ultron when we see a facility in the Avenger's tower manufacturing robots and suits, Tony has become quite paranoid since his battle in the first Avengers movie (which took place between Iron Mans 2 and 3), feeling it's up to him to protect the planet the only way he knows how: with a suit of armor, or in this case several suits of armor around the planet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tony is constantly upgrading and modifying his suit, as any gearhead is want to do. Given the Mark V (aka, the Briefcase Suit) was damaged early in Iron Man 2, and it's possible there was still damage to the Mark IV due to his drunken antics at his party, where he got into a fight with Rhodey who was wearing the Mark II suit, the only one available at the time was the Mark VI, which simply happened to have a triangular unibeam chest plate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other suits have had different unibeam centers on their chest plates, an extensive number of which can be &lt;a href=&quot;http://ironman.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Cinematic_Armors&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;seen here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Most are circular, but some have vertical and horizontal rectangles, others are triangular and even have triangles with flattened corners, and even the size of the unibeam emitter changes depending on the suit and its intended purpose.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2020-01-16T16:00:56.920" LastActivityDate="2020-01-16T16:00:56.920" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="47685" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47679" CreationDate="2016-02-12T19:45:18.520" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Mark VI (6) with the triangular chest plate is created after (drunk) Stark and Rodey fight. The Mark IV (4) is a bit banged up, but nothing a quick fix won't handle. (The Mark V (5), the suitcase model is destroyed at the Grand Prix).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/1ISam6TfB0k?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next day, Nick Fury gives Stark his father's old data. &lt;strong&gt;The very next day, he synthesizes a new element. In his basement. In less than 24 hours. And finishes the Mark VI (6). And he saves the Expo the same night.&lt;/strong&gt; Yes, this is canon. Everything from Iron Man 2, Thor &amp;amp; The Incredible Hulk happen in 1 seven day week, called &quot;Fury's Big Week&quot;. &lt;em&gt;sigh&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UuOjF.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UuOjF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;The Triangle shape was specifically due to the new Arc Reactor being Triangular in shape.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/zG8SQ5ueh4A?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YvoBS.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YvoBS.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, since we don't see an Iron Man factory setup like we do in Iron Man 3, we can't assume he built the suit from scratch. (He doesn't go into full production mode until after &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, where he's up to Mark 46 at the start). It was either part of a prototype already in progress, or in my opinion, simply a modified Mark IV suit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Mark VI and IV are identical except for the power source, the new Arc Reactor. A new chest plate for the new reactor is all that would be needed, aside from the repairs. The suit he uses at the end of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Avengers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;,the Mark VII (7) is based on upgrades from the Mark V and new reactor, not an improvement on Mark IV (4) or VI (6). The Mark II (2) was upgraded to the current War Machine armament in 2 days by the Air Force as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the real reason Stark goes to the triangle is out-of-universe. It's a design choice by the movie production. Which the new director quickly decided to drop. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/whedon-calls-iron-mans-triangle-ass-evolves-back-to-the-circle/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Because Joss Whedon thinks &quot;the triangle is ass&quot;.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2020-01-14T19:22:12.303" LastActivityDate="2020-01-14T19:22:12.303" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="47686" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-12T20:04:41.997" Score="-1" ViewCount="1195" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was trying to find a proper timeline for the MCU today and came across a number of them which included Ant-Man. These same timelines do not include Spider-Man or the X-Men.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what's the connection? Is it explained somewhere in the movie?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is Ant-Man in the MCU when other well-known and popular characters are not?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T00:36:21.910" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T00:36:21.910" Title="Why is Ant-Man considered part of the MCU?" Tags="|marvel-cinematic-universe|ant-man|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47687" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47686" CreationDate="2016-02-12T20:10:12.167" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ant Man is part of MCU because he's always been a part of the Avengers storyline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant-Man_%28Scott_Lang%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ant-Man (Scott Lang) Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Ant-Man (Scott Lang) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by David Michelinie and John Byrne, &lt;strong&gt;Scott Lang first appeared in The Avengers #181&lt;/strong&gt; (March 1979) and in Marvel Premiere #47 (April 1979) as the second superhero character to use the Ant-Man name in the Marvel Universe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Emphasis Added)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Pym&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Ant-Man (Hank Pym) Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Biochemist Dr. Henry &quot;Hank&quot; Pym discovers an unusual set of subatomic particles he labels &quot;Pym particles&quot;. Entrapping these within two separate serums, he creates a size-altering formula and a reversal formula, testing them on himself. Reduced to the size of an insect, he becomes trapped in an anthill before he eventually escapes and uses the reversal formula to restore himself to his normal size. Deciding the serums are too dangerous to exist, he destroys them.[4] Shortly afterward, he reconsiders his decision and recreates his serums. Pym's experience in the anthill inspires him to study ants, and he constructs a cybernetic helmet that allows him to communicate with and control them. Pym designs a costume made of unstable molecules to prevent bites or scratches from the ants, and reinvents himself as the superhero Ant-Man.[5] After several adventures, Pym is contacted by Dr. Vernon van Dyne asking for aid in contacting alien life. Pym refuses, but is attracted to Vernon’s socialite daughter Janet van Dyne. Vernon is subsequently killed by an alien criminal who teleports himself to Earth, and Janet asks for Pym's help in avenging Vernon's death. Pym reveals his secret identity to Janet, and uses Pym particles to graft wasp wings beneath her shoulders, which appear when Janet shrinks. Janet assumes the alias of the Wasp, and together they find and defeat Vernon's killer. &lt;strong&gt;The pair become founding members of the superhero team known as the Avengers.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(Emphasis Added)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T20:10:12.167" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47688" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47686" CreationDate="2016-02-12T20:10:40.250" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ant-Man is a Marvel Comics property. Marvel retained the rights to Ant-Man in cartoon and movie form. That is to say, they never licensed him out, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hitfix.com/the-dartboard/the-howard-stern-ant-man-movie-that-could-have-been&quot;&gt;even though there was interest in buying him (from Howard Stern of all people&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;strong&gt;Marvel Studios, Marvel Comic's movie arm, decided to include Ant-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That's why he's part of the MCU.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spider-Man movie rights were licensed to Sony before Marvel ever thought of producing their own films. The X-Men were like wise licensed out to Fox. Including any Mutants, which causes problems for characters like Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver (The Twins in Age of Ultron). So Marvel Studios cannot legally use them in the MCU, without an agreement with Sony or Fox, depending on the character. Many more were licensed out, but most of those have reverted to Marvel. Thor for example, came back in 2006, from Sony, hence Marvel producing the Thor films. Right now, only X-Men (and any mutants, hence Deadpool), Spider-Man, and Fantastic Four are still licensed out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;None of the X-Men, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, the previous Daredevil 2003 or Elektra 2005 films, Ghostrider, Blade Trilogy (A shame really) or even the upcoming Deadpool films (also a shame) are canon in the MCU. Only films produced &lt;strong&gt;by&lt;/strong&gt; Marvel Studios &lt;strong&gt;for&lt;/strong&gt; Marvel are canon. Notably, Daredevil, the 2015 Netflix TV series, &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; part of the MCU, as those rights were reverted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spider-Man of course, was recently lent by Sony to Marvel Studios, for inclusion in the MCU. Renting a guy their own lawnmower type deal, funny enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-12T21:25:19.270" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T21:25:19.270" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47689" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47686" CreationDate="2016-02-12T20:11:36.540" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Because he is a character owned by Marvel Studios and he has interactions with other MCU chracters.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ant-Man is in the MCU because it was produced by Marvel Studios. Where as Spider-Man (Sony Pictures) and X-Men (Fox Studios) were not. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Within the Ant-Man movie there are references to the Avengers, and even a short fight scene with Falcon (The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additionally, in the flashback scenes we see Howard Stark (Iron-Man 2) and Hank Pym clashing over the use and appropriation of Pym Particles. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the most recent Captain America: Civil War trailer we also see Ant-Man gas aligned himself with Captain America's team. Albeit with an upgraded outfit. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HwaKt.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HwaKt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastEditorUserId="211" LastEditDate="2016-02-12T22:35:28.143" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T22:35:28.143" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47690" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47686" CreationDate="2016-02-12T20:12:01.210" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ant-Man is a marvel property,  and therefore &lt;em&gt;can&lt;/em&gt; be part of the MCU. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know he's in it though because of his fight with Falcon, who appears in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SwBfx.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/SwBfx.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Antman and Falcon fight&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further, there's the mid-credit scene where Falcon tells Captain America he knows someone who can help Bucky. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1W42Q.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1W42Q.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Ant-Man reacts when he finds it his friends had told falcon about him&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It may seem tenuous as the connection was added after the script had been written by Edgar Wright. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Here-How-Paul-Rudd-Adam-McKay-Changed-Edgar-Wright-Ant-Man-Script-67818.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; are the details. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It's safe to assume that along with the action and streamlining beats that Adam McKay and Paul Rudd had included in their draft, there's some new characters and ties to the existing Marvel Cinematic Universe. As that was one of the causes that Marvel had cited as relevant in their split with Wright&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1074" LastEditorUserId="1074" LastEditDate="2016-02-13T11:04:08.670" LastActivityDate="2016-02-13T11:04:08.670" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47693" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47713" CreationDate="2016-02-12T21:48:28.130" Score="10" ViewCount="1548" Body="&lt;p&gt;As per &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/17367188/Banned-in-China-Deadpool-passed-in-India-with-7-cuts&quot;&gt;bollywoodhungama.com&lt;/a&gt;, Deadpool passed CBFC-A rating with 7 cuts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What are those exact 7 cuts made in Deadpool to get an A (Adult) rating from the CBFC (Central Board of Film Certification) of India? And how do they affect the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T07:42:16.517" LastActivityDate="2016-05-31T07:42:16.517" Title="What are the 7 cuts made in the Indian version of Deadpool?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|alternate-version|content-rating|deadpool|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47695" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="38711" CreationDate="2016-02-12T22:34:08.510" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Possibly &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098692/?ref_=nv_sr_2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wicked City (1987)&lt;/a&gt; ? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There is Earth, our familiar world, and then there is the Black World, a parallel dimension that very few people are aware of. For centuries, a pact between the two worlds has been observed to maintain peace, and terms must be negotiated and renewed soon to continue relative harmony. This time around, there is a militant faction called The Radicals that will stop at nothing to prevent the signing of a new treaty for inter-dimensional peace.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the trailer you see the city backdrop with all the colors mentioned. There is a two man team trying to solve the issue. Although there doesn't appear to be a &lt;em&gt;literal&lt;/em&gt; black orb (or world). There is the extra-dimension sister world &lt;em&gt;called&lt;/em&gt; Black World. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/zUeHl9quM18?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T22:34:08.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47696" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47345" CreationDate="2016-02-12T22:38:26.553" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to the dubious Wikipedia on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_(TV_channel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;History Channel&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It originally broadcast documentary programs and historical fiction series. &lt;strong&gt;However, since 2008, it has mostly broadcast a variety of reality television series such as Pawn Stars, Ax Men, and other non-history related content.&lt;/strong&gt; Additionally, the network is frequently criticized by scientists, historians, and skeptics for broadcasting pseudo-documentaries, unsubstantiated and sensational investigative programming, such as Ancient Aliens, UFO Hunters, Brad Meltzer's Decoded and the Nostradamus Effect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="211" LastActivityDate="2016-02-12T22:38:26.553" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47699" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-13T00:24:33.943" Score="5" ViewCount="1412" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was flying to Thailand with Turkish Airlines and saw this Asian movie. I believe it is either Japanese or South Korean. The movie isn't on the airline's movie list any more. I remember that the title had the word &quot;love&quot; in it, and I think it only had two words in the title. Unfortunately, I could not find a matching movie with my search.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the film, a girl and a boy are dating each other. The boy gets a job in a bigger city, so he moves. Every weekend, he drives back to see his girlfriend (at the beginning). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But he meets someone else at work (they start dating), and the original girlfriend also starts to date this really shy guy. However this &quot;shy guy&quot; falls in love with her and tries to change himself to be more appealing to her. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie does not reveal that she is dating this guy and has a boyfriend working in the capital. It is not until the end that it is revealed that she started to date this guy. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie is made really well, giving this impression that both of the guys are the same person until the very end.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31099" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T00:39:17.867" LastActivityDate="2016-04-27T09:49:30.663" Title="Asian romantic movie, with a woman dating two men who appear to be the same man until the film's end" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:22:48.223" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47702" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-13T02:13:29.310" Score="11" ViewCount="1255" Body="&lt;p&gt;I only remember the following scenes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;A man on his laptop with a group of other men (he is the leader). They are watching an Eye-Cam of a man that is going into some kind of whorehouse, where the female bartender creates a drink called &quot;Fuck Em&quot;. She makes the man drink it and kills him with some kind of poison within the drink. Once this has happened, the man watching on the laptop shuts everything down, throws hard-drives etc into a basket to light on fire, drops it on his way down the stairs and runs into some girl.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Later, the man that was on his laptop is now sitting down at this table with another man. The laptop man is dressed in a typical business type matter but casual clothes, clean, and neat. The other man is scruffy, in a lumberjack coat.  The laptop man is trying to get a confession from this other man, but the lumberjack coat man is not &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; the man he is after. He has a brain chip that was implanted into him from some hi-tech company, which has created a copy of himself within a piece of device.  They recreated a scenario where the lumberjack coat man was in his lover's house, where the lovers father lived. There, he killed the father with a blow to the head with some kind of object.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, there is this woman that is sitting in a hospital bed, probably at the hi-tech facility, getting her brain chip extracted from her body.  She will be hiring the chip as a personal slave, example; to open blinds, make toast, coffee, anything the real woman wanted.  Once she goes under for surgery, her brain chip is still active, freaking out and wondering why is &quot;it&quot; still awake, while the audience hears some kind of extraction going on within a body, broken bones and sawing and such. It gets pulled out and set down onto a platform and gets shut off by the surgeon. It turns back on about 4 seconds later to the laptop man, the laptop man put this brain chip into what he (his company) calls a cookie. The brain chip woman is freaking out in this white bio-dome that she was generated in, stuck in a white room with only a desk with a console on it (touch screen block looking screen). The laptop man is explaining to the confused brain chip generated woman that the real her didn't want &quot;it&quot; anymore, and that &quot;it&quot; is not the real her, and that &quot;it&quot; will be it's personal slave.  The brain chip generated woman starts to freak out even more, then the laptop man sends her on a generated 1 month isolation, and then 6 months right after that -making her beg to work instead of being kept in isolation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31095" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T00:43:53.120" LastActivityDate="2017-03-27T04:48:16.967" Title="Technology brain implant movie" Tags="|identify-this-movie|science-fiction|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:22:51.357" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47706" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47702" CreationDate="2016-02-13T05:06:09.030" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;What you are looking for is not actually a movie. It is Episode 1 of season 3 (or Internet movie database says season 2 ep 4 and wiki says episode 7 and it is also known as a &quot;Christmas Special&quot;) depending on location, of the sci-fi/dystopian series called  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085059/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Black Mirror&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3973198/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&quot;White Christmas&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This episode stars Jon Hamm as the laptop man, Natalia Tena as the &quot;f you drink girl&quot; and Rafe Spall as the lumberjack. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The woman in hospital who has a personal slave, the guy who was the leader of the group on the laptop during the &quot;whorehouse&quot; part and later in the cabin with the &quot;lumberjack&quot;are all 3 plot points within this 1 single episode of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085059/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;series, Black Mirror.&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CwA1J.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VVB33.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/H8jeY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24486" LastEditorUserId="24486" LastEditDate="2017-03-27T04:48:16.967" LastActivityDate="2017-03-27T04:48:16.967" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47713" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47693" CreationDate="2016-02-13T07:10:46.873" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://businessofcinema.com/hollywood/ryan-reynolds-deadpool-gets-censored-in-india-fans-lash-out/286550&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;businessofcinema.com&lt;/a&gt;, seven scenes that were cut by the censorboard of India are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;All the cuss words have been muted. Also, some sexual euphemisms have been muted.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The triple headshot (with a deagle) scene has been zoomed to show only Deadpool. Because it shows violence.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;All the nude and love-making scenes have been deleted and some have been shortened.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;Hand cutting and gushing of blood of Deadpool has been replaced with the visuals of Stefan Kapicic’s character Colossus.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The bare bodies in the strip club have been replaced.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;The lady in poster touching her parts is replaced.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;All the gory shots in the climax scene are replaced too.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Below is the official paper of the cuts made in film,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/15MBz.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/15MBz.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After watching the film, I can say nothing will be missed from the story point of view, all the curse words are mute but rest is ok.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="21081" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T04:15:59.537" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T04:15:59.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47714" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47716" CreationDate="2016-02-13T09:03:48.587" Score="10" ViewCount="4476" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Hunger Games movie series, why does President. Snow have the title of &lt;em&gt;&quot;President&quot;&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I understand about the films, there are 12 districts, there is &lt;strong&gt;no outside world&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;clearly&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; President. Snow doesn't plan on stepping down anytime soon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unless... you know... Katniss shoots him... which &lt;strong&gt;might&lt;/strong&gt; happen...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The districts clearly &lt;strong&gt;DON'T&lt;/strong&gt; democratically elect their own regional governments so there might never be any regional (or national) elections.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since this is the case, why is President. Snow a &lt;em&gt;&quot;President&quot;&lt;/em&gt; and not a King, Emperor, Supreme Leader, etc..., etc..?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31114" LastEditorDisplayName="user31114" LastEditDate="2017-03-28T23:13:13.687" LastActivityDate="2017-03-28T23:13:13.687" Title="Why is Snow a 'President' in the Hunger Games?" Tags="|character|the-hunger-games|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47716" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47714" CreationDate="2016-02-13T11:58:55.953" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;We know very little of the political system of Panem, as the Capitol tends to keep its citizens and the districts ignorant. And since everything is told in Katniss point of view, that means we learn very little.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We do know that Panem is set in a post apocalyptic North America, and can simply conclude that certain terms were kept. They all speak English with peppering of Latin names and terms. Panem grew out of a war and environmentally ravaged United States. It would be a slow transition of terms, so President would likely stick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is possible that Snow was elected, based on the secrets Finnick learned when Snow was pimping him out. From &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mockingjay&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; chapter 12, very close to what is shown in &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mockingjay Part 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;And now, on to our good President Coriolanus Snow,” says Finnick. “Such a young man when he rose to power. Such a clever one to keep it. How, you must ask yourself, did he do it? One word. That‘s all you really need to know. Poison.” &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finnick goes back to Snow‘s political ascension, which I know nothing of, and works his way up to the present, pointing out case after case of the mysterious deaths of Snow‘s adversaries or, even worse, his allies who had the potential to become threats.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As he says, Snow rose to power through political alliances and murdering his opposition. The position of President could be a life Appointment since &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Before the Dark Days&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; i.e. the first rebellion, or Snow convinced them to give him that power ala Star Wars Emperor Palpatine in Clone Wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the voting, obviously the Districts, which after the &lt;strong&gt;Dark Days&lt;/strong&gt; are no longer given various freedoms, that leaves Capitol Citizens as the only Voters. We don't know if District citizens/residents could vote &lt;strong&gt;Before the Dark Days&lt;/strong&gt;. The oldest characters we see are Mags, born 5 years before the &lt;em&gt;Treaty of Treason&lt;/em&gt;, and Snow, born that year, 75 years before current. So any first hand account is hard to find. In comparison, modern day United States does not allow citizens living in its &lt;strong&gt;Territories&lt;/strong&gt; to vote for President or Congress. Puerto Rico is an example of that. District of Columbia citizens can vote for president but not for Congress. So there is precedence for how the Capitol treats the 12 Districts. From the first book:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[The Mayor] tells of the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes that was once called North America. He lists the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land, the brutal war for what little sustenance remained. the result was Panem, a shining Capitol ringed by thirteen districts, which brought peace and prosperity to its citizens. Then came the Dark Days, the uprising of the districts against the Capitol. Twelve were defeated, the thirteenth obliterated. The Treaty of Treason &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;gaves us the new laws to guarantee peace&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and, as our yearly reminder that the Dark Days must never be repeated, it gave us the Hunger Games.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Contrast, we also don't know much about District 13's President Coin, if she was democratically elected or not. We do know that after her and Snow's deaths, Commander Paylor &lt;strong&gt;was elected as the new President of Panem&lt;/strong&gt; in an emergency election, so Panem/District citizens clearly understand the concept of a republic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tonight, the 12 district leaders will call for a free election. There's no doubt that Paylor will carry, she's become the voice of reason.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;-&lt;em&gt;[Haymitch reading Plutarch's letter, due to Hoffman's passing]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, Plutarch is the source of this concept. From the book &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mockingjay&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we win, who would be in charge of the government?” Gale asks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Everyone,” Plutarch tells him. &lt;strong&gt;“We‘re going to form a republic where the people of each district and the Capitol can elect their own representatives to be their voice in a centralized government. Don‘t look so suspicious; it‘s worked before.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“In books,” Haymitch mutters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“In history books,” says Plutarch. “And if our ancestors could do it, then we can, too.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Katniss, Internal] Frankly, our ancestors don‘t seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars and the broken planet. Clearly, they didn‘t care about what would happen to the people who came after them. But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current government.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mockingjay Part 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, Coin &amp;quot;promises&amp;quot; a free election, when &lt;code&gt;when the time is right.&lt;/code&gt; Which we and Katniss know is B.S., leading to Katniss' actions at Snow's execution ceremony.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-13T17:49:45.960" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47718" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-13T14:01:40.857" Score="4" ViewCount="1214" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind&lt;/em&gt;, there is a scene where Joel has a memory of himself with a kid who is a bully. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Until now, Joel has been able to change and relive his memory as he chooses to change it. He is able to change his memories with Clementine by running away with her from the memory itself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is it that in the case of Joel's memory with Freddy, he is not able to relive it differently? Why does Joel still get beaten by Freddy even though Joel still knows it's a memory?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2016-02-19T14:02:38.987" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T16:31:29.753" Title="Why does Joel get beaten by Freddy in Eternal Sunshine?" Tags="|plot-explanation|eternal-sunshine-of-spotless-mind|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47719" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47722" CreationDate="2016-02-13T14:43:18.280" Score="2" ViewCount="8704" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm planning to watch all 4 of the James Bond rebooted movies series with Daniel Craig in it from Casino Royale onwards (inclusive), but has never seen a single James Bond movie before, so I was wondering whether it is necessary to watch all the previous James Bond movies up until Casino Royale to be able to enjoy it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31119" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-13T15:07:01.387" LastActivityDate="2021-01-08T20:29:57.063" Title="Is it necessary to watch all the James Bond movies before Casino Royale to understand James Bond movies from 2006 onwards?" Tags="|james-bond|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47721" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-13T15:08:07.680" Score="4" ViewCount="7158" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am confused about the whole story of the Asian guy in the film &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(2004_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Crash&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Early in the movie, we see him talking to some other guy about the pickup of some items. Later we see him driving the van with the illegal Cambodian immigrants. The only other scenes that he appears in is when Anthony and Peter (in the SUV) run over him and finally in the hospital. &lt;p&gt;&#xA;So, I have two questions about the guy,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;What exactly did he intend on doing with the immigrants? Was he trying to help them?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;In the hospital scene, what is the 'check' that he is talking about?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21126" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T00:47:11.537" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T00:47:11.537" Title="What was the Korean guy up to in Crash?" Tags="|plot-explanation|crash|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47722" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47719" CreationDate="2016-02-13T15:54:13.943" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/43953/13595&quot;&gt;as explained by Richard&lt;/a&gt; when the same was asked of the latest James Bond movie, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spectre&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;According to this interview with Sam Mendez (Spectre's Director) he certainly strived to make sure that the film works as a stand-alone piece, without the audience possessing substantial knowledge of the Bond series of films:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;    &lt;p&gt;MENDES: I love that challenge; it’s a great privilege and excitement to express myself in that way to so many kids. I just hope that I don’t let them down and there are those pressures because at the end of the day, you may make the movie you want, but this is for the audience. And you do pray and hope that everyone believes in it as much as you do, including the kids, and &lt;strong&gt;you have to remind yourself every day you’re working on it that for many kids it will be their first Bond movie just as Live And Let Die was my first, and like From Russia With Love or Dr. No were for others. You hope it will make kids go seek out the earlier movies, which are now so accessible to them.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/34845/13595&quot;&gt;this answer to a similar question WRT &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which points out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The Daniel Craig Bond movies represent a canonical reboot, in which&#xA;  during the first film Bond earns his 00 status - a part of his history&#xA;  every single other pre-Craig film has been chronologically set beyond.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Craig films aren't a prequel, they are a total reboot.&lt;/strong&gt; The first&#xA;  two films (Casino Royal and Quantum of Solace) make a bigger&#xA;  proposition of linking the narratives together, but Skyfall is a&#xA;  direct continuation from this film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2016-02-13T15:59:14.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47723" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1027" CreationDate="2016-02-13T15:55:08.803" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Based on the fact that she's named thusly in the credits, I'm inclined to believe that Jessie Nelson's character is indeed called Ralph. It seemed more likely to me that Harriet knows two Ralphs, one her former fiancé and one an old friend whom she sees infrequently. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When she's quizzed by Charlie, she pretends that she was dreaming about her friend when she was in fact dreaming about the fiancé. &lt;em&gt;Some considerable time later&lt;/em&gt;, the female Ralph turns up for a short visit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RcD7q.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RcD7q.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-02-13T16:54:25.713" LastActivityDate="2016-02-13T16:54:25.713" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47724" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47714" CreationDate="2016-02-13T16:34:35.040" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Out-of-universe answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Dictator&quot; isn't really an office you can hold (not since ancient Rome anyway). It's typically a label someone else gives you, because you're behaving like one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And &quot;king&quot; or &quot;emperor&quot; implies a monarchy/dynasty and lineage, so few people care to name themselves that. Easier to modify the existing power structure and just put yourself on top (unless the existing structure is dynastic, in which case you can't really name yourself &quot;heir&quot; if you're not related, so it's easier to just do away with it).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;em&gt;are&lt;/em&gt; a de facto king/emperor/dictator, you can call yourself whatever you want. So you go for whatever sounds best. Kim Jong-un has tons of titles - none of them &quot;dictator&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mobuto held the title &quot;president&quot;; same for Idi Amin. Or Saddam Hussein, for that matter. In Chile, you had Pinochet, also nominally president. Pol Pot was prime minister of Cambodia. Even Hitler nominally held the title &quot;chancellor&quot;. And so on and so forth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As cde said, if a democratic government turns to dictatorship, it keeps the titles (and invents some new ones as a bonus).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the end, titles are fluid. You can name yourself &quot;grand poobah&quot; or &quot;janitor&quot;, and if you happen to be the supreme ruler, then that's what that title means in you regime. So in-universe, &quot;president&quot; doesn't have to mean &quot;democratically elected&quot;; it just means &quot;whatever Snow is&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29025" LastActivityDate="2016-02-13T16:34:35.040" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47726" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-13T17:31:28.863" Score="7" ViewCount="25710" Body="&lt;p&gt;I get most of &lt;em&gt;Zodiac&lt;/em&gt; but it's the ending I don't get. Anyone that can explain what happened in a way I could understand would be great.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end (I can't remember their names) the guy who's obsessed with the zodiac case walks into a shop and finds the alleged zodiac. But why didn't they arrest him? Was it lack of evidence? Or what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And on top of that what does it mean showing that part at the end? Did it try to convey a message showing that scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31127" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-14T18:13:58.200" LastActivityDate="2017-04-20T10:04:24.747" Title="Did anyone understand the ending of &quot;Zodiac&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|analysis|ending|zodiac|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47728" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47733" CreationDate="2016-02-13T18:28:53.823" Score="8" ViewCount="4704" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the series &lt;em&gt;Better Call Saul&lt;/em&gt;, in the second episode, where Tuco points a revolver at Saul, we can notice how unusually large the cylinder of the revolver looks. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is its make? Is it a real model or some custom revolver made either by Tuco or the show's creators?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/28lRi.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/28lRi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T00:49:06.307" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T00:49:06.307" Title="What kind of revolver did Tuco have?" Tags="|better-call-saul|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47730" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48837" CreationDate="2016-02-13T18:37:38.353" Score="9" ViewCount="756" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched this movie or TV show episode in early 2000s. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's about aliens who come to invade Earth, but they look human and speak like humans. When they talk to each other though, they do it by croaking and we can't understand what they are saying. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Eventually humans are about to lose the war and aliens are about to win. But humans built some kind of a doomsday weapon, which would damage Earth and make it unsuitable for alien use. The scene I remember is in the final bunker holdout of humans, where they enabled the countdown on this doomsday weapon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The alien &quot;army&quot;, which looks just like normal human infantry, are fighting their way into the compound. The &quot;Earth president&quot; (I don't know his exact title, but I believe he was from France) is inside the bunker, and he claims that he found a diplomatic solution with the aliens and wants to shut down the doomsday countdown. But the other remaining humans are holding the president at gunpoint because they don't believe him or don't believe in his solution, while the countdown continues. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then something happens (on the console?) that requires the attention of all the experienced humans, so they give the gun to the youngest most naive guy and tell him to keep it on the president. The president continues pleading, and says something like, listen to reason, I can guarantee your safety. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally with only 3 seconds or so left on the doomsday countdown, the young guy caves in and gives the gun to the president. Then in just a couple of seconds, the president shoots and kills the several experienced humans, then shoots the doomsday device itself and the countdown stops. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the next few seconds, the door is broken down by the alien army, and the aliens walk in wearing army fatigues and start speaking in croaking voices. As the naive young guy watches, the &quot;president&quot; speaks back to the aliens in a croaking voice. I believe the president then shoots and kills the young guy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Okay, I remember some additional details. This whole scene is a vision of the future - what would happen, if the invasion is not stopped in the here and now. I think there is a protagonist fighting to prevent the aliens from infiltrating humanity in the present. And every now and then, we are shown sequential scenes from the future. Finally ending in this complete defeat scenario for the humans, at which point we know that if the hero doesn't succeed in the present then all will be lost in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31130" LastEditorUserId="31130" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T02:50:10.487" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T04:04:18.017" Title="Identify a movie/tv show where aliens look human but speak by croaking" Tags="|identify-this-movie|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:22:54.513" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47733" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47728" CreationDate="2016-02-13T19:01:39.343" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Internet Movie Firearms Database identifies it as a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Better_Call_Saul#Taurus_Raging_Judge_M513&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Taurus Raging Judge M513&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qnio4.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/qnio4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell, the model shown on the show is a stock model, albeit one that's relatively rare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-02-14T18:39:01.383" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T18:39:01.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47734" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47726" CreationDate="2016-02-13T19:07:21.927" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The evidence acquired by Graysmith that could implicate Allen was merely circumstantial in nature. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstantial_evidence&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Circumstantial evidence&lt;/a&gt; is insufficient to form an entire case or charges against an individual, as they can lead to one or more conclusions. Without additional physical evidence to corroborate a story provided by the circumstantial evidence, nothing can really be done as guilt can't be reasonably assigned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Graysmith likely wanted Allen to know he believed he was the killer, but given he already lost his job and wife due to trying to uncover the killer to no avail, it's not very likely anyone would have listened to him at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The intent of the scene is to simply show Graysmith still and will likely always believe Allen was the Zodiac killer, but ultimately leaves everything open for the viewer to interpret. Was Allen really guilty, or was Graysmith being driven insane by his obsession with the case?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2016-02-13T19:07:21.927" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47738" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47739" CreationDate="2016-02-13T19:27:16.090" Score="21" ViewCount="19979" Body="&lt;p&gt;When did the events of &lt;em&gt;Deadpool&lt;/em&gt; take place in the X-Men timeline?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Surely &lt;em&gt;Deadpool&lt;/em&gt; takes place in a quite recent time era as compared to &lt;em&gt;First Class&lt;/em&gt; and it's sequel, but exactly where?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="47145" LastEditDate="2017-03-15T07:16:49.503" LastActivityDate="2018-08-12T17:37:29.347" Title="Where does Deadpool fall in the X-Men timeline?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|chronology|deadpool|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47739" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47738" CreationDate="2016-02-13T19:37:36.227" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deadpool exists in the DOFP New Timeline, post Apocalypse. Modern Day, so 2016ish, putting it closer to the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; post-credit scene, where Xavier and Magneto show up to recruit Logan in the old Timeline. It is, &lt;em&gt;baring any future time travel schenanigans&lt;/em&gt; &lt;sup&gt;*Note 1&lt;/sup&gt;, about 8 years prior to the &amp;quot;good ending&amp;quot; that Logan wakes up to after the events of DOFP.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1973 DOFP Wolverine Stops Mystique from killing Trask, creates new timeline&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1980 Apocalypse&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;1990s-2000s (&lt;em&gt;Some less crappy version of the original trilogy happens&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;maybe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;sup&gt;*Note 2&lt;/sup&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2016 Deadpool&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2017 Gambit (&lt;em&gt;Maybe&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2023 DOFP Good Ending, the one where Wolverine wakes up to everyone still alive&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;202? New Mutants (*Maybe)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;2029 Logan&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/deadpool-x-men-origins-wolverine-connection/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;As Producer Simon Kinberg’s explains&lt;/a&gt;, Deadpool in the timeline:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“[X-Men: Apocalypse] takes space chronologically before those other films, so it’s more like those films have to acknowledge this than we acknowledge Gambit, Deadpool, or Fantastic Four or anything else that exists within the sort of Fox/Marvel universe. But I work on all of those films in one capacity or another, either as a producer on all of them and as a writer on Fantastic Four and this movie, so I’m certainly aware of all the different stories we’re telling at the same time, and they all are part of a larger fabric now, and &lt;strong&gt;so the world of Deadpool, the world of Gambit exists in a post-Days of Future Past post-Apocalypse world where all of these stories are the same as our shared history.&lt;/strong&gt; The same way that each of us of different ages knows about Nixon and knows about Reagan and knows about 9/11, &lt;strong&gt;our fictitious events like the stadium dropping on the White House in 1973 is part of the world in which Gambit, Deadpool, Wolverine on forward exists.&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/new-mutants-movie-wolverine-3-simon-kinberg/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;And then Deadpool's time setting&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[Interviewer]: Does Deadpool take place in the X-Men/Fantastic Four universe of Fox? I know Colossus is in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kinberg: It takes place within the X-Men universe and references that universe. It’s not the same time period as our past tense X-Men movies, like First Class, Days of Future Past, and Apocalypse take place in the past and &lt;strong&gt;Deadpool takes place in the present&lt;/strong&gt;, but it acknowledges everything that’s happened in those other movies and the universe, and like you said Colossus is in it and other characters from the X-Men world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;*Note 1: The sequel, Deadpool 2, a.k.a. Cable &amp;amp; Deadpool, revolves around the mutant Cable, the time traveling son of Scott Summers and Jean Grey and enemy to Apocalypse in the future, so expect more time travel shenanigans to screw the timeline up even more.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;*Note 2: From the first interview above: &lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;Bryan Singer adds, “I rebooted the universe so now anything can happen,” with the caveat that their theory of time-travel and alternate universes revolve around immutability, in that things may differ, but &lt;strong&gt;key events in every timeline will remain mostly similar&lt;/strong&gt;. Xavier will always form the X-Men, Wolverine will always enlist in Weapon X and get his adamantium claws, and Wade Wilson will always become a version of Deadpool.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-03-15T05:56:41.677" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47744" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47746" CreationDate="2016-02-13T22:18:15.787" Score="14" ViewCount="79207" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the US version of the Office, everyone seems to really really hate Toby. I can understand that he isn't the most interesting person to talk to, but why is everyone so against him? Especially Michael and later on (end of season 9), Dwight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="6552" LastEditDate="2016-02-14T11:47:54.350" LastActivityDate="2020-03-13T09:23:50.250" Title="Why does everyone hate Toby so much?" Tags="|the-office|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47746" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47744" CreationDate="2016-02-13T23:32:50.110" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Michael hated Toby because he worked in Human Resources. He's essentially a corporate employee that's permanently based at the Scranton branch. He's definitely &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; (at least from Michael's point of view) an employee of the Scranton branch, so Michael sort of views him as a combination of invader, traitor and spy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Toby's role as a HR employee would primarily be protecting Dunder Mifflin from Michael's stupidity. Michael Scott is, by design, an absolute idiot of a character. He's totally incompetent as a manager and also has absolutely no understanding of what is and isn't appropriate for the workplace, especially when occupying a managerial position. Toby would be the one who calls him up on his inappropriate conduct, reports that conduct back to corporate, and who would be responsible for telling Michael &quot;no&quot; &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; he does things that he shouldn't.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Children will occasionally tell their parents that they hate them (or at least don't love them) when they've been denied something they want or have been told off for doing something they shouldn't. Michael's essentially having a childish - and ongoing - reaction against the authority figure who denies him the things he wants.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The impression I got was that the other employees didn't have any particularly strong feelings about Toby either way. They didn't exactly dislike him but they didn't consider him a friend either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15242" LastActivityDate="2016-02-13T23:32:50.110" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47750" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9288" CreationDate="2016-02-14T02:56:57.910" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cop tells her to make a sign like blink her eyes or something along the lines of that. She then responds, &quot;oh like if someone had broken in&quot; (hint1) then says &quot;no I'm fine&quot; as she brushes her hair from her face (her way of blinking). She couldn't blink her eyes because she knew they were watching and didn't know if the robbers could hear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31140" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-02-14T06:51:06.573" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T06:51:06.573" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47755" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="47756" CreationDate="2016-02-14T09:56:53.580" Score="6" ViewCount="482" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember it was from the US, not older than 1980. The main character died and went to a place, looking like a regular city, where people wait to have their lives analysed by some officials. I think there was some sort of trial/process where the recently passed away could defend his actions while alive. In the end, depending on the decision, they got to ride a bus to Heaven or to some other place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was also a romantic angle, the protagonist met a woman, they fell in love and in the end he had to chase her bus (because he was not initially allowed to 'go on'), but the officials finally allowed the bus driver to open the door and the film ended.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19588" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-14T11:20:18.967" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T21:48:55.443" Title="Comedy in which people die and wait for clerks to review their lives" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:23:07.187" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47756" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47755" CreationDate="2016-02-14T10:07:30.613" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101698/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_50&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Defending Your Life&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(1991)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wo3px.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wo3px.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their&#xA;  worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You've described the ending well and there's really no doubt that this is the movie you're looking for. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp6qkZkPBhY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;trailer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18076" LastEditorUserId="18076" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T21:48:55.443" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T21:48:55.443" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47757" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-14T10:38:58.850" Score="3" ViewCount="127" Body="&lt;p&gt;Here's the dialog from the season 2 of Halt and Catch Fire TV series (the show takes place in 1984. Tom and Cameron are discussing their future computer game):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;T. Rendon (&lt;em&gt;trying to mimic weird accent&lt;/em&gt;): It will be excellent&#xA;  game, &lt;strong&gt;like steal the bread from the weak little boy&lt;/strong&gt;. It is good&#xA;  impersonation I do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cameron Howe (&lt;em&gt;with same accent&lt;/em&gt;): If you were impersonating the&#xA;  cyborg sent to kill Sarah Connor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;T. Rendon: Oh, damn, that came out today.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The question is does Tom refer to something in his phrase in bold?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Or could it be that Tom is just trying to mimic Russian that Arki (one of their team member) speaks, and Cameron treats Russian and Arnie's Austrian as the same gibberish accents? In fact, she mimics Austrian a minute later in her &quot;your clothes, give them to me now&quot; line, however, this is not the same accent as in the dialog above.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31144" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-14T18:17:11.097" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T18:17:11.097" Title="Does &quot;steal the bread from the weak little boy&quot; refer to any 80's movie/TV show?" Tags="|dialogue|halt-and-catch-fire|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47758" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9288" CreationDate="2016-02-14T11:44:43.460" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/PANICROOMSPEC.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;script&lt;/a&gt; indicates that her body language is all over the place and the whole scene just looks &lt;em&gt;wrong&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;She didn't invite them in despite mentioning that it's freezing cold. She then shuts the interior door which would make it colder, not warmer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;She's covered in dirt, despite the exterior of the house being immaculate&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;She didn't cross her heart when she said &quot;Cross my heart&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The cop asks her if she can speak and she immediately mentions &lt;em&gt;&quot;if somebody was in the house or something?&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cop 1 studies her, notices the burned sleeve of her T-shirt, the black&#xA;  smudges still on her face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MEG:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Man, you are good! You mean, like, if somebody was in the house or something? That's great, they really train you guys these&#xA;  days, don't they?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Cop 1 looks at her, not sure if he believes her or not.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MEG:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;No. I'm fine. Cross my heart.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;later&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's the Cop, the first Cop, the one who came to the door and was so&#xA;  suspicious of Meg.&lt;/strong&gt; The Cop looks down, sees blood smeared all over&#xA;  Burnham's jacket, sees more than enough to know his suspicions were&#xA;  correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-02-14T12:57:45.327" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T12:57:45.327" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47759" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-14T12:03:51.557" Score="-4" ViewCount="10457" Body="&lt;p&gt;The editing of the movie left me a bit confused as to the passing of time on the ship.  How long did Rose and Jack know each other?  From the scene where Jack first notices Rose to the ending of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30343" LastEditorUserId="52" LastEditDate="2017-04-27T16:52:46.620" LastActivityDate="2017-04-27T16:52:46.620" Title="How long did Rose and Jack know each other for?" Tags="|titanic|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="47760" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47759" CreationDate="2016-02-14T13:11:14.160" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themovietimeline.com/film1299&quot;&gt;Read the movie timeline&lt;/a&gt;. The relevant sections are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Friday 12th April: Titanic sets sail from Southampton; that night,&#xA;  steerage passenger Jack Dawson meets First Class passenger Rose Dewitt&#xA;  Bukater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Saturday 13th April: Jack Dawson dines with Rose Dewitt Bukater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sunday 14th April: Titanic hits the iceberg.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Monday 15th April: Titanic sinks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So three days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T13:11:14.160" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48765" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47320" CreationDate="2016-02-14T21:48:09.653" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a couple of additional uses for Faraday cages that haven't been considered.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Faraday cage was used to block Remote Viewing, or at least limit it. The Far Sight institute talk of such a device in one of their documentaries, and there are ways to get around this for skilled Remote-Viewers. Maybe this is how they found it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The Faraday cage was used to block Psychic noise allowing any potential pilot to practice controlling the craft in silence. I personally think this is more likely the reason, being a trans-dimensional craft it would need a highly sensitive (Psychic) pilot to drive it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31153" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-14T21:54:48.177" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T21:54:48.177" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48767" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-14T22:44:58.590" Score="1" ViewCount="29036" Body="&lt;p&gt;So we know Spongebob is older than 16 since he drives, but Squidward&#xA;here has an mystery age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has a full time job just like Spongebob but he has driving skills better than Spongebob.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he has to be 17-18. He's always been said to be &quot;mature&quot; based on the first episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He live alone like Spongebob, so he would have to be at least 18 but I'm guessing. Laws are different underwater.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31156" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T09:11:46.347" LastActivityDate="2021-02-22T18:52:37.217" Title="How old is Squidward in Spongebob Squarepants?" Tags="|character|spongebob-squarepants|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48769" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47721" CreationDate="2016-02-14T22:57:36.090" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He was a human trafficker. The &quot;cheque&quot; refers to the payment he received for doing this.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;items&lt;/em&gt; he was talking about picking up in the film were the illegal Cambodian immigrants. The implication is that he was trafficking them for money (the cheque he was given). From the script, the conversation with the cheque is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Choi&lt;/strong&gt; (trafficker): It's been good doing business with you.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Park:&lt;/strong&gt; How soon can I have them?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Choi&lt;/strong&gt;: I'm picking them up right now.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he was delivering them to Park.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the film, he was in an accident and was obviously hospitalised. His wife found him and the man realises that he has not completed delivery of the trafficked Cambodians. He was given a cheque for this deal, and realising the cheque will be cancelled if the delivery is not completed, he tells his wife to go and cash it &lt;em&gt;immediately&lt;/em&gt;, before it is cancelled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That is the cheque they are referring to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, as a side note, &lt;em&gt;in the real world&lt;/em&gt; it's &lt;em&gt;highly&lt;/em&gt; unlikely a trafficking operation would give payment via cheques - as opposed to cash, or something else untraceable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T22:57:36.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48770" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14081" CreationDate="2016-02-14T23:22:30.007" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;1st episode in the 1st fifteen minutes they use the term 7 o'clock and they play tennis. Clocks didn't exist for 100 years later and tennis wasn't  created for another 300 years.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31158" LastActivityDate="2016-02-14T23:22:30.007" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48773" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-15T04:20:03.323" Score="1" ViewCount="75" Body="&lt;p&gt;In a recent Collider podcast the hosts were discussing O Brother Where Art Thou?, and mentioned the cinematographer using (I think), a &quot;digital intermediary&quot; which made the sepia tones.   It was then mentioned that the same method gave HP6 its look, and inferred that this caused consternation on the part of the studio.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can someone explain the filming technique and how it was received by Warner Bros?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30783" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T04:21:58.900" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T04:21:58.900" Title="Why does Harry Potter 6 look like it does?" Tags="|film-techniques|harry-potter|cinematography|the-half-blood-prince|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2016-02-15T04:36:29.893" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48775" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="12151" CreationDate="2016-02-15T05:20:19.467" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UsfhF.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UsfhF.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Postcard for AN HOUR BEFORE DAWN (1913)&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For feature films, it likely was AN HOUR BEFORE DAWN (1913), as it had the same characters such as star as Kate Kirby as CHELSEA 7750 (1913). THE PORT OF DOOM (1913) also featured Kate Kirby. At four reels, these features were short -- less than an hour.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the early 1910s, Biograph Films refused to allow their chief director D. W. Griffith to make films longer than one reel (about 10-12 minutes). So Griffith made two films that were released separately, and you could consider these sequels. That these films were popular at the box office certainly helped other studios (not Biograph) decide to make longer films. Examples are HIS TRUST (1911) and HIS TRUST FULFILLED (1911) &amp;amp; ENOCH ARDEN, Part 1 (1911) and ENOCH ARDEN, Part 2 (1911).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18606" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T05:20:19.467" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48777" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21717" CreationDate="2016-02-15T05:47:32.090" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's an error. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=559646&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A cut scene&lt;/a&gt; had Starling tell Crawford she thinks the killer is in Belvedere. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The longest scene extension takes place before Starling goes to&#xA;  Belvedere. There is a new scene with Starling, Crawford, Burke and&#xA;  Krendler in the Workprint. Starling mentions, that the killer might be&#xA;  from Belvedere, which was implied by Lecter. Krendler appears&#xA;  skeptical and argues with Crawford about Lecters escape. Burke&#xA;  suspends Starling.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Then Crawford and Starling are leaving the building. Starling appears despite her suspension determined to go to Belvedere. Crawford gives her some money and his number. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After her excited call and finding the Calumet City house empty, Crawford fears she might really be close to the killer. His fear makes sense knowing Lecter pointed her at the killer and doesn't otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I think the audience doesn't usually recognize the unsupported deduction because they're distracted by the scene's big fake-out and they know Starling's in the right place.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31167" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T05:47:32.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48778" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17503" CreationDate="2016-02-15T05:55:07.947" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You need to diferenciate between a wedding ring and an engagement ring. In the first scene she is wearing both, then only the engagement one. The wedding ring (in Spanish &quot;alianza&quot;, which meand union) becomes a symbol exactly of that, been real to that relationship. &#xA;I think the interesting point of that scene is trying to understand the empty glare of Brandon, not the woman who is obvious trying to suck his balls, with her lips painted and her attitude.&#xA; Great job, Michael &amp;amp; soundtrack guys.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31168" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T05:55:07.947" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48781" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1653" CreationDate="2016-02-15T07:08:00.627" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that the husband was just in a coma, and needed to go back to the front because his body was there, and it was time to wake up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31172" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T07:08:00.627" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48783" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="55212" CreationDate="2016-02-15T08:27:35.760" Score="1" ViewCount="5840" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why can't Iron Man travel to outer space with his suit on? What is the science behind that? Can't he use the material used to build the space shuttles to build his suit and travel into space?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20046" LastEditorUserId="6492" LastEditDate="2016-06-08T10:24:06.183" LastActivityDate="2016-06-09T07:42:36.130" Title="Why can't Iron Man travel to outer space?" Tags="|iron-man|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ClosedDate="2016-06-09T08:06:14.633" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48785" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48783" CreationDate="2016-02-15T08:57:26.097" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;He can travel into space, as shown in &quot;Marvel's Avengers&quot;, via a portal.  However there's still going to be limits to how long he can be there, as also demonstrated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Iron-Man suit appears to be pressurised enough for him to survive the exposure to the vacuum of space, but the suit doesn't appear to have enough oxygen to support him in space.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This could be argued against from the scene where he's doing underwater welding in the suit, but that might extract oxygen from the water to sustain him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20991" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T08:57:26.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48786" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48795" CreationDate="2016-02-15T09:31:35.913" Score="69" ViewCount="113169" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently watched Deadpool and it was full of references and Easter Eggs. I was able to pick many of them like Green lantern, X-Men Origins, etc., but my friend was not able to understand many of them and it made me doubt if I got them all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what are all the references in the Deadpool film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-29T17:19:48.480" LastActivityDate="2023-04-21T13:14:33.407" Title="What were all the references in Deadpool?" Tags="|reference|x-men-cinematic-universe|deadpool|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48793" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-15T10:22:05.120" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T10:22:05.120" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T10:22:05.120" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48794" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-15T10:22:05.120" Score="0" Body="2016's superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name and eighth installment in X-men film series." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-08T21:45:04.420" LastActivityDate="2016-12-08T21:45:04.420" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48795" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48786" CreationDate="2016-02-15T10:22:36.207" Score="81" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This answer is a Community Wiki, so if you want to add anything to it, just edit it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/deadpool-movie-complete-guide-to-characters-and-marvel-references/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Den of Geek&lt;/a&gt; had an incredible article on this. I've used a lot of information from their site.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All references below are from Den of Geek, unless stated otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deadpool creators:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Rob L.” written on one Goon’s coffee cup - a reference to one of Deadpool’s creators, Rob Liefeld. He and Fabian Nicieza worked on the comics. He actually cameos in the film, at the Hellhouse. Surprisingly, there isn't a single reference to his inability to draw feet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the freeway battle, there are exits named Liefeld Rd, Nicieza St, and Miller Street (Tim Miller the Director).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ryan Reynolds&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The cover of People Magazine’s November 17, 2010 issue (where Ryan Reynolds was named “Sexiest Man Alive.”)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The inside of one goon's wallet is seen in the opening credits, containing a picture of the goon dressed as a superhero with a bright green mask and ring, referring to Reynolds playing Hal Jordan in DC Comics' Green Lantern film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wade remarks that he doesn’t want his superhero suit to be green or animated. Both a reference to Ryan Reynolds’ Green Lantern stint and the fact that the Green Lantern costume was entirely animated.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wade happens to own an action figure of Deadpool from X-Men Origins: Wolverine for the sake of jabbing at that movie’s terrible portrayal. As a joke, he wants to show Vanessa the greatest thing in the world, and picks up the toy... and the vinyl music record it's sitting on top of. He shows her the record.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ajax suggests sewing Wade's mouth shut. While working in the context of the scene, Wade tells him that it's a bad idea, a reference to the unpopular depiction of Wade Wilson in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When freaking out after Vanessa's kidnapping, Wade mutters a line beginning with &amp;quot;Cock juggling [inaudible]...&amp;quot; which could be a reference to a similar line used by the character played by Ryan Reynolds in Blade: Trinity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the Deadpool board in Sister Margaret's someone bet on R Reynold to die.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;While recovering after the freeway fight, Wade is being consoled by his blind friend, who urges him again to go after Vanessa. Wade demurs, citing his looks, and adds, &amp;quot;Do you think Ryan Reynolds got this far on his superior acting ability?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comic traits:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deadpool's initial costume is white. This might be a nod to his X-Force attire, or his X-Force team member, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantomex&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Fantomex&lt;/a&gt; (who's pretty similar to Deadpool in character).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deadpool breaks the fourth wall, talking directly to the viewer at times and being well aware that he’s fictional. This aspect of the character has been around since the late-90s.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deadpool remarks that he looks like he was bitten by a radioactive shar-pei. Not only is this an easy Spider-Man reference, but &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gLPKP.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;it’s also a reference to Cable/Deadpool #2 from way back in 2004 where Deadpool compared himself to Ryan Reynolds mixed with a shar-pei&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://screenrant.com/ryan-reynolds-discusses-deadpool-character-spinoff/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;which is the frame that got Ryan interested in playing Deadpool in the first place&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. It came full circle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;“Ya, I love the character. I’ve always loved the character. I remember reading one of the Deadpool comic books, and somebody asked Deadpool what he looks like. And he said he looks like a cross between a Shar-Pei and Ryan Reynolds. &lt;strong&gt;And I was like, I really, really wanna play this guy at some point&lt;/strong&gt;. I thought it was pretty cool. It’s a guy that knows he’s in a comic book. How hard is it to shoot that properly? That’s not something they put in Wolverine nor would it belong in that universe.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When beating up Ajax, Deadpool refers to himself as being from Regina, Saskatchewan. Deadpool's nationality is something that bounces back and forth in the comics depending on the writer. Some say he's American while others say Canadian. The latest run with him has basically solidified the idea that he's Canadian.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Weasel suggests Wade should star in a horror movie and likens him to Freddy Krueger. It's a comparison that's been made several times in the comics, &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/IuII9.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;most recently by Kate Bishop Hawkeye, who thought it was a Halloween costume and was instead mortified to realize it was actually Deadpool&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;With a knife in his skull, Deadpool sees little cartoon characters crowding around Vanessa. Ever since Daniel Way took over writing Deadpool (starting with Wolverine Origins #21), he started a regular gag where Deadpool would see the world differently like that. It's been referred to as Pool-o-Vision.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wade gets ready for the final battle with the line, &amp;quot;Time to make the chimi-fuckin'-changas.&amp;quot; During Vol 1, and Cable/Deadpool, he randomly says chimichangas and some of the fandom latched on. In Cable/Deadpool #13, Deadpool is in a restaurant that makes the best chimichangas on the island. Then he specifically says &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OspiD.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Don't even like chimichangas all that much. I just love saying it.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. He immediately orders an &lt;em&gt;Enchilada&lt;/em&gt; instead. That line has been ignored, and somehow the fandom stuck to the idea that he loves chimichangas. This is also a reference to the famous &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwfrBbNo5Jg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Time to make the donuts&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; commercial for Dunkin Donuts from the 1980's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wade’s incident with the pizza guy is heavily based on a scene from Daniel Way’s run with the character. It’s from Deadpool v.2 #10. Despite the movie’s R-rating, the comic version is a lot darker. It isn’t just a case of stalking countered by intimidation, nor is it about teenagers. The pizza boy ruined Deadpool’s client’s high school life, which carried over into her adult life, due to spreading some horrible rumors about her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The playful, sexual way Wade messes with the pizza boy ties into Deadpool’s pansexual nature, which director Tim Miller insisted they play up. There are loads (heh) of other references to Wade's fluid sexuality in the movie, too. Arguably, many people believe, based on different interpretations of the character's history, that it's just a way Wade talks and acts to mess with people's heads while working/fighting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;During one scene, Wade is wearing a shirt with Bea Arthur on it. In a running gag that started in Cable/Deadpool #1, &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JlGq3.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Deadpool considered Bea Arthur to be the sexiest woman in show business&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The pizza is from Feige's Famous Pizza. Kevin Feige is the president of Marvel Studios. (Thanks, Jim the Nickel and bittergourd!)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vanessa Carlysle&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Vanessa Carlysle, otherwise known as Copycat, is Deadpool’s original flame in the comics. Technically, she appeared first in New Mutants #98 along with Deadpool, in the sense that in the comics she’s a shape-shifter and was really pretending to be other new character Domino. They didn't reveal that fact until several issues later. Prior to that life, much like in the movie, she was a prostitute.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;After Vanessa makes a reference to Empire Strikes Back involving Yoda, Wade remarks that it's like he made her in a computer. Likely an allusion to the movie (and later TV show) &lt;em&gt;'Weird Science'&lt;/em&gt; about a couple nerds who made the perfect woman using their computer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The idea of Wade wanting to leave Vanessa behind out of fear of her seeing him die of cancer is lifted straight from the comics. It was briefly shown in the first Deadpool miniseries, Deadpool: The Circle Chase (1993), and was revisited in Deadpool v.1 #-1.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wade jokes about &amp;quot;boomboxing&amp;quot; the WHAM! song &amp;quot;Careless Whisper,&amp;quot; which is a nod to &lt;em&gt;'Say Anything'&lt;/em&gt;..., the 1989 movie where John Cusack holds his stereo over his head, playing &amp;quot;In Your Eyes&amp;quot; by Peter Gabriel in order to serenade his girlfriend.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;As reader Francisco Lourenço Ribeiro points out, the scene of Vanessa going into the rainy alley to get kidnapped by Ajax may be based on the scene in Spider-Man where Mary Jane is saved from muggers and Peter hides in the shadows. This is supported by Weasel telling Deadpool, &amp;quot;Go get her, tiger,&amp;quot; what with &amp;quot;tiger&amp;quot; being Mary Jane's trademark thing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Weasel&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Weasel has been Deadpool’s go-to weapons and tech guy since the first Deadpool miniseries, The Circle Chase. He was created by Fabian Nicieza and Joe Madureira. Real name Jack Hammer (yes, really), Weasel is actually improved by the movie’s take. Mainly because in the comics, Weasel is the one constantly taking abuse from Wade, which just makes Wade look like a bully. (Side note, Wade was a bully, an actual villain, at the start. His relationship with Weasel improves greatly as Deadpool becomes an anti-hero and then on his current heroic attempts).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sister Margaret’s School for Wayward Children, otherwise known as the Hellhouse, is another Joe Kelly creation, appearing in Deadpool v.1 #1. Run by an old man named Patch, the Chicago-based clubhouse was a place for mercenaries to hang out and get job offers. This was mainly used as an excuse to have Deadpool constantly butt heads with his main (at the time) arch-nemesis T-Ray.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Liefeld is one of the names on the Dead Pool (see? Told ya there were more references to Deadpool's creators). Wade even acknowledges one of the mercs by that name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Wade orders the blowjob drink at the bar, the waitress' name is Kelly. Joe Kelly wrote Deadpool in the late-90s and is credited as being the writer who truly gave him life as a three-dimensional character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Dead Pool board has a lot of Easter egg names mixed in there. Hell if I have the full list, but I did see &amp;quot;M. Tyson&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;S. LaBeouf&amp;quot; mixed in there. Give it some time. I'm sure someone will have a screenshot. A few other names noticed are C. Sheen, K West, W Wilson, V Putin, R Reynolds, TJ Miller,B Cosby, O Osbourne, J Nelson, L Lohan, and M Cyrus.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Dead Pool is a thing from the comics, but not at the Hellhouse. It was originally at the Hospice, where rejects and failures from the Weapon X program were sent to die (peacefully, but it turns out worse).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ajax&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The villain of the story is Ajax, otherwise known as Francis. He first appeared in Deadpool v.1 #14, created by Joe Kelly and Walter McDaniel. Originally known as the Attending (Ajax was his cyborg upgrade), he was a Weapon X experiment with super-strength, speed, etc. and also couldn’t feel pain. Since he was a complete sociopath, the government decided he wasn’t worth using as a superhero. Instead, he became an orderly at the Hospice, the Weapon X den where Wade was eventually (illegally) experimented on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The dialogue about last words when Deadpool is about to kill Ajax is extremely similar to the conversation Nick Fury and Baron Von Strucker had in Secret Warriors before Fury shot Von Strucker in the head. Probably just a coincidence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Colossus&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Colossus, real name Piotr Rasputin, is the oldest Marvel character in this movie, debuting in Giant-Size X-Men #1 in 1975. He was created by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum. Despite his big inclusion in this movie, he has very little history with Deadpool in the comics. They fought briefly during the Daniel Way run of Deadpool and in a time-travel story, the two were in a future incarnation of the X-Men. He's just as much a boy scout in the comics as he is in the movie. The movie really plays up the Papa Bear aspect.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deadpool compares Professor Xavier to Heaven's Gate, a religious cult that existed for a few decades and made news in 1997 when its members killed themselves, believing that their souls would be picked up by UFOs and brought to Heaven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deadpool destroying his own limbs in an attempt to fight Colossus and failing every step of the way is a bit of a reference to the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. In the original leaked script, Deadpool even calls it out more blatantly. He even references Colossus as RoboCop (&amp;quot;Dead or alive, you're coming with me!&amp;quot;), which goes well with the agonizing, Verhoeven-esque, over-the-top violence of the scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Colossus talks about bringing Deadpool to the Professor, and he asks if it's going to be James McAvoy or Patrick Stewart, as the new timeline thing is really confusing. Obviously he's breaking the fourth wall and talking about the events of X-Men: Days of Future Past and how it affects the X-Men movies' continuity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deadpool warns about spoilers for 127 Hours, which ended with James Franco cutting off his own limb to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Deadpool's blood splatters all over Colossus' face, he jokes, &amp;quot;Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret.&amp;quot; A reference to the book of the same name by Judy Bloom, which is about a girl having her first period.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The way Deadpool falls off the bridge and lands in a garbage truck as it drives off is very much like what happens to John Cusack in the movie Better Off Dead, though his fall was far more accidental. (Thanks to Oeno)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Negasonic Teenage Warhead&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Negasonic Teenage Warhead, named after the awesome song by Monster Magnet, was a short-lived character introduced by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely in New X-Men #115 back in 2001.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deadpool calls her Ripley from Alien 3, mainly due to having the same short hair and stern outlook. He also refers to her as Sinead O'Connor, a musician known for her shaved head, and quotes her song &amp;quot;Nothing Compares 2 U.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Negasonic's outfit is closer to the classic outfits of the original X-Men. It also plays well into the joke from the first X-Men movie where they mention the lack of yellow spandex. It was mostly a jab at Wolverine's comic self, but Cyclops is living in a glass house on that one. (Thanks to Jack9Crow)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Negasonic comments on how often the X-Mansion is destroyed. [thanks to @nickson104]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Angel Dust&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Angel Dust is another random character, though at least the power set is correct. She was created by Geoff Johns and Shawn Martinbrough in Morlocks #1 in 2002. Coincidentally, this would be the second time a villain of a Ryan Reynolds movie is a Johns creation. Green Lantern featured the entity Parallax.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Angel Dust has a thing about chomping on matchsticks and Deadpool asks if she's a big Stallone fan. In the Sylvester Stallone movie Cobra, he spends the entire movie chomping on a matchstick.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blind Al&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/rob2A.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Blind Al is another Joe Kelly creation, appearing first in Deadpool v.1 #1. A motherly figure, she’s actually Deadpool’s prisoner in the comics. It’s played for laughs for a while until later going into how messed up their relationship actually is. Deadpool occasionally put her in &lt;em&gt;The Box&lt;/em&gt;, a literal torture chamber for various imagined transgressions, before his heroic turn.&lt;/a&gt; While written out at the end of Kelly’s run, she has shown up here and there over the years to give advice.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deadpool refers to her as Mrs. Magoo. Mr. Magoo is a cartoon character created in the 1949, known for getting into comedic situations due to his blindness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He also calls her Ronnie Milsap at one point. Milsap is a blind country singer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the scene when Blind Al is being introduced, &amp;quot;Hit the Road, Jack&amp;quot; by Ray Charles is played in the background (Ray Charles is blind). [thanks to @Dunno]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David Cunningham (Worm)&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wade befriends fellow experiment David Cunningham. Cunningham is very much supposed to be Worm from the comics. &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4P7Xr.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Worm was created by Joe Kelly and Steve Harris in Deadpool/Death Annual ’98. That issue is the basis for this whole segment of the movie where Wade is tortured and gets his powers.&lt;/a&gt; In the comics, he was also a Weapon X reject, in the Hospice, with a cybernetic eye. This is likely why one of his eyes in the movie is a different color than the other.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bob&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deadpool runs into an enemy named Bob that he appears to be old friends with. &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Qrbab.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Ever since debuting in Cable/Deadpool #38, Bob, Agent of Hydra has been Wade's ever-suffering sidekick&lt;/a&gt;. Come to think of it, Wade has a lot of ever-suffering sidekicks. Since Hydra is a Marvel property tied to Captain America/Avengers that Fox has no access to, he is made a generic goon of Francis. I doubt Francis offers full dental either.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deadpool mentions that Bob's wife's name is Gail. While Bob is married to a woman named Allison in the comics, Gail is almost definitely a reference to Gail Simone, considered to be one of the best Deadpool writers despite writing a relatively few issues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deadpool Post-Credits&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The post-credits sequence is a take on Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, down to the setting and bathrobe and the demand that the viewers go home. Oh, and the &amp;quot;chicka chick-aaaah!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He jokes about Sam Jackson showing up with an Eye Patch, a reference to the revolutionary post-credits scene from &lt;em&gt;'Iron Man'&lt;/em&gt;. Which Samuel L Jackson was paid handsomely for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deadpool confirms Cable will be in Deadpool 2. The son of Cyclops and Madelyne Pr...forget it. &lt;strong&gt;Explaining who he is would take too long&lt;/strong&gt;. He's from the future, he's Deadpool's original nemesis in New Mutants #98 where Deadpool was introduced, and they eventually starred in their own buddy comic for 50 issues as well as a recent digital series. They're the odd couple of the mutant corner of Marvel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deadpool owns an Adventure Time watch. The joke is basically the reference, I guess. You're on the internet. You already know what Adventure Time is. You have to. The joke also being that a fully grown man like Wade watches a children's cartoon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wade also likes Voltron, Hello Kitty, and other childish franchises.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When joking about fondling Wolverine's balls, he starts speaking in an Australian accent and mentions &amp;quot;down under,&amp;quot; a more direct reference to Hugh Jackman's nationality.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of the prominent signs on the freeway says &amp;quot;Parker Boulevard.&amp;quot; As reader Mike Priest points out, this could very well be a reference to Spider-Man. My first reaction was that it might be a reference to comic writer Jeff Parker, but that guy's written like a single Deadpool comic in his career, so that's not too likely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deadpool constantly refers to the recruiter character as Agent Smith, likening him to the cold, suit-wearing villain from the Matrix movies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Later in the movie, Deadpool attacks the recruiter while calling him Jared and makes a joke about a footlong. This would be innocent on its own, but considering Wade made jokes earlier about the recruiter seeming like a child molester, this is most definitely a topical joke about Jared Fogle's recent arrest and conviction for being a pedo.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Joking about Batman and Robin’s sexuality is old hat, but most famous for Fredric Wertham’s attempts to bring down the comics industry with his book Seduction of the Innocent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Ajax and Angel Dust leave Sister Margaret’s, Weasel makes fun of them for dressing like they’re going to go watch Blade 2. Blade Trinity starred Ryan Reynolds as Hannibal King, another Marvel [Deadpan Snarker] &lt;a href=&quot;https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeadpanSnarker&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;12&lt;/a&gt; character which inspired many to think he’d play the perfect Deadpool. Frankly most of Reynold's characters are Deadpan Snarkers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The way Deadpool impales the final goon with two katanas and holds him up is very reminiscent of the Adam Kubert &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/2yGvv.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;cover of Wolverine #88&lt;/a&gt;, the first ever meeting between Wolverine and Deadpool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stan Lee has his expected Marvel cameo, this time as a strip club DJ. What’s funny and notable about this is that Stan Lee didn’t co-create a single character in this movie. Explicitly called out as a &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Glorified Cameo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; during the title sequence, similarly to many other roles in a tongue-in-cheek manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stan Lee did create &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripperella&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;'Stripperella'&lt;/a&gt;, a mature (non-porn) adult cartoon super-heroine, who is a Stripper, making the cameo less random than it seemed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Voltron: Defender of the Universe was a cartoon from Japan in the mid-1980s where five pilots would control giant lion mechs, then combine them into a sword-swinging robot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wade talks about his Liam Neeson nightmare, where he goes into a tangent about the &lt;em&gt;Taken&lt;/em&gt; trilogy without outright identifying the movies by name. The choice of Liam Neeson as the butt of the joke might be due to Neeson's role in &lt;em&gt;Darkman&lt;/em&gt;, another movie about a super-antihero with disfigured face. (&lt;em&gt;Darkman&lt;/em&gt; was directed by Sam Raimi, who also directed the 2002–2007 &lt;em&gt;Spider-Man&lt;/em&gt; trilogy.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the bit where Deadpool's freaking out over hitting a woman, he throws off an attacker while yelling, &amp;quot;Get off me, spider monkey!&amp;quot; As pointed out by reader Jason Aniceto, this is taken from the first Twilight, where Edward tells Bella, &amp;quot;You'd better hang on tight, spider monkey,&amp;quot; while she was on his back in similar fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's more likely a reference to Deadpool Vol 2 #19-21, '&lt;em&gt;WHATEVER A SPIDER CAN'&lt;/em&gt;. Deadpool and Spiderman team up to stop Hit Monkey. Yes, Marvel has a character that's a non-talking monkey that's a hitman. &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pybOX.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;You don't believe me&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When going after Ajax, Deadpool brings with him a copy of the November 25, 2008 People Magazine where Hugh Jackman was awarded &amp;quot;Sexiest Man.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of the experiments in the facility where Wade gets his powers has bones sticking out of their back. This is likely a reference to X-Men character Marrow, who constantly has them jabbing out of her back and can regenerate them at will. Marrow is also in the video game series Marvel vs. Capcom, where Deadpool was added as a fighting character in MvC 3. Alternatively, it can be a reference to Spyke, a mutant that was introduced in the cartoon X-Men Evolution, and is Storm's nephew. He also has bone spikes like Marrow.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The final battle between Deadpool and Ajax takes place on a dismantled SHIELD helicarrier. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://moviepilot.com/posts/3788445&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;original concept art&lt;/a&gt; makes this pretty blatantly obvious, but the artist was asked to downplay the resemblance (presumably for legal reasons).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Before the end credits, he calls himself &amp;quot;your friendly neighborhood pool guy&amp;quot;, yet another jab at how similar he is to Spider-Man (whose trademark catchphrase refers to himself as &amp;quot;your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man&amp;quot;). &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/P2X4c.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;They are constantly confused for each other in-universe in the comics.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deadpool calls out the lack of inhabitants at the X-Mansion other than Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Colossus, questioning whether the studio could not afford any other X-Men. [thanks to @nickson104]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the animated end credits, Deadpool dangles in the upper right corner of the frame while upside down and apparently from a web string, much like Spider-Man is seen to do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Negasonic Teenage Warhead is finishing her Tweet before attacking Angel Dust, the fuselage of a wrecked aircraft is in the background. The registration is C-FLNT, a likely nod to Captain Flint of the Howling Commandos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;One scene has a closeup of Wade's headboard covered in stickers. Some of them resemble the TOPPS 90's X-Men stickers, one of which looked like Apocalypse, the villain for the upcoming X-Men movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the final battle he has stapled a photo of Hugh Jackman on his face, just in case he loses his mask.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are also at least 3 Monty Pythonesque references. The competition between Wade and Vanessa over who had the shittiest upbringing is a nod to the &amp;quot;Four Yorkshiremen&amp;quot; skit, the &amp;quot;Fight&amp;quot; between Deadpool and Collosus is overtly similar to the Black knight scene in &amp;quot;Monty Python and Holy Grail&amp;quot;, and when trying to guess Ajax's name, Wades last guess is Basil Fawlty (from Fawlty Towers) which while not from Monty Python, stars John Cleese, arguably Monty Python's most famous member.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;When demanding that Ajax fix the damage done to him, Deadpool refers to his disfigurement as a &amp;quot;butter face&amp;quot;. This refers to an old sexist joke:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One guy turns to another and says, &amp;quot;Look at that hottie!&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;The other replies, &amp;quot;She's a butterface.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;quot;What?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&amp;quot;Y'know, a &lt;em&gt;butterface&lt;/em&gt;. Her body's great, &lt;em&gt;but her face&lt;/em&gt;!&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Hell house dead pool names full list&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Name.                  Age&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cosby.B (Bill).        78&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sheen.C (Charlie).     50&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;West.K (Kanye).        38&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wilson.W (Wade).       39&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Putin.V (Vladimir).    62&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Boothe.J (Boothe was the guy Wade bet on to die. He had the waitress send the &lt;em&gt;blowjob&lt;/em&gt; shot to another merc and said &amp;quot;tell him it's from Boothe.&amp;quot; [No first name listed in credits]).          21&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Reynolds.R. (Ryan).    38&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Miller.TJ.(ie Weasel). 35&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lohan.L. (Lindsay).    29&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cyrus.M (Miley).       23&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rock.K (Kid).          45&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Tyson.M (Mike).        49&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nelson.J. (Judd).      56&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wayne.L. (Lil).        33&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Labeouf.S (Shia)       29&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beaty.N (Ned).         78&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Liefeld.R (Rob).       48&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Osbourne.O (Ozzy).     67&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bynes.A (Amanda).      29&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Palmer.A (Arnold).     86&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BHK3R.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BHK3R.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;i like chalk!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note the age on the board corresponds to the person's actual age at the time of release of the film, with the exceptions of Wade, who is a year older than Ryan Reynolds (perhaps a nod to the fact Deadpool looks older than he is), Vladmir Putin, who we can assume had a birthday between filming of the scene and the release, and TJ Miller, who is posted as 35, although IMDB and Wikipedia have him as being 34 (no idea why there's a discrepancy here, though).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="30306" LastEditDate="2023-04-21T13:14:33.407" LastActivityDate="2023-04-21T13:14:33.407" CommentCount="4" CommunityOwnedDate="2016-02-15T10:22:36.207" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="48796" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48814" CreationDate="2016-02-15T10:22:43.490" Score="40" ViewCount="12868" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the least amount of screen time, relative to the total running length, that the single highest-billed actor (or actress) has ever had in a feature-length, non-experimental film?  (For the purposes of this question, &quot;screen time&quot; includes time spent doing voice-overs.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19812" LastEditorUserId="19812" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T15:41:55.580" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T20:31:22.353" Title="Top-billed actor with the least screen time" Tags="|casting|credits|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="13" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48798" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48796" CreationDate="2016-02-15T10:43:12.213" Score="41" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; of films with actors/actresses who dominate the film, but actually have very little screen time. For example, Orson Welles in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Man#Cast&quot;&gt;The Third Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; had ~10 minutes of screen time. Heath Ledger in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_(film)&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; had just under 20 minutes. Judi Dench won an Oscar for &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_in_Love&quot;&gt;Shakespeare in Love&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; for less than 8 minutes acting time. Similarly, Beatrice Straight won an Oscar for &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(film)&quot;&gt;Network&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, based on ~10 minutes acting time. Anne Hathaway also won an Oscar for &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_(2012_film)&quot;&gt;Les Miserables&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, based on ~15 minutes screen time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the problem with all of these is that they don't fit the scope of your question - in that the actors involved, whilst highly billed, were not &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; highest billed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this, the best answer I can think of is &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_(film)&quot;&gt;The Silence of the Lambs&lt;/a&gt;, starring, as the joint top-billed actor, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Hopkins&quot;&gt;Anthony Hopkins&lt;/a&gt;. He had less than 16 minutes of screen time, which is more than the others above, but at least &lt;em&gt;shared&lt;/em&gt; the top billing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to verify anything lower than this. There are plenty of people who have had &lt;em&gt;high&lt;/em&gt; billing despite having a mere cameo, but I'm not aware of anyone actually &lt;em&gt;leading&lt;/em&gt; the credit listings with a lower time than this (although I'll happily amend my answer if I find anyone).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Marlon Brando in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(1978_film)&quot;&gt;Superman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; received joint top billing with Gene Hackman (who played Lex Luthor). Christopher Reeve, who played Superman, was billed much lower as he was relatively unknown at the time. &lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OUCDAwAAQBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PT207&amp;amp;lpg=PT207&amp;amp;dq=brando%20screen%20time%20superman&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=pqy4VXN03L&amp;amp;sig=M0X-_Di1hdo6RbhhPcFtVLCPWuM&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwjn1ZOL-fnKAhXJChoKHUq2BZQ4ChDoAQgvMAQ#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=brando%20screen%20time%20superman&amp;amp;f=false&quot;&gt;Brando has ~8 minutes of screen time&lt;/a&gt;, which is much less than Anthony Hopkins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 2&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If &lt;em&gt;joint&lt;/em&gt; top billing is to be allowed, as many have commented Mark Hamill, who shared top-billing with a host of other people, had a mere minute or two of on-screen presence in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens&quot;&gt;Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit 3&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Neither of us have confirmed this, but @Thunderforge has suggested &lt;em&gt;Tobin Bell&lt;/em&gt; in Saw 3D, who was given solo top billing and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BillingDisplacement&quot;&gt;apparently&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; only had two minutes of screen play.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T08:08:55.587" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T08:08:55.587" CommentCount="15" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48802" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48803" CreationDate="2016-02-15T11:35:33.737" Score="4" ViewCount="1231" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was reading some questions and also some answers about &lt;em&gt;Shutter Island&lt;/em&gt; (like &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/18533/21342&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; one and &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/18530/21342&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; one) last night and most places it says Andrew Laeddis' wife murdered their 2 children.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When I saw the movie, there were 3 children. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did I watch a different version of the movie?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or were there 2 children in the book? I haven't read the book yet.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Or am I just hallucinating like Andrew himself? &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just to prove that the third question is false I have an image from the movie as strong evidence  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pJzwj.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pJzwj.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21342" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T12:02:36.690" Title="How many children did Andrew Laeddis have?" Tags="|character|shutter-island|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48803" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48802" CreationDate="2016-02-15T11:45:00.373" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Three&lt;/strong&gt; children.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The two questions you quoted were both answered by me. Answering the question in the first link you posted, I quoted from the second link you posted. The original asker in that question had mentioned two children and I rather mistakenly continued from this mistake and answered referring to two children instead of three.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is three children, as confirmed by both the film in the pictures above and &lt;a href=&quot;https://vk.com/doc14694589_298869584?hash=e97db0504267169648&amp;amp;dl=94c4c411a0adeab053&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the novel&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She drowned her three children in the&#xA;  lake behind her house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've added asterisked amendments to both of my previous answers to indicate this mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T11:45:00.373" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48805" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-15T12:29:55.863" Score="18" ViewCount="10487" Body="&lt;p&gt;I just saw &lt;em&gt;The Fault in Our Stars&lt;/em&gt; and was quite confused with the title in relation to the plot of the movie. Can anyone help me to understand the co-relation between the plot and the title?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T12:32:24.047" LastActivityDate="2018-01-07T19:25:21.013" Title="What does the title &quot;The Fault in Our Stars&quot; signify?" Tags="|title|the-fault-in-our-stars|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48806" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48805" CreationDate="2016-02-15T12:45:36.573" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is from a line from the play &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shakespeare.mit.edu/julius_caesar/full.html&quot;&gt;Julius Caesar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, by Shakespeare:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cassius&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,&lt;br&gt;&#xA;   But in&#xA;  ourselves, that we are underlings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Julius Caesar (I, ii, 140-141)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To quote from the eNotes interpretation of the play:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Cassius continues by reminding&#xA;  Brutus that Caesar is just a man, not a god, and that they are equal&#xA;  men to Caesar. They were all born equally free, and so why would they&#xA;  suddenly have to bow to another man? On another level this phrase has&#xA;  been interpreted to mean that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;fate is not what drives men to their&#xA;  decisions and actions, but rather the human condition&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other words, we're to blame for the badness in our lives. We have driven it, through our own actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, the film is based on a book by John Green, who appears to be arguing something different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rather than the fault being in ourselves, that the &lt;em&gt;bad stuff&lt;/em&gt; is because of us and our choices in life, Green's title suggests the fault &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in our stars - that the bad things happen through no fault of our own. That we have little control over our own eventual fate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole novel (and movie) follows this logic and shows the characters leading their lives to the fullest, &lt;em&gt;despite&lt;/em&gt; the fault in their stars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T17:24:44.560" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T17:24:44.560" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48809" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48767" CreationDate="2016-02-15T13:35:34.650" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to this Wiki, he's 42:&lt;a href=&quot;http://spongefan.wikia.com/wiki/Squidward_Q._Tentacles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://spongefan.wikia.com/wiki/Squidward_Q._Tentacles&lt;/a&gt; &#xA;But then it also says he dies last February so not sure.. Most sites point to 40s&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23592" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T13:35:34.650" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48810" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48767" CreationDate="2016-02-15T13:36:30.510" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://spongebob.wikia.com/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_%28character%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this wikia&lt;/a&gt; Spongebob Square pants was born in 1986 (July 14, which means he is now 30... and a week younger than me...)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Squidward was born in 1972, so he is 44, according to &lt;a href=&quot;http://spongefan.wikia.com/wiki/Squidward_Q._Tentacles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16465" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T13:36:30.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48814" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48796" CreationDate="2016-02-15T15:16:45.030" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; We might have a new record. In the US historical epic &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Night_with_the_King&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;One Night with the King&lt;/a&gt; from 2006, Peter O'Toole briefly appears in the prologue as the Prophet Samuel for &lt;strong&gt;&quot;barely 30 seconds&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, according to &lt;em&gt;Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide&lt;/em&gt;. (I timed it myself and it's about 25 seconds). &lt;strong&gt;Despite this, he's top-billed as the film's star:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dfZbk.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dfZbk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another notable example would be Ed Wood's &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Plan 9 From Outer Space&lt;/a&gt; from 1959. It's a B-movie, but by all means not experimental or avant-garde. It was famously filmed after Bela Lugosi's death and more or less based around some brief, silent footage of him which Wood shot before he died. Wood originally promoted it as &quot;Bela Lugosi's last movie&quot;, and to make Bela's role more prominent, Wood then hired his wife's chiropractor as a stand in. &lt;strong&gt;So, although Lugosi's actual screen time is under 3 minutes&lt;/strong&gt; (I counted it myself), &lt;strong&gt;he's still top-billed in the original promotional art&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BtaqX.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BtaqX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[However, there is also the dubious practice of retroactively displaying a famous actor prominently in the promotional art of their older, more obscure films in which they only briefly appeared. TVTropes calls this &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BillingDisplacement&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Billing Displacement&lt;/a&gt; and features a few &lt;strong&gt;trillion&lt;/strong&gt; examples, so you might find some more fitting titles there too.]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T19:33:06.170" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T19:33:06.170" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48816" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41667" CreationDate="2016-02-15T17:22:17.050" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No, the content has largely not become publicly available in its entirety&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thedissolve.com/features/interview/452-interview-alejandro-jodorowsky/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;In an interview&lt;/a&gt;, Jodorowsky discussed the number of books created:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Dissolve&lt;/strong&gt;: You and Seydoux created a massive book that you gave to&#xA;  the studios, showing storyboards and special-effects designs. None of&#xA;  them came back and said, “We don’t want to do this picture with you,&#xA;  but we’re impressed and want to do something else with you”?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jodorowsky&lt;/strong&gt;: No. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;We made 20 books, and every one we made—they went to&#xA;  MGM, Universal, etc.—the answer at every one of them was,&#xA;  “Jodorowsky’s crazy.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Nobody back then would consider doing a 12-hour&#xA;  picture. No one thought about the trilogy until Star Wars came around.&#xA;  In that moment, it was impossible to make a space opera. It was only&#xA;  $7,000 for the rights to the book, it’s nothing, but still nobody&#xA;  wanted to do it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are unsubstantiated rumours that only two copies of this &quot;book&quot; still exist, one of which belongs to Jodorowsky. However, he doesn't appear to have discussed this in interviews.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There was some excitement a while back at a typewritten movie script with illustrations that claimed to be &quot;DUNE, screenplay by Alejandro Jorodowsky, adapted from ‘Dune’ by Frank Herbert.&quot; However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.heavymetal.com/news/jodorowsky-says-this-illustrated-dune-script-is-a-fake-so-who-made-it-and-why/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jorodowsky derided it as a fake&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The most recent information I've seen on the issue is from an &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/2csd3c/frank_pavich_here_director_of_jodorowskys_dune/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;AMA on Reddit&lt;/a&gt; with Frank Pavich, the director of the documentary.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was asked if the book would be published, and responded:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's been talk, yes. I've heard rumblings that Taschen was&#xA;  interested. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I'm not sure where it currently lies. Is it even possible? Can they&#xA;  even get the underlying rights to the novel again? I assume they would&#xA;  need that, at least. Maybe they're waiting for the documentary to&#xA;  spread a little more and go from there? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;If it's even published, I'll be first in line at the bookstore, for&#xA;  sure!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So currently, the content has not become available but &lt;em&gt;hopefully&lt;/em&gt; it will become available in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T17:22:17.050" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48817" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48820" CreationDate="2016-02-15T18:59:52.797" Score="3" ViewCount="2116" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119646/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; title=&quot;The Hangover 2009&quot;&gt;The Hangover&lt;/a&gt; movie, why did Alan name the baby &lt;strong&gt;Carlos&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The conversation in the elevator:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Woman: What’s his name?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Phil: Ben&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Alan: Carlos&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Phil and Stu: Carlos?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After seeing the baby's mom:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Alan: Did you hear that? Baby's name is Tyler&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Phil: Yeah. I thought he looked more like a Carlos too, bud&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm not a native speaker, is there any fun behind the name Carlos? Or was there some other reason Alan chose the name Carlos?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29292" LastEditorUserId="29292" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T16:21:12.833" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T16:21:12.833" Title="Why did Alan name the baby Carlos?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-hangover|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48820" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48817" CreationDate="2016-02-15T19:43:27.097" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's a random joke, likely due to the fact the baby is white and the name is typically Hispanic&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alan's whole character in the film is very, &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; random. They find a baby and wonder whose it is. Although Phil suggests Ben, Alan quickly says Carlos and takes to calling the baby that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, later the gang discover the baby's name is Tyler. Phil acknowledges he hears this and simply remarks he thought the kid looked more like a Carlos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The baby isn't mentioned again and doesn't appear in &lt;em&gt;Hangover 2&lt;/em&gt; (although will be back, all grown up, in &lt;em&gt;Hangover 3&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no deep joke here. Carlos is a Spanish name and in the US would be more typical of a Hispanic child, as opposed to a white child. Calling the baby Carlos is just another unusual quirk of Alan's.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T19:43:27.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48821" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39205" CreationDate="2016-02-15T19:56:49.480" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Often actors are uncredited because they are making &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameo_appearance&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;cameo appearances&lt;/a&gt;. To quote from the wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A cameo role or cameo appearance...is a brief appearance or voice part of a known person in a work&#xA;  of the performing arts, typically unnamed or appearing as themselves.&#xA;  These roles are generally small, many of them non-speaking ones, and&#xA;  are commonly either appearances in a work in which they hold some&#xA;  special significance (such as actors from an original movie appearing&#xA;  in its remake), or renowned people making uncredited appearances.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there are other reasons as well, including contractual disputes, oversights, lack of speaking parts, no renumeration for part and thus no interest in crediting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To give a number of examples, along with Christopher Walken in &lt;em&gt;Sleepy Hollow&lt;/em&gt;, of actors being uncredited:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don Cheadle is famously uncredited for &lt;em&gt;Ocean's Eleven&lt;/em&gt; (due to a dispute about where he appeared on the billing for the film).   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Ashton Kutcher is uncredited for &lt;em&gt;Cheaper by the Dozen&lt;/em&gt; (despite being arguably the main antagonist).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Owen Wilson is uncredited for &lt;em&gt;Night at the Museum&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Raúl Juliá is uncredited for &lt;em&gt;Havana&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in short - the reason he was uncredited isn't specific to &lt;em&gt;Sleepy Hollow&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Christopher Walken&lt;/em&gt;. There are a variety of reasons why actors sometimes choose to be uncredited and for this reason (likely due to the fact he has no spoken lines) he chose to be uncredited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T19:56:49.480" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48822" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46029" CreationDate="2016-02-15T20:10:48.847" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/47565/is-it-realistic-that-the-guy-that-falls-down-in-the-raptors-cage-survived&quot;&gt;Quoting from another answer&lt;/a&gt; I posted on surviving big falls:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;People can survive really, really big falls. See this Guardian article. It is one of many which cover people who have survived miracle falls. From it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In 1972, Vesna Vulovic, a cabin attendant, survived a 10,160m fall&#xA;  when the DC-9 she was in exploded over what is now the Czech Republic.&#xA;  Earlier this week, a 102-year-old woman survived after toppling from&#xA;  her fourth-floor balcony in Turin. Fortunately, her fall was broken by&#xA;  a children's playhouse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;According to another section of the article:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Falls can kill by inflicting damage to any number of vital organs, but&#xA;  the most common reason is due to a key artery's route through the&#xA;  body. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Most people who fall from a height die because they fracture&#xA;  their spine near the top and so transect the aorta which carries blood&#xA;  out of the heart,&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; says Sean Hughes, professor of surgery at Imperial&#xA;  College, London.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in this case, how &lt;em&gt;likely&lt;/em&gt; is it they'd survive? Not very.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How realistic is it? Well, people have fallen from even higher and survived, so it is possible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.513" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T20:10:48.847" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48823" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48830" CreationDate="2016-02-15T20:25:21.793" Score="13" ViewCount="1141" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since everybody is talking about the new Batman movie, I've read people claiming that this one does look like the Batman from the comics and cartoons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've done some research and now I know people refer to Frank Miller's Batman, the one from The Dark Knight returns.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I feel like there are many other Batmans, meaning that they are different characters. For instance, I am pretty sure Frank Miller's has nothing to do with the character played by Adam West.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to know how many Batmans have existed (TV and movies) and how they differ from each other. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31213" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-11-14T10:02:12.617" LastActivityDate="2016-11-14T10:02:46.923" Title="How many Batmans have existed in TV and movies?" Tags="|cinema-history|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="12" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48824" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44810" CreationDate="2016-02-15T20:58:03.050" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, it was relatively simple to fake identities.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A famous, &lt;em&gt;famous&lt;/em&gt; example of this is shown in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Jackal&quot;&gt;Day of the Jackal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, where &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Forsyth&quot;&gt;Frederick Forsyth&lt;/a&gt; included a character who faked his identity using a very simplistic method that had been known about for decades and took until the noughties to actually rectify.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Basically, he showed that someone could trawl a village or location for graves. The person looking would search for someone who had died young, but if they'd been alive, would be roughly the same age as the person looking.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Next, the person would go to the local registry office and buy the birth certificate of the deceased (no identification was needed for this).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally, they would apply for a passport (the only piece of evidence needed to do this was a birth certificate).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doing this, it was utterly simplistic to fake someone's identity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, Forsyth's example related &lt;em&gt;specifically&lt;/em&gt; to the UK. However, in the US, the law wasn't all that different. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It used to be the case that US citizens didn't get social security numbers until they got their first job.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, someone looking to assume a fake identity could again search for a deceased person who, if alive, would be roughly their age. They could again purchase their birth certificate. Finally, they could apply for a social security number and explain their reasons for doing so (let's say the person stealing the identity was 30 - they could explain they didn't have a job for ten years for any reason they liked).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another factor to consider was that the &lt;em&gt;punishment&lt;/em&gt; for faking identities used to be far less severe than it is now. For criminals with a string of offences on their record, the relatively &lt;em&gt;minor&lt;/em&gt; crime of faking their identity was worth it - whereas nowadays, it would carry a &lt;em&gt;much&lt;/em&gt; more severe sentence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in summary - it was very simple to fake identities until the digitalisation of the data (and even now, it's still &lt;em&gt;far&lt;/em&gt; from foolproof).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-15T21:07:58.650" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T21:07:58.650" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48825" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2804" CreationDate="2016-02-15T21:09:39.903" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Although I would assume it was Dr. Peters, based upon the ending, when they show the face of Dr. Peters (David Morse) on the airplane with the scientist. There is a twist... look at one of the &quot;remembered&quot; flashback scenes from Cole. At about 40 minutes into the movie the flashback scene is at the airport from young Cole's eyes, it shows the man spreading the virus with the suitcase in his hand running through the airport. When he turns his head he has a long mane of hair but his face is that of Jeffrey (Brad Pitt) not Dr. Peters (David Morse).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hjPCK.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/hjPCK.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the question is... Was that scene only done to show the psychosis in Cole's mind and his imagination that he saw Jeffrey releasing the virus instead of Dr Peters? Or is it to leave us with a question?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31215" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T01:57:28.110" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T01:57:28.110" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48826" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="28255" CreationDate="2016-02-15T21:13:16.537" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) was the person who invented Project Mayhem.  Tyler was the person who says there are no names in Project Mayhem.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Narrator (Edward Norton) is not aware at this point that he is also Tyler Durden.  He's not (consciously) of the same mindset.  When Bob dies, he still has the human element of wanting to ensure Bob's life (and death) has meaning, so he reminds the members of PM that Bob has a name.  He is a person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The members of PM become confused, because (from what they know) Tyler Durden is first telling them that PM members have no name, and then that Bob does, in fact, have a name.  These guys are trained to be drones, so they basically regurgitate whatever they're told.  They chant &quot;His name is Robert Paulsen&quot; believing Tyler &lt;em&gt;wants&lt;/em&gt; them to acknowledge Bob, and that PM members receive names when they die.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I'm not mistaken, they actually chant this many times over, and not just 4 times.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T21:13:16.537" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48828" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2789" CreationDate="2016-02-15T22:33:05.637" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;If we assume Batman's rule to be &quot;Don't kill&quot;, it's a bit ambiguous, and very limiting. Instead, we should assume the rule is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Don't Murder&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. This is more in line with his actions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He didn't murder Dent. He didn't intentionally cause his life to end. Dent died accidentally, as a byproduct of trying to stop Dent from murdering a child. While risky, there was a chance Dent would have lived. It's manslaughter at worst, more like a justifiable homicide. It's very close to suicide by cop. By the first interpretation or the second, he didn't kill Dent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ra's is harder to justify. Nolan Batman is grittier than the typical Batman characterization. Batman would normally always attempt to save someone about to die, even if it's the villain. Allowing someone to die through inaction would violate &quot;Don't Kill&quot;, but not &quot;Don't Murder&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In other Batman characterizations, Batman has been seen killing henchmen through inaction or indirect action. These henchmen are always attempting to kill Batman or civilians. Notably, henchmen thrown off fatal heights, or causing them to fumble explosives leading to walls painted red. As the saying goes, it's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop. Batman causes the fall, not the sudden stop. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T22:33:05.637" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48829" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8550" CreationDate="2016-02-15T22:51:38.340" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I'm not sure about the nickelodeon era, but I have a lot of vintage theater programs and advertising postcards in my collection. Here's an advertising postcard from October 1914 for the Knickerbocker Theater in Cleveland listing Wednesday and Saturday matinees.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sZd8P.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/sZd8P.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Cleveland Knickerbocker Theater Advertising Postcard&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a vaudeville program from a Washington D.C. theater from 1907. There is a 25 cent matinee each day, and the final act is the American Vitagraph, a program of short films.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/onmud.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/onmud.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Chase&amp;#39;s Vaudeville Theatre program&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18606" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T22:51:38.340" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48830" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48823" CreationDate="2016-02-15T22:56:33.553" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;At least 21 distinct Batmans across films, series and animated series where he is the dominant  character&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, there have been 10 Batman films (11 if we include future releases). This number includes 3 serials. The films are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(serial)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman&lt;/a&gt; (serial) [stars Lewis Wilson]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_and_Robin_(serial)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman and Robin&lt;/a&gt; (serial) [stars Robert Lowery]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(1966_film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman: The Movie&lt;/a&gt; [stars Adam West]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(1989_film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman&lt;/a&gt; [stars Michael Keaton]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Returns&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman Returns&lt;/a&gt; [stars Michael Keaton]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Forever&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman Forever&lt;/a&gt; [stars Val Kilmer]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_%26_Robin_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman &amp;amp; Robin&lt;/a&gt; [stars George Clooney]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Begins&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman Begins&lt;/a&gt; [stars Christian Bale]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/a&gt; [stars Christian Bale]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Rises&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight:&#xA;Rises&lt;/a&gt; [stars Christian Bale]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_v_Superman:_Dawn_of_Justice&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman v Superman:&#xA;Dawn of Justice&lt;/a&gt; [stars Ben Affleck]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These thirteen film star &lt;strong&gt;eight&lt;/strong&gt; men as Batman, as indicated above. So if we take each of these different actors to represent a &quot;different&quot; Batman, that's eight so far.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we include live-action series, we have to add the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman&lt;/a&gt; [stars Adam West]  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_of_the_Superheroes&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Legends of the Superheroes&lt;/a&gt; [stars Adam West]  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_Prey_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Birds of Prey&lt;/a&gt; [stars Bruce Thomas]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These three series featuerd &lt;strong&gt;two&lt;/strong&gt; men as Batman. We've already counted Adam West once, so we'll add just one man, bringing the total up to nine.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If we include commercials:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Equal pay&quot; public service announcement [stars Dick Gautier]  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnStar&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;OnStar&lt;/a&gt;&quot; commercials [stars Bruce Thomas]&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, whilst these both featured Batman, I'm not going to include them as I don't believe you &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want them included in the scope of your question.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So taking all live-action films and series, we have &lt;strong&gt;ten men starring as Batman&lt;/strong&gt; and thus arguably ten &lt;em&gt;interpretations&lt;/em&gt; of the character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Where things get much, much muddier is if we include animated series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continuity: &lt;em&gt;Batman&lt;/em&gt; live-action series.&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Adventures_of_Batman&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The New Adventures of Batman&lt;/a&gt; (1977-78)  &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voiced by Adam West  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continuity: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_animated_universe&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;DC animated universe&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Animated_Series&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman: The Animated Series&lt;/a&gt; (1992-1995)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Film: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_Mask_of_the_Phantasm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman: Mask of the Phantasm&lt;/a&gt; (1993)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Batman_Adventures&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The New Batman Adventures&lt;/a&gt; (1997-99)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Film: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_%26_Mr._Freeze:_SubZero&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Subzero&lt;/a&gt; [voiced by Kevin Conroy] (1998) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Beyond&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman Beyond&lt;/a&gt; (1999-01)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Film: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Beyond:_Return_of_the_Joker&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Return of the Joker&lt;/a&gt; (2000)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Justice League&lt;/a&gt; (2001-04)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Film: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_Mystery_of_the_Batwoman&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mystery of the Batwoman&lt;/a&gt; (2003)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;All voiced by Kevin Conroy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continuity: Batman TV series&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Batman_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Batman&lt;/a&gt; (2004-08)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Film: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Batman_vs._Dracula&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Batman vs. Dracula&lt;/a&gt; (2005)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voiced by Rino Romano&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continuity: Batman: The Brave and the Bold comic&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Brave_and_the_Bold&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman: The Brave and the Bold&lt;/a&gt;  &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Boiced by Diedrich Bader   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continuity: Beware the Batman series&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beware_the_Batman&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Beware the Batman&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voiced by Anthony Ruivivar &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continuity: Under the Red Hood comic&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_Under_the_Red_Hood&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Under the Red Hood&lt;/a&gt; (2010)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voiced by Bruce Greenwood  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continuity: Year One comic&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_Year_One_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Year One&lt;/a&gt; (2011)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voiced by Ben McKenzie  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continuity: The Dark Knight Returns comic&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Dark_Knight_Returns_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight Returns - Part 1&lt;/a&gt; (2012)  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Dark_Knight_Returns_(film)#Part_2&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Dark Knight Returns - Part 2&lt;/a&gt; (2013)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voiced by Peter Weller&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continuity: Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes video game&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Batman:_The_Movie_%E2%80%93_DC_Super_Heroes_Unite&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;DC Super Heroes Unite&lt;/a&gt; (2013)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voiced by Troy Baker&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continuity: Batman and Son comic&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Batman_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Son of Batman&lt;/a&gt; (2014)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voiced by Jason O'Mara&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continuity: Batman: Arkham video games&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_Assault_on_Arkham&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Assault on Arkham&lt;/a&gt; (2014)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voiced by Kevin Conroy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continuity: Court of Owls comic&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_vs._Robin&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman vs. Robin&lt;/a&gt; (2015)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_Bad_Blood&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman: Bad Blood&lt;/a&gt; (2016)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voiced by Jason O'Mara&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Continuity: Batman: The Killing Joke comic&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Killing_Joke_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Batman: The Killing Joke&lt;/a&gt; (2016)&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Voiced by Kevin Conroy&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phew! That's a lot of animated films and series. I count &lt;strong&gt;thirteen&lt;/strong&gt; separate adaptations. We'll remove one, as Adam West was counted in the films continuity. That leaves &lt;strong&gt;twelve&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, if we add those in to our live-action series:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Live action films: 8&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Live action series: 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Animated films and series: 12 continuities&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would give a total of &lt;strong&gt;21&lt;/strong&gt; &quot;Batmans&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, there's a &lt;em&gt;massive&lt;/em&gt; problem with the list I've created above - it &lt;em&gt;only&lt;/em&gt; looks at &lt;em&gt;animated&lt;/em&gt; series or films where Batman is the dominant character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He appears in cameo roles in an &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_franchise_media#Animated_films&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;insane number of animated films and series&lt;/a&gt;. To be frank, I'm not sure there is value listing them here, not least because it will be very debateable as to what canon all of those various appearances belong to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Hopefully this answer gives you &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; idea of what you wanted to know in your question. I'm aware it's arguably incomplete, but I hope it gives you enough! The short answer is, &lt;strong&gt;at least 21 Batmans&lt;/strong&gt; and likely &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt; more if you factor in all his various cameos in other shows.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-11-14T10:02:46.923" LastActivityDate="2016-11-14T10:02:46.923" CommentCount="17" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48831" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44212" CreationDate="2016-02-15T23:14:41.307" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;There is no way to &quot;prove&quot; a definitive first, as 75% of silent films from before 1930 have been lost forever. Silent movies adapted hundreds of books into films. Here is an example that explicitly shows that THE SHUTTLE (1918) with Constance Talmadge was adapted from the book. The advertising flyer is in the form of a book (here shown opened so that it can be seen better).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HP6bl.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HP6bl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Charles Dicken's OLIVER TWIST was the basis for the short scene film THE DEATH OF NANCY SYKES (1897).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18606" LastActivityDate="2016-02-15T23:14:41.307" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48834" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48823" CreationDate="2016-02-16T01:29:34.593" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;@andrew's great answer aside, I'll describe the differences in characterization. For the most part, Batman is Batman, the only differences are really how serious the medium makes him. And a good part are actually adaptations of existing comics for Batman. I'm going over the notable ones.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First up is Adam West Batman, from the 1960s TV show, Batman: The Movie, and evidently a few 60s and 70s cartoons. This Batman was very kid friendly, upbeat, &lt;em&gt;borderline ridiculous&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;defines camp&lt;/strong&gt;. Dick Tracy-like, this Batman is basically the late Golden-Age, early Silver-Age comics Batman (1955-1965).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then there is the Tim Burton's Batman, and Batman Returns. While these are in continuity with Schumacher's Batman Forever and Batman &amp;amp; Robin, their style differ greatly. Burton's Batman drops the camp, and goes with very early Golden-Age (40s) Batman. Some aspects of late 70s Copper-Age Batman too, which also dropped the Silver-Age camp. Grim, noir style. A Brooding bat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Schumacher's Batman, which again, is technically also Burton's Batman (Burton didn't direct, but he stayed to produced it). Back to a campy, technicolor gadget world. Larger than life. A return to the Silver-Age, well, childish silliness. The only Brooding here is teen Angst Robin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Between the movies, the cartoons had Bruce Timm. Bruce Timm defined Batman for most anyone under 35 today. The DC Animated Universe Batman was a fairly no nonsense take on Batman. Very Bronze-Age (70-85) serious with a heavy mutual give and take on Modern-Age (85 to then present day 95). Similar to Burton's, not yet on the ultra gritty that 90's comics became. A blend of noir and modern story telling. Didn't patronize kids. Harley Quinn, Renee Montoya, Bullock, many characters born in the cartoon got fully adopted in the comics. The DCAU Batman covers almost 2 decades, including the Justice League Batman, in continuity. Batman has a human side, but it's only revealed around family.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also includes Batman Beyond, which is in continuity, but nearly 60 years into the future. A different Batman, Terry McGinnis, mentored by Bruce Wayne, who's similar but a teen, deadpan sarcastic joker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nolan's Batman is pure Modern-Age (95-Then Present Day). &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gritty&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Serious Business Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cartoon wise in the 2000s, we have The Batman which &lt;em&gt;tries&lt;/em&gt; to recreate the Tim Burton feel, and Batman: The Brave and the Bold which successfully imitates the Adam West Batman Golden/Silver fantastical whimsy. Young Justice features Batman at times, in a broodier version of the Bruce Timm DCAU, but as the series focuses on the new generation, Dick/Robin/Nightwing and Tim/Robin/Red Robin, again in very Bruce Timm manners.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, we get to the new Batman, Ben Affleck. The grittiest, almost grim dark version, based on the true Modern Frank Miller Dark Knight based. An extreme, non-mainstream version of the Modern-Age. If he was Marvel, he would be XTREME. Essentially the Punisher, minus killing. The most A**hole of the Bats. No nonsense. In the movie, he's dealing with 30 years as Batman, a heavy toll has destroyed any sense of humor. He's not the occasionally cheerful Bruce every other version has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;In short, most are the same Batman, but it ebbs back and forth on the level of seriousness, depending on which era of comic Batman they are following. As the modern comic trend is darker, meaner, grittier, this is what you get in film and tv.&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't even get me started on Flashpoint Batman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/2OUua7vlwUU?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T01:29:34.593" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48837" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47730" CreationDate="2016-02-16T04:04:18.017" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I got this one. May the gods forgive me for having seen this movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Runner&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Time Runner&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It has aliens that look like soldiers, a croaking voice and an evil president that allows the aliens to win by shooting a technician. Also,this is all a vision of possible future because Mark Hamill is time traveling to try to prevent this dark outcome. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The link below goes to the trailer about 2 seconds before bad-guy legend Brion James shoots the technician. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/R_GLQEk0pvY?t=97&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Time Runner Shooting Scene with Croaking Alien&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16404" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T04:04:18.017" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48843" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-16T04:54:47.100" Score="25" ViewCount="100569" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've seen the Deadpool movie, but don't have any knowledge of or experience with any of the comics.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I noticed is that the film appears to set &quot;Maximum effort&quot; up as a catchphrase of sorts.  I can recall at least three instances where the phrase was used:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the start of the film, where Deadpool says it shortly before dropping off an overpass and through the sunroof of a moving car.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Towards the end of the film, where upon realizing that he has no firearms Deadpool says something to the effect of &quot;we'll just have to do this the old-fashioned way, with two swords and maximum effort&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even further towards the end of the film, when he's struggling to throw/detach the O2 deprivation chamber.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's not clear to me after watching the film is if the catchphrase is being played straight, meant to be taken ironically/as a lampshade whenever Deadpool does something that's only possible because the plot requires it, or a reference to an inside joke that only people who have read the comics will get.  Which is it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22926" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-02T09:32:15.833" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T09:32:15.833" Title="&quot;Maximum Effort&quot; Catchphrase significance?" Tags="|analysis|x-men-cinematic-universe|deadpool|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48848" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="82012" CreationDate="2016-02-16T06:38:51.127" Score="10" ViewCount="3446" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been watching the &lt;em&gt;12 Monkeys&lt;/em&gt; TV show, which is based off of the 1996 movie of the same name. Time travel is a major part of that movie, and I have found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mjyoung.net/time/monkeys.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a thorough fan explanation&lt;/a&gt; for how it works. Essentially, each major change to the timeline results in a new timeline being created, which seems to me to overwrite the previous timeline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, things don't seem as simple in the &lt;em&gt;12 Monkeys&lt;/em&gt; TV show. In the first episode, Cole demonstrates the effects of temporal paradoxes by scratching Frost's watch and showing that the scratch has instantly appeared on the same watch that he brought back from 2043. Additionally, Dr. Goines says that he has already met Cole, yet it is unclear to me if there are multiple timelines as there was in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So does time travel in the &lt;em&gt;12 Monkeys&lt;/em&gt; TV show work differently than in the movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12783" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2017-10-27T14:31:07.637" Title="Does time travel in the 12 Monkeys TV show work differently than in the movie?" Tags="|12-monkeys|12-monkeys-tv|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48849" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-16T06:50:45.507" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T06:50:45.507" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T06:50:45.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48850" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-16T06:50:45.507" Score="0" Body="12 Monkeys is sci-fi TV series based on film of the same name." OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T06:50:45.507" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T06:50:45.507" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48851" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48858" CreationDate="2016-02-16T07:05:38.203" Score="5" ViewCount="1635" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is what I remember so far:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Asian drama (prob. Korean)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;High school involved&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Released: About early 2000s&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Very rich and arrogant boy and a sick poor girl and some kind of inheritance involved &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I remember a touching scene on a swing.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember that the arrogant boy slowly loses his temper and falls in love with the girl. The boy cannot have his inheritance because of some rules about living in countryside or something. They get married but girl dies at the end because of the sickness.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The boy is good looking and tall; and girl is tiny and I guess works in about every place in the village from school to cafe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31174" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T21:24:05.427" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T21:24:05.427" Title="Asian High School Drama with arrogant boy and poor girl" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:23:29.180" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48853" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48843" CreationDate="2016-02-16T08:59:36.603" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Didn't really gave too much attention to the phrase when watching the movie. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I found out a song while searching for an explanation: &lt;em&gt;Maximum Effort (Deadpool OST) - Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL&lt;/em&gt;. Don't really think it's any connection between them though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2016/feb/14/deadpools-success-moves-us-one-step-closer-to-the-inevitable-total-geek-culture-domination&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; article it is mentioned that &lt;em&gt;There’s some vague motivational thinking going on, or at least a catchphrase, “maximum effort!”, that is used frequently for no clear reason.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The same question is discussed &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/4781h6/whats_with_deadpool_and_maximum_effort/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and one of the answers contains a image from Deadpool #900 (October 2009 Special Issue, between Deadpool Vol. 2 #16 and #17, essentially starting Deadpool Team-Up) where the phrase is used.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/siA0o.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/siA0o.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19067" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-03-29T06:41:07.017" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T06:41:07.017" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48854" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36649" CreationDate="2016-02-16T09:05:02.880" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;This scene is probably what bothered me most about the entire movie. A ship like the Endeavour has over a hundred guns, the cream of which is 15x 32 pounders and 14x 24 pounders &lt;em&gt;per side&lt;/em&gt;. Not to mention a significantly thicker hull due to it being a ship of the line (built to take punishment in the line of battle). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Black Pearl, being a &lt;strike&gt;brig&lt;/strike&gt; East Indiaman / Galleon, would have a broadside of about 16x 9 pounders (32 guns total) (Jack even confirmed this, giving the order to &quot;lay out the nines&quot;). The Flying Dutchman looks to be similarly armed, though a century older in design. &#xA;Neither ship would even be able to dent the Endeavour with a single broadside, whereas a point-blank broadside from the Endeavour would have sent the Black Pearl back to the bottom of the sea. I get that the Dutchman is a magic ship that can't be sunk, but it has not ever shown itself to be immune to being torn to shreds - Will would have had to be captain of a few chunks of wood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given the inability to miss at point-blank range, being flanked by the two smaller and less well armed vessels was the &lt;strong&gt;best&lt;/strong&gt; position Cutler Beckett could have hoped for. He didn't even need to give the order, the naval officers would have given it for him when seeing him incapacitated like that. They were handed that fight on a silver platter. How did they possibly lose that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Additional Note: The Endeavour which has 108 guns would have been a 1st rate ship of the line, this ship (comparable ship would be HMS Victory) would have been a lot bigger than both the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman combined with the supervisor armour thickness and firepower would have made this a non-contest, magic aside.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Black_Pearl&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Black_Pearl&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/HMS_Endeavour&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/HMS_Endeavour&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31235" LastEditorUserId="57888" LastEditDate="2017-10-08T23:07:25.477" LastActivityDate="2017-10-08T23:07:25.477" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48856" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-16T09:37:17.303" Score="42" ViewCount="20054" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolverine_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Wolverine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, Wolverine seems to be completely lost after Jean's death. Sleeping on the hills, the bottles suggests that he is drinking.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wb9tB.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wb9tB.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't get is, why? Intoxication is a state of being poisoned. Shouldn't his powers prevent him from it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T15:35:33.313" LastActivityDate="2021-06-26T18:44:28.623" Title="Why does Wolverine drink alcohol?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|x-men-cinematic-universe|the-wolverine|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48857" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48856" CreationDate="2016-02-16T09:52:06.400" Score="67" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://x-men.wikia.com/wiki/Wolverine&quot;&gt;From his wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Wolverine's natural healing also affords him the virtual immunity to&#xA;  poisons and most drugs, except in massive doses. For example, it is&#xA;  extremely difficult for him to become intoxicated from alcohol.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to answer your question: &lt;em&gt;Intoxication is a state of being poisoned. Shouldn't his powers prevent him from it?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They do, largely.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But your first question was: &lt;em&gt;why does he drink?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The fact his body makes it hard for him to get drunk &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; mean there's no reason for him to drink. There's plenty of reasons to drink, including:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enjoying the taste   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Enjoying the atmosphere of the bars, as opposed to other places  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wanting&lt;/em&gt; to be drunk, given Jean's death, even if these drunk periods are short-lived   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Having a &quot;mental&quot; addiction to the alcohol.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately, just because his body can fight off being drunk quite quickly &lt;em&gt;doesn't&lt;/em&gt; mean there's no reason for him to drink at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-18T11:11:57.907" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T11:11:57.907" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48858" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48851" CreationDate="2016-02-16T10:03:28.940" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;May be you're looking for the korean movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0757157/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a millionaire's first love&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jae-Kyung (Hyun-Bin ) is a high school senior, who skips school often.&#xA;  Once he turns nineteen years old, he is going to be a millionaire.&#xA;  However, the day before he is set to inherit his fortune, their family&#xA;  lawyer informs Jae-Kyung about the will from his deceased grandfather.&#xA;  His grandfather specified that Jae-Kyung can only inherit his fortune&#xA;  if he graduates from Boram High School, which is located in the&#xA;  countryside. He has no choice but to transfer there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Life changes a lot for him at Boram High School. He can't use his&#xA;  credit card or drive his sports car. Meanwhile, Jae-Kyung meets&#xA;  Eun-Hwan (Lee Yeon-Hee). She's different from the other people living&#xA;  there and seems to harbor some kind of secret. Jae-Kyung's attitude&#xA;  begins to change and Eun-Hwan is about to reveal her secret.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Movie is available in youtube as well&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12612" LastEditorUserId="12612" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T10:35:55.677" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T10:35:55.677" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48859" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48860" CreationDate="2016-02-16T10:18:54.010" Score="8" ViewCount="2975" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadpool_(film)#Outside_North_America&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; states that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;with records set for the biggest February and R-rated openings in numerous markets including Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Netherlands, Sweden, France, and the U.K&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Implying that Deadpool is r-rated in Sweden. However, on my &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sf.se/biljetter/bokningsflodet/valj-forestallning/&quot;&gt;local cinema&lt;/a&gt;, I found that is it from 15 years onwards:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Deadpool&#xA;  1 timme 48 minuter , Från 15 år&#xA;  Action, Äventyr, Science-Fiction&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In Sweden, the movie appears (as most of movies) in original language with sub-titles, so I'm wondering if it is possible that different cinemas have different English versions (and hence some of them have it r-rated), or whether either source (my cinema, or wikipedia) have it wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31237" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-02T10:48:13.270" LastActivityDate="2016-06-02T10:48:13.270" Title="Deadpool uncensored in Sweden?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|content-rating|deadpool|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48860" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48859" CreationDate="2016-02-16T10:45:11.913" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Different countries have different boards who classify movies and assign ratings, often with different criteria for determining which rating it should receive and sometimes requiring scenes to be cut or otherwise modified to allow the film to receive a rating at all. See, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/47693/what-are-the-7-cuts-made-in-indian-version-of-deadpool&quot;&gt;this question&lt;/a&gt; about the cuts made to Deadpool to make it suitable for showing in India.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To make matters even more complicated, there's no universal system of ratings, so an R-rated movie in the US isn't going to have an R rating in the UK (because no such rating exists). Fortunately, the Wikipedia page on Motion picture rating system has a handy &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_picture_rating_system#Comparison_table&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;comparison table&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From that you can see that the US R rating roughly corresponds to the Swedish &quot;Not approved&quot; rating, which is suitable for viewers aged 15 and above. The section on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_picture_rating_system#Sweden&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Sweden&lt;/a&gt; further down the page seems to back this up, and suggests that &quot;Not approved&quot; (for children) is the same thing as &quot;15&quot;, which is the highest rating given.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all that information, I'd assume that you'll see the uncensored cinematic release of Deadpool in Sweden (i.e. the same version that was released under an R rating in the US). As additional, anecdotal evidence, Deadpool has a 15 rating in the UK too, and having seen the film I can't imagine there's anything that was removed from the US R-rated version, since it contains a LOT of violence, blood, nudity and strong language.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15242" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T10:57:39.713" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48863" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48796" CreationDate="2016-02-16T14:07:29.343" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alec Baldwin, Blake, 7:23 of 100:00 (7.3%), Glengarry Glen Ross, billing (third or shared first, I don't find querier has resolved in other comments): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Xy5Z.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Xy5Z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27275" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T14:07:29.343" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48864" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48796" CreationDate="2016-02-16T14:26:52.517" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Steve McQueen was the top billed actor of &lt;a href=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PNTG9WV1L._SY445_.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Great Escape&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/59Kks.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/59Kks.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has very few lines, and spends almost all his screen time throwing a baseball off a wall into his glove. Supposedly he &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/9853745/The-Great-Escape-50th-anniversary.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;was slated to have even less&lt;/a&gt; (and was nearly thrown out of the movie entirely), but insisted on being given something &quot;heroic&quot; to do. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Part of the problem, it seemed, was McQueen’s determination that his&#xA;  character remain cool and inscrutable. 'We finally figured out,’&#xA;  Garner said, '“Steve, you want to be the hero, but you don’t want to&#xA;  do anything heroic.”’&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So a scene was added near the end of him failing to escape on a motorcycle. But even that scene was done by a stunt-double, not McQueen himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't find a definitive number for McQueen's screen time online, nor a stream of the movie. However, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3KbLBwQFW4&amp;amp;list=PLZbXA4lyCtqqQtfJbOzYD02GU468XKWCV&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;youtube has a series of 11 clips&lt;/a&gt;. Adding up his screen time from all of them, it appears that he had &lt;strong&gt;at least&lt;/strong&gt; 10 minutes of screen time in the movie, which works out to a bit less than 6%. But that's a &lt;em&gt;lower&lt;/em&gt; bound, not upper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21021" LastEditorUserId="21021" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T14:25:37.937" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T14:25:37.937" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48867" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48856" CreationDate="2016-02-16T14:45:31.927" Score="24" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;em&gt;Wolverine V3 #33&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KK17k.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KK17k.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this scene Mystique seems to be sad that Wolverine &lt;strong&gt;abuses&lt;/strong&gt; pills and drugs. It doesn't seem logical for her to be sad for they can't really hurt him. But maybe the backstory might be suggesting him having some &lt;em&gt;probably romantic&lt;/em&gt; problems. But still, this comic shows that Wolverine can certainly drink for reasons other than taste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Wolverine #900&lt;/em&gt;, Spider Man and Wolverine go to a bar. Wolverine constantly drinks, get drunk, and get back sober right after. This is why he drinks a lot when he does.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Again, in &lt;em&gt;X-Men Animated Series&lt;/em&gt;, we see him getting shot with tranquilizers and pass out. So even though his powers give him strong resistance and fast recovery, it doesn't mean he is completely immune to all kinds of toxications.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Long story in short, yeah he can get drunk, even though it is for a short time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="28028" LastEditorUserId="28028" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T16:48:39.893" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T16:48:39.893" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48868" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="40812" CreationDate="2016-02-16T14:54:33.693" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I would just like to point out that there is an additional reason why Hermione didn't immediately hand over the wand at Gringotts: &lt;strong&gt;it would have been out of character&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that just before entering Gringotts, Hermione-Bellatrix greeted a man, and this had been considered by Ron and Harry as something the real Bellatrix would have never done:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hermione Granger&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;[Disguised as Belltrix Lestrange, addressing a Death Eater]&lt;/em&gt; Good morning! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Griphook&lt;/strong&gt;: Good morning? You're Bellatrix Lestrange, not some&#xA;  dewey-eyed schoolgirl!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, after the fall of the MoM in 1997, wizards started ruling over the goblins. It is therefore unlikely that the real Bellatrix would have handed over a wand to goblins who were ruled by wizards, especially considering her attitude toward non-pure bloods and other sentient beings (Dobby, for example) and the fact that wizards have long denied goblins the right to carry wands.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31250" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T15:24:46.377" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T15:24:46.377" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48869" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48870" CreationDate="2016-02-16T15:53:05.177" Score="26" ViewCount="259492" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've been trying to figure out the &quot;puffy vagina&quot; joke in &lt;em&gt;Rick and Morty&lt;/em&gt; season 1, episode 3 (&quot;Anatomy Park&quot;) - and am wondering what the official explanation for it is. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ie, what does it mean, are there any layers of funny to it beyond the immediately obvious, how come it was included? It seems like there might have been some sort of mistake here.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Youtube snippet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/fc7Q8i33s9E?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tv.ark.com/transcript/rick_and_morty-(anatomy_park)/4590/TOONP/Tuesday_October_07_2014/759538/&quot;&gt;Episode transcript (see 00:25:06):&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6311" LastEditorUserId="6311" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T17:11:16.680" LastActivityDate="2018-12-26T13:01:48.553" Title="Explanation for the &quot;puffy vagina&quot; line/joke?" Tags="|rick-and-morty|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48870" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48869" CreationDate="2016-02-16T16:16:03.010" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;The joke isn't really supposed to mean anything, and was simply something Dan Harmon inserted into the script to make the other writers laugh, but fully expected it to be removed by the network. He forgot the network was Adult Swim, where jokes of this nature are pretty much allowed, and the showrunner is Justin Roiland, who's totally fine with this type of humor and is known for worse.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From an &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/202owt/we_are_dan_harmon_and_justin_roiland_creators_of/cfza45g&quot;&gt;Ask Me Anything on Reddit&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When you write a script for TV, there's a schedule. The job isn't done&#xA;  when the script is &quot;finished,&quot; it's done on Wednesday, finished or&#xA;  not. You acquire a discipline in TV writing of working in passes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I had the script up on a big TV in the writers room and I was going&#xA;  through it, doing my pass, and I put the puffy vagina line in there.&lt;/strong&gt; I&#xA;  thought, hey, this'll make the writers laugh, and then we'll be done&#xA;  with the script, and we'll send it to the network and they'll know&#xA;  it's a placeholder and they'll say &quot;of course you have to change that&quot;&#xA;  and the writers will say, &quot;okay, let's change that now.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What I failed to realize is that the network is Adult Swim and the&#xA;  showrunner is Justin Roiland. So now we have Rick saying that this&#xA;  girl has a puffy vagina.&lt;/strong&gt; And your question, which is totally valid, is&#xA;  why does Rick know that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Why indeed. And, I mean, it's canon, so I'll answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think Rick heard a rumor. I think Rick was working really hard on&#xA;  Pirates of the Pancreas and he'd make routine trips to the inside of&#xA;  Ruben, and I think, you know, in the break room, people talk.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Justin Roiland chimed in with &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/202owt/we_are_dan_harmon_and_justin_roiland_creators_of/cfzaksc&quot;&gt;his own answer&lt;/a&gt; in a comment:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think he had an up close and personal face to skin experience with&#xA;  Annie's puffy vagina. He just doesn't like em puffy man. Me? I'll take&#xA;  em however I can get em! (JK, I have pretty high standards)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5733" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T16:16:03.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48873" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48875" CreationDate="2016-02-16T19:18:56.857" Score="5" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;About halfway through episode 4 in season 1 of &lt;em&gt;The Odd Couple&lt;/em&gt; from 2015 ('The Blind Leading the Blind Date'), Oscar's date deceives Emily out of 20 dollars with a puzzle (?):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oscar's date:&lt;/strong&gt; Excuse me, can I get back ten for ten ones?&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Emily:&lt;/strong&gt; Oh sure... Here, you gave me a ten with the ones.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Oscar's date:&lt;/strong&gt; Whoops. Keep it. I'll give you another single and then you can give me a twenty.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Emily:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah, that works.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And she gives Oscar's date 20 bucks.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What just happened? How did Oscar's date deceive Emily?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31258" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-02-16T20:01:56.740" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T20:16:09.917" Title="Did Oscar's date deceive Emily in an episode of The Odd Couple?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-odd-couple|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48875" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48873" CreationDate="2016-02-16T19:51:57.903" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a known scam among grifters, and it's not its first appearance in the media. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_confidence_tricks&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Wiki elaborates&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Change raising&lt;/strong&gt;, also known as a &lt;strong&gt;quick-change artist&lt;/strong&gt;, is a common short con and involves an offer to change an amount of money with someone, while at the same time taking change or bills back and forth to confuse the person as to how much money is actually being changed. &lt;strong&gt;The most common form, &amp;quot;the Short Count&amp;quot;, has been featured prominently in several movies about grifting, notably &lt;em&gt;The Grifters&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Criminal&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Nine Queens&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Paper Moon&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, a con artist shopping at a gas station pays for a cheap item (under a dollar) and gives the clerk a ten dollar bill. The con gets back nine ones and the change and then tells the clerk he has a one and will exchange ten ones for a ten. &lt;strong&gt;This is what the scam artist is doing: getting the clerk to hand over the $10 &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; handing over the $1 bills. Then the scam artist hands over nine ones and the $10. The clerk will assume there has been a mistake and offer to swap the ten for a one. Then the con will probably just say: &amp;quot;Here's another one, give me a $20 and we're even.&amp;quot; Notice that the scam artist just swapped $10 for $20. &lt;em&gt;The $10 was the store's money, not the con's.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here's a video that explains how the con works:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/x4fGZLzRB5g?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T20:16:09.917" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48876" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48938" CreationDate="2016-02-16T20:08:10.997" Score="5" ViewCount="1083" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Season 1 of &lt;em&gt;The 100&lt;/em&gt; the heroes are wounded severely, and rise to their feet in no time (or at least it seems so).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I am not able to grasp the time that they spend on earth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The examples I have are&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Jaspar's been pierced with the spear, and Finn's blade from Lincoln to his chest. Both act normal in the next episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How long has passed in these episodes? Wouldn't the air in the Arc, needs to end already?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2162" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-05-20T07:35:22.580" LastActivityDate="2016-05-20T07:35:22.580" Title="What's the time frame that passes in Season 1 of The 100?" Tags="|the-100|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48877" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48856" CreationDate="2016-02-16T20:10:42.410" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Wolverine's adamantium skeleton is toxic and a good chunk of his healing ability is constantly in use countering that effect. This is explained in more detail in the months preceeding his death as Beast invents and administers an antidote when Wolverine loses his healing factor permanently. Since his healing factor could be overloaded (Re: Post-Adamantium loss in X-Men #25 (1991)) it stands to reason that his adamantium skeleton allows him to enjoy alcohol and feel at least some of it's effects. I assume he drinks beer for the taste.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31259" LastActivityDate="2016-02-16T20:10:42.410" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48881" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48884" CreationDate="2016-02-16T22:42:17.327" Score="10" ViewCount="2744" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Spectre, Q hands James a watch. Asking what it can do, he responds &quot;It tells the time.&quot; A nice pun in what's also an ad for the Omega Seamaster 300.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In cinema, before the movie started, they actually showed that ad, which was somewhat disturbing, like seeing the trailer of a movie right before the movie.&#xA;Maybe this biased my attention when the scene showed up in the actual movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; in a car chase, James finds out that some of Q's accessories aren't that useful. Possibly Q did a half-hearted job on it because of what was supposed to happen to MI5 and the 00 agent program.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;that means James knows that before the scene of interest to my question occurs:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; being strapped to a chair James is tortured by &lt;s&gt;Oberhauser&lt;/s&gt; Blofeld and after some time activates his watch which happens to be an explosive to escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I couldn't really tell if James is doing that intentionally, doing it intentionally but slowly to avoid attention or if he's merely finding the additional meaning of &quot;&lt;em&gt;it tells the time&lt;/em&gt;&quot; by accident/luck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The whole scene wasn't very convincing to me. In retrospect, maybe that's because the line &quot;&lt;em&gt;it tells the time&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, is some in-universe reference? There are a lot of references to other James Bond movies in this one. Did I miss anything? Did James know all the time that he could do what he did the way he did it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I understand that part of the plot of a spy movie is to pull out surprise solutions to problems, but this one appeared to be surprising even for the spy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31261" LastActivityDate="2020-03-30T21:18:37.803" Title="What did Q's hint that a watch tells time tell James but not me?" Tags="|dialogue|james-bond|reference|spectre|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48882" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48881" CreationDate="2016-02-16T22:49:28.317" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Perhaps Q, under the &quot;new management&quot; is not supposed to be arming Bond to the teeth with MI5's latest 00-ready weaponry, and makes this &quot;tells the time&quot; comment as cover/deniability, while still clearly letting Bond know that the watch &quot;is loud&quot;…&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31264" LastEditorUserId="31264" LastEditDate="2016-02-20T10:34:21.517" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T10:34:21.517" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48884" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48881" CreationDate="2016-02-16T23:20:23.767" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all you seem to have gotten the line wrong. He tells him it tells the time and then later tells him that the alarm is quite loud.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I took it as simply as an ironic joke; a reference to the fact that all of Q's gadgets always seem to have some secret trick or tool but that in this case he's simply giving him a watch. The whole scene is filled with banter between Bond and Q in regards to how Bond treats the toys that Q gives him...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I thought I told you to bring [the car] back in one piece, not to bring back just one piece&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The clue that he gives him that the watch is more than a just a watch comes when he warns him about setting the alarm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oh, one word of warning: The alarm is rather loud... if you know what I mean.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They then share a knowing look to understand that it does in fact do more than tell time and has a built in explosive device. While they may banter, and Q is limited in what he can provide to Bond while he is grounded, he still ultimately has Bond's back and provides him with an explosive watch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In regards to the gadgets in the car not being useful, the car had been prepared for a different agent and obviously one with different tastes than Bond. I don't remember the exact details but there are three switches and as he flips them they each have an alternate meaning, adding to the humor of the movie. For example the &quot;atmosphere&quot; switch turns on &quot;New York New York&quot; adding to the &quot;musical atmosphere&quot; rather than serving as a possibly useful gadget such as nitrous boosters. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="80786" LastEditDate="2020-03-30T21:18:37.803" LastActivityDate="2020-03-30T21:18:37.803" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="48885" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48796" CreationDate="2016-02-17T00:24:15.253" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are a lot of good answers, but there is one movie that is notorious for having the top-billed actor have very little screen time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077594/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Game Of Death (1978)&lt;/a&gt; stars Bruce Lee, well kind of. All you history buffs know where I am going with this. Bruce Lee was already long dead before this movie was released. There was tons of archive footage that wasn't being used, so the film makers decided to make an entire movie using these clips. Unfortunately, they did not have enough footage, so they had to insert cardboard cutouts of Lee (I kid you not) as a stand in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is a clip showing just how egregious some of these scenes are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bAdMrMxMm0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cardboard Cutout Bruce&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Bruce Lee is the top-billed actor in this film, yet he did not actually act in this movie. The acting for this film that he did was technically 0 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30467" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T00:24:15.253" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48887" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46219" CreationDate="2016-02-17T02:01:42.013" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Long History Short: The Mad King, as crazy as he was, suspected of everybody in his council, so he called for the services of this young guy who had certains skills across the narrow see. For a more descriptive history watch&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hje_GHTYEFQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Game of Thrones Epic History: Character Spotlight - LORD VARYS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="20325" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T02:01:42.013" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48888" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49027" CreationDate="2016-02-17T02:32:21.083" Score="5" ViewCount="486" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the first movie to repeat the sequence with different camera angle?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Brown_(film)&quot;&gt;Jackie Brown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (1997) there is a scene where Jackie went shopping, then again the same sequence is repeated with different camera angles with Louis Gara &amp;amp; Melanie Ralston secretly watching jackie's shopping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, the sequence repeats again with Max Cherry watching both Louis Gara &amp;amp; Melanie Ralston &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Jackie's shopping. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what is the first movie to repeat the same sequence multiple times with different camera angles?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31265" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T09:05:42.820" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T19:06:33.777" Title="What is the first movie to repeat the same sequence multiple times with different camera angles?" Tags="|first-appearance|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48893" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10727" CreationDate="2016-02-17T05:06:31.277" Score="-4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The short and correct answer is simply that the characters in the show are not very strategic, make extremely bad decisions and have no fore-thought. The characters are like this to create drama. It is pointless to try to analyze, debate and justify their actions and decisions because they are built around creating tension and chaos while trying to balance some sense of realism and empathy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31270" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T12:23:24.637" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T12:23:24.637" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48898" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-17T06:55:59.647" Score="17" ViewCount="5894" Body="&lt;p&gt;In all the adaptations of Deadshot, I have always notices the lens/patch on his right eye:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Arrow&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ntRjX.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ntRjX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Arrow&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallville&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Smallville&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3sbvt.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3sbvt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Smallville&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Justice League&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YMJW8.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/YMJW8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Justice League&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This his how he is portrayed in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadshot&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;comics&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E4ryi.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/E4ryi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the upcoming film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Squad_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Suicide Squad&lt;/a&gt;, the lens is on his left eye:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RntIr.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RntIr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why is the lens eye changed from right to left for the upcoming film? Is there any reason behind this or is it just random?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-02-23T08:31:00.597" LastActivityDate="2017-06-05T13:06:22.973" Title="Why is the lens eye of Deadshot reversed in Suicide Squad?" Tags="|character|dc-extended-universe|suicide-squad|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48900" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48898" CreationDate="2016-02-17T09:57:04.487" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;No official explanation AFAIK, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://screenrant.com/suicide-squad-movie-deadshot-mask-costume/&quot;&gt;this theory seems likely&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It’s also pleasant to see that Ayer and his costume team have realized&#xA;  that &lt;strong&gt;the actual mechanics of placing an augmented eye… device into the&#xA;  scope of a rifle could prove a little clunky, or redundant&lt;/strong&gt;. As a&#xA;  result, it will be Smith’s left eye sporting the visual boost. Either&#xA;  that, or Smith is simply more dominant in one eye over the other&#xA;  (unlike Deathstroke, Deadshot isn’t considered to have one eye&#xA;  ‘missing,’ but either a cybernetically-enhanced eye, or both intact,&#xA;  depending on the writer).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T09:57:04.487" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48901" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="87966" CreationDate="2016-02-17T11:29:21.083" Score="13" ViewCount="3261" Body="&lt;p&gt;It is very often claimed that the scripts for &lt;em&gt;Mork and Mindy&lt;/em&gt; would explicitly mark places where Robin Williams was to improvise, using language such as &quot;Mork does his thing&quot; or &quot;Robin does something funny&quot;.  Examples of such claims can be found on &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/08/11/mork_and_mindy_and_the_crazy_ones_robin_williams_tireless_energy_on_tv.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Slate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gq.com/story/remembering-robin-williams&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;GQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=772799&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Straight Dope Message Board&lt;/a&gt;, and even right here on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/1180/19812&quot;&gt;Movies &amp;amp; TV Stack Exchange&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, many people say that this claim is false or exaggerated.  Some people say that the scripts never specially marked gaps for ad libs.  Others say that the gaps were marked only in &lt;em&gt;one&lt;/em&gt; production script as a protest by the writers, or that the writers once produced a single fake script (which was never actually used) consisting of nothing but the instruction for Williams to ad-lib.  Examples of these counterclaims can be found in an article (and the associated comments) on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thegeektwins.com/2014/08/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-mork-and.html#.VsRWAk76Plk&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Geek Twins&lt;/a&gt; and in the aforementioned &lt;a href=&quot;http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=772799&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;SDMB thread&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So what's the true story?  &lt;strong&gt;Did any &lt;em&gt;Mork and Mindy&lt;/em&gt; production script ever &lt;em&gt;explicitly&lt;/em&gt; mark the places where Robin Williams was supposed to improvise?&lt;/strong&gt;  If this was a one-time occurrence, which episode was it?  If it happened more than once, then when did the writers start doing this, and how often did they do it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As a lot of print and Internet sources repeat rumours about this matter uncritically, I would prefer that any answers to this question rest on evidence from the original scripts, or failing that, from published, firsthand interviews with the show's writers, actors, or other production staff.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19812" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2018-04-11T04:02:39.673" Title="Did Mork and Mindy scripts really mark the gaps for Robin Williams's ad-libs?" Tags="|screenplay|mork-and-mindy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48905" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48906" CreationDate="2016-02-17T11:59:47.157" Score="10" ViewCount="23869" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(2015_film)&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spectre&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Bond is in a place named &quot;l’américain&quot;, the hotel where Mr. White spent his vacation.&#xA;Bond found in this place a record with the label &quot;Vesper&quot;.&#xA;Maybe Mr. White wanted to kill Vesper? What is the purpose of this scene? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31283" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T12:53:17.533" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T21:02:28.370" Title="Why is there a tape with &quot;Vesper&quot; on it in Mr. White's room at the hotel?" Tags="|plot-explanation|james-bond|spectre|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48906" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48905" CreationDate="2016-02-17T12:08:37.443" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;The hotel room is where Mr. White used to try and track &lt;a href=&quot;http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Franz_Oberhauser&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Oberhauser&lt;/a&gt;. The tape he finds says &quot;Vesper Lynd - Interrogation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you remember back to &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Casino_Royale&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Casino Royale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, Bond at one point is kidnapped and tortured by Le Chiffre.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mr. White intervenes and despite Le Chiffre's pleas for mercy, executes him. As we find out later in the film, Vesper Lynd was a double agent - she made a deal with Mr White (and his organisation, Quantum) to spare Bond's life, in exchange for the $120 million. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The tape Bond finds at the hotel is some interrogation between Mr. White and Vesper where this deal was likely concluded.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="20764" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T21:02:28.370" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T21:02:28.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48907" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19402" CreationDate="2016-02-17T12:25:26.317" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;They try to show the relative speed to the spectator so that he can grasp the difference in their level (here in terms of speed). Compared to the Ginyu Force's attacks Goku was so fast that it looked like he was standing still, but in case of Androids and Cell relatively their speeds difference was not at a level where one would seem standing still to the other.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31284" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T12:28:15.370" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T12:28:15.370" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48909" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27445" CreationDate="2016-02-17T12:48:03.137" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;For both goodfellas and the casino Scorsese's parents were on set.&#xA;In goodfellas Scorsese's parents even had small roles.&#xA;Scorsese's father (Charles Scorsese) is the guy making the pasta sauce in prison and he's also seen in the scene where tommy get's whacked. Scorsese's dad is standing at Tommy's right side when he gets shot through the back of the head.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Scorsese's mother (Catherine Scorsese) plays Tommy's mother in the movie. She's the Jewish looking old lady that asks the crew why they've got blood all over their shirts when they go over there to get a shovel to dig a hole for Billy Batts' body.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyways, point being: Scorsese apparently made his mom press the collars of the shirts and made his dad tie all the characters ties because he felt they were the only people that knew how to do it right.&#xA;If you ask me they were the only people who knew how to do it completely wrong.&#xA;Although now every time i watch the movie again, the collars are a part of the whole goodfellas experience for me which in the end kind of makes it okay...kind of.&#xA;So there you go.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31286" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T12:48:03.137" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48911" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-17T16:03:25.603" Score="4" ViewCount="12938" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 3 seasons of &lt;em&gt;Vikings&lt;/em&gt; we have heard characters spoken in Old Norse, Old English and Old French, and Latin, beside few shouts in Latvian in the first episode. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have there been more languages that I might have missed? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And most important, Where could I find transcripts or subtitles for those dialogues in their respective languages?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Apologies again if asking for links to other sites is not allowed, I just acted out of confidence that if noone pointed out to that in this topic: &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/15160/where-can-i-find-scripts-screenplays-transcripts-of-movies-and-tv-shows&quot;&gt;Where can I find scripts/screenplays/transcripts of movies and TV shows?&lt;/a&gt;, then perhaps it is allowed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user22531" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.720" LastActivityDate="2018-07-31T06:38:50.147" Title="List of languages spoken in &quot;Vikings&quot; TV series" Tags="|dialogue|vikings|subtitles|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48912" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9475" CreationDate="2016-02-17T16:38:54.583" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sabertooth's mutation is what causes him to become mindless.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As we see in Origins, Victor is very aggressive, to the point of mindless killing. Even when killing someone will lead to problems for him. This is how Logan and Victor end up facing a firing squad, before Stryker recruited them. And then, Logan continued to pull Sabertooth back from his more feral instincts until Logan walked away from a blood bath. Without Logan to remind him of his human side, his animalistic side continued to take over. It's represented by the changes in Victor, his nails grow longer into inhuman claws, he grows hairier, his voice is gruffer, he starts running on all four.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Four years of blood baths between being recruited and leaving Team X was enough to make Logan abandon Victor, after 125 years of fighting in wars together. Then 8 years later without Logan, Victor has no problem in hunting down children for experimentation, just so he can get &quot;revenge&quot;. Now take another 20 years* of being without a conscience, of giving into his mutant animalistic side, we get the X-Men Sabretooth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is inline with Comic Sabretooth, as he's defined by his animalistic blood lust.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;20 years of no one telling him not to bleach his hair blond too.&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T16:38:54.583" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48913" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48914" CreationDate="2016-02-17T16:46:36.913" Score="4" ViewCount="709" Body="&lt;p&gt;So far &lt;em&gt;Sofia the First&lt;/em&gt; has featured many &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_the_First#Disney_Princesses&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Disney princesses&lt;/a&gt; and associated characters&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;. Does this mean that all Disney princesses are part of the same world, is there some sort of magic portal between Enchancia and the worlds of the other princesses, or is this some sort of altered universe that happens to contain the other princesses?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3397984/Olaf-snowman-appear-Sofia-Frozen-finally-debuts-Disney-Channel.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Most recently Olaf&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26325" LastEditorUserId="26325" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T16:54:36.230" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T16:56:30.273" Title="Disney princess cross overs in Sofia the First" Tags="|disney|sofia-the-first|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48914" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48913" CreationDate="2016-02-17T16:54:26.523" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;The princesses are summoned magically &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;through time &amp;amp; space&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Amulet_of_Avalor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Amulet of Avalor&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The wearer's good deeds bestow magical abilities; whereas bad deeds cause the wearer to be cursed. Also, according to Cinderella, the Amulet connects all of the princesses that ever existed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Princess Summoning: When the one wearing the Amulet really needs help, the Amulet summons Disney Princesses to help them out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It can summon Princesses from the past, according to Cinderella, &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;all princesses that ever lived.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; Interestingly, it seems to be implied by Tiana's appearance that princesses from the future can also be summoned.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is explained in the very first episode by Cinderella.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T16:56:30.273" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48915" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48843" CreationDate="2016-02-17T17:01:17.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I feel like it's a satirical reference to the nano suit in the Crysis game series. When nano suit skills are activated the HUD audio voice will call out &quot;maximum armor&quot;, &quot;maximum speed&quot; etc. I may be way off but it's certainly not out of the ballpark.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31294" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T17:01:17.613" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48920" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48843" CreationDate="2016-02-17T21:12:58.967" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;To me, &quot;maximum effort&quot; was a powerful motif that tells the audience more about the psyche of Deadpool -- a man who allows his life to oscillate, too predictably, between moments of extreme danger and safety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deadpool, who is, for reasons unknown to the ignorant, non-comic-book-reading masses, too messed up to try hard everyday and improve his life, is satisfied with putting in low effort until it leads him into dangerous situations where he and his loved ones are threatened. It's very relatable -- the idea that Deadpool has the ability to consciously choose to put in low effort and maximum effort at will -- because most everyone in the world has struggled with discipline.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, what Deadpool lacks in discipline, he makes up for in passion -- he loves his girlfriend, he loves having sex, and he loves being extraordinarily violent. He would flirt with the line between childhood and adulthood only if he were sure he would be having sex with it by the end of the night. In short, he likes to have fun. That's why the film seems so good to teenagers, who struggle with Deadpool's issues on a smaller scale. That's also why it was slightly triggering.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, &quot;maximum effort&quot; is an indication that Wade Wilson is more than just a superhero. He's also ridiculously, unapologetically human. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31301" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-03-01T08:20:30.597" LastActivityDate="2016-03-01T08:20:30.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48921" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48926" CreationDate="2016-02-17T21:16:22.230" Score="4" ViewCount="3488" Body="&lt;p&gt;Is the series &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=2&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwiK8dHJpIHLAhXE6RQKHYxyD4QQFggjMAE&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBlue_Bloods_(TV_series)&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNETzVqRzmeR83FSc4Rywl9FnYzAuw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blue Bloods&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; based off of a real-life family of law enforcement officers? Since I haven't been able to find a reference to the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And was the series named as a reference to nobility (often termed blue bloods) or as a reference to the blue police uniforms in NYC?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4083" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-18T13:16:37.563" LastActivityDate="2018-10-03T03:40:44.833" Title="Is Blue Bloods based off of a real family?" Tags="|plot-explanation|blue-bloods|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48924" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48927" CreationDate="2016-02-17T22:01:12.487" Score="7" ViewCount="217" Body="&lt;p&gt;This film is about wizard or apprentices and was made in the late 1990s or early 2000s. It's about some sort of wizard or a school of wizards on an island in a lake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A conflict starts because the protagonist (who is in a woods-type area) is persuaded (or rather teased) into talking to the dead using his newly found magic. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While he's doing so, at the convent we see a massive sealed door with all kinds of locks and bars on it. His love interest is among the nuns here and they try to keep the door closed at all cost. However, they can't and the door bursts open and evil spirits escape.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The next scene shows the evil spirits arriving at the protagonist and his &quot;friends&quot;, and chaos ensues.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure this movie was made for TV.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31305" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-17T22:07:28.473" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T22:12:55.793" Title="1990s/early 2000s movie about wizards on an island in a lake" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:23:44.967" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48926" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48921" CreationDate="2016-02-17T22:10:06.353" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is the series Blue Bloods based off of a real-life family of law enforcement officers?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No. CBS has not stated that it has, and there has been no similar situated family dynasty of Cop/&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Commissioner&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Commissioner Father Son in the NYPD history&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And was the series named as a reference to nobility (often termed blue bloods) or as a reference to the blue police uniforms in NYC ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Yes. The Reagans are considered &lt;em&gt;&quot;royalty&quot;&lt;/em&gt; among the show's NYPD. It's a play on words.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T22:10:06.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48927" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48924" CreationDate="2016-02-17T22:12:55.793" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthsea_(miniseries)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Earthsea, the miniseries&lt;/a&gt; has a scene in a forest where, after some taunting, a rookie wizard summons up a ghost/demon. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was released in 2004 and fits the time frame. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are also nuns guarding a large, locked door. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16404" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T22:12:55.793" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48931" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47364" CreationDate="2016-02-17T23:46:57.560" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's just a commercial for Jack Rabbit Slims.  If you listen very closely, the announcer says &quot;...and $5 milk shakes! Visit Jack Rabbit Slims nearest you...&quot;&#xA;Tarantino loves making references to other scenes in his movies through little things such as these.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31307" LastActivityDate="2016-02-17T23:46:57.560" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48932" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46015" CreationDate="2016-02-18T00:12:41.243" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;IP Man is a peaceful person.  Wing Chun (the fighting style) was meant to defend the weak and to improve upon who you are as a person, not for violence and political agendas.  He did not want his style of fighting used to simply to further the agenda of others.  Once the war started affecting him personally and those around him, that's when IP Man decided it was time to teach Wing Chun.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31307" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T00:12:41.243" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48933" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48876" CreationDate="2016-02-18T00:26:05.517" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Season 1 spanned 29 days, per &lt;a href=&quot;http://the100.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;the wiki&lt;/a&gt;. The pilot episode took place on 13 September 2149 and the season finale on 11 October.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22637" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T00:26:05.517" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48934" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46948" CreationDate="2016-02-18T00:34:59.633" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;The name of the fort was Fort Kiowa (originally named Fort Lookout).  Numerous forts of these types began to appear after Thomas Jefferson completed the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.  Jefferson opened up a large portion of the new land to the America fur traders where Native Americans could meet at these forts and exchange furs for various goods.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The American men who occupied the forts were mainly made up of ex-military and private traders.  American Women were not allowed in the military and the harshness of the environment was considered too extreme for the &quot;delicate&quot; ladies of America, thus very few if not any women were brought to the forts.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In 1827, Bernarde Pratte made improvements to the fort and turned it into a major trading post for Native Americans.  Order was kept as best as it could, this is why the natives did not seem to be under duress.  If the natives were hassled and felt unsafe, there would be no business to conduct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31307" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-02-18T10:07:18.873" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T10:07:18.873" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48938" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48876" CreationDate="2016-02-18T01:49:32.723" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://the100writers.tumblr.com/post/108018662568/what-date-does-unity-day-fall-on-id-like-to-know&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;official writer's Tumblr account&lt;/a&gt;, when asked about a holiday celebrated half way through Season 1:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Asked:&lt;/strong&gt; What date does Unity Day fall on? I'd like to know so I can party&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer:&lt;/strong&gt; Chronology questions have been asked a lot (usually in conjunction with ‘has Clarke had her birthday’). I finally was able to get &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the closest thing to an official timeline I can get from our script coordinator Ryan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, who has to keep track of things like how many days/nights pass in an episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;According to him, Season 1 was 29 days.&lt;/strong&gt; The delinquents &lt;strong&gt;landed on Earth on September 13, 2149&lt;/strong&gt;. Unity Day is October 1st.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering not all days are shown, and some episode span part of a day while others span multiple days, it's understandable to be confused. The Injuries are the typical &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodHealing&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Hollywood Healing&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OnlyAFleshWound&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;It's only a flesh wound&lt;/a&gt;. Jasper recovers from a spear to the chest in a week, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;but they did show SOME signs of complications, infection, drama&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; so they didn't just use a reset button. He even has PTSD from it for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T01:49:32.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48939" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27473" CreationDate="2016-02-18T02:58:12.017" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;In-universe, Roy is the typical Young &amp;quot;Adult&amp;quot; White Male teen/early 20s pretty boy that Abercrombie &amp;amp; Fitch uses as models and store employees to push their overpriced clothing. Not only does he look the part, he starts dressing like it too. He looks like the poster boy for A&amp;amp;F. &lt;em&gt;Because he is, natch.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out-of-universe, Abercrombie was likely specifically used because the actor modeled for A&amp;amp;F at 16. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&amp;amp;id=50574&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;He even points out that he finds it funny&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Q: In the preview for the episode, it seems like you're also getting to have some fun with the concept of Roy's hoodies. Is that a piece of clothing you're attached to now, or have you gone hoodie-free because of the part?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A: [Laughs] I've never owned a hoodie, but now it's become a thing. My nephews are wearing red hoodies, and people send me pictures on Twitter of their watch parties where they're wearing red hoodies. It's become a pivotal part of the character. If I do eventually -- some day soon, hopefully -- get to don a costume, I hope a red hoodie is part of it. &lt;em&gt;But it's been fun because now they've cracked jokes about it a few times on the show, and they'll continue to do that&lt;/em&gt; -- &lt;strong&gt;people calling Roy &amp;quot;Abercrombie&amp;quot; and all that. It's a key part of the character now.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Writers and cast always take the low hanging fruit in making jokes like this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T02:58:12.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48946" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48965" CreationDate="2016-02-18T09:38:45.583" Score="6" ViewCount="2926" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadpool_(film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Deadpool&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and one thing which stuck in my mind is why katana swords. Nowhere in the movie is Wade Wilson shown as a master of operating swords.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then what was the reason that Deadpool chose a katana sword as a weapon?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24020" LastEditorUserId="22037" LastEditDate="2017-02-14T12:37:11.410" LastActivityDate="2021-03-28T18:20:01.417" Title="What is the significance of Katana Swords being the weapon for Deadpool?" Tags="|plot-explanation|x-men-cinematic-universe|deadpool|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48947" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48946" CreationDate="2016-02-18T10:51:20.503" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.superherodb.com/deadpool/10-835/equipment/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Deadpool employs any number of weapons depending on his current assignment. Most often, Deadpool uses guns, grenades, sais, knives, and katanas. &lt;strong&gt;Wade can use any weapon known to man and learn how to use the weapon in less than 5 minutes.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and from &lt;a href=&quot;http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Deadpool%27s_Katanas&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Although Wilson also uses guns from time to time, he seems to prefer taking out his swords as they've proven to be more lethal than any firearm&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24398" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T10:51:20.503" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48948" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="30059" CreationDate="2016-02-18T10:53:36.903" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The mob bosses had sent Nicky to Vegas to basically represent them and control the situation in Vegas. Nicky, at first had kept the bosses satisfied, but eventually he got completely out of hand and had transformed himself into the new &quot;Godfather of Vegas&quot;. He got so out of control that the bosses couldn't handle him and Nicky just had to go. Thats how the Mafia works, you go a little out of hand and you're out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, everyone in the Mafia, The Bosses, The Capos, The Soldiers, and of course the associates too have to follow the Omerta. Following is a list of possible reasons why Frankie killed Nicky and his brother Dominic so ruthlessly:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He was just following orders and did what had to be done. In short, just fulfilling the necessities and following the bosses orders,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, assuming he had a &quot;personal problem&quot; with Nicky and he knew that Nicky had it coming in the end, Therefore he held it all in and took his &quot;revenge&quot; by simply following the bosses orders.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, even if he did not have any problem with Nicky, you must have noticed that Nicky had an &quot;understanding attitude&quot; towards Frankie when he was beating out Dominic in front of him. He understood it was all the bosses's orders and he had to go out along with his brother and of course being made and example of. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So at first he was furious but eventually he understood and let it all go. Frankie, on the other hand, If he did not follow the orders he'd be in danger himself, Hence he just did what had to be done&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30773" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T10:53:36.903" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48950" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47479" CreationDate="2016-02-18T11:53:35.363" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Explaining shortly,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was a square deal. Marsellus didn't forgive him, they were square. Butch defied Marsellus in the boxing fight, Marsellus turned against Butch, they had a fight and eventually ended up in the room with Zed and Maynard. While Marsellus was getting sodomized, Butch escaped and got a weapon (a Guntō sword) and returned to save Marsellus's life. So therefore they were pretty much square.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another deal they made was that Butch was never to return and he was to stay away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marsellus:&lt;/strong&gt; Two: you leave town tonight, right now, and when you gone, you stay gone, or you be gone. You lost all your LA privileges. Deal?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Butch:&lt;/strong&gt; Deal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marsellus:&lt;/strong&gt; Now get your ass out of here&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now if you start to think, it was a pretty fair deal. Butch just cost Marsellus money and then Butch &amp;quot;repaid&amp;quot; Marsellus by saving his life.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30773" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T13:15:48.087" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48952" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48957" CreationDate="2016-02-18T12:30:22.030" Score="20" ViewCount="5154" Body="&lt;p&gt;In this film, some guys gain powers. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember that there is one that can see the future, a woman that can heal diseases, and one that can control the milk. The last one becomes evil and kills them all, but this turns out to be the vision of the one who can see the future. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Following this vision, the other take revenge against the evil one before everything happens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note, it's not &lt;em&gt;Chronicle&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31324" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-18T12:33:53.597" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T21:55:41.397" Title="Movie where various people gain powers such as seeing the future and healing diseases" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="8" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:23:57.520" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48954" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48956" CreationDate="2016-02-18T12:40:42.413" Score="21" ViewCount="54358" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Blacklist is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;A list I've been cultivating for over 20 years.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;mdash; Raymond Reddington,&lt;/em&gt; The Blacklist, &lt;em&gt;S1E1 &quot;The Pilot&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first subject on the list that Reddington tells the FBI about, is #52, Ranko Zamani. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Blacklist_episodes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;next ten&lt;/a&gt; are, in the order Reddington hands them over, #145, #84, #161, #85, #152, #47, #109, #16, #106, #101.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If there is any order to the list, why is Reddington going through his list seemingly at random?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Is there any significance to the numbers a person on the list has?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And is there any significance to the order in which Reddington reveals them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9382" LastEditorUserId="9382" LastEditDate="2017-12-20T14:09:28.860" LastActivityDate="2017-12-20T14:09:28.860" Title="What is the significance of the Blacklist numbers?" Tags="|analysis|the-blacklist|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48955" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-18T12:45:51.900" Score="9" ViewCount="228" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've just seen S2E8, &quot;The Decembrist&quot;, of &lt;em&gt;The Blacklist&lt;/em&gt;. The Decembrist was listed as #12 on the Blacklist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Decembrist was the person who set up the rivalry between Berlin and Reddington. In the episode, the Decembrist turns out to be&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Alan Fitch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But before this episode, Reddington didn't even know about the Decembrist. Yet he was #12 on the Blacklist.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Alan Fitch  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;already was on the Blacklist, at #12?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9382" LastActivityDate="2016-06-13T02:32:38.733" Title="Was The Decembrist always on the Blacklist?" Tags="|the-blacklist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48956" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48954" CreationDate="2016-02-18T13:01:13.997" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/04/09/blacklist-hiatus-an-interview-with-creatorexecutive-producer-jon-bokenkamp-part-1/&quot;&gt;an interview with Jon Bokenkamp (Creator/Executive Producer)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I know a few who, in the mythology of the show, will end up in the top 5. But, to be quite candid – Spader said this once –  there are as many Blacklisters as there are episodes that NBC will let us do. &lt;strong&gt;There’s no hidden algorithm or method to the Blacklist numbering.&lt;/strong&gt; But, they are sort of weighted. The Stewmaker might be off a bit because that was one of the first few episodes we did and he might be higher if we were doing his episode today. We do think a bit about it and wonder, “where does this guy fit? How would Red rank him?” So that’s how we come up with the numbers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24398" LastEditorUserId="24398" LastEditDate="2016-02-18T17:19:42.303" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T17:19:42.303" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48957" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48952" CreationDate="2016-02-18T14:27:31.620" Score="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;You are thinking about &lt;a href=&quot;http://e4-misfits.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_6&quot;&gt;Episode 2.6&lt;/a&gt; of the series &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1548850/&quot;&gt;Misfits&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The power to control milk is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://e4-misfits.wikia.com/wiki/Lactokinesis&quot;&gt;Lactokinesis&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/K02LMcM2HQg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Milk Man reveals superpowers to the world, he gets ignored for the main cast, a bunch of delinquents with better powers. Milk man starts killing people with his lactokinesis, but one of the Misfits travels back in time to before Milk Man goes to the media. They then beat or kill him, it's a bit vague.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/rHu9ocmXMeo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9347" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-18T21:55:41.397" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T21:55:41.397" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48958" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-18T14:41:33.003" Score="11" ViewCount="9928" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the course of the first season of &lt;em&gt;The Blacklist&lt;/em&gt;, we see Reddington looking for clues about a girl whom we may assume to be his daughter. Most notably, we see him remove one photograph from the book of victims of the Stewmaker (S1E4). Berlin turns out to have the same photograph in his pocket watch.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w6vqn.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/w6vqnm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;photograph in Berlin&amp;#39;s pocket watch&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yrmzz.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yrmzzm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;photograph Reddington took from The Stewmaker&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the season one finale, only &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; Reddington seems to learn that the girls is Berlin's daughter and that Berlin is after Red for what he supposedly did to Berlin's daughter. It seems as if Reddington has no idea about Berlin nor his daughter before that.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So why was he looking for her?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9382" LastEditorUserId="9382" LastEditDate="2019-11-20T11:53:46.303" LastActivityDate="2019-11-20T11:53:46.303" Title="Why was Reddington looking for the girl?" Tags="|character|the-blacklist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="48959" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48962" CreationDate="2016-02-18T16:10:42.973" Score="7" ViewCount="30755" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was watching &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2719848/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Everest&lt;/em&gt; (2015)&lt;/a&gt; and I can't help but wonder if Rob and many others died because of Doug's adamance to reach the top.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If Rob hadn't agreed with Doug, they would've been heading down. They wasted time going up and then coming down. Rob was the most experienced of them and maybe his presence with the team could have saved a few more lives?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was it because of Doug's adamance that people died?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="7522" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2023-02-18T19:37:01.120" LastActivityDate="2023-02-18T19:37:01.120" Title="Did people die because of Doug wanting to climb to the top?" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|everest|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="48962" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48959" CreationDate="2016-02-18T16:39:15.840" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;That is part of the reason but part of what the movie portrays is how many seemingly little oversights contributed to the disaster. &lt;strong&gt;You can't boil it down to one single reason.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Mount_Everest_disaster#Analysis&quot;&gt;analysis of the disaster&lt;/a&gt; from wikipedia does a good job of explaining the multiple factors that led to the disaster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It lists:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Too many climbers&lt;/strong&gt;: (congestion) leading to bottleneck on the Hillary&#xA;Step and keeping climbers from turning around on time&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not enough experience&lt;/strong&gt;: Rob Hall and Scott Fischer and their crews&#xA;ultimately had to push themselves beyond their abilities to take care&#xA;of their clients&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Commercial aspect&lt;/strong&gt;: There was additional pressure to get everyone to the summit so they could have their money's worth, also Jon Krakauer's presence added pressure for them to have a successful climb as he would be writing about it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Low oxygen levels&lt;/strong&gt;: The oxygen levels may have contributed to many of the poor decisions and mistakes made.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Over confidence&lt;/strong&gt;: Rob Hall and Scot Fischer had a competitive relationship and reputations for getting people to the top, and they also had a high success record. Something was bound to give, given the statistical probabilities of fatalities on the mountain.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The disaster was partially caused by the sheer number of climbers&#xA;  attempting to ascend (34 climbers on 10 May 1996). The congestion of&#xA;  the crowd, combined with delays in securing ropes, caused bottlenecks&#xA;  at the Hillary Step and the Balcony and delayed the ascent of many&#xA;  climbers. Therefore, many summitted after the safe 14:00 turnaround&#xA;  time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Jon Krakauer has suggested that the use of bottled oxygen and&#xA;  commercial guides, who personally accompanied and took care of all&#xA;  pathmaking, equipment, and important decisions, allowed otherwise&#xA;  unqualified climbers to attempt to summit, leading to dangerous&#xA;  situations and more deaths. In addition, he wrote that the&#xA;  competition between Hall and Fischer's guiding companies may have led&#xA;  to Hall's decision not to turn back on 10 May after the pre-decided&#xA;  time for summiting of 14:00; Krakauer also acknowledges that his own&#xA;  presence as a journalist for an important magazine for mountaineers&#xA;  may have added pressure to guide clients to the summit despite growing&#xA;  dangers. He proposed banning bottled oxygen except for emergency&#xA;  cases, arguing that this would both decrease the growing pollution on&#xA;  Everest—many discarded bottles have accumulated on its slopes—and keep&#xA;  marginally qualified climbers off the mountain. He does point out,&#xA;  however, that climbing Everest has always been a highly dangerous&#xA;  endeavour even before the guided tours, with one fatality for every&#xA;  four climbers who reach the summit. Furthermore, he notes that many of&#xA;  the poor decisions made on 10 May were after two or more days of&#xA;  inadequate oxygen, nourishment, and rest (due to the effects of&#xA;  entering the death zone above 8,000 m/26,000 ft). He concludes that&#xA;  decisions made in such circumstances should not be strongly criticized&#xA;  by the general population, who have not experienced such&#xA;  conditions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Krakauer also elaborated on the statistical curiosities of fatality&#xA;  rates on Everest and how 1996 was &quot;business as usual&quot;. The record&#xA;  number of 12 fatalities in the spring climbing season that year was 3%&#xA;  of the 398 climbers who had ascended above Base Camp—slightly below&#xA;  the historical average of 3.3% at that time. Additionally, 12 climbers&#xA;  had died that season, and 84 had reached the summit. This is a ratio&#xA;  of 1 in 7—significantly less than the historical average prior to 1996&#xA;  of 1 in 4. Since the fatality rates on Everest have dropped&#xA;  considerably, accounting for the volume of climbers in 1996 compared&#xA;  to prior years, 1996 was statistically a safer-than-average year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In May 2004, Kent Moore, a physicist, and John L. Semple, a surgeon,&#xA;  both researchers from the University of Toronto, told New Scientist&#xA;  magazine that an analysis of weather conditions on 11 May suggested&#xA;  that freak weather caused oxygen levels to plunge by around 6%&#xA;  resulting in a 14% reduction in oxygen uptake.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T16:39:15.840" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48963" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="44874" CreationDate="2016-02-18T16:53:11.930" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Speaking while going in flow with the film, one might conclude that Parry was talking about his new girlfriend since he was extremely infatuated with her before he got into an accident and his feelings, in ways, &quot;resumed&quot; when he woke up. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While interpreting the film from a different perspective, I choose to agree with mattiav27's answer above. His interpretation is very interesting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30773" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T16:53:11.930" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48964" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27107" CreationDate="2016-02-18T17:08:23.643" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Simply and without going into much complexity, Does a combination of Doughnuts and Beers look normal to you? I think not. That's whats funny about it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30773" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T17:08:23.643" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48965" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48946" CreationDate="2016-02-18T17:15:12.620" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deadpool uses ninja swords, katanas, because he uses katanas in the comics. It's &lt;em&gt;adaptation tautology&lt;/em&gt;. He has had katanas since his first introduction in 1991. He actually mastered kenjutsu and how to use katanas the normal way. He was even a sumo wrestler for a while (not in a joke manner).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the movie universe, it's because they look cool. Wade is all about looking cool. It's not supposed to be a deep reason.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-18T17:44:56.300" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T17:44:56.300" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48969" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48972" CreationDate="2016-02-18T18:37:59.613" Score="19" ViewCount="151213" Body="&lt;p&gt;I happened onto the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5491087/bio?ref_=nm_dyk_trv_sm#trivia&quot;&gt;IMDB trivia&lt;/a&gt; which mentioned that the current actor is the youngest and shortest one to portray The Mountain, which lead me to this entry in Wikipedia:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...he is portrayed by Conan Stevens in season 1, by Ian Whyte in&#xA;  season 2, and by Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson in Season 4 and Season 5.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a reason HBO (or whomever) changed actors so much?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30783" LastEditorUserId="30783" LastEditDate="2016-02-19T04:09:46.050" LastActivityDate="2017-07-21T01:16:12.810" Title="Why are there three different actors playing Gregor Clegane?" Tags="|game-of-thrones|casting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48970" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="9353" CreationDate="2016-02-18T18:49:05.603" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jack Black explained on the Watt from Pedro podcast that the director, cast and crew filled it out.  He wanted to make sure the interviewer, Mike Watt, knew that he had added in Watt's band, the Minutemen, because he is a huge fan. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31337" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T18:49:05.603" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48972" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48969" CreationDate="2016-02-18T18:59:18.323" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Conan Stevens&lt;/em&gt; left to star in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=2&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwih3NTq_IHLAhXKWRoKHecrCA0QFggjMAE&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Hobbit_(film_series)&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFB6dPB7yLaMH7_7IcG9rP_6NzNQw&quot;&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ian Whyte&lt;/em&gt; moved on to other roles &lt;em&gt;within the show&lt;/em&gt; and the rumours are he was only ever an emergency replacement for Stevens, not the long term solution. Another potential reason was the desire for a more physically imposing character, given Clegane's heightened importance in Season 4.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Conan Stevens was originally cast in Season 1 (but had very little screen time). He then took on the role as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=5&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwj62cjU_IHLAhVC1xoKHWRqAgMQFggqMAQ&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Flotr.wikia.com%2Fwiki%2FBolg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFH7JCNp9CvsY9Z4EHF1_GG5JdaIw&quot;&gt;Bolg&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=2&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwih3NTq_IHLAhXKWRoKHecrCA0QFggjMAE&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Hobbit_(film_series)&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFB6dPB7yLaMH7_7IcG9rP_6NzNQw&quot;&gt;The Hobbit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; trilogy:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iN1Cw.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/iN1Cw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the amount of time his filming entailed, he left the role and was replaced by Ian Whyte. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, I'm trying to find something close to &quot;official confirmation&quot; as to why Whyte departed, but the rumours appear to be that he was never intended to be a &quot;long term&quot; replacement for Stevens. He was only a very last minute role-filler. He didn't appear often in Season 2 and the entire character didn't appear in Season 3.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This explanation, although unconfirmed, fits with the roles he was given on the show in Season 3 onwards, when he began to play first &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Dongo&quot;&gt;Dongo&lt;/a&gt; and then &lt;a href=&quot;http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Wun_Weg_Wun_Dar_Wun&quot;&gt;Wun Weg Wun Dar Wun&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tBFs9.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tBFs9.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1tJyi.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/1tJyi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This change left the role needing to be recast a second time. Stevens by this time &lt;em&gt;was&lt;/em&gt; actually interested in returning to the role. He discussed this in an interview:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MJ Snow&lt;/strong&gt; – As you know, the rumors are flying regarding whether or not&#xA;  you’ll reprise your role as Ser Gregor Clegane in Season 4 of Game of&#xA;  Thrones, however in a recent blog post, you mentioned that you’d not&#xA;  been contacted by HBO about returning to the series. Is there still&#xA;  hope? Would you still be open to donning the armor again, if the&#xA;  opportunity should arise?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conan Stevens&lt;/strong&gt; – I’m not sure where Game of Thrones production are at&#xA;  the moment but I am pretty sure if there had been a plan of that sort&#xA;  that I would have been informed quite some time ago, so the answer&#xA;  would be, that barring some unforeseen occurrence, I won’t be back for&#xA;  Season 04.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As to me being open… let’s just say the upcoming scene, if it is&#xA;  indeed portrayed in the TV series, was the scene that I was most&#xA;  looking forward to when I originally read the books. It is the best&#xA;  acting scene for Gregor in the books to date, the most dialogue, and a&#xA;  strong chance to show who Gregor really is, and by that stage Gregor&#xA;  really has a reputation to live up to. As an actor it would be a huge&#xA;  challenge living up to the books portrayal of scene and the well read&#xA;  fans expectations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As I mentioned in the recent article on my website, I already had an&#xA;  idea how I would go about doing this scene so it’ll be interesting to&#xA;  see how another actor with a different background approaches it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But by this stage it seems the creators had already settled on Hafthor Julius Bjornsson to take on the role. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another possible reason explaining the departure of Whyte was the upcoming elevated role of Clegane in Season 4 and the desire to make him as awe-inspiring as possible for his fight with Oberyn.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After all, would you rather fight THIS:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gaJV4.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gaJV4.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;OR THIS?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/haSHM.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/haSHM.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Final point - in relation to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/trivia&quot;&gt;IMDB trivia&lt;/a&gt; part of your question, &lt;s&gt;I think you may have misread it. The only mention of height is in comparing him with &lt;em&gt;Kristian Nairn&lt;/em&gt;, the actor who plays &lt;em&gt;Hodor&lt;/em&gt;. At 6 foot 9, Björnsson is indeed shorter than Nairn, who is 6ft 10.5&lt;/s&gt;. I think you are indeed correct. Using the wiki:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stevens: 7' 1/4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Whyte: 7' 1  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Bjornsson: 6' 9&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; indeed the shortest!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-19T09:39:42.090" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T09:39:42.090" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48974" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="25130" CreationDate="2016-02-18T19:12:59.427" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched the episode several times. I think the writers left it a little open to interpretation. I agree that Ben walking around with his camera and then not with his camera may have been the point where he dies. I believe the heart attack patient was a diversion really it was Ben and Dr. Cox needed someone to blame because he felt guilty that he lost his best friend brother in law and felt he could have done something about it (when he said to JD nobody died while I've been watching your patients is a way of him saying that he could control someone's time to die) possibly. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the birthday party was a symbol I think. When JD says to Dr. Cox Jordan called to say don't be late this afternoon it was for the funeral but they were making like it was the birthday party. Also Ben appears to be only talking to Dr. Cox at a certain point and  he has more of a background like ghost part. Definitely the camera is an important use of symbols.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31338" LastEditorDisplayName="user16145" LastEditDate="2017-05-08T05:27:54.090" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T05:27:54.090" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48975" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46903" CreationDate="2016-02-18T20:09:17.813" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's simply that she's a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysophobia&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mysophobe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (a.k.a. a germaphobe). There's actually quite a sizeable number of people who appear to be concerned about germ transfer through holding pens. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are companies selling &lt;a href=&quot;http://cleanint.com/cleanpen/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pen-holders and pen-sanitisers&lt;/a&gt; designed to eliminate bacteria and common viruses on them. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thenotouchpen/the-no-touch-pen-the-original-germ-defense-pen/posts/1040381&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;personal styluses&lt;/a&gt; that are being kickstarted to help people avoid touching any touchscreens in public, such as at an ATM.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;There are news articles in &lt;s&gt;reputable&lt;/s&gt; newspapers advising us that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2058759/Borrowing-Biro-MRSA-E-coli-food-poisoning.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;borrowing pens&lt;/a&gt; could cause food poisoning.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The result of this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-s-exkorn/germaphobe_b_2617286.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;mysophobes&lt;/a&gt; advising to bring your own pens for health reasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that's the reason for all the pens.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, in the grand scheme of the (fairly poor) film, it doesn't exactly come across that clearly.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-19T09:54:42.133" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T09:54:42.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48976" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45388" CreationDate="2016-02-18T20:32:07.237" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don't know for sure.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, we can speculate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In season 1, she returns to the firm as an associate. The range of possible salaries open to her are dependent on a few things including the size of the firm and her level of experience. However, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nalp.org/2011_associate_salaries&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;we can use existing information&lt;/a&gt; to guesstimate that she stared in Season 1 on somewhere between $73,000 and $160,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, if she came in at a higher level than that, she could be higher on the scale. For example, the average eighth year associate earns between $111,250 and $225,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;On a separate note, there are quite a few fashion blogs online that admire &lt;a href=&quot;http://thehairpin.com/2015/05/every-single-outfit-alicia-florrick-wears-in-every-episode-of-the-good-wife/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;her range of clothing&lt;/a&gt;. They've identified quite a few items from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwj1xafqk4LLAhXG_A4KHS8FDYMQFggoMAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.armani.com%2Fgb&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFRCqOtBAefCxJKQaXzN0q42n5Vhw&amp;amp;sig2=RoBxf4WNdZedEq1NOw1tsA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Armani&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwiw87Lsk4LLAhXKsxQKHZxzC78QFggeMAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelkors.com%2F&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFS0q-bZRVr7D7CHeJd0utOqpfYpw&amp;amp;sig2=Rto7tGPiMhHRVp_NbtGo6w&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Michael Kors&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwiNht32k4LLAhWFchQKHUGqB9wQFggdMAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yoox.com%2Fuk%2Fwomen%2Fshoponline%2Frena%2520lange_d&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEX0HngD4nsbEyWTMH2j4okD8lc1w&amp;amp;sig2=6UctGzHQUot2RLbBTaWnmQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Rena Lange&lt;/a&gt; and the like, so she's certainly not struggling!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T20:32:07.237" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48977" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="48996" CreationDate="2016-02-18T21:21:12.433" Score="14" ViewCount="28817" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently came across this bit of trivia for &lt;em&gt;House MD&lt;/em&gt; on IMDb , which says that:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Though other characters occasionally insinuate that Dr Chase is a bit dim, he actually comes up with more correct diagnoses than any other supporting character over the course of the series.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which leads me to my question, is there any proof to this bit of trivia or is it pure user-contributed conjecture?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since I wasn't able to find any documented proof of the number of correct diagnoses that any cast member on &lt;em&gt;House MD&lt;/em&gt; has given throughout the show's eight seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4083" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-18T21:36:15.403" LastActivityDate="2021-12-03T08:27:06.950" Title="Does Dr. Chase really come up with more correct diagnoses than anyone else?" Tags="|plot-explanation|house|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48978" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46364" CreationDate="2016-02-18T21:53:15.780" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;He seems to asking Snowden to go back to first principles, to tell the camera about himself as a person. He then follows it up with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=citizenfour&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;series of questions&lt;/a&gt; about his family and upbringing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've added some bracketing to [hopefully] make things clearer&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;So [pretend that] I don't know who you are or anything about you.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Snowden:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Okay. Um... I work for Booz Allen Hamilton, a defense contractor, I'm sort of on loan to NSA. I don't talk to a Booz Allen&#xA;  boss, I don't get tasking from Booz Allen, it's all from NSA.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Sorry, I don't [even] know your name [yet]&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Snowden:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Oh, sorry! I, uh... my name is Edward Snowden.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-02-18T23:23:12.670" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T23:23:12.670" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48980" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="19720" CreationDate="2016-02-18T22:02:32.357" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;What I think is that baba came to know about the person's location by the hand print which was taken forcefully when he enters the proghsala, as all the info about his name and profession came on that tablet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31343" LastEditorUserId="9684" LastEditDate="2016-02-19T14:21:08.363" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T14:21:08.363" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48984" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-18T22:30:49.287" Score="3" ViewCount="1678" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does Apple Computer ever use paid Product Placement in movies or TV shows? While Apple laptops appear frequently in &lt;em&gt;The Big Bang Theory&lt;/em&gt; I have never seen any of their other products, eg. the Apple Watch, in either The X-Files or any recent Bond movies. Surely &quot;Spooks&quot; like these would be the characters most likely to use such technology?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31346" LastEditorUserId="26325" LastEditDate="2016-02-18T22:57:04.050" LastActivityDate="2017-12-27T17:16:20.057" Title="Apple products in movies" Tags="|product-placement|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48986" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48984" CreationDate="2016-02-18T22:56:15.067" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can't find a definitive source from Apple directly, but many mentions that Apple doesn't pay for product placements. &lt;a href=&quot;http://bgr.com/2015/03/06/apple-product-placement-movies-2014/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's but one&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bgr.com/2015/03/06/apple-product-placement-movies-2014/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;http://bgr.com/2015/03/06/apple-product-placement-movies-2014/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Though Apple doesn’t pay for product placement, it certainly has no problem with bestowing large boxes of Apple hardware to production companies in the hopes that iPhones and Macs make it onto some of the biggest TV and movie hits of the year.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The implication that Apple never pays directly for product placement, but seems happy donating props as needed. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2016-02-18T22:56:15.067" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48996" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48977" CreationDate="2016-02-19T01:16:00.153" Score="37" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes, I believe Chase comes up with more correct diagnoses than any other supporting character&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Firstly, this is obviously a &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; difficult question to answer. As discussed in the comments, how do we &lt;em&gt;know&lt;/em&gt; who made a diagnosis? For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes the entire team take part in an exploratory procedure where something is discovered. Who gets credit? The first person to call the name of the disease out? Or the person who actually finds it?  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Often ideas are brainstormed at the start of an episode. These ideas may cover anywhere from two - twenty possible illnesses. If one of those turns out to be correct, do we give credit to whoever first threw it out, or whoever actually demonstrated the victim suffered from it?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Illnesses can be identified at a high level, but not understood at a low level. For example, it might be suggested a patient has cancer. Is that enough to claim the diagnosis? Do they need to have pinpointed where and how?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Sometimes a diagnosis is identified, but it's not understood. Later, it is discovered a much more minor illness caused the onset of the first illness. So the first illness is more serious, but the second was the focus of the episode - so who gets credit here. The diagnoser of the serious illness, or of the secondary, less serious (and often psychological) illness?  &#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Some episodes all the solutions are written up at the start on a whiteboard, and crossed off one by one. No one speaks, but someone writes them all (as the possible solutions are obvious to everyone). Who gets credit here? The person doing the writing? Or the team?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;These are just some of the many, many difficulties inherent in trying to understand who is the most successful diagnoser in the team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Despite this, I've tried to do this and my results suggest Chase is indeed the second most successful member of the team, behind House.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Methodology&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are eight seasons worth of content. That is obviously &lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt;. On top of that, it would be incredibly time consuming to go through each individual episode to try and pinpoint this information. Doing so would make this answer perfect, but I doubt anyone has time to do this, unless they're going on a House binge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Instead, I chose to use the &lt;a href=&quot;http://house.wikia.com/wiki/House_Wiki&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;House Wiki&lt;/a&gt;. It has a very handy &lt;a href=&quot;http://house.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_medical_diagnoses&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;list of medical diagnoses&lt;/a&gt; which details what every patient, in every episode, what suffering from.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then opened up every single episode description and read through to understand who the first person to claim the illness in the episode was:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In a very few episodes it's unclear, so I labelled the diagnoser as &quot;Team&quot;.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In most, it's a clear win for House.   &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;In quite a few others, one of the doctors claims it early and their suspicions are confirmed later. In these cases I gave them credit, as they had initially suggested it.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Often they suggested a general disease (e.g. cancer, or meningitis) and the answer was a subset of these. In these cases, I gave credit to the person who came up with the subset (usually House).&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To understand who was most successful, I compiled a spreadsheet (&lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OcKgnpSSWp1qAeejTm-f9bG34DlSiubUaiAnH6cy8Og/edit?usp=sharing&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;a copy of which I've hosted on Google Docs&lt;/a&gt;). This cross references every season/episode/patient/disease with their diagnoser. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Results&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This graphs shows the Total # of Diagnoses made by every character across the entire eight seasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(&lt;em&gt;Note: Please open to view it in full size&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JQo8A.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JQo8A.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As can be seen, the results (in order) are:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;House&lt;/strong&gt;: 117&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chase&lt;/strong&gt;: 20&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Team&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;(i.e. more than one person appeared to come up with the diagnosis at the same time)&lt;/em&gt;: 13&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Foreman&lt;/strong&gt;: 9&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hadley&lt;/strong&gt; (&quot;13&quot;): 9&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cameron&lt;/strong&gt;: 6&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Taub&lt;/strong&gt;: 5&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wilson&lt;/strong&gt;: 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Adams&lt;/strong&gt;: 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kutner&lt;/strong&gt;: 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Park&lt;/strong&gt;: 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Volakis&lt;/strong&gt;: 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cuddy&lt;/strong&gt;: 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Masters&lt;/strong&gt;: 1&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So this would indeed suggest that Chase, by a comfortable margin, is the second best diagnoser after House.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If interested, we can look at the same results, broken down season by season:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;sub&gt;(&lt;em&gt;Note: Please open to view it in full size&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4GDtN.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4GDtN.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;House is top every season, but the second best diagnoser each season is as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 1: Team: 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 2: Tie - Chase: 3 / Team: 3&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 3: Chase: 5 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 4: Tie - Hadley: 2 / Kutner: 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 5: Tie - Cameron: 2 / Hadley: 2&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 6: Foreman: 3 &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 7: Team: 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Season 8: Chase: 4&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, it's important to note that simply having the most diagnoses doesn't make him the best doctor. Cameron has just a single diagnosis in Season 1. Foreman has none. But they were instrumental that season, helping House out, performing valuable work (and breaking and entering) and were involved in every episode. It just &lt;em&gt;appears&lt;/em&gt; as if they haven't done as much, as the final diagnosis didn't originate with them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accuracy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will quickly repeat that this has come from a Wikipedia page and a basic study of data generated within that Wikipedia page. I'm sure it's not 100% accurate and I'm sure there will be at least a few mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it seems a good indicator and given Chase's clear margin of second place, I'd be confident saying your initial question was correct.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With all the results in, and even accounting for the fact some of this information may be incorrect, it seems &lt;em&gt;very likely&lt;/em&gt; Chase does in fact come up with the correct diagnosis more than any other &lt;em&gt;supporting character&lt;/em&gt; (with House obviously dominating the diagnosis table).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;@Anthony Grist posted the following comment below:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It might be interesting to see it as a percentage of episodes they&#xA;  appear in as part of House's team, since I have a feeling Chase also&#xA;  had the most opportunities to make the correct diagnosis. In terms of&#xA;  raw numbers he might come second, but his actual success rate could be&#xA;  a lot worse than other team members who appeared in fewer seasons.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was a really interesting idea, so I decided to plot this as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used IMDB for a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;full list of cast credits&lt;/a&gt; for the show. This shows the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;House: 176 episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Team&quot;: 176 episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Foreman: 174 episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wilson: 174 episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chase: 171 episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cuddy: 153 episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Cameron: 130 episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Taub: 96 episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hadley: 81 episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kutner: 37 episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Adams: 21 episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Park: 21 episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Volakis: 18 episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Masters: 15 episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I then updated the spreadsheet &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OcKgnpSSWp1qAeejTm-f9bG34DlSiubUaiAnH6cy8Og/edit?usp=sharing&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;changes are on Google Spreadsheet as well&lt;/a&gt; with this information, cross referenced it with the number of diagnoses made per character and calculated the character's overall diagnosis success rate. This reveals the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XIxX5.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XIxX5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;em&gt;House&lt;/em&gt; leads the way, with the correct diagnosis in &lt;strong&gt;66.48%&lt;/strong&gt; of all his episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chase&lt;/em&gt; is &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; in second plac,e but it's very, very close. He made the correct diagnosis in &lt;strong&gt;11.70%&lt;/strong&gt; of his episodes, whilst &lt;em&gt;Hadley&lt;/em&gt; is in third place, with the correct diagnosis in &lt;strong&gt;11.11%&lt;/strong&gt; of her episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The following graph shows the same information, but includes the number of episodes each character starred in, with a trendline indicating success rate. Note the big drop off after &lt;em&gt;House&lt;/em&gt;, and how close &lt;em&gt;Chase&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Hadley&lt;/em&gt; are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ThzgZ.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ThzgZ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8842" LastEditDate="2017-02-10T20:00:31.793" LastActivityDate="2017-02-10T20:00:31.793" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48997" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49010" CreationDate="2016-02-19T01:26:22.893" Score="11" ViewCount="12511" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings_(TV_series)&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vikings&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings_(season_3)#Episodes&quot;&gt;Season 3&lt;/a&gt; when they're attacking Paris, French people sometimes speak some strange language. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But it isn't French. What is it exactly: Old French or Latin?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1598" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-02-19T09:34:58.560" LastActivityDate="2017-01-11T01:21:42.013" Title="Which language is spoken by the Parisians in Vikings?" Tags="|dialogue|vikings|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48998" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-19T01:29:58.270" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vikings is inspired by the sagas of Viking Ragnar Lothbrok, one of the best-known legendary Norse heroes and notorious as the scourge of England and France. The show portrays Ragnar as a former farmer who rises to fame by successful raids into England, and eventually becomes king of Denmark, with the support of his family and fellow warriors: his brother Rollo, his son Bjorn Ironside, and his wives—the shieldmaiden Lagertha and the princess Aslaug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2306299/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1598" LastEditorUserId="1598" LastEditDate="2016-02-19T01:56:23.203" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T01:56:23.203" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="48999" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-19T01:29:58.270" Score="0" Body="Vikings is a TV series for the History channel. Its first season aired in 2013." OwnerUserId="16547" LastEditorUserId="16547" LastEditDate="2016-04-10T21:03:13.723" LastActivityDate="2016-04-10T21:03:13.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49000" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49018" CreationDate="2016-02-19T01:36:12.023" Score="8" ViewCount="1104" Body="&lt;p&gt;Was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Galaxy Quest&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;just&lt;/strong&gt; a parody of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; and related Sci-Fi tropes or were the lead characters in &lt;em&gt;Galaxy Quest&lt;/em&gt; poking fun at certain actors in particular as well? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember reading something like William Shatner regretted his role as Captain Kirk for some time, until Patrick Stewart compared the role to Shakespeare. That is evocative of Alan Rickman's character at the start talking about how he used to be a real actor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26325" LastActivityDate="2020-02-13T20:28:33.333" Title="Galaxy Quest a parody of Sci-Fi/Star Trek only or specific actors too" Tags="|parody|galaxy-quest|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49008" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1733" CreationDate="2016-02-19T06:13:30.707" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I agree that it occurs in the mid 1700s because after 1789 there is no monarchy in France so the Beast wouldn't be royalty if the movie/book occurred after the French Revolution. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user31359" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T06:13:30.707" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49009" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49013" CreationDate="2016-02-19T08:39:44.017" Score="12" ViewCount="47580" Body="&lt;p&gt;Now, yes I know he is during the movie, but at the end he claims that the effects of NZT have been made permanent and he no longer needs it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But in the follow-up TV Series &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=10&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwjE04uNw4PLAhUBXRQKHcOgCgwQFghRMAk&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLimitless_(TV_series)&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEoDeCiS8O-vwa9HMRpgIwu6_TEyg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Limitless&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; S01E13, Brian doesn't know of his permanent NZT effects and hence assumes that the Senator can pause his doses for a little while to get a NZT-free blood sample. And this is indeed then further achieved and the coat is switched with a duplicate with blood not containing NZT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, I am confused, was Edward Morra just bluffing when he said he achieved permanent effects at the end of the movie or is there some other theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31360" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-04-29T21:25:48.333" LastActivityDate="2016-12-25T20:17:03.767" Title="Is Senator Morra on NZT or not?" Tags="|plot-explanation|limitless|limitless-tv|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49010" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48997" CreationDate="2016-02-19T09:28:33.403" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Michael Hirst, creator and writer of Vikings, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.medievalists.net/2015/02/19/qa-michael-hirst-creator-writer-vikings/&quot;&gt;told this to Medievalists.net&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And here’s a very important thing: if you include Latin as a dead&#xA;  language, we have FOUR dead languages in the show. &lt;strong&gt;We have people&#xA;  speaking&lt;/strong&gt; Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, &lt;strong&gt;Old French (when they raid Paris,&#xA;  which sounds more like German than French, actually)&lt;/strong&gt; and Latin, and&#xA;  can you tell me ANY other network show that has people speaking four&#xA;  dead languages in it? No! I mean, they don’t speak it much, but you&#xA;  can tell that is what they are speaking. I wanted people to hear what&#xA;  those languages really sounded like. It’s a very important part of the&#xA;  authenticity of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T09:28:33.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49013" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49009" CreationDate="2016-02-19T10:51:22.160" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maybe.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the movie Morra is being threatened by Carl Van Loon in an attempt to gain political influence. Van Loon has bought the pharmaceutical firm that makes NZT and has closed the lab that produces it. He thinks this gives him leverage over Morra. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In response to the threat Morra claims not to be on NZT. But he also claims that, when you know what is in it, you can tweak the formula to make it better. Earlier in the movie he had paid a chemist $2m to replicate the drug (we don't know who this chemist works for and it seems likely it wasn't the source of the original NZT as he wouldn't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; to replicate the pills if he already had the recipe). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I don't know whether these threads carry forward to the TV series, but the movie is clearly implying that there is both an alternative source and that the new drug might be a little different to the original NZT.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So perhaps he has found an NZT with longer lasting effects, or he is on NZT 50 rather than the original version. Or perhaps he doesn't need it any more. But it is fairly clear he isn't on the original drug. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="134" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T10:51:22.160" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49018" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49000" CreationDate="2016-02-19T12:36:36.547" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Alan Rickman was actually parodying himself when he complained about being a &quot;real actor&quot;.  Rickman was originally a Shakespearean actor, as was Patrick Stewart.  So, I suppose there was a little of both of those actors in that character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;William Shatner's need to be the center of attention, which is at the center of the long-standing coldness between Takei and Shatner, is clearly evident in Tim Allen's character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's fairly apparent that Guy Fleegman (played by Sam Rockwell) took a page out of Bill Paxton's book from Alien (which would be a clear homage to Sigourney Weaver).  If you recall, Paxton's character is hyper-paranoid about being killed (who doesn't love when he says, &quot;Game over, man.  Game over!&quot;?) and Guy Fleegman is also fixated on not getting killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T12:36:36.547" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49021" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24431" CreationDate="2016-02-19T16:24:19.827" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The ending has been intentionally left ambiguous which is fitting because it's hard to decide whether he deserved to die or not after all that had happened before. However, the narrative at the end is not only in past tense, it also seems like a reflection upon a rather old memory which indicates that he has either survived or is in some form of after-life, unless of course, the narration is just for effect. He says that while being taken to the ambulance, he wondered if hell was spending the rest of eternity in Bruges which gives the impression that he still doesn't know what happens in after-life or if there is one. So chances are he isn't dead while narrating the ending and had probably somehow survived the injuries.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31374" LastEditorUserId="31374" LastEditDate="2016-02-20T09:38:43.943" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T09:38:43.943" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49022" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47718" CreationDate="2016-02-19T16:29:07.973" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;It has been quite a while since I've seen the movie so I might be off base but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I recall Joel doesn't have &lt;em&gt;Matrix&lt;/em&gt; like powers over his dreams. The only one he can really interact with fully is Clementine. Joel also expresses that he still retains some of the mindset of a child/the past when he is hiding with Clementine in the kitchen scene. Both of these combined would explain why he &quot;let&quot; the bully embarrass/beat him up. Joel couldn't really control the bully's actions, and he still had the same fear/mindset when he was beat up before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26325" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T16:29:07.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49023" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="47718" CreationDate="2016-02-19T16:31:29.753" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;The moments you are describing take place while Joel is having his memories of Clementine erased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While he is &quot;under&quot; for the procedure, Joel realizes he doesn't want the memories of Clementine erased -- so &lt;strong&gt;the &quot;running away&quot; is not about changing the memories; it is Joel's attempt to preserve some recollection of Clementine by moving from memories that are being erased to as-yet unerased memories&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Presumably, while he is &quot;under&quot; for the erasure procedure and his subconscious is explored by the procedure, he relives not just Clementine memories but other random memories, such as the incident with Freddy. Joel doesn't &quot;run&quot; from that Freddy memory because it is not one of the memories being erased.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="763" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T16:31:29.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49025" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-19T16:41:07.937" Score="1" ViewCount="60" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently saw Beasts of No Nation and I think it's a great movie be it fictional. Although I was quite intrigued by the ending I am unsure how to interpret it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My initial reaction was to read the closing statement of the boy as a declaration of perspective to suggest that all child soldiers, at the end of the day, are still kids who belong to families and they should be treated with a certain level of compassion. Is this interpretation correct or am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31364" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-19T16:42:35.537" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T16:42:35.537" Title="How does one interpret the plot wrap-up of Beasts of No Nation?" Tags="|analysis|ending|beasts-of-no-nation|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49027" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48888" CreationDate="2016-02-19T19:06:33.777" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;THE LIFE OF AN AMERICAN FIREMAN (1903) does this, as we see a fireman perform a rescue from outside a house, and then again from inside the house. Director Edwin S. Porter was not trying to be clever. Modern- style editing had not really been invented yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/6ym7-QW_GWo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18606" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T19:06:33.777" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49028" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10166" CreationDate="2016-02-19T19:31:50.963" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think what falls to the ground are the big oblong buttons on his coat that are normally found on Western type of jackets. Another theory is that somehow his jacket was bullet proof and those were bullets he was hit with falling out. Unlikely but just a theory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31379" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T19:31:50.963" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49029" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-19T19:37:57.930" Score="7" ViewCount="6897" Body="&lt;p&gt;The following quote is mentioned all over the internet that it's from &lt;em&gt;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;We met at the wrong time. That's what I keep telling myself anyway. Maybe one day years from now, we'll meet in a coffee shop in a far away city somewhere and we could give it another shot. So until then, I'll just have to continue feeling this way everyday. Sad.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just saw the movie, it doesn't appear anywhere in the film. I even searched through subtitle files. Was there a deleted scene or something in the film where this line is spoken? Or is it simply from a different film? If yes, which one? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16374" LastEditorUserId="16374" LastEditDate="2016-02-20T04:42:58.443" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T04:42:58.443" Title="Which movie is this supposed 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' quote really from?" Tags="|identify-this-movie|dialogue|eternal-sunshine-of-spotless-mind|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:24:16.370" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49031" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49029" CreationDate="2016-02-19T20:07:13.533" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's not from Eternal Sunshine, you are correct there.    It's not found in the 1st or shooting draft (available on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.beingcharliekaufman.com/index.php/scripts-writing/scripts-writing/film-scripts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Charlie Kaufman's website&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The debate raged a couple years ago on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/1ovjtx/tomt_we_met_at_the_wrong_time_thats_what_i_keep/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reddit&lt;/a&gt; to no definitive answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Attributions to the film are everywhere, which goes to show that you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30783" LastActivityDate="2016-02-19T20:07:13.533" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49032" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="61169" CreationDate="2016-02-19T21:47:19.787" Score="5" ViewCount="18749" Body="&lt;p&gt;The cast often refers to situations using Police codes, most of which I was able to dig up &lt;a href=&quot;http://copradar.com/tencodes/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But I came across this piece of IMDb Trivia on &lt;em&gt;Blue Bloods&lt;/em&gt; that states:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In the standard 10-code, 10-13 is asking for weather and road conditions, but NYPD uses a different 10-code where 10-13 means &quot;Assist Police Officer&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't been able to find a reference to this though, the closest I came was to a link that mentioned 10-13 as a holdup.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I guess my question is, does each state publish its separate police scanner codes handbook, or are the codes shown in such police shows purely empirical?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4083" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-09-25T15:03:04.723" LastActivityDate="2017-04-04T22:02:25.517" Title="NYC Police Codes in Blue Bloods 10-13?" Tags="|realism|blue-bloods|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49034" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49038" CreationDate="2016-02-20T02:28:12.200" Score="7" ViewCount="1430" Body="&lt;p&gt;This film is old, might even be from the eighties.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only scene I can remember is that the main male character, who I seem to remember being some sort of detective or PI was in a woman's room when she came home.  He hid in her closet, where there was a tube of superglue on the floor.  Her little yappy terrier dog ran up and started barking at the closet doors (I think they were the louvered folding style).  He reached out and grabbed the dog and pulled it into the closet to quiet it, accidentally gluing it to his hand.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I thought this was a Chevy Chase movie, and rewatched &lt;em&gt;Fletch&lt;/em&gt; just to see if that was it, but no luck. Does this sound familiar to anyone?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31388" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-02-20T04:35:31.743" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T05:40:52.697" Title="Comedy where a guy glues a dog to his hand while hiding in closet" Tags="|identify-this-movie|comedy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:24:19.507" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49037" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49059" CreationDate="2016-02-20T04:19:45.297" Score="3" ViewCount="78" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the marketing for the movie &lt;a href=&quot;http://senderfilms.com/productions/details/812/King-Lines&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;King Lines&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; they say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(2007) The best-selling climbing film of all time. Follow Chris Sharma on his ultimate global quest to redefine the possible in the vertical world.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clearly movies like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106582/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cliffhanger&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; aren't included in this statistic. That being said, was that actually true at one time or is that subtly qualified hype aka best-selling for this studio? For it to be anything but hype there would have to be some organization that tracks the sales of all climbing movies from the various producers. If that organization exists would I be able to figure out the best selling skiing, diving,  also from them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26325" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-20T22:54:34.340" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T23:41:28.023" Title="Is King Lines really/still the best selling climbing movie of all time?" Tags="|box-office|king-lines|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49038" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49034" CreationDate="2016-02-20T04:35:40.557" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like Blake Edwards' &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085891/combined&quot;&gt;The Man Who Loved Women&lt;/a&gt; with Burt Reynolds and Julie Andrews from 1983.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;This is the tale of a sculptor named David who has a major womanizing problem. He goes to seek help from a psychiatrist, Marianna, to cure him of his obsession with women. His story of sexual and romantic exploits with the ladies is told by Marianna.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one scene, he hides in the closet when a woman's (I think Kim Basinger)  husband comes home, and somehow gets his hand glued to a dog. IIRC, he then escapes with the dog still glued to him. It's a remake of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Loved_Women_(1977_film)&quot;&gt;French film from 1977&lt;/a&gt;. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/OsBf7cfpdZw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-02-20T05:40:52.697" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T05:40:52.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49039" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-20T04:37:33.137" Score="2" ViewCount="123" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1999 film Jawbreaker wouldn't Julie have also gone to jail right along with Courtney and Marcie? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even if she and Zach had found the photo in the parking lot, it still would have been her word against Courtney's. So, I don't get what they thought finding it would solve. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The recording of Courntey admitting to the crime doesn't omit Julie from guilt either. She'd still be in trouble. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6043" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T04:37:33.137" Title="Wouldn't Julie go to jail as well?" Tags="|plot-explanation|jawbreaker|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49041" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49052" CreationDate="2016-02-20T06:29:43.443" Score="12" ViewCount="1191" Body="&lt;p&gt;I remember a scene of a film I saw in the 1990s- early 2000. I know i was probably was too young to watch that. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the scene is in a bright room with jail-bars in the back. A man was there, a very strange man, with long and dirty dark hair. I don't know how he got a gun but he shot himself in the mouth. There was other people in the room talking about the strange man.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I seem to remember something about a golden tooth, a car on fire with one or more people inside and a girl with strange drawing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31395" LastEditorUserId="31395" LastEditDate="2016-02-20T17:24:25.320" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T21:14:25.393" Title="Movie about a strange man in a jail-cell who shoots himself in the mouth" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:24:22.717" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49049" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="16525" CreationDate="2016-02-20T13:05:41.010" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gutenberg.org/files/135/135-h/135-h.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;source novel&lt;/a&gt; (as translated) indicates that he died of &lt;a href=&quot;http://jn.nutrition.org/content/129/1/256S.full&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;wasting&lt;/a&gt;, a condition marked by under-nutrition, reduced physical activity and which ultimately results in chronically low blood pressure and systemic organ failure. His wasting was evidently prompted by late onset depression and a change in mental state&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;His portress, who prepared his scanty repasts, a few cabbages or potatoes with bacon, glanced at the brown earthenware plate and exclaimed:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;But you ate nothing yesterday, poor, dear man!&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;Certainly I did,&quot; replied Jean Valjean.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;The plate is quite full.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;Look at the water jug. It is empty.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;That proves that you have drunk; it does not prove that you have eaten.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;Well,&quot; said Jean Valjean, &quot;what if I felt hungry only for water?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;That is called thirst, and, when one does not eat at the same time, it is called fever.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;I will eat to-morrow.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He&#xA;  still remained in bed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;One evening Jean Valjean found difficulty in raising himself on his&#xA;  elbow; he felt of his wrist and could not find his pulse; his breath&#xA;  was short and halted at times; he recognized the fact that he was&#xA;  weaker than he had ever been before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given that Jean Valjean was exerting himself at the point at which he died, it seems reasonably likely that the primary symptom of death was heart failure.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T13:05:41.010" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49052" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49041" CreationDate="2016-02-20T16:40:15.733" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;4 key parts of your description fit in with &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237572/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Pledge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (2001). Directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Man in jail shot himself in the mouth.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A suspect (Benicio Del Toro) grabs a gun and shoots himself in the head (through the mouth). He has long, dark hair.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/80YtG.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/80YtG.png&quot; alt=&quot;Shot in mouth&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Golden tooth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He has a gold tooth.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V1AX4.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/V1AX4.png&quot; alt=&quot;gold tooth&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It gets a bit gory. The tooth is embedded in the wall and gets extracted by Jack Nicholson.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BjAil.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BjAil.png&quot; alt=&quot;tooth&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Girl with strange drawing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A child's drawing is part of the evidence.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RnlAN.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RnlAN.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;drawing&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Car on fire&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This happens near the end.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/84McA.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/84McA.png&quot; alt=&quot;car on fire&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5029" LastEditorUserId="5029" LastEditDate="2016-02-20T21:14:25.393" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T21:14:25.393" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49055" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35864" CreationDate="2016-02-20T20:15:54.653" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't think Eobard had romantic feelings for Hartley, more of a father/son mentor bond. I think he had great admiration and pride for Hartley but nothing sexual or romantic. He might have been gay, bisexual or straight. I'm going for straight purely on the fact that he never showed any romantic interest, none at all for males. Now, you could put this down to him being a generally secluded person or you could say that he was simply heterosexual. This is proven when he states that he still gets &quot;teary eyed&quot; over Tess Morgan's murder. Again this could all be simply because he absorbed the real Harrison Wells' DNA but and therefore gained some of his emotions and memories. All in all in my opinion I believe Eobard Thawne to be generally Asexual, seeing as he seems to feel no personal attachment to anyone romantically, the only time that showed him with any romantic feelings were simply because of someone else's emotions inside his own brain. So yeah, I believe Eobard to be asexual and generally a blank canvas with relationships&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31414" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T20:15:54.653" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49056" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="11156" CreationDate="2016-02-20T21:26:40.163" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ethiopian gladiators did exist but constituted a small minority. They generally fought as retiarius (trident and net). There really was a gladiator named Oenomaus who was one of the leaders in Spartacus' slave army but he was not black. He was a Gaul. From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oenomaus_(rebel_slave)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Oenomaus was a Gallic gladiator, who escaped from the gladiatorial school of Lentulus Batiatus in Capua. Together with the Thracian Spartacus and the fellow Gauls Crixus, Castus and Gannicus, he became one of the leaders of rebellious slaves during the Third Servile War (73–71 BC).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31418" LastEditorUserId="27759" LastEditDate="2016-07-27T16:30:33.320" LastActivityDate="2016-07-27T16:30:33.320" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49058" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="46887" CreationDate="2016-02-20T22:45:55.703" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;There are such materials as granite, carbon ceramic and graphite, all of which would be able to sustain high levels of pressure, and in the case of graphite be a true future-tech material that could be used in conjunction with some type of stone to counteract the buoyancy issue.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In short, see above for at least 2 viable solutions to a relatively trivial problem... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31421" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T22:45:55.703" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49059" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49037" CreationDate="2016-02-20T23:41:28.023" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basing the results purely on Amazon's bestselling items list (usually a good measure of the overall popularity of a film), you can see that &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B000XW1NV0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;King Lines&lt;/a&gt; is currently sitting at #105,431 in the &quot;all Movies &amp;amp; TV&quot; category and #3703 in &quot;Sports&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By comparison, the climbing film &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B014JC10KI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Meru&lt;/a&gt; sits at #3,577 in the &quot;all Movies &amp;amp; TV&quot; category and #94 in &quot;Sports&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Either the claim is outdated (and should have been retracted long ago) or it's simply marketing hype.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-02-20T23:41:28.023" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49060" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-20T23:55:25.893" Score="3" ViewCount="4135" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Vikings, after Kwenthrith's brother dies, everyone pours out their wine.&#xA;Were all of the drinks poisoned (or was everyone simply put off)? I find this unlikely, as when the scene opens, time seems to have already passed (i.e. they hadn't just congregated), and would everybody really have held their drinks in their hands for so long without taking a sip? Of course, we don't actually see anybody else take  a sip.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have I missed something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also- on the side- was that a bit of brother-sister romance going on, when Kewenthirth and her brother kept touching each other and declaring each other's love (and also judging by the look on Ecbert's and Ragnar's face).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11511" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T00:03:53.720" LastActivityDate="2016-08-19T16:10:54.543" Title="Did Kwenthrith have all of the drinks poisoned in Season 3 episode 4?" Tags="|vikings|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49061" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27590" CreationDate="2016-02-21T01:20:05.133" Score="-3" Body="&lt;p&gt;I believe it's intended to be blood sweat caused by extreme fear or anxiety, similar to what Jesus experienced in the garden of Gethsemane before his arrest and execution. Luke 22:44 &quot;But he was in such agony that he kept praying more earnestly; and his sweat became as drops of blood falling to the ground.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31424" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T01:20:05.133" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49062" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27590" CreationDate="2016-02-21T01:47:59.760" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Fifth-Element,-The.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;original script&lt;/a&gt;, the black fluid oozes out of a video monitor rather than Zorg's head&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Shadow pauses an instant.  A black slimy liquid starts to ooze from&#xA;  the top of the screen.  Zorg is feeling worse all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SHADOW:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Money is of no importance... I want the Stones!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0061058386&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;novelisation&lt;/a&gt; is similarly unhelpful, merely remarking that &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;... A black, slimy liquid began to ooze from the top of Zorg’s head.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notably, there's also a mention of similar fluid on the walls of the Fifth Element's chamber in both the script and the novel, implying that it's unlikely to be blood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T01:47:59.760" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49063" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-21T01:49:35.727" Score="3" ViewCount="126" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what the budget was for Hal Hartley's film &quot;Fay Grim&quot;?&#xA;I haven't been able to find any figures in the usual places (such as IMDB). &#xA;(Also, I'm curious because the film had exteriors filmed in four countries, but for the interiors, AFAIK, they used the cost-cutting measure of filming in sets (mostly incomplete sets) in a studio in Berlin.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/vAnsrD3kC58?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24353" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-03-22T19:55:18.310" LastActivityDate="2016-05-21T21:00:00.273" Title="What was the budget for &quot;Fay Grim&quot;?" Tags="|production|fay-grim|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49069" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-21T04:33:51.240" Score="-2" ViewCount="25934" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the American drama, Suits, is it necessary for Mike to get a law degree to practise law? Isn't passing the Bar exam enough?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If he has to get a law degree to practise law, could he actually apply for (and even pass) the Bar exam without a degree?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are American law schools graduate schools? What do people have to study for their bachelor degrees in universities in order to apply for law schools in the future?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31352" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T19:15:24.227" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T19:15:24.227" Title="Why can't Mike practice law without a degree" Tags="|suits|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ClosedDate="2016-02-23T12:24:49.027" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49071" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49069" CreationDate="2016-02-21T05:16:07.993" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;So... first off, as I said in a comment, the requirements for practicing law varies from state to state. &lt;em&gt;Suits&lt;/em&gt; takes place in New York, so we'll look at the laws there... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nybarexam.org/Eligible/Eligibility.htm&quot;&gt;requirements to take the bar in New York&lt;/a&gt; are a bit complicated but, assume, in general, one must have successfully completed &lt;strong&gt;at least&lt;/strong&gt; one year (28 credit hours) of law school at an &lt;em&gt;approved&lt;/em&gt; university in the US &lt;em&gt;plus&lt;/em&gt; working as a clerk in a law office to total four years &lt;strong&gt;or&lt;/strong&gt; completed a law degree outside the US or at an &lt;em&gt;unapproved&lt;/em&gt; university in the US (plus 5 years of practice).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;ol&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;ABA Approved Law School Study (JD graduates) - Applicant attended and was graduated with a first degree in law from a law school or law schools in the United States which at all times during the period of applicant's attendance was or were approved by the American Bar Association (ABA). (Section 520.3 of the Rules of the Court of Appeals)&#xA;  List of ABA Approved Law Schools&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Law Office Study/Clerkship - A combination of law school study at an ABA approved law school and law office study  (520.4 of the Rules of the Court of Appeals).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unapproved Law School Study - Graduation from an unapproved law school in the United States with a Juris Doctor degree and practice in a jurisdiction where the applicant has been admitted for 5 of the 7 years immediately preceding application to sit for the New York bar examination. (Section 520.5 of the Rules of the Court of Appeals)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Foreign Law School Study – Successful completion of a program of study at a law school outside of the United States that is both durationally and substantively equivalent to a program of study at an approved law school in the United States, and if required, successful completion of an additional program of study at an approved law school in the United States. (Section 520.6 of the Rules of the Court of Appeals) (See also, &quot;Foreign Legal Education&quot; section of this website)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;  &lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, based on option 2 above (further explained farther down the page) &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt; you don't &lt;em&gt;need&lt;/em&gt; a law degree to practice law in the state of New York. Yes, you do need to pass the bar exam but you can't &lt;strong&gt;take&lt;/strong&gt; the bar exam without meeting the minimum requirements, which, in three out of four cases, means having a law degree. You can't walk in off the street and take the bar after studying for it on your own.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Mike, unfortunately, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suits_%28TV_series%29#Main_cast&quot;&gt;doesn't seem to have ever entered law school in the first place&lt;/a&gt;. While he's probably met the requirements for working in a law firm for four years, he does not meet the minimum requirement of having 28 credit hours from an approved law school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Mike has an encyclopedic knowledge of law thanks to his eidetic memory, but never attended law school or passed the bar exam, at least not under his own name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He would not qualify to take the bar, and, thus, could never pass it and therefore, could never legally practice law in New York state.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Your other questions have nothing to do with M&amp;amp;TV... &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Generally, an American law degree is a &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor&quot;&gt;JD&lt;/a&gt;&quot; or &quot;Doctor of Jurisprudence&quot;. It is technically a doctoral-level degree - though you can get a Master's degree in law, most do not*.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There is no set bachelor's track for a JD. You can major in anything you like. Many opt for Government or Political Science majors but it's not like medical school. You don't need any specific knowledge to succeed in law school.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;*From what I understand, most people who get a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Laws#United_States&quot;&gt;Masters of Law&lt;/a&gt; degree are foreigners wishing to practice law in the US.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;An LL.M. degree from an ABA-approved law school qualifies a foreign legal graduate to take the bar exam in Alabama, California, New Hampshire, New York, Texas, as well as in the independent republic of Palau.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16420" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T05:16:07.993" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49074" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-21T06:07:16.970" Score="3" ViewCount="138" Body="&lt;p&gt;In one of the Sons of Anarchy Season1, Ep &amp;lt; 4, Gemma tells Clay that &lt;strong&gt;Jax is going towards the footsteps of his father and that he needs to set it right - follow the footsteps of the right father&lt;/strong&gt;. What does she actually want to do at that point of time? and what is she afraid the most of? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That if he does not lead the SOA MC, when they retire they might have repercussions? (Evident from their awareness of Mayans/Niners blow backs and their code of living) (Is it a valid surmise?)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;It might come to Jax's killing same way she blessed John's death? (She see's parallel's)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;She is afraid their arrangement Clay - Gemma - Jax  would fall with Jax - Clay fallout. (She tells Tara later &quot;Men need to own their pussy, his has been violated. He will find another. Its what they do!&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That she is Afraid at that point of time itself (Jax just found John's book from  the garage) that jax finding about his father's death would lead to Jax killing Gemma and or Clay&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;If club finds out they will kill Gemma AND Clay! (They might be aware that someone other than Clay/Gemma ('Piney/Jury/Irish Father') still living might know of their plot, and they can inform the club with Jax's finding, even if Jax does not act on it)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Both Clay and Gemma are afraid of IRA kings and the future of the club.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;What else?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does she really have situation analytical ability like Clay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31433" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T17:01:16.040" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T17:01:16.040" Title="Is Gemma Teller afraid of repurcussions?" Tags="|sons-of-anarchy|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49078" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="24094" CreationDate="2016-02-21T09:11:29.577" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Gunther thought he could trust the American agents, but finally realizes he was set up and betrayed by them. Instead of working together for a positive outcome, the Americans had their own agenda, and never understood his or his country's priorities. This symbolizes something we don't often realize: our image in the world is not always that positive. Gunther is totally disillusioned and disgusted. He's sure the US agents are laughing at him for being too trusting, therefore losing the man he thought he could save. It was just senseless. Good doesn't always triumph over evil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31437" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T09:11:29.577" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49079" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49063" CreationDate="2016-02-21T10:15:35.283" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;The director hasn't released specific figures, but we can make some rough guesses based on their filming regime. TL;DR - &lt;strong&gt;About $100K for production and about the same again for post-production and promotion&lt;/strong&gt; although it's very very hard to determine actual numbers when the Director and many of the crew essentially have unlimited &lt;em&gt;time&lt;/em&gt; to promote the film and are each doing multiple jobs &lt;strong&gt;with some working solely for the film credit and others just there as a favour to the Director&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The film was funded by Hartley himself as well as some investment cash from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0459852/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;two friends&lt;/a&gt; within the industry. Their budget was insufficient to allow overseas filming of anything more than a small amount of stock footage and two external scenes outside of Germany, something which was presumably accomplished by the two overseas &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0444628/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;line producers&lt;/a&gt;&quot; listed in the credits. The film itself was shot in less than 30 days using HD Digital Video cameras on incomplete (recycled) sets and using existing (real) properties as sets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Assuming a cost of $500 a day for cast, a similar amount for crew and a similar amount for all other costs (location costs, rentals, flights, lighting, catering, makeup, etc) the actual budget for production would have been something like $50K. Post-production costs (sound and foley, editing, soundtrack, effects, poster-design, etc) would have probably run another $50K to turn the the film into a saleable product. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond that point, the film needed marketing and taking to various festivals to arrange for it to receive a limited release and an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/german-actress-sibel-kekilli-attends-the-premiere-to-the-news-photo/73313224&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;official premiere&lt;/a&gt;. Flight costs, car rentals and the cost of &lt;a href=&quot;http://collider.com/parker-posey-and-hal-hartley-interviewed-fay-grim/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;arranging interviews&lt;/a&gt; for the cast and crew would probably have run another $50K.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may also wish to note that the film was &quot;leaked&quot; to torrent channels shortly after production which would have helped it to gain some word-of-mouth advantage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HH:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Earlier, they'd been aesthetic reasons [for shooting abroad]; there was nothing economic about it. This one posed certain problems.&#xA;  I was already living in Berlin, and the script, of course, had been&#xA;  written for Queens, but also for Paris and Istanbul. It's not a&#xA;  totally small film, but we didn't have the money to travel to all&#xA;  these places and do all these things there. And we couldn't base it&#xA;  out of New York, either. It’s just become too expensive there. So then&#xA;  we just reread the script. One thing I discovered right off the bat is&#xA;  that like 90 percent of the movie is indoors, which is unusual. So we&#xA;  started thinking about sets, building sets that would match the first&#xA;  film. But we got lucky. It was mostly about Parker's, Fay's, home. At&#xA;  the eleventh hour we found a German prefab Bauhaus neighbourhood that&#xA;  had these homes that could be Queens or Brooklyn. We had to change a&#xA;  lot of the details, but the layout could definitely be a home in&#xA;  Brooklyn. It was just a lot of work doing location scouting, finding&#xA;  the interior of the French Ministry. Those kinds of things were easier&#xA;  because European cities all have that monumental eighteenth-century&#xA;  [building] somewhere.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Did this slow you down at all?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HH:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;No. we shot as fast as I've usually had to shoot in the United States. It's only twenty-eight days, I think—less, like&#xA;  twenty-six. No, certain things were harder to find, like the big set&#xA;  for Fays home. That took us a long time. This really good locations&#xA;  guy, Boland Gerhardt, at the eleventh hour found [it]. Because a lot&#xA;  of the page count — If it's a 130-page script, seventy pages happen in&#xA;  Fay's house. So we knew that if we shot for twenty-six days we were at&#xA;  that location for like six or seven. Other things were kind of easy.&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;sub&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2P_vvokyimUC&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;amp;q&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Hal Harley: Mark Berettini&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T11:47:14.477" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T11:47:14.477" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49080" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49069" CreationDate="2016-02-21T12:32:42.220" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;You basically need a law degree to take the bar exam, which is needed to practice law. Although Mike has taken the bar exam several times, he was being paid to take it with a fake id for others. Also, with the firm he works for, it is already believed that he graduated from Harvard ( the only law school the firm hires from ) so he is kind of stuck. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Law schools have graduate programs, but are considered by some as professional schools (specializing in specific disciplines such as medicine, law, business, engineering), differing from graduate schools.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, you don't have to major in any particular degree for law school. In fact, degrees are beneficial for specializations, such as business and medicine. But many law students do major in pre-law, criminal justice, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19332" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T12:32:42.220" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49082" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-21T15:09:29.367" Score="16" ViewCount="17588" Body="&lt;p&gt;Batman is called Batman because he looks like a bat and flies like them. Same with Spider-Man and Superman carrying a S mark of on his chest. But why is Deadpool named Deadpool? I mean why Deadpool and what makes him Deadpool? Is this explained anywhere in the movie or is this solely a remnant of the comics?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19027" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-02T10:43:25.953" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T02:42:33.117" Title="Why is Deadpool named Deadpool?" Tags="|character|x-men-cinematic-universe|deadpool|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49084" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="32653" CreationDate="2016-02-21T16:37:07.383" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Romans had reached far western China but we're turned back by Chinese crossbows with iron tipped bolts, which westerners had never seen before.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31441" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T16:37:07.383" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49086" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49097" CreationDate="2016-02-21T16:51:52.397" Score="5" ViewCount="37164" Body="&lt;p&gt;How did John Teller actually die in &lt;em&gt;Sons of Anarchy&lt;/em&gt;? Was it suicide?  No matter how many times I watch certain episodes I am unable to figure it out. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did Gemma/Clay sabotage the bike and John never knew it and so actually Clay/Gemma killed him before John actually wanted out.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Did John knew they will sabotage it and was waiting for it as the most logical point to die as a way out? So clay kills the John's mechanic once John dies?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Was John by then too far gone to make sense of anything and just plainly tries to ride away from the club with his bike and he meets with an accident? (Gemma/Clay is yet to put their plans into action, The mechanic John teller trusts, is still loyal to John, never sabotages the bike and chooses to disappear rather than face Clay? Because if what Jury says is true, and john did not yet want out dead, as soon as he would start a bike he would know, why did he ride out so far. Gemma also says sometime that they put John back together but he is unraveling again. Gemma/Clay mistakenly think they succeeded in killing him.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;This is because Jury tells Jax just before he dies S07 EP08 that John&#xA;wanted out and it's his sacrifice. If Clay/Gemma sabotaged the bike,&#xA;he would have known it. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;That also does not make sense of something - If he wanted himself dead, how would that help the club? Clay could go on to make a bigger mess of what he is currently doing now.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If John knew then below may support it:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Before his death does he believe Clay would see the error of his&#xA;ways and lead the MC into a better future influenced by his friend's&#xA;death and Jack's adoption as a son?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;I remember the scene where Clay (possibly) lovingly sees Jack's son in incubator. That would make him his adopted grandfather?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;True to his character, Clay leads the club well for the next few years, sees through many of his decisions and the MC is stable. &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31433" LastEditorUserId="31433" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T17:08:02.920" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T19:35:12.733" Title="How did John Teller actually die?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sons-of-anarchy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49088" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-21T17:24:57.513" Score="5" ViewCount="187" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the end, is Clay actually right about most of what he did, and he is the right leader that SOA MC Redwood Originals possibly could have ever got?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Clay is known to see through his decisions, that requires taking into context all of past, present and future. In that I believe he outweighs John, who could be seen as someone who is more brave.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Was he actually visualizing the future when he tries to kill John? Charming was surrounded geographically as below (as per my underrstanding)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To one side there are the  Mayans - Mexicans, drugs were known by then and were on the way up quite visibly&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To another side there is Niners. [Not to be racist], but we can assume they can be more violent and impulsive that others see as more dangerous?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Chinese triads might be taking hold and probably it would have been visible to Clay already.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So Clay knows if there is any future to anyone at all, they need to defend themselves well. And if they need to win and thus control the future, the only way that can ever happen is if they control the defense? Ie the Guns. &#xA;He (as well as &lt;strong&gt;GEMMA&lt;/strong&gt;, strongly)  loves Charming very much and so is forced to make that decision to run guns.  Does Gemma also have some of his acumen and awareness and so supports him to protect her town rather than just her husband?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lot of points seem to support it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He does'nt deal Drugs&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He does not deal porn and sees it as vulgar&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He only kills tactically ever&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;His code of living&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He knows Big money corrupts and its dangers and is against it.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31433" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T17:38:18.847" LastActivityDate="2018-03-20T16:49:59.520" Title="Clay's Leadership - Was he right?" Tags="|sons-of-anarchy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49089" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49082" CreationDate="2016-02-21T17:56:45.473" Score="17" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Background Information:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At first, Deadpool was just a generic mercenary bad guy, during the XTREME era of comics, the 90s. The name was a typical extreme villain name. It was also a barely hidden play on the DC character Deathstroke, Slade Wilson, who Deadpool was basically a copy of at first.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then after his popularity went up, and Deadpool became a starring character, they gave him a canon back story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Comic Canon:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deadpool got his name from a betting pool at the Hospice, where &amp;quot;failed&amp;quot; members of Department K/Canadian branch of the Weapons X program were sent for treatment. But the Hospice was being used by Dr. Killebrew as a source of human lab rats for experiments, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not part of the official Weapon X program&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Ajax helped Dr. Killebrew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/56zs5.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/56zs5.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &amp;quot;patients&amp;quot;, the other inmates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, not the guards, were betting on when test subjects would die from the experiments. A &amp;quot;When will they be Dead&amp;quot; pool. Worm, Deadpool's friend in the Hospice, handles the pool:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NBm0t.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/NBm0t.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wade survived much longer than anyone expected, courtesy of his willpower and the mutant healing factor embedded in him earlier. It didn't start working until Ajax tried to kill him, ripping Wade's heart out. He regenerated, attempted to kill Ajax, breaking out of the Hospice, winning the dead pool, and the name stuck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;Movie Canon:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Deadpool in the movie is named Deadpool after the fact. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's much less relevant to his character in the movies than it was in the comics.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; The bar that Wade goes to is &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Sister Margaret’s Home for Wayward Girls.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;, officially known as the &lt;strong&gt;Hell House&lt;/strong&gt; in the comics. The betting pool in the bar is for regular mercenaries, hired guns, hitmen, or any degenerate going there. It is a dead pool, seeing when these guys (filled with a bunch of random references) will kick the bucket. It has no connection to the Hospice, or Dr. Killebrew. Ajax is not known as the Attending. Worm is not the one that introduces Wade to the Dead Pool. Etc. Wade was on the dead pool long before his cancer or failed Weapon X procedures. After he escapes Ajax the first time, he meets Weasel and they brainstorm names in-between insults. &lt;strong&gt;Wade ends up taking the name Deadpool from the bar's betting pool, just riffing with Weasel.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XfzUq.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XfzUq.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He literally takes it 2 seconds after he saw it on the wall, instead of feeling attached to it due to months of torture by Killebrew at the Hospice. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One of the less than stellar changes they made to his origin story.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Of course, the real reason the movie Deadpool is named Deadpool is because he's a comic character and they can't change the name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T02:42:33.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49093" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="35758" CreationDate="2016-02-21T18:43:45.107" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's her. Laurene Landon herself &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/LaureneLandon/status/701471127684558848&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;confirmed it&lt;/a&gt; on Twitter. According to her, the part was cut short due to time constraints.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11261" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T18:43:45.107" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49094" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-21T18:44:32.610" Score="7" ViewCount="1789" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season one of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwjc49TgxovLAhXGORoKHQCSDJ4QFgggMAA&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLost_(TV_series)&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGkqcyf0VSTgq8Qqd8db2tOS53W3w&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lost&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, there are few incidents of polar bears attacking the plane crash survivors. Specifically, around 15th episode, the bear traps Walt inside a tree. Moments prior, we see a comic book being burnt by Walt's father and the main page of the book having a raging polar bear depicted.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there any connection between the comic book and the further incident? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edit:&lt;/strong&gt; I should also mention that there has been made a special camera zooming accent on the image of the polar bear while the comic book has been burning down. So, this has intrigued me a lot considering the nature of the entire movie and its resolution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-22T14:12:38.177" LastActivityDate="2016-07-28T02:29:09.010" Title="Connection of the polar bear from comic book to the real polar bear in Lost?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lost|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49095" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49082" CreationDate="2016-02-21T19:03:50.337" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.comixology.com/Deadpool-Death-Annual/digital-comic/29469&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Deadpool and Death Annual 1999&lt;/a&gt; we learn the origin of Deadpool's name; simply put, when he was being experimented on (as part of the programme which ultimately led to his powers) the guards had a &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_pool&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;dead pool&lt;/a&gt; where they would gamble on which subject would die next. He took his name from this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/U0jBE.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/tRFZi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of universe, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicvine.com/deadpool/4005-7606/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;ComicVine&lt;/a&gt; indicates that the name (and concept) were chosen as an homage to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094963/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;5th Dirty Harry movie&lt;/a&gt;. Although they're usually very accurate about these things, I can't find any quotes to back this up.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T19:03:50.337" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49097" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49086" CreationDate="2016-02-21T19:35:12.733" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;IIRC, Clay revealed that he tried to murder JT twice before his fatal accident.  After Clay started his affair with Gemma, they conspired to get JT out of the picture by tampering with his brakes.  JT supposedly knew what was going on and let it happen, believing it was his only way out of the club and being completely disenchanted with what he created.  In effect, he committed suicide.  Similarly, Jax ended his life more or less the same way, becoming equally disenchanted with the direction he forced the club.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T19:35:12.733" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49098" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-21T19:42:11.770" Score="4" ViewCount="758" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3464902/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Lobster (2015)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; last night (which, by the way, is one of the most bizarre movies I've ever seen...), and I'm confused as to why Colin Farrell's character hooks up with that psycho woman.  Was it because his stay was almost over?  She was so unlike him, it just seems like a poor choice for him to make.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-07-22T04:49:50.323" Title="Why did Colin Farrell hook up with that psycho chick?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-lobster|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49099" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-21T19:48:28.353" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3464902/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Lobster (2015)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a Comedy/Drama/Romance film starring Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz.  Set in a dystopian future, single people are sent to live in a hotel for 45 days, after which they either leave as a couple or are transformed into a beast and sent to live in the woods.  John C. Reilly co-stars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T20:05:43.803" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T20:05:43.803" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49100" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-21T19:48:28.353" Score="0" Body="For any questions relating to the film The Lobster (2015)" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T20:05:38.367" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T20:05:38.367" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49101" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49108" CreationDate="2016-02-21T20:00:15.797" Score="13" ViewCount="4956" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull&lt;/em&gt;, Indy tells Mutt that he learned to speak Quechua from Pancho Villa's forces. I remember that he had an adventure with Pancho Villa in &lt;em&gt;The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles&lt;/em&gt;. Is this a reference to this adventure? If so, which episode was it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12783" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T20:04:28.110" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T22:22:26.407" Title="Is Indy's line about Pancho Villa a reference to The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles?" Tags="|indiana-jones|the-kingdom-of-the-crystal-skull|young-indiana-jones|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49102" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-21T20:06:58.830" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles&lt;/em&gt; is an American television show about the childhood and youth of Indiana Jones. It aired from March 4, 1992, to July 24, 1993. The series was re-edited in 1999 under the title &lt;em&gt;The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12783" LastEditorUserId="12783" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T20:35:49.233" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T20:35:49.233" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49103" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-21T20:06:58.830" Score="0" Body="An American television show about the childhood and youth of Indiana Jones." OwnerUserId="12783" LastEditorUserId="12783" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T20:35:10.467" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T20:35:10.467" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49104" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48796" CreationDate="2016-02-21T20:31:22.353" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;George Clooney, The Thin Red Line (1998)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Albeit having a huge ensemble cast, in this 2-hour 50-minute feature he has less than maybe 2 minutes of screen time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bJX1h.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bJX1h.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTk0MjIyNTA1M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwOTM3MzU5._V1_UY268_CR4,0,182,268_AL_.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18232" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T20:31:22.353" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49105" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49375" CreationDate="2016-02-21T20:46:32.820" Score="6" ViewCount="7560" Body="&lt;p&gt;If Trevor finally goes to the police at the end of &lt;em&gt;The Machinist&lt;/em&gt; to say that he did the accident and he goes to sleep in a jail cell, why does he drive again into a tunnel after a second?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31446" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T23:03:22.113" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T17:07:35.967" Title="Explanation for the final scene of The Machinist" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|the-machinist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49107" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49101" CreationDate="2016-02-21T21:20:44.723" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Indiana_Jones_Chronicles#Plot&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The series is also referenced in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the&#xA;  Crystal Skull, when Indy describes his adventures with Pancho Villa&#xA;  (chronicled in the first episode) to Mutt Williams.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The first episode of the series was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394998/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Indiana finally caught up again with this jackal shaped artifact in&#xA;  1916, after getting himself involved in the Mexican revolution while&#xA;  crossing the border with his cousin Frank. Having joined up with&#xA;  Pancho Villa, Indy became fast friends with Remy Baudouin, another&#xA;  revolutionary who originally hails from Belgium.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T21:20:44.723" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49108" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49101" CreationDate="2016-02-21T21:21:32.757" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes, it &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;most likely is&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; a reference to the &lt;em&gt;Young Indiana Jones Chronicles&lt;/em&gt;. The specific adventure with Pancho Villa was shown in the first episode, the pilot &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&quot;Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal&quot;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; It was also recut as the 6th film, &lt;a href=&quot;http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/Spring_Break_Adventure&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Spring Break Adventure&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Lucasfilms considers most things in canon, with the feature films being the highest canon, and the tv shows as a lower canon. Conflicts between the two are handled by the higher canon being right. This is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/Indycron&quot;&gt;Indycron&lt;/a&gt;, similar to the old Lucasfilms canon structure for Star Wars (before Disney changed everything). So events in &lt;em&gt;The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles&lt;/em&gt; are canon to &lt;em&gt;Kingdom&lt;/em&gt;, unless the film said otherwise. In this case, it directly references the events.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles&lt;/em&gt; of course, was produced by George Lucas, and Harrison Ford was even in an episode. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Kingdom_of_the_Crystal_Skull#Development&quot;&gt;The Crystal Skulls were even going to be used by Lucas in the the &lt;em&gt;Young Indiana Jones Chronicles&lt;/em&gt; before the show was canceled.&lt;/a&gt; One of the writers for Crystal Skull, Frank Darabont, also wrote for the tv show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T21:49:51.017" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T21:49:51.017" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49109" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49101" CreationDate="2016-02-21T21:40:15.363" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;The old &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20070724014822/http://www.indianajones.com/marshall/character/indianajones/&quot;&gt;Indianajones.com website&lt;/a&gt; (produced and managed by LucasFilm) featured an extensive fictional biography of Indy. This article included a wealth of information taken directly from the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, including this snippet:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In the years following Anna's death, Henry Jones became consumed by&#xA;  his research regarding the Holy Grail. This served to distance him&#xA;  from his young son. In 1916, during a visit to extended family in New&#xA;  Mexico, Indy escaped his father's reach. &lt;strong&gt;A trip across the Mexican&#xA;  border swept Indy up in the Mexican revolution, and Indy briefly rode&#xA;  with General Francisco Villa.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Since, according to LucasFilm the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles exist within the &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20080603083220/http://forums.starwars.com/thread.jspa?threadID=261663&amp;amp;tstart=0&quot;&gt;same canon universe&lt;/a&gt; as the films, there's absolutely no good reason to assume that the film shouldn't directly reference the &lt;a href=&quot;http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/Young_Indiana_Jones_and_the_Curse_of_the_Jackal&quot;&gt;pilot for the TV series&lt;/a&gt;; Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T22:22:26.407" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T22:22:26.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49110" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49098" CreationDate="2016-02-21T22:25:31.590" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well it does seem a poor choice to make at first glance and that his stay was almost up definitely came across as a reason. However if we take this poor choice and stack it with the many poor choices this character makes i.e. blatantly being too friendly with his true love in the apartment which he should know would anger the new leader he is with but he is so dumb and always making poor choices that he carries on anyway. If we take these decisions and stack it with the choice he makes at movies close...... what a dumb son of ... . Plus who would choose a lobster. All in all a perfect in character choice for that character. To close yes a poor choice for you and I and a perfect choice for that lobster brained character. This is backed by no fact other than what I took from this movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24486" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T22:25:31.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49111" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49094" CreationDate="2016-02-21T23:19:15.227" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's very difficult to answer this without spoiling a little bit of the series. I have no idea where you are in the series, so I'll spoiler this block:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Walt is &quot;special&quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Officially&lt;/em&gt;, we don't know why. Damon Lindelof, co-creator of Lost, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/lost-producers-reunite-at-comic-con-present-new-footage#ihydXhzglFgLOfCz.99&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;was asked it at Comic-Con 2011&lt;/a&gt; and said: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; One mystery that they said was always meant to be unexplained was the source of Walt's powers, which Lindelof likened to Stephen King's &quot;Carrie,&quot; where it's just accepted without explanation that Carrie is telekinetic. &quot;That's one of those things that never felt like a mystery to us: why is Walt special?&quot; he said. &quot;The answer is, because he is.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are many fan theories on this, &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Walt_Lloyd/Theories&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;which can be found here&lt;/a&gt;. However, among them are the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Walt has some level of psychic powers. For example, In the episode &quot;&lt;em&gt;Special&lt;/em&gt;&quot; (Season 1) while playing backgammon with Hurley, Walt thinks a number out loud and then rolls it. Also, when Locke is teaching Walt how to throw knives, Locke says, &quot;Imagine it in your mind's eye.&quot; When he does, Walt is right on target. When studying native Australian birds, Walt tries to get his distracted stepfather's attention to look at the bronze cuckoo and when he can't a bronze cuckoo flies into the back door and kills itself. Finally, as you mention, Walt is chased through the jungle by a polar bear after reading a comic book with a polar bear in it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, there are some counter arguments against this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; We later discover the Dharma Initiative were performing experiments with polar bears, as was evidenced by a comment made when Sawyer figures out how to get a fish biscuit. It can probably be assumed that the polar bears were being trained to turn the FDW to move the island, so that no human inhabitants had to be transported off-island. Therefore, this would explain their presence and suggest Walt had nothing to do with it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, none of this is conclusive. A lot depends on what &lt;em&gt;theories&lt;/em&gt; around Walt you choose to believe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T23:19:15.227" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49112" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-21T23:29:40.547" Score="3" ViewCount="92" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Continuum, Travis supposedly inducts his daughter in CPS's good books by letting her give him away. Is it safe to assume that in that timeline, she becomes a police officer in CPS and works for anti corporate fighters? Was there any further indication of what happened to her?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did she go into further future and do something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31433" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-21T23:33:41.893" LastActivityDate="2016-02-21T23:33:41.893" Title="What happens to Travis' daughter?" Tags="|continuum|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49117" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-22T02:29:38.650" Score="9" ViewCount="618" Body="&lt;p&gt;I was able to identify most of the parodies in &quot;Hail, Caesar!&quot;. For example, the sailors dancing scene is &quot;On the Town&quot; (1949). However, I could not figure which movie the drawing room romance was referencing; this is the scene in the movie in which Ralph Fiennes plays director &quot;Lawrence Lorentz&quot;. Can anyone identify which film/director is being parodied here?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="11216" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-05-31T01:14:48.177" LastActivityDate="2020-12-12T04:47:08.140" Title="Drawing room romance parody in &quot;Hail, Caesar!&quot;" Tags="|reference|parody|hail-caesar|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49120" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="60205" CreationDate="2016-02-22T05:17:20.547" Score="16" ViewCount="3928" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;Bridge of Spies&lt;/em&gt;, there is a scene where James Donovan runs into some street thugs in East Berlin, who eventually demand his coat in exchange for directions to the embassy. There are no subtitles for this scene, probably to reflect Donovan's limited German understanding. However I'm curious, what did they say to him (and what does it mean in English)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="12783" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-09-13T07:46:30.220" LastActivityDate="2019-01-03T01:50:26.460" Title="What did the German street thugs say to Donovan when they stole his coat?" Tags="|translation|bridge-of-spies|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49121" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49123" CreationDate="2016-02-22T05:51:13.407" Score="3" ViewCount="971" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S6E10 of The Walking Dead, Rick and Daryl go out on a supply run. They come across a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_truck&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;box truck&lt;/a&gt; full of supplies in the back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While using the truck to flip over a vending machine, a man comes from behind a building and surprises Rick and Daryl. Both of our heroes pull their guns on the man and interrogate him: he reveals himself as being named something unmemorable but having the nickname &quot;Jesus.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rick and Daryl disagree about how to handle this man, but end up telling him to hit the road.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Somehow, Jesus steals Rick's keys to the truck (but not the car they were previously driving), and drives off in it: Daryl asks Rick about the keys, and Rick grabs at his midsection and swears as though they were missing. I do not recall Jesus ever being within &quot;grabbing&quot; distance of Rick or Daryl, nor him being anywhere near either door of the box truck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How did Jesus steal the keys to the box truck?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Notes:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jesus appears to perform several other impossible stunts in the show, such as untying himself and catching up to a speeding vehicle, or breaking out of a makeshift prison cell and sneaking up on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?q=Richonne&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Richonne&lt;/a&gt;. While supporting evidence may leverage details from these other stunts, my question is not about these acts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Given that this episode aired tonight, a spoiler warning &lt;em&gt;may&lt;/em&gt; be desirable: however, the events in question occurred &lt;em&gt;very&lt;/em&gt; early in the episode and reveal no plot surprises.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9311" LastActivityDate="2016-11-22T18:34:25.163" Title="How did Jesus steal the car keys?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49123" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49121" CreationDate="2016-02-22T06:14:47.503" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Rick was ambushed.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/VSlu00-LWm4?t=1m1s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jesus bumped into him&lt;/a&gt; (a pretty easy &quot;bump and run&quot; which almost any pickpocket can easily do) and took the keys.  Jesus then created a diversion (the firecrackers), hopped in the truck and took off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0yNf3.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0yNf3.gif&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="20680" LastEditDate="2016-06-07T00:49:12.540" LastActivityDate="2016-06-07T00:49:12.540" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49126" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="39472" CreationDate="2016-02-22T08:51:26.683" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;He does not care about Colby's prison sentence. The reason for going back to fsociety is because his father and Angela's mother died because of the decisions made by inconsiderate people like Colby who work for E Corp and Elliot was a kid back then, now that facts are revealed on TV, Elliot wants revenge on E Corp for his father's death and goes back to fsociety with a plan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;While Elliot was watching news, he talks to himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-My perfect maze crumbling before my eyes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-There's nothing to hide behind. I didn't think it existed, but there it was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;-Mr. Robot finally found my bug.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Meaning, Mr. Robot found Elliot's bug to bring him back to fsociety by revealing the facts that caused his father's death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T08:51:26.683" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49127" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41499" CreationDate="2016-02-22T09:02:54.697" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Vera is trying to make a point, that he's not the person to be messed up with.&#xA;Vera could still keep Shayla alive and give her back to Elliot when he's out of prison but he killed her because he wanted to hurt Elliot badly, teach him a lesson that he made a mistake by sending Vera to prison.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What really surprised me was that Vera leaving Elliot alive, even though Elliot was the reason for Vera being behind prison bars, Vera liked him, in previous episodes Vera found that Elliot is fearless just like him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8228" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T09:02:54.697" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49128" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49130" CreationDate="2016-02-22T10:32:41.803" Score="14" ViewCount="7015" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have limited knowledge of Marvel Comics.&#xA;As per &lt;em&gt;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&lt;/em&gt;, William Stryker created Deadpool (Weapon XI).&#xA;Where as in the recently released &lt;em&gt;Deadpool&lt;/em&gt;, Ajax did induce mutations in him and he claims the name Deadpool.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the actual timeline? Did Wade Wilson meet Stryker first before becoming Deadpool; If no, then how did he cure his face? If yes, then was he always a good swordsman?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16201" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-02-23T13:28:23.957" LastActivityDate="2018-05-28T18:06:20.597" Title="Which of Deadpool's origin is actual?" Tags="|x-men-cinematic-universe|deadpool|x-men-origins-wolverine|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49129" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49134" CreationDate="2016-02-22T10:33:07.240" Score="16" ViewCount="6574" Body="&lt;p&gt;In King Kong (2005) when Carl is asking Ann to play the lead in his film, he asks her&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Carl Denham: Anyway, Ann. You wouldn't happen to be a size 4 by any chance? [Ann stands to leave] No, no. Oh God, no! You've got me all wrong. Ann, please! I'm not that type of person at all.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ann Darrow: What type of person are you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does she get offended? What does &amp;quot;size 4&amp;quot; mean in this context?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6282" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-03-04T15:48:34.270" Title="Why does Ann get offended when Carl asks her if she's size four?" Tags="|plot-explanation|king-kong-2005|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49130" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49128" CreationDate="2016-02-22T10:46:28.890" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;After &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_Days_of_Future_Past&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;X-Men: Days of Future Past&lt;/a&gt; and all that time travelling weirdness happens inside it, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_Origins:_Wolverine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_The_Last_Stand&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;X3&lt;/a&gt; are considered non canon. Below is the producer's interview &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/rsyvZDlJpeA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the actual origin of Deadpool is what we have seen in the Deadpool film. He no longer met Stryker and his mouth wasn't sewed shut. And Deadpool's transformation happens way way after the original transformation from X-Men Origins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="44698" LastEditDate="2018-05-28T18:06:20.597" LastActivityDate="2018-05-28T18:06:20.597" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="49131" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-22T10:54:30.457" Score="8" ViewCount="2091" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie The Dark Knight Rises there is a scene called 'the pit'.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the moral of the story? Is it that one has to have courage to get out of the pit without using the rope? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31463" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-09T09:28:30.207" LastActivityDate="2017-05-09T09:28:30.207" Title="What is the moral about 'The pit' in Batman?" Tags="|analysis|the-dark-knight-rises|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49132" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49138" CreationDate="2016-02-22T11:01:59.570" Score="4" ViewCount="1943" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching the German version of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mentalist&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Mentalist&lt;/a&gt; on Netflix I discovered something that seems strange to me:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whenever someone of the core CBI team member talks to another team member, they only refer to each other by their last name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;E.g. when Patrick Jane talks to Teresa Lisbon he might say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi Lisbon, …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I.e. he does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi Teresa, …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nor does he say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hi mrs. Lisbon, …&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'm only watching the German dubbed version, I would expect the behavior to be the same in the original US version).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do consider it disrespectful to call someone by her/his last name only.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So my question:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the reason behind the CBI members only calling each other by their last name?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="2080" LastEditorUserId="34317" LastEditDate="2019-12-02T11:00:49.777" LastActivityDate="2021-08-21T14:56:30.900" Title="Why do the main characters call each other by their last name only?" Tags="|the-mentalist|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="49133" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49129" CreationDate="2016-02-22T11:09:36.310" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Size 4 means Extra Small, below is the full chart of woman size from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tactics.com/info/womens-sizing-charts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;tactics.com&lt;/a&gt; :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xpqzi.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xpqzi.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Asking woman's size is obviously for the reason of this reaction and even calling her size 4 (means &quot;smaller assets&quot;) is also offensive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T11:09:36.310" CommentCount="11" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49134" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49129" CreationDate="2016-02-22T11:14:38.907" Score="22" Body="&lt;p&gt;By asking for her weight, it implies that he is interested in her body which makes her uncomfortable. Earlier in the film, we know she is struggling for her work. She is recommended to go to the burlesque club &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/King_Kong__2005_.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;in the script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Weston&lt;/strong&gt;: Look - I know times are tough. You want my advice? Use what you got.&#xA;You’re not bad looking - a girl like you doesn’t have to starve.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;HOPE flickers in ANN’S EYES as WESTON fishes into his POCKET for a PEN&#xA;and BUSINESS CARD. He scribbles down an address.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As she reaches the burlesque club, she realises what it is and is disgusted:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;CLOSE ON: ANN ... standing in the MIDDLE of the SIDEWALK. She is&#xA;unaware of DENHAM watching her. ANN stares grimly at the BURLESQUE&#xA;HOARDINGS, the FLYER clutched in her hands, a small knot of anger&#xA;forming in her stomach.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;CLOSE ON: DENHAM’s HAND lets go of the DOOR.&#xA;His eyes lock on ANN through the sea of PEDESTRIANS.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;ANN angrily CRUMPLES the FLYER, drops it in the GUTTER and walks&#xA;away from the THEATRE.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;She leaves and steals an apple given how hungry she is. Denham sees this, pays for it to avoid her getting into trouble and offers her a hot meal. This is obviously exactly what she wants - &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; he asks about her size.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Understandably, she is concerned that he is effectively bribing her with food in return for something (such as work at the burlesque club). As her feelings earlier showed, she is deeply angry at the idea of working here and so begins to storm off.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then calms her by reassuring her he is casting for a role in a film, &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; trying to make her dance or do anything else she would feel uncomfortable with.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T11:14:38.907" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49138" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49132" CreationDate="2016-02-22T11:25:01.850" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Whilst you consider it informal, in many parts of the world it is quite common. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, sports stars are often referred to by their surnames. In military or police settings, surnames are often used (e.g. Private Martin, or just Martin). In many old-fashioned private schools, surnames are used. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a variety of possible reasons for this, but usually it relates to either: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Depersonalising a situation&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Demonstrating authority  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Separating people by using surnames rather than more-common first names  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A combination of the above.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a sports setting, it's simply far easier to refer to people by surnames, as they're more distinctive. Now, for particularly famous people this might not be the case (think &lt;em&gt;Cristiano&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;Kobe&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;Lebron&lt;/em&gt;. But for the majority of others, it's far more distinctive to use a surname.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In a school setting (particularly traditional private schools), it both personalises and separates out people. Rather than having a class with five &quot;James&quot;s, teachers used surnames to distinguish between them. It also created a more authoritative atmosphere which was used to help control classrooms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, in your military/police setting it's likely to both depersonalise a situation and demonstrate authority. It shows that everything is not immediately &quot;chummy&quot;, but that authority and respect of authority is key. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If you search online, you'll find many, many shows following this pattern.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T11:25:01.850" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49140" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-22T14:11:24.167" Score="1" ViewCount="420" Body="&lt;p&gt;I loved the film &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwjAvviAyIvLAhVLfxoKHSb2DlYQFggfMAA&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDear_Zachary%3A_A_Letter_to_a_Son_About_His_Father&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEZPkITlqnyn9dnxK1Z4DEQPO0RxA&amp;amp;bvm=bv.114733917,d.d2s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father&lt;/a&gt;, but in the end, I wondered what happened to Shirley's kids later on as I felt bad for them as they would be traumatised for having such an evil mother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31470" LastEditorUserId="16279" LastEditDate="2017-05-09T09:27:11.303" LastActivityDate="2017-05-09T09:27:11.303" Title="What happened to Shirley's children in Dear Zachary?" Tags="|character|dear-zachary|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49141" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49140" CreationDate="2016-02-22T14:28:33.833" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't believe there is a definitive, well-known answer to this. The film-maker was asked it &lt;a href=&quot;http://kurtkuenne.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/02/2170527-ask-the-filmmaker-a-question-about-dear-zachary&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;in a Q and A&lt;/a&gt; and stated:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gretchen P&lt;/strong&gt; asks:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Do you have children of your own and what about Shirley's other&#xA;  children?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kurt Kuenne&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks so much for writing, Gretchen. I do not have children of my own&#xA;  at this time in my life, which is perhaps why I was able to&#xA;  emotionally get through the making and editing of this movie in its&#xA;  final form. (Though I do recall that while editing, I would take a&#xA;  lunch break and go over to a friend's house, see his 3 year old son&#xA;  and just about come apart...if that makes any sense.) &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Shirley's other children were left with a horrible burden, and while I&#xA;  haven't kept close contact with them - the only one I have had contact&#xA;  with in the last 5 years is her son TJ, who you saw toward the end of&#xA;  the film. But I wish them absolutely all the best in dealing with a&#xA;  burden that no child should ever have to carry. They are innocent&#xA;  victims in this too. And I do hope that, if this movie helps cause&#xA;  some kind of change to the system, that it will honor the memory of&#xA;  their little brother.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As the &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; children were in their 20s and there was no issue of either parental custody or any fault on their part, they don't appear to have been focussed on in any of the subsequent investigations or reports into their mother's behaviour (and understandably so).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, I think this is the most information we'll get on the matter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T14:28:33.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49144" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-22T15:52:23.097" Score="0" ViewCount="207" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Tobias is spreading the name &quot;Funke&quot; around the water cooler, some strange signs are posted in the break room of the production company.  Given the nature of the show these have to be some sort of joke or reference, but I can't see it.  They are a little like the Bluths' notes of &quot;Get milk&quot; and so on in the model home, but they don't quite work and no Bluth works there (yet).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BUAhL.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/BUAhL.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Enjoy Your Lunch&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xssgu.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Xssgu.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Close Door&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11418" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T21:33:33.517" Title="Meaning of these signs in &quot;Switch Hitter&quot;" Tags="|arrested-development|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49145" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49153" CreationDate="2016-02-22T16:00:09.953" Score="13" ViewCount="1535" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Hateful Eight, the acting of Tim Roth (before the character switch) is very similar to the acting of Christoph Waltz, his miming and his way to speak reminds Dr. King Shultz from Django Unchained.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also the costumes are similar:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CwXoT.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CwXoT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eicTk.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/eicTk.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Have there been any specific motivations or reasons given for this? Is there even evidence that the role was originally intended for Waltz?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6582" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-22T16:07:36.070" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T19:34:37.283" Title="Tim Roth acting in The Hateful Eight" Tags="|character|the-hateful-eight|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49147" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49144" CreationDate="2016-02-22T17:44:57.050" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;No. &lt;strong&gt;Those are normal signs for a normal workplace.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Close Door&lt;/code&gt; is just a reminder for people to double check that they closed the fridge door right. Likely because it has defrosted from being left halfway open too often.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Enjoy your lunch&lt;/code&gt; is typical HR/Office Spirit nonsense.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Keep Area Clean&lt;/code&gt; is someone pissed that people leave a mess in the kitchen all the time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I've seen similar signs in every break room (and bathrooms, especially open to the public) at any 10-50 people office. When there are more people than that, the offices usually have a corporate lunch room and large bathrooms instead, with cleaning staff so it's less common.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other signs that are normal:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;No bags in Fridge&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Don't leave Sponge in sink&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fridge is emptied every Tuesday&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Everything must have a name on it&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;To Whomever stole my soda/food/cake&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorDisplayName="user11418" LastEditDate="2016-02-22T21:33:33.517" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T21:33:33.517" CommentCount="12" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49149" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45016" CreationDate="2016-02-22T18:27:26.387" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Shadow games isn't stealing extra unneeded cars. It simply means to spread out the time of stealing. Steal 25 tonight...25 tomorrow night. Or skip a few days if you have time to do so (which they didn't at the moment). Prime example: remember at the beginning of the movie when the warehouse got raided. Kip and his crew had only collected 13 cars and the order had already been placed for the cars two weeks ahead. Kip was stretching out the boost...playing shadow games...But being hella slow at it haha..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31475" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-22T20:24:22.560" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T20:24:22.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49152" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45016" CreationDate="2016-02-22T18:50:32.993" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;The term &quot;Shadow Games&quot; is associated with the term &quot;Cloak &amp;amp; Dagger&quot;, and is usually used in connection to some sort of spy or espionage-type activity.  Misdirection is a key component, and (as any James Bond fan could tell you) it may involve making one action &lt;em&gt;appear&lt;/em&gt; to be a different action.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this context, Kip is suggesting stealing one car from one area of town, another car from another area or surrounding town, etc..., not on the same night.  Spread it out.  Don't let anyone recognize there's a pattern.  Case out the cars (which they do for one Mercedes, actually), make careful decisions on what the easiest targets are.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Memphis, on the other hand, suggests the polar opposite; get them all on the same night, as quickly as possible, before information can be exchanged by law enforcement.  Grab and go, and let your driving skills get you out of trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T18:50:32.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49153" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49145" CreationDate="2016-02-22T19:29:24.337" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;There's a chance that early on it could have been intended for him, but Waltz had no intention of being in the movie as he didn't want to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://uproxx.com/movies/groupies-are-groupies-christoph-waltz-on-why-he-wont-be-starring-in-quentin-tarantinos-the-hateful-eight/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;pigeon holed&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Like I said, a group in and of itself… You know, groupies are&#xA;  groupies. That’s their function. But since I’m not a groupie, I have&#xA;  to have something to do in the group. And if I don’t have anything to&#xA;  do in the group, hey…&#xA;  -Waltz&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31478" LastEditorUserId="31478" LastEditDate="2016-02-22T19:34:37.283" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T19:34:37.283" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49154" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49131" CreationDate="2016-02-22T19:32:35.993" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Basically, it was a metaphor for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comicbookmovie.com/batman/the-themes-and-meanings-of-the-dark-knight-trilogy-a92912&quot;&gt;fear of failure&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Bane places Bruce in the same pit that he lived throughout his own&#xA;  childhood. Although he does this as a “punishment,” this will of&#xA;  course prove to be exactly what Bruce needs.  This now finally emerges&#xA;  as the major theme of the third film, that suffering builds character,&#xA;  It is so often is only after going through our worst that we become&#xA;  our best. Such is the case for any character to have to go through&#xA;  their greatest trials before finding fulfillment. To put it in&#xA;  Biblical terms, it is after one has been crucified that they can come&#xA;  to new life.  It borders on stating the obvious to say that this pit&#xA;  Bruce finds himself in is a metaphor. He has been in this pit for a&#xA;  very long time now. The first film opened with Bruce in a dark, dank&#xA;  prison cell somewhere in Asia, and here he is again. Ra’s al Ghul&#xA;  stated that he had found him that cell he was lost. The truth is that&#xA;  he still hasn’t really climbed out of it. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The first time Bruce returned to fight Bane, he was not truly ready.&#xA;  Even now, the fear that his entire city will perish is not enough to&#xA;  get him out of that pit But being here, watching it die, with the&#xA;  threat of everything he fought for, what Rachel and Harvey died for,&#xA;  being destroyed, has to awaken something in him to give him what he&#xA;  needs.  Just what is it in Bruce that has to come out? What was it&#xA;  that Ra’s Al Ghul missed in his teaching that left Bruce still so&#xA;  lost, and which only this place can solve? The answer brings us back&#xA;  to the beginning: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Fear. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Thus we finally come full circle. Ra’s Al Ghul instructed Bruce how to&#xA;  use fears against criminals, on how to manipulate their fears only&#xA;  after overcoming his own. He never taught what we learn here: That&#xA;  sometimes, fear is good. Fear is the truest motivator. Especially the&#xA;  fear of death.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31478" LastActivityDate="2016-02-22T19:32:35.993" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49156" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-22T20:21:49.093" Score="5" ViewCount="3778" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the series Lost, when John Locke is trying to crack open the hatch, his leg gets pierced but he does not feel anything. He later tries to pin his leg and burns his foot and still feels nothing. How did he not realize that his legs have no senses earlier, when walking in the water etc.?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="24301" LastEditDate="2016-03-29T17:24:42.183" LastActivityDate="2016-06-10T21:48:01.107" Title="Why didn't Locke realize his feet do not feel anything?" Tags="|analysis|lost|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49157" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="55598" CreationDate="2016-02-22T21:02:11.517" Score="8" ViewCount="2383" Body="&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472954/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; episode &quot;McPoyle vs. Ponderosa: The Trial of the Century&quot; (S11E07) ends with the judge dismissing the whole case and calling in the particpants of the next trial:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We have Morgan State Delivery vs. the proprietors of one Paddy's Pub.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;which of course is the gang yet again. But this makes me wonder, &lt;strong&gt;is this actually a reference to a previous episode of the show&lt;/strong&gt;, possibly one of the gang's various schemes involving said &quot;Morgan State Delivery&quot;? (The Ponderosa-McPoyle wedding referenced in the case this episode was about was back in season 8, so maybe the episode possibly referenced at the end was too?)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="49" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-22T21:07:25.257" LastActivityDate="2016-06-18T04:53:38.787" Title="Is the trial at the end of S11E07 a reference to a previous episode?" Tags="|its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49161" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34848" CreationDate="2016-02-23T00:25:59.963" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ellen does not personally give away a single thing on her show. Not a single gift comes from her, not a single dollar comes from her. Every gift of cash or products is given by sponsors.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That's not saying that she doesn't make personal donations to her favorite charities. I'm sure she must. It's just that on her show she doesn't give away anything. In fact, she seems to use her show as an advertisement for her app, her clothing line, and the Ellen store.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31486" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T00:25:59.963" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49164" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49169" CreationDate="2016-02-23T01:44:12.337" Score="3" ViewCount="379" Body="&lt;p&gt;I can see giant shows of WWE in single week without miss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Giant meaning 3 hours for RAW, 2 Hours for Smackdown, main events are 1 hour, etc.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How are WWE shows written in such a short amount of time? How is it possible? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31488" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-23T04:57:14.567" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T05:35:15.187" Title="How are WWE shows written in such a short amount of time?" Tags="|wwe|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49165" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-23T02:26:15.720" Score="5" ViewCount="1077" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happens to Zhang ziyi (Jen) in &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crouching_Tiger,_Hidden_Dragon&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; when she jumps off the cliff .. she dies? becomes immortal? Just before jumping what does she want Lo to become - a master?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does she jump off, guilt? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31433" LastEditorUserId="16420" LastEditDate="2016-02-23T02:43:06.083" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T02:43:06.083" Title="What happens to Jen when she jumps off the cliff?" Tags="|analysis|crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49166" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-23T02:43:37.143" Score="12" ViewCount="19198" Body="&lt;p&gt;Do actors that take part in nudity/sex scenes get paid more for those scenes? I would think for an ordinary person such scenes might impose a different level of discomfort and stress, so are those rewarded specially? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="24301" LastEditDate="2016-02-23T02:47:16.507" LastActivityDate="2018-12-18T15:04:48.990" Title="Do actors get paid more for sexual/explicit scenes?" Tags="|acting-career|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49167" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49181" CreationDate="2016-02-23T02:50:13.003" Score="5" ViewCount="17956" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie &lt;em&gt;Hanna&lt;/em&gt;, with Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, and Cate Blanchett, what happened to Sophie (Jessica Barden) and her family? Can we assume that Marissa murdered them?&#xA;That's what I got when she said, &quot;Some days I really hate my job.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31474" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-02-23T06:50:38.667" LastActivityDate="2016-11-15T08:45:03.937" Title="What happened to Sophie and her family in &quot;Hanna&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|hanna|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49168" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49166" CreationDate="2016-02-23T03:08:17.517" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;Generally this varies by actor or actress. Sex scenes get a very high level of negotiation, specifically detailing how much skin is shown, how long, what, when, etc. If they have a scene it's part of their negotiation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Background actors (aka extras) tend not to be paid more. SAG rules and industry standards do not pay extra for nude extras. But one recent example of them being paid more was &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Westworld&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, which had an &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;abnormally explicit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/westworld-extras-sexually-explicit-consent-form-article-1.2379986&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;basically X-Rated scene in October&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But extras on “Westworld” — as many as 50 of them — were said to have pocketed up to $600 for the steamy session because of the unprecedented amount of simulated sex the extras were being asked to perform, sources said.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/westworld-sexually-explicit-casting-contract-828287&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Noted by another source&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Still, if any of those &amp;quot;assorted acts&amp;quot; verge on stunt work — as seems within the realm of possibility — the union contract may entitle the actor to be upgraded to principal performer, which brings with it residuals and a boost in pay.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The union agreement also requires additional payment when a background performer is asked to bring specified wardrobe. However, no additional payment is required when the performer is told to bring no clothing whatsoever.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;An SAG background actor doing nudity wouldn't be paid more than normal. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sagaftra.org/files/sag/Digest_Background_Actors_NY_Zones_8_5_0.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;A nude body double though is supposed to get at least the principal performer day rate&lt;/a&gt; (funny enough, same stipulation as any extra that has a squib, an exploding blood back.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-female-porn-stars-get-paid-for-different-types-of-scenes-2012-11&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;In comparison, Adult Actresses do get paid more, the more explicit the scene, not including top performers.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2018-12-18T15:04:48.990" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="49169" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49164" CreationDate="2016-02-23T04:47:27.207" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;A few points:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A few hours of material a week is easy. It's done all the time. Look at any daily news or comedy show.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Wrestling has, well, wrestling. And dead time between matches. They do not need a solid 3 hours of material.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Due to the live aspect, Ad Libbing, and going with the crowd or situation is a must. Not everything needs to be written, even though much is.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;The writer's pool is huge. &lt;a href=&quot;http://wrestlingrumors.net/wwe-looking-new-writers/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;25+ normal writers, and they are always hiring.&lt;/a&gt; To compare, SNL had half of that in 1988. &lt;a href=&quot;http://splitsider.com/2015/09/heres-the-writing-staff-of-the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Daily Show has 12 normal ones, 17 total.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;They have done this for years, and know exactly how to pace the episode. Raw started out with some tape segments, and a much lower time slot, and slowly expanded to it's 3 hour status.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Courtesy of leaked scripts, &lt;a href=&quot;http://splitsider.com/2010/11/first-draft-script-emsweet-seymour-skinners-baadasssss-song/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;here's a standard Simpson's episode&lt;/a&gt;, clocking in at 54 pages of mostly speech. &lt;a href=&quot;http://deadspin.com/this-is-what-a-wwe-raw-script-looks-like-1570327862&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Here's a WWE Raw episode's script&lt;/a&gt;, 16 pages, only 12 of which are the actual show, and it's mostly stage directions and not speech. They had a video of the episode to compare, and it wasn't word for word:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You'll notice right away, from the moment Wyatt adds a few lines before hitting his scripted words, that there are differences. This is a function of two things.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First, this script was a draft (the third, to be precise). Like any show, Raw goes through a number of rewrites before hitting on the final product. We don't know how many drafts this one eventually went through, but considering how close this one is to what eventually aired, it couldn't have been many.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Second, the scripted speeches are never meant to be read word-for-word. Think of them as talking points. They provide the notes that need to be hit, but wrestlers—especially those as skilled on the mic as Wyatt and Cena—are expected and encouraged to ad-lib, adding their own characters' spins to the promos.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Think Powerpoint Presentation, not a written/rehearsed Speech.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WgEYT.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/WgEYT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual match is pretty much the same. Ad-libbed for the most part, with just the ending predetermined.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They also steal comedy bits. The MLP episode aired March 2011. Cena copied it August 2011:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/tDxBdp3NKbg?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T05:35:15.187" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49170" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="5828" CreationDate="2016-02-23T05:45:58.110" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;In S03E09 (Save Henry) is shown that after adopting Henry, Regina found out that his mother was the savior,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; and she created and drank a memory potion to forget that he was the son of the savior, as she had grown attatched to him, but did not want to be associated with the savior in any way.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31492" LastEditorUserId="511" LastEditDate="2018-04-20T14:57:05.640" LastActivityDate="2018-04-20T14:57:05.640" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49171" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49184" CreationDate="2016-02-23T05:55:33.027" Score="6" ViewCount="307" Body="&lt;p&gt;Pre-2006, color, originally watched on TV (could have been on a cable channel like Lifetime but not sure), think it's a movie, but could also be TV show, English, USA&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stuff that I'm more sure of:&lt;/strong&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A blonde? Long-haired child about 7-12 was kidnapped and the kidnapper is holding her and an adult woman, possibly brunette with medium length hair, and named China (or it could be the child's name) in a room with a dressing table and mirror.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The scene I remember is the two of them sitting in front of the dressing room table and the woman might have been brushing the child's hair. The woman is on the girl's side, not an accomplice&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Less Sure of:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The male kidnapper's motivation was to raise the little girl like a doll? The girl is kept in a room and wears a nightdress/dress type outfit. And the adult woman might have been investigating or she might have been a casualty? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Genre: definitely not fantasy/sci-fi, comedy, etc.; psychological/drama/suspense?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Other details that may have be completely off:&#xA;the adult woman is surprised to find that the girl is still alive (which is the basis of the investigation detail); the man is in his 30-50s.&#xA;the child is calm;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31491" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-23T08:23:11.073" LastActivityDate="2017-08-27T00:51:14.870" Title="Pre-2006 movie/series about a kidnapping with a character possibly named China" Tags="|identify-this-movie|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:24:54.387" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49173" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1420" CreationDate="2016-02-23T06:12:31.080" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most people tend to believe that ending happened due everyone falling in admiration for Holder. He was not only the actor who played Barron but he was also the choreographer and did all the dancing scenes. He did a lot to help the film out and he was a great guy I understand why they did that. Moore himself knew Holder and his brother from their younger days (he admitted that on the 2006 commentary.) He also got son of one of his favorite actors cast as the agent who was stabbed in New Orleans at the start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It never worked out due to that movie being a fad and the horror esque elements. But it's nice to see his role was treated with respect. There is now way for that character to work unless he lived. Without that ending that character would have been a lame charlatan and not as lovable.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the answer in the movie I always found it vague. But when theorizing I say 1 of 3 things:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He was Baron the whole time and was just toying with Bond to mock him. He couldn't be harmed from those snakes, hence why he did his humpty dance. He was fine he just wanted Bond to get the upper hand to make him feel good. Maybe he didn't care for Kananga and wanted him gone. Notice how he just walked into the room, before Kanaga smashed Solitare in the face, Kanaga had no power over him. Solitare was scared crapless by him as much as Kanaga. He was just the soul of the island so to speak. Once Bond came in and destroyed everything he had no power or purpose anymore there and was stuck with Bond. Either that or he is stuck on that train for eternity laughing his butt off. Regardless he couldn't haunt San Monique no more.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;He possessed someone to act like him and do his bidding. Along with the first point you could say Baron had a spiritual strangle hold on San Monique. In this version he respected Kanaga and let him do his thing if he could have a human dopledanger on the island to join in on the fun as well as a role in the murders at the place. You could also say Solitare's power is in thanks to his presence, he could have been there for ages when her mom was alive, who knows? Once Bond is there he feels his presence due to all of the violence and death he's caused and he feels a respect hence the duel later on. He kills the human form of Baron and topples Kanaga and gets Solitare in the end; but the spiritual form is alive and is still haunting Bond; he can never be truly happy due to his job and the enemies haunting him. Death will catch him one day..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;The writers and filmmakers were high on the 70's stuff and they didn't care, they just awarded Holder with a juicy role and ending out of respect.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Regardless we all won because the Baron was such a great character and helped make the movie worthwhile. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29921" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T06:12:31.080" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49175" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49190" CreationDate="2016-02-23T07:29:18.213" Score="7" ViewCount="13391" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Wade gets his healing abilities and becomes Deadpool, he's cured of his cancer. His ability to regenerate his body works super fast and basically makes him 'immortal' so I was wondering does he age as well or is the growing old process just slowed down and would be become 'old' at the age of, let's say 5000?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So in the movie, he wants to be with Vanessa but if he doesn't age Vanessa would just grow old while Deadpool stays young?&#xA;Could his aging process be compared to Wolverines or is it better/worse? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8597" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-02T13:16:11.243" LastActivityDate="2021-03-28T16:57:47.630" Title="Does Deadpool age?" Tags="|character|x-men-cinematic-universe|deadpool|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49176" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49178" CreationDate="2016-02-23T07:34:51.870" Score="59" ViewCount="143661" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Deadpool movie when Wade his mutant cells get activated, his skin changes so he looks like Freddy Krueger (As Weasel referred too).&#xA;But he obtains healing abilities and his cancer gets cured because of it.&#xA;He's become an immortal person which can heal any wound super fast.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What I don't understand is, why doesn't his skin heal so he would look like before? I remember that Francis (or Ajax) said that it's a 'side-effect' of mutating, but why wouldn't it heal when he has a healing ability?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8597" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2020-01-14T19:03:38.593" LastActivityDate="2020-01-14T19:03:38.593" Title="Why doesn't Deadpool's healing ability heal his skin?" Tags="|character|x-men-cinematic-universe|deadpool|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="49177" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49176" CreationDate="2016-02-23T07:47:46.887" Score="15" Body="&lt;p&gt;The answer was actually provided in the scene.  Essentially, his cancer is growing rapidly, but his healing ability prevents it from growing out of control.  It's in a state of balance, if you will, between the cancer growing and his healing fixing it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="52" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T07:47:46.887" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49178" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49176" CreationDate="2016-02-23T07:59:01.800" Score="63" Body="&lt;p&gt;Its the same as his comics counterpart:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After the healing factor was given to him, it made his normal cells as&#xA;well as his cancerous cells unable to die, giving him a heavily&#xA;scarred appearance beneath his suit. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadpool#Powers_and_abilities&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;- Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So these cancerous cells made his weird appearance and his healing factor assumed it was part of himself and keep it in the same manner.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T16:33:59.620" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49179" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="14073" CreationDate="2016-02-23T09:23:21.533" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Isaac Asimov, in an autobiographical essay, related his work on a TV show. The hero was a genius, and the creative consultant said that he &lt;em&gt;had&lt;/em&gt; to be inferior in social situations or the audience would dispise the character.  The hero can't be superior in all ways, but has to be handicapped as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23301" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T09:23:21.533" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49181" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49167" CreationDate="2016-02-23T09:24:45.347" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don't know definitively&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can certainly speculate though. A lot appears to depend on whether you want a &lt;em&gt;happy&lt;/em&gt; ending or a &lt;em&gt;sad&lt;/em&gt; ending.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Happy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~ina22/splaylib/Screenplay-Hanna.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt; script for the film&lt;/a&gt;, Sophie (and therefore presumably the family) get quite a nice ending. Towards the end of the linked script is the following:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Sophie comes out in her school uniform. It’s a bright summer’s day. As&#xA;  she walks down the garden path, she reaches and meets the Postman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SOPHIE&lt;/strong&gt; Morning handsome. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He hands her a POSTCARD. Sophie opens the&#xA;  garden gate, reading the POSTCARD, there’s nothing on the back. On the&#xA;  front, PLANET EARTH. Sophie knows exactly who it’s from. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HANNA (V.O.)&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;  ...Earth is the only place in the universe where life is known to&#xA;  exist. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She walks down the street and the vast cityscape of LONDON&#xA;  spreads out in front of her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sad (and partially unconfirmed)&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Hanna.html&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;finished&lt;/em&gt; script for the film&lt;/a&gt;, these happy lines are removed from the ending:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;HANNA steps out of the cabin. She's back wearing her furs&#xA;                again. In her hands she carries a cup of hot milk and a small&#xA;                wooden bowl.&#xA;                In VOICE-OVER we hear HANNA reading from her beloved&#xA;                Encyclopaedia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HANNA (V.O.)&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                The Earth is the third planet from&#xA;                the Sun, and the fifth-largest of&#xA;                the eight planets in the Solar&#xA;                System.&#xA;                HANNA sits down on a tree trunk outside the cabin and pours&#xA;                some milk into the bowl, then drinks a little for herself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HANNA (V.O.)&lt;/strong&gt; Home to millions of species,&#xA;                including humans, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Earth is the only&#xA;                place in the universe where life is&#xA;                known to exist.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                She raises her head and makes a small clicking sound. Her&#xA;                friend, the snow fox, appears from the trees. The fox now has&#xA;                a small family of cubs.&#xA;                HANNA watches as the cubs approach the milk and begin to&#xA;                drink.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The highlighted section is what was said to Sophie on the postcard in the original script. As this scene has been removed, it certainly doesn't suggest anything &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; for poor Sophie and Miles.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As their fates are left unknown, I'd suggest it's nothing good and it's very likely they are dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/Hanna&quot;&gt;TV Tropes&lt;/a&gt; does state: &quot;A (German) poster later in the [film] says they are missing, so we can assume it was nothing good.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, I haven't been able to confirm this (not least since I can't speak to German).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T09:24:45.347" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49182" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-23T09:46:06.560" Score="5" ViewCount="508" Body="&lt;p&gt;Since Cas came back from death after Lucifer killed him in &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt;, I suppose angels must go somewhere upon death. Where do they go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31500" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-23T10:55:38.647" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T10:55:38.647" Title="Where do angels go when they die?" Tags="|supernatural|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-02-23T14:38:05.353" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49183" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="8965" CreationDate="2016-02-23T10:00:04.003" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unknown&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is similar to how we don't know where &lt;em&gt;demons&lt;/em&gt; go, or where someone killed in &lt;em&gt;Purgatory&lt;/em&gt; goes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We know when they die they &lt;em&gt;don't&lt;/em&gt; go back to heaven (which was obvious from the on-going war in heaven). We know that beings can only go to &lt;em&gt;Purgatory&lt;/em&gt; if they have a soul. However, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=6.20_The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King_(Transcript)&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Man Who Would Be King&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CASTIEL&lt;/strong&gt; You want to make a deal? With me? I'm an Angel, you ass. I&#xA;  don't have a soul to sell.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, they can't go to Purgatory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, at the of sounding a little wishy-washy, the angels go &lt;em&gt;somewhere&lt;/em&gt;, and God has the ability to bring them &lt;em&gt;back&lt;/em&gt;. Where that somewhere is, what the requirements are to get there, and how they get back, is a complete unknown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T10:00:04.003" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49184" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49171" CreationDate="2016-02-23T10:27:02.923" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like the 1997 miniseries &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118350/combined&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Intensity&lt;/a&gt; with John C. McGinley and Molly Parker.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old psychology student who survived an extremely troubled past. While visiting Laura Templeton's house, a farm in the Napa Valley, a serial killer named Edgler Foreman Vess breaks into the house, taking Laura and killing her parents. Chyna survives and manages to follow him. In doing so, she learns of Vess's captive: a young, innocent girl, Ariel, trapped in Vess's home far from the Napa Valley. Chyna feels a great sense of responsibility for this girl, and she travels deeper into her nightmare.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ariel is in a catatonic state. It was based on a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensity_(novel)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Dean Koontz novel&lt;/a&gt; of the same name. Here's a clip:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/lyTA3qt4Jeo?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2017-08-27T00:51:14.870" LastActivityDate="2017-08-27T00:51:14.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49188" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="36932" CreationDate="2016-02-23T12:38:25.297" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;As far as I can tell it was real because the disappearance was initially perceived by Tommasin rather than the parents and no evidence is given by anyone to suggest the baby was still around.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31506" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T12:38:25.297" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49190" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49175" CreationDate="2016-02-23T13:34:10.087" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the X-Force &quot;Messiah War&quot; story arc (specifically X-Force/Cable: Messiah War #1, May '09.) Deadpool appears 1000 years in the future, still alive. Although we never see what he looks like underneath his mask, he doesn't appear to have aged.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CgYEi.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/CgYEi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image from X-Force/Cable: Messiah War #1, May &amp;#39;09.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;..although this is specifically the comic and not the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22762" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-23T19:03:12.177" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T19:03:12.177" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49191" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50946" CreationDate="2016-02-23T14:11:13.670" Score="15" ViewCount="12362" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of Deadpool, when Deadpool &amp;amp; Francis (a.k.a Ajax) are fighting and the boat is falling apart, everything comes down... You see Colossus carrying Negasonic Teenage Warhead (from the X-men team) &amp;amp; Angel Dust (from Team-Francis, the strong bad women), bringing them to safety.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the next scene you see Francis jumping on Deadpool for the final fight.&#xA;When the fight is over, Vanessa and Deadpool start chatting while Negasonic &amp;amp; Colossus are watching. But where did Angel Dust go?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Q:&lt;/strong&gt; Did Colossus arrest her or did he totally forget about Angel Dust and she ran off or did she die? Or what really happened to Angel Dust at the end?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8597" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-02T13:15:56.460" LastActivityDate="2016-10-31T17:54:51.650" Title="What happened to Angel Dust at the end?" Tags="|character|x-men-cinematic-universe|deadpool|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49192" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="51060" CreationDate="2016-02-23T14:43:57.927" Score="16" ViewCount="986" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen people claim that, when Oh Dae-su brawls with the group of teenagers, one of the reasons why they're making fun of him is that he speaks archaic Korean, a government-mandated update of the language having happened while he was confined. I've relayed that bit of trivia on to people several times, but I've since realized that I have no real proof of this, and I can't find that trivia anymore. Was there a language shift in real-world Korea for that time period? And is Oh Dae-su's dialogue in the more archaic form of Korean?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="25920" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-23T14:45:09.653" LastActivityDate="2016-04-01T00:01:54.987" Title="Was there a language shift in Oldboy (2003)?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dialogue|oldboy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49193" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="34905" CreationDate="2016-02-23T15:47:27.547" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.elcinema.com/work/wk1191098/#photos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;عايزة أتجوز&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's a comedic Egyptian tv show from 2010 about a woman wants to get married&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2207861/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;IMDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Ayza Atgawez&quot; is an Egyptian series discusses the issues of marriage. The series is taken from a blog of the same name and revolves around pharmaceutical who strives to catch the marriage train before reaching the age of thirty, as well as pressure from her family to accept the first guy knocking on the door&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.elcinema.com/video/vd00000618/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trailer 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.elcinema.com/video/vd00000619/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Trailer 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here're a few photos of the lead&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/asVHc.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/asVHc.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lyvxX.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lyvxX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Xq3T.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/0Xq3T.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24398" LastEditorUserId="24398" LastEditDate="2016-02-23T16:01:07.917" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T16:01:07.917" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49196" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="3135" CreationDate="2016-02-23T17:14:02.680" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that it also ties in with a larger theme in the film, one that was not necessarily intended by the filmmakers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Vietnam conflict was a pointless war that the US didn't win, and it was played out within the context of the larger Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union (with China also a player). The war was about fighting Communism. The irony is that the men who go to the war are Americans, but they happen to be of Russian descent.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In one scene, Nick is sitting on a balcony in a hospital in Saigon when a doctor comes to verify his identity. He is &quot;shell shocked&quot; and clearly suffering from survivor's guilt having been rescued by the helicopter while his two friends fell back into the river. The doctor calls him by the Russian name on his record. He doesn't answer until the doctor asks him if his name is Russian. He says &quot;no, it's American.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The point here is that these were hapless, working class Americans from all backgrounds who were sent to this futile war to fight and suffer and die for the benefit of larger powers involved in an ideological and global economic/political struggle. The Russian Roulette isn't Russian, but its name makes us think of Russia. And it is a deadly game of chance that is played, ultimately, by people who exchange money as bets on human lives, much like the powers that control wars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31516" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T09:11:13.250" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T09:11:13.250" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49197" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="48946" CreationDate="2016-02-23T17:19:38.053" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Purely in the movie, Wade is said to both be former special forces and a mercenary, making a good case that he learned close quarters combat techniques in the military. I don't think it's too far of a stretch to assume he used swords as a mercenary beforehand based on previous versions of the character (such as the referenced &lt;em&gt;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&lt;/em&gt;) and his apparent experience with them. Or, if we asked Deadpool, he'd probably say he copied Deathstroke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="29210" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T17:19:38.053" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49198" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27444" CreationDate="2016-02-23T17:26:55.193" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, I guess steak is answer, right from the horses mouth... but it doesn't look like a steak, whatever it is that Daniel Day Lewis is actually eating. For the character of a toothless man, Daniel seems to be extracting enormous bites out of it, whatever it is. I was under the impression that it was a giant 1920's version of a Kit-Kat. A semi-soft chocolate pastry.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, what is it, really? Not 'what is the character eating', now that it's confirmed to be a horrible leftover steak (what's so horrible about last nights steak, anyway? Were leftovers generally accepted as horrible in the 1920's, or is that somebody's personal opinion now? I'd like to know), but what is Daniel Day Lewis actually picking up, masticating and swallowing? What is it? What is that chocolate looking, semi-pastry seeming meat imposter?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If I were to go out on a limb here,  I'd say that it's a McRib patty thing. Soy meat, in generic terms.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31517" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T17:26:55.193" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49199" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2385" CreationDate="2016-02-23T17:39:35.097" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It was Confirmed that he can retain the ability to do so, but the specifics are sketchy. It appears it is temporary unless the magic is dragonslayer magic, as including Natsu, 3 of the 7 dragonslayers have obtained secondary elements which they have used without the sources, and all 3 secondary elements are obtained after eating another dragonslayers magic. Natsu has indeed eaten Etherion lacrima (numerous magic elements in one), as well as Godslayer flames, but he has never used those magics after the fight was over so far in canon.&#xA;I have no idea how far the English Dubbed anime is, and since this is not on the anime stackexchange, i'll spoiler the other 2 as well as some prime examples just in case (Everything here has been shown in the subbed anime already)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Gajeel obtained Shadow dragonslayer magic from Rogue of Sabertooth, and Future Rogue of Sabertooth also Obtained a second element by killing his comrade Future Sting, the Holy/light Dragonslayer, before he traveled back in time. Future Rogue fights Natsu with both shadow and holy, while natsu fights back with fire and lighting, neither having the source dragonslayers for the 2nd elements nearby. Gajeel Consumed Shadows from Present Rogue in the Grand Magic Games, and later used his shadow/metal powers alongside Natsu also using Fire/Lighting against 2 of the Tartaros Demons. It is also noteworthy that Present rogue did not display that he obtained Holy Dragonslayer magic yet like his future version had since the timeline had changed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is unknown if 2nd generation dragonslayers (the ones with dragon lacrima (magic crystal)) can eat other elements (Laxus and the Poison Dragonslayer whos name i cant remember)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As an fun fact/exception/special case, in the most recent chapters of the Manga which is fairly far ahead of the anime right now, there is&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;  a new dragonslayer, the strongest of the 10 wizard saints, God Serena, has (i believe it was) 7 dragon lacrima in his body or so, and therefor has 7 dragonslayer elements he can freely use, as each Lacrima is a different element.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Though, i suppose if you wanted to get technical, Acnologia is a dragonslayer as well, but we have no idea what elements he has.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31515" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T17:39:35.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49200" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49176" CreationDate="2016-02-23T18:20:39.673" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;Deadpool is not cured of his cancer. When he gets his healing factor, so does his cancer, becoming super cancer. His healing factor fights it at an accelerated rate, but neither wins. Hence his face. And anti-telepathic brain. And insanity.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The cancer is just mutations in normal cells. Wade is genetically predisposed to it, so the healing factor can't stop it from happening. And since the cancer has his DNA, it has the new healing factor too. &lt;strong&gt;He can't just cut out the cancer, as new cancer cells spontaneously mutate everywhere&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His skin, like all his other internal organs, including his brain, constantly get cancer, which the healing factor fights off before they can become fatal. It changes how his skin looks often, and how his brain is wired. Since his brain isn't normal, and constantly changes, it causes him to be immune to telepaths.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His cancer wasn't cured. It was deadlocked in a never ending battle. Somewhere in Volume 2 of Deadpool comics, Daniel the hack Way wrote that removing the cancer without removing the healing factor will lead to the healing factor overcompensating and killing Deadpool, as it did the Super-Skrulls that were given his healing factor.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9L9wl.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9L9wl.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yiX3O.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/yiX3O.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T19:15:30.527" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T19:15:30.527" CommentCount="8" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49201" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49175" CreationDate="2016-02-23T19:00:27.463" Score="4" Body="&lt;h2&gt;Background Information:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the mainstream comics, Messiah War Part 2 (Cable #13), we see the 800 year old and 1000 year old Deadpool. His typical super-cancer face and skin. Since he doesn't have the typical old man hair or wrinkly skin clues that we expect from someone having aged, all we have is his statement that &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;I'm not healing like I used to.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; We also know that Wolverine ages slowly due to his mutant healing factor, and since Deadpool has a copied version of that, we know that Deadpool must age.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;800 Year old:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GqE9O.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/GqE9O.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;1000 Year old:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MhxFx.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MhxFx.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He doesn't look any different 200 years later. His eyes are redder, but that's likely just a X-Force related stylistic choice. Wolverine here has time-jumped, while Deadpool took the long way round.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;In regards to the movie:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wade is no longer just given a copy of Wolverine's mutant healing ability. Instead, he is forced to develop his own. The depicted scenes in Deadpool and X-Men show that Wade and Logan have similar healing times for minor wounds. Wade is shown to take days to regrow his hand, which is taken from his first ongoing comic series, where his healing factor is significantly reduced to the modern levels. The constant comparisons to Wolverine would seem to indicate that the production intends for Wolverine and Deadpool to have similar levels of healing as they would in the comics. We have seen that Wolverine has only aged a bit since his colonial era date of birth (&amp;quot;He could be older than you, Professor&amp;quot; line in X1). Ergo Deadpool will likely age at the same rate. &lt;strong&gt;But we have yet to have a full answer&lt;/strong&gt; in Movie canon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-06-03T01:51:35.117" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49202" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49191" CreationDate="2016-02-23T19:52:01.690" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's never explicitly made clear in the movie. The general assumption is that Colossus finds a way to restrain her until he can turn her over to the authorities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31478" LastActivityDate="2016-02-23T19:52:01.690" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49204" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49216" CreationDate="2016-02-23T20:46:35.030" Score="62" ViewCount="20185" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the most distinct roles played by the same actor within a single movie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T09:18:34.350" LastActivityDate="2019-11-06T18:50:33.613" Title="The most roles played by the same actor in a movie?" Tags="|acting|" AnswerCount="9" CommentCount="19" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49205" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="59547" CreationDate="2016-02-23T20:51:40.283" Score="9" ViewCount="541" Body="&lt;p&gt;I am one of that dying breed who likes movies but reads the book before, sometimes long before, the movie comes out. I was wondering if anyone has noticed that the characterizations and storyline in True Detective (season 2) seem to be a shake-and-bake rehash of the James Ellroy novel “The Big Nowhere”, sister book to the “The Black Dahlia” and “L.A. Confidential”?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example: In True Detective, Velcoro is a corrupt cop with connections to a high-ranking crime figure who is trying to get custody of his son.  This would seem to be a mix of Mal Considine and Buzz Meeks from the book. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also we have Woodrugh, a young cop trying to hide being gay from his brethren, being infiltrated, just like Danny Upshaw in the novel.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And then we have the crooked doctor, Dr. Pitlor, running the shady clinic, who resembles Dr. Saul Lesnick, and holding information key to resolving the case , the references to the ’92 riots (zoot suit riots in the book), the brothel being used to blackmail influential men;  the political ramifications, etc. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Maybe this is so rampant in L.A. that it is now a cliché.&#xA;Is this out there in the trade rags and I missed it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31474" LastEditorUserId="31474" LastEditDate="2016-02-23T21:01:44.530" LastActivityDate="2016-08-22T02:07:42.153" Title="Is True Detective (S2) based on &quot;The Big Nowhere&quot;?" Tags="|character|reference|true-detective|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49206" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49204" CreationDate="2016-02-23T21:07:57.303" Score="47" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deep Roy&lt;/strong&gt; played all 165 Oompa Loompas in the hit film Charlie and the Chocolate factory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/cEVilNDXd0A?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Temuera Morrison&lt;/strong&gt; was the basis for the clones seen in this scene from &quot;Attack of the Clones&quot;. I count approximately 5000 versions of him, albeit some in helmets.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/3dovd1clLJ4?start=271&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hugo Weaving&lt;/strong&gt; was a lot of Smith. An awful lot of Smith.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/w3Kw3U4EnYs?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T09:31:14.120" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T09:31:14.120" CommentCount="6" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49207" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-23T22:01:47.200" Score="2" ViewCount="355" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why did William &quot;Bill&quot; Kim call the police in &lt;em&gt;Prison Break&lt;/em&gt;, when it's obvious that he wanted to kill Lincoln. It makes no sense. Kim would go to jail, right?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31522" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-03-11T10:54:11.353" LastActivityDate="2016-03-11T10:54:11.353" Title="Why does Kim call the police?" Tags="|plot-explanation|prison-break|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49216" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49204" CreationDate="2016-02-24T06:32:48.493" Score="71" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't know the answer. But here's a potential candidate. Unlike the aforementioned films that involved digital cloning of one character (Clone Wars, The Matrix, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), Buster Keaton physically acted out (from my count) &lt;strong&gt;27 separate roles&lt;/strong&gt; in his 1921 film &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Playhouse_(film)&quot;&gt;The Play House&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4L666.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/4L666.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="756" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T06:32:48.493" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49219" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-24T09:03:08.557" Score="12" ViewCount="8034" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://imdb.com/title/tt0120601/&quot;&gt;Being John Malkovich&lt;/a&gt; is based on Craig Schwartz (John Cusack), an unemployed puppeteer, discovering a portal in his office at LesterCorp which transports the person in it into the mind of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Malkovich/&quot;&gt;John Malkovich&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Among the numerous oddities of the floor 7(1/2) in the LesterCorp building, one of the most interesting is the low ceilings. The movie does somewhat explain the reason for the unique structure, however, I don't understand how it holds any significance in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What does this unique 'structure' signify?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21126" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T15:50:40.147" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T15:50:40.147" Title="What is the significance of floor 7 1/2?" Tags="|analysis|being-john-malkovich|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49221" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="105513" CreationDate="2016-02-24T09:10:15.857" Score="6" ViewCount="202" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have seen &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Your_Raashee%3F&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;What's Your Raashee&lt;/a&gt; in theater and forceful cuts of the film were easily noticeable. But few years ago, I have seen it in Indian broadcast channel and this version of film had two extra songs , which were equally essential to understand two of the twelve girls.  I did googled a lot about it but can't find anything about additional versions.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is what are all the versions of What's Your Raashee and what are the difference in them?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastActivityDate="2020-01-14T13:47:09.977" Title="Is there alternate versions of What's Your Raashee?" Tags="|alternate-version|whats-your-raashee|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49222" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49228" CreationDate="2016-02-24T09:22:26.993" Score="6" ViewCount="3265" Body="&lt;p&gt;I recently saw &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1410815&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Asghar Farhadi&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1832382&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;A Separation&lt;/a&gt; (great movie). A major part of the movie revolves around the accident involving Razeih (the caretaker).&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;In the particular scene where Nader returns to his house to find his father lying unconscious and tied to the bed, Razieh is nowhere to be found. When she does return, Nader accuses her of neglecting his father and of having stolen money from his room. Now Razieh protests her innocence (which is later kinda' confirmed when her daughter tells Nader that she hadn't stolen the money) and it seems like that she is telling the truth.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;Now my question is, if Razieh didn't take the money, the where did it go? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21126" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T10:33:03.660" Title="What happened to the money?" Tags="|plot-explanation|a-separation|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49223" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49176" CreationDate="2016-02-24T09:34:41.280" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Think of it this way, the healing factor fixes what's wrong when it takes full effect.  Wolverine grows to adult hood, healing factor takes full effect, wolverines can heal any wound quickly, but eventually dies off of old age. &#xA;Wilsons healing factor didn't finish maturating until the cancer cells had riddled his body, so the healing factor &quot;thinks&quot; they belong there, and fixes every cell.&#xA;It's not magic like in Kim Harrison's the Hallows novels where the magic replaces the exact body the dna blueprints. (Loss of scars, ageing, and hair removal.) so healing factor heals what is there, magic heals to what should be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31537" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T09:34:41.280" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49228" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49222" CreationDate="2016-02-24T10:33:03.660" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Well, IMDb &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1832382/faq#.2.1.4&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;solves that mystery&lt;/a&gt;: It was Simin who paid the movers.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who took the money?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;em&gt;Simin&lt;/em&gt;. There's a scene where Simin is arguing with workers who are moving the piano. They say that Simin must pay them more. Simin pays them the money, the same money that was put into the drawer. Later on, Nader thinks that Razieh has stolen the money. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IIRC, this happens at an early stage in the film. Nader was unaware of this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T10:33:03.660" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49229" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-24T11:26:44.157" Score="1" ViewCount="1280" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Your_Raashee%3F&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;What's Your Raashee?&lt;/a&gt; is based on Madhu Rye's novel Kimball Ravenswood. It is said that the film has a different ending than the novel and than the older adaptation &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Yogi_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mr. Yogi (TV series)&lt;/a&gt;, too.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I do know the ending of the film and asked &lt;a href=&quot;https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/9736/why-they-showed-sanjana-as-the-ultimate-choice-over-all-12-girls&quot;&gt;a question on the integrity of it&lt;/a&gt;. But what is the ending in the novel? Which sunshine girl does he pick to marry? I have read somewhere about the novel having a better ending but can't find what happens in it and what the differences between them are? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2017-04-13T12:54:00.030" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T11:33:06.360" Title="What is the difference between the ending of the novel Kimball Ravenswood and the movie 'What's Your Raashee?'?" Tags="|book-adaptation|whats-your-raashee|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49230" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-24T11:48:44.320" Score="6" ViewCount="12066" Body="&lt;p&gt;I saw the rather fascinating &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=4&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwiYxvLQqJDLAhUCPxoKHcznCWwQFghLMAM&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBone_Tomahawk&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNENVCsBLZ1hXRWBgqHUmRojCO9a2Q&quot;&gt;Bone Tomahawk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; recently. In it, a group of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_dweller&quot;&gt;troglodytes&lt;/a&gt; kidnap a few people, leading to a suspenseful chase across the arid country in search of them and their victims.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;During the film, when the troglodytes are close, we often hear this eery screeching noise. When we actually &lt;em&gt;see&lt;/em&gt; them on screen, towards the end of the film, we learn that this is their method of communication.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They appear to have some sort of object embedded in their wind pipes, which warps their sounds making them much more screech like (like having a whistle in your throat). One of the protagonists cuts this object out of a dead troglodytes' throat and uses it to &quot;summon&quot; other troglodytes to him, so he can kill them.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's all very fascinating, and very brutal, but I was curious to know if this object in their throats is remotely &lt;em&gt;realistic&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has there been any cases of ancient tribes of Indians (or other races) found with similar contraptions? Is it even possible to have a device like this actually &lt;em&gt;embedded&lt;/em&gt; in your throat?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T11:54:00.850" LastActivityDate="2020-11-19T14:29:55.910" Title="How realistic was the communication between the troglodytes?" Tags="|realism|bone-tomahawk|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49231" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49235" CreationDate="2016-02-24T12:11:09.443" Score="1" ViewCount="545" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Hateful Eight, can Daisy Domergue be considered a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;MacGuffin&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The story is about the attempt to save her, but the &quot;story starter&quot; could be Marquis Warren, because the watcher follows him during the story.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Who can be considered the MacGuffin in the movie? Or isn't there a McGuffin in it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6582" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T12:22:41.783" LastActivityDate="2016-08-03T21:02:42.930" Title="Who or what could be considered a MacGuffin in The Hateful Eight?" Tags="|the-hateful-eight|macguffin|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49232" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49219" CreationDate="2016-02-24T12:33:32.907" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;The reference to 7 1/2 seems to be an homage to Fellini's film &quot;8 1/2&quot; which also deals with a similar concept (e.g. going inside the mind of a genius and seeing its inner workings) albeit in a very different fashion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What's also quite interesting is that according to Malkovich the script wasn't written specially for him, nor did the Director know that he'd be available at the time of shooting. It just happened to be the first name that popped into Charlie Kaufmann's mind when he was putting together the screenplay, &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Rws44nfh2C4C&amp;amp;pg=PA35&amp;amp;lpg=PA35&amp;amp;dq=malkovich+%2244th+birthday%22&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=GM30lGG5GZ&amp;amp;sig=P81tJaA4x-yBgsklvOpESDz7A5Y&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=ooC8UvTRNdSP7AbO8oGwBw&amp;amp;ved=0CFIQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=malkovich%20%2244th%20birthday%22&amp;amp;f=false&quot;&gt;as can be read&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;em&gt;Charlie Kaufman: Confessions of an Original Mind&lt;/em&gt; by Doreen Alexander Child. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T13:47:22.407" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T13:47:22.407" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49233" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49204" CreationDate="2016-02-24T12:51:37.440" Score="33" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_Hearts_and_Coronets&quot;&gt;Kind Hearts and Coronets&lt;/a&gt; is a full length film where Alec Guinness plays eight members of the D'Ascoyne family: Ethelred &quot;the Duke&quot;, Lord Ascoyne &quot;the Banker&quot;, Reverend Lord Henry &quot;the Parson&quot;, General Lord Rufus &quot;the General&quot;, Admiral Lord Horatio &quot;the Admiral&quot;, Young Ascoyne, Young Henry and Lady Agatha D'Ascoyne. He also plays the seventh duke in brief flashback sequences to Mama's youth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30280" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T12:51:37.440" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49234" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49204" CreationDate="2016-02-24T13:17:18.807" Score="51" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Bollywood film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Your_Raashee%3F&quot;&gt;What's Your Raashee?&lt;/a&gt;,  Priyanka Chopra plays 12 characters, depicting the signs of the zodiac. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ciVu4.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ciVu4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Individual role played by the actress with there zodiac sighs are as below :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OXxEYm.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OXxEYm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Unstfm.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Unstfm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HlrzIm.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/HlrzIm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OTpiHm.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/OTpiHm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/stgwMm.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/stgwMm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/saoAcm.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/saoAcm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UUW6pm.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/UUW6pm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k7KXxm.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/k7KXxm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G6upVm.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/G6upVm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3twrLm.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/3twrLm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dYzi8m.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dYzi8m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mqyA8m.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/mqyA8m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All twelve character have different characteristic then the rest, few also address social issues of India too and get sufficient scene time in the film, making it 211 minutes after the cuts and got criticized for length.  The actress was considered for Guinness World Records as the first actress to play 12 different characters in one film. Film was a flop but actress got lot of praise.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another film from India, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasavathaaram&quot;&gt;Dasavathaaram&lt;/a&gt; also is bit close with 10 roles played by same character.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T13:52:52.937" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T13:52:52.937" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49235" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49231" CreationDate="2016-02-24T13:23:42.970" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;Absolutely it's Daisy.  The entire story revolves around her; first her transport and then her rescue.  You may lose sight of that since Tarantino tends to use overly-verbose dialogue, but all of those characters wouldn't even be in that cabin/store if it weren't for Daisy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T13:23:42.970" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49236" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49230" CreationDate="2016-02-24T14:21:51.027" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;While I'm not entirely sure this is on-topic here, there are &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Macchiarini&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cases of windpipe transplants&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028105-200-first-partial-transplant-of-a-bioengineered-larynx/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;partial larynx transplants&lt;/a&gt; that don't put too far out the possibility of altering the sound somebody can make when breathing through them. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm pretty sure any ancient culture has not embedded anything in the windpipe as it would be more likely to choke the person without the ability to properly anchor it, as well as allow food to pass through. I'm guessing without surgery this would be akin to shoving a duck call down somebodies throat, and would most likely result in death in short order. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The more common examples of bodily modification are &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_cranial_deformation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;head elongation&lt;/a&gt; (performed by binding the infants head for many years), &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neck_ring&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;neck elongation&lt;/a&gt; (usually by inserting rings to lengthen the neck), and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;foot binding&lt;/a&gt; which is now illegal in China. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31550" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T14:21:51.027" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49238" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49240" CreationDate="2016-02-24T15:15:20.597" Score="4" ViewCount="12874" Body="&lt;p&gt;Lost seems to have an unequal number of episodes across its various seasons:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;season 1 - 25 episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;season 2 - 24 episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;season 3 - 23 episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;season 4 - 14 episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;season 5 - 17 episodes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;season 6 - 18 episodes.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Even &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost:_Missing_Pieces&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Lost: Missing Pieces&lt;/a&gt; has 13 episodes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did Lost always have an unequal number of episode among all of the seasons? I heard about a hiatus between the 3rd and 4th seasons but why does it happen with all the seasons? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T15:17:49.307" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T14:18:53.877" Title="Why does Lost have an unequal number of episodes among all seasons?" Tags="|production|lost|lost-missing-pieces|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49240" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49238" CreationDate="2016-02-24T16:10:17.510" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;Season 1 and 2 were supposed to have 24 episodes (the &quot;normal&quot; amount of episodes for a network show), but for season 1 the finale became a double-length episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With respect to season 3: they planned for 22 episodes, but the finale became a double-length episode. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(season_3)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia does note the remarkable broadcast schedule&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In response to fan complaints about scheduling in the previous&#xA;  seasons, ABC decided to air the episodes without reruns, albeit in two&#xA;  separate blocks. In the United States, the first block consisted of&#xA;  six episodes aired on Wednesdays at 9:00 pm and after a twelve week&#xA;  break, the season continued with the remaining 16 episodes at 10:00&#xA;  pm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With respect to season 4, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(season_4)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wikipedia says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The season was &lt;strong&gt;originally planned to contain 16 episodes; eight were&#xA;  filmed before the start of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America&#xA;  strike&lt;/strong&gt;. Following the strike's resolution, it was announced that&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;only five more episodes would be produced to complete the season&lt;/strong&gt;;&#xA;  however, the season finale's script was so long that &lt;strong&gt;network&#xA;  executives approved the production of a 14th episode as part of a&#xA;  three-hour season finale&lt;/strong&gt; split over two nights.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Season 5's 17 are due to the two &quot;missing&quot; episodes from season 4 being re-distributed to season 5 and season 6.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With respect to season 6, again &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(season_6)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;quoting Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Beginning with the 2007–2008 television season, the final 48 episodes&#xA;  would have been aired as three seasons with 16 episodes each, with&#xA;  Lost concluding in its sixth season. Due to 2007–2008 Writers Guild of&#xA;  America strike, the fourth season featured 14 episodes, and season 5&#xA;  had 17 episodes. &lt;strong&gt;Season six was planned to have 17 episodes&lt;/strong&gt;, too.&#xA;  However, on June 29, 2009 it was announced that &lt;strong&gt;the final season would&#xA;  feature an additional hour&lt;/strong&gt;, making the number of episodes 18.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13595" LastEditorUserId="24251" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T14:18:53.877" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T14:18:53.877" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49241" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49246" CreationDate="2016-02-24T18:20:09.363" Score="13" ViewCount="6168" Body="&lt;p&gt;I've very nearly finished &lt;em&gt;The Curtain&lt;/em&gt;, what I assume is the last Poirot episode, and certainly the last one on Netflix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As I watched the series it was not apparent, at least in the first run of Poirot, that he was religious. It seemed kind of surprising when I got to the newer episodes, and Poirot was overtly religious (invoking God, using a rosary, etc.), whereas I don't recall &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; mention of Poirot attending church or really having a belief in anything besides the truth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I confess I have never read the books, so I don't know if it was just common knowledge, but was Hercule Poirot always religious? If so, do we know why it was glossed over in the original series, and more emphasized in the later episodes?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1655" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T20:18:39.703" LastActivityDate="2017-01-20T04:22:37.757" Title="Was Hercule Poirot always religious?" Tags="|character|poirot|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49245" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49204" CreationDate="2016-02-24T19:57:27.760" Score="28" Body="&lt;p&gt;From the 2013 Chilean comedy film &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_ciudadano_Kramer&quot;&gt;El Ciudadano Kramer&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (&quot;Citizen Kramer&quot;), 24 roles for a single actor :&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Stefan Kramer as himself, and &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Alturo Longton&quot; (Arturo Longton)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Moreno Piñera&quot; (Miguel &quot;Negro&quot; Piñera - brother of the President)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Hablo Zalaquett&quot; (Pablo Zalaquett)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&quot;Don Tatán&quot; (Sebastián Piñera, President of Chile at the time) &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rodrigo Hinzpeter &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Iván Fuentes&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Carlos Larraín (Senator)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Camilo Escalona (Senator)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Marco Enríquez-Ominami (Presidential candidate)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;José Antonio Gómez&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Fernando Paulsen&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Matías del Río&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Michelle Bachelet (Presidential candidate in 2013, actual President)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Evelyn Matthei (Senator)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Franco Parisi (Presidential candidate)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Rafael Araneda (TV presenter)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Kike Morandé (TV presenter)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Diana Bolocco (TV presenter)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Mario Kreutzberger (TV presenter, aka &quot;Don Francisco&quot;)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Amaro Gómez-Pablos&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Martín Cárcamo (TV presenter)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Karen Doggenweiler (TV presenter, wife of #9)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Leonardo Farkas (Proposed presidential candidate)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31560" LastEditorUserId="31560" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T22:35:04.097" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T22:35:04.097" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49246" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49241" CreationDate="2016-02-24T20:17:58.527" Score="16" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Poirot was always discreetly religious in the books.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;The reason why this became more prominent in the series is unknown, but possibly to add more variety to the character to keep him fresh.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Long Answer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;was Hercule Poirot always religious?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Poirot's religion doesn't really feature until the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_Mesopotamia&quot;&gt;Murder in Mesopotamia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, Christie's 14th novel involving him. In it, there are a few sections relating to his religion:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;An interesting man, that Father Lavigny.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;A monk being an archaeologist seems odd to me,&quot; I said.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &quot;Ah, yes, you are a Protestant. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Me, I am a good Catholic.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; I know&#xA;  something of priests and monks.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Poirot gave a slow appraising glance at us all, then rose to his feet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't know what I expected him to say - something dramatic&#xA;  certainly. He was that kind of person.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;But I certainly didn't expect him to start off with a phrase in&#xA;  Arabic.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Yet that is what happened. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;He said the words slowly and solemnly - and&#xA;  really quite religiously, if you know what I mean&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;Bismillahi ar rahman ar rahim.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;And then he gave the translation in English.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I had a lengthy conversation with Father Lavigny. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I am a practising&#xA;  Catholic and I know many priests and members of religious communities&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&#xA;  Father Lavigny struck me as not ringing quite true to his role. But he&#xA;  struck me, on the other hand, as familiar in quite a different&#xA;  capacity. I had met men of his type quite frequently - but they were&#xA;  not members of a religious community. Far from it!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Now, the middle quote is obviously the least &quot;obvious&quot;, but it shows even the narrator is aware of this religious respect within him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We hear little else of his religion until the 27th work involving Poirot, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Labours_of_Hercules&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Labours of Hercules&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, when we are simply told:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hercule Poirot was a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Catholic by birth&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the 28th work, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_at_the_Flood&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Taken at the Flood&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;I am a good Catholic&lt;/strong&gt;,&quot; said Poirot cautiously.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;In front of Poirot, set back a little, was the Roman Catholic Church&#xA;  of the Assumption, a small modest affair, a shrinking violet compared&#xA;  to the aggressiveness of St. Mary's which stood arrogantly in the&#xA;  middle of the square facing the Cornmarket, and proclaiming the&#xA;  dominance of the Protestant religion.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Moved by an impulse Poirot went through the gate and along the path to&#xA;  the door of the Roman Catholic building.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He removed his hat, genuflected in front of the altar and knelt down&#xA;  behind one of the chairs. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;His prayers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; were interrupted by the sound of&#xA;  stifled heartbroken sobs.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, from the 41st work, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poirot%27s_Early_Cases&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Poirot's Early Cases&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;At that time, mon ami, I was, as you know, a member of the Belgian&#xA;  detective force. The death of M. Paul Dé roulard was not particularly&#xA;  interesting to me. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I am, as you also know, bon catholique,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and his&#xA;  demise seemed to me fortunate.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, in the book Poirot is certainly religious, although it is fairly discreet. The background to his religion is never really discussed, particularly as so little information is provided regarding his childhood.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;do we know why it was glossed over in the original series, and more emphasized in the later episodes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We only have speculation to go on here. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It seems quite probable that it was introduced to stay true to the character from the novels, but also to show a different side of Poirot for followers of just the series. After all, Suchet played the part for a quarter of a century, so I'm sure the addition of this new part of his character was an acting challenge and allowed him to expose a new element of Poirot's character to a modern audience.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given Suchet's &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Suchet#Religious_beliefs&quot;&gt;own religious beliefs&lt;/a&gt; (he was baptised into the Church of England in 1986) this change was perhaps something he welcomed (or even argued for).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, this &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; all speculation and in reality we don't know why the change was made.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T20:17:58.527" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49247" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-24T21:02:14.437" Score="3" ViewCount="7815" Body="&lt;p&gt;In 'Mississippi Grind', Curtis places a 100 dollar bet in a street basketball game and loses. Then he says he cannot pay because he has no money.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The other players beat him up for that and go through his wallet and find thousands of dollars. They take their money and leave. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;IF Curtis was holding thousands of dollars, why did he claim to have no money? Especially since it was clear he was going to get punched?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastActivityDate="2022-02-08T11:59:53.950" Title="Why did Curtis say he had no money?" Tags="|plot-explanation|mississippi-grind|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49249" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49247" CreationDate="2016-02-24T21:21:41.300" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Like all gamblers, he knows that sometimes he wins and sometimes he loses. As the film goes on, we see how much of a problem Curtis has. He is very reckless and dejected. It's not inconceivable that he took a chance on the basketball match, not caring so much about the consequences.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sure, he could have paid up. But he's also a high-risk drifter who will bet on absolutely anything, frequently crashing down with a hard thud. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene, juxtaposed with Gerry's scene trying to get in to the poker game, shows  this nicely. They both gamble, with poor results.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Of course&lt;/em&gt;, despite this reasoning, it's  clear many people weren't impressed with the scene. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indiewire.com/article/sundance-review-ryan-reynolds-and-ben-mendelsohn-anchor-uneven-mississippi-grind-20150129&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;IndieWire&lt;/a&gt;, in their review of the film, said:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;When Curtis bets on a random basketball game, and refuses to pay up,&#xA;  he winds up getting beaten and robbed. This scene and others like it&#xA;  have a random, aimless quality. The clichéd ending doesn't help...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...If Curtis doesn't mind letting Gerry burn all his money in&#xA;  gambling, why didn't he help pay off the loan sharks? The initial&#xA;  reason for their journey becomes less and less important to the&#xA;  character as the film moves along...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;...Where are the consequences? When Gerry gets stabbed, he doesn't&#xA;  even need go to the hospital. It's impossible to sympathize with&#xA;  seemingly invincible characters.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This was one of many reviews I picked out showing complaints about the films arguably &quot;meaningless&quot; trials and tribulations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, whilst there is an arguable reason for Curtis' reasons - an out of control gambler with little concern for the consequences - there is also valid questioning of many of his scenes as simply &lt;em&gt;not making sense in the context of his character and the film&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T21:45:31.033" LastActivityDate="2016-02-24T21:45:31.033" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49250" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-24T21:50:59.590" Score="7" ViewCount="24586" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=2&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwi-gbS8spHLAhWIVRQKHXU1Dv0QFggpMAE&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Witch_(2015_film)&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGk4yGFL42MDPJpE2oW94qLY6x0tQ&amp;amp;sig2=ebWAIt2-2BW2aF43w5fsDw&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Witch&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, in the middle of the night, the evil witch goes into the barn and attacks the goats. The next morning, we see the twins have disappeared. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Did the witch take the twins?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23220" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-24T21:58:02.457" LastActivityDate="2017-10-05T01:48:11.487" Title="What happened to the twins?" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-witch|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49252" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49204" CreationDate="2016-02-24T22:43:30.540" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does the &quot;Malkovich Malkovich&quot; scene from &lt;em&gt;Being John Malkovich&lt;/em&gt; count?  It's difficult to count precisely how many Malkoviches are in this scene;  I counted 45 while going through shot-by-shot, but I may have missed a few and/or double-counted some.  These are obviously not named roles, so it may not count for what you're looking for.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/lIpev8JXJHQ?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Beyond this, Malkovich also plays three &quot;characters&quot; for substantial periods of time in the movie:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Himself;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Craig inhabiting his body; and&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Lester and his friends inhabiting his body, towards the end of the movie.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Several other characters &quot;enter&quot; John Malkovich during the movie, but they are not shown having control over Malkovich (just being spectators.)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30354" LastEditorUserId="30354" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T14:20:09.390" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T14:20:09.390" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49259" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49283" CreationDate="2016-02-25T01:41:46.220" Score="12" ViewCount="3848" Body="&lt;p&gt;Watching a recent episode of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Season 4 Episode 15 &quot;Taken&quot;), I get a feeling that Oliver's Star City mayoral race campaign headquarters looks incredibly identical to Central City's Police Department (Earth 1, as seen in basically every episode). The windows and door and everything.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Considering the cross overs and everything, do they share sets or filming crews too? Or is the similarity just superficial?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-07T05:51:02.100" LastActivityDate="2019-01-02T01:45:47.883" Title="Do &quot;Arrow&quot; and &quot;The Flash&quot; share sets?" Tags="|production|film-location|the-flash|arrow|arrowverse|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49264" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49336" CreationDate="2016-02-25T02:47:19.367" Score="6" ViewCount="15904" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Zootopia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; we observe that Judy and Nick have become really close to each other but are they maintaining a best friend type relationship or a romantic relationship? I think that it is only a friend relation, but is there any evidence of this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31576" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T09:52:10.293" LastActivityDate="2016-03-09T20:22:23.030" Title="What is Judy's and Nick's relationship?" Tags="|character|ending|zootopia|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49266" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-25T04:47:48.457" Score="8" ViewCount="19438" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the Lost series, I could understand in the end, what was the Black Smoke Monster but I could never figure out the origin of the mechanic noise that followed it. What was producing this noise? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T10:07:09.173" LastActivityDate="2016-07-13T10:33:54.110" Title="What was the mechanic noise behind the Black Smoke Monster in Lost?" Tags="|plot-explanation|lost|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49269" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49281" CreationDate="2016-02-25T06:09:23.600" Score="3" ViewCount="2966" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Maximus is captured by Quintus in &lt;em&gt;Gladiator&lt;/em&gt;, Cicero offers him his sword. Why does he refuse?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Come to think of it. If he had defeated Quintus and the 3 men in the room, and with the support of his army, things could have been very different.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Mi1Y.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Mi1Y.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6fRzV.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/6fRzV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31585" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T10:14:30.160" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T10:14:30.160" Title="Why does Maximus refuse the sword from Cicero?" Tags="|gladiator|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49272" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49317" CreationDate="2016-02-25T06:41:27.740" Score="7" ViewCount="12889" Body="&lt;p&gt;How far did Aladdin and Jasmine travel on their magic carpet ride in Aladdin (1992)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We can suppose that Agrabah is really Baghdad.  They pass by the pyramids and the sphinx, pass by some Greek-looking architecture, and end up in China.  Besides Giza, are there any other specific locations that appear in the film which we could use to nail down their itinerary?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31587" LastEditorUserId="31587" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T21:38:05.440" LastActivityDate="2024-02-15T08:11:47.523" Title="How much distance did the magic carpet ride cover?" Tags="|aladdin|" AnswerCount="4" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49273" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49278" CreationDate="2016-02-25T06:47:30.597" Score="5" ViewCount="98339" Body="&lt;p&gt;I want to ask two questions based on climax of &quot;The Talented Mr Ripley&quot; (1999): &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;How did Tom Ripley manage Meredith Logue kiss thing before Peter?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Did Tom kill Peter also at the very end of movie?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31591" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-03-29T13:30:22.297" LastActivityDate="2021-12-12T22:41:49.343" Title="What really happened at the end of &quot;The Talented Mr Ripley&quot;?" Tags="|ending|the-talented-mr-ripley|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49275" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-25T07:27:08.937" Score="3" ViewCount="554" Body="&lt;p&gt;The first shot of &lt;em&gt;Baahubali: The Beginning&lt;/em&gt; shows a map. We start at Mahishmathi and track south and see a &quot;Bandit's Hideout&quot; followed by &lt;em&gt;Kunthala Kingdom&lt;/em&gt; then &lt;em&gt;Kunthala's Hideout&lt;/em&gt; and then the waterfall....&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So I notice that in the movie we do not see any mention of Kunthala or her kingdom or why she needs to go into hiding. So, seeing as the other character who has not been fleshed out much is Devasena and why she is the way she is, is she belonging to this Kingdom?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31593" LastEditorUserId="27264" LastEditDate="2017-05-08T04:40:33.580" LastActivityDate="2017-05-08T04:40:33.580" Title="Would Devasena belong to the Kunthala Kingdom in Baahubali The Beginning?" Tags="|character|baahubali-the-beginning|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49278" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49273" CreationDate="2016-02-25T08:29:18.147" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;1) How did Tom Ripley manage Meredith Logue kiss thing before Peter?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the film, Ripley pretends to be Dickie and meets Meredith. He then really meets Dickie and acts as himself, before finally murdering Dickie and assuming both Dickie's identity and his own identity. Finally, as the police close in and look for Dickie, Ripley subtlety distances himself from the now-fictional identity and asserts his innocence.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All of this works, he is left with a substantial amount of Dickie's trust fund, and the police leave him alone.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This builds us up to the climax of the film.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There, Ripley goes on a cruise with Peter. However, to his dismay, Meredith is also on board. Remember, Peter thinks Ripley is just Ripley. But Meredith &lt;em&gt;still thinks he is Dickie&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He realises that both Meredith and Peter can compromise his identity, as they both view him as a different person. This would obviously demonstrate his guilt in Dickie's disappearance and would be disastrous for him. When he meets Meredith on the cruise, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/mr-ripley_shooting.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;the screenplay says&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Meredith points to the UPPER DECK BALCONY where TWO OLDER&#xA;       COUPLES are walking around the deck.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RIPLEY&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                 Of course.  Aunt Joan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MEREDITH&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                 And co. A lot of co. Oh, God, I've&#xA;                 thought about you so much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RIPLEY&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                 I've thought about you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;And now he's thinking I can't kill them all...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the emboldened part shows, he can't &lt;em&gt;kill&lt;/em&gt; her, as she has far too many family and he has no easy way to make this happen. The screen play shows he panics a little:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MEREDITH&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                 You know, the whole world thinks you&#xA;                 killed Freddie? It's terrible.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RIPLEY&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                 I know. Look, I can't talk now. Later.&#xA;                 Later?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;He kisses her.  Full of future.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MEREDITH&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                 So - are you travelling under R?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RIPLEY&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                 You know what - I am.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MEREDITH&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                 Dickie, are you with Peter Smith-&#xA;                 Kingsley?  I bet you are. My aunt thought&#xA;                 she saw him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RIPLEY&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                     &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;(horrified)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;                 Peter Smith-Kingsley? I haven't seen him&#xA;                 in months.  No, I'm alone.&#xA;                     (and he understands this is not&#xA;                      any kind of lie)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So he kisses her to both settle her questions, impose a little control over the situation, and give him some space to consider how to resolve it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;2) Did Tom Kill peter also at the very end of movie?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yes.&lt;/strong&gt; In the very next scene, we see him strangle Peter to death. This is because, as he can't kill Meredith, he has to kill Peter. He sees it as his only option.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, note the screenplay's ending:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The door of his closet flips open with the swell and he&#xA;       catches his reflection. It swings shut. Open then shut.&#xA;       Through the porthole the weather's changing as the light&#xA;       dies. There's a swell as the horizon rises and falls in the&#xA;       round glass. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ripley, alone, in a nightmare of his own making&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There's not an indication that this murder has suddenly solved his problems. It's very likely Meredith will &lt;em&gt;at some point&lt;/em&gt; will connect that people think &quot;Dickie&quot; is actually Ripley and his disguise will be blown.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How he resolves this is left unclear. All we know at the climax of the film was that, whilst he &lt;em&gt;thought&lt;/em&gt; he had gotten away with everything, he's been dragged right back into difficulty again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-03-29T13:34:01.300" LastActivityDate="2016-03-29T13:34:01.300" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49279" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49272" CreationDate="2016-02-25T08:34:03.780" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We don't know&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume you are referring to &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_(1992_Disney_film)&quot;&gt;Disney's Aladdin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. The scene in question is a montage. We're not shown &lt;em&gt;every&lt;/em&gt; place they went to, and the passage of time between the areas is thus very difficult to gauge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://moviepilot.com/posts/2152576&quot;&gt;MoviePilot&lt;/a&gt; did remark:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;While Aladdin and Jasmine take their romantic ride together they&#xA;  somehow manage to travel from Cairo to Athens in under one second.&#xA;  That's around 1100 kilometers!! Travelling that far at such speed&#xA;  would apply around 99 million newtons of force! &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;So...even if Aladdin and Jasmine could manage to hold onto the carpet,&#xA;  their skin should have been torn from their bones. Hmm, suddenly&#xA;  that's not sounding so romantic...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, it's basically impossible to gauge their total distance travelled &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; their overall ground speed (which, as the analysis above shows, is certainly Physics-defying).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Ultimately it's an animated, fun film and this is magic - so the realism was irrelevant to Disney and wasn't focussed on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T08:34:03.780" CommentCount="16" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49281" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49269" CreationDate="2016-02-25T08:44:56.207" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly:  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He didn't want Cicero to be unnecessarily killed.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;He didn't realise he was facing death until he was removed from the tent, saw the riders head for his family and had his own fate confirmed to him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Answer&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;We don't know &lt;em&gt;definitively&lt;/em&gt;, but I'd suggest it was because he didn't want Cicero to be killed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Cicero obviously couldn't just waltz in with the sword, give it to Maximus and let Maximus kill Quintus and the guards - he would have been killed long before reaching Maximus (and even then, with all Maximus' skill, it would be an uneven fight).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only real solution would be for Cicero to kill most of the men and give Maximus his sword.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A mere servant going up against multiple guards would likely end swiftly and poorly for the servant. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this, I'd argue Maximus didn't want to see him killed, particularly since his intervention would be so futile. Another thing that is worth remembering is that whilst Maximus is aware he is being arrested, he is still not aware of the implications of this. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Gladiator.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;From the script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Quintus and four Praetorian ASSASSINS suddenly burst in -- the&#xA;  assassins move immediately to bind Maximus -- swords at his throat --&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MAXIMUS&lt;/strong&gt;       What -- ?!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;QUINTUS&lt;/strong&gt;           (ashamed)       Please don't fight, Maximus --&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MAXIMUS&lt;/strong&gt;       Quintus --&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Quintus goes to Maximus' armor, which hangs nearby, and slowly removes&#xA;  his seal of office.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;QUINTUS&lt;/strong&gt;       I'm sorry, General, Caesar has      spoken.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They pull Maximus out --&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Five horses are waiting.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MAXIMUS&lt;/strong&gt;       Quintus, what -- ?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;QUINTUS&lt;/strong&gt;           (anguish)       I have no choice --&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;They are almost run over by a stern cohort of twenty Praetorians who&#xA;  gallop past.  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Maximus knows immediately what this means&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MAXIMUS&lt;/strong&gt;           &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;(suddenly)       My family?!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;A beat.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MAXIMUS&lt;/strong&gt;       What about my family, Quintus?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;QUINTUS&lt;/strong&gt;           &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;(quietly)        They will greet you in the      afterlife.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Maximus lunges at him -- the Praetorians subdue him -- slamming him&#xA;  with a sword hilt -- knocking him unconscious&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note that when he realises he and his family will be killed, he &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; fight back (and may well have accepted the sword from Cicero). But at the time of his initial arrest, seconds earlier, &lt;em&gt;exactly&lt;/em&gt; what was happening was still unclear, so the perilous nature of his situation was not obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T08:44:56.207" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49282" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49266" CreationDate="2016-02-25T08:59:57.620" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;We don't definitively know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwjumpKqxJLLAhWKPxoKHf3sBQ8QFggdMAA&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDavid_Fury&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFHUugNl-1YudseTm-nTTZuxdsZ6g&quot;&gt;David Fury&lt;/a&gt; was the writer for the first season of Lost. In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lostpedia_Interview:David_Fury&quot;&gt;interview with Lostpedia&lt;/a&gt;, he was asked about the smoke monster:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lostpedia&lt;/strong&gt;: How much of the Monster’s mythology were you made aware of&#xA;  when writing “Walkabout”? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fury&lt;/strong&gt;: There was no mythology to speak of in place during the early episodes&#xA;  of the series. We were building it as we went along, discussing&#xA;  possibilities. Metaphorically, the monster was just the great unknown&#xA;  threat, the imminent danger around the corner that potentially haunts&#xA;  us all… Some thought of it as a monster of the id, much like in&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Forbidden Planet&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; -- that maybe it appeared differently to everyone who&#xA;  saw it. The most tangible thought, as explained later by Rousseau, was&#xA;  that it functioned as a security system set up by the island’s&#xA;  creators/early residents… whatever we later decided the answer was.&#xA;  For Locke, clearly, the monster was the “soul” of the island that was&#xA;  responsible for his “miracle.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwig4PnSxJLLAhUGiRoKHWPnDvUQFggcMAA&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FForbidden_Planet&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFzdOdK2f17ucE8f03G_PodR-JP0A&amp;amp;bvm=bv.115277099,d.d2s&quot;&gt;Forbidden Planet&lt;/a&gt; reference I've highlighted, as it shares some similarities with &lt;em&gt;Lost&lt;/em&gt; which Fury may well have used. To quote from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Man_in_Black&quot;&gt;Lost wiki&lt;/a&gt; on these:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Its storyline features many similar themes to Lost: a mysterious&#xA;  location, geographic isolation, immense power sources, ancient&#xA;  civilizations, hidden underground facilities, an invisible monster, a&#xA;  stranded crew of explorers, lost scientific expeditions, and deadly&#xA;  psychic powers. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The howling noise frequently made by the smoke monster&#xA;  in 'Lost' is strikingly similar to noises made by the monster from&#xA;  'Forbidden Planet'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So that's one possible solution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another interesting analysis of the noise comes from &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Damon_Lindelof&quot;&gt;Damon Lindelof&lt;/a&gt;. He posted a question asking about the nature of the monster on &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070205191623AAxWW5B&quot;&gt;Yahoo Answers&lt;/a&gt;. Out of 8,000 responses, he and &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Carlton_Cuse&quot;&gt;Carlton Cuse&lt;/a&gt; chose the following as their &lt;em&gt;favourite&lt;/em&gt; answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I think the Monster was originally a highly advanced security system&#xA;  designed to separate participants in the experimental DHARMA hatches.&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I think it was an effect that was designed to frighten people (smoke,&#xA;  noise) if they strayed too far from their experiment location&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. (A bit&#xA;  Wizard of Oz-like.) However, the electromagnetic force has mutated&#xA;  it—in the same sense as Desmond experienced time travel and can now&#xA;  see the future after exposure—and made it malevolent and able to&#xA;  physically grab things in its force (Eko, the pilot, Locke). So in&#xA;  theory it may be able to be deactivated, if they can find the control&#xA;  room for it (which would be another hatch somewhere yet undetected).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A final important consideration is that the Smoke Monster wasn't &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; understood even by its creators. In an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/a5729/anatomy-of-losts-smoke-monster/&quot;&gt;interview with Popular Mechanics&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwin4JKBxpLLAhWJExoKHdidDnIQFggdMAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Fname%2Fnm0856273%2F&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEWemcl3kULXynAeoApE4hOGezJnQ&quot;&gt;John Teska&lt;/a&gt; (creator of the Monster) discussed this. The relevant section is:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;After the monster debuted, Teska found some interesting inspiration on&#xA;  fan forums that he says actually drove his thinking and&#xA;  decision-making when it came to animating Smokey. &quot;An early theory was&#xA;  that it was an electromagnetic force,&quot; he says. &quot;We know there's&#xA;  magnetism on the island—could this be some iron filing cloud that's&#xA;  being driven by the magnetism? &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;And that was something I could grab&#xA;  onto to kind of help activate it when even the producers were being&#xA;  vague about what that was.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So to put it another way, the show's &lt;em&gt;creators&lt;/em&gt; didn't even know what the monster was originally, and took inspiration from a range of places, including fan theories, to build up the Monster.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It was never stated what the noise was, but given all the above I'd suggest one of the following, or a combination of them:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A &quot;throwback&quot; to &lt;em&gt;Forbidden Planet&lt;/em&gt; and its monster with similar noises.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;An alarm system as discussed in the &quot;favourite&quot; answer of the show's producers.  &lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Something that was initially added to be eerie, without much thought as to &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt;, which ended up sticking around during the show.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T08:59:57.620" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49283" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49259" CreationDate="2016-02-25T09:18:05.833" Score="14" Body="&lt;p&gt;They do to an extent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They are both filmed in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.comicbookmovie.com/the_flash/the-cws-the-flash-set-to-begin-filming-in-vancouver-in-march-a93953&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Vancouver&lt;/a&gt; and share some of the same sets and production teams. This is apparent with places like the coffee shop:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arrow&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KAq1k.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/KAq1k.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Grind and Jolt Café form the Arrow TV show&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Flash&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VfGKw.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/VfGKw.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;CC Jitters café from The Flash TV show&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Oliver Queen's mayoral headquarters and Flash's CCPD building (&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugqPiCKEYb0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;taken from YouTube&lt;/a&gt;) are not the same (notice the windows):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bIc35m.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/bIc35m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Oliver Queen&amp;#39;s mayoral headquarters&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B28j2m.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/B28j2m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;CCPD open space with two characters talking to each other&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Having a quick look through the IMDb crew lists for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3107288/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ql_dt_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2193021/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ql_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Arrow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, there's some definite overlaps in the teams as well.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt;'s cinematography:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Gordon Verheul   ... (56 episodes, 2012-2016)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Glen Winter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;   ...&#xA;  (32 episodes, 2012-2014)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Corey Robson   ... (22 episodes,&#xA;  2014-2016)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;C. Kim Miles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;   ... (6 episodes, 2013-2014)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Gregory&#xA;  Middleton   ... (1 episode, 2013)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Shamus Whiting-Hewlett   ... (1&#xA;  episode, 2016)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt;'s cinematography:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;C. Kim Miles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;   ... (23 episodes, 2014-2016)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Jeffrey C. Mygatt  ... (11 episodes, 2014-2015)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Stewart Whelan   ... (8 episodes,&#xA;  2015-2016)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Glen Winter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;   ... (1 episode, 2014)  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Likewise for film editing in &lt;em&gt;Arrow&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Kristin Windell   ... (38 episodes, 2012-2014)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Andi Armaganian  ... (35 episodes, 2012-2014)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Paul Karasick&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;   ... (15 episodes,&#xA;  2012-2014)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Jessie Murray   ... (4 episodes, 2015)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Thomas&#xA;  Wallerstein   ... (3 episodes, 2015)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Carol Stutz   ... (2 episodes,&#xA;  2015-2016)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;And for &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chris Conlee   ... (10 episodes, 2015-2016)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Nathan Draper   ... (7&#xA;  episodes, 2014-2015)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Harry Jierjian   ... (7 episodes, 2014-2015)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Paul Karasick&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;   ... (7 episodes, 2014-2015)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Dan Wilken   ... (6&#xA;  episodes, 2015-2016)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So definitely not a &lt;em&gt;complete&lt;/em&gt; overlap with identical teams, but certainly shared resources. Looking at the timelines involved, it appears that as &lt;em&gt;The Flash&lt;/em&gt; became more established, it got more of its own &quot;dedicated&quot; crew.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="63559" LastEditDate="2019-01-02T01:45:47.883" LastActivityDate="2019-01-02T01:45:47.883" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="49285" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-25T09:31:35.953" Score="3" ViewCount="1175" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 1973 &quot;My Name is Nobody&quot; (with Terence Hill), there is a scene where Nobody and the driver of a train are in a restroom, facing each other. The driver obviously has problems &quot;letting go&quot;. Nobody does make some whistling sounds, and with a face of utter bliss, the train driver finally relieves himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I never &quot;got&quot; that scene. I mean, the facial expressions are funny as heck, but...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;why has the driver problems &quot;letting go&quot; in the first place?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;why does another person &lt;em&gt;whistling&lt;/em&gt; help him?&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is this a scene that's just &quot;not realistic&quot; and there only for some slapstick? Or is there something involved I am just not aware of, like a medical condition etc.?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="15487" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T12:10:19.653" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T12:10:19.653" Title="What is the whistling in the restroom about in &quot;My Name is Nobody&quot;?" Tags="|plot-explanation|my-name-is-nobody|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49287" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49288" CreationDate="2016-02-25T10:04:53.050" Score="5" ViewCount="2475" Body="&lt;p&gt;After watching almost 5 seasons of &lt;em&gt;The Walking Dead&lt;/em&gt; I expected that some of the mystery gets be revealed about &quot;authors&quot; of the virus and how it spread, but apparently the producers are not going to do that unless it happend in season 6. Are they going to reveal how the virus spread and who made it?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31598" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T10:18:42.307" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T10:18:42.307" Title="Are they going to reveal how the virus spread and who made it?" Tags="|the-walking-dead|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49288" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49287" CreationDate="2016-02-25T10:12:58.083" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;Quite possibly no.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Executive producer &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwjCt7K01pLLAhVD2BoKHe1zDHUQFggdMAA&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FRobert_Kirkman&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGHlmAolXtQX3rpIDTMpmgf-IZ5nw&quot;&gt;Robert Kirkman&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2015/04/14/fear-the-walking-dead/&quot;&gt;discussed this&lt;/a&gt; at a packed panel in Las Vegas, stating:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;[Learning the origins] is not the priority in Walking Dead; that's&#xA;  not the priority in Fear The Walking Dead,&quot; Kirkman told a packed&#xA;  panel at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. &quot;Every other story deals with that&#xA;  stuff and we're concerned about the heart.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He then went on to say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I know the story, but I've never bothered to write it down,&quot; he said.&#xA;  &quot;Let's hope I don't die.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So &lt;em&gt;he knows&lt;/em&gt; how the zombie outbreak started, but he never considered it interesting enough to be the main focus of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Given this, it's possible we'll never have the reasons revealed - it's impossible to tell right now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T10:12:58.083" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49290" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-25T11:11:41.183" Score="4" ViewCount="1444" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 100 tv series, the population of the grounders always increases in an insane amount which is always confusing why??..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;First of all, In the Season 1:in the final episodes, where the Grounders claimed they are deploying all their army to the drop ship where the sky people are -(bellamy &amp;amp; co), which they did and in the event Raven fried all of them &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XZdSb.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/XZdSb.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Grounders being fried&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which means their army should be reduced to a countable amount/population.&#xA;but that is not the case. So how come the grounder population never decrease?  As we can see they always come looking hot&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;To back this up in the Season 2- where the Grounders &amp;amp; Sky people decided to form a aliance against their common enemy, the Mountain people, we see that their population wasn't that small- and even when the training ground of both the army of the sky people's and grounders where bombed/bombarded alot died from as the serie showed, but when they were ready to go for the war, their population was like a thousand?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm i missing something or there is an explanation for this&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;fyi: i might be wrong because i barely payed attention when watching the 100 series&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26578" LastEditorUserId="26578" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T11:21:32.557" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T14:28:33.403" Title="Population always increases in The 100 in respect to the Grounders" Tags="|plot-explanation|the-100|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49291" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49292" CreationDate="2016-02-25T11:41:20.200" Score="6" ViewCount="4751" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I watched the movie &quot;Three Colors Blue&quot;. I didn't get what the moral behind the movie is - why it has been given the name Three Colors &quot;Blue&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is it because she likes that blue night lamp or its stone? Can any one tell me about specific moral about that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26538" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T14:28:44.547" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T14:28:44.547" Title="What is the exact moral about the movie Three colors Blue?" Tags="|three-colors-blue|three-colors-trilogy|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49292" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49291" CreationDate="2016-02-25T11:56:15.067" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a start, &lt;em&gt;Three Colours Blue&lt;/em&gt; is the first film in the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Colors_trilogy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Three Colours Trilogy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Colors:_Blue&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Three Colours Blue&lt;/a&gt; (1993)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Colors:_White&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Three Colors: White&lt;/a&gt; (1994)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Colors:_Red&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Three Colors: Red&lt;/a&gt; (1994)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;Trilogy&quot; wiki has a lovely description of the symbolism of these colours:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blue, white, and red are the colours of the French flag&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in&#xA;  left-to-right order, and the story of each film is loosely based on&#xA;  one of the three political ideals in the motto of the French Republic:&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;liberty, equality, fraternity&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. As with the treatment of the Ten&#xA;  Commandments in The Decalogue, the illustration of these principles is&#xA;  often ambiguous and ironic. As Kieślowski noted in an interview with&#xA;  an Oxford University student newspaper, “The words [liberté, egalité,&#xA;  fraternité] are French because the money [to fund the films] is&#xA;  French. If the money had been of a different nationality we would have&#xA;  titled the films differently, or they might have had a different&#xA;  cultural connotation. But the films would probably have been the&#xA;  same.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A very detailed breakdown of the meaning of the first film, &lt;em&gt;Blue&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mediacircus.net/blue.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;can be found here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; if interested. To give a high level summary of the &lt;strong&gt;liberty&lt;/strong&gt; meaning though, consider how the film begins. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A woman's husband and child are killed on a car accident and the film is her attempt to continue life, initially by cutting herself away from everything and living in isolation, and later by starting to integrate herself again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In this respect, the film takes the concept of liberty and applies a very &lt;em&gt;emotional&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;human&lt;/em&gt; aspect to it. She was suddenly alone and tried to cope  with her life by shutting everything else out - by finding liberty. But it was impossible for her to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T12:22:19.140" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T12:22:19.140" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49293" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49290" CreationDate="2016-02-25T12:44:39.503" Score="2" Body="&lt;p&gt;Actually there are several &quot;grounders&quot; tribes/clans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So the few grounders fighting the camp in Season 1 might aswell be completely extinct after they were fried, and still the whole population would have been only reduced by a twelvth (is this even a word?). &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In season 2 towards the end (can't remember the exact episode) the leaders of each clan are meeting with Clarke and Lexa ('Coalition of the 12 Clans').&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are at least 12 Clans as well as an unknown amount of nomadic&#xA;  Grounders&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://the100.wikia.com/wiki/The_Grounders_(Earth)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;as found here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31536" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T12:56:24.883" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T12:56:24.883" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49294" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49290" CreationDate="2016-02-25T12:47:31.003" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Correct, there were many clans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There were &lt;strong&gt;12 Grounder clans&lt;/strong&gt; that got called together to fight against the mountain people.&#xA;That's why there were so many grounders.&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;http://the100.wikia.com/wiki/The_Grounders_(Earth)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Here's a list&lt;/a&gt; of the clans.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://the100.wikia.com/wiki/Lexa&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Lexa&lt;/a&gt; was the commander of the 12 clans:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Occupation: Commander of the 12 Clans&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But she was mainly the leader of the Woods Clan.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8597" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T12:56:01.600" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T12:56:01.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49297" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-25T13:30:46.247" Score="3" ViewCount="1285" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;SPOILERS:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Everything I write here is a spoiler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Before the end act of the movie, there is a psychedelic montage (dream sequence). What it represents or what happens within it is not entirely clear to me. Perhaps Peter Strickland did not intend it to be clear to the audience. I don't know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I will give my best guess to its meaning, but first, I shall summarize the end from my point of view. This will give my guess context.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As for the actual end of the film, I took it to be that Cynthia (older woman) went back to being topped from the bottom by Evelyn. This is a sad ending for Cynthia because she truly enjoyed the one time in which she actually took control over Evelyn. Of course, I refer to the eating-cake-in-her-comfortable-pajamas scene.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The only thing that could motivate Cynthia to return to her unhappy state with Evelyn would be if Evelyn continued to be unfaithful and have liaisons with that other woman (I forgot her name). Then I can see Cynthia giving in to Evelyn's control and specific fetishes in order to regain the relationship with Evelyn. And we also (maybe) see Evelyn walking out of the house at night in the dream sequence. Perhaps that represents her continued infidelity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26287" LastEditorUserId="26287" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T14:16:41.253" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T14:16:41.253" Title="In Duke of Burgundy, what did the psychedelic montage mean?" Tags="|plot-explanation|duke-of-burgundy|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49299" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49290" CreationDate="2016-02-25T13:53:59.703" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR: We see the events from the 100 point of view, so we don't know about the 12 clans (more grounders) until later and it's safe to assume that there're more grounders/survivors in other places&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Like others said there're 12 clans. The grounders that the 100 encountered in season one were some of the residents at what's called Tondc-Mount Weather, and since we see the events from the 100 point of view, we won't know about the 12 clans until season two.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://the100.wikia.com/wiki/The_Grounders_%28Earth%29&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It is unknown how many Grounders are in the area. There are at least 12 Clans as well as an unknown amount of nomadic Grounders. Altogether, they do have the highest population count of the residents in the Tondc-Mount Weather area as witnessed by the sheer number of gathered warriors in We Are Grounders (Part 2), Long Into an Abyss, Rubicon, and Blood Must Have Blood (Part 1)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also there're grounders don't belong to any clan called &quot;nomadic&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Nomadic Grounders, also known as Wastelanders, are Grounders who have no clan because they or a family member may have been seen as a &quot;stain on the bloodline&quot; due to birth defects and cast out. So far, they seem to inhabit The Dead Zone with some of them on their way to The City of Light in search of safe haven. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also considering that the grounders are simply put the survivors from the nuclear war who don't hide underground or were in space and here's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.enstarz.com/articles/103424/20150818/the-100-season-3-how-did-the-grounders-survive-the-apocalypse-we-finaly-have-an-answer-video.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; writer Aaron Ginsburg explains how the grounders survived&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;We haven't discussed &quot;how,&quot; specifically, but they were likely not directly near a blast-area (or far enough from the worst of the radiation)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;then we can safely assume that there're more grounders/survivors in other places and other countries&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24398" LastEditorUserId="24398" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T14:28:33.403" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T14:28:33.403" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49301" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-25T14:24:18.333" Score="2" ViewCount="70" Body="&lt;p&gt;Finally got around to watching &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469494/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;There Will Be Blood (2007)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; last night, and I'm somewhat confused by the title.  I've got some possible references, and I'm not really sure if any of them are viable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A reference to the men who died in the various mines&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A reference to all the people Dan Plainview killed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A reference to the &quot;war&quot; that he had with preacher Eli Sunday&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A reference to his relationship with HW&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Can anyone help me understand this?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T15:09:49.753" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T15:09:49.753" Title="What is meant by &quot;There Will Be Blood&quot;?" Tags="|title|there-will-be-blood|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ClosedDate="2016-02-25T14:44:45.927" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49304" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45757" CreationDate="2016-02-25T14:50:28.617" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;Along with the posted answer, I would point people towards the &lt;a href=&quot;http://biblehub.com/exodus/7-19.htm&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Book of Exodus&lt;/a&gt; 7:19 from the Bible:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Then the LORD said to Moses, &quot;Say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and&#xA;  stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers,&#xA;  over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their&#xA;  reservoirs of water, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;that they may become blood; and there will be&#xA;  blood&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in&#xA;  vessels of stone.'&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For anyone who remembers their &lt;em&gt;Moses&lt;/em&gt;, this refers to one of the ten deadly plagues unleashed upon the Egyptians due to the Pharaoh not releasing the Israelites.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the context of the film, it works quite well as the symbolism of brutal revenge for a wrongdoing.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So much of the film involves betrayal and brutal back-stabbing, coupled with furious anger, on the part of so many different characters. Given this, the title, and its relation to the Biblical verse, seems quite apt.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T14:50:28.617" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49305" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45757" CreationDate="2016-02-25T14:51:43.157" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;Being that this turned out to be a duplicate of a question I just asked, I guess I'll pose my question as an answer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've got some possible references, and I'm not really sure if any of them are viable:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A reference to the men who died in the various mines&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A reference to all the people Dan Plainview killed&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A reference to the &quot;war&quot; that he had with preacher Eli Sunday&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;A reference to his relationship with HW (in a psychological sense)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Any and all of these could be seen as a driver of the title.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T14:51:43.157" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49306" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-25T14:52:36.817" Score="1" ViewCount="140" Body="&lt;p&gt;Why doesn't Rip just deal with his wife and son's death? I mean it's extremely stupid to just go back in time with a bunch of people you don't know about and have them screw up the past with you. And if they did manage to kill Savage he's just gonna comeback and piss in everyone cheerios. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31609" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-04-06T06:06:07.557" LastActivityDate="2016-04-06T06:06:07.557" Title="Why doesn't Rip deal with his own loss instead of going on a complex mission?" Tags="|plot-explanation|arrowverse|legends-of-tomorrow|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49307" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49306" CreationDate="2016-02-25T15:08:58.110" Score="3" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why doesn't Rip just deal with his Wife and Son's death?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No, its not about just the loss of his family but about humanity too. Vandal Savage is ruling the whole world, so just dealing with his family will be too selfish for a person like him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why did he go back in time with a bunch of people he didn't know?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rip goes back in time to save the world from Vandal Savage's rule. It was not his first attempt:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Rip had tried to kill Vandal in ancient Egypt when Vandal was not immortal but he failed to do so. So Rip changed his approach.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rip chose these people, which might look foolish to you, because&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Their disappearance will only have a tiny impact on the timeline. This is the same reason that Rip doesn't select Arrow or Flash.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They lack in experience for sure. Sara was assassin not a hero as do others, so they all need time to learn &quot;how to save the world'. That's the show is about, a time traveler trying to save the world with misfits.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T12:38:53.690" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T12:38:53.690" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49311" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33085" CreationDate="2016-02-25T16:47:27.243" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think he actually shows up for one second. I'm rewatching Breaking Bad, in season one episode 3 at 40:15 he shows up taking groceries out of his car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31615" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T16:35:28.703" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T16:35:28.703" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49313" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-25T18:30:56.087" Score="4" ViewCount="4114" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the movie Fight Club, is there a plot-related reason that Raymond K. Hessel is portrayed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0453538/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joon Kim&lt;/a&gt;, a South Korean national with a very noticeable Asian accent? The surname Hessel seems to be British in origin, and does not match the character in the movie.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4328" LastActivityDate="2018-10-18T21:46:02.980" Title="Why is Raymond K. Hessel an Asian man with an accent in Fight Club?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|casting|fight-club|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49315" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="21624" CreationDate="2016-02-25T19:55:43.360" Score="-2" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have a theory that everyone else on the truck had already noticed their shoes and recognized them as cartel members and that's why they didn't join in on the boy's conversation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31619" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T19:55:43.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49317" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49272" CreationDate="2016-02-25T20:23:52.313" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the scene: &lt;em&gt;A Whole New World&lt;/em&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;em&gt;Aladdin and Jasmine's firs kiss&lt;/em&gt; you'll see them travel to the next cities:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In this order&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Start in Bagdad (Agrabah)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;First city: Caïro&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Second city: Athene (Olympus)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Third city: China&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Back to Bagdad (Agrabah)&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So in miles&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;ul&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From Bagdad to Caïro it's: 804.377 miles.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From Caïro to Athene's it's: 856.443 miles.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From Athene to China it's: 5968.128 miles.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;From China back to Bagdad it's: 3357.658 miles.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ul&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Total of 9325,786 miles, which is 15008.40 km.&#xA;So as you say it would be over a time of ' +- 8 hours'. They would fly at a speed of &lt;strong&gt;1876.05 km per hour&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then again Andrew Martin his answer is correct too, we are never sure of what places they visited and if you look at the last scene where Aladdin kisses Jasmine, they stayed in China for '&lt;strong&gt;X&lt;/strong&gt;' amount of time. So the time above is only calculated for if they would fly all night without stopping. Andrew's right, it's an animated, fun film for a reason! :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/A_suDjvcJyY?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/E4xpUFleL_8?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8597" LastEditorUserId="20478" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T21:22:00.727" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T21:22:00.727" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49320" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-25T21:16:08.153" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T21:16:08.153" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T21:16:08.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49321" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-25T21:16:08.153" Score="0" Body="" OwnerUserId="-1" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-02-25T21:16:08.153" LastActivityDate="2016-02-25T21:16:08.153" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49327" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49328" CreationDate="2016-02-25T23:54:44.020" Score="25" ViewCount="33946" Body="&lt;p&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;Casablanca&lt;/em&gt;, we see Captain Renault open a bottle of Vichy water:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wABbB.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/wABbB.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He pours himself a glass of it, before binning the rest of the bottle. Given the prominence of the label and the exaggerated nature of the scene, it clearly symbolised something. What was it intended to demonstrate?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T00:01:09.033" LastActivityDate="2022-04-30T18:15:44.463" Title="What is the significance of the Vichy Water scene at the end of Casablanca?" Tags="|analysis|ending|casablanca|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49328" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49327" CreationDate="2016-02-25T23:54:44.020" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vincasa.com/casabla.pdf&quot;&gt;In the script&lt;/a&gt;, the scene plays out as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Renault walks inside the hangar, picks up a bottle of Vichy water, and&#xA;  opens it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Renault&lt;/strong&gt;: Well, Rick, you're not only a sentimentalist, but you've become a patriot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rick&lt;/strong&gt;: Maybe, but it seemed like a good time to start.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Renault&lt;/strong&gt;: I think perhaps you're right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As he quickly pours the water into a glass, Renault sees the Vichy&#xA;  label and quickly DROPS the bottle into a trash basket which he then&#xA;  KICKS over.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;He walks over and stands beside Rick. They both watch the plane take off, maintaining their gaze until it disappears into the clouds.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Just before this, Rick has shot Major Strasser dead.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears that this action, and his &quot;becoming a patriot&quot; in the eyes of Renault, inspires Renault to do the same.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France&quot;&gt;Vichy&lt;/a&gt; was an unoccupied region of France that persecuted Jews and collaborated with the Nazi government.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;By binning the entire bottle of water, he is symbolically severing his ties with the corrupt Vichy government and the entire Nazi regime, thus becoming a &quot;patriot&quot; himself. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This is a complete turn from his character earlier in the film, where he clearly looks out for himself, regardless of whether that means helping the Nazis or the French interests.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This turn in character is clearer in the scene afterwards, when he and Rick plan their future lives together - on the same side.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T09:49:41.830" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T09:49:41.830" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49329" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-26T02:17:11.540" Score="2" ViewCount="43" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3432552/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Goddess of Love&lt;/a&gt;&quot; how much time elapsed between&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Venus...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; murdered Brian &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;and the final scene in the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T02:17:11.540" Title="How much time elapsed?" Tags="|plot-explanation|goddess-of-love|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49330" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-26T02:28:01.727" Score="2" ViewCount="38" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3432552/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Goddess of Love&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, the 'other woman' confronted Venus over the death of her cat, and then...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; chased Venus into the desert but then in the session with the psychiatrist  claimed never to have met&#xA; her. This leaves us with the suggestion that part of the scene was a hallucination...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Which portions of the desert scene (if any) were actually real?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T02:28:01.727" Title="Was Venus actually in the desert?" Tags="|plot-explanation|goddess-of-love|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49336" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49264" CreationDate="2016-02-26T06:59:19.427" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;During the movie they become good friends. As to that ending scene and the future after that, it seems it's intentionally ambiguous. The directors (Mainly Rich Moore) seem to be having great fun playing with this fact on Twitter.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/_rich_moore/status/702848375121711104&quot;&gt;See here, the confirmation they are friends:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Diego Noriega @Diego_Noriega10:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  @_rich_moore Already seen the movie and I have to say it was awesome; but I have a question which is the relationship between Judy and Nick?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rich Moore @_rich_moore Retweeted Diego Noriega&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Hi Diego! Judy and Nick are BBFF's: bunny best friends forever ❤️&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/_rich_moore/status/703028988801916929&quot;&gt;And here, in which one of the directors teases about the future&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;zootopiaisthebest @zootopiathebest:&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  @_rich_moore I luv your film! But sometimes, friends could be couple, isn't it? Because..As nick&amp;amp;judy said at Ending, they love each other..&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rich Moore ‏@_rich_moore Retweeted zootopiaisthebest&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  Mmmaybe...I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens in the future &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31633" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T08:19:27.893" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T08:19:27.893" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49337" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-26T07:42:33.247" Score="4" ViewCount="327" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Gods of Egypt, lots of gods have been killed during the movie, and it was mentioned more than once that this is impossible to bring back the dead, including dead gods.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, in the end, some gods who have been killed, are back and alive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; e.g. Thoth, god of Wisdom whose brain was taken away.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How is this possible? I didn't notice anything explaining it in the movie itself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="106" LastActivityDate="2016-05-18T13:20:54.853" Title="How were some gods brought back to life?" Tags="|plot-explanation|gods-of-egypt|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49339" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49340" CreationDate="2016-02-26T09:15:49.163" Score="33" ViewCount="29962" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't remember what happened to the first Chick and Duck that Joey and &#xA;Chandler kept. Did they show in the show how they died? If yes, then please tell me the episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31635" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-28T14:47:28.683" LastActivityDate="2016-12-11T19:00:12.503" Title="How did Joey &amp; Chandler's Chick and Duck die?" Tags="|plot-explanation|friends|" AnswerCount="5" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49340" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49339" CreationDate="2016-02-26T09:25:11.127" Score="39" Body="&lt;p&gt;They died, probably of old age, but it wasn't shown in the show. It has been revealed in the final episode, when Joey bought the &lt;em&gt;Chick Jr.&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Duck Jr.&lt;/em&gt; The group had lied to Joey that they had gone to a special farm where they were very happy but could not be visited.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livesinabox.com/friends/1017.shtml&quot;&gt;the script&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joey: It's my house-warming present for Monica and Chandler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Phoebe: It's a baby chick and duck!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joey: Uh-huh. And I named them Chick Jr. and Duck Jr.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Phoebe: I did not see that coming.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joey: Yeah, I figure they'll love it at the new house, you know? It&#xA;  has that big backyard. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;And then, when they get old&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, they can go to&#xA;  that special farm that Chandler took the other chick and duck to.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Phoebe: Yes.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joey: Yeah. It's a shame people can't visit there.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Phoebe: That is the rule, though.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T15:57:33.923" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T15:57:33.923" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49341" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49339" CreationDate="2016-02-26T09:44:35.637" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems likely that Chandler had them humanely destroyed. In the final episode there's a mention that they were taken to a &lt;strong&gt;special farm that can't be visited&lt;/strong&gt; in order to live out the remainder of their lives.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joey:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Yeah, I figure they'll love it at the new house, you know? It has that big backyard. And then, &lt;strong&gt;when they get old, they can go to&#xA;  that special farm that Chandler took the other chick and duck to.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The average lifespan of a duck is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.beautyofbirds.com/domesticatedducks.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;8-12 years&lt;/a&gt; and anything upwards of 20 years depending on the breed. The average lifespan of a well kept rooster can be anything between around 12-15 years so it seems highly unlikely either would be approaching old-age, even &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;ignoring the possibility that they both coincidentally happened to die at the same time&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;hr&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This whole gag is very strongly reminiscent of the 'Milner's Farm' joke from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583653/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Season 1, episode 3&lt;/a&gt; where Ross learns the fate of his beloved pet dog Chi-Chi.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/qRkR8e2C3BE?start=48&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T19:31:32.953" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T19:31:32.953" CommentCount="10" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49342" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49344" CreationDate="2016-02-26T10:05:57.193" Score="14" ViewCount="23223" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;em&gt;Friends&lt;/em&gt; episode &lt;strong&gt;The one with two parties&lt;/strong&gt;, while Mr. and Mrs. Green both came to the party and Monica was panicking why did Chandler say:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;what would Jack and Chrissy do?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who were Jack and Chrissy?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Here is the full context:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mrs. Green&lt;/strong&gt;: Oh well thank you. Such a gentleman. Thank you. (Chandler&#xA;  takes the hot pink coat and grimaces at it) Ahh, it all looks so nice,&#xA;  so festive, all the balloons... (Chandler, remembering that Joey and&#xA;  Mr. Green are in the bedroom, throws her coat in a cupboard) The&#xA;  funniest thing happened to me on the way here. I was...(Joey peeks&#xA;  out)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Phoebe&lt;/strong&gt;: (cutting Mrs. Greene off) Ha-ha, that's great, ha-ha. I can't&#xA;  wait to hear the rest of it, ya know, but I really have to go to the&#xA;  bathroom so... Hey, come with me. Yeah, yeah, it'll be like we're gal&#xA;  pals, ya know, like at a restaurant Oh, it'll be fun, c'mon. (They go&#xA;  in the bathroom)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monica&lt;/strong&gt;: Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chandler&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Ok, think, what would Jack and Chrissy do?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31635" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T10:24:02.863" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T10:39:18.480" Title="Jack and Chrissy reference in Friends by Chandler" Tags="|dialogue|friends|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49343" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49342" CreationDate="2016-02-26T10:11:36.823" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;Jack and Chrissy were two characters in the 70's/80's hit SitCom &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075596/&quot;&gt;Three's Company&lt;/a&gt;, played by John Ritter and Suzanne Sommers respectively.  The characters were often finding themselves in uncomfortable or compromising situations.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T10:11:36.823" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49344" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49342" CreationDate="2016-02-26T10:12:48.120" Score="13" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's an homage to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three%27s_Company&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Three's Company&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ThRAx.png&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ThRAx.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wswly.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wswly.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chrissy Snow (on the right) and Jack Tripper (in the middle) are two characters from the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: This isn't the first reference to &lt;em&gt;Three's Company&lt;/em&gt; in the show. In Episode 1.02 (&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friends-tv.org/zz102.html&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;The One with the Sonogram at the End&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;), while watching TV with Phoebe, Chandler does sarcastically remark:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chandler&lt;/strong&gt;: Oh--I think this is the episode of &quot;Three's Company&quot; where&#xA;  there's some kind of misunderstanding.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Phoebe&lt;/strong&gt;: Then I've already seen&#xA;  this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8071" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T10:39:18.480" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T10:39:18.480" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49345" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49259" CreationDate="2016-02-26T10:27:25.507" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;In addition to Andrew Martin's answer:&#xA;The set used for the appartment of John Diggle (Arrow) is the same as that of Patty Spivot (Flash)&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Diggle's appartment&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/MI8bt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Diggle&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;strong&gt;Patty's appartment&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QDkNA.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Patty&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24487" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T10:27:25.507" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49346" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-26T10:34:29.020" Score="1" ViewCount="35" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3432552/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Goddess of Love&lt;/a&gt;&quot;...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; ...the psychiatrist reads a transcript of an incident where Venus&#xA; ruined a dancer's career by pushing him down a staircase and caused&#xA; him to become paralyzed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears to be unrelated to the plot and yet is poised to have major significance to Venus' current circumstances.  Was it simply a previous episode of psychotic behaviour? Or did the guilt arising from the incident induce her into schizophrenia? Or what?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; Note: Venus suffers from profound schizophrenia and some of the plot appear&#xA; to be visual, audio, and &lt;em&gt;strikingly&lt;/em&gt; tactile hallucinations (i.e., erotic) which are presented as real events.  We already know she's irrecoverably insane, so how does the exposure of this earlier incident further inform the viewer? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: at the time of this question (Feb '16) there is (apparently) no wiki article on this fascinating film to assist the viewer in resolving some of the twists and turns of the plot.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9866" LastEditorUserId="9866" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T10:52:16.947" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T10:52:16.947" Title="What is the significance of the Paris back story?" Tags="|plot-explanation|goddess-of-love|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49347" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-26T10:44:29.317" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3432552/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Goddess of Love&lt;/a&gt; is a 2015 film that tells the story of a mentally unstable woman begins a volatile descent into madness when she suspects her lover has left her for another woman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T10:44:29.317" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T10:44:29.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49348" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-26T10:44:29.317" Score="0" Body="2015 film that tells the story of a mentally unstable woman begins a volatile descent into madness when she suspects her lover has left her for another woman." OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T10:44:29.317" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T10:44:29.317" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49350" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-26T12:27:54.803" Score="8" ViewCount="6816" Body="&lt;p&gt;In some episodes she is, in other ones she is eating (or trying to eat) a turkey sandwich or cooking dinner (chicken). I am confused and would like to know if this is the problem of many writers on same TV show?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30232" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T13:48:27.110" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T13:48:27.110" Title="Is Bones a vegetarian or not?" Tags="|character|bones|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="9" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49351" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49350" CreationDate="2016-02-26T12:40:50.257" Score="18" Body="&lt;p&gt;She wasn't a vegetarian when the show began. However, to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperance_%22Bones%22_Brennan&quot;&gt;quote from the wiki&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;She promised to consider becoming a vegetarian after seeing how pigs&#xA;  were slaughtered (which was also the way her mother had been killed)&#xA;  [&lt;em&gt;Season 1 finale - The Woman in Limbo&lt;/em&gt;]. However, in &quot;The Tough Man in the Tender&#xA;  Chicken&quot; (season 5, episode 6) Angela cites health reasons for&#xA;  Brennan's vegetarian diet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So, after Season 1 she became a vegetarian. This would also suit Emily Deschanel, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vegetariantimes.com/article/one-on-one-with-emily-deschanel/&quot;&gt;who is a vegan&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, despite being a vegetarian, it doesn't mean she won't cook meat for &lt;em&gt;other&lt;/em&gt; people (many vegetarians do).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T12:40:50.257" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49352" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49355" CreationDate="2016-02-26T12:46:06.270" Score="5" ViewCount="1798" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the 2005 film Capote, we see that while Truman Capote was talking/interviewing Perry Smith, he got really close to him. But, whenever Perry asked him if he had started the book (which he asked quite a few times), Truman lied and said he had barely written anything. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why did he lie to Perry if he had grown to care for him? Was the caring part an act to get a book?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T13:09:19.907" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T13:09:19.907" Title="Did Capote really care about Perry Smith?" Tags="|plot-explanation|character|capote|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49353" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-26T12:48:43.580" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;2005 film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman  following the events during the writing of the American writer Truman Capote's &lt;em&gt;In Cold Blood&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="6552" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T13:06:13.767" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T13:06:13.767" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49354" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-26T12:48:43.580" Score="0" Body="2005 film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman  about the American writer Truman Capote." OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="6552" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T12:58:16.753" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T12:58:16.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49355" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49352" CreationDate="2016-02-26T13:00:27.657" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;In the film, he certainly didn't care.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He seduced Perry and betrayed him. He deliberately lied about the title of his book (as telling Perry the truth would have shown he was much less sympathetic than he was). He also refused to help Perry get a new lawyer for his appeals (as he wanted their execution for his book's ending).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So he lied to get close to Perry to help write his book.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This seems to echo real life. The Guardian &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/07/capote-philip-seymour-hoffman-in-cold-blood&quot;&gt;had an article&lt;/a&gt; on the film where they commented:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The powerful scene in which the betrayed Smith yells at Capote,&#xA;  &quot;What's the name of your book?&quot; is based on a letter the real Perry&#xA;  Smith wrote to Capote on 12 April 1964: &quot;I've been told that the book&#xA;  is to be coming off the press and to be sold after our executions. And&#xA;  that book IS entitled 'IN COLD BLOOD.' Whose [sic] fibbing?? Someone&#xA;  is, that's apparent.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T13:00:27.657" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49356" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49372" CreationDate="2016-02-26T13:24:34.277" Score="18" ViewCount="15118" Body="&lt;p&gt;Has always wondered, in Lost series, the &quot;big&quot; guy by name Hugo did not seem to be losing any weight while on the island. This seems rather impossible considering the drastic change in the amount of labour, walking and his new nutrition plan. Just to remind, he used to be very passive back home and ate a lot of junk food.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So why did he end up not losing any weight (at least visually)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="24301" LastActivityDate="2017-01-29T15:08:00.433" Title="How did Hugo not lose weight while on the island?" Tags="|character|analysis|lost|" AnswerCount="7" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49359" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-26T13:40:22.420" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ip Man is a 2008 biographical movie about Bruce Lee's teacher, the Wing Chun martial artist Yip Man. It currently has 2 sequels: Ip Man 2 (US: Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster), released in 2010 and IP Man 3, released in 2015.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="6552" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T14:10:24.950" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T14:10:24.950" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49360" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-26T13:40:22.420" Score="0" Body="Ip Man is a 2008 biographical movie about the Wing Chun martial artist Yip Man. It currently has 2 sequels." OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="6552" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T14:10:37.360" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T14:10:37.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49361" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49356" CreationDate="2016-02-26T13:49:24.107" Score="9" Body="&lt;p&gt;Weight loss (or gain) is not always due to diet.  If it were, every diet would work.  Sometimes it's due to Hypothyroidism, which is an underactive thyroid gland.  If you have this, it's nearly impossible to combat weight gain without medical help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Of course, Hugo wasn't jogging an hour a day, and there's no telling how many Dharma Cookies he was eating off-screen, so it's possible that once food stores were found he could actually &lt;em&gt;gain&lt;/em&gt; weight if he had this condition.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8071" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T16:12:48.583" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T16:12:48.583" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49363" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45405" CreationDate="2016-02-26T14:51:02.153" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Look at the official published script - there is a scene where Warren offers to pay OB for his help in taking the bounties off the stage coach - we watch it through a window - this scene does not make the final cut - we do see Warren and OB going outside with no explanation in the film - it is visible as the original question notes in some - but not all - of the trailers&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31640" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T14:51:02.153" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49364" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49356" CreationDate="2016-02-26T14:51:44.837" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;@Johnny Bones is totally correct and provides the correct in-universe answer.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I just wanted to add a rather boring &lt;em&gt;out of universe&lt;/em&gt; answer to say that the &lt;em&gt;obvious&lt;/em&gt; reason is that &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;cad=rja&amp;amp;uact=8&amp;amp;ved=0ahUKEwiatPyk1JXLAhUKbhQKHWeUCdcQFggdMAA&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJorge_Garcia&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNG2lRDHgRuX9v_PxyMCIGJy7DU68w&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jorge Garcia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the actor who played Hurley, simply didn't lose much weight.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So whilst we can search for plenty of realistic in-universe reasons to justify this, the fact is he's a big guy with a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2548229/Jorge-Garcia-pushing-400-lbs-friends-fear-hes-headed-early-grave-unless-loses-weight-ASAP.html&quot;&gt;serious obesity problem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of claims online that he was asked &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; to lose weight by the producers, as his character was so popular &quot;as is&quot; (and it gave joke-content on screen e.g. Sawyer mocking Hurley) - but I can't find &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; evidence this was the case.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note:&lt;/em&gt; He does lose &lt;em&gt;some&lt;/em&gt; weight after Season 1, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/lost-actor-jorge-garcia-cuts-out-burritos-drops-30-pounds-1007333.php&quot;&gt;just not much&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&quot;I can afford to not live on rum and burritos and take better care of&#xA;  myself...Besides, there were enough people who&#xA;  were waiting for my character to lose weight as a result of being&#xA;  stranded on a desert island.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T15:05:32.490" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T15:05:32.490" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49366" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49368" CreationDate="2016-02-26T16:00:30.443" Score="3" ViewCount="4204" Body="&lt;p&gt;In season 10 episode 1 of &lt;strong&gt;FRIENDS&lt;/strong&gt;, Mike's girlfriend Susie comes to meet Mike at his home, then Phoebe and Susie have the following conversation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Susie:&lt;/strong&gt; I mean are you guys getting back together or something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Phoebe:&lt;/strong&gt; All right.&#xA;Susie Can I call you Susie?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Susie&lt;/strong&gt;: My name is Precious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Phoebe&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;I can't say that.&lt;/em&gt;&#xA;Susie, I'm gonna be straight with you. Mike and I are back together.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Phoebe say that she can't call her precious? Am I missing something?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31635" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T16:57:19.323" Title="Why does Phoebe call Precious Susie?" Tags="|dialogue|friends|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49367" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49356" CreationDate="2016-02-26T16:04:15.243" Score="-1" Body="&lt;p&gt;Considering the ending of Lost implied that: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; They were in purgatory.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This would mean they have no physical body in which he could lose weight. Consider that Locke and Rose were miraculously healed, and Richard couldn't die&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; other things that can't happen to a normal living body, but a soul.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T16:52:38.427" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T16:52:38.427" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49368" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49366" CreationDate="2016-02-26T16:06:58.117" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's a joke.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phoebe thinks it such a ridiculous name, that she simply won't call her it (and will call her Susie instead).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Look at her reaction below when she hears the name - she simply can't take it seriously:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/O6f5HKqJWWg?start=98&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T16:06:58.117" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49369" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49366" CreationDate="2016-02-26T16:29:50.777" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Because Precious is such a funny and weird name. As we can see in the video, Phoebe laughs first time on her name and then when Precious starts to cry she some how manages to call her Precious, fighting the urge to make fun of it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31647" LastEditorUserId="23541" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T16:57:19.323" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T16:57:19.323" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49370" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="2466" CreationDate="2016-02-26T16:30:01.260" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;Ursula is selfish and naughty and often harms Phoebe.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; - She throws away her mothers letter without informing Phoebe of the content&lt;br&gt;&#xA; - She starts a career as porn actress using Phoebe's name&lt;br&gt;&#xA; - She know who their real father is and doesn't tell Phoebe&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;(I'll add more examples when I remember them)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phoebe doesn't really do anything against Ursula. She just knows the sister is bad and tries to avoid her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="16540" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T16:33:45.773" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T16:33:45.773" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49371" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-26T16:35:00.137" Score="3" ViewCount="1070" Body="&lt;p&gt;The BBC TV series &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dickensian&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a somewhat fanciful soap opera which attempts to fill in the backstories of a wide variety of characters from the novels of Charles Dickens, interwoven into a single narrative.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the series, the characters are all in the positions and situations from which the plots of their respective novels begin. The only exception that I could see was the police detective, Inspector Bucket.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;His closing scene is in a pub, discussing his latest case with a friend. He describes having been given a murder case to solve, where the victim was stabbed through the heart yet the door of the room was locked and all the windows closed.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This sounds like a classic &quot;locked room mystery&quot; trope. Yet this is nothing like the actions Bucket is to undertake in the novel Bleak House. Indeed I am not aware that Dickens ever wrote a locked room story. Is this a reference to anything in Dickens, or anything else in particular? If not, do we know why Bucket alone was given an ending not in sync with his known future activity?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31649" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2019-11-15T09:57:10.627" LastActivityDate="2019-11-15T09:57:10.627" Title="What does Inspector Bucket's new case at the end of Dickensian signify?" Tags="|plot-explanation|dickensian|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="49372" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49356" CreationDate="2016-02-26T16:39:09.510" Score="25" Body="&lt;p&gt;For a while, he had access to the Dharma stores of food.  The timeline on the show was slower than our real-life timeline, so it seemed like they were on the island for much longer than they actually were.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Also, he did lose weight:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/oIK6kD3BMyw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I'm down a notch in my belt.  I'm a big guy.  It's gonna be a while before you want to give me a piggy back ride&quot;.  (Episode &quot;Confidence Man&quot;)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Out of Universe:  &lt;em&gt;That's&lt;/em&gt; the part of Lost that raises the most questions for you? :)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user11418" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T16:39:09.510" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49373" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-26T16:59:55.457" Score="3" ViewCount="409" Body="&lt;p&gt;This is an image from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3508840/?ref_=nv_sr_1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Assassin&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2015):&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gsT6E.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/gsT6E.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Scene from the movie, showing a river with a waterfall&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It appears approximately 60 minutes into the film. In it, the river appears to be moving TOWARDS the waterfall in the back. In every waterfall I've ever personally been to (maybe a dozen) the water moves away from the waterfall.  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This may be a dumb question, but is this a case of where the waterfall is a joining of two streams? ie, the source of the waterfall is one river moving (for example) N-S and joins a river going E-W. Is this unique? For some reason this baffled me and I had to stop the movie for a while.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30783" LastEditorUserId="1876" LastEditDate="2016-03-14T19:20:33.000" LastActivityDate="2022-04-26T05:07:35.677" Title="Location of the scene with the river and waterfall: is the waterfall a joining of two streams?" Tags="|film-location|the-assassin|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="4" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49375" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49105" CreationDate="2016-02-26T17:07:35.967" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;First of all, the final scene showing Trevor Reznik (Christian Bale) driving down the road is a flashback. It is most likely something that occurred moments after the hit and run. This is evident from the fact that the windshield of Trevor's car is still cracked. Trevor himself looks pretty healthy at this point.&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RiLDr.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/RiLDr.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;br&gt;I went over the last few seconds of this scene a few times and I noticed that Trevor's expressions change in a very interesting way. The scene is probably intended to represent the transformation of Trevor Reznik. The scene starts out with Trevor looking extremely distressed. You can see the regret on his face and how he wishes that he could take everything back. Clearly this accident is something that he couldn't handle. He couldn't handle the fact that because of him, a mother lost her child. He feels devastated by the fact that his negligence cost the life of someone. This is probably when he realizes that his actions are going the wreck himself. He realizes that he can't go on knowing that he is responsible for the death of an innocent child and that the only way to cope from this incident is to forget it in its entirety. The scene ends with Trevor looking like he has decided to deceive himself into believing that nothing ever happened. The trauma made him block out his memories of the incident. The Trevor that drives out the tunnel into the sunlight is completely different from the one that we see going in. &#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pCj6t.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/pCj6t.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21126" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T17:07:35.967" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49376" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49378" CreationDate="2016-02-26T17:32:05.350" Score="8" ViewCount="1723" Body="&lt;p&gt;When Rapunzel sees the town for the first time, she begins to dance and encourage random people to dance with her.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the middle of this dance, we see her in a &quot;library&quot;? Flipping a book containing maps, before returning to the dance sequence again.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What is the significance of this scene?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Are we to understand that she became aware of how big is the real world?&#xA;Or maybe the map book was a random book to tell us that she acquired a lot of knowledge in the short period she was out on that day?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Does this scene have any effect in the remainder of the movie? Is it referenced later?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="18998" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T07:44:35.197" Title="Why does Rapunzel flip an atlas book with Eugene in the middle of the dance montage?" Tags="|plot-explanation|tangled|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49377" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49339" CreationDate="2016-02-26T17:33:04.670" Score="11" Body="&lt;p&gt;The chick and the duck died of unknown reasons, likely age or eating something they shouldn't have. Joey was told they went &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ReleasedToElsewhere&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;to live on a farm&lt;/a&gt; because Joey is a giant &lt;a href=&quot;http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManChild&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;man-child&lt;/a&gt; and can't be expected to handle the truth.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rachel confirms they die in the last episode, without any &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;stupid&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; mention of being put down or euthanasia.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Joey: Sure, yeah. Will you just keep an eye on the chick [jr] and the duck [jr]?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Rachel: Chick and the duck? &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Didn't they die...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Phoebe: (interrupting) Dive. Yeah, they dove head-first into fun on the farm.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chandler specifically kept the chick, and the duck, because he's against euthanasia&lt;/strong&gt;. Instead of letting the chick be put down, he kept it, and ended up saving the duck, which was already mature/adult (not a duckling). He would never have them put down short of terminal illness or crippling age. He also wouldn't let Monica kill them, not that Monica would ever do that either. &lt;strong&gt;Neither of their characters are that heartless.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From Season 3 Episode 21, where the chick and the duck first appeared:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chandler: If they can’t find a home for her, they kill her! And I’m not gonna let that happen to little Yasmine [the chick]!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The Duck is some age older than the Chick, as it was fully grown by the time Chandler saved it. This can explain how they could have died near the same time.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;hr /&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They were last seen in Season 6, and the last time they were mentioned &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;but not seen on screen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; before the final was Season 7 Episode 2 &amp;quot;The One With Rachel’s Book&amp;quot;:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/T9cztc66ZXA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#xA;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/gNdfNhzGF7s?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-03-03T06:12:15.427" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49378" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49376" CreationDate="2016-02-26T17:56:37.457" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;You're exactly right. The sequence was a montage that showed Rapunzel realising the sheer wealth of entertainments that even a small town can offer; food she's never tried, painting a huge floor picture, group dancing and a trip to what must seem like a massive store of knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Don't forget also that her &lt;a href=&quot;https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/f1/22/be/f122be45363dc0fe7457766fea21285a.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;own collection&lt;/a&gt; consisted of just &lt;a href=&quot;https://33.media.tumblr.com/01b494373e08c0828f5b832114eb6b37/tumblr_n1ctaxReu11tqs1heo1_500.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;three books&lt;/a&gt;, apparently hand-chosen by Mother Gothel. Someone as inquisitive as Rapunzel simply couldn't resist a trip to the bookshop. This story-board from the '&lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0811875555&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Art of Tangled&lt;/a&gt;' book gives us a few extra panels showing the preceding events, with Rapunzel doing the classic movie &lt;em&gt;double-take&lt;/em&gt; when she sees all of the books on display&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ORzwQ.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ORzwQ.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;You may wish to note that she's not just reading an Atlas, she's has open books about animals, architecture, science, horticulture and mythology.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yerdn.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yerdn.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This image from &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1423141768&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Rapunzel: A Day to Remember&lt;/a&gt; confirms that it was a bookshop&lt;br&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ykrQI.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/ykrQI.png&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-02-27T07:44:35.197" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T07:44:35.197" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49379" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49356" CreationDate="2016-02-26T18:05:06.870" Score="6" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think any medical condition speculation is pointless to even mention. While hypothyroidism may make it easier to gain weight, your body still obeys the laws of thermodynamics. Simply put, Hurley was not eating at a large enough deficit to show noticeable weight loss.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It's been years since I watched Lost, but I can't remember &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; of the characters showing noticeable changes in weight. From that it's easy to conclude that there was sufficient food supply for all of the characters to roughly maintain their weight since the start of the show.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="5756" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T18:05:06.870" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49381" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="45076" CreationDate="2016-02-26T18:14:26.543" Score="3" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doug: So thanks for the warm welcome. It’s good to have you guys on my team, and I come to play. I hope you do too. Now, let’s go out there and get ‘em! Huh? And remember, there &lt;strong&gt;is no ‘I’&lt;/strong&gt; in team.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Chandler: Yes, but &lt;strong&gt;there’s two&lt;/strong&gt; in martini, so everybody back to my office!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is a simple joke:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Doug is using &amp;quot;I&amp;quot; as the first person singular, and quoting an adage.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But Chandler is punning on &amp;quot;I&amp;quot;, and suggesting everyone go back to his office for drinks by saying,&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;...but there are two (I's) in martini,...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;martInI has two letter I's.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31474" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T14:59:19.253" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49383" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="33133" CreationDate="2016-02-26T19:39:36.263" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;In part, it was also a nod to Frank Sinatra being an actor who played in the original &lt;em&gt;Ocean's Eleven&lt;/em&gt; back in 1960.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Danny Ocean, played by George Clooney, was originally played by Frank Sinatra. Having Clooney say this was not only a reminder of the gentleman's agreement, but also a nod to the late Frank Sinatra who was a major figure in Vegas back in those days.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31659" LastEditorUserId="46980" LastEditDate="2021-03-31T22:41:03.753" LastActivityDate="2021-03-31T22:41:03.753" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="49386" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49356" CreationDate="2016-02-26T20:53:22.623" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;SPOILERS INTERLEAVED&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;There are a few scenes specifically in the show where we see Hugo overindulging on-island. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He was also in charge of food distribution whenever it came up in the show and from his flashbacks we know he has issues with food consumption. From this we could deduce that he might get the bigger cut of food for distributing it to everyone or he might take a secret cut because he has the opportunity to (the latter which is brought up on the show with his food cache). [&lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Hugo_%22Hurley%22_Reyes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Hugo_%22Hurley%22_Reyes&lt;/a&gt; (CTRL+F food)]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The total amount of on-island time is very deceiving with the flashbacks and whatnot interleaved with the story. The total amount of time spent on the island after the crash was only ~108 consecutive days. 3 months is not a lot of time for drastic weight change when you factor in Hurley's overindulging and food caches, plus he was already from a hot climate before crashing on the island so sweating off the weight doesn't seem plausible.&#xA;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally there is the healing/spiritual aspect of the island. It was never outright stated that healing means to return to the optimal human form. But rather is feels more like physical healing combined with spiritual healing. Part of Hurley's spirit was his overweight jolly lovable nature so the island wouldn't want to take that from him but rather embrace it. Adding to that is how Hurley was a candidate for and later became Jacob's successor - food was a minor character flaw compared to the other obstacles he had to overcome to become this.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;My favorite website: &lt;a href=&quot;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://lostpedia.wikia.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26222" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T20:53:22.623" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49388" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-26T22:49:11.840" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;That '70s  Show is an American sitcom that ran for 8 seasons, from August 23, 1998, to May 18, 2006, originally aired on Fox.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="6552" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T23:24:37.600" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T23:24:37.600" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49389" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-26T22:49:11.840" Score="0" Body="That '70s  Show is an American sitcom that ran for 8 seasons, from August 23, 1998, to May 18, 2006." OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="6552" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T23:24:40.590" LastActivityDate="2016-02-26T23:24:40.590" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49390" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49392" CreationDate="2016-02-26T22:50:58.037" Score="30" ViewCount="5952" Body="&lt;p&gt;What is the ring of triangles around Kermit's neck?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Looking at pictures of frogs, I have been unable to find one that has similar markings. For example, take this picture of a typical frog:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kty3C.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/kty3C.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Kermit, of course, has a signature ring of triangles around his neck:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T7sbt.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/T7sbt.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So far I have been unable to find any credible evidence of &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; that ring is. No interviews with Jim Henson, for example.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;One reason given is that ring hides a seam between the puppet's head and body: while this gives a &lt;em&gt;why&lt;/em&gt; it is there, especially for a puppet built in the 1950s without modern technology, it does not explain &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; it is. Another is that Kermit started out as a lizard or nameless animal and later turned into a frog: however, would his appearance not be updated to match his species? Again, this theory does not explain &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; it is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This thread on Reddit touches on the various theories and is a good, concise overview: however, it offers no &lt;em&gt;credible evidence&lt;/em&gt; to back up any of the claims of &lt;em&gt;what&lt;/em&gt; that ring is.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/2igite/why_does_kermit_the_frog_have_a_ring_of_pointy/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Why does Kermit the Frog have a ring of pointy flaps around his neck?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Note: if you follow the Wikipedia links for Kermit there are some articles that assert he was species-less at first with Henson quotes to back it up: however, upon becoming a frog I would expect his features to match that of a frog as close as one could expect a fictional anthropomorphized muppet to match. His original species is largely irrelevant to his &lt;em&gt;frog&lt;/em&gt; features.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user9311" LastEditorDisplayName="user9311" LastEditDate="2016-02-26T23:04:27.400" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T01:43:43.807" Title="What are the triangles around Kermit's neck?" Tags="|character|muppets|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="7" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49392" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49390" CreationDate="2016-02-27T00:00:38.140" Score="32" Body="&lt;p&gt;It's a... Collar. Like a &lt;em&gt;Prince's&lt;/em&gt; or Jester's collar. It has nothing to do with being a frog actually, aside that it somehow made him look more frog like. Likely because it gives a nice separation between head and body. Otherwise he just looks like a lizard. Which he used to be.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QuOFcm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QuOFcm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dQ9qNm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/dQ9qNm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;But to Kermit, it's just a piece of clothes. &lt;a href=&quot;http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Kermit_the_Frog%27s_collar&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;From the Muppet's Wikia for the Collar.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; cuts in to the end of an interview with Kermit on Last Call with Carson Daly with the frog saying &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;...and that's why I have this funny collar!&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Muppets&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; episode &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;The Ex-Factor,&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; Piggy tells Kermit he should get a plastic surgeon to tighten up his neck waddle stating &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Your pointy jester collar ain't hiding anything.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From another episode, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Crystal Gayle&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;, he says he feels naked when it gets stolen:&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TzwzW.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/TzwzW.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Further more:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;With the exception of Constantine and various other Kermit impersonators, no other Muppet Frogs sport a pointed collar like Kermit.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;The Frog Prince&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; were Kermit first wore his iconic pointed collar. Notice all the other frogs are collar-less. Kermit is the only non-nudist in a nudist colony of frogs it seems:&#xA;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LLVz8.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/LLVz8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From it's &lt;em&gt;Royal&lt;/em&gt; origins of a Frog Prince, it's more like Shakespeare's collar than anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/joiPf.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/joiPf.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Personally, it inspires images of a lily pad or water lily.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JKFoNm.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/JKFoNm.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T01:43:43.807" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49393" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-27T01:19:26.243" Score="2" ViewCount="175" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know more about the recording being played in &lt;em&gt;Pawn Sacrifice&lt;/em&gt; where &quot;Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit&quot; is playing where the priest wakes up and asks what he is listening to? Here is what I could make out:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;look at the godless soviet union and their relentless march across europe pawn sacrifice&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31672" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-03-29T11:21:28.410" LastActivityDate="2019-10-14T18:04:26.270" Title="The recording being played in Pawn Sacrifice while Jefferson Airplane's &quot;White Rabbit&quot; plays" Tags="|pawn-sacrifice|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49395" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-27T02:26:30.433" Score="6" ViewCount="855" Body="&lt;p&gt;I don't remember well the date, I guess it would be late 80's and early 90's.&#xA;The show was about a tiny caricature boy who had wild red hair and a blue overall. He was very naughty and got in trouble a lot. He was a caricature but the rest of the show was played by actors. there was a girl with blond hair and an old man who was her grandparent. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I remember two scenes, one, where the girl was in school and after break she had art class, but the tiny caricature boy got inside the classroom and used the art supplies. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Another one in which the girl put glue around the boy's tiny wooden bed to caught him. I think the boy could make himself invisible if he liked and the girl wanted to catch him. I remember the show being in Spanish, but I don't know if it was a translated version or if it was the original. Can't remember the boys name, but he was very peculiar looking, with fluffy red hair. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31674" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-05-27T10:21:04.487" LastActivityDate="2016-05-27T10:21:04.487" Title="Looking for an old tv show featuring tiny caricature red haired boy with human blond girl" Tags="|identify-this-tv-show|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T15:11:43.063" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49399" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="50684" CreationDate="2016-02-27T06:05:16.527" Score="9" ViewCount="15934" Body="&lt;p&gt;So, we learn through the course of the movie that&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The briefcase The Dude was given was a fake, The Dude kept The Big Lebowski's case in his car, his car got stolen by Larry, Larry abandons the car, and a vagrant sleeps in the car.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;All well and good, but: &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There's no indication of what happened to the briefcase at the end of the film. It went missing at some point but neither Larry nor the vagrant would have had any real inclination to steal a locked briefcase, let alone one filled with phone books.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is: is there any indication of where the case actually ended up? It seems odd that a Coen Bros. film would just stop caring about a locked briefcase, regardless of its contents.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26009" LastActivityDate="2021-01-24T00:40:31.733" Title="Where did The Big Lebowski's briefcase end up?" Tags="|the-big-lebowski|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49400" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49264" CreationDate="2016-02-27T06:08:11.493" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;There they are at the end of the movie couple, proves this conversation:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nick:&lt;/strong&gt; You know you love me.&lt;br&gt;&#xA;  &lt;strong&gt;Judy:&lt;/strong&gt; Do I know that? Yes I do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31679" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2016-03-07T05:01:18.467" LastActivityDate="2016-03-07T05:01:18.467" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49405" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49395" CreationDate="2016-02-27T08:22:48.683" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Most of it sounds like &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumuckl&quot;&gt;Pumuckl&lt;/a&gt;, most likely the 80s TV show &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meister_Eder_und_sein_Pumuckl_(TV_series)&quot;&gt;Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;The [elderly] master carpenter Eder meets the Klabauter Pumuckl, whom only Eder can see, because Pumuckl becomes invisible when other people approach. Pumuckl finally stays with Eder in his carpentry, and maintains a fatherly and friendly relationship with Eder.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Pumuckl is a sort of sprite or goblin but looks like a boy with wild red hair and is very mischevious. He becomes visible when stuck in glue. But he always wore green pants AFAIK, not blue overalls. Pumuckl was animated and the rest of the characters were live. Here's &lt;a href=&quot;http://img06.deviantart.net/e0f0/i/2008/138/d/4/pumuckl_by_hermanmunster.jpg&quot;&gt;Pumuckl&lt;/a&gt;, and a clip:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/KAdaojkH0IM?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T08:22:48.683" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49406" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49503" CreationDate="2016-02-27T08:24:29.270" Score="4" ViewCount="4408" Body="&lt;p&gt;It seems pretty obvious and somewhat well accepted that Michael Keaton's portrayal of Dogberry in Kenneth Branagh's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107616/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Much Ado About Nothing (1993)&lt;/a&gt; was inspired by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Monty Python And The Holy Grail&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Has there ever been an official source verifying this fact?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/sdNtnZbJBRw?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="22993" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-10-06T11:05:51.090" LastActivityDate="2016-12-23T17:58:41.383" Title="Was Michael Keaton's portrayal of Dogberry meant to be an homage to Monty Python?" Tags="|monty-python|much-ado-about-nothing-1993|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49409" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49156" CreationDate="2016-02-27T13:31:09.540" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think when he had the metal in his leg when trying to break the hatch window, there was a theory that the island itself was trying to prevent Locke from doing certain things. &#xA;I believe that the island taking back Locke's cured back, thus preventing him from climbing up to the crashed beach-craft and ultimately saving his life, killing Boone in the process.&#xA;Once Boone was injured Locke managed to carry him back to the cave for Jack to help. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The island needed Locke and did what it could to protect him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31692" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T13:31:09.540" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49413" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49414" CreationDate="2016-02-27T14:51:56.850" Score="6" ViewCount="2884" Body="&lt;p&gt;Does anyone really know what happened to the missing 44 minutes of Orson Welles’ “&lt;em&gt;The Magnificent Ambersons&lt;/em&gt;”?  Were they saved somewhere in an RKO vault and forgotten*, or left on the cutting room floor?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Wouldn’t it be ironic if they were swept up, deposited in the trash, and then finally burned, like in an eerie replay of the final scene from “&lt;em&gt;Citizen Kane&lt;/em&gt;”?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;[*this has actually happened. In 1985, Fred Chandler found 18-20 hours of “&lt;em&gt;It’s All True&lt;/em&gt;” after Paramount bought RKO from Desilu.]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31474" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-27T14:58:27.037" LastActivityDate="2020-11-06T19:51:06.650" Title="What happened to the cut 44 minutes of The Magnificent Ambersons?" Tags="|production|cinema-history|the-magnificent-ambersons|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49414" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49413" CreationDate="2016-02-27T15:14:36.100" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sadly, the original footage is, by all accounts, gone and was probably indeed burned to make room. From Robert L. Carringer's book &lt;a href=&quot;http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0520078578&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Magnificent Ambersons: A Reconstruction&lt;/a&gt;, which attempts to reconstruct Welles' vision:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;As a protection against possible legal complications, the negative trims and outtakes were held for a time in [RKO's] vaults, but were eventually burned because of a shortage of storage space. (The leftover material from Hitchcock's &lt;em&gt;Suspicion&lt;/em&gt; was destroyed at the same time, making it unlikely that this was a selective act of vindictiveness toward Welles.) The dupicate print sent to Welles in South America was deemed useless and was also destroyed. As a consequence, not even a frame of the extracted footage is known to survive.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The book uses the cutting continuity [a script detailing the shots that were filmed] in its attempt to reconstruct Welles' materpiece. It's the only complete record of the original footage. IMDb details some of the scenes that were cut:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;It was 132 minutes long. It included an extended Ball sequence, an extended sequence of Jack and George in the kitchen [and] a completely different ending, as well as other cuts too numerous to mention. The original last part of the movie was (in order): George and Jack at the Rail Station, George's walk home and comeuppance, Fanny at the boiler, Bronson's office, Eugene and Lucy in the garden, George in accident, Eugene hears of accident, Eugene visits Fanny in the Boarding house.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A more detailed account of the lost footage can be found on Wikipedia &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magnificent_Ambersons_(film)#Deleted_footage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastEditorUserId="4386" LastEditDate="2016-03-24T09:37:43.923" LastActivityDate="2016-03-24T09:37:43.923" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49417" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="117461" CreationDate="2016-02-27T16:12:14.963" Score="16" ViewCount="336401" Body="&lt;p&gt;Did Alejandro rape Guillermo in the interrogation scene in &lt;em&gt;Sicario&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;If so, what was the purpose of the water jug? And why did Matt Graver stay and watch?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="3301" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2022-05-01T13:19:00.010" LastActivityDate="2022-05-01T13:19:00.010" Title="What happened in the interrogation scene in Sicario?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sicario|" AnswerCount="6" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 4.0" />
  <row Id="49422" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42799" CreationDate="2016-02-27T22:04:52.613" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;You must also take into account that Thunderball the book was made as Thunderball the movie, and was also made as Never Say Never Again, both staring Sean Connery (the reasons why are long &amp;amp; legal, but basically, the writer of the first film script left, but still retained film rights to his script, which was made into a film years later). Just to complicate matters, there have been also more than one Casino Royale (1 with Daniel Craig, 1 with David Niven, and an earlier one too produced by an American television company as a made for television play).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As such, I'd offer that one should use the order of the Flemming books, and ignore the films, as they were not produced in order.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31707" LastEditorUserId="31707" LastEditDate="2016-02-27T22:13:47.973" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T22:13:47.973" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49423" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="17940" CreationDate="2016-02-27T22:15:19.867" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I think that may be real his lifestyle. His mother is real estate broker so house maybe was not so expensive. We dont know how many songs he sold, just that he challenge every year for prize so he is well known and gay friend made him a lot jobs. We dont know even how much he spend daily, i predict he dont go out,drink or bet every day, beer and alcohol is not so expensive in market neither is food for out. So he spend about 5000-10000 dollars monthly. We dont know where he lived before beach house and how long he have that house.&#xA;Last 4yrs he spend that 2.5m dollars but before that i predict he earned about 500k minimum every year so i think that lifestyle is possible.&#xA;But in same time can be scum.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31709" LastActivityDate="2016-02-27T22:15:19.867" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49426" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="10056" CreationDate="2016-02-28T00:51:06.597" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;the opening scene when Troy first goes to retrieve the basketball reminded me of Six Feet Under- the musicals cues (which after this first time, are used throughout the series) are very much in the foreground &amp;amp; super similar to six feet under's - the lighting is kind of hyper-soft &amp;amp; supernatural like SFU used to do in dream sequences &amp;amp; then there's that flash to white heading in to the title sequence&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Not sure if it's a direct nod, or if the show's just being it's style-jumping self.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31713" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T00:51:06.597" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49427" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-28T01:04:09.573" Score="4" ViewCount="670" Body="&lt;p&gt;He analyzed the traces that were left by the kids shoes and used them to realize which places the kids went to &lt;em&gt;later&lt;/em&gt;. How could that work?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31714" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-02-28T06:45:55.267" LastActivityDate="2016-03-11T14:52:57.493" Title="How could Sherlock find the kids in the Reichenbach Fall using the foot prints?" Tags="|plot-explanation|sherlock|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49429" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="1733" CreationDate="2016-02-28T01:40:15.547" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;In his tour Cogsworth refers to both the baroque period (1585-1700ish) and rococo period (1700-1770ish), and based on the costumes and hairstyles it could be as early as 1730 or as late as 1870 (excluding about 1780-1830). Factoring in the technology, 1840-1860 is the most likely answer. &#xA;The fact that the beast is called a prince is questionable, but he clearly doesn't rule any kind of kingdom, and seeing as his castle is rather hidden in the countryside his family may have escaped the ravages of the revolution.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31716" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T01:40:15.547" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49430" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="42310" CreationDate="2016-02-28T02:28:41.290" Score="12" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTkxMDc2MTc2.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;The Wall, by Takashi Ito, 1987.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Screened at the SFIFF in 1989 as &lt;em&gt;Part of Shorts in a Feature Length World.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I've never heard of this film before I read your post, but I love short films and problem solving.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Using the website for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://history.sffs.org/films/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;San Francisco International Film Festival&lt;/a&gt; and searching the films of the past festivals with the word &quot;&lt;em&gt;Wall&lt;/em&gt;&quot;, I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://history.sffs.org/films/film_details.php?id=5399&amp;amp;search_by[6]=6&amp;amp;search_by[6]=6&amp;amp;search_by[6]=6&amp;amp;search_by[6]=6&amp;amp;search_by[6]=6&amp;amp;search_by[6]=6&amp;amp;search_by[6]=6&amp;amp;search_by[6]=6&amp;amp;searchfield=wall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, which was really close to your description, and then I had a director's name, &quot;&lt;em&gt;Takashi Ito&lt;/em&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QHHFY.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/QHHFY.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I used his name and &quot;&lt;em&gt;Wall&lt;/em&gt;&quot; to further research, and the most I could find about this director (in the Roman alphabet) came from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imageforum.co.jp/ito/filmography_e.html#film_wall&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;this webpage&lt;/a&gt;, and sure enough, there were other stills of the film that further matched the memories you shared with us.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/il2NV.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/il2NV.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9caA7.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/9caA7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then I found it on Youku. The link on top of my answer is a direct link to this short film on YouKu (with lots of ads, sorry!), on the right-side of which are other of Ito's films. I also found out about a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imageforum.co.jp/ito/dvd_e.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;DVD&lt;/a&gt; of his works, that I might end up getting because I find this director's work interesting (although the film &lt;em&gt;Wall&lt;/em&gt; isn't on there it seems).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I confirm that this is stop motion and not bullet-time, and that you could reproduce the effects in this film using your own digital camera.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23193" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T02:28:41.290" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49432" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49489" CreationDate="2016-02-28T04:06:55.097" Score="13" ViewCount="5734" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Jessica Jones, and the upcoming Luke Cage spin off, how strong are they, objectively? Jessica can obviously be hurt by a gun shot, while Luke can take a power saw to the gut, so they both have different powers, but how big of a difference is it? Is Jessica &lt;strong&gt;Cap&lt;/strong&gt; level strong or stronger? Is Luke &lt;strong&gt;Hulk&lt;/strong&gt; level impervious? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Both offensive and defensive ratings please. MCU only, comic sources aren't relevant here. Try to avoid/hide any plot spoilers as I haven't finished the first season yet.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="23541" LastEditorUserId="1190" LastEditDate="2016-02-28T07:21:55.160" LastActivityDate="2016-03-03T21:51:26.483" Title="How strong are Jessica and Luke?" Tags="|character|marvel-cinematic-universe|jessica-jones|luke-cage|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49433" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-28T07:46:08.403" Score="3" ViewCount="111" Body="&lt;p&gt;Over the course of a couple of episodes of the second season of &lt;em&gt;The Blacklist&lt;/em&gt;, starting with episode 14, we see Jacob Phelps on a new assignment from the Major. He infiltrates a neo-nazi group in Dresden, called &lt;em&gt;Die Entrechteten&lt;/em&gt; (The Disenfranchised). Reddington describes them as a street gang and that is basically how they're portrayed in the series, with the leaders being involved in day-to-day intimidation and dealings.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;After Jacob has returned to the USA, we see Die Entrechteten tracking down both him and the Major, of whose existence they didn't even know.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;How was a German street gang able to do that? Did they have help?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="9382" LastActivityDate="2016-05-14T02:07:08.813" Title="How were Die Entrechteten able to track down Jacob Phelps and the Major?" Tags="|the-blacklist|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49434" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-28T07:52:42.280" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;Refers to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Jones_(TV_series)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;2015 American Web TV Series&lt;/a&gt;, based on the Marvel character &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Jones&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;Jessica Jones&lt;/a&gt;. Originally aired on Netflix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="1539" LastEditDate="2018-03-26T18:40:10.560" LastActivityDate="2018-03-26T18:40:10.560" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49435" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-28T07:52:42.280" Score="0" Body="Refers to the 2015 American Web TV Series, based on the Marvel character Jessica Jones." OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="6552" LastEditDate="2016-02-28T12:05:53.473" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T12:05:53.473" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49436" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49444" CreationDate="2016-02-28T08:53:27.397" Score="2" ViewCount="2588" Body="&lt;p&gt;Friends &lt;strong&gt;Season 10 Episode 7&lt;/strong&gt;..This is the scene where the adoption lady comes to visit Monica and Chandler.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joey: Guys? Everything ok? It's me, Joe...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chandler: (Screams to interrupt Joey)&#xA;  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA......AAAaaa-doption!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Laura: What's going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chandler: Oh, just like I said. That crazy... Bert... roaming the&#xA;  halls. (Joey bangs on  the door again)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joey: Guys!?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Monica: Keep on roaming Bert! We don't want any crazy today!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joey: What's going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chandler: WE'LL TALK TO YOU LATER, BERT. EVERYTHNG'S FINE!!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;(cut to Joey on the other side, who finally leaves the door and goes&#xA;  to his apartment)&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Joey: Everything doesn't sound fine!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Laura: Is he alright out there by himself?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chandler: &lt;em&gt;Oh yeah! He has a caretaker. His older brother... Ernie.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Laura: &lt;strong&gt;Bert and Ernie&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Chandler: (nervous smile) &lt;em&gt;You can't make this stuff up!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Why does Chandler say you can't make this stuff up when everyone knows about the &lt;em&gt;sesame street muppets&lt;/em&gt;? What does chandler mean by that?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31635" LastEditorUserId="13595" LastEditDate="2016-02-28T11:08:46.843" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T21:25:51.097" Title="Bert and Ernie reference in Friends" Tags="|friends|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49441" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="41252" CreationDate="2016-02-28T11:01:26.020" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;No, he deals with the painful facts by recalling how much he loved Max. His tears show how much he cherishes those memories, remembering when they jumped and embraced before hitting the water. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;What an act of greedy betrayal!  How could someone do such a treacherous, unthinkable thing to someone who loves them -an unforgivable act. The outrage Noodles must have felt -but no murderous rage, only tears. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Max, his beloved friend died and he could always reminisce about those wonderful moments in time, and this monster Bailey could not destroy those joyful memories. &#xA;The monster, Bailey was some fellow that Noodles did not know. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Noodles left a betrayed man harmed and cheated, but with peace in his heart, knowing that  he could never do such a thing that was done to him. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Coming to a realization of what he had done, the gravity of it being too much for him to bear,  Bailey threw himself into the garbage truck grinder, a cowardly act. Noodles realized it, feeling amazed, astounded but he was unmoved to see this monster die -but he felt no malice in his heart. He was a free man with no grudge in his heart.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31727" LastEditorUserId="31727" LastEditDate="2016-02-28T11:26:59.893" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T11:26:59.893" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49443" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49475" CreationDate="2016-02-28T11:20:01.797" Score="30" ViewCount="84919" Body="&lt;p&gt;For the most part the motivations behind Walter's many bad choices and irrational actions make sense to me, with the one big exception of the &quot;tequilla scene&quot; in season 2. Giving Walter Jr one cup of alcohol on a special occasion I could understand, but it quickly gets weird after Walter pours a second one.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hank: What you doing there? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Walter: What does it look like I'm doing?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hank: The kid's 16. What are you, going for Father of the Year?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Walter: What are you looking at him for? We're celebrating. Come on.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Walter Jr drinks second cup]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Hank covers the cup with his hand when Walter tries to refill it again]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hank: Listen, I'd take a pass on that one if I were you, okay?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Walter pours more right through Hank's hand]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hank: Think we've been bogarting this puppy long enough.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Hank picks up the bottle and walks away]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Walter: Hey. Bring the bottle back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hank: Sorry, buddy. No can do.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Walter stands up]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Walter: My son! My bottle! My house!&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hank: It's all right.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Walter: What are you waiting for? Bring it back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Hank: Why don't we just call it a day? All right, pal? We good?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Walter: The bottle. Now.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Skyler: What's going on?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;  &#xA;  &lt;p&gt;[Walter Jr collapses and vomits into the pool as Walter sits down silently drinks more tequilla]&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I assume Walter is aware that making his son drink this much when he doesn't normally drink will probably make him extremely unhealthy and cause a big scene (like it did). Walter's dialog seems to imply this is about &quot;control&quot;, but I don't see how this behavior increases his control or displays his masculine dominance over Hank or anything like that; if anything it just makes him look unhinged and Hank look like the mature, responsible guy (which is not what Hank normally looks like). If he was jealous that Walter Jr was talking to Hank more than him, I think he would've tried starting a conversation with Walter Jr at least once before doing whatever this was.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The very end of the scene is especially strange. Walter sits down casually and drinks yet more tequila as his son vomits at his feet. It's almost like he's saying &quot;See that? I can make my son violently ill whenever the hell I want. Take that, other people in his life.&quot; And that makes no sense to me, unless Walter is far more deranged than I thought he was in season 2.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was Walter's motivation for making his son drink so much and then causing a scene when Hank tried to stop him?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="21179" LastEditorUserId="8219" LastEditDate="2016-02-29T10:03:20.723" LastActivityDate="2020-04-01T20:48:23.547" Title="Why was Walter White acting so strangely with the tequila during his remission party?" Tags="|character|breaking-bad|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49444" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49436" CreationDate="2016-02-28T11:54:27.923" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Echoing Walt's comment, the situation is that, struggling for a name that goes with Bert, Chandler comes up with Ernie, the classic Muppet duo. When challenged by the adoption lady, his response is that the names &lt;strong&gt;must be real, because they're too ridiculous for anyone to have made up.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The humour largely derives from the fact that she's not privy to the reasons why Chandler and Monica are preventing her from meeting the mysterious Bert. On top of that, Chandler has shown himself on multiple occasions to &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/DuIo2eLRXBw?t=1h22m15s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;cope poorly&lt;/a&gt; when he needs to &lt;a href=&quot;http://friends.wikia.com/wiki/Nina_Bookbinder&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;think fast under pressure&lt;/a&gt;. He has an extreme tendency to make up over-the-top statements that are easily exposed. In this particular case, he may have outdone himself.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-02-28T21:25:51.097" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T21:25:51.097" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49445" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49451" CreationDate="2016-02-28T12:32:09.923" Score="28" ViewCount="14537" Body="&lt;p&gt;I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://metro.co.uk/2015/10/21/leonardo-dicaprio-says-he-ate-raw-bison-liver-slept-in-dead-animals-for-the-revenant-5453660/&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; claiming that Leonardo DiCaprio really ate raw bison liver and slept inside of dead animals for the filming of &lt;em&gt;The Revenant&lt;/em&gt; (2015). Yet I never heard a single complaint, e.g. from WWF, for harming animals.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So did The Revenant movie team kill animals for the movie and have there been any complaints about the harming of animals in light of the very &quot;authentic&quot; scenes depicted in the film?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="30794" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-28T12:40:43.670" LastActivityDate="2020-02-01T22:10:43.210" Title="Did The Revenant movie team kill animals for the movie?" Tags="|production|reception|the-revenant|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49446" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49427" CreationDate="2016-02-28T14:40:31.633" Score="7" Body="&lt;p&gt;Sherlock wasn’t analysing the kids’ footprints, but the kidnappers’. From the scene where the footprints are analysed at the lab:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherlock opens container with footprint scratched from the school’s floor and uses tweezers to grab a piece. &lt;em&gt;“Oil, John. The oil in &lt;strong&gt;the kidnapper’s footprint.&lt;/strong&gt; It’ll lead us to Moriarty.”&lt;/em&gt; Drops piece into test tube with some chemical.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Sherlock obtains a sample from the test tube with a pipette. &lt;em&gt;“All the chemical traces on his shoe have been preserved. The sole of the shoe is like a passport. If we’re lucky, we can see everything he’s been up to.“&lt;/em&gt;  Begins to look at sample under microscope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It is entirely plausible that the kidnappers had already been at their hideout before performing the kidnapping.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="13707" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-28T15:44:30.407" CommentCount="3" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49451" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49445" CreationDate="2016-02-28T17:52:59.967" Score="29" Body="&lt;p&gt;Yes and no. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/the-revenant/horse-bear-real-fake-leonardo-dicaprio/&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;This article from the Telegraph newspaper&lt;/a&gt; confirms that the makers mostly used CGI, practical effects (e.g. props) and stand-ins for the animal corpses. The dead bear, bison and the horse corpses were a mixture of props and CGI and the the bear skins and bison liver were sourced ethically from Nation Park animals which presumably died of natural causes (or were at the very least culled rather than being killed specifically for the film).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;That being said, the fish was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/movies/about-that-bear-alejandro-g-inarritu-discusses-making-the-revenant.html?_r=1&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;real fish&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;“Standing in a freezing river and eating a fish, or climbing a&#xA;  mountain with a wet bear fur on my back — those were some of the most&#xA;  difficult sequences for me,” said Mr. DiCaprio, who is considered a&#xA;  strong contender for an Oscar nomination for his performance. “This&#xA;  entire movie was something on an entirely different level. But I don’t&#xA;  want this to sound like a complaint. We all knew what we were signing&#xA;  up for. It was going to be in the elements, and it was going to be a&#xA;  rough ride.”&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i.stack.imgur.com/lp8VX.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;enter image description here&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerDisplayName="user7812" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-29T15:55:17.380" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T15:55:17.380" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49453" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49476" CreationDate="2016-02-28T20:10:23.533" Score="8" ViewCount="4511" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Raoul Duke and his attorney, Dr. Gonzo, had 600 Neutrogena transparent soap bars.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I haven't been able to find an answer as to what their intended use was or why they would have so much.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Raoul Duke states that Dr. Gonzo had worked out a deal with some maids at a hotel they were staying in to have the stuff delivered to them in mass quantities.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When Raoul Duke is pulled over by a state trooper, the trooper asks about the soap and Duke says&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I like to stay clean&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;to which the officer answers &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;I don't think so.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This implies that for some reason the soap is suspicious to the trooper.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So my question is, why is the soap significant?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31736" LastEditorUserId="19762" LastEditDate="2017-02-03T09:51:13.567" LastActivityDate="2017-12-08T15:41:29.437" Title="Was there a reason that Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo had so much soap in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?" Tags="|plot-explanation|fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49456" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-28T20:55:50.643" Score="5" ViewCount="1508" Body="&lt;p&gt;There was a movie in which a married man knew an attractive woman in a train (I guess), and they went to an discrete hotel to occasionally have sex. They kept doing this till, one night, a criminal entered the room with a weapon.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I can't remind all the details, but... The guy rapes the woman and asks for money, then he blackmails the married man, or something like this. So he tries to get help from a policeman to deliver the money, but the criminal kills the policeman, and keeps blackmailing him, arguing that he didn't really give the money, as he had to kill to get it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'd guess it's a '90's movie, but it might be newer than this, not sure. I can't remember the movie's name, and would like some help.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31739" LastEditorUserId="22599" LastEditDate="2016-02-29T00:35:55.160" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T05:56:01.790" Title="Looking for a movie in which a cheating husband was assaulted in a hotel with the other woman" Tags="|identify-this-movie|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" FavoriteCount="0" ClosedDate="2018-01-19T13:25:25.790" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49459" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49462" CreationDate="2016-02-29T01:53:35.723" Score="7" ViewCount="816" Body="&lt;p&gt;In The Revenant (2015), there's a scene where Leo finds fish in the river and the fish is trapped in rocks which are arranged in a U shape on the side of the river. So did someone arrange the rocks in a U shape or were they natural arranged?  &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31744" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-29T05:17:45.543" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T05:17:45.543" Title="Did someone arrange rocks in a U shape?" Tags="|the-revenant|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49460" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49250" CreationDate="2016-02-29T02:41:43.127" Score="5" Body="&lt;p&gt;What happened to the twins is unknown since no explanation was given. In the scene after the night in the barn when one of the witches sucks (or whatever) the goats milk they are not visible. All one can do is assume they were taken by the witch or witches. And we already know what those witches do with babies and children. By the end of the film the witches have a lot to celebrate; dead Christians, 3 children to eat and a brand new young member of the coven.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31745" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-06-27T09:06:54.647" LastActivityDate="2016-06-27T09:06:54.647" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49462" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49459" CreationDate="2016-02-29T03:18:00.597" Score="8" Body="&lt;p&gt;He made that rock formation himself to catch fish.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The arrangement of rocks into that shape is a traditional fishing technique called a &lt;em&gt;fishing weir&lt;/em&gt;. Quite a few Native American tribes used this kind of fishing technique to catch freshwater fish. The rock formation forces the fish swimming downstream into a small area where they can't easily escape, and can be grabbed by the person fishing. &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From what I've read, it's actually not likely that a real fisherman would have used a weir in such a shallow stream; in those cases you could typically just grab the fish by hand as they swam in front of you. Nonetheless, it is a valid fishing technique in other cases.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1146" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T03:18:00.597" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49466" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="27223" CreationDate="2016-02-29T05:08:22.743" Score="1" Body="&lt;p&gt;I viewed this movie completely differently. I think the entire plot was a metaphore and entirely in her head. She was mentally trying to figure out which of her personalities was the &quot;true&quot; her. In order to do this she imagines a machine that can help her find her true identity. Just like Eliza D's character says, she is speaking in analogies and we have to read between the lines. This is a clue to the audience to not take everything that is happening literally. The apartment she lives in is actually her mind and all of the tenants are her various personalities. Each time she uses the machine, one oof her personalities dies. Again, i believe the machine itself isnt real, but represents the mental process that she is going through as she figures out her real identity. I think the superpowers are just manifestations of the war that is going on in her head, and the strenght it takes to determine her identity.  In the end, she learns that she doesnt have to choose between her personaities, and that she can live with them together instead of one at a time ( the synthesis she mentions).  I also dont believe the 2 detectives were &quot;real&quot;, since the characters who &quot;died&quot; were really just her other personalities. I think the detectives were in her mind as well, and represented the guilt and confusion that she was feeling about killing off her other personalities. They represented her inner struggle.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31750" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T05:08:22.743" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49469" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49456" CreationDate="2016-02-29T05:56:01.790" Score="4" Body="&lt;p&gt;This sounds like the exact plot of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derailed_(2005_film)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Derailed&lt;/a&gt; from 2005 with Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;On a commuter train, Charles [Owen] encounters an alluring woman named Lucinda Harris [Aniston]. She is a married financial adviser. [...] Ultimately, they decide to consummate their affair and wind up in a seedy hotel. An armed man — later identified as Philippe LaRoche (Vincent Cassel) - bursts into the hotel room, beats Charles, and brutally rapes Lucinda. Charles and Lucinda agree not to report the crime, as they do not want their spouses to learn of the affair. Shortly after, Charles is blackmailed by LaRoche, who threatens to kill his family if he does not pay $20,000, which Charles promptly pays. A month later, the attacker calls again, this time demanding $100,000.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;It turns out to be a scam that 'Lucinda' (real name Jane) is in on. Here's the trailer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/84mGKTTv5Gc?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="4386" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T05:56:01.790" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49470" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49497" CreationDate="2016-02-29T08:45:13.790" Score="10" ViewCount="308" Body="&lt;p&gt;Acting categories are separated by gender since they have been established (1929 for leading role and 1936 for supporting). I've seen several articles questioning keeping this gender separation on the basis of equal rights (ex. &lt;a href=&quot;http://qz.com/604300/its-time-to-stop-segregating-oscar-nominees-by-gender/&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/oscars-2016-is-it-sexist-to-have-best-actor-and-best-actress-awa/&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if the accusations of sexism have ever been addressed by The Academy.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T16:26:47.533" Title="Has The Academy ever addressed the issue with acting categories being gender separated?" Tags="|academy-awards|acting|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="5" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49473" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="120879" CreationDate="2016-02-29T09:00:44.457" Score="4" ViewCount="2795" Body="&lt;p&gt;In Hitchcock's &lt;em&gt;Strangers On A Train&lt;/em&gt; when Bruno visits Guy after murdering his wife the latter wants to go the police. Bruno stops him, saying that he will be arrested for involvement, i.e. they won't believe that it was Bruno's initiative. Guy later says the same to his fiancee, when she finds out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;At the very end Guy is released and no charges are pressed against him, while his situation is exactly the same, the only difference being the fact that Bruno wanted to set him up using the lighter. However if Guy was involved in the murders and Bruno wanted to frame him as being the actual killer (for whatever reason) it would look exactly the same for the police.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Based on the above why the police believed Guy, if it seems that his cooperation with Bruno and later disagreement was much more plausible than Bruno killing on his own and then trying to set up Guy?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="19042" LastEditorUserId="19042" LastEditDate="2016-03-28T19:06:48.140" LastActivityDate="2023-08-25T04:21:50.073" Title="Ending of &quot;Strangers On A Train&quot;" Tags="|plot-explanation|ending|strangers-on-a-train|" AnswerCount="2" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49474" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49417" CreationDate="2016-02-29T09:05:01.943" Score="17" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This hasn't really been addressed from the film-makers, but it appears the most &lt;em&gt;obvious&lt;/em&gt; interpretation of the scene is that it was a waterboarding.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;original&lt;/em&gt; script describes the scene as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A door opens and we find GUILLERMO, 45, fat, three day  stubble, and&#xA;very unhappy to be here. His hands are cuffed  behind his back. A DEA&#xA;AGENT holds a bottle of water that  Guillermo sucks like an infant.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Matt walks in.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MATT&lt;/strong&gt; (CONT’D) Giving him a belly full of water...  you&#xA;devil.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Matt smiles, the agent smiles back.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Matt sits in the only other&#xA;chair in the room.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MATT&lt;/strong&gt; (CONT’D) Didn’t think we’d get you here, did&#xA;you?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GUILLERMO&lt;/strong&gt; No hablo-&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MATT&lt;/strong&gt; I love it when they don’t hablo.&lt;br /&gt;&#xA;Brought an old buddy of yours. Bet  you ‘hablo’ to him.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The door opens&#xA;and Alejandro walks in, carrying two five  gallon jugs of water. It&#xA;takes Guillermo a minute, then  horror washes over his face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GUILLERMO&lt;/strong&gt;&#xA;El Medellin.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MATT&lt;/strong&gt; Alejandro, he remembers you.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;No expression on&#xA;Alejandro’s face.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The DEA Agent moves to the door.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DEA AGENT&lt;/strong&gt; I’m gonna&#xA;step out.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;He closes the door behind him. The red ‘record’ button on&#xA;the  camera mounted in the corner goes out. We notice a DRAIN IN  THE&#xA;FLOOR.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Alejandro walks toward Guillermo, stands across from him.&#xA;Places a foot on his chest. Pushes... Hard... Guillermo sways  back,&#xA;like a chopped tree. He moves through frame in slow  motion, falling&#xA;out of frame.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;From reading it, there's absolutely no implication of rape, but a heavy implication of torture through waterboarding.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The actual scene in the film doesn't quite take place like this:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;youtube-embed&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#xD;&#xA;                &lt;iframe width=&quot;640px&quot; height=&quot;395px&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Oj3or4iEcFA?start=0&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&#xD;&#xA;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;However, it still appears water-boarding is the most obvious explanation. Whilst we hear muffed grunts during the close-up of the drain at the end, and we notice the &lt;em&gt;unopened&lt;/em&gt; water jug, this ignores that for water-boarding to occur the victim will generally have a cloth stuffed into their mouth. This act, along with any other roughhousing Alejandro gives him, would lead to the grunts we hear.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Whilst rape cannot be &lt;em&gt;completely&lt;/em&gt; ruled out, it would seem rather out of place. Why would Matt stay and watch? Why would rape lead to more information than torture? If it is rape &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; torture, again - what would the point of the rape have been?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, I can understand where the rape allegations come from, but I think the waterboarding is a far more likely interpretation.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T10:16:41.260" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49475" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49443" CreationDate="2016-02-29T09:31:26.287" Score="50" Body="&lt;p&gt;To understand much of this scene, you have to look at the &lt;em&gt;previous&lt;/em&gt; episode.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/4_Days_Out&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;previous episode&lt;/a&gt;, Walt had some tests to see the effect of his chemo and radiation treatments. His doctor wouldn't release the results for four days, but Walt noticed a large white spot on his lung and assumed the worst.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Walt then went into cooking-overdrive, as he believed his life was nearly over and he desperately wanted to raise money. In fact, to quote from the wiki:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Two days of cooking yields 42 pounds of meth that will net them&#xA;$672,000 each&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;So they made a serious amount of drugs. Later in the episode, Walt's fear becomes even clearer:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I know I can trust you to, uh…&amp;quot; Walt begins.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Whatever happens, your&#xA;family will get your share,&amp;quot; Jesse replies.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Then, at the end of the episode, Walt learns that his cancer is in remission. But rather than reacting with joy, he walks into the bathroom and starts punching the metal tower dispenser with all his might.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This scene wonderfully encapsulates Walt's state of mind. He is infuriated by his cancer and how it has affected his life. He is infuriated that he can leave so little to his family. He is infuriated by everything. And right when he finds his cancer is in remission, he's still furious as nothing in his life is settled.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;When the episode you watched begins (&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Over&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Over&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;) he is recovering from the aftermath of this information. He tells Jessie he plans to retire, but two important things happened which change his mind:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Hank continues to act the tough-guy and Walt can see how much his son looks up to him.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;li&gt;Skyler thanks everyone for their support, and toasts Gretchen and Elliot Schwartz as &amp;quot;heroes&amp;quot;.&lt;/li&gt;&#xA;&lt;/ol&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;The combination of these two events has always been a dangerous catalyst for Walt. He wants to be the ideal father figure for his son and is angry that after all he is done, and all he can leave behind, he doesn't get more &amp;quot;respect&amp;quot;. This anger isn't at all directed at his son, but at Hank who is his &amp;quot;competitor&amp;quot; in this regard.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Secondly, throughout the series he has a deep and bitter hatred for Gretchen and Elliot. If he had stayed with the business, he would be a billionaire by now - instead he is a drug dealing, cancer riddled secondary school teacher - and he despises it.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Finally, to the scene in question: Walt is angry, he's drinking tequila, and he wants to assert himself. He demands his son drinks because HE is the man of the house. From his drug dealing, he is now used to being in control. He has dealt with powerful and &lt;em&gt;dangerous&lt;/em&gt; men - and now Hank is going to influence HIS son, in HIS own house? Walt can't accept that. So he gets into a macho contest with Hank.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;As you rightly point out, to any intelligent observer he comes across as callous and childish - but Walt isn't thinking straight, he's drunk and still processing his cancer remission news.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastEditorUserId="-1" LastEditDate="2020-06-04T15:16:32.057" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T09:31:26.287" CommentCount="4" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49476" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49453" CreationDate="2016-02-29T10:03:04.333" Score="10" Body="&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;They had all the soap because they &lt;em&gt;could&lt;/em&gt; have it&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;This isn't explained in the movie &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; in the books. However, it becomes increasingly clear in the book that much of the behaviour is simply drug and drink fuelled craziness. They don't do things that are &lt;em&gt;logical&lt;/em&gt;. They just do bizarre, random things (remember, along with the soap they had grapefruits as well).&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;They were pulled over by the police officer who searched the car. Imagine if you searched someone's car and found a few bars of soap. You probably wouldn't think twice. Now imagine you find 600 bars of soap from a guy who's driving with a beer in his hand. It &lt;em&gt;immediately&lt;/em&gt; looks suspicious.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Possibly the officer thought it contained drugs. Possibly he thought it could be related to bombs, or bomb making. In reality, it was just a collection of soap bars that had no significance and were only bought because Duke and Gonzo were so high it seemed like a good idea.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="8219" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T10:03:04.333" CommentCount="1" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49480" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="60786" CreationDate="2016-02-29T10:25:55.767" Score="5" ViewCount="1124" Body="&lt;p&gt;I have heard that the name and places of Baahubali: The Beginning are taken from real history. But I have also heard that its quite inspired from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Mahabharata&lt;/a&gt; for the character of Kattappa which is inspired from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhishma&quot; rel=&quot;noreferrer&quot;&gt;Bhishma&lt;/a&gt; and it did feel like that. So how much of the film is based on actual history of India? Is there any official commentary available?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="1190" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-29T14:16:15.543" LastActivityDate="2016-09-17T11:06:27.003" Title="How much of the film Baahubali: The Beginning is inspired from actual history of India?" Tags="|historical-accuracy|baahubali-the-beginning|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49481" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-29T10:43:53.987" Score="10" ViewCount="757" Body="&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_God_(2002_film)&quot;&gt;City of God&lt;/a&gt; (2002), one thing I didn't understand was how the reporter named &quot;Rocket&quot; knows all the things about &quot;Lil Zé&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;For example, he knows Lil Zé killed Goose. Also, how does he knows about that boy whose father was killed by Knockout Ned?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="26538" LastEditorUserId="49" LastEditDate="2016-02-29T14:17:07.987" LastActivityDate="2018-05-29T22:57:18.680" Title="How does Rocket know all those things about Lil Zé?" Tags="|plot-explanation|city-of-god|" AnswerCount="1" CommentCount="2" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49482" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-29T12:20:55.970" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;City of God (Cidade de Deus) is a 2002 Brazilian crime drama film based on the 1997 novel of the same name.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="6552" LastEditDate="2016-02-29T13:17:11.453" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T13:17:11.453" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49483" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-29T12:20:55.970" Score="0" Body="City of God (Cidade de Deus) is a 2002 Brazilian film based on the 1997 novel of the same name." OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="6552" LastEditDate="2016-02-29T13:17:14.360" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T13:17:14.360" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49484" PostTypeId="5" CreationDate="2016-02-29T12:23:33.387" Score="0" Body="&lt;p&gt;The Revenant is a 2015 American film, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy based in part on the 2002 novel with the same name by Michael Punke.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T18:17:36.223" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T18:17:36.223" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49485" PostTypeId="4" CreationDate="2016-02-29T12:23:33.387" Score="0" Body="The Revenant is a 2015 American film, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, starring  Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy." OwnerUserId="6552" LastEditorUserId="41249" LastEditDate="2016-12-09T18:17:46.833" LastActivityDate="2016-12-09T18:17:46.833" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49487" PostTypeId="1" CreationDate="2016-02-29T13:31:54.673" Score="2" ViewCount="86" Body="&lt;p&gt;I watched yesterday some parts of Punisher: War Zone on Netflix and I noticed that at least one sentence changed since last time some months ago, again on Netflix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Spoiler of course...&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;spoiler&quot;&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt; About the end, when Frank Castle speaks with Micro while pointing the gun at him, the speech now is &quot;you won't feel a thing, Micro&quot;. In the previous version available on Netflix, the text was &quot;it won't be the same without you&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;I'm listening to the original English version. The mouth follows the speech, at least in the version currently on Netflix.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Is there a list of the different releases of the film with also a detail of the differences?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="31758" LastEditorUserId="31758" LastEditDate="2016-02-29T23:21:19.073" LastActivityDate="2016-02-29T23:21:19.073" Title="Various releases of Punisher: War Zone" Tags="|alternate-version|punisher-war-zone|" AnswerCount="0" CommentCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49488" PostTypeId="1" AcceptedAnswerId="49495" CreationDate="2016-02-29T13:48:23.760" Score="19" ViewCount="7533" Body="&lt;p&gt;In almost every James Bond movie, there is always one girl who is called '&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the Bond Girl&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;'. However, in &lt;em&gt;Skyfall&lt;/em&gt;, who is the Bond Girl? Is it Eve Moneypenny (portrayed by Naomie Harris), or Séverine (portrayed by Bérénice Lim Marlohe)?&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;A snippet from &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_girl&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;There are female characters such as Judi Dench's M and Camille Montes, who are not romantic interests of Bond, and hence not strictly Bond girls. However, it has been argued that M's pivotal role in the plot of Skyfall qualifies her as a Bond girl or Bond woman.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;" OwnerUserId="27264" LastEditorDisplayName="user7812" LastEditDate="2016-02-29T19:27:02.490" LastActivityDate="2016-10-20T13:03:04.637" Title="Who is the Bond Girl in Skyfall?" Tags="|character|james-bond|skyfall|" AnswerCount="3" CommentCount="8" FavoriteCount="0" ContentLicense="CC BY-SA 3.0" />
  <row Id="49489" PostTypeId="2" ParentId="49432" CreationDate="2016-02-29T13:52:09.937" Score="11" Body="&lt;blockquote&gt;&#xA;  &lt;p&gt;Is Jessica Cap level strong or stronger? Is Luke Hulk level impervious? &lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;Nope.&lt;/p&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;h2&gt;As far as the Netflix show goes, there's enough information to confirm that Jessica has these powers:&lt;/h2&gt;&#xA;&#xA;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Super